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r f "i i ??i IHIi 1'ASS!\G IK nil' KOUKSY. f A- ionc "A lli" -i'nMir. -Iiiil liv;v Lhe stream- sli?i. i cr*\ml, .fill i singing Sv.vcet snugs >. !:. v * I'lhrut .?n;l j u-C 1 Tlt<? hnght living i !:.*{ giw ? Mil* I (I .141 T V.-|U? I II US' . *? !5ut the races c>! shall l?? curstM V(*:i, ' lie hour u" d.1*! riu-'toti shall come To the.children of men in ili.it day When the forest. s'tall jiyss away. When the lou woodland voices are <iuui!>. Ami death's ds?v (station and dearth Shail he spread o'er the iace ot the earfh. j Avenging the deilit <?f :he wood. Hie turbulent s're.utis .shall mtlpottr Their vials of wrath, anil tin mure Nhall their ban!:.-: hoid bach tiie hi^h i!no;l | Which shall rush i'ei tlfj !iw'> , ai men; As swiftly reeling 1 |jt>' after fho flood shall hp dearth. And the rain no longer shall tall On the part-hint; fields. md :i pall, As of ashes, shall cover ?he earth, And dust-clouds shall darken th? si:y; And the deep n- iN?r v/ells shall be dry. j And the rivers sh.ill sink in the ground. And every man rover lus mout h I'Vom the th:ci:'Jintig dust, in llu' ' * drouth; ( Fierce famine shall come, and no sound Shall be borne on the desolate air ? Hut a murmur of <l<?.ith and despair ?Alexander R!nr Thaw, in tin* v.eiil-;:y I "BREFFLE" SPOTTY 0 $ Q h > C9 0 ( J The Price of His Removal ?| ? is Too Great to Bear. ?| * h Victoria, radian' and decorated j with huge new tissue paper ' hair j ribbons," met her father at the ele- ! vated station with a hug that threat-, ened to strangle him "Well, but. you are a beauty." said he, admiringly. ! don t think many! fathers have such stylish little daugh- j 4.*T! "Ye?, and i'tu good, loo," said Vic- : toria, seriously. "I only whispered ! y a few times in school to-day and then j Miss Lucy didu')" see me. [ got | praised for my alco, too. Miss Lucy J said she never heard such awful alto ia her whole life except mine, and I had two notes right." She looked ) up, waiting for approval. "So, of course, you're happy,' said [ her father. ' But, papa." Victoria went on, j "that dreffle little bulldog that Billy got from Mrs White hasn't been j doing a thing. Why, he is the worst j little dog you over saw! He et every ' bit of the sausage that uncle sent us j and he wasn't full theu. After that j he et mamma's book that she left on i tae sora a miuute ana sne doesn't know which girl the man married. She was so mad that she hit Spotty with her slipper, but he didn't care? he .iust went and et the slipper. It was all over the parlor floor and Mrs. Brown came in and mapima thought she would just drop because Mrs. Brown is so pertikler and always says things about the way people's houses ain't clean. She looked up to 3ee what effect her revelations were having on her father. His look of exaggerated lior-1 ror satisfied her. "And maybe Jack isn't mad at him. too!" said Victoria. 'Ho sat on Jack's best shirt that he was going to wear to a party to-njght. and there j wasn't any other one clean. Pulled j it off the chair when Jack put it there a minute and sac on it. Jack said things and chased him under 1 the bed and tried to get him out with 1 the umbrella and bust?burst. [ mean ' ?his suspenders; but Spotty didu't ! care. He hopped over the umbrella as cunning as anything. He thought Jack was playing with him If Jack wasn't so big 1 think he would have ' cried." Her father's inclination to laugh was nipped in the bud by the next : revelation. ' And. papa, you kaow those lovely cigars you hid so the boys wouldn't get them? Well. Spotty got them.'' Her father looked astonished, j "H<iw could he gefthem from hehind ; ' <*ii iuc LuiugH ua lae cioset noor ' J , he asked. ' Some one must hive taken them out " "No, papa, he got them out wirh his uose and walked all over them '1 and shook th??m up till he swallowed j' a piece and then he raa away and hid I I guess he was kind of sick, but Billy j wouldn't let mamma set him to whip ( him?said he would take the lick-1 ing." . . "Billy has got to keep Ibat pv.p tied up until he teaches him to be-] 'have," said Victoria's father. ' I ' think the best thing would be to take . him back to Mrs White If Billy J can't take the proper care of him ha j deserves to lose him " "1 thought you'd think that," said j Victoria, her face oue gleam of light. | "so I gave him 1o Gladys. I put him in a basket and took him over " "But what did Billy say to rhar} [ nign-nanded proceeding""' asked her ; father. "He didn't say anything; lie doesn't! know it. Mamma says she thinks ho I will go and get Spotty back " "What did yon give the pup to Gladys for9" "Gladys gave Moily her best blue pencil with the poiut sharpened be- j cause Molly was going to hit me I when 'Lizabeth (old her [ said some- 1 thing 1 never said " "Haven't I told you to keep away ! from that Elizabeth?" demanded Vic-1 toria's father "Hasn't she got you i into enough trouble .'" "Yes, papa, I truly try to keep ; ! i nr V " i?Am It a** 1 .1UUJ 11^1 . ryui 1JU WU U.l ' au. She's always there wherever you ar* ' And. papa, you won't let Billy take i <he cleg back, will you? Glady.s ; won't say I was an Indian giver 'Give a thing. tak?- a rhing, never gu to heaven, then," ' quoted Victoria ir. shocked tones. "No," said her father. ' [ think , Gladys may have the dog. I'll take! Billy out to Fox Lake with me next j week and that will comfort him. f , was going to lake you. Vicky, hut j poor Billy will feel so bad about that! little pup that he deserves a special j treat." Two big tears splashed down Vic- ; toria's cheek. "I think, papa, I'll go j over ami tell Gladys' m:\nuua what a bad little dog Spotty is, and tbeu. ma"be will make Gladys give j him hack." I ' \o. no. daughter. we won't do [ fhal; think how terrible i< would 1)? j to l)i? in Indian giver!'' J | Bir. liana, it' *he gave him back ' hi?rse!f'?" 1 Her :so!? was strangled by the sight I of Bill"-' -.owing down *:he street, hoidma a.s tishc as possible Sporty,, while that treasured beast alternate- | lv licked Billy's t'ac? autl struggled to get down. Do you kaow what that kid did, pa*" Billy's voice was shrill with indignation. "Wen; ami save my dog away 'tliout asking anybody. But I wenr and got him. I bet she'd . give hint ro the clog ketcher: that kid has mote nerve!" ^ "Oh. Billy. I wouldn't; I'm so glad * you got him back* [ was going to y ask Gladys to giv? him back, wasn't x I. papa? I think lie's the dearest, t cutest, cunningest little lovey iu the ? world." ! 1 She hugged boy and dog until j ^ Billy, looking very suspicious, com- i manded her to quit. J "What, day are we soiug to Fox j ( i ilStifU vitiuna, an.i|>{/iu& ij j j her father's si'le ?Chicago News. t c TRICKS OF ARMORY RUNXKRS. 1 A Little Dt'vjccs ?f I5o;?rd Floor Athletes to Run With Spikes- 1 "[n 'he armories around ilie city," , said 'he athlete. "'before fhe Governor ^ shut down on the continuous use of g them for athletic games, the runners c used to compete a great deal. After a while many Colonels issued orders ^ forbidding spiked shoes. ' Now. some of the tracks oil the j board floors were very small, and in the sprint races those who didn't wear j. the short indoor spikes were very J ( much at a disadvantage. They used r to try all sorts of devices. | a "One-favorite trick was to put a spiked shoe on cne ngac ioo.\ j.aai, being on the outside away from the pole, gave something to brace against * in scrambling around the turns. _ "The clerk of the course was sup- ^ posed to make an examination of the l d sho?3 of each runner as he stood ou [ d his mark before the race was run. In 1 r most cases he went to the runner and 1 said. Let's see your shoes.' iy "The man put up his left foot, showing a plain, rubber soled shoe. . Then the clerk said. All right,' never ( j thinking to look at the other shoe, E and the man got away with it in that j c mauner. However, the clerks found j r out about it after a while, and then j c started to look ai both feet. ' Some men beat that by answering ! j co their names when they were called ^ for the heats and then stepping off the track for a moment as if to talk 1 to friends watching the races. When the .starter said. "Take your marks.' J they hopped back and ran iu the race t - .... T all right with their spiked snoes. "Then after they won the heat or 0 the race they ran right oa to the -y dressiug rooms and changed their shoes, reporting to the judges at the t finish later, still out of breath, in e regulation shoes, but willing to take S the calldowu-they got for not report- C iug to be checked off in time. Finally ' inspectors on the turns who got so j that they couid tell the sound of the spikes queered that game, and eventually before the many sets of games S were cut off the runners almost universally obeyed the rules."?New n York Sun. t 4 S c Burnt Sugar an Antiseptic. The custom ot' burning sugar in a tf sickroom is very current among all classes in France, but up to the present has been regarded by scientists as one of those harmless and useless practices which are rather tolerated than iusisted upou by the medical profession. But M. Trillat of the Pasteur In- j sticute. now assures us that formic I aldehyde is giveu off by burning j sugar and is one of the most, antiseptic gases known. Five grams of sugar having beeu burned under a ten-liter bell glass, the vapor was allowed to cool. Vials containing the bacilli of typhoid, tuberculosis, carbon, ere., werf then introduced. C Within half an hour every microbe had succumbed. f Agaiu. if sugar be burned iu a C closed vessel containing rotten eggs 11 ar putrid meat the disagreeable smell disappears. M. Trillat affirms rhat j the formic aldeiyde combines with the gases given off by the putrid aui- ^ n:al matter and renders ttiem iuodor- 8 ous.? Practical Druggist. C r The Boll-Weevil. J" Dr. L. O. Howard says that the ^ Mexican boll-weevil, witich causes the !osi of millions of dollars m cotton i every yt*cU . aim wuiuu in uiuascu the Rio Grande abou' 1S94, is still / advancing, having now reached Ar- i l:ansas aud Oklahoma on the north f aud the Mississippi Valley ou tho ? east. It has shown itself *xtraoi- ? dinarily adaptable to change? of soil,, temperature and moisture. At pres- . ect. Di Howard says, it seems that the further spread of the i^ect can- u not be .'stopped, but as soon as the H conservative methods of the cotton a growers snail be chauged. and the o advice which entomological experts 1J have been iiviag for years past fol- I1 lowed out in practice, "the boll-weevil i will cease to be a pest of the tirst rank, and rhe cultivation of cotton t can be carried on almost as success- i fully in its presence as it was in its 1 ilicnnnn " ("'mil ri'i n !nn t I fl Onii.5 ;S5,fH>0 Sheep Dogs. ' J You caitc ot J. Pierpont: Morgan's j coilies.' sj;d a Russian, " what. do you think of i man who owns U5.000 j v sheep do^s"" j r Itapo^ibl?'' I no. Ch'i tr.an I r?f?r to is r Gustav Jovauoviich. rhe Russian " mutrou kian iovauovitch's sh.Hip vhiton rhy Siberian plains for liuu dreds ot square miles. Tli^y number L750.0U0. And :J5.')<)') dons look :\t- li ter tiicfn You talk of your inaui- f; f inocit American uusiaess enterpriser.,. ,j but have you anything ro <:oni|?:u*e , with one eiupioviug JO.000 .logs""? c Glasgow Herald. t. C There were :>0(5 national imiics fin*- i failed in the United Stafas between *= January 1. 1S4*J, and fanuury :;i? } 1 OA ii nf rvhifh spv?ntv-tiv < itl in ihe Uauils of I S I i I XI \TF WQ D 1M ^ vv ^ U ?OSRl) AS A MAN FOR A YFAR. Chicago?Miss Mary Phelan. worked for a year as a clerk in a t sation by announcing her identity, cording to Harry F. Michael, owne been fruitless. Miss Phelan, who : the name of Jess Fay. She adopt? cause she could thus command be! sual success of salesmanship," said services. Although she had a high od her secret." She revealed it. fii she had "kept company" and then Tanked For Murder in Norfolk. Norfolk. Va.?Leo C. Thurman, V?f iVest Point. Ky.. was hanged here for he murder on February 1, 1906, of Walter P. Dolsen, of Michigan, his oommate, whose body he placed in a ,runk and then fled, being captured iighteen months later at. Vancouver, 3. C. Ichwah on Strel Prices. New York City.?Chas. M. Schwab, resident of the Bethlehem Steel Company, said that he believed the iresent price of steel would be mainained for an indefinite time. He de:lared that all important interests in he steel industry were united in faror of maintaining- prices, and that here was no indication of weakening. to Prison For Going Unclothed. Fort William. Ont.?Nineteen Dou[liobors?nine women and ten men? vere sentenced to six months in prion for parading the streets un:lothed. ["o Stop Betting at Bcnnings. Washington, D. C.?A sub-commitee of the Senate Committee on the district of Columbia made a favorable report on the House bill to proilbit betting at the Bennings race rack Chairman Carter, of the comnittee, will report the bill to the Senit?. Shx:t Young Widow to Office. Montgomery. Mo.?In spite of the act that women are not legal voters n Missouri, Mrs. Gertrude Barney; a roung widow, was elected to the office ?f collector here. All the other canlidates on the temperance ticket were lefeated. It is claimed that she canlot hold the office under the statutes n this State. lore Interest in Flying. Washington, D. C.?That interest n aeronautics is becoming universal s shown by the large increase in the lumber of applications for patents revived at the Patent Office. In the >ast year there has been an Increase f 100 per cent, in the number of apil^cations. including many from foriign countries. The problem has enisted the efforts of the foremost inentors of the country. Irmy Officer Commits Snicide. San Francisco.?Lieutenant David Lindsay, U. S. A., connected with he Signal Corps and until a few veeks ago stationed at Benicia, blew iut his brains at the Presidio. Vomen Elected to Office in Texas. Dallas. Texas.?In the city elecions held in Texas three women were sleeted to important offices. Miss lallie Wood was elected Assessor and Collector of Taxes tor Palestine and i itrs. E. P. Turner and Mrs. P. P. ?ucker were elected as two of the I even members of the Dallas Board ' if Education lunday Actors Free. Kansas City, Mo.?The 2000 or aore actors indicted in this city in he la?t six months,, for playing on luuday catfnot be 'convicted on acount of lack of evidence. NE-WS fV jOTTERV TICKETS IN" COTTON BAX. Hougkong.?The Hongkong Cha culars to the Chambers of Commer p.rpool, Shanghai, Tientsin and else action be taken against the propos ners' Association to insert lottery t :in inducement to buyers, thus aid ment of the Indian trade. Britis competition, but protest, against th irade. The Japanese scheme, the calculated to appeal to the gambli appeal to the British Government. I >ffer London $500,000,000. London.?It is announced that the irst day's applications for the City /Ouncil's three and one-half per cent, oan of $13,750,000 issued .it par mounted to $500,000,000. * - o a- a. rk..x* u-iu.si-.s io r ()>;lib I'ut i. St Petersburg.?After a dispute in he Duma. Count Vladimir A. Bobrinky, president or the Constitutional Conservative party and Marshal of Mobility, challenged Professor. Paul I Miiukoff. leader of the> Constituional Democrats, to a duel. Milulcoff leclined to accept the challenge. 'our Years For Miss Robinson, London.?Miss Mary Robinson, an American girl, one of the witnesses n the Druce case, was sentenced to our years in prison for perjury. She onfessed that her testimony that T. 5. Druce told her in 1871 tbat he was he Duke of Portland was false. / :(>(> Executions For Robbery. Kwei,lin, Sputh China.?Armed ronery .is still rife in this district depite the efforts of the authorities to uppress it Over 400 executions of >ffftnders for this crime have takeu ilace in this district alone during the ast twelve months )rop in Shipbuilding. London.?Lloyd's Register reports hat.the shipping under construction n the United Kingdom amounts lo 59.000 tons less than in the previous welve months. This is the biggest lecrease since 1884. tvj/iHK imuaiiuuij rtongkoug.?The Chinese money hangers of Hongkong are supportrig the boycott against the Japanese, vhich has come into existence as a esult of the Tatsu Maru incident. ?y refusing to accept Japanese bauklotes even at a discount. le.vican Outlaws Hold Up Soletfad, Texas, a::d Loot Stores. HLladgo, Texas.?The first outireak of brigandage in several years ?n the iower Rio Graude is reported rom Soledad. a town situated on the \jxas side some distance above here. V. band of eight Mexican outlaws -'?"' 'I >;??r .jt.h murlc a raid on i i/anru tuc ? i vgi r?u<a he town They sacked the store of 'alo (Jarcia. getting away with $2000 n mouey and a large amount of ;oods. The robbery was committed u open daylight The people of the own wer* held off at the point of [HQS yw ' ~ WIRE. I MBBHnMBHPKaaMrTHBnBHMDHMHV who. disguised as a young man laberdaahery store, caused a senThen she disappeared and, ac>r of the store, search for her has is twenty-ona years old, went by sd her disguise, she explained, better wages. "She made an unu[ Mr. Michael, "and we valued her i pitched voice we never suspect st to a young woman with whom told her employer. Martial Law in Pensacola. Pensacola, Fla.?Pensacola is under martial law. Strike breakers were brought here by the street car company, whose employes went on strike some time ago. The attempt to run cars caused a series of riots, in which twelve persons were hurt. Then, it was decided to call out the militia. Harvard to Have Business School. Cambridge, Mass. ? A graduate school of business administration, in connection with Harvard University, is to.be established, and will be ready for opening at the beginning of the next college year. Annapolis Graduation June 5. Washington, D. C.?June G has been fl*ed as graduation day for the midshipmen at the Naval Academy. Hoggsette Printer For Philippines. Washington, D. C.?Jas. A. Hoggsette has been selected to succeed John S. Leech as Public Printer of the Philippine Islands. He Is a native of Nebraska and thirty-two years old. Exempts Union and Grange. Washington, D. C.?A bill to exempt labor unions and granges from the operation of the Sherman antitrust law, as interpreted recently by the United states Supreme Court in the Connecticut hatters''case, was introduced in the House by Mr. Wilson, the labor representative from Penn sylvania. . Proposes a Department of Labor. Washington, D. C.?A department of labor, with representation in the President's Cabinet, is provided for in a bill introduced by Mr. Sulzer, of New York. Mills to Close For Two Months. Charlotte, N. C. ? The Executive Committee of the North Carolina Cotton Manufacturers' Association adopted a formal recommendation that all mills in the association shut down at once for two months. . Share of Street Railway Earnings. Chicago.?A checkfor*$863,349.75, representing the city's share of the earnings of the Chicago Railways Company, was handed to Mayor Busse by John M. Roach, general manager of the company. The total value of the plant was fixed at $32,589,047.02. To Deport Fifty Anarchists. Washington, D. C. ? The list of alien anarchists in New York City who may be deported under the im migration mwo ua? uun 5i?nu ^ fifty. Want Exposition Site Hold. Norfolk, Va.?Holders of the first mortgage bonds of the, Jamestown Exposition Company have petitioned the United States Court for the sale of the exposition site so that their bonds and interest may be paid. Town Has 230 Typhoid Cases. Boston.?An epidemic of typhoid fey^r, whlfch' began in Jamaica Blain about ten ddys ago, hfcs spread so rapidly that there are'230 cases. f C^ABLL ES. mber of Commerce has sent circe at London, Manchester, Livwhere suggesting that diplomatic ial of the Japanese Cotton Spin;ickets in bales of cotton yarn as ling the Japanese to the detri n ha milliner f r\ faro fail* Ill JUI 111 O Chk O IT Iliiug) l/V lis artificial means of stimulating iy argua, is questionable and is ing instincts of the Chinese. They :o protect British trade. Says Venezuela is "Brigand." . ..London.?The Daily Graphic, in an edltorial~describing Venezuela as a "brigand republic, outside the pale of civilization," demands that the Government recall the British Minister at Caracas and resort to reprisals. i Legation Made an Embassy. St. Petersburg.?Emperor Nicholas approved the bill raising the Russian Legation at Tokio to an Embassy. The appointment of H. MalevskyMalavitch as the first Ambassador to Japan Is regarded as certain. NVw British Consul-General. f..?nrlnn ?Th<* I-tnn Reginald Walsh has been gazetted British ConsulGeneral at New York. Made Chancellor of Cambridge. Cambridge.?John William Strutt, Lord Rayleigh, was elected Lord Chancellor of Cambridge University in .succession to the late Duke of Devonshire. Incendiarism at Pekin. Pekin.?Incendiarism here has caused the throne to order an investigation It is estimated that property to the value of 5,000,000 taels has been burned iu the last three weeks. Ten Killed by Coal Gas. Dctlll, uilgjauu. ICU 111*not O iUOV their lives in the Norton Hill Colliery iu Somersetshire, as a result of an explosion of coal gas The first rescue parties to go down were overcome l?y the fume3 in the mines and were saved uuly with the greatest difficulty. Only 24,000 Germans Emigrated. Berlin.?Th'; emigration from Germany via Hamburg for the quarter ending Marr.h I! I was 24,000, as against 10.''?,F-!i0 for the corresponding term of last year. < uurt Holds That Alcohol May Be Used in Proprietary Articles. Atlanta, Ua.?In a decision based on the Stale prohibition law, it is held that keeping liquor for use in a proprietary article is uot in violation of the law. The court holds that the sale of soft drinks which, although containing alcohol, will not, if drunk to excess, produce intoxication, is not a violation of the statute, nor is it a violation to sell medicinal, toilet or culinary preparations which are not manufactured for use as an intoxicating beverage, although it can !.>. ? nhovu that they contain alcohol. FLEET SIFEJUMK PW Hysteria of Welcome as Ships Arrive at San Diego, Cal. I ' War T)o;s Stenni in, -Rlaliins Groa.esi Marine Picture Ever Seen on Pacific Coast. ' Can Diego, Cal.?Gleaming white under a high sun the sixteen battleships oE the Atlantic fleet, after the moat remarkable cruise in naval hisI lory, steamed slowly into a home port a tew minutes after 1 o'clock p. m. and cast anchor off Coronado Beach. Flying the flag of Admiral Thomas the Connecticut led the long line of vessels and as the guns of Port Rose" erana boomed out a welcome the fleet separated into divisions of four, each squadron anchoring together with its flagship nearest shore. The beach was lined with a ^blid mass of people gathered from all parts of the State j ind the blue harbor was dotted with ' ??? ? >ioonrQtorf loiinpVion A hoarse ircnzy of cheering that tried to emulate the roar that echoed out of the white puffs of smoke from the guns : of the fighting ships shook the excited assemblage. After the grand receptions at Rio and Callao it remained for an American city to surpass both in warmth of greeting, and in return the Californians viewed the greatest marine spectacle ever seen on the Western coast. To the fleet it was a honie-coming. rt was getting back to God's country. To California it was an opportunity. This opportunity was many sided. One of the sides related to patriotism, the cprdiality .of welcome bordering i on a condition of frenzy. This city of 35,000 inhabitants, | augmented probably by 20,000 visitj ors, has gradually been going jnad I for a month." It reached a stage of | hysteria as soon as the long pennant of blended outputs from many smoke stacks showed thatthe fleet was really ! approaching. When the fleet actually j did arrive the people looked at it in a i 3ort of awe and stupefaction. Yet it would be hard to deserve I which was the more inspiring specta| cle, the sixteen great ships coming into the bay in perfect alignment like | well trained soldiers or the great i crowd that lined the shores watching I them. In the first was epic poetry; I in the other lyrics, pastorals and sonI nets. It was a matter for individual choice. One hour after the battleships had come to-rest San Diego'a ' reception committee, the official hosts of the town, boarded the flagship* Connecticut and extended the greeting and welcome of a people bubbling over with hospitality. A little while later Governor Gillette, still pale and weak from recent illness, boarded the Connecticut and spoke to Rear-Admiral j Thomas and the other Rear-Admirala j and commanding officers the welcome | of the State of California. That forI mality over, the people of San Diego j threw wide their arms and asked the : men of the fleet to come within the i gates of the city, make themselves at i home and help themselves to anything they saw in sight California's welcome was uttered : by Governor Gillette in words which j portrayed the Pacific as the inevitable | theatre of the greatest naval war in ! history and which formed an em phatic indorsement of President i Roosevelt's plea to Congress for more j battleships. The splendid condition of the ships ; was manifested in every way. Out; wardly they wore t}ie same white and T buff units of a powerful' aggregation : of fighting force that sailed from | Hampton Roads, with the President showing the way on the Mayflower, j Internally the ships were in better condition than when they started, engines working with the smooth J thrust and throw of perfect bearings and careful handling? and boilers pro! ducing steam with less consumption i of coal because of the increased | efficiency in the firing rooms. The ; wash of the waves along the water { line displayed from two to three feet ; of red armor belts, and showed comI paratively little sea growth, despite j the long stay in temperate and tropj ical waters. A feature of the arrival of the fleet j was the trip of a boat carrying 33,000 ; oranges, which were given to the men j on the battleships by the San Diego i people. The tars greeted the boat j with loud cheers, and the oranges ;'\<rtth"" eager mouths, Another -boat, filled with pretty girlfi, carried loads j of flowers fo the bluejackets, and j there were more loud cheers. The beauty of the day's spectacle j when tile ships were brought to ani chor were rivalled at night, when for i three hours every vessel was outlined j in fire. Thousands of incandescent I nuios were strung aiong aecKiiues, up masts, far out on the signal yardarms, up and down the huge funnels and down to the water's edge at stem and stern. The name of each vessel was spelled in letters six feet high j across its forward bridge. During half an hour of the period of illurain* ation a searchlight display added to the effect. On shore scoi-es of red signal fires were maintained throughout the evening as a welcome. At night Admirals Thomas, Sperry and Emery and the commanding officers and members of the variou3 stairs were entertained at an eiaoorate dinner at the Hotel Del Coronado. The absence of Rear-Admiral Evans, who is ill at Paso Robles, is deeply regretted on all sides. Admiral Thomas, at the dinner, referred to the subject with much feeling. On the day after arrival about 4500 bluejackets paraded and there was a presentation of a sword for HOLDS 9-HOUR LAW INVALID. Court Decides For Wisconsin in S?i? Against St. Paul Road. Milwaukee, Wis. ? The Federal nine-hour law, governing the length of time railway telegraphers maywork, ia declared to be unconstitulinnal liv .ludere Warren D. Tarrant, in a decision, and the State eigiithour law is declared valid. The roads undoubtedly will oonlinue to operate under the Federal law. until .such tiuie as some high ; oiii( passes upon it, at least. The Labor World. A new union of teamsters bas been formed in l'all Itiver, Mass. A lockout, in the building industry in Paris put 5 0,000 men oat of employment. Preliminary steps have been taker, toward the formation of a new union ! in St. Paul, Miin., to be made up oi Lilt? uinameuiiii i?iiu uwji'i aiiu[; i. u.i workers. The recently organized Master Bar- j hers' Association, at Sail Francisco, fai., has promised to finance fiie Bar- 1 Oers" Union in its efforts to put all , shops in a sanitary condition. Admiral Evw.s. and a casket and koy to represent the freedom of the city | to all, besides medals for ihe AdI mirala. Admiral Thomas made no leas than three speeches: of acceptance. / PRESIDENT WANTS BATTLESHIPS Sends Message Advocating Four Tnj ' stead of Two. Washington, D. C.?Declaring that, he is actuated by the spirit of George I Washington and quoting in his de1 fense a message of the first President, President Roosevelt sent a message to Congress advocating an appropriation for four first-class battleships, instead of the two fighting craft recommended by the House Naval Com mittee. In this message the President points out that, while the additional ships are primarily for the purpose of promoting international peace, they are made accessary by the failure of the powers to agree to any treaties curtailing the 3ize of navie3 or the size of individual ships. The President's message reached the House in the midst of the discussion of the Naval Appropriation bill. Representative Hobson finished his ononnVi fnr fruir hatHoqhins a.nri had | JLVt fcVUi VM?w.vww.rM| ? , _ been loudly applauded. INSTRUCTED FOR HUGHES. Republican Convention Meets in New York -City?First Colored Delegate. New York City.?The Republican State convention, which assembled in Carnegie Hall, elected the following delegates at large and their alternate? to the national convention, which ie to meet in Chicago on June 191 Delegates at Large?Stewart "L. Woodford, of New York City; Seth Low, of New York City; Frederick R. Hazard, of Onondaga County; Edward H. Butler, of Erie County. Alternates at Large?John Raines, of Ontario County; Thomas P. Peters, of Kings County; Norman J. Gould, of Senaca County; Charle3 W. Anderson, of Erie County. Mr. Anderson is President Roosevelt's colored internal revenue collector for the Third District. He is the first colored man in the history of the Republican .party of the State to be elected,an alternate at large to a national convention. There has never been a coiored delegate at i mi? n orwl Ittl go. iueac UCLC5ai.cn ? laigg HUM their alternates were . "directed" by the convention i;o use all honorable means to bring about Governor Charles E. Hughes' nomination for President. EX-CONVICT BOY KILLS MOTHER. . j Just Released and Brooding Over Fancied Wrongs Takes Awful Revenge. Brooklyn, N. Y.?In revenge for fancied wrongs, Bernard Carlin shot and killed his mother. Mrs. Susan Carlin, in her home, at No. 587 Quincy street, a few hours after he had been released from the Napanoch Reformatory, in Ulster County. As he was trying to escape he was' caught by George Tonyes, a moving van man, and turned over to the police. In design and execution it was one of the most atrocious crimes in many years in Kings County. Carlin admitted that he had planned the murder while he was in prison, and his only regret was that he had not been aKIa li?n Ki?AfhAi* f r* Irill him UUIC UUU UIO KfL UtUV.1 bV ? ?> ...? too. He blamed his mother for having had him committed to the institution, although the records show that he was found guilty in 1906 of stealing a horse and wagon in the Wallabout Market. NEAR $100,000,000 FOR ARMY. Largest Appropriation Ever Made Except When at War. Washington, D. C.?The largest army appropriation bill ever passed in time of peace went through the Senate after less than an hour and threequarters devoted to its consideration. It carries 598,820,409, or $20,000,-J 000 more than last year's bill. As passed by the House it was $84,207,560. The Senate added $14,612,843. l lie war uvyai uau aoacu $103,216,000. The bill of last year appropriated but $76,000,000. The increased pay for officers and men will cost, according to estimates, j $7,000,000. Senator Haie who usually opposes any tendency toward militarism, fojnd no fault at all. An aggregate of $1,146,414 Is api propriated for the defense of the Hawaiian and Philippine islands. DEMOCRATS NAME GRAF. , t I Despite Kfs Declination, Delaware Convention Instructs For Him, | Dover, Del.?Despite the written declaration of Judge George Gray that he could not under any circum- ' stances consent to have the delegates instructed for him, the Delaware Democratic State Convention officially ; placed 1iis name before the Democracy ; of the country for that party's nom- ' ination for President of the United 3tates. I There was no voico raised against the resolution to instruct the delega- j tion of six to "support, advocate and vote" for Judge Gray's nomination. The platform adopted declares for unfaltering devotion to State rights criticises the National Administration and declares for ^ revision cf Ihe tariff. . Duluth Banker a Suicide. Despondent over business troubles, Charles F. Leland. formerly president of the Commercial Bank, shot and killed himself at his home in Duluth, Minn. The failure of the Commercial Bank, which followed the embezzle- | inent of $80,000 of tt^e bank's funds by the teller, had weighed heavily upon him RUSSIA FORTIFYING FRONTIER, Placing Mountain Artillery in Passes on Turkish Border. Tiflis. Transcaucasia. ? Fifty-six j heavy guns have passed through here | for the Russian fortress at Kass, on ! th? Turkish frontier. They were sent I immediately after officers of that gar- < I rison reported to St. Petersburg that. ; j the raosr, important mountain passes i are unfortified, mountain artillery is { Jacking, and if the Turk? attack that ! oection no adequate defense could be offered. 1 NICARAGUA'S REIGN OF TERROR. ' Wholesale Executions Take Place as I i ICesuJt of Politics. | Kingston, Jamaica.?Central Amer- ' i i.-au mail reports received her*; say | iliac wnoiesaie executions have taken ; place in Nicaragua, as tne resuir. or. I political iroubles. Between seventy i and eighty persons are reported to I have be^u shot by order of President I | Zelaya for political reasons, it is ali?ged. While the (Jovernmeut officials ! -.ay that rhe Republic is quiet, great j ^i rnt ;s reported m certain d;s- j i ciicta i,; .Nicaragua. i W-Mm '-J' ..Mm j "GOD ULESS YOU, DEAR." ! In all the varied realm of thought, j Expressed in language sweet and clear, ; No whispered word to me has brought i A warmer glow of love and cheer ! Thau thuj: "God bless you, dear!" '< 1 1 * ' X"W i '"(Tod bless you. dear!" God who upholds j The universe by word of power, I Whose spirit, all our lives enfolds, l Whose mercy rules each passing hour? . | . "God bless you, dear! " f ; '"God bless you, dear!" There's not a trac4 , ' j Of any good beneath the skies Outside f.h<? bond* of that embrace .(j. Whatever ,{je its present guise: ' I God bless you, dear!" ' ""'God bless you, dear!" , And does He paus* \ j To note each child upon his way? ; Mv heart makes answer: "Yes, because He loves us both;" and so I pray, "God bless you. dear! " ?Christian Herald. - )A Sound Doctrine. We must take heed to our doctrine * respecting the atonement and priest- * ly office ot our Lord and Saviour, i Jesus Christ. We must boldly maini lain that the death of our Lord upon i the cross was no common death, it ( ' " was not the death of one who only 1 i died lfke Cranmer, Ridley and LfttK ; mer, as a martyr. It was not tire | death of one who died only to give u* , a mighty example of self-sacrifice and self-denial. The death of Christ was an offering up unto God of Chrjst'a own body and blood to make satisfaction for man's sin and transgression. I Tt was a sacrifice and propitiation; r 1 sacrifice typified in every offering'of the Mosaic law, a sacrifice of the mightiest Influence upon all mankind. Without the shedding of that blood (here could not be?there never waa to be?any remission <*f e?nFurthermore, we must boldly m&in! tain that this crucified' Saviour ever j Hitteth at the right hand of God. ^o make intercession for all that come ; to God by Him; that He there repre; sents and pleads for them that put ! their trust in Him, and that He has deputed His office of priest and medi| ator to no man or set of men on the i face of the earth. We need none be- -gj sides. Last, but not least, we must boldly, maintain that peace with God, once obtained by faith in Christ, is to be kept up, not by mere outward ceremonial acts of worship?not by receiving the sacraments of the Lord's / ' f; Supper every day, but by the daily habit of looking to the Lord Jesus Christ by faith?eating by faith His body, and drinking by faith His blood; that eating and drinking of which our Lord says he who eats and drinks shall find His 'body meat indeed, and His blood drink indeed." Holy John Owen declared, long ago, that if there was any one point more than another that Satan wished' to overthrow it was the priestly office of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ. Satan knew well, he said, that it was the "principal foundation of* faith I and consolation of the church. ' - ; I Right views upon that office are of I essential importance in the present day, if men would not fall into error. V . 2 ?Bishop J. C. Rule. D. D. ? y-m The Fruit of One Sin. The Rev. G. A. J. Ross lays stress upon the power which a- simple sin possesses to make other sins easier,^ and relates the story of a ghastly tragedy in which, through a single transgression, the fatal result was: The little child?dead; the young j mother?dead; her fiance?dead; her ! betrayer?dead; his aged mother? dead; his godless father?worse than , . dead. J It' all this (he asks) be but a.frag! ment of ttfe life history of a single I sin, as we purbiindly see it, what. i must the ghastly history of all Sin be ? , j to God as He stands over agaiont this world * * * which He made free i that He might have the response at free wills to His ministering love?" ; And ye; men say there i3 no need of an atonement!?London Christian. ' Godlike Giving. God "so loved" tnat he gave. | That is the expression as it is the test , > of love Giving?not receiving, not' withholding, not condemning. We . , - * sinners can receive and withhold and; condemn; can we love? That is to be Godlike. "God is love, and whosoever loveth is born of God and know! eth God." God loved, and just because He loved He gave. Cau wo measure that love? Only by His gift. Can we measure that gift? Only by His love. Both are measureless. ? **T A rrf Ck JNUrmWBliiau nutvwn, The Best Preparation. . ? There is nothing, aside from Christian training, thai: prepares a woman , for "a life of usefulness equal to a thorough knowledge of domestic affairs. A girl may never be required to cook or use her knowledge, but how much better to hi prepared for any emergency that may arise, and not be dependent oh others. Happy is the household which has as its head one who understands dcmescfc . i-cience ??? . , 'r| High Realities. r?Q aaai-rh nfter truth is the most necessary of ail means to the ends of life It Ls hard to conceive of one at. having realiy lived m this world who has -not possessed himself of its .**?' high realities. This is what the Scriptures say to us in ceaseless iteration, and this is what meu say to us who }> have auyihirig to aay which w? cartto hftir.?Rev. W. J. Tucker. '.. ' 't- / SearcIiiiiiC Would you judge of the lawtuiaess nr nnlawfiiluess of pleasure, of the innocence or malignity of actious? Trikj. this rule: Whatever weakens your reason, impair* the tendernesn of your conscience, Obscure* your sn-ue of G-ii. or takes off the relUh of spiritna! things?i:i short, what( ver increase.* t he strength and authority ot your body over your rnin.1, I but ( hum is sin to you, however inuof-iit it oiay Lie ;u itself.?Suaaun* Wesiey. ff? >Vsls ? Junk S?hop. Eleven icnit'e blades, six screws, five nails and a varied assortment of other iunk have been remived from the body of Henry Harrison, at Seattle, Wash., who went to a physician several days ago and complained of ,iains in his feidas. He said h* had suspicions he might t'9 a victim of ippendicitia. He is x vaudeville perform er. Cioveritmesst Kuys Handkerchiefs. Washington, D. C . authorities are negotiating tor GO.O'JO silk handkerchiefs for the uso of the navy. 1