The Abbeville press and banner. (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, July 01, 1908, Image 7
I am the American Eagle,
And my wings Han together.
Likewise, 1 roost nigh.
And 1 eat bananas raw.
Home may sit on her
8even hills and howl,
But she can not
Sit on Me!
Will she please put that
In her organ and grind it?
1 am mostlv a bird of peace
And 1 was born without teeth.
But I've got talons
That reacn from the stormBeaten
coasts of the Atlantic
To the golden shores of the
Placid Pacific,
And I use the Rocky Mountains
As whetstones to sharpen them on.
I never cackle till I
Lay an egg.
And I point with pride
To the eggs I've laid
Iflr Twentieth Ce
.
^ HY NOT let this In?
Ifl dependence Day be
0De 0Q wbich the
yj * ||y hostess, too, deJclares
her indeI
pendence, on which
she reso^ves to no 1
longer be bound In '
servitude by the old '
| forms of entertainment which have
grown threadbare from use since the
days of the Revolutionary War? Let '
her get up something original, wheth- '
er she has to think it out herself or
copy some clever idea. People are j
growing weary of the monotonous
repetitions of July 4 entertainments
and anything new, even though It may
lack In merit, will meet with greater 1
appreciation than compelling your
guests to go through any one of the \
norfnrma rwo that rpmind them
! i
of an annual duty they are forced to
perform instead of an occasion of
merriment and enjoyment. Don't let
dime novel sentiment enter into your
program. If you have anything suggestive
of patriotism avoid the com|
monplace hurrah that pleases the hoi
polloi. Your guests should not be
treated as the rabble, and you should
not resort to the politician's means
of arousing interest by grandstand
methods. Avoid the kind of amusement
that appeals to the gallery.
iiie auouuiig uu ui urecratiiKra, pyrotechnic
displays in the evening and
the singing of national airs now
please only the juvenile American?
juvenile in years or mentality.
The twentieth century hostess
must provide something for the
-amusement of her guests out of the
beaten track?the more outre, bizarre
e and unusual the more desirable.
A scheme which smacks of originality
has been thought out by a clever
Boston girl, who will entertain at her
country home a house party over Independence
Day. Golf, motoring, tennJa
nnrt thp nlrl riM Mms r>f hoarto
with Cupid as score keeper, will be
played throughout the day, but on the
evening of the glorious Fourth will
. come the crowning fun of the occasion?a
most original and amusing
dinner. For this function the young
hostess will transform her living
room porch into a dining room. Patriotic
and artistic effects will be
Achieved by draping American and
French flags around the sides of the
inclosure, with tall palms in attractive
groups to lend a touch of cooling
green to the mise en scene. At
the top of the piazza will run a
broken line of rich red Japanese lan
x?rns nung on rea, wnite ana Diue
ribbon, forming a pretty frieze and
shedding light and air of gayety over
the al fresco banquet.
The ten guests comprising the <
house party win sit at a pretty round '
table, which is made by placing over
an ordinary kitchen pine table one of (
the round wooden tops every hostess ,
provides in several different sizes for !
the dinner entertaining. The ex- (
quisite linen damask tablecloth will
hide all suspicion of the table's plebeian
origin, and the pretty board
wrUl wlaom wifh cilvoi* onrl clocc Atia
Bn iii "in* V/UC
course will be served on blue Revolu- ,
tionarv china worth its weight in gold
to a collector. The table decorations
will be small silk flags, and broad tricolored
ribbons will run out from the
centre of the table and hang down to
the floor. A large Liberty bell of red,
white and blue flowers will be suspended
over the table. A mound of
geraniums shorn of their leaves
makes the floral centrepiece. At each
girl's place will be arranged dainty
little rustic baskets filled with bluish
purple sweet peas, and tiny Conti
nental military hats made of dark
Wue crinkled paper ornamented with
a gold cockade are designed for the
men's dinner favors. The menus are
to be imposing scrolls, with seals?
small Declarations of Independence
tied up with tri-colored ribbon.
Instead of the names of viands that
appear on the usual menu, on this
scroll menu there will appear a perplexing
lot of questions written out
by the clever hostess.
When the guests are taking their
seats she will make the rather starting
announcement "that whether you
I people get anything to eat or not will
depend upon your own wits." You
can well imagine the consternation
of the company. And she will further
explain that "if you give the right
answers to the questions asked on the
scroll by your plate the servants will
aelp you; otherwise you go without.
In the list hundred years or so.
I'm game from
The point of my beak
To tne star spangled tips
Of niv tail feathers:
And when I begin
To scratch gravel,
Mind your eyes!
I'm the cock of the walk,
And the henbird of the
Goddess of Liberty;
The only gallinaceous
E pluribus unuin
On record.
I'm an eagle from Eagleville,
\Vith a scream on me that makes
Thunder sound like .
Dropping cotton
On a still morning.
And my present address is
Hail Columbia,
U. S. A.!
See? ?New ?ork Sun.
iNlURY foURTft
^ BYORAARSntol
So be careful what you write."
The first brain splitting puzzler is,
"What will you be in if you answer
wrong?" And if you're not pretty
quick at this sort of nonsense you
will not write on the card, "The
soup." The next question is, "Where
did you go at the St. Louis Exposition
to have some fun?" "Pike." This
rare and delicious fish having been
successfully captured and enjoyed,
the attention is drawn to the third
proposition.
"What is the only country Russia
has ever whipped?" If history is
your favorite diversion you will know
that it is Turkey, and the butler will
have the pleasure of presenting a
piece of that deliciou? fowl.
"What famous singer spent most
3f the winter in America after an
absence of some years?" Patti.
Further along the list comes the
sunker, "If your opponent on the golf
inks did you one more hole what
PARADING ON
I?: ?n??
would you consider yourself?" Possibly,
if the victory is not too recent,
you might own to being "beat."
After the vegetable has been masticated
the thrilling question to be answered
is, "What would you do if a
pistol were pointed at your head?"
Quail, no doubt, if you happen to be
Df the fair sex.
"What would bread be with ?"
Butter.
"The unfortunate person will find
his allowance is in what?" Pickle.
"What were the beaus of olden
times often called?" Macaroni.
"What was the name of Noah's second
son?" Ham.
"If you girls wanted to go to Japan
what would you say to your father?"
Lettuce.
The next apropos query would be
for most persons rather an easy one.
"With what do the children celebrate
the Fourth of July?" Crackers.
When the sweet course appears
these two questions will have to be
answered before one is served:
"If a woman, what do you do when
you see a mouse?" Ice cream.
"Where does a man put an engagement
ring?" Lady finger.
"Where do you go after the play
for supper?" Cafe.
These are merely a rew questions
given by way of suggestion, but, of
course, each hostess must be guided
in her selection by the menu. The
mistakes in answering the questions
will be delightfully funny, and fancy
the sport to be had in jollying the
guests who get the most impossible
mixtures and the poor unfortunates
who are ravenous with nothing more
substantial than a pickle and a
cracker to satisfy their appetites.
Three minutes Is the time allowed
for answering each question. The
hostess will keep score and at thu end
of the feast will present to the girl
who has dined both wisely and well
a dainty muslin sunbonnet "to keep
her head always cool," and successful
guesser of the masculine success with
an "umbrella to ward off brain |
storms."
Quite a novel function not as eiaDorate
as a dinner is a Fourth of July
tea. The picturesque feature of this
affair is to have the girls pour tea and
serve lemonade dressed in colonial
frocks, quaint bonnets, mitts and
sandals. This tea will be held on the
lawn, ar.d over the tea and lemonade
tables will be large Japanese
umbrellas, which are more attractive
than hot and uncomfortable tents.
The ices, sandwiches and bouillon are
served from the house and passed by
the servants.? From What-To-Eat,
the Pure Food Magazine.
THE DAYS OF SEVENTY-SIX!
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My Grandmother's Story.
BY E. NORMAN GUNNISON.
It was in the early summer,
When the drumming of the drummer,
Growing daily grum and grummer,
Beat the time for marching men.
When across each shaded valley,
And through every street and alley,
Calling patriots to rally,
Came the summons once again
We were in a blaze of glory,
For our grnn'sirc told tne story,
How the Hessian and the Tory
From the face of Washington
Fled, like sheep when sore affrighted,
How their stalwart ranks were blighted,
Just as morning fires were lighted.
Ere they scarce had fired a gun.
How, at Princeton and at Trenton,
Troops that Howe had fondly leant on,
Were surprised, while they were bent on
Christmas joys and hours of glee.
How their ranks were crushed and broken.
As a signal and a token
That their death-doom should be spoken
By the cannon of the free.
And how Sullivan's deep thunder,
With his cannon gleaming under.
Rent the morning air asunder.
As our Stark broke into town;
And how Forest's grand artillery
Put the Hessian troops in pillory,
Pouring forth from the "Distillery"*
Iron sliowers to crusn tnem uown.
Oh, what shouts we gave to cheer them!
Though we knew they could not hear them
Still our blessings lingered near them? _
We were girls and could not light.
But we had an only brother,
He, the idol of our mother,
Shared with Stark and many another
In the glory of that night.
And, ah me! I had a lover,
Though the calling of the plover
Sounds above the nowers which cover
His last rest on Monmouth plain.
How his eyes flashed wide with glory
As he heard our gran'sire's story!
Can it be that, crushed and gory,
He was buried with the slam'!1
He was but a boy, and tender,
And was delicate and slender.
Ah, what service could he render.
But he took his father's gun.
Though he might be slightly froward,
He was certainly no coward;
In the morning, Abner Howard
Joined the troops of Washington.
Then the days grew sad and cheerless,
Though our men were marching fearless,
Chasing up the army, peerless?
Of the British to the coast.
And at Monmouth's dreadful battle
THE FOURTH.
: *. *
kixd^w _ yyt*'
We could head the muskets rattle.
Men were slaughtered there like cattle,
In the ranks of either host.
But Lord Howe was sore defeated.
And his shattered troops retreated.
With their dead behind, unsheeted,
__ And, in spite of all his talk.
Every hireling Hessian pelter**
Rushed and hurried, helter skelter,
Down to Sandy Hook for shelter,
And took refuge in $ew York.
Then came days of cheer and sadnessDays
of hope and days of madness,
Of despondency and gladness;
And, alas, they told to me
Of his death! 1 could not save him,
But no tyrant could enslave him.
'Twas my gift, i freely gave him
That my country might be free.
But I put away my spinning,
And trie dress I was beginning?
God forgive me if 'twas sinning!
For my eyes with tears were aim.
And I mourned him as none other
Ever mourned a patriot-lover;
Where the green grass spreads its cover,
1 was buried up with nim.
Still, I married Gran'ther Holden,
And some days were bright and golden,
Though my heart grew sore and olden
When 1 thought of Abner, dead.
But for years and years 1 tarried,
Nor consented to be married,
Till your gran'ther's waiting carried,
And at last, at last we wed.
It was seventy years. The hummer "
And the calling of the drummer*
Tell that earth is bright with summer?
With the summers that have fled?
And 1 hoar a pleasant humming.
Hark! The British! Hear the drumming!
I am coming, Abner. coming!
When they raised ner, she was dead!
#*?** ?
I am old, and sometimes weeping
Where the lovers now are sleeping,
With wild (lowers o'er them creemnc.
Sad and happy feelings mix.
I tell to you her story
Of battle and of foray,
That your hearts may feel the glory
Of the days of Seventy-Six.
*The old Distillery where Forest posted
his guns, long since torn down. **Ne\*
Jersey name for Hessians. VHumming- j
bird. *The woodpecker. I
THE ART OF GETTING
SNTO THE NEWSPAPERS
The Short Cut to Publicity Revealed
by One Who Knows Every Read
and By-Path.
The following clever and readable
article on the subject uppermost in
every newspaper man's mind, "advertising,"
is by Victor Smith, the "On
the Tip of the Tongue" man of the
New York Press:
Advertise.
Dear Tip?-What is the short cut to
publicity? I liave been striving in
vain to get into the newspapers these
seven years. What can I do?
Hackensack. PUBLICITY.
Strive your hardest NOT to get in.
Steal a million. Rob another fellow
of his wife. Spring a sensational divorce.
Beat the bank at Monte Carlo.
But the best plan of all is to advertise.
I am in favor of the pay-as-youenter
proposition. Commercial houses,
theatres, circuses, etc., pay their way;
why should not society and the professions
do likewise? The general
press is under no obligation to you.
Address the business office at so
much a line, and you can obtain all
the publicity you require. Some
newspapers are not profitable because
they GIVE AWAY vast quantities of
space in free advertising, or puffs, to
the undeserving. The time is close
at hand when everybody and every
Institution will have to "pony up."
The Eternal Equivalent.
Every commercial business exacts
the eternal equivalent in the granting
of favors. Of no other institution in
the world is so much exacted free as
of the newspaper. It is a kind word
here, a kind word yonder, a puff here
and a puff there. For the price of
ONE cent a man expects, aye, even
demands, space worth hundreds of
dollars. But where is our quid pro
quo? The circulation is not increased.
We are giving something for nothing.
Once in a while Tip's column
has a paragraph about an interesting
man. It is good reading for all who
take The Press; and the interesting
man, being deeply interested, buys
100 or 500 copies and scatters them
broadcast to interested people. What
does it amount, to? Five hundred
copies cost 55 at retail; so there is
an outlay of $5 for $500 worth of advertising.
Shucks! The business is
too one-sided. It isn't fair.
Coniplimentaries.
inose not in tne newspaper business
imagine that the editor, manager,
all the subs and every reporter
and office boy, the compositors and
even the scrubwomen go about loaded
with railroad passes, theatre tickets,
boxes at the circus, police cards, |
steamboat complimentaries, telegraph
and telephone franks, free use of the
mails, race track badges, etc., and
their friends on the outside are even
insistent upon obtaining these privileges.
As a matter of fact, there are
but few complimentaries of this character
flying about, and all are paid
for by the eternal equivalent, the
small matter of advertising. A Press
man, for instance, sent to Chicago,
may ride on a pass, but that pass has
been paid l'or in advertising. Before
the anti-pass law was enforced my
life was saddened by my inability to
meet the demands of friends for free
transportation. Some had no delicacy
about asking for passes to San
Francisco. Now it is easy to say:
' You know the law; no more free
passes."
As It is Done.
No gentleman of the staff is supnnQPrl
tn coolr f r a ncnnrfnf inn f??nm
any railroad, steamboat or steamship
company, from any submarine, airship
or automobile company, ou his
own recognizement. If he wants to
go to Carlsbad, or the heart of Africa,
to the North Pole or to the antipodes,
to Mars or to the bowels of the earth,
he is supposed to mention it to the
business manager, who, if he chooses,
refers it to the highest authority. Of
course there are department heads
who control certain and sundry privileges
of the pass evil, such as the
drama editor, the music editor, the
sporting editor, etc. If I want a free
pass for a theatre I may ask the drama
editor, and he may (if he feels in
the vein) send me a "pasteboard,"
but it is a quid pro quo. If I want
to go to the circus I must ask the
circus editor. Do I want to go to the
race track? The sporting editor is
the man to snuggle up to. Etc.
Newspapers Overburdened.
The newspaper gives as a rule about
twenty to one as its "equivalent." No
other institution on earth could afford
to do this and live. The newspaper
is the maker of all men and all
corporations, the supporter of all.
the adviser of all. Mind you, I do not
say CREATOR. Without its free publicity
most of the men in political and
commercial life to-day would be in
their graves. We are really too generous.
The chief trouble is we do
not draw tight enough the little line
between news and notoriety. The
theatres get an awful lot of free advertising
because a vast majority of
the people patronize the drama and
demand good report of it. So of the
opera. So of horse racing. Etc.
Just an Illustration.
The man who has a can of lard to
sell fails to understand why he does
not get a column or two a day of
beautiful description for his ten-line
agate ad., when a racing association,
with the same size ad., commands so
great, an amount of space. He overlooks
the l'act that only a few persons
may be interested in a can of lard,
while tens of thousands are deeply
nnnr>ornoH in mpinv T'ho thontrJr?n1
equivalent cannot be estimated. A
hundred thousand people, 500,000,
1,000,000, may be anxiously -waiting
Tuesday morning for a critique on
Marx Lankershine's new play of "The
Tschucrn o' di Stearxwier." The advertisement
of the drama may amount
to $20, but that cuts no ice with the
newspaper. It does its duty by allotting
as much space to the uerform
\
ance as the critic thinks the play is
entitled to.
Baseball.'
Baseball gels 1000 times it3
"equivalent." Why? Because it is
an amusement for vast multitudes of
readers. The advertising of the game
amounts practically to nothing, that
is, from a business office view. "No
money in it." But no paper could afford
to cut out its baseball reports.
The Press baseball articles are the
best, and they cost us a great deal of
money.
Hunting and Fishing.
No other paper in New York is so
much read by fishermen and hunters
as The Press. Here again the "equivalent"
is altogether on our side. We
give 100 times as much as we get out
of it. but the Rod and Gun column is
expected daily by a multitude of
sportsmen, and to stop it would destroy
a prominent feature which
pleases ma..y who neither fish nor
shoot.
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Wall Street.
Wall Street receives an overabundance
of valuable space, you may say.
The Stock Exchange forbids advertising.
More's the pity. In a little
while, however, all this will be
cnangea mrougn me puoncicy now
being thrust upon it. Thirty years
ago a physician who advertised was
frowned upon as a quack. To-day
some of the leading practitioners introduce
themselves to the public by
means of printers' ink. Stock Exchange
firms will have to advertise
or go out of business. The day of the
"high-horse" is past. I expect to see
the time when all price quotations
shall be paid for, and at big rates.
Henry Clews made a great fortune in
the Street. He is a firm believer in
advertising, and his card has been in
the papers for many years. He is the
best known broker in the world.
WHY HINDOOS
WORSHIP SIVA. .
Dn>?3niir> I nn?nrI f?il<C hov* I
the East Indian Deity Came to
Bless a Poor Unlucky Hunter
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Hindoos young and old solemnly
observed the fast of the Sivarathri,
on a lucent Sunday, and gladly endured
its deprivations. For twentyfour
hours no religious Hindoo took
a morsel of food nor slept a moment,
but constantly prayed the god Siva
to grant his wish and relieve his sufferings
or unhappiness.
The Sivarathri rests on a legend
that comes from the misty past. A
penniless hunter went out one morning,
but when night fell only a puny
bird had rewarded his long day's
hunt. Weary and fearing ferocious
beasts, th? hunter took refuge in a
bale tree for the night, and hung the
"game" on a twig.
It so happened that Siva, in the
course of his accustomed nocturnal
wanderings, seated himself under the
bale tree. The wind was blowing
freshly, and leaves and the water
they held from a shower fell on the
god. This libation and the bird, presumably
an offering, made Siva believe
that some one in the tree was
worshiping him at that late hour.
Pleased, the god invited the person !
so devout to descend. The hunter J
climbed down and told of his sor- j
row and needs. Siva gave him many j
Diessmgs ana ne nveu iittppuj iu u
ripe old age. So, now, he who fasts
and, sleepless, worships Siva at night,
will be blessed and enjoy eternal bliss.
?Simla (India) Correspondence of
j the New York World.
A Remarkable Cave.
The President has signed a proclamation
creating the Jewel Cave Na- I
tional Monument within the Black
Hills National Forest, South Dakota.
This remarkable cave, thirteen miles
west and south of Custer, the county
seat of Custer County, in a limestone
formation, is believed by geologists <
to be an extinct geyser channel. The
national monument will embrace an
area of 12SO acres. This cave, which
was explored as late as 1900, has
been found to consist of a series of
chambers connected by narrow passages
with numerous galleries, the
walls of which are incrusted with a
magnificent layer of calcite crystal.
The opening of the cave is situated in
Hell Canyon, the walls of which are
high and precipitous. The surface of
the country in which the cave is located
consists of a high rolling limestone
plateau, about 0000 feet above
sea level. The area is almost entirely
covered by a forest of bull pine, a
considerable portion of which is merchantable,
while the remainder con*
sists of a vigorous young growth. The
Jewel Cave National Monument will
now be given permanent protection
by virtue of the act of June 8, 1906.
which provides that objects of scientific
interest may be declared national
monuments, if such action is deemed
necessary ror tneir preservation ana
protection.?Science.
Resourceful Wives.
"I am told that your husband plays
billiards every night at the clubs?
plays for money, too," said the anxious
mother to her newly married
daughter.
"That's all right, mother," cheerfully
responded the young wife. "He
gives me all his winnings?"
"What? Do you?"
"And he always plays with Mr.
Nextdoor."
' un-i/ii- /i;f?n??Anoo non mnlfp?"
"Mrs. Nextdoor makes her husband
give her his winnings, too, and she
gives the money to me and 1 hand hei
what my husband won from hers, and
so we both have about twice as much
money as we could get out of them
otherwise."?Chicago Journal.
I
Berlin's Electric Signs.
It is announced that the Berlin police
are taking steps to prevent the
defacement of streets by electric
signs. No objection will be offered
to their erection in ugly or confined
spaces, but tney win ue esciuueu n-um
the best streets and from places wherq
they are likely to produce "a discordant
effect."
STORKS SMHDDLE WEST,
Score Killed by Tornadoes in
Kansas and Nebraska. e
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Farmers Made Homeless?Butte Cut ^
Off For a Week?Great Damage iu f
Oklahoma?Havoc in Iown.s a
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Omaha, Neb.?A series of tornadoes
which passed over Southern Ne- ?
braska and pari- of Northern Kansas ^
were the most destructive and cov- t
ered the most territory of all that
have visited that region in many r
years. At least twenty-three persons jj
were killed, five were fatally injured a
and a score of others seriously hurt, b
Ten persons were killed at Byron, fi
Neb., and others at Phlllipsburg and a
Courtland, Kan., which towns have e
been cut oft from communication.
Other towns in the path of the tornadoes
were Edgar, Fairfield, Linavale
and Chester, all of which suf- _
fered more or less. Twenty-three '
buildings, including three churches,
were wholly or partially wrecked at
Fairfield. Some of the dead are: ^
At North Branch, Kan., two chil- v
dren of Mrs. Small; Geneva, Neb., p
Lulu Smith, Irene Shively; Shickley, r
Neb., Elijah Argenbrecht; Franklin, v
Neb., Henry Madison; Jansen, Neb., 0
Joseph Fleming; Carleton, unknown ^
ixian, t]
Some of the seriously injured are: y
At Shickley, Neb., John Merriman, j
Mrs. Elijah Albrecht, John Shively y
and wife, Edward Russell, Ross
Shively. ! c
Several Eastern people were in- c
jured, some seriously, when a com- j
bination passenger and freight train f
on the Denver and Rio Grande road
was wrecked about a mile and a half ji
below here by the spreading of the f
rails. Three freight cars and two ^
passenger cars rolled Into the ditch. ^
The rain that followed has swollen t
all the streams, and near Jansen a
little girl was drowned while her
father, Joseph Fleming, was trying a
n o tta V? 4 r? 'P n tv\ J 1 tr f r* +Vt I ati nrl
lvs oavc una xauanj nuxu a iui caicucu
flood. ' I
At Fairfield more than forty buildings
were partly wrecked or demolished.
The loss there will exceed ,
5100,000. \
Trains in all directions were aban- J
doned because o? washouts and de- r
stroyed roadbed. >, f?
The storm has covered such a wide f3
area and been so destructive wherever *
it touched the earth that it has al- J
most caused a panic among the rural J
inhabitants. Hundreds of farmers ^
drove into the towns seeking shelter, 13
many of them being homeless. ?
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Enid, Okla.?Following six hours' I
rainfall Boggy Creek, running
through the city, widened from twen- i
ty to 2000 feet, flooding almost the t
whole of Enid, carrying away fifty j
houses, flooding stores and endan- ]
gering lives. The water is twelve feet c
deep in Main street, covering two
blocks of the business centre. I
Durant, Okla.?tornado swept 1
over a territory twelve miles west of
Durant, destroying a dozen farmhouses,
and, with a heavy storm of
hail, did damage of $150,000. A ?
number of persons are reported in- t
jured, none fatally. 1
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Charles City.-^ tornado struck .
Charles City, demolishing about 200 c
buildings of various sizes, and kill- j
ing W. R. Beck and a child. s
The path of the storm was about r
ten rods wide and ten miles long.
Telephone wires are down. j
Many had warning of the approach- t
ing tornado and sought safety in cy- ?
clone cellars. None of these build- ^
ings was destroyed. ?
Barns were carried several blocks, T
trees were torn up by the roots and j
in some instances forcod through j.
buildings. Water was lifted from the g
channel of the river which flows ^
4-1* m/mi +/\nrn
IUIUU5U luc ivnu,
Dallas, Texas.?In a storm near
Bowie, Montague County, in Northwest
Texas, loss of life and great
property damage are reported. The
storm occurred before noon.
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Mauston, Wis.?A tornado struck \
the farm of John Dalton, a farmer, j
destroying the house and barns and t
killing Dalton and his twelve-year- r
old son, Philip. v
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Butte, Montana. ? It Is estimated e
that the damage done in Montana in s
the past week by rain and floods will a
aggregate $3,000,000. Thousands of r
passengers have been held a week at
small stations and have subsisted on I
limited rations. At Drummond, a I
place of 100 inhabitants, 500 persons I v
have been tied up, one of them Emma I
Goldman, who is on her way to Butte. 11
ABANDON ANT
Decide to Let National Cor
sates to the Republican
Chicago.?Scarcely a sign of oppo- t
sition to the nomination of William ?
H. Taft for the Presidency remains.
The "allies," who had decided to ig- $
nore the National Committee and S
make a spectacular fight in the con- c
vention against the rejection of anti- o
Taft delegates, abandoned the idea, a
They are talking harmony and hoping
the Taft forces will concede some- F
thing to them. u
Only one, thing troubles the Taft c
men?the apprehension of a stam- a
pede for Roosevelt. Talk is heard of c
such strong third term sentiment that v
the Taft delegates may disregard f
z70 vie in xypnoon. v
Victoria, B. C. ? The CanadianAustralian
liner Manuka has arrived 1
here, bringing news of the destruc- ii
tion of the pearling fleet in a typhoon S
off West Australia, involving the loss t
of forty luggers and 270 lives, twenty C
being whites. ii
ii
Shrevepov?, La.?After being found
not guilty by a jury of the charge of
murdering Mrs. Lettie Bond and her a
babv. Bird CooDer. a negro, was a
lynched at Homer by unknown men. t'
His body was riddled with bullets. C
Prominent People.
Mark Twain and the Rev. Dr. Newell
Dwight Hillis were the principal t<
speakers at the eighth annual dinner o
d? the American Booksellers' Asso- |
ciation. o
Senator Beveridge says that the ! t'
war talk died out coincident with the I
arrival of the battleship fleet in Pa- ' c
cific waters. I \\
Admiral George Dewey, a familiar v
figure driving about Washington, D.
C., in his high stanhope and well u
matched pair, is looking remarkably g
well, and seems thoroughly satisfied a
u!th Ufa a
HOW THE!. STOLE $2,000,000.
?r ?
teller and Auditor of Fanners' Banlr,
Pittsburg, Get Ten Years Each.
Pittsburg, Pacy~Ttfst before they
Fere sentenced to serve ten year*
ach in the Western Penitentiary
Jenry Reiber, former paying teller
if the Farmers' Deposit National
Sank, and John Young, the auditor,
old how they stole almost $2,000,000
rom the bank, first taking as small ^
.s $500 and then increasing until
hey often took a3 high as $50,000
t a time.
Young told the court that the first
aonev they stole was used to let
hem participate in the.Leiter wheat
eal. They were out $10,000 when
hat bubble burst. Young said:
"It was the stock market that t
uined us. We saw others getting '
icb and thought we could do the
ame. At flret I took small amounts
nd lost them. Then I went to Reier
and told fcim. I was surprised to
nd that he was doing the same, and
fter that we worked it together. But
verything failed."
I
DOCTOR SHOT DEAD.
Voman Nurse Lures Hyn to a House
and Kills Him.
New York City.?Dr. Martin W.
/-vf Uairlolhara TTti (_
xuapibtty 5iauuoi.g 11UUV.1 UVlg \J U*'
ersity and Bellevue, "who with Dr.
>hilip F. Hirtetstein kept a sanita- ? >;_
ium at 157 East Ninety-third street,
/as shot and killed in the vestibule
f the house, 131 West 135th street, ' ' '*
y Sarah Koten, once employed by
lim as a trained nurse. He was forty
ears old and married. He had been
racticing in this city for the last ten
ears. . , ' *
Miss Koten is a Russian, and reeived
her training as a nurse in that
ountry. She lived at 124 West
,35th street, just across the way.
rom the scene of the killing.
The slaying of Dr. Auspitz was deiberately
planned. The woman conessed
to Coroner Harburger that she
tad killed the physician, and said she
.or! ilnna if in rovonwp. fnr An attack
te had made on her.
I ADMAN HELD CROWD AT BAY.
)r. Poipisiel Kept Up Fusillade For
Seven Hours From Window.
Washington, D. C.?After holding
he entire police force of the Ninth
'recinct at bay with his revolvers
or seven hours while he fired volleys
,t everybody who approached his
tome, Dr. Joseph Pospisiel, an exaraner
in the Pension Office, rolled up
lis sleeves and projected cocaine in
lis arm to steady himself, and then
Ired a bullet into his brain. His
tody plunged into the street from the
econd-story window of his home at
135 Seventh street, Northeast He
lied before he could be removed to a , '
lospital.
For four days Dr. Pospisiel had
abored under the delusion that memlers
of the Independent Order of
Maccabees were plotting against his
ife and had bribed the police to carry
mfc thplr MTisnlrar.v.
JNCLE SAM ORDERS BALLOONS.
rhree Dirigibles and an Aeroplane
With Which to Make Experiments.
Washington, D. C.?Uncle Sam is
;oing into the flying machine and
>alloon business on his own hook and
n partnership with private enter)rises.
This promises to be a busy
leason up in the air if the present
)lans of the Government are carried
>ut. The Signal Corps of the Army
las ordered three dirigible balloons ' A
md one aeroplane, with which experinents
will be made at an early date.
The War Department will permit
srael Ludlow, who is building an
teroplane on his own account, to
itable his machine in the old Pennsylranla
Railroad station, which was
ibandoned last year. Considerable
vork remains to be done on the Ludow
aeroplane before it can be
jrought out in the open. Its conitruction
has occupied nearly the
vhole of the last year.
SUIT TO TEST HEPBURN LAW.
Anthracite Coal Roads Are Attacked
by Bonaparte.
Philadelphia.?Proceedings to test
he constitutionality of the commodty
clause of the Hepburn act, which
>rovides that all railroads must sever
heir connection with all other busiless
except that of common carriers,
vere begun in the United States Ciriuit
Court by the filing of bills in
squity by the Government against
ix railroads engaged in transporting
inthracite coal in Interstate comuerce.
The defendant companies are the
'hlladelphia and Reading, Delaware,
^ackawanna and Western, the Delaware
and Hudson, the Pennsylvania
iailroad Company, the Erie and the
-.ehigh Valley. - --
l-TATT FIGHT*
rimlttee Throw Out Defe*
National Convention.
,heir instructions and insist on
?1 tvtnnl K A rvyAironf A/1
[MIL lkl llie IJill IJ 111UC5L UC plCTCUtCU.
Roosevelt's nomination. Every preaution
is being taken to prevent this
levelopment. It was learned that
ienator Lodge, in his speech as peraanent
chairman, will state unequivcally
that the President will not run
gain.
Abandonment of the plan of the
'airbank's, Knox and Hughes men to
aake an open fight against the Hitchock
machine was largely brought
bout by Senator Crane, of Massahusetts.
He is talking harmony, adising
everybody that an election will
ollow the convention.
'lergyman Sentenced to Jail.
Richmond, Va.?The Rev. James
'. Hargrave pleaded guilty as charged
n four indictments before the United
tates District Court, and was ^nenced
to eight months in Hanover
bounty jail and a fine of $100. The
ndictments charged him with devisag
a scheme to defraud
Denver.?Daniel H. McMillan, once
Republican leader in Buffalo, later
resident of New Mexico, and a judge
here on the Territorial Supreme
iourt bench, is dead h
The World of Sport.
The plan to send American crews
5 the Olympic regatta in England is
ff.
The New York University's eightared
crew lost to Pennsylvania in a
wo-mile race by nearly four lengths.
Mrs. Tiny La Roux, a Boston girl,
laims to be the first woman in the
rorlrt to ride and propel an airship,
rhich is her own property.
L. B. Stevenson, of Yale, will be
nable to run in the intercollegiate
aines. Stevenson pulled a tendon
nd fn tryinc to continue sprained his