Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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THE CRUEL NAME. 1 ? That was a cruel name, my lad, you gave i |? me when we parted. t R? The four winds caught the sound of it rag and threw it to the world; T 9 There's never breaking twig or leaf nor any 1 ly echo started j j$5 But sends it back to me again, an evil BBu ctrm** npw hnrlpH r There was another name I ha J, a fair name v and dear to me. s (Mind you how the summer noon closed blue about the hill?) c Both my hands within your own, your keen u face near to me. The gold o' sun and scent o' earth?oh, j warm and sweet?and still! a That was a cruel name, my !ad, you gave h me at your turning. j The very stones you trod on cried it to * me as you went. And even- breeze and every bird was over quick in learning? c 'Tis blown to me, 'tis sun to me, till all my heart is rent. D That was another name I had. a fair name E and dear to me. (Mind you how the lazv sheep stood ? white against the sky?) l>oth my hands within your own, your keen face near to me? n O lad, I'm prayin' 'tis that- name that death will call me by. Theodosia Garrison, in the New England : 8 Magazine. " Story of a Cripple in a Chicago Hospital. j The very heart of the hospital was 11 Aunt 'Lize. At the tap, tap of her ^ crutches and the sound of her merry s laugh even the peevish millionaire's e wife in the west suite brightened up for a few minutes. 'It's only 'good morning' I can say 15 to you to-day, dearie." Aunt 'Liz S would call out to her. "I must Ci hurry downstairs to those precious y children!" 1 Even the lordly elevator boy 11 waited for her and helped her out at C( the next floor. Into the children's n ward she would turn, inquiring anxiously whether the babies had been a bathed yet. She. was happy indeed when she arrived in time to assist In bathing them. e " "Oh, the pink skins of them and 0 the solemn eyes of them, like bits of heaven shining through! Do you _ know," she would confide to the nurse, "I'm often thinking they're w knowing more than we do. And ^ why not? It's only a little while ago that they left the place above and I ( think the good God lets them remember it all for a while." As anxious any mother was she at I a the weekly weighing of each babe. gl "You can't stop the young rogues," she would cry. "They'll grow in h spite of you?" ~ Then she would hobble off to raake the rest of her rounds, for she was as ^ faithful as any house doctor with her ? morning calls. A carnation would j. bloom from beneath her knit shawl for the old deaf man in the end bed. kAn orange would go to another old q woman. h "Tut, tut," she would say to stop ^ their thanks. "I am giving all these j things because people know that I know how to distribute them better than they do." To a homesick girl she would I^ynsper: "i ve a nne tove siory upstairs that I'll bring down to you. ii It'll make you forget yourself for a b (ew hours. "Poor young thing!" she would a; murmer to herself. "So young to have the bloom of youth squeezed ti out of her!" Q' None could give richer sympathy b to the suffering young than Aunt "'Lize, for, indeed, her own youth M had been squeezed out with an in- o: Jury that had bent her back and n made her limbs shriveled and useless. 0 "But haven't I the two eyes of me 11 left and my two hands?" she would it remonstrate with those who attempt- tc ed to condole with her. '"Fiddlesticks, ichild! Give your sympathy to the 0 'unfortunates who need it!" v Her visits mu3t all be made by 10 11 *'clock, for then an orderly would t( come to wheel her into an operating j1 room where for an hour she would ibear torments that are given few to 13 know. For the rest of the day she 0 would have to lie motionless in her Sl bed, the blood gone from her wrinkled 0 Theeks and her eyes closed with pain. TT V.. th/. J- ii nuwevcJi uj iatc auciuuuu IUC iu domitable spirit would conquer and s Aunt 'Lize would be at work propped e up in bed. She mended socks for the .young internes. h "Poor young things!" she confided \ v to a visitor. " 'Twas a pity to see * them all run down at the heels and c their mothers miles away. These a laundries do wear holes in things and * you wouldn't have to throw their a clothes away for the sake of a few f small holes?not when Aunt 'Lize 1 can mend them!" * i Surreptitiously she was embroider- T ing a pair of cuffs for the probation 2 nurse on that floor. It was a char- ^ acteristic of Aunt 'Lize that she * should spend her spare moments pre- G paring a surprise gift for the one in- 1 dividual in the hospital who ever said sharp things to her. So she went through the days, 1H cheering, encouraging, loving, moth- 11 ering the whole institution. Even the t ambulance horses had neat straw i hats that she had made for hot sum- t mer days. j Finally the tim came when the ; surgeons said they had done all they : could for h3r and that she might go i home. "Home meant to her only i the one room in which she lived < among strangors?beloved, no doubt, < butalonj. Oniy then did her courage < fail. She had filled her place so com- i pletely in the hospital, she had been 1 so appreciated, that the thought of 1 ^leaving it all and going back to her I former colorless existence was too much for her. ] > "Oh, the little ones," she moaned. < "I could leave all but them! I al- 1 ways iongeu for one of my ?wn, I though I knew it wasn't for such as < I! Sometime3 I've thought If I only had a little more money?onlj a little moi?e?I'd take some mother >s baby. But there's just enough for one and I couldn't bring poverty on a helpless child." ? A nurse repeated Aunt 'Lize's words to her surgeon. Whether h-i carried them to the west suite or whether they remained with binx no ' one knows. The next day a lecal- ' ooking envelop - came for Miss Elizi 3rown?our Aunt 'Llze. It an< lounced that a sum of money had >een deposited with the law firm vhose name headed the paper, to be cept in trust and the income to fce mid monthly to her or her heirs "former." The name of the donor was lot given, but the paper said that this traa Hrno o a n amoll rotiirn fnr thfl unshinc scattered by a heroine, not if an hour, but of every day, too genline to be conscious of her heroism. Aunt 'Lize did not question the [ocument for a moment. She Immeliately reached for her crutches and lobbied to the elevator. With shinng eyes she entered the children's I'ard. "Help me pick out my baby!" she ried. But between the waifs she could lot decide?she wanted them all. >ach was lovely in her eyes. At last she reached the end crib. Here's mine," she whispered. The nurse lifted up a nameless, lewborn girl, with a crippled arm. "That's why I'll take her?she was ent just for me!" said Aunt 'Lize. The others might grow up to despise ae, but this little one will undertand."?Chicago News. UMMER CLOTHING IN TROPICS. Ldvice Based On the Experience of Dark-Skinned Races. Americans contemplating a tour 1 the Orient asked the United States ionsul General in Calcutta what they hould wear in summer. Here is the ssence of his reply: Summer clothing in India varies in olor and texture, but in the main it } light of color, light in weight and enerally white. This has been the ase for probably a thousand or more ears. Lately it has been suggested iat the outside should be white and le inside brown, black, red or orange Dior. Tht theory js that the white lan should endeavor to imitate naire?that is, the native, who has black or brown skin, covers hlmjlf with white eloth. He is comjrtable no matter how hot it gets, ven when exposed to the direct rays f the sun. The native of a tropical climate as a pigment in his skin that resists le actinic or short rays of the sun, hich are really dangerous to the hite man, who is not possessed of le dark pigment. This color projets the colored man from the de;ructive rays of the sun. The white tan should wear dark-colored silk r lisle thread or some other dark auze underwear, and over that light hite or light colored flannel or hite linen or cotton. This is the est clothing for a Caucasian in the opics. If the rule is followed by a hite person in India during the hot}st weather, and a pith hat or tropic" is worn, there will be as ttle discomfort as is possible from opical heat.- Of course there are ther considerations besides dress, ne should eat little meat, avoid alcoolic drinks, sleep under an overhead lectric fan, if possible, and take a lort sleep in the afternoon if busiess permits. The Country Editor. It is a well-established fact that i no other vocation of life are more usiness tact, more knowledge of huian nature, more push and energy ad more firmness required than in le successful management of a coun v nanrcnonop onH in nr\ nthwr hmci* J UV* TT w , U11VA AU AAV ^ VA ^ A ess is philanthropy so systcmaticalr cultivated and practiced. Ordinarily a country editor, as [r. H. C. Miller observes, is a man t limited means, and in the very ature of things the highest degree ? business sagacity is required to lake both ends meet. The gatherlg of news and the writing of edi>rials are essential requisites in getng out a paper, but they constitute nly a small part of the duties deolving upon a country editor. He lust, of course, produce a good edljrial page and present the happenlgs of the community in an attractive shape; but, above all, he must e a business man and never lose an pportunity for getting a new subcriber, an advertisement or a piece f job work. While the business and the editorxl departments of the big dailies are eparate ana aisuncc, tne country ditor must of necessity take care of oth, and he almost always acquits ilmself of the task successfully and vith becoming pride and dignity. Jnlikc his colleague of the wealthy ity paper, who with all his ability nd brilliant attainments is, after all, >ut a cog in a large wheel driven by l power over which he has not the lightest control, the country editor s the whole thing. But in order o be successful he must be familiar vith the affairs of his paper to its smallest detail, sweep out the office, mild the fire, solicit business, collect tills, report a big fire or a sermon and 'ditorially discuss the questions of he day with equal facility. No Need For a Poor Farm. Carver's town farm is now no more. vTot because the town cannot afford 0 support a retreat for the needy, jut for the very good reason that here are no needy cases to be sup;orted or cared for. This was not ihvays the case, for only a few years igo the town had as well populated 1 poor farm as any town of its size n the State, but one by one the venerable inhabitants have passed away, ind to-day the body of Mrs. Rebecca Dhurchill, the last survivor, was laid iway with due ceremony in the little burying ground. For years she had been the only dependent occupant .?! the farm. Now that there are no poor to bt housed and fed. the farm will b< iloscd and the occupants of the 1 illlc town believe that the closing will b< for good and all.?Carver Correspond ence Boston Journal. Encouragement. ' I'm afraid," said the soubrelif "that I'll not be able to appear to night. I have a sore throat." "Don't let that worry you, dear,' replied the prima donna. "Nothini could happen to your throat lha wouldn't help your singing."?Cbic ago Record-Herald. Finest of Autoi SPLENDID AUTOMOBILE RACE-T LAP Just opened, and cost $300,000. Th miles an hour a safe speed. Th miles in circuit.?From Illustra Thread Cutter. A recently patented device of interest to dressmakers and tailors is the thread cutter shown in illustration below. Persons employed in these vocations have found that a great deal of time is consumed in picking up a pair of scissors each time it is necessary to cut the sewing thread. This contrivance was designed especially to do away with scissors for cutting the thread. It :omprises a pair of pivoted blades, the handles of which are set at an ingle. At the end of one handle is a slot and in the other a lug, to limit the movement of the blades. In use the thread cutter is placed in the palm of the hand, being held in position by a loop which slips over the little finger. It is claimed that i: can be kent in the palm of the hand without interfering with the operation while sewing, there being perfect freedom of the fingers at all times. A slight twist of the fingers | is all that is required to operate the cutter to break the thread.Condensed Milk. And speaking of cows, it is related that a Baltimorean who was not used to the ways of the country went into the suburbs to visit a friend who had taken up amateur farming with two cows, a bee and a hoe. At the table they had excellent milk for general purposes and astonishingly good cream for the coffee and cereals. The visitor expressed his admiration, and then inquired: "TxrViinVi r\f wmir i<nwa srivps cream?" T? UIVU VI J VM4 wv * ? 0- . ? ~ ? "The sorrel," was the prompt reply. "But we have a neighbor down the itreet whose cows don't give anything but condensed milk." "Indeed?" "Absolutely true. It is an invention of his own. He gets the condensed milk by putting six cows into a stall big enough for only one. ' And the visitor returned to Baltimore breathing reverently: "Marvellous! Marvellous! I will never again question the wisdom af nature."?Baltimore News. In Rhodesia, Africa, at Broken Hill, nearly 1,000,000 tons of lead and zinc are in sight. Curious Craft of KIVttK A1 Ol. iviaii i o, m MODERN l*p-to-Date. ~ '? Father?"Willie, your conduct oi laic lias been most reprehensible. I ciiniiot imagine v.*here you learn sucli behavior." 5 Willie?"Am I to understand, sir t that you entirely discredit the theorj - J of herediU?"?Woman's Home ComI yaiuou. nobile Courses. ? RACK NEAR WEYBRIDGE, ENG- ? <D. T e slope at the curves makes nine e e course is three and one-quarter u ted London News. lc e Japanese Boat in Chicago. I While peaceful citizens on both sides of the wor.d are reading about l> the troubles between the United ? States and Japan, few of Chicago's 2,000,000 are aware that a Japanese ^ boat is here. Yet nevertheless it is true. A Japanese vessel bearing the formidable name of Hoomaru is quartered in the Jackson Park launch house and needs only a few guns, a new motor . and a searchlight in order to take at 1 least some part in any hostilities that ^ might arise between the two coun- . tries. The Hoomaru, which is about . twenty feet long, belongs to the Japanese Government, and carried passengers on the lagoon during the . World's Fair in connection with the ! Japane~e exhibit. It has Lever been removed, but remains in drydock . within a stone's throw of the wooded island. Hundreds of persons in row- ? boats pass the curious craft daily and wonder why it is and why it is ? there.?Chicago Daily News. New Mucilage Bottle. The problem of devising a mucilage bottle which would prove en- a tirely satisfactory for home use has E received the attention of inventors ^ !or many years. Everybody is fami- * iiar with the nickel bottle of mucilage purchased at the corner store. " The bottle is securely sealed by a tieht-fittine cork, and with each bot- ? He a small brush for applying the a lluid is supplied gratuitously. After v using the mucilage the question c arises of what to do with the brush. a The cork must be replaced or the a nucilage becomes hard. If the brush e r 'j Mm \ - 1 ? t -?4! r is allowed to dry' it becomes hard, i A neat method of solving the difHcul- r ty is shown in the illustration. On c the inner side of the neck of the bot- if tie is a band of spring wire, the outer t side being open. The brush fits in- ^ to this ring, an opening also being ' f made in the cork. To release the z brush the handle is withdrawn j through the side opening of the ring. e A Wyoming man has had the idea patented. This improvement could { readily be added with slight addi- E n.-vnni met- tn manufacturers. t I " ? - ' the Olden Time. 1 I RRY-BOATS ON THE MISSISSIPPI 0., NOW REPLACED BY VESSELS. ?From Leslie's Weekly. Terms of Acccptance. It is said that once when the lata Dr. Tanner, the Irish M. P., had asked in the House of Commons whether it were true that the Duke of Cambridge had resigned his position as Commander-in-Chief, a Major Jones of Penzance was so outraged that lie challenged Dr. Tanner to a duol, and the following telegraphic correspondence took place: "In reply to your despicable ques lion about the Duke ot L-ainDriuge designate you a coward. Delighted to give you satisfaction across the , water. Pistols." "Wire received. Will meet you to- .> niorrow in Constantinople, under the i Tower of Galata, midnight. Being < challenged, prefer torpedoes. Bring another ass."?Tit-Bits. i The Pessimistic Poet. flint smpils the sweetest i is the first to fade. The boy who runs the fastest is the one to soonest jade. , The brightest of the evenings has ' the gloomiest of dawns. The man - with the biggest yard must Sut the. biggest lawus.?.Albany Ledger. The opaque ceutre of a cake of arficial ice, which a French physician as pointed out, is due to freezing om the outside the impurities, inluding bacteria, being crowded into le last portion of solidity. The record power transmission is aat of the Kern River plant, in southrn California, where 25,000 horseower is sent 117 miles at a pressure f 85,000 volts. Extensions of this lant are contemplated which will inrease the horsepower to 65,000. Comparative tests of electricity aad neumatic drills have resulted overwhelmingly in favor of the latter, his is a very severe service and the lectric drill does not seem to stand p under it, and time is constantly >st in making repairs to the machinry. A German botanist, O. Kuntze, has ointed out that a certain specimen f taxodium at Oaxada, Mexico, which eretofore has been regarded as the iggest tree in the world, having a iameter of teu metres, consists in eality of threi, trees which grew into ne. Copper is stated to be so hardened s to take a cutting edge by adding to t, while In a molten state, about two er cent, of potassium ferrocyanide. 'he color is not affected. The reason or the change is not ?lear, but it is upposed to result from the introducion of iron and possibly carbon. An experimental railroad for test nor oi rrnaUno' rl atMS>?kQ matoriflld IICXoH n track construction and different ypes of motor cars for railroad use as been built by the Railway Departlent of the German Government "he road is double tracked and is val-shaped, having a length of 576C eet. The straight track is about 80C eet long.?Engineering Record. Two English scientists discovered bout ten years ago, that fused silics Qight be treated in the same waj s glass, but it was left for Germans o develop its commercial possible ies. An English firm has now taker ip the original process and is enablec o place this material on the markel t reasonable rates. To chemists the iscovery is of great service, for the essels made of fused silica will nol rack even when heated white liol nd plunged into water. They are lso impregnable to acids, and it is ven possible to use them for melting ilatinum. BAILORS ROSE IN THEIR MIGHT lefused to Permit a Performance Tliat Satirized Their Craft. In 1769 Foote had produced a bur esque, the author of which has nevei teen discovered, entitled "Th< i'ailors: a Tragedy For Warn Veather." Dowton announced the re ival of this piece for his benefit. A: he title implies, it was a satire upoi he sartorial craft, and upon the billi teing issued an indignation meetini vas convened by the knights of th< teedle, who vowed to oppose the per ormance by might and main. Menacing letters were sent to Dow on, telling him that 17,000 tailori vould attend to his piece, and one vho signed himself "Death," addee hat 10,000 men could be found i lecessary. These threats wen aughed at by the actors; but whei tight came it was discovered that thi raft were in earnest, and that, witl ew exceptions, they had contrivet o secure every seat in the house vhile a mob without still squeeze< or admission. The moment Dowtoi ippeared upon the stage there was ; liaeous uproar, ana some one tnrev i pair of shears at him. Not a word would the rioters listei o, nor would they accept any compro oise in the way of changing the piece Within howled and hissed without in ermission hundreds of exasperatec ailors; outside howled and bellowe< housands of raging tailors, who at empted to storm the house. So for nidable did the riot wax that a mag strate had to be sent for and specia :onstables called out. but these wen lelpless against overwhelming odda ?o a troop of Life Guards was ulti nately summoned, who after makinj sixteen prisoners put the rest. t< light.?From the American Tailo inu L-uiier. Trees Growing in Churches. The parish church of Ross, Plere 'ordshire, possesses some singular ec ilesiastical "ornaments" in two fini jlm trees flourishing one on each sidi >f the pew where once sat the famou 'Man of Ross," John Kyrle. 'ihe; ire fabled locally to have sprung 111 is a token of divine wrath agains t profane rector of Ross who ha< :ut down some trees which Kyrle ha< ilanted in the churchyard. Trees in or on churches arc no incommon. At Kempsey, in the ad joining county of Worcester, a larg< iorse chestnut tree has grown in th< chancel from the tomb of Sir Ed :nund Wylde, who died about 1629 [)n the tower of Fishtoft Church, nea rtf f m*r\ rt?c? n 1 ucftS hoonh onrl ? DUOIUU, 1 C ?r O tfc IUOIJ uccvil, UilU ? similar tree may be seen on the towe jf Culmstock in Devonshire. Apar from intrinsic beauty the parisl ;hurch of Crick, in Northampton 5bire, is or was recently remarkabl for two trees growing out. of thi masonry about fifty feet from th ground.?London Daily News. Her Autidotc. A Washington doctor was recentl; :alled to his telephone by a negr woman formerly in the service of hi wife. In great agitation the dark idvised the physician that her young Jl/4 nroo i n O K1 rl TTT O V C3L U1111 LI ?ao ill tfc Wftu MU; . "What seems to be the trouble? asked the physician. ' Doc, she done ewallowc-d a whol bottle of ink!" "I'll be over there in a short whil to see her," said the medico. "In th meantime, have you done anythin for her?" "I done give her three pieces ( blottin' paper, Doc," said the negres! doubtfully.?Harper's Weekly. j STEAMER FOUNDERS; A QPflRF MMUIN 11 JUUIIL. UIIUIIII Ore Carrier Cyprus Sinks in Lake Superior on Second Trip. ONLY ONE MAN SURVIVES WRECK Story of Mate Pitt, Who Was Rescued?Neglect of Ordinary Pre* cautions Cause ? Cargo Shifted With Hatches Open. Sault Ste. Marie, Mich.?The steeJ steamer Cyprus, owned by the Lacka- I wanna Transportation Company, and on her second trip down the lakes , with a cargo of ore, foundered at 7.45 p. m. in Lake Superior, eighteen miles north of Deer Park, which Is about thirty miles from Grand Marais, and all of the crew of twenty- | two excepting Second Mate Pitt, were ' lost. He was washed ashore near Deei Park lashed to a life raft, and barely 1 alive. Recovering consciousness af ter hours of constant nursing he de-t scribed the last moments of the crew i on board the m-ratea vessel. The Cyprus wasmaking fairly good weather in the storm, when suddenly the cargo of ore shifted, giving the ; craft a heavy list. This was about 7 ' j p. m., when the vessel was off Deer ' Park in the regular course of vessels bound up and down. Water began i pouring in through the hatches, i throwing the crew into a panic, many . of them putting on life preservers. Captain Huyck felt confident that he could reach shelter behind White Fish Point, and the boats were not lowered. Both engine and pumps L were working, and it was believed t that the vessel would not sink with, out warning. But suddenly the big freighter rolled over on her side and almost in| stantly plunged to the bottom. When . she rolled over the first and second mates, a watchman and the wheels1 man were close to a life raft, which they cut loose and cast off just in tiqae to .escape the whirlpool caused , by the vessel as she plunged beneath t the surface of the water. r Until 2 o'clock a. m. the four men r clung to their frail support, while the waves drove them toward shore. Five times in the angry surf of the 1 rocky shore the raft was upset, the I men each time having to fight a heavy t , undertow for their lives. Each fight ; weakened the benumbed and disj ' heartened sailors, and after the fifth t battle with the surf only Pitt rel mained upon the raft. The next timg the raft was caught up on the surf it ; was thrown upon the beach. * Pitt had just strength enough left > to crawl out of reach of the waves before he fell exhausted,' where he later was found by the patrol of the life-saving station. The vessel lies in nineteen fathoms of water. Nine ol , the bodies have been recovered, but ' the remainder of the twenty-two wilj probably never come to the surface. The last payroll of the steamer " Cyprus was aboard the boat and was probably lost. This alone can give J the names of the members of the i crew. The list available is as fol* - lows: 3 Captain, F. B. Huyck, of Sheridan, ! N. Y. ,. First mate, John Smith, Cleveland. ' Second mate, J. C. Pitz. 1 Engineer, J. J. Norcross, of Gow - anda, N. Y. Cooks W. M. Dundon and wife. These are the names of all who are - known to have been aboard the boat. 3 SIX DIE IN FIRE. 1 . f BrJde-to-Be Among Victims Who Arc ? Smothered at Gloversville, N. Y. 1 Gloversville, N. Y.?Half an houi 3 after a party of merrymakers had left l Solomon Frank's house, where they i lyid celebrated the approaching nuptials of the second daughter, Dora, j Are swept through the house and six members of the family, including the affianced bride, were killed. Only the 1 mother and two infant sons escaped. r The dead are: Solomon Frank, aged forty years: his daughters, i Sarah, twenty-one years old; Dora. . nineteen; Rose, seventeen; Minnie. twelve, and Mary, ten. All were sufI focated by smoke. " Frank was r. well-to-do glove cut* ter. Soon after the girls had retired * Mrs. Frank discovered the flames. Ul.l. Anirrinnf A/1 frArrt O wmcn CtpjJttl trutljr Ullsiuavcu nuui u - defective chimney. She gave the . alarm, but was able only to save hei I two little boys and herself. The B father lost his life in attempting to ( reach his daughters, the position of ' whose bodies when found indicated that they had left their beds and * made futile efforts to escape through 3 the windows. r MARINE OFFICER A SUICIDE. Lieut. James N. Sutton Shoots Himself After an Annapolis Kop. Annapolis, Md.?Second Lieut. Jas c N. Sutton, of the United States Mae rine Corps, committed suicide with a s revolver as he was returning from a v I hop at the Naval Academy. It is sup p posed that lie was deranged. Sutton . was from Portland, Ore. , Lieuts. R. E. Adams, of HarrisJ burg, Pa., and E. P. Rolker, son of 3 Chief Engineer Rolker, of the navy. were slightly injured while attemptt ing to disarm Sutton. One pistol was - taken from him, but Sutton immedi3 ; ately drew another and shot himself e in the head. RAILROAD HAS TO QUIT. 1 Virginia and Southwestern, of the Southern System, Suspends. t Asheville, N. C.?The Virginia and l! Southwestern Railway, which was sold last June to the Southern Railway for $10,000,000, has suspended operations on account of the new rate 0 law. e It is stated that the abandonment of this road was made necessary by the failure of the Southern to provide sufficient improvement funds with y which to carry it on. D " g Newsy Paraj^aphs. y Germauy baa a treasury surplus. Canada was still a seller of Canadian Pacific. Kansas is now moving for a twocent fare law. e The taste for bull fighting is growI ing in Francc. e Polar explorers report that thero e is 110 land north of Alaska, g Greece, for the third time, will establish a legation in Washington. >' American built automobiles are i, successfully invading principal Euro-! pean centres* Late News BY WIRE i ??????? ; | WASHINGTON. Attorney-General Bonaparte has decided that foreign vessels carrying coal to the Pacific fleet need not pay the usual tonnage and light dues. When the sixteen battleships of Rear-Admiral Robley D. Evans' Atlantic fleet start from Hampton Roads on December 15 for their cruise to the Pacific they will be in as fit condition as if they were steaming out to meet the enemy. Harmony of action, purpose and policy was urged for the keynote of the nineteenth annual session of the National Association of Railway Commissioners. Lienutenant-Commander Cleland Davis, of the Navy, has gone to Norfolk to install wireless telephone Instruments on the battleships Virginia and Connecticut. It is the intention of the Navy Department to put wireless telephones on all the vessels of the Atlantic fleet. James R. Garfield, Secretary of the Interior, expressed satisfaction with the work of the department's agent? as reviewed by him during his Western trip. Testifying In the North Carolina rate hearing at Washington, Controller Plant, of the Southern Railway, said continued agitation against railroads may decrease business. The censuB bulletin shows that wholesale butchers killed 31,000,000 hogs, 11,000,000 sheep and 7,000,000 beeves during the last year, with a value of $G63,000,000. Returning from an investigation in Europe, members of a Congressional committee declared that Continental governments are likely to take action to stpp the flood of emigration to America. ?? -srt' OUR ADOPTED ISLANDS. The Cuban labor organizations adopted a resolution to order a general strike if the railways employed strikebreakers; a dispatch from Samuel Gompers offered the aid of American labor bodies. The United States will at once fortify Subig Bay, in the Philippines, which Admiral Dewey is said to regard as more important strageticaily. than Manila Bay. The cable ship Sllvertown laid the shore end of the Havana-New York cable at Havana and sailed for New York. . '.>3r In the sugar sections of Cuba gen- , erally the supply of labor is reported as quite short, but other than that the conditions are good and the harvesting of the sugar crop is progressing rapidly. The Santa Fe Railroad Company, has contracted for $1,500,000 worth of Ohio wood railroad ties to be delivered from Hawaii during the next five years. Governor Magoon directed the expenditure of nearly a million dollars from the surplus revenues of Cuba on internal Improvements during the v month of August. Gold to the amount of 250 ounces has been mined by Igorrotes at Baguio, Philippine Islands. It is said that in Benguet Province more than , __ 200 native miners are engaged In delving for the precious mineral. DOMESTIC. Governor James H. Higgins was renominated by the Democrats of Rhode Island, who pledged their support to Colonel R. H. I. Goddard for United States Senator. At the meeting of the Interstate Cotton Steel Crushers' Association, it was declared that careless handling nf rar^nea and unfavorable tariff cause an annual loss of about $3,? 000,000. August Hartje, In seeking to roopen his divorce case, filed sensational letters reflecting on the good name of his wife. They were written foy the wife's sister to her former fiance, who sold them to Hartje. , At the Salt Lake City meeting the Union Pacific management was inJorsed without opposition. Seeking shelter under a bridge from the rain, the three little daughters of Samuel Cook, of Durango, Cal., were caught by a sudden cloudburst and swept into the stream to their death. Governor Glenn, of North Carolina, Is deeply gratified by a telegram from J. H. Tucker, of Asheville, telling him the Prohibitionists had defeated the ealoons and made tne city "dry oy, 700 majority. Judge Lacombe made permanent the' receivership of the New York City Railway Companyand the Metropolitan Street Railway Company. ^ , FOREIGN. The National Assembly aflopte 1 and the Shah sanctioned the revised constitution for Persia. The Greek Consul-General at Saloniki, Turkey, M. Coromilas, has been appointed Minister of his Government to the United States. Viscount Hayashi has been promoted to the rank of Count and Dr. Motono and M. Kurino have been marie barons for their work in concluding recent Japanese treaties. Minister of Education Briand, of France, has signed decrees providing for the dissolution of three Cath olic communities, including me sisters of Marie-Joseph, for violation of the law governing religious congregations. Tho German Government is considering the advisability of building enormous balloon sheds. Orders have already been given for sheds at Strasburg, near the French frontier, and at Kiel. Cauadlan manufacturers petitioned Sir Wilfrid Laurier that the exportation of wood pulp for paper making be prohibited. W. T. Stead, now at The Hague, is organizing a peace pilgrimage through Latin-America. Starting from England next March, the pilgrims will go first to New York, thence by train to Mexico. A dispatch from Seoul says that another plot laid by the former Emperor to frustrate Japan's plans in Korea has been discovered. The growth of cholera epidemic in. Tokio has aroused grave apprehension among Japanese authorities. The German Foreign Office denied ! ti'e rumors that a German fleet would I visit American Atlantic ports after i ilin hnttleshins hnd irone to the Pa ciflc, and that an understanding in tlio nature of an alliance existed between the two nations. The Japanese Government has opened a million acres of Korean land to settlement.