SOMETIMES. ^ r I Across the fields of long ago i He sometimes comes to me, j A little lad with face aglow? ! The lad I used to be. ^ . And yet he smiles so wistfully, Once he has crept within? ? I wonder he still hopes to see The man 1 might nave been! ?Thomas S. Jones, Jr., in Aiaslee'a. c c ENTHUSIASM j FOE SCIENCE ; ' ? c TO By MAX ADELER. TO J Everybody has observed how an t aeronaut, who goes frolicking around A I? In Tirflflt claims to be the r iu wile aa xil ** uuw w ? a sause of science, seems to regard the v v most appalling accidents to himself, and the most fearful destruction of ^ Dther people's property, with the game kind of delight that an ordinary man would feel when he has a fortune left to him. Professor Smart Is that kind of an aerial navigator, and he was telling me the other day Df a 'delightful voyage he took a short t time ago in his balloon. He said: J We went up from Easton?Stone- \ man, Bob Tarr and myself?and it 2 . was the most magnificent trip I ever * took. Perfectly splendid! We got * tier full about 12 o'clock, and the 1 crowd held her down until we were * ready, and then I gave the word, and they let go, and we went a-booming 1 Into the air. One man got caught in * & twist of the rope as she gave her * Rrst snurt uDward. and it just 1 Blaramed him up against a fence as If he'd been shot out of a howitzer. * Smashed in three or four of his ribs, 1 I bolieve, and cracked his leg. Br.t 1 we went up just beautiful about 1500 ] feet, and while we wero looking at " ihe lovely scenery we ran into a cloud and I told Bob to throw over some ( ballast. Ho heaved out a couple of 1 sandbags, and one of them accident- ( ally fell on Major Dick's hired girl, J who was hanging clothes in the gar- J $ en, and the other went sock into his 1 shimney and choked h^r up. He was mad as the mischief about it when we 1 came down. No enthusiasm for 1 3cience. Some men don't care a cent ' whether the world progresses or not. 1 Well, sir, we shot up about 1000 * feet more, and then Stoneman dropped the lunchbasket overboard by accident, and we went vp about four miles. Stoneman sot blue in the 1 race, Bob fainted, and I came near 5 being asphyxiated myself. A minute 1 more and we'd all 'a* beer dead men, 1 but I gave the valve a Jerk, and we came down a-whooping. When the ' boys came to Bob said he was sick 1 and wanted to get out, a?:d as we 1 were only a little ways above ground ! t threw out ;.ay grapnel. That minute a breeze struck her, and she went jibout ninety miles an hour over some 3 man's garden, and the grapnel caught '' In his grape arbor, snatched it up, 1 jmd pretty soon got it tangled in the ' weathercock on tho Baptist Church 3 f steeple. I cut the rope and left it 5 ' there, and I understood afterward ' ihe deacons sued the owner because 1 , he wouldn't come and take It down. 1 Raised an awful fuss, and sent the ] sheriff after me. Trying to make scientific investigation seems like a ! crime, and me working like a horse ^ all the time to unfold the phenomena ] Df nature! If they 'a' loved knowl- 1 Bdge more than ignorance, they ' Wouldn't 'a' cared if I'd ripped their '' bid steeple off and rammed her down , like an extinguisher on top of some ' ^ lactory chimney. w So when we deposited the grape 1 jirhor we went up again a-kiting, and [ Bob got sicker, and said he must gat out, and I rigged up another grapnc? and threw It out We were just over l farm near the river, ;xnd, as tho wind was high, the grapnel tore 1 Ihrough two fences and broke them 1 * pp, snatched the robf off the barn, 1 ran against a sheep and ripped it in half, and then, as nothing would hold ' her, wo swooped into the woods, 1 where we ran plump against a tree. < Th:> hrnr/?hno QVinriorf Rtnnomnn't; < face, nearly put out my left eye, and 1 kocked four teeth out of Bob's mouth. ( It was the most exciting voyage I J jver took in my life, and I was just beginning to take an interest in it? ' f lust getting warmed up and preparing to take meteorological observa- 1 Uons, but Bob was so very anxious to 1 luit that 1 didn't like to refuse, al- 1 though I hated to give up and aban- * Son my scientific investigations. ( So I threw out my coat and boots, md made the other fellows do the lame, and wo rose above the trees, I md sailed along splendidly until we 1 L Itruck the river, when she suddenly ! r lodged down, and the edge of the car " taught in the water, and the wind look her, and we went scudding along I * like lightning, nearly drowned. Btoneman was washed overboard, 1 however, and that lightened her so ' ?he went up again, and I was for staying up, but Bob said he'd die if tie didn't get out soon, and, besides, he thought we ought to look after Btoneman. But I said Stoneman was probably drowned anyhow, so there was no use in sacrificing our experi- 1 paV Qients for him, and I told Bob a man ' of his intelligence ought to be willing ' to put up with something for the sake ; of science. And Bob said, as for him, science be hanged; If I didn't let him out he'd jump out. Ho was < sick, you J now. The man was not , himself or he'd never 'a' talked that way about a voyage that was so full 1 of interest, and that was likely to re- 1 veal so many of the secrets of nature. J But, to oblige him, I at last got her 1 down on the other side of the river. *nd a farmer came up and held on to 1 the rope. While we were talking to him, I was just telling him that, as the gas was coming out of the neck of the balloon, maybe he'd better put out hi3 cigar, when all of a sudden there '< was a tcrrific bang; the gas exploded 1 and wrapped us in a sheet of flame, '< and tho next minute some of the neighbors picked up me and Bob, ? burned the worst kind. Bob was | ' Coasted nearly to a crisp. Exciting, : ^vasn't it? And they took him over i to tbe house, where we found that i they had fished out Stoneman and 1 jtvere rolling his body on a barrel to i k get the water out of him. When he : Igot over it they sent the invalid corps ?ack to town in a buggy?Bob groanIT ing all the way, and me arguing with P him to show that science reauires her notaries to give up a little of their jersonal comfort for the benefit it loes the race, and Stoneman saying le wished he was well enough to go >ut and bang the inventor of balloons vith a shotgun. But I enjoyed the trip more than I ;xpect3d. So many exciting surprises, mil itnnw. Ass soon as we eot home a :ontable came and arrested me for ihucking that ignorant opponent of icientific inquiry up against the fence md wrecking him. And when I was et off on bail I began to build a new jalloon. She's done now, and I'm ;oing to make an ascension on Thurslay. Won't you go up with me? The day's going to come when every>ody will travel that way. It's the nost exhilarating motion in the vorld. Come on up and help me nake scientific observations in the lpper easterly current. I didn't accept the professor's invitation.?New York Weekly. Newspapers as Educators By C. D. PUGSLEY, of Harvard. Considering how large a proporion of the people the modern news>aper reaches, and how effective an igency it is in disseminating news 1 ind influencing public sentiment on he issues of the day, has suggested | ,o me that the newspaper could be nade one of the foremost educative ,'orces. The education of the large pro jortion 01 our popuiauou wuua ?n,u ;he public school, and very few have he time or money to secure the advantages of a higher education. The newspaper. I believe, could ;asily organize an education depart- ( nent with connected articles of say i column daily, in series, on ecolomics, social ethics, biology, as- < ;ronomy and other subjects. The opportunity for a liberal edu- ! :ation would thus be given to every ! eader of the newspaper, and instead i )f the small minority who now at- I :?.in a higher education at our col- i eges the large majority of the peo- j ?le would be highly educated. Here li*s a great mission for the newspaper in giving to the whole people the benefits of higher education and broad culture and the en-ichment of their lives which it should mean. Symbolisru of College Gowns. It has been said that few people, including many university men themselves, havo any definite idea of the moaning of the gowns worn by collegiate students. In America, university gowns exhibit much variety, there being a ?reat difference in the various institutions; but all over the country?in fact, all over the English-speaking world?certain distinctions hold. The ordinary bachelor's gown, the Elrst the student owns, is of unadorned black with pointed sleeves, md is ordinarily made of s?rge or Dther simple black fabric. The master's gown is like the student's inasmuch as it is plain black; but the sleeves are cut differently, being | long pendants shaped not unlike fish tails, and hanging from the elbows j nearly to the bottom of the gown. The master's gown may be made of 3ilk, as may also the bachelor's gown | [f it is worn by a man of long acade- j mic standing who has happened to I receive no higher degre^; but the I ordinary university man has no desire to clad himself in silV. I Most doctors' gowns, especially in ! England and Scotland, have hoods ( that give them certain distinctions , and differentiate, by differences of ; ;olor, the doctorate s. ? Harper's i Weekly. ' i This Piano is a " ' * ? ' - M ? M A I l ine activity oi piano manuiaciursrs does not end with pianists, although naturally the greatest part of their energy and money is spent on' them. They often subsidize tours Df orchestras, of violinists, of 'cellists, of conducting-composers and composing-conductors, and few singers of prominence start on a concert tour without the comfortable knowledge that a snug sum is to come from the makers of the piano which is to be used In the concerts. Violinists especially are notoriously a "poor business proposition." Very few of them, however picturesque in appearance, make money for those that back their tours, and an explanation of their Dersonal DrosDeritv is verv i often found in the "underline" on the program of the concerts where ! Lhey appear, to the effect that "The * [jiano is a such and such," even when } ao piano appears on the stage. And J so it is with other instrumentalists. . ?Wm. E. Walter, In the Atlantic. Strategical Uses of Tails. Take another of our animals, a fierce little weasel, clad in summer in a. coat of brown, in winter turning white, but alwavs with a jet black ] tip to the tail. The ermine, as it is i incorrectly called in its winter coat, ' has an easy time of it, sneaking on ' the mice and birds upon which it i ' preys, but when a hawk takes after i j It in an open field in the sunlight, | \ or an owl in the moonlight, it would j i have but short shrift with all ita , i sinuous leaping, were it not that the i J black tail-tip is so conspicuous that ' it constantly attracts the eye and ' allows the pure white of the body to be confused with the spotless snow. Even when we place a dead weasel on the snow and look at it from a distance, we realize how true this is, and how valuable must be the pencil ] tuft of black hair to this little ver- 1 ruin who spends his life in hunting 1 or being hunted.?C. William Beebe, I ;n the Outinr Magazine. The Goat Conies First. Switzerland is the only country in J the world where the goat is placed , ahead of all other animals, and even af human beings. If a boy plagues <5 o-ao f Vio r n hr-- "RnoH nn/I can f -tn ? w V41AV1 HVUI, v\. jail. If a person meets a goat on | a. path and drives him aside, he can be arrested. If a goat eaters the rard of a person not his owner, and is hit with a club or stone, the person guilty of the offence must pay thirty cents. If a raiiroad train sees a goat on a track, the train must hall] until the animal can bo coaxcd to re; move himself. There's many a bo:! in America who wishes he were ;J goat in Switzerland.?Weekiy aess. BATTLESHIP FIEET H HEMES M JflHEIRC, Brazilians Extend a Warm Welcome to Admiral Evans. ONE-THIRD OF VOYAGE OVER Cheers and Salutes For United States 1 Ships at Brazil's Capital?Fine ' Voyage Slightly Retarded by ; Wind and Sea and Poor Coal. ? Rio Janeiro, Brazil.?The American fleet of sixteen battleships entered the port of Rio Janeiro at 3 o'clock p. m. after a passage from Port of Spain, Trinidad, more than 3300 miles, unmarred by serious accident, replete with interesting incidents and ending with a royal welcome from thousands that had gathered to meet the visitors. The fleet weighed anchor at 4 j o'clock on the afternoon of December < 29 at Port of Spain, and exactly at 4 o'clock p. m. the vessels wero swing- 1 lng at their anchors in this beantiful < harbor. All of the battleships are J here. The fleet has now covered 1 about 4600 miles, about a third the i distance of the voyage to San Fran- l cisco. ; t Early in the morning the crowds began to gather in the streets of Rio c Janeiro, and long before the signal i flags were hoisted announcing the t approach of the American ships thou- t 3ands of curious spectators had taken up points of vantage on public build- t ings and elevated quays. When the c *++++++++++++++++++++*+++++*+++*++*++ I WHAT THE SUPPRESSIC i IN .NEW YORK STA' ? . ' . Salaries and 1 " Fees (estimated).' S 300 jockeys.... $1,000,000 C J 200 trainers 800,000 ? 600 employes of racing associa- I J tions 1,000,000 I ? 1,000 bookmakers' clerks ...... 2,000,000 I J 500 stable hands 500,000 I J Estimated value of 3000 hori ? ' * | STATISTICS OF NEW Z i ? ? j ? Coney Island Jockey Club (Sheepshead Baj | Westchester Racing Ass'n (Belmont Park).. [ Brooklyn Jockey Club (Gravesend) E Brighton Beach Racing Association j Metropolitan Jockey Club (Jamaica) ? Queens County Jockey Club (Aqueduct). J Saratoga Association Empire City Racing Association (Yonkers) | Buffalo Racing Association fleet steamed into the harbor, under t the splendid mountains that frame I the bay, beautiful in the tropical sun, t It was a specacle incomparable to the < 3ye. * The roadstead lay like a glitter-, t lng mirror beneath. Word that the fleot had passed t Cape Frio, about forty-five miles out, 1 svas received at 8.30 o'clock, and im- i mediately scores of tugs and other < small craft, crowded with spectators, 1 Bet out to meet the visitors, and ac- 1 bompanied them to the anchorage, t Outlined against the horizon the great i battleshios, stretched out in one line, 1 came slowly through, the passage into t the bay. The Connecticut, Rear-Adtniral Evans' flagship, was in the lead, i with the Brazilian cruisers, dressed 1 In gala attire, on either side. Passing t the,fortresses, the Connecticut fired a salute of twenty-one guns, which was { responded to by the Brazilian warShips, the German cruiser Bremen ] and the shore guns. The yards and lighting-tops were manned and cheers upon cheers were given for the splendid passage of the flagship and her i Blsjev ships. i ' 'Ab s555*';a3 the anchorage' was t made, the Brazilian Minister of Ma- * rine, Admiral Alencar, the Captain of ? the Port, the American Consul-Gen- 1 sral G. E.Anderson, the commandants 1 Df naval divisions and the civic au- 1 thorities went on board the Connecti- 1 cut and extended a hearty welcome I to Rear-Admiral Evans, his officers t and men. vlr---. < Hundreds of launches, tugs and i small boats circled about the battle- r 3hips until long after the sun had c ?one down. Not less than 15,000 to t 20,000 persons were aboard these boats and more than 50,000 others 1 were gatnerea on snore to ceieDraie t the coming of the fleet. At night t tho city was beautifully illuminated, i and it was made a gala occasion in 1 honor of the visitors. 1 All tho way down from Port of J Spain the voyage was an enjoyable ? sne and all on board the ships were ( well and seemingly happy. To some extent the progress of the fleet was hampered by the strong currents and the swell, poor coal and j minor derangements of the auxiliary machinery of several of the ships. A 3tay at Rio de Janeiro of ten days is planned. UNEASINESS IN JAPASr. f ] ????? r Politicians Said to Bo Worried by ( Reported American Attitude. t Tokio, Japan.?Incoming cable dis- c patches, indicating an overwhelming sentiment in America in favor of an i exclusion bill, are causing much un- i nwn r\ f oil r? Vi o rTrtf i ?dbllieb2> C'.LUUU^ icauciD ui an ouau^o * [>i politics, who have repeatedly expressed the conviction that the Americans did not desire to discriminate against Japanese and would accept the attitude of the Japanese Govern- c ment as evidence of its sincere desire ( not to embarrass the American Gov- 1 srnment and at the same time cave t the self-esteem of the Japanese. ? v.Greene and Gaynor Committed. The mandate of the Circuit Court 3f Appeals in the case of Greene and C 3aynor was made the order of the < United States Court in Macon, Ga., 1 oy Judge Speer, and an order was c :aken committing the two prisoners f :o the Atlanta penitentiary for four fears. ' . , Mercantile Purchases Revive. I Merchandise stocks are not bur- t. Jensome in any position, and there is f nuch confidence in an early revival c )f purchases by consumers. j i Newsy Paragraphs. 'An extradition treaty between Mexico and the Netherlands has been A signed. t Alarm is growing in England because of the grave problems resulting p from the immigration of Asiatics to I ler white colonies. a Balling as a cure in severe cases of aurned persons was tried successfully c it Roosevelt Hospital, New York t 3ity. r Roulette is proving too slow for visitors at Monte Carlo, and a com- S mittee has been formed to provide d more, lively amusements. ' s I CHILDREN CRUSHED TO DEATH= Sixteen Killed in Rush For Stair of "? "1-11 rnnl onrl IOWn Hall, DdlllDiey, biigiauu. i Panic Occurred at a Cinematograph \ Show?Thirty or Forty Were Hurt, Some Very Seriously. t r% Barnsley, England.?Sixteen children were trampled to death and forty others, several of whom cannot live, were injured in a mad rush for j better seat3 at an afternoon entertainment given at the public hall aere. ^ There was a great crush to obtain admittance to the entertainment, and when the show opened every seat was :aken and the gallery was packed with children, who filled the aisles ind were dangerously massed against :he lower railing. With a view to relieving this crowding in the gallery ;he attendants decided to transfer some of the children to the body of ;he house, and one of the ushers jailed out: "Some of you children :ome down stairs." "Immediately the rush started, and within a few seconds hundreds of children were being trampled under foot. Even those who had seats in the . gallery, doubtless being panicjtricken by the screams and struggles of the crowds fighting to reach he staircases, joined in the stampede. The cries of the injured and moans >f ttje dying caused wild excitement tmong those gathered in'the body of he hall. Police and. ushers rushed o the head of the staircases, which vere strewn with dead and dying, and vith desperate efforts managed to irag scores of the struggling children )N OF HORSE RACING | EE WOULD MEAN. : ? Salaries and ? Fees (estimated). J Jross receipts of tracks for a ? year ?4,020,000 ? Entrance fees for a year 2,000,000 * *aid out in purses a season 2,500,000 ? teceipts from bookmakers 500,000 + ],ive per cent, tax paid last year. 201,371 ses in training, $1,500,000. r * ltORK race TRACKS. v r Estimated *' ? Gross Estimated J Receipts. Profits. .Valuation. * r).. $850,000 $600,000 $4,000,000 I j 600,000 450;000 3,000,000 I 600,000 450,000 2,500,000 ! 600,000 450,000 1,500,000 , 350,000 260,000 500,000 J 350,000 260,000 500,000 400,000 300,000 ' 500.000 I i. 400,000 300,000 3,000,000 * X 80,000 60,000 300,000 ? ;o the corridors below. A panic in ;he children in the lower part of :he house wa3 narrowly averted, all )f these eventually being taken to the street in safety. > When the reserve police arrived :hey found the narrow stairway jlocked with bodies, some of whom were crushed almost beyond recognition. Scores of children were forced w thn nrOTsnrs frnm the rrowd be lind them to scramble over those hat had fallen, living and dead, and nany of the injured children were :ound later to be suffering from frac:ured bones and severe lacerations. Soon after the accident the ap)roaches to the hall were crowded with sobbing women seaching for heir missing children. SCORES OF MILL HANDS STARVE. Famine Raging For Weeks Before Substantial Citizens Hear of It. Philadelphia.?Substantial citizens n the Falls of Schuylkill precinct iwoke tp the fact that for weeks icore3 of hardworking employes of he Dobson mills have been starving imong them, so they took steps to reieve conditions. First, however, the 'omiohort mon wnmpn and children lad to appeal to the police for aid. :t was through iha departmental re)ort that the information reached the he well-to-do residents in that part )? the city^ Several dozen families sought assistance from the police. The close of the mills "for lack of >rders" seven weeks ago threw 3200 ;oiler3 out of work. < One case was that of a widow with Ive children, who for years had sarned a scanty living for herself and hem as a weaver.' Equally pathetic vas that of an old woman and her Ive grandchildren, all dependent on ler. Tho section was visited, "with i. view to giving assistance, by an igeiit of the Society for Organized Charity. ^ FREES SCHMITZ AND RUEF. San Francisco Prosecution Will Has* tea Other Suits Against Them. San Francisco.?The District Court )f Appeals set a3ide the judgment in :he cass of former Mayor Eugene E. Schmitz, convicted of extortion in the French restaurant case. Abe Ruef ilso benefits, for, according to the deiision, ho pleaded guilty to an act ;hat was no offense against the laws )f the State. The news of t.he decision spread apidly over the city, causing consterlation in some quarters and delight n others. Army Short of Officers* The first class at the Military Academy, West Point, N. Y., will graduate >n February 14. The army is short )f officers, and the addition to the ist resulting from an early gradua- | .ion will help materially in filling iome of the vacant assignments. Mrs. Do Castro and Child Dead. The wife of the American Consul^neral in Rome, Italy, Hector Do jastro, aiea irom au operation 101owlug the birth of her child. The :hild also died. Mrs. De Castro was orty-two years old. Chicago Losing Commerce. Mayor Busss, of Chicago, has called i he attention of the City Council to | he fact that the city now ranks j ourth in lake commerce, where it I >nc* ranked first! and that its losses j ncrease year by year. About Noted People. General Booth, of the Salvation irmy, says Americans are more pious hau the English. Judge John W. Barr. the distin;uished Kentucky jurist, died in iOuisville, Ky., of pneumonia, at the orck r\ f alttlifv-fwn V/fc Wi^UV v.r w. Count Quadt, once first secretary if the German Embassy at Washing- ] on. D. C., has been appointed Ger- , an Minister to Persia. Senator Allison, chairman of the ; Senate Appropriations Committee, in- j lorses Mr. Cleveland's plan for pen- 1 ions for retired President ' , BROOKLYN JOYFUL OVER ITS TUNNEL Celebration of First Official Trip Under the East River. COST TEN MILLION DOLLARS \ . *"* _ i New Subway Expected to Relieve the Awful Bridge Crush ? Under River Trip Mode in Four Minutes. \ Brooklyn, N. Y.?Brooklyn's celebration of the opening of the interborough tunnel under the East River from Bowling Green to Borough Hall was the happiest day of merrymaking the old city has ever had, not even excepting the opening of the Brooklyn Bridge, May 24, 1884. With the arrival of a special tra'n from Manhattan with a number of city officials, headed by President McOowan. of the Board of Aldermen, and President Coler, of Brooklyn, the bell in Eorough Hall began tolling and thje crowd flocked from every; quarter. Flags were unfurled and streamers sent from every window of the buildings overlooking the square. Twenty, thousand enthusiastic Brooklynitea gathered at the foot of the broad steps of Borough Hall, from which speakers addressed the multitude. The ceremonies of the formal open- \ ing began at 11.30 o'clock a. m., when ; Borough President Coler and a dele- j gation of the Brooklyn League took a J special train to Manhattan. This was j switched back at Wall Street. Presi- j dent of the Board of Aldermen Mc- j Gowan and others representing the I city joined the party and became their j guests at the great demonstration i about the former City Hall of the j late city of Brooklyn.\ x I The exercises were opened by an j Invocation by the Rev. Father Ed- | ward McCarty and closed .with a bene- [ diction by the Rev. Dr. Nehemlah Boynton. Borough President Coler introduced the speakers, who were President McGowan, St. Clair McKelway, former Senator Stephen M. Griswold, the Rev. Dr. S. Parkes Cadman and Frank Bailey, vice-president of the Title Guarantee and Trust Company. Following the speeches there was a luncheon'at the Hamilton Club. i -TJjat Brooklj^expects great things of the' liew subway that binds it closer to New York was shown by the entnusiasm. nivery ousmeas nuuoe ut ; importance and every public building ! in the borough was appropriately dec- j orated for the occasion. The Brook- i lyn Board of Real Estate Brokers, j 1000 strong, headed by a band, [ marched to the Borough Hall to show : their interest in the enterprise. It is estimated that the subway tunnel can divert a maximum of 16,000 j passengers an hour from the bridge j route, which 54,000 now use in the evening crush hour. Even if it di- J verts only 10,000, it will materially benefit the Brooklyn traveling public. ! Intolerable conditions on the bridge j may soon be an unregretted memory. 1 The new tunnel cost $10,000,000, : and is ninety-five feet below the bed | of the river. * The distance from the ; Bowling Green (Manhattan) station , to the Borough Hall (Brooklyn) sta- j tion is one and six-tenths miles and the length of the river tubes is one [ and a quarter miles. There are two tubes in the tunnel, one for eastern ' travel and one for western travel. ^ .... -ra. ' THEY TOOK $110,000,000 AWAY. Figures on the Money Carried East in the Steerages This Winter. New York City.?According to the North German Lloyd Line, which has j made a careful computation based on 1 the figures of steamship agents, ! money changers and railroad men, j more than $110,000,000 was taken j out of tie United States by the immigrants who returned to their native ! places last year. The estimate is that i each of the 550,045 foreigners had J about $200 with him. To get away | this throng had to put up about $15,000^0 in railroad and steamship ! transportation and other charges. As an offset to millions that departed it ] Is noted that 1,364,688 .alieps. who arrived last year broug&tVith them,' according to the estimate of the ; Commissioner-General of Immigra- j tion, about $27,293,760. Much of ; this, however, was furnished to the , immigrants by relatives or friends in the United States.* The impression among many of the steamship agents is that the disturbed j industrial conditions are aggravated 1 by the agitation incident to the com- ! ing Presidential election. Preceding i a Presidential election more foreign- ; ers usually return home than in other I years. RICH ENOUGH, SAYS BRYAN, j Declares That He Has Acquired Indc- ' pendent Income For All Time. Omaha, Neb.?"I know that some people are giving much thought to , the money question, but that is not worrying me much. The people of this country have made it possible J for me to acquire an independent in- t come for all time to come, so I have no worry on that score." This remark was made by William i Tam n-n Duvon + o nr ir/l /tinea r\9 UCUUJUgO JJI ;au tunui u IUO vfc his address here before ,the Jackson- j ian Club. This is Mr. -Bryan's first statement as to the extent*of his own finances. ' 1 Pearson Gets London Times. The London Times has passed from the control of the Walter family, ! which established and owned it for I three generations. C. Arthur Pear- j son, the journalistic magnate of London, has secured the direction of < the great newspaper. To Treble Saloon Tax. The commission to devise plans to increase the revenue of Baltimore, : Md., submitted its report, placing the liquor license fee at $750. The pres- j ent rate is $250. The World of Sport. Standardization of automobile bodies is projected by automobile designers and engineers. The racing season of 1908 in Ken- ] tucky will probably be curtailed to i 100 days or even less. Frank Kitson, who was on the New York American's payroll for a time, t lias landed with Monte Cross' Kansas i City Club. James R. Keene's race horses won $402,691 last year, according to the records of various racing associations. exceeding all previous turf SvjULUiags in any country Late NewSilP BY WIRE: ihi L WASHINGTON. 'Attorney General Bonaparte di< p* rected that suits be brought against many railroads for violation of th< Safety Appliance law. The State Department denied ru? mors of friction between Japan an<} the United States regarding restrio tion of emigration. Figures made public by the Inter? State Commerce Commission. Bhowed 1 that one trainman out of every on$ hundred and twenty-four employed during the year 1907 was killed by BUI accident. as Secretary Metcalf signed the ordei pie to put Surgeon Charles F. Stokes in bio charge of the hospital ship Relief. tee Senator Hansbrough, of North Da- vlr| kota, has introduced a bill in the , Senate setting aside October. 12 as a national holiday, "Discovery Day." of Urgent improvements for Ellis Isl- ste and- are needed, and to secure them wh **** TJftnnoff nfforo/1 itl thfl . , xteyreaeiiuuLi?c ucuu&? v.? ? House a bill for appropriations th amounting to $560,000: 0j W. E. Chancellor was dismissed ae inf superintendent of schools by the ing Board of Education for making alleged statements derogatory to offl? av< clals. j of O we OUR ADOPTED ISLANDS. ""1 ter School boards of the cities of Por? to Rico adopted resolutions looking tn( to a large extension of the system pa of instruction. The Cuban masons resolved to re?. wa (turn to work and submit their dis? 0jj putes to arbitration. i A large Increase of thq national fir< guard of Hawaii Is urged by the War Department in a communication to Pa territorial officers. 72 There is little movement of Jap-. ' anese laborers from Hawaii to Van- to couver, B. C. The sugar grinding season has begun, and there is aD frc abundance of employment. Business men of Manila criticised ^ the appointment of Senor Oroneta to zr the.Supreme Bench, which appoint* ment gives the Filipinos the majority , In the highest court in the land. Governor Carter, of Hawaii, asked La In hia annual report that if exclusion at be extended to all Asiatics the islands be exempt. of f> " 'Jk i&IF ? CO] / ^ DOMESTIC. cit ' Edwin Collier killed his blind son th; and shot himself fatally on his wife's grave at Ravenna, Ohio. es< i Federal Judge Kohlsaat, at Chic? thi ago, decided in favor of the Govern- ?? ment Its suit against Oberlin M. Car- be ter for the recovery of securities val- on (ued at upward of $400,000, part ol m< Carter's loot on the Greene-Gaynoi conspiracy. bu Albert Moulton and his wife, both over seventy-five years old, were burned to death in their home af Auburn, N. H. mi Jumping from the dome of Frazel as Hall at Kansas University, LawrenceJ Urban Angney, a football star, com* q0 mitted suicide. 0j The Cripple Creek Central Rallf T. road Company passed dividends oq tei both its common and preferred stock; Co A Federal jury at Omaha convicted gl< Perry A. Yeast, a prominent cattle raiser, of conspiring with soldiers* Fr widows to obtain land fraudulently,1 Sil ' ' .Claiming that he had been shangi haled at'.Norfolk and taken to Eu< en rope,"Jpseph Miller, aged twenty-twoj va r?&cfc*e*d New York City, having been "aided by the American consul al taJ Rotterdam. , er; Dr. Rowe, of the University oj ? Pennsylvania, in a speech at Anij Arbor, Mich., voiced the opinion thaj Germany had a hold on the SoutlJ 'American republics through its in< tellectual influence. , ?5 - er : At Amherst, Mass., Augustus Ar* pr magnac. Ph. D., head of the depart- ca ,ment of modern languages at tn< Massachusetts Agricultural College| bo died suddenly from apoplexy -when pa seated at his desk in a recitation room. V ; H. O. Havemeyer by the terms oi lie his will left all to hi3 family. en Charles Wadsworth Whitney, a pa banker of New York City, committed en suicide while suffering from insomnia due to overwork. tei The Eoston police arrested F. W Elliott as an accessory to the murdei 01 of Mrs. Theodore S. Whitmore. er pepartment of Hygiene, to lool) j,0 especially after the health of school children, was recommended to th< Board of Education by Supt. Max st well, of New York City. ' n"*'1.', Pr -rvrvoT^TOV be runaiun. The Governor of the Gold Coasi ;v Colony is returning from this countrj with a new vaccine to check the ravages of meningitis in Africa. Fierce riots broke out in Berlii when the Prussian Landtag rejected vl the demand for manhood suffrage. Rodolphe Lemieux, the delegate o! Cii Canada to Japan, said that he be coi lieved that his mission had been en- foi tirely successful. inj The rate of discount of the Banl bei of Bengal, at Calcutta, was raised th< from seven to eight per cent. wh Rioters burned the Protestani ^ cbanel and school at Kia-Hsing-Fu no China. ' The career of auto women cat Iay drivers in Berlin was short lived, th< to women proving inefficient and lack- ke? ing in power of endurance. Captain Deichoff. of the Russiar navy, was among those awaiting th? arrival of the American fleet at Ri( r de Janeiro. the The great work of constructing abl the Guatemalan ocean to ocean rail anc way has been carried to completior con by American enterprise during wan the and revolutions. The American Embassy, at Constantinople, has received from th? Sultan three small siib carpets and I one large wooden carpet from his prr han vate factory at Hereke. They wer< the presented by the Sultan to Presidenl dry Roosevelt. thn The"'Jfiommlttee of the Kilkenn3 Foxhoufids has decided to offer the <. mastership of the pack to Mr. Isaac C Bell, au'4\merican. 5 The O'kpanese presg has urged &Ias pressure.to be brought upon Chins E to compfll her to observe alleged obli- hes gatlons vJiiich means subservience tc ^ Japan's aims. e3t2 The Belgian Government issued lt| 1 reply to the Congo State Commission, is King Leopold is said to desire no per> wor sonal profit from the donations re ^ served under the treaty, but threat an ens to take his former place in th< .Congo administration If the treaty ii the not. ratified.. ' ( WW BUMPS "FIBEPEOrSMKB irteen-Story Parker Building in New York Destroyed. -? RE ART TREASURES BURNED e Fiercest Fire in Years?Three Firemen Dead and Many Others Injured?Many Daring Escapes From Tenth Story. 'Jew Y?rkCity.?Flames consumed its skeleton of iron and brick the . qBOB jposedly fireproof structure known the Parker Building, which occus the northwest segment of the ck bound by Fourth avenue, Eighnth and Nineteenth, streets and Irg place. ~ rhe flames licked to the-bare bones the thirteon-story structure. The el girder3, with their facing of ite stone on the Fourth avenue e and brick on the other sides, eatened to collapse, and because this peril the police cleared buildis which nestled beneath the burnr ctriir?Miro nf Vinnrirf>d9 nf tftnailts. The subway runs under Fourth jnue, and because, of the menace falling walls peremptory orders re sent to the officials of the In'.-Met. Railway to stop traffic In 3 subway immediately. In case of i collapse of the building, Fire Dertment officials said, it was practllly certain that thousands of tons masonry would crash into the suby. The order to stop traffic waa eyed. Three lives were lost and scores o! anion were injured. The dead are: John Fallon, Fire ,trol 3; George O'Connor, Engine ; Thomas Phillips, Engine 72. Seldom have New York firemen had fight a more stubborn blaze. There ire many thrilling rescues, and >m time to time rumors went ound that some of those fighting 3 flames had been killed by falling bris. Many of those working in b building when the fire started ire ??*ed with difficulty. The amount of damage done wa| :imated by Fire Commlssionef _ - y: ntry and Assistant Fire Chief Blnm more than $6,000,000. They said. it the disaster proved the inability the New York FJre Department ta pe successfully with fiames in thq , ;y's skyscrapers at a greater heighi , in the eighth story. Two gppre firemen had miraculous jape's froEi death when the flbors on 9 fifth story fell, carrying debrii wnward to the cellar and upon the' ads of the men. fighting the flamei the second story and In the base* mt. - V, The flames spread throughout thi ildlng with amazing Rapidity, at tcting 50,000 spectators. Fire les were established early, and If estimated that 20,000 persons were , issed In Union Square alone. The tenants of the building werf follows: First floor?The Brunswlck-Balke< ]l%pder Company, manufacturer^ billiard tables and billiard balls! Snyder Sons ft Co., fancy uphols< Second floor?The Kuy .Scherei 1 impany, manufacturers of fine suri :al Instruments. Third floor?Sambaiac & Son. ench and Venetian embroideries) tver ft Co., steel engravers. Fourth floor?Karaghensign, Ort tal rugs, of Constantinople; stock lued at close to $1,000,000. Fifth floor?Encyclopedia Brit jica; James Clark & Co., publish* Sixth floor?The Detner Woollei floor?Frederick W. Evera* rnlture. / Eighth floor?Falrchild ft Co., gold ni and pins; Moses King, publish* s; M. Goldberg, printer; John Finn, inter; P. P. Caproni & Bro., an sts. 1 Ninth flnnr?UV C. Heath, school oks; the Judge Publishing Comny. . Tenth floor?Vacant. Eleventh floor?Local branch Col? ir's Weekly; Allan Stirling, civil glneer; Cushing Engraving Com' fiy, steel plates; Post & Co., print* B: -VH Twelfth floor?Sixteen small offlci a"ants. On the tenth floor was stored on streets recently, in which five ites were shotand seriously woundand a number of others less seusly hurt. A special meeting of the Town uncil has been held, and a curfew ir for the negroes, requiring them be in by 9 o'clock at night, has ?n passed. Silver Recovering Rapidly. rne recovery in tne price or silver first of the year has been remarke. Silver was quoted at fifty-eight 1 three-quarter cents an ounce, ipared with fifty-two and a half at beginning of the year. Half of Louisiana "Dry." following the lead of Georg/'a, Alalia and Kentucky, almost half of State of Louisiana has "gone ." Of forty-nine parishes twentyse have voted for prohibition. Women in the Day's News. ihicago has a policewoman. liss Abbie Lathrop, of Granby, ss., runs a mouse farm. Englishwomen lament the growing itance of men to marry.