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0mm i J ? ' ?i WHEN* YOU ARE OLD. > When you are old. and I am passed arrayPassed, and your face, your golden face, is gray?' I think. whate'er the end, this dream of mine, Comforting you, a friendly star will shine Down the dim slope where still ycu stumble and strav. So mav it be; that no dead yesterday, No sad-eyed ghost, but generous and gay. May serve you memories like almighty wine. When you are old. Dear heart, it shall be so. Under the sway Of death the past's enormous disarray Lies hushed and dark. Yet though there comes no sign. Live on well pleased; immortal and divine, Love shall still tend you, as l>od's angels When you are old. ?William Ernest Henley. 6 as on e eon e was < ? ? UTUCILE'S diary jj |JL_ -s?J She is Providentially Provided ? | With a Smart 1'arasol. | CS 0 8 OEE23 8 6 S5SC9 8 9 SBS O Father gave me So a few days ago to buy a birthday present for Cousin Fannie. "I want every one in the family to remember her generously this year," he said, "for she is such a jewel. If it weren't lor her faithful services I don't see how we could ever run the house. As you usually seem to have difficulty in making your allowance cover your expenses I'm glad to con tribute a little toward your gift for her." I had a great deal of difficulty finding anything very nice for $5. I didn't feel that I could afford to spend any of ray own money, for I need so many new things this autumn, but I knew father expected me to give her something handsome, so I looked about until I was quite worn out. Sometimes I think the custom of celebrating birthday anniversaries is quite foolish and childish. One would fancy, for example, that a woman of Cousin Fannie's age would be glad to let the years go by unnoted. On the contrary, she is as pleased as a little girl when she finds her breakfast plate heaped with presents. At last I selected a parasol which, . nti nr>cnnnt nf thp lafpnpsr. nf thp spa son, had been greatly reduced in price. It was a beauty. The very day that I bought it Marian Lewis telephoned me that she was having an impromptu afternoon tea. She said several people had dropped in unexpectedly and she wanted me to come right over and help her entertain them. After I had put on my white embroidered Swiss frock I couldn't resist trying the effect of that parasol with my ~ costume. It gave such a lovely finishing touch that of course I decided to carry it. I knew I looked raiher well, for Marian whispered as she greeted me: "How awfully grand you are, Lucile! You're dressed as elaborately as if we were having a real party." "I always like to compliment my hostess by being as well dressed as I can," I answered, looking at the plain lawn gown she was wearing. "You know I didn't invite any of the others. They all just happened in, except you," she said, fussily smoothing some of the wrinkles in her skirt. "I think inexpensive little frocks suit you, Marian," I remarked kindly, but she did not seem pleased. I was glad to find that John Bruce was there with his runabout, for I didn't feel in the least like walking home. The tea was rather a stupid affair and, like all dull things, made ray head ache. After I had been there a half hour or so I told John that I really felt too badly to remain and he insisted upon taking me home. Marian seemed quite hurt at my early departure, but I felt that I simply could not sacrifice myself on the altar of friendship any further. I certainty owe u to ray iamny to keep well, and my temperament is so sensitive that there is nothing makes my head ache so quickly as being bored. Once in the automobile I began to feel very much better. "Motoring is the best cure for all Ills," I said, as we whirled down the boulevard. "Such an exhilarating ride as this blows away every ache and pain. I almost wish it wasn't Buch a short distance home." "I'm going to take you for a spin, Lucile." John said dpfprniinprilv "1 see you need the fresh air." I laughingly protested that I ought to go home?that I should be late for dinner. "Bother dinner." said John. "Why, If you say so, we'll dine at the country club. We can telephone your people." I love country club dinners. I felt "ery comfortable, too, as, sitting oc the veranda, I kept off the rays oi the setting sun with the lavendei parasol. I noticed that its beauty and style attracted considerable attention. As John was helping me into the automobile when we were starting come, ne cried out: "Oh, Lucilc! I've dropped thai foxy sun umbrella of your's and the handle's broken." "Oh, dear," I sighed. Then I added pleasantly, "It doesn't matter at all." "Yes, it does," said John. "I know It does by the tone of your voice. I'll have it mended so that it will be better than new. How would you like to have your name engraved on the gold band that will hold those broken bits of ivory together?" "That would be lovely," I answered with as much enthusiasm as possible. I know it would have made John feel very uncomfortable if I had told mm mat tne parasol was intended for a gift for Cousin Fannie, and 1 am glad that I had the tact to say nothing about it. Thinking it ovei afterward I decided that it was really too frivolous and showy for dear Cousin Fannie's quiet, sober taste, anyway. Father and mother appeared rather surprised when they saw the dark gray gloves I added to Cousin Fannie's birthday gifts. They were gloves that Aunt Rachel brought me from New York several months ago, and the* were quite too old-ladyish for me. Aunt Rachel never floes mali3 appropriate gifts. The gioves were much more suitable for Cousin Fannie than for me. Even if they are a trifle snug for her i am sure silt; uu&m liuu tu miuu nu,?ing her hands squeezed into such really attractive gloves. I hope we shall have a lot of fine weather this fall, so I can get a great deal of use out of my parasol. The gold band engraved with my name is simply stunning.?Chicago News. ; Mysterious Monuments of France By FRANK PKESBRET. When we left Vannes we went by the most direct road to Aurav, about a half hour's run, and there turned southwest toward Carnac down by the coast which we reached about an hour after leaving Vannes. We were eager to see the Druidical monuments known as Menhirs and Dolmens. the great stones of mythological age. These and the Giant's Causeway, which we visited later in Ireland, are two of the most wonderful things in the world?one created by man and the other a creation of nature. The hotel manager I at Vannes had given us a little map j which enabled us to go directly to i the most interesting part of these ! enormous fields of rock, taking in ! Ploemel and Plouharnel on the way. The story of these stones?as to ! what they are; what kind of people put them there; why and when they ! were put there?has never been told and probably never will be. They ' are practically as prehistoric as the ! formation of the world itself, and a3 I we drove our motor, a symbol of the latest creation of man, out on the moors among these tokens of the musty ages, a feeling unlike anything which we had ever felt before came over the entire party. Here was an illustration of the spanning of time. Here on the very spot ! where the first known labor of man is exhibited stood also his last proi duction?one the work of a people I unknown, the other the recent pro| duction of the most modern nation on earth. The pyramids of Egypt have a history which has been unraveled and written by archaeologists. Pompeii lis relatively modern; the statues of I Rameses and the art of the Nile are as open books compared with the history of these great rocks. The Menhirs and Dolmens are scattered all about the section south of Auray, but down near Carnac there are three groups set upon lines as straight as a modern engineer ; could draw them and forming nine i o:- ten avenues. There are 874 in !c..is of the rows, 855 in another and j 2G2 in a third; it is said there were 15,000 originally. The stones, which are equal distances apart, vary in height from three to twenty feet, the largest having an estimated weight of forty to fifty tons. There is no stone of the same geological formation found nearer than three hundred miles and the mystery of their being placed here will probably never be solved.?From "An Intimate Excursion," in The Outing Magazine. ' PRICE OF LAMARTINE'S POEM. Pecuniary Value Which the French Poet Put Upon His Work. The Gaulols tells a good story of Lamartine's estimate of the pecuniary value of his poetry. It was in 1848, when he was at the acme of his glory and a Cabinet Minister. He had just contributed "La Marseillaise de la Pais" to the Revue des Deux Mondes, and Buloz, the editor, called on him at the Ministry. "I believe I owe you ?80. Here is the money," said Laniartine, producing a bundle of banknotes. "Pray deduct the amount of the Revue'b indebtedness to you for your poem,' said the editor. I "I mcionf in molra vrtn o nvociiiit ! of it," rejoined the poet. "Not at all; I insist upon paying you." "How much?" "Your own price, whatever it may be." "Ah, well; if you will have it so I | must oblige you," said Lamartine; and with a magnificent gesture he swept up the whole bundle of notes representing the ?80 and restored them, with solemn dignity, to his pocket.?Westminster Gazette. Thunder and Lightning. The oldest astrologers and the ; j youngest astronomers are unable to I account for the amazing scarcity of thunder and lightning this season. ' Thus far?and it is nearing midsummer?we have had only two good, old-time thunderstorms, accompanied . and egged on by chain lightning. The grandest sound known to man . is that of the artillery of heaven cut ! loose on the afternoon of a white hot . day when life is a burden and all hope of relief is dead. I like to hear the rotten roll, as of fat beer kegs , bouncing over the clouds; I like the | fierce flash of forked lightning, resembling the tongue of a rattlesnake . giving warning; I rejoice at the ter[ rifle explosion, so clean cut, so sharp, so unerring. We used to count our pulses between the flash and the . shock, each beat meaning that the bolt struck a mile away. Six beats. , six nines. I Many persons are afraid of lightning. I have known highly intelli; gent men and women to seek safety , in feather beds during a storm, or | sit in the centre of a room on blankets. But there is always one coni j solation?you will never see the bolt ! that kills you.?New York Press. A Question of Hats. [ The Prince of Wales' oyster white ; "topper," with a black band one and one-half inches wide, took the Cana dian eye when he sported it last Sunday at church, and it is likely light . gray hats will creep into favor over here before the summer ends. It is ! the kind papa wears when on dress . parade, but why cast stones at VicePresident Fairbanks' black dress hat? The Vice-President is a "dresser," i and, according to New York fashions, ; was as well turned out as his royal highness. Don't let partisan preju! ,,n%r 1\a nrocn't Prtcfnn Worolfl- ' J UllC oaj 11^ *1 AAViUiUV^I UNEASY RESTSTHE CRO ^?B^' jS *uj J^98P - ^ MOHAMMED (Born June 21, 1872. A< Novel Dustpan. A novel device recently patented by : a West Virginia woman is the unique i dustpan shown in the illustration. It ' was designed with one object in view ! ?to overcome the objection of the 1 ordinary dustpan. In the latter no i provision is made for preventing the j dust and dirt from blowing off the I pan after it has been gathered. In i ' i :his improved dustpan it is impossible | for the dust and dirt to drop on the j I floor. This dustpan, when closed, is j in the form of a box, one of the sides of the .box forming the front edge of the dustpan when the latter is opened. In the top of the box are slots, through which extend the rods of the handle. These rods are pivoted to the front edge of the box. After the dust and dirt have been brushed into the dustpan the box is lifted by fhe hanrtlp As the latter is drawn up the front of the dustpan is drawn up, throwing all the dust Into the box, the lid effectually sealing the front and preventing the accidental escape of the contents in any way.?Washington Star. The most expensive publication, with the least income, In New Yorl: City, is the City Record, which will cost New York $1,174,500 this year. LEO TOLSTO The Russian patriot and author i ! ate and severe indictment directed ai i ment by execution" in Russia. I A Novel Toy. A very simple toy has recently been invented, which should prove quite attractive to small children. It coni' BcJl i A Novel Toy. gists of a wheel mounted at the end of a bar or handle. Secured to this bar is a cylinder, provided with a whistle at its upper end. A plu>nger IWN ON PERSIA'S HEAD7 ... - "^?1 m A.LI MIRZA. :ceded January 9, 1907.) Dangerous Grade Crossings. Grade crossings are also periloi to the dull scholar at examinatlo time.?Indianapolis Star. Form That Fits All. Through the ingenuity of a Ne' York man, shopkeepers and dresi makers will be able to get along hen after with one kind of dress forn Long waists and short walBts all loo alike on this body portion, which ca be adjusted to fit anything the huma form can wear. The form is mad similar to those now in use, excej that the model can be moved up an down on the upright rod that rur through the centre and affixed at an height over the line that may t desired. In the old-style form short waisted waist did not fit on long waisted model, and vice versi and both for window display an dressmaking a number of differei forms were required each for a diffe ent type of figure. Either for fittin or display this invention is expecte Can Be Changed at Will. to be of value, both in the saving < money and time, for not only wi one take the place of several of tl old designs, but it will not be nece sary to scour about for the suitab ' form for each occasion.?Philade phia Record. AND WIFE. SKlSSuLr ' % ^jfrfaig&mSSuBOSSiWfX&m ecentlv made public a most passionijainst the present system of "govern, fits into the cylinder, and is connecte by a rod to the wheel. The conectic is eccentric, and hence, as the whei is trundled along, the plunger mov( in and out, alternately blowing ati sucking air through the whistle. / each revolution of the wheel tb whistle will be sounded twice.?Sciei [ tific American. Not Only Could, But Did. Sometimes there is a drop of r< gret in tho cup of joy served by fat to the husband of a brilliant talke "I should think it would be a privi ege to sit at the table with your wif three times a day," said one of Mr: Grandon's ardent feminine admirer: "Only twice a day," said Mr. Grar uon, wun a uow. 1 uu uuu gu uuu< at noon." "Too bad!" said the admirer. "W could not get on without her at th club, I'm sure. Why, I believe sh could talk intelligently on a thousan topics!" "She can ? and does," said M; Orandon, and with another bow h slipped out just as his wife appearet ?Youth's Companion, ' ra NOTIFIED OF _ HIS Minim Democratic Vice - Presidential Candidate Makes Speech. ? ii i INDIANAPOLIS CELEBRATES DAY | | I .< Vicc-Presidcntial Candidate Answers j Sherman and Says People's "Will is Thwarted ? Bryan Wants 1 Trusts Exterminated at Once. | i j Indianapolis, Ind. ? John Worth j ! Kern, Democratic candidate for Vice- j 1 J President, was notified formally of ; 1 j his nomination, and accepted in a h I speech delivered to 15,000 persons in j c I the Coliseum at the State Fair j f Grounds. I * William J. Bryan selected the oc- 5 casion for the delivery of his much- i heralded speech on the trusts. Thus j 1 he eclipsed his running mate, attract- j 1 -- x.... 1U. ?1 ?P of ! f iny uy lew me {jiectiei suaic ui ai- . tention. j The notification speech was made by Theodore E. Bell, of California, ! chairman of the committee selected ! j to inform Mr. Kern. The meeting | was called to order by National Com mitteeman Thomas Taggart, who re- ' linquished the gavel to National | Chairman Norman E. Mack. j At the Coliseum the speakers, Mr. I Bryan and Mr. Kern, received enthu- j sisastic ovations, the Bryan demon j stration lasting several minutes, dur- , ing which men stood and threw their j hats in the air. After asserting that the Sherman ' n law had been ineffective and conipar- | ing the declarations of the Republi- j can and Democratic platforms upon ; the trust question, Mr. Bryan said: "Because the private monopoly is i indefensible and intolerable the Dem- j 3~ j ocratic party favors its extermina3 tion. It pledges itself to the vigor- j J a, | ous enforcement of the criminal law | k " against trust magnates and officials. ! t n ! It is impossible for the Republican i i n ! party to enforce the present criminal , 1 i ! law against trust officials; these offi- 1 \ cials are intimately connected with j i ^ the Republican party in the present t " campaign." 13 Mr. Kern's speech was in part a re- ! 1 y ply to the speech of acceptance deliv- j >e | ered at Utica by Mr. Sherman, the Re- j ] a | publican candidate for Vice-Presi- , a 1 dent. He devoted much time to the . ( , | question, "Shall the people rule?" i ( i deprecating what he held to be ex- x ~ I cessive power in the hands of the , | Speaker of the House, and denied that r" ! the people have ruled, because he said ] g their will had not been put into efd feet. He charged that there is a ! ( 1 power within the Republican party j , I determined that the people shall not 3 rule; which power has manifested it- 1 self whenever effort has been made j , to check the destructive work of un- | ! lawful combinations, reduce the tariff ' i or equalize burdens by legislation, j The Democratic party would draw a ' , I sharp lino between lawful busiuess ] t j lawfully conducted and unlawful busi- j i ness. j The following Is the paragraph in ] Mr. Kern's speech of acceptance on \ j "Shall the People Rule?": "Will any intelligent man claim j that there is, or has been, any sub- j ( stantial diversity of opinion ia this j country on the question as iQ hethsr | , the tariff duty on wood pulp used in | ! the manufacture of paper should be ! : reduced or removed? In this case the I I tariff tax operated for the benefit of j i the paper trust alone, allowing that ! . j combine to levy millions of tribute j j I each year upon the newspapers of the I i country and their readers. The press ; J of the country, without regcrd to ' ' party, united in demanding relief. ! _ The people unanimously secondsd the demand. The President threw the j , [U ; influence oj! his great office in favor t, j of the demand o? the press and the : people. But all without avail. S- ! _ J , ^ ^ . I I i ine aomina.it iorce3 wiuim me 16 Republican pirty ha^ established in si- the lower house of Congress a parlia! mentary condition, in the interest of - I monopoly, under which the sole power [ | to determine whether a measure . J ' 3hould be allowed to become a law ! (. or not was lodged in the Speaker of 1 j that body and his Committee on i Rules. The people and the President < were set at naught. In this instance < : did the people rule? j 1 "If the wages of labor depend upon i a high tariff, why should any man J i favor a reduction of that tarifL'?"' a < ' GENERAL'S WIFE MURDERED, j = i ! < She Had Been Shot Twice an<l Costly [ Rings Torn From Fingers. I j London.?The wife or Major Gen- i 1 eral Charles Luard, of tha British [ Army, retired, was raurderad in a ] i desolate wood near Sevenc.ika, a j short distance outside of London. | ] j No trace of the murderer lias been , found, but the motive apparent!}* was : ' ! robbery, valuable rings having been \ ! taken from the woman's fingers. Mrs. Luard was shot with a re| volver,one bullet entering the temple, ' ] i another striking her behind tiie ear. | i From the position of the body, ap- ' , ! parently she faced her assailant and ; ] he shot her at close quarters, the j bullet entering just below the left i ? i ovfl Tlio eonnnrl chrvf coDmincrlv tvqc 1 fired after she fell on her face. Her j hand had been pulled back and three rings wrenched from the fingsrs. Her dress was almost torn from the ; ' body. i | Mrs. Luard wa3 tall and hand- ' 1 some, about fifty-eight ycirs old. j The circumstances surrounding the tragedy arc ! explicable. The G?n- i i eral and his wife were about to go on j I a holiday. (d D Mrs. Sage Presents an Island. b) Mrs. Sage bought Constitution Island in the Hudson River, and will d j present it to the nation as the site of , ^ I a preparatory school for those desir- j is ! ous of entering the Military Academy j I- at West Point, N. Y. j | Minister Commits Snicido. J j- The Rev. A. H. Trick, of Brcc-'clyn. | ;e ! N. Y.. unable to make a living ;or ; r himself and two young sons, Iojr: .:is j ^ ^ own life. * 'e ' / The Field of Sports. 3 The Cleveland won the first race ! * ' for the Lipton Yacht Cup on Lake [ li Michigan. e Spanish Queen won the $10,000 j 1 race at Kalamazoo, Mich., trotting e e the second heat in 2.07 ^4. e The Philadelphia cricket team won t 0 Its match with the Marylebone eleven } d at London by twenty-five runs. The Duke of Westminster will es- fl r. say the task of attempting to bring o back to England tho International s * Rud for motor boat racing, which the R *" I American boat Dxie won in the races s I contested In the Solent last year. t ?jl p Latest News f BY WERE. ' H I1 . 'i 3ryan Opens Fire. De3 Moines, Iowa. ? William J. Q 3ryan fired the opening gun of his :ampaign in a speech on the tariff to 15.000 neonle in the baseball nark in his city. After this meeting he ad- j u Iressed an overflow meeting in the I Vuditorium. raft Talks to Virginians. HotSprings, Va.?Judge Taft made mswer to Bryan's query, "Shall the people rule?" in a speech here by pointing to the fact that in 1896, 0: L900 and 1904, by constantly in- I ei :reasing majorities the people reject- j C( ?d the Democratic candidates and re- ! :ained the Republican party in power. b rroops Fight Forest Fires. C Merced, Cal.?Fire is sweeping the j forests around the Hetchy-Hetchy ^ Galley, in Tuolumne County, north j if the Yo3emite National Park. Two j a roops of cavalry and soldiers from | e ifosemite Park are fighting the lames. t.l d seven Billion Tax List. tl New York City.?The Tax Depart- lc nent has sent its annual report to ; o Le Mayor. The total assessment of j b eal and personal property in this | a :ity is $7,158,190,400. The assessed 1 f< ralue of ordinary real estate, exclu- , is live of special franchises and real es- j n :ate of corporations, is $6,141,500,- ; a L19. I n t! 3ig Loss in Earnings. tl Boston.?A decrease in the gross i li evenue from all sources amounting ti o nearly $2,000,000 Is set forth in | P he preliminary report of the Boston ! ci ind Maine Railroad for the ficcal year I inding June 30, 1908. ! n I p Monument to Famous Debate. v Chicago.?The semi-centennial of j n he debate between Abraham Lincoln j 0 tnd Stephen A. Douglas was cele- C jrated at Ottawa, 111., a unique mon- B lment being erected on the spot in P iVashington Park, where the debate ! a ;ook place. j 0 i* Dropped De.^d on Yacht. : a Milwaukee.?The little schooner- j 11 'igged yacht Juanita, of Milwaukee, ^ rsrith David Beebe and the body of his P :ompanion, Philip Thompson, who ? iropped dead on board, was picked n ip in midlake by the steamer Helena, and was towed to the harbor. ;p [vnapp Nominated For Congress. ! a Oswego, N. Y. ? After an eight j Jays' session, in which 332 ballots ; " ivere taken,' Charles L. Knapp was : ? lominated for Congress by the Twen- ! 2 iy-eighth District Republican Con- j ? mention. I ? IVoman n Suicide in Cell. ; ^ New York City.?Despondent be- ; F :ausv? of the disgrace attending her ! q arrest as a shoplifter, Miss Marion i _ Desmond, thirty-six years old, hanged j ^ aersclf in the Jefferson Market Court ' g Prison toy ripping a rope from he= I lot, and, after attaching one end to j ? her cell door, jumping from her cot. ! n _ ' r Giant Theatrical Combine. I ^ New York City.?Theatrical man- ! j, agers from all parts of the country, who have been in session in this city j s luring the last three weeks for the J t( purpose of bringing together the va- j, rious branches of the amusement pro- I 0' Cession under a working agreement, ! ^ have formed their combination. | a Better Ports For Mexico. ^ Metico City.?It is announced that | the Mexican Government Is preparing ; 11 to spend millions of dollars on port z works on the Pacific. The first work ^ will be done at Mazatlan. t, BY CABLE. r No Action by France. j Paris. ? France is watching with j C Interest the developments of the j C Dutch-Venezuelan situation, but it C ;an be said authoritatively that she j G does not intend to take any part in w the present controversy. | " n Bride of a Week a Suicide. i P Heringsdorf, Prussia.?The bride ; ^ Df a week of Professor Rudolph Spit- j t] - -? ^TlfAnblnnhiirtr. I UL oici auc^5, intunituwu.0 , Schwerin, threw beP&eUhfrom the top ' ^ Df the Bismarck Tower here, falling , Y 1200 feet to the bottom of the cliffs. I ^ Prior to their marriage the pair had j ^ been engaged for ten years. I i Foreign Advisers For Turkey. ' h Constantinople.?The Government ! .. ias decided to engage a Eritish ad- i V riser for the reorganization of the j Turkish navy, and a French adviser . s to be employed for the rehabilita- J :ion of the finances of the empire, J ! ? N'cw President of Peru. Lima. ? Augusto B. Leguia was iroclaimed President of Peru by the 1 0f Peruvian Congress. I-Ie succeeds Dr. | tli ?ardo. All the members of the Con- < f0 jress, except two, voted in the afTir- , ?< native. i 0t riie Queen of Spain in Paris. g Paris.?The Queen of Spain, accompanied by the Duchess of St. ^ Carlos and the Duchess of St. Maura, ca trrived at the Hotel Meurice on the vav T^nirianrt. and occunied her t" lstial suite of rooms. In the morn- j j'g ng Her Majesty received a visit from i ce 'resident Fallieres. ja Juicide a Fugitive From Justice. London.?John P. Reid, who com* nitted suicide here, was a fugitive rom justice from Columbus, Qliio, laving been indicted for assault on lis own daughter. Tie was a wealthy ontractor, and fled the country af- j er his indictment. Rsid was out on j 110,000 bond, ' 5t< zzet Pasha in London. j wj. London.?Izzet Pasha, the former ! co Turkish official and adviser of the i iultan, who fled for his life after the j n(Constitution was proclaimed, arrived j 6W lere to make his home. 15 Lnotlier Failure to Swim riiannel. Dover, England.?T. W. Burgess, he English swimmer, made his sixth [tisuccessful attempt to swim me English Channel. He started from J )over at 1 o'clock a. m. and was takn out of the water at 11.45 o'cl'ock i. m.. having remained in the water j P?wenty-two hours and forty-five min- j }'.a itcs, a new record I'or remaining in i "r he water. i | 3tl loncy Confreres Coining Back. I ^ J.-UIIUU1I. x nv; mctiiMViij V4. j ub-commitlee of the United States j Ionetary Commission completed their tudy of English finance and will ro- tv( urn to America. 55 HOPS' UW REVOLT ftl OB JESSE* i 1 lo City Pretends to Obey the Statute. . i?Sa iOV. FORTS EFFORTS FUTILE * ? * fllcials and Prosecutors Everywhere Dcdge Enforcement ? Enemies of the Law Jubilant?German^ United to Obtain Beer Sunday. Trenton, N. J. ? Atlantic City's pen defiance of the Bishops' law ia nly symptomatic of the almost gen-< ral nullification of the law by everj; jmmunity in this State. The test!-' tony taken within the last six weeks y Governor Fort's Excise Inquiry ommission, 01 wmca Mayor ^caries . Fisk, of Plainfield, is chairman, iscloses the whole State in a revolt gainst this one of its vital enactlents. Not only has it been shown that ie people ignore the law where they, 0 not refuse pointblank to obey itj ie hearings have been crowded with/ )cal elective officials?sheriffs, may-, rs, police chiefs, whose confessions etray a brazen indifference to the ct and a general unwillingness to jrce compliance with it; and, what 1 even more significant, the Goveror's own retinue of officials, judge3 nd county prosecutors, though' amed for their offices only after aey had been foresworn to see that lis act of all on the statute books is ved up to, stand confessedly neural whero they are not confessedly; aralyzed by the unconcealed popular ontempt for it. The Bishops' law comes by ita ame because It was framed and' ushed through the Legislature two ears ago by a coalition of interdeominational clergymen, with Bishps McFaul and O'Connor, of the two atholic dioceses in New Jersey, and lishop Lines, of the Newark Episcoal Diocese, at their head. Its chief! im is to compel a strict observance f the Sunday laws by the saloon and otel men of the State. There had lways been a Sunday observance law 1 New Jersey. But up to the time 'hen the system of exposure and unishment mapped out in the Bishps' law became operative no one eeded It. When, as the result of this agitaon, the Bishops' excise law waa assed, the saloon men set up a cryj gainst its rigors. The closing of thf. iloons would not make the people lore sober they argued; the only ffect would be to throw into the bara f New York from one end of the tate and into the bars of Philadelhia from the other end great sums f money that ought to be kept in 'ew Jersey. Then came the Germana f Jersey City, Hobolten, Newark, 'aterson, Elizabeth, Trenton and lamden to protest against being derived of their sip of beer at their, ronted Sunday afternoon family and oclal gatherings. i The protest became so general all long the line, and particularly in the m-o rmwrlpfi and cosmonolitan lo? alities, that the local officials began' o look about them for pretexts forj ixness In the enforcement of the act. Governor Fort is trying to find' ome expedient that will enable him o keep his pledge to see that th? aw is strictly enforced. The avowed pponents of the act are jubilant over, fie disclosures, and are even talking bout naming candidates for the Sente and Assembly pledged to vote for, :s repeal. si The situation in the State is much' ike that described in a recent maga- , . ine artile by a writer from Maine, rho says that all Maine wants prohiition, but all Maine wants grog, too. ' DROPS TWO CADETS. resident Approves Final Decision in West Point Hazing Case. Washington, D. C.?First class T1 Doaonll CAH nt dueiD vvuxiam x. wv** w.. olonel Rossell, of the Engineering orps of the regular army, and Harry, . Weaver, found guilty of hazing, ere dismissed from West Point Miliiry Academy. The other six, all lembers of .the third class, are susended with loss of all pay and al>wances until June 15, 1909, whan ley will join the then third class. The six members suspended ara eorge Washington Chase, of New( ork; James Gillespie, of Penn?ylania; Byron Quimby Jones, of Newi ork; William Nalle, of Virginia;! ,'illiam Wellington Prude, of Alaiima, and Isaac Spalding, of Oklaoma. Secretary "Wright recommended lat that action be taken, and Presient Roosevelt approved it. BRITAIN PAID TO EAT. 172,000,000 For Imported Food For the Islanders in 1907. London.?The report of the Board ! Agriculture for 1907 shows that le British Isles spent ?172,000,000 ?r imported food and well over *00,000,000 for imported wool and her produce, such as hay. layer of "Night Riders" Pardoned. Governor Willson, at Fraukfort, y., granted a pardon to Walter Dunn, convicted of shooting and killing S'ewt" Hazlett, a night rider, at icksonville in June, and a pardon i Riley Harrold, indicted as an acssory. Both men are prominent rmers. FIRE IN CONSTANTINOPLE. / ftecn Hundred Houses and Shops in Stamboul Bum. /-< T.,rL-of TTiro VUiidiauiiuv/j/iC) x utac;. A ** v irted in the Stamboul quarter, and thin a very short time a terrible nflagration was raging. A strong wind carried the flames great speed, and for six hours they 'ept over the section, destroying 00 houses and shops. With the Toilers. Seven women in Ohio have been pointed factory inspectors, the first the State. rrn? T An-Jelnhivn me x-uriu UIUUII ucfeiiuiiu.v ssed an act to regulate the hours of ilroad employes with sixteen hours' nit. At Joliet, 111., the quarry workers' rike has been settled by arbitration, rough the efforts of the Central ibor Union. There are in Germany 9000 cheml1 factories with nearly 200,006 jrkers, who receive in wages oter 0,000,000 a year.