THE ADMIRAL’S LAST VOYAGE.
Iam that Christopher that knew no rest,
Urged by one thought, one faith, one
hope to be;
OBris beaver? Aye! I bore Him to the
est,
Beyond the Unknown Sea.
There was a dav the cannons of the fort
Echoed the shouting’ and the loud ac-
claim,
When the long walls of Palos and the
ort
Resounded with my name.
That was the day the vision of my youth
I saw acknowledged among actual
things.
What says the Scripture? “He who
speaks the truth
Shall gain the love of kings.”
I spoke the truth; I proved it; that great
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I justified. She praised me. What re-
mains?
The memory of darkness that hath been,
And bitterness, and chains.
Those lonely days—ye came not to me
the
Who so deserted, so distressed as I?
Ye sought me not, yet now, good gentle-
men,
Ye come to see me die.
I found a world! As though one grasped
a star, :
Presumptuous, to gather only pain!
,. well! Salute, before he sails afar,
The Admiral of Spain.
My fair new land shall yield you spice
and silk,
Pearl of the sea, and treasure of the
mine;
A goodly land of honey and of milk,
Aye, and of oil and wine.
Men of my race and yours shall call it
ome,
Remembering me, and this shall be my
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That little children there in years to come
Shall reverence my name.
The waves are high before my vessel's
row;
prow;
Once more I go to seek a land unknown,
The Lord of earth and ocean grants me
now
This one last voyage alone.
My bed is drifting like a bark at sea;
Look you, where yonder two white an-
gels
s stand,
The land birds of the Lord, to prove to
me
The shore is nigh at hand.
This world’s an island. Nought we have
to leave
‘Who thought ourselves so rich while we
did live—
“Into thy hands, O Lord!’ Thou wih
receive 3
The spirit Thou didst give!
—Mary Eleanor Roberts, in St. Nicholas.
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" This all happened when grandfather
was a little boy—long, long ago, as he
told me the story himself, however, as
he sat in a deep armchair by the glow-
ing fire on a winter’s night when the
buzz of the great city was dying down
and the top of the policeman’s club on
the pavement outside made me, at
least, feel very safe and thankful.
‘When grandfather was a boy he
lived on the frontier, and he was the
She raised her head and called
coo!” There was no reply.
“Perhaps he is Brindle!” she smiled,
and she called loudly, “moo-moo!” but
no friendly little voice replied. Then a
terrible fear came in mother’s eyes.
She ran to the pasture and shouted:
“Here, Nimble Foot! Nimble Foot[”
The horse never failed before to come
trotting up, but now he came not!
Mother's face went white as death.
She flungs her arms up wildly and
called for father, but he was far, far
away, and in all the empty world there
was no one to help or comfort her.
Just then, from out of the shadow of
the woodpile Black Feather presented
himself. For a moment the old dis-
trust mother felt for the boy rose to
the surface, but she dared not show
it.
“John!” she gasped. ‘He is gone!”
The dark face never flinched.
“He go—where?” asked tde
voice.
“I am afraid the Indians have taken
him!”
Black Feather looked quickly on the
ground. Mother had not thought of
that, but sure enough the soft earth
showed the marks of many feet and
the story was plain.
“Oh!” wailed mother, and reeled as
she stood.
“Give me horse!” commanded Black
Feather. “I go find—boy.” Then, be-
cause he did not know of Nimble’s dis-
appearance mother began to trust
Black Feather a little.
“The horse is gone, too!” she sobbed.
Just for an instant a quiver passcd
over the Indian boy’s face.
“lI go—by myself!” he grunted, and
away he ran.
And now we must go to John and
consider how he had fared.
He had thought how few things he
had and how many he wanted. Then
he began to think it was time he stak-
ed himself out and played he was Brin-
dle for awhile. This he did and began
to make believe to nibble the grass.
Just then, way off across the pasture
he saw—oh, how his heart jumped!—
he saw four big Indians on horseback,
and they were after Nimble Foot. As
he stood tied to his stake John saw
the red men try to lasso the beauti-
ful white horse, but he was on guard,
and trotted at full speed toward the
house.
John untied himself and with no
thought of personal danger ran toward
his beloved Nimble. The Indians saw
the boy and galloped up to him. Nimble
took fright and ran in another direc-
toin. But the Indians caught the boy!
“Now,” grunted one big fellow, “you
—call—your—horse!”
John stood mute.
“You call!” cried another, and lashed
the poor child mercilessly. ‘In an in-
stant John decided what to do. He
would call Nimble, he must obey, but
calm
loneliest little boy I ever heard of. Just
think; he did not have a single play-
mate, and he never owned a toy except
those he fashioned with his own hands!
Of course he had a bow and arrow,
and he had a feather headdress that a
friendly Indian had given him, but
they were not exactly playthings. I
have sajd that he had no playmates;
that is hardly true, for he had Nimble
Foot, the white horse, who had been
born and brought up on the ranch, and
he had Brindle, the cow, who was
“staked out’ in a new place so often,
and ate everything within range of her
rope in a really alarming fashion;
and then sometimes—not often, but
sometimes, when times were hard—
Black Feather, an Indian boy, crept up
to the big house where grandfather
lived, and begged food of the mother,
and told weird tales that chilled the
blood of little grandfather as he sat
and listened. Black Feather did not
belong to the friendly Indians and the
mother was afraid of him. She always
thought that he came to spy on them.
But she gave him food and tried to be-
friend him because her heart was good
and true. Now, grandfather, whose
only because he was young and com-
panionable, but because he believed in
him and trusted him with all the de-
votion of his lonely boyhood. He
used to watch for the coming of the
Indian and sighed when the months
passed without a visit.
John used to resort to all sorts of
plays to fill his days. He was an In-
dian, a trapper, or a missionary, as the
mood seized him, and sometimes he
would don his mother’s gown and play
he was a brave woman defending a
large family as he was sure his mother
would defend him.
plays ceased to interest him he would
tie a rope to his waist, and he would
tie the other end to a peg in the
ground and then he would make be-
lieve he was the cow, Brindle, “staked | t
out.” To be sc confined made him
‘realize how jolly it was to be a free boy | to his friend, whom he trusted.
with father and mother to talk to.
Then weculd John release himself and
be glad that he was not a cow; and
s0 he would begin the old games zizain
and fear.
serted spot where once had stood a log
house. But the Indians had razed and
burned it long ago.
was stiil
the four Indians halted and dismount-
ed. From their talk John soon learned
that they were to remain there over-
night and be joined in the mornng by
another party that had gone to steal
name is John, liked Black Feather, not | in another direction. Nimble was tied
to a stake.
evening meal prepared.
very hungry, for they had ridden all
day without food. Full of fear as he
was, he ate and later stretched him-
self under the stars and fell asleep.
roused him? He heard Nimble stirring
nearby.
boy crept over toward the white horse,
When all these | for the sound carie from there.
He had heard the old call and he used
it to good purpose row.
Black Feaiher's voice.
but if they carried him off, somehow he.
and Nimble would run away and get
back home. It would be easier with
Nimble than without him. So John
called clearly, and when the horse
heard the dear old tones he trotted up
promptly. It was strange, but as long
as little master was there it must be
right. Nimble neighed softly, and,
coming’ close to John, stood quite still.
Then quickly and silently, a biz Indian
secured Nimble, and, jumping on his
back with John in his arms, darted off,
leading his own horse and followed
by his mates.
John knew that no cry would help
him, so he lay very still, while his
poor heart almost broke with sorrow
Over the plains they flew to a de-
The wood pile
standing, and behind that
A fire was built and the
John was
Suddenly he awoke. What had
Could it have been that?
“Co00-c00,” came softly.
“Oh! Is that you, father? Mother?”
John jumped up.
“Coo-c00!”’ again it came. Then the
Behind Nimble stood Black Feather!
“Take you—your horse!” whispered
he Indian, ‘“and—go!”’
“And you?” breathed John, faithful
“I make fight—I scare—Injuns!”
It almost seemed a joke, so jolly was
John took Nimble's halter and then
with renewed vigor.
Nimble Foct was a great joy. That
horse was 2lmost human in his love
and gen!leness, and yet he was as swift
as the wind and as strong as a horse
well could te.
“Some day the Indians will coma af-
ter that horse,” father used to say,
with fear in his eyes; “there isn’t an- | S
other horse like him cn the plains.”
“Then I'll go alter kim!” John would
say, valiantly, and mother would shud-
der and cry: “Ob, John, remember you |
must never :
‘coo-coo’ will
must always
me.”
“pr:
r
answer back ‘coo-cog’
if! am Bri
he saw that the Indian boy had a gun
and was runing toward the blackened
with a cry, “Fone! home, good horse!”
he lay fiat upon the animal’s back and
buried his face in the soft mane,
to life behind the wood pile. They saw
Nimble disappearing in the moonlight,
and they fired a few wild shots; but
{ the Indians, evidently thinking a res-
uin of the loz house.
Jehan sprang on Nimble's back, and
Just then a shot rang out on the |
till night and the four Indians started |
gain and again answeiing shots came
om behind the ruined log house, and
had come after John, was
his retreat, and would later
“co0-
washes, scrubs and dces the marketing
to do is to furnich.the money to pay
the bills. Mrs. Bilkey does the rest.—
Chicago News.
white haired old gentleman who had
come down from some northern port
was seated at dinner, when he sud-
denly became greatly excited. A let-
ter had been brought him by a solemn-
faced Chinese butler
something on the outside of this let-
ter which sent him downstairs two
steps at a time to interview the hall
porter. When he came back he told
what was the matter. The hall porter
he and Nimble received!
peared and asked for bread.
of his part in the rescue.
adoring John, then wandered away
across the plain, looking much the
same as any other Indian.—Washing-
ton Star. :
MRS. BILKEY.
A Masterful Woman with an Inclina-
tion to Work. :
superior woman. Her superiority is of
twilled variety, which leaves no doubt
in any one’s mind—especially the mind
of Bilkey—of the genuineness of the
brand. 3
I know all this because Bilkey hands
me a bulletin on the subject every time
we meet.
Mrs. Bilkey is the personification of
the virtuous woman spoken of by King
Lemuel, who knew all about it, be-
cause his mother told him.
Mrs. Bilkey has done Bilkey good
and not evil every day of his life from
the day he took her to his home until
the present time. “She seeketh wool
and flax”—at the bargain counters,
probably—‘‘and worketh willingly with
her hands,” and all the rest of it, even
to her husband’s being known in the
gates where he sitteth among the eld-
ers of the land; for Bilkey has a weak-
ness for hanging around the hotel ro-
tunda and smoking cigars with the
elders until exceedingly late. Mean-
while Mrs. Bilkey, following out King
Lemuel’s ideal, rises up while it is yet
night to provide meat for her house-
hold and meets Bilkey on the landing
on his way to bed. :
Bilkey says that of a Sunday after-
noon, if the thermometer is in the
neighborhood of zero, Mrs. Bilkey sug-
gests going out to call on one of her
girl friends who lives “oh, just a little
way from here.”
When she reaches the sidewalk she
is undecided as to just which direction
to take, but finally decides in favor of
going west, because the wind is blow-
ing from that direction.
“Don’t you know where this friend
of yours lives?” Bilkey asks.
“Well,” his wife answers, “I know
the house. I was there two years ago
with Sister Bertha, and it is a brown
house facing south about the middle
of the block.”
“Which block?” Bilkey asks.
“I don’t just recall the block,” re-
turns Mrs. Bilkey, “but I'll know when
I see it, I'm sure.”
“What street?” asks Bilkey.
Well, she doesn’t know that or the
number. She isn’t quite sure whether
it is south of Sixty-ninth street or north
of Sixty-seventh street, but she will
know the general neighborhood if she
sees it. On being asked if she recalls
the name of the friend who is about
to be visited, Mrs. Bilkey grows indig-
nant. Of course she knows that. She
isn’t so silly as to forget. the name
when they went to school together.
Her name is Minnie Purvis, but she’s
married now, and for the life of her
Mrs. Bilkey can’t quite recall her mar-
ried name. It is something with a Me
whether it is Connell or Cormick she
can’t remember, but it’s either McFar-
land or McEllicott, she is sure.
Then after they have walked ten or
fifteen miles Mrs. Bilkey actually finds
the people they are looking for, though
Bilkey is unable to tell how she does
it, since the name is Cooley and has no
Mc to it at all and the Cooleys have
moved twice since Mrs. Bilkey saw
them last. Bilkey says she has done
this no less than three times. In fact,
she rarely knows the street number
that she is aiming for, but plods bland-
ly along and seldom has to ring more
than twenty or twenty-five doorbells
before she strikes the right one.
Bilkey says that Mrs. Bilkey has a
deepseated conviction that he is total-
ly unfit to manage the smallest detail
of life. He never can induce her to
Zive any consideration to the question
as to how he managed to get along be-
fore she took up the reins of:govern-
ment.
He says if he starts on any job such
as laying a carpet or putting up a win-
dow screen, she hovers about and sug-
gests and advises and finally finishes
the work herself. She will not keep a
girl, but bakes, cooks, sweeps, dusts,
paints the woodwork, dresses the chil-
dren, feeds the chickens, mows the
lawn in summer, shovels the snow
from the walk in winter and keeps
everything in such immaculate order
and so painfully clean that Bilkey feels
he is doing her a personal injury every
time he walks across the kitchen floor.
Bilkey says he is the happiest man in
seven States—does not have a care in
life. The whole thing is planned, cut
out and basted for him and all he has
Fcr the Old Baboon.
In the Erglish elub at Hong-Kong a
and he saw
ck of his fast-flying |
as he saw the
the opposite di-
And John
ng to
haste.
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Chinese for the information of the but-
white fur.” Unfortunately for the hall
rad inscribed on the envelope in
John reached home before daylight |
and you can imagine what a welcome
He ate ‘a,
good meal and told a few fine stories to
'
out.
postmasters of Pennsylvania will get
vear.
sonburg. has been elected city super-
WOMAN’S ASSAILANT KILLED
f
| In Ante-Mortem Statement
| Implicates Pittsburg Black
Hand Agency.
Punxsutawney.—Although -.one
foreigners secured $450 from Mrs
the dyed-in-the-wool, two-ply, double- | James Rico, after a Jha Teseived
: wife of a boarding boss at Chambers. |
| a bullet wound.
| ville, eight miles south of here.
statement implicated a
at large.
Frank Maraco, Mike Rossi and an
unknown fereigner, said to be from
Pittsburg, late at night went to the
Rico boarding house, where Rossi was
a boarder. Rico was asleep, but his
wife went to the door, when the man
seized her and demanded money. She
protested, but Rossi, knowing she
kept all her money on her person, is
sald to have attacked the woman. Be-
fore the money was taken one of the
men shot Mrs. Rizo through the
shoulder. .
Rico, hearing the shot, burst through
the door one of the men had locked,
and fired twice, both bullets hitting
Moraco. At the hospital here, Mora-
co said the unknown foreigner was a
Black Hand agent from Pittsburg,
and arriving here had hired the two
other men to assist in the robbery.
CARS BLOWN UP.
Rioting Is. Renewed at Chester and
Policemen Draw Guns on the
Crowd.
Chester.—The disord -r that has mark-
ed the strike of the Chester Traction
Company employes for several weeks
was renewed on the night of June 2,
when three of the company’s trolley
cars were blown up by dynamite. Two
cars were wrecked, and the other was
blown to pieces. There were no pas-
sengers on it. There were two pas-
Sengers on one of the other cars, but
neither was hurt.
The crews of the cars fied across
the fields to escape the strike sym-
pathizers. While on their way to the
scene, several deputy sheriffs were
attacked by followers of the strikers.
They were compelled to draw revol-
vers to drive off the mob until rein-
forced by a squad of 30 officers.
ERIE FOUNDRY BURNED
Every Fire Engine in City Is Pressed
Into Service—Other Build-
ings Threatened.
Erie.—The Erie foundry, one of the
largest institutions of its kind, went
up In smoke incurring a loss of nearly
$200,000. The origin of the fire is
not known.
Every piece of fire apparatus in the
city was pressed into service, and it
was more than two hours before the
flames were gotten under control.
The Burke Electric Company plant
and ‘the’ Ball, engine works narrowly
escape destruction.
COAL BUSINESS BOOMS
In Irwin-Greensburg Field 50,000 More
Miners Are Working.
Irwin.—June finds the coal business
in the Irwin-Greensburg field in good
condition. The big concerns say or-
ders are coming in in a satisfactory
way, and the outlook for a continuance
is bright. The Westmoreland and
Penn Coal Company of Greensburg, is
running all its mines, while the
United States Coal Company at Edna,
is running its mines up to capacity,
with three months’ orders ahead.
Altogether, 5,000 more men are em-
ployed in the field than were at work
a month ago.
RECOVER HEAVY DAMAGES
PENNSYLVANIA
Two days later Black Feather ap-;
Not a
word could the family get him to say
Interesting Items from All Sections of
the Keystone State.
Robber
of |
My friend Bilkey has married a very; their number was fatally shot, three
The dead man, whose ante-mortem
Pittsburg
: Black Hand agency, is in a morgue
here, while the two other robbers are
| Harry Dull, 57 years old, drank car-
SPEAKS AT GETTYSBURG
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| Senator Knox- Orator at Memorial
| Service in Cemetery on
Battlefield.
| Gettysburg.—United States Senator
| Knox was the orator at the Memorial
| gov exercises in the national ceme-
‘| tery on Cemetery ridge, where so
| many heroes of the battle of Gettys-
| burg are buried.
The weather was beautiful and an
unusually large crowd attended the
exercises and participated in decorat-
ing «the graves of the soldiers. A
| parade preceded the exercises.
NEW STATE CORPORATIONS
Dock Company and Other Enterprises
Chartered at Harrisburg.
Harrisburg.-~Among the charters
issued June 1 were the following: Mo-
nongahela Tie and Lumber Company,
Brownsville, capital $50,000: Mercer
Gil and Gas Company, capital $10,
000; Mills and Ulysses Telephone
Company, Mills, Potter county, capital
$5,000; Hazelwood Dock Company,
Pittsburg, capital $5,000; Harmony
Hardware Company, Harmony, capi-
ta] $20,000; Windber Heating Compa-
ny, Windber, capital $20,000; North-
ern Pennsylvania Power Company,
Athens, Bradford county; capital $5,-
000; Mutual Provision and Packing
Company, Pittsburg, capital $5,000.
FOOTPRINTS SHOW ARSON
Stocking Marks in Clay Lead to At
tocona Boy's Arrest.
Altoona.—Finding vrints of stock:
ing feet in the soft clay leading from
the home of Ira J. Demaree, where the
| second attempt had been made to
| set it on fire Saturday night, the po-
[tice followed them, and arrested John
Utzinger, aged 19, for arson.
When they removed his shoes his
stockings were marked with clay.
Then Utzinger was “sweated” and
confessed. He is said to be weak-
minded, the result of a fall from a
wagon when a child.
CONDUCTOR COMMITS SUICIDE
|
| Drinks Carbolic Acid With Belief
| That Life Insurance Will
Lift Mortgage.
| ~ Connellsville—Believing that by the
{ payment of his life insurance policy
his wife could have enough money to
liouidate a mortgage on his home, J.
bolic acid and died.
Dull had been a Baltimore and
Ohio freight conductor 30 years, and
lost his job a few months ago. He
became despondent because he was
unable to properly support his wife
and two sons and his aged parents.
Highwayman Robs Woman.
Greensburg.—Held up. by highway-
men, Mrs. Norman Kellar of Hemp:
field slope was robbed of $20 and
threatened with death. She fainted
after handing over her purse. The
thug wore a black handkerchief over
his features and flourished a razor.
Mrs. Keller revived in a few minutes
and reached home in an exhausted
state.
Slayer Is Saved from the Gallows.
Warren. — “Axle” Johnson, alias
John Nels Larson, was acquitted of
the murder of Charles Samuelson on
February 29 on the grounds of insan-
ity. Johnson literally chopped Sam-
uelson to bits in a fit of insane fury
while the men were at work in a bit
of woodland near the Samuelson
home. An effort will be made to
have Johnson deported to Sweden.
Railroad Commission Jobs.
Harisburg.—The following appoint-
ments to positions in the office were
made by the State Railroad Commios-
sion: James C. Watson, Williams-
port: R. C. Haderman, Bedford; Ver-
da S. Johnson, Erie; Arthur R.
Anwyll, Harrisburg; John GG. Hop-
Meadville Jury Gives Prof. Breed $15,-
000 for Wife's Death. ;
Meadville.—The jury in the case of i
Prof. Robert S. Breed of Allegheny |
college against the Meadville Trae-
tion Company, awarded the plaintiff
$15,000 damages for death of his wife.
Mrs. Breed was one of several killed
in a trolley car accident on College
hill, December 13, 1905.
In several other suits, judgments
were given against the Meadville &
Cambridge Springs Company, but the
decision was reversed in the superior
court. Breeds is the first case!
against the Meadville company. |
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SECOND DIVIDEND READY |
Depositors of Defunct Waynesburg |
Bank tc Get 15 Per Cent. |
Waynesburg.— John H. Strawn, re-
ceiver of the Farmers’ and Drovers’
National bank, which closed its doors
December. 12, 1906, received checks |
from the comptroller of the currency |
for the second dividend and they are |
now ready for those who have claims |
against the defunct institution. |
Shamokin.—Hiram Beecher and his |
son-in-law, Wilson Blue, mine work-
ers, were fatally injured by an ex-
plosion of dynamite in the Reliance
colliery, cperated by the Philadelphia |
and Reading Coal and Iron Company. |
The eves of each man were blown
i
As a result of the business depres-
sion of the last several months, more
than 10 per cent of the presidential
reduced salaries for the coming fiscal
Greenville.—G. B. Gerbrich of John- |
er: “This is for the old baboon with
lan boy, faithful to | porter, the little gentleman was a
d. was saving them | first class scholar in the Chinese lan-
guage.
intendent of schools to. succed J J
Palmer, who leaves to take charge of
the Oil City schools.
tum Glass Company
1
Tarentum.—The ‘plant of the Taren-
has resumed in |
full, giving employment to 200 men.
)
| been assigned to any work as yet.
{of the congregation, Bishop Hoban is-
I sued an interdict against St.
{ Lithuanian church of
| The faction opposing
i feated him in the supreme court in a
| by William
wood, Uniontown. They have not
Sexten Dies in Cemetery.
West Newton, Pa.—After eating his
dinner in a small building in Markle
cemetery at Mill Grove, near here, Ja-
cob Gaffney, a sexton, was seized
with sudden illness and fell dead. His
body was not found until evening. He
was 60 years old and had served in
the Civil War. Of a large family
that survives, one son is a student at
Harvard.
Two Killed on Railroads.
Altoona.—Freight Brakeman Hugh
J. Kuhns of Altoona, was jolted from
a train at Portage and run over, his
Lead being severed from his body.
Charles E. Trummer, a railroad tres-
passer, fell from a train just west of
Tyrone and was prebably fatally in-
jured.
Firebug Burns High School.
Scranton, Pa.—The Dunmore High
school, near here, was destroyed by
fire. The authorities are of opinion
that it was of incendiary origin. The
less is $70,000, partially covered by
insurance:
New Castle—Road supervisors of
10 townships and two boroughs will
have to appear-in court and show
cause why they should not be indict
ed for failing properly to repair
rnada
Bishop Bars Disobedient Flock.
Scranton.—Because of opposition to
his authority on the part of a faction
Joseph's
North Scranton.
the bishop de-
case brought to test the question who
controls the church property.
Greensburg.—Thieves
€ at New Alex-
andria stole two
horses, one owned
A Steele, and the other be-
longing to George McCowan. Two
The Hobo’s Viewpoint.
As illustrating the attitude of mind
of the thinking tramp, I cite the fol-
lowing opinion from an earnest friend
of tramps, a man who indeed is at
present “hitting the road’’ as a hobo.
“Vagrancy is not a national problem
in the sense in which you declare it to
be; it is a railroad problem. Penal-
ize the railroads every time they kill
or carry a tramp, and the railroad
companies will solve the railroad
phase of the vagrancy problem with-
out any cost to the community or to
the state. If a vagrant were paid for
his work while in jail, when he comes
out he might have enough money to
pay his transportation, and would not
have to beat the railroad company.
He would have enough money to buy
himself good clothes, and would not
have to beg them. I can prove by
reliable, accurate statistics that more
than 50 per cent of the vagrants would
work if they could get work.”
And then, for the time being, we
feel that it is not Jack the Hobo that
is at fault, but society itself, that of-
fers to the vagrant unequal opportu-
nities, unjust imprisonment, and
plenty of unguarded chances for him
to be maimed or to be killed.—Orlan-
do F. Lewis in Atlantic.
Tuberculosis Prevention.
Governor Hughes has signed the
bill passed by the New York legisla-
ture, providing for the report and
registration of all tuberculosis cases.
Every physician in the state is re-
quired to report to the local authori-
ties, within 24 hours after the knowl-
edge comes to him, the name, age,
color, occupation, where employed,
and address of every person known by
him to have tuberculosis. In case of
death from the. disease the premises
must not be occupied again until dis-
infected and renovated. This last pro-
vision shows how far we have pro-
gressed toward the intelligent hand-
ling of this seriously contagious dis-
ease. This new law is a part of the
general and growingly effective cam-
paign which is being waged the coun-
ery over to check and prevent the
spread of consumption. — Indianapolis
News.
Actual Depopulation in France.
Much has been said about the de-
clining birth rate in France and many
conjectures made as to what the ten-
dency may mean to the republic of
the future. “Depopulation,” how-
ever, has been used heretofore only in
a relative sense, for at no time has
the death rate actually exceeded the
birth rate until now. The statistics
for the year 1907, just made publie,
show that, leaving out of account im-
migration and emigration, the popula-
tion of France actually declined dur-
ing the twelve months. There are
793,000 deaths to 774,000 births, to use
figures in each case.
Opium Trade in China.
An imperial decree issued by the
Chinese government on March 22,
points out the evils of opium, and
states that the British government
has agreed to decrease its exportation
for a trial period of three years in or-
der to see whether the cultivation of
the poppy and the number of opium
smokers is lessened. Should such be
the case, importation into China wil
be further decreased gradually. The
decree orders the enforcement of ex-
isting regulations and the elaboration
of further measures to deal with the
evil—Philadelphia Record.
Exclusive of warships, transports
and vessels under 50 tons the ship
tonnage entering and leaving the port
of Singapore, Straits Settlements, in
1907 was 14,000,000 tons.
Antwerp and Amsterdam lave the
best health records of all European
cities.
Food
Product
Peerless
Dried Beef
Unlike the ordinary dried
beef—that sold in bulk—
Libby's Peerless Dried Beef
comes in a sealed glass jar
in which it is packed the
moment tis sliced into those
delicious thin wafers,
None of the rich natural
flavor or goodness escapes
or dries out. It reaches you
fresh and with all the nutri-
ment retained.
Libby's Peerless Dried
Beef is only one of a Great
number of high-grade, ready
to serve, pure food products
that are prepared in Libby’s
Great White Kitchen,
Just try a package of any
of these, such as Ox Tongue,
Vienna Sausage, Pickles,
Olives, etc., and see how
delightfully dif-
ferent they are
from others
you haveeaten.
Libby, McNeill &
Libby, Chicago
state policemen are on the trail.
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