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BOOSEET 01 BOS . OF THE MBS Special Message Ssntto Congress With Commission's Report WANT ROADS ANDPARCELS FOST i An Appropriation oi' S23.000 to Assist t lie Work is the Only Recommendation Offered ? Xo Money Spent. Washington, D. C. ? President Roosevelt sent to Congress the report of the commission on country life he appointed last year, accompanied with a special message. The object of the commission, tho President says, is not to help the farmer io raise better crops, but to call his attention to opportunities for better business and better living on the farm. While not a dollar of public money has so far been paid to any of the commissioners for their work, the President asks Congress to appropriate $25,000 to enable the commission to digest the material it has gathered and to collect more data. The message says: Judging by thirty public hearings, to which farmers and farmers' wives from forty States and Territories came, and from 120,000 answers to printed questions sent out by the Department of Agriculture, the commission finds that the general level nAiinfrr Hfo io hich r*r\mnorort with VI VVUUbl J V,Wili|;aiV,U '?*?-* any preceding time or with any other land. If it has in recent years slipped down in some places, it has risen in more places. Its progress has been general, if not uniform. Yet farming does not yield either the profit or the satisfaction that it ought to yield and may be made to yield. There is discontent in the country, and in places discouragement. Farmers as a class do not magnify their calling, and the movement to the towns, though, I am happy to say, less than formerly, is still strong. Under our system, it is helpful to promote discussion of ways in which the people can help themselves. There are three main directions in ^which the farmers can help themselves, namely, better farming, better business and better living on the farm. The object of the commission on country life, therefore, is not to help the farmer raise better crops, but to call his attention to the opportunities for better business and better living on the farm. Now whatever the State may do toward improving the practice of-agriculture, it is not within the sphere of any government to reorganize the fnrmoro' hiicinoao nr ropnnctnicf tVio social life of farming communities. It is, however, quite within its power to use its influence and the machinery of publicity which it can control for calling public attention to the needs and the facts. It would be idle to assert that life on the farm occupies as good a position in dignity, desirability and business results as the farmers might easily give it if they chose. One of the chief difficulties is the failure of country life, as it exists at present, to satisfy the higher social and intellectual aspirations of country people. From all that has been done and learned three great general and immediate needs of country life stand out: First, effective co-operation among ft^Tners, to put them on a level with the organized interests with which / they do business. Second, a new kind of schools in the country, which shall teach the children as much outdoors as indoors, and perhaps more, so that they will prepare for country life, and not as at present, mainly for life in town. Third, better means of communication, including good roads and a parcels post, which the country neo pie are everywnere, ana rig^iy, unanimous in demanding. . FOLLOWS MURDERED SOX. <Jeorge Sampson, Brother of the Ad* miral, Found Dead in Rochester. Rochester, N. Y.?George Sampson, father of Harry Sampson, whose widow, Georgia, was arraigned at Lyons for the murder of her husband, was found dead in bed at his home * at Palmyra. He was a brother of the late RearAdmiral Sampson, and was an im:* portant witness for the prosecution of his daughter-in-law. Mr. Sampson had grieved keenly over his son's death. There was no sign of a struggle; nothing that looked like either foul play or suicide. He had been for some years a sufferer from heart trouble, and it is believed he died of heart disease. :: Mr. Sampson is reported to have said that the story of the killing of his son told by Mrs. Sampson's family, the Allyns. to him, was not the one told to the Coroner's jury by them. This the Allyns deny. At all events the death of George Sampson is looked upon as removing an important witness for the prosecution. Mrs. Harry Sampson, after her arraignment, was locked up in the Lyons jail. France and Germany Agree. France and Germany signed an agreement regarding their relative interests in Morocco. Chinese Officials Dismissed. PKon ID! rvi*ao ia*i fr A? /\l I VUVU A. A, [71 V^OiU^Ul VI L lie UUUl U 'J I Communications, and three under secretaries were dismissed in disgrace at. Pekin, China. Chen Pi had been impeached on charges of corruption. Sugar Trust's Trick Scales. Evideuce was introduced in ths Federal Court to show that the Sugar Trust had defrauded the Government of $3,624,121 by "trick"' scales in Brooklyn, N. Y. Deficit For Seven Months of Present Year $79 814,443. Washington, D. C.?The monthly comparative statement of the Government receipts and expenditures shows the total receipts for January, 1909, to nave been $4<\4S0,42S and the expenditures $*53,024,260, which leaves the deficit for the month $15,- 1 543,842, and for the seven months of the present fiscal year $79,814,443. The National City Bank estimated the Government's deficit for the fiscal year ending June 30 next at $135,000,000. Mr?? mxm ??ifa?? ] ThEH( ?Week's cleverest c Congress Will Make 1 Attending the Inaugu dent Taft and Vice-F man Solemn and Dig Washington, D. C.?The joint committee of the two houses of CongTess purpose to make the ceremonies attending the actual inauguration of ' President Taft and Vice-President Sherman as solemn and dignified as befits so important an event. Joy i and music and the spirit of festivity ] jvill mark the inaugural parade, and i the scenes along the streets will be : as brilliant as ever, but in the Capitol < and on the inaugural stand erected on its east front solemnity and dignity will dominate. The details are already perfected, and every official, every employe understands the part he is to play. The Senate will complete the work of the last session of the Sixtieth Congress abtfut 10.30 a. m. on March 4, and "will then take a recess so that the scenery may be set for the important act in the great drama of the Republic so soon to take place. Shortly before noon the Vice-Presi; dent will call the Senate to order. The Secretary of the Senate will announce the arrival of the Speaker and the House of Representatives, and they will file into the Senate Chamber and take the places assigned to , them. Next in order will come the Supreme Court of the United States, headed by Chief Justice Fuller, and then the ambassadors and ministers plenipotentiary of the foreign nations, following the heads of the diplomatic corps will come the heads of the executive departments, who will take their places immediately back of the seats assigned to the chief figures in the drama. ; 1/^Trri'^ rv + nnUi'nAf TT $r\r\ r uuuniug tuc v/auiuci tuc VILCPresident-elect will be formally an- t nounced, and will enter, accompanied c by his escort, Senator Frye, president ( pro tempore of the Senate, and Rep- "5 resentative Young. "The President- \ elect" will be the next announcement, ? and William H. Taft, accompanied by "5 Senators Knox and Lodge, will enter, c and, finally, the President of the United States will enter alone. At y each announcement the entire assem- t blage will rise and remain standing a until the person so announced is 1 seated. v When all the dignitaries have ar- I rived, the Vice-President will deliver i: his valedictory and will then call to a the rostrum James S. Sherman, to S whom he will administer the oath of t the Vice-President of the United t States, after which he will declare the 1 Senate adjourned without day. Hay- S ing been sworn, Mr. Sherman will as- I cend the rostrum, and, taking the F gavel, will call the Senate to order b for the new session, and will ask that t new members of the Senate come s farnr <i rH o n r? f lira f Via AofV? P r\ lv/1 ? ai u auu tauu lug vatu KJL uuilC. w Presumably there will be sixteen new | c SHOOTING FROM A SOON! Hiram Maxim Shows the Noise Killer at ' Gun and Breaks Down the Vit Until the Ear No longer Rei New York City. ? Patents having been obtained on it in twenty-four o countries, Hiram Percy Maxim gave s a demonstration and explanation of o his silencing device for rifles before a a large number of representatives of t newspapers and scientific publica- t tions. By the use of a sandbox tar- " get the inventor made a series of ex- t periments by firing a variety of rifles, ranging in power from a .22 calibre a up to the new Springfield .30 calibre a military rifle. They were fired both b with.and without the "silencer," and r the/spectators?or perhaps it might v be better to say auditors?marvelled ? *- 4V.? + V. -? A ntr\ T f f at LUC CUCtL U1 LliC X1L L1C UCY1LC. AC t is said scientific tests show that nine- d ty per cent, of the noise of explosion t is eliminated. t Only Sixteen, But Invents a 3 Duplex Receiver For Wireless. Plymouth, Mass. ? Harold B. Doten, sixteen years old, who has b been a student of wireless telegraphy a for the last three years, and who has t a small power sending station at his d home. No. 7 South street, has sue- ^ ceeded in duplexing the receiving r portion of his plant so that two oper- ii ators can sit and "listen in" inde- ii pendently of each other, the detectors li being in duplicate. This is done by a process of tuning, and makes it j ii possible for two operators to work. 1 s Amone the Workers. A N'ew England district council of I retail clerks' unions was formed at a \ d convention of thirty-two of the | E unions. | a A great victory is recorded in fa- i vor of industrial peace in England by . f the constitution of a conciliation t board for iron founders throughout ' F Lancashire. s Minnesota railway men are particularly interested in the proposed semi- r monthly payday bill and an employ- I ers' liability bill, and the union work- r ingmen the State over are also anx- c ious to secure both. i :artoon, from the Atlanta Constitution, the Ceremonies ration of Presi3resident Shernified. faces in the Senate. Each new Senator, accompanied by his colleague, will step forward and take the oath. This done, the entire assemblage will' proceed to the inaugural stand. Tho oorirDonfc.Q Larma r?f tha Qon ate and the House will lead the stately procession. This is an innovation, as heretofore it has been led by the marshals of the Supreme Court and of the District of Columbia. Those present in the Senate Chamber will Call into line in the same order in which they entered the Senate, and the entire company will march to the naugural stand. * The troops gathered in front of the stand will present arms as the President and the President-elect appear it the main door of the Capitol, and ivhen they have arrived at the front Df the stand Chief Justice Fuller will step forward and administer to Mr. raft the oath of office, following vhich the new President will deliver lis inaugural address, which is unlerstood to be unusually brief. From he stand the President will descend i flight of steps to his carriage and Irive immediately to the White 3ouse, where he may snatch a brief uncheon before taking his place in he reviewing stand erected in front >f the White House grounds, from rhich he will view the great parade n his honor. The Vice-President and the memjers of the Senate will return from he inaugural stand to the Senate Chamber, where certain brief routine tusiness will be transacted and adournment taken. Ex-President Roosevelt, on leaving he inaugural stand, will enter his arriage from another entrance to the 3apitol, and, escorted by the New fork Republican County Committee, vill drive immediately to the Union itation, whence he will start for New fork, accompanied by the members if his family. There will be a slight change this ear in the order of the progress of he President, the President-elect ,nd the Vice-President and the Vice- j 'resident-elect to the Capitol. In iew of the close relations of Senator ,odge to the President he will ride n the carriage with the President ,nd the President-elect, as will also lenator Knox, who as chairman of he Committee on Arrangements is he personal escort of the Executive, 'he Vice-President will have as escort lenator Bacon and Representatives Jurke and Gaines, while the Vice resident-elect will be accompanied >y Senator Frye, the president pro empore of the Senate, and Repreentative Young. Heretofore only ne Senator has accompanied the two hief figures in the ceremonies. DLESS, SMOKELESS GUN Work?It Fits on the Muzzle of Any >rations From the Explosion . cognizes Them as Noise. The tests were made in tne offices f Redding, Greeley & Austin, counel for Mr. Maxim, on the eighth floor f the Potter Building, in Park row. nd it was cause for wonder among hose present that the noise made by he explosion of the rifles without the silencer" did not arouse the other enants in the building. The "silencer" is a metal tube bout seven inches long and an inch nd a quarter in diameter, which can e fastened quickly to the end of a ifle barrel which has been provided rith a thread for that purpose. It is declared that the velocity ol he bullet is not lessened in the least j egree, as the gases have done all | Vioii. tvni-ir nn thp nrnientile before i hey reach the "silencer." 1,000 New York Husbands Have Deserted Wives. Albany, N. Y.?That 25,000 husands in Manhattan and the Bronx nd 6000 in Brooklyn have been in he police court, charged with aban- J onment and non-support of their j rives, is revealed in the preliminary I eport of the commission to inquire tito the courts of inferior jurisdiction a cities of the first class, made pubic by Governor Hughes. The commission announces that it 3 considering the advisability of a j pecial court for these cases. Halls of Congress. The Senate Finance Committee has eclared that it is not in favor of suplorting President Roosevelt's' trade .greement policies. Congressional leaders have inormed President Roosevelt that here is little chance of Statehood foi Cew Mexico and Arizona at this sesion. Philadelphia Congressmen exiressed the belief that the Delaware liver survey would receive ample ecognition from Chairman Burton. >f the Rivers and Harbors Com* nittee. "BATTLESHIP OEM PUNCHED fOII Miff She Surpasses Any Vessel Built or Building. ONE OF FOUR SISTER VESSELS Displacement 5000 Tons Greater Than British Dreadnought and 750 More Than Vanguard?900 Men For the Crew. Newport News, Va.?The great battleship Delaware was launched successfully from the yards of her builders and was witnessed by 8000 persons. Among those present were Assistant Secretary of the Navy Satterlee, Governor Pennewill, of Delaware, and ;his stafif, Lieutenant-Governor Men|dinhall, a delegation from the Delaware Legislature and Rear-Admiral Taussig and other naval officers. .There also were present several hun'dred prominent people from Delaware, Including the Delaware Representative in Congress. The battleship was christened with champagne by Miss Anna Pennewill Cahill, of Bridgewell, Del., niece of the Governor, who had as her assistants Miss Florence Hazel, of Dover, and Miss Ellen Coleman Du Pont, of Wilmington. Compared with the battleships, completed or under construction, of j any foreign country, the Delaware ; surpasses all. She is one of four sisi ter ships authorized by Congress. The I other vessels are the North Dakota, being built at Quincy, Mass.; the Florida, which will be built at the New York Navy Yard/ and the Utah, to be built at Camden, N. J. The Delaware will have a speed of twenty-one knots and the highest practicable radius of action. The arrangement of her main battery guns is such as to permit a broadside fire of twenty-five per cent, greater than that of the broadside fire of any bat'tleship now buiJt or under construction. The contract was placed August 6. 1907, at $3,987,000, to be built in accordance with the department's design for both hull and reciprocating machinery. Her keel was laid November 11, 1907. The Delaware is. 510 feet in length on load waterline, 85 feet 2 inches in breadth and her mean draft to bottom of keel at trial displacement about 27 feet. She will have triple expansion reciprocating engines and will require more than 900 men. , Her armament will consist of a main battery of ten twelve-inch ! ?breech loading rifles and her secondj ary battery will be fourteen five-inch j rapid-fire guns, four three-pounder saluting guns, four one-pounder semi-automatic guns, two three-inch field pieces and two machine guns of .30 calibre. She has two submerged torpedo tubes. "The Delaware will have a displacement on trial of 20,006 tons, or 2100 tons more than the British Dreadnought and 750 tons more than Great Britain's litest vessel of that type, the Vanguard. . V CANADIAN MADMAN KILLS TWO. Seriously Injures Three Othors, Using Rifle as a Club. Shelbourne, Ontario. ? Two per1 sons dead and three so seriously in[ jured that their recovery is doubtful are the result of murderous attacks made by George Stewart, a young farmer of Maple Valley. Stewart, ! who is mentally unbalanced, was staying with his brother at Reddickvillo. Stewart went to the home of John Spanhouse, near Shrigley, fired at Mrs. Spanhouse twice, wounding her in the eye and arm. Her husband rushed to her assistance and was shot dead. The son, James, came at the sound of the shot, and Stewart, whose rifle was empty, beat out his brains with the butt of the weapon. Stewart then went to the house ol Edwin Pounds, who at the time was absent. Here he attacked the hired man, George Beaumont, and , the housekeeper, Mrs. Gowanus, with the empty weapon, beating them both unconscious and fracturing the hired man's skull. He then fled to his father's home at Maple Valley, where he was arrested and lodged in jail here. t PUNISH RUSSIAN GRAFTER. General Fredericks Dismissed For Part in Famine Relief. Scn;:dals. St. Petersburg, Russia. ? General Fredericks, former. Governor of Nijni-Novgorod, whose trial on charges of complicity in the grand" scandals which attended the distribution of) famine relief in 1906 has been convicted of negligence and corruption. He was sentenced to dismissal from the Government service and a fine of $5000 was imposed, in default of the payment of which he will have to serve a year in prison. Merger Saved Brokers. Grant B. Schley, testifying before a Senate committee at Washington, D. C., said the absorption of the Tennessee Coal and Iron Company by the Steel Corporation during the panic of 1907 relieved Moore&Schley UL genu us yuiuanasouicnt. Presbyterian Chnrcli Burned. Fire destroyed the Presbyterian j Church at Campbell Hall, N. Y. 1 Loss, $15,000. One Sudden Death Causes Another. Daniel W. Healy, a prominent lawver, died suddenly at Bradford, Pa. On being told of his death, Mre. Mary Daly, whose son married Mr. Healy's sister, dropped dead. Laws Against Trusts Failed. In his annual report Herbert Knox Smith declared that prohibition of : trusts has failed and that the Government should now adopt a constructive program through publicity. Nuggets of News. Wireless telegraphy brought nid to the Scotland Lightship and a schoon er mac naa run laio uer. Admiral Sperry's ships were wel- | J corned to Gibraltar with memorable 1 cordiality. It was shown that radiiici could be ! produced from the refuse of a Corn- ' wall mine. | j Cortlandt Field Parker, president j cf the Aero Club of America, an nounced plans for an airship race ' from New York City to Albany in connection with the Hudson-Fulton , " plfihratinn riftst fnlL Latest News. BY WIRE. Mrs. Eversz Leaves Husband. Chicago. ? Mrs. Ruth May Eversz, daughter of Gustavus Swift, deceased millionaire pack has separated from her husba Ernest Hammond-Eversz, taking 1 four-year-old daughter Barbara. Threatened by Blackmailers. Millville, N. J.?Furman Campb postmaster at Port Elizabeth, has : pealed to Governor Fort for prot tion against blackmailers who thre en to kill him, and his family if fails to leave $600 at a certain pla Chicago Will Stay "Wet." Chicago.?Chicago will be a "wi town for another year at least. 1 movement by "drys" to have a vi in April on the exclusion of. saloc uad 10.HCU. Orphans Perish in Fire. Battle Creek, Mich.?The Hash Memorial Home, an orphanage, v destroyed by fire. Three of the thir seven little inmates were missli There is a widespread belief that 1 fire was caused by an incendia Following a recent schism in 1 Seventh Day Adventist Church, number of the buildings of the i nomination here have been dama? by fires, which have been genera charged to incendiaries. February 12 a Holiday. Washington", D. C. ? The Sen; has passed a joint resolution maki February 12, the 100th anniverst of Lincoln's birthday, a legal he day. Spark Causes-$18o,000 Fire. Worcester, Mass.?Starting, it thought, from a spark from a lo motive, fire destroyed the plants the George D. Webb Granite C< struction Company and the B. A. ( wee Elevator Company. The loss the Webb Company is about $15 000 and to the Cowee concern abc 93&.UUU. i'nree nunarea men i thrown out of employment. * Nine-Foot Sheets In Hotels. Lincoln, Neb.?The lower house the Assembly passed the bill comp ling hotel proprietors to furn: 3heets nine feet in length. Wills Business to Employe. , Boston, Mass.?Twenty-five ye: of service given by Miss Mary Holmes, of Medford, to Amos B. Ht a Boston real estate broker, hs been rewarded with the gift by v of Mr. Hall's business to his emplo John D. to Give $250,000. Philadelphia.?The General Ec ration Board, having in charge 1 John D. Rockefeller foundation 1 higher education, will contribi |250,000 toward an endowment fui provided $380,000 is contribul from other sources before June 1910. Census Bill Vetoed. Washington, D. C.?Because it volves the spoils system in appoi tnents. President Roosevelt vetc the bill for taking the census. | BY CABLE. Roosevelt Declines Invitation. Geneva, Switzerland. ? Piesid< Roosevelt has declined an invitati to attend the 400th anniversary of t birth of John Calvin, to be observ July 10, when a monument to the former is to be unveiled. U. S. Relief Ship at Naples. Naples, Italy.?The American ?ief steamer Celtic arrived here fr< Catania. She had been aiding t sarthauake sufferers. The Mayor < tertained the officers with a receptic U. S. Officers Banqueted. Lima, Peru.?The officers of t American Pacific fqiladron, anchor in Callao harbor, were entertained a banquet in the palace by Preside Legula. To Investigate Radium. Heidelberg, Germany. ? The U .versity of Heidelberg has received donation of $32,500 for the establis ment of a branch to investigate i dium. Mrs. Nafion Fined $7.50. London.?Carrie Nation was fin $7.50 for thrusting her umbre through a window of a car on the u derground railway upon which a ci arette advertisement was pasted. Castro Declared Cured. Berlin.?Cipriano Castro, form President of' Venezuela, who we under an operation a month ago, h left the private sanitarium here, ha ing been declared cured. A Liberal Crisis. Newcastle - on - Tyne. ? Winsti Spsncer Churchill, president of t "Voard of Trade, in a speech here sa i\iat a general election "already is i the horizon and will not be iinpro erly retarded." Fleet Leaves Gibraltar. Gibraltar, Spain.?Admirai Spsr presented the battle efficiency flag the battleship Vermont as th? tfe left Gibraltar on its voyage to Ham ton Roads. Tetradichm Brings $2150. London.?At the sale of coins cc lected by the late F. S. Benson, Brooklyn, N. Y., a rare tetradichm. silver coin of ancient Greece, sold f $215 0. The competition was Kee and a number of other coins brougl from $100 to $1600. American Ministers Transferred. Eucharest.? Horace G. Knowle the American Minister to Roumani took his departure. He has he< transferred to Nicaragua, and will 1 succeeded here by Spencer Eddy. Louise Seeks Leopold's Love. Berlin.?The Tageblatt says th; Princess Louise of Belgium, the. el est daughter of Kin? Leopold ar the divorced wife of Prince Philip i Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, arrived i Berlin incognita to seek the goc offices of Emperor William in effec ;ng a reconciliation with her father Historical Pictures For Maryland. Paris. ? Jean Paul Laurens, tl French artist, is painting four larf panels destined for the Court Hou: at Baltimore, Md., portraying th surrender of Yorktown. They wi De exhibited at the next salon. * .,i'' v. - 'v;;' ' vs /'; 1 ' ' ' ' * TlisEfil SCORES ' i . SEjjlM PE6KII1S Declares He Has Hampered Upbuilding of Navy. rift .? "POLICY OF WANTON INSULT" nd, aer Says So in Telegram to Governor Gillett?Senator Says He Has Favored All Proper Naval Increase ?p.' to $135,000,000. Washington, D. C. ? President he Roosevelt has declared open war on' ce. Senator Perkins, of California, for his connection with the anti-Japanese , sentiment on the Pacific Co^et. In a The telegram *0 Governor Gillett, of that ate State, the President denounces the )ns Senator's public record and excoriateB him for advocating, in the present J Manese situation, what Mr. Rooseeil velt terms "a policy of wanton in/aa suit." Senator Perkins declined to ty* discuss the attack at any length, saying he preferred to leave the decision 116 of the American people with his pubry. lie record and wnvlr . ".he The telegram sent from the White a House, Inspired by the passage of the ie* anti-Japanese legislation by the Cali>ed fornij Legislature, is as follows:: lly 'To Gov. Gillett. Sacramento, Cal.: "I am astounided at George C. Perkins' conduct. He has for the last seven years done whatever he could ite l.o hamper us in .the upbuilding of the ng navy, and has acted against the real lF.y advocates of the navy. Yet now he >u" idvises a policy of wanton insult. "THEODORE ROOSEVELT." The telegram was not given out ia 1 aere, hut a copy of it was telegraphed back from Sacramento and submitted j to Senator Perkins. Mr. Perkins smiled grimly when it was read to i " film. For a moment his face flushed, but he controlled himself and made q _ a quiet and unimpassioned statement. 'I He made no direct mention of Presilent Roosevelt. > "I have never believed, and nevet will believe," he said, "that a treaty with a foreign Power takes awa? . from the sovereign States the right J; to regulate their'own affairs. We of Ish California believe that with ourselves rests the decision of how the State shall be policed and how its domestic affairs shall be regulated. I do not believe that any one will question oui *** assumption of those rights. "As for the navy, I have always lll? been its friend and have worked hard iy? for its upbuilding. When I joined the Committee on Naval Affairs ir VP. - 18 33 our expenditure then for the naval .establishment was a little more than $23,000,000; the bill which wil: *u" be reported from the committee this ke week will carry more than $135,000,Eor 000."ite ldj CORNELL MEN DROPPED. :ed o "" Seventy-five Engineers Fail to Get bj the Examiners. Ithaca, N. Y.?"Bust" notices have in- been received by 153Cornell students nt- as a result of the midwinter examinaied tions. The number of student! dropped on account of deficiencies totals more than ever before in th< _ history of the university. Last yeai 11 ninety-seven students were dropped, j The athletic fields Mil not suffei j this winter as they did last, as only a J few mediocre athletic men failed t< pass. The engineers suffered tli? greatest losses, forty failing in the mt mechanical engineering department 011 and thirty-five in civil engineering. Arts come next with thirty-ono, ea The number who failed to pass It re" other colleges are: Agriculture, twenty-flve; law. fourteen; architecture, four; veterinary, three, and medi< cine, one. , re- i PASTOR KILLED FROM AMBUSH, ;he _ in" His Body, Riddled With Buckshot, ii Found in a Pond. Houston, Miss.?The body of th he Rev. W. T. Hudson, pastor of th< 1 ed Baptist Church here, and one of thf at most prominent ministers in this ^nt State, was found riddled with buck- ' eh?t in a pond near Houston. Hudson left his apartment in the Houston Hotel, and when he did nol ( Qi. return at nightfall search was instia tuted, which led to the discovery ol ! ih- the body. It was his custom to pre a? pare his Sunday sermon when seated under a tree near the pond, and it ii i considered evident he was shot from I ambush when thus engaged. fit TEXAS OUSTS BOOK CONCERN. ' _______ 1 in[g. American Company Agrees to Paj i $15,000 Damages. ] Dalla3, Texas.?The ouster pro? 1 ceedings of the State of Texas against : er the American Book Company, in the nt Fifty-third District Court, came to as an end by an agreed judgment being iv- entered in favor of the State for $15,000 penalties and ouster from the State. Penalties of $3,000,000 had been demanded. on One of the principal reasons for he the action of the State for compromise id ing was that the company had no on property in the State which could be p. i levied on in case larger penalties ! were obtained. Admits Big Forgery. ry At Oakland, Cal., Fred D. S'gnor to has pleaded guilty to forging tho et name of James A. Murray, a Monp? terey capitalist, to notes for S4G0,000. ^ No 3500,000 War Balloons. 0{ The House at Washington, D. C.. a has reversed itself and by a vote of gr 160 to 91 knocked out the $500,000 n appropriation for war balloons. With I this and other charges, the Army Ap- I j propriation bill was passed. i To Prosecute Meat Packers, is, | United States District-Attoruoy a, ; Sira3, at Chicago, was dircctcd to ^n j crosecut? the meat packers for rebatbe J 'ng and for violating the Antitrust faw. Prominent feople. [it ? (j. | E. H. Harriman returned. to >,"ew l(j i York City from the South, and said j lie intended "to look after the New jn . York Central." to the directorate of )(j ! which he has been elected. t- j Justice Gaynor, in a speech at Nevr , j Rochelle. N. Y., criticised the courts, the administration of the city under ; the present charter and the reform ie administration of Mayor Low. ?e.' The American consul at Gibraltar, 3e| Mr. Sprague, is the third successive ie< generation of his family to hold the 11 post of consul, his grandfather and is father having held it before him. / I SAVED j FROM AN I OPERATION I By Lydia E. Pinkham's 1 Vegetable Compound X Louisville, Ky.?"Lydia E. Pink- *1 ham's Vegetable Compound has cer- g > - - . tainly done me a M >- ^SHtiif world of good and 9 I cannot praise it jA H enough. vI suffered B from irregularities, ifl W dizziness, nervous- U ness, and a severe m . * '^9^'female trouble. - iWki LvdiaE.Pinkham's ' Vegetable Com- I ; - pound has restored J me to perfect JM health and kept me ' m MZ&'M-Jm&UKm frnm fhft npo rati nor I table. I will never be without this M medicine in the house."?Mrs. SaxI. . T tt Q-.9Q TTAiir+K Sf T /ttiiaiHIlp. IT v. , H Another Operation Avoided. : 1 Adrian, Ga. ?"I suffered untold ll misery from female troubles, and ray doctor said an operation was mydiily chance, and I areaded it almost as much as death. Lydia E. Pinkhaln's : Vegetable Compound completely cured p me without an operation."?Lena V. ? Henry, B. F. D. 3. Thirty years of unparalleled sue. cess confirms the power of Lydia E. . ft?"1 Pinkham's Vegetable Compound to cure female diseased The great volume of unsolicited testimony constant* 1y pouring in proves conclusively that . * L^dia E. Pinkham^s Vegetable (k>ia. distressing feminine ills from which W) many women suffer., - . . '. & i Yorkshire Egyptologists; ; Two Yorkshiremen were making a tour of the British Museum, and In- i due course reached the mummy chamber. One. who had never neen Vo a mummy in his life, said to his "pal: ... fl "What's yon, John?" "Ton's a mum- \ my." "A mummy t' that's a mum- ? my?" "Why, a deid mon!" "Well, I I'm fair capped! Never saw like of ? yon afore! But, John, what's that , J 'ere card -behind 'im?B. C. 48?" . ' -J "Ef; tha's an ignorant beggar. Bill. '-..zm That's number o' moortf-car 'at ."3 killed 'lm!"-r-Tit-Bits. V . .-(i What to Do With the Boy. / , J "What shall we do with the boy?" I they asked the woman. "Let him J finish high school and then go to ' 1 coMege, or put him in business now?" ? 1 "I'd let him go to college," she fl said, "but make them give him.a fl course in janltoring while he's there. fl We've just got rid of a Harvard grad- " cate because he was no earthly good n as/ a janitor. He couldn't run the " flj steam heat or the hot water boljer 9 or anything."?New York Times. fl Her Friend. N There is nothing like a stanch fl friend. At a "home" in the conntry fl which the children of the slams are jfl allowed to visit for a short term in fl the summer^the following incident qc- ifl curred. A party of a hundred of the 1 youngsters were on their way back fl to the city. The attendant noticed 2 that one of the girls, Rosie, was walk- ? ing clumsily. A writer In the New j York Tribune tells the story,: When the attendant heard1 a chorus of gibes all aimed at little Rosie, she rtAnr rt f III a ? ! Ttr o cf nrnnwlntv n ' Daw mat mc giii VYCVO v*cauii5 a yeuk of shoes of large size. Then the attendant remembered that Rosie had had a new pair of shoes, and the little girl was asked about It. "Well," said Rosie, "you see, the ' 3hoes ain't mine. They're Katie's. I know they're awful big, but her mamma ain't had any work lately, so she couldn't buy her a new. pair. She Just gave her own shoes to Kati*. "Katie felt awful bad about it, and cried all the way to the station. The girls all laughed at htfr. So I just , lent her my new ones and took hers. "You see, teacher," said ' Rosie, raising her eyes to the attendant's face, "Katie'* ray friend." Spitz -dogs are so named owing to their sharp noses. This is also a German name, spitz meaning sharp- < I pointed. Another name for this I breed is Dalmatian dog, because hus j native home was in Dalmatia. NO MEDICINE pj But a Change of Food Gave Relief. Many persons are learning that irugs are not the thing to rebuild worn out nerves, but proper food 18 required. There is a certain element In the lereals, wheat, barley, etc., which la grown there by nature for food to brain and nerve tissue. This is the phosphate of potash, of which GrapeNuts food contains a large proportion. In making this food all the food 3lements in the two cereals, wheat md barley, are retained. That is why 50 many heretofore nervous and run iown people find in Grape-Nuts a true nerve and brain food. "I can say that Grape-Nuts food , j las done much for me as a nerve reaewer," writes a Wis. bride. "A few years ago, before my mar-iage, I was a bookkeeper in a large 3rm. 1 became so nervous toward ho onrf nf pnr?h wpplr that It eoomort must give up my position, which I ould not afford to do. f "Mother purchased some Grape"Juts, and we found it not only deli:ious, but 1 noticed from day to day hat I was improving until I finally ealized I was not nervous any more. "I have recommended it to friends is a brain and nerve food, never hav- ' ng found its equal. 1 owe much to Jrape-Nuts, as it saved me from a lervous collapse, and enabled me to etain my position." Name given by Postum Co.. Battle >eek, Mich. Read, "The Road to iVellville," in pkgs. "There's a Reaion." * Ever read the above letter? A new -m >ne appears from time to timo. They ire genuine, true, and full of human nterest.