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V AT PANAMA. Vork Praft-resslngr on tbe Bl Daae 4 Other Main Peal ore. The work on the locks and dams at Panama tins taken mich nhnpe that it In now possible to see something of their form. It Is believed that the actual masonry work enn be com menced at the Gatua locks within eight een months. Fonr steam shovels are now digging out the sites for the looks, and construction can be begun after tbe excavation for the top lock of the flight la completed. Two steam shovels are preparing the site for the erection of the spillway works of the Oatun dam. Railroad trestles are being erected across the line that will mark the In side and outside boundaries of the big 'dam, and from one of these dirt trains are now dumping dirt upon the site of tbe dam. ) Preparatory to the Installation of pipeline dredges, by which more rapid work on the dam will be possible, the Charges River has been diverted from its main channel and dammed. The pipeline1 dredges should be installed by January 1, when the work at Gatun will be as actively in progress as that at Culebra. Suitable sand and rock for the big masonry locks have been lo cated, and, what Is equally Interesting to the engineers, material for the man ufacture of all the necessary cement has been located on the Isthmus. It is hoped, however, that cement can be secured for such a price In the United States as to make It more advisable to procure the needed supply there In stead of manufacturing It 6n the Isth mus. The general features, designs and de tails of the Gatun and other locks have been worked out, together with the ( general type and numler of lock gates to be used. The survey of all the coun try to be converted Into the great Ga tun lake has been completed and fin ished reports show that the area will be 171 square miles. Cost of Living In lOOrt. A summary of the report just sent to the printer by the United Slates Bureau of Labor, of which Charles P. Neill is the head, covering the yyar 1000, show that the prices of food were generally higher during every mon'i of that year than in the corresponding month of 1005. Tbe price in December was 4 8-10ths per cent higher than the average for the year 1000, and the year as a whole showed a higher average than any since 1800, the period covered by the bureau's investiga tion. The increase of last year applied unequally to twenty-five of the thirty ar ticles showing the greatest advance were lard, evaporated Apples, pork, brcon, ham, fish, mutton and butter. The retail prices of food were 2 0-10ths per cent higher ythan In the previous year. t , . The report deals also with the queit'on of Wages for manual workers, and gives figures showing that the advance in wages per hour over the preceding year was greater than the advance in the reta'l prices of food. That is to say, the pur chasing power of an hour's wages as measured by food wan greater last yeaf " than the yenr before. The increase in this 'purchasing iwer was 1 4-lOths per cent. As compared, with the ten years' average from 1NP0 to 1800, the wages per hour were 21 2-lOths per cent higher, and the number of employes 42 D-10th iter cent greater, and the average hours of labor a week 4 (i-lOtlis per cent lowar. In the principal manufacturing industries of the country the average wages wore 4r-10ths per cent higher than in 1003. The greatest increase was in the manu facture of cotton goods, where the wages were 11 2-10ths per cent higher, and In only one Industry, that of paper and wood pulp, was there a decraasc, namely 1 l-10th per cent. Farmer to Ft it lit tiruln Trust. Open war has broken out between the ao-cnlled grain trust and the farmers of the Middle West. The farmers say they have paid $ 1,000,000 a year tribute to the grain trust, and have been organizing, un til now co-operative elevators are in op eration all over Iowa and are bt'ng ex tended into Minnesota and Nebraska. Their organization possesses a $50,000, 000 reserve fund, wlrile back of tbe trust sands the wealth of the Armours an other millionaire capitalists. The coop erative elevators will get all of the grain of th'ir own members, but, In order ta win, must also get some if the rim in from outsiders, thus crippling the trust. There are now 170 farmers' 'co-operative societies in Iowa alone, with a total mem bership of 28,000, operating 250 eWva-ors, " Also, the merchants of the Novdiwcst are organising a co-operative association to comlmt the mail order ltouses, the mer chants so organized agreeing to advertise under one management, in order ro lessen the expense and secure an expert man ager. This movement is of great econom ic iuipsrtnnce. Wl y Amcrlenu Marrlnue Fall. Agi n a. woman is finding fault witb American wives and coinplaiuing of the failure of American marriages. This time it Is Anna A. Rogers in the Atiuutie Monthly, -who says that -"the excessive education and excessive physical coddling of young women," and their devotion to physical culture and sports, 'has evolved hybrid feminine who is a cross between a magnified, rather unmannerly boy and spoiled, exacting creature who sincerely loves herself alone. Thus, explains this .sociologist, "a slipshod, uuchivalrous com panionship" has grown up between the exes which after marriage Is found to be "a cause for tears or temper." One contributory cause, she suys, is the exist ence of 2,021 courts empowered to grant divorces. ' ' From Far and Near. A thousand dock laborers are on strike at Galveston, Texas. Trallic ou the Si'Uth'-rn I'ucilii: is tied up. Mi? Helen Williams of Allegheny, Pa., was ki'lt-d anj four other persons were Injured in an automobile accident io l'.ubi:rg. Wil'iuui A. Culp, aged 21, awaiting trial for the death of his brother, Floyd C. Cu!i, last July at Turtle Creek, Pa, roiiiiiuiied suicide in the county jail at l'iltsLmrg by banging himself, using hie suspenders as a rope. Dr. Ioiigsia(Te, who Is mountaineering in the Himalayas with two guides and a iiiuki'4 officer has readied tbe summit of Trisul, 28,400 f.t. This is tbe record i the Ilimulsyos. More pennus crossed the Atlantic ocean f.u.n ibis tHo during tbe firt six niouiln til the yrcM'-ut yvir than during any other i.iuilbr p-rloJ. There wero 31,01)0 stuor-pnsheiigt-rs io thut time. TliO latest figures available, lao for Jure, kIiow that the gross earnings of ' j)lrods oiM'iiiting over 03,500 liiilns Amounted n thai month to $i:i.05(l,35 thei;uln ovur June, 1UOU, being $0,700, 4''3, or4 l;' 4 P"!' int. OKLAHOMA CO3 DRY. Election lirtarni irwm Jteer Stat Indicate lirrtM of Prohibition. Oklahoma hs ratified I he enabling act eel become a State to fr s Oklahoma and Indian Territory ore concerned. Re turns from the Urgst ritiei and coun ties of Oklahoma ud Indiin Territory up to midnight Tuesday Indicated that the comtitiition of the proposed new State hai been adopted by large major ity; that the prohibition clause of the constitution has been adopted and that the Democratic State ticket, headed by C. N. Haskell of Muskogee for Gov ernor, has been elected over Frank Frantz, the present territorial governor of Oklahoma, who was the Republican nominee. In the enabling act Congress provided for prohibition In Indian Terri tory for twenty-one years from Jan. 1, 1000. The prohibition clause voted on applies the same provision to the Okla homa side of the new Slate. All of the elements of a national cam paign were at hnnd in the canvass. Secre tary of War Taft was the chief represent- i ative of the Itopubllcan side and William J. Itrmn n-nm l.rnnulif In tn answer Sec- retary Taft and to lead the Democratic fight for the constitution and the Demo- cratlc ticket. I New World and sailed for Spain. The election was held under the terms 1009 Henry Hudson discovered the riv of the act of Congress granting joint cr which benrs his name, statehood to Indian Territory and Okla, mo.ri Stirling to whom James I. noma Terr.tory. The statehood bill was gnye a inf p(,tion o( w,lat4g now passed at Washington after a strenuous j tne Unt(l(, SutM nd Cnnadft died fight which was carried through several ) jn rjOIion seHsions of Congress. President Roose- J ' velt Intervened on behalf of the people 1C45z9,0Vf nBnt,.er dp,pated Mtmtr0M at of the territories,, and, while each terri- I niliphaugh. tory was anxious 'for separate statehood, 1742 Faneuil Hall completed and pre- compromise was affected by whfch the sented to the town of ltoston. friends of statehood accepted the joint 175!) Wolfe landed troops at Quebec, bill rather than have none nt all. Iraine- i77.-,Gi.n. Washington began to commls dlately after the statehood bill was sign- gjon wnr VPRSPiMi ed by the President the battle for the po- . . r.- , litical control of the new State opened. . ".S-Renjamin I ranklin sent to France minister plenipotentiary. NEW CHARTER BEATEN. Chicago's Proponed Measure I De tented Two to One. Chicago's proiosed new charter was defeated at the polls Tuesday by a vote of more than two to one. The measure was snowed under in many strongholds of both parties alike, losing in all but four of the thirty-five wards. Fifty per cent of the registered electors turned out, and their ballots killed the act by a vote of 50,581 for to 121,470 against. Knowledge had hardly been obtained that the charter was dead than a move- meat was on foot to secure another io- strument that will contain the good fea tures of the defeated measure while hold ing none' of the alleged defects that led the voters to turn It down. An analysis of the vote shows that the campaign made by the' United Societies bore much fruit in tbe shape of ballots against tbe measure. A survey of the situation indicated that the defeat of the charter was due most largely to the con- tentlon that taxes would be raised un- dcr the instrument, and that the Sunday closing laws would be put into force. On the North and West Sidea hundreds of small property holders turned out to register an adverse vote because of the taxes argument, while in tbe thickly set tled foreign sections a heavy vote against l the act was tallied vbccause of the "per--j sonal liberty ' appeal. The ward gerrymander, too, undoubted ly played an important part in the defeat. Tbe political aspect it gave to the char-1 v, ... . , (.,. , T . , . . , r . . . . Virginia became Secretary ol the In ter led many an independent voter to show i.i . . i ii j terlor. bis resentment by marking an adverse ,Q.Q u. , , . ,. ot., , . ,. y ISoo Steamship Austria, Southampton Dallot I , to New York, burned at sea'; 471 8TANDARD OIL PROFITS. ,OP1li? 'T,'- r, i n 1S01 President Lincoln revoked Gen. ttarnln. from 18t0 to 1000 Shorn. 1 Fremont's emancipation order. , to Ila 100,313,034. 1802 Governors of fourteen States met Sensational disclosures regarding the I at Altoona, Pa., and approved of fabulous earnings of Standard Oil. were emancipation as a war measure.... brought out InNew York at the hearing 1 Gen. McClellan appointed to coin In tbe suit of the United Slates govern- mand the defense of Washington, ment to dissolve tke corporation. Adroit 180-1 (Jen. Sherman entered Atlanta, questioning drew from the reluctant lips ending the four weeks' siege. .. .Gen. of Clurenco O. Fay, resident comptroller . Sherman ordered all civilians to of the Standard Oil Company of New Jeave Atlanta. Jersey, the admission that in seven years Standard Oil's total profits amounted to $100,315,031, or something over $70,000, 000 a year. ) Mr. Fay was also forced to admit that in 1809 the profits were nearly $S0,0O0, 000 Instead of 34,000,000 as set forth on the books of the company. The Standard Oil managed to cover up its great earn ings in that year by deliberately failing to credit the earnings of nineteen subsi diary companies that contributed vast sums to the parent corporation. This Is- the first time the company's earnings have been mudo public. Figuring on the capital stock now out standing $U8,.130,.'!!S2 this is an annual profit of something over 70 per cent. Fig ured on the basis of the Standard Oil trust, which had a capitalization of $10, 000,000 when it was dissolved and reor ganized into the present company with; out any additional investment on tho part of Mr. Rockefeller and his associates, the annual profit is something like 700 per cent. On the basis of tho original Stand' ard Oil Company, with a capitalization of $1,000,000, the annual profit is a little more than 7,000 per cent. On tho basis of the little refinery Mr. Rockefeller had when be started out, with an Invested cap- ital principally of nerve, the percentage of annual profit is well, the statisticians haven't figured that out vet. BLA3T ON JAPANESE SHIP. Tmentr-Naven Men Killed br lx Twenty-seven of the crew were killed and nisnv wimo Inior.-.V nn it,. Jnn. battleship Kashlma bv the explosion of powder after target practice near Kure. Tho Kashimn, under command of Captain Koixuml, went to Kure, where the wound- ed were placed iu the hospital. The dead Included a lleutenaut, two cadets and one stall officer. Details regardiug the effects of the ex plosion are lucking, hut it was terrific and the ship was severely damaged. The blast followed an attempt to remove an unex- ploded shell from the gun. A majority of uib uymuum-r. wero icamiuy muiliarea. The explosion U under investigation. It occurred inside of tbe shield of the stuiboard after teu-iuch gun. It was not the shell which exploded, but powder. which evidently caught lire from the gas emitted from the breech when 0xmed to , . . ,, , , . reload the gun. The bull of the Kushima is not damaged Jolnlnsr I'm ruie rand Consumer. The Producers' and Consumers' Inter national Kqiiily Union and Co-operative Exchange has just bei o incorporated un der the luws of New Jersey, with $1,0(X),. 000 Cupital stock, and the articles of in coriHiration say the ohjects of the ex change are "to pro!et the interests and rights of organized producer and con sumers; to brio:; farmers, producer and workers into closer communication with .he co-operative unions of the countr, ud to to om rnie with the American Fed eration of Labor lu promoting the Kale and use of gooj hearing union labels." The lacorputatars are Misfourians. iTifOTClY Itift"-rh'ts !!!'!! A, ' "02 English defeated the Scott at Homcldon Hill. 1504 Columbus took final leave of the 17S1 Gen. Washington arrived at Wil Iiamtthurg ami assumed command. 17S2 Congress accepted the offer of Virginia's western lanus. 17S0 Connecticut deeded western land to Congress. 1788 Congress mode New York the capital city of the United States. 17S0 Alexander Hamilton became Sec retary of the Treasury .... Henry Knox of Massachusetts beenme Sec retary of War. 1803 Lord William Downs appointed chief justice of Ireland, 1814 Rattle of Plattsburgh, N. Y.. . . . British made an unsuccessful attack on Baltimore. .. .British bombarded Fort McIIenry, near Baltimore.... British abandoned their expedition against Bultimore. 1820 Treaty of Adrianople, ending war between Russia and Turkey. 1841 Walter lorward of Pennsylvania became Secretary of the United States Treasury, 1840 First Mississippi riflemen, under command of Company I, Jefferson Davis, charged the Mexicans at Fort Tcncria. 1847 American army under Gen. Scott marched into the Mexican capital... Many lives lost in hurricane oil New foundland. 1850 Jenny Llnd first appeared on an American stage at Castle Garden, N. V A . ,1- If II Uf,,r f iSGO-i-Nntionnl Prohibition party organ- ized at a convention in Chicago. 1S71 Ileury Irving first appeared in "Fnnehette" at the London Lyceum. ....Mont Cenls tunnel opened. .1872 Alabama claims against England decided in favor of the United States. 1SS0 Cnnadiau Pacific railway tele graph line opened for business. 1803 Gov. William McKinley of Ohio opened his campaign for re-election with a speech at Akron. ISO I Hinckley and other Minnesota towns swept by forest firos. 1808 British forces defeated the Der vishes at Omdurman. .. Admiral Cervera and other captured Spanish officers sailed for Spain. lOOO--Kniperor of China issued an edict promising constitutional government. New l.lfe-Kt-stiirlnar Apparatus.' E. C. Hall, writing iu the August Tech nical World Magazine, asserts that Prof. GS" Iop of Sout" Norfolk. Vn is able to r,'t,rc l'fe ,( apparently dead opimals, h'8 t1,,ntm't being based upon the well- known method of forcing oxygen into the '""H- Kor tl,is Pnose he has devised au artificial respirator, modeled in all fcsj'octs after nature. It embraces two i "mul1 cylinders, each having an inlet and an outlet, with which plungers work sim ultaneously, and from which tubes are conducted to the nostrils or mouth of tbe 1 patient. One cyliuder is supplied with oxygen, and the outlet of the other dis- chur8,' cUy into tho atmosphere. The plungers are worked by band and timed l,cir1"1 nor,,,l1 respiration. Thus in one vm" uoxiotis gases from the hms are drawn 1,lto am clinder, while the n,'xt ovt'"",nt ror'" .vgen from the other Hnder '"to (he lungs. This 0,VKe n"8 11 l"'n",n - win soon ue ipou the market. lhotoKraplilnir Thuuitlitn. Dr. Hippolyte Baraduc, a Voted French physician, has recently published a series different n,.,,,,.!, n, ,i, nvr. n ,..,, ,ntiri.i:iti.n to tl.n tlie.iries f the Theosoplusls. Dr. Baraduc, ou the assumption that the humau being is com posed of fluid or gaseous bodies as well as that of flesh and blon.l, exposed vari ,, ,"'sili;E"J l,lul' ' the dark uear to 1Z '"V"'8 V " m nna Kl differing results. lie sometime uses a treen electric light. I.aud win tiler Sentenced. Judge Do llaveu lu the Federal Dis trict Court of Sun Francisco has sen tenced John A. Benson and K. D. Perrin. leader in extensive California land frauds against the government, each to one veer's Imprisonment and a fine of $1,00. At the same time both men were released on $3,500 each, ponding review In the Court t Appeal. Anpendlrltl from Klonr. The London I. .meet has published sn article asserting that appendicitis ean ha traced to the u c of American lluux uiadii by the Iron roller process. IMMUNITY FOR THE ALTON. In Renentlnn; Sine on Ills ('art Standard Oil l tilt br l.andla. Another hrondslde wn directed against the Standard OH Company by J-idgc Lamlls In the United States Dis trict Court at Chicago Tuesday. Al though immunity was granted the Chi cago and Alton Itnllrond by Judge Lnn dls on recommendation of Attorney1 General Bonaparte, both the railroad and tho Standard OH Company were scored ttmn the liench and n subpoena was Issued by the court for James A. Moffett, president of the Standard Oil Company of Indiana. .Mr. Moffett was directed to nppenr before the HiH'cliirgrand Jury that was to have Investigated the Alton road nnd "make good" charges made by di rectors of the New Jersey corporation. The court's latest action Is regarded ns one of the most drastic moves that Jl'IXiC I.A.N'llS. have been made ngiiliist ofliciuls of the oil corporation during the entire lltl- gution. Judge Lnndis' denunciation of v the tactics employed by the directors of the New Jersey eonoratlon nftcr the Im position of the ?20,24O.00O fine on .he Standard Oil Company of Indiana was couched In language that could not be mistaken. Sarcastic reference to the Alton's posftlou regarding rebates given the Standard Oil Conipnny were made by the court. In the pamphlet, distributed broad cast throughout the country, the Sthu.!- nrd Oil Company takes tho posltbli that It Is being persecuted rather than prosecuted by the government, nnd the flat statement Is made that other cor porations are just ns culpable of the practice of, rebating as Is the oil con cern. This Is what Mr. Moffett has been given nu opportunity to prove. WU TING FANG RETURNS. Itetort!on of Chinese Lender n Minister nt WnshltiKton. Tho reappointment of Wu Ting Fan;! to his formep post ns minister of China at Washington Is reported from PcWhi. Mr. Wu represented China at, Washing ton for more than five years. Ho was recoiled in November, 1002. Wu is a dignitary of importance, lie represents the progressive element among his countrymen. He studied law for four WU TING FA NO. years In London and was admitted as bar rister in the inner temple. He s.iciilj Englisli wiili euse and fluency, and asi-t many questions of everybody he meets The minister has hosts of friends ir Washington and throughout the United States. Find Itemalna of Mnatodon. Word has recently been received from Prof. C. W. Gilmore, who, accompanied by Prof. : T. Shaw of the Washington Slate College and a party of scientist! from the East, is now in central Alaska. that they have found a specimen of tluj mastodon frozen intact in the great Muir glacier, near the Chilkoot I'uss. The party set out on this particular errand anil their hopes were mere than realized when they discovered this large and per fect specimen imbedded in 'the great ice field in very much the same .position ai when overwhelmed by the frigid elements. On some portion of the animal the huii and flesh were still fresh, but crumbled when exposed to the air. It is estimated that the length ofthe mastodon from th end of its trunk to the tip of the tail was about 7." feet, and that when stand ing on all fours the height must buv been nearly 40 feet. Short Ne Note. As a result of the gathering of Wis cousin Republican politicians at the State fair at Milwaukee it is positively asserted that Senator Ia Follette will be a candi date for the presidential nomination next yea r. ' Frank C. Barnes, conductor of a Lake Shore Electric railway car, and Amos Micrka of Fremont, Ohio, were killed and Samuel Jones, the motorman, and thirty passenger were Injured when the car ran into nu open switch ut Woodville road, nar Toledo. A passeuger train on the New York Cetittal road ran into a freight car near Utica, N. Y.. t he locomotive und one cat being derailed. Tho engineer, John Lber le, was iujured. Five cars on a passenger train ou the Alabama und Vhksburg road were over turned ami the whole traiu left the track near Forest Station, .Miss. .No one Wat injured seriously. An obstruction on the tracks of the Gre it Norl'n r:i ro id near Wiemlchee, Wash., wiiik.'d the oriental limited. Twe cu.j were des: roved by tire and one pas- singer, a wonau. and iwo withers onMie Uininj car we;e injured. OET3 A LIFE TERM. Cfclesuro Jerjr Convicts Conataatlae f Marderlnar Mrs. Ueatrr. - Crank J. Constnntlne was convicted In Chicago Saturday night of murder ing Mrs. Arthur Gentry and bis sen tence fixed at Imprisonment for life. After battling for two and one-half hours over the fate of tbe prisoner the Jury delivered a finding of guilty, and fixed his punishment after the shortest murder trial In the history of Cook County. Foreman Krognoss said: "There was nevcY any doubt nlout Constantlne's tfullt, but owing to the circumstantial evidence the penalty of life Imprison ment was agreed upon by the Jury." The verdict, It Is reported, was a keen disappointment to those In the courtroom who bad followed the course Of the trinl. They exjKH-ted a death sentence. Constnntlne chewed gum nnd aid nothing when the verdict was read. Constantlne's story on the witness stand was the most dramatic, tho most sensational narrative ever recited un der oath In a Chicago court. He wenved a story into n manifestly weak defense. He swore he did not kill her. He awore that he stood by while she rat her owu throat from oar to enr. He swore that she had confided to him her unhapplness; that she hud begged him to take her away to go abroad with her; that he had refused; that ehe slashed herself with n razor. He explained his flight by the fear that he uld never bo able to prove his inno cence by the' panic that seized him when he realized how all the circum stances pointed against him. The story was lucid enough, but Con Rtautine made a poor Impression as a witness. . He contradicted himself sev eral times as to dates,' seemed greatly 111 ut ease at moments and was seldom convincing. A bootblack, as he ad mitted himself to 4)0, lie still protested from the witness stand' that the blood of royalty in his veins. And thus the curtain Is drawn upon a tragedy the like of which Chicago has not chronicled lu ninny u year. It was one of such brutality as to shock end awe society. Constantino, almost a member of the Gentry family, who had represented himself to be the son of a millionaire lu New York when ns a matter of fact he was a profligate rx-lHiotblnek, deliberately Blushed to death the woman who had befriended him and who had housed hlui and lent him money. Then lie fled. It was n long and persistent hunt. 'Fi nally he wits captured when nbout to sail for Italy, the home of bis ances tors, where he claims some of them were members of tho royal family. He bad gone to Italy Immediately after the commission of the crime, had been wept by the winds of Idleness and the remorselessness of ghosts Into other lands, nnd finally, lmivelled by that In- tnnglble Instinct that belongs, to all criminals, had to return to the country of bis crime. , Finding the police determined to have 1) lit), that the memory of that tragic January day had not been for gotten, fearful lest be be apprehended and brought back to the bar of Justice, he was nbout to sail away again, when ho was arrested. Brought to trial. In an effort to gain bis liberty, he defamed the character of his victim, n bride of sis months. MILLIONS ARE SAVED. Federal Selcull Ito Not Patent Tlu-lr Invention. Secretary Wilson of the Department of Agriculture gave out the statement re cently that millions of dollars ure saved each year by scientists in the employ of the I tilted States government. This fact lone, he uminiains. should show the pub lic the velue of the experiments being coiulueird each day. If the scientists pat ented their inventions, they might become wealthy, but all they get for their reward Is the passing fame attained by reporting valuable finds. Among the patents which have attract ed national, attention are in relation to the - labcliug of fresh meats that have passed government inspection, the use of fieldspathlc rock as fertilizers and the pretention of curosion of fence wire and rusting of iron and steel generally. Secretary Wilson estiinu'ed that the discovery of an ink which may be usei in stamping carcasses ami which will not stsin, spread or penetrate the meat, will In itself save the government between 300,000 nnd f 100,000 next year. frr " ? . h ".vy i I" ' I WW - i v ' . f 'HI LABOR TROUBLES. WluU nrtrr traaa Ita-i t lay - mm Important Sabjevt. Oscar 8. Straus, Secretary of Com merce and Labor, has nothing to say con cerning the status of the telegraphers' strike, but tie ex presses himself plainly as not re garding compulsory arbitration as the solution of difficul ties between capital and labor. He be lyieves that differ ent cases require different remedies, and that there is no hard and fast rule by which dif ferences that arise OHCAB 8 between capital and labor can be adjudi cated. "The importance of establishing good relations between capital and labor," he says, "Is recognized in all civilized lands. Economic conditions within a country, especially such as arise between indus trial forces, have a far reaching effect and are often the cause of embarrassing inter national relations. More thnn one-half of the troubles in this world arise from misunderstandings. Especially is that true when clnss's are concerned, such as are brought about through labor disturb ances growing out of disagreements be tween employers and wage earners. No one has recognized the Importance of pro moting industrial peace, both with a view of preserving continued peace nt home and avoiding conflicts abroad, better than J. President Uoosevelt, nlio devoted the world's peace prize awarded him last year for the promotion of industrial peace.' Secretary Straus believes the trouble between .Japan and America on the Pa cific to be more economic than racial. He say that what might be called a Japan ese situation does not exist. All Around the Globe. Theatrical combine of $100,000,000 capital .formed. The world' population is estimated at l,4SO,O0O,0IK person. The decline of the tea trude is viewed with alarm iu China. Tcu million people have opened ac counts with the postoflice savings banks of England. j Nevada seems destined to forge to the first place in the production of precious metals. The government bureau of plant indus try finds that ground granite makes , fee-client fert.Iizer. I Colorado, Montana and Utah have shown a decided decline in the produc tion of precious metals. There is an average of one c hild killed every three days iu "ev York City by being run over by vehicles. Missouri Pacific Kaiiro.id Company claims ill co.irt bill that f,d" il ,inl m.i Siale authority i in control of common carrier engaged in interstate commerce. A report is being circulated iu Wash ington that President Uoosevelt, dissatis fied with tho peace conferem-e at The Hague, will call a conference of his own, assembling the ambassador of the pow ers accredited to Washington to take up great questions. Seventeen of the largest manufacturers of pictorial postal cards In Austria and Germany have combined to raise the price of the.r production 0 to 7 per cent, and their customers, timbering about T M wholesale tiruis, 1wve resolved to make tbe retail dealer bear this advance. mm . 8TBACS. . :fV ; "V': iSSwJ , , t- -V A;-'. . r- i "-r I I tB'nH W WAR VETERANS CELEBRATE. Onlr B20 of Gen. lentt'a Mexleaa War Soldiers Are Still Alive. There are In the entire country just 520 veterans of the Mexican war, end these recently celebrated the sixtieth an niversary of the fall of the City of Mex ico in San Francisco. On that occasion the rrjzzled warriors recalled the trage dies that gave to the United States a vast portion of her territory. Major Edwin A. Sherman of Oakland, Cel., Is the president of the veterans' as sociation. In speaking of tbe Mexican war Major Sherman said: 1 "Gen. Winfield Scott, the American commander, fought and won the battles of Contreras, Churubusco, El Molino d MAJOR E. A. 8UERMA5. Bey, Castle of Chapultepce, Vera Cruz, and last the City of Mexico. The total American loss was 3.204. equal to one half of the army that captured the City of Mexico. "By the treaty that closed the Mexican war, a territory over 700 miles north and south and 000 miles, east and west, ot 030,000 square miles, were ceded- to the United States, California, Nevada, Utah, Wyoming, Colorado, Arizona and Net Mexico were added to our national do main and California saved from becoming a British province, by sale for $50,000, 000 to pay the Mexican debt. "For thepe reasons as well as other the 520 survivor of the Mexican war celebrate the sixtieth niinlversary of the crowning victory of our arms directed by our matchless general, Winfield Scott, un der whom we fought and achieved suet glorious results." Candy and Alcohol. Dr. A. C. Abbott, health commissioner of Pennsylvania, has advanced the theorj that "the appetite for alcohol and the ap- petite for candy are fundamentally the same, the choice of one or the other in dulgence being determined by the temper ament of the individual." In support pi this, the fact is cited that there has been a falling off in the amount of alcohol, consumed per capita during the past fw years, and a material increase in the con sumption of sugar iu its various forms, It is further stated that chemically sugar and alcohol are similar, and their physio logical uction is in purt, the same, and l4tli to some extent supply the demand, for a concentrated and quick acting fuel for the body. Much of the prejudice which formerly existed agaiust the use of candy has disappeared, and it Is now used, especially iu the form of chocol ites, by exhausted business men, and even by soldiers on the eve of buttl'. Life on Mam Continued. Prof. Pereiva! Lowell of Harvard, in a communication to Nature, a British sci entific publication, declare that the ob servations made durng the recent oppo sition of the planet Mars tends to estab lish the fact that the planet is at present lh aliislo of intelligent constructive life. Speaking of the observations of the polar cups, which were begun three mouths uud a half before the opjHisition occurred, it was possible to catch the south polar cap nt Its maximum and the nortlnuu at it uiiuiniuui extent. Prof. Lowell is sc.tis lied that he was able to observe develop ment' of the canal system in tho antarc tic and south temperate zones. lie says it is a direct conclusion from this that the planet is at present the abode of Intelligent beings. He add that tbe theory of such life was not on a pri ri hypothesis on hi part, but was the result of observations now fully con tinued. Ou the phoioi-r.iplis taken al ready he has counted fifty-nix canals, and it u.ipears now certain that the position ing of points of the Martian topography will be realized. Three of the photo graphs are fiublUhed in Nature and slow various canals hitherto unknown to Ear ropcau astronomers.