CHANGEFUL NATURE. Hoon," nys th snowdrop, J smiles nt the motherly rnrth, "Bnon! for the xprlnu wUh her Inn Stunrs cr-wies stealthily Kin. Bnon was my- crrtille mid chilly winds snns t my birth; Winter In over nml I must rrnl.n haste to be gone!" Boon!" snys the swallow nnd dtps to the wluil-niilleil stream, ' "Ornln In nil unrm red the summer Is over snd itnne: Bleak to the eastward the ley battalions ptlenm. Bummer In over nnd I must make hastn to bo gone!" "Boon h. too noon!" fays the soul, with ft desperate Kftite, "Boon! for I roe lltte ft stnr, and for would hnvo shone. Bee the pule shuililcrthK down that must wither my rays. Leaps from the mountain nnd I must make hasto to he none!" -From the Bpeetnlor. Tha Storm. BY ETI1K1.YN LESLIE HUSTON KKANCKSCA." Author of "The Song of Solomon," "The Case, of Mrs. Fords." etc. (Copyrighted, 1W0: Dally Story run. Co.) "It all seemed paradoxical. And yet I thought of you, always. !on't you nee? The situation was Impossible! " "Yes?" Bho uttered the monosyllable gently. Her ryes followed the phosphorus lights that slipped through the blnck waves, rolling back Into the night be hind them. The ship throbbed like a human thing, and she felt Its vibra tion go through her body with a drowsy, sensuous content. Her hands gleamed whltely on the arms of the steamer chair In whic h she lay prone, and the Roft night wind lifted the hair back front her face. "You mufit understand now?" There was a shad of r.nxlety In his Tolce as ho leaned forward and looked down Into her eyes. "Now? I am five years older, you mean? Well, I understand. Yes In a way. One learns many things In five years." "And It was for the best? You be lieve that?" She rested her hend back on the cushions and lifted her eyes to the stars that powdered the velvety gloom above them. "Quien sabo!" She smiled thought fully. "It Is written. What will bo, will bo, nnd all things are by fate." She stirred restlessly, then turned to ward him and studied him critically. "Well?" he asked. "Is It all written In the stars, I Won- 0T tAMI "We Will See!" der?" she answered, reflectively. "Are we kings and queens on the chess board? was It for the best? I do not know. I was married to a man twenty years my senior. A perfectly amiable and absolutely Irreproachable commer cial machine. He was hazily conscious of my existence at odd periods when his stock quotations would permit That was all. I had the flesh-pots of Egypt, and according to the laws of Moses and common sense, I should have gone down on my knees dally and given thanks. But I didn't. I know that it la not only unorthodox, but execrable taste, to do that which leaves one's prlvata life vulnerable to the yel low journal reporter and artist. To day, Paola and Francesca would be but food for scare-heads and Impossible cuts. But I loved you. That Is trito and commonplace. Nancy said the same to Sykes. But it Is very real. Just the sume. And I loved you not only enough to brave the flames of hell, but, Infinitely worse, the comment and criticism of the great unwashed. And you flinched" The tranquil tones ceased for a mo ment, and she pulled the cushion more comfortably under her cheek. "Four your sake" The words came hoarsely. Her eyebrows lifted, but she did not speak. Then suddenly he leaned forward and caught her hands In a tense grasp and stared down Into her face with hot eyes. "You would you would have V "Gone to you? Assuredly. You knew that I would. But you feared thw world, more than I feared the other place, you know. For my sake, you said. Well, perhaps. No doubt you quite believed it was for my sake. . But Is your genus naturally so disin terested?" The black water rolled and lifted and fell with a sharp hiss back Into the shadows, and she listened to Its muf fled music with a keen pleasure. She loved the unhurnetiscd strength of It. It was sovereign In every mood. And It laid the memories of Its uncounted centuries on her reBtloss spirit and she was stilled. Here and there behind tbem the salon incandescent lights gleamed. A measured, footfall came through tha roar of the waves and ths training of the ship, passed, and died i'g again, leaving only the hoters of tho night, of tho winds and waters. Then tho lights Went out and tho vaporous darkness gathered around them and tho stars seemed nearer. Ho drew I ho white hands lip to his lips and held them there a long mo ment. "Yon are not merciful In your an alysis," he said slowly. "And perhaps yon are right. But I do not think so. I Hut why dig over the bones of Ihn past? Fate, Providence, God what you will brought us together, out here on the waters that you have al ways loved. And thero ave no bar riers. We are both free. Today, when I saw the shore-lino sink Into the wa ter, nnd turned nnd saw you on the deck? Poes it tell you nothing?" She looked back Into his eyes with n shade of amusement In her own. "You were always bored, you knowV She laughed, a little, low laugh, then gently released one hand from his and drew the tips of her fingers down over his face. Then she held his square chin In her hand and regarded him gravely. "You were always bored all your life. It was chronic. You were delighted to see me? Of course. It was a sensation. And Herniations are worth something In this all too prosaic llfo of ours. Don't you know, bore dom is accountable for far more than Is generally realized? If the clergy would only give tis a palliative, their efforts would bo bo much moro fruit ful! And I was equally delighted to nee you. I, too, have learned to vnluo Fensntlons. And you look qnlto as you did when I er nto of the pomegran nto. Thero Is a glint of silver around the temples but It la becoming. 1 could almost think we were back In that other era when wo wrro so tragic. We were tragic, were we not? Life bored you so nnd I was a new sensa tion and I loved you with such feel ing. And, after all, It was pouring wa ter upon sand. It was seeing with a child's faith Ascension lilies grow where only cacti were possible." "No! by all the gods I " ""Never mind Olympla!" She laughed, and lifted her chin with de light as tho chill wind whipped the monk's hood back from her face and sent weird Aeolian Bt rains through the ship's ringing. "The Olympian ladles and gentlemen were persons of very uncertain morals. And why swear at all? What matter? All that was prehistoric. It was be fore the flood. Look at that phantom ship with every sail set "And the bus sard sails on, and comes, and Is gone stately and still as a ship at sea.' Do you remember Lasca? You used to tell me Lasca when In the days of lang syne. "Then you still remember?" Darkly luminous in the faint star light, the eyes turned from the ship back to his face. "Remember? Oh, yes! My memory is very retentive. I remember every phase everything." Ho leaned nearer nnd his voice sank. "And care?" he added. " "M Yes," the little smile again in her eyes. "You care as you did then?" Her gaze went back to tho ghostly ship and she was silent as tho black sails sank slowly into the darkness. Over the battling waters flontcd the low, irregular tolling of a distant buoy bell. The waves leaped around them like leashed hounds, and the rising wind whistled nnd shrieked through tho rigging. His arms closed around her and through the warring sounds he whispered, his face close to hers "I have loved you always." Gently her finger-tips slipped over his face, then round his throat. Then his lips rested upon hors. Presently he raised his head and looked down Into her eyes. "You care as you did? You will be my wife?" A long moment she looked at htm, then very slowly the shook her head. "I am afraid it would never do," she said. "You have become fixed in my mind as a dead and gone episode a romance that was and is not. The commonplaces of marriage would be too complete a revelation. I cannot imagine you in that role. No, It would never do." ,"You mean that you no longer love " His voice sounded strained, and she Interrupted him. "I mean that I did love too well," she said gently. Then she took his hand between her two hands and drew it down to her breast, while her Hps lingered over his eyes and brow and hair. it is lire, my dear, she said, a shado of bitterness for the first time In the sercna voice, "I would have gone to you on my knees over hot plow shares, onco. But uow It is five years too late." The rising gale shrieked around them in gathering fury an- she lifted her face, eagerly to the rough wlnii. The roar of tho waves had dcepenod to a thunoer, and the ship labored anu quivered in tholr powerful grasp. She stretched out her arms to the storm and flung her loosened hair across his face and lips.' "Ah, had you loved like that!" she cried. A vivid streak of silver quiv ered in the blackness ahead, and tor an instant the rear of wind and waves seemed to pause. Thon tho thundet broke and lulled over the water In mighty waves of sound. Leaning for ward, ho gathered her into his arms and drcpged the heavy monk's clonk around her. Again the , lightning UoEhod and she looked up into his face. "We will see!" be said through his teeth. i "Qulen sabe?" she laughed. Then from his arms she watched the etorm, content. And always her eyes laughed. Lets of men lose the thousands they have gained because of an Insatiate pursuit after another hundred. IFAKM TOPICS O30003OOCOOCCOC00OOOOOCCC0 jVlnpt the t'rop to the Soli. Alva Ager writes In the National Stockman that last year lie regretted Hot having plowed up one ncro of w heat nnd planted It to potatoes. Tho soil was too rich for the wheat, which lodged before bends filled, nnd de stroyed the clover seeded with II. His reason for not doing so was Hint he did not want In cut off one acre for n dif ferent crop from the rest of the Held. Itesull, no returns for the labor done or seed sown. Last full be sowed It In rye, and last spring planted It to pota toes, adding ?:i worth of acid phos phate, nnd this fnll ho hiirvcKtcd over 2IM) bushels of tiierchnntiiblo potatoes or ?SO worth ns they Hell there, beside the unmrrrhiiiitsihlo ones. He thinks rock nnd rye n good combination for bis soil, meaning the South Carolina phiisphatle rock. How to Fatten Clilrttetts. Young chickens, sny, from two to three months' old, will not take on fat when running nt huge, at ml nre there fore not In prime comlllioti for the table. They will, ol course, bo thrifty and grow f.-iRt . but their flesh does not have that tender nnd Juicy flavor that n week's special care in coiilinement will give. A great ninny people do Inrnlctilnblo Injury to the fowl by shooting among ,lliem, or by letting it dog cbnse the one they want to 1:111. This Is nil wronir. nnd innv be avoid- ed by having a tdm coup large eunuch ' to comfortably hold hnli' :i dozen chickens, ditch tbeni at nltrht after they have gone to roost, nnd quietly put tin-til In the conn. Tccd llieui ill they will cat of table sci-tps. conked potatoes, rice. Ililllt, etc. Vegetable scraps and grass idioiild also be given. In n week or ten days' time they will be fat. and so far superior to one taken from the flock at large that yon could tell the difference even when blind folded. National Provlslnner. HhreilillnK r Tlil-rslttiijr Corn. I have handled the corn crop In the dry state In nearly every wny possible. Hunnlng It through the old threshing ninchlnc has these objections: Yon can do but n small amount nt one time, ns thero Is no practical wny of getting thn fodder from the innchine without trending It more or less, and this will Ktnrt the whole bulk heating nt onco. Tho cob Is lost In the mow, which wo now grind up with the corn. A largo percentage of the grain Is cracked, which In a moist time soon begins to mold. With the small busker with a shred der nml wind stacker arrangement, tho Iiipn can bo placed over any of the big beaniH In the old style barns and made to nil a bay half or two-thirds fnll, without a in nn stepping In the buy. This In tho secret of keeping the fod der; we tried It In threshing corn and found it all right, but we had to ar range high scaffolding so ns to Hhove stalks oft" without treading. A mow j ten or fifteen feet deep will hold per fectly snfe if not trodden. C. II. Whit-1 comb, in American AgrloullurUt. (foot! Hotter. It seems hard for some farmers to realize the fact that in the making of a llrst-chiKs article of butter tho be ginning Is In the Btnble. Ai'cumulil tliiiiH of tilth In tho stables, tiinldiness In the food or filth of any kind will niiike It Impossible to maUo tho best quality of butter, no matter What the treatment of tho milk nnd cream may bo afterward. No particular plan of butter making will be found best for nil. Difference In conditions will often mako n con siderable difference III the pliin of iiianagemeut that It will bo best to follow, Kconotny should always be consid ered. If choice butter can bo pro duced more easily or nt less cost in one wny than In nnother It is certain ly good economy to try that method. Profit Is the principal object sought nnd tho profit Is tho one to bo followed. Using n poor quality of salt will often cause trouble with tho butter, aud particularly so If it is coarse grained, that It cannot bo well or rather thoroughly Incorporated wlt'i the butter. Northwest l'liclflo Farm er. A llcvlro For Pulling Up 1'ohU. A poNt-pullltig device which I have found very satisfactory cons'st of n U v t of two by four Inches oak, seven feet long, placed In nu upright of two by six inches und two nnd one-half feet long, ns shown In tho Illustration. Tho lever is fastened otio foot from the end. A pointed pleeo of steel bent slightly lu tho form of n hook Is fast ened to the end of tho lever. To use It put the upright lu the ground, about one foot from the post, raise thg ban- die and force the sharp steel point into tha post aud pull down on tho lever, which will raise the post out of the ground. I, Hud it one of tho handiest tools on the farm. One mini can pick it up and carry It auywhero ou bib shoulder, nud it takes but uu iustiiul to put It Into position for use. New Knglaud Hoineslond. Mrs, Joues "Tho true disciples of Confucius go to church twlco every day." Mrs. Suilth-"Well, they enn afford to. They have coins In China worth uuly oug-tcuth of a cent!" I'uik. '-a A POST FPLLINCI DBVICB. TORREILO, THE LION-TAMER. Filinor Torrello was a tamer of lions His name in the Bible was Brown lie could make Hie (iereo brutes jump tilt rope, walk the wire. And turn somersets and lie down SiKnor TorHIo Wni quite a nay fellow, And rapidly winning renown, fsiirnor Torello one tiny met a maiden Who, chnrmed by his soul-stirring ni t, Stood in front of the cage and applauded the lions As each played its wonderful part Hinor Torclln, In words Hint were mellow. Laid siene to the fair maiden's limit. Signer could look at a lion And cause it to rower in frnr. Hut tin- look that gave lco the thills had no terrors 1'or Hie lady who's figuring here fsitinor Torello J Alas! the poor fellow 1 Was conducted around by the ear. Sipnor Torello no Innecr tames lims. The beasts turned against him one d'iv; The look that once charmed them had ceased to be potent. They roared ami refused to obey Signer Torello, t'nloilunale fellow. All bloody, was hustled awny! lienor Torello. subdued and tlisrom iticd, Now works by HS- day with lit- hands Anil is badgered lor losing the look that tunde lions In terror obey his command-; Nignor Torello Alack! how he fell! O His case as it own moral stands! I 'hieiigit Times-Herald. .HUMOR OF THE DAY. "Is Miss Tri er mi obliging singer?' i"Oh. yes; hull' Ihe lime she refuse to King." Phlliidelpli:i liulletln Cupid took Hie maiili-u's li'-ar'. Ily dint ol being very etevei ; Hat lost il. for hi; li-li ope man To garrison tin.1 place forever. -I'u;!:. He "I always used to overcstlmnto my abilities." Slit' (colisnllniilj) "Well, never mind. Your friends nev rr did."-Tit I'.lls. "I'm slik of lir.-. In fact. I wish I were dead," sighed the despondent man. "Then why don't you see u doctor?" remarked the Cheerful Idiot. He had n cough: she feared that ho Might ilie, so oir she ran And summoned very speedily A life in-in nin e man. l'hiledelpliin lie or,!. 'Did flint gill cmom-iige you ti'iy?" "Well, when I culled she didn't appear herself, but she tx'-nt her mother In to see mo Instead of her fat Icr."-Indianapolis Journal. "Dick and I have bought a horse In partnership." "What's the iirrnnge inetitV" "Dick's going to feed him and take cnt'o of him and I'm guln- to ex ercise him." Chicago Itecord. "How many runs did your dubp make, Larry?" '"J'lirae, sor." "Threa runs, eh?" "Yls, sor. A run for th' umpire, a run for th' doctor, an' a run to th' police Million." Answers. .Inckson "No, I never tnke the news paper home. I've got a family of grown-up daughters, you know." Friend "Papers too full of crime?" .lckson "No; too full of bnrgnlu sales." "lie snys Hint I Inspire him to poetl cnl outbursts." "You do?" "That's what he says." "Oh, well, I wouldn't reproach myself too much If I wero you. !y striving to do good In other ways you may atone for your evil In fluence In this lino." Chicago Post. "Put, father," protested the young woman In the case, "I dou't see why you should object to him. Ho Is so setlnto nnd stuid." "Well. I don't know much about! his nbllity to seo dates." replied her fntlier; "but I do know that he stayed until 2 o'clock this morning." "Do you think these carnations arc becoming to me?" she iiNkcd. "Oh, yes," ho replied, "but there nre other flowers which 1 should rather seo you wear." "Pray tell me what they are," said she, always anxious to plense, "and I will wear them for you." "Or ange blossoms!" he cried. So now it's all sottlcd.-Fhihidclphhi Bulletin. Education lu l-'rniice. Ill Franco there nre now lty-elght lyccuius nud colleges for girls, where ns, previous to 1NS0, wllli tho excep tion of private schools, there were no Institutions for higher education for girls. Of the sixty-eight mentioned forty-eight nre lyccuius supported by municipalities and tweuty-elght mu nicipal colleges. Tho lyceuni for gh'U In Tunis Is Included. The teachers for this Institution. nre trained iu tho high er normal schools at Sevres. During last y-ar thero wero In I ha lyccuius Slot and iu the colleges lioti.'! pupils. Iu ninny provinces boarders aro taken, aud all the lyccuius tnke day boarders. Those who board out of the school nre uiyler supervision. Some live with their parents, other nt tho houses of teachers, or In board lug houses recommended by tho Insti tutions or under their nupervlslon. Put many moro girls received their higher education In convents than lu tho schools mciit ioned, tho former being regarded ns much more couimo 11 fatit. Philadelphia, Itecord. Tree Growing In Kunsas. Fifty years hcueo Kansas nud tho States planting trees to-day will bo supplying California nud the coast States with timber. One uuod not bo particularly gifted with foresight to predict such nil event. It is nu hulls putablo und lamentable, fact that at the present rate of forest denudation ou the Pad lie Coast it will bo but a short tlmo befora till the timber ou that section of the const has gone. Tho tiovcruuu'Ut will realize when it Is too Into tho great Ioks this despoil ing of our forests menus. Kansas has formed nu organization for tho preser vation of tho trees which other Stales would do wdl to jo'u. Chicago Til-Ituuo. TENSIONS GRANTED. Tarcnlum II 25 an Industrial Coorr 3am and Content Destroyed A Washington County M trio I ond Indefinitely. Pensions were granted wcik as follows: l.lizalutli l.owniall, ISlairsvillc, $S; William M. Schrock, Snniersci, fir,; Samuel .Sehrciingi-sh, Daytnu. $u; Adam Sides, lllairsville, $H; William Kccd, lit Hct'intc, $17; Steele Hunter Hellefotitc, ?I2: I'imiiinel Kurtz, Cora opnlis, $(i; Satnoel II. l.aird. Coal C'e-1-ter, $ij: Catherine GcMier, llerlin, $H; Susan Mirtiowan, West Kliaboth, $8. The Pittsburg Ccal Company has post ed notices nt the recently pnrehi cl White coal mine. Pear Washington, stating that the mine will be closed in-r-tfiniicly in a few days. The Whit-; mine is one i( the nldrst in that dis trict, and has, with one exception, been operated steadily for a lon period. The committee in charge of raising the fjj.oon to locate the Tcnii Plr.e Glass Company's plant at Irwin, is meet ing with considerable success, ami al ready over tint -third of the required sum has been subscribed. The large barn of Murray Simpson, near Huntingdon, was burned, with three horses, two cow, ijki bn-hels of wheat. 000 bn-hels oi nals. 00 tuns of hay aud a large quantity oi agricultural implements. The loss is JVS.ooo: insur mu r. $.1,700. Incendiarism i inspected. The fact I hat work w ill he started shortly nn the new steel mill at Tarcil turn has ca''-ed a propel ly boom in the town and moiired resident are planning to erect a number of new dwellings. The mill is t) be a large concern em ploying about 5'Xi men. It is reported that a large tin plate plant will a!-o he creeled. The city id Nev Caslle will a-'; tho coming Legislature to pa-s a law em powering ttntniripalitii- to compel tele graph, telephone, light and power cum nanies to olarc their wires in conduits' constructed by the municipalities. It will also ask the Legislature to empow er cities to ley a tax upon wires so placed. Kcv. I. S. Halm, of New Kensington, failed to appear ill court at Greens burg when his suit for defamation of character against the officers of the l irst I'rcsbytcri-rn church of New Ken sington was called and a nun-suit was granted. At Titn-ville the Kim Street schools have been closed to prevent the spread of diphtheria in that section of the city. Klcvcn cases have been reported to the board of health, three of which have already resulted fatally. Mine Inspector Stein and the Mill Creek Coal Co. nre censured by .he coroner's jury fur an improper system of ventilation. The inquest was on sev en victims of the Mountain mine ex plosion. Mrs. Shruin, of l.atrohe. wa in the art of blowing out the light when 1 he oil iiinited and exploded the lamp. Her two daughters ran to her asi-taucc and all three were liadjy burned before n sis'.ancc arrived. Fifteen thousand acres of coal land ill Brothers Valley town-hip, Somerset county, were purchased Ian week by a New York syndicate. There i- great activity in Somerset county and much railroad building is projected. Eliza Patterson has secured $.1.00 damages at L'niontown. against the Cambria Stci 1 Company far damages 10 her farm through the removal oi coal which permitted the surface to sink. Three months in prison for ina-i-slaughtcr was the sentence in the case of IL V.. Sollenberger and Harry Sheets, Philadelphia faith curists, who tried to cure an infant, w hich died later. Ralph Osncidcr. 15 years oi age, acci dentally shot himself while hunting near Oil City, and is at the hospital, where it is thought that lie has lit'.lc chance of recovery. Preparations arc being made to start three more blast furnaces nt Sharon and Sharpsvillc. Nearly ;oo hands will be given employment by the resump tions. Washington county farmers say the model road, near Canon-.fourg. is most expensive, the half mile costing $1,500, and that it would bankrupt the townshi.i to build all its roads ;,t such cost. A D. & O. freight traiif, whose crew had lost control of it, dashed into other rolling stock at llyndman, wrecking six engines and several cars. No one wis hurt. A charter has been granted to th: Warren tf. Sheffield Street Railway Company, capital stock $oo,o;yi, to build a line 11 miles long irom Glade Ku i, Warren county. Safe robbers attacked the safe in Car nalian & Co.'s mill, at Apollo, llctorc the charge was exploded they were driv en away, llarrv Carnahan and C. 11. Alb were injured in the face and hand while getting the explosive out. The posli'ffice at Badger. Lawrence county, will be discontinued en Decem ber 14, owing to the establishment i l a rural free delivery route in that sec tion. According to the report of Mine In spector Davis 117 aeci l'-nts occurred in the fifth anthracite district during t':.c year up to December 1. The Carnegie library promised to Conucllsvillc will be built at once v.'. a cost of $50,000, the town to slu c.l-1 r the cost of maintenance. A new National hank u to be organ ized at Natrona. It wijl be known as the First National bank of Natrona and will have a capital of $j;.ooo. The Pennsylvania Military academy at Chester has been closed 011 account 0 a scarlet fever scare. The will of Col. James M. Rennet, who left $2,(100,000 to the University of Pennsylvania and to the Methodist Or phanage, has been sustained by Phi'u dclphia courts. At Petroleum Center. Lewis Cawl.y. aged 16, was found dead, his body caught iu the pulley wheel in the boiler shop where he worked. Mrs. Helen Taylor, of Connellsville, a bride of a week, cannot find lief hus band,f Tlicodorn Taylor, nor $ijo of her own money. Reuben Williams, a farmer near Punxsutawncy, was found dead in the river and foul olav is feared. FIFTY-SIXTH C06RE3S. StNJUE. SECOND DAY. The ship subsidy bill was made the unlinished business of the Senate, in stead of the Spoonrr Philipi'i-e meas ure. Mr. l-'rye, of Maine, chairman of the committee on commerce, gave rra sons why it would be chct.pcr to pay American shipbuilders than to staiid the drain to foreign countries fnr ocean traftic. Senator Fairbanks, of Indiana, intrn duceil a bill for the admission of Okla homa as a State. THIRD DAY. Mr. Fryc concluded his speech in M vor of the ship subsidy bill, lie said the subsidy could not amount to more than $i 000.000 per year. The nomination of W. Irvin Shaw, if Pennsylvania, lo be consul general at Singapore was confirmed. FOURTH DAY. The Senate spent most of the day !tl consideration of the Hay-Paiinecfote treaty in executive session. Senator Morgan insists that the United States should build the canal regardless of treaties or the wishes of Grett Britain. FIFTH DAY. No business of importance was trans acted by the Senate in open session, practically the entire legislative day was consumed by nn executive session, after which the Senate adjourned until Mon day. The developments of the session were: An agreement on the part of the Senate to vote on the amendment offer ed by the rotnniitlce on foreign rela tions providing for the policing of the canal, an amendment offered by Sen ator Teller striking out the treaty pro hibition against the fortification of the Nicaragua canal when constructed. HOUSE. SECOND DAY. The Root army bill was reported, and two sections were added which provides for Generals Shafter, Lee and Wilson. Mr. Driggs, of New York, introduced resolutions requesting an investigation of "hazing" practice at West Point. Representatives Sulzcr introduced a pro-Boer resolution, proposing arbitra tion. THIRD DAY. Senator Clay, of Georgia, introduced bills providing for the admission free of duty of articles controlled by trusts and for the refunding of the tax collect ed on raw c:tt"n in the event that the supreme court holds to be unconstitu tional the law tinder which the tax was) collected. FOURTH DAY. The House devoted the day to the army reorganization bill. Eleven of the id pages of the bill were dispos.-d of bc- iorc aujo'.rrnmrui. I he House passed the army reorgan ization bill by a vote of 165 to 13.1. By a vote of I5g to 51 an amendment plac ing an absolute prohibition of liquor sales at army posts, was substituted fir the canteen provision bill. FIFTH DAY. The Grant oleomargarine bill w.u passed by a vote of I'i to yj. The bill, as passed, makes all articles known as oleomargarine, biitterinc, imitation but ter or imitation cheese transported into airy State or Territory for consumption or sale, subject to the police power of such State or Territory. Representative Taylcr, of Ohio, has hibition of polygamy. Representative Graham introduced a bill to give ex-prisoners of war $j for each and every day imprisoned and a pension of $w a month in lieu of any pension now received. SPORTING BREVITIES. There will be rn active indoor ath letic season this winter ill New Jersey. James J. Corbett, the pugilist, hopes to open a boxing club in Cincinnati next month. Fred Mosom. the widely known trainer, died nt Washington, of typhoid pneumonia. He was abort fo-tv-one years old nnd leaves a widow and one child.' Margaret Gr.st recently broke -he record of the cycling world for con tinuous century ritiing by making 2,0 miles in twelve days, eight hours and fifty-five minutes. By winning the protested te.v.n match against the Newark Athletic Club the Hillside Club, of Plainlield. N. J., secures the team championship of the East Jersey Golf League. .The cycle racing game is now bavins its innings at Los Angeles, Cal.. and all the cyclists in training are out there en joying the summer weather and urf bathing in the dead of winter. Connecticut and Vermont are awak ening to the advantages 'oi a, sidcpaih hw. There is a strong mnvt-uicnt or ganizing in both those State P' sccur a law similar to that in force in New York State. Purses "nii for M-. Drak? of Chi cago, on the English' turf last season amounted to $5.1.000. which plr.c-s him fifth in the list of winning owner. The Prince of Wales' horses wen for him $i;o.ooo. The six-mile intercolle-.rir't" cross country race, held nt Morris Park, New York city, resulted in victory- for Cornell. Yale and University o: Penn sylvania tied for second place, and Columbia finished fourth. Ill .1 II 1 ivv u-ii ll" in, 1 -'I - J . V .1 I.ISV at Los Angeles. Cal., Grs La-vs.m de feated John Nelson, the ini Idle-distance champion. Law-son won bv n quarter of a mile and incid -ntaUy low ered the world's record by thirty-seven seconds, his time being as u. Funeral In Hsmbu fl. The funeral in Hamburg is a novel ty for the American. The big has fancy curtains on its gla front and rear, of sky-blue c!i ts followed on loot by Dearei hke the knights of old in black jackets, white skirts ruliled collars and fronts. knickerbockers, low-cut broad silver bands. A 1I such as Napoleon used til ttic heads and rach marf sword. One cortege that two open carryalls filled smoking, and this pastime on with the hearse only six f I lhc mourners rode in carria fVivers were dressed in bj livry, tall silk hats with cites, and top boots. Ut J r r 1 F Y
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