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f(. GONGO ALLAH, THE GIFT OF GOD ? ' hi ri By W. H. ADAMS. w V.VSSS wis v. vviv.1. . fa The old man told rae the story as . lie and I sat by the edge ot' lise water, tt watching the sun sink on the hot ai prairte. id **? ** tt E was traveling in command of a uj small body of mounted infantry tt across the plains of Northern Nigeria, h; from Lokoja to Lake Chad. m The country was scorched and fo black. The gra.is between the withered trees was ?'; y as tinder, and only m served to refect the intense heat. 'L Now and again we crossed the paths g< of vast bush fires. Water holes were hi lew and far apart. Of the streams n< and tributaries of the great lake none fr seemed to flow ou our side. The land y< cried out for the life-giving tornadoes dc and torrential rains of the spring. th Birds and beasts there were none. Even the insects had disappeared, ni Except for a small party of wandering Mahometan traders, with mouths and ai noses well muffled from the hot dust, bf we had met with no living creatures throughout that day. tb From these men we learned that *n not far away water was to be found th in abundance, but. knowing the unre- ar liability of such information, it was fo with astonishment as well as relief that we came late that afternoon on hi a large and clear running stream. to At the smell of the water the jaded sa horses raised a feeble trot down to of , the ford, where native women were ar filling their jars. . T1 The banks of the stream were he green with bushes and trees under hi whose shade men lounged, watching wi their, cattle pasture. A small mud i 1)6 walled town stood near by, and the us surrounding gardens and farms, green and well tended, proved water to be Pa abundant. I sat outside the camp, watching w the line of picketed horses and the sa men who, rested and refreshed, pre- us pared their evening meal. Right be- m neath the red sun a cloud of dust ai1 marked the approach of a belated car- sti avan. From the roof of a tiny mosque mi a + V?/\ nnll r\ f f K a en m _ W ] liid ks vaiuc tuc iaou v.a.n ui tut ouiumons to prayer. ou A long procession of turbaned fig- *h ures emerged from the main gate of the town and marched to the water's th edge, where they halted. They formed into a line facing the water, ha The workers in the fields and by the be stream ceased their toil and stood si- to lent as the worshipers, bowing down, on repeated what was evidently a for- sa inula whose purport I could not catch, th Then rising they shouted thrice in la unison, "Adjulai! Adjulai! Ho! Ad- W julai!" after which they disappeared. Later that night I revived a visit ha from an old man, a sub-chief of the mi town, who had found arelation among ?h the soldiers, and came to pay me his no respects. I was on the point of dis- fo: missing him. when the little ceremony Tt I had witnessed recurred to me and I asked him its meaning. aI1 "We called upon Adjulai," he said, *n "a name much in honor in this coun- &r try. Once a year do all men come to Ki the banks of this river, trhich is called Pu 'Gongo Allah,' in your tongue 'the Gift of Allah,' to thank him for bring- inl Ing our fathers into the true faith and sa: for making the dry land a garden. Does my father wish to hear the Ye story?" he I nodded, and the old man pro- ed ceeded. ke "Long ago, then, before the days of the Mahometans, when the people here still worshiped the fetiches, one ea Adjulai, a wandering missionary, lal same down a far jovrney from the *hi north, and sat down at this town of &b Ingrummai. ws "He remained here, teaching the di] people the faith of the Prophet and sa: curing sickness with drugs and sim- r0 pies. He was welcomed for his piety fal and goodness, nor did the fetich harm do turn, lor though he was or another faith he did not trouble the people, Th but lived in peace among them, staying quietly in his house and stirring j to up no strife. sal "Now, in those days this river, the ko Gongo Allah, which my lord sees be- a9 fore him, did not exist. All the land Sr was dry from here up to Lake Chad, thi """"" -even as the desert through which my lord ha3 passed. All the water the ru people got was from water holes which the rainstorms filled, and if da they were emptied before the next m< rains came the people suffered and made sacrifices to their false fetiches. *u "It is said, for this was very long aw ago, when the good man had so.t 1)11 down a long time teachiDg the faith. dr that for all that time the water holes st? were never dry. nor was there fam- ^ ine. The farms were always green, the flocks and herds fat and increas nig, nuu LUC uappiuvT3a ui me ycupit* was very great. Yet did Adjulai de- co mand nothing of their prosperity. 0* Bowing down on his mat he thanked c0 Allah for his goodness to himself and as his friends, among whom he lived, be and prayed him to bless them and as make them look to him. on "On the evening o( a certain day, bi after eating, the eldefs of the village came to him as he sat outside his house. They told him how, since his w? coming, such prosperity as they had ri' not known had come to them. They Pi pointed out that he had asked noth- be ing in return, but had lived in peace, as a man poor amorg them, and had not troubled or oppressed them, and therefore they said: 'We have de- ai cided to give up the old gods and fol- ca low the great Allah to whom you pray, and who can give such great N( .good to his worshipers.' wi "Now, it so happened that no soon- th ?r had Adjulai broken their idols to la powd?r and received them into the true fairh. that the great drouth cr 'T, e" water "Sink-lower and m lower in t!ie pools, the grass withered* so iiDd dried >ip and the mud came into n< sight. The farms turned brown, for there was no water for them, and the yams and corn were jlackened, yet for the love the people had for Adjulai they suffered in silence and w forebore to trouble him. p* "Not until the people, who once sa in their abundance were able even to si wash their bodies, began to die from thirst, and the plain was white with the bones of their sheep and cattle. I did they so to him. But Adjulai. who I w it in his house, showed them that >r a long time nothing but good had )me to them, and now that Allah ad sent them adversity it was not ght for them to rebel, but to receive hat was sent with humility. So the ?ople went home with darkened ices. "Then as the famine was sore in j le land the people began to grumble I id regret their own gods ? their j ois oi ciay. mey rememoereu uui i iat in those days the water had dried | p. To them it seemed as if before le coming of Adjulai there always id been abundance. So short is an's memory of past good when misirtune comes upon him! "Now, the old men and the young en were divided. The first said, j -et us wait, for our new faith is a j >od faith; that it can give good we ive seen. Let us be patient till our ;w Lord sees fit to take the evil om us and send us rain.' But the >ung men said, 'No! Let us beg par- i >n of the old gods and return to iem.' And because the people were ill of the terror of death the young en prevailed. "They took Adjulai from his house id led him outside the town and >at him with sticks so that he died. "Now, when the deed was done and ie oociy 01 me gooa man Durit-u utsey | the said a great fear came upon em. They returned to their houses id remembered what he had done r them and the goodness of his life. "The young men crept away and d and the King called the people >gether. 'Adjulai taught us,' he id, 'that when a man dies the angel the Lord comes down at sunset id takes the soul from the body, lere is no doubt, then, that when i comes this nigh* Adjulai will tell m what has been done to him, and ill ask for our punishment. It is itter to die outside the town. Let ; go and wait beside his grave.' "They mourned over Adjulai till ist sunset, and then the King said, [e has not told the angel. He is aiting. Until to-morrow we are fe, but do not forget that he taught ; how on the second night after a an dies the angel at sunset cleanses id prepares his soul so that it may and well before Allah. Now, to l/iiuvy suici> iuc augci ?iii acc hat has been done to him. Then ir fate Will be upon us. Let us, erefore, return here to-morrow eveng.' So they came and cried around e grave the second time. "When again the sun sank and no ,rm came to them the young men, coming bolder, returned to the wn, and the King ordered them at .ce to be seized and bound; for he id. 'Adjulai taught us that on the ird night the soul stands before Alii and demands its gift from him. hatever it asks for must be given. > doubt it will tell him what we .ve done, and for his gift will deand vengeance on us. Yet, perance he will remember that we did t all wish to kill him, and will ask r vengeance only on his murderers. ius the town may be spared.' "They mourned and fasted, then, ' mai nigm ana au me nexi aay ana the evening crouched around the ave. As the sun began to sink the ng told Adjulai that he must not nish them all for what was done a few, and the young men, know? their wickedness, had nothing to y. It seemed long before the sun is down, lor they feared greatly, it no rain had fallen, nor were their arts faithful, for many were mindif the evU passed over them to ep to the old gods. "And now, 0 white man," said the 1 man, losing his politeness in his rnestness, "see the greatness of Ali. As the sun touched the sand ere came a moving and a shaking ove the grave like as the top of the iter is disturbed when two crocoes fight beneath the surface. The ad twisted and spun round and und and began to form a great pit, Hint* nu/av ttio wafor fulle wn a hole in the river bed. "The people covered their heads, ley thought that this was Adjulai, ; 10 had obtained his gift, coming up take vengeance on his slayers. The ad flew round and round and the le widened and deepened. When, the sun touched the plain, lo-! a eat wonder! From the bottom of e pit came a vast spurt of water! filled the pit and, overflowing, shed down the valley. "The people ran crying through the rk back to the town. Not till the Drning did they dare to return. iey saw this stream flowing peacelly, and never since has it died ray. They rushed for the water, t, before any man was allowed to ink, the King bade all of them md together on the bank, and in is wise he spake: " 'Ho, Adjulai!' he said. 'Instead death thou hast given us life. From is day thy God is the God of this untry, and his worship shall avail, l this day when in each year it raes round, the people shall here j semble to give thanks and remem- | r the good Adjulai, who demanded his gift not a curse, but a blessing . the people that forsook and killed m.' "So. my father, it has always been, y seasons come and go, but the old j iter holes never fill, nor does this j irer ever dry up. and to-day the neo e, according to the custom have ! ien remembering him." "And did the people never again ! 11 away?" I asked. "No, for the story says that when, | ter many years, the Mahometans me down from the north they found I e true faith firmly established here. I aw all are good Mahometans and j orship God and the Prophet, and i e river is known as the 'Congo Alii" even to this day." A bugle call interrupted us. We ossed the ford and parted, the old I an returning to the town, while I lUght the camp to prepare for the ;xt day's jrarcb.-?Black and White. Apples For Health. A correspondent writes to ask us' liat he should do when his doctor lys him more visits than are necestry. We would remind our corre>ondent of the old saying: An apple a day Keeps the doctor away. But the apple must, ol course, be ell aimed.?Punch. OUR TEMPERANCE COLUMN. RErORTS OP PROGRESS OF THE BATTLE AGAINST RUM. The New South, Which Values the Dollar Less Than the Soul?A Remarkable Interview With John P. Coflln, of Florida. I am glad to say that the temperance question in the South Is, to-day, In the ascendant. A tidal wave of temperance sentiment is rolling over the entire Southland, cleansing it from much of Its licensed evil, and its crest is breaking with the crushing weight of prohibition. People in the North have been in the habit of classing the South as a land where liquor was the beverage instead of that which God gave, and it is true that the Southern people in the past have been, to a great degree, social drinkers, but when the necessity for action upon any great question arises the South takes the stand it believes to be right and for its best interests, and then it becomes a unit which is as solid as?can I use anything stronger as a comparison than to say, aa solid as the "Solid South." There are a number of reasons why the South is taking the high ground of absolute prohibition of the liquor traffic. There are the usual ethical ana religious ideas, which are the outgrowth of educational enlightenment along the line of the fearful effects, r??t only upon the person of a drinker, but upon generations yet unborn, who may be cursed with mental and physical ailments, the result of dissipation of the parent; these effects are only now becoming understood, and the religious and moral world are taking cognizance of them. Then, perhaps, one of the greatest of factors in the rapid sweep of the temperance movement is an economic one. The laborer very largely in the South is the negro. He is eminently a child of nature and cares for but little except to know that the bread of that day is assured?I speak of the race as a race and give ample credit and praise to those who have broken this chain and are becoming home owners and citizens of respectability?liquor to the average negro brain, perhaps even more than to the white, is a stimulant of the animal passions and rouses in his breast the worst desires and actions. It makes him a danger to those with whom he comes in contact and absolutely worthless as a dependable laborer: he will work only when he is compelled to for his bread and his liquor, and most frequently he uses all the money he earns and after a debauch comes back to his employer, with the simplicity of a child, for an advance of money before he is again able to do the work required of him. To do away with the possibility of the negro's obtaining liquor is the prime factor which is causing the people of all classes to rally to the cause of prohibition, and as liquor is done away with in counties, prohibition spreads to State lines to get it farther away, and the logical conclusion is the absolute prohibition of the manufacture and sale of intoxicating beverages' in + Viio onH mqv annn IIIC IXClllUU* X IXUb VU1U VUU MVWM come is the prayer of the people of the South, and the North must do its part. The temperance people of the North may be the standing army, of the temperance cause, as they undoubtedly are, but they have not been able to conquer the enemy; a call has gone out for volunteers, the South has snatched up the standard of prohibition and carried it to the forefront in the fray. But few strongholds of the enemy have been able to stand against the first assault, and the few that still hold out have had their entrenchments carried and the walls of the inner fort badly damaged. It is only a question of time when the enemy will be compelled to capitulate without conditions. That the time may soon come is my prayer and the prayer of the entire Southk outside of those who place the dollar above the price of a soul.?Interview with the Hon. John P. Coffin, of Florida, in the Home Herald. Would Vote Out Saloons. T. de Quincey Tully, secretary of the Law Enforcement Society of New York City, who was the first speaker before the Model License League convention, at Louisville, said the society he represented stood for the strict enforcement of all laws and especially the excise laws in New York. "We broke with the excise laws in New York State," said Mr. Tully, "when they called for a temperance law." Continuing, he said: "There is no doubt that if New York City was given tho privilege oi local option the 10,000 aaloons would be voted out. Why? Because the majority of the people want the abuses of the saloons corrected. At the bottom of all law breaking, petty intrigue, small and large graft, dehanr>hprv and vice is the lawless sa* loon. It is the harbor for most o) the country's iniquity. With its disappearance by the enforcement of the excise laws the people will have better government, finer homes and larger industries. It will mean the taking out of the hands of machine? and political cliques the government of many of our cities. The better class of citizens will control affairs, for, robbed of his bottle through the enforcement of the laws, the club oi power will be snatched from the thief and the thug." A Good Innovation. The new Mayor who was chosen a few months ago for the city of Leeds, England, when he accepted the office, being a total abstainer, instead oi providing the city's guests with wine, as the former custom was, he donated what he would probably have spent for that purpose?$2500?to feed half-starved children of the city How very much better! Temperance Notes. A fraternal order classifies workiu^ in breweries as "hazardous employment. " The temperance people of New Jersey have been working hard for a long time to secure a local option bill. The Oklahoma f'itv Daily Oklahoman announces *.b?>t hereafter 11 will decline all liquor advertising, desiring to be in a position to demand the enforcement of -avery law adopted by the majority vcne of the people. Its own preferences are not to 'oe considered. That Georgia victory looms up more and more n. anaciugly to the liquor press the ionger they think about it. "Every man wbO votes license becomes of necessity a partner to the liquor traffic and all its conse m xir: 11 quences. ?vvuuuui lutuimt;. "" Before the drunkard can be reformed he must be made to understand l&at his vice is not a joke; that it it? not merely a misff/tune from the effects of wnich he suffers; but that it is a disgraceful surrender which he can atone for only when he hates drunkenness as much as ha hates thi consPAnfiQCfis of it. / - / SPRING PARADE OI ?Cartoo: "AMERICAN NAVYE That is, Ship Kor snip, says si to British, as a Whole?A Thick Waterline Armor ? ? Reasons For the Bro Boston, Mass.?"You have a fleet that, ship for ship, comparing the ships designed at a given date?and that is the only fair comparison?Is equal to anything the world contains. A 4-sx T> fl + iah nQVV T think UlUU UCA L tu UIIUOU your navy is the best in the world." This opinion was voiced by Sir William Henry White, K. C. B., former Director of Nava} Construction to the British Admiralty, in the course of an extended interview. Taking up magazine criticisms of the American navy, Sir William took issue with nearly every point raised by the writers, declaring they "are all wrong as to facts." The thick waterline armor belt, upon which the best known critic says the life of the ship depends, he characterized as a "fetich" which was abandoned by the British Admiralty many years ago, and mistakenly reverted in the Dreadnought class in making a redistribution of weight rendered necessary by the great number of twelve-inch guns. As to the Dreadnought, which was used as a basis of comparison, Sir William pointed out that her thick armor belt is from a foot to eighteen inches below the surface of the settlement work i I W. H. Allen Says Most of t ground Was Fo Chicago.?William H.Allen's blunt assertion that settlement workers were mostly inefficient and incompetent, coupled with many other disagreeable declarations, has brought an avalanche of denunciations from the settlements on the New York man's head. " Mr. Allen is secretary of the Bureau of Municipal Research of New York. He and his views are indorsed by organized charity here. The Social Economists' Club was told that the charities and philanthropies which it represents are just so much and misdirecting effort and wasted money. As a climax Miss Rebecca Holmes, of the Bureau of Charities, who ventured the opinion that woman suffrage would cure all the evils pointed out by Mr. Allen, was told by the opeaker that woman suffrage would simply mean a new golden era for confidence men and the perpetuation in office of grafters and incompetents. Mr. Allen declared the best possible results in all lines of social servSACRILEGE I Feilbogens Say They Were Rome to Est Rome, Italy.?Professor Feilbogen and his family, who recently in the Sistine Chapel after the sacrament had been administered to them, spat the sacred breads on the floor, have left Rome to escape punishment for sacrilege. Professor Feilbogen is a man of high character, and it is said that he could not have committed the sacrilege vountarily. Indeed, he is deeply grieved at the occurrence. GOVERNMENT ESPIONA Washington, D. C.?That there has existed in Washington for years a Government espionage system as se. -- I {n Cf CT6t cis any ever maunanicu 4*4 wu. Petersburg was brought out in testimony before the Appropriations Committee. Assistant Chief of the Secret Service Moran testified that detectives from his bureau were employed by all departments of the Government, in violation of law, and that they were used for many secret purposes, from following Government clerks to gathering evidence against an Annapolis midshipman, which evidence was afterward used in a divorce action. Moran was a most unwilling witness, and the record of the hearOil Fuel For Only Two of the New Destroyers. Washington, D. C. ? Oil-burning apparatus is to be installed on only two of the five torpedo boat destroy s ?.aMam Mi a Kirio ers now unaer cuusuutuuu, ?,uo for such installation on the remaining three being regarded as excessive. No changes are to be made on these destroyers, which will be completed according to the plans and specifications providing for coal consumption. The cost of the installation of the oilburning apparatus on the two vessels will be about $25,000. The World of Sport. Cincinnati, Ohio, has recently purchased several building lots, centrally located, for a public playground. Jack Atkin, the winner of the Carter Handicap, is talked of as a rival of Roseben over sprinting distances. Eugene Fischhofs' Dandola won the President ot cne ttepuDiic a cup steeplechase at Paris. The race was run in a snowstorm. Further turf reforms will be enacted by racing associations affiliated with the Jockey Club forbidding trainers from frequenting the betting enclosures. F THE CANDIDATES. a by Berryman, in the Washington Star. OTTA IS THE WORLD" r William White?Stands Next nswers Magazine Writers? lelt a "Fetich," He Asserts ken Ammunition Hoist. water when she is fully laden, while the armor belt of ships of the Connecticut class, under the same conditions, is from six to nine inches above water. % So far as the Dreadnought and the Connecticut are concerned, he said, i the Connecticut is better protected above the water line, inasmuch as when fully laden her sides are protected by armor that extends sixteen feet above the water, while under the same conditions "the English ship's defense on the sides is restricted to armor that rises only from four to four and a half feet above water." Sir William denied that there is any danger involved in the direct hoist,, which the writers say is responsible for -the accidents which have occurred on American ships. He said he himself was the inventor of the "broken hoist," so called, and it was brought out by him ito save time and not to minimize danger. The accidents on the American battleships he attributed to inexperienced men and the policy of placing a premium upon the greatest number of shots and the greatest number of hits in a given time in target practice. ROUNDLY DENOUNCED he $20,000 Spent on Playr Pictures of It. ice are to be attained through the Government and not through private agencies, and the best use to which private philanthropy and volunteer efforts at social service could be put would be the aiding of public social service. "I have seen," he said, "$20,000 expended on a playground on the roof of a New York settlement house. It was to demonstrate the value of such a place to the tenement district, and most of the $20,000 was used in taking pictures of it crowded with the half dozen persons it would hold. In the meantime a great municipal playground two blocks square was being built within a stone's throw of that roof, and teamsters cut down all the trees that had been planted while the settlement people were absorbed in their own little petty affairs. "I know of another settlement within two blocks of a public bath which could take care of about thirtyeight persons a day. The public bath could take care of 5000." NVOLUNTARY. Taken by Surprise?Leave cape Penalty. He was urged by his wife, who was eager to get a closer view of the Pope, to make his way closer to the ci!tcti . ne uiu su cxnu uuuo mcj iuuuu themselves among the communicants. I The communion breads were placed in their mouths by the Pope before I they realized what was being done, j and they were so taken by surprise j they had no time to reflect upon their action and immediately spat them out. GE SYSTEM EXTENSIVE ing shows that it was only by the most adroit questioning that the facts were drawn out by Chairman Tawney. Moran testified that during 1907 seventy-eight detectives were detailed to various departments of the Government besides the Treasury. Sixty-one of these were used Dy tne Department or justice alone. Chairman Tawney and his committee inserted in the Sundry Civil Appropriation bill a clause that in the future the Secret Service Bureau shall be strictly under the Secretary of the Treasury and that detectives shall not be detailed from it for service ia any other department of the Government. 154 Chieagoans Deprived of Citizenship in War on Anarchists. Chicago, 111.?A^jArect result of the war of State aflf^Wieral Governments upon Anarchists 154 men have been deprived of citizenship by the Superior and Circuit Courts of Cook County. The naturalization papers of fiftyfive men suspected of being at least allied with Anarchists were revoked this week and these supplemented the cases of ninety-nine men against whom similar action was taken last week by Judge Ball. Women in the Day's News. Miss Clemeuce L. Stephens, of New j York City, bequeathed $89,000. to charitable institutions. Appointment of women policemen is advocated by the Women's Democratic Club, of New York City. Miss Ray Longworth was admitted into the Central Federated Union aa the walking delegate of the Hebrew Variety Actors' Union, in New York City. Eleanora Crawford, daughter of the novelist, F. Marion Crawford, and Cavalier Pietro Rocca were married at Sorre?to, Italy, at the villa of the bride's father. I|NE.W5 F j 10,500 DOZEN EGGS IN A WEEK Peoria, 111.?Gathering 10,5 record accomplished by John Hu last week he received an order f nhinmpnt and wan eriven onfl i Woodford County was scoured a: before the time limit. Thirteen < price. Admiral Balch Dead. Raleigh. N. C.?Rear-Admiral Gee B. Ealch, United States Navy, retired who had come to Raleigh from his home in Ealtimore for the winter foi the sake of his health, i3 dead 01 pneumonia. George Beall Balch was born in Tennessee on January 3 1821. U. S. Car Comes Back. Victoria, B. C.?The American cai in the New York-to-Paris automobile race, which was compelled tc abandon the trip across Alaska, has arrived on the steamship Eertha. Prairie Fire Kills Seven. St. Paul, Minn.?Louis O'Rian, hli wife and five children perished in i prairie fire which swept the country twelve miles west of Cogswell, N. D O'Rian hurried his family into i wagon, but lost in a race with th( flames. The fire was spread all ovei J.1 ? A 1 ...1. J JkYt tut; fjuumry uy <x wiuu wuau uarciot at forty miles an hour. Twins Born a Day Apart. Springfield, Mass.?A son was borr to Mr. and Mrs. Frank Sherman Bonney, and next day a daughter wa? j born to them. The phenomenon ol j twins with different, birthdays is al | most unknown. 1 To Hold a National Spelling Bee. Cleveland.?A national spelling bee | will be held in connection with th( I annual session of the National Edu> cational Association here on June 29. Will Employ 10,000 Men. Fairbanks, Alaska.?Ten thousand I men will be engaged in Seattle and i other Pacific Coast cities at a salary I of $5 a day and board, according to a I decision reached by the Mine Owners j and Operators' Association. Killed by Coin. Laporte, Ind.?A large copper cent, swallowed sixty years ago, caused the death of James Huckins, sixty-seven years old. The coin became encased in the lining of the stomach at the time it was swallowed and remained there until recently, when an abscess formed and acids in the stomach began to dissolve the coin. Poisoning ensued, causing death. I Panic a Plot. Washington, D. C. ? Before a House committee Banker A. 0. Crozier, of Wilmington, Del., offered to prove that the recent panic was brought on deliberately through a Wall Street plot. Taft Headquarters Engaged. Chicago.?Headquarters for the promotion of the candidacy of Secretary Taft for the Presidential nomination were engaged at the Great Northern Hotel here. Fruit Jar Plant Resumes. Marion, Ind.?The Marion Fruit Jar Factory, of Muncie, will resume operations as soon as possible. It has been closed since last May. 1 news1 R EXPLAINS FAT MEN'S STRUT. Paris, France.?"Why do fa ana, despite tneir joviality, onen was the question discussed at lei of Sciences by Professor Robinso pounded a complicated and hlg that the repletion of the stomach diaphragm and shortening the h the waist. The mechanical effect man is forced to strut. "At the i person is inclined to have a fierce in which the eyeball moves is < Australian Hor. :s For Philippines. Manila.?Major William Brown, of the Third Cavalry, has returned from Australia with 108 Australian remounts for the cavalry, making a total of 698 for the army bought In in six months. This is an experiment, to prove whether it will be possible to stop bringing American horses here. The Australians are smaller, supposedly hardier and better suited to the tropics than those now in use throughout the islands. King Uacic in ixraaon. London. ? King Edward, who reached London on his return from Biarritz, held a Privy Council In Buckingham Palace, when the seals of office were transferred from the old to the new members of the Cabinet. Germany Allows Cremation. Berlin.?The Prussian Government is about to aboli3h the existing Ministerial be.n against cremation. This subject has been under active discussion for about twenty years past. Paris Strike Off. Paris.?The Paris master masons called off the lockout of 15,000 of their employes, instructing them to return to work. About 150,000 men were involved in the disputes. Russia to Buy Ships in England. St. Petersburg.?The Admiralty, according to the Russ, has decided to order four 900-ton turbine destroyers from England. Ylf/vmnn Ciiffroetc* in flonmnrlf 1 V U1UUA1 uuumgv AM Copenhagen.? By a vote of 64 to 35 tlie Folkething passed the Government Franchise bill. It already has been adopted by the Landsthing. Under it all taxpayers, both male and female, over twenty-five years of age, and all married women whose husbands are taxpayers are entitled to vote in all communal elections. To Build Amur Railroad. St. Petersburg.?The Duma passed to first reading the bill authorizing the construction of the Amur Railroad. Ten Killed in Prison Rising. St. Petersburg.?A prison breaking is reported from Penza, which resulted in ten deaths. Eleven political prisoners attacked and stabbed two wardens to death. They then threw a number of bom'ss and escaped from the prison in the confusion. Guards pursued and shot eight of the men dead. To Spend $15,000,000 in Havana. Havana, Cuba.?A committee of the City Council reported favorably on the plan submitted by Governor Magoon for the paving and sewering of Havana at a cost a! 212.000.000. ?? ??i WIRL *ri 00 dozen ezgs in one week is the verstahl. at Low Point, 111. Late rom Boston,' Mass., to rush the tfeek in which to fill the order. nd the consignment has been filled ? o ^ ATon nroa fhft UUU c* uaii. vguu u uvavu ?? mu vmv ' ' ' Killed Thief Who Made Gnn Bluff. , Cincinnati. ? Patrolman William , Thoring shot and instantly killed Ben 3 Smith on Liberty street. Thoring r caught Smith in the act of stealing C lead pipe and Smith made a bluff at 3 drawing a pistol. The gun Smith , made the threat to draw was a brass beer faucet, it- was discovered after his death. . v * . ' - -Si- yy)\ . Army Pay Increase Assured. Washington, D. C.?The Army is > practically assured of an increase in 3 pay. The conferees of the Senate and House have reached an aereement on this item. 5 $200,000 Fire {it St. Catharine's. i St. Catharine's, Ontario.?The edge r tool factory of Whitman-Barnes was . burned. Loss, 5200,000; Insurance, t $105,000. ? Cyrus W. Cline For Congress. I Kendallvilie, Ind.?The Democrats of the Twelfth Congress District nominated Cyrus W. Cline for Congress on the first ballot. i . Widow of Dan Ricc Dead. ) San Antonio, Tex.?Mrs. Marcella Rice, widow of "Dan" Rice, the famous circus clown, died in Santa Rose Hospital here of general debility. ' t- v> . No More Sunday Funerals. s Paterson, N. J.?According to an arrangement made between the coach drivers and liverymen there will be no more Sunday funerals in this city. Named Andrew Johnson Cemetery. Washington, D. C.?Secretary Taft ordered that the National Cemetery . . at Greenville, Tenn., be designated as i "the Andrew Johnson National Cemetery," in honor of the former President. Iron Mines Resume. i Lexington, Ky.?The Ross Run Iron Mines, in Bath County, owned by Alabama and Mississippi capitalist, have resumed work after a shutdown during the financial stringency. Estates May Lose $300,000. Boston.?It was announced by attorneys representing Henry H.Rogers, receiver for the estate of John Oakes Shaw, Jr., that the shortage in the estates of which he was trustee will j.';' exceed $300,000. Asylum Physician Kills Himself. Medfleld, Mass.?Dr. Ralph Wilder, aged thirty, assistant physician at the Medfleld Insane Asylum, committed hv cVir?r\H r? <r DoennnHan^v uuiviuv vj j wuvwv*u5? i/vn^ivuuwuv; over ill health is supposed to have been the cause. Searchlight For Life Savers. Sayville, N. Y.?The first searchlight for a Long Island life saving ' station was installed at Fire Island as a result of the recent stranding of vessels. After a test of the efficiency of this light all stations may be similarly equipped. I cable ?. \ v * ,t men walk with a proud carriage, have a fierce look in the eye?" lgth before the French Academy n, the eminent savant. He exhly technical explanation showing has the effect of drawing up the ase of the thorax, thus lengthening of this is that the stout, well-fed 3ame time," he said, "a very stout > i look in his eye because the socket incumbered with adipose tissue." . Famous Frenchman Dead. Paris. ? Hartwig Derenbourg, French Orientalist and member of the Institute, died here at the age of sixty-four years. Kiwiinff flames Prohibited. London.?The County Council has issued an ordinance forbidding children attending County Council schools to play games in which kissing forms a part The head teachers are instructed to see that such games are discontinued. The reason for the prohibition is contained in a sentence of the ordinance reading: "On medical grounds the practice is considered undesirable." ' V V.rwS Conversion of Miss Elkins. Rome.?The King's consent to the marriage of the Duke of the Abruzzi and Miss Katharine Elkins was obtained conditionally upon Miss Elkins' conversion to Catholicism. which Mgr. Beccaria, the court chaplain, is now negotiating. Brazil to Manufacture Rifles. Rio Janeiro.?The Government approved the contracts with Krupp to Durchase the material for the instal lation of a manufactory for ammuni- v tion and also for the manufacture of rifles. To Touch at Halifax. Bremen.?The North German Lloyd has decided to have some of the slower steamers in its New York service touch at Halifax. China Unable to Raise a Loan. Pekin.?The Chinese Government V has admitted its inability to raise any part of the Pekin-Hankow Railroad redemption loan, which approximates 50,000,000 taels. Anarchist's Mother to Die With Son. Madrid.?Besides JuanRull,the Anarchist, his mother, Marie Queralto, and his brother, Hermenegildo, who I have been sentenced to death by the I Earcelona Court, his father has been sentenced to seventeen years' penal servitude. Rull'a mother is the woman why placed the bombs. Russian Officers Executed. Krasnoyarsk, Siberia.?Lieutenant Masloff and a sergeant were shot to death here by sentence of a courtmartial for leading revolutionists in the attack last June on the guard house and detention prison, in which several men were killed. Russians Fight Persian Bandits. Lenkoran, Transcaucasia, Russia.? A company of Russian troops fought a band of Persian brigands near the ironuer coast oc tteiesuvar. me i-a.iitatn and three Russian soldiers were killed and five wounded.. '? -i