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Chance for a Set.
Atchison people seem determined to
force a certain bachelor to marry.
For 20 years they have been "talking"
about him, and wondering if he is go
ing to marry this one or that one.
Why can't people let the poor man
alone? If he wants to be a bachelor,
whose business is it? Every time he
"goes" with a new girl, Atchison peo
ple begin betting on the result. (And
incidentally we will bet five to one
that his present steady doesn't land
him.) —Atchison Globe.
Bagged a White Tigress.
From India conies a story of an Al
bino tigress: A white tigress, eight
feet eight inches in length, has been
shot at Dhenkana state, Orisso. The
ground color was pure white and the
stripes were of a deep reddish black.
The skin has been presented to the
rajah of Dhenkana, who has had it
mounted and placed in his palace.
The hunters of that country say that
It. is the only white tiger they have
seen.
Fate of the Spanish Woman.
Evelyn Mitford, writing in the
Queen, says that the women of the
lower classes in Spain do not make
calls nor read books, and have no
"parties" in the American sense of
the word. They do their household
work and goto church, and that is all
there is of life to them. Their hus
bands are very jealous of them, and
they grow old and weary before their
time.
A Poet's Work.
A letter by Robert Southey, just
discovered, contains the lament that
everybody reads poetry but no one
buys it. In this age people do not
even read it, but th%y continue to
read "The Story of the Three Bears"
without knowing it was originated by
the great poet. —Philadelphia Inquirer.
Has Poetry Enough; Wants Wood.
We have on hand more poetry than
-we can find room for. What we need
Js more wood. It is true the poetry is
pretty wooden, but it doesn't fling out
the warmth of oak and .pine. We
therefore prefer an ordinary load of
■wood to a cord of poetry.—Adams
(Ga.) Enterprise.
Keep Character Unspotted.
If you would have the respect, not
to mention the confidence, of your fel
lows, you must keep the cloak of char
acter virgin white; never allow its
luster to be dimmed by the breath of
suspicion or soiled by the mud of
wrongdoing.—Dr. .Madison C. Peters.
His Vain Regret.
A Duluth four-year-old hopeful, who
was receiving an application of the
corrective rod, looked up to his of
fended mother, who had told him of
his prehistoric whereabouts, and said:
"Oh, mamma, I wish I'd stayed in
heaven'!"
Loss Without Consolation.
The consolation in losing a vermi
form appendix is that a man can go
through life, after the operation, and
no one can tell by his appearance that
he is something short. Hut when it
comes to losing hair, it is different.
A Bad Taste, Perhaps.
Did you ever notice how much more
homely a crowd looks to you on some
days than on some others? It is a fact,
however, strange as it may seem. And,
noticing it, did you ever take any
thing for it?
The Argument.
"When you come to figurin' in de
loss ob time, temper an' tnebbe friend
ship," said Uncle ICben, "It's mighty
hahd foh anybody to say foh certain
dat he has had de best of an argy
ment."
Maybe He Does.
When we remember that a wood
pecker often works his way into a
tree with his bill, we wonder that a
woodpecker doesn't have headache
constantly.—Atchison Globe.
And So Many Do.
"Dar ain' no doubt," said Uncle
Ebon, "dat money does mo' harm dan
good to a man dat regards it simply
as a license to git proud an' foolish."
Shoes of Ancient Jews.
Shoes among the ancient .lews were
made of leather, linen, rush, or wood;
and soldiers' shoes were sometimes
made of brass or iron.
TAFT AT THE HELM
REVEALS HIS BREADTH OF
COMPREHENSION.
Country Will Welcome His Entry Into
the Sphere of Practical Legisla
tion—Measures of Broad
Scope in Prospect.
Whatever may be the views enter
tained of the specific position of Pres
ident Taft on the subject of a cor
poration tax, and these views differ
without regard to party lines, his dis
position to take a hand in legislation
and to disclose his policies is viewed
with general interest and wide ap
proval. Mr. Taft confessed during the
campaign to lack of technical knowl
edge of the tariff, and he has con
tented himself with adhering to his
original stand that the revision should
be mostly downward, and that it
should be productive of sufficient rev
enues for the country. There are very
many persons who think that, the re
vision of the schedules might very
well be made with regard to revenues
and still show a general grading down
of the tariff in harmony with the
president's position. He thus has the
hearty support of all who believe in
bis campaign stand. That he should
go farther and advocate a tax on cor
porations is an exercise of his discre
tion, the propriety of which is beyond
question. Those who differ with him
upon this matter may yet be glad that
he has shown the breadth of compre
hension that his friends have always
claimed in his behalf. He has shown
ability and disposition to analyze and
to estimate the effect of such a meas
ure, whatever may be the merits of
his final deductions.
Yet this is only one of the measures
of broad scope in which the president
proposes to show his Rand. He is
already preparing to make clear his
interest in broad industrial legisla
tion. Indue time he will express him
self upon the subject near to his
predecessor's heart—over-capitaliza
tion by interstate corporations. This
will be one of the policy-framing meas
ures of Mr. Taft, and will disclose his
grasp of the public-relations of incor
porated concerns doing an interstate
trade. It is understood that he also
has had bills framed for the reorgani
zation of the bureau of corporations,
the readjustment of its relations with
the Interstate Commerce commission
and the tying of both more closely to
the department of justice. The im
portance of this tentative program
lies not so much in the nature of the
measures as in the fact that Mr. Taft
has not swerved from his devotion to
Roosevelt's policies, and that he pro
poses to have his administration
count in the only sphere of domestic
forcefulness that the present state of
the country makes inviting.
Those who have thought of the
president as clothed in an ineradic
able smile have failed to estimate the
elements of unqualified force in his
makeup. The smile can be laid aside
and suavity can be, and is, displaced
upon occasion by a severity of man
ner and tone that harmonizes with
the fixed convictions that call forth
the demeanor; for Mr. Taft, while con
ciliatory, is as firm as adamant when
he takes a stand. The country will
have occasion to observe with a vast
deal of interest his career when he
shall actually begin to manipulate the
lever of the nation.
Enactment and Enforcement.
"The greatest" service "to the na
tion. to every state and city, would be
the substitution for a term of years of
law enforcement for law making."
These are the words of President J.
J. Hill. As a capitalist nnd corpora
tion builder, he knows the hazard to
business of incessant legislation either
hy city council, state legislature or
national congress, says the Milwaukee
Sentinel.
Many men elected to legislative
bodies seem to think that their pittilic
career and their standing in public
life are to be determined absolutely
by the quantity of new laws they pro
pose and succeed in having enacted
nnd entered upon our statute books.
So they bob up with a bill on almost
every conceivable topic. As a result
our statute books are burdened with
many useless laws and many good
laws ore forgotten and not enforced.
Certain legislation, of course, is
necessary, to meet conditions that
change with the passing years. But
the business world is getting tired of
legislating,solely for the sake of legis
lating and would welcome the change
for which President Hill pleads. A
just and equitable enforcement of law
would be better for business than an
avalanche of new laws that only tend
to confuse and demoralize business
and society.
Advance in Price of Wool.
The prices of many kinds of wool
have been going up steadily during
the last year. This has been partly
a recovery from depression due to His
panic and partly the result of a limit
ed supply of clothing wools, which
cost 48 cents a pound last June,
brought 66 cents last month, and have
been getting dearer this month. That
explains why woolen cloth has ad
vanced 25 to '.)() per cent, in a year.
Senator Aldrich would be justified in
crying, "Thou canst not say I did it."
Let Bill Stand on Its Own Merits.
The part of wisdom and policy,
clearly, is to dispose of the tariff bill
on its own merits and avoid entang
ling and irrelevant propositions. The
view of President Taft is sound aud
•should be followed in the interest of
intelligent tariff-making as well as of
judicious discussion.
CAMERON COUNTY PRESS, THURSDAY, JULY 22, 1909.
CRITICISM THAT IS UNFAIR
President Has Acted Wisely in Re
fraining from Interference with
Pending Tariff Legislation.
Some criticism is heard of the presi
dent's course in the tariff matter.
Why did he not tak* a hand from the
day congress assembled in extra ses
sion? Why did he not go into details
in his first message to that body?
Why when he saw that the senate was
disposed to revise the house bill up
ward did he not send for the Repub
lican members of the finance commit
tee and put them on notice that he
would indorse no such procedure?
Why this, that and the other?
And we are only three months dis
tant. from the Roosevelt administra
tion! And some of this criticism
comes from men and newspapers with
records of the severest censure of
everything Mr. Roosevelt did while
president! They exhausted the ac
cepted vocabulary, and coined new
words, in denouncing the interference
by the man in the White House with
the business of congress. Why did
he not keep his hands off? What
right had he under the constitution,
or good precedent, to be bullying, or
lobbying with, senators and represen
tatives as respected their official du
ties? Let him attend to his own af
fairs. Congress was not intended to
be in leading strings to the executive.
He exhausted his full power in rec
ommending measures, and then in ve
toing such actions by congress as
failed to meet his approval.
Now the very course laid down in
this criticism is the course Judge
Taft as president has pursued. He
called congress together in the re
demption of the party's pledge, and
recommended a revision of the tariff.
He was not expected to submit a bill,
and did not. It was for congress to
shape the measure, and he knew, un
officially, that a bill prepared under
the order of the previous hous« was
ready for introduction. The bill was
promptly introduced, and since then
the lawmakers have been occupied
with it.
While the president has not inter
fered, he has kept fully abreast of
the news, and has heard no little of it
from the men making it. Many sena
tors and representatives have visited
him—not by invitation, but of their
own motion —and discussed the steps
that have been taken. He has lis
tened with interest, but he has not
committed himself specifically as to
the schedules. He will be as free
handed in passing upon them when
the time comes as congress has been
in preparing them.
Is not this best for the country, and
best for the president's party? If the
president signs the bill he will asso
ciate himself by that act with the
praise or blame that may follow. If
the bill is a failure it will not be in
the power of its makers to excuse
themselves to their constituents by
saying that they yielded to threats or
cajoleries at the White House.
No Partners Wanted!
Secretary of War Dickinson and
Gen. Bell, chief of the army staff,
have just returned from inspecting
sites for the fortifications of the Pan
ama canal.
Mr. Dickinson is reported to have
remarked that the fortifications will
cost $20,000,000, but that, by getting
an international agreement to neu
tralize the canal zone, we may save
the money!
The suggestion that money be saved
by such a method prompts some ques
tions:
What are we building the Panama
canal for? Partly, of course, for com
merce. but also partly and largely to
double the efficiency of our navy—to
oe able to meet attack on either coast
with the same ships.
Our 42 fighting ships of the line
represent an investment of $150,000,-
000. Our total active investment in
the navy is probably about $400,000,-
000.
liy spending $300,000,000 or more on
the Panama canal we expect, among
other things, to double the value o£
this investment —to make the $400,-
000,000 worth $800,000,000 as a public
defense plant.
When we ean do this alone, and are
doing it, what is the sense of admit
ting partners merely to save $20,000,-
000?
It would be like a man able to have
a $5,000 automobile giving half his
ownership to save the price of axle
grease.
We admitted a European partner at
Panama once. Then we spent 40
years to get rid of him before build
ing the canal.
Why, then, reverse ourselves now?
Why duplicate the Clayton-Bulwer fol
ly by admitting all nations to part
nership where we resented the part
nership of one?— Chicago Inter Ocean.
Against Two Sets of Prices.
There is no great irritation when an
American manufacturer dumps an oc
casional surplus on the foreign market
at a reduced price. There is great
and just irritation when a highly pro
tected manufacturer makes a practice,
as in the case of cash registers, of
maintaining two sets of prices—a
moderate one for the foreigner and an
extortionate one for his own country
men. The American price for cash
registers seems to have been a reason
able foreign price plus the 45 per
cent. duty. Anything which congress
can do to lessen for the benefit of
Americans a glaring discrepancy in
prices will be applauded by the shop
keepers and other users of cash leg
isters. If the matter were left to them
they would unhesitatingly put cash
registers on the free list,—Chicago
Tribune.
IMPORTANT NEWS
NOTES OF A WEEK
LATEST HAPPENINGS THE WORLD
OVER TOLD IN ITEMIZED
FORM.
EVENTS HERE AND THERE
Condensed Into a Few Lines fcr the
Perusal of the Busy Man—
Latftst Personal Infor
mation.
WASHINGTON NEWS.
Democratic members of the house
made an unsuccessful attempt to kill
the provision in the urgency deficien
cy bill for $25,000 traveling expenses
for the president.
President Taft summoned Senator
Aldrich and Representative Payne to
the White House and declared the
tariff battle must be fought to a finish.
Ambassador Takahira is expected
to be succeeded at Washington by K.
Uchida, now stationed at Vienna.
Speaker Cannon refused to appoint
as a conferee on the tariff, Represen
tative Hill, who was chosen by Presi
dent Taft.
By a vote of 317 to 14, all of those
opposing being Republicans, the
house adopted a resolution submitting
the income question to state legisla
tures for a constitutional amendment.
President Taft officiated at the cere
monies attending the corner-stone lay
ing for the new Ingram Congrega
tional church in Washington.
Herbert Knox Smith, commissioner
of corporations, in a report to Presi
dent Taft, pointed out the lack of
unity in the waterway systems of the
United States.
PERSONAL.
Dr. von Bethmann-Hollweg was ap
pointed chancellor of Germany to suc
ceed Prince von Buelow.
Rev. Edward M. Dunne of Chicago,
newly-appointed bishop of Peoria,
took the oath of allegiance to the holy
see at Washington.
J. U. Sammis of Lemars, la., was
elected grand exalted ruler of the
Elks and Detroit was selected as the
meeting place of the grand lodge in
1910.
Gov. Johnson of Minnesota became
seriously ill in St. Paul and it was
feared another operation for appendi
citis would be necessary.
Edward Payson Weston, the vet
eran pedestrian, reached San Fran
cisco, five days behind his scheduled
time of 100 days on his walk from
New York.
William Jennings Bryan wrote a
letter to President Taft urging an
amendment providing for election of
United States senators by the people.
Mrs. Theodore Roosevelt is now in
Geona, Italy. She took a drive
through that city accompanied by her
sister. Miss Carow.
GENERAL NEWS.
The great historical pageant in
Bath, England, illustrating the long
history of that city, opened with a
very large attendance from the
I'nited Kingdom and other lands and
representatives of nearly every town
named Bath in the world.
The Photographers' Association of
America met in annual convention in
Rochester, N. Y., F. R. Barrows of
Boston presiding.
A two-days' meeting of the Retail
Shoe Dealers' association of Michigan
was held in Detroit.
Evelyn Nesbit Thaw testified at the
sanity hearing that her husband,
Harry K. Thaw, threatened to kill her
when released from the insane asy
lum.
Former President Roosevelt, writ
ing in the Outlook, said the American
multi-millionaire isn't a healthy devel
opment for the country.
Louis Rosenberg, a cigarmaker of
Cleveland, 0., was slain for his money
by Frank Elebra who committed sui
cide in the St. Clair Flats near Port
Huron, Mich. Samuel Frisbie, a third
Cleveland man, attempted suicide
after being arrested.
The packet of papers kept in a safe
ty deposit box by J. B. Sayler, the
Crescent City (111.) banker slain by
Dr. W. R. Miller, was opened by his
brothers and startling evidence
against the slayer was found.
A report in Paris, which is denied
by the lilt hers of both, said Duchess
de Chaulnes, formerly Theodora
Shonts, is to be married to Prince
Joachim Mtirat.
Following a day of fighting in
Teheran the shah of Persia sought
refuge in the Russian legation.
The Catholic Educational associa
tion decided to hold its 1910 conven
tion in Detroit, July 5, 6 and 7.
geventy-two guests at a private din
ner in Toledo, Spain, were poisoned
by ice cream.
Secretary Ballinger of the interior
department has arrived in Seattle on
his inspection of the government re
clamation projects and Indian agen
cies.
Persian rebels invaded Teheran, the
capital, and a fierce battle with the
shah's troops was begun.
Miss Stella May Dunn of Blooming
ton, 111., committed suicide by jump
in from the window of the Milwaukee
(Wis.) museum in view of hundreds of
of persons.
The Argentine Republic has or
dered its envoy to leave Bolivia unless
satisfaction is immediately given for
the attack on the legation at La Paz.
Anna Kaston, daughter of a farmer
at Bavaria, Wis., was killed by O. W.
Kinklesou, whom she had refused to
marry. Finkleson committed suicide.
A son wns born in Paris fo Princess
de Sagan, formerly Anna (iould, who
was divorced from Count de Castel
lane.
Plans are being made in Washing
ton and Mexico City for a meeting of
Presidents Taft and Diaz at El Paso.
Eleven of the crew of a British sub
marine were drowned when the war
vessel was sunk in collision with a
cargo steamer near Cromer, England.
Several villages were destroyed and,
It is reported, many persons were
killed by an earthquake in southern
Greece.
Reproductions of etchings of Wash
ington, Jefferson, Lincoln and Taft
are being sent to adoin the walls of
American embassies and legations
throughout the world.
Experiments are to be made with
the heliograph to ascertain its prac
ticability as a means of communica
tion for reporting fires in the nation
al forests.
Because his mother was partly Jap
anese and partly Chinese William
Knight, for 27 years in the navy and
awarded a medal for bravery in the
battle of Manila bay, was denied citi
zenship papers at New York.
In a riot of steel workers at Mc-
Kees Rock, near Pittsburg, 100 men
were injured, six of the strikers being
seriously wounded by shots from
rifles fired by deputy sheriffs and
guards.
Wyatt H. Ingram. Jr., trust officer
of the Hlberian Bank & Trust Com
pany of New Orleans was arrested
on a charge of embezzling SIOO,OOO.
According to Chinese of Denver the
Chinese government will render the
United States no aid in finding Leon
Ling, slayer of Elsie Sigel, who is be
ing protected by the Masons.
Former President Roosevelt and
his party, after an all-day walk across
an African desert, were forced togo
without water and suffered much
from thirst.
The body of Claude Hunt, who was
drowned in Klinger lake near Sturgis,
Mich., with Miss Mary Loretta Davey
of Chicago, was found by searchers.
"I'm going to pull off a little stunt
to-day," said Tim Thomas of Oshkosh,
Wis., as he took his suit of clothes
from a tailor and then went to a
boarding house in Aberdeen and com
mitted suicide.
Secretary of the Interior Ballinger
said at Seattle that he had not
clashed with Secretary Wilson, but
that he and Gifford Pinchot differ as
to the law on forest reservep
A report from Tokyo said Baron
Takahira, ambassador to the United
States from Japan, is to be succeeded
by K. Uchida, now at Vienna.
Mrs. William Olyphant of West
Branch, la., poisoned four of her chil
dren and herself, killing one of the
children.
it is probable that the Wright
brothers, because of accidents to
their aeroplane, will ask the govern
ment for a further extension of time
in which to complete their speed and
endurance trials.
The Northwestern Railroad Com
pany has made plans to build several
branches in the wheat regions of
South Dakota.
John D. Rockefeller has defeated
Innkeeper John Melin at Sleepy Hol
low, N. Y., and the latter will sell has
saloon. The oil king bought all the
land surrounding Melin's place and
installed abstaining tenants.
Naval officers at Annapolis say it
will be shown at the coming investi
gation of Lieut. Sutton's death that
he shot at another when he killed
himself.
War between the American Society
of Equity in Kentucky and the Burley
Tobacco society, over the 1909 pool,
is threatened.,
John W. Brown, believed to be from
Indianapolis, was killed by an automo
bile in Los Angeles.
Mrs. George Lynas, said to be from
Chicago, paid $525, a record price, for
Rob Roy 11., a Chinchilla Persian cat,
in London.
The Mississippi river reache-1 a
stage of 33.4 at St. Louis, being three
feet above the flood mark.
Thirty-five men invaded the foreign
quarter of Victor, Col., and attempted
to drive Hungarians away from their
work. One foreigner was dangerously
wounded in the fight.
Battling Nelson, champian light
weight pugilist of the world, was bad
ly beaten in a ten-round fight with
Ad Wolgast of Milwaukee at Los An
geles.
Orville Wright made two unsuccess
ful attempts to fly in his aeroplane at
Fort Myer and the machine was
broken again in falling to earth.
A letter written to a Bloomington
woman by Col. Tom Snell, the Clinton
(111.) millionaire whose will is being
attacked in court, showed him in the
role of the wooer and not the wooed.
Fithian, 111., was wrecked, Alton and
Venice were badly damaged, St. Louis
was swept and 20 mourners in a fun
eral procession near Hamilton, 0.,
were hurt, by cyclones.
The credentials committee of the
International Longshoremen's associa
tion, which began its seventeenth an
nual session in Galveston, announced
that Daniel J. Keefe, former presi
dent of the organization, but now fed
eral commissioner of immigration,
would be denied a seat iu the con
vention.
The sixth annual Glidden tour —a
reliability run to Kansas City by way
of Minneapolis and Denver —started in
Detroit with thirty machines in the
contest.
Fourteen members of the crew on
the steamer John B. Cowle lost their
lives when she was sunk in collision
with the Isaac M. Scott off White
fish Point. Lake Superior.
Prof. George A. Ferguson of Colum
bia university has reported, after an
expert chemical analysis, that Elsie
Sigel, who was murdered in the room
of Leon Ling, a New York ChinamaD,
was poisoned
SHAW OF PERSIA
IS DETHRONED
CROWN PRINCE, SULTAN AHMED
MIRZA PROCLAIMED RULER
BY NATIONAL BODY.
NEW SHAW YET IN MINORITY
Mohammed Ali Has Taken Refuge in
the Russian Summer Legation
at Zerzende —Quiet Reigns
Teheran.
Teheran. Persia. —Mohammed Ali,
shah of Persia, has been dethroned
and the crown prince, Sultan
Ahmed Mirza, proclaimed shah by the
national assembly, composed of the
chief mujtehids and the leaders of the
Nationalist forces, in the presence of
an immense crowd in Parliament,
square.
Mohammed Ali has taken refuge in
the Russian summer legation at Zer
zende, where he is under the protec
tion of detachments of cossacks and
sepoys despatched to Zerzende by the
Russian and British diplomatic repre
sentatives. The new shah is yet in
his minority and Azad U1 Mulk, head
of the Kajar family, has been appoint
ed regent. Sipahdar, one of the most
active leaders of the movement, has
taken office as minister of war and
governor of Teheran. Gen. Liakhoff,
through whose negotiations with the
Nationalists, the surrender was ef
fected, was escorted by mounted
Bakhtiari riflemen to the Parliament
building and was greeted with loud ap
plause by the people. He was in
formed that he might remain tempo
rarily in command of the cossacks.
The shops and private houses occu
pied by the shah's soldiers have been
plundered and the residence of the
manager of the Indo-European Tele
graph Co. has been looted but no other
homes of foreigners were invaded.
With the exception of desultory firing
by a handful of local Bakhtiaris in a
lane near the British legation, Tehe
ran is quiet. The townspeople are
taking quite calmly the sudden change
in rulers, while the Nationalists are
resting after four days of incessant
fighting in the streets of a strange
town. Russian and British legation
guards are stationed at the Russian
summer legation, where the shah has
sought safety.
PRESIDENT SHOWS HIS HAND
Says Republican Party Is Committed
to Downward Revision of Tariff—
Will Stand by His Promise.
Washington, D. C.—All doubt as
to where President Taft stands with
regard to the downward revision of
the tariff was swept away when a
statement was given out at the White
House setting forth in detail what
the president had to say to 23 Repub
lican members of congress who called
to protest against putting raw mate
rials on the free list.
The president in this statement de
clares that the Republican party is
committed tp downward revision;
that he has never had any other idea
of the Chicago platform, and that he
personally has promised a downward
revision to the people. This state
ment is interpreted in some quarters
here as a direct notification to the
conferees on the tariff bill that if the
measure they finally agree upon does
not constitute a material reduction in
specific duties the president will exer
cise his power of veto.
Dictated in the third person, the
statement concludes with this final
word 'of the president's attitude as
outlined to his callers: "He felt
strongly the call of the country for a
downward revision within the limits
of the protective principle, and he
hoped to be able to respond to that
call as he heard it. as well in the in
terests of the party as of the coun
try."
MORE LABOR NOW EMPLOYED
General Business Situation of the
Country Improved—Rates for
Loans Nominally Low.
New York City.—R. G. Dun & Co.'s
Weekly Review of Trade says:
Each succeeding week has now be
come a record of advancing activity
in industry and commerce. The ex
traordinary expansion in the iron and
steel trade continues and whereas a
short time ago the problem was how
to find business now the problem is
becoming that of meeting orders with
adequate dispatch. The general busi
ness situation is improved by the pro
gress made in the work of tariff revi
sion. In view of the widening area
of industrial activity, the better em
ployment of labor and the higher
prices for commodities, the fact that
the supply of banking credits in the
leading financial centers continues
large, with rates for loans generally
low, is significant of the reserve pow
er for further expansion.
Teddy Kills Hippopotamus.
Naivasha, British East Africa.—Ex-
President Roosevelt, who is at
present hunting on the south shore of
Lake Naivasha, from the ranch of
Capt. Richard Attenborough, has suc
ceeded in bringing down a big hippo
potamus. The animal is estimated to
weight three tons.
Two Bathers Drowned.
Port Huron, Mich.— Miss Daisy
Brace of Boston, Mass., and her sister,
Bertham of Sarnia, Ont„ were drown
ed while bathing in the St. Clair river.