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TURKS STOP THE RANSOM. Governor of Raslog Refutes to Permit Exchange. American Dragoman Conveys Money 1st Rescue, but Porte Fears to Be Involved in Liability. London (Special.) The Constantino ple correspondent of the London Daily News wires: The attempt to secure the release C Miss Stone has failed for the pres tct, though the money wax taken to Ranlog. "The Turks had promised to place soldiers and a messenger ai the dis pctal of the American dragoman.Gar giulo, but Insisted, against his wishes, n sending up fifty soldiers as far as Itaslog, where the local governor re fund to let messengers or money out f sight, adding that he would not al low the money to be paid on Turkish soil. Thereupon Gargiulo telegraphed to Constantinople for instructions, and eras ordered to remain where he was. h negotiations meanwhile proceeding with the porte. TTie brigands naturally refused to saeet Garjflulo with Turkish soldiers in sight. The American legation's informa tion is that the cordon of Turkish troops baa been largely increased on he Bulgarian frontier and that the aorte fears it would be made liable in eanseqaence of payment being made n Turkish soil." Kaslog. near Djuma. (Special.) A representative of the press here has ad ao interview with the delegates who have been negotiating for the release of Miss Stone and lime. Tsil-a- They said that their negotiations with the brigands had been unsatis factory and that they had intended seturntng to Constantinople. Before starting, however, they say they re ceived fresh information which Induc ed them to renew their communica tions with the brigands and that these negotiations are now proceeding. Washington, D. C (Special HUd less iss Stone s captors have abandoned r, despairing of being able to safely surrender her to the agents who have Seen trying to ransom her, she Is not jet at liberty. It is quite certain that a ransom money has not been paid sown, and that the agents referred to amve completely lost touch with the Brigands, who have been frightened off T the appearance of Turkish soldiers to their neighborhood The efforts to eecwe the woman's release will not be abandoned, but it is feared that they most be renewed in another direction, she present line having been broken. VW83W AKD 6LASS MEN 0R6ANIZE0. dtwfnnatl, O. (Special.) Forty rep resentatives of the Federation Co-op erative Window Glass company, rep msenting over 800 pots, held a meet 9bst Bere. The factories represented are the principal independent plants New York, New Jersey,- Pennsyl vania, cWst Virginia, Ohio, Indiana, and Illinois. The principal business of she meeting was for the reorganiza tion of their company, which was orlg Anally formed last may. At the meet ing th? following officers were elected: Ireident, J. R. Johnston; treasurer, W. 1U. Monroe; secretary, L,. M. Mam amtrg. A committee was appointed to take mat a charter under the laws of New Jtrsey for the oiganizatlon of a strong ttenpany similar to that formerly op erated by the American Glass com aany. - The capitalization of the new com aany will be 1600.000 and the various plants will pay Into the company JJ00 per pot for working capital. This company, together with other organizations of a similar character, wyi control over 80 per cent of the wvnuow glass industry. The head quarters are in Muncie, Ind., and Phil axfelphla. STEEL TRUST MEN MAKE REPORT. w-w York. (Special.) The stock holders of the United States Steel cor poration have been served with a re tort oi the company's business for the nrst ten months of its existence. The balance sheet of November JO shows that the accounts aggregated Mi4J,45. the bills receivable $2,1121, 4W and the cash on hand fr5.3 5,527, mak tag a total of 1104. 44, 444. The Inven tory, which includes finished product, ere, manufacturing stores and mlacel atneoos supplies, materials, labor and expense involved In unfinished coa rracti, aggregates tW.M2.MT. The liabilities November M were JsMet.ttO, and the surplus of the cont ained companies which form the cor poration Is (174,144,22. The cost of tee eernpsales has been tl,4It,4M.MI. The report concludes that the busi ness ef the company is now practi cally en a cash basts and that practi cally all accounts are now closed wtth fcs thirty days after comptetioa of the d om tracts. IX C.-SBirtai.)-The anaase sesasstttse on anode leads has Mate awrsrwMi report ea the Irrtga Cm U3 fwantly agreed apoa by the fem ef the hawse ef taw asssi-arid stJt tm was m ehJaeMM hi the T-s waiithe aastfsw. ta r Carry Mmvai taa He an i:;j!nY CI TIE TIEAS81 ACT. Washington, D. C (Special.) Sena tor Rawlins has introduced a bill mak ing inquiry of the secretary of war whether the "new treason act in the Philippines" has been passed by the Philippine commission. The resolution cites a circular pur porting to give the language of the act. One provision makes the con cealment of treason against the United States or the Philippines punishable by a fine of 11.000 and imprisonment for seven years. Another provides a finiroT JOtrsmi iirprttiofHnent-for-twa. years for uttering seditious words, and a third provides a fine of 1,000 and imprisonment for one year for persons belonging to secret societies having for their object the promotion of treason. Another prohibition is against advo cating the independence of the Philip pines or their separation from the United States, "whether by peaceable or forcible means." The penalty for the infraction of this requirement is a fine of $2,000 and Imprisonment for a year. The resolu tion went over for future considera tion. Senator Patterson has Introduced a bill providing for the union of Okla homa and Indian Territory and the! admission Into the union as a state, to be called Oklahoma. The senate In executive session to day ratified the extradition treaties re cently negotiated with Denmark and Belgium and the treaty affecting the descent of property between the Unit ed States and Guatemala. FIND $45,000 IN FORGED PAPER. Lincoln, Neb. (Special.) Secretary Royce of the state banking board, who went to Bellwood, reported from there that the condition of the Platte Valley bank, closed, is in much worse shape than first disclosed. Secretary Royce says at least S45.0O0. possibly more, of the rediscounted notes disposed of by the bank prove to be forged paper. The buik of these notes are held by Lin coin, Omaha, Chicago and New York bands, but not In a sufficient quantity by any one,' he thinks, to prove seri ously embarrassing. A. ii. uould, the cashier and man ager, was taken to David City, the county seat, and is in Jail. W. Ft. Gould, the president, is secretary of the State Bankers' association. He has only a nominal Interest in the Bell- wood bank, and has for some time had no part in its management. Two months ago the Bellwood bank was burglarized, the alleged cracks men wrecking the vault, taking, it was said, $.1,000. It is now charged that the robbery was a fake, and that Cashier Gould was instrumental in wrecking the vault ,and himself circulated the story that there had been a robbery. The banking board estimates the de posits to be J 40,000, mainly by mer chants ( Bellwood and farmers In to vicinity. 6IRL IS HER OWN AVEN6ER. Geddcs, S. D. (Special.) An attempt at murder was made at Wheeler, S. D., last week, after the state had fail ed to prove a case against Clyde Pat tison, Miss A. Seidler, the complain ant, shot Paulson in the back arid shot again, but the second bullet missed him. At the time the corridors of the court house were filled with people at tending court. A doctor probed for the bullet, which he could not find. The dewd was done with a 32-caliber re volver. Amanda Sehiler had sworn out an information against Clyde Pattison, ac cusing him of seduction. The case was called in the circuit court. Judge Smith dismissed the case on account of a defect In the indictment. As the parties were leaving the courtroom Amanda drew a revolver and fired to shots at Pattison, the first taking ef fect in the back Just below the shoul der blade, ranging down and is sup posed to be lodged about the kidneys. The second missed. The doctors have failed to locate the bullet, and Pattison Is in a critical condition. The girl has not been arrested and public opinion is so sirvncT in Ser f-ror it it doubtful if she will be. STEEL TRUST EARNS EI6HTY MILLIONS New York. (Special.) Some remark able things are made public in an ad ditional report ot tne biiiion-aclisr steel trust this morning. Among them are the earnings of the company, its surplus, and the price paid for launch ing the corporation. J. P. Morgan and an underwriting syndicate, for launching the trust, received stock in the corporation to the par value of tl2.m,S00. Surplus on the day bal ance was made was 1174,344.238. The net earnings for nine months were f84.799.Z9X, and the dividends paid at the same time aggregated $41,$0,7M. Morgan tc Co. paid in securities of the big trust, nearly $fio0,000,0v0 for the con trol of the Carnegie concern, the plans of which, if carried out, meant a war of giants In the steel trade. ' Among other Irterestlng features of the report is an explicit statement that although higher prices could have been obtained, the companies have firmly maintained the position of not advanc ing, believing the existing prices suffi cient to yield a fair return. SprfnaJMd, III. ("pedal.) In , the United Mates circuit court Judja Humphrey entered decree contrary to that entered by Jode Amos Thairer la the Untied Metes etrcult eevrt for the western district ef Missouri la the at of Umm at rerdyee aad Webster withers, rurlrsrs ef the rirasn Otty, FitHwwg CMf Xatlreed 4 etissra afalaat tfce Oaaafe CWr riwam ItoJwey niinr t REPEALS THE WAR TAXES. Bill is Authorized by Ways and Means Committee. Available Cash for Beginning, of New Fiscal Year is Over One Hundred astd Seventy-Four Million. Washington. D. C Special.) The ways and means committee by unan imous vote has instructed Chairman Payne to prepare a bill rfpealing all the war revenue taxes, except the tax on mixed flour, The action taken was in the form of a resolution to the effect that the bll should provide for the repeal of the remaining war taxes to take effect on July 1, iiml, except that the repeal of the duty on tea should go into effect January 1, 103. The only division in the committee was in amendments proposed by dem ocratic members. Representative Rich ardson of Tennessee proposed an amendment to put trust-made articles on the free list. This was defeated by a party vote, as was the amendment by Representative Robertson of Lou isiana to continue the tax on "bucket shops." Chairman Payne made the following statement on the proposed repeal: LARUE CASH BALANCK. "The treasury now has an available cash balance of something over 1174, 000,000. It is not likely that this will be Increased materially during the present flncal year, as the treasury t buying bonds at a rate that will up the surplus to accumulate between this and the end of the fiscal year, June 30 next. The secretary of the treasury's report estimated a surplus for this year of tlOO.000,000 and subse quent reKults seem to confirm this es timate. The committee, therefore, thought It was entirely safe to repeal the remainder of the war revenue tax, amounting to KiS.0O0.O00, and the ta: on tea. amounting to 10,000,01(1, in the aggregate 77,O00,i.iOO, at this time. "This will leave a surplus estimat ed upon this year's receipts and ex penses of $.'2,000,0(10 or $,000,000 for the year, while we will start upon the next fiscal year with 174,0OO,0OD available cash In the treasury. The committee deems it wi-k- 10 have the repeal of the tax on tea take effect on the first of January next, in order to enable those, especially retailers and small dealers, who have stocks of the duty-paid goods on hand to dispose of them before the change takes place. "We can provide a rebate on the to bacco lav and guard against an fraud upon the revenue, for the rea son that the intf-rnal revenue depart ment has this trade under cluse sur veillance and can and will take an ac count of the stock In the dealers hands on me nrst day of July next. Hut this will be impossible as to teas, which ome in as customs duties and of which the government has no ac count, save as tlny are Imported in large quantities by the importers. Con tinuing this tpa lax to the first of January will give us six months' rev enue in the next fiscal year upon tea and will make the ultimate reduction for the next year considerable less than t7o,0i0,000." The bill will be presented to the bouse as soon as it can be prepared. The repeal Mill affect the ri-malnine special taxes imposed by the war viz.. On bankers, brokers. rraJn leal..e pawnbrokers, custom house brokers, theaters, museums', circuses, etc., bil liard rooms and bowling alleys, play ing cards, dealers In and manufactur ers of tobacco. The reduction on fermented llouar will amount to 60 cents per barrel; that on tobacco and snuff will be Z cents, bringing the rate back to 6 cents per pound, us before the war. The rate on cigars and cigarettes was cnangefl last year, but the further change now made win nnng iiie ra;e back to IhoKC existing pi lor to the war. The repeal under schedule A of the law will include the tax on bonds, de; Dentures, etc.; erliflcates of stock, sales or agreements, stock transac tions, inland and foreign bills of ex change; bills of lsdlng. Indemnifying bonds, certificates of profit, brokers' contracts, custom house entries, ware house entries, steamboat passage tick et. COAL MERSER IS COMSUMATED. Minneapolis, Minn. (Rpeclul.) The Journal declares the proposed merger of the coal trade of the northwest has been practically consummated. The Ian contemplates but one selling agency In this city and one In 8t. I'aul. This will put all the retailers out of the business. The anthracite snd bi tuminous branches of the trade have seen separately consolidated, and now they are to be brought together. It Is thought the same plan will be followed by the promoters of the big combine la other large districts. Wine Fren Dead Betrothed. Onawa. Ia. 8pclal ) Mary Chris tiansen has secured a verdict for t,0Uv la her breach of promise suit against dead man. She sued the estate of Frank Crum, who died last summer, for f7,Mt, claiming he had postponed ths date of their marriage andj finally died before the new date fell without weding her. It was prove conclusive ly that he Intended to marry her, and the salt w hens as the beat local war to reoersr a otUm of Um rop GIC3!7 I3. IS CETERKIXEO TO EKFCT.Cf TKE LAW. St. Paul, Minn. (Special.) Governor Van Sunt has replied to the petition from Minneapolis business men who asked him to cease his fight on the so-called railroad merger. The letter Is addressed to Jenney, Hemple, Hill & Co., and the governor says: I beg to acknowledge receipt of a pe tition from you and numerous other ffentdlemen doing business In the city of Minneapolis proposing that no im mediate action be taken against the Northern Securities company, and that "a fair opportunity for testing by ex- "perrencp wit ether gdurei:il wil come from that company." The consolidation of the Northern Pacific and the Great Northern Rail way companies, through the organiza tion of the Northern Securities com pany, is clearly a violation of state statutes. I obligated myself, when I was In augurated governor of the state, to en force the laws thereof. It is my bounden duty lo prevent. If possible, the consolidation referted to, because sueh consolidation is in vio liition of the clear and unmistakable provisions of the laws which have been on the statute books for over a quar ter cf a century. Not only is the letter of the law, but aKo the settled policy of this state atrainst the consolidation of parallel and competing railroad lines. Compe tition in the mutter of rates has always been and ever will be tenenvial to the pecI'le, and no specious argument r statement from those desiring to do awiiy with such competition is suffi cient to meet plain facts derived from common experience. However, the question of whether the law Is wise or uuwise does not con front me. The law exits and has been violat ed; my duty Is plain. I therefore must respec tfully decline to comply with the requests contained in your petition and shall continue as UKorously as possible to vindicate the laws of the state. VERY GOOD PROSPECTS FOR PEACE. Manila. (Special.) The general out look for pacification in the archipelago everywhere outside of the Island of Samar, has never been more favorable since the original outbreak of the Fili pino Insurteciion than at the present time. The Insurgents have been bro ken up Into small bunds and are ev erywhere fleeing for shelt'-r. They surrender daily, or are captured or killed. The policy of reconcentration and the stern measure of closing the ports to commerce ilave accomplished every thing expected of them. General Chaf fee still hopes that by the end of February the Island of Samar alone will remain not pacified. Those piovlnces bordering on the provinces of Katangas and Luguna, in southern Luzon, have been patrolled by the native constabulary, who have done excellent woik snd who have re ceive dihe com mi nrtatlon of Ueneral J. Franklin Hell, commanding In those provinces. General Chaffee has taken effective -teim to make sure that there will be no friction between the military anil eltil authorities. OMAHA DEALERS IN THE COMBINE. Kansas Cl'y, t Mo. (Special.) A least ten larce wholesale dry goods dealers on the Missouri river have en tered Into a combination as a result of which their entile traffic from New York and New Kngluml will be con trolled by one man, L). I,. Thomas, at rne time contracting freight agent of the llurlington In Kansas City and for the last several years agent foi that road In New York. The combine is understood to Include live Kansas City hr.uses, three In Pt. Joseph and two In Omaha.' The traffic of these ten firms, and of such others as are In the combine, will be abolulely controlled by Mr. Thom as from his headquarters in New York. This means that he will route practically all of the dry goods shlp- td from New Yoik and New Kngland to the Missouri river and tne railroad lines which may fall under the ban of his displeasure will be effectually stopped from participating In this bus iness. PRESIDES! CAJI01 ACCEPT PRESENTS. Washington, D. C (Special.) In the present opinion of the officials here President Roosevelt cannot accept any present from either Kmiieror William or Prince Henry without authority from congress. An examination of the precedents is said lo disclose the fact that while In many instances presidents apparently received presents from abroad, they never have retained these except by express authority conferred by con gress. In the other canes, where the gifts have not been returned to the donor, the presents have been deposit ed by the president in the department of state or In the Hmlthsonian insti tution. A large numbernf medals and arti cles of value may be seen in the library of the state department, the gifts of foreign ruler. Kriga at Ltnooln. Lnlcoln, Neb. (Special.) Jan Krlge, the former Koer officer, addressed a crowded bouse here. He was intro duced by Judge Cornish, In the ab sence of Mayor Wlnnett. Krlge com pared Joseph Chamberlain to Csolgosa, much to the benefit of the latter. He urged Presidtnt Roosevelt to slop the shipment of horses and mules from New Orleans to loath Africa, and call ed on Oovemor Baraga to oall for sub scriptions for the aaffarlac sfear wa asea tiki tkiUrta, ' TEST CHEAT THE OOllWOTOSa. Blew Seass ropl Scheme le 6e Ou "Ik's the street car conductors who have the fine opMn;uuty to see the feet of letting ot tiers tbua the parents teach children to tell the trudh." sa-"i a conductor on a lirooklyn car who hud jiibt had a btniKgie wth a group of elders and vounystcn. gtsntr U I'liurj Inland. '1 lit. re were four grown person aI)d fceieu children inthe group and they were bound out fur a Saturday even ing at the island, the children in clean white dreiei and the adulta brushed up nfter the day's work. The man at the iiciul of the party rTrSTT- Jc ihrw-mtt-r-seasoa it KQijHLbe Just Piuid four lures. The conductor aked him who was to pay for the children and he forked over another fare lor the tallest g.rl in the lot, who ap peared to be at least 12 or 13 years old. The conductor's palm was still ex tended. The man t-aid there was no more fare to pay. A man with turn lost his nerve just there and 44-ndered a fare for another of tie children and the conductor jxifntcd to a liird child .and ajked how old she was. The father shook his bead and said that she was not seven. The mother kept stiill. Not so the child herself. She shook her head at her father and announced that she was seven. She was undersized and uright pass for less than MX. Jlut her fare had tobe paiid. There was more bead shaking when the conductor poinled to a fourth gSri but her nearest- companion, the toll gril whose fare was first paid, dechiT ed with areproving look at the man 0i tiling next the head of the party that thai! jrir! was not entiitled to halt fare privilege, and reluctantly another fire cents was produced. 'Hie conduc tor went away, but presently return ed from a reeonruwrtring expedition a few seals off where two children of the party had found seats, and he de manded two half fares. With a very tired expression, but w ithout an effort at bpposit-aon, the two men of the par ty went down HimuKaiieoiisI v into thciir trousers pockets and wearily extended band fills of small coins to ward the conductor for him t help himself, which he d8d, taking Hix cents from the hand nearest him. One member of the party rode for nothing. The conductor smiled as he hunched the change, four cents, to the man form whose hand ha had taken a (Kme. "Von kroow if the car was mane," be e.iiid pleasantly, "I wouldn't be ao; I'd carry 'em and call myself lucky. But as it is its different. Red Tape Illustrated. A coorespondent passing hurried Jito the mora of the committee on riv ers and harbors pulled the knob ofl the ffoor. "How can I get that fixed, do you tiiink?" asked th congressman. "Shatl I get the carpenter or Ihe lock snidth?" "'Hie locksmith, I suppose." ".No, Mir. Were I to send for the loeksmdlJi he would tell me to oonsull the architcdl ,f the capitol. He has no authority to hx door knoli. Door- nol)s are permanent fi;uresi and are solely wwthfin the jurisdiction of the architect of the cupitaL "Do you see ihirt bookcase there?" said the committee secretary . " I caused the carpenter lo paste some ckith on the inxide of the glas door in order that the books might, not show. He did the woik. but when he had finished I noticed that he hud not cieoned the glass lic.fore he bad put the cloth on. The thing looked so !lisreMrtnble that I asked him why he had not cleaned the glass. lie 'old me (he gliiHft w-dK a permanent fix ture and thav he hud no authority to touch it, but. that the planing of the doth iion H wti a temporary matter and was entirely within the proviiu-e of tun labor. The w hole thing's gent lo done all over st'ti."- Valiii ngUo Cor. Cleveland i'lain Deialer. "Ih Aluminum Age" Expert Nicola TcmIiu in a recent p per predicted Ihe immediate adven of the a-luritiniim age," thus frightenng some tiimed holders of copper sltoka. ror the ahsnirnnce o the latter the New York Engineering and Mining Journal declars that both Iron and copper have long lives of usefulness ahead of them, ft will not raven oon-fuf-iist sJitrrfrv:; w-tll annei-Nede copper in electrical woik, whrre it might he expected to make itself feit, if anywhere. "It is true." my the .lonrnal. "thai aluminum has been tied for electrical Work in sonv plows, and has been found to answer well. But the supply will have to lie nruch larger flinn it in at presenR to affect the consumption of copper in any appreciable degree. 'Die price of aluminum has been reduced from time to tfme, and it is now allowing for Ihe very much lower speciifio gravity of aluminum actually cheap er firar a given bulk than copper. The manufacture reman a Km. ten one however, and increases very sHowly, no even responding In nny degree "to the opportunity offend by the high price and great demand for nic:al Bur electrical work. "Balloea ftcaareld." M. ltorey, the French architect.hta applied Ihe captive balloon to the cleaning or decorating- of cupolas, high roofs, towers or monuments. The balloon can be raised or lower-H from a wagon by wtindlsas, and it can be steadied by stays from the aide f the envelope, it haa two platforms, or 'narellas,' one at the top and the I her underneath, and these common,? rate by Isdder up a central tube. Te "balloon scaffold," as it is ealW, might be useful and ssfe In many op erations such as now require steeple jacks; for Instance, the wreathing of Kelson's column and also la w4rc)-M telegraphy as aa aerial tteaon. W'aahinrton Times. The Sultaa ao crown, cor oaatfoB bataf i I Turkey fOXE 01 TEE UiUClETX I! AtCapsNeaasTkey are Bxataa Try lag le Beawlar Hears. Anything; more miserable than the life of a chicken up in the Ope Nome district cannot be well Imagined, ac cording to a letter received from W. J. Harden, at present prospecting there. At the date Mr. Harden wrote the sua set at 11:30 and rose again at 1:15. "The chickens cannot live here," Mr. Haraen explains, dying of exhaustion, walking about waiting for the sua to set. 'Ihey are up again at sun. rise, and a week of that sort of thing lays them out dead. We pay J2.50 each for cold storage chickens. as tough on the bird, for the sun stays away as long during the winter ss be reigns in summer ,aud four hours day light is all they get. Kcferring to the Cape Nome boom, Mr. Harden says it is too late for any one else to go. Kverythitig Is pre empted. "Some of theproip: ctors have taken as high es 150 clHims.and I know of one instance where a man has 178. He will not be able to do the assess ment work on all of them and these are the only inducements loft." According to the mining laws, in a quartz mine a prospector must sink ten feet for which the government al lows $10, and a the annual assessment mutt be $100, that work complies with the requirements of the localion right. On placer mines, such u those at Cape Nome, $10 worth of work must also be done. Harden dsss not say what the rich sands are doing, but he took two rockers norlb with bim, and by going over thesHiidK already washed he inun ages to take from $1 to $3 dollars a day, "and we keep ihe roekera going all the time," he writes, "because there is no night here." Speaking of the high prices charged in the over crowded district, he says "tea is 2 cents a cup; so is coffee. I paid $10 a day at the hotel for seven days, and there were four of us in Ihe party, making $2H). Lumber is $1S0 a thousand and they cannot deliver it quick enough at that price, lleds are $4 a night. Beef sells at 75 cents a pound, and liacon at 25 cents. 1oui hhoremen gctfl.SO per hour and car penters get $5 a day and their board, (iamblers pay $20 to the men they hire nt their tables and gambling runs wide open. The IruB rewa ( Lombard?, Italy's royal crown, traditionally known as the "iron crown of Ixim bardy," is probably the oldejit diadem rn existence. Kor liOO years it has been the symbol of a living power among the nations of Europe. It whs formed by the skillful hands of Roman goldsmiths early in the 6th century and Kent by Hope (Jregory the Great u the Gothic Queen Theodollnda when she had freed Ioinbardy of the Arian heresy. The ou'.er circle is com posed of six equal puna of beaten gold, Joined together by hinges and set witb rubies, emeralds and sapphires uncut as they came from the mines, on a ground of blue and goldcnemel. Within the circle is the iron band which, de spite its age, does not bear a single speck of ruxt. In this great store is set by the admirers for the Iron band, to tradition has it, is formed from a ti ail that was lined at the crucilixi.'n. This hand is three-eighths of an inch broad and one-tenih of an inch thick, and from it the crow n derives its name. This celebrated iron nail, in originul form, vvus given to Constantine by his mother. Empress Helena; thence it found its way into the possession of the highest rulers of the church, at whose direction the crown was made. In Inter years it was used lit the coro nation of lyombardlc kings.apriinarily at tiiiit of Agiliilphus at Milan in S91. 'Ihe la-t sovereign who wore the crown w;js Niipoleon I. In Msy, 1B05, he as sembled nt Milan the dignitaries of the cmpire the reprehemailvi s of his roy.il and imperial allies and a splendid cir cle of marshals and generals and in thejr presence placed it ou his head, repeating the nioKO of the "iron Crown," "(iod has given it to me; woe to him who touches it." This same jeweled emblem of might acd power graced the front of t'hurlamagne ami a long succession of German emper ors.ending with Charles V. It was once removed from the cathedral at Monzu by the Austrian, while they were re treating from I.ombardy in lfe59. They took it to Mantau and ubsequently to Vienna. There it remained until the tresty which ceded Venetia to Italy in lfG, when it 'as retrcd to its old home in the Mona sacristy, and there it ret-ts to-day amid the other treasures of Theolodindii, her jeweled comb, her golden hen and seven chickens, the symbols of Lombarriy and its provin ces, and the crown of her husband, Agilupb. The itlan Who mardered te Harry. A curious psycoh.gica) study is Sug gested by the young man who needed money for his marriage, and accord ingly went off and killer) an express me-MH-ngcr and robocd ihe car, taking the plunder to his sweetheart to keep for the honeymoon. Jt sounds like a medieval romance. Leaving aside ni'i moral considera tion, from a merely prariicnl point of view the enterprise was an hazardous, the chance of escaping so Inflntesimal, it is hard to im agine a .ne man na dertaking it. And assuming the one chance in a thousand, what could be the feeling of the man entering upon married life witb the consciousness of such a crime as tbe price of It? One can almost regret Ihe quick de tection that left no opportunity to watch the workings of conscience. If there ever win a chance for a remorse and self-bet rnysl we resd In the story books It would hart been in this very striking ease. There was erldeatlv some moral drfeet In tbe youth's make- up worth the attention ot the crlmJnol oglsts. From tbe point of view of the Cbllc security, we must rejoice that was promptly put under control. The lawyer version: 'Tot me set aa kttornes for a nation, and 1 ears mat wae writes Its aoags " f : .Ve -