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Stub Ends of News.

John Vines Wright, who was at
Oldest living ex-COngrassman, nled
recently in Washington.
Paris business men held an iNd!s-
nation meeting in protest against the
Telephone service in the French cap
ttal.
The Mexican Legation in Paris is
sued a note designed to Ieassure
Europe regarding the recent dlsordaEs
in Mexico.
United States Judge Lacombe d.
rected the Federal receivers OF the
New York City Railway Company to
cancel the leases of two lines,
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Strange Actions of a Steam Car.

Our little four-year-old has always
lived in an inland village, and there
fore is not much acquainted with nau-
teal Affairs, though deeply interested
in railroad lines and other forms of
terrestrial locomotion. Recently he
visited in a neighboring town which
is situated on a river. Standing on
the shore, he say a small ferry boat
approaching, and became much excit-
ed. Selling his mothers skirts, he
exclaimed, ooh. look, mamma! Here
comes a choo-choo a in swimming!"
j. G. G., in Woman's Home Com
panion.
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She drew out the letter with
trembling hands. It was dated in the
Cuban camp on the night before this
fatal battle:
My darling Violet: Some strange
foreboding tells me that this is my
last night on earth, and 1 cannot face
to-morrow's chances without writing
to you once and telling you
again Of my love for you-and of my
utter unworthiness of you, dear. I've
always been an unstable, impetuous
fellow, and Jack-God bless him.
has always stood my friend. He
stood between me and punishment
many a time at school, and between
me and the consequences of my folly
more than once since then. And how
have 1 rewarded his friendship? l
found out by merest chance that he
loved a girl, and I-jeatous of his
love-wished to know what girl, to
see whether l thought her worthy OF
him. That girl was you'll saw you,
fell in love with you, and-knowing
what l knew strove to win your
love and I succeeded. 1 knew he had
not spoken so l fastened to speak
first. Violet, he new reproached
me. He turned white when I told
him T. haG won you, but he clenched
his hands and kept back the bitter
words. He only exacted a promise
that I should try to be worthy OF
you from that time on. And / meant
to try-but I am not worthy Of YOU,
dear, yet I love you SOL And If I
live mean to marry you. But If l
die, I want you to marry him, for he
is as noble a fellow as ever lived. l
intend he shall read this letter which
he is TO deliver TO you in case of my
death. Should 1 live, l shall destroy
it on the day we leave Cuba. I hope
1 shall live, my darlicg-yet 1 know
the happier fate for you would be my
death.
That God will bless you, Violet, is
the prayer of your unworthy Tom.
P. S. Jack has read this letter and
has promised to send it to you if l
am killed. lie did not wish to give
the promise, but at last I've made
him do so.
AS fast as train could carry her
Violet fastened to the city where
John lay in the hospital unconscious,
perhaps dead. She prayed that she
might arrive-in time. She prayed
that he might know her when she
came.
She asked in trembling tones for
the nurse who had sent her the let
ter. And of the nurse when she had
come she could ask no questionable
only named his name.
The nurses kind face frightened.
Good news for you, my dear! He
is conscious, he is better-the doctors
think that he will live. Joy can hurt
no one, come-I will take you to him
at once"
The injured man lay staring at the
doorway with dull eyes. He saw the
nurse look in with pleasant face. She
disappeared and another stood there
in her stead. Was he dreaming?
Was his mind wandering again?
The sweet white face in the door,
way smiled TREMENDOUSLY upon him.
The slender figure drew near and
knelt beside him.
He murmured, "Violet!"
Hush, do not speak," she said.
Il have come to take care of you,
dear-to care for you-always, if you
will let me. For-though you broke
your promise, you faithful friend
the good nurse sent me poor Toms
letter. And I know, l know the
truth at last, and how noble and
generous you have been!"- SPRING
field Republican.
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work as rolling a peanut with a tooth.
pick. In this ditch-cleaning shovel
the shovel proper is rounded to col
respond with the contour of the ditch,
providing a convenient means OF
reaching dirt in the lower recesses of
the ditch. The shovel is supported
from the handle by an adjustable
angle lever. it being possible to tilt
the blade Of the shovel at any desired
angle.-Washington Star.
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4 COUNTRY DAY.

The lender azure of the distant sky
Flecked here and there by clouds Ct
feecy white:
light
Save where the calm of restful shadows lie.
Gay winged songsters fitting swiftly by,
And from the stream low whisperings of
JOY.
The winding road-sand. scintillant and dry.
And on the bridge Il whistling, barefoot
boy.
Fair silence brooding through the sunlit
hours
Ger farm and field; Ger meadow, wood
and dell;
The sleepy incense Of the nodding flowers
This is the day, the scene, we love so
we'll.
-Lurana W. Sheldon, in the New York
Times.
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TOM S. ALLEN RESIGNS.
Aftermath Of New York ContrIbu-
lions in Parker Campaign.

Lincoln, Neb. - Because Tom 5.
Allen, chairman of the Democratic
State Central Committee, is a broth
er-in-law Of William j. Bryan, and
because of the unpleasanrness grow
ing ont Of the handling Of the S13,-
600 or $4,000 Of New York money
in the campaign Of: 1904 rs Mr.. AL
len, he rendered lis resignation as
chairman of the Nebraska committee.
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c MEN INDICTED.
Bench Warrants Out For Fitzgerald,
Engeman and Cavanaugh.

Brooklyn, N. Y.-Following an in
'gestlgation into the connection of the
racing officials of the Brighton Beach
track with the bookmakers and bet
tors at the track, bench warrants
we're issued at the instigation of Rob-
,rt Elder, Assistant District Attorney
IF Kings County, for Christopher
Fitzgerald, president of the Brighton
Beach Racing Association; William
A. Engeman, owner of the Brighton
Beach track, and John G. Cavanaugh,
the betting ring superintendent. They
IRE indicted as common gamblers.
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SLEEP IN A CITY TREE
Flatbush Boy Makes His Summer Home
In q Big Walnut.

Sleeping outdoors in a rudely con-
structed house erected among the
branches of a high walnut tree in
the heart of Flatbush a young Poly
technic Institute student has adopted
a novel method of getting near to
nature" Last year he tried this
method Of outdoor life, starting in
the early spring and continuing until
the first real snowfall of the season.
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Astonishing influence is ascribed to Lord Esher, personal factotum of
King Edward, by the latest gossip of London. His is the responsibility
for the international sensation caused by the Kaiser's Tweedmouth letter.
HIlegitimate Influences 1t Court" are made the subject of a startling at-
tack in n of the leading English monthies, the National Review, and
constitut the sensation of the hour in London. Following, IS it does, s.
o after the revelations in Berlin of the evils Of the Cameriua at the
Court of the Kaiser, this article forms the alLabsorbing topic of discus
sion in political and official circles, in clubland, not alone in the British
metropolis, but also in Continental capitals, and in spite of the efforts of
the party whips and of the leaders, both of the Government and of the OPP
position, as we'll as of the Speaker, the matter is likely to crop up at any
moment in Parliament.
The charge of "ilegtimate influences at court" has not been heard of
in any reputable English print concerning a ruler of the British Empire for
more than fifty II sixty years. But previous to that time it "a a subject
of constant denunciaton S a crying evil
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LATEST NEWS
Japanese Training Ship Arrives.

Japanese Training Ship Arrives.
San Francisco.-The training ship
Taisei, of the Japanese navy, Com
mander Furya, arrived here from
Yokohama. The Taisei has a large
number of cadets on board who are
on a Pacific cruise.
College Bars Tuberculosis Victims,
Salt Lake City. Utah.-No teacher,
| student or employe infected with tu-
berculosis will hereafter be admitted
to the class rooms or buildings Of the
University Of Utah.
Rounding Up Rebels in Texas.
Ell Paso, Texas.-Bonito Soils was
arrested, charged with conspiring to
start a revolution against Mexico.
He is the seventh man arrested here
since the outbreaks at Casas Grandes
and Las Vacas.
EIks' Reunion Ends.
Dallas, Texas.-The Elks' reunion
of 1908 ended, the Grand Lodge adj
journing to meet in Los Angeles on
July II, 1909.
First Bale of New Cotton In.
Albany, Ga. - Zeal l.. Jackson,
Dougherty County's we'll known ne
gro farmer, brought in the first bale
of 1908 cotton. He beat last years
record by two days. Deal Jackson
has been the FIRST bale" farmer Of
Georgia every season for twelve or
fifteen years.
Small Cleveland Bank Closes.
Cleveland, Ohio. - The Farmers
and Merchants Banking Company
! closed. The liabilities and assets are
estimated to be about 100000. The
! failure is said to have been due to
the inability of the bank to realize
upon loans.
Governor Fort Greets Governor Glenn
Sea Grit, N. j. - Governor Fort
went to Asbury Park, accompanied
by Colonel Austen Colgate, of his
staff, to pay his respects to Governor
Glenn, of North Carolina.
Poems in Guatemala.
San Francisco. - Kidnapped into
slavery and captive for eighteen
years, nineteen survivors Of q band
of several hundred arrived here from
the coffee plantations of Guatemala.
Originally they came from the South
Sea Islands.
Officer Fined For Making Eyes.
San Francisco. For making
eyes, at some women Of Monterey,
f4ooD& H~rdap nannSc cfo.
toned at the Monterey Presidio, has
been fined $50 and ordered confined
to his post for thirty days. The SEN
tence was imposed by a courtmartial.-
Cause of Railroad Wrecks,
Washington, D. C.-That defective
steel rails furnished to the railroads
of the country are responsible for a
large number Of railway wrecks was
the contention of certain members of
the Safety Appliance and Block Sig
nal Board, while in session here.
Violations of Safety Appliance Law.
Washington, D. C.-The Attorney
General transmitted to United States
attorneys information against eleven
railroads for violation Of the Federal
safety appliance. law. There were
seventeen violations.
One.Time Jockey Dies at no.
.Seguin, Texas.-George Coleman,
a negro, 10 years old, died at his
home here. He belonged to the Lind
say family, of Kentucky, when a
slave, and was a famous jockey seven
ty-five years ago, riding at New York,
PHILADELPHIA, Washington and other
racing centres.
| Boston Clubman a Suicide.
Boston.-William E. Silsbee, sixty
three years old, of an old Salem fam
lily, committed suicide. He was a
! graduate of Harvard and a member
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Causes Suspended Animation.

There is reason for believing that
lightning often brings about suspend
ed animation rather than somatic
death. 1t frequently causes a tempo
rary paralysis of the respiration and
heart beat, which, if left alone, will
deepen into death, but intelligently
treated will generally result in recov-
ery-
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TWO PAY DEATH PENALTY.
Iurdcrers Go to Electric Chair at Sing
Sing Without Showing Emotion.

Ossining, n. Y.-Charles H. Rogers
and Angelo LaUdiero suffered the
death penalty at Sing Sing Prison,
both executions being carried out
without special incident. Rogers was
the first to pay the penalty, for the
murder of the Olney brothers.
Laudiero shot Michael de Ambro.
Italian contractor, of No. It's Hes
ter street, New York City, in 1906.
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HRL DIES OF RABIES.
Bitten by Il Stray Cur Six Weeks Ago
She EvDirps in Commissions.

Brooklyn, n Y. - Hy%drophobla
caused the death OF Florence Kirk
man. a daughter of Ralph
Kirkman. b]ookkeeper, Of 994 Putnam
ayenue For hours before the child
was removed from her home to a hos
pital her cries could be heard all over
the ncighborhood where she lived.
Six weeks before the girl was DIT,
lon in the right hand by a white n
black spotted mongrel dog. She was
nlaying in the street at the time.
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National Chinese Costumes.

Regulations regarding the national
costume Of both officials and ordinary
people have been Gully compiled and
there are nine different grades of
costumes.-Shanghai Mercury.
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Degrees For American Bishops.

Cambridge, England. - Honorary
degrees were conferred upon a num-
Der of Archbishops and Bishops at
tending the Lambeth Conference.
The prelates thus honored include
the Bishop of Missouri and the Bishop
OF Massachusetts, who received the
degree OF LID.
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PROSPERITY HAS RETURNED
National Association Again Ap.
peaIs For United Action.
Evidences Of the Success of tho st
Louis Organization in En-
ployment of Men.

st. Louis, Mo.-Under the caption
Back to the Full Dinner Pail and
Regular Dividends" a pamphlet, de.
scribing the present conditions of
capital and labor as c%ontrasted with
those of last winter and spring. has
been mailed throughout the country
by the National Prosperity Associa.
ton. This association was organ
lied in st. Louis two months ago to
further the return of normal bust
ness conditions, and was responsible
for having June 1 named as En-
ployment Day." In part the article
says:
Thirty days after we had begun
work the spirit of encourage
ment had developed such strength
locally that between 1900 and TO-
900 men were put to work in the
industries and commercial estab.
urbs, and orders for 100000
worth of goods to increase stocks
were given.
"The unemployment idea proved
widely infectious. Cincinnati, Cleve-
land, Chicago and many smaller
places took up the proposition, adopt
ing dates to suit each community.
Results are evident. Business
activity has been accelerated. There
Is a cooperative expression of con-
fdence everywhere. There is less
recklessness against business and in
dustrial interests. There has been
more improvement in sixty days than
has followed any preceding panic in
a corresponding period. We believe
that If ~level-headed, common-sense,
straightforward business men will
pull together we can get back to q
six months instead of taking from
three to five years to complete the
restoration, as has been the case
with former panics."
Rubber Factories Employ $4,000.
New York City.-More than ff-
teen thousand employees Of the
United States Rubber Company, as
ISOLATED with seventeen factories con-
trolled by the Trust, have been made
to understand that business condi-
lions have improved by an official
edict from the officers of the Trust
restoring the old rate Of wages.
Since January 1 the men employed
by the United States Rubber Com
pany have been working under a cut
of fifteen to twenty-five per cent. of
their time, which was equivalent to
q cut of wages in the same proper
ton. The thousands of families which
existed under short rations following
the reduction are represented by sew
eral communities where the rough
product is turned into serviceable
material, and for six months they
have been anxiously waiting for this
action.
Edison Plant Runs Full Time.
Orange, N. J.-Thomas A. Edi-
sons big plant has started up on a
full ten-hour schedule with 1000
men. The works have been running
On an eight-hour schedule for
months.
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Proof of PrOSDerity.

Among the multitudinous proofs
Of returning prosperity it is not lrO-
oer to belittle the fact that hos: are
at record prices in Chicago.
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Pencil is Always Handy.

A recent French invention consists
of a flexible support for a pencil, as
shown in the illustration. When the
pencil is used the support bends read
lily and is no obstruction to writing
Philadelphia Record.
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Rryan SubscribcS $1,000.

William J. Bryan, at Lincoln, Nab.,
made a contribution of $1,000 to the
Democratic campaign fund.
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BY CABLE.
Keene Horses Sell Well.

Newmarket, England.-James R,
Keene's yearlings, although not look
ing their best on account of their
hurried departure from the United
States, brought exceptionally good
prices at the sales here. Nine colts
brought an aggregate of $4,000, and
ten FLIES S13,S75.
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Pure iron in the presence of huHe
oxygen does not rust. ~.
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Fairfax Files His Claim.

London.-Albert Kirby Fairfax, q
native of Virginia, has formally petit
toned the House of Lords for leave
to plead his claim to the peerage I'M
der the title and dignity of Lord Fair
fax of Cameron.
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pIague Breaks Out in Azores.

Lisbon, Portugal. The bubonic
plague has made its appearance on
the Island Of Terceira, n Of the
Azores group.
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The finances of Cape Colony have
been hard hit by the depression in
the diamond market
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Waldorf Astor For Parliament.

Plymouth, EXPERIMENTATION AS
tor, the eldest son Of William Wal
dorf Astor, was chosen as Conserva-
tive candidate for member Of Parlia-
ment from Plymouth at the next gen.
eral elections.
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Eifty.scycn Fishermen Drown.

Santandcr, Spain. - Fifty-seven
fishermen, OF Bermeo and Ondarroa,
have been drowned in the gale which
has been sweeping the coast for
three days.
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1900 Hands Return to Work.

Salem, Mass.-The Maumkeag c.
.on mills has resumed operations on
full time, giving employment to 1900
hands.
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Honduras Rebels Capture Town.

Tegucigalpa, Honduras.-The Hon.
duran insurgents captured the town
of Porvenir, on the north coast, and
then attacked Ceiba, another Atlantic
port. At Ceiba they were repulsed.
They also have been beaten in the
south, and are fleeing back to Saliva
dor.
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Ditch-Clcaning Shovel.

An Iowa man has designed and pat
ented a shovel that will be found eX-
ceedingly convenient for cleaning
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Strange Disease in Cuba.

Havana, Cuba. - Advices from
Guantanamo say that a strange dis
ease, the nature Of which has not
been ,ermined, is prevalent among
children there. The bodies of those
who contract it swell abnormally,
tumors make their appearance, n
death ensues in from three to four.
days.
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Boston Clubman a Suicide.

Boston.-William E. Silsbee, sixty
three years old, Of an old Salem fam
lily, committed suicide. He was a
graduate of Harvard and a member
of many clubs.
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Edison | a Run

Orange, N. J.-Thomas A. Edi-
sons big plant has started up on a
full ten-hour schedule with 1000
men. The works have been running
On an eight-hour schedule for
months.
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One.Time Jockey Dies at no.

One-Time Jockey Dies at no.
.Seguin, Texas.-George Coleman,
a negro, 10 years old, died at his
home here. He belonged to the Lind
say family, of Kentucky, when a
slave, and was a famous jockey seven
.ty-five years ago, riding at New York,
PHILADELPHIA, Washington and other
racing centres.
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Barred From United Kingdom.
SEVERE EPIDEMIC FEARED.
Energetic Steps Taken in Whining
ton, Del. to Check Scarlet Fever.

Special Dispatch to Inc Star.
WILMINGTON. Del. November 21-As
the result of severe outbreak of scarlet
fever in Wilmington and vicinity. it was
announced today that the female school of
the Misses IIebb in this city has been
closed until January I. Several of the
eighty pupils are i'll with the disease. in
Guiding Miss Agnes Chapman. aged four
teen daughter of Rev. J. Wilbur Chap
man of New York She is guaranteed in
the school. along with a maid of the in
stitution. Miss Josephine Bates a teach
err became i'll two weeks ago and Miss
Anna w. Bird, a teacher. who succeeded
her. was then stricken. The latter is
seriously i'll. The most pathetic case is
the death of Eleanor Blair Crossan. the
little daughter of DR.. J. W. Crossan Of
Centreville. Del.
The child was i'll four hours. She was
buried today.
Dr. Crossan. who is attending several
cases of scarlet fever, says that he be-
lieves he carried the disease to his daugll-
ter.
The Wilmington board of health is TAX
ing stringent steps to check what threat
Walnut Green School. near Centreville.
was closed for several weeks on this ac
count Three scholars are dead. 1t was
while attending these patients that DR..
Crossan carried the disease to his child
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BOAT BURNS TO WATERS EDGE
TEN DEAD, FIFTEEN MISSING,
TWENTY INJURED.
Explosion of Boiler on Mississippi
River Steamer-Many Will Die
of Scalds.

NEW ORLEANS, November cl-Ten
persons are dead and twice as many in
jured as result OF explosion today
in the Mississippi river steamer. H. NJ
Carter, near Bayou Goula, about 100 miles
north of New Orleans.
The boiler of the Carter exploded while
the steamer was on its way from New Or
leans to Baton Rouge, with a cargo of
general merchandise and fifty or more
passengers. To add to the horror of the
disaster. fire succeeded the explosion and
the boat was burned to the waters edge
Relia bic reports from Bayou Goula are
to the effect that between twelve and fif-
teen persons are missing. About the
same number We're badly scalded. 1t is
expected several of them will die.
The injured are now on their way to
New Orleans. and are expected to arrive
here early Sunday morning. They are
aboard the towboat McDougal, which
went to the rescue of the passengers and
crew of the Carter as soon as the eX-
plOSion occurred.
Capt. II. NJ. Carter who was aboa I'd
the boat. with his wife and child. was
blown out into the river by the explo-
sion, but was saved. Mrs. Carter and
her child were taken off in safety
Capt. J. '. Leblanc was aboard the
boat when it left New Orleans but went
ashore at Donaldsville, and was not on
board at the time of the explosion.