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KELSEV UPHELD BY SflHI' Against Removal of New Yen Superintendent of Insurance. Governor Hughes RebiifTcd in Soco Attempt to Carry Out Iierommcndulions?Vote :>() to 1J>. Albany. X. Y.?By a vote of 80 lf> the Senate upheld Otto Kelsf Superintendent of Insurance, who removal from office was demand by Governor Hughe?. Superintender.r Kelsey retains 1 office by th* wiU of the majorit despite the adverse report of Mattlu C. Fleming, appointed by the Go ernor to investigate the nineteen sr cific charges of neglect and incomp tence made against him. It was t' most open and pronounced rebuff tl Governor has ever received from tl leaders of his party at Albany. Friends of the Governor were u terly routed and practically gave t the nght in the preliminary procee ings. The vote was taken without d bate, the Kelsey forces, under tl i ji ^o T-u- ~ : - c?l:~ . icaueisnip ui JUUH rvalues, leeuug ; sure of their ground that they scornc even the appearance of ?. struggle. The Senators who voted to susta the recommendation of the Govern* that the Superintendent be remove were Agnew, Armstrong, Burr. Ca penter, Cobb, Cordts, Davis. Dun Emerson, Foelker. Gilchrist, Heacoc Hinman, Knapp, Page. Saxe and Tr vis, Republicans, and Fuller and To lor. Democrats?19. The Senators who voted against r moval were Allds. Cassidy, Fanche Franchot, Gates, Grattan, Hill, Hool er, O'Neil. Raines. Smith. Tull Wemple, White and Wilcox, Republ pans, and Ackroyd. Boyce. Cohala: Cullen, Frawlev, Grady, Harte, Ha enflug, McCarren. McManus, Mull; nev, Owens, Ramsperger. Sohmer an Sullivan. Democrats?30. Absent ? McCall and Thompsoi Democrats. This vote did not reflect the exai attitude of the Senators. The tn absentees would have cast their vot< against removal, and if it had bee necessary at least five of the sevei teen Republican Senators who vote to sustain the Governor would ha; been lined up with the thirty Senatoi who cast their votes against remova SLAIN PRIEST TORTURED SEL1 Father Leo Wore Hooks That Pierce Flesh as Mode of Penance. Denver, Col. ? That Father Le Heinrichs. who was murdered by Gii sepne Alio, an Italian Anarchis while giving communion in St. Elizs beth's Church here last Sunday, led life of severe austerity is evidence by a discovery made in preparing th body for burial. Next to the ski Father Leo had wrapped about hi waist and upper arms heavy bands c /inked steel chains, and to each lin was a hook sharpened to a needle point, attached in such fashion thj each movement of the priest cause the hooks to pierce his flesh and t remind him of the life and death c Him in whose steps he struggled t follow. Father Leo never spoke to his fe low clergy of his mode of penanc< r><-> nno in Hio mnnasforv sill mised it. His body and upper arm were calloused entirely, showing tha when the pain became deadened b( *ause of the toughened skin he ha ;aken the net work of claws and ac lusted them so that the pain migh ;'cme again with renewed force. TIGHT MONEY IX JAPAN*. humors of Panic Conditions?Effec on Europe. Berlin.?The tightening of finar :ial conditions in Japan is regarde )y banks here as likely to result i he transfer from London to Toki >f a large portion of Japan's balance tnd to disturb somewhat Europea noney markets. Japan's balances i London are estimated as betwee 560,000,000 ana jo.uuu.uuu. At the Japanese Embassy here th lews of panicky conditions at Osakc Kioto and Kobe is discredited, bt private advices to German firms trai ng in the Far East confirm the mone scarcity. The recent stringency i the United States is believed to li iffecting Japan, especially as Ja] anese exports to the United Stat< .iave fallen off to a considerable e: ;ent. The prolonged doubts conceri ing Japan's intentions toward tb United States in the emigration di pute have tended to make Europea oankers with Japanese connectioi withdraw their loans and condui their business with unusual caution CRIME FOR SALE, SAYS B ING HA Cwo Placcs Polire Can't Touch With; Half Mile of Waldorf, New York. New York City.?Police Commi sioner Bingham, in a speech befo; GOO members of the Lieutenant Benevolent Association at its secor annual dinner at the Waldorf-Astor Motel, declared he did not believe tl Board of Aldermen "dare give hi * ** "" A A " * * ? " " XT' 11 ?.f n 52&.UUU ior secret service. r unut tnore, the Commissioner asserted: "There are two places within ha a mile of where we are now whe any crime from the lowest to t] greatest can be bought for mone and I can't touch them under prese conditions." Throughout his speech the Commi sioner flung defiance at the politicia and declared his intention of holdii on to his position. To Suppress Stock Gambling. William Field gave notice in t British House of Commons that will ask the Government if it will c operate with the Government Washington, D. to stop stock gai Minrr mtus. Texas Oil Company Ousted. The Texas Supreme Court cc firmed the decision or* the low courts ousting the Waters-Pierce < Company from th<; State and ass? in5 damages of $1,600,000. The Field of Labor. Employes o? all the railways Uruguay went on strike. /> big campaign has been institu' for the organization of boilermak ami iron ship builders, at Buffs N. Y. San Francisco (Cal.) Launi Workers' Union has decided to be an agitation against Japanese f Chinese laundries. On May 0, at Youngstown, 01 the Amalgamated Association of Ir Steel and Tin Workers will hold annual convention. ftlLLEO ill STAGE WRECK <'s Vehicle Filied With Young People Hit by Ontario Express. j ml C might Squarclr on Crossing?Four i Killed Outright?Horses Dragging Polo, Cairy Tidings to Town. J to | Xyaek, X. Y.?Flecked with foam ?y. j and dragging a splintered wagon pole se i between them, a pair of horses tore ed up the main street of Little Valley to the barn of George Young, the town lis liveryman. They brought the first :y. hint of a tragedy that plunged the >w town into grief and mourning, v- Of the nine members of a party ie- returning from Nvack shortly after ie- midnight six are dead, one is dying lie and two are seriously injured. Four tie were killed outright in a collision betie tween the stage in which they rode and the Ontario and Western mountit ain express at West Nyack. jp The dead are: Nelson May, the drid rer. nineteen years old; Jeanette Pale mer, twenty-one, daughterof druggist ie F. B. Palmer; George Reith, thirty, so manager of the basketball team; ;d George Shinn. thirty-eight, lived with widowed mother; Edith Singer, twenin ty, daughter of Leonard Singer; Berar tha Singer, eighteen, a sister. ;d The injured are: Edith Bird, eighr ten years old, serious internal inn, juries; Henry Dieterlen, twentyk, three, legs broken, internal injuries; a- Warren Palmer, twenty-two, brother *- of Jeanette, injured internally. Dieterlen is dying at the North o- Hudson Hosnital. Union Hill, where r. he and the two others injured were t- taken. Jeannette Palmer and George y, 3hinn succumbed to their injuries on i- the way to the hospital. a, There were two 'bus loads, sixteen s- In all, who came to Nyack to play the i- Nyack basketball team and attend a id dance in the opera house in the village later. Six of them were young n, women. They all started for home at midnight, the first 'bus reaching ;t the tracks only a few minutes before o the second. ?s The responsibility for the accident n has not been determined. The gatei man reported that the stage was id driven through the west gate. Part re of the gate was found beside the rs track. The survivors said that the ,1. gateman lowered the bars on the stage as it passed. ^ The engine caught the stage squarely and with such force as to d hold three of the bodies on the pilot. There they were found when the train was brought to a stop. The body of l0 May, the driver, was found several j. hundred yards down the track. The t, dead were crushed. i'. The pasengers of the second stage, a though teror stricken, groped about d in the dark searching for the effects e of the dead and injured. The horses n escaped uninjured. is The five injured were placed >f aboard the train, which hurried on k to Union Hill. Telephone messages 's to the Hudson County Hospital it caused ambulances to be in waiting, d When the surgeons entered the car o they found two of the five already >f dead. o B. & O. RECALLS MEN. 1 > o r\ \l T7*?:~l.+ ' * OUIUL' Ull V/Vt*riIIHU lUUtlll^; Jl'AUi^iiv Baltimore's Unemployed Appeal. it Cumberland, Md.?At the Baltimore and Ohio shops and round d houses, this city, nearly all the fur1 loughed men, besides a number of car it repairers, have been called back to work. Some of the men have been required to work overtime in getting out freight locomotives, work on which was suspended about the first , of the year, Baltimore, Md.?Twelve hundred unemployed men, at a meeting here, d passed a resolution calling upon the n Federal Government to loan to States o and municipalities, on non-interest (S bearing bonds, money to be used in n the construction o? highways, n bridges and other public works, with n a view to relieving the condition of the unemployed. e i. Suicide by Fire. '* Miss Emma Fink, o? Slatington, l~ Pa., standing where she could see the y ruins of her old home at Slatedale, n which was destroyed by fire about a ie jear ago, poured coal oil over her clothing and then set fire to her skirt. fS Miss Fink called on friend . there, and after visiting the gra\~ of her l" mother in the little cemetery she ie went to the house of her friends and s* got a can of oil, and then going to n where she could see the site of the 1S burn&d house set herself on fire. ct Children who saw her notified friends, but ihey were too late to save her life. She had been in ill health. M Brothers Killed at a Crossing. '? Samuel O. Sheppard, of West Day, Saratoga County, and his brother, Delbert Sheppard, of Woodbine, Iowa, were struck by a Delaware and Hud, sou passenger train near Corinth, N. Y., and instantly killed. They were !_ driving from West Day to Corinth. Ul Samuel leaves a widow and five chilie dren and Bslbert a widow and four 111 children. r- _____ lt- Railroaders Praise Roosevelt. re Fifteen hundred ra'lroad workers, ae representing all of therailroad unions yt at Atlanta, Ga., met in mass meeting nt and adopted resolutions indorsing President Roosevelt's action in orderis. ing an investigation of the reported ns plan to cut wages. The resolution 3g "cheerfully indorsed the action of our courageous President." Edison's Treasurer a Suicidc. he John F. Randolph, treasurer of the jje Thomas A. Edison companies, comlQ. mitted suicide at Orange, N. J., dura( ing a sudden attack of insanity. The [jj great inventor arrived just in tim? to prevent the widow from leaping our of a window. Mississippi Goes Dry. Pel The Mississippi Legislature by a unanimous vote adopted the prohibiss. tion bill. All saloons in the State will be closed on January 1 next. Ex-Governor Gives ISni!. Ex-Governor Voorhees, of New JeriE sey, and Frank S. Combes, of Philadelphia, indicted for perjury in con. nection with the Bankers' Life Insur^ ance Company, surrendered themselves in New York and were admitted to bail. I l. Pilgrimage of American Catholics. ?11 Much gratification was felt in the inc Vatican when it was learned that a pilgrimage of American Catholics, iio numbering nearly a thousand, fs beon ing organized for the Pope's sacerdo?* tal year, the fiftieth anniversary of "hie nrHinotinn sic n nripsf". j WHAT MAN HAS , | ^jNNE I ROOSEVELT OPENS TUNNEL i THAT WELDS TWO STATES 1 First Train Carries Governors Through Hudson Tube. SYSTEM COST $70,000,000 < | Part of Vast System to Connect Manhattan by Land With West Given . to Public?President and Two ] Governors Help in Celebration. New York City.?The first Hudson ] j River tunnel, ending the existence of Manhattan as an island, was formally ( dedicated when President Roosevelt \ in Washington tapped a telegraph ; key and started on its journey through the steel tube an electric J train which ran from Nineteenth street and Sixth avenue to the Laokaivanna terminal in a little iess than ; ;welve minutes. At each end were crowds and flags and cheers. On the train were Gov- 1 arnors Hughes, of New York, and : Fort, of New Jersey, and a host of | officials and leading citizens of the j :onnected municipalities?New York, < i Hoboken and Jersey City. , After the tunnel and its promoter, ; William G. McAdoo, had been praised i In speeches by the officials and a let- | l.er from President Roosevelt, its i \ FACTS ABOUT Mi 4 4 4 J Present operating points: J and Nineteenth street, New } * Length of north bore: 2.8c 1 Rush hour schedule for 2 way. * Total cost, when completec 't Number of men employed, ^ Time from Sixth avenue ai * boken, ten minutes. ? Time from Herald Square 5 nnisnea, twenty minutes. * Seating capacity of cars an * hours, 10,000. ' Distance from surface of r J in the tunnel, ninety feet. At * Actual time of crossing un * Work begun in 1878 and * 1S90 and again discontinued; * McAdoo in 1901. J Entire system will be in f * 190S. > Stations completed and ne< * and Greenwich streets, Sixth J street, Fourteenth street and J street and Sixth avenue, Twe * avenue, Twenty-eighth street ? ken, at D., L. and W. R. R. sta 4 4 prosperity was toasted in the evening j at a sumptuous banquet at Sherry's, i | Then it was thrown open finally to 1 public travel. | Just at midnight two five-car trains | i started simultaneously from the Manj hattan and Hoboken terminals. In mid-river, ten or twelve fathoms un- l | der the broad Hudson's surface, their i motormen pulled cords and sent shrill ! I blasts of celebration through the long steel tubes. Tneir pasengers cneereci i !and shook hands with one another I ! and boasted o? American genius and j | daring. Though neither the whistles nor | ; cheers reached from one train to the | other, they were passing, separated j only by a few yards of earth. The I long-dreamed-of route from State to ' State was at last a tangible thing to the travelers. They had to make the trip before they could believe it. And here they were! | Five minutes after they passed the red, white and blue circle of lights marking the line between the States they were alighting In bright, new stations. The woes of commuting were over. Sleeping time in the morning was extended, dinner time at night brought nearer. Bi.t before they could stop to think it all over they had to make way for others. Trains were running every MOKE MONEY FOR BRITISH NAVY ! Increase in Estimates More Than Oil!I sets Cut in Army Expenses. London.?The naval estimates for 1908-09 arc placed at $161,597,500, an increase of $4,500,000, chiefly for stores and naval works and to meet the heightened cost of coal. Only $3,850,000 is allotted for the i building program. The following ! ships are to l>e begun: One battleship, I one armored cruiser, six una n-iored cruisers, sixleen torpedo boat destroyers and some submarines. Telegraphic Condensations. The managers of La Follette claim that he will have 222 votes on the 1 first ballot. Chairman Charles R. Jones, of the Prohibition party, declared they would poll a- million votes in the Presidential campaign. Many persons in L.ontion are suuer' ing from influenza, including three Cabinet ministers and a large number of residents of the West End. Emperor William has by express command Introduced the Japanese system of defense, jiu jitsu, into the imperial army and navy. JOiNEB TOGETHER! I ?~v - r? ?From tli9 New York World. five minutes. Crowds were pouring j down the stairways and dropping tickets in the boxes. The Hudson and Manhattan Railroad was now a lively, bustling, full-alive line of travel. Three hundred passengers embarked on the first train to leave the ! Nineteenth street station for Hoboken j ? w+wrkli-A Af i rl n i rr V* f THov I UU LUC anuivc nn\xm^ii\.. i?v; had waited for hours to take it. Mrs. Barbara Schlatter, of Bloomfield street, Hoboken, a woman of sixty-five, bought the first ticket. She had stood at the head of the line since 9 p. m. A second train followed the leading j one at 12.07. The first train from Hoboken ! reached Nineteenth street at 12.15 a. j m. It had made two -stops and the running time was thirteen minutes. Fifteen-year-old Richard Scully, of No. 1131 Washington street. Hoboken, was the first person off the train. All night the trains continued on their five-minute headway, with everything operating as smoothly as i though the tunnel had been open for years. At the banquet in commemoration of the opening of the tunnel William G. McAdoo said: "These tunnels have bodily moved New Jersey, in point of time, three miles nearer to Manhattan Island, j What this means to the 100,000,000 people who now annually cross the Hudson River by ferry may in a measure be comprehended when I tell you that at the very low estimate of an average of five minutes of time saved to each person the annual sav- j ing is nine and a half years. In other words, these 100,000,000 people now | sxpend each year nine and a half years of unnecessary time in crossing j the Hudson on ferries. This is a ; great economic waste, if time is really j of value, to say nothing of the dis- j cADOO TUNNEL. \ * , . r * Hoboken to Sixth avenue ? fork City. " * j miles. trains: Three-minute head- ? 1, $70,000,000. f 6500. * nd Nineteenth street to Ho- * t to Newark, when system is J * hour each way during rush * iver to rails at deepest point ? shallowest point, 15 feet. J der river bed, three minutes, j discontinued; resumed in work begun by William G. I * ull operation before close of ? ar completion: Christopher ? avenue and Christopher * KI v f- (jwannfl Minotoon fh t nty-third street and Sixth and Sixth avenue. Hobo- t .tion. I i comfort and inconvenience it elo- | quently proclaims." President Presses Putlon. Washington. D. C. ? The electric; key was pressed in the telegraph room at the White House to start in motion the first train to pass through the tunnel of the Hudson and Manhattan Railroad Company. In Secretary Loeb's office a silver electric button was shown, on the silver plate surrounding which were engraved these words: "At the White House in Washington with this push-button President Roosevelt gave the signal which started the first train of the Hudson and Manhattan Railroad Company through the tunnels under the Hudson River between Sixth avenue and Nineteenth street, New York, and Hoboken, N. J., February 25, 1908." GOVERNOR TOOLE TO RESIGN". Montana's Executive Announces That III Health Causes His Action. Los Angeles, Cal.?Governor Jos. K. Toole, of Montana, arrived here Sunday from Helena. He announced that owing to ill health he had determined to resign, and that his resignation will take effect April 1. Moving Picture Shows Closed. Three moving picture theatres were peremptorily closed at Ilolyoke, Mass.. by order of State Building Inspector Howes for alleged repeated violations of the statute against permitting patrons to stand in the aisles or otherwise block the exits. Kindest Feeling in Japan. Baron Takahashi. professor of the Imperial University of Tokio. declared that only the kindest feelings toward America are expressed throughout Japan. Thavr Jury's Expenses $1302.15. Cantain William H. Ricketts, the court officer, of New York City, who had charge of the Thaw jury, has received the bills for the expenses of the jury while it was locked up. The Hotel Knickerbocker bill was $3220.65. Carriage hire was $642.50. and $439 was paid for luncheons down town, making a total of $4392.15. Locked Cashier in Vault. The robbers of the bank at Granite Falls, N. C., locked the cashier in the vault and then got away with all the bank's cash. HEPBURN LAW DOES IT REPEAL ELKINSAC1 Supreme Court Demolishes a Defense Against $29,000,000 Fine. PERFORATED MUSIC DECISIOh J. J. Hill Wins $10,000,000 ir Burlington Derision?Perforated Music Not a Violation of Copy right?Other Important Rulings Washington, D. C.?The Federa Supreme Court upheld the Elkin: Anti-Rebate act, found for J. J. Hil in the $10,000,000 Burlington case declared perforated music not in vio Iation of copyright and rendered sev eral other important decisions. The Ellcins Anti-Rebate law was neither repealed, modified nor amend ed by the Hepburn act. All the orig inal provisions relative to the givinf and receiving of rebates remain ii full force and effect. This was the decision handed dowi by the Supreme Court in the suit o the Government against the Grea' Northern Railroad for granting re bates. It will have a far-reaching ef feet on a large number of appeal; taken from lower courts. The opinion destroys one hope en tertained by the Standard Oil Com pany of discovering a way to evadi navmont nf the* 000 000 finp lm ]/u; uiv.u., vt. v?? v, v ~ , v v y , v v v .ut posed by Judge Landis for acceptinf rebates from the Chicago and Altor Railroad. One of the contentions se up was that the Elklns law was re pealed by the Hepburn act. Counse for the Standard intervened in th< Great Northern suit and became ; party to it so far as this one point i; concerned. The fight to prevent thi collection by the Government of th< enormous fine must now be limited t< other points raised. The Great Northern case was in stituted in the United States Distric Court for Minnesota, which cour fined the railroad $1000 each fo fifteen violations of the first sectioi of the Elkins law in granting conces sions to the VV. P. Devereaux Com pany on its shipments of oils of con from Minneapolis to points in Wash jngton. The decision was announce! by Justice White and affirmed thi finding of the District Court and th.< United States Circuit Court of Ap peals. Hill Wins $10,OQO,OGO Case. The case of Clarence H. Venner vs the Great Northern Railway an< James J. Hill, which was begun in thi United States Circuit Court for th< southern district of New York b: Venner to compel Hill to pay over ti Venner and other stockholders thi value of their respective holdings, be cause, as was alleged, these holding had been impaired by the joint effor of the Great Northern and the North ern Pacific Railroad Company in 190< to obtain control of the Chicago, Bur lington and Quincy Railroad, was de cided by the Supreme Court agalns Venner. Tho case involves $10,000, 000. Perforated Music Free. In an opinion by Justice Day thi Supreme Court decided the case o (he White Smith Music Publishini Company, of Massachusetts, agains the Apollo Company, a New Jerse; corporation, involving' the questioi whether copyrighted music is protect od against reproduction on perfor ated paper for use in pianolos am similar instruments, in favor of th' Apollo Company. The case originated in the Uuite< States Circuit Court for Southeri New y'ork. The view of the Unitec States Circuit Court of Appeals wa accepted by the Supreme Court which, as announced by Justice Day was that, as the perforated sheet: can only be made serviceable in con nection with the machines in whicl Ihey are used, and cannot be read the reproduction of music in thi manner is not a violation of the Copy right law. Justice Holmes delivered a differ ent but not a dissenting opinion. Court Defends Woman. That laundries and other concern: employing females in mechanical la uur iii vjreguii iiictj iiul icquuc cn^i employes to work more than tei hours a day, in compliance with tin State law, was proclaimed by the Su preme Court in the case of Curt Mul ler, a laundryman, of Portland, vs the State of Oregon. Muller at tacked the law as unconstitutional claiming that it puts a limitation 01 the power of contract. In upholding the law, Justice Brewer ruled that ou many account! woman is entitled to greater protec tion than her brothers. HAD GOOD TIME, DROPPED DEAF Girl Pupil Was Waiting For a Car riage at the End of Annual Ball. Chicago.?"I've had the very bes time of my life." This was the happy statemen which preceded only an instant th< death of Miss Blanche Arnold, eigh teen years old, in the parlor of th< Morgan Park gymuasuni. The girl, whose home was in Au dubon, Iowa, was a pupil in the Star rett School for Girls, and had attend ed the annual dance given by tin mmiic nf tlio aparlpmv With a frien; she was awaiting '.hp carriage whicl was to lake them home, when sh' made the remark about having had i splendid time. Within a second shi had fallen to ths floor, dying alrr.es instantly of heart di:>eas?. TEN MILLS RESUMING. Nearly JOOf) Mrn of tlir* Pillslmn Tin Plato Co. Again at Work. Pittslmtg. ? Four additional tii mills at Martins Kerry were star tec hy the American Sheet, and Tin Platf Company, giving employment to 25( "ion Ac VanderariCCs works 50( men were put to work. Two hundred men resumed worl at No. 4 Mill ot' riie Spang-Chalfan Company plant at Etna. Employes "if No. 2 Mill in ihe Buttweld depart ment have been working some time but No. 1 Mill lias be?n idle. About Xntec) People. E. II Marrinian is building a $!, OOO.OrtO house in New York. The Peruvian Government orderei that the honors due to a Vice-Adniira s<1 l a r> <-?a ? _ A rl m i rn 1 Pvanc ut- I'mu > " Nathaniel Ames, the celebratec New England almanac maker, at onr time kept the Detlham ordinary. 01 tavern. Tho Rev. Thomas Spurgeon. pastoi of the Metropolitan Tabernacle, I.on don, has made definite his resignatior of the pastorate, which was postpone* from March last year. His health i: still ooor. THE PENALTY FOR 1 J ^ ( ^ 3 ?Week's cleverest cartoon, by l :! PARSON, GAMBLER, P 2 I . ? , Missouri Preacher First Repays t< J i Poker--Old Passion Seized Hin . 1 ing Fever Consumes Its Victir J j Lee's Summit, Mo.?Perhaps the I most astounding revelation ever made 1 in a house of worship came from the * I lips of the Rev. Charles S. S. Brown, I pastor of the Christian Church in this 3 ! town, in a sermon on the evil results 5 j of gambling, for the preacher spoke ! from recent experience. " j Brown told his congregation that : the passion for gaming utterly con1 sumed its victims, making every man r of them forget friends, family, home 1 and God. He did not' refer to himself by name, but every one in the church knew what he said was less a sermon 1 I than a confession, for he retained to * i town with a draft for $300 and re1 paid to members of his congregation B that amount borrowed from several of e them. He lost in a poker game in Kansas City a few days ago the loans he got from his flock. It was when he failed to repay the lenders promptly that they started an i investigation resulting in the discove ery that the parson had frittered e away their money at the gambling y table. Brown did not deny the 3 charge. He contented himself with e promising to raise the money, asking - for a few days of grace. Then he left s town and was absent until next mornt ing. -1 -.K 1 Lie Clergy man, wueu iuc ciucio \jl [) the church taxed him with his sin, . said he had succumbed to a craze for . gambling to which he had been subt ject years before. He thought he had . conquered the passion forever, he said, but a few days ago, :lnding himself in Kansas City and hearing men in a hotel remark that there was a ? poker game in a certain place, he was I seized with a desire to handle the ? cards and chips once more. t Brown dressed himself in clothes Y as unlike those of his calling as he 1 could get and went to the gambling house. He was admitted readily, and ' soon he was playing as if he had 1 never entered a pulpit. He explained e to the elders that it was the first . time he had touched a card since enfprinc the ministry. It was before he i became a clergyman that he did his 1 gambling of former years. To his amazement, the gaming ; fever was so strong in him that he lost all the money he had in his 3 pocket. It amounted to $300, which " he had borrowed in various amounts 1 from members of his flock for a legit' i imate purpose. Brown, when he returned with the money necessary to reimburse his friends, asked the leading men of the BOY COCAINE USER 3 Boston, Mass.?An anti-cocaine bill - prepared by Dr. Charles Harrington, i of the State Board of Health, has 1 been brought before the legislative 2 Committee on Public Health by that - official, who made a strong appeal in - its advocacy. He declared that hundreds upon - hundreds of Boston boys are slaves , to the cocaine habit, that the harmful l drug can be purchased in saloons, I from cheap drug stores and on the 3 1 street from illegal agents as freely as s one can buy fruit from street hawk ers, and that the juvenile courts are filling up with youths who have admitted that their downfall can be ) ! traced to tne vicious arug name. i Said Dr. Harrington in part: "From . ! judges, from lawyers, from probation officers and others, I have received t hundreds of pitiful letters giving me t | FARM MORSE GiVI !| TO ITS e 1 Washington, D. C.?According to investigations made by G. K. Holmes, - chief of the Division of Foreign Mar kets of the Department of Agrieul :;ire, the automobile has been respons sible for the displacement of but 00,l 000 horses in this country up to the i present time, and farm horses have s never been in such great demand as a. at the present moment. In fact, (he s j demand for horses for farm and other t I business uses has become stronger and stronger during the past two or Why Paris Employs Imitators of the Canine Voice. Paris. ? The revenue authorities, i with a view to outwitting the dog 1 owners who persistently evade the ? dog tax by denying possession of ani ) raals, have engaged a number of men ) who are accomplishes in imitating the voice of a dog. These artists z promenade at. night and bark outside, t If a dog is within it invariably rc3 plies, thus betraying its owner. The - j next day a collector visits the owner , j and gathers iti the tax. The human ! barkers receive $30 a month pay. The News at a GI acre. Ex-Governor Yates, of Illinois, announced his candidacy for re-election 1 to that office. 1 The present New York City season of grand opera will be a record breakj er in the amount of money taken at > both houses. ' Governor Hughes declared in a speech in Chicago that gamblers : should not be allowed to hide in masks of trade. i Theodore Chaliapine, Russian I basso, sailed. He declared the Amori leans were children in art and business and liked to be b'.uffsd. fHE GET-RICH-QUICK. C. R. Macaulcy, in the New York World. REACHES ON THE EVIL ) His Flock the Money He Lost at i--He Tells Congregation (jamns, Speaking From Experience. congregation to let him address the men and women of tne church once again. He said he had something to sa.- to them which might work incalculable good. The elders gave their consent, and ^ on Sunday night apparently every member of the congregation was in the church. Women gazed at their pastor with shocked looks. Men watched him with queer expressions. He seemed affected by the battery of glances, but he did not flinch from the ordeal he had set for himself. Instead, he walked with bowed head and steady stride to the pulpit and announced that he would preach on the evils of gambling. A ripple ran through the congregation, for all knew of his recent experience, but everybody became serious again at sight of the man's white face. "There is no other vice that gets such a hold on a r^n as does gambling," said the ..i^acher, looking straight into the faces of fcis flock. "It consumes him utterly. Gripped in its clutches, he forgets his frienda. his family, his home and his God. Once he yields to it he cannot tell to what lengths it may lead him. "Gambling has been responsible for lying, theft, suicide ' id murder. Its subjects are mort oject slaves than those of drink. There is only one thing to do when the passion for gaming seizes one, and that is to fight it off from the first with all the strength at a man's command. For if the victim does not conquer early in the struggle, he will find it next to impossible to do so afterward." Women sobbed loudlyas the clergyman proceeded with his sermon. Men who had gazed curiously at the parson on his entrance looked at him with sympathy. The officers of the church appeared to be affected deeply by the pastor's words. Not a movement was made by the big crowd, which filled the building to the doors, while Brown, from the pulpit, strove to save others from the vice that had proved too strong for him. It is believed the preacher fears his weakness too much to follow his calling further, but it i3 said the ckurch officers will urge him to keep his pulpit, In the hope that one who has suffered as he undoubtedly has done will be the stronger for his open confession and the better able to restrain any tendency to gambling that may exist among those in his charge. CS ON THE INCREASE lists of names of Boston boys who have become slaves to cocaine. "I have heard of saloons where they keep catarrh powder filled with cocaine or its by-products in the toilet rooms for the use of customers. Cheap west end drug stores sell scores ck boxes of cocaine a day illegally. The negro race is especially addicted to the drug, and it can be purchased by them in stores' and on the streets. i "One of the agents of the Health Board purchased some of this drug at a drug store in Boston, then stood by and saw twenty sales of the same within a half hour, all the purchasi ers being negroes." Dr. Harrington said that children were supplied with the drug by i agents who went about the streets ; with their pockets stocked with the ; powders. NG WAY ? RIVAL, THE AUTO i three years, the farm horses alone in , use ou January 1, 1908, numbering no less than 19,992,000 in round numbers. The department figures that 60,000 horses in stock on farms could have replaced the same number that have given way to the automobile, while it is calculated that the 500,000 horses which electricity displaced in urban street car service, could have been replaced by 850,000 horses in stock assuming its growth to present proportions with horses. Mother's Death May Result iu Release of Her Voting Heir. Los Angeles.?While serving a sentence of 180 days in the city jail for larceny, William Allen, aged twentyeight. received word of his mother'3 I death in New York City and that he ! had been bequeathed an estate val! iiprf at $15,000. After he had failed to secure money from a broker on the strength of his inheritance a telegram was sent to the administrator of the estate asking him to forward money so that Allen could obtain his release from prison. Prominent People. Pilgrims of the United States gave a banquet at Delmonico's for Ambassador NVhitelaw Reid. Yale intends to confer the degree of AI. A. on Walter Camp, the university's athletic adviser. John D. Rockefeller, Jr., denounces the use of fibs in business. "Tell the truth," he says, "even if it'a not expedient." Andre Tardieu delivered his eighth nnH loot- lnntiiro hofnro Pprplft Francais of Harvard University, at Cambridge. His subject was 'Trancq and the United States." A