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MARKET. I went to Market yesterday. And it is like .1 K.iif I Of everything you like to see; But nothing Live is there. The Pigeons, hanging up lo eat ? And Rabbits, by their little feet~But no one seemed to care. 'And there were Fishes out in rows Bright ones, of every kind; "And some were Pink, and Silver, too; But all of them were blind? Yes. everything you want to touch: It would not make you happy, much? But no one seemed to mind. And loveliest of all a Deer! ?? \.i 1 P??cic uiuuru. * It. very near, eat Bird; th his feathers through, (very softly), too? ever stirred! on Peabody, in Harper's. S OF A BOA-CONSTRICTOR By O. P. KINGS LEY. Early in the year 1900 I was staloned in the south of Negros Island, x the Philippine group, at the little pueblo" (village) of Bayanan. Here acted In the capacity of sanitary inpector of the La Carlota Sub-Disrict of Negros. The territory inluded in my district was many miles \ extent, but owing to the fact that le greater portion was wild, and lhabited only by roving tribes of isayans, whose haunts lay far in le unexplored interior, my work was onflned to the small settlements lo-' ated within a radius of forty miles, lany of these being extremely diffinlt of access on account of the dense ropical growth and the unsettled ondition of the country. As I sat in my office one pleasant aorning, contentedly smoking a ciar and contemplating with pleasure short trip I had planned for the fternoon, a sharp rap on the door rought me back abruptly from my everie. At my invitation a native ntered, bearing a letter, which he eposited upon the desk and withIrew. A glance at the address howed me that it was from the Chief nspector of the Department. The ontents, which I rapidly glanced ver. directed me to proceed without elay to a little "barria" called La 'az. situated some thirty miles in and, to investigate a reported epilemic of smallpox raging in that viInity among the natives. Realizing the gravity of the situalon, should the report be true, I desided to start at once. I had never isited the place before, and was not ure of the exact distance or the difIculties liable to be met with en oute; for these reasons I was deirous of having plenty of daylight to ravel by. Hastily collecting the iwAusrv onnlnment tn^pthpr with ny revolvers and ammunition, I arammed the things into m> saddle)ags and stepped out just as the lorses were brought up?one for myself, the other for my old servant fuan, who was to act as guide and interpreter. Our route for several miles lay ilong a well-beaten trail, which would lave been pleasant enough for ordiiary travel had it not been for the fierce heat of the sun. Soon, howaver, we reached the Rio del Sangre, the bamboos along the banks of which afforded a delicious shade, though the river-bed was practicality. My guide now informed me that by following the channel we could ihorten the distance by several miles, and I therefore turned my horse up stream, giaa enougn to Keep ia tne shade. As we advanced toward the interior t&e scenery became more wild and picturesque, the vegetation rank and luxuriant, the trees meeting in many places and forming a series of leafy tunnels. The only sound was the dull thud, thud, of our horses' hoofs, hardly audible in the soft river-bed, with an occasional shrill cry from a monkey who had discovered us from his leafy bower, or the lazy flutter of a gaily-plumed parrot as it changed its position. Advancing in single file, owing to the narrowness of the river-bed and the many obstructions that were constantly being met with in the form of roots and fallen tree-trunks, I was soon some distance ahead, and, entering a space comparatively clear of obstructions, I spurred my mount into a gallop, as the sun was rapidly sinking towards the horizon and I was anxious to reach my destination before dark. Rounding a sharp bend, my horse, with a wild snort, plunged heavily, wheeling sharply to the right. Being unprepared for such a manaeuvre, I was hurled headlong from the saddle, striking upon my head and shoulder in the soft, mud ay river-ueu. i?j iace was suieareu jwith the filthy, ill-smelling muck, my neck felt as though it was broken, my brain was in a dizzy whirl, and my eyes were blinded with the odorous mud. For a moment I did not attempt to move. Although I was aware of a curious movement beneath me, I supposed I had been thrown upon some roots, which were slowly giving way beneath my weight. Suddenly my attention was attracted by a strange hissing noise which sounded quite close to me, and which, in my dazed condition, I was I at a loss to account for. Meanwhile, the movement beneath me increased rather than diminished. This was certainly unnatural, and I rolled over with the intention of reaching firmer ground, but found that my right leg was entangled in something. At my first movement the mysterious hissing increased until it sounded like escaping steam, and the movement beneath me became so violent as tc partially raise my body from the river-bed. Dashing the mud from m> eyes as best I could, I threw out m> hands for some available support. M> right grasped mud, but the lefl ?Vi /* f o elim v T*rr*irr. Cciugll I I1UXU %JL c* vuiu, oiiui j , u i gling body. And then the truth ol my situation dawned upon me, literally freezing my blood with horror .Willi? .the most sickening sensation ] ftrgrr swlt t?suia)itaimd tv.i: , ' me. 1 lay in the folds of a great boaconstrictor! Kad I been in the best of physical condition, unarmed I should hava been no match for this great reptile, and situated as I was?practically in a semi-conscious state?I must surely fall an easy victim. The thought of my position mad<* me frenzied. I attempted to regain I my feet, but now my left leg was | pinioned with my right, and, strug- j | gle as I would, I could not free them, i j In frantic rage I clutched the slimy J i cons, xo ning tnem irom me; out J only to be dashed down with stun1 ning force. Again and again I tried to wrench i myself free, but all in vain. With clenched fists I beat the great body, i and endeavored to tear the creature to pieces with my nails, but the thick scales were as proof against my attack as armour-plate. Meanwhile we rolled over and over in the riverbed, as with strength born of desperation I fought the loathsome mon- j ster, which was slowly crushing the life out of me. The thought of my pistol flashed through my mind, and I felt for my holster, but it was emp- < ty; I had placed the weapon in my i saddle-bags. Frantically I endeav- j ored to tear from my body the ever- ] tightening folds, but, struggle as I { would, it was of no avail. I was < fast becoming exhausted, a dizziness i seized me, and the trees and shrubs i seemed to be tumbling and whirling ( auuuL iu wiiu cuuuiusiuu. ouuuuuiy ( my strength seemed to desert me al- < together, and I ceased to struggle, t while just above my face, swaying now to the right, now to the left, was the snake's head, like a pendulum of death, whose every stroke was bringing me nearer to destruction. Strange thoughts flitted across my mind; incidents of boyhood life long since forgotten were brought vividly to memory, and I seemed to stand again in the old homestead with my friends about me, though all were strangely silent. As f watched, the scene began to melt away like a mist. A blinding flash, accompanied by a deafening report; the rush of a dark 1 body over me; then all was darkness. When next I opened my eyes ray native guide was rapidly unwinding the now lifeless sement from my body. ] while on the ground beside me lay a ] blood-stained dagger and a pistol, still smoking. Having freed me from '' the reptile, Juan brought water and ' proceeded to remove the worst of the filth from my person. The cold ! water also served to revive me, but 1 I lay helplessly upon the soft g<*as3 while my guide recaptured my horse. This done, Juan assisted me into th6 ( saddle and supported me until a ' settlement was reached, where I remained at the house of a friendly native until I had recovered somewhat ( from the effects of encounter. My ' nerves, however, remained in a ' wretched state for months; my dreams were haunted by great dragons and hydraheaded monsters, who chased me over river and jungle. Just' as they were on the point of crushing me to death I would awake with a wild yell, bathed in cold percnfro + lnn onrl troinhlincr in OVOr? I limb, but by degrees this wore oft until I became my natural self. Juan, good fellow that he was, secured and preserved for me the skin of the reptile which so nearly made an end of me. It measured fourteen and a half feet in length and eleven inches in circumference. In due season I had it mounted as a little souvenir of my sojourn in the Philippine Islands, and with the revolver and dagger which put an end to its career.?The Wide World Magazine. Tests For Boiler Water. Will you please print some simple tests for boiler water??E. G. A. i Answer.?Test for hard or soft water: Dissolve a small niece of good soap in alcohol. Let a few drops of the solution fall into a glass of the water. If it turns milky, it is hard water; if it turns clear, it is soft water. Test for earthy matters or alkali: Take litmus-paper dipped in vinegar, and, if on immersion the paper returns to its true shade, the water does not contain earthy matter or alkali. If a few drops of syrup be added to a water containing any earthy matter, it will turn green. | Test for carbonic acid: Take equal parts of water and/ clear lime water. If combined or free carbonic acid is present, a precipitate is seen, and if a few drops of muriatic acid be added, effervesence commences. Test of magnesia: Boil the water to twentieth part of its weight, and then drop a few grains of neutral carbonate of ammonia into a slass of it and a few drops of phosphate of soda. If magnesia is present, will fall to the bottom. Test for iron: Boil a little nut-gall and add to the water. If it turns gray or slate-black, iron is present. Second: Dissolve a little prussiate of potash, and, if iron is present, it will turn blue.?Technical World Magazine. Chile's Deposit of Saltpetre. Conflicting stories are told about the nitrate beds of Chile. Rumors have been current in this country and Europe to the effect that the supply was limited and likely to give out ! in twenty-five vears. if the nresent *j rate of consumption is maintained. I This statement is now contradicted by the United States Consul at Val; paraiso. He says that a Chilean official whose business it is to keep track of the matter is quoted by the i Chilean Times as saying that the . Government still possesses 2,000,000 hectares of nitrate grounds. Even ; if the deposits were limited to 1,000, 000 hectares they ought to yield ten . thousand million quintals of nitrate. . A quintal is 101.41 pounds. The ex; portation has never reached 40,000,, 000 quintals a year, but even if it . were so,000,000 trie supply ougnt to r last 125 years. "If to these 1,000,r 000 hectares belonging to the State," r says the official, "there be added the ; grounds belonging to private persons, . the number of years of duration I would be three or four times greater." The cost of living is still increas[ ing in German cities at w alarming rr.t;. 'S-.l. f. r-'fT. I ............ I" . .... PHILIPPINE N'lPA HU i.< ()F 1 HE T\ i AND ILOILO FIRES?THEIR CI COMPARATIVELY SMA] . WHAT CAUSES A HOT WAVE. |D V By JAMES H. SPENCER, Observer, e U. S. Weather Bureau. v It is found that hot waves occur p )nly when there is nearly stagnation v n the movement of storm areas e icross the country. We then ex- s ' *1"- V./sf r*r4nHo jeneuue tuc zuiuiciauic uui muuu ind droughts that destroy growing v :rops and greatly increase the mor- t ;ality in our cities. Active conditions fi ire always revealed by frequently p changing winds and by warm and e jften stormy periods alternating with 1< :ool, clear periods at intervals of v :hree or four days, as "high" follows n is Knf wiito fnnrtiHons. Weather ^ nap. 8 a. m. (Eastern time), July 20, 1901. s 3olia lines connect places with equal baro- j] netric pressure expressed in inches of nercury. Broken lines connect places with P ;qual temperature expressed in degrees C Fahrenheit. Arrows fly with the wind. v 'low" across the United States at an average speed of about 600 miles a ' lay. "Highs" are characterized by high barometer and outflowing winds, ind "lows" by low barometer and In- j, Sowing winds. e The first chart is a typical hotwave map, and shows a "low" central c in Montana and a "high" on the South Atlantic Coast. These conditions always cause southerly winds c and warmer weather far in advance of the "low;" but only, two or three days of warm weather may be ex- ~ pected when such areas drift rapidly eastward as usuaL Occasionally in summer, however, atmospheric activities diminish to Buch an extent that areas similarlylocated remain nearly stationary for many days. As a result of laws explained in a preceding article, warm winds must then blow from the south or southeast, where the pressure of the air is greatest, just as long as the position of the "high" and the "low" re- c mains unchanged. When these areas > resume their normal eastward move- { ment, the hot wave soon terminates. f Moist winds from off the Gulf of ( Mexico also cause a high humidity, 1 which greatly adds to man's dlscom- * fort during a hot wave. The summers of 1901 and 1904 i were among the most remarkable on ( record. Greater contrasts for the i same season than these two years c present can hardly be experienced. ? A study of the weather maps for < July, 1901, reveals nearly stagnant c conditions over tne greater poruou 5 of the United States during that c month. The absence of decided dif- ( ferences in the atmospheric pressure ^ POSTAL AUTOMOBILES IN caused what is known as a "flat" < map; nevertheless for many days the 1 barometer was sufficiently low in 1 Montana and high over the South At- r lantic States to cause light southerly s winds and one of the severest hot s waves ever experienced in the United 1 States. On the contrary, the maps during July, 1904, and, indeed, for the en- i tire summer, show a condition of un- \ Novel Clock. | i A ClOCK 01 unique uesigiji auu tuuatruction is the recent invention of a '%gSI 1 Philadelphian. As shown in the il- ] lustration, it resembles a globe used i r'HJ UiiiBTKU Y fciiJ irs i nni iEAPNESS EXPLAINS THE 1 LiL PROPERTY LOSS. . . ^ isual atmospheric activity. WeII-de? , eloped "highs" and "lows" passed ; lastward across the United State? 1 pith great regularity, and northerly 1 rinds and anti-cyclonic conditiona ' revailed quite as often as southerly ' rinds and cyclonic conditions, thus 1 < ffectually preventing a single wide- i pread hot^ wave. 1 i By reference to the second chart ft < rill be noticed that" in July, 1901, tie average maximum temperature ! or ten cities representing the greater ortion of the United States lying ast of the Rocky Mountains was be3w ninety degrees only on four days, rhile for July, 1904, It was above inety degrees only on one day, )uring JUiy, isui, me aauy maxiium temperature at Lincoln, Neraska, was 100 degrees or above on wenty-one days. In connection with our subject we an very profitably consider the rarm, dry wind that occurs on the astern slope of the Rocky Mounains. Thi3 remarkable wind is called he chinook. In Europe a similar find is known as the foehn. The chinooks prevail when a high" is crossing Utah and a aIow" 3 passing north ,of the Dakotas. lasterly flowing winds result from uch conditions, and as the air rises a crossing the mountains, its temerature is lowered sufficiently to ause clouds and precipitation on the restern slope. If these clouds did ot form, the temperature of the risng air would decrease by expansion bout one degree Fahrenheit for very 183 feet of ascent; but when louds begin "to form, further cooling 3 greatly retarded by heat that is liberated as the vapor of the ascending ,ir is changed into water-drops: or ice rystals that compose the clouds. The heat thus liberated is the ource of the great warmth of the hinooks, since the ascending air eaches the mountain-tops much ^ m m rrrrrrri'rrTi'fyTfyfri I II iAI I 11 I 1 I I iiEiilipliili* ? Tt" ?Tr X: llijlllillllliiijiiiiiij: Average daily maximum temperatures (in legrees Fahrenheit) for July, 1901, and July, 1904, for the United States east oi ;he Rocky Mountains, as shown from leather Bureau records at Atlanta, Georgia; Bismarck, Nortn Dakota;; Columbus, Jhio; Denver,' Colorado; Fort Worth, Fexas; Lincoln, Nebraska; Richmond, Virginia; St. Louis, Missouri- St. Paul, Minlesota, and Vicksburg, Mississippi. varmer than it would have been if condensation had not occurred, and t is then carried rapidly over the :rest of the mountains by the winds md down into the valleys on tne )ther side. The temperature of this lescending air increases by compression at about the usual rate of one legree Fahrenheit for every 183 feet lescent, and the chinooks reach the valleys remarkably warm and dry, f USE AT MILWAUKEE. ;ven in midwinter. Under their inluence the temperature often rises ,'orty or fifty degrees in a few hours. The clouds are left behind on the summit of the mountains, and clear skies prevail on the eastern slope? ?rom Youth's Companion. Germany's increase in population n the years 1895 to 1905 was sixteen per cent.; France's two per cent. n the school room to explain the formation of the earth. The globe Is ,,J f ha liviueu iiuu uaivcs, i<;i;iw?uuua lials of the clock. On the edge of the jpper half are figures denoting minutes and on the lower half figures lenoting hours. In the centre, di- I ectly in front of the globe, is one pointer, which indicates simultaneously both the hours and the minutes, [n operation the halves revolve, the upper half making a complete revolution every hour, and the lower half i complete revolution every twelve [jours. In the baee are the necessary mechanical parts. From the above description it will b? seen that the lials revolve around the index hand, svhile the latter is at all times rigid. ?Washington Star. I Shocking revelations ?as to. the Dvercrowding and wretched housing d? the poor of Vienna, Austria, have been made before the Congress of Dwellings Reform. One of London's West End dealers predicts that walking sticks forty-two Inches long will soon be in fashion. * I mnnr rnrrn nfiJlTlimJI I must i-ntta jumnai R1R0M S MS :ederal Official Declares North Carolina Law Unconstitutional. PENALTIES ARE TOO SEVERE Roosevelt a Peacemaker?Ilis Ajrent Promises Speedy Settlement? Meantime Law is Tied Up?Supreme Court to Decide. Asheville, N. C.?The dispute between the courts of North Carolina snd the Federal courts in respect of the railroad rate law will be settled tvithout much friction. When Jud^e Pritchard declared the law unconstitutional and set free men who had been Imprisoned by a State judge there was lots of hot talk, and it aven suggested that Governor Glenu should call out the State militia, arrest all the working staff of the Southern Railroad and, if necessary, put Judge Pritchard in jail for alleged misuse of his office. Peace came upon the scene when Edward I. Sanford, who had hurried from Washington as the personal representative of President Roosevelt, promised that if the cases were allowed to proceed in an orderly way to the Supreme Court of the United States, the Department of Justice would request the court to advance the cases to an early hearing. Mr. Sanford is an Assistant' Attorney General, and safd he had authority to pledge the Government. The State attorneys agreed to this, insisting upon a direct appeal to the highest court, and not the adoption of Judge Pritchard's plan to send the issues to a master, who might report in the year 2000. Asheville, N. C.?United States Circuit Judge Pritchard rendered hia decision in the railroad rate cases, discharging from custody James H. Wood, District Passengei Agent of the Southern, and O. C Wilson, ticket agent, who had been sentenced to thirty days each on the chain gang by Police Justice Reynolds, of Asheville. for violating the new Passenger Rate law. Judge Pritchard declared the penalty clause of the new- Rate lav; unconstitutional. Governor Glenn will defy Judge Pritchard's decision. Governor Glenn telegraphed that special counsel, including Speaker of the House Justice, was being rushed to Asheville, and requesting counsel for the State to try to secure a postponement of the Federal Court decision 4J1 J AA,.U AH. until juouvje duu u uicia IUUIU enrive. Judge Pritchard completely ignored Governor Glenn's request and Gl<fan was so advised. Judge Pritchard made open threats from the bench against Judge Reynolds, of the Asheville Police Court, who imposed fines upon ticket agents and sent them to the chain-gang, and threats against others who swore out warrants against ticket agents, whom, he said, he was thinking of having brought before him for contempt of court. Judge Reynolds had threatened to jail Judge Pritchard if he interfered with his court and Pritchard turns the table. Governor Gleen ordered Reynolds, over the' long distance 'phone, upon the arrest of Wood and Wilson, to proceed with the trial of his cases in court and to notify Superior Court Solicitor Mark W. Brown to prosecute in i.he Police Court and to resist to the utmost the release of the defendants. The message was significant.- Governor Glenn promised armed protection to the State officers. Governor Glenn says: "I regret this conflict. I want it settled. If the railroads will acquiesce in the law, then no further indictments will be made." He declares, however, that if the railroads do not obey the law he will instruct the State's Attorney to aid the solicitors of the State in sending new bills and prosecuting the railroads until they do obey the law. If they refuse to recognize the law, as a result fines, costs and odium attaci to them, and if their agents who persist in bringing them in defiance of the law go to jail they will have only themselves to blame, as the State is ready to stop when the law is obeyed. In his formal statement he says: 'I am not guilty of usurpation, as some railroad organisations Contend, in thus trying to enforce the violated law, but simply as the executive officer of the State executing the law as the State constitution reguires me to do. "My duty is to see that all persons violating the law are punished. So whether it be in prosecuting alleged lyncaers, <ls i am uuw uumg iu uuiuu County, or trying to stop railroads from setting at naught the declared will of the people through its Legislature, I intend, without needlessly harassing individuals or railroads, to try to enforce the laws now being persistently and defiantly violated by those railroads." Jeter C. Pritchard, before appointment t? the Federal bench, was for severalTears the attorney of the Southern Railway Company. Judge Long, who recently fined the Southsrn $30,000, had also been its counsel in former years. West Point Coarse Extended. The Board of Visitors to the Military Academy at West Point recommended the broadening and extension of the course, with post-graduate work, to make all-around educated men of army officers. Greatest Treasury Surplus. A Treasury surplus of nearly $S7,000,000 in this fiscal year is the greatest Treasury surplus ever, and an increase of $62,000,000 in only one year. Stub Ends of News. M York hatters said there waa no sign of the American head getting smaller. Dr. E. L. Dunlop, of Washington, thinks our soldiers smarter looking than the French. Japan's War Minister denies that his department has any spy in America, official or amateur. The Pennsylvania Railroad, acting on the report of a commission of engineers, has abandoned steel ties. The Connecticut Legislature iiis jroted for the appointment of a Tuberculosis Investigation Commission RITSwNRWS A A IV MM 4* 1 M IV WASHINGTON. New customs regulations adopted by the Treasury Department will remove objectionable features of the present system of examining baggage. The convention of the Army and Navy Union at Washington adopted a strong resolution in favor of the restoration of the army canteen as a "temperance" measure. The man who is nil powerful at the White House during these hot days is Rudolph Foruter, the assistant secretary to the President, who, since he got his training under Mr. Cortelyou, Is a past master in the art of keeping silent in about seventeen different languages. The State Department has perfected a Far Eastern Bureau to have charge of all correspondence and preliminary treaty negotiations with the Oriental governments. jp or tne nexi sixty uays me ?imuual Government wfir be run by proxy with the departure of Secretary Cortelyou and Postmaster-General Meyer from Washington for their summer vacations, every responsible head of the Government is out of the city, and the weighty problems of State are being solved by the assistant Cabinet officers. OUR ADOPTED ISLANDS. The export of Manila cigars amounts to nearly $1,000,000 a year, and the home consumption is probably larger. . The most valuable crop in the Philippines is hemp: rice comes next, followed by tobacco. The Supreme Court of the Philippine Islands has Increased the sentences of- ex-Col. Mulford of the Nebraska Volunteers, who was thrice convicted at Hstafa in connection with the defunct American Bank, from six to mine years'" Imprlsonmont lF. R. McStocker, a son-in-law of Afong. the capitalist, who formerly lived in Honolulu, Hawaii, and died in China, has sued the Afong estate for $75,000. In response to the call issued by Governor Post, the Mayors of sixty-six municipalities assembled at San Juanf, Porto Rico, to discuss municipal problems and to consider measures for bringing the cities into closer relation with the Insular Government. Cuban liberals opposed the policy of federalization of Havana. Cuban liberals asked Senator Zayas and General Gomez to resign as aspirants for the presidency in the interest of party peace. DOMESTIC. Samuel Yellos, alleged to be a member of a Black Hand society, was shot dead by unknown persons at Sharon, Pa., and two men with him were fatally wounded. JOnn A. tJagiey, iormeny Aiiurney General of Idaho, declared Harry Orchard would be hanged whatever the outcome of the Haywood trial In Boise. Dividends to Equitable Life policyholders were less by thirteen pei cent, this year than in 1906 or 1905. Officers say this is due to 'the revalidation of the company's surplus. Annual statements of the Union Pacific and Southern Pacific Railroads showed a high state of prosperity. The hero of the Georgia was discovered to be Seeman Benjamin Kreiger. The disaster was found to be due to the haste of the gunners in an effort to break the record for quick firing. A compromise wa3 reached whereby all danger of a strike of telegraph operators was averted. District Attorney Jerome, 01 xNew York, again declined to produce the list of contributors to his campaign fund. There were 1.285,349 alien immigrants landed in this country in the year ended June 30, eiceeding the previous high record by six per cent. With their wedding planned foi the near future, J. L. Davis and Miss Docia Vebryke were drowned by the overturning of their boat at Lima, Ohio. E. H. Harriman's plan to elect A O. Hackstaff secretary of the Illinois Central Railroad C?npany was thwarted by Stuyvesant Fish. FOREIGN". A Persian parliamentary committee refused to submit to vote the proposals of the-German Bank at Teheran. Count Tornielli introduced a proposal at The Hague regarding bombardments of unfortified towns whicli embodies the views of all the coun* tries interested in the question. The marriage in Chicago of Princt Robert de Broglie and Mrs. S. B Veit, nee Alexander, was declared void by a Paris court. The King's Bench Division, ir London, dismissed the appeal of the executors of the estate of W. L, Winans for the return of $650,00C of death duties. The Argentine steamship Toro has been wrecked near Santiago, Chile Seventeen persons are reported drowned. Alexander Greger's slander suil aga^st Count and Countess da Porzic was dismissed by a French court The Japanese stock market showed a sharp rise in prices, due to public confidence that no trouble was tc be expected between America and Japan. A member of the Pope's household in an interview published at Rome tells of a miracle at the Vatican ir which the Virgin appeared in a vision to the Pontiff, signifying approval of the recent syllabus. Mr3. Sanford Anderson, of Hillsboro, New Brunswick, was fatallj wounded by her five-year-old son, who was playing with a revolver. Victor Grayson, Socialist, led the poll in the bye-election for Membei of Parliament from the Colne Valley Division, Yorkshire, to fill the seat made vacant by the raising ol James Kitson to the peerage. Peter Curran, Socialist, was returned at the Jarrow election to succeed the late Sir Charles Palmer ir the British House of Commons. The Foreign Ministers of Italy and Austria met at Desio, Lombardy, and announced that they "were in entire accord and would examine the gem eral European situation as well as matters relating especially to Austria and Itaiy. Revolutionists in Guayaquil, Ecuador, attacked the home of President Alfaro and the four military barracks; they were driven back with loss of life; the President was unhunt. MNiaUEMITH | Steamer Columbia Sunk Off Eu reka, Cal., by Lumber Schconen Engulfed in Ten Minnies, Carrying . With Her Many of Her Passengers and Crew. rfjM Eureka, Cal.?Fifty persons, the majority of whom were passengers, went down with the coasting steamship Columbia when the vessel was rammed by the lumber steamer San Pedro, in Shelter Cove, off this port. There were 189 passengers and sixty , ; officers and men aboard the ship, and 107 passengers and thirty-seven members of the crew were landed here by the steamship George E. El- 1 * der, which also towed In the San Pedro, almost a total wreck, and with her afterdeck awash. Only the lam I ber cargo of the San Pedro kept her afloat. It was reported that there were forty-six survivors in a vessel headed for San Francisco. One report is that these persons were picked up from lifeboats, bill! this is looked j upon as improbable, as the captain of the San Pedro reports four lifeboats launched from the Columbia were ? i i overloaded and swamped. Captain TV-?? wanf rlnwn UVia 11, UL tllC vuiumum, nv? ? with his ship. Almost all of the Columbia's passengers apd many of her crew were asleep in their cabins and bunks. Captain Doran, it is said, shouted for - ~ ' ' the San Pedro to hold her bow in the cut in the Columbia to prevent an overpowering inrush of water. But as quickly^ as possible the San Pedro was backed away, and the watei rushed through a gap ten feet across. Doran was on the bridge and he was ' master of*hiinself until his slip sank under him. It is said that K&at* - .Jj ' tempted to hold the crew to ckify'by threatening to use a revolver, and one report has It that he shot a mutinous sailor. Men on the San Pedrj heard Doran giving orders almost to the last moment. His voice carried " --3j distinctly through a megaphone, and he could be heard saying: I LIB wumeil dliu tuuuieu lxiuau gu first. You cowards, give t^o woiaab and children a chance." But his cool bravery was in vain, for Doran was forced to see the foui lifeboats overturned by the weight ol \ men caring only for their own chance , . ' tsi of life. It is understood that the life .4 rafts were overturned in exactly th6 same way. One life raft was thrown overboard from the San Pedro, and about a dozen passengers managed tr. reach it. The women saved were picked up by dories from the San Pe- ' dro. HAU SENTENCED TO DIE. Washington * Professor Murdered Mother-in-law at Baden-Baden. V?| Carlsruhe, Germany. ? Carl Hau, formerly professor of law in George ' - 3 Washington University, Washington. D. C., has been found guilty of murdering his mother-in-law. Hrs. Molitor, and sentenced to death. The crime was committed Novemher 6 in Baden-Baden, of which city the victim was a wealthy resident. The jury retired and it taok them only a few minutes to agree on a verdict. The prisoner, who has borne himself with composure throughout the five days of the trial, did not ' ?/' ' J change his demeanor when the jury announced its finding. It was the same with him Trhen sentence of death was pronounced The judges withdrew just aftef.jmidnight to determine upon ,! the "Sentence, and returned after a brief'pon- 'i sultation. The presiding judge pronounced the words of doom, and Hau i was led away to prison guarded by half a. dozen policemen. , aunrvra MTT.T,fnw?niF. r aiinxiv i ' Tavshanjian, of New York City, Killed by Emissary of Revolutionists. New York City.?H. S. Tavshanjian t ! rug importer and one of the wealth* iest and most influential Armenians i in the United States, was shot down and killed in busy Union Square. The i vl* assassin, a fanatical member of a rev- ^ ! olutionary society called "Hunchai kist," was arrested after an exciting chase. ' "You may do what you please witb me," the murderer said. "I killed him to save my country. Men of his great wealth owe it to their native couhtry to give money to the cause of frooHnm for which we are struggling. He gave none. Your George Wash-, ington fought for his country's freedom. I have done no more than Washington." 1 The prisoner is Bedros Hr.mpartzoomian, and he comes from Mazrab In Harpoot, where the Hunchakist has its well-spring. 1 BLACK HAND MEMBERS SPARED. 1 Gaug That Murdered Lamana Bey ? Go to Prison, Only. : New Orleans.?A jury, every mem- . ber of which is of foreign birth, d^_ i 3 ?<ia civ Ttnlian Rlflrlr ClttlCU Liiai luc oiA Hand members, four men and two women, who kidnaped and mur' dered Walter Lamana, are "guilty . ,fj without capital punishment." This t means the jury desires a life sentence in the penitentiary for each. Sentiment in New Orleans, the [ home'of the Lamana family, wus that . hanging was too good for them. The vS i scene of the murder of the child is 1 thirty miles from New Orleans in ...';Vs another parish, St. Charles, and the , trial was held there. Twins Swept Into Sewer and Drowned Gerald and Hubert Shern, tenyear-old twin brothers, we^p swept into a sewer at Thirty-second and Lqyybard streets, Philadelphia, by. thfe'rush of water following a heavy shower. The body of one of the children was recovered later in the Schuylkill River. The father of the Shern boys helped build the sewer. !' President Finley's Appeal. W. W. Finley, president of the Southern Railroad, made an appeal > for a "square deal" from the public. i MANY WATCH WOMAN DROWN. . Knocked Prom Trestle by Train and Could Not Be Reached. ; Asheville, N. C.?Mrs. Thomas El. lis, of Paint Rock, N. C., while cross 5 ing a railway iresue near ner nome, . was knockcd off the trestle by a westbound passenger train and into the French Broad River, fifty feet below. ' Passengers on board the train saw; : Mrs. Ellis come to the surface many, i times, but no effort was made to save 1 her, as she could not be reached. Sho " was drowned before the eyes of the passengers, who watched her tracUo efforts. a. ' .;^Jj " " ' -i-v. ... . ,v .......