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DOCTOR MOTHER. 1
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A little wound, a little ache. i
A little blistered thumb to take
With touch of love and make it we!!?
These things require a mother's spell.
Ah, sweet the progress of the skili :
That science brings unto the ill! I
vast range of methods new and line.
But when our little ones repine,
The mother is the very best
Of doctors into service pressed! 1
Sunshine and air and mother's spell
Of helping little lads get well,
And helping little lasses, too? ?
Here are three remedies that, do
So much more, often than the grave,
Skilled hands that tried so hard to save,
For Dr. Mother, don't- you know, '
<?ive3 something more than skill?gives so
Much of herself; gives, oh, so much
Of love's sweet alchemy of touch!
Upon a little wardroom bed
A little curl encircled head,
A little slender hand and pale,
A little lonesome, homesick wail,
Loved nursing, best of skill and care;
But, oh. behold the wonder there,
When Dr. Mother, bearing suq
From where the willing rosss run.
Leans down,with hungering love and kiss?
Fhere is no medicine like this!
+n little child heart's hour of woe,
Pain, ache, or life wound's throb and
throe.
The Dr. Mother knows so well
l'he weaving of love's wonder spell?
Just what tne little heart requires,
Just how to cool the fever fires;
Just how much tenderness and cheer
Will calm the little doubt and fear.
How much of tenderness will ease?
Alone she knows such arts as these!
?Baltimore Sun.
s
f SEARCHING FOR f 1
| CASTAWAYS. |;
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| BY FREDERICK SEARS, * a
ILate of the New Zealand Government Survey. ?
(An interesting account of a nautical errand ^ ^
of mercy. Far out in the lonaly Southern I
Ocean lie the desolate Isles of the Antipodes? Jg *
a deadly menace to ships. So terrible have JK
been the experiences of sailors wrecked upon x? I
theae Islands that the New Zealand Qovern- y
$ ment decided to fol-m depois of pr ovisions fcr $ C
? the use of castaways. In this artle'e Mr. Sears v' t
9 describes the voyage of tl.e Government if/
9> steamer, and how she resrued a party of ship- w e
fc wrecked men from one of the islands. M ,
K. -r
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Far away over tne tractiess ocean, m
on the verge of the Great Southern 1
Ice Belt, some seven hundred miles h
south of New Zealand, and swept by I
the furies of perpetual blizzards, lie \
the desolate Antipodes ? Bounty, i
Auckland, Enderby and Campbell Isi- 1
ands, belonging to New Zealand, and c
the Macquarles, belonging to Tas- t
mania. All these islands are totally i
uninhabited, and many a fine vessel ?
has laid her bones at the foot of fc
Iheir cruel crags, while the luckless c
souls who have escaped a watery t
grave Lave met a far more dreadful j,
fate?a slow and miserable death i
from starvation. Many records are
still to be found on the islands, telling
their own tales of shipwreck, de
spair, siarvituuu una ueam. ou
dreadful are some of these records
that the New Zealand Government, P
ander the leadership of that grand P
Did empire builder, the late Prime 8
Minister, Mr. R. J. Seddon, P. C., b
have erected depots for castaways on t
each island. This humane step has 1'
already been the means of saving r
many lives. c
The Government relief depots are
galvanized iron sheds about fifteen j
feet by twenty, and contain tinned c
meat, biscuits, cocoa, tea, flour, e
matches, candles, lamps, kerosene, n
axes, fishing tackle, blankets, cloth- g
ing, cloth, needles, cotton, etc., together
with a good, seaworthy, S
decked boat fitted with sails, oars, s
compass, and a chart giving the 1
course to the Bluff Lighthouse, the v
aearest point of Netor Zealand. b
The islands are visited once a year t
by the Government steamer Hinemoa. ! s
She goes to search for castaways who 1
may have been wrecked since her C
last visit, to repair any damages done
to the depots by the frequent storms, c
and to overhaul the stocks of provis- f
Ions. This very wise undertaking, f
as already stated, has been the means t
of saving many lives. \
My official duties as an officer of
the New Zealand Government Sur- l
vey necessitated my accompanying (
the vessel to the islands, and this s
article is the result of my trip. a
Previous to the erection of the i
depots the Berry Castle was lost on I
Enderby Island, and the ship's logBlate
still hangs in the depot there, c
It is the half of a folding r
slate, tied together at the corners j
with pieces of sinnet, or rope yard, r
The wording has been cut on the i
slate?probiAly with a sharp nail? \
and reads: "Sacred to the memory >
of captain, first and second officers,
and twelve of the crew who lost their
live3 by wreck of the Derry Castle
on the north side of Enderby Island,
March 20, 1887. The survivors were t
taken from the island by the schooner e
Awarana, July 21, 1887. Wm. Ren- ij
nie, A. 3.; Dan Sullivan, A. B.; Nick ?
Wallace, A. B.; F. Fernace, A. B.; j
John Husband, A. B.; Alex. Nyberg, t
A. B. ;Hugh Logan, A. B.; James
McGhie, passenger. Names of the t
lost: James Goffe, captain; F. F. t
Robins, first officer: RassmiiR?pn spo. ,
, ? J
ond officer; C. Reynolds, C. Williams, t
P. Olsen, Johnson, Peterson, Karlson, t
Gill, Reid; four names not known.
Total, fifteen." r
The wording on the graves is very ?
much weatherworn, but one slab j
contains the following: "Sacred s
to the memory of C. H. Ma- (
hony, master mariner, and the 3ec- ?
ond officer of the ship Inverauld, j
wrecked on this island 15th May, \
1864. Died of starvation." The (
small grave to the left is that of the (
captain's little daughter, and the cen- ,
tre of the tablet is formed by the \
shin's erindstone Thp lettering nn i
the other headboards is too much ob- t
literated to be legible, but the terri- 1
hie words, "Died of starvation," are <
on each. ]
Of all the islands, the most deso- ,
late are the Bounties, lying in forty- (
eight degrees south, 179 degrees
west. Not a vestige of vegetation or
blade of grass is to be found from one
?nd of these barren penguin rookeries
to the other, so that, but for the Gov- ,
Prnment depots, the lot of any unortunates
wrecked upon them would
e hapless indeed. ,
We arrived at the Bounties aftpr
(stormy passage, but could not make
landing owing to the heavy surf
eating on the iron-bound coast. It
ras just about the breeding season
>r the penguins, but there was no
Ign of one to be seen or heard. Be
ing unable to iand, we put to sea to
dodge about till calmer weather
came, vwo aays laier we mauc mo
islands ..gain. The penguins hail arrived,
and the rocks were literally
swarming with them. Whence had
they come, and where had they got
into such fat. fine condition? Kad
:hey come from some unknown lands
jeyond the Great Ice Belt? Nature
jolds the secret. But as suddenly as
:hey came, so, when the breeding season
is over, in a day they are all gone
?whither no man knows.
The Macquarie Islands, which are
Tasmanian territory, lie in fifty-eight
legrees south, 161 degrees west?
oughly, 700 miles south of New Zeaand.
On arriving at the remote
;roup we had the satisfaction of resting
the shipwrecked crew of the
ichooner Gratitude, of New Zealand.
During a succession of adverse gales
he Gratitude was carried down to
he Macquarie Islands and stranded
>n its inhospitable shore, where she
iow lies. It was indeed a lucky thing
or the crew of six men that the veslei
did not go ashore about 200 yards
arther south?on the three pinnacles
>f rocks known as the "Needles"?as
ihould they by any chance have
here would in all likelihood have
>een no one left to tell the tale; and
icrambled ashore there, thoy would
:ertainly have died of starvation long
>efore our arrival, as there were nc
(tore depots on the Macquarie Islands
it that time.
The poor fellows had been on the
sland about seven months, and ]
.hall never forget their wild excitenent
as our whaleboat neared the
ihore and they realized that after
he weary months of heart-breaking
mxiety and suspense their dreary imtrisonment
was at last at 'an end. I
vas the first to speak to them, but
or some time they could not find
heir tongues, they were so overjoyed.
made an inspection of the mouldy,
lecayed provisions saved from the
vreck?on which they had beer
iking out existence?and also the
luts they had built with timbers iirorn
heir ship, and I shuddered to think
t-hat their fate would have been ii
re had not .visited the islands. The
oneliness of this inaccessible group
ias a depressing effect upon one, and
was as thankful as the castaways
rere to see the Macquaries sink beow
the horizon and feel our gallant
ittle ship riding over the mountainius
waves with a hurricane roaring
lehind us. After three months' toss?
ng about on our errand of mercy w<
vere nomewara uuuau agcuu, uuviu>|
iad the good fortune to rescue some
if our fellow-creatures from starva*
ion and a lingering death on tha
onely isles of the Southern Ocean.?
'he Wide World Magazine.
Hudson Bay Route to Europe.
The Canadian Government and
leople are greatly interested by the
ossibility of a short haul of Canadian
;rain to Hudson Bay, whence it could
e taken to Europe by ship. The alernative
routes all involve eithei
ong railroad hauls or a combined
ailway haul and a long steamboat
arriage down the lakes.
The Dominion Government has
ust published a description of the
ruise of the Neptune to gain infornation
as to the possibilities of a
lorthern route as an outlet for the
;rain crop.
The conclusion is that Hudson
itrait is navigable for ordinary iron
teamships from July 20 to November
, and this period may be increased,
fithout much risk, by a week in the
ieginning of the season and by per*
taps two weeks at the close. The
ame dates apply to the navigation of
ludson Bay from the strait to Fort
"hurchill.
Fort Churchill is practically the
mly available harbor as a terminus
or railways from the Northwest or
rom Ontario, if the proposal to exend
the Government railways to tiderater
i3 carried out.
The Hudson Bay route would save
.000 miles in transportation, writes
Consul Seyfert from Collingwood, beides
a considerable amount of delay
tud handling which now take place
n the transportation of grain from
^ort William to the seaboard.
The report points out that the
[ueation of grain storage presents no
eal difference, because not twentj
)er cent, of the grain at present
eaches the seaboard before the navigation
of the year following that ir
vhich it is harvested.?New York
iVorld.
How Water Acts.
Water contracts as it falls from
he normal boiling point, 212 de;rees,
until it reaches thirty-nine de- I
jrees. Below that degree it expands, |
md at thirty-two degrees, the freez^ j
ng point, it will expand enough tc
mrst pipes and vessels holding it.
When the pressure of the air ii
jelow normal, water boils at a lowei
emperature than 212 degrees. Thi)
s noticed before a rain, when the ba ometer
shows by a falling mercur;
i decreased air pressure. This alsc
?xplains why water boil3 away mori
apidly, quickly or at a lower temperiture
in the mountains, where th?
)ressure of the air is less than on th<
leacoast or in the valleys. If sugai
>r salt is added to water the temper
iture of the boiling point is raised i
:ew degrees. As a rule, as water if
leated it will hold a greater amoum
)f substance in solution. A familia;
ixception is the fact that ice watei
vill dissolve twice as much lime ai
soiling water. At the other extremt
-Nsxillvw* n>nfn?. Ttfill TTO Covontooi
JU111U5 ?atCi TTXIi UIOJV4FV WV'VUVVVI
limes as much saltpetre as will col<
ivater. But water varies in its solv
;nt powers regardless of heat. On*
)ound of water will hold two pound)
3f sugar in solution, but only twt
3unce? of common salt.
Lines on a Sun Dial.
Henry Van Dyke has written n<
lines more beautiful than thosf
which decorate the sun dial at Yad
lo, the summer home of Spence(
rrask, Eisq.:
Time is
Too slow for those who wait,
Too swift for those who fear,
Too long for those who grieve,
fKnoa trKn raiAina*
JSU\J Ol>Vl l* XUi ihwov ?uv ivjvivv)
But for those who love
Time is eternity.
?From the Houae Beautiful.
CHIEF WILLIE SI1
Said to be the only son of the great S
head of the Si
EARLY SCHOOLS IN IRELAND. C
a
Many of Them Flourished a Thousand
Years Ago. a
Quite small children were sent to g
school in ancient Ireland, and, writes t
Jane Barlow in Youth's Companion, g
like children of to-day, began their t
studies with the alphabet. The let- a
ters were sometimes stamped on
bread or cakes, which the youthful g,
scholars might eat when their lesson
was learned?a sort of kindergarten
device. j(
The chief school-foftnding period
in Ireland was in the seventh cen- '
tury. We learn from the chronicles
7 ' ~ P
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ft
Early Christian School in Ireland. ti
of the Venerable Bede that about the P1
middle of it great crowds of Anglo-. ai
Saxons, among them Egbert and
Saint Chad, came over to Ireland, T
and were kindly welcomed by the
Irish, who provided them gratuitous- cc
ly with "food, books and teachers." y<
During the same century two for- tr
eign kings were educated in Ireland ai
?Dagobert II. of France and Aldfrid a'
of Northumbria, who has left an g:
Irish poem in praise of the country, li:
Irish geometers, geographers and as- pi
tronomers were then far in advance as
of their age, and the study of Greek, ji
which had all but died out' in the bi
countries farther east, was common re
In Ireland. "At one time," says M. ti
Darmesteter, "Armagh, the religious as
capital of Christian Ireland, was the m
metropolis of civilization." is
The earliest of celebrated Irish w
schools was founded more than 1400 e:
years ago by Saint Enda, the son of cc
a King of Oriel, on the wild, 'rocky F
Island of Aran More, off the coast of d<
p?:-, r-m-m-y sai
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"Cards to tell yer kerrect age, a pei
Hat Holder. , hi
A San Francisco man thinks it j t<
would be desirable for every man to j >'<
carry a hat rack in his pocket. He j 0<
r?i 1 i?
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Latest Hatholder. d
Mi M k
gp^[TING
BULL.
Itting Bull, now dead, and future
[oux Nation.
lalway, whither "fleetsful" of scholars
came from all quarters.
Other schools as famous and nearly
s ancient were Clonard, close to the
tiver Boyne, and Clonfert on the
ihannon; but greater than either of
hem was Clonmacnoise, founded by
aint Ciaran beside a wide curve in
he Shannon not far from Athlone,
lmost in the centre of Ireland.
Although many beautiful works
till bear witness to Irish achievelents
in art and letters, testimony
ver stronger to the nation's constant
>ve for such things abides in the
ict that it never was quenched by
II the water of affliction through
hich it passed. Wars, massacres,
estilence and famine swept in wide
aves over the land.
A time came, and lasted for genertion
after generation, when it was
felony for the greater part of the
sople either to teach or to be taught,
r even to own a book or a manu
:ript; a time when children might
2 seen furtively learning their alphaet
from letters chalked on their
ither's tombstone.
Yet in the worst days schools connued
to exist, however secretly and
erilously, and a scholar was always
ti object of respect and admiration.
he Passing of Courtroom Oratory.
Inspiration is a lost art in the
jurtroom. Nowadays no true law?r
advises, prepares documents or
ies a case without a careful preparlion.
Forensic oratory has passed
way. No longer doe3 the crowd
ither in the county courthouse to
sten to and be moved by the wit,
ithos and eloquence of the advocate
3 for hours or days he addresses the
iry. The courtroom may be filled,
jt it is largely with the ubiquitous
'porters, many of whom are as destute
of tears as Sahara of water and
3 callous to emotion as the mumied
sleepers of Egypt. No longer
it true that weeping men and
omen with handkerchiefs to their
,-es are moved by the eloquence of
rnnsel. Time is a pressing factor,
acts rather than eloquence is the
imand.?P- C- Brewer, m Atlantic^
sip?!!!
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.'^i 11'I'l'i^wiwiwiiife-'.';-'S< '->/?'
my, lidy."?Tatler.
is, accordingly, designed one suited
) the purpose. If for any reason
3u should go into a restaurant or
:her public building and desire to
move your hat, but cannot do so
?cause the hatholders are already
illy occupied, all you have to do is
i take one out of your pocket and
tach it to the chair you are occupyg.
The illustration shows clearly
ie construction of thissimple device.
tie clasp which fastens on the chair
other support is pivoted in the cene.
On the free ends of the clasp
e an eye and a hook. Sliding on
le clasp is a spring grip, which holds
ie hat or other article. If a small
)lder similar to this were secured
> the backs of chairs in theatres and
:her places of amusement ladies
ould find them exceedingly useful
>r holding their hats, which would
2 much more convenient than sup
jruug tueiu iu lueir lap.
Advertisement ia the London
hronicle: "Scullery maid, ?16, anual
rise; gold watch end of Ave
ears; teetotaler preferred. Adresa,"
etc.
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PROOFREADERS' WORTH
Horace F. Teall, in Inland Printer.
Our question is intended to appl>
to money value, not to relative importance
except as that influences
wages. The question is prompted
by the conviction that true proportion
is very little recognized in the trade,
though that is not a new condition,
and little change may be possible,
or even thought of, for some time.
One thing this world will never adjust
according to any one man's
ideas, and that is wages. A very
prominent instance of this may be
found in the fact that the greatest
nation in the world pays its Chiel
Magistrate less than many business
corporations pay their presidents, although
he cannot fill his office without
great expense. But we may better
consider* those nearer to the common
level in their work. Who is
better worthy of liberal pay than
school teachers? Yet a majority of
our teachers receive almost nothing
compared with what they should
have if we really paid them.
Some teachers are well paid, however,
and so are some proofreaders.
In fact, many are overpaid, as probably
some workers are :in all trades
and nrnfessinnR Tf io usoloaa tn in.
dulge any sort of dream of a time
when wages will be determined with
perfect justice. No criterion has
ever been found for such determination.
But proofreaders' wages are
not often adjusted with any ap1
proach to real equity.
Personal experience las disclosed
to the writer many circumstances
that seem to him worthy of careful
consideration and correction. On a
morning newspaper in New York
many years ago certain men doing
purely mechanical work had for a
six-day week, and a summer vacation,
higher wages than proofreaders
got for a seven-day week and no vacation.
On another the readers had
the same pay that the others got, and
they all had a day off out of the
seven. Even here, though, something
- happened that was strikingly unjust.
One reader, already turning out more
work than the other, received from
the foreman instructions to take
charge of the room. This added to
his ordinary duties the burden ol
attending to the order in which the
Work was done, the answering of all
questions, of which there were many,
and numerous other items of responeJKIUftf
rtn/l f ^ a
aiviixtjr f aau LUC i copuuoiuiiitj
brought no increase of pay. It is a
real injustice in such a case not to
increase the pay, even if only a little,
not only to the worker, but to the
employer as well; and the injustice
is greater because of unavoidable
feeling of lack of the real authority
with which such a man should be invested.
He could adequately fill the
place only by being a real foreman.
The papers recently have contained
many advertisements for
printing office workers, and wages
mentioned in them never place proofreading
on a higher plane than any
other work, while sometimes more
pay is offered for operators and electrotypers
than for readers.
Much of the commonest proofreading
work is not actually worth higher
pay than the other kinds of work,
but has not this fact been made too
general in its effect on pay-rates?
This question seems pertinent tn the
interests of employers as well as of
employes.
It is conceded with practical unanimity
that the proofreading desk ia
'usually filled by promotion from
among compositors. But is it actual
promotion when the pay is not incseased?
A very queer phenomenon
in this connection is the fact that
compositors themselves often seem
to think the change desirable; but it
is worth while to ask another question
about this. Is it always possible
to secure those for the reading desk
who are really best fitted for it? Is
it not likely that the brightest men
among the compositors are bright
enough to insist upon staying at the
work that pays best?
Of course, these questions relate to
average work. They are not meant
to imply that every proofreader is
underpaid. On the contrary, there
is no doubt that some are overpaid.
AgSin, it is not the intention to imply
that employers are not willing
to recognize real differences in value,
and to pay higher wages when they
perceive the justice and the benefit
of doine so. The point is that many
of them expect what they never will
get until they are willing to pay for
it. One large and very prominent
firm of publishers has its own printing
plant, and makes books of a kind
that demands special knowledge for
proper proofreading. The books that
should be irreproachable are often
censured in reviews, and often deserve
even stronger censure than they
receive. Undoubtedly the reason for
this state of affairs lies in the employment
of workers who get only
half as much pay as a truly competent
reader would demand.
Another large printing house had
a proofreader unquestionably worth
much more than he got, who had an
offer of employment in an editcrial
office at a slight advance. This was
an office with the too common habit
Clt levplins' wa withi-mf- raontrn it.
ing differences in competency, but
this man was too good to be so treated,
and his employers were wise
enough to induce him to stay by the
one efficient means. .
The object here has been to try to
say enough to make employers think
a little about differences between
workers' qualifications, aud about the
wisdom of making corresponding differences
in'( pay. Every printer
should be, what comparatively few
really are, able to meet the demand
stated by Mr. John Southward in his
book on "Modern Printing," as follows:
"The reputation of a printing
office for producing good bookwork
largely depends upon the efficiency
of the readers employed. Many offices
which are well provided with
material and apparatus, carefully
and judiciously used, fail to meet
the requirements of authors and publishers
simply through the inferiority
of the reading. The employment ol
a trained and professional reader
may add considerably to the cost oi
getting out work, but it should be
regarded as a necessary item of expense,
and be provided for in the
estimate drawn up beforehand.'"
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' GNICA60 ELECTS F.). BtlSSE
City Wins Control of the Traction
Franchises.
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Republican Defeats Dunne, Advocate
1 of Immediate Ownership?Street
Car Ordinances Passed.
Chicago.?Frederick A. Bussa, the
| Republican candidate for Mayor, was
elected, defeating Mayor Edward F.
Dunne, the Democratic candidate, by
a plurality of 13,121.
; The new Mayor will have the City
Council with him. The make-up of
this body shows thirty-five Republicans,
thirty-four Democrats and one
: Independent Democrat. The ordii
nances settling the street car question
were carried by a good majority.
The vote on this question, was 165,846
for and 132,720 against.
The election followed the most intense
campaign in municipal politics
that Chicago has experienced in
many years. William R. Hearst and
his papers were strong supporters of
Mayor Dunne,
The issues in the campaign have
been largely based upon the improvement
of the local traction systems.
Both parties agreed that present conditions
were intolerable, but differed
1 as to the best method of revising
them. The Democratic party, head'
ed by Mayor Dunne, stood for immediate
municipal ownership through
condemnation of the street car
obtained in any other way. The Re
pauiiuau yen lj lavui cu luc uiuiuautco
can party favored the ordinances
which were recently passed by a
Democratic City Council over the
veto of Mayor Dunne.
These ordinances provide tor twen.
ty-year franchises for the street car
companies, the city retaining the
i right to purchase the systems for
$50,000,000, plus the amount to be
spent for immediate rehabilitation
of the lines, six months' notice being
necessary of the city's intention to
1 acquire the property. The ordinances
also provide for universal transfers .
throughout the city, a five-cent fare
! and fifty-five per' cent, of the net
profit of the companies to be paid to
the city.
| The vote generally showed ade,
cided reversal of public opinion on
municipal ownership since the Mayoralty
campaign two years ago. At
that time Dunne received 163,189
votes, against 138,671 for.John M.
Harlan, the Republican leader. The
Prohibitionist ticket received 3294
votes and the Socialist 23,034. This
| year the Republican vote was 164,-'
839 and that of the Democrats 151,718.
The Prohibition vote ran slightly
above that of two years ago, while
! the Socialist vote fell off heavily, being
13,459.
The campaign has been one of the
most vicious'the city has ever known.
: Charges and counter charges have
been hurled, the personal lives of the
candidates have been discussed and
speakers on both sides have indulged
in tirades filled with invective and
abuse.
Chicago will now speedily settle its
street car problem which has been
i bandied back and forth for eleven
years as a political asset, the service
growing more wretched and antiquated
every year. Within ninety
days the traction companies must accept
the ordinances or lose their franchises.
It is expected the Chicago City
Railway Company will at once commence
the work of reconstruction of
its lines and put into service as quickly
as possible 150 cars of the up-todate,
type specified in the ordinances.
Within a year the Union Traction
interests must put into service 225 of
such cars. Rebuilding of the tracks
is to go on as rapidly as practicable.
BRIDAL PAIR END LIVES.
Finding Hasband Dead in Woods,
Wife Shoots Herself.
Washington, Va.?A pitiful story
of a lovers' quarrel, resulting in two
suicides, was pieced together by the
Coroner's jury from the peculiar cir(mmctanoflu
imrlpr which the bodies
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of Henry Foster and his young bride
were found in the deep woods near
their home.
Foster had threatened to take his
1 own life. He left the house with his
bride, taking his rifle. At noon she
returned alone, depressed, and re,
fused to eat, saying she would wait
for her husband. In the afternoon
she went in search of him, found
him shot dead and, using a forked
stick to pull the trigger, fired a
charge into her own head and fell
dead across her husband's body. In
that position relatives found the bodies.
NO DRINKS FOR OLD TOPERS.
The Names of Fifty Men on Stronds*
burg's Black List.
! Stroudsburg, Pa.?Everything was
dry for nearly fifty men, victims of
the habit of excessive drinking.
1 Every hotel man and bartender was
given a list of names by County De'
tective John M. Decker, with instruc
tions not to sell them any liquors.
. At the recent session of the license
court the question of violations of
the liquor laws by hotelkeepers and
saloonkeepers through selling to
men of known intemperate habits
was discussed by the court and the
i blank list was decided upon.
! New Budget For Russia.
1 The Russian Minister of Finance,
M. Kokovtsoff, presented the budget
scheme to the Duma.
BELMONT'S BID ACCEPTED.
Will Build Cape Cod Canal at Cost of
> of $11,990,000.
Boston.?Announcement was made
by the Boston, Cape Cod and New
i York Canal Company that the bid of
' I the Cane Cod Construction Company
to dig the ditch for $11,99U,UUU nau
been accepted by the company, subject
to the approval of the joint
[ board of harbor and land and railroad
commissioners.
The construction company was the
only bidder for the job. August Belmont
is at the head of tbts construction
company and is also head of the
syndicate backing the plan to cut
through the Cape.
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Rucf's Appointee Displaced.
The San Francisco Board of Supervisors
removed its secretary, an
appointee of Abraham Ruef, aud announced
that it would have nothing
more to do with Ruef.
Rritain's Ooill Yield.
, The coal yield of Great Britain is
now about 236,000,000 tons per year.
JCCEPTFIliraiMEtt
Taf? Supporters to Abide by Primary
Results in Ohio.
C. P. Taft Issues a Statement Saying
That His Brother's Followers Are
Anxious For a Quick Decision.
Cincinnati, Ohio.?Charles Phelps
Taft* brother of Secretary of War W.
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n. ldLi, ibau?u tui'j BiaieuieuL iu auswer
to Senator Foraker'a challenge
regarding a settlement of Ohio's
choice for a Republican candidate for
President:
"Senator Foraker's statement indicates
that he is running for the Presidency
and for the Senatorship. The
frientJs of Secretary Taft are urging
him for the Presidency. As the Senator
has included the two offices in
this primary contest Secretary Taft's
friends accept the proposition and
will make it a distinct contest: Taft
for the Presidency or Senatorship, or
Foraker for the Presidency or Senatorship.
"If the Republicans of Ohio by
their votes at the primaries indicate
that they prefer Foraker for the
Presidency or Senatorship Secretary
Taft is eliminated from the political
situation.
"If the people of Ohio indicate Secretary
Taft for the Presidency or
Senatorship Senator Foraker is eliminated
from the political situation in
Ohio.
"This is a direct contest between
the friends of the Administration of
President Roosevelt and his opponents.
We are willing to submit it to
the Republican voters of Ohio and
the sooner the better. ' *
"CHARLES P. TAFT." ;
EREAKS HER FATHER'S LEG.
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Miss Iona Imes Proves Her Prowess
as a Wrestler.
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4414 Vincennes avenue, will never
igain doubt his daughter's ability as
a wrestler. He is in Mercy Hospital
with a split kneecap, a broken leg,
and other injuries as the result of a
friendly wrestling match with his
laughter, Miss Iona, who was formerly
a star basketball player on the
Rensselaer (Ind.) College team. Mr.
[mes, who usually exercises with a
inife and fork, with a few calisthenics
with pen and ink between meals,
was feeling strong, so he challenged
bis daughter to a wrestling bout,
:atch-as-catch-can. Miss Imes donned
tier basketball suit and the contest
vaa on, the young woman weighing
In at 121 and her father at 154. Imes
tried for a strangle hold. He missed
ind they broke. Imes tried again,
but Miss Imes dodged. Getting a half
Nelson on her father she pinned him
to the floor and pressed his shoulders
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oain. "Get up," called Mrs. Imes,
ihe referee. Imes attempted to rise,
but sank back groaning. It was
!ound that he was seriously injured*
He will recover, it Is said.
WAR ON GRIMY HANDS.
Women of Atlanta Protest Against
Conductors Who Soil Shirt Waists.
Atlanta, Ga.?The women of Atlanta
are in revolt against being aid
5d on and off street cars by conductors,
and have made a strong protest
to the management. The women allege
that the white shirt waists they
lave donned for spring are fearfully
soiled by 'the touch of hands of the
ionductors. In the complaint which
has been lodged with the management
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iry bills have been Increased weekly,
swing to the politeness of the conductors.
One complaint concludes:!.
''Politeness marred by dirty hands is
too expensive. Either maka your
:onductors wash their hands or keep
?em off white shirt waists."
A 1000-MILE BALLOON TRIP.
Signal Corps to Make Experiments in
Army's Largest Airship.
Washington, D. C.?A balloon trip
from Washington to the army post at
Port Leavenworth, Kan., nearly lOOOj
miles as the crow flies, is being
planned by the Signal Corps of the
army, under the direction of Captain
Charles DeF. Chandlier, of the army,
and Leo Stevens?, the well known NewYork
aeronaut. The ascension will
be made from the gas works here
about May. 1, and provisions will be
taken along'for a five-day trip. Leo
Stevens is now making the balloon.
which has been sold under contract
co the Government. It will be the
largest ever owned by the army.
TOBACCO TOWN BURNS UP. J
Sontli Boston, Va., Swept by Flames
?Damage Put at $1,000,000.
South Boston, Va.?Fire devastated
the entire tobacco district of this
town, doing damage estimated at $1,000,000.
It was .thought for a con-,
siderable time that the entire town
would be lost, but assistance was secured
in time from Danville and other
neighboring towns.
South Boston is one of the largest
tobacco centres in the Piedmont district,
ranking second only to Danville
and Lynchburg. This important industry
will be severely crippled for
the balance of the season.
French Cruisers Make Demands.
French cruisers arrived at Tangier
and the demands for reparation were
presented to the representatives of
the Sultan of Morocco.
New Yorkers Retrenching.
With the drop in stock prices in
Wall Street, citizens of New York
have begun to retrench in their expenditures.
It was estimated that in
the last few weeks this curtailment
has amounted to $50,000,000. .
New York Banker? Assign.
The private banking house of Austin
Corbin, in New York City, made
an assignment with nominal assets of
$2,900,000 and liabilities of $1,700,'
000.
Sporting Notes.
Cambridge defeated Oxford by four *
and a half lengths in the annual boat
race on the Thames from Putney to
Mortlake.
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'ine Old try lur a uuuuiui um.
pier code of rules for golf is again
being heard in the land, and this
time an echo comes from Great
tsruain.
Horsemen temporarily out of business
at Nashville and Memphis by.
legislation prohibiting racing in Tennessee
are at Chattanooga, planning
to establish a race track just acrosa
the Georgia line, Ave miles away.
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