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A 1 _ 1 THE TRAGIC RAPTURE. Winnow me, Life! winnow and sift me! Harrow me, Fate! harrow and lift me! Hallow me, Love! wring me and rive mc !Aught but the best, purge me from, shriv me: Lightning-sure Aim! nothing less shif me! Lightning-sure Touch! thrill me and g:i me. Life! smite thy tragic full chord in me, Let it be potently lord in me, Througn my soul glorying float; \ Pour through nty triumpnont throat Song of the dominant note! \ ?Charlotte Porter, in The Century. 390 IO9M0 . na a Vv ? ?? Vv ? 0 ? 09 <? | The "Roustabout." ? ???? ?? aa 9 ?M? By HERBERT F. CC3U06E. I9?M MOS ? ? 0? ? i <? mo "You can't tell how far a frog wi] jump by the size of his speckles, remarked Thompson, the cattle buyer. "And, what is more, yoi never can tell what a man will do til j/ou see him in action. "My first winter away from hom I worked in a slaughter-house nea Los Angeles. Foreman Prout, an ol< friend of my father, was strictly busi ness and a fierce worker; Schmidt the journeyman butcher, was a frien< of 10 man, himself least of all. Then .were no feather-bed berths in th< establishment. We roustabouts, An tone and I, had to step more thai lively. "Antone had the hardest time o: 4* rtVi i nfltr Kanonpa Vi es tit a C o \T DVlVfJTJ 11, V/U1UUJ ucta UOC UV n?a u iiivaivui* Prout had an idea that only whlt< people, particularly Americans, hac the right to live, anyway. Schmidi naturally didn't like Antone because he disliked every one, especiallj roustabouts. "Just before Christmas r'neuma tism, an old enemy of my family, tiec me hand and foot. I was as helpless as an infant, and to pass the time away I got my landlord and hi! brother to wheel me over to th< slaughter-house and put me on i v raised platform, where I ?ould watcl the boys work. "There were extra orders foi; th< Christmas trade. The crew was short-handed by one roustabout, anc not particularly cheerful. "Antone drove a whale of a steei into the chute. He was a tremendous 1 fellow and a tiger for fierceness Schmidt noosed him swiftly, and h< and Antone hurried across the roon to their places at the windlass. "The windlass rop& passed througl a ring in the floor to the steer'; horns. The system at that establish ment wa3 to draw the animal's heac down to this ring, thus facilitating f painless death-blow. "Prout turned to unfasten the gat< that opened from the chute. " 'Is that ring solid?' askei Schmidt, with his usual ugly scowl 'Because if it ain't ' * " "It's ten chances to one the rinj pulls out!' snapped Prout, who was sarcastic when very busy. 'It always does,' "With a flourish of horns and ? Toar like a lion the steer left th< chute. The windlass men swiftly ground up the slack, bracing them selves in tirde to catch him as h< reached the end of the rope. 'The steer came up with a jerk gave a tremendous flounder, and? the ring pulled out. The punky wooc from the rotten joist flew to the ceil Ping. "Down went the steer on the slip pery floor; but he was up like a flash and charged for Schmidt, giving hin a very close call as he pulled hlmsel! Tip on a cross-brace above the wind lass. "The steer was king of the plac< now, and a mora angry brute neve: trod the floor of a slaughter-house The treed butchers were in somewha of a rage themselves, as a half-houi delay in the rush before Christmas when they were short-handed, too was a serious matter. "The steer stood for a momen shaking his horns and rolling his eyei at Schmidt and Antone, and makinj the slivers fly with hN pawing. Thei there came a scamper of feet fron outside, and the door at the othe: end of the building flew open. P- "'Shut the door!' All four of u: howled the words in tones of un righteous indignation. "Tommy, Prout's six-year-old boy shut the door?from the inside?anc * An-sxA ouai cu aiiu ua^cu> uia^cu uiuiac: against it. "The steer, attracted by the flasl of light, wheeled, and all quiverint for the charge, searched the room fo; something moving. Prout ha< climbed the loft ladder, and withou stopping to descend, made a flyin; leap for the boy, landing awkwardl; about ten feet from him. "Instantly the steer charged a him. Prout did not, evidently coul< , not, get up; but above the clatter o hoofs and the whir of the unwindin; wiildlass his voice rose cheerfully re assuring, 'Shut the door from the out side, son! That's right! Good-by! "Schmidt, who feared nothing sprang for the windlass, but, wa caught by the spinning iron cranl and hurled against the wall. Hi dropped to the floor, a limp heap. B; this time the steer was half-way dowi the long building, and Prout ha< crawled a few feet toward the foo r\f loH/lor T cVl 11* mv Ol'PC "Antone must have moved like : double-geared and double-jointei acrobat, for only a moment later th loose rattling of the windlass bear ings steadied to a jarring, grindin; purr, and there was the low snappinj * of straining hemp. "Then I saw otAnne surging on rope which was tied to a cross-brac and. passed twice around the barre of the windlass. The steer, his horn low to the floor, and stretching th rope as taut as a fiddle-string, stag ' ' ? J A- ~ U J ~ 6'"" gerea neavny rouuu. uu aueau <j him, rolling over and over, Prou Bought to postpone death. " i 'J V * "As though doubly enraged by tha. feeble retreat of bis victim, the steer fought to reach him. But every on, ward lunge made the coils of Antone's brake-ropes wedge more tightly; the windlass barrel revolved more t and more slowly, thsu stopped. ft "Prout, with a flop and a wriggle, evaded a savage sweep of the steer's horri3 and rolled to a place of comparative safety. "Then the animal got a fore leg afoul the rope and threw himself. For a moment it seemed certain that he would tangle and stay down; but no such luck. Up he came with a snort and a bellow, and catching sight of Antone at the windlass, charged him. "Schmidt still lay piled up against , the wall. But this time I did not ? shut my eyes. I felt sure that Antone | would do something. He looked equal to any occasion as he leaped , lightly upon the barrel of the wind lass and faced about, his heavy Indian , features aglow with fearless determination. "On came the steer at a mad gallop, faster and faster. "'S-s-s?tah-h-h-h!" taunted Antone; and he shook a rubber-booted foot at th2 animal defiantly. "I thought the boy was mad. I ' thought the steer would get him sure. Then at the last possible second he leaped, caught the overhead crossbrace, and swung his legs out of t reach. The steer struck the windlass . witii a crasa mat jarrea me wuuie building. " 'S-s-s-s?3-s?tah-h-h-h-h! Vaca! e Vaca!' Antone followed the insult T with a kick at the upraised muzzle. "I saw the method of his madness then. He was baiting the beast to I draw his attention from Schmidt. a "Cattle don't climb trees, or it ~ would have been all over with the " roustabout. I never saw such crazy horning to reach high places as when Antone, Langing with legs drawn j just out of reach, kicked the steer's horn tips, dabbed at his upturned j muzzle, all the while calling insult[ ingly: " 'S-s-s-s-s-s?tah-ah-h! Vaca! Vaca!'No one but a Mexican knows how ' to offend cattle. "But this was pretty violent exercise, and Antone was get.ting winded, j Outside, a number of boys and men crowded at the favorable cracks. " 'Somebody get a gun! Somebody ' shoot him!' they clamored. "We had no way of knowing how | long they would be about it. t "Antone was getting chalky around the corners of his mouth, and he 4 handled his legs so groggily that I ; again began to think the steer would [ surely get him. "Then I heard some swift words in . Spanish, and shifting my gaze, saw ^ Alvitro, our vanquero. He was danca ing in the open door of the chute, j waving a red bandanna scornfully. ' "Antone hooked his legs over the crosspiece and hung at rest while the t steer charged the new tormentor. i Alvitro darted back into the chute, and while he baited the steer from j the top of the barrier, Antone leaped t down, sped across the floor, and slammed and fastened the gate. % "The Christmas rush had to be permitted to go by default that year; j but the soreness of our defeat'was forgotten before Prout could use his thrown-out knee and Schmidt recovr ered from a doubly broken arm and ' bruises almost innumerable. When j the crew finally got into harness again, nothing in that slaughterhouse or in that end of town was too ; good for the roustabout Antone."? J Youth's Companion. } LIMITING HEIGHT OF BUILDINGS. ' Springfield, Mass., Follows Example j of European Cities. Municipal regulation of the height' or buildings is proposed at Spring field, Mass., following the lead of Continental Europe in this respect. The plan has the indorsement of some of the best educators in the country, notably several connected with the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, who favor the regulation for sanitary, rather than esthetic reasons. It is contended that tall buildings are objectionable by. reason of the great number of people they crowd upon a small space, with the resulting deprivation of the tenants of sunlight, and their subjection to nervous strain due "to the close aggregation of large numbers of human beings." i The Springfield ordinance proposes i limiting the height of buildings to r one and a half times the width of the streets upon which they are erected, s with a maximum permissible height - of 100 feet in the business section and eighty feet in the residence sections. These limits can only be ex1 ceeded where the stories above ref cede from the street line at least four feet horizontally to every five feet i additional height. 3 ~ r At the Money-Order Window. Wearing a pink frock and a hat with a bird of paradise feather slant3 ed among the roses, a young person entered the postoffice recently and went to the cashier of the moneyorder section. "I've an order from f my husband," she cooed to the functionary. After proving her identity 3 by means of letters and cards, she searched her chatelaine bag for the Sho nnllcr! niit samnlps iif batpins and various other articles, q At last she discovered the order and ' handed it airily over. ""You'll have g to sign it, you know," was the information given to her. Thereupon she took the pen and wrote, "Your loving 3 wife, Alice."?New York Commer- , t cial* a Might Have Eeen Painless. [1 "Gentlemen of the jury," erupted e the attorney for the plaintiff, address - ing the twelve Arkansas peers who g were sitting in judgment and on their g respective shoulder blades, in a damage suit against a grasping corporaa tion for killing a cow, "if the train e had been running as slow as It should ;1 have been ran, if the bell had been s rung as it ort to have been rang, ot e the whistle had been blown as it should have been blew, none of which f was did, the cow would not have been t injured when 3he was killed I"? Ram's Horn. N *' - , \ s . I WORTH, NOT BIRTH, An Aim of Learning?Augustine Bir rell on tl?e End of Education. As president of the Salt Schools. Saltaire, Mr. Birrell the other Saturday night, gave the annual address. He was much delighted, he said, to find himself in the constituency of his friend and parliamentary secretary, Mr. Percy Illingworth. A better friend and a better parliamentary secretary no man ever had. Apologizing fbr not having had time to prepare an address of 3ome literary kind, Mr. Birrell said that since he entered Whitehall he had not had time to read anything worth reading or write anything worth writing, and he had considerable doubt whether he had said anything worth hearing. He had been astonished to find the great number of people who seemed honestly to believe that the money spent on education waswasted. There were agriculturists who preferred that it should be spent on manure. He once ventured to say In Parliament that they preferred muck to mind. But he was also astonished at the great number of people who showed keen interest in the development of education on sound princl pies, ine rate-payers snouia nor grudge that part of the rates which went to the sacred duty of training teachers. A great work was going on in that direction. Training colleges were not what they ought to be, out they were improving steadily. ' Then the devotion of teachers to their work had affected him very much. They worked not only for wages, but for love. He would beseech all teachers to recognize the fact that they were all one great corporation engaged in the same work, although on different sides of it. Not one of them was entitled to look down upon another. All part of education work should be looked upon as one and indivisible. j Speaking to the pupils, Mr. Birrell S advised them to remember that the i acquisition of knowledge is not everyi thing. In the House of Commons, he said, we have all sorts of people? | some of the learned, but not many. Some have h?.d great educational advantages, others have been educated in the wine or the workshop. I am not going to praise any class at the expense of the other. There are un\ educated labor members, capitalists and -country gentlemen. It is not a question of what school you went to, but what you are. You may train your mind working down a mine so as to make your mind the envy of those who have had an excellent scholastic education. On the floor of the House of Commons it does not matter one straw whether you are the son of a duke or of a costermonger, you will be listened to for a short time, and if the House comes to the conclusion you are worth hearing it is gloriously indifferent to everything else about you. I am quite sure that every one who comes to the House of Commons recognizes at once that the reputation a man gains or loses there is wholly independent of what he has done in the past or to what class he belongs. He is judged wholly on what he is. If you can get a well trained and disciplined mind, then you need fear no one. It is upon the success of the efforts of all these bodies who are endeavoring to train the minds of the nation that the success of the country must ultimately depend. ? Manchester Guardian. What Did He Do With It? A Philadelphia clergyman was talking about the late Sam Small. "I once heard him speak," he said, "and his humor and eloquence Impressed me deeply. "He had a happy knack of illustration. He wanted. I remember, to il lustrate the frailty that is a part of even the best characters, and he told a story about a brave young soldier. "This soldier, he said, enlisted in the Spanish-American War, and he fought like a lion for his country. The firm he had worked for, pleased with the record he was making for himself, told his wife that all the time he was away they would pay half his wages to her. "Accordingly, at the end of the first week the young woman called at the office, and the head of the firm handed her $9. "She looked at the money, and her face clouded over. " 'Nine dollars," she said. " 'Yes,' said the head, a little hurt; 'that is just half. I'm sorry you are not satisfied.' " 'It isn't that I'm not satisfied,' said the young woman, 'but all along he's been telling me his pay was only S14 a week. Wait till he gets home! If them Spaniards don't kill him, I will.' "?Washington Star. French Tax on Titles. It is proposed in France, where ingenuity in devising new eources of revenue has been raised to a fine art, :o impose a tax on titles of nobility. In a nation which has taxed winiows and doors the proposal will not teem extraordinary. The odd thing is that the republic, which has de;lared such titles fictitious, should now recognize them as a means of uauuiiiii muuuiw. a puiui ui iuibicoi, for the outer world is that only genuine titles wil be taxed. Their legitimacy will thus be guaranteed by Government stamp, and fathers of heiresses contemplating an investment may pay down the purchase money with the same assurance of validity that safeguard real estate transactions.?New York World. Biggest American Flag. A tourist has been looking for the big flag which Mauch Chunk folk eel eorateu tne i<ourtn 01 July wun several years ago. "It was," he said, "the biggest American flag ever unfurled, its dimensions being fifty by 250 feet. A wire cable was stretched from the top of Flagstaff mountain to the top of Bear mountain, and the great bit of bunting was swung about the centre, right over the middle of the valley. The air currents are tempestuous there in the evening, and whenever the sun went down the flag was ripped from Its fastenings.". ?New York Press. IN THE PU V ' . ; . ?* iMH Y 23F '' *^'> \ <;--'/<i\- -\ - '/*, i - ti&gm&imk - t > y - ? ^-''-- : -' $ - S\'< $ k'i r"> :M *i3 $ <*%, fe figg i X?t-vJ S&&s>i~-&*xS v.*f: CAPTAIN A. H Of the United States B Barrel Carrier. One of the most cumbersome articles to carry any great distance is < an empty barrel. It is not because < it is heavy. In fact the average man i could carry a half-dozen empty bar- < Barrel Held on Arm. rels if they were broken apart and the pieces tied in one bundle. Roll ing a barrel is about the easiest known method of getting an empty barrel from one place to another. Undoubtedly the barrel carrier shown in the illustration is better still. Its best recommendation is that anyone having use for one could readily make it, although an Ohio man has secured a patent on the idea. Little explanation is required to understand its construction. Hooks are- placed at each end of the barrel on the rim. These hooks are formed at the end of rods, which are connected by a stout cord, the latter also forming the loop which encircles the arm. With the use of two of these carriers, one on each arm, a barrel may be carried for quite a distance without Btraining the arms. ? Philadelphia Record. r ' Water Vividly Described. Schoolmaster (at end of object lesson)?"Now, can any of you tell me ] what is water?" < Small and Grubby Urchin? ; 'Please, teacher, water's what turns 1 black when you puts your 'ands in I it!"?Punch. ] iincT cARinne UADITCI iflUdl I/iiTlUUil UHlliULOi The celebrated Hackney high ste by W. H. Moore. Winner of the Wal Cups and other prizes. Bed For a Lifetime. i Children are known to grow some- ? times with alarming rapidity, adding ? inch after inch to their height. ( rn 1 I r ' I?I?1?? I j t\ ? , V i * || | i 1 y "tlto iv'itii Lii; t iLili ! ?' /rv * i > i Size of Bed Increased. Whether this necessitates the purchase o? a new bed every year to ac- ; commodate their increased length or 1 I - M\" \ V . ;* . . . ' r . .A.-.', . . ?. .; \ Vf:>::V -:>VT BLIC EYE. s s s i moan ' . ' 1 v v r - - | ' . . , . ... v- iv; '% -- , 7x*<wk , ? ' : v ' " - ' : COUDEN, attleship Louisiana. New Orleans to Have a Cellar. A new hotel is being built in New Orleans, and it is goiug to have a cellar. That ought to be worthy of note," said Martin Behrman, Mayor 3f New Orleans. "During the last few years," continued Mr. Behrman, "the sewerage 3ystem of New Orleans has been revolutionized. The waste water and refuse matter are no longer washed away in surface sewers, or gulleys. Now, well regulated sewers, planted under the ground, have taken the place of the old style sewers which made our city notorious. By out new drainage system it is possible now to build cellars under houses, A few years ago a native of New Orleans did not know what a cellar was."?Washington Post. Fightidg Chieftain of the Cubans. GEN. FAUSTINO PINO GUERRA. The March of Peace. Only a few days a^o England wag proud of possessing the most powerful warship on the seas, and now ilmost every naval power on earth ias one or two ships that can thrasb :he Dreadnought?that is, it has plans for them.?Philadelphia Press. 5 HORSE IN AMERICA. 111 1 . 111 pper Forest King, owned and driveD dorf-Astoria and Hotel Martinique lot is hard to say. To provide for such emergencies, however, a wideiwake woman of Massachusetts has lesigned a bed that can be increased >r decreased in length to fit the oc:asion. The change is very easily iccomplished. The side rails of the >ed are made in two sections, one Itting into the other and held together by pins inserted in correspondng apertures in eatfh. A bed such is this should last a lifetime if properly cared for. Guests of different iizes could be readily cared for, and :o maice tne uea aouoiy useiui sue ilso provides for the attachment of i gymnastic apparatus in the form jf a horizontal bar. The latter is aeld in position in the centre of the jed by uprights at each side. The iprlghts are also firmly attached to :he side rails of the bed by pins. By such attachments modern furniture ,b iua,ut; serviucauie iu ilo sj nucia iu. more ways than one. People seldom try to discourage your fads as long r.s you are willing tt spend money on them. : ' /.i v." ,V . , V . ; GREIT BRITAIN APOLOGIZES fflB JAIAAMAFFRBHT Governor Practically Ordered Away Our Relief Fleet. EARTHQUAKE VICTIMS1NDIGNANT Swettenham in a Caustic Letter Told American Naval Commander to Withdraw Marines ana stop aii His Relief Measures. Kingston, Jamaica.-r-Rear-Admiral Davis' mission of mercy to stricken Kingston came to an abrupt and painful-conclusion in consequence of Governor Swettenliam's objection to the presence of American sailors engaged in the work of clearing the streets, guarding property and succoring the wounded and sick, culminating in a letter to the Rear-Admiral peremptorily requesting him to re-embark all parties which had been landed. Admiral Davis was greatly shocked and pained, and paid a formal visit to Governor Swettenham, informing him that the United States battleships Missouri and Indiana and the gunboat Yankton would sail in the afternoon. In a public announcement Admiral Davis said that immediate compliance with Governor Swettenham's request was the only course consistent with' the dignity of the United States. r The friction between the Governor anH tho Arimiml hocnn with the ?r- . rival of the American war vessels, when the Governor objected to the firing of a salute in his honor on the ground that the citizens might mistake the firing for a new earthquake. He also declared there was no necessity for American aid, that hi? Government was fully able to preserve order, tend the wounded and succor the homeless. ' Rear-Admiral Davis, however, landed parties of bluejackets, who patrolled the streets, cleared the debris, razed ruins, attended many of ; the wounded and won the highest praise from residents and military officers for excellent work. Governor Swettenham inthis letter i further informed Admiral Davis that , he must take his medical Aid mili' tary parties back aboard his vessels, . that their presence was unnecessary and that he required no assistance in caring for .the injured or restoring . and preserving order in ?he city. Admiral Davis kept his temper re-markably well under the circumstances. He paid a formal yisit of farewell to the Governor, whose headquarters consist of some tents outside the city, expressed his regret that he was unable to do anything to aid the people of Kingston, drove back to the city and sailed away. Governor Swettenham's attitude toward a friendly American officer's assistance is greatly deplored by many of the residents of Kingston, some of them even suggesting that the Governor be petitioned to resign. His action is construed by some as inspired by resentment of President Roosevelt's attitude toward Jamaican negroes on the Panama Canal. Others ridicule the Governor's 6bjection to the landing of Americah sailors, armed or not armed. Dead are estimated under 1000. The police have a list of 422 bodies. All stores, factories, warehouses and j hotels are gone. The. HamburgAmerican, railway and Elder-Dempster wharves were saved by voluth teer Germans of the wrecked crew ol the Princess Victoria Luise, in com< mand of the captain of the vesseL Half of the prominent merchant^ were found dead in their places oj business. Twenty-six white artil? lerymen were burned in the camf hospital and forty black soldiers died in their barracks. Chagrin Felt in England. London.?Nothing in years has sc rvrJHo ond calf.poanopf I gailCU OiitlOU pt tuo auvt ow?i. i vwyvwt as Governor Swettenham's letter to Rear-Admiral Davis. It is not too much to say that there is a universal feeling of humiliation and shame throughout the country at the knowledge that a British official could be guilty of such an exhibition of caddishness and ingratitude. Public sentiment finds sufficient expression in the press of all parties, but the printed comments are mild compared with the private denunciation of the Governor heard on all sides. England's Official Regret. Washington, D. C.?Great Britain has officially expressed regret over the action of Governor Swettenham, of Jamaica, in refusing to accept the relief supplies sent by, the United States Government to the earthquake sufferers of the island, and in practically ordering Admiral Davis, with his vessels on a relief expedition, to withdraw from the stricken island. j President Roosevelt, after two conferences with Acting Secretary of State Bacon and Secretary Taft, has decided to ignore the action of Governor Swettenham, and no representation will be made to the British Government on the ground that the affront to the American Government was committed by a subordinate official of the British Government, who was nervous, excitable and unreasonable because of the nervous strain under which he was suffering incident to the great calamity which visited Kingston. In a cablegram to the State De partment from Mr. Haldane, the British Secretaryof State for War, the Eritish Government has made amends to the satisfaction of officials of the Government here for the affront. Japanese Leader Resigns. Count Okuma announced that he had decided to resign the presidency of the Japanese progressive party. Wages For Militia. Effort will be made to have the National Guard of New York put on a wage footing. The Field of Sports. Harvard University has started in earnest to raise money for a new . .<i?nnet?ni whir>Vi is nppripri hadlv. gJUiuasiuuij ??? , The Aero Club perfected plans for the international balloon race to be started from St. Louis next October. The Aero Club of Great Britain has decided to send a challenge for tho Coupe International at St. Louis in October. Tin flan a <anH Tlmmv "Rritfc will fight to a finish for the lightweight championship at Tonopah, Nev., on March 17. V : .-; 'v >' ' / --nfi ' * - . ' ???- ~ bits mm * >*> WASHINGTON. Secretary Taft granted permits for the use of water from the Niagara River by power companies. Without a roll call the House voted to raise the pay of Senators and Representatives to |7600 a year. Messrs. Oliver and Bangs, lowest bidders, will receive the contract to dig the Panama Canal. The President, in a letter to Chairman Foss, of the House Naval Affairs Committee, urges the building of two first class, heavily krmed battleships of the Dreadnought claes. President Roosevelt signifies his intention of asking Congress to give the Interstate Commerce Commission +*% /I Art 1 rnlfh + Via fraiorVif no 1* yuwci W U?! v-v ...wo? shortage question. A request was presented to the Isthmian Canal Commission for higher'wages for steam shovel men. "I now have under consideration the question of the prosecution of the Sugar Trust under the provisions of the Sherman. Anti-Trust law," said Attorney-General Bonaparte. OUR ADOPTED ISLANDS. Quarantine officers in Manila, P. I., have announced that owing to the improvement of health conditions the daily contagious disease bulletins are ; unnecessary. Cuban papers discussed the proposal for a protectorate form of government, and warned the natives not to oppose it. ' Every effort possible is being made to use native woods for ties in building the railways in the Phillrfolnes. Loans are freely made by the Philippine Commission to the various provinces for the erection of public buildings in the islands. DOMESTIC. Engineer' Frank Neesley was killed and a number of passengers hurt when a Southern Pacific express was I wrecked west of Montello, Utah. The Japanese and Korean Exclui Bion League is busy in California, and j many cities, such as Sacramento and Stockton, have asked it to send organizers to form branch leagues.' The will of Captain J. M. Clapp, formerly of Tidoute, Pa., involving I O AAA AAA Vna kaan otofl fha f 6^VVU|UVV| Xiao uccu piuuanvu) vuv widow and children in Washington being the chief beneficiaries. Suits for alleged violations of the Anti-Trust law were filed in Little itock, Ark'., against the Waters-Pierce Oil Company and four big packing houses. : v The Countess of Yarmouth arrived in New York City to be present at the trial of her brother, Harry K. Thaw. Thirty-two hundred persons visiftd s the Jamestown Exposition grounds Sunday, the first day of paid admis- # felons. Illuminating gas escaping from a small heating stove in Meyer Rubin's | Bat, in Brooklyn, N. Y., killed Rubin, his daughter Rosa and son Philip. The Town Trustees of Elizaville, Ky., subscribed $10 weekly for the maintenance of Sarah Dewey, seventy-five years old, who Is the first Dousin to Admiral George Dewey, the bero oi Manna Bay. miss uewey is penniless, deserted and helpless. A gas leak at Woodmen's Hall, Wilmington, 111., resulted in an explosion that killed F. H. Pope and Edward Scheibner and injured twelve persons. Booker T.^Washington, in a letter printed at Cleveland, Ohio, defends Roosevelt in his action regarding the Brownsville affair: ' Members of the Ashtabula (Ohio)' ; Plumbers' Association have pleaded guilty to Indictments charging them " with violating the Valentine AntiTrust law, and five of the members were fined $6 and costs and three $50 and costs. Walter Dana Swan, an instructor in architecture at Harvard Univer sity, died ? after having shot himself over the heart. The Instructor's mind had been affected by overstudy. He was thirty years old, and leaves a widow and two children. There are nineteen Japanese in the Tucson (Ariz.) jail, who are awaiting trial before a Board of Immigration Commissioners which will decide whether they will be allowed to re- main in this country or be deported to Japan The Japanese were arrested at Pelea, N. M. FOREIGN. The first election returns in Russia showed that a RadicaLdeputy would be returned for the Transcaspian territory. Terms of separation of the Duke and Duchess of Marlborough are said to provide that the former keeps Blenheim while the latter retains the family jewels. The election of President Figueroa, of the Republic of Salvador, was announced. - The Elections, which lasted three days, were quiet. It was learned in Capetown that the revolt against the Germans in Southwest Africa had broken out again. The body 6f Lord Delaval Beresford, who was killed in a railway wreck in North Dakota, was buried in the family vault atClonegan graveyard, Curraghmore. The contract for the four battleships included in the naval program for ' ""1907 has been awarded, and France now has six great battleships under construction. -They are to be called the Danton,Mirabeau, Voltaire, Diderot, Conderset and Verguiaud. Members of the Diplomatic Corps at Teheran, Persia, presented con* gratulations of their respective governments to the new Shah. A Philippino-Japanes9 company has been formed in Tokio for the pur pose of strengthening friendly relations and the development of trade botween Japan and the Philippines. German ship owners are forming a central society in Berlin to combat 1 the excessive claims of men and offi-, cers. Admiral Alexieff has returned to the Czar's favor at St. Petersburg. Proof of the Duke of Marlborough's financial straits, since hia wife's purse has been closed to him, is seen in the advertisement in London, which announces that the Duke will sell by auction, at Blenheim, his famous herd of pedigreed Jersey cattle. Count Nicholas Tolstoy, of Russia, was burned to death in an attempt to rescue imperial funds in his care irom a nre wnicn aestroyeu mo uumc apd burned five others to death. W. T. Stead, of London, was received in private audience by King Victor Emmanuel, at Rome, who expressed himself heartily in accor4 .with, his guest's pacific mission. V i _i -i , :