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The production of lemon oil is an
Important Italian industry which Is
carried on extensively on the island
of Sicily. Three methods of production
are used—the two-piece method. In
which the lemon Is cut In half; the
pulp removed and the oil extracted by
means of pressure within a sponge,
and the three-piece method, In which
the lemon Is pared, -the skin being re
moved In three pieces, leaving the pulp
with a small portion of the skin adher
ing to each end, the parings being
pressed against a flat sponge for ex
traction. The use of machines In the
production of oil Is confined to the
Province of Calabria, upon the main
land, less than & per cent of the total
output being thus made.
A prisoner tn his own palace, fearing
treachery and assassination every mo
ment, President Cabrera, of Guate
mala, who, during the last few months
has twice escaped the bombs of his
enemies, Is today as closely guarded at
the capital as a monarch of continental
JSurope. Cabrera even fears poisoning.
Jtt Is said about Guatemala City that,
ho longer trusting the servants about
the palace, he now has his mother pre
pare his feed for him. Even then he j
takes the utmost precautions. There
will be a mighty political upheaval In
Guatemala soon without a doubt. And
when Cabrera goes out the future is a
{matter of conjecture.
Considerable anxiety has been felt In
Paris since the telephone system was
{burned out as to the danger from Are
tto the Invaluable collections at the
iouvre. Oddly enough, one of the
chief dangers comes from the flat oc- l
cupied In the Louvre building by the
icuratqr, M. Homolle. M. Homollo lives
underneath the gallery, where there are
pictures by Rubens, Murillo, Velasquez
iand Holbein. His kitchen is Immedi
ately underneath the finest specimens
Sf the Flemish, Spanish, German and
Ingllsh schools of painting.
1 Fires have cost us as many as 7,006
{human lives In one year's time, and
jour loss In money value, through the
destruction of property. Is almost as
Jappalltng. The production of gold in
the entire world, something like $400,
1000,000 a year, would not recoup us
jfor our losses by fire, and the Inci
dental expenses accompanying them.
In the same period of time; the value
of all the coal mined In this country
Jn a year’s time would Just cover the
cost to us of our firos; the value of our
lumber production Is only a trifle more, j
Matrimonial troubles were under dis
cussion. The oldest son of a rich man
ufacturer remarked: "I hold that the
correct thing for a husband Is to begin
as he Intends to go on. Say that the
^question was one of smoking. Almost
immediately I would show my inten
sions by lighting a cigar and settling
the question forever." • "And I would
iknock the thing out of your mouth,"
cried the Imperious beauty of the
(group. “Do you know," rejoined the
Cour.g roan, “I don't think you would
e there."
Numerous cases of snake bite have
been reported by the weekly papers
jdurtng the summer, and there Is every
reason to believe that the crop of rep
lies has been the largest seen at Jaek
bon, Miss-, in many years. The man
ager of one of the big plantations In
Coahoma county, who has been clear
ing up new ground at every spare mo
ment, states that he has killed more
than 701 snakes since the plowing sea
son began, several of them rattlers,
cottonmouths and moccasins.
During the last season the Pennsyl
vania Railroad company set out 303,
•30 trees, Including pines, larches,
spruce and hardwoods. In Its nursery
it set out 313,000 forest seedlings lor
future transplanting and planted 222
bushels of red oak acorns, from which
1,600,000 seedlings are now growing,
it also planted a large quantity of black
walnut, chestnut and hickory, practi
cally all of which have given com
plete germination.
After being conducted through an old
church by the verger a visitor was so
pleased with the official's courtesy and
information that he insisted ojj giving
him a libera) tip. The man shook his
head sadly. “Thank you, sir,” he said,
"but It's quite against the rules.” "I’m
•orry for that,” said the visitor, about
to return the coin to his pocket. "But,”
added the verger, "If I were to And a
bit lying on the floor It would not be
against the rules for me to pick It up."
The pear is really more hardy than
the apple, and needs less cosseting.
There are trees still standing near
Monroe, In the state of Michigan, which
were planted by the French settlers
before Penn founded Philadelphia. Pear
trees can be kept In good and bearing
condition for 300 years, and apples for
at least 15* years. I have one apple
tree 115 years old, and Its annual
fruitage Is as perfect as It was 60
(years ago.
The bureau ot science, Manila, has
published a bulletin by Warren D.
Smith, chief of the division of geology
and mines, and members of that staff,
on the mineral resources of the islands
and their product in 190". It Is be
jlleved that a sure, profitable and steady
mining industry may in time be built
tip in the colony, but this report shows
that little more than a beginning has
yet been made.
In 1907 the amount of gold mined in
(the Philippines was 4,540 ounces, and
(up to June of that year 1,601 lode claims
and 63 placer claims had been tiled.
Silver is as yet practically a negligi
ble quantity (83 ounces mined In 1907).
All the Iron yet produced comes from
'one furnace <436 short tons last year),
mod the methods are very crude.
, Every year the annual of the Swiss
Alpine clubs tells of the fatal Alpine
(accidents for the preceding 12 months.
In 1907 there were 68 deaths, but no
guide or porter met with a fatal acci
dent. and of the 30 tourists killed on
the higher mountains, 25 were without
{guides and 17 persons were killed w hile
(gathering edelweiss.
Last year New York city spent $33
•00,000 on its public schools; Chicago,
{$23,000,000; Boston more than $10,000,
•00; Philadelphia a little more than $6.
,000,000. Though Philadelphia is the
third city In population In the United
{(States, It stood thirty-fourth In per
{capita expenditure on schools.
In nins months of the current year.
•10,000 aliens came to this country, and
•70,000 foreign born people went back
tto Europe. During the similar period
iof last year, there arrived in America
{1,116,000 aliens, while those who de
parted from these shores numbered
■only $20,000._
A Western monthly magazine pub
lishes the following unique notice;
“We shall have a general burning of
«ld MSS, received during the year 1907,
{as the first day of Decamber, ISOS. Any
■author wishing his story returned will
please send a stamp before that date."
BANK ROBBERY
SUSPECTS CAUGHT
Posse Surrounds Page Bank
Robbers This Aftrenoon and
Captures Them.
■Wateibury, Neb., Nov. 30.—After a
running fight between a posse of citi
zens, led by Marshall McManus and
Dr. McArthur, two men, Ed Burns and
Bert Long, suspected of being impli
cated in the robbery of the Page, Neb.,
bank, were captured here this after- j
noon.
The Page bank was robbed Wednes- ,
day morning, the robbers securing
about *4.000. Circulars containing a de
scription of the robbers, were sent1
broadcast, and It was through this
means that Burns and Long were lo
cated.
When Marshal McManus attempted
to arrest them, they ran, firing as they
went. A posse was quickly formed and
the fugitives were surrounded in a
clump of woods near the town and
finally placed under arrest.
MRS. CLARK GETS NEAR
MAXIMUM PENALTY
Vermillion, S. D„ Nov. 30.—Mrs.
Christine Clark was sentenced in cir
cuit court at 10 o’clock this morning to
'three years and 10 months in the pen
itentiary for the murder of her divorced
husband on her farm near Alsen, this
county, August 19 of the present year.
When court convened this morning
for the purpose of passing sentence on
ithe unfortunate woman, the court room
was but partially filled with spectators
and the general impression was thi *
■she would get a sentence of about two
■years, and there was a general sur
prise when Judge Smith gave her with
in two months of the maximum penalty
provided by law under the verdict of
manslaughter In the second degree.
The convicted woman's youngest boy,
nged about 5 years, was with her in |
Court, and also her attorneys. When j
asked If she had anything to say why !
sentence should not be passed upon her,
the attorneys for the defense answered
jfor her that there was nothing to be
said, and when the Judge asked her
to stand before the bar she manifested
as little feeling or Interest In the pro
ceeding as In most of the details of
her arrest and trial for the crime.
She will begin the service of her
sentence at once in the state pen
itentiary at Siou? Falls.
MENTAL SCIENCE TRIED
ON MR. THOMAS CAT
Chicago, Nov. 30.—A new and enthusias
tic recruit Is Just enlisted In the ranks of
Jhe mental scientists. Ills hame Is Plngle
Colburn and he Is a favorite year-and-a- I
half gray cat owned by Mrs. W. li. Col- 1
burn, of No. 730G Bond ave. From his |
youngest klttenhood he was afflicted with i
the crue'est form of rheumatism. One day
Mrs. Colburn said to her husband:
“All the doctors have failed on him. I
am going to try a mental science healer.”
That afternoon the treatment began—
pbsent ones and without the customary in
structions to the patient. He proved him
self the best kind of patient, thinking no
evil and in no way resisting.
Now he is so far restored that he can
Jump on a table.
TALENTED ARTIST DIES
IN SQUALOR AND WANT
Washington, Nov. 30.—Mrs. Imogene
Robinson Morrell, a celebrated portrait
iind historical painter, died In the
small room of a lodging house, alone
and friendless, and amid surroundings
of squalor and distress.
A half a century ago she was a stu
dent under some of the world’s mas
ters in Europe. In 1879 she established
the National Academy of Fine Arts in
this city. She had received scores of
piedals for notable works.
Mrs. Morrell enjoyed the distinction
of being the only woman whose paint
ing occupies a place In the United
States capitol, she having painted the
notable picture of General John A. Dlx.
More than 200 works of her brush were
destroyed In a Are 12 years ago.
CHARCOT LEAVES FOR
THE SOUTH POLE
.,. -.
Buenos Ayres, via Galveston, Tex.,
Nov. 30.—I>r. Charcot, the French ex
plorer who Is on his way to the South
Polar regions, made a farewell visit to
the minister of marine and the minis
ter of foreign affairs and left this port
yesterday. _
STEER KILLED BY FIST BLOW
Springfield. III., Nov. 30.—Frit* Scha
fer, a young farm hand residing near
Green View, Menard county, killed a
vicious steer which attacked him, with
a blow from his fist. Schafer was
Knocked down by the animal's first on
slaught. As the steer charged the sec
ond time, Schafer landed a blow behind
the animal's ear that dropped it as if
shot. When Schafer's friends reached
his side the steer was, dead.
MME. STEINHEIL IS
YET UNDER ARREST
Paris, Nov. 30—The case of Madame
Steinheil. who was arrested yesterday
after a day of sensational develop
ments in tlie matter of the murder of
her husband and stepmother. Mine.
Japy, in tills city last May, was this
morning taken out of the hands of M.
l.eydett, examining magistrate, who
lias been in charge up to the present,
and turned over to Magistrate Andre.
Hurring this change of magistrates,
there have been no developments since
lust niwht.
Madame Steinheil still is under ar
rest on a charge of aiding and abetting
in the murder of her husband and step
mother. Expert physicians have de
clared she undoubtedly is suffering
from the kind of hysteria peculiar to
a certain class of neurasthenics, which
manifests itself in Inventions of the
wildest accusations
There is in full blast today a cam
paign by the Nationalists and antl
Semetic press in an effort to prove the
authorities have had an interest in
smothering the truth concerning these
murders.
HITCHCOCK IN CABINET.
New York. Nov. 30.—The Associated
Press is authorized to announce that
Frank 11. Hitchcock has been offered
and has accepted the position of post
master general in Mr. Taft’s cabinet.
This is the first cabinet position tilled.
GENERAL IS “LIVE ONE.”
Port au Prince, Nov. 30.—General Le
c'onte, who was reported killed at .Ter
cntle by revolutionists, arrived here to
day. The general declares the reec-t**
that three men had been put to death
at Jeremle on his orders were un
founded.
BAR ASSOCIATION
PUTTING UP BARS
TO YOUNG LAWYERS
Would Require a Four Year
Course Previous to Admis
sion to Practice Law.
Lincoln. Neb., Nov. 28.—If the state
fear association has its way about it,
the lawyer of the future will come up
through the law schoolB exclusively,
end not through any burning of mid
night oil of apprentices in attorney’s
offices. The association adopted a res
olution asking that the law and the
rules of the supreme court be changed
so as to require of every candidate for
admission to practice that he be a
graduate of a law school, preceded by
a four-year course in a high school.
If the candidate comes from some other
State he must have practiced law there
for at least five years.
The opinion voiced by the members
who spoke in favor of the resolution
was that every care ought to be taken!
to insure against the profession being
'degraded by the presence as practicing
attorneys of men with inadequate pre
liminary training and meagre educa
tion. Judge Hamer, of Kearney, took
up the cudgels on behalf of the young
man who gets his start through his
work In a lawyer’s office in the spare
moments he can get from his daily toll.
Judge Hamer said that qualification
alone ought to guide, and that if the
proposed rule were in force the last
century some of the greatest legal
minds, men like Lincoln, could not get
& chance to follow the law. He was
voted dowm.
OFFICIAL VOTE OF STATE
ON PRESIDENT AND GOVERNOR
. Lincoln, Neb.. Nov. 28.—The official
vote on president and governor In Ne
braska is announced as follows:
Bryan, 130,781; Taft, 126,608; Cnafln,
5,179; Debs, 3,524. Bryan’s plurality;
4,173.
On governor: Sliallenberger (Dem.);
132,960; Sheldon (Rep.), 126,076. Shal
lenberger’s plurality, 6,884.
The democrats elected governor and
railroad commission; the republicans
the remainder of their state ticket.
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14 HATS AND GOWNS 4
4 ARE NOT CUT OUT 4
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4 Omaha, Neb., Nov. 28.—In 4
4 obedience to the edict of Bishop 4
4 Williams, every woman who at- 4
4 tended the wedding of Barton 4
4 Millard and Miss Nathalie Mer- 4
4 riam at Trinity Episcopal cathe- 4
4 dral last evening, wore a hat. 4
4 Not only this, but, contrary to 4
4 the practice at many recent 4
4 church weddings, there were no 4
4 low cut gowns, 4
CHICAGO GRAIN
INTERESTS SCORE
Chicago, 111., Nov. 28.—The largo
grain shipping interests of the Chicago
board of trade, as well as those in many
other cities have won temporary con
cessions. They have protested vigor
ously against the order of the Interstate
Commerce commission prohibiting the
railroads from making further pay
ments of customary grain elevation al
lowance of one-quarter of a cent a
cent a bushel. It was announced last
night that the commission had post
poned the effective date of the order
until July 1, 1909.
The order was postponed at the re
quest of Chicago grain Interests, who
asked that the case bo allowed to re
main In abeyance until the legality of
tho commissions position can be passed
upon by the courts on the application
for an injunction to be Hied by tha
boards of trade of Kansas City, Omaha,:
Sioux City and other Missouri river
cities.
HENEY, RECOVERING,
WILL PUSH FIGHT
San Francisco, Nov. 28.—It is reported
from tha Lane hospital that Francis J.
Heney is not quite so well, owing to the
effect on his kidneys of the anesthetic
used when the bullet fired by Morris Haas
was extracted from his jaw. His temper
ature is slightly above normal, but no
alarm is felt, and Ills speedy Improvement
is expected.
The men responsible for bribery and cor- I
ruption, and not their tools will suffer If
Heney has his way in San Francisco. So:
‘ar recovered from Ills wound that he could,
outline his future action, the district at
torney today emphatically declared that
his life work will be carried to completion.
“The true source of the vice and cor
ruption so far uncovered,” he said, "is
now the individual dynamiter, jury,
briber, kidnapper, and assassin. Sucli be- i
lugs are but the bubbles welling from
the pool of filth that has been years in
the making. We must be satisfied with
nothing less than the root.”
' Heney is recovering. rapidly and de
clares he is anxious to get back to the
prosecutions he planned before he was
struck down in Judge Lawler's court
room November 14.
"My blood has not been shed in vain,”
he declared, “if the assassin's bullet has
revealed to the public, the hideousness of
the gigantic conspiracy that acts to de
feat the law and l will be well satisfied
'f my efforts result In Immeasurable bens
fit to my city and state.”
CHRISTIAN SCIENCE
DAILY PAPER OUT
Boston, Nov. 28.—The new daily news
paper published by Christian Scientists
appeared for the first time yesterday.
Mrs. Mary Baker C3. Eddy, in an edi
torial announcement, states that the
object of the Christian Science Monitor
"is to injure no mun but to bless all
mankind.”
The paper is modem in typographic
makeup, seven column i wide, and is
sued in four editions of 12 pages each.
The news matter is the antithesis of
sensationalism. On the sporting page,
the horse news is absent, although
there is generous treatment of baseball
and basketball.
WHITE STORK FROM
WHITE RIVER WILL BE
SENT TO WHITE HOUSE
El wood, ind., Nov. 28.—George Meyers,
An old time trapper and fisherman, will
send to President Roosevelt, a snow white
stork which he found In the swamps ad
jacent to White River.
AGREEMENT COMPLETED.
Toklo. Nov. 28.—It is officially acknow
ledged today that the Japanese-American
agreement has been completed. It Is on
the general lines of the Aoki proposal.
SUPREME JUDGES
ARE TO SHARE IN
LARGER SALARIES
Constitutional Provision Per
mits Raise in Judges' Sal
aries During Term.
Lincoln, Neb., Nov. 26.—The supAme
court Judges now in office will share
with the ones to be appointed in the
Increase of salary provided by the con
stitutional amendment just adopted.
The increase will be from $2,300 to the
,neat sum of $4,500 a year, while all of
.the district Judges will be boosted from
$2,600 to $3,000.
There is a provision in the constitu
tion that says the salary of an officer
may not be increased or diminished
during his term of office. This brought
a feeling of sadness to the judges now
jin office until they discovered that this
inhibition referred only to the legis
lature. They have, therefore, construed
it that the people may make such
changes in the salaries of officeholders
"whenever it is done through the me
dium of a constitutional amendment.
The state board of canvasers yester
day afternoon completed its canvass
and will report to the governor that
both amendments carried. The demo
crats, who think the incoming gov
ernor ought to make the appointments
of the four new Judges and who are not
satisfied with Sheldon's Intention to
name one democrat, have been talk
ing of protesting that the board had
no Jurisdiction to make a canvass on
the amendments, but nobody appeared i
to enter his objections.
RUSTIN’S WIFE WILL
GO EAST TO LIVE
Widow of Murdered Physician
Will Leave Scene Where
Husband Lost His Life.
I
Omaha, Neb., Nov. 26.-~Mrs. Grace j
Rustin, widow of Dr. Frederick Rustin,
Who met a tragic, mysterious death
(September 2, leaves Omaha to make
per future home at Haverhill, Mass.
"I expect to leave here some time
next month,” said Mrs. Rustin today.
"I will Join my mother at Haverhill
and expect to remain there Indefi
nitely.”
Mrs. Howe, mother of Mrs. Rustin,
visited In Omaha several weeks after
the Rustin tragedy. She returned to
Massachusetts recently, where her hus
band is an Invalid.
Mrs. Rustin will leave Omaha soon
after the trial of Charles K. Davis,
charged with murdering Dr. Rustin.
PACKER TOWN SHIES
AT DIVORCE BUSINESS
Omaha, Neb., Nov. 26.—One of the 1
principal projects for the coming legis
lature will be a radical revision of the
divorce laws with P. Thomas, a mem
ber-elect from Omaha, drawing up a
sweeping measure, contemplating an
extension of the term limit within
which divorcees may remarry.
■ My purpose Is to save Nebraska the
obloquy South Dakota has brought on
itself by Its lax divorce laws,” says Mr.
Thomas.
“It has just recently become general
ly known that Nebraska's laws are, if
anything, easier than South Dakota’s,
and since the latter state has made its
Statutes more stringent, Omaha la
looked to as the mecca for this traffic.
We don't want it, and won't have it, if
the legislature backs me up.”
Mr. Thomas has the support of some
of the district Judges and others in
terested In the moral welfare of the
state.
HAND IS MANGLED
IN MILL MACHINERY
Laurel, Neb.. Nov. 26.—Walter
Thomas, engineer at the mill, got his
left hand caught in the machinery this
Inornlng and severely mangled. He will
probably lose one or two fingers. He
pad just started the engine a few min
utes before and was looking over it
to see that everything was all right.
DUCHESS’ SLIP REVEALS
HIDDEN DIRECTOIRE SASH
London, Nov. 26—Thus the pretty se
frets of the directolre costuraa havo be
come known. At the bazar she held at
(Sunderland house, her town residence, he
duchess of Marlborough ran across tile
inarble hall in pursuit of her aunt, Mrs,
William Tiffany, and slipped on the pol
ished marble. She kept her feet, but the
peplum of her robe flew out to reveal a
light satin petticoat tied close to her
knees with a wide sash of cherry ribbon.
The duchess wore a most becoming dlree
toire gown of sapphire velvet coverd wi.h
gold embroideries and a cherry ribb .a
arched her slender waist.
SPITTING DEFENDED BY
PENNSYLVANIA MAYOR
Unlorttowh, Pc., Nov. 26.—Mayor
Robert D. Warmun, of this city, has
taken a stand against curtailing spit
ting privileges of his townspeople.
Though the town council has passed
an ordinance making it a misdemeanor
to expectorate on the sidewalk. War
man serves notice that he will veto
it, and, further, if it is passed over
his veto, he will discharge every one
brought before him under arrest for
spitting.
'I want it understood,'’ he says, "that
my people must not be hampered by
any fool rules telling them when and
where they shall spit. If they want
to spit they can do it as they like
and where they like. I’ll see that they
are not lnterferred with.”
The Church of England bishopric of
Mackenzie river, in Bitish North Amer
ica, is five times as large as the United
Kingdom.
JENKINS HAINS SEEKS
DELAY IN HIS TRIAL
New York. Nov. 26.—Although the
trial of T. Jenkins Hains. jointly in
dicted with his brother, Captain Peter
C. Hains, jr., for the murder of William
E. Annis, is set down to begin Decem
ber 14 before Supreme Court Justice
Asplnall, it is said that counsel for
Hains will make one more effort to
have the trial put off until after the
holidays. _ _
It requires 15,200 stenographers to do
the office business of New Yo[k city.
PRESIDENT ROOSE VEL TINA
FINE TRIBUTE TO SHERIDAN
foung Men of Today Must
Nerve Themselves to Meet
Issues as Bravely as Did
Their Fathers.
Washington, D. C., Nov. 28.—Speak
ing at the dedication of the Sheridan
monument today, President Roosevelt
said:
It is eminently fitting that the nation’s
illustrious men, the men who loom as he
roes before the eyes of our people, should
be fittingly commemorated here at the na
tional capital, and I am glad indeed to
take part in the unveiling of this statue
to General Sheridan. His name will al
ways stand high on the list of American
worthies. Not only was he a great gen
eral, but he showed his greatness with
that touch of originality which we call
genius. Indeed this quality of brilliance
has been in one sense a disadvantage to
his reputation, for it has tended to over
shadow his solid ability.
We tend to think of him only as the
dashing cavalry leader, whereas he was
in reality not only that, but also a great
commander. Of course, the fact in his
career most readily recognized was his
mastery in the necessarily modern art of
handling masses of modern cavalry so as
to give them the fullest possible effect, not
only in the ordinary operations of caval
rv which precede and follow a battle, but.
in the battle itself. But in addition he
showed in the civil war that he was a first
class army commander, both as a subord
inate of Grant and when in independent
command. His record in the Valley cam
paign, and again from Five Forks to Ap
pomattox, is one difficult to parallel in
military history. After the close of the
great war, in a field where there was scant
glory to be won by the general in chief,
he rendered a signal service which has
gone almost unnoticed; for in the tedious
weary Indian wars on the great plains.it
was he who developed in thorough-going
fashion the system of campaigning in
winter, which, at the cost of bitter hard
ship and peril, finally broke down the
banded strength of those formidable war
riors, the horse Indians.
His career was typically American, for
from plain beginnings he rose to the high
est military position in our land. We
honor his memory itself; and moreover,
as in the case of the other great com
manders of his day, his career symbolizes
the careers of all those men who in the
years of the nation’s direst need sprang
to the front, to risk everything, including
life itself, and to spend the days of their
strongest young manhood in valorous con
flict for an ideal. Often we Americans
are taunted with having only a material
ideal. The empty folly of the taunt is
.sufficiently shown by the presence here
today of you men of the Grand Army,
you the comrades of the dead general, the
men who served with and under him. In
all history we have no greater instance of
subordination of self, of the exalting of a
lofty ideal over merely material well
being among the people of a great nation,
than was shown by our own people in the
civil war.
And you. the men who wore the blue,
would be the first to say that this same
lofty indifference to the things of the
body, when compared to the things of the
soul, was shown by your brothers who
wore the gray. Dreadful was the suffer
ing, dreadful the loss, of the civil war. Yet
It stands alone among wars in this, that,
now that the wounds are healed, the mem
ory of the mighty deeds of valor per
formed on one side no less than on the
other lias become the common heritage
of all our people In every quarter of thisw
country.
The completeness with which this i»v
true is shown by what is occurring hero,
today. \i'e meet together to raise a mon
ument to a great Union general, in the
presence of many of the survivors of
the Union arm; and the secretary of war#
the man at the head of the army, who, by
virtue of his office, occupies a special re
lation to the celebration, is himself a mam
who fought in the Confederate service.
Few indeed have been the countries
where such a conjunction would have
been possible, and blessed indeed are we
that in our own beloved land it is not only
possible, but seems so entirely natural as
to excite no comment whatever.
There is another point In General Sheri
dan's career which it is good for all of
us to remember. Whereas Grant, Sher
man, and Thomas were of the old native
American stock, the parents of Sheridan,
like the parents of Farragut, were born
on the other side of the water. Any one
of the five was just as much a type of
the real American, of what is best in
America, as the other four. We should
keep steadily before our minds the fact
that Americanism is a question of prin
ciple, of purpose, of idealism, of charac
ter; that it is not a matter of birthplace,
or creed, or line of descent. Herein this
country the representatives of many old
world races are being fused together into
a new type, a type the main features of
which are already determined, and were
determined at the time of the Revolu
tionary war: for the crucible in which
all the new' types are melted into one was
shaped from 177fi to j789, and our nation
ality was definitely fixed in all the es
sentials by the men of Washington’s day.
The strains Witt not continue to exist
separately in this'country as in the old
world. They will be combined in ‘one;
and of this new type those men will be
best represented what is loftiest in the
nation’s past, what is finest in her hope
for the future, who stand each solely on
his w'orth as a man; who scorn to do evil
to others, and who refuse to submit to
wrongdoing themselves; who have in them
no taint of weakness, who never fear
to fight when fighting Is demanded by a
sound and high morality, but who hope by
their lives to brfne ever nearer the day'
when justice and peace shall prevail
within our own borders and in our re
lations with all foreign powers.
Much of the usefulness of any career
must lie in the impress it makes upon,
and the lessons it teaches to the genera
tions that come after.
We of this generation have our own
problems to solve, and the condition of
our solving them is that we shall work to
gether as American citizens without re
gard to differences of section or creed or
birthplace, copying not the divisions
which so lamentably sundered our fathers
one from another, but the spirit of burn
ing devotion to duty which drove them
forward, each to do the right as it was
given him to see the right, in the great
years when Grant, Farragut, Sherman,
Thomas and Sberfttan, when Lee, Jack
son and the Johnstons, the valiant men
of the north and the valiant men of the*
south fought to a finish the great civil
war. They did not themselves realize,,
in the bitterness of the struggle, that the*
blood and the grim suffering marked*
the death throes of what was worn out,
and the birth pangs of a new and more
glorious national life. Mighty is the her
itage which we have received from the
men of the mighty days.
We, In our turn, mast gird up our loins
to meet the new issues with the same
stern courage and resolute adherence to
an ideal, which marked our fathers who
belonged to the generation of the man ir*
whose honor we commemorate this monu
ment today.
LIVES LOST WHEN
STEAMERS COLLIDE
f/hite Star Liner Runs Down
the Finance, But Saves Most
of Passengers and Crew.
New York, Nov. 28.—A steamer b3
lieved to be the Finance, belonging to
the Panama Railroad and Steamship
company, was sunk in collision with
the White Star steamer Georgie. in the
main ship channel, off the end of Sandy
Hook, this morning. The Georgie was
only slightly damaged. The crew of the
foundered steamer were seen leaving
the vessel in a yawl boat. The Finance
sailed from the dock, for Colon Monday,
but was probably detained by log. She
carried about 100 passengers and a gen
eral cargo of merchandise.
Shortly before 11 a. m. the Georgie
weighed anchor and proceeded up bay.
Six passengers and two of the crew
of the Finance are reported missing by
life savers. Whether they were
drowned or picked up by passing boats
was not learned.
Both Linder Way.
Both- steamships were under way- at the
time the collision occurred, the Finance
was outward bound, while the Georgie
was slowly creeping up the bay in an ef
fort to reach the dock, alter having been
at anchor for two days, waiting for the
heavy fog to lift.
Within ten minutes after the Georgie
struck her the Finance sank with a great
hole on the starboard side, just abaft the
funnel.
Owing to the wreckage the crew was un
able to launch any lifeboats from the star
board side, but the boats and life craft on
(he port side were quickly dropped into the
water, 80 passengers and 65 members of
the crew started to board the small boats.
The tlnal count taken showed there were
missing, four first cabin passengers, three
second cabin passengers, and the second
engineer. Those rescued were transferred
to the Georgie. The Georgie stood by un
til all the rescued passengers were on
board and then preceded up the harbor.
Passengers on the Georgie said there
were six passengers on the Finance re
ported missing, among them being.
Henry Miller, conductor Panama rail
road.
Policeman Rhineland, Panama canal
zone.
Mrs. Cambella. Panama.
William E. Todd, third assistant engin
eer.
Chief Engineer John W. Pickett.
Charles W. Pickett.
Charles Eric, oiler.
BAN ON MICHIGAN
CATTLEJN ILLINOIS
Springfield, 111.. Nov. 28.—Governor
JDeneen today issued a proclamation
prohibiting the importation Into Illi
nois of any live stock from Michigan
owing to the prevalence of the foot
and mouth disease among cattle in that
state. __
JAPAN SENDS FRISCO
WIRELESS GREETINGS
' San Francisco, Nov. 2S.—Across
4.700 miles of ocean aerograms have
been received from Japan by operators
in the United States wireless telegraph
station in this city.
Although they have been unable to
reply to the call from over the seas, I
they- have watched with great interest
the efforts of the Japanese to get into
communication with the United States
through other means than cable or ship.
This marks the record for receiving
' wireless messages.
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DORANDO DEFEATS
HAYES IN RAGE
Reversal of Result in the Mara
thon Race at London Last
Summer.
Madison Square Garden. N. Y., Nov
28.—Dorando Piet ri, of Capri, Italy,
defeated John J. Hayes, of this city,
in the renewal of the Marathon race
at Madison Square Garden last night
The distance was 2G miles, 385 yards
the same as the Olympic Marathons
which Hayes wen at Shepherd's Bush..
London, last summer. Dorando then
fell from exhaustion and was helped
across the line, but. was disqualified.
He proved to be Hayes’ master last
night, as he held the lead almost frout
start to finish, finally winning by about
60 yards. Hayes was in the lead'
five times during the race, but only
for a few seconds each lime. Dor
ando’s time was 2:44:20 2-6 and Hayes"
2:45:05 1-5.
The last few miles of the rdce was
exciting. In the 24th mile Hayes made
another of the jumps to the front that
he had been making at intervals, but
Dorando. running strong, easily re
sumed the lead. This was repeated hair
a mile further on, Dorando again prov
ing the stronger. The 25th mile was
finished in 2:36:57 1-5. Hayes weakened
in the last half mile and the Italiair
won handily.
200 LIVES LOST
ON BURNING SHIP
Valletta, Island of Malta, Nov. 28.—
Nearly 200 persons, passengers and
crew of the Ellerman line steamor
Sardlnia, are believed to have perished
today when the steamer was destroyed
by fire just after she had sailed for
Alexandria, Egypt.
The Sardinia was scarcely a mile off
Grand harbor when the first sign of
fire appeared. With a strong wind to
tal! the flames the whole ship soon was
ablaze. Passengers and crew had
Scarcely a chance for their lives.
There was a wild soene of panic on
board ah the rapidly spreading flames
drove the passengers to the rails. Many
e:;rlted ones plunged into the sea and
scores are believed to have been>
drowned.
Others, trapped by the fire, literally
were roasted to death or smothered.
There were many craft in the har
bor at the time of the disaster. Sev
eral tugs and small vessels rushed to
the assistance of the imperiled liner.
A high sea and the half gale which
prevailed at the time, however, made
it impossible for them to even approach
the Sardinia, and they could do little
in the way of aid.
The Sardinia left Liverpool Novem
ber 14 with a cargo of general mer
chandise for Mediterranean ports. Her
crew numbered 44. About 20 first class
and six second class pasengers em
barked at Liverpool. Most of her other
passengers undoubtedly were Levan
tines, Maltese and PIgyptians.
STATE QUARANTINED.
Washington, Nov. 28.—The depart
ment of agriculture, under telegraphic
Instructions from Secretary Wilson,
today placed the entire state of Michi
gan in quarantine insofar as concerns
interstate and foreign shipment of live
stock, because of the prevalence of the
foot and mouth disease.
Chicago, Nov. 28.—Forty famine*
were driven from tneir homes today
into the chilling rain by a fire which de’
stro.ved three four-story buildings In
North Winchester avenue and occa
I sioned a loss of $75,000. Three firemen
-e injured by falling beams.