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PRESIDENT RENEWS BIG
I FLEET HI OMR BJf
Nation's Chief inspects Prids of
Navy From Ma^lcwer's Deck.
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GREATEST OF MARINE PAGEANTS
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Most Imposing Spectacle the Western
Hemisphere Ever Witnessed?
Sixty-one Vessels of All Types
in Line-Up.
Oyster Bay, L. I.?With twice a
fe'V* hundred guns booming: out a salute
to the Nation's Chief. President
Roosevelt reviewed the Atlantic Fleet
of these United States in Long Island
Sound, near his home.
It was a picturesque and an imu
pressive spectacle. Twelve great battleships.
eight powerful cruisers, four
monitors, twelve destroyers and tor!
pedo boats, five auxiliary cruisers,
three submarines, and a troopship?
forty-five craft in all, a ship of war
for every State in the Union?lay in
1 ' three long columus within sight of
? the Sound's green shore, while the
President's yacht. Mayflower, with
[>''< Mr. Roosevelt aboard, steamed between
them. Never had so formidaf
1 ble' a fleet been assembled in triese
waters. Rarely has a more powerful
f naval aggregation been gathered anvwhere
in the world in time of peace.
As the Mayflower dropped her
anchor at the head of the fleet at the
end of the review, the President descended
from the bridge, his face
j*.; , wreathed in smiles, and eiithusiasti'
" cally throwing his arms around the
shoulders of several in a group of
, Senators and Representatives, ex;
claimed:
"Any man who fails to be patriotically
inspired by such a sight1 as this
is a mighty poor American, and
every American who has seen it ought
to be a better American for it."
The sentiment was echoed enthusiastically
by the group around the
President.
It was a stately but simple show.
Its dominant note was of great dignity.
It was the most imposing pageant
the Western Hemisphere had
ever witnessed. It marked the ad>
vent of the United States into third
rank among the nations of the world
as a fighting but peace loving Power.
A combined lleet of sixty-one nr.val*
vessels, representing every type of
ship in use in the navy except a hospital
ship and a machine ship, greeted
the President and a vast throng of
sightseers on hundreds of yachts, ex'
curison boats, launches and rowboats
in"as dramatic a stage setting as old
Neptune ever arranged. When'the
I President reached his yacht, the Mayflower,
in an open launch, a drenching
rain was falling upon him. The
band had not finished playing "The
Star Spangled Banner" after he had
stepped upon the deck ^nd the Presidential
salute had scarcely begun
when the weather god became a
v- wizard and tore aside tne c!ouds in
an instant, flooding the ships with
glorious sunlight.
Up to that time the assembled fleet
in the darkened mist and rain resembled
in the distance the appearance-of.
factories painted white, with
big yellow smoke pipes, and decor~A
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; aiea ior a uuuua^. uui. ?ucu
sun burst through and the bright
colors of the dressed ships, the gleaming
sides, their beautiful alignment
in three lines reaching for nearly
three miles to the westward, with a
green setting of the Long Island hills
and bluffs for a background, were revealed,
cheers upon cheers arose
from the multitude afloat, and just
at the moment when the President
was officially in command. Then was
fully disclosed battleships, armored
-cruisers, protected cruisers, monitors,
gunboats, torpedo boat destroyers,
torpedo boats, submarines, despatch
boats and the President's yacht, besides
auxiliary vessels that included
colliers, a provision ship, a water ship
and a cruiser laden with marines.
There was nut nttie lire to De seen
on board the great fleet of battleships.
but around them a host of
small naval launches were scurrying
hither and thither in the work of
getting the picket lines established.
This work was given over to the junior
lieutenants and ensigns, and they
performed their part perfectly
throughout the day.
At 10 o'clock the sea line to the
westward became blurred with the
oncoming host from the city. Huge
excursion vessels staggered along,
black with humanity, and heeling
dangerously as their passengers
swarmed to the side where the battleships
lay.
Palatial steam yachts, tugs, schooners,
sloops, catboats, dories, yawls,
in fact everything that could carry
sail or turn a screw, seemed to be
doming up.from the west to view the
pageant.
It is variously estimated that from
25,000 to 40,000 persons witnessed
the review from the excursion boats
and yachts.
The President returned to the Mayflower
after making the official calls
and remained on board the yacht
until late in the evening to witness
? Cue lliuuuuanuu vi <-uv^ w...A?
The most brilliant feature of the
naval review was the illumination
of the fleet in the evening. At a signal
from the flagship Maine, made at
eight bells, every battleship, cruiser,
and monitor flashed forth in a glow
of light. The outlines of the hulls,
the masts, the stacks, fighting tops,
and conning towers silhouetted themselves-in
fire on the black horizon.
Peace For Central America.
The Costa Rica Government has
received invitations from the Governments
of Honduras. Guatemala and
... ,r ^Salvador to take part in the peace
conference at San Jose, Costa Rica.
All the Governments support the idea
of the celebration of the treaty of
peace by a union of the five Central
American reDublics.
j . Strike Spreading in Spain.
The strike in Spain is spreading !
and troops have been sent from several
cities to Santander and Bilbao.
The National Game.
There are more Cleveland admirers
in Boston than in any other city,
barring Cleveland.
In fifty-three games Turner, of the
Cleveland team, failed in but three
games to hit safely.
"Jigs" Donohue is now considered
. one of the least consistent hitters ia
the American League.
The aga of heraldry is not
dead yet. The Athletics have a
Knight and a Lord and a Cross.
Tim Murnane rises to remark that
"Hayden is fast coming into his best
iorm and proving a valuable man."
The full moon had just come up over
Sagamore Hill, the harbor twinkled
with the lights of many pleasure
craft. aud outside in the Sound I
stretched the lin? of beautifully light- i
ed ships. At tne President's resi- j
(lence on Sagamore Hill burned one i
bright light set high up where it
could be seen from all directions. ,
Then the powerful searchlights of the |
fleet began to cross one another's j
paths and to sweep the surrounding j
shore line and hills.
Among the guests of the President j
at the review wereSsnarors Burrows, J
of Michigan; Dick, of Ohio, and Pen- ]
rose, of Pennsylvania, and Represen- ,
tatives Loudenslager. of New Jersey; j
Vreeland, of New York; Bates, of
Pennsylvania; Lilley, of Connecticut;
Meyer, of Louisiana, and Padgett, of
Tennessee. The naval attaches present
were Captain F. B. C. Ryan, of
the British Embassy: Captain Hebbinghause,
of the German Embassy:
Lieutenant-Commander A. De Beaupre.
of the French Embassy; Com- j
mander Nebesine, of the Russian
Embassy; Lieutenant-Commander N.
Taniguchi, of the Japanese Embassy; i
Lieutenant-Commander VergilioVere. '
of the Argentine Legation, and Lieu- I
tenant Eduarde M. Urez, of the Uru- '
guayau Legation.
Line-Up of the Big Atlantic Fleet.
Rear-Admiral Robley D." Evans, j
Commander-in-Chief. Captain John i
E. Pills'oury, Chief of Staff.
First Sauardon?The Commander- I
in-Chief. First Division: Maine (flag- |
ship). Captain N. E. Niles; Missouri, j
Captain E. C. Pendleton; Kentucky, j
Captain E. B. Barry; Kearsarge. Cap- j
tain H. Winslow. Second Division: i
The Senior Captain; Louisiana, Cap- I
tain A. R. Condin; Rhode Island,
Captain C. G. Bowman; New Jersey,
Captain W. W. Kimball; Virginia,
va}Jiaiu w.7. w,i;i utui.: .
Second Division: Rear-Admiral C.
H. Davis. Third division: Alabama
(flagship). Captain S. P. Oomly; Illinois,
Captain G. Bloeklinger; Indiana.
Captain E. D. Taussig; Iowa,
Captain B. F. Tiliey.
Fourth Division: Rear-Admiral W.
H. Brownson; West Virginia (flagship),
Captain C. H. Arnold; Pennsylvania,
Captain T. C. McLean; Colorado.
Captain S. A. Staunton; Maryland,
Captain R. R. Ingersoll. Fifth
Division: The Senior Captain; Puritan.
Captain C. W. Bartlett; Nevada,
Commander A. Reynolds; Florida,
Commander W. I. Chambers; Arkansas,
Commander R. H. Gait. Sixth
Division: The Senior Commander;
Minneapolis, Commander B. A. Fiske;
Tacoma, Commander J. T. Smith;
Cleveland, Commander J. T. Newton;
Denver, Commander J. C. Colwell.
lorpeuo rrjtiuas?oeuuxiu nuiula:
Lieutenant-Commander E. A. Anderson;
Whipple. Lieutenant E.
Woods; Worden, Lieutenant V. S.
Houston; Truxton. Lieutenant J. V.
Babcock; Hopkins, Lieutenant M. G.
Cook; Lawrence, Lieutenant T. C.
Hart; MacDonough, Lieutenant K.
M. Bennett. Third Flotilla: The Senior
Lieutenant; Wilkes, Lieutenant
W. McDowell; Tingey, Ensign A. T.
Brisbin; Rodgers, Lieutenant A. W.
Johnson; Stockton, Lieutenant I. H.
Tomb; Blakely, Lieutenant C. E.
Courtney; De Long, Lieutenant W.
S. Miller.
Submarines?The Senior Lieutenant;
Porpoise. Lieutenant C. P. Nelson;
Shark, Lieutenant L. S. Shapley;
Nina (tender).
Troop Ship?Yankee, Commander
H. 0. Dunu.
Auxiliaries ? Celtic (provision
ship), Arethusa (water ship), Abarenda,
Lebanon and Leonidas (colliers).
STENSLAND TAKEN IN MOROCCO.
Chicago Bank Looter Arrested After
Long Chase.
Chicago.?Paul O. Stensland, who
is wanted for wrecking the Milwaukee
Avenue State Bank, had been arrested
at Tangier. Morocco, by Assistant
State's Attorney Olsen, who
had pursued him through England
and Spain.
Stensland was preparing to flee to
Mogador, Morocco, when overtaken.
He arrived at Tangier ou the ship 01denberg
and was seen to disembark
hurriedly.
Assistant State Attorney Olson followed
him from the boat to the British
postoffice. where he heard Stensland
order his mail forwarded under
the name of Paul Olsen. Stensland
turned to go away and the Assistant
State's Attorney seized him, telling
him he was under arrest. Stensland
yielded without a struggle and readily
admitted his identity.
It is reported that $12,000 of fhe
loot from the wrecked bank has been
found in a bank at Tangier, and there
tied up by the Assistant State's Attorney.
CANDY POISONS PRISONER.
Four Other Men Made III in the Jai!
at Fort Worth.
Fort Worth, Teicas.?As the result
of eating poisoned candy mailed to a
prisoner in the county jail by an unknown
person, the recipient. A. S.
Fitzgerald, is dead. Henry Peake.
Louis Weaver, W. H. Norris, J. T.
Hross and Frank Grundv became
dangerously ill.
Fitzgerald, a boyof nineteen years,
was held on a charge of burglary.
An examination of the candy after
Fitzgerald's death showed that it had
been sprinkled with strychnine. The
following inscription wa3 written od
the box:
"How are you, pa!?"
Russian Loan of $2."3,000,000.
An imperial ukase authorizes the
Russian Minister of Finance to issue
$25,000,000 in four per cent, rentes
to cover the expenses of relief of districts
affected by failure of crops.
Meat Labels Deceptive.
Secretary Wil3on, at a conference
with meat packers in Washington,
declared that labels on meat products
must De so explicit mat inert- wuum
be no deception of the public.
Battle in Cuba.
There was a sharp fight near Campo,
Florida, twenty miles east of Havana.
Cuba. The insurgents flod before
a charge of rural guards and :
lost fifteen men killed.
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Rebel Leader Slain.
The federal forces, commanded by
General Rego, presented an ultimatum
to Fausto Cardoza, the chief of
the revolutionists in the Province of
Sergipe, Brazil, to leave the Government
palace. Cardoza obeyed, but,
passing in front of the forces, insulted
General Rego and was killed. The
Governor of the province has been
reinstated.
William Conway Honored.
The North Atlantic squadron took
part in the unveiling of a monument
to William Conway at Camden, Me.
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THREE ARRESTS IN REAL I
! ESTATE TRUST CRASH!
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Promoter Sega! and Two Officials
| Placed Under Heavy Bonds.
HIPPLE STAR BANK THIEF j
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Conspiracy, Embezzlement, Forgery
and Perjury Among Charges?
District Attorney After Directors
?Presbyterians' Loss $109,000.
Philadelphia.?On warrants charging
conspiracy, embezzlement and
perjury, Adolph Segal, the Aiffitrian
promoter, who, with the late President
Hippie and a coterie of directors,
it is charged, wrecked the Real
Estate Trust Company; William F.
North, treasurer of the company,
who, it is alleged, was party to most
of Hippie's illegal acts, and William
J. Collingwood, assistant treasurer,
were placed under arrest by District
Attorney Bell.
Segal, who has aged five years in
two weeks and with all his old jauntiness
gone, was held in $25,000 bail.
The charges against him are conspiracy
and accessory to embezzlement.
North and Collingwood were held
in $10,900 bail each on charges of
conspiracy, embezzlement, perjury,
etc.'
An angry and muttering crowd of
more than a thousand persons
mobbed the office of Magistrate Eisenbrown,
who issued the warrants
upon which Segal, North and Collingwood
were arrested. It was
composed principally of victims of
the frenzied financiering of Hippie
and his associates, and members of
their families.
"Hang them, every one!" screamed
oner woman, wno was rea-eyeu irom
weeping. "I am a widow and they
stole every cent I have in the world!"
Scores of women proclaimed themselves
in a similar plight. The temper
of the crowd was most bitter
against Sega!.
Horace Hill, the auditor, who is
seventy-five years old and broken in
health, will not be arrested. Distrifct
Attorney Bell says he was merely
a figurehead and a tool used by
the looters.
Evidence of actual partnership between
Hippie, Segal and a clique of
directors in the wrecked company has
been found by the District Attorney.
These men sank millions in their
wildcat ventures and the great part
of the millions, it has been discovered
by the District Attorney, went
into suburban trolley schemes in
which they were interested as promoters
or stockholders. As
for the speculations of Hippie
himself revelations already made indicate
that before the investigation of
the looted bank is finished he probably
will'be written down as the star
hank thief nf the centurv.
Out of many instances the following
are the mo3t sensational:
An estate was left by Joseph Detro
in which Hippie was named as sole
executor without bonds by will dated
in 1894., His estate possessed $250,000
in Metropolitan Traction Company
stock. Inquiries since Hippie's
death resulted in the information
that the books showed no stock held
either by the Detro estate or Hippie
as trustee. # It is feared that this
quarter of a rriillion has vanished-as
completely as the $7,000,000 of deposits.
The theft of $30,000 of the bonds
of the trustees of the Presbyterian
General Assembly was also fasttened
upon Hippie by the examination
of their $965,000 of securities
by the committee of auditors. This
makes approximately $100,000 missing
to date from the Presbyterian
funds.
District Attorney Bell made public
a letter left by Hippie, and found on
his bureau. It simply said:
"Segal got it all. I alone am to
blame. Was fooled."
. This confession is distinct from
that found at the bank.
Atlantic City.?One hundred inva:
lid women were turned out o? thtf
Mtercer Memorial Home, Pacific aveuue
and Park place. All the money
the home had, some $50,000, was in
the Real Estate Trust, wrecked by
Hippie's stealings. The people
turned out are poor and have no
means of support.
NO GAMING IN SYDNEY, N. S. W.
Drastic Law Passed by Parliament?
Publishing of Odds Prohibited.
"Sydney, N. S. W.?Parliament has
passed a drastic anti-gambling law.
It prohibits betting on grounds where
all sports are held, except under special
circumstances on race courses.
and places restrictions on gambling
in privcte houses and clubs. Race
meetings in the metropolitan area
of Sydney are limited to Wednesdays,
Saturdays and public nolidays. The
newspapers are prohibited from publishing
racing odds.
KILLED LOOKING FOR BALL.
It Falls in Coal Bin and Match of
Searchers Causes Explosion of Gas.
Stellarton, N. S.?While four boys
were searching for u ball in an unused
coal bin here, one of them lighted
a match which ignited gas, and all
four were instantly killed.
Two were sons of Neil Gunn and
the others were sons of Joseph Frew
and Neil Patterson.
Investigating Harvester Trust.
Investigations of th* International
Harvester Company have been instituted
by C. C. Coleman, AttorneyGaneral
of Kansas, at Topeka, to determin
whether the concern is operating
in violation of the State AntiTrust
laws. J
HnTd Tmnnpte Aided.
Secretary Shaw announced in
Washington that the Treasury would
make deposits with national banks
to aid gold imports.
Labor World.
City laborers of Mlllford, Mass.,
are working eight hours for $2.
Of the common laborers in Massachusetts,
73.50 per cent, are foreigners.
Carbondale (Pa.) painters won a
demand for a twenty-five cent increase.
Carpenters of Berkeley and South
Norfolk, Va., have secured the eighthour
day.
St. Paul painters adopted a higher
scale and the employers promptly
signed up.
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THE SEPTEMBER ELECTIONS
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Proctor Chosen Governor of Vermont
by Large Plurality
Democrats Win in Arkansas?LaFollette
Gets a Setback?Georgia
Democrats Convene.
White River Junction. Vt.?Complete
returns from the Vermont
State el:ction show that Fletcher D.
Proctor (Rep.) was elected Governor
by 15,670 ove.- Tercival W. Clement,
Independent and Democrat. The
vote: Proctor, 42,150; Clement,
20,474; scattering, 1000.
The remainder of the Republican
State ticket was successful by pluralities
about cqur.i to that received
by Proctor.
The Republicans carried all the
counties in the State except. Bennington,
which Clement won by sixty-one
niomont r.irried thB Cit" of
Burlington, 1651 to 1414. In Rutland,
Clement's home, lio received
1G54 votes and Proctor 1307. i'i
Montpelier, the capital, the fusion
candidate polled S74 vote3 to G71 for
Proctor.
Representative David J. Foster, ot
Burlington (Rep.), was re-elected in
the First Congressional District over
Edwin D. Clift (Dcm.), and in the
Second District Representative Kittredge
Haskins (Rep.) defeated John
H. S:hf.:r (Dem.).
An analysis of the voting shows that
the Republicans gained 10,000 votes
over the number four years ago and
that Clement lost 1800. Thp Prohibition
loss was proportionately greater.
The Republicans will have an
overwhelming majority in the House
and the Senate will have only one
Democratic member. The issues ot
the campaigns have been largely personal.
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Defeat of La Follette.
Milwauk.o. Wis.?The latest returns
from the primary elections in
Wisconsin indicate that Governor
James O. Davidson. Republican,
swept the State, despite the active
opposition of Senator La Follette.
winning from hi3 opponent, Speaker
Irvine L. Lenroot, in the race for
nomination for Governor, by a majority
of 40,000 votes.
John A. Alyward, Democrat, of
Madison, for Governor, received the
nomination over Erase Merten, of
Waukesha, by a safe majority.
Nearly Unanimous In Arkansas.
T.HHo Rnrt Arlf As the result
of the election the Democrats will
have thirty-four of the thirty-five
members of the State Senate and
ninety-five of thj 100 members of
the House and will elect Governor
Jeff Davis United States Senator.
John S. Little is elected Governor by
a plurality of about 55,000. At least
fifty-three of the fifty-five counties
voted against liquor license under the
local option laws.
Georgia Democrats in Convention.
Macon, Ga. ? The Democratic
State Convention unanimously nominated
Hoke Smith for Governor and
indorsed William J. Bryan for President
in 1908. The names of other
candidates for Governor were not
placed before the convention.
The platform recommends the substitution
of the majority vote in primaries
for nominating conventions
in Gubernatorial contests, two-cent
railroad fares. State railroad control,
lower freight rates, negro disfranchisement
and increase in the
size of the State Senate.
$35,000,000 WASTED IN WATER.
Excessive Irrigation Causes Enormous
Loss to Western Farmers.
Boise, Idaho.?At the National Irri??aHr>n
PrmcrpRs T)r. Elwood Mead,
of the Government- Reclamation Service,
spoke of "The Evolution of Irrigation
Institutions," dealing with the
steady development from absolute
private ownership of small water
rights into a great system of community
and Government ownership.
Some startling statistics were presented
by Professor Samuel Fortier,
of the University of California, in an
address dealing with the loss of water
through waste. He made the assertion
that in the Western States $50,000,000
were expended annually in
securing and distributing water for
irrigation, and that of this water
tnus distributed f illy seventy-five per
cent, was wasted, causing a net loss
to the people of the Western State3
of more thau? $35,000,000. He expressed
the opinion, however, that
while all c<! this loss could not be
stopped, he believed that fully ten
per cent, of it could be.
PREPARING MEAL, BRIDE DIES.
Used Gasoline to Ha3ten Fire For
Her Husband's Breakfast.
Pittsburg, Pa.?A bride of five,
days, Mrs. Rosie Ramp, twenty years
old, died at the Braddock General
Hospital from burns she received
while starting a fire with gasolene.
Mrs. Karnp had just returned from
her .honeymoon and was preparing
the first breakfast for her husband.
The fire was slow in burning and she
used gasolene to hasten the flames.
I Chief Justico Torrance Dead.
Judge David Torrance, Chief Ju3tice
of the Connecticut Supreme
Court, died at his home, in Derby,
I from an attack of heart trouble.
FILIPINOS START REBELLION.
Gov ? Arrests 150 and Believes
He Has Crushed Insurrection.
Manila, P. I.?The Governor of the
province of Uocos Norte, Luzon, in
/ri-nnorafinn with the constabulary.
has discovered au incipient insurrection
and has arrested 150 of the conspirators,who
were under tuo leadership
of two ex-convicts.
Apparently thi3 wholesale imprisonment
has crushed the movement.
Minor Mention.
Long Island is being disturbed by
bandits in automobiles.
Ruin of the Cuban tobacco crops
is predicted as a result of the insurrection.
The immigration inquiry board decided
to admit forty Russian Jew
orphans.
At Sydney, New South Wales, the
legislative assembly passed the free
education bill.
A crematory for disposing of the
bodies of the pauper dead in the District
of Columbia is to be constructed
in Washington.
60 BUCK TO THE LAND,
SHI'S JMESIHILI
Future of Nation P/lenaced by Rusl
From Farms to Cities.
POINTS OUT DANGER SIGNALS
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Striking Address at Minnesota State
Fair oa Present-Day Condition!
?Serious Labor Famine?Farm'
ers Seel; Help in Vain.
St. Paul, Minn.?James J. Hill
president of the Great Northern Rail
road, at the MinnesotaState Fair tok
the American people, in an addres:
which may bs memorable, that the:
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must gee uacil lO me liiuu, auu maivi
a better economic use of it if the:
want to prevent a great crisis anc
save millions of Americans from fu
ture grinding waut. There was c
good deal of what people call pessi
mismi in Mr. Hill's speech.
The menacing conditions which
Mr. Hill pointed out, the countrj
was rapidly approaching by roasoi
of the strong tendency of populatioi
from the farms to the already con
gested cities, attracted a great dea
of attention from a vast audience
His speech, in part, follows:
"Notwithstanding the addition o
more than 1,000,000 people a yeai
from abroad, nearly all of them mer
and women who must work for a liv
ing, labor outside of the cities was
never as scarce or wages as high a:
at the present time. Immigratior
lingers in the great centres and add:
to the difficulties attending employ
meat. The farms stretch out theii
hands in vain. Railroads in makint
exteusions have to get help at th<
highest market price, and And a larg?
percentage of those whom they em
ploy mere hoboes, who desert as soor
as they have succeeded in getting
transportation from one part of th(
country to another.
"Farm'ers besiege the employmenl
agencies in vain, and offer the lazj
tramp a sum for a day's work in the
field unheard of in any other countrj
in the world. The situation grows
more embarrassing yearly. Hours oi
labor are being reduced in some oi
tno states lor iarm wen aa
hands. Men are scarcer as the move
ment of population to the cities grows
more pronounced. A considerabh
portion of this year's magnificent
crop will bo either reduced in qualitj
or altogether lost by reason of th(
impossibility of getting labor to han
die it properly. ,
"The country'needs more workers
on the soil. Not to turn the strangei
away, but to direct him to the farm
instead of the city; not to watct
with fear a possible increase of the
birth rate, but to use every means tc
lteep the boys on the farm and tc
send youths from the city to swel
I the depleted ranks of agricultural industry,
is the necessary task of a
well-advised political economy and an
intelligent patriotism.
"Within twenty years we mu3l
house and employ in some fashion
50,000.000 additional population, and
by the middle of this century there
will be approximately two and a hall
times a3 many people in the United
States as there are to-day.
"Our onp resource, looking at hu
manit'y as something more than thf
creature of a day, is the productivitj
of the soil. The reckless distributor
. of the public land, its division among
all the greedy who choose*to ask foi
it, the appropriation of large areat
for grazing purposes, have absorbed
much of the national heritage.
"Certain it is that the time ha*
some for setting our household ic order
and creating a serious study ol
national activity and economy according
to a truer insight and a more
rational mood.
"Let us be warned in time. On
every side there is menace if our national
activity be not reorganized oc
the basis of the old-fashioned common
sense. The safety valve for old
I er peoples has been found in emigra
tion. Their rery relief has contrib
uted to our danger. The United
! States cannot follow their example.
I "The conclusion reached points oui
! and emphasizes a national duty sc
i imminent and imperative that ii
I should take precedence of all else
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It IS IIIC 108 UlclL uas ur ct bui v < u v.
ilizations as proud, as prosperous
and far more strongly fortified thai
our own. Nothing can stop the on
ward march of nature's laws, 01* closi
the iron jaws of her necessities wliei
they open to crush their victims.
. "If we are to walk safely in th<
way of wisdom there is much to bi
done. It is time to begin. Then
must be, first, a return to conserva
tive and economic methods, a read
justment of national ideas such as ti
place agriculture, and its claims t<
the best intelligence and the highes
skill that the country affords, in th<
very forefront. There must be a na
tional revolt against the worship o
manufacture and trade as the onl;
forms of progressiva activity, and thi
false notion that wealth built upoi
these, at the sacrifice of the funda
mental form of? wealth production
can endure. A clear recognition 01
the part of the whole people,. f^on
the highest'down to the lowest, lha
the tillage of the soil is the natura
and most desirable occupation fo
man, to which every other is subsid
iary and to which all else must ii
the end yield, is the first requisite
The country, in mere self-preserva
tiou, must give serious attention t
the practical occupauuu UL 1 COtui tu
agriculture to its due position in th
nation."
Anti-Greek Demonstration.
An anti-Greek demonstration a
Galatz, Rumania, resulted in the de
struction of a number of Greek shop
and the stoning of the Russian Cor
sulate.
Now Jersey Woman Horse-brcakei
New Jersey has a girl horse
breaker in the person of Miss Winnc
noh Von Ohl. Five years ago, whe
she was a slender girl of fifteen, sh
weut to South Dakota, where sh
learned to ride "broncos."
Feminine News Notes.
St. Petersburg is to have a schoc
of agriculture for women only.
Mrs. Michael Hfckox Durand, c
Canandaigna, N. Y., recently ceh
brated her ninety-ninth birthday.
t-?* uniio ruprn thp most famou
dancer in Parte, has insured h
ankles against sprain for $S0,00
each.
Three American ladies tourin
Japan were arrested in Iyo provinc
and released after their camera
were destroyed, because they mad
photographs of Japanese ladies batl
ing at a public bathhouse.
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ITTS I NEWS
WASHINGTON. ,
The Director of the Mint purchased I
J 200,000 ounces of silver bullion to
be delivered at the Philadelphia Mint
at .6705 per fine ounce.
Patent attorneys have made a protest
against delay in the work of the
J Patent Office; they are obliged to
wait for iponths to obtain patents.
President Roosevelt asked the
, Postofflce Department to investigate i
the Roosevelt Home Club with a
* view to issuing a fraud order against i ^
! o
Chief Wilkie, of the Secret Service !
division of the Treasury Department, p
in his annual report shows that dur
ing the fiscal year ended June 30,
1 1906, there were 356 arrests made by ' t
3 officers cf that service.
Postmaster-General Cortelyou and
his assistants believe the rural deliv- r
; ery service can render great assist- t
1 ance in improving the public high- t
I waya.
The War Department '.as accepted
L the resignation of Second Lieutenant B
Clarenco A. Eustaphieve, Twentythird
Infantry, for the good of the ^
service. The resignation of Lieu- J
'f tenant Albert S. Odell, Eleventh Cav- C
j airy, also has beeu accepted. t
i The State- Department, has dispatches
from President Escalon, of
1 Salvador, President Cabrera, of Gua- I
. temala, and President Bonilla, of 8
Honduras, offering thanks for making j
f peace possible. I
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1 OUR ADOPTED ISLANDS. . t
[ Word has been received at Manila, t
j P. I., that native volunteers captured ^
j Armog'- s Sanchez, a chief of the Pu- ^
In^anas 4n tho ri m VI T\ CP> Of TjftVte.
! near Biaybay.
r The escape of che bandits from
; Leyte, P. 'I., ha3 been, cut off by
? troops, who will also prevent the ari
rival of reinforcements of Pulajanes
from Samar. The situation is great1
ly improved.
> The Unionist party at San Jnan,
Porto Rico, unanimously renominated
Tulio Larrinaga a3 commissioner of
t Porto Rico to the United States Con'
gress. ?
Concessions to the short stature of
' Porto Ricns has been made in a
! general order just issued by the genP
eral staff of the army, providing that
five feet two inches shall be the min- 1
' imum height of men admitted to the a
Porto Rico provisional regiment. ?
I The "Manila and Dagupan Railway 1
' has extended the Antipolo branch to t
the town of P2sig. j
> The extension of the steam rail- I
- way service has met with instant c
favor with the people of Manila, P. I. (
' Manila is very much American, and t
' is used as a sort of maritime pound
i into which may be dumped all the
1 beachcombers and incorrigible3 and
' undesirables of the Orient, provided 1
> the statement is made that they are (
1 American seamen. ]
' Tin* TTninn nartv in convention ct '
San Juan, Porto Rico, resolved to *
' deny the demands of the American.
1 Federation of Labor that labor candi,
dates lor the House of Delegates
should be included la the nomina|
tions of that party.
DOMESTIC.
I The Chicago postmaster went to
Washington, D. C., to consult with
the authorities on the formation of a
national"labor union of postal clerks.
The Court of Appeals at Albany,
| N. Y., declared the reapportionment
; of Congress districts under act of
Legislature constitutional.*
^ 'The August Grand Jury, of New/
York City, adjourned without hand,
ing down any indictments or presentments
against the ice companies,
f It was admitted; that President
- Hippie, of the wrecked Real Estat6
> Trust Company, of Philadelphia, committed
suicide.
i Mrs. Roper, of Brooklyn, caught
around the ankle by the anchor rope
i of a balloon, was carried head down
ward 500 feet into the air and se
riously injured.
*Robbins Reef and Oyster islands,
" fci New York Bay, who3Q ownership
has been a subject of contention, j
t were sold for $80,000. <
, One of the reports of the conven- j
I . tion of the, member^, of the Bar Association
in session in St. Paul, ,
1 Minn., scores shystpr lawyers.
It was announced that the funds
x of the Presbyterian Church intrusted
to the late i*'ranK j\. mpyw, ?ji c&l" |
j dent of the insolvent Real Estate i 1
i Tru3t Company,o? Philadelphia, were 1
Intact. i
5 Accused of swindlingJohn H. Bun*
3 ker out of $200,000, Lucius C. Ma3
son, also said to behead of the "Love i
- Syndicate" of Mrs. Izella Brown, was ,
- arrested in New Yo?k City.
5 Through his secretary President
? Roosevelt issued a statement indorsins
Herbert Parsons in his contest
3 for the Republican county cnairmanj
ship of New Yorlc City.
I FOREIGN.
3 Rebels under the lead of Congress,
man Campos Marquetti captured the
t town of Cabanas, on the northern
;i coast of Pinar del Rio, Cuba,
a Wholesale deportattoLS aro being
t reported'from St. Petersburg, 2G0-J j
1 jfersons having been banished from j
r the capital.
Conditions in Russia seem to be !
a growing worse; the list of crime in'
creases despite the arrest of many
revolutionary leaders.
? The Kaiser's first grandchild, the
e son of the Crown Prince, Frederick
William, was baptized at Potsdam,
I Germauy.
General Rennenkampf has been
appointed successor of General SkalIon,
governor of Warsaw.
~ General opinion in Cuba is that if
there is any change in the Presidency ;
l" it will come through United States i
intervention.
A remarkable iostacce of the feel- |
" ing of Euddhists and Shintoists tos
wAwi PHrictinna is furnished by the I
action of their leaders, who have den
cided to contribute voluntarily to the
e cost of rebuilding the Christian
e Church which was destroyed in me
iisturbances in Tokio.
Two chief lieutenants of Carlos
ftlendieta have surrendered, causing
>1 a serious blow to the Cuban revolt
in Santa Clara province.
Neither the Cuban tobacco nor
sugar crop has yet suffered from the
rebellion, but its continuance would
is cause heavy losses.
* Brazil is suffering from an over0
production of coffee and the only
hope of relief is in extending its forg
eign market.
:e In a riot at Brescia. Italy, over the
15 suppression of the Florin Cup autoe
mobile race, sev^^1 persons were in '*
jured, and the municipal authorities
were forcerl to r.iairra.
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The Hiawatha (Kan.) World prints
his interesting item: "Ewing Herert
tried to prevent a dog fight in
he park Wednesday night, and one
f the dogs bit a piece out of his new:'
ants and his old leg."
London suggests ten Bostons pieced
ogether at the edges.
The occupants of the Philippines
epresent such a variety of races that
hirty-one languages are spoken 1.
here.
Making postal cards carrying inulting
allusions to the German Emieror
is a pleasing Parisian industry,
"he partisan political postal card is
[uite common. Perhaps it will invade
America.
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Traveling on the Argentine pampas
9 interesting if not entirely comfortible.
Men there are scarce, but>
torses are plentiful. - Often sixty
lorses are driven in the same team.
Phe drivar i3 perched thirty feet from
he ground. The wagons are someimes
fifty fee1. long and fifteen wide,
vhile the back wheels are fourteen
eje or so high.
A proud young father, according to
he Buffalo Commercial, telegraphed
he news of his happiness to his
irother in these words: "A handsome
joy has come to my house and claims
o be your nephew. We are doing
rur best to give him a proper wel:ome."
The brother, however, failed'
o see the point, and replied: "I have
lot jot a nephew. The young man is
in imposter."
On the watch tower of the Vela, at
he- Alharabra, Spain, there is a silver
oned bell which the Moslems rung aa
t signal to let on the water in the
jardens and fountain in the city beow.
Its sound can be heard at Liga, - '
hirty miles away. The maiden who "
ttrikes it to-day is sure of a husband
>efore the year is out, and of a good ?
me if she rings it loud enough. On ..
:erta.in fete daj^s it is.lively for the
>eU.
A new fruit that seems likely to
jrove of considerable value has been
ieveloped by the cultivation of the
rery familiar "maypop," a plant which
s very familiar in the Southern
3tates, quite ornamental, easily,
;rown from seeds and affords a handsome
cover for arbors and verandas.
ft is known to botanists as passiffor*
ncarnata. Thd fruit in its improved
:orm is somewhat bigger than a hen'a
}gg and decidedly palatable. * It Looks
ike a May apple.
"Water billiards" is the newest and
>ddest of European pastimes. A Mliard
table is "floated in a quiet pond",
iometimes where the water fs only,
'our or five feet deep;, sometime! la
rery deep- water. Players- in street
:ostume and high hats wade or swim T .
nit, cues in hand, and, to the delight
>f the- spectators, play a "straight"
;ame of billiards. The hazards ot
:he sport include a frequent ducking,
:he occasional capsizing of the table
luring a difficult shot and the cer- '
;ainty of ruined clothes.
SENDS COIN BAKED IN BISCUIT.
Colorado Girl's Novel Way of Getting
Money Through the Mail.
A Colorado girl who wanted a cer- *
tain school book ordered it from a,
Chicago publisher and sent the money; '
for it, baked in a biscuit.
The sender explained that she was *.
so far from a money-order selling
nt onv irirLf? she had no'
u/lUCO Ul tkUJ ?
jther mode of sending the price than
to enclose it as she did. It was ai
silver quarter that she sent. We
o?ten hear of clouds with silver linings,
but here is a chunk of dough'
with a silver filling.
The Ravenswood woman who tella
the story says that this is only one
of many inventions of money mailing
people. Their resources in contrir- .
ing ways to disguise the presence of
coin or currency in letters and packages
seemingly are unlimited. Chicago's
big stores that nandle a heavy,
business through the mails are able > ^
to recount some unusual methods. *
Some of the women who send to Chi- v
cago for various articles are ingenious
in this matter. The Colorado in- i
cident simpiy shows the scope of tb^ "
human mind in trying to outwit the ?
thieves who occasionally manages te *"
slip into the Federal service.
The lost anc found department of
the United States railway mall ser- j
vice in Chicago produces sonr? won- ^
derful conceits in concealing remittances.
Frequently pacsages brealr.
open, and dollars, lialves, quarter^
and dimes roll out of unheard of hiding
places. One queer fact concern- ing
the matter is that after a person
has taken unheard of pains to hide
a remittance he will do up his package
so carelessly that it breaks open
with the slightest jar or jolt.
In the Colorado book order the
sender sent with the biscuit a note
i-1" ?nnin wac SPPPPted. I
leiuug wueio1 iuc vw4u ?. ?
The book she wanted was "Studies iQ I
P'rench."?Chicago Daily News. J
Fancy Table Ways ia Missouri.
We are getting dead swell in this
good town. We eat ice cream with a
fork. Some time ago we learned to
make salad at the dinner table. Then
we served coffee in the library after.*" >
dinner. We have had finger bowls *
some dozen years. We are beginning :
to use them even when there is no
company. One family has fingerj
bowls at breakfast, after fruit and'
before bacon, even when there is no
guest at the house. That's dead
swell. We have drunk soup out of a
teacup and put grass on the fried
clHtken, and now we eat ice cream
with a fork. Why not? These little
evidences of social progress are coaimeadable.?Columbia
Herald.
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