Show A report showing the amount of work done on the canal in out our nine years of jurisdiction there has just come out it shows that 99 per c cent ent concrete work has been completed and only cubic yards of dirt remains to be taken out excavation is progressing gressing pio at the rate of cubic yards per month so far the total cost has been secret service men arrested richard lindsay in philadelphia li he is charged with sending threatening letters to president wilson in one at f his hia letters he demands an answer and threatened in cate the answer was not forthcoming to learn the president a lesson he would not forget he also demanded as damages for tin an alleged assault by a government official phonetic spelling appears to be gaining ground judson jones of cleveland minn after working on the idea 20 years has finished a translation of 01 the bible according to a system of f spelling devised by himself his system eliminates all silent letters and substitutes mr jones says that thre dictionaries in this country and three in england are using his system the english school of china have used it for nine years and it is also well received by other foreigners three years ago an american named porter charlton was arrested in ital italy F charged with murdering his wife H he escaped to this country and there has been a long fight over the question of his bis extradition italy demanded that he be giyen up to her for trial and the supreme court has lust just decided that chis rr w roust bedone d ani j C hr ji rit I 1 6 awl j tam ta M q 2 id t was for him 0 o evabe trial the government experts are arc predicting a bumper wheat crop again this year they estimate the total as bushels this will make three successive good crop years which will be a new record farmers last season held over an unusually larie large part of their crops in the hope ol of getting better prices but prices are hilll on the wane A government 1 bulletin shows that staple articles average 21 per cent lower than last year if the cost of living is to be lowered it looks now as if it would be at the expense of the producers there is but little of cheering mation in a bulletin just issued by the department of agriculture it shows that chitin th itin in the past six years there has been a decline of more than 30 per cent in the number of beef cattle in the united states and that for the first three months of this year the number of of meat animals killed under government supery supervision ision has decreased about 13 per cent compared with the same period perio dof of last year estimates show the number of beef cattle in the united states as jan 1 1907 and only at the beginning of this year with the supply diminishing prices have gone higher we have no longer a surplus to export but roust must now conserve our meat supply the supreme court has upheld the validity ol of the newn newspaper paper publicity this law requires all papers nd and periodicals except scientific religious and fraternal ones to publish sworn statements twice each year giving the nines nimes of their publishers editors and principal stock and bondholders bond holders dally daily must also publish sworn of their circulation which ia 11 where te th e thoc shoe pinches andall and ill editorials or other articles for which money or 01 other value it Is received or expected must be labeled as aa adverts advertise ise anenia s so the public may ar know kilow when they are reading paid write ups this law it 13 a step toward b etter ater bourna journalism m 1 i columbia college requires a student to be able to swim cwm at least feet before he is given his degree M Rosec stock a senior told the physical director of the college that he suffered from a skin akin di disease sestie which would be aggravate ag aggravated gravat ed by contract with the water the d director director said would be excused if he could furnish a certificate from his P physician y he soon soon came caine back with a paper to the effect that he was wa a sufferer from this was a new nevi one on the director but by means of 01 a latin dictionary he made it out to mean goose gooseflesh flesh from fear ro senj seni tock was not excused these iconoclasts soon will not leave us a single one of our old cherished traditions A london antiquary ti quary has been poking into the old records and has come to the conclusion that as in the case of dickens Dic kena famous character of mrs hurls harris there aln ain ano t no sich a per person 0 n as aa dick whittington of the nursery tales ha was never Xi irice mayor 0 of f london and consequently the bells of old bow church must have hare prevaricated pre it if they said so there thea was no mayor of london until 1481 1486 and whittington died in 1423 it Is ii found however itis it is deemed like likely ay that whittington though not called mayor did serve forth three tee terms as aa the head officer of the city just as bow bells predicted he was a personage but his cat may be apocryphal cry phal it is stated that king george will not cot appoint a successor to the late alfred austin as poet laurette hm cite because he considers the p post ost as aa obsolete as that of court jester really a court jester would be more appropriate and I 1 tsuu 4 the leq IdeA 7 of it leaor or govern me nt ne needing edinga inga td wf to poems in in their defense rise and praise itself as good it a jok ikc e as any ca court urt fool 1061 ever g got ot off austins akstins Aus tins laureateship practically sealed the doom of the in ution by making it ridiculous no modern poets of much distinction except wordsworth and tennyson have been laureates the selection of it a mediocrity like austin in preference to or kipling or others showed that the hanoi was not conferred for poetic merit but for political or other reasons dryden was waa ther the first poet to be mide made regular poet laureate though some earlier poets had ad occupied the position in a tentative way emily davison the young woman suffragette who threw herself in front of the kings horse at the epsom races died as a result of her injuries she had several times before sought to make herself a martyr to the cause of votes for women and was one of the roost most daring of the militants she found ways to invade the house of commons in spite of all the efforts of the guards once the she gained an en trance by crawling through an alk air shaft one of her last exploits was to assault a minister of the gospel in the belief that he was chancellor lloyd george eorge the other suffragettes gettes extol miss davi 5 son on who they say died aled for women and they predict that her martyrdom like that of the early christians will arouse sympathy and make new con verts to the cause the arson squad celebrated the occasion by burning a numbes cumbes of buildings at various points throughout the country woman evidently does not think that her place Is ii only in the horni home statistics recently pom compiled piled show that there are women ers era women teachers hd professors women in various trades 7 5 women en engaged V ged in agricultural pursuits assi womer I 1 physicians end and surgeons e 7 women V clergymen 2193 women journalists 1037 women architects designer and draftsmen 10 10 women wom n in m various other pro ess csikai lors A ton toh height freight engine on the burlington road ran into a ditch in 16 illinois a few days ago and it it Is s so deeply buried in quicksand that it will probably have to be abandoned despite the efforts effort of two wreckers of ton capacity each the santee a famous old fighting ship hip of cf the navy has had been relegated to the junk pile by the government and will be taken to boston beached and burned to secure the copper and other valuable metals metal her hull contains three men have just been tried at boston charged with planting dynamite at the time of 0 the lawrence strike with the object of bringing discredit on the labor unions among them was W W wood head of the woolen trust he and one other were acquitted but the third man was wa found guilty I 1 in boasting of his hia strength the other day john inflated his chest and told one of his bit friends to hit him as hard bard as he could his friend di did ld as he was told and dropped d dead ead ile he had been struck over the solar plexus which shows that boasters sometime some ome to grief while fashing from his hii towboat rowboat the other day hugh adker 17 years old of cleveland was waa dragged into the i water ol of lake erle erie by a big fish he had hooked the line became wrapped about the boy and before rescuers could get him out he was drowned the fiah M escaped U S ambassador Amb asador page at london has been criticizing some of the re parts given out by the agricultural department part ment on the ground that they are couched in too and ter technical hn loat language 6 on hia secretary of agriculture houston has appointed an expert publicity man to 10 act as bant for the department and translate the department literature 1 into plain rural english and otherwise bring the work of the department down to the plain pee pul by heckl 1 I think that children are not so observing as they used to be said a member of the school board to a school teacher 1 I noticed it replied the teacher well ill prove it to you answered the committeeman turning to the class he said someone give L me a number then ill make another number by using the some figures thirty seven said a little girl eagerly 1 he wrote 73 on the board well someone else give me a number fifty seyen seren said another child he wrote 75 on the board and smiled coiled knowingly at the teacher he called for it a third number and fairly gasped wh nhsn n a little urchin piped up seventy teven seven and see if you can change that tommy had teased teamed begged and implored his father to buy him a watch the impatient fathers final answer was no once and for all not if 11 I 1 heir hear you mention the word watch again I 1 punish you sever clyl that evening the family assembled at the dinner table and as was their custom before eating each repeated a verse from the bible when tommys tommas turn came he said what I 1 say unto one of you I 1 say unto onto all of you watt watell hito the watch was forthcoming I 1 rose donnelly a salvation army girl of detroit ws was s stood on her I 1 head bead ott on a table f m a saloon by some rough characters she sued the proprietor of the saloon and has ben been awarded damages for the dignity |