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r' HUMAN SUNBEAMS. God bless the human sunbeams, The people strong and true, Who daily sing or whistle At all they bravely do. Their eyes are clear and merty. Their ste" is firm, but light; Their laugh's a benediction. And life once more seems bright. ~ IN THE PEW BY THE DOOR. By EDITH COPEMAN HALSEY. "I've only a minute to stay," Mrs. Morris announced, settling herself in a comfortable chair in the farmhouse kitchen. "I stopped for your mail, but they said it was too late." Mrs. Headley nodded toward a let ter beside her. She never talked much when Mrs. Morri3 dropped in. She never needed to. "About David?" questioned her guest. "From David," was the answer. "Well," responded Mrs. Morris, "Dr. Wilson was sayin' last night that it was just wonderful, his bein' called to that big church. I hear he went there to preach for 'em when their minister was goin* to leave, an' some of the big bugs made up their minds they'd have him and nobody else. Lands! When I think of the way you took that helpless little baby ????* l-v-rtunrVit tiim 11 n an' vnii n widnw an* no kin at all, an' how you've sold 'most half of this little farm to educate him! My! I hope you'll get a little gratitude for it, an' some reward!" "David is my reward," quietly answered her hostess. "Oh, yes, of course." Then after a pause, "I suppose the salary's awful big." "It seems so to me," was the reply. "Well," with a little look of disappointment, "I must get along. I suppose you'll go up with Dr. Wilson to hear him preach his first sermon as pastor?" Then the old face opposite flushed a little. "Oh, no! It's so far and there will be so many people there, I suppose; oh, no, I couldn't go." Mrs. Morris considered a moment. "Well, I don't know. I should think you'd want to see how he looks among all the high flyers. Of course, it costs a lot to go so far, and (with a quick glance at the little figure before her) you mightn't feel real easy among 'em. Welf, good-bye. Anyway, 'tain't as if he was your own." Then she was gone and the sensitive soul was left with the sting, and the wound, and the pain. He wasn't her own! He "wasn't her own! Oh, the sharp, keen pain it brought her. She "mightn't feel easy among 'em." She knew that, but why did well meaning Mrs. Morris say it? She did not belong to the great world out there?David did! She, if she went to be present at that wonderful service, would hardly know how to act, unless?and she almost held her breath?unless she mlp'M slin in a renr spat where no one would notice her at all. She picked up David's letter again; she had read every word of it four times that day. It said: "You must come. Dr. Wilson will take care of you the train, and then I will-take care of you!" Much more there was tn the long letter. "It doesn't sound as if he"?and the thought sprang out at last?"feels ashamed of the country mother. David, would do his duty, anyway, and maybe I want too much." The tears rained over her face, but presently she lifted her head and asked herself what they had been for. Hadn't David always loved her? Hadn't he always been kind and good and attentive to her? But down in her heart she knew that only David himself in some wg^ could remove that haunting fear. ''He's no call to be so very grateful," she said in loving excuse. "I'm a selfish, exacting old woman, that's what I am, shedding tears when I'd much better be thanking the Lord that my boy's able to preach!" So she rose above the worry, stilled the voice in her heart that whispered, "He isn't your own. he isn't like you," wrapped about her the mantle Df unselfishness that she had always worn, and wrote David that she -guessed she'd better not come. But because of the great love in her heart, and because Dr. Wilson insisted, it came about that the mistress Df the little farmhouse took the long Journey, and found herself one of many who were entering a church that seemed to her stately and beautiful beyond the telling. "You musi. just let me slip in by the door," she whispered tremulously to the reverend gentleman beside her, and knowing how very tired she was, and seeing the frightened look on the gentle old face, he answered soothingly, "Just as you say?just as you say." He seated her carefully "back by the door," and then went to join the ministers already seated on the platform. The tired little woman in the back of the church sat trembling with nervous excitement and fatigue. At first only a dreamy, dazed feeling possessed her. Then she was conscious that the great church was filled with people, people who seemed to belong to another world than her own. "That's Mr. Ferris," she heard some one say in a low tone behind her, as a tall, distinguished looking man passed the pew where she sat. ''He's one of the most prominent men In the church and worth millions!" Wonderful music was flooding the building, such music as she had dreamed she might hear in heaven. Then with timid, eager glance she was searching the palm-decked platform for "her boy." Her eyes were dim, but she found him. He was grasping Dr. Wilson's outstretched hand and speaking softly to him. In that moment how her heart swelled with thanksgiving and cried out to God in praise. How big?how distinguished?how handsome?how, oh, how good to look at he was even among all those splendid men up there! Then that little tormenting spirit that had n right in the farmhouse or in the cit church whispered, "But he isn' yours, he isn't your own, these ar his people, you are not like them? why did you come?" Then as the tired head bowed t hide the great tears that shut ou the face on the platform, juavia noi land's eyes, directed by Dr. Wilson found her. Just a low spoken sen tence to one of his brethren on th platform, a quick, courteous replj and he quietly stepped down, walkei around by a side aisle, across th back of the church, and then pausei beside the pew "back by the door." Those sitting very near saw a hani rest on the shoulder of the littl woman, who looked up startled a his voice said softly, "Mother!" Lik a flash the heartache and the fear lef her. The music trembled, and thei burst forth in joyous might and pow er, and like one in a happy dream sh was moving up the aisle leaning i little heavily upon the arm of he stalwart "boy." Very near the platform he paused a man rose quickly, stepped out int the aisle and motioned to a seat be side him. "Have you room for m; mother, Mr. Ferris?" the young min ister asked very softly, very distinct ly. "It will give us great pleasure, the other responded quickly. The: she sat down and David was back ii his place. But, oh, the heaven-sent bliss o It all! She never knew that hun dreds of eyes had filled with tears a they saw the minister they had cho sen, leading so tenderly the white haired old lady to "her place" amon; them. She did not know that th grave, dignified men on the platforr looked on with a new feeling of lov for, and pride in, their brilliant youn, brother. She did not know that, a he walked up that broad aisle ther was in David Holland's heart a stron; desire to cry out to all these, "hi people"?"Look at her?look at he ?at the bravest, purest, most unsel fish soul that ever lived?look at he and be like her!" She only knew as she sat there her sweet old face aglow with a won derful light, that she was happy, hap py, happy! A divine melody sang itself in he heart. The great congregation ros to its feet. They sang the joy song too?"Joy to the world, the Lord i come." Oh, yes, that was the word Joy?joy! "He wasn't ashamed o me. He's mine, my own. . 'Have yo! room for my mother?' " That wa what he had said?for "my mother! Down in the depths of her heart, sh knew he was glad to call her that.? Epworth Herald. OASES OF CHILEAN DESERT. Part They Play in Development o the Great Nitrate Beds. Northern Chile, which is so largel mountain or desert, is generally re garded as a forbidding wilderness but in spite of its natural desolatioi the landscape presents a scene o great beauty under the softened hue of sunset, and here and there in th waste of sand and salt may be foum by looking for them a number o oases, the most conspicuous of whici are Pica and Matilla. These oases are supplied with wat er from the high Andes, but the par ticular streams ~ that support thei life are not certainly known. It ha been found that in various parts o the great Atacama desert the eartl underneath the surface layer of san or salt is sufficiently moist to gro\ crops, capillary attraction spreadin the water through the soil. Th rainless Atacama desert is the seen of the greatest industry of its kin in the world, yielding enormou quantities of nitrates used to enric! the fields of Europe and the Unitei States. The oases play a very importan economic role in the industries o me region, supplying vegetaDies am foodstuffs for the support of th workmen, alfalfa for the cattle an various fruits, and also serving a timber producers for the nitrat works, which require much fuel There is no part of the world wher agriculture is more intensively car ried on than in these green spots ii the Atacama desert.?Zion's Herald, Strange Capture of a Salmon. Fishing a well known river in Nor way this June, one of the tenants o the fishing lodge opposite ours caugh a fish cjf twenty-nine pounds in th morning and lost another, his spin ning line being broken by the rus! of a heavy fish. Fishing with praw: the afternoon of the same day, th same angler, in tlie same pool, go into a good fish at his first cast. Ai ter a long fight the fish was gaffe and landed. Then was revealed strange state of things. The prawi tackle had never touched the fish; i: fact the hooks were a foot or mor from it. They had caught in the cas which had been lost that morning and was now twisted into knots an< tangles, no doubt by the salmon en deavoring to get rid of the trebl Norsk cast and hooks. The line ha been got rid of. As the prawn swun down the pool it had grappled th lost cast still attached to the salmon and fish (thirty-three pounds), casl and tackle were recovered. W watched the incident from the roac ana crossing me river Handled the re covered cast. Many maintain tha salmon once hooked and played fo any length of time leave the pool.? W. H., in London Field. The Retort Courteciis. Dr. Copeland objects very strongl to being interrupted during a lec ture by a late comer. One day, whil lecturing to a roomful of young la ju.. f ultra, Lie ?ao auuu^cu uy buying LH door open and a tardy girl come in. "I suppose you consider this an al ternoon tea. Will you take your te with or without, sugar, lemon o cream ? " And the startling answer he re ceived was: "No lemon, thank you. ?Philadelphia Ledger. Comptroller Wilson, of Chicago has ruled that no telephone tractioi electric light or other public utilit corporation can make contribution to hospitals or other charities. v l V COMMANDER ROB! t While at Sydney, Cape Breton, Cc 9 pected to return from his present espe next year. He did not wish to make ao the North Pole until after his return. ? gested a few modifications of his plans e velt. a : 9 Where Paul Once Preached. b g I This old Jewish synagogue, built in t< 3 the first century before Christ, still e stands in ancient Iconium, in Asia ri s Minor. About the tenth century A. 3 D. it became a Greek church, and the y* r Greeks added the square wooden tow- " * ?r which sumounts it. At present the w r ? y< y j Jewish Synagogue at Iconium. b. j building Is too old to be used, except Q' j is a clock tower. It can be seen from m ; ill parts of the city. i The chief interest in the old synagogue is that, according to local tra^ iition, in the early days of the Chris- , j ;ian Church Paul and Barnabas t preached in it. They had been driven out of Antioch and reached Iconium footsore and weary. We read in Acts ! " 14:1 that they both went into the synagogue and preached, and that r many believed their teaching. At ? last, however, they were forced to leave Iconium. In his Epistle to Timothy (II. Tim. 3:11) Paul refers fn his nersemitinns there. v i Travelers in Asia Minor should not g fall to visit this venerable building.? e ! Bessie D. Palmer, in the Christian ? ; Herald. d ; ^ | He Helped Her. Count Tolstoi was once recuperat! ing from a sickness by resting in the o . j Crimea. A party of rich Americans a j ; arrived in a yacht and asked per- w . mission to see the great Russian, tl Tolstoi sat upon his balcony "like a ? a Buddhist idol," as he said, and the ii Americans filed silently and slowly- \ " 7 THF NFW STAR I IILi 11U M 0 mmmmmBammmmmm j i 1 g Showing the Arrangement of the Fortye lahoir i, t, Improved Frying Pan. n e It is often desirable to cook a numI, ber of dishes at the same time in quantities such that it is not ecomi.t cal to devote an entire pan to each a r dish. Illustrated herewith is a pan 0 - provided with several compartments, r ift which different commodities may ' a '? Improved Frying Pan. F ... V, be cooked at the same time without u } mixing. This should appeal to those (* who have to do their cooking over a y gas stove, as the several dishes may h be cooked over a single burner, thus a economizing fuel. The partitions are $ i PUT F PFAflY i LU1 Li ILHIII. *H,~ I v" ' .* ; . : ; immander Peary said that he ex- hi dition in September or October of y boast regarding the discovery of Ir His former experiences had sug- sc for the present trip in the Roose- A efore him. They had promised not 3 speak a word?a glimpse was all fi ley wanted. One woman, however, n1 sfused to be bound by the contract. Leo Tolstoi," she exclaimed, "all our writings have had a profound tl lfluence upon my life, but the one' n hich has taught me the mostMa n our " Here she awkwardly for- s< ot the name of the work. The sfck h uthor leaned over the rail of the alcony and whispered, with a smile: The Dead Souls?" u "Yes, yes," she replied. p "That book." said Tolstoi, "was i si ritten by Gogol, not by me."? ew England Grocer. t< Improved Fire Escape. w An improvement in fire escapes, ? ae which will keep cool during ex- w Dsure to the heat of a burning strucire, is shown in the illustration beiw, the invention of a New York ri lan. One feature is the construction P t the rung-ladder, which is in the ^ lape of a "V," in the point of which ae end of the rung is secured. The lpporting chains are attached to the ads. Obviously the rungs of this o re escape will not come in contact h ith the hot wall of the burning o uilding, assuring safety of descent ri Jtsg*-6 jt> ? persons to the ground. The lower rm of the rung-holder is pointed, rhich forces it into the wajl under tie weight of those on the ladder, a ffording a firm footing and prevent- t ig the ladder from swinging.? c Washington Star. f IN THE FLAG. ~~ ; "I] c tl KTtfnMr'TCrifl i|k fliIB IkH i'As^xuAlHiKM 5 six Stars, the Latest One For Ok- r la. 1< e iade of two pieces, one bent substan- t, ially in the shane of a V. and having R iteral flanges whereby it is bolted d the bottom of the pan, with the pex at the centre of the utensil. The ther partition is a straight piece ar- u anged to project from the apex to ti he opposite side of the pan. Thus i< tie pan is divided into three com- ti artments. The bolt heads which I j re formed on the under side of the j t: an serve as supports to hold the 0 ottom of the pan from direct con- n. act with a 3tove.?Scientific Ameri- ^ an. ^ b Stupid of Them. u "The French are always stupid." a "Why, I always heard they were ^ ery clever people." "Well, they aren't. I was the best 'rench scholar in our class, and yet rhen I went to Paris they couldn't l! nderstand a word I said." k I Consul-General Miller, of Yokonmn rpnnrts that thirtv-nine Jan nese banks, with a total capital of , " 38,000,000, suspended last year. ! . Pittsburg, Pa., since 1S7U. It requires 15,200 stenographers to 3 the office business of New York Ity. Lord Wolseley, who has passed his tventy-flfth birthday, has probably id more narrow escapes from death tan any other living British officer. i his younger days his lordship was ) daring that he earned from the shantis the title of "The General flip Never Stops." Canada received -40,000 emigrants om the United States during seven lonths, 5000 of .them being farmers. Charles Field, who is believed to be le oldest judge in the United States ow presiding, has just celebrated his inety-third birthday by holding a jssion of the district court at his ome ih Athol, Massf * I Manhattan is the most densely poplated island in the world. It ha3 a opulation of 99,150 persons to the juare mile. For the first half of the year the )tal production of iron in Germany ras 6.049,700 tons, against 6,355,00 tons last year. The reduction ras less than five per cent. Although the mulberry tree is aised in Mysore, the most of the silk roduced in India is made from the ild silk worms and from raw silk nported from China and Siam. During the summer season the Eorugh of Richmond doubles its popultion on every pleasant Sunday, but nly for that one day. I9 09 0a?aee?tte?i?aec6c9c8e 1 FISHING. ! I o It would be interesting to know I rom how many little wilderness sta- i ions in the North there gcss each J pring, to eager business and profes- | ional men in the large cities, the nessage that the ice is out. If one ould measure and sum up all the Measure of those who take th3 mesage for their marching-orders, and ill the increment of health and trength that conus to them by virue of their annual fishing trips, it vould make the world seem a very heerful place. The charm of fishing, for the nornal man, is so deeply rooted that it an be accounted for only by regardng it as a reawakening of "primeval nstlnct. When a fly bobs down the apids, or a worm drops into the hole >elow the big boulder, a racial memiry older than history comes to life, md the cashier of the First National tecomes blood-brother to the skinlad savage who made the first hook rom a bone or piece of shell. To the savage, fishing was earning i livelihood, getting a dinner. The Ish he caught was the wages he reeived for working at his job. To his iescendant of to-day, "fishing" js far Qore. It is a return, for a time, to tatural conditions, where the sun ouches the,skin and water wets the/ eet, and clothes are friends which erve, not masters to be considered, 'he fish himself is not the most important, or even an essential, thing? intil he is hooked. But when the ug comes on the line and the fly isappears, and a thrill runs up and own the backbone till the very .toes ingle, then he becomes suddenly the aost important thing in the world; nd his appearance later, if, happily, e so appears, in an overcoat 01 cornneal, browned crisp and piping hot rora the pan?this confirms the imression of his importance, and rowns with reason the absurd busiess of catching him. The wholesome sentiment which rould protcct all animal life from j ruelty has lately been showing a endency to lapse into unwholesome entimentality. There are those who egard all fishermen as monsters, and Dok upon a school of mackerel as an ducational institution. Alas for the oys of to-morrow if this creed preads!?Youth's Companion. Oaa of Harmony. "The sounds of the city streets are ke the sounds of the country," said iie woman. "The screech of .the puljys as the washerwoman draws in he lines is like the song of birds, 'he whirr of the elevated, if you lisjn long enough, is like the waterfall ver the mill dam. The electric fans t the cafes are like the humming of i ees. The cry or tee cash eioesr ian has the gutteral sound of the ullfrog. But the yell of the 'Linep' man is like nothing on the earth, | bove the earth, or under the waters lereof."?New York Press. A False Impression. Patience?"I've certainly made an npression on that man over there; e hasn't taken his eyes off me since got here." Patrice?"Which man?" "That one with the black muaiche." "Oh, he's the hired detective!"? onkers ?talesman. I UflU A yjh(urious^^ Electricity as a motive power hat jen in use for twenty-five years. Italy's general scheme of land -and a fortifications will require an outy of $35,000,000. Portugal's budget for 19QS-09 ves $80,000,000 revenue and $81,)0,000 expenditure, a deficit of $1,>0,000, or $300,000 less than in J07-08. Edward D. Pitt, a brother of Rev. enry Pitt, a London vicar and mem?r of the great Pitt family, so illusious in English history, has lived Latest News BY WIRE. Big Drop in Revenue. Washington, D. C.?The monthlj statement of collections of interna revenue shows that the total for July 1908, was $22,029,316, which is i falling off of $2,899,508 as compare? with July, 1907. By far the largei part of this decrease is in the colec tions from spirits. To Go With President Roosevelt. Austin, Texas. ? Captain Willian McDonald, revenue agent for Texa; and an ex-ranger, and John Aberna thy, United States Marshal for Olila homa, accepted the invitation ol President Roosevelt to accompany him on his African hunt. First Sewing Machine Man Aead. Boston, Mass.?'Jhe dea* is an nounced at Brookline of John Jame: Greenough, inventor and former su perintendent of the Patent Office a Washington, D. C. He was the firs to take out a patent on a sewing ma chine, invented the first shoepeggini machine and assisted in the construc tion of the first electric locomotive He was ninety-six years old. Millionaire Wouldn't Hire Doctor. St. Louis, Mo.?C. G. Cloud, sixty two years old, president of the Ham ilton County Bank at McLeansborc 111., and reputed to be a millionaire died here. He had been ill for a yea and two weeks ago was seized wit! paralysis, but owing to his belief ii Christian Science refused medical at Mention. Soldier of Fortune Dead. Pensacola, Fla.?Charles H. Hill h native of Wisconsin, and at on time a first lieutenant in the Ameri can navy,'later a captain in the Bra zilian navy, commanding the cruise Nitcheroy, and still later Rear-Ad miral in the Chilean navy, died here In addition to serving in three na vies he was commissioned a captai: in the Boer army. Race Horses Dashed in Crowd. T)? ? ?? "Dft mon TT-O VV III c, J. a. uuc uiau tt? killed at the Luzerne County Fai when a great crowd swayed out o the race track just as the horses wer started in the first event. The jocfc eys made strenuous efforts to stoi but could not, and the horses plunge into the crowd. Chris Coates, age seventy-four, of Larksville, was ru down and killed. , Uncle Sam Wants His 35 Cents. Washington, D. C. ? The Unite States Government seeks thirty-fiv cents reparation in a complaint file with the Interstate Commerce Con mission against the New York, Ch cago and St. Louis and the Delawan Lackawanna and Western railroad: It chafges that a Federal employ was charged that much in excess c the regular fare for transportation. Herd Tramps in Freight Car. Chicago, Hi. ? Policemen scoure s ?u* #9 /n9 4-via tihtiaic oar CUe ireigut J'diua UI LUC xuiuuid vu* tral Railroad and arrested 164 tramr found in empty box cars. Those a; rested were herded into a freight ca which was run to the police station. | Steals a Steel Bridge. Bloomington, 111.?Pleading guilt to the theft of a steel bridge in Ve: I milion County, George Proctor ga\ j himself up to the officers after r< rnaining in hiding for several week The structure was washed away t the floods of May, and found in junk yard, having been sold as twei ty tons of old metal. I BY CABLE. I | ' Italian Consul Appointed. Rome, Italy.?Adalfo Rossi, fo: I meiiy Inspector of Italian Emigre I tion, has been appointed Consul-Gei eral of Italy at Denver. Signor Ros: has made many journeys to tl United States. Charges Against U. S. Attorney. , Honolulu, Hawaii.?Chargesagalm I United States Attorney R. W. Brecl ens, preferred by the Rev. E. "V Thwing and others, have been sei to Attorney-General Bonaparte. The refer to both official and person! ! conduct among the Oriental citizor of the community. Objcct to Coaling American Ship. Sydney, Australia.?The Lumper Onion has refused to permit its men bers to coal the American hosplti ship Relief, on the ground that th battleships of the American Atlant1 fleet were coaled by its own mei American sailors are now coaling Lh Relief. I Explosion on a Danish Cruiser. Copenhagen. Denmark.?Two ma were killed and six others dangerou: ly wounded on board the Dauis ci;'iser Hekla by the premature e: plosion of a shell. The accident 01 curred at target practice at A?.:-hi I Bay. Kill Argentine Army Bill. Buenos Ayres, Argentine Rep., v! Galveston, Texas.?The Senate passs to a committee the bill for armamen imf-ori hv thp fihambar. thus nuttin ! an end to the matter. If it had r jected the bill the Chamber couid ei act a law approving it by two-tliirc majority. Dutch Warship Welcomed. Willemstad, Curacao.?The battl ship. Jacob van Heemskerck has a rived, and created great enthusias] among the population. Holland May Ask Aid. London, England.?The Standard Rome correspondent says that tt Dutch Government has opened negi .tiacions to ascertain what diploma; or other assistance Italy will rend* her in connection with the dispui with Venezuela. The correspondei adds that similar steps will be take with London and Berlin. Missionaries Escorted From Tabriz. St. Petersburg, Russia.?Miss Ho liday and Miss Miller, American mi sionaries, have been escorted at the own request from Tabriz, Persia, 1 the Russian frontier by Consul-Gei eral Doty. Porto Rican Mayor Held For Arson. San Juan, Porto Rico.?Heracli Mendosa, Mayor of Cayey, was a rested, charged with arson. It is a leged that a recent fire at Cayey, i which many buildings were destroyei was caused by Mendosa. __* '>1 nrmn I J informed of His Selection tc Head Independence Party. i ? i John Temple Graves, Candidate Fo? Vice-President, Too 111 to Be f | Notified, as Was Intended. 11 -jl I ils I i New York City.?Thomas L. His* I 1 gen, of Massachusetts, was formallj r | notified in this city that he was the ' I choice of the first national convention of the Independence party for the Presidential nomination. v The enthusiasm that punctuated ' the official ceremony was too vast to be held within the walls of the Na| tional Independence Club, No. 17 Gramercy Park, and it overflowed ' through every outlet into the street. There several thousands of Independence party men who had been . unable to get into the clubhouse took * up the cheering for Hisgen and 3 Graves, and one after another forthe * many national reforms demanded in j the party's Chicago platform. * As a demonstration it was unique ' to all New York. It sounded a warn3 ing to the leaders of both the old parties that a new party had been born * into the land and a new power in politics was to be reckoned with. Mr. Hisgen was informed of his nomination by Thomas A. Powell, of * Brooklyn, chairman of the committee * on notification. , >i Although Mr. Hisgen has been vac' i tively campaigning in Vermont and 1 other parts of New England for the " past two weeks, it was his first apD pearance in New York since his n^m illation. ine crcwa wrncu pacaeu the clubhouse to the last inch of standing room took to him like an old friend. He earned their real and last'i ing friendship before he was half e through with the speech of accept' ance, in which he stood upon every; plank of the new party's platform. i William Randolph Hearst, the national chairman of the party, respond'< ed to repeated calls from the crowd with a stirring speech. D John Temple Graves, the Independ- , *%? ent nominee for Vice-President, was to have been notified jointly with Mr. Hisgen. On the advice of his physia cian he remained in the mountains of r Virginia, where he has been recovern ing from a recent operation. Howe over, he sent a telegram of felicita> tion to his running mate and a mes).? sage to the rank and file of the party, d that before the end of the week he d would be in harness and ready for a n whirlwind campaign. His formal notification will come later inthemonth. 'o ?i ^ DROWNS WITH TWO CHILDREN. ? Mother Dragged Down in Water L_ When Trying to Save Them. I- Brooklyn, N. Y.?In a brave at?, tempt to save her two little children 3. from drowning in Broad Channel, e Jamaica Bay, a mother plunged into if the water where they were struggling, but the combined weight of the little ones, one of whom was trying to 'save - i the other, pulled her down and all d three were drowned. l- Richard Radermacher, four years >s old, fell from a float from which he r- and his sister, Ida, eleven years old, . r, were fishing, and the little girl plunged in after him to save his life. . The struggles of the children were seen by their mother, who ran from ,y their cottage nearby and dived into r- the water after them. In his fright rp the little boy grasped his sister and' j- pulled her under. As she struck 8. bravely out for the surface she saw^ iy her mother, whom she, almost exa bausted, seized. Then the woman i- was pulled under by the combined' weight of her children and none came to the surface alive. y 1 FAMILY BURNED IN HOME. i Two Dead. Four Seriously Injured? Mob Threatens Incendiary. T >' Louisa, Ky.?John Sprouse, charged r" with incendiarism, was brought her9 l" to escape mob violence. He is accused of setting fire to the home of) sl Charles Cooper, near Cherokee, re10 suiting in the destruction of the property and the death of two of Cooper's children. Two other children are la a serious condition. Cooper is so 3* badly burned that his recovery is not . $t ?* expected. Mrs. Cooper Is seriously; 7. burned. it Bloodhounds took up a trail at the * house and followed it to Sprouse's *1 house. Sprouse was arrested and1 13 brought here. Sprouse and Cooper had been engaged iu a suit over lumber. z 4 J \ 3* PARDONED BY PRESIDENT. Cherokee Boy Convicted of Murder by Sweetheart's Perjury. Washington. D. C.?The President e has ordered the pardon of William a Pharntpu TnrUan hoV servinsr O UU^C; U N/11V* vuww ? ^ a life sentence at Fort Leavenworth for murder. Behind this matter of n fact item is a.ctory that would servo ? for the foundation of a first-class the~h" aire thriller, for Judge was convicted' of killing a rival in love, and hia c. sweethsart, wlio testified at his trial [C and aided the prosecution in convicting him, now comes forward to say, that she was compelled to perjure herself then, and thai Judge is innocent. | Id j ^ rS Portugal's Deficit $2,000,000. "* ig The Chamber of Deputies, Lisbon, e- P.ortugal, has passed the budget, '"'a _ ? AAA _ 3- which estimates tne aencu at s-.uuu,Is 000. Emigration and arbitration. treaties with the United States also have been adopted. e- Dies a Pauper at 114 Years. r* John Morris, of the town of Day, m N. V., inmate of the County Almshouse, is dead. He said he was 114 years old, and told of events which. , appeared to prove it. He was a nac tive oI Canada and of French extrac3: tion Lynches Assnilant of Girl. N c A negro named George Johnston yi was hanged by a mob at Murfrees :D boro, ienn. me negiu jiu?u:u ? Miss Morris scve.i miles from Murfreesboro. j The World of Sport. ? s. The University of Pennsylvania dej! fea* J Oxford at chess by a score of ;o 11 to 6V2. j. W. J. Clothier defeated R. D. Little in straight sets in the National lawn tennis tournament at Newport. The Nottinghamshire eleven won tv>p pricket match against the Gen iC tlemen of Philadelphia by 130 runs* r- M. J. McGrath, of the New York A? 1- C., threw the sixteen-pound hammari ,D 176 feet from a nine-foot circle at i, Nenagh, in Ireland, outdistancing John Flanagan's record throw of 17? feet.