Jk
Age cnnnot wither the Infinite vnrloi
f of an actress' husbands. Now York
tall.
Summer will have to go some to
wke tip for tills spring. New York
rail.
A woman linn ou awful good time
oping other women envy her. New
"ork Press.
The more fun you could have spend-
money, the more you don't know
Jtiere to get It. New York Press.
, Contrnets niny be divided Into bnr
alns, mnrrlages and rittsburg mntrl
xinlal alliances. New York Sun.
tf the Spanish bnhy has bad Its first
ttnek of eolie, the news has been care
ully suppressed. Washington Post.
. In all probability there will be no
hortage in the wheat crop except for
trading purposes. I'hlladelphla Tress,
, Millinery stores are now advertising
be "airship hat." Another way to
nake the money fly. Washington
?ost.
Ruef snys be fears injustice In San
Tranctseo. But It's exactly the other
Jilng that scares him. Philadelphia
j When wheat reaches $1 the farmers
ire reconciled to the wicked men In
J pit who "deal In futures." -New
Cork Tribune.
. To complete bis popularity King Al
fonso has only to appear on the streets
it Madrid pushing a perambulator.
Jew York Sun.
' "How does our weather man nake
Bit predictions?" queries the Washing
ton Post. Poorly, brother, poorly
New Yerk Mall.
i No -doubt the Hon. Abe Ruef la a
firm believer In the theory that a man
atoould not be hit when be Is down.
New York Mail.
! Mark Twain Is to get a degree from
Oxford University. But will he ever
uceeed In acquiring the Oxford man
JDer? New York Sun.
j Notice that the Weather Bureau Is
asking no credit, even among the farm
ers, for the dollar-v. lien t episode.
Philadelphia Inquirer,
j Ian Maclaren was neither a warrior
nor a politician, but tlie mourning for
him Is deep, sincere, and worldwide.
Philadelphia Inquirer.
I ; A New Jersey woman Is going to far
off -.Asia to get a husband. No place
is too far and no danger Is too threat
ening. New York Herald.
The sentence of a New York woman
to seven years' Imprisonment for kill
ing a man reflects upon the value of
tie man Philadelphia Ledger.
I The New York Ice Trust Is to ex
pand to embrace coal and wood, so
i there will be no closed season for Its
j patrons. Philadelphia Ledger.
German scientists, In opposing the
nee of the rod at school, may be cer
tain of the hearty approbation of the
small boy. Philadelphia Lodger.
When a man wears clothes that are
out of style either be Is so poor be has
to worry about something else or so
rich ho doesn't worry about anything.
New York Press.
The magazine writer who deplores
the decadence of the English language
could get Into a better frame of mind
by skipping the baseball rejHHts.
Philadelphia Ledger.
. It was an English actress, not an
American, who suppressed news of her
marriage through fear that she would
be accused of seeking to advertise her
self. New York World.
Commentators upon the new plan to
! make Chicago beautiful will probably
not speak about painting the lily or
aJ.I!.... ....... I. I- -
nuuiiiu uuuiwr uuu uuiu mo ruiuuuw.
New York Tribune.
A London literary critic thinks that
laughter is Immoral. Pbyslcluns say
It Is a splendid aid to digestion. Shall
we be morally dysieptlc or unmorally
happy? New York Sun.
Nebraska farmers must be rldlug la
Pullman cars mainly now. The Legis
lature has passed a bill reducing parlor-car
charges within the State oue
thlrd. New York World.
The ceremony Incident to the chris
tening of the little Spanish prince con
tinued for two days. Christening a
boy with 12 names Is a strenuous un
dertaking. Washington Herald.
That Chicago man who proposed at
luucheon and married at sundown Is
liable to get In the divorce court at
breakfast and get a decree befori bin
noon refresher. Cincinnati Col imer
clul. Although the er capita consumption
of sugur In this country was 70 pounds
last yeur, it was not enough to coun
teract the effect of the lemons handed
to a good many of us. Washington
Post.
Mark Twain1 Is complaining about a
man who looks like him. Still, If the
man doesn't look enough like him to
draw bis pay at the cashier's window,
he has no real kick coining. Washing
ton I'ost.
A scientific sharp some time ago de
tected a human soul In the act of leav
ing a body, and now a Haverhill doc
tor has succeeded In weighing one.
Homebody may yet catch one of they
if they don't watch out. New York
World.
The Pennsylvania Hall road station
at Oxford, near Philadelphia, sold for
(12! This must lie that much-predicted
ruin of prosperity ! Pittsburg Post.
From the number of eloiKiueuts re
ported from 1 Ma wore we have good
reason to believe that the peach crop
lu tUr.t State U not a failure. Wash
ington Post.
The 1 Icy wood trial ut Boise Is re
markable c-LIeily bccuusti the uuwrltten
law.- dementia Americana and the Flo
rouoru sextet cuts no figure In It
WasblngHu Pott.
THE CHINESE FAMINE.
Wretchedness Reaches Its Deepest
Depths la (he Stricken Heglon.
There Is no abatement In the dread
ful Chinese famine which confronts
16,000,000 people and In which 6,000
persons sre snld to be dying every
day. The horrors of this dreadful
visitation will never he accurately told,
for hey are beyond the jscver of words
to express. Side by side are Instances
pf shocking depravity nnd of marvel
ous heroism. Cannibalism Is now com
mon, and the living are rifling the
raves of the dead and devouring the
eorpses. Children are Ising offered for
sale on every hand and even offered as
gifts with the hope of saving them
from death by starvation.
In many cases now tbi famine vic
tims are dying of disease or poison.
All kinds of wild weeds lire being eat
en and some of the latter Mug poison
ous produce death. Tito fever which
always follows In the wake of famine
Is beginning to claim Its victims and
In some of the famine renters small pox
has broken out and heroine epidemic.
The wretched condition of the (eople
Is seen In an Incident which befell Cap
tain Klrton, an Englishman, one of the
representatives of the Foreign Belief
Committee. The people In most parts
of the famine area had never seen a
white man before, sr.y Captain Klrton.
They were Intensely curious, but there
was an entire absence of hostility. In
one village they congregated In front of
the village "Inn" In great crowds. Half
of them were starving. I was talking
tn the head man, through my Interpre
ter, and he was In a state of terrible
distress on account of his people. I
thoughtlessly took a tin of biscuits from
my own stock of supplies and began to
give them to the youngsters. In a mo
ment there was a wild rush of men,
women and children, and It was only
by a liberal use of sticks that my es
cort of soldiers and yamen runners pre
vented me from being moblicd and pos
sibly smasncd up simply by the mad
rush of hundreds of starving human
beings.
ONE WOMAN IN FIVE A WORKER,
orae Qaeer Occupation Iteported by
the Crmna Itureau.
The census bureau has issued a re
port Showing that in the I'nited States,
exclusive of Alnska, Hawaii and other
outlying territories, there are 4fiXl,Km
women at work. The total number of
women ltl years of age and over lu con
tinental United States in 1000 was 2UV
485,550, which makes one woman in ev
ery five a breadwinner. Of the number
reported a divorced, 55.3 per cent were
supporting themselves wholly or In part
by their own earnings. It has been sug
gested that the increase of divorce Is
partly attributable to the more indepen
dent economic poult ion of women.
DomcHtlc service, notwithstanding the
Increased diversity of employments for
woareti, remains the moHt important of
the occupations, almost oue-fourtb of
those reported as engaged in gainful pur
suits being returned as servants.
The census shows that five females
were employed as pilots ; that on steam
railroads 10 were employed as baggage
men, 31 as brakempn, 7 as conductors,
45 as engineers and firemen and 20 as
switchmen, yardmen and flagnien ; that
4.t were carriage and hack drivers, 0
ship carpenters, and 2 roofers and slat
ers; that 185 were returned as black
smiths and 508 as machinists ; that 8
were bollermakers, !)1 were charcoal, coke
and lime burners and 11 were well borers.
On July 19, 1008, the College of St.
Cuthbert completes the centenary of its
foundation at Uxhaw, Durham, England.
Dr. W. II. McOlaughlln of Minneap
olis has been made general superintend
ent of the Univerxallst church in the
I'nited States, the highest honor in the
gift of bis denomination.
The Rev. John O. Foster, superannu
ated member of the Rock River confer
ence, is filling the chair of practical the
ology in the Kimball school of theology,
University of Paget Sound, at Tacoma,
Wash.
The Rev. A. K. Balrd, I). D who
spent several years as synodical mission
ary of Montana after similar service in
Iowa, Minnenula and the Dakota, has ac
cepted the position of pastor at large for
Helena presbytery.
During the farewell dinner at New
York In honor of "Uipsy" Smith, the
English evangelist, and Rev. James I,aw,
secretary of the
British council of
free churches, under
the auspice of
which the evangelist
ha been working,
Mr. Smith said he
had preached 450
times in the seven
month he had been
In this country, be
sides milking many
in forum 1 addresses,
civinz Immli'cilu nf
UTPBTiiiTH. iIlt,.rvlews and writ
ing hllijdreds of letters. Ho mild he had
spokeu to more than l.(HK.(HH) persons,
and had sn 50,0ts of them hold up
their liauds and give themselves to Christ.
An additional religious order Is now
represented iu the Milwaukee archdio
cese. The Rev. Conrad Ebart, O. S. B.,
a Benedictine father from St. Vincent's
arch abbey, Beatty, Pa., having beeu ap
pointed chaplain of the Sacred Heart
MiilUrluiu in that city.
The fifth international Sunday school
convention began its setuiou at Rome,
Italy, about 1,(1(10 delegates being In at
tendance, representing 3(,KrMHhJ people
throughout the world. At the opening
session messages of congratulation from
nearly all of the rulers and chief execu
tives of different uutious were received.
Ou June U the National Jewish Hos
pital for Consumptive at Denver will
dedicate the beautiful new women's pa
vilion, the Adolph Lewlsohu chapel, and
a number of other new structures
As soon as a favorable site Is selected
the Adath Joseph congregation of St.
Joseph, Mo., will erect a new synagogue,
which will cost about $50,(SM. The
present synagogue was built in 1850.
The Protestant bishops in Ireland, with
the exception of the primate, who is a
graduate of Oxford, have adopted and
issued a series of resolutions la which
they refuse to accept the university
scheme outlined by Mr. Bryce.
K3E323B
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ikllNAINUAL
CHICAGO.
Aelde from the rffe-t of unfavorable
weather on leading retail line, the course
of business is steady, production in tha
industrial branches being fully sustained
and new demands carrying the period of
assured forward work farther into l'JOS.
No diminution apHiir in the pressure
for supplies of raw material.
Current Inquiries indicate thnt heavy
rders for rails and equipment are Im
pending, snd there is fair activity in fur
nace produrt, structural shapes and wire.
Local building operations iri ,olvr unusual
consumption of nmtcriaK and the forces
employed Increase, at exceptionally high
wages.
.Manufacturing condition remain fa
vorable, wood and leather working plants
steadily Increasing outputs, and there is
a large distribution of electric and brass
goods. Receipts of ore fall short of ex
pectations, owing to late opening of nav
igation, hut freKh arrival of lumber and
hides exceed those of a year ago. Deal
ings in the wholesale branches make a
fair aggregate. ,
Mercantile collections continue to be
very encouraging. Bank statements this
week exhibit deposits at the highest level.
Commercial borrowing is not particularly
urgent at this time, hut money works
easier, although the discount rate re
mains at 5',i er cent.
The markets for provisions and live
slock reflect steady absorption, and bet
ter receipts of hogs increase packing, but
the breadstuff are in lessened demand,
the rapid rise in prices having discour
aged cash operations. The total move
ment of grain at this port aggregated
only 7,403,88(1 bushels, against 0,308,
130 bushels last week and 5,740,088 buxh
els a year ago. Compared with thoiie of
last year, there are increases in receipts
of 14.3 per cent and lu shipments 42.0
per cent. Receipts of live stock were
200.803 head, againxt 253,815 head last
week and 280,814 head last year.
Failures reported In the Chicago district-number
14, against 20 last week
and 24 a year ago. Dim's Review of
Trade.
NEW YORK.
Crop and trade reports are Irregular
out there is a slight improvement visible
as a whole, owing to higher tempera
tures. Relatively the best reports as te
retail and wholesale trade come from
the Pacific Northwest. In the central
West, Southwest, Northwest, East and
South the volume of retail trade Is be
hind a year ago almost without exception.
Foundry pig iron markets are firmer.
Business for 1908 is appearing In various
lines. Within the week 25.000 tons ol
malleable Bessemer were sold In Cleve
land for delivery in the first part of 1008,
the price basis being $22 per ton, valley
furnaces. Some southern iron has also
been disposed of for first quarter ship
ment, the quotation being $18.50 Bir
mingham. Demand for basic pig for de
livery In the last half of 1007 la quits
heavy.
Business failures for the week ending
May 23 number 103, against 184 last
week, 170 in the like week of UXXi, 170
in 1905, 184 In 1004 and 181 In 1903.
Canadian failures for the week number
19, as against 22 last week and !3 In
this week a yeur ago. Bradstreet's Com
tnercial Report.
ea
ch ics go Cattle, common to prime
$4.(Xl to $0.55; hogs, prime heavy, $4.00
to $0.35; heep, fair to choice, $3.00
to $0.1O; wheat, No. 2, IMJc to t8c;
corn, No. 2, 53c to 54c ; oats, standard,
45c to 47c ; rye, No. 2, K4c to 80c ; hay,
timothy. $14.(K) to $21.00; prairie, $9.0Q
to $15.00; butter, choice creamery, 22c
to 24c ; eggs, f reifh, 13c to 15c ; potatoes,
50c to UOe.
Indianapolis Cattle, shipping, $3.00
to $0.00; hogs, choice heavy, $4.(K tc
$0.5a; sheep, common to prime, $3.00 to
$5.25; wheat, No. 2, 01c to 93c; corn,
No. 2 white, !V5c to 54c; oats, No.
white, 42c to -ic.
St. Louis Cattle. $4.50 to $0.25 1
bogs, $1.00 to $0.52; sheep, $3.00 to
$5.50; wheat, No. 2, 07c to OSc; corn,
No. 2, 53c to.55e; oats. No. 2, 43c to
45c ; rye, No. 2, 75c to 70c.
Cincinnati Cut tie, $4.X to $-5.00;
hogs, $4.00 to $0.55; sheep, $3.00 to
$5.00; wheat, No. 2, 95o to 00c; corn,
No. 2 mixed, 53c to 55c; oats, No. 2
mixed, 4.!c to 44c ; rye, No. 2, 74o to 70c,
DetroitCuttle, $1.00 to $5.75; hogs,
$4.00 to $ll.li(; khecp. $2.50 to $5.50;
vcwt, No. 2, 99c to $1.00; com, No. 3
yellow, 55c to 57c ; oats, No. 3 white,
47c to 49c; rye, No. 2, 80c to 87c.
Milwaukee' Wheat, No. 2 northern.
99c to $1.01; corn, No. 3, 52c to 53c;
oats, standard, 44c to 4.ic; rye. No. 1,
81c to 8.tc; barley, standard, 83c to 84o
pork,- mess, $10.45.
Buffalo Cattle, choice shipping steers.
$1.99 to $tl.OO; hogs, fair to choice, $4.00
to JBi.75 ; sheep, common to good mixed,
$1.00 to $5.75; lambs, fulr to choice,
$..(H to f 7.0O.
New York Cattle, $1.00 to $0.00
hogs, $4.00 to $7.00; sheep. $3.00 to
$0.50; wheat, No. 2 red, $1.01 to $1.03
corn, No. 2, tlOc to 02c; outs, unturs
while, 49c to 51c; butter, creamery, 23c
to 2.c; CRgs, western, luc to 17c.
Toledo.-Wheat, No. 2 mixed, 09e to
$100: corn. No. 2 mixed, 55c to 57c
sits. No. 2 mixed, 40c to 47c; rye. No.
2, 79c to 80c; clover seed, prime, $.H.oo,
Interesting New Items,
Joseph Milncr is under arrest as the
result of the liuding of the dead body of
T. Kir nmns, a storekeeper at Siruiuns'
station, Madison county, Florida.
More than a score of families were ren
dered homeless by a fire which swept
Lincoln, .. II., entailing a loss of $100.
0W. Twenty-two col luges and two lurge
residences were destroyed.
George W. Caldwell, a contractor, was
served at Little Hock, Ark., with a war
rant based ou an indictment churging
graft in connection with the new State
capitol.
The steel steamer Saxon, owned by the
Pittsburg Slvaniship Company, went
awhore on aribou Island, Ijike Superior.
duriag a fog, and is declared to be in bad
shape.
Secretary of State Schmull formally
denied to the Minnesota Retail Lumber
IValers' Association the right to incor
porate on the ground that its articles of
incorporation tiled March 12 were i;
conflict with the State anti trust laws.
iflllnliilllS
The musicians of R'allejo, Cul., hnve
formed .a labor union.
Belville (Canada) rariienters are ask
ing for an increase iu. wages.
i
Granite cutters of Hard wick, Vt have
won their fight for better wage.
A district council of cement workers
will be formed in San Francisco, Cul.
San Jose (CnU Street Cnr Men's j
l.'uiuu is agitating for nn increase in pay.
Laundry Workers' Fnion of Alameda
coiMity, Cnl., ha made a demand for ou
eight-hour day.
I'nion labor is r lu'win,' Interest In a
proposition to eslabli-li a "labor temple''
iu Boston, Mas.
The Snn Francisco (Cat.) building ma
terial teamsters' union now ha on (he
roster 2.000 names.
The Winoii.i leather workers' union
ha alliliuted with the Minnesota State
Fcdcrutloii of Labor.
Announcement ha been made that all
Italian barber shops in San Francisco
hare been unionized.
Leather worker on horse goods at To
ronto, Can., are asking nn increase of 15
per cent in their wages.
The Internalioiial I'nion of IIoro-
shocrs of the I'nited Slates and Canada
was organised in 1875.
The New York police now desire an
eight-hour day. Several himfli'cd of them
recently met and organized a union.
The Ontario branch of the Canadian
Labor party was recently organized at a
lively meeting of labor men nt Toronto.
The Sacramento Labor Temple Asso
ciation hopes to have it $50,(SH temple"
reaily for occupancy by next I-alMr day.
Agricultural laborers at Argentn, In
the Province of Ferra. Italy, are on
strike for a more equitable division of
labor and wages. (
The New York Labor Bulletin, just
issued by the Department of ljilior, gives
the number of organized men and woiuea
in the Empire State as 39S,4!U.
A new lodge of the Brotherhood of
Railway Carmen was instituted recently
In Minneapolis. The membership is al
most wholly from the Soo shops.
There is a movement on foot to estab
lish a weekly labor paper In Oakland,
Cal. The Central Labor Council of Ala
meda county is behind the project.
A special committee from the Minne
apolis Team Owners' I'nion is investi
gating the feasibility of the I'nion going
into the feed buNiness on the co-operative
plan.
Louisville (Ky.) union pspcrhnngers
who voted to strike gained the advance
In wages asked from the wall paper deal
ers, and returned to work under a yeor's
agreement.
More atteution Is to be given to South
ern states by the American Federation
of Labor, which is planning to build up
a stronger labor movement in that section
of the country.
Stogiemakers lnted to npply for a
charter from the American Federation of
Labor. Their application hitherto has
been contested by the International Cl-
ga makers' Union. '
A compromise proposition to end the
strike of the lithographers for the eight
hour workday., and which has been on
since Aug. 4 Inst, has been sent to refer
endum for action.
Puttcrnmnkers' League of North Amer
ica spent $0,300 in organization work iu
the Eastern Coast Slntes Inst year, and
since that time new meVibers of the union
have received $21X1,000 in wages as a di
rect result of that work.
Electrical worker, machinists and
blacksmiths of Great Falls, Mont., who
recently went on strike, hnve signed a
contract for five year. All the smelter
employes are now back to work, and all
are bound by five-year contrnets.
President (lomiiers of the American
Federation of Labor ha given his official
sane lion to a merger of the Sun Fran
cisco Water Works' Fnion with the gas
workers. The organization will be known
as the Gas and Water Workers' I'nion.
Metal Workers' I'nion, at Minneapolis,
is milking preparations to institute a
uew uuion composed of factory und as
sortment workers and can worker. The
workmen of these crafts ore tinners, and
there are a large number employed iu the
various local factories.
A movement is on foot by the Amalga
mated Engineer of Euglund for a fur
ther advauce in wage, uotice for which
have been given to I be olliciuls of the
Employers' Federation. The matter will
come before the joint committee at an
early date In London.
Washington (D. C.)- Central Labor
Fnion recently passed a resolution to
the effect that the various trade con
nected with the body, and not belonging
to the building trades, be induced agaiu
to take up the! question of an allied coim
cll of miscellaneous trades and form an
organization to be known a the Allied
Ijibel League of the Central Labor
I'nion.
If present plans nre carried out, Chi
cago will have a union hotel, built lay
uuion men exclusively, all it furnish;
and appointments to Ih union iniide, mid
every person employed, from bell boys to
manager, shall be members of labor or
ganization. It 1 believed that the labor
uuiouisl of Chicago, regular residents
and transient, who live iu hotel nre
Kiitliciinilly numerous to make a vry
lurge hotel a success.
Sail Francisco Plumbers' I'nion is one
of the most progressive trades organiza
tion iu the cily. Recently it took Ml
option ou a lot valued nt $20.(XX). if the
title i found perfect the union will pur
chase the lot and erect a suitable home
for It urowiug membership.
At the interstate conference of trade
union representative, held at Sydney,
New South VYaieM. during the eight-hour
celebration, it was jiiiauimoiiHly resolved
to recommend a uuiforai trade union
label, to be placed on nil articles pro
duced under union conditions of labor
iu the commonwealth.
Women compositors of Christ ianiu and
Bergen, Norway, are to be paid the wime
rates as ineu, after five years' apprent
iceship and the passing of a test as to
being fully qualilied.
Knoxv.lle (Tenn.l carmuters have
reached an agreement with the contract
ors whereby the carpenters will receive
thirty rents an hour, niue hours a day
and union shop conditions.
The weaver, who have been on strike
in Pawtucket, R. I., have voted to return
at the increase offered by the proprietors.
The ouerf'tives asked for an advance of
1 cent a yard, and they have accepted
cent.
MRS. M'KINLEY DEAD.
WMow nf Mart)rril President Pitssee
Array at t'nntun.
Mrs. McKlnley, the widow of the
martyred Prcsldct.t "xpircil nt Clin
ton, Ohio, Sunday afternoon, lice
death was so peaceful thnt It was with
difficulty the physicians noted when
dissolution cume. There was no pain
and no struggle. The Isjdy of Mrs. Mc
Klnley Is to rest in the -Vault In West
Lawn cemetery, which holds the re
mains of her husband, until the com
pletion of the national mausoleum on
Monument bill, when both caskets will
be transferred to recrptucles in thnt
tomb.
Although for tbiiiv ve.tr Mrs. Mc
Klnley hud been something of nn Inva
lid, she was comniirutlvclv well until a
week before death, when she suffered
stroke of paralysis.
Throughout the Iouk period of her
Invalidism, dating from the death of
tier two little children. Mrs. McKlnley
showed n firm and unwavering belief
in the career of her husband nud bv
her cheering words. In spite of person-
al ulllictions, encouraged him when
there was darkness ut luind. She be
lieved that bis star of destiny would
never set until ho bad IsM-ome Presi
dent of this land and for more than a
quarter of a century cherished that be
lief until her bois-s were realized.
After President McKlnley's death
she expressed a desire to Join him and
prayed day by day thnt she might die.
Luter, however, she freipieutly told
friends she desired to live until the
completion of the McKlnley mauso
leum, which is the gift of the nation
and which Is to be dedicated on Monu
ment hill Sept. 30 next.
Mrs. McKlnley was born lu Canton
June 8, 1847. James A. Saxton, her
father, was nn intellectual aud pro
gressive business umu aud banker, his
wife u lady of culture nnd refiuemeiit.
Idu Saxton was reared iu a home of
comfort and ease. After attending
Canton schools she was n pupil nt a
prlvute school at Delhi. N. Y. Later
she went to n Cleveland academy und
finished her education ut Brook Hall
seminary. Media, Pa.
While she taught Sunday school In
the Presbyterian church young Lawyer
William McKlnley wus superintendent
of the First Methodist Episcopal Sun
day school. Among many admirers nnd
suitors the handsome young soldier,
who hud been with Grant nnd Sher
man and won distinction in the Shen
andoah valley, wus the favored one.
Her life us the wife of William Mo
Klnley was n devoted one. They never
"kept house" while lie was in Congress
because of her Invalid state. She, how
ever, desired to be with him ns much
as possible a ml spent much time iu
Washington. On his ciu.ipalgn tours
while he was Congressman, Governor
and President, she journeyed with him
After McKinley's term us Governor
ended, they came to Canton In Janu
ary, 1S'.M!, In time to celebrate their
silver wedding ntuilversury In the first
home of their early married life. This
wedding anniversary was the begin
ning of a year mid two months' resi
dence lu Clinton, during which time
Mr. McKlnley wus noniiiMtcd und
elected President of the I'nited Slates,
GOES UP IN SMOKE.
Many Million Knteu lp by Actus.
Klres und liy Fire I'rcilecl Ion.
Ill all this huge country of ours we
built about $500,01X1.1 XXI worth of new
buildings a year; our tire losses, includ
ing cost of fire departments and insur
ance, exceeds that sum. Two hundred
million dollars i uctuully burned up
gone into smoke; tire departments, high
water pressure and all that sort of thing
mean nearly $:i(X).lHMl,(XH) more; we uu
nuully pay out $l95.(xxi.txx (o the gen
tlemen who condescend to gamble with
us ou the question of tire in insurance
premiums. We get back, after consider
able trouble aud Home litigation, about
$95,(KK).lKXl from the insurance com
panies as e slight salve for our fire in
juries'. Surely not u prolituble gamble.
Now then, the above are norma! losses,
so culled. One lire, like San Francis
co's, menus $:t 1 5.(H H l.l It 111 wasted iu smoke,
$1,INNI,XX).(XHI iu lost business to that
city und the country generally. $12,1X10,
(NNI to clean up the debris uud $.'!50,tXX,
(XHI aud 2d years' time to get the city
in the condition il wus before the fire.
To count erlm la nee all that vast totul
the people of San Francisco may, after
long delays, much quibbling Jiud tiring
litigation uud fussing, get $?".!5,(XX),XH)
from the insula nee companies!
Hliort News Notes.
Geu. FiiiisIoii used to collect botanical
specimens for the Department of Agri
cult lire.
Iopold, King of the Belginus, Is said
to be l lie richer) monarch iu Europe, next
to the Czar of ltussiu.
The Duke of Oilcans contemplates an
expedition to explore the northeast coast
of Greenland this spring.
The Sultan of Tiirkey eats sparingly,
eat meat seldoinr, and water Is his prin
cipal lieverage, supplies of w hich are con
veyed to his puljce iu sealed barrels.
The Priuce of Monaco is again afloat
on science bent. This time he has sailed
for Spilzhergeu to pios.-cule his investi
gation as to the currents of the upper
air.
Col. O. G. Munson. a State Seuator of
Wlsconsiu, is also Gov, Davidsou's pri
vate secretary. He ha uot drawn a dol
lar of his iwy a Senator, returning the
whole amount to the trenvury.
The Rev. James Wood.ov,-, who died re
ently, was deposed from hi professor
ship in a tgiiiheru theological .TniuHry
ind convicllTl of heresy about twenty
fears ago for advocating the doctriut) of
tvol ution.
ias. u'klnlky.
COLD HURTS CROPS.
WEATHER FOR MAY WORST IN
25 YEARS.
Wet Fields Kail of Rottlnc Seeds
rd Manr Farmers Face Crop
Failure Theory as to Cause of
C hilling- masts.
The unprecedented cold wentlieT
which has held the entire country east
of the Ilocky Mountains In Its grip
for the hist two weeks has wrought
enormous damage to crops of every
kind. The Washington weather bureau
reports that not since 1HS2 jns the ab
normal weather of the present year
been approached lu severity.
As to the c!!usr of the unseasonable
weather condition now prevailing the
experts of the weather bureau have
two facts ami one theory. One fact Is
that priicticnlly every bit of the cold
air that has .been rushing down from
the Northwest has come from tile di
rection of Siberia. Another fact Is
that It bus come in such great volumes
thnt It has leaped over the natural bar
riers found In the mountains of British
Columbia and spread over the North
west, the middle West, around the great
lakes to New York nnd New Ktiglund,
midas far south as Kansas.
We have nil Idea," wild Professor
II. (). Friinkeiifeld of the forecust di
vision of the weather bureau, "thnt an
extraordinary amount of snow has fall
en in Siberia during the last five or
six mouths. All the heat bus apparent
ly radiated from it. leaving an Intense
ly cold mass covering the earth. Arctic
winds blowing over that mass of snow
nnd Ice do not have their temiKrature
raised to any" appreciable extent before
they hit the American continent. The
wind that blow across from Siberia ap
parently are without moisture. The re
sult is n high pressure over the north
ern part of the American continent,
while In the south there Is n low press
ure. Atmosphere, like water, kows to
the lowest point. There Is no doubt
about the course of the cold winds that
have served to make the oldest inhabi
tants speuk of this spring as if it were
the coldest In human experience1, which
It is not."
Conditions In Many States.
The following reports, showing crop
conditions for various sections of the
country have been received :
Peoria, 111. The abnormally cold
weather in this section of the country
has played havoc with crops, and not
more than half a crop of oats and wheat
Is expected. What is known us "the green
bug" is working in the wheat and oats
and the cold weather has retarded the
growth of the cereals to such au extent
that the insect has gotten in its work
with disastrous result. In central Illi
nois uot even half a crop is expected.
The cold weather has left the grouud iu
poor shape for planting corn and the
farmers report the outlook discouraging.
La Crosse, Wi. Reports to offices of
southern Minnesota branches of the St.
Paul railway, which covers the bulk of
the best wheat territory in Minnesota and
South Dakota, are that the weather of
the past week has proven favorable to
crops. Ninety-five per cent of the seed
ing of wheat, oats, rye, aud barley had
been done. The condition of ground is
very good and farmers expect an average
crop, if weather remains favorable from
now on. The crop is now two weeks be
hind. Minneapolis, Minn. Although the crop
outlook In the Northwest seemed unfav
orable at the outset, present prospects
are that the grain will give a bigger yield
this season than last; in fact, the situa
tion in the Northwest could not he bright
er, for general condition nre such that
this section should enjoy unparalleled
prosperity this year.
Cincinnati, Ohio. There has been a
remarkable, continuance of cold, highly
unseasonable weather in this acgion for
many weeks past. The only crop to be
Injured at all are the grapes and berries,
as all growing grain crops are too fur ad
vanced to be seriously hurt.
Cleveland, Ohio. The cold weather and
the rains hnve not done much dumage to
wheat in Ohio. Reports received from
every section of the State state the cold
is delaying the growth of the wheat, but
the germ is all right. Fruit have not
fared so well in this State.
Wabash, Ind. The unseasonable
weath ha cut the wheat one-half, even
though conditions are favorable until har
vest. The corn is all planted, but with
mercury below 40, almost nightly, the
plants have been badly nipied and cut
worm are at work. Fruit is practically
all killed and vegetables have suffered
severely.
Keokuk, Iowa Oat and w inter wheat,
the only kind of wheat raised in this
section, made an excellent showing, aud
with future favorable weather good crops
of these cereals will be harvested.. Com
is making a fair stand, grass made a slow
start, und there will be a very short hay
crap. Fruit is almost a totttl failure,
including early apples, peaches, pears,
plum ami cherries. The berry crop is
short.
Omaha, Neb. As compared with six
weeks ago the condition of Nebraska
wls-at ha fallen otT. somewhere from
15 to 20 per cent. Six weeks ago, how
ever, the condition wa as near perfect
a wa ever known. Corn ha beeu plant
ed under exceptionally favorable condi
tion and the acreage is slightly in ex
cess of last year.
lH'troit, Mich. The most buck ward
spring in the memory of even the "old
est inhabitant" bus seriously hurt the
farmers of Michigan, aud will later make
it effects felt on the consumers. Tim
mouth of May till through the Wolver
ine State ha been like the March of or
dinary years, und all crop are sure to
be at least a month behind. The fruit
crop will undoubtedly be short this year,
and present indications point to a small
and poor berry crop. Kurl.v vegetable
are scarce and are bringing high prices.
Reading. Pa. It is est i milled that the
loss to the farmers and truck grower in
the Schuylkill valley due to the late
spring frosts nnd wet May weather may
amount to $150.(XX1. The fruit was not
as much damaged as ut first upo.sed,
but the crops in the ground, particular
ly isitatoes and other vegetables, are re
tarded iu growth ami rotting.
St. Joseph, Mo. There will be almost
a total failure of early fruit. Wheat is
not materially injured, and corn, al
though lute, is iu good condition.
Louisville, Ky. Heavy frost all over
Kentucky and southern Indiana are re
ported. Garden truck suffered most, asn
the crops of thi character were almost
ready to market. Great damage was done
In the strawltcrry belt of southern Indiana.
1 L,KE WHANHHI miller.
Maine Farmer Itnlna Himself In Fa
tile Senrch for liold.
If a faker, who made a precarious llv
ing selling patent cure-alls in the daytime
aud holdiug second-sight seances at night
hadn't put tip three years ago at the
home of Samuel Gordon, then a well-to-do
farmer near Mncwahoe, Me., the
chances are that Mr. Gordon would be a
prosperous man to-day. Instead he Is
dead, his farm has gone to ruin and his
children are scattered through the West.
When the faker put up at the Gordon
home he said he would give the owner
a second-sight seance for Id keep. More
to accommodate him thnn anything else,
Gordon consented, and thnt night in
vited In the neighbors. After some weird
incantations, the faker went into what
appeared to be a trance and told of a
spot in the woods not far from Gordon's
home where a vast amount of Indian
gold, taken from white men more than
two centuries ago, lay buried. He was
far from exact in locating the spot, but ,
he did mention a peculiar bowlder, and
(he entire community was so impressed
that they secretly set out next day to
find the place.
Gordon found within a week a bowl
der resembling that described by the
faker nnd bought the prosrty upon
which it was siuiuted. To do this) he
was forced to mortgage his farm, but
this he did cheerfully, as he had great
fnith in sennces. He then began to dig.
The more he dug the more determined
he became to locate the wealth aud the
more he neglected hi farm duties. But
though he dug long nnd faithfully he dis
covered nothing more valuable than
stone and earth.
His children believed their father had
heen fooled ntlfl urtiMrlit- In nni-unnde tifm
to desist, but their efforts amounted to
nothing, aud finally, one by one, they left
home, saying that they would return
when the gold fever was over. After
that Gordon lost his farm and his health
failed.
VAST GROWTH SINCE 1800.
Expanding Conditions in I'nltedt,
States Shown by Government.
A series of panoramic views of condi
tions in the I'nited States from 1800 to'
the present time in area, population, pro
duction, commerce, money circulation,
wealth, inter-communication, publication
and education is presented in a statistical
abstract of the Fnited States just Issued
by the Department of Commerce and La
bor. It is a volume of 700 pages, with
scarcely a line of text discussion other
than the titles of the tables themselves.
Beginning with tables as to area, it is
shown that in the continental United
States the population to the sipiare mile
has grown from six and one-half persons
iu 1H00 to nearly twenty-eight at the
present time. The per capita circula
tion, w hich in 1S0O was $5, in 1906 was
$32.32. The per capita wealth, which in
1S50 was $.7. in 1004 was $1,310.
Bunk deposits, for which no record is
available earlier than 1875, were a trifle
over $2.(KX.0tH).(MKI in that year, and in
1800 they were $12,250,000,000. In 1820"
deposits in savings hanks amounted in
round numbers to $1,000,000, while in
IIS 10 they were $.-1,250,01 H),000, with
K.027.1U2 depositors. Imports of mer
chandise, which iu 1800 amounted to $'.11,
000.000, in liKKJ were $1,220,000,000;
while exports, which in 1S00 were $71,
000.000, iu llHK! were $1,744,000,000.
The publication also shows increases In
cotton production from 155,550 bales in
1800 to 11,33.'I.OOO bales In 1000; in sugar
production, which amounted to less than
14,000 tons in 1825, to 582.414 tons in
1000, and in corn, the production of
which in 1840 was 377.000,000 bushels,
iff 2,027,410.001 bushels in 100G. The
value of manufacturing products has
grown from $l.UMl.O0O.O0O in 1850 to
nearly $15,000,000,000 In 1005.
Ill jf Stick After Lumber Trout.
The bureau of corporations, under
Commissioner Smith, now has started
in to probe the lumber trust, with a view
to bringing criminal prosecution if evi
dence can he found. Siecial agents nre
already in the -.field gathering the diita
on which to proceed nnd a preliminary
inquiry into the price of lumber shows
thnt the diininixliing supply of timber
does not account for the jump in price.
During I'.HKi hemlock advanced $2; white
pine, '. yellow, $4; poplar, $5; while
iu the Inst ten year the price of maple
has gone up 17 per cent ; oak. 30 per
cent; yellow pine, 05 per cent ; poplar,
70 per cent ; spruce, 74 per cent, and
hemlock, 80 per cent. Complaints re
ceived by the bureau are more numer
ous and more bitter than those against
the oil or beef trusts. The lumber trust
is regarded ns the most complete of the
great industrial combinations, und is op
erated without a holding company or oth
er outward sign of its monopolistic char
acter. The operations hnve been under
what is known us the "gentlemen's
agreement" by mean of which any re
tailer who disregards the prepared price .
list will be boycotted oat of business.
The combined capital of the trust is
$011,000,000. The actual cost of yellow
pine is .10 and the price epioted last
year was ,I5 to !M.
Ilraln Injury and Speech.
Taking issue with the generally accept
ed theory that a definite region of the
brain presides over the function of 'speech
nud that an injury to (his part of the
brain melius an interference with the
power of it-dug language, Pierre Marie, a
French investigator, wIiom views are set
forth in an article translated for the Lit
erary liiirest, contends that the old notion
Is largely erroneous. After referring
somewhat ill detail to the results of ex.
periiueiits on person alllicled with apha
sia, he states that failure to stuud these
tests indicates, not word deafness, but
diminution of intelligence, since 'the pa
tient understands (he meaning of the
words separately, but is not able to make
u proper connection of ideas. He cos
cliides, therefore, that the theory of word
deafness und il localization iu the brain
ciiiinot be sustained. While his views
are perhaps too radical for general accept
ance, they seem to necessitate some mod
tlicalion of previously held theories on
this subject.
Mar Not llralnir Forests.
The Supreme Court held thut the Slate
of Georgia laid a rght to protect it
forests, uud that the Tennessee Cops?r
Com puny uud the Ducktown Sulphur and
Iron Company could be enjoiued from so
conducting their smelting works ou the
Teuuessee side of the line as to destroy
forest aud vegetution in the State of
Georgia. The court gives Georgia until
the October term to submit tho form of
a decree with which it would enjoin the
operation of the smelters. In the mean
time the objectionable companies are said
to be installing a pluut thut will con
dense (he sulphurous fumes, ami which
would thus render the decree unneces
sary. However, the decision remain im
portant u affecting the principle of for
est and vegetation protection. The
smelting compuiiies iu the case are lurge
ly owued by Standard Oil interest anc
the case has beeu pending for u year and
a half.