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I ^ THE WORLD.
They say the world's a sham and life a
lease
Of nightmare nothing nicknamed Time,
and we
Ghost voyagers in undiscovered seas
Where "fact is feign; mirage, reality.
IWhere all is vain and vanity is all,
And eyes look out and only know they
stare
!At eoniured coast whose beacons rise and
fall,
And vanish with the hopes that feigned
them there.
IWhere sea-shell measures urge a phantom
dance
Till fancied pleasure drowns imagined
painTill
Death stares madness out of countenance
And vanity is all and all is vain.
! t
It may be as my friends allege:
I'm Dressed to move that life is some.
thing more;
.And vet a linnet on a Hawthorne hedge
Still wants explaining and accounting for.
?Ralph Hodgson, in Saturday Review.
mhard thmes!%u
l FROM THE GERMAN. ?44**,
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Paul Korner was a landscape
painter; he was, also, a daily visitor
3it the Einhorn, the respectable little
inn of Gruningen. Here he drank
"his bottle of Ingelheimer every evening
except Saturday; on that night,
after the heat and burden of the
.week, he felt justified in substituting
champagne for Ingelheimer.
This had been his invariable habit
from the time of his settling in the
village, two years before. He had
never once deviated from this rule,
lor, unlike many of his brotherhood,
lie led a well-regulated life.
One Saturday nleht. findins him
self at the inn rather earlier than
usual, he sought to pass away the
time until his companions should arrive
at the reading table.
The Eastern question was agitating
the public mind just thon, and
people were speculating much over it.
Paul began listlessly turning the
leaves of a bound volume of illustrated
papers, looking indifferently at the
:wood cuts.
Between the pages lay a fragment
of a political newspaper. His eyes
fell on a letter from a Vienna cor^
respondent, who, in a diplomatic and
ocular fashion, discoursed upon the
"situation," winding up with the remarkable
declaration:
"We are standing upon a volcano,
and no one knows" what a day may
tring forth!" .
Paul, who had never been especially
interested in politics, closed the
vnlnmo with o QfnrtHncr n1an
The words, "We are standing on a
yolcano," 6eemed to affect his mind
yery materially.
m "The deuce!" he muttered to himself.
"War is imminent, and war is
the declared enemy of all the muses!
? (What will become of me in the event
.which, according to this correspondent,
is close upon us? Horrors!
(Who will buy pictures when bombshells
are bursting? Alas! alas! I
jnust begin at once to adapt myself
to circumstances, and to liye sparingly
and economically."
Now see what followed.
That evening he ordered, Instead
of his customary champagne, a modest
quantum of Ingelheimer, with
the words:
"In these hard times we cannot indulge
in luxuries."
This remark made a profound impression
on Herr Grundhuber, the
landlord, and the next morning, when
his wife asked for the money to pay
. for the Sunday loaf of cake, he waved
H her back, saying:
V "In these hard times there's no
Y money to waste on cakes!"
The baker's boy, who, according to
Gruningen custom, delivered his
eweet wares at their patrons' houses,
starea DiaiiKiy, ana aid not fall to
repeat to his master, word for word,
Herr Grundhuber's remark .concerning
the hard times.
The baker, who thought himself
quite a politician, looked up and
down and around in terrible perplexity.
"H'm! Herr Grundhuber, the wellto-do
host of the Einhorn, denies
himself his usual Sunday treat!
.There must be somethfng in it!
.Things must be bad! His self-denial
is proof positive that the times are
iard indeed!"
An hour later when he entered his
.wife's room, the baker found her examlnng
with evident delight a quantity
of dress material spread out before
her.
"Which piece had I better select
tor Mathilde?" she asked, smiling.
"Alack!" the baker exclaimed, "we
have had many expenses lately, and
now in these hard times we must buy
only what is absoluteyly necessary.
.What do you think? Grundhuber
'has taken no cake for to-day, and
under such circumstances our children
must take what they can get,
and wait for fine clothes till the t}mes
mend."
His wife's wit3 quite deserted her.
"Heaven preserve us!" she cried.
"What will become of us? There'll
be war! there'll be war! I always
said there'd be war, and who knows
how sooi^we shall all be Turks? Oh,
dear! oh, dear! Lottie, carry all this
stuff back as quick as you can, and
tell Herr Kleemuller that we can't
afford to buy with a war hanging
over us, and while the times are so
hard."
* The servant hurried away on her
' errand.
Herr Kleemuller, one of the moneyed
men among the merchants of
the town, listened to her message in
^ dismay.
""v"\ "This is a fine prospect," said he
""to himself. "If the baker thinks even
now of economy the situation must
indeed be bad. Well, we must be
ready for anything; the crisis may be
close at hand. First and foremost,
we must indulge in no needless expenditure."
Thereupon, hastening to his desk,
he wrote and dispatched the following
letter:
"Herr Paul Korner:
"Dear Sir?I m obliged to give
you a different answer from what I
toad intended, in regard to your
*I*anascape by. Moonlight/ ..which I
had hoped to buy r.s soon as it should
be finished. To my great regret, owing
to the depression of business, it
is necessary for me to deny myself
the aratification of possessing this
masterpiece. Let me express the
wish and fhe hope that the times will
soon be better, when I shall feel justified
in purchasing one of your truly
admirable works of art. I remain,
dear sir, very truly yours,
"ALOIS KLEEMULLER."
This letter was like a thunderclap
to our artist. He had counted upon
Herr Kleemuller as a sure patron;
prosperity would certainly follow the
sale of his "Landscape by Moonlight,"
which was now nearly completed,
but, alas, that dream had
fled!
At the Einhorn in the evening, he
ordered only half a bottle of Ingelheimer,
and the groan accompanying
his order created a deep impression,
not only on the landlord, but on the
other guests.
The score that nignt was scarcely
half as large as usual.
"The times are degenerating,"
moaned Herr Grundhuber, as he examined
his cash box next morning.
A new reduction of his family expenses
was the result of this knowledl
Before A week had gone by, the
village of Gruningen, but now so
prosperous, had assumed an air of
misery, such as might be accounted
for only by the horrors of a civil war.
The cry, "hard times," rang out
from mansion and hovel. Business
was about at a standstill, credit at an
end.
A fortnight later, Paul sat again in
the Einhorn, which he now visited
only twice a ween.
Again he drew toward him the illustrated
volume which had been the
means of disclosing to him so clearly
the "situation." The paper with the
Vienna correspondence lay there
still. He cast a forlorn glance oil the
fata! sheet before him. Then he
raised u suddenly, and what dismay
filled his soul as he read for the first
time the date of this correspondence
?it was four years old!
"This is foolisher than foolish!"
he cried. "Have I allowed myself
to be nearly frightened to death by
this nonsenso of four years ago?"
Rising and seizing the latest newspaper
just brought in, he read in the
telegraphic dispatches that the conflict
so long feared had at last broken
out.
His hands fell at his side.
"We are then in truth ruined, annihilated!"
he groaned. "All hope is
eone. xt matters little what use I
make of the two thalers in my pocket,
all I have left.. Heaven grant the
rest of my misery may depart with
my money!"
Thereupon, in this reckless mood,
he ordered two bottles of champagne.
The landlord smiled.
"The painter 5s a mighty politician,"
he said to his wife next morning.
"Before any one else saw the
approaching fearful business depression
he foretold it, and now he foresees
a change, for he is drinking
champagne again. That is a favorable
sign. I am sure, Jetty, that the
times are better. This afternoon you
may engage the cake again as before."
"Thank Heaven!" said the baker,
when Frau Grundhuber gave her or
der as of old. "The times are improving.
I tell you what, wife, we'll
[ but a fine dress for Mathilde now."
A week later Herr Kleemuller purchased
the "Landscape by Moonlight."
Business was "up" again. The
prevailing "depression" had taken
leave of the village, although the war'
that had caused it was only just declared.
This short period of unusual terror,
to the honest citizens of Gruningen
formed a subject for discussion for
many years after.
"Heaven save us from hard
times!" the housewives muttered, as
they crossed themselves devoutly. !
A certain professor, passing'
through the town at that season of
misery, was heard to exclaim, as he
took his departure from the hospitable
Einhorn:
"There are, forsooth, more simpletons
among us than hard times!"
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Muzzle-Loaders.
We are told about the great
slaughter the Indians used to make
among the buffalo in the good old
days, but this success was not to be
attributed to their good marksmanship,
because they killed these noble
beasts with their guns almost "boute
touchant."
One thing about their mode of
loading and firing might be interesting
to readers of the present day inasmuch
as a generation has been
born and has grown up since the last
buffalo roamed the plains.
The indians and halfbreeds who
went on these periodical round-ups
were armed with and preferred the
old nor west muzzle-loading flint lock.
They xould load and fire with such
rapidity that one would almost fancy
they carried a repeating gun. Suspended
under their right arm by d
deer thong was a common cow's horn
of powder and in a pouch at theiij
belt a handful or two of bullets.
As the horse galloped up to the
herd, the Indian would pour a charge
of powder into his left hand, transfer
it into the barrel of the gun, give
the butt a pound on the saddle, and
out of his mouth drop on top a bullet.
As the lead rolled down the barrel
it carried in its wet state particles
of powder that stuck on thd
sides, and settled on toD of the dow
der charge. No rod or ramming was
used.
The gun was carried muzzle up,1
resting on the hollow of left arm until
such time as the Indian desired to
fire. The quarry being so close no
aim was required. On deflecting the
barrel the trigger was pulled before
the'ball had time to roll clear of the
powder
The Indians saw that their buffalo"
guns had very large touch-holes,
thereby assuring the pan beingprimed.
When all the balls were
fired a few others were chucked into
the mouth and merrily went on the
game.?Forest and Stream.
Every day the inhabitants of the
United Kingdom wear away $1,000,-'
, 000. iworth of shoe leather.
9
Most Famous Ei
MISS ELLEI
Her fifty years on the stage has just be
siasm in E
Does Away With Sweeping.
One of the greatest inventions of j
tne present ume is toe sucuuu ma.- r.
chine for renovating and cleaning b
hotels, apartment houses, etc. No i:
sweeping is necessary. The power ! a
necessary to operate the apparatus is
furnished by an engine fitted with a
wagon and supplied by means of rubber
hose. The dust is forced into the
machine by suction, it being possible
to clean every part of the room, ceilings,
floors, walls, furniture, etc. Up
to the present time Chis machine has
been used for large operations only.
Now a Chicago inventor has patented
a similar machine, which can be !
used in every household. The power I
apparatus is stationed in an outhouse
or other out-of-the-way place and ;
the renovator, reduced in size so that i
it can be manipulated by anybody.
Expert skill is not required. In S
cleaning the rooms the dust is gathered
up Jn the collector, and when s
the entire house is cleaned the reno- I
1 ' -.11 a iuA e
vator is lanen iu me ceiwi uuu my t
dust removed. Its superiority over
the ordinary method of sweeping will tbe
at once apparent. p
HISTORH
THE PLACE WHERE CHRISTOPHI
TSW-E OF I
New Potato Knife. b
It had been surmised that invent- CJ
ors had reached the limit in the im- 0
I)
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Saves Time Cutting. ,
ih
provement of household inventions, {tl
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,
iglish Actress.
From her latest photograph.
ST TERRY.
en celebrated with great enthuIngland.
An Hawaiian Curio.
A curious tower is to be seen in e
lonolulu, Hawaiian Islands. It was
uilt by the Japanese residents. If
3 what is termed a "prayer-tower," c
nd was erected in order that pray* c
i c
l Curious Japanese "Prayer-Tower.'* c
rs might be offered there to their t
eities by the anxious Japanese for
tie success of the armies of the Mik- t
do during the recent war. The tiny c
smple contains a sacred image, and (
uring the campaign prayers were ?
aid daily in the tower and religious f
ervices held at its base.
Little Snsie's C
After a week at the s
usie was being waighe
"When she came sb
cales at forty-nine p
fncle Jack, "and no*
orty-two." , ;;'j
"Oh!" cried Susie, .jSHtes*
w-o pounas?uagitwa ^/a^s^r-v.
er's Weekly.
C SPOT
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IR COLUMBUS IuANT
>rwpa h'XcTv
ut this doe? not- te<
ise. Inventors still ai
at for some device ttw.
ousebold necessity, as they realize ]
will command a ready market. AS ]
n example, an Iowa man has pat- ]
ated a knife for cutting potatoes j
lat does eight times;tlie work of the 1
rdinary kaife. Instead of requir- i
lg eight cuts to divide the potato i
lto pieces it is all done in one op- {
ration. The illustration shows the <
anstruction of this knife, no de- j
irlption being necessary. Six small j
lades and one centre blade, attached j
> a handle, are all that is required. i
ne staD at a potato aiviues it uilv <
ight pieces, each piece being practi- i
illy the same size. In hotels, res- <
lurants, etc., where thousands of i
otatoes are cut up each day, this 1
nife would save considerable labor <
nd time. <
1
The life of the great guns of a 1
lodern battleship is almost a defln;e
number of discharges. After they
ave been fired about so many tlmea ^
ley; may be expected soon to break.
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gt
State Geologist Perkins, of Vermont,
reports that the asbestos mines
f that State are not profitable beause
the rock i3 too hard.
So successful has the application
I tne A-raya Deea-m me ir?auu?m
f children suffering from ringworm,
hat the Metropolitan Asylums
3oard, London, has been enabled to
iscontinue the use of one of the two
astitutions reserved for such- cases.
Dr. Symes Thompson says the
ength of time taken in communicatng
by touch is one-seventh of a sec-?
nd before there is a consciousness of
he touch. When a sound is heard
he interval is one-sixth of a second;
rhen the object is seen the interval
3 one-fifth of a second; in the case
if a thought it is one-fortieth of a
econd.
The Oregon Electric Railway Comlany
has arranged to penetrate the
Vilamette valley south of Portland
dth an electric road constructed for
he handling of freight as well as
lassengers. It will be constructed of
eventy pound rails on rock ballasted
oad bed, with a maximum grade of
!.2 per cent, and a maximum (Survaure
of five degrees.
Reinforced concrete piles have alrayp
been constructed by depositing
oncrete around reinforcing bars or
rames in wooden molds. In Europe
he molds are commonly set on end,
tut this practice is not universal;
n America the most common pracice
is to lay the mold horizontally
>n the ground. Indeed, we recall
>ut one instance?the molding of
welve inch piles on end for the pier
:onstruction at Atlantic City, N. J.
?in American work of piles molded
indwise.
It is estimated that at least 2,000,100
bales of cotton are lost through>ut
the South every year because of
rost and scattered cotton left in the
ield by the pickers. A machine has
>een invented called the cotton sepaator,
which will save nearly all this
oss. It remains to be tested, howsver.
It is claimed for it that the
:otton boll can be saved by this marine
for grinding and feeding to
:attle, which will be of great value
o the cotton growers. The separaor
uses a series of saws operated
>y a pneumatic system.
MORE USES FOR DEERSKINS.
?rices Therefore Going Up in the
Maine Woods the Last Year or So.
9
One firm in Bangor, Me., has agents
til over Northern Maine trying deer
tides, and thousands of the hides are
eceived here every season and
ihipped to Boston to be tanned,
vrites the Bangor (Me.) correspondint
of the New York Sun.,,
It is only within the last year or
wo that the traffic in deer hides has
nmnArflnna A fow '
cauucu IUI gv pi v^vt ....... -&v *
rears ago a* deer hide of the best
luality could be bought for half a
lollar, and the hides were thought
>f so little account that unless the
an who killed the deer had some
ise for the skin he threw it away.
The deer hides are now used by
he manufacturers of gloves and
>ther articles, and there is a steady
lemand for them. The demand is
ihown by the fact that the hides have
ncreased almost threefold in value
... 9 deer has
nt material
^ : 4* looks, bind
.ht cheaper
id Of leathpurpose.
:>*;* >f the large
alne fear it
'- r, to the big
alne woods.
:: ' ?e & license,
, - a protection
can buy as
?L*et hold
'***asked
an. offering
ea and havhunting
ree?
?n incenp
prompt men
oey there is
?
- am-1'
id Los An
iper form of
mmk ''^r- the public
y? . ' the children
y "sir" and
; parents conand
think
ht to add the
lressed. But
ieacher3 say
'$Sr%'?'- smember the
* . and it would
: ^^-^8 mrden their
.,-:" * :ect of those
.. -* ? "slr", anii
a provincial
o doubt that
ch more fre3
fhan in pit.
es. It la certainly a very old usage.
[t Is etiquette thus to address the I
ECing and Queen of England. It is
lot etiquette to address him as "Your i
Majesty," but simply "sir." Among
vell-bred American men the habit ofising
"sir" is not common, except in'
iddressing strangers, or possibly men
>f advanced age, or men for whom
jreat veneration is entertained,
kmong equals the custom, in ordinary
conversation, does not exist. We
speak more particularly of city
iwellers. There can be no question
that the use of "yes" and "no" without
any supplementary title is somewhat
curt, but there can be no question
also that among the educated
- " "? - r*A _ II. t
;ity dwellers 01 me uimeu oiauja
:ustom of using "sir" and "ma'am"
lias fallen into desuetude.?San
Francisco Argonaut.
In Russia there are no fewer than;
eighty-six general holidays in the
year.
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HUB MM FACTORIES
Trust Tobacco Destroyed al
Princeton, Ky?
Ayply the Torch to Stemmeries Controlled
by Tobacco and Snuff
Companies in Reprisal.
. Princeton, Ky.?The tobacco stemmeries
of Johir Steger and John G.
Orr, the latter controlled by the Imperial
Tobacco Company, of New
York, were destroyed by a fire which
was kindled against them by a mob
of masked men. Several cottage? in
the vicinity were badly damaged, but
nobody was hurt. The Iosb is estimated
at about $170,000.
The mob, which numbered about
300 men, entered Princeton between
1 and 2 o'clock a. m., seised the
night town marshal and disarmed
him. They then went to the factor
ies and quickly applied the torch.
The masked men stood on guard,
permitting nobody to come near until
the buildings were completely
enveloped in flames and help was
useless. A squad of the mob took
charge of the telephone office and no
word of the affair was permitted to
go out.
When the mob saw that the fire
was beyond control they left the
town, going in the direction of Hopkinsville,
discharging revolvers and
rifles &b they departed. The Are department
then came out, but could
do nothing more than prevent tne
fire from destroying buildings in the
vicinity.
The Steger factory Is controlled by
the American Snuff Company, and
Mr. Steger is the Princeton agent for
that concern. Mr. Orr is the representative
of the Imperial Company.
There was about 150,000 pounds of
tobacco In each warehouse and all of
it was burned.
Fight With Tobacco Trust.
Louisville, Ky.?The destruction of
tobacco stemmeries In Princeton Dy a
mob Is the result of the strife which
has been In progress for several years
between tobacco growers and the Tobacco
Trust.
An association was formed soma
time ago in the dark tobacco section
of the State to pool the products of
the different planters and sell them
In their own warehouses, instead of
in the field, and thus raise the prlci
of tobacco, which had become so low
as to make it unprofitable to the
growers.
The Tobacco Trust fought the association
vigorously, and some of the
farmers refused to join. The organization,
however, obtained a majority
of the planters and succeeded in
bringing up the price of tobacco.
SUICIDE TO AVOID ERRORS.
????
Railroad Man Lived In Constant Fear
. of Causing Disaster.
Cincinnati. Ohio. ? Constant fear
that he would make a mistake that
would cause a wreck and death to
many drove James Oliver Page, aged
forty, dav foreman in-the Baltimore
& Ohio Railroad yards, to blo\tr his
brains out. Page was a conscientious-man.
His position was a responsible
one. A slight error might
have caused a calamity. Page felt
this deeply and when he came home
from work he would worry over errors
he might have overlooked. ,
The burden of his position bore
heavily on his mind and he became
nervous and d'ssnondent. He awoke
earlv to build a fire in the furnace of
his home. Ho had Been in tne ceiiar
a long time when hfs wife awoke.
She called and when she heard no
answer she walked down into the
cellar and found her husband'r
body.
FOE TWICE BURNS THEIR HOME.
This Time the Barn and Live Stock
Go With It.
York, Pa.?Awakened by the
noises made by the live stock in her
barn, which was being burned to the
ground. Mrs. Peter Runk, who lives
near York, grabbed a lamp and started
downstairs. She tripped , on her
Qight clothes, and in the fall the lamp
exploded and burned down the house
and its contents. Mrs. Runk managed
to crawl out of the house and
I escaped death. All her live stock
I was destroyed in the fire at the barn.
I rnu ^ -c> tt*#%# onmA
I X LXK3 UUUIVD aic IUC Tivnuio Ut ovuv
enemy, who has twice made them
suffer from fire. About one year ago
Mr. and Mrs. Runk left their "homo
for a short trip, and when they returned
it had been burned to the
ground.
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APPLES FOR EVERYBODY.
30,120,000 Barrels the Estimated Production
in the Country This Year.
New York City.*?The apple crop
in the United States has just been estimated
at 36,120,000 barrels. This
Is 12,625,000 barrels more than the
1905 crop, and may explain why the
fJew York Central road has been
forced to place an embargo on the
apple shipments from the north.
The estimated crop in New York
State is 4,900,000 barrels, or larger
by 1,000,000 barrels than the producj
tion in any other State. The estimated
New York crop equals the
crops in Maryland, Virginia, West
I T7I.? /? TTAninrtlrtr on/? flocon
I V irgiuia, ACUVU^aj auu
! combined, and if equaHy distributed
to the people of the State would give
half a barrel to each man, woman and
:hild. ^ ^
A Canadian Ambassador.
London paper declared that it
would be a wise course for the Imperial
Government to appoint a Canadian
as British Ambassador at
Washington.
American to Advise Siam.
Professor H. E. Strobel resigned
! as Bemis professor of international
law at the Harvard Law School to bei
;ome general adviser of the Government
of Siam.
Prominent People.
The late Major-General William
R. Shafter, who died at Bakersfleld,
J Cal., left an estate of $15,000.
Marquis Ito and Field Marshals
Yaoiagata and Oyama have been
| created princes by the Japanese Emj
peror.
Mme. Melba has such a good memory
that she can learn an entire opera
in one week. She does most of her
studying in bed.
Prince Henry of Reuss, of the German
imperial family, spent several
hours in Washington, D. C., being
lunched at_the German Embassy.
RUSSIA'S 111 HORROR'
About 20,000,000 People Face .
to Pace With Starvation.
- .
drops ill Seven Provinces Fall and ial.
Twenty-one Harvests Are very
Poor?Parents Sell Girls.
St. Petersburg, Russia.?Princes
G. E. Lvoff and Orbellanl, the repre- -jg
seritatives of tlie< Moscow zemstvo
famine relief organization, who have
jupt returned from Jthe stricken, districts,.
have, given the following de- !
ecription of the conditions in the . ,
famine provinces: \
The crops in seven provinces,,
mara, Saratov, Bembirsk, Kazan,
Penza, Tambov and Ufa, were prac- ,^
tically total failures. In. twenty-one
provinces the harvests were very poor.
About twenty million people
will need assistance for from four to
ten months to stave off starvation, !
until the new crops are available.' ^
Contrasted with other years the pres- .v
ent famine Is the largest since 1891,
mat 01 xvua, inougn aneciiag eigu*
teea million persons, being far less
intense. .
In some regions the inhabitants
have been suffering from starvation
(or ten years, passable crops hffVinE:
been gathered in only two out of the
t$n years. Prince Lvoff believes the
Government estimate of $50,000,00.0 *
for famine relief is inadequate. The ;
Moscow zemstvo relief organization
calculates that $75,000,000 and possibly
more will be necessary. 1
Though the conditions in the famine
regions are now most distressing,
the real terrors will begin in January.
The zemstvo organization funfc
$300,000, will then be exhausted,
and the Relief Committee will be
compelled to cease' their efforts , to
save the lives of the starving peasants.
Prince Lvoff complained that
the local officials, for political reasons,
are in^rfering with the establishment
of soup kitchens and the .
rendering of medical assistance. He <
reported a number of cases where
petty functionaries prohibited assistance
being given to famine sufferers.
The villages are convulsed, by;
agrarian troubles, though the inh&b- .
itants are actually In the greatest
need of food. Hunger, and epidemics
of typhus and scurvy, which usually
begin in February, have already ap
peared fa, these provinces, Tula,, v,~
Kazan (tyd Samara, and as the winter
protases more epidemics are anticipated.
On the strength of his practical
knowledge Prince Lvoff reaffirmed
the truth of the report, lately official- \ *
ly denied, that girls In Kazan Prov- v
Ince had been sold Into slavery and3|B|
taken to Mohammedan harems in the
Caucasus. He said the sales were
masked under the guise of entering'??
domestic service, but that did ndt'3H
affect the truth of the first statements .
made. Hundreds of families in the*&S|
Volga provinces, the Prince added,
were flocking to the already overpopulated
towns.
Prince Orbellani, who extended his J
trip to the Turgal steppes/ said that a
famine was raging among the Kit- ^
ghiz and the Bashkir tribes. The
horses and cattle ot these nomad
tribes^ were perishing from hunger
and the owners were killing them for
their hides. The tribesmen, accord- . ' "
ing to the Prince, will face complete .<!
ruin next year. * jO.;
SHIP CAPTAIN FROZEN. \
Died ^kfter Reaching Shore With Vj
Crew?Sailor Lost. , ?
Digby, N. S.?Captain Berry, of the
three-masted schooner Emma R. Harvey,
was frozen to death near here "M
after the Harvey had gone to pieces,
and he and all but one of his crew
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uau ""J - -o ? . ?
breakers to land. One seamaa waa "-q
drowned, but the other members ot
the crew found shelter and were r&- $
lived. .
The Harvey, of Bucksport, Me., ^<3
sailed from Applesland, N. S., bound 3
for New York, with a cargo of lum* ^
ber. Coming down the western coast ^
of Nova Scotia she had a constant
fight with wind and wave, and en- .
countered a terrific gale. Driven be* Ste
fore the northwester,' with the temperature
hovering about the zero ^
mark, the Harvey reached a point . ^
1 JUBt OH Sioau & vu?e, eigui rnuw vuui,
of Digby Gut, when a tremendous
gust of wind hurled the three*master
ashore and every man on board
thrown into the water. The captain ;
came ashore with the others, but fell
I on the beach some distance away and .
was frozen to death. One seaman ;-i]
was drowned aftey the vessel went to Z
pieces.
TOWN RUINED BY FLOOD.
j Clifton, Ariz., Dam Breaks, Destroy- -yj
ing Life And Property.
Blsbee, Ariz. ? Anywhere from
seven to twenty persons are reported V.!
drowned in the flood that came down
the San Francisco River and Chase
Creek and struck the town of Clifton.'
The principal business section of the
town was almost ruined. The flood
was caused by the bursting of the ' /
Detroit dam. Mrs. Joseph Throm
was caught in a falling building and
killed. The other members of.,the
family had narrow escapes. One of
[ the saloons which* was washed away \)i
carried several men into the raging
water and they are believed to have
been drowned. A woman and a child s ?
were lost in a small restaurant which .
was dashed to pieces in the flood.
Convicted of Murder.
A first degree murder verdict waa ?
returned at Canton, O., against Jas.
Cornelius for killing his wife. f
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Hudson River Closed.
The Hudson River was closed to ^
navigation, it being the earliest tieup
since 1890, with four exceptions.
'
Loans on Real Estate.
A bill authorizing National bank*
to make loans on real estate security
was passed.
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The Field- of Sports.
Rhyolite, Nev., has offered $20,000
for a fight between Dick Hyland anil
Battling Nelson. ' The
number of deaths from football
this year was two less than the :
number last season.
The English Lawn Tennlf Association
refuses to vote Beale C. Wrighl f
as the American representative on
the English council.
At the recent, exhibition of th<
Royal Agricultural Society, of Vic*
toria, in Australia, tjie exhibit o; h
trotting stallions rivaled that o? the
thoroughbreds in quality.