TRUMAN H NEWBERRY ARsistant Secretary of the Navy) work, as the assistant secretary in immediate contact with the of the navy department “Mr. Darling has served under four it long, Moody, Morton Bonaparte. He served a great } of his term as acting secretary the navy and while at the head of department successfully handled a reat many delicate questions. Being | MMwyer a great many matters were 0 Mr. Darling which bad before pertained to the duties of Mr. Darling was acting secretary of iL BAYY at the time of the revolt of be Panamans against the Colombian government, when, after conferences th the president and the late Sec Hay, he ordered the erulser = on to Panama. Mr. Darling will "30 fo bis home in Vermont to rest before entering his new office. 'S OLDEST VEHICLE Muxiean Carreta Buppesed to Over 900 Years 0ld—On Ex- in the chamber of oom: _imerce, Los Angeles. It is supposed to be more than 200 years old aad ; ts the earliest primitive eof- rts of the untutored Pueblo Indians “This ancient ox-eart was first discov- | In 1878, in the possession of San a Pueblo Indian, who resided the village of Tesuque, nine miles Sabla Fe, the capital of New tien. Alfonso, then 85 years old, been converted te Christianity sufficient Intelligence to as Bt In tracing the history of the ve It was In the possession of his BO a hundred years The ‘workmanship is crude and not a plece M Iron is used in its make-up: but as .gonstrueted it Is strong and shows con- rable ingenuity. The body of the a Is composed of ecttonwood, and AT CARRETA QQ ped by Untutored ne) *« in length is a Bi mesquite A cross sec- PUT sycamore was used in making hee and even now they are } strong that a great weight could be iained In a haul over smooth roads The long tongue extends beyond the axle and helps to form a support for @ wagon-bed. Ozen were hitched to topgue by means of rawhide £ Thousands view the carreta iy, and, no doubt, think it a afer, though slower, means of travel than the 60-mile-an-bour automobile. New Theory of Gravity. Gravitation fs explained by the new pry of W. A. Nippoldt as due to the pu of matier having the temuity assigned to the ether All Fis In motion, and the smaller RSsTegalian the Staster 1s the maz. um ve y. Open space contains minute particles in rapid mo- “all directions. The particles i enough tc pass between the of ordinary bodies, and ney or reflected in proportion ‘mass of the body bombarded. #8 In space shield each other side, being thus apparently at. ied The greatest beneficiary of the canal will be the people of the United States, 80 that the Panama canal will bb es- sentially an American canal except that until our navigation laws are either Increased or decreased (be nations, writes Willlam Barclay Par. sons, in Century. From north Euro- pean ports to India China and Japan the distance by either Sues or Panama will be substantially the same; and therefore vessels will probably con- tinue to use the established trade joute, except In the case of very large ships that cannot pass over the re stricted depth of the Suez canal which I!mits them to a draft of 28 feet. From Great Britain and Germany to Australia and New Zealand there will be a saving in distance of about 1500 miles over Suez—sufficient, probably, to be a de- termining factor For American trade the shortening will be all-important From New York to Manila the dif- ference is small; but to Yokohama it amounts to 3,729 nautical miles; to Shanghai, 1,629 miles; and, as against the route via the Straits of Magellan, to Callao. 6343 miles; and to San Francisco, 7.640 miles. It will bring the grain fields of the northwestern Pa- cific states 6000 miles nearer Liver- pool, and It will bring the iron and coal of the gulf states shipped from New Orleans and Pensacola 9.500 miles uearer San Francisco, giving to the former a new great market pot now cpen, and to the latter a cheap supply ol raw materials of manufacturing. In the past the great bulk of our foreign tirade bas been with Europe. Great as Is the trans-Atlantic trade, the trans- Pacific presents greater possibil- ities. On the far shores of this ocean there are 400,000 000 persons eager to do business and rapidly awakening to an appreciation of the benefits of foreign commerce. Of these people 8 000000, or as many as the population of all the 20 states west of the Mississippl and Missouri rivers, excepting Kansas Mis. souri and Texas are If not American citizens, at least under American pro- tection and control. The value of an- nual imports and exports to and from the far east from the port of New York alone amounts to almost §200,000,000, and it ls capable of being much de- veloped by improved facilities The Panama canal will be second only to the transcontinental rallways in developing American trade, both In- ternal and foreign. It has been an- pounced that the American govern- ment is to give all nations equal terms and equal rights and to levy toll without regard to commercial profit. Such a course In bringing nearer the ends of the earth and draw- ing closer the peoples thereof, is the greatest promise of universal peace, and a long step toward the time when dis- putes between nations, like those be- tween individuals, will be adjusted without oy appeal to arms Women in Banking. On a capital stock of $5,000 the Bank of Joplin, in Missouri, reports $250,000 in surplus funds, deposits, $476579,; interest and exchange, $5311 The tank's cashier, assistant cashier and three bookkeepers are women In the state of lows, states the New York World, are at present 14 women bank cashiers and 15 women assistant cash- lors Two-thirds of these officials started as bookkeepers. No lowa bank directed by a woman has ever [alled, end no woman placed In a bank posi twn of trust has proved unfaithful And this Io a state which has seen 36 tank fallures in five years, leading te six suicides apd six convictions in the crimipal courts It has been sald that io the small things of life—par- ticularly lo trifling social emergencies —wotnhen are more readily dishonest than men Bo far as the evidence of two states goes, the ratio of reliability in large fAduciary affairs seems 0 turn the other way The returns from lowa and Missouri should pot be lost upon depositors and policy holders elsewhere. It may be necessary to de mand for the commegy good that bank- ing and !nsurance affairs in general shall pass to the control of the safer sox Gen. Jose Miguel Gomez, chief op- ponent of President Palma and now ing taken up his residence In this country, is a short, rather stout, swarthy man with a quiet face and contemplative eye the United States he was governor of Santa Clare province that annexation to this country would be preferable to the Palma dynasly Gen. Gomes Is a soldier with an en Cuban by birth and possessed of a long heritage of enmity toward Spain was sitting io a poker game dropped dead upon discovering that he held a royal flush. Some men are so unlucky that they cant win no matter what cards they hold The vesirymen of oid Trinity church, on Broadway opposite Wall street, New York, recently refused $3,000,000 for the site, which was want- The city of Pertamoulh is the only one | in New England, it is believed, that stil : inaintains a liberty pole At that place, once known as Swing Bridge. on January 9, 1766, the first “no- stamp” flag was raised In what ls now the United States Io 1731 the town gave certain persons permission to build across the mouth of the cove, which in later years was known as Puddle dock, a bridge which it was specified should be provided with a holst or draw to aliow the passage of vessels into and out of the cove Judging by the name given to the bridge, the draw must have been putin to swing sideways. There ls no record, #0 far as known. as to when Swing bridge ceased to be a drawbridge. Swing bridge came into prominence on January 9 1766, and on that date the pame was changed to Liberty ULridge. On that day a large pumber of the people of the town headed by Capt Thomas Manning, John Davenport, George Gains and others went to the pouse of George Meserve on Vaughan street, and demanded his commisison as stamp agent for New Hampshire, just | received by him from England. Mr. Meserve, who had some Ume pre- viously declined to accept the position, gave up the document, which was borne | aloft on the point of a sword at the head | of a procession of townspeople to Swing bridge Accounts as to what was done there | with the document differ. one being that | ft was burned amid tumultuous rejole- | EAGLE AND CAF, AND SHIELD OF LIBERTY POLE AT PORTSMOUTH ing and deflant shouts, another story being that it was torn to fragments and the pleces cast on the surface of the Piscataqua river at ebb tide, so that they might be carried tw Lhe ocean and wafted across to England to let the king gee bow the people of Portsmouth regarded his scheme for taxing the colo- nies Another and later account of the dis- position made of the document Is that the leaders oo this occasion, after ma ture deliberation, decided that their ac~ tion would be more lmpressive on the crown. if. instead of destroying it, they should return it to the power that is- sued it. which later was done, through the mediumship of a shipmaster who was sworn as a special messenger to George In the procession to the bridge was carried a flag bearing the motto, “Lib- erty, Property and No Stamp.” After a lofty liberty pole bad been erected near the bridge the work of but a short time by these hardy men many of whom were experts in the handling of heavy spars, the flag was hoisted to its Lop, and Swing bridge was renamed Liberty bridge, a pame itstili retains It bas been claimed, and never disput. ed as far as known, that this was the first erected of the many liberty poles that were set up in different New Eng- breaking out of the revolutionary war A pew pole bearing a shield with the motto of the first fag, “Erected July 4, 1524 in Commemoration of July 4, 1776, that Declared Our Emancipation from Tyranny aud Gave Us the Privileges of Freemen,” stands on the same spot a8 the original one, having been erected {n 1899 and formally dedicated with an fnvocation, music and an address by Hoo. Calvin Page, the mayor of the city. The pole took the place of one that was dedicated July 4, 1524, and which though taken down and repaired as ef- so weakened by age and decay as to be regarded as unsafe The original pole was removed to make room for this one of 1824 and the by a liberty pole since the first one was put there by the “sons of lberty,” | long before the revolution, seeilis am assured fact The subscription list for the pole of | 1524, the repairs of 1872, the pole of 1899, | and the flags that have at different times been provided are in possession of the “custodian of the flag” who, op the day of the funeral of any sub- gcriber to the funds, displays the flag 'at half-mast. On all holidays and | special occasions worthy of the honor, he files the same at the lofty masthead. That a liberty pole has had a contin- | | yous existence (n this town and city | the citizens point to with pride | p———— A Predicament. {. A British army officer In India was wakened one morning by feeling the tive servant of a brother officer pull | g at his foot. “Sahib” whispered | the man, “sabib, whit am | to do? | My master told me (0 wake him at “Eve” sald Adam, “this tastes clously like a cold storage egg.” “If that isn't just like a man!” In dignantly exclaimed his fair spouse “That is the first egg laid by the firs! lcackling over IL” From which it will be seen that Eve took no stock in the evolutionary the ry of creation now so generally ao cepted. —Chicago Tribune. | His Complaint. “1 s'pose,” growled the old farmer, “them air autymobeels iz entitled balf th’ road, ain't they?” “Of course they are, Uncle Hiram" Ireplied the village squire } “Yaas, | spose 80,” continued the old man, “but I don't ‘low ex the've got enny right t' take their half out juy the middle, by grass'”"—Chicage Daily News Both Were Careful “Tommy Twaddles!"” “What, ma?” “What do you mean by using such ‘language? You never bear your father talking so.” “No. you bet I don't. And he'll never hear me usin’ it, either, if | can help IL" —Cleveland Leader Hany of the West Stumped. Henry Clay md just announced he dent “United States, ance?’ we inquired Being unable to specify his declar ation naturally lost much of Its weight -N_Y. Bun ~ Ignorant Bacon—He looks intelligent Egbert— Well, let me tell you he's about as Ignorant as man as yoy, cap find. ' “You surprise me. Are you sure?’ “Certainly, I'm sure. Why, he's an insurance company director!”"—Yonk ers Statesman college, * or !nsur A Bwell Affair. day party last week,” sald Tommy “That must have been nice’ replied ‘his teacher. | “Yes, it was awful swell He was comin’ dowm with the mumps, ‘and nearly everybody caught ‘em.”—Chi cago Record-Herald | An Outing in the Fall Ella—Fred and | are to have a fall outing Stella—You mean a falling oat, don’t you? Ella—Not necessarily; we are 10 be married in October and are going oo our wedding trip —Judge Undoubtedly Her—What a pity It 1s that womebd cannot do the proposing instead of the men Him — What would be the result? Her—Fewer engagements and more marriages, 1 imagine —Chicago Dally News Usually. “Papa, is a philanthrople woman a woman who contributes to all the char ities?” “No. son; as a usual thing a philan thropic woman is a woman who gets her neighbors to contribute to all the charities.” — Houston Post Just Like Ma's. Mrs Newlywed—Well, Hefry, how do you like my ples? Mr. Newiywed—Dearest, they are just like the ples that my father used to say were not like his mother used to make! Life Sufficient Reason. Roomerton—Guess I'll have to give | up boarding Flatleigh -Golug to get married? Roomerton—No, but my landlady wants her money —Chicago Dally News The Nursery Rhyme. Jack Spratt could eat no fat, His wife no jean, they sa) $0 they were wise to compromise On predigesied hay —loulavilie Courler-Journal TAKING NO RISKS She (having just sald "Yes" )—You'l go and ask papa’s permission to-mor jrow, won't you? He—Oh—e¢r—ye-es-€¢s. By the way he your father on the telephone? An Autumn Wizard. King Midas is no myth [I hold, But walks the earth a wizard bold Lastnightmy mapie 8 eaves Were grees As any in yon viny screen; And now —each one is turned to gold! King Midas is no myth, I held ~Judge Two Birds. Vietim—Wow! Help! Chauffeur— Hey, while you're under there | wish you'd just Jook and see L Ithe jigamarig is broken —N. Y. Sun. * Crab-Shall Barometer. The inhabitants of southern Chill are sald to foretell the weather by means of a strange barometer. IL consists 0) the cast-off shell of a crab. The dead indicating the apgroach of a moist at This Is not the first time that a large sum has been offerad for the property, but the vestrymen staddfastly turn such prospects, V Appropriate i “Why did you send an anchor fos your uncle's funeral?’ ! “As an emblem of hope—the wil hadn't been read ye! "Life. , red spots, as the moisture in the alr increases it becomes entirely red and remains 80 throughout the rainy sea son. New Machine Gun. to overflowing and our bank account correspondingly low. offer the following uncommon inducements : Dinner Sets Who wouldn't enjoy their Thanksgiving or Xmas dinner one hundred fold if served in beautiful new china. You can buy your turkey too with what you save at this sale. Reg. Pr. Sale Pr. Four 100-piece dinner sets, the very best English Royal Semi- Porcelain Johnson Bros. make $17 00 $12 08 Two 100-picce dinner sets, Amer- ican China, one white with gilt trimmings, one white with’ flower decorations. Very pret- oration. Two 100-piece dinner sets, Amer ican China, blue and white. . Special one 100-piece dinner set, American make, green and white. To close out stock pat. Two 100-piece dinner sets, Amer- ican make, blue and white, green and white One 112-piece dinner set, plain white, American make. ..... One stock pattern, not a full set, white, with pink flower decor ation. Vary pretty. Odd pieces closed out at most any price. One B6-piece toa set, pink and white decoration globes at When you come to take advantage of this sale keep an eye open which are daily arriving. Bring the children. delivered free of charge. GREGG'S RACKET Toilet Sets Knock Down Prices. Lamps Wrappers A little too expensive for us to cost. for our Xmas novelties and toys STORE LENIGN AND SCRANTON HOOTRGHESTRA COAL Sttictly Up-to-Date Music ee At the Lowest Possible Prices. for Halls, Parties and all Jake of Soo | ial Functions, either public or private.! Opders Any number pieces desired will be fur- | Biore, 33 hm bo Yet » ¥ 1 Sues Deng iy ed. Call Valley Record for terms, | yards at fayr, Valley Phone 37m. eto. § ——| COLEMAN HASSLER, JOHN ©. PEGKALLY, i= “TowNER, M.D. Specialties, | Diseases of Women and of the pam, Ee Mr | CF Attorney-at-Law Notary Public fpecial attention to Pension Papers, Valley Phooe 11 X, 111 Dewmond Breet, w
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