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SPENDERS
A Tabof AeTkird Generation
By HARRY LEON WILSON
Copjrifbt, by LoUurop Publishing Company.
CHAPTER XXVL—Ctat-riannm.
"No, no—that ain't the way to han
dle him. Say, I don't expect to quit
CUBsln' him fur another 30 days yet
I want him to think he ain't got a
friend on earth but himself. Why, I'd
have made this play just as I have
done, Mr. Shepler. if there hadn't been
a chance to get back a cent of it—if
we'd had to go plumb broke—back to
the west in an emigrant car, with
bologna and crackers to eat, that's
what I'd have done. No, sir, no help
tur him!"
"Aren't you a little hard on him?"
"Not a bit! don't I know the stock,
and know just what he needs? Most
tnen you couldn't treat as I'm treatin'
him but with him, the harder you
bear down on him the more you'll get
out of him. That was the way with
hi» pa—he was a different man after
S re not W he just a
tee about an ago fur savin' him
a me a a with him—an
I could see the tears back in his eyes."
he old an chuckled.
I as like Len Carey's Nigger
ad set apart on the planta
tio fur his nigger. The fished
a huntin and swimmin to
gether One day they'd been
min', and was lyin' up on he bank
got shinkin' he'd never seen any
drown. He knew couldn't
Ewim a lick, so he he'd a
go drown. says to 'Jim
go off at rock re at
as where the deep hole was
Was scar't, but he .had to go. After
he'd gone down once, Le says to
•Drown now, you a nigger! and
come up and down twice
more Le begun to think
as worth a good bit of money, and
mebb he'd be a walloped if
he come out, so he dives in after
and gets ashore, a after
While he him to. Anyway he
said, had already sure-enough
as fur as re was a fun
in it Well. Le Carey is an old an
and is an old white-headed
nigge still hangin around the old
place, and Le goes back there
to visit his relatives, old Nigge
him up with tears in his eyes,
A S E SUSPECTED ANYTHING?"
and" thanks Mister Leonard fur savin'
his life that time. Say, I felt this
mornin' like Len Carey must feel them
times when Jim's thankin' him."
Shepler laughed.
"You're a rare man, Mr. Bines. I'll
hope to have your cheerful, easy views
©f life if I ever lose my hold here in
the street I hope I'll have the olc
Bines philosophy and the young
Bines spirit. That reminds me," he
continued, as Uncle Peter rose to go,
"we've been pretty confidential, Mr.
Bines, and I don't mind telling you I
was a bit afraid^ of that young man
until yesterday.- Oh, not on the stock
proposition. On another matter. You
may hava noticed that night at the
Oldaker's—well, women, Mr. Bines, are
uncertain. I know ^something about
markets and the ways of a dollar, but
all I know about women is that they're
good to have. You can't know any
more about them, because they don't
know any more themselves. Just be
tween us, now, I never felt any too
cure of a certain young woman's state
Of mind until copper reached 51 and
XJnion Cordage had been blown up
from Inside."
*.- They parted with warm expressions
Of good-will, and Uncle Peter, in high
spirits at the success of his machina
tions, had himself driven up-town.
The.only point where his plans had
failed was in Mrs. Wybert's refusal to
consider Mauburn after the birth of the
Casselthorpe twins. Yet he felt that
matters, in spite of this happening,
must go as he wished them to. The
Englishman—Uncle Peter cherished
the strong anti-British sentiment pe
culiar to his generation—would surely
never marry a girl who was all but
{penniless, and the consideration of an
alliance with Mrs. Wybert, when the
fortune should be lost, had, after all,
fteen an incident—a means of showing
the girl, if she should prove to be too
deeply infatuated with Mauburn for
her own peace of mind—how unworthy
and mercenary he was for he had
meant, in that event, to disillusion her
by disclosing something of Mrs. Wy
berfs history—the woman Mauburn
should prefer to her. He still counted
confidently on the loss of the fortune
pnflctng to break the match.
When ho reached the Hightower that
pryslght for dinner, he found Percftal
downstairs in great glee over waa* ke
conceived to he a fMn situation.
"Don't ask me, Undo fiter. I
couldn't get it straight but as near
as I could make out, Mauburn came
up here afraid the blow of losing Wm
was going to kill sis with a broken
heart, and sis was afraid the blow was
going to kill Mauburn, because she
wouldn't have married him anyway,
rich or poor, after he'd lost the title.
They found each other out some way,
and then Mauburn accused her of be
ing heartless, of caring only for his
title, and she accused him of caring
only for her money, and he insisted
she ought to marry him anyway, but
she wouldn't have it because of the
twins—"
Uncle Peter rubbed his big brown
hands with tne first signs of cheerful
ness he had permitted Percival to de
tect in him.
"Good fur Pish—that's the way to
take down them conceited Britishers—"
"But then they went at matters
again from a new standpoint, and the
result is they've made it up."
"What? Has them precious twin
Casselthorpes perished?"
"Not at all, both doing finely—
haven't even had colic—growing fast—
probably learned to say 'fancy, now,'
by this time. But Mauburn's going
west with us if we'll take him."
"Get out!*
"Fact! Say, It must have been an
awful blow to him when he found sis
things got to comin' too easy fur him
This fellow, the way I'm treatin' him, wouldn't think of him at all without
will keep his head even after he gets his title, even if she was broke. They
in comin easy again, or I miss my
guess. thinks I despise him now.
If you told him I was proud of him, I
almost believe you could get a bet out
of him, sick as he is of gamblin'.
as he suspected a in
had a stormy time of it from all I can
hear. He said he was strong enough
to work and all that, and since he'd
cared for her, and not for her money,
it was low down of her to throw him
over then she said she wouldn't leave
her mother and us, now that we might
need her, not for him or any other
man—and he said that only made him
love her all the more, and then he got
chesty, and said he was just as good
as any American, even if he never
would have a title so pretty soon they
got kind of interested in each other
again, and by the time I came home it
was all over. They ratified the pre
liminary agreement for a merger."
"Well, I-snum!"
"That's right, go ahead and snum.
I'd snum myself if I knew how—it
knocked me. Better come upstairs and
congratulate the happy couple."
"Shoo, now! I certainly am mighty
disappointed in that fellow. Still, he is
well spotted, and them freckles mean
iron in the blood. Maybe we can de
velop him along with the other prop
erties."
They found Psyche already radiant,
though showing about her eyes traces
of the storm's devastations. Mauburn
was looking happy also defiant and
stubborn.
"Mr. Bines," he said to Uncle Peter,
"I hope you'll side with me. I know
something about horses, and I've near
ly a thousand pounds that I'll be glad
to put in with you out there if you
can make a place for me."
The old man looked him over quiz
zically. Psyche put her arm through
Mauburn's.
"I'd have to marry some one, you
know. Uncle Peter!"
"Don't apologize, Pish. There's room
for men that can work out there, Mr.
Mauburn, but there ain't any vintages
or trouserings to speak of, and the
hours is long."
"Try me, Mr. Bines!"
"Well, come on If you can't skin
yourself you can hold a leg while
somebody else skins. But you ain't
met my expectations, I'll say that!"
And he shook hands cordially with the
Englishman.
"I say, you know," said Mauburn
later to Psyche, "why should I skin
myself? Why should I be skinned at
all, you know?"
"You shouldn't," she reassured him.
"That's only Uncle Peter's way of say
ing you can help the others, even if
you can't do much yourself at first
And won't Mrs. Drelmer be delighted
to know it's all settled?"
"Well," said Uncle Peter to Perci
val, later in the evening, "Pish has
done better than you have here. It's
a pity you didn't pick out some good,
sensible girl, and marry her in the
midst of your other doings."
"I couldn't find one that liked cats.
I saw a lot that suited every other
way, but I always said to myself:
'Remember Uncle Peter's warning!' so
I'd go to an animal store ajid get a
basket of kittens and take them
around, and not one of the dozen stood
your test. Of course I'd never disre
gard your advice."
"Hum," remarked Uncle Peter, in a
tone to be noticed for its extreme dry
ness. "Too bad, though—you certainly
need a wife to take the conceit out of
you."
"I lost that in the street, along with
the rest"
'Well, son, I ain't no ways alarmed
but what you'll soon be on your feet
again in that respect—say by next
Tuesday or Wednesday. I wish the
money was comin' back as easy."
"Well, there are girls in Montana
City."
"You could do worse. That reminds
me—I happened to meet Shepler to
day and he got kind of confidential—
talkin' over matters. He said he'd
never really felt sure about the affec
tions of a certain young woman, espe
cially after that night at the Oldakers'
—he'd never felt dead sure of her until
you went broke. He said you never
could know anything about a woman
—not really."
"He knows something about that
one, all right, if he knows she wouldn't
have any use for me now. Shepler's
coming on with the ladies. I feel quite
hopeful about him."
CHAPTER XXVIL
E E A E OV UNCLE PETER
The Bineses, with the exception of
Psyche, were at breakfast a week later.
Miss Bines had been missing since the
day that Mr. and Mrs. Cecil G. H. Mau
burn had left for Montana City to put
the Bines home in order.
Uncle Peter and Mrs. Bines had now
determined to go, leaving Percival to
follow when he had closed his busi
ness affairs.
"It's like starting west again to
make our fortune," said Uncle Peter.
He had suffered himself to regain
something of his old cheerfulness of
manner.
"I wish yon two would wait until
they can get we car here, and go bacfc
it mm** M»tA
with mar aaid Percli1
bask In style even if we didn't ear*
much more than a get-away stake."
But his persuasions were unavaiUag.
"I can't stand it another day," said
Mrs. .Bines, "and those letters keep
coming In from poor suffering people
that haven't heard the news."
"I'm too restless to stay," declared
Uncle Peter. "I declare, with spring
all greenin' up this way I'd be found
campin' up in Central park some night
and took off to the calaboose. I just
got to get out again where you can
feel the wind blow and see a hundred
miles and don't have to dodge horse*
less horse cars every minute. It's a
wonder one of 'em ain't got me in this
town. You come on in the car, and do
the style fur the family. One of them
common Pullmans is good enough fur
Marthy and me. And besides, I got to
get Billy Brue back. He's goin' plumb
daft lookin' night and day fur that
man that got his $30 and his breast
pi He says there'll be an ambulance
backed up at the spot where he meets
him—makes no difference if it's right
on Fifth avenue. Billy's kind of near
sighted at that, so I'm mortal afraid
he'll make a mistake one of these
nights and take some honest man's
money and trinkets away from him."
Percival saw them to the train.
"Take care of yourself," said Uncle
Peter at parting. "You know I ain't
any good any more, and you got a
whole family, includin' an Englishman,
dependin'. on you—we'll throw him on
the town, though, if he don't take out
his first papers the minute I get there."
His last shot from the rear platform
was:
"Change your name back to 'Pete,'
son, when you get west of Chicago.
'Tain't anything fancy, but it's a crack
in good business name fur a hustler!"
"All right, Uncle Peter—and I hope
I'll have a grandson that thinks as
much of It as I do of yours."
When they had gone, he went back
to the work of final adjustment. He
"YOU ARE MISS SPRING?"
had the help of Coplen, whom they
had sent for. With him he was busy
for a week. By lucky sales of some
of the securities that had been hy
pothecated they managed to save a
little but, on tbe whole, it was what
Percival described it, "a lovely autop
sy."
At last the vexatious work was fin
ished, and he was free again. At the
end of the final day's work he left the
office of Fouts Wall street, and
walked up Broadway. He went slow
ly, enjoying the freedom from care.
It was the afternoon of a day when the
first summer heat had been felt, and
as he loitered before shop windows or
walked slowly through that street
where all move quickly and most very
hurriedly, a welcome little breeze came
up from the bay to fan him and en
encourage his spirit of leisure.
At Union square, when he would
have taken a car to go the remainder
of the distance, he saw Shepler, ac
companied by Mrs. Van Geist and Miss
Milbrey, alight from a victoria and
enter a jeweler's.
He would have passed on, but Miss
Milbrey had seen him and stood wait
ing in the doorway, while Shepler and
Mrs. Van Geist went on into tRe storfv
"Mr. Bines—I'm so glad!"
She stood, flushed with aleasuiv,
radiant in stuff of filmy pink, with lit
tle flecks at her throat and waist of
the first tender green of new leaves*
She was unaffectedly delighted to see
him.
"You are Miss Spring?" he said
when she had given him her hand—
"and you've come into all your mother
had that was worth inheriting, haven't
you?"
"Mr. Bines, shall we not see you
now? I wanted so much to talk wKh
you when I heard everything. WouTttJ
it be impertinent to gay I t9?*3?alhis$g
with your"
He looked over fier snouje&ir
where Shepler and Mrs. Van Sebit
were inspecting a tray of jewt^.
"Of course not impertinent—va-y
kind—only I'm really not in need of
any sympathy at all. You won't un
derstand it but we don't care so muca
for money in the west—for the loss of
it—not so much as you New Yorkers
would. Besides, we can always make
a plenty more."
The situation was, emphatically, not
as he had so often dreamed it when
she should marvel, perhaps regretful
ly, over his superiority to her husband
as a money-maker. His only reliof
was to belittle the importance of bis
loss.
(TO E CONTINUED.)
Marriage Among Persian SJomadn.
An interesting custom prevails
among the nomad tribes of Persia.
Before becoming eligible for marriage
every girl has to prove her skill by
weaving two very fine rugs or saddle*
bags. It is this class of work whitfb,
is particularly prized in Europe and
America. In 1904 a law was reenaxfe
ed by the Persian government ty
which the customs department was in
structed to seize and burn all carpt%
in the manufacture of which aniline9
dyes were used. A total cessation of
exports resulted, and owing to the
hardship inflicted by this decree thf
manufacturers were granted a certain
period of grace la which to dispose
of their stocks of carpets.—N.
'We dan gW[Globe. «*&.* -,.-£
Washington Day by Day
News Gathered Here and There
at he N a a a it a
FAIR SEX IS CROWDING
INTO EVERT OCCUPATION
WASHINGTON.—Then
progress of
the modern woma in the indus
trial world and how she is crowding
into occupations hitherto monopolized
by man is made known in a report is
sued by the government census bu
reau. The figures are based on the
census returns of 1900 and show that
even that long ago woman had in
vaded all but nine of the 303 occupa
tions in which the bread winners of
the United States were engaged. As
to whether she has wedged her way
into these nine occupations in which
man was then dominant the report
sheds no light.
The returns show, among other
things, that five women were employ
ed as pilots. On steam railroads ten
were employed as baggagemen, 31 as
brakemen, seven as conductors, 45 as
engineers and firemen, and 26 as
switchmen, yardmen and flagmen, and
43 were carriage and hack drivers, six
were ship carpenters, and two roofers
and slaters. One hundred and eighty
five were returned as blacksmiths and
508 as machinists eight were boiler
makers, 31 charcoal, coke and lime
burners, and 11 were well borers. Two
women were also reported as "motor
men."
A movement to pension the army
mule and furnish him a home
when his days of usefulness are over
has been started, and if it receives
the cooperation of humane societies a
bill will be passerl by the next con
gress prohibiting the sale of the ob
stinate "critters" owned by the gov
ernment. Under present laws the
army mule, along with all other gov
ernment property, must be condemned
when useless and sold to the highest
bidder. Patriotic societies which have
been organized to look after the wel
fare of veterans have been asked to
join in the movement to provide at
government expense quarters and
feed for horses and mules which have
served faithfully with Uncle Sam's
army so as to save them from inhu
mane treatment.
W. H. Lowder of Miles Camp, Span
ish War Veterans, who is taking a
leading part in the agitation in behalf
of the friendless mule, at a meeting of
his camp here, said:
"It is a pitiable sight to see our old
FARMERS TOLD HOW TO
USE THE APPLE CROP
THE
plant industry bureau of the de
partment of agriculture has de
cided that the apples of the country
are not sufficiently utilized for food
purposes and has issued a bulletin of
advice to the farmers, telling them
how to use the stock that is of too
poor a grade for the general market
It pays special attention to the "evap
oration" of apples as being particu
larly valuable in using up the fruit
that might ordinarily go to waste.
It points out that the portion of a
fruit crop which is of too low grade
to market in the ordinary way can
often be made to pay at least a large
part of the expense of maintaining
the orchard or fruit plantation if it is
converted into some other form or
handled in some way other than that
practiced with the better grades. The
report details various methods of op-
A
RMY officers are poor horsemen,
in the opinion of President Roose
velt, who has directed that they ride
fifteen miles one day every other year
at a gallop, trot, and a walk, to test
their skill in horsemanship.
President Roosevelt has written a
letter on this subject to the secretary
of war. The secretary of war has is
sued an order directing that the presi
dent's ideas be carried out. The let
ter has caused consternation in the
army. It is as follows:
"As I have personally observed
some of the field officers were physic
ally unable to ride even a few miles
at an increased gait, and as I deem it
essential that the field officers of the
army should be at all times physically
fit and able to perform the duties per
taining to their positions, especially
in the field and as I believe that such
physical fitness can only be demon
strated by actual physical tests, I de
sire that you give the necessary in
structions to have the physical condi
tion of all officers of the line who are
to come up for examination or promo
tion to the grade of field officer actu
ally tested for skill and endurance in
riding, this in addition to the physical
examination now required by law.
'1 further desire that an annual or
biennial test of the physical condition
and skill in horsemanship of ail field
officers of the line be made under the
personal supervision of the several
department commanders when mah
ing their annual inspections.
"The tests should be thorough and
ahosOd consist of ride not lees than
HELP WflHTEP
M0T0RMHN. PILOT
ENGINEER
WW17F WWWHAN»
The number of divorced women re»
turned by the census, the report says,
is probably deficient, because the fact
of divorce is not always admitted.
But it is significant that of the number
reported divorced, 55.3 per cent, were
supportingthemselves whollyor in part.
The total number of women at work
includes 11,771,966 native white wom
en, whose parents also were natives
1,090,744 native white women, one or
both of whose parents were immi
grants 840,011 white women who
were themselves immigrants, 1,119,621
negro women and 11,288 Indian and
Mongolian women.
The number of women at work
more than doubled in the 20 years
from 1880 to 1900, and there was a
noticeable increase of bread winners
among married women in 1900, as
compared with 1890.
Almost one-fourth of the total num
ber of women at work were servants,
456,405 were farm laborers, 96.8 per
cent, of whom were from the South
ern states, and 361,804 were negroes.
There were 338,14 dressmakers, 327,
206 teachers, 328,935 laundresses, 307,
706 farmers, 231,458 textile mill opera
tives, and 146,929 housekeepers and
stewardesses
TO RETIRE ARMY MULES
ON A PENSION OF GRASS
army horses and mules, after having
seen service in foreign countries, sold
to unscrupulous horse dealers. Every
one of them are marked with the
United States army service mark and
it is a disgrace that they should be
hitched up to scavenger wagons, ash
and brick carts.
"I have seen horses sold that have
seen years of honorable service, and
every soldier must feel the injustice
of the treatment they are receiving,
especially in a country like ours,
where there are thousands of acres of
land lying idle in Virginia, Texas and
Western forts. Why couldn't these
animals be allowed to spend the rest
of their days at these Rlaces on the
pension roll of Uncle Sam instead of
being sold for the paltry sum of $15."
Officials of the war department who
have command of the army rules
raise no objection to the suggestion,
and say that if permitted by law it
could be easily arranged to find a
comfortable home for the worn-out
army mules.
erating the industry, of handling the
waste, the laws on the subject, and
the grading and storing of the prod
ucts.
"While the recent tendency in the
apple industry," says Chief Galloway
of the bureau, in the bulletin, "has ap
parently been to centralize fruit evap
oration into distinct commercial estab
lishments having considerable capa
city and requiring capital to construct
and equip, there still remain large re
gions in which there is considerable
surplus of fruit that is unsuitable for
packing and shipping in almost every
crop year. Encouragement of evapo
rating, canning, cider making and
other methods of utilization appears
desirable, and of these evaporating is
the one that is most applicable at
present to a wide range of conditions,
and therefore of most importance to
the average farmer."
PRESIDENT ORDERS HARD
TEST FOR ARMY OFFICERS
(15 miles, at varying gaits adapted to
the terrain, not less than ten miles of
which shall be at the trot and gallop,
approximately five miles at each, with
such other exercises in equitation as
may be deemed advisable."
Wild Deer Grazing Near Town.
Citizens of Weymouth, a small
town about six miles from here, for
several days past have been enjoying
the beautiful sight of a herd of wild
deer feeding in a large field. Several
small boys first saw them, and the
news soon becoming general, the
whole population of the village wav
out witnessing the sight
The deer emerged from the .woods
and stewly and cautiously walked out
into the field to graze. Daily the
deer, six in number, keep up their
trip to the field and become tamer
with each visit.—Mays Landing Cop
respondent Philadelphia Press.
The cost to a nation of entertaining
monarchs varies according to the
monarch. The cheapest sovereigns to
entertain, judging' from the bills
•Great Britain has had to pay, are
the German emperor and the king of
Italy. It cost about $5,000 to enter*
tain each of them. The king of the
Belgians costs $20,000 a week the
late shah cost $100,000 a week. The
expenditure on decorations, etc., is
not included in these figures. When
the cxar of Russia made his historic
visit to France the cost to the repub
lic amounted to $535,000.—Boston
Tfanscrlna.
*^f ^swr- as**" «s
Several head of cattle froze to death
about the fifteenth of May, at Vendsys
seL
Th first international exposition for
trade journals and periodicals was held
in Copenhagen.
"Th children's day," a day set aside
for raising money for poor children's
outing colonies, brought $23,000 in
Copenhagen.
Minister of Public Traffic Hogsbro
has offered to sell to the city of Fred
riksberg the •'Fredriksberg Garden,"
which belongs to the national govern
ment. If the deal is closed this fine
park will be wiped out. and the ground
divided up into small parcels.
Th metric system is to be introduced
in Denmark At the same time new
rules for reading numbers will be en
forced. Tak the number 21. for in
stance. The usual way of reading it
is: "One-and-tw enty" (en-og-tyve),
but the new way will be "twenty-one
(tyve en)
FINLAND.
A Finnish newspaper gives an a
count of the losses which the Finnish
newspapers suffered during the years
of Russia tyranny. In 1899 21 papers
were suspended for a shorter or longer
period, and 4 were entirely suppressed.
The loss to the 21 papers was about
5100,000. For the year 1900 and each
of the following five years, the loss was
$135,000. The total loss caused by the
suspension of newspapers was 1775.
000. This does not include the loss to
tfte papers that were entirely
pressed, nor the losses caused bv the
SWEDEN.
Five hundred Germa Freemason
recently visited their brethren in Hel
singborg.
It is stated that 45 of Linne's de
scendant are still living, 10 of them
being minors.
There is much talk about the start
ing of a new steamship line between
Sweden and Mexico.
he fruit trees in Southern Sweden
were loaded with flowers last springy
a a rich crop is expected.
Thousand of people attended the
celebration of Linne's 200th birthday at
Rashvelt, a country village where the
great scientist was born.
The shipping trade is in a very flour
ishing condition in Sweden, and the
steamship companies are constantly
procuring additional ships.
Interesting paintings from the twelfth
century have been discovered In the
church at Vallkarra, Skane. in which
extensive repairs are being made.
Th beautiful Melar lake in Stock
holm was formerly a bay of the Baltic
sea. Th land has been rising for cen
turies, and if it keeps on rising the
lake will finally become a fertile valley.
A Danish paper is complaining be
cause there is a tendency to adopt the
Swedish system of counting from 20
to 10d. Th Danish way of reading, for
instance. 54, Is "four and half the third
twenty." the Swedish way is "fifty
four." The reader can easily tell what
system is the more natural.
The golden wedding ef Kin Oscar
and Queen Sophia was celebrated
throughout Sweden 6. In the capi
tal there was a solemn service in the
cathedral, attended by the king and
the queen and the members of the
royal family. Subsequently their
majesties drove through the decorated
streets and were everywhere acclaimed.
A son was born 7 to Princess
Margare Victoria. Th princess is the
wife of Prince Gustaf Adolf, duke of
Skane, eldest son of .Prince Gustaf.
crown prince of Sweden. She is the
daughter of Princ Arthur, duke of
Connaught The were married in
June 1905. This is their second son. A
salute of 84 guns was fired at the lead
ing military stations of Sweden In
celebration of the happy event.
"A National Society for the Coloniza
tion of Sweden has been proposed in a
pamphlet written by Gustaf Stjern
strom. His idea is to have a large
private organization to enable people
of small means to settle on land which
Is not yet used to the greatest a a
age, or not used at all. The real aim
of the society would be to give as a
Swedes as possible a better chance to
a a living in their native land so
that they will not be so apt to emi
grate
It is a curious fact that the so-called
Liberal party a a most energetic
effort to kill the government franchise
bill, and some of the leaders of the
party are abusing the Conservatives
even after the bill as become a law.
An earthquake of considerable vio
lence passed from east to west in Xorr
land at noon, Ma 26. Th shock was
accompanied by a rumbling sound. Th
ground trembled and the windows rat
tled.
A horse show at Malmo brought so
a people to the city that after all
the local hotels were filled a had
to go to the neighboring cities and
towns to get a chance to. go to bed.
Th late Consul Oska E an willed
$540,000 to charitable institutions, and
his heirs were instructed to donate a
still larger a to other purposes.
A the latter as $100,000 for
checking emigration from Sweden and
encouraging immigration to Sweden
from America.
An anti-military harangue, printed
on red paper, was found posted on the
doom of the new St. Johannes church,
Malmo. This was no doubt the work
of the "young Socialists."
The city of Malmo is going to borrow
$250,000 for building a new school
house and finishing the St. Johannes
church.
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SCANDINA VIAM NEWS
Principal Events Gathered In the
Old Scandinavian Countries
DENMARK.
Th numometer, or "coin-counter,"
invented by A. U. Westfelt, is having
a good sale in Sweden, and efforts a re
being made to extend its market to
foreign countries.
The Grangesberg Mining Compan
has been advised by its board of di
rectors to raise the capital stock from
$11,000,000 to $17,000,000. The profits
for the past year warranted a dividend
of 12% per cent.
The department of state, at the In
stance of President Roosevelt, has sent
a note to the Swedish ambassador, in
forming thim that the department of
state is willing to return to Vice Con
sul A. A. Eckstromer, of St. Louis, the
exequatu of which he was deprived.
In the neighborhood of Falkenbur
is a woman who has just given birth
to her fourteenth child. She is only
37 years old and has been married 16
years. This case is the more re a
able because the an never gave
birth to more than one child at a time.
Th annual expenses of the an
a my and navy a to $3.30, while
the corresponding figures for a
and England are $5.80 and $7.60. Some
one suggested that the military ex
penses of the other powers be reduced
to the same basis as those of Germany
Ther was a strike at the Furnlun
woolen mills in Malmo. But when it
transpired that the proprietor stoutly
refused to employ a in place
of the strikers, the latter gradually dis
covered that the difficulties might be
oven-ome, and now they are all at
work again.
continual interference by the censors, pie's party held a convention in Stock
Terroris is still threatening the holm on Whitsunda and the next day.
czar and his government, but it has re- The party claimed
moved its headquarters to Finland.
There, where the conspirators a re cater
from police interference than in
sia, the manufacture of bombs and the
instruction of young revolutionists in
their making and use. are carried on
extensively. A bomb factory and a
seminary of this kind, just across the
Finnish frontier, was raided by the po
lice, who arrested only twelve out of
the thirty terrorists working there. Th
latter had been warned of the police
descent, and had cleared a a their
arms explosives and documents before
the blow fell, the twelve stragglers be
ing caught. At this factory the a
facture of bombs went on day and
night, and a regular guard was posted
around the house to give warning of a
police attack. The impunity with
which the terrorist plots can be
hatched in Finland is giving the Rus
sian government great anxiety. It is
known that the bombs being made in
Finland were intended for the execu
tion of the great plot against the im
perial regime.
The Social-Democratic young peo-
a
membership of
14.500. belonging to about 300 clubs.
Much time was devoted to the anti
military propaganda, "with the com
plete abolishment of the military sys
tem as the tinal aim." and a resolution
was passed in favor of international
courts of arbitration. The convention
went on record against al! military de
fenses. Th whole country was divid
ed into 'anti-militar districts." A
resolution was also passed in favor of
abolishing the state church. One of
the most drastic steps taken by the
convention was the adoption of an a
peal to the workingmen of Sweden not
to have their children baptized to
keep tjheir children away from the re
ligious instruction given in the public
schools not to have their children con
firmed and to avoid the use of minis
ters of the gospel at weddings.
NORWAY.
The Ekeberg forest, in the eastern
part of Kristiania, is to be changed into
a public park.
About $500,000 will be needed for dif
ferent contrivances for protecting the
Bergen railway from snow.
A house for prayer meetings has
been built on the property of Gabriel
Fotland, Thime. near Etavanger
Man members of the storting are
in favor of granting an annual subsidy
of $27,000 to a proposed steamship line
between Norwa and Mexico.
Some Socialistic literature in the
a
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confiscated at
ardo, about a year ago. Protests
were raised against the seizure, but
the courts have sustained the action
of the government.
The temperance people are discussing
a themselves whether there is any
chance for making the whole country
"dry." If they think the odds are in
their favor they may start a campaign
for national prohibition.
The Borgestad chapel at Gjerpen has
been dedicated. The building is a gift
from Gunno Knudsen. president of the
storting. It is built of limestone and
has a seating capacity of 360. Gunna
Knudse has spent about $20,000 on
this gift.
In a correspondence to a German
newspaper it was stated that the Nor
wegians are growing tired of King
Haakon To this the Kristiania Mor
genbladet re a that "no throne in
Scandinavi a stands on a safer founda
tion than Norway' re-elected throne."
Th city government of Kristiania
is encouraging horticulture by means
of renting out small gardens at a nomi
nal rent, which, however, increases a
trifle from year to year. About 150
such gardens are worked this year.
Their sizes vary from 150 to 200 square
yards. At Frogne there are two large
gardens where the pupils of the pub
lic schools of the neighborhood are
learning the elements of gardening.
General Olsson's resignation as min
ister of a is said to have been due
mainly to the fact that he wanted to
build fortifications along the "neutral
zone" between Norwa and Sweden,
while Premie Michelsen wants to es
tablish mutual confidence between the
two nations on the peninsula, which, of
course, cannot be done if one or both
of them destroy the effects of the
"neutral zone" by lining it with mili
a defenses.
Premie Michelsen has knocked a
hole in the wall of the Norwegian
bureaucracy by inducing the cabinet
to drop the office of "diocesan gov
ernor" (Stiftsamtmand of Bergen and
adding his district to that of the gov
ernor (amtmand of South Bergen hu
amt It is significant that the an
strikes his own city first in his a
paign for a much-needed overhauling
of the civil administration of the coun
try. Hi argument in this case was,
that one man could easily discharge the
duties of both offices.
Rev. Konow. of Bergen, who has
licly announced that he does not be
lieve in the bodily resurrection of
Jesus, is still causing annoyance. Th
orthodox people urge him to resign, but
he keeps his position as tho nothing
remarkable had happened.
Bjornson. in spite of his 75 years, is
fighting like a young giant against the
language reformers, who a the Nor
wegian dialects put in place of the
Norwegian-Danis book language.
Th ecclesiastical department has Is
sued a circular urging the directors of
the public schools to see that the new
spelling is properly introduced in he
schools.
as Rev. Musau had preached
his farewell sermon at the Sabo church
and was leaving the building on his
a to a new charge, the chandelier,
which weighed several hundred pounds,
dropped down and as broken into
fragments. N one as injured,
the sexton ad been standing under
the chandelier before it dropped.
goats were killed by a a a
few days ago in Gjesdal, near S a a
ger, and four went in for
him.
he spring freshet did great a a
in GausdaL A am which Bjornson,
he poet, ad built for a reservoir burst
a caused very extensive disturbances.
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End of Pullman as a Feudal City.
George M. Pullman's dream of a
model city has at last vanished in
thin air. His vision of a Utopia for
laboring men is shattered. It is a
thing of the past. It was the supreme
court of Illinois that punctured' the
bubble, and the town of Pullman, fa
mous the world over as au ideal
manufacturing town, takes its place
along with the numerous other
suburbs of Chicago, and its Utopian
existence comes to an end. To be
sure, the red brick city remains, with
its 12,000 inhabitants, but the great
Pullman company does not own It
from center to circumference, as it
once did. One by one the tenants are
buying the cottages and dwellings in
the town, and it will not be long be
fore the 2,000 houses will be sold.
Waiting for Something to Turn Up.
This setting down and folding our
arms and waiting for sumthing tew
turn up, iz just about az rich a speku
lashun az going out into a 400-acre
lot, setting down on a sharp stone
with a pail between our knees, and
waiting for a cow tew back up and
be milked.—Josh Billings.
London's Product of Soot.
It is calculated that London pro*
duces 55,000 tons of soot yearly, which
would be worth as manma about
$225,000. There are always §9 tons of
soot suspended above London in tbs
form of smoke.
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