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GIPSY SONG. Under mo the gratis. Over me the sky, I can sleep and dream until The night poos by; Till the shadows pasa. Till the stars depart. Let a roving gipsy fill His hungry ueart! , Voices in the vines, , Visions in the vales, It is mine to know them all 4 Innrr rrrcxi*i> < n ile J * When the morning shines I Like a rose above. |j| Let me hear the gipsy call |gf Of birds I love! (?| Murmur of i he s( ream. Whisper of tho tret-, H?E... I can understand tho song ^K|| They sing to me; Mine the blissful dream, w Builded oi' delight,. wr Let the gipsy's day be long, And brief his night! ?Frank Dempster Sherman, in Munsej's Magazine. glWBf Fa long, quiet day] \ in the cflonw. j r.j It was Betty Con au's idea?a Ions, quiet day in the country. It did QAtinH nina huf it hirnorl Anf trv Ho the longest day I ever remember. Betty invited seven of us girls to go on an early morning train to Brookton. From (here we were to drive eight miles to Linden Falls. She said Arthur Knight had promised to bring some of the men in our crowd oat in his automobile in time for an early supper. There was a wagonette waiting for us at Brookton and we girls climbed into it and it was nearly lunch time when we got to the falls. We were all hungry, but Betty said we must save the best things for supper, when the men would be with us. So we had only a little snack of plain bread and butter and spring water. After that we thought we'd teke a nap and we lay down in the shade, but the f mosquitoes were so plentiful that :-aleep was out of the question. Because we wanted something to do we decided to arrau. e the supper table. We spread a bt~utiful white cloth that Betty brought and laid out all the sandwiches, salad, eggs, sardines, cake and cookies with heaps of pickles and jelly. Then we made wreaths of maple leaves which we wove. The lunch looked so inviting > we could hardly resist It. For fear wi<might be tempted to nibble, we went for a walk, leaving our driver in charge. We strolled beside the brook into a deep wood, where we found quantities of ferns that we thought would add the finishing touch to our decorations, and we became so interested i Iir getting them we stayed longer than was intended. Then, suddenly realizing how late it was getting, we wore afraid the automobile party had arrived during our absence, and we ran so fast that we were all hot and ^breathless. Betty fell and turned her ankle. She is always turning her ankle. She did it at almost every dance we j^went to last winter. I can understand that, for the men used to flock around 1\<m: and offer to carry her or tear up r their handkerchiefs for bandages. t>ut I can't see why Bhe should turn ankle out in the country with only us girls around. Of course we had to stop running and help her. She leaned so heavily on me that I had to get one of the other girls to take my place. Maybe we weren't surprised when we got back to our picnic place and found the horses, which had been taken out of the wagonette and tied to trees, standing on that handsome tablecloth of Betty's. We rushed upon them and shooed them away, but we were too late?there was nothing left of our delicious luncheon but a few olives and one pot of roquefort cheese. The tablecloth was utterly ruined. Betty cried when she saw the dreadful holes the horses' hoofs had cut in it and all the jelly spilled over it and trampled in. I think it was silly of Betty to bring a fine tablecloth. It was just a bit of ostentation on her part. "What will the men say?" all the girls asked. "They'll be starving and we haven't a thing to give them," moaned Betty. "I don't believe they'll be any hungrier than I am this minute," I said. ' If you had let us eat some of those things at lunch time we would have been better off now." "Well, don't blame me. I didn't know that those horrid horses were going to spoil everything." hi ' T*V. r* /IfitTAi* ie> fft hlnmfl " eliM r\rtr\ | l uc uurci AO tu Micoaiu vug of the girls. "I'd like to know why ho didn't stay here to watch them and where he is now." "He's here," cried another of the girls who Jlad wandered a little way from the scene of the disaster. ,;He's sound asleep. Shall I wake him?" "Yes," we all answered in an angry chorus. When he opened his ?yes after a thrust in the ribs from "a white embroidered parasol he looked around stupidly. Then he suddenly jumped up, and asked excitedly, ' Where are them horses?" Where were they? Not one of us had thought of them siuce we chased them off the tablecloth and now they were nowhere in sight. The driver b^gan calling and whistling and tearing around in every direction/and we 'girls, all cxcept Betty, joined in the search. "Well, we won't see Uiem animals again to-day," said the driver at last. "It's dollars to doughnuts they have Spiked out for home. T seen their f tracks on the road and it's no use I hunting any more." We looked despairing!y at each other for a moment and then B?tty remarked that Arthur would just have to take ns to the station in his automobile?that \vc could all pile in somehow. That thought cheered us and I looked :it my watch to see if it wasn't t'me fof the men to c.ome." "Why, it's alter six!" I exclaimed. "They ought to have been here long f ag? " "They must come soon," said Betty. I But they didn't come. We waited and waited, getting crosser and mora tired every minute. At eight o'clock we sent the driver to find some farm horses to take us to Brookton. It was after ten o'clock when wo reached the station, and discovered that we had jusl missed a trait). Wq had an hour to wait, and we were all so hungry, irritable and peevish that we couldn't speak without almost snapping off each others' heads. Father met us at the traiu when i we got ift town. I had telegraphed him, and he and Betty's brother, who was there, too, got the crowd safely home. Arthur Knight called me up this morning and told me that the automobile broke down fifteen miles from everywhere'and that they had a really terrible time. He seemed to long for sympathy, but he didn't get any from i me. I hope Betty won't try to get up any more excursions.?Chicago News. Uncle Hez Makes a Clean Getaway By STRICKLAND W. filLLILAN. ' Once," said Uncle Hez, our oldest vet, as he hitched up on his crutch and thoughtfully picked around over the box of crackers until he found one that wasn't chipped, "I made wnat some uraggm winauags ruuuu hyer would call a party keen gitaway." "Spin it, Hez; spin if. Don't let it ferment on yer mind. 'Tain't none too strong, as 'tis," put in Oscar Hamebuck'e as he shaved off a quarter-inch slice of cheese. "I was in Andersonville prison, I time o' th' war, an" I was wantin' turrible bad t' git out. The meals wasn't what I'd be'n ust to t' home, an' some other things about th' place hed got us fellers some disgruntled with th' management. I would of left a heap sooner, only them bloodhound dawgs was so allfircd keen on th' scent that mighty few o' th' boys that started ever got more'n a mile or two before they was ketched. "Once, though. I was hangin* 'round th' drug-store o' th' prison, when th' feller in charge steps out, leavin' me standin' clost by th" door unbeknownst t' him. A idee come to me like a shot. I hustled inside an' grabbed a big half-gallon bottle o' chloroform an' got plumb complete away with it afore he returned back. "That night I fills m' boots full o' the stuff an' sneaks through a hole I' dug 'n under th' stockade. Away I went, lickety-split, an' 'twasn't more 'n ten minutes afore I hears them hound dawgs a-bawlin' on the trail. "I hurried on, hopin" my roose might work, an' purty soon they wasn't but one hound dawg a-bawlin' on th' trail, an' he wos stoppin' right in the midst of 'is loudest and survigrussest bellers t' gape an' stretch hisse'f. Ye could jest see 'im a-doin' it. Between his bellers ye could hear t'other hound dawg a-snorin' half a mild furder back. I was still hopeful. "Finally th' other hound dawg laid ^awr? on' -Jinorl in th* cnnrin' an* T kuowed I was saved. I tuck off m' boots, emptied the rest o' th' chloroform out o' my boots, worked over my feet till I got 'em t' set up an' take notices, an' by mornin' I wos out o' reach?hoy, Oscar? What's that you're puttin' through ye?"? From Judge. An Old "Ad." 'Nothing succeeds like perseverance," said Mark Twain at a dinner. "When the luck seems most against us, then we should work and hope hardest of all. In moments of discouragement let us remember my old friend, Henry Plumley, of Virginia City. "Henry Plumley ran a collar factory. Times were reputed to be hard with him. When his factory, which was very heavily insured, burned down there was every indication that he had set the place on fire himself iu order to get the insurance money. Virginia City was the soul of honor in those days. Shocked beyond words, it rose cimasse, seized Henry Plumley, put a halter round his neck and lynched him. "But he did not die. The Sheriff arrived and cut him down in time. He was tried and found guilty and served a term in jail. "On his release you wouldn't have thought that he'd return to Virginia City again, eh? He did. though. He came back, reopened his collar factory and prospered. "What gave him his start was the odd advertisement with which he announced his return to business among us. Preceded by a brass band, Henry, in a great gilt chariot, burst upon our streets. He sat on a kind of golden throne, and he held on a crimson cushion in his lap an old, old collar. Above the collar, on a crimson banner, waved this inscription in huge letters oC gold: " 'This is the collar we wore when we were lynched. It saved our life. Be wise in time and use no other. At all retailers, ten cents apiece, three for a quarter.' " ? VVashiugtou Star. X Story of Fires. Figures collected by the International Society of State and Municipal Building Commissioners and Inspectors show that every week, on an average. fires in the United Stales burn tip three theatres, three public halls, twelve churches, ten schools, two hospitals, two asylums, two "col leges,'' six aparuueiu nouses, mrec department stores. two jails, twentys;ix hotels?llie fires at seashore resorts this summer will raise the hotel average?140 ""at" houses, and 1600 single dwelling houses. Moreover, many ofbuildings destroyed would have been torn down if they had not burnod. A countryman who suffered from a slight fire said he bad lost two houses and three barns, if you counted the doghouses, the chirken-house and the cowshed. In such lists as the foregoing a house is a house, be it ever so worthless, and a "college" may call itself so even if it occupies but three rooms, and does most of its business by mall,? Youth's Companion. THE STATUE OF By tre German Sculp There i3 a sculptor in Germany, p: Professor Max Klinger, who has out- G done Rodin's Victor Hugo in his B statue of Beethoven, which is here- e: with reproduced. Of this statue Mr. sc Arthur Symons has this to say, in his a: "Studies in Seven Arts:" "Bethoven's ir music Is national, as Dante's or si Shakespeare's poetry is national, and k it is only since Beethoven appeared a! in Germany that Germany can be ti compared with the Italy which pro- ei duced Dante and the England which ti Spraying Attachment of Hose Nozzle, ti The hose is now a household es- u sential, and where it is put to the use S( of watering the garden, in addition o: to the other duties imposed upon it, if it is desirable that it should be sup- it b JlB plied with a sprinkling attachment. The usual manner of accomplishing o this is by means of a thread, and a a couple of turns of the two parts of II the nozzle by which the stream is fi transformed from a solid jet to a tl spray. It is often desirable to make tl this change a number of times while U HE LAUGHS LOUDEST i ' i ^ i i > mmrnmrnrn???????mmm+m?mmw?4 \ Disappearing Chairs. ?: The nuisance and labor involved a in removing the chairs from a hall c after a performance, so that the floor 0 r ummmm? , j. ?f]nwi wi?> aw ? Oc ! IA3S Automatically Disappears. 1 BEETHOVEN. tor, Max Klirger. "" >1' - - -v roduced Shakespeare. On the whole ermans have not been ungrateful, ut they have had their own ways of tpressing gratitude. A German :ulptor has represented Beethoven 3 a large, naked gentleman, sitting i an emblematical arm chair, with a lawl decently thrown across his nees. In this admired production 11 the evil tendencies, gross ambi ons and ineffectual energies of mod n German art seem to have concen ated themselves. on of making the transformation sing the hose, and while the opera;ems simple enough, it is somewhat f a bother. The solid jet is ruinous applied to the lawn or garden, as s force digs up the soil and the ody of water carries it off. A very simple attachment has been jcently invented by which the stream om a plain nozzle may be exchanged t will into a spray with the least ossible amount of labor, with no loss f time and with no possibility of any ;cidents resulting from the efforts f the operator to make this change. The new apparatus consists of a in-shaped blade mounted by means f a hinge attachment to the body f f : nozzle. The blade has a poron extending back to a point which i convenient to the operator. This lade is normally held away from the :ream, but a slight pressure in the ?ar extension brings it instantly in intact with the stream and breaks it p into the desired spray. Upon eing released the blade is carried way from the stream and the water merges in an unbroken body. Tea in Gont. I am a great believer in the value f tea as a preventive of gout, and as 1 iding in the elimination of uric acid. : should be taken weak and quite eshly made. I also always iusist 011 le avoidat.ce of sweet fruits and on le free use of vegetables.?From the [ospital. WHO LAUGHS LAST. ?Journal Amusant. an be used for dancing, has created, demand for a method whereby the hairs can be quickly removed. One f the methods suggested is an autonatic disappearing chair, which is hown in the illustration. The chair? ire arranged in rows and supported >n uprights, which extend below the '* evel of the floor. Beneath the chaii s aii opening, covered oy a suuiug loor. Each row of chairs is connect ? 'd to a lever, which is exposed at the ixtreme sides of the hall. Dy turning lie lever the chairs are made to fold lp and automatically disappear tVhat was formerly the back of the :hair becomes the floor. Obviously ill the parts are made to fit exactly nto place.?Washington Star. lowans Wanted Whips. The man with the whip privilege it the Iowa Slate fair probably made more money with less work and on 8 smaller investment than any othei ^oucessionaire this season. It was stated yesterday that he sold 24,000 itt*s,ior tVio mikine: 3 tYltlJJO UU**"t5 v"v " ww, profit of about $1800.?Des Moines Register and Leader. * * "T "irrr' ~ -T" Brief News i BY WIRE) WASHINGTON. Mr. Lane, of the Interstate Commerce Commission, found that the Southern Pacific Railroad had given rebates. Rear-Admiral Robley D. Evans visited the Navy Department and conferred with officials regarding the trip of the battleship fleet to the Pacific. Postmaster-General Meyer will urge Congress to extend the parcels post system. "I'll command the fleet on its trip to the Pacific if I am on my pins," said Rear-Admiral Evans. The American Tobacco Company answered the Attorney-General, declaring if it was a trust at aU'(which. it denied) that it was a beneficent concern. President Roosevelt killed his first bear in the Louisiana canebrakes after ten days' hunting. The Carnegie Hero Fund Commission announced the award of twentyfour medals and ?26,400 in cash. OUR ADOPTED ISLANDS. Secretary Taft opened the Filipino A nr?AmK1ir of Moniln Zioai: *xi tJ i j ui. lUMuiiw. The Insular Government of Porto Rico has refused to honor United States Marshal Hubbard's requisition for funds. La Discusion, of Havana, declares unscrupulous business men in and out of Cuba are promoting bandit bands and conspiracies in the island. The son of the acting President of Panama was sent on his way to Cuba to present a gold medal to Governor Magoon. Attorney-General Frank Feuiile, of San Juan, Porto Rico, has presented his resignation. He will become General Crowder's assistant in Cuba in the Department of State and Justice. DOMESTIC. The electrical pageant at Baltimore was the crowning feature of Old Home Week. The Episcopal General Convention, in session at Richmond, Va., adopted the suffragan plan, thus settling the question of negro bishops. A Butte bank in which F. Augushis Heinze was the chief stockholder suspended. Seven hundred survivors of Forrest's Confederate Cavalry held their annual reunion at Memphis. J. C. McCoy and Captain Charles De F. Chandler, in passing over Gallipolis, Ohio, in Signal Corps Balloon No. 10, covered 425 miles, from St. Louis, winning the Lahm Cup Taxable property in Cook County, Chicago, in 1907, increased $269,824,900 over 1906. General Frederick D. Grant headed a te3t riue Dy array omcers ai r un, Ethan Allen. Because his car killed one man in jumping the track, Silas Tunning, a Cincinnati motorman, was arrested for second-degree murder. A reward of $13,000 was offered for tho capttlre and conviction of two train robbers who held up the Oriental Limited near Rondo, Mont. The world's record price for corn was $250 for a prize-taking ear at the National Corn Exposition, Chicago. That ninety per cent, of the milk gold in Chicago is impure or adulterated, the City Bacteriologist declared. New England shipping men declared there were plenty of American bottoms available for carrying coal to Western waters for the Pacific fleet. The Right Rev. A. F. Winnington Ingram, Bishop of London, preached to Wall Street men from the steps of the old Custom HouseGeneral Gates P. Thurston was | elected president of tne Army or tne Cumberland Society at Chattanooga, Tenn. Old age killed David Redfield Proctor, designet of the great Columbian Exposition tower at Chicago, which ,was never built. At Suffolk,. Va., Eertha Knott, who killed Elizabeth Powell, her rival in love, was found guilty of murder and sentenced to twelve years at hard labor. More than 100 European, accompanied by twelve American, cotton manufacturers on thdir way to Canada, were guests of St. Louis commercial bodies. For the first time since the earthquake of April, 1906, the regular afternoon session of the grain depart- j ment of the Merchants' Exchange, of San Francisco, was resumed. ! Arrested at Iola, Kan., for the murder of May Sappe, Samuel F. Whitlow, a married man, said the girl committed suicide because he would not elope with her. FOREJGX. Sir Thomas Henry Grattan Esmonde was ousted from the chairmanship of the General Council of the Irish County Councils. Haller, Soehle & Co., bankers, of Hamburg, failed, with liabilities of S7 lifiO OOO. The Marconi transocean wireless telegraph system was successfully put into operation between Glace Bay, N. S., and Clifden, Ireland. An automobile in which Prince von Beulow, the German Chancellor, was riding ran down and killed an aged woman near Hamburg. The Danish steamer Alfred Erlandsen was wrecked near St. Abb's Head. Scotland, and twenty men were drowned. Charles Humbert, a former captain in the French army, has published a book to Drove that the French army is valueless for defense. An imperial edict issued in Pekin j warned all agents of the Government j to take precautions against an upris- i ing of revolutionists. It has been decided, at Seoul, that I the Crown Prince of Korea shall go j to Tokio as a student. At Stockholm a large part of the money necessary to build a ninetyfoot; challenger for the America's Cup has been subscribed. Heavy rains in the south of France flooded the Ilerault Valley. The Council of Ministers, at St. Petersburg, appropriated 59,500,000 for colonization purposes in Siberia. A new law just promulgated at j Rome provides that railroad employes shall in future come under the same regulations as employes of the other departments of the Government. Cholera is reported to be rapidly, invading the provinces of Kelff. Cher* ni^off and Ekaterinosiav. Russia. THE PRESffiENrS HUNT ENDS Bis Gam 8 Killed in Louisiana Cane Brakes. Summary cf the Hunt and a Dscription of the Shooting of the Third Bear. Stainboul, La. ? 'We got three nears, six deer, one wild turkey, twelve squirrels, one 'possum and one wildcat. We ate them all except the v/ildcat, and there were times when we almost felt as if we could eat it." This was President Roosevelt's summary of the results of his hunt. He arrived at the residenco of Leo Shields, where he will be a guest before leaving for Vicksburg. i The President came in on a gallop, accompanied by a dozen hunting companions, all mounted and in hunting garb. Mr. Roosevelt was slightly more bronzed than when he entered the wilderness fifteen days before and his skin as well as his clothes had evidence of contact with the brush. "Yes, we got three bears," he added, "all that we saw, and I think it is a pretty good record. I am perfectly satisfied." The President declared that his health had been perfect aad his appetite good. With the exception of a day or two lost on account of rain he had been in thesaddle every day from dawn to dusk. He declared that he had never in his life had finer sport. The third bear was killed by one of the Osborn brothers while it was in a fierce fight with the dogs. The bear slain by the President was killed Thursday, and the killing was witnessed by one of the McKenzies and by Alex Ennolds. They say that the President's bearing was extremely sportsmanlike. The animal had been chased by the dogs for three hours, the President following all the time, When at last they camfe within hearing distance the President dismounted, threw off his coat and dashed intc the canebrake, going to within twenty paces of the beast. The dogs were ? * j i__ ?ij.v it. ~ coming up rapiaiy, wnu uie rreoident's favorite, Rowdy, in the lead. The bear had stopped to bid defiance to the canines when th? President sent a fatal bullet from his riflf through the animal's vitals. Witt the little life left in it the bear turned on the dogs. The -President thei lodged a second bullet between th< bear's shoulders, breaking the creat ure's neck. Other members of th< party soon came up, and the Presideni was so rejoiced over his success thai he embraced each of his companions Ennolds said: "Mr. President, you ar< no tenderfoot." Mr. Roosevelt responded by giving Ennolds a $20 note. WALLING ARRESTED IN RUSSIA Socialist Charged With Associating With Finnish Progressivists. London.?Dispatches from St. Pe tersburg state that William Englisl Walling, who is ^escribed as t wealthy American Socialist, has beei arrested there at the Hotel de France together with his wife and his Bister in-law, Miss Stransky. The polic< also arrested four Finns, includin{ the wife of Professor Malmberg, o Helsingfors. The Finns are supposec to be Socialists. , Mr. Walling has spent considerabl* time in Russia watching the progresi of the revolution. He is a grandson of William H English, who was the Democratic can didate for the Vice-Presidency ii 1880. . : WILL NOT PLANT TOBACCO. Kcntuckians Thus Hope to Force th< Trust to Increase Prices. i Lexington, Ky.?Kentucky's to bacco war has taken a new turn. Fo two years the planters have beei trying to increase the prices by com bining and holding the crop awa; from the trust buyers. Now the: have agreed not to raise a crop th coming season. . The warehouses are full, and by no producing any more they hope ti force the trust into paying their pric for what they have. If the planter * nocnniofioi qo raise ttiiumtr ui up tuc a^ijvciuwv/ must look for new warehouses am for more funds with which to tak care of it. With the 1906 and 190' crops unsold, it is feared they wil not !je able to accomplish their part. i CANCER KILLS 27 IX WEEK. Philadelphia's Death Roll Excites th luterest of Physicians. Philadelphia.?In the week endim on Saturday twenty-seven person died in this city from cancer, a fac which has challenged the interest o the entire medical profession. Hun dreds of cases are under treatment but no satisfactoj y progress is report ed in relation to the many scientifi ."cures" attempted. J Consumption and Bright's diseas are the only two maladies that out ranked cancer last week in the deatl roll. More than four per cent, of al the deaths were from cancer. Ty phoid fever fatalities fell to nine an pneumonia to seventeen. Complain of Rate Laws. In their annual reports raiiroa< presidents again complained of tJ& effect of rate Jaws. Average Cereal Crops. 1 Government figures on crop condi Hons showed that the country wouli harvest an average crop of cereals. General Grindlay Killed. General James G. Grindlay, a clerl In the Controller's office at Albany ;was killed by an automobile in Troy N. Y. * ' Automobile Industry Flourishing. Automobile dealers say that no cri sis is impending in the American in dustry. ! Rochefort Leaves His Paper. M. Rochefort, editor of the Intran sigeant, of Paris, has left the paper. feminine A'otes. Miss "^lleu Terry was born in Cov entry fifty-nine years ago. Mrs. John Gerkon lias decided t< sell her stable of famous show horses It was aunouiued that Miss Glady Vanderbilt and Count Szechonyi ar to bs married in New York City. Helen Moloney's English friends di not know !t?.\ Clarkson. the younj Englishman with whom *bo eloped. Mrs. Ada Olive Van Heusen sue< tho Princess de Montglyon for $50, 000, alleging the Princess accusei . her of dyeing her prize dog "Chf! | Chin " -iii ZM ,'k roBucca tbost goods'* i SEIZED B!f GOVERNMENT J - ^ ^88 U. S. Takes Novel Action Against Big Companies. .vrs LAW USED FOR FIRST TIME ? -. ! riiicfnma fu'lflz-fm' TnlrM Pn?ei>Q?inn of 8,730,000 Cigarettes Under Sherman Act?-Trust Must Show It Does Not Restrain Trade. Washington, D. C.?A new and seemingly effective weapon was used against the Tobacco Trust when, at the instance of Attorney-General Bonaparte, a consignment of cigarettes, the property of the Trust, was seized while in transit from the factories of the British-American Tobacco Company at Petersburg, Va., and Durham, N. C., to New York and foreign countries. The seizure was made by the collector of customs j I at Norfolk by direction of the Secretary of the Treasury at the request ?^ of the' Attorney-General. The shipment consisted of 175 cases containing 8,750,000 cigarettes, ' valued at $7272.50'. These goods ' will be sold at public auction and the proceeds turned into the Treasury. This seizure was made under authority of Section 6 of the Sherman anti-trust law, which provides that any property owned under any con-tract or by any combination, or pursuant to any conspiracy mentioned in Section 1 of this act, and being in the course of transportation from one State to another or to a foreign country, shall be forfeited to fhe United . States ^nd may be seized and condemned by like proceedings as. those provided by law for the forfeiture, seizure and condemnation of property imported into the United States contrary to law." This is the first time that proceedings have been taken under this sec tlon of the Sherman law, and It is . believed at the department that it will . prove a salutary lesson to the trusts. j In the future this provision of the law L will be enforced vigorously. [ The present proceeding is against t the property itself and not against j individuals. If the owners of the . property desire to make defense they. * k must go into court, claim the propert ty and file written pleadings denying t the charges that they have violated the law, and show that there is no j :ombination in restraint of trade as charged by the Government. , The papers in the case were filed in the United States Circuit Court at Richmond. In them the Government charges that the property was *' owned under a contract entered into , in 1901 by the American Tobacco ' Company and the American Cigar Company with three great English . :oncerns?the Imperial Tobacco Comi pany of Great Britain and Ireland, i Ltd., Ogdens, Ltd., and the Britishi American Company, Ltd. , It is charged by the Government - that in these contracts it was agreed i substantially that the American and * English companies should hot comf pete with one another in the territory, I apportioned to each. In effect theso -corporations divided up the world i among themselves so far as the tos bacco business is concerned. It is also charged that the tobacco was . owned by a combination in restraint - . V.> - of trade, l . .- ."? PLUMBING "TRUST" SUIT. * Merger of Twenty -Firms Alleged to B Control Trade. Columbus, Ohio.?Attorney-General Ellis filed in the Circuit Court of " Franklin County a quo warranto suit r against twenty concerns doing busiII ness or making supplies for plumbers. * They are charged with being mem' bers of an association whose object is 7 to control trade and fix the prices of e their goods. The association is alleged to cover ' the States of Illinois, Indiana, Ohio, 0 Pennsylvania, New York, Wisconsin, 0 Michigan, Iowa, Minnesota, Missouri, 3 Kansas, Colorado, Nebraska, Ken1 tucky, Tennessee, Georgia, Alabama, ^ Louisiana and Texas. It is stated in ? the suit that its headquarters are in \ Chicago and the secretary is Paul ' Blatchford. ALCOHOL A COSTLY FUEL. Fifty Per Cent. More Needed Than of e the Cheaper Gasoline. Norfolk, Va.?As the result of a 8 saries of experiments at the United 3 States Geological Survey's fuel-test* ing plant at the Jamestown Exposi* tion to determine the relative fuel L* value of certain fuel products, it has been found that it takes one and a " Tialf gallons of aenatured alcohol to c produce as much power as a gallon of gasoline, although alcohol costs 9 about twice as much as the gasoline. '' The experiments were carried on I for about six weeks. j ROY KILLED AT FOOTBALL. He Was a High School Freshman at Zancsville, Ohio?Skull Fractured. i Zanesville, Ohio.?Albert Flowers, ? sixteen years old, left guard on the local high school eleven, was almost instantly killed during a game with the freshman team of Dennison Uni. versity. He emerged from a scrimj mage unconscious and died before ho could be removed from the field. The base of his skull was fractured. PHELPS, DODGE & CO. INDICTED I For Coal Land Frauds in San Juan 1 County, New Mexico. Santa Fe, N. M.?Indictments were returned by the Federal Grand Jury against the firm of Phelps, Dodge & Co.. of New York,for coal land frauds in San Juan County. This linn owns a large tract of coal land In that sec*> tion, as does the Southern Pacific. Nineteen other indictments were * returned, one of them for an attorney i for Phelps, Dodse & Co., and one for j former Territorial Engineer Wilson. Shite Officer Appea1^'1. 01 Attorney-General Youn; "inne, i sota, appealed to tlic Un elates '* j Supreme Court from a fuu .or $100 3 i for contempt of court, imposed by c i Judge Lochren, the issue being | whether a United States court can eno > join a State oflicer from enforcing 0 State laws. 1 Pretender Wins Buttle, I Mulal Ha fid, the pretender to the a throne of Morocco, defeated the forces of his brother, the Sultan Abd-el? Aziz, in the first Ditched battle, /