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HOW LEVEES ARE MADfc. TAKES NO BACKWARD STEP CAPTAIN KNEW HIS BUSINESS. Tha HeadHgh Nothing I Ate Agreed With Me e-f eeeteeee-tof-t 1 NEWS FROM MISSOURI 4 eeee-te-teee-fe-feee-fe-i The Michigan senate has passed a resolution demanding the re-election of President Roosevelt to a sec-oud elective term. Six millionaires and Mayor Schmlu gave bail in the sum of $910,000 in Judge Dunn's court la San Francisco in one day. The supreme court of the United States has sustained the Interstate Commerce Commission In an order that the railroads shall not Increase the freight rates on 'southern lumber two cents per hundred.

A rebellion has broken out and all the civil and military officers assassinated at Wongkong, China, There has been filed in the United it Important Changes In Methods Building Them, of The modern method of levee building is nowhere more scientifically demonstrated than in the St, Francis district. In the early days of levee building it was thought that any pile of dirt approximately so high and so wide and running approximately parallel with the river was good enough. The delusion cost thousands of dollars. To-day the site of the projected levee Is carefully cleared of all trees, the very roots being grubbed out, because these would decay otherwise, leaving channels through the soil under the dyke through which sipe water would quickly undermine the structure. Down the center of the cleared site a trench, called technically a muck ditch, Is dug, and In this puddled clay or buckshot is filled Upon this the earth dug from barrow pits adjacent to the levee on the landward side Is placed.

It is not dumped helter-skelter, but carefully spread In layers giving the finished mound the maximum strength and solidity. These layers extend both laterally and longitudinally across the levee, binding it in every direction. The work of placing the dirt is done principally by means of wheelscrapers operated by mules. Under some circumstances small flatcars are used, propelled by a locomotive and bringing the earth from a greater distance. This Is not often done except when continued rains have made the ground too soft for successful work with the teams The World To-day.

Sea of Oranges. A sea covered with oranges Is one of the unusual attractions near Ventura, Cal, at the mouth of the Santa Clara river. Thousands upon thousands of oranges floating on the ocean's surface, many of them strewing the beach, give an indescribably beautiful golden hue to the sea. There are wonder for some time as to how the oranges got Into the sea. The belief was general that they came from washed out orchards in the east end of the county, owing to the high storm waters in the river.

This is not the case, however. The oranges were deliberately thrown into the Sespe creek from the Sespe bridge, 25 miles back from the coast. From the Sespe they found their way back into the Santa Clara river and thence into the sea. The oranges are from the great packing houses in the Sespe country. They are known as culls, but most of them are good, or were when dumped off the bridge.

It Is claimed that only the best oranges can be shipped and sold. The Invention of Armor. The Idea of the invention of armor for the protection of the body from weapons came from the ancients, who, noticing the natural armor of various kinds of animals, particularly the armadillo, imitated it. In early times before metal was used in armor making the warriors used rough hides to several thicknesses, and the first armor ever worn was made from slices taken from the hoofs of horses and fastened together with pegs. Fish scales and the scales of large snakes were also gathered and fastened together until they formed a thick layer and were used as armor.

The armor of the Middle Ages was a continuation of the ancient kind, made in the form of scales of iron or steel. Certain kinds of mail used in early times in England were copied from the shells of crabs and lobsters. Sunday Magazine. Warlike Finery, Harry became much interested in playing soldier, but the accoutrements be collected gradually. At first he was content to march about merely with a stick for a gun; then at his request his mother made him a paper hat, to which later she added a "plume," which Harry had discovered in the henyard.

For a time he was highly pleased with tbis outfit, but after a day he must needs have a belt, and this naturally led him to ask his father to whittle him a sword. At last, bedecked in this warrior Harry again confronted his mother. "Why, how like a soldier you look!" she observed. "Yes but mamma," he hinted. "I've been looking at a picture of Napoleon, and he has a scrubbing brush on each shoulder." Harper's Magazine, Taffeta-Tipped Cigarettes.

There's a new cigarette staring women in the face. Instead of having a cork tip it is tipped with the finest quality of taffeta silk. The monogram matches the silk in color and the whole affair is so attractive that the beholder doesn't wonder why women take to smoking. Even ultra- onservative, old-fashioned matrons have felt constrained to admit that the little cylinders were pretty. Since it has been learned that the Colony most exclusive of women's organizations, permits women smoking, apparently many humbler sisters have acquired a longing to puff.

Lessons in Tree Planting. What a lesson for the child is the simple planting of a tree! It is first lesson in usefulness, in kindness and love, because it teaches thoughtful-aess for others. It Is a lesson In citizenship, because it looks forward to the needs of the future. It is lesson In economics, a lesson in the realm of wonderful Mother Nature, a lesson in art, a lesson in details In ill these things and others, because the act Is making the world more oeautiful, more comfortable, more useful, more delightful, and therefore a better world to live In. Kaiser Much Interested.

Professor Slaby recently delivered an interesting lecture on wireless telephony in the great hall of the Technical high school at Charlotteuburg. The emperor, who has made experiments In that direction himself, was present with the empress. Communication without the aid of wire was established between the high Bchool and the telephone building, and the result, jccordlng to the kaiser's verdict aftet he had taken part in the conversation wan hit'hlv satisfactory. Story of the Bark That Broke Record 1 Around the Horn. "A story of heroism of the sea, rivaling that of Gilliat in 'The Tollers ot the has just been enacted In the Pacific ocean," said John P.

Barnes, a San Francisco, merchant to a Washington Post writer. "It Is the story of an intrepid sea captain who resurrected a sunken ship that bad been given up for Idst and put her in such good condition that she has broken all records for sailing craft around the horn. "The sea captain lived at San Diego until a year or two ago, having retired on a modest income. His name is Thayer. One day he read in the papers of an auction sale of the hulk of a ship In the South seas.

He went to San Francisco, where he found that the ship had been valued at $250,000 and had been grounded in a storm, deserted by the crew and supposedly pounded into a shapeless mass upon the rocks. But he thdught he would take a chance, and so bid her, In for $1,100, getting a lawyer in Oakland to take a half Interest. "Getting together a wrecking crew, he traveled 7,000 miles to the island of Manga Riva, where, through heroic efforts and after many months, he got the ship to the level and towed her back across smooth summer seas to San Francisco. There the vessel was rebuilt into a three-masted bark. Cap tain Thayer came on to Washington and got the government to register the British ship Pyrenees, for that was its original name, as the bark Manga Riva.

Then, after the refitting had been completed, he sent her to Swansea. Wales. The bark made the fastest time ever attained by any sail ing vessel between the Pacific and Atlantic oceans. Captain Thayer Is now enjoying the Income from his daring, and his name is being paraded up and down the Pacific coast among marine folk as the modern Gilliat." What a Frown Can Do. A single bitter word may disquiet an entire family for a whole day.

One surly glance casts gloom over the household, while a smile, like a gleam of sunshine, may light up the darkest and weariest hours. Like unexpected flowers which spring up along the path, full of freshness and fragrance and beauty, do kind words and gentle acts and sweet dispositions make glad the home where peace and blessing dwell. No matter how humble the abode, if It be sweetened with kindness and smiles, the heart will turn lovingly toward it from all the tumult of the world, and it will be the dearest spot beneath the sun, says an exchange. And the influences of home perpetuate themselves. The gentle grace of the mother lives in the daughter, and the fatherly kindness finds echo in the nobility and courtesy of sons; while, on the other hand, from art unhappy, misgoverned, and disordered home go forth persons who will make other homes miserable, and perpetuate the sourness and sadness, the contentions and strifes and railings which have made their own lives so wretched and distorted.

Toward the cheerful home the children gather as clouds and as doves to their windows, while from the home which is the abode of discontent and strife and trouble they fly forth. Song Birds' Ocean Trips Cost Money. Mme Sernbrich, who sailed for Europe the other day, occupied a suite on board the steamer for which the sum of $1,100 was paid. Caruso's quarters came a little lower $900 being the sum expended in getting him back to his dear Italy for the summer. There may be those who sympathize with the impresarios who agree when they engage artists to pay their expenses both ways.

This sympathy with Herr Conried and Director Hammerstein we consider misplaced, however. After all, they calculate in advance the cost of a singer, and it matters little whether they pay the money over direct or hold out a part of it for the steamship lines. The expense really falls upon the public the people who pay anywhere from $5 to $100 each for the privilege of hearing the Sembrichs and the Carusos sing. And so long as the public is satisfied no kind of criticism is likely to change pres'-nt conditions. Deer Join Cattle at Feedtlme.

Surprised by the unusual appetite suddenly developed by his cattle, Joseph Pazaza, the caretaker at the Huxley farm, near Great Harrington, made an investigation. He found that a herd of deer had joined the cows. This was the cause of the fast disappearing hay. The deer were apparently well satisfied with their adopted friends, and enjoyed life with them better than exploring for food In the Berkshire forests with the snow six feet deep. How the deer got into the cattle pen is a source of surprise to Joe, as the fence surrounding it is six feet high.

"Those deer," says Joe, "be one big Jumpers and eaters!" The deer are supposed to have strayed from the Whitney reservation on October mountain. Boston Herald. Salaries In England. New York is generous to her Judges, and $17,500 is a splendid salary. If a man will not remain on the bench for that sum he Is not likely to remain for $25,000.

In England the lord high chancellor gets $50,000 a year; the attorney general $35,000 and fees, which amount to about more, making $05,000 in all; the solicitor general $30,000 b.nd fees, or $50,000 all told; Justices of the court of appeals, justices of the high court of Justice, lord chief Justice of England, Judge of the city court of London Judge of the Bow street police court, Judge ol the probate and divorce court, $25,000, tu. An Awful Break. "But, heavens, man," exclaimed Henpeck's visitor, "what made you decide to marry her?" "Hush," whispered Henpeck, glano lng around apprehensively, "you'd bet ter not let Maria hear you using th word 'what' when you refer to her." B. a JIcIlENRY, Editor. "STANT3ERSY, MISSOURI, JEWS OF THE WEEK JSIcst Important Happenings of ths Past Seven Days.

BttwcstlBar Ituae Gatkrd from AO jarta of World Ca4eaae4 lolo SmKlI Spaue for BeaeSt of On coder. Pereonal. W. Perry, president of the Cen fcral Coal and Coke company and president of the Southwestern Interstate Coal Operators Association, died on a street car at Kansas City. Heart decease is supposed to have been the King Carlos has conferred the title of liarou on A.

Patterson, manager in Portugal of the business of the Standard Oil company. Theodore Tilton, of the famous Beecher-TIlton scandal in Plymouth church, Brooklyn, more than a quar- ter of a century ago, died recently in Paris where he had lived the life of a recluse since that event Hugh C. Quingley, who at one time was a business partner of President McKinley's. died of apoplexy at Cleveland, Clarence Maitland, sent to the federal penitentiary at Leavenworth, from Alaska to serve a seven- year sentence for burglary, starved himself to death. Frank H.

Butler, who was charged rith the murder of the Marvin boy at i Dovei, has been released from custody, for want of sufficient evi dence against him. A. E. Stilwell and a party of 90 capitalists who took a trip over the lines of the Orient railroad In Mexico, nave returned. Judge Thomas Ryan, of Kansas, assistant secretary of the Interior, has had a relapse and is again confined to his home in Washington.

B. H. Fulton, of Marysville, has been elected grand commander of the Kansas Knights Templar. Mrs. Bridget Hannon died recently In St.

Louis, aged 101 years. Mrs. McKinley, widow of the late president, suffered a stroke of apoplexy at her home in Canton, recently. No hope was entertained for her recovery. Dr.

Maurice F. Egan, of the Catholic university at Washington, has accepted the post of minister to Denmark. Emperor William recently unveiled five statues of bis ancestors in the garden in front of the palace at Berlin. The body of Mrs. Ida Sexton McKinley wag laid beside that of her imsband, the late President McKin- lev in Wondlawn cemeterv at Can.

ton, with Bimple ceremonies. The president, vlce president and several members of the cabinet were present. Enoch W. Wiggins, proprietor oi theaters in Detroit, Rochester, N. Cleveland and Phoenix, is dead in New York.

Frank T. Hawley, of Buffalo, N. has been elected president of the Switchmen's Union, of North Amer- Henri Martin, an American painter, has been awarded the medal ot lonor In the Paris salon. Miscellaneous. The San Francisco grand Jury has returned indictments against Patrick Calhoun, president of the United Railroads company, Thornwell Mullally, two attorneys for the company and Mayor Schmltz on charges of bribery.

The leading Japanese residents ol Ean Francisco have united in a state-Brent regarding the recent assaults on their countrymen in that city, which they declare are due entirely to racial prejudice. The lives of Queen Maud of Nw-way and Mme. Fallieres, wife of the French president, were saved by Gen. Michel, who dragged them from their carriage at Versailles Just before it toppled off a bridge into a lake. The sentence of Abraham Ruef, who pleaded guilty to extortion in Ean Francisco has again been deferred by consent of attorneys.

A torpedo placed on the street cat tracks In Chicago blew a car filled with worklngmcn from the tracks causing a panic In which two men were seriously injured. In bis report on the Madison Branch case. Judge Carver upholds the is-eouri Pacific railroad in its refusal tc establish a separate passenger service betv-een Madison, Kansas, and Butler, jdissourl. Northwest Texas, was visited by torm of wind and rain which assumed the proportions of tornado in placet doing damage to buildings and crops, A severe wind and rain storm recently visited the town of Davy, causing two deaths and a great Hjuount of damage to property. The Kansas State Dental Association held a three days' session In Topeka recently, A police ceaisus Just completed givei the population of the District of Columbia as 329,591, of whom 90,188 art xiegroes.

A bulletin Issued by the censut bureau places the consumption oi wood pulp in the United States in 1906 at 3,646,693 cords as compared with 3,193,123 cords in 1905. Rain fell recently all over Oklahoma and Indian Territory during immense good to the growing crops. Gov. Deneen.of Illinois, lias signed the bill giving a straight two-cent IKissenger rate on all railroads in the state. Eight or ten persons perished In a.

fire that consumed a lodging nous Saa Jose, Cal. President Forcefully Reasserts His Position Regarding Railroads. They Should Be as Completely Under Governmental Control As Arc the National Banks. Indianapolis, Indiana. President Roosevelt delivered the principal address in tbis city Thursday at the unveiling of the statue to Gen.

Law-ton, a veteran of the civil war, who died in the service of his country in the Philippines. The address had been looked forward to for weeks as being the first authoritative expression of the president's views regarding the relationship of the government to the railroads of the country. After delivering an eulogy on Gen. Lawton and the veterans of the Civil war Mr. Roosevelt saUl among other things: "One great problem that we have before us is to preserve the rights of property and these can only be preserved if we renjember that they ire in less jeopardy from the socialist and the anarchist than from the prefatory man of wealth.

The power it the nation must be exerted to stop jrimes of cunning no leas than of violence. There can be no bait in the course we have deliber-itely elected to pursue, the policy asserting the right of the nation, 10 far as it has the power to super-rise and control the business use of wealth, especially in its corporate Today I wish to say a word you about the first and most important feature of this task, the iontrol of the common carriers doing in interstate business; a control ab-lolutely vested in the nation. There xiuBt be vested in the federal gov-irnment a full power of supervision md control over the railways doing nterstate business; a power in many respects analogous to and as compete as that the government exer-ses over the national banks. It nust possess the power to exercise lupervision over the future issuance stocks and bonds, either through i national incorporation (which I should prefer) or in some similar lashion. The movenent to regulate railways sy law has come to stay.

The people it this country have made up their minds and wisely made up their minds to exercise a closer control ver all kinds of public service corporations, including railways. Every lonestly managed railway will gain md not lose by the policy. The men Bore anxious to manipulate stocks than to make the management of ieir roads efficient and honest are Jie only ones who have cause to oppose it. Railroads Accept Liability. Chicago.

It Is reported that an agreement has been reached between western railroads and the shippers whereby the latter will ask the Inter state Commerce commission to dismiss the bill of lading case which has been before that body since December 1908. On the other hand, the railroads have agreed to present to the commission a new uniform bill of lading providing for only one rate, therefore accepting without question the common law liability for loss an'1 damage which attaches to the carriers. The entire question was one of liability on the part of the carrier for loss and damage to shipments. Storms And Floods In Texas. Houston, Tex.

A series of violent Btorms, electrical and cyclonic In character, accompanied by successive cloudbursts swent over Houston and vicini'v -luring Wednesday night and Thursday morning. The country for miles is covered with water. Railroad traffic is almost completely suspended. Many houses have been wrecked or washed away by Bui-falo bayou, which has passed previous high water records and Is still raging. Child Fell From Moving Train.

Waterloo, Iowa. The five-year-old son of a woman named Kate Kar- timdli fell out of a car widnow of an Illinois Central limited westbound train, running at 50 miles an hour Wednesday night between Post nnd Epworth, while his mother was asleep. The child was found walking on the tracks at 5 o'clock Thursday morning by the train crew of an eastbound train. Except for a slight cut on the face the boy was unhurt. Would Preserve McKinley Home.

Canton, O. Canton citizens hursday discussed methods of preserving the McKinley home intact. The idea is to make a second Vernon wtwre the furniture and gifts nd paintings and statuary of the Mc-Kinleys may be preserved. A New Canal Trouble. Panama.

According to a report made by the minority of the isthmian canal commission it was esMmated that the area of the canal and lakei would not exceed 110 square miles. It now appears from an excellent authority tbat that portion of the canal and lakes surveyed up to date, which is less than half of the ultimate total, exceeds 200 square miles and fears are entertained regarding the sufficiency of the water supply. The Chagres river, it is said can not supply water for this increased area. "Lord" Barrington to Hang July 25. Jefferson City, Mo.

The supreme court In banc late Thursday afternoon decreed that "Lord" Frederick Seymour Barrington, now in Jail at Clayton, shall be hanged on July 25 for the murder of J. P. McCann, St. Louis horseman. King Edward's New Yacht.

Glasgow. King Edward's new turbine yacht Alexandra of 2,000 tons was launched here Thursday afternoon and was christened by Princess Louise, the Duchess of Argyll. Do.rostlcated Quail. Some time last summer the children of Joe Murphy, living east ol Paris, captured a young quail and took him to the house, where he wat raised with the chickens. The bird took -to domesticated habits among his fellow-fowls of the barnyard, bo- came the special friend of a motherlj old hen, his attachment for her, as the days passed deepened Into one ol rare sympathy and constancy.

Whereever the hen goes the guall goes also and he never leaves hei side save when she goes to her nest under the poarch; then he perches on the rail abovg her, and when she comes out cackling triumphantly ovei a newly laid egg he begins to- whistle as gladly and the two of them make- enjoyable music. Quails are hard tc domesticate, and the incident is at unusual one. Paris Mercury. Bixby Gives Orury College $1,000. President Kirby of Drury college has announced a contribution of by W.

A. Bixby, capitalist of St. Louis, to the deficit fund of the school year Drury college hn-i a deficit of between $4,000 and $0,000 each school year, One nf the contributors to We endowment fund now Delng raised by President Kirbye is tlie general board of education of New lorn city. One ot the terms of the conmnuuon by the board of is that there shall be no deficit at the end of tne scnool year. President KiiDye an.

nounc-pd that, the deficit, as well as the fund, are now sure to be raised. Too Zealous for Good Order. William Lumpkin of Eldon, ex-prn-bate judge of Miller county, pleaded guilty before the United States commissioner to sending obscene matter through the mails. He gave $.100 bond pending the action of the federal grand Jury. Mr.

Lumpkin is 00 years old. He is a strong advocate of law enforcement. The charge to which he pleaded guilty was writing anonymous letters to managers of disreputable resorts in his town which the people of the community were seeking to drive from the town. Dentists Must Pay or Quit. TTie state dental examiners are preparing to collect the renewal fee from all licensed dentists in this state or revoke their license to practice.

Under the law dentists are required to pay a renewal license fee of $1 annually to the board. The board has been lenient about forcing the collection of this fee and there are now about 500 dentists In the state who are delinquent for two years. They must pay by July 1. Strawberries Were Fatal. Miss Elsie Mrrian Maddux, daughter of Mrs.

D. B. Maddux, died at the family home at St. Joseph as the result of eating a dish of strawberries at a party five weeks before. Upon returning home from the party the young woman became very ill and the physicians who attended here said that the berries had evidently been picked green and chemically treated for the purpose of ripening them.

The Largest Association. The Missouri Bankers' association which recently met in Kansas City, is the largest state organization of banker In the United State. Misouri has a large number of banks than any other state and practically all the bankers are members of the association. There are 1,120 banks and trust companies In Missouri and 1,100 members of the association. The Fireman "Showed 'fcm." Chester Horner, a Rock Island fire man, went to a room over a saioon at Trenton, smashed furniture and windows and threw spittoons Into the street, broken glass falling on pass- ersby.

Calling to the people on street below. Horner showed them a regulation poker table and declared that was where he had lost his month's wages. He was arrested and fined. The incident has aroused public sentiment against a number of alleged gambling rooms in the city. After the Car Associations.

The Missouri board of railroad commissioners has requested Herbert S. Hadley, attorney general to begin proceedings in the supreme court to compel the car srvlce associations of Kansas City, St. Joseph and St. Louis to comply with the order of the board allowing 72 hours for unloading a car of coal. Seventy-two hours originally was allowed for that purpose, but beginning wlith this year the as-sciation reduced the time to 48 hours.

Lexington College Closes 53d Year. Lexington college closed Its 53d year with the commencement exercises held recently at which 10 pupils, representing four states, were graduated. Degree-s were conferred upon Pearl L. Evans and Goldie L. Rice, Smithvllle; Irene Houston, Mal-ti Bend; Grace Campbell, Bates City; Jennie Powell, Lee's Summit; Lena M.

Griffith, Clinton, Anna F. Phetsing, Mary Dunklin Wilson, Katherine Ryland Todhunter and Edna Sanford Warder, of Lexington. A Student's Joke. Just for a Joke, a student In Mis souri university took a cow into a dormitory, dragged her up a ten-foot flieht of stairs while the roomers were at a ball game and tied the animal to the door of a student's room, "to remind him of the old farm." Youthful Elopers. A Springfield couple, aged 18 and 15 years, eloped.

A deputy sheriff the groom home, while the bride fell sick with measles. States supreme court on behalf of Kansas, a motion for a rehearing of the Kansas-Colorado suit over the use of the water from the Arkansas rlber. A copppr bronze equestrian statute of Gen. John B. Gordon was recently unveiled at Atlanta, The San Francisco grand jury re turned indictment against six millionaires in one day on charges of bribery ns well as bringing addition- a Indictments against Abraham Ruef and Mayor Srhmltz.

There is a serious lack of farm hands in the Northwest, according to reports received by the Great North ern railroad. Farmers are. offering $35 and $40 a month for helo. Six men alleged to be the leaders of the mob that lynched a negro at Sterrett, I. March 31, have been arrested by United States marshals and held on a charge of murder.

The failure of the State bank of Manitou, with a capital of has been announced. The live stock commission men at the various packing centers are re senting a recent order of the pack ers regarding inspection of cows and heifers. Resolutions have been adopted to refuse to sell under the proposed rule; and shippers were notified to hold cows and heifers on the farm for the present. The Kansas supreme court has set aside the summons in the cases of Rochester and Imperial Brewing companies and the Heim Real Estate company, but refused the same action in regard to the other brwerles In the action to appoint receivers for their property in the state. Assistant District Attorney Heney is authority for the statement that the San Francisco police force is being used in an attempt to reach prospect ive jurors and witnesses in the bribery-graft prosecutions.

The Chinese rebellion is spreading, and many of the inhabitants of the revolutionary zone are fleeing to places of safety. The uprising is at tributed to excessive taxation. The general synod of the Lutheran church has adopted a resolution to assess annually each member two cents for the benefit of the Lutheran Home at Lincoln, Neb. The National Federation of Millers held a three days' session at St. Lou's recently.

Millers from all parts of the United States and from abroad were in attendance. Eight thousand persons passed throuh the McKinley home at Canton, to view for the last time the feat ures of the widow of the late president. The rumor that Michael Czolgos, a brother of the slayer of President McKinley was in Canton at the time of Mrs. McKinley's funeral created a stir among the secret service men, but nothing was seen of him. The United States Marine hospital service has ordered a quarantine by the gulf states against Havana, Cuba, where yellow fever is said to exist.

Thomas D. Jordan, former comptroller of the Equitable Life Assurance society, pleaded not guilty to IS indictments for forgery and perjury in New York, and was released on bail In the sum of $10,000. The Newark, N. carpenters have won their strike for an eight hour day at 50 cents an hour, a half holiday Saturday, double pay for overtime and the closed shop. Hiram H.

Leonard, former confl dentlal man and cashier for the Evans, Snyder, Buel Live Stock Com mission company of Chicago, has been Indicted on a charge of embez zlement. A general strike of machinists on the Louisville Nashville railroad has ben inaugurated. An explosion of powder in a railroad camp at the foot of Lookout mountain in Tennessee, killed three trainmen, Injured several others and caused considerable damage to surrounding property. Commissioner R. A.

Anthony, who took the testimony in the ouster suit 5f the state of Missouri against the Republic, Standard and Waters-Pierce Oil companies, has filed his report witlh the supreme court of the state. He sustains erery allegation of Attorney General Hadley's petition and recommends that the companies be ousted from the state. A suit has been instituted In the New York supreme court to forfeit the franchises of the Consolidated and eight other gas companies furnishing the city with light. The French Minister, at Tangier, reports that the Sultan's representative has promised to accede to all the French demands. General Overseer Voliva, who succeeded in ousting John Alexandei Dowie from control of Zlon City, has been ordered by Receiver John Hately to vacate all leases of buildingi by May 31.

Gov, Hoch, of Kansas, In his Memorial day proclamation, calls attention to the law passed by the lasl session of the legislature which makei It a misdemeanor to carry on anj ball game, horse race or other sport ing event on that day. Reports from Toklo state that th Japanese are again excited over alleged attacks made upon Japanese restaurants in San Francisco. A tornado of small proportions re cently visited Snyder. causlnj considerable damage to property. Nr JattJlties were reported.

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1 was very nervous and experienced a continual feeling- of uneasiness and fear. 1 took medidine from the-doctor, but it did Die no (rood. I found in one of vour Perona books Eiloscription of my symptoms. I then wrote to Dr. Ilartman for advice.

Ho jaid I had catarrh of the Ktoir.aeh. I took Peruna. and Manalin and followed tiis direction? and can now say that I teel as well as I ever did. "I hope that all who are afflicted with the same symptoms will take I'eruna, as it lias certainly cured me." Tlie above is only one of hundreds who lava written similar letters to Dr. flartman.

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