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It was granted to the asphalt trust with the agreement that it would be developed. Canals were to be dug so that the boats could sail up the river to the sea. Gold mines, the silver mines, the oil wells and the rich coffee plantations. Railroads were to have been built. One of the Venezuelan government’s principal complaints against the American asphalt trust is that it never fulfilled any of these promises. Under the trust, it was to push its own boats into the pitch lakes, load them and take away the valuable natural product. The district has remained impoverished because undeveloped. Its 3,000,000 people were poor because they could not get their wealth sold. The railroads and the canals promised never materialized into anything better than mule caravans and canoes. The customs which composed the chief income to the national treasury fell off, for the asphalt was free of duty. Then the temper of this mixed race of Spanish, negroes, and natives reached the boiling point. They hated these 200 white men and their trust greed. They made life dangerous for the foreigners. Suits were filed in the shaky courts of the country to try to get back the asphalt wealth given away. Castro found he was fighting the most expert trust lawyers, men who knew other tricks besides those of the courts. Revolutionary leaders took advantage of the turmoil to start internal troubles. Everybody in Venezuela believes that the Matas rebellion was financed by the trust—and all Venezuelans insist that it was Castro's duty to the people to dispossess the trust. Meanwhile, this land of wonderful wealth lies like a shining diamond in a bill of sand. Its Brasilwood, coral trees, Indigo, rubber, bananas remain in the forest. Its gold and silver and copper and marble and granite are still in the earth, valueless to Venezuela and the commercial world. SEEING LINCOLN IN 1803. Bow a Pretty Soldier Attended a White House Kept in Washington. It was in the spring of 1863, when I was stopping for a while in Washington, says a contributor to the Boston Transcript. I attended one day's reception at the White House. The rooms were, of course, crowded with officers of the army, legislators, and representatives of foreign courts in great abundance. Mr. Lincoln held his reception in the blue room, opposite the main entrance. For a long time the passage to him was crowded, but later the crowd thinned out about him, so that he had short of rest. I had been wandering around, and at last found myself close to the main entrance. Soon I saw a common soldier come up to the hall. He was an exceedingly rough-looking specimen. His clothes were worn and soiled, his boots outside his trousers, dirty beyond degree. You could hardly conceive a more unfit person to enter that great crowd. He evidently had a great desire to see the President, but knew his unfitness to enter. But it was not long before he mustered courage to push his way under the cover of others well into the hall. Noting the anxious yearning look on his face, I became interested to watch his movements and note the result. It was not very long before I observed that Mr. Lincoln had an eye on him, so he chanced to come near the door of the reception room. Once and again I saw his eye search out this soiled and bespattered soldier with the most tender look. Then came a more vacant space between the two. At length Mr. Lincoln was in his seat. Lincoln, with an enormous stride and a long outreaching arm, advanced, grasped this soldier by the band, with a grumbling that must have been seen and heard to be fully understood: “Come forward, my friend; we are all equal here.” With this hand grasp and welcome, Mr. Lincoln’s attention was turned elsewhere but I can remember no other incident that thrilled me as did that little scene. And the effect of it upon that soldier—it seemed to transform him in a moment. What a new manliness it put into his face and attitude. In a few moments he was gone, but it was plain that from that hour Mr. Lincoln had at least one man in his army who was ready to give his life to help. MC. Lincoln save the cause for which both of them were toiling and sacrificing. And it seemed at the moment that I could easily do the same. ZU III INDIAN BASKETS. Made by Expert Women and Colored to Start Intended Use. The Zuni Indians make great use of baskets, especially in connection with grinding flour. They commonly employ for this purpose colled baskets which they obtain by trade from the Apache and Piute, and value highly. They, themselves, manufacture wicker baskets which are not much esteemed. The industry is entirely confined to women. They employ an awl of deer bone, and use some six kinds of willow, which they make into circular trays and bowls. One kind, salt willow, is used for baskets to hold paper bread in the house, the willow giving it a salt flavor, and another kind, "smooth" willow, for baskets to hold bread at meals; white and yellow willow baskets are used for corn meal; those of red willow as colanders for washing wheat and hominy, and those of makestuffs as sieves for wheat and beans. White willow baskets are painted with white clay, stained red, yellow or black with native dye, or now dyed with aniline dyes, for use in dances. Either white willow, or all the different kinds of willow mixed together, are employed for this purpose. Sacred baskets, the "11-nai," are used to hold plume sticks and masks. The women have a dance in the fall, called Ahyuna, in which they use baskets painted with different colors. It is said that the name is Pima, and that the dance, which is to secure rain, was brought to Zuni not many years ago by two old men who visited the Pima with Mr. Cushing. An inverted painted basket, corresponding with the box or gourd resonator of the hop, is put under the notched stick, kl-wl-a-nanual, which is scraped with a stick as an accompaniment to dances. The Zuni also manufacture small globular baskets of salt willow in which they collect loc. Just used as food. Panniers to carry peaches, melons, cucumbers and other fruit are made of red willow. Twilled baskets of yucca, similar to those seen at other pueblos, are used to dip up salt from the Salt Lake. The art of making these baskets, which are called host-lal, was learned from Arizona. The Zuni also make a rectangular twilled tray of the same material, with an edge of cedar or oak, which they use to put paper bread on, or to lay loose plume sticks or images upon at the yellow and blue corn dances. Swallowing sticks were formerly placed upon such trays at the stick-swallowing dance. The Zuni formerly had a number of old coiled globular and jar-shaped baskets, the origin of which is not definitely known. The pitch-covered water bottles, which they use come from the White Mountain Apache or the Navajo. One day the mistress of the house had some special delicacy on the table, and the thought came to her to share it with her laundress, whose day it was at the house. So before the latter went home she packed a box carefully and took it to her. “I want you to take this with you and try it. We consider it unusually nice. I thought perhaps it would save you some work in cooking when you get supper tonight.” The woman received the parcel in the spirit in which it was given, saying, as she received it: "Thank you, ever so much. I know Mr. will enjoy it. He's just like you." Est as pernickty about his vittles, though he came 'em."—Boston Advertiser. When some men start out to look for the deserving poor their first stop is in front of a mirror. Exact text, -E, a.x. Men of Early Ages. Were They the Mental Peer of the Men of Today? The general idea that our enormous advances in science and command over nature serve as demonstrations of our mental superiority to the men of earlier ages is totally unfounded. The evidence of history and of the earliest monuments alike goes to indicate that our intellectual and moral nature has not advanced in any perceptible degree. In the second place, we find that the supposed great mental inferiority of savages is equally unfounded. The more they are sympathetically studied, the more they are found to resemble ourselves in their inherent intellectual powers. Even the so long despised Australian savages, almost the lowest in material progress, yet show by their complex language, their social regulations and often by an innate nobility of character indications at a very similar inner nature to our own. If they possess fewer philosophers and moralists, they are also free from so large a proportion of unbalanced minds—idiots and lunatics—as we possess. On the other hand, we find in the higher Pacific types men who, though savages as regards material progress, are yet generally admitted to be physically, intellectually and morally our equals, if not our superiors. Thirdly, we have no proof whatever that... Even the men of the stone age were mentally of more inferior to ourselves.—Alfred Russell Wallace in Fortnightly Review NOT MERELY IN LINO. Wherein the Writer Resembled the Man on the Boy. “That writer,” said a publisher, re ferring to an author who seemed to b< Idling away his time, “Is in reality try Ing hard to work, to get his ideas flow ing, but he Is stuck. “He said to me himself that he re sembled a man who made a bet ont summer day at the short that he would swim out a mile and a half to a certain buoy. The bet was ax*epted, and th* man stripped and plunged In. friend retired to the hotel to watch his progress from the window. “From the windov' with a field glass the friend saw the nwimmer reach the buoy in due course, draw himself up out of the water and sit down com fortably, with his legs dangling over. Sc far so good. Evidently he was resting well pleased with his feat “Some minutes passed, and the swim mer had not moved. The watcher re turned to his book. But every now and then be locked up, and still the swimmer sat lu the same position op the buoy. “An hour, two hours went by. Still the Bwlmmer remained. A white, slim figure seen against the oncoming dark he sat on the buoy's edge. His feet dangled in the sea. He seemed to be musing. "Finally it began to grow quite dark, and, thoroughly alarmed at last, the watcher got a boat and a couple of bargees and rowed out to his friend. ‘Out there the mystery was soon ex plained. The man was stuck fast to the buoy, which had been freshly tarred that morning."—Washington Star. A Harrlaxe Fiction. The polite fiction obtains that marriages are made in heaven. This romantic viewpoint is particularly popular in America, where it is held to be highly improper for parents to make any move toward securing good husbands for their daughters and immodest for girls to manifest any interest in the subject themselves. The conventional theory is that the matter is on the knees of the gods and that in due season husbands will be provided like manna in the wilderness for sustenance of the faithful. Unfortunately, this miracle does not always come off for every woman. The supply of manna gives out. There are not enough husbands to go around, and these are unevenly divided. Some women get three or four, while others get none. But neither the old maid nor their parents realize that the reason that they did not share in the dispensation was their own fault because they did not put themselves, as old-fashioned Methodists used to say. In an attitude to receive the bices lag.—Dorothy Dix, in Alnslee's Just Sack in Real. "You’re looking for new quarters, I near," said Kidder, at the breakfast table. "Yes," replied the talkative boarder. "Why?" "Here’s an ad in the paper that should interest you particularly: To rent—Nice room for gent with gas."—Philadelphia Press. Dissatisfaction Rats. Bacon—I see it is said that rats are judges of music. Egbert—I guess that is right. We haven’t had one in the house since we got the phonograph.—Yonkers States. Worse than Foolish. The man who forgets his friends may be ungrateful. The one who forgets his enemies is foolish.—Chicago Record-Herald. Wisconsin State News FIND BROTHER DEAD. Man Succumbs, Crying for Relatives Within Stone’s Throw. To meet death alone and uncomforted in his last moments except by strangers, while two brothers residing a few blocks from his death bed had been looking for him for several years, was the fate of Dan Reed, who died at a hospital after a two weeks' illness. Reed was brought from Deer River, Minn., seriously ill. He knew that he had two brothers in the city, but did not know their addresses and the hospital authorities were apparently unable to locate them. The brothers are Hugh and M. J. Reed. For fourteen years Hugh has been in Superior employed as a motorman on the street railway line. It had been twenty-five years since M. J. Reed and his deceased brother had seen each other. Dan and Hugh last met in 1888. The three brothers had drifted apart while pursuing their different trades. Not until notice of the death of Dan was read in the local evening paper did the two brothers living there know that their lost brother was even in the city. ATTEMPT TO BURN BIG PLANT. Wisconsin Incendiaries Foiled by Automatic Sprinkler Equipment, A desperate attempt was made to destroy the AJlis-Chalmers plant at West Allis, or at least stop its operation. All that saved the plant from heavy loss was the automatic sprinkler equipment, which extinguished the flames before they gained headway. It is believed the attempt was the work of men well acquainted with the plant. They had with them a dozen one-gallon cans of gasoline, which were brought to the plant in three telescope cases. From the appearance of the shop a premature explosion of the oil frightened the plotters away before the preparations were completed. So hurried was the departure of the incendiaries that they left two telescopes filled with cans of kerosene as well as the third, which was empty. BUY CENTRAL PARK FOR $2,000. Wisconsin Men Bunkoed Out of All Cash by New York Sharpers. Gottlieb Alberts and Bernard Nicholls, two hospital attendants from Fond du Lac, were relieved of $2,000 in New York by bunko men, who sold them land which proved on investigation to be Central Park, a few days ago. They were met as they passed through New York on their way to Germany by two well-dressed men, who showed them the city. While passing Central Park the strangers told the arrivals the park belonged to them and they would sell it for $2,000. Alberts and Nicholls received a deed, and when they were about to set up a claim to the land they were ejected by a police man. They were left penniless. BURGLAR SPOILS FOUND. Private Papers Stolen from Cell A. M. Jones, Waukesha, Recovered. Col. A. M. Jones, president of the Bethesda Mineral Spring Company, has recovered a box of valuable private papers taken from the safe when the company’s office on Dunbar avenue, Waukesha, was burglarized recently. The box was found by a woman under a pile of railroad ties on the liver bank south of the city. The safe was left unlocked and besides the papers about $20 was taken. It is believed that the burglary was the work of a gang of tramps that have been camping south of the city. SCENTED BURGLARS; SAVES CASH Beloit Clear Clerk Hum a Wise "Hunch" Before Store Is Looted. A psychological "hunch" prevented the theft of $10 from the cigar store of Mat Murphy in Beloit. After locking and leaving the store, Karl Dietzel, clerk, remembered that he had seen a suspicious son hanging around the store all day. Dietzel returned and took the money from the cash box home with him. When he returned the next morning, he found that the metal cash box had been rifled. The man had gained an entrance to the store by forcing a rear window. SWALLOWS ACID BY MISTAKE. Mun-oda Vount Woman Dies In Frightful Agony. Mistaking oxalic acid for Epsom salts. Miss Ton Nachazel, a young woman of Muscoda, swallowed a quantity of acid and died in agony, despite the efforts of three physicians to save her. Her employer, Mrs. A. G. Klston. Also prepared a dose of the acid, thinking that it was salts, and was about to swallow if when Miss Nachaze became violently ill. Miss Nachaze was 27 years old. TRY TO KILL TWO IN A BUGGY. Bottle containing an antidote Explodes While Couple Are Riding. An unidentified person placed a bottle filled with powder, nails, and other missiles, and with a lighted fuse attached, in a buggy in which Fred Anfrechr and a woman companion were riding in Madison. The explosion severely injured both, but they will recover. Anfrechr, who was recently divorced, told the police he has enemies whom he suspects of attempting to take his life. Altrich Cost Saves Woman.. The airtight and close-fitting cravenette coat worn by Mrs. Albert Linden, the wife of a farmer living near Ladysmith, who was carried into a river by her runaway horse, saved the woman's life. The coat acted like a life preserver, the air in the coat keeping her afloat till she rescued. The horse was drowned. Kills Wife and Himself. Fred Herberts of West Allis fatally shot Miss Emma Kaagendorf, who had refused to marry him, and then killed himself. Soot and Bara Burned. Herman Tontegen's barn and the farm school house south of Westby were struck by lightning and entirely burned. Pigs and calves in the barn perished. Fires Are on Fire. Forest fires near Norway Ridge have been doing heavy damage to timber in eastern Monroe county. This region has been extensively planted with young timber with the intention of replacing the original forests, but the spreading of the fire threatens the entire destruction of the timber and will not back the work of reforestation several years. Canning Industry Prospers. The buildings of Prairie View Carrington factory are in good condition. Are fast nearing completion. This new enterprise, in connection with the Randolph tanning factory and the Bonnie Meade Canning factory, promises a very busy season for Randolph and vicinity. Farmers find it to their advantage to rent their land to these companies. Turn Building Plan Down. The new Forest county board organized the other day, electing Charles Ron, chairman and unanimously rescinding a former resolution to bond the county and build a new courthouse. OAGAN UNDERTAKES. Robbers Tie Up Young Men and Then Rifle Shop. Burglars entered the undertaking shop of L. D. Martin in Marinette and knocked unconscious Edward Colvin, the young man in charge of the shop, bound and gagged him and rifled the shop. They secured $10. The safe was unlocked. The burglars pulled down the shades, turned out the lights and did their work quietly while the people were passing on the street. Colvin was in a bad condition from nervous collapse when found an hour after the robbery was committed. They stuffed a large sponge in his mouth and tied his hands and feet with muslin which is used in trimming caskets. GAS SCORCHES WOMAN. She Used Gasoline Near Stove—Explosion Sets Her Clothes Afire. Mrs. Samuel Sweedel narrowly escaped being burned to death at her home in Superior while cleaning clothes with gasoline. The room had become filled with vapor which ignited on coming in contact with the intense heat of the stove near which the woman was working. Suddenly the kitchen was filled with flames and within a few minutes’ time the Sweedel home was a mass of fire. Mrs. Sweedel’s clothing caught fire and she rushed into the open air wrapped in flames. Neighbors met her and she was carried into a nearby house. YOUNGSTERS FLEE AND MARRY. La Crosse Couple Still In Their teens Give Parents Slip. An old-fashioned elopement occurred at La Crosse when Miss Jeannette Candrian and Hugh Byrne hastened to Dubuque, where they were married. Miss Candrian. Who is 111 years old, is a daughter of Adolph Candrian. The young groom, who is but 18, was a high school student, and would have been graduated with the class in June. He is a nephew of the late Chief of Police Byrne. A letter from Miss Candrian told her parents that “everything was all right” and that they were on their way to Omaha. Went Insane Over Mine. Andrew Smith, a Swedish-Finlander, committed suicide near Washburn by firing a bullet into his mouth. Death was instantaneous. It is believed that Smith, who claimed to have discovered a copper mine, feared that he would be beaten out of his rightful share, and went insane over the matter. BRIEF STATE HAPPENINGS. The Elm Grove cemetery at Baraboo has been sold to F. C. Zaeher of Milwaukee. While sitting at breakfast table, James J. Winter of Cataract was stricken with heart disease. The contract for remodeling the La Crosse public library has been awarded to John A. Miller for $17,737. Students of Beloit college won in a debate at Beloit with a team representing Knox college. Charles Knaack of York reports that a cow on his farm has given birth to three calves and that they are perfect in every respect. Burglars broke into the Fifield post office and stole $20 in stamps and money. Later they broke into the depot, got a dollar and escaped. The Chicago and Northwestern refuse to pay $200 for the loss of a toe by fire. Kenosha workman and has appealed to the Supreme Court. George Gillett, one of the oldest and wealthiest retired farmers in Racine county, while unloading cinders from a hat car, dropped dead. John Blenker, a merchant and lumber man of Sherry, had his leg broken while working in his mill yard, his condition is serious. Because of domestic trouble lately, Ernest Hantke, proprietor of a hotel at Grafton, committed suicide by severing his jugular vein with a penknife. The new gasoline motor car which will be put on by the Northwestern road to run between Janesville and Beloit on Monday, is now in the roundhouse. Two girls who reside about eight miles south of Eleventh nearly killed a horse belonging to an Eau Claire livery firm by fast driving, and were placed under arrest. The eighth annual summer school will open in the normal buildings in White Water on June 20. Prof. Pray of Milwaukee will have charge of a department. The illegal voting case growing out of the primary election in Superior on March 24 had to be dismissed on account of the alleged spiriting away of witnesses. At the quarterly conference of the American Society of Equity at Kuapp it was decided to establish a central slaughterhouse and a cold storage plant at or near Menomonie. Neatly 300 Greeks have left Sheboygan during the last few weeks and the city’s big colony is almost a thing of the past. Many of them have left for Janesville to do railroad work. That Joseph Hall, whose mutilated body was found in a homestead shanty near Washburn, died by violent means is the opinion of the coroner’s jury, but no blame is attached to anyone. Electricity has been installed at the Arrives of the Standard Lime and Stone Company at Quarry, and all blasts will hereafter be set off by electric sparks. Blasts will be planted forty feet down. The skeletons plowed up by D. W. Poe are pronounced by Prof. Collie of Beloit college to be the remains of mound builders, probably 300 years old. Further plowing revealed half a dozen more skeletons. Frightened at a merry widow hat, a horse belonging to K. C. Kenyon ran away in La Crosse and was stopped just as it was about to plunge into the Mississippi. The carriage was demolished, but the driver was unhurt. Isaac Stephenson spent $1,030 in securing the election of twenty-five La Follette delegates from Wisconsin. The United States Senator made the following “trials on the expense blank: "Paid to city committee, $10.00. December 21, to H. Kern $1,133. Total, $1,100." No explanation of what city committee is referred to is made. The jury in the case of Anna Keeley as administratrix against the Lake Superior Terminal and Transfer Company and the Great Northern Railroad Company—a suit for the death of Mrs. Keeley's husband, killed by cars at Superior, passed a verdict for $6,000 for the plaintiff. The Crocker Chair Company of Sheboygan has closed a deal by which it becomes the owner of 6,103 acres of timber land in Houghton and Baraga counties in the State of Michigan. It is covered with hardwood timber and will be cut for use in the Sheboygan factories. The price paid was $1,000. $86,500. A collision occurred on the eastern outskirts of La Crosse between a streetcar on the La Crosse City railway and a Green Bay and Western train. The streetcar was smashed into kindling wood and the train was wrecked. Several persons are reported injured. For months the Wisconsin Central has been annoyed by petty thefts from its freight cars at Ashland. At a long investigation, Edmund Shant, storekeeper for the company, was detected in the act and he was sentenced to a year in the Gira Bay reformatory. An accomplice, Author Seegar, a locomotive engineer, was fined $100. Ed. Jones, a wiper, who assisted, has pleaded guilty. OPENING OF THE BASEBALL SEASON. DEATH OF FAMOUS BRITON. Campbell-Bannerman, Liberal Leader, Succumbs to Lingering Illness. Sir Henry Campbell-Bannerman, who retired recently from the British premiership, died Wednesday at his official residence in London. The death of Sir Henry after a lingering illness did not come as a surprise. From the beginning of the present lesson of parliament, Sir Henry had been suffering ill health and, after the opening day, he practically had not been able to attend the sessions at all, Chancellor Asquith acting as premier in his absence. He was seriously stricken after a big political meeting held at Bristol on Nov. 13, and he was obliged to give up his plans for a series of political speeches that he intended to make. Few invalids have been the object of so much solicitude and attention as was bestowed upon Sir Henry, there having been a constant stream of callers at his Downing street residence, including King Edward, who visited him on two occasions; Queen Alexandra, and the dowager empress of Russia, the prince and princess of Wales. and many diplomats and men prominent in public life. On his resignation, April 5, the representatives of all parties united in paying tribute to his untimely and strong character. Mr. Asquith said of him: "In the annals of our history there is no man who, after long years spent in the thick of public contention, has ever laid down the highest office under the crown more universally and deservedly beloved." Mr. Redmond, leader of the Nationalists, said that in Campbell-Banner's disappearance Ireland suffered a loss second only to the loss caused by the retirement of Gladstone. "There is not an Irish Nationalist in any part of the world," said Mr. Redmond, "who will not deeply deplore that this consistent, brave, honorable friend of Ireland has been taken from the arena of public life." Can Net Export Jersey Water. The United States Supreme Court has upheld the New Jersey law prohibiting the exportation of water from the State by pipes, the appeal from that law having been made by a water company which had contracted to deliver a large quantity daily to one part of New York City. The company insisted that the law impaired the contract and therefore was unconstitutional. To Elevate the Legal Profession. The Committee on Code of Professional Ethics of the American Bar Association has formulated in the preliminary draft of about seventy canons of professional ethics relating to the duty of the lawyer in relation to the profession to the public, to the client and to the judiciary. Frederick MacMonnies has been selected to prepare a mode for the statue of Edwin Booth which will be erected by the Players' Club. Of New York in Grammercy Park in that city. The memorial will cost $25,000. The annual convention of the Millers' National Association met in Chicago. The most important matter before the meeting was the introduction of Canadian wheat into this country without duty, in order that it may be milled by American labor. The millers are anxious for legislation along this line. Frank Sprague walked down the street in Davis City, Pa., and saw his sweetheart riding in a carriage with another man. He spoke pleasantly to the couple and passed on, but before he had gone twenty-five feet he drew a revolver and shot himself dead. Henry and Arthur Weber, prominent Nevada mining operators, were arrested at Goldfield and charged with the embezzlement of $20,000 belonging to the treasury of the Doctor Mining Company. Chinamen in New York who wish to preserve the traditions of their native land are planning to build a $100,000 dog house there as the home of the Cottucian Association. A graduate of business administration is to be established at Harvard, beginning with the next college year. Edwin F. Gay, professor of economics, will be in charge. FORTUNE FOR LABORER. Because Thirty-Five Years Before He Saved Benefactor’s Life. To have saved the life of a fellow emigrant in a wreck in 1873 and thirty-five years later to have read in a newspaper published upon the wall of a homestead shack an advertisement which led to his becoming the recipient of a fortune of $37,000 is the luck of Peter Andersen, a farm hand, who resides near White Bluffs. Wash. An dersen received a check for $5,000 to cancel him to proceed to New York to carry out the final legal formalities necessary in the transfer of the fortune. Andersen left Denmark in 1873 upon the ship W. J. Gottry. Off the coast of Newfoundland the Gottry was wrecked. Andersen supported Peter Knudsen, a fellow passenger, until they crawled upon a piece of flotsam. Later they were tossed upon the deserted Newfoundland beach. After terrible privations the two men reached New York City, where they separated. Knudsen made $1,000,000 in the glove business in New Jersey. Emma Goldman Not Barred Out. When the woman leader of American anarchists, Emma Goldman, returned from a brief trip into Paris, where she went to address striking workmen, an effort was made by the American frontier authorities questioning her right to re-enter this country, and it was supposed that the action was inspired from Washington, in view of the current federal activities against those of her cult. She submitted papers showing that she had married J. E. Keersner, an Americanized foreigner, and with this explanation she was admitted. Alexander Berkman, the New York anarchist and comrade of Miss Goldman, was released from custody of the local police in connection with the Union Square bomb throwing. Silverstein, the man who was injured in trying to throw the bomb at the police, still lingered between life and death at the hospital and is said to have told the police how he made the bomb and intended to get revenge upon the police, who had clubbed him. The national baseball commission has taken Player Campbell from Winnipeg and awarded him to Chicago. The national baseball commission proposes that players who played in the California State League during the season will be barred from playing in the National League. The winter befined $100 each, as the California league is an outlaw. In a fight at Dublin, Tommy Burns, the American heavyweight champion, knocked Jem Hoc he, the Irish champion, out of the ring in one minute and thirty-eight seconds. George Hackenschmidt would like to regain his wrestling title, but he will not attempt it in a Chicago ring. This was the statement the thoroughly tamed "lion" made as he boarded the steamer Kaiser Wilhelm der Grosse to return to Europe. "Hack" claims he was not fairly treated in his match with Gotch. Experts who witnessed the match say "Hack" had not the endurance to wrestle under American rules. His limit is 20 minutes to a bout. The weeding out process in the Ames baseball squad has begun. The team will be weak behind the bat, as there are no first-class backstops as yet in the running. Beiter, the best man in the position, is needed at first, and will be kept there if possible. Dr. E. D. Angel, assistant professor of physical training in the University of Wisconsin, coach of the basketball and track teams, has accepted the position of director of athletics at the Oregon State Agricultural college at Corviliis, Oregon. He will leave Wisconsin at the end of the present school year. The remnant of the Ames track squad is developing into a bunch of good men under the training of Jack Watson, and he still has hopes of making someone burry in the State and Missouri valley meets. The loss of Hubbard cannot be made up, as he was the product of three years' training. The faculty of the University of Wisconsin, by an overwhelming vote, decided not to increase the number of football games next fall from five to six. As a result, Wisconsin will next fall play Chicago, Minnesota, Indiana, and Lawrence universities and Marquette College of Milwaukee. Yales hammer throw record was broken by Gartoli Cooney, the football guard. He tossed the weight 161 feet, bettering Tom Shevlin’s figures by seven inches. The feat puts Cooney right in line for the intercollegiate championship. Cooney hails from New York. In New York, Willie Hoppe defeated Jake Schaefer in a 400-point game at 18.2 balk line billiards, scoring 400 caroms in seven innings. This made his average 37 1-7. Schaefer’s score was 146, and his average 24 2-6. Hoppe won the bank and started with a run of 161 in the opening inning, adding 107 in his fourth attempt, and ending the game with an unfinished run of 73. Henry IV of France promulgated the Edict of Nantes. English settlers arrived at New Haven, Conn. The English under the Duke of Cumberland defeated the Scottish rebels headed by the young Pretender at the battle of Culloden, near Inverness. British warship Pembroke wounded near Porto Novo, with loss of 330 of her crew. Dr. Samuel Johnson’s “Dictionary of the English language” published. First newspaper in What is now the Province of Ontario issued at Newark (Niagara 1. 1803—The Bank of France established. 1815—Commodore Decatur of the United States navy captured two Algerian vessels and 000 prisoners. 1829—British Parliament passed the Roman Catholic relief bill. 1855—Emperor and Empress of the French arrived in England to visit Queen Victoria. 1801—Confederates seized Harper’s Ferry. 1802—France declared war against the Mexican government. 1805—Battle of Columbus, last conflict of the Civil War, fought east of the Mississippi river.... Union flag replaced on Fort Sumter. 1868—British troops under Sir Robert Napier took Magdala, a strongly fortified place in Abyssinia. 1874—Body of Livingstone, the explorer, interred in Westminster Abbey. 1801—Treaty for the delimitation of the British and Italian spheres of influence in East Africa signed at Rome. 1900—Troops sent to Cornell Dam, Westchester county, N.Y., to quell a strike of Italian laborers.... Paris International Exposition opened. 1904—Attempted assassination of Premier Maura of Spain. 1905—Morocco rejected the French reform demand. 1907—National Arbitration and Peace Congress opened in New York.... An earthquake destroyed Chilpancingo and Chilpancingo towns of Mexico, with great loss of life. The explosion of a powder magazine at the Minnesota university shattered glass to the value of $230 in the university buildings and gave the neighbors a great fright. The faculty of Clemson college, Clemson, S.C., has expelled 305 students because of an all-fools’ day prank; they remained away from drill and classes on April 1. By the will of Dr. John Ordronaux, the sum of $30,000 is left to aid retired members of the Dartmouth college faculty. The rest of his estate is distributed among various charities. The regents of the Minnesota university have University have given the professors authority to use their discretion in regard to the importation of rare books, charts, and other aids to school work. Prof. O’Shea of the Wisconsin State University, in an address to the teachers of Lawrence County, S.D., told them that no education at all is far better than the mechanical training so frequently found today in the schools of the country. The latter, he claims, unfits a child for the problems of life and robs it of any individuality it may otherwise possess. The Virginia high school debating team has challenged the North Side high school team of Minneapolis to another joint debate, the teams to change sides, to employ the same judges and Minneapolis to reject the time and place. In the recent debate, the judges voted two to one in favor of Virginia, but the directors of the State Debating League set aside the verdict. The Carnegie Foundation has responded to the appeal of the State universities for admission of their professors to the pension fund with the announcement that Mr. Carnegie has increased the fund by $5,090,000, making the total for this purpose $15,000,000. In his letter making known this gift, Carnegie says “Most grateful and I to be privileged, as trustee of this wealth, to devote it to such use.” There are 100 colleges now on the pension list. Norman W. Harris, a Chicago banker, who was born in the village of Becket, Mass., has offered to pay the expenses to the amount of $5 a week to every native born boy of the place who will attend the local high school or go to college. One of the members of Columbia’s team in the debating contest with Cornell at Ithaca was a full-blooded Chinaman. V. K. W. Koo, a junior in the college. Koo has won fame as a public speaker, and is also prominent in literary life among the undergraduates. He is a managing editor of the Columbia spectator and an editor of the Columbia Literary Monthly. The will of Loyal L. Smith of Plattsburgh, N.Y., just made public, after defying several hundred thousand dollars to various religious and benevolent organizations, directs that the residue, if it amounts to more than $1,000,000 (and it is estimated at about $2,000,000), shall be used in the education of Clinton County (N.Y.) boys, under conditions which are specifically designed. The faculty of Harvard University has voted in favor of an intercollegiate agreement reducing the number of athletic contests. It is understood that the other eastern colleges will enter such an agreement. Wisconsin won the western intercollegiate gymnastic honors in the contest at Madison with a total of 32.4 points; second place was won by Chicago with 10 points; Minnesota was third with 7, and Nebraska last with 5. Louisiana has a steel sawmill capacity of 1000,000 feet a day, which is said to be the largest in this country. Ice one and a half inches thick will support a man; 18 inches thick will support a railway train. 