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?-. I "PICKING THE SPlTZENBlMS.j y E. P. POWELL. ' ' IIBI""1 11 tmm^mama i Oue may easier fall in love with an apple orchard than with anything else nature has given us. The trees grow up with us. The earliest joys of childhood are with Juneatings and Redst'reaks. The apple is equally delightful to advancing age. It is associated with our school dinner baskets, our working days, when it wound up our lunches, and what more could we give to our boy loves than a red-cheeked, golden-hearted Pearmain? So, so! But was it not an apple that every morning we carried to our teacher, with which to "buy a smile and pay for love. Those were golden days when the Sweet Bough covered the sod, and burst open with innate goodness. Why hould one not love an orchard? I remember well that by a little turn nn tho wnv frnm sr-hnnl I could go through the old Kirkland orchard?the first one planted by white men on their westward way from New England across the continent. There I sat in the trees, among the Spitzenburgs dreaming life dreams, and looking into a valley . paradise, until the call of the cows warned me to drive them homeward for milking. Yesterday I sat at the foot of some of those same old trees, leaned my head against them, felt their broken arms with sympathy, and when the October sunshine called out the bees and the butterflies, in the midday hours, 1 kissed the dear rtlri trof? that was mv hnvhnnrt favnv , ite. Why not? It gave me cheerfully, liberally, capfuls, pocketfuls, of delicious apples. The pickers are at work?home pickers, and they know what they are about. They do not toss, nor do they drop the apples, not even a few finches; but as true apple pickers should do. they lay each one gently - into the basket. Rudeness is never more out of place than when picking fruit. Think you what nature has done in packing together these balls of cells, each one delicately fitted to the other, and all inclosed with art finer than that of Apelles?who once deceived the birds. Handle each apple sympathetically, and then do not pour out the basketful into the wagon, but once more lay out the apples like eggs. A basketful of Northern Spys! What can be more beautiful? Some have burst their sides in the process of growing, and you see the yellowfleshed cells, full of nectar. The boys lay these aside for their own . use?for to be sure nothing can be better to make fine boy flesh and soul?and if placed in a cellar they will not keep. They are like boys and girls that are crowded in school; they die early. The Swaar is a sly apple, for it is of green russet color, and one would not know it to be the very standard of quality; yet if you do but know what to do, you will ask for a barrel of prime Swaars, ' ap.d store them away to be used next May. The Mcintosh and the Walter I Pease are brothers of the most famous (Fameuse) family of apples ever created, and when you look at their glory you will hardly like to - see them taken from the limbs. A tree full of either sort is so perfect r that only the freezing weather just > ahead could induce me to despoil it. Mcintosh is as white inside as it is red outside, and Walter Pease has ti fragrance like a bed of lilies. And not long ago Mr. Burbank sent us the Winterstein, the very climax of science and art combined. Grimes rOoldeu and Jonathan are not big tipples, but they go a long way toward being perfect apples. They 1/4 Krt olf/Nvnofftltr frv Diiuuiu ud piuiiLcu auci uatcij , ou v,tiab you shall see the gold of one and the perfect crimson of the other .side by side. But if I keep on at this rate you KL will know not only that I am a worS^hiper of the apple, but that I shall ^|^?>er get the picking finished. Only Tdo not like an apple grower who knows nothing about comparative ' values. He grows Greenings, Russets, Spys and a dozen more sorts possibly, but in my orchard of eighty eorts he is lost. He knows no apple history, does not keep pace with progress in the gardener's art, and the new things that burst out of God's will and man's intelligent work? these he cares nothing about, because he does ont understand them. He grows his apples without brains, and ^ he picks tham without brains, while the grandest harvest on his acres wakens no more enthusiasm than his turnips. His apples are tossed, poured, tumbled; and in the midwinter he digs them for use. out of a half-rotted bin of rubbish. All f right work is poetry and religion; ; all wrong work is impiety as well as i illiteracy. The most learned man I I ever knew thought more of apple J lore and rose lore than of his Greek - ? ? ?? U? J/1 (<Tr? rrt if rrfir^or* UCAdUlKLCI 25. ric ^a:u, iu uij gaiu&u there is a greater poem than the Odyssey. The days write it, and the winds chant it, and as for me, I learn to see it and to hear it." The load is ready for the cellar, only you may be sure that we do not ' ? put apples in a house cellar, with vegetables, where greasy odors or the smell of decay can taint them. In such a cellar all sorts of apples will taste alike before January. The apple deserves a cellar by Itself, clean as a library and sweet as a chambr There is no abomination in civilization worse than the ordii nary cellar?a wicked resort of all so?'ts of microbes and bacteria. Then j all winter you will know one apple from another by the smell over the bin. The aromas will blend ill the middle of the cellar. In this apple s cellar of yours, which may be under L .vnnr rftrri?'.rf? house, well lizhtefi and , E well ventilated, you will have bins I on the side walls, and a brook run ning along the middle floor?a clean, K fresh, drinkable brook; to keep the fruit from shriveling. The boys are placing the apples in these bins now. You do not hear the Golden Pippins rattle aa they arc poured?for indeed they are not poured, but they | are (ovin&ry trausferrod from tlie basket. About ono-Cftli of each load is [ sorted out into boxes, and left out' side of tlie collar to he pressed into cider?every apple that is in the i least defective. A true tarmer should certainly have Ins own cider press and grind his own apples. It should be i beautiful process and a cleau one. Home-made and strictly honest cider would reform the most infamous drunkard Every apple V* Ua ~ ~ ~ ,1 /Iaaai' t f in aai uc v.icrtii auu wuuuuv ucta.) . n is not any more fitting to drink a rotten apple than to eat it. Ah. but you "never tasted cider before!" To be sure, but it pays to be decent. One trouble with much of our country life is that it is not decent. If you will make farm life attractive to the young let it. have all the scienccs. In the home shop there should be a gasolene engine, with lathes and all sorts of tools, and a cider press; these makes the village saloon insufferably dull. What an appetite! And yet I have sampled nearly every sort in the orchard, and there are over half a hundred?only a few of them however do not this year bear fruit. Yet a good appetite is an honest affair and wholesome, and we are glad to hear the call for supper. Do you know samp? Have you ever tasted it?the real old-fashioned samp? If not, you have so far missed the most perfect food man and nature ever put their heads togethe rto devise. Take the very finest ears, right from the husking. You must not wait for a flavor of mold to touch even the cobs. Dry the ears around the stovepipe?then persuade your miller to grind it alone, and to give you the result at once?it must not lie about the mill. Then sift out all the fine meal, and dry the rest on salvers in the kitchen. When thoroughly cured put it on the stove iu a kettle about half filled with water. Bring it to a boil. Then set it back to cook more slowly?all day. You will never forget it. if once you have heard samp boiling on a kitchen stove? the bubbles bursting with a pouff, pouff, pouff. Stir it gently, but you must not forget it for a moment. AH day long it must be watched and stirred and thought of and smelled. It must go on at daybreak, and it must gently cook until night. The odor changes about noontime. It becomes tempting to the nostrils. It grows irresistible about 4 o'clock. At 6 the fragrance takes possession of the whole house; it becomes a mystery. The little mother has done nothing else for two hours but watch it and smell it. I assure you that a cook without a good nose is not worth having. Now the blue bowls are on the table. A pan of milk with solid cream is in the centre. The samp is yellow as gold, and it is still bursting open with little explosions of heated fragrance. Ye gods! your ambrosia and your nectar are nowhere compared with samp and milk. The real samp of our mother's day. It is a lost art. and for these forty years I have neither tasted nor smelled genuine samp. Afterward an apple pie! A pie of Spitzenburg apples! Our mothers would not cook any others, and they were right; and to this day there is no other such apple for pies. The Astrachan makes better jellies, and. for baking, the York Pippin and the Gravensteln are ahead; but not for the creation of that summation of kitchen art?the apple pie. Did you ever see one made? Well, I cannot say how it is done nowadays, only I suppose it is like everything else, by measure and by weight. But then, in my memory days, a woman did not follow any rules at all ? that is six spoonfuls of this and two spoonfuls of that. Bless my soul! Why, just enough, and if you have not the cooiung instinct, so that you know what is enough, you will not be a cook by going to a cooking school?not till you die. But the pie? Yes! It was a compound of goodness, but it had unity?and it was full of digestion. I remember well when my father's orchard was almost the only one west of New England, and that was not a hundred years ago by any means; and then the boys came twenty miles to get a pocketful, in the night. During the last ten years the increased product of apples has been about seventy per cent, in the United States; that of its cousin, the pear, has been two hundred and fifty per cent.; while that other cousin, the plum, has multiplied three hundred and thirty-four per cent. I have four apple trees that are one hundred and sixteen years old, and all four are, this October, in full fruitage. They shall have justice and honor, and be euabled to bear for fifty years to come. In ray boyhood the old people scraped apples when eating them raw, to avoid indigestion. For a delicate stomach I could name you half a dozen sorts: tho Wismer. the Delicious, the Stuarts Golden, the Mcintosh, the Walter Pease, and the Danchy Sweet. These are creations of a recent day. There are already seven thousand apples catalogued in the United States, and I suppose a great many more varieties remain uncatalogued. What shall the future apple be? Not seedless, for a seedless fruit is at the end of evolution. We want seeds until perfection is reached. Tucked away in those germs are possibilities of improvement. "There!" says Nature, "take these aud try for betterment. These little brown seeds are your pledge of possible progress. When I give you no more seed you are finished, and I shall take no more interest in your affairs." A seedless apple is the end, bah! The coming apple must be also red. not only to piease the housewife, but to honor the artistic Ir.ste of Nature herself? her struggle for the beautiful. As for size I hardly dare to say, but I think a Northern Spy is just about right. One of these will fill a man's stomach and three will fill a boy's. We must learn when to stop.?Outing Magazine. Cone, But Not Forgotten. In a recent single issue of the Net York Herald, among the '"personal" advertisements were seventy which asked information of the present whereabouts of certain persons, some of whom have been absentees for more than half ? century. i FIGURE IN ROCK CREEK CES I [t Has Been Called "Grief," Also "Nirvi is Deemed to Be St. G . _ St. Gaudens' Rock Creek Statue. Mrs. Caroline H. Dall, writing to the Springfield Republican, says: "I am not yet allowed to write. I am hoping to have liberty to use the one eye left me; but liberty seems a long way off. I risk disobedience I now because I know my friend St. Gaudens would be grieved to know the many wrong names bestowed on his statue in Rock Creek. When it was first set up, no one understood it, and it had many names. When I heard it called 'Despair,' and objected to it as unfit for a Christian cemetery, I thought it best to write to him. He replied: 'Mr. Adams asked *rae to make it a "Nirvana." I knew nothing about the "Nirvana," and I tried to embody "The peace that passeth understanding." The writer in the Boston Transcript who called it "The Peace of God" came nearer to the meaning than those who called it "Grief." but the statue stands for a < deeper thing than the "Peace of God.'"" To this the Springfield Republican adds: I "This is the great imaginative statue concerning which the Republican said: 'This marvellous presence is not man or woman; it is a great and mournful angel, seated, with the right hand supporting the chin, and in its strong and solemn features is solici' ?U The tiuest (after a painful silenc wei! provided for." Boot Cleaner. | One of the most interesting of recent inventions is a boot cleaner which is designed to take the place of the old-fashioned shoe scrapers, ; usually placed alongside of the steps. > As shown in the illustration, it con . slsts of a metal casing constructed to support two brushes. The latter are journalled in open bearings at each IFTFRV HFAR WASHIlUfiTnN I (LI mII I J 11L.1III IIUUII11IUI Vlll S5PP63S83SK -a : >i ina," Also "The Peace of God," And audens* Masterpiece. embodied all there is of human griel when it has passed the stress of human passion and must rest.' It needs the further pursuance of the thought: there is embodied at once the human repose and the spiritual mystery of that pause in Life which we call Death. It is the memorial ol a woman of rare charm, charactei and accomplishment, dying in her yet young prime?the wife of Henry Adams, the historian. The idea of the sculptor, as Mrs. Dall presents it, is adequate. It is indeed the peace that passeth understanding?thg mystery into which all depart." An Indiscreet Angel. A little girl was being put to bed one summer night, and after she had said her prayers her mother kissed ner gooa nigni ana saiu. "Now, go to sleep, dear. Don't be afraid, for God's angels are watching over you." In a short time, while the mothei and father were at tea, a small voice from upstairs was heard. "Mamma." "Yes, little one; what is it?" "God's angels are buzzing around, and one's bitten me!"?Harper's Weekly. The oldest silver mines are in Germany, but the richest are in Spain. rous. ~U? Qt?"John, I trust your widow is end, there being but Httle open space between the brushes and the casing. The front and back upper edges of the casing are sharpened to provide scrapers for removing mud. In use the device is placed on the porch or in the vestibule. As the foot is forced against the brushes the latter revolve, removing the dirt from the shoes and forcing it down into the interior of the casing:. The device is easily cleaned, the brnshes being readily removed. A Canadian is the inventor.?Washington Star. Wants of an Indiana Town. This place occupies rather a unique position among the towns of Indiana at the present time. It has two good railways, with no railroad station; two good church buildings and no preacher; two good saloon buildings, both empty; a hotel building, but no hotel, with no immediate prospect of any of these vacant places being filled very soon. The town wants preach ers. and it wants a hotel man, but It doesn't want saloons.?Linden Correspondence Indianapolis News, ROOSEVELT 10 FISHT THE PUPffl TRUST To Urge Abolition of Tariff, in Interest of Publishers. PROMISE MADE AT HEARING To Investigate Renewed Exactions of Trust Once Dissolved?Combine Declared to Surpass All Previous Crimes Charged to Trusts. Washington.?President Roosevelt indicated to members of the Committee on Paper of the American Newspaper Publishers' Association that he will recommend to Congress the abolition of the tariff on press paper, wood pulp and the wood that goes into the manufacture of paper; also that he will make a recommendation to the Department of Justice that it take immediate steps to ascertain whether the anti-trust laws are being disobeyed by the manufacturers of paper. The history and facts which make tip the protest were presented by Medill McCormick, after which the President indicated the action he would take. An investigation of the so-called paper trust has been in progress for some time by the Department of Justice, and it is understood the President will call for the facts which have been ascertained up to the present time. The appreciation of the association was expressed to the President at the action taken by the Federal Govern ment last year in ordering me dissolution of the Geueral Paper Company. His attention was then called to what was termed a "conspiracy," by which it was alleged the makers of newsprint paper have arranged for an advance of $12 a ton upon the supply of that article for the current year, and for an additional advance next year averaging $10 a ton. This, it was explained, means a burden imposed on the printing industry of the country of $10,000,600 for the present and $19,000,000 for the coming year. The excuse for the advances on the part of the paper makers is the cost of wood and labor have increased. This excuse was met in the argument to the President by the statement that the published .report of the largest manufacturer of newsprint paper gives the increased cost of material and manufacture, including expense of administration and sales, as about sixty-four cents a ton. The President was told that the present plan of increasing the price of paper had its inception twelve years ago, in a proposition to unite the paper mills into one pool or corporation. The first step had been accomplished when the promoters induced Congress to fix a tariff duty of $6 a ton on news-print paper. It Is this tariff, it is understood, the President has promised to urge Congress to repeal. The next step which has encountered many delays, has, the President was told, just been consummated by the creation of a combination to exhaust the surplus stock of paper, and to raise prices. It was represented that Canadian mills can and do pay the $6 per ton duty and still find it profitable to sell in the United States. At the same time the American mills are selling abroad In competition with Canada, Great Britain, Germany and Norway. The President was told that paper makers operating fairly equipped mills have made large profits during the last ten years at prices averaging less than $40 a ton, and that a selling price of between $56 and $50 a ton, as now proposed, would mean a daily tribute of $45,000 paid by the paper consumers to the alleged combination. Paper mills in the United States and Canada are making paper at a cost less than $28 per ton. Much mystification had been attempted to show that the cost of labor had greatly increased, but this was refuted by the statement that the entire cost of labor to the manufacture of a ton of paper amounted to less than $2.40. Not one-twelfth of the advance in news-print paper would go to labor. The lack of progressive methods of manufacture by the Internatioual Paper Company, which furnishes the bulk of the paper and fixes the price in the Eastern market, was pointed ftiit. The exDOrt of 60,000 tons of print paper during the past season and the claim of the manufacturers that the domestic stock is practically exhausted, coupled with the shutting down of the mills on various pretexts, leads the publishers to the belief that an attempt is being made to create a paper famine. Many newspaper proprietors are unable to obtain any quotations for paper for next year, and do not know where to obtain a Bupply. The President was told that in all the history of crimes charged against trusts such a situation is unprecedented. Horse Buyers Active. Buyers are taking advantage of every sag in prices in the West to increase their holdings of high class draught and delivery horses for winter and spring trade. TCffca CheaDer Than Meats. Eggs at thirty or thirty-five cents a dozen are cheaper than meats at twenty-five cents a pound, as a dozen eggs weigh one pound and threequarters. ROB BANK OF $0500. Bandits Return Fire of South Dakota Town and Escape. Canova, S. D.?Seven armed bandits blew up the safe in the Interstate Bank, got $6500 and escaped. The occupants of a hotel which stood across the street were aroused by the explosion, but the robbers opened fire and drove them back. The hotel was riddled with bullets. Where lights were burning in homes the bandits forced the owners to extinguish them. l/Il I HIT Ui iuaii/ui The Indians are practicing the long pass. Princeton defeated Carlisle in their football game at the Polo Grounds, New York City. Cornell coaches arc anxicus to find a good quarterback and keep him constantly at work. Since 1897, when Harvard anl Yale came together after their break, Yale has won eight games, scoring 91 points, Harvard has won two games with a total of 39 points, and there have been two games in which nelthei teaia scored. sr flESTlMpM Japanese Go Three Rounds For Roosevelt and Friends. I fnl\inof- DfRrpro and | OillVOOOUUVlOf ? Others Witness a Unique Exhibi- . tion by Hitachiyama, Washington,D. C.?Politics, finance and statecraft took a back seat for an hour and a half at the^White House while the President and several members of his official family watched a bunch of Japanese wrestlers cavort around over a sirteen-foot wrestling mat that had been spread for the occasion in the East Room. A large wrestling mat had been' spread upon the floor of the nation's state reception room; then, when the President, Messrs. Cooley, Smith and Murray, of his "tennis cabinet," Secretary Garfield and the French Ambassador had seated themselves in a circle, the wrestlers were brought in for the trials. Viscount Aoki, the Japanese plenipotentiary, introduced Hitachiyama to the President and both shook ' -a- ?- TwoKvalloH of IltlllUS. 1*11 . AUUaCTUt JUUC** TVHUU mv the wrestler's giant weight of 298 pounds, said he was pleased to meet such a world-renowned champion and ordered ti'e exhibition to begin. There were three matches. The first was a bout between two of the three assistants, in which Omifogi threw Hyatami over his shoulder. Then there was another bout in which the contest was so close and so keen that both of the wrestlers went to the mat. ; t. Then there was the grand finale, in which Hitachiyama stood at the end of the mat, which was sixteen feet long, and invited the other wrestlers to come at him. They did come, but they did not get past him. Hitachiyama threw each one of them as fast as he could arrive. TTie President sat in a chair close to the mat and made many exclamations of surprise and wonder as the feats were performed. The French Ambassador, who had : never seen, such a performance before, also was loud In his exclamations of approval and surprise. Before the wrestling began there was the Japanese .ceremony of Shokisi, which consists of a solemn and elaborate holding aloft of a sword. That accomplished without accident, Hitchlyama divested himself of his ordinary habillmentsand appeared in wrestler's costume. Others who witnessed the exhibition than those already named Included Postmaster-General Meyer, Secretary Garfield, Messrs. Robert Bacon, Beekman Winthrop, Lawrence O. Murray, Foster Gifford Plnchot, A. W. Cooley and Secretary Loeb. This was Hltachiyama's second visit to the White House. He called last month to present to President Roosevelt the diamond-studded sword which had been given to him by his iadmirlng countrymen. At that time "Hitch" promised to return and give the exhibition just held. The sword is 300 years old, and one of the costliest ever made In Ja, pan, a country noted for fine blades. RAILROADS KILL 5000. . Number of Casualties For the Year 81,280?Increase 10,352. Washington, D. C.?The InterState Commerce Commission's bulletin upon accidents upon railroads of the United States during the year ended June 30 last, shows total casualties 81,286, or 5000 persons killed and 76,286 Injured. This indicates an increase of 10,352 casualties or 775 in the killed and 9577 in the injured, as compared with the previous year. The figures include only accidents to passengers and to employes while actually on duty on or about ' trains. The bulletin says: "There have been heavy increases in all of the items, except accidents in car coupling and from striking against overhead obstructions. The number of passengers killed and injured in collisions and derailments has increased to an alarming degree. In this item the very large total reported in 1905 is now exceeded by seventeen per cent. me aisastruusi record of casualties to passengers in train accidents, 410 killed, is due in large measure to ten accidents, which caused the death of 291 persons." EDITOR SENT TO rRISON. Macfadden, of Physical Culture, (Jets Two Years and is Fined $2000. Trenton, N. J.?feernarr Macfadden, editor of Physical Culture, who was convicted of violating the postal laws by sending obscene literature through the mails, was sentenced by Judge Lanning in the United States District Court to serve two years at hard labor in the New Jersey State Prison and pay a fine of $2000. Before passing sentence Judge Lanning denied an application for a new trial. BUSINESS MEN CRY HALT. Call Mass Meeting to Urge Lawmak* ers to Wait For Financial Quiet. Montgomery, Ala. ? One hundred business men of Montgomery met at the Commercial Club and adopted resolutions calling a mass meeting oI business men of the entire State at Montgomery to appeal to the Legislature to postpone all legislation until the present financial depression has passed. State Authority Affirmed. The United States Supreme Court, in reversing a decision by the District Court of the Eastern District of Arkansas, reiterated previous rulings that the status of negroes depended upon the State courts rather than upon United States Judges. Peruvian Troops Capture Fort. Peruvian troops captured a fort on tho Brazilian frontier and occupied the town of Tabatinga, the terminal port of entry on the Amazon River. Women in tlio Day's News. Sarah Bernhardt says she will play until she dies. Miss Lelia Paget End Mr. Ralph Paget were married in London. Corsets may not be worn by pupils in the girls1 schools of Bulgaria. Miss Maud Ellis at Maysville, Ky., plunged into the Ohio, full dressed, ti save the life of a young lady who was about to drown. Mrs. Susan Tryman, of Harrison County, Kentucky, has celebrated her 101st birthday, and yet it is said she haa never seen a railroad train. '' *? "Tiir it V i - .-.mii ' Late News inm / A ? /H img? [ o? wsrci WASHINGTON. Charles H. Treat, United States Treasurer, ordered all Sub-Treasuries to cash pension vouchers, disbursing officers' drafts and other obligations of the government. Controller RIdgely announced that $1,339,000 increased circulation was issued to- national banks. President Roosevelt gave? bis sanction to the plan of the Indian office to make the Utes, who are making trouble in the- West, either work or go hungry. It was said in Washington' that the enlisted strength of the standing army was menaced by the failure of men to- enlist, by men purchasing their discharge and by desertion. America's war ship tonnage is now ' * second to England's, the Na'vy Department declared. Complaints by foreign buyers in* ? duced President Roosevelt to announce himself in favor of a bill for grain inspection. President Roosevelt, in a statement analyzing the election returns, said the Republican showing was better than four or eight years ago, and that the Manhattan result was purely. local. President Roosevelt decided to re--_ view the Atlantic fleet at Hampton Roads the .day It starts on the Pacific cruise. ' OUR ADOPTED ISLANDS. Secretary Taft, speaking^at & din ner given oy memuens ui me abbbuibly at Manila, expressed hope for the adoption of a lower tariff, and -favored the limiting of exports of sugar amMobacco to the United States. He warned agitators against attempting to injure the good relations between America and the islands;' In an open letter Estrada Palma, once Cuba's President, explains, his action in asking American intervention. The Navy Department has selected Captain Edward J. Dora, U. S. N., - ' retired, to succeed Commander .Templin M. Potts as Governor of Guam. The demand of the Mlguelista party for an immediate election in Cuba was opposed by Senpr Alcosta, a former revolutionary leader. General Leonard Wood will remain in the Philippine Islands until February. Secretary Taft assisted at the dedication of a Presbyterian Church in Manila. DOMESTIC. Judge Lacombe called the firm of Haight & Preese, brokers, which failed in New York City, a "mere swindling device, a bucket shop.!'. Abraham Gellet, sixteen years old, was burned to death in a Chicago fire. Attorney-General Bonaparte, at BuffalOj said that President Roosevelt would not abandon his activity against pernicious trusts. Joseph H. Choate was elected president of the National Civil Service Reform League, in session at Buffalo. Two hundred and fifty weavers in the plant of the Bigelow Carpet Company, at Lowell, Maes., struok be* cause of an alleged broken agreement. * * Son H*i>afinta/v\ at a ctmioi tjulo ill kxtu .v>m>vw Governor Gillet and local officials decided to call on the Federal Government for financial aid In stamping out the bubonic plague. Face downward In a. pool of blj-od, the body of Mrs. Ceaearo Yigll^an elderly well-to-do Cuban woman, ftas given the New York police a tayaterf/ both accident and murder being su? pected. Gold to the amount of $12,029,760. arrived in New York on the Luaitanla," which established a new worWa reoc; ord for the westward passage of the Atlantic. I The village priest in Florence, Ky., armed himself and helped drive robbers from the local bank. New York financiers were worried over the attempt that la being made to corner the cotton market and -* talked of disciplinary measures. Ex-Governor David B. Hill conV tended in the United States Circuit Court in New York City that all th4 Consolidated Gas Company's franchises have lapsed, and that the "good will" it values at $20,000,000 is worthless. FOREIGN. For the first time since 1873 the Bank of England raised its rate to seven per cent. . All delegates to the coming Peace Conference of Central American Re- < publics in Washington have been instructed to work for harmony. The Chinese order excluding Japnnooa moil rnrrlars on the New. Cfawang branch of the Imperial Railway has caused Japan to postpone. settlement of the postal regulations. Argentina has decided to have a great exposition In 1910 at Buenos Ayres, the capital. Statistics prove that the French" people spend $10,000,000 a year for amusements. ' France, Great Britain, Germany and Russia have signed a treaty, guaranteeing the integrity of Norway. The commandant at Vladivostok, Baron Fersen, with his subordinates, has been severely reprimanded for dereliction in duty in connection with the recent mutiny. Berlin says that buying orders for American stocks continue to be received, and that as soon as conditions grow easier heavy purchases are expected. . The relations of Uruguay and Argentina are generally strained over the seizure of a Uruguyan tug by Argentine authorities in disputed watore The Spanish Parliamentary Commission of Public Works has decided to ask Parliament to vote credits for ' the creation of special commercial I agencies at New York and Yokohoma, in the Argentine and in Bolivia. Ill health was given as the reason for the Kaiser abandoning his visit to Holland. The Pope is again suffering from, gout. Ho walks with great difficulty; but continues his audiences. Robert Caldwell, of New York, tea-1 tifled in London at the reopening of, the famous Druce suit, involving the* titlo to the estate o? the Duke of Portland and the claim that Thomas Charles Druce and the fifth Duke of Portland were the same person. A violent earthquake at Torre la, I Riberla in Spain caused a pane. among the population and snooty down bouses. - - >