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THE McftEHBY PUIIDEALER HcHSNBT PLAINDKALKR Ca McHENRV, ILLINOIS TOLD IN- Kt# "Baron Komura, the Japanese pleni­ potentiary, in an interview, said "yel­ low peril talk is ridiculous." Rockefeller Interests have caused the failure of three remaining lin­ seed oil factories in Buffalo, thereby obtaining an absolute monopoly of In­ dustry. Health officials of New Orleans, four states, and federal government have combined to fight to eradicate yellow, fever. <$ Samuel Novasal, a Croat ion, aged 22, was shot and killed by an unknown man while walking on the street at Kansas City. The police believe the tragedy was the outgrowth of jealousy, as Novasal. had just escorted a young woman "home. ' The pjant of the Sills-Eddy Mica Company at Newark, N. J., burned. Loss, 175,000. Samuel Novasal, a Croatian, aged The lid was laid down on South Haven, Mich., Chicago Sunday crowds being unable to spend a cent for drinks, soda, cigars, drugs, news­ papers, fruits, or food. have combined to fight to eradicate yellow fever. Governor Hoch of Kansas declared the office of state treasurer vacant, but that official refused to step out. Joint committee of New York legis­ lature will probe past insurance scan­ dals and District Attorney Jerome will prosecute offending Equitable officers. Miss McMillan of Chicago praised the work of the nurse at the last ses­ sion of the charities conference at Portland. The state board of prison industries plans to make the penal institutions of Illinois self-supporting. Hereafter all crop reports made by the department of. agriculture will be ; compiled by a statistical board which will tabulate the figures on the day the report is to be sent out. The government will invite the pro­ posals for furnishing 2,000 Italians, 2,000 Chinese and 2,000 Japanese to work on the construction of the Pan­ ama canal. The final report of the department of agriculture on tobacco acreage shows a decrease in the amount. At the execution of a bomb-thrower in Warsaw the rope broke and he was hanged again. Dr. Max Nordau declines on account of ill health to serve as one of the leaders in the Zionist movement. The stone yard at Elkhart, Ind., where the city prisoners work out fines, will be abandoned' on account of the great expense. Prisoners will be made to clean streets instead. Captain Ira B. Myers, consul for ; eight years at St. John, N. B., offers his resignation to return home to Pe­ ru, Ind. Captain T. A. Peters of . rginia, 111., commander of Downing post, G. A. R., and special state aid-de camp, cele­ brated his forty-eighth wedding anni­ versary and seventieth birthday. Rev. Dr. Daniel F. Bradley, presi­ dent of Iowa college, Grinnell, Iowa, has been chosen a pastor of Pilgrim Congregational churcu of Cleveland to succeed Rev. Dr. Charles S. Mills. Official announcement was made at Washington by the cmta of staff of the army that Lieutenant Colonel Smith S. Leach has been selected to fill the vacancy on the general staff caused by the detachment of Colonel Benjamin Alvord. Mrs. Rosa Fishman was shot in the abdomen and probably fatally wound- j ed by a neighbor, Daniel Rosenthal, in • Scran ton, Pa. Rosenthal is 38 years of age and has a wife and children in the old country. For some time past he has been paying attention to Mrs. Fishman's 18-year-old daughter. The Fishman's forbade him the house and three weeks ago had him arrested foi attempting to force his way In. He forced his way into the Fishman home and when Mrs. Fishman tried to eject him he drew a revolver and shot hei in the abdomen. Mr. and Mrs. George F. Taylor cele brated their golden wedding anniver­ sary with a family reunion at theii home in Pana, 111. Both received manj presents. Mayor Weavers of Philadelphia an , Bounced that no further arrests would be made in connection with the frauds said to have been perpetrated againsi the city by contractors. Dr. James Wallace, president of Ma calester college in St. Paul, Minn., hat tendered his resignation and the trus tees have invited Rev. Guy W. Wads worth of the Occidental college, Los Angeles, Cal., to vijsit Macalester wit* a view to accepting the presidency Dr. Wallace has consented to remain In the faculty. The Baptist Young People's Union of America, in annual session at Bos ton, re-elected President John H Chapman of Chicago. Rear Admiral Francis J. Higginson commandant of the Washington navs yard, was placed on the retired list ol the navy Wednesday.' , Joseph W. Tiffin, aged 24, was in< stantly killed at Hillsboro, 111., by con tact with a live electric wire. Daniel Kelly, accused of wife mur der, was found guilty at Gann Valley 8. D. The jury recommended life im prieonment *tedward Anderson of Henry county was drowned in Rock river near Shady Beach, III. Charles Schimmelfennig of the Ken Murray foundry, in Fort Wayne, Ind had his back broken,, in two places bj a falling derrick and.died on the way to the hospital Fred McDonald, a young negro liv ing near EMridge, twelve miles from Lebanon, Mo., was placed in jail here charged with the assassination of hit father-in-law, Alfred Eldridge. Mo Donald was taken to Lebanon in :w:jfl«r CP prevent possible lynching. HIDDEN PUZZLK PICTURE. UV£$ LOST BY THE EXPLOSION OF BOILERS OF GUNBOAT BENNINGTON They buried the gunboat Benning- ton's dead at San Diego Sunday--for­ ty-seven of them--in a common grave in the little military burying ground On the promontory of Point Loma. All about them lie those who died In the nation's service in more trying times. Gravestones, yellow with age, bear the names of men who died at Monterey, in the Mexican, war; others who gave up their life in the conqueBt of California, who followed Commo- Commander Young. dore Stockton at old Sau Pasqual, or who wore the blue in the civil war. Army and navy paid their last trib­ utes no less sincere than the grief of the representatives of, peace. From Fort Rosecrans came the 115th com­ pany, coast artillery. From the city of San Diego the naval reserves, from the Universal Brotherhood's home on Point Loma a company of khaki-clad representatives, and from the govern­ ment ship Fortune a dozen sailors. But the most impressive body of mourners waS the fifty-two men from the battered Bennington. Beside these there were hundreds of civilians who brought their offerings of flowers to lay upon the graves. Besides those buried at San Diego there are eleven more bodies in the morgues awaiting shipment to rela­ tives, and there are two bodies still in the fireroom of the Bennington, making the total sixty. There are forty-nine wounded at various hospit­ als and there are sixteen missing, making the aggregate of victims 125. Of the injured at hospitals seven or eight are expected to die. Accident Seen from Shore. Broken and blackened, with her flag flying at half mast, her hold filled with fifteen feet of water, the United States gunboat Bennington lies beached on the shores of San Diego harbor. Sixty of her crew lay dead at city morgues, the fate of a dozen more Is as yet undetermined, and three score are stretched upon beds of pain in various hospitals. This is the result of the explosion which wrecked the trim little naval craft and wrought such terribte havoc among her crew of 192 officers -and men at 10:10 o'clock on the morning ef July 21. The Bennington at the time of the accident was lying in the stream just off the commercial wharf at the foot of H street. The warship had received orders from the Navy department at Washington to sail for Port Hartford, where she was to meet the monitor Wyoming and convoy the vessel to Mare island navy yard. Steam was up and everything was in readiness for sailing when suddenly and without any warning whatever the starboard for­ ward boiler exploded with a deafening roar. The explosion was terrific. People standing on the shore saw a huge cloud of white steam rise above the Bennington. Columns of water were hurled into the air and for a distance of nearly twice the height of the spars of the vessel. At the time of the accident Com­ mander Luclen Young and Surgeon F. E. Peck were on shore. The two officers, as soon as they learned of the disaster, hurried to the water front, where Commander Young immediately took charge. • On board the Bennington were pre­ sented terrible scenes. The force of the explosion had torn a great hole in the starboard side of .the ship, and the vessel was already commencing to list. A section of the upper deck was carried away from stem to stern. Blood and wreckage were distribut­ ed over the entire ship, the after cabin and the vicinity of the ship ad­ jacent to the exploded boiler resem­ bling a charnel house. Oyer it all hung the great cloud of white smoke, which drifted slowly toward the Coro- nada shore. ' Commander Lucien Young said: "As to the cause of the explosion I cannot say anything, because I do not know. What T do know is that t^e damage was caused by an exploding boiler or boilers. The crown sheet of boiler B collapsed-and the boiler head blew out, breaking through the steel bulkhead separating it from boiler D, the other main port boiler immediately aft. Boiler D Was forced back, the crown sheet collapsing and breaking down the steel bulkhead separating it from the fireroom. Every one in the fire- room at the time was killed. Three- bodies are now pinioned down by the collapsed crown sheet of boiler D and four more by "the burst bulkhead. These bodies we are now trying to release. One of the bodies is wedged in such shape that it may be neces­ sary to dismember it in order to take it out." The men who were Injured say that it has been the talk of the ship for at least six mouths that the boilers were defective./ Many of them had disasters as are common among pas­ senger and merchant vessels. The siory of shipwreck and' disas* ter to the American navy is a short one. The Fulton, our first steam war vessel, was destroyed by an explosion! of the magazine and twenty-six lives were lost. The brig Somers was sunk; by a squall Dec. 9, 1846, and forty-one lives were lost. The sloop of war inuron was wrecked on the coast of North Carolina Nov. 24„ 1877, and 100 lives were lost. On the evening of Jan. 24, 1870, the Oneida, steaming out of the harbor of; Yokohama, Japan, homeward bound, after a three years' cruise, was run down by the British passenger steam-5 er Bombay and sank in fifteen min­ utes. Twenty-two officers and ninety- five men were lost. March 15, 1889,; the Trenton and Vandalia were wreck­ ed and the Nipsic stranded in a storm at'Apia, Samoan islands, and fifty-one lives were lost. On Feb. 2, 1894, the^ Kearsarge was wrecked on Roncador reef, but no lives were lost. Aside from the vessels lost In the arctic seas, this mak^ up our list of naval disasters down to the time of the destruction of the Maine in Ha­ vana harbor, which was an act of war. Other of our naval vessels had thrill­ ing experiences in storms, but without great loss of life. For example, • while anchored off Fredericksted, on the Island of St. Croix, Nov. 18, 1867, the Monongahela was lifted by an earthquake wave and carried over a number of warehouses and landed in one of the streets of the town. A receding wave carried her out of town and placed her on a coral reef, but without serious damage and with only five of the crew lost. The ship was afterward successfully launched from the reef. The cruiser De Soto was tbrf from < r . i - % Vr' ;<Vt l' ' "*~ • * x-; *' " i " c > V ^ ^ •#\ .>. /v, v.' T* r • AIDS NATURES WOBK EFFECT OF ACETYLENE RAY3 Off GROWTH OF PLANTS. " Grow t© Twice Actual Weight , Those Exposed to Sunlight Only-- Latest Victory for This New and Beautiful lllumlnnnt Ninety-two years ago Decatur entered the Mediterranean to chastise ths • : L - : : - • . p i r a t e s . V ' ' J w - . v . ' ^ . ' ' F i n d , a M e r c h a n t , . 1 WRECKED GUNBOAT BENNINGTON. f „ jr TV » ̂ v v .. i J T ' *.* ' ' t V i " '/$' r 3 feared for a long time that, just such J^n accident would happen. One of the men said that a year ago last Febru­ ary, while the ship was at Magdalen a bay, the engineer of the cruiser New York was sent for to inspect the boil­ ers, and he reported that they were in good condition. While the vessel was in San Francisco last year the talk of defective boilers again arose, but no steps were taken to remedy them. V Other Lost Warships. The destruction of the gunboat Ben­ nington in San Diego harbor was an appalling disaster. But it does not justify the intimation that warships are more liable to accidents than other vessels. The very opposite is tTue, as the vessels of the American navy have been singularly free from such HARBOR OF SAN DIEGO. her moorings. in the harbor of St: Thomas about the some time and thrown upon the piles of a new wharf. The receding sea carried her into deep water again with little injury. In 1868 an earthquake wave broke the storeshlp Fredonla in pieces, drowning twenty-seven officers and men, and carried the steamer Wateree half a mile inland. The vessel was a total loss, btrt only one man was lost from the Wateree. This record of disaster in the Ameri­ can navy is lost sight of when compar­ ed with the disaster record in the Brit­ ish navy. Six hundred lives were lost in the disaster to the Royal George, 250 on the Amphion, 100 on the Nas­ sau, 291 on the Sceptre, 673 on the Queen Charlotte, 126 on the Invincible, 250 on the Ajax, thirty on the Mino­ taur, 300 on the Saldanha, 2,000 when the St. George and other warships were destroyed, 365 on the Sea Horse, 200 on the Avenger, 454 on the Bur- tonhead, 472 on the ironclad Captain,. 300 on the tJurydice, 280 on the Ata- lanta, 167 on the torpedo cruiser Ser­ pent, 358 on the battleship Victoria, sunk by the Camperdown, and 400 op the Lady Nugent. World's Most Important Drug^ Quinine is one of the most valuable of all the drugs known to medical science. No one would venture to travel in India without it. Before its discovery 2,000,000 people died annual­ ly in India of malarial fever. The mortality from this cause is now less than half that number. The. poor peo­ ple--so poor that they looked upon the fever as their fate and expected no relief--are saved by the agency of quinine. England could not keep her European soldiers in India without it. Chieagoans Not Worried. "I chanced to be in Chicago," said a gentleman at a dinner to a company of fellow New Englanders, "two or three days after the great fire of 1871; As I walked among the smoking ruins, if I saw a man with a cheerful air, I knew that he was a resident of Chi­ cago; if I saw a man with a long face I knew that he represented a Hartford insurance company. Really, the cheer­ ful resignation with which the Chica­ go people endured the losses of New England did honor to human nature." , Hla Work a Labor of Lovf. - . * Clifford Plnchot, chief of the goverta ment forestry bureau, is a wealthy man, but keeps his position through love of the work connected therewith. He is practically the first American to make forestry a profession. His salary of $3,500 Is not much of an ob­ ject to him and doubtless he would be just as enthusiastic if the govern­ ment did not pay him anything. He has thrown himself heart and soul into the work, givllig to it all his time and strength and working much hard­ er and many hours longer than the ordinary government clerk who is solely dependent upon the govern­ ment for his support. Freak of Lightning. A curious freak of lightning is re­ ported from the French town of Mont- rouge. While a number of persons were assembled in the office of the commissary of police a fearful thun­ derstorm burst over the place. There was a loud crash, followed by a vivid streak of lightning. This ran along the floor of the room, up the legs of a table and set fire to the wood and to some papers lying on top. None of the many persons In the room suffer­ ed any inconvenience.--London Globe. Railroad Man's Silly Question.-" Sidney Dillon, one-time president «f tae Union Pacific, arrived one flight at a station where there had been a washout. Several trains were stalled there and the passengers were sub­ jecting the telegraph operator to all sorts of annoyance by .asking ques­ tions. President Dillon went up to the station and said to the operator: "Have you a telegram here for me?" "I'm blessed if I know," said the oper­ ator, eyeing Dillon very critically. "Would your photograph be on it?" Women Visitors to Parliament. It was only very recently that e&#< trie lights were placed in the women's galleries of the House of Commons in London. The only kind of accommo­ dation once offered to feminine visit­ ors there was a kind of loft between the celling and roof, from which per­ haps a dozen were permitted to take furtive peeps at the proceedings be­ low. Under these circumstances many adopted the plan of disguising them­ selves in male attire in order to gain admission. > ; Moving Furniture to Europe* , \ A queer specialty in the mdfl^B: trade has sprung up in the last few years, since Americans go more and more frequently to Europe. One com­ pany makes a business of moving the entire furniture from a house in New York to a house in any city in Europe, with only one packing. A van is hoist­ ed on board a trans-Atlantic liner and goes by steamer and train to the city of its destination. Then it is set on wheels and driven to the house, where I the goods are carefully unpacked. F STRIKE BUSINESS Better Demand for Season­ able Apparel Also Help* the Retailers. COLLECTIONS REMAIN GOOD City arid Country Bills Are Promptly Paid When Due, Indicating That Merchanta Are 8haring in the Gen­ eral Prosperity. • Chicago dispatch: ^Phe weekly^ re­ view of trade in the Chicago district, published by the R. G. Dun & Co. mer­ cantile agency, says: "Measured by another increased vol­ ume of bank exchanges, 'business ac­ tivity has made good progress, not­ withstanding hindrances due to hot weather. Local trade conditions were much improved in the better demand for seasonable apparel, causing rapid reduction of stocks in leading retail lines, and the formal abandonment of the teamsters' strike. The week brought with It other developments of direct importance, notably the re­ vival in buying of basic iron, together with a higher average cost in metals, lumber, building material, hides and grain. In none of these commodities is the supply under normal and ad­ vanced prices reflect expanding con­ sumption. Deliveries of heavy manu- features are seen to be of enormous volume, but at the same time finished steel shapes are not to be obtained promptly and urgent needs command a premium. ' f ^ Business Outlook Is Good. 'Interior advices show that thel'<ft&' position of necessaries has widened and the indications are encouraging for enlarging business in general mer­ chandise. Collections remain good on both city and country bills. Financial conditions are without disturbing fea­ tures, but the money market exhibits a distinctly firmer tone. "Factory work maintains a good vol- ume in hardware, machinery, and brass. Receipts of hides were 3,333,- 993 pounds, against 2,822,663 pounds of a year ago. The market was buoyant on heavy dealings, and prices reached their highest this season. Grain and Live Stock. "Grain transactions were lessened in cash divisions, but futures invited more activity from the conflicting na­ ture of crop reports, and strong manip­ ulation controlled the current options In wheat. Dealings in flour have been limited, and millers defer definite t)lans to increase production. The to­ tal quantity of grain handled reached 6,754,272 bushels, of which the receipts aggregated 3,882,390, against 2,526,615 for the corresponding week las^ year. The shipments were 2,874,882 bushels, against 2,484,479. "Receipts of live stock, 272,562 head, compared with 133,651 a year ago, when the packing houses were affect­ ed by the strike trouble. "Failures in the Chicago district were eighteen, against twenty-six last week and twenty-eight a year ago," Injured Miner Is a Hero. Decatur, 111., special: Hugh Hastie, Ed Naughton and Joe Condon were in­ jured in a fall of slate in a coal mine.. Naughton although dangerously injur­ ed, carried Hastie to the cage. Has­ tie was held in Naughton's arms until the surface was reached, but died just as they got to the top. Mob Lynches Negro Boy. Houston, Texas, dispatch: A mob battered down the doors of the new Braunfels jail and lynched Sam Green, a 16-year-old negro boy who attacked the 4-year-old daughter of William Karbach, a German farmer. Baron Goes to Estate. Berlin cablegram: Baron Speck Vd® Sternburg, the German ambassador to the United States, who has been in Berlin transacting business with the foreign office, went to his estate near Llepsig, with the baroness. Mystery in Georgia Tragedy. Rome, Ga., special: George Wright, city passenger and ticket agent here for the Southern railway, was shot and killed by Vince T. Sanford. Sanford refuses to talk and the cause of ths tragedy is not known. Japan's Telegraph Lines Repaired. New York special: Cable and land telegraph lines in Japan which were Interrupted by a typhoon, have been repaired, according to an announce­ ment made Coanaarolal , Gat)|g oompany. - _ 4 BOOKKEEPER JUNTGEN IS HELD Official of Edgar County institution Is Bound Over to Grand Jury. Paris, 111., dispatch: Upon charges of forgery and false entries, W. W. Juntgen, bookkeeper of the Edgar County bank, recently wrecked with dynamite, was held to the federal grand jury by United States Commis­ sioner F. E. Shopp in this city. The charge of embezzlement was not, in the estimation of the court, conclu­ sively established. The defendant gave a bond of $5,000, with his father, William Juntgen, as security. Five instances were discovered in which the name of Assistant Cashier Cole had been forged to acknowledgments sent out by the bank to its foreign correspondents, these transactions in­ volving the irregularities with which Juntgen . is charged. 8POUSE MAY SEARCH POCKETS Kansas City Judge Says Wife Has Right as Against Husband. Kansas City, Mo., dispatch: Judge Slover declared in the circuit court that he would never interfere with that ancient and honorable right of a wife to search her husband's pockets for loose change. William M. Harding asked for a divorce from Ina M. Hard­ ing for several reasons, one of which was his wife had a habit of "frisking" his pockets after he fell asleep. When the evidence was all in Judge Slover said: "I want it distinctly understood that I am not granting this divorce because the wife went into her hus­ band's pockets. I shall do nothing to interfere with that ancient privilege of the fair sex. A wife has the right to do that. I grant the divorce for other reasons." TEAMSTERS END GREAT STRIKE Chicago Drivers Surrender Uncondi­ tionally After Being Out 105 Days. Chicago dispatch: The teamsters' strike has passed into history. The end caipe officially just before mid­ night Thursday, when the teamsters' joint council, by a unanimous vote, re- clared the long contest off. The re­ sult, after 105 days of struggle, is an unconditional surrender, without any conference with the employers, with­ out any request from them, and with not a hair's breadth of promise or con­ cession. Preceding the action of the joint council the three largest unions involved in the strike registered an overwhelming vote in favor of peace. President Shea at once acceded to the will of the "rank and file." "This is the end," Shea announced. "All strik­ ers are now free to seek their old po­ sitions." 'HEAR8AY" PROOF MAY CONVICT Supreme Court of Mississippi Holds It Is Sometimes Good. Jackson, Miss., dispatch: Hearsay evidence may be admitted in criminal cases, according to a supreme court decision, if it directly quotes the party charged. James Denmore and Willie Wallace, boys, were convicted of an attempted assault, partly on the evidence of a lawyer who heard them quarreling after arrest and accusing each other of the crime. The defense objected to th? admission of the testi­ mony, and carried the point to the supreme court. Chief Justice Truly read a decision holding the evidence properly admitted. Prospecting in Death Valley. Rhyolite, Nev., dispatch: John Mul- lin, E. M. Titus and Earl Weller of Tellurlde, Col., left Rhyolite June 20 on a prospecting trip Into Death val­ ley. Mullin has been brought to Rhy­ olite half crazed. Titus and Weller, it Is believed, perished. Mrs. Hobson Is III. Des Moines, Iowa, dispatch: Mrs. Richmond Pearson Hobson, the wife of Capt. Hobson, the hero of the Mer- rimac, is ill at Mercy hospital. Capt. Hobson is at her bedside. Her Blck* ness is said to be of a serious nature. Fugitive la Captured. T-oq Angeles, Cal., dispatch: After successfully eluding the United States secret service men for over twelve years, J. B. Gregory, alias Harry Leon­ ard, expert counterfeiter and escaped convict, has been captured. Fleeing Banker Is Caught. Havana cablegram: Alfred Buck, said to be the former cashier of the State Bank of Mapleton, Minn., has been arrested on the Isle of Pines under the name of W. J. McGregor, on the charge of defalcation. Lightning Bolt Kills Two. Mount Sterling, 111., special: Walter Amen and Walter Davis, who lived several miles south of here, were killed by lightning while pitching straw Into a barn. Amen was If a&d Davis 24 years The experiments recently mad* at- Cornell University prove that the beautiful rays from the gas, acetylene, are as effective as sunlight on the growth of plants, and this may soon become a subject for serious consider­ ation by all progressive cultivators of the soil. The results of the experiments are astonishing, inasmuch as they show conclusively the great increase of growth attained by supplementing "The Light of Nature" with "The Light of Acetylene" during the hours in which the plants would otherwise be in darkness. For instance, a certain number of radish plants subjected to acetylene light during the night, grew to twice the actual weight of the same number of radishes given daylight only, all other conditions being equal, and peas had blossomed and partially matured pods with the help of acety­ lene lights while without the added light not even buds were apparent. Acetylene is already taking jits place as an illumlnant for towns from a central plant, for lighting houses, churches, schools and isolated build­ ings of all kinds, and it is being used successfully for many other purposes. A striking and important feature of acetylene is the ease and small ex­ pense with which it can be made available compared with the great ad­ vantages derived from its use. The machine in which the gas is gener* ated is easily installed. •THE WHITE RIVEH DIVISIONS. A New Scenic Line Through a Rich Agricultural and Mineral Country,- Offering New Fields for Sportsmen. ! - W. Loute. July 14th.--The approach­ ing completion of the White River Di­ vision of the Iron Mountain Route, between Carthage, Mo., and Newport* Ark., marks a new stage in the de­ velopment of a strangely neglected portion of the Great Southwest. A thorough Inspection of the new line, recently made by representatives of the Passenger Department indi­ cates that through trains will be run­ ning within sixty days. Mr. H. C. Townsend, General Passenger & Tick­ et Agent, who has long been as firm believer in the possibilities of the White River Country, in speaking of the new road, said: "The new line is a more important link in the west­ ern railroad systems than might ap­ pear at first glance. It opens up a direct route between the Northwest and the Southeast, and what this means to the people of both sections will be understood by all railroad men and students of industrial and agri­ cultural conditions. It will mean new and better markets for each, and consequently, a greater share of geit? eral prosperity. "Investors, tourists and home seek­ ers have long had their eye on this section, and now that the way is open for travel, the drawing power of the section is becoming daily more appar­ ent. The lead and zinc fields in par­ ticular along the White River Railway are coming to the front, and develop­ ing rich deposits which promise to rival the older section at the western terminus of the White River Line. "One of the finest agricultural coun­ tries west of the Mississippi is opened up and heavy Immigration justifies the enterprise of the promoters. "The fishing proposition is becom­ ing so well known that a number ot club houses on the James River be­ tween Galena and Branson are now completed, and are taxed to their ca­ pacity. During the month of June we hauled over forty fishing parties from Carthage, who desired to make the five day float from Galena to Bran­ son, returning by rail in fifty minutes. "Several thousand tourists have al­ ready made the trip from each end of the completed line, and all Indications point to a tourist travel unprecedent­ ed over any line in tftis part of the country. "A one night's run over the Mis­ souri from St. Louis, or Kansas City, enables the visitor to take the early morning train at Carthage for a com­ plete run over the Mne; or with a one night's run from St. Louis or Memphis over the Iron Mountain Route to New­ port, the visitor can make the day­ light run over the White River line. "It is fair to say that a panorama of unexcelled beauty--river scenery; verdure clad mountains; stony preci­ pices and quaint little towns nestled in the valleys--awaits the newcomer to the beautiful White River region. "The romantic features of the new line are naturally the ones to attract the most general attention, but, as stated, the agricultural (fruit raising in particular) and mineral possibili­ ties of this new region are remark­ able. "The road Itself is one or the mod­ ern wonders of engineering; built to last for all time, with eighty-flv^ poiind rail, rock ballast, and a grade in curvature admitting, of s^peed. safety and comfort." f ? His Unpardonable Offedwe/ 1 Women never get over the sense of dislike they feel for a man who once laughs at them. • '? Hundreds of dealers say the extvfc quantity and superior quality of De­ fiance Starch Is fast taking place of all other brands. Others say they can­ not sell any other starch. The appointment of Miss Florei^p R. Sabin as assistant professor of alia* tomy at Johns Hopkins reduces Mere Man to mere " subject matter. - Storekeepers report that the extra quantity, together with the superior quality of Defiance Starch makes it next to Impossible to sell any othM*; brand. Sunday is the golden clasp, that binds together the volume of the week.--Longfellow. * . ,4-.A jA J?- •' The world Is too apt to have a ef|)^ fused idea of happiness, saecess dollars.