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IHAW DEFENCE HEHITi) j ' INS/INITY II EPILEPSY i _ ^ | Prosecution Completes sts Case Against White's Slayer. SPEED IN FAMOUS MURDER TRIAL; People's Side Begun and Finished in Two Hours ? Opening Address Made by Assistant District Attorney Garvan. New York City.?Two hours to the minute was the time taken by the prosecution ir presenting to the jury the case against Harry K. Thaw, who is on trial in the criminal branch of the Supreme Court for the murder of Stanford White on the Madison Square Roof Garden on June 25 last. Orders were given to exclude every ane from the court-room with the exception of the talesmen and those who had immediate business there, so the police had their hands full, as with the coming of the first day of the real trial they were assailed by a horde of men and women ^ainly seeking admittance. It was 10.45 o'clock when Assistant District Attorney Garvan began the opening address for the State. At 12.45 o'clock, after calling nine witnesses, Mr. Jerome announced that the prosecution rested. He had aaade good his promise of presenting his case at the first session. With his closing, and after the notice he had given, the defence was prepared to open for Thaw when court convened again in the afternoon. All of Harry Thaw's own people, sxcept his sister, the Countess of Yarmouth, and his brother-in-law, Seorge L. Carnegie, heard the young, :lean-cut Garvan arraign him for the ieath of Stanford White. Mr. Garvan told how Stanford White had on June 25 last taken his ion Lawrence and a schoolmate of >he latter to dinner at the Cafe Martin. The boys had bought tickets to the New York Theatre roof garden md declined an invitation of Stanford White to accompany him to the < Madison Square roof garden. "Stanford White," said Mr. Garran, "went to the Madison Square i roof garden and sat alone at one of i the small tables there watching the first production of a play called ; 'Mamzelle Champagne.' "The defendant was there with his wife and two friends, Truxton Beale and Thomas McCaleb. The defend- I ant walked constantly about the i place. In the middle of the second i act the defendant's party started to < leave the roof. The defendant let his : party go ahead and he lagged behind. ; "Passing the table where Stanford White was sitting, this defendant i suddenly faced Mr. White and delib erateiy snot mm tnrougn tne Drain, the bullet entering the eye. "Mr. White was dead! "The defendant did not know this. He feared he had not completed his j work and fired again, the bullet penetrating White's chest. "Still, to make sure, he fired a third time. "Mr. White, or rather the body of 1 Mr. White, tumbled to the floor. "The defendant turned and. facing the audience, he held his revolver aloft, with the barrel upside down, to indicate that he had completed what he had intended to do. The . big audience understood. There was no panic." Mr. Garvan concluded by giving I the details of Thaw'3 arrest and indictment by the prosecution. Thaw sat with head downcast and face flushed. Not once did Mr. Garvan mention, save casually and in order to make the narrative complete, any name save the names of the two principals ?wnite ana maw. in piain, dui impressive, manner, without waste of adjectives, Garvan sketched the main lines of the big tragedy. These were the last words: "Gentlemen of the jury, we eipect to show you this crime vas the cruel, malicious, premeditated taking of a Rain May Save Cub;:n TobacCo Crop. The tobacco crop in Pinar del Rio Province, Cuba, probably has been saved by the recent rains. Thi6 crop had been given up as almost a total loss because of the extreme dryness. Grip Feared in New York. According to the Health Department New York City is in the grip of pneumonia, and an epidemic of the -liaaoflA in flin novf throQ mnnthci UiOCaOQ 1U VUV UVAV V?A4 vv is feared. The Field of Sports. Boxing clubs are doing very well in New York just now. It is seldom that boxmen, once they lose their grip, are able to regain it. Jack Dunn is working hard to get a team of pennant winners for Baltimore, for he gets a $1000 bonus if he turns the trick. John J. McGrath, prominent as a manager of semi-professional teams in and around New York, has been appointed manager of the Savannah team of the South Atlantic League j tor 1907. \... ?6* ' \ k u?3fe.v-. .A human life. After proving that fact to you. we will ask you to find the defendant guilty of tlis crime of murder in the first degree." Neither Harry Thar, nor any of his people showed by any outward sign that they heard Jerome's assistant. After Mr. Garvan took his seat. District Attorney Jerome sprang a surprise by asking the court to exclude all witnesses in the case except experts. By doing this Mr. Jerome disclosed the fact that Mrs. William maw, ine prisoners motner, ana Mrs. Harry Thaw, his wife, were both to take the stand for the defence. On advice of Thaw's counsel they left | the court-room with all the other witnesses. May McKcnzie, Evelyn Nesbit's chorus girl chum, was included in the list and accompanied Mrs. Harry Thaw into the court clerk's office. Mrs. William Thaw is expected to testify to the prisoner's eccen- I tricities as a youth. The prisoner seemed greatly downcast at the exclusion of his mother and wife. His only relatives left in the room were his brothers and his sister, Mrs. Carnegie. I The first witness was then called. I He was Lawrence White, a Harvard student, nineteen years old, and a j son of the dead architect. White was on the stand but a few minutes. He told of accompanying his father to the Cafe Martin for dinner, and said j that when he left him to go with his companion, a boy named King, to the New York Roof Garden, it was j the last time he saw his father alive. mi .11 .... J J M a! A n/s I maw s anuriieys uiu uui ueauc iu i cross-examine the witness, and he was allowed to leave the stand. Warren Paxton, the' engineer of | the Madison Square Garden, followed young White on the stand. He had known Stanford White for sixteen years. On the night of the shooting he was on the roof garden. Paxton sent for a policeman after the murder. There was some delay in getting the policemen and Thaw remarked: "Can't I go down the elevator now? I do not want to disturb these people here." Thaw, Paxton said, was referring to the audience. Paxton continued: "I saw Mrs. Thaw and two men near the elevator. Thaw here remarked: 'I shot him because he ruined my wife.' "Then Mrs. Thaw threw her arms around the defendant's neck and said: 'Yes, but look at the fix you are in now.' "Thaw said to her: 'It's all right, dearie. I have probably saved your life.' " A big drawing showing the Madison Square Roof Garden was then shown to the jury and Mr. Garvan 4-Vtsx f K A CApittlUCU IU LUC JUIUID cuo A cmbi T ^ positions of Thaw and White at the time of the shooting. Meyer Cohen, a singer, and Henry F. Blease, in the music publishing business, both of whom witnessed the shooting, were examined. The first move by the defence toward crosseiamination was made when Delphin M. Delmas, the noted California lawyer, put a few questions to Cohen. Paul Brudi, the fireman who seized and disarmed Thaw, was the fifth witness. His story corroborated those told by the preceding witnesses. All the evidence submitted by the prosecution was straightforward; mer-.Iy simple account of how Thaw went to the Madison Square Garden roof and shot down the man he hated. Patrolman Patrick L. Debs, who arrested Thaw, was called. He identified the pistol, the bullets and empty shells. "Did you have any conversation with Thaw?" asked Mr. Garvan. "I did," he replied. "I asked the prisoner if he had shot Stanford White, and he said, 'I did.' I then asked him why he shot him, and he said, 'Because he ruined my wife*? or life." * Timothy Lehane, coroner's physician, who performed the autopsy oiv Stanford White's body.Vdescribed the wounds made by the th>ee bullets. Dr. Sylvester Pechner, who was with a party on the Madison Square Roof Garden the night of the tragedy, followed. Dr. Pechner examined Whito snnn nff-pr hp fell, and r>ro nounced him dead. The architect's death must have been instantaneous, he declared. He then saw the defendant "break his gun," or put it out of firing condition, and hold it aloft. Just after this, Fireman Brudi took the man in charge. Railway Lease Threatened. A bill has been introduced in the Massachusetts Legislature cancelling the lease of the Boston and Albany to the Central on the ground that ''the lessee is not giving the citizens the service to which they are entitled." Oklahoma Forbids Intermarriage. The Oklahoma constitutional convention adopted a clause prohibiting the intermarriage of negroe3 and whites and negroes and Indians. Suicide Hippie Was Deeply in Debt. A Coroner's jury of Philadelphia brought in a verdict that he had committed suicide while insane in the case of Edward P. Hippie, brother of the self-slain president of the Real Estate Trust Company. HiRple was hpavilv in debt. One iudement en jtered was for $120,4i4.66. It is said that there are many other debts. Postal League Election. The annual meeting of the Postal Progress League was held In Boston; Frederick C. Beach, of Boston, was elected president. "May it please Your Honor, the j State now rests its case, said Mr. I Jerome in almost an undertone. It ! was 12.45 o'clock. It had taken the District-Attorney a little less than i two hours to offer his evidence in I chief in New York County's greatest j murder case. Thaw listened to the recital of the I shooting for the most part in a matter-of-fact way, although his eyes nearly all the time were glued to the witnesses in the chair. Only once did he betray any sign of emotion, and that was when the coroner's physician was tilling the story of the autopsy. Then Thaw, who had let his head slip forward into his hands, looked as though he might be brooding, but at a nudge from Mr. Peabody he sat up again and a stolid look came into his face as if lie were prepared for the worst. Only 6nce or twice did he whisper to his counsel?the proceedings in front of him were going on at too rapid a rate to allow any side remarks. When the prisoner entered the court-room there had been a slight flush in his face, which was ^attempting to banish the prison pallor. The flush grew for a time and then faded as the last witnesses came. After a brief recess John B. Gleason, who opened for Thaw, spoke for an hour and a quarter. He stated that the defense would rely on every plea it could uphold, not excluding a belief in the need of self-defence, but his main argument came to this: Thaw comes from a family with insanity on both sides. He is of a high strung temperament, easily losing control of himself. For years he courted Evelyn Nesbit with the consent of her mother. For a time she refused him for some reason connected with White, which she herself will take the stand to explain. This aroused in him an insane hatred of White, which his marriage, with the approval of all his relatives, did not remove. Wlien he came upon me architect in Madison Square Garden he believed he was there by the direct interposition of Providence, and as the direct agent of Providence ho shot and killed him. Stress and the influences of heredity had turned hi3 brain, and as an insane man he cannot be held responsible for the acts committed under the influence of insanity. "We will show you," said Mr. Gleason, "that the defendant on the night of the shooting first saw White glowering at him and then became convinced that it would be an act of Providence for him to. kill the architect. Acting on that prompting, he walked over as coolly as he might go to speak to a friend and shot that man. He did not regard the act as wrong. He considered that it was God's providence and was not wrong. We say that upon the evidence it will be impossible for you to say that at the time Thaw shot White he was sane beyond a reasonable doubt." One sentence of Gleason's threw wide open the closet, and the horror of it all burst upon the view. It was as if the founder of the Thaw family ?he who reared that monument of forty millions o? dollars?had stalked upon the scene like the spectre King of Denmark, and cried: "The sins of the father are visited upon the children. Blame not my son?blame me." Mr. Gleason said: "We will show you, gentlemen of the jury, that in Mrs. William Thaw, Mother of Harry .JY. inaw. this man's family, to a marked extent, there were insanity and epilepsy." And yet once more he shouted: "On both sides of this defendant's family, both as to his father and mother, we will produce to you direct evidence that there was insanity." West Pointers at Jamestown. Secretary Taft has ordered that the West Point, cadets be taken in a body to the Jamestown (Va.) Exposition. Railway Fare Reduced. A reduction of fare went into effect on the Boston and Maine and Maine Central Railroads. 1 I? t McKJnley's Memory Honored. Carnation Day, in memory of President McKinley, was widely celebrated. The Field of Labor. Unions in the Netherlands comprise 37,221 members. Davis, I. T., reports the importation of 3000 Bohemians for railroad construction work. All Great Northern sections throughout the Northwest will be manned by negroes. Horseshoers have obtained the nine-hour day without reduction of nav in Toronto, Canada. The inside electrical workers or San Francisco are on strike for an increase of wages from $5 to per dav IB MUD" IIPHWIIVI Administration Condemns Infiarr matory Talks About Japan. Tokio Laughs at Ultimatum StoryItaneko Says Japanese Public Men Know Limits of Federal Power. Washington, D. C.?There is r diplomatic crisis in the relations b< tween the United States and Japa and no danger that there will t war now or any future time, unle: certain unreasonable Californian aided by certain irresponsible new paper publishers, provoke it. Tl administration regards with undi guised impatience the efforts of son papers to exaggerate everything coi nected with the relations of the tw nations into "crises," "scares" an "sensations." The administration rrmvinoerl that, thug far even the att tude of certain Californians has n< strained the relations between th country and Japan, but it condemi in unmeasured terms inflammatoi utterances such as Senator Perkir made to the Geographic Society i Washington and Representative-ele< Hobson has recently given to tl: press. It is positively asserted thi there is nothing in the San Francist school situation to warrant even tal of war;'that the stories that unusui military preparations are being mad are absolutely false; that the repo: that steps were being taken to expi dite the construction of fortificatioi in Hawaii and on the Pacific, beyon the ordinary progress of such work is unadulterated sensationalism ar absolutely without foundation; th; the assertion that the maneuvres < the Pacific squadron constitute menace to Japan is simply ridiculou and that there is nothing to strai the relations between this counti and Japan except the pertinacity wit which certain persons and new papers persist in crying, "Wai War!" when no war is threatened. JAPAN ISN'T GOING TO WAR. Has No Idea of It, Says Foreign Mi] ister Hayaslii. Tnnin ?Tho tolo7rnms fro -L UIVIU, U Ckpuu. vwivg* London reporting newspaper talk < a possible war between Japan ar the United States, and that Viscoui Aoki, Japanese Ambassador at Was] ington, had handed Secretary of Sta' Root an ultimatum, are received hei with laughter. Viscount Hayash Minister of Foreign Affairs, in r sponse to, an inquiry, sent the fc lowing message to the correspondei of the New York Sun: "Japan has not the slightest id< of going to war with the Unite States." The entire absence of warlike fee ing in Japan is explained by Bare Kaneko, formerly Special Envoy 1 the United States, who said: "The Japanese understand Ameri< better than the Americans unde stand Japan. A great majority of tl men holding public positions hei were educated by American instruc ors, and have long studied Americs institutions. Now, through the pre: and otherwise they are helping tl people to appreciate the difficulty tl Federal Government lies under : controlling the action of the lndivl ual* States. The American Gover: ment and people, with England, a: Japan's best friends. War is u: thinkable." Hon. Tokiwo Yokoi, Chairman < the Committee on Petitions of tl lower house of the Diet, who hol< the moat confidential relations wil Prime Minister Saienji and Marqu Ito, president of the Privy Counc! says: "War with America would d ~ a no-in-jAnaiieae allianc Sll U,T tuv W -r and Germany would step in, intrig ing for a Far Eastern position. J pan would be completely isolated. SI realizes that American and Englar are her sureties among the Power If Great Britain could not afford i remain isolated it would be suicid for Japanese statesmen to endangi Japan's alliance with her or to aliei ate American sympathy." GOV. MATA SLAIN IN VENEZUEL Castro Leader and Others of Gover ment Force Fall Victims. Willemstad, Island of Curacoa.According to advices received hei Governor Mata, at the head of a boc of armed troops, surprised a seer political meeting in the yard of Vic President Gomez at Caracas, Ven zuela, during the night of Januai 27, and in the fighting which follow< Governor Mata and several othe were killed and a number, includir the commander of the troops, we; wounded. Dr. Luis Mata, ex-Minister of Pu lie Works, of Venezuela, was a pointed Governor of the Federal Di trict of Caracas on the recent retui of General Castro to the Presidency TWO HANGED IN PORTO RICO Governor Refused to Interfere in Spi of Many Appeals For Clemency. San Juan, P. R.?Francisco Dom and Francisco Rivera were hanged i San Juan. This is the first hangir that has taken place in Porto Rico. Many appeals for commutation < sentnnre were made by members i the Legislature and others, but tl Governor refused to interfere. Thei is a strong sentiment in Porto Ri< * * nf nanitfll mil against lilt? iiiiuuliuu r ishment, particularly by hanging. Testimony Against Harriman. A witness at the Interstate Con merce Commission hearing in Sa Francisco said that E. H. Harrima throttled the Oregon and Orient Steamship Line and forced it out < business. Attorney Dodd Dead. Samuel C. T. Dodd, since 1S"3 chief solicitor of the Standard C Company, died at Pinehurst, N. < Mr. Dodd was a nartive of Frankli Pa., where he was born in 1S36. ? .. ^ ? Halls of Congress. An adjournment was taken becau: of the death of Senator Russell i I Alger. A message from the President urj Ing ship subsidy legislation was r ceived. rr,t"- """CO Pnmmiftso fin NaV JL 1IC X1UUOC . t Affairs voted in favor of authorlzlr a second big gun battleship of 20,0( tons. A message was received from tl President recommending provisic for American representation at tl International Maritime Exposition Bordeaux this summer. - ' ' n-.-AC. ' . i ram ins INDICTED III HI fOff Charged With Controlling Many Houses and Companies. L KLAW AND ERLANGER BAILED 10 s- Samuel Nixon, J. F. Zimmerman, ,n Marc Klaw, Abraham Erl anger, >e Charles Frohman and AI Haymon nc Pnncn{T*af/ti?c g New York City.?A blanket bill of indictment, charging six members of 10 n the so-called "Theatrical Trust" with ' s[e conspiracy in restraint of trade, was i- returned by the Grand Jury. The ro theatrical managers named In the in d dictment are Samuel Nixon and J. F. is Zimmerman, composing the firm of 3t Nixon & Zimmerman, of Philadelphia is and New York; Marc Klaw and Abra ham Erlanger, of the firm of Klaw & g Erlanger, and Charles Frohman and n A1 Hayman, all of this city. 2t Of these men only Messrs. Klnw ie and Erlanger were in town. Nixon it and Zimmerman are in Philadelphia, :o and Charles Frohman and A1 Hayman k are in Europe. The indictment, filling seventy [e typewritten pages, was handed up to rt Judge Foster in Part I. of General e. Sessions. Messrs. Klaw and Erlanger is had already been summoned by their 1(1 counsel, Alfred Lauterbach, and bail St In the amount of $1000 each was fur1(1 nished by "Big Tim" Sullivan, who ^ gave as security the Dewey Theatre, 5{ 4n East Fourteenth street, which he a 3aid was worth $300,000. g> The indictment sets forth in detail [n the acts of the so-called trust. The y jharge is that the managers have :h conspired to monopolize the theatrig. :al business both as to ownership of [ { i :heatres and as to the production of :heatrical attractions. Under the jtatutes, such a violation of the Interstate law is a misdemeanor. The conspiracy, it is charged, takes che form of written agreements ena. tered into in 1896 and 1900 by the Indicted managers. By these agreements the several managers agree to m pool theatres and attractions and dirt vide the profits of the business. At td the time of the organization of the it so-called trust, the indictment points h- Dut, it controlled fifty theatres te throughout the country. At the presre ent time it absolutely controls 600 i, of the 600 prominent bnes. e- The indictment also chargcs that ,1- by means of the combination, the at managers have coerced actors, playwrights and owners, and have com;a pelled ownerB of many theatres to >d give the syndicate exclusive control of the bookings of their theatres, in 1- payment for which the Syndicate has in extorted from twenty-five to fifty per to cent, of the profits of the houses. As an instance of the methods of :a the syndicate, the case of Sarah Bernr hardt is cited. In her last tour of ie this country, in 1905, permission was re refused her to play in syndicate t- houses, for the reason that she was in appearing under the direction of a ss rival firm of managers. In her tour ie Mme. Bernhardt played only in inie' dependent houses, and was frequentIn ly forced to appear under tents. 4. n- SOCIALISTS EXECUTE A BANDIT. ro i . ii- Man Who Attempted to Rob Bank ^ 1 Shot Dead in Waiting Boom. ? ie Warsaw, Poland.?Socialists exeJa cuted a bandit who made an unsucth cessful attempt to get $500 from the 4 J is Commercial Bank of Warsaw. The '1 11, man entered the bank and asked the e- iirector to give him $500. Hfs ree, quest was refused, whereupon the u- man sat down in the waiting room a- and announced bis intention of reie maining there until he received the id money. The bank officials feared tos. ask the police for help. A Socialist to member, of the bank's staff, however, al called up the Socialist headquarters er on the telephone and explained the n- situation. Two men from headquarters at once went to the bank. They approached the man in the waiting ^ room, threw a sack over his head and blew out his brains with a revolver. The police have not interefered with a* the men who did the killing. ? PBISON WARDEN KILLED. re ^ ly Governor Shot on Basil Island?Marderer Escapes. e- St. Petersburg, Russia.?M. Guidery tna, Governor of the political prison on Vasili Ostrow (Basil Island), a rs suburb of this city, was shot in the ig main street of the island and died aire most immediately. The assassin, a boy of eighteen, b- dressed as a workman, went out from p. a teahouse as M. Guidema was passg. Ing, and shot him twice in t?.e stom n ach. The terrorist also shot and _ mortally wounded a prison warden i who accompanied M. Guidema. The I murderer disappeared and the police '' have been unable to find any trace Of him, owing to the fact that the , tc population of the island generally sympathize with the revolutionists. es at Rogers Settles Gas Suit. lS The suit of the Bay State Gas Company, of Delaware, against Henry H. Rogers in connection with the ownaf i areViir* nf otnolr nf fhft Rnntnn CJ-flH I le Company was practically settled at re Boston by an agreement to pay the io receiver $1,500,000 in consideration a* of the abandonment of claims and stock. Mutnal's Suit Dismissed. a* The suit of the Mutual Life Insurance Company against D. C. Halde, man and the North British and Mer. cantile Insurance Company was dismissed in the Chancery Division of the High Court of Justice at London. Cleveland's New Office. r5 Ex-President Grover Cleveland ?il was elected chairman and chief counC. sel of the Association of Life Insurn, ince Presidents at asalary of $25,000 a year. Feminine Notes. 3e Louisiana has enacted a law which permits cities of over 10,000 inhabitants to aoboint women factory in- , g_ spectors. e_ Princess Mary of Saxe-Altenburg, . former Queen of Hanover, who died . in Gmunden, Upper Austria, on January 9 last, left $750,000 to various charities in the former Kingdom of Hanover. Mrs. James Bryce, wife of the new ? British Ambassador to the United "J States, was MIsb Marion Ashton before she married Mr. Bryce, in 1889. ! Her social success has been notable In London. THE MODERN ELECTR1I ' Not only has man utilized elect: manufacturing agent or as a means ol rlnnm thA AloptHr. flnlrl tn marA ant task of simplifying the managen; spread of this use of electricity cons! the average housewife is given by H zine. A Useful Toy. Very little difficulty will be encountered in making the water-clock il- R lustrated here; and any boy can man- w age. All that are needed are a piece n of cardboard, a piece of wire, two tl pieces of cork, some needles and a ei tin can. ' tl A hole is made, in the bottom of the ii an which shall suffice to let all the p water run out in twenty-four hours. The piece of cardboard must be about li twenty-six inches long and six inches b wide, and is cut out as shown in the n diagram. This is set up on the tin s< can by means of wires. b r F\ i~l * f! t : i i y ? ' sp ^ s ' ' I ff ? if n A ^ a f * [ ' \ ? '* lEtolgf 111, A stiff wire twenty inches long ha3 a small piece of cork fastened to one' end, and a shaving of cork at the other, this last piece of cork to float In the water of the can, which is to be open at the top. The bit of cork at the top, which is to act as a pointer, can also help to steady the wire by having two needles inserted so -that they will move up and down in the groove, being fixed crosswise. One of the needles will thus serve as a pointer; and to mark out the hours on the cardboard one simply lets the water run out for an hour from the opening at the bottom, and going to the card, makes a mark; the other hours are determined in the same way. Among men, fifty-one per cent, are stronger in the right arm than in the n (eft. In thirty-three cases the left ti arm is the stronger; in the rest the al two arms are equal. w Latest and Largest I'.", >* ? . ' - S ' - . . + yr- \fr :v - - % " . THE NEW DEUTSCH AIR SH The peculiar arrangement of twin, sort of balancing tail. The balloon is 2< diameter. It has a capacity of 113.0 05 horsepower gasoline motor connected t through the air. Circular Clamp. di To tightly clamp a circular column m made up of many pieces is a very iN K r~x3 i Jf Cb IJ |f ^ - i i'1 U1 , rf- * i , I i i . Hr ' w *\ pi J ' pt > ai Tightly Clamps Pieces of Colum*. le ? 1- . -2- li-i . . , . B. . f , ; KITCHEN OUTHT. : r&gg>>; ill rUbgxk %P&f j?j?j?Q W^t in ps? p iclty in his greatest activities as a' ' transportation, but he has chained bumble but almost equally important of his home. AaT iiSte of the derably beyond that poise&3ed b7 T TV ^ ~ ~T 1 ? i_Z3 Wfl OO. L. U. iVUU TT HUH 111 VU^IOIV,! B 1 ; 1.. : Hog of Brilliant Color. That really beautiful .species the ,ed River hog of West Africa is now ell represented in the zoo. In comion with other; juvenile wild pigs le Red River hog Is striped in the irly part of its life. When about iree months old It loses its mart- ; lgs and the body has a spotted ap- ' earance. The adult is one of the most brilantly colored mammals in existence, . < ut its bright red hue no doubt har- \ ionizes with its surroundings, the oil In many parts of West Africa elng red. It is of an elegant shape , nd with its tufted tall and long, encllled ears has considerable preentions to beauty. Though it has not the enormous asks found In many of the yild wine the Red River hog is not deold of means of defense. Its face to rotected by hard callosities on each ide, just below the; eyes* and there v i a bony ridge on each side of the pper jaw. And that these growths # re uoi mereiy uruameuuu ? pu;?wi y the fact that this animal-can hold ts 6wn with the wart hog, a species rovlded with formidable upturned ; usks.?Westminster (Gazette. 'd Charming Roumanian Costume. The Roumanian peasants have the lost delightful and picturesque cosimes of all European peoples.' The bove shows the national costume ? ith headdress.* : : Dirigi^leBalloon^ | [IP "VILLE DE PARIS." , -j hydrogen-filled cylinders forms a )3.42 feet long and 34.45 feet in cubic feet and requires a seventy0 a 19.68-foot propeller to drive it -Jl fflcult problem. The ordinary ethods employed are slow and tediis, and often unsuccessful. A more )-to-date method is shown in the ;ustration, the invention of a New >rsey mechanic. He provides a amp which can easily be placed in >sition, and by a simple method jhtened up. Encircling the column an iron chain, at one end of which ~ the clamp. The clamp comprises 70 sections, one connected to the tain and the other having a hook, lto which any link of the chain can 1 hooked, according to the size of :e column. Connecting the two irts of the clamp is a threaded bolt iving reverse threads dt each end. will be obvious that by turning e threaded bolt the two sections of * e clamp will be brought together ltll the pieces of the column are ought tightly together.?Philadelila Record. A fool and his money are soon irted?and a wise man soon dies id his heirs take what the lawyers BY9. . .I. > J' . i'io ^.'y. I fijl