i B & ward on her breast as she spoke, and her | Demora atc Bellefonte, Pa., May 25, 1906. THE CRY OF THE CHILDREN, The somewhat imposing name of Pell City bas been given to a cluster of houses lodged in the valley between Astalla and Birmingham. On its outskirts a mantie of smoke veils the heavens and indicates, without doubt, the locality of the cotton mills. It was thither that I made my way. Baviag waited for the 12:30 bell to sound, I got into conversation with one of the older *‘bands’’ and joined once more the slow procession which moved toward the factory gates. Thus, without difficulty, I enterad the weave room, whence I could make my way as [ pleased to other parts of the mill. I paused a moment to watch a boy of twelve: his shoulders were bowed; his brows drawn together; his hauds were like claws. With lightning rapidity he snatched the old quills from the pins and dro, the new ones in their places, and when the spindles stuck he drove them down with a nervous stroke that plainly said: “You must go on!’ Yet, when I talked with him, his face lighted up. ““How long have you been at work?" “In a cotton mill?” His tone implied that he had always been working some- where. ““Yes,’’ I said, ‘‘in a cotton mill.” “Four years.” “Don’t you get tired?"’ “‘A little,” he nodded, ing on along the frame out of hearing, like some sombre mechanical spring which bad heen wound up and which could do nothing but ‘‘go”’ until its time came for running down. Three little sweepers followed me ont into the yard with an evident desire to talk. It was with kindly good humor that they put the usual question: ‘‘Ever work- ed in a mill?”’ And, having received an affirmative answer, they stuffed their hands in their pockets and leaned up comfortably against the doorstep where we stood, ready to make friends, presenting all the appear- ance of three diminutive men who knew just about what to expect in life. One was from Georgia, one from Ala- bama and one from Kentucky,and, though the oldest was but thirteen, they bad all worked io balf a dozen different places. “Why do you move around so much?” I asked, impressed here, as I had been everywhere, by the nomadic propensities of the operatives. The Alabamian explained in an indui- gent way: “Why. that’s how mill folks are, always thinkin’ they can make a little more in the next place.” And the Kentuckian added; ‘‘Money’s the thing they're all after. You spend it all when yon crave travelin,’ but you sure do make out to have a good time.”’ I followed this by a question which I expected to be met with a burst of enthu- siasm on the subject of football or some other sport. . “What do yon like best of all?" There was a moment’s panse, and then one said: “Weavin'.” ‘‘At what age can you come in here?’ The Alabamian glinned, showing a row of strong, white teeth, and lines of wrink- les on his freckled nose. “*Oh, any age from one to forty!" And the Kentuckian, more poetic, took up the refrain: *‘Any age from knee-high to a gras. hopper until you can touch the moon.” “Don’t you have toshow a certificate?’ ““You do in some places,’ the Georgian responded, speaking with the aathority of experience. At Pell City proper, there were, I found, fitty children attending echool. In the mill town, out of the fifteen hundred bands who formed the inhabitants (three hundred and fifty of whom were of the school age) there were hut eighty or ninety scholars under the direction of the two faithful teachers who confessed themselves discour- aged at the frequent absences among their pupils, and the nomadic disposition of the mill **folk’’ which drives them ou about every six months from one town to an- other,attracted by new possibilities—ahove all, tired of the old ones—who ueed, in their very weariness, the stimulation of chauge, Seeking always a obance to make friends with some of the little laborers, I went into the grove of trees which, hecause, per- haps, ofa few benches and an occasional dilapidated swing, was known by the name of “park.” It is not long before a little brown eyed girl in a blue cotton dress, with a woolen hood over her head, came along. ‘‘Have you ever worked in the mill?" I asked. “Yes, meaums. I worked there most a year, makin’ forty a day, hut, when the pew ‘super’ came, he cut me deown to twenty-eight, and I sure did quit.” She passed on, and presently my medi- tations were interrupted by a little being with short bair, a pink gingham frock, a bruise over one eye, and a hag of groceries under either arm. I bad already noticed her when I visited the primary class, 80 I said. “Do youn like school?" The angry bruise over her forehead held her little brow rigid, but there was a smile in her eyes, and she said ; *“I sure do lore school!" As she spoke she tugged at one of the grocery bags, opened it, and offered me some candy. Then, having lodged a piece at the back of her mouth, she went on: *‘I've worked in the mill, hut I don’t love that. I'm the only ove up home that ain's workin’ neow. Jeff and Musie and Loona and Doshie is all't work.” She took a place heside me on the alu bench, and deposited her bun. es, ‘I was right smart sick the other day,” she continued. **A little hov hit me with a rock,’’ she touched the wound on her forehead, ‘but I kep’ on't school ‘cane I'm sc afraid if I once stay vous my step- mother’d make me go back t' the mill. | wouldn't miss school for anything.” She smiled wisely, and planged her hand in the paper hag for another candy. **Does your father work?’ asked. The emile faded, and the little face urew very setions, “He died,” she said, ‘the week after we come here. He had the asthma. Hi job was uwlul hard; he worked nighes io the dye room. He used to have to keep the windows open =0'= he conld getan enough *' She hurried on with a rapid deseription of his snfferings, and then, more slowly, whe said: ““That night be wens over to get adrink, and just’s he come to the pump he dropped deown. The men had to tote him home, His hiead was like this—aud his arms were like thie.” Her own little head fell for. arms hung lifeless. Then she added: “Death struck Bish wheo be fel After a moment began again: “*Are you a good dressmaker?’’ “Not very. Are you?" She laughed. ‘‘Good enough to make my own clothes.” ra Jou Jake that dress?’’ " “I make them all except Sunday ones. In her family there i I Touud, Sve grown members earn pay at the m sufficient to support ’. comfortably. Yet, becanse the youogest was already eleven—that is to say, because she repre- sented a daily sti of fifty cents—there was a determination to make her a bread- winner—a determination so strong that only her own courage and valiance had so far been able to ward off the evil day when she should move from the sohaol-bench into the spinning-room. It is natural that the first impulse of these people who have deserted their farms for the factories should be to embrace every opportanity for gain which presents itself, and itis all the more n , therefore, that they should be wade to see the ulti- mate profit of giving their children some education. For this end nothing could be more POmly effective than a compulsory law. The question of reaching Huntsville was a serious one. ‘We can’t rightly say what the route is,’ the Gadsden Hotel clerk ex- plained. ‘‘Lots o’ folks goes there, but none ever comes back.’’ Huntsville, it was true, partly because of the gloominess of the town itself, partly because of its indirect approach—by water —gsuggested the village of Eden which Dickens has described in his Martin Chuz- zlewit. A bulky, dingy steamer it was that conveyed us from one landing to an- other on the Tennesse River. For three hoars the double side-stacks sent forth whirling columns of feathery black smoke; the rear paddle-wheel beat a snowy path in ite watery way; a chilly mist enveloped the ample bushes, the rounded sides of which, overhauling the banks, swept the swift surface of the stream. Within the cabin of the Chattahoochee’’ the dreary passengers talked in undertones, deluged the ship’s utensils with copious expectora- tions, and waited with that air of resigna- tion which obaracterizes animals in trans- portation. Huntsville was reached at last. The clouds of soot, which in the small towns had indicated at once the locality of the mill, were here spread in a sombre veil over the entire city. Determined always to ‘‘go”’ until I wae stopped, and to see all I could before I was ‘‘put out’ I started at once for the mills, abont a mile or so from the Huntsville City Hall. It was too late to join the bands in their noon return, and a forbidding wall with padlocked gates drove me as a last resource to the superintendent’s office. “I baven’t got any one to send with you,” he said, ‘but I guess vou can find your way through all right.” Straight I made all speed to the spin- ning-room, and as1 entered this vast do- main I thought, at a first glance, that it was empty. Then, baving passed along one end, I perceived, toiling laboriously, quantities of children so small that their heads did not appear over the low frames! Fourteen of these tiny spinners I question. ed: three of them oniv ‘claimed’ to be twelve, and these bad all been several years at work. ‘‘Have you ever worked in a cotton mill?" one small girl asked me, in her shrill little voice. “No,” I answered. “I tell you,” she answered, ‘it's real hard work.”’ “Tg i(?"’ “Well,” she smiled, *‘it is for us little kids, anyway.” “Did you ever go to school?” | asked. “No, bur I'l just love to.” Here she threw out her little hands with a sorrow- ful gesture,and added: “I'm ouly twealve, I've been workin’ most four years, and I haven’ got enough education to read and write." The heat in Lis great hall was intense. In order to maintain the proper pliahility of the cotton thread the atmosphere of the “pinning-riuns muss he kept at a very high temperature. In addition to the steam pipes which encircle the walle there are, nt intervals, open valves which poar forth diminutive clouds of vapor, taking from the air every breath of its vitality. It wax not long hefore one of the over- seers, noticing how freely I was talking with the little, toil-worn, ghastly wails who plied their way up and down before the whitling spindles, came over and be- gan to make several maudlin excnses: ‘*We don’t care about havin® the ‘help’ talk much,’ he =aid. . “Ah? “No. Yon see they don't allow no chil- dren ander twelve to work in the mills. Of course ,"* he added, our children all is twelve,” **Do you think #0?" I asked. “My, yes! All our help has certificates, We keep a notary busy the whole time.” I continued my round. The next child [ questioned, having noticed perhape that the “*hoss’’ had spoken to me, answered in thi= way when I asked ber age: “I'm teaun. No — I mean — I'm twealve," Nohody conld pass through such spin- ning-rooms as [ have described and not cry out lustily against child labor. No moderate fri of the manufacturers, no partisan of the rapid indastrial develop- ment in the South could find a single argu- ment with which to meet the unspoken plea of this army of little toilers. They hear no resemblance to healthy children. They look like the pale, insipid flowers that straggle up in the furrows of the wheas field when the harvest has been gathered. An incident at another of the mills, which 1 sahsequently visited at Huntsville, con- firmed the remarks made hy the little spin- ning hand at Alabama City: ‘When the gentleman that owns the mille comes around to visit, we hide the littlest hands #0 he won't see 'em.”’ The proprietor of these mills happened, while I was there, to he passing through the village where his “‘plant” is situated. Ther» was, in consequence, some reluctance to let me visit the spinning-rooms. The dye-rooms, the weaving room and eungine- houses were shown with a free conscience, since uo ‘little help™’ ean he employed in these localities. But my goide from the offier explained to me they were *‘cleaning the machinery’ in the spinning-room and “most f she hands’ were ‘loafing,’ so there wasn't “anything much’ to see. Lot ve hope that this sore of deception keeps the mill-owner from knowing really what wraith of childhood aie doing his work for him. Otherwise he wounld teo easily appear in the guise of a modern monster crashing human life in order to get the full price of his greed. And the snowy threads in the spinning room, as they whirl aboat the spindles like an im- waculate, diapbanons cloud, might seem to this same mill-owner to he drenched in the searlet that speeds outward from little fingers, whose forces, as their life's blood, ebb from them while they soil! Over the rolling country outside of the town, in the dirrction of West Huntsville, there is a soccession of mills: one with its rows of wooden houses, its schools, its stores, its ¢! apel, aud others of minor im- , wade indeed, to look insigoif- Jota by comparison with the giant plant which flings its human debris, when work is done, into a surrounding group of yellow frame two-story houses, each of which is inhabited by two families, and surrounded by a yard, sprinkled over,as were the side- walks in this desolate town, with slag from the fornaces. An occasional attempt to grow flowers in these paupers’ areas had been thwarted by an old-time habit of sweeping ow to the incipient flower bers such rubbish as came daily from within the honse: ashes, old rage, barrel hoops, chicken feathers, paper bags, tin cans. The result was an uninviting accumulation. As all attempts to trespass within the well-gnarded inclosure of this mill were unavailing, I resorted to a post of ohserva- tion opposite the gates throngh which the operatives filed ont at noon, and in again when the clock’s hands had sped onward to 12:45, having left them this only too brief three quarters of an hour in which to cook and eat their dinner. In the multi. tude that came drifting, scurrying, whirling past me there were scores of children under twelve years old. Their clothes were flecked with cotton lint, gray and dusky like their ashen faces; they were bowed and drooping with astrange nervous anima- tion that became them as pitifully as frisk- inesss becomes an unconscious old age. What could they be expected to look like ? Save on Saturdays, they work twelve hours and five minutes a day, these little “bands.” Having been peremptorily stopped by the janitor when I attempted to follow with the procession into the mili, I repaired to the gchool, and there found, out of a population of six bundred possible scholais, about one hundred children enrolled on the lists, “Where are the rest?’ I asked the teacher. ‘‘In the mill,”” she answered solemnly, ‘‘Even the littlest hoys and girls from the primary classes are constantly taken out and made to work as long as their mothers or fathers see fit.”’ ‘We have to switch the children,” the teacher volunteered, when I questioned her about a birch rod which lay across Ler desk. ‘Without switching them we couldn't keep any sort of order here.” And again, perceiving a crippled boy, I asked how he had lost his arm, and receiv- ed from the teacher this amazing answer, ‘Oh, he lost it in the mill ! We get lots of them maimed, with one finger, or a hand, or an arm gone. They go in so young to work that they don't know what ma- chinery is, and they trv ‘just for fan’ to fee how near they can come to it without ‘touching.’ It’s iather a dangerous game sometimes.”’—By Mrs. John Van Vorst, in the Saturday Evening Post. Boys and Tobacco, In Germany, the use of tobacco by boys under eighteen is prohibited by laws which are rigidly enforced. In the Ecloe Polytechnique of France it was fonnd that nonsmokers took the high- est rank in every grade, and that smokers continually lost grade. Hence, the use of tobacco was prohibited in the public 8 thools. It 1s also prohibited in our government szhools of Annapolisand West Point. Hun- dreds of hoys apply for admission to the Naval Academy, and one-fifth of all who are examired are rejected on account of heart disease, which the surgeons say is cansed by smoking cigarettes. Dr. A. L. Gilsou, of the United States Navy. gives the following testimony as to the effects of smoking tobacco upon the sradents : 1. It leads to impaired nutrition of the nerve centres. 2. Itvis a fertile cause of neuralgia, ver. tigo and indigestion, 3. It irritates the month and thioat, and thus destroys the purity of the voice. 4. By excitation of the optic nerve, it provokes amaurosis and other defects of vision. 5. Itcausesa tremulous hand and an intermittent pulse. 6. One of its corspicnous effects is to develop irritability of the heart. 7. It retards the cell change on which the development of the adolescence de. pend. — Ex, Wise and Otherwise, A good story of a recent conversation be. tween Mr. Howells and Mark Twain is go- ing the rounds. Mark Twain was relating some of his experiences hefore he hecame famous. ‘My difficulties tanght me some thrift,’’ he observed.” ‘Bat I never knew whether it was wiser to spend my last nickel for a cigar to smoke or for an apple to devour.” “I am astounded,” returned Mr. How- ells, “thar a person of so little decision shonld meet with so much worldly sue- cess.’ Mark Twain nodded very gravely. ‘‘In- decision aheut spending money,” he re. marked, ‘is worthv of cultivation. When I counldn’t decide what to buy with my last nickel I kept it, and #0 became rich.”’ An Englishman was once talking to a wrizzled old woman, when he chanced to refer tc the Queen. “0, "ow I would like to be the Queen !” #nid the ancient lady. “Why ?" “0, it isn’t because of her "orses, because it I were Qoeen I wonld 'ave a donkey-cart with red wheels; and it isn’t becanse of her hand of musicians on horseback which woes ahead of the "ore gaaids, for I much rather ‘ave a Hitalian with a ’and-organ, but juss think, if «he wakes up at three o'clock in the morning and wants a bite to eat, she can jost touch a hell and "ave heel and boiled cabbage right away." The minister's wife had an unwelcome visitor in a very talkative scandalmonger, #0 the minister went ont for a stroll. Re- turning hall an hour later he called ont : “That old oat gone, I suppose 2" “Yes, snid his wife, who had still her eness talking to her, “I sent it home in a basket, my dear, this morning.” What do you think of that for presence of mind and ahsence of cat 2— Christian Life. ‘Isn't that a Booguerean ?'’ asked Mrs. Oldcastle, as they stopped for a moment to look at the new pictures. “0, my, no,” replied her hostess, “it’s a lion. But I told Josiah when he brought it home that it looked a good deal more like one of them things yon mention.—Chieago Record Herald. DISAGREE ON RATE BILL House Committee Decides to Send Measure to Conference. Washington, May 22.—The railroad rate bill was considered for three hours by the house committee on in- terstate and foreign commerce, and the decision was reached to recom- mend disagreement to all of the senate emendments and to send the measure to conference. The committee will not ask that instructions of any character be given to the house conferees, There was no disposition to criti- cise the amendment conferring juris- diction on the courts to review orders made by the interstate commerce com- mission, for in the house committee, as well as in the senate, many mem- bers contended that the bill as it was passed by the house gave that au- thority to the courts. This amendment and others, which collectively are known as the Allison compromise, un- doubtedly will be agreed to by the house conferees, The amendment which gave the house committee the greatest concern was that making pipe lines common carriers, which the committee thought inconsistent with the amendment pro- hibiting common carriers {rom pro- ducing commodities carried by it. Formal action was not had on any of the amendments, and therefore the house conferees likely will be left free to exercise their best judgment. U. 8. VICE CONSUL KILLED W. H. Stuart Shot to Death By Assas- sin at Batoum, Russia. Batoum, May 22.—W. H. Stuart, the American vice consul, was shot and killed at his country place. The as- sgasein escaped. Mr. Stuart was a British subject and one of the largest ship brokers and exporters of Batoum, Mr. Stuart, having dined at the house of a friend, was returning to his country place at Manziadjani, five miles from Batoum. He was fired on twice from a clump of trees half a mfle from his home, one bullet pierc- ing his leg and another his breast. Mr. Stearne, the British vice consul at Novo Rosziisk, who was a guest at Mr. Stuart's house, hearing the shoot- ing, hurried out with the servants and found Mr. Stuart lying on the ground bleeding from his wounds. He was still conscious, but said he would not be able to recognize his*assassin ow- ing to the darkness. Mr. Stuart was conveyed to a military barracks in the vicinity, where he expired two hours later. The body was transported to the consulate at Batoum. ADDICKS DROPS LONG FIGHT Says Colonel duPont Will Be Elected U. 8. Senator From Delaware. Philadelphia, May 19.—J. Edward Addicks, who has been for years a candidate for a seat in the United States senate from Delaware, arrived here from Washington and announced that he was for Colonel Henry A. du- Pont, of Wilmington, for the vacant seat in the senate. Mr. Addicks said there was no longer any doubt that there will be a call for a special ses. sion of the Delaware legislature with- in a few days; that a senator will be promptly elected and that Colonel duPont will be the man. To give strength to the announcement of his {retirement from the long fight, he produced letters that he had just written to his lieutenants in which he urged them to sign the call for a spe- cial session and to affix their signa- tures to the petition agreeing to abide hy the decision of the caucus. PISTOL FIGHT WITH THIEVES Burglars Blew Open Safe at Glassboro, N. J., But Were Driven Off. Pitman, N. J, May 22. — Burglars blew open and wrecked the safe in the Glassboro postoffice, but before they ccald re-enter the building George Benneger, night watchman of the bank opposite the postoffice, who was arous- ed by the explosion, opened fire on the robbers, and for a time the air was filled with bullets. The robbers made a hasty retreat, delivering a rapid run- ning fire on Benneger. Several bullets from the watchman's revolver struck the postoffice near where he saw the thieves and others fired in return struck the stone wall of the bank only a few inches from where he was standing. Another shot crashed through a pane of glass near his head. It is not known whether any of Benneger's shots took effect. He Fired On Stonewall Jackson. Findlay, O., May 19.—Peter E. Mil ler, cne of the guards who fired on Stonewall Jackson, died at his home near Brenton Ridge, aged 66 years. Miller often told the story of the cir- cumstances. He said that they were on picket duty and mistook Jackson and his staff for federals when they were returning from looking over the Union lines. “Seeing them approach, we fired,” as he said, “and Jackson fell.” Miller left the Confederate ar- my and worked his way to Hancock county, O. where he lived till his death. Shot and Killed By Jealous Man. Altoona, Pa., May 22.—William Con- way, aged 27, colored, shot in the head and killed Silas Cooper, aged 48, also colored, and made his escape. Con- way found Cooper on the streets in company with Mrs. Conway aud, crazed by jealousy, shot Cooper down without a word. Conway had been working in Youngstown, Ohio, and re- turned home only Sunday. Dr. Atherton Dangerously Il. Bellefonte, Pa., May 22.—Dr. George W. ‘Athertor, president of the Penn- sylvania State College, is dangerously ill at his home here. His physicians gay that he cannot live 24 hours. Dr. Atherton is suffering from Brignt's — QUAINT PRESENTS. Odd Wedding Gifts That Have Been Received by Celebrities, Celebrities are often the recipients of quaint presents, For instance, on the marriage of Queen Victoria the farm- ers of East and West Pennard, Somer- setshire, wishing to show their loyalty, manufactured from the milk of 7350 cows an immense cheese nine feet in circumference. The gift was gracious- ly accepted and was stored at Buck- ingham palace, where it would un- doubtedly have found its wag to the royal table had not its donors wished to exhibit it as an advertisement. Their request was granted, but after it had been exhibited and the makers would have returned it her majesty signified that owing to the altered con- ditions she could not accept it as a gift. An equally homely gift was made to the late King Charles of Wurttemburg on the morning of his marriage to Princess Olga of Russia. A peasant woman sent him a pair of trousers of her own design, with a note expressing the hope that they might be found a better cut and fit than those which she had last had the honor of seeing his majesty wear. The Italian singer, Signor Mario, in- spired a hopeless passion in the hearts of so many women that at the time of his wedding some of this affection found expression in various strange gifts. One was in the shape of a cushion stuffed with tresses from the heads of many of his hopeless admir- ers. Another was from a lady in Mu- nich who had had one of her teeth set ir a scarfpin surrounded with pearls and emeralds. In an accompanying note she expressed the hope that by sometimes wearing the gift he might be reminded of his unknown worship- er.—New York Herald. THE FIRST SPECTACLES. They Were Made In italy In the Thirteenth Century, Spectacles were invented late in the thirteenth century. The use of glass to aid the sight of defective eyes is, however, much older. Nero looked through a concave glass in watching the gladiatorial games, and many other historical men of his day were depend- ent on similar devices for lengthening their sight. Till the latter part of the thirteenth century only the single glass was in use. In 1200 the double glass was in- vented, and in the fourteenth century spectacles were used quite frequently by the very wealthy and high born, al- though they were still so scarce that they were bequeathed in will with all the elaborate care that marked the dis- position of a feudal estate. The first spectacles were made in Italy. Somewhat later the manufacture of cheaper glasses sprang up in Holland, and it spread late in the fourteenth century to Germany, Nuremberg and Rathenow acquired fame’ for their glasses between 1490 and 1500. For many years glasses were used only as a means of aiding bad eyes, un- til the fashion of wearing merely for the sake of wearing them sprang up In Spain, It spread rapidly to the rest of the continent and brought about the transformation of the old thirteenth century spectacles into eyeglasses and eventually into the monocle, Quicksilver. Quicksilver is found in veins of rocks, like gold, silver and other met- als. Sometimes the tiny globules of the mercury appear in the Interstices of the rock, but usually it is found in the form of cinnabar, a chemical com- pound containing 13.8 per cent of sul- phur and 86.2 per cent mercury. When pure and reduced to a powder it is a bright red color, The principal uses of quicksilver are for removing free gold and silver in placer and quartz mining, for manu- facturing vermillion paints and dyes, for backing mirrors, for making ther- mometers and many other scientific in- struments. What Water Did. A certain liquor dealer, a hard head- ed old Scot, grew rich in the trade. After he had grown rich the old man built himself a fine house, a limestone mansion on the hill, with a park around it, with conservatories, stables and outbuildings—in a word, a palace. One day the old Scot rode in the omni- bus past his fine house. A temperance man pointed up at the grand edifice and said, with a sneer, “It was the whisky built that, wasn't it?" “Na, na, man; the water.” the Scot answered.— London Mail, The First Sapphire. There is an Indian legend that Brah- ma, the creator, once committed a sin that he might know the torments of remorse and thus be able to sympa- thize with mortals, But the moment he had committed it he began repeat: ing the mantras, or prayers of purifi- cation, and in his grief dropped on the earth a tear, the hottest that ever fell from an eye, and from it was formed the first sapphire. Happy Thought, Doctor—Your throat affection is one of the rarest in the world and is of the deepest interest to the medical pro- fession. Patient—Then remember, doc- tor, when you make out your bill that T haven't charged anything for letting you look down my throat. The Strong Peint. He—Really, I never loved anybody before. She-—That isn't the point, Are you sure you'll never love anybody by and by? In so far as you approach temptation to a man, you do him an injury, and if he is overcome you share his guilt.— | disease ond an affection of the heart. | Johnson. IT PAID TO BE A N. Y. SENATOR Representative Goulden Says It Was Worth Thousands Yearly In Graft. Washington, May 22. — Additional Inside light was thrown on insurance methods in New York by Representa- tive James A. Goulden, of that state, before the house committee on the ju- diciary, considering the Ames bill for the regulation of insurance in the Dis- trict of Columbia. Mr. Goulden is gen- eral agent of the Penn Mutual Life Insurance company in New York. “Why,” he said, “it was a well-con- ceded fact that to be a senator at Albany was worth anywhere from $50,000 to $100,000 a year, and that the money came largely from insurance companies. This is no secret. Every New York man knows it. I know it. I know it well.” Touching on the subject of cam- paign contributions, Mr. Goulden said that his company had been coerced into giving $10,000 to a national cam- paign committee in 1896. He did mot say which campaign committee got the money, but remarked that the same thing was tried in 1900 and 1904 but without success, owing to the firm stand taken by Mr. Plimpton, of Mas- sachusetts, one of the directors, who declared that every director who voted for such contribution would be held personally liable for the amount. PREDICTS OUTBREAK IN CUBA American From Isle of Pines Says Revolt Will Occur Soon. Washington, May 22.—According to a statement by S. H. Pearcy, a large land owner in the Isle of Pines, a re- volt against Cuban authority in that island "will occur in the near future unless the United States resumes con- trol over it. Mr. Pearcy and his brother, J. L. Pearcy, called at the White House, but the president de- clined te see them, and they were re- ferred to Secretary Root. Mr. Pearcy declared that he did not come to Washington to threaten the president with a revolution in which hundreds of American lives would be endangered, but simply to tell him the facts. He said that Americans now own nine- tenths of the property in the island, which they purchased solely on the as surances of President McKinley and the war department that the island was American soil. Conditions, he says, have reached a critical stage, and the majority of the Americans have stated they will stand their op- pression no longer. Mr. Pearcy said that these American citizens have re ceived many offers of aid from the United States in case of a revolt. CARS THROWN INTO CANAL Five Killed and Fifteen Injured In Pe. culiar Railroad Accident. Hagerstown, Md., May 21. — Five men were killed and 15 others were mere or less injured as the result of the wreck of a work train near the {indigo tunnel, 43 miles west of this place, on the Cherry Run extension of the Western Maryland railroad. The dead are: J. W. and Charles Henry, brothers; Charles Clengerman, Robert Bartcn and Charle Swope. The men, most of whom were track hands, were being taken to their homes in the vicinity of Hancock and Pearre, They occupied two closed cars, which were being pushed ahead of an engine, This made it impossible for the en- gineer to see a rock which had rolled down upon the track from the side of a cut, and the obstruction threw the two cars and their occupants into the Chesapeake & Ohio canal, beside which the railroad runs. JUDGE MAYER DEAD President Judge of 25th Pennsylvania District Dies In Hospital. J Philadelphia, May 19.-—~Judge Charles A. Mayer, of Lock Haven, president judge of the 25th judicial district, which is comprised of Cameron, Elk and Clinton counties, died in the Ger- mantown hospital here following an operation performed several weeks ago. Judge Mayer was 75 years of age and was a native of York county. He was graduated from Franklin and Marshall College in 1848 and was admitted to the bar of Clinton county six years later. He served two terms as district attorney, and in 1868 he was elected president judge of the 25th district, which was then composed of Centre, Clearfield and Clinton counties, and re- elected in 1878, 1888 and 1898. Judge Mayer left two daughters, one the wife of Colonel James B. Coryell, of this city, and the other Miss Helen B. Mayer, who lives at Lock Haven. Murderer Hid Girl's Body In Haymow. Akron, O., May 21.—The finding of the dead body of Minnie Brendt, a young woman of this city, led to the arrest of Leo Diebel, aged about 26 years. According to the police, Diebel has confessed that he killed the girl. Miss Brendt had been missing since last Thursday, and her body was found hidden away in a haymow. Diebel, the police say, told them that he kept the girl secreted in the haymow for days endeavoring to hit upon soms plan to avoid disgrace to both she and himselg, and that he wanted tc marry her, but his mother opposed it. Captured a Live Okapi. . London, May 21.—Captain Boyd Al- exander, of the Alexander-Gosling ex- pedition, reports from the Augu dis- trict, on the River Welle, Congo Free State, that he has secured a specimen of the okapi, which the expedition saw alive. No white man ever before has seen a living okapi. The announce- ment greatly interests zoologists. Crops Damaged By Frost. Cumberland, Md., May 22.—Reporte from points in this part of Maryland tell of further crop damage by frost, especially in the s.ades of Garrett sounty.
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