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Tiie IroKreuM of the StrikeThe record of yesterday and this

morning in the steel strike disclosessome losses and gains on both sidesAt points like McKeespori and Wheel-ing conditions for the jtttst twentyfourhours have been symptomatic of earlycollisions At the former place the Hatrefusal of Mayor Black to clear thestreets around the tube works of thecrowds which were obstructing theworkmen renders It probable that thetrust will appeal to the courts andperhaps invoke the military power ofthe State within a short time Fromsiding strongly with the strikers thebusiness community of McKeesjMjrtseems to have veered around and pub-

lic sentiment is reported as turningagainst them largely as a result oPresident Shaters speech in which hecalled upon alt workingmen to with-draw their savings from the banksShould they act upon such advice localbusiness interests would be badly injured as the mill workers furnish thebulk of deposits in McKeesnort

Estimates of the number of men whohave struck first and last or whoare rendered idle by Amalgamatedstrikes vary greatly Probably theaggregate now out is between fifty andsbcty thousand of which total not morethan four or five thousand responded tothe second call There are some indication that harmony does not exist atstrike headquarters It is reportedfrom Pittaburs that several

leaders are striving to secureterms of surrenderS through threeprominent Pittsburg manufacturerswithout reference to who Is

to have no pitpoint these negotiators are trying

to make is an agreement on the part ofthe trust that its component corpora-tions will permit the strikers to returnan union men leaving the plants unionor nonunion as they were on the lastday of June

It is to bo feared that much as such-a solution might be useful in preserving the organization of the Amalgamat-cd Association and in irniUng an end

U W 1 r lamity Morgan and his associatesvoMld not consider It It I suspected

that their purpo e te to compel the mento gi b c If at mil ms individuals andto make them sIgn individual contractsnot to remain or become members oflabor union

Posetuty suck a policy might be motHpolitical pressure and some sort

peace b patchedup on the line it te-

net easy to believe that men as stub-born ae Morgan and Schwab wouldyield when they consider that precli-cully they won the light alreadyBut the Ohio approaching-and the Nationaland State with good reason are anxloss to this strike out of wayand forgotten before it can become adangerous factor in Buckeye politicoOn that account w Jo not doubt thatMr McKinley Mr Henna are woik-ing to Wing their trustaround to a state of mind whichpermit the of me concessionThe great difficulty in rendering effec-

tive such pressure te that In the pres-

ent case the trust controls theand the Republican party and

the latter I the obeying and the formerthe comma mling Influence

The NvKru PopulationThe rapkl gain of the white popula-

tion upon and over the colored in theSouth will In tend to a settle-ment of the in that re-

gion The census show thatLouisiana is no a Statea majority of the people being nowwhites and In several other SouthernStates the negroes are groundnumerically at a rate continued will soon make them a very insig-nificant minority This is ascribed Inpart to the Influx of whites In part tothe high death rate among the blacksand In a lesser measure to an emi-

gration of the negroes to the NorthernStates

With each succeeding year the color-ed race becomes a smaller fraction ofthe population not merely of the country as a whole but of the Southern

where the negroes chiefly reclearly indicates that the

Southern are in no imminentdanger of dominated politically-or otherwise by the blacks ThereIn scarcely been a possibility of

thing In any Southern Statesince the passing of the reconstructionperiod and the ascendency of the ne-groes In certain States at that time wasin large degree owing to conditionswhich can scarcely arise again Withthe negroes constantly growing weakerOB a physical and political force thereis but small chance of their ever gain-ing control of a single State In the Un-

ion and there is very little upon whichto base a cry against the horrors ofnegro domination With the exerciseof just a modicum of good commonen the people of the South are

an safe on this score as they aremost any other respect

Absolutely all that is required to scure the permanent ascendency of tnewhites IB a reasonable restriction of the

through an educational testa test will for a time dtofran-

clitefc eighty and perhaps ninety percont of the present voters andaffect but a very ofthe white The education of the

will necessarily be slow Veryfew of those who ar now andIlliterate will ever educate themselveseven though it wuld require but littleeffort to do so For we know that it Is

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norance may spur up the negroes theeducation of their children but withthe older generation pollticrly power-less it would he wholly inyp 8lble forthe rising and subsequent generationsever to attain a power that wouldmake them dangerous There are tworeasons why this should be so Firstthe education of the negroes will broaden their minds and make them lessdangerous as voters and secondly theywill be a steadily diminishing quantity-In point of relative numbers Vith asweeping of all illit-erates of both colors It Is doubtful ifeven in South Carolina the black votewould ever again be onehalf as largeas white

From all of this it follows that it Isaltogether absurd for the people of anySouthern State to lash themselves Intoa ferment over the Imaginary danger ofnegro domination Equally absurd andmote unwise is it for them upon anyfeeling of perverted sentimentality to-

make exceptions in their ballot laws infavor of men whose ancestors were

As Senator Morgan suggestssuch exceptions rest upon no ofreason or Justice Theyan hereditary class of whovote not because of any merits of theirown but because their grandfathersvoted before them A ballot cast by anignorant White man is no more likelyto be voted intelligently than it wouldbe if the voter were black anti the ex-ception Is moreover in direct conflictwith the spirit and genius of Americaninstitutions The exception Is more unjust to the educated whites than It Isto the ignorant blacks anti there isliterally nothing to be urged in itsfavor

Short Croiin In KurojieThe reports from Europe indicate that

the wheat crops of France Germanyanti several other more or lessant countries of the Old World arefar the normal and that more

usual quantities must b im-ported in order to supply the deficiency-It is said that France alone will haveto look to other countries forilftyslx million bushels Thistends to the advantage f those eonstries that have whet for sale of whichcountries the United heads thelistIn

this case though as in many oth-ers the mere of shortage takenat their face are quite likely tomislead For example while France Isflftysix millions short it by no meansfollows that she will buy any suchquantity It must be remembered thatcrop failures either total or partialaffect the general business conditionsof the country in which the failures occur and in doing so they affect the buy-Ing power of the nation In brief acrop failure from the sum ofnational the less prosporous a country Is the less it can andwill buy even of the necessaries of lifeWith a considerable portion of the Kuropettn population wheaten bread is almost a luxury to be in onlywhen prosperity seasonswhen times are hard there te a eryconsiderable substitution of cheaper

In thfe connection it must ateo benoted that there has during recentmonths been a marked subsidence ofthe prosperity wave In Europe andthis Irrespective of crop condition Ifthere te a marked shortage of the cropsit will add to tne depression and itwill certainly manifest itself In smallerpurchases of foreign goods

A weary physician declared not longago that the talent of reading atomwas one of the most valuable and oneof the rarest in modern life He saidthat during convalescence or in casesof a tedious ailment it was oftenmost beneficial to the patient to listento some entertaining book rend aloudby a pteasantvoiced attendant butthat It was almost impossible to getanyone to do the

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of ones acquaintances to that thisIs true In the first place the culUva

of the voice i neglected nowadaysit never has the attention

which it should a timehcwever when a low gentle voice andcareful enunciation were consideredattributes of culture and when a gen-

tleman or a lady could be distinguished-by the accent of the voice in speakingTo sonic extent this is still true butthere ar many people In what iacalled good society who seem to thinkthat careless pronunciation clip-

ping of words or some trick of modula-tion Is a mark of smartness andthat careful speaking Is pedantic andoverprecise Of course this whimsicalInterpretation of culture has its inlluonce and the result is a carelessness inother grades of society which is not atall necessary

cause of careless speakingis the diminished attention

which ie paid to reading aloud In theschools In the oldfashioned schoolthe reading class was as much a partof the days business as the class Inarithmetic and the pupils were re-

quired to read and to learn and reciteextracts from the best authors untilthey were nearly grown Moreoverthis exercise occupied from an hour toan hour and a half of each day andwas accompanied with careful instruction by the teacher on matters of in-

flection pronunciaton and accent Ofcourse there are some children whocannot be taught to read aloud proper-ly but their blunders only made clearto the brighter ones what were thefaults to be most avoided and betweenthe bright particular stars and the hor-rible example of the class the majority-of the pupils gained a fairly correctIdea of the art which they were studyingThe

lessons In elocution which havebeen Introduced along with Gther modera fads do not take the place of thisdrill It 1 not half as Important thatthe average child should be taught torecite Mabel with her face against thepane as that he should be able to readthe newspaper or a good novel aloudwith intelligence and intelligibility Toanyone who loves books and it is tothem people that reading aloud In timeof illness is the greatest blessing It IB-

IMMrftive torture to hear a passage Insome favorite author rendered stum-blingly or with wrong inHectioiiH andthat the way at least five people outof ten will read It

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Iorto ItivoK Coffee InterestsPoto Rican coffee producers are com-

plaining that Brazilian coffee can beshipped Into the Island and sold therefor about onehalf the price of thehonK product This may be true al-

though it Is not easy to see why thereshould be such a difference But bethat as it may the people of PortoRico eagerly sought the sovereignty ofthe United States and bitterly resentedthe idea of not being regarded asAmerican citizens Immediately uponthe rendering of the insular decisionsthey petitioned for free trade with theUnited States and the petition wasgranted This cleared up the situation-to the extent of making the island acommercial if not a political part ofthe Republic

Now it is said that the coffee menwant a special duty for the exclusionof Brazilian coffee No one can tellwhat a Republican Congress may dowith reference to the but It isplain that the status of Porto Rico having been measurably cleared up itwould be bad policy to cloud it againby the imposition of a special duty oncotton imported Into the island

If the coiTee interests of the islandsuffer through Brazilian competitionthere are other interests which are-

i greatly benefited by the changed com-

mercial status Her tobacco and rumcan now be sold freely in the Americanmarket so can any other product-of the plantations Besides the interests of the coffee producers are onlyone stole of the coffee question

II Porto Rko is wise she will acceptthe situation just as it is She wouldbetter abandon coffee raising entirelyand COnline herself to other stapleproducts than to ask for legislation attile hands of Oongre that would etantamount to a declaration that theisland is not a pert of the UnitedStates

Ordinarily we should think that something was about to happen at the BostonNavy Yard since It te the Intention of theNavy Department to take Sampson awayfrom that place Hut on reflection itwould appear that it Is not Charlestownfrom which it nt desired to have him

but Washington while theSchley Court of Enquiry shall be in sosskm Once on waiting orders the condition of Sampsons health might make-a to Europe Imperative and therehi small reason for doubt that a leave ofabsence for the purpose and others notmentioned would be given without heMtalton or delay The real point is that the-Navigation Bureau ring Is in terror forfear Sampson can be forced on the standtloi o ner Enquirywould be next to farcical were tl e person chiefly responsible for the bitter andunrelenting crusade against the Victor ofSantiago excused from substantiatingehsrge and insinuations against Rear

Schley in open court But sostrong is the desire and determination to

him from the ordeal and othersfrom consequences arising from It thata naval gossip it the Departmentif driven to the wall will attempt toprove him mentally incapable of giving

i testimony Probably Sampson friendsmay argue that us he wa absent from

j the victory the glory of which he as-i Mimes he might remove himself to a

distance from the Enquiry absurdI claims and conduct generally have made

necessary with equal proprietyj The movement Is on in earnest for the

overthrow of the machine that o-i dominated the city of PhiladelphiaThe franchise eal which lately shockedthe moral sentiment of the country

to a nonpartisan combination of thereform forces through which H to hopedthat the corrupt machine may be effec-tually wiped out W should have pre-ferred to see the Philadelphia antiring

I Republicans rally to the support of thej Democratic ticket But the Philadel-

phians probably know their own busi-ness best At all vents they think theydo and the present movement contem-plate a division of the ticket betweenreform Republicans and Democrats Itwould be hard to imagine a political com-bination that would not be Justifiable ifnecessary to break the power of theQuay machine in any of its component

And still we are left la doubt towhether the Constitution or the Colum-bia is the better boat After smilingsomething like a dozen races the honorsseem to be nearly oven Never beforeIn our yachting history did two wouldbeCup defenders seria to be so evenlymatched The feature of thesituation is that unless Shamrock II Is aconsiderably taster boat than Shamrock-I at the time of the last Cup raceseither the Constitution or the Columbiacan beat her with ease But the probability is that Shamrock II IB a better boatthan Shamrock I was or is How muchbetter we do not know but we hope thatthe improvement I not enough to enableher to

events cost their shadows before The leaders In the subsidy grabscheme are to meet shortly antI conferUIKHI the confected measure with whichthey expect to paralyze the Treasury before the end of the next session of Congress Hanna will be on hand of courseand so will Frye Groavenor and Littlefield It he can spare time from ida pre-paration to champion the anticanteencause for the benefit of the hysterical sistern and the wholesale whisky dealersThe grabbers are hopeful that with Al-

len Butler and Pettigrew out of theSenate the loot of a hundred and twentymillion dollars or so of public money forthe enrichment of a few transportationmagnates may become an accomplishedtact It may but not without a strongfight

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on trade in Japxr prepared by ArthurHyde Lay for thj British Legation atTokyo In this mater Mr Lay

lameniahfe occurrences In Chinaand the continual of an un tiled staterapidly trade of Japan

her Industries havesuffered in cous Mif He Moreover thesilk crop upon wrrh this country in themain relics to adjst the balance of Itcommerce with feviKii countries was adisappointment th to the im-port trade the inflations in the autumnof 1SS9 were that te ensuinj year wouldoffer 9 endtd optfrtnnities for business

appeared in the r turns for 190 and theyear orened witha feeling of overconflin commoral circles It soon be-

came apparent hcrever that the outflowof specie which hd already begun waslikely to incrfeaehnd that the large arrivals of expected would hindan increasingly stringent money marketThe ye are some factors which haveoperated unfavonbly upon the trade ofJapnn

The j aircitj money available formercantile purpoes with th highs rateof interest was inch felt during the yearunder review It pay he iwintrd out herethat or expedlture on works oirjj remotely productivecontinues to bears abnormally large ra-tio to the wealth ad resources of JapanIt is true a part of exm wl li fwithin the Empires own larders TheJapanese wage ner however probablysaves at present Mry much less even InproK rtioii to the intount of his Incomethan the Eurojciniiwl American workerand but little of large wage expendi-ture In connect with the defence

Hrmaint ntirhllwavM etc goes toform capital in aldof productionthese circumstance the tendency to anexcess of Imports ver and Cone Jent drain of sjecie must continue to

exist sod an ade te cash reserve curtbe maintained onlyat a sacrifice of easein the money by prudent limitationof the Government banknote circulationand of credit facllrien The flotation offoreign loans can Jnly afford temporaryrrliel in this ec and bearing in mind

bks of any but a quitegradual increase it wealth derived fromresources at present undeveloped it isevident that the of borrowing isone which should b resorted to with the

circun spe ionFor the whole the excess of Im-ports amounted to the large sum of iS-4K751 But evcotlinK points to M con-siderable dimlnutkti In Imports In MNH

The Government Iron foundry at Yuwata Onga Wstrict Fukuoktt Pre-fecture in IClushud1d not commence op-erations at the coitemplated time namely July 1SOO Ner has work yet beenbegun though the undertaking ia well onits way to compl lnn A trial working ofthe smelting funifce was made In February with satisfactory results One rea-son given for the fostponement of initialoperations Is the scarcity of workmenavailable In conscience of the great de-mand for labor in connectionwith the Chinese crisis

ForeiRn food staffs are more and morebecoming a necesiity for Japan Theyield of agrrlcuUiual products while itituctuates does much permapeople are rowing In 1900 the land undercultivation for and barley lessthan In the preceding year but the harvest a good one owing to favorableweather ondUfbnsl Flour meal and

fresh condensed milk wereal imported in much larger quantities in1SW than the preceding year

Industries in languished inPractically no new Undertakings were set-on foot and from interested in already existing ones the complaint of lackr heard When as

company has topay a much asll per cent for money tocarry on affairs it te small wonder thatdifficulty in continuing in existence is experienced ftt desideratum theinvestment of moderately cheap foreign

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far however with owe or two exceptionsnothing on a large scale been donein the matter

Certain clauses of goods are now ex-empt from duty when imported for thepurpose of improvement provided thatthey are reexported within one full yearfrom the date of their importation Theidea i said to be to import for exampleplates from France and have them decorated so as to resemble Kutanl ware andwatches from the United States to be en-ameled at Xagayo and reexported

The United States continues to encroach on spheres of trade which wereformerly considered under the exclusivecontrcl of the Urlteei Kingdom or otherJiatKH American competition is now apermanent feature of the import trade ofJapan and is worthy of the careful at-tention of British manufacturersgeographical situation of the UnitedStates with regard to Japan and the eaeerae with which American munufacturers are seeking a market In this coun

more formidable a time goes on In 1900Americans again secured a number of valuable contracts for the delivery ofin 1901 including one for rails whichestimated at 72wa Among the reasonsfor the very large figures to which the im-port trade from States into Ja-pan rose In l t was the fact that the ex-tensive orders the execution of which

I wax undertaken there in the precedingI yr included SOfcw of rails whichat the high price then prevailing wouldaccount for nay l largequantity of electrical machinery for tram-line and electric and bridge-work and wire as well a dour are alsoincluded in the returns Telephone cable

at one tins a United States monopo-ly but now German makers are fulfillinglarge orders for it British manufactur

owing to the high prices forhave so far been unsuccessful in obtainany contracts for this materialDuring the past few YeArs therebeen a remarkable growth ft the trade be-tween Japan and China occasioned forthe most part by the opening up of mar-kets for Japanese manufactures in theneighboring empire

One of the schemes whereby the Ja-panese are seeking to attract foreigncapital is the granting to aliens of per-mission to hold shares in Japanese rail-way companies It has been deckled thatthere is no objection to the purchase byforeigners of such shares provided thatthere exist no proviso to the contrary inthe bylaws of a railway company amithe Department of Communication onJune 5 use informed eight of the privaterailway companies by whom it had beenapproached on the subject thatmight if necessary alter their bylawsw as to open the to foreign cooperation Many of the Japanese railways havebeen built in sparsely populated districtsmore apparently a view to militarycontingencies than with e prospect ofadequate return for the Inof raIlwayS however as traversepopulous areas awl conn t towns of com-mercial Importance the Investment of for-eign capital would be mutually beneficialmore especially if the foreign sharehold-er were able to exercise their influence Inthe direction of greater efficiency of serv-ice and the reduction useless expendi-ture

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A Krciiclimaii Secures n VnlunblcConcession Frosts the GevernmcntHorace M Allen the United States Con-

sul General at Seoul reports o the StateDepartment that the Govern-ment hiss granted to a French subject aconcession covering a gold seining dis-trict Commenting on the matter Mr Al-

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ready granted to Americans RussiansGermans British and Japanese It is fora period of twentyJive years from thedate of Commencement of operationswhich must be made within two years A

t paid tothe Korean Government after the exPease of development has been recov-ered No import tax on necessary mate-rials will be levied the products ofthe mine will be exported free of dutyOther minerals besides gold may beminetl within the district The districthiss not yet been Posted but it cannot in-

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served for the Crown and kKuwn as theHousehold mine The district notexceed iu extent thirteen and a third bytwenty miles The concession hi said tohave HO connection with a recently discussed project of a French subject tomake a loan to the European Government

Gold mining in Korea is now assum-ing considerable importance since it hasbeen successfully prosecuted by the Ori-ental Cootisolidated Mining Company anAmerican concern which theWoonsan nines of Korea This companyhas a d irct some twentylive or thirtymiles in txient in the richest known goldregivn in Korea The company disposedof ttt 2T per cent royalty by paying alargv cm in cash and agreeing to pay ailxed inual amount It is now success-fully operating two milk of twentyJMMrrps each and one of forty stampswhilv another fortystanH mill is incons of erection The managers have theirown cyanide plant as well The operationsat present are confined to quartz workbut the extensive placer deposits will soonbe worked Some seventy foreigners areemployed at these mines with over 39Wnatives on the pay roll or indirectly inthe pay of the company The natives aresaid to be satisfactory as miners anti theyare content on a wage of 3D cents goldper day The output and prospects areI ronounced to be entirely satisfactory

Tiie British mines are at present thetext in importance to the American minesThey lie not very far from the districtoccupied by the Americans and have longenjoyed a good reputation Much moneyis being expended in exploitation but theyperiod

The Germans are actively engaged inworking their district which lies to theeast of Seoul The Japanese ate openingup their mining district to the south ofthis The Russians seem not to havebegun work upon their mining concesstone as yet

TO GREET SCHOOL TEACHEBS

A Splendid Welcome Now Being Prcpared In Manila

MANILA Aug 13 Mr Atkinson Su-perintendent of Schools Is preparing asplendid reception for the six hundredAmerican school teachers who are expeeled to arrive here within a weekWhen the transport arrives fifteenlaunches will convey the teachers to theLwneta landing Then they will be drivento the Spa ish Exposition buildings whichwill become a temporary educational

Icolony

The teachers will their board for Jla day The buildings have been com-pletely furnished by the army with cotsehairs etc which have been loaned bythe quartermasters department arrangements for the comfort of the

are complete in every detailsThey Include contracts with andlaundrymen and the teachers will be furnisned with booklets containing taforma-

j TOeVparfmenl wRl se d StMe in tak-ing ca

pie for half rates It that theteachers will be distributed in the provfortnight Four hundred

i fifty of already been assigped to their post the rains mayPrevent many from reaching theirlions for some time

The reports of the health officials for thelast month show that the death rate wasi American occupationThe Philippine Commission will salt fori the north tomorrow but there are numer

OWl reports of Hoods and storms and themembers may have to change their itinerary These Hoods may also prevent thefa various capi

jQT AGED PHYSICIAN DEAD

Dr Sapplncton of Mitr Innd SuecumliM ut Forest Park

BALTIJrfORE Aug 13Dr ThomasSappington one of the oldest physicians-in this State died at the residence of hissoninlaw M S Breams 36 North Cal

I vert Street early yesterday He became-I seriously ill about two weeks ago at For-

est Inn Forest Park where heI spending the summer and removed-to Mr Brenans residence Death remitt

from a complication of diseasesSappington wa born at LibertyFrederick county Md October 2

and was nearly eightylive years oldIlls father was Col Thomas Sappingtonwho an omcer in the array duringthe war with Great Britain in M12 andafterward served live terms as State Sen-ator front Frederick county During one

Sapfrfngtons grandfather DrBrown Sappington one of the incor

Three brothers of Dr Sappington alldead were physicians in Frederick coun

jty Drs Sidney Gree bury and Angustin Sappington Dr Thomas P Sappingtots and Dr James Conic Sappington tweof isis nephews are now practicing physicians in Frederick county

Dr Sappington was educated at Stj Johns College Frederick and started thestudy of medicine in Baltimore On ac-count of certain differences among thefaculty of the of MarylandSchool of Medicine he and a number ofother students left and went to Phlladelphia He entered the University of

and graduated in 1839 Afterpracticing shout twelve years incounty he removed to Baltimore He

retired fron practice about twenty yearsago He was a gentleman of the oldschool and was noted for his courtesyand politeness and had many friends Hewas a member of the Medical and Chirur

I gical Society

AMERICAS OLDEST RACE

DlNCovvrlcM Itriorted I j n GermanHtlinoIoKlNt in Mexico

MBW ORLEANS Aug 13 Dr Giwtav-Lcbstein of Berlin connected with theBureau of Ethnology of Germany passedthrough here today on his way to Berlinafter a six months ethnological investi-gation In Sonora Mexico Dr Lebstem-wouM Rot give the result of his discover-ies in advance of his report to the Ger-man Ethnological Bureau but declared

indicated that he had discovered traces

tedatiag the ItaliansHe visited the mot t mountainous por-

tions of Sonora believing it the oldestinhabited portion of America He foundin aa almost Inaccessible mountain gorgethe remnant of a road broad stab welldefined showing the work of the gradersawl some evidences of having at one timebeen paved

It IB almost certain from the clear indications saW Dr Lebstein that theroad built before the gorgeformed stat the gorge was Rot a suddenformation but evidently the productof erosion that must have continuedthrough several thousand years At theend of this was a high hill of de

from rich unities the ore being ob-tained from the mountains by means of

There were evidences here that thepeople that worked the mines from whichthe ore in question was taken were muchfurther advanced in the arts of metallur-gy than tilt old Spaniards or In factthan any ncient people of whomthere IH any rcccrd

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ADDITIONS TO THE NAVY

Three Torpedo Hunt Destroyers toHe Launched Thursday

BALTI3HORC A s I3A atlaunching i to take

land Steel CoMpany Sparrows Point I

Three torpedo bout destroyers the largand the heaviest and the heavilyarmed now under conecrwetto for theUnited Government are to leavethe ways and enter the element which Isto be their home The occasion will be abrilliant event in the history of the e-

Itoament Special cars will comeVhltadeJphla and New York J

oWcer of the navy and otherinvited guests wen as the fairsors for the craft The Is totake place at 2 p w

These vessels oMclaliyknown as Now 14 M antI K wW fcenamed respectively Truxtun VWp eand Vorden after the noted naval off-icer of those names They are aN alikeEach to 2U feet 6 inches long over all andMC feet on trial load liRe They areof a feet X inches molded beam at thedeck and 22 feet lashes at the waterline The depth amidships hi 14 fe t 8inches and the apeeMed trial displacemeat is about 431 torn with a draft of C

feetThe greater portion of these boats intaken up by the machinery and coalhonkers the machinery of neeeaoity extremely powerful In order to givethe vessels the great which thecontract calls for and the bankersto carry a big coal supply The

hour and they have power 12 times as j

They are propelled by two screws andtwo tripleexpansion engines which willdevelop 8SW indicated horsepower Th fl

engines have one Wghpresmire cylinderof 23 inches diameter 1 intermediate cy-

linder of 34 inches diameter anti 2 lowpressure cylinders 37 inches In diame-ter all with 22 Inches stroke They willmake at full power about 34 revolutions-a minute working with a steam pressureof 246 pounds

The steam pressure te somethingbeing 3 pounds to the inch

greater than that of the most powerful I

locomotives The engines are as perfect-ly balanced a possible to avoid vibrationand each te m its own engineroom to-

Ktther with its own auxiliary machineryThese are situated about the middle ofthe vessel and forward and aft are the4 Thornycroft watertube boilers 2 ateach end in a separate compartmentThese boilers have a total grate surfaceof 315 square feet and a heating surfaceof 177 square feet They are workedunder forced draft there being two largeblowErs in each Hreroom vesselcarries IK tons of coal against 15 tosson the next largest of the destroyer

Forward of the machinery and hollerare the gallery quarters for the

seamen various storerooms and a corn j

partment for the steam windlass Aft of j

the machinery space are quarters for themachinists and petty otfleers and alt ofthis again are the officers quarters andthe wardroom A noticeable feature ofthese craft will be the almost entire ab-sence of wood metal asbestos or othermaterials being substituted nearly everywhere

On deck there will be two conning tow-ers one forward and one aft Upon sackdeck will be mounted agun The forward part of the boat willbe covered by a turtleback deck extending-to the conning tower Immediately aft ofthis i an enclosed space for a short dis-tance affording protection in bad weath-er and forming also the forward bridgeof the vessel Between the conning

are the four smokestacks and la vari-ous places are six Spounder rapidAreguns and the two torpedo tubes Thevessels are not armored In any way andthe heaviest plates used In their construc-tion excepting the conning towers arehut fivesixteenths of an inch in thick-ness The only projections above the

are the conning towers the oh-w M houseThe destroyer are Vr r

tIle lights and are also equipped withelectric searchlights steam and handstring gear and as before stated steamwindlasses The quarters are of good

fifecers staterooms being largerthan tho e on an ordinary passengerboat Th wardroom is 9 by 15 feet whichgives ample space for dining Both theofficers and the crew are provided withbathrooms equipped with shower andother baths

Miss Isabella Truxtnn of Norfolk is toact as sponsor for the Truxtun She is agranddaughter of Commodore Truxtunafter whom the boat is named Mrs Endlit B X Worden of New York who torelated by marriage to Admiral WoMenwill be sponsor for the vessel which isto bear name The for the

Paul Mine

names indicate are built for theof destroying the smaller torpedo boatsof an enemy which seek to Mow up bat-tleships and cruisers They are there-fore given great speed and are furnish-ed In addition to torpedo tubes with ef-ficient batteries of rapidfire

TUBERCULOSIS IN ARIZONA

Phoenix Health Officers Aroused toPrevent n-

PHOEXIX Aria Aua M Ariaonabegun a campaign against tuberculosiswhich may Anally result la a strict quarantine victims of pulmonary trou-ble Today th city council of Phoenixpassed ordinances intended to provide protection against infection front thou-

sand of healthseekers who come to Ari-zona each year The plans submitted bythe health board call for the providingof cuspidors or proper receptacles oa thestreet crossings and in public parksmost important measure is the fumigationof rooms by invalids In its

the board saysThe danger of infection to natives here-

of adopting stringent safety precautionsmore urgent Annually the number of in-

valids suffering from consumption come toArizona In greater numbers The taste of

spreading all over the country and fu-

ture influxes of consumptives will growlarger in cons iuei ce

The Arizona Medical Association at itsmeeting two months ago adopted a reso-lution railing upon the councils of thecities and towns throughout the Territo-ry to take precautionary measures againstthe spread of the disease Nearly everycity in the Territory Is preparing to takeup the fight on the disease and a billhas been prepared for the next Legisla-ture barring from entrance into the Ter-ritory alt persons showing the germs of

CURRENT HUMOR

Prom the New York WerfclrNew Bi MiT Ktntlir Haont this MattMK SKMMfet That Thats ktttter sfc-

IIIH cliriiii-iPton

He No 1 MtteMl U pfcad infinity

The Keel Were Xntithe Mttfelo C

There is a nan atacial kg by wailing shotS a expose tview leases the knee down The other curi

Did yea nit oil your kg a I esaibtttheta thta she t fiworth stark to bliss as hw own legs wouldbe Then tartan cricat exainNMtwi fhr

W l 1

JohMW On the Mace when a

WhyV H-

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Pram the Chicago PoetWhat the e catio I

in wield k l pn rorWith yoke uttC jpl

The seashore summit resort

place on ThurMaat the department of the Marl

nest

States

aslaunching

which are

speed

vesselsare to travel at the rate or I knots an

great as that of the bay steamer

re-markable

Inch

tow-ers

decks

size

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ContRhas

against

the

The

re-port

Is growing more apparent and the need

the Salt River as a health resort Is

tuberculosis

nulled

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The unartir of eh tint mtwd Mexf-har ir hi MOO w

three thaw the of 2 big

the last twenty of ht Mb

attain Rroat ow Ow MM-

A W w-

and Ute locked key usage te a mmrutee Mjr-

nMre EaglMil live ia a tottered pMfefc eiVnri-K a wide aw To enable than ta attend

trine w na a cawrca in atsmcthe meiMiv caaal rn of MM ktffat Map

Thenight attracts the hmcts

ciMrtry theof hharm sear A g Uhis mime RM A orzMfea

the ctab MCMfwd

m theA lady te anti take of a

to-M the caantrjr-va U ass heat Only write1

andate ht MohamtBoAia onmtriet-

ofcwe tire of the uteMO e nt rr-

TorkMi rnoMsupply wile with cameo as inflltiiat sad

AbtbaMa Increased between 16M aad tOO fa-

JTl B te 186 thee were hat 7MJUra ciJ ia D nWSmrth Ot tide amiaat hunk

Caralwa laM SB Ma te M 9 one Ala

total thca aracoredTIle rapid iyaa iaa of the Amtoallsa iMnjlii

trade Mstinnti wadMMaiiao la KswWales it was larger in Wi than hi r BreraMB

total of VB afc missed awlWM 72 ataat C4 9 in Of the

MUS sadie the British flag aad 79 aavwthose of other eaoatrit

Status hosIng tower f Pies ha a rimhi tile Ttmflt tower of Bristol hi Kefaad Iti a tqmre tower of QottAlt it parts still preserve their

i or awtrea The liner

A

that the church cotlwtioM wore iaOa a Sabbath he iaianaaa1

round that the aM abu who were m wcht w fto contribute Ta hat Might he

hemmed that the talkttiaa was uMe

The Aatmerp ivory aairlrpr Trfcarh IMS ctetteda uttm tossMfcet use awi the

L a aMthet M The Aarar i rjr ourmatt napifwiat hi

are held there

M k K Bticfa-hhthja ofTtttnmm f

hot abort a4 hiH h-

Mtthirty slaves

A TopahaM Me

tilde trick fa-

of powder aad aaiahcJ it withtar a then aake ratfwM 1 paw itthe owe whom it wac for Wt aa

too la e a a Maside of his lace waa horsed badry

coal prodncia aaaictj Al

Georgia Kevtncky NorthYitgiaJa sad

ac a ach cowlbolos hi 1W West

44757785 aad hi 1 417SS4OB the BW statue

railways ia I naJia and Ioria i ahoat tireThe total bet of pa nt gUB aattttJury to Deceaahcr n MM wai lfiE4the London road sad USML5S6 far the Pass

gijii t ornwc m T per weaaFrench road cost only lM8 u per nile

While a Meanter wt oa the way lean Port-land to New York the other day lose mhnlutwore sighted about thirty sank of CapQuabeth The bix lob were but a nhort t mttahead when Men the pilot and they fephuwi-

ilwnBjitian to et out at the conn at the

whal s but this wx sit M-withowt contact with sue of Ihrai

gteaamr an if a sashes

The aaakerc of otor fchides are JHoAaat re-KarwiBi the eaperiaieatg yiiiit as t the eaaweyace of trait and net garwea praises Oa atGarden item Middlesex sad Kent hy vaasays aa acricwNMna paper One keptgrower at EaaVM H hway-fhan a lorry toad to

the Otter MeekOB

It will have n

tees Two large gathaMersmch KK as win lisle the htate-

a o tt e The gcapiacthe Issuers will optratcplaced oa a deck WIryvessel wM set a gOMgOtter Hw k swains a parti raatrrj-of the west eotuit end the aew

of Evesteeth k one of the aaaay hotaaieal wfioste-O The oa which it grows is hythe Kuicart name of the torhiddea r

Eves apple tree The alenom has a veex-pl w t W tire rotllr rewMfkaMe featwrcof the tree the owe to which it own Its seemK the trait k is iMMKtfwl haag from

hi a p cwMar aaiaacr Oraafw oa the aajtriaaand dV p crimwMl within each fruit the aa-p r ie 4 having had a piece bitten owt of itThis lost with te poimaim f ky hidthe MohamiieoaM to Morawwt it the chiiiw iiagitmet W proaertwa-

Onwre M iirille H the pOH or ot a

which had it babitatioa for years

cello it OWN tale M-

rrroa Nat M Mr DichcK caaaatthat jrtniiiii t hiataeU aimS hat

with thank I T aee-Jw ie JS4S There is a visiblemile the paper T Mr Fee hat

to he oae playIngwe caneS heb rhintiinc that when M

have availed a cvrtaam a-

Mr Tujtent Cowatercialwritten b bus ht

the Philadelphia Mccord-

Ae nay she he baud atoa FouL St e rSecond Street

M the Norrhera g She an-At haoket hi which the anile raaoae OB annatrt-wiwUtd k Them are not oh-

m idr of windowpoetic still in vna ie in Kem K on Th

eeara Matter the pain M bright sada cr Mal Their ass old mtaMMied

places in Kcmmrfon where thet w when at all are always ctvMwdnails There ski a fine nurici Jut antis

the twnerK f as theytU U

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lit illpendre

4iM is M ill

The U OIl

meisued ill 1M-Ie a tt of lest

The

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The fIl tiduias Ce lieapt t-w

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last aU Ite-

the psiususbat

The Cat of HohBtt is

ping II a tlWHtfIIt Ilio-ltuI ofIs 4 a-

pr ol wet WSt anddayt ibe Ishe Na trilNrfIIJ them

A started illSt Eli

iMo dishhis Ire

toe a charter lerWIowilllt the

LoiI4eR Pasttare

snit I the of a sushi efile mob a Wy sadgMt

reached about

Itit

that low a I-

to hisher da a

tire coal smSII

SUebad IIOdIIet of drNe

chased lEIfwere

wttbndwhich ill about 11S lt iI See led of

at the ttill a Xmas tens M4Wag

recast Ilkcosregsticn heists the west

not expected

OIl July II JEi saletile is

bet Is today lit lbs lbsmaid F greatsury at of F7-

illThey tItit L h-

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aU kInk ed ellIn 1M thet Status

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illThe collision jMft4wreck bed

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Fwile pustwice

half tGM a sixt St a I Jrr elsite the its Iantane would ue flilfMe

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will lie by the gaswill

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the deppec a MIlthe Mdt of the

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ill the tie Mtit

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IUd brbt

rourton hebude PdsssWsls

casupide sensim at eamms issud-in Siberia sew m oug I Priing ass-M nit nsS-

hikisel ngeisi hsse 5speot uses

and Is Russ down anise sothe mm

eucalyptan the idiud at-aM mawOme bbent lad h sad mma am mid

attln 15

Iwe ditry ndseusis 1 Dnt asseat apes eon ue lab

expasled suutd to IZ141d411 psndsto 4lS3N psudt and is Is 1

editor u AdTInttmad whus-

ttbsp e4sick gga tbu diskugeese apples bad baron 4-

asous and sown us shasr4pdusa-

In Melbeurae rgulsdg sale 1 q-

ases dtcbss talus atuet dseud us-

iunds dma belted ThISgdown a

sanest gloss they hidManes llustIsus

seerlusting lowed

useb flusdip-

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h mt sad

lust 1 iumuuusind bowgbitoilettoe remseemeesuat bait bees Its Ousrga

perpetuate the ususey Wheney ecu a-

vstIag tispust somewines pedsosmt

has bus perand

The adssrtheest spowred tbsrday Messing Wasted

resets s-

and hassewarkis so sot

seedclog CanisMinspis lb

was at muvclose

emendal was deemed to demastic lappisotaa nuns

Ie disoses

etios 1 frees tan as-

Ian loss

bums a ausdy these e

stba

year The number

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early aseldisetmemmml Msdsp-

osILissblab sat

perpendicular

minister eugrethiuly

antoustplalsa panel

later wasthe sisal

with 1

empamed ZAeew

latlor

plbiie tubajust tSr begInning lisp

tupsi5 sod SevsTbu-rTheoatballi there are so stases Is ikssg-

Qsiy but susilig thethem are Sb mel4emn

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neei slaves lbshoses 1 the rich ass stees wcsannt is sd Iseos4r q

dademae is pg

usa loaded pe hilttahecas ligidud

loadedhieput pawdpr sadout mdwas kighitasd juts swearing

fiusthera ansusad ntAilasam

scoutWtit Virginia an asspst 1-

1anVirginias estps-

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The trademanban

3e

The receipts Esgihb s bateast ouch oure lbs

mile lb

mma bemuse neomesy thereisrearsuad the

canIngthe

buss itrusk

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makeS every snt-inn two and dbaasnt of

ScM 15115 CCitt S5Cb 1 OiL

gets ver prossd the belt thethat bsue acosm

novel ligbhMp to messediday seer

and worked tumpsd ucasisis si

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be-iubntittcd severe test

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tiadessu 1 whss ass sutCba4m is

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bosse who he btga to declIne thitwestimb

andspun themmom among usiths

arise that play be cusevusdi pispadNadi

A wosma elhisp ssiissccaM oubsi

appemame Street sd stimap rfrt tint uibasso it merits

heap us s4rini pasn ena diasposel sad upon glass whim

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