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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.
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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
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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.
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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.
/
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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
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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
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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
?
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MORAL: G
ftGwing That Sometimes AH an Unwel
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No, I don't want to see anybody to-day. I 'p.
"What' You here yet? Get out,
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"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?"
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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
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?by*&ak it manufactured, printed on the,
> ' . frord of evWry package.
SOLD STALL LEADING DRUGGISTS
one size cmly. regular price 50* p*-MHie. ^
Hale's Honey
of Horehound
and Tar
' CURES
Hoarseness., Cough**
fin ids and Sore Throat, ?
The standard remedy
used for generations.
25 Cents, SO Oats, $1.00 f
per bottle; the largest size cheapest.
At all drnggisti. mhttitntra
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POOP* TOOTHACHE DROPS CUBE IB OH WNUTfl
Blooded raflch cowb are being' sc&t> Aeon -v.
Ammcs to Japan.
FITS,St. Vitus'Dance, Nervous Diaea??rp?r
manently cured bj Dr. Kline's GreatNerrs
Restorer. S2 trial bottle and t)*eatiae frsa.
Dr.H. R. Kline, Ld., 931 Arch St.Phila^t*.
^Modern needles first came into ok fo
Piles Cored in 6 to 14 Dep.
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