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BANDITS STEAL RICH GIRL
Used Her as a Shield Against
Bullets of Sheriffs Posse.
Eighteen-Year-Old Daughter Of Cali
fornia Ranchman Carried Off to
Be Held For $4,000 Ransom.

Fresno, Cal. - After O. desperate
rife battle between a rascuirg party
and Cleveland Rodgers, n off, her
abductors, pretty eighteen-year-old
Edna Domengine vas rescued from
the kidnapers who captured her at
the home of her father. Adolnh Do
mengine, Il well-to-do oil land owner
and stockman, who lives in an iso-
lated section of Fresno County. Tony
Loveall, the other bandit who Joined
in the midnight raid, left Rodgers
and the girl earlier in the day and so
far has escaped his pursuers. After
the battle between Rodgers and his
pursUers, which took place at a lonely
and dilspidated cabin near Jacks
Springs, the desperate surrendered
and was taken to jail at Coalinga.
There was a good deal of lynching
talk after ne had been locked up.
Rodgers surrendered to his pursu-
ers only after the magazine of his
rifle had been exhausted in a vain en-
deavor to shoot down members OF the
posse which had tracked him. He
used the girl for a shield when the
fusillade from his pursuers began.
and this action saved him from being
wounded. The men in the posse were
compelled to shoot wide to avoid in
juring the girl.
When rescued the girl was clothed
in her night dress and her shoulders
and arms were covered with a mans
coat, which Rodgers had picked up
from q cabin in the foothills. On her
head there was a sombrero. Her feet
we're bare. She had been forced to
walk for miles at the side of her
captor's horse, and when the pursuit
came hot Rodgers placed her on The
horse in 'front.' Of him.
The chase after the girl and her
abductor was lon. The posse started
from Coalinga in the morning. Do
mengine had ridden into the town,
reused several of his friends and told
them of the events Of the preceding
night. Two masked men, he said,
had ridden up to his home and fired
his barn. Holding off the rest of the
family with rifles, they drove away
with his daughter Edna in his own
buggy, shouting that the girl would
be returned safe on the following
evening at Jacks Springs in Waltham
Canon, on payment Of a ransom of
$4,000. After hearing the story the
rescuing party was soon in pursuit.
A big crowd gathered and would
have lynched Rodgers had not Sheriff
Chiltenden pleaded with them not to
take the law into their own hands.
Miss Domengine said the men offered
20 affront to her.
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VENEZUELAN BREAK DECISIVE
Withdrawal the Result of Senate's
Perusal of Correspondcnce.

Washington, D. C.-While every
thing is being done to minimize the
action of this Government in break.
ing off diplomatic relations with Ven.
ezuela. there is a persistent belief
that it presages sharp and decisive
action in the case of the South Amer.
lean republic.
Warships will bring home jacob
Sleeper, Charge d'Affaires, and Lieu.
tenant Francis A. Ruggles, Military
Attache. Confirmation was mad al
the State Department that the Ameri.
can Legation had been closed. The
Brazilian Minister will keep an eye
on American affairs until some decis'
ion is reached, either by diplomacy
or by the use of some stronger meas
ure.
The withdrawal of the American
representatives from the Venezuelan
capital is regarded as a direct result
of the action of the Senate, which last
winter called for all the yoluminous
correspondence that had passed be.
tween Washington and Caracas. The
perusal of this correspondence aston.
ished members of the Committee or
Foreign Relations.
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MCCLELLAN WINS RECOUNT SUIT
Court Directs Jury to Find That
Mayor Was Legally Elected.

New York City.-In concise terms
Supreme Court Justice Lambert, who
has been presiding over the quo war
ranto suit brought by Attorney-Gen-
eral Jackson to GUST George B. Nc
Clellan as Mayor Of this city, directed
the jury to render a verdict to the
effect that Mr.. Mcclellan was duly
and legally elected, and that no evil
dence to sustain the charges of fraud
in the election of 1905 had been dis
closed. This the jury did without
leaving the box. This ends two and
one-half years litigation instituted
by William Randolph Hearst, n OF
the defeated candidates in the cleo
ton of 1905.
Clarence J.. Shearn, Hearst's coun-
sci. took formal exception to the YER
dict and asked for a new trial. His
motion was denied and he again had
an exception noted.
Justice Lambert allowed an extra
allowance OF $40 a day to the jurors.
They have served ffty-one days and
each will receive $50 instead Of
S1O2. For the whole jury the cost
will be $500. Justice Lambert
thanked them briefly for their serV-
ices.
Mayor McClellan's final plurality
is 1865. No appeal will be taken by
Hearst
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Worms as Planters.

Many readers may recall the sur
prise they felt on reading Darwin's
book ON earthworms to find how the
great naturalist had lent an irresis-
tible charm to so apparently un-
promising a subject. 1t led them to
to entertain a respect they had never
previously felt for the humble borers
in the earth. 1t now appears that
earthWorms must be regarded as USE
full otherwise than as simple cultiva-
tors and of the soil. Ac-
cording to Mr.. E. A. Andrews, they
are tree-planters also. They draw the
fiat seeds of the silver maple into
their burrows, and such seeds, in
districts too dry for them to germi-
nate if left upon the surface, sprout
from the worm-holes, and grow into
seedlings, which, under favoring con-
ditlons, may become flouriShing
trees.-Youth's Companion.
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Ss5,573,00O FOR RURAL MAILS.
Free Delivery in Ten Years Has Grown
From $4,000.

Washington, D. C.-The sum OF
$35,573,0O0 was available the begin
ming Of the fiscal year, to maintain
and extend rural free delivery service
throughout the United States. This
is the largest sum yet appropriated
for the purpose, the first a%ppropria-
ton being $4,000 a little more than
ten years ago to establish an expert
mental route. The ~s35,573,000 is
distributed among 39,145 carriers,
and a small portion of it is used for
clerks in charge of sub-stations, for
tolls and for ferry charges.
.Postmaster-General Meyer expects
to obtain an appropriation at the next
Congress Of about $4,000 to estab-
lish an experimental parcels post ru-
raj route. Postofice officials believe
that when this route is in operation
one year the report therefrom will
nave such weight that Congress will
be induced to authorize it's extension
to every route in the United States.
They think it's success will ultimately
rival, if not surpass, the success CT
rural free delivery.
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Slave: A TALE
OF ANCIENT ROME
Ely ROBERT EUGENE MealPIHE.

Eyes, your speech shows that, and
your hands are not yet hardened by
toll. But how did you drift so far
from that happy home?"
"Assuredly it "a not of my own
choosing, but as you perhaps have
and destroyed by a rowing band of
robbers. When they attacked the
town. my father led the villagers,
who tried to resist them, but he and
most of his company were slain. The
invaders swept down upon us and
came straight to VI home. My
mother was ruthlessly cut down as
she sought to protect my only Sis
thing valuable, then burned; my sis
ter and I were bound and carried off
to be sold as slaves, and since that
awful day I have never seen her. The
robbers carried me blindfolded to
their mountain stronghold where 7
suffered great bodily hardship and
intense anguish of spirit. After
many months, mi day I was hastily
summoned, blindfolded and present
ly handed over to a passing caravan
of merchants to whom I had been
sold as a slave. These men took me
to the city of Colossae and exposed
me there for sale in the slave market.
Very soon I was purchased and taken
to the home of a wealthy man named
Philemon"
"Ah! Where was he from? Was
he a Christian?"
"He had not lived long in Co.
lossae, and l think he came from
Ephesus, but am not certain. Yes.
he was a good man, and his kind
treatment of me was the first thing
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that impressed me with the idea that
his religion was good"
The very same! Did he have a
grown son? And was his wife
named Apphia?"
You seem to know his family.
He has a grown son named Archip-
pus, who is also, like the parents, an
active Christian worker"
Most assuredly I know that fam
lily, seeing l baptized both the par
ents and the infant son, but / have
not seer them for years. The pas
tor of that church, E%paphras, is my
fellow-prisoner here at Rome, and he
has told me many things about the
church there which Philomen helped
him to found. The young man, Ar
chippus, is nov acting-pastor during
the absence of Epaphras. And SO
YOU were in the home Of my friend,
Philemon? But tell me, how did you
come here if you were his servant?
| fear you took matters into your
own hands and fied?"
Yes, that is exactly the case, but
surely you do not think l did wrong
in escaping from slavery, do YOU?
True. my master was a kind man,
and now as | look back upon it all,
it may be that he was planning to in
struct me in the Gospel; for he al
ways tried to have ME in to the SER
vices with the other servants. But
my heart was bitter over the terrible
fate which had befallen our entire
family. | saw no reason why l
should tamely submit to slavery who
had the rather been accustomed to
have slaves of my own. So fierce
was my spirit that all the kindness
of my master was lost on me, and
determined to escape. This was
the easier to accomplish because OF
the gentle control in that household.
There is only one thing that l re-
pret. and that is that l stole some
cold from my master to help me in
making my way to other lands. By
This ean | was enabled to come to
this city. And was lot the hand of
God in it so that l was led to you?'
Yes, truly it was the goodness of
God which led you to us; but, my
! son, your own heart tells you that
the taking C that gold was wrong
1T was, in fact, a theft. And as to
The question of your bondage; true,
God is our Father, and He would
Lave all men to be brethren; if the
Shirt of Jesus ruled in the hearts
Of men, all slavery and oppression
! would disappear. This is our hope
and prayer, but to accomplish it, We
must employ peaceful means; in
meekness and humility, We must in
struct men, and until they become
willing of themselves to act out the
mind of the Master, We His servants
must carefully obey the laws. BY
no means must we use violence in
order to cause violence to cease
among others, for thereby we u
selves should become breakers OF the
law. We must be subject to rulers
and servants must obey their masters
in the flesh, working heartily as unto
the Lord and not unto men. He nat
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t A Grass From Which
Paper is Made
BY c. w. FURLONG.

Esparto is not an agricultural pro-
duct, and it seems fitting that the
leading export CT the Tripolitan peo-
pie should be a product of their own
arid land, wild and incapable Of Gull
tivation. Since 1868, when the nrst
ship-load of esparto was sent to Eng
land, vessels have borne away thou
sands of IONS yearly to that country.
You or I pick up a heavy-looking
novel perchance and marvel at its
lightness, and the reader Of some
London newspaper peruses it's COL
umns and then casts aside the fin
ished product of the esparto-picker.
In 1901, which was an average
year, 215,155 camel-loads came into
the coast towns, nearly $4,000
passed through the gateway of the
Suk-el-Halfa the total export of the
country amounting to about $4,000
tons. That from the town of Tri-
poll, 1850 tons, brought e75,500,
which was over a fourth of the
amount Of her total exports.-Har-
per's Magazine.
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TROOPS AT PANAMA ELECTION.
No Serious Disorder in Contests, Won
by OhaIdia's Candidates.

Panama..-There were no serious
disorders n the municipal elections
held throughout the Isthmus. The
ticket supported by General Obaldia,
a candidate for the Presidency of the
republic in the elections that will
take place July II in Panama City,
was successful by a big majority.
In Colon on the other side of the
Isthmus, United States marines were
ashore to protect property of the
American Government.
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, doeth wrong, whether servant or mas
ter, shall! receive again for the wrong
he hath done, for there is no respect
of persons with God. My son, I
know it is hard. but you must re-
turn"
what! Leave you! Leave my
newly obtained freedom of body and
spirit, and return to slavery? And
what about the gold?"
ut is hard for me also, for as you
know, I have learned to love you as
my own child; and, too. 1 need your
help. But your duty is clear; you
must return to your master and serve
him till the Lord gives you honorable
permission to have your liberty"
Gas for the gold, I will assume
that debt myself. Just at this time
I am engaged in writing a letter to
the church at Colossae which Tychi-
Gus Is to bear to them. You shall go
with him, and by you I will send a
special letter to my old friend, your
master, and I am we'll assured he
will gladly receive you in my stead
and do for you more than I shall
ask of him. Yes, my dear son, I
grieve to part with you, but it must
be done"
And so it came to pass that not
many days thereafter the messengers
received the precious letters, said a
touching farewell to the revered
teacher with whom another meeting
in the flesh was most doubtful, and
set their faces to the rising sun. OF
their reception by the church at Co.
lossae and of the subsequent treat
ment which Onesimus received at the
hands of his former master, the re-
cord does not speak; but we may
imagine with almost a certainty what
did happen. The kindly Philemon
gave the youth a cordial welcome, for
his own sake, for from the begin
ming he had planned generous things
for the poor captive. But when he
heard his story and read the letter
sent by his hand from the great
teacher who had led him to Jesus.
all hesitation vanished; his plans
ripened at once and on the spot he
told Onesimus he was free.
Not only was he free, but taking
him by the hand and leading him to
an inner apartment, he called a
young girl and presented her to One
sinus. With establishment the two
gazed a moment at each other, and
then with JOY u%nutterable they sprang
to embrace; for the girl was the sis
ter Onesimus had counted lost. But
good Philemon having found her also
in the slave market and learned her
story, had purchased her liberty.
Henceforth they both were adopted
as children in this home of wealth.
where there reigned the Spirit OF
Jesus.-Christian Union-Herald.
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WhY No Farmer is Ever Thrown Out Of His JOB.

Our farmer have heard so much about the down-trodden
farmer, until many of them have about concluded that they
we're worse off than any other class. But there is one glorious
thing about farming, one is not called from his vineyard,
until he receives the summons to come up to the vineyard OF
the Lord. No farmer is ever thrown out of his job-fres,
ra1ic., storm-. drouths may and will come; but the earth still
yields her increase and always furnishes something to do for
Ill o. her agricultural children. And as long as time lasts
there will b? work for the farmer-and food for the sower.
There arc other remunerations besides dollars and cents.
There ere no great fortunes in farming-great fortunes can
only be made where great opportunities are offered by an ag-
creation OF money, men or many smaller influences. The
GARNER is too isolated for such combinations. We do not
want cucn combinations for here the many must serve the
few, but for independence, for the glorious privilege of work
ins out ones own salvation with fear and trembling" and
Tor stamping ones individuality upon his home land and COM
munty there is nothing like the country.
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STRIKE DEPUTY SLAIN.
Fatal Fight in Chester-Part Of Troll
leJ Bridge Burned.

Chester, PA deputy sheriff was
killed in a fight caused by the trolley
strike here. The burning of a Sec
ton of the trolley bridge over a ra-
vine near Claymont is also charged
to the strike.
David Murphy, Jr., Of Trainer, a
village one mile south of this city,
was on his way home from work,
when he and Darwin Spence, a deputy
sheriff, became involved in an argu-
ment. Spence, it is alleged, shot twice
at Murphy. One bullet passed
through Murphy's right shoulder, the
other through his left shoulder.
Although severely wounded. Mu"-
ply grappled with Spence, and iaf-er
a struggle, managed to get the iep-
uty's revolver. Then Murphy shot
Spence through the head and the
deputy died almost instantly. Muir
ply was placed under arrest.
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Prominent People.

Chancellor Day will take a long
vacation abroad.
Secretary Root decided to train at
Muldoon's sanitarium, New York.
Yale University conferred the de-
gree of Doctor of Laws on j. Pierpont
Morgan.
William Dean Howells, who spent
the winter in Rome, has been recent
ly in London.
After an illness Of three weeks
Representative William H. Parker, Of
Deadwood, S. D., died of dropsy and
liver trouble. He was born, seventy
one years ago, at Keane. N. H.
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Good Advice,

81 take The Press every day." said
a commuter. Il work in an office
with twenty associates. They are too
mean to buy a newspaper, but read
mine all day, passing it from n to
the other until by the time it gets
back to me, just before leaving for
home, it is nearly worn out. What
do you think l ought to do?" I adj
vised him to pin a sign on his paper
like that hung in a famous London
coffee house: Gentlemen learning
to spell are requested to use yester-
days papers. New York Press.
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VIRGINIA ROAD GOES TO WALL.
Norfolk and Southern Taken Over by
Federal Court.

Norfolk, Va.-Upon the application
of the Trust Company of America, of
New YORK, the Norfolk and Southern
Railway Company was placed in the
hands OF receivers by Judge Edmund
Waddill, in the United States Circuit
Court here. The trust company is the
holder of $4,000, 600 first %refunding
mortgage bonds of the railway COM
pany, upon which interest has been
defaulted, it is charged.
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ADMITTED TAKING REBATES.
A. Booth & Co., Of Chicago, Plead
Guilty-May Be Fined $4,000.

Chicago, Ill.-A. Booth & Co., one
of the largest concerns dealing in fish
and oysters in the West, pleaded
guilty in the Federal District Court
to having accepted rebates from rail-
road companies.
The charge to which the company
pleaded guilty was accepting $469
from the Lehigh Valley and Nickel
Plate Railroads. Judge Lands did
not announce his sentence. The maxi
mum penalty for the offense, accord
ing to District Attorney Sims, is a
S2O,0 900 fine.
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The Field of Sports.

T. R. Pell, of New York, retained
his title of lawn tennis champion OF
New England.
Residents of Long Branch, N. j.,
have formed an automobile racing
club.
The day of the bookmaker has
PASSED. but the day 0: the memory
broker" has come-perhaps.
Hudson River fishermen are COM
planning Of the scarcity Of fish, due to
the gasoline a1G naphtha launches
that are used principally by fishing
parties.
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Savings Banks Form Union.

Representatives of sixteen savings
banks of New Jersey have organized
the New Jersey Savings Banks AS
ISOLATION, with the object of obtain
ing proper consideration of all legis-
lative action affecting savings banks
and the discussion of all subjects re-
lating to the welfare of the savings
banks of the State.
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TWO KILLED IN AUTOMOBILE.
Five Others Hurt When Traction Car
Rams 1t.

Indianapolis, 1nd.-A big touring
car, containing four young men and
four young women, was struck by a
Terre Haute and Eastern traction car
at South Belmont avenue about mid
night. Two men in the automobile
were killed and five other passengers
were injured.
A. J. Yawger, Other of the ma
chine, met instant death, and Earl
Gardiner, the chauffeur, died on the
way to the hospital.
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Labor Leaders Sentenced.

John j. Britain, George H. Lakey
and Charles G.. Grassel, business
agents for the Carpenters Union, in
Chicago, were sentenced to thirty
days in Jail for violation of an in
junction against the calling OF strikes
on buildings under construction.
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British Revenues Decrease.

The Treasury returns at London OF
the total revenue of the United King
dom for the first quarter Of the tinan-
cial year show a decrease Of S~11,6S6,-
$40, as compared to the correspond
ing period of 1907.
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Co,traIto Drops Dead in n Choir.

OO-tC TYP ~
While assisting in a duet at the
First Baptist Church at Jeanette, Pa,
Irene AXton, nineteen years old, the
coatralto Of the church quartet, sud-
denly fell across the choir rail and
died before aid could reach her.
Death was due to heart disease.
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Export of Chinese Crackers.

The export of Chinese crackers
from Canton was 45,197 hundred
weight in 1905, and 22,063 hundred
weight the average for the previous
five years.
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Convicted of Taking S88, 900.

Ferdinand Dudenhefer, formerly a
State Collector in New Orleans, La,
was found guilty in the Criminal
District Court for emGezzling e2out
$4,000 of State funds.
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SEAT COST DROP TO $4,000.
Stock Exchange Membership Goes For
$4,000 Less Than Two Months Ago.

New York City.-A weakening ten
dency, attributable to the recent fall
ing off in stock brokerage business,
was noted in the market for seats on
the New York Stock Exchange. A
membership in this exchange sold
for $4,000, or $4,000 less than the
price obtained at the previous sale
while the market was activ;, about
two months ago.
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Sir William Whiteway Dead.

Sir William Whiteway, former
Premier of Newfoundland, died at
st. Johns. He was eighty-one years
Did.
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North Carolina For Bryan.

The North Carolina Democratic
State Convention at Charlotte adj
journed after l~nstructing the tour
delegates-at-large to the Denver Con-
vention for William j. Bryan.
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The cooiy moon, hangs in the evening
sky.
All sugary. round and sweet;
I suppose it was hung way up so high
So no one would get it to eat;
But SILL there's Il way TO set Il olte
For good little girls and boys
Ii only they 20 to sleep at night
Without am fuss or noise.
So close one pepper and shut one eye
So that well reach ID soon.
All the babies from Rv-lo-D".
All the darlings OF Drcw>r-s"c.
From ~Nap-or-a-Lap alG Sleeps :..
On pillows Of clouds piled Aigt, % IL, L.
To come to the copHr nor.
Edmund Vance {