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Cable Notes.

The United States cruiser Chicago has
sailed from Gibraltar for Southampton
where she will go into dry dock.
The latest crop reports from the Kharkoff
district of Russia are very bad. There is
little grain or hay. and potatoes and other
vegetables are backward. The heat is in
tense. and 1t is feared that southern Russia
Will suffer severely.
Of the British Parliament for the Andover
district OF Hampshire. died yesterday as
the result of injuries received through be-
ing thrown from q cab Friday evening into
an excavation in Parliament street.
John G. y. Leishman. the United States
minister to Turkey, and Mrs. Leisnman
Therapia Friday evening with a most sue
cessful dance at the Summer Palace Hotel
there. There was a large attendance of
diplomats and members of society
The National Miners Federation of
France has sent a circular 10 all its mem
bers proposing a general strike In France
for Nov. l unless the government and the
mining companies have previously given
the miners satisfaction n regard 10 the
proposals for eight hours work per day
and a pension OF two francs per day after
twenty-five years work.
The West Indian committee announces
that the British government has accepted
the invitation of Belgium to attend another
sugar conference in the autumn 10 consider
the question of the abolition of the bouE-
ties. The committee thinks this intelii-
gence Is specially welcome. in view Of the
establishment OF free trade between the
United States and Porto Rico.
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meant them, their friendliness is extreme.
There are few things more amusing tndn
to watch a toad submitting to the operallou
of a hack-scratching. Re will at first look
somewhat suspiciously at the twig when
you are advancing toward him. put aIter
two or three passes down his back his man
nsr undergoes a marked change. his eyes
close with an expression OF INFINITE rap
ture. he plants his feet wider apart and ms
body swells out TO nearly double It's Or
binary size, as if 10 obtain by these means
more room for enjoyment. Thus he will re-
ma'n until YOU make some sudden move
ment which s~tartles him or until he mas
had as much petting as he wants, when
with a puff or regretful delight he VIII re,
d,,ce himself to his usual dimensions and
hop away, bent once more on the pleasures
of the chase.
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sympathy with Its Mistress Convinced
Her that Ii Had a Soul.
Literary Bulletin.


Miss WiIkins's story Of the parrot, in her
new book. "UndeTstudies. is so good that
1t has only been rivaled by herself in the
inirnitable story of the old maid and the
volumes. In both stories there is the in
evitable pathos and humor with which
Miss wilkins alone knows how TO envelope
her solitary figures OF sisterhood. The
parrot made a striking tropical contrast To
his stern New England mistress; and 10
this woman, whose sole dissipation had
been q visit 10 q concert in the town hall.
the screaming and laughing bird was a
suggestion OF vague and unreasoning i'm
morality. The bird was the one bright
thing In her life and linked the outside
world TO the true inwardness OF her own
soul. In an awful moment. which seemed
ike the rankest atheism 10 her, she had
talked 20 him in the language OF love. and
he had cooked his ClitteTing head and his
inscrutable jewel-eye at her in n way that
made her quite sure that the parrot
had a soul. In fact. she thought of
speaking 10 the minister about ii, but then
he was unmarried, and people had pointed
the finger at the minister as a suitable
match for the solitary daughter OF his pre-
Gecessor. One warm night the parrot
frightened away a pair OF lovers standing
nestr the gate Of Martha's garden by shout
Ing IN wild clamor> "What Is thatc What
is that Do YOU know b that :,
Mastha?' Martha took the bird IN and set
him on the sitting-room table. along with
the Bible and Concordance. while she
lighted a lamp. Again the bird shrieked at
the solitary woman: ''What was that?
WHAT was that. Martha? Polly don't want
a cracker: Polly will be damned II she
eats a cracker. You don't want a cracker
do you. Martha? What was that. Martha?
Martha will be damned il she eats a
cracker. Martha, Martha. Martha" There
was n step or the garden walk and the
parrot cried out in sardoaic exultation:
He's coming. He's coming. MARTHA And.
to Martha's horror. the front door opened.
and there stood the minister. Hes come.
q . ~ 80 - .-Af - - nd IA
he Amt, Martha. Martha. where in he'll is
that old cracker?"
For some weeks thereafter Martha and
the minister We're fast friends III has
~come-hasn't he, Martina queried the
parrot over and over. and Martha was
more than ever inclined to think that the
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LOSSES BY FIRE.


WEST NEWTON, Pa, Aug. 3.-West
Newton was visited by one Of the worst fires
in her history tonight. The loss will reach
Sl00, 600 with little insurance. Shortly be-
fore midnight fire broke out in the large
double dry goods store of Roust & BrOdie.
The town has no fire department and with
in thirty minutes after the fire started the
dry goods store was a mass of glowing
cinders and four other buildings were burn
ing. The fire spread from the dry goods
store To the shoe store of j. f. Scaugher.
This building. a three-story structure, was
partly destroyed, and the entire stock
ruined. w. +. Gordon. dealer i'm farming
implements lost his entire stock of reapers.
mowers, etc, together with his store. The
furniture stock of McClain x JOSephs was
entirely ruined.
CINCINNATI. Aug. 3.-The building oc-
cupied as the brush department of the
Cincinnati w~orkhCuse. on Colerain avenue.
by fire this evening. The fire Originated
between the roof rafters and spread with
great rapidity. Fortunately the burned
building was located some distance from
the main buildings of the institution and
the prisoners were easily handled, none
escaping. The building destroyed was the
property of the city. but the machinery
and equipments belonged to the BrOmwell
Brush and Wire Goods Company. of Gin
cinnati. The loss will be about $50, 900, COW
cred by INSURANCE..
PADUCAH. Ky. Aug. 3.-The wood
working department of the Illinois Central
shops here burned at 4 o'clock this morn
ing. entailing a loss of about $4,000. The
blaze is supposed to have originated from
spontaneous combustion Tools owned by
out of employment. were destroyed. The
portion burned will be rebuilt.
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ADVISED NOT TO WORRY.


LYNCHBURG, Va, Aug. S.-Quarter-
masters Clerk John McCaull. reported
from Seattle as having disappeared from
the transport Egbert short in his ac-
counts. is a son of Capt. p. II. McCaull
OF this city. Captain McCaull to-day said he
had received a telegram from James r.
Baskerville. who is freight clerk on the
transport Egbert and his brother-in-law
eated Victoria. b. c., Aug. l, which read:
johnny lett in Seattle. Everything
straight. Don't worry The captain inter
preted this to mean that his son had been
LETT IN Seattle by accident and Mr.. Basker-
vile, knowing that exaggerated reports
would be made OF T.. had sent the tele-
gram Il am satisfied continued the cap
tain. "tnat when the Egbert returns from
ALASKA everything viii be found correct and
satisfactory. The Egbert should return in
about thirty days. Ny family is ~ Seattle
and will remain during the heated term and
l feel sure that had anything serious oc-
CURED l should ave heard from them
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WILL ORGANIZE WORKERS.
Effort VIII BE Made to Close All Iron
Mills at Cleveland.

CLEVELAND, o., Aug. 3.-Lawrence
Kelly. a member of vice President Wards
advisory board in the central district OF
the Amalgamated Association, returned to
Cleveland tonight from Pittsburg. He will
now devote his time to organizing iron,
steel and tin workers in all the mills in
Cleveland, which are in any way connected
with the United States Steel Corporation.
This will include all the mills of the Ameri-
can Steel and Wire Company in this city
and also the mills of the National Steel
Company and the Federal Steel Company.
The Federal Steel Company has three mills
in Youngstown. AS soon as organized, un-
less the great strike is settled before that
time. all men in the mills of the three cor
porations will be called out. Mr.. Kelly does
not place any faith in the report that ne
groes are being imported to take the places
OF the strikers. He says ii would be a dam
gerOus experiment.
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ANCIENT ROMANS CLOTHES
Many Fabrics Used and Skill EN-
pIoyed in Arranging Them.
American.

Scientific American.
At the December meeting Of the Archaeo-
logical Institute of America Prof. Myron
r. Sanford, of Middlebury College,, reao
a most interesting paper upon The Mate
rial of the Tunica and Toga," and we eX-
tract the following from the Journal OF the
Institute:
With the passing of the simple toga and
tunica of the early years to the more ornate
and complicated forms of dress there came
TO Rome many new fabrics TO vie with
wool. Many Latin writers tell OF the use or
linen. cotton, silk and various mixed stuffS.
The idea students gain from the peruSal OF
classical literature is that rarely did the
newer materials actually supplant wool IN
making up the various articles of cloth. No
one seems to have undertaken the formula
bic task of an elaborate study of the eX-
listing paintings and statuary representing
the Roman dress, to determine how far the
artists intended to suggest various mate
rails in their drapery. In some of the por-
trait statues in Pompeii it is unreasonable
to believe that the clumsy, thick folds do
not represent some form of wool, and the
lighter and sometimes diaphanous folds the
finer fabrics. Frequently in painting. and
not rarely in statuary, different materials
are TO be seen in the clothing belonging TO
the same figure. The Latin department at
Middlebury College has been interested in
experimenting with a considerable variety
OF materials in imitation of some of the
~well-known figures. Besides coming TO GER
tain conclusions regarding the graceful and
stiff folding of different cloths, the students
had realized a fact insufficiently empha-
sized in the manuals, namely, that no ma
terial from the heaviest wool to the most
delicate silk will of itself take the beautiful
folding shown in the ordinary statue or
painting. The drapery In the latter is al
ways one of two results: it is either taken
from the plaits and foldings of the cloth
ing of the model draped beforehand with
the most palnstaking care or il is the con-
ventionaGzing of the artist. Not until a
trial is made will one realize how elaborate
the process must have been TO produce the
appearance OF the toSa of Hortenslus. for
the accidental disarrangement of which on
the crowded street he sent a challenge to
MS friend. OFTEN the simplicity of certain
effects is, after all, an elaborate effort. For
example the Commodus-of the Vatican col
lection, seems to have the drapery hanging
from the BODY In the most natural manner.
Whlle an attempt to initiate it will show
that 1t is a case of art concealing art. The
simplicity is only apparent, and OCCASION
any no imitation with material Of any sort
Whatsoever can follow the contortions in
the drapery of certain classic figures.
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Eggs.
Philadelphia Record.

Eggs with a commercial value OF sloy
apiece. were sold Yesterday as a part Of
the great archaeological collection or Harry
G.. Parker, of Ridley Park. which was
The Parker collection is wOrld-famous and
includes almost every imaginable specimen
known TO science, including one OF tne
great aux, valued at $500. and from Dat
to those Of the cOmmOnest sparroHs Inc
sale of this collection and the price paic ior
ii by the New Yorker has caused a consle-
cradle stir among those interested IN ornl-
thology as TO what will become Of these
valuable specimens. That Mr.. Childs con-
siders his purchase well worth the price
paid is shown by the fact that over ana
and above the $22. 500 given for the collec-
ton he has allowed 800 for the expense OF
packing ii. This is being attended 10 Dy
Mr.. Parker himself, he having engaged
experts at SO a day to prepare the treas
ures for shipment.
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bird had a soul she co1ided her new
hope and happiness TO the parrot. and over,
ooked her supply OF linen and unfoioen
her visions of a new silk fo- a wedding
dress before the flashing eyes OF the bro.
Suddenly the dislllusion OF the poor sour o.
to her irst gospel OF love came. How she
faced the ordoai-'if Martha was cut up
she would deceive the very elect, IL was
said 81 her-the reader must learn for nm
self. why, Martha. poor Martha! VIVA.
the matter, MARTHA walled the parrol ~
n cry OF uncanny sympathy and pain. Inc
day came when the minister brought his
new wife 10 call upon Martha. VII greeted
them calmly r stifly. though inwaruly
he- very soul stormed and protested OI 2
sudden the parrot few in from the mex
room. snd, With a wild shrek. dashed upon
the bridal bonnet, plucking furiously al tnt
roses and plumes. That was n damneo
cracker, MARTHA concluded the parrot
and as his golden eyes met hers Marina
recognized In the fierce bird a c~onradeshit
and an equality. for he had given vent &C
al emotion OF her OWN nature. ana she
knew forevermore that the parrot haa .
SOIL
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n sympathetic strike. until the trust re-
allies the strength OF its opponents.
should such an order go out all the indie
pendcnt blast furnace workers IL the Ma
honing and Sheranso valleys are ready to
comply with the request. The furnace
workers announced that they would take
no concerted action until the outcome OF
the New York conference was MADE
known. The furnace strike would be at
tributable 10 the selling Of 40.oO tons Of
pig iron To the United States Steel
Corporation by the Mahoning and
Shenanso Valley Bessemer Associa-
ton. TO be used at nonuniOn mills.
About fifteen hundred men will be affected
IL the strike is ordered. y meeting of the
furnace workers viii be held tomorrow 70
decide on what curse they wili pursue. ~
kilograms were received here tonight as
follows.
From wellsville. o.. word has been re-
ceived here that the strike viii be made
by ell The steel workers and their sentiment
il TO stand out until the end.
From Scottdale, Pa: There Is no cnange
N Developments here. No men left TOT
WClisvilie to-day. but IL 10 reported mat
two crews are ready 10 20 next week
From MCnessen. Pa: TIE probable
change In the general strike situation mas
sic here. The conference being held has
served TO keep the strikers IN check, but
now that iudica tions point 10 a battle that
VIII be fercely ought, the strikers are pre-
pairing Ia make an aggressive movement.
II l. reported that committees Of Analga-
mated lodge Will visit IN person the homes
OF che nonuniOn men to-rsOrrOW and plead
with them TO join their cause. Should tins
fail to call enough men To cripple the Ma
t.onal tin plate works, here. other and
more stringent measures viii be adopted.
From Mckcesport. Pa: \ meeting OF the
employees OF the National rolling mill VIII
be held tomorrow afternoon Tor the pur-
pose Of pcrfectinS the organization OF
Union Lodge OF the A"r1algamated Associa-
ton. The lodge was formed recently and at
present has a membership of 300. IL Is ex-
pected that 700 new member viii be added
10 the lodge tomorrow. National Organizer
Quinn. Of the National Federation OF
Labor, was in Mc<eesport to-day. y move
nient is on foot to organize the employees
Of the tub works into the American Fed
Grafton OF Labor. All IS quiet tonight and
the situation is unchanged. The breaking
off OF negotiations with the steel corpora
ton does not seem to surprise the strikers.
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Yesterdays Temperatures.
MOVEMENTS OF STEAMERS.

NEW YORK. Aug. 3.-Arrived: st. Paul.
from Southampton; S~tatendanl. from Rot
rerdam. Sailed. Bulgaria. for Hamburg:
EtrUria. for Liverpool, Amsterdam, Tor
Rotterdam via Boulogne. \eustria, for
Naples.
LIVERPOOL. Aug. ARRIVED: Lucania
and Georgia. from New York. Sailed: I'm
bria. for New York.
SOUTHAMPTON. Aug. 8 - Arrived :
Grosser kurfuIst. from New York. for
Bremen.
HAMBURG. Aug. ARRIVED: Columbia.
from New York via Plymouth and Cher
bOurg.
BREMEN. Aug. 3-Arrived. Friedrich
der Crosse. from New York Via Cherbourg.
CHERBOURG. Aug. 3-Saiie6. ST. Louis.
from SOUTHAMPTON. for New York.
PHILADELPHIA Aug 3--Saled: West
erniand. for Liverpool.
HAvRE. Aug. 3-Saiied: lie Bretagne.
for New York.
ANTWERP. Aug. s.-sailed: iceland, for
New York
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Men Who Desert Their Wives
New York Commercial Advertiser

Nc" lUTh OOInMerclaI Advertiser.
Minnesota is a poor place OF residence
his wife and abandons her. The ,Srpp.
Legislature has passed a law makinp uife
abandonment a felony, punishable bv ~
prisonment IN the penitentiary for No.
less tnan one year and not more .ban
three, with a provision for a suspension ~
sentence providing the husband give hond
10 the state TO support his wife and fam
lawyers OF Minnesota that deser, ~ .ne
bands can be arrested in and exrraSttea
from other States. To test IL warrants
nave neen issued by the County Board Of
and they are to be served immediately II
the law stands the test II Is not rni,t.n =.
mat otner States may follow Minnesota:s
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BALLSTON, n. Y, Aug. 3.-Col. Henry
Clay Condo died here to-day, aged sixty
eight years. He served in the civil war as
colonel on the staff of General Nelson, par
ticipating in the Kentucky and Tennessee
campaign. At the close of the war he re-
sumed the practice OF law in Memphis,
Tenn, and later removed to st. Louis. He
became blind about twelve years ago and
has since made his home here. In 1855 he
was nominated as chief justice of Alaska.
but declined the appointment because of his
then failing eyesight.
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COLUMBUS. O.. Aug. At a special
election held IN this city to-day a PROPOSE
ton 70 issue 8. 250.Oo0 bonds for the extern
sion Of the city'S sewer system and the
establishment Of a sewage disposal plant
was overwhelmingly defeated. Only 1900
proposition for the ISSUANCE OF 100000
bonds for q municipal electric light plant
also failed BY a few hundred votes.
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~P0UNDMASTER SHOT.
Killed by a Wealthy Man Whose Cow
Was Placed i'm an Enclosure.

IRON MOUTAIN, Mich. Aug. 3.-Pound-
master Joe Lennon. of Crystal Falls, placed
a COW belonging to captain Bennett, su-
perintendent of the Oliver Mining Com
pany, in the pound. Bennett became very
angry and on meeting ennon hot words
followed, and the result was that the
captain pulled his revolver and shot the
poundmaster through the heart. The affair
has created a great sensation. Bennett Is
one or the best known mining mCn IN the
upper peninsula, and is said TO be worth
sou, coo. lie was arrested.
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English Crops Short.

LONDON. Aug. 3.-The wheat harvest in
the United Kingdom has been IN ruII swing
for a week. and the Mark Lane Express
calculates that. although the quality is
fine. the yield in the most important coun-
ties will be four quarters to the acre,
against the usual five quarters. Barley,
likewise, is of good quality, but the guam
tity is below the average, and oats are too
thin to make a big crop. The yield of Eng
lish and Scotch potatoes Will be fully up
to the average. while Ireland promises the
best yield since 1895. which was u grand
year.
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senator Clnrk's Miners Win.

HELENA. Mont. Aug. s-The labor trou-
bles that have existed since last May at the
coal mines owned by United States Senator
Clark at BridgeT. Carbon county. have been
settled and the men viii return to work.
The men claim a victory. They are 10 re-
ceive 50 cents a ton for mining clean
So cents a ton for mining from room and
pillar workings. House rent IS reduced and
no discrimination against organized labor
nrnmiSed.
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Charged with Arson.

SPRINGFIELD. H.. Aug. S.-HarIy
C~ritchfeld, engineer OF the steamer lls
Mack, and John Eberhart. fireman or inc
same, were arrested at Quincy TODAY on
the charge of setting fire TO the steamer
City OF Metropolitan, on which they w.
formerly employed. about three weeks ago.
while the steamer was lying in Quincy oas.
The men arrived in Springfield to-1ight -
charge OF deputy United States marshAs
and were lodged IN 1ail.
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Parade OF All the Nations"

BUFFALO. y. y. Aug. S.-This was
Midway day" at the Pan-Americ9n Tx
position. The total admissions were lO6. 3l5.
The Parade Of all Nations. was a feature
of the day. There were aquatic sports and
a big show in the stadium. made w OF
members OF all the Midway concessions. y
grand ballet In the Court Of Fountains. the
illumination and a display OF fireworks to-
night filled out the days festivities. The
names OF prize winners viii not be an
nounced until September.
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VIII Hold Out for 81 n Day.

CHICAGO. Aug. S.-Striking molders of
Chicago tonight rejected all overtures OF
President Martin Fox and 5he national
executive committee for an amicable adjust
meEt Of the trouble on the basis OF the
scale of Se.e5 a day for bench molders and
$3.50 a day for floor molders. They voted 10
hold out for s. a day fat and continue the
strike. which had been called independent
of their national organization.
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Doctors Slayer Exonerated.

NEW ORLEANS. Aug. 3.-Dr. Mat ferg-
er, a prominent physician Of North LOUIS.
lana, was killed in Tallulah. La. last nisnl
by William r. Spann, agent or the MeI-
phis & Vicksburg packet Della feIstt
had married Spann's mother seven or e.sI'
years ago. but the couple had separated,
and Yerger attributed the separation 70
Spann. The coroner's jury eXOnetatc-
Spann. Yerger was an assistant surgeon
during the campaign at Santiago.
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ST. AUGUSTINE. Fla. AUG. 81. w
pie. ali well known here. was drowned this
afternoon at South Beach. MAJ ; -
Sackett, Mr.. Adams. II. Il. Woodaro' ~
Sackett and Miss Florence WOOD ~
caught In the undertow beyond the break.
ers. BY the assistance OF a NUMBER %
people in the surf and OF the beach loui
were rescued, two of them exhausted anu
unconscious. Mr.. Adams was drowned
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Many Destitute Homeseekers.

Ell RENO, O. T.. Aug. 3.-Hundreds Of
homeseekers. who failed TO draw a claim in
the new Kiowa-COmanche country are sell
ing their tents, horses and wagons at a
sacrifice in order to reach their homes.
Many others, who have camped on the bor-
ders of the land for months expecting that
IL would be opened by u run are destitute
and already suffering is apparent. Hun
dreds are drifting southwark TO the pro-
jected towns OF AnadarkO. Hobart and
Lawton, hoping that something may turn
I'm
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Frank Collier.

CHICAGO. Aug. 3.-Frank Collier. once
well known as a politician and attorney,
died tonight at the county hospital. He
had been i'll for some time with typhoid
fever and had never fully recovered from
mental troubles. the result or injuries re-
ceived several years ago In an assault
felld.