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LOOKING BACKWARD. Can't you imagine in the days "When Shakespeare wooed and wed. The dames of Stratford when they met, Their market baskets down would set. And ere they went 1 heir separate ways, fj Such things as follow snid: "Have you heard?" '"What?" "Anne Hathaway Is very soon to marry!" ""Whv, no. forsooth! Who is ho. prav?" "Shes poire to throw herself away On vouug Will Shakespeare, so they say. Unless -ill plays miscarry." * What, that poor, foolish rhymester lad! He never can support her." "Yes. doesn't it seem almost sad? Because we know she might haMt* had One of true worth. It seems too had js When betters came to court her " "They sav some years the elder she." "And he's not worth his salt, & As anyone with eyes can see." "Well, if young folks will foolish be At least they can't blame vou and melt's surely not our fault." Yes, don't you s'nose such things were said When young Will Shakespeare wooed and wed ? ?Kansas City Times. Tfc M iint t irrnnf r I \ V IP\ IttN LI 11 Lc PAX/X JAMES STOPPED ; THE SUN. rMl.?%Ai Once there was a little boy named James Montmorency Stebbins. He had yellow hair, a turned-up nose and freckles of assorted sizes, and he didn't like to go to school. He hated it so much that at last he made up his mind to go to the old gray witch who lived at the top of a volcano that overlooked the Stebbins' back yard. This witch was very old and very gray, and so wise that people used to -come from miles around to ask her what to do when they didn't know themselves. So one afternoon James put on his coat and hat and started to climb the volcano. There was a path up the side of the volcano that had been worn by the feet of the people who came to ask the gray witch questions. So James followed it. And at first as he went along there were trees and flowers on either side, but as he got farther up they grew less and less until at last there was none left and their place was taken by burnt black stones and gray ashes. And there "were no birds or butterflies or hoppy toads about, only a few brown lizards, which whisked out of sight as soon as they saw James coming. Everything was so lonely and so still that he almostwished he hadn't come, 'but he kent bravelv on and bv and by he got to the top of the mountain. There, just under the rim, perched like a swallow's nest, was a little gray house. "That must be where the gray -witch lives,"' thought James, so he went up and knocked at the door. And right away quick the door flew open, and there stood the gray witch on the threshold. She looked at the little boy over her spectacles. "Good morning, James Montmorency Stebbins," she said. "You've come to see me about school, haven't you?" Now that surprised James Montmorency Stebbins very much, for he had never told any one of his plan of going to see the gray witch aud he wondered how she could possibly know. The gray witch chuckled when ' she saw how surprised he looked. "Make your request, make your re quest," she said, "and speak quickly, T 4-1 ~ 4-^ ?? jLWi x uavcu l ant muc wcidic. 'If you please," said James, as fast as he could, "I'd like it never to be D o'clock iu the morning any more." "You won't like it a bit," said the witch, ''but you shall have it if you I want it,'' and she went into the house and came back with a bow and arrow, which she gave to him. "Now, James Montmorency Stebbins," she said, "this is a magic arrow and if you shoot it at the sun tomorrow morning early it will pin it tight on to the sky so that it won't be able to move forward. So then it can't ever get to be 9 o'clock." "And then I won't ever have to go to school," cried James in glee. But the gray witch only chuckled in veply and shut the door before James had time to say thank you. But he was very happy and he went down the mountain past the gray ashes and past the green trees till at last he came safe and sound to his own back yard, and all the time he thought to himself, "How delightfully delicious not to have to go to school again," and all that night he was so happy he could hardly sleep. The very first thing next morning he was up and dressed and he ran out into the back yard with his magic .bow and arrow. The sun was just rising over the hills. James took his arrow, fitted it to the bow, aimed at the sun and pulled the string. Whizz went the arrow up through the clear air; up, up and up till it reached the sun and pinned it fast onto the blue sky. Then James was delighted. He jumped up and down and clapped his hands. "No more school for me," he cried, with joy. And he ran into the house. "Oh, mother and father," he cried, "I don't have to go to school to-day. Let's have breakfast and then go off and spend the day in the woods!" "Breakfast?" said his mother. "Why, James, it is much too early for breakfast. Go out into the garden and pliy. I will call you when it is reaay. So .Tames went back to the garden and played for a ions while. But his mother didn't call Vim, so after a while he went to the door and said: "Mother, isn't it most time for breakfast?" "Goodness gracious, no," his mother said. "Don't you see the suu is just over the mountains. It won't be time for breakfast till it gets high up over the pear tree." James went slowly back to the garden. He was tniukiug a thought u "Tf it ripvpr p-pfs nnv latpr than nnw it will always be just before breakfast." It was a harrowing thought. By and by he went back to the house. "Mother." ho said, "I don't b?*I?ve ; it's muck use waiting breakfast till , the sun gets over the pear tree, for it never will got any higher, because i i ve pmneci u iasi iu uie ski whu iu.v i magic arrow, and it can't get away." I "James Montmorency Stebbins," j said his mother, "whatever did you do j that for?" And when James told her, she said: '"That was very naughty of you. Go and take it down at once." i "But I can't," cried James. "I . don't know how. It will have to stay { that way for always." "In that case." said his mother, j "we may as well sit down to breakfast now. and after breakfast you can j go right off to school." So James had to go to school in j spite of all his trouble. And the sun j stayed just where it was all that day, and all that night James could scarce- j ly sleep because his room was so j light. And it kept 011 that way for a I whole week. Because he was so much | I in the sun .Tames' freckles increased I so that he was mostly freckles, and he thought: "If this keeps on I shall soon be brown all over, and that won't be a bit nice." But the trees and plants had a much harder time than James, as the sunlight continued day after day, and they began to droop, for they grew all the time, and had no time to rest. At the end of the week James said: j "The gray witch was right. I don't j like this a bit. I have to go to school j just the same, and it's hot and horrid j all the time. I'm going back up the ! mountain to ask the gray witch to j help me again, for I've thought and : thought, and I can't think how to get ' that arrow out again." So he climbed un the mountain and" when he got to the top there was the j gray witch standing at the door of ! her little gray house, waiting for him. "I thought you wouldn't tike it," | she chuckled, as be came panting up. j ,"Whenever 1 do arything for peo- i pie they conn* hack the next week and want it al! undone again 1 declare I don't see nnich use in being a witch. I thiuk I will go out o? business. But first I will help you fix the sun." 1 So she went into her house and | came out with a long coil of fine magic rope. She made one end of it j C( into a lasso and gave it to .Tames. j p. "See if you can lasso the arrow ! cwith that," she said. . m So James twirled the rope about his head and flung it up, up and up T through the air till it reached the : sun. And then it went right past it i and never caught the arrow at all. "Try again." cried the witch; so James tried and the second time the loop fell right over the shaft of the ; arrow. Then James drew the lasso , tight and pulled and the arrow came ! out of the. sun with a jerk and the J sun jumped forward to its proper j place in the sky. And that was the last time James Montmorency Steb- j bins meddled with the sun.?Wash- i ington Star. RARE COLORS IN MOLES. Particular Varistics Confined to Certain Fields?Fiebald and White. Molecatching first became a regular occupation about a contury ago when English molecatchers were introduced on the lands of the then p Duke of Buccleuch. jx The handsomest varieties belong n to the "silver gray" class. If these j 0 could be obtained in nnv quantity : C( their skins would bring a high price j d in the fur market. ! n Mr. Service, of Dumfries, lately i lecturing before the Edinburgh Field j Naturalists' Association, stated that ! he had never seen a really white 1 I mole, and he believed it to be a great rarity. Nor had he ever seen a pie- j bald variety. He had little doubt j that variation of color in moles ran in certain families. j The regularity with whicfT a par- : ticnlar variety occurred repeatedly in the same field or oil the same farm ! was well known to every molecatcher, ! while no abnormal coloration would perhaps occur in any other part of j the parish.?From the London Globe, j Use of Sugar in Bread Manufacture, j Several of the sugar journals have j lately published articles dealing with j the use of a small amount of sugar ; in bread manufacture. ?The Sugar ! Beet for January has a short note on 1 the subject. Apart from the advan- j tage claimed in this note, bread so I prepared would, of course, have an ' additional food value. The Sugar Beet says: "In France every possible idea is \ being brought to the front with the j view of increasing the home sugar | I consumption. At a recent meeting ; of the Sugar Chemists' Association at Bordeaux, a French chemist, Mons. j F. Dupont. read a paper discussing ' ihe possibilities of adding seven per j cent, of sugar to bread, and this with- j . ! out materially alteriug the taste of , ! the latter product. An addition of i five per cent, of sugar has no influence on the flavor. The chief advanJ tage of this sugar addition is that the bread has greater keeping qualities. Bread which will ordinarily be sour in forty-eight hours, will under' go very little alteration, even after | several days, when a slight propor; tion of sugar has been mixed with, j the dough.?Agricultural News. h The Fussy Woodsman. I 1 Did you ever find yourself in the , woods with a "fusser;" that is, a man , who only sees the disagreeable side of everything, and published his views early and often? For such a man the trail is frightful; the woods that occasionally slap him playfully across the cheek are anathema, the water is ioo wet, his rod or casi: or something or other gets broken or ; lost, his shoe pinches one foot. About j an hour before dark, just at the time I when it is worth a king's ransom to J be beside the favored waters, he I wants 10 get IJUI.IV LU luc uuul, miu ? a i 11 you unwillingly wind up your line to | prepare to depart your disgust is too i deep and sacred for common words. | ?forest and Stream. l<iet elwht vpars flip 1U LiltJ v.0..? ?' . . great iron countries have produced | 310,100,000 tons of pig iron, of which , over halt has come out of the United >' States. T Facade of Wasiii r Revised drawing, from Tin Unique Caning Fork. The contrivance shown in the ac>mpanying illustration resembles a lir of pliers, but it is not. It is a irving fork which che inventor, a iichigan man, clai^.. is a great imMm I? i Ht ? 1 rovement over the carving forks now 1 common use. Again, it might be listaken for a pair of scissors, being f similar construction, with the ex-! sption that when the handles are rawn logemer me suunns ?liu rclain apart. At the end of each Roosevelt's Pos GEORGE VO: Of Massa< Safety Pocket. Pickpockets would be up against a ard proposition when they tried to *3 ^ fj 1 v I f ifle tb? pockets of a man equipped dtli the safetv Docket <*hown here, innfnn ITafiifidra!. It mtjlUii Duuiuuium 1 i Churchman, New York. 1 1 shank are the prongs. When it is desired to hold the meat to be carved the handles are swung apart, causing 1 the prongs to do likewise. The I shanks are then placed at opposite * sides of the meat and the handles j drawn together. With the aid of this 1 utensil the meat can be securely held, 1 the grip increasing in proportion to * the grip exerted upon the handles. ? i The prongs being prevented from contracting, they cannot cut or crush tVio msnt ?WaKliinertnn Star. " t I Parachute Thrillers. Among the latest "thrillers" is the c triple parachute leap, in which one ( aeronaut uses three different para- t chutes before reaching earth. He j leaves the balloon in his downward { flight with a red parachute, but after falling a short distance liberates it and makes a second plunge through space with a white parachute. This j feat is repeated again after another drop, and he finally lands with a blue parachute. Another "thriller" is a double par- i achute leap from the same balloon, < in which a man and woman race to earth in parachutes which fall f>00 or t 600 feet before opening out.?Popu- f lar Mechanics. 1 : i Owing to a shortage in' small coins * seven tons of pennies were turned out ? in a single day by an English mint. 1 C Imasfer-General. ; < . ; j L. MEYER, | 1 ;husstts. j the invention of a New York man. ( It would be utterly impossible to gain access to such a pocket without the detection of the wearer. The pocket ' - - -- - I 1 | is made longer man ins oruiuciry j pocket, with stiffening strips on the bottom and sides. These strips serve i to maintain the pocket in a distended I position. An elastic band incloses j and contra:ts the neck of the body of 1 i iho pocket. To remove the contents j ' i of the pocket the elastic band must j ' first be removed.?Washington Star, j 1 I Hammers. It is asserted that the hammer is , 1 the oldest tool in the world. The ' first hammer was a stone fastened to a handle by means of thongs. The ' hammer was of use not only as a tool 1 but as a weapon which was handy to 1 strike with or to hurl. The earliest 1 i nf hnmmprB slinw j I V jli COCHlUUUliO Wi. ~ | I hem much the same in shape as | < those of modern days, but without j 1 the claw attachment for the extrac- 1 tion of nails. No matter which came first, the chicken or the egg, it is practically certain that the hammer antedates the nail. )u5nTn nmhirih i^/ c, jsy j There are never fewer than 40,001) ramps in England. Hard times douie that number. When you wish to roll up your hirt sleeves do not turn the cuffs inlde out, but turn them inward or mder, and they will remain tucked p without being touched. All German soldiers must learn to wim. Somo of them are so expert hat. with their clothing on their leads and carrying guns and aramulition, they can swim several hundred ards. Zinc coffins are largely used in Henna, but the more expensive ones re made of copper, and cost as much ,s $2500, while a bronze and copper offln recently made for a Russian .rchduke cost over $5000. Metals get tired as well as living hings, a scientist declares. " Tele;raph'wires are better conductors on londay-than Saturday on account of heir Sunday rest and a rest of three veeks adus ten per cent, to the conluctivity of a wire. The banyan trees in India are very urious. After the branches are .bout twenty feet long they bend and trike root in the ground. These end out branches which in turn bend lown and strike root. In this way a vhole forest has been made from one ree. The Great Pyramid covers thirteen md a half acres of ground, was orignally 475 feet high, and contains >0,000,000 cubic feet of stone. Sir iVilliam Tite informs us that the nighty pyramid could not be built o-day for lef.s than ?30,000,000 stering ($150,000,000). The cow tree grows in South Amerca. Its branches are bare, and ap>ear to be dead.' This, however, is lot true, for if you cut little notches n the trunk there will flow out a iquid which looks and tastes like nilk. People living in the neighborlood go every morning to get their iupply of milk for the day. The earliest historical mention of rerusalem is in the Tel el-Amarna ablets, about 1400 B. C., while Danascus is mentioned in Gen. xiv., 15, is existing 1913 B. C., and appears jven then to have been a place of :onsiderable note. Beyond a doubt he romantic Syrian city is the oldest )lace on earth with a continuous hisory. TOLSTOI ON LIFE AND DEATH. Expects to Be Happy Hereafter in a World More Real?Infinite Progress. "I know with certainty that in dyng I shall be happy and that I shall ;nter a world more real." Count Tolstoi thus sums up hi3 anicipations of death in reply to a 'riend who congratulated him upon lis approaching eightieth birthday. Ml earthly life, he says, is a dream, ind death the true awakening. He iwaits that awakening with happiless. Elaborating on this idea he :ays: "Hitr r>nrthiv life is one of dreams )f another and more real life, and hat other life is a dream of yet an)ther, and so on ad infinitum even to ;he last life, the life of God." Of death at different ages and uuler different circumstances he says: ' Death in youth is as when a man s awakened before he has slept full measure. Death in old age is as when a man wakes of his own accord ifter a good sleep. Suicide is as a ligntmare wbich-tW-ttMwJiqnishes by einembering that he is asleep." "l-fe~" nakes an effort and wakes." The Log-Line. Officers on the coastwise and foriign steamship lines are not limited o tlieir regular duties, but are expected to answer the questions of :urious passengers besides. Someimes, however, the passengers lake ? Jnfrt r>VL'Y\ nrifl .lit? IllULLCI 1IILU UllCi* \J ?? *4 .?>.m nstruct others more ignorant thau hemselves. The purser on a well known liner :ells of a lady who had made a passage before, and who in consequence :elt a superior knowledge of mari;ime things. Several ladies were grouped in the .tern, this one among them, when heir attention was attracted by the og with its long line attached to the ail. "Why, what can that be?" inquired )ne of the party. "That?" said the knowing one. 'Well, you see the vessel lias to keep n communication with the land, and n orfler to tell just how far they have ;ot on the passage they keep one end ied to the dock, and by looking at he amount of line paid out they can ell just how far they are from the )ther side." "Oh!" exclaimed the other, after his lucid explanation. "Well, I have Uways heard of the log, but I never tne\v what one was before. Thank i'ou so much!"?Youth's Companion. Cleveland's Street Car Tickets. 'The greatest trouble with this job low," lamented a Cadar avenue contactor, "is the jokers that a man takng fares has to contend with. Every 3ther passenger has some cute name 'or those three-cent tickets. " 'Gimme a handful of them washers,' one man will say as he slips half i dollar to me. A lot of them call it chink money,' just because it has titles in it, and so it goes. 'Tin three;ent pieccs,' 'perforated slugs,' 'clay disks with the holes in 'cm'?all those names and a lot more we have to put up with. The passenger who lo^n't have some new name for these tickets looks ashamed of himself."? Cleveland Plain Dealer. The cost of cremating a Dody in France is only three francs, equal to two shillings six pence. IW OiWD IK FLOODS I Thousands Driven Fram Homes in Oklahoma and Texas. More Than 1000 Houses Inundated? .1000 Persons Without Shelter and Property Damage $2,000,000. Dallas. Texas.?An unprecedented rise in the Trinity River, following torrential rains by which (he waters passed the record of fifty-two feet made in 18G6, resulted in the ?leath here of four persons, the destruction in this vicinity of more than $1,000,000 worth of property, the driving out of their homes of 4000 persons and the destruction of teleeraph and telephone wires, railroad bridges and tracks, paralyzing outer communication and travel of all kind* West and Southwest. A poor residential quarter of the city was put under several feet of water, and thousands have lost all of their household effects while the residence part of North Dallas was cut off from the business pari of the city by the waters. The watei works plant was placed out of com mission and the lighting plant was inundated. Conditions as bad or worse prevail at Fort Worth, between which and Dallas ihe electric line service has been abandoned. The 'list of dead at Fort Worth and North Fort Worth ig now seven, while 5000 are homeless. Mayor Hart has issued a proclamation asking for local aid, and food and clothing were distributed. Parts of the Texas and Pacific and the Santa Fe railroads' bridges have gone down, and service to the West has been abandoned. At the North Fort Worth stock yards 2500 sheep and other stock were swept from the yards into the river and drowned. At Forth Worth the body of a woman floated down stream, creating panic among the negro refugees. A negro child was v/ashed from its mother's arms, in the Rock Island Railroad yards at Fort Worth, and has not since been seen. An unknown white man, drowned in the suburbs of Fort Worth, left a farewell note, found lodged in a tree. A negro attempted to pilot two men in a'buggy through deep water opposite the city park in Fort Worth and was thrown from his horse and swept away. Relief camps have been established both here and at Fort Worth. ' Waco reports that the Brazos River and its tributaries are higher than ever before, overflowing thousands of acres of land, driving people in the low lands from their homes, washing out railroad tracks and bridges, completely tying up traffic. Five inches of rain fell in two hours. Reports from Oklahoma say that the rainfall there has broken all recI all r>f the railroads were Dut practically out of commission; people in the low lands have bsen driven from home and are camped on the hills. The greatest sufferers are West Guthrie, Oklahoma City, Tulsa, Jenks, Muskogee, Shawnee anl Sapulpa. The natural gas supply of Okla-. homa City was shut off by the bursting of a huge main near town. Five persons were drowned near Oklahoma City and many persons were injured by the destruction of their homes by the rushing waters. DECREE FOR MRS. VANDERBILT. Gets Custody of Her Son and the Right to Remarry. New York City.?Supreme Court Justice O'Gorman signed an interlocutory decree of divorce in favor of Mrs. Ellen French Vanderbilt against her husband, Alfred Gwynne Vand?r bilt. Mrs. Vanderbiit v/ill be free ic remarry in three months' time. th? statutory period which must elapse before the divorce decree can be made final. Mr. Vanderbilt is forbidden i( marry again. The child of the marriage William j Henry Vanderbilt, who was born on j November 24, 1901, is lo remain ir i his mother's care. RELEASE OF TIIAW DENIED. j Court at Poughkeepsie, N. Y.f Dc- j clarcs Prisoner Insane. PoiigWrrapsie. N. Y.?Jiistice Joseph Morschause^rSttW??d the writ of habeas corpus of Harry k.^Fhaw, declared him insane and a menace to" the community, and decided against the contention of his counsel that the law under which Justice Dowling had committed him to Matteawan was unconstitutional. Justice Morschauser did not order Thaw back to Matteawan on account of the pending question as to his ruling on the point raised over the commitment of Thaw by Justice Dowling. a question whi^h will be taken to tht? Appellate Division of the Supreme Court. DYNAMITE STOPS CAR TRAFFIC. Angered by Refusal of Authorities to Submit to Arbitration. Cleveland. Ohio.?Wrecking four cars, three of them by dynamite cartridges, sympathizers with the striking conductors and tnotormsn of the Municipal Traction Company again paralyzed service on all the street car lines of the citj'. The strikers were angered by the refusal of tin? authorities to submit to arbitration. Many passengers, two of tiiem women, were seriously injured. Men were hurled from rear platforms, in one instance a half dozen being thrown many feet. several heads being cut open on the stone curbing of the sidewalk. Man Killed in an Auto Crash, Orson C. Bartholomew, of Denver, i sixty-eight years old, was killed at Chicago in a collision between an electric car and an automobile at I Twenty-fourth street and Indiana avenue. L. Bartholomew, a brother, of Chicago, and Mis? Margaret Hawkins, of Chicago, were slightly hurt. Churches Oppose Helling. J Brooklyn churchgoer.-; adopted res! olutions supporting Governor Hughe; j I in his fight on race irafk betiing. " " The National Game. "Chick" Fraser is pitching great | ball for the Chicago Nationals. I It is said that overeating at noon ! pat Elmer Flick, of Cleveland, out of | the game. The Newark club has returned outfielder Josh De Vore to the New York National club. J Outfielder Al. Burch seems to be the only reliable pinch hitter the j Brooklyns have. ! The Chicago Americans miss [ Freddie Parent just as Cleveland misses Terry Turner. >935? iMOWtHMS Foreigners Encouraged to View Execution of a Murderer. Pennsylvania Sheriff Expects Them to Spread Horror of It to Induce JRespecC For Law. . . - .' Pottsville, :Pa.?Before a crowd of about 800, Fialix Radzius, the Shenandoah murderer, was hanged in the Schuylkill County jail yard here. It was the hope of the officials that the hanging e-taibition would be an object lesson to the lawless foreigners who have given Schuylkill County a red record in the last ten. years. y.V-^ But the officials could not have selected a less satisfactory subject for their object lesson, for Radzius proved to be the coolest criminal who ever trod a scaffold. He not only went nonchalantly to his doom, but assisted Sheriff Evans and his deputies in making the job a quick and neat one. He put his arms and legs into position for binding and lifted his head so the deputy could more easily acjusi -ine noose. Five hundred passes to the hanging were issued by the Sheriff, most of them to foreigners, but no foreigner was denied admission even if he had no pass. The jail yard was filled before 10 o'clock, the crowd surging around the Bcaffold so that deputies had to march ahead of the condemned man and his spiritual advisers as he was brought from the prison. The murderer looked neither to right nor left, but walked with shoulders thrown back, mounted the narrow stairs to the ^gallows without assistance and stood under the noose with never a quiver. He declined to make a statement. Radzius was a boarder at the home of Mrs. Mary Cherkoskis and had - * been denied admission to the house when he came home late in an intoxicated state. The next morning he sent the woman's seven-year-old daughter off on an errand, and while she was gone he followed Mrs. Cher-' koskis Into the cellar and cut her throat with her husband's razor. Her four-year-old son followed her, and to stop his crying Radzius murdered him- * \,j FOUR BISHOPS ELECTED. ? ? a Episcopal General Conference at Baltimore Completes Its Quota. Baltimore, Md.?The Rev. Dr. Wilson S. Lewis, president of the Morningside College, Sioux City, la.; the Rev. Dr. Edwin H. Hughes, president of the De Pauw University, Greencastle, Ind., on the fifteenth ballot;[ Dr. Robert Mclntyrc, of Los AngeleB, Cal., on the sixteenth ballot, fend the Rev. Frank M. Bristol, of Washing* ton, D. C., on the eighteenth ballot, were elected Bishops at the Metho- _ dist Episcopal General Conference. This completes the cuota of eight. _ The othe?four Bishops elected are;' . The Kev. \v. jp\ Anaerson. 01 rsew York; he Rev. W. A. Quayle, of Chicago; ; Rev. C. W. Smith, of Pittsburg, and the Rev. J. L. Nuelsen, of Berea, Ohio. TWO WAGE CUTS. Cotton Operatives at Fall River aud Lawrence Affectcd. V; ' '<*. Fall River, Mass.?The new wage agreeir between the cotton manufacturers and the Textile Council became effective. Under the agreement the 25,000 operatives accept a wage reduction of about eighteen per cent. The mills here have been running on short time for several mouths, but It is expected that the production will be increased considerably next month. The cut in this city swells the number of cotton operatives in New England whose wages have been reduced -this spring to about 170,000. Lawrence, Mass.?Notice of a wage reduction of about ten per ceut., to go into effect on June 1, was posted at the Arlington Mills. About C000 hands will be affected. 1 EVELYN THAW DROPS SUIT. J ; * '.? Prisoner's Mother Issues Ultimatum ??>1000 a Month For Her. L_.]STew York City. ? Mrs" William I Thaw ,is?ued her ultimatum to Mrs. 1 Evelyn Tha"w. *--It Instantly stopped I the young woman's-suit for the anI nulment of her marriage tC-ffaTry-Kr-^ ??^ j Thaw. The elder Mrs. Thaw stated, j through her counsel, Colonel Frank! lin Bartlett, that she has been all^pri ing Mrs. Evelyn Thaw an income ot ' , $1000 a month and indicated that ! this would immediately he cut off ii j the conduct of the young woman was j not satisfactory to her. i ??? j PATERSOX TO SUE WRITER. I Ci<y Also to-Name "Broadway Maga? j zine" in Libel Case. Paterson, N. J.?Mayor McBride I has instructed City Counsel Merrey ! to bring suit for libel against "The i Broadway Magazine" and Broughton i Brandenburg, a writer. The suit is j based on an article entitled "The ! Menace of the Red Flag," reflecting on Paterson, which appeared in the current number of the magazine. About three years ago Mr. Brandenburg published a similar article in Collier's Weekly. The late Mayor / a urntpct tn the nub luilliaun innuc I* i?? w lishcrs and a retraction was made. _i ? 1 NORTH CAROLINA C.OES DRY.' ! Majority For Prohibition Will Probably Be More Than 10,000. ! Raleigh. N. C.?In the election on the liquor issue in North Carolina a majority *or prohibition of upward 1 of 40,000 was given. It is possible that the majority will reach 50,000. Buncombe County, in which Asheville is located, gave about 3000 majority for the dry ticket. The election was conducted quietly, and there was no trouble at the polls. tJUHA A. HA.ULIA j/u.iw, Invented Method of Advertising Medicine by Wagon Singers. Chicago, ill.?John Austin Hamlin, proprietor of the Grand Oiiera House, died of heart disease. He was seventy-one years old aud for many years was engaged in the manufacture and sale of Hamlin's Wizard Oil. He devised the plan of sending singers and troupes of actors across the country, giving exhibitions from wagons. He is survived by his widow and four chillieu. A