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A PRAYER. As forth I fare Sin-conquering, When I have found It, Let me not lack for stone and sling Till I have downed It, Knr Ipt mine pnrs with olaudits rinz Tili I have bound It. , Teach me to go straight through a thing And not around it; Close to ray lips Life's bugle bring And let me sound it. And lay my life down for my King .When" Love has crowned it. ?Clarence Urmy, in Lippincotfa. 1 * 1 | THE INNER VOICE } <$> ? O^ ( ^ By Mary Edith Griswold. ^ . ^ ' ; , A sea of sand with waves of sage- 1 brush. Far off on the horizon the jagged peaks of the Sierras. Over * all the blue sky and burning sun of 1 Arizona. 1 Something was the matter with the 1 engine. The train crept up to the ' next station and stopped. Jane Mac- 1 kenzie got down to take the air. Oth- ' er passengers were walking up and ! down within ear of the conductor's 1 3ignal. ( A small Indian girl ran out of an 1 adobe house across the way and waved her little arms in beckon to } tnem. Jane went toward her. The - child fled into the house, but Jane 1 went right on, past the hut, past the ' other huts, straight toward the moun tains. The swift breeze brought her s a message. 1 As she walked on the tired look, ' the sadness in her eyes, the droop in 1 the shoulders vanished. Her soul was awakening. The scream of the ' locomotive sounded from the moving ( frrain Sho tnrnpH and watnhed the s cars recede across the face of the desert. "Good-bye, old life; good-bye, am bition; good-bye, Malcolm." At this name the exultant note in her voice changed to infinite tenderness. A tear slid out of the corner of her eye and sparkled a minute on her cheek. Then it fell on her hand. She brushed it away. "I didn't think I could ever say that and really mean it. But I do." With this declaration the last fetter of gloom vanished. She threw her arms up toward heaven and shouted: "I am free! free! free!" Presently Jane found herself fol lowing a trail. It led up through a dry arroyo to a little mesa where a small adobe house basked in the sun. An old Indian woman was sitting in the shade. Jane went up to her and held, out her hand. "Buenos dias, madre," she said, smiling. The old woman returned the salu tation, took the proffered hand and pressed it. I am lost to my world, began the girl; "won't you take me in and let ( me become a part of yours?" The old Indian woman did not un derstand the full meaning of the J academic Spanish spoken by her guest, but she understood the appeal 1 In the voice. "You are welcome, aenorita," she said, "enter." "It is pleasant here," said Jane. 1 "Let us sit ohtside where we can 1 watch the world." 1 "Bueno." * The two women sat down on a * bench in front of the house. A long : silence followed. The shadows grew Into long purple lines across the gray of the sagebrush. Finally the girl epoke: "I am very hungry; have we ' anything to eat?" s '"fhere is corn in the tin and wr.'.ar In the olla. We shall eat," said old ^ Guadaloupe. "It Is well, madre; I will grind the 2orn while you make the fire." Jane had been reared in a Cali- j fornia town with a Spanish past and understood the manufacture of the * tortilla. She found the metate and 1 was soon busy grinding the hulled ^ corn into meal on the stone mortar. Guadaloupe watched, her eyes lit ? with curiosity and Indian caution. .. Her life up to this day had been a succession of days as like each other as .blades of grass. Thir was her first real experience since her Apache " husband had taken her to w^fe. In the days of her youth the dance had made her heart beat quick, but those were years agone. Her man had long been serving as a section hand on the railroad; nothing ever stirred him up except the periodical persecutions of his section boss. But even his sullen hatred of the Amer ican boss had grown to be an old j1 Btory. Away off, very far in Apache c land, the braves did sometimes even 1 yet dance the war dance, make medi- r cine, and ride on the warpath, but ^ Guadaloupe and her man, Juan, only 1 heard faint rumors of such delight- r ful doings long after they had hap- * pened. Juan had been a pacifico ever c since his love for her had made him 1 a "soft heart," and the tribe never c sent him word to join their raids. s Guadaloupe did not in the least ( understand how a young American 1 lady wearing such fine clothes should stray so far from her city home, nor 1 why she should wish to stay with two ] old Indians in the desert, but the \ love she bore for her man illumined k the dark recesses of her mind and : made her full of sympathy for the 1 stranger. Guadaloupe had worked for the American station agent's wife and knew that her household utensils were meagre, but the stranger didn't * seem to mind. She was so pretty, so 1 gay, so joyously hungry that Guada- 1 loupe aia not tninK too deeply or v these things. What pleased her best ? was that so fair a creature should f call her mother. I The short Arizona twilight was al- c most gone when old Juan came home. The surprise he must have felt at ' finding a strange young lady in his * fcouse was carefully concealed. He shook the girl's hand gravely and * went inside to eat his evening meal. 1 Guadaloupe went with him. 1 Jane was left alone in the gloam- c ing. From afar off over the desert s sounded the cry of a coyote. With- 1 in, her heart beat fiercely, exultingly. c Jane's hour had come. She felt that it was her entrance into the promised land. There are rare moments when i the soul soars and, leaving the real 11 far below, carries us into the big wide spaces where nothing mundane mat ters. In such moments the voice in terior is heard, and we commune with the music of the spheres. Jane knew but vaguely that such moods are out | moments, though moments big aa years; yet they pass. It was a mo ment when the cry of passion and of worldly pain was hushed within her. The heartache of the past months dissolved into a feeling of ecstatic freedom. Behind those hills lay the land of yesterday, left by her forever. ! and she had come to a new land j where all was peaceful, rhythmic, harmonious. Night came. The stars shone out I The three lay down upon the mats ' on the floor of the house and slept, j ?*?**#* Days passed. The old life did not reclaim Jane. After a few days she went down into the town and got a roll of manila wrapping paper. With :oals from the fire she began to draw pictures of Guadaloupe and her man. First she did so only to please the aid people, but gradually the artist's longing for self expression came back, only saner and truer. Then she sent for oil colors. Jane was astonished to find how her grasp of medium had ijrown, and how with each day she :ame nearer to achieving complete success. At last she began to paint ler picture, an old Indian woman wel- < :oming her man home at the close of 3ay. i Day after day old Guadaloupe and tier man Juan watched the picture. Day by day It grew in beauty and power. To the two Indians it be came a sacred thing. "There is good in the world so long is two people can love Jiko that," j | :hought Jane, as she watched the ;entle kindness of her two wrinkled parents. At last the picture was finished. Jane put it away for a time. Then, Dne day, she uncovered it to see what she had wrought. A long time she : ;azed on the picture. "0, Love," she ' :ried. "O, dear Love." When Guadaloupe came in she found Jane in tears. The old woman put her arms about the young girl ind let her cry her heart out on her jreast. A few weeks later Juan brought a j letter for Jane. It was from her i picture dealer. Jane read it and put t away. She had won. The years of onging for this hour now seemed ;rivial compared to the big things of ife which the desert had taught her. N'ext evening, as the three sat watch ng the stars come out, Jane told Juan ;hat she had sold the picture for so nuch money that if she gave him a jeso each day he would have to live is many lives as all the men in the section gang put together before she i :ould get rid of the money. Then she ;old him that he and the mother should have anything they wanted 1 so long as they both lived. i "Will you always stay with us?" i isked Juan. "Yes," said Jane, "and I shall take i lare of Guadaloupe as if she were my >wn mother." i A strange light of satisfaction :ame into the old Apache's eyes. ' 'Would you give me a hundred '< jesos?" he asked. Without a word Jane untied hei eather purse and handed him the noney. The old Indian took the gold jieces and put them into his tobacco jouch. Next morning, when Jane arose, ruan was gone. It was the first time le had left the house before break ast. A few hours afterward the sta ion agent and one of the white sec- j ion hands rode up. They were both irmed. "Where is your man?" they isked Guadaloupe, threateningly. "I don't know," said the old woman j vith a shruj;. "What is the matter?" asked Jane, j "The section boss has been mur lered," said the station agent. "He vas found dead on the track with a mllet through his heart. We knew ight away that an Indian hacl done t, because he had been scalped. We enow who done it, too, because this lere Indian only this morning bought i rifle and cartridge's from one of the Mexican section hands. And now he j las run away on the boss' horse.'' Juan joined his tribe. A troop of ; loldiers was sent to get him. In the | ndian war that followed, the leader j >f the renegade band that escaped nto Mexico was Juan, the former jacifico. He, too, had followed the i :all of the inner voice.?San Fran- j :isco Argonaut. Germany's Mask Industry. There is an extensive demand for I nnclrc til rnno-hant normonv tlm I arnival season and other merry- j naking occasions. In Central Ger- i nany there are several large estab ishments devoted exclusively to nanufacturing this article. They lot only meet the needs of Germany's rade, but also supply a very large lemand from foreign countries. The naterials used in maskmaking are :hiefly pasteboard and - gauze, with ;mall amounts of silk and wire. Each ;stablishment employes its own irtists, and there is a constant ef ort to place novelties on the mar cet. It is largely due to the great ariety of these novel designs that i promising trade with the United ' States has grown up during recent ears, which is reported to be stead ly increasing. Tame Gander Acts as Decoy. Pete, a tame wild gander, makes 1 ] he killing of wild fowl easy for his i ! naster, Forinan E. Clayton, of Silver- < on, near Montclair. N. J. When Mr. Ulayton says "get ready. Pete, for ;ome sport," the bird squav/ks, and, lapping his wings, waddles down the iath to the sneak box and prepares to I lecoy his fellows to slaughter. Pete gets out among the wooden i lecoys, and as soon as he hears or sees a flock of birds he begins to call, rhe duped fowl will drop around lim. Tten Pete begins to fight with :he Grangers and gradually leads hem toward the blind. Then he lashes away to escape the shower of ;hot from his master's gun. Pete is j lot far from being twenty-five years >f age, according to Mr. Clayton. "*" " < Qnopial rlnrks whir?h xxrinrtinf? * ip only once in 400 days, are no* j nanufactured at Munich. | \ LARGEST The rope shown in tnis pnotogr Tt was made at Bow, East End of L ordered by the English Colonial Marl ing a string of lumber through the coll and measures twenty-two Inches each coil weighs two and one-third 1 feet through. Infant's Bottle Holder. Probably the first thing the young infant learns?or inherits?is an in stinct to toss his nursing bottle on the floor. This continual breakage of bottles is invariably put down as an expense to be expected, and no ef fort is apparently made to prevent it. Tying a string to the bottle is consid ered too great a nuisance to warrant the trouble involved. A very excel lent and simple arrangement is a lit tle holder invented by a Maryland man. It consists of a tether, at one end of which is a spring loop which fits around the neck of the botle. The ends of the spring loop are spaced apart and connect with a cord hav ing a slip knot, which tends to draw the ends of the loop together. The free end of the cord is attached to the couch or crib, and when baby pitches out the bottle it is prevented from striking the ground and break ing.?Washington Star. SWISS TROOPS "GLISSADIt All the European Powers have b the last few weeks. The Swiss arm among the snow and ice. In glissai on the top of the knapsack behind t to manipulate the alpenstock.?The i Detachable Handle. By a recent invention oi a Mich igan man the capacity of the ordinary market basket can be doubled. Ob viously, the size of an article to be placed in a basket is limited to the space between the handle and the dot be squeeze*; n.i.- .<,j uco it can not be placed in the basket. Of course, the easiest way tu overcome Ibis is to remove the handle, which is practically what has been done in this case. Instead of attaching a I \ aph is the largest ever manufactured, ondon. Six of these ropes have been cet and will probably be used for tow surf. Each one consists of fine yarn in circumference and 540 feet long; tons, is nine feet in length and seven Wise Insects. I f In his experiments to determint j 1 whether it is the color or the odor o!. 1 flowers that attracts bees and othei j ( insects, Mon. Plateau, the Belgiai ! 1 I zoologist, bethought him of trying a j I mirror. He selected a flower of strik- ' y I 1 n*??A?rr or\A nlQPOf' i J 111& uuiui clukx ouuuj, uuvi ) . it before an excellent glass In whlct j the reflection was perfect. All th< j insects went straight to the real flow- i er, and not a single one approached j the reflection in the mirror.?Youth's j Companion. Easy Drawing Lessons. Pastime for an idle half hour I Take pencil and paper. Try youi , Ask your friends to draw these " without taking their pencils off the paper. 4k "V _ | i een busy with army maneuvres during y has been doing some efficient worli cling down a slope the rifle is placed | he head, leaving the man's arms fre? Sphere. I stationary handle to the basket, th? handle is partly detachable, it beinj possible to separate one side of th> handle at the point of junction witl the side of the basket. When it iI desired to place a large article in tin , basket the handle is swung to out i I side (as indicated uy mo doner i i iines^. After placing the article i:' n; j ;hi> basket the handle & returned f ' fl' th? normal position and hooked int. i ol " You say the office: arrested yov g' while you were quieti} minui'.ig you; li . own business?" j ai "Yes, your Worship. He caugty . a ?-. > suddenly by tli' coat collar and! sc j threatened to str me with hh j tt truncheon unless 1 accompanied hits I p? j to the station." j cc "You were quieflv attending to ai your business; making no noise oi r< disturbance of any kind?" | r.lace.?Washington Star. ! A His Business. "None whatever. "It seems very strange. What i( your business?" "Ifo's n burclar, your Worship/ j said the eoustable.?London Clobe. CONDITIONS ON MASS. From "Th? Call of Another World." by Charles Torquet, In the Metropolitan Magazine. The days in Mars are of about the iame length as ours: twenty-four lours, thirty-nine minutes, twenty hree seconds. Mars makes her orbit f iround the sun in a little more than e 586 days, therefore the seasons are a ilmost twice as long as they are with 1 is. The atmosphere of Mars is rich i n watery vapors. Oceans can be a ;een, and at the poles thick ice, which e nelts when summer comes. The i variations in temperature are ex- t ;reme. Mars receives only half as a nuch solar heat as our globe does. ( The sun appearn half as large, and < ;he nights receive their light from 1 ] ;wo moons, which are smaller than >urs?Deimo3 and Phobos. The weight is such that one of our iilograms would only weigh three s lundred and seventy-six grams there. f ^ man is only able to carry his own * weight on his back. Transported to < Vlars, he could carry three times as ) nuch, something like two hundred md twenty-five kilos. In taking ob- t servations of Mars through the tele scope, one can see a distinct red , lisk, marked with more or less bril iant spots. Some of the spots which , iro crppnish are the oceans, other ^ rery red ones are the continents, * greater in extent than the oceans, vhich is the opposite to the way the c. ;arth is disposed. ,The most bril iant spots are the ice-covered re gions of the poles, and the clouds ire almost equally bright. The at uosphere of Mars is more transpar- * ;nt than ours, and its sky is incom- ? )arably clear. 1 The waters of Mars are more di- * rided and distributed in inland seas 1 oined by long arms, which are some- i :imes incurving, but oftenest almost 1 ectilinear, and which mark the bril- * iant surface of the planet wit? dark 1 ines, just as the line of lead divides * he panes of glass in our church win- t lows. All these dark lines form a i Dattern which is relatively symmetri- 1 :al, and which does not seem to have | ? aeen made by chance. A plan so i egular must have been designed, and 1 !or a long time the observers of Mars t laVe been disposed to consider these ines as canals dug by thp inhabitants jf the planet for the needs of their jivilizatton. t WORDS OF WISDOM. Life is learning, suffering, loving; md the greatest of these is loving.? Sllen Key. If happiness is the rarest of bless ngs, it is because the reception of it s the rarest of virtues.?Silvestre. Our character is but the stamp on >ur souls of the free choice of good :nd evil we have made through life -Geikie. God asks no man whether he wili iccept life. That is not the choice ifou must take it. The only choice is low.?H. W. Beecher. If the water be too pure, fish can lot live In it; if people be too exact ng, fellow-beings cannot stand besid< ;hem.?Japanese Proverb. Find your purpose and fling youi ife out to it, and the more loftier 'our purpose is the more sure you 1 I r d s t E 't a fill be to make the worm ricner wito very enrichment of yourself.?Phil ips Brooks. s Chateaubriand says that it is not Jj rue gratitude to wish to repay favors 1 romptly; and still less is it true : snevolence to wish to retain a hold ver those whom one has benefited.? ' l. C. Benson, in Putnam's. o We may fail a thousand times; but. a s long as we are ashamed of oui ? ailure, as long as we do not help jssly acquiesce, as long as we do j a ot try to comtort ourseives ior it uy careful parade of our other virtues. re are in the pilgrim's road.?Arthur Ihristopher Benson. Prance's Opium Peril. Just now France Is having trouble l both branches of her service. The | rmy has been declared incompetent I nd inefficient in many particulars | y some of the men highest in that ranch of the service. Opium, valued at several thousand ollars, has now been found in the tores of several Oriental curio ealers in Marseilles. A search was iade upon the complaint of the wives f naval officers who declared that j leir husbands were obtaining and sing the drug. Investigation shows iat the habit has increased to an larming extent in the navy, and lere are not wanting those who con ^icrlncnro with thft mailV ccidents that have occurred to the rench navy in the past eighteen lonths. The French peasant is the most ugal and the most productive force i European economic life, but how >ng he will stand the burden of rnili iry and naval expenditure when it ;ems to result in so little re^l good > the country if. a Question. The tost disheartening thing to France i that the naval authorities have een endeavoring for some time to amp out the opium evil, but to ave been unable to accomplish much long this line. A Talking Lovebird. A lovebird, no larger than a ca ary, has taught itself to speak as ueotly and as distinctly as the best t talking parrots at the village of mbleside. To a correspondent wno nterview" it last night the bird lddenly remarked, "Kiss me quick," iving an anticipatory smack. It po tely remarked, "How do you do?" id flatteringly added, "You're a little beauty, aren't you?" all in a ift tone that was quite distinct from le raucous accents of the average xrrot. It melodiously whistled a >uple of bars of the national anthem id proceeueu iu si*e sumc cij >alistic imitations of the cal.'s of irushes, sparrows and linn-its.? ondon Daily Mail. A year witli fifty-three nay days l can not be so worse?\( we can y manage to keep emplcvved. / / Fruit Salad. Pare a pineapple and cut in one ourth inch slices, remove the core, iprinkle generously with powdered iugar and set in the ice-box for one lour. Drain and arrange each slice n an individual salad plate. Place i circle of thin slices of banana on >ach piece, and fill the centre, with lulled strawberries. Pour over all he syrup drained from the pineapple ind sprinkle with powdered sugar. Jarnish with whipped cream sweet ;ned and flavored.?The American Some Monthly. King Alphorcso's Favorite Omelette. The dinner in the Madrid palace is ( in extremely simple function in the >rdlnary way. Gradually English and french dishes are replacing the richer 3panish items on the menu. Young Uphonso, by the way, prides himself >n being able to make an omelette hat ought really to figure at every neal! Here is his Majesty's recipe: ?ry in butter little pieces of chicken ind tender meat till they are well jrowned. Then remove from the lrf> and after tnrnlns the he?tf>n-iin ;ggs' into the pan, place the chicken ind meat upon them as the omelette s turning.?Harper's Bazar. Salt Rising Bread. Four tablespoons of corn meal, two ablespoons of flour, one teaspoon of salt, one teaspoon of sugar. Pour joiling water over this and make nto a thin batter. Wrap it up and teep it warm all night. In the morn ng add enough flour to make a thick )atter and add more salt. Put it in i covered bucket and set the bucket n warm water. Keep this warm intil the batter is light, then make up ;he bread, using as much flour as you leed and working a small quantity of ard in it. Make out into loaves and set it to rise. When it is risen put t into the stove and bake very slow y. it is hard to keep the first rising Irom getting sour. " Apple Sauce Premier. Materials: Eight large greenings, lugar, butter, lemon juice, water. Way of preparing: Peel, core and slice the apples. Place in a double joiler and add two tablespoonfuls joiling water; cover closely and cook intil very well done. Then' pass ;hrough a very fine sieve and meas lre. To each pint of apple allow one :up" sugar, one tablespoonfui butter ind one tablespoonfui lemon juice, 'lace all these ingredients together in i sauce pan and cook together five ninutes, stirring all the time. Re nove from the fire and beat with a vire egg beater until cool. Serve ilain or with cream. Can serve it vith roast goose or pork.?What-To Sat. ^ ; / Omelet For Hard Times. When eggs are very high the ome et is a forbidden luxury in many touseholds. An omelet made in this nanner, however, will meet all the .emands or economy, and will, at the ame time, be as light and fluffy as hough prepared In the ordinary and aore costly way. Put a cupful of inely crumbled bread into a bowl, nd pour over it two-thirds of a cup ul of sweet milk. When the bread las become thoroughly moistened, tir it with a spoon until it is entire y smooth and free from lumps. Add he yolks of two eggs, beating them uto the bread and milk one at a ime; then fold in the stiffly-whipped whites and pour into a well-buttered aking dish. Bake in a moderate i ven until well set. A pleasing vari- 1 tion is to sprinkle the top of the melet with grated cheese and paprika efore removing it from the oven. If^. sweet omelet is desired, a generous prinkling of maple sugar will prove I leasing. 1 Ijtll INil.O I UI5u. inc TTO SEKEEPERoI ! | 1 To purify water drop a little char- , Dial into It. ] Clean a chocolate grater by grating ; bit of stale bread, not by washing. In poaching eggs, stir the water j 11 it is whirling rapidly. Then drop ( our eggs in quickly and the edges < ill be round and smooth. ' A useful kitchen salt-shaker may e made of a can with holes made in 1 le lid. The holes may be made with l. nail nails, tacks or darning needles. To wash dishcloths use water con lining a little ammonia. Also put t small amount of ammonia into the ] ater with which you scrub linoleum. A mixture of kerosene and am- * ???? Kofli f 11 He onrl c .unlet ncaao y\ nks instantly, and does not injure lem, as gritty or acid substances do. Boil grimy, old pans, and utensils i soft water with plenty of soap in . Let them remain in the hot water half hour. Then wash and dry toroughly. If the clock needs cleaning, put a ece of cotton saturated with kero ;ne on the floor of it, and the fumes ising will loosen the dirt and give ie wheels a new lease on life. To remove a stopper from a bottle, )ld it in the hinge of a door, slowly ove the door until it takes hold of ie stopper; then turn the bottle, [lis will loosen a glass stopper with it breaking it. - Silver which has become very uch blackened can be cleaned to ok like now by boiling about half /inorfo r\ f n'otor tn I ill? 11 I 1U I WW IJUUllO W*. tlUKV, vvr hich has been added two table- a loons of sal scda. a If your floor matting has faded, r it is not worn, give it a coat of var- c sh, in any desired shade of varnish f ain, and it will wear longer and ok fine.?Woman's Magazine. ? f t v Diabolo has become such a crazc I 1 1 board vessels in the British Medi rranean fleet that diabolo sets are n >w rated with parrots and monkeys ' i "prohibited pets." 1 ' ~ WASHINGTON. Aa a result of the Public Printery scandal President 'Roosevelt ousted the audit system. A delegation of manufacturers in favor of the creation of a tariff com mission was received by the Presi dent, who promised to give their ar guments the most careful considera tion. The Alexander Hamilton National Memorial Association, wh03e object it is to erect a monument to Hamilton, was incorporated. Coal is being shipped to Aden, Colombo and Shanghai for the use of the Evans fleet on its return by, way of the Suez Canal. This fact was admitted by the Bureau of Equip ment. Norman Gait, a prominent jeweler, died at his home. He was forty-four years old. Mr. Gait was widely known in commercial, financial and', charitable institutions. James W. Van Cleave, of St. LouIb, head of the movement for non-par tisan tariff reform, arrived to urge the Beverldge measure. Secretary Metcalf signed a contract for a new submarine boat capable of making sixteen knots an hour. OUR ADOPTED ISLANDS. A Cuban paper says the republic does not need the supervision of the W American nation, but that a guaran tee by the Cuban government must be given. Cuban negroes make plans to in duce others of their race not to start a revolution when the republic is es tablished. Representation in the House of Representatives, at Washington, D. C., was increased by two when Benito Legardo and Pablo Ocampo, resident Philippine Commissioners, took their seats. ( The Navy Department decided to send four submarine boats to Manila to strengthen defenses of the Philip pines. Governor Magoon returned to Ha> vana from a visit to Governor Lecu ona, of Matanzas. At Mat&nzas Got ernor Magoon mat with an enthusi astic reception. M DOMESTIC. The Government filed a bill in the United States District Court at Salt Lake City, charging the Harriman railroad lines with*restraint of trade. David Barrie, yachting and busi ness representative of Sir Thomas Lipton in this country, was killed by( a locomotive in the Jersey Central' depot. " } The yacht Kingdon, belonging to the Holy Ghost and Us Society, of Shiloh, Me., arrived at Portland, Me., with forty-six persons aboard; Sand ford, the leader of "the sect, did not return. Two burglars were shot, one of them fatally, by Christopher Paulsen, when they tried to enter J. J. Larson'* bakery at Chicago. Dj\ J. H. Canfleld, in reporting to the faculty of Columbia College, New York City, criticised American uni versities in a comparison with foreign Institutions. E. S. D. Shortridge, formerly Gov ernor of North Dakota, died at Devil's Lake, N. D., aged seventy-eight. In 1892 he was elected Governor on the fusion ticket. John D. Rockefeller is a creditor of the failed National Bank of North America to the amount of $120,000, having lent It that amount in bonds at the time of the panic. George D. Wise,' for many years a member of Congress from the Third Virginia District, died at Richgnond. He was unmarried and seventy-two years old. Night riders at Golden Pond, Ky., omashed%a barrel'of whisky, nine cases of beer and much other liquor belonging to John Collins. FOJKKIUK. A movement was begun at Jo hannesburg to boycott Asiatic traders and all employers of Asiatics. It is an outcome of recent anti-Asiatic agi tation in the Transvaal. Prince Ernst, the reigning Duke of Saxe-Altenbourg, died in Berlin." The London Tribune, announced that it will cease publication. Tho Tribune never has been a paying property. China has informed Japan that afflces for the collection of customs have been opened on the Western Manchurian frontier under the agree ment made with Russia. After a heated debate lasting five lours an.increase in the taxation bills )n sugar, sage, alcohol, beer and ker Dsene was passea in me umi, m Tokio, Japan. Miss Robinson, a leading witness :n the Druce case, confessed that she was guilty of the charge of per ury, in London. William Fife, the yacht designer, vas seriously injured by a fall from ;he deck to the hold of Sir Thomas jipton's new boat. A bill appropriating $3,563,000 for amine relief in addition to the sum ilready voted by the Russian Duma vas submitted to the Cabinef. Count Boni de Castellane told in a Paris court that he spat in Prince de Sagan's face and knocked him down jecause he had boasted that he would juarry Mme. Gould. Captain veriynae, 01 me rteuuu ine steamship La Bretagne, was bund drowned in the harbor at -lavre. It is believed that he fell nto the water while leaving the ves ;el in the dock. Rear-Admiral Wiren at Sebastopol, lussia, gave orders for all sentinels o Are without challenging upon all uspects found In the vicinity of the rsenals or the storehouses between he hours of 6 p. m. and 6 a. m. Barc.n Kogoro Takahira, the newly ippointed Ambassador of Japan to he United States, left Rome for Vashington by way of Paris. Queen Amelie brought about the verthrow of Dictator Franco, caused he forming of a wholly new Cabinet ind brought to distracted Portugal , peace that promises to last. Lord Dudley, Viceroy of Ireland inder Balfour, attacked in the House if Lords the Tory policy of coercion or Ireland. Advices received in Portland, Ore., rom Vancouver say that all Japanese r^ov;?n? t)iprf? have been ordered lome. Premier Ferreira do Amaral an louncod the formation of a new Cao net which unites the monarchial fac ialis. at Lisbon. Portugal.