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CONDITION OF EX-SPEAKER HENDERSON ALARMS FRIENDS l* _-H As the result, of a wound received during the civil war, Fir-Speaker Henderson's mind is said to be failing, and his bodily health is causing his friends much uneasiness. THE ELOQUENCE OF MONEY. AWAKE.TO IDEAS OF BEAUTY. Magazine Writer Discourses on Recent important Events. Money talks. Sometimes its elo­ quence almost drowns whatever still email voices may be pleading for the floor. ^Honestly, ..between ourselves, we sometimes weary of its conver­ sation. Money is exciting, but it oc­ casionally seems almost to have the , etar role, with other interests no­ where. John D.'s notable exploit with t|he great American college fraternity Was a relief, for it enabled us to lilaugh. f'So," said he, "you criticised the Congregationallsts for accepting "•Jfny $100,000, did you? Well, I'll buy r * "the whole of you. Miss Tarbell and -~~i. "foark Hanna say I'm money mad ? ^•'.'%:jWhat dp you think of $10,000,000? I'll Invest that in collegiate silence and V Celestial dividends. Hadley is the Jboy that suggested social ostracism • , for such as me. A special million for Vale ought to make him about as i;j I'?_J|actful in-the future as President Har- " ' per, or any other good, wise educator that knows his business. "T. Roose­ velt of Harvard was barking also, just before those $10,000,000 appeared ' tipon the scene. Perhaps some con- . .. . Jjpicuous scion of that noble university ^fj°w clamors for attention long enough to make a speech on the habits and * . duties of famous financiers. As for "i 'tis, we can do nothing to^tem the • tide, but you will kindly let us sulk. Moreover, we believe that the uni­ versities would do well to cavil a trifle longer, for rather than not acquire a restful silence Mr. Rockefeller would come out with $100,000,000. So , why not get as large a graft out of his predicament as we can?--Collier's. Lengthy Epic Poem. / The late Hermann Lingg accom­ plished the extraordinary feat of • . ;>riting an epic poem of 20,000 lines jMpn the migrations of peoples. He *%%pent decades in collecting material *$•tor it, not, as he explains, in libraries, ' "l)ut in hospitals, taverns and military camps. He was at one time an army surgeon. As long ago as 1890 his seventieth birthday was celebrated at Munich, where the prince regent made him a noble and the city con- '®£«ferred on him honorary citizenship. In the last years he had lost his fac- . iilties and strength to such an extent as to seem like a child. His daughter, Mali, devoted herself entirely to tak­ ing care of him. During the years of liis connection with the army he often, like Byron, composed his poems on tiorseback. v Knew His Own Capacity Abe Gruber, the New York lawyer,, tells of ^a southern friend who was visiting him. Mr. Gruber, wishing to be hospitable, brought forth a whisky bottle and placed it on the dining r room table. He went to the china '*a^loset to get some whisky glasses. On /fiis return he was surprised to see . $|hat his friend had filled up an ordi- , ^iiary water glass to the brim and was ^Hbout to drink it. "Say," said, Mr. ' 0|}ruber, "what are you doing? You I Arink that as if it were cider." Cider?" said the southerner, drain- fng his glass, "do you think I'd take 4hat much cider?" Responded to Name After Death. At a guillotining in Paris, Franqf, |he doctor in attendance made a grue­ some experiment. As the murderer's fpead fell into the basket the doctor j&eized ft and shouted the man's name Afjn his ear, whereupon the eyes opened tlowly and then closed. This was re­ peated a second time, with the same jljbffect, but to the third call there was |||k> response. The doctor explained 'that after death there is a sensibility ©f the tissues much longer in those executed in the full vigor of health than in the case of death after illness. 8cotch Newspaper of 1747. James Ingram of Barre, Vt., has a ^ Copy of the first number of the Aber- •' 4teen Journal. It was published Dec. * f§9, 1747, and contains many articles relative to the war which was then f |>eing drawn to a clo°<5. In the nuin- ? v%er the publisher, James Chalmers, i 1 Announces that in the text number r pie wiH begun publishing "an exact ; ijist of the ships that come into or sail from the harbors of Stonehaven, Aberdeen, Peterhead, jftrsawrburg, fcanff and Portsay." e * . . . • American Homes and Cities Showing More Adornment. It has long and justly been a re­ proach to Americans that they are so devoted to the material and practical that ideals have been neglected. It is beyond dispute that as respects artis­ tic adornment the average American home or town is inferior to the for­ eign home or town. This has been no­ toriously the case in the country, where the American pioneer chopped or burn$d every tree in sight of his homestead, then had to set out shade trees for the benefit of his grandchil­ dren. It is only lately that American cities and private citizens have em­ barked upon intelligent and compre­ hensive enterprises of city and home adornment. Europe is old and staid, America young and restless, with a large migratory population which nev­ er stops long enough in one place to have a home. In this respect things are changing, and what is to be made a home only for a few years can in a short time, under the favorable cir­ cumstances of living here, be made as attractive artistically as many Euro­ pean homes which have been such for generations. This country owes to its population of recent European origin a large share of the credit for the newly awakened Interest in natural beauty effects.--Cleveland Plain Deal­ er. Rented Wedding "Gifts." *1 mts a party to a little deception this spring that was a new thing in my line of business," said the proprie­ tor of a silverware store In Harlem. "A woman who studied abroad for her fairly successful career as a concert singer on this side of the Atlantic came to me to buy a wedding present for her niece. For that she paid cash. Then she proposed to hire various ar­ ticles in my store for the wedding day, furnishing good security there­ for, and paying a fair price for the loan of the goods. She assured me she had made similar arrangements with a bric-a-brac dealer in Broadway. I read an account of the wedding in the newspapers. The silverware I had rented was duly mentioned among the gifts. I presume there were others. 1 find that renting out wedding gifts is quite a common oc­ currence in Paris and Jjindon,. but I never before heard of it in New York." President's College Honors. Eyen before receiving the two doc­ torates conferred upon him recently Theodore Roosevelt had. a larger cok lection of college degrees than any of his predecessors in the office ol president of the United States. In­ cluding his B. A., taken in course at Harvard twenty-five years ago, he has now had bestowed upon him ten titles to distinction of this kind and is priv­ ileged to write after his name eight LL. D's and one T*. H. D. The total it just twice the highest number of hon­ orary degrees given by the colleges of the country to any of his predecessors. Washington, Jefferson and McKinley each received five degrees. John Adams and Hayes each received four. Grant received three. • I L L I N O I S J V E W S CHoio* the •p*ol»Uy Minted for our roadore RUN OVER BY ENGINE AND LIVES Former Railroad Man Has a Wonder­ ful Escape From Death. John Flockhart of South Chicago was run over by a switch engine and five cars in the Kankakee yards of the Big Four railroad this afternoon and still lives. Flockhart, who was formerly employed here as a Big Four switchman, went to Kankakee on a picnic excursion. He was riding "on the front end of a switch engine with two former fellow employes, when his hat blew off. In trying to catch it he lost his balance and fell directly in front of the engine. The engine and five cars in the train passed over him. The crew hurried back, expecting to find the mangled corpse of their com- panion.but instead he was endeavoring to raise himself to a sitting posture. Examination showed that his injuries consisted of a crushed right arm and a few cuts about the h$ad, while the heel of his right foot had been torn off. Railroad men are unable to ac­ count for Flockhart's escape from in­ stant death. as the firebox of the en­ gine reaches almost to the ground. It is thought that after his arm was crushed by the engine he was rolled into the center of the tracks, clear of the wheels of the cars that followed. TENDERS RARE GIFT TO ILLINOIS Mrs. John A. Logan Offers a Valuable Historical Collection. Iffs. John A. Logan has tendered the valuable historical collection owned by her to the state of Illinois. The collection, which is closely con­ nected with the life of General John A. Logan and the history of the coun­ try and the state, is now in Memorial hall at Mrs. Logan's house in Wash-, ington. In acknowledging receipt of the letter Governor Deneen on behalf of the state expressed his thanks for the generous offer and assured Mrs, Logan that in his official capacity he would bring the question of providing a permanent home for the collection before the general'assembly in a mes­ sage to that body. HEAVY RAINFALL IN THE STATE Chifd Hurt by Mowing Machine. The 18 - months - old daughter of James Rawson, living near Upper Al­ ton, was badly hurt by being run over by a mowing machine, which was be­ ing used cutting hay. The child had lain down on her back when the ma­ chine passed over her/ Her feet and hands were up in the air and she w*p playing with her feet, the knives catch­ ing her feet and lacerating them bad­ ly. Th^ driver of the mower did not see the child until his attention was attracted by her cries of pain. Jimson 8eed Tea Poisonous. Louis Patterson and family of Pana were poisoned by drinking jimson seed tea, which Mrs. Patterson made and set on the table for supper. The en­ tire family was made sick, and Mr. Patterson became delirious and ran away from the house. He was found in a cornfield at 2 o'clock in the morn­ ing, with his body badly lacerated from running through hedges. He was placed in jail under the care of a phy­ sician. The other member-*qfr iho family have recovered. < ' Buy Belleville Breweries. An option upon the Western and and Star breweries and the Ice plant of the Belleville Ice and Cold Storage company by a syndicate of Chicago capitalists for several months has been closed. The deal represents an outlay of about $2,000,000. The Star brewery is' the property of Bernard Hartmann & Sons. Adam Gintz is interested in the ice plant, and the Paul J. Sorg estate of Ohio is the principal owner of the Western brew­ ery." 1 Shotfirer. Is Killed by Explosion. Napoleon Goalby, a shotfirer at Donk Bros, mine No. 3, at Troy, was killed by a premature explosion of a shot In the mine. He was 35 years of age and the sole support of his wid­ owed mother in Troy. His ̂ brother, John Goalby, is connected with the Herring mine in St. Clair county, and was at one time a member <deAfa, state board of mine inspectors. ' Army Worm Injuring Crops. Following closely on the heels of the locust, the army worm has appeared in Lake county fields and is said to be playing havoc with the hay, oats and corn'Wops, particularly in the south­ western part of the county. On the county poor farm the oat crop will be reduced from sixty bushels per acre to only ten bushels, Superintendent Appley thinks. Oppose Carnivals and Fairs. At a meeting of the Jerseyville Min­ isterial Association the pastors decided to hold union services each Sunday evening during the summer months. They also passed resolutions which are strongly against street carniifels and street fairs. The resolutions will be presented to the city council and the Commercial club. Miner Hurt by Fall of 8late. James Harris of West Belleville-WOT caught under a fall of slate In the Nig­ ger Hollow mine, five miles northwest of Belleville, sustaining internal in­ juries. Harris is 52 years of age and one of the best-known miners in Belle­ ville. He has a wife and several chil* dren. . ' . They Were Not Married. There is a woman of enterprise la a certain Lincolnshire village. She found a bridegroom and determined to annex him. Then the marriage day dawned and the bride went to church. She waited long, and instead of the bridegroom came a note, which said that he had just had a bill from the dressmaker for the wedding dress, and "if you are going to begin like this I am not going to marry you." The appropriate comment seems to be "Mtoro haste, tess speed."---X-ondcn Telegraplj. t Falls From Semaphore Pole. William Braden, aged 25, of Coulter- ville, a signal maintenance man of the Illinois Central railway, fell from a semaphore pole at the Belleville sta­ tion and sustained an Injury to his left arni and a number of bruises to his body. ChooSe New instructors. Dr. Horace Reed of Decatur lias been appointed field secretary for the Illinois Woman's college of Jackson­ ville. 1 Prof. James Brown of New Haven, Conn., has been selected as instructor in physics at the Illinois college. He is a Yale graduate. Corn Felds Under Water. An almost unprecedented rainstorm reached Marion and vicinity Thursday and continued until noon Friday. Crab Orchard^ Saline, the Big Muddy and other waterways are at flood stage and scores of corn fields along these streams are under water. The Ipss from washed-out bridges and from damaged crops will be very heavy. Several stores in the lower part of Marion were flooded and have been forced to suspend business. Rescuing parties went to the relief of a number of families whose residences were partly under water. Rain Inundates Carbondale. Nearly seven inches of rain fell at Carbondale. causing much damage' to the town and vicinity. Nearly all the streets were submerged for several hours and cellars and basements were overflowed, and in some cases lower floors of residences were Inundated. Large fields of hay and. corn and oats were completely overflowed, roads were rendered impassable and many country residents took refuge in the second stories of their homes. Ail traffic in and out of the town was at a. standstill, trains being unable to run in either direction. 'Water Covers Farm Lands. Seven inches of rain fell^at. Alto Pass Thursday night and Friday and the creeks southwest of town are half a mile wide, covering the farm lands along their banks, carrying away the wheat in shock and ruining grow­ ing corn. There are numerous wash­ outs along the line of the Mobile ft Ohio tracks. Assures Corn Crop. A heavy rain began falling at Cen- terville at about 7:30 o'clock Thurs­ day night, sud continued until 11 o'clock Friday morning. Considerable damage was done to bridges, but a, large corn crop is assured. ^ Montgomery County Hags. ' , According to the assessors' books returned to County Treasurer Brown, the avei-age value of hogs varies in the different townships of Montgomery county from $7.29 in Harvel to $3.08 In Grisham. The average values in other townships are: South Litchfield, $5.71; Walshville, $3.78; North Litchfield, $4.06; Pitman, $5; Irving, $3.98; Bois d'Arc, $5.64; Fillmore, $3.96; Audu­ bon, $4.06; Nokomls, $5.47; Rountree, $3.26; Hills boro, $3.98; Zanesville, $4.43; Raymond, $5.01; East Fork, $3.33; Butler Grove, $4.23; Witt, $4.65. MINERS MEET WITH OPERATORS Conference on Employment %of Shot Firers Results in Deadlock. * No settlement has been ^reached in the controversy existing in» the Chica­ go and Alton subdistrict as a result of the coal operators refusing to employ shot firers. A conference of miners and operators was held with a view of adjusting the matter, but without avail. The dele­ gation of miners went to Springfield with iron-clad instructions to hold out for the employment of shot firers. With their hands thus tied they were unable to negotiate with the oper­ ators. They returned home to report the condition to the locals and it is probable that when the matter is .taken up again next week they will have a free hand to negotiate. The mine operators in the sub-district re­ cently notified their men t.o; use only two pounds of powder in firing shote. Heretofore the TXj^n have used two and one-half pounds and sometimes three pounds in blasting, and they say it is not possible to blast with two pounds. Seeks Funds for Negro School. Rufus S. Stout, president of the Wil­ liams industrial college of Arkansas is in Chicago looking after the inter­ ests o£ tfie school. Although the in­ dustrial college is the second largest of its kind for colored people in the country and within calling distance of Little Rock. It has been found that the private donations are not suf­ ficient to carry out the idea of its pres­ ident. on how an up-to-date industrial school should be run. •Endeavorers Elect Officers. The Marion county Christian En­ deavor convention held a two days' meeting at Sandoval, electing the fol­ lowing officers: Marion Warren of Centralia, president; Ben Dolsen of Sandovol, Iva Wyatt of Kell, Rev. Cavens of Iuka, Mr. Greeing of Kin- mundy, vice presidents; Gus Ros- borough of Centralia, secretary and treasurer; Celia Keller of Centralia, assistant. The next session will be held in Centralia. Nose Broken by Glariili%^Spttfei While William Turk was watching workmen raise a 50-foot smokestack at the Watson stone quarry in Alton an iron spike which was being driven by a hammer glanced from a post antl struck him in the face, breaking hirf nose and injuring one of his eyes. The spike first struck Michael Keefe on the shoulder and glanced off, and ex­ cept from this fact it was believed the missile w^uJd have penetrated Turk's skull. ' "*J> Suicide Sends Away Family. Premeditating suicide, Henry 'Reitz, one of the oldest men in Central Illi­ nois, urged his son, Herman Reitz, and family to leave their home at Tice, f and attend a picnic. The family left, and the elder Reltz, 83 years old, went to the farm well in the rear of the home, carefully laid his cane, hat and clothes on the edge of the well, and leaped in. Observe American Boy Day. American Boy day was observed at Cairo July 20 and 200 boys from Cairo, Mounds, Mound City, Anna, Vienna, Wickliffe and Birds Point gathered at the park and enjoyed a dinner, fur­ nished by the ladies of Cairo. A street car ride was followed by a program of music and speaking, in which Judge William S. Drury and Judge William N. Butler made addresses. Regulates Hack Fares. The Quincy city council has adopted a new ordinance for regulating cabs and hack drivers. The owner of each hack is required to take out an annual license and to give approved bond of $1,000. On the inside of each hack must be displayed in large type the name of the owner, copy of rates, name of driver and number of license. Deranged Man Dies at Jail. Louis Czerney of Colllnsville, whose mind became deranged when he was placed In the jail for safety, was dis­ covered to be in a precarious condi­ tion about midnight and was removed to the open air in front of the jail, where he died. He was married aftd leaves a wife and two daughters. Creditors Have the Keys. C. W- Sopher, a hardware and furni­ ture merchant of Ramsey, has deliv­ ered his keys over to creditors and t»is doors have been closed pending a sale under the new statute requiring notice. - Robin Lost Her Home. This spring a robin began prepara­ tions for nesting under a truss of the turntable at the railway station in Woodstock, Vt. "The turntable was then swung around, and the bird started another nest under the oppo­ site truss. Again the foundation of her house was turned around, and she t began again on the first nest. She ' had laid two sets of eggs when the old turntable was removed and she was coinpeUa^;vvfif<;jbraak'cip^.: hou»» _ keeping. „ i Steamer Fireman Is Drowned : While the steamer India Givens was ldading wheat at Calhoun landing one of her colored firemen either deliber­ ately stepped overboard or, was acci­ dentally drowned. To Represent Oxford. •prof. Q. W. Greenwood, head of the mathematical department of McKen- dree college, Lebanon, has been chosen to represent Queen's college, Oxford university, at the inaguration of President James of the state univer­ sity of Illinois in October. . * ' Overturns Boiling Tia. Florence Mallott, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Mallott of Jersey­ ville, burned herself severely by over­ turning a teapot filled with boiling hot Negro Shoots Girl and Rival. In a quarrel over a girl, Aaron Cole fired four shots at his sweetheart, Ef- fie Stewart, and his rival, Arthur Al­ len, at Carrier Mills, wounding each in the leg. The parties are all colored. Cole was arrested at Mount Carmel. Bonus for Interurban. The business men of Quincy have received subscriptions to the amount of $8,000 to be applied on the pledge of $10,000 to be raised when the in­ terurban road between Haafiibal and Quiney is completed. Verdict Against Coal Company. Hogh Sloan of Springfield was awarded $2,000 dama'ges against the Wilmington and Consolidated Cog.1 company. The plaintiff sued for dam­ ages for the death of William Sloan, who met his death in the mine of the defendant company. /-• /, Southern Illinois Soldiers. « officers of the Southern Illinois Soldiers' and Sailors' Reunion Asso­ ciation decided that the annual re­ union of the association will be held in Carbondale on Aug. 23. 24 and 25. Officer's Victim a Kentuckian. The unknown man shot and killed by Chief of Police Roemer of Havana, was identified by Nettie Brown of Athens as Robert Buckner of Greens- burg, Ky. He, -with two companions, stole a hat from a sleeping farmer, and, being pursued threw a coupling pin at the officer, who fired, killing him instantly. Oynamite Blast Kills Miners. . A man named Coles was killed and another employe fatally injured by a dynamite explosion in <-ne Fairview mine at Golconda. The accident was due to the neglect of the day shift to notify the night shift of the shot they had just put in before quitting work and which was exploded by the jar of the drills. High Price for Land. One hundred acres of farm land ly­ ing in the southeast part of Lebanon township, and belonging to -the heirs of th^t late William Schoene, was pur­ chased by Philip Sewald at master's sale for $136 an acre. ^ This is the highest price ever paid for land la Lebanon township. Blacksmith Found Dead. A blacksmith named Kirkpatrick was found dead in an alley about 1 o'clock in the morning by Night Po­ liceman H. Bergfeldt of Altamont. He was about 45 years old. The coro­ ner's verdict was that he met death by unknown hands. His home Is un- known. Lightning Destroys Bam. Lightning struck a barn on John Speagle's farm, In Locust township, en­ tirely destroying^tt, together with a horse and a large quantity of grain and hay. f Student Is Killed. F. A. Fegan, of Champaign, a stu­ dent of. the state university, was in­ stantly killed In the Henry Adney mine at Cripple Creek, Colo. He was 24 years old and had gone to Colorado for the summer. Contract for Waterworks. The contract has been signed for a $22,000 waterworks system for Mount Olive. The water will be obtained from a large, reservoir which was con­ structed eight years ago«at a cost of $15,000. • Mine Barns Are Destroyed. Thve barns connected with the Donk Bros, coal mines at Maryville were de­ stroyed by fire, together with seven tons of hay and about 300 bushels of corn. A mule, the only live occupant of the stable, was rescued. The loss was fully covered by insurance. LARGEST AMERICAN FLAG FLOATS NOW At DENVER uESDSr AMuacnr HAG RHUM QUTN DOME The largest American flag in the world has been hung out on the Sixteenth street front of the Daniels ft Fisher Stores Company, at Denver. When the question came up as to the proper decoration for the Grand Army encampment and the other meetings of the summer, it was de­ cided to investigate the subject of big American flags, and it was fo\ind that' it was possible to make and display on the front of the building the largest American flag in the world. At first the plan was to erect a pole on the corner of the roof of the build­ ing and swing it from that. But calculations showed that the weight would be so great that no pole strong THE WORLD'S DEBT TO DOCTORS Men «f Medicine Have Reason to Be Proud of Achievements. It would be commonplace to point out the advances made in both medi­ cine and surgery tiuring the last half century, for in that time medicine has come to be a real science and surgery both an art and a science. Sanitation, hygiene, the broad principles that un­ derlie the health of communities and states, are now well understood and the individual is made safe because the public may be thoroughly safe­ guarded against pestilence of any kind. *£ke doctors have conquered smallpox, diphtheria, yellow fever^the bubonic plague and all but one of the dread­ ful scourges that devastated the homes of our fathers, aijtl (hey seem now on the right track in the systematic, re­ lentless, intelligent and heroic war they are waging against tuberculosis. Typhoid fever, pneumonia and scarlet fever are robbed of much of their ter­ rors, for where either was once likely to prove fatal now they are very likely not to. Who, then, has done so much for his fellow man as the doctor? Who else has lived for him so self-sacri- ficingly and died for him so uncom­ plainingly?--Portland Oregonian. enough could be obtained. So it was- then decided to swing it from the top of the building. It remained up during the Epwortfc League convention, and will be shown again for the Eagles and the Grand Army veterans. It has been arranged with the band masters who accom­ pany the various State and local or­ ganizations to' play "The Star Spangled Banner" on passing the flag. The dimensions of it are:--Length, 115 feet; width, 55 feet; stars two feet across; width of stripes, 4 feet 2 in­ ches; yards of bunting used, 1,450; union field, 28 by 35 feet, weight of the flag, 450 pounds. . SOBRIQUET THAT HAS CLUNG. ..::9S VWi Invention s Necessity. Lady Holland was once taken down to dinner by Mr. Babbage, the invent­ or of the calculating machine. Some­ thing was said about "squaring words." "What does that mean?" asked Lady Holland. "I will tell you," said Mr. Babbage. "You take a word, for example, like horse. That contains six,letters--" "Six!" exclaimed Lady Holland involuntarily. "Don't you mean five?" "No, no," Mr. Babbage rejoined, "there are six letters in horse." "Surely not," persisted Lady Holland, and spelled the word. "Ah," remarked the great pan, "I never can count. That Is why I Invented- the calculating machine." Bank Increases Capital 8tock. At a special meeting of the stock­ holders of the First national bank of Edwardsville the capital stock of the' institution was increased from $50,000 to $100,000 by a unanimous vote. Senator Never "Took Water.** Ex-Senator William F. Sanders of Montana, who died a few days ago Helena, was a noted character in ter­ ritorial days. He was never known to "take water" and was proud of the (act. At the funeral of a friend on one occasion he said to a fellow pall­ bearer, as they turned away from tne grave: "Some day they will bring me out here and throw dirt on me, but they can never say I ate any of it." He once handed a rather tat­ tered bill to a railway conductor, who commented on Its dilapidated appear­ ance. "Well," said Sanders, "If you don't like It turn it in to the own" pany." Secretary of Agriculture Wilson Lang Known as "Tama Jim." "Tama Jim" is t^e name by which James Wilson, secretary of agricul­ ture, is known in the middle west. It was "Sunset" Cox, famous in congress a generation ago, who gave this sobri­ quet to the Iowa statesman. Wilson was a new member of congress then, and to distinguish him from another and better known James Wilson In the same body, who nailed from the Buckeye state, Cox called the new man "Tama Jim" Wilson Tama being the name of the county in which Wil­ son lived*. Wilson is the only cabi­ net member, except Secretary of the Interior Hitchcock, who thus far has served continuously through the Mc­ Kinley and Roosevelt administrations up to the present. Born in Scotland seventy years ago, he has been by turns schoolmaster, farmer, legisla­ tor, congressman, professor In an ag­ ricultural college and fourth secretary of agriculture. In his pedagogic days he was so poor that he had; to go bare­ foot in summer, but he managed to save enough to start the purchase of a farm, which he worked with such intelligence that It brought him a com­ fortable fortune. "s'%1 'J Si British Royal Family Prolific. There are no signs of race sui&flle In the British royal family. Victoria had four sons and five daughters. King Edward is the father of six and the baby boy bom to the prince and princess of Wales the other day makes an even half dozen for them, five being sons. The other sterna have done as well--the Empress Fred­ erick eight and her son, Emperor Wil­ liam. seven; Princess Alice, six, "and one of her daughters, the empress of Russia, five; Prince Alfred and Prin­ cess Helena, five each; Princess Bea­ trice, four; Prince Arthur, three, and Prince Leopold, two. The Cumberland and Cambridge branches are prolific. Courtly African Chief. The late Hamed ben-Mohammed, or "Tippu Tip," as he was called not only in Europe, but by his African subjects, used to surprise Livingstone, Cameron, Stanley and other explorers by his exhibition of Arabic courtli­ ness In the midst of the hostile Afri­ can wilds. Wiser than his son, Sefu, who tried to oppose the progress of the Belgians, he, adapted himself to cir­ cumstances, retired to private life and spent the last fifteen years of his life at Zanzibar in the enjoyment of his wealth. Strict Steamboat Inspection. Steamboat inspectors in New York are making every effort to prevent a repetition of the Slocum disaster of last year. Quite recently, wKh- iout warning, they . swooped down on five of the excursion fleet and tested them as to their ef­ ficiency in the fire drill. All of the boats were successful in the tests. Fire hose was taken down, the water turned on, lifeboats lowered and life preservers thrown on deck. The time on each of the boats was five aainutas. Woman Police Desk Sergeant. ^ Miss Nettie Pyne o£ Butler, Pa^ In engaged in an occupation which* SO far as known, is not followed by ar^ other young woman in the country. She is desk sergeant on the police force in that city. She la on duty from 7 p. m. until 5 a. m. and in every way attends to the duties of the office which she occupies. There was ob­ jection to her appointment when it was suggested by Chief Schultz, but the police committee sustained him and Miss Payne got the place, In which she has given complete satis­ faction. H Railway Capitalization. _ The capitalization a mile of Ameri­ can railways is about £12.000, against £47,000 a mile in the United Kins' dom, but it should be pointed out that in America there is a preponderance of single lines, whereas in these is! ands an average mile of railway rep resents two and one-quarter miles ol tracks, so that instead of being foal times as great a mile as in the United States, the capital of our railways !• really rather more than twice a» heavy a mile of track. Including; roll Ing stock.--London Engineer.' 3* A Fox's. Larder. In a fox hole at Martindala, moreland, were found one marked and two unmarked lambs, two hens one kitten and a freshly killed wood cock, together wfth a large namber- of rabbits, rata and mice. A Martindale farmer identifies th( marked lamb as his own. The kit ten has been claimed by a keen fO» hunter living at Pooiey Bridge, wMl* the rabbits and mice have been al loted to the lord ojt London Daily M«it : •w: Jw