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layor Schmitz Would Provide Age Limit for Scholars, f New York, Nov. 26.—Mayer Schmitz ELECTED PRESIDENT OF FEDER:| o¢ San Francisco, speaking of the Jap- ATION OF LABOR FOR THE anese problem in San Francisco, char- acterized it as “a tempest in a tea- TWENTY-FIFTH TIME. pot.” He said that when he returned home he intended to urge the state legislature to repeal the laws relat- ing to the segregation of Japanese pupils and make new legislation pro- viding for a limit as to the age at which a child can enter a certain grade of any school. “I think this age limit will solve the whole problem,” said Mayor Schmitz. “The Japanese surely could not com- plain of laws which were equally binding upon the Americans, and it would not be then necessary to class the Japanese as Mongolians, which has caused them such grief of spirit and has been really at the bottom of the whole trouble. With the age limit the only discrimination against the Jap- anese, it will effectively keep them out of the schools, because the ma- Jjority of the Japanese who are in the primary grades are grown men. There will then be no grounds for outside interference with San Francisco’s school question.” GOMPERS IS ENDORSED| :o-v= araueee erossen. PRESENT POLICY FULLY APPROVED ENTIRE EXECUTIVE AND ADMIN- ISTRATIVE STAFF TO CON- TINUE IN OFFICE. Minneapolis, Nov. 26.—Samuel Gom- pers has been elected president of the American Federation of Labor for the twenty-fifth time in the twenty-six years the federation has been in ex- istence. There was no opposing can- didate. Endorsement for Gompers meant en- dorsement. for his policy and the men who had worked with him framing and executing it. With the usual com- plimentary speeches and motions the entire executive administrative staff END OF BOOM AT HAND. ‘Germany Now on the Top Wave of Prosperity. Berlin, Nov. 26.—Although Germany is on the top wave of prosperity skep- ticism as to the duration of the boom has been increasing for several months and the outside public has kept aloof from speculative investments in in- dustrial stocks, notwithstanding the continued publication of unusually brilliant annual reports by the com- panies, showing large gains, the decla- ration of dividends, increases in or- ders and higher prices for manufact- ured products. This sober attitude on the part of private investors is be- ginning to gain the support of the manufacturers and bankers, who, be- ing able to glance behind the scenes of industrial activity, express fears that the boom has already exhausted itself. When asked to give reasons for this view the manufacturers and bankers point to the dearness of mon- ey, the high prices of commodities, the high wages and the expensive opera- was re-elected by acclamation. The following are the officers of the Amer- ican Federation of Labor for the com- ing year: Samuel Gompers, Washington, pres- ident; James Duncan, Quincy, Mass., first vice president; John Mitchell, In- dianapolls, second vice president; James O’Connell, Washington, D. C., third vice president; Max Morris, Den- ver, fourth vice president; D. A. Hayes, Philadelphia, fifth vice president; Dan- iel J. Keefe. Detroit, Mich., sixth vice president; William D. Huber, Indian- apolis, seventh vice president; Joseph F. Valentine, Cincinnati; eighth vice president; John B. Lennon, Blooming- ton, Ill, treasurer; Frank Morrison, ‘Washington, secretary. Declaration of Principles. Second in importance only to the election was the action taken on the proposed declaration of principles drawn up for the federation by the resolutions committee. These were in- dorsed after two amendments offered by Delegate Andrew Furuseth, relative to involuntary servitude and the initia- tive and referendum, had been incor- porated. This is the declaratios “In furtherance of our claim, name- ly, that our principles comprise the fullest and highest scope of human activity, and from time to time will be enhanced and advanced in-accord- ance with the demands to satisfy hu- man needs and desires, we recommend the following as a partial statement at this time of the economic demands of the American Federation of Labor: “Free schools, free text books and compulsory education. “Abolition of all forms of involun- tary servitude, except for punishment. of crime. . “Unrelenting protest against the is- suance and abuse of injunction process in labor disputes. “A workday of not more than eight hours in the twenty-four hour day. “A strict recognition of not over eight hours per day on all federal, state or municipal work and at not less than the prevailing per diem wage rate of the class of employment in the vicinity where the work is per- formed. “Release from employment one day in seven. “The abolitibn of the contract sys- tem on public work. “The municipal ownership of public utilities. “The abolition of the sweatshop sys- tem. “Sanitary: inspection of workshop, mine and home. “Liability of employers for injury to-body or loss of life. ¥ “The nationalization of telegraph and telephone. “The passage of anti-child labor laws in states where they do not now |’ exist and rigid defense of them when they have been enacted into law. “Woman suffrage co-equal with man suffrage. “Initiative, referendum, imperative mandate and right of recall. “Suitable and plantiful play grounds for children in all cities. “Qualifications in permits to build in ! all cities and fowns that there shall be bathroom and bathroom attach- ments in all houses or compartments used for habitation. > Washington, Nov. 26.—Frank H. “We favor a system of finance Mason, the American consul general whereby money shall be issued ex-!at Parls, has been designated by the clusively by the government with such 'state department as an additional regulations and restrictions as will member of the American commission tablishments have been committed. MEANS $2,000,000 ANNUALLY. Steel Trust Laborers Given an In- crease of Wages. Pittsburg, Nov. 26.—Two.million dol- lars additional each year will be dis- tributed through the Pittsburg steel district by reason of the increase in the wages of the labor force of the United States Steel corporation, which goes into effect Jan. 1. The notices of the advance will be posted at the steel mills in this neighborhood about Dec. 1. A conservative estimate of the to- tal number of laborers employed by the subsidiary companies of the Unit- ed States Steel corporation in what is known as the Pittsburg district is placed at 50,000. The increase will affect all the men in the class of com- mon labor employed at the numerous plants of the Carnegie compan/, the National Tube company, the Ameri- can Sheet Steel company and the American Steel and Wire company. REFUSED BY '"READING. Demand of Employes for.a Ten-Hour Day. Reading, Pa., Nov. 26.—At a con- ference between the train men and General Superintendent A. T. Dice of the Reading Railway company the de- mand of the men for a ten-hour day was rejected. The men were told that the company had granted them a sub- stantial increase in wages and made a number of concessions and in view of this.fact nothing further could be expected for the present. The class of men affected are em- ployed in the freight and coal train service and include the entire Reading system. They number several thou- sand. ’ CRAPSEY TO RESIGN, It Will Not Be Necessary to Unfrock Episcopal Rector. Rochester, N. Y., Nov, 26.—Rev. Al- gernon Sidney Crapsey has decided to resign from the ministry of the Prot- estant Episcopal church. Dr. Crapsey has been. pastor of St. Andrew’s Epis- copal church in this city for twenty- eight years. and is one of the oldest canonical resident Episcopal clergy- men of the diocese of Western New York. His voluntary resignation at this stage of the heresy proceedings obviates the necessity of Bishop Walk- er passing sentence of suspension on him. factory, IMPORTANT PRECEDENT. Catholics Win Church Suit. Manila, Nov. 26.—An important de- cision just rendered by the supreme court of the Philippine islands ousts the Aglipayanos and the municipality §f Lagonoy from possession of the favish edifices there in favor of the fioman Catholic church; The decision establishes a most im- portant precedent, as it affécts sults now pending for possession of ‘about fifty churches seized by the Aglipaya- nos. Roman Philippine Added to Tariff Commission, tions to which all the industrial es- | WORTHLESS SECURITY | $HICAGO CONCERN OWES STENS- LAND'S BANK IN NEIGHBOR- HOOD OF $270,000. IFFICIAL OF THE COMPANY ARRESTED RECEIVER FETZER OF THE BE- LIEF THAT NAMES ON NOTES ARE FICTITIOUS. Chicago, Nov. 26.—Chauncey L. Gra- ham, vice president of the Steel Ball tompany, has been arrested at his res- ldence in Evanston by detectives from the office of State’s Attorney Healy o a bench warrant issued by Judge, Kersten, the charge being uttering fictitious paper. The accusation grows out of the Milwaukee Avenue State bank failure. The Steel Ball concern owes the bank approximately $270,000. and most of the notes it gave as se- curity are considered worthless. The list of notes forming the basis of the grand jury’s consideration be- came public during the day, when attorneys for Receiver Fetzer filed them in the court of Referee in Bank- ruptcy Frank L. Wean in connection with the .bank’s claim ‘against the Steel Ball concern. The receiver said he has been un- able to find the makers, endorsers or guarantors of certain notes and that he does not believe they can be lo- cated. He thinks they are all ficti, tious. President William D. Tilden, presi- dent of the Steel Ball company, for whom a bench warrant was issued, appeared at the oftice of the state’s attorney and, surrendered. BRITISH SOAP TRUST KILLED. Public Sentiment Compels Combine to Quit Business. London, Nov. 26.—A spontaneous combination of newspapers, tradesmen and consumers has killed the British soap . trust, which was launched on Oct. 5 with a capital of $60,000,000. Ever since then unrelenting war has been waged agalnst the soapmakers in the combine. Y 7 A section of the London and provin- cial press gave its most prominent col- umns to pillorying the methods of the manufacturers and urging a boycott. They drew lessons from American trusts and gratuitously advertised makers outside of the trust. : Retailers filled their shop windows ‘with advertisements of non-trust soaps and anti-trust cartoons. The sales of trust soaps, although, they included some of the best and. ‘most popular, dropped alarmingly, es- peclally when a leading firm an- nounced its intention to give only fif- teen ounces for the sum that before:| purchased a pound. The result of the brief but sharp fight has been the compulsory sur- render of the makers, who met at Liverpool and decided to dissolve their combination. COLLISION OF TROLLEY CARS. Woman Killed and Sixteen Other Per- sons Injured. Detroit, Mich., Nov. 26.—One wo- man was killed and sixteen other per- sons were injured when an electric freight car crashed into the rear end of a suburban electric car near Bir- mingham, eighteen miles from this city, on the Pontiac division of the Detroit United railway. The passen- ger car was a theater car bound out to Pontiac from Detroit and was well filled. It had stopped at the foot of a steep grade in front of the power- house when, without warning, the freight car, also- outbound and which had been following the theater car from Detroit, appeared over the crest of the grade and dropped down the 800 foot incline at terrific speed. It- struck the standing passenger car with such force that it telescoped the car for two-thirds of its length. SHOULD BE SENT TO PRISON. One Rillmad President’s Opinion of Rebaters. Kansas City, Nov. 26.—Arthur E. Stillwell, president of the Kansas City, Mexico and Orient railway, ad- dressing the Railway club here, de- nounced the practice of rebating. He sald: “Of all the crimes in the whole category the rebating crime is the | most unjust. Rebating strikes at the people—the fountain head of the rights delegated to the average railroad.. The hired assassin of old may be pictured as a white robed saint compared to the rebater. Rébating is.a crime for which no punishment is too severe. I'd like to see'the rebater get twenty years—yes fifty years in the peniten- Hary.” : . HEAD ALMOST BLOWN: OFF. Wisconsin Girl Killed'by, Gun in Hands 1 <. of child, ] Menomonie, Wis., Nov. 26.—The sev- | en-year-old- daughter of Frank Jones, ,living near this city, was accidentally,, shot and killed by her little brother,) who was playing with a loaded gus while the parents ‘were abe vt froj home. The girl was standing only a few inches from the muzzle of the gun protect it from manipulation by the |now in Germany to investigate tarift banking interests for their own private | conditions. “Mr. Mason. is & tariff. ex- &ain.” pert of wide experience. and the charge, striking her in the neck, nearly severed her head from' _|out bail for further examination. It e News of the Worl deestic--Foreignf Financial--_Social Political and Commercial .CT SHOCKED CARUSO; Singer Believed Testimony Had Vin- dicated His Character, New York, Nov. 26.—The $10 fine tmposed upon Enrice’ Caruso, the fa- mous Itallan ‘operatic singer, in the Yorkville police court, after he had been declared gulilty of annoying wo- men in the monkey house at Central park, has not been paid. One of his dttorneys had gone to court with the intention of paying the fine under pro- test and thg money was about to be passed across the clerk’s desk when Caruso’s senior counsel rushed into the courtroom and brought the pro- teeding to a halt: A consultation be- tween counsel and the court followed and it was agreed to permit the mat- ter to go over for a few days. In the meantime Caruso has been paroled in the custody of his counsel. Caruso’s counsel reiterated the an- nouncement that an appeal will. be taken. “I saw Mr. Caruso at his ho- tel,” said the attorney, “and had him sign an application for an appeal, which will be asked for immediately of one of the judges of the court of general sesslons. It is for one of them to sign the paper and allow or disal- low the application for an appeal. {“Mr. Caruso felt,” continued the lawyer, “that Magistrate Baker had treated him very fairly during the hearing and that his character was being fully vindicated. It was more than a surprise to him when he heard that the court found him guilty. The shock was most terrible to Caruso, who is a highly sensitive man, partic- ularly as he had firmly believed the testimony clearly exonerated him.” MAY RENEW MASSACRES. Reactionaries Object to Enlargement of Jewish Rights. St. Petersburg, Nov. 26.—The threats of the reactionary parties that Jewish massacres will be organized if the rights of the Jews are enlarged are steadily becoming more definite. The central council of the League of the Russian people, claiming to represent 80,000,000 people, has issued a decla- HAS YELLOW OG FUND ™~ RUMOR AT WASHINGTON CON. CERNING COLORADO FUEL AND IRON COMPANY. DSED TO REWARD: PUBLIC OFFICIALS FORMER EMPLOYE OF INTERIOR DEPARTMENT IS :8AID' TO. CONTROL THE FUND. Washington, Nov. 26.—Rumors are circulating here that the Colorado Fuel and Iron company, which in- cludes in its directorate many of the leading financiers of the country, had a “yellow dog” fund for use in secur- ing favor from public officials, Some more or less tangible charges have been made, as a result of which it developes that the matter has long been the theme of interior department gossip. The “yellow dog” in this case is al- leged to provide favors for officials, who, by a proper attitude of com- plaisance and amity, prove themselves worthy of the consideration of the great Western corporation. It is not essentially different, it is declared, from. the ‘“yellow dog” funds of the great insurance companies, used for the payment of shady expenses, relat- ing to the devious business of secur- ing favor from public officials. The “yellow dog” fund is said to be under the control of a former official of the interior department, who is al- leged to be extremely useful beeause of ‘his familiarity with people and af- fairs that are concerned with the man- agement of the public domain, ration disclaiming responsibility for ‘the “‘outrages which may. result from the just indignation produced by the enlargement of Jewish rights” and has published the text of two hundred dis- patches of protest sent to the em- peror from local organizations, of which the following is a sample phrase: 4 “It Is dangerous to further test the gentleness and patience of the ‘peace- ful Russian population, which may be forced, in its defense against the Jews; to overstep the limits of law and order and resort to violence.” The publication of the reforms'is certain to result in a final bréak be- tween the reactlonary and monarchi- cal parties and Premier Stolypin’s ad- ‘mizistration. SHAW AT ST. Louls. Is Looking Into Shortage at Sub-Treas- ury There. St. Louis, Nov. 26.—Secretary of the Treasury Shaw, who has atrived here from Kansas City, spent a part of the day in close conversation with F. W. Lenman, special counsel for.the gov- ernment in the prosecution of the sub- treasury $61,500 shortage case. After 'leaving Mr. Lehman he went to the sub-treasury to ascertain additional in- formation concerning the conditions there. “I have no idea when the case will go to trial,” said the secretary. “As head of the treasury department I am naturally interested deeply in this af- fair. I have had the report of Assist- ant United States Treasurer Akins and-of the special commission that we sent here from Washington to make an investigation, but I sthought'that T could get better understanding of the matter if I made a personal in- vestigation.” 3 HELD ‘WITHOUT BAIL. Woman Wko Shot Three Men in:New York City. New York, Nov: 26.—Miss Otillia Schneider, once a German Sister of Charity, who, while - disguised as a Salvation Army girl, shot three men Thursday .afternoon at Fifty-ninth Btreet and Madison avenue, was ar- raigned in police court and held with- was said in court that Paul Sheehan, 8 Columbia student, twenty years old, vne of the men who was shot, 1s in a critical condition as a’ result of his wounds. 1 Otto K. Droge, an attorney, and Dr. Frederick Bierhoff, the other men who were shot by Miss Schneider, were in court to ‘appear against her. Miss Schnelder had nothing to say when arraigned EMBEZZLEMENT. ALLEGED. “Battling” Nelson’s Manager Arrested - at Cincinnati, Cincinnati, Nov. 26.—On a charge of embezzlement “Billy” Nolan, man- tger of “Battling” Nelson, was arrest- ed here during the day. The arrest tame as a sensational finish to the dispute over the proceeds of the ex- \Mibition ‘of the pictures of the Gans- Nelson fight. Nolan, ‘it s charged, withheld about $7,000 from the Cali- fornia ‘treasurer of ‘the films: pending R decision as to the proper division f .the money, and he was therefore arrested on the embezzlement charge. Grand: Jury Indicts Adventi Spartanburg, 8. C., Nov. 26.—The grand jury of ' Spartanburg county ha 'm:?fl a presentment to Judge C. 8. Pantzler and: Solicitor Sease urg- Ing them to prosecute every minister of the Seventh Day Adventist church on a charge of violating the Sabbath; g0 all members of that faith who YALE DEFEATS HARVARD. Victory Gives Former Football Cham- pionship of the Country. Yale Field, New Haven, Nov. 26.— Yale won her annual football game with Harvard at Yale field by a score of 6 to 0 in one of the greatest games ever seen here. The victory carries with it a good title to the college championship of the country. From every point of view it was a magnifi- cent game: Yale outplayed at every point ‘her crimson rivals except pos- sibly in the punting line. . Yale was:more versatile in her run- ning of plays, she. drove them -home when they were sent against th line, while her men demonstrated the beau- ties of the double and triple passes, the. forward pass and.the end run through a broken field. . She took the offensive and made Harvard fight even to a defeat.on her own territory, most of the time within striking distance of. the goal, HUNTER 18 Walker (Minn.) Man Charged With " Manslaughter. Walker, Minn,, Nov. - 26.—William Beauhart, the homesteader who shot and killed Louis Kling at Lake Em- ily, Cass county, some. time ago, mis- taking him for a deer, has been in- dicted for. manslaughter by the grand jury of Cass county, now in sessior at ‘Walker. i The indictment of Beauhart is of special interest at this time as it is one of the first cases of punishment for the careless hunter underithe new law making man-shooting while hunt- ing manslaughter. 3 THe" shooting of Kling apparently was a pure accident, as the two men were.-on friendly terms, . PICTURES BAR . BOOK. Mark Twain's “Eve's Diary” Excluded From Library, Worcester, Mass., Nov. 26.—Mark Twain's hook, “Eve’s Diary,” has been barred from ‘the Charlton free public library because a trustee was shocked at a picture of Eve it contains. Mrs. H. L. Carpenter, employed in the li- .picked up and scanned the book before placing it on the circulating shelves. Then ‘she took the book to Trustee Frank O. Wakefield, who look- ed at the etchings, which depicted Eve in all kinds of summery costumes. One in particular, which showed Eve in a recumbent position on a rock, en- gaged his attention and decided him to har the book. 3 | THREE. TRAINMEN: ARRESTED, INDICTED. Held Responsible for Terrible Wreck at Woodbville, Ind, i Valparaiso, Ind., Nov. 26.—Coroner Carson has rendered his verdict on the recent wreck of the immigrant train on the Baltimore and Ohio rail- road at Woodville. A list of the names and ages of sixty-one dead is given. Frank Gal- nauer, :engineer. of the first section of the immigrant -traln, Samuel J. Moste, ! conductor of ‘the freight: train, and | Daniel ‘Woodward, head. brakeman of the frelght.train, are. held responsible I BIG AREA BURNED OVER. Frairie Fire Sweeps Portion of Texas and New Mexico. Santa Fe, N. M., Nov. 26.—Reports have reached here that a prairie fire has swept from Western Texas into Eastern. New Mexico and that over 1,000,000 acres of grazing and home- stead land have been burned bare of forage. No loss of life is reported in New Mexico, but it 15 believed that several persons perished In Texas. It is estimated that on both sides of the boundary between 50,000 and 100,- 000 head of cattle have been left with- out grazing. 1 The flames swept portions of Pal- mer, Deafsmith and Oldham counties with greater speed and fierceness for the wreck. The rallroad company Wwas not censured. All three men have ' been: arrest. A Automobile Racer' Killed. Philadelphia, ‘Nov. 26.—Ernest D. Keeler of New York, demonstrater and ‘professional driver. of racing automo- biles, Wwas'killed and Colwyn, P \ : : a8 »_ collision "while tryfng cars on the Point Breeze race:trac) brpglrnm,wflm Quaker Ci in Texas and burned for thirty-five or forty miles to the Pecos road in New Mexico. Some ranch buildings were burned. ‘A -north wind turned the fire back into its own track and it died out. The blackened prairie 18 now covered with gnow. CORTELYOU AWARDS CONTRACT. Government Will “Continue to Make Its Own Stamps. ‘Washington, Nov. 26.—Postmaster General Cortelyou has awarded to the bureau of engraving and printing of the treasury department the contract for furnishing postage stamps and books of stamps for the postal serv- fce during the period of four years beginning Feb. 1, 1907. There were only two bidders, the bureau of en- graving and printing and the Ameri- can Bank Note company of New York. Had the award been given to the bank Dote company the annual saving to the government would have been about $17,000, but Mr. Cortelyou was convinced that this amount would be more than offset by the loss on the machinery of the postage stamp plant In the bureau, even if sold to the bank note company at its present market value. HORSE JUMPS OVER FOOTLIGHTS Causes Panic in Theater at East St. Louis, 111 East St. Louis, Ill, Nov. 26.—While 8 performance was in progress at the Broadway opera house a horse, uti- lized in the last act to draw the heroine in a buggy, became frightened and sprang over the footlights into the orchestra. The heroine fell un- conscious to the stage and three wo- men in the audience fainted, while the horse floundered around in the or- chestra pit demolishing chairs with its hoofs and creating excitement in the theater. Presence of mind of a num- ber of men in seizing the horse and sitting on it, at the same time admon- ishing the people to sit down, pre- vented a paniec. GREAT TRUST IN CHICAGO, Merger of Public Service Corporations Planned by Harriman. Chicago, Nov. 26.—Plans are being formulated by E. H. Harriman and other Eastern financiers, according to the Chronicle, for the formation of a gigantic corporation which is to con- trol practically the commercial lite of Chicago by means of a combination of subway, transportation, freight, elec- tric lines and power and telephone companies now holding franchises in the city. A o T BRIEF BITS OF NEWS. John Memstreet, who was 101 years old last January, 1s dead at Chicago, Frank Gotch of lowa defeated Lee Pardello, the Italian, of New York in a catch-as-catch-can match at Chicago, winning two straight falls, It is announced by General Man- ager Curran of the New Orleans and Northwestern, Alabama and Vicks- burg and the Vicksburg, y Shreveport and Pacific railroads that 800 em- ployes of these lines have been grant- ed increases in wages, in some cases dated from Oct. 1 and others Nov. 1. MARKET QUOTATIONS,” Minneapolis Wheat. Minneapolis, Nov. 24.—Wheat— Dec., 1% @77%c; May, 9% @719%¢; July, 80%c. On track—No. 1 hard, 82%ec; No. 1 Northern, 81%ec; No. 2 North- ern, 79%¢; No. 8 Northern, 76@77c. St. Paul Union Stock Yards. St. Paul, Nov. 24—Cattle—Good to choice steers, $6.50@6.26; fair to good, | $4.50@5.50; good to choice cows and heifers, $3.50@4.50; veal calves, $4.00 @56.60. Hogs—$5.95@6.00. Sheep— Wethers, $450@5.10; good to prime spring lambs, $6.25@6.75. Duluth Wheat and Flax. Duluth, Nov. 24—Wheat—No. 1 hard on track, 79%c. To arrive and on track—No. 1 Northern, 79%ec; No. 2 Northern, 77%c; Nov., 80%¢; Dec., | 17!‘9; May, 80%c; July, 803%c. Flax— To arriye, $1.17%; Nov., $1.25; Dec., $1.16%c; Jan, $1.17%; May, $1.20%. Chicago Grain and Provisions. Chicago, Nov. 24.—Wheat—Dec,, 73 @73%c; May, 78%@78%c. Corn— Dec., 42%c; May, 43%c. Oats—Dec., 231% @33%c. May, 34%c. Pork—Jan., $14.45; May, $14.72%. Flax—Nothing fdoing. Butter—Creameries, 20@28%c; dairles, 19@26¢. Eggs—22@26c. Poul-: try—Turkeys, 16c; chickens, 8%@ Bc; springs, 8% @9c. Chicago Union Stock Yards. Chicago, Nov..24—Cattle—Beeves; $4.00@7.40; cows and heifers, $1.30@ 1.80; calves, $5.00@7.50; stockers and’ leeders, $2.60@4.60. Hogs—Mixed; and. bufchers, . $5.90@6.80; good heav. { rough heavy, $5.85@6.00 90@8.22%; plgs, §5.50 25Q year! A Native Afrfcan Food. = TLe native food of the Malunda coun- try, ia southern Africa, comprides ma- nioc and that alone. It is a plant par- ticularly adapted to wet, marshy soil, says the author of “In Remotest Ba- rotseland.” It takes two years to arrive at maturity and while growing re- |, quires very little attention. The root when full grown Is about the size and has very much the appearance of a German sausage, although at times it ‘grows much larger. One shrub has several roots, and the extraction of two or three in no way impairs the growth ” of the remainder. When newly dug it tastes like a chestnut, and the digestion of the proverbial ostrich can alone as- similate it raw, but when soaked in water for a few days until partly de- composed, dried on the roofs of the huts and stamped it forms a delight- tully white soft meal, far whiter and purer than the best flour. Then it is beaten into a thick paste and eaten with a little flavoring composed of a locust or a caterpillar, which the na- . tives seek in decayed trees. Another ., way of eating this native luxury Is by baking the roots after soaking them and eating it as you would a banana. George Eliot’s Savonarola. Savonarola is one of the most strik- Ing characters in George Eliot's great ‘historical novel “Romola,” the scene of which is in Florence and the period that of Savonarola’s career. The idea of writing the book occurred to the novelist while on a. visit to Florence, and on a second visit to the city, in 1861, she began to carry out her proj- ect. The subject and design were for- elgn to the author’s genius, but she spared no pains in making a thorough study of the locality, the people and the literature of the Italian renais- i In her own words, the work “plowed Into her” more than any of her books. She began it, she says, as a young wo- man and finished it as an old woman. Her picture of Florence and Savona- rola is’ undeniably Impressive, and some critics declare “Romola” to k= George Eliot's greatest novel and the character of Savonarola one of the finest delineations.—Pearson’s. Size of Heads. The average adult head has a ecir- cumference of fully twenty-two inches. The average adult hat is fully six and three-quarters size. The sizes of men’s hats are six and three-fourths and six and seven-eighths generally. “Sevens” hats are common in Aberdeen, and the professors of our colleges generally wear seven and one-elghth to eight sizes. Heads wearing hats of the sizes #ix and three-eighths and smaller or being less than twenty-one inches in circumference can never be powerful. In circumference heads are invariably very weak and, according to this au- thority, “no lady should think of mar- rying a man with a head less than twenty inches In circumferénce.” Peo- ple with heads under nineteen inches | are mentally deficient and with heads under eighteen inches invariably idi- otic.—London Young Woman. Safest Place In Trains. “I have one rule for my family when they travel,” said the conductor of-the suburban train, “and that is for them never to ride in the rear coach or the first one and, preferably, not in the coach next to the last or first. The rea- son for it is so obvious that I should think the foremost and last cars of a train would have scant patronage from anybody who reads of railroad acei- dents. If there is a smashup, those are the coaches that suffer. It seems not put behind the locomotive tender and at the rear of the train. How many lives would be saved by a device of the kind one has only to study the statistics of railroad accidents to fig- ure out for himself.”—New York Press. Litting a Kettle of Hot Water. Some time when the teakettle is bub- bling and boiling on the kitchen range 1ift it quickly by its handle and set it on the open palm of your other hund. This sounds like a very foolhardy thing to do—as if your hand might be blis- tered in a twinkling—but you will find that you can hold the teakettle which 7 has just come from a roaring fire for . some time without hurting you. Try it and then see if you can tell the rea- son why you .are not burned. Be sure, however, ‘that the water is boiling atrongly before you.make the experk ‘** ment. A Kipperea Pastor. A French Protestant pastor was the guest of a Scottish preacher at a manse. One morning kippered herrings ‘were served at breakfast. The French Dpastor asked the meaning of “kipper.” His host replied that it meant “to pre- ferve.” On taking his leave next day the French pastor, wringing his hosts - hand, sald, “May the Lord kipper you, - my good friend.” . . Postage Stamps. Postage' stamps are pecullarly liable to become septic and to convey deadly germs, .says the British Medical Press and Circular, a fact that cannot be too ‘widely known to the public who find In 1t & popular substitute for sticking plas- RS Never Missed It. Teacher — Who discovered America? 8mall Boy—Dunno. Teacher—Why, I supposed every- boy in school knew * that. | Small. Boy—I didn’t know that it was lost. i 3 . “Pardon me, madame. have zeen you somewhere.” sance for the purposes of-her story. (. I think 1 - By Wire | i ! { 1 — 1 H Between nineteen and twenty inches ~yi i strange that some kind of a bugter is T { o lr [