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Show he INDEPENDENT. D. C JOHNSOX, Pabllaha. 3PRINGVILLE. UTAH Perhaps "Miss" fbfae la Parti ean soothe her grief by buying soma new gowns. No man Is smart enough to land In a strange town and pick out a good 6-cent cigar. There ia talk of an incubator trust. What scheme will these trust promoters promo-ters hatch out next? Carrie A. Nation says her Initial pell "Can." But to the man who drinks they may spell can-can. The man who invented the noisy circus calliope is dead. His invention does not entitle him to a monument. A New Jersey politician was almost eaten by a hog. Think how hungry the hog, must have been to do a thing like that. Mr. Usual Still is a railway conductor conduc-tor in New York. His parents seem to have made a grammatical error in naming him. It was thought at first that Gen. Kitchener was going to hang up the sword, but now it transpires that ha is to get married. New York people should always carry parachutes, so that when they are blown up they may have a chance to come down easy. A Louisville boy went insane after eating a gallon of ice cream. There must have been other crazy people around where he got it. A London paper says May Yohe has arrived in Paris, "where she expects to be joined by her husband." Who is May's husband now? Now that a train robber has been killed and Tracy is no more, perhaps Mr. Pat Crowe will have the kindness to feel a trifle worried. Some papers are surprised that the new sultan of Zanzibar is fond of Boston Bos-ton baked beans. It simply proves the sultan is a man of good taste. In some parts of Kansas the people are complaining of a plague of "ankle bugs." There are drawbacks, of course, to the pleasure of going barefoot. bare-foot. Russell Sftjge is showing signs of age. He has Just collected a dollar that a man owed him for 25 years, and didn't say a word about the interest. in-terest. Women who bring $20,000 pearl necklaces home from Europe have a right to feel aggrieved at the inquisitive inquisi-tive manners of the custom house officers. Dr. Garnault has disproved Dr. Koch's theory that bovine tuberculosis tuberculo-sis is not contagious, but he finds the experiment rather trying to his constitution. con-stitution. Gates is In a new coal deal, but he says it is only a little flyer on the side, as he doesn't expect to make more than $10,000,000 or $15,000,000 out of it An Iowa man has $10,000,000 which he says he ean not dispose of judiciously. judi-ciously. He ought to form a partnership partner-ship with Mr. Carnegie and try the library plan. Joseph Chamberlain will now have a chance to ponder over the cause and effect problem presented by the Boer war and his failure to be appointed premier of England. The picture postal card fad is causing caus-ing Austrian stationers to fear they will be ruined, but the tradesmen appear ap-pear to forget that love letters will never go out of fashion. What's the use to worry about the price of meat now when the chief concern of the household is the manufacture manu-facture of currant jelly and the prospects pros-pects of peaches for canning? Chicago proposes to double its population popu-lation in the next quarter century and is setting about it in a systematic way. Thirty-six brace of twins were born in the city in the past four months. The old Joke regarding a lover's antipathy an-tipathy for his fiance's pet dog will have to be changed. A Paris swain, wishing- to communicate hastily with his sweetheart, scribbled a message on the back of her pet pug. There is a truthful ring in the announcement an-nouncement that lectures at the Wisconsin Wis-consin Chautauquas have been attended at-tended by audiences composed of "hundreds of Intellectual persons and millions of thirsty mosquitoes." The words "month" and "silver," long supposed to have no words to rhyme with them, have now been found to possess one rhyme each. "Onetb," a term in mathematics, and "chilver." a ewe iamb, supply the former for-mer deficiency. "It is the absurd, short-sighted, cheese-paring economy which is one of the defects of woman that makes a hotel ran by a woman uninhabitable," declares a London writer. In other words, serving prunes during the berry ber-ry season is an unpardonable sin. A FEW CONUNDRUMS. What has only one foot? A stocking. stock-ing. How do bees dispose of their honey? hon-ey? They cell It. What games do the waves play at? Pitch and toss. What sort of men are always above board? Chessmen. What soup would cannibals prefer? "A broth of a boy." When is a man more than a man? When he is beside himself. Why is an echo like a iaay? Because Be-cause she will have the last word. Why should little birds in a nest agree? Because it is dangerous to fall out. Why is a pig in the kitchen like a house on lire? The sooner it's out the better. What is a muff? Something that holds a lady's hand and doesn't squeeze if. When is a clock on the stair dangerous? dan-gerous? When it runs dowa and strikes one. Why is a dog's tail like the heart of a tree? Because it is farthest from the bark. American Boy. AMBASSADOR. United States Ambassador to Germany, who tendered his resignation, to take effect Nov. 7. Andrew D. White, the United States Ambassador to Germany, has resigned, resign-ed, the resignation to take effect Nov. 7. Ambassador White is now at Hom-burg, Hom-burg, where he is taking the waters and where he probably will remain till the end of the month. There is much gossip at Berlin concerning con-cerning Mr. White's probable successor, succes-sor, and one cimcumstantlal story is that the President intends to transfer Ambassador Tower from St. Petersburg Peters-burg to Berlin, Minister Storer from Spain to be Ambassador to Russia, and to appoint Henry White, now secretary sec-retary of embassy at London, as Min- Dr. David Jayne Hill, ister to Spain. Mr. Tower, who has been dissatisfied with St. Petersberg, expressed months ago a wish to be transferred to some other equally desirable de-sirable post, preferably Berlin. , . Mr. White was appointed Ambassador Ambassa-dor to Germany April 1. 1897. In March last it was announced that he contemplated resigning because of ill health. . Several gentlemen in the dipl6matic service have been mentioned at Washington Wash-ington in connection with the Berlin embassy should Ambassador White retire, re-tire, the most prominent being Dr. David Jayne Hill, now first assistant Secretary of State, and Bellamy Storer, Stor-er, at present Minister to Spain. Civil Service in Australia. Some odd discoveries are being made by the postmaster-general of Australia in regard to the freedom and laxity with which "franked'' stamps have been used. All the state parliaments and departments have been permitted to use rubber stamps which frank all their correspondence from end to end of Australia. The understanding was that only official correspondence should be so franked, but the interpretation of "official" has been elastic. It has covered letters canvassing for church bazaars and convening meetings of cricket, football foot-ball and rifle clubs. Even the departmental depart-mental messenger boys have had free access to the rubber stamps and have used them freely. One member of parliament had the coolness to ask this to be sent as a franked telegraphic tele-graphic message: "Have engaged a barmaid; am sending her by the 7:40 train." New Swedish Canal. According to reports from Stockholm, Stock-holm, the plans for a new canal, between be-tween Gothenburg, on the west coast t Sweden, and Wenersburg, on the large Wener Lake, have now been drawv up, on the basis of the surveys lnatftuted in 1900. This enterprise is Intended by the Swedish government to supplement the old canal connecting connect-ing the Baltic with the North Sea, which is no longer able to cope with traffic doubling itself every twenty years. The new canal will take from seven to eight years to construct, and will cost 32,000,000 Scandinavian crowns. The depth will be about twenty feet, which will allow vessels of a tonnage up to 4,100 tons to pass through. Its yearly carrying capacity is estimated at a maximum of 20,000,-000 20,000,-000 tons. Australia's Blackberry Pest. Blackberries thrive more luxuriaat-ly luxuriaat-ly in .Australia than in Europe or America, their growth being so rapid that In many places they are regarded aa an agricultural pest, says the Garden. Gar-den. Like the first rabbits, the original orig-inal blackberry vines have grown and multiplied until "they bid fair to cover the face of the country. The bushes are not, cultivated they can look after themselves, as many Australian agriculturists are painfuly aware but the jam made from their fruit is sufficiently suf-ficiently tempting to make one forget their unwelcome presence on the farm. Fewer Cattle in England. A reduction by 41,000 of the total number of cattle in Great Britain is not, on the total herd of nearly 7,000,-000, 7,000,-000, of much statistical importance, but It gives the first check to the progress prog-ress year by year since 1894. Salvation Army Going to Hungary. Hungary will shortly be- Invaded' by tie Salvation Army, according to a letter written to a Hungarian friend by "Gen." Booth. WHITE RESIGNS BRET HARTE AS A MYSTERY. William Black's Estimate of the Famous Fa-mous Novelist. An interesting side-light on the character of Bret Harte is thrown by William Black in one of his letters addressed to Sir Wemyss Reid in 1880. "And in a few weeks time don't be surprised if Bret Harte and I come and look you up," writes Black "that is, if he Is not compelled com-pelled for mere shame's sake to go to his consular duties (! ! !) at once. He is the most extraordinary globule of mercury comet aerolite gone drunk flash of lightning doing Catherine wheels I ever had any experience ex-perience of. Nobody knows where he is, and the day before yesterday I discovered here a pile of letters that had been slowly accumulating for him since February, 1879. It seem3 he never reported himself to the all-seeking all-seeking Escott (the hall porter), and never asked for letters when he got his month's honorary membership last year. People are now sending letters let-ters to him from America addressed to me at Brighton! But he is a mystery mys-tery and the cause of mystification.' Harper's Weekly. Yiddish Writers. What produces literature among the Yiddish writers? It is life; it is struggle; strug-gle; it is development. Its people have not been ossified into institutionalized institution-alized complacency because the questions ques-tions of life Intrude everywhere, says a writer in the American Hebrew. Its constituency is industrially ambitious, intellectually alert; it is on the qui vive to exercise all the faculties that have been .given it. And out of that turmoil, touched with Intense intellectuality, intel-lectuality, shall come the power to establish es-tablish the Jewish people. BATTLED WITH A BANDIT. Express Messenger Byl Attempted to Guard Railroad Property. Express Messenger William Byl, who battled with a bandit In the holdup hold-up of the Chicago, Burlington and Quincy, train, entered the employ of the Adams Express Company twelve year3 ago and was given the run from Savanna, 111., to Calmar, Iowa. He was advanced to the position of night depot agent at the Canal street depot in Chicago, and in 1894 was placed in charge of the run from Chicago to Minneapolis, a position which he has since held. Byl, who is a native of Cincinnati and 45 years of age, was left an orphan ac 12 and went to live with an aunt near Humboldt, 111, in Coles county. In 1878 he was married and three years later went to Joliet, where he obtained employment as circulator cir-culator on the Joliet Daily News. Later he was employed on the Press and Signal of that city. Byl has a son in the offices of the Adams Express Ex-press company in Chicago. Two daughters teach in the public schools of Joliet, where the family makes it home. Our Latent Nomad Instinct. In our work we get further and further fur-ther away from the earliest types of civilization, but In our play we come at times very near to prehistoric life, says the People's Friend. Our picnics pic-nics are an attempt to satisfy our latent nomad instinct, our games and races are a symbol of the fierce struggle strug-gle for existence which was a very real literal conflict in those far-off days, but has been modernized under the name of trade competiton. And our love of shooting and fishing and hunting has no doubt been inherited from those who long ago hunted, not for pleasure, but for dinner. Food of South African Native. - Millet and maize constitute the staple dietary of the South African native. When he has plowed his land, sown his seed and scoffied he rests until the harvest. Herbarium for Vermont University. Dr. W. Seward Webb. one of the trustees of the University zZ Vermont, has given $6,000 for the purchase of the herbarium of Cyrus G. Pringle. the botanist TWO CENTUKIES OLD TOWN IN MASSACHUSETTS INCORPORATED IN-CORPORATED IN 1710. Byfield Boasts of Many Places of Historic His-toric Interest Manufactured First Cotton Cloth in America Home of the First Longfellow. (Special Letter.) WO hundred years ago, some thirty families of Newbury, Mass., who were too far dls-tant dls-tant from the church Of Newbury, New-bury, and from the newly es tablished church of the West Parish, now West Newbury, were set apart, and took the name of Newbury Falls, or Quescacunquen. Four years later the name Byfield was taken, and in 1710 was incorporated. Byfield par ish was named In honor of Judge Nathaniel Na-thaniel Byfield, who lived within the parish. The first meeting house was built in 1702, after the pattern of the First Meeting House (1702). churches of the day. Its spire was mounted by a gilded weather cock. This weather cock also adorned the secd church) and is still in the pos session of Byfield's descendants. The second church was erected in 1746, and burned in 1833. Eight months later the present church was built. It ia situated in the center of the parish, par-ish, and the line separating the present pres-ent town of New'mry and Georgetown George-town passes through the building. The parish has to-day its regular organization, and its original limits. Parish meetings are called annually, as they were 200 years ago. and are marked by the same seriousness and decorum. Very many places of historic interest inter-est are located within the limits of this ancient parish. At Newbury Falls, the tirst mill was built in 1634. On this location the first cotton cloth, first broadcloth and the first cut nails made in America were manufactured. manufac-tured. To-day the Byfield woollen mills have there a large and well known factory for the manufacture of felt and woollen blankets. Here, too, was located the second water grist mill of the state. In Byfield also is the original home of the Longfellows tie ancestor of the poet and all others of the name. The old cellar remains, and the mounting block, from which the dames of the household mounted their horses. Not far from here is the ancestral home of the Moodys. Here William Moody settled in 1635, and here the present secretary of the navy, the Hon. William H. Moody, was born. On Warren street is the home of Col. Albert Pike of civil war fame. ,. Paul Pillsbury, the Inventor of nfany'of the household comforts of to-day, lived in Byfield. From him we got coffee mills, shoe pegs, cut nails, etc. Near by the meeting house Is the building used for a seminary the first female seminary in America. Here Miss Grant, Mary Lyon and Harriet Newell were enrolled as pupils. In the parish also is Dummer Academy, the oldest academy in the United States, established in 176o. From its doors have gone out many men illustrious in state and nation two presidents of Harvard, two chief justices of the commonwealth, a minister min-ister to Great Britain, an English general gen-eral of world wide fame, an American Ameri-can admiral of the revolution and a long line of men scarcely less noted in the service of state and nation. In the parish also was the first fulling full-ing mill in America, built by John Pearson in 1643. The site of this building is now occupied by the Glen mills, manufacturers of breadstuffs, '3f mm nnnmi i r .3" i rn T-'l ' - I" 1 First Female Seminary. owned by members of the Dummer family. On Wednesday, July 30, the field day of the parish was observed. The Rev. Dr. John L. Ewell of Harvard University, Washington, D. C, had charge of the exercises, and delivered an address on "The Men and Affairs of the Parish." Following him, the Rev. Dr. Edward Everett Hale of Boston Bos-ton delivered an address. Dr. Ewell is a native of the parish, and Dr. Hale traces his ancestry to families from the parish. Freakish Musical Conductor. Signor Creatore arrived in Ne-. York a few days ago with an Italian band of some half hundred performers perform-ers and has taken the town by storm. According to published accounts he is more of a contortionist than Strauss and Sousa put together while conducting conduct-ing his band. He appears to cajole, command, urge and inspire the players by turns and generally works them into a musical frenzy that is almost pathological. Just Like a Woman. A young and pretty woman entered a telegraph-office the other day, and wrote out a dispatch. She read It over, reflected for a moment, and then dropped it on the floor, and wrote a second. This she also threw down, but was satisfied with the, third, and sent it off. The three telegrams read: 1. "Never let me hear from you again!" 2. "No one expects you to return!" 3. "Come home-, dearest all is forgiven!" for-given!" Chamberlain Marked for Life. Joseph Chamberlain will carry for the remainder of his life an ugly scar on his forehead, resulting from his recent re-cent cab accident. A spark neglected makes a mighty fire. -Herrick. . I Hard Work Ahead for "Private" John Allen of Mississippi. "Private" John Allen, who represented represent-ed a Mississippi district in Congress for several years, but who was left at home two years ago by constituents constitu-ents who thought he was not serious enough to be a successful legislator, was in Washington recently on business busi-ness connected with the St. Louis exposition, ex-position, writes a correspondent of the Cleveland Plain Dealer. While in Congress Con-gress John Allen was known as "the wit of the House." During his last visit to Washington .he was dining with some friends at a downtown hotel. ho-tel. The hour was late, and the conversation con-versation dragged. "Private" Allen began yawning. Finally he stretched out both arms, and with a long drawn yawn he said: "Well, gentlemen, I must go to my hotel and go to bed, for I have some hard work to do in the morning." . Knowing Mr. Allen's aversion to work of any kind, one of the party said: "Why, John, what work have you to do in the morning?" "Oh," drawled the Mlssissippian, "I have to get up." SNAKE BRACELET THE FAD. Fashionable Newport Women Take Up A New Idea. ' Fashionable women who constitute the life and novelty of aristocratic Newport during the gay summer season sea-son have introduced something decidedly decid-edly new this year. They have as a rule given up the idea of making gorgeous gor-geous displays of jewelry and have descended de-scended upon one fad which they are pushing wita considerable energy. This is the snake bracelet. Every woman at Newport who claims to be anybody at all is wearing one, and the ambition of each seems to be to wear a twining circle t f gold or silver around her arm that shall eclipse the one displayed by every other woman. As a result the fad has assumed gorgeous gor-geous proportions, and many of the bracelets are realistic enough to send cold chills, of horror chasing up and down one's back. Some of the bracelets brace-lets extend almost to the elbow, and are correct representations of uncanny uncan-ny reptiles. But this only lends excitement ex-citement to the fad. and that is why it has been snapped up so eagerly at Newport. Her Forgetfulness. "We are a pretty innocent lot of horny-handed toilers down in Nassau county," said the old farmer who takes a few summer boarders, "but you've got folks in town who can match us. The other day I had a young woman come dowp, and as I was driving her from the station over to the house, she asked: , "Mr. Blank, how many oxen do you keep on your farm?" " 'Not a one. Miss,' says I. "But you advertise fresh milk in plenty. If you haven't got any oxen, where do you get your milk?" " 'Why, from the cows, of course.' " 'Oh, of course,' she says, with a laugh; 'I ought to have remembered what cows' horns were for. " Brooklyn Brook-lyn Citizen. Leak in the White House. A distinguished federal officer in the south recently visited President Roosevelt Roose-velt to confer regarding some appointments. appoint-ments. He does not care to have it known that he meddles with such matters, mat-ters, so his visit to the chief magistrate magis-trate was kept very quiet. But Mr. Roosevelt does not make a mystery about such trifles and discussed the subject of his caller's visit with several sev-eral persons. The result was that the story m got into the papers and the President's mysterious caller wrote protesting that he had not discussed his visit.. "I fear," he said, "that there is a leak in the white house." The President agrees that there is quite a large leak. The New Chinese Minister. Sir Liang Chang, the new Chinese envoy to this country, is a many-sided man. He is 39 years old and was one of the 120 students sent by China, beginning be-ginning in 1872. to learn American ways. He entered Amherst college, but was unable to graduate because of recall by his government. He was an expert catcher and pitcher on the baseball base-ball nine at Phillips and Amherst. He is fond of society and is an entertaining entertain-ing conversationalist. It remains to be seen whether he can approach the retiring minister Wu as an after-dinner speaker. Sir Liang is a widower. Writing Biography of Goethe. Lord George Goschen, former English Eng-lish chancellor of the exchequer, heretofore here-tofore best known as an authority on finance, is at work on a biography of Goethe, of whose writings he is a great admirer. Years of research are said to have resulted in Sir George's gathering gath-ering together a mass of new materiaL' Loubet to Visit Algeria. President Loubet has promised to visit Algeria, which has not seen a chief magistrate since 1865. The visit will probably be piid nest Easter. WHAT HE HAD TO Bo. mmI vwmsmte if tiff mm mmmm II AS THE WORLD REVOLVES CHINESE USE PLAYING CARDS Queer Names Given by Celestials to Instruments of Gambling. If there is one thing the Chinese 1b America cannot understand regarding regard-ing our customs it is why the police and courts should take cognizance of gambling. It is a recognized amusement amuse-ment in China, and the Chinaman is a reckless gambler. They have several kinds of playing cards, but the general name for them is che-pae, or paper tickets. The cards are two inches and a half in length and half an inch wide, and the kind most commonly used are called tseen-wan-chepae, "a thousand times ten thousand cards." This pack has thirty cards three suits of nine each and three independent cards, which are superior to the rest. The suits are named respectively "nine myriads of strings of beads," "nine units of cakes" and "nine units of chains." There are several queer names for other varieties of playing cards. One is called "the hundred boys' ;cards," another "chariots, horses and guns," and a third, curiously devised on the principle of some of our historical games, is called "a thousand times ten thousand men's names cards." CHOSEN TO CHRISTEN CRUISER Miss Elsie Macomber to Act as Sponsor Spon-sor for the Des Moines. Gov. Cummins of Iowa has selected Miss Elsie Macomber of Des Moines to act as sponsor for the cruiser Des Moines, which will be launched at Boston, Mass., Sept. 20. The event will be made a state occasion and the governor and staff and state officers, offi-cers, as well as the mayor and city Miss Elsie Macomber. officials of Des Moines, will participate. partici-pate. Miss Macomber is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. J. K. Macomber. Mr. Macomber Is a prominent attorney and for several years served as city solicitor. Mrs. Macomber has traveled extensively in foreign lands. She is well known as a lecturer, her subjects relating chiefly to her travels. Miss Macomber is a pronounced brunette, with a shock of black hair, fine dark eyes, and a complexion that is the envy of her sex. She is one of the most popular girls in Des Moines. She spent last summer traveling in Italy, France, Switzerland, and Spain. Ex-Senator Turpie's Views. David Turpie, formerly United States senator from Indiana, Is passing pass-ing his declining years in his comfortable com-fortable Indianapolis home. Mr. Turpie Tur-pie declines to be interviewed, saying he has absolutely retired from public life. "It seems to me," he said recently, re-cently, "that newspapers give too much space to trivial matters. Twenty-five years ago the reporters only sought interviews on subjects of moment. mo-ment. I don't think they are so careful care-ful nowadays." IRISH APPROVE OF DUDLEY Successor to Earl of Cadogan Is Popular Popu-lar in Dublin. The appointment of the earl of Dudley to succeed the earl of Cadogan as lord lieutenant of Ireland, was received re-ceived with great enthusiasm at Dublin. Dub-lin. The social element of the city is well aware of the magnificespe of the hospitality of the countess of Dud- Earl of Dudley, ley, and this is in addition to her claims , as a beauty. The earl of Dudley Dud-ley is affirmed to have stated on a previous occaslcn, when the question of appointment was mooted, that he thought it the duty of the lord lieutenant lieu-tenant to stay in Dublin most of the time. One of the complaints which was constantly being made concerning Lord Cadogan was that he was seldom sel-dom at the vice regal lodge. A Boneless Big Fish. A York fisherman relates an experience ex-perience he had the other day in capturing cap-turing a curious specimen of the finny tribe which is puzzling everybody to determine exactly what sort of a sea monster it is. He was about two miles from Boon Island when he felt a tug on his 6-pound line. He commenced com-menced to pull in, but found that he had tackled a hard job. He finally got the monster into the boat and brought it In. The fish is of a muddy color, over 6 feet long, and with a head that is fully three-quarters of a yard wide at the widest part. It has a mouth resembling that of a shark, and small teeth. The teeth are not hard, as would naturally be expected in a fish of this size. Its eyes are about as big round as an old fashioned copper cenL The fish weighs 200 pounds. One of the strangest things about the fish is the apparent absence of bones. Kennebec Journal. Catch of Columbia Salmon. This season's salmon pack on the Columbia river amounted to about 113,000 cases. The total catch is estimated es-timated equal to 150,000 cases. Current News and Views MAY HANNA TO WED A LORD Senator's Former Daughter-in-Law Finds an English Spouse. May Harrington Hanna, former wife of Daniel R. Hanna and one of Cleveland's Cleve-land's cleverest society women, is rumored to be about to become the bride of an English nobleman. She declines to affirm or deny the report. The prospective bridegroom is Baid to be one of the most manly men of May Harrington Hanna. Former Wife of Daniel R. Hanna, Who Rumor, says. Will Wed an English Nobleman. England and a clcse friend of King Edward. Mrs. Hanna's - Cleveland friends say the wedding will take place this fall either in Cleveland or New York. Senator and Mrs. Hanna are said to favor their former daughter-in-law's selection. She has three children. chil-dren. She was divorced from Dan Hanna several years ago. She recently recent-ly returned from Europe. Mistaken Kindness to a Horse. The Humane Society agent at Al-toona, Al-toona, Pa., has entered suit against Patrick Logue on a charge of cruelty to animals. The case is a peculiar one. Logue, about five years ago, purchased a good horse and devoted it to family use. One day during the winter he was sleighing with his family when a part of the harness broke, allowing the sleigh to slide down against the horse and partly down over an embankment. The horse made no effort to get away and Logue vowed that the horse should not do another day's work for its action; for had it started the family would have been thrown into a ravine and badly injured, if not killed. This was four years ago and the horse has not been out of the stable since. Logue feeds it and cares for it, but has steadfastly refused to take it out, hence the prosecution. LOSS TO TEMPERANCE CAUSE Samuel F. Pearson, "Parson Sheriff" of Portland, Me., Is Dead. Samuel F. Pearson, the late "parson sheriff" of Portland, Me., would have been tendered, had he lived, the presi- Samuel F. Pearson. dentlal nomination for 1904 by the national Prohibition party. Mr. Pearson Pear-son was known throughout the length and breadth of New England for his devotion to the cause of prohibition and for his deeply religious character. For twenty-four years he conducted at Portland one of the largest missions mis-sions in the country, and as a lecturer on temperance he was regarded as a second John B. Gough. In his tours of Europe and America he converted a total of . probably 500,000 persons from drunkenness to sobriety. His record at home as a sheriff was remarkable. re-markable. Within three months the town was cleared of saloons and "dives." Mr. Pearson was born in Boston in 1841. Purchased Whole Library. Andrew Carnegie is not the first millionaire to buy a historian's library. The 7,000 volumes of chronicles and travels from which Gibbon distilled the "Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire" were purchased by Beckford after the writer's death. "I bought it," said the author of "Vathek," "to have something to read when I passed through Lausanne." There were few rarities in the collection, but most of the authors were in the best obtainable obtain-able editions and in perfect condition; condi-tion; the fastidious Gibbon was incapable in-capable of behaving disrespectfully to a book. For six weeks Beckford reveled rev-eled in his purchase and read himself him-self nearly blind. He soon tired of his books, however, and presented the whole collection to a German physician physi-cian named Schell. The recipient showed his appreciation of the treasure treas-ure by promptly selling it. Battering Rams. di Iff h ffo In the days of old battering rams were justly so called, as they consisted con-sisted of a strong pole, with an iron mounted head of a ram, that was used to butt breaches in a wall. Menelek May Tour Europe. Menelek, king of Abyssinia, is about to start on a tour of Europe, and intends in-tends visiting every court on the continent con-tinent if the government of Great Britain, to whicn he owes allegiance, will permit him. S WEEKLY PANORAMA CLAIMS THE MACKAY MILLIONS Mrs. Fender of Springfield, Mo., Make Startling Charges. Mrs. Albert C Fender of Springfield, Spring-field, Mo., claims she is legally entitled en-titled to John W. Mackay's millions. Mrs. Fender is the niece of the late "bonanza king." She says she will begin suit for Mackay's vast fortune, and will base her claim upon a charge that Clarence Mackay is not a legitimate legiti-mate son. Mrs. Fender is the daughter daugh-ter of Peter Mackay, who lives near Monett, Mo., and who is the only living liv-ing brother of the wealthy Californian. She was born in England, and came to this country when she was a cbild. Her mother died when she was 2 years of age, and, as her father is of a secretive and distant disposition, she learned very little of her uncle whose estate she now claims. To a correspondent she said: "As my father refuses to take up the matter and will make no attempt to obtain the fortune which I think is rightfully ours, I have decided to take the matter in my own hands. My father and his brother became estranged es-tranged when they were young men, and gradually drifted apart. I always thought there was some trouble between be-tween them, for my father would never speak of him when he could avoid it, and now he will not consider con-sider making an attempt to gain his millions. Just where this Clarence Mackay came from I do not know. 1 think that I have something in sight which will bring out startling facts. I firmly believe .hat I have as much right to the money of my uncle as any one now livirg, and I think that Mrs. A. C. Fender. I will make my claim stand in the courts. So far as I know, John W. Mackay left no will, and if there is none found it will make my case stronger, as the distribution of the money will oe left to the courts. We have taken no important steps in the matter so far. We are moving very quietly, but when we take a step it will be a decisive one." Big Millionaires Are Worried. President Haffen of the borough of Bronx, in New York, intends to have all of that section of Westchester county known as Throggs Neck divided divi-ded into city lots. Many New York millionaires have estates in this locality, lo-cality, and it is probable that a strenuous strenu-ous protest will be made when the plan is known. Mrs. C. P. Huntington, Mrs. Eliza M. Von B. di Zerega, Jacob Lorillard and J. C. and F. C. Have-meyer Have-meyer are among those who have mansions in that vicinity and wh9 prefer the present exclusiveness of the place to a coming boom. WANT WRIGHT TO ANSWER. English Company Promoter Faces Angry Shareholders. Petitions are being circulated in London asking that Whitaker Wright, who promoted companies with a total capitalization of $111,775,000, be brought to answer charges. It is now estimated the English public lost $100,000,000 in his companies, numbering number-ing forty-one, of which nearly all have failed or gone into liquidation. The receiver has action to recover $750,-000 $750,-000 from Wright and one of his asso- Whitaker Wright, ciates. When at the height of his prosperity Wright made plans for a mansion, the most superb In England, but the crash came before the building build-ing was finished. Even now the structure struc-ture is magnificent in its style and equipment. Sultan's Gift to the Czar. The sultan of Turkey is anxious to win the good graces of the czar of Russia. He has recently given the Muscovite ruler a present of two larg porcelain vases and a tea servlc made in his own factory. One of th vases, intended for the empress, Ii covered with oriental ornaments, th other with scenes from oriental streei life and pictures of Turkish palaces. A Big Flight of Pigeons. A few days ago a long-distance trial of homing pigeons on a great scale was made In Rome. The number ol birds liberated was 2,800 all from Belgian lefts the operation being directed di-rected by a captain of engineers. The pigeons were from lofts in various Belgian towns and cities Brussels, Antwerp, Liege, Mons, Charleroi and Seraing, among others. Famous Paintings May Come Here. If Senator Clark of Montana can overcome the objections of the Austrian Aus-trian government he will shortly remove re-move to this country the famous Prey-er Prey-er collection of paintings, which he bought last December at a cost of 5375,000. The pictures are at present in Vienna. Baptist Missions in Cuba. Rev. A. J. Diaz, M. D.. of Havana, Cuba, has proposed establishing a Baptist printing house in Havana for the purpose of supplying the Sunday school and other literature in Spanish. The Baptists missions in the island are said to be in a prosperous condition. 'Slfi |