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AGUINALDO SET FREE. The Famous Filipino Prisoner Fears the Vengeance of his Enemies. Manila, July 6.?As a result of the proclamation of amnesty on July ? the guard of American soldiers-has been withdrawn from the house where Aguinaldo lived in Manila, and Lieut. Johnson, Aguinaldo's custodian, brought the Filipino today to see Gea. Cfaaffee. It was the first meeting between -tne American general and the leader o? the Fili pino revolution. * Lieut William E. McKinlay, of the 9th cavalry, acted as interpreter. . Aguinaldo was told that he was free to go anywhere he pleased, and Gen. Chaffee asked him if he had any com plaint* to make of American discourtesy or harshness. Aguinaldo replied that he had no such complaint to make. He told G?n. Chaffee that he was go ing to visit friends at his home in Cavit? Viejo, ia Cavit? Province, and inquired what protection the American authorities would afford him. He seemed to be ?fraid to Tenture out Gen. Chaffee replied that Aguinaldo muid get the same protection as any K other citizen. The former Filipino leader then ask ed Gen. Chaffee to prevent the Courts from requiring him to testify in civil suits. Gen, Chaffee replied that he had no authority to grant this request andadvise? Aguinaldo to make a so cial call upon Acting Civil Governor Wright This Aguinaldo said he would do, but that he would go at night, as he was timid about appear ing on the streets in daylight The release of the former Filipino leader has caused speculation as to possible vengeance upon him by friends of Luna and his other ene mies. ^ Luna was a Filipino leader whom Aguinaldo caused to be killed in 1899. HESOTIATIONS WITH ROME. Tfee Pope Does Not Waist to Quar rel With Uncle Sam, Neither Does he Wish to Offend the Religious Ordars. Borne, July .?After an examina tion of the note submitted by Judge T??m, HL Taft, Civil Governor of the Philippine Islands, regarding the friar lands in the archipelago, the Vatican finds one very great obstacle to the withdrawal of the friars. The Vatican would not object if the expul sion of th? friars were arranged and carried out by another Power, so that xhe Holy See would only have to recognize the accomplished, fact, but it shrinks r?m appearing as a direct party to their withdrawal, especially since the religious Orders are pow erful in Borne, and above all others in the Sacred College. The efforts of Vatican are directed toward find ing a way to consent to the withdraw al ef the friars from the islands with out appearing to do so. In fact the Vatican, it is believed, would welcome 'a show of ':iorce, to which it could submit It would much prefer, how ever, a comprornise prohibiting the friars from returning to the parishes they left in 1898, but allowing them to remain where they now are or where there is no local opposition to their ministerial conventions. The Cardinals appointed to discuss Judge Taft's propositions were to meet July 10, but a Mass for the late Sang Albert of Saxony, to be .celebrat ed in the Sistine Chapel, at which the Pope and the Cardinals wjll assist, has necessitated a postponement of the meeting. A Negro Confounds the Century. Editor Memphis Commerci al-Ap peal : In the June number of the. Cen tury Magazine there appears quite an interesting and striking article by John D. Howe and Charles E. Duffie, on *'Bloodhounds in America." On page 280 the otherwise instructive and entertaining production, is - seriously marred by a very glaring and mislead ing paragraph, particularly referred to, states: "Tiere were a few genuine bloodhounds in the United States isrior to the rebellion, but the war worked their extinction. Union vete rans say the troops had orders to kill at sight every one found. Jefferson Davis, President of the Southern Confederacy, was known to have im ported a pack for breeding purposes : they were ordered destroyed. The man detailed for this work was a brother of George S. Mesker, of Beatrice, Neb. He performed his task well, for it is said that he killedno fewer, than forty-seven blooded animals at Mr. Davis's home.** Those intimately acquainted with Mr. Davis will readily attribute to him a keen appreciation of thorough bred and well-trained animals, horses especially ; but the natural inference of the above quotation is that he was an importer and breeder of blood bounds or negro dogs. The imputa tion is most far-fetched and devoid of foundation. As a matter of fact he bad no hounds of any kind on his plantation and absolutely had no use for negro dogs, as none of his slaves were runaways. Very respectfully yours, Isaiah T. Montgomery. Mound Bayou, Miss. The editor of the Commercial Appeal comments as follows: **No one is better able to sj)eak with truth on this subject than Isaiah T. Montgomery, once Jefferson Davis's trusted slave. Montgomery was, dur ing the war, on one of Mr. Davis's plantations. His father was Mr. Davis's steward and had charge of a plantation owned by the President of the Confederacy. " There is a sort of poetic justice in the ex-slave of the President of the Confederacy defending his former master from an unfounded charge. It is a splendid tribute to Mr. Davis's kindness to his slaves when one of them speaks the truth for the old mas ter whose lips are sealed. Mont gomery is regarded as a splendid negro and shows an admirable quality when be stands up for the personal good 2ualities of the former Chief of the ?nfederacy." * Crepe paper 8c. the roll. Osteen's IBook Store. BIG CHICAGO BOUDINS BURNED. The Plant of Swift & Co., at the Stock Yards Destroyed?Loss One Million Dollars. I Chicago, I1L, July .?By a fire which broke out in their plant at the stock yards tonight Swift & Co. suffered a loss which is estimated by the officials at $1,000,000. The fire was confined to one builidng, standing at the intersection of Packers' avenue | and Broadway. This structrue was forar stories high, built of brick, and j was 300 feet square. The first floor was occupied by the wholesale meat ? market of the company, the second by j the shipping department, and the j third and fourth by the general offices i of the company. Tne latter are said to have been the largest single offices in the United States, more than 800 employes working on one of the floors in a single room. It spread so rapidly through the building that it was found impossible to save anything in the structure. * The burned building adjoins por ticas of the plants ef Armour & Co., and ?abby, McNeil & Libby, and for a time the fire department had' a des perate fight to keep these buildings from the ?ames. W. J. McGonigle, the superintend ent of the plant, said tonight that the loss will aggregate folly one million. The loss is fully covered by insur ance. WILL 00 THEIR OWN IRSURIN6. The Cotton Oil Men will Withdraw $20,000,000 of Risks From ihe Old tine Companies. Mempis, Tenn, July .?Committees from the Inter-Stae Crushers' Associa tion, the Texas Crushers' Association and the executive board of the Inter State Association, representing near ly all of the cotton oil mills in the United States, met here today and, after a session of several hours, elected twenty directors to perfect a p?an for a mutual' fire insurance company, to carry all cotton oil mill risks. The directors will meet in Memphis within two weeks for the purpose named. It is claimed that the action of the committee will result in the with drawal of twenty millions of dollars in risks from the old line companies. SALISBURY TO RETIRE. Ke will Resign When King Ed ward is Crowned. London, July .?At the earliest possible moment Lord Salisbury corn templates .retiring from public life. But that severance from the affairs of the Empire which he has so long ad ministered is not likely to come until after the coronation, and it may possi bly be still further delayed by now unseen reasons of State or politics. During the last few months the pre mier has more and more detached him self from the cares of office. With in creasing age his dislike of publicity and dread of details which high office holding involves h?ve been strengthen-, ed into an antipathy so strong as to render even the Conservative leaders less importunate in their demands that he remain premier. Those who recently have been brought into con tact with the aged statesman privately comment on his absent-mindedness, which is only overcome by great eJort when it is absolutely necessary for him to deliver a public utterance on a question of importance. Peace in South Africa having been procured, Lord. Salisbury is said to consider the crowning of the King as the moment when his services to the nation may most fitly be ended. Great Storm in New York. Buffalo, . Y., July 6.?A terrific wind and rain storm swept over west ern New Fork at an early hour today. Rivers and creeks .rose rapidly, over flowing, their banks and sweeping away houses and barns and live stock. The loss will reach into hundreds of thousand dollars. Telegraph and tele phone wires are down and communica tion with small towns in Wyoming, Niagara and Cattaragus counties is difficult to establish. .This city was not in the path of the storm. STRIKES EVERYWHERE. A Few of the More Important Strikes of the Week. Chicago, July 7.?A strike of 9,000 freight handlers in Chicago was called today and every freight house of the 24 railroads concerned is practically i tied up. Business men fear that the strike will be the most serious which has affected their interests in years.. Houston, July 7.?Five hundred and fifty employes of the Southern Pacific shops at Houston walked out today on the refusal of the company to grant them an increase of 10 per cent in their wages. The mat ter has .been under discussion since the first of the year and many confer ences have been held. Baltimore, July 7.?One thonsand four hundred union workmen affiliated with the Carpenters and Garment Workers' unions, quit work today. The carpenters demand S3 a day and nine hours work for every day except Saturday when the day shall be one hour shorter. Winnipeg, Manitoba, July 7.?Can adian Northern trainmen are on a strike. Superintendent Mackenzie says the road will spend a million dol lars before any organization will be recognized. Cape Town, July .?Lord Milner, the British high commissioner in South Africa, has received a dispatch announcing that the Imperial Govern ment has decided against the proposal to suspend the Constitution of Cape i Colony. The Imperial Government j has notified the acting premier that ! the Colonial Parliament should be as ! sembled as speedily as possible. ! THROUGHOUT SOUTH CAROLINI j j Current Events in the Palmetto State Laconically Recorded. Monday morning at 6.30 o'clock Wil lis James, a colored barber, was found near the Blue Ridge trestle Walhalla with his throat cut. James was un able to speak and in a very precarious condition. He was in the rear of his shop in the hotel when he was cut and spent the most of the night there weltering in his own blood. James intimated that he knows who cut him and endeavored several times to write the name or the names of those who made the attack. There is a difference of opinion as to who did the cutting and the causes for it. The bond of $150,000 required of Mr Wilmot L. Harris, who has been ap pointed postmaster at Charleston, was signed Monday. The document will be sent to Washington this week and Mr. Harris has announced that he will take charge of the office on July 15. A violent wind and hail storm struck Little Mountain, Newberry County Monday about 4.30 o'clock Several buildings were blown down, and it is definitely known that four persons were severely injured. A case of smallpox within Newberry city limits was reported to the Board of Health Monday morning. Monday afternoon after the heavy rain in Columbia the State house was deluged with water. Oae of the com mittee rooms of the ho ose of re re - sentati ves was filled with over two inches of water and the stream flowing out into the main lobby remained in a dismal puddle until swept out The secretary of State's office was also flooded by leakage while the skylight landings on the front steps allowed ? the^ water to drip through into the main toilet room and into the corridor i in front of the ground entrance to the ' front of the building. The residence of J. T. Martin, of Chester was burned Monday. Loss 83,000. The residence of J. E. Haltiwan ger, of White Rock, S. C, was burn ed by an incendiary Friday night. The family escaped in their nigh; clothes and but little of the furniture was I saved. * There were general rains throughout the State Monday afternoon and a fall in temperature. In some sections the rainfall was heavy, as much as 2 inches having fallen. The governor on Monday granted a pardon to Sam Bozier convicted of lar ceny in Sumter and sentenced in No vember, 1901, to 16 months on the gang and a fine of 8L Dr. Baker certi fied that the man is hopelessly ill with consumption. SENATORS ?T'iisToRHER. A Small Crowd and no incidents of Importance. Moncks'Corner, July 7.?April 12, 17?0, a decisive battle was fought, at this place between the colonists and the British troops. Today six candi dates for the United States senate and two for the United States senate and two for the house of representatives met here on this same historic spot and did battle, not for the cause of liberty and feedom, but with the given deter mination to convince the 200 voters present that two out of the eight were sadly in need of the two offices. All the candidates were present in cluding Mr. Latimer. and a little tilt between himself and Col. Johnstone was the only incident of the meeting. Mr. Evans also prodded Mr. Lati mer, but the scenes that were expected did not materialize. Waiting for a more convenient season, perhaps one day this week. The caniddates met at Charleston last night and came : up to Moncks Corner on the early passenger train this morning and were met at the de pot by a committee of citizens and driven to the court house about a mile distant. Homes and entertainment were pro vided and the proverbial hospitality of the low country remains unchallenged. A most needed and refreshing rain fell about noon, but the weather is still very warm. ? - 1 mm ? Death cf Former Congressman Perry. Greenville, July 7.?Col. Wm. H. Perry died at 6*30 this evening at Sans* Souci, his residence, where he has been kept indoors for a long while. He was stricken with paralysis four years ago, and has been helpless the greater part cf the time since. Mrs. Perry was on a brief visit to Alabama and was epxected to return tomorrow. Col. Perry was in usual condition a few days ago, but a sud den return of his affliction soon ended his life. He was the eldest son Gov. Perry, was solicitor, State senator and member of congress between 1868 and 1890. He married Miss Louise Bank head, of Alabama. Lord Kitchener's Farewell. Pretoria, July 7.?Lord Kitchener's valedictory to the troops, dated June 25, after extolling the conduct of the British soldiers in the -face of great hardships and difficulites, and against dangerous and eluisve antagonists, commends the kindly and humane spirit displayed in all ranks, and con cludes as follows : "This message would be incomplete were no reference made to the soldier ly qualities displayed throughout the campaign by our quondam enemies and the admirable spirit displayed in carrying out the surrender. "Many of those who contended until the end have expressed the hope that they may have in the future an opportunity to ;erve side by side with his majesty's forces."' ?* * mm London. July C>.?King Edward's progress tonight continues to be good. It is said that if his improvement proceeds at the present rate he will probably by the end of the month be well enough to be transferred to the royal yacht in Southampton waters. A bulletin posted at 9 o'clock this morn ing said: "The king's progress con tinues to be in every way satisfac tory." THE CAMPAIGN SYSTEM. Humbuggery of Having Sixty-Two "Men Tramp ali Over the State. Mr. Frank P. Cooper, who is report ing Campaign Party No 1, sent in this very suggestive paragraph in one of his excellent reports of the Senatorial campaign. Some time ago the suggestion was made that the people, the candidates and everyone else would be perfectly satisfied with seven or ten campaign meetings, at which the candidates I could all express their views and the average voter would know as much about the candidates by these meetings as by the forty or fifty meetings that will be held this summer. In Georgia the candidates are ex pected to arrange their own campaign meetings and this plan will have to be adopted in South Carolina unless the whole primary system is to go to the dogs, unless the Congressional district plan is adopted as suggested, A great many people have not taken the time to sit down and think about the seriousness of the campaign sys tem and the horrible humbuggery that is being imposed upon the voters as a result of the system. There is no reason in the world why just as good officers could not be secured by county primaries, at which the counties would name delegates to a State Con vention, and these county candidates ; to the State Convention express their preference and be elected upon certain issues or candidates if need be. This could be done after the candidates have all expressed their views upon the pending issues, if there are any. There are very many people who have talked about the primary being the salvation of the poor man in poli tics. It is something of a strain to see how this is so when the present cam paign is going to cost the candidates at least $40,000. That seems to be a lot of .money, but the candidates seem to be anxious to spend the money if ? they can only get the ?bices. There are sixty-two candidates in the field for State and Federal offices and, placing the average expenses at $600 per candidate, this would run the amount up to 837,200, and the assess ments and other necessary expenses would easily run the cost per candi date up to $600. - ? Some folks may think that $600 is a high average. It is no such thing. It is low. There are already many candidates who have spent double that amount and the campaign is hardly half over. They have been liberal in ,the use of printers' ink. There have been thousands of circular letters sent out and tens of thousands of so-called personal letters announcing candidacy. There is no such thing as a discount on postage bills and the railroads have gotten full rates from all of the candi dates, as they had every right to do. . There may be a "few ?precious few?candidates who can get through on $300, bnt these candidates are lia ble to be left at home. It is estimated that from one-tenth to one-twentieth of the voters hear the candidates, and it is^ for these that the office seekers have to spend $40,000, and then the question is. are better men selected than are chosen in any of the other State, for instance, without the primary humbug? Philadelphia, July 6.?The Postal j Telegraph company today practically began operations under its contract with the Pennsylvania Railroad com pany by preparing for the receipt and transmission of messages over the railroad company's wires at Jersey City, Philadelphia, Baltimore. Wash ington, Harrisburg and Pittsburg. In- ? struments were installed in the Pennsylvania railroad offices at these points and business will be commenc-1 ed tomorrow at all^of the cities named, i It is understood the Western Union j Telegraph company will share the wires with the Postal until Dec. 1, when the contract between the Western Union and the Pennsylvania railroad terminates In July, 1896, the semi-annual dividends on shares of American stocks amounted to $21,000,000. On July 1, 1902, the sum paid out in dividends was $60*000,000, being an increase of threefold in six years. Chicago, I1L, July 6.?Fire today destroyed the building at 305 to 313 Wabash avenue, causing losses aggre gating over $325,000. For a time the fire threatened widespread destruction, and it was only through the most strenuous efforts of the firemen that the flames were prevented from spreading to the department store of Seigle. Cooper & Co.. front on State street and parted from the burning building by only a narrow alley. Little Garden. There is much comfort to be found In a garden. I have watched a poor woman at a little box of flowers at a window, growing radiant with happi ness as each bud blossomed and smiled upon her gentle hand. Water your little garden and tend it well. A little love for sunlight, a little sympathy for rain, and the garden of the heart may blooiii with beautiful deeds and fra grant thoughts. Though the beauty of the rose is brief, yet the perfume may be preserved. like the memory of a kiss, forever.?Schoolmaster. Food nnd Colds. A writer in The Lancet says: "Since ? began to study diet I have been as tonished at the number of cases of which I have heard, even of medical men. who by eating less and not so often have found that their susceptibil ity to colds has quite gone. Such facts as I have met with point to the conclu sion that it is the system overcharged with the products of food which was not required and can act only as a poi son to every organ In the body which is most susceptible to colds." Ground For Suspicion. "Mary," said the young matron's mother, "it seemed to me you were very cold to .lohn this morning?" "Yes," she replied, "I'm beginning to suspect him." "The idea! You have no reason to, I'm sure." "Haven't I? I dreamed last night that I saw him kissing another wo man."?Philadelphia Press. FOURIER THE PROPHET. How He Spoiled El? Predictions l*y Going: Into Details. j It is said of Fourier, the socialist, I that he had all the qualities of a proph I et except vagueness. His craze for pre cision spoiled his predictions for us. The Speaker quotes Charles Gide, the economist, as cleverly showing what Fourier lost by this: "Thus if writing before the advent of railways he had confined himself to stating that a man would in a single day be able to start from Marseilles, breakfast in Lyons and dine in Paris his prevision would have been consid ered most remarkable, but since he adds that the journey will be accom plished upon the back of a supple and elastic porter, who will be the 'anti lion/ we roar with laughter. "Or again if he had said simply that people would some day be able to com municate instantaneously with each other from one end of the world to the other Fourier would have been credit ed with a rare degree of intellectual foresight but as he thought best to de scend to the particular, certain ves s?l leaving London arrives in China to day; tomorrow the planet Mars, having been advised of the arrivals and move ments of ships by the astronomers of Asia, will transmit the list to the as tronomers of London,' we again roar with laughter and forget that he has arrived by the fantastic machinery of the imagination at the same results as the telegraph and the telephone." Not Buried In a Coffin. Of the many thousands of bodies of soidiers who are buried in Arlington cemetery there is but one, and that an officer, whose remains were not inclos ed in a coffin. The late General M. C. Meigs during the civil war and for many years subsequently was quarter master general of the United States army. Some years before his death he had erected at Arlington a large gran ite tomb. By his direction the sculptor cut a place in the center of the big stone exactly the size of the former's .body. The sculptor was pledged to secrecy, nor did the general inform any one of the fact When General Meigs died, his body was incased in a handsome casket and conveyed to the cemetery. When, how ever, an attempt was made to put the casket in the sarcophagus, it was found to be impossible, and the under taker had to remove the body from the casket and put it in the sarcophagus with no other covering than the gener al's uniform.?Washington Post Lfgrhtninsr and Thunderclouds. In a lecture on "Rainclouds and Lightning" a scientist explained tbe.ex treme blackness and grotesque shape of thunderclouds as being caused by electrification ?nd said that occasional ly lightning goes upward from ground to cloud. Lightning continues until the thundercloud has risen too high above the subjacent ground for the tension requisite. As the cloud lifts the light ning's path becomes more vertical. Thunderheads may be seen 200 miles. Window glass has been broken by heavy thunder. The cumuli rise to a height of some six miles, then slop over and form a haze (thunder haze). Light ning wi?l falj vertically from the ex tremo limit of the haze cloud some times, though no rain is failing. Light ning causes the clouds to partially fall ! to the earth in showers, and so itself ! causes rain. Trnth. The cornerstone of character, that cn which the whole edifice is to rest, must be truth. Be truthful in word and deed and act, faithful to your conception of right, and you can no more help build ing a noble character than the earth can help moving in its orbit A boy who has the courage to tell the truth under al! circumstances, even when it may appear to be to his own disad vantage, will never do a mean, unman ly or dishonest thing. He will not stoop to do anything questionable, no matter what material ; gain it may promise.?Success. Damasca? Olive Groves. There is an ancient custom under which the olive groves around Damas cus are guarded by official watchmen to prevent the trees being stripped by thieves. But on a certain date the gov ernor or some magistrate issues a proclamation warning all owners of olive trees that they must pick their fruit, for after a certain date it be comes public property. If a farmer has his crop only half gathered when that date arrives, the public will gather it for nim. Poison of the Scorpion. It is said to be a remarkable fact that the poisoD of the scorpion gradually loses its effect upon a human being and that man suffers less and less each time he is stung. One bold philosopher, it is related, had the courage to follow out this principle to the furthest extent and made scorpions sting him repeated ly until he had become poison proof and suffered but little inconvenience beyond the transient pain of the punc ture. The Little Bird. Dick?How did you know when it was time to leave her bouse if the par lor was dark? Fred-A little bird told ma Dick?Get outi Fred?Yes. The cuckoo came out of the clock and called "^"-Philadel phia Record. He Enjoys It. Borem?You can't find a man any where who enjoys a joke better than 1 do. Biff kins?Guess that's right Tve beard you tell the same old joke twen ty times, and you laughed every time you told it-Chicago News. The keep of one dog costs as much as the keep of sixty bens, and sixty hens will lay 600 dozen eggs. I STORIES MADE WITH FEET. ? Animal Tracks In the Wood Which Betray Identity. Each animal makes its own kind of track in the mud, snow or dust No two make exactly the same. The track of a coon is never like that of a fox, and the track of a fox is readily dis tinguished from that of a rabbit or small dog. And, more than that, the track of one coon may differ from that of his own brother, so that one can sometimes distinguish the track of a given individual and by seeing it on different occasions get something like an insight into its life. Thus a famous grizzly in the west was known by his track. One o? his toes had been cut off by a trap, and the difference that made in his track was easy to see. To come nearer home, our common animals sometimes have unpleasant experiences with steel traps. The marks of these on their feet often add a peculiarity that identifies the animal In other cases the track is extra large or small or is crooked, but it always keeps the main features of its kind. The track of one sort of animal rarely need be mistaken for that of another, and the A C of tracking.is to learn f he chief kinds of footmarks that are to be found In your region. The way to learn tracks is to draw those that you find, always sketching them right from nature, never from memory, and it is always best to make them exactly life size.?Ladies' Home Journal. Onr Debt to Our Mothers. Ian Maclaren in The Christian En deavor World paid the following beau tiful tribute to mothers: "The person to whom you owe more than you can ever pay or even imagine is your mother. She endured more for you, served you more patiently, loved you more ipndly, thought of you more bravely, than any other rierson you have known on earth or wilrever know save your wife or your husband, if in deed they can always be excepted. If your mother be spared to you, then are you bound to make her a first charge on your life, as you desire a peaceful conscience and as you shall answer be fore the judgment seat of God. She must be encompassed with every ob servance of comfort and honor and gentleness and love, with sacrifices also, if so be it will please her, of tastes and occupations and time and even friendship, and after you have done all that you can think of and any one can suggest you will still remain a hopeless bankrupt for the love where with she loved you." The Warhorse. The hoirse In war is expensive, fragile and a fooL He is greedy, and his food is as bulky as himself. He requires an expert to keep him efficient under hard work and a miracle to keep him alive under heavy fire. He must be watched and guarded more carefully than the lines of communication both in action and in camp. He is a coward. The race of them that snorted "ha! ha! among the trumpets, the noise of the captains and the shouting" is dead, if it ever lived at all outside the inspired mind of the plague stricken poet He is a ! traiter at:d will desert to the enemy at j the first opportunity, probably with j three days' rations in his saddlebags ! and a useful rifie in the bucket?Spec I tatcr. Identified. The general pestoffice at Paris once received a letter addressed "To Mon sieur, My Son, Rue ' ?," etc They were going to send it to what in France correspondo to our dead letter office, but a clerk objected. "There must be two fools in that family," he said. "We shall find out to whom it belongs." Sure enough, in a few days a stupid looking youth entered and said to the clerk: "I'd like to find out if you haven't kept here a letter for me from my fa ther." "Yes. sir." replied the clerk. "Here it Is." MOHAMMEDANS AT PRAYER They Always Respond When the Voice of the Muesxin Calls. The Mohammedan begins his prayer standing, with his hands outspread and his thumbs touching the lobes of his ears. In this position he repeats certain passages from the Koran, then brings his hands down to his girdle, folds them and recites several other passages from the same book. Next he bends forward, rests both hands upon his knees and repeats three times with bowed head the formula of prayer to God. the most great. Then he rises and cries, "Allah hu" akbar!" (God is great) sixteen times. He then drops forward until his fore head touches the ground between his extended hands. He strikes his head j upon the fioor at least three times, pro j claiming his humility, and often a doz en and sometimes twenty times the act : will *e repeated, according to his de ! sire to show humility and repentance, j He then returns to his knees and, set I tling back upon his heels, repeats a ritual. Next, arising to his feet, he holds his hands aud concludes the prayer, repeating over and again the words. "There is no god but God, aud Mohammed is his prophet" This znay/ue repeated once or a dozen or forty times, according to the piety of the worshiper, and he holds a string of beads in his bauds to keep tally. His obligations are then accomplished, but he can go through the same ritual again as many times as he likes. The more~ frequently he does so the better Moslem lie is. His piety is measured by the number of times he repeats his prayers, and. like the Pharisees of the Scriptures, he prays in public places. No matter where he happens to be or by whom he is surrounded, whether at labor in the fields or selling goods in his shop or however he may be em ployed, the Mussulman never forgets i to pray when the voice of the muezzin I reminds him that the hour for devotion has arrived.