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FLOOD CONTINUES Destruction ot Peris Goes on Despite all Efforts. WHOLE. CITY IS UNDERMINED T rlb u teH ii o f Rivor Abovo P ari« Ara Now Stationary and W or»t la Thought to Ba Past. Parla, Jan. 29.— A fta r a alow but ataady riae o f tha flood watera all day, the Fluvial department at midnight could only issue a statement raying that it was poaaible the creat o f the flood would be reached tomorrow. The water baa begun to fall in all of the tributarían o f the Seine above Paria, but the passage through the city ia clogged by bridges and an im mense accumulation o f d rift continued tonight. Sailora, firemen and police are baatily conatructing temporary walls by the light o f campflree and torches in an endeavor to keep out the invading floods, while pickets patrol those sections o f the city that are plunged in darkness. The situation in the Placa de l’Opera tonight is serious. The entire terri tory has been roped off as unsafe. It ia said also that the new Equitable L ife Assurance building is in danger o f collapse. President Fallieres and Premier Briand today drove in automobiles to the flooded suburbs, where distress is greatest, speaking words of comfort to the homeless and encouraging soldiers and others engaged in salvage and res cue work. Charitable organizations are co-oper ating with the authorities in throwing open their buildings and in succoring refugees. Several convents and a number o f public buiidingB have been equipped with military cots and bed ding and transformed into hospitals. The Red Cross is performing splendid services in distributing food and cloth ing. Nevertheless, numerous instan ces are cited of women and children who had refused to leave their homes in the submerged districts, shrieking from their windows for bread. The number o f refugees arriving here is enormous, Charenton alone sending in 38,000, who had got there from Calais and other afflicted points. The fam ily of M. Barthou, ex-min istar o f public works, whose home in the Avenue d’ Antun it surrounded, was taken out on the backs o f soldiers and in boats. A large number o f schools are closed and the municipality is considering the advisability o f closing all. Practically all o f the Hooded suburban towns about Paris tonight are without light and several are without water. Their in habitants are leaving. The chamber of deputies held a sit ting today in the water-beleaguered Palais Bourbon, believing that an ad journment or a transfer o f their activ ities to Versailles, which had been suggested, would only serve to in crease the popular panic. Parliament today voted a bill ext-nding business notes one month. Communication with England, H ol land, Denmark, and Austria and many cities and towns in France is complete ly cut off. The telephone has been practically abandoned in Paris. New districts are being flooded constantly and the people are vacating blocks of buildings. Several hospitals where sick refu gees were taken are in a dreadful plight, the water having quenched fires in the furnaces. Four hundred patients were hurried ly removed in ambulances from the Hospital de la Salpetriere and the Hos pital Boucicault. Their rescue was dramatic and timely. The bospital was isolated and a new rush o f water threatened to level it. The tireless prefect o f police, M. Lepine, sum moned ambulances and boats and addi tional police and soldiers. BOARD SE EKS W A Y O U T . T ariff Settlement whh Germany Urged By Chamber o f Commerce. Washington, Jan. 26.— In alarm one, the critical turn in the tariff contro versy between the United States and Germany, appeals from chambers of commerce and boards of trade o f seve ral cities were made to the national board o f trade in session here, urging that body to recommend tbat the American government recede from its position that Amarican beef must be admitted to Germany. Resolutions presented to the national body main tain there can be no advantage in in sisting on a German market for Amer ican beef, because the consumption is increasing at such a rate as soon to command all the supply. I t is pointed out that the Agrarian party, in control o f the Reichstag, has stood for the principle that farmers o f Germany must supply the beef, and tbat the im perial government could not admit the American product, if it would. A commission to settle the dispute is suggested. Many delegates, bringing from tbeir home cities demands for an investigation into tbe high cost o f liv ing, have made that subject foremost. The national body today decided to ap point a special committee o f five men to determine the reasons for present prices. In his opening address to the nation al board, tbe president, Frank J. La Lanne, o f Philadelphia, suggested the possibility that by getting in touch with the leading bodies o f Germany the organization could help the United States department materially. He also pleaded for the immigration o f more laborers and house servants. F LO O D S IN“ FFANCE G E T WORSE Rivers Are Still Rising and Damage is Incalculable. Paris, Jan. 26.— Floods have brought disaster to a large part o f France. The ordinary modest and peaceable Seine is now a raging torrent and ris ing at the rate of more than half an inch an hour. The general expectation that the maximum o f the flood would be reach ed tonight has not been realized. The Seine's tributaries are rising steadily and the report tonight is tbat the Seine will be at least 16 inches higher to morrow afternoon. Victims of the flood number more than 100,000 and the monetary loss is incalculable. Thousands o f people are hopelessly ruined. The government has requisitioned army and navy material to house the sufferers and boatB for the .rescue of the stricken as well as those impris oned in houses in flood centers on all sides o f Paris. The region o f inundation is steadily enlarging, and scores of villages are completely submerged, the people flee ing for tbeir lives and abandoning everything. In many cases soldiers have been obliged to use force in com pelling the inhabitants to leave their horns. Hundreds refused to go, clamoring lor food and water. In Pari i the situation is rapidly becom ing worse, floods sparing neither rich nor poor. RO YALTY OFFERED FOR C O A L S2OO.OO0.0OOIN DIVIDENDS. $500,000,000 TRUST Corporations Report Great Proi par ity for Past Six Months. New York, Jan. 25.—January divi- denda in atocka o f nearly all the great corporations o f the country have been reported as the largest on record— $202,032,602, but if the present pros perity continues the next July divi dends w ill ba quite as large, if not larger. The m ajority of the large corpora tions have tbeir transfer offices and financial agencies in New York city and pay the dividends on thair stocks and interest on their bonds through them here semi-annually, in January and July. A few of them pay quarter ly through the same agencies. Tbe total dividends and interest paid by 160 o f the moat prominent rail roads. traction companies, banks and industrial corporations during this month amount to $202,203,602, an in- creaae o f $19,776,496 abova the semi annual dividends and interest paid by the same companies in January, 1909. This total does not include thousands o f smaller firms and corporations in New York which undoubtedly paid an equal amount, nor thousands o f corpor ations in other parts of tbe country, which are just as prosperous and have enjoyed airailar profits. O f the 150 corporations referred to, 22 increased their dividends for Janu ary, 16 paid dividends this year for tbe first time and four reduced their divi dends 1 per cent per year, or less, for various reason*. Few people realize the extent of the country’« prosperity. The quarterly dividends which will be due in March next w ill amount to about $87,000,000, which is $12,000,000 in excess of the total o f any previous year. The 160 railways and others corpora tions by which these dividends are paid represent about $40,000,000,000 in se curities, bonds and stocks. Preliminary Steps Taken In Big Copper Combine. BUTTE MINES WILL BE INCLUDED Corporation Will Control Output of Copper In United States and Influence W orld's Markets. New York, Jan. 27. — Preliminary steps were taken today to effect tbe long-looked for merger o f the principal copper producers o f the country into one gigantic corporation. In W all street another billion-doilar company was frequently mentioned, but the more conservative believed final capitalization would be closer to $bUU,0U0,UO0. Tbe Anaconda Copper Mining com pany of New York announced late to day tbat the board of directors yester day decided to call a special meeting o f stockbo.ders in (Anaconda, Mont., on March 23, to pass on a proposal to increase the capital stock from $30,- 000,000 to $150,000.000. “ For tbe purpose o f acquiring the property of other companies located in the Butte district.” Tbe Amalgamated Copper company owns 6a per cent, o f the Anaconda stock. hollowing the merger o f tbe Butte properties, which include the Amal gamated Copper company and its vari ous holdings— the Aanccnda Copper company, Boston & Montana, Butte & Boston, Washoe, Trenton and other subsidiaries— and the North Butte and Butte Coalition, it is expected that the new Anaconda, with itB increased cap ital o f $150,000,000, w ill merge with the Guggenheim, Haggin and other copper interests The corporation thus formed will control not only tha copper outpout of the United States, but will influence the copper market of the world. The merger o f the Butte properties w ill include the Amalgamated Copper company. Anaconda Copper company, Boston & Montana, Butte & Boston, Washoe, Trenton and other subsidiaries o f the Amalgamated company, tbe North Butte ind the Butte Coalition. In Wall street it ia commonly under stood that John D. Ryan will bead tbe great copper amalgamation. This amalgamation will include, it is said, the Guggenheim, Haggin and Cole- Ryan properties and the Amalgamated Copper interests. J. P. Morgan & Co. will head the consolidation. The Amalgamated Copper company in a statement says: “ The Anaconda company, because i f its size and its location, is regarded aa tbe logical company to become the p.rchaser o f properties o f the other companies and the step taken to call a special met t ir g was the first towards submitting tbe matter to stockholders o f different companies for tbeir consid eration.” __________________ W IL S O N Q U O TE S "J IM ” HILL. Secretary Says T oo Few Folks Ara Raising Farm Products. Washington, Jan. 26.— “ Undoubted ly i f the farms were raising more meat the price would be reduced,” said Sec retary Wilson, of the department of agriculture, tpday in commenting up on the widespread boycott agaist meat products. “ There are not enough peo ple on the farms raising food, and too many people are going to the towns to be fed. “ Three quarters of a million peo p le ," said Secretary Wilson, “ arecom- ing to the United States annually from abroad. They do not go to the farms, where they might help to raise food for the nation. Farmers cannot get help. The foreigners go to tbe cities, and they have to be fed. The cities produce nothing to eat, although they do produce something to drink.” “ H iv e you any plan for inducing people to go to the farms, where they may help to raise food?” the secretary was asked. “ Jim H ill says they will go there when they get hungry.” said the secre tary, after shaking his head in reply to the queation. WAGE ISSUE C O M ING UP. Coal Miners to Decide This Weak Upon Formal Demands. W OM EN D E P O S ITO R S H IT. Indianapolis, Jan. 25.— The most im Receivepthip Is Oscidad for Mexico portant queation before the bituminous Bank—Branches Close. coal miners of the United States— Mexico City, Jan. 27.— A receiver what per cent of increase in wages ship for the United States Banking shall they demand and how far shall company was decided on at a meeting they go in engineering the demand— of the directors this afternoon, after confronts the convention of the Unit ths institution had failed to open its ed Mine workers of America in this do ora for business today. city this week. The suspension ia a bitter disap The wage scale committee w ill re pointment to scores o f depositors who port, the convention will adopt or had determined to withdraw their amend tbe committee’s report and the funds and bad gathered early to do so. demand w ill be submitted to the mine- These, among whom were many wo owners at the joint conference for men, crowded to the doors when the Western Pennsylvania, Ohio and Indi notice of the suspension was posted. ana on February 1. The new wage Mr. Elasser, vice president o f the contract is to be dated April 1. bank, said that the action o f the di Conservative union leaders say tbat rectors was taken because the bank the miners probably will demand a 10 did not have enough money on hand to per cent increase, some local union* in reimburse tbe clearing ouie for yes sisting on 20 per cenL One resolu terday's business and could not prop tion demands 40 per cenL erly receive depoeits. He believed that toe bank had more than enough assets Big Schooner Is Wreck. to pay every legitimate obligation. Edgartown, Mass., Jan. 26.—Tbe Insurance Men Attacked. six-masted schooner Mertie B. Crow Court Flees in Panic. Louisville, Ky., Jan. ¿9.— Insurance ley, lies tonight a total wrack on the Washington, Ga., Jan. 27.— Notic reefs o f Martha’s Vineyard island. Tbe Commissioner Bell today held'a confer ing the unusual appearence of the face Crowley was bound from Baltimore for ence with four presidents o f life insur of Cy Ballard, a negro arraigned before Boston with coal. To the bravery of ance companies that have been losers him today on a misdt meanor charge. Skippar L evi Jackson, o f the Edgar in the alleged swindling schemes prac Judge Wynne asked the county physi town fishing smack Priscilla, is due the ticed in Louisville by insurance solici cian to examine him. The phys cían rescue of the 16 persons aboard the tors. As a result, the state o f Ken Coast Committee Gets Busy. immediately pronounced it "em all- schooner— Captain Haskell, Mrs. Has tucky may take legal action against Hardly had the word been kell and the crew o f 13 men. the insurance companies for operating Washington, Jan. 26.— The Pacific pox.” The in Kentucky without licenses. They Coast delegation appointed to secure spoken, when judge, court officials, ■kipper'* w ife, like the others, waa are the Indiana National L ife Insur submarine torpedo boats for the Pacific spectators, all made for the doors and lashed ' for ten hours to the rigging of ance company, and the Commercial coast had a conference today with the windows, leaving the negro in com the battered schooner. L ife Insurance company, both o f In president and the secretary o f the p e te possession o f the court room. An dianapolis.__________________ navy. While they elicited no definite ambulance took him to the jail where Aerial Circuit Naxt Aim. promises from either. Secretary Meyer ne also had sole possession. Los Angeles, Jan. 26.— A National Blood Drenches Women. indicated tbe appreciation o f the ne aviation circuit, somewhat on the or Lifasavars Suspendad. New York, Jan. 29.— While defend cessity for submarines along the Pa der o f the big baseball organizations, ing an aged man from three men tor cific and gave the impression that if Marshfield, Or., Jan. 27.— I t ia an may be the result of a conference to mentors today, Thomas Graham, a par congress could be induced to authorize nounced that Richard Christianson and be held at SL Louis next month be tially paralysed newsboy, was stabbed the building o f new submarines the J. S. Taylor, two surfmen o f the Coos tween Cortland Field Blahop, presi three times by one o f tbe'men, in Her department would interpose no objec Bay lifesaving crew, have been sus dent o f the Aero Club o f America, and ald square. Two women in an automo tions. pended by Cxtpain Emory, inspector o f representatives of several of the larger bile took the wounded newsboy into the district. The men are suspended Eastern cities. Thereafter mere fly their machine, and while the car sped Ocean Deatroys Cemetery. for 30 days on the charge of having ing machine exhibitiona as an attrac to Bellevue hospital they held him on Victoria, B. C., Jan. 26.— Gruesome looted boxes which were washed ashore tion will be sent into oblivion and act their laps and their rich dresses be in the extreme is the ghoulish work from the Czarina when she was wreck ual contests, machine against machine, came saturated with blood. Doctors that is being done by the waves at ed. Thu matter waa investigated se starting at the crack o f a pistol, will and said the lad would probably die. Ross Bay cemetery, Victoria’s city of cretly by Captain Emory and the testi take their place. Two arrests were made and search is the dead, where, owing to utterly in mony heard by him in private. I t is being made for the third man. adequate breakwater protection, the understood that formal charge* will be Hot Springs Hotel Burns. sea bombards and undermines the cliff preferred later. Hot Springs, Ark., Jan. 26.— The Spear Would Buy Water. until, after eaeh experience o f rough new W averly hotel and ,bath house in Denver, Jan. 29.— Municipal owner wind and boisterous weather, during Pears' Victory Assarted. this city were totally destroyed by fire ship o f the water system o f Denver is months past, pedestrians walking along Victoria B. C., Jan. 27. — Lord early teday. Although there were favored by Mayor Robert W. Speer, in the beaches reached by the city car Northeliffc, in a personal cable mes many thrilling escapes, a careful his annual budget submitted to the lines have been picking up such grisly sage to the Victoria Colonist on the checking o f the regieter shows that city council tonight He recommends souvenirs as coffin plates and handles, election situation, says: “ We have none o f the 92 occupants ie injured. the purchase o f the Denver Union Wa fragments o f human bones, etc. got the small navy, free trade and anti- Many loet their bnggmge, however, end ter company’s plant at an appraised Canadian party fairly hasten. They stores were opened this evening that valuation of (14.400,000. The mayor Girl Slaps Big Officer. are now at tbe mercy o f the Irish vote, they might obtain clothing. Property favors a reduction of the number o f Philadelphia, Jan. 26.— A six-foot despite their bluff about pears and dear lose is about $100, "00. The amount o f saloons in Denver and doubling the sa policeman to ay told a girl shirt waist food. The people have emphatically insurance could not be learned. loon license, advocates a municipal as striker who was do-ng picket duty to indorsed the democratic action of the phalt paving plant peerg in submitting the budget and “ move on.” and she surprised him by T w o Sharp Shocks Felt- slapping him in the face. This start tariff for tneir approval.” Kingston, SL Vincent, B. W. I., M ore Capital Poured In. ed a disturbance, and before it was all Jan. 26.— Tw o ah»rp shocks o f earth Paulhan Flies 31 Milas. New York. Jan. 29.— The recom over six girl strikers were on tbeir quake were fe lt throughout the island mendation o f directors of the Interna way to a police station charged with San Francisco, Jan. 27.— For 31 min at 5:60 this morr ing. In Kingston tional Harvester company for an in creating disorder. Miss Mary McMur- utes, while he covered almost as many the protracted shoots caused a panic, crease in the common stock o f the trie, «'society woman, furnished bail miles, I^ w is Paulhan, in an exhibition but no damage ws done. company from $60,000,000 to $80,000,- for two o f the girls, and the others flight that dosed the meeting at Tan-1 000 was ratified at a special meeting were discharged. j for an Park, navigated the air this af-1 Fort de France, Martinique, Jan. 25. o f the stockholders in Hoboken today. I | temoon, a crowd o f 30,000 cheering! — Earth ahocks were fe lt here thie a f The directors will meet in Chicago | Already more than TOO different ! the exploit. Tbe weather was ideal. . ternoon a few minutes before 4 o’ clock. Monday and declare the first quarterly types o f soil have been encountered in Throughout the flight Paulhan mein-1 The movement was undulatory and installment o f tha 4 per cent annual! the 20 states in which soil surveys are tained a height varying between 490 lasted one minute. 8o far aa known dividend. being made by the government. and 1,300 feeL there was no damage. John E. Ballaine, o f Seattle, Makes Proposal for Alaska Fuel. Washington, Jan. 26.— A new factor appeared today to add intensity to the already excited situation over tbe Alas ka coal lands, on the bve o f thhe begin- ing o f the Ballinger-Pinchot investi gation. John E. Ballaine, o f Seattle, said to be tbe largest property owner in Alas ka, made a proposal in writing to the senate committee on territories, of which Senator Beveridge, o f Indiana, ia chairman, offering to the govern ment a royalty o f 50 cents a ton on coal mined for the lease of 6,000 acres o f some o f the choicest coal lands in Alaska, in the Katalla and Matanuska districts. Such a tonnage royalty would net the government. Mr. Bal laine says, as high as $2,000,000 a hundred acres. This proposal contemplates a radical departure from past practices in the government’s disposal o f tbe Alaska coal lands, and it comes avowedly .to do battle with another proposal embodied in a bill that baa been prepared, but not introduced, designed to permit the sale or lease o f such lands at a rate of $10 an acre. *" *“ Ti PARIS IS FLOODED River Seine Overflows, Fills Sub ways and Bursts Sewers MANY RESCUERS ARE DROWNED Streets Torn Up and Buildings Top pling—Scores fo Village» and Towns in Ruins. Paria, Jan. 25.— A t 2 o’clock this morning the water, which waa rushing through the tunnel under the Quai d’ Oraay station burst through the road way and flooded Qie streets, including the Rue de Lille, and Rue de Poitiers and the Rue de Bellechaase, on which are many aristocratic residences. The sidewalks are' likely to cave in at any time. Thoee who occupied the houses were awakened and hurried to places of safety. A t 3 :30 this morning the flood from the Quai d’ Oraay station extended to the Rue de l’ Universite. It is esti mated tbat the homeless in the out skirts of Paris number at least 6,000. Four soldiers have been drowned at Villeneuve and. thr< e at A lfotville, while engaged in rescue work. The situation resulting from the floods ia fa it becoming desperate. The premier and minister o f the interior made this declaration tonight. All conditions indicated a further riae of several inches o f tbe River Seine and the cold rain, which still continues, ie causing interne suffering among those who have been made homeless. There ia little prospect of relief. M. Millerand, minister o f the public works, after a tour o f inspection, said that i f the riae contii u d nothing could prevent a deplorable uiaaster and the flooding of the moat populous quarters In Paris. Measures that had been taken, he said, appeared to him to be adequate " f o r the present, but only for the presenL” Paris is threatened with an immedi ate and complete tie-up. The stoppage of transportation has raised prices of food, which ia becoming scarce, and the supply o f water in seven arrondis- sementa has been crippled. Authori ties assert that drinking water ia as sured, but there is no water for indus trial services, which are practically suspended. The Red Cross society ia organizing aid for tbe sufferers. Subacriptiona have been opened and theaters are ar ranging benefits. A t midnight the water waa less than a foot from the arch of tbe Pont de i’ Alma. Other bridges are not in such danger, unless river craft ia swept against their. Big sewers in the Place de Havre and near Place de al Madeleine burst to day, threatened foundations o f houses. Part of Rue St. Lazare threat' ns to cave in and the whole street had been closed. Tunnels o f the aubway now under construction are flooded. The Orleans terminus is a vast pool and en gineers fear that tbe tunnels may col lapse. A t A lforville 2,000 people are home less. The water ia 12 feet deep. The salvage ia being done by sold iers in autoboats at the risk o f their lives. A ll the factories above and below Paria are closed and thousands o f per sona are out of employment. The provinces show improvement. A t Tours Sur Marne, however, eight houses collapsed and at Juvigny 12 col lapsed. The authorities have decided to blow up the dam and allow the canal to flow into the river and save the building*. A hundred houses at Chalon threaten to fall. Tbe situation at several places up and down the river is deplorable. The lower quarters of all the towns on the river below Paria are under water, the ■treats at Autail resembling those at Venice. A dyke near St Germain broke today, flooding the valley aa far aa Malmaiaon. The lower portion o f the B oil du Boulogne is a blanket o f water reach ing to Bagatelle. Judging from reports received today from the provinces a quarter o f France ia under water. The Eastern, Central and Southeastern districts of France are terribly afflict ed. The valleya and plain* era inun dated and tbe cities and towns are in darkness. Troops everywhere have been ordered to the work o f rescue, but often th< y encounter the greatest difficulty in driving the peasants to places o f safety. The cities o f Mon- targis, Macon, Chalons aur Saone and Epernay and the entire Champagne country are experiencing the most dis astrous floods since 1866. The water in many of the villages along the Saone and Marne reaches to the roofs o f the dwellings._________________ _ 60-Minute Quaka Recorded. Washington, Jan. 26.— Another well defined earthquake of moderate intens ity waa recorded by the weather bu reau seismograph aa having been at 1 :56:49 o'clock yesterday afternoon, its strongest motion occurring five minutes later. I t continued about 50 minutea. Officials believe the disturb ance occurred about 1,300 miles from Washington, probably to the South ward. The scene of the activity ia thought to have been between Cuba and Jamaica. I t waa of less intensity than the earthquake o f last Saturday. Americans Win Again. Boston, Jan. 25.— That neatly 90 per cent of the $22,000,000 to he paid by the Argentine Republic for the build ing of the dreadnoughts in American shipyards w ill go for labor, and only 10 per cent for material, ia estimated here aemi-officially. One o f the ships w ill be built at Quincy, Mass., and the other at Camden, N. J., Each w ill be 570 feet long with a displacement of 28,000 tons and will have a speed o f 26 knots, and 40,000 boras power. Woman Secures Big Damages. Denver, Jan. 25.— Miss Jennie Ros en, a young woman o f thia city, whose leg was broken and who received other injuries when abe was itruek by a Den v e r A Rio Grande railroad train, was today awarded a verdict for $18,224 by a jury in her suit for damages against the railroad. WOMAJT W IN S HOMO». S w e illa S A H Ih n r ft e e a r e « t h e X o h « l I 'r lx e o f «4 0 ,0 0 0 l a L lt a e a t o M . Tbe great honor of securing the Nobel prlie in the domain of literature has this year been awarded to a wom an. Selma Lagerlof, the distinguished { T h e K trat S n o w f a l l. Scandinavian author. When It Is The snow had begun In the gloaming, known tbat this prize la a cash gift of j And busily all the night $40.000 and that It la open to interna Had been heaping field and highway With a silence deep and white. tional competition the honor becomes the more pronounced. The work which won the prize for Mrs. Lagerlof ia Every pine and fir and hemlock Wore ermine too dear for an earl, “ The Wonderful, Adventures of Nils,” And the poorest twig on the elm tree which has been read by hundreds of Was ridged inch deep with pearl. thousands in Sweden. The Nobel prizes, for there are five From sheds new-roofed with Carrara of them, were founded by Alfred B. Came Chanticleer's muffled crow; Nobel, the Inventor of dynamite and a The stiff rails were softened to swan’s down, distinguished Swedish scientist. He And still fluttered down the snow. died In 1806. leaving a fortune, esti mated at $9.000,000. for tbe creation of I stood and watched by the window a fund, the interest of which should The noiseless work of the sky, yearly be distributed to those who And the sudden flurries of the snow had contributed most during that pe birds. Like brown leaves whirling by. riod to "the good of humanity.” One prise is awarded in the domain of physics, a second in chemistry, a third I thought of a mound In sweet Auburn Where a little headstone stood; in medicine or physiology, a fourth In How the flakes were folding it gently literature, to the person who has pro As did robins the babes in the wood. vided the most excellent work of an Idealistic tendency, and a fifth to the Up spoke our own little Mabel, person who has contributed most to Saying, “ Father, who makes It snow?” the abolition of war and the promotion And I told her of the good All-father of international peace. Who cares for us here below. These prizes are awarded by Swed ish bodies on December 10 of each Again I looked at the snowfall, year—the date of Mr. Nobel's death. And thought of the leaden sky The first awards were made in 1901. That arched o’er our first great sorrow. The only American who ever received When that mound was heaped so high. one of those prizes was ex-President Roosevelt, whose efforts in bringing to an end the Russo-Japanese war I remember the gradual patience That fell from that cloudlike snow, gained him the peace award in 1906. Flake by flake, healing and hiding In literature Rudyard Kipling won tbe The scar of our deep-plunged woe. prize In 1907. Mrs. Lagerlof Is the only woman under this head to secure And again to the child I whispered, the honor; but a woman. Baroness “The snow that husheth all, von Suttner, secured the peace prize Darling, the merciful Father Alone can make it fall." In 1905, her work dealing with war having so Impressed the Czar of Rus sia as to lead him to call the Interna Then, with eyes that saw not, I kissed her, tional peace congress at The Hague. And she, kissing back, could not know SECRETS OF RUSSIAN COURT. That my kiss was given to her sister Folded close under deepening snow. \ i c h o l n » ’ M o t h e r H e » e n t » I I I » T r e a t —James Russell Lowell. m ent of You nver B ro th e r. Writing in McClure’s of the es trangement that has arisen between the emperor and the dowager empress of Russia, David Soskice says: “ Thus Marla Feodrovna gradually transferred her maternal affections from Nicholas II to her younger son, Michael. Her favor toward Michael and her grudge toward Nicholas were perhaps augmented by the exceedingly haughty manner in which Nicholas is wont to treat his brother Michael. Though Nicholas II is a narrow auto crat in heart and creed, and though he is not conspicuous for special gifts of intellect or appearance, or for per sonal charm, he is in many ways supe rior to his brother, who is actually dull witted and spiteful. The exalted position of Nicholas tills his brother’s heart with a jealousy he is not always able to conceal. Michael frequently criticises the emperor’s policy toward the members of the court, declaring tbat, were he in power, he would quickly apply such stringent measures as would stamp out the revolution for ever. This kind of talk agreeably tickles the extreme reactionaries at the court, who know very well that in case of the death of Nicholas I I the heir presumptive being still an in fant, Michael would become the regent. During his regency, who knows but what the infant heir presumptive might fall ill and die, from diphtheria or some other childish ailment? "So there Is a party at the court that would be highly contented to see Michael in the place of his brother Nicholas. The reigning empress knows this very well, and constantly trem bles for the life of her little son. As a result of this has developed a veri table mania of persecution. Her fears were aroused first over three years ago, by a sudden seizure of her son, which really seemed to be of a sus picious nature. During the last eight een months she has suffered from sev eral nervous breakdowns due to this constantly increasing fear. "Such Is the position of affairs at the court. Who can tell what might have been had Azeff continued in his dual role of terrorist and agent provo cateur?” , R ic h m o n d o n t h e J a m e s . A soldier boy at Richmond, Lay gasping on the field. The battle strife was over, And the foe was forced to yield. But there fell one noble hero Before the foeman’s aim, On that blood-stained field at Rich mond, * Fair Richmond on the James. A comrade stood behind him As his life blood ebbed away; They had been chums together Since boyhood’s early days. Together they had struggled ’Mid strife and grief and pain, But to part that night at Richmond, Fair Richmond on the James. He said, "My noble comrade, Tou will miss me for awhile. But the faces that once loved us Again on you will smile. Again you will #be foremost In all the village games. While I lie here at Richmond, Fair Richmond on the James. "Take the sword home to my brothet. And the star upon my breast To my young and gentle sister, The one I loved the best. A brown lock from my forehead To my mother who still dreams Of the safe return of her soldier boy From Richmond on the James. "Now, my loving comrade, on my breast is a dark-brown braid; It is of one of the fairest of all the village maids. We were to be married, but death the bridegroom claims. While she Is far that loves me from Richmond on the James. I know that she is ptaying While her blessed 'heart still dreams Of the safe return of her soldier From Richmond on the Jamea." TITLES A T H ER FEET. M r . . A . t o r 's F r l e a d . M . k l . g m o n ia l P l a n , f o r H o . M a t ri Until Mrs. Eva Willing Aator really goes to the altar a second time gossip will be busy engaging her now to one man, again to another, for that la tha penalty ot being young, rich, beauti ful and almost tree. While It will be ■cveral months yet before her inter locutory decree of divorce becomes final and operative, yet her frlenda B o n b o n » K v lc t M ic r o b e ». have already begun planning for her Chocolate creams, each one of which future In a matrimonial way. Her ia guaranteed to contain at least 10,000 1 friend, Mrs. Benjamin Oulnneaa, In- carefully isolated lactic acid or massol | alsts that Lord Curzon of Keddleaton bacilli in the highest state of activity, i will be the man of Mrs. Aator's have recently been placed on sale in choice; the talk of London clubs fa London stores. They are a British vors Captain the Honorable Cyril bacteriologist’s solution of the prob Mylea Brabazon Ponaonby, second son lem set by Prof. Metchnikoff, of the of the Earl of Beaaborough, and sev Pasteur Institute in Paris, who urged eral others have been mentioned over the imbibing of sour milk or lactic fashionable tea tablee. Mrs Aator la acid for the arresting of old age, but preserving a discreet alienee, which who omitted to say how the nauseat some construe aa eloquent, for she de ing efTects of this substance upon deli nies nothing, at the same time con cate subjects could be avoided. firms no more. A marriage with Lord The blue massol bacillus is not only Curton would be a moat desirable al the foe of the red bacillus—coll us com- liance from every point of view. In munic, or putrefaction microbe— but the first place, their ages would be its undisputed master. The blue army suitable, and his position would in of bacilli. It is urged, have no sooner sure her the place tn British society been liberated in the human system by that she has long coveted. He la a the swallowing of a bonbon than they widower with two children. His wife, begin immediately to declare war on who died several years ago, waa Mias the red army of putrefaction microbes, Mary Letter, a daughter of Mr«. Levi until at the end of a few weeks at Z. Letter. She was a slater of the most, by the swallowing of three bon Countess of Suffolk, Mrs. Colin Camp bons dally, the "reds” have been bell, and of Joseph Letter.- On the »•outed. other hand, Capt. Ponaonby, who has H i m H e A c c o u n t e d f o r It , also been moat attentive to her, Is "To what do you attribute your un much younger than Mra. Aator, only varying success?" 26 years ot age. He Ie very handsome "To being picked early for the vil and comes of an ancient family.— New lage fool. Nobody ever tried to get York World. rne to Indorse a note or go into a M o t P la a e t* . scheme.** Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Nep I liim n n I n r c i t . tune— the four outer planets— are hot “ Everybody has more or less trou ter than the earth. Recent obeerva- ble?” tlona at tha Lowell observatory, se “ Yea." answered the observant worn cured In the form of photographs of an. “ If a man can't find anything planetary spectra, show that there Is else to worry him he goes to a ball oxygen tn the atmospheres of all four, game and gets highly Indignant at the and that In the cases of Uranus and umpire."— Milwaukee 8cnllnpl. Neptune, hydrogen and perhaps he- llum are atmospherically present. The A D iffic u lt T n a k . The Man— Do you think you could outer planets have water vapor as the principal constituent of their atmos (earn to love me, darling? The Darling— 1 don't know; I might. pheres. They probably consist of a I learned Greek when I waa a girl.— nucleus hot to Its surface, vailed In dense, unbroken cloude, floating In aa Illustrated Bits atmosphere largely composed af steam.
