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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
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\
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!
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SEIZED B!f GOVERNMENT J
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U. S. Takes Novel Action Against
Big Companies.
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LAW USED FOR FIRST TIME
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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,
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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
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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.
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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,
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