The news and herald. (Winnsboro, S.C.) 1901-1982, May 24, 1905, Image 3
THE BO'
The bovheart! The bovhcart!
It ;;es within your breast.
'All ready :n go leaping when your soul is
at :est
When on the street there comes to you a
whistle or a call, -
Or bu: the echo of a song whose happy
mea3sures fall
Upon the chords of memory, and rouse
:hem into life
Until they send a surgiag thrill as rich as
drum or fife:
The boyheart! The boyher-t!
It may be but a rose
That nods in' areless glee at one as idly on
Ile goes:
But instantly he sees a street that wanders
up and down
Between the sleepy fences of the quiet
li:tle town;
Or maybe 'tis a country road where sway
m:n rranches spread
And buid an arching canopy of branches
on.rhead.
Ow Jan Lost
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~I VV W
:Al:.:,et, asubmitting to
tie rt r !t.tnent readers of
S ilie New 1York Weekly the
followiing spicy ineidelit,
cmzing under the writer's
in~imediate observation, is
not so much to set forth gaming in an
allurir g form as to show the incon
Sisteney of some in evading all moral
responsibility in matters of this kind
whenever they imagine the advantages
securely in their favor.
While traveling through the State of
New York a few years ago I halted in
SsmaMl viliage, comprising, perhaps,
some two or three thousand inhab
itants.
It was a gala day which marked my
arrivail there. for a traveling circus
company had arrived in town that
morning, to the great delight of the
-villagers and people from the surround
ing country. who were flocking in
squads in the direction of the enchant
ed ground. dressed out. with the ex
-ception of some few shabby specimens.
in theit Sunday best.
With ditliculty I had my horse prov
endered. and afterward elbowed my
way into the "Pavilion," as it was
-called bv the noisy vender of tickets.
I succeeded in securing a seat at the
feet of what I considered to be a
freshly married couple. into which I
contrived to wedge myself in a very
.mncomfortable manner just as the band
struck up "Yankee Doodle."
"Oh. my: Ain't that splendid?" cried
the young wife. with a sudden burst of
enthusiasm. It ought, with justice.
have been pronounced little short of
execrable.
the young farmer, as his appearance
indicated, made no reply, but looked
straight toward the entrance whence
he expected the troop to emerg..
The young wife looked vexed at his
indifference to her appeni.
"I don't b'lieve you've got a mite of
-an ear for music, Albert:" she at
gth said, petulantly.
. Jane." he replied, with stolid
sure: "I never had much of a
in' fur it. I'd rather see the
and them other carcis chaps, I
w the inference from appear
hat the wife laid greater pre
sto intelligence, taste and re
t than her liege lord, and I be
mediately more interested in
tic young couple-the one with
acious black eyes, pretty face
uacious'tongue, and the other
's generally unruffled stolidity,
when some stereotyped wit
ropped from the lips of the
hen he would open with a
uffaw.' which showved there
-ist no dlisease, constitutional
-isC, in his robust, expansive
. in all the spangles and
tra of the circus troop or thel
stale ses of the incorrigible merry
man.
The fe ts of horsemanship, of ground
and loft.s tumblingz. seemed particu
larly ;o a. tonish and delight Albert,
'who had t nquestionably never it
Lnessed a sin 'lar exhibition in all his
life; while .Jan infinitely preferred the
comic songs an the pantomime that
concluded the p rformiance, declaring
emphatically that she didn't like to
sgthem ride hors back standing up.
nor tumbling over itheir heads back
ward and forward, \as though they
idn't know which en'd they belonged
onto. It made her so dizzy like.
Interested in the unsophisticated
pair. I kept my eye on them as they
made theIr way out of the tent in close
proximity to a small side show, on the
canvas of which w'as daubed in coarse.
flaring colors half a dozen monkeys
.and a m'amnmoth snake, not omitting a
very rude likeness of what they were
pleased to call "the famous Australen
children." where a sharky-looking. glib
tonguedt individual, in plaid vest and
pants, with unbecomingly long hair and
a knowing twirl to his mustache, stood
moumned on ai barrel. haranguing the
gaping and ,.i-~ hig crowd with a
graphic' alcount of' the wonderful cil
en. who had doubtless n'ever se'en
'stralia, and the sevei'al other re
'able objects of human interest
.nd there on exhibition: the whole
clh. the greatest and most un
Itraction in the world. might
-sed by tihe admirinmt beholder
eager trifle of tvwenty-ive
l .lane--I wvas never able to
irsurnames-wvere stanud
Uront of mue. listening. with
ed wonder, to the pwr
alsehoodis of the fellow on the
i the crowd begaln to hand up
r quaurers. one after another, and
drop i::. whean I hea:'d the w~'fe whlisperi,
excitedly:
"Do let us go in. Albert. before every
body gets in and the lac:e is tilled ump.
You'v.' got live dolars :and a half, and
five wvill btuy myv new drIess and trim
minZs."
The argument was not to 'oe resisted.1
ud the more prudent but iess decided
Ibert camne dowvn wvith the dust--a
ight,. nevw fifty-cent piece. which lie
ied at twice with affectiomnte re
1et:nce before iiandi~ng it up to the
;wi'ly shar::i'. whio still occupied his
posit in p tt 'ahe barrel.
I (Ld not feo~v them in. for I knew
;they wonid both eCCQe out disgusted
LHEART.
The bovheart! The boyheart!
The embers in the grate
May paint for one the picture that will
ring the thoughts elate
A picture of the neadow ands which reach
beside the h:ook,
And blend into a forest where there's many
a leafy nook.
Where everv tree that waves its arms, and
swings and sweeps and sways
Is wai.- shouts and laughter from the
bytime summer days!
The botheart! The hovheart!
Prav that You have it vet!
A-many times its turiring thrills will leave
vour eveils wot;
A-many times its sudden beats will set your
fblood aflame
WVhen out or all the other years will come
a whi.%ered name;
A-many timles vou'll walk the ways you
wandered wvhen a lad.
If God has but been good to you and left
the heart you had.
-W. D. Nesbit, in The Reader.
HerNew Dress
,INGSBY.
nevertheless, I determined to wait near
the entrance and watch the result.
As the dissatisfied spectators began
to steal out, mostly with indifference
or disgust, antd sometimes angry disap
pointment depicted in their faces, to
the cracked tones of a barrel organ. the
long-haired orator descended from his
temporary rostrum and dexterously
drew three cards from his pocket.
"Gentlemen and ladies," he ex
claimed, patronizingly, holding up the
three cards to view-a queen, knave
and ace-"I am about showing you a
nice little game, where, if you are so
inclined, any one of you. or every one
of you, might make your fortunes in
an hour, providing your eyes are sharp
enough. Here it is."
And he opened his little game of
three-card monte by first exhibiting a
card, and then laying it carefully, face
down. on the bar- . head, with a corner
slightly bent, so that only a very keen
observer would notice it. It was the
queen of diamonds.
He next showed up the knave of
clubs, and, laying that down by the
queen. followed the same formula with
the ace of spades.
He then adroitly commenced the pro
cess of changing the positions of the
cards in a most rapid and tantalizing
manner for a brief space, when he ab
ruptly inquired if anyone could guess
which was the queen*?
The sharp eyes of the young farmer's
wife were upon him, and she had close
ly kept track of the queen from the
turned-up corner she had at first no
ticed.
"I can!" she cried, confidently, put
ting herself forward among the crowd
of masculine lookers on, much to the
annoyance of the less demonstrative
Albert.
"Well," returned the sharper with
great urbanity. "here is an opportunity
to win money if you are sure. There
is five dollars," he added, laying a
note representing the sum specified on
the barrel head, "that not one of the
company present can point out the
queen among those cards."
The young woman stood fidgeting.
but I could tell by the expression in
her countenance that she still enter
ind unshaken confidence in her de
tective isowers.
No one, however, offered to accept
the wager.
"Well," said the sharper, after an
eloquent pause, "I think you must all
be in independent circumstances in
this place, as'none of you care to make
money."
His restless eye roved from face to
face, as though he were taking a brief
inventory of their thoughts, and finally
rested on the eager, excited features
of the young farmer's wife.
"Do you think you can pick out the
queen, young woman?"
"Yes. I do," she ansv'ored, promptly,
and with nervous confidence.
"Well, then, if you are quite sure
why do you not accept th3 wager ?"
She turned and whispered a few
ager words to Albert, but the stolid
fellow shook his head dubiously, as
though .a aguely impressed with a faint
conception of something wrong.
"Albert thinks I'd better not," she
replied, with a disappointed look; "but
I can tell you which card it is."
"Be kind enough, then, to oblige us
by telling," said the sharper, blandly.
The young woman touched a card
at the suggestion, and the gambler
turned It up.
It was the queen of diamonds, sure
enough.
"There," he said, with cool indiffer
ence, "you perceive how easily you
could have won"
The young wife threw a swift glance
at Albert. half indignation, half tri
unph, as much as to say: "There, you
stupid' Didn't I tell you so?"
The adroit angler saw that his hook
was baited, and lie commenced manipu
lating the cards, seeming not to have
noticed the corner that was so slightly
bent.
IHI went through the same proceed'
ing as before, leaving the fiv'e-dollar
note where he had first iaid it, and,
turning toward his watchful but still
cotident victim:
"Do you think that y~u can point it
out tils time':"
The conient young woman, who
saw the s1mel ('orner turnied up as be
fore, :answeredi uis question quickly in
the affirmnativ'.
"Well, then. the offer is still open to
whoever chooses to closce with it."
Tihe~ younig woman tur'ned to her hus
hand and whispered something in his
ear.
I could not q3ite make it out, except
from guesswork.
Albert sho~ok his head. She expos
tula ted.
lHe shook it again, and she grew im
~at ient-even angry-nt the restraint.
"I know which is the queen," she at
length said, with angry vehemence;
"and if you don't bet now. when you
are sure to wvin,. I won't never-"
"But I never did bet." e'xpostulated
Albert. in seeming trepidation at the
half-expressed threat of his indignant
better half.
"Well, then. there is the money you
can get. if you've got the spunk cof a
chicken left in you."
stupidIly. "I never did, and. I dont
want to."
"Well. then, give me the money and
let me do it," she answered, with an
air of feminine bravado.
Albert hesitated, as if reluctant to
yield the point.
"If you don't give me that money,
Albert, I won't stir a step home with
you to-night:" and she stamped her
little foot with angry impatience at Al
bert's nbstinacy.
I suppose the poor fellow could not
bear the thought of so unhappy a ter
mination to a day so pleasantly be
gun, and he reluctantly surrendered
his purse.
With nervous fingers the young wife
opened the purse. while the vanquished
Albert stood riefully regardin.: her.
and, removing a five-doilar note-the
only one it contained-she laid it with
an air of triumph beside the other.
"Please draw your card, marm!" said
the sharper. with a cool indifference,
apparently, as to the result.
She had kept: a sharp eye all the
while. as she supposed, on the one t
with the slightly turned corner, and n
made her selection accordingly. Im- r
agine her astonishment on turning the
chosen card to find, instead of the r
queen of dinmonds, the knave of c
clubs e
For a moment she gazed at it like V
one demented. Then she looked up t
with an expression of angry inquiry 17
into the smiling face of the sharper, tl
and as some of the bystanders began t
to titter she turned toward her hus- ri
hand with a half-humiliated, half-in- h
dignant expression, and, seizing him
by the armi. exclaimed: C
"Come, Albert, let's go right straight S
home!"
And as they started hurriedly off to- t<
gether, she hurled scornful glances h
back upon the unsympathizing crowd. NV
I followed on a few steps behind to r
the place where I had stabled my horse, u
and the last words I heard the dis- P
comfited young wife say were:
"Albert. I know I have made a fool
of myself, and I hope you will forgive
me. I feel so angry with that sharper e
that I could wring his neck with de- n
light. Ard, only think of it, I can't e
get my new dress:" a
It was indeed a severe lesson to the 0
unsophisticated young couple, as well
as a timely rebuke upon the depravity
of gambling, which will undoubtedly a
serve them as a warning through life.- I
New York Weekly. a
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At Doornklocf, in the Witwatersrand
gold field of the Transvaal. a bore hole r
has been drilled down 5500 feet, thus
making oie of the few perforations of e:
the earth's outer crust which exceed a r
mile. t
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Softenirg of the brain, brought about
by lack of mental exercise, causes the
death of one-third of the rural laborers
of Enigland, was the remarkable state-p
meu.~ made in a court in London by ct
Dr. Duke.
Cremation 'makes remarkably slow
progress in England, partly because of A
the decision of the court In 1894, that,
unless express instructions had been d
left by the deceased, an executor could n
not cremate the remains. r
The largest electrical sign in the P
world is on the North River, in Newe
York Harbor, the individual letters be-0
ing sixty-eight feet high, yet its opera
tion for five hours a day only costs $3 i
for power. The lamps of which it is d
composed are of four-candle power. 8:
A German physician has discovered
that the air of the Egyptian desert is
about as free from bacterial life as
the polar regions on the high seas. c
Tubercle bacilli are killed when ex- t~
posed six hours in the sunlight. He a
considers the desert especially suitable s1
for rheumatics and patients suffering U
from kidney diseases and tuberculosis. P
It is stated that Emile Wenz, of
Reims, France, has recently applied
kite photography with success to geo
logical pictures, and it is predicted that
the field geologist of the future will
find a kite and its camera essential to re
his outfit. M. Wenz succeeded in tak- e:
ing good photographs from a height of 'tI
6-50 feet, and found them very valuable el
in the production of maps. t
K
Electric wa'ies measured by Hertz
and named after him-were found by P
the great scientist to be 150 feet from G
th top of one wave to the top of the VW
next. The waves used by Marconi in G
teegraphing across the Atlantic are
much longer. They are said to be 600
feet or more. They travel at the same
speed as ligh':, 1S45000 miles a second.
But the light wave measures only a
few millionths of an inch.
Vegetable spongres. at
The vegetable sponges that are com- U
monly sold iin drug stores and used in a:
the hathroom are produced by a vinet
like a cucumber. which any one may
grow in his garden. In tropical coun
tries these vegetable sponges are of
ten used f'or dish rags, being par'ticu
arly useful for scouring pans andc
kettles: and it has been suggested thatw
housewives in the North should "grew c:
their own dish rags." since a clean.
sponge could be used for each dish
washing performance and then thrown
away, thus relegating to history the G
rubbing out of greasy cloth.-Garden A
Magazine-.t
Valuable Feather's.
The splendid snow-white heron
known as the American egret, onle of
the few~ kinds whinch beaCr tihe aigrette
plumes of miliinery and conneree, is 5
among the waning species of Amern- c
ca - a victim to inexorable fashion,
says Herbert K. Job, in Country Life I
in America. In 190Q3 the price for
plumes offered to hunters was .$.'3
pe~ ounce. which miakes the plumes
worth twice their weight in gold. There
will always be men who would break ci
any lawv for such profit. No rookery n
of these herons can long exist. unless li
it be guarded by force of arms day P
and night. t
More than one-third of all the Amen it
ican exp'ort trade has beeni in the two $
)PPOSE REGULATION
southern Manufacturers On Record
As Unfavorable to Interfereace
ESOLUTIONS OF ATLANTA BODY
lew Hampshire Man Leads a Losing
Fight in Comrrrittee For President
Roosevelt's Programmre, and the
Convention Unanimously Stood Pat
on the Existing Laws, Supplemented
by Examination of Railroad Books.
Atlanta. Ga.. Special.-The National
[anufacturers' Association on Wedneis
ay passed resolutions upholding the
and taken by President Parry, against
ie exercise by the national govern
tent of rate-making power for the rail
)ads.
An intercsting fight on the railroad
ite quest-on has been waged behind
osed docrs and in the hotel corridors
ver since the convention bezan, and
'as not settled until Wednesday after
oon. Beth the executive and resdlu
ons committees held lengthy meet
igs for the consideration supported
e positIon of President Parry, against
ie exercise by the government of the
ite-making power, taken by him in
is annual address. & B. Pike, of New
:ampshire. chairman of the standing
mmittee of the organization on inter
tate commerce, led the fight in behalf
7 the exercise of the rate-makin:
wer, presenting lengthy resolutions
that effect. This afternoon the reso
itions committee refused to endorse
[r. Pike's position and presented a
,solution to the convention which was
nanimously adopted with much ap
lause, the advocates of the pending
'gislation before Congress not press
ig their position in the open conven
on. The resolutions follow:
Resolved. That we favor the active
forcement by the legislative depart
tent of the general government of all
isting laws to prevent the giving or
:ceptance or rebates or special fav
rs (through whatever device) to or by
tvored shippers, and we call upon the
ter-State commerce commission to
pply all the remedies at their disposal
provided by the original inter-State
)mmerce act and the Elkins act
ending the same
Rseolved, TL', if the existing laws
>r the detection and punishment of
ie giving or acceptance of such re
tes are insufficient, or defective in
ay resDect, we favor the enactment
such further legislation as may be
cessary adequately to deal with the
il and to secure this complete pre
ntion.
Resolved, That in order to carry into
fect the provisions of the foregoing
solutions, Congress be asked that
rovisions be made for the necessjty
camination of *:he books of the rail
)ads and corporations something af
r the manner of the national bank
caminations. for the purpose of de
~cting and elin-.inating special favors
ad discriminations against the small
id less favoraed shippehs~and also that
rovision for adequate punishment be
rovided for improper disclosure of
>nfidential information so gained.
Manufacturers Meet.
Atlanta, Ga.. Special.-More than 300
Ethe 3.000 members of the National
ssociation of Manufacturers, accom
anled by 1001 ladies, assembled Tues
ly at the opening of the tenth an
ual meeting of the association. Rep
sentatives from almost every section
the country were present. The im
rtance of the gathering was indicat
by the fact that the membership rep
asents a large majority of the $13,
)0,000,000 of invested capital of the
nited States, and by the additional
Lt that among the questions to be
Iscussed during the three days' ses
on are inter-State commerce and re
procity.
Statue to General Forest.
Memphis, Tenn., Special.-To the ac
>mpaniment of martial music and in
e presence of thousands of citizens
ad visitors, the equestrian bronze
atue of Gen. Nathan B. Forrest was
aveiled Tuesday afternoon in the
irk that bears th~e Confederate gen
al's name. The statue is the work
Sthe Sculptor Niehus. It was cast in
ais.
Declares Reports False.
Berlin, By Cable-The Foreign Office,
plying to an inquiry regarding the
citement at Tokio over the report
Lat German troops had occupied Hai
iou, in the southern part of the Shan
ing Pensinula, says the report is
holly incorrect and one of several re
>rts designed to make it appear that
ermany . is attempting in Shantung
hat Russia did in Manchuria. The
erman government is doing nothIng
Shantung outside ot fulfilling her
eaty agreement with China, which
t has been communicated to both
e Washington and Tokio govern
ents.
Big Telephone Merger.
Indianapolis, Special.-Five thous
d telephones controlled by the
nted Telephone Company will here
'ter be operated in connection with
ose of the Central 'Union Telephone
ompany. terms of agreement be.
veen the two companies the U'nited
mpanies secures connection not on
with ,he toll lines of the Central
nion. but with those of the Ameri
m Telephone and Telegraph Co.,
hich covers practically all the States
ist of the Rocky Mountains.
Two Touch Live Wires.
Newport News, Va., Special.--Earl
ilcrist, a telephone lineman, and
shley Harris were accidentally elec
'ocuted. Gilchrist was workin~g on a
:a when wires in his hand came in
ntact with a live wire and he swung
omn the Dolo diead. Harris was walk
ig on H-uutington avenue when he
'leed up the 'end of a broken electric
ght wire, ecing instantly killed. Gil
airist was a Lynchbur'g man. Harris
'as a son of former State Senator
arrs, ol. Amerieus, Ga. Both men
-ere unmarried.
Charged With Perjury.
Covington, Ga. Special.-No little ex
tement was created Tuesday after
on over the arrest of Chief of Po
e Bradford Bohannon and policeman
W. Skelton, on warrants charging
e with perjury in connection with
e recent sensationa.l gambling caid
this city. They were placed under
0 bonds. Both have been on the
>lice force for a number of years and
MANUFACTURERS ELECT UFICERS
Former President Parry Again Unani
mously Elected.
Atlanta, Special.-The tenth annual
convention of the National Association
of Manufacturers ce.me to a close
shortly after noon Thursday. after so
lecting New York as the place for the
convention for 1906, re-electing D. M.
Parry, of Indiana. as president. and
ordering that the Association shall be
incorporated under the laws of New
York State. Vice presidents, one
from each State represented. were
named by the States, the vice-presi
dents from the 12 States having the
largest membership in the association
constituting, with the president and
secretary, the executive oommittee.
After re-electing F. 1-. Stillman, of
New York. treasurer, the roll of States
for vice-presidents resulted as follows:
Alabama, G. B. McCormick; Cali
fornia, H1. D. Morton; Connecticut, A.
H.. Bullard; Delvware, G. R. Hoffech
er; Georgia, David Woodward; Illi
nois, Elliott Durand; Indiana, E. H.
Dean; Kenticky,. M. C. McNemicher;
Louisiana. R. J. Words: Mississippi,
G. C. Draper; Michigan, B. T. Skinner;
Missouri, M. J* Cleave; New Hamp
shire, E. P. Pike; New Jersey, R. j.
Jinkinson; New York, Ludwig Nissen;
North Carolina, D. A. Tompkins; Ohio,
John Kirby, Jr.; Pennsylvania, D. C.
Ripley; Rhode Island, P. E. Hays;
South Carolina, E. A. Smith; Tennes
see, H. L. Chamberlain; Wisconsin,
H. S. Smith; Iowa, G. R. Eastabrook.
The vice-presidents who will consti
tute the exective committee will be
those from New York, Pennsylvania,
Ohio, Massachusetts, Illinois, Michi
gan, Maryland, New Jersey, Connecti
cut, Wisconsin, Missouri and Tennes
see.
Cry of "Thieves" in Council.
Philadelphia. Special.-Amid scenes
of disorder unprecedented in the an
nals of Philadelphia's legislative body,
the city council voted to lease the
city's gas works to the United Gas
Improvement Company, for a term of
75 years, or the total sum of $25,000,
000, the money to be paid in various
amounts before the end of 1907.
Council Chambers and committco
rooms were crowded with excited citi
zens, pro!:sting against the lease. The
climax was reached when the vote in
common council was announced after
three hours of debate. The moment
President Geo. McCurdy announced
the vQte, a great uproar was started
in the gallery, which .as crowded to
the door. From all over the gallery
came hisses and cries of "Thieves!"
The outburst was som-what startling
to the presiding officer, who made a
vain effort to quell it.
Depends on Rojestvcnsky.
Tokio. By Cable.-The reported de
parture of Vice Admiral Rojestven
sky from Hon-Koe Bay northward re
news the popular expectation of a
naval action in the near future. It is
believed that Admiral Rojestvensky,
having filled his coal bunkers and re
supplied his fleet Is now in a condition
to assume the aggressive, If he so
desires. It is the opinion of some
that Rojestvensky may make a demon
stration In the vicinity of the Islands
of Formosa and the Pescadores and
then enter the Pacific en route for
Vladvostock. This is, however, pure
ly speculative. Everything depends
upon Admiral Rojestvensky's plans.
which, while as yet undisclosed, may
include an extended stay In Southern
waters.
The General Assembly.
Winona, Ind., Special.-Two meet
ings were hcld preliminary to the for
mal opening of the General Assembly
f the Presbyterian Church. In the
audience were Justice Harlan, of the
United States Supreme Court, and
Wmn. Jennings Bryan. Justice Harlan
is here to urge the construction of a
Presbyterian cathedral at Washington.
Mr. Bryan is here to attend the meet
ing of the presidents of Presbyterian
colleges. He spoke at the foreign
mission conference.
Dr. Plunkett Moderator.
Fort Worth, Tex., Special.-Dr. J. E.
Plunkett, of Augusta. Ga., was elected
moderator by the General Assembly
of the Southern Presbyterian Church
in the United States. S. M. Neel, D.
D., the retiring moderator, delivered
his farewell sermon at the morning
session. The afternoon session was
devoted to committee reports and
other routine work. The question of
union or closer relations with other
Presbyterian oodies will come up at
this meeting, and it is expected that
an interesting debate will take place.
Sudden Death From Drinking.
Columbia. Special.-A white man
about 28 years of age named Charles
Christmas died very suddenly at 1408
Wayne street between 5 and 6 o'clock
Wednesday afternoon. Death is sup
posed to have been due to alchohol
poisoning, as the man was a hard
drinker and was seen to drink a half
pint of whiskey just before entering
the house where he lived and where
his death occurred. He walked into
the house and in a few minutes fell
in a fit, and before medical aid could
reach him he was dead. Coroner
Walker was notified and after view
ing the remains had the body removed
to the undertaking establishment of
J. M. VanMetre.
Burglar Captured.
Chillicothe, Ohio, Special-When
Officers Weigand and Maughmer at
tempted to arrest a colored burglar,
the robber fatally shot Weigand and
escaped, although Maughmer fired five
shots without effect. A posse finally
captured the man, who appears to be
a half breed Indian and gives his
name as Oscar Evans from Georgia.
Teleg~aphic Briefs.
The executive committee of the Pana
ma Canal Commission has decided to
buy ships as material for the canal in
Europe if they can be purchased abroad
more cheaply than in the United States.
The National Association for the
Study and Prevention of Tuberculosis
will meet in Washington on Thursday.
Secretary of War Taft is conducting
the inQuiry into the charges made by
Minister Bowen and Assistant Secre
tary Lemis -against meh other.
MUCH IN MONOPOLY
Fruit Traffic Thoroughly Under the
Control of One Organization
ARMOUR MAN ADMIIS CHARGES
Entire South Atlantic Coast and Parts
of the West Are "Exclusive" Terri
tory For the Armours-Under Con
tracts With the Railroads.
0
Washington, Special.-Before the
Senate committe on inter-State com
merce, which is investigating railroad
rates, President George R. Robbins, of
the Armour Car Lines Company, ad
mitted that the company had twenty or
thirty exclusive contracts with rail
roads for fruit transportation business,
and acknowledge a monopoly of that
traffic in parts of the West and South.
Wherever these exclusive contracts ap
plied, he admitted, the producers and
shippers of fruit had to accept the rates
laid down by the Armours. He claimed
that his company was a private one,
and therefore not subject to the inter
State commerce laws.
The Armours, be said, had exclusive
contracts with all the South Atlantic
coast railways. and exclusive contracts
in East Tennessee. Fruit producers
and shippers on these exclusive lines
had to accept the rates of the Armour
Company. but Mr. Robbins said they
satisfied 80 per cent. of the shippers.
C. W. Robinson, representing the
New Orleans board of trade and the
Central Yellow Pine Lumber Associa
tion, testified that Eastern trunk lines
should be restrained from diverting the
grain of the Northwest from its natural
outlet at New Orleans. He advocated
enlarged powers for the inter-State
commerce commission. Mr. Robinson
said that the railroads operating in the
South had advanced yellow pine lum
ber rates, and charged that there were
indirect rebates or discriminations by
manipulation of rates. He referred to
practices of billing lumber to small
towns and then re-billing to destina
tions, by which a cheaper rate for a
long haul Is granted. This, he said, is
discrimination against shippers.
Hearing in Car Shortage.
Washington, Special. - Testimony
given Wednesday before the Senate
Committee on Inter-State Commere
had much to do with the inadequate
supply of private cars that resulted in
the loss of thousands of dollars to
North Carolina strawberry growers.
Most important of all was the admis
sion of George P. Robbins, president
of the Armour Car Line, which has an
exclusive contract with the Atlantic
Coast Line, that the company had
failed to deliver a sufficient number of
cars in North Carolina, and that it
is now adjusting claims that will
?.mount to $75,000. Mr. Robbins said
the loss to the company would be more
than it had made and would make in
many years from the Carolina berry
business
'Race to England On.
New York, Special.-A splendid fleet
of sailing yachts swept across a start
ng line at Sandy Hook light ship at
12:15 p. m. Wednesday, and with the
Queenly American schooner Atlantic
leading the way headed out into the
broad Atlantic Ocean on a r-ace of 3,000
miles to the English coast for a $5,000
up offered by Emperor William of Ger
many. When last seen as they vanish
ed into the mist they were strung out
in a line six miles long, heading south
eastward and pointing as nearly as pos
sible to. a wind that was dead ahead.
A quarter of a mile astern of the At
lantic was the 90-foot American yawl
Aisla, which was having a hot brush
with the German schooner Hamburg,
while all three of the leaders were
slowly dropping the Philadelphia
schooner Hildegarde. Next was the
Endymion. holder of the trans-Atlan
tic yachting record. Almost a mile
astern of the Atlantic and more tnan
balf mile astern of the Endymion were
the Thistle and Fleur de Lys. Strung
out behind were the Amerlctn bark
Apache, the British topsail schooner
unbeam, and five miles astern the
leader was the American three-masted
schooner Utowana. Bringing up the
rear was the British clipper ship Val
alla. These two had been delayed by
a bad start.
Don't Lower Abaama Rates.
Montgomery, Ala., Special.-The Al
tama railroad commission adjourned
fter a thorough Investigation of the
ailroad rates in this State and after
eclining to make any reductions or al
owing any advance in the tariffs now
>revailing. This does not represent
he attitude of President B. B. Coiner,
f the comnmission,~however, who offer
d three motions in quick succession,
which called for reductions in the ferti
izer rates and the rates on numerous
articles of common use, are produced
in Alabama.
Buying Refrigerator Cars.
Chicago. Special.-The Rock Island
Railroad Company has contracted for
eeteen hundred refrigarator carb.
The recent inquiry into priVate refrig
rator car lines by the inters'-ate com
erce commission and the coaditions
revealed are said to be responsible.
which will inaugurate its own refrig
rator service in the fruit and prchiee
rade of the West and South.
an Patterson Signs Stage Contract.
Philadelphia, Special.-The Inquirer
says that Nan Patterson was in the
-ity and signed a contract to appear
in a New York music hall. It is said
she arrived here in the afternoon and
returned to Washington immediately
after the negotiations had been clos
Killed by His Son.
Norfolk. Special.--James Jenkins,
the Gilmerton, Norfolk county, man
who was shot by his 16-year old son
Sunday, while the father was beating
tie wife, is dead. The boy has not
been arrested.
Getting Ready For Industrial Parlia
ment.
Washington. Special.-District Com
mssioner Henry L. West, who has
been elected chairman of the executive
committee of the Southern Industi ial
Parliament; Acting Secretary of Agri
culture Willit N. Hays, and Dr. Walter
C. Murphy, of this city. wvere in con
ference arranging the programme of
speakers for the parliament, which be
gis here May 23. Acceptanccs have
been receivcd from prominent men of
L,,th,.n -a inorthrn States.
THE COMMON HROUSE FLY
. Whence He Comes and
'')J Whither He Coes.
BY HAr%3LD SOMERS, M. A. tttz
po UIE commlon house fly (3us
c:i Do:nestical is a creature
o s0eh secretive habits,
that although from the
"OW very earliest times he has
been wilth us. and the most ancient
writers have mentioned and described
him. still very little was known of his
origin and history.
It remained for the eminent Bo-ton
biologist. Dr. A. 8. Packard, in 1S73, to
make known its origin. habits and
transformations from the egg through
the larva state with its two changes to
pulp state. then to the perfect fly.
Near the lirst of August the female
lays about 120 eggs of a dull gray
color. selecting fresh horse manure in
which to deposit her eggs. and so se
cretes them that they are rarely seen;
it takes only twenty-four hours for
theum to hateh into the first form of
larva. a white worm one-quarter of an
inch in length and one-tenth in diame
ter. They feed on the decaying matter
of their environment, and two changes
or casting of skins occur before they,
turn into the pupa state: this change
comes very suddenly. The entire per
iod from the egg to the pupa state is
from three to four days. If moist food
is wanting when in this condition they.
will eat each other and thus decrease
their number. Heat and humidity.
greatly assist their development. as
upon careful computation each pound
of manure around stables and out
houses develops under favorable condi
tions over 1000 flies. It is no wonder
that where these conditions exist we
have such a veritable harvest of the
fly pest.
In the pupa state when the fly Is
about to emerge. the end of the pupx
case splits off. making a hole throughr
which the fly pushes a portion of its
head, but here it seems to encounter a
difficulty: the pupa case is too stiff and
hard to pass through. but nature comes
to its assistance. and a sort of bladder
like substance forms behind the head.
which swells ont apparenty filled with
air: it acto as a means of pushing
away the pupa case and releases the
tiy. When the fly first emerges it runs
around with its wings soft. small and
baggy: it is pale and the colors are
not set: its head rapidly expand. and
the bladder formation passes away
within a few hours the wings grow
and hard.:r., it Is now a perfect fly.
Tie wlcle time fro'n the depcsiting
of the egg to the pcrfect fly is not over
ten days in luration. Many persons
who observe small tlies in midsummer
suppose they are the younz, but such
is not the case; they are ilies that are
imperfectly nourished in the larvae
and pupa states. and do not attain
full size. in fact, they are the dwarfs
of their race. The male fly differs
from the female in the front of the
head between the eyes. being at least
one-third narrower, though in size the
female is rather smaller. .
In the pupa state they are often fed
upon by the larvae of some of the
beetles, notably that of the carpet bee
tie, whose pupa. the dreaded buffalo
"moth," will attack the young fly in
the pupa case and eating it possess the
case for Itself.
Adult fies like most other creatures
have parasites or minute size that prey
upon them; these can often be seenx as
presenting small red specks over the
bxdy of thle fiy.
The fly hibernates in winter. but
with his usual secretive habit it is very
difticult to find him in his winter quar
ters. Withl thec first chill of autumn
tile flies feeling the c'old. seek tempor
:ry wairmnth in houses, and clustering
togetiher form bunches in the corners
of walls and other places. They are
then sluggishl and not so active as in.
the warmi weather. Ihowever, they do
not make a permanent stay indoors,
but on the first miid, sunny day, seeik
t be win~dows to get out and find their
permarceut winter hiding place; mani
prefer to make the'ir homes in the
roots of grass on lawns where they.
hide themselves so effectually that the
ice and snow of winter does not de
stroy thlemn in their hibernating state.
If ill tile first warm days of spring
when thme snow is gone and the grass
on thme lawns becomes dry and warm,
long before the yellow dandelion shows
its hie:il, a close observer may see num
bers of ies crawling upl on theC grass ,
to get the welcome sunlshine, their
wings standing out stiff and useless,
but they soon acquire tile power of
lighmt in thle warmf rays of theC sun. A
great many days. however, elapse be
fore they appear in the holles of men,
where they are such unwelcome visit
o:rs.
In recenlt yeatrs the medical profes
sion have- demonstrated that while the
fly itself (lors not propagate disease it
is one of the most industrious carriers
of disease germns whlichl by contact ad
here to his teet, hair~y legs and body,
dis:rihOetingZ them to inniocenlt victims.
If es cry houtsckeeper could knlow all
thmese intercting facts which have
netver before b eenl brou;g:ht to their at
,,i, he wanbtli rea:lize, thme ipor
mo:n~ ,f seuim hevry best fly es
.7 :ap Steanmship Company.
Tii:Vn nu:h1 of steamers owned by
Royval M,:1il stliamship Companiily. is
wah i ::her st.eme of 7209' grcss
to: : bui:n. The proi. fur the
ha f year' ended Septem'beir 30. 190O4.
eria:- :edesin fly for depxre2ciation.
i! l::sranc andi rceairs. wer'le ST1>.400(
net. .X ijividend of 800.oi00 was5 paid
on S11.';n;fl "Ni phal.i Tihe value of
Gein Even.
T;T. -: 'ret p (I and gainst mutch
Igoik lhe stl'dei' s of Caiforii
..g- in ca,7 e )in ')ne of the hilis
tha:t overl .; ib " unversity; But one
mV:-ing it was~1 5 'n to be a deep ('rim
I ::.hai- been rrntedl with' the
Stahi :v.'wn to enormnous propor
n!:s nearly ::.000,n00 ba rreis of :xppies
j *L-:- t1 a O.ad last year