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covery of snow on the moon is posi-
tively asserted to be all moonshine.
| The deaf-mutes who are doing their
utmost to learn to speak evidently
take no stock. in the saying that si-
lence is golden. *
anothe:
commonwealth
Australia has accepted
American idea. The
has taken the first step toward adopt-
g a decimal currency.
The Indians who sold Manhattan Is-
land for the price of a beef stew were
the first in these parts to put into
practice the theory that to die rich
is to die disgraced.
In the new mint in Philadelphia
the United States will have the finest,
costliest and most complete money-
making establishment of its kind
the world. The granite structure was
commenced two years ago, ‘and will
cost about $2,000,000, including the
mechanical equipment, costing $200,-
000. There will be 24 coining presses
\in the new mint.
in
Under the title, “The Corrupting
Power of Public Patronage,” Congress-
man Oscar W. at-
tention in the Forum to the dangerous
Underwood calls
influence exerted by the spoils system
on the legislation of the country. He
advocates the prohibition of represen.
tatives from having any voice in ap-
offices,
pointments to governmental
either directly or
inlirectly.
term; its
for differ-
bodies. “Greater
der the Metro-
London is a variable
boundaries
nt administrative
CL
being different
bndon,” th
)
hil-
Jin-
died
whe and
be perpcinated.
‘ge part of his fortune in
the €3 shment of hospitals and in
the erection of drinking fountains in
the cities of his native country. The
without respect to
sick and women,
sec, or race, anl dumb brutes were
his special beneficiaries. =
The New York Times gives a com-
pilation showing that United
States have produced 6500 authors of
definite books in the
turies. Naturally in the earlier part
of this period our authors were most-
ly foreign-born, and foreign countries
have supplied 700 out of the total of
6500. York state has furnished
the largest of writers—1600
—though in proportion to population
Massachusetts the palm, 1250
having been born within her borders.
All New England has suppliel
or more than one-third of the
while the Midile States have
plied 2000. Pennsylvania is the third
state in literary production, her crop
Virginia
with
the
last three cen-
New
number
holds
2350,
total,
sup-
of authors having been 600.
lcads the Southern States,
and Ohio the Western, with 175.
Anecdotes without end are told of
and intelligence of the
s, but very few careful experi-
have been made to determine
what thy can really do. In this
tion, Dr. E. L. Thorndike. of
hmbia University, to have
the best work. He has published
riments showing that dogs, cats
chicks not only do not reason,
only learn as it were by chance.
be really taught even
In an article in
235,
lower
seems
TheX cannot
the smallest trick.
the Popular Science Monthly, Prof.
Thorndike describes recent experi-
ments with monkeys. He thinks that
they may be included with man in a
special mential genius, owing espe-
cially to their enjoyment of physical
and mental activity. They cannot,
however, learn by seeing other ani-
mals do the same thing or by being
he movements. In spite
notion to the con-
mitate.
1) [)
PREVIOUS HEAT
RECORDS SMASHED.
No Prospect of Relief From These Ex-
hausting Conditions in West,
DRY THUNDERSTORMS IN° PLACES.
One Hundred Degrees Was Generally Reached
Throughout the Middle West, and in Des
Moines, Cincinnati and Louisville the
Mercury Mounted Several Degrees Above
the Century Mark.
Washington (Special).—One-hundred-
degree temperatures were common
throughout the great corn belt Monday,
according to the reports to the Weather
Bureau here. In various places in: Illi-
nois, Iowa and other States all previous
heat records were smashed. There ap-
pears to be no prospect of decided relief
from these exhausting conditions for the
next two days at least, except such as
may come from the always present pos-
sibilty of scattered thunderstorms, which
are predicted for some portions of he
superheated area.
Thunderstorms, unaccompanied by
some rain, prevailed in several sections
of the West, hundreds of miles apart.
They temporarily ccoled the atmosphere
crops. Absolutely no rain fell in the
corn belt, according to the official reports
received here.
In Western Towa it was a trifle cooler,
while in the central portion of the State
it was warmer. There is a little belt of
high pressure over the Great Lakes and
another over the South Atlantic Coast,
but it offers no prospect of relief in the
West so long as the continued low pres-
sure remains in the Northwest.
The warm weather again was general
throughout the entire country except on
the Pacific Coast. In the East the tem-
perature, while high, did not approach
anywhere the extremes prevailing in the
West, and a recurrence of the hot wave
of two weeks ago is believed to be un-
likely in the Atlantic Coast region.
Thunder showers have continued from
the South Atlantic Coast westward into
officially reported was 108 degrees;
Springfield, T11., 108 degrees; in Cincin-
nati, 106 degrees, and in Louisville, 106
degrees, in each case breaking all past
records. In Indianapolis it also was 106
degrees, 5 degrees higher than ever be-
fore reported. .
In St. Louis it was 106 degrees;
Omaha, 104 degrees; Bismarck, N.
104, and Concordia, Kan., 102 degrees.
AGUINALDO IN BAD MOOD.
Irritated Because He Must Add the Word
“Prisoner” to His Signature.
Manila (By
g
Cable).-—Aguinaldo
surveillance by the American authori-
ties. Whenever he signs his name he
adds the word “prisoner.”
fused the request of his friends to write

e in Southern Luzow, advising him
surrender. He consented to sign a
opy of his oath of allegiance. with the
understanding that it be forwarded to
Malvar, with the purpose of influencing
his surrender, but under his signature to
this oath he wrote ‘Prisoner in Malaca-
nan Prison.”
General Davis has been ordered to
the command of the American troops on
Archipelago. General Kobbe, formerly
commander of this district, will return
to the United States.
General Chaffee has issued a circular
in which he explicitly defines the status
and duties of army officers, with respect
to their relations with the provincial and
other civil governments. It is expect-
ed this circular will settle the minor
misunderstandings between the two de-
of authority.
organized the American troops will be
centered in fewer garrisons and their
number will be decreased.
AMBUSH REVENUE MEN.
shiners in Tennessee.
Nashville, Tenn. (Special).—Seven
revenue officers were ambushed suppos-
edly by moonshiners, about six miles
from Monterey, in Putnam county. One
lector, was creeping along a steep hill-
They had barely located the speaker, 40
feet below them, when a deadly volley
Deputy Marshal Thomas Price
instantly killed and Posseman C. Mackey
was badly wounded. The officers return-
ed the fire, but the moonshiners made the
with them. One moonshiner was heard
he had been mortally wounded.
Collector Bell has gathered another
posse and started out' to recover the
body of Price.
$2,000 Picture for $1.60.
Cleveland, Ohio (Special).—At an
auction sale of unclaimed storage goods
here R. M. Murray bid $1.60 on an old
bundle. On unwrapping the bundle he
erty,” by E. S. Willard, of Cleveland,
valued at $2000.
to Charles Latimer, a wealthy civil en-
and was never called for.
Max Mu ler’s Library Sold.
the late Prof. Max Muller, composed of
13,000 volumes, has been purchased by
University of Tokio.
Bandits Cause Trouble in Chins.
Pekin says: “Disaffection. caused by
bandits, is prevalent in 30 districts in
the central part pf the province of
Chili. The local efficials are either d's-
inclined or unable with the foree at
their command to suppress the troubles.
to attend to provincial matters.
troops sent against the bandits showed
sympathy for phe latter, many oi the
bandits having” formerly been soldiers.
Thev are bett@ armed than the troops.”

but brought no relief to the famishing |
Arizona, and a continuation of them is |
predicted for the South and Southwest. |
In Des Moines, Iowa, the temperature |
in |
He has re- |
g the insurgent General Malvar, still at |
the Island of Mindanao and in the Jolo |
partments and prevent possible conflicts |
As fast as the insular constabulary is |
One Killed and One Badly Wounded by Moon- |
man was killed and one badly wounded. |
A posse of six, led by a deputy col-|
side, above an illicit still, when they re- |
ceived orders to throw up their hands. |
from eight guns was poured upon them. |
was
place so hot that Collector Bell and the |
survivors retired and carried Mackey |
moaning and calling to his friends that |
found a painting, “The Birth of Lib-|
It originally belonged |
gineer, and on his death thirteen years |
ago was placed by a relative in storage |
Oxford (By Cable).-—The library of!
Baron Iwasaki for presentalion to the!
London (By Cable).—A dispatch from |
Li Hungchang. aj; viceroy, is too busy |
The |
- SUMMARY OF THE NEV
Domestic.
The machinists who had seen on
strike’ at Wilkesbarre applied for rein-
statement in the shops of the Lehigh
Valley Railroad and other mills. Many
were taken back, but the places of others
had been filled.
The coroner's jury in Winchester, Va,,
Light Company responsible for tie
death of Jacob Houck and Lewis Price,
who were electrocuted by a live wire.
Mayor Hugh O'Hara, of Santa
Paula, Cal, was shot down by Charles
Waxsmith, one of a party of disorderiy
characters whose arrest he had ordered.
Herman Treetz, aged 18, and Ida Du-
puy, aged 16, wanted to die together,
and were taken to a hospital in New
Brighton, where the girl died.
The Pennsylvania Forestry 'Commis-
sion decided to purchase Mont Alto
Park, with the view of establishing a
college of forestry.
Six persons were severely injured and
a panic created by the stampede of a
number of horses at the gypsy camp
near Chicago.
Lilly, the chief of police of that town.
W. Gray, alias Ellsworth Lewis, was
arrested in Denver, Col, on the charge

the latter died from his injuries.
Rev. A. B. Warwick, of Nashville,
will become principal of the Valley Fe-
male College in Winchester, Va.
Miss Mary Gibson, daughter of Coun-
ty Clerk John M. Gibson, died at her
home near Berryville, Va.
Six prospectors on their way to the
Klondike gold fields were frozen to
death near Cape Romanoff.
{ Anna Kowalchik was arrested in
Cleveland for killing her child in Johns-
town, Pa. She confessed.
No success attended the effort
York, Pa.
Mrs.
cide in Chambersbutg, Pa., by hanging.
Former Governor Jones, of Alabama,
had an exciting discussion with Chair-
man Knox, of the Constitutional Con-

to be expelled from the hall.
to swindle the Knights and Ladies of
| Security.
| decided that the trust clause in the Fair
{ will with regard to personal property is
{ void.
{ Thirty of the new cadets at West
Point were overcome by the heat at the
| funeral of General Butterfield.
A general strike of the United Gar- |
New York has been
ment Workers in
ordered, involving 50,000 men.
Henry Burgess, a steeplechase jockey, |
a horse over the jumps.
Some incendiary has been setting fire
to property in Richmond, Va., belong-
| ing to Joseph Heppert.
| beat a Norfolk hotel.
" Tie Salmon combigge was incoghorat-
{ ed in Trenton, N. J., with a cf@fal of
| $25,000,000.
Foreign.
A plan for the payment of the Chinese
{ indemnity to the powers has finally
{ been adopted. It contemplates the en-
tire liquidation of both principal and in-
terest by 1940, China to raise $23,000,000
annually.
Chinese bandits are causing trouble in
| the province of Chili.
armed than the Chinese troops. In a
recent conflict a hundred soldiers and
officers were killed.
The House of l.ords sustained an in-
| junction forbidding unionists to watch |
and beset a railroad company’s property
to win over non-unionists.
The American ladies of the hospital
ship Maine presented King Edward with
the American hospital ship.
| Mr. Kruger, though depressed over
| the death of his wife, is reported to have
| plunged into his work with more than
usual energy.
Salo Rawicz, a banker, committed
suicide in Berlin because of his losses in
connection with the Leipziger Bank
{ failure.
Cardinal Vaughan gave a reception in
honor of Cardinal Gibbons in the chap-
ter hall of the new cathedral in London.
The Republican party gained 47 seats
in the elections for the French Councils
General.
Daniel Frohman secured the Hunga- |
rian violinist Kubelik for an American
tour.
Terrific electrical and hail
have done great damage in Germany.
The Paris Figaro publishes some new
Franco-
Prince
second
fair, showing how a
by
German war was averted
Munster de Derneburg:
In consequence of the Boer raids into
Natal the British military authorities
have ordered all white men to evacuate |
farms on the Tugela and Sunday rivers.
Germans are agitated over the high
duties and the minimum and maximum
charges on cereals. The Vorwaerts
i characterizes the shedules as usurious. |
It is brought to light that there are
! many young actresses of talent who can-
not make a living, as they lack
necessary influence.
The governor of the Island of Quel- |
part says that the Christian converts
were responsible for the uprising on
| that island. :
The late Prof. Max Mulier’s library
was bought by Baron Iwasaki for pre-
sentation to the University of Tokio
Intense heat has bern accompanied by
| violent storms throughout Germany.
The Siberian crops are reported to he
| nearly a total failure.
It has now developed that the fire in
the Yildiz palace was the outgrowth of
an intrigue in the Sultan's harem, the
women wishing to be rid of the lady
treasurer, who was accused of the crime.
financial.
The Allen Steel Company has been in-
| corporated in New Jersey with a capital
| of $1,000,000 to manuiacture steel.
i It is said President Stickney. of the
| Chicago Great Western. will exercise an
| option he holds for the purchase of the
| Winona and Western Railway within
three months.
A second cali has been made upon the
Burlington underwriting syndicate, thi
| time for 12 1-2 p€r cent. gal the origi
| subscription. This mals -2 call
[ to date. the first call of ent.
line’ been ‘made Mav
|
i
|
holds the Winchester Gas ani Electric |
William Brooks, a negro, was lynched |
at Elkins, W. Va., for shooting Robert |
| of securing jewelry in Topeka by fraud. |
Robert E. Craddock struck Luther A. |
Auster with a rock in Roanoke, Va., and |
to |
amicably settle the carpenters’ strike in |
Leah Finafrock committed sui- |
vention, in which the Governor refused |
Dr. Michael N. Regent received an |
{ indeterminate sentence in Chicago for |
| substituting a corpse for an insured man |
Judge Troutt, of San Francisco, has |
is | was killed in New York while schooling |
considerably irritated at his continued |
Charles E. Parsons was acquitted in |
Richmond of the charge of trying to |
They are better |
a medal commemorative of the work of |
storms |
facts connected with the Schaebele af-|
the |
} | military prisoners in Ceylon,

Buffalo, N. Y. (Special).—The juries
of award for the Pan-American Exposi-
tion selected by Henry Smith Pritchett
held their first meeting in the Service

as class juries for each department and
immediately take up the work reviewing
| and judging the exhibits.
All returns from the class juries will
| be subject to revision by a superior jury.
Building. Later they will be organized Col
—
THE Pi AMERICAN AWAR

the University of Wisconsin.
Agricultural Implements—Col. J!
Brigham, United States assistant s
tary of agriculture.
Food and Their Accessories—Lie
ol. A. L.. Smith, chief of the commi
sary, U..S. A,
Fcrestry—Prof. B. E. Fernow, Cornd
University.
Fisheries—United States Fish Con
missioner Charles H. Babcock, of Rocl
Following is a list of the chairman of | ester.
cach jury:
Agriculture—Prof. S. M. Babcock of’ bine, Franklin Institute, Philadelphia.

A NEW MOVE
FOR SETTLEMENT.
Intervention in the Big
Steel Strike.
Probable
| PULLING IN OPPOSITE DIRECTIONS.
| ' .
| Major Farquhar, of the Industrial Commission,
Request te Confer With the Members of the |
Way of Bringing About an Agreement.
New York (Special).—It is believed
here that a meeting may be held in a
few days for the purpose of discussing
the possibility of bringing about media-
tion in the great steel strike. Major
John M. Farquhar, of the Industrial
Commission, received a telegram asking
him to come on to New York at once.
Major Farquhar is a former member of
Congress, and is the oldest living ex-
president of an international trades-
union, having been president of the In-
| ternational Typographical Union some
40 vears ago. He will meet in New
York the members of the Ohio State
Board of Arbitration and othet men
| who are anxious to arrange some meth-
od by which the present strike can be
brought to an honorable end.
“The Industrial Commission, a
body, can hardly take cognizance of this
strikly’ said Mr. Farquhar. The com-
| mission expires by limitation in Decem-
ber and we need all the intervene fina
for the preparation of our report. It 1s
not possible for us to intervene for the
purpose of bringing the strike to an
end. Such intervention would be going
bevond our powers. The commission
was created for the purpose of investi-
gating the industrial situation and
recommending legislation for is better-
ment. While we are required to report
on mediation and arbitration, we are
not empowered as a body to mediate or
| arbitrate.
“Mediation, in my own opinion, is the
only thing that can be attempted in this
strike. Arbitration, as President Shaf-
| fer says, is out of the question. It is
impossible for thisreason: Schwab is try-
ing to ‘Carnegize’ all the plants con-
trolled by the United States Steel Cor-
| poration. He is going to try to repeat
{ his success of 1892, when he converted
the Carnegie plants into a non-union or-
ganization. His testimony before the
Industrial Commission indicated his
purpose very clearly.
as
But he will not succeed.
| has the power to give the Steel Cor-
{ poration a harder blow than has been
delivered. He has the Amalgamated
Association at his back to a man. 1
American Federation is also supporting
him.
Shaffer's purpose is to unionize all the |
plants by having the Steel Corporation
or the constituent companies sign the
| Amalgamated scale for all the shops.
“Here are these men working on op-
| posing lines. That is why arbitration
| 1s impossible.
{ and that is why mediation is the only
course leit open. Mediators may induce
each to modify his purposes somewhat.
Shaffer can never hope to force the cor-
poration to sign the scale for all the
mills. But I do think he will succe2d
in persuading Schwab that it will be het-
ter for the corporation to quit trying
to make the mills non-union. I think
he will also persuade him to agree to
unionize mills in which an overwheln-
the association.”
To Study American Methods.
Washington (Special).—Some of the
| principal foreign establishments in
Washington have received instructions
to forward to their home governments
full details of the manner in which the
United States extends its foreign com-
merce by means of foresgn
commercial travelers, etc.
The large increase of American ex-
ports has drawn the attention of foreign
governments to the methods employed
on this side of the water to develop trade
abroad. These methods have been the
subject of a number of government pub-
lications, which are now being collect-
ed for transmission to foreign capitals.
Will Not Release the Americans.
Washington (Special.)—In
Goes to New York in Compliance With a |
|
It has been discovered t
I have also heard |
the same story from President Shafler. |
Shaffer |
“Shaffer cannot succeed in full either, |
ing majority of the men are members of |
agencies,
response |
to the representations to the State De-:
partment, the British Government has
declined to release any of the: Americans |
who were captured while serving in the
Boer army.
The only exceptions will be | called
in the case of prisoners whose health is |
| zuch as to make their confinement dang-
| erous.
and the
State Department had special reference
t to their case in addressing the British
Government in this matter.
Some Americans are among the |
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( of the orders which he, as Secretary
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Mines and Metallurgy—John Birkii
SECRETARY LONG CONDEMNS BOOK.
Maclay’s History Cannot Be Used in Its Pres:
ent Form--Time for Action Says Schley.
Washington (Special).—The Secre
tary of the Navy has decided that the
third volume of Maclay’s history of the
Spanish-American War shall not be used
as a text book at the Naval Academy un-
[less the obnoxious language it containg
| in characterizing the action of Rear-Ad
{ miral Schley is eliminated. In this vo
ume the author describes the battle
Schley, callin
{ Santiago and criticises
TH
{ him, in 30 many words, a coward.
Ohio Beard of Arbitration, to Try to Find a Secretary says that it would be man
festly improper to have a history cor
taining such intemperate language use
as a text book for the cadets.
He has informed both Commander
Wainwright, who is in command of the
Naval Academy, and Mr. Maclay, the
author of the history, of the decision.
In this connection the Secretary sags
that the proofs of the entire volume v
not submitted to him by the histo
He received only the proofs of the t
chapter, that relating to the moblizal
of the fleets, which contained a summ
the Navy, had issued in making
naval preparations for the war. T
chapter was satisfactory and he returi
it to Mr. Maclay with an indication
his approval. He says he never saw
account of the battle at Santiago and
critieisms of Rear-Admiral Schley u
after the hook was published.
Because of the interest aroused,
quiries have been made as to the ide
of the author, Edward Stanton Mg
Atti
editorial writd
he at present
Navy Department in 27
the Brooklyn Navy perfo
the duties of a clerk, bic classified :
laborer.
His clerical duties end at 4 o'clo
each day, after which he has ample tin
to write history.
is
“No Time for Talking.”
New York (Special).—“This no
time for talking; it is a time for action.”
This was Rear-Admiral Winfield Scott
Schley’s answer to a request for a state-
ment of his intentions in regard to the
attack made upon him in the third vol-
ume of Edgar Stanton Maclay's ‘History
of the Navy.” It is believed that Ad
is

miral Schley will take measures to call
Mr. Maclay legally to account for thef
| accusations of cowardice and falsehood
imputed to him in the volume which has
just been issued from the press.
Bevond the declaration that the timg
for action had arrived Admiral Schic
would say nothing of his plans as to the
{ shafts which have been aimed at him.
That it is the Admiral’s intention to sum-
mon Mr. Maclay and possibly also his
his version of the course pursued by Ad-
miral Schley during the operations whic
culminated in the battle of Santiagyg
there is believed to be no doubt.
Admiral Schley was reluctant to say =
word in regard to the controversy over
| the naval operations which ended in the
destruction of Admiral Cervera’s squad-
ron. He has refrained, hitherto, from
| taking any part in the bitter contest
| which has raged both in and out of Con-
gress ever since the battle of Santiago.
MORRO CASTLE AS A NAVAL STATION]
Protests and Approval by Cuban Newspapers
of the Reported Americag Plan.
mn
Havana (Special).—T}. report that
The ! publishers to answer in the courts for J
the United States intends to hold Morro !
Castle and fortify it does not cause much |
adverse comment here.
the Cabanas fortress would be taken tor
a naval station.
The Discussion protests aga nst ili's
action, saying it is “an imposition of a
strong power upon a weak one, yet Cuba |
| can do nothing but accept.”
La Lucha otrongly approves the step.
It says:
“Cuba could not do anything with the
two historic fortresses of Havana and
S
dable Republic of the United States will
command the respect of strangers, and |
other natfons would see behind the ilag |
not the little State of Cuba but one of the
greatest powers of the globe. The two
poin¢s of most strategic importance on
the Cuban coast the United States shou'd
take and strongly fortify.”
_ Usef of “Masu
Washingon (Speci
German navy and §
facturers are using
oily product of G
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producing purp
vessels of the G
the use of this
“masut’’ over cd
fourth greater I
greatqr ease 1
smoke} and the
powely steary
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erally expected that Morro Castle and |
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