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?T HOW LONG THE ROAD. The woman-need i3 gone that made thy Eh kin m| My manna, and a heaven of thine eyes; jjfi| The patience-preaching years have made jH me wise. ^ Till, in the woods and fields, the sturdy H bliss fellowship and work, I cease to miss 8J3 Tbe throboingache of those oid ecstasies, JB Save to remember with a wan surprise, ^ ^vnt^timpH how lnnc the ro.id that led to this. But to be sure that somewhere, strong and whole. Thou livest, striving, noble though beset, Master again of the essential soul, . *I doubted when my' cruel wounds were 1" * wet? ThiB long mv deepest, direst need of thee, O, ince beloved! it is granted me. ?Charlotte Wilson, in Metropolitan Mag-1 azine. f REPAIRS H A CHARACTER SKETCH. BV3 By S. L. BENSUSAN. X ~ "i i i a "I'm going to see Father William about repairs to his cottage," said the agent, checking his dogcart. "Can I eive you a lift?" I agreed that he could, and we drove together. Father William met us by the gate. In one hand he exhibited a rat that he had just taken from the spring trap at the garden's end; thp other hand nursed two fine lettuces. He responded to the agent's greeting, but ignored mine, for I am ia disgrace. "I've come about the repairs," said the agent, cheerfully. "An' well ye might," replied Father William, In acid and reproachful tone. "Sixty-five years I've lived 'ere an* pide me rent reg'lar, an' th' place tumbling' to pieces. I'm shamed on ye, an' no mistake. Do ye make th' ole place fit f'r a man what's in years 'fore we gits another -winter, I'r I feels th' cold, an* that's a fact." "Well," said the agent, cheerfully, 'we'll soon make things right for you, anyway." He took out his notebook. "To begin with, we'd better have the thatch stripped and put tiles or slates >on," he suggested. "It's very ragged up there." "Do ye leave th' patch to bide "where It be!" interrupted Father William, sharply. "It ain't 'armed ;ye, as I'm aware. An' don't ye come bringin' y'r nasty old tiles nor slates either, for I never couldn't -abide they. Th' roof'll do, an' it's me what lives under it, an' pies for 'ut reg'lar." "Certainly, if you wish," replied the agent, crossing through the note in his book. "I don't want to arrange for anything you don't want done. May I cwae inside? The pony will stand quiet." "Do ye both come in," said Father William, depositing the rat on the ton of the close-clinDed hedee. that -all who passed down the road might see it. "I was jest a-comin' from pickin' np th' gr%'t ole rat out o' me trap, an' it's wery many on 'em I catches, an' nobody can't deny ut. "There's folks," he continued, after a brief pause to recover wind, "'there's folks what says, 'Do ye don't leavJ they traps 'bout y'r garden, Father William, 'cos they catches me ,<logs.' An' 1 say to sich as they, "It's the fault o' y'r dogs, or y'r gre't ' fool of a boy what don't look after 'am If oin'f nn mnporn n' mlno an' I'll set me traps so long as there's a nasty greH rat left.' " The old gentleman's fierce little eyes were bent against me, but I made no sign. > "Come in, both o* ye," he repeated. ^""I ain't got nothin' to 'ide an' nothra' to be shamed on. I'm open most all th' time to rightfor'ard men, an' wimmln, too, though I don't take, much count o' they, an' that's the truth. Ye can look into me parlor an' into me garden an' see me wegebles grcwin', same as these lettuces wbat I've just cut and fine 'uns they be. There ain't no concealment 'bout me, an' never was." We entered the cottage. Certainly the ceiling was black, and Father William had put hooks in every raft er and had hung household treasures from them. Here was the frame of a butterfly-net, there was a piece = of waterproof, and I saw scissors and gardening tools and a crook that looked twin brother to the one that brought the old man's shepherding staff to an end. The wall was decorated with pictures from various illustrated journals presented by me from time to time and pasted over the paper. "Ceiling whitewashed?" queried the agent. " 'Taint likely"' snapped the rightforward man. "I ain't goin' to 'ave all me things covered wi' lime-wash. 1 coultro t never abide tnat, an l am t goin' to." "Walls repapered?" said my companion, successfully hiding a smile from the lawful tenant. "Ye shan't touch they walls, an' don't ye try ut," said Father William. "Like to scrape away all me pictures, I doubt, an' gi'e me suthin' what ain't as pretty. I'm s'prised on ye. Do ye leave me walls alone, an' see to th' t'other things what wants doin' up." "Well, let's go into the scullery and upstairs," suggested the agent; but before he could move more than a couple of steps in that direction Father William's hand anticipated him with surprising energy and barred the way. "Don't ye try ut!" he cried; and went on, with outsretched hand and flashing eyes, "Do ye keep where ye are, or go outside 'fore I makes ye." He sparred for wind. "Sixty years an' more I've lived 'ere.' he cried, "an' pide me rent, an' well ye knows ut. An' now ye come 'ere an' want to walk all o'er me 'ouse, same as it b'longs to ye, an' go into me scullerv an' ud into me bed room, an' that ye shan't. Do ye go y'r ways now, 'fore I takes me crookstick to ye. There ain't been nobody in me bedroom this forty years, an* shan't be, nor in me scullery neither." "But, my gocd fellow, how can I seet to repairs if I don't see your i. rooms?" cried the agent. "Do ye don't call me a good feller o' yourn," snapped Father William, "for I pies me rent an' b'longs to ?>oself An' don't ye ast me to teach ye y'r business, for I on't do ut; I ?$$r SI-;- ; V- : T'V^KU-. -7 ;V; ... . . . .. . -C ' ... / never come to ye to ast ye to teach me shepherdin'. An' ye couldn't ha' taught me if I 'ad. I doubt. I sent f'r ye to make me place fit an' right. ! not to rob me o' me thatch, an' spile me walls an' mess me ceilin', an' gc a-spyin' in me scullery 'an me bed- j room. An' I'm tellin' ye to go quick, j 'fore I " "Don't get excited. Father William," said the agent, closing his book with a bang and picking up his hat. i "I'm not going to stay. Good day." j So saying, he turHed to the door, mounted the dogcart and drove away, j "An' right glad I am ye're goin'," remarked Father William, following him into the road. 'Th' fool," he added, as the agent drove off. "Fancy sich as 'e earnin' a good livin'! I Lord." he concluded, turning to me, "seems now I'm in me nineties there ain't nothin' but fools in th' parish. 'Cept rogues," he added as an afterthought, glancing to where my hedge screened the garden.?London Sketch. MARKETING YVESTEKfl *'JKUIX. Shipments Directed by Wire to Point of Greatest Demand. Until 1S93 California fruits were sold through commission merchants, to whom the individual growers consigned their entire crop. The expense for transportation and the keen competition, as well as the immense outlay for commissions, resulted in a number of the large growers of California organizing the Southern California Fruit Growers' Exchange. Since 1893 this has been reorganized several times, but it is still in existence under the title of the Cali1 fornia Fruit Exchange. It is co-operative and has only a nominal capital | stock. According to Moody's Magazine, it performs every duty for the growers belonging to it from the time they bring their harvest to the packing house until they get their crop money. It takes complete control, grading, packing, stripping, finding buyers and 'selling, so that its members do nothing but the agricultural part. Its representatives throughout the districts receive and receipt for the wagon loads, and the horticulturist goes home to attend to his orchards and wait for his check. The chief competitor of theCaliforniaExchange is California Citrus Union. By the present method of marketing fruit daily wire reports on the condition and whereabouts of every shipment iire sent to Los Angeles. Like a train despatcher the manager at headquarters guides every car from the side tracks in the orchards over the branch lines and the trunk , lines. He has the power to divert shipments into the most available markets. Hundreds of cars leave California daily with only a general destination, and these cars must be sent to the point of greatest demand. If through his wire reports the manager finds that New York is receiving too much fruit, that there is danger of a break in the price, he diverts a part of the New York shipment to Philadelphia or Baltimore or Pittsburg. He must see to it that every district has enough fruit, but not too much. He must keep the market even. He must get the top prices and yet sell all his fruit. He must figure against changes in the weather in each district and againct competition from Florida, Europe and other California shippers. rielioimiaii'a T.nMr JL IJMVt IHW1I JUUVUi "Perhaps my most amusing fishing experience in Italy was during a week in Naples," says the author of "The Salt of My Life," and gives the story in these words: * "Toward sunset one afternoon I was strolling toward my hotel along the parade, when I came across a ragged sportsman angling with a very long bamboo from the pavement. He looked a merry sight, and I seated myself on the parapet beside him. We were soon deep in as comfortable a conversation as is attainable between broken Tuscan and pure Neaaolitan. We discussed rods, and I asked him to let me feel the weight of his, which must have been thirty feet long. With native courtesy he handed it to me as if it were mine, and no sooner was it in my hands than down went the top, and I was in a good fish, which circled in vain on the unyielding line, and I soon raised a black sea-bream of probabiy three pounds. "Of a certainty none of his other fish weighed more than as many ounces. He was too amazed to do more than stammer his thanks, and as I turned away I fancy that he crossed himself, regarding the black bream aa the fruit of black magic." An Underground City. In Galicia, in Austrian Poland, there is a remarkable under^-ound city, which has a population of over 1000 men, women and children. annrcxz of n/hnm huvo tiovot coon thrt light of day. It is known as the "City of Salt Mines," and is situated several hundred feet below the earth'? surface. It has its town hall, theatre and assembly room, as well as a beautiful church, decorated with statues, all being fashioned from the pure crystallized rock salt. It has well graded streets and spacious squares* lighted with electricity. There are numerous instances in this underground city where not a single individual in three or four successive generations has ever seen the sun, or has any idea of how people live in the light of day. The New Style. In order that the young man may know what is coming to him when he asks a girl to marry him, we quote the following acceptance from a popular novel: "She put her flower-like face to mine. " 'My first thought of you and ray last are the same, beloved,' she answered, 'and the thought is this? that you have a heart for whose belated waking queens might keep vigil.' " Does a man, in addition to the contract to buy a woman's clothes and groceries for the rest of her life, have to stand for somethiflg like this?.?Atchison Globe. * i) \ i New York City.?The dressing eacque that serves its first purpose while ydt it is sufficiently becoming jind attractive to be worn to the family breakfast is doubly useful and makes an exceedingly valuable addition to the wardrobe. This one ful Alls the requirements and is pretty and becoming at the same time that it is simple in the extreme. In the illustration it is made with a cape collar and this feature is an attractive one, but it Is not obligatory and the neck can be finished with a simple straight standing collar if liked, and, again, there is a choice of long ar elbow sleeves. As illustrated ring dotted batiste is trimmed with embroidered banding, but all the pretty cambrics and dimities of the summer are charming so made, while also light weight flannel cashmere and flannelette would be equally appropriate. The dressing sacque is made withr the fronts and back. The back is ~ A plain but the fronts are tucked at the shoulders and are finished with hems. The cape collar is arranged over the sacque and can be finished as illiKtrated or with the standing collar; also if better liked the standing collar can be used alone. The sleeves are the simple ones gathered at the upper and lower edges and finished with band cuffs. A belt or ribbon confines the fulness at the waist line. The quantity of material required for the medium size is four and -onefourth yards twenty-seven, three and five-eight yards thirty-two or two and one-eighth yards forty-four inches wide. I Sleeves and Gloves. It may be that the new idea of wearing gloves of the color of the sleeves is one of the indications of the return to long arm coverings, but it Requires imagination to see it. As yet the short sleeve is in everything but the strictly tailored coat or shirtwaist. Gores For Skirls. The walking skirt is usually cut in seven, nine <>r fifteen gores and then [ side pleated. The nine-gore model is the most popular and satisfactory. Colored Straw Hats. Every other smart woman is wearing a cloche hat in colored straw, trimmed with loops and bows of broad black taffeta ribbon. Bias Bands Are Used. Bias bands or folds of the material are much seen on the pleated walking skirts, two and even three being used. Gray and Green. The reigning colors of the moment are gray and green, the latter especially in dark emerald, lettuce and agtnach shades^ "VW: I Taggy Veils Unpardonable. Old dresses and boots may be pardoned; taggy veils, never. Designs in Braid. It !s a fad of the moment to use a fine braid, in graceful designs, instead of embroidery, on cuffs, col lars. ends or stoies, dcucs ana pocaei flaps. 1 i ,.1Crest Fad. A new fad of the ultra fashionable -and one which is expected to become popular within'a few weeks is the wearing of mittens of gold studded with rubies and ornamented with monogram or crest. Such mittens have long been popular among the women of the German c?lurt, and leaders of fashionable New York nbw in Paris has been seen wearing one. Misses' Fancy Blonse. Such a fancy blouse as this one has almost innumerable uses. It is eminently girlish and youthful in effect. It can be utilized either with skirt to matcli or as a separate waist, and again the garniture can be made to match the skirt or of lace or of the trimming material, the blouso beneath being of lace or in lingerie style. As shown, howevei, the over blouse or garniture; is made of imitation Irish crochet and is edged with pale green velvet banding, while the blouse is of a pretty simple net that matches the skirt. The drooping shoulders give the broad shoulder line which is fashionable, and which is always becoming to girlish - gures, while the sleeves of the gu.impe are charming under them. Almost numberless suggestions might be made as to material and combinations. At the present moment pretty simple silks, veiling and the like art- much in demand, and any one of these can be made with skirt and garniture to match while the gui-mpe is of muslin or of lace and a little later such a garniture as this cut from heavy linen aad finished with a scalloped edge would be exceedingly chic and smart over a lingerie guimpe, as well as eminently youthful in effect. The waist is made with the under blouse and % garniture. The . blouse consists of the front and backs with the full sleeves over which the frills are arranged and which are gathered into straight bands. The garniture is auite seDarate ;and can be eithei joined to the waist beneath the belt or left entirely detached as preferred. The quantity of material required for the sixteen-year size is one and one-eighth* yards eighteen or twenty one, or one yard forty-tour incnes j wide for over portion; two and three- [ quarter yards eighteen, two and onequarter yards twenty-one or one and five-eighth yards thirty-six tnchoa wide with three yards of lace eight inches wide for^e^blouse. n ? < ' ' r, .L ; ? /' JJ' POPULAR \\ X ML y A 'SCIENCE ?. In-' the Chicago fire department are two engines each capable of throwing ten tons of water a minute. There are said to be at present 250,000 miles of cable in all at the bottom ojthe sea, representing $250,000,000. This works out at about $1000 per mile to mal:e and lay. The unique floating ice barrier pushed out from the mysterious Antarctic 14nd was found by Captain Scott's expedition to extend five hundred miles westward from the volcanoes Erebus and Terror, and more than four hundred miles toward the Pole, reaching beyond eighty-two deffrepR spvpntefin mhnitos armfh 1aM tude. The front rises ten to 280 feet above the water. X' Consul Frank Hannah of Madgeburg'sends information of a new German composition to take the place of cedar in lead pencils. The principal ingredient of the substitute is potatoes. The pencils are now being manufactured and soon will be on. the market. It is estimated that to manufacture these pencils will take ' about half of the time required to make cedar pencils. 1' The loss of many English fishing boats is now believed to have been due to the fact that the man at the wheel carried in his pocket a specially forged fisherman's knife. These knives possess strong magnetic propAnfioo a tt ffl nl om f f a lha nnm naco kico oumv/icub tv ucu&uu buc two or three points. Many wrecks, have occurred while steering an apparently true course, and the discovery of the knives is now believed to'account for many wrecks. Probably no substance is adapted to a greater variety of uses than rubber, but its applications are restricted by the limited supply and high cost. Among the purposes for which it has great advantages but is not likely to be extensively employed, is that of paving roadways. .* A rubber pavement laid at a London railway station was in 1902 worn down to fiveeighths of an inch in its thinnest place. Notwithstanding the scarcity of the material, the cost was less than three times as great as that of wood .'and its life has been more than" twenty years Instead of four years which the wood or asphalt would have endured. v , The recent Increase in the use of electricity in Spain has been so rapid that an official report states that to-day very few localities exist where the electric light is not employed. This is particularly true of places situated near swiftly Running streams. The consumption of electric lamps, even in the smallest villages, is' described as being enormous.* Everywhere electric motors are found taking the place of steam-power. Yet !he construction of electric apparatus in Spain has not kept step with the growth in its employment, eighty per cent, of the dynamoS and motors being imported from Germany. Most of the remainder come from France and Switzerland. COST OF POLICE. It Totals Over Five Million Sterling For England and Wales. It costs just under 5,750,000 sterling to maintain for a year the 46,000 police who guard the interests of citizens of England and Wales, ?4,195,000 being absorbed in salaries and pay. The most expensive of all the forces in proportion to its size is the City of London, in which the cost of. the individual constable works out to ?112 a year., This leaves a considerable margin over the ?93 which !s the average of the provincial forces, and is even appreciably higher than the upkeep of a constable in the Metropolitan force, 4- Of ACT wmuu la &JLv , There are in the city 1,006 policemen of all r'anks, and as the population is only 26,923, every twentyseven inhabitants can claim to have a constable to themselves. The calculation is, of course, somewhat illusory, for the census is taken at night, and when Suburbia pours its thousands into the city streets in the early working hours of the morning the police are quickly lost in the throng. The same destructive factor does not apply to a similar calculation in regard to other aread, and according to a Blue Book issued recently, from which these figures are taken, there was q constable for every 470*people residing in the Metropolitan district and one for every 942 persons on the average of the rest of England and Wales. Since 1905 there has been a total addition of some 600 men to the police forces of the country, while in twenty-five years the strength has riaon from 30,000 to 46,000?an increase of Dver fifty per cent.?Tit Bits. r> Concrete in Steamer Repairs. A British trade newspaper states that concrete has come into use in connection with steamship repairs. The Iron-^e declares that it was successfully employed to patch up the hull of a steamer. She struck on a jagged rock, and several holes were made in the iron hull of the vessel. rne largest one was aDour. eigniy feet from the bow, and it measured about thirty-fivfe feet in each direction, and through this great gap came the rock, projecting for nealy eleven feet into the. hold. Those responsible for the salvage operations managed to patch up the breach by means of concrete, and although lealis developed, the water was pumped out of the hold and ship was towed forty miles' to a drydock. Ways of Rending. Reading without purpose is sauntering, not exercise. More is got from one book on which the thought settles for definite end than from libraries skimmed over by a wandering eye. A cottage flower gives honey to the , bee, a King s garaen none '.0 me Dm.terfly.?Lord Lytton. - \ V , . . . . r. ><* .v ->v / ; - V" % * , MO WJHOLLS THE Charles J. Root, of Bristol, Conn., a Millionaire Manufacturer, Dead. Young .rfiece Falls Heir to a Fortune ?Miss Root Fatally 1 ; Injured. I t * * ' J > Great Barrington, Mass.?The automobile tragedy near Ashley falls, in which Charles J. Root, the Bristol millionaire, his riaother and aunt were instantly killed and his sister fatally hurt, has made an heiress of Mis? Katherine Root, the millionaire's fourteen-year-old niece. Mr. Root warfgreatly attached to his niece. His wifeydied yeat? ago and the niece lived Vith her uncle. A few days before the accident Mr. Root made his/Will, giving all but $20,000 of.his estate to Miss Katlv erine. It is estimated that her share will be considerable more than, $1,000,000. It is a singular fact that A VfAMMM ?(fk A 4<? n a M w* tuo jruuug (in VTuv uuua tuuiKO iuiu this large inheritance is the only one of the automobile party who will survive. The accident.wipes out the entire family, with the exception of the niece. Miss Mary B. Root, sitter of the millionaire, is fatally injured. Katherine Root, fully recovered from the effects of the accident, returned to her home in Bristol, She said she did not believe her unclc was racing with the New York, New Haven and Hartford express that the automobile hit. Her unclc, she declared, was running a little ahead of the train, and she does not think he saw it. Being deaf, he could? Lot hear the noise. His niece said the whirr of the automobile prevented her hearing the train's approach. , Hef uncle isteered the machine to cr.oss the railroad track, she .said, not knowing that the express was1 directly upon him. . Miss Root fainted from fright and recalls nothing of the accident. When she recovered her senses she was being taken from the side of the track. 3 SCHMITZ LEGALLY OUSTED. Supreme Court Decides That San , Francisco's Mayor Has No Claim. San Francisco.?The State Supreme Court decided that Mayor Schmitz was ousted legally and has no right to draw his salary from the cit3r. The Court directs the auditor an? treasurer to recognize the signature of Mayor Taylor on all warrants for payment of money from the city ffeasury and fully establishes that the appointment of Taylor as Mayor was legal. It disposes of the claim of Schmitz that conviction and imprisonment for felony did not forfeit his tenure of office, and removes the last vesti&e of doubt that the Supervisors have the right to r^nove a convicted Mayor. The decision of the Court was unanimous and'was signed by all the Justices. i' / * < ? * * 4 r ? DAUGHTER BORN TO HUGHES. First Child Born in the New York Executive Mansion. Albany, N. Y.?A daughter was born to Governor and Mrs. Hughes. Mother and child are doine well. The baby weighs a little over eight pounds and is said to be the first avVr born in the executive mansion. Governor and Mrs. Hughes have three other children, Charles E., Jr., about nineteen, a junior at Brown ^University; Helen, about sixteen, and Catherine,.about ten. Farmers Wait For 91 Mark. Forces are at work to put wheat at $1. The American Society of Equity professes to- have persuaded 176,000 farmers to hold their wheat until the $1 level is reached, and it is claimed that many thousands of farmers 'are planning to construct steel tanks for the storage of their grain, not letting it go for low prices. It is claimed the steel tanks do not cost the farmers more than $150, and each contains 2000 bushels of wheat. L. and N. Gets Injunction. The Louisville and Nashville Railroad defied Governor Comer of Alabama by procuring a Federal injunction restraining the State from enforcing the freight and passenger rate IclVYS. In Relentless Pursuit of Standard. It was announced in St. Louis that' the first testimony in the Government's St. Louis suit to dissolve the Standard Oil Company would be taken in New York City. Gloucester Tablet Unveiled. The tablet at Gloucester, Mass., to commemorate the early English settlement In New England was unveiled with an historical address by Senator Lodge. ' - / Harriman Less Contumacions. E. H. Harriman, in an interview at Reno, Nev., intimated tlfift he would answer the questions of the Interstate Commerce Commission in regard to the Alton Railroad. Chicago Democratic Headquarters. It became apparent in Chicago that the city has been chosen as the Democratic conference centre for the ne.*' Presidential campaign. Cotton Mills Destroyed.' The Tuscaloosa Cotton Mills at Cottondale. Ala.., were destroyed by fire. Loss, $300,000. o Glenn Aspires to Senatorship. Developments in North Carolina were taken to indicate that Governor Glenn would be the next candidate for United States Senator on a Piohlbition platform. Lock-Out of English Hatters. A 'serious dispute has arisen in the hat-making industry at Stockport, England, which recently resulted in notices of lock-out heing given to some 2000 members of the Amalgamated society ui reu waiters. The Fipld of Labor. The Southern Pacific boilermakers have gone on strike at Sacrameto, Cal. Brotherhood of Railroad Freight and Baggage Men has established its national headquarters office at Boston, Mass. Canadian unions favor international rather than nation.il aflilia lions, ana mis seiiuuiuui. is iiiciaimi. in all trades. Tho first steps Have been taken in Boston, Mass., for the purpose of organizing a union oC the Hebrew paint^ > ers oJ that city. \ 'RITS oF NKWR U X A U J.1U IX M WASHINGTON. A stockholder of the Louisiana and Missouri River Railroad asked the Interstate Commission to force the Alton, which controls.1t, to make an accounting. The Government is considering the turning over of tbe coast defense to the marines. Attorney-General Bonaparte declared that the criminal prosecution of rich men or corporations, wilful violators of the law on a great scale, was precisely what he Intended to bring about. ' " ^ Speaker Cannon, interviewed In Washington, was emphatic in favor of the battleship cruise to the Pacific. B. F. Peters, for many years past. the chief clerk of the Navy Department, died .at hid home of tuberculo 3i8. He was fifty-four years old. His wife died three weeks before. Charged with running down Mrs. Mary Chas6 with his automobile, Roger Wetmore, son of the United States Senator, was arrested. Washington officials expressed the opinion that the yellow fever ^jidemic In Cienfuegos, Cuba, would be easily controlled. Chaplain*Harry W. Jones, U. S. N., has been found guilty of several violations of the naval-regulations by a court-martial in Norfolk, Va.t aud sentenced to dismissal from the service. ' ' <: "OUR ADOPTED ISLANDS. Cubans were happy at the dispersal' of armed bands by Government forces. 1 Private Roland Sheppard, of theHospital Corps of the American Army, died from yellow fever at the Military Hospital at Cienfuegos, Cub?. The resignation of Governor .Geo. R. Carter, of .IJawaii, sent to President Roosevelt* about six weeks ago,, has taken effect. His successor, W. F. Frear, Chief Justice >of thei 'SupremeCourt of Hawaii, entered upon his do vies as executive 01 me lsutnus. The records of the Manila Bureau of Health show that for six months not a contagious disease has been in svidence,- a record not known to have been equalled in the history of the Islands. . ^ Oscar S. Straus, Secretary of Commerce and Labor, and K. Ishii, director of the Bureau of Commerce of the Japanese Foreign Office, sailed from Honolulu for San Francisco- on theateamship Asia. , , \ . Army officers in Cuba are trying to exterminate mosquitoes in an effort to check the spread of yellow fever. The Royal Bank of Canada began business at San Juan, Porto Rico. This is the sixth bank started in SanJuan since the American occupation-. An armed band at Alquizar, Cuba, v stole a horse and saddle belonging to Alejandro Planas. Later they returned the horse with this inscription on his rump in paint: "He can't travel." ' rf j / >... DOMESTIC. Governor Stokes and a committer * I presented a silver service Jn-behalf. of New Jersey to the battleship New Jersey, lying in the North River, off Ne* York. A report of the insurance committee of the American Bar Association, made public at Omaha, scored the State insurance departments, attacked the, dividend reserve policy and suggested various legislation. Martin A. Knapp, chairman of the Interstate Commerce Commission^ was married at the HoteJ Manhattan, New York, 'to Mrs. -Nellie Maynard Gardner, of'Syracuse.'' The Rev. Asolph Derosa, the evangelist, who was threatened at Greenwich, Conn., with lynching for alleged hypnotism, declared he would clear, his name from all aspersions. Judge Landis, on receipt of n communication from Attorney-Genera) i Bonaparte, postponed till September 3 the Grand Jury investigation which 1.^ T T J .1 M i- T t U > ae uau uruereu iur me aiivn roau. Negro soldiers from the Twentyfifth Infantry, which figured In the Brownsville riot, raised a disturbance on the "Barbary Coast," In San Francisco, and were not quieted until, a riot call had been sounded. , While undergoing an operation in New York for adenoids, the sevenyear-old son of William A. Whiting, a. Vermont millionaire, died of cosaine poisoning. E. H. Harriman 3nd the Chicago and Alton Railroad will escape punishment for granting rebates to the Standard Oil Company, because the Government promised immunity in return for evidence to convict the Standard. The counsel for the "next friends" fn the Mrs. Eddy hearing have agreed to the suggestion of the masters for tests of her mental competency in the presence at alienigts. ' FOREIGN. The Zionist Congress at The Hague resolved to dissolve the committee dealing with diplomatic negotiations regarding Palestine. The United States cralser squadron In the Pacific started on a'visit to Japan. In a proclamation the Sultan of Morocco urges universal calm, and 19 reported to be using all his efforts for peace. Merr^Del Val? the Papal Secretary pf State, was hooted by an anti-clerieal mob In a suburb of Rome. It was believed in Tokio that the Russo-Japanese treaty contained an unpublished clause defining the , spheres of influence of the two countries. . An epidemic, supposed to be cholera, broke out in Brest-Litobsk, in Russian Poland. A Caracas court fined the New York and Bermudez Asphalt Company $5,000,000 for aiding the Matos revolt in Venezuela. The Congo government has issued a pamphlet in reply to "King Leopold's Soliloquy" by Mark Twain. Severe fighting occurred in For mosa, where the natives made strenuous resistance to the Japanese troops. <\t Talkokan the Japanese casualties Qumbered 200. Three Americans?Poe, Christmas, and Eysler?were reported to be figuring largely in preparations for thepending war in Central America. ' Moors at Mazagan and Azemmour iurned loose the prisoners in the jails tnd Europeans fifed. German navy experts at Berlin are slated over the result of a trial trip Df one of the new turbine torpedo boats which maintained a speed of more than thirty-nine miles an hour. Lord Sefton, master of the horse, resigned his post in consequence of being unable to agree with the "extreme measures o? the British Gox*^ irnmejvt." * . -4 r: ' / ?: . '.7. J ?i .-vrv.'