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dressed more than 25,000 meetings in this country and abroad. Accord ing to. the statistics of temperance organizations he induced fully 12,- 000,000 persons to sign the pledge. More Stringent Immigration Laws. The new laws placing more restric tions on immigration take effect on all ships sailing from the other side henceforth. The head tax is in creased from $2 to $4 on every immigrant. After $2,500,000 is col lected on incoming aliens the rest of the head tax will go to the general government. Hitherto the total has gone to the Immigration Division of the Department of Commerce and * Labor. Reckoning immigration at only 1,000,000 a year, which will yieid $4,000,000, the general govern ment will have $1,500,000 extra rev enue. Another change makes the steam ship companies liable to a fine of SIOO for transporting here physically or mentally defective aliens. The law further provides for deportation of women whose conduct is found to be questionable within three years af ter their arrival. Those who harbor women of this character are liable to arrest —the penalty being $5,090 fine and imprisonment for five years. Crowd Turned Over Car. Little Johnny Stone ran before a speeding 'westbound trolley car on Forty-second street, New York, and was killed. A tremendous crowd surrounded the car and promptly set to work to extricate small John’s body. A long, strong rope was brought and one end was firmly knot ted around the middle of the car. A hundred men pulled mightily on this rope, as many more put their shoulders against the north side of the car, exerted all their strength and overturned it. The boy was dead. Grand Central Steamless. From last Monday on, all trains running in and out of the Grand Central Station, New York City, were drawn by elec tric locomotives. According to law the electric system for incom ing and outgoing trains at the Grand Central Station, must be in opera tion by July 1, 1908. The company has anticipated the law’s requirement by one year. Steamer Rosalind in Collision. In a dense fog off Halifax, N. S., the Red Cross Line steamer Rosalind, with 150 passengers, mostly from New York and Philadelphia, was in collision with the steamer Senlac. Almost the whole side of the Sen lac was torn out and she quickly sank. But not before her passen gers and crew, numbering forty, had clambered, or been handed aboard the Rosalind, which was not dam aged. Giving Two-cent Fare a Trial. The 2-cent f re went into effect on all railroads in Ilknois last Monday. The General Passenger Association and the Western Passenger Associa tion, which include nearly all lines in the state, announced that the rate provided by the law wilh be effective on all state traffic. Interstate rates now in effect, however, will be main tained under the Federal rate law until a new tariff has been prepared. The delay and litigation predicted WATSON’S WEEKLY JEFFERSONIAN. at the time the law was passed will at least be delayed, as far as the railroads are concerned, until the new rate has been tried for several months. It is said that the roads affected by the law have agreed to submit to the new rate for several months and then carry the law into the courts, with a showing of a de ficit, should there be any, that will support a plea that the two-cent rate is a loss to the roads. The Illinois law gives the railroads the right to charge a three-cent rate where passengers have neglected to purchase tickets at least half an hour before train time. Nashville Segregates Saloons. The recent legislature passed a bi’l allowing Nashville to confine the sa loons to the uptown district. This saloon segregation act went into ef fect Monday. This ordinance puts about one hundred saloons out of business. Garbage Strike Ended. The strike of street cleaners was settled in New York City and the drivers went back to work and woiked as they had never done be fore. The streets of the east side, espe cially in the lower action, were in a disgraceful condition, and in order to see that the work was done thor oughly the women of the tenements were out in the streets early with broom and shovel eager to assist. The drivers got little sympathy from the women, but, on the con trary, received many severe rebukes for striking at a time, the women said, when those living in tenements would feel it most because of the weather. Wants to Photograph the Soul. “The soul of a man is soft and gel atinous, small, practically shapeless, and situated beneath the first rib. Below the Adam’s apple in a man, and in a woman at the base of her throat, is a spot of little or no re sistance. It is from this place, when the hour of death has come, that the soul must be taken. It does not pass like a shadow. It is not a flight. The soul must be drawn out by an angel sent by God to perform this opera tion. And this seat of life is trans ferred, warm, palpitating, to a body the counterpart of the one it has left. It is substance, material and could be as well caugjit by the camera as the human face.” It was thus that Henry Price, of Mount Veinon, N. Y., the retired mu sician, who is now an inmate of the Mary Fisher Home for the Aged, ex plained recently his theory of the soul’s passage and the possibility of obtaining a photographic reproduc tion the eof. He has urged the Belle vue authorities to allow him to ex periment on the dying in the hospital in the presence of scientific men and others. Newport Pays Tribute to Heroine. Miss Ida Lewis, the Grace Darling of America, as she is known, who has lived for fifty years at Limp Rock Lighthouse, off Newport, and has for twenty-eight years been keeper of the beacon, celebrated her golden anniversary as a resident of the historic spot out on the waters. Miss Lewis was sixty-eight years old in March last, but Rhe is still alert in body and mind. Practically all of Newport took part in the cel ebration, for the people here are proud of the brave woman who has to her credit the saving of eighteen lives from the sea. Not a few of these rescues were made under cir cumstances that called for both dar ing and clever seamanship, and as a result of her courage and skill, un der conditions that would have tried the strongest heart, her fame became world-wide. Craft of every description, laden with admirers of the brave servant of Uncle Sam, made their way out to the light, where Miss Lewis kept open house, cheerily receiving and entertaining her visitors. Those who had not seen her for years were astonished at her mental and phy sical vigor, and it was predicted that the light would not soon lose its fa mous keeper. Weavers for Paterson Recruited in France? The investigation made by the courts at Lille, France, into the clandestine emigration agencies which have been shipping weavers from the neighboring town of Roubaix to Paterson, N. J., and Lawrence, Mass., thus enabling factories of those cit ies to compete with the products of Roubaix and pther French towns producing similar manufactures, has revealed an elaborate system of re cruiting skilled emigrants destined for the American weaveries, in viola tion of both the French and Ameri can laws. Suit has been entered against six agents at Roubaix and one at Tour nai, who were found by the courts to have received substantial prem iums. The defendants assert that they are not guilty of engaging in any emigration scheme in violation of the laws, claiming that they have merely been acting as agents for a steam ship company, receiving $5 for each passage sold. The arrests caused a commotion at Roubaix and Tourcoing, whence it is reported thousands of workmen have left for America. Many are return ing penniless, having been unable to get work. City Ownership Prevented. Mayor Reyburn, z of Philadelphia, signed an ordinance passed by coun cils which, reform associations say, virtually gives aw T ay the city streets to the Philadelphia Rapid Transit Company, which controls all the street car lines. The street railway corporation is given limited franchises for all thb lines in the city for fifty years and is to share equally with the city all profits in excess of six per cent on the actual paid-in capital. The re formers sav that no such excess in profits is likely, owing to heavy guaranteed dividends to subsidiary companies. The city will be repre sented in the board of directors by the mayor and two other persons se lected by councils. The ordinance also provides for the repeal of an ordinance passed in 1857 under which the city had the right to take over street railways at any time and also an ordinance compelling the removal of overhead wires. City ownership is now pre vented for fifty years. A fixed sum is to be paid the city every year to cover licenses, street paving, removal of snow and other items. One of the leaders of the minor ity declared on the floor of the Se lect Council that the plan was “the most iniquitous measure that has ever come before councils”; that it was nothing more or less than a “confiscation of the rights of the people for the benefit and enrichment of a few citizens.” Butler Honored at Oxford. In the presence of a large body of teachers interested in English edu cation at Worcester College, Oxford, England, the Vice-Chancellor of the University presented to President Butler, of Columbia University, New York, an illuminated address in a handsome silver casket to commemo rate the recent visit of English edu cators to America, and to acknow ledge the great assistance rendered to them by President Butler. Excursion Boat on Rock. In a fog the old steamer, City of Lawrence, with eighty ex cursionists on board, struck on Black Rock Ledge at the mouth of New’ London, Conn., har bor. She stove big holes in her bow 7 and in her flat but lucki’y she balanced on the whale-back shaped rock and rested safely. All the passengers w’ere landed safely. New York Central Fined. The New’ York Central Railroad Company was fined $15,000 by Judge Haze Pin the Federal Court at Roch ester, for failure to file rates on a shipment of oil for the Standard Oil. Company. Judge Swayne Dead. Judge Charles Swayne, of the United States Court for the Northern District of Florida, died in Philadelphia. He had been suffering for some time from com plicated kidney trouble, and had gone to Philadelphia for treatment. Judge Swayne’s name became fa miliar to the public a year or two ago because of an attempt to im peach him for “high crimes and mis demeanors.” His trial took place in the United States Senate, Fifty-ninth Congress, and was the first impeach ment proceedings since the trial oU Secretary of War Belknap in the ad ministration of Grant. The trial lasted five or six weeks, during which the Senate sat as a court and a large committee of the House appeared daily as prosecut ing attorneys. The specific charges were that he did not reside in his district, that he made excessive charges against the government for expenses, that he used his position to extort favors from railroad companies, and that he sat in a case in Florida in which his wife was personally interested. The trial resulted in his acquittal by a vote along party lines. John D. on the Stand. John D. Rockefeller appeared promptly in court at 10 o’clock Saturday morning in Chicago, to be questioned by Judge Lan dis as to the finances of the Stan dard Oil Company. As usual, when corporation heads are forced on the witness stand, John’s memory was bad, pleading that he had retired twelve years ago, and that he had not been in the office in the past eight (Continued on Page Twelve.) PAGE FIVE