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SCOURGE Authorities of New Orleans Energetic in Stamping Out Yellow Jack i - - — 4 NEW 'ORLEANS, La.—The appar ®et increase in the number of cases of yellow fever is due to the discovery and transfer to the emergency hospi tal of eleven cases which had not been previously reported. That institution was in full blast and the screened am bulances which had been put in ser vice were kept busy hauling the un fortunates to that institution. The members of the Italian societies committees who have been doing mis sionary work among their people are responsible for the discovery of sever al of these case?. The rule of infection among the Italian element continues. There have been very few cases among people of other nationalities and only two ne groes have been found with the ill ness. Yellow fever does not as a rule attack the negroes, the history of all epidemics being that they have as a rule been immune. One of the negroes reported today is a quadroon. Both of these men worked in saloons and restaurants in the Italian quarter. The increase in the number of foci eight new spots being discovered, is also in line with the rule that has pre vailed heretofore. In fact, there has not been a single exception. Every new focus is traceable directly to the original source of infection. A case was discovered in the residence of a well known citizen, a mixed servant being taken down with the disease during the afternoon. An investigation developed the fact that her mother lived in the Italian quarter, and that she had been in the habit of visiting her on Sundays. She had been there just seventeen days ago and had befen there again last Sunday. Following up the mosquito theory, the girl was bit ten by a mosquito in the infected house last Sunday and the regular period for the incubation of the germ (four to four and a half days) was up in the afternoon. She was immediate ly transferred to the emergency hos pital and every precaution taken in the residence. The work of sanitation and the cam paign of education has been complete ly organized and 500 men are actively at work. Another branch of the work has been organized for ward work in the education campaign, and Rev. Mr. Beverly Warner has consented to be superintendent. The quarantine situation has been further complicated by the telegram to President Souchon from Dr. Mohr, acting health officer of Alabama, that he would require seven days’ deten- < tion at the camp before any travelers ' would be admitted into Alabama, Texas and Mississippi have agreed to accept a five days’ pratique from the marine hospital service. The detention camps are being capably whipped into shape. I ^ THEY SAIL FOR NEW YORK Peace Plenipotentiaries Start on Their £ Mission. PARIS—M. Witte, Professor de Wartens and a number of officials making up the Russian peace plenipo tentiary party, left the St. Lazare railroad station at 9:20 in the morn ing for Sherbourg from where they will sail for New York on the North German Lloyd line steamer Kaiser Wilhelm der Grosse. Many officials and diplomatists gathered at the de pot, including Ambassadors Nelidoff and Cassini and M. Routkowski, the Russian financial agent. M. Witte re mained on the platform smoking a cigarette and chatting with the am bassadors until the train pulled out when he raised his hat and bowed his farewell salutations to the crowd. M. Lepine, the prefect of police, remained beside M. Witte until his departure. Madame Witte and her daughter ac companied M. Witte to Cherbourg. Thence they will go to Brussels and remain there during the conference. RUSSIA AFTER A SEAPORT Germany Wants Hohenzollern on Nor wegian Throne. LONDON— The correspondent of the Daily Mail at Stockholm says: “The object of Emperor William’s interview with Emperor Nicholas was to obtain the consent of the latter for a prince of the house of Hohenzollern to ascend the throne of Norway. It 1s possible that the Russian emperor will consent, provided Russia be per mitted to slightly rectify her frontier on the Atlantic.” The Daily Mail, commenting on the dispatch, suggests that the “rectified frontier” means that Russia wants to acquire the strip of Norwegian terri tory which parts off the inland from the Arctic ocean, thus gaining a sea port. New Governor at Moscow. ST. PETERSBURG—The newspa pers announce the appointment of Durnovo a member of the council of the empire as governor general of Mos cow in place of General Kozloff, who is considered to have been too vacil lating in his policy toward the Zem stvo congress. Durnovo, who is wealthy, was governor of Moscow in 1872 and 1878. He has had leng ex perience in administrative posts. His son was commander of the Russian torpedo boat destroyer Bedovy at the battle of the Sea of Japan. Crop Conditions in Russia. ST. PETERSBURG—The crop con ditions in Russia, according to M. Charles von Schwanebach, head of the department of agriculture, are by no means so grave as painted and, though the crops are bad in six provinces of the Volga basin and Central Russia and assistance will be required to tide over the winter, there is no fear of a general failure. On the contrary, the department informed the Associated Press that the harvest in other parts of Russia is from general]v fair to stood. STRENGTH OF JAPS. Have 550,000 Men in Field in Man ehuria. URIDIAPUPDZE, Manchuria—The Japanese armies at present occupy the position of an immense sickle with the handle reaching from a few miles south of Liao Yang and passing through Chantafu, the blade circling northward toward Kirin with the tip on the Korean coast south of Possiet bay. It is estimated that General Nogl has eighty battalions, General Oku sixty, General Norzu thirty-six, Gen eral Kuroki one hundred and sixty, General Kawamura ninety and Gen eral Hasegawa one hundred and twenty, the battalions averaging a thousand men with 2,000 field and mountain guns and about one hundred siege guns. The Japanese extreme left is guard ed by General Tamura’s cavalry divi sion. The Chinese in the Japanese service are in the center screened by cavalry under the command of General Okihars. OBJECTION BY PRESIDENT. Does Not Like to See His Name on “Ads.” SPOKANE, Wash.—P resident Roosevelt has objected to Spokane’s literature bearing his portrait on the title page. Secretary Monroe of the Chamber of Commerce received a let ter requesting the withdrawal of the brochues on the “Lewis and Clark Trail” from publication. The letter is dated from the White House, Wash ington, July 19, addressed to the Chamber of Commerce at Spokane and declares that President Roosevelt is very much opposed to the appear ance of his portraits in advertise ments of any character and requests that the booklet of which the cover was enclosed be immediately recalled from circulation and notice be given when this is done. The Chamber of Commerce at a spe cial meeting today cancelled an order for 50,000 of the pamphlets and took steps to call in as far as possible those distributed. FINANCIERS GET BUSY % Are Planning to Raise Big Indemnity Fund. BERLIN—In view of the probability of an early peace between Russia and Japan, the terms of which will involve the payment of a very heavvy indem nity by Russia, the financiers of Eu rope have been holding conferences to the end that the peace indemnity may be paid without seriously disturbing the finances of the world. The Mendel ssohns, the Berlin bankers, who have been for many years the representa tives on the continent of the Russian government, and who have negotiated many of the Russian loans, have formed an alliance with the Roth schilds in respect of the matter and have held communications with all the leading financial institutions both on the continent and in England. They are about to send their representatives to New’ York with a view to enlisting the cooperation of the larger financiers of the United States. THE PEACE CONFERENCE Preparations for the Same Rapidly Progressing. PORTSMOUTH, N. H.—Prepara tions for the peace conference are pro gressing rapidly and satisfactorily, and by August 5, the day on which the plenipotentiaries are expected to reach Portsmouth from Oyster Bay, on board the Mayflower and the Dol phin, all will be in readiness for their reception. The Washington govern ment and the state of New Hampshire are co-operating in the effort to make the surroundings of the conference as suitable as possible and are receiving generous assistance from the people of Portsmouth and the adjacent vil lages of Kittery, Me., where the navy yard is located and Newcastle, N. H., near which the plenipotentiaries will have quarters in the Hotel Went worth. HILL ROAD GETS RIGHT-OF-WAY. Great Northern and Homer Line Set tle Their Differences. SIOUX CITY, la.—The Great North ern railroad and the Sioux City, Homer & Southern road, have settled their dispute as to the Northern’s right to cross the Indian reservation and the Northern will proceed at once with its work on the Ashland exten sion. A hearing was to have been held before the secretary of the in terior, but it was called off because of the withdrawal of the protest against the Northern’s invasion of the territory. The secretary of the in terior has Approved the Northern’s map. Tried to Kill Sultan. SOFIA, Bulgaria.—It is reported from Constantinople that during to day’s Solamlik an attempt was made to assassinate the sultan. Bomb for the Sultan. CONSTANTINOPLE — During the Selamlik here a bomb was exploded in the courtyard of the mosque,, close to the sultan. His majesty was not injured, but several members of his suits were killed or injured. New Panama Officers. NEW YORK.—E. A. Drake, secre tary and treasurer of the Panama Rail road company, has been appointed as sistant to President Shonts, who sailed Saturday for Panama. Samuel Harper Dead. CHICAGO—Samuel Harper, fathei of President Harper of the University of Chicago, died here Tuesday at the age of 87 years. He recently came to Chicago on a visit to his home m the east. V Bennington is Floated. WASHINGTON—A telegram receiv ed at the Navy department over night from Captain Drake states that the Bennington was tloated at 6:30 o’clock Tuesday afternoon and is now along «ide the wharf. JAP TERMS It is Said England Will Not Interfere With Her Ally’s Demands WASHINGTON—Japan comes to the Washington conference assured that whatever her peace terms, they will have the sympathetic approval of Great Britain. Several suggestions from Washington to London that the cause of oeace would be served by an explanation to Japan from her ally favoring moderation in her de mands upon Russia have not availed to change the British government in its apparently unalterable determina tion to stand by Japan, however se vere she makes her conditions of peace. Nor has the British govern ment seen its way clear to render as sistance to Washington in the efforts which this government is making to obtain an armistice. . Advices reaching here show that London is opposed to an armistice un til Japan has been satisfied that Rus sia’s plenipotentiaries are prepared to do more than discuss the means of ending the war. If Russia is ready to conclude peace end has so empow ered her plenipotentiaries, Great Brit ain, it is believed, might favor an armistice, but even in such event it is said she would not be willing to offer Japan advice on the subject. As understood in Washington, Lord Lansdowne’s position is that, as the loyal ally of Japan, Great Britain can afford to take no step, nor assume any attitude that would in the remot est degree redound to the advantage of Japan’s enemy. However much London may wish peace for humani tarian reasons, her loyalty to Japan, whose pledged ally she is, prevents her even from indirectly bringing pressure to bear by suggesting, advis ing. or otherwise at Tokio regarding negotiations, the effect of which might serve to moderate Japan’s peace con ditions or hasten a truce. Wrhen Jap an asks her ally for advice the Lon don government is prepared to give it, but this advice will be based on Japan’s interest as a primary consid eration. Nor is this attitude on the part of the London government misinterpret ed in Washington as indicating that its officials do not share in the wish of the neutral powers for peace. It has been made plain that the activ ity of the president has the full sym pathy of the British people, although their first thought, it is declared, must be in the interest of their ally. SANTO DOMINGO REVENUES Income of the Republic Set Forth in Statement. WASHINGTON—The revenues of ihe republic of Santo Domingo collect ed under the modus vivvendi between President Roosevelt and the Domini can government by American officials commissioned by the Dominican gov ernment, amount to $331,648 for the months of April and May. Of this amount, there has been placed in the City National bank of New York to the credit of the trust fund for the benefit of the creditors of the republic >157,313. This money will be held un til the United States senate has taken action in the matter. The expense of collecting the reve nues for the two months includes $11, 960 for salaries and $1,010 for travel ing expenses. GRAIN HEARING IN WASHINGTON. Takes Testimony Regarding Elevator Charges in Buffalo. WASHINGTON—Chairman Knapp and Commissioner Clements of the In terstate Commerce Commission gave a hearing on the general inquiry under way concerning the transfer of grain through elevators involving the charge that in many instances rebates hak been allowed. Witnesses were heard in the case of the Spencer Kelly Grain Elevator compan yof Buffalo, N. Y., an independent concern. An effort was made to prove that the company had allowed a rebate of % of a cent per bushel on a particular shipment of oats from Chicago to New York by way of Buffalo. On behalf of the company the contention was made that it was not a common car rier in the sense that the law con templated as applied to railroads; that it was in the elevator business, abso lutely independent of the railroads, and that the elevation of the grain was no part of its transportation. Hence it was held by counsel for the elevator company that there was no illegality in the methods adopted by it in obtaining and transacting busi ness. .jir* Uintah Reservation Land. DENVER, Colo.—United States Land Commissioner W. A. Richards, who spent the night in this city, left Sunday for Grand Junction, Colo., one of the twons selected for registering applicants for homesteads in the Uintah reservation, Utah, which has been thrown open to settlement. Com missioner Richards will superintend the registration, and brought with him twenty-four government clerks to aid in the clerical work. If any ad ditional help is needed it will be se cured on the ground. Yellow Fever Situation. NEW ORLEANS—The following is the report of the health authorities on yellow fever up to 6 p. m. Sunday: New cases, 27; total cases to date, 283. Deaths Sunday, 3; deaths to date, 67. New foci, 4; total foci, 41. Parliament Will Hang On. LONDON—The Daily Telegraph makes the authoritative announce ment that parliament will not be dis solved this year unless the govern ment is again defeated before proro gation. ANOTHER EXPERT IS OUT. George T. Moore of the Agricultural Department Tenders His Resig nation. WASHINGTON—George T. Moore, physiologist and anologist of the De partment of Agriculture, tendered his resignation to Secretary Wilson and it has been accepted. This action is the culmination of a hearing at the de partment yesterday, at which it was alleged by two representatives of an agricultural publication that Moore’s wife held stock in a company manu facturing culture for soil inoculation, while Moore, who had charge of the preparation and revision of bulletins regarding the enrichment of farms, di rected farmers to the concern in ques tion for their supplies of the culture. According to Dr. Moore, a proposi tion was made to him in July, 1904, by persons living at Westchester, Pa., for the formation of a company to manufacture inoculating material under patents taken out by the De partment of Agriculture in the name of Dr. Moore. He said he told these men they would probably always have competition with the government and that in any event there could be no monopoly of the business for the rea son that the department had taken tho patents in a manner to prevent any commercial discrimination. The Westchester men were willing to take the risk and offered Dr. Moore a sal ary and an interest in the business, with the understanding that the com pany should have the exclusive right to any further discoveries made by Dr. Moore. BODIES TO BE DISINTERRED. Remains of Bennington Victims to Be Sent Home. SAN DIEGO—The bodies of the Bennington boys who were buried in the military cemetery on Point Loma are to be disinterred and sent home to relatives at the expense of the gov ernment. The officials have discovered that after the Maine disaster congress enacted a law providing for the trans mission of the bodies of dead sailors to their homes. After the explosion the undertakers telegraphed to the nearest relatives of the dead men for instructions regarding the disposition of the remains and they were inform ed that the bodies could not be shipp ed at the government expense. Ac cordingly the bodies of the forty-nine boys were interred, unembalmed, in the little burial ground on the hill. Now Paymaster Morris is telegraph ing to relatives that, upon their re quest, the bodies will be disinterred and sent home at the expense of the government. So far such request has come for two of the bodies and it is likely that a majority of them will be exhumed and sent away. TO MAKE AN INVESTIGATION. Bennington Disaster Inquiry Will Be Far Reaching. WASHINGTON—Secretary of the Navy Bonaparte said, relative to the Bennington disaster: The public may rest assured that this distressing affair will be most thoroughly investigated, and that whatever action the results of this in vestigation may show to be proper will be taken by the department promptly and effectually. Beyond this I can say nothing at present, because, as yet, the material factors are but very imperfectly un derstood. TAKE THE ZEMSTVO PAPERS Ruuian Police Raid Houses of the Officers. MOSCOW—The police visited the house of M. Golovin, president, who presided at the recent all-Russian zemstvo organization for the Moscow district, who presided at the recent all Russia zemstvo congress, and also the house of M. Pollner, secretary of the bureau. They seized all the docu ments relating to the proceedings of the congress. A new congress of zemstvos and municipalities will assemble at Mos cow in August, in which two peasants from each province and also repre sentatives of the numerous liberal unions will participate. A GULF PIPE LINE. The Cudahys and Other Big Men in the Deal. INDEPENDENCE, Kan.—It is an nounced negotiations have been com pleted in Pittsburg, Pa., by the Melon Bros., the Cudahys and the Shell Transportation company, for the financing of the proposed pipe line to the Gulf of Mexico, with the Union Trust company of that city. The pipe line will extend from Chanute to Port Arthur, a distance of 650 miles, and will cost about $6,000,000. The com pany holds options on 10,000 barrels productions, and these expire next week. The plan is to close the deal by August 1. Bishop J. W. Joyce is Dead. MINNEAPOLIS—Bishop Isaac W. Joyce, Methodist bishop, died at his home here Friday morning as the re sult of a cerebral hemorrhage and con sequent attack of peralysis, which he sustained while delivering a sermon at Red Rock, Minn., camp meeting on Sunday, July 2. Harrlman Quits Rio Grande. NEW YORK—Information was're ceived here that E. H. Harriman has resigned from th Directory of the Den ver & Rio Grand railroad. Order is Held Up. WASHINGTON—At the suggestion of President Roosevelt, the War de partment order changing the assign ment of Brigadier-Generals Buchanan, Edgerly and Bliss, has been held up temporarily, pending a possible re assignment. Doctors Will Make no Charge. SAN DIEGO, Ca.—About twenty-five physicians of this city met and re solved to make no charge for their services to the men who were injured on the ill-fated gunboat Bennington. A REPRIEVE Gov. Deneen of Illinois Gives Murderer lioch a While Longer to Live CHICAGO — Johann Hoch, '‘Blue Beard” and confessed bigamist, sen tenced to be hanged Friday for pois oning one of his wives, was granted a reprieve until August 25 by Governor Deneen. The stay of execution fol lowed hours of anxiety on the part of Hoch, who had never given up hope and the stay was allowed by the gov erner only after the latter had been assured that the necessary sum to appeal the case had been raised. The amount, $500, was given by an attor ney and friend of Hoch’s counsel. The attorney declared he was actu ated purely by humanitarian motives. An incident at the jail during the preparations for the execution was the appearance of a physician and a woman, who told Jailor Whitman that they wanted to help in Hoch’s battle for life. They said they wished to raise funds for the condemned man and asked Jailor Whitman to delay the hanging as long as possible. About the time set for the execu tion the attorney who furnished the money appeared in the case for the first time. This attorney, it was stat ed, telephoned Hoch’s lawyer that the former had $500 to give toward aiding to appeal the case. The two lawyers hastened to the jail, told Jailor Whit man of the money secured and ar ranged with the jailor to postpone as long as possible the execution of Hoch. Meanwhile they sought State's Attorney Healy and had him arrange a conference with Governor 'Deneen over the long-distance telephone. Hoch’s counsel told the governor that there was lacking only a small sum of the amount necessary for a review of the case. After discussing the mat ter with the state’s attorney, the gov ernor finally consented to a stay for the condemned man and so notified Hoch’s counsel. Hoch retired early in the night and awoke at 7 o’clock this morning, cor dially greeted his death watch of two guards and talked with them for some time. He changed his clothes and seemed resigned to the fate that awaited him, but he assured his few visitors that there might be a chance for him yet. Meanwhile, unknown to Hoch, the negotiations for his reprieve were progressing. It was noon and the delay up to this time inspired Hoch with renewed hope. He ate dinner, smoked a cigar and read. Half an hour later through the window of his quarters he, having been removed from the cell he had occupied, received the news of his re prieve. It was conveyed to him by spectators of the proceedings in the states attorney’s office which adjoins that of the jail building. He was disinclined to believe the news at first, but when it was brought to him also by the ministers he was over joyed. He clapped his hands and de clared that he was the happiest man alive. MORE “LAND FENCE” CASES. Timber Experiment Land Said to Have Been Appropriated. OMAHA—Information was filed in the United States district court against H. B. Reed on the grounds that he had illegally fenced 9,000 acres of land, and against Adam Mil ler, Clarence M. Miller, Charles Mil ler and William O. Miller for fencing 18,000 acres of public lands included in the United States forest reserva tions in McPherson county. Capiases were ordered issued for the arrest of the accused parties and they will be taken before the United States com missioner at North Platte for arraign ment. The cases against these parties have been worked up since the con viction of the Krause brothers of Sher idan county under the direction of United States District Attorney Bax ter and Special Assistant Attorney Rush by Special Land Agents De Frees, Chambers and Dixon. COPING WITH FEVER. A Proclamation by* the Mayor of New Orleans. NEW ORLEANS—Mayor Behrman issued a proclamation to the people of New Orleans urging them to heed the advice of the health authorities relative to the sanitation of their premises and calling special attention to the necessity of screening the houses and placing nets over cisterns and all pools of water which might breed mosquitoes. This proclamation was also signed by the president of the State Board of Health, president of the City Health Board, Surgeon White of the Marine hospital service and the advisory committee of the New Orleans Parish Medical society. Honolulu Has Objection. HONOLULU—There is a protest here against quarantining cargoes at San Francisco. Coffeer, United States surgeon in the margine hospital ser vice, says the San Francisco author ities were not advised by him that the health conditions here were such as to warrant the action taken there and he cabled the marine hospital author ities at Washington that there is no need of quarantining cargoes from Hawaii. It is believed that the fumi gating at the quarantine station will injure the cargoes of sugar. Heroic Son Loses His Life. NEW YORK—After having saved his mother and sister, who, with a score of others, were for a time In great peril from fire, Nathan Newman, 20 years old, lost his own life in a burning Brooklyn tenement house. Half a dozen families, all of them Hebrews living in the building, were asleep. When the fire started New man got through in safety, but re turned for his mother and sister. He assisted them to a safe place, but was himself cut off by the flames. All the other occupants of the house escaped. _ WHAT JAPS WANT An Indemnity of a Billion Dollars Asked. WASHINGTON.—Whether there is to he peace in the far east or a con tinuance of the war will be practically decided at the first business meeting of the Washington conference, which will convene at the navy yard, Ports mouth, N. H., about August 5. Baron Komura will on that occason commun cate to M. Witte, the essentials of Japan’s peace terms for further nego tiations. This, it is declared, will not be done in a spirit of defiance. Indeed there are many evidences in the possession of the neutral governments that Japan is coming to the Washington confer ence, not imbued with a desire to hum iliate Russia, but only to exact terms which will insure a lasting peace in the far east, and which will in a meas ure compensate Japan for the financial losses in the present conflict. Although guarding with great care the official statement of its terms Ja pan has not kept from several friend ly governments the general character of these terms. Official Washington has been en abled to form within certain limits a general idea of their character. It is known that Japan will demand an indemnity that will approximately cover the cost of the war to date. This was communicated to Russia early in the preliminary negotiations. The amount is still a secret, but it is based upon the most careful estimates of the cost of the war and will be acconr panied by a more or less detailed state ment, showing the method by which the final figures w-ere computed. It will not fall far short of $1,000,000, 000, according to advices reaching here from well informed sources. Be sides the indemnity, it is believed, Ja pan’s other essential to the continu ance of the negotiations are the ces sion to Japan of Sakhalien and the transfer of Russia’s lease, of the Liao Tung peninsula and of the railway as far as Harbin, the recognition of Ja pan’s predominating influence in Corea and the return of Manchuria to China. If the Russian plenipotentiaries are prepared to accept these essentials, the officials here are confident that the bases will be laiQ for negotiations sure to lead to the sgning of the treaty of Washington, bringing peace to the far east. CUTTINGS SCATHING REPORT. Massachusetts Commissioner Roasts Insurance Methods. BOSTON—Scathing criticism, point ed condemnation and fierce denuncia tion of the methods and course of the big insurance companies, character ize the annual report of Frederick L. Cutting, commissioner of insurance for Massachusetts. The report is ex haustive in its review of methods em ployed by high insurance officials during the past several years, to whom he alludes in some instances, as “Judases," and to one company as the “Dr. Jekyl and Mr. Hyde company" and contains a recommendation that the legislature take up the matter of deferred dividends and the relation between the insurance companies and their allied trust companies and other questions with a view of compelling reform. Fraternal insurance and the case of the Royal Arcanum are dealt with at some length in the report, the com missioner expressing his opinion that the new rates recently adopted by that order and which caused such a stir within its ranks are not too high. MAY ESCAPE TRIAL. Senator Burton of Kansas May Not Be Tried Again. WASHINGTON — There is reason Burton of Kansas, will not again be brought to trial. Officially the officers of the department of justice refuse to confirm this assertion. They say that no orders have been given to the United States district attorney at St. Louis relative to the case, and that so for believing that Senator J. Ralph far as they now know the senator from Kansas will be brought to trial in September, in spite of these official utterances. It is known that an ex haustive investigation has been made into the Burton case, and the conclu sion has been reached that there is little chance of convicting him. WYMAN WILL TAKE CHARGE Surgeon General to Have Control of Yellow Fever Situation. WASHINGTON — Surgeon General Wyman of the public health and ma rine hospital service, who has been absent from the city on official busi ness, is now on his way to Washing ton and upon his arrival will give per sonal attention to the yellow fever situation in New Orleans. Acting Surgeon General Glannan of the public health and marine hospital service was informed by Surgeon White, who represents that service at New Orleans, that there had been a death from yellow fever in that city outside the district in which previous deaths had occurred. Town Almost Empty. ST. PETERSBURG—The annual fair at Nizhni Novgorod opened with the customary ceremonies, but the town was almost empty. A majority of the shops have been shut, largely owing to the disturbed state of the country. Admitted 300 Chinese. WASHINGTON—Reports from the immigration stations for the month of July show that during that month 311 Chinese applied for admission, and that 300 were admitted. Bryan at Chautauqua. MASON CITY, la.—William Jen nings Bryan opened the Clear Lake Chautauqua Monday with a lecture. Twenty-five hundred people heard him. Governor La Follette speaks Saturday. $100 T 00,000 a Year in Tipe. Paris—According to statisticians, 8100,000,000 is spent annually in tips in France. In Paris alone $25,000,000 is given in “pourboires” yearly. The average for Parisians per head and *er day is 1% centimes. EVIL OF PRESENT DAY. 1 - I Mental Faculties Greatly Disturbed by. Noise. “Noise, in my judgment, Is one of the most powerful and most success ful disorganizers of the mental facul ties in the world,” said a thoughtful citizen to a representative of the New Orleans Times-Democrat, “and. when we reflect on the enormous in crease in noises of all kinds, we will' probably be convinced that the time is rapidly coming when the race will be in no small danger mentally on ac count of noise. Progress is noisy;' necessarily so, I suppose. But when I speak of progress of the noisy type, I, of course, mean material progress. We can’t build, in a material sense, without making noise. Intellectual progress even is not always along quiet lines. But I was thinking of noise in a lighter aspect. Have you not noticed how some men become mentally reckless on account of loud talking? Have you not noticed that children will sometimes shriek them selves into a highly nervous state? They become mentally disorganized on account of the noise they make. I was a rather close observer of a man 1 at a game of baseball the other day. He started to yelling gently and grad ually worked his way up to the alti tude of the shrieking rooter. Before that game ended that fellow was as mad as a March hare. He had been crazed by his own voice. Noise is a dreadful distractor, when you come to think of it, and the trouble about the noisy ‘rooter’ at a ball game is that in driving himself to the madhouse he is likely to take a few other fellows with him.” DOG DEALER’S HARD LUCK. Pup He Thought Worthless Turned Out First Class. I am an unscrupulous dog dealer. I had for sale a very fine Irish terrier. His mother cost me $500 and his sire cost $750. I thought their get, my pup, now a year old, worth $200, and so advertised him. I was incensed by an offer of $10 over the ’phone. Party never saw the dog, and said any good ratter would do him (this I had claimed for mine); he did not care for pedigree, breeding or cost of parent dogs. A bright idea struck me. I knew a curley haired alley dog I could get for 25 cents. I told the fellow I would accept the $10 offer. He asked me to meet him at depot with the dog. He was going home on a suburban train. I met him with the curly-haired alley dog. on which, by the way, I had an option, but at 50 cents, not 25 cents, as I expected. My customer sneered when he saw the dog, but handed me a $10 note. I smiled when I thought of my joke. Next w'eek I received a postal card from my customer that read: “Your dog is the best ratter I ever saw. He caught forty-two rats the first two days. He is worth all you advertised him at, $200. I would not sell him for $300.—Pittsburg Dispatch. Kentucky Yarn. Out on the veranda of a little Ken tucky hotel several “colonels” were sipping mint julip and telling yarns about the weather. "When Ah was up in thaw moun tains, sah,” said a lanky old gentle man, “it began to rain one aftahnoon and before thaw shower was ovah thaw was fish all ovah thaw ground. Bass, trout and carp fell right out of the clouds, sah.” The old gentleman who was rather corpulent placed his glass on the table and said: ' “Cunnel, that thah was a pretty good yahn, but it don’t tech thaw ex perience I had fohty miles south of Frankfort.' Why, sah. it began to rain thah one day and fish came down by thaw ton. But that isn’t thaw strang est of it. A thundah stohm arose, th’ lightnin’ struck thaw field, fried thaw fish just as nice as ff they were fried in youah own kitchen an’—” But the other “colonels” fled. Qualities that Make Hill a Power. It is said that J. J. Hill always in sists that he is not a Wall street man. He wants to be known as a railway manager and as a railway constructor. He does not dt#ble in the stock mar ket. In his trading and operations with his competitors, however, he has the reputations of being “shifty.” Mr. Hill has the faculty of seeing con tingencies and developments of the fu ture further than any living railway man. Experts in Wall street familiar with the ideals and methods of both men state that Mr. Hill’s only com petitor in this respect is E. H. Harri man, with whose forces the memor able Northern Pacific struggle was fought. Mr. Hill is at once practical, theoretical and imaginative. These qualities, combined with daring originality, confidence and common sense, have placed him on the top list of railway men in the United States. —Chicago Chronicle. Evtning With Celebrities. An "evening with celebrities,” which was given most successfully by a charming hostess not long ago, all came about through a friend remark ing one day, “My birthday is. the same as Queen Alexandra’s.” “And mine as Queen Victoria’s,” added another. So the young hostess began to evolve a plan which resulted in her asking twenty-four of her friends to spend the evening with her a little later, each one to represent in some way a person whose birthday fell on the date of his or her own. In the as sembly were found “Martha Wash ington,” "Mrs. Cleveland,” "Jenny Lind,” "Abraham Lincoln,” “Mozart,” 'Miles Standish,’ etc: Each guest told some interesting anecdote of the per sonage represented and the occasion was very enjoyable. Forbidden Guest. The following verse from a recent poem on “Our Christmas Guests” discloses a delicate little hint: a Come from that darkened corner! You’re the imp who in my ear F°r ,S.rir.hSf£,ofh"arWhlSP'r,!a’ ’"*>* That the thing to get was money, ihe stuff that men most prize Don’t think I’m longer blinded by the glamor of your lies. For ?oouk,Vu'KiW!"’ana tha thl”« And it has a value greater than all your boasted wealth; And another one is honor, and some more are truth and right; - I can hardly bear your presence amongst - xti' gUSfita to-night. * *
