THK C0UMB1AN. BLOOMSBUk KAL in iiwv iii He Lives InConstant Fear of Assassination. HIS PEOPLE'S ANQER Xing Peter's Failure to Punish the Regicides of King Alexander and Queen Drnga Exports to England Shrink From $500,000 to $500 Per Annum. King Peter waded to his throne thiough blood. The tear that he will leave It by an equally gory route makes Servla's ruler the most un happy monarch of Europe to-day. For three years in successlou he has suffered ail the agonies of a man condemned to death In the days Im mediately proceeding each June 11. This Is the anniversary of the aeas alaatlon of King Alexunder and Queen Draga. The superstitions und fatalistic temperament of the Ser vians would make an anniversary seem to them the most appropriate time to end a dynasty. King Peter has successfully passed Jnne 11 three times, but there if no comfort in this fact to the sorely pressed Karageorgevltch, for now the V. : WW -Ts'v-a King Fetor. people are becoming Impatient, und rvery day has become a virtual June ilth and the dread of assnsrln.vlon a peril that never leaves the mind f the King. That his fears are most real is ell illustrated by the fact that a comparatively unimportant mutter, v lone bill involving only a niall mid, was sufficient to stir Beliade to revolt. Peter, placed between yro fires, dare neltlier approve nor wto the bill, and while It lay on his Jesk the citizens gathered in the courtyard of the palace crying, "Long live Alexander! Long lve ,he Republic! Down with Peter!" King Peter might have succended a the position to which he was ..ailed but for his unfortunate alli ance with the regicldea who had nade his accession to the throne osslble. If Peter had been lnno nt of any complicity In the taking ff of the unhappy king and queen, could have made an auspicious tart by vigorously visiting justice n the guilty. But unfortunately for the new lonarch, it is established beyond a hance of doubt that he knew in nd ance of the comtemplated descent a the palace, and promised full lmunlty should he become king, all who were concerned la the eed of blood. It Is said that the military com tander who led the iiBsault, forced Im to sign a paper to this effect, bus at the very start of his jtign j was compelled to permit leaders ; the regicides to hold prom'neut nd ostentatious place At his court. Peter's close association with this iglcldo quickly alienated from hiu i the thrones of Europe. "Punish le murderers," said the powers in Sect "And we will uphold you." Unable to do this, Peter saw ulm :lf alone. During the year be.'ore ie murder of Alexander and Druga, ;e Servian exports to England were ilued ut' $200,000, and amount Inch fell in the year of the tragedy some $50,000, while In the year nllowlng the diplomatic rupture id the evidence that King peter us unable to deal out justice, the xports finally fell down to a paltry . J00. The chance of his non. Prince . Jeorge, ever mounting the throne U ; inn 11. There are several pretenders. This son has been indirectly the use of much of the abuse cast upon ,.:je ruler. A doctor who examined '.Ao lad pronounced him a weakling. ..ho would be an easy victim for a ,rceful woman. The woman lu V case was not lorg In appearlag. to was an actress. Mademoiselle achanska. From all that la known ft the woman, she was entirely tameless, and held a hltfh place as ue icf the best actresse at Royal .'heater. Resolved at all hazards to prevent recurrence of this lncideut. he or Inred Mademoiselle Dechansl:a to ul' Belgrade. She did so end went bioad. Shortly after thia she was 'und murdered, and the suspicious arvlans Immediately leaped to be amning conclusion that King Peter1 ud been tha instigator of her doa'h. 'he King vehemently denied th , "large, but never suooeded la eont iucing his people. . I A REAL OLODK TKOTTEH. A Mucli-Trnvelled "Flrft'iiaB" on The Liner St. Paul. The American liner St Pau.1, on a recent trip from Southampton to New York brought a real globe traveler In the person of Hugh R. Hall, who had worked his way across as u fireman only to be sent to Ellis Island as a stowaway. Hall went to work with the flrcroom force soon after the vessel left port on the other Side. He wore a guernsey, on which was stamped "Fireman," and he was not questioned. When the vessel got lu Chief Offi cer Osborne was at the crews gang way when Hall started to go ashore. He recognized the man as a fellow who had crossed once before, and wanted to know where ho was going. "Getting ashore, Sir," said the man. Osborne did not recognize the man as a member of the crew in spite of the word "Fireman" prominently displayed. He questioned him and became assured that the mau was the same fellow who tad crossed once before and gone ashore on the plea that he was an American citi zen The man was detained, and a suurch of the ship's papers failed to reveal a Hugh Hall as fireman. A search brought to light his papers Issued by the British Board of Trade, and showing that he was an Englishman, and born In Lyon, Norfolk County, England. The crew of the American Line steamers sign articles in New York for the round trip., Hall, desiring to make the trip across, had simply de pended on his guernsey and his knowledge of the sea to mix with the regular crew and take s chance of getting off undetected on this side of the Atlantic. Hall Is said to be a constant trav eler, although without money. He shipped from London and made a trip to Australia, wherw he stayed some months. From there he re turned to England only to make the same trip later. Once he shipped on a Calcutta steamer, and visited nearly every port on th other side of the world before returning to his native heath. He has been all over this continent. His wldo knowledge of the country served to impose upon the immigra tion officials, and he not only showed familiarity with the city in which he said he was born, but he mentioned the street where that event took pluce and evidenced such a know ledge of American affairs and loca tions that he wus passed through an a nctlve-born American. "I have seen almost every country in the world," ho said. 'I think my next tour will be to Tibet. I am in terested in that country." A Heal Itrldul Coiwlu A bridal coach designed to boom matrimony In Pittstou, Pa., and to do away with the custom of decora ting the ordinary hacks with white ribbons for weddings has just been completed in that city. This novel equipage Is in the shape of a huge heart and cots $1,800. It is maroon and black with gold trimmings. There are twenty hearts on the vehicle, Including eight heart shaped windows, two targe hearts joining to forming tho dashboard and two more cropping out of the rear springs. The lamps, which have electric lights inside, are each sur mounted by a Cupid with his bow and arrow. The wood carving Is especially beautiful. f The coach is upholstertd in cream coloied velours finished with old gold buttons with two sets of wat ered silk curtains, and overhead is a cluster of calla lilies in the heart of which are concealed red, white and blue electric lights. Oysters in May. Rear AdmiralBuhler, lunching at an Atlantic City hotel, said, as the waiter brought him Little neck clams, that he was sorry the oyster season was over. "I prefer oysters to clams, but of course," he said, "I obey the rule of R strictly, and from the beginning of May till the end of August I never touch an oyster. "No wise person will eat an oyster after the first of May." "One afternoon at about thiB time in the month of May, a man entered a restaurant, and the waiter recom mended the oyuterB to him. The man started in surprise. " 'Oysters?' he said. 'But oysters, are not considered good lu this month.' " 'I know, sir,' answered the wait er, 'but these are left over from last month.' " Lions Becoming Interested. Lions of East Africa are becoming greatly interested In railway opera tions. The Uganda railroad has 39 small stations in the CSO rollen be tween the Indian ocean und Victoria Nyanza, and In the last year the ani mals have frequently visited these lonely places, especially Situha, which has only a station building, with a water tank and a sidetrack. On.i Hon passed several successive nights at the Slmba station, walking about, scratching at the office door and sleeping on the platform. Converting Hebrews... Conversions of Hebrews to Chris tianity have increased lately in Oer niany, 'and," says an exchange, "the indications are that the number of converts will grow." A statistician has discovered that the loss thus sustained by the Hebrews Is counter balanced to some extent by Christ tians going over to Judaism. In the year 1906 52 such cases were recorded, of which 38 were In Berlin. i Over a Million Children Breadwinners in 1900. LEQAL RESTRICTIONS. Of the To In I 1,054,41(1 Were Em ployed on the Farm in 20,43 Families 33,7 Per tVnt. of the breadwinners I'ndcr t.i - Families Dependent on Child Libor. A recent Bulletin published by the CeiiMii Bureau lu regard to child la bor says that according to the census of 1900 there were 1,750,178 chil dren 10 tol5 years of age employed lu various 'occupations lu the United States. Of the total, 1,054,416 were employed on the farm, and most of these children were members of tha farmers' families. Next in importance to agricultural laborers comes domestic service, or the occupations of servants and waiters or waitresses in which 138, 065 children were employed, most of them being girls. The children returned as laborers, the kind of labor not being so specified as to ad mit of any more exact classification, make up the next largest group, the number of these children being 128, 617, of whom all but 17,059 wero boys. Most of them aie children living in cities or suburban com munities. The extent of the evils of child labor, the bulletin says, depends partly upon the age of the child and partly upon the character of the oc cupation in which the child is em plojed. About one-third of the chil dren employed In gainful occupa tions were 15 years of age, and more that one-half were 14 or 15 years. The number under 14 was 790,623, or 45.2 per cent, of the total. Of the total number of child breadwinners 10 to 15 years of age 72.2 per cent were boys and 27. S per cent, girls. In most States the employment of young chlldreu is more or less re stricted by laws limiting or prohibit ing child labor and requiring school attendance. But there are few legal restrictions applicable to children who are over 14 years cf age. By the time the children roach the age of 16 years 50.6 per cent, or one-half of the boys and 21.4 per cent, or more than one-fifth of the girls have become workers. The percentage of breadwinners among negro children lu a compari son covering the entire United SUtes Is much higher than that for any class of white children. But the percentage of negro children em ployed In pursuits not connected with agriculture is comparatively small..- The cotton mills furnish employ ment to children to a greater extent than any other manufacturing or mechanical Industry. In 1900 the number of cotton mill operatives 10 to 15 years of age was 44,427, and they formed 18 per cent of the total number of persons more than 10 years of age in that occupation. Of the 71,622 messengers and errand and office boys in the United States in 1900, 62 per cent, were district and telegraph messengers and1 errand boys, 23.3per cent were office boys, and 14.7 per cent were bundle and cash bpys or girls. Nine tenths of the ohildren employed in such service are boys. Children of foreign birth or parentage make up the bulk of the messengers anl er rand and office boys. The total number of families with children employed in gainful occu pations for which statistics were specially compiled was 20,462. This number Is less than the total number of child breadwinners, Uecause of the cases In which two or more of these child breadwinners were living in the samo family. The total numbei of persons, or total population, living la these20,452 families was 138,908. At the other extreme there were 264 families with no dependent"., all the older members, as well as the .children being breadwinners. Of these families 75 had only 1 oder breadwinner, while 87 had 2, and the others had 3 or more, 20 having not less thun 5 each. In such fami lies child labor would appear to be entirely unnecessary. In the families with child bread winners schooling rarely extends be yond the age of 13. Of the children 14 years of age 97.4 per cent were employed and only 1.6 per cent, were at school. Tho percentage of school children is a little higher in the aext older years. It is evident that a considerable number of the families that had children 10 to 14 years of age at work had older children at tending school. A Cofctly Exterminator. Poisonous snakes and destructive sugar rats caused the importation of tho mongoose from India into Ja maica years ago. This lively little animal killed off the snakes and thinned out the sugar raU but it especially enjoyed destroying the chickens. Now it is a costly nuis ance. All the island poultry has to be kept within wire netting und usually above the ground and the price of eggs is high. , I1 sen for Copra Oil. Copra oil used to go into the soap industry exclusively, whereas to-day several of the most important mills In Marseilles are converting this oil into a high-priced domestic grease, old commonly as a substitute for butter. mi i n w I)H. CKAP8E1TS NEW CREED. lie Predicts the Decline of the Old Faith deeply rootod. The Rev. Dr. Algernon S. Crapsey, the Episcopalian clergyman of Ro chester deposed for heresy, has Stated his belief as follows: "The authority of the Church over the reason und confident of man is gone never to return. Never again will the mind of man submit itself to the rule of a hierarchy of priests. No Pope or Bishop, priest or preach er can any longer lord it over the reason of man. The reason of man I cannot be commanded; it can only be persuaded. Reason must convince reason. "Nor will the moral s?nse of man again submit itself bllnJly to exter nal guidance. No order of priests can any longer stand between the oul and God. Instruction the con science will gladly receive, but it must at least judgo for Itself con cerning the right and tho good. "Nor will the people submit their reason and conscience to the keep ing of a book written by men of old. No power can ever restore the Bible to that throne from which it has so long ruled the thougnts of men. Men will reverence the Bible, but they will also judge the Bible; they will sift It and separate the chaff from the wheat. It Is vain to think of keeping the Bible In Aacred Isola tion. It has taken its place among the great literatures of the world, and as such it must submit to the 1 literary juagmeni oi man. "But you will ask whut Is coming in the place of the ola dogmatic. The new dogmatic whl"h Is dispel ling the old is not really new; it la Rev. Dr. Algernon S. Crnpsef. the revival of a dogmatic older than the dogmatic of the churches. It is the dogmatic of the prophets, the wise men and the scribes who are sent from God from time to time for the restoration of his people. It is the dogmatic of that Teacher, come from God, whom the Christian Church has enthroned at the right hand of God. "The God whom we would substi tute for the God of Athanaslus and Augustine is the God of Isaiah and the God of Jesus. In the spiritual consciousness of Jesus we find that revelation of God which id most satis fying to the consciousness of man in general a God of life; a God of truth; a God of love; a God whose mercy is, over all His works; a God who forgives sins, because it is His nature to forgive. He does not cry for blood; He only asks, for repent ance. He knows whereof we are made, and His infinite pity is equal to the Infinite pathos of our lives. "The new dogmatic gives to man a history that displaces the old. Man is not a fallen being; he Is a rising being. His history did not begin in a perfection lost by a prime val disaster. He began low down la the scale of being and has risen, by little and little, with many a backward slip and many a twist and turn, from lower to higher condi tions, according to fixed laws and by means of resident forces. Man has been developed by man. "The old dogmatic teaches salva tion by substitution. You lay your sins on Jesus. He suffers; you go freo. Such a plan of salvation Is un worthy of God and degrading to num. The new dogmatic, which is the old, teaches salvation by love, fculvatlon by service. Jesus saved not by His godlike character, but by his overpowering human love. "The church of the new dogmatic will not be a vast political organiza tion with popes and ; elates and palaces. It will not be a school for the discussion and determination of the nature and attributes of God It will have no authority, and it wl'.l claim no authority In the realm of philosophy, astronomy, ' geology, bi ology or history. The church of the now dogmatic will not seek to pro pitiate God by mystic rltos and cere monies. It will offer H:iu no flesh to eat, no blood to drink. It will worship Him, Indued, but it will wor ship Him in spirit and Ju truth." His Ready Explanation. John Bright was once asked how 1b was that Pitt made one of the finest speeches after drinking two "bottles of port. John Bright was, as usual, equal to tho occaslou. He pointed out that. verbatim reporting was unknown In those days and sug gested that the other members of the House on whoso opinion Pitt's reputation largely depended, nad j robably drunk three' bottles. llinfflMMS! Is New York's BUI, Uncle Sam's Billion a Year. CRUSADE IN THE SOUTH Enough Deer Drunk Since INTO to Fill a Canal frtftn New York to Denver Yet only One 'Quarter of the Population Drink at All Temperance Gains. New Y'ork spends a million dollars a day for drinks. Tho annual con sumption of drinks in the United States amounts to $1 400,000,000. If all the beer drunk in the United States since 1876 were brought to gether it would fill a canal from New York to Denver twenty feet wide, ten feet deep and 1,938 miles lout;, says the New York Sun. The nation's drink bill Is one-third more than the public deot, twice an much as the capital stock in the banks, a llttlo loss than tho capitali sation of the trusts, one-half tho value of our domestic animal, more than one-half the value of all our farm products, one-third more than our total imported merehandltio and one-twelfth more than our total exports. If each individual In this country, regurdless of age or sex, had drunk his share of liquor In 1S76 ho won 1.1 have consumed about eight gallons; but now the proportion is a Uttlo more than twenty gallons. Tho in crease 1b attributed to the influx of foreign immigrants who drink much beer. It Is estimnted that. three-fourth of the population are total abstain ers, which would make vory fourth person who doos drink, consume on an average $70 worth of liquor each year. Tho use of wines and rpirlts Is on the decrease In the Uutted Slates, while beer Is becoming more popu lar. There are fewer retail tiquor dealers now than there were a year aro, while the number of places whore beer is sold li Increasing rapidly. As many railroad accidents were in times past accounted for by em ployees being drunk, 800,000 of the 1,200,000 railroad men now on duty in the United States are under orders neither to drink nor to enter a place where liquor Is sold. The penalty is dismissal from service. In Canada If a locomotive engineer or a train conductor is found druak while on duty, he is liable to ten years im prisonment. Southern States are more aggres sive at this time than tLose of any othei part of the country in attempt ing to curb drunkenness by law. Kentucky, whose very name brings up thoughts of mint juleps, has 119 counties, and of these nlnety-slx are' without Baloons. In all Kentucky there are but five counties where liquor may be sold all over tho county. In the matter of local option elec tions Illinois leads all other States with a record of 700 communities which have voted the saloon out. Mississippi and Texas aro more than three-fourths dry by virtus of local option laws. Texas prohibits screens ia drinking places, and Indiana re quires saloons to keep lights burning all night with window shades open. Tennessee, another great whiskey producing State, has had an anti saloon movement, with the result that there are but nine towns in the entire Commonwealth where saloons are permitted. Every candidate for a State office in Tennessee, Demo crat or Republican, Is a temperance reformer, Senator Carmack, a Demo cratic leader, haa pledged himself to a movement to drive every saloon from the State. Califorulana say that a great tem perance lesson wns taught by the earthquake. San Francisco con sumed much liquor and was known as a wide open town. When the earthquake occurred, the saloons were closed and long kept closed. North Carolina has also taken ad vantage of the local option law. Greensboro, with more than 30,000 population, is as dry as a bone. Nebraska has a law providing for "the examination of dipsomaniacs, inebriates and persons addicted to the excessive use of morphine, co caine or other nurcotic drugsf for the detention, care and treatment of such persons, and for their parole." The only home for drunkards' wives ever established in the United States, and possibly in the world, Is at Des Moines, Ia. This was made possible by the will of the late Janes Callahan, who left $20,000 for the purpose of building it. In those communities where the percentage of foreign born popula tion is largest there Is tho least effort toward legal restriction of the liquor traffic, which fuct is taken to indicate that pure blooded Amerlcaus have set their faces against the vice of drunkenness. The Southern . States received but 4 per cent, of the im migrants, which came into the coun try last year, and they are leading the crusade against the saloon. Typhiod lu Brit Itih Army. In India alone the losses to the British army from typhoid ever amount to half a battalion a ytar. The latest reports furnish proof that the practice of anti-typhoid inocula tions in the army has resulted ia a Kubstantlul reduction In the Inci dence and death rate of enteric fMrer among the Inoculated. WIFE WOULD NOT UK CHATTEL Farmer Who Had Bought Her Vctj Promptly Hues Husband, Paris , March 26. Two farnwra living near Araulls, In the Depart ment of Haute Loire, met at tha village inn and talked farming, poli tics and other topics, absorbing meanwhile, several bottles of demo cratic red wine. Jean, it seems had plenty of Uv stock and grain, but no wife, whertaa Jules had a wife but was short corn. Thus it was easy for the ok to arrange a bargain that would ap pear to suit to a nicety their respec tive coses. Jules signed an agreement to coi his wife to Jean for 300f. ($6. The money was paid over. Mm. Jules, however, refused to go to U with Jean, whereupon Jean, the par chaser, was furious over the uon execution of the contract, brought suit against Jules for 3,000f. ($60O.i for breach of contract, and duly en tered an action before a magistrate. V.'OMEX SHOT IN THEIR HOMK. Vengeful Moonshiners Kill One ami Mortally Wound Another. Richmond, Va., March. 27. ia Falrlck County, In the Blue Rldg Mouutalns, a party of eight or tea men went to the home of the MUooa Jano and Annie Hall, Rplnsters, wbo l!ved in tho northern part of Ut county, nnd riddled the house with bullets. Miss Annlp Hall was al H'.ol;. Instantly killed, while Mia Ji'.cc Hall was mortally wounded and will hardly live. A nephew lived in the house and it Is said he was accused of report ii;; to United States Revenue OS ctrs tho whereabouts of several "moonshine" distilleries that agent of the Government recently Ce alloyed lu the neighborhood. CKX. JAMES M. VAUXU.M K1LLEJI A ut j He wax Killing In Struck Uy Trolley ('nr. New York, March 28. Gen. Jamta M. Yarntiin, ut one time Brlgndier Genoral of staff of the New York N i t'.onal Guard and Surrogute of Ne Yo.k county by appointment of Gov. l'.ooLiovelt In lN!y, died In Roosevelt Hospital as tho result of injuries re ceived In an uiitomomblle coMisiai with a Broadway car ut Seveaia avenue and Forty-sixth street. MUs Mary O. Krlek of Baltimore, who was a guest of Gun. and Mrs. Varnum al their home at 36 East Fifty-second street, was badly cut about the beai by flying glass. Mrs. Varnum, th third of the party, was uninjured. Starving Chinese Turn Cannibala Shanghai, March 28. The famlnw stricken Chinese have been practic ing cannibalism in localities wh?r the distress is most acute. Authen ticated cases have thus far been fw. but it is feared that cannibalism will spread unless relief can be more speedily and more widely distributed. The spread of fever continues b4 the heavy rains are increasing t!i general misery. Spasmodic rioting: occurred, but the outbreaks have not been serious. Woman of US Dler From Mumps Holyoke. Mass., March 28. Tha childhood affliction mumps cause the death of Mrs. Cynthia Houea tallng, ninety-five years of age. Sfct was the oldest resident of Ilolyoa. FINANCIAL. Frank Trumbull, president of Uia Colorado and Southern, is entas slastlc over business prosperity la U West. NEW YORK MARKETS. Wholesale Prices of Farm Prodac Quoted for the Week. The Milk Exchange price for stan dard quality Is 3 'A per qt. Butter. Creamrey, extra ...... 29 J . Firsts 27t State dairy, faucy 27 2$ Cheese. Fancy i4llk Small 1414i Part Skims 7 S Eggs. State and Penn 21 2J Western Firsts 17la Duck 25 2l Live Poultry. Chickens, per lb 12 11 Fowls, per lb 17 Dressed Poultry. Turkeys, per Tb 10 $tl Chickens, Phlla. lb..., 11 18 ' Geese, spring, lb 8 glt Ducklings, per tb ...... 8 &IX Fruits Fresh. Apples Greenings per bbl . . $1 60$ T King, bbl 3 00 4 Ben davls, per bbl. . , . 1 60 ) Vegetables. Potatoes, L. I., bbl...$l 85 $2 Cabbages, per 100.... 1 00 2 Onions, white, per bbl 225 I IS Beets', per bbl 1 00 1 i$ Hay and Straw. Hay. prime, cwt. $1 00$1 1( No. 1, per cwt. 80 1 1 ' No. 2, per cwt 66 71 Straw, lang rye. . 60 6 Grain, Etc. Flour, Win. pats. $3 00 $3 It. ' spring , pats 4 20 6 0 ' Wheat No. 1. . 91 4' No. 2, red 84 Ul , Oats, mixed 48 I Clipped white 62 SI Live Stock. '. Heeves, city drs'd. 7 Calves, city drs'd. 8 13 H" Co-jntry drs'd. 7H ltk S'.iee;-, per cwt. 4 SO 6 00
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