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"scores of men, won PERISH IN I Victims Mostly Church M Theatre at Boyertoi tainment 1 EYE WITNESS TELLS GRA Cittle Ones Crashed in Maddened Dash For Eiits?Oil Lamps Burst and Bodies Burned In Heaps as Firemen Stood Helpless?The Exact Namber o! Dead May Never Be Known, For Among the Yictims oi the Awful Disaster Were Visitors and Strangers Who May Have No Relatives to Trace Them to Their Fato. Bovertown, Pa. ? When daylight dawned the full extent of the night's horror when the Rhoades Opera House was burned became apparent. rr"? 1!-t J ^ of 1 fift onr? 1 Lie llSl. U1 UCaU lO yiavcu ai. j.v.v the injured at seventy-five. How many were killed may never be known, for among the victims of this awful disaster were many visitors and some strangers who may have left no relatives to trace them to their untimely fate. Out of the ruins of the Rhoades Opera House 167 bodies, mostly of women and children, had been taken when darkness fell on the day following the disaster. Then, with at least forty more bodies in sight and perhaps more mixed in the debris, the search stopped for the night. At least 200 persons perished by fire, by trampling and by suffocation ,in the awful tragedy. The list may reach 230. Of these 167 victims taken from the ruins two-thirds are women and children. Only ten in all are recognizable, save, perhaps, by scraps of clothing and blackened trinkets. Coroner Strasser said: "Among the bodies are 110 females, forty-three males and twelve whose sex is not distinguishable. Twenty-two of these are children. The ratio of women and girls to men and boys is nearly three to one." Included in the remains recovered are three sacks of skulls and bones. For several months the Sundayschool pupils of St. John's Lutheran Church had been rehearsing "The Scottish Reformation." which was being staged by Mrs. H. E. Monroe, of Washington, the authoress, and when the curtain rose at 8 o'clock the opera house was thronged with repre' sentative citizens. The second part of the play, in which the students from the Glasgow University and the Puritans marched / to Lelth to meet Queen Mary, had just been reached. The young people taking part had just finished their songs, and incidental to the drama a number of pictures tfere shown by a moving picture machine. This was operated by H. W. Fisher, of Carlisle, Pa., who used calcium lights. While he was operating the machine there was a flash and a ioud report, and the people sitting in the rear of the opera house near the machine arose In fright and rushed toward the stage. Their action caused a panic in the audience, and many of the people, thinking the building was on fire, rushed toward the stage. The young people who were taking part in the play motioned to them to go back and resume their seats, but the frightened spectators attempted to climb upon the stage to escape the fiery spluttering of the moving picture machine. , , .V- Hemmed in by Fire. 1 One of the young, people on the stage, more excited than the others, made a motion as if to repel the audience. and in bis excitement he overturned one of the coal oil lamps that iwere used as footlights for the stage. It fell with a crash into the auditor4 ? iUUI aim c:a?/ivjvo.wa. In an instant the stage in front was ablaze, and the frightened people surged toward the rear again. The youthful actors fled from the stage, and managed to escape, clad in their Btage garments. The crowd in the front of the auditorium fled to the rear as the flames from the stage edged toward them, % and they were met by a crowd from the rear, frantic to escape from the peril of the burning picture machine HhB in the rear. The mob became panic stricken, and strong men beat down women and children in their effort to get out of the building. W Frank Cullen, a blacksmith, seized W his four-year-old son and made his w way to a window. When he attemptff ed to return to get his wife she was R In a struggling mass of humanity, f and it was impossible for him to } reach her. ; The flames spread rapidly, and mnnv of the audience were caught and overcome before they could reach the Are escapes. The frenzied people fought with each other to reach the front entrance. People Piled Against Doors. The frenzied people fought with each other to reach the front entrance, the principal means of exit from the building, and a struggling mass of humanity was quickly piled against the doors that led to the stairs on Philadelphia avenue. Here the flames soon overtook them, and they were burned to death almost in sight of escape from the seething furnace that surrounded them. A number of people who were attracted by the cries of fire rushed from the street to the entrance of the opera house and up the stairs to the Chicago Short of Teachers. . Scarcity of teachers, which is crip pling public school work in tne larger cities throughout the country, made itself felt in Chicago when in thirtythree rooms at elementary schools the pupils found the teacher's desk unoccupied. Regalia Scandal in Dublin. The British Government has appointed a commission to investigate the mysterious disappearance in Dublin of part of the State regalia, valued at $$50,000. Not to Resign, Taft Says. ""Secretary Taft said there is absolutely no foundation for the rumor that he is to resign from President Roosevelt's Cabinet. The story was that he would resign in the near future to devote his entire atteniion to his campaign for President. Cone of Vesuvius Crushed. Following a number of heavy detonations, a portion of the cone of Mount Vesuvius sank within the crater, causing great internal ebullition. An enormous column of smoke rose from the crater. 1EN AND CHILDREN OPERA HOUSE HORROF embers Who Had Tiirongec vn, Pa., to See Enterby Children. PHIC STORY OF DISASTER second floor. They succeeded in res cuing some, but were forced to abandon the others to their fate, as the quickly advancing flames drove then: lrom the building. Charles B. Spatz, editor of the lo cal paper and former member of the Legislature, escaped, but only to be injured a few moments later. He was fighting the flames and was standing upon a ladder when h( slipped and fell. Three ribs were broken and he was cut about the head. Survivors of the disaster and spectators unite in saying that the attending scenes were the most horrible that can be imagined. People threw themselves from the balcony into the body of the theatre, hoping to find some means of escape. Others jumped from the windows of the building and were either maimed 01 killed. Could Wait Only For Death. Meanwhile the flames which had broken out on the staee were snread ing rapidly throughout the building seemingly eager for their prey. Those who had fallen in the wild rush and who were so badly maimed that they were beyond all power to struggle and fight were wailing in anguish, their cries adding to the horror ol the situation. They could do nothing but wait helplessly for their fate? to be roasted to death in the roaring furnace. There were many heroes in the awful catastrophe. Some are not alive to tell of their deeds. They gave up their lives for others. Fathers and mothers who might have saved themselves lingered to get their children, and all perished in the flames. Brothers 'who might have got out in safety hesitated to make sure that their sisters were safe, and they, too, are numbered among the dead. Sweethearts, with little thought of themselves, bent all their energies in an effort to rescue their companions, and their lives were also added to the great harvest of death. Many who had reached the outside in safety dashed back into the burning building in a mad and fruitless endeavor to save. They never returned. The rrobablc Cause. What may be a true statement oi the cause of the disaster was given by an eye witness. , Toward the end of the performance, the man in charge of the moving picture machine was testing his apparatus and it gave forth a hissing sound. This caused a stir in the audience, and somebody on the stage lifted the curtain for the evident purpose of seeing what the commotion was about. On the front of the stage was a tin tank, about eight feet long and a few inches high, and in this were placed twelve kerosene lamps which served as footlights. The curtain tilted this tank over and this started the fire and the subsequent panic and awful loss of life. There were 310 paid admissions to the theatre, and it is believed about 425 persons were in the hall, including the performers, when the fire started. Most of them were adults, as the show was not of a sort to appeal to children. Tne fire was not brought under control until early fiext morning, after assistance had arrived from I Reading and Pottstown. | Two special trolley cars from Reading brought members of the State constabulary, surgeons, trained nurses, and a large supply of hospital stores and first aid to the injured appliances. The State constabulary immediately took charge and roped off the scene. During the early morning a gasoline tank exploded [ and blew down the standing walls, and but for the precaution of the | guards many others would have been killed. | The building which was destroyed was a large brick structure, three stories high, and with a frontage of 125 feet on Philadelphia avenue. The first floor was occupied by the Farmers' National Bank and a hardware store. The second c.nd third floors were occupied by the opera house and a lodge. The building also extended on Washington street for a distance of 250 feet. In the rear of the bank were four large dwelling houses which were a part of the building. These were burned. The monetary loss will amount to about $75,uuu. Story of Eye Witness. Reuben W. Stover, one of those who escaped the flames, in speaking of the fire said: "When the noise like an explosion occurred, there were at least thirty boys and girls on the stage, while many more were behind the scenes. Without warning, there was a terrific explosion, which seemed to shake the entire building Immediately there was a wild rush for the exits. The people on the stage jumped over the footlights intc the audience. Everybody seemed tc have lost control of himself. The flames first consumed the flimsj scenery and then came toward the crowd like a great wave, and the suffocating smoke dropped men, women and children in its path. The flames did the rest. It was a terrible sight and I shall carry the recollection as long as I live. Once tbe crowd begar to fight its way toward the doors nc power on earth could have saved al! Receivers For Great Western. The Chicago Great Western, a rail road with a capitalization of $110, 000,000 and operating a trackage ol 1474 miles, went into the hands ol receivers. President Stickney and C A. J. Smith were appointed 'receivers From President to President. v Ambassador Thompson, at Mexicc City, has received a fine oil paintim of President Roosevelt, which he wai instructed to present to Presiden Diaz. Meals For Chicago's Poor. The general relief committee de cided to aid homeless and unem ployed men in Chicago by puttinj them to work cleaning the streets For one day's work they will get i ticket entitling them to three nights lodging and three days' meals. Glenn Grateful to Hughes. Governor Glenn, in a letter to Gov ernor Hughes, of New York, thank him warmly in the name of Nort Carolina for refusing to accept bond repudiated by North Carolina in or der to bring suit for them. the lives, but I believe that, if the men had not lost control of themselves, the loss of life would have [ been very small." k The borough president ordered all saloons closed, as the rough element was becoming unruly under the In[ fluence of liquor. 49 KILLED, 404 HURT BY AUTOS 1000 Persons Convicted and $11,00C Paid in Fines in Massachusetts, f Boston.?Reports made before the n _ U- n 1- A ..4am AUMA DclL6 IVUdUS A u luiliuuiit; naoutmnui. at its annual meeting at the Exchange Club showed that since June there ~ had been about 500 automobile accij dents in Massachusetts, in which for' ty-nine persons were killed and 464 persons seriously injured. It is the object of the association to relieve [ such conditions, and the problem was [ deemed of such acute importance l that the Executive Committee has j held weekly meetings and the Board } of Directors monthly meetings. More ? than a thousand persons have been \ convicted in the lower coiirts ol various violations of the automobile laws during the past year. In all . fifty-six licenses have been suspended , or revoked by the Massachusetts r Highway Commission. More than ? $11,000 has been paid In fines. [ Of the accidents reported it !: 5 recorded that more than two-thirds . of them occurred in broad daylight. . There were about as many accidents on country roads as in thickly settled districts. [ $10,000,000 WAR FUND ASKED. ! Deportment Wants Equipment Five [ Times Present Size. / Washington, D. C.?Major-General W. D. Duvall, Assistant Chief of Staff 1 of the United States Army, in a spe; cial request to Congress, asked for an I appropriation of $10,000,000 for the j purchase of arms and equipment for ' an army of 250,000 men. This request was strongly indorsed | TABLE SHOWING INS; ' | BOTH S] ! / : ,, fi : ;j Father ! : ji HARRY THAW J 'I f > i; Mother 1 ' J: ll i by Major-General Franklin Bell, Chief of Staff, and Robert Shaw Oliver, Assistant Secretary of War. i * The request provides for an exi penditure of $2,500,000 a year for four years. The equipment purchased is to be stored In New York, Philadelphia and San Francisco. It consists of uniforms, blankets, mess gear and other articles for field service. The most remarkable thing about the request is that it uses the expression "such equipment to be used in time of war." PENALTY FOR RUM SELLER. Violator of Maine Law Sentenced to Pay $1000 and Serve 17 Months. Skowhegan, Me.?One of the heaviest penalties ever inflicted by the Supreme Court against a liquor dealer was imposed on William Howard, of Anson, by Judge. Cornish. It was a fine of $1000 and costs and seventeen months' imprisonment, with seventeen additional months if the fine and rnsts are not naid. Howard failed to appear and the Justice declared his bonds forfeited. It is said that jail sentences will be imposed on all those convicted of violation of the liquor law. SCANDAL IN BELGRADE. Police Raid a Club and Arrest Men of High Rank. London. ? The Globe's Budapest correspondent states that a telegram from Belgrade announces that a great ; sensation has been created there by i a police "raid upon a club where a number of men belonging to the highest circles were arrested, several of them being disguised as women. It is stated that the Government will take drastic measures, irrespect. ive of the status of the offenders. -1 CASTRO OUSTS MATCH TRUST. I Executive Decree Ends Monopoly ol Big Match Company. Caracas, Venezuela.?An executive decree issued annuls the existing match monopoly and puts an end to 1 the concession of the National Match > ,Company. This company was capi1 talized at $>1,000,000. The shares ! were held mostly in England, and 1 they were quoted recently at eighty! -Ave. . ... l' * i Death to Cats. [ In his annual report Secretary Jos, eph Kalbfus, of the Pennsylvania [ State Game Commission, recommends , Governor Stuart to ask for a State , bounty on the scalps of the house r cat. House cats, he says, are the , greatest destroyers of bird life, and ! he would like to see them annihilated, L ' s Currency Plan Opposed. A poll of the Senate Committee or ? Finance showed unanimous opposi on/ 1 tion to tne creait currency pmu, auv > only Senator Hansbrough in favoi I of creating a central bank of issue. American Corporations Blamed. Count von Kanitz in a speech ir the Reichstag, Berlin, Germany, inti f mated that the attempts to curt C American corporations had largel] been responsible for financial trou bles in the world. Hcinze Surrenders Stock. F. A. Helnze pleaded not guilty t( ) the indictment found against him ir r the United States Court, New Yorl 3 City. Later he was obliged to sur t render his Mercantile National Banl stock to Edwin Gould. Kentucky Governor's Message. The first message of Governor A ci tiio Tfpntiickv Genera y Hi. Y V IUOWU IU W4?v 9 Assembly was devoted chiefly to thi ' lawlessness which has developed ii . the tobacco war and recommenda tions for ending the trouble. Mrs. Cleveland an Office Holder. Mrs. Grover Cleveland, of Trenton s has been appointed a member of th h New Jersey State Commission on Epi s lepsy. This is the last appolntmen - made over the signature of Governo Stokes, the out-going Executive. / I , . hSllY THAW'S DEFENSE ? u Littleton Says Family History Will Be Laid Bare. White's Slayer Tried Suicide in Paris * After Hearing Evelyn Nesbit's Story, Says Counsel. i s New York City.-r-Opening the case ! of the People against Harry K. Thaw for the murder of Stanford White, Assistant District Attorney Garvan ? s asked in the Supreme Court for a ? verdict of murder in the first degree, 1 charging that the prisoner had com, mitted "a premeditated, deliberate [ and cowardly murder." i The wheels of justice were well Anrlii) ty m o/1a 1 UIICU, auu UUOUV/C jL/vnuu^ U4MUV ! them move swiftly, so swiftly, In fact, > that the opening address for the PeoI pie and the testimony of the People's 1 witnesses establishing the facts of the i killing on Madison Square roof gari den on the night of June 25, 1906, were all completed by 3.30 o'clock lx? the afternoon. Then Martin W. i Littleton, chief counsel for the pris- * oner, vfas called on to outline his dei fense to the jury. i Mr. Littleton had hinted at some sensations, but as his address went on there came surprise after surprise, announcement of witnesses from various corners of the globe, statements , of acts ranging from the puerilities .. of weak-minded childhood to attempted suicide by Thaw and the unlocking of the Thaw family closet to show the skeleton which had been kept carefully hidden for generations ?hereditary insanity. i fThe most striking new statement in Mr. Littleton's outline of the defense was that Thaw had tried to kill himself by taking poison in Paris AV/AVySNVAVAVAVW LNITY ON \ [PES OP THAW FAMILY ij i Jister, insane at 5; died insane at 50. larrlet Alice Thaw, in asylum, Pittsbnrg. & lorace Thaw, insane. < idolph Thaw, insane. > 3arry Travis Thaw, insane. J Ififiliiam Thaw, a cousin, insane. . ' 5< fosiah Copley, mentally unbalanced. : tr lenry W. Copley, died from hereditary j J illusions. s )c Sffargaret Copley's son died insane. ' > d< ? 3' fC ! after hearing the story of Evelyn '? Nesbit's life, but It was also new to a the case that he was crazy in Rome gl and Monte Carlo and under treat- pi ment in those places, that he was j?1 sent from Clarldgc's in London to a ? sanitarium, and that he went mad b( two months before killing White while on a train between Chicago and " New York. .? Mr. Littleton did not spare the ? I prisoner, who sat with his face half m hidden In hfe hands as he heard him- ta self portrayed imbecile at birth and maniacal in manhood. Thaw cowered in his chair, all the egotism and A. confidence shown in the first trial P< gone. He seemed tamed by the fear bi of death in the electric chair or con- to flnement in the mad house. At no time has he made a picture so weak tl and miserable. Thaw was a madman, bereft of fc ' j all reason when he killed White, is ct In substance what Mr. Littleton says tl he will prove. SI ' To back up this defense Mr. Lit- tr tleton will produce evidence to show T that on the paternal and maternal cc side Thaw had relatives who were -c insane, at least one of them dying in Pi an asylum. . tt 31 nir?TT?T? * TV POTT/TPPTKrcS. I W . VJULV/l^UAViA Ail A ? Seventeen New Cases and Thirteen Tj Deaths Reported Prom Mariqnina. Manila.?There is a serious outbreak of cholera in the Mariquina jj Valley, the source of Manila's water supply. Forty-three deaths have occurred in four days. I There were seventeen new cases, and thirteen deaths on Sunday. The , fatalities were confined to the natives, t but several Americans were stricken. w [ Three troops of the Tenth Cavalry tfc were posted to guard the water shed, tt oi Laziest Man Alive. H Mrs. Anton Sadwski, of Cleveland, C Ohio, testified in court against her N husband in a suit brought for alleged tl neglect of his six small children. Mrs. W : Sadwski thinks he is the laziest man on record. ''Why, Judge, he is so vc lazy," she wailed, "that when he goes 0( [ to bed in the attic above our rooms y? ' he pulls up the ladder after him. In | That's the only stairway, and when Ci ; he has pulled it up with him I can't pi wake him In tne morning. My nus- u< 1 band was awfully anxious for me to is marry him. But he left toe on the t\ day we were married and didn't come ti back for a week. Then he begeed fr on his knees and I took him in. I've c? supported him ever since." m n; Nearly 050,000 People in a ' Chicago Have Influenza, ni 1 Chicago.?Influenza has Chicago in . ' Its grasp. Nearly 650,000 people are ? suffering from the disease, or its cor1 ollaries, according to the city health department's bulletin. "Not since the ?c epidemic season 1898-9 has influenza * played such an important part in the i mortality as at present," said the ei report. "During the last week thirty- ai I one deaths were reported. The week's 01 death rate,<17.48, is the highest Jan- .. uary rate since 1899." *j -Tanderbilt Wedding Guests. ^ 1 Relatives of Count Laszlo Szech" enyi, \VJho is to marry Miss Gladys > Vandertilt, arrived at New York from r Hungary, and will be the guests of J ' Mrs. Cornelius Vanderbilt until after ^ the wedding cl j Writer of ''Maryland" Dead. i James R. Randall, who at twentyi two left his bed at midnight to write ^ . "Maryland, My Maryland," by candle- c r light, died at Augusta, Ga., aged six- t, ty-nine years. j p i fl Latest News at a Glance. Imports of diamonds have dropped 1 off about four million dollars. s 5 An estimate of 20,000 children in t< 1 New York City suffering !or food was " declared too small. 8 Congressman Lamar, ot Florida, C announces ma pui puse uj. m< mug race to succeed the late United n 1} States Senator Mallory. g e It was announced by ex-Jadge - Marvel, of Wilmington, a personal { t friend of Judge Gray, that the lat;er t r would not serve as delegate to the c Democratic National Convention. t ? *!, ' '( '. . . ; . .v .' ; . ' MORAL: G ftGwing That Sometimes AH an Unwel i I w \ 1^0^ No, I don't want to see anybody to-day. I 'p. "What' You here yet? Get out, % d] k "Nv\v will yoi ?Carto< MERCHANTS LOOtH lanufacturers and Wholesale! ising For 1908?Collection! Sending in Orders to Repl< European Merchants New York City.?A canvass of the ;ntiment in a dozen important i adee, as expressed by members of t ifferent industries and the edi- 1 >rial opinions'" of recognized trade ? urnals in the last few days, has 1 sveloped a distinctly hopeful tone t >r the outlook for 1908. Of 1907 ? lere is apparently a common opin- < m?that the first eight months i ere satisfactory to a marked de- i ree, and to some instances sur- '< issed former records as far as vol- i me of business was concerned. The ? nfltinlnl {nf ?i r>Kn n nrtc n f Inof foil 1 uauuiai utoiui uouc^o ul iuuv iuii) Dwever, brought about a great 1 lange in this respect, and several ades suffered severely. A stateent of conditions in a majority of te trades covered appears to those ,ost interested to justify the expec;tions of good business in 1908." Particularly is this the case in a )od many of the dry goods trades, member of one of the largest imjrting houses in New York, whose ayers reach every important centre i Europe and with salesmen in every iction of the United States, declared lat the reports which his firm reiived/ were distinctly encouraging ir a trade recovery all over the >untry. The reports from all over te Middle. Western and Southern iates indicated the best Christmas ade among retailers on record, bese reports covered San Francis>, Portland. Los Angeles and Taima on the coast; Minneapolis, St. aul, Milwaukee and other cities in ie Middle West, and several cities ich as San Antonio, in the Southest, Atlanta, in the Southeast. DSTICE JOHN M. HARLAN PROP [0 Would Vote $50,000,000 a Must Fight Yellow MenEarth and. He Wants to Be Prepa: Washington, D. C.?That there t ill be eventually a conflict between ? te yellow race and the white race \ lat. will shako the earth is the t >inion of Justice John Marshall f arlan, of the United States Supreme 1 ourt. In an address before the ( avy League of the United States, i lis eminent jurist, according to the rashington Post, said: t "If I had -the opportunity I would ? >te for an appropriation of $50,- s )0.000 a year for a period of ten ? ;ars for a larger navy. The great s ? a i- -I. IM 4-1* _ iporiance 01 a navy is suuwu iu iuc i institution. which restricts the ap"opriations for the army, but sets 3 limit for those for the navy. There no such thing as friendship beveen nations as between men. Naons make no sacrifice to preserve lendships and do not forbear to do srtain things because they do not eet with the approval of another ition. Do you think England cares cent for what we think of her ivy? Or Germany cares a cent? "How large a navy ought we to ave? That is a question I cannot aswer any more than whether a Dspital ship ought to be command1 by a naval officer or a surgeon. donkt care how large a navy we ave. but I want to see a navy large lough to take care of the Pacific ad Atlantic Oceans and our ports ^ a those oceans. i "The trena or tne immigration ui i le white people in the past has been 1 om the East to the West. There ] osps Life Deciding ] ft Fifty-cent Wager. Chicago.?On a bet of fifty cents, , H. Harrington, a lineman for the ' /cstern Union Telegraph Company, i limbed a steel pole on- the Drainage ' anal power line at Rockwell street, ' inched a 4 4,000 volt wire and was < Imost instantly burned to a crisp. 1 Harrington and a gang of linemen i ere coming downtown when a dis- ! ussion arose as to the distance be- i ween the wires of the sanitary ' ower line. Harrington went up to i nd the distance they were apart. I The Field of Labor. The Llanitooa uovernment is conidering a proposal to license bar- ; sliders. Organized women workers number 621 in the bookbinding industry .n 1 Germany. All the principal French railways aaintain a pension fund for the bene- -1 it of their employes. San Francisco (Cal.) Women's Jnion League is making efforts to obain the appointment of a woman irganizer by the American Federaion of Labor for the purpose of organizing women into unions. , / come Visiter Needs Is a Swift Kick.) 1 i busy Wh(. v--'i ' en iii ln're. anyhow?" ' _> > I say! Can't you see I'm busy?" i get out.?" >n by Triggs, in the New York Press. FOR A GOOD YEAR -s Say Conditions Are Prom3 Much Easier?Retailers 3nish Depleted Stocks? to Keep Up Pric4s, Combined with this continued demand upon the retailer is the fact ;hat little or no goods have been jought since the early fall, and stocks are becoming relatively exlausted. From the source referred ;o abovi? it was learned, for eximple, that one house in a Southern :ity sold $193,000 of goods in November and bought $9000. As a esult, orders which were canceled ire reported as being renewed and lew orders received to replenish stocks that were neglected in the weeks of uncertainty following the Jnancial flurry. Cou'pled with this increase of denand, an improvement in collections s reported in many branches of the Iry goods trade, which bids (air to jring that element of the business lack to normal within a comparativey short time, so far as the interior jf the country i3 concerned. Thi irediction is being made in dry joods circles that this fact coupled vitji the release of hoarded money )y interior banks will operate to ease he money situation materially withn the next sixty days. Reports received by one largo louse from nine different centres of nanufacture for exports on the other tide of the Atlantic indicate that the European trade organizations and he individual producers, regardless if such membership, will do what hey can to maintain prices with the dea of curtailing production rather han create a situation where prices vill have to come down, to the injury >oth of the producer and of the American importer. HESIES A GREAT RACE WAR Year For a Bigger NavyConflict Will Shake the ! the United States red For It. ias been none from the We3t. Just tcross the water there is a country vith an immense population whose :ommerce we are seeking. We reer to the people of Asia as the yelow race. There are 400,000.000 Chinese, as strong physically and nentally as we are. "There is over there another na:ron whose people are progressive tnd ambitious. We may some day ;ee a skilled army in Japan of from i,000,000 to 10.000,000. They will iay: iuu ciaim Europe as juui :ountry. This is ours. Get out!" ' don't think they have any such dea now, and we have no hostility oward them. But there will be a :onflict between the yellow race and he white race that will shake the iarth. When it comes I want to see his country with a navy on both >ceans that will be strong enough." In conjunction with his belief in :he obligation to build ships, Justice larlan holds that it is the duty of he country to fortify thoroughly ;very seaport Under the American lag and make it impregnable. War :omes suddenly, he says, and from ;he most peaceful outlook it may develop before it is possible to make sreparations, or even to build a jattleship, much less a navy. He believes that a nation which fs vaaA* ^ rt m otoT onrrif nr whi/*h lot a strong nav7. is la clanger of )elng forced into war when ft is ?ot desired, and when the nation is east able to meet such an emergency. Hard Times Fill NewYork Workhouse. New York City.?Extra cots hav? aeen sent to Blackwell's Island to make room for the largest prison population in the history of New York, rhe Workhouse i3 full, and long^erm vagrants are being transferred to the Blackwell's Tsland Penitentiary ind to the Raymond Street Jail, in Brooklyn, to make room for the daily irrivals of as many as 100 prisoners. Phpro arp mnrp than 7 00 women and nearly 900 men in the Workhouse oi the metropolis. Political I'ot a-Boiling. Justice John M. Harlan denied that he is a candidate for the Presidential nomination. Governor Hughes at Albany declined to say anything about his Presidential boom. "President Roosevelt is the greatest force in our national life," saysSecretary Cortelyou. Labor leaders praised Governor Hughes for his recommendation? against race-track betting. The Senate confirmed the -seleo tion of Richmond Pearson, of North Carolina, to be Minister to Greece 1 V . i m : Syrup tfpgs ^Oixir^fSetuui Cleanses the System I lttecV ually. 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Pazo Ointment ia guaranteed to tart any case of Itching, Blind, Bleeding or PixthidiAg Piles in 6 to 14 day* or money refunded. 50c. The Saltan of Turkey is the proprietor j of a fine zoological garden. Mrs. WinaloVs Soothing syrup lorChildtre* Uything, softens the gums, redaceamHftmmv tion,allayw pain, cures wind colic. 25c a bottis Yield of Good Beef Steer. i ' A good steer properly and at the ? ' . i same time profitably cat up win yield the following percentages of dressed > weight, given in round numbers ao i as to be more easily memorized:'. i Loins, 15 per cent.; ribs, 10 per J cent.; rounds, 21 per cent.; chucks, 4 19 per cent.; plates, 16 per cent.; J flanks, 4 per cent; shanks, 7 per 'V cent; tallow, 3 per cent.; .kidneys, j .25 per cent; sausage meat, 1 per > eent.; shank meat, 1.50 per cent; tankage, 2 per cent.; loss in cutting, 0.25 per cent.?National Provisioner. The Open Road. In the American Magazine David Grayson, author of "Adventures in Contentment," begins a new series > called "The Open Road." He says: , "Is it not the prime struggle of life to keep the mind plastic 7 To see and feel and hear things newly? ' To accept nothing as settled; to defend the eternal right of the ques* tioner? To reject every conclusion of yesterday before the surer observations of to-day??is not that the best life we know? And so to the ^ 'Open Roadf "What more than that Is the ao- v of the great inventor. poet, painter? Such cannot abide habit-hedged wildernesses. They follow the Open Road, they see for themselves, and will not accept the paths or the names of the world. And Sight, kept clear, becomes puriocsly, Insight. A thousand had | seen apples fall before Newton. But N'fewton was dowered with the spirit jf the- Open Road!"* His Order. He was an untried sportsman, th? Washington Star declares, but he entered a tailor's shop and approached a clerk with aq air of aI -u ^ CUitluyiuu. , "I am a rower," said he, "and I want to be measured for two pairs o# rowing trousers?the kind with. feh* sliding seats." RAILROAD MAX J Didn't Like Being Starved!. J A man running on a roilroa-d has 1 to be in good condition all the time or he is liable to do harm to himself I and others* A clear head is necessary to run a locomotive or conduct a train. Even a railroad man's appetite and digestion are matters of importance, as the clear brain and steady hand result from the healthy appetite folI lowed by the proper digestion of food. "For the past five years," writes a railroader, "I have been constantly troubled with indigestion. Every doctor I consulted seemed to want to starve me to death. First I was dieted on warm water and toast until 1 was almost starved; then, when j they would let me eat, the indiges; tion would be right back again. ! "Only temporary relief came from * " ' * J - ' -11 ? * remedies, and l tnea auuiu au ui them I saw advertised. About three months ago a friend advised me tfi try Grape-Nuts food. Tho very first dc? 1 noticed that my appetite was satisfied, which had not been the case before, that I can remember. "iti a week, I believev I had more energy than ever before in my life. I have gained seven pounds and have not had a touch of indigestion sinco I have been eating Grape-Nuts. When my wife saw how much good this food was doing me she thought she would try it awhile. We believe the discovcrer of Grape-Nuts found the 'Perfect Food.' " Name given by Poatum Co., Battle Creek, Mich. Read "The Road to Well1 ville." in okss. "There's a Reason.*4