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HE GAVE HER UP.
RETrY and aweet
as the maiden look
ed, Joalah had a
natural prejudice
against both her
and her mother.
They were worldly
people, and the girl
was by no means
the wife he would
have chose? for his
adopted non and
nepnew, jonn Farr. Even a vjuhkdj
v maid would have been likely to become
'■ demoralized by the perpetual making
- offline gowns and furbelows for the
ladles of the neighborhood, and Ella
Mgssle—why- Suddenly his train
of thought was broken by Ella’s gay
voice.
“Oh, Mr. Pry," she said. "I have
watched you all day, and I have
, thought how tired you must be. You
|:r arts , a good bit older than I am and I
h , know I get awfully tired of work and X
'{,} expect you do. too."
The Quaker drew himself up to his
fun height 'and his handsome, mtdd le
ased face, with its line eye* and gray
docks, looked grand to Ella as he ie
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wont is good, and, thank uod, I
hare plenty of It It keepa one from
sin.”
1 “I am afraid I lore the world very
much. , ft Is so beautiful, and every
one Is so kind to me, and I should like
to he 'better. Won’t you teach me? I
wlfl try so hard to learn.”
! Joshua’s reply was not very coherent,
but whatever he said he certainly
thought a good deal of Ella after this,
Andhe decided that, although she did
not belong to the Society of Friends—
she looked as sweet and good as nny
young Quaker maid—she might yet be
converted, and she had asked him to
teach her to be good. “And so I will,”
he suddenly startled himself by ex*
claiming as he pondered over the mat*
ter m the’silence of his chamber that
night.
"She Is only a frail aaptlng now,” he
said to himself; “but she will learn and
will grow, and the mightiest oak was
ones an acorn."
From this time Joslah made a point
of seeing Ella Msasle frequently and
doing his best to convert her to his
ideas and opinions. He found In her
a docile, loving nature, and her pretty
ways fairly charmed him.
The Idea of having her about the
house was certainly attractive, and yet
—somehow he could not picture her
there as John’s wife—the girl had
fairly twined herself about h!i heart,
and by the time the golden harvest ha i
come Joslah knew the fact anly too
well.
At first he chided himself and told
himself he was an old foot -It was
absurd to think that a beautiful girl
of SO would care for an old widower of
more than double her age. Still, after
all, at even five apd forty, a man can
love, and love passionately, and Joslah
loved Ella with all the strength of his
boul. He would not, of course, wish
to steal her away from his nephew,
but John’s had been probably a mere
passing fancy, and he was sure—was
he, though?—yes, he believed he was
quite'sure—that Ella loved him.
One beautiful August evening, after
the day’s work was over, Joslah Fry
and Ella stood talking In the gloaming
at h«r mother’s gate.
“Ella,” he aald, “I have come here
'thts iventng because I have something
Important to say to you. Ah. you
mi:
ws
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"I LOVE OLD MEN.”
Ton guess what It la.
srMe. Ton guess what It Is. don’t
Twit*"
The girl looked down tor a moment
Sd then, though she blushed deeply,
e gated at him with her lovely blue
eyes and said:
“Tee, Mr. Fry, I telt sure you would
(ny something soon.”
Joelah looked radiant It was
strange how ana's words pleased him,
ami; yet they were not like those he
ahoUdd have expected from a ^Quaker
maid.; Still It was delightful to think
how she had understood him. and no
, one could be more charming or more
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“Then thou art not afraid to trust
ir. met: Hum thtnkeat I shall suit thee?”
herald gayly.
^Tee.”,she answered. “I know It
They used to tell me you were cold and
bird, but I did not believe It then, and
amw I laugh when I think of It for I
| have learned to love you.’*
She accompanied her words with a
; : Utile aqueese of his brawny hand,which
i< she then raised to her Ups and kissed,
’f Joslah Pelt his Mood couralnx madly
f . through his veins. He was delighted
|. ‘ ‘ to And himself so beloved, and. though
^ ’ he was distinctly being courted by this
young maid. It was so sweet to him
. that his sense of tbe.proprletlca was In
no way shocked. • • ’
“But, my dear, thou ltnowest I am
Sve and Softy and sometimes cross and
crabbed." , r;
|$3 hf “That’s, nothing,“ laughed Ella. “I
: ' tone old men, and feel so proud of you
rar beautiful gray hair anl your
it, tall figure. Ton will be a love*
end I shall be prouder than
ipu.
stented to tell you all about It
though he knew you would
at me for his wife, but I
begged him to wait. I told him If you
were all he said—and you are—that I
was sure I could make you fond of me.
I lored you a little already,because you
were Jack’B uncle and had been so good
| to him, and If 1 like people I can al
ways make them like me a little." She
paused, and then after a moment's si
lence she went on:
“Only yesterday I told Jack he
might speak to you today, and now 1
do believe you must have guessed it,
for here you are giving all that we
want without our even asking it, and
I am so glad, for we could never have
married without your consent.”
Darkness seemed to fall over the
landscape, and Joslah Fry felt iv sud
denly turn cold. His face blanched, but
he uttered not a sound. He merely
turned as if to go home. ,
"Must you go now?” cried Ella, see
ing and suspecting nothing. “Well,
perhaps it’s time. It’s getting dark,
and Jack will be In from Btrchley fair
by this time and will want his supper.
Besides I know you want to make him
as happy as you have made me. Good
night, and thank you so much. Jack
and I will never forget your good
ness."
uooa nignt, Mid Josiah, mecnam
ulljr, and he made hla way across the
field to ^ls own home. He staggered
somewhat as he walked, and his feet
seemed like lead, so that the short
distance across the meadow to the farm
seemed longer than ever before. For
that,however, he was not sorry, for the
meeting with his nephew was painful
to anticipate.
Josiah, however, was no coward, so
he put a brave face on the matter, and
entering the parlor, where Jack was
waiting for him to come In for supper,
he exclaimed:
''Well, John, business flrst and sup
per afterward. I want to tell thee that
I know all—everything. Ella has Just
told me, and, lad, thou hast my bless
ing. She is a good girl and will make
thee a faithful,'loving wife, and thou
must marry as soon as possible.”—
Cincinnati Post.
‘ JOKES FROM EUROPE* A
A peasant who regularly attended the
market in the neighboring town, on
seeing the children of the orphanage
walking by In procession, wm heard to
remark: “How strange! I have now
been coming to town for the last twen
ty years, and these brats never get any
bigger. They're Just the same also as
when my father was alive.”—Lokal
Anselger.
A soldier, condemned to receive 25
strokes, Is handed over to a couple of
comrades, who are ordered to strike al
ternately. A dispute arises at the
eleventh stroke. “That makes ten,”
says one. “Twelve!” replies the other.
"Ten!" “Twelve!” “I say, let's start
afresh!”—Le Monde Illustre.
A poor man succeeded In gaining ad
mission to the presence of the wealthy
Baron Rapineau, to whom he told the
harrowing story of his misfortunes and
his destitution In such eloquent terms
that the baron, moved to pity and with
tears In his eyes and voice broken with
sobs, Mid in faltering accents to his
servant: “Jean, turn the poor fellow
out. He breaks my heart.”—Le Chron
Ique. _ * ■
The prince of a small German state,
whose ambition It was to gratify, It
only on a small scale, had Invited a
number of gentlemen to go on a deer
stalking expedition. Everything prom
ised well. The weather wm superb,
and the whole company wm in the
best of spirits, when the head forester
approached the petty monarch and,lift
ing hts green cap, said in a faltering
tones: “Tour highness, there can be
no hunting today." “Why not?" came
the stern rejoinder. “Alas, your high-'
ness, one of the stags took fright at
the sight of so many people and has
escaped to the adjoining territory, and
the other stag has been ill since yes
terday. But your highness must not
be angry—It la most likely nothing
worse than a bad cold. We have given
It some herb tea and hope to get It on
its legs again In a few days.”—Zltaner
Morgenseltung.
.. . .
Diamond Want With the Ben.
: Recently the wife of W. j. Paxton,
residing a few miles east of West
Union, Ohio, while feeding a hen
and her brood of chickens, dropped
the diamond set in a finger ring. No
sooner had the diamond struck the
ground than it was gobbled up and
swallowed by the hen. At first it was
decided to kill the hen and recover
the precious stone, but after a con
sultation with her husband it was de
cided to wait a few days, so as not to
deprive the chickens of the needed
care of their mother. Several of the
neighbors were told pf the strange oc
currence. and it was soon the talk of
the neighborhood. . In the meantime
the farmer's wife had grown impatient
for the recovery of the diamond and
had determined to kill the hen in a day
or two, but that opportunity has now
passed. It was discovered that the hen
was missing, and a thorough search of
the premises failed to reveal any trace
of the missing fowl. Some one know
ing the true worth of the 'hen had
ddubtleBS stolen her to procure the dia
mond,—Cleveland Plalndealer.
Tory Ualwkj,
Watts—“Honestly, now, don't you
have a sort of belief that Friday is an
unlucky day?" Potts—“I know it.
That’s the day my wife goes bargain
chasing.”—Indianapolis Journal.
Duiwou.
“Let's sit down on .this mossy bank,"
Said she with a beseeching glance.
"Nay, nay!" he cried in accents wild;
“I'm wearing white duck pants.”
—U B. C.
IT HAS NO POWER
OFFICIAL STATEMENT OF IN
TER-STATE COMMERCE
COMMISSION.
The Body Cannot Fix Freight or Pas
senger Chargee Without Further Au
thority from Congress — What, tho
Commission Says About It.
The Supreme Court of the United
States decided in May last, in what is
known as the Freight Bureau cases,
“that under the Interstate commerce
act the commission has no power to
prescribe the tariff of rates which shall
control In the future,” and “that Con
gress has not conferred upon the com
mission the legislative power of pre
scribing rates either maximum or min
imum or absolute.”
This decision was rendered In cases
where the commission had held the
rates complained of to be unreasonable
and unjust in violation of the inter
state commerce law, had found what
rates would be reasonable and just,
and had ordered the carriers to cease
and desist from charging more than
the reasonable rates so determined.
That the commission was authorized to
require carriers not to make higher
charges than those shown and found
to be reasonable in cases Investigated
by it had been generally believed, and
the commission had in that way en
forced the provision in the law for
"reasonable and just rates” since Its
organisation. !
The commission has recently, in an
opinion by Chairman Morrison, ren
dered a decision in a case against the
Eureka Springs Ry. Co., involving the
reasonableness of rates complained of.
In the concluding portion of this deci
sion the> ruling of the Supreme Court
in the Freight Bureau Cases is dis
cussed, and mention is there made also
of a prior Supreme Court decision
in the "Social Circle Case,” which re
ferred In an ambiguous way to the
power of the commission in respect to
future rates. The commission says:
“While thus deciding that under the
Interstate , Commerce Act, power, to
prescribe rates which shall control in
the future has in no case been given to
the commission, it is conceded that the
act has given the commission power
‘to determine what in reference to the
past was reasonable and just, whether
as maximum or minimum or absolute,
rates. How this power to say what
was reasonable and just in the past
will beneflt the public, correct any
abuse, be of any advantage or afford
any relief to shippers who are made to
pay whatever unreasonable rates and
charges the carriers may in the future
establish or continue to exact, is a
matter about which the court gives no
information.” In the "Social Circle
case” the court said: “The reasonable
ness of the rate in a given case de
pends on the tacts, and the function
of the commission is to consider the
facts and give them their proper
weight. What is their proper weight
which can be given them bb to the
past? For what purpose is the com
mission to consider them? How ean
the fact that the rates were unreason
able and unjust in the past be given
or have any weight while
like unreasonable and unjust
rates are, and may continue
to be, exacted in the future? In this
case the court adopted the view of the
late Justice Jackson that ‘subject to
the two leading prohibitions that their
charges shall not be unjust or unrea
sonable, and that they shall not un
justly discriminate so as to give undue
preference or advantage or subject to
undue prejudice or disadvantage per
sons or traffic similarly oircumstanced,
the Act to Regulate Commerce leaves
common carriers as they were at com
mnn lnw * ”
“We are here advised that the act io
regulate commerce subjected common
carriers to two leading prohibitions to
which they wore not subject at com
mon law, one of which is that their
charges shall not be unjust or unrea
sonable. Until the court decided to
the contrary in the Freight Bureau
cases ft was believed that this prohi
bition meant that the charges of com
mon carriers shall not be unreasonable
and unjust in the future or after the
time the act was passed. In these lat
ter cases the couri says: ‘The fact that
the carrier is given the power to es
tablish rates in the first instance, and
the right to change, and the conditions
of such change specified, Is irresistible
evidence that this action on the part
of the carrier 1b not subordinate to
and dependent upon the judgment of
the commission.' But it is nowhere
decided or claimed that under the in
terstate commerce or other act the
right of the carrier to establish and
to change its rates is subordinate to
ir dependent upon the judgment or ac
tion pf any other tribunal; and freed
from the judgment and made inde
pendent of the commission, interstate
carriers are not subject to any provi
ilon of law requiring their rates and
charges to be just or reasonable.**
“The first section of the act to regu
late commerce provides that all
charges made for any transportation
service ‘shall be reasonable and just;
and every nnjust and unreasonable
charge tor such service lb: prohibited
and declared to be unlawful.* Undo?
the decision of the Supreme Court ho
charge for such service is prohibited
Reasonable and just rates are contem
plated, not required.** '
"Under the law so construed, the
commission has power to say what in
respect to the past was unreasonable,
and unjust; but as to rates
complained of as unreasonable,
unjust and unlawful, and so found to
be in the case under consideration:
the commission can make no provision
or order for their reduction which the
courts are required to enforce or the
■
carriers are obliged to obey. Having,
in tbe light of these decisions, given
the facts due consideration, we ascer
tained, found and reported the rates
which would be reasonable from and
to St. Louis, Springfleld and Seligman,
Mo., to and from Eureka Springs, Ark.,
and have recommended that the car
riers reduce and conform their charges
to the facts so found and reported. This
recommendation may Impress the car
riers only as may seem to accord with
their own Interests, since In the present
state of the law, as declared by the
court, common carriers have the power
to establish, change and exact rates
Independent of the judgment of the
commission.”
“The court concedes to the commis
sion power under the interstate com
merce act ‘to determine what, in refer
ence to the past, was reasonable and
just.' In the case under consideration,
the commission has determined that
the rates complained of and which are
now charged by the defendants, were
in the past and are now unjust, un
reasonable and in violation of the
statute. The duty of notifying and
requiring the defendants to cease and
desist from such violations is enjoined
upon the Commissjpn by the act.”
It is evident from this official state
i mont by the commission that shippers
and travelers are deprived under the
ruling of the Supreme Court of their
supposed right to compel through the
commission the adoption by railroad
carriers of ascertained reasonable
charges, and that they can only recov
er such right by securing favorable
action in Congress.
VACATION SCHOOLS IN CITIES.
A few years ago It would have seem
ed odd to chooBe the close of summer
for a review of educational progress.
But the summer schools have changed
all that. Nowadays much of the best
work In education Is done in summer.
Moreover, a new kind of summer
school, very interesting in many ways,
has lately come Into notice.
In the summer of 1894 The New York
Association for Improving the Condi
tion of the Poor began on a large scale
the experiment of vacation schools for
the children of the tenements. Edu
cation* was not the sole purpose of the
enterprise, which was, In fact, closely
akin to fresh air funds and other
schemes for brightening the lives of
the boys and girls crowded in the nar
row streets 'and stifling houses of the
poorer quarters of the city. >
The Department of Schools and Ed
ucation granted the use of three cool,
roomy schoolhouses, and the managers
undertook the task of coaxing the chil
dren Into them.
Books were discarded. The children
were invited to come and play. Grad
ually the play was made work, but
work of such a sort as to keep the
pupils interested and pleased. All the
devices of the kindergarten were em
ployed. There were singing, dancing
and gymnastics. The children were
taught to play at sewing, at carpeting,
at drawing and clay-modeling. Some
of them learned something useful; and
all were comfortably > and cleanly
housed during the school hours, and
kept off the hot streets and away from
vicious associations.
There has been no trouble about get
ting the children to come since they
have found out what the vacation
schools are like.' The average daily at
tendance during the first summer was
nearly one thousand. The second sum
mer it was more than three times as
great. During the session just closing
eleven schoolhouses were used, and,the
average attendance during the first
week was more than six thousand.
The cost per day for each child was
about eleven cents and a half in 1894;
in 1896, by better management, it was
reduced to less than five cents.
The officers of the association main
tain that the vacation schools are no
longer an experiment, and accordingly
they ask the city to make the system
a part of ItB educational work. Other
cities have done something in the same
direction, but nowhere else has the
plan been worked out so fully as in
New York.
Remember the Children.
“Don’t ride roughshod over the chil
dren’s tastes and preferences,” says a
motherly woman, writing of dress. “It
is an old time notion that a little con
sultation and yielding here panders to
vanity. Our tastes do not come upon
us like a birthday gift at sixteen. ‘ It
Is attention and skillful pruning, not a
snip at every turn, that develops the
little girl’s crudities into a woman’s
delicate tastes. Don’t drive the little
girl into self-conscious awkwardness
by compelling her to wear something
that some twiBt of childish fancy ren
ders hateful”—St. Louis Globe-Demo
crat.
Where Sells Are Hade.
Baltimore supplies the shops of all
nations with sails. That city Is .the
center of the cotton duck Industry of
the world, and not only furnishes sails
for foreign navies, but tents for for
eign armies, the production of Its
twelve factories being greater than the
product of an other, factories in the
world combine*}. . ,
It Is a strict rule with the big trass-,
atlantlc steamship companies that the
wife of the captain shall not travel In
his ship. The supposition Is that if
anything should happen to the ship,
the captain, lhstead of attending to his
public duty, would devote hla attention
mainly to the safety of his wife.
TO PRESERVE SEALS.
VARIOUS GOVERNMENTS COME
TO AGREEMENT.
Result of the Conference at Washington
- *-A Proposition Adopted Providing for
Suspension of Pelagic, Sealing—It Ie
Rot a Move to Menace Great Britain—
Simply to Preserve Seal Herds.
The Sealing Interest*.
WASHINGTON, Oct. 29.—In reliable
quarters it is stated that the confer
ence between Russia, Japan and the
United States, now proceeding‘here in
reference to sealing in the Bering sea
and the North Pacific, has advanced
to an important stage and that a prop
osition has been reduced to writing,
which, is accepted, will bring about a
complete change in the sealing ques
tion. The proposition is said to be ac
ceptable to the United States. It is un
derstood to be acceptable similarly to
the Russian delegates now here, but in
' view of the restrictions placed upon
them by their credentials it has been
thought desirable to cable St. Peters
burg for final instructions.
The Japanese delegates are under
stood to have felt at first that the prop
osition would not be in their interest,
but on fuller conference Mr. Fujita de
termined to cable the substance of the ’
proposition to his government, accom
panying it with a recommendation of
its acceptance. Little doubt is enter
tained that Russia will accept the prop
osition, and in view of Mr. Fujita’s
recommendation it is believed that
Japan will also Join in it.
The greatest secrecy is preserved in
all official quarters as to the nature of
the propsltion and it is not officially
admitted that any proposition has been
made. From equally reliable sources
Jt Is understood that the proposition
has a far-reaching scope and provides
for the material limitation or entire
suspension of pelagic sealing or sealing
on the high seas. Such a> decisive step,
if agreed to by Russia, Japan and the
Unted States, would, it is understood,
not involve any concerted move to
menace theclalms of Great Britain and
Canada to the right of pelagic sealing
on the high seas, but would rather be
a proposition expressive of the con
clusions of the three most interested
powers, that in the interests of human
ity and the preservation of the seal
herds of thedr respective governments
all nations. Including Great Britain
and its colony, Canada, should unite
with Russia, the United States and
Japan in such effective prevention of
pelagic sealing on the high seas as will
put an end to it and thereby secure the
preservation of the seals.
The deliberations of the conferees
leading up to the proposition were pro
ductive of numerous interesting and
Important features. All of the mem
bers of the conference were placed un
der a pledge of secrecy,, and they have
maintained this with the greatest care.
The conferees having agreed on all
points, it only remains to hear from the
respective governments th&y represent.
An adjournment was accordingly taken
until next Monday, by which time it
is not doubted the governments at St.
Petersburg and .Tokio will have taken
final action.
Offers *20,000,000 More.
LONDON, Oct. 28.—Long cable mes
sages have been sent to United States
Attorney General McKenna in the mat
ter of Union Pacific railway sale in
behalf of the syndicate making offers.
The syndicate claims that it would pro
duce $20,000,000 more to the government
than any other bid and urges the sale
to be postponed until December 15.
to enable congress to determine as to
the validity of the acceptance of the
bond in part payment. Coates & Co.
contend that by the sale of the Union
Pacific separately the United States
will be loser, while they (Coates & Co.)
propose to pay the government In full
for both roads.
The final cables message sent yester
day claims that the latest Scvhlff bid
is very little better than the previous
bids, and that once Mr. Schlff has se
cured the Union Pacific he will have
the Kansas Pacific division at his
mercy and buy It at his own price. The
disnatch concludes:'
“If the government secures a post
ponement of both sales until Decem
ber 15, the Coates syndicate will fur
nish guarantees to pay in full the gov
ernment claims on both roads. Con
gress cpn then determine whether both
roads should not be sold concurrently.
By our bids we -have already earned
f8.000.000 for the government and are
therefore entitled to fair onno-tunitv
to ino’e than four weeks’ notice of the
sale of the great railroads to secure ihe
nronerty on the basis of setting some
millions more for the government ”
The Times in its financial article
this morning thinks "it certain that tbP
reorganisation committee will obtain
nnoi»no«ed oossession of the main line
November 1.
WASHINGTON, Oct. 29.—The next
move of the government toward a
final settlement of the whole bond
aided railroad question, It Is said, wi'l
be the Institution of proceedings
against the Central Pacific. The gov
ernment has contended that this road
4b already in default, and therefor?
subject to foreclosure, but, in a-y
event, it la said, the road must de
fault on the first c* next January. On
the first of the present month the
Central Pacific’s debt to the govern
ment agg’-egoted *61 824,469. of which ]
amount $36,638,348 is unpaid interest
and the remainder principal. In aid
of thlB road the government now has
outstanding $19,811,120 In bonds, of
which $10,614,120 fall due on January
1 next and $9,910,000 on January 1,
1899.
PHILADELPHIA. Oct. 29.—Dr. Jose
Congosto, Spanish consul here, who
has just been appointed1 secretary gen
eral of Cuba, says: “The governing
factor In my policy Bhall be liberality
and fairness toward every one. An
other change which I shall make will
be the treatment of accredited repre
sentatives of American newspapers. All
the information I possess which can
be made public will be at their disposi
tion. . These will be instituted and are
going to be genuine. Every feature
and policy of harshness that has hith
erto prevailed in the government of
the island will be swept away without
delay.”
MILLIONS DIVIDED.
*
Will of the Lute Ont|* M. Pallmaa Is
Mads Public.
CHICAGO, Oct. 29.—The will of the
late George M. Pulman has been filed
in probate court George B. Ream and
Robert T. Lincoln are named execu
tore, his -rife not being appointed be
cause it was his wish to relieve hep
from the responsibilities of the posi
tion.
The total value of the estate is shown
by the petition for letter testamentary
to be $7,600,000. Of this amount $6,
800,000 Is personal property and ¥800,
000 realty. The bulk of -the estate goes
to the two daughters, Mrs. Frank O.
I-owden of Chicago and Mrs. Frank
Farolan of San Francisco, who receive
one million dollars each, and also the
residuary estate. To his widow he left
the homestead on Prairie avenue. She
is also to receive ¥50,000 for the first
year and thereafter during her life the
income of ¥1.250,000.
“Castle Rest,” one of the Thousand.
Islands in the St. Lawrence river. Is
given his daughter, Florence (Mrs.
Lowden), with the furniture, for life.
The eighth provision of the will is
as follows:
f- i|
Inasmuch as neither of my sons has
developed such a sense of responsibi
lity as in my judgment is requisite
to the wise use of large properties and
considerable sums of money, I »m pain
fully compelled, as I have explicitly
stated, to limit my testamentary pro
visions for their benefit to trust pro
ducing only such an income as I deem
reasonable for their support. Accord
ingly bonds and other securities are
set aside to yield .each an annual in
come of $3,000.”
To Royal Henry
Pullman, Helen Pullman West tfnn"^
Ehnma. Pullman Pluhrer, brothers and
sisters, the deceased bequeathed $50,
000 apiece. Thirteen Chicago charit
able institutions are to receive $10,000
each. The sum of $200,000 is given for >
the erection of a manual training
school in Pullman, whicly is also en
dowed for $200,000.
Five old employes are given $5,000
each. Household servants get from
$250 to $500 apiece. There are num
erous other bequests to relatives, rang
ing from $5,000 to $25,000.
Depew Snj* It W»i Dynamite.
NEW YORK, Oct 28.—The Herald
and World this morning quote Chaun
cey M. Depew, president of the New
York Central railroad, as saying that
the wreck at Garrison’s last Sunday
was caused by a dynamite expolslon.
“Any one who is familiar with rail
roading,” said Mr. Depew, “knows
that the continual pounding of bains
over a roadbed has the effect of beat
ing it down until it is like a rock. That
roadbed has been in use. forty years,
and the fact that it was like a rock
is shown by the fact that Immediately
after the wreck, before the workmen
had filled in any, the break showed a
clean-cut perpendicular cleavage.
h? “The popular notion that this was
due to a landslide is not borne out by
thiq. -When there is a landslide the
bank takes the shape of an inclined
plane. The fact that this was found
as it was shows that the break must
have been formed in an' unusual way.
The only thing that could have done
it would have been a stick of dynamite
rammed down in the roadbed.1 That
would have done it.” . . -i • .
Old Officers AeelMted.
MILWAUKEE, Oct. 29.—The report
of Captain Everest on the nomination
of officers for the Society of the Army
of the Tennessee for the ensuing year
was unanimously approved. The old
officers were re-elected as follows:
President, General G. M. Dodge; cor
responding secretary, General A. Hick
enlooper; recording secretary, Colonel
Cornelius Cadle; treasurer, General M.
F. Force. The following vice presidents
were elected: Colonel J. Bell, Ohio;
Major William Warner, Kansas * City,
Mo.; Colonel B. T. Wright, Illinois;
Captain John Crane, New York; Gen
eral L. H. Hubbard, Minesota; General
C. H. Frederick. Nebraska; Captain O.
C. Lademan, Wisconsin; Andrew A.
Blair, Pennsylvania; Major Charles
Christensen, California; Colonel J. W.
McMurray, Florida; Lieutenant J. R.
Dunlop, Indiana, and Captain M. E.
Hiby, Iowa.
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Head of the Union Pacific.
OMAHA, Oct. 29.—General Manager
Dickinson of the Union Pacific has just
returned from St. Loui3, where he had
a conference with President S. H. H.
Clark of the same railroad regarding
matters concerning the future of the
Union Pacific. Since his return there
is a further belief among attaches of
the Union Pacific and some other rail
road men here that S. H. H. Clark
will be the president of the reorganized
company and that Edward Dickinson
will he the first vice president and gen
eral manager. The probability of these *
selections Is not new, but that they
will be made Is a belief that i» grow
ing more general as the reorganization
comes closer.
Hoy In the Cleveland Household.
PRINCETON, N. J„ Oct., 29.—A son
was born to the household of Grover
Cleveland, thei former president of the
United States, at noon yesterday. It
Is said that the newcomer resembles
his parents in point of good health, but
neither Mr. Cleveland nor the three
family physicians will say anything in
regard to the newcomer other than he
is getting along nicely and Is a fine
boy. A11 afternoon Mr. Cleveland has
received at his home the many callers
who wished to pay their respects to
him In honor of the occasion. Some
ha.ve congratulated the ex-president
personally, but many preferred to
leave their cards with best wishes for
mother and son. Many telegrams were
received.
A New PmIii| Record.
PHILADELPHIA. Oct. 29.—Eddie
McDuffie, at Willow Grove bicycle
track, estaiblirhed a new world’s record W
for one mile paced, covering the dts- -»an
tance In 1:35 2-5, three-flfths of a sec- V
ond lower than the record made by
Jimmy Michael on the same track sev
eral weeks ago.
The Lfortrert Ca«e Continued.
CHICAGO, Oct 29.—At 4 o'clock
this afternon Luetgert appeared before
Judge Chetlain with Attorney Phelan
and had his case continued to the next
term of court on hie own motion.