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I am the American Eagle, And my wings Han together. Likewise, 1 roost nigh. And 1 eat bananas raw. Home may sit on her 8even hills and howl, But she can not Sit on Me! Will she please put that In her organ and grind it? 1 am mostlv a bird of peace And 1 was born without teeth. But I've got talons That reacn from the stormBeaten coasts of the Atlantic To the golden shores of the Placid Pacific, And I use the Rocky Mountains As whetstones to sharpen them on. I never cackle till I Lay an egg. And I point with pride To the eggs I've laid Iflr Twentieth Ce . ^ HY NOT let this In? Ifl dependence Day be 0De 0Q wbich the yj * ||y hostess, too, deJclares her indeI pendence, on which she reso^ves to no 1 longer be bound In ' servitude by the old ' | forms of entertainment which have grown threadbare from use since the days of the Revolutionary War? Let ' her get up something original, wheth- ' er she has to think it out herself or copy some clever idea. People are j growing weary of the monotonous repetitions of July 4 entertainments and anything new, even though It may lack In merit, will meet with greater 1 appreciation than compelling your guests to go through any one of the \ norfnrma rwo that rpmind them ! i of an annual duty they are forced to perform instead of an occasion of merriment and enjoyment. Don't let dime novel sentiment enter into your program. If you have anything suggestive of patriotism avoid the com| monplace hurrah that pleases the hoi polloi. Your guests should not be treated as the rabble, and you should not resort to the politician's means of arousing interest by grandstand methods. Avoid the kind of amusement that appeals to the gallery. iiie auouuiig uu ui urecratiiKra, pyrotechnic displays in the evening and the singing of national airs now please only the juvenile American? juvenile in years or mentality. The twentieth century hostess must provide something for the -amusement of her guests out of the beaten track?the more outre, bizarre e and unusual the more desirable. A scheme which smacks of originality has been thought out by a clever Boston girl, who will entertain at her country home a house party over Independence Day. Golf, motoring, tennJa nnrt thp nlrl riM Mms r>f hoarto with Cupid as score keeper, will be played throughout the day, but on the evening of the glorious Fourth will . come the crowning fun of the occasion?a most original and amusing dinner. For this function the young hostess will transform her living room porch into a dining room. Patriotic and artistic effects will be Achieved by draping American and French flags around the sides of the inclosure, with tall palms in attractive groups to lend a touch of cooling green to the mise en scene. At the top of the piazza will run a broken line of rich red Japanese lan x?rns nung on rea, wnite ana Diue ribbon, forming a pretty frieze and shedding light and air of gayety over the al fresco banquet. The ten guests comprising the < house party win sit at a pretty round ' table, which is made by placing over an ordinary kitchen pine table one of ( the round wooden tops every hostess , provides in several different sizes for ! the dinner entertaining. The ex- ( quisite linen damask tablecloth will hide all suspicion of the table's plebeian origin, and the pretty board wrUl wlaom wifh cilvoi* onrl clocc Atia Bn iii "in* V/UC course will be served on blue Revolu- , tionarv china worth its weight in gold to a collector. The table decorations will be small silk flags, and broad tricolored ribbons will run out from the centre of the table and hang down to the floor. A large Liberty bell of red, white and blue flowers will be suspended over the table. A mound of geraniums shorn of their leaves makes the floral centrepiece. At each girl's place will be arranged dainty little rustic baskets filled with bluish purple sweet peas, and tiny Conti nental military hats made of dark Wue crinkled paper ornamented with a gold cockade are designed for the men's dinner favors. The menus are to be imposing scrolls, with seals? small Declarations of Independence tied up with tri-colored ribbon. Instead of the names of viands that appear on the usual menu, on this scroll menu there will appear a perplexing lot of questions written out by the clever hostess. When the guests are taking their seats she will make the rather starting announcement "that whether you I people get anything to eat or not will depend upon your own wits." You can well imagine the consternation of the company. And she will further explain that "if you give the right answers to the questions asked on the scroll by your plate the servants will aelp you; otherwise you go without. In the list hundred years or so. I'm game from The point of my beak To tne star spangled tips Of niv tail feathers: And when I begin To scratch gravel, Mind your eyes! I'm the cock of the walk, And the henbird of the Goddess of Liberty; The only gallinaceous E pluribus unuin On record. I'm an eagle from Eagleville, \Vith a scream on me that makes Thunder sound like . Dropping cotton On a still morning. And my present address is Hail Columbia, U. S. A.! See? ?New ?ork Sun. iNlURY foURTft ^ BYORAARSntol So be careful what you write." The first brain splitting puzzler is, "What will you be in if you answer wrong?" And if you're not pretty quick at this sort of nonsense you will not write on the card, "The soup." The next question is, "Where did you go at the St. Louis Exposition to have some fun?" "Pike." This rare and delicious fish having been successfully captured and enjoyed, the attention is drawn to the third proposition. "What is the only country Russia has ever whipped?" If history is your favorite diversion you will know that it is Turkey, and the butler will have the pleasure of presenting a piece of that deliciou? fowl. "What famous singer spent most 3f the winter in America after an absence of some years?" Patti. Further along the list comes the sunker, "If your opponent on the golf inks did you one more hole what PARADING ON I?: ?n?? would you consider yourself?" Possibly, if the victory is not too recent, you might own to being "beat." After the vegetable has been masticated the thrilling question to be answered is, "What would you do if a pistol were pointed at your head?" Quail, no doubt, if you happen to be Df the fair sex. "What would bread be with ?" Butter. "The unfortunate person will find his allowance is in what?" Pickle. "What were the beaus of olden times often called?" Macaroni. "What was the name of Noah's second son?" Ham. "If you girls wanted to go to Japan what would you say to your father?" Lettuce. The next apropos query would be for most persons rather an easy one. "With what do the children celebrate the Fourth of July?" Crackers. When the sweet course appears these two questions will have to be answered before one is served: "If a woman, what do you do when you see a mouse?" Ice cream. "Where does a man put an engagement ring?" Lady finger. "Where do you go after the play for supper?" Cafe. These are merely a rew questions given by way of suggestion, but, of course, each hostess must be guided in her selection by the menu. The mistakes in answering the questions will be delightfully funny, and fancy the sport to be had in jollying the guests who get the most impossible mixtures and the poor unfortunates who are ravenous with nothing more substantial than a pickle and a cracker to satisfy their appetites. Three minutes Is the time allowed for answering each question. The hostess will keep score and at thu end of the feast will present to the girl who has dined both wisely and well a dainty muslin sunbonnet "to keep her head always cool," and successful guesser of the masculine success with an "umbrella to ward off brain | storms." Quite a novel function not as eiaDorate as a dinner is a Fourth of July tea. The picturesque feature of this affair is to have the girls pour tea and serve lemonade dressed in colonial frocks, quaint bonnets, mitts and sandals. This tea will be held on the lawn, ar.d over the tea and lemonade tables will be large Japanese umbrellas, which are more attractive than hot and uncomfortable tents. The ices, sandwiches and bouillon are served from the house and passed by the servants.? From What-To-Eat, the Pure Food Magazine. THE DAYS OF SEVENTY-SIX! i My Grandmother's Story. BY E. NORMAN GUNNISON. It was in the early summer, When the drumming of the drummer, Growing daily grum and grummer, Beat the time for marching men. When across each shaded valley, And through every street and alley, Calling patriots to rally, Came the summons once again We were in a blaze of glory, For our grnn'sirc told tne story, How the Hessian and the Tory From the face of Washington Fled, like sheep when sore affrighted, How their stalwart ranks were blighted, Just as morning fires were lighted. Ere they scarce had fired a gun. How, at Princeton and at Trenton, Troops that Howe had fondly leant on, Were surprised, while they were bent on Christmas joys and hours of glee. How their ranks were crushed and broken. As a signal and a token That their death-doom should be spoken By the cannon of the free. And how Sullivan's deep thunder, With his cannon gleaming under. Rent the morning air asunder. As our Stark broke into town; And how Forest's grand artillery Put the Hessian troops in pillory, Pouring forth from the "Distillery"* Iron sliowers to crusn tnem uown. Oh, what shouts we gave to cheer them! Though we knew they could not hear them Still our blessings lingered near them? _ We were girls and could not light. But we had an only brother, He, the idol of our mother, Shared with Stark and many another In the glory of that night. And, ah me! I had a lover, Though the calling of the plover Sounds above the nowers which cover His last rest on Monmouth plain. How his eyes flashed wide with glory As he heard our gran'sire's story! Can it be that, crushed and gory, He was buried with the slam'!1 He was but a boy, and tender, And was delicate and slender. Ah, what service could he render. But he took his father's gun. Though he might be slightly froward, He was certainly no coward; In the morning, Abner Howard Joined the troops of Washington. Then the days grew sad and cheerless, Though our men were marching fearless, Chasing up the army, peerless? Of the British to the coast. And at Monmouth's dreadful battle THE FOURTH. : *. * kixd^w _ yyt*' We could head the muskets rattle. Men were slaughtered there like cattle, In the ranks of either host. But Lord Howe was sore defeated. And his shattered troops retreated. With their dead behind, unsheeted, __ And, in spite of all his talk. Every hireling Hessian pelter** Rushed and hurried, helter skelter, Down to Sandy Hook for shelter, And took refuge in $ew York. Then came days of cheer and sadnessDays of hope and days of madness, Of despondency and gladness; And, alas, they told to me Of his death! 1 could not save him, But no tyrant could enslave him. 'Twas my gift, i freely gave him That my country might be free. But I put away my spinning, And trie dress I was beginning? God forgive me if 'twas sinning! For my eyes with tears were aim. And I mourned him as none other Ever mourned a patriot-lover; Where the green grass spreads its cover, 1 was buried up with nim. Still, I married Gran'ther Holden, And some days were bright and golden, Though my heart grew sore and olden When 1 thought of Abner, dead. But for years and years 1 tarried, Nor consented to be married, Till your gran'ther's waiting carried, And at last, at last we wed. It was seventy years. The hummer " And the calling of the drummer* Tell that earth is bright with summer? With the summers that have fled? And 1 hoar a pleasant humming. Hark! The British! Hear the drumming! I am coming, Abner. coming! When they raised ner, she was dead! #*?** ? I am old, and sometimes weeping Where the lovers now are sleeping, With wild (lowers o'er them creemnc. Sad and happy feelings mix. I tell to you her story Of battle and of foray, That your hearts may feel the glory Of the days of Seventy-Six. *The old Distillery where Forest posted his guns, long since torn down. **Ne\* Jersey name for Hessians. VHumming- j bird. *The woodpecker. I THE ART OF GETTING SNTO THE NEWSPAPERS The Short Cut to Publicity Revealed by One Who Knows Every Read and By-Path. The following clever and readable article on the subject uppermost in every newspaper man's mind, "advertising," is by Victor Smith, the "On the Tip of the Tongue" man of the New York Press: Advertise. Dear Tip?-What is the short cut to publicity? I liave been striving in vain to get into the newspapers these seven years. What can I do? Hackensack. PUBLICITY. Strive your hardest NOT to get in. Steal a million. Rob another fellow of his wife. Spring a sensational divorce. Beat the bank at Monte Carlo. But the best plan of all is to advertise. I am in favor of the pay-as-youenter proposition. Commercial houses, theatres, circuses, etc., pay their way; why should not society and the professions do likewise? The general press is under no obligation to you. Address the business office at so much a line, and you can obtain all the publicity you require. Some newspapers are not profitable because they GIVE AWAY vast quantities of space in free advertising, or puffs, to the undeserving. The time is close at hand when everybody and every Institution will have to "pony up." The Eternal Equivalent. Every commercial business exacts the eternal equivalent in the granting of favors. Of no other institution in the world is so much exacted free as of the newspaper. It is a kind word here, a kind word yonder, a puff here and a puff there. For the price of ONE cent a man expects, aye, even demands, space worth hundreds of dollars. But where is our quid pro quo? The circulation is not increased. We are giving something for nothing. Once in a while Tip's column has a paragraph about an interesting man. It is good reading for all who take The Press; and the interesting man, being deeply interested, buys 100 or 500 copies and scatters them broadcast to interested people. What does it amount, to? Five hundred copies cost 55 at retail; so there is an outlay of $5 for $500 worth of advertising. Shucks! The business is too one-sided. It isn't fair. Coniplimentaries. inose not in tne newspaper business imagine that the editor, manager, all the subs and every reporter and office boy, the compositors and even the scrubwomen go about loaded with railroad passes, theatre tickets, boxes at the circus, police cards, | steamboat complimentaries, telegraph and telephone franks, free use of the mails, race track badges, etc., and their friends on the outside are even insistent upon obtaining these privileges. As a matter of fact, there are but few complimentaries of this character flying about, and all are paid for by the eternal equivalent, the small matter of advertising. A Press man, for instance, sent to Chicago, may ride on a pass, but that pass has been paid l'or in advertising. Before the anti-pass law was enforced my life was saddened by my inability to meet the demands of friends for free transportation. Some had no delicacy about asking for passes to San Francisco. Now it is easy to say: ' You know the law; no more free passes." As It is Done. No gentleman of the staff is supnnQPrl tn coolr f r a ncnnrfnf inn f??nm any railroad, steamboat or steamship company, from any submarine, airship or automobile company, ou his own recognizement. If he wants to go to Carlsbad, or the heart of Africa, to the North Pole or to the antipodes, to Mars or to the bowels of the earth, he is supposed to mention it to the business manager, who, if he chooses, refers it to the highest authority. Of course there are department heads who control certain and sundry privileges of the pass evil, such as the drama editor, the music editor, the sporting editor, etc. If I want a free pass for a theatre I may ask the drama editor, and he may (if he feels in the vein) send me a "pasteboard," but it is a quid pro quo. If I want to go to the circus I must ask the circus editor. Do I want to go to the race track? The sporting editor is the man to snuggle up to. Etc. Newspapers Overburdened. The newspaper gives as a rule about twenty to one as its "equivalent." No other institution on earth could afford to do this and live. The newspaper is the maker of all men and all corporations, the supporter of all. the adviser of all. Mind you, I do not say CREATOR. Without its free publicity most of the men in political and commercial life to-day would be in their graves. We are really too generous. The chief trouble is we do not draw tight enough the little line between news and notoriety. The theatres get an awful lot of free advertising because a vast majority of the people patronize the drama and demand good report of it. So of the opera. So of horse racing. Etc. Just an Illustration. The man who has a can of lard to sell fails to understand why he does not get a column or two a day of beautiful description for his ten-line agate ad., when a racing association, with the same size ad., commands so great, an amount of space. He overlooks the l'act that only a few persons may be interested in a can of lard, while tens of thousands are deeply nnnr>ornoH in mpinv T'ho thontrJr?n1 equivalent cannot be estimated. A hundred thousand people, 500,000, 1,000,000, may be anxiously -waiting Tuesday morning for a critique on Marx Lankershine's new play of "The Tschucrn o' di Stearxwier." The advertisement of the drama may amount to $20, but that cuts no ice with the newspaper. It does its duty by allotting as much space to the uerform \ ance as the critic thinks the play is entitled to. Baseball.' Baseball gels 1000 times it3 "equivalent." Why? Because it is an amusement for vast multitudes of readers. The advertising of the game amounts practically to nothing, that is, from a business office view. "No money in it." But no paper could afford to cut out its baseball reports. The Press baseball articles are the best, and they cost us a great deal of money. Hunting and Fishing. No other paper in New York is so much read by fishermen and hunters as The Press. Here again the "equivalent" is altogether on our side. We give 100 times as much as we get out of it. but the Rod and Gun column is expected daily by a multitude of sportsmen, and to stop it would destroy a prominent feature which pleases ma..y who neither fish nor shoot. \ Wall Street. Wall Street receives an overabundance of valuable space, you may say. The Stock Exchange forbids advertising. More's the pity. In a little while, however, all this will be cnangea mrougn me puoncicy now being thrust upon it. Thirty years ago a physician who advertised was frowned upon as a quack. To-day some of the leading practitioners introduce themselves to the public by means of printers' ink. Stock Exchange firms will have to advertise or go out of business. The day of the "high-horse" is past. I expect to see the time when all price quotations shall be paid for, and at big rates. Henry Clews made a great fortune in the Street. He is a firm believer in advertising, and his card has been in the papers for many years. He is the best known broker in the world. WHY HINDOOS WORSHIP SIVA. . Dn>?3niir> I nn?nrI f?il<C hov* I the East Indian Deity Came to Bless a Poor Unlucky Hunter I Hindoos young and old solemnly observed the fast of the Sivarathri, on a lucent Sunday, and gladly endured its deprivations. For twentyfour hours no religious Hindoo took a morsel of food nor slept a moment, but constantly prayed the god Siva to grant his wish and relieve his sufferings or unhappiness. The Sivarathri rests on a legend that comes from the misty past. A penniless hunter went out one morning, but when night fell only a puny bird had rewarded his long day's hunt. Weary and fearing ferocious beasts, th? hunter took refuge in a bale tree for the night, and hung the "game" on a twig. It so happened that Siva, in the course of his accustomed nocturnal wanderings, seated himself under the bale tree. The wind was blowing freshly, and leaves and the water they held from a shower fell on the god. This libation and the bird, presumably an offering, made Siva believe that some one in the tree was worshiping him at that late hour. Pleased, the god invited the person ! so devout to descend. The hunter J climbed down and told of his sor- j row and needs. Siva gave him many j Diessmgs ana ne nveu iittppuj iu u ripe old age. So, now, he who fasts and, sleepless, worships Siva at night, will be blessed and enjoy eternal bliss. ?Simla (India) Correspondence of j the New York World. A Remarkable Cave. The President has signed a proclamation creating the Jewel Cave Na- I tional Monument within the Black Hills National Forest, South Dakota. This remarkable cave, thirteen miles west and south of Custer, the county seat of Custer County, in a limestone formation, is believed by geologists < to be an extinct geyser channel. The national monument will embrace an area of 12SO acres. This cave, which was explored as late as 1900, has been found to consist of a series of chambers connected by narrow passages with numerous galleries, the walls of which are incrusted with a magnificent layer of calcite crystal. The opening of the cave is situated in Hell Canyon, the walls of which are high and precipitous. The surface of the country in which the cave is located consists of a high rolling limestone plateau, about 0000 feet above sea level. The area is almost entirely covered by a forest of bull pine, a considerable portion of which is merchantable, while the remainder con* sists of a vigorous young growth. The Jewel Cave National Monument will now be given permanent protection by virtue of the act of June 8, 1906. which provides that objects of scientific interest may be declared national monuments, if such action is deemed necessary ror tneir preservation ana protection.?Science. Resourceful Wives. "I am told that your husband plays billiards every night at the clubs? plays for money, too," said the anxious mother to her newly married daughter. "That's all right, mother," cheerfully responded the young wife. "He gives me all his winnings?" "What? Do you?" "And he always plays with Mr. Nextdoor." ' un-i/ii- /i;f?n??Anoo non mnlfp?" "Mrs. Nextdoor makes her husband give her his winnings, too, and she gives the money to me and 1 hand hei what my husband won from hers, and so we both have about twice as much money as we could get out of them otherwise."?Chicago Journal. I Berlin's Electric Signs. It is announced that the Berlin police are taking steps to prevent the defacement of streets by electric signs. No objection will be offered to their erection in ugly or confined spaces, but tney win ue esciuueu n-um the best streets and from places wherq they are likely to produce "a discordant effect." STORKS SMHDDLE WEST, Score Killed by Tornadoes in Kansas and Nebraska. e i 0 Farmers Made Homeless?Butte Cut ^ Off For a Week?Great Damage iu f Oklahoma?Havoc in Iown.s a t a Omaha, Neb.?A series of tornadoes which passed over Southern Ne- ? braska and pari- of Northern Kansas ^ were the most destructive and cov- t ered the most territory of all that have visited that region in many r years. At least twenty-three persons jj were killed, five were fatally injured a and a score of others seriously hurt, b Ten persons were killed at Byron, fi Neb., and others at Phlllipsburg and a Courtland, Kan., which towns have e been cut oft from communication. Other towns in the path of the tornadoes were Edgar, Fairfield, Linavale and Chester, all of which suf- _ fered more or less. Twenty-three ' buildings, including three churches, were wholly or partially wrecked at Fairfield. Some of the dead are: ^ At North Branch, Kan., two chil- v dren of Mrs. Small; Geneva, Neb., p Lulu Smith, Irene Shively; Shickley, r Neb., Elijah Argenbrecht; Franklin, v Neb., Henry Madison; Jansen, Neb., 0 Joseph Fleming; Carleton, unknown ^ ixian, t] Some of the seriously injured are: y At Shickley, Neb., John Merriman, j Mrs. Elijah Albrecht, John Shively y and wife, Edward Russell, Ross Shively. ! c Several Eastern people were in- c jured, some seriously, when a com- j bination passenger and freight train f on the Denver and Rio Grande road was wrecked about a mile and a half ji below here by the spreading of the f rails. Three freight cars and two ^ passenger cars rolled Into the ditch. ^ The rain that followed has swollen t all the streams, and near Jansen a little girl was drowned while her father, Joseph Fleming, was trying a n o tta V? 4 r? 'P n tv\ J 1 tr f r* +Vt I ati nrl lvs oavc una xauanj nuxu a iui caicucu flood. ' I At Fairfield more than forty buildings were partly wrecked or demolished. The loss there will exceed , 5100,000. \ Trains in all directions were aban- J doned because o? washouts and de- r stroyed roadbed. >, f? The storm has covered such a wide f3 area and been so destructive wherever * it touched the earth that it has al- J most caused a panic among the rural J inhabitants. Hundreds of farmers ^ drove into the towns seeking shelter, 13 many of them being homeless. ? t ? <3 Enid, Okla.?Following six hours' I rainfall Boggy Creek, running through the city, widened from twen- i ty to 2000 feet, flooding almost the t whole of Enid, carrying away fifty j houses, flooding stores and endan- ] gering lives. The water is twelve feet c deep in Main street, covering two blocks of the business centre. I Durant, Okla.?tornado swept 1 over a territory twelve miles west of Durant, destroying a dozen farmhouses, and, with a heavy storm of hail, did damage of $150,000. A ? number of persons are reported in- t jured, none fatally. 1 ' I g Charles City.-^ tornado struck . Charles City, demolishing about 200 c buildings of various sizes, and kill- j ing W. R. Beck and a child. s The path of the storm was about r ten rods wide and ten miles long. Telephone wires are down. j Many had warning of the approach- t ing tornado and sought safety in cy- ? clone cellars. None of these build- ^ ings was destroyed. ? Barns were carried several blocks, T trees were torn up by the roots and j in some instances forcod through j. buildings. Water was lifted from the g channel of the river which flows ^ 4-1* m/mi +/\nrn IUIUU5U luc ivnu, Dallas, Texas.?In a storm near Bowie, Montague County, in Northwest Texas, loss of life and great property damage are reported. The storm occurred before noon. ? t Mauston, Wis.?A tornado struck \ the farm of John Dalton, a farmer, j destroying the house and barns and t killing Dalton and his twelve-year- r old son, Philip. v ?' c Butte, Montana. ? It Is estimated e that the damage done in Montana in s the past week by rain and floods will a aggregate $3,000,000. Thousands of r passengers have been held a week at small stations and have subsisted on I limited rations. At Drummond, a I place of 100 inhabitants, 500 persons I v have been tied up, one of them Emma I Goldman, who is on her way to Butte. 11 ABANDON ANT Decide to Let National Cor sates to the Republican Chicago.?Scarcely a sign of oppo- t sition to the nomination of William ? H. Taft for the Presidency remains. The "allies," who had decided to ig- $ nore the National Committee and S make a spectacular fight in the con- c vention against the rejection of anti- o Taft delegates, abandoned the idea, a They are talking harmony and hoping the Taft forces will concede some- F thing to them. u Only one, thing troubles the Taft c men?the apprehension of a stam- a pede for Roosevelt. Talk is heard of c such strong third term sentiment that v the Taft delegates may disregard f z70 vie in xypnoon. v Victoria, B. C. ? The CanadianAustralian liner Manuka has arrived 1 here, bringing news of the destruc- ii tion of the pearling fleet in a typhoon S off West Australia, involving the loss t of forty luggers and 270 lives, twenty C being whites. ii ii Shrevepov?, La.?After being found not guilty by a jury of the charge of murdering Mrs. Lettie Bond and her a babv. Bird CooDer. a negro, was a lynched at Homer by unknown men. t' His body was riddled with bullets. C Prominent People. Mark Twain and the Rev. Dr. Newell Dwight Hillis were the principal t< speakers at the eighth annual dinner o d? the American Booksellers' Asso- | ciation. o Senator Beveridge says that the ! t' war talk died out coincident with the I arrival of the battleship fleet in Pa- ' c cific waters. I \\ Admiral George Dewey, a familiar v figure driving about Washington, D. C., in his high stanhope and well u matched pair, is looking remarkably g well, and seems thoroughly satisfied a u!th Ufa a HOW THE!. STOLE $2,000,000. ?r ? teller and Auditor of Fanners' Banlr, Pittsburg, Get Ten Years Each. Pittsburg, Pacy~Ttfst before they Fere sentenced to serve ten year* ach in the Western Penitentiary Jenry Reiber, former paying teller if the Farmers' Deposit National Sank, and John Young, the auditor, old how they stole almost $2,000,000 rom the bank, first taking as small ^ .s $500 and then increasing until hey often took a3 high as $50,000 t a time. Young told the court that the first aonev they stole was used to let hem participate in the.Leiter wheat eal. They were out $10,000 when hat bubble burst. Young said: "It was the stock market that t uined us. We saw others getting ' icb and thought we could do the ame. At flret I took small amounts nd lost them. Then I went to Reier and told fcim. I was surprised to nd that he was doing the same, and fter that we worked it together. But verything failed." I DOCTOR SHOT DEAD. Voman Nurse Lures Hyn to a House and Kills Him. New York City.?Dr. Martin W. /-vf Uairlolhara TTti (_ xuapibtty 5iauuoi.g 11UUV.1 UVlg \J U*' ersity and Bellevue, "who with Dr. >hilip F. Hirtetstein kept a sanita- ? >;_ ium at 157 East Ninety-third street, /as shot and killed in the vestibule f the house, 131 West 135th street, ' ' '* y Sarah Koten, once employed by lim as a trained nurse. He was forty ears old and married. He had been racticing in this city for the last ten ears. . , ' * Miss Koten is a Russian, and reeived her training as a nurse in that ountry. She lived at 124 West ,35th street, just across the way. rom the scene of the killing. The slaying of Dr. Auspitz was deiberately planned. The woman conessed to Coroner Harburger that she tad killed the physician, and said she .or! ilnna if in rovonwp. fnr An attack te had made on her. I ADMAN HELD CROWD AT BAY. )r. Poipisiel Kept Up Fusillade For Seven Hours From Window. Washington, D. C.?After holding he entire police force of the Ninth 'recinct at bay with his revolvers or seven hours while he fired volleys ,t everybody who approached his tome, Dr. Joseph Pospisiel, an exaraner in the Pension Office, rolled up lis sleeves and projected cocaine in lis arm to steady himself, and then Ired a bullet into his brain. His tody plunged into the street from the econd-story window of his home at 135 Seventh street, Northeast He lied before he could be removed to a , ' lospital. For four days Dr. Pospisiel had abored under the delusion that memlers of the Independent Order of Maccabees were plotting against his ife and had bribed the police to carry mfc thplr MTisnlrar.v. JNCLE SAM ORDERS BALLOONS. rhree Dirigibles and an Aeroplane With Which to Make Experiments. Washington, D. C.?Uncle Sam is ;oing into the flying machine and >alloon business on his own hook and n partnership with private enter)rises. This promises to be a busy leason up in the air if the present )lans of the Government are carried >ut. The Signal Corps of the Army las ordered three dirigible balloons ' A md one aeroplane, with which experinents will be made at an early date. The War Department will permit srael Ludlow, who is building an teroplane on his own account, to itable his machine in the old Pennsylranla Railroad station, which was ibandoned last year. Considerable vork remains to be done on the Ludow aeroplane before it can be jrought out in the open. Its conitruction has occupied nearly the vhole of the last year. SUIT TO TEST HEPBURN LAW. Anthracite Coal Roads Are Attacked by Bonaparte. Philadelphia.?Proceedings to test he constitutionality of the commodty clause of the Hepburn act, which >rovides that all railroads must sever heir connection with all other busiless except that of common carriers, vere begun in the United States Ciriuit Court by the filing of bills in squity by the Government against ix railroads engaged in transporting inthracite coal in Interstate comuerce. The defendant companies are the 'hlladelphia and Reading, Delaware, ^ackawanna and Western, the Delaware and Hudson, the Pennsylvania iailroad Company, the Erie and the -.ehigh Valley. - -- l-TATT FIGHT* rimlttee Throw Out Defe* National Convention. ,heir instructions and insist on ?1 tvtnnl K A rvyAironf A/1 [MIL lkl llie IJill IJ 111UC5L UC plCTCUtCU. Roosevelt's nomination. Every preaution is being taken to prevent this levelopment. It was learned that ienator Lodge, in his speech as peraanent chairman, will state unequivcally that the President will not run gain. Abandonment of the plan of the 'airbank's, Knox and Hughes men to aake an open fight against the Hitchock machine was largely brought bout by Senator Crane, of Massahusetts. He is talking harmony, adising everybody that an election will ollow the convention. 'lergyman Sentenced to Jail. Richmond, Va.?The Rev. James '. Hargrave pleaded guilty as charged n four indictments before the United tates District Court, and was ^nenced to eight months in Hanover bounty jail and a fine of $100. The ndictments charged him with devisag a scheme to defraud Denver.?Daniel H. McMillan, once Republican leader in Buffalo, later resident of New Mexico, and a judge here on the Territorial Supreme iourt bench, is dead h The World of Sport. The plan to send American crews 5 the Olympic regatta in England is ff. The New York University's eightared crew lost to Pennsylvania in a wo-mile race by nearly four lengths. Mrs. Tiny La Roux, a Boston girl, laims to be the first woman in the rorlrt to ride and propel an airship, rhich is her own property. L. B. Stevenson, of Yale, will be nable to run in the intercollegiate aines. Stevenson pulled a tendon nd fn tryinc to continue sprained his