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ELEPHANTS AT WORK
Hundreds Employed in Sawmills?May
Give Place to Machinery.
To see the working elepnant In al! j
His glory one muse go to .Burma, me
centre of the teakwood industry.
Some of the great sawmills of Maulmain
and Rangoon employ hundreds
of elephants, some with and others
without a mahout or driver.
The companies own immense timber
concessions, and each year a certain
number of trees are marked for
cutting dowfa. Those so marked are
girdled to prevent the sap rising. |
Ijis causes the tree to die. /
In three years it is quite seasoned j
and dry. It is then cut down, the |
branches are lopped off, and one, two
or three elephants are attached to it
by chains to haul it to the nearest
stream.
The creek in which the elephant
has deposited its log, says the Circle,
may be dry in the timber cutting seaBon;
nevertheless the creature contines
to pile up log after log in the
bed of the torrent against the time
when the monsoon shall break and
wash the accumulation of logs into
one of the main rivers.
When this is done men collect at
various points and examine the various
owners' marks. The logs are
sorted and bound into rafts, and a
family of Burmans forthwith installs
'tself upon each, and builds a little
hut of bamboo and leaves in which
to live while the big raft of teak logs
is coming down the river to Rangoon.
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saw yards herds of working elephants
ire in waiting to heave the logs out
of the water and take them to differant
parts of the mill. They display
an intelligence almost human; and
when the dinner bell rings at midday
logs are dropped in every direction
and the ground fairly shakes as hunJreds
of tuskers scamper off to dinner
like playful children let out of school,
.When the logs have been sawn other
gangs of felephants move dexter*
ously about among the huge circular
saws, avoiding them with extreme
jare, clearing away debris, and in a
j/V marvellous manner discriminating
between mere rubbish and the sawn
planks. Then the elephants stack the
latter so carefully that the edges are
aot injured.
Most amusing is it to see one of
these working elephants tackling a
/ cuge squared log and placing it on
the stack. First of all he estimates
its length and its weight as it lies on
the ground. Then he digs his tusks
nnder it at one end, curls his trunk
aver and tries to drag one end of the
log on to his tusks.
Should he find the task beyond him
he will give a queer little trumpet
note, and up comes a colleague to
help him at the other end.. In a moment
the two elephants Save swung
the big log between them, walk in
step to the pile, and then one of them,
apparently by preconcerted agreement,
places his end in position on the
stack, while the other rams home the
log.
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u vci j uuiuci ?aius uao no un u
particular show elephant, more intelligent
than the rest, and one belonging
to Messrs. MacGregor & Co.,
of Rangun, was in the habit of turning
on a water tap and helping himself
to a big drink, though he never
could be induced to turn the water
off again. Similar obstinacy and occasionally
bad temper is shown, and
the mahouts are very highly paid, for
they live always in the risk that the
huge brutes may turn upon them and
kill them, particularly if the mahout
, has at any time shown cruelty or un
miiuuesd.
4. Hindu mahout was employed
with a working elephant at Bangkok,
Siam, and frequently used a steel
goad, in defiance of all warnings.
The rest It was that his elephant made
frequent attempts to kill him, and
Anally the man was discharged.
Nearly four years afterward, by a
most remarkable coincidence, both
elephant and mahout met again in
Maulmain, Burma, and no sooner was
the big tusker out of sight of the saw
mill and well into the forest than
he curled his trunk up backward,
seized his old persecutor by the neck,
hurled him to the ground, and in an
Inatant a mighty forefoot had crushed
- out his life.
Each working elephant represents
<:{, a value of $1500, and years of experience
have shown that until quite
recently this was the most profitable
form of labor that could be employed
'u the great forests of Burma and
wiaui. uu?c?ci. uiguij ingem*
ous American. German and British I
machinery?chiefly portable railroads i
and steam hoists?are gradually taking
the place of the giant workers,
and in another decade the independent
elephant laborer may be entirely
extinct.
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New York city will have the largest
restaurant in the world.
RAISED FROM SICK BED
After All Hope Had Vanished.
Mrs. J. H. Bennett, 59 Fountain
IBt., Gardiner, Me., says: "My back
used to trouble me
5so severely that at
last I had to give up.
fl took to my bed and
stayed there four
months, suffering intense
pain, dizziness,
headache and inflammation
of the bladder.
Though without
hope, I began
using Doan's Kidney
Pills, and in three months was completely
cured. The trouble has never
returned."
Sold by all dealers. 50 cents a box.
Foster-Milburn Co.. Buffalo, N. Y.
Twin Brothers' Births.
un August iu a uegro woman living
near Williamsburg, Va., gave
birth to a boy, and sixteen days after
the first was born she gave birth to a
second strapping boy,
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BULGARIA DECLARES HER
FREEDOM FBOM TURKEY
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ing Treaty of Berlin.
ENGLAND. STRONGLY HOSTILE
Prince Ferdinand Proclaimed Czar of
the Bulgarians With Simple But
Impressive Ceremony at Tirnovo,
the Ancient Capital.
London. ? The independence of
Bulgaria was proclaimed in the an- '
cient capital of Tirnovo, with the
Czar of the Bulgarians as ruler. Czar
of the Bulgarians is recognized to
mean more than Czar of Bulgaria,
because it is a distinct intimation
that he regards his country as having
sovereignty over all people of that
blood in the Near East. Within a
day or two Austria-Hungary, which
has been working with Prince Ferdinand
in this preconcerted plan, will
proclaim the new status of Bosnia
and Herzegovina. The question,
which has been stirring the whole of
Europe more deeply than any similar
question in the memory of the present
generation is, does it meaD war?
From all the capitals come reports
indicating that it means, first of all,
another European congress of the
6igners of the Treaty of Berlin to
consider the situation and probably
revise the treaty. Turkey, caught in
a moment of weakness, is the victim
of this situation, and while some international
animosities have been
stirred up, probably no Power is willing
to make war. Reports from the
emancipated Turkish press to London
indicate that the ''Young Turks"
will swallow this bitter pill as best
they can and, if they do, naturally
the Bulgarians, while willing and
eager for war, will have no cause on
which to base the beginning of hostilities.
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From the British standpoint, the
whole affair has been a surprise, and
more thaD a surprise, because for the
first time in years the British Government
felt itself, with apparently a
perfect understanding with France
and Russia and complete friendship
with Italy, to be in a position where
it dominated European politics, reserving
out of this consideration the
almost open enmity between itself
and Germany.
Probably never in the history of
Europe has politics taken such amazingly
kaleidoscopic revolutions as
during the past week. An entangling
Bituation will come when the signatories
of the Berlin treaty meet to
consider what action shall be taken
regarding the violations of the treaty.
Great Britain has served notice
that it does not recognize the right
of any of the parties to this treaty to
violate its provisions without consulting
the others, but English diplomats
know that the conference will resolve
itself into a scramble among the
Powers to get what is termed in
European politics "compensating advantages,
which Austria, backed by
Germany, has already obtained.
The official statement, issued by
the British Foreign Office, says:
"His Majesty's Government cannot
admit .the right of any Power to altei
an international treaty without the
ocnsent of the other parties to it, and
it therefore refuses to sanction any
infraction of the Berlin treaty, and
declines to recognize what has been
done until the views of the other
Powers are known, especially those
of Turkey, which is more directly
concerned than any one else."
The chances of war between Bulgaria
and Turkey are being minimized
by Great Britain and France, who j
are workinc tosether and who have i
advised Turkey against it. Turkey
apparently is disposed to follow this
advice, and it is believed that if hasty
action on the part of Turkey can be
prevented. Bulgaria will have difficulty
in finding an excuse to begin
war.
AUSTRIA'S ACfVlIOLLY EVIL.
Deadly Blow to All European Relationships.
London.?The most evil thing that
has happened in Europe during the
present generation is Austria's annniin/Mimoiif
nf Vior inf-Antinn tr> vio- I
late the principal treaty existing between
the great Powers.
Bulgaria's declaration of independence
is a comparatively unimportant
matter and could have been dealt
with in all probability without disturbing
European peace Austria's
action in proposing to annex Bosnia
and Herzegovina, however, is of such
a sinister and mysterious character
that European confidence, is shaken
as it has not been since the TurkoRussian
War. It strikes at the foundation
of all international relationship.
It is gratuitously machiavellian.
It seems on its face to be a deliberate
attempt to render abortive
Turkey's efforts at regeneration.
Austria's sovereignty over the two
provinces is complete in everything
but name.
Bishop Tierney Dies.
The Right Rev. Michael Tierney,
Bishop of the Roman Catholic Diocese
of Hartford, Conn., which includes
the State of Connecticut, died
frnm tlio efforts nf tL Rtrnlfp nf ann.
plexy. Bishop Tierney, although
born in Ireland, had spent most of
his life in Connecticut. His native
place was in County Tipperary. Hi3
birthday was September 29, 1839.
Bulgaria Preparing For War.
Sofia, Bulgaria.?It is officially announced
that M. Mallnoff, President
of the Council, has telegraphed
Prince Ferdinand, who Is making a
tour of Europe, to return to Sofia. All
the factories capable of supplying war
material are working day and night,
and preparations for mobilization are
being openly pushed forward.
Killed by His Son.
John Eller, of Newark, N. 7., was
killed by his son during a family
quarrel.
The Labor World.
Utah has organized a State Federation
of Labor.
The membership of the Cigar Makers'
Union in Porto Ricc is more than
1000.
The Federal High Court, at Sydney,
New South Wales, has declared
that the registration of a trade union |
label is unconstitutional.
The Bakers' Union, of San Francisco,
Cal., has appointed a committee
to prepare a recommendation to
the international convention that is
to meet in October to erect a home
for aged and disabled members of
thp organization
GRAIN OUST FIRED BY SUN
Elevator at Richford, Vt., Explodes
With Fatal Results.
Property Loss is $100,000 ? Two
Women Walking on Hie Railroad
Track Among Victims.
Richford, Vt. ? An explosion of
dust and gases In a large grain elevator,
jointly owned by the Canadian
Pacific and the Boston and Maine
railroads, in this village, caused the
death of at least thirteen persons,
and it. is nossible that the death roll
may be still further increased when a
careful search of the ruins can be
made. The sun's rays caused the explosion.
Of the victims eleven were men
employed in the elevator. The other
two were women who were walking
on the Canadian Pacific Railroad
near by.
The fire destroyed not only the elevator
building, but a flour shed also
and seventy-five freight cars, which
could not be removed from the danger
zone in time. The property loss
is $400,000.
Twenty-one men, all employes of
the elevator, are known to have been
in the building at the time. Of these
all but eleven have been accounted
for. Of the others one body only
was found. It was carried by the explosion
500 yards, and was found in
a field near the roof. The bodies of
this man's companions are supposed
to have been incinerated in the tremendous
heat of the burning grain.
The ten men who are known to
have escaped from the elevator were
all more or less burned, though none
was believed to be in a serious condition.
All had narrow escapes, and
were obliged to fight "their way
through the grain dust, flames and
smoke to the doorway.
Dead.
Heman Lahue, forty; leaves a family.
Lucius Wright, twenty-five; married.
Robert Mandigo, twenty-two; married.
W. C. Barney, fifty, married;
leaves family.
Ralph Haire, twenty; single.
Herman Niles, twenty-five; married.
Charles Narrows, twenty-five; single.
Louis Papineau, forty; married.
Doma La Porte, twentj--one; single.
Tuttle.
Mrs. Jeliforo.
Mrs. Guardo, forty.
A workman, name unknown, who is
known to have been in the building
and who is reported missing.
DROWNED BY BAD BOY.
New Bedford Lad Wanted to See if
His Companion Could Swim.
New Bedford, Mass.?The body of
Ernest Souza, the seven-year-old son
Df John M. Souza, of this city, was
found floating in the Acushnut River.
He went out to play after school and
did not return. His parents, aided by
some of the neighbors, made an allnight
search, but no trace of him
sould be found.
A short time after the finding of
the boy's body, Nelson King, an
eight-year-old lad, confided to the
school pbysician tnat. ne naa pusueu
the Souza boy into the water. When
asked why he did it, he said that "he
wanted to see if Ernest could swim."
The King boy is a notorious character
in this vicinity. He is known
as New Bedford's youngest horse
thief. He is to be brought up on a
charge of horse stealing, and is on
parole.
BROWN ELECTED IN GEORGL1.
Democrat Has 50,000 Majority Over
Carter, Hearst Candidate.
Atlanta, Ga.?Joseph M. Brown
(Democrat) was elected Governor of
Georgia over Yancy Carter (Hearst)
by a majority estimated at from 40,000
to 50,000 votes. The vote was
light, probably not over fifty per cent,
of those registering going to the polls.
From the incomplete returns it
seems unlikely that the total vote will
exceed 110,000. Brown was the only
candidate on the Democratic ticket
who had opposition.
Returns indicate the adoption of
the disfranchisement amendment by
a much smaller vote than was cast
for Brown. This resulted from the
negroes as a rule voting for Brown,
but opposing disfranchisement. Many
whites also opposed disfranchisement.
COWS CAUSE TUBERCULOSIS.
300 Deaths a Year in English District
Where Cattle Are Infected.
Washington, D. C. ? Consul Stephens,
at Plymouth, England, has reported
that the English authorities
are making known through the medium
of the press the disagreeable
facts relative to tuberculosis in cows
and phthisis in human beings in that
sprtlnn nf Fine-land, and advises that
the relation of the two is said to be a
scientific fact.
In many districts of Devon twentyfive
per cent, of the cows have tuberculosis.
The average number of
deaths from consumption among the
people of the single county of Devon
exceeds 300 a year, and in one charity
organization eighty per cent, of
the children are suffering from the
disease.
HARRY A. GARFIELD PRESIDENT.
Inducted at Williams Before Heads
of 75 American Colleges.
Williamstown, Mass.?Harry Augustus
Garfield, of the class of '85,
former professor of politics at Princeton
University, was inducted into the
office of president of Williams College.
In addition to the group of educators,
seventy-five college presidents
having accepted invitations to
be present, the ceremony of induction
was witnessed by men prominent in
civil and professional life.
INSANE FROM FOOTBALL HURT.
Warren, of Yale, is Kicked in Head in
a Practice Game.
New Haven, Conn.?While playing
with the scrub team against the Yale
'varsity football team on Yale Field,
Lewis Baker Warren, of New York,
a member of the class of 1910 Sheffield
Scientific School, was kicked in
the head and rendered unconscious.
He was removed to the Yale gymnasium,
where 'on regaining consciousness
he became violently Insane
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PUBLICITY SAVES L
Officials Find the Wrecks Are Le:
Chicago.?Publicity is credited
with having decreased accidents on
the Harriman system of roads between
twenty and fifty per cent, within
the past three years. This result
is indicated by a report made by
Julius Kruttschnitt, director of maintenance
and operation, to E. H. Harriman,
of a novel plan which has been
tried on that system of roads.
Besides decreasing accidents, publicity
has served, It Is said, to improve
disciplineand increase efficiency
and also has protected the roads
against newspaper misrepresentations
and unfair hostility on .the part of
communities When the plan of giv
lng the fullest puoncity to wrecsa
was first broached by Mr. Kruttschnitt,
it was coldly received on all
sides. Finally he succeeded in getting
it tried on the Union Pacific, and
now all the Harriman lines follow it.
The new method depends for its
success largely upon speedily finding
out the cause of the accident, placing
the blame where it belongs and letting
the public know all the newspapers
care to .tell about it. This
method is so different from the one
usually employed by railroads that it
caused a great deal of comment, but
Mr. Kruttschnitt is a firm believer in
the efficacy of public sentiment when
based upon a right understanding of
facts.
When an accident occurs on any of
the Harriman roads the superintendent,
master mechanic and engineer
of the division go at once to the
scene and organize a board of inquiry,
composed of themselves and one or
more leading citizens of the community.
If this board falls to ascertain
the cause of the accident, a second
' board is formed of the general superintendent,
general superintendent of
motive power, engineer of maintenance
of way and one or more citizens
of the community. Should this
board in turn fail, a third board is
formed with the general manager at
its head. In only one instance has
CENSUS OF STA
Estimates Say tht Supply will lost
Washington, D. C.?Tbe National
Conservation Commission has caused
the first comprehensive attempt at a
census of the standing timber in the
United States ever undertaken. The
commission needs the information to
help complete its inventory of the
country's natural resources, which it
will include in its report to the Pres;
ident, and since that report is to he
j submitted .on January 1 next it needs
the information at once. In consequence
the work on the census has
been started with a rush.
Estimates as to the amount of
standing timber in the United States
range all the way from 822,682,000,000
to 2,000,000,000,000 board feet,
a difference of more than a trillion
feet in the views of the best qualified
authorities in the country.
In the opinion of the forest service
the most carefully prepared estimates
yet made are those by Henry Gannett,
published by the twelfth census
in 1900, which placed the total
stumpage at 1,390,000,000,000 board
I leet. Mr. uannen was receuuj t^uwsen
by the President to compile all
the information gathered for the
commission. The census is expected
Russia's Naval Budget
Amounts to $44,067,500.
St. Petersburg, Russia.?The naval
budget was submitted to the Dumua.
It amounts to $44,067,500, an
increase over last year of $616,000.
The construction account is $8,155,000,
of which 83,771,000 is for new
construction. This decrease is due
to the fact that the appropriation for
construction of 1 908 has not been
touched. The present program includes
the building of four battle:
shins, five torpedo boat destroyers
and three submarines.
Feminine Notes.
Hedwig Luszczewska, a noted Polnnofoca
hpttpr known under her
pseudonym of Devyma, died at Warsaw.
She was born in 1848.
A men's league for woman suffrage
has been formed in Holland,
and the Lutheran Church in that
country has given women a vote in
all church affairs.
Miss Anna Pritchett, of Louisville,
Ky., has just been appointed to the
chair of economics at Wellesley College.
She has just passed her twenty-fifth
birthday, and is the youngest
member of the_faculty^
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5S Frequent and Discipline Better.
the general manager thus been called
upon to act.
The board of inquiry does its work
quickly and*not infrequently a news- j
paper representative is a member.
Tho newspapers are furnished with
:i c.i .vcct bulletin of the facts. This
practice iias greatly diminished the <
newspaper appetite for wreck data, {
unless the accident is in reality a big story.
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The effect upon the discipline has 1
been marked, for every man in the
operating department knows that if J
he is derelict in his duty his home 1
community will know of it, and he
will be discredited among his friends. 1
| Men can stand being hauled onto the 1
I "carpet" in the general manager's '
j office, but they cannot stand the light 1
[ of local publicity. '
3317 VICTIMS OF NEW YORK j
" RAILWAYS IN ONE MONTH i
Report Shows There Were 5280 Accidents io t
City In August j
I New York City.?There were 5280
railway accidents in New York City
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I mitted to the Public Service Commission
by its secretary. They resulted <
in the injury of 3317. persons. Of
that number-2247 were passengers,
539 were railway employes and 531 ,
were neither passengers nor em- f
ployes. Forty-fqur persons were ,
killed, fifteen received fractured (
[ skulls, four lost legs or arms, thirty- ,
, four had legs or arms broken and ]
dangerous injuries were inflicted on (
138 other persons. The total number
of persons dangerously wounded (
was 235. , 1 (
The report shows there were dur- 3
ing the month 121 car collisions, 81)1 .
persons and vehicles struck by cars, ;
652 persons injured when boarding ]
cars and 1233 when alighting from
cars. Forty-one of the victims were *.i
hurt by getting in contact with electricity.
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NDING TIMBER.
About Twenty-three Years Longer. {
to give an accurate basis for computing
how long our timber supply will i
last. ]
The consensus of opinion is that i
the present annual consumption ol ]
wood Is about 100,000,000,000 board <
feet, or something more than that, j
One leading authority has placed it
as high as 150,000,000,000 board i
feet. Assuming a stumpage ot (
1,400,000,000,000 feet, an annual <
use of 100,000,000,000 feet and neg- ]
lecting growth in the calculation the ;
exhaustion of our timber supply is ;
indicated in fourteen years, and as- \
suming the same use and stand, with ]
an annual growth of 40,000,000,000
feet, a supply for twenty-three years
is indicated. Letters to county clerks
asking for statements of forest areas ^
| in their counties have been forwarded.
Seven thousand lumbermen and :
timber land owners have been asked
to suuply similar information. Id 5
all, nearly 150,000 letters have been 1
sent. These letters also ask for a
wide variety of information, including
not only the lumbering and milling
industries, but all others, even j
Indirectly dependent upon the use of ]
wood. i
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Whole Village Frozen to
Death in Siucria.
Seattle, Wash.?Frozen stiff and
having evidently been dead for a long
time, all the inhabitants of a village
of Siberian Esquimaus were found
on the Siberian coast by a party of
Indians who went in a canoe last
June to see their comrades. Their t
provisions exhausted, the Esquimaus
had eaten the walrus skin covers
from their houses and the clothing
that coverefl them. This tale is told S
by the Rev. Edward O. Campbell, a i t
Presbyterian missionary. a
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The Field of Sports.
C. M. Daniels won the mile A. A. U.
cnrimminsT championship at Sheeps
head Bay. c
Fair Play was defeated by Angelus j
in the Oriental Handicap at the
Gravesend track. c
Fall rowing practice at Yale has v
bepun on the harbor for both 'Varsity
and Freshmen candidates. The cross- t.
country squad also began work with C
light practice at Yale Field track.
Members of the Manhasset Bay t
Yacht Club will build a new one de- t
sign class for use during the season /
of 1909. I
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[RAPPED IIJEIIEWI FIRE
Flames and Smoke Do Swift Work
in Double House in New York.
Family of Five Die in Room?Policc
Suspect Incendiary Work at
Blaze in Mulberry Street.
New York City. ? Nine persons
were burned to death end six others
ivere injured in a fire which started
n a tenement house at No. 71 MulDerry
street early in the morning.
Dne of the men who was injured in
:he wild panic which followed the
liscovery 01 me oiaze wm piuuuuijr
lie. A number of tenants in the
>uilding were overcome by smoke in
;he upper floors of the structure deitroyed.
Identified dead: Dominiq Barrotti,
twenty years old; Pietro Fuccelli,
;hirty years old; Marie Fuecelll,
;wenty-seven years old; Fuc:eHi,
boy, seven years old; Fuc:elli,
girl, five years old; Fuc:elli,
boy, three years old.
Unidentified dead; Man, thirty-five
rears old; man, twenty years old;
joy, fifteen years old.
Firemen found the bodies of Mr.
ind Mrs. Dominic Fuccelli and their
:hree children on the fourth floor of
:he building, and the bodies of three
unknown men were found in another
room on that floor.
Only one alarm was turned in foi
the fire, and it was undqr control
ifter an hour's work by th6 firemen.
The cause of the blaze is unknown,
3ut the police and the fire marshal
suspect that it was of incendiary origin
and are investigating.
Several women jumped from the'
lire escapes without being hurt serijusly,
as an improvised life net had
)een made of a blanket. Several children
were also dropped into it as bystanders
held it taut.
The firemen found the flre escapes
)f the burned building littered with
pusehold materials, and in many initances
the windows had been partly
joarded up by the tenants to prevent
:heir small children from climbing
jut on the flre escapes.
The hallways of the building were
in darkness, and several other violalions
of the building laws made the
?lace a flre trap.
SHOOTS BROTHER AT PLAY.
Vew Jersey Boys Were Acting as Soldiers?Thought
Gun Empty.
Newton, N. J.?WJiile playing "solliers"
in the yard Of their home-at
Sircleville, near this place, John
Rich, Jr., accidentally shot and killed
lis brother, Edgar, sixteen years old,
with a shotgun.
Before the brothers began to march
iround the yard, John went into the
louse and got an old gun, which had
been stored away, and which he believed
was not loaded. Returning to
:he yard, he ordered Edgar to throw
up his hands. Edgar did not comply
tvith the order as soon as John desired,
and, pointing the gun at him,
John pulled) the trigger. The shot
sntered Edgar's left side and penetrated
the lung. He dropped to the
ground and was carried into the
house by John. A physician was
jummoned, Cut Derore ne arnvea uagar
died.
The authorities made no arrest.
TWO SUMMER HOTELS BURNED.
Cottages at Winthrop,' Mass., Also
Burned?Loss, $150,000.
Boston, Mass.?Crest Hall and the
Dcean View Hotel, two of the largest
mmmer hotels on the ocean boulevard
at Winthrop, known as the
Crest, were burned, together with
several cottages. The loss on the
hotels and cottages burned up to 1
3'clcck was estimated at $150,000.
Two women who were guests at
Crest Hall, Mrs. A. C. Dumont, of
Cincinnati, and 4 Miss Martin, were
reported missing. All the other
guests at Crest Hall, numbering fifty,
and the thirty-five guests at the
Ccean View Hotel are accounted for.
Crest Hall was owned by Frederick
Hall, and was built seven years ago
at a cost of $75,000. The Ocean
View Hotel was owned by Mr. and
!?rs. J. D. O'Brien, and was valued
it ?50,000. it was Dut tnree years
Did.
MAYOR SHOOTS AT STUDENT.
CJhampaign, 111., Students Unruly
Since Longworth Approved Hazing.
Ch'ampaign, 111.?Mayor Blaine
ared his revolver at a University of
[Ilinois student with whom he had
jeen having a hand-to-hand combat.
His aim was poor and the student,
ane of a large party engaged in hazing
freshmen, escaped.
Congressman Nicholas Longworth,
iddressing the students, put Limself
)n record as approving mild forms
jf hazing. He related incidents of
his college days at Harvard to the
idmirlng students. The university
luthorities are inclined to regret that
:he President's son-in-law expressed
himself in that vein.
Two Cent Letters Coming.
The steamer Kaisenn Augusie
7ictorla that sailed from Southampton
for New York took the first letters
posted in England for transmission
to the United States under the
lew two cent postal rate.
To Further Popular Education.
The second International Congress
'or Popular Education, in session at |
3aris, France, voted to establish pernanent
headquarters to facilitate the
cternational furthering of the cause.
Ireland Honors Mr. O'Mnra.
Dublin.?Joseph O'Mara, the Irish
enor, had a triumphal tour of Ire- i
and preparatory to his departure
'or the United States. The Lord
Mayor of Dublin gave a reception in
lis honor and he was presented with
he freedom of his native city, Limsrick.
American Attache Visiting.
St. Petersburg.?Captain S. L. H.
>locum, the American Military Atache
at St. Petersburg, is on leave of
.bsence. He will visit Germany and
hen travel in Southeastern Europe.
Xotcs of the Diamond.
Pitcher Quinn, of Richmond, and
mtfielder Cree, of Williamsport,
oined the Highlanders.
Bob Unglaub is hitting at a .300
lip for Washington and playing a
ery good game at third base.
Report is current now that when
he 1909 baseball season begins Hal
,'hase will don a Cleveland uniform.
The secretary of the National Baselall
Commission was directed to reurn
to player lsbell, of the Chicago
Americans, the $100 collected from
lim as a fine for not reporting at the
PS.ui.PS of the season.
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An Embarrassing Position.
The celebrated French physician
Ricord was one day walking along the
boulevards In Paris when he met an
old gentleman who was very rich,
but who was at the same time noted
for his extreme stinginess. The old
man, who was something of a hypochondriac,
imagined that he could get
advice fwom Ricord without paying J
for it. " r ,
"Doctor, I am feeling very poorly." .' J:
"Where do you suffer most?"
"In iny stomach, doctor."
"Ah, that's bad. Please shut your. y 4
eyes. Now put out your tonguo so / i
that I can examine it closely."
The individual did as he was told.
After he had waited patiently for
about ten minutes he opened his eyes,
and found himself surrounded by a ij
crowd, who supposed that he was
crazy. Dr. Ricord in the meantime'
had disappeared.?Philadelphia Record.
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Oddities of the Metropolis.
New York fc'.ty has added an average
of 17,200 persons to its population
every year since 1861.
In proportion to the number of ve- '
hides and persons on the streets of
New York City there are fewer acci- , "'y:S,
dents than in any other four counties
in the State.
New York City's Bronx Zoological ' /
Garden has more additions to its collection
of animals by birth than any \ .
other sucb garden in ma woria.
The average value of land on Man-"
hattan Island, according to the assessment,
is $272,173 an acre.
There are more tobacco, silk, hides
and jewels being imported by New
York City than there was one year
ago.?New York Herald.
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Removed From Sight.
A small girl, ^ost at Coney Island,
I was kindly sared for at, the police
station until her parents should be
found. The matron, endeavoring to
keep the child contented, had given
her a candy cat, with which she played
happily all day.
At night the cat had disappeared,
and the matron inquired if it had
been lost.
"No," said the little? maid. "I kep'
it most all day. But then it got so ; '
dirty I was 'shamed'to look at it, so
I et it."?Youth's Companion.
The Hongkong harbor has a water
area of ten miles, and is regarded ae
one of the finest in the world.
NO GUSHER
But Tells Facts About Postum.
"We have used Postum for the
I nast eight years." writes a Wis. lady,
"and drink it three times a day. We
never tire of it.
"For several years I could scarcely
eat anything on account of dyspepsia,
bloating after meals, palpitation, sick
headache?in fact was in such misery
and distress I tried living on hot water
and toast for nearly a year.
"I had quit coffee, the cause of m;
trouble, and was using hot water, but
this was not nourishing.
"Hearing of Postum I began drinking
it and my ailments disappeared,
a*d now I can eat anything I want
without trouble.
i ,;Mv narpnts and husband had*
about the same experience. Mother
would often suffer after eating, while
yet drinking coffee. My husband was
a great coffee drinker and suffered
from indigestion and headache.
"After he stopped coffee and began
Postum both ailments left him. He
will not drink anything else now, and
we have it three times a day. I could
write more, but am no gusher?only
state plain facts."
Name given by Postum Co., Battle
Creok. Mich. Read "The Road to
Wellville," in pkgs. "There's a Reason."
Ever read the above letter? A now
on?> appears from *inio to time. They
mv? iM*nnimr. trmv !i??i full of hiiUK'.n
trvVvest,