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1'LITTLE MELIXDA BROWX?HER i BOOK." c 'orn and battered and smeared with paint, i: ^Ladies in purple and knights in blue? c Cinderella of gentle plaint t Decked in a gown of gorgeous hue: lop-o'-my-thumb and Gooav Two-shoe: d A fairy green and a yellow spook? a These are the playmates once sne knew; "Little Melinda Brown?Her Book." _ r Sere is the fabled and fair Geraint; t; Here is the giant Bolgharhoo; y Here if the soft-voiced.~ lovely saint , Of the falling diamonds ana pearls; and, too. p This is the terrible Bluebeard who Spoke so loud that his wives all shook! gl Do you remember? I know vou do: "Little Melinda Brown?Her Book." S1 a Apples of Sodom have left their taint; s. In the ambrosia is taste of rue; Try as we may, alas! we mayn't 1 Summon them now. as we used to do; fi Spirits of life when life was new, b Or ever our errant way we took: c, Diese are the stories that once were true, ' "Little Melinda Brown?Her Book." G ENVOY. friends of my childhood, fair and quaint. Forgive, forgive, that my heart forsook! e!?Iy love I send in this rhythmic plaint l To "Little Melinda Brown?Her Book." 0 I-Cecelia Myrover Robinson, m ilarper s. If Q DAYS ON A H a 0 SHIP'S KEEL, ffil I las' laa' BT FBAXK S. N. DrNSBT, 0 llisslonPr of the English C( Chnrch,Danzig,Germany -^y?-^>? ^ During the month of August, v L9 0 6, Captain Hans Messer, of the n falliot Anna Rebecca, was loading a ? argo of deals at Memel for Olden>urg. On Monday, the 27th, the j* sargo being completed, the vessel j noved slowly out of port for her des- ^ A strong northwest wind was blow- p ng, and when the Anna Rebecca was . ome forty miles off the coast, with- j iut the slightest warning she sudlenlv "turned turtle." The masts )?ere broken clean off as they struck s ;he water, and the startled crew were ^ lung into the sea. By good luck, lowever, all were thrown clear of the ^ wreck, and they were enabled to save themselves?temporarily, at least? j >y swimming to the capsized galliot md finding safety on its keel. The crew of the little vessel were w hree in number?Captain Hans Mesler, aged thirty-five; Rudolph Wisch;mann, sixteen, sailor; and Fritz ' Heyer, fifteen, cabin boy. The trio mmediately sought to make their 1 wsition as secure as possible, which d iroved to be very difficult. A heavy lea was running, and they possessed ^ >nly a small quantity of rope and t itring with which to lash themselves. ^ Presently the two lads were both cashed into the sea again, but the ^ :aptain pluckily succeeded in saving hem once more, though it was only ?ith great difficulty that he wa3 able o drag them back on to the slippery ' teel,. I ? - - . - a; I The position in -which the three w Ound themselves was wellnigh hopeess. The wreck lay so deep in the j eater that nearly every wave washed lean over It/ not only threatening to b weep the castaways off, but making he hulk practically invisible to any catcher on the shore. Great was J heir Joy, however, when, some time T ater, they saw a steamer apparently tl tearing down on them. ^ But their b oy turned to deepest daspondency tj ehen they slowly became convinced a hat she had not seen them. They k celled and waved their arms wildly, >ut all in vain; the steamer held on ^ ler bourse and finally disappeared. r( Then ensued a time of terrible suf- b ering. The three men were, of ^ :ourse, entirely without food and I rater, and as day succeeded day ana sj 10 vessel was sighted the acute men- g. al anguish of hope deferred was g( ;dded to the ever-increasing tortures if hunger and thirst. Five days 21 [ragged themselves slowly by In this ashion, while the poor wretches lung to the wave-washed wreck. training their aching, salt-crusted . iyes "for signs of rescue. But none :ame, and their minds began to wan- ? ler owing to the terrible strain and J heir growing physical weakness. Fritz Meyer, the youngest of the a ad trio on the Anna Rebecca's keel, ? lad swallowed a considerable quan- 11 Ity of sea water during his immer- e ion, and by Saturday?the sixth day p if their awful ordeal?he showed un- * nistakable signs of exhaustion. The ime dragged slowly by, and hour by ^ lour the poor lad grew worse, till on Junday It became evldeft to his anx- ? ous companions that his mind had 11 jiven way. He raved terribly all J' lay against his ill luck, but the cap Iain's encouraging words at lengtn eemed to soothe him, and he dropped 1 isleep, though he still muttered de- a iriously at intervals. a Still the wreck drifted on, and l< lever a sight of a sail came to gladlen the straining eyes of the castaways. On Sunday the wreck had drifted io close to the coast near Schwarzort a hat, as subsequently transpired, sev- t ?ral people saw what appeared to be b i large dark object some miles off. c \s, however,- it seemed to bear no & dgns of life or any signal of distress, a :he watchers on shore did not deem r i necessary 10 cau out tne uieooac. <}n the Monday also many eager eyes t jazed at the wreck from various v joints of vantage as it drifted slowly f iown the coast, though they did not i: Iream that hapless castaways clung I iespairingly to its keel. a Meanwhile, what of the three sea- t nen? Rendered desperate by their t sufferings, and seeing the coast ap- ^ ?arently so near, Meyer and Wisch- t ?mann decided to throw themselves t into the sea and risk everything in t >ne supreme effort to reach the shore. ^ [tpagine how maddening it must have jeen to these poor fellows?who had ilready faced the horrors of starva I ion and thirst for a week?to be so lose to land that they could clearly ? [iscern the red roof of the lifeboat t tation and could make out vehicles ? in the roads and fishing craft off the c hore, and yet be unable to obtain t .ssistance! These two brave young ads naturally thought they could i ?arh shore, but the caDtain knew " |>etter. He decided that in their i tarved and exhausted condition they i rere not fit to attempt it, and would >nly be drowned. And so, though ery reluctantly, they gave up the at- s empt. s Despair was now fast overwhelm- < iy - * * * ng them. They had already beea hewing rope and shoe-leather to apease their ravenous hunger, and failag to satisfy their thirst with rain. 1 x vlalHorl aUSIlI. III ineu uauuo, jittviw. o the ever-present temptation to rink the ssa water washing up round them. Monday morning dawned, and 'ritz seemed so quiet that the caplin called him, thinking he slept, 'es, he slept right enough, but it was tie sleep that knows no waking?the oor boy was dead! Meyer's death seemed to the two urvivors a foretaste of what was in tore for themselves. To add to their nguish at this juncture the wind uddenly veered, and began to carry ie wreck out to sea. That was the nal blow?the castaways gave up all ope and began to write, or rather arve, their own obituary notice on le ship's bottom. The sense of the erman was as follows: "We have died of starvation and sposure, after having endured count;ss agonies for eight days on the keel f this wreck. "HANS MESSEH, "RUDOLPH WISCHEMANN"." This melancholy task accomplished rid overcome by despair and their rowing weakness, the two castaways ill asleep. Meanwhile, some men on shore, bserving the wreck, vowed that they juld see several persons on it. This eing so, a lifeboat man called for olunteers to go to the rescue. Mailing an ordinary boat the life-savers ulled away with a will. Their task, owever, was no easy one, for the nn's rays, reflected from the water,, linded them, and they lost sight, of leir half-submerged objective. They ere finally compelled to pull once lore to the shore, and landed near erwelk. From the downs there they >cated the wreck ^ome ten miles off le coast. Re-entering their boat they rowed wiftly away, and in about ninety linutes were close enough to the ulk to recognize that the wreck was capsized ship, with what appeared ) be a lifeless body firmly secured > the keel and two apparently sleeplg men lying beside it. The fisherlen shouted at the top of their oices, and presently the two castaays awoke and jumped up. For some moments they stared vamtly at their rescuers, apparently linking that their eyes must be desiving them. Surely help was not t hand now, when they had abanoned all hope, after eight days of uffering on the brink of death? hen, like a flash, realization came ) them, and their frantic joy baffles escriDtion. The living men were first tenderly elped into the boat and given a little jod, and then the body of poor Fritz as unfastened from its lashings and iken on board. Next the rescuers lrned about, reaching the shore gain about 1 o'clock, where they ere accorded a great ovation by the ssembled villagers. A doctor took tiarge of the sufferers and commenced the work of coaxing them ack to health and strength. It is thought the Anna Rebecca had prung a leak, and that it was this hich caused her to capsize so easily, he wreck was towed into Memel by le tug Roland, where it was visited y crowds of people. The places on le ship's bottom where the three tea had lashed themselves to the eel were distinctly visible, the peretual slipping backwards and forards of their bodies as the vessel jlled having polished the oaken oards till they positively shone?a lute testimony tcf the length of their rdeal which greatly impressed tne ghtseers. The Anna Rebecca has cce besn righted and made fit for ;a again.?The Wide World Magaine. . < Up a Tree. Dr. Aked seems to have made tne it of the season last Sunday. He lay turn out to be a second Rains5rd. It looks, however, as if he is oing gunning for bulls and bears nd the little lamb in Wall Street, 'hereas Rainsford went for grizzlies i the Rocky Mountains. Aked is an xcellent story-teller and will be a rize for our foremost social clubs at nnual banquets. He tells this on purgeon, who used to practice his tudents in extempore preaching: >ne of the eminent divine's young len on reaching his desk and open ig the note containing his text read tie single word "Zaccheus." He bought a minute or two, then delivred himself thus: "Zaccheus was a ;ttle man; so am I. Zaccheus was up tree; so am I. Zaccheus made haste nd cam9 down, and so do I."?Vlcot Smith, in the New York Press. Jk An Electric Motor Horn. The electric horn for automobiles, n English device, is an electric iuzzer, fitted to a common automoile "toot" horn. A brass cylindrical ase contains a steel vibrating disk, teld at its periphery by two flanges ind two electro-magnets, and the apid vibration of the disk caused by, he magnetization and demagnetizaion of the magnets yields a sound rhich is magnified in volume and efectiveness by the horn. The current 5 provided by an eight-volt accumuator. The signal can be maintained .s long as it is necessary or desired, he blast being louder and more coninuous than that of the ordinary rind horn, and with the switch on he steering wheel the driver can give ils warning without removing his tand frcm the wheel.?Harper's Yeekly. The Problem. Senator Rayner, of Maryland, is In avor of adequate salaries for school eachers, and at a reception he told a itory about a teachers' meeting in a listrict where the salaries were ex.remely low. "A rich, portly banker opened the feting with an address," he said. The banker concluded his remarks vith an enthusiastic gesture and the ,vords: " 'Long live our school teachers!' " 'What on?' shouted a th\ji. pale, seedy man in a Black coat siigntiy smeared with chalk marks."?New Orleans States. CHINA V\ Western Ideas Gai "At last Western ideas have pen trated the Chinese intelligence, ai the awakening is likely to be swi and of extraordinary importance the wnrld." savs The Tllnsfrn.fer1 Lo don News. "The sleeping giant rousing himself, and when he shak the counterpane of the world the n tions will do well to look to their s premacy, for behind the exclusivene of ages there lie forces that need on to be set in motion to become ove OLD STYLE CHINAWOMAN 'Jy ^ ***' ?\ OLD STYLE CHINAMAN. whelming. The China of to-day not that of ten years ago. Her arn Is undergoing thorough reorganiz tlon, and no longer will the Chine approve their ancient proverb, 'Oi does not take the best iron to mal hooks, nor brave men for soldier Smart uniforms, modern weapoi and drill are now in use on evei narade eround. and even the ve: small boys of the nation are und military instruction. The soldier Idea is taking root, and these sma cadets are said to give every promi of smartness and efficiency. "In industrial life it is the sam The printing press of the West h; come to the land where the art w JONATHAN BOURNE, JR. First Man to be Elected to Unit( States Senate by Popular Vote. He Halls From Oregon.1 For the Woman Who Sews. A bright*idea of an Illinois man to provide chairs with a drawer whi< will slide in and out under the see the contents of the drawer beli thus readily accessible to the occ pant of the chair. Probably the be feature of this invention is that t] addition 01 me urawer ueeu uut confined to any particular style chair. As shown in the illustratic the drawer is fitted directly benea the seat of the chair, the handle b ing placed at the side where it most accessible. If the handle of tl Oil Range Equal to the Coal Rang* Numerous attempts have bei made to devise a cooking range Oil Instead of Coal. which oil could be substituted for g or coal. Very small oil stoves ha * I TAKING UP. ning Popularity There. ie- known long before Caxton. The Ceid lestial compositor stands at European ift cases filling his stick, and in the mato chine rooms the most perfect presses, n- driven by electricity, are looked after is by clever workman who have learned es their business In Europe. Thus the a- Chinaman of to-day receives his upu to-date newspaper. ss "On the railways Chinese officials ly drive the latest patterns of locomo>r tives, which are sometimes built in . NEW STYLE CHINAWOMAN. L . ~ | NEW STYLE CHINAMAN. is China, or, if not, are put together ly there by native artificers. On the a- roads the motor car has made its apse pearance?not the antiquated male chines that Europe has cast aside, le but powerful vehicles of from twenty 3.' to thirty horse-power. It Is nothing as uncommon to see the staid mandarin ry rushing along in his motor on busiry ness or pleasure. er "It is regrettable that the picturly esque national costume is yielding to ill the top hat and frocl?coat, but this se penalty to progress has been paid by Japan, and China can hardly escape, e. The women of China do not adopt as Paris fashions at home, but they do as so not infrequently when they travel.". ! drawer was in front, the occupant of ' the chair would be compelled to arise each time something in the drawer was needed. To derive the full benefit of the scheme, two drawers should be used, one on each side. It will be apparent that the attachment it, i ig Drawer Inside of- Chair. u- ?? st would be a great convenience, particle ularly in the case of women who sew. be ' A cnair so equipped mignt also De of advantageously used as an Invalid's )n chair.?Philadelphia Record. th e- London has over 1000 postoffices is and the mail delivery amounts to tie ! 727,000,000 pieces a year. i. | proved successful, but to construct a ! large stove, equal in size and usefuljn | ness to the coal range, has been a hard problem. The demand for such I a stove is unlimited. An oil range I which seems to approach the ideal is shown here, the invention of a Florida man. The range i3 similar to the usual household range, but in place I of the coal grate an oil burner is emn ployed. The oil is placed in a tank II I and conveyed by gravity into a vapor. II I fViAn t\ficcrkc intn tha Hnrn. u j er and converted into flame, which is regulated at will. This oil burner k. can also be used in connection with | an open grate or fircplace.?Phila j delphia Recurd. Very Wise. i Mrs. Sage has won golden opinions I from all sorts of people of late. She | ; is not the first woman to attract re! Mrri ntiH arlmimf inn hv irreat bene J. ?- = ' factions, but she has shown such veri| table statesmanship and such notable ? I forecast. Her late husband was very ;as ; wise to select her to be the best interne j preter of his life.-^ferooklyn Eaglo,r 31 KILLED, 20 HURT IN SHRfNERB' WRECK Dining Car Hurled in Air With 32 Occupants. t VICTIMS SCALDED TO, DEATH Cars Demolished When Speeding Lo- j comotive Strikes a Bad Switch at Honda, Cal.?Reading Tern- ! pie Suffers the Worst Leases. Santa Barbara, Cal.?Thirty-one killed and a score injured comprise the casualties of the wreck at Honda of the Ismalia special train of New York and Pennsylvania Nobles of the Mystic Shrine who were returning home from the annual meeting of the Imperial Council of the Ancient Arabic Order of the Nobles of the Mystic Shrine at Los Angeles. The train, carrying 145 Shriners and friends from IsmaUa Temple, Buffalo; Rajah Temple, Reading, Pa., and neighboring cities, was rushing northward fifty miles an hour on the Southern Pacific Coast Line when the locomotive struck a defective switch at the sand-swept seacoast siding at Honda, near the waters of ther Pacific Ocean, along which the railroad runs for a hundred miles north of Santa Barbara. The locomotive turned a somersault into the yieldings sands. The cars swirled through the air and landed on the fiery mass of wrecked steel. The coaches were crushed to debris and took fire. The flames were soon extinguished by uninjured persons from the two rear coaches. As Honda is isolated, it was not till late next day that definite information could be collected. The bodies of twenty-one victims now lie in Santa Barbara and eight more a*re in San Luis Obispo. The injured, many of whom are terribly hurt, and some of whom may die, are in two sanatoriums in San j Luis Obispo. The wreck occurred at 2.3? o'clock | p. m., an hour and forty minutes ' after the conclave visitors, forming a merry party, had left Santa Barbara, j where they had spent all the morning | sightseeing. The statement that the | train was making a terrific speed when it struck the defective track is borne out by the fact that it covered the sixty-one miles of crooked track from Santa Barbara to Honda In 100 minutes. The locomotive in leaving the rails tore up the track, twisting the huge steel rails into fish hooks. The baggage car half buried Itself in the sand on the right side of the locomotive. It was smashed almost to kindling wood. The dining car, in which were thirty-two persons eating luncheon, leaped into the air and fell directly on the demolished locomotive; Nearlrevery person in the dining car was instantly killed. Scores were scalded by steam escaping from disconnected pipes. The rear coaches rushed on the first wreckage, jamming it on those who otherwise might have escaped. Several, pinioned in the debris, were roasted alive. Mrs. John W. Cutler, of Binghamton, N. Y., was in the baggage car at the time of the crash to rearrange her trunk. Her body was driven through the floor, and the wrecked car had to be jacked up before the body could be released. Mrs. Fred Greenwood, of Binghamton, was with Mrs. Cutler, and also went down under the tons of baggage and broken timbers, but she was covered by an arch of trunks. When rescuers burrowed their way to where the two women lay Mrs. Greenwood reached-out and grasped the foot rf one of the men and shouted: "T'11 nnf let en until vou eet me out." Then scalding steam enveloped her and she was terribly burned. She was rescued alive, however, and was among those taken to San Luis Obispo. When Miss Cora Young, of Cleveland, was taken from the shattered dining car, she was still alive, but frightfully injured. Her entire body had been showered with boiling water, and when women friends removed her corset the imprint of the stays was left deep in the scalded flesh. George Hagerman, of Reading, Pa., refused the aid of his brother nobles after they had dragged him, fatally hurt, from the wreck. "I am dying," he said; "go help the women." Sander Deabold, of Cleveland, worked heroically, but unavailingly, iu save iuc n?co ui tnu nuuicu yiuloned beneath the burning dining :ar. Burrowing his way down into the smoldering, splintered wreck, Deabold, with a hose which he had wrenched from a coach connection, spouted water from an adjacent tank ind extinguished the flames. Then he reached down, and, after cutting away the broken timbers that held her fast, took Mr3. William W. Essick, of Reading, from the ruins. She was begging piteously for relief when Deabold reached her. As he lifted her from the wreckage a stream of boiling water poured over her. Woman passengers sought to remove her upper garments, but fainted when the flesh came off with the clothing. Mrs. Essick died in a few minutes. Deabold was unable longer to endure the harrowing sight. "It was the most horrible sight I aver laid eyes on," he said. "Whensver I touched her the prints of the Angers remained in the almost fluid floah " Moore Appointed to Patent Office. President Roosevelt appointed Edward B. Moore, of Michigan, to be Commissioner of Patents to succeed Frederick I. Allen, resigned. Mr. Moore has been Assitant Commissioner for several years. He has been in the Patent Office fifteen years. Lake Navigation Promising. It was said at Buffalo and Detroit that navigation on the great lakes had opened under most promising conditions. With the Workers. Belville (Canada) carpenters are asking for an Increase in wages. The average daily wage of Norwegian printers is ninety-three cents. Secretary Taft adjusted the salaries of skilled labor on the Panama Canal. Ice handlers at Columbus, Ohio, got fifteen cents a day increase and called off their strike. Nine thousand cigarmakers have been locked out in Havana, Cuba, by the Independent concerns. / / , / / The train returning to Santa Barbara with its dead was sidetracked at a lonely switch for the passage of other trains. Far out on the sandy desert, miles from any habitation or from any wire communication with the outside world, the special waited for two hours while train after train of Shriners bound from Los Angeles to their Eastern homes swept by to the north. In the darkness the occunonffl a# ttiAQA ffQIne rilH nnf Vnnw ^auuj vii buwoe u?4u? ?*u uvw uuv? that they were passing the funeral train of their brethren. Many of the dead were so severely burned and mutilated as to be almost unrecognizable. The dead are: G. W. Austin, New York, touristagent; Thomas J. Brumbach, Reading; Mrs. Brumbach, Reading; John W. Cutler, Binghamton, N. Y.; Mrs. William W. Essick, Reading; Richard Essick, Reading; L. N. Ellenbogen, Allentown, Pa.; Mrs. L. N. Ellenbogen, Allentown, Pa.; Mrs. Henry J. Fisher, Cleveland; H. J. Gittleman, Reading; George N. Hagerman, Reading; Harrison Hendel, Reading; Charles S. Henry, Lebanon, Pa.; J. Douglas Hippie, Potentate Rajah Temple, Reading, Ua.; Oliver T. Kaufman, Reading; H. K. Kittelman, Reading; John Lacey, negro waiter; Charles M. Lowing, Pullman conductor, Buffalo; Henry Miller, Reading; Howard Moyer, Hazleton, Pa.; Alonzo B. Rogers, St. Paul, Minn., Pullman conductor; 'A. L. Roth, Reading; S. S. Snyder, Readt if? o n Jn nil lug; airs. o. ouyucr, ncauiug, vxnbert Steffe, Reading; Benjamin Stoltz, Reading; Miss Stoltz; Reading; R. W. Sweeney, negro waiter; W. D. Wasaon, Buffalo; Hiss Cora Young, Cleveland; unidentified woman, probably Mrs. Mary C. Ivins, Reading. LUMBERMEN FACE PRISON. Say the National Lumber Trust Forced Them to Hold Prices. Toledo, Ohio.?As the result of the pleading of the lumbermen who were recently indicted for conspiracy in restraint of trade in violation of the Valentine Anti-Trust law, much evidence has been obtained by Prosecutor Wachenheimer that will be used in furthering a national investigation. When the lumbermen were arraigned they astonished the court by surrendering completely, pleading guilty on every count and throwing themselves on the mercy of the court. The only extenuatin'g plea they offered was that while they were in violation of the law as regards the holding of prices, they were absolutely helpless because of the fact that they were forced to do as they "have done by an all powerful national lumber trust that Irad them completely in their clutches. > DRUG TRUST IS ENJOINED. # ?? U. S.' Court Issues Decree Prohibiting Blacklisting and Conspiracy. Iifliianapolis, Ind.?The Drug Trust was perpetually enjoined from maintaining a blacklist and conspiring to restrain the trade of those retailers who refuse to be bound by its rules. The decree was entered in the United States Circuit Court for the District of Indiana on complaint of the United States Government, filed by Joseph B. Kealing, United States District Attorney. The defendants, . ninety-two in number, are the members of the various druggists' associa* tions. - PEDLAR PALMER GUILTY. Pugilist Faints at Verdict?Formally Committed For Trial. London.?A verdict of murder was returned in the Croyden Police Court against "Pedlar" Palmer, the English pugilist, who killed a man named Robert Choat, April 24, by beating him while they were returning from the races in a railroad car. When Palmer heard the decision he uttered a loud shriek and fell down in a faint in the dock. His wife and sister also created a scene. They were carried shrieking from the room. ROADS VIOLATING SAFETY LAWS Interstate Commerce Commission Agents Gather Evidence For Suits. Washington, D. G.?Attorney-General Bonaparte has issued instructions to United States District Attorneys to proceed against twenty-five different railroad companies for violations of the Safety Appliance law. Inspectors of the Interstate Commerce Commission gathered the evidence on which the suits will be based. Two Inches of Snow in Utica. Snow fell at Utica, N. Y., and the ground was covered to a depth of nearly two inches. That, howeter, does not indicate the amount that has fallen, as the snow melted rapidly. In the Adirondacks the same conditions prevail, as well as throughout Oneida and adjoining counties. v Cigarettes Criminal La Wisconsin. The Wisconsin State Assembly passed to engrossment the bill making it a crime for adult or youth to smoke a cigarette in publics The measure was passed by practically a unanimous vote. A fine of $25 is provided for each violation. -?Qnnaotinnnl IHvnnrp 171 Whpflt. UUUOWvivut** . There was another sensational advance .In wheat and cotton following the publication of an unfavorable Government crop report. Teachers' Salary BUI Vetoed. Mayor McClellan vetoed the teachers' salary bill, calling it class legislation and a violation of home rule. Southern Pacific Increases Stock. The directors of the Southern Pacific and Union Pacific, both Harriman roads, decided to ask the stockholders to increase the capitalization of these two properties by $211,000,' 000. . Germany Accepts Treaty. The Reichstag committee to which the commercial agreement between the United States and Germany was referred accepted the modus vivendi by a vote of 20 to 8. Newsy Gleanings. The South is predicting fifteen to eighteen cent cotton. General Joseph K. Hudson died at his home in Topeka, Kan. Prince Fushimi arrived in London and had an audience with King Edward. About 10,000 persons took part in a Moyer-Haywood-Pettibone parade in Boston. Southern business men returned to New Orleans from a triD to Panama. where, they aay.the Government representatives agreed to purchase more supplies from the Southern States. m TRIAL OF HAYWOOD BEGINS AT BOISE CITY, IDAHO Labor Leader Charted With Complicity in Steunenberg Murder. v v >>* *; CAUSES LITTLE EXCITEMENT _ } Full History of the Case?Recital of All the Facts That Preceded Assassination of the Former Governor. Boise, Idaho. ? William D. Haywood, first of the alleged participants in the avenging conspiracy by which.' it is charged the assassination of Frank Steunenberg was plotted and executed, was placed on trial for his life here before Judge Wood. Counsel for the State and prisoner began examining prospective jurors at once. The opening of the trial was earnest and businesslike. Its striking feature was the absence of crowds or demonstrations. At no time was the courtroom more than half filled, and 4Va * 1 it- - rt x ?r-r iuo ouccia luituiug ilia toun nouse square contained not a single loiterer. Never have the issues between capital and labor been brought kito such sharp conflict as in the discussion over the trials at Boise ot Charles H. Moyer and William D. Haywood, re- > spectively president and secretary of the Western Federation of Miners, and George A. Pettibone, former member of the Executive Board of the organization, for alleged complicity in the assassination of the late Governor Frank Steunenberg. Steunenberg was blown to pieces by a bomb as he was entering the' gate of his home at Caldwell on the evening of December 30, 1905. A' string had been attached to the gate, and as Mr. Steunenberg opened ,the gate it set off the bomb. As soon as the news of the murder reached Boise that evening Governor Gooding went to Caldwell by special train and superintended the efforts to capture the assassin. ' The town was patrolled, and no one was permitted to enter or leave without giving a full and satisfactory account of himself. In the round up several suspicious characters were gathered in. Among them was Harry; Orchard, whose story of his movements in Caldwell and his reason for being there at all were so suspicious that he was held on the charge of being implicated in the murder. Orchard was a member of the Western Federation of Miners. Steve Adams, . ' . another member of the organization, ' was also arrested. Simpklns, a third member, was implicated, but got away, and has never been arrested. In behalf of the State Governor Gooding offered a reward of $10,000 for the arrest and conviction of the murderers. The Steunenberg family added $5000, and Canyon County increased the amount. Pinkerton detectives, attracted by the rewards, took up the case, and James McPartland, famous as the man who ran down the "Molly Maguires" in Pennsylvania thirty years ago, took charge of the work for them. McPartland finally got from Harry Orchard a confession, in which Moyer, Haywood and Pettibone were implicated in the assassination of the ex-Governor. What corroboration of the story thfl nrnaontitlnn h?H it. has 1??nt vttrv close, but It is asserted that there is a great deal -of it. Steve Adams also confessed, but subsequently recanted. Moyer, Haywood and Pettibone were all in Denver when this Orchard story was told. The Idaho authorities submitted the evidence then in their possession to Governor McDon- / aid, of Colorado, who granted a war- ' rant of extradition at Governor Gooding's request. The men were ar- ' rested on a Saturday night, and before any legal steps could be taken in their behalf to thwart their extradition they were brought into Idaho on a special train. From that day to this their friends among the labor men have never ceased to charge that they were kidnaped, although the Supreme Court of the United States sustained the procedure. The Western Federation of Miners at once took up the cause of its leaders and organized labor generally throughout the country has taken similar action. ' Money in very large sums has been subscribed to meet the expenses of their defence, and in every way labor formally has made its own the cause of Moyer, Haywood and Pettibone. Thus it has come about that the ' struggle is really a test of strength between the force of law and order in Idaho on one side and organized labor on the other. FATAL RAILWAY ACCIDENT. * Locomotive and Two Coaches Go Through a Trestle in Kentucky. Flemingsburg, Ky. ? Two men were killed and ten persons were injured when a locomotive and two coaches fell through a trestle on ttt? Cincinnati,. Flemingsburg and Southeast Railway to the creek, fifty feet below. Harry Thomas, of Cincin- " nati, and a laborer were killed. Clar ence Browning, engineer, ana miss Amelia Snodgraas, of Covington, Ky., were fatally Injured. Other injured are: Mrs. Harry, Thomas and daughter, Covington, Ky.; Miss Sallle Graham, Covington; MiSs Myrtle Wheeler, Covington; Charles Rankin, witeand baby, Covington; William Campbell, Covington; Miss A !a Newman, Grange City;; Matt Bramble, brakeman. DESERTED AT JAMESTOWN. Over 300 Men Left the British Cruiser Squadron There. TT? iUnn rru* Dfifloli naiuuiuu, coiuiuua.-?iuc jjuvjou cruiser squadron commanded by Rear-Admira! Neville, which arrived at Bermuda from Hampton Roads, reports that wholesale desertions from the British ships occurred while they were in American waters. It is estimated that over 300 men, including many chief petty officers, deserted. For the apprehension of a hief yeoman of signals a reward of $500 is offered. Athletics and Sports. Jay Gould won the British amateur court tennis championship in Lon don, defeating Eustace H. Miles, the holder, in a five set match. Predictions are made among British golfers that the sisters Curtis, of America, will do well in the tournament for the British women's championship. The racc horse Robin Hood won; his fourth consecutive victory, and: his owner ascribed his good form to: the regular use of beer. He wasj heavily backed by the big plungers,, including Archibald. '* 1 1 , " i l V ^ " 'i 5. J