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FORTY-SIX DIE > : From a Railroad Collision Which Caused a Wreck, WIRE FOREIGNERS. i The Wreckage Took Fire and AH of the Dead Except Two Are Burned Beyond Recognition. Blunder of the Employes of the Road. More than one-half the passengers on an immigrant train on the Baltimore and Ohio road were killed or 1 injured in a collision Tuesday between the passenger train and a freight near Woodville, Ind. One hundred and sixty-five passengers were on the train. Of these 47 were either killed outright or were . n In n ii.n tU - l 1 1- - uuxuuu w uuaiu in a. uiu cniiu uroKe out in the wreckage immediately af- 1 ter the collision. The names of all of the dead will probably never be known, as 45 of the bodies were con- ( sumed in-the ilames or were so badly burned that identification will be out of the question. Thirty-eight people were injured and several will die. Eigty others escaped unhurt but lost all their baggage and clothing, The disaster was caused by a blunder of some employe of the railroad i company, but just where the blame lies has not as yet been determined. The passenger train, which was load- 1 ed with Russian Jews, Servian ? i Poles, all of the recent arrivals iny I country, and bound for CJhicago or points in the Northwest, waa the i second secti ^n of a through train from Baltimore. The engineer of the freight train, No. 90 on instructions , received at McCool, Ind., waited at a siding at Babcock, lnd , to allow 1 the immigrant train to pass. 1 One report is that the engineer of the freight train had not been in- ) fnrmp.rl that thp. nasRpnorp.r train was i running in two sections; the other is that the lirst section of the passenger tra'n carried no lights or signals of any kind indicating that a second section was close behind. As soon as the lirst section of the immigrant train had passed the switch at Babcock. the freight train started eastward.A l'ght snow was falling, which increased the darkness of the early morning and as the freight was rounding a sharp curve just west of Woodville, the second section of the immigrant train came into sight a short distance away, tearing toward Chicago at the rate of 40 miles an hour. The two trains came together with unslakening speed and in the crash six passenger coaches and several freight cars were knocked into kindling wood and together with the locomotives went rolling down the 10-foot embankment. Fire broke out almost immediately in the wreckage, and although a number of the injured were saved by the desperate efforts of the train crew and surviving passengers, the greater part of those who were pinned aown under the debris was burned to death. The flames spread through the wreckage so rapidly that it was impossible to save a number of people who were only slightly hurt, but were held fast by timbers that weighted them down. These were burned in plain sight of the throng that stood j around the scene of the disaster, utterly unable to lend asissstance in any way. The Are continped iMntil all of the shattered cars wewNsntirely consumed and of the 4a people whose death followed the collision 45 were burned to ashes. The crash of the #01118100 was so great that a number qf farmers and other lesidents of tUf Taeigborhood came hastening to thesofce, but they could do nothing except lend assistance to the injured who had already been taken from the wreck. All of the six cars of the immigrant train were knocked into kindling wood, as were three freight cars. Relief trains were sent at once from South Chicago and from Valparaiso, Ind., with every availabe physicsan, and every possible aid was given to the injured. They Mast be Closed. dispatch from Topeka, Kansas, NJD UWIUK IU ?UO KICAII U>ll|(OI K.J both human and animal life caused by the abandoned shafts in the Kansas and Missouri zinc fields steps will immediately be taken to bare them oloeed up. In some parts of this State there are areas of acres in extent where the shafts are not more than twenty feet apart, and, owing to the way they are covered with grass, weeds and shrubs are extremely dan* Serous to life. As the Iswb of the State eemand It publlo sentiment wl_ oompel the offlolals to order the own* ners of the property to close up the shafts. It is generality believed in this State that horses and cattle adver* tlsed as stolen have been lest In the shafts and the opinion is also prevalent that a very large number of personswho have been de?crlbed from time time as "missing" met their deaths 4M _ ? &L. . ? ? 04.4.. 1 > iu vuciu, m uio twu oww vo uuuey eombed with them In several plaoss. Travel Through Air* Santo-Dumont, since the sucoessful 1 flight of his aeroplane, "The Bird of ( Prey," prediots the early approach of . the day when all mankind will be . navigating the air and when flying machines will be more common than j automobiles. Indeed he thinks, that ( the flying maoblne will eventually be- . come the "poor note's automobile.'' It will be safer, faster and oheaper. He said that next year people will be able to go to the seashore on their i aeroplanes. It will become the fad ] and oommenoement of an Industry. ] SAD STUDY of a young man at salisbury. n. o. Who Btole Fiftoon Thousand Dollars ' From tho Xxpross Company and loft. Tho Columbia Record says Super* Id ten dent O. M. Sadler, of tho South orn Express company, has been In Salisbury for several days, lnvestiga* { ting the disappoaranoo of W. S. Gray, tho young night clerk at Salisbury, who absoondod Sunday night with all his oolleotlon from tbo afternoon and night trains, aggregating a total which the oompany has not yet been able to estimate exactly but whloh it , Is feared will ran upwards of $15,000. Gray is well known in Columbia, enpeoially among the expressmen and 1i railroad oirolos. He Is only about sev* on teen, but has been in tho employ of tho Southern Express oompany for , several years. How muoh confidence his superiors had In him Is shown by j tho foot that he was entirely In oharge , of the money shlpmonts at night, and these ran Into fabulous sums now and then, at a junctional point on a m&ln trunk line, suoh as Salisbury. Many , of the parools of money are In locked and sealed pouches and the olerk oan only guess at their value, but ofteo he , la perfectly aware of the faot that currency, Jewels or securities **f enor* ( rnous worth are in his keeping. Gray has the appearanoe of a man twentyone years old, and is about j five and a half feet In height, with light hair and eyes and bad oomplcx , Iod. Four of his front teeth are out. He writes with his left hand in a very , peculiar way. When last seen by com- , pany officials he was wearing a dark j suit of clothes and a gray sweater with , a black slouch hat. He took with him, \ In addition to the missing $15,000 or ( more in niJlh n??lnnknn ir M A&MJ A AU|^ ?VU W XV1UU" ardson revolver and a small diamond j pin. He is a native of Greensboro, , where be has prominent relatives, and , was looked upon by the oompany as a j promising and strictly reliable young ( man. I Gray absconded Sunday night, after ( meeting No 35, his last train, and < the money In his possession was miss* j ad shortly afterward, but until Wed- , aeuday afternoon the cffioials kept the matter quiet, pushing an investigation and trying to got some clue as to Gray's whereabout? Gray was bonded with a surety h? pany, but it is oot known whetnS-< the amount fs luffloient to cover his shortage- He gave receipts for all packages entrust ad to him, and it is only in having all the messengers who passed through Salisbury Sunday night report their receipts and from these traoing the packages to the sending offices that thn exact amount of the young olerk's iefaloation oan be ascertained. Half i dozen Important main line trains, til of whloh carry heavy express shipments, passsd Salisbury during Sunday night, and Gray made exchanges with til of them, probably getting money soosignments from most of them. One Columbia express messenger handled under similar oircumstanoes on a resent night's work ourrenoy, greenbacks and securities whloh he knew amounted to annrn*inn?.fcAlv il 9.no. )00. ~ " "" " SPEAK KINDLY. ; Be Oareful Whet Yon Say to All < About You, 1 Never speak words that are calcu- ; ated to unnecessarily wound the feel- J ings of any one. If you have an ene < ny, do not say harsh or unkind words to him. It will only make blm a great- 1 jr enemy. Life is not long and his ' ?nmity cannon last long, and that probably that next time you see him 1 ie will be oold in death. Then you 1 will wish you had not said hard things " to him. Don't speak unkindly to your 1 Friend for fear you make an enemy out ( >f him. You need all the friendships < pou oan make in this world. If you have a mother, never say an mklnd or slight word to her but re- . member that for you she his toiled ind labored and suffered; her constant thoughts have been employed for you; . per most earnest prayers have been offered for you; her love for you will ( last though all the world may be igainst you. If you have children. . ipeak Dot unkindly to them. You can win And keep their love better by Kindness than by barsh woids. If you have a wife that you love, 4 tay not one outtlng or unkind word . }0 her Say not a word that would rave tue least tendency to wound her feelings, cause a pang of sorrow or one : noment of sad reflection, for If you lo, you my drive away the oonfldenoa , ihe has lo you and cause her wounds fchat time oan never heal. We should be cautious in what we say to those whom we love and whom heaven has ziven tifl fcn hA nnr n?n Nnt o??n i lastingly should we say that whloh i will make the slightest wounds, for < iometimes even words, jestingly or i carelessly spoken leave a sting that < last forever. 1 Family Tragedy. j Milton Pitts, a prosperous farmer | nz noiles.fr ^.Griffin, Ga., shot and , rilled his f ?flier, Charles, 61 years )ld. The elder brother, Ben, then turned his weapon upon himself, lending a bullet through his heart. , fealousy caused the double tragedy. 1 tfrs. Milton Pitts having been observ- j )d speaking to Charles after her huscand had warned her not to do so. 1 Negro Hanged. I Charles E. Grant, a negro, whe nurdered a negro woman named Eva i Barnes was hanged at Washington, I D. 0. on Friday. < WAV* OT CRIME OM No CeaMtlon In K?I(d of LawleMDCM at PltUbarg, P?. With detectives from oitles of neighboring states who are there in the hope of finding orooks of national reputation, there haa been no apparent oeiisatlon in Crimea that have etlrred Pittsburg within the past two weeks. During Wednesday and early Thursday morning soores of people were arrested on the streets is suspootcd oharacters. Shortly after midnight Thursday a negro who entered the home of David Honey, Perryvllle Ave. Alleghehy, was heard In the lower portion of the house by a maid, who immediately notified Mr. Honoy. Mr. Honey fired several shotu but the negro osoaped. Honey's home is located to a row of ten house nine of whloh have been robbed during the past two evenings. Dispatobes to the Associated Press J Thursday night from neighboring i towns says the reign of lawlessness has , never b jfore been equalled in these suburbs. At South Sharon, Meroar . County, the police found John Mo Donald lying in an alley, almost dead 1 from exposure and fraoiured skull. At Washington, Pa., bloodhounds have started on the trail of robbers who assaulted Mrs. Cole, wife of the tax collector of Green County, whose condition is precarious. At Beaver Falls, Pa., a thief entersn the home of Mrs. Mary MoMlller and failing to find money ohooked her early to death. The woman finally broke away from her assailant and graeping an iron poker struok him several times over the head. Three white men were arrested Thursday Qlgbt at Somerset, Pa., charged with stealing 9260 and several hundred dol ' lars worth of government stamps from I the wife of a government revenue ool- < leotor while she was riding on a street 1 car In Greensburg, Pa., Thursday. 1 At New Brighton two men were 1 held-up and assaulted Thursday ight by highwaymen. Both men were seriously Injured. A general manhunt Is In progress at MoKeesport, Pa., sevsral miles from here, In an endeavor to capture James Taylor, who murder3d Isaac Carter Monday evening. At Swlssvllle, a suburb, extra polioe were idded to the force Thursday night at i special meeting of the oounoll. KILLING IN LAUREN8. \ Young Man Shot From Ambush at Uoldvlllu. A dispatch from Laurens to The News and Courier says news was revived there Sunday morning of the tilling at Goldvllle Saturday night )f the killing of John Atkinson, a fcung mill operative at the Banna Jotton Mill, located at Goldvllle. Particulars of the affair axe vary meagre, but it is reported that At rlQBon was shot Saturday night, as he was passing between the mill building and the railroad on his way home. One report is that he was In bompany of two other young men and was fired upon by someone ooncealed behind a building. On the other band, it Is stated that Atkinson was ilone when the assassin got in his work. Young Atkinson killed his father, 1 John Atkinson, Sr., at Goldvllle 1 fcbout two years ago while the old man, who In a drunken rage was 1 whipping Mrs. Atkinson, his wife and mother of young Atklnsoi . At the rollowlng term of Oourt. The grand 1 jury returned "no bill" against Atkinson. He had a wife and two : children. Sheriff Duokett and his deputy have gone to the scene and the Inquest will he held this afternoon. The killing of Atkinson last night makes the fourth murder oommlted In Hunter Township since last spring ?two white and two colored?and the third assasinatlon in Laurens bounty within the last two months? me white and two colored. Hotel By ill* Own Petard. One of two burglars who attempted ho break open a safe In the cffioe of a large manufacturer at Bsrln, Ger, has met with a singular death. He and his accomplice, finding their tools iot sharp enough or tempered enough, letermined to hiirnt nnan th? aaf* 1 with lome explosive. The? stuffed ] &he look full with the explosive, pre- < mmably gunpowder, and attaching ] in Ignited fuse, waited for the result, i As the fuse burned slowly one of the ] robbers approaohed the safe to has i ien matters. At that moment the ] run powder exploded, and the door of | ibe safe flew open, smashing in the ikull of the burglar, His acoomplloe 1 escaped, and as the explosion made ( lardly any noise nothing was known i )t the affair till next morning. Piot to Kill King? j The police of Rome, Italy, have . seen informed that several people , who are in the habit of renting win- lows along the route usually taken by | royal prooeeslons, have been approaoh- . :u m/ lujoraiiuun yoiauua wuu W1IU 1 bo rent not only windows, but entire . rooma for the day when the King of j Gtreeoe arrives at Rome. The polloe | oeletve this to be an evidence of an ( inarohlst plot. 1 Burned to Death. . At Aiken on Thursday afternoon { little Ryan, the 4-year-old son of Mr. j S.. J. Haight, was so severely burned \ that death resulted Friday morning \ it 5 o'olock. The ohild's clothes be- , same Ignited and before it was res- j sued it was burned fatally. The body j was oarrled to Blaokvllle for Inter- j ment. Mr. and Mrs. Haight have the slnoerest sympathy of all In their \ tad bereavement. , GIVEN A ROAST. Some Scathing Comments in the Recent Elections. ANENT COBTLEYOU. The New York Press Contrasts His Treatment by President Rosscvelt With the Defeat of Congress* man Babcock by the People of His District. It ought not, says the New York Press, to be neoessary to use a steam irill to drive into the heads of Be publ'oans the lesson taught by the iefeat of Representative Baboook In Wisconsin. The Press there goea on bo say: In a dlstrlot whioh is normally Republican by several thousands of rotes, and which gives a handsome plurality to the victorious, Republican candidate for Governor Babcock has been beaten for re election. And this despite the faot that be was chairman of the Congress campaign committee, a powerful member of the system in the House, and oould command resources not available to the ordinary Congress oandidate. Babcock was beaten beoaupe he was in partnership with the life insurance Tl. tnrtlr A O KAA u? nuurn f?,vvv llUUi atUD despoilers of the widows' and orphans' fund and spent It to maintain that part of the Congress machine C7er which he was in oommand in 1904. rhe fact was widely published in the Armstrong committee testimony. It was familiar to the voters in Bab* jock's dlstrlot, and it overshadowed questions of tariff and trusts and the like. Nothing counted muoh in the campaign but the incident of Babcook taking 92,600 from McCurdy to Unanoe the political maohlneof whloh tie was the engineer. The voters of the 3d Wisconsin district decided that i man who would take money which tie knew he had no right to take was sot tit to look after their interests or these of the country, and they have returned Babcook to private life. Now, does not the fate of Repretentative Baboock suggest larger possibilities of danger to National Republicanism? Consider the case )f Oortelyou. It is like Babcook's inly worse. All the yellow dog funds oontrlputed large sums to Cortelyou, and ie fattened the funds of the National Rppublioan committee with them. Babocck took cents where Oortelyou book dollars. But the actions of the two men were identical in that eaoh icoepted moneys whloh did not belong to the givers, In that each knew bhe contributions did not belong to bhese who made them, in that eaoh Muvnuou ?u? hi a w BB UBIUlUliy BH the evidence of an? felony, and in kbat both Cortelyou and Baboook jpent tbe money in the further debauchery of American politics. The similarity in the offences of bhe ohairman of the National Republican committee and tbe ohairman of the Republican Congress campaign Dommittee stops there. It is when we come to the treatment of the two men that the big difference occurs. Representative Baboook, not being % member of the Cabinet, but being In oharge of the Congress campaign aommittee, and not daring to faoe a canvass of the oountry in behalf of a Republican House with the $2,600 iteal staring the voters in the faoe, be is retired from the chairmanship. Then when be goes back to his district for a "vindication" the hobnails of publio opinion are applied vigorously where they will do the most good. No very high standard of morals is required ordinarily for membership in the House, as is prov sd by the fact that Baboook oould 20 there after he had been caught kt.nff? i- ? J ? ? ?4? 1 juumuK vuu uimio wiuu liBUKOlt |WIM1 matter * during railroad weighing time, and as demonstrated by the presenoe in Congress for a long time )f some men who belonged In Jail anl nave since either been started In that direction or are already in prison. But the 3d Wisconsin distriot drew the line at being represented by a man who helped MoOuray to skin the policy-holders of the Mutual. xiow uorseiyou was created lor doit g on a larger scale what Baboook iid waa advertised to the oountry, lod particularly to the State of New Fork, a few days before the balloting, which eleoted to the Governorship ihe man most Instrumental in exposing the partnership of Gortelyou ind Baboook with the dispensers of fellow Dog funds. For his share in the dirty business Baboook is wip)d off the map of the system at Wellington. For hi* part in the plunder Gortelyou is not retired from lis position as Postmaster General, [)ut is raised of all things to the ohair >f Alexander Hamilton. The man who would spend In a oladestlne manler trust funds belonging to mem*rs of one political party to promote the fortunes of another political party s not punished but rewarded. And to aggravate the outrage the reward <o him for his failure to observe comnon honesty in the handling of other people's money is his promotion to ihe post where he is in oharge of the funds of the whole nation 1 Suoh is the difference between the treatment of Baboock by the voters if his home district and the treat* ment of Oorteljou bj President Roosevelt, although the offsnoe commltteed by the two men differed only In degree, and to that extent the wrong done by the Cabinet officer Is greater than the blooding of the Representative. The American people have longed looked upon the 'vindication" of Paul Morton from the aelf-oonfessel charge of criminal rebating as the topmost point of absurdity reaohed In Amerloan administrative Government. This height of folly Is scaled by the promotion of Secretary Co'tel you to (he Treasury, and the fact is all the more emphasized by the beating the voters have given to Oortelyou'd confederate In the 3d Wisconsin district. FIII 1)8 A PSARL. While Eating Haw Oysters In a Now York Gate. At New York William H Bloom, manager of the Ohio Brass oompsny'a works In Mansfield, Ohio, struck a mine of pearls in an oyster in the Cafe Savarln Thursday. Mr. Bloom Is staying in the Hotel Breslln. Thursday he want down town and dropped into the Savarln for a bite to eat. Mr Bloom thought he would like some raw oysters. So the man opened him half a dozon. With four of these oysters this story has nothing to do, The fifth oyster was the one that oonoealed mvpn hAtnflfnl no*?)a -* vw.uo.tui |>va?io fMtUWi mv vuuu. If he swallowed them whole, Mr. Bloom would have returned to his nappy Ohio home Ignorant former, perhaps, of how muoh he was worth i himself ; inside. But in Manstield ( they ohew their oysters. As Mr. Bloom bit into the fifth cyater he felt something round between his teeth. They have failed to properly manicure these oysters" he said, and pjeo ted the gritty ob*eot from his mcuth. It was a luscious pearl. In qulok succession he produced six more pearls. "I presume that when you serve oyBters on the half shell all that comes in the shell belongs to the guest ?" in quired Mr. Bloom, of Waltor Qustav. Oustav admitted that such was the rule. "Well, you should have some reward," said Mr. Bloom as he picked up one of the pearls. ,%I shall leave yoh the remaining oyster." And he wrapped up all the pearls and told Gustav to thank Mr. Savar in for him on account of Mr. Savarln'H kindness and uflnnnmitn I I hwmw* vw?V/ Hliu TV VUk' away. GIRL KILLED HEK8ELF. ;d Did Not|Want to Go to Hohool wm tho Cause. At Oonoord, Ga., rather than go to school against her wishes, Miss Mary Stwdford, pretty and vivaolous, sent a bullet crashing through her head Tuesday morning of last week at 9 o'clock at her home In Gonoord, Ga., dying Instantly. The young girl left home for sohool under protest; declaring she did not want to study. Instead of going to the sohool hou e, however, she re traced her steps Into the house, secured her father's pistol and hurried unobserved to the barn, where she deliberately placed the weapon against her ear and pulled the trigger. A net ro heard the mulled report of the weapon, but thought nothing of the matter until two hours later when the body was found by the girls father. Miss Stanford was noted for her beauty and from earliest ohlldhood bed been admired by all her friends and companions, Bv nature she was of the happiest disposition and until her reoent ill health nu th* leader In the in the younger aoolal oircle of whioh ahe was the charming oenter. She waa the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. E J. Stanford, one of the moat prominent families In the town. Her father is a large land owner and Uvea on the rent from hla several plantations. Henry Stanford of Atlanta is a brother of the young girl. He has been wired of the tragedy. Explosion Of Powder. A powder magazine owned by the E. I. Dupont Company and situated at Tlnley park, about thirty miles from Chicago, exploded Thursday with suoh foroe that window panes were broken in the home of the Midlothian Club, three miles distant. One man employed to watch the magazine was killed, but no other lives were lost. The cause of the explosion Is QOt known. President R^r vlt sv,ruld call thft &t.t.Antlnn nf tho EiMrst * ?* w ? ? i.o< amiawiiib Postmaster-General to fche Republican , campaign book In whloh it is deolared ' that the ooat of living haa not In- 1 creased percept'bl-. That hardly aggrees with the otttolal request for In- 1 creased pay for postal olerks due to 1 the Inorease In the cost of Hying. 1 Those who are paying high trust prices* oan hardly have muoh faith In ! Republican statements whloh have evidently been manufactured to de- 1 oelve them. i Tub Atlanta Georgian printed a : oompllmentary reference to Senator 1 Tillman and waked up the Charleston . Post and Columbia State, and according to the Spartanburg Journal these performed the same old stunts they have been doing for 16 years only proving that a prophet Is not without 1 honor ezoept in his own country. BROODISe OVBB LOSS. A Ltdy Attempted to. Kill Herself With Poison, la a fit of despondency Mrs. Joe Stelne, wife of the heaviest loser in the reoent fire at Warren tun, Oa., made a desperate attempt to ?commit suicide Thursday at noon In Augusta by drinking poison. She had been visiting friends In that olty hoping to overoome the strain which has resulted from the great lots b> the fire of last week. The Stelne store and building suffered a loss of twenty thousand dollsrsby Are and there was only six thousand dollars Insurance, which It seems was not muoh more than enough to pay outstanding obligations. Mrs. Stelne was stopping at 914 Broad street and some one happened to observe her as she took the deadly dose of poison and promptly summoned Olty Physician MoLaws, who sue* oeeded In pumping up most of the poison and giving counteracting doses, whloh put Mrs. Stelne out of danger after the employment of stringent means. In a statement to the physician and others present she said she wishto die as the work of a lifetime had been destroyed In a few short moments by the flames and she did not feel able to begin anew the struggle. She Is reported as resting very well now and out of all danger from her desperate aotlon. The family is well known throughout that Beotlon of the state and numerous friends have expressed their sympathy over the loss of their prop* rty. A Another Death* Mr. Harold Forest Holley, of Aiken Oountv, a student of the South Carolina University In Columbia, died Sunday morning of tvphold fever. This Is the neoond death at the University in the last two weeks from typhoid fever. Mr. Holley was a bright and promising young man. He was the sen of Mr. B. F. Holley, of Alkon, and was regarded as a fine ,..4 ?.?1n #-11 bwuucuv *uu uinliijr ;uuu|{ lonuw, Tbero have been no new oases In twelve days now, and the medioal authorities give assurances that danger Is over. The use of well water for a row days, during a break in tho regular oity supply, is regarded as tho cause of the oases of typhoid. The Columbia correspondent of The News and Courier savs as the well water is no longer used and there have been no new oases in a fortnight, the fear of further trouble is regarded as over. The authorities have the best of trained nurses and physiolani attending the voung men who are sick?all are now about well. Tired ol Life. Mr, William B. Odgen, bookkeeper in the Charlotte branch tflloe of the Philip Carey Manufacturing Co. committed suioide here early Thursday night by asphyxiation. The aot was a most deliberate one. After writing a d( zm or more notes to his father, wile, several relatives and frlenda, he drew the shades In the effioe, made a pallet on the floor wtiha pillow of excelsior, out the gas tube leading to the small heator and tied the free end to his neck. After turning on the gas he threw a felt blanket over hie bead and was dead in a very short time. He leaves a wife and two ohlldren. Profound melanoholla, brought about. by poor eyesight, Is said to have been the oause of the rash deed. In a note to his brother, Mr, E. P. Tlngsley he said: "I am afraid of myself. Sometimes I have been tempted to take all the folks with me, but have resisted the feeling, I do oot think I can do so any longer." Picture Poet Garcia. Notwithstanding the faot of the enormous popularity of the ploture post-card a recent order of the PoalOffioe department Is likely to make these little mall souvenirs even more sought after than ever. This order will make lawful a post*card upon whloh there is a spaoe upon the address side for written messages. This will enable the sender to keep the ploture un mar red and yet write a message upon the left hand side of the oard, the whole of which side has been in the past reserved for the address only. This agreement was reached at the session of the universal postal congress during the pa?t summer. This style of post*oard has been In use for some time in foreign countries. The admission of it to American malls promises to lnorease the number now handled by several millions. A peculiar feature of the post-card Is, that although It Is sent for one cent, their use has lnoreased the revcuues of the department. Graft Seandals. It now appears that many sums of money large and small, that were tent from different States to San Franolsoofor the relief of sufferers from the oalamity never reached the relief oommlttee. Some of these imounts, whloh aggreated large sums were mailed to the oare of Mayor Sflhmtnz. IT- -T ? . - . uwv/ I VOWWITO William Burns and about 105 governmcnt egents hate been making an Investigation. President Roosevelt Is tbe moving spirit behind the Inquiry, and he deolares that no man guilty of diverting the relief funds shall escape lustloe. The oases oome within juried lotion of the Federal authorities because of the interstate character of the postal servioe whieh it Is alleged, was orlmlnally tampered with. It Is said that in the aggregate the stealings will amount of ll'.OOD.OOO, <