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A GIRL'S AVAKING. i .What marvel have her still eyes looked upon? In what new wonder hath she grown adept? H;-.vu some bright miracle but lately swept Across the common sky? From what dim lawn Of fair}- woodland hath she just withdrawn What secret tenderness that long hath slept, What love unrealized, what pain unwept, Now stirs and dreams and trembles for the dawn? Yea, marvel, wonder, miracle are hers. And tiers all treasure of wild fairyland, And hers a new god's intimate command ; For see! she holds, still trancsd and listening. An listens one to unsqen messengers, A gray old volume where dead poets " sing". ?M. Leanah, in The Atlantic. THE Nl> OP A \1> *Tale Tale? W. <R V/ v?A W1V \l/ q> ,v/ ?> JV fc- . By Edith M. t?- ./> wiHerte. ^SSiS-iSe* It started on the small sofa in the alcove beside the reading lamp, and there were only two people in the room. One of them stood on the hearth rug, with his back to the fire, looking down on the other as she sat, fingering the MS. on her lap. "Why do you want to read it?" she asked. "Because you wrote it," he answered, with great simplicity. She frowned. "You ought to say, it's because my other stories have been so successful, and I get such nice puffs in the papers!" "Those reasons may suffice for the ' rest of the world, but they don't for me!" "Perhaps you expect too much!" she said, and studied her MS. deeply. "Do I?" he asked, and studied her profoundly. The clock ticked loudly and the fire crackled. "By the way!" she remarked. "You will be the first person to read this story of mine, so that I shall be Impatient for your verdict!" "I'll read it to-night and report to-morrow," he assured her prompt ly. "Does the first necessitate the secf ond?" she asked, raising her eyebrows. "A3 far as I'm concerned," he answered, lowering his, whereupon she held out her story with a heavenly smile;. but he being of a grasping disposition, took first the MS. and then the hand that held it, and?oh! ?well! The clock ticked loudly and the fire crackled. Two hour3 later he stood in his Tront hall, turning his pockets inside out by the light of the midnight oil, then he searched the front steps and examined the pavements outside, and finally patrolled a certain street to a certain house till a certain small hour of the morning, when he returned to his abode uttering unholy words. "What are you looking for?" she uemanaeu on entering tns arawing room the next morning. "Nothing," he answered, rising hastily from an evident inspection of the carpet. His face was pale, and his searching eye roamed uneasily ^ over the furniture. "I thought you might have dropped something!" she suggested casually. "Oh, no!" he responded defiantly. So she sat down on the sofa, her face very grave, but the corner of her mouth slightly twitching. "Well, what do you think of it?" she inquired. r-Oh!" he said with a start. "That story of yours? It was great, really absorbing! I assure you it kept me awake until four o'clock this morning." "And yet it is comparatively short. You must read very slowly! Do tell me what you like best about it!" "'Oh, well," he floundered; "I liked it all immensely, but what appealed to me especially was that?er? scene where the heroine?er?gets the best of it." And paying no heed to her blank looks, he hastened on into the safe waters of abstract literary criticism, saying: "In those few passages you show a breath of view, a right appreciation of value, a sense oc the tonal significance, which, if I may be permitted to say so, is quite above the average." 5 He felt that he was doing well, d but at this point she brought him I back to earth. L "Do you think," she asked him, K earnest and wide eyed, "that Gregory ougnt to nave clone it?" "Who?" he asked, staggered for a moment. "What?" And then recollecting himself?"Yc-s." This stoutly. "I think Gregory was perfectly justiaed; I don't see how, under the circumstances, he could hive done otherwise. I am quite certain that in his place I shoudd have done just the same thing." "What thing?" she asked, as she poked the fire with her back turned. Then, as he did not answer immediately, she said gently: "I don't ! think you ?uite understand what scene I referred to. but I'll show you in a moment, if you'll just hand me the MS." '.'The MS.?" he queried, blankly. "The MS.!" she repeated, deter^ minedly. He took two turns up and down I the room, then faced her, crimsou and crestfallen. "I'm extremely sorry to tell you," he said, hoarsely, "that your MS. is ? (the arctic blue of her eyes froze the truth unon his lins)?is left be hind." He finished. "I hope you don't need it immediately?" J "N?no," she admitted; "not today. but I must really dispatch it to the publishers to-morrow." ^ "All right," he said; "I'll call in the morning!" "With the MS.?" she asked h*"n smilingly. "With the MS.!" he echoed, despairingly. And as he went out of the house he held a brief ineffectual conversation with the butler, punctuated with a five-dollar bill, and then paced the gtreet for many hours?a prey to thoughts of forgery and flight. It was the next morning and he ^y. had been talking volubly and long. 1 on different subjects when she at length managed to get in a word. "Well," she asked; "have you got it?" "What?" he answered quickly. "The measles? No! Although you seemed to think so judging from the way in which you avoided me at the reception last night, and again at the opera afterward. You wouldn't give me so much as a bow!" . "I didn't see you," she told him. "Where?where was I?" he interrupted to explain. "In the dress circle, on the opposite side, with my glasses leveled on your box." "That was a waste of time," she said impatiently, "and so is this. Whiit is the use hiding the truth any longer? Why will you not acknowledge that you've lost my MS. ?" "Because- I haven't!" he an swered doggedly. "No!" (As she stared at him in amazement.) "If that MS. has disappeared, vanished irreparably, you are responsible, and you alone!" He strode to the door, then wheeling round, faced her. "If I forgot your story," he said harshly, "it was because I was thinking of you. If I was absent minded, | it was because you were present. If I?er?lost that MS., it was because, well! I suppose I know it?I had already lost my heart. That's all. Good-bye!" And he turned to go. But she was already at his elbow, and there was something in her hand?a typewritten parcel?a MS. "It has been a pretty bad quarter of an hour, hasn't it?" she asked him, and her eyes were twinkling? "thanks to your stories and mine. But you're not going yet?" (For he was, luruuig uie uuui kiivu.j il i isn't late, and besides?" Here she looked at him, and?ah, j well!? The clock ticked loudly and the fire crackled!?Valley Weekly. Odd Facts About New York. That New York City is the metropolis of the United States and is the second largest city in the world is known to every one. But New York really is much more than that. A writer in the Search Light says: Greater New York, the second city of the globe, might be called "the island city of the world," for it contains forty-five islands, as many islands as there are States in the Union. The city pays each year to run its government aoout one-tmra as mucn as Uncle Sam spends to govern the nation. New York's annual budget is greater that that of any other five American cities combined. New York is over twice the size of | the Danish West Indies and is larger j than Chicago and Philadelphia combined. The most crowded block in the city is on the west side, where over 4000 people live in less than four acres of ground. Its population is 4,014,304, its increase in five years being a larger population than that of the city of Boston. The Germans In New York, by birth and parentage, would make a city equal to Leipsic and Frankforton-Main combined; theAustrians and Hungarians, Trieste and Fiume; the Irish, Belfast, Dublin and Cork; the Italians, Florence; the English and Scotch, Aberdeen and Oxford; the Poles, Poltava in Russia. One-seventh of the population are Jews, and they equal the population of Maine. There are more people living in New York City than in fourteen of i our States and Territories: Arizona, Delaware, Montana, Nevada, Indian Territory, Idaho, New Hampshire, New Mexico, North Dakota, Rhode Island, South Dakota, Utah, "Wyoming and Vermont. une out ot every twenty-one per- | sons in the United States, or one | ! member of every four families, '.Jye in New York City?the others live out of town.?Scrap Book. Gun-Making in China. A correspondent of the Lahore Civil and Military Cazette visited one of the Chinese arsenals, and thus put down his impressions: "Finally we were taken?among other places? to the great Chinese arsenal, some | way beyond treaty limits, where every form of munition of war, from rifles to forty-five-ton guns, was being made. We wandered through a wilderness of factories, covering acres of ground, and were shown the whole I process ci manufacture. And there | were powder factories and other I stitutions not far away, which we had no time to visit. "That was, perhaps, the most significant experience of all. You may have seen gun factories before, but have you seen a place turning out great guns by the dozen, and machine guns by the hundred, perfect in design and construction, run, from coolie to head mandarin, entirely by Chinese, and with only a couple of Englishmen engaged solely in consultative supervision? Have you seen a roomful of Chinese draughtsmen and designers, in pigtails and blue gowns, solemnly, stolidly and assiduously getting out the drawings for a new gun? It is a sight that furnishes food for thought. And as you | Ioovq vnn nclr vnnrcolf tVic* nnoctinn I 'If these men can make the guns, why may they not work them some day?' " Horses and Mules in the West. "A pair of big, fine young mules are easily worth $5 00, and they are hard to get, even at that high price," said Mr. L. D. Foreman, of Cincinnati. "Kentucky is the great mule producing State, and one county alone in that Commonwealth had 43,000 mules oil its tax rolls last year. There is good money in breeding tliem, but not in localities where land is very high priced. Horses of high quality are also very scarce in the West, and tho demand for them is even keener than in the days when automobiles were unknown. Good horses, in fact, are so high that sales are exceedingly dull."?Washington Post. IN THE PI HON. JOHN The Habits of the Okapi. Captain Gosling writes from Angu, River Welle: "On the chance of their proving of interest, I send herewith some notes on the okapi that exists in the forest contained by the rivers Welle, Libuati and Rubi. "The okapi here is generally found singly or in pairs, but Mobatti hunters state that sometimes three may be found together. An essential to trie lite or me oKapi is a, sma.u sueaw of water with some muddy and swampy ground on either side. In this grows a certain large leaf that on its single stalk attains a height of ten feet. It is the young leaf of this plant that is the favorite food of the okapi, and I venture to say that where the plant is not to be found the animal will not exist. During the night he will wander along in the mud and water in search of it. Her? he may be found feeding as late as eight o'clock in the morning, after which he retires to the seclusion of the forest, where he remains till nearly dusk.- On the three occasions that I was at close quarters with the beast, he was perfectly concealed in this swamp leaf. "Near the River Welle I found his spoor on ground frequented by buffalo and waterbuck, but this is unusual and his companions in the forest are the elephant, the greater bushbuck, the yellow backed and small red dujkers. The okapi is very quick of hearing and in that respect is classed by the Mobatti with the bushbuck (local name 'bungana'). In the forest here I consider this latter beast to be more difficult to obtain than the former. On the hunting ground of the first village that I visited I estimated the number o[ : * v ' * r ' ^ 'y ^ m/' w : 'jr,:v{ ' ' THE 0 okapi as five or six, at the second j and third nil, and twenty miles south in the forest, on very likely ground, j where my guides said they were j formerly numerous, there was one ^ only, probably owing to rubber col- j lectors who had been there. - - - . I "The okapi is killed occasionally i by the natives, speared, shot or j trapped by the common African method. At the first village I visited three had been speared at various times, at the second and third one each, and in the forest referred to above my guide had shot one. Unfortunately, time did not permit me to continue my search or return to the ground first visited by me."? London Times. Trousers Rack. A Pennsylvania inventor has recently made an addition to the in "// For Holding Trousers. j | BLIC EYE. | ' < " fl - 1 . 4jg !|HE|^BHHMg^Sw|MnH^^H^BB^^^En|i v^ K2|g^&PK?^HHj[HB^H|^^H|^MBjE' H ;? i MORLEY. DISAPPEARING CHAIR. Can Bo Readily Folded and Placed in the Floor. In the illustration below is a recent invention which can be aptly called a "disappearing" theatre chair. It was designed for use in halls and rooms that are used for theatre or concert purposes, it being but the Made to Disappear. work of a moment to fold and lower if. into the floor. It will thus not oc? 7?iinxr r\r nhcfrnpt finv cnnpo whon r?r*> I V* ***** ?UV? i-iwt, , in U3e. It is especially adaptable to be placed in aisles and such placed where it is desired to temporarily have a seat in case the hall is crowdt ! ed with spectators. In a theatre KAPI. ?From Forest and Stream. ; equipped with such chairs, it would be easy to create passageways for [ persons to walk when taking and leaving their seats. In case of fire, an easv exit could he made. Tn ths I j picture a portion of the floor is shown iu which there is a recess or counter-sunk portion. This recess corresponds in depth and size to the seat and back of the chair. The back folds upon the seat, and when both aro lowered into the recess a smooth ! surface is established which can readily be walked over by persons without endangering their lives. Supporting the seat of the chair is a rod which can be released and lowered 4into an opening in the centre ' of the recess. creasing number of trouser racks being invented and patented. This rack has a distinct advantage over many others in that a dozen or more pairs of trousers can be suspended from the frame and the rack and its contents stored away in the cioset. It is rectangular in shape, with bare front, back and at the sides. Between the side bars are a number of rods, placed about three or four inches apart, upon which the trousers are hung, one pair on each rod. The rods are constructed to fit into notches in the sides of the frame, so that they can be Instantly removed when wanted. At the back of the frame is an upright post, the top of 1 which i3 connected, with the frame by a wire chain. This post can be secured in position in the closet, or wherever desired, and so placed that it can be swung from side to side. A London authority states that a deep yellow, with :i shot of flame red in its lights and shades, is the latest fashionable color. It is known as "Vesuvius." BALFOUR LEE HOUSE W WITH SIXTY FOLLOWERS ? 1 British Premier Accused of Bad Faith in Trades Dispute Bill. go UNIONISTS SAVE GOVERNMENT Several Amendments Are Defeated sai by Narrow Majorities in the per Commons?.striKcrs itignts uclined .by Law. tha by London.?The Trades Dispute bill, , which, is a direct outcome of the Taff QT Vale decision that trades unions' CmI] funds are liable for the illegal acts me of individual members of a union, cha passed the committse stage in the leS House of Commons and was reported j?? to the House amid Ministerial cheer- ],er ing. Excitement marked the debate, def during which several amendments op- doi lol] posed by the Government were defeated by narrow majorities, in one ^lr case ths> Government being saved dis from defeat by a few Unionist votes. i There was an extraordinary scene par after midnight, following on Prime sec Minister Campbell-Bannerman's re- ide fusal to accept Lord Robert Cecil's lea motion to report progress, Lord Rob- cur ert saying that the Prime Minister the had pledged himself that the debate ica should not continue after 11 o'clock, the When the motion was defeated by a firs Government majority of 212, Mr. brc Balfour accused the Prime Minister nor of deliberately breaking his pledge, fro He declined to take further part in it j the proceedings, and invited his fol- in lowers to leave tne riouse. rne in- of vitation of the former Prime Minister bef was accepted by all of the threescore bai of members of the Opposition present amid ironical Ministerial, Nationalist rv.1 and Laborite cheering. A few of boi those who left the chamber returned ma subsequently, but the front Opposi- we tion bench remained empty, and sev- a. eral Liberals and Radicals took seats hie amid Radical cheering. bot The debate proceeded without in- ' terest to its close. an; The Trades Dispute bill provides An that no act of a trades union shall be iti( held to be unlawful if such act is bei lawful when committed by an indi- to? vidual. It sets forth in express terms the right of peaceful picketing, ow which has been described as an es- p0] sential right of strikers, and defines j dei tho law nf a?oncv nsnrmlieri t.n trades unions, making it impossible to claim th< redress from union funds for any act unless it is clear that the act was au- pa, thorized by the governing body of ye] the union. cai it' WOMAN LEAPS TO RESCUE. gr< Wife of New York Physician Tries to ^ Save Negro Cook. _ MJ\waukee, Wis.?Mrs. E. W. Allison, of New York, wife of a physician, leaped from the deck of the whalebuck excursion steamer Chris- $3 topher Columbus into the Milwaukee rei River in the effort to save Milton P& Hull, a negro cook, who had fallen les into t>he stream. 00 Several hundred persons on the vessel saw her throw off her outer inl skirts, shoes and hat and dive from a the upper deck, and as she dove frc Frank Ferlny, a one armed sailor, cii leaped from the lower deck with' a of life preserver. The two were unable && to find the body in the dirty river, Ag but grappling hooks brought it to the nis surface a little later. $1 ow RESERVE, BUT NO FOREST. it an Cattlemen Suspected of Having Bun- ya coed President Roosevelt. | by Omaha. Neb.?The discovery has th; been made that the great North th Platte forest reserve of 300,000 so acres of supposed forests has scarce- ta: ly 100 trees on the entire reservation, but instead is composed of fiac prai- ye rie land without a tree in sight for vi< miles. Mi The reserve was declared a forest su by Presidential proclamation in March pr of this year, and it is believed that wi cattlemen were back of the represen- to tations made to President Roosevelt se] that the land was covered with trees, of The big cattle interests have leased the land from the Government under the forest reserve act. An effort will < be made to have the laud opened for settlement. Ne HARD LABOR FOR BELCHER. wi Former Executive of Paterson Pleads Guilty to Six Indictments. of Paterson, N. J.?Former Mayor William H. Belcher, who a yeaj- ago P. absconded after stealing over $100,000 of other people's money, has .. been sentenced by Judge Scott to , tweive years' hard labor in the State j Prison at Trenton. Belcher pleaded guilty to the sev- J eral counts of the six indictments j . which had been found against liim ! ah for embezzlement of funds or tne Manchester Building and Loan Asso- tl ciation. Belcher was elected as a reform y0 Mayor in Paterson in 1903, defeating 2o the present Mayor, John Johnson. Roosevelt Eavors Taft. ?2 Justice Brewer, of the Supreme ar< Court, said he did not believe Mr. Roosevelt would be a candidate for eS| re-election, but favored the nomina- by tion of Secretary Taft, whose hon- on esty and ability the Justice praised, ^li, concluding his interview with a trib- ^ ute io Mr. Bryan. General Strike in Russia. A general strike has been declared er in St. Petersburg, Russia, where 20,- th 000 men have gone out, and M. Sto- of lypin. the Premier, is reported as po about to resign. Ci Mayor Johnson Not Guilty, Mayor Johuson, of Cleveland, was found not guilty of contempt of court of in failing to obey an injunction for- ta bidding the city to tear up certain frc street car tracks. Sporting Brevities. Milwaukee will organize a cricket *'c league. Boston athletes have formed a new arganization seeking the control of imateurs. gr T Ti*' a?? tUrt nrran faof j.1 i amv aj. jvi (unci to tu? gj American cyclist since the world-fa- W nous "Zim." The Japanese have added a new pe feature to horse racing. On May 31 i geisha girl rode a mare a mile in Dne minute and fifty seconds. The geisha girls are light in weight, and, It is said, will make good horsewomen. 10 j \ HAT *IUJP ill liticians Anxious About Its Influence in Presidential Race. nipers Plans to Put Mitchell on Ticket For Vice-President? Congressmen Opposed. Washington, D. C.?Whether orlized labor is to be a great and haps controlling factor in the next isidential election is a question ,t is being given serious attention faf-sighted politicians. Much will depend on the success failure of organized labor in its npaign this fall to defeat certain mbers of Congress who are Lrged with being unfriendly to the islation organized labor is dendlng. If the plans of President mpers are successful and a num of candidates for Congress are eated by the labor- vote, then unlbtedly plans will be laid by the or leaders for the largest possible ticipation in the 1908 campaign, eady preliminary plans have been cussed. \.n allliance with one or the other ty, whereby the labor people will ure the nomination for Vice-Presnt, will be attempted if the labor ders can see their way clear to see it. John Mitchell, president of i United Mine Workers of Amer, is the man they have in mind for i seaond place on the ticket. The it announcement that he would be j tught out as a candidate ror the nination for Vice-President came m the anthracite coal country, but appears the subject was discussed Washington at the headquarters the American Federation of Labor ore it was mentioned at Wilkes re. The suggestion of Mr. Mitchell's tne has been kindly received in la circles everywhere, and there are ny indications that if things go 11 with this year's program of the F. of L., Mr. Mitchell may find nself in the midst o^ a full-fledged >m next fall. rhe large question in the way of y successful participation of the lerican Federation of Labor in polls is, however, whether the mem s of that organization will stick jether when it come3 to voting, or ether each member will vote his n individual preferences. Many liticians see in the action of Preslnt Gompers and his associates in ilding to enter the political field * ?cakening of the A. F. of L. ey believe it will follow in the bh of the Knights of Labor some irs ago, which was disrupted bejse it went into politics, and that will cut no large figure in the Conjssional elections. ESSON'S TAXES ONLY $12,000. volvcr Manufacturer Left a Fortune of $30,000,000. Springfield, Mass.?With all his 0,000,000, Daniel B. Wesson, the rolver manufacturer, who died here id' in taxes only $12,000, a sum is than the assessment on $1,000,0. This revelation has caused great :erest here, and there already is public demand for an explanation >m the city officials. In the Muni>al building it was said that most Wesson's wealth was in first mortges, which could not be assessed. ;ainst this it is said the Wesson msion alone is valued at more than ,000,000. Wesson was the sole 'ner of the revolver plant, in which is said there is machinery to the irmnt nf Si 000.000. The assessed lue of all property in Springfield is 6,000,000 and the amount raised taxation is $1,200,000 a year. So at with a fortune more than oneird of the entire assessment, Wesa contributed only $12,000 to the cation total. Wesson's last will was drawn a ar ago by William W. McClench, :e president of the Massachusetts itual Life Insurance Company. It perssded a will made several years eviously. It is understood that the 11 leares the bulk of the property Wesson's Sons, Walter K. and Jo?h H., who are named as executors the will. :OSTS MORE THAN CHICAGO. iw York Twice as Big, But Expense of Government is Quadrupled. Washington, D. C. ? Starting out th the flat-footed statement that :w York has twice the population Chicago, the Census Bureau in a lletiu issued shows that the exnse3 of New York are nearly four nes as great as those of Chicago. After Chicago the next six largest ie3 of the country together spend is money for running expenses than w York spends. Though Chicago is one-third larger in Philadelphia, the latter's runig expenses are grealer. Though out equal in size with Baltimore, ston's current expenses are nearly j ree times as great. Of all the cities mentioned New j irk has the largest land area? 9,218 acres. New Orleans, with 5,GOO acres, and Chicago, with 4,032, rank next. Hoboken, with 5 acres, had the smallest land ja. Of the individual cities, the larg; per capita net debt was reported Newton, Mass.?$125.58; the secd largest by New York?$113.25; 2 third by Boston?$108.17, and s fourth by Pawtucket?$104.19. Japanese Poachers Killed. The killing of five Japanese poachs by Americans on Attu, one of e Aleutian Islands, and the taking twelve Japanese prisoners for aching by the revenue cutter Mcllloch was reported to Washington. European Travel Decreased. Steamship men reported the rush travel to Europe ended and a tol of 270,000 passengers carried >m North Atlantic ports. NEFF GETS SEVEN YEARS. irmer Auditor of Erie County Sentenced to Auburn. Buffalo, N. Y.?Former County iditor John W. Neff, convicted of and larceny in connection with tho aveyard scandal, was sentenced at arsaw to seven years in Auburn. Execution of sentence wan stayed. nding an appeal. Candidates For Zion's Leader. Voliva and A. E. Bills filed in Chlgo certificates of their candidacy r overseer of Zion. SECRETARY WILSM 1 EXPOSES MEAT PACKERS | Finds "Condemned" Tag on a ^ Carcass in Storage. CALLS AGENT TO ACCOUNT Quick Visit of Secretary of Agricul- .. Jg ture to Philadelphia Was Con- ' 4 cealed?Meat Dealers Threat- .M ened With Closing. ' '?&J| Philadelphia.?Not only slaughter .J| houses but also the storage plant.- of the Besf Trust in this city were ^ inspected by Secretary Wilson, of . the Department of Agriculture, in the './m course of his whirlwind visit. This fact developed after Dr. Charles :-M Schaufler, chit? of the federal corps of meat Inspectors in this city, had vl vainV? tried to suppress' the details \upga of the inspection. It may have been that a reason for Dr. Schaufler's secretiveness lay in an episode connected with the visit of Secretary Wilson fyj to the big storage house of Armour & Co., at Second and Norris streets. In a superficial survey of one of . IfgW tho big refrigerators in this place, tho quick eye of the Secretary caught a ..is "condemned" tag upon the carcass of a calf. It was the tag of a Chicago : i- ? fKol. f'ViA oqr? , inspector, turn ouuncu kuc*b <.uu v?> cass had been condemned as unfit for ^ food. Wheeling sharply upon Dr. Schauf-. ;v|S ler the Secretary rasped out: >, , \/j& "How did this meat get into Phila- ' ;V2| delphia?" : The local man could find no answer. He stammered something about oversight, and was about to order the meat thrown into the fertilizing tank when he saw that an "approved" stamp was upon'the in- V side of the carcass. It was evident that the animal had been condemned as unsound whea alive, but that examination uf the organs after death showed the meat to be fit for food. To the mind of the Secretary, however, the existence /* of the second tag did not excuse tha ? ;f| failure of the local inspectors to re- -^9 move the condemned tag, and he ex- .sg pressed himself sharply to that effect. SI A total of 153 examinations were htjm hv tViQ tnnnininal insnectora. . /'Jd luauo Kfj ?.uu ^ ,_r a As a result of the day's work Jhree meat shops were reported to be un- TiS sanitary and notices were served upon the proprietors that unless con- -J-S ditions are remedied their places will be-closed. All the stores are in the Kensington district. Condemnations were made of fifty-seven pieces of meat, a total of 762 pounds. While the new Federal Inspection la-Ar is expected to aid in purification of the meat supply, which goes into ' / interstate commerce and foreign trade, and incidentally also the local meat trade, the bulk of the work in ;'l? assuring a pure meat supply for local consumption must be done by the local inspectors. For this reason the ordinance which has been framed by Dr. Leon- v'i V? ard Pearson, and behind which will be aligned all tho influences of the ^ Oenartment of Health and Charities, Jvill be of paramount importance to aj Philadelphia. Federal inspection here will not guarantee the fitness of a pound of meat intended for local consumption. J0 It will be concerned with the oleanliness and freedom from disease of . meats going outside of Pennsylvania. '4 The local inspectors under the projected ordinance will be called upoii to safeguard the people/of this city, ^ from putridity, disease, adulterations and uncleanliness in the meats and fish that are served upon tables in Philadelphia. HANKERS LET THIEF ESCAPE. j $128,000 Dropped in Copper by Pittsburg Embezzlers. -ij Pittsburg, *a. ?Overconfldence of the Union Trust Company officials Is responsible for the escape from the city of the accomplice of Clifford S. Hixton, the bookkeeper who has confessed to the embezzlement of at least $125,000. The bank officials refused to be- * . , lieve there was any trouble in the bank and Hixton's accomplice discovered that an inquiry was afoot and disappeared. Hixton said that within nine rsr /\aa fk/v mont&3 an or tne mai IUO officials know is missing was taken. ? C The robberies, he admitted, had been going on for three years. There is now every reason to believe the total amount will exceed $300,000. Hixton's accomplice was paying celler and handled the money, while Hixton falsified the books. All the $125,000 taken in the last nine months was dropped in an Alaskan copper mine scheme. 2% CENT RATE ON READING. Passenger Tariff Is to Be Revised Over the Entire System. Philadelphia. ? Following the Pennsylvania, the Reading Railroad has a force of clerks at work revising the passenger tariff over the entire system, based on a two-and-alialf-cents-a-mile rate. The schedule will be complete and become operative coincident with that of the Pennsylvania Railroad. A cable message from President Baer says he is about to leave Am sterdam tor Lioncion, auu iuai uc *wi* sail for home. Italy Wants Inspected Meat. The Italian Chamber of Commerce sent out notices to meat packers that the Italian Government had ordered that no United States meat be received unless accompanied by a certificate of soundness. . , Preacher Prevents Lynching. Accused by the six-year-old daughter of the Rev. G. A. Vlicts, of Thomaston, Conn., of attack, John Grady, a tramp, was spirited away to save him from lynching. The National Game. Burch, the Brooklyn boy, is making good with the Cardinals. The Albany Club has turned Pitcher Barnett back to Jersey City. The St. Paul Clab has sold Pitcher Buchanan to the Nashville Club. Almost every member of the Athletics' pitching staff is a college man. Harry Sfceinfeldt was the first man in the National League to secure 100 hits. Pitcher Wiggs has deserted the Toledo Club, of the American Association. *