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i VOL. XL PEW IKES A tM BAHI' He Ai'vinces Nearer to the North Pole Than Ever Before. THINKS GOAL CAN BE REACHED The Mn?| Northerly I'oint Touched XI Decree*. 17 Minute*?It May Be the Kxplorea'* I.a*t Trip? Urine* Home Numerous <l?hl Thins*?Promote.! to the flunk of Commander? Health Good Sydney. Cape Breton. ? After beinc forced to turn back from a point llfty miles nearer the role tliau ever before reached by an American explorer. incutenant itoncri lv I'eary arrived hct-o ou I he A . -tie Club steamer Windward. The most northern spot Lieutenant Peary reached was eighty-four degrees, seventeen minutes, or within K*. miles of the Pole. Tw foreign explorers have advanced far her than this. Nansen reaching latitude SG.14 and ihe Ahruzzi expedition. Stl.33. On Peary's previous journey he reached latitude S3.'J7. The Lieutenant was well, though his Eskimos had suffered severely and many died from a native epidemic. Mrs Peary and her daughter, who had gone to meet him on the Windward, were well, though Mrs. Peary had been ill. Dr. Diedriek also was with the party, having rejoined it at Ktali after his quarrel'with Peary. The two men did not sneak to each other on the trip, and Dr. Diedriek said their differences had not been settled. The Windward has discharged otic of ihe most interesting cargoes that has over been landed at this port. Eskimo eaaoes, sledges and implements of all kinds, a musk-ox, a walrus, ten of t tie dogs which dragged Peary's sledges over many a weary mile of ice. and a hundred other curios, large ami email, have been loaded 011 freight ears. Peary, who received the news of his promotion from the rank of Lieutenant to that of Commander upon landing, was kept busy most of the day reeeiv- { ing and answering telegrams and granting interviews to newspaper men. Lieut'mint Peary ays that while he j did not discover the North Pole on his trip of four years, he feels certain that 1 tiie Pole can ii(. reached, and furthermore. that if he wore a titan of independent means he would persevere tin- 1 til li< succeeded. Ho Kiivs I lie Pole ran j 1k> reached l'rotil Franz Josef I.nnd and from 15 rant Land. in latitude eightythree degrees. if tho winter quarts rs air established as far north as possi- i lilr Mr says that he would just as i soon winter at Cape Hccla as at Sabine or Hlali. 'nitre is nothing whatever, the explorer says, in the old popular notion of an open polar sea, nor is there any i foundation for the claim that the pole , is surrounded liy an immovable sea of lee. The water of the polar region Is I covered with shifting masses of ire. The citizens of Sydney gave a public ' reoeploin for Lieuteuont Peary in Alexandra Ilall. Mayor Crow presided ami presented to Peary an eloquent address commendatory of his work, to which the explorer made a brief hut ef,fect ive response. L! nteiuint Peary's report to tho Peary Arctic Club of tho operations of the expedition since August 0. 1tr.il, has b en made public. It is signed liy himself and addressed to Secretary II. L. Ttridginaa. of the Peary Arctic Club. I.ieutenant Peary lias received an invitation from the Scottish fJeogranhl- | eal Society to visb Fdinburgh and receive a gold medal. Its highest honor. TTe has also been elected an honorary Fellow of the National Heograpliie Society, whose headquarters are in Washington, D. G. Brlghmn \oung'? C5rnn?tsoji a Mtiri'rror, Tiie body of a murdered young worn- 1 an, afterward Identified as Mrs. Joseph Pulitzer, the wife of a tailor in New York City, was found in the Morris Canal between Jersey City and Newark. N. J. The body was mutilated and a twenty-pound weight was tied around the waist. The murderer evidently was ignorant of (lie changes of tide in tho canal, as the body was thrown In at high water and was left exposed when the water ran out. The WOmJin'a lin?hniul l?*wl % ?11 - - n uu ii?m rrjurrini j his wife as missing to tho Npw York police. identified the body. A search for clues begun, and Captain Tints, Chief of the New York Detectiv? Rnrean. a niton need later that Mrs. Pulitzer was murdered by William Hooper Young, a grandson of the famous Mormon loader. Tho murder, it was i stated, was committed in the apartment of Young's fat iter In New York City. Young, it was believed, hart l1e.ri to Chicago, but it was thought tha his arrest was imminent. l'ritl<I?nt Sinrt* on Western Trip. Prcsideut Iloosevelt. accompanied by his party and Mrs. Koo- >veit at ! the Misses iloosevelt, left Oyster Day. I.. I., on the steam yacht Sylph for his Western trip. Tito President boarded a special train in the Pctiioylvaniu station in Jersey City. A car' was reserved for Secretaries Sltaw. Mo. dy and Wilson, who also accompany the Presidential party. Mrs. Iloosevelt and her daughters returned to-Oysti-r Day. A brief stop was made at Ila; rislutrg. Pa., and another at Altoona, where the President received a hearty welcome. When the train reached Trenton Senator Quay boarded it and was in close conference with President Roosevelt, and the coal strike and tho situniicn in Pennsylvania were the subjects discussed. Senator Quay later left tho train to go to Philadelphia. OR! FC B0:V1B THROWN IN fO BANK I The Dynamiter Killed and Others Blown Into the Air. The Robber Demanded S'!(l,nOO, and tit* Cmlilrr and Teller Ran Out of 111* Buildilie J< ?( in lime. Seattle, Wash.?A special from Skagway, Alaska, says: About .'J o'clock p. m. an unknown i man walked Into the Canadian Hank of | Commerce, a revolver in one linud and 1 a dynamite bomb in the other, and de- | manded S'JO.OOO, threatening to blow all into eternity. Cashier Pooley and Teller Wallace were tlit* only men in the bank. Wallace ducked to get bis gun and ran quickly to the back of the room, calling tor Pooley to do the same. "No you d?m't." yelled the man, and dropped the bomb. The clerks bad just got out of the window. The bank was wrecked. The robber's bead was smashed and one arm was torn off. People living abovo inc nam; were iiinwii into the nil*. Judge Trice, formerly prosecuting at- j torncy. who was eutering the brink :it | the time, was hurt. The dynamiter 1 died without regaining consciousness. The bank lost aliout SllHtO, ehietly in gold dust, which was lying ou the counter. URGES JUSTICE TO THE JEWS. IrcrrltirT Hay Aiu??'?l* to tlir I'owrrt I'or Amelioration of t" 11J11 et l.avra. Washington, I>. <-*. With tln? double purpose of protecting the loiig-sutTcring lews of the italkan States and of averting the very present peril of the immigration into the United States of n horde of paupers. Secretary Hay has adopted the unusual course of appeal- j ing to the Towers of Kurope to force , Uoumnnin to observe the obligation* of humanity in the case of the Jews. Tim appeal lakes the form or a State | paper, remarkable in several respects, which has i>< n dispatched In identical form to every Ambassador and Minister of tiie United States residing in one of the countries of Europe whieli were parties to the famous treaty of Her!in of 1S7S. namely, (ileal Britain. France, (iermatiy, ltussla, Italy. Austria and Turkey, marking the termination of the Turko-llussian War ami the creation by the direct net of the Powers of the independent Balkan States. Because the Towers .are tints rcspon *11 tit* tor the existence of Itouinunia tin* Secretary ?>f State lias directed tlu* noie to them in the hope that they will hrlng this (iovernineiit to a sense of j its duties towards civilization at large as well tts to cause it to ameliorate : the frightful condition of the Koutuanian .tews. In a measure tills netiou by the Department of State may be traced t<? numerous petitions front Jewish societies and humanitarians generally, as well as tr. the warnings of publicists, respecting the grow lug danger of the Immigration of degen- ' rates. AGRICULTURAL SCHOOL OPENED. Tbf* l!.?v. Mr. (Mit?iitn'iu nimncpllnr or ilm Wlnonu Tcclinirnl luHtituto. Warsaw. Ind. The Itev. .1. Wilbur Chapman. of New York fit v. Chan cellor of ilir Winona Agricultural ami Technical lnstltuie. presided at the j formal opening of the school n! Win- j ona. A number of wealthy business men are lnteresnil in cs.ahli .hing this school, which is designed to help boys ; to practical business life in all lines. j Provisions have been made whereby a boy lacking the necessary means can Work his way through the college. The agricultural dej ai lment is at Winona, and the technical department will be at Indianapolis. More than -100 acres will he used at Winona and kept in order by the- boys of the school. Funds sufficient to pay the faculty expenses for the lirst live years have been pledged. A BLIND JANITOR'S ft5.000.000. lie Will CIct 111 ventor'li K<>>?!tire From ItiK Stfdl Trust. Pittsburg. Pa.?John Brlslin. former roller, who helped Anton! Yinnne, another roller, to invent and patent n ! table for carrying hot ingots of steel to nnd from rolls mechanically, and in whose favor Judge P.uffington gave a decision against the Carnegie Steel Company, is blind and is seventy-five years of age. His partner. Yinnne. died two years #??#,> II. 1 : - uhu. ill- nil lllii lUll'iCUl IO I.I'.. III!. If Itrisliti over lives to secure his rights ho can recover at least $,">,000,000 in royalties for infringements on patents. Tliis would fall heaviest on the United States Steel Corporation. Itrislin until recently was a janitor In the Blakewcll building. SYDNEY EATbV'C HORSE MEAT. l>routli lt;>? "Jmic i'nttlo Sc.irrc ? Wnuto of Witter I-'or!>i>!tfr?. Sydney, X. S. \\". Owing to tiie eon- j tinned drouth in New South \Vnl? s j the authorities have prohibited the use { of pit!live ' : ; i;s. Th> police have lieeu instructed to prevent this and other waste of water. Responsible speakers at a meeting of the blaster Butchers' Association stated that horseflesh in the shape of steaks and snu.-nges was being consumed in Sydney in consequence of tlie scarcity of cattle that had been caused by the drouth. To S?n<l If?b*on to Pftnaaroln. At the Navy 1; artment, at Washington, orders are In preparation assigning Naval Constructor llobsou to duty at the I'ensacola Navy Yard. ? ' V jj' 1_ MI ?UT MIIX. S. C., WED STATE mm BET Bay State Democrats Refuse to Indorse Kansas City Platform. REPUBLICANS FAVOR ROOSEVELT Connfftlfut, Nr rr IIstm|>*ltir>> nn<l Alulmom Indorno ITIm For tlie Frculdrncy In 1904?Wanhliicton Drmorrntu Hri>mr?n Ihn I,nit Nnlinnnl I>p?-b?rHt ion of Principle*?Ttse Tlrkrtu Nnmltmtfd. Roston. Mass.?The Democratic State Convention was somewhat strenuous, but it wound up in a harmonious manner, and tlie tieket. Gaston and Crosby, is assured of the united support of nil the factions which have at last been brought together. George Fred Williams made a strong fight to secure the adoption of a minority platform indorsing the Kansas City platform, but lie was defeated on a rising vote of ahnut five to one. Hamlin made a contest for the Gubernatorial nomination, but it was merely perfunctory. Tlie vote stood: For William A. Gaston. 10(M: for Charles S. Hamlin. 232. Mr. Hamlin made the nomination unanimous and Mr. Williams agreed to support the ticket. Tlie rest of tlio ticket follows: Ideutenant-( Sovernor. Joint C. Crosby: Secretary of State. Wlllniore It. Stone: Treasurer. Thomas c. Tltatcher; Auditor. .Tosepli 1,. Chalifoux; Attorney General. John J. Flaherty. In naming Colonel Gaston to bend the ticket precedent was shattered, inasmuch as he was nominated, and then given a platform of his own dictation. The platform adonted is a repudiation of the Kansas City platform, for Mr. < i.iston refused to ' ? ?I?,? nominee if in anv way ilie declaration of principles could be construed to Indorse those things most prominently advocated by the Party in the last two national campaigns. The question of trusts is dealt with in strong language. Atabnmit Ke^uUliciitiM Mept. Birmingham. Ala.- The Republicans of Alabama nominated iliis tieket: Coventor. .1. A. \V. SniHli. of Birmitmhani; Lieutenant (lovcnmr, ('has. 1*. l.Miic, of Huntsville; Attorney Ui'iioral. AY. II. Armbroehf. of Mobile: Seevotary of State. .1. II. Carter. of Cullmnn: Auditor. T. I'.. MeXair. of Marshall County: Treasurer. II. l.eo Brown. of Coueueh('outily: Super! tit en dont of Kduentinn. .1. <1'onvillo, of Crenshaw County: Commissioner ??I* Agriculture. '!'. B. Morion, of Fayette. Th-.? platform indorses the wisdom of tlie Dingloy tariff and expresses eontldoneo in the administration of President Roosevelt. A substitute, the same as the original platform, oxeopt that it omitted all reference l<> tin Indorsement of President Knosevelt for rrnomiuaticn, was defeated. Connecticut'* Hi>pnbl)p?u Ticket. Hartford, f'onn -In the Republican State convention Altiram Chamberlain, of Mcridi 11. was nominated for Coventor; floury Roberts. of Hartford, for Lioutonant-Covoruor: Charles ti. Vinal. of ,\' lddl? town, and Homy II. Halltip, of Norwich, for Secretary of State and Treasurer, rcspt etlvely. and \Y. ]'. Socloy. of Rridyrpart. for Controller. The pinH'orm favor's Roosevelt's nomination for ilio Presidency in V.XH. opposes any revision of ilie tariff and commends the President's plan for a re iprocity treaty with Cuba and national supervision of trusts. < niter plants (i, the platform : dale to : ? t issues. Cltolre of Wasltinstnn l)i'iuo:'rat?. Teeotna. Wash.- The Democratic State convention has nominated the following ticket: Representatives in Congress, Heorge 1'. Cotterill, of King; Stephen Id. Rarron. of Okanoae.n. and <>. it. Iloleomh, of Vilnius. .1 ii?!?r?.> of Supreme Court. James It. lion vis. of Yakima. Ceorge Turner was indorsed for re-election to the I'nited Sia'os Sonale. Tito platform indorsed tlio Kansns City platform, opposes imperialLm and colonialism, government l<y injunction, trusts and "trust-fostering tariffs" and asset currency. It demands eomplete exeluslon from all American territory of all Chinese. F#?c?r Chance in I.l<ianr I.htti. Concord, N. t!.- Following the notion of the party in Vermont, the llepuhlionus of New Hampshire, in State convention, warmly debated the question of making changes in the prohibitory law. Those in favor of a ehange earned the day. The contest for Coveruot was won by N'ahum .T. Itntelielder. of Andover, who is proininently id.ntliied with the Patrons of Husbandry. The platform favors the rcnominntion of President ltoosevelt. illegal eombines arc condemned and one plank opposes the indi criminate destruction of forests. IMMIGRATION INTO CANADA. 23,000 Aini-ricuie Si-ltlnl in - Ik- Dominion l.:et Year. Montreal, <>ue. ? llevised figures o. immigration into Canada l'or the lis -aI year ended June ".0 last have been prepared. Th total is about 70,0b:?. of whom iMi.tit><? eauie front the I nit .1 States. The hninigratioji from the American to the Canadian Northwest has as. sumed imteli greater proportions tiiis year than ever before, and laud sales to Amerieaus are daily reported. The latest large sale is l?y the Saskatchewan Valley Land Company, which has sold loo.tHKi acres In Saskatchewan tu uu American syndicate for $500,000. LL ' NESDAY, SEPTEMBE. MINOR EVENTS OF THE WEB WASHINGTON ITEMS. Wireless telegraph experiments between Washington and Annapolis, Md.t hnvo not been wholly successful. The War Department Is Investigating alleged ill treatment of the Spanish Consul on the Island of Cohu last summer. Secretary Shaw has made arrangements to release about ?1,000,000 of Treasury funds and to anticipate payment of October interest, amounting to $4.1100,000, for relief of the money market. Secretary of the Navy Moody returned to the Department from his summer vacation. President Uoosevelt removed William Vaughan, United States Attorney mi mo nuruiiTii nisi-'Tci or Alabama, for neglect of duty. The Nnvy Popartuient ordered tlio battleship Wisconsin to go to Panama and tho cruiser Cincinnati to Colon, Colombia. President Kooseveit appointed KopWHCiitative Coorgo \V. Itay to be ltd i Jed States Judge for the Northern District of Now York State. OIK A IIOH'KI) ISI.AMX. The Philippine Commission has remitted the land tax in lhitnugns, RuxiTsi, for this year because of the ; natives' poverty. Na Ivo constabulary, which has been 1 ' In pursuit of the Kins band of irrecott- \ I enables ltt Tayabas Province, I.uxon. j P. I., killed eighteen and captured | i tweiMv-tive of the bandits. The Chinese Chamber of Commerce i of Manila gave a banquet to Coventor 1 Tit ft. The Coventor was entertained j In an < trlental manner. Colonel William A. Kafl'rrty. of the fifth Cavalry, tiled at Kan Felipe. I". 1.. from injuries sustained by a fall recently. Colonel KatTVriy's body will lie sent home on the lulled States I Army transport l.ognu. Tho Hawaiian volcano Kiln ilea eon ! tiuues to show unusual activity, and it Is said the lake of tire Is rising. lVlini* ( 'llOYJIC iminltfil.ol ?*.*?. Porto Itlean Commissioner in ?In* Putted States by t he Ameriean Federal party l?y a large majority. The business men of Manila are organizing for the purpose of agitating for limited Oiiine.se Immigration to the I'ltilippines Tltev have planned to semi a memorial to Washington. President Itoosovelt granted nan I ms to Jose Martinez, llertninla Paoheeo, I Aguedo Rodriguez and Antonio Torres, prisoners eoiilinod at Mayaguez. l'orto llico, ehavged with lareeny of property i of the I'nitcd States. The property alI leged t*> have been stolen was a shirt valued at forty-one eettts. An attnek on Oatnp \ iears, in Mindanao. 1*. I., was made. No Amerieans were injured. IIO.MIST1C. Confessing murder, Jesse Johnson, rolored, was hanged at New l.ounou. Mo. llobltcrs murdered Thomas 1!. \Yornack near Medina, Tenn., ami rausaeked ltis house. Ill feeling, entised by a feud, resulted In tiie killing of Frank J. lllaekweli nnd John Heott, by Jesse Durham, at Iiuntsviile, Ala. The ting ol' lb." TTdu ! <-.r t lombin was hoisted al San Francisco. Cab. iivi'v tile steamer Je.-slc Haiiniiig, whU-li will he renamed the Bogota. From sclf-'n.dcted wounds. Laynumd F.ray, a prominent attorney, ?1 i< 1 at Covington, Ky. A Philadelphia Judge refused ; > 'charter a Christian Scientist Church on tim jirnuuil that it was a business uml not a religious institution. President ltooscvelt stopped lite pro pcsed cowboy race l'rom Deatlwood, S. D.. .o < ttiiaha. Neb. After horsewhipping Daisy Carlton, a waitress, Mrs. Joseph Leslie was fatally shot at Chicago, 111., l?y the girl she bad assaulted. , ] (Inventor Odell appointed Professor I William A. Keener, former Dean ol' I Columbia Law School, to succeed Justice Miles Beach on the New York i State Supreme Court bench, i j J. H. Anilress, cashier of the Helena Water Works Company, was arrested at Helena ou a charge of embezzlement. Ills alleged shortage Is said to amount to $18,000. The latest figures from Maine showed a Republican Gubernatorial plurality of ur>,o8'J. | Two boys were ilrowned at Detroit, Mich., by the sinking of the stone-laden steam.barge li. Houghton. i While she was asleep Mrs. John Harper, of Stamps, ?Ark? was murdered with an axe by an unknown person. I Wall Street fears a monetary stringeney. i Hear-Admirol Schley, during an interview in lloeton, said that the navy was a. "thing of tne past" to him. i FOREIGN. The T.llioral mrtv In Hm-lnn.! ?.- ^. unitizing for a vigorous autumn rampnign against tlie Government eduea1 tiou scheme. Tho l.rltisli bank rato may bo inoroasoil, owing to tho stringency ot money at New York City. The financial condition of Franco grows steadily worse, the total deficit ( for tho year up to Soptembet 1 being . $20,000,000. Fourteen Jews and four gendarmes i were killed as the result of an nut!' Semite outbreak In u pilgrim resort lu Poland. riMi LI 24, 14)02. BILL ARP'S LETTER.; The Philosopher \\ rites on the Value of Health. HAS SUFFERED MUCH RECENTLY The Bartow Sage Tells of Mis Experiences While Confined to His Sick Chamber. (lootl health is the best of earthly 1 blessings, but if we were not sick some- j times we would not appreciate it. And there is a good side to almost every misfortune. Old age has its privileges j and sickness its compensations. 1 know i that my family loved mo, but 1 did ' not realize how much until the linger- ! lug attack required nursing and night ! watching, and they had to sit no with j me and comfort me as I sat in a chair i and struggled for breath. Urenth, more j breath, was what 1 wanted and I could not get it lying down. I thought, of the last verse that David ever wrote. "Let everything that hath breath praise the j Lord." And during my long illness 1 have had three trained nurses my wile and two daughters, and two married daughters and a granddaughter besides on the relief corps, and they have been so watchful, so willing ami so good. The oldest of the nurses lias been in training for fifty years and lias sp? nt all her married life in nursing and training others and knows just what to do and how and when to do it. j What would a large family do without a good old mother? Hut at last the i girls had to force her to go up stairs whoie she could s'eep without hearing my cough that was wearing out the brom liial tulx s and the larynx and tho epiglottis and the Soylla and Charybdis and oth< r my n rious organ.-. And ! bud good doctors, ton. who diagn >sod i mo twice a day and sounded my heart with their tei-'phorn tubes and thumpd my < hi st and beat my stoinacli and looked at my i eigne and ran the handle of a spoon down my throat and gagged me and prized open my eyelids and timi d toy pulse and then 'wrote a long list ,f prt u riptions that broke a ' drug store and made up a tin nu of what I should i;w and what I should j lrlnk, and then > mtided nie to tile trained nurses to carry out the pro: gramme. I w as as humble as a wet dog, for the truth is 1 was alarmed and so was my ...if . ...? i ..i.o.i?... i ii !.. ? ' ? II ? *.!! < .illMril. I 1 Iu.l I ,iii? they could pot along without mo. hut I .ui bettor now. nud fop thre? :<i h: . ( have slept in my hod and reenv. rtd I my breath and only lu< : strength, and am gttiniug that. It is worth b? Mm sick to have such nursing and find s > many friend:; who sympathize and wis t no ( to pot well. It pl? a-c me to have them all ami cheer mo with their pres-n e, | hut my doctors . ay, "Don't you t dk much, la t them do the talkinp. You have no breath to spur ." And t\<ry mail brings such pond. kind, loving lott rs from all over tSunny South llld ;<omo from Ohio 1 111. ,<iis a:t<l leva. Th: y humble sr. and > o.sse t.tc to won kr what 1 have >' e to my p< ?;>! all tin'.to years that n unit benedictions. Yes, I c 11 them t v p >o I'l 111 , i i .mi i ;i i' i .i ..11 even children write t' t. i.ii l i u? grand] t. I hnv? hi :i ?, > r > si 5; t.? n swer : !! ilirsc 1? :< a id < I < reply by proxy hut I will nn . '< u V. lien 1 .1 | V. 1. I V" ' ' In thank them .'ill ami t i that 1 believe ivy lieavi illy Lai . r ! \ :i i.ie another h is" an 1 I : ' 11 eon i, . : n while liinwr to make a w !;lv \ t to the home;-, tinil ti arts of our ; ; 1". There is anot L< r good thing about a protraetoil ii'.n . It giv? s a n. a smh a pood opportunity t > look b;u to ponder and ri.iiinite. 11 ; helple. n s. makes him Imni'nlu and humility makes i him kind. Itight now 1 love everybody, except some. 1 believe I eoiild love Teddy if he would retract and apologize. Ife ought to do that if lie expects any i poaee of mind. A letter from Rlue Mountain college. Mississippi, begs me to write him and ask him not to visit that state until lie does retract, and ; says the hears have had a convention j and resolved to keep in their dens i when lie comes. I thought lie was a pretty fair speaker, hut a friend of | mine heard him at Ashcville the other day and rays he acts like a hull in I breeches and cavorts all roun t and j 1 tbn shes his arms and shakes his legs and twists up his nose and mouth and slobbers out his words, hut In- don't | retraet. Hut this is enough about Teddy. I1 js turn him over to the tender men y ' of Dr. Wharton, who told us why lie | ! was shy of his mother's state and j I j."Opie. Hill Arp in Atlanta Conatltu I tion, i From lx'.iO to 1POO the United States 1 Weather Bureau printed statistics of] j It. : <>< of lift- by Uchlning. The work i Is now disccntinu 'I. During tho year ; 1100, 71|it>n;ons v.crn kill' I by lightning; of thin number i".il pi rsona wore 1 killed in tlie op n, 1f?8 in the house*, , 67 under tree* anil 50 in barns. Tiic j circumstances of 161 deaths are not 1 known. During tho same year 073 ; ' persons were mora or less Injured by lightning strokes. On the average it is probable that from 700 to 800 lives are annually lost through injuries from lightning In tho United States. The greatest number of Injuries occur in the Middle Atlantic States, tho fewest in the Pacific States. i'v- 5. SSL_ NO. 27. PROMINENT PEOPLE. j The Kiiifr of Portugal is an euiiiustastir lawn tninis player. Archbishop Fnieonio lias l>oeu chosen as Apostolic Delegate to the United Sin ten. t Don Carlos, the Spanish Pretender, deprecates any present rising of ('arlists. ? Kniauuel Uasker. the noted chess master, will soon make a tour through' America. The I ?uke and Duchess of Commught will go to India for the dudbar uu a war ship. Itaron De Staal. Russian Ambassador at London, has been allowed to retire? front It is post. Major Ronald Ross is coming to America to investigate tlie sulijeet of mosquitoes and malaria. ltishop Clark, of Rhode Island, ninety years of age, is the oldest bishop of the Anglican communion in the world. I'rittce Adclbert. the third son of the Kaiser, has o|tencd liis own house, especially lutill for him. at Kiel. 11 ? is eighteen. I'resident Roosevelt lias been invited by former Congressman .1. K. Kayburn. of Virginia, to shoot ducks on Currituck marshes the coining winter. tieneral Delarey. like Lord Roberts, lost a son in the litter War. Young Delarey was luit fifteen and was killed at the Modtler River by itis father's side. Viseount Kiteliener's now peerage is granted wit it a very unusual remain tier, it goes lirst to his male children, next to tiis female eliildren. and in de fault of Itoth to his two brothers it? sueeessiou. M. P. Grace. the wealthy American, who iias leased historic old Untile Alt* hoy. will admit the public one day each week upon the payment of twelve cent a, tlie money to he devoted to aid of local charity. Would ' Dam the Hogs." Too. The Ozark Mountain I Mo.) News tells a story of an ex Kentucky colonel of the "quality folks" sort whom he otico met in western Kansas. "The colonel was an enthusiast on the irrigation scheme that was sweeping over Kansas at that time, lie was so positive in his theories and so high-tern pereu mar tew people cari'il In ills agree with him. One day as he was standing in front of the office talking with several friends, "Pink' llarolay. that lives over on Snake creek, came along, ami afler shaking hands around turned to the colonel and said: "Colonel. I've pot forty acres of land lying dose to Snake creek that I want to irrigate and I would like to ask your advice about it.' 'Very well, sail," responded the colonel, 'My advice Is dam the creek.' '1 did do that,' said Pink, 'and cut a ditch down across t l.e land, hut 1 couldn't pet rise enough.' 'Then 1 would dam the ditch, sah,' replied the colonel. 'That's .iust what I did do,' said Pink, 'but the hops rooted holes in the hanks. What would you do about that?' 'What would I do?' snorted t'no colonel. '1 would dam the hogs, sah! 1 would dam the hogs!'" \",i a l iti! t?T * -j .-ai -s ins t5 rr? ' u . . ..el to pru tice what he prete hes. MRS, J. E, O'DONNEU W?* Sick Kisrlit Years with Female Trouble aiol Finally Cur? tl by Ly*li.i K. l'iukliani'n Vegetable l'oini>ot?ud. "!) < . Mi;?. I'iNiiiiam :?I have ncvrr in my life t iv<-n u testimonial before, li'i; you have done so much for me that i feel culled upon to give you this ur )licited acknowledgement of jjl ^ vi;s. .irsN'ik r. o,t>onnei.l, Fresiilcat of (blibud Woman's Riding C!"V the wonderful curative value of I.y.'lin I'. 1*1 nk hum's Vegetable Compound. For eight years 1 had female trouble, falling of the womb and other complication*. During t hat time I was more or le: s of an invalid and not much good for anything, until one day I found a book in my hall telling of the cure ; you could perform. 1 became interested ; I bought a bottle of Ijydiu R. 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