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BRiSERY ARRESTS III pinseuRSS council Seven Lawmakers Charged by Voters' League With Corruption. ACCUSED BLOCKED REFORMS Mayor Guthrie Set Trap For Bribing iling?Aided by Civic League, He Sought Evidence Following HoId-l"ps of Ordinances. Pittsburg.?Pittsburg was stirred by the arrest of seven members of the Finance Committee of Common and Select Councils and the president and cashier of a local bank on charges of bribery and the alleged corruption of members of Council in the passage of various kinds of legislation during the last two years. The men were released on bonds ranging from $15,000 to $30,000. The Councilmen arrested are: Joseph G. Wasson, Jr., W. H. Melaney, Jacob Soffel, Jr., Captain John F. Klein, T. O. Atkinson, William Brand and Hugh Ferguson. Brand is president of the Common Council. The bankers arrested are W. W. Ramsey, president, and A. A. Vilsack, cashier, of the German National Bank of Pittsburg. It is alleged that on June 2, 1908, they gave $17,500 to the Councilmen to induce them to continue the German National as depository of city funds. It is said that other banks will be attacked. Bail was fixed at $15,000 in each case. The informations were made by Tensard De Wolfe, secretary of the Civic League of Allegheny County. He was until recently a newspaper reporter. The charges against Wasson, Klein and Brand contain two counts of the same charge. Each Councilman was held under $15,000 bail on each charge, so that these three had each to put up $30,000 bail. The attorneys who are back of the charges are Patterson, Acheson & Sterritt; Willis F. McCook. William B. Rodgers, Mayor George B. Guthrie and A. Leo Weil. They repres3nt the Civic League and will prosecute the cases. It is alleged in the charges that the Councilmen "wickedly, corruptly and unlawfully give and offer to give i money and other rewards and bribes In order to obtain and influence the vote of a number of members of the Select and Common Councils of Pittsburg to secure passage by the members of the Select and Common Councils of certain ordinances and resolutions pending before Councils, commonly called ordinances and resolutions designating the depositories for the funds of the city of Pittsburg, bridge ordinances, bond ordinances for freeing bridges, ordinances for filter beds, Heberton street railway ordinance, resolutions to pave Fourth avenue with wood block and other ordinances and resolutions pending before Council." The information states that the Councilmen have beeh accepting bribes and attempting to bribe other Councilmen for the last two years. Every member against whom charges have been preferred has announced his candidacy for re-election, and the names will go before the primaries in February. Depose Bank Officers. Pittsburg.?The German National Bank of Pittsburg issued a statement that at a meeting of the board of directors W. W. Ramsey, president, and A. A. Vilsack, cashier, both under arrest in the councilmanic bribery case, have been deposed. A. A. Frauenheim has been elected president and J. F. W. Eversman cashier to succeed them. The reason given for this , move is that the bank directors "discovered that the money had been pui to improper use." AUTO KILLINGS IN CHICAGO. Alarming Increase May Lead Cit) Council to Take Action. Chicago, 111.?In the first eleven months of 1908 twenty people were killed in automobile accidents in Chicago, as compared to fifteen for the 4same months in 1907, while 327 people were injured, as compared to 231 1 for the same months in 1907. The increase of mortal accidents is thirty-three per cent., and the increase oi accidents not mortal forty-one pei tent $3,000,000 FOR KINGSTON. j British Companies Agree to Pay 85 ! Per Cent, of Earthquake Claims. Kingston, Jamaica.?News received from London announces that the English insurance companies have agreed to settle all claims resulting from the earthquake and fire of January 14, 1907, on a basis of eighty-five per cent., without adjustment and including costs. Insurers' payments on claims aggregating over $3.000,000commenced here December 23. $50,000,000 Telephone Issue. A trust deed given to secure a $50,* 000,000 first mortgage issue of the Chicago Telephone Company was ! filed at Chicago. The bonds, dated December 1, this year, are to mature in fifteen years, the interest rate not to exceed five per cent. The money is to be used to extend the company's service. Lisbon Misses $7,000,000. The newly elected Municipal Coun? ell has unearthed a big scandal in the accounts of Lisbon, Portugal. Over $7,000,000 has disappeared. The former Monarchical Councilors admit the irregularities, but lay the blame imnn +"h o Hnvorn mont whiph thdV upuu bUV VIVTUtUUiVUl, TV U4VU | ?,uv^ say, illegally took the city's money. American Lumbermen in Honduras. On a tract of 8000 acres of timber in Honduras American capitalists have marked for cutting 6000 mahogany trees. Minor Mention. Austria will try conciliatory meth? ods with Servia. The Government of British India is securing the views of chambers of commerce and other public bodies in that country relative to its railways along the line of extensions and general improvements. The preparations for a blockade of La Guayra were completed by Castro's order, and the merchants of both Caracas and La Guayra ordered large stocks in expectation of a siege of the coast city by Holland's warships. THE COST f JINM Excess of Insular Expenditures Over Revenues $570,524. Density of Population in the Philippines Greater Than in Japan, Italy, Germany or France. Washington, D. C.?According tc the annual report of Brigadier-General Clarence R. Edwards, Chief oJ the Bureau of Insular Affairs of the War Department, the excess of insular expenditures over revenues during the past fiscal year was$570,524. The excess of receipts over expenditures in the city of Manila was $32S,367. The expenditures of the Republic ol Cuba on account of American intervention from October 1, 1906, to June 80 last were $757,343. These expenj woro mnHo from funds al* unuico ?t vi v lotted by the provisional Government from time to time for army expenditures due directly to the army service in Cuba. The statement of extraordinary expenditures on account/of the army of pacification in Cuba, -which, under Congressional legislation, are to be reimbursed from the Cuban treasury, shows a total of $5,311,822, of which S3,376,735 was from October 1, 1906. to June 30, 1907, and the balance from then until June 30 last. The average density of population in the different provinces of the Philippines compares very favorably with some of the countries of Europe. In Cebu it is greater than in Japan, Italy, Germany or France. The postal savings bank shows a steady increase of business. Of the depositors fifty per cent, are Americans and forty Filipinos. CARNEGIE RIDICULES TARIFF. Testifying at Washington, D. C., Says That Protection is Not Needed Now. Washington, D. C.?Andrew Carnegie argued and joked with the Ways and Means Committee for several hours in behalf of free trade in steel. Much of his time he devoted to criticising the committee's method of investigation, and urging that only added bewilderment could result from the further following of those methods. "I am such a protectionist as the President-elect is," he exclaimed late In the afternoon, rising from his seat ind waving his hands forcefully to the fifteen members sitting in a semi-circle around him. "But we, the steel men, don't need protection any more. Protection now can only work a serious injustice to the consumer." COURT GIVES FUND TO HEIRS. Disapproves Bequest For Teaching of Swedenborg's Doctrines. Lancaster, Pa. ? Believing that Emanuel Swedenborg's work, entitled "Conjugal Love," advocates to some extent laxity in the relations of men and womeu, and that the teaching of the doctrines contained in it would be contrary to public policy, Judge E. G. Smith, of the Orphans' Court, awarded a fund of $50,000, bequeathed by Frederick S. Kamph foi the founding of a university in Philadelphia for instruction in Swedenborg's doctrines, to .the Kamph heirs. The Academy of the New Church and the General Church of the New Jerusalem each claimed the fund undes the bequest. GRIEF KILLS STRONG MAN. His Life Gone Through Regret Foi Having Shot Friend For Deer. Minneapolis, Minn.?Intolerable regret, crumbling all the vital forces of his being, is believed to have caused the death of Charles Wingren, who lived with his wife and seven children in Inez, Crookston County. Wingren, who was only twenty-seven years old, was strong and healthy until a few weeks ago, when he shot and killed a neighbor, his closest friend, in mistake for a deer. The official report of Wingren's death stated he died of apoplexy, a rare complaint for a young man who has lived his whole life in the healthy open air. Those who knew Wingren best say he died of a broken heart. TURNS OUT CASTRO MINISTRY. Gomez Expected to Seize Venezuelan Government. Willemstad, Curacoa.?Word has reached here from Venezuela that Acting President Gomez has ousted the Castro Government and set up a new Ministry of his own choosing A +Vi<-icq <hmwn rmt la thp Mill" AU1VU5 tuuoc vu? Vff U v?w ? ?? later of Education, Dr. Baldo, who Is In Germany with Castro. It is believed that Gomez intends to establish himself in supreme power. TURKEY MAY GET $20,000,000. Reported Offer by Austria-Hnngarj For the Two Provinces. Berlin.?The Frankfurter Zeitung learns from a trustworthy source thai Austria-Hungary is prepared to grant Turkey $20,000,000 as compensation for the annexation of Bosnia and Herzegovina. The paper adds thai the transaction only awaits necessarj formalities. Big Erie Arch Condemned. The Erie Railway Company's immense concrete arch over the Pennsylvania Railroad was condemned bj a State inspector. The arch is on the Erie's new cut-off between Daltor and Cuba, N. Y., and has been crumb ling for a montn oil account 01 quicKsand under the foundation. Pennsylvania trains between Rochestei and Olean are obliged to transfer pas engers between Belfast and Oramel Men were set to work making ar opening through the dirt filling be to? the arch for a temporary track. Fighting tho White Plague. A State Anti-Tuberculosis League was organized in South Carolina or October 29. In addition to appropriating $250,< 000 for a hospital for contagious dis eases, the Common Council of Buf falo, has decided to erect a separatf tuberculosis hospital, for which i special appropriation will be made. The Louisiana Anti-Tuberculosis League opened a free clinic for con sumptives at 1309 Tiilane avenue New Orleans, on November 3. A the end of the first week, twenty seven new patients were listed, anc the daily attendance was fourteen. i city mmirn fails Experiment in Municipal Ownership Costs Boston $1,000,000. Victim of Political and Labor Mismanagement?Superintendent Recommends Discontinuance. Boston, Mass.?The report of the Finance Commission to Mayor Hibi bard in regard to the Municipal Print( ing Plant has oper \ the eyes of tax, payers to the folly of the city's attempting to condur' .such an establishment, and the believers in municii pal ownership stand aghast at the faval q + Inn a | , Here was an experiment In municipal control, a municipal industry endowed with every advantage appar1 ently, ample capital, generous appropriations, plant in excellent physical condition, regular work of the same general character throughout the year, everything favorable for a successful enterprise, which should do the city's printing better than by con1 tract, and which should be able to pay as good or better wages while 1 giving shorter hours to employes. Notwithstanding these advantages, which seemed to assure success, the plant became the prey of political spoilsmen, who operated it in strict conformity to the requirements of the labor unions, and extravagance, incompetence and dishonesty caused a total loss to the city of at least $1,000.000. The commission also incorporates into its report to the Mayor and City Councils the revelations made by an expert who investigated the plant shortly after Mayor Hibbard took office, when it was found that the printing plant was nothing short of a municipal junk shop. The expert found the stock room crowded with merchandise in excess of the ordinary needs of the depart meni; an unnecessary uumuci uj. cm- i ployes from the standpoint of efficiency and economy; incompetent and sometimes useless employes forced upon, or at least accepted by the superintendent; a lamatable lack of interest manifested in the work; j with hands idle for hours at a time. An examination of the labor cost, made by comparing the time sheets of the composing room and press room workers with the pay rolls, showed a very large discrepancy between the time as reported on the time sheets and the time foy which they were paid as shown by the pay roll. Upward of 5000 entries were thus compared, and it appeared that the city paid for 16,767 hours more than the time reported on the timekeepers' sheets. This Involved a loss of $5115.20, of which $3383.24 was In the composing room and $1731.96 In the press room. Superintendent James H. Smyth, who has been trying for ten months ' to transform this municipal "white , elephant" into a paying enterprise, says: "I am strongly in favor of the discontinuance of the printing plant by the city. "Its total cost to the city of Boston for the eleven years of Its existence up to the beginning of this year was over $2,000,000. "The past management has been frightfully extravagant, and the consequent cost to the city outrageously high. "Boston has no business to attempt to do that which cannot be efficiently done by the municipality. By giving the work out under private contract and competition, It will prevent the r<af>nrr?nr?ft of Intolerable conditions and save the taxpayers from an annual lo&s which In the last eleven years has aggregated nearer to $1,000*000 than to any smaller sum." WOMAN INSTIGATOR CONVICTED. Mrs. Martin, of Oakland, Cal., Dynamited Residence of Jndge Ogden. i Oakland, Cal. ? Mrs.- Isabelle J. i Martin, who, out of revenge for adverse decisions, caused the house of i Judge F. B. Ogden to be dynamited, has been convicted of the crime after I a trial lasting several months. The suits in which Judge Ogden had decided against her were to comi pel insurance companies to pay money for houses which, it is alleged, t Mrs. Martin herself fired. i Mrs. Martin's first appearance beI fore the public was in connection with "Baby John Martin," her ward who, she said, was a son of the Princess dtChlmay. "Baby John" confessed that he dynamited Judge Ogden's house at the ( behest of Mrs. Martin. FATHER KELLY DROWNED. I | ; Arabic Reports Paterson, N. J., Priest Fell Overboard During voyage. Queenstown, Ireland.?When the Arabic arrived here from New York i the officers reported that one of the passengers, who was registered under the name of Father Kelly, of Paterson, N. J., was drowned during the voyage. He fell overboard, whether by accident or design is not known. Paterson, N. J.?The Rev. James A. Kelly, who was mysteriously lost overboard from the steamship Arabic, ' was forty-three years old. He was ordained at Seton Hall College, South , Orange, sixteen years ago. [ Death Ends Bout. 1 James Curren, eighteen years old, I was killed in a boxing bout with Bent jamin Barnet, seventeen years old, at the Broadway Athletic Club in Philadelphia. Broom Corn Cornered. Broom corn brokers have cornered the available supply in Illinois, and a 1 Paris firm reneived an offer of $130 a 1 ton for 1000 tons bought at $82.50. 1 As high as $150 was offered at Paris for first-class brush, and there is little for sale at any price. Broom factor- I ies have raised the price of the lowest grades fifty cents a dozen. Tuberculosis Metal Polishers. A union leader declared that sixtyfive per cent, of the metal polisher? suffered from tuberculosis. ) Feminine Notes. 1 In the new Finnish Parliament j there are twenty-five women, a gain of six over .the last. Mrs. Florence Maybrick won her ' suit in Virginia to have set aside the title .to 2,500,000 acres of laid. The University of Chicago has issued a rule that women students will 5 not be allowed to live at the same " boarding houses where male students > are housed. Mrs. Claudia Hains decided not to J attend the trial of her husband, who is charged with killing William E. Ann!*- . (latest News 'knc Mr. __ _ BY WIRE. Pres ?? IT Mob Hangs Alleged Murderer. Lexington, Ky. ? Elmer Hill, nharcprf with thft rrmrrier of Mamia Womack, in Adair County, was taken j Ai from the jail by a mob at Monticello, form Wayne County, and hange'd. Unit Arrested on Fraud Charge. Ian* Boston, Mass.?Leo F. McCullough, velt president of the Common Council of Peni Boston, surrendered himself to the Qf g police. He is charged with perjury . . and conspiracy to defraud the city out of $200 on June 1. He was bailed in the sum of $2500. Pres 01 MacAdoo Acquitted of Murder. sign; Greensboro, N. C.?Will C. Mac- gust Adoo, a cousin of William MdcAdoo, depa of New York City, was acquitted in 25. Superior Court on a charge of mur- Kno: dt-r in connection with the killing of requ Ed. Alrad last January. According elect to the evidence the killing was acci- br?tl dental. gran here Ask 8000,000 Under Riot Law. "1 Chicago.?This city is rapidly ap- ^abi proaching settlement day of claims up0I| for riot damages aggregating $600,- Iclen1 000?most of which grow out of the ?fa9< Pullman strike?and the law which *Crai? <nakes cities liable for three-fourths ^ i of all property destroyed by mobs , ? will be tested in the United States Su- Ele^ preme Court. Criticises College Men. w&3 Chicago.?C. B. Riley, president of [? J the Chicago Title and Trust Company, g declared in an address that the col- .. , leee man does not "stick." "I have , no doubt," he said, "that a man with ' the training derived from a college gD00 education can advance rapidly, but I ^ous would rather have a man in business c, who can do percentages than one who .<j can do differential calculus. Purpose Pres and grasp of detail is what the uni- Kno, versity man does not get." 8jre(j Santa Clans Mail Held Up. Washington, D. C. ? Postmaster- gena General Meyer would not renew his tjon order issued in December, 1907, per- ent mitting delivery to charitable organ!- ^as 5 zations of letters addressed to "Santa ^ ^ Claus" on the ground that It tended n to make beggars of children. It is es- ^at timated that more than 50,000 let- tary' ters are addressed by the children of jn 0 the country to "Santa Claus" annu- whei ally. ... _ nami r'' Ing t Congress Cheers Tnrkish Brethren. cessc Washington, D. C.?A resolution By t directing that best wishes and con- to hi gratulations be sent to the newly con- Baco vened Parliament of Turkey, was ane ! agreed to by both houses of Congress, the i con, Drowned in an Open Bridge. a Milwaukee, Wis.?In an automo- taryf bile's dash through an open draw of nam* the Onedia street bridge, Oscar Z; Lodg Bartlett, member of the Board of uatei Trade, and Albert Kunz, chauffeur, ribbc were drowned. ly ii the < Primeval Forest Discovered. at th Baltimore, Md.?Forty-two feet be- it ci low the level of the street a prehis- with toric forest, with trees ten to twelve feet through, and declared by Professor Philip Uhler, of Peabody Institute to be mant thousand years old, Fath has been unearthed. Double President's Salary. Washington,D.C.?Senator Bourne EgSte introduced a bill to increase the sal- Va ary of the President from $50,000 to f>,p7r 8100,000, and that of the Vice-President from 812,000 to $25,000, to take ?35 efTect at the beginning of the next Administration. j^si ( Tf Glass Workers Demand More Pay. Cleveland, Ohio. ? Every window on ^ glass factory . f the United States is g]Ue affected by the demand sent to the COI1(j manufacturers for a general wage increase of about twenty-five per cent. Krej About 7000 skilled workmen are in- ^is terested. pull and . railr BY CABLE. Th?t ?? nigh ??????I little American Dentist Honored. and i Pari3.?A Franco-American com- sage mittee has been formed to take T1 charge of the erection in Paris of a lean mnnnmeni to the memory of Horace were J Wells, a Hartford (Conn.) dentist, to ! whom is accerdited the discovery of ( laughing gas. | Japanese Hero Dead. Graa Toklo, Japan.?Lieutenant-General Nf Inouye, whose flank movement won . " the Battle of the Yalu, is dead. i New President of Switzerland. settl< | Berne, Switzerland.?A. Deucher, ? [ Minister of Commerce, has been elec- . tl ed President of the Swiss Republic ni for 1909 by the Federal Assembly. tQ , He will succeed Dr. F. Brenner, whose q term of office expires January 1. com( Manila Band at Inauguration. by1*! Manila, P. I.?The band of con- g^0E stabulary force has completed its arrangements to proceed to Washington, D. C., .to participate in the Thi parade at the inauguration of Presl- In dent-elect Taft. - teen a by f Tobacco Duty In France. Two Paris.?The report of the State to- comj bacco monopoly shows that France accic consumed $100,000,000 worth of to- ons, bacco in 1907, upon which the Gov- for s ernment made a profit of $75,000,- a bu 000. deer, Fire in Russian Town.' I _ ' 04 "D/-V*oticsKnro' "Rnacla ?? Dis- I O L. JTCtClouuig, patches state that a great fire In Ros- . tov-o'n-Don has destroyed the centra of the town, together with another entire quarter. Several lives were -\v lost. ered that Portuguese Ministry Out. cons Paris.?A dispatch to the Temp3 gar < from Lisbon says the Portuguese Cah- suga inet has resigned and that King Man- The uel is in consultation with the lead- this ers of all parties preparatory to the 975 formation of a new Ministry. cent: To Fix Road Rules. Paris.?The Government has de- Pl cided to call an international con- fcree ference to consider the question oi Stat< establishing a system of international K; laws relating to aerostation. utor pedil "Congo Budget" Put Through. J. Brussels, Belgium.?The Chamber of Deputies adopted the budget of the dues new Ministry of the Colonies, includ- T1 ing the Congo credits. The Socialists Myn alone opposed the budget, which, they ning unanimously declared, was based on begii "the exploitation of negroes and der tor^ed labor." Chui V iffo weed mn< < Taft Announces Senator as Secretary of State. j I Gi ident-Elect Fails to Confirm F. wa^ . Hitchcock as Postmaster-Gen- Portl *** ?? TVfiiv Soon On it. ^ piec< well Ligusta, Ga.?Philander C. Knox, econ lerly Attorney-General of the horsi ed States in the Cabinet of Will- ^hei McKinley and Theodore Roose- ing 1 and present junior Senator from to isylvania, will hold the position ecretary of State and sit at the of the Cabinet of William H. when the latter assumes the ^ idency on March 4. v . 0f fl( flcial announcement of this fact H alized Mr. Taft's arrival in Au- l. . a for a period of rest prior to his statl rture for Panama on January P?un The -post was tendered Senator poun s in New York City, when, by silag est, he met the President- twen ; at the home of the latter's nr0d tier, Henry W. Taft. HIb tele- 394 1 of acceptance reached Mr. Taft bran I'hat is the one ahd .the only resul net appointment determined an e t at this time," asserted the Pres- well t-elect with emphasis. For some Dn he thus failed .to confirm that ik H. Hitchcock's appointment to ? Postmaster-Generalship had been i:1 ally clinched. Further, he de- 3ufflc that the post of Attorney-Gen- I had been tendered to George W. time cersham, of New York City, who if sh reported "in reliable quarters" lS jn ive been formally designated for oren, Cabinet office. ' sveral of the closest advisers of President-elect had believed that . tJ post of Secretary of State would SIvei tually would go to John C. fowii ner, formerly Senator from Wis- :wo In, now actively engaged in law joaki tice' in New York City. This was very glad, indeed," said the gDjt( ident-elect, "to receive Senator c's telegram of acceptance. I I dei for the post of Secretary of i an able lawyer and a man who It been a figure in the public eye. jl fe tor Knox is a lawyer of unques- -epai fd ability; he has been a promin- jpar? figure in our public life and he * rendered services of great import ^7 y ie country." :her can be authoritatively stated Pa*r according to the plans, Secre- wher Root is expected to resign soon, tell, rder to be free of public office fall 1 the New York State Legislature (jrjef ?s him, in accordance with exist- 3ave( iditical arrangements, as'the sue- . . >r to Senator Thomas C. Piatt. j;11 his course President Roosevelt is ive opportunity to elevate Robert n, of New York, present AssistBecretary of State, to the head of State Department. Thus Mr. Ba- ^ whose name had been mentionel . possible appointee to the Secre- ? tai ship by Mr. Taft, along -with the Pota js of Whitelaw Reid and Senator nave ;e, of Massachusetts, can be grad- ao ir 3 with the epaulets and the blue pitali >n when Senator Knox is formal- foe lducted into the ofilce. Hence, ^owe country is to have two new men ie helm of the State Department, ,* in be asserted with authority, '?w In the ensuing few months. 'ise 9tora ROBBED AND HANGED. nay ? by si ier of Twelve Children Found w_Fa Strang Up on a Tree. janoke, Va.?While going with wife and twelve children from g0 rhazy, Canada, to Petersburg, . .. where they expected to make home, Charles Kreicar met a ;ern< ic death near Graham, Va. His cor * was found hanging to a tree, :endl v? rto tttt +txrlna orninid wnrt CUUCU UJ UCttT j bntuw ?. w. v leek. - jffn ie police believe that Kreicar, at th displayed a large roll of money ayen tie train between Cincinnati and " . field, W. Va., according to the 1 '7 uctor, was robbed and murdered. wate hen the train reached Bluefleld, 'he ; car left ft to get luncheon for fags wife and children. The train Whil :d out before Kreicar returned ;oia he was left behind. He had the jbou oad tickets from Roanoke to f. . rsburg in his pockets, and when rain reached Roanoke, after mid- aeea t, Mrs. Kreicar and the twelve -omI i ones entered a waiting room aess remained there all night. A mes- pher told of the finding of the body. i ia rallrnnd tickets S5 In Amer money and two Canadian coins i in Kreicar's pockets. HANNAHAN TO RETIRE. ~W id Master of Railway Order to Join Big Corporation. Fi ?w York City.?John J. Hanna- cc known as "The Peacemaker," thon . the number of strikes he has not t ed or averted as Grand Master of g? Brotherhood of Locomotive Fire- (,arn and Engineers, and who was one lose invited to the recent Labor 1 er at the White House, is about A ave the ranks of organized labor. lar&( 1 the first of the year he will be- five i vice-president of the American He f imatic Stoker Company, backed orchi Sdwin Hawley and Theodore P. an(j lts' cats. squii rteen Hunters Killed in Maine. jf the game season in Maine thir- to g persons met their death, twelve tjjis irearms and one by drowning. ... were shot by brothers, two by 1 sanions, five shot themselves by ac~ lental discharge of their weap- A two were shot by being mistaken | cann l deer, and one man was shot by j cha* inter when he was aiming at a j grou I culti if yo E ARE FOM) OP SWEETS. InS t grou ricans Eat Half Their Own W Weight of Sugar in a Year. '3 re ... . *? toco ashington, D. C.?Figures gath- p? by the Bureau of Statistics show c the average American citizen umes half his own weight in su? bush svery year, and that the people's Fc r hill is a million dollars a day. mad< total consumption of sugar in farm country in 1907 was 7,089,667,- T^es pounds, worth, at five and a half riv 3 a pound, $372,000,000. , knov U3.1 About Noted People. esident-elect Gomez of Cuba ted the people of the United 2s. a.nd < ing Haakon was the first contrib- , to Captain Amundsen's Polar exLion. He gave $5000. tnan Pierpont Morgan belongs tc v-five clubs, and his membership ,s figure over $7000 annually. besic le Rev. James E. Moerdyk, Dr. that i H. Josselyn and Gerrit J. Pen- ^as s sailed from New York City to who a missionary work in Arabia, un- day tin auspices of the Reformed scale :ch of America. 'ast Walking Horses the Best. i Dod trotters are generally fast :ers, and fast walking is an im- 1 ant gait on the farm. There is 1 lse of being two hours doing a ' i of work when it can just as < be done in one hour. It is bad 1 omy to have a poor scrub of a ] e on a farm that soon tires out, 1 i you can have a game, fast wa)klorse, that don't know what it is 1 re, and that can get over more < nd in a day than a scrub can get < in two days.?Weekly Witness. < Mutton Sheep. i Litton sheep make a greater gain ssh than steers, according to ex- ^ nents made. At the Wisconsin 1 on food required to produce 100 * ds of wether lamb was 364 1 .ds of corn, 296 pounds of corn " e, 158 pounds of corn fodder and } ty-two Dounds of potatoes. To 1 uce 100 pounds of steer required pounds of corn, 181 pounds of and 654 pounds of silage. The ts showed that silage was also excellent food for the sheep as i as for the steer.?Epitomist. Nutritious Food. ood sows should always have ient nutritious food to keep them jood condition. At farrowing the sow should not be too fat. e has had plenty of etercise and fair condition she will be better ared to care for her offspring. 3hould not be fed corn every day le year. This grain should be l most sparingly just before farug, and in its place si ration of quarts of oats, one quart of ed corn with one quart of wheat. will prove an excellent ration,? ? jmist. 1 Fence Repairing Time. is customary to do all rfepairing nces in the spring, but why not ^ ir them in winter, when one can > the time? The winds of winter * displace a board or rail here and ?, but a few hours' labor will re- 1 a mile of fence in the spring c i it is put in good order in the ^ New fences may be built in the ? as well as in the spring. In * , hundreds of dollars may be 1 on farms by doing work in the ? er that is usually left till spring, f then but half done for want of ?Weekly Witness. c s Keeping Seed Potatoes. le ideal method of keeping seed ;oes is claimed to be cold storage; toes thus kept at Ohio station come out sound and fresh, with idicationa of sprouting, and their Ity unimpaired, even so late as first of June. It is important, jver, that the temperature of the storage room should not fall bethirty-flve degrees, nor should it much above forty. When cold ige is not available, sprouting in some measure be prevented loveling the potatoes frequently. irmers' Home Journal. ? N Care of Stock. far as their proper bedding, ng and ventilation arq conid, it is too important a matter he thrifty farmer to negleQt ating to himself. However trusthy his assistants, judging by our experience, it will pay him well e close of the season to see each ing that his cattle, horses, sheep hogs- are well bedded, fed and red. Scarcely.less important is proper ventilation of the buildin which his stock are wintered, e the entrance of draughts and is to be carefhlly prevented it Id be borne in mind that domesed animals, like man himself, fresh, whoesome air, and, if jelled by ignorance or carelessto breathe a foul, tainted atmose, it is at a serious risk of health consequent profit. A visit to the , stable and pigpen early in the ling will at once warn the observlarmer of a defective ventilation, eekly Witness. Care of Fruit and Trees. uit ripens fast when it is placed >ol, dark cellars. When fruit is jughly ripe on the trees it should >e exposed to sunlight. it the apples into the boxes or ?ls as soon as possible after they >icked. Pennsylvania man who has a i orchard keeps about twentycats during the summer months. Ills a trough in the centre of the ( ard with new milk each morning < fti??fVior oHanflnn fn tha t He says there are no mice, ? rels, rabbits or rats on the farm. < you allow the grass and weeds I row up around the young trees t summer the rabbits and mice t girdle them next winter, if you t : watch out. c Missouri man complains that he r ot kill sweet clover in his or- t 3. It is not so hard. Plow the c nd and give your orchard clean 3 vation two or three seasons, or c u mow the clover frequently dur- 1 ;he summer and let it lie on the s nd it will die out. 1 henever a large limb of any kind a moved from the tree never fail a ver the wound with paint or wax. ick your finest apples in boxes ing about three-fourths of a el. f >r $1 you can have a neat stencil j containing the name of your , your own name and address. , e on the corner of your boxes people to understand that you f your business.?Drovers' Jour- , ? Care of Orchards. ^ le farmer must take up spraying ^ sther measures for the care of his ( ards to a much greater degree ^ in the past. Apples will go , i higher in price until this lesson irned. The abandoned apple tree, c le the cellar walls of the house burned down a generation ago, been yielding a crop for any one 5 came along to gather it, but its < is about over. The San Jose i ! will probably send ^ut of exist- < ence before many years all trees which are not cared for. Thus far the farmers seem exceedingly apathetic in taking up spraying, but the rise of prices and probably the in:reasing devastation occasioned by the insect, will bring about, before many years, a different attitude on :heir part. The brown tali moth has been ex:remely abundant in the season just :losed. The warm, dry spring and ;arly summer reduced his losses from :limatic causes. The same is doubtess true of the San Jose scale. The vood leopard moth, exceedingly diffi:ult to combat successfully, because >f its attack upon the internal part of !he tree, seems to be increasing rapdly. It is injuring chiefly the shade :rees of the metropolitan district, rhe elm leaf beetle, widely dlstriblted over the State, has not spread ts destruction with any even hand, )ut has' exhibited a degree of local variation which calls for the scrutiny )f' an entomological expert. The ipring . 1903 witnessed a great in- j :rease In the abundance of these >ests, probably due to the dryness of tfay and June of that year. The eaves finally became so hard that the leetles could not eat tnem, ana tnis, ollowed by a severe winter, resulted v n a considerable diminution of the >est. This has been a year of its re- ival. The new agricultural high schools >f the State have an important work _ >efore them in impressing upon the armers of the future the method of neeting these pests. Economic ento-f ' nology is becoming one of the most iractical of all scientific studies. The State "frill also have to perform an inreasing amount of work along taese ines.?Boston Transcript. The Feet and the Teeth. In considering the diseases to ?hich horsp flesh is heir there are wo things that should always be :onsidered as of special Importance, he teeth and the feet. The average >eriod ojt usefulness of the horse is :urtailed/several years b7 the tnade- j&S [uacy of the teeth. In most horses it the age of fifteen, the teeth have lecome rough and uneven, and from hat time on the horse is a hard keept, and the real cause is not known >y the awner. In buying horses the eeth and the feet should receive most :areful examination. Ordinarily^ in peaking of the feet of the horse, we aeau the part inclosed by the hoof rail. Looking at it from a stand- ' * joint of comparative anatomy, the oot Includes all below the knee and he hock. The a/tiflcial conditions v inder which the horse Is placed and * he unusual demand exacted of him esult in almost every case in di^tased conditions, which render him ncapable of doing the work he wo.uld itherwise do. Shoeing, which places ' lim under artificial conditions, com- ' )ined with the hard roads, overwork ind improper feeding, soon produce % nflammatory conditions which may. esult in side bones, ring bones, coffin oint, lameness, cracks in the hoof vail, contracted heels and a great nany more diseases too numerous to nention. In many cases the horse nust be shod, but there certainly is ar too much shoeing done. It is surjrlsing how much work the horse can lo under most. conditions without ihoes if he be brought gradually to * ha work, and a little care and judgnent be exercised in this matter durng the first three or four years of he colt's life. There are three things ispecially to be remembered if you vish to give this subject a little extra hought. First, as long as you use lorses that have weak or defective 'eet for breeding purposes just so ? ong will you have horses with a prelispositlon to these things and you pill lose money on them accordingly; lecond, do less shoeing, a horse with airly good feet will not need to be l ;hod unless he be worked on the javement, race track or in mountain>us districts; third, do not allow any lorseshoer to use the. .buttress on the . * ibles of the feet, nor the rasp on the mtside; do not leave the shoes on onger than four weeks without reseting. In substance, remember that the loot is the weakest part of the horse; hat the service of the horse is worth noney to you. Take good care of ;he horse's feet.?G. H. Glover, Colo- 4 ado Agricultural College. SMwkci+v anH Will PrtWAr V/ UTJOI fcj MUVS J r Obesity is easily cured with the eijrcise of the proper care and restraint >n the part of the patient. Without his, however, the cure is impossible, ind no physician or medicine can be >f any help. The happy-go-lucky dis>ositiona of fat people, their tendency o regard their ailment lightly, cause hem to look upon nothing seriously, o deny themselves nothing. These iharacteristics, which generally are esponsible for their ailment, furnish ' % he greatest obstacles in the way of :uring them. As a rule the fat per- I on does just the opposite of what he / 1 >ught to do. He eats the very foods 1 le should avoid, avoids those he hould eat, shuns exertion of every ;ind, indulges in rest and luxury and , ^ ^ eeks the way of the easiest resistmce generally.?From Will Power. The Origin of "Hurrah.'* The word is pure Slavonian, and is :ommonly heard from the coast of )almatia to Bering Straits, when any if the population living within these * imits is called on to give proof of :ourage and valor. The origin of the hoinn?? tn nrimitivA idea WWW-QW * ~ * ' hat every man that dies heroically or his country goes straight to hearen?Hu-ray (to paradise), and in *' he shock and ardor of battle the com)atants utter that cry, as the Turks lo that of "Allah!" each animating limself by the certitude of immediite rei-jmpense to forget earth and to :ondemn death.?Baltimore Sun. A The town authorities in Urugu&xl?8 lave been authorized by the Nationa^^H jovernment to solicit the aid of th^^^B Military forces in exterminating lo?^H I