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I ; POVERTY AND WEALTH. he stork flew over a town one flay, nd back of each v.-ing an infant lay; ne to a rich man's home lie brought nd one he left at a laborer's cot. he rich man said: "My son shall be lordly ruler o'er land and sea." he laborer sighed: " 'Tis the good Cod's will hat I have another mouth to fill." IPhe rich man's son grew strong and fair, Knd proud with the pride of a millionaire. Hie motto in life was "Live while vou IQ3J , bd he crowded years in a single day. He bought position and name and place, knd he bought a wife with a handsome I face. tte journeyed over the whole wide world, ?ut discontent in his heart lay curled, Like a serpent hidden in leaves and moss. Ind life seemed hollow, and gold was dross. He scoffed at w8man and doubted God. ^.nd died like a beast and went back to the sod. Phe son of the laborer tilled the soil. Vnd thanked God daily fo; health and toil, le wedded" for love in his youthful prime, Ind two lives chorded in tune and time, lis wants Avere simple, and simple his creed. * To trust God fully; it served his need V.nd lightened his labor and helped him to (lie Vith a smile on his lips and a hops in his HB eye. BBVYhen all is over and all is done. (BBN'ow which of these men was the richer Bra one? El la Wheeler Wilcox, in the New York Sffl Journal. m THAT SAVED HIS | /?5 n?n?ei*002?ee?0es88s?st38? m MASTER'S LIFE. | wmk isa I When Keeper Snyder, who watches lover the Zoo at Central Park, New lYork City's best known breathing [spot, looked into the black bear's [cage a summer morning several years [ago. he saw what looked for all the world* like a little bunch of brown fur lying in one corner, close at the [side of the big Bruin all the children so greatly admired. "Oh, papa,' said Kattle, the keeper's little girl, who knows the park animals as wel! as her father, "I do believe that there's a new cub!" . And so it was, for, when the big mother rose and ambled toward the cage's front, thebunch of fur resolved itself into her tiny counterpart, and cried lustily. Joe, as the new bear came to be viroc* wf C r\X*t t V* O t QOOTlt ed trouble. He seemed to think it a gay and beautiful world into, which he had come, and early in his career piainly made up his mind to taste all of life's joys that came within reaching distance. Often this idea'of his gave him bodily pain; once or twice his tastes were such that they nearly -ended his life. ,He managed to survive these experiences, however, and grew with the months into as rollicking a bear as the Zoo ever knew, a great favorite with both the keepers and the public. In the early morning, before park visitors arrived in .numbers, Keeper Snyder would take Joe out on the lawn that stretched in all directions, and there taught him 1 many things that wild bears never even dream about. So Joe became accomplished and withal kindly, for he never was abused, and learned to look upon humanity in general as being friendly to him. One day a man from Canada told the Zoo superintendent that he had a fine bear of a sort which the Zoo had long coveted. It happened that the Canadian's first call was an early one, and it also chanced that Keeper 'Snyder was putting Joe through his paces at the time of the visitor's arrival. The stranger, who was vastly pleased with Joe, later told the Zoo superintendent that ' he would oxchange his bear for Joe, provided the Zoo management would give him a lair consideration besides. The stranger's offer found favor, and it was not long before Joe was formally given into the possession of a new owner, coaxea to enter a Dig crate, and then to begin a journey auch as he had never imagined. Joe stood the trip to the railroad station fairly well. He had seen teams and automobiles, and they had never hurt him. But when he was taken down into the great freight yard and a locomotive came hissing past, his calmness forsook him. His crate was strong, but not sufficiently so to withstand the mighty blows Joe gave it in his terrified iunges. It gave way on one side, and there followed suc& a flight of employes as the freight sheds had never before witnessed. Joe made his way into a dark cor ner, and, for the first time in his life, showed temper. But his new owner knew all about bears, and, after long effort, convinced Joe of his friend! ship, managed to get him into another -crate, and loaded into an express car. It was a good deal like carrying coals to Newcastle to take a bear up into the Muskoka country, but it so happened that Mr. Monteith, up at Rosseau, who was Joe's new owner, wanted a bear whose characteristics were different from the traits of the bears he had sometimes met and conquered. That is how Joe came to go to Rosseau, where he was released from his crate one morning and ushered into a place that made him think of the only home he had ever known. After awhile master and bear went warning logemer, out lowaru ms , great woods that stretched far and away, woods that seemed dark and mysterious to Joe, and not to be com> pared to his own comfortable quari ters. " On one of these walks the two friends ventured farther than usual, into a wilder section of the neighbor> hood. It was a long walk, and Mr. ; Monteith grew tired. So it happened . 4-V* n 4- oof rlnnrn linear on iniritiMfr ; t licit, IIO oai V4V ?? i* UIIU^I cm Iiniuilg tree and fell asleep, while Joe regained on watch. Mr. Moni'.iih's jSlumbers were suddenly broken by a /series of deep growls and then a fierce '' ' >> / struggle. Half dazed at the sudden awakening, he saw what few persons have witnessed, a battle between two bears. One was Joe, now big and lusty; the other was plainly a bear of the woods, little inferior to Joe in I size, and not at all behind him in his I desire for war. Mr. Monteith rose to his feet, and, seizing his gun, which he had chanccd to bring with him, tried to take a hand in the contest waging. His movements apparently disconcerted Joe, and the woods bear took advantake of this by making a sudden lunge, throwing Joe over, and seeming to disable him for a moment. Then the woods bear turned his attention to Mr. Monteth, and, with clumsy swiftness, caught him before he could use his gun. But Joe had recovered and employed the same tactics his assailant had successfully tried on him. The woods bear fell and released his hold of Mr. Monteith, who lay prostrate, so great was his exhaustion, vet an eyewitness of what followed. All the spirit of his ancestors seemed revived in Joe, and he attacked the woods bear with a fierceness that carried success with it. Joe had been taught how to wrestle, and, to his owner's amazement, he brought these tactics into play. Seizing his antagonist from behind, he gave him a Titantic hug. Then, suddenly pushing the woods bear from him. he darted forward with amazing swiftness, and, swinging, brought down his paw with a mighty blow on the back of the woods bear's head. The latter fell like a log, nor did he stir when Joe walked about him, growling fiercely and waiting for a chance to renew the combat. When Mr. Monteith examined him, he found him lifeless, his neck having apparently been broken by the tremendous blow that Joe had inflicted upon him. An hour later a very tired man and a meek-appearing bear reached the Rosseau home of Mr. Monteith, Jos ambling into his quarters with the air of a bear whose duty had been well performed. ?Evangelical Companion. A FISHERMAN'S TALE. The Sky Rained Rams and Sheep in a Colorado Canon. In Southwestern Colorado, with two of mv friends, I stepped off the narrow gauge yam Just at tne entrance of the Black Canon, at a point which was recommended to us as one of the most favorable places for trout fishing along the wild Gunnison River. One day, while fishing right under a cliff formed by one of the plateau-supporting rocks, we were aroused by a rumbling noise which was distinctly audible above the roar of the stream. Then we saw ihe body of a sheep j floating down the stream; in another | moment we saw two sheep being carried down the torrent: the next moment a lamb fell within a foot of where I was sitting. Then followed a veritable shower of sheep. One of my companions was struck senseless, and before I could go to his assistance I was struck on the head by a large ram and was carried into the raging river. In this part of Gunnison rocks protrude above the surface of the water, and no one can cross the stream without assistance and hope to come out alive. I was hurled from side to side and from rock to rock, when, I after being carried down the stream fully ten furlongs, I was washed up onto a pile of sheep that had ac cumulated on one of the rocks. I was bruised and scared to the point of insanity, but I managed to reach tho shore, although my life was agaiD imperilled by reason of a break iD the dam of sheep which had temporarily bridged the stream. The explanation of the shower of sheep is as follows: The sheep and cattle men, who each claimed the plateau as their grazing ground, had been engaged in bitter warfare. The cattle men maintained that where the sheep were allowed to graze the land was rendered unfit for cattle to graze upon, owing to the fact that the sheep cropped the grass so closely that there was nothing left for the cattle. .On this particular morning the sheep were in corral, and the angered cattle men took advantage of tne absence or tne nerders, opened J the gates of the corral, stampeded I them, and ran them to the edge of the plateau, over which 2500 of the sheep were precipitated.?Chicago Tribune. German Literary Production in 1906. According to a recent issue of Die Woche, the number of literary productions of Germany in 1906 were as follows: General bibliography, literary works, encyclopedias, collective works, publications of learned societies, universities' works, 409; theolnrrv 1014* Ir.rrol r* n A *,/s1UU?1 , jL-n, icgai auu [junuiai auiciiuc, 2313; medical science, 1626; natural science, mathematics, 1233; philosophy, theosophy, 307; education and instruction (juvenile publications), 355S; science .of language and literature, 1365; history, 9S1; geography, maps. 135S; military science, 620; trade, manufactories, intercommunication, 1435; architecture and engineering, 720; domestic economy, agriculture, forestry, S16; poiite literature (plays, popular tales, etc.), 2,931; art, 733; directories and annuals, 604; miscellaneous, 582. Total, 23,715. The total shows a decrease of twenty-four over 1905.? Philadelphia Record. t i r ijlvlllg uj .lrimtiui .uigiii. Writing to a friend in the country, a New York merchant says: "I live in the electric light. I leave my home at 7 o'clock, after dressing and taking my breakfast by electric light. Then I go to the subway, one block distant, and ride to within a block of my office. There I work all day by electric light and go home again by the subway and spend the evening in the glare of the incandescent lamp.' The weather conditions make no di ference, because my flat and my office belong to the semi-dark kind. Sometimes I wonder what I would da without electric light, and sometimes I ask myself, when I yearn for a little sunlight: Is the new light really ai blessing?"?Philadelphia Record. I 1^1 I 1 I ?? | I " I J IflfHSlERES'] New York City.?The plain, or tailored, shirt waist is in demand at all seasons of the year. Nothing else b fs quite so serviceable and practical ^ for daily wear and nothing will stand n laundering with such success. Here ti is one of the newest and latest that is adapted to linen, to Madras, to per jale and to all cotton shirtings and ki ilso to light-weight flannels, silks Cl irid the like. As illustrated it is made of taffeta, stitched with held- ir jng silk and is worn with a plaid belt, F ivhich matches the fancy stock, this a itock combining the silk of the waist ^ with the plaid silk tie. It would, however, be an exceedingly appropriate waist for cotton and linen, the tie being either of silk or washable p material as preferred or the plain i stock only being used. i The waist is made with a fitted a lining, which can be used or omitted c as material renders desirable, and s consists of the fronts and the back, z The front edges are finished with g broad hems and the fronts are laid r in alternate tucks and box pleats, s while the back is plain. There are t regulation shirt sleeves and there e is a plain stock over which the tie i is arranged, the two closing together t at the back. The quantity of material required e for the medium size is three and e three-quarter yards twenty-one, s three and three-eighth yards twenty- a seven, or two yards forty-four inches \ wide, with half yard of silk for the tie. i Hoop Earrings and Snap Screws. f Earrings are faddish, and since the * new kind may be adjusted without the barbarous piercing of the lobe of j the ear, this vogue Is constantly increasing. Large pearls are first favorites, but one sees a good many "hoop" styles, that are a modification of the atrocities that prevailed in granny's day. Small Girls' House Dresses. Cashmere, nun's veiling, albatross, voile (wool or silk) and other sqfc woolens in light colors make dalnft little house frocks for trie small girl, their delicate coloring and the care with which they are made up quite compensating for the inexpensive quality of the materials. Velvet Herns. i1 It is a wonder that velvet hems are < not too heavy for such sheer gowns i as chiffons and lace, but they are ; found in almost every case this win- ; ter. 1 x rgftWoffiN"! SBBBSSB^BBBSaBSBfigaai;1 Old Gaiter Recalled. Boots with patent leather or dull id vamps and colored cloth tops, in rho3e sides are set strips of elastic latching the cloth, vaguely recall hfi dava nf tho nrnnolla fnftor New Face Veil. One of the prettiest of the new ace veils to be had at modest price 5 a fine mesh net with chenille or elvet dots at wide intervals and a order of velvet ribbon an inch or an ich and a half wide. This is far lore chic than the cheap lace veils, nd a good lace veil is rather an ex-; ensive luxury. Bows of Tinsel and Wings. Wide bows of tinsel and wings are orn across the back of the head, nd many of these are almost as rge as a toque. But notwithstandg all these wonderful peculiarities le coiffure still'remains simple. The lir is waved in large but not too >ose waves at the sides, and is taken ? well at the back, though it is still iry full in the front. Hnir Not So High. The Parisian coiffure is less high lan it was last season, the hair ;ing drawn loosely back and massed jout where the traditional Greek not is placed. There is, however, o semblance of the hard psyche not in the soft colls and puffs and iris of the coiffure a la mode. New ork women in general are still wearig their hair very high, but the rench influence has been noticeable monfe the most modish women of le opera crowd. Nine-Gored Skirt With Panels. The skirt that is plain at the uper portion and full at the lower ia mquestionably the favorite for walkng length and is essentially graceful md satisfactory. Here is one that is [uite novel, made with panels thai ire plain above and pleated belo^ md which provides abundant and graceful flare. As illustrated it is nade of amethyst colored broadcloth titched with belding silk and rimmed with buttons, but it is adapt;d to all seasonable materials, and t ran he marie more elaborate witt rimming of braid if liked. The skirt is cut in nine gores with ^tensions at their lower edges. These ixtensions are laic! in inverted pleats ind the panels are joined to the gores ibove them, and to their upper edges vhile the fullness at the back is laid n inverted pleats. The quantity of material required or the medium size is eleven and a luarter yards twenty-seven, six and i half yards forty-four or six rmd a luarter yards fifty-two inches wide ? material has figure or nap; nine rarHs ta'Pntv-spvpn. fivft and a hall >-ards forty-four or five yards fifty< :wo inches wide if it has not. I {173,000 THEFTII 0.5. SMEMflt Mysterious Robbery in Chicago Being Investigated. EVERY EMPLOYE UNDER FIRE All Clerks Rigidly Examined, Bat Deny Any Knowledge of the Robbery?Money Taken Was in Bills of Large Denominations. Chicago.?The sum of $173,000 j was stolen from the United States Sub-Treasury, and the Secret Service agents of the Government at Chicago .and Washington still have no clue to the thieves. No man is missing from his post, the books of the institution ars in ! perfect shape, no locks have been , forced or wagons have been robbed. . The money simply has disappeared. Secretary Shaw, of the Treasury Department, was told of the theft when in Chicago, and was in conference with Sub-Treasurer Boldenweck and Secret Service officers. All the money taken was in large bills, bills of the denomination of $1000, 55000 and $10,000. At first it was believed that there must be some error in the bookkeeping. It was thought to be impossi ble that such a large sum of money could have been abstracted in the face of all the safeguards thrown around Uncle Sam's strong box. The ledger men involved strenuously denied any error and an investigation showed there was no possible clerical mistake to account for the disappearance of the cash. This brought the inevitable conclusion that robbery was the only explanation. j. Every man who could have had anything to do with the case was ' called into Treasurer Boldenweck's office and put through an exhaustive examination and a still more rigid cross-examination. Captain Porter, of the Secret Service, "assisted in the inquisition. They stood the ordeal, every one of them. All denied any knowledge of the theft and protested their innocence with unanimity and vociferousness. Sub-Treasurer Boldenweck is frantic over the theft. He and his bondsmen, who have been notified, are legally liable to the Government for the amount stolen, but Uncle Sam rarely exacts his pound of flesh when the head of an office in which a defalcation occurs is not personally to blame. A bill for the relief of the officer is introduced in Congress, with the sanction of the department affected, and the Government charges the amount to profit and loss. The Chicago Sub-Treasury handles In the course of a year something like $500,000,000 in various forms of currency. From $20,000,000 to $30,000,000 is in the vault every day of the year. Through the exchange of one form of currency for another by Western banks the money used in the West goes through the Chicago SubTreasury. William Boldenweck was appointed Sub-Treasurer on June 28 last. He succeeded William P. Williams. i'OUTH GOES TO DEATH CHAIR. Granger Murdered and Robbed the Fnrmor Who Had Eninloved Him. ^? Ossining, N. Y.?George Granger, one of the youngest prisoners ever confined in the death cells at Sing Sing prison, was executed by electricity at an early hour in the morning for the murder of .his former employer, Charles Lutz, an aged farmer, who lived at Middleton, in Dutchess County. Granger was employed by Lutz as a farm hand, and when he was discharged Lutz paid him from a large roll of bills. The following day he met his former employer driving along a lonely road. He hailed him and asked Lutz to re-employ him. The request was refused, whereupon Granger pulled a revolver and shot him and then robbed the body. SENATOR BAILEY EXONERATED. Resolution of Texas Senate Dismiss* ing Investigating Committee. Austin, Texas.?The Senate adopted a resolution dismissing the Bailey investigating committee before tfcfc committee could prepare a report. The resolution adopted e<onerat(W Senator Joseph W. Bailey in evefT particular. The vote was 15 ayes to 11 nayn. Aged Woman Recluse Dies in Fire, Fire destroyed the old Williamso:?; homestead, on Weymouth turnpik.O, near Newfield, N. J., and Mrs. Hatsnah Williamson, the only inmate Ot the place, was burned to death. Mrs. Williamson, who was almost nine'v years of age and a cripple, had liv^d alone in the big house for mafly years. Snys He Had to Kill Man. Dennis Driscoll, a mill operatic, at Dover, N. H., was shot and killvd in Main street by Patrick Morgo-fi. another mill operative. Morgan jittmediately went to the police station and gave himself up, saying ne na^i killed Driscoll because Driscoll came to Morgan's house "and attempted to run things." Sclioonrr Harry Knouiton Sued. [t was announced in Providenc&i R. I., that the Joy Line Steamship Company would bring a Federal action to place the responsibility for the Larchmont collision on the owners of the schooner Harry Knowlton. Many Executions in China. There have been many executions in China, following the agitation for an overthrow of the dynasty: the anti-foreign movement seems to be practically ended. Woman's Suffrage Progressing. The Rev. Anna Shaw, president of the American Women's Suffrage Association. at Chicago, declared that the suffrage cause has made less in 4 nmi'iM during- the last few years thau in any other enlightened country. Murder Confessed and Denied. , The confession of Steve W. Adams, since repudiated by him, regarding the Steunenbcrg murder, was read to the jury at Wallau, Idaho, that is trying Adams for the murder of Fred Tyler. . ' ? HARRM JELLS OF DEALS Rich Hauls For Engineers of the Alton R. R. Purchase. Magnate Says He'll Not Reveal Interest in Sales Unless Courts Make Him. New York City.?Edward H. Harriman, master of the greatest railroad power wielded by any one group of financial interests in the world, went on the witness stand before the Interstate Commerce Commission here. It was the resumption of the Federal inquiry into the operation of the Harriman railroads begun in this city early in January and continued in Chicago and elsewhere in the intervening time. From now on it will be pushed to its conclusion in New York. Driven into a corner by Frank B. Kellogg and C. A. Severance, counsel to the Interstate Commerce Commission, Mr. Harriman refused to reveal what his personal profits had been from the sale of a large block of Chicago and Alton preferred stock to the Union Pacific. His refusal to give this'information came as a shock not only to the members of the commission and their counsel, but also to the hundreds who had crowded into the court room on the third floor of the Federal building to hear Harriman testify. There was striking analogy to the similar scene just a year ago, when Henry ' H. Rogers, the dominating power of the Standard Oil Company, took the same position, and said to another inquisitor out of the West, Hadley, of Missouri, "I decline to answer by advice of counsel." They made short shrift of Rogers, for the courts quickly ground his defiance into submission. So far as Harriman would disclose the facts only the surface of his railway deals was scratched, but the following was admitted: * / Harriman, Mortimer Schiff, George J. Gould and James Stillman, Kuhn, Loeb & Co., acting as the agents, purchased the Chicago and Alton Railway for about $22,000,000, becoming owners of about ninety-seven per cent, of the stock. Harriman put a bond mortgage of $40,000,000 on the road. It was decided to sell $32,000,000 of this at $650 a bond, and these bonds were taken by Kuhn, Loeb & Co. for the syndicate that purchased the stock. Then Kuhn, Loeb & Co. sold these bonds, purchased at 65/ well above 90. The sum of $10,000,000 was sold to the New York Life at 95 and $1,000,000 to the Equitable at 92. All the bonds up to $32,000,000 were sold?first to the syndicate at 65 and then for the syndicate above 90, this same syndicate owning the stock of the road and Mr. Harriman controlling it. Mr. Harriman generously called it a dividend to the stockholders. The Chicago and Alton stock, loaded down with a $40,000,000 bond issue and an old bond issue of $8,500,000, was not then so good a purchase as when the Harriman combine took it minus the $40,000,000 bond obligation; so Mr. Harriman and two fellow directors in Chicago and Alton, the stock having been boosted in the market, sold a block of $10,000,000 of Chicago and Alton stock to Mr. Harrlman's Union Pacific; Mr. Harriman, as the whole Union Pacific road, deciding that it would be good to buy it of Mr. Harriman of the Chicago and Alton. It was when Mr. Harriman was asked how much of this $10,000,000 block he actually owned as a private individual when he sold it to the Union Pacific at a great profit, thus loading up the Union Pacific with an unnecessary obligation, that he declined to answer. ' This refusal lays the ground for Harriman to decline to answer how much he paid in his syndicate for Illinois Central; how much profit he made by selling it to the, Union Pacific after he decided that that line should" be loaded up with the Illinois Central stock. His refusal to answer will also prevent the Interstate Commerce Commission from finding out what profits Harriman and his syndicate made by purchasing Southern Pacific or other stocks from the Union Pacific treasury. It was brought out that to finance the purchase of Southern Pacific, the St. Joseph and Grand Island and other roads Harriman issued $100,000,000 of convertible bonds of the Union Pacific and also put the Oregon Short Line in for $45,000,000, using this sum to purchase Northern Pacific and Great Northern as well as other -stocks mentioned. As the Northern Pacific and Great N&rthern went up through the manipulation of the market he unloaded $116,000,000 on the public and used the money so obtained to purchase other stocks. Mr. Harriman modestly admitted that through his control he was really the Union Pacific and the Oregon T.ino himeplf that when he de cided to swell the obligations of the company he was able to do so, and that when he decided to use the money raised by bond issues, to purchase stocks in other roads controlled by him?through syndicates formed on the outside?he was able to do so, but he insisted that this was not speculation, but investment for the Union Pacific. Cubans Want Cockfighting. A procession of 500 mounted men and others marched past the Palace at Havana. C.;ba. They left a petition to Governor Magoon asking that the order forbidding cockfighting be rescinded. Tne uovernor saiu uw would consider the matter. Kingston Suffers Another Shock. A severe earthquake shock was felt in Kingston. Jamaica, causing several buildings, partially destroyed buildings by former shock, to fall. One man was killed in the old ruins. Honduras Caused War. .President Zelaya again made public the statements that the entire bis me for the war belonged to Honduras. and that the Nicaraguan troops had won several victories. The World of Sport. Queen Alexandra's fine dogs were defeated at the Crufts dog show. .Amateur Athletic Union has taken couirol of all ice and roller skating contests. ?,'he presidents of the two national baseball leagues receive a salary of 515,000 a year. The next Glidden trophy tour for automobiles will be from Chicago to Washington, D. C. More than $12,000 was cleared at the McGoveru benefit at Madi30U Square Garclen, New York City. ' : || "t , -I .gfcWete) J WASHINGTON. ' Lieutenant-Colonel James A. Irons was selected as military attache of the American embassy at ?Toklo, Japan. The President sent to the Senate the reappointment of Hamilton Fish to be Assistant Treasurer of the united siaies acixew iorit. \ President Roosevelt wrote to Governor Guild of Massachusetts that the Massachusetts tariff revision petition will receive "serious consideration." At a hearing before the Senate Committee on Agriculture on the control of public grazing lands a letter was read from the President arraigning the sheep men and advocating a system of Government leases. ? Uj Assistant Paymaster W. P.^Sypher has been dismissed from the Navy on | account of technical embezzlement. He was short $1300. Lieutenants C. R. Miller and R. C. Bulmer, U. S. N.,- on duty in Washington city, have been ordered to additional duty as naval aides to the President at the White House. OUR ADOPTED ISLANDS. General del Castillo declared in & Havana newspaper he would fight for Cuba libre until his last breath. Japanese laborers In Hawaii with passports for Hawaii only will not be admitted to the United States. In the island of Porto Rico lands have doubled in value and are still rising, with no desirable lands adjacent to the railways now obtainable. ? t? ~?r nepi eawmauve rayuv, tuoii iuau ul the Committee on Ways and Means in Congress, introduced a bill to impose a tax of $1.10 per proof gallon on the spirits contained in bay rum im-? ported from Porto Rico. x Matienzo Cintron, a prominent member of the House of Delegates, at San Juan, Porto Rico, charged in a speech that the laws were not printed in the same form in which they; passed the Legislature. _____ , ; 2mA DOMESTIC. v J? The Belmont Subway Companyfiled a claim for $15,000,000 more on* Subway work, which, if paid, would bring the cost to $50,000,000, in New York City. The Great'Northern Railway was Indicted under the Elkins act for re- \ A bating. Two students at the college in Oberlin, Ohio, were expelled for smoking. The secretary of the Union Bible Society, of Worcester, Mass., declared the American Bible Society was a trust and bolstered up prices of Bibles. i Alexander E. Orr, president of the Ne'w York Life Insurance Com- > pany, announced that he -yvould retire as soon as the canvass of the votes was completed. Alexander, King, a negro, was apV pointed assistant superintendent of the Wall Street Pos'cofflce sub-station, New York City. v President Roosevelt urged the i building of children's playgrounds by every city in the country. / , The special committee of the Pennsylvania Railroad ComDany vindl cated the company's officers and employes as loyal and efficient. Vice-President Brown gives a defl- ft nite promise of $1,000,000 at once \ " for Boston and Albany Railroad improvements. ' I W. J. Bryan criticised John D. Rockefeller's $32,000,000 gift to the General Education Board; he said that he still was in favor of Government ownership of railroads. Lieutenant-Colonel Charles Hildreth Lewis, A. M., LL. D., veteran of * the Civil War, for many years prominent in financial circles and for a number of year3 president of Norwich University, died at Camden, Me., at the age of sixty-nine. New York, New Haven and Hartford Railroad Company has planned to build a big station on the blocks bounded by Lexington and Park avenues and Thirty-second and Thirtyfourth streets, New York City. Report of a test run to Boston shows denatured alcohol to be more costly than gasoline, but more efficient as automobile fuel. FOREIGN. The French Chamber of Deputies overwhelmingly sustained the Gov- ? ernment's moderate policy m aeaung .with the Church. The London and Southwestern Railway, which was completed in 1898, has carried 41,000,000 passengers without -an accident. Count Stolberg-Wernigerode was fleeted President of the German Reichstag. Giosue CarduiccI, Italian poet, is dead. General Kuropatkin's Far East war criticisms arouse much resentment in Russian military circles. Ferreira, the leader of the raid in Cape Colony last November, and four of liis followers were sentenced to death at Kimberley. The congress on hygiene and demography is to be held in Berlin next September. The Vatican authorities say that their policy has not been changed by, the action of the Chamber of Dep- - ? uties in sustaining M. Eriand. Famine conditions in Russia are* being slowly relieved by the Government and the Red Cross, though the suffering is great. Crime Is so prevalent in France that talk is general about a return to the guillotine. Archbishop Vilatti inaugurated his schismatic church in France under police protection. The Paris press unanimously recognizes the completeness of the triumph of M. Briand, French Minister ' of Education, in his conciliatory policy in regard to separation. Sir Charles Dilke's bill provides that women may vot* at both Parliamentary and local elections in Great Britain. The Turkish Sultan yielded to Germany's vigorous representations and banished Fehmi Pacha. Colonel Henry Steel Olcott, head of the Theosophlcal Society, died in InI dia of heart disease at the age of sev? enty-five years. It is announced at Tokio, Japan, that the cruisersTsukubaand, Chitose, under Vice-Admiral Ijuin, will attend the Jamestown Exposition. Charges that oysters from the Mediterranean have caused many; cases of poisoning have stirred Paris. Tondon is discussing with animation the way recent peerages are be* Vir/MiarH loolr <r?f icar.a | WUUilUg vn* vr ?" ?% * . * ** r.