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COMPENSATION. Tito worid is not ?-> marvelous as (lion. When every wind gave hint of mvstory In unknown worlds beyond tlic farther i hill Pri you hav" mid. a sjlory (o fulfil The eagerness > (' my unseeing eyes. And made lif<- what <ioi! meant it once! again. ? Tomi A. \ M n'Mi;rr.iv. in Mil- Metro- ' politan Mai; !/ !: . j | | j V c- I < i: k BATTLE WITH i? "PUMPKIN SEEDS" . b" !s a" 1>Y i>Ar. I*! TltJEM. i" j I " I ncuBooBBcrssrsna c o n ee?s?3n?a?ae?jaBt " i | t Years ago, when Mr. I'urdy heard j , that thp Crawfords. from his old j j hone in Maine, had become frontiers- j men and had like himself settled in / Iowa, he stuck a notice on his cabin ( door to the effect that he had gone : visiting and would return within a \ couple of months, and started on ] horseback to welcome the newcomers. ; He enjoyed his visit, but fould his i former neighbors not disposed to t, take seriously oI! his advice. When , he spoke of the ferocity of the wild j hogs that infested the country? j "pumpkin-seeds" they were called, because of their tawry color and | conical forms?all the Crawfords J ( laughed. t "Wolf, there, ran lake the biggest, i razorback thai ever squealed, and f put him out of business in no time!" t Jim Crawford scoffed. .Tim was i twenty years old." j "Maybe so." mumbled the old man. s Then his eyes began to twinkle, aud he snoke again. "Along last fall." < he said. "I heard a racket out in the j ? brush behind my cabin, and I went out to look round. On the other side i of a clearing where I'd had potatoes, t I spotted a big black bear, standing i over a pumpkin-seed that he'd just t walloped the life out of. Next mo- c ment another pig showed up?big- i gest one I ever saw. he was. and it i seem?d to me his ears were set half way between his nose and the root t of his tail. Before I'd stood there s two minutes, twenty or tnirty more s pumpkin-seeds had sneaked into the \ clearing, and were looking kind of doubtful at Mr. Bear." "And then Mr. Bear got mad and thrashed the whole outfit," laughed Mrs. Crawford. "Don't tell us that a bunch of scrawny pigs mode a bear run, Elijah Purdy." j "They didn't make him run," j agreed the trapper. "They circled round him, and then, all of a sud-1 den, bear and pumpkin-seeds were j piled up ten deep. But it was all | over in a Tew minutes; there wasn't j anything left of the bear but a few i bits of fur and his bones, and those' were polished pretty clean." ! m This story roused in the settlers a L spirit of ridicule. They laughed at Mr. Purdy's respect for wild hogs, and Jim offered to go out with a :lub, accompanied by the great half- \ mastiff dog called "Wolf," and ex- t terminate a drove of the animals. t A few days later Mr. Purdy and r Jim started down the Maquoketa a River beyond what is now the town f Df Hopington. They were armed r srith heavy, long-barreled shotguns, that took eight drams of powder for s ?ach barrel, and that were powerful enough to kill a fox or wild turkey t it shotgun range; also they were t ccompanied by Wolf. Buddy, an j r English bulldog who had been given \ v :o the Crawfords by some east-bound ; s rovers, was to be unchained as soon j c is Wolf was eone?for the bulldog ! s md the half-mastiff were never al-j a .owed to.run at the same time. Thus j a Mrs. Crawford would have the com- | L panionship and protection of Buddy j while the other dog was away. t Unfortunatley for this plan, before e the hunters had tramped two miles r Jim discovered the white bulldog j skulking a few rods behind. j s "Confound the dog!" said Jim. j e 'Father won't be home till night and j c mother wilL be nervous without ail living thing for company.. We'll have j t :o lead Buddy to keep him and Wolf ; c crom fighting, too." i 1 rfhe bulldog was secured by a' i strap Jim had worn about his waist, i c and so leashed, trotted amiably at j his master's side. Occasionally he ! s fcvrinkled his nose at Wolf, but it was i s easy to keep the enemies apart. ! i C.amc was scarce. Mr. Purdy j dropped a goose as it rose, flopping, . 2 from a side current in the river, and i s wuii Kiutu n wooucnucK. Asiae irom l this, they had seen nothing when I t they stopped to eat dinner near a | marshy stream that emptied into the j ( Maquotota. v "Looks as if I wasn't going to get t anything!" Jim grumbled. *'I say, J i Mr. Purdy, what do you suppose | t Wolf is after?" J t The men turned and stared into : c the brush-filled bed of the little I stream, which had beeu behind them ' t as they ate. Then, at sight of an ; animal which broke from the cover of j 3 Ihe slough, Mr. Purdy jumped to his j t feet. ! t "Call off that dog!" he cried. ' "He's chasing a young pumpkin-seed.!; and there'll ho a whole swarm after ; l him and us if he hurts the brute." ! \ But even it Jim had wanted to 11 call his dog, he could uot have don? i : so. Wolf was hardly a rod behind : < the pig when it ran from the bru.-h, ! and in a dozen leaps he h?d over-' taken and killed his victim. "Thac shows what a pumpkin-seed | . amounts to with Wolf," Jim boasted, j' Mr. Purdy was staring into the' . brush. For a few moments after ; , the pig's squeals had ceased he stood ; listening and watching. Then he ] pointed up the cre*k. ! "See there!" beexclaimed. ' There's the first one! There'll be plenty * more in a minute. Call this dog, it he'll come. We can gel out on this ! tree that slopes over the river." hv idi-.f ? 1 V?1HV OJlU?>t?ll u:i | , the trapper's face, Jim failed fran- i ' tically to the mastiff and began drag- i ging Baddy toward th^ tree by the jV river. Buddy saw Wolf worrying' the body of the little pumpkin-seed, i. and hung back, giowling and trying i ; to brea1' away. Mr. l'urdy urged Jim to loose the dog, but this the young man was unwilling lo do. In stead, he or.ught the bulldog by the eollar and dragged him to the foot ! of the tree. At this point he paused to lool: ' back Fift??n or twenty nigs appeared?great tawny beasts, with r>n<? laic nnrl loan sirlp.q. lookinc. in ileod. more like wolves than like ?igs "See how thev keep the little ones >ehind " said Mr. Purdy. The drove had formed a crescent, vhich advanced with its hollow side oward Wolf. The dog stood menac ng them with bared teeth; but that ?ven he was frightened was apparent "rom his taking the defensive. Sud lenlv the foaming, rabid animals that formed ths horns of the half-moon "losed in behind the dog. and with squeals of rage threw themselves jpon him. "Come up here!" commanded the rapper, grasping Jim's shoulder and vhirling him toward the tree. "It'll jo our turn next." Probably Jim saw the need of light. His face was as white as his oni pan ion 's as he clambered out lions; the sloping trunk of the bass vooJ to a place where he could steady limself and Buddy by throwing one irm round a branch. When he ooked toward the pumpkin-seeds, A'olf had disappeared, and the brutes vere tearing something that might lave been an empty sack, or even a lile of leaves. Afterward they came in a ramb ing line toward the tree where the neu had found shelter. At its base hey paused and stared up, their ittle eyes shining red and green is the lust for blood surged through heir dwarfed brains. Jim raised )oth hammers of his big shotgun ind planted its stock against hia shoulder. "Now." he muttered. "I'll put ? ----- ?* U 1,111 some or you wnere you i*uu l um my more dogs!" Probably he would have done so lad not Mr. Purdy grasped the bar rel of the gun and held it toward the vater. "If you shoot one of them, hey'll stay here till we starve and Irop out of the tree," he said. "Wait. They'll keep us here long enough, myhow." The pigs might have been forgot :en their grievance if they had not seen Buddy. But at sight of his ;quare, muscular body, quivering vith eagerness to get down and set le in his own fashion the matter of he right of way, they bristled and iquealed with renewed anger. Mr. Pnrdy glanced toward the end >ranch of the basswood. "Can't get arther out," said he. "There you :ome! I knew you'd do it!" A hog, whose long, shark-like muz :Ie was lathered with foam, had run ip the trunk, but had slipped and alien. As he splashed into the swirling water, bobbed under for a noment. and then reappeared, to set >ui clumsily for the other side, the est of the drove edged away from he steep bank. For a while they tood champing their jaws and peer ng up into the tree; and at sight of heir hideous faces Mr. Purdy. shiv tred and edged out on his branch, vhile Jim stood sullenly and defied hem with hot eyes. Then, just as he old man's fingers were working lervously at the hammers of his gun l pumpkin-seed ran straight for the oot of the tree and ran up its ough, scored trunk. "Knock him off with your gun!" ihouted the trapper. But the pig was too close for such actics. Indeed, so rapid had been lis charge that he was already within each of Buddy, at whom he snapped vith a quick, snarling lunge. At the ame instant Buddy closed his teeth n the fleshy nose of the pumpkin eed. There was a piercing squeal is the animal tried to free himself, ind after a short struggle, dog and tog dropped from the tree. "That critter'll remember the last ime he tackled Buddy!" Jim shout id, forgetting his peril in joy at the Jig S uiitriuiua. When the combatants came to the inrface. Buddy we3 still holding his meniy by the nose. Even the shock >f cold water had failed to loosen lis grip, and as the two floated away, he dog, at least, seemed happy. The ither pigs trotted along the bank, nit evidently were unwilling to ihinge into the water for the sake if helping their companion. "Now's our chance!" Mr. Purdy ovoit?>(11V as hp snv thr> rlrr>vf? iv/esp into the brush of the intersect ng creek. "They'll foliow till Bud ly and his friend drown or float ishore. Let's run for it." They ;crambled down, and in five minutes lad covered so much country that hey felt safe in slowing to a walk. Two hours later they reached the Crawford homestead; and while they vcro eating supper, rejoicing because hey had not shared the fate of Wolf md Buddy, and mourning because wo good dogs had been killed, some hing scratched at the door, and sue :eeded in forcing it open. It was Buddy, wet, footsore and cut about he head and muzzle, but happy. It was impossible to learn how ho nH iip<1 nHliniiorh \I Pnnlu suggested that he might have c'.:;u^ o the pumpkin-seed until the iauor .vent down, and then floated ashore '.cross from the drove. Even to .satis fy their hatred, the pumpkin-seeds vould iiardiy have tried to swim a?;er iiill. Like their cousins of the farm yard. rher.e \>'ild hogs were not fond if swimming.? Youth's Companion. A Deadly Weapon. A better method of meeting a dopi ng challenge was no doubt one which iv,'is employed on a certain occasion >y a French statesman against M. I'ictor Noir, an illiterate bully of the >ress in the time of the Second Em pire. The statesman received from S'oir. for no real reason whatever, a . hallenge to fight a duel. Noir was a densely ignorant man. tnd nearly every word in the chal lenge was mi5-")i?',liei3. The states mau responded with tlit* following teHor: Dear Sir?Von have called nie 3tit without any good reason. I have, therefore, the choice of weap ons. I choose the spelling hook, and you are a d? .ad man." The duel was nover fo 11 ght.?Tit - Uits. The wireless telegraph station which hr.s eroctod for the Rus sian \ iniir:iily between Sevastopol and C'nii-vjii has undergone a satisfac tory '.rial. PILE ERECTED AT The birthplace of James Buchanan, ft the only President Pennsylvania has m i given the Nation, has at last been sf I marked by a monument. bi It was 116 years ago that James ai Buchanan was born, near the village ai of Flotz, in Franklin County, at a ir place called Stony Batter. Before ol the present monument was erected T there was nothing about the cabin, in ft . which the fifteenth President first h saw the light of day, to indicate that it had once sheltered the only son p of this State who became the head P of the Nation. A By the will of Harriet Lane John son, of Washington, D. C., niece of ci Prnsidpnt Buchanan and mistress of w the White House during her uncle's term, a sum of money was set aside tQ erect a marker at her nadir's birth place. This monument has been finished. The marker is pyramidal in shape, thirty-one feet, high and thirty-eight AIIYSSIMA'S lit" I..Kit. Yielding to the progressive spirit of the time, the King of far-away aud secluded Abyssinia has decided to give his country a constitutional gov KINCt menelik Abyssinia, who has grunted a constitu tional governineut to his people. | eminent, and to that end has ap j pointed a cabinet on European lines. 1 A parliament elected by the people will be established in due time, j King Menelik has shown himself in i many other instances a liberal and ' intelligent sovereign. He has nego ! tiated treaties with several of the | leading countries looking to an en ! 1 o i*arAm an f of r?nrn m nrr-i n I rnl.'if ifillS I with them. His country is provided i with no seaport, but it is to be ton- ' ( ! r.ected with the coast by a railroad j built by foreign capitalists, to whom he has ir.ade concessions. Meuellk calls himself Emperor of Ethiopia, 1 and claims to be a direct descendant i of King Solomon and the Queen of Sheba. He gained his throne only ; after a fierce struggle with opposing j claimants. He has been one of the j best rulers his country ever had. One I of the remarkable features of his reisrn was the terrible defeat admitl Istercd to the Italian army by the! w Abyssinians at Adowa. Menelik has! It expressed a desire to have the negroes : ir Power Hummer. I n The work of the blacksmith and i lessened by the employment of a power hammer invented by a Texas IDENT BUCHANAN. STONY BATTER. :er square. The body of the raonu- | lent is composed of native stones, | j lowing the weather marks, many j i< elnK covered with moss. The stones ! re set in cement, of which over three I nd one-half carloads were used. The tii.ifp mid seat are made ' I hammered American gra-' granite, he plate is six by two and one-half a set and the letters are three inches igh. The inscription is as follows: ( "This monument, marks the birth- i . lace of James Buchanan, fifteenth [ resident of the United States. Born ; pril 23. 179 1. Died June 1, 1868." j The monument stands near the ibin in which President Buchanan ! _ as born. The country round about, ^ i wild and has not changed greatly iuce the time the President, as a boy, f layntl in the mountains. The mon-i ment will be inclosed by a neat, iron 3tice nml the ground inside will be . ra'ded and sodded for a distance ol fty feet.?Pittsburg Dispatch. rom the Southern States of America f migrate to and settle in his country, ; 4 nd has promised them good treat- ] u:nt and every possible advantage. j " 'o exodus from the South to Abys- 1 Inia has as yet begun.?Leslie's i Weekly. Fooled Bloodhounds by Chomical. j Acting under orders of Governor \ ? Icnn, Sheriff Biddle, of Craven I ^ ounty, N. C., brought Joe Bailey, j egro, the alleged murderer of John j [. Lancaster, a merchant of Vance- j oxo, to Raleigh for safe keeping, j lie killing of Lancaster aroused pub o indignation, and posses were or rmized, bloodhounds were secured, I rid the swamps were searched. By ' 1 ?e use of a chemical concoction on ; le soles of h^s shoes, the negro threw to dogs off bis trail when within 200 j Lirds of him, but he was captured : hile crossing a bridge. Sicily met Woinerawa is Australian Weapon, j The v'oineraw* is a curious stick j hich 'he Australians *j:;c for flinging >ng arrows against enemies or ni- ! 1 luls. HAW MATERIAL AMD TIIE RTICLE. i ?From Brooklyn Life. j 1 lan. * As shown in Uie illustration., J .lis power hammer is operated by the j x>t. allowing the free use of both ' | amis for gui.ling the material on tlie j nvi!. The hammer is attached to a mg rocking arm. which is pivoted on j n iron frame. Tho frame supporting lie hammer is rigidly seour'.-J lo the ' ase of the anvil, the hammer being j uided to drop 011 the centre of the j nVil. ACIjart.'Ill l'<> Uic: uuvii mir.r; u he operating treadle, always within j J asy reach of the foot. Connecting J he arm of tho hammer and the : roadie are strong springs, which i ltvo to bring Uie hammer down with i orce and also to draw it away from j ho anvil after the blow has beeu ! nade. Ilow He iMauc money. ' Ricli, isn't lie?" "Fabulously." "Where did he get it?" "He's the man who applied the car vindow principle to the doors of safes md safety deposit vaults, making hem absolutely burglar proof."? Washington Star. This world could rill full many a bluff And run more nearly right, If honest men were not so gruff And crooks not so polite. Lesser Evil. The Professor?"I want .you clill ren to go to my lecture to-night." Robert?"Couldn't you whip us in teacl, just this once, papa?"?Life. On the Contrary. L'v j); i vjit.cn? mi uuhn *v i-?.? liase ah ra?.zer." Clerk?"Safety?" Eph Green?"No, sah; dia am fo* ocial usage."?Harper's Weekly. It Gives Him a I?est. 'Every year the Higgs have Mrs. ones up to their country homo for a ong visit." "Fond of her, are they?" "No?of him."?Harper's Bazar. Nobody Would. Newton had just discovered the law f o-ravif'QtiAn "But I wouldn't be a bit surprised E the Supreme Court declares it un onstitutional," he mused, soberly.? Mick. A Hard Job. She?''I wish you would work and :arn the money for the flowers you end me." He?"If you knew how hard it was o work the governor you would think earned 'em."?Wasp. New to the Gam*. "Waiter, is this supposed to be oftee?" inquired the diner in the lapidity Cafe. "I couldn't say," replied the waiter. I only started here this morning." ?Harper's Weekly. Young Aspirant?'"Sir, may I count >n your supporting me?" Practical Citizen?"That depends, 'oung man. Are you going to run for* jffice or do you want to marry my laughter?"?Philadelphia Ledger. A Wise Daddy. Family Pride. "My father once had his pictei :ook." "So did mine, but it took four cops to hold him."?Brooklyn Life. A Good Man. "Your dead husband wor a good mon," declared the sympathetic Mrs. Casey to the bereaved widow. "He wor!" exclaimed Mrs. Murphy, lashing the tears from her eyes. "Nc two polacemin cud handle him."? Judge. Keeping His Word. Mrs. Fogar.ty (in fashionable res taurant)?"Now, fer goodness sake, Mike, don't order Irish stew." Mr. Fogarty?"All right, I won't, dear. Waither, fetch me ayther some Hibernian Suey, or Celtic Goulash!" ?Puck. Sufficient Reason. Bing?"Yes; that's old Spriggings. Half a dozen doctors have given him up at various times during his life." Wing?"What was the matter with him?" Bing?"He wouldn't pay his bills." ?Tit-Bits. A Synonym. "Yes," boasted a dissipated cosmo politan, "I've been in a good many tight places in my life." "Tight places," mused an acquaint ance. "That's a new name for them." "A new name for what?" "Public houses."?Tit-Bits. When Adam Delved. Adam had just been condemned to live by the sweat of his brow. > "Never mind," he sneered. "Wait till they come around for the labor rote." Herewith they doubled whether they had taken him down a peg or not.?New York Sun. A Strong: 13!nIV. First Stranger?"Exci. me. hut that's my umbrella you huve." Second Stranger?"I don't doubt it. Just wait here till I call a police man." First Stranger?"What for?" Second Stranger?"Burglars broke into my house ihe other night and left this umbrella."?Chicago News. Cause For Anxiety. The baby was slow about talking, and his aunt was deploring that fact. Four-year-old Kiizab^*tii listened anx iously. "Oh, mother," she ventured at length, "do you think he'll grow up English? We couldn't any of us un derstand him if he turned out to be French." Ingenious 1 tuligenry. "My boy," said the first wayfarer, 'I've hit on a scheme that guarantees me a square meal and possibly some :lothes at any house I rare to strike.'" "What do you do?" asked the sec ond wayfarer, wearily biting into a iold meat sandwich. "I throw away my hat, run through a coupis of bushes to get my clothes mussed up, then go up to the front door and tell the lady of the house I'm a racing balloonist that hae just descended in the woods."?Success. NEWS R ! THOROUGHBRED HORSES BUR J Lexington, Ky.?Firs of myst four head of thoroughbred borses famous farm here. Thirty-three c and eleven suckling'colts. The Ha amount of tobacco, which was sold bacco is to be grown on the place t ger of the farm, does not think it t loss is estimated at 0,000. [ Ends Life by Decapitation. Cleveland.?Placing his neck on a I rail of the Wheeling and Lake Erie [ tracks at East Forty-ninth street, in l front of a rapidly nonroaching loco ! motive. Frederick Schrooder's head I was cut off and carried upright on the pilot for several blocks. He had I recently left a sanitarium and was i despondent because ho could not ob j tain employment. I Leaves Bible Society .9100,000. Louisville. Ky.?Miss Emma Ka cov the* loci" Qiirvivinrr riAmlwr nf n widely known Kentucky family. di?d here. She left an estate of $100,000 to the American Bible Society. Grandmother Four Times in One Pay. Boston. ? Mrs. Belle Durkee was made a grandmother four times in one day. Twins came to Mrs. Pearl Bonnette, of Waitefield. and a few hours later Mrs. John Hoffman and Mrs. Arthur Maxham, of Fayston, each gave birth to a healthy boy. Boy Devoured by Wolves. Canova, Sask.?A boy named Gog gle was torn to pieces and devoured j by wolves eighteen miles north of here. The wolves are very ravenous j and dangerous this year. j Boys Killed by Collapse of Church. Provincetown, Mass.?While men I and boys were getting wood from the I interior of the recently burned Cen I tenary Church part'of the framework collapsed, killing Joseph Oliver, aged fifteen, and Josenh Holmes, aged fourteen. Joseph Prada, a workman, was seriously injured. | I Election Beer Checks Are Bribes. Detroit.?The State Supreme Court j rendered a decision that giving of j beer checks in election time is brib | ery. j Snow in Red River Valley. _ i Crookston, Minn.?The entire Red j River Valley is in the grip of the j worst blizzard of the winter. A foot j of snow has fallen. j 2000 Men Out of Work. Chicago.?The Standard Steel Car ! Company at Hammond, Ind., closed, : throwing 2000 men out of work. I For National Forests. | Washington, D. C.?Senator Bran degee, from the Senate Committee on^ i Forest Reservations, made a favor-' able report on the bill authorizing the Government to acquire national ; forests in the White Mountains and i southern Appalachians. The bill j carries an appropriation of $5,000, ; ooo. Gold Key Awaits at Seattle. j Seattle, Wash.?When the battle ship fleet arrives in Seattle the neo ple will present the Admiral with a j key of Alaska gold to signify that the i door of the city is wide open to the | men o? the warships. IINE.WS iV GREAT FAMINE AFFECTS 50,000,0 Calcutta.?The Indian famin< tions that the world may be asked 1 are actually starving. Fifty mill are suffering from the failure of ci money loss from the crop failure Engages American Jockey. St. Petersburg.?M. Lazarcff, one i af the most prominent representatives of the Russian turf, has engaged Her ' man Radtke, the well known Amer ican jockey, to ride his horses in St. Petersburg. No April Diamonds. ! Amsterdam. Holland.?The dla : mond workers here by a vole of 5001 ! to 390 have decided to cease work for a month. Amnesty For French. Paris.?The Chamber of Deputies [ adopted the Amnesty bill by a vote of 497 to 5. This bill grants amnesty j to political offenders in 1907, in con nection with the wine growers' re I volt, except in cases of anti-patriotic, 1 anti-military activity or insubordina : tion. | Emperor Joseph Cautious. I Vienna.?As a measure of precau tion on account of ill healtn, Emperor i Francis Joseph will abstain from tak j ing part in the customary Holy Week I ceremonies, which include the wash i ing of the feet of tbe poor. I Pleet to Visit Melbourne. Melbourne.?Alfred Deakin, Prime ' Minister of Australia, has received a cable message announcing that the ! American battleship fleet will arrive j here September 1 and will stay for a period of ten days. The fleet will ar rive at Sydney September 1U. Delegates Go Uninstructed. San Juan, Porto Rico.?One hun i ired and nine out of the 110 delagat^s to the Republican Convention asssm j bled in the Convention Hall. Roberto j Todd and Francisco Quinones were j elected delegates to the National Con j vention. Tho delegates go uuiu i structed. Fallieres to Visit Czar in July. i Paris.?President Fallieres' visit. j to the Czar has practically been ar- I j ranged for the middle of Juiy. Later j I the President wil go to Stockholm, Christiania and Copenhagen. r?o Killed in Rome Riot. Rome, Italy.?A conflict oeciirrc.i in the streets between the military j and Anarchists at an anti-religious. funeral. The soldiers fired at a mob of several thousands. Two men were [ Killed and several others wounded. Japan Publishes IJig Figures of Dealings Willi the United States. Tokio, Japan.?The Official Gaz stte publishes figures showing that Japan's imports from the United States amounted to $105,S!)9,181? in 11)07. Those from China and Great Britain were next iu amount. .Japan's exports to America were $1)0,500,000. The Japanese point out the significance of these figures as au assurance oi peace. The report that a plot has been discovered in Korea against the life Prince Ito, who is about to return Seoul, is without foundation. n >1 WIM <EI> AT ELMDORF. :eriou8 origin destroyed forty at Elmdorf, James B. Haggin's ?f the animals were brood mares iggin farm produced a large ! out off the pool, but since no to his year C. H. Berryman, mana :he work of "night riders." The Winnipeg <o Own Railway. Winnipeg. Mar. ? Tt was lsarned Umt the Winnipeg ftlectric Railway Company i3 about to close negotia tions for the sale of its entire plant here to the city, including the street railway, electric light and power plant. $10,000 Reward For Dynamiters. Telluride. Col. ? Rewards offered for the capture of the person or per sons who dynamited General Bulke ley Wells, in an effort to kill him, ag gregate $10,00 0. General Wells ia suffering greatly from the shock to his nervous system. Alberta Gets Telephone Lines. Montreal.?W. H. Cushing, Minis ter of Public Works for the province of Alberta, comnleted arrangements with the Bell Telephone Comnanv. of Canada, for the purchase of the lines of that company. The price is $C75, 000. Law to End School Fraternities. Columbus, Ohio.?The Ohio House of Representatives passed a hill abolishing high school fraternities and societies. It provides a fine for school officials who permit them and suspension for pupils who are mem bers. Boy Dies of Baseball Blow. Boston.?While playing ball in a vacant lot in Roxbury Manuel Lefko witb, thirteen years old, was struck on the head witb a baseball and died late that night at the City Hospital. Frost Kills Early Fruit. St. Louis.?Killing frosts are re pqrted in the early fruit belts of ItJAcWJ. umauuuia, iuioouui * uxxv* neighboring States. To War on Two-Cent Rate. Chicago.?A combined attack on the two-cent passenger rate is prom ised by the railroads operating in Illi nois, Minnesota and Missouri. Against Negro Bishops. Washington, D. C.?The Baltimore Annual Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church, in convention here, voted down the suggestion of the General Conference that negro bish ops be appointed to preside over ne gro churches. Indiana Express Rates Cut. Indianapolis, Ind.?Ecpress rates in Indiana are reduced between ten and twelve per cent, in an opinion anH nrflop iacmpH hv tVlA Tndl&na Rail. road Commission. The new schedule is to be adopted by express companies within thirty days. To Stop False Bank Rumors. Washington, D. C.?The Dalzell bill making it a misdemeanor to cir culate false reports about the-condi tion of national banks will be report ed favorably by the House Committee on Banking and Currency. Y C.ABIE.' 00 IN INDIA. 3 has assumed such grave propor to contribute to save millions who ions of the inhabitants of India rops. It is estimated that the is $75,000,000. Lord Rosebery Succeeds Kelvin. London.?Lord Rosehery has been elected chancellor of Glasgow Univer sity to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Lord Kelvin, who was chan cellor since 1904. Honduras Joins Fraternity. Tegucigalpa, Honduras.?The Hon duras branch of the Central Ameri can Fraternity, provided by for the recent Peace Congress at Washington, has been organized. The fraternity is to promote peace and better under standing between the Central Amer ican republics. *!?? < 1.1 ' Paraguayan State Bank to Open. Asuncion, Paraguay.?In his mes sage to Congress on its reopening, the President states that the new State bank will be inaugurated on May 14. The financial situation is improving and the custom revenues show an in crease over last year. Xo Yellow Fever in Cuba. Havana.?In connection with tha establishment of a quarantine against Cuba by the United States, Major J. R. Kean, of the Medical Corps, hand ed iu twenty-six reports from army surgeons in different parts of the isl and, which stated that there was no yellow fever in their territory and no need of quarantine. Duma Asks More Pay. St. Petersburg.?Fifty members of the Russian Duma introduced a bill for the increase of thsir salaries by the extension through the recesses of their compensation of $5 a day. Duma Rejects Bill. St. Petersburg.?The Duma reject ed the bill for the prolongation oi the term fixed for the restitution of the Government's debt of $(>,000,000 due to the Zemscvos. Shot Cruel Stepmother and Himself. Havana.?Francisco Limonta, a fourteen-year-old boy, fatally shot his rinonfunomn nnrl tlion Si.VUUl'JLUCl CIL unaatunuuiw t.uvit shot himself. Before killing himself ? said his stepmother had been in lerably cruel to him. ...itlieship For Brazil. Xewcastle-on-Tyne.?There will be launched here in April the first of three battleships building for Brazil. She will cost about $'J,000,000 \vh<yi finished. Sea Sends Cuttyhunk $100,000 in Postage Stamps From Wreck. New Bedford. Mass ? Postage stamps valued at over $100,000, which were shipped by the American R.inlr \Tnte f!fimnnnv to the New foundiand Goverurueut, have been washed ashore on the Island of Cutty hunk from the Sylvia's wreck. The stamps came ashore iu a singlo box, which was cast aside by the male wreckers, but was quickly seized by the women. One woman is said to have posses sion of all the ave-cent stamps, val> 1 uwd at $80,000.