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? 1'HE OLi) TRAMP-PRINTER." Here's a rhyme to the old tramp-printer, who as> long as he lives will roam. Whose 'card' is his principal treasure and where night overtakes him home; Whose shoes are run over and twisty, whose garments are shiny and thin. And who takes a bunk in the basement when the pressman lets him in. ""It is true there are some of the trampers I that onlv the Angel of Death. When he touches them with his sickle, can ; cure of the 'spirituous breath; That some by their fellow-trampers are | shunned as unwholesome scamps, 1 And that some are just aimless, homeless, restless typographical tramps. "Rnf-. most of them surelv are worthy of I something akin to praise, ! And have drifted down to the present out j of wholesome, happier days; And when, though his looks be as seedy as ever a mortal wore, "Will you find the old tramp minus his marvelous fund of lore? "What paper hasn't he worked on? Whose | manuscript hasn't he set? What story worthy of remembrance was he j ever known to forget? What topics rise for discussion, in science, j letters or art. That the genuine old tramp-printer cannot grapple and play his part? i "It is true, you will sometimes see him when the hue that adorns his nose. Outrivals the crimson flushes which the ..< peony flaunts at the rose; It is true that much grime he gathers in the course of each trip he takes, Inasmuch as he boards all freight trains between the gulf and the lakes. "Yet his knowledge grows more abundant than many much-titled men's Who travel as scholarly tourists and are I classed with the UDDer-tens; And few are the contributions these scholarly ones have penned That the seediest, shabbies'; tramper couldn't readily cut and mend. "He has little in life to bind him to one place more than the rest, For his hopes in the past lie buried -with the ones that he loved the best; He has little to hope from Fortune and has little to fear from Fate. And little his dreams are troubled over the public's love or hate. I "So a rhyme to the old tramp-printer?to the hopes he has cherished and wept. To the loves and the old home voices that still in his heart are kept; A rhyme to the old tramp-printer, whose garments are shiny and thin. And who takes a bunk in the basement when the pressman lets him in." ?F. F. Murray, in Philadelphia Record, / f UNCLE DANIEL'S f | ADVENTURE. | | By ANN ISABRLA EMMONS. | It was a bitter day, with deep snow. Yet Uncle Daniel was resolved on ? bunting. Aunt Martha protested, saying, "0 Daniel, don't go! Thee'll freeze." "I freeze!" Uncle Daniel retorted. Dressed as warm as I am! And don't you know I have a new beaver cap that cost six dollars? And I a-running after rabbits most of the time. How could I get cold?" "But you might not be running most of the time; the snow is too ; deep; and it is ten degrees below jero. Don't go." Uncle Daniel was silenced, but not persuaded. After the midday meal he made ready for hunting by drawing on his heavy boots and an extra waistcoat, and by tying the strings . of the ear-flaps of his fine new cap tinder his chin. With gun and ax and iogs he started. Aunt Martha, in the doorway, was ?till remonstrating. "Don't worry about me! I'll be back soon!" he called, as he climbed the high rail fence which separated his father-in-law's land from his. Uncle Daniel's land was all cleared, : but this was thickly wooded, with much underbrush, where he thought there would be plenty of game. He had gone but a short distance when his dogs scared up a rabbit. With dogs yelping and baying and Uncle Daniel yelling, it was soon despatched. Nor was it long until - ? f Vi coma UL1U LIICI UUC OliCli cu tut- ouuig J.UWV. Soon the dogs were on the track i>f a thy-d rabbit, with Uncle Daniel in hot pursuit. They ran under trees, oyer logs, and through brush, until the old man was almost spent. When be came up to the dogs, they were yelping and smelling about a hollow tree. "That's where you are, is it?" the hunter surmised. (I'll soon have you out.) Uncle Daniel laid the two rabbits In the ground and leaned the gun and ax against the tree, preparatory to examining whether the creature were in it or not. He looked up. The top of the tree was lying near on the ground. The butt of the tree was hollow, so he knew the body of the ?tree, still standing, was open throughout. There was a hole in the side of ! the tree which some one had cut long I ago. He thought to put his head in I this hole to see if the rabbit were there. If it should be, he would cut the tree down. Sinking on his knees, Uncle Daniel, trying to put his head in the hole, found he could not with his cap on, so he shoved it back until it hung on his shoulders by the string round his neck. Quickly inserting his head, he found no rabbit there. Then, attempting to withdraw his head, he found that he could not do so! Uncle Daniel pulled and twisted and squirmed in vain. With frantic effort he renewed his exertions. But the feather edges of the wood being pushed inward by the ax when the hole was cut, were only so many teeth tn oatrh his hair and he>srd. and hold liim fast. < He thought of his knife. If he had ! it he might cut off those ugly splin- J ters. But. unfortunately, his knil'c was at home. Uncle Danial groaned and shouted at the top of his voice, but the sound only went in echoing circles about his head. He knew it was of no use to call. No one would be out on such a day. But upon thinking, he concluded that he did not want any one to undertake to cut the tree with him fast in it, for in falling, it might twist round and break his neck. Still, he wished some one were there, for then there would be some plan devised whereby he might be released. What should he do? He was at least a half-mile from any house, and there was not one chance in ten thousand that any one would come along in time to save him. Uncle Daniel mads every effort to free himself, but not only his ha caught, but the back of his head, his chin, or his ears; in fact, his he; seemed too large. How could he ha put it in so easily? His body was pierced with tl cold, yet he was so excited and te rorized that the perspiration sto< in drops on his forehead. He kept muttering to himself: "Is it possible that I am such a fo as to put my head in a place that cannot get it out of? Is such a thii possible? Why, if I don't get out this pretty soon I shall die! Alreat I am numb with the cold. If it we not so cold I might live several day and some one would find me. Marti ?1 3 1 ?rr fni* niQ f wouia nave peupic luumug v night." Then he began speculating as how long he might endure the drea ful cold. "But here I am," he sai "caught like a rat in aitrap." All the time he was muttering 1 was struggling with his hands to tei out those splinters, which held i cruelly. Suddenly Uncle Daniel thought 1 might pray. He believed the Loi was all-powerful. But he had nev been a praying man. Martha was good Quakeress; it might be the F ther would hear him for her sake. But he was ashamed to pray, seemed not quite honest to put c praying until he was in a tight plac He looked upward. The way w; clear to the top of the tree. He cou see a bit of blue sky far above. Although Uncle Daniel was a sens ble man, and knew a thought cou reach the heavenly throne, th seemed such an extreme case that 1 soliloquized, as he was looking u ward, "That is the way I would ha1 it, for if I am going to pray, I dot want anything between. I want it go straight up to Him quick." Still he hesitated. He did n know how to begin praying, seemed a dreadful task. But upon making another fruitie effort to free himself, he cried, wit out thinking he was praying: "O Lord, I can't do it! If I get oi of this, You'll nave to neip me. i ie mean to ask such a favor the fir time I've talked to You for yeai but I'll try to do better if You'll he me. I know You can." Instantly there rose before Unc Daniel's mental vision the picture the preacher at Martha's church, i he stood with his great arm and hai stretched toward heaven, sayin "Tarry ye in the cjty of Jerusale until ye be endued with -power fro on high." i Uncle Daniel thought, "What do this mean? What does it mean?" I had grown calm while seeing tl vision of the preacher. It flash* upon him, "I must be quiet ai think." He thought of how he pushed h cap back to make room for his hea and how he had to turn his head fi to one side to get it in. "Well," 1 said, "if that is the way I put it i I surely ought to get it out the san way." So turning his head in as nearly i aoma nnoifinn ha f?C* 1 m puDOiuic iuc onuxg pwjivivu, uv vm,. and slowly withdrew it. There never was a happier mi than Uncle Dainel at that time. H great rejoicing and thankfulne made him forget where his cap wa and he began looking for It. The: were the rabbits, his gun and ax, bi no cap. He became angry, and sai< "What wretch could have con along and stolen py cap and left n fast in the tree? Any one who wou do such a thing as that would comm deliberate murder!" Uncle Daniel started on barehea ed. The farther he went, the mo angry he was, and he threatened ve geance if he should ever find tl thief. As these thoughts were in h mind he was passing under the lo branches of a tree. One caught his cap and held fast. Then Unc Daniel laughed and laughed, as if split his sides. He sat on a log and wiped his tea and smoothed -his hair and beard, ai resolved that as long as he was who and had everything he would si nothing about the matter, for 1 would only be laughed at for doii what he considered a very fooli: thing. He rose, and stretching h hand upward, said: "You did it. I would never ha' got out but for You. I am You from now on." So Uncle Daniel said nothing Martha or any one, at that time, i his adventure; but four years afte ward he told Martha, and in thr< more years he made the world h confidant.?Youth's Companion. By Act of Parliament. According to all accounts the Car eron Highlanders Militia are a fii body of men physically. Not loi ago four of them occupied the lea crowded seat in a full compartmei on a Scotland railway. Just as tl train was moving off a diminuti1 little clergyman jumped into the coi partment and tried to wedge himse in between two of the Highlander Not finding it very comfortable 1 turned to the one on his right ai said: "Sit up, please. You know th according to act of Parliament tl seat holds five." The Highlander looked at him fi a moment and then replied: "That may be a' richt enough fi your kind, sir, but shairly ye cann blame me for no bein' constructed a cording to act of Parliament!"?Ct cago Evening Post. Gold For Teeth. "The use of gold for teeth filling (loomed," according to a salesman f a large dental supply house. quot< by the Philadelphia Record. "Mo of us can remember when near every one carried about in his mou more or less precious metal," sa (his authority. "No one was ashaim of displaying gleaming yellow wh< he smiled. We formerly sold tho sp.nds of dollars' worth of special nronnrorl wnlfl tn HpnHctc Rllt th is all changed. The new porcela fillfngs have been so far perfect* that nearly all dentists use them, the almost total exclusion of gold." A French engineer has invented rotary rudder by which he says a v? sel of any size may be turned in i own length. ?4 " !r" Genuine ruby glass owes its colc 3d to the presence of particles of go] too small to be seen without the ai of the strongest microscope, ol * Following a practical demonstri tion of its value in that field, tt ?* Government will use concrete built Ings in which to store explosives i re the Canal Zone. 'S, ia Scientific men throughout the worl ?* are interested In the expedition < Dr. Waldemar Jocelson, noted arc! to eologist and' ethnologist, to Kan schatka and the Aleutian Islands, d, Early difficulties having been ove ie come, aluminum is now rolled eve ar thinner than tinfoil. As tin is eigl 30 times as heavy and now costs twi< v as much per pound, aluminum fc ie is likely to replace tin foil for wra; ping food and other uses, while a fir nmlnnm in nthpr fnrms is takinsr ti a place of copper, a In a singular experience report It to a Paris medical society by Dr ,ff Chauffard and Widal, a man and h ;e- wife were taken with pneumon as within a few hours of each othe id and the disease ran an almost ident cal course in each case. Their illne si- began on a day in June followir id one on which they drank much co is water from a well. One could n< 16 have taken the disease from the ot: P- er, as is usual in family epidemic ye and common unfavorable surroun ings could hardly had a simultaneoi to effect. That pneumonia germs fro the well water inoculated the patien ?t seemed to be the only conculsion po It sible. S3 In the sterilization process of Ba h* on A. T. Pfeiff, of Stockholm, ml is heated to 200 degrees F., and th ut is claimed to be more effective ths el ordinary Pasteurization at a consi st erably lower temperature, while tl 'S. peculiar flavor imparted .by boiling IP almost?if not completely?avoide A careful microscopic test of diffe ,A ' ^ oo/>V? TTT ,c em StlUipms U1 Il?o uiy^o vubu ... ?f made at Stockholm. The sample ' as raw milk showed 1,120,000 bacteri id the sample of the same milk whi< S. had been Pasteurized at 158 degre< m still contained 2200 bacteria, but i m organism at all could be discoven in the milk treated by the PfeJ es process. The lactic acid bacilli beii I? totally destroyed, the milk remaii i? sweet and fresh much longer thf id untreated milk. In a demonstrate id plant now being tried in England tl apparatus includes a filter for remo is ing dirt, a heater in which the mi d, is circulated in concentric passag ar with steam between them, a slight le rounded surface over which the pal n, flows in open air to aerate it, and I ontrt wator cooler for reducing tl temperature to fifty-eight degrees. ig ly BILL AND HIS RED BROTHER in A Pathetic Incident in tbe Crushii *8 of a Noble People. SS s We know how the Indian looke rg and for many generations will be ab al to know. But what did he think, ho j. did he feel?what was he under tl ae skin? Has any science told us thai e What made the savages of the Ros ld bud Reservation a few years a{ It abandon their new red wagons ai go to hold a council with old B: Hamilton at Billings, Montana? Th re is what they said: "Brother, v know that you have ridden the: 10 plains with our fathers, and .th is you have seen the buffalo. Now tl buffalo has gone away. We hei ln that in the far North the buffalo a l0 still to be found. Brother, you a t0 wise, you have traveled much. Tal then as many of our ponies as yc rg want, as much of this meat as yt 1(j want, and go on a long joqrney 1 le the North. If you find the buffal come back and tell us, then we wl take our families and follow you 1 lg that place,." It is story such as th k which is not written in bronze < ig stone.?Hampton's Magazine. ve J A Wise Warning, rs General F. D. Grant is one of tl innumerable hosts who have disco to ered in their travels railroads whei of a perpetual competition is beir r- maintained to find out how slow a 1 se comotive can really go. Down Soul is there is one of these railroads, ar ^Vthe General vouchsafes for the trul of the following complaint which ws addressed to the leading paper in tl district by a local planter. Hewroti * "Is there no way to put a stop 1 begging along the line of the ral gt road? For instance, yesterday ? nt aged beggar with a wooden leg ke] pace with the express all the wj from Paint Rock to Nola Chucky ar annoyed the passengers exceedingl The trains should be made to go fas ! er or the beggars slower." le General Grant's story is topped I 1(j another one related by W. J. Brya who declares that he found a tra: t out West which had this notice di in f Vi a />Q re ^ , piajcu iu iuc vu.i o. "Passengers are requested not 1 3r pluck flowers while the train is i motion."?Chicago Tribune. 01 a' A New Type of Brick. c- In a recent lecture before the Cob Li- mercial Club, of Portland, Ore., San Francisco architect described tl Bruner Building, just finished in Oal land, across the bay from San Frai I, cisco, as the highest type of fireproi 0, construction. This is a tall buildic | of reinforced concrete, the walls i sJ which are faced with brick of unusu; 15 ' shape. This brick has a groove ca; tjj on its inner edge, that the concrei may be dovetailed in the brick as tt walls rise. The brick is the usui JD size, and the wedge shaped grooi u. is the invention of an Oakland ma: jj who had observed how difficult it a, to keep a brick facing in position i ,-r a concrete wall in a conflagration. 2d Cement Age. tc Brevity. A newspapei man was thunde s struck on reading a telegram whic is- ran: iU "Twins this morning?more late ?Sadie."?Inland Printer. ] IN THE PI ie pgjr*id s. is DR. LIBERT ia Director of the New York College of r? of the Commissio :i8S ? |f STREAMS AND ROAD ?t EMBANKMENTS h. 'S. Embankments where roads traverse d- streams or lakes are subject to many is destructive agents, and will not last m long unless they are carefully and inta telligently constructed. s- Along rivers, and especially at bends, the current is continually carrying away loose soil, and is as conr> tinuously loosening more to carry Ik j along. In the spring, the ice, breakla ing up, tears and cuts the banks as in it passes along down the stream, d- This action takes place high up on 19 the river bank at the spring highia water mark.- Bodies of moving ice d. in the lakes crowd the shores with r- great pressure, cutting the coast badaa ly where the water is deep close up to of the shore line. When a heavy sheet a, of ice is once set in motion by the :b wind or current, it has stored up in ea it enormous power. The writer has 10 seen ice fields come in against a }d shore where the water was deep right Iff up to land, and pile up from thirty ig to forty feet in height. i aa Above the high-water mark of the in stream, or along lakes, above the line >n of wave action, the banks are cut by le iy vlk '*"4 : >g d, le w 10 e! 7^?** ;o in ^ is (re se the surface action. But this should af amount to very little if the surface ie water of the surrounding country is ar kept off the road. Water should not re be allowed .to stand in ditches by the re side of the road, as It will finally seep ce under the road and get to the river, ? i J-hns snftemine- the foundation and )u causing washouts. Cast iron or cont0 crete culverts should be used, of suf0 ficient size to carry off the water [11 quickly. t0 The slope of the bank depends jg upon the material. When heaped up, jj- the side of a pile of earth forms a natural slope called the "angle of repose." The approximate angle of repose for different materials is given below, the ratio of slope being the 16 proportion of the horizontal to the v" vertical: re Material. Angle Repose. Ratio Slope. 18 Dry sand . . . 30deg. 1.43 feetto 1 foot Damp clay.. 45 " 1.00 " " 1 u Wet clay... 15 " 3.73 " " 1 w lr Clay-gravel..45 " 1.00 ? - 1 " *n Gravel .. . .38 " 1.28 " "1 " 18 Firm loam.. 36 " 1.38 " "1 " le Vegetable ..35 " 1.43 w "1 " [0 In practice, the earth is put in at a trifle flatter slope than given above. in Below the water-line, the slope should { be still flatter, running as flat as ^ three and one-half to one, or even ld four to one. Earth under water ha3 a much smaller angle of repose than the same earth above water, as shown in the table, in regard to wet and damp clay. From the high-water line on the D river bank, or the wave line on the g> lake shore, down to the bottom of the slope, the bank is commonly protecttQ ed by a layer of riprap or flat stones. . If large stones are available, they | STRANGE RIVER CRAFT ON* TH r- (From a pi ;t What is believed to be the oldest | r, European painting in existence has j been found in Crete by the Indian ' JBLIC EYE. Jj Spw?6' .. HHbPHHHBB an r H. BAILEY, en Agriculture at. Cornell and Chairman ' de n on Country Life. ^ ?From The World's Work. f ^ " [ * pe are often placed loosely along the po bottom of the bank to afford some cei foundation for the riprap and to tns oreak the force of the current. Some- ce] times large stones are put in at the j*e water-line to catch the impact of the bo waves and ice. Where they are so . placed, it might be well to have very yc litle slope at the water-line, as shown th< in .Fig. 1 of the accompanying sketch, thi RinraD may be out in in different to ways. Three possible methods are he shown in Fig. 2 of the sketch. The th( practical and really the only good method of putting in the stone is to place them with the long way of the stone at right angles to the slope.of [a the bank, as shown by No. 1 of Fig. pr 2. In this way the weight of each all stone presses firmly against the bank, ed with the flat sides of the stones fitting coi solidly against each other. In No. 2 ** the weight of each stone rests on the [7 one below it, for the stones are laid horizontally. Here there is more of a chance for the flat stones to slide out m(: of place, while in No. 1 it would be cai difficult to pull out a stone after it de was firmly imbedded in the slope with ?t* the others. Never put stone in as *rshown in No. 3, where the stones ' . x j iV? *0 4-1%* | Slant sngnuy towaru me l>cu ul mo stream. It is apparent that the very Ca crassecfio/t'of road'J i>f 6anfC md sfreanti 1 a Bhi *Ge in Pii {n to res r pe V . ^ r?l I weight of the stones would tend to j ^ I force the lower ones out of Dosition. i In many localities, willows are ?-0 planted thickly along the water-line of banks. They grow rapidly and their roots interlace and form a solid, strong mass, capable of holding the ^ stream in its place. A row of such q?' trees would greatly improve the beauty of the road. Willows are used COj quite extensively along the banks of pol the Mississippi, arid are considered sue the best means yet. used for keeping that great stream in due bounds. 'It a 1 fs a general practice to sod the banks above the water-line.?L. J. Smith, Agricultural College, Michigan. rel coi Knew Its Business. ^ ^ j0^ ^ jfTir 11 u Howsoe?"The village choir sang a*u enc a very appropriate hymn at the milk- ^ man's funeral." by I Comso?"What was it?" reii Howsoe?"Shall We Gather at the to ! [ River?"?From Ally Sloper. wh Especially if She is His Wife. leg for Fortunate is she who cooks for a r{o man with a good appetite. ma liiiii i ;S ' gjmmm. ' ' - A:-; - YOI 1SJ& "' y1.?; E TIGRIS AT BAGDAD, PERSIA. n lotograph.) pja I I ger | archaelogical mission. It is on a $5( sarcophagus, and is supposed to have wei ! been made 2500 B. C. as wei IlltO BOODMIT" III PITTSBMB6 GMfl artin Gets Part of All the Alleged Loot 4E PRICE OF HIS SILENCE >rmer Lawmaker Confers Outside Penitentiary With President of Councils?Heney to Investigate ?Will Act by President's Wish. Pittsburg.?Those who are probing e Council graft cases in Pittsburg ofess to have found evidence that rmer Councilman William A. Marx, who is serving three years in verside Penitentiary for boodling, being taken care of by the boodle luncilmen, that his share of any rge graft carefully has been set Ide for him. Councilman Martin is caught trying to graft $70,000 tlie Tube City Railroad business d sent to prison for three years. Martin recently had a long conferee outside the prison with Presint William Brand, of the Councils, e only one of the seven under arst whose bail is held at $30,000. ie convict was brought from the nitentiary ostensibly for the purse of having him as a witness in a [ tain case, but he was not called, stead, he was made the hero of a region by his .former colleagues, and and Brand /talked together for urs. That led to a quiet but thorough /estigation of conditions by the iters' League, and it is asserted ?re is proof that Martin, .the first of e boodlers to be caught, agreed not tell on thd whole gang only when was taken care of financially by e rest of the boodlers. There is a rumor that Francis J. 1 J sue/, wuu uuuuvcicu tut? uicguu id frauds and was conspicuous in j San Francisco graft prosecutions, coming here soon at the request of esident Roosevelt to investigate the eged bribery so far as it is connectwith Federal institutions. Acrdlng to Washington reports, Mr. sney was in conference with the esident on the Pittsburg situation, he comes here it will be in the cacity of a special examiner, it is said, investigate the alleged use of >ney by officers of national banks to use their institutions to be made positories^f the city's funds. A itement was made at the preliinin7 hearings of the men under'arrest it $176,000 had beenthusexpended. EXPANDING CONSERVATION. nada and Mexico invited to a I Conference. Washington, D. C.?By inspiration President Roosevelt the movement conserving the natural resources to be expanded from a national to t continental undertaking. This is own by. an announcement from the' hite House that a conference bav; for its object "the conservation the natural resources of North oerica" is to be held at the White ?use on February 18. The Presint has sent Gifford Pinchot, chief ester, as his personal envoy to deer invitations to the Governor* - - -? ii.. n I nerai ana me rremiei vi vauaua d to President Diaz ot.Mexico, Mr. achot, after performing his mission Canada, will go direct to Mexico call on President Diaz.. As the suit of the Invitations it is ezcted that the Canadian Govern- , snt and President Diaz will send >resentatives to the conference. ^ J> TELLS OF SHOOTING BOY. utlifol Hunter and Fisherman Quarrelled and Latter Killed. Worcester, Mass. -? Francis E. .les, a sixteen-year-old boy, whose ly was found on the ice on Lake insigamond, was shot by Ralph lliam Krantz, a lad of fourteen, ac ding to a statement made to the ice by Ki-antz, who was taken into itody on a charge of murder. Krantz said that he left home with shotgun to go hunting. At Half on Pond, part qf Lake Quinsigand, he met Jones, who was Ashing ; ough the ice. The two boys quarled, and Krantz, according to his lfession, levelled his shotgun at aes' head' and fired, the charge iking the young fisherman in the , id and killing him. Krantz then ked up Jones' revolver and the flsb it Jones hadcau^htand went home J RBIDS HER TO SPEAK TO MAN ! urt Enjoins Young Woman Against Charming an Old Farmer. ,J iVinona, Minn.. ? Court Commisner Gibson, of Trempealeau, Wis., . i granted an injunction in behalf ' relatives of Leroy Eell, an old lesville farmer, restraining Miss ; ice Louden, a Winona woman, m speaking to, having any com nication with, advising or influ:ing Bell, and preventing her from ' posing of property deeded to iier . him. Action was begun by Bell's itives to prevent the sale of a deed $10,000 of propertynear Galesville, ! ich, it was said, was given to Miss * iden by the old man. It was al- ' ed the defendant had inveigled the ' raer into giving her presents of va- 1 us sorts and to deed to her his re- ! ining possession, a $10,000 farm. ( ONEOXTA HOTEL BURNS. ( ny Xarrow Escapes in Fire Cans- < ing $100,000 Damage. Dneonta, N. Y.?Fire which for a < e threatened the destruction of the j ole business section of Oneonta de- ^ jyed the Arlington Hotel and seven er buildings in tne nearc 01 me i j r, causing a loss of fully $100,000. ny of the occupants of the hotel I of the living apartments in the J er buildings had narrow escapes, le of them being able to save atf? 1 their effects. > ' I Patent Attorney Convictcd. lohn A. Heany, an inventor, of rk, Pa., was acquitted at Washing- j , D. C., and Henry E. Everding, an ( orney, of Philadelphia, was conted of conspiracy in patent office 1 jgularities. ; Printing Plant Burned. The newspaper and job printing * nt of the St. Albans (Vt.) Messenwas burned, causing a loss of 1,000. Four linotypes machines e destroyed. The press was saved, were the files of the paper, which ; e in a vault. 1 Latest News. t BY WERE. Finds $10,000' in Tomato Can.' East St. Louis. 111.?Patrick Sullivan, an ice waj,jn driver, found a $10,000 bill in an old tomato cad which he picked up in an alley. Conrad Beebe, cashier of the Southern Illinois National Bank, examined the , bill through a microscope and said that it seemed to be genuine. Life For Boy Matricide. Toledo, Ohio.?After deliberating ^ twelve hours, the jury in the. case of Harvey Hazel, the seventeen-year-old boy charged with murder in the first degree for the killing of his mother, returned a verdict of murder in the bCUUUU UBgl-W. . - . ...? Alderman Coughlin "Not Guilty." Chicago, 111.?Alderman ^ "Bathhouse" Coughlin, accused of assaulting a newspaper photographer on the night of the First Ward Democratic ball, was found not guilty. Will Retain Bonds. Boston, Mass.?Mrs. William Warren, of London and. Boston, will retain the $250,000 of bonds given her. by the late George S. Wellman while './ 3he was acting as his housekeeper, the suit by the administrator to recover having been dismissed. Banker Commits Suicide. t ,>'! Worcester, Mass.?Frank W. Cut* ting, for forty years with the Worces- . ter Mechanics' Savings Bank, and for seven years its treasurer, committed auicide. . -Jj Plan Balloon Trip Across Atlantic. ' . ,1 Indianapolis, Ind.?Carl G. Fisher, and George L. Bumbaugh plan a flight across .the Atlantic Ocean in a gigantic balloon; attached to which will be twenty smaller supply bags, the gas from which may be fed into the large balloon. A boat will take the place of a basket Price of Turkeys Goes Up. Chicago, 111.?Quotations* on^tur- ; keys have jumped to a jobbing price of twenty-one cents a pound-, and it Is estimated the cost to the consumer. will be more than twenty-five cents. This is higher by nearly ten . cents han ttio nrirA hftr* ft VMr ftZO. Blight San Francisco Earthquakes. San Francisco, Cal.?Two slight , earthquakes lasting less than throe seconds were felt here and in the cities about the bay. ' Gloom in Chicago City Hall. Chicago, 111.?There is a good deal* ' of repining in the Cit^ /Hall over Mayor Busse's attempt to secure a short lunch hour., One effect of his message was a tendency on the part of city employes to stay out even longer than usual. The Mayor stayed out thirty-five minutes. ' -f New Fashion in Robbery. Chicago, Hi.?Three men set fire to * a fence about the yard of Mrs. Marie r Nelson and ran to the front door to tell her of the blaxe. When she hurried out to fight the fire the men entered the house and stole a $50 far muff. ,? |i ' 1| ! I BY CABLE. ? " Recall of Ambassador Frauds. "t| Vienna, Austria. ? The *Zeit saya that Charles S. Francis, the Anjeric&n Ambassador to Austria-Hungary, will be recalled in February. The Zeit is the Vienna, newspaper that has persistently attacked Mr. Francis, accus- ~ v Jhg the American Ambassador of hav- '. * ing offended the society of the Austrian capital. Portugal Has New Cabinet. Lisbon, Portugal.-?A new Cabinet has been formed by Dr. W. de S. Pereira de Lima, former Minister of Foreign Affairs. The previous Cabinet resigned because of the declare* tion of the Regenerator party that it. would no longer support the Government. f': >%V\ '/j Goes Shooting With King. ftome, Italy.?Ambassador Griscom spent the day in shooting with King Victor Emmanuel at the hunting lodge at Castel Forziano. me iung / was interested in the formation of the new Cabinet in the United States. Order to Seize Castro. Willemstad, Curacao. ? President Castro, of Venezuela, will not be pep* mitted to return to that country. The (act becan e known here when officers Df the Dutch battleship Jacob Heemskerk made the statement that the warships had received" orders not to permit Castro to land in Venezuela, and that if he attempts to re-enter Venezuela he will be captured. French Bights in the Congo. Paris, France.?M.Pichon, the For- ' >sign Minister, and M. Leghait, the Belgian Minister to France, have signed an agreement' regulating Prance's right to preference on terri tories in the Belgian Congo. Russia's Note to Powers. St. Petersburg, Russia.?The Russian circular note to the Powers on -? * iV/v tfle proposed comerBu iu dcllio mo situation in the Balkans has been issued. It contains the new suggestion that the Powers discuss the form of ' government the annexed provinces ire to receive. Dourtesy to Americans. Valparaiso, Chile.?The American lelegates to the Pan-American Scientific Congress in this city are the recipients of many attentions. The local newspapers call attention to the fact that America was the first Power :o recognize Chilean independence. Professor Lanman Honored. Paris, France.?Charles Rockwell lanman, professor of Sanskrit at Harvard University, has been elected corresponding member <f the Academy, 3f Inscriptions and Belles Lettres. raft's Message to Women. Belgrade, Servia. ? The Servian Woman's League has received the fol* y [owing reply to a message sent to William H. Tafti as follows: "Mr. Taft and his wire feel the deepest sympathy and interest in this justifiable movement of the women of SeN j via to support the national ideals* The love and sympathy of all Ameri* can women are on your side." Dutch Cease Action. Willemstad.?The Governor of C. racao announced that all aoi:i< j vcainst Venezuela had been suspend-* ed by Holland. j