Page 3 Advertisements Column 1

Evening Star, Issue 12885, 7 August 1906, Page 3

Th© pulpit has com© forward as champion of the Beef Trust. The Her. J. E. Day, XiXi.D., Chancellor of th© Syracuse University, in the course of a sermon, strongly defended the Trust from the attacks being made upon it after recent disclosures. Mr Day declared that th© Trust was th© poor man’s only friend, and expressed his grief that the scandal had caused the companies a loss of tens of millions of dollars. A youth who threw himself down the volcano at Asama left a' letter (says the ‘Telegraphs Tokio correspondent) in which he said; “Suffering a feeling of despair impels me to throw myself into the crater of vehement Asama, thus winning a splendid death, and ascending the mountains smoke to a loffy life above the sky.”