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TIC be Continued.
The Craze For Speculation in Mines

1t is now coming to be realized
that the real estate boom in certain
quar- .ers has been overdone, and at
tention is now being turned to the
subtle attractions of mining secur-
tiles, for unquestionably the get-rich-
quick disease has overtaken high and
low. These attractions have been
blazoned from Alaska to Maine. from
Canada to Mexico. More than justice
has been done to the Importance of
recent discoveries Of precious metals;
tales true and tales preposterously
false, yet calculated to hypnotize the
ignorant, have been scattered broad
cast from end to end Of the hemis-
phere; thieving promoters have
been sold space by the page in news
papers with pretensions to respecta-
bility, and have by this means cheat
ed millions of women and men; and,
lastly, certain brokers are not eXer-
cising the influence they admit would
be proper to discourage this per-
nicious species of gambling.
AS for the New York Stock EX-
change, it is in a way aggravating the
unsavory aspect of the boom by stol-
idly refusing to do anything itself to
regulate it. yet absolutely prohibiting
the respectable element on the curb
(Which is by no. inconsidera-
ble) from organizing to elevate the
tone of the market and to endeavor
to put a ban upon fraudulent stocks.
journal Of Commerce.
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BITS M Or Ne WIS


The President has signed the COM
mission of Oscar R. Hundley as Fed
eral Judge Of Alabama.
The Interstate Commerce Commits
sion decided to appeal to the court to
order Mr.. Hartman to answer ques-
lions.
President Roosevelt spoke in praise
of the American soldier at the unveil-
ing of the Rough Riders monument
in Washington.
Announcement was made of the
United States delegationto The Hague
Conference, Joseph H. Choate head
ing the list.
Mrs. Ida M. Won Claussen, who de-
clared that Charles H. Graves, United
States Minister to Sweden, had gross
ly insulted her, sent a protest to the
State Department, demanding an abb
ject apology.
President Roosevelt will investi-
gate charges OF graft in the Commits
sary Department Of the Panama Ca
nal.
The Navy Department has given
orders to rush work on war ships and
intends to have twenty-five battle
ships and thirteen armored cruisers
in commission within n year.
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DOMESTIC.

Charles Emory Smith, of Philadel-
phia, addressed the Yale students on
American expansion.
Men employed as nurse girls" in
Great Darlington, Mass, have organ
lied a union, demanded more pay and
asked for time to see baseball games.
C. H. Venner, Of New York City,
filed a suit in Minnesota asking for a
receiver for the Great Northern Rail-
way Company.
Suffering from nervous prostration
Mrs. Ignatz Lowengart jumped from
O sixty-foot bridge at Portland, Ore,
and was killed.
The Southern Conference for Edu-
cation, meeting at Pineville, N. c.,
chose as president R. c. Ogden, Of
New York City. ,
William T. Stead's plea for world
peace was greeted enthusiastically at
Pittsburg and the audience threw
money On the floor to aid the cause.
Poison, self-administered, killed
Ellis E. Godlove, of Brooklyn, at
Memphis, Tenn.
A powder explosion at Richard
sons coal mine, Beattyville, KY,
killed E. B. Montgomery, his ten
year-old son and Rolly Hall.
The United States Supreme Court
sustained the validity Of the Louisi-
ana law taxing notes given in that
State to the New York Metropolitan
Life Insurance Company.
Entering a gas-flled room with a
lighted lamp, M. D. Clay was killed
at Atlanta, Ga, by the explosion that
ensued:
A shot in the head ended the life Of
James H. Brayton, a school principal
at Chicago, respondent from i'll
health.
A constitutional amendment in
creasing the pay Of Assemblymen
from $500 to $1,000 has been adopted
by the Wisconsin Legislature.
The President appointed Daniel A..
Campbell postmaster at Chicago.
The Cleveland Electric Railway
Company rejected the offers of the
holding company and raised the price
of tickets.
The Two-Cent Railroad bill has
passed both houses of the Michigan
Legislature.
Senator Foraker visited Columbus
and rallied his forces for the fight
with Taft.
Announcement was made that the
Executive Committee Of the Union Pa
cifc will reduce e. H. Harriman's
powers as dictator of that company.
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found It company, poor woman, to at
tend to the door, and, anyway, she
seemed very pleased to see me. She
told me how it had all happened, of
course, and how he had been brought
on a stretcher, with his beautiful face
covered up, which gave her such a
turn, she said, as she thought she
should never get W. to her dying
day. There was nobody had been to
see him, though many had called to
hear if the news was true, and Mr..
Mayors, the tutor, had just been and
seemed frightened almost to death,
Thought there was nothing now to
brighten anybody, she said, for he
looked as comely as could be with
his fine limbs showing through the
sheet, poor fellow, and would I like
to see him. No said I, thanking
her kindly. Il wouldn't like that, if
it was ever so, but I had brought
some flowers from my mistress. who
had known the poor young gentle
man.
"'Oh, yes she said, she knew
that and in such a meaning tone
that it almost made my heart stop.
"Then when Mrs. Aylett left me
in the sitting room l lost not an in
slant, but ran straightway to his
writing table, as you had enjoined
on me, and the very first thing I
saw leaning up against the upper
portion of the desk, as if waiting to
be posted, was the letter, directed to
his father. I thrust it in my pocket
in a flash, and was ready for the
landlady when she came out, close
by the folding door, with the money
you had given me for her. She took
it, though not very willingly, saying
that she did not need a present for
doing what vas nothing but a pleas
ure to her, though a sad one, and
then I came home with my heart
beating pit-a-pat, with the letter in
my bosom, feeling like lead"
Sophy rose with grateful looks and
kissed the birl. Until you brought
this to me, Jeannette," she said, my
heart was lead. Though this sad
matter is now over, and all belong
ing to there she put the closed
letter into the fame of the candle,
and held it till it was utterly de-
stroyed-"l shall never forget the
service you have done me-never,
never; but we will talk of that to-
morrow. 1t is getting late, and you
must be tired enough after ll.you
have gone through"
Every good, Miss Sophy," returned
the other. lingering at the door, "are
you sure you would not like me to
sleep in your Dom to-night?"
mo, thanr you, Jeanette an
swered her e.. istress, simply, so bur-
led in her thoughts that she
could not perceive what could be
plainly read in Jeannette's frightened
face, that the waiting maid was say
ing two words for herself and one
for her mistress.
To be Continued.
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FOREIGN.

M. Emile Benoist, a Paris banker,
was shot and killed by a discontinued
customer in the Office of a financial
newspaper of which M. Benoist was
editor.
An insult by a monarchist member
to President Golovin, Of the Russian
Duma, was promptly resented by the
suspension Of the offender.
General Lee Christmas, an Ameri-
can, who was fighting with the Hon
duran forces, was wounded and cap
tured by Nicaraguans.
A hearing was given in Paris to
Able JOHN, charged with melting to
rebellion from the pulpit in connec-
ton with the taking of church inven-
tories.
At a banquet on board the Numan-
cia in the harbor of C%artagena King
Alfonso and King Edward pledged the
lasting friendship of England and
Spain.
Both Radicals and Liberals in the
Duma fiercely denounced the Russian
judicial system, following a demand
made by the Minister of Justice for
the exclusion of three deputies in Or
der to try them.
M. Camille Pelletan, former Minis
ter of Marine in France, has made the
mistake of publicly declaring that the
income tax is the Law in the United
States.
Emperor William does not approve
of the movement for holding a
Worlds Exposition in Berlin in 1913,
the tw~enty-fifth year of his reign.
Consul Olivares, at Managua, the
capital of Nicaragua, sent a dispatch
to the State Department at Washing
ton saying that Amapala had been
surrendered by President Bonilla, of
Honduras, and that the war was
ended.
Five thousand persons, according
to a dispatch from Shanghai, are dy-
ing daily from lack of food. The re-
lief committees are in need of money.
Russia is assembling troops on the
Persian frontier. Conditions in the
Shah's empire are described as cha
otto.
The Cabinet at st. Petersburg, Rus
STA, has rejected the American syndi-
Gates proposal to construct a Berlng
Sea railway tunnel.
Lieutenant-General Sir William
Gustavus Nicholson will succeed Gen.
eral Sir Neville GERALD Lyttelton as
Chief of the General Staff, and nrst
military member OF the British Army
Council.
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A Successful Expedient.

A certain prominent minister was
compelled not long ago to give strict
orders that while he was engaged in
the preparation of his sermons his
young son must be kept reasonably
quiet. In spite of this, however.
there arose one morning a most as
tonishing noise of banging and ham,
mering, which seemed to indicate
that the steam-heating pipes were
being knocked to pieces. H%urrying
out of his study, the minister en-
countered his wife.
MY dear, what in the world is
Bobby doing?" he asked.
why, he is only beating on the
radiator downstairs" was the some
what surprised reply.
We'll, he must stop it." the minis
ter said. decidedly.
II don't think he will harm it,
dear" his wife answered soothingly;
and it is the only thing that will
keep him quiet."-The Argonau..
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THE GREAT DESTROYER
SOME: STARTLING FACTS ABOUT
THE VICE OF INTEMPERANCE.
The Friend Of Crime-A Large Pro-
portion of Prison Population is
Recruited From the Saloon-It
is Destructive of Social Order.

Recruited From the SaloOn-1t
lis Destructive of Social Order.
Under this head DR.. Barker, in his
very helpful book, "The Saloon Prob
lem and Social Reform" says: 1.-The
off cials of prisons and penitentiaries
and reform schools all over the coun-.
try unite in t~estifying that a large
proportion of crime is due directly to
the liquor traffic. Not long since a
general average Of testimony gath
cred from 1917 keepers of county
jails in various portions Of the Uni
ted States showed that the proportion
of crime due to drink was seventy
two per cent. That the saloon is de-
structive of social order is abundant
ly confirmed by prison statistics. The
whole number of cases brought be-
fore the Boston municipal criminal
court for the year ending October J.,
1903, was 1885; of. this number
17,118 were cases of drunks.> There
were 1925 cases Of commitments for
Jail offenses in Connecticut for 1902;
4617 of these were for drunkenness,
and 6946 Of the total, or about eigh-
ty-two per cent, by their own confess
sion, pleaded guilty as drinkers OF
intoxicants. In n year there were
were $4,000 arrests made in Chicago.
The city prosecutor recently said:
ut is true that three-fourths of the
crimes of Chicago are due to liquor"
The Superintendent of Bridewell
says: Liquor is the cause of the H.
generation of eighty per cent. Of
those who are committed to the
Bridewell." The prison warden of
Pittsburg reports: "Of 1879 convicts
sent to jail during 1902, nearly every
one was treated for alcoholism, while
of this number 700 suffered from
acute delirium tremens, seven dy-
ing" Mayor A. F. Knots, of Ham
mond, Ind, says: "Ninety-fve per
cent. Of all crime is caused directly
or indirectly by drink. The police
records Of our city show that more
than ninety per cent. Of all the Of
lenses committed are the results Of
intemperance,' and that our police
force, maintained at an expense OF
$4,000 a year, Is almost exclusively
employed in watching and caring for
men, women and children affected by
drink" Hon. s. M. Nichols, former
Mayor of Wilkesbarre, Pa, with q
population of 10000 and 1926 sa.
looms, testi1es thus: During my sew
en- years tenure of Office I have had
about 1000 cases before me, and ]
am satisfied that about ninety per
cent. of them were the result of
drunkenness" Judge Severance
says: During my nineteen years as
Judge of the district I have sentenced
nearly 400 people to the peniten.
tiary, and I have traced ninety per
cent. Of this crime to liquor drink
ing" The report of the Massachu-
sets Bureau of Statistics on the In.
auence of the liquor traffic In regard
to criminals informs US that "eighty.
two per cent. were in liquor at the
time of %ofense," and that lin eighty
four per cent. the Incorporate habits
Of the offenders led to a condition
which induced the crime" More
than this that, excluding minors.
ninety-six to every 100 were addicted
to the use Of liquors."
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Objections to the Barroom.


The saloon sells poison for good
cash.
1t impairs the health of every Gus.
toner.
1t weakens moral power, so under.
mining character.
1t encourages it's customers to
drink beyond the point of self-con-
troll, for then men more freely spend
their cash.
1t accepts, without just equivalent.
money to which the wives and chill
dren of drinkers are entitled, and
does it without remorse.
1t contributes to. criminality and
vice, never to virtue and happiness.
1t is seldom, if ever, obedient to
the laws. 1t contemns the law, and
is, therefore, anarchistic In its spirit.
1t hesitates not at corrupting Leg
islatures and officials of every kind.
1t asserts self-indulgence as ita
moral standard, thus %obstructing the
work of saving and uplifting men.
1t breathes out malice and slaugh-
ter against all who oppose it..
1t is the greatest enemy Of both
God and man. Therefore, the saloon
must go.-South Dakota Issue.
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CkgG1
IIKdY,
Rr0hkfnN
kGnble
O THOU COMPASSIONATE

How deeply comforting the tender phrase,
Thy greater attribute seem merged "
this IL
Through all life's long and dark and dreary
maze,
Thou art Compassionate.
70 God of Justice and of Power we turn
When wrong or devastating blow cats
deep;
And yet in daily struggle needs must yearR
For one Compassionate.
In limits Of our souls we live, alone,
And cen our nearest may not under
But all "the household jar within IS
known
To, Thee, Compassionate.
Thou know'st the many. sorroHs OF the
day;
Wide longing, narrow Opportunity
We bring life's broken toys. as children
may.
We may have Numbered ~grievousiy and
long,.
Darkened Thy world we might have
made so bright,
Still Thou dost heal the heartache and the,
OThou Compassionate!
May Ethelyn Bourne, in Overland
Monthly.
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The New Socialist Colony.

Upton Sinclair's colony, "Helicon
Hail." ought 10 make a nice vacation
place for people tired Of the world
and its diversions and ENDORSEMENTS.
But even with Editor Lewis, of the
yale Lit" to run the furnaces
nightly, and a Smith College grad
uate for laundress and a Vassar girl
for chief cook, the program won't
last long.-Holyoke Transcript.
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OUR ADOPTED ISLANDS.

A delegation of Cuban planters Wis
tied Secretary Taft, in Havana, to
urge that the elections be postponed
as long as possible to prevent disrup-
ton of credit.
Governor and Mrs. Beekman Win
throp will return to this country from
Porto Rico with the Taft party on the
Mayfower.
The Japanese and Pacific Mail
steamers calling at Honolulu, Hawaii,
are said to have made alterations in
their Asiatic quarters since the arrest
of Captain Going some months ago.
Encouraging results have been OBJ
tanned at the lepers' settlement in Ha-
waii by the use Of extract of eucalyp-
tus in treating leprosy.
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Sunday Closing at Columbus.

Mayor Badger successfully closes
the saloons of Columbus on Sunday,
and compels them to close promptly
every night at midnight. And what
greatly augments the Importance of
this good news is the fact that when
the Governor was asked for his views
on the subject, he promptly and posi-
lively declared himself in favor Of
both Sunday and midnight closing.
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Public Sentiment Must Do II.

The Examiner, of New York, says:
THE great hope of permanent tenn
perance reform is not in the enact
ment of laws, however wisely drawn
they may be, but in the creation OF
a public sentiment that will compel
the enforcement of whatever laws
may be enacted. The promotion Of
such a sentiment, especially among
the boys and girls of to-day, should
be the chief aim of all advocates of
total abstinence. Every Christian
home, every church, every young peo-
pies society, every Christian school.
should be a centre of influence for
the inculcation of temperance reform.
Even the public schools, through the
teaching of the perils of alcoholic
beverages, are already doing much,
and may do much more, to indoctri-
nate the rising generation in sound
temperance principles. Let the good
work go on"
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Fees For Technical Examination.

The fees for the examinations of
the German technical high schools
have been fixed on the following
scale: For the preliminary diploma
examination. sixty marks for natural
lied Germans, 120 marks for foreign
ers; for the diploma examination,
100 marks for Germans and $40
marks for foreigners; for the doctor
of Engineering examination, 240marks,
Of which the first half is to be paid
when the examination thesis is hand
ed in, and the remainder before the
oral examination is taken.
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Johns Hopkins to Admit Women.

A radical departure in the policy
Of Johns Hopkins University at Bal
ttmore, Md, was made when a rese.
luton was adopted authorizing the.
admission of women who have taken
the baccalaureate degree to graduate
courses, provided that no objection
Is offered on the part of the instruct.
ors. 1t was said also that on no con
dition would women be admitted to
the undergraduate classes.
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A Pagan Virtue.

]Self-control was the noblest of the
pagan virtues. Christianity has given
us higher ideals, but self-control still
retains a prominent place, and de-
serves more practice than it getst
The Christian who yields to ill-tem-
per, who is cross, Or depressed, or
cannot control his tongue, or is lazyl
or overeats, or is a slave to any minor
bad habit, needs seriously to consider;
the fact that he is not yet even up to
the pagan standard, let alone the
Christian ope.-Home Herald.
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Kansas Prosperity Increases.

Recent reports from Kansas still
indicate that prohibition tends to in
crease, rather than retard, prosper
Gus conditions. More than $1,000,-
900 was invested last year in banks,
established for the most part in the
smaller towns, and the estimated per
capita wealth of the State is $3.50
in cash (not including stocks, bonds,
securities and money in safe deposit).
Only a few other States in the Union
can equal this record.
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Canal Finished in Five Years.

Representative Charles F. Scott, of
lola, Kan, n Of the party of Con-
gressmen who recently returned from
a trip to the Isthmus Of Panama,
said: The people on the isthmus be.
lieye that the Panama Canal can and
will be finished in about five years.
It's plausible. l don't say that the
work will be done within that length
of time, but at the rate the digging
is being carried On now / believe it
could be. 1t certainly will not take a
much longer time than five years."
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Cow, Not Girl, Was the Thief

An autopsy held at Lexington, Ky,
on a fine 20 owned by J. A. McCrus.
ky, which died in agony, revealed
that she had swallowed a mans shirt,
4 pair of stockings and three chill
dren's garments. 4 warrant had
been sworn out for the arrest of the
servant girl on the charge of stealing
the garments.
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Poster Plan Spreading.

The policy of municipal corpora
tons adjoining the billboards with
posters proclaiming the evils of the
use of drink is spreading throughout
England, where there are now more
than ninety cities following that poll
icy. IT. some cases the expense has
been borne by local temperance Or
CARNATIONS or individuals, but gen.
orally by the municipality itself.
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Christ Weeping Over Jerusalem.

Christ Weeping Over Jerusalem.
. And when He was come near He
beheld the city and wept over IT,,
Luke xix, Al.
This outburst of grief occurred as
Jesus rode down the leafy slope OF
Olivet. Jerusalem in all its glory
burst full upon His view.
But the sentence of doom has been
traced by a mysterious hand upon the
city. This sight of Jerusalem affect
ed Ckrist's heart and His heart His:
eye again, and through: His tears He
sobs out words Of Lamentations and
Judgment.
Jerusalem had neglected the day
Of her visitation. Impending doom
hung over the city. HE wept over
it." When Christ's grief was great
est at the grave Of Lazarus He wept
in silence, but now He gsobs aloud I'M
His agony. These tears are more ell
oQuent than speech; theytell us better
than words of the extreme agony OF
His soul for the doomed city. He
wept because Of the sin and iniqnity
Of the people in rejecting proffere6
salvation.
Neglecting salvation always bringaf
Judgment upon individuals and ma
lions. 1t did upon Jerusalem. In
less than forty years all that Jesus
foretold came to pass. Titus in com
mand of the Roman army besieged
and captured the city.
During, the siege of ninety daya
100000 Jews persisted and $1,000
were taken prisoners. Some were
sent to toll in the mines OF Egypt,
others were kept to grace in captive
bonds the chariot wheels of their
mighty c%onqueror.
What a fearful retribution for that
mad cry uttered some th~irty-seyen
years before at Pilates Judgment
hall, His blood be upon us and. our
children!" What a vindication have
we here of Gods truth.
When God says a thing He Will
surely bring it to pass. He Is never
at a loss for instruments to fulfil His
DEGREES. He maketh the. wrath OF
men to praise Him. Many persons
seem to think and act as though God
would prove true and faithful to HIS
promises of blessing, but that He
would fail to perform His word OF
threatening and doom. His judg-4
ments are not ~utterances of passion,
o to pass away, as the storm from
the bosom of the deep. He would
cease to be the faithful God, the same
yesterday, to-day and forever, ifpHe
fulfilled them not. The very same
principle which binds Him to be true
to His promises compels Him to per
form His words Of judgment.-AL Lin
coin Moore, D. D., Riverside Baptist
Church, Manhattan, in the New York
Herald, So. ~
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The Extreme.

"ColG bloodedi Why, Henry, I
believe you would actually calculate
whether or not a girl was a good
h]cusekeeper while kissing her," -
I ife.
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Cotton Fire in Italy.

A fire at Genoa, Italy, destroyed
$4,000 bales of cotton and damaged
several vessels. The loss was esti-
mated at 100000. 49,