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? 0| ""THE LITTLE DONE, THE VAST 5| UNDONE." il '^The little done sustaineth no man's soul; sS Jt knows it for an atom of a whole, ra A tiny atom scarce worth heaven's seeing, igfl Or man's acclaim or e'en a moment s being; . And this although a fellow or a State @3 Hold the accomplished thing as truly great. T Nay, not the thing that's done, but what's |?j undone Olives strength and comfort underneath the sun; The poems that the poets never write. * Yet dream and drink through many a summer night, 'The statues chiselled when the imperial mind Is by no need of handicraft confined. The vast that beckons, stoops, but nevor yields I la fuller brightness in these earthly fields? These are the things that lift the spirit up And place unto its lips the living cup. That give unto the soul of man the strength To bear with all the year's injurious length! ?New Orleans Times-Democrat. |fSOUTHERN ROSES T I and NORTHERN LILACS k - ib =dl "Oh:?Oh!?Oh!" The woman in black turned and caw Helen arop to ner Knees, sue was at her side in a moment. "Beautiful!" Helen was saying into the depths of the creamy roses. "Where did they come from?" "From Virginia; came by mail yesterday," said the woman in black in a soft Southern drawl. Helen noticed the accent, and thought it sweet. She , did not know it was Southern. "You put them here for us?" "I put them here for him." The "woman in black pointed to the nam: ,on the ma'rble slab. "He did me? did us?a very great kindness years ^go." She was on her knees npw, beside Helen, helping to arrange the white lilacs. "I love them so, the flowers," she said. A robin was caroling overhead. Faintly there came to them the thrum, thrum of a drum, and far down the road a cloud of white dust was rising. "It was a beautiful day, just like to-day," the stranger was saying, in her soft, Southern drawl. "Nature was joyously, exuberantly happy, but our hearts were heavy and sad. It seemed to me as if mine was broken, as if I could never be happy and merry again. Down in our pasture, tents were pitched. From our side piazza we could see blue coats moving about them. I hated those bluecoated men ? marauders ? I called them by every despicable epithet I could think of. I hated them because they were quartered on us without invitation. Only a few weeks before, a party of them came into our garden, I and one of them went along and smashed the sashes of our hotbeds with his heel, and they helped them selves to our radishes and early vegetables. When old Tom called to them to 'leave 'em thar, we wants 'em to eat,' they laughed at him and retorted: 'We want 'em to $at, too, old Mr. Blackbird!' ^ "To tell the truth, we had not very much to eat in tho?e days; we were c?i short rations often, and now I reflect they must have been, too, those boys in blue. I hated them most, I ' think, because only a few days before they had killed and eaten1 my pet heifer. "Oh child, those were hard days, cruel days! But hardest on us in ----whose homes and dooryards the 1 fierce, bloody battles were fought. Our house was watched. I'd seen the men picketed about it. We were suspected of harboring an escaped prisoner, a spy, they deemed him. A squad of blue coats came riding up o ix lane one morning. They were coming to search our premises. We'd expected this for several days. They dismounted and tied their horses to the garden fence. One of them came to me. I was sitting on a bench alongside the house. Over it I'd spread a rug I'd fetchei from the f hall.. "The officer explained, or attempted to explain to me that he had seen detailed to the painful duty of searching our house. 'Don't,' I interrupted, 'make any apologies; they're quite out of place at such a time, and from you. Our permission you do not need ?we are at your mercy, sir!' "I could have struck him dead, ^.^standing there, cap in hand, had I i Nbeen able. I think I looked my hatred. He looked embarrassed, pained. At a signal from him the men entered the house. He had bidden them give as little offense as possible and be quick. He stood there, cap in hand, while the men were inside?it seemed to me they were ages Inside. His face was partly averted. It was a fine, noble face, a face to win confidence. He may have a mother at home, or a sister or a sweetheart at home, I thought. I had never associated these tender ties with my hated enemies before. The men came out and he went toward them, and it seemed, led them away from me. " 'All right,' he said, 'I was quite nroc nn nno pnnnoQ 1 orl in side that house.' Did he emphasize the word inside? I thought he did, was sure he did, and the thought froze the blood in my veins. ""He came back and stood guard * over me. What did he mean to do next? Oh, how anxiously I studied his face while his men searched our outbuildings. And when they had done, he pointed to their horses, then turning to me, cap still in hand, he said: 'I hated to make this search, but we have to obey orders. Say to them, to your people, that you will not be subjected to this annoyance * again while I am on duty, but I shall ' "be relieved of duty here at 8 o'clock to-morrow morning?8 o'clock tomorrow morning,' he emphasized. "I know what he meant, l Know lie meant 'get your house in order , before that.' Tears sprang to my eyes, tears of gratitude, tears of relief. I would have sprung up and gone to him and shaken his hand, had I dared to get up. 'Oh sir, thank you, thank you!' I murmured, $nd reached him a couple of roses off the - bush that grew beside me. the parent % .. / '* . " V ' r of that bush." The woman in black pointed to the creamy roses on the soldier's grave. "He came and took them from me, bowed low, and mounted his horse. Then I saw Benny's feet stickiug out from under the rug, Benny, tor wnom they were searching. And I knew that that officer had seen them. too. I'd been literally sitting on Benny all that time?making i bench of him." "Oh, he did see them, grandpa told mo he did," broke in Helen, "and he told me how sorry he felt for you. and said he kept the roses a long time, a very long time And you were tho beautiful girl?" The woman in black blushed and looked very beautiful to Helen. "I was the girl," she said. "And Benny said I nearly crushed the breath out oi him, I was so heavy." "Benny was your brother?" "No, he was my playfellow, and afterwards my husband. "We got him away that night, in old Tom's clothes." "Grandpa said he hoped you would, for your sake. And he is " "Dead; has been these many ;-3ars." The woman in black touched her somber dress reverently. The thrum, thrum, thrum had been sounding louder and the cloud of dust hr.d been coming nearer, along the road. The little procession of veterans turned up the avenue of the cemetery. The woman in black and the girl in white put the last linger+ hoir flrral trihllt.A. t.hfi roses from Virginia, and the lilacs from York State, on the Federal soldier's grave and passed down the little narrow walk, arm in arm, as the little procession of veterans came up the driveway.?American Agriculturist. FORESTS TURN TO PAPER. Acres of Trees Consumed Daily in Ephemeral Literature. If one asked "the man in the street" what paper was made of, writes R. K. Duncan, in Harper's Magazine, he would almost certainly say "rags," and for the fair white sheet upon'which I write this would be true, but for paper in general the answer would be absurdly inadequate for there exists not one one-thousandth part of "rags" that would be necessary. Our civilization exists largely on a paper basis, and in England alone it requires 650 mills, producing seme 30,000 tons a week, to fulfil our needs. To feed these mills science laid her hand on cellulose, which we cannot make, but can only take from plants. In the plant the cellulose of the cell walls, with the exception of cotton, which is unique, does not stand up pure ana tree ana uncombined, but exists always incrusted chemically with some other substance. The substance of woody fibre is thus always cellulose X, aud the problem for science was either to manufacture paper directly out of cellulose X (lingo cellulose or wooil fijjre) or to devise some practical method of extracting the X substance from the cellulose and thus obtain it pure and free for paper. Both methods are practiced to-day. Paper boxes, wrapping paper and almost all the newspapers of the land are made, not of rags, but simply of disintegrated deal boards pounded and mashed and amalgamated into paper. Any one of the large London or American daily papers consumes each day fully ten acres of average forest. Such paper does not last. The wood fibre out of which it is made is, unlike pure cellulose, acted upon by light and air and water and the organisms of decay. This is bad, but not wholly bad, for most bf the literature appearing on this paper is made as mechanically as the paper itself, and it is fitting that it should be as ephemeral in fact as it is in nature. But sometimes Literature (with a capital L) appears on this wooden foundation?and that is a tragedy. Had Mr. Pepys written his admirable dairy upon what we call "scribbling paper," we would to-day have no Mr. Pepys. England alone, every year imports some 350,000 tons of this mechanical wood pulp to turn it into paper. She imports also some 200,000 tons of what is called "chemical wood pulp" ? i. e., wood from which the incrusting impurities have been removed and which consists of cellulose almost pure. Shooting Gallery Secret. The beach was empty. The board walk was dead. The shooting gallery man was pacKing to go soum ior me winter. "Do you see this glass ball?" he said. It was a ball of hollow glass, an airy glass soap bubble, that had swung all summer at the end of a thread in the foreground of the ciay pipes, bells and whatnot that had made up the gallery's targets. "This glass ball," the man went on, "is my great money maker. All summer long people tried to hit this ball?it was bigger and nearer than any othsr target?and everybody failed. Thousands of bullets were fired at the ball, thousands of nickels were spent on it, yet here it is still m xr Krno H rtr i nnor UUIUU^UCU, UiJ Utou yivuumuuvi. "All wise shooting gallery men have a glass ball like this. It makes such a temping target, yet it is never hit. It is never hit because the air that precedes a gun charge is sufficient to blow the ball aside, out of the way. You might lire a hundred shots at it, but, like a living thing, like a timid soldier, for instance, it would dodge each shot."?St. Louis Globe-Democrat. Testing Missionary's Patience. The Rev. Frederick B. Bridgeman, the noted and successful missionary to the Zulus, was talking in Philadelphia about missionary work. "I am very hopeful of it," he said. "I may be a little too hopeful because I have had such good success. Tt is better, though, to be too hope; ful than too doubting. "Much depends upon the character of the people one works among, and I can sympathise a little with a missionary who returned home from China in a very despondent mood. "A Chinese convert stole this missionary's watch and then came bat?; to him the next morning to learn how to wind it up."?Boston Globe* Household _ Matters !!?PTini? I I Fish Pie. The following costs about ten cents: Butter a shallow pie dish and strew over it a few breadcrumbs. t-11 ^ I A 1 ^ C 1 ,3 0?U r 1SKB LUt: ieiuiiiu3 ui au; cuiu usu, and season it with cayenne and anchovy. Lay it in the dish, fill ur with some mashed potatoes, and over them put a few more breadcrumbs and some pieces of butter. Bake foi half an hour. Stewed Red Cabbage. Required: A crisp, red cabbage, half ounce of butter, thres-quartej pint of stock, a gill of? vinegar, a tablespoonful of castor oil, a slice o! ham. Wash the cabbage thoroughly, then cut it into very thin slices; pul them in a pan with the ham cut ii small pieces, the butter, quarter pin' of stock and the vinegar. Put th? lid on the pan and let its content.' simmer gently for about one hour When the cabbage is quite tender adc the rest of the stock, the vinegar and the seasoning. Stir all over the fin till almost all the liquor has boiled away.- Serve it in a hot vegetablt Jish. Chicken Rissoles. Ingredients: White part of a chicken, one tablespoonful ham or tongue, pepper, salt, five tablespoonfuls of breadcrumbs, two eggs, savory herbs, nutmeg and lemon rind, two ounces of butter. Method: Mince the chicken and ham; mix them together with pepper, salt, nutmeg and a tablespoonful of breadcrumbs, and bind together with an egg. Mix the rest jf the breadcrumbs with the savory lerbs and other seasoning, rub in :he butter and the yolk of an egg; roll out this paste on a floured board :o the thickness of the third of an Inch; stamp it into shapes with a pastry cutter, and on each shape lay i small ball of the minced chicken, and cover with another round of the forcemeat. Join the edges securely together, egg and breadcrumb the rissoles, and fry in deep, hot fat. Herb Soup. Half pint finely shredded spinach, Dne-fourth pint shredded sorrel, onefourth pint blanched and sliced leek, the white heart leaves of a head of lettuce, four potatoes, medium size, three level teaspoons salt, four tablespoons butter, otfs tablespoon chervil, two quarts boiling water, half pint bread cut into dice and fried in butter or browned in the oven. Have the sorrel, spinach and lettuce fresh and tender and free from tough midribs. Wash and shred. Cut the washed leek into thin slices. Put in the stewpan with the butter and cook fifteen minutes, being careful not to brown. Now add the potatoes, salt and boiling water. Place the stewpan where the contents will boil quickly, and when the soup begins to boil draw the stewpan back where the contents will boil gently for an hour. At the end of this time crush the potatoes with a fork, add the chervil and simmer five minutes longer. Turn into the soup tureen, add the crisp bread and serve. If preferred the soup may be rubbed through a pouree sieve, returned to the fire, and when boiling hot be poured on the yolks of two eggs which have been beaten with two tablespoons of milk. This soup may be varied indefi nltely. Any number of green vegetables can be employed in making it, care being taken to use only a small quantity of those of pronounced flavor ?New York Witness. Household Hints. Hot milk, heated to as high a temperature as it can be drunk, is a most refreshing stimulant in cases of cold or over fatigue. Paprika, by the way, is as ornamental as it is useful. Almost any vegetable with cream or white sauce is made doubly attractive when sprinkled liberally with the sweet red pepper. White and light gray fur, it is said, may be beautifully cleaned Dy rubbing well with equal parts of flour and fine salt. Shake well, as it is undesirable that any of the mixture should remain in the fur. The woman with dull eyes should never wear diamonds near the face. Pearls soften the face more than any other jewels. Amethysts and sapphires and such highly colored gems should not be worn with red. Never wash chamois skins in hot water. Use cold water and avoid soap, if possible. The skins clean very easily, as a matter of fact. This applies also to chamoi3 skin gloves, which are so popular In summer. Clean the bathtubs, stationary washstands and sinks with kerosene, as there is no better vanquisher of grease and dirt. Rub them well with oil, allow it to dry and let the hot water run until the oil has disappeared. An ingenious woman suggests that 1 n + Khu p V? oo 4a iioo/? l'n vor. <1 DU1L U1UOU, OUVsll CIO lO UOCU XIL lUi1 nishing, is good for brushing bread, rolls and pastry with melted butter. If a string is put through the handle and the brush is hung in a regular place so. much the better. To keep dress skirts free from wrinkles if there are no patent hangers convenient, they should be folded in thirds, and a large safety pin thrust through the folds. The safety pin, when fastened, is used as a hanger, and in this way the skirt hangs straight, with no strain on any part of the waistband. Rice is invaluable for cleaning ca ofao onH nil r? rl vinoo-ar r?vn of c T?nr the oil cruet use warm water and a little washing soda to remove the oil. Then put in a tablespoonful of rice with warm soapsuds, shake vigorously and rinse in clear water. Do not use the soda in vinegar cruets. For a water carafe use at least two tablespoonfuls of rice and several lumps of soda. / r : t :.a . \ "% ? PRESIDENT APPOINTS II DAY' Of General Thanksgiving For Widespread Weil-Being. Calls Upon the Nation to Make Grateful Acknowledgment to the Almighty on November 20th. Washington, D. C.?The President to-day issued a proclamation naming Thursday, November 2D, as a day of thanksgiving. Its text follows: "The time of year has come when, in accorddnce with the wise custom of our forefathers, it becomes my duty to set aside a special day of thanksgiving and praise to the Almighty because of the blessings we have received, and of prayer that these blessings may be continued. "Yet another year of widespread well-being has passed. Never before in our history, or in the history of any other nation, has a people enJoyed more abounding material prosperity than is ours; a prosperity so general that it should arouse in us no spirit of reckless pride, and, least of all, a spirit of heedless disregard of our responsibilities; but rather a sober sense of our many blessings, and a resolute purpose, under Providence, not to forfeit them by any action of our own. "Material well-being, indispensable though it is, can never be anything but the foundation of true national greatness and happiness. If we build nothing upon this foundation, then our national life will be as meaningless and empty as a house where only the foundation has been laid. "Upon our material well-being must be built a superstructure of individual and national life lived in aconrrl a n vritVi this IflU'S of thp hlerhPRt". morality, or else our prosperity itself will in the long run turn out a curse instead of a blessing. "We should b3 both reverently 'J thankful for what we have received, and earnestly bent upon turning it in to a means of grace and not of destruction. "Accordingly, I hereby set apart ( Thursday, the twenty-ninth day of November next, as a day of thanks- ( giving and supplication, on which the people shall meet in their homes or their churches, devoutly acknowledge all that has been given them, and to pray that they may in addition re- ( ceive the power to use these gifts aright. "In witness whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and caused the seal of the United States to be affixed. "Done at the city of Washington this 22d day of October, in the year of our Lord one thousand nine hun- J dred and six, and the independence of the United States the one hun- ( dreth and thirty-first. "THEODORE ROOSEVELT. "By the President: Elihu Root, Secretary of State." ( TWO DIE TO SAVE SISTER. Elder Child Carries Both to Spring? j Dies After Rescue. 1 Washington, N. J.?Frances, thir- j teen years old, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. George Mowery, living near Hackettstown, poured kerosene in J the stove. The explosion set fire to the cfothing of her little sister Jen- 1 nie, aged three, who had blown with : all her might to make the Are go, 1 and was standing nearest the stove. \ Delia Mowery, aged six, grabbed j Jennie and tried to smother. the flames. She only set flre to her own clothing. ] Frances, herself unharmed, lifted \ the two burning children, one in each arm, ran to the farmhouse spring ' and jumped in. Neighbors, sum- 1 moned by their screams, pulled out ' the charred and blistered littl?" bodies. Delia died almost immS^J diately and Frances within tlro^ij hours. The baby may recover, owing I to the sacrifice of her two sisters, ul The father was working in the '' woods and the mother was nursing a sick neighbor. Samuel Mowery, grandfather of the children, was 1 burned to death in a forest flre two 4 years ago. | PAmrEBS PT/AX RREP WAR. i ~ * " ~ " " ~~ ~ H Start Movement For Curing Meats j For Home Consumption. Topeka, Kan.?The National ^ Farmers' Congress, in session here, resolved to make a vigorous war on 1 the bee{ trust. The war cry Is "cure J your meats for home consumption, T ship through country agents, and to j? terminal commission agents, who 3 shall be members of the co-opera- ij tive societies." These are features ;j which will lead to securing better J prices for cattle than can now be se- ? cured through the commission firms i operating at packing centres. The business of the cattle com- J mission firm is not the only one to J suffer, for the fruit growers' plan to : reap a part of the reward which is ! now going to the commission fruit . firms by establishing co-operative J agents and fruit warehouses in the * large cities in the fruit districts. As ' relief from the arbitrary fixing of 1 prices for meat, which has worked 1 to the injury of both consumer and producer, the committee recommended agents for shipping and re- .1 ceiving. ' ^ British General Removed. t General Sir Redvers > Buller, r against whom much criticism was di- 1 rected at the time of the Boer war, s was relieved from active service. 1 Killed on Eve of Wedding Trip. In a crash of freight and passenger trains on the Northern Pacific at 1 Logan, Mont., Thomas Worlein, con- 1 ductor of the freight, was crushed c and burned to death in the caboose. 1 He was recently married and was to 1 have left on his wedding trip that Panama C^nal Contract Approved. J Secretaries Root and * Taft ap- t proved the contract for the Panama 4 Canal prepared by the commission, 1 Stub Ends of News. The soapmakers of England have s combined, with a capital of $75,000,- 1 000. J One county in California is expect- ? ed to market 110,000,000 pounds of prunes. a The United States Marine Hospital c service reported five yellow lever ^ cases in Cuba. ( At the dedication of the Maaison Square Presbyterian Church; New I ifork City, Dr. Parkhurst praised the i good qualities of Stanford White, \tv 1 irchitect. 1 _ ,'y > ^ .. ,, ^ ?Af ; - ' ! J wmm < GIN IISUMP V ' Two New Men For the President's Official Household. STRAUS AND MEYER GET PLUMS Former Becomes Secretary of Com. merce and Labor While Present Ambassador to Russia Takes Postoffice Department. THE CABINET FOR 1907. Secretary of State ELIHU ROOT , Secretary of the Treasury.... GEORGE B. CORTELYOU Secretary of War WILLIAM H. TAFT Attornoy-General CHARLES J. BONAPARTE Postmaster-General GEORGE VON L. MEYER Secretary of the Navy VICTOR H. METCALF Secretary of the Interior. ... ETHAN A. HITCHCOCK Secretary of Agriculture.... JAMES WILSON Secretary of Commerce and Labor OSCAR S. STRAUS Washington, D. C.?The prospective Cabinet chauges to follow the retirement of Leslie M. Shaw, Secretary of the Treasury, and William H. Moody, Attorney-General, were officially announced at the White House. Confirmation was given to the statements heretofore printed that George Bruce Cortelyou, of New York, would take the Treasury portfolio, and that George von L. Jteyer, of Massachusetts, now Ambassador to Russia, would be appointed to succeed Mr. Cortelyou as PostmasterGeneral. The only surprise in the announcement is that Oscar Solomon Straus, of New York, would enter the Cabinet as Secretary of Commerce md Labor. The formal statement of the change is as follows: Secretary of the Treasury, George B. Cortelyou, of New York; Postmasfer-flfinftral. Gfioree von L. Meyer, of Massachusetts; Attorney-General, Charles J. Bonaparte, of Maryland; Secretary of the Navy, Victor L. Met:alf, of California; Secretary of Commerce and Labor, Oscar S. Straus, of New York. At the time the official announcement was given, it was said informally at the White House that Attoraey-General Moody would retire on January 1, 1907, and Secretary Shaw on March 4, 1907. Most of the changes will take place, therefore, it the beginning of the new year. When Mr. Bonaparte entered the Cabinet as Secretary of the Navy, It tvas the understanding that he would jecome Attorney-General if a vacancy jccurred in that office. Mr. Metcalf's tendencies have always been toward the Navy Department, and he was greatly disappointed when Paul Morton was given the Naval portfolio at the same time that Mr. Metcalf was lslied to enter tne uaDinet as aecre:ary of Commerce and Labor. Mr. Meyer, who is a rich man, was understood to be anxious to become- Secre:ary of the Navy, but there Is no reason to suppose that he will not be lust as well satisfied in the Postoffice Department. The chief interest in the changes is in connection with Mr. Cortelyou ind Mr. Straus. Both are from New fork, and as Mr. Root, the Secretary af State, is also a New Yorker, the jnprecedented case will be presented, when the changes occur, of having Jin .lie Cabinet three men from the same State as the President. But Mr. lei sers, and fe JfcaaS'*", ccasions. B ? ' ortelyou, b -fra'-'* : -- ?JM7 Dell at tight, :h ' < it a long tti f <or his tor taw.. ^ ?*( -V':' has Jie fil PreslIea< " Krtelyou & < She has ley ' fne beiev ktiitsterMt . p the sou k measure PT -That tfr. is fitness tor *iil asnur sident is. i&n ' ' *#? ?*'.'fesf* P o on the Jttj 11 stay in Mb. t Rooserel1 ency. 7 i will be itt ed to a Jab . nt of the Tait Jenjamin fas V^'. ~ iet under r?5 .i&.-f.-- r. K ' Haftt. Jnion Pacific Railroad clerk, had deeded to give himself up, the police an him down. They had hunted lim for years, but never found him, ilthough he declares he had been iving there since early in 1903. Woman Suffrage Riot. Leaders of the women's suffrage novement in England caused vloent scenes in the lobby of the House >f Commons and were ejected by the )olice; eight of the women were ar ested. Idle Negroes Warned. A proclamation has been posted at ronesville, Ga., warning idle negroes hat unless they go to wont or leave he community drastic measures will >e taken. About Noted People. In a report to the Tax Commislioner of Richmond, Va., Thomas F. ityan gives his annual income as f 150,000. The tai on income is $1. i thousand. Bartley Harper, of Lima, Ohio, taved Vice-President Fairbanks from Irbwning when he and Mr. Fairbanks vere boys togetner in union comity, )hio. Senator Chauncey M. Depew, Im>roved in health, presided at the neeting of the New York Central 3oard for the first time since last March. 1 ^ i'r tfTirfU 'v V-' J.A'-' IS Troops Sent After Runaway Indians in Wyoming. Hold Useless Pomrow With Captain Johnson and Then Resume Their March Northward. Omaha, Neb.?General Greely issued orders for 400 soldiers from Fort Meade, S. D., to be rushed to the end of the railroad northwest of Deadwood, and thence by forced marches overland to where the runaway Utes are encamped on the headwaters of the Little Powder River, In Wyoming. This detachment is to head"1 off the Indians*, and prevent >them from getting into South Dakota. This is the third detachment to be sent against the Utes. So urgent is the order that a portion of the men will go in cattle cars, as the railroad cannot get enough passenger coacheB to Fort Meade by the time they are needed. In connection with the troubles which the War Department is having with the runaway Indians, a pathetic story was told by the Sioux Indian interpreter to Thomas H. Tibbies, of Omaha. By adoption Tibbies is a member of the Omaha tribe and la kuuwu iu every luuiau in cue vvesi. The interpreter said that several weeks ago runners came from the Utes to the Sioux Reservations in South Dakota^ bearing the story of the complaints of the Utes. They told the Sioux that they were actually starving, and offered themselves as slaves to the Sioux, provided they were permitted to come to live on the Sioux Reservation. The Sioux replied that if they came on a visit to them they would not be permitted to starve, but that the Sioux did not wish slaves, and that the Government would not permit them to give the Utes a portion of their lands. "Word was received here from the scene of the Indian depredations in Wyoming that Capt. C. P. Johnson, of Major Grierson's command, with an orderly and a scout, overtook the Utes on Little Powder River, about forty miles north of Gillette. Three hundred braves, well armed and with a large supply of ammunition, attended the council, standing around a circle in which Captain Johnson and the chiefs of the tribe held the?r talk. V The Indians said they would welcome war, and would, not return to the barren reservation which had been allotted to them in Utah. The older Indians told Captain Johnson they would all die fighting rather than return where there was nothing but starvation for them. They insisted on continuing their way either to the Sioux Indian country of South Dakota or the Crow country of Montana. As soon as tho powwow was over the Indians broke camp and started northward again, while Captain Johnson returned to Gillette and requested the War Department to send him more troops. Ranchmen have reported the Utes have had two war dances since they jtarted northward and are more defiant as they get further from civilisation. They rob sheep and cattle camps with impunity, making such a show of force that the men in charge of the camps rccognize resistance is useless. SILVERIA SAFE IN VENEZUELA. Expresses Surprise at Embezzlement Charge Against Him. 1 Caracas, Venezuela.?Manuel Si'lveira, the missing broker, and Havana's agent for the bankrupt firm of J. M. Ceballos & Co., who is believed to have $1,000,000 of the firm's funds, arrived at Caracas, Venezuela, a few days ago, and expressed grea.t surprise at the news of the failure and the charges against him. The fugitive, who has large cattle Interests In Caracas, has rented a house in a fashionable street, and has been warmly received by tbe powerful Venezuelan cattle kings. Silveira says he comes to Venezuela temporarily to restore his health, which is broken since his automobile accident, and declares he left his firm solvent, with $1,500,000 assets to cover $700,000 owed to J. M. Ceballos & Co. 1 THREE LOST LEFT ARMS. Had Them Hanging From Window of Overturned Car. Schenectady, N. Y.?One of the big trolley cars running from this city to Troy failed to take the curve at Union and McClellan streets, dashed irto a pole and turned over on its side. Three passengers sitting with their arms out of the window were the principal sufferers, these being: William Lacore, Cohoes; left arm mangled, amputated near shoulder. Frederick Jones, Troy; left arm completely severed; in serious condition. William H. Riley, Troy; left arm m&ngled, amputated near shoulder. Others hurt were S. J. Maxwell and John Brand, who have internal Injuries. Santos Dumont Wins Prize. M. Santos Dumont won the Archdeacon prize in Paris recently by successfully flying 166 feet with hi? aeroplane. High Priced Horses. Prices for a few closely matched pairs of carriage horses went close to the $600 mark in New York City, and singles sold from $200 to $2SO. A number of fast trotting road horses were easily disposed of at from $225' to $270. ? - ** * *-11 iiryan Condemns nociteieiier uius. William J. Bryan in an Indiana speech urges churches and societies to refuse gifts from John D. Rockefeller and make him suffer loneliness. Iron and Steel Mills Busy. From present prospects the iron and steel mills of the country will enter on the new year with 1907 order books well filled. It is estimated that rail contracts for next year now aggregate 1,900,000 tons, full eight months' capacity of all the rail mills in the country, a position of strength never before witnessed. Divorce Suit Causes Double Murder. Because his wife had sued for a divorce Daniel Van Valkenburgh killed her and himself at Houston Heights, Texas. TTif .# > . BITS I NEWS ? OUR ADOPTED ISLANDS. Porto Rico has come to the front during the last two years as a well< to do community. ? General Wood, in a report made public in Washington, opposed reducing the present garrison of the PhiliDcines. " Advices from all the provinces of> Cuba say ttfat agricultural work .e being resumed. All tonnage and navigation dues' in the Philippine Islands have been* ? abolished by the Philippine Commission. Fruit, the cultivat'on of which is now getting scientific attention from . a the Porto Rlcan planters, had sales approximating $500,000 in one day. -jrJjg The American Christian ConventioD has made Porto Rico a foreign* missionary field. WASHINGTON. . ? Guatamalan political refugees hav? -; ^ appealed to President Roosevelt to .. & bring about the annexation of 'their" -'? country to the United States. Fresh allegations of slavery in Southern Florida have been made to the Department of Justice, it being declared that hundreds of men, both white and black, are held in virtual' , [ & slavery. ^ An order issued by the War De- -,'M partment shows that the fish and1 ' ik game laws of a State are not opera- , tive on a military reservation over ! j . < >5 which the united states nas acyuueu exclusive jurisdiction. Ca])tain Chayter,. of the Revenue Cutter S.ervlce, reported to the State Department that American fishers had been Iargelv to blame for the trouble on Lake Erie. The Supreme Court he.-, sent to the United States Circuit Court In MIb- jj sourl its affirmation of th? Court's judgment in the case against Senator Burton, and the sentence can be enforced. John D. Rockefeller has made a dag gift of $25,000 for a building for the negro branch of the Washing- ' _ ton Young Men's Christian Associa- '. tion, on condition that an additional , ,;w>; $25,000 be raised. , ^ The Supreme Court affirmed the decision of the Supreme Court of rv| New Mexico upholding a territorial law, requiring that hides of ca^Ie for outside shipment be inspected. , .. > , - Hi * DOMESTIC. The funeral of Mrs. Jefferson ' < & Davis was held in Richmond, the cor- .. yj tege to Hollywood Cemetery being viewed by 50,000 people. The Grand Jury at San Franclscp M finds the Police Department lacking In discipline and recommends a new ' \ chief. The death penalty has been Im- 3 posed on Thomas Brady, at Alex* - ~ ' -1* a anaria, jua., ior uaaaun. uu ? o**teen-year-old girl. Postofflce inspectors raided' the Daily Market Forecast at Chicago on 'M a claim of fraudulent use of the malls preferred by C. A. Delaney. Wholesale naturalization frauds have been discovered in the District ' Courts of Hennepin County, Minn., and sixty-two -warrants were issued. While Maud Williamson, his para. mour, was working in a mill, at Augusta, Ga., Arthur Glover, a detec< tive, killed her by shooting. 1 The Massachusetts Jamestown Ex- V' ;f position Board will reproduce the .' old State House at the Exposition for , a State building. Possessed by an idea that he was being followed by tho Black Hand . ? Society, Vincenzo Raymundi, a teacher of languages, killed himself f at Chicago. g?| After fatally pounding his con,' x Bernard Clohr, a Russian laborer, $8 killed himself at Chicago by taking carbolic acid. George Raschid, a Syrian lepsr, who was shunted about by several j r. -1 State governments, died in the West . Virginia mountains. By falling down a stairway at ; Fayetteviiie, ArK.< xormer umteu States Senator J. D. Walker was killed. Dlstrlot Attorney Jerome, of New, \1 > York City, hinted that he might trj^ another person with Harry Thaw:, for the murder of Stamford White. After fatally shooting Mrs. Becky, J Bradford at Maysville, Ky., Thomai $ O'Reagan threw himself under a V,3| train and was' instantly killed. 'r-M The Chicago Tribune has turned1 over to the defunct Milwaukee Av*\ nue State Bank, of Chicago, the $5000 reward given for the capture of President Stensland, who wrecked" the institution. * '-. 3 An Iowa insurance company la hunting a package of $5000 said to have been lost in the quicksands when the Rock Island train jumped a bridge near Dover, Okla. . '.y FOREIGN. . M \ - ']% The French Cabinet resigned. . '?] Unless Japan objects, France has decided to sand M. Gerard to that country as the first Ambassador. Peasants of Molkhln, Russia, have resolved to stop paying rent to the landed proprietors. The Vatican has been asked by Catholic residents of Malta to assist in the local religious question. Three Terrorists were killed in *j^ Warsaw, Poland, by troops while endeavoring to rob a store. Thomas J. Ryan, of New York City, obtained a valuable concession in the Congo Free State from King Le'pold of Belgium. Sir Richard Tangye, head of the engineering firm of Tangyes, died at Lofton, aged seventy-three. French radicals have decided to Introduce a bill in Parliament for the immediate confiscation of all Catholic Church property. The Bank of England raised the rate of discount to six per cent., in order to protect its gold reserve. The Red D liner Philadelphia T-ooohorl Son Tnnn P. T?... from La Guayra and reported the loss of a Dutch steamer; the Philadelphia was blown ashore near La Guayra. Attacked by pleurisy, Eugene Colgate, of New York, died at Geneva, Switzerland. He contracted a cold while playing golf. China has entered a protest at Berne, Switzerland, against the cont: -ued control by the Japanese, of the Manchurian telegraph lines. Commander Southerland reported that the Dominican rebels near Monte Cristi had broken their agreement to surrender. John Gadomski, editor of the Gaietta Polska, at Warsaw, and the ? i n nr? f rvf ihfl PnllflH nfltDQ. UlUdW VI vwv A VKWM UV?W papermen, who was shot by; bandits^ Is dead.. " * . V /jsfi