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THE MIRACLE. 8
Anions the bills and valleys of the soul. c
Working his miracles. Love came to me g
And touched my blinded eyes and bade "
me ?ee.
I watch the water redden in the bowl, ?
? I drink the marriage wine. Upon the scroll ! \
Ot" life I trace the word of prophecy i c
In flaming letters; my mortality
Burns on this altar as a living coal. 2
t
Many of Love's disciples have pursued 0
TT - of/-??<! o WAl'l^lv uimc t
His nniiuuui^ .. ?v..?v , y
and wishes; , . I ,
Many have climbcd. as for a festival, j '
The mountain where he feeds ilie niuiti- < v
tude. I y
For them the counting of the loaves and | ,
fishes.
For me?the wonder cf the miracl?! s
?Elsie Barker, in The Reader, j
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HIS SPECTACLES. |\\
They Created a New World Full cf I j!
Details. i "
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I am bothered about my spectacles. e
Since I have had them the world has
been so different. Formerly I saw ?
things only (or mainly) in the mass, je
People were not individuals, they s
we-e parts of a picture of blurred do- j ?
tails. I spoke to this or that part of j _
*- the composition, and voices answered | .
me. What the voices meant, how the j'
snot they came from looked (what|_
expression was on the speaker's face, *
as the cant phrase has it) were ques
tions for intuition to answer. I lived
c
in a world of vague suggestion. I j
got almost more information from |
the touch of a man's hands than from |
the look of his eyes. And yet I knew j
J the general meaning of faces quite j C
well when they were near me?bet- {
ter, perhaps, than I do now. Lon- j
don! You can imagine what London i
was like, evening London above all. j ^
It swam in a haze of romance, won- i
derful masses of cab, bus and man, j1
aglow with diffused light, loomed out
of mist and vanished into it. Clatter ?
? of unseen feet echoed up to my very
ears. Life was a perpetual surprise,
an adventure. Who knew what faces
would suddenly take form out of the ri
void? a
I put on the glares and looked at s
the optician's young man and beheld
that he was wrinkled. *
Horribly wrinkled. He was all ^
wrinkles. His face was nothing but '
innumerable ugly lines and splotches. ?
Expression there was none that I
could focus?lines and splotches were ?'
all that could be seen. "
Would I keep them on? Or should *
he put them in the case? The lines "
bunched themselves up into hideous
questioning creases.
I would keep them on so as to get ?
used to them, I muttered, subconscious
of complete loathing. ^
The oblivious young man agreed.
"Yes, you'd better give your eyes 1
a bit of practice before you start 1
reading, sir. Good evening, sir" J1
(with more creases).
I stepped out stupidly into the f
3treet, shying at the doorpost, into l<
the concentrated glare of electric .
r lights that danced and flashed on the
lenses of my spectacles.
After a moment or two of dazzle
I began to see. To see with terrible
distinctness. The eyes began to ac- 0
xept this new universe. So awfully ?
new! There was no background *
uow. no picture, no atmosphere. Iso- e
lated men and things to the furthest j?
limit of vision stood out, rounded, 1
raw and palpable. I could put my
? eyes on three sides of them. There *
was no street of soft-blending shad- r\
ow and gleam; there were only ^
houses, lamp-posts, electric globes, \
vehicles, passengers. There were no
men, only hats, coats, trousers, boots, Sl
jerking ridiculously. No faces? n
only features?and when they got
nearer, labyrinths of ghastly twitch- r"
ing lines. No concrete thing at all
?only irrelevant details of things
which the painful vision kept pur- !r
suing with more and more minute- '11
ness. * I J'1
And yet my eyes had a feeling of j (
pride?pride that they could see so j
far, that these dots of men slouch- i ^
ing unaer a lampposi ueiore me .vian- ;
sion House should vibrate so clear j
an image to Cornhill. They began,
with something of an effort, to disregard
these insistent neighboring in- p
dividuals and to shoot off into vast "
perspectives, to dally with details o
hundreds of yards away. This was a it
much larger world I had got. If it d
would only adjust itself, would be- s:
having. But as yet it was so pur- c
poseless; every object was detached n
from its fellows. The old harmony y
was gone. Things no longer fitted C
in. Details thrust themselves upon 0
me. T lost a glance at the soul of j h
the passer through watching the : d
twitch of his lips. j y
Then the faces began to simplify. ' v.
lines assumed their proper subordi- : V
nation. I perceived men still had i v
expressions. I perceived that they j ii
had eyes, fearful eyes, thousands of j t
eyes, surrounding me, looking at me. is
I was betrayed. I felt utterly em- o
. barrassed; almost I blushed at this t
? infinite critical inspection. Every v
button and stitch of me knew itself 1j
for laughter. I felt that my hat 1
was too small, my hair too long, that t
my boots were unpolished. I hastened d
to re-hat, clip and polish myself. 1
1 had come out of my chrysalis, i1
For the first time I was nakedly 'I
witbin iiaudstrike of the world. p
The novelty was interesting. One 5
was afraid of it all, but attracted by 1
it. In this world one was in constant p
danger of attack. A militant world, a
Every man away down the street v
walked with his hand on his sword- t
hiit. A brief fit of shivering, and my d
spirit rose to the challenge of it. r
I walked the pavement thrilling to <j
the r.lance of these innumerable identities.
Nothing has altered. The objects
I look at are just the same. My eyes
are the same. Oniy now* two little
pieces of convex pebble are fixed be- !
tween the eyes and the objects. One f
.X _ 1 r, A A?* f
xanes uu. iuu syet-iauies mm CA?
> amines them for a solution to the
mystery. Absurd! "What easy victims
are our senses of their instruments!
j It makes one uneasy. Tangible
matter ceases to be the steadfast
.thing we had imagined it. How can
I be sure that what these pebbles
show me is truer than my old vision?
'A little difference in the curving of
the lens, and lo! another universe.
How can I be sure that both of them
ure not quite untrue?. What is the <
tandard? What do you see, readers,
ong-sighied, short-sighted, clear>yed.
purblind readers? Upon what
ort of universe do those unreliable
yeballs of yours look out? We have j
,'iven common names to the things
ou and I see, but they are not the J
T >qpo coomg tn hA I
I* inc.. UUtMlJ U1C4U *.*4 ^
ome sort of family likeness between
hem, else were we hopelessly cut
'ff l'rom all comparison. What you
uean is something like what I mean
>v umbrella, but not quite. And
"hen we take more remote and comilicated
objects?when we combine
hem, when we begin to deal with abtracts,
how we must diverge! It is
incanny to realize that each of us
noves and lives and has his being
n an entirely personal, particular,
riginal world. A place that was
lever seen or imagined by any oi?e
lse. To realize that, though I mrvy
;et help by comparing your notions
i'ith mine, in the last resort I must
hrow myself on the mercy of my
ver-changing impressions.
Which is the better world? The
ild one, vague but steadfast and organic;
or this new, real, definite,
marciiic world, with its perpetual
hifting paradox? For, mark you,
here is no world of the spectacles,
lie spectacles have opened to me
nlinite panorama of worlds all
lifferent, all unbelievable. When
ras my state more gracious, think
ou?before or after the spectacles?
,iiis question i nave not qune ucided.?London
Daily Mail.
WESTERN FRUIT.
Jreat Development of Fruit Raising
in the Northwest.
California oranges, apricots, plums,
herries, grapes and other fruits have
ang been familiar to Eastern peole,
who. if they have thought about
he matter at all, have very likely
egarded this influx of Pacific coast
ruit as due to climatic conditions ,
:hich do not exist elsewhere, and the j
ruit itself as incapable of being
aised in the East. The Eastern
pple, they may have supposed, was
upreme and destined to remain so.
Such persons are doomed to disppointment.
Apples from Oregon,
Washington, Idaho and British Co- |
ambia have already captured the
reater part of what is known as
iie "fancy trade" of the Atlantic
oast cities and the supply is increaslg
at a wonderful rate. Moreover,
Northwestern fruits are rapidly gainlg
the ascendancy in England, the
ontinent and Australia.
The rapid development of the fruitrowing
industry in this region is
ue to the great fertility of the soil,
tie intelligence and energy of the
Western farmers, and the co-operaive
organizations of growers. Poor
ViQf Knnn H icr>nil rQ crod
L U 11> uao U1WVVU4MQVM ? |
lost eliminated. Packing is in I
oxes, with every apple wrapped
sparately and warranted to be perjct.
The number of apples which
box contains is printed plainly on
le outside, and there is absolutely ]
o "deaconing." j
These methods have enabled the 1
Western growers to realize a profit j
n apples and pears of $100 to $1000 ,
n acre; on berries from $400 to ]
600 an acre, and on other things |
pen more. One especially skilful j
rower of tomatoes received $5000 (
om a single acre. t
The fruit pack of the region this s
oar will be the largest in its his- f
>ry?five times as great as in 1906. s
anning associations have been r
>rmed and canneries built to take 0
ire of the surplus. They have been jaccessful
from the start. One can- s
ery paid for itself in a week. v
There is no mystery about this c
smarkable development. It is due E
jlely to intelligence, enterprise and
ard work, and is just as much with1
the reach of Eastern growers as
: was in the grasp of their Western
ivals. The lesson ought not to be o
>st upon Eastern farmers who wish t
3 retain such of their fruit market
s still remains to them.?Youth's
ompanion. s
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British Museum's Decline.
j e
Is* the British Museum losing its j ^
owers of attraction as one of tho
show" places Of London? The j
ffic-ia 1 returns for 1906 show a strik- j
ig falling off in the number of atten- j
ance. "It is a matter for regret," i
ays the report, "that a further de- i
line in the number of visits to the j
luseum has to be recorded for tho i
ear 1906. The total number was
91,950?a falling off of nearly 122.00
from the number in 1905. Nor
as the decline been confined to weekay
visits, as it was in the previous
car. The 57.73S visits on Sundays
ere less by 43 69 than those in 1605.
Ve must go back to the year 19 00,
ith its GS9.249 visits, before f:ndag
a total to compare with that of
he year lavo. ai me same time it i
s an indication of a steady growth
1 intelligent interest in the collecions
that, while the numbers of
isits decrease, the sale of guideooks
generally tends to increase,
'he number of visits of students to
he reading room has also been re- ,
uced by 2000, the total for the year
ieing 212.997, as against 214,940
u 1905. The daily average was 702. ^
'he number of visits of students to ?
larticular departments in 190C was .
5,513. as against 57,557 in 1905. I
^he number of visits to the newsaper
room decreased by 2000, while
.s regards other fluctuations, thero ; t
i-ere 1200 fewer visits in the sculp- .
ure galleries, but S00 more in the
lepartment of manuscripts, and
learly 1100 more in the department
if British and mediaeval antiquities.
?London Express.
"At" and "Across."
Dissenting from the opinion ol :
nost of his fellow-countrymen. Processor
John Lester, an English speakfV.?.
fl", at U uuecnus ui \.U<S iiKiiuii
Educational Association, in Pliilalolphia,
declared that the manners
>f boys in the United States were
jetter than those of English lads.
This he held was due to the influence
>f American mothers and woman
eachers in our schools.
"The American boy," said Proessor
Lester, "learns his first lesson
n morality at his mother's knee,
rhe English boy generally learns his icross
his father's."?Woman's Home c
3omi>anion. (
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IN TEE PI
OUR MOST AUTHORITATIVE
Dr. Harvey W. Wiley has built
system of food and drug inspection in
vested interests trfat were accused of
of adulteration Dr. Wiley is now afi
misled into the notion that fireservat:
ily dangerous. He is refuting this
question.
Glove Sustainer.
The prevalence of the short sleeve
ind long glove fad has made a place i
:or a new arrival among the fal-lals
)f femininity, and that is a piece of
iewplry, which is nothing more or
If
(&J
ess than a garter for the glove. In
:he absence of some such device as
:his it is a common thing to see the
'ail* ones in the mode of the moment1
engaging in a constant struggle to
ieep their glove tops and sleeves inJ
the same vicinity, but it would not
equire a very keen observer to note
hat the two articles seem like any- >
hing but harmonious neighbors. The
ipparatus shown links them together
jerfectly, and at the same time offers
i touch of color to the costume. It
nay be worn on the outside or inside
if the arm. It consists of a pretty
>uckle, which is secured to the
leeve, and a neat flower-like clamp
rhich clasps the top of the glove. A
hain link holds the two parts to- j
;ether.?Washington Star.
For the Children.
It is said that London produces {
>ver 200 v designs in "penny '
oys" every week.
The Bavarian Governmeut will in- ]
tall a locomotive claimed to makelinety-four
miles an hour.
>TQNES UPON WHICH THE CAN,
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EXCAVATED IN PALESTINE BY
fu:
Under the pavement surrounding
ound remains of sacrificed children
ibout 5000 years ago.?Illustrated L<
load Siyns From the New York State
Prison.
As a part of its industrial activity,
he Prison Department of the State
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A Sample Road Sign.
?f New York has taken up the making
)f road signs., the work being carried
rBLIC EYE.
! EXPERT ON PURE. FOODS.
up the United States Government's
l the face of opposition from powerful
profiting enormously oy the practice
firming that the public mind has been
Ives in canned meat are not necessaridea
in a recent book on the food
For Driving Screw Eyes.
The amateur carpenter, whether
man or woman, has lost no time in
realizing the great possibilities of the
screw-eye. These things are capable
of a great number of uses, and if an
assortment of them is kept around
the house there is hardly a day when
their convenience will not be practically
demonstrated. Feminine fingers
are not always hardened enough to
drive them home, and, indeed, sometime
the sturdier digits of the masculine
are not sufficiently strong to accomplish
this task, so that it is not
always possible to drive them into
the wall far enough to be substantial.
A time and labor-saving device for
accomplishing this work without undue
severity on the fingers has been
recently invented and it is shown in
the accompanying cut. It i3 supplied
with a locking jaw which takes hold
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of the eye and holds tightly while it
is driven into place. With the aid of
this tool the eye can De driven into
the wood up to the very ring, and
thus It will hold a considerable
weight, which would be impossible
under other circumstances.?Washington
Star.
Lava may be blown iuto beautiful
green-colored bottles, lighter and
stronger than ordinary glass.
HANITES SACRIFICED CHILDREN
THE PALESTINE EXPLORATION
s*D.
ihfi?o ctnnrlinf strmpc fit flo'/pr wi^ru
who had been buried in large jars
jndon News.
on at Dannemora, N. Y., where the
Clinton prison is located. * The aim
has beer, to produce a sign board that
would be proof against the weather
at all sen ''"s of the year, and to this
end the hoards themselves are made
of seasoned one-inch white pine, well
protected with paint, the letters being
painted on in black on a white background,
and are legible at a distance
of forty to fifty feet, depending on
the size of the sign. The painting is
thoroughly weatherproof and the
signs will last indefinitely. The
boards are mounted on v/rouglit-iron
standards, heavily coated with white
lead as a rust preventative, and to
which they arc attached by bolts and
nuts. They arc made in a variety of
styles and sizes, such as those shown
Dy the accompanying uiusirauon, uepcnding
on the nature of their location,
and are sold at nominal prices.
The sign shown by the cut is the
largest size made and provides twelve
different distances, the two parts being
at right angles to another, this
being variable according to the angle
of the crossroads.?From The Automobile.
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Washington and Pai-is Streets.
Two cities which have in the past
acquired perhaps a higher reputation
! for street paving than any others?
j Paris, France, and Washington, D.
C.?have recently been criticised as
i failing to maintain this reputation.
Representatives of a Paris daily, in
order to call attention to the poor
condition of the pavements, recently
placed three ducks in puddles formed
by rain in the pavement of.the Place
de l'Opera, the holes being deep
snough to permit the ducks to swim
in them. This place is the centre of
the pleasure district of the city,
where one would imagine especial attention
would be paid to the appearance
of the streets.
Washington, D. C., was for years
referred to as having a greater
length of first-class asphalt pave
ments tnan any oi.ner city, iu length
she was so mo years ago sur- ' c
passed, and Mr. MacVicar, secretary 3
af the League of American Munici- K
palities, lsst month quite severely c
criticised the character of her pave- J
ments. The explanation by the
Washington Engineering Department J
was that Congress had withheld increased
appropriations for repairs until
recently, and that they had not
since then had time to catch up with
j their repair work. There is possibly s
a significance in the word "increased,"
which apparently indicates 3
that asphalt pavements cost more to v
maintain than they did some years 2
ago. ?
The experience of these two cities r
may serve to console certain others which
are having trouble keeping
their pavements in repair. As a mat- "
ter of fact, this same trouble is being 1
experienced in a very large numbir
of cities in this country. Some of
it is undoubtedly due to the fact that "
a considerable number of the older I"
pavements have about reached the
limit of their useful life; but we fear "
that much is to be attributed to defo/vMvo
r>r>nc:i-:'iir>Mnn find materials in 6
new pavements and to lax maintenance.?Municipal
Journal.
Gravel and Macadam. j
In response to an inquiry as to the
actual cost of Indiana good roads (
and their quality, Municipal Engineering
gives some statistics showing
that gravel roads in Indiana cost
from $1000 to $2900 a mile, and
average $1995 in twenty-one coun- i
ties; and that macadam roads co3t
$1500 to $4000, and average $2402 i
a mile. In 1904 Indiana spent $2,- 1
509,587 for building 1025 miles o( J
new roads, or $2448 a mile. State j (
Geologist Blatchley has collected and j i
published statistics showing 68,285 i
miles of roads in the State, of which .
23,937 miles, or thirty-five per cent.,
have been improved, 20,582 with
gravel and 1355 with stone. He ! .
gives the average cost of all tha I
gravel roads in the S!ate as $1403, *
and of the stone roads $2221 a mile,
the average of all being $1507. I 1
Municipal Engineering commends ! i
" tV?^v Tri/Hono cvetom whtfVl nrortllPM I
J tiic luumuu UJOW4U) |?. .
reasonable good roads in large quan- j
titles at low unit cost. Indiana ! {
spends as much money on its new
roads as any State in the Union, ^
with, perhaps, two or three excep- c
tlons, but it has many times as much
good road to show for it as other
States, few even approaching this 1
State in mileage or percentage of im- 1
proved roads. While road materials
are comparatively cheap in many *
I parts of the State, much of the excel- i
lent result is attributed by Municipal j
Engineering to the system under ' s
which the roads are constructed.? ! c
"Washington Star. i I
i
ronds of Burnt Clay.
In many localities the absence of (
i eravel or even stons for crushing j
makes the good road problem a diffi- | E
cult one to solve. Many plans for j 0
making roads have been tried in tha
absence of these articles, but usu- ! 1
ally the road turns out to be a mud t
road after all. Down in Missouri ex- v
periments are being made with burnt 0
clay roads, and according to reports a
fair roads can be made of this ma- | c
terial. The first test of clay roads j s
was made at St. Louis during the
I exposition. The clay was burned and ' "
I hauled on the road and while a good
j road was produced it was too expensive
to be practical. In Mississippi
they are burning the clay right on the
road and obviating the hauling. The 0
road is graded, plowed very deeply s
and furrowed crosswise. CorJwood b
. _ m n
j is piled lengthwise to torm liues. iwo or
three layers of smaller wood are r
piled above with layers of clay be- h
tween the piec?s of wood, and the
chunks of clay diminishing in size
toward the top and being placed just a
close enough to allow air currents
through the whole pile. Six inchcs 11
of burnt clay was made in this man- S
j ner after leveling and rolling. This b
i road is said to bo free from dust and c
J not to hold water.?Agricultural Stuj
dent.
Helps Automobile Trade.
The Brazilian automobile trade
:ontinues to expand as more good "
oads are built, but American motor
manufacturers continue to neglect j
i :his market. The tariff rates are very 1
I reasonable compared to the duties f,
; charged on other products.?Ameri- ''
i :-aii Inventor. t]
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Plenty of Time. ti
Tim pretty nurso had taken the 6
' best of carc of the steel millionaire. ^
"I want you to marry me," saicl ha 0
simply. '
"But, Mr. Giltedge, this is rather
sudden."
"I know, child. I know. But you
have plenty of time to get used to i
the idea. I'll have a fierce job get- Si
\ ting rid of my wife."?Pittsburg v,
Post. a
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The gold mines of Western Austra- a
lia have paid dividends amounting to c
over $70,000,000. u
lltflSIMIIMMeitMIOeQII
Endowing a Family. I
eoea?*c??#?9?03?eoeao??9?
An editorial in The World To-Day,
ipeaKing 01 large ionunes ana uiw | nanner
of their bequest by men of |
vealtb, says:
We have had .our discussion con- |
erning tainted money. It is time j
vq considered the endowment of |
amilies. Recent events exhibit the
Lew tendency in American life to esablish
a parasitic class composed of
lescendants of men who have accunulated
fortunes. These fortunes
ire no longer distributed among a j
nan's heirs, but are kept intact and
>laced in the hands of trust comlanies
for administration. The beneiciaries
face no responsibility of j
vealtb, but simply receive the wholo '
>r a portion of the fund's income, j
n one case three yftung children j
lave approximately the same endow- j
nent as that of Harvard, Yale, Co- j
umbia and Chicago Universities com- j
lined.
The next step In our financial evoution
is the concentration of wealth
n trust companies. An enormous
>ercentage of the productive wealth
?f the United States is now held by
i sma.li propuruua ut uui ^luseiia. |
Should each one of these citizens at
leath?and this is to-day's drift?
irovide that for the next thirty or
orty years his wealth should be
landled by trust companies for the
lenefit of his descendants, it would
ollow inevitably that a large proporion
of our national capital would
ie concentrated under the control of
i half dozen financial institutions.
There may be benefits attending such
l concentration, but the most conserrative
of us can seo that its dangers
ire inevitable and tremendous. With
ill respect for the ability and honsty
of these companies, no single
;roup of men is capable of adminisering
such power. No group of men
night to have such power to adminstsr.
TheAmerican people have no desire
o destroy incentives to the creation
v* wealth, or to deprive the family
>f a rich man of a generous share of *
lis fortune; but the establishment of ]
in endowed class of idlers Is con- *
rary to the American spirit and dangerous
to American institutions.
WORDS OP WISDOM. i
Even conscience may be close- 1
nouthed. <
Many a woman marries for love?
>f luxury. (
Failure is always eager for a re- <
;urn match. !
The devotion of a chronic bor- 1
ower is really touching.
Nine-tenths of what a man .knows 3
ibout his neighbors his wife tells .
ilm. 1
Man is made of clay, but that
loesn't prove that every man is a 1
)rick. ]
It's the man whose methods won't
jear looking into that we should look ^
)ut for. (
A fellow seldom has to tell his
ove. Most girls are pretty good (
juessers. <
There are more ways than one to .
:ill a cat. In fact, there must ba
line ways. ,
The fellow who is willing to bet (
lis bottom dollar doesn't have to dig ?
lown very far. 3
This world is a fleeting show, and (
,he best some of us can do is to get I "
itanding room.
The .politician doesn't forget his
jromises. He brushes them up and
ise3 them over again.
There are lots of things besides
lappiness that money won't buy; j
aanners, for instance.
Many a fellow who has told a girl |
he wa3 good enough to eat ha3 been i
bliged to swallow his own words.?
from "Musings of the Philosopher,"
n the New York Times.
A Tarry Carrying.
"Did you hear about Maurice Belan's
capture?" inquired a policeman
m the Powell street beat. \
"It was getting dark when the pa- .
rol wagon drove up in the alley by i
he City Prison dowu here back of !
-here the old Tivoli used to be. One ;
if the bums makes a quick sneak
nd goes up a fire escape to the top 1 <
if a new building. He lays lorw
oon's as he gets on the fiat roof. N
" 'Bout 10 o'clock that night Mauice
hears sneeziu'. He goes up the
re escape. There's a bum lying low
:i the roof. j n
" 'Get up,' says Maurice. J r
" 'No,' says the bum; 'I'm stuck , I
n this place.' And then Maurice j
ee3 what's the matter. After the ! r
mm lays low up there a while the |
iew tar they'd beeu putting on the j e
oof that warm day gets cold and
iolds the bum tight. J3
'"Maurice goes down to the jail- *
eeper and tells him, and they sends
trusty up on the roof to watch the I
um all night. 'Bout 10 o'clock next j j,
tnv warms nn and thev I
IUI U1II5 v. ~4. ? , t
ets the bum loose. It's a kind of .
um story, but it's true."?San Fran- t
isco Call. b
Forestry in New Jersey.
Xew Jersey is making splendid o
"ogress in its forest park reserva- 0
ion policy under the able and eneretic
administration of Alfred Gas- i 0
ill, the State Forester. ; fi
On the Eass River reservation the 0
arester planted 500 Michigan jack
ines this year. He has 50,000 seed- F
iugs of various kinds in the Bass C
Liver nurseries, and has started seed S
iiat will produce half a million young
rees. He has planted 50,000 young Sl
rees in tiio Newark watershed and 11
2,000 on the State Experimental
'arm at New Brunswick.?Bulletin
. I S(
f the American Forestry Associa- g.
ion. y,
Sirs. Malnprop. t<
"I know that woman," said Mrs. C]
,apsling, "when she had to take in
ewing for a living. I've given her ^
'ork myself, just to help her along. w
.nd yet, when I met her on the street
(lis morning she held her head up *:
nd pretended not to see me. I delare,
I never felt so saponaceous in
iy life."?Chicago Tribune; ?
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:
Late News
BY WIRE
WASHINGTON.
Prmiripnf- Rnnsevflt Indicated that
lie would set aside the Wood River,
in Alaska, for salmon propagation.
Bids for dirigible balloons to main:ain
a speed of twenty miles an hour
aave been asked for by the War Department.
Colonel Goetbals, engineer in chief
)f the Panama Canal, said that the
locks Van be widened to- any extent
iesired by the navy.
The annual report of Frank P.
Sargent, Commissioner General of
[ mmigration, showed the year ended
rune 30, 1907, to be the banner year - ;
!or the number of arrivals.
Government clerks in Washington
lave decided to boycott the street
:ars and go to their work on roller
skates.
George W. Woodruff, of Pennsylvania,
is to be Assistant Attorney;
General for the Interior Department.
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OUR ADOPTED ISLANDS. ?
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The Santa Fe Railroad Company
las just contracted for 5,000,000
ailroad ties in Hawaii, the biggest
:ontract ever let for such material
:o he shipped by water.
The movement recently started to
aorliiiaf Pnhan nr>Htipnl rnn1M nun
ind bring about the re-establishment
>f the republic is gaining new and
nfluential followers.
Cuba's census shows a population
)? 2,028,282 in the island.
The American fruit growers of
Porto Rico, representing a total investment
of about $4,000,000, have
organized for the purpose of securng
relief from alleged mishandling
)f their goods in transit.
Benito Legarda and Pablo Ocam)o
are the Philippine delegates to
Washington, oarrying positive instructions
from the commission and
Assembly to secure tariff reform.
DOBIESTIC.
While the guns of Admiral Evans'
!eet were roaring out a farewell at
Hampton Roads, the first keel plate
)f the great battleship North Dakota
pas being laid at Quincy, Mass.
Exercises commemorative of the
;entennlal annivarsary of the birth
)f John Greenleaf Whittier were held
in many New England cities.
His attentions repulsed, M. L. Dillon,
a salesman, fatally shot Mrs. N.
jr. Cochran at Chicago and then killed
llmself.
William H. Burke, manager of the
Central Drug Company, of Chicago,
committed suicide at his home by
shooting. The act is attributed to
protracted insomnia.
A jury at Amerl'cus, Ga., acquitted
Marion Sims of the murder of Benjamin
Lightfoot, whom he killed with
i billiard cue. Self-defense was
pleaded.
Stabbed in the back by Thomas
House, manager of a poolroom at
Plant City, Fla., Will Hobbs killed
lim with a billiard cue.
The Smelter City Bank at Durango,
Ual., a State institution with $300,)00
capital, closed its doors.
Gus Ringling, head of the circus
:ombination which controls the shows
>f Ringling Brothers, Barnum &
Bailey and Forepaugh-Sells, died in
S'ew Orleans.
District Attorney Jerome, of New
Fork City, declared in court that
George W. Perkins, indicted in inlurance
cases, is "afraid to have five
udges of a higher court pass on the
luestion whether he is an honorable
jentleman or an ordinary felon."
The Illinois Supreme Court desided
that property of a church occu)ied
as a dwelling for the pastor
a not exempt from taxation.
Prompted by jealousy, George
Perry killed Miss Myrtle Craig, at
>an Bernardino, Cal., then committed
iuiclde.
Five coal-boats, containing 100,)00
bushels of coal, were sunk when
i towboat ran into the Ohio River
jank, near Pomeroy, Ohio.
Rev. Robert Lewis Paddock, of
he Church of the Holy Apostles,
*ew York City, was consecrated
episcopal Missionary Bishop of EastkMM
>1 u vicguu,
Fully five hundred men guarded
warehouses and wagons loaded with
obacco at Lexington, Ky. The
juards were formed by the owners
)f the tobacco. There was one milion
.pounds sold, notwithstanding
he threats from night riders.
General Frederick D. Sew&ll,
;ighty-one years old, a Civil War
ateran on the staff of General O.
Howard, died in Boston.
FOREIGN.
Union dealers in Paris have begun
i legal war on the philanthropic
nilk depots established by Baron
lenri de Rotshchild.
Rudolph Lemieux, Canadian Post c-stor-General
and Minister of La
.. is assured that Japau will limit
migration to British Columbia.
The Chilean Congress has supircssed
the import duty on Argenine
cattle. The measure is popular
nth all classes.
Despite the varying reports at Beriu
as to the state of Emperor Willam's
health. hi3 physicians agree
hat his affection is influenza.
The Chilean Congress has reduced
he import tax on all hinds of sugar
y fifty per cent.
The charity fete in Paris in 'aid
f the flood sufferers in the South
f France was a great success, $50,00
being realized.
The Stoessel court-martial brought
ut that he disregarded three orders
rom Kuropatkin superseding him aa
ommander at Port Arthur.
It is announced in a despatch from
ekin that the so-called "Forbidden
lity," Lhasa, is soon to have teleraph
wires and a newspaper.
A naval war automobile has been
ent from Paris to the front in Moocco
to be used in action.
A cablegram to the Victoria, B.
Sealing Company states that the
?alskins sold at Lampson's annual
lies brought the same price as last
ear, when the average was $21.56.
Japan's policy in China, according
) Pekin advices, threatened a new
risis in Manchurian affairs.
The Creusot Works of France have
xU _ ? P ? Ki f*
egun mo cuiisiruuiiuu ui a. U15
barf at Corral, Chile.
An extradition treaty between
[exico and the Netherlands has been
gned.
A demonstration against th? contention
was made by a larga numer
of monarchists In Teheran.
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