| Show va jyo anele tom ram lately having been mad made at the office of the general that large largo of valuable aitor hipped shipped from froin ban san franciaco Franc laco for manila bare have been disappearing for several month months secretary boot cabled order orders to naneral macarthur Me cArthur to make a thorough investigation for the pur of ascertaining if there waa was not a conspiracy to defraud the govern meat the arrest at of captain barrow barrows quartermaster quarterma ater of the department of southern luxon laxon and the rest of hia his accomplices aj as the direct remit result of cheav order orders it 11 la if not stated how bow extensive hare bea been the govern merta losses 1 but it if to believed bell eTed that ther will amount to several hundred thousand dollars lu III the aggregate th the nans of the contractor who haa has bea been placed under arrest 1 Is being withheld for reasons beet list known to the secretary of war lie la is alered wicked ll ered to be tb the dominating figure ut u the 1118 conspiracy id when the fact facts ire are all known the secretary and adjutant central are convinced that it will be disclosed that be 14 the man who boa has made it eur easy for 71 arrows and hie bid commissary comm lary sergeants to dispose of government flour and other rations and collect cash from the persons to whom their they were delly ered the information that haa has reached washington thus fir far proves that the commissary system in the eat I 1 to conducted in a loore lome manner the fret filet that the losses hart have been going on for months la in causing secretary root and the president preel dent a great deal of annoyance and will doubtless doubt leea urge them to demand that drastic urea be tak tn n not only to punish everybody con CAPT J F accused ot of being the head of a biff army commissary Comm leeary in manila termed but tor put an end to future nide on army it in feared that hen when the fact are til all known it will tx be found that the raiding has not bea been coffin confined t d to manila nila but extends throughout the entire department of the philippines philippine a and land that the losses will amount to upward of 1000 what the war department fears Is that harrow I 1 Is simply a cos COX la ia a vast machine fiat baa has been op to defraud the government and that many other men tetter etter known than himself will be dragged into the scandal before it hai has been closed bohmon if 11 a Tara daje tom 4 johnson who ho has been elected mayor of cleveland upon a demo e o critic cratic ticket one of the main planks of which Is the upholding of the 3 cent car fare proposition Is one of the strange anomalies of the country and withal a man who has his many friends became of his intense earnestness earne etness in any awk which he undertakes to understand der stand something of the paradoxical 4 lature oi 0 the new mayor of cleveland it Is necessary to compare the follow 1 ing facts A manufacturer of the most heily protected steel rail rall he Is a free trader of the most pronounced kind a trolley king who hai has driven out corn com petition in the cities where he has hag large traction interests Int ereita be he Is at the same time the fiercest foe foot to ilea and monopolists in the country a terr very large owner of real estate he Is to the I 1 der of the disciple disciples of henry george 0 and bas has giren given larg largely ly of bis his wealth to the furtherance of jhb cause of the single tai movement moT ement a gald standard man be wai was one of bryan a most enthusiastic supporters that be he lert left th tho traction world of ap cleveland apland land some time ago la is but a mere incident in his desire destri to represent the cofery Vo fery watch holder the safety watch carrying device shown in tn the cut Is I 1 dot not intended to poteat the watch hoin from h oin betas being removed amir the pocket but only to provide a degree ot of resistance resl stence which will make it for the watch to tall fall out accident a ily or to bs b ss pulled out gut S bythe catch C SE of chain it will ably act as a preventive to robbery as well as the spring Is strong enough to afford af forS con prevent prevents falling out old biddable erable obstruction to auch such an act th the davice ie Is of 0 emch ach simple construe 1011 that it can 10 nad mad etwo hort bort pieces of 0 prini sprint wire being all that to I 1 required in iti ito r I 1 thee the e are snack irto irta a circular frame rame r po ati nt from the city As ita its mayor lie its li Is gut a capable ot of suppo rUng a plank in platform plat fonn which be he would oppose from a business point of view tie not from insincerity but tether rather from an theoretical idea of what is to be desired in a utopian world and ain also a practical ucal knowledge of what Is necessary to business in a world which ti Is not uto plin DIAL ill IN properties lM which are represent ed as nearing 10 COO hare have been x TOM U obtained entirely by his relentless relent leu energy aad and foresight of fields available for libor labor he lie started in life without a high school education and traveled rapidly through the various stages of newsboy new boy clerk worker at a furnace mouth and bookkeeper in 14 a railroad onice he ile eoon own aw saw the advantage adran tag tage C of f the street railway interests Inte reif fro from a moneymaking money making point of view andaas and aa he marylad a wealthy woman early be he obtained a small beginning in III indianapolis from which time he hu has worked onward to his hi present prominent position a bekin bifro cabin r titue titus tho the musician ot of the fourteenth infantry who was ae the drat first soldier to scale ale the will at pekin hae has been appointed by the president a cadet at t laree large at the military academy he will hare have to come to this co country u to take the examination ada adjutant autant general corbin has cabled general macarthur at manila to teed send young titus home on the first aral labia transport titu titus earned his ht appointment at the relief of the pekin siege lut last october by climbing the city wall with a rope which be he lowered to bit his comrade comrades enabling them tu folio follow w he waa was lightly slightly wounded by a chinese bullet ae as be he reached the top of the wall all the officers of hie his regiment the fourteenth serving in china joined in a petition to the president for or the appointment of titu titus to west point ea an ing they are satis satisfied fiod that upon graduation from rom the academy he be will make an eze excellent ellent officer their petition characterize characterizes him as proved to be trustworthy intelligent sober brave and a thorough soldier young titue titus was wa born in clinton la ia his parents died when he was a child 1 and I d left him in the care of the her L CALVIN P TITUS W 0 G lee a captain in the salvation army when the spanish war broke out he be wai was la im Shafts shaftesbury bury V L t and promptly enlisted as a musician in the first regiment from that state tor for 2 errice in cuba on bis his discharge at a t th the close of 0 toe the war he went 1 est eat again and enlisted in the regulars aas a bugl r in the fourteenth infantry he ile was assigned to company E and nd served in the philippines until the command was ordered 0 china chin 4 he lie win will enter west point with tb the e experience of three wire wars to back hi him M upper ad and lower lowe r edges as na shown for insertion in the be lining of the pocket 1 ahen hen the frame Is I 1 in petition position the watch ie Is inserted between the tw two sides by forcing them apart the op spring ting betas being strong enough to cl close use them around the casing ag aaen sin ani and grip the watch mildly A quick pull will fall to dislodge it and its removal to ac only by considerable exertion Sara aate the great Spahl 11 violin lat who has ha just celebrated bis his fifty seventh birthday did not begin to learn tie the instrument until lie be was I 1 12 at which age be he entered the coaz toire at par constant practice pric tire has aade his fingers and musicians used to be ahr th war way la in which he could at move the last joint of his little finger a fact which aay account in pai pal t tor for the aag ease with which be he fingers the instrument ment last ye yar ar cearly mearly 6 workmen killed 14 tle course of their re 0 in work in the united kingdom arr i ica |
