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L-t L^t ^ : 3 < z*% " ^ %' if* ( * ^ •>;' ' " / St'K, 'J ( ^'-S^;'- "*• t •< | ̂ ^ * -'if+s.' V, -V,/1 fi'*. «-/<< us > f* aai». ; /«• : r •*>! v, ••*,, . * SfiS ?.f «"V;;- •4* * " ' y»fe4i: That excessive concentration of mind with Incidental insufficient or/ erron­ eous physical exercise, produces mor­ bid conditions is so notorious that physicians are somewhat at fault tor not making a vigorous and persistent demand for reducing the number Of studies in the public schools and for so arranging life during the student period as not to Impair either mind or body. Meanwhile from every side rises the demand for better spelling* clearer writing, more and practical knowledge of grammar, greater aecur*- acy in the elements of mathematics k "l>" r ^ * ' S|»{ ^ : The alarm and unrest that pervade all Spain over the spreading Carlist Movement was reflected at last week's cabinet councils. The queen, who pre­ sided in person, was evidently unnerved at every session. One of the sub­ jects discussed with much uneasiness was the report that Don Carlos had landed la Catalonia to lead those who espouse his cause, and that his agents in consequence are showing greater activity. General Azcarraga, the premier, explained to the eagerly listening queen and the cabinet member* the steps that had been taken against the Carlists and announced that their <jtub In Madrid had been closed. His statements, however, were not reassur- .. lag. The government has ordered guniboats to patrol the coast in order lo prevent the landing of munitions, and, although the authorities claim to have reassuring news, an army of police is active in forestalling attempts •t insurrection. As yet the insurgents have made only one hostile move, attacking the garrison at Badalona, near Barcelona. Numerous Carlist (Nmds have appeared in the mountains, but to date no activity In the large dties is manifested. Marquis Villadariae, the principal representative of 0on Carlos in Spain, has 'been arrested at Madrid. %WW<WWV>/VWV^VVWNft^/WW>AA^A<VS/VWVWWVWW>«^<V^^ ^Australia's Constitution. Though Australia is still a British possession Australian federation should prove quite as interesting to the people of this country as to the people of the British Isles. For if the latter have the interest of a closer of- fcial connection the former should have the interest of political parentage the Australian federal union being the -offspring of the American federal union. The H&ule of Representatives lnj Australia, which is chosen like our. own, will have much greater power, than ours. It has no such check either. In the executive or in the senate. The' real executive will be a partisan min­ istry of house leaders, so there will.; be no vetoes. And though the senate! which is chosen directly by the peo­ ple, like the house, may take the ini-. -tiative with the legislation except in the matter of revenue and taxation, its inay not even amend tax and revenue; bills. Furthermore, whenever it is Inclined to be obstructive a popular; -assault will be made upon it under the constitution. For if it fails to agree;' with the House, and the latter in-; s -sists on its own bills, and passes them I np again after three months,-a disso lutiori may be forced, and if the sen- ; -ate proves obstinate again it may be v compelled to vote in joint session.| where the numerical superiority of • the House is pretty sure to gain for- Jfche proposed legislature the bare ma­ jority that is required. , The physicians who recently exam­ ined candidates for admission to the normal school found many of the young, women physically unsuited for its tasks. Most of them had come di­ rectly from the lower public schools and never had attended any other. ftan and the Elements, Mei dents like that sustained by the American liner St. Paul demonstrate that though science and Skill have minimized the perils of the sea there is still no absolute security against tho dangers of the deep. The aatei ocean leviathan la as secure as money, braint* and brawn could make it, bnt in the end those that go down to the sea in it have but a plank bstwoem them and eternity just as fin the 4*78 of shallops, barges and galleys. A ship, like a chain, is no stronger than its weakest point, Watertight com­ partments, steam pumps and similar modern devices are ineffective once the sea finds a weak spot in the ship's armor. Fortunately the accident to the Paul stopped Short of disaster, but we can readily conceive how it might have become a horror. A few seconds' delay In turning oft the steam from the "racing" engines--the dis­ ability of an engineer, the jamming of a valve--and the whirling, broken ma­ chinery would have pounded the bot­ tom out of the ship. What avail, then, the watertight compartments? Of what use the mighty pumps? Jk. Witty Magistrate, fir. Plowden, the Metropolitan po­ lice magistrate of London, completed his fifty-sixth year recently, having been born at Meerut, India, where the mutiny first broke out. He is one of the most amusing magistrates on the bench and his witticisms are much ap* predated in the public galleries. The old home of Stonewall Jackson in Lexington, Va., is now a tenement- house, and the house which once shel­ tered one family comfortaMy now swarms with a large number of fami­ lies crowded in uncomfortably. The famous Sunday school in which he taught negroes is still flourisipng. tPacKfidtFreshmem in a "Bojc. - V ^ ̂ •* ^ ' *> r \/seJut •Government Junction." . A permanent injunction has Ween granted by a local judge in Cleveland against the execution by that city of a contract recently made by order of the council for the construction of a new police signal system. The judge granted the injunction because evi­ dence given in a recent investigation ten.ds strongly to show that the coun­ cil was influenced by money to award the contract. Should this case be ap- .pealed, and Bhould it be shown to the; satisfaction of the higher court that' the contract was secured by corrupt methods, doubtless the action .of the lover court will be affirmed, as it should be. There are cases where "government by injunction" is legiti­ mate and proper, and where it is nec­ essary for the protection of the citi­ zens that a court should set aside the fraudulent acts of the representatives of those citizens. "'W^o.Many Studies in Schools. At last the medical societies are awaking to their duty in relation to the health of school children as affect­ ed by the excess of subjects to be stud­ ied in the public schools. The homeo­ pathic is the first to arouse public opinion upon a question of profound Importance to every household. That society protests against compelling children to undertake so much mental labor in so short a term of years. B. F. ShivJer, the young freshman at Rutger* college, New Brunswick, N. J., who recently was boxed -by prankish sophomores, packed in excelsior and delivered at the door of the residence of tne young woman upon whom he wished to call, has stood a lot of guying from the sophomores. He has the sympathy of his classmates, who say he was overpowered by force ot numbers, a crowd of over twenty sophomores being concerned in the box­ ing. The freshmen say they will get square with the sophomores. Shiv- ler is game and refuse* to give the names of any of the men concerned in the attack, which was carefully planned, says the New York Herald. He will give the faculty no assistance in the effort it is making to discover and punish the men guilty of the hazing. Prepared, for Shivler was a packing case that had been used for books. It was about six feet long and three feet high. It was as wide as It was high. Dressed in a stage tramp suit, with excelsior whiskers glued to his face, Shivler was laid in the bo* upon a layer of excelsior. To .prevent him from making too much noise with his feet his legs were tied to the bottom of the box by cords that passed through holes in the sides of the box over his legs and were knotted underneath the fbox on the outside. He was gagged with his own handker­ chief. More excelsior -was piled in on him and wadded so tightly that he could hardly move. His head and shoulders were left clear, so that ho might breathe. The top boards were then nailed on, one board being left off just at the top of the box, over his face, so that he might get air. Thus packed he was carried to the residence where he had planned to spend the evening and left upon the front stoop, after the hazers had rung the door­ bell. Fredertco Defietau. frederico Degetau, who has olected the first delegate to been FIRST DELEGATE TO CON­ GRESS FROM PORTO RICO, from Porto Rico, is a lawyer, having studied in the University of M/vdrid. He also studied in the Salamanca and Granada universities. He is a mem­ ber of several scientific and philan­ thropic societies, and was one of the- founders of the Society Francaise pour L'Arbitrage entre Nations. Mr. De- getau has written several <books. He has always been a Republican in poli­ tics, and since 1882 has taken active part in the principal events of his country. He was one of the four com­ missioners sent to Spain in 1896 to ask for autonomy. He was ejected a deputy to the Cortes in 1898, and is president of the local board of education at San Juan. Ex-Senator Henry L. Dawes is now in the first week of his eighty-fifth year. His health la good, he is out of doors every day and his mind is as clear, his interest in events as keen, and his talk as bright as when he left the senate. A life-sise bust of General Francis A. Walker, former president of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, is to be placed in the Boston public libra*?. It representatfce genartl In military uniform. A young Officer. The youngest officer in the siege of Kimberley was Master Leslie Freder­ ick Barrlff Shotter. Though only fixe years old he raised a squad of eight mites, aged be­ tween four and eight years, in de1- fense of the town, and during title shelling often marched his men up to the military camps. He knew his infantry drill thoroughly. The uniform in which he is shown is that of a captain of the Forty-second Roy­ al Highlanders (Black Watch),and it was designed with the assistance of the late Lieut. CoL Henry Scott Tamer, Forty •ncoii Royal Highlanders. Contests Mostly of a , " y f - N a t u r e , \ \ * i r r NEW wkicv IS WOW SHADING l^ir Affiance Between Snufs, Fnacs, ud Baited Slates to Co«nterb»l- uw tli* Anglo-German Treaty Report- e#"'.gfcWMi CklMM oflleM* KtmtML Tuesday, November 7. Russian press asserts that new al­ liance between Russia, France, Japan and United States has been formed to counterbalance the Anglo-German treaty. Dispatches from China re­ port execution by order of court- martiai of three Chinese officials. Thcn«Uf, November S. Report of American-Russian-French agreement as to China discredited in Buropean capitals. Ministers of the powers at Pekin, unable to agree on terms for settlement with China, ask instructions. Jean de Bloch, celebrated peace ad­ vocate, says Russia will surely with- ced, and tor old. ;; No. 4 white, JS$|C; No. t, Batte^CreAWiery, extra, 41*4®21^4e; dai­ ries, ewlce, l&c; packing, Cheese-- Fu)t cteara, daisies, 19&0io%c; Young America, new, It'VtfiOfic; twins, choice, Kggs Fresh, imtr, at mark, cases returned, 12f»)6e. Apples, terl, poor to fair, 50c@$L25; good to choice, $1.50® 3.25. Hay--Choice timothy, $UJO013; No. 1 timothy, Jll'all'; choice prairie, 910.600 11. Potatoes--Burbanks, 30@35c; Peerless, 27©S2c; Hebrons, 27fs31c; rose, Poultry--Iced stock: Turkeys, chickens, hens, «@7^c; springs, roosters, 6c; geese, 7c; ducks, sprtnes. 8c. Cattle--Native steers, $3.75#5.55; Texas steers, $3.25©$. 10; Texas cows. $S83; na­ tive cows and heifers. $l.75@4.2S; atockers ana feeders, $2.50@4.75; bulls. C&ives, $4.4066.80. Hogs-Heavy, tt.&WBtrni; packers, $4.7094.77%; mixed, $4*70(H.7Bi light, K7*H$N.77H; Yorkers, $4.76®4.77V4; pigs, H5064.75. Sheep-Lambs, |4«S.»; muttons, Wt > MniIii BmMm tw Xwwag Returns from thirty counties in Iowa, all that can life secured before the official count, show that the con­ stitutional amendment providing for ] holding biennial instead of annual | elections in Iowa has undoubtedly I been adopted by 25,000 plurality. •*** rMVVVV^ri<VVVV\A(VUVWUVll I f&ECOROS THAT PREDATE FATHER ABRAHAM - „f v. • , < ,, •-Jss» . . ...... O" W.JW V" V'" - /" -- ^ ^ prt- ^ " *'V1 \ ^ , Frofessor Herman V. Hilprecht ot the University of ^ jPenn^ylvania, who has just returned from his excavations at Nippur in Asia Minor, brings with him inscribed tablets 7,000 years old. The library to which these tablets belonged was lost about the time of Abraham's exodus from Ur. Dr. Hil­ precht was already a noted assyriolo gist when a few years ago he assumed charge of the researches on the site of the ancient City of Nippur. His dis­ covery of these oldest written records of human civilization will now endow him with undying fame. i '• *•*--- - - -ii-i-rr^vynfyTiivinnAftr I draw troops from Manchuria. Friday, November 0. Li Hung Chang's note protesting Against Pao Ting Fu expedition re­ turned to viceroy unanswered. I American soldiers prevented Rus­ sians from tearing down British flag in China. Friction among troops of different nations cause of frequent shootings. Yellow book on Chinese affairs, pub­ lished by French foreign office, shows close relation between France And United States. Sunday, NoTtun'ttr 11. The treasurer of the province of Pechill, one Chinese' general and a Chinese colonel, who had been found by a court-martial to be responsible for the slaughter of seventeen Ameri­ can and English missionaries at Paot- ingfu and the torture of four others, who were rescued alive, were Sunday ishot, together with twenty prominent jBoxers, with the approval of Field Marshal Count von Waldersee. Tien Yung is the name of' the provincial treasurer executed. His high official comrades who suffered a like fate were .Gen Wei Shung Kong and Col. Kiu. After death the condemned men's heads were cut off and exposed on pol63 as a warning to the populace. I'M to Arbitration by For®®. > Bishop Henry C. Potter of New York testified at Washington before the industrial commission on sweat shops and arbitration. He said he had more confidence in voluntary organi­ zations to meet evils that grow out of the sweat-shop system than in legis­ lation. He advocated a permanent commission to mediate between capi­ talists and labor organizations. He was disinclined to favor compulsory arbitration. ../» Sweet PetatoM Waa'̂ Mi » Tom Williams, president "of the California Jockey club, is winner of a unique bet on the congressional election just closed. He will have de­ livered to various orphan asylums In this city a carload of fine sweet po­ tatoes which Will L. Ashe lost to him on a wager that his brother, R. Porter Ashe, would defeat Julious Kahn In the race for congressman. , Hurricane In the East. A llerce gale raged at New York city Thursday and Friday, doing much damage to shipping and to buildings in the city, on Long Island and all along the coast. The wind blew with the force of a hurricane over Staten island. Signs, trees and wires were laid low and the trolley service was stopped for some time. A foot of snow fell at Saranac lake, Lake Placid, Paul Smith's and other points in the Adi- rondacks. Nine inches of snow have fallen at Lyon mountain, only thirty miles west of Plattsburg. Woman Gives Public Hospital Miss Mira Hershey, daughter of the late millionaire lumberman, Benjamin Hershey, of Muscatine, la., has pur­ chased ground for the site'of the pub­ lic hospital which she will erect and donate to the city. Handles Live Wire; Is Ue*l. ,At Milwaukee, Wis., George J. Pinter, 24 years of age, attempted to repair an electric light in front of his fhome, 2700 Fond du Lac avenue. He lowered the lamp and took hold of a five wire. He was killed instantly. One Cent Hotel Is Rooted, At Chicago "Levee Tom," keep­ er until Sunday of a "1-cent lodging house" in Wabash avenue, south of Van Buren street, was ousted :by the police of the Harrison street station and the proprietor and four teen lodgers turned out. This abode for wanderers was not elaborate. Its roof was the sidewalk and its walls the street on one side and the founda­ tion of the buildings on the other. But it satisfied the men who came nightly and were assigned to a board upon giving "Tom" a copper for room rent. Business men in the vicinity com­ plained to Inspector Hartnett that their stores were endangered by the old stove which "Tom" kept burning for the comfort of his patrons. So "Tom" and his lodgers had to seek other Quarters. Wnrkfd Himself to Death. William D. Holmes, who has been employed during the campaign by the Democratic national committee, col­ lapsed while sitting in a chair at the Hoffman house, New York City. He wae removed to a hospital, where he died later. His father is a member of N. Holmes ft Co., a wealthy Pitts­ burg banking firm. New Power of Governor of Gibraltar. An order in council, empowering the governor of Gibraltar to expel any per­ son from Gibraltar he judges unde­ sirable, has been promulgated. Brit­ ish and other residents not employed in her majesty's service are required to register at tht police offices and must take out permits, Smal pox Among Shoshone Indians* The Indian bureau has received a telegram from the Shoshone agency In Wyoming, announcing that small­ pox has broken out at Lander, near the Indian reservation. Vaccine virus for 1,700 persons which the agent asks to have dispatched him immediately has been forwarded. Minister Shot In a Quarrel. The Rev. John Holden, prominent in the Methodist Episcopal conference at Huntington, W. Va., was probably- fatally shot by Robert Bostslck et Mat- tea wan. There has been trouble be­ tween their families for some time. Tramp Kteamer Olga Ashore. The Austrian tramp steamer Olga, bound from Java to San Francisco with sugar and fifty-one days out, is ashore near the Cliff house and will probably be a total wreck. In the thick fog Capt. Desocvitch mistook th« Cliff house lights for those at the en­ trance to the Golden Gate, and the vessel drove ashore on a sandy beach. She now lies on her side, with the big breakers hammering her to piects. The captain and crew escaped in lifeboats. The vessel is of 2,055 tons,- 345 feet long and 45 feet beam. , * Deep Snow in the " Three inches of snow fell in Bril-» lion, Langlade,r Vilas, Ashland and Douglas counties, Wis., Wednesday, making fine weather for deer hiuit- ing. • Heavy snowstorms are reported from various places northwest. Will Study American Plans. The Russian government intends sending an agent to the United to study homestead legislation th the view of its partial applicat to Hi peasant communities. * *HM>( Stiilerf. There hpf heavy fighting near' 3othaville/^wlh Africa, sli resulting in the defeat of who lost 23 killed, SO woundii taken prisoners. Seren of their guns were also captured. The British lost three officers and four men killed. Lord Roberts, telegraphing from Jo­ hannesburg under date of Nov. 8, gives details of the defeat of the Boers near Bothaville and adds to the facts al­ ready known the following: "COl. Le Gallais was heavily engaged for five hours with 1,000 Boers. Knox rein­ forced Le Gallais and completely de­ feated the Boers. Dewet and Stein, with the Boers, left in great haste and were pursued some miles to the'south­ east. The enemy broke up into small parties. Le Gallais was among the killed. Steyn's secretary, De Villiers, was wounded and captured." Lord Roberts also reports a number of small affairs, the most important of which was an engagement fought Nov, 6 by Smun-Dorrien south of Dalman- utha, which resulted in the Boers being, driven to the east of the Ko~ matl river. vfl Mr. Hryan Kesdlnf and Writlac* < The atmosphere which now pervades the Bryan home at Lincoln, Neb„ seems strange and incongrous. For some months past the ear of the visitor to Mr. Bryan's house during his pres­ ence there has 'been met with the rattle of typewriters and the click of tele­ graph instruments on every occasion, while the din of many voices and the bustle and confusion of hurrying feet had grown to be a part of the house. But now an unnatural quiet reigns. An air of domesticity prevails and that of the political headquarters is no longer apparent, Mr. Bryan, in slip­ pers and loose dressing gown, sits in the library with his family and leads the home life of the ordinary American cltiaen.^ . Girl Takes Poi-oi*. , At Chicago the .bctfr:;^ W woman, whose identity is not known, was found lying across a bed in a room on the fourth floor of the Palmer bouse by C. R. Whitfield, a bell-boy. The woman had been dead for hours when found, and a half-empty bottle of carbolic acid on the washstand near the head of the bed told the story of a painful death through suicide. The woman's lips were burned by the dead­ ly acid, and her limbs were contorted with the spasms of the death agony. The beauty of her features was marred by the expression of pain indelibly marked by her dying struggles. Killed by Cuban Stent. Death has come as release to a man driven insane by the Cuban postal .rauds. Cyrus G. Neely, brother of the accused official, expired in the East­ ern Indiana hospital for the insane at Richmond Sunday, after months of madness, believed by friends the direct outcome of the disgrace brought upon his family by the scandal. Cyrus G. Neely, who was 54 years of age, had served for thirty years as a mail clerk in the railway mail service, a faithful, hard-working man. who seemed sat­ isfied with his position of trust, even with its apparent llmttatioM an<Lj|$gj|t of opportunity. , Wants to- lie SpeafeMtW 4 David E. Shanahan of Chicago has formally announced his can didacy for speaker of the lower house at Springfield. Mr. Shanahan has represented the 9th district in the legislature for three regular and two special sessions and has just been re­ elected for another session. He was the personal manager for Judge Hane- cy in the- latter's campaign for the Re­ publican gubernatorial nomination last spring. « , ' Fire l)r««k« t'p a Funeral. While the funeral services of Mrs. 3arah Graves were being conducted it the Methodist church at Decker, ind., the sanctuary caught fire and a janic ensued. The fire started in the aasement and burned through the floor before discovered. Many persons es­ caped through the windows and the ooflln was carried out of the church. Several women fainted. The church was badly damaged by the fire. Ovation Kn Heate. President McKinley's trip from his home at Canton, 0.> toward the national capital was one continu­ ous ovation to the twice-elected head of the nation. At every stop there were great outpourings of the people, business was suspended, and many fac­ tories along the line added their thou­ sands of workers--men and women-- to those who joined In enthusiastic greetings. HSeath of Dr. Wl'llam A. riapp. Dr. William A. Clapp, who for more than half a century had been engaged in the practice of medicine in New Albany, Ind., is dead. He was 78 years old and a bachelor. He was born in the house in which he died, and, with the exception of two years during the civil war, when he served as surgeon in the 38th Indiana regiment, he lived there all his life. ; . <** . : Tell of Chinese Famine. Oriental advices received at Tacoma by steamer state that from 4.00W03 to 6,000,000 Chinese north of Pekin are in danger of starving, their crops hav­ ing been a total failure. One million piculs of tribute rice were to be dis­ patched from Shanghai and distributed among these hungry hordes from Tien­ tsin and Pekin. but the military offi­ cers at Shanghai gave orders that no rice should be sent out of central China. There is great danger that an immense swarm Of robbers will be sent Otft <of the famine diet rid. - v •*>•*! • i y 4 ? . M*jr Advance Price of Ptf Iron. The Bessemer Pig Iron Association, which is composed of all the large producers of pig iron, held a secret meeting at M. A. Hanna & Co.'s office in Cleveland. It was expected that the price of Bessemer iron would be fixed at a rate of from 50 cents to $1.60 higher than the present rate of $13.50 per ton. As less than half o* the firms in the association were rep­ resented no action was taken. Another meeting will be held shorty _ j The Steelf the Plrodi rod r«eBtif|f nc own Steel the on n Jolietnts 000 an ture HmmM. put of plant, it is said, to 1,500 men. drawn: -fip*l#p will tion sd>,, Gates ! in a _ on, and1!1, word ot truth in tl̂ ̂ Jollet."'. • Toehawi The stnto i a brief ' journedfbri committee ̂ tions met Chicago present witi#4T. asked by had any ad board as f§| county cor that she furnish th*: tion as Haley evM "tab" on The mii to ini sessment-te- Attorney-General Aikl ion as to the right <4lii boards erf *e*tew to ' changes in SUSSiismeat pected to the held adversely in an anothor esse, but the . been -PWifcd, upon by (feuajKitcB «m a Olive Ktfftniray,. the daughter ot Sir. and Halloway of i ing from home when she start usuai; mm persona that shnltt* bete: with. Others think her mi come unbalanced. She was l student, and di aminations was-<|ji*ei than a younger she acted strangely. \ the missing girl is alt grief, and it is fsarel become unbalanced it her dai?| not soon found? \ Women ot #% A new form of the notice of thigi 5 yards station, Bradmeyer and an occupant of that an old man Coler, victimized themj say that the man appr offered to pay $2 a, cut out of cloth ' He collected $1.50 ty for the cloth and turn. Each of the had secured a baigiiili could be cut out inside The cloth itself is not wor cents. Poaad Nond la.. Henry Sears, aged conscious, with his rigl and scalp badly cut, the elevator shaft in building at Chicago. vator conductor for sleeps on thnti^fiHfe^j that he opaand^iiift " started the elevator attempted to step in| door as the ear paaaedf : ,;* cover. ' A^kt Dama«re« of j Edward W. Ashmorfcl suit in the Coles for $10,000 damages son-Houston cago few i4$Hri«£j ployed by tt# maimed for wire by the alleged dif company's foreman. x«r iiitaou c< flSs' secretary of the following cc tal Telephone Chicago; ca!i$||§i porators, and Frank Graduate ital stock, E. Keefe, Evans. T pany, Tuac#*§^ corporators, 3K and Frank «*r. .Hie Rev. Ji about TIM Re*. ' gationnl Dr. rian W r v / * , / i ; mailto:2.50@4.75