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One of the books announced in a New York publisher’s list bears the title: “Y¥hat Handwriting Indicates.” A good €=a2; of it that floats into newspaper offices indicates that the writers have never learned to spell. :

-The New York Central railroad has closed a contract for equipping all its suburban lines with electricity.” The ccntract includes not only the equipment with electricity of the terminals, but of about 50 miles of railroad on each - @ne of the New York Central branches. 1t looks as if steam might have fo fight with electricity for supremacy.

A protest against lynchings in America is being circulated among European countries. It will .undoubtedly have a great moral effect on the lynchers. Europeans seem to think that Iynching is a national institution, fostered by the American government, and that it is only necessary to pass laws against it to uproot the evil for€ver. : , ‘

A dispatch from Sydney, Australia, says that Prof. Hussey, of the Lick cbservitory in Califcrnia, who is now making observations in Australia, has giscovered ten new double stars. That is equivalent to 20 single stars, but as they are all fixed in Australian skies, what good will they do this country? Prof. Hussey should direct his search after American stars. ’

A table of the ages of love in men and women has been compiled by Prof. Bell, a fellow in Clark university at Worcester, Mass. He has reached the conclusion that neither sex is safe from Cupid’s darts after it has reached theage of three years. -In 15 years he has investigated 300 cases, and his figures go to prove that the maturity of a woman’s beart is reached at 22 and a man’s at 24.

The: defiant manner in which Tom Horn, Indian scout and fighter, met his death recently on the scaffold, shows there are other motives besides conscious rectitude that enable men to face death wi’th. composure. This desperado thought as much of earning the plaudits of his companions by not losing his nerve as a Christian martyr would of ¢ying for a principle. Human nature is a gueer compound.

The post office department of -the Trited States now pays out annually a total in excess of $138,000,000 and takes in receipts above $134,000,000. Such figures are staggering almost beyond beliei, but they are official. This wonderful world goes spinning down the ringing grooves of change, and with its progress the activities and the developments in this republic become steadily more extensive and more important. -

The increasing frequency of bank failmres caused by cashiers or other officers speculating in stocks seems to call for more siringent legislation on the subject. An officer of a bank stands in the relation of a trustee to depositors, and the moment he begins to speculate with the funds of the bank he commits a breach of trust and an embezzlement. If justice were done there should be no escape from the penitentiary for that kind of speculating officers.

‘That ficht with and capture of the young Ch‘i,c}g‘o outlaws who confess 1o nine murders, the wounding of five men and numerous robberies exceeds in its thrilling features the loudest of the dime novel romances. The facts served up in the form of.fiction would be ridiculed as utter perversions of truth; yet the bloody work has been carried on under the very eyes of the police and in defignce of the efforts to prevent it

Benjamin Franklin left a small sum of money, the interest on which was to be used for the benefit of the apprentices of Boston. The amount has increased with the years to several hundréd thousand dollars. Aldermen have been juggling with the money #intil it has become necessary for the Massachusetts supreme court to step in and take the matter out of the hands of the city council and turn it over to “virtuous and benevolent citizens who are willing to spend a part of their time in doing good to the rising generation.” -

Patti’'s voice may be a little “off;” as has been intimated, but her business sense is all right. She was to €ing in Harlem, N. Y., for $5,000. But tickets for the concert did not sell well, end as the hour of the performance approached only "a little more -than $3.600 had been taken in. Thereupon Mme. Patti gave notice that the $5,000 must be forthcoming, or she would not sing. The money was guaranteed her before she stepped on the stage. And the notes were not subjected to discount, as those of a 60-year-old opera singer are likely to be. According to the annual report of Gov. Ferguson of Oklahoma, that territory’s present pepulation is 650,000, and the actual value of its taxable property is $400,000,000, although only $84,005,000 is returned by the assessors for’ 1902, The territory’s debt is $462,000. This is a very good showing for our southwestern neighbor. The probability is that the population figures are placed a little too high here, but even puiting it at 600,000 the total is very imposing. Nomne ffi‘x the territories at th® time of their adnlission to statehood had this number of inhabitants. :

Es The Important Happenings of & - Week Briefly Told. IN ALL PARTS OF THE UNION All the Latest News of Interest from Washington, From the East, the : West and the South. THE LATEST FOREIGN DISPATCHES : IN EXTRA SESSION, Congress Meets to Consider Cuban Reciproeity and Other Matters. In the senate on the Ist several private pension bills and resolutions for the expulsion of Senator Smoot of Utah were introduced. Adjourned to thfz 4t_h. In the house the time was chiefly occupied in a tariff debate. Adjourned to the 4th. :

- - FROM WASHINGTON. The battleship Missouri has been placed in commission. Director Roberts of the United States ‘mint bureau in his annual report shows that the coinage last year aggregated 206,872,482 pieces, breaking all previous records. - On November 30 the total circulation of natiomal bank notes was $421,106,979, an increase for the year of $36,252,465. - - On the condition of crops the government report says winter wheat is not satisfactory, and that corn is uneven in quality. . Henry Mortimer Durand, the new ‘British ambassador, was formally presented to President Roosevelt. Rear Admiral H. C. Taylor, chief of the bureau of navigation, in his annual report recommends the creation of a general staff in the navy: In his annual report Fourth Assistant Postmaster General Bristow says that on July 1 last‘there were 74,169 post offices, of which 242 were first class, 1,107 second class, 3,690 third class and 69,130 fourth class.. There are now in operation 19,398 rural free delivery routes. Sales of automobiles in the United States during 1903 are estimated at 11,000, worth $12,000,000. In ten cities work on buildings costing $20,000,000 has been stopped by a strike of structural ironworkers. From the estate of the late James King Gracie President Roosevelt is to receive $30,000 and his children, Kermit and Ethel, $5,000 each. In Washington a movement has been started to enlist public sentiment in a demand for an arbitration treaty between the United States and Great Britam. Some unknown admirer of President Roosevelt in Georgia has sent him a full-grown wildcat. The third assistant postmaster general in his annual report says that the reform of the.abuses of the second-class mailing privi‘le'gesk can be completed in two years... = :

. THE EAST. It is said that the Rockefeller-Gould combination has gained actual control of the Pennsylvania lines, as well as other vast railway interests. Greenwood, Del.,- was nearly wrecked by an explosion of dynamite. Two persons were killed and 100 injured, and many houses were burned. After a brief illness Dr. Cyrus Edson, the famous germ specialist, died in New York, aged 46 years. Thomas McCabe in a fit of jealous rage fatally wounded Miss Hattie Gilmore in New Haven, Conn., and then killed himself. A At New Brunswick, N. J., the faculty of Rutger’s college suspended 22 members of the sophomore class for hazing a freshman. For the murder of his wife at their home- in Minersville, Pa., on January 7 last Joseph Canovicky was hanged at Bittsbure, - - . In their home at Buffalo, N. Y., Franz. Frehr and h‘i\s wife, an aged couple, were found murdered. § ; In Bridgeport, Conn., Mrs. Richard F. Mueller, bride df a week, dieG of glanders. She caught the dread disease from her pet horse. - e Nearly 9.000 steerage passengers have left New York in the last week for their old homes in Europe. : An explosion of a.car of naphtha in the town of Greenwood, Del., damaged 70 dwelling houses. :

° WEST AND SOUTH. In Pennsylvania, Ohio, Indiana and Illinois thousands of bituminous coal miners will be laid off unless a 20 per cent. decrease in wages is accepted by mineworkers. Over 1,000,000 pupils were enrolled in Illinois schools last year. Fred Strube, who murdered Miss Alice Heninger, of Havana, 111., was captured in Missouri and confessed his crime. The old-time champion oarsman, Joshua Ward, died at his home in Corn-wall-on-Hduson, aged 65 years, - Detective Joseph Driscoll, shot by young Chicago desperadoes during their pursuit in Indiana, is dead. Dowie has been appointed temporary manager of Zion City’s industries, which have passed into the hands of receivers, - ' ; James A. Fullenwelder, a Chicago lawyer, was shot and probably mortally wounded in Chicago by three highwaymen. The death of Martin Gill, a recluse aged 102 years, occurred in Fond du Lac, Wis. % . - Flames déstroyed the stables of the St. Louis Transfer company and 114 horses perished. - = An appeal has been made by the Western Federation of Miners to President Roosevelt to interfere in the expulsion of citizens from Telluride, Col. : At the age of 55 years Bishop Abiel Leonard, head of the Episcopal church in Utah and Nevada, died in Salt Lake City. - ] In a collision between a handcar and a freight train at Sargent, 0., three men were killed and four injured. . Flames destroyed the car barn of the Citizens’ Railway & Light company in Muscatine, la., and 27 street cars were corsumed, ‘ ' - In St. Louis James L. Blair, former general counsel of the world’s fair, was arrested on two indictments for forgery and furnished bail in the sum of $lO,OOO,

At the age of 103 years John A. Hauck died in Bloomington, Ind.. . Dr. Dowie’s followers believe that the receivership at Zion City will end soon, Experts were put to work on the books, and the cash in the bank was counted. St. Paul’s German Lutheran church at Fort Wayne, Ind., one of the finest houses of worship in that city, was destroyed by fire. ; At the meeting of the Contractors’ Association of. America in Chicago December 10 an- alliarnce of building cobtractors and union employes, involving 750,600 men, will be formed.

: FORE£N INTELLIGENCE. The Fana - junta ratified the canal treaty within a day of its receipt. Off Tobago island on the Formosan coast ten of the crew of the wrecked American ship Benjamin A. Sewall were killed by savages. : Fire destroyed the Ottawa university, one of the largest educational institutions in Canada, the loss being $500,000. Russian cruisers Bayan and Tsarevitech have reached Port Arthur, although Japanese warships were report‘ed on the lookout to prevent. - It has been decided by the house of lords that women are debarred by their sex from becoming qualified lawyers in Great Britain. ‘The reichstag was opened by Count von Buelow as the kaiser’s proxy, the emperor being kept away owing to his throat troubles. The cruiser Flora, costing $1,250,000 went ashore cn the British Columbian coast and may be a total wreck. A senate canvass shows ratification of the Panama canal treaty to be practically certain. The democrats see no advantage in opposition. :

LATER NEWS, The United States senate on the sth took a recess untjl the 7th. The house adjourned, bringing the extra session of congress, so far as that body is concerned, to an end. The Miami Military institute at Germantown, 0., was destroyed by fire. Comptroller of the Currency Ridgely in his annual report says the stability of the national banks has not been disturbed by the heavy slump in stocks.’ Fire destroyed the big lake steamer J. Emory Owen at Sturgeon Bay, Wis., with 80,000 bushels of grain. Another strike of Chicago City railway employes is threatened if any are discharged for refusing to take off union buttons. The Romanic sailed from Boston with 1,583 steerage passengers for Mediterranean ports. This is a record list. - Congressman Henry Burk, of the Third Pennsylvania district, died. at his home in Philadelphia after an illness of more than a year, aged 53 years. - Secretary of War Root in his annual report gives the army’s strength at 2,764 officers and 55,500 men; 39,068 of the latter are in the United States and 14,669 in the Philippines. - - United States marines were landed at Colon because Colombian troops threatened to massacre Americans unless commanders were released. - Conductor McGrath, Brakeman W. E. Crowley and Charles Kaughn were killed in a railway collision near Worcester, Mass. - ;

Williim Henry Welsh, once private secretaly to President James Buchanan, died in New York, aged 77 years. John Spires, aged 30, killed Lina Perkins, aged 15, at Winslow, N. M., and then killed himself. Jealousy was the motive. : : Six labor union men were indicted in Chicago for conspiracy to spirit away witnesses to prevent the prosecution of one of their brethren for vandalism.

Dell Thompson killed Addie Hacker, his financee, and then committed :suicide at a wedding feast in Camden, N. J., the couple having agreed to die together. _ Lewis Jackson (colored) was lynched by a mob near Tampa, Fla., for attempted assault on a white girl. Creditors holding claims for $300,000 decided to support John Alexander Dowie, and appointed a committee to assure the overseer of their confidence in him and to offer him -aid in ousting the receivers. - The United States senate was in session only 15 minutes on the 4th and the business transacted was purely of a routine character. In the house a bill was Introduced making April 14 of each year a legal holiday, to be known as “Martyrs’ day,” in commemoration of the death of Abraham Lincoln. The wholesale mercantile establishment of H. D. Lee, at Salina, Kan., was burned, the loss being $500,000. Secretary of the Navy Moody in hisannual report discusses proposed plan for the reorganization of the department and methods to prevent desertions. Ten members of a dangerous gang of counterfeiters - were arrested in New York and Revere, Mass. ~ There were 331 business failures in the United States during the seven days ended - on the 4th, against 258 the same week in 1902. : John Alexander Dowie received a draft for $50,000 and an offer of $200,000 more, the outlook being that Zion City’s financial troubles will be brought to a speedy termination. Thaddeus |A. Neeley, inventor of the adjustable roller skate, died in Muncie, Ind. - William M. Springer, who was 20 years a congressman from Illinois, died of pneumonia at his home in Washington, aged 64 years. Lo Henry Billings Brown, associate justice of the United States supreme court, is threatened with total blindness. The Ohio river is closed by ice gorges and traffic is entirely suspended. Martial law has been declared at Cripple Creek, C 01.,, by Gov. Peabody, who issued a proclamation declaring that Teller county is in a state of insurrection. . George D. Woods, owner of private ‘banks in Towa at Colfax, Mitchellville, Ira and Baxter, committed suicide in Colfax without any apparent cause. ~ Bunan-Varilla’s name has been added to the diplomatic roll in Washington as minister from Panama, ~The supreme court has declared that the Minnesota sugar bounty is unconstitutional. : ‘ - The provisional government of San Domingo has made an official request for recognition from the United States. “ The exchanges at the leading clearing houses in the United States during the seven days ended on the 4th aggregated $2,247,801,286. The decrease compared with the corresponding week P lastyearwasit =

~ VICTIM OF PNEUMONIA. Death in Washington of Hon. Willlam 3. Springer, Long Conspicuous as Democratie Leader in House. Washington, Dec. s.—Former Representative William M. Springer, of Illinois, a democratic leader conspicuous in the house of representatives during the Forty-fourth to Fifty-third congresses, inclusive, .and ovce chairman of the

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REPORTS ON 'THE NAVY. Inerease of Effective Force During Fiscal Year—lmprovement in Marksmanship. ‘Washington, Dec. s.—Secretary Moody in his annual report refers at length to the organization of the navy department. - Referring to American citizens in the navy, the secretary says: ' “It is gratifying to note that the percentage of citizenship in the enlisted force of the navy is steadily grow-~ ing. The number of enlisted men in the service June 30, 1903, including petty officers, seamen and other ratings, landsmen for training, and apprentices, was 27,245.. Of this number 79.8 per. cent. were native born and 10.9 per cent. naturalized citizens, the ‘total percentage of citizenship being, therefore, 90.7 per cent., as compared with 89 per cent. at the beginning of the fiscal year. “The “importance of beginning the work of developing the naval stations in Cuba and continuing with reasonable speed to its completion is plain. “The effective force was increased during the fiscal year by the addition of 25 new vessels, one battleship, four harbor defense mornitors, 12 torpedo boat destroyers, one torpedo boat and seven submarine boats. f “During the past year marksmanship has improved to a gratifying extent. Results attained on all stations show a uniformity of improvment.” .

BLAIR UNDER ARREST. ¥Wormer Counsel for the St. Louis World’'s Fair Is Indicted : for Forgery. St. Louis, Dec. 4.—The October grand jury on Thursday returned two indictments against James L. Blair, former general counsel of the world’s fair, each charging forgery in the first degree. Each indictment is based on the alleged forgery by Blair of a deed of trust to secure a loan from the estate of Peter Blow, of St. Louis, of which he as a trustee had charge. One indictment alleges that on December 10, 1896, Blair filed for record a forged deed in favor of Michael O’Laughlinand his wife, Johanna, to LouigA.Meyerfor $12,000. Seven notes and property near Fourteenth and Spruce streets were given as security. The other indictment charges that on July 10, 1895, Blair filed a forged deed for $60,000 in favor of Elizabeth and John Dwyer and the St. Louis Trust company, their agent, to Otto L. Mersmer. It covered 11 notes and property at Seventh and Pine streets. The indictments also charge Blair with forgery of the seal to be recorder of deeds of St. Louis. Blair gave bend in the sum of $lO,OOO to answer to the two indictments against him. The punishment in each case ranges from ten years to life imprisonment, : Many Return to Worlk. 3 Saratoga, N. Y., Dec. s.—Operations are being resumed at the mills of the International Paper company which shut down a week ago. The mills are situated at Corinth, Fort Edward, Glens Falls and elsewhere and employ 10,000 men. : . : House Committees Selected, Washington, Dec. 4.—Speaker Cannon will announce the committees of the house at the Baturday session. He expected to announce them to-day and they -are complete to-day, but as a matter of convenience they will be delayed until Saturday. Episcopal Bishop Dead. Salt Lake City, Utah, Dec. 4.—Bishop Abiel Leonard, head of the Episcopal church in Utah and Nevada, died Thursday morning at four o’clock at St, Mark’s hospital from typhoid fever. Bishop Leonard was born at Lafayette, Mo., June 26, 1848. e Ma—;}_'_Horses Burned, East. St. Louis, 111., Dec. 3.—A spark from a locomotive started a fire Wednesday night that destroyed the stables of the St. Louis Transfer compay located near the levee and causing an estimated loss of $50,000.-One pundred and fourteen horses perished. ; Shot by Footpads. ' Chicago, Dec. 3.—James A. Fullenwider, a well known attorney, was fatally shotf. by one of three robbers who tried to hold him up at Forty-second street and Wabash avenup. Thirteen other robberies were reported yesterday. fo s Sl

SECRETARY ROOT. 1 Extracts from His Annual Reporte American Youth Should Learm ‘ How to Shoot Straight. Washington, Dec. 7.—Secretary of War Root.in his annual report to the president expresses the opinion that a majority of the boys of America are unfamiliar with the use of firearms. “I know of nothing more important in the way of preparation for war,” he says, ‘“than teaching the young men of the country to shoot straight. It is especially important to the eflficiency of our volunteer armies in the future. It is of no use to pay, equip, subsist and transport a soldier to the battlefield unless he can hit an enemy when he shoots .at him. : : - “Two recent changes in conditions require that we should make continuous and active effort in this direction if we are to have this necessary element of efficiency. One is the greatly increased -range of modern rifles, which determines battles while the combatants are at a great distance from eachother and which makes practice more necessary for good marksmanship than ever before. The other is the decline in the use of firearms among the greater part of our people. Formerly, when our population was scattered and game was abundant in all parts of the country, every house had its rifle or its shotgun and every boy learned to shoot them. Now it is probable that a majority of the young men in the thickly settled parts of the country have never fired a gun and would be quite harmless to an enemy until taught to shoot. “The time to give that instruction is now. We ought not to wait until we are actually engaged in hostilities. "When that time comes the enemy will not wait for us to give the instruction. I recommend that an appropriation be made to pay the necessary expenses of the board for the promotion of rifle practice; that the statute be amended so as to include the navy and marine corps, and that an additional sum be appropriated for the promotion of rifle practice by the formation of rifle clubs and contests to which citizens generally shall be admitted; to be expended upon the recommendation of the board with the approval of the secretary of war.”

"TAKES DEADLY REVENGE. Austrian Princess Finds Actress im Her Husband’s Apartments : and Shoots Her, Vienna, Dec. 7.——Prince Otto of Win-disch-Graetz, his youthful and immensely wealthy wife, Princess Elizabeth Marie, whom he married only a year ago, and a pretty actress of the opera at Prague are central figures in an extraordinary scandal that is rending half a dozen European courts, The princess, who is the granddaughter on her father’s side of the emperor of Austria and on her mother’s side of the king of the Belgians, and who renounced her rights to the throne of Austria in order to marry as her heart dictated, shot and seriously wounded the actress, with whom the prince was having a rendezvous. e The affair took place in the palace on the estate of the prince’s family at Prague. Prince Otto had been secretly paying assiduous attentions to tlie actress, at whose feet were half the gilded youth of Prague. The princess, who is 20 years old, was blissfully ignorant of the intrigue uyntil she was informed, presumably through some disappointed suitor of the actr&ss, that the prince was then entertaining in his apartment in the palace the lovely rival.

Grasping a gold-mounted revolver, presented by her recreant husband, the princess forced her way into the prince’s apartments, after shooting at ‘a faithful valet who tgied to prevent her entrance. Frenzied with rage and humiliation, the princess stood before the guilty pair. The prince sprang toward her, but as he did so she cried: ‘“Beast!” and shot the actress in the breast. The woman uttered a shriek and fell to the floor. The prince seized his wife, who would have made her revenge complete with another shot had not her intention been thwarted. Overcome with the enormity of the deed she broke down and was led weeping from the apartment. Strenuous efforts were made to keep the affair a secret, but the facts came out through the actress’ crazed servants and were soon common property in the city. " Would Oust Recei_;ers. Chicago, Dec. 7.—Creditors holding ‘claims for $300,000 have decided to support John Alexander Dowie, and appointed a committee to assure the overseer of their confidence in him, and to offer kim aid 'in ousting the receivers. Dowie has regained the lace works, Judge Kohlsaat declaring receivers were wrong in taking possession. Mexican Cigars Confiscated. San Francisco, Dec. 7.—The government authorities have confiscated 14,000 Mexican cigars in a private warehouse here, many of them valued at 25 cents each. It is believed the clgars were brought in concealed in casks by members of the crew of the battleship New York upon her last arrival here from Mexican waters. Crew Perished. Hamburg, Dec. 7.—A terrific snowstorm and a dense fog prevail on the North sea and a number of shipping casualties have occurred. The Dutech steamer Alwina, from La Rochelle for Rotterdam, fonndered.and her crew perished. Gifts for Drake University. Des Moines, la., Dec. 7.—Mrs. Matilda Dod, of Jefferson, on Saturday gave Drake university $25,000, and Mrs. Skinner, of Spencer, gave $lO,OOO. This malkes $115,000 received in 20 days. Of this $50,000 was a bequest from the lata Gen. Drake. : . New York Bankegs Assign. . New York, Dec. 7.—William Clarke & Sons, bankers, Saturday assigned for the benefit of creditors to the Van Norden Trust company. The firm is composed of James and Hudson Clarke, and had a mercantile rating of from $75,000 to $125,000. : . 1 Lives Lost at a Wake., - New York, Dec. 7.—Two lives were lost and a number of persons badly burned in a fire on First street, Brooklyn, where a wake was being held over the bodies of Mrs. Mary Gilligan and Arthur Dougherty, a boy who died of hydrophobia a few days ago. @

SAYS BANKS ARE SAFE. Comptroller Ridgeley Congratulates ' Country on Their Passing Successfully ’l‘hrough‘;'S‘evere Strain. Washington, Dec. 7.—The annual report of William B. Ridgely, comptroller of the currency, has been prepared for transmission to congrass. The report starts with a table giving a detailed statement of the resources and liabilities of all the national banks .of the United States, as sfown by the five reports of condition made in response to the call of the comptroller. Comparing this statement with that for September 15, 1902, it is observed that there has been an increase in number of reporting associations cf 441 and a net increase of $196,501,053.87 in aggregate resources. The capital stock and surplus funds pf the associations gradually increased from $714,616,353 and $335,763,730.38, respectively, on November 25, 1902, to $753,722,658 and $370,390,684.26, respectively, on September 9, 1903. : On September 9, 1903, the specie held amounted to $397,556,168, classied as follows: Gold coin, $105,569,894; gold treasury certificates, $119,367,220; gold treasury certificates, payable to order, $27,180,000; gold clearing-house certificates, $63,307,000; total gold and gold certificates, $315,424,114; silver certificates, $62,791,768; silver dollars, $lO,336,143, and fractional silver coin, §9,004,143; total silver, $82,132,054. The loans and discounts of natioral banks reached their maximum- in the history of the system on September 9, 1903, when they aggregated $3,481,446,772, Information has been obtained relative to the conditions of 8,745 incorporated and private banks and bankers, of which 5,962 are state banks, 531 loan and trust companies, 1,078 mutual and stock savings banks, and 1,174 private banks and bankers. An analysis of the counsclidated returns from . state, savings, private banks and trust ' companies shows an increase in aggregate resources in 1903 over 1902 of about $661,000,000, and over 1898 of nearly $3,385,000,000.. Loans and discounts amount to $4,296,675,586, a gain =of more than $354,000,000 over the amount reported for 1902.

* The number of depositors in savings banks (exclusive of those in state banks of Illinois having savings departments) has increased since 1902 from 6,388,793 to 6,674,237 and the average deposit from $414.85 to $421.84. Including savings depositors in the Tlllinois state banks, the total number of depositors has increased from 6,666,672 in 1902 -to 7,035,228 in 1903, and the average to each depositor, estimated to be $412.53 in 1902, to $417.21 this year. The aggregate deposits in savings imstitutions of the country in 1902 were $2,750,177,290, and for the current year $2,935,204,845, an increase of $185,027,555. . From the most reliable records at command it appears that there are in existence in the country about 18,000 banks.and banking institutions, including private bankers. The aggregate capital of reporting banks is shown to be $1,321,924,992; -deposits, $9,700,796.047, and aggregate resources, $14,303,116,954. ‘ ' During the past year or more our banks have successfully stood the very severe strain due to a great decline in the market prices of all classes of securities and the natural reaction following a period of great business activity and very general speculation, not only in stocks and securities, but in many commodities and products, There have been, considering all the circumstances, fewer bank failures than might have been expected. Those which have occurred have been due to special or local causes or gross mismanagement, and, in some instances, most flagrant dishonesty on the part of the bank officials. That there has not been more trouble with the banks and disturbance of business generally during this period of declining prices is also a great evidence of the confidence of our people in all our money and currency. If there had been the slightest doubt as to our monetary standard or as to any of our currency in circulation, we might have had a most severe and far-reaching crisis. That we have not only escaped this, but that there has not been greater disturbance of general business shows what progress and improvement there have been in all our banking, financial and monetary affairs since they were last subjected to a ‘serious strqin of this kind.

Pays $i,260,000 for Damages. White Plains, N. Y., Dec. 7.—The New York Central railroad has settled judgments of $75,000 to the estate of A. M. Perrin and $70,000 to that of Ernest E. Walton, both of whom were killed in the Park avenue tunnel accident at New York. The road has so far paid $1,250,000 on account of the accident and several suits are still pending. : May Be Nullified. \ London, Dec. 7.—The Pekin correspondent of the Morning Post says: “It is possible that the treaty between the United States and China for the opening of Nukden and An Tung will be ratified immediately, but I have good reason to believe that the benefits of the treaty to foreign trade will be nullified by Russian mfluence.” : Sentenced. ; St. Louis, ]?ec. 7.—Thomas E. Barrett, former marshal of the St, Louis circuit court of appeals, was sentenced by Judge Adams, in the United States district court, to five years’ imprisonment in the penitentiary and to pay a fine of $l,OOO for naturalization frauds. = ; Large Sums Are Missing. Rome, Dec. 7.—lnvestigation of the vatican finances shows large sums missing. Some money was stolen, some loaned to irresponsible friends of the church and the whereabouts of still more cannot be discovered. One trust fund of $1,000,000 is gone. - Congressman Burk Dead. " Philadelphia, Dec. 7.—Congressman Henry Burk, of the Third district, died at his home here Saturday after. an illness of more than a year. Since last September Mr. Burk had been confined to his home with an affection of the heart, complicated by other ailments. Mrs. &;menl' 111. _Florence, Italy, Dec. 7.—Since Mrs. Clemens, wife of Samuel M. Clemens (Mark Twain) arrived here, November 8, she has been so indisposed that no one outside her own family has been allowed to see her. The weather is exceptionally bad.

WHERE PEACE REIGNS. Money Is Not Needed and No Dissipation or Irrezularity ' . Permitted. The long haired young reformers were holding an informal debate, and when they had agreed that the werld was just about as corrupt and bad a place as it well conld be, a’ grim-faced man arose, relates London Tit-Bits. . “What you seem to want, friends,” he said, “is a place where everyone has to be gooci by law.” ) i “That’s it!” chorused the reformers. “Where smoking ain’t allowed, and such a thing as drink is unknown? Where no one need worry about food and raiment, and where money does pot exist?”’ ‘“We do!” ) “Where everyone has to go to church on Sundays, and = everyone keeps regular hours?” . : “That is just what we do want. Oh, to find such a place!” said a soulful young fellow, speaking for the others. - : “Well, I've just come from such a place—" s a “You have?”’ cried the soulful one. “Oh, tell us, tell us, man of wonderful experience, where it is, that we may also go!” “It's' a place called prison!” said the grim man. - - Sl e - Asked and Answered. “Why is it?” asked the jolly party, that you are always borrowing trouble?” “Because,” answered the melancholy individual, *““it is.the only thing I cam borrow without security.”—Chicago Daily News. Lo . L, e Brizht’s Disease Cured. Whitehall, 111., Dec. 7.—A case has been recorded in this place recently, which upsets the theory of many physicians that Bright’s Disease is incurable.. It is the case of .Mr. Lon Manley, whom the doctors told that he could never recover. Mr. Manley tells the story of his case and how he was cured in this way: - “I began using Dodd’s Kidney Pills after the doctors had given me up. For four or five years I had Kidney, Stomach and Liver Troubles; T was a general wreck and at times I would get down with mv back so bad that I con%d not turn myself in bed for three or four days at a time. “I had several doctors and at last they told me I had Bright's Disease, and that I could never®get well. I commenced to use Dodd’s Kidney Pills and I am now able to do all my work and am all right. I most heartily recommend Dodd’s Kidney Pills and am very thankful® for. the cure they worked in my case. They saved my life after the doctors had given me up.” - o i

Tipping—“l’'m afraid the Balkers won’t get aflmg very well together.” Fytcher—“l don’t see why not. They are wholly m harmony, vou know. She thinks there is nobody in the world who can come up to her husband, and he is certain of it.”"— Boston Transeript. & : (o In the west the farmer, stock-raiser, merchant and manufacturer are busy, their products are bringing good prices, and the great agricultural belt of the Upper Mississippi, Valley is enjoying a degree of prosperity, that is probably unequaled in his: tory. ’l?he crops this year have been good, the acreage larger than ever before known and the beneficent results of the harvest far-reaching enough to have a favorable eifect on every man, woman and child in the region. Several expressions of opinion on the subject are being published by the passenger department of the North-Western Line, among them the following concerning Nebraska’s outlook: . Governor Mickey says: “Nebraska wll produce 200,000,000 bushels of corn and over 40,000,000 bushels of wheat this year. Her total crop acreage is 15,000,000 acres and the value of live stock is over $150,000,000. Our state banks show an increase in deposits since June'9th of $1,016,299 and their reserve is 361-3 per cent., where the legal requirement is only 15 per cent, ‘“Nebraska’s outlook is indeed promising The state holds an enviable position in this %reat country of ours and her name is no Onger synonymous with drought and poverty. Senator Millard says: “This being an agricultural region, it is most gratifying to say the farmers are very prosperous; the merchants have been doing an excellent business this year, and the outlook ‘for all kinds of business is good.”” . ‘Mr. Rosewater, publisher of the Ohaha Bee, says: ) -“f)urmg my residence of forty vears west of the Missouri I have witnessed marvelous strides of progress, but at no period within my memory have the people of this section been more generally prosperous and contented with existing conditions than they are at this time. The prosperity we are enjoying is not confined to any one class, but embraces the farmer, the stock-raiser, the merchant, the manufacturer and the wage-worker all alike.”

He—“Do you remember when we were children, and I used to come over to-your house to play? Weren’t those jolly times?” She—‘“Weren’t they! And your mamma never let you stay more than an hour.'— Cincinnati Commercial Tribune. - P — To Cure a Cold in One Day. Take Laxative Bromo Quinine Tablets. All druggists refund moneyif it fails to cure. 25¢. DS S Rescuer (who has hauled fisherman out of the river)—“Ow did yer come to fall in, mate?”’ Fisherman—*“Phew! I didn’t come to fall in, you fool, I came to fish.” —dJudy. . i e - I am sure Piso’s Cure for Consumption saved my life three years ago.—Mrs. _'Phos. Robbins, Norwich, N. Y., Feb. 17, 1900. - . it ) ete o mienets - Mrs. Homeleigh—"Your husband is at his club a good deal, isn’t he?’ Lady Gadabout—-—“%’es. The poor boy hates being at home alone, you know.”—Punch. e You can do your dyeing in half an hour with Putnam Fadeless Dyes. , Sl e “This is where we %art company,” said the comb to the brush, as they were set l(]mt in the guest’s bedroom.—Columbia ester.

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--The Bonaparie hotel, at Si Lous will be the largest hotel in ihe United States, and.its opening wiil be simaltaneous with that of the big exposition. The sun dial,that olé time favarive o the garden of the past, hds beer revisad, and it is stated on good auihoriiy The:no garden will be considered compicie without it. i e . In-addition to the usmal regaes: from the white house for a list of their families and friends whe may be with them by which to regulate the issue of social invitations, all- congressmen heve this yvear been asked to furnish & Tist of thexr minor children, It is undersiced tha: the “grown ups” are 1o have Do monopoly of official society’s pleasures fram this time forward t¢ the end of UTi» Roosevelt’s children’s stay in the exerutive mansion. - ' Seven members of the present hopse of representatives served as sclidiers in - the war with Spain. They are Charies Dick, Nineteenth Ohio districy; &riesa A. Wiley, Second Alabams: Buoiier Ames, Fifth Massachusetis: Auzus: P Gardner, Sixth Massachusetts: ¥illian Hughes, Sixth New Jersey; Francs B ‘Harrison, Thirteenth New York aun@ Whyatt Aiken, Third South Carclma. They ranged in military rank from private to lieutenant colonel With 200,008 bashels of hich s wheat in his granaries, A J. Bice of Atchison cofinty, Kansss miziz b= ‘called the wheat king of the wes:. Heis the owner of 114 guarter sections of land, scattered over three counties in western-Kanszs. Rice went 1o Kansss 35 years ago with a bad case of consomption and a little money. He hailed fram New York, where the eight other menbers of his family had @ied from pui‘monary troubles. He starred ip 2 madest way, ‘accumulated some money @nd invested in land. To-day he owms 20.000 acres, 8,000 of which were sowz 10 wheat last fall. = ) FOR MINISTER AND LAYNAN The archbishop of York and the archbishop of Canmterbary celebrated their silver weddings on the same day 7= centiy. - =~ The American invesiment in relicions and educational instituiions = Turker is $6,500,000, and more thar s2§ 608 548 has been spent in mission work covoring nearly a century. : Rev. G: F. Brisco, a clergvmman of S .Benet’s Kenitish Towr, Engiand recives but.a pittance for his services-£né order to obtain means wherels hemicht maintain the dignity of his positicn by was obliged to take in washins znd i graves. For pursuing these uoviericel occupations he has been cemsured In his ecclesiastical superiors. - Rev. James E. Edwards, & Bopast preacher of Qwensville, Gibsor couns, Ind., and one of the best sugrs—eiers in the Hoosier state, is about 1o puldish ‘a book of his jokes gnd oricina? seyinss. This will be in the nature of 2 seoond edition, for the meverend gentiemssn pullished a similar colleciion some veETs ago. Mr. Edwards is cpe of the most popular clergymen in Owensville. - 'When Emma Booth married Froder erick St. George Latour in Caicaiiz she adopted the clothes and the manver of life of the native women. and bageisoied, “dipping her unaccustomed fngers in the curry dish,” She begsed ber mz=y through the streets. Latour. ih&: a worker in the Salvation -Arms. had adopted the same plan. And when I¥er were married, it was in the way of = ligious teachers, he appearing 2c & hare focted, turbaned, calico-robed mendicant with his begging bowl. '

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