HIS SECRET. the good man lay, all white antl still, Under the pa'.l o£ fragrant flowers, £nd the neighbors wondered about the will And talked of the deail man's gifts and powers, »rlth many a doleful shako of the head Recounting the kind, wise words he said. That had helped so many to climb life's hill. Said one; "He never would press a debt That he held against the needy or poor." Bald another: "His table was always set For the hungry stranger who passed the door." While yet another, with bated breath, Told of the gentle and peaceful death, With never a sign of jar or fret. And each one asked what was the gift That made his life so full of peace, While others' burdens were hard to lift, And death seemed only a strange sur cease From toilsome labor and constant strain Of hopeless effort and helpless pain. With only the hope of the shroud's white shift? Then one whose voice was soft and low, Rose up and spoke to the funeral guests: "Friends and neighbors of long ago, We are heritors all of his bequests. Not from duty his deeds were done, for Heaven his race was run; This is the secret —he loved men so!" —Pauline Carrington Bouve, in Boston Transcript. Amy Lif-e in The [Copyright, 1891, by F. Tennyson Ncely.] CHAPTER XV. —CONTINUED. The men of the house, Frost and Garrison, were accustomed, when the latter was at home, to breakfast to gether quite early. Then the colonel would drive off to the Ayun.tamiento in the walled city, and Frank would mount his pony and ride away to his long day's duties. Later the sisters would have their leisurely bre-akfast, jecure in the protection of the guard, would give their Chinaman chef his orders for the day, and send him off to make such purchases as were possible In the now scanty market. Then read ing, writing, receiving callers of their own sex would fill up the morning. There would be a brief siesta after luncheon, an hour or so on the broad veranda overlooking t lie sparkling bay, then dress and the inevitable drive. Of Armstrong they had seen nothing, heard next to nothing. He was busy with his men over toward East I'aco. Of Billy Gray of late they had seen rather too much. On one pretext after another he was now forever coming to the house, and Witchie was begin ning to wish that Canker had had his way; but Canker had failed dismally. The witnesses he counted on proved dumb or departed, and' it had pleased the general-in-cliief to send him with a regiment of infantry and a brace of guns to garrison an important point on an adjacent island, and to tell him That in view of the impossibility of his substantiating his charges against Gray the youngster had some shadow of excuse for his violent outbreak. Kather than bring up a scandal it was ■best to drop the matter entirely. Gray had been sent to duty with the —teenth before he was thoroughly well, and a good-hearted battalion commander, taking pity on his obvious change for worse, had found occasion after the first ten days at the front to send him back to quarters in Malate, instead of incessantly on duty along the threat ened line toward Singalon church; and while he seldom came in the evening when numbers of visitors were pres ent, the boy had a way of dropping in between three and four, when he could generally count on a few moments, at least, alone with Mrs. Frank. She had nursed him well in his slow convales cence, had made deep impression on his boyish heart, lacerated as he con ceived it by a disappointment at home. She had won him to her service, as she thought, until she felt sure lie was ready to do almost anything for her aake, then she had put him to the test, and he had failed her. Believing, as >she did, that the boy well knew the whereabouts of the alleged deserter, ".Morton, and his friend, Xita's reckless lover, she had counted on him to wring from them the letters poor Latrobe de clared he still possessed; but the three weeks had passed without a sign, and It was becoming evident to her that ■Gray had lost track of them entirely. One brilliant afternoon, as she lay on the broad, cane-bottomed bedstead with its overhanging canopy of lilmy netting, she drowsily heard the eor jporal posting the new sentinel in the ;aaarbled corridor below, and then .•mzrching the relief to the rear gate .opening to the beach. Xita was already rjp and moving about in her room. Mar garet heard the rustle of her shirts and the light patter of her tiny feet as she sped over the hardwood floor .of the main salon. She heard her throwing back the sliding shutters that kept out the glare of the sun in the (morning hours, and knew that she ;wa« gazing out over the tree-dotted lawn toward the gate where the guard lounged through the warm afternoon. All of a sudden, quick and stirring, a bugle sounded over on the Calle Jsueva, where the North Dakotas had a strong detachment. The call was repeated, and, army woman though she was, she did not recognize it. She could not remember ever having heard it before. Then up the street, from the engineer barrack, there came thrilling echo, and there was a sound of movement and ex citement along the dusty thorough fare. She heard Nita calling her name, and then the child's quick, nervous st r p along the hallway toward the stairs. Then came a sudden stop, a gating, mailing cry, and., springing from her bed ami to the door. Margaret found | her sister cowering before a tail slender 1 man i" tin* rough dress and iiild equip ment of a private soldier. With a lit tle packet —letters, apparently —held forth 111 one hand, while the other grasped her wrist, liollin Lai robe stood sternly gazing at the girl shrinking at his feet. The tableau was over in another sec ond. Springing up the broad marble stairs came hilly Gray, the corporal of the guard at his heels, and Latrobe saw his danger in a flash. Throwing little Gray aside as he would a terrier, the young athlete whirled on the stalwart regular. There was the sound of a crashing blow, followed by a heavy fall. The corporal went rolling down the steps with Latrobe bounding over the tumbling form, and the next instant he had vaulted over the ledge of the open window on the lower floor, and vanished through the gateway to the beach. And now all along the Calle Ileal the bugles were sounding "To Arms!" CHAPTER XVI. That was a wild day in Manila. Far over near the Escolta somebody shot at a vagrant dog lapping water from a lit tle pool under one of the many hydrants. The soldier police essayed an arrest; the culprit broke and ran; the guard fired; a lot of coolies, taking alarm, fled jabbering to the river side. The natives, looking for trouble-any moment, rushed to their homes. Some soldiers on pass and unarmed tumbled over the tables and chairs in the Alhambra in their dash for the open street. A stampede sergeant told a bugler to sound to •arms, and in the twinkling of an eye the call was taken up from barrack to barrack, and the news went flashing out by wire to the extreme front. The shopkeepers hastily put up their shut ters and bolted their doors. Cabs, carts, quilez and carromattas —even the street cars —were instantly seized by the sol diery scattered all over town, and util ized to take them tearing back to join their regiments. In five minutes the business streets downtown were de serted. Chinese cowered within their crowded huts. The natives, men and women, either hid within the shelter of their homes or fled to the sanctuary of the many churches. All over the great city the alarm spread like wildfire. The battalions formed under arms, those nearest the outtr lines being marched at once to their positions in support, those nearer the walled city waiting for orders. Foreign residents took mat ters more coolly than did the Asiatic; German phlegm, English impassiveness and' Yankee devil-may-care-ishness pre venting a panic. But those who had families and owned or could hire car riages and launches were not slow in seeking for their households the refuge of the fleet of transports lying placidly at anchor in the bay, where Dewey's bluejackets shifted their quids, went coolly to their stations and, grouped about their guns, quietly awaited fur ther developments. In an agony of fear Col. Frost had bidden his driver to lash the ponies to a gallop and go like the wind to Malate; but the appearance of the long ranks of sturdy infantry resting on their arms and beginning to look bored, measurably reassured him before he reached his home. Once there, however, the sight of Nita. cling ing hysterically to her sister and moan ing on her bed, was sufficient to deter mine his first, move, which was to wire for his launch to come around to the bay shore and take them off to the fleet. The next was to send and ask for an of ficer and 20 men from the Cuartel, on receiving which message the major commanding, standing on the dusty roadway in front of his men, grinned under his grizzled mustache and said: "Frost's got 'em again. Here, Gray, you go over and tell him to keep his hair on, that it's nothing but a fake alarm." And Gray, glad enough of the chance to go again into the presence of the wom an who so fascinated him. sped on his mission. He was in a fury over his re cent humiliation in her very sight—he, a commissioned officer, tossed aside like a child and outwitted by this daring intruder in the shape of a private sol dier—he and his guard brushed away and derided by a young fellow in some ; strange regiment—who had easily es ' caped along the beach to an adjoining inclosure into which he darted and was no more seen. The streets were full of scurrying soldiers, and it was the sim plest thing in the world for him to 1 mingle with them and make his way to his own command. Of course, Gray > well knew who the man must be —Xita's troublesome lover of whom Witchie had told him so much. There was his chance ' to recover the letters and claim the re ward; but man and letters both had es caped his grasp; and when he pulled up, blown and exhausted after fruitless ' chase, lie was brought to his senses by the sight of his own men falling in"for business," and he had to scamper for ' his sword and join them. That was a miserable evening. Mar garet Garrison was the only member of the household who seemed to have her wits about her and her nerves under > control, for Frank, her liege lord, had his duty elsewhere, and not until hours p later trotted slowly home. Margaret plainly let Gray understand how he had : fallen in her estimation at being so ; easily tossed aside. A warning finger ' was laid upon her lip. "Not one word I of what has happened while he is here," 1 she muttered; and a nod of her fluffy • head toward the perturbed colonel told 1 plainly that the chief of the household , really had no place i» the family coun : cils. To the sisters that alarm was a , blessing in disguise. It was all suffi • cient to account for Xita's prostration, t To the rash and reckless lad, who, • claiming to be an orderly with a letter " from the colonel, had been passed by 1 the gate guard to the open stairway, it - afforded ample cover fores. ipe, when, - alarmed by Xita's cry, Gray ar.d the , corporal came springing to her aid. To > Gray himself it gave only a few minutes' . forget fulness of his trouble, for, smart , ing under the sting of a woman's only r half-hidden disdain, he would have wel CAMERON COUNTY PRESS, THURSDAY, JUNE 28, 1900. comed with almost savage joy some fierce battle with a skillful foe, some scene in which lie could compel her re spect and admiration. He was still smarting and stung when at last that opportunity came. Long will Manila remember the night! It followed close upon the heels of warnings that for weeks held every officer and man to his post of duty. Day after day the strain increased. The insurgents, crowding upon our out posts in front of Santa Mesa on the north and of Santa Ana on the south side of the I'asig. had heaped insult and threats upon our silent sentries, com pelled by orders to the very last to sub mit to anything but actual attack rather than bring on a battle. "The Americans are afraid," was the gleeful cry of Aguinaldo's officers, the jeer and taunt of his men. The regulars were soon to come and replace those volun teers, said the wiseacre of his cabinet, therefore strike now before the trained and disciplined tloops arrive and sweep these big boors into the sea. And on the still, starlit night, sooner perhaps than his confederates within the walls intended, the rebel leader struck, and, long before the dawn of the lovely Sunday morn that followed, the fire flashed from 40,000 rifles in big semi circle around Manila, and the long-ex pected battle was on. Hours after dawn, hours after the at tack began, the —teentli were in ex tended baltle order to the south of Malate confronted by thickets of bam boo that fairly swarmed with insur gents, yet, only by the incessant zip and "wliiew" of their deadly missiles and the ceaseless crackle of rifle fire, could this be determined; for with their smokeless powder and their Indian-like skill in concealment nothing coulel be seen of their array. Over to the west ward on the placid waters of the bay the huge Monadnoek was driving shell after shell into the dense underbrush across the abandoned rice fields and the marshy flats that lined the shore. Over to the east resounding cheers and crash ing volleys, punctuated by the sharp report of field guns, told that the com rade brigade was heavily engaged and, apparently, driving the enemy be fore them. To right and left their vol unteer supports were banging into the brush with their heavy Springfields; and still there seemed no symptom of weakness along the immediate front, no sign of yielding. If anything the fury of the insurgwt volleying in creased as the sun climbed higher, and all along the blue-shirted line men grit He held her wrist. their teeth and swore as they crouched or lay full length along the roadside, peering through the filmy veil that drifted slowly across their front—the smoke from the Springfields of the vol unteers. To lie there longer with the bullets buzzing close overhead or bit ing deep into the low embankment, sometimes tearing a stinging path through human flesh and bone, was adding to the nerve strain of the hours gone by. To rush headlong across that intervening open space, through deep and muddy pools and stagnant ditch, and hurl themselves upon the lurking enemy in the bamboo copse beyond, had been the ardent longing of the line since daylight came to ilfumine the field before them. Yet stern orders with held: Defend, lxr <*o not advance, said the general's message; and the.whisper went along from man toman: '"1/ here is trouble in town behind us, and the chief may need us there." But, as eight o'clock passed with no word of uprising in the rear, and the cheering over toward Santa Ana grew loud and louder, the nerve strain upon the —teenth became well-nigh intolera ble. "For God's sake, can't we be doing something instead of lying here firing into a hornet's nest?" was the murmur that arose in more than one company along the impatient line; and the gruff voices of veteran sergeants could be heard ordering silence, while, moving up and down behind their men, the line officers cautioned against waste of am munition and needless exposure. "Lie flat, men. Keep down!" were the words. "We won't have to stand this forever. You'll soon get your chance." And presently it came. The cheer ing that had died away, far over to the left beyond the wooded knolls that sur rounded Singalon and Block House 12, was suddenly taken up nearer at hand. Then crashing volleys sounded along the narrow roadway toward the east, and a bugle rang out shrill and clear above the noise of battle; and then closer still, though unseen in the gloom of the dense thicket in which they lay, the men of the Second battalion, strung along a Filipino trail that led away to the rice fields, swung their big straw hats and yelled for joy. A young of ficer, his eyes flashing, his face flush ing with excitement, came bounding out from the grove at the left of the crouching line and made straight to where the veteran battalion command er knelt in rear of his center. It was Billy Gray, adjutant of the Third bat talion, acting that day as adjutant to the regimental commander. The bul lets whistled by his head as he darted springingly along; and in their joy at sight of him even old hands forgot the reserve of the regular service and some man shouted: "Xow we're off'!" and the popular query: "What's the matter with Lieut. Gray?" At any other time, under any other circumstances, both questioner and respondents who gleefully shouted: "lie's all right," would have b»*en promptly and sternly suppressed. But the senior captain at their head well knew the excitement tingling in the nerves of that long-suffering line, and only smiled and nodded sympathy, lie saw, too, that Gray was quivering with pent-up feeling, as the boy halted short, saluted, and. striving to steady his eager voice, said: "Captain, the colonel directs that you open sharp fire on the woods in your front and occupy the enemy there He is about to charge with the Third battalion and drive them out of the trenches we've located over yonder;" and Hilly pointed eagerly to the left front —the southeast. The captain's grizzled fnee took on a look of keen disappointment. "You mean we've got to stay here and see you fellows go in?" "Only for a few minute?, sir. The colonel says that for you to charge be fore he's got onto their flank would cost too many men. You'll get the word as soon as he's got the works." "Well said, Billy boy! That sounds almost epigrammatic. Hullo! You hit? Stoop down here, man. Don't try to get perforated." "My hat only," was the answer, as the boy stooped quickly to hide the irre pressible twitching about the muscles of his lip. A Remington had ripped from side to side, tearing a way through the curly hair at the top of his head and almost scoring the scalp. To save his soul he could not quite suppress the trembling of his knees; but, steady ing himself by great effort, he contin ued : "The colonel says to commence firing by volley the moment our bugles sound the charge. Now I must get back." "All right, youngster. Tell the col onel I savey, and we'll do our level best —only, let us into it as quick as you can." But Gray heard only the first part of the sentence. He was panting when he reached his placid, gray-mustached chief, and could only gasp out: "The captain understands, sir." And then the regimental commander simply turned to the battalion leader, stand ■ ing silent at his left in a little clump of timber —another veteran captain grown gray as himself in long, long years of service: "Now's our time, old man! Pitch in! i Gray, we'll go with him." [To Be Continued ] STILL UNSUITED. Slie Didn't Get What She Wanted, Because the Salesman Was Too "Waited on, miss?" "No. I wish to see some gloves." "Gloves? Certainly! Twenty-four! Show this lady our latest arrivals in gloves." Xo. 24 uncovers a brown box. "Here they are! Genuine three-but ton French kids. To-day they are ad vertised for $1.90. Worth more." "They are not exactly whatl wished'." "Oh, 1 see! You prefer a pique glove. Examine these." "I did not say a word about pique gloves." "You are right! It's my mistake. You said suede. Here they are on this case. Three-clasp, gray?" "Did you hear me say suede, young man?" "Well, er—that is, I couldn't say ex actly. Y'ou may have said suede or you may have said mocha. I think, now, .t*ou said mocha. Here they are in the latest effects. Fleece-lined. Extreme ly comfortable. Should I wrap these up?" "Xo, sir. I don't wish any mocha —" "Is it possible! Here I have been un der the impression that you wished mocha gloves, and it turns out that you wish something entirely different. It just shows, miss, how we can get in correct ideas. But at last we have a mutual understanding. You wish an astrakhan fleece-lined kid? Just ex amine these gloves under the sky light." "I don't wish them!" "Don't wish these? Is it possible? Miss, did you say anything about cash mere gloves?" "Not a word." "And you didn't wish to see anv mit tens?" "No, I didn't." "Well, miss, would you please be so kind as to designate the exact style of glove you are looking for?" "I would 1 have done so long ago if you had only given me the chance to get in a word edgeways. I wish to look at a heavy, coarse pair of teamster's gloves. I am going to give thetn to our ashman as a Christmas present. He is the most accommodating ashman in the city. You just ought to meet him. But have you any gloves in that line?" "No! Goto a tanner's and have a pair tanned to order." Then he turned on his heel and strode up to the other end of the counter. —Chicago Tribune. Marginal Notes. The descendant of a New England Puritan divine has in his possession an old sermon written by his ancestor which shows that the preacher did not trust entirely to the impulses of the moment when delivering his discourses. The manuscript is written in a strange, crabbed hand, and plentifully besprink led with marginal references. "Head slowly here," the minister admonishes himself in one spot, and"To be given out very loud and clear," is the sugges tion for another passage. "Hurry a lit tle, with fire," he wrote i'i several places. The most emphatic and important part of the whole sermon is indicated by a much-underlined marginal note. After heating stories of this saintly old-time preacher, it is amusing to know that he deemed it wise and even necessary at the climax of his eloquence to "Yc-ll like one possessed."—Youth's Companion (lIIXA IS ABLAZE. Fires of Anti-Foreign Hatred Burn with Deadly Forco. Itr|>ort* n» l<> FLIT* SIICCO** of Ilie Krllef I'urly tliat Slartid to Aid (be l <> re teller* In Frkln urr ( mi lli< (liig—A Hombard mmi of Tien Tnln. London, June 19. —China declared war against the world when the Taku forts opened fire upon the interna tional fleet on Sunday. The accounts of what took place are unsatisfac tory, The best semi-official informa tion being 1 the dispatch received at Berlin from Che Foo, as follows: "The Chinese laid torpedoes in the Taku river and collected troops from Shan lli Kiwan. The commanders assembled on the ltussian flagship and addressed an ultimatum to the commanders of the Taku forts sum moning' them to withdraw their troops before 2 o'clock. At 1 o'clock the forts* opened fire, to which the Kussian, French, United States, Ger man and British warships replied. The bombardment lasted seven hours." Chinese lots at Taku about 400. At Yum-Nan-Fu, where the rising has been gathering- force for several days. 080 Christians have been at tacked at the French mission settle ment and many put to death. The French consul and three missionaries are stdl in prison. The Russians guarding' Tien Tsin, according 1 to another report, fired ar tillery and rifles on June 15 at a range of 50 yards into dense crowds of attacking Boxers and killed 300. Washington, June 22.-—Acting' Sec rotary of the -Navy Haekett received a cablegram Thursday from Admiral Kempff, dated Che Foo, June 21, sav ing that Tien Tsin is being bombard ed and that the American consulate as well as much of the foreign eon cessions are being destroyed. A relief party is en route to Tien Tsin, includ ing 130 American marines. London, June 22.—The United States gunboat Monocacy was two miles tip the Pei Ho river when the interna tional fleet began the bombardment of the Taku forts. According to the Shanghai correspondent of the Daily Express, she was shot through the bows. The correspondent ,savs that Chinese riflemen on both banks of the river attacked her. but unsuccessfully. The Shanghai correspondent of the Times says: "Great destruction was caused by the Boxers in the native quarter of Tien Tsin on June 15, hut the presence of foreign troops in the foreign settlement protected that." London, June 23.—The silence, of Pckin continues unbroken. Four thousand men of the allied forces were having sharp defensive fighting at Tien Tsin Tuesday and Wednes day, with a prospect of being rein forced Thursday. This is the situa iton in China as set forth in the Brit ish government dispatch. "Eight hundred Americans are tak ing part iii the fighting at lieu lsiu,' says the Shanghai correspondent of the Daily Express, cabling last even ing:' "and they apparently form i part of the supplementary force ar riving with Germans and British af ter the conflict started. It is impos sible to estimate the number of Chi nese there; but they had a surprising number of guns." Tlii* information appears to have been brought by the I nited States gunboat Nashville to Che Foo and telegraphed thence to Shanghai. The Chinese are deserting Shanghai in large numbers and going into the in terior. Keports from native sources continue to reach Shanghai' of an archy in I'ekin. According to these tales the streets are filled day and night with lioxers, who arc beyond the control of the Chinese troops and who are working themselves lip to a frenzy and clamoring for the death of all foreigners. The English consulate at Shanghai is said to have received from influen tial natives reports <>» a tragedy in the palace at I'ekin. though precisely what it "is is not definite. The con sulate thinks that Admiral Seymour, commander of the international re lief column, was misled by informa tion from Pekin and, consequently, underestimated the .difficulties in bin way and the Chinese power of resist ance with Maxim guns and Mausers. The consuls at Shanghai still be lieve the foreign ministers at Pekin safe, although Japanese reports re ceived at Shanghai allege that up to June 1") 100 foreigners had been killed in Pekin. Fn the house of commons Friday Mr. Broderick, the under secretary of state for foreign affairs, said the for cign office had no news from I'ekin or Admiral Seymour. lie said the news by runners arriving at Talcu June -;i announced tl-at. several at tacks had been made and repulsed. On June IT the Chinese shelled the foreign settlement and the Chinese military college was attacked by a mixed force of 1"0 Austrians, British, Hermans and Italians. They destroy ed the guns and burned the college, which contained a considerable storo of ammunition, and killed its defend ers. Berlin, June 23.—The commander of the (ierniiui squadron at Taku lias wired as follows to the government: "'A French officer who has arrived here from Tien Tsin, which he left June 20, reports that for three days the city lias been bombarded by the Chinese and that the troops of the foreign detachment were out of am munition. II it li ii cm 11 it it Monument llecllealrtl. Washington, .Tune 22.—A monument to the memory of Samuel Hahnemann founder of the homeopathic school ol medicine, was dedicated Thursday with appropriate exercises in the pres ence of a large assemblage, including President McKinlcy, Attorney General Griggs and the visiting physicians now in session in this city. The sita of the monument is on the east side of Scott circle, in the northwest sec tion of the city. The statue, which i£ a line work of art, is of bronze. Its total cost has been $50,000, raised oublic subscription TO AN ANXIOUS PUBLIC. Oii«hn Hirer tor l»»ur* a Statement Su)lii!i dial ItcKiiltH Cannot be Piib llnbcd lor Wrrkii »ud 'la> In- Months. Washington, .June 23.—Director of the Census Merriam yesterday gave out the following statement for the information of the public: "The census office is in receipt of ninny letters daily, asking' i'or infor mation as to the results of the cen sus in particular localities, especially in the larger cities. It does not ap pear to occur to the writers that the census lias not yet been taken. The law allows until June 15 in cities of 8,000 inhabitants, and in rural dis trict* until July 1 for its completion, itud after that the schedules have to be examined by the supervisors of the census before they can be for warded to Washington, in order that, the supervisors may determine whether the work has been satisfae tarily done and they may be in posi tion to certify to the correctness of the enumerators' accounts for serv ice rendered under the law. "In order to appease the impatience of the public the following statement, lias been prepared showing what has to be done with the census returns when received at Washington and why it must be weeks or even months before the figures can be given out in their entirety. Every enumerator is required to till a daily report card showing how many hours and min utes he has been at work and how many persons he has enumerated that day. Since 'here are (including special euunieral rs for institutions and for the military and naval popu lation) approximately 53,000 enumer ators and 30 days are allowed for the completion of the census, the number of daily report cards to be examined in the census office is somewhere be tween 1.000,000 and 1,500,000, every one of which has to be copied by hand upon a series of blank tabular statements, of which there is one for every enumerator. These arc then re-copied upon a summary statement showing the amount of work in each supervisor's district, and since there is space on each blank for recording the work of 100 enumerators, and only part of the blanks will be filled, there will be approximately 1,000 of these sheets. "It is difficult for any one not fa miliar with census work to form any idea of the vast amount of material to be handled in all the divisions of the office. The number of boxes con taining schedules sent to the enu merators in advance of taking the census was 4,500 and their total weight was estimated at 300 tons. All of this material is returned to Washington, where is has to be sort ed out and arranged in order by states and the subdivisions of states, upon shelving aggregating several miles in length. There is an invoice of schedules in every box received, which has to be verified and the schedules which do not relate to pop ulation must be counted and deliv ered to the chief statisticians for mortality, agriculture and manufac tures, and their receipts taken for the same. "Next follows the examination in detail of schedules. Every schedule has to be examined in order to see that the enumerator has not made an overcharge for his services. For this purpose the schedule has to be compared with the account rendered by him. Every possible effort will be made to pay the enumerators at the earliest practicable date. "When the population of the cities has been learned the results will be posted on a bulletin board in the hall of the census department. Any fig ures but those given out by the cen sus officials are guesswork and the department is in no way responsible for them." THE CASE OF NEELY. ■ lis Speed)' Iteiuoval lo Havana for Trial I* Anticipated. Washington, June 23.—1t is under stood here that the United States at torney at New York will take action within the next day or two looking to the prompt removal of Neely, the alleged embezzler of Cuban postal funds, to Havana for trial. Judge Laeombe, before whom the case will be brought, expects to leave New York on July ~ and it is his wish that the matter be disposed of before his departure. v Some days ago the government sent to Havana for copies of papers want ed ill the case; also for a certified copy of Article4ol of the old Spanish- Cuban laws against the crime of em bezzlement. These papers have been received and forwarded to United States Attorney Burnett, who will prosecute the case. There are two indictments against Neely, one for violation of Article 401 of the Spanish-Cuban laws and the other is under sections of the Cuban postal code. The former case is said to be the stronger and it is probable that he will be tried under the indictment for violating Article 401. lV«r»l Crop Failure Ever Known. Chicago, June 23.—The Times-Her ald publishes a crop report prepared by Snow, the crop expert who has just completed a two weeks' trip through Minnesota and North and South Dakota. He declares the situ ation a national calamity and claims the wheat failure is the worst ever known. He estimates the Dakotas as promising only 20,000,000 bushels each and Minnesota 35,000,000, a total of 75,000,000, against 200,000,000 last year and 225,000,000 in 1898. Sa)n lloostevell Will Not Hrniifn. New York. June 23. —1?. B. Udell, chairman of the republican state committee, had his attention directed yesterday to the statement of a par tisan of Lieut. Gov. Woodruff that. Gov. Uoosevelt would probably re sign. making way for Mr. Woodruff in the executive office, the expected result being flic nomination of Mr. Woodruff for governor. Mr. Odell said: "Gov. Uoosevelt will not re sign. He will serve out his term, as Gov. Cleveland did after he was nomi nated for president, i here is no rea son why he should resign." 3
Significant historical Pennsylvania newspapers