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.Fourteen Counts Emboe ment, Jo Prove Tr Reach the f Bar Harbor, Special --From 'Rob-, . crt ?. Peary was obtained this infor mation, a forecast of the mdictment; , he and 'Gen. Thomas HnbbaTd, presi-' dent of- the Peary Artic ? Club, will draw against the contentions of Dr 1 Frederick A. Cook'that he has reach _ ed the North Pole. .There are 14 counts in the indict ment and they may be summarized as follows: First-That Mr. Peary and Matt Henson,? either individually or to gether,; talked with every member of - the.Smith Sound tribe of Eskianos and obtained, testimony that eorro rates. that of E-treck-a-sh?o and . A-pel-lah, the boys who accompanied Dr. Cook, that Dr. Cook had nol been out of, sight of land. Second-That in violation ?i the recognitized custom of Artic explora 'tion Dr. Cook has* not brought back records., left, in cairns at7 points he -asserts he^'had reached,. notably the ; ^one left at Cape Thomas Hubbard in 1906 by Mr. Peary. . Third-That Dr. Cook's story that ho traveled from Annotok to the Pole and then back to Jones' Sound,, a distance of . more than 251-2 degrees, or about 1,700 miles, in one sledging season is impossible. He points out that this-is more than twice the best . previous record of ll'degrees, and Mr. Peary's best record this year of 14 degrees. . Fo?rthA-That his general equip-, ment, was such that it would be a .physical impossibility to have accom . plished.the remarkable feat. ^Fifth-That Dr. Cook maintains he carried'a glass mercurial horizon on }iis trip of 1,700 miles, whereas Mr. Peary used a cast iron horizon, so that it would not only be saved from WHITNEY BELIEVES THAT I St. Johns, N. F.,. Special.-Harry "Whitney, of New Haven believes that / Dr. Frederick A. Cook found the Pole and- that-Commander Peary did the same. ' In expressing this belief ?L. Mr. Whitney said that he knows no reason for doubting Cook more than Peary. ./'Dr; Cook's story,'' he' added,, "seems-to me truthful and probable. - Nothing else would explain his twelve months' 'absence.". Speaking of Dr. Cook's detailed ac count of his trip to the Pole,1 l?x. Whitney saidthat the explorer showr ed him how the western drift of ..'the ice . had landed, him ia . a region ::ar remote from where he expected . to; go, and he was unable to get ba ak. Be could not speak with authority as to whether Dr. Cook and . his two Eskimos could carry on their three sledges enough food for their journey to the Pqle, as he himself is a novi ce v. in Artic'traveling. He declared he knew , nothing of the controversy be yond the vaguest details. The first he'learned ?of it was at Indian Har bor, when he received messages from ; several'American papers asking for a statement. * Mr. Whitney denied that Com .'." mander Peary had removed Dr. :Cook's stores from Annotok to Etah. v What Peary really did was to trans fer a few things and rebuild the house at. Annotok. Boatswain Mur phy's only reason for refusing to help Captain Bertnier's Canadian ex pedition to get' dogs anil sledges at ' Etah was that they were short of dogs themselves. Mr. Whitney had trouble ,(jn getting enough dogs for his teams all through thc winter and ? Murphy was looking out for Pear?, . so that he would have sufficient dogs for the commander's exploring trips around the country when, he returned from the ^north. . The day. "the Roosevelt was leaving Etah for .horne Whitney informed Peary, that Cook had entrusted to him HARRY WHITNEY MAKES , A; Sst. Johns special says Whit- . "bey makes one. startling state ment. He declares that ^ie under stands Commander Peary and his men went among the Eskimos and tried to have them declare Cook did not exceed Peary's "farthest north," but he insists that he understands the Eskimos, did not do so. He also denies that he quarreled with Peary on the Roosevelt. "Dr. Cook did leave me three cases of scientific instruments," declared the New Haven sportsman. "They THE ROOSEVELT IN THE BK New York, Special-Looking in ' outward appearance little like a ves sel that has braved the ice and storms ; of the Arctic zone, the little steamer Roosevelt, which hore Commander Peary on his quest of the North Pole, entered New York harbor Thursday. It was barely daylight when the look outs discovered the vessel off Sandy Hook, coming slowly. Off the point of the Hook, the Roosevelt gave three. WILBUR WRIGHT ENCIRCLE; ; 1 New York, Special.-Wilbur Wright circled the great statue of liberty at the entrance of New York harbor in his aeroplane Wednesday, while in the upper part of the city two huge dirigible balloons- failed ingloriously in their task. This,, the first day of flight of the Hudson-Fulton celebra tion, was u victory for' the heavier thein -air machines. Both Wright and Gleen H. Curtiss soared successfully from the aero drome of Governors island in their lying His Coming State tat Gook Did Hot j forth Pole. being broken, but coi Jd be heated when the mercury froze. This is necessary sometimes, .Mr. Peary con ?ejids, .as mercury freezes at minus 35. ' -I5r?" Cook reports finding it aa cold as minus 83 degrees. Sixth-That Professor. Marvin brought back- from 86 degrees 38 minutes duplicate records of Mr. Peary's march and of his own to. prove absolutely that Mr. Peary reached that latitude. Seventh-That ' Captain . Bartlett brought back from 87 degrees 48 minutes duplicate records of. Mr. Peary's march and of his own to prove absolutely that Mr. Peary reached that latitude. Eighth-That the sledge of Dr. Cook's was of such a type, not built cn the'linea of any Artic explorer's sledge, that ij could not possibly have lasted for a. march of a day with a standard load of 500 or 600 pounds. Ninth-That Dr*. Cook's snow shoes were of a impracticable type for use in the Artic and were. not of the kind that would - conduce to speed. Tenth-That . Dr. Cook's leaving of his records at Etah was a scheme on his part by which he could claim they were lost or destroyed, and so could escape being forced to produce them. Eleventh-That no man who had carried the American flag to the Pole would leave-such a slight and easily transported article in charge of a perfect stranger. Twelfth-That Dr. Cook did hav* fresh dog teams from Etah and could have carried his burdens to TJner navik. . Thirteenth-That when 1 Harry Whitney went on board the Jeanie he did not take time to go back to Etah and get the articles that he must have known were valuable to Dr. Cook. Fourteenth-That if Dr. Cook did leave such priceless articles at the Eskimo village Mr. Whitney would mave been anxious to have rushed them to the United. States. . - " IOTH REACHED THE POLE certain belongings to bring home on the vessel, that was coming up for Whitney, hut as this ship had not arrived Whitney was at a loss what to do with this property. Peary declined to permit Dr. Cook 's belongings to be brought aboard the Roosevelt,- and he put Whitney on his honor not to include anything be longing to Dr. Cook in hit own lug gage. Whitney thereupon went ashore from the Roosevelt, 'separated Dr.' Cook's ,property from his own baggage and repacked Cook's proper ty in boxes. After this had been done Whitney and Bartlett^ cached all Cook's property ih a cave in the rocks.. They T?uilt np the cave se curely with stones and turf and left it and the property in charge of one of Dr. Cook's Eskimos. It may be rema'ked in passing,* Mr. Whitney went on, that ten years ago Peary did with the explorer Sverdrup, who was cruising in S ~:?h sound, what he Jias done with Cook; he refused to. bring back any of Sverdrup's letters or records. In conclusion Mr. Whitney declared he regretted teing dragged into this controversy. He said he had found both Dr. Cook and Commander Peary courteous and considerate and that he had never met any mea whose conduct generally was more com mendable or whose dealing with him had been* more fair. Dr. Cook Satisfied With Statement. New York, Special.-Dr. Cook when shown Mr. Whitney's statement said that he approved of all that Mr. Whitney has said. "Everything in the interview is substantially correct," said Dr. Cook. "It confirms all my declarations." Concerning the papers left with MK Whitney Dr. Cook said: v "Mr. Whitney was in all probabil ity unaware of the written records being left with him. They .are not of much consequence, as I have dupesi" I STARTLING STATEMENT were the ones used on his polar trip. In. one of the cases was a sextant, in another an artificial. horizon,' while in the third, I believe, there was a chronometer. Dr. Cook also left me several boxes of other personal ef fects, clothing and specimens. It is, of couse possible that Cook's records may be among these, as the doctor packed them himself, but he said nothing to me of any records. "I premised Dr. Cook that I would take those things south with me on my vessel, but when the ship did not come I was forced to go on board the Roosevelt. i HUDSON-FULTON PARADE triumphant screams of her siren and ran up the Peary Arctic flag at hez masthead, then the flag of the New York Yacht Club, at her fore, and the American ensign at her mizzen. Com mander Peary'sash ip arrived in the nick of time to participate in the closing ceremonies pf the Hudson Fulion celebration. Sta took part of the naval parade which Friday went up the Hudson as far as Newburg. S THE STATUE OF LIBERTY motor-propelled biplanes, while both of the great dirigibles, manned re spectively by Capt. Thomas Baldwin and-George L. Tomlinson and entered in The New York World's $10,000 New York to Albany race, were fore-' ed to descend because of mechanical difficulties before they were well un der way. Wilbur Wright made three sensa tional flights and Curtiss made One brief though successful test spin oi 30 seconds duration. 1 1 EVIDENCE AGAINST LITTLE Damaging Testimony of His Wifs Will Convict Him of His Wholesale Murder. Bluefield, W. Va., Special.-Th<i guilt of Howard Little, who was ar rested about a week ago charged with the murder of "Aunty Betsy" Justice, George A. Meadows and wife and their three children, seems now to be established beyond a reasonable doubt. Little's wife confessed Satur day to having washed his bloody clothing after the murder and in ber affidavit she . says also that he left their home about dark on the night of the murd-sr and returned thc next morning with his clothes all loody and torn and said that he would kill her if she told anything about his condition. He borrowed a 32"-caliber revolver a few days before the crime was committed and returned'- it on'the following Wednesday with two cham bers empty. ' The body of George Meadows was exhumed and two bul lets taken from it by Doctors Richard son and White, were almost identical in weight-with the balls taken from shells belonging to the weapon Little had1 borrowed. > Little's wife also turned over the lantern that he had brought home with him that night when showed file marks as if some one had tried to re ' move stains. He was seen in the barn next morning folding papers across his knee apparently counting money and he gave $20 to a woman with whom he had planned to start for the west a few days after the murder was committed with which to buy clothingi and prepare for the train. Having done this she returned $1.80 to Little at which time she swears he threaten ed her life if she revealed any part of their secret. Requisition papers have been ?pplid for and as soon as they can be secured Little will be taken to Lebanon to await his trial. Threats of lynching are freely made. Fatal Mine Explosion. Roslyn, Wash., Special.-At least eight men were,killed and three per haps fatally injured in a gas explosion in cole, mine No. 4 of the Northwest ern Improvement-Company here Sun day. When the explosion occurred a column of fire was thrown hundreds of feet into tire air, lighting the shaft plant and adjoining buildings. Under the intense heat the shaft crumbled and ,fell. Cinders were blown in all directions, several buildings in parts of the mining town taking fire. The citizens were unable to extinguish the fires and the Roslyn fire department was called out. The raine in the" neigh borhood of the shaft was burning fiercely Saturday night, flames shoot ing up from the shaft nearly 100 feet into the air. The electric pumps which supply the town of Roslyn with water were cut off and the water in -the city .was very nearly exhausted. It was reported that fbe shaft was caving in and other explosions might occur at any moment. Nephews in Fatal Due?. - Moultrie, Ga., Special.1-At the old homestead of the late Nathan Flow ers in the lower part of the county, Bert Williams is dead, Wright Flow ers is. dying and it is believed Wil liam Flowers is fatally hurt as the re sult of a terrific six-handed battle with rifles and "pistols, news of which reached here Sunday. Sheriff Boyd and a big posse of deputies is on the track of John Hart and his two sons who are charged with the shooting and who are at large, fully armed. The trouble occurred'over a dispute' about the division of thc estate of Nathan Flowers. -He died, leaving no children and since his death John Hart, who married ? niece, has been living on the home place with Mrs. Flowers. The Flowers boys are neph ews while Williams married a niece. Since Nathan Flowers' death there ha's been a wrangle over the estate, it is alleged, and trouble bas been' feared. Professor Harris Guilty. Warrenton, Va.," Special.-Follow ing closely the verdict Saturday of the jury sentencing Prof. J. D. Hams to four years in the penitentiary for voluntary manslaughter in connection with the kiilii:::, of W. A. Thompson, associate editor of The Wa:renton Virginian on April 24 last, the-court denied thc motion of the defense for a new trial, Second Week of Celebration. ' New York, Special.-The. Hudson Fulton celebration, after a week of pomp and pageantry in New York, has moved up the Hudson and for another week the cities lying to the north will vie with each other in do ing honor to the memory of Hudson and Fulton. The Half Moon and the Clermont with the naval escort, now at anchor at Poughkeepsie, will con tinue their voyage northward, stop ping at Kingston, Catskill, Hudson. Albany and Troy, where elaborate local celebrations have been planned. Wright Breaks Record. Potsdam, By Cable-Orville Wright the American aviator, Saturday broke his own and all other records for high flying. He reached the unprecedented height of more than 1,000 feet, al though an official measurement was not taken. He had a red letter day in a double sense in his experience as an aviator, taking up Crown Prince Frederick William as a passenger and more than doubling the altitude record which he made recently. Monument to Wayne. Stony Point, N. Y., , Special.-A monument to the madness of "Mad Anthony" Wayne, the revolutionary general who led a successful attack against apparently hopeless odds on Great Britain's Stony Point Gibraltiir 130 years ago. was dedicated here Saturday as one of thc opening events of the up-State Hud son-Ful ton cele bration. The monument, a great VOA tnorial arch built of the rough stones over whn-.h Wayne led his ' troops, ?lands on thc scenes of the battle. To omemmorate the lives of the Confederate, prisoners -of war who died at Foite.^laware, during the Civil Wax, a monument to cost $8,500, will be erected inthe Confederate sec tion of Finn's" Point national cerner tery, near Salem, New Jersey, arid close to the old prison. The. War De partment has just closed a contract with the Van Amringe Granite Com pany, bf .Boston, Mass., to construct the monument' of Pennsylvania white marble: lils to lie completed by De? cember 10'; 1909. The shaft will, he 82 feet high. Similar monuments .are being erected, hy act of Congress throughout the North, wherever there are many unmarked graves of Confed erate soldiers. "Release that'woman at once!" is in substance the order which the Act ing Attorney-General telegraphed to City Sergeant " J. C. Chichester at Fredericksburg, after an appeal* from, an aged negress for the release of her dangiter, Clara Rose Turner, from the Fredericksburg jail. The old negress works for General Miles' family, and she has haunted the De partment of Justice in the effort to get her girl, who is serving a six months' sentence on the charge of sending obscene letters through the mails from the jail "Foh de Lawd's sake," she appealed, "dat jailor ain't got no business keepin' dat no' girl down dar. A passel of girls down dar got ,my girl to say she done it. She waa, jus' rattled. To' know she stamfl-tTgr and they do say a pusson dat stammers am weak-minded." She;rry, McSlierry and Ice made the warro??t Vlnd of record at the recent xecort target practice of the Atlantic deet. Sherry being the left gun point er in the .8-inch turret of the battle tihip Minnesota, McSherry being the right gun pointer, and Ice being the trainer, who,, heated the ardor of his men. The record was 87 1-2 per cent, lepresenting about two hits a minute. A number of the friends of Mrs* ?nines Nj. Sutton, mother of the late lieut. James N. Sutton, are arranging to raise, a. fund to be used for the erecting of a monument over the grave of Lieutenant Sutton at Arling ton. At about 5:15 o'clock Saturday afteroon an alarm was turned in from tlie executive offices of the White House on account of a fire in the par tition in the main reception room of the old executive offices, caused prob ably bjjf.a defective flue in the fur nace, ;wlbich. is directly underneath that room. The firemen were ompell ed to chop ? great hole in the side of tl e 'wall from ceiling to floor, and the fire was very quickly extinguished with-hose from the chemical wagon.* Increases ranging from 25 to 150 per .cent are shown hi the quantity of manufacturers ? materials imported irito?-th'e -United .State during the sev en, months ending with: July, 1909, over the corresponding period of the immediately preceding year.-. These figures, complied by the Bureau of Statistics, relate to a variety oi arric ies in general use by manufacturers. An almost forgotten incident in which the present Secretary of War, James M. Dickinson, heroically resu cucd James F> Joy, a Detroit lawyer, from the Detroit ' River, fourteen .y?r.rs ago. was recall?d Wednesday when A a handsome solid gold medal suspended from a ribbon held in the beak of an ?luerican eagle, was pre sented to Mr. Dickinson on behalf of the United: States Government. The medal, approved by President Taft before his departure on his trip and conumemorating.'the courage of the War Secretary in saving the life of a fellowman, was presented by Assis tant . Secretary of the Treasury Hilles. . The hoard of directors of the Nat ional Georgraphic Society Friday held a special meeting tc determine the attitude it should assume toward Dr. Frederick A. Cook upon the oc casion* of his visit here next Sunday? when he will, deliver a lecture on his Arctic experiences. The decision was reached that Dr,? Cook under the cir cumstances, could not be recognize?1 in an official way. ? With considerable progress made in checking the ravages . of the boll wevil in the South, the prospects for a large production pf cotton .are un usually good, according to Prof. W. R. Beatty, assist?nt horticulturiest of the Department of Agriculture, who returned Wednesday from a tour' of the Southern States.. "There is a widespread, but en tirely needless, concern on the ques tion of the legality of issuing a check for an amount less than $L," says a statement given out by the Treas ury Department. . American manufacturers will be able to find a good market f for their products in South Africa if i hey take the trouble to look over the field and send representatives there, according io Consul-General Julius G. Lay, of Capetown. President Taft made the electrical connection Thursday that set tbe^wa ter flowing through Gunnison Tun nel, near Montrose, Colorado, . by which 140,000 acres of arid land is to be made productive. No Duty on Raw Pulp Wood. Montreal, Special.-The report that that Quebec, provincial government had decided to impose an export duty on all raw pulp wood exported to the United States is denied by Premier Gouin. Mr. Gouin said to The Asso ciated Press Monday that he wished it to b(! specifically stated that his an nouncement as St. Johns recently did not mention any export duty and that it was not the intention of the govern ment to impose any such duty. ' A With the Funny is** { it Ag It Happened. Maud Muller^ on a suramer'B day, Put up a bluff at raking hay. But on the high road kept an eye In case a judge came riding by. And, sure enough, the judge'did pass ' At forty miles an hour, alas! It Rives to romance quite a jar, The modern honk-honk touring car. -Philadelphia Bulletin. Younger. "Don't you think this dress makes me look younger, ?usebio?" "Yes, my dear, easily a hundred years younger."-43ourire. Beauty in a Box. .He-"Does Miss Pinkleight get her good looks from her father or her mother?" She-"From her uncle. He keeps a drugstore."-Chicago News. Cool! Diner (disgustedly)-"See here, everything on this table is ' stone cold." . Waiter-"Try the pepper and ta basco, sir."-Boston Transcript. ?' A Queer Fad. "What is the proper time to an nounce the engagement?" "Depends on how fashionable you are. Some deny it right up to the al? tar."-louisville Courier-Journal. i The Main Thing. While epigrams set plays aflame, In life, I guess, Most folks subordinate the saine To dress. -Louisville Courier-Journal. ? A Crusher. "Bet you ain't got nuthin' like our subway," boasted the New Yorker. "In my section," retorted the visi tor from the cyclone belt, "we have Individual subways." - Louisville Courier-Journal. The Kissing in the Park. , First Suffragette - "How degrad ing!" Second -Suffragette-"Disgusting! I should like to see the man that would dare to treat me in that fash ion!"-The Sketch. A Steady Job. Caller-"Snip & Co. have em ployed me to collect the bill yod owe them." Owens-"You are to be congrat ulated, sir, on securing a permanent position."-Boston Transcript Language of Eden. He (looking at the catalogue of women's styles)-"They still use the language of the first fashion plate; don't they?" . His Wife-"What do you mean?" He-"Fig. 1, Fig. 2, and so on." Judge. More Paranoia. "Dad, she's g?ing to sue me for breach of promise." "Then you must plead temporary insanity." "How could I prove it?" "By the love letters you wrote her!"-London Opinion. His Little Joke. Percy-"I-aw-wrestled foh an hour with me scarf this morning." Algernon-"Which won the vic tory, deah boy-you or-the scarf?" Percy-"Neither. Cawn't you see the match wesulted in a.tie? Haw! Haw!"-Chicago Daily News. Drew a Crowd. "I once woke up-" "And'found yourself famous, eh?' ? "No, but found that I had been at tracting considerable public atten tion: I had been snoozing on a hotel v?randa with my mouth wide open." -Louisville Courier-Journal. * Had an Excuse. "Why did you parade the Board walk in ?en's clothes?" , "Your Honor," sobbed the fair prisoner, "there's so much fun?made of women's fashions this year." So the Court dismissed her with a reprimand.-Philadelphia Ledger. ?--- a , Oratorical Tactics. "What does this cat mean by paw ing me so?" "She's begging for a tidbit, and is adopting the tactics of orators who make unanswerable arguments." "What's that?" ' "Paws for a reply.'"- Baltimore American. Human Nature. "The vain man worries for fear the boss may not he able to fill his place while he's, away on vacation. The modest man worries for fear the boss may fill it permanently." "What's the moral?" "0h| the moral is that we all wor ry."-Louisville Courier-Journal. . Drench of Etiquette. The two women stopped in front cf a dentist's showcase on Tremont street. "There, mamma," said the younger woman, pointing, "I want a set just like that." "Hush, my child," commanded her mother, "don't you know that it's vulgar to pick your teeth on the street."--?-Boston Transcript. The Prisoner. The Master of the House-"Why, Mary, what aro you looking so glum about?" The Maid of the House- -"Please, ?lr, the mistress has just told me I am to leave at the end of thc week." The Master of the House-"Mary, I congratulate; you!"-?-Cassell'B Sat urday Journal. -- ROW TO OVERCOME TEE WHITE PERIL. Milk is a Menace to Health Un? less lt Is Pasteurized, a Simple* ' Cheap, Process. ' . ' J ?)f all the menaces to humanity- , the Black Peril of the plague, the j Red Peril of communism, the Yellow j Peril of the fever of the tropics- j there is none more . grave, more fraught with the possibilities of death than the Whi^ ' Peril of infected , milk, says Nathan Straus in the De-; ? lineator.- But there is no-danger to j life more easily overcome. Pasteur- | Ization renders the milk supplies sale, i The White Peril .is as closely re- | lated as cause and effect to the White Plague, that annually exacts the for feiture of nearly #one hundred and | Bixty thousand lives in this country i alone. This fact is' recognized and | declared - by all impartial scientific ii men. Carefully compiled vitaLfctatis- i tics from a portion of. the United States containing,'in 1966, 40,9&6, 317 inhabitants, showed that,ih that j year, in those parts of 'the country, < 75,512 people died from tub?rculo- < sis, 13,16ft from typhoid fevers 10,^- I 793 from diphtheria','3227 irom.Bcar- 1 let fever and 42,581 babies under i two years were victims of diarrhea. These five causes were responsible for 145,273 out of a total of 658,105 J deaths from all diseases, and acct- 1 dents. To say that all bf these 145,- i 273 deaths were caused by milk, i would be going beyond the evidence. 2 But I am quite within the thoroughly I proved facts of the >case in asserting ( that in acted milk is a. common cause 1 of these diseases, and that it is fair 1 to attribute a '.arge proportion of } these 'deaths to the use of milk that 1 contained tba microscopic germs ' which produce these diseases. 1 But the remedy for this frightful < slaughter is not to taboo milk Pas teurization is a simple, inexpensive, non-patented process by- which all ' milk that is produced under fairly ' decent conditions may be made safe * for human food. The process con- 1 sists in bringing the milk to a tem-, ) perature of 157 degrees and main- 1 taming that degree of-heat for twen- 1 ty minutes, so as to kill all the germs ' of disease.. Then the milk is Quickly 1 cooled, and it may be used without J peril. It should be bottled, which- is j the only safe method for di3tribu? tion. ' ' 1 Will the Dollar Oome Back? A dollar sent out of town for printing brings-what returns? Does it benefit the merchant of this village in the least? Does the printer in Rutland or Burlington help pay the taxes in Bristol? On' the other hand a dollar spent at home for printing is liable to bring ? several to your pocketbook. The local printer helps pay the taxes that are used for public im- 1 provements. Does that help to injure you, Mr. ! Merchant? / Think it over and see if you can 3 afford to send your printing out of 1 town. By sending your prin.ing out of ' town are you helping to build up one j of the best industries of the town? Stop for a few moments and con sider the question: Is the local news- ' paper of any value to the town? There is but one answer,' and only one. The local newspaper is on? of the greatest factors in advertising a town, and the Herald is no exception to the rule. The united and hearty support of the local paper by the community enables the publisher to' do more and better work in advertising the town and its advantages:, thus in many cases attracting the attention of peo ple and inducing them to locate in the town. The local newspaper never throws stones at any legitimate enterprise. Instead, it encourages eyen the small est, because encouraging words are far better than those of the opposite kind. All ?ditors can testify to the' truth of this statement.-Bristol Hen tald. House, of the Seven Gables. Mechanics who have been making changes in the historic House of the Seven Gables, at the foot of Turner stree!/, Salem, have found indisputa ble proof that the building was orig inally a house bf seven gables and the additional four gables are to be restored in the remodelling. The old mortices have been found in the tim bers. It has tjeen- found that the house originally had an overhanging second story, which at some time was walled( up, leaving the old wall with its nar row clapboarding still in place. This will also be restored. A large addi tion will be built on the northerly side to fit the house for settlement work. Mrs. Emmerton, who is pro moting this undertaking, has also purchased the estate adjoining on the north. Altogether about $6500 b being expended on'the remodelling. Boston Transcript. Texas Land Values. "Two years ago I bought a sectiOD of Texas land in Deaf Smith County for $15.50 an acre," T. W. Hogan, s wholesale druggist of Lafayette, Ind., said at the Union Depot this morn ing. "I have* just returned fron Texas, and was offered $30 ^n acr? for my farm. As I borrowed th? money to make the purchase, I fig ured chat I had cleaned up something like $10,000. The man who is work ing my farm sent me a check foi io SO, a third of the profit in wheal this year. That is about six per cent on $.10,000,"-Kansas City Star. A Safer Job. "So you don't guide hunting par ties any more?" asked the stranger. "Nope," Eaid the guide. "Got tired of being mistook for a deer." "How do you earn a living now?" "Guido fishin* parties. So far no body ain't mistook me fer a fish." Kansas' City Journal. The total continental area of th? United States,, including that ol Alaska, is about equal to that of &L' Europe. A patent has been ?ranted in Ger many , on_ ? starch, insoluble In^fcot (vater and unaffected by strong alka lies, which ls; useful a? < filter - in plastic compositions ana i *he manu facture of paper. . The por>tbility -of a planet outside if . the orbit of Neptune,, .since its^d?s cbvery-Jn considered the ouier? most of thE solar system, is Indicated by .calculations at harvard Observa tory of certain irregularities in Nep~ tune's orbit . '. . .*> . . Concrete, when brought Into con tact with water, steadily acquires compactness and resistant power un til it maintains its' maximum 4n those j uall ties, w h ich it retains indefinitely, md without deterioration. Every year thousands of persons in France, according to M. Mot?is Iressmakers, clerks, cashiers and ac countants--lose their sight, not so nuch fronji excess pf work as from de tective lighting and a. deplorably faulty position during their work. In a paper read before .the Paris Academy of Sciences, Monsieur Chau zeau shows that tho organism to ?vhich the effects' of ordinary vaccin? ire due ls still unknown, being be .ond the reach of the microscope, [ts properties can be inferred, bow- -\ ?ver, and experiment proves that it ?' cannot be of a crystalline, or colloidal ?ature. When the vaccine ls covered vi tn water a id allowed to diffuse, no ;i ru le nt properties are communicated ;o the upper layers of water. Mon sieur Chauve au regards it as certain .hat the organism is ? living being. According to Electrical Engineer ing; rules have been issued to the affect that no apparatus for wireless telegraphy on board merchant ships, whether British or foreign, shall be used in any of the harbors of Gib ral- >. :ar, except with the written permis-s sion, of the governor. The making-' jr, answering of signals of distress?" ire excepted. The 'bill, requiring all ? steamers to be equipped with wire-;; less apparatus, which was introduced'? m the Canadian Parliament, has been: shelved for the present, for the rea--^ ;on, it is said, of seeing what steps 1. :he British Governments tafing iii v ;his direction. ' ^ -.. A PARISIAN SEANCE, g i?. Ehe Materialization of a Man Graph-' ' * ically Described^,. ^ Vance Thompson, In writing a ser- | [es of articles on psychic research, . based upon his experiences and inter views among the savants of Europe -a serges which in .vivid portrayal ind authentic detail far surpasses anything of the sort yet printed in i popular periodical. In Hampton's Magazine lie thus describes a seance, men and women seated alternately in a. circle: . Suddenly one of my neighbors' grinds her body against mine and gives a little cry. ' "There!"1 she exclaims. I, too, see a vague light flickering against the curtain, far up near the top, and to the right, of the opening Info the cabin?t. . It -ls a luminous nebulosity. At the end of a minute within this light, which is wavering and fluctuant, there comes a globe of radiance which is clearly outlined against the black curta \n. At first ? thia globe is no bigger than a golf ball. It augments rapidly until it-is the size of an infant's bead. * There seems to be gray spots on it and lit- . . tie points of brighter radiance. "(Dr. de Vesme says one might have been '.. watching the genesis of a child, all the slow growth crowded into a pan-,/, oramic moment.) The ball is now; ? the size of a man's head, and the ex treme brilliancy has faded .from it. There is a bluish tonality in the neb ulous mass. >[ . . V - ' . i ^ For a while it hangs against the curtain; then, as though lt had shaken itself loose, lt descends tn zigzag lines to the floor and hovers there. ' It is a ball of blue-stained light; bluish as Sheffield steel. It rises and falls, floats this way and that, now toward the curtain, again two "or three feet away.. There isva time when it has drifted within five feet of my knee?. Then lt becomes stationary. It grows taller; it is as though the head rose while below it the shadowy light took on consistence and form. It grows until it has attained the height of a man. The human form, uncertain at first, is clearly accentu ated. You see the head (which was the ball), tbe arms, the. hands; but all this you see behind ' nebulous drapery. The figure is now very near ly, sir feet high. It wavers there. Abruptly a circle of light, like a gflf crown, forms on the head. The eyes are visible. ' Silence now; only you feel the. lurching of those magnetic waves as , the women press themselves harder against you, clutching with hands, grinding with knees. (This is not . rhetoric. I am leading you to a for midable fact. I iterate it so that you may have clearly in mind the physical basis of the chain.") Then in the profound silence; a voice, strong and rather formal: "I am Dr. Benton." Consid?rate. Four old Scotchmen, the remnant of a club -formed some fifty years ago, wera seated around the table in the club room. It was 5 a. m.- and Dougal looked across at Donald and said in a ?hick, sleepy voice: '"Donald, d'ye notice what an awfu' peculiar expression there ls on Jock's face?" "Aye," says Donald, "I notice that; he's dcead! He's been deead these four hours." ? "What? Dead! Why did ye no tell mj?" ">n, no-nc-no," said Donald, . "A'm no that kind o' man to disturb a convivial evening."-Tit-Bits. The growing scarcity of timber suitbale for ties, with a resultant in crease in their cost, has led eleven, railroads, rx? start forests.