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OF CHEMl TEN MEN ?LUD. AND -FOURI FATALLY HURT IN DE TRbrr itt?f SEVERAL MEXICANS ?t: ? r ^ Ware Engaged In Manufacturing ? Imitation Leather Oat ol Crude Rabber By Secret Procese Detroit, Mich., May Iii.-Ten men, moat or them enemista, were hilled by | sn .explosion of acid end chemicals .n the mixing room of the Mexican Crude Htthber Company aere today. Four other employees, taken to a hospital, rosy die. Two men were seriously ; hurt. The one story concrete building j was almost obliterated. Other build ings witbin a radius of s mlle were more or less damaged. The loss waa estimated at $50,000. I The dead are: Edward Christopher. Willam Mccoy, C. Larsen, AI Hodglns, Victor R1. Burns, William P. Niles, Joseph Casso, Gorton Letta, Emen .Aman and Georgs Gleggoria. The four last named were Mexicans. Just what caused the explosion robably will never be known. Every man In the mixing room at the moment j of the explosion was killed. . Masses of cement and concrete were found several blocks away. Nearby bttildlngs were battered by tba ball of hying atone abd several pedestrains bid narrow escapes. A short distance from the rubber factory the plant of th? Commerce Motor Car -Company Was bady damaged. It was some time before rescuers I could penetrate the debris because of poisonous fumes and until late today it wa J thought there were more bodies in thc ruins. 5jpjrbe company manufactured imita-1 :.;tjan leather and it is understood that explosives were used In large quan ti! :OB. >; Because of the secret process of ?./a parlng the crude rubber, employes W?SStti' not allowed to leave their de partment to enter other parts or the | u. Pew of the enoloyes know j li other and it was some time be fore the victiirs were' identified. A Hopper's investigation has been or SEN. CHILTON BACKS WILSON! the Panama Tolla Repeal Bill j and Gives Strong Therefor ?Washington, May 15.-Senator nilton of West' Virginia, yesterday bid the senate why he favored the ianma tolls exemption repeal bill. "It never has been the policy of the democratic pa:rty to break, treaties.' laid the Weat Virginia seator. I can- ' loi believe that a democratic conven ?an, nor tbai a mass of people with Rbect to their government would Lasire tho United States tb take a po sition of violating at treaty." aj?nater Chilton said the exemption ' 'i^fifi.t and therefore th? Bal [M-mltted the repeal. *vbrv could not ?al bill Baltlmore^ml W? chives of Soclety^H some facts abdut the^M ? patrioats that would bflrTw unpublished, acrordlng^Of^l raents made tod.y afc-^ITM of the triennial mee-,,..SS - here. t TH -jMEvV?. aneetal cvunTiij JIH^SIB^SS or the publication of T?U^f<>lB factT in the possession ol the?ocl?ty, lt met with opposition ' from Col. Beaty, secretary of the Pennsylvania branch of the organization. H have read all the papers," he said, "and there -are isles of poverty of - nome of our beat ancestors that would bb better' lift untold than in printed form. There *r* stories too, about money 'difficultly wl;h a gentleman seat to Franco that are ;best lett*a? they nom. remain." The resolution was withdrawn, ? ac nest convention etty wis ?oi named, but it ls report?e* Oat Ashe ville, N, C" has been decided on. PALLS ?^Cfefc??_ UAMt SOBS TD X?Hr ?Ot *? DATS Wllmingtou, May 15;-Stewart Fe feL son of s est! koowa and-promt' reorder Poring today for contempt . of court. Feist sss ea trial for va grancy. Plainclothesman Leon George waa. testifying that Fefjl had been seen loafing here several months' with no visible means bf support. Fef?l? who was seated "by his attorney, Brooke tf. fifmple. Who soon suecas?i Mr, Furlong as recorder arose add branded the officer Ss ? "d-Ittbr.l.' The pleadings bf Fefel'a rathur ?HU attorney railed to shake the recorder in. his determination tb send,the young man to pail for to;day* abd be'MwK itis term tmmsdlalely for vag?b?jV?f tbn ease be lng ' con tinued. Tab jalifa? created much' attention. _ ,, Vienna, May 15-"Wrist experta de* clara to bo a beautiful specimen of Titian's work has bren discovered In the Count Os^lilinskia gallery at tomber*, lt ls a potr?lt of Dca 01 < i vanni Castro and it dat?s back to 161?. '^'M pimmN I?AL k%Mt\ 6 * fmKINERM DEFARilXO Th? ?ste City Aft?Tcoverlag Herself : Wit? ??.orj, SgWs tb? fmrtli? Atlanta, May ll, - Now that tte ck>?? ,o? fchritu? ?vvk bia com? ??iii the shouting und tumnlt ?a? ?nd the taptaitis and yoiao?etee d?part, tue biggest In all Atlant? taVorreat Adair. Fof 4??m ?h? italy os, ? for thc congratulations, /o? hm tbs bouquet?, and th? lasting gratitude of every pa triotic' fellow citizen of Atlanta be cause he waa the man who brocght the Shrmere of North .America to At lanta. Ho waa the leader. As potentate of Taarab Temple it was ho who extend ed the invitation, lt waa be who "put lt over." -The magnificent work he did in planning for the coming and the en tertainment of tba Bhriuers are today meeting with publia r?cognition and. a number of the city's foremost cit tiens have staretd a subscription list to pro. vide some memorial token which Mr. Adair can band down in hts family for generations a? a ?ig? o? the commun ity's appreciation of what be nas done. The retiring ; Imbealat - Potentate. Wm. W. -Irwin says that Atlanta bas eclipsed alt pf the cities of the past, In entertaining tee Nobles. . "Out Of an abundance of experience and weighing my words carefully, " bs ad ded, "I believe Atlanta is the most wonderful city, bar none, of her site in the wprld." The newly elected Imperial. Poten tate, Frederick R. Smite, equally im pressed and equally aa enthusiastic, said, in concluding an eloquent tribute -"What your city bab done during the past three days witt be blazoned from one end ot North America to the otter." And now listen to what Potentate Forrest Adair said. "It was the univer sal spirit of good fellowship and hos pitality-the Atlanta spirit-that has made this convention great. My heart Is full bf gratitude for all Atlanta, which gave of its time, its labor, its money, in fact, its heart for the suc cess of thlsconvention.". Seoul, Korea, May 16.-Modernisa tion bsa .-?gun to make itself felt in Koree. . American visitors wi? find j tba white robed Korean with hts. sparse black beard, his majestic waly? i and his stove pipe hat still moving I picturesquely through the wide streets ! of Seoul, ceaselessly puffing bis tong i bamboo pips but the general' Uf? of - the city ha?,lost much,crt ita-bangor.j bad ease, A new energy bas sprung up since th? arrivai .nj--teg|jajfflhess.-.. ANEW WRlriKXE BY LAFOLLETTE ?jft*li?herJ In Congressional Record Remarks. to. Extent ox $i3,?- j 760-In Cost Hot Value (By Associated 'Press.) Washington, May 16.-Democratic j economists of the, house, ' including Representative Bernhardt, of Indiana,' chairman of the.house printing com-" mlttee, were stirred today over the appearance of a special edition of the ! congressional record'containing Infor-! mati?n Seu.stofc, La FoUsjtte'oT Wis consin desired published on the ques tion of railroad ratea ' The special edition contained 368 pages and was devoted to comunica- * he railroad freight rate' tas'^ttboitf^' as "remarks" by I neon sin sen?ioi.. I -?-J- ?-l-l IC* ._.u_* I ition meant ? to?fipevt i?\ payers of the country of |xt,-j of the 681 senators andi congress were to pad the nal record like that** said ardt. "it would cost tee .307,011 and to this safely " ed several more thousand Wie cost of the wrapping s necessity to get this pub li? reading public-in all W?X;WORK (?r TRAIX BANDITS IGreat Northern Passenger Train Was' Rel * up and Robbed. ? Spokane 1 Washn... May 15.-Great Northern passenger train number t, the Oriental limited, was held up by tiro masked men early today n^r Roxford, Montana. The combination mail and baggage cor ' was detached from the train and run four miles -West to Rondo, where tee coir wai? i$f- ; ^tiffie valuable loot wa^^tatued by j the bandits, as th? registered oouch es1 had' been brought', wo? e?Alefte^tMd1 fast mail. Ais soon fa trlo-frliin was ; clopped the mall 'otarte' und bagence-1 man lumped, locked Tho doors and hld in tee bnshea. Wn?n th? bandits Could j npt open tho doors they dynamited Uio car. The train arrived h?re Without the damaged car. three hours fate. Seven yeaja ?go tee Orientai lim ited *** MP UP ?t Rondo and $40,000 In currency was obtained. A^RNT*NE CORN ered a less of l&JM$y*J* Bushels, Chivito, ?tay if>.-Ksiimates teat' the Argentine exportables surplus of irn had been , cut down perhaps 123. ^,000 Misbela owing to1 itteesf^ni 4TC by, storm* today mad* tee T".ft?rnT?MIll ftfit'tiTttrf te-. a. ? W&gffi ?re wa? a decided bulge ta pri?es] but heavy sales' to realise profits lett the ecjse mer*-*,/ steady at a, .gabi el tm* l-l a r?s net. Wheat wopnd uti a shade to S-4 above Jest eight; oats t-8 off a 1-4 advance and provisions unchanged to a rise of 12 1-2. . <S^^|BaHaflHai "CANCER HOUSES0 MARKED BY MEDICS Fact? GithwdBy Expert* *nd (je^a^r*?!? 4O til? ^^Q^Kc III T^??^?^li England London,. May lt*.-Medical U??M, ano sanitation esperta ore taking a great r-at^vcat ia ?Ufc ?fw-???xi .ia to i*-B%thar a person c*n become Infected, ?f?th cancer through living In a house in'J which a cancer victtm^as died. For years the question has been a matter,] of debate and medical literature now abounds in references to the "cancer houses." Investigation In England has follow, ed the report of Dr. Amande, who has found! teat la a village or 400 inhabi tants In France eleven deaths from cancer occured in seven years, all be ing located in the same block of houses, and ia other parts of France, including Parla, a similar condition waa foupd. In Oreat Britain there arc numer ous cancer houses. There ls a vicar age In f the north of England where two successive Incumbents have died of concer. In a large house in Somer set, .where ? rnsn died of cancer many years ago, bis wife, his wife's second husband, a member of the family by bis first wife and a housekeeper have since Calida, victima. In another house in. Scotland, the cancer history extends back three generations. An experi ment was ? made there by confining mice in a trap. Several of them con tracted the disease. Slr Thom " Oliver, the distinguishes physician and writer on medical sub jects, ia ai. recent address, deolared that the germ theory ot cancer waa only doubtfully adopted, still it was kaowp that cancer, could be convoyed from man to the lower ab?mais.. More over, lt was regarded as probable that Just as some persons were particular ly suBceptable to Infectious diseases or some persons;.?light inherit.a peculiar vulnerability, of the tissues, whereby at a particular age they become liable to cancer. Could this inheritance or vulnerability explain some of the /acts about cancer houses? In his annual re port to Ute Insurance institute at Newcastlo-Oii-Tyne, Slr Thomas ha? said: "My attention has been drawn to a twelfth of a mlle long In a small town. The bouses are entirely residential. In th? fifteen years from 1893 to 1908 there died from cancer in this street, nineteen persons and one dog. In some ot the houssse there have oc cured twp or three cases. As lp all of the esses there was a hereditary history ot tho disease, the large num ber of deaths am?n?_ successive occu pants of the houses bas suggested that the matter is.more than a mere coincidence." C. E. Green, another scientist, who has studied the subject of cancer.' be lieves that it ls largely due .to conl fires. Nairshire bas the largest cancer death rate In SooUaatL Mr. Green re. ported in lft13 that :the djatrlcts of Nalrnshire "which were free from can cer were those where peat ls burned, bot coal. So frequently has fi? Obser ved this fact that be is disposed to at tribute the prevalence of .dancer to the combustion of coal rieb in sui pb Ur, especially where the houses of the people are sloping "sites in bi l lows. SLIGHT DELAY IN THE FROG C_? ? ???_ W ff_? h? i ' sana s o rare Nc >-,With Reference to Media . rv M ISpacial to The Intelligencer. Washington. May 15.---Postponement of the Niagara.Falls. Mexican media tion conference from Monday to Wed nesday, at the request ot Ute Huerta delegates, changed the plans bf tbs Sooth American .mediators .and the American commissioners for depar ture today and tomorrow, end pt the same time produced mach speculation -*~ ---ll.?- ..I-1?I"....,.,. I., 1 Vo Aa, -?. . Bf - T-? - *?, mun ' r**":r n 7- -.- -- lay. Later the rfpanisb auibassador here who is caring for the Interests ot Mex-1, lc o ip the United Statea. authorised a statement that the delay merely meant: that the Huerta, delegates Wanted a brief respite ITom , their long journey and had no political im portance. The Spanish Ambassador wil lglvo the Mexicans a dinner here Saturday night, after which tbey will eU?o NiugMfa F?M?- **he three i American diplomata and Am?r epmralsnloners will jeavC Sunday Monday and all will assemble V:a^Se<lwhoic, President Wilson and his cabinet today took a more hope ful view of the Mexican situation than they had fqr. weeks. They are; conil-J dent, mediation w??? utOumplisri so~.c : thing toward Ute. pacido settlement) of the problem. The constitutionalists! j capture ot Tampico brought out th? fact that there is no prohibition' against the shipment of arms into : that port from the United States br any other country. PB*!* FOB PEACE ?Hktdtst f rn tra of tao Northern ?r*?*es Mage ApbesL . Washington. May 15.-Prayers forr| the success of loedlftiien in composing ' the Mexican situation were requested in all Method}**, Episcopal churches on Sunday. May 17 in a communica tion? addressed to all the churches ! day by Bari Cranston, senior bishop. of the church. In his statement. Bishop Cranston called upon district superintendents, and pastors of the church "to pray la I public congregations Sunday and to exhort alt th? , people tc Continue to pray in private for the divise blenclng upon the efforts of tho mMlaiora. CUAYms mi im This map show? El PIM, Nogales. In the con file t betveen tba United Sta tr?M>ps bad long been r-ady to cress into ** 1 11 ir. . VILLA IS FLY1K OVER THE TOWNS HELD BY FED! HITHERTO ARE NOW SURRENDERING THE END IN SIGHT He Will Get Huerta ff the Media tors Do Not Hurry Up Their Work of Pacification - i (By Associated Press.) - Torreon Mex.;lfay 15.-Not even tho telegraph is abl 2 to keep track of General Francisco Villa's movements, according to'reports ot his activities which have reached here. Up and. down the railroad from Pared?n and HlpoUti to Torre?n he rushes, urging forward the jolting trains, seeing that provisions are properly distributed and looking tb the comfort of bl* horses. . Toe repairing of tho railroad ls go ing forward rapidly, but it is said here that General Villa will press his troops onward in. advance of the construc tion crews." al . .-r- . \ i '. Rebels Take a Town. . Juarez Mex.. Maw 15.-Monclova, the mst town held by the federals on tb? National F-ullway. of Mexico be tween Piedras Negras, opposite Eagle' Pass, Texas, and Saltillo has been oc cupied by Constitutionalists under General Francisco Murgla, according, to a mesage fro ros General Murgla., Te? cetved today. The message gated that the Federal garrison Qed as. soon ss the advance guard of the Constitu tionalists came in sight. The capture of Monclova, it is said, will probably permit the opening or communication between the bprw?f ? and Monterey. IA K?I?*? victory. Vera Crus >;-vy 15.-Tuxpan has been evacuated' by tho Federal garri son and occupied by thc Constitution alists. The federals 5?0 strong recely word yesterJs'y-oi fae approach iii the Constitutionalists, went out to meet them. Th ev wore overwhelmed hy he 2,000 constitutionalists and retreating from the town, immediately .scattered to the hills. I Villa IVanrfc Ammunition. El Paso, Texas, May 15.-The atti tude or-thc American administration with regard to th?-embargo on.arms caused immediate activity along this section of the border. ' - /When the announcement came by wife tonight that there was no prohi bition against shipping arms und am munition to Tampico from the United States or eine where, there was an lin-., mediate exodus eastward of Consti tutionalists purchasing agents,! abd arms and ammunition salesmen, who hurried away to reach the point where they could come Into .closest touch with ann? (tii!pf??-?w. President Irishes Pcaee, New York, May. 15.-William Jen nings Brynn, In an address tonight ?aid: ."With the new era which, is being ushered into the world, governments in power will rose.rt more and. more to reason und less And less to forcn. "Mediation la lost now being attempt ed in a question affecting the United States, {.thank God that we have a prnfldent who hopes that mediation will succeed. He ls In sympathy with lae mediation efforts and trusts that ?e nation's honor will be maintained and the welfare of Moklco conserved," ?T is 'jfoWff nott Secretary iJarf J?** <?fP Artqiery Or Washmgt?p, Bt^yTtS^Actlvity Which began yesterday Jil government ar senate and at coast artillery posts fol iages the precautionary arrangements of the war. department in the Mexican situation. Secretary Garrison. said to day. The secretary declared that nb new orders had been, issued to any hraich 6* the servie* "The coast artillery has been under orders to be tn readiness fer some ??al Points on t them Boundary i Juarez ?BO otber main torr ba on tba Itt itca and Mexico. At varloua poluta oe Mexico, tba northern state? bf which at 'mi i j i -i.,. , -. ,i iiii ? ? time," aaid the secretary. "It waa ??art of our original plan to croate provisional, infantry regiments from the coast artillery." The secretary said that the work being done in government arsenals was in compliance with orders from Officers directly in charge and that ho hat} no knowledge of it. I ABM* MEDICAL SUPPLIER ?Supplemental Bur for tMtyMO Han Bera Prged. Washiugton, May 15.-A supplemen tal estimate of $50,ooo for army med ical and. hospital supplies "to meet emergency conditions now slitting, or likely, tb arise ld the near' future," was submitted to the house today by .thc war department. Secretary Garrison said tho money waa needed to cover extraordinary cv penditures. incidental to the occupa tion nf Vera f'ruz and thu mobilisation of troops for services abro-d. ' Surgeon General Gorgas said th2 current appropriation or S?50,000 for the m?dical and hospital department was barely sufficient for ordinary con dlt,ton<: and all lias been expended. DEATHS EN ROTTE American Wounded Die on The Solare On tl ay Home. New York, May Li.-Tho narai noa ital ship Solace, wich reached quar antine early yesterday morning dock ed at the Brooklyn navy yard with 101 patients from Vera. Crur*. Th? ship also brought the bodies o? Henry Ps?l?am and, Clarease R, Harahberger the navy men,, who died of wounds re. ceivBd la thc occupation of the Mox lcan city. There were on board the vessel 31 wounded; the remainder were super ing from disease contracted in Mexico. Ot the latter, however, ninny were convalescent. Hunter Dobson, an ordinary seaman from the battleship Louisiana, died on the.voyage Sunday night of appen dicitis. KELEASED ON BAIL ona* 'Virginia Woman Accu?ed of Killing Husband. LoulBa Court House, Vs., May 15. Mrs. Victor Hall, widow of the young merchant shot to death in bis home at Green Spring, on April 15? waa Indict ed . today for murder by the special grand jury which bas been Investigat ing the crime for ?ayn. Mrs. Hall was in court, having been arrested yesterday on a bench war ro nt following a s?cond attempt to burn her bomb and store. She was released on bail COLOR QUESTION AGAIN I?P Germany I!?s Trouble With The Ne* groes fa Africa. Berlin, April Vt.-The secretary of the colonies has decided to send out a special commission to investigate the conditions at Duala. the seaport of the GeHnsn colony bf Kamerun In Africa. A storm ot protest has arisen lu Germany against the alleged high banded proceedings of the colonial au thorlUes of Kamerun, who wish to dis. possess the entire population of Dub ia inprder toestabllsb there a purely ISuropesn quarter with sanitation and ether modern improvements. It Is claimed that this cannot be done so long as the natives with their wretched huto and other unsanitary modes of fifo occupy a considerable part of thc ground needed for the white settle- j ment. . . 1 The Reichstag which has been asked' to appropriate 1500,000 to compensate the natives doe? not object in princi ple to tbe dispossession of the ne groes, but members of tho Budget committee protest, strongly against the manner in which dispossession heretofore has been'carried on. Tbe negroes hove declared that Ute colon ial authorities gave them but a pit tance of what ?their lots are wo*Hh> j and that the new site on which they j w?ire compelled ?o settle was >\ plag?* bpot In comparison to their own old Ubtaes. ; . .... SHIT8ERT*S THIEF *WK PALLS ? FLOORS! DEAD ??ew York, May 15-Howsrd Jacott, aged .14, was known aa the right head men of Lee Schubert, the theatrical bia roo KI la the seventh story ot lbs ?KUI podranr to tjoj Joq^o Mormpbjd; 1 St. James Hotel *sry today end was .1 instantly killed. of Mexico lo Grande boundary Hoe which ramie the International -.line the Atnerlcuii e ?Iso shown. AN ORGANIZATION TOR SOUTH CAROLINA HAS BEEN PERFECTED MRS. M. T. COLEMAN Ville Woman, Daughter of Gen. R. R. Herophffl, Is the President Elected (Dy Associated Presa) Spartanbure, May 16.-Women from all parts of the rtate met here today and organized the Equal Suffrage leg' gue of South Carolina, the purpose of which ls to win votes for women. Miss La vania En gi e. representing national women's suffrage associa tion, addressed the gathering. She said thorough organisation of the suf frage forces must be acccraplishnil throughout thc nation before thc suf fragists' appeal for the ballot would be seriously considered: by pongrcBs. . O?Ssers wcrsT??< '?U?WB: President, Mrs M. T. Coleman. Abbe : Hie : first vice president, Mrs. John Gary Evans, Spartamtifeg; second vico president, Mrs. J. L, Osker. Hartville; recording secretary. Mrs. Henry Mary ttt|r Charleston; corresponding sec retary, Mles Virginia Coleman, Abbe ville: treasurer, Mrs. W, M. Hicklin, Chester. The league adopted resolutions ad vocating equal pay tor women doing the same work as men. equal guard ianship of children by father and mother, a single standard of morals for men and women, Ute raising of the ago of consent from-14-to 21 y eu rs. compulsory and intenratlonal arbitra tion. The lcagur endorsed President Wilson's Mexican policy'and went on record- aa approving- the. prohibition movenidii, About two hundred delegates at tended the meeting. FARMERS'BILL HANGING FIRE Some Do Not Wish io make Ap : propriation for . Study. of Io-1 r-ju. (Dy Associated Press) : Washington, May 1.1- Final action on the agricultural appropriation bill vas delayed in tho senate again today by continued objections to various items in the measure. An appropria tion or 950,000 for the study of cooper, allon among farmers in matters of ru ral credits and sanitation was' the chief ob.*cct of uttnek. Senator Martin, chairman of the ap propriations committee, declared the expenditure .Would be useless, and that the di pcl tmcnt or agriculture ?irse encroaching on thc public ?nd banking departments of the govern ment. Sonutor Overman said If such appropriation umtinund the govern ment would face S deficit. "Tho *money is coming out of iii* pockets of: the fanners." replie Sen ator Gore; chairman ot the committee on agriculture, -it is the farming Lissa, that boar ??$ brunt cf tho $1S0S 000.000 ajipropr?atl?Vis for a navy to seed men to tholrvdeaty; of the 000,000 for, the army,;td. butcher abd kill. You will P?N??Umse bills tn half an hour, yet "yee^?fcbetd for two we?ks the bil to appropriate $19,000, D0O to benefit the farmers." SfF.XK'XS Or\ilOAT8 Are Being Followed ?n Their M?st?T leas Trip Heath. _ Vera Cms. May 15-The gunboat* Zaragoza and Sravo, which abandoned Ibis statiosn at Ta m I roo when the fed erais evacuated Umt city, passed Vera ? Cms lat? today. They bad been fol- j lowed south by tkp, Ujt^ted State? cru laitf^sosma aa?aw.torpedo boats. The torpedo bo??-?&*a?<bere, bat the ?co?t i i iiine, ('hesiervwas detached rrom ths fleet to keep the gunboats In sigh*. .#^.^v>]flfc' SOME POINTERS ON QUES TION AFTER AH INVEST! Wi 1 k\?&l I ' . . ' ? t . r) ' ft?ICG VATlffG? I?C A E?l|M$f . ?Tk 4 s*?M naur JU*?-? How L^gW?t^ W Famine-Many Other Prob lems in Skita?n i ; London. May ir?.-That Ute working class wire ls a more efficient spender of the household accounts than her middle class sister was the contention of Miss Lucy Yates at & recent meet in G of the Women's Freedom I?eagu?. She declared that the principle of a woman having complete' control of tho house was recognised by the two*king classes, but higher lit -uclnty tbere came a sort of dual ?.ontro!. Through th'i responsibility ' wo king wife hos learned administration, bi t by leaning on some one else the midd, a clasa wire never learned. The wire, Miss Yate? said, should have complete control of the money set aside for the hour/ hold expenses, Including housekeeping, dress sod ed ucation. There ahould Se no audit ot her accounts unless by reuest Sh? should be provided with a ci.eoft boo'' ab more likely to prove successful then the provision or loose coins, that might be cajoled out of her purse by tempting bargains. The speaker de clared that apendlng waa a finer art and much more difficult than earnltig. - Women ahould olio choose the house, and it was high time according to Miss Votes, that the women took over the spending of the money for the na tion. Nottingham and" ?tt^r cities face a ?;'? serious water famine. The water of the Dod went Valley resevoirs -from whicn supplies are drawn ls speedily choking up all Iron pipes and boilers with metallic deposits. . A- committee of the Nottingham city council hes reported that the continued use ot the Derwent water would In a short timo1 completely fhoke all th? Iron pipes in the city. Sheffield, which draws Its water of the . same source, ls not affected, be cause for thirty years the council has Insisted-on lead and copper pipes be ing installed. Leicester and- 'Derby; which use galvanised Iron pipes,'are in tho same position as Nottingham, where the people are already revert ing-to the old system of pumping wa ter from sand stone wella. To roplace all of the Iron pipes and boilers Would coat thousands of pounds. Tho Derwent Valley Water System which supplies besides the four cities, ; most ot thc towns lb Nottirrgham ahlre and Derbyshire, ha? already cost $35,000,000 stid Is Mule moro than half completed. This cost of maintaining a first class battleship hag risen nineo 1904 from somewhat leas than a half million dol lars to nearly a minion dollars a year. The naval authorities are trying to - reduce this heavy ccst.bu( it.ls never likely tb reach' the' torpor'ftg?res. al though th? use dr oil fuel makes g lprgo- reduction possible in tile stok er^ department. Xhe eight' gun Qneea Mary cost sS mo.,t a million dollars more to build .ihah the i?U BUD ?'j?x, uii? i? C-OB??SB $25p,i>'k> a'yeor more to maintain. A black tulip, which hs?'been the dream bf 'every horticulturist ever {Ince Damas wrote of such a mythol ogical flower, has'st last been very nearly rcalhed. At the flower show in Horticultural Hall a sp?cimen of tulip hos been shown which has ??uh it A -dark plum cc\pr that ll might at the i'rat glauca be mistaken for ? black flower. Its growers declare they will PO ntfia io VAIIIU.V n ct irC-i. ITIMTX wa ?Miro* coal black next year. B ';{. St?ren on purely cooperative lines, ? managed by mern Iv YB of Oxford Uni versity, are to be oponcu next term in Oxford. They *ltl be run on ?imilarly simllsr-linea to thc cooperative socie ty at Dublin University last October, and which bas proved such, a great success. ?fc-gMBh' Horace Plunkett who baa work ed so hard.tor the principle bf coope ration among the agriculturists and others of Ireland and Lord Shaftsbury are giving the movement ' their sup* if??l. . Mans&qr.est of t?s store, how ever will be in tho hands ot five se nior sud. twenty Junior' member? or the University., Tho prlclple burden b*.the executive work.will rest with the '5Es??Tt?is48*te? :then>*Miv?i? from when) the Id?S? npr?ns And Ot Dnb Uu; th? ?tores wlil ivglq by stocking , grpcerio^,'tweedf abd ate'.ar ccm rood'.tlfcB. Tft,c ^bbttipn or tho;to re eposibl? for t?e seme ls first of all, to . teach tho main principios of coop eration bv practical experience of Its advantages. Principle .-oblong these. will he the, less expensive'goods and the dlstrlhtution of profits among th? ones who support the store. It i? hoped thai the stores will deal a blow t0 the credit system in vogue in tbs universities, which ia a distinct temptation to . mcmbens to run up beavy bills otit of all proportion to their allowances. ? i Rtrlke Oat Fiend, Cllnton<.Ny.. May 15.-When Hamil ton coliseo defeated Cllptoa College team 7 to 0 here today, Pitcher Royce of Hamilton struck out twenty ope batsinvn, ? feat not equated in college baseball since IDll. Two weeks ago ai Hoclicator Royce struck out twenty 1 men.