BE VOLT IN PORTUGAL
ONE
HUN0RC3 Am KILLED
RI0T3.
IN
Mohi Flitht to Dethrone
Carlo, bat "oldlera tat
Hundred t Ivlllans llnrl
and IlolHnai Water.
King
Dona
Prick
Six hundred . rioters were shot ant
perhaps 100 were killed In street con-flk-ts
between mobs ond government
troops In three northern towns of
rortugnl. The dissatisfaction Is spread
ing to the army nnd reports from
Oporto ndvlse the War Department of
the mutiny of six attnllons of ar
tillery. Conflicts are numerous all
Over the nation, and strenuous efforts
are being made by the authorities to
quell the uprising against King Carlos.
Fired on by the troops, hunted down
like rabbits through the narrow streets,
and finally pursued by cavalry which
rode down men, women and children
Indiscriminately, many are dead and
wounded In the three northern towns
f Braga, Villa Ileal and Vlnnna Do
Castello. The mobs parnded the streets
shouting "Down with absolutism," nml
decrying King Cnrlos for his attempt
to rule the country without Parlia
ment Soldiers sent to disperse the rioters
were attacked by stones, bricks nnd
other missiles. They replied with vol
leys which stretched scores of the riot
ers In the streets. This did not quell
the mob entirely, however. Persons In
bouses continued to bombard the troops
with stones, while botJvater was poured
n them. Angered beyond all control,
the soldiers began firing again, shoot
" Ing down persons like rabbits os they
fled. Cavalry rode down every person
who could be found.
The large cities are practically under
martial law and armed bands of peas
ants and workmen parade the streets
Intimidating women and children and
attacking the police wherever they try
to offer any resistance to the progress
of the rioters. The troops only are able
. to awe the dissatisfied, and the Indica
tions that mutiny bos honeycombed the
army with sedition and treason are be-
, coming more evident every day.
F King- Carlos, surrounded by an army
, of his most faithful followers, lias
planned for a rapid escape in case the
crisis becomes too great, and steam Is
kept up continually on the royal yacht,
which Is manned by English sailors
who are faithful to his cause, -
REDS HURL. BOMBS.
' Latest Oatbreak of Raaalaa Terror
lata Oceare at Ttflla. t
Ten bombs were, hurled In Erivnn
quare, in Tifils. Trans-Caucasia, explod
ing with terrific force. Many persons
were killed and Injured and the houses
over a- large area In the neighborhood
were shattered. The bomb horror U but
another evidence of the growth of the
Kusslan revolution. Tlflis Is in the ex
treme southern, portion of the Russian
empire, not a great distance from Baku,
on the Caspian Sea. the scene of the oil
riots, when many were killed, a few years
ago.
.There bad been ao signs of an outbreak
. and Joe police and troops were taken
wholly by surprise. It was undoubtedly
the .work of the terrorists, whose plots
and intentions were unlooked for,
. Shortly after daybreak a crowd col
- lected In Orivan square, apparently with
out cause. When commanded by the sol
diers to disperse there was no response
except the sudden reports of the exploding
bombs. The noise was deafening. It was
more than an hour before the terrified
troops could b Induced to return to the
' : square to begin the work of removing tlie
. injured. The exact number of dead will
': probably never be known, as many per
sons wre blown to such fragments they
can never be Identified.
Winston Churchill announces that be
: will -not thia year be a candidate for
' Governor of New Hampshire.
Certain Wisconsin Republicans have
begun to organize with a view to present
ing Senator La Follette to the national
convention as Wisconsin's favorite son.
The two bills providing for a recan
vass of the votes cast in the New York
mayoralty election in HM),1, one of which
had b-n repassed by the legislature, de
spite -Mayor McClellan's objections, and
the orlicr passed to overcome some of his
objections by throwing upon the city the
cost of the recount In districts suggested
by him, were siKiied by Gov. Hughes
with a notnhle im'iuornmhuu. The Gov
ernor Miys that the failure to test the
correctness of this election canvass hhd
become a public sctiiiclnl, and that wide
spread doubt existed as to the accuracy
of the count, lie added that it must be
taken for granted that the ballots had
been preserved until shown otherwise. The
attorney for William It. Hearst, the con
testing candidate, hsd already announced
thut Mr. Hearst would osk for a recount
in every election district in the city. Th
canviim will be made undin the authority
and direction of the Supreme C6urt.
Senutur Daulel of South Virginia says
that la his opinion geographical consid
erations ought to have nothing to do with
- thtj selection of a presidential candidate.
His advice is to "take the rlnlit niaa
from anywhere New Kngtuud, the West,
the North, the South."
The public utilities hill has been shened
by Gov. Hughes of New York. This Is
oue of the most far-reaching reform
measures ever passed by an American
legislature It places under direct State
control every public-service corporation
except the tdcgrapb and the telephone.
The 'indorsement of Senator Kuox for
the presidency by tls Harrisliurg conven
tion mark the orKanizarion of Republi
can conservatives for the control of th
national run vent ion. -
, Pearl Wight of New Orleans, the R
publican national committeeman of Lou-
SsUna. has accepted the position of coin-
mii-sionrr of internal revenue, to becom
.-ff-ctiv on IV'C. 1.
Representative John II. Baukbead of
Alabuma, has been appointed by Gov.
Comer to the scut in the I'ulted State
. Kenats vacated by the death of Senator
Morgan, this to finish out the unexpired
term until the legislature meets.
8PDL1TICIXSS
SUPERSTITION AET MEDICOTL
Some of the queer Thins Give
Credence by Man?.
Pet suporHtltioiis and delusions cat
be found In every household, says the
Washington Star. "When there Is a
case of sickness In the bouse and some
domestic animal dies you will find that
some think the patient will surely re
cover. The most persistent supersti
tions In the world are those that are
based upon the habits of animals," said
Dr. J. Dudley Morgan. "If one Is walk-
lug. The uelgh of a horse Is a portent
brushes the face It Is supposed to mean
that a ghost Is following, but In day
time It tells thnt a stranger Is com
ing. 8hc neigh of a horse Is a portent
of death which will come from the
quarter from which his head Is pointing-1
when he neighs.
"The Imlr of
a dog, the sklnof a
snake nnd the clt of a black fait are jneTt cell, who wus Hob Wetter, a con
believed to possess medicinal Qualities, I flemned murderer. Ills meals were
while the handling of a toinlls said to
give warts. (Jennan-C'annilllns are full
of superstition. A whitplder crawl
ing toward one, the howling of a dog,
the sight of a snaky all foretell death.
The killing of n load or the crowing of I
a hen foretells fnln. If the cat washes
Its face It mcauB that visitors are com
ing. If a bee stings, kill It and the
wound will not swell. The black tooth
of a hog and the blood of a black hen
have curative powers.
"In a certain district In Germany the
touch of a corpse's hand Is still regard
ed as curative of many local Ills. Less
grewsome Is the remedy for hernia still
applied In the marsh country. On the
night of St. John the Baptist's day.
June 24, a patient must be dragged
.through the split of a cleft ash tree.
.Three men bearing the name of John
must perform the operation and It most
be conducted In deud silence. For ery
stpclaa a fire Is lighted and a pinch of
ashes from It is rubbed on the akin to
the accompaniment of a saying to the
effect that the ashes and the aore went
'over the Ked sea together, the ashes
came hack but the sore never again.
"Recently In Georgetown a police
man was bitten by a upiosed poison
ous snnke and the old remedy of kill-
Ing chickens, cutting them open and ap
plying them to the bite until the chick
ens were cold and did not turn black
waa tried. Twenty-six chicken were
Used on the policeman In extracting the
tmlson. This remedy for cramp la
used to-day in ' other places than
Georgetown: 'On going to rest put
your sllpisrs under the bed and turn
the soles upward.'
"In , tin? wsrdg of Garfield hospital
last fall there was a, patient who Insist
ed on keeping several apples under his
bed to help the dropsy. The things
that people will carry within their pock
ets, wear around their necks or bodies
or put on their fingers are legion. Have
a white potato In each pocket of your
trousers and you will never be troubled
with rheumatism or If you suffer with
cough and cold exchange the potato for
a lump of camphor. No doubt there
are some of us who now have a horse
chestnut In our pockets or are wearing
a nickel ring. Several years ago the
writer was Induced by an Intelligent
and considerate friend to wear a nut
meg for obstlnute boils.
"In no other western European coun
try la superstition so prevalent as In
AustrlnJIungnry. Quito recently the
chamberlain's office changed the num
ber of bo 13 In the Imperial opera
house and the Imperial Court theater
because the public objected to sitting
In a box bearing this unlucky number,
But this superstition reaches Its height
In medicine. Shaking of the health
exhibition, Dr. Helnrlch Grun declared
that In many lnstam-es superstition,
and especially local superstition, was
an absolute menace to public health.
In the. Austrian hospitals one finds no
block or pavilion 13. no ward 13 or
staircase 13. Very few patient will
consent to oe opera tea on on tue iota,
And in that respect Friday, too, Is con
sidered just as unlucky."
Aboat the Limit.
A newly married couple came in t
hotel where we were resting and asked
bow much it would cost to get two
bowl of bollod rice and milk and were
Informed that the price was 15 cent
per portion. The groom pulled a small
packago wrnpiM'd In a bit of newspa
per from his lsx-ket and, opening it, dis
played about a double handful of rice,
which be said they bnd gathered from
their clothing after the shower wlalctj
followed tho eurly morning wedding.
He Inquired how much would be deduct
ed If they furnished their own rice, and
uion being Informed that no allowance
could be made became Indlgnaut and
remarked that they would wait until
they reached home for their dinner
rather than submit to such unfair deal
ing, and left the place. The proprietor
said that the young jnan owned one ot
the best farms In the town and had e
tabllshod n famous reputation locally
for t'wiunmy, although that Is not ex
actly the way he expressed It. Forest
and Stream.
llomuiti-e of a .Necklace.
Some years ago an old Frenchwomat
died In n ior part of Dublin, and hot
little effects were put v.p for auction.
Among other odds and ends was
necklace of dirty looking green stone.
However, a shrewd pair of denlert
-thought there might Ikj "money In It"
and decided on purchasing, clubbing to
gether 5 for the purpose. On taking
It to u well know n Jeweler be promptlj
offered 1,500,-which sum they refused
and sold tho necklace or purest emer
ulds for 7,Ot)0 In London, where Lord
Rosels-ry on bis marriage purchased
It for something like 20,000. The old
Frenchwoman's mother had been at
tached to the court of Frauee, and tht
eaicniUls had once formed part of tlM
crowu J.'weU. I,nudou Answers.
Not Mlaalnw AaythluaT.
Maize N hen summer men propo'
what rule do you follow?"
Murle Present compauy always ao-
cepted. Kansas City Times,
There nre lots or jteople who put u(
with things' all their live that othel
people wouldn't stand temporarily.
A man never care a greut deal rot
the pictures taken ot blm when b wtl
buby.
A1J3J
CONFESSED.
le Claims It Wea for Uellef of Coov.
aclene aail Mot far Ueword.
Of no less absotrulin: Interest than th
rtory of his crlnie wus the testimony
which Orchard, the mulll-assassln, give
In the flnal stage of his eross-exnmlna-
Hon at Boise, Idaho, lie wept when
tie told hoW be came to confess. In
opening this part of the cross-examination
Iilchardson rled to show that co-
srclon naa iss'ir attempted iiy tue pen-
Itentlsry Authorities to obtain a con
fession fromorchard after bis arrest
Tor the StoMTienls-rg assassination. Or-
:bard Untitled that he was placed In a
uew cell house, In a steel cage, with
olid walls and steel-barred doors. lie
was taken to the penitentiary without
his consent and not udvlsod as to his
rights. He was permitted to speak only
to the guard and to the man In the
lerved In the cell. lie was not allowl
to exercise nor leave his cell, nor was
he permitted to read books or papers.
After about ten days Detective Me
Partland visited the penitentiary and
Orchard was taken to the clerk's olllee j
to talk with him. He did not know
WUU lit? nun, until iiJ pun hmi niv.
visitor was a Plnkerton detective, lie
complained to McPartlund about the
treatment he was receiving and they
had a mutual talk about their past
lives, McPurtland telling him about his
part In the Molly Magulre affair.
Later McPartland talked about the Bi
ble, telling how King David was a mur
derer and had rcientcd and how St
Paul had been transformed from a bad
man Into a goxl one. McPartland told
him about "Kelly, the Bum," who was
Implicated In the Molly Magulre out
rages and was permitted to leave the
eountry after turning Stated evidence.
Orchard said McPartland had not been
the first to turn him to thoughts of re
ligion ; he had been thinking about them
himself. McPartland told Orchard that
he believed he had something to do
with the Steunneberg murder and that
he was aided by officers of the West
ern Federation of Miners, but made
no promise to him If he would confess.
Richardson took Orchard back to hit
boyhood In Canada and had him tell
that- be went to a Methodist Sunday
school when a boy and to church with
his mother and his first wife. He at
tended Quaker meetings with his moth
er and hod also gone to Christian En
deavor meetings. He never belonged to
the Salvation Army. Returning to the
first visit with McPartland be sakl the
detective upon leaving told him to think
over his past life. The next time the
detective came he told Orchard be could
do the SUite and country a great deal
of good end that the State usually act
ed fair with fts witnesses. Orchard
aid he knew what McPartland was af
ter and had no faith In what he said
about the State'a treatment of Its wit
nesses. On the third visit Orchard com
menced to tell the detective some of hit
wrong doings. McPartland then told
Orchard be was a tool of the Western
Federation. About this time he had
made up' his mind to tell all, as he did
not care to live any longer. In fact
he waa tempted to kill himself. lie did
not want to put the crime on anybody
else, but had thought of bis past life
and what a monster he had been. He
did not care huich what bupiened to
him and yet he was afraid to die, foi
he believed the' grave did not end It
all. A Bible wus stmt to him by a mis
sionary society In Chicago, and after
reading In it he came to the conclu
sion thnt he would be forgiven If he
freely repented and made -a clean
breast of his crimes. Since that time
he has never been In doubt. He had
told . Steve Adams, who by this thnt
had txn brought to the penitentiary
also and occuifted tho snmo cell as Or-
chard( thut Le intended to kill himself
wlta ti,e crystal of hIg watchf by cut -
i ting an artery.
He said he belonged to
Colburn Lodge of Masons and knew
that Fenbody, Bell, Goddard and other
whoso lives he sought to take wer
high degree Masons, but did not know
that Steunenberg was. Even after he
confessed he contemplated suicide. Hit
confession lie Isileved to be a duty to
God, country, society and himself. Ht
did not get this language from McPart
land. Steve Adams was arrested on i
the strength of .Orchard's confession.
Upon his promise to tho penitentiary
authorities he urged Adams to make a
confession nnd said that the truth
would come out some time. He tolu
Adams then thut If be ever got out h
would "cross the pond," meaning that
I... would an to Knroi.e. He did not
say this because any promise of escai
bad Ih'cu held out to him. He bad nev
er received a promise of Immunity.
I. ana He pen led by llama.
Three obnoxious laws were repealed bj
i no iiuHHian uounm. as ioiiowb : i roviu- i
lug for the punUhmeut of persons ex-
pressing approval of political criinus; ex-
eluding from military service persoug ac-
cusod of political crimes, or under sus -
if cion, and penalizing private Instruction
in Poland. The douiua voted for th
abolition of the re-establishment of field
court-martial for the punishment of civil-
la dm implicated In spreading revolutionary
Ideas In the army.
Crker Wlna Derby,
Richard Croker, the one-time master ot
New York City, as the lender of Tarn
umny Hall, who has been living in Fug
land ami Ireland fur several years, and
devoting himself to the breeding of ine
horses, achieved the greatest distinction
of the English turf when his 3-year-old
colt, Orhy, ridden by the American
Jockey, Relfl, won tho Derby race at Kp
som Downs. .The stakes amount to $32,
500, and Mr. Croker is said to hav
wou $H,0K) additional In bets at tht
prevailing odds of 10 to 1.
Tolatol'a Views ou 1'eac Conference.
In reply to a cable Inquiry by the New
York World as to his views on the com-
Inn iwriu conference. Count Tolstoi, thi
WHY ORCHA
Russian- author, replied : "The peace que-: marriage are perrormea aaiiy Uirougu
tiou was fully resolved I'.hm) years ago. 1 out th world.
Matthew v., 43-44. The Hague peae I The newly elected Mayor of Glaston-
courerenc . oniy a msgusi mg manue.i.
tion of Curtail.. hypocrisy. The vee
rvierrea iv mm. v im.v uniiu imi ii
hath been said, Thou shalt love thy neigh
bor aud bate thins eueuiy. But I say
unto you, Lov your enemies, bles then
that curse you, do good to them that
..a.. . ... .1,.
mmvm jvu, l" J - kuivh
irftafully use you sad persecute you.
mVTEEKLY
.HIS"
We are to thank the backward sprint
for the destruction of the locusts, which
were about to hstc'j out in uncountable
numbers. The same frost that laid Its
Mgld fingers on the apple blossoms and
tt" Hlacs also gaye a tweak to the locust
sonagea who are posted on sucjj things j
say. But the locusts probably wouldn't
have hatched out, anyway. There ere
two things that never happen when peo
ple say they will ; one is the coming of .
the end of the world and the other is the
appearance of the locusts. We have long
given up the end of the world as practl-1
cally hopeless and have resigned ourselves
to being deprived of that matchless spec
tacle which some more favored genera
tion may possibly witness; and we have
been so often disappointed In the locust
prognostications that we now rank them
along with weather bureau Indications.
We have heard stories by our grandslres
that ooce the "H-year" locusts filled the
woods with roaring like the sound of
Niagara and that the bark of the trees
was spilt asunder by the Insects, and that
the surface of the earth was made to look ,
like a pepper box by the , holes whence
they had issued. And we have waited
expectantly for a repetition of this won-:
der of nature; but, like the end of the
world, it Is always being postponed. The
locusts appear to be great procrastlnators, 1
or else their human prophets are great ,
prevaricators.
Jt may be, of course, that the locusts
are mixed up in their calendar -and not
being able to decide whether the seven
teen years of their "hibernation" has ex
pired have decided to remain in seclusion
until the matter Is straightened out. ratn- 1
n than appear at a time that would ruin j
their arithmetical reputation It I. .peril-
ous to be premature, to arrive on the seen
hern, th. euet.in la nn or th. audience
seated, especially when your performance .
Is so rarely given that the only thing
that ranks with it Is the Obenunmergau ,
passion play which Is presented only once
In ten years. One can understand the
deep mortification a seventeen-year locust
would feel In appearing at the end ot
thirteen years or ten years, or any num
ber of years except exactly seventeen.
A miscalculation never could be forgiven.
It would be as humiliating as Mark
Twain's experience In Switxerland when
wrapped in a blanket he sought to wit-
aess the glorious spectacle of the rising
sun and did not realise until he saw the
miles of promenading ladles and gentle
men in afternoon costume that the sun
waa setting. Punctuality is of the utmost
Importance. Every properly reared locust
knows this. If the time set for the great
periodical conclave is ' every seventeen
years,' then let It be observed to the In
stant. Tardiness la not to be extenuated.
If they prove false to their name and
appear any old year, they should be con
signed to the ranks of the locusts which
appear annually and have no ancien'
ancestry or traditions.
COCOA OUSTING TEAAND COFFEE
." . rv I
Importation, of Two Latter Show
Decline In I.aat Ten Years.
According to a report Issued by the
ureau of statistics of the. Department of
hftHhTunited States
!,, thttn a miU,0II
Commerce and Labor, cocoa Importation)
are now averaging
more than a million dollars a montn,
against an average of a quarter of a
, million dollars a month a decade ago.
.Meantime lmportatiens of both coliee and
' tea show a docllne, especially during the
iast two years.
The total quantity of cocoa imported In
the crude state in the eight months end
ing with February, 1007, is 61,209,427
pounds, valued i at $8,344,420, against
2.730,050 pounds, valued at $1,030,831, in
th corresponding months of 1807.
Thm frAtut nunnHtv nf roffp. Imnorteri
tha elirht month, of the flscai yea,
, joo7 is 047.200.151 pounds, valued at
$51,800,152, against 400,204,372 pounds,
valued at $53,320,008, In the eight month
of 18U7.
The quantity of tea Imported In the
eight months of 1007 is 72,475,440, valued
at $11,000,058, against 81,220,822 pounds,
nuM at $10,247,500 in the correspond-
uig uiuuuia ui lei.
Taking the value alone there has been
an increase of about $0,500,000 In the
Importations of cocoa, a decline of $1,
600,000 in the Importations of coffee and
an Increase of $1,333,333 in tea Importa
tions. The averaga valuation of the cocoa lm- ,
ported In the elgnt montns ending wltn
j February, 1007, is 13.0 cents per pound, '
. against 9.3 cents In the corresponding
period of 1807, that of tea 10 cents,
j against 12.0 cents a decade ago, while j
coffee shows a fall averaging 8 cents pet
'pound, in the eight months of 1007,
against 11.4 cents in me corresponding
Months of 1807.
Odds and End.
There are 234,000 telephones In New
Tork City.
Llght-balred people live longer thai
dark-haired ones. I
The largest vineyard In the world Ii
near Sun Gabriel, Cat. I
The Baptist women of the world are
upportlng 300 missionaries. I
The government runs the pawnshop
of Italy, and no interest la required on
loan. I
Th manuscript of Swinburne'
"First Book of Ballads" ha been sold
(or $1,000. ,
Is 1 estimated that three thousand
Knglaud. wa formerly a talloiv
! WM b, mak QWn offlclJ
robes. ( 1
The latest addition to th London
Museum of Natural History U a colleo-
tlon of 200,000 beetle bequeathed b
I
- , legator FIT,
SPEAKS AT THE FAIR
PRESIDENT TALK9 AT THE
JAMESTOWN EXPOSITION.
Deelarea for Goverament Control of
foal Land Advocate an In
herltanee Tas Attarka Child La
bor Law Woo Id Par Injured Em.
plores.
Asserting that the trusts are laying
wast all the natural resources of the
country. President Roosevelt, In two
extraordinary sKvchcs at the James
town Exposition, declared for federal
ownership of all the coal, oil and ranch
lands which remain In possession of
the government.
Convinced, ho said, that enormous
private fortunes nre unjustly overrid
ing the great inns'i of the public, lie
colled uikui Congress to Impose radical
Income nnd Inheritance tax laws. In
addition he advocated federal child la
bor laws nnd a national statute mak
ing employers responsible to their em
ployes for all accidents, no matter
whose the fault.
Finally, In what most of his hearers
construed to be the lntlmatum of his
lellef thnt war with Japan Is not re
mote, the President urged that no pains
be spared to raise the efficiency of the
navy.
The President began with some typi
cally Rooseveltlon advice to the editors,
warning them that they must take care
to not attack the rich merely because
they are rich, nor the poor because they
are striving for their own interests.
Then he said :
"The mineral fuels of the Eastern
United States have already passed Into
the hands of large private owners, and
those of the West ore rapidly follow
ing. This should not be, for such min
eral resources belong In a pecullur de
gree to the whole people. Under pri
vate control there Is much waste from
shortsighted methods of working, and
the complete utilisation Is often sacri
ficed for a greater immediate profit.
"The mineral fuels under our pres
ent conditions are as essential to our
prosperity as the forests will always
be. The difference Is that the supply
Is definitely limited, for coal does not
grow and trees do. It Is obvious tuat
. the mineral -fuels should be governed.
not waBted. and that enough of them
hmM Kmala ,n hnnd8 of the
, M
7
or extortionate prices so far as
that can still be done.
Mr. Roosevelt discussed the Inability
of the railroads to care for the trans
portation of freight throughout the
country. He advocated the complete
development of all the Inland water
ways for transudation purposes Ir
competition with the railroads.
Would Tax Incomes.
Mr. Roosevelt then spoke of a tax on
Incomes. He said, in part :
"In my Judgment, however, the In
heritance tax Is both a far better meth
od of taxation and far more Important
for the purpose I have In view the
purpose of having the swollen fortunes
of the country bear in proportion to
their size a constantly increasing bur
den of taxation.
"These fortunes exist solely because
of tho protection given the owners by
the public. They are a constant source
of care and anxiety to the public and
It Is eminently Just that they should le
forced to pay heavily for the protection
given them.
"I believe that the tax should con
tain the progressive principle. What
ever any Individual receives, whether
by gift, bequest, or devise, In life or
In death, should, after a certain amount
Is reached, be Increasingly burdened.
"The rate of taxation should be In
creased In proportion to the remoteness
of blood of the man receiving from the
man giving or devising."
In his morning sieech, after making
- a plea for more and hetter scljoois, for
a more rational and less literary sys-
teui of educating the masses with ogri-
cultural and Industrial colleges to take
up the task of enlightening the work
era In the field of higher labor, the
speaker approached the subject of child
and woman labor In the factories.
"The factory Is a very poor place In
deed for a child; Indeed, personally I
think the factory a poor place for a
woman certainly for a married wom
an, or ror an unmarnea woman ror
more than a very few years.
"The natlou's most valuable asset Is
the children ; for the children are the
nation of the future.
- "All people alive to the nation's need
should Join together to work for the
moral, spiritual and physical welfare
of the children In all parts of our
land.
"We need laws for the control of
vast corporations such ns were not
needed when the Individual fortunes
were far smaller than at present, and
when these fortunes were not combined
for business use.
I'ay lor Injured Workera.
"Congress should adopt legislation
providing limited but definite compen
nation for accidents to all workmen
within the scojm of the federal power,
Including employes In navy yards and
arsenals. Similar legislation should
follow throughout the states. Tho old
and Inadequate remedy of suit for neg
llgence would then gradually disap
pear.
'As a corollary let me jioliit out the
extreme unwisdom of tho railway com-
panles In fighting the constitutionality
of the national employers' liability law.
No law Is more emphatically needed,
and It must bo kept on the statute
IxHiks
rorm.
lu drastic and thoroughgoing
A Distinction.
"I thought you told me Miss Scream
er couldn't sing?"
"So I did."
"But I have heard her at social gath
erings myself a number of times."
"I said site cau't sing; I never said
she doesn't" Baltimore American.
A Man Story.
The Big Fish (boastfully ) Yes, sir;
he was at least ten feet long aud must
have weighed five hundred pounds If b I
weighed an ounce, but tbe Hue brok
and I fcwt away from him. Puck. t
the rntsT vrnzczkczzz.
-Cincinnati Post.
UNPREPARED FOR WAR.
la Conflict with Japan X nele Sam
Might Loae Islands and Alaska.
The war-like attitude o Japan is
causing considerable anx'.f-ty among
officials of the government and officers
of the navy who are fnmiriar with the
absolute lack of adequate preparation
on the part of the Unit 3 States for
hostilities.
It Is snld thnt 'a declaration of war
by Japan would be followed by the im
mediate loss of our Philippine posses
sions. Guam, Hawaii, Alaska and the
menacing of our Pacific const.
The United States is to-day less pre
pared to meet Japan In the Pacific
waters than Spain was on 1898 to meet
the United States. All the strength
of our fleet Is at present in Atlantic,
waters, and the small ships In the far
east would be as 1unk to the powerful
and well concentrated Japanese navy.
The story is summed up In the bare
statement that to-day there is but one
drydock of capacity to dock a battle-
.JAPAN COVtTif
WHAT JAPAN HAS AND WANTS.
i
ship on our Pacific frontier, that at
Hremernon. The uew dock at Alongapo.
! I-. which wos towed from Solomon's
Island, Maryland, Is 6tlll without shops
on shore sufficient for repairs and can
bo usitl only for painting and scraping.
For some reason not easy for the
average citizen to discover there Is
not an American battleship between
San Francisco nnd Manila. One by one
they have boon withdrawn from Pacific
waters nnd Joined to the Atlantic fleet,
where they rendezvous at Newport 'nnd
Jamestown, until there remains in the
far east and on the Pacific coast only
light armored cruise ?s nnd second nnd
third class ships of the cruiser type.
any and all of which would be no more
than good target practice for a siiad
ron of modern battleships.
It Is privately admitted, according
to n Washington correspondent, that
the Navy Department hesitates to or
der battleships to the Pacific waters at
this time. While having every posslMe-
right to do so without utestlon. It Is
well known that such a move would be
seized upon by the Japanese as
. an Indication of hostile Intent,
J nnd It might easily be made
' subject of diplomatic Inquiry a th
the
ing
which would not for n moment be tol-
crated by our Secretary of State nnd
which might Itself provoke a quarrel.
The lack of proier coaling stations.
It Is admitted by naval experts, would
be n serious handicap If we were
plunged Into a war with Japan ot this
time. Kven colliers nre lacking In suf
ficient numbers to proin-rly coal the
fleet. Tbe only coaling stations In the
radflc ore nt Cuvlte, 30,000 tons ca
pacity; Ounm, 3,."sH) tons; Samoa.
1,000 tons; Hawaii, 30,000 tons; Mare
Island. 20,0i0; Puget Sound, 22,000;
Sitka, Alaska, 0,0ti0 tons.
Gold may be beaten until on ounce
Is spread over 140 square feet
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DrSMiirfKg)5Kx.
CHARITIES CONFERENCE.
Thirty-Fourth National Meet la Heltf
In Mlnneapolla.
The thirty-fourth National Confer
ence of Charities uud Correction ended
Its week of dally sessions at Minneap
olis. Amos X. Butler, secretary of the
Indiana State Board or Charities, pre
sided, nnd 2,000 delegates attended,
representing the principal cities and
towns throughout the country. The
oicniug address was that of Senator
Ueveridge on child labor, and In the
course of the week paiers on almost
every topic touched by organized char
ities was read.
One of the most interesting sessions,
was thut devoted to the promotion of
health In home, school and factory. In
this meeting the question of clean milk,
house-cleaning, house-to-house teachers.
of cooking, visiting nurses and home
life for hospital patients were dis
cussed. Dr. Knopf of New York told
or the different kinds of medical exam
ination now made In connection with
the promotion or health at school, and
suggested the isisslbillties or school
co-oierat!ng with churches and other
reller societies. Dr. Owen Copp, of
Boston, and others spoke of an un
proved system of public care for the
Insane. A long program was devoted
to the National Children's Home Soci
ety, which has branch societies In ev
ery State, conducted by men and wom
en who give their time without pay
to the work of finding suitable homes
for orphans. Each State association
conducts Its work through local Inter
denominational boards.
O. F. Lewis, or New York, estimated
that more tramps are killed on Ameri
can railroads yearly than the combined
total passengers and trainmen. He
contended that our present method of
treating vagrants nre neither sufficient
ly repressive to the real vagrant nor
sufficiently belpf ul to the accidental
wayfarer. Woodyards and lodging
houses do not diminish the national
army of tramps. He believes that pre
ventive measures must be based upon,
two principles. First, that the abie
bodled vagrant must work for what he
receives; and, second, that the punish
ment ror Intentional vagrancy must be
more severe. The prevailing policy of
causing arrested vagrants to move. on
rom one town to another should be
abandoned. He advises sentencing pro-
fesjdonnl vagrants to bard labor.
Dr. Llndslay R. Williams, of Colum
bia university, speaking of the alleged
army of 100,000 hreakfastless school
children In New York, said that the
Committee on Physical Welfare, after
Investigating 4.KKi families, had found
that only one-tenth of 1 per ?ent of
the children of those families went
without breakfast to school.
All Arouud the Globe.
Charles ('. Vost, local manager for the
American Tohaeeo Company, committed
suicide at Louisville, Ky. Ill health was
the cause.
Five men were killed by on explosion
in the plant of the Sinneaiahoning Pow
der Manufacturing Company ot Sinne
ma honing, Pa.
Alleging misapplication of funds, for
mer State Senator F. W. Dallinjzer of
Cambridge, who is receiver for the Amer
ican Birth Insurance Company, brought
equity action in the Superior Court in
Boston against the officers of the com
pany. The government and the railroads are
taking steps to avert a fuel famine in the
West ami Northwest next winter, by lay
ing iu a large supply of cual at an early
date.
The jury in the ease of the I'ncle Sam
Oil Com puny, in which II. II. Tucker,
Jr., sought to have the receiver removed,
decided against Tucker at Leavenworth,
Kan.
The State Department has decided to
find another post for John Jenkins,
American consul ot Son Salvador, aud
will send Samuel K. Magill, present con
sul at Tampico, Mexico, to San Salvador,
A receiver wus opjiointed at Omaha
for the O'Duuuliue-Kedwuod-Norniile Dry
(ioods Company. Mursliall Field & Co.,
Pitkin & Brooks and Butler Brothers of
Chicago are tbe largest creditors.
The jewel case Uwi by the dowager
Duchess of Roxburghe during a railway
journey from London to Iktncaster, Eng
land, June l. was found intact in th
car where ft bad been mislaid.
John W. Yerkes of Danville, Ky., whe
recently resigned as commissioner of in
ternal revenue of the I'nlted States, seri
ously strained the ligaments of bis right
knee and sprained bit right ankle at Cin
cinnati by slipping on a stairway.