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Laid him or the Ground.

Adt1 tuC
in mist and rain, with Green at her
side buried In thought, though his
hand was ready to reach out for her
assistance whenever it was needed
and his face was almost sweet with a
new touch upon it.
Dolores stood listlessiy at one of
the Litchen windows; she was looking
out at the storm. but she did not see
1t: her ears were strained to catch the
sound of voices in her fathers room.
Earnest voices they were and fC.l Of
q meaning she could not catch.
The road was deserted; the men
had struggled up to Johnson's house
when first he was brought home. but
as soon as the messenger sent by
Green brought the doctors from the
town they ordered perfect quiet. and
the men were sent away without be-
ing allowed to enter. They turned
away in silence and went down the
eoad to the tavern with its welcome
fire. its cider. and comrades.
The women were forced to remain
at home: they gossiped with their
daughters or their kinsfolk around the
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Receives Salary Of sa5o,ooo.

S. C. T. Todd. general solicitor OF
the Standard Oil Company, Is under
stood to receive. salary and commits
sions. s25O,OOO year. If any other
man in the country earns as much as
this in a similar way 1t is not general
ly known. J. A. Cassatt of the Penn
sylvania gets $4,000 a year. that be-
ing the largest salary paid to any
railroad president in the country.
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Pope,s Official Designation.

The official designation of the head
of the hierarcy of the Catholic church
is as follows: His holiness. the pope.
bishop of Rome and vicar Of Jesus
Christ. successor of ST. Peter, prince
of the apostles; supreme pontin OF
the universal church, patriarch OF the
west, primate of Italy. archbishop
and metropolitan of the Roman prov
ince, sovereign of the temporal do
millions of the holy Roman church.
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British shakespearean Society.

Sir Henry Irving has been chosen
president of the British Empire
Shakespeare society. an organization
which aims to help the rising gene.
ration not to study Shakespeare
works. but to love them" The bishop
Of Ripon is one of the vice presidents
and numerous notables in the theater
world are prominently associated
The society has about 1000 members
Its program being lectures. readings
and presentations of entire plays.
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u.,.ran Yaehtsman Hurt.

Capt. Henry Hoffman. the only sur
vivor of the schooner yacht Americas
crew, and who was a boy aboard the
boat when she lifted the now famous
cup in English waters, has been badly
hurt in a runaway near his home in
Brooklyn. N. Y. His carriage was over
turned while he was trying to dodge
an automobile.
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great hearth fires. Their needles were

great hearth fires. Their needles were
busy. their spinning wheels hummed; !;
their lives were narrow, but there
was work to be done as well as food
for gossip. Only Dolores was idle.
She stood at window staring with un-
seeing eyes at the storm outside.
straining her ears in vain to catch the
hum of voices in her fathers room.
Young Green was there, and two doc
tors. and woman they said was a
nurse. What need was there OF
nurse she asked herself. She could
nurse her father
And what were the doctors doing
there? If her father was only ex-
hausted from exposure and lack of
food why should he need two doctors?
Men had been lost on the mountain
before: they never needed nurses
when they were brought home; their
own women cared for them; she could
care for her father.
When he was well enough they
would send for him at the town; they
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cornell Eor.s.rx school closed.

One result of the closing of the Cor
nell school of forestry is that many OF
the students Of that school will Join
the Yale school forestry this fall. The
Cornell school is closed because the
legislature failed to appropriate 1t.
and this failure was due to the strong
protest against the way in which the
Adirondack state land placed at Its
disposal had been managed.
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In HonarahIs Old AGE.

Although in her seventy-ffth year.
Rev. DR.. Phoebe A. Hanaford contem-
plates an active winter. DR.. Hanaford
is of slight figure. and her face re-
fleets the gentle spirit within. She
hugs old styles In dress, but when this
old woman enters one of her numerous
clubs the younger and more dashing
members always rise and pay homage.
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listers against it, and they were
greatly aided by kaid Mclean. born
in Scotland, but virtually Moorish
subject, who is the favorite adviser
of the sultan in international matters.
The French syndicate has issued
bonds to the amount OF $4,000. 900
francs for the new Morocco railway.
to extend from the mouth Ct the tun-
mel. The latter will be eighteen miles
long and run from Tarifa to Tangiers.
1t is predicted that France by this en-
terprise will gain great prestige in
Morocco and will cripple England's
tar.
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Va. manv Livina Relations.

1t is said that daughter born re-
Gently to Mr.. and Mrs. Bert Dummitt.
who live near Monett. Mo-, has more
living relatives than any other child
in the United States. Among other
Kin 1t has two grandmothers, TWO
grandfathers, two great-grandmother
two great-grandfathers. fifteen great
great-aunts, nine great-great-uncles'
fourteen great-uncles. ten great-aunts'
eight uncles and eight aunts.
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STUDY American Forestry.

o. watanabe and Fl. Mochizuki, who
have been sent by the Japanese gov
ernment to study the forest reserve
system of this country and Europe
are now at Seattle. engaged on the for
estey problems Of the Pacific coast
states.
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Stage Attract. Ari..oer.,ie Woman

Stage Nttfactt NrIstoerNS
Boston Swelldom is aghast at the
announcement that Mrs. Irwin I.
Chapman intends to go on the stage.
The Chapman family dates back to
the Mayfiower. and its representatives
have heretofore lived as austere peo
ple of ancient lineage should. Mrs.
Irwin T. is very beautiful young
woman. without social position, OF
whom her husbands family never ap-
proved The couple were married
seven years ago, but she was Ignored
by his people. Estrangement and
separation followed. the husband
went to Australia. Suit for divorce
is pending.
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Work Even on Pleasure Trips.

Business men going across the At
lanttc often take with them scores OF
unanswered letters. For the conven'
ience of such hurried travellers one
steamship company has engaged
Young women stenographers who take
replies to such letters and then type
write them. thus giving the busy man
more time for real enjoyment on the
VOYAGE
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Prehistoric VILLAGE In Ohio.

DR.. C. NJ. Mills. curator of the onio
State Archaeological society. has dis
covered a prehistoric village on the
Gartner farm, a few miles south of
Chillicothe. Ohio. He has made ex.
cavations, which disclose many valu-
able relics of the ancient people who
wandered over the country ages ago.
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viii Use LEGACY We'll,

Congressman Henry R. Gibson of tho
second Tennessee district has come
into legacy Of nearly 800, 900. which
1t is said he will use as an endowmes t
to help worthy young men through
college.
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The monument to Hale Johnson,
which was unveiled at Newton, ILL.,.
Aug 81, is a handsome work Of art
from the best Barre granite and ap-
propriately decorated. The funds
which paid for its cutting and erec-
tion were raised by the Prohibition
lists of the United States. At the time
of his tragic death Mr.. Johnson was
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w. ]. hampton. the humorous vers'.
fer. wrote to a man who had asked
him for his photograph: My dear
boy-I send you the photograph for
which you ask. 1t is such good like
ness that 1t hurts"
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separate Gold by Blowing.

The machine for winnowing gold by
blowing away the gravel while the
heavier gold grains fall into recep-
tacle Is to be used in Australia.
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chairman of the Illinois Prohibition
state committee and member of the
National committee of his party.
Among the well-known public men
who made speeches at the unveiling
were Robert II. Patton of Springfield.
John G. Woolley of Chicago. National
Chairman Oliver w. Stewart and ex-
Congressman George w. Fithian.
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Prominent Illinoisan Dead.

Springfield, Ill, March 2O.-Charles
H. Lanphier, aged So years, one of the
most prominent residents of Sanga-
mon county, and well known through
out Illinois, died at, his home here
Thursday morning at six o'clock after
a lingering illness. Mr.. Lanphier was
the founder of the Illinois State Reg
lister, of this city, and in his younger
days was prominent in Illinois state
politics. In 1872 he was a candidate
for state treasurer and has held sew
eral offices of trust in this county. He
was born in Alexandria,, Va, in 1920.
Five children survive him.
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MISS ALICE IN PORTO RICO.
Steamer Met by Gov. Hunt and Fam
ily-Informal Public Reception
Held at Palace.

San Juan, Porto Rico, March 20
Miss Alice Roosevelt landed hereatS:3O
Thursday morning from the steamer
Coamo, from New York, March IA. She
was met by Gov. Hunt and his family
and was driven to the palace, where she
afterwards held an informal public re-
ception.
Miss Roosevelt will receive the citi-
zens' committee in public Friday and
willattend the citizens reception atthe
theater in the evening, when there will
be a display of fireworks and a demon
stration in herhonor. Manyinvitations
have been issued by governor for an
entertainment on Saturday. On
Wednesday Miss Roosevelt will leave
San Juan on an inland trip, during
which she will visit the principal plan
tations and cities. The inhabitants of
Ponce have made extensive prepare
tions to receive Miss Roosevelt, several
thousand dollars having been raised,
by public subscription for that pur-
pose.
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A WEEKS RECORD
All the News of the Past Seven
Days Condensed.
HOME AND FOREIGN ITEMS
News of the Industrial Field, Personal
and Political Items, Happenings
at Home and Abroad.
THE NEWS FROM ALL THE WORLD
EXTRA SENATE SESSION.


Ten minutes after converting on
the 18th the United States senate
went into executive session and Sen
ator Morgan further discussed the
Panama canal treaty.
Senator Spooner( Wis., replied to
arguments of Senator Morgan in the
United States. senate on the 14th, sus-
tanning the view of Attorney General
Knox that the Panama Canal COM
pany has full right to convy title to
property on the isthmus. Senator
Depew IN. W also spoke in favor of
the measure.
The United States senate spent six
hours, in executive session IN the 10th
in it's effort to pass on the amendments
to the Panama canal treaty in pre-
paration for the final vote on the
treaty. The greater part of the day
was devoted to debate on the matter
of insuring American defense of the
canal. Levi Ankeny, the new senator
from Washington, was sworn in.
The Panama canal treaty was rati-
fled by the United States senate O. the
18th by a vote of 70 to 5. Neither in
committee nor by the senate was the
treaty amended and it was ratified as
originally negotiated by Secretary
Hay, representing the United States,
and Thomas Herran, representing Co.
lombia.
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MINOR NEWS ITEMS.

10 all intents and purposes the
American demand for British coal is
now over.
The high joint commission will meet
next fall to attempt the settlement of
disputes with Canada.
Negotiations are on foot for bringing
the pope's jubilee presents to the
worlds fair in ST. Louis.
It is announced in Vienna that Aus
tria will not participate in the Louisi-
ana Purchase exposition at St. Louis.
Ezra Kendall, the actor, bought 600
acres of farm land ear Washington,
D. c. He intends to give each of his
six sons a 100-acre farm.
After being held in trust for 100
years the enormous estate of the last
duke of Bridgewater passes into the
hands of the rightful heir, the earl of
Ellesmere.
Fitzhugh Lee, in an interview inRich-
mond, denounced the opposition to
placing a statue of Gen. Robert E. Lee
in Statuary hall at the national capitol
in Washington.
The governor of Natal has proclaimed
the kings pardon for all persons who
are awaiting trial for treason or other
offenses committed during or arising
out of the recent war.
South American countries are bow
cotting British and German manufac-
lures because of the Venezuelan af-
fair, thus opening a rich field for
United States merchants.
Turkey gives official recognition to
the American Medical college at Bier.
nth, and comedies the right of the
wives and children of Armenians who
have become naturalized Americanstto
leave the country.
"Clovernook," the home of Alice and
Phoebe Cary, sisters, whose poems are
widely known throughout the literary
world, has passed out of the hands Of
their heirs and will become a home for
the blind in Cincinnati.
Secretary Cortelyou has announced
the following appointments in the de.
partment of commerce and labor:
Chief clerk, Frank III. Hitchcock. Of
Massachusetts,; disbursing clerk, VIII
liam L. Soleau, Of Michigan.
A $1,000 scholarfi iphas been given to
Harvard college b. Mrs. John MarIeye,
OF Philadelphia, in memory of her son.
me sum OF 100000 for needy infrmary
students was given by Miss Agatha
and Miss Marianne Schurz.
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CUBAN TREATY RATIFIED.
The Senate Finishes the Business
for Which Special Session
Was Called.
COMMITTEE AMENDMENTS ARE ADOPTED
One Provides Against Further Re-
duction on Sugar for Five Years
Senator Burton's Amendment
Putting Flour, Corn and COrnmeal
on 80 Per Cent. List Agreed To-.

Washington, March 20.-The Cuban
treaty has been ratified by the senate.
The first vote of the senate in con
nection with the Cuban treaty was
taken on the committee amendment
providing against any further reduc-
ton on sugar for five years. The
amendment, was adopted.
ALI the committee amendmentswe
adopted including the Burton amend
but the last named was compromised
so as to place these articles in the 80
per cent. list. There was but one roll
call and on that the result was an
nounced to be A to %.
Senate Pr~oceed lnss.
Washington, March 2o.-There were
but few senator's: in their seats when
the senate met Thursday. A resolution
was agreed to authorizing the commit
tee on territories to sit during the
recess to consider proposed bills rela-
tive to the district of Alaska and to
meet at such time and place or places
as the chairman may designate.
Senator Morgan introduced a resolu-
ton which ~recites that it is the duty
of the United States to take action
that will cause the abuses of the pow
ers of taxation to cease; that there
should be free trade between the
United States and the insular posses
sions; that the interest bearing debt
should be extinguished; that corpora
tions employed for the purpose of
monopoly are subject to the control
of congress and that congress should
make vigorous use of such powers.
At Hos the senate went into execu-
tive session.
Senator Foster (La.) took the floor
On the Cuban reciprocity treaty imme-
diately after the senate went into
executive session and began the deliv-
cry of a carefully prepared speech:in
opposition to the treaty. Hecontend-
ed that theeffect of the proposed reduce
ton in the duty on Cuban sugar would
be to enhance the profits of the manu-
facturers and the consumers would not
be benefited in the least by it.
Senator Burton (Kan.) has offered
an amendment giving corn, cornmeal
and wheat flour the benefit of the 60
per cent. reduction on American goods
imported into Cuba, and the committee
On foreign relations has indicated its
intention of accepting the amendments.
Senator Foster spoke for two and a
half hours and was followed by SEN
ator Berry, who also opposed the
treaty. Senator Berry based his OPP
position on the committee amendment
providing against any further reduc-
ton OF the duty on sugar for five
years. He said this country could not
afford to take that position.
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The Swedish famine relief commit
tee has received total subscriptions
amounting to $$s58,0oo, of ~whichsum
$4,000 was sen from America.
Prof. Behring of Vienna, the diss
coverer Of the diphtheria serum, an-
nounces that he has found a cure for
consumption.
Venezuela government troops at
tackled and defeated the rebels AT Car
upano, recapturing the city.
Heroic rescues were made by Ameri-
can sailors in the harbor at Havana
during a squall of terrific violence.
Reports show that 600 persons lost
their lives in the hurricanesthatsaWep
over the South Sea islands oLJanu-
airy IA, Is and 16.
The sum Of 7s,1s4,2o5 is asked for
the maintenance of the navy of Great
Britain during the year 1903-4.
A crisis in Macedonia IS predicted by
April 1. Sofia is on the1verge of revolt
and strangers are kept under police
surveillance.
Shamrock III. was launched at
Dumbarton in the presence Of Sir
Thomas Upton and guests.
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LAEER.

In the United States senate on the
18th Senator Money (Miss.) spoke on
the I%ndisnola (Miss.) post office case.
In executive session the Cuban reci-
procity treaty was discussed, but no
action was taken. The nomination
of Hamilton Fish to be assistant
treasurer of the United States at
New York was confirmed.
An earthquake at Helena, Mont,
did serious damage to the new state
house.
lingo, the largest elephant in cap
tivity, died aboard the steamer
Georgia en- route to New York and
was buried at sea.
Rev. Bennett Murrell, the oldest
Methodist minister in West Virginia,
dieo at Huntington, aged "a years.
BY a vote of PA to 1O7 the New
Hampshire house of representatives
put itself on record in favor of q
license law.
Floods are doing great damage in
the vicinity of Memphis, Tenn, and
hundreds of persons ire homeless.
It is said that a big syndicate, includ-
ing j. P. Morgan, is being formed to
bid on the construction of the Pana-
ma canal for a lump sum- $780, DOC, 1000.
Body & Bayliff, solicitors, failed in
London with liabilities of over S ,OOO,-
900.
Five boys playing on a raft at Jop-
lin, Mo-, were drowned. They were
Raymond Croceroft, Ralph Oaks,
Charles Oaks, Peter Berry and Luth-
er Berry.
The coal mine at Cardiff, Ill, in which
nine men were killed by explosions, has
been abandoned.
Rev. P. M. Weddell, one of the oldest
Baptist ministers in the middle. west,
died suddenly at Piqua, O., at the age
of 80 years.
The worst blizzard of the winter
prevailed at Denver, Col, and bust
ness was generally suspended.
James X. Jones, president of the
First national bank at McConnellsville
and the oldest actiye bank presidentin
Ohio, died at the age of 81 years.
Syon Azuballey was hanged at Wind
sor, N. S., for the murder of Lion Lun-
dore at. Tenny Cape last October.
The St. Louis exposition appropria-
ton of $685. 900 was voted by the Ger
man reichstag.
Gen. Schuyler Hamilton, a classmate
of Gen. Grant at West Point and a dis
tinguished veteran of the Mexican and
civil wars, died in New York, aged SO
wears.
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Decision in Insurance case.

St. Louis, March 2O.-In the United
States circuit court of appeals an
opinion was handed down by Judge
Thayer i'll the case of the supreme
Council Royal Arcanum versus Anna
j.. Taylor, which is remanded with in
structions that the plaintiff is not en-
titled to recover. The decision will be
of interest to %fraternal organizations
and members who are insured against
death in these organizations,
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Post once Robbers in oils Town,

Joliet, Ill, March 2O.-The post of
fee at Wilmington, a few miles south
of Joliet, was raided by robbers Thurs
day morning, at three o'clock. The
safe was blown open and the interior
of the office was wrecked. The robbers
ecure $100 in stamps and money and
some mail. A living. over the
office heard the explosion and notified
the postmaster. He summoned a posse
of citizens, but the robbers had de-
camped.
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out a statement. Pending his arrival
no details will be given out at, the local
office. 1t is supposed that the gold was
shipped from some westernmine. The
bar was missed just before the train
pulled out for the east.
May BE Found at Buffalo.
Local officials say there is a bare pos
sibility that the bar of gold has been
misplaced and will turn up in Buffalo.
"We are impatiently waiting for news
from Buffalo," said the manager of the
local branch of the Pacific Express
company.
Was One of Four Bars.
There were four bars of gold in the
shipment. The incoming messenger
is positive that he unloaded all four
of them and wheeled the truck into
the company's office here. When the
midnight train, on which express mat
ter is sent east, was ready, but three
bars were found on the truck. AL
though the messenger was sure he
had unloaded four, the hope that pos
sibly he might have overlooked one
and left it on the a which went OF to
Buffalo was entertained until II
o'clock Thursday. when word came
from Buffalo that there was no gold in
the can. Several men who were in the
office while the gold was awaiting
transfer to the midnight train were
taken into custody and examined,
but later released after convincing
the officer that they knew nothing of
the missing bar.
Buffalo, N. Y, March 20.-At the Of
fee of the express company here all
knowledge of the disappearance of a
bar of gold at. Detroit is denied. They
say further that bullion is never
shipped to Buffalo.
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the Stafford out, the ice closed around
the Atlanta, which was imprisoned
for several hours. Both steamers
struggled all night and finally reached
Grand Haven at five o'clock. They left
later to work their way out through
the ice to Chicago. Nothing has been
heard from them since. The ice foe
is two miles wide, IA miles long and 20
feet deeD.
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MAMIE WITHDR
Plirlley Will Not Be Assistant Treas
urer Mt New York CITY.

Washington, March 2O.-President
Roosevelt on Wednesday withdrew
the nomination of William Plimley
for assistant treasurer of the United
States at New York and later sent
to the senate the nomination of
Hamilton Fish to the office, and it
was confirmed promptly by the SEN
ate.
Mr.. Fish is a son of former Secre.
tary of State Hamilton Fish. He is
a prominent lawyer of New York,
one time speaker of the general as
sembly of New York and a personal
friend of President Roosevelt.
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shoe Factory Burned.

Pepperell, Mass, March 20.-A fire
which started shortly after one
o'clock Thursday morning in the big
shoe factory of M. c.. Griffin at East
Pepperell, destroyed. the factory and
a score of other buildings, including
stores and dwelling houses, entailing
q loss estimated at $500, 900.
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More Corruption MT Houo1uln

Honolulu, March 20.-The house com
mittee on public expenditures reports
the discovery of another embezzlement
in the board of public works, the
amount aggregating $4,000. The re-
port of the committee charges Charles
Wilcox with having received at least
a portion of the money. /
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Arguments Continued.

St. Louis, March 20. = Col. Blod-
gett resumed his argument in behalf
of the company when. the hearing in
the Wabash case was resumed Thurs
day morning. He was followed ny c..
N. Travous, who also spoke in behalf of
the railroad. At the conclusion of MI.
Travous' argument Attorney F. N. judi
son rose to make the opening argument
for the defendants.