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THE GARDEN OF MY SOUL. * I water with my tears each night The garden of my soul. And tend with care the flowers white. I water with my taars each night, Transplanting from the wrong the rightTransfiguring the whole. I water with my tears each niglit The garden of my soul. ?A. B., in Gunter's Magazine. * <? < J A MATTER ! J OF BREAD, ii t ?3?? * By CAR50LL WATSON RANKIN. The Martins, father and son, werf in partnership. Mr. Martin, a vision ary person with no practical experience, mismanaged the Shingleton enc of the business, where noisy sawmill! cut mighty northern Michigan logs into lumber. Robert ran the office it Bayport, the nearest shipping point Owing to a curious lack of judgment bath men proved round pegs it square holes. When the once considerable Martir property had dwindled to two i'dle mills, hopelessly remote from available timber, and a few acres ol stumpage that nobody wanted foi ' farming purposes, Mr. Martin died. Before this the older Martins had lived in Shingleton. Robert and his young wife had dwelt in Bayport twenty miles distant. Now Robert sold all that was portable of the Shin gleton property, and. with many mis -- givings, decided to move his mothei to Bayport. "You'll never agree in the wicu . world," said Robert, divulging his plan to his wife. "Both you anc mother are first-class of your kind; but you're not the same kind." "I'm not perfect, 7 ~ said Peirina modestly. "And you know, Bob, I'v< always prided myself on my adaptabillty. If you'll just keep me bolstered with timely bits of information I'll have things just the way youi mother likes them. I'm going tc pose as a model daughter-in-law." "Wouldn't it be safer and a wholt lot easier to be just yourself? I'n sorry that the business?" "Cheer up, deary; things might be worse, and so far your mother and ] have agreed beautifully." "At a distance," demurred Robert "You've never lived together. But until I've discovered exactly how pooi we are, one roof is all we can afford.' '"I'll make it big enough," assured Petrina, comfortingly. Mrs. Martin, senior, was squarelj and solidly built. She made one think of a substantial business bloci constructed for utility only. She swept on Friday, baked beans or Thursday, washed on Monday, wounc her clock at 9 every Saturday night and bought six new pillow-cases ever) January. Mrs. Martin, junior, sent her wash. Ing out, swept only when the house demanded sweeping, and at irregulai intervals bought beans ready-bakec from a woman's exchange. Yet Petrina made Robert comfortable, hei household expenses were not exces sive, and, moreover, she trimmed hei own hats and made her own Shirt waists. Petrina knew that Mrs. Martin hac baked bread every Wednesday ane: Saturday for thirty years?and hac grown gray worrying over wnai ? do with the surplus. Petrina hac purchased a loaf.at a time, as sh( i^eeded it, from a breadmaking neigh bor. , Instead of confessing, however that her bread was acquired in thif easy planner, young Mrs. Martin, feel Ing certain that the knowledge woulc shock Robert's mother, folishly at tempted to conceal it. She colorei guiltily when the older womai praised the loaf; yet, having failec at the proper moment to disclose th< truth, Petrina felt obliged thereaftei to smuggle bread in at the back door As the week wore on, the culpri realized that it would never do tc serve a perfectly fresh loaf ever] gecond day, since that would certainlj rouse suspicion; so she purchasec stale loaves and ate them unhappily When they were good only for toast she was moved to^further efTort. "Robert," she confided one morn ing, "I'm afraid I'll have to live ui to my reputation for breadmaking But I couln't attempt to set breac with your mother looking on Couldn't you take her sightseeing foi a few hours? If the coast were cleai until 1 o'clock, the worst of the agon: would be over. I'll use compressec yeast ? they say that rises quickly r. But I never could handle stick] things gracefully?she'd detetct m: inexperience at once." "Why not get mother to show yov how?" "And let her discover that I mar ried her son without knowing how t< make bread? I wish to keep her ad miration and respect. Take her t< the Indian Museum by the Elmwooc trolley?it's the slowest. Please helj me out, Bob." i So Robert yielded. The coast clear >' Petrina set her bread. Now breac . dough, as everybody knows, is thi -. most untrustworthy stuff in the cul inary kingdom. Occasionally even ai experienced cook encounters a batcl of dough that seems possessed to gi wrong. At other times dough tha seems in its early stages unpromisini develops unexpectedly into goo< bread. Petrina's dotigh misbehaved fron the very outset to the hitter end. Th flour refused to associate with th water, the little gray-green puddle of yeast declined also to mix; th shortening floated loftily in exclusiv islands. i "It's either too wet or too dry, said Pelrina, peering doubtfully int< .the paD. "'Yet three quarts of wate ought surely to be enough. I thin! I'll try the egg-beater. Ugh! Wha spattery stuff!" Although Petrina likewise tried th ,toasting-fork, the potato-masher am various other stirring implements the mixture still refused to mix. "Perhaps it'll run together as i rises," breathed Petrina, washing th discarded utensils. "But I wish t I goodness I hadn't pretended to be Sbreadmaker when I'm not. Think o doing all this twice a week!" vef An hour later the doubtful coo added flour and a pair of reluctau hands to the still exceedingly stlcl 'batter. "I'm a web-footed duck!" groan* Petarlna, eying her fettered finge with repugnance. "I need somebo< to keep me scraped off. Mercy! It be a year before this mess is ready knead. And the cook-book's goi shut. And how can I get more floi with these hands?" In time, however, the sticky me > grew smoother and firmer, until last the huge cold ball looked ai felt like real dough. Petrina scrapc the dried batter from her coated fl * gers and looked at the clock. It w; later than she had supposed. "But," said she, complacently, "tl worst is over. I'll get all this floi , cleaned up, and nobody'll ever gue what a siege I've been through. I have that bread in the oven by I o'clock." , | But Petrina reckoned without ti ~ I dough. The yeast, cornea vy u t long mixing, had perhaps become di couraged. At the end of an hour tl leaden mass showed no sign of risin | At half past 12 the telephone ran "Hello'" sounded Robert s warnir k voice. "If you've any evidences < , guilt to conceal you'd better be aboi it. Mother's had enough of sigh j seeing, and is on her way home." Anything to conceal! That hideoi mound of leaden dough?surely i I mother-in-law could be permitted j behold a failure like that! Bi where, in that tiny, one-storied co 't tage, could one conceal a crime < such magnitude? "Perhaps," thought Petrina, "th; , dough might be squeezed into som thing smaller." She seized the shining water pa j and poked and punched the eno mous cold lump into it. But whe should she hide the pail? Apparent the house afforded no concealme: * 1,~ ? ~ ^ *?v? qviq xxt tor large uu pa.us ui uuu&u. uuv [ about to move the heavy davenport the living room, in order to mal space behind it for the pail, wh< Mrs. Martin became visible from tl | window. ( Darting impetuously into the gue room, Petrina hastily lifted the lid , her mother-in-law's trunk, which si j knew to be- empty, dropped the pa inside, and thought she closed the li i Unfortunately, she did not know th; ^ the lid had a trick of sticking. Of course, with all that dough c her conscience, Petrina was not e: ; tirely care-free that afternoon; bi ; now, at least, she possessed a deflni , plan. The ash barrel, unfortunatel I discovered overflowing in her moniei of need, should be emptied the ne: , day. Robert should once more spir the guest away, and Petrina wou remove the dough to the barrel, cov it neatly with ashes, and run to tl exchange for a ready-made batch < ( bread. It seemed a good plan, but was never carried out. , Willie dressing ior amuer m evening, Mrs. Martin noticed that tl trunk lid was ajar, and by the san token knew at once that some 01 ; had had it open. She had an imm . diate and alarming vision of thiev in the house?quickly modified to h intense bewilderment when, seeii r something white through the opt crack, she realized that whoever hi r tampered with her trunk had p something into it! In the next secoi she guessed what had happened. Tl : thieves, interrupted, had thrust the boot^ hastily into the trunk! Summoning all her courage, Mi ? Martin raised the lid and looked i Now it happened that the trun ' with the pail resting in the deep, op( tray, stood within two inches of i ?active hot air register; and bre: ' dough, as everybody knows, is co 3 trary, untrustworthy stuff. Havii ' refused to rise at the proper tlm now, when nobody wanted it to ris " It was making up for its earlier d finiencv. Swollen to four times i 1 original bulk, the clean, vigoroi dough filled the tray with rounde 3 puffy billows. The trunk seemed li r erally filled with it. "Petrina!" called the bewilderi t lady. "Robert! Come here! Wh 5 on earth is this?" r "It's?it's bread!" stammered P 7 trina, guiltily. "I spoiled it and1 and hid it." "Spoiled it!" exclaimed Mrs. Ma ' tin. "Why, it's just right to go the pans. But, my dear child, the must be enough here foif ten loav? 1 Do you always make so much? Ai why did you put it here?" 1 Of course, since there was nothii else to do, Petrina told the who r story. r "Dear, dear! " laughed Mrs. Marti ' "And I thought thieves had be< 1 here! Don't scare me like that agai ; There's that 'woman's exchang r place, with everything so good ai f so reasonable. Why in the world ( you bother to bake when you ,li' 1 almost next door to a treasure lil that.?* T'ri havft snenrefiteri It. lm - ago but for fear you'd think I w > criticising. Bless you, child, if - were as smart with a needle as y< > are, I'd buy all my bread, too!" 1 "This is the last time," declari ? Petrina, scooping armfuls of dou{ into the bread-pan, "that I'll ev . pretend to be more of anything thi 1 j I am."?Youth's Companion. e Richest Family in Europe. n It is not generally known that tl 1 imperial family of Russia is the ric 3 est royal family in Europe, and d t rives its vast . wealth from thr ? sources?the State treasury, the ii * perial domains (formerly chun lands) and the so-called "cabin a properties." A writer in Harpei e Weekly gives some interesting fad e The State treasury pays out $7,001 s 000 per annum for the needs of t e imperial house, principally for t' e maintenance of the palaces and t officials and servants attached " them. The reigning Empress, for o ample, has an allowance of $100,0i r per year, and the Dowager Empre k the same. Every child born to t t Czar receivesfrom birth to the age twenty-one nearly $20,000 a ye? e while the heir to the throne receiv [1 annually, in addition to the mai i, tenance of palaces, $50,000. Daug ters receive a dowry of l,000,0i t rubles when they marry. e o See Value of Publicity. a Various means of securing publ f lty are being employed to a great and greater extent in New York k the preachers who wish to secu t larger audiences. "[DETAILED ESTIMATE OF TBI 2 EARTHQUAKE IN SICILY j 5 . OF DEAD AT 200,000; to le ir Rescuers Push Their Work, ss Are Grave Factors, an< ^ Fever is Causing ^ Refugees nas PLANS FOR REBUII lr 1 RE( S3 "11 ^__ 1 Earthquake's Cost in Life and Property. Rr Estimated loss of 10 life 200,000 s- Private property, ie Messina $400,000,000 g. Public property, e. Messina, including the harbor . . works 30,000,000 Private property, Reggio 200,000,000 Public property, Reggio 10,000,000 us Fortifications, io .Strait of Messito na and llghthouses 60,000,000 . Other items, in* eluding public 0 and private property at Palmi. at dagnara, Sant e- Eufemia, Seminara and towns, U villages and ' country estates " in Sicily and Ca- g r0 labria 300,000,000* ly at I i. Total $1,000,000,000 as ' II I ? Ia Rome, Italy.?Horror has bee 10 heaped upon horror to such an exten 50 that It Is still Impossible to give a 19 official estimate either of the loss o human life or the destruction o 9t property in the awful catastroph 0f which overwhelmed Messina and Reg gio and the contiguous towns and vil .? lages in the gray dawn of that awfu lil morning. One thing only seems cei d- tain, that for once the .tendency tc at ward exaggeration natural unde such circumstances of demorallzin m disaster has fallen short of the ap n_ polling reality, and that the'calamit f is t>e greatest recorded in the histor of Europe. . te Two hundred thousand has bee; y> mentioned as the probable total los at of life, and even the most conserva xt tive present estimates do not fa] it much below this figure. In Messin Id city and district alone out of a popu lation of 176,000 not more than 25, 000 are reported to have escaped ie and such figures as are available i regard to Reggio and other Calabria it towns and villages point .to a tr mendous addition to the total, so tha at present indications are that 200,00 ie will not be found to be a greatly ea flp'B'firatArt fleriire. It la pointed out, however, that i 16 the light of past experience wit e" other disasters of a similar kind eve es the most careful estimates cannot b er made too conservative. ig As regards the value of the prop iQ erty destroyed computations ar ^ equally hazardous upon the data a . present available. One estimate ma be mentioned merely as an indicatior It places the damage to private prop erty at Messina at $400,000,000; t sir public property at Messina, includ lng the harbor works, aft $30,000, .3- 000; to private property at Reggi ' at $200,000,000; to puhJic propert i' at Reggio at $10,000,000; to fortif! ' cations, Straits of Messina, and light -u houses, at $60,000,000; and athe in items, including public and privfit id property at Palmi, Bagnara, Sanl n- Eufemia, Seminara, and towns, vil ig lages and country estates ig gicil e and Calabria at $365,000,000"; grand total of $1,000,000,000. Figures like these, of course, ar e" valuable only as a rough and req.d ta Indication of the tremendous m&g lis nltude of the losses. Two facts stam d. out from all fragmentary reports re It- ceived: That the number of the sur vivors accounted for is extremely lim aj ited, and that all the witnesses agre . that both Messina and Reggio ar practically nothing but heaps o ruins. The only deduction to b e- drawn is that the loss to both lif ? and property has been on a seal which the imagination can barel; r. grasp. iD News from the stricken districts i: ^taly is still coming through slowl; and : fraermfintarilv. Th? Cinvp.m 53, ment's demands are almost monop id olizing the telegraph wires. Evei from Rome to London there Is con ig slderable delay in transmission, am le ordinary press messages stand smal chance of getting through. Though rescuers are making mucl ' progress, thousands of survivors an 20 still in want. Starvation and pneu n- monia are adding to the deaths, am ;e' many suicides are reported, id Living persons are still being takei io from the ruins of Messina. The in VQ Jured have filled the accommodation ^ of all cities near the devastated re gion. Many of the survivors havi lg j been "taken to Rome, where the Kini 8-3 . Vinn thrown nnun thA mflitnrv hnr I } racks and the Pope has given the usi >u . of the Lazaretto. j Major Landis, of the Americai 5<1 j Embassy, is at Messina with sixt; soldiers digging in the ruins of thi '' Consulate .there in hope of findini the bodies of United States Consu iD Cheney and his wife. Instead of burning the ruins of th< city to prevent a disastrous epiaemic it is now understood that the author ities have decided to clear Messina o k" Joshua Rhodes Dead. 0* Joshua Rhodes, a pioneer busines ee man and financier, of Pittsburg, diet n" at his home in his eighty-fifth year cb Mr. Rhodes, who was worth $25,000, et 000, was a lifelong friend of Andrev r's Carnegie, who never entered the fielt ts, of tube making, which was Mr j. Rhodes' specialty. he " Church Influence Commended. . ri esiueu-i-eieui ian uommenubi the influence of the church on civiliz t0 ation to a body of ministers in Au !X< gusta, Ga. 00 (SS h FROM FOREIGN FIELDS, ol ir. Last year China imported 1,102, es 333 umbrellas and the year befor? n. 1,380,111. h. The city of Haroun al Raschid Qf Bagdad, has a foreign trade of nearl; $25,000,000 a year. In 1S85 Japan owned .8S per cent of the world's steam tonnage, whili now her share is 3.33 per cent. 1C" Great Britain with 3327 coa el mines, employing 940,618 people turned out 267.S30.962 tons of coa in 1907. \ ! DESTRUCTION BY THE \ND ITALY PLACES NUMBER MONEY LOSS AT $1,000,000, But Starvation and Pneumo I an Outbreak of Typhoid I Alarm Among the and Soldiers. LDING MESSIINA A!> 3GIO. ' every living person and surroum with a cordon of troops in ordei keep It absolutely isolated. TO, REBUILD^ MESSING Merchants of Ruined City Resolve Return When Wreck i3 Cleared, Rome, Italy.?Despite Premier < litti's statements indicating that Government will discourage the building of MesBina, the merchz of the city who escaped held a m ing at Palermo and. decided ,no( abandon the place, but to return rebuild once more when the ri were cleared away. The treasures which lie bent the ruins of Messina must amoun an enormous sum. Pillage and tl during the first days were indul in to a considerable extent, and, fortunately, ara etill going on. The treasures contained in the thedral have disappeared, but ei mous wealth, nevertheless, has t recovered. The Commercial B saved 20,000,000 lire, and the fir the depot of the Bank of Italy now been got In hand. A priest and his attendant * were found alive amid the ruini n their presbytery declined to le t They preferred to remain in this c n gerous situation, as beneath the ri if were hidden their treasures. 1 if told .their rescuers life was not w< e living without their wealth. The banks and commercial es 1- lishments lost huge sums In cash il securities. Little, indeed, of the - lion in any of the lost cities i- saved except $4,000,000 in r branch of the Bank of Italy at I g sina and a similar amount in i- vaults of the Commercial Bank at y same place. y A special Government commisi will probably be appointed to g< n the scene of the disaster and mal s systematic search for securities, i- j lion, coin and artistic treasure?1: 11 in the wreckage. a Besides the large direct inter i- in Messina and Reggio there scarcely a large commercial ho L, bank or institution throughout I n which has not been hit by the di n ters. The religious orders, also, i- sides losing members, lost prop ,t and treasure, and the Holy See 0 churches to the value of many r fons of dollars. Ambassador Griscom, at Rc n turned over to Count Taverna, i h. of the Italian Red Cross, $250, n from .the American Red Cross. e The Pope welcomed sufferers the hospital established by him at i- Vatican and administered consola e to them personally, leaving, tec ,t cally, the confines of the Vaticai y do so. i. ? A Correspondent Write [. ' ' the Horrors He Ss - Ruined C y Messina, Sicily. ? Eight thous ^ soldiers and sailors are in this c _ nel house, still searching for tl r who were trapped alive beneath e wreckage. k : The scenes for a distance al [_ the waterfront make the 'stou y hearts^ quail. Little groups of n a women and children, half clot! sleep. huddled together, crazed e numbed with grief and terror. T y are awaiting boats to take tl .. away. No family is complete. ] 4 are without their wives, many of K women are widows, and chilc .. have lost their parents. Behind this line of refugees tl e are a number of improvised hosi e stations, where the injured, as f as they are brought from the ri e on stretchers, receive first aid be: e being taken on steamers for trj e portation to Naples, Leghorn, C y nia, Syracuse or Palermo. It, was astonishing how many ] a pie still were being dug out alive y full days after the catastrophe. W _ the correspondent lingered for . hour near ^one of these stati a twelve wounded were brought . They were almost naked, their I I ies covered with blood and dirt, 1 they were hardly recognizable as man beings. a The brunt of the work of res e bas fallen upon the sailors, fore: . ers as well as Italian, and all h i done their duty nobly. Praises the Russians are on every lip. T a hesitated before no danger. A correspondent made two tc s about the wrecked city, thro - streets piled twenty or thirty e high with debris. Jt was a wil< 5 ness of a ruin a mile wide and - miles long. Beautiful chure e splendid villas in the foothills, 1 pitals, barracks and the univer i all shared the common lot. T y thirds of the magnificent Norr 2 cathedral, the pride of Messina/ ii 5 ruins and little or nothing rem; 1 of the relics of Phoenician, Gr< Roman and Saracen architect e wbrich marked the stages of Messii twenty-six centuries of tragic - tumultuous history. The loss to f world will be irreparable. Austria Demands Apology. s The Austro-HungarianGovernrr i at Vienna has demanded an apol . from M. Melovonolsz, the Sen - Minister, for his anti-Austrian ut v ances in a speech before the Natic i Assembly. Morgan's Gift to Paris Museun J. P. Morgan has presented Natural History Museum of Ps j France, with a fossilized tree tri . that had been converted into af . by the action of water. It was s . frnm Hnlbrook. Ariz. Nuggets of News. Austria's State railways in 1 were run at a loss of $16,S49,000. Senator Burkett, of Nebras 2 made an argument in favor of Postal Savings Bank bill. The South Manchurian Railwa; P transferring its head office from kio to Dalny, Manchuria, wit] branch office at Tokio. e Standard Oil interests have i chased two buildings for busii 1 purposes on the south side of f, James' Park, London, causing 1 verse comment from residents of exclusive section. The Appalling1 Horror of No Sense I Messina, Sicily. ? Foreign officer; wlio have explored the ruins of botl QQy sides of the Strait give higher esti mates of the loss of life than Italiai reports. They believe that 90,00( . persons have either been killed 01 Hla trapped in the ruins of Messina anc 30,000 at Reggio, where the tida wave rose to double the height tha it did at Messina. Two days spent amid the ruins o Messina and Reggio bring convincinj evidence that the appalling horror o the situation in the Straits of Mes sina has in no sense been exagger ated. Messina and Reggio have ceaset to exist. In the ruins of the lorme; city two-thirds of the inhabitants li< buried, while at Regprio one-half o ^ " the people lost their lives. Messini : *? counted 150,000 and Reggio 50,00( souls. Both places are to-day vas morgues of the dead, and one canno 1, make his way through the strickei area without being overwhelmed b: the scenes of death, destruction ant ' to desolation. Sickening stenches arisi from the countless decomposing bod Gio- ies, and the air for many miles ou the to sea is polluted. Vutures are con re- gregatlng to prey upon the dead. I ? - - i-i 1 10 ints would DB a uiesaiug 11 ure suuuu eet- reduce what is left of these two cit i to leg to ashes, particularly as no mori and living are to be found in the wreck iins age. Fire to-day would brin&onl: material losses. 1 V ;ath"s The radius of ruin and death ex t to tends back with decreasing intensit; heft for forty miles on the mainland an< ged for thirty miles in Sicily. un- The work of rescuing and trans porting wounded and homeless i: ca- proceeding amid the greatest confu aor- sion. The task of digging out ant ieen burying the dead at both Messina ant ank Reggio has been abandoned. Durinj e at the first few days such bodies a has were recovered were laid out In loni wbo The powerful Camorra organiza 3 of tion in Naples is profiting by the dis ave aster by raising the price of comesti lan^ bles. All the newspapers protes against this plunder. Even wors< .jjgy abuses are disclosed by the fact tha 3rt^ one sea captain complains that sev eral young girls among the refugee tab_ under his charge have been stolen. and bwui CAUSE OF THE EARTHQUAK1 the Messina, Sicily. ? Earthquake ex ties- perts who are here to study the phe the nomenon generally agree that th the | earthquake was the result of a faul in geologicaF formation under Messl aion na, which constituted a line of jeon ) to tact in the volcanic action betweei ce a Mount Etna and Mount Vesuvius, am bul- that a slip occurred similar to .the on ring which detached Sicily from the main land. That a subsidence occurred a ests some points and that there was a rls is ing of the earth's surface at others 1 use, proved by soundings, which show tb taly channel of the harbor deeper at som sas- places and shallower at others. Th be- British battleship? Exmouth at a dis erty tance one-half mile south of Reggl lost found fifty-eight fathoms of wate aill- where formerly there were 243. Mr. Perret, who was one of th me, first scientists to reach the scene lead says he has proved the fact that th 000 first motion was upward and the sec ond oscillatory. He characterizes th 1 at disturbance as intervolcanic. the The continual settling of the crus tion of the earth in this region has bee; hni- amply proved, for there have been n i to less than 500 recorded seismic move ments since lf)05. ss a Touching: Description o1 tw During- a Tour of the ity of Messina. iand > Here and {here the corresponden bar- encountered salvage parties at worto lose One party was trying to dig out i the girl whose crying could be heari plainly, but as the corresponden ong watched there was a sudden cave-ii test and thereafter silence. t aen, In one place two buzzards wer tied, sunning themselves on a window ??^ loflffo nupr the rionri hnrlv n unman auu - ?w ^ ? v ? 'hey whose wealth of black hair coverei aem her face and shoulders. Dogs an Men cats are killed by the soldiers when the ever caught among the dead. Iren The air In Messina Is almost nn ( breathabie. The survivors of the dls iere aster are so dazed and worn out tha >ltal they are quite Incapable, of descrlb fast ing their experiences connectedly, bu alns the accounts of all agree that the de Core vastatlon was accomplished In les ans- than one minute. The strata belo\ ata- the Strait slipped along the line of i fault; then a tidal wave rushed ii ?eo- and out, and all was over. All thosi six capable of analyzing their sensation hile say that when the shock came the; an felt an upward thrust of the earth [ons This was followed by an oscillator: in. motion, and the crust of the eartl )od- vibrated. Few of the survivors ar< and able to explain how they escaped hu- They know only that amid fallini plaster and masonry they managei icue to jump safely from windows o [gn- stumble down crumbling stairways. :ave By .some evil miracle the prisoner - #_ xv. -11 ? *14?ta TVI^I I 01 111 lue jau ail cstajicu autc, iug, hey were considerable in number, and In stantly set at work to rob the dea< ?urs and rifle the ruins. ugh In the first confusion the thieve feet of all near parts of Sicily made a rusl ier- for Messina, but within a few hour two a cordon of troops and bluejacket hes, was established, with orders to shoo ios- every suspicious character who trle< sity to pass the lines going in or out. wo- It has been literally impossible t< aan count the dead, and the bodies tha 3 in have been extracted from the wreck ilns In the first attempt at life saving jek, bodies were positively torn to niece ;ure ?heads, arms, feet and hands la; na's scattered among broken masonry, and The stench from the bodies am the the fumes of burning flesh are a suffocating as they are horrible. Arrest Alleged Blackmailer. tent William E. Beall has been arrestee ogy at Washington, D. C.. to be taken t.< rian New York, where he is wanted to an ter- swer a charge of attempted blackmai inal in sending letters to Dr. Dadirrian an Armenian, demanding $10,000. i. the Monument to Senator All;ison. iris, Plans are being discussed for th< unk erection at Washington. D. C., o" ; ;ate monument in honor of Senator Will ? - a... a -r ...1 ,11 sent iam tsoyci Allison, oi iowa, wuu uio last summer. Saved From Annexation. The "week of prayer" in Oak Park 111., has been marked by petitions t< ska. providence to ba saved from annexa tno I rn-u_ ,1 ? ? "*v lion 10 Vyiiiuaiju. i ue uaugci v?i ?.??> curse o? the aaloon" is given as tht y is motive. To- . , I'll a Canada Coins Sovereigns. )ur- The first gold sovereigns ever mad* less in Canada were turned out at th? St. royal mint, Ottawa. They are mad< ad- from gold mined at Lanier Lake, anc this are marked with "C," indicative o Canadian manufacture. y ; ' the Situation Has Been in xagge rated. rows for possible identification, but as there were few cases where any of the dead were recognized, they are now being covered with quicklime when this material is available. Otherwise they are being left to decompose where they are found. Now all the efforts are being directed to getting the survivors away. A royal decree was issued placing the Messina and Regglo districts In a state of siege, which is stricter than martial law. General Mazza, commander of the Palermo garrison, is placed in supreme command. It is reported, however, that the King scouts the suggestion that Messina and Reggio ought not to be rebuilt. He said: "I-have lost two of the most beautiful jewels of my crown, but Messina and Reggio must be rebuilt, cost what may, and they shall be more beautiful than ever. : Maybe this terrible calamity will prove the strongest bond of reunion between south and north: I will go there if need be, and where the King goes his people will follow." A detachment of troops which went to the villages on the east coast of Calabria found nothing but ruins and the bodies of persons killed in the earthquake. The survivors had fled. A convoy with 1000 rations of bread, which was going through Bagnara, was rifled en route by famished persons here. A number of small boats, all of them overloaded, pujt out into the channel to request food of Incoming steamers, which the officers of the vessels were compelled to refuse them. Several of the smaller craft capsized and many persons were drowned. Whenever a boat approached the wrecked water front, wild faced, starving creatures, in blood stained rags, waded out stretching forth their hands and crying "Bread! Bread!" ' GIRL ENDS LIFE FOR $300. Takes Poison So That Starving Family May Have Food. Trenton, N. J.?Jennie Joyce, of 444 North Clinton avenue, committed 3 suicide, It is alleged, so that her family might get the $300 insurance on her life to keep them from starving. The girl was only seventeen years 7, old, and the only one of a family of three who had been working. The funds of the household were low and her earnings could not keep them e longer in food. She told her two sls,t ters that she had the insurance policy - on her life and believed she would die that they might live. They Bcouted a the idea, but she drank a half pint 1 bottle of carbolic acid and died in a e few minutes. ! The girl had a brother in the navy, t and she mailed a letter to him. No i- one knows the contents. s e STANDARD OIL WINS CASE. 8 - e Company Will Nofc Have to Pay Pine - of 929,210,000. r wasmngion, u. 000 fine case of the Standard Oil e Company will not be reviewed by , the Supreme Court of the United g States. The decision of the court to . thia effect was announced by Chief e Justice Fuller. The action of the court consisted t ill the announcement that the Gov3 ernment's petition would not be 0 granted. The effect of this announcement will be to leave standing the decision of the Court of Appeals _ which was adverse to the Governp ment and favorable to the company. TELEGRAPHIC ODDS AND ENDS. . . Ex-PreBident Castro was operated on for kidney trouble in Berlin, a Richard Canfield, the notorious 3 gambler, closed his New York resit dence and went to Europe, a. Pennsylvania Railroad directors plah to increase indebtedness by e 580,000,000 to meet issues maturing v in 1910. i. , The committee of nine who are in<3 vestigatlng Wall Street methods api pointed four sub-committees to take - up the Inquiry. The Rev. Dr. Aked, of New York " City, in a sermon drew a parallel be twesn the earthquake in Italy and t the menace of anarchy to society. ^ Orville Wright, aeronaut, sailed for Europe to confer with his brother William in regard to offers for ? control of their aeroplane patents. a The 100th anniversary of the birth a of Charles Darwin was celebrated at e Baltimore by the American Associag tion for the Advancement of Science, jr The elections held in France foi members of the chambers of Deputies Y resulted in a victory for the Gov. rtw/1 noT*H/>ii1or1v fnr the j ci umcub auu ^ uvumiv *v? .?V b Badteals. Guglielmo Ferrero, lecturing at ? Columbia University, New York, dei picted Nero and St. Paul as "collabr orators," and denied that Nero set fire to Rome. 3 The Federal inquiry into the al^ leged relations between the packing " houses and the railways was resumed 1 in Chicago, redoubled . precautions for secrecy being taken. j Mayor McClellan, of New York. s issued a record breaking message, s with sixty-five illustrations, defendt ing his administration against the j charge of extravagance. In thte City Court, New York, tlu 3 .case of Mary J. Moore against Alice t J. Eaton, which has been in the court for twenty-three years, was settled and stricken from the calendar. 3 In a lecture at vjoiumoia umvery sity, Professor Ferrero, the Italiar \ historian, bracketed Nero and St. 3 Paul as the two ancients to whon? s Christianity, art and civilization owe more than to any two men in history Murderer Jones Must Die. 1 William Jones, who murdered j Liewellyn G. Bunn at Hempstead . September 1, 1907, must suffer the 1 death penalty in the electric, chair, , the Court of Appeals decided at Albany, N. Y, Admiral's Daughter "Weds. 3 Miss Helen Stockton, a daughter o) i Rear-Admiral C. H. Slockton. U. S - Navy, retired, and Ainsworth Parker ] of Baltimore, were married in Chrisl Church, Westminster, London. Te'ezniphic Condensations. Miss Laura A. Hecox has tended the light in the Santa Cruz (Cal.) 3 Lighthouse for twenty-seven years, j Mrs. C. H. Mackay was elected j president of the new Equal Franchise Society. Cook County, Illinois, has commenced work on its new tuberculosis hospital,having appropriated $1,000,; 000 for that purpose. i According to Umpire Billy Evans, J Herman Schaefer never takes his po1 sition at the plate that he does no? f draw a horseshoe with his bat on th( ground for luck. $800,000 FORRELIEF FUND President Roosevelt Reccm? mends and Congress Acts. United States Makes to Italy's Sufferers Most Generous Donation Ever Bestowed Abroad. Washington, D. C.?President ~ Roosevelt in a message to Congress asked for a direct appropriation of ..:*/ half a million dollars for the relief of the stricken people in the earthquake zone of.Italy. Later he asked that the appropriation be increased to $800,000,. Congress acted promptly and pkssed resolutions making the appropriation. ' This, the most generous fund ever contributed by the American people for sufferers in other lands, is .to supplement the dispatch of the sup- \ Dly fehins Celtic from New York and'' ; ' Cujgoa from Port Said for Messina with their cargoes of necessaries for. use of the Italian sufferers. It also supplements the President's ' ' proffer of the services of the American fleet of sixteen battleships, whose use, in whole or in part, hinged only on the acceptance or declination of the Italian Government. The President's Message. The text of the President's message is as follows: "To the Senate and House of Repr?> - > sentatives: "The appalling calamity which has befallen the people of Italy is followed by distress and suffering v, throughout a wide region among ' , many thousands who have escaped with life, but whose shelter and food and means of living are destroyed! "The ordinary machinery for supplying the wants of civilized communities is paralyzed; and'an exceptional emergency exists which demands that the obligations of humanity shall regard no limit of national lines. "The immense debt of civilization to Italy; the parm and steadfastfriendship between that country and our own; the affection for their, native land felt by great numbers of good American citizens who are immigrants from Italy;* the abundance with' which God has blessed us in our aafety; all these should prompt us to immediate and effective relief. "Private generosity is responding ''nobly to the demand by contributions through the safe and -efficient cbamael of the American Red Cross Society. Has Sent Two Supply Ships. "Confident of your -approval,"! have ordered the Government supply ships Celtic and Culgoa to the scene ; of the disaster, where, upon receiving the authority which I now ask from you, they will be able to dispense food, clothing and other supplies with which they are. laden to f # 9 A A AAA lUC value ui auuui ^avu,uvu> > "The Celtic has already sailed and the Culgoa is at Port Said. .Eight vessels of the returning batUeshlp ; fleet are already under orders for Italian waters, and that Government has been asked if their services can be made useful. "I recommend that tfce Congress approve application of supplies above indicated and further appropriate' the surn^of $500,000 to be applied to the work of relief at the discretion of the executive, and with the consent of the Italian Government. "I suggest that the law follow the form of that passed after the Mount Pelee disaster in 1902. "THEODORE ROOSEVELT. ' "The White House.". Prompt Action by House. As soon as the message was read resolutions were introduced in the Senate and House for an appropriation for Italian relief. The House added $300,000 to the $500,000 originally planned to be appropriated. i At the conference at. the white House/p which 'was attended by Speaji- , ^ " -- ?PAA AAA ?.?v_ | er i/aiiuuzi, fovv,uvu woo a^icou up- , . i ..>^1-^ on as the amount to ,be given. Ten minutes before the House convened the speaker received a letter from the White House, suggesting that the amount be increased to 1890,000, and this wa^s done. Passed Amid Great Applause. \ Mr. Bingham secured unanimous v consent of the House for immediate consideration and the resolution w&a passed amid great applause. Another resolution was unanimous ly adopted, expressing sorrow .of the House for the calamity, and request- -< i lng that a copy be sent to the President to be communicated to the peo- < > pie of* Italy. In the Senate a resolution appro* priating the sum asked by the President was reported by Mr. Hale and agreed to with only one negative vote, that of Mr. Bailey. . .'.'V.tv? j <,y ?y PHYSICIAN KILLED IN AUTO. "./$ Dr.; Snader, of ' Philadelpliia> WW* ", >> Chauffeur, Loses Life in Accident. Philadelphia, -Pa.?Dr. Edward-H. } Snader, a prominent physician, of this city, and his negro chauffeur, % <S John A. Bailey, lost their lives when an automobile in which they were rvTTnf O Am* l lUllig yiuuguu UlVi %m V >w. bankment in Falrmount Park. Dr. Snader was dead when rescuers reached the car. The chauffeur was badly Injured and died in the hospital later in the day. Dr. Snader was widely known and was professor of medicine in Hahnemann College. He was the author of "Repertory" In Hale's "Diseases of. the Heart," and was a writer on many medical subjects. 4 30-CENT GAS LAW STANDS. United States Supreme Court Quashe* the Injunction Against It. Washington, D. C.?In an opinion Kv Tnafiro Pppirhftm unanimously concurred in bV the entire court, the Supreme Court of the United State's reversed the decision of the United States Circuit Court for the southern district of New York, granting an injunction against the enforcement of the eighty-cent gas law. Stub Ends of News. The Quebec ^over.ament has decided to appoint a royal commission to investigate the spread of tuberculosis in that province. Olga Stein, who was arrested in New York City for swindling in Russia, was sentenced in St. Petersburg to slxtfeen months In prison. Lieutenant Calvfn P. Titus has resigned from the army, and the President has accepted the resignation. Titus was the boy who, as a private, was the first man of all the allied 'v. array of the world to scale the walla .' of P?kln. . . >.*' . :} i . ' '* S. ' ', ,r