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* THE DESERTED HOMESTEAD.: > on the hill, 'mid the blossoming trees, Stands the homestead, bare and tall; e sunlight gleams on the broken panes, Lnd shines through the silent hall; e garden where the children played s but a tangled maze, d the cherry blossoms falling fast Jring thoughts of other days. e woodbine climbs to the little porch, ^.nd taps at the dingy door, enters the room through the shattered pane Vnd trails o'er the dusty floor; lovingly twines o'er the broken chair iVhere a mother used to rock, id droops its leaves o'er the hanging door, Ind clings to the iron lock. e roses that bloom in the summer house ^od their drooping heads and say: !ow long it is since the mother sang, ^.nd w^ watched the children play! w long since the lovers wandered here Ind sat in the gloaming sweet! w long since the garden echoed gay Vith the sound of little feet!" t there's silence through the garden ^nd through the orchard sweet; sound of nappy singing. Lnd no rush of little feet, d the roses clustering gently ^er the window and the door iten vainly for the children. 'hat are coming never more. i on the hill, 'mid the blossoming trees, itpnds the homestead, bare and tall; e sunlight gleams on the broken panes, Lnd shines through the silent half; e garden where the children played s but a tangled maze, d the cherry bloossoms falling fast Jring thoughts of other days. Vinilred M. Baldwin, in Springfield Republican. 'he Brutal Truth V IUM HAT I maintain." said Cap' ^ tain Harcourt, dogmaticalWly, "is tbat it's absolutely impossible in these days to ^ ^ stick to the exact truth. No 0ne does it." Speak for yourself, Bob," replied 8. St. John, warmly. "I entirely dif' from you." 'No, you don't, Madge?you only nk you do. A few moments' calm lection will convince you tbat I am bt," rejoined the young man, with a erant smile, which exasperated the ly almost?but not quite?beyond rds. Robert, you're becoming absolutely endurable. Do you mean to insinui that I?that I am?" 'Ob, no! I wouldn't go quite so far that." As what, prny?" what you were going to say," lied the Captain, imperturbably. frs. St. John turned away with a :ug of her shoulders. Not," continued he, suavely, "that j're worse than other people; but i must own you are continually comled to draw upon your imagination the course of conversation." Certainly not! I always speak the th." , . Wonderful woman! Yet you mani to retain your friends!" Oh! if you mean saying 'Not at ne* when one doesn't wish to reve visitors, or signing oneself, >urs affectionately' to a persoa one Ikes," said the lady, contemptuously. No, I didn't mean these usages of tiety, -which take in no one. I refer the habitual deceptions that almost >ry civilized person considers justifie." Such as?" queried his iuterlocutor. If you please, ma'am," inquired a lor maid from the doorway, "there's 'oung person called from Mme. Hi*e, to know if nest week wiil suit i for fitting," Next week! Certainly not! Say t I must have the gown by" Saturr, as I'm going out of town." What, again. Maage?" inquired ptain Harcourt, as the maid withw. "Where are you-off to now? u've only just returned." Oh, nowhere in particular," replied s. St. John, carelessly; "but I must Hilaire I'm going away, or I should rer get my frocks in time. . . Now. at iu the world are you looking so erior for, Bob? You haven't an idea v unreliable Hilaire is. I'm obliged say I want things sooner than I lly do. Where's the harm, I should f to know?" Harm! My dear Madge, none whatr. It simply bears out my contenl?that's all." Oh; men are so stupid!" exclaimcd lady, petulantly. "Dressmakers i't count. I should .iust like to see telling the truth to your tailor." Heaven forbid!" ejaculated the tng man, piously. "But then, you , I allow myself a little more ropetic license?whatever you like to it." Bob, I've always considered you the 1 of honor. And now to hear you ait that you are?well, that you 't always sp^ak the exact truth!" When you come across the individwho does, I should like to make acquaintance," observed Captain rcourt. "But somehow I imagine '11 have a difficulty in finding him, you won't care much for him when i do." I'm sure I shall?I like straightfor*d people." 5o do I. I'm seriously contemplatthe advisability of following your mple, and speaking the truth at all ts?the brutal truth." Do," replied his companion, virtuly. "You'll feel much better for it." [ rather doubt that: but I mean to Suppose we begin now." We?" Of course, you. too: but as it's your ariable practice, it will be no trouto you." Very well; what do you want to >w?" four perspicacity is not at fault. I want to know something. Are you ecting Mr. Charteris this after* ? v? u Mr. Charteris?" echoed Mrs. St. in. hesitating. "Why do you ask? eally don't quite know; perhaps he y look in." Then you don't know'for certain?" If you must iiaye it." admitted the y, "I believe he did mention he ught of calling to-day. What's the tter. Bob? Where are you going?" Captain Harco-irt rose and begar i kiiig for Lis ha4- ' "I can't stay and meet that outsider.*' "That's a nice way to speak of my friends." ' "Friends, indeed!" "Well. I suppose he lays claim to that distinction. There, sit down again. I'll give orders he's not to be admitted," said Mrs. St. John, touching the electric bell. "Thanks. Madge," murmured the young man, gratefully, when the pair were alone again. "You don't deserve to have your caprices humored in this way, but I suppose such an old friend as you has privileges." "Yes; we are old friends, aren't we? How many years is >t since we used to play together in the old Manor garden??twenty, I'm sure." "Oh, no; certainly not," she interposed, hastily. "Quite twenty," asservated the young man firmly; "remember the compact." "You're perfectly horrid. Very weld, then; let it be twenty, since you insist." "And after all those years you're going to throw me over for a fellow like Charteris?" Pursued Bob, reproachfully. "My dear boy, how can you be so foolish! Who's talking of throwing you over?" "Why do you encourage him. then?" "I wasn't aware " began Mrs. St. John, warmly, but stopped abruptly on meeting a warning look from her interrogator. "Well, suppose I did;, what then?" "What then?" repeated the young man, rather staggered. "Do you mean to say you're going to marry the fellow ?" "I really couldn't say. You see, he hasn't asked me." "Don't quibble, Madge. Are you going to marry him or are you Dot?" "I don't see what right you have to cross-examine me in this way," exclaimed Mrs. St. John, evasively. "Don't you, Madge? Do you really say I have no right?" continued Captain Harcourt earnestly. "Certainly not." "Are you quite sure? Remember " "Oh, very well theu. No, I'm not going to marry him. Are you satisfied now?" "Not quite. I waut to know something else." ' "You're perfectly insatiable," replied Madge, nervously. "Well, what is it?" "Is there any one else?" "Any one else? Of course not. JVhy should there be?" "Madge, you promised to speak the truth." "So I did?the brutal truth, very well, then, siuce you will have it; yes, there is." "Madge! Darling!" "Oh, but," replied Madge, disengaging herself from the young man's somewhat tempestuous advance. "I never said it was you." v "Oh, yes you did," he replied, with much decision. "Did I really?" queried Mrs. St. John artlessly. "Well, I suppose you know best: but, Bob, dear, you must really promise me to turn over a new leaf in future and make up your mind to be absolutely truthful?at any rate to me." "By all means, but on condition that you give me a similar promise." "Oh, I always " "Madge!" warningly. "Very well, I promise. There's my hand on it. I hope you are satisfied now." "Perfectly." answered the Captain.? London Mail. Servants and Families. Dofhone r\rt a. roncrtn whv SSPrVflfltS ill X vuw 4VMWVM .. Pepys' time were treated as "one of the family" was.that they very often were blood relations. The diarist himself, in fact, engaged his own sister, Pauline, as his servant, "which she promised me she could, and with ijany thanks did weep for joy." For all that, he would not "let her sit down at the table with me, which I do at first that she may not expect it hereafter from me." Her temper, however, made" the arrangement impossible, and Pepys had to engage somebody else instead, "it being a great trouble to me that I should have a sister of so ill a nature that I must be forced to spend money upon a stranger, when it might be better upon her, if she were good for anything." It is only within a century or so that servants have ceased to be relations of the family, and the term "menial" has come to be considered derogatory instead of meaning simply "within walls"?intra moenia.^ In the old days, all women between twelve and forty, and all men between twelve and snrty, without means of subsistence, could be forced by two justices, to go into domestic service. Hence the fact that when a man married his cook, as he often did, he was extremely likely to marry some ooe auove mm lu siauuu? as we understand distinctions of class nowadays. This also explains why a lady would refer to her maid as her "gentlewoman." and a master to his valet as his "gentleman."?London Chronicle. Kaccoon Beards a Lion. James A. McCallum has a mountain lion that he is now willing to part wilh to anyone as a gracious gift. When he received the fine-looking cougar a few days ago from a friend in the Rocky Mountains he thought that he had an animal that could whip anything that wore hair, but when the king of the mountain beasts was fought to a standstill lately by an ordinary old ring-tailed coon, McCallum lost heart. The lion was se^n a few days ago in his cage by Jack Cook. The lion tipped the beam at 173 pounds, but Cook said his old coon could lick him. The other morning Cook's coon was thrown into the cage with' the lion. The fight began at once. The lion made vicious strokes wtih his paws at the coon, but the wily little animal proved to be an adept at dodging all the blows. No quicker would the blow of the lion prove futile than the coon would grab him by the throat and begin to claw with ail his might. He would soon loosen his hold and jump away. This was repeated for about twenty-five minutes, when the lion, bleeding profusely, skulked to a corner and r<v fused to battle further.?Louisville Courier-Journal. , ' In some parts of Berlin there are beer saloons which are patronized only by wotusn. THE TOMB SILT MIKING ON SAN FRANCISCO BAY. BT EX08 BBOWW. The vast amount of salt consumed on tbe Pacific Coast is derived from the sea by evaporation In quantity only limited by .the demand. The cost of evaporated salt is but one-fifth of the lowest rate of transportation on rock salt from the nearest source of supply to the most accessible ocean port. The locality which enjoys a practical monopoly of salt making on the Pacific Coast of the United States is Alvarado, a town of Alameda County, and twenty miles from San. Francisco. At this point, which lies on the east side of the southern extension of San Francisco Bay, exist certain peculiarities in the lay of the land which, united with climate and favorable character of the soil, combined to make the locality especially adapted for this particular industry. Long intervals of cloudless skies, the low humiditv. and hitrn temperature ul! favor rapid evaporation, while the soil, a stiff clay, is well adapted for levees and making water-tight reservoirs, for the most part, to fill with sea water by gravity alone. Moreover, the southern section of the bay is contaminated by no considerable affluents to dilute with supplies of fresh water the saltness which comes lu with the tides of ocean. The largest as well as most thoroughly equipped of the several corporations engaged in the business is the Continental Salt Manufacturing Company, which has thirty reservoirs, covering 1000 acres. This company has frnm firot- tn lnsf" twPlrP WU9L1 UCI.WU 41VU4 ?v _ miles of levees, 2600 feet of flames and seven and one-half miles ditches. A sjough meanders tnrouga the tract, which is navigable for vessels of considerable draft and affords excellent and economical facilities for shipping. A large mill, well equipped with the best machinery for washing, drying, grinding, sifting and bolting the finished product is a prominent feature of the works. Twenty Dutch windmills and two Chinese pumps raise altogether 200,000 gallons of brine each minute. The entire plant presents to the observer a miniature Netherlands with the distant ships on the bay appearing as though floating in the air. The manufacture of salt from ocean water Is a constant progression from one reservoir to another, transfer being made as the brine reaches a certain density to the next Reservoir No. l covers 305 acres and is surrounded by a fourfoot levee. Its outward boundary is upon a slough flowing from the bay. As the, tide rises," twelve gates are opened and allow the sea water to flow In to a depth of three feet. The gates are then closed. The average strength of the sea water is from four to seven degrees, Und remains in Reservoir No. 1 until the strength increases to thirty degrees. By means of windmills Reservoir No. 1 is emptied into Reservoir No. 2 and the brine is exposed to the heat of the sun until it reaches a density of fifty to sixty degrees, which may take three weeks. The brine is GATHERING SALT FIi< tliea pumped into Reservoir No. 3. where it atfciins a strength of seventyfive to eighty degrees. It then goes into reservoirs Nos. 4, 5, G, 7 and 8, known as settling ponds, where the brine voluntarily parts with the lime which it contains, and becomes almost a saturated solution at a strength of ninety degrees. It is then couveyed to the twenty-two salt pojids, where it is exposed to the fierce heat of Ihe sun, and in about twenty days the salt is deposited and the pickle allowed to run off. Two crops are gathered, one * ^ A each in August anu uciouw. precipitation the salt remains exposed for a few days, when it is first piled in heaps and then wheeled in barrows into great pyramids on the banks. The pyramids of crude salt remain on the bank exposed to the weather until it is shipped as "crude" or passes into the mill to be refined.?Scientific American. Steamship Cats. From eight to twelve cats, rat-catching, are partof the equli rneut of every great ocean liner, anil these same pussies daily appear on the ship's books, where their rations are accounted for. Each cat is stationed at a different part of the ship, and certain stewards are told off to feed them daily. Celebration In Kilkenny. The corporation of Kilkenny has decided to present an address to King Edward on his visit to that city, and on the same day to grant the freedom of the city to John Daly, of Limerick, lately discharged from prison, where he served a term for using dynamite. Raisins were first produced la California in 1867. * * .--- - ----- _ W *V OF JULIET. RELICS OF ROMEO'S JULIET. The tomb of .T*iliet at Verona is falling into decay and steps are to be taken by the citizens to restore it. The house where she was born, on one of ' i 1 ! .1 I l I I ..A... ... . - ! .J-LU'".. ,1.1 JULIET'S BIRTHPLACE. main streets of the city, lias recently I been sold at auction to Queen Marl_i - 1 *- ?III guerna lor auuui ?iw, auu win uo kept solely as a relic of the young girl. THE SAMP IN k CAN. The sanding of car tracks has been found to be one of the greatest economies in street railway operation, as this practice has almost entirely obviated PAPA.BA.TU3 FOB SANDING THE TBAOK the flat, slid wheels, which at one time constituted such an item of ear account. Despite the us? of sand cars, which do nothing else but treat the whole circuit of tracks, eacli car is fitted with its own sanding appliances in addition. A rather convenient scheme for sanding rails, where this : J:. " iKfeiS'-'i'S!'1'S' i!;H-- ! V ' *'' : 11 1 JS '\'V' r- ' ? >. "f 'j ' OH SETTLING POND. Is done by a switchman or special employe, is shown la the illustration. It is not unlike a watesln? can with the sprinkling nose removed, aul the addition of a guiding wheel attached to the spout. In use the guide rail is placed on the rail and the can tilted at the proper angle to discharge the sand, which is disposed uniformly at such points as to effect the greatest braking power.?Philadelphia Record. "?? ? ??<U ?? ? > a A UnlU HAd A HtW &IAIE FLAti Ohio has a State flag, designed at the instance of Governor Herrick. The centre of the flag bears the great seal of the State. This is surrounded by seventeen stars in commemoration of the fact that Ohio was the seventeenth State admitted into the Union. The field of the flag is scarlet?Philadelphia Record. Whenever the temperature reaches a certain point in Switzerland theschooU are dismissed. " "m m t , CASTAWAYS LEAP TO DEATH Two Only Could Stand Privations of Five Perilous Days. FIVE PERISH ON RAFT AT SEA The Schooner Van Name King Was liealen to Pieces by a dale and Six Men Lost Their I.lTe?? Plnnge Into Sea in Their Madnew?Terrible Suffering Off Cape Lookout. Boston. Mass.?A typical North Atlantic shipwreck tale, in which eight seamen suffered so fearfully from ex-, posure, hunger and thirst that six of them either died outright, were washed away, or, crazad by ttyeir fearful experience, hurled themselves into the sea, was brought out by the two survivors of the well known coasting schooner Van Name & King, <6f New Hkven, which was beaton to pieces by a gale off the South Carolina coast VtlUUCl u. The two men who lived through the five days and were rescued by the schooner Stillinau F. Kelly, which arrived here, are William Thomas and William G. Warner, both about twenty-uiue years old, six feet three inches tall, hailing from Antigua, British West Iudies. The six who, one by one, succumbed were: Captain William A. Maxwell, of New Jersey; E. A. Chase, mate, home unknown; a German engineer, name unknown; negro steward, name unknown; William Grizell and Alfred Arthur, negro seamen, both of Jamaica. The Van Name & King, which has been plying up and down the coast since 188C, left Charleston, S. C., for New York, on October 3 with a cargo of bard pine. Two days later she ran into a heavy gale, and, after wallowing about in the great seas for several hours, sprang a leak. The pumps were started, but within a short time the engine room was flooded, and the pumps choked. At 8 o'clock on the morning of October 0, with her hold nearly full of water, the little schooner was thrown on her beam ends. The crew clambered up on the weather side and lashed themselves to the bulwarks. There they remained soaked to the skin J by every sea that broke mercilessly over them all day, constantly on the watch for some nasainer vessel. Tliat night tlie storm increased in fury, and one great wave crashed aboard, breaking Arthur's legs and sweeping Grizell into the sea. Arthur's" companions could do nothing to ease his sufferings, but when, on October 6, the schooner turned completely over, they managed to cut his lashings and drag him on to a piece of the afterhouse. It was several hours before they were all huddled together on their little raft. That night Arthur died iu the arms of Captain Maxwell, and to relieve the overloaded raft his body was dropped into the sea. Sunday, October 8, a craft was sighted. but she passed by without heeding the little group of seamen. That night the waves subsided and a Uttle rain fell, which was caugljtln a tarpaulin and brought slight relief, it waa only temporary, and not long after Chase's mind gave way entirely and the craft was again ligntened when he threw , himself into the sea. _ The next viptim"of the terrific strain was Oa"ptain Maxwell, who on the forenoon of October 9 became violently in- J sane, and followed his mattfs example.1 The spectacle of two men voluntarily throwing themselves into the sea proved too much for the German engineer, and a few hours after Captain Maxwell's death the craft was lightened for the fourth time, -when the crazed seaman jumped into the' waves. The last victim was the colored steward, who died on the raft late Monday night. His body was dropped overboard by the two remaining seamen. Relief came twelve hours later, when the schooner StlUman F. Kelly, bound up the coast from Ceylon, Ga., to this port, sighted the little raft and hove to. Thomas and Warner had to be taken off in slings, and for two days were unable to move. The rescue took place off Cape Lookout, in latitude 33.10 and longitude 76.30. Each of the rescued men lost thirty or forty pounds in weight in their five days' exposure. MINE LAW IN EFFECT. It Excludes 12,000 Boys From Work ing in Pennsylvania. Wilkesbarre, Pa.?The uew mine law forbidding the employment of boys under fourteen years old outside the anthracite mines and boys under sixteen years old inside of them, has gone into effect. The results are eagerly awaited by tffe mine workers' leaders. It is estimated that there are 12,000 breaker boys between the ages of ten and fourteen who will be affected by the law, but as far as can be learned comparatively few of these left the breakers. A reasonable time will be given them to secure the necessary employment certificate, and then the mine workers' leaders will proceed to see that the law is strictly obeyed. Advocates Big Battleships. Rear-Admiral Robley D. Evans advocates building battleships of 18,000 tons as the minimum displacement. R. I. Democrats Nominate. former uovernor ij. v. u. uarvm was nominated by the Democrats in session at Providence, R. I., for governor, by acclamation. Fishermen Want Rights Defined. The Gloucester (Mass.) fishermen sent representatives to Washington to consult Secretary Root as to their fishing rights on the coast of Newfoundland, under the treaty of 1818. Parkhurst on Insurance Graft. The Rev. Dr. Parkhurst. in a sermon preached in New York City, said revelations of insurance inquiry are symptomatic of a general disease that is gnawing into the vitals of the body politic Labor World. A training school for cnrpentevs has been started by the Reading Carpenters' Union. Among the propositions defeated at the recent convention of the International Typographical Union was a resolution declaring against the National Guard. Sympathetic strikes in Chicago probably will be more prevalent in the near future through an alliance between the teamsters and the railway freight handlers. The name of the new federation is the Shipping Trades Alliance. ^ 4 I TO PROTECT PRESIDENT J Knife to Be Used If He is Bitten by Mosquitoes in the South. c Scientific Precautions That Will Elimin* saj ate the Possibility of Roosevelt Cou- Of tractlng Yellow Forer. ^ toi be . Washington, D. C.?Every effort is to th< be exerted, to protect tbe President ^ from mosquitoes on his journey to the re< on j South. Surgeon-Oeneral Rixey has jrc made all necessary arrangements. The doors and windows of the car in in| which the President will travel and kn remain night and day for the greater die part of the trip will be screened, and * all the cars will be thoroughly fumi- sel gated. The President will not be In New Orleans after dark. ' ??' It fs believed that there will be lit- A8' tie danger while he is driving around ^ the city or speaking in Lafayette m< Square. Should the President be bit- ral ten Surgeon-General Rixey at once will cut out the flesh about the spot. I Rear-Admiral Brownson telegraphed Sti the Navy Department announcing his bei departure from Newport with his De squadron, the armored cruisers West me Virginia, Colorado and Pennsylvania. He will leave the Colorado and Pennsylvania off Key West and go on with ^ the flagship to South Pass, where he will take the President aboard for the me return to Washington from New Or- H leans. The West Virginia is due at South Pass not later than the morning ^ of October 26. by Fever Disappearing* J^a New Orleans.?Unless the Federal t.. ... .. . . thr auuioriues are greatly aisappointea, the present week will mark practically ^ne the end of the yellow fever visitation. T One, hundred and fifteen inspectors tul1 have been dropped from the rolls and sta mote will be let ge. There will then I be 400 men at work, against 1276 a of short time ago. The report of the Citi- pos zens' Committee is expected to show a large surplus from the fund raised to prf fight fever. ^ PORTLAND FAIR A SUCCESS. Mi Lewis and Clark Pair Seen by 2,500,000 gff ?Will Pay 30 Per Cent Dividend. Portland, Ore.?The Lewis and Clark Exposition has come' to a close, com- ( pleting the biggest enterprise of its Wi kind ever held on the Pacific Coast, thi The closing ceremonies were appro- Hf< priate., As the band finished "Auld Dr Lang Syne" the lights were extin- th< guished and six miatature battleships of were dynamited anft blown up. This j was'followed by'fireworks, ending with the set^piece "Good Night." ' , The exposition was entirely successfill Tn nrtinf /\t all nrortin. tions were beaten, and a few thousand over 2,500,000. have entered the grounds I since thfe opening day. While the fair set was well patronized by the home peo- 6Ct pie, great throngs of visitors from all i parts of the United States were con- sit stantly in the city, often testing the wi hotel capacity. . ^ Financially also the exposition went tb beyond all expectations. It is known Drj beyond doubt that the stockholders will receive a dividend of at least thirty ^ per cent., while it is more possible that offi a forty per cent, dividend will be de- *Lle clared. , ~ * .'***" < KILLS TO SAVE HIS MOTHER. at bei Boy Shoots Down His Father, Who Or Had Attacked Her. >. -3 . am Trenton, N. J.?While protecting his bu mother from the assault of his father, . gg, who was armed with a knife, William T. Bevtns, Jr., shot and killed his 1 father on a houseboat in the Delaware River. The son was about to give himself up to the police when he was ar- 301 rested and held without bail for the I Grand Jury. . Ca According to the story: told by the bei mother she and her husband had a bei quarrel, and about supper time he tio threatened to kill her. He was armed i witn a lviure ana pursuea ner arouna Co the house. She finally escaped from un the house, and before the husband a could find her she had rowed out to the jai houseboat of her son. wr0 The husband rowed out to the house- aoi boat, and when he came aboard young 5 Bevins refused to let him see his motli- * er. The father grabbed a hatchet and was striking at his son's head when the P , son fired and killed him. Ch SENATOR FULFORD DIES. oC A ' Canadian Statesman Was Thought to Pr^ Have Been Only Slightly Hurt. jgs Newton, Mass.?Senator George T. (ig Fulford, of Brockville, Canada, died at aas the Newton Hospital as the result of 19c injuries received in an automobile ac- ? cident one week before. Louis Zerlax, of Albany, N. Y., the T chauffeur, died three days later. Sena- ?' tor Fulford's body was taken-to Canada. . me Senator "Fulford was a native of ue? Brockville and was fifty-three years F old. In 1900 he was called to the Sen- at ate of Canada. He amassed a large wil fortune as a manufacturer of medi- j cines, was an enthusiastic yachtsman cai and was a member of several Canadian pu social and yacht clubs. on the Miss Roosevelt Must Pay Duty. Miss Alice Roosevelt must pay duty on the gifts received by her in the Orient, which are reported wortli $100,- * 000, in which case the duties may ex- ?r: Aomi snn nnr> r r< ~ _ ten Act of Union Repealed. v?' The Riksdag unanimously passed the wil the bill Introduced by the Government T repealing the act of union with Nor- dec way and altering the flag of Sweden. coo na\ Anarchists Active in Russia. F Red flag demonstrations drew crowds the to the Nevsky Pxospect in St. Peters- wil burg, Russia, but Cossacks and gend- tur amies drove the demonstrators away coil and a band crossed the river and be- wic gan an open air meeting in front of the din university, which was clArged on by mo police and two men were wounded. A Bo i M. Faure Wins Balloon Race. is t M. Jacques Fauro won the balloon ^ race, landing in Hungary, after a trip to of S75 miles. M. Faure thus wins the st0i Aero Club's grand prize. to 1 ' t Newsy Gleanings. pro The cable rate from England to pre India has been reduced to two shillings liai; per word. mei Yale informally opened her 205th g academic year with probably a larger roi registration than any other year. liav 1 Miss Crowther, the largest and fierc* to I est gorilla ever captured, has just ar- ii rived at the London Zoological Gar- put dens. tw< Miss Fleming, an assistant in the tha; Harvard Astronomical Observatory, t has discovered another new star, of al- wit most the sixth magnitude, in the coa- woi stellation Aquila. bet; ' r " " i'.'f.1 UTS I NEWS i WASHINGTON. 3harles G. Dawes, of Chicago, II!., Is id to be slated to succeed Secretary; the Treasury Shaw. ? > ' Che coot of the President's Southern lr in transportation is estimated at tween $5000 and $6000, if he pays ; regular railroad rates. riie General Board of the Navy has ' :ommended raising the two battleirtc ollfhari'tari Ktt IKa Inni I'o wuiuviwicu uj me mot \_aju?rt-as?m 10,000 tons to 18,000 ton:). ohn C. Poor, Treasurer of the Washjton Gaslight Company and a well own resident of the National Capital, td suddenly in the city. * Congressman Gardner, of MassachiiJ :ts, and B. A. Smith, one of the larg: vessel owners of Gloucester, saw cretary Root regarding American bing rights off Newfoundland. rhe President told several Congress >n with whom he conferred that the lroad rate question would be the lef topic of bis message to Congress. iobert Bacon, Assistant Secretary of ite, succeeded Francis B. Loomis, . . Ing sworn into office by Charles R. an, Chief of the Bureau of Appoint* ints. t OUR ADOPTED ISLANDS. )rders have been received from ishington, D. C., for the establishnt of three branch postofflces in molulu. l complete survey of the public land* the Territory has just bean finished the Survey Department, and thenil Offlpp ha* mnrip n llnf nf t>?A ids, showing that in all the island* ;re are 1,719,160 acres of Governnt lands. 'dtthe flrsfttime in its hJstory Honoirlias pawiibroking shops. Two hare rted withft- the past few weeks. juke E. Wright, Governor-Genera* the Philippines, will retire from that it about December 1, and return t? imphis, Tenn., to resume' his law, ictice. According to the annual port for ? year 1904 of the Manwa Railway mpany, owning the line connecting tnila with Dagupan, the road paid teen per cent net profit ?<. DOMESTIC. SJeorge A. Lovejoy, of Spokane, ash., who agreed to give up two or :ee strips of his skin to save the i of a fellow Elks' wife, has sued . u. JP. Tnomas ror $iu,ouu oecause i latter removed fifty square lncbeff cuticie. jegislation for currency reform wilt sought from the next Congress by, i American Bankers' Association. ?he theatrical season opening at Newj rk has been poor on the whole. iivery one of Boston's 95,000 public M)ol children found a seat when the v, tools opened. rhe sixty-eighth year of the Univery of Michigan opened at Ann Arbor th fully 4200 students. L Los Angeles (Cal.) Sunday-school > i other day gave watermelons as zes to leading pupils. Phe Naval Institute, composed of leers of the United States Navy, has ctea as President Rear-Admiral CGoode. ' I )ne of the hew victims of smallpox Natchez, Miss., is Miss Mary Chamrlain, a niece of the Governor of egoiu & Military prisoners on Governor's Isl5, JNew York City, had to form * crot brigade to fight a fire which iwtened- the prison. t was reported at Butte, Mont., that i Morning and Evening mines, the ;gest in Coeur d'Alenes, had been d to New Yorkers for $6,000,000. . n Van Ness avenue, San Francisco; L, the city has placed an extra num: of electric lights, so as to make it :ter for the night drills of the Nanal Guard. ?he Sheriff of Hartford County, in nnecticut, has been fined $50 by the \ ited States District Court for taking Federal prisoner from the county 1 to paint his summer bouse and rk around his grounds at New L<onl. ; Cing Edward will give a Bible lec n to Bruton Church, at Williamsrg, Va., to commemorate the three adredth anniversary of the Anglican urcb's establishment on the siiorea the Old Dominion., l "General Couucil" to consider the iposed union of the Congregationat 0,000 members), United Brethren 0,000), and Methodist Protestant 0,000) Churches has been called ta iemble at Dayton, O., February 7, S. 'he merger of Harvard University I the Massachusetts Institute or chnology has fallen through. 'he University of Chicago enrollnt for this year is 2325, a gain of irly twenty-live per cent. 'ive prisoners escaped from the jail Staunton, Va., being the third break ?in a few weeks. layor Weaver, of Philadelphia, Pa.. ised the arrest of former Director of > ' - , blic Safety English and four others charges of conspiracy to defraud city. , FOREIGN. 'resident Roosevelt's cordiality tor ol>/Mvn {r% hie cft'ooHnn nf thcw >nch Ambassador as his partner at uis, has alarmed President Castro of uezuela, who now announces ilia Iinguess to settle the Taigny case, 'he British naval authorities have ided to modernize the system of king for the rank and file of the ry. 'ranee will shortly possess one of finest roadways in the world. It 1 extend from Lille to the mfinufacing towns of Roubaix and Tourag, five miles. It will be JoO feet le and divided into sections?for orary wheeled traffic, for cycles and tors and for pedestrians. . three days' festival is to be held at in, where Schumann, the composer, juried. . congress of Belgian parents is sooa couveue at 'Liege to decide whatt ries and plays iris best for childreii anil ami sfif. [ hree railroad signalmen whose^ mpt action in an emergency recently vented great loss of life on an Eng-1 i railroad aro to receive the Albert1 dal. ix of this year's graduates of the onto Deaconess Training School; re been appointed as missionaries foreign fields. 1 Hesse, Germany, a tax has beeit, on bachelors, who now have to pay ?nty-flve per cent, more in taxes" n married men. roops and police in St. Petersburg h drawn swords charged students,rkingmen and even Prince Trou-} ^koy's funeral procession. , - " ? ?? ' 1 i a i