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Evil Grew Fast.

so 1t has been with the divorce evil.
A few years aoo cases OF men and
women dissoving the marriage contract
for trivial cause was unheard OF.
There was domestic trouble, TO be
sure. and there were unhappy marriages
Just as there always has been and prob
ably always will be. but marriage was
regarded as Il serious thing and con-
tract that meant what the words Of the
ceremony imply. Then the newspapers
began to give accounts OF divorces
among fashionable and wealthy persons.
The Idea got into the minds Of dis
satisfied people, and a way seemed 10 be
provided for getting free from the nus
band or wife If things did not go right
It was found that by going into another
State divorces were to be had with lit
tie trouble and expense. and the business
has fourished-
1T Is a very grave state OF affairs.
President Roosevelt recognizes the gray
1uy OF ii and no doubt will support In
any way possible a movement TO procure
uniform legislation"
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Prophecy Is Confirmed.

This prophecy has furthermore been
confirmed by Abdul QuadIer. the learned
astrologer. who some time ago whcn
previous TO starting for the ceremony
of Faraki. Sheriff. the sultan received
a letter warning him not to go
Do not believe. O Culiph; so home
in peace. for the stars say you shall not
die violent death. but that you will live
until you are seyenty-five years of age
and then you will die from Il conta-
gious disease" said the phophet, SO
now Abdul Hamid fears no longer the
knife. bullet or bomb. but he is ex-
tremely careful net to go to any place
where there are contagious diseases
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PERSIAN PRIEST
PAC|FIED SULTAN
Ruler Of Turkey Now De-
fies Assassins.
he HAD HIS FORTUNE TOLD
Was Informed That Lines of His Hand
Indicated He Would Die
Quietly.

BERLIN, Aug. Sultan Abdul
Hamid, OF Turkey, is now said to have
fully recovered from the shock OF the
recent attempt against his life.
andI while he was almost insane with
terror during the first few leys. he now
feels absolutely convinced that he is
not going to die At The hands of an
assassin.
This transformation is due TO the pro-
phesy Of a Persian priest, who Told The
Sultan that the lines OF his hands show
ed that he was going to live for many
years vet, and that he would die quiet
" III his bed
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The visitors were invited TO take din
ner with the guardsmen who had no
additional rations for Sunday, but were
liberal with what they had. nevertheless.
The dinner consisted of chicken soup
with rice. fricassed chicken, sliced to-
rnatoes. cucumbers, lima beans. rasp-
berry jam. hot corn on the cob, and
corn bread. In addition TO the regular
rations the soldiers had many chickens
which they purchased from country peA-
pie who visited camp on Friday and Sat
Crday
After dinner the soldiers took their
best girls through the camp. They dis
played special pride IN showing the
things TO be seen in their own company
streets and around the cook tents. At
ter the inspection by the fair ones, the
soldier Bows promeuaded up and down
the road or near headquarters with mul-
ticoIored parasols raised over them TO
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 len to no other person except the King. Particularly there is no question of high treason. Ii is generally under stood that the King Is the only person whom it is high treason to plot against but it would be high treason also to plot against Queen Alexandra. The signature Edward Rex is attached to all State documents of such irnpor- tance as to demand it. But in no cir .eumstances whatever would the cores bonding one Alexandra Regina" be allowed to be attached, either in con- junction with that of His Majesty or without it.
 If it should happen that the queen should survive the King. many of the privileges which she at present pos Zsesses would be withdrawn from her. only nominally in some cases. but ac- tually in others, while constitutional law provides that some curious re- strictions should be placed upon her. It would be no longer high treason to plot against her, and t is held by at least one high authority that she could not marry again If she wanted to do so without the special license and per- mission of the Kings successor.-Lon- don Tid-Bits.
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JAMES BISHOP

The death of James Bishop is a startling reminder of the uncertain hold on life had by the children of men. It is but a few days since MT. Bishop was going about our streets eheersully and hopefully, as was his wont,, and now the places that knew him will know Elm no more forever. Mir. Bishop had made a success of life. He was a good man, good citizen and a good public servant. He was cap able, industrious and persistent in both his private and his public work. He was also thoroughly upright and trustworthy in both. He was generally and warmly liked, because of his good qualities, and because he was agreeable and friendly to all. Perhaps no man in New Haven is better known than he was or has more friends than he had. He will be: heartily mourned and miss ed in the church, the courts, the lodge room, and wherever else his friendship inspiring qualities had made themselves felt.
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progress at chenuIpo and Fusan, while the work of lighthouse construction by the customs continues without inter rrption. Order. Dr. Morrison observes, is kept with the smallest possible dis play of force. A Japanese gendarmerie has taken the place of the worthless Korean police. Japan now controls all the communications of Korea with the outside world. She has by agree fnent taken charge of the posts and tel egraDhs. she has secured the right to fish in the territorial waters round the whole coast of the empire. and she has obtained the opening of the inland and coast waters to the navigation of Jap anese vessels ~.-.4$-.r
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generated to kill 70 men, and had the women eaten the mayonnaise from the bottom of the pail 1t would have been fatal to them.
 One of the greatest convenienees in the modern kitchen is the number of shelves made like the leaves of an old fashioned table, which hang flat against the wall when not in use, but are held up by swinging bracket covered with white oilcloth tackled on by brass-headed jacks. They are in- valuable when extra cooking and serv- ing have to be done.
 Fine table linens should be frequent ly changed, in order that hard rubbing may not be necessary in laundering them, as frequently the cleaning is se- Verer than actual wear.
 To keep fatirons clean and smooth rub them first with a piece of wax tied with cloth and afterwards SCOUT them on paper or cloth strewn with coarse salt.
 simple expedjent for overcoming the fear of the bath which afflicts some nervous children is to cover the bath with a sheet and then lower the little one into the bath sheet and all As he does not see the bath he does not realize what it is and coming gradual
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 AbONlnaygs THE QUEEN OF TABLE WATERS" Bottled. only at the Apollinaris Spring. Neuenahr, Germany, and Only with it's Own Natural Gas.

ly into the pleasantly warm water. he rather enjoys 1t. as a rule. In very short time this precaution will be found unnecessary, even with the most nervous of babies.
 Women who have been using silver toilet articles are now replacing them with other materials for the simple reason that the silver requires much labor to keep it polished and bright, Various fine woods are being used, hand carved and enameled, but per- haps the daintiest toilet articles are those mounted in mother of pearl
 It is said that if A lamp wick is soak ed in vinegar A hours before being placed in the lamp. a cleared flame will be insured. Wieks should be changed often. as they soon become clogged and do not permit the free passage of the oil.
 To keep shoes laces tied, slightly wax them. Only the fainest suggestion of wax is neededs and there will be no fear of them becoming united. New boots are sometimes difficult to brush any dirt that may be on them and rub them with lemon juice. Let this dry in, then black and polish them in the usual way, and they will shine beautifully.--Bosto Budget.
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HINTS TO HoUsEKEEPERs.

Y E l
 Little Excursion Into Portions of the
 Housekeepers Domain with View of
 Rendering Practical Aid.
 To improve the flavor of coffee slight ly warm the grits and scatter a pinch of salt over, before adding the fast boiling water. K.
 ThA. term ''ptomaine poison" is in everybody's mouth, but few know what it really is. It develops, says What to Eat. through the action of acid on tin. That is why every can of meat or evegetables or fruits should be turned out into an earthen bowl or crock immediately upon opening the tin can, and that is why mayonnaise should never be put into tin receptacles Only recently several women were made seriously i'll by eating salad at a reception. Investigation showed that the nlayonnaise. in which was consider able lemon juice, had been allowed to stand all day in a tin pail. According to the physicians, enough poision was
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IRRIG ATiON. <

The irrigation law was only enacted
 in 1902. Iii that year 134 ,36O farms, conn
 prising 9,4s7.o77 acres, were under irri- gation, and the greater part of this area nearly S,5oO,ooo acres-was in the arid parts of the West. These engineer ing works. though costing to construct
 more than ST, ,430, GOO for the arid region
 and more than $15, 100000 for the semi arid sections and in the rice fields of the Southwest, have meant in the first case the conversion of worthless deserts into
 farm lands which are producing crops
 of an annual value greater than the
 total construction cost of dams, canals and ditches. It has been estimated
 that sO,000,0oo additional acres in the
 arid States are capable of reclamation
 through irrigation. .4.@
 When 1t is remembered that the i'm crease of irrigation in the thirteen
 years between 1889 and 1902 amounted to 21 per cent. and over; that this
 meant an addition to the national re-
 sources of a crop producing area great
 CT than Massachusetts and Connecticut
 combined: that the success of recent efforts, has stimulated interest, led to the development of improved methods
 and machinery, and to the solution ot difficult problems of water storage and 1 diversion; and that great desert tracts once remote are now traversed by rail- roads whose interest it is to open then Ito settlement, predictions of unprece. ldented progress in the near future dc lnot seem either extravagant or unrea, sonable. :.
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&.F : x
 AEA7. ,.

Van X.--"What made Blank blush any money these days? That's natur- al question:" DeG"Yes; but he's a reformed counterfeiter. "Detroit Free Press
 Miss Stocksanbons-sI' thought saw the baron come in. Where is he?', MT. stocksanbons-"E He has just had an in- terview with me: and at present he is in the library to figure out whether he loves you or not. t.n-Life.
 Burroughs--Can you lend me a dol lar, old man? MarkleyDon't talk that way Surely you don't mean that. Burroughs-Why don't T? Markley-- You mean, Will you lend me dol lar? Philadelphia Press.
 Yes said the old man, my daugh- ter is still studying French. : But she can't speak the language at all, can she?" remarked the friend. She could mt at first, but now she can speak it just enough to make herself unintelli- gible. "-Ph Philadelphia Press.
 | 'What!" exclaimed Crittick Going on the lecture platform, are you ?''
 'Yes,'' replied the eonceited young au- thor: that is just to give readings from my own works, you knoW..' . But suppose you should prove to be a poor reader, too. It would be a double frost. ."-Philadelphia Ledger. E:
 Tibbles--How do you expect to hear what the party at the other end of the line says unless you hold the receiver to your ear? s. Baker-I don't want to hear. It's my wife I'm talking to, and it isn't often I get the chance to do all the talking
 and none Of the listening. Boston Transcript. Collector-I'Ye motioned to that old man three times, and he pretends not
 to see me. Now, I'm going to present
 this bill in the presence of his friends, Office Boy--Aw, you chump! He can't see you-don't you know he's blind? Collector--Blind? Then, by George he's got me-this is payable at sight! I--Cleveland Leader.
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rToNEsr JOHN R. oWnNS.

The deadly automobile hasn't killed all the conscientious men. For instance, John R. Owens, whose fourteen-year- old daughter, and a pupil in a Sunday school, was awarded judgment of S6,50o against the Louisville Railway Com pany. The barefaced fraud was too much for Owens and his troubled mind eventually found relief in a letter to the officials of the company, in which he declared that his daughter was not entitled to a cent; that so far as he knew she was only suffering from sci- atic rheumatism, and that he had not heard of the street car accident until after she became i'll, when the accident was suggested as a possible cause of the rheumatism. The suit was brought in the name of Fanny Owens. the elder sister of the girl. and the original de- nand was for $15.OOo damages. From
 the first the railroad company main tained that the girl had never been in 5.es..- ..g jured in an accident on it's lines, but as the girl appeared on crutches in court a susceptible jury awarded her. dam ages in the sum stated above. MT. Owens says in his affidavit that, as father of the child, he refused to bring suit be- cause he knew exactly what was the matter with his daughter. |
 MT. Owens seems to be pretty good
 man, but it is doubtful if his daughters Hfully appreciate him.
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QUEER CASE OF THE QUEEN.

For Business Purposes Alexandra,
 Spouse of Edward, Is Not a Married
 Women. -
 Great interest was aroused recently by the circumstances that in 9 grave national crisis, when the king was. for the moment inaccessible. the Min isters of State were summoned to the presence of the Queen Alexandra for consultation. with, as was generally ur- derstood, most satisfactory results. This was quite new departure for the present reign. Of course, Queen Victoria played this sovereign part constantly, but her late Majesty was the head of the state, and it was the proper course for her to pursue. m H..
 Except when considered as part of the King and sovereign. Queen Alex andra is not the head of the State. She enjoys position of her own which is unique. While it differs from that of any other woman, married or single or of any rank, in some material ways it is also different from that of previous Queen consorts. One of the most curious and interesting provisions in the law and customs of the State is that the Queen is for private business purposes not regarded as a married woman at all. She is the only woman in Great Britain who does not come within the scope os the Married Wonen's Property Act. The principle of the law is that the King is entirely different from all other married men and that his time Is too fully taken up with the affairs Of State for him to have any left toadevote to domestic matters and that, therefore, the whole management of the Queens private business matters must devolve upon Her Majesty singly and that no re- sponsibility whatever in respect to them rests upon the King.
 Therefore. # such a thing could be imagined as the Queen contracting debts in her husbands name the King would not be responsible for them, as any other husband would be unless he had given due notice to tradeslnen and all others concerned that he Wotild for the future decline to ssttle all such ac- counts If the King contracted debts the law, which says that His Majesty can do no wrong, would prevent any body from suing him for recovery of the amount due, but no such protection is granted to the Queen, who could be proceeded against in the ordinary
 manner. She has her own attorney
 general and solicitor-gener to rep- resent her in all legal matters though, iof course, except for ordinary private purposes, their services are scarcely lever needed.
 I While the Constitution is glad to recognize the Queen as part of the
 monarchy it cannot lose sight of the fact that after all her position in linn ited to that of Queen consort, and that therefore she is in large sense one Iof His Majesty's subjects, and in cer.
 tain cases, which there is no human , possibility of occurring in these times
 she would be treated as 3 subject ! But in other respects she is accorded privileges by the realm which are giv-
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THE JAPANESE IN KOREA.

pr. Morrison, the well known Pekin scorresoondent of the London Times,
 has been paving a visit to Korea, where he was greatly impressed by
 the transformation effected by the Jap-
 anese. He reports that the Japanese
 troops are paying liberally, for every
 thing. and that their conduct is exam
 plary. Civilian Japanese, he says, are
 pouring into the country, coming large
 lys by, families. It is estimated that &C.,
 eco of them are there already, and they
 are arriving daily. There is practically an uninterrupted chain of Japanese settlements from Fusan i'll the south to the Yalu in the north. Railroad con- struction shows remarkable extension. With the eSceptin of one bridge. at An | jul, there is now complete railroad com- munication from Fusan to the Yalu.
 The Seul- -Fusan railroad, with it's 276
 miles of solid permanent way, is all ! ready paying working expenses, though l it is not yet formally, open. The Seul- l Yalu railroad, 300 miles in length, has been entirely contracted by the mil- itary since April of last year, and all | the trestle bridges will later be changed 1 into permanent structures. A branch is also under construction at Masanpho, \ while another trunk line is about to be
 constructed across the peninsula from ] seul to Gersan and the Tumen river. All the railroads are of standard gauge.
 Simultaneously extensive reclamation of Hand and harbor improvements are in
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ALL HAD STOPPED.

An amusing little scrap of conver- sation was overheard in a certain mar
 ket hall recently. X ,5es..ss . rs5 :.
 In response to a question as to the time of day one old dame rather rude
 ly advised her companion to Took at
 the clock.'' 4 5sFs$S sra4s# $fst T have done so,'' was the reply "an' it's stopped" F, < <. 1.2tf:g-. <, "stopped!" calculated the other, glancing up in her turn, sAy, so it is. Whats come to the clocks? x I've
 one at home, an it's stopped too.
 There must be ahepidemic among clocks just now" ,. .s,%s.sal s..ss4-st "Hepidemic. Indeed!" came the re- sponse. You ought to come, to my
 home, Mrs. B., an then you might tall, about hepidemics." 5a %-$~a. "Whatg Is your clocks stopped as well?" '-.,z.. 5*. sr.,
 "Rather!" was the grim reply. I've a watch, three sons two clocks an t owd man all doing nowt! Heptdenic
 ed"-Spare Moments. 3 @s.
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Lien Held by satan.

One who had lost his self-control
 Went to the devil to mortgage his soul: The devil he laughed with a right good
 will ... No other collateral filled the bill, ..,a He drew up the papers with ease ana No smooth attorney was standing by There were no judgments to satisfy No prior liens to buy or sell. .s For the devil he looked up the title He knew that the soul to be transferred Was warped and crooked and scanned . and blurred zs.,-4 -,-~sa With all of the flaws that good men That make a deyilish title clear. The mortal signed with trembling And received a fortune in gold and land. :yE f=s%r And slunk along on his guilty wa,
 Nor came to want for many q day.
 But oft when he stood where the feast With his wine, glass raised OCT his And oft when he gazed into Beauty's eyes, ,4 E 4-gt2e .- 4-,~s .er-ae-. Drinking the rapture that in them His heart was riven with anguish He thought-he thought of the devirs
 lien. 3@f & s@s@e.'' Years flew by and the man grew old, And scattered the last of his ill-gafned
 2 gold, .s8 S45 t5st q%
 And knowing he had not long to live, A second mortgage he thought to give. But the devil laughed at the thing he !. had bought 9 E ! And the pleas of the mortal came to
 naught. sa5, s59 $5ags, Tt was no mortgage" the devil said, You signed a warranty deed instead
 Milwaukee Sentinel.
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Situations. Wants, Rents. and other small advertisements. One Cent a Word each insertion. Five Cents word for e full week.
 Display advertisements. per Inch. one insertion, s1.2o; each subsequent inser- ton. 40 cents; one weex. s3.2o; one month. sio; one year. s4a ..-+
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"a ge-(1ne month in iaili

7NI7 uUSG--OII5 ' Prisoner-But, judge, run 8 summer hotel, and the season is about to open!
 Judge-Eigiat nlonths!-Puck.
 Mother-Qh, doctor! I'm so glad you've come. We have just had such a scare. We thought at first that the baby had swallowed a s5 gold piece. Doctor And you found out he didn't?
 Mother Yes; it was only a quarter Washington Life. x
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 British coal exporters have claimed that their business is hampered by the export tax collected for the government. In spite of that tax the amount of coal sent out of the United Kingdom in creased by considerably more than a million tons last year, in comparison with the previous year. Since the inn position of the coal tax events outside of the United Kingdom have tended to increase the demand for British coal abroad. One year it was our own fuel shortage owing to the labor troubles in the anthracite mines. Then there were labor troubles in European coal mines. Last year there was a great demand for coal to be shipped to the Far East eith- CT for the Russian or the Japanese fleets. Owing to these causes the chan celfor of. the exchequer has been able to argue with the coal exporters from time to time that they have not been seri- ously injured by, the shilling ton tax, proving his statement by the gain in the amount. they have sold.
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DELIVERED BY CARRIERS IN THE CITY. l2 CENTS 4 WEEK. 50 CENTS A MONTH. ss FOR SIX MONTHS. ss 4 YEAR. THE SAME TERMS BY MAIL SINGLE COPIES. CENTS.
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Judge Dugro, of the New York su-. preme court, declares that State courts are improper places for divorce suits, and that they ought to be brought in federal courts under a federal law, even if the constitution is to be amended to accomplish it. .,r..
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Progress in China. The imperial pal ace in Picking is to be connected by tel ephona with the offices of the different ministries.
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The city Of Lemberg has just obtain

The city of Lemberg has just obtain- ed s60,Oo0 though the forgetfulness of an official, The city held tickets in the city of Vienna lottery. The corporation decided to sell these tickets, but the official intrusted with the duty failed to do so. When the drawing was held it was found that Lemberg had the ticket calling for the capital prize.
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A new way of stealing even large bales and boxes when cargo is sent to Tien-Tsin by rail, says the Hong Kong Post. has been discovered. One end Of strong rope is tied around tree, and the other end, to which an anchor is attached. is thrown among the things on an open truck as it passes, to take its chances of a haul.
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