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MANY LIVES LOST' In a Most Destructive Hotel Fire at Fort Wayne, Ind. NUMBER OF MISSING The Burning of the Register Renders e Accurate Estimate of Fatflities c Impossible-The Fire Was uinscov-i ered at Half-Past Three O'Clock Sunday Morning in the Elevator r I: Shaft. 9 At least 12 persons lost their lives in a fire which destroyed the New Aveline hotel at Fort Wayne, Ind., d early Sunday morning. The entire F interior of the building is a smould ering heap of ruins and how many k dead are concealed by the debris can only be conjectured. The hotel reg- v ister was consumed by the fire and there is no accurate means of de- S termining who is massing. S Charred wood, bricks and twisted a girders are piled up between the walls a to the second story. Piece by piece this must be removed before the roll v of the dead can be completed. Some r of the bodies taken out are mangled v and charred beyond recognition. The fire was discovered at 3:30 1i Sunday morning in the elevator shaft i: by Night Clerk Ralph Piplins. He i: rushed to the upper floors, alarming o the guests until the flames, which had a spread with great rapidity, drove o them back. His efforts, howeve ', saved many lives. r The hotel was erected half a cen- : tury ago and the wood work was dry i: as tinder. Within a few minutes from c the time the fire was discovered the f whole interior was a mass of flames s and the only aveure of escape was by the windows. t The fire department rescued many e of the guests by means of ladders, t but some, frenzied by the rush of i flames, leaped from windows to the t street. R. S. Johnson. of Pana, Il., jump ed from the fifth story. His body struck a balcony and bounded far in to the street. He died a short time later. t As the flames increased men and women were seen in the windows of their rooms imploring help. Some did not wait for the assistance of the firemen and leaped to the street. Those who left their rooms before the flames cut of their retreat were able It to make their way to the fire escape and were saved. That there are -several bodies in the ruins is the belief of Fire Chief Hilbrecht and Chief of Police Anck- 1 enbruck places his estimate of dead yet in the ruins as high as 20. The New Aveline Hotel was a six story building of brick. It stood in thei business centre of the city. The hotel( and its furnishings were valued at $80,000.* THE MERRY WIDOW HAT. Vol. B3acon On the New Style in Wo man's Headgear.1 Col. James T. .Bacon of the Edge field Chronicle, has been consider ing the "Merry Widow."' The "Merry Widow" as woman, hat or phrase, has become disgusting. The hat is supremely hideous. The writer of this, as his people well know, is devoted to dress, finery,, fashion, style, but the "Merry Wid ow' hat is hopelessly ugly in itself, and gives a woman an air of loudness -and unrefinedness. Imagine a great. illimitable far-preading "sailor" with a huge hideous fort built, around the crown. This fort is sometimes cir cular, sometimes square, sometimss three cornered, sometimes five cor nered, sometimes seven cornered, and sometimes nine cornered. And then long, straight, stiff, cheap quills are so -disposed on the fort as to make is doubly hideous. Fashion is one thing. Good, gentle refined taste is another. Fashionabie hats, even outside of the "Merry Widow." :ire too big and too ungraceful. They make women look common. and give them locomotor ataxia and v-olhulus. Durn th "Merry Widow." *I TRAGEDY IN GEORGIA. ToYoung Men Shot and Killed Near Eastman. A dispatch from Eastman, Ga. says Tom Spiers shot and killed 0Os car Stuckey Wednesday afternoon about dark. It seems from reports that an altercation arose over some work on the farm of Mr. J. S. Stuck ey, which resulted in Spiers shooting and killing the young men. The Stuckeys are among the best families in Dodge County, being highly re spected and esteemed as quiet and law abiding citizens. The com munity is very much wrought up over the affair. A deputy sheriff and posse left for the scene of the kill-j ing. FATAL TENEMENT FIRE. Flames Practically Destroy a Large House at New York. At New York -four persons were killed and twelve injured Friday af-I ternoon in a fire believed to be of i"endiary origin, which practically -ed a five story tenement house in hard street. Stime the firemen arrived men. 'en and children were so j closely *d on the fire escapes that none cou' e"t down. More than a hundred vw - aken from he fire es capes on ladC:' the firemen.~ Those forced : .main inside had a more serious tiame. Two of the' victims were burned in their rooms. One woman attempting to reach the roof with her child fell. The child was burned to death. Chance to Make Money. Senator McLaurin has introduced I a bill in the United States Senate on I Tuesday providing that the govern ment shall offer $50,000 to be paidi.a to any person who shall within two i e years. discover practical means for!j the extermination of the cotton bollit weevil.It "Knocking" at someone else's door may helf to smash it in. but it NILL 00 MUCH GOOD. 1EM0NSTRATION ON FARMSl IN THE SOUTH. armers Cooperating With Agricul tural lDepartnent on Selected Areas to Stimulate Effort on All. ..ngis:.man Lever has recently re eived , 'etter from S. A. Knapp. spe ial age in charge of Farmer's Co perativ.e Demonstration work. stat ag that the Department of Agricul ure ha- started the work in the 7th ongressiona! district. South Caro na. arnd that they hope to do a reat der! more next year. Fifteen emenst:ation farms and ninety co perative" farms have been establish d in L'xington county: thirty-tive emonstration and ten coooerative in tichiand county: ten demonstration nd forty cooperative in Orangeburg, nd five demonstrative and twenty o operative in Calhoun. Dr. Knapp in his letter said. "A aluable practical feature of this cork is that all the field agents are outhern men and residents in the tates in which the demonstrations re mad. They know the people nd the conditions." Dr. Knapp has very briefly outlined hat is to be accomplished by this 'armers' Cgoperative I2emonstration fork in the following: "The object of the work is primar ty to greatly increase the net earn ags of the average farmer, by the proveirent of the soil, by the use f the best seed and by the adoption f better and more economic methods n the farm. ? "This is accomplished by farm de aonstrations of an acre or more made ty a farmer in every neighborhood. i possible. under instructions from ur central office and supervised by ield agents. who visit these demon trations monthly. "Thus the crip on an acre ander he best management is contrasted in very neighbornood with the crop of he average farmer. The effect is mmediate and the results are as onishing. "In 1903 th first cooperative farm as established at Tarreil, Texas, aud the farmer. W. C. Porter. was uaranteed by the citizens against ost, if any should occur in following he department instructions. The ork was a success. "From this small beginning the rarmers' Cooperatice Demonstration ork has increased in five years from me locality to ten States. and from me field agent to 141, from one farm o thirty two thousand directly in tructed and possibly half a million tided through observation. "The funds appropriated by Con ress are used only in boll weevil in ested territory: to wit. Texas. Louis ana. Oklahoma. Arkansas and one listrict in Southwestern Mississippi. Jooperative Demonstration w ork in :he remainder of Misssippi. Alabama. }eorgia and the two Carolinas and irginia is done.y funds from other han government sources. The great ralue of this work is shown by the mcessful production of cotton by :he average farmer under boll wee "Our instructions are also directed o the more profitable production of :he standard crops, because rotation is ecessary to he best success in cotton >rod uction. "Aside from the demonstrations. :he educational features of the work onsists mainly in reducing the cience of agriculture to a few prae ical problems, easily understood by :he common farmer, as the following: etter drainage of the soil: a deeper mnd better seed bed; more humus: :he best seed; thorough tillage; more orspowern and better tools: more and etter farm stock: these are taught >y bltters. circulars. lectures and de nonstationis. "The cooperative feature of our ork gives to it elasticity and ad ustent to conditions. Farmers co0 >perate in furnishing land and work ng the demonstration. "Bankers and merchants cooperate n furnishing, free of cost, the best ;eed for the demonstrations and in efusing to advance less the tenan; or:s the crop under our instrue "Business men's clubs and boards f trade organize farm demonstra :ions under our agents and pay all sxpenses. The Business Men's Club )f Helena, Ark.. has 1.000 such arms. The Farmers' unions are giv ng great assistance by organizing de nonstration farms in cooperation with us. "Some 2.000 women in the South ire organized in clubs for the better ent of the conditions o f' rural ioes. They are actively assisting 1s by urging the general adoption of 'r demonstration work. "These women are practical and .trge iot only greater earning capac .ty for the farmer, but greater econ ymy and more comnforts in the home. ilise Mary T. Nance, president of the Nomen's Clubs of South Carolina. for -urid Improvement, has been largel.' nstruenta! in organizing this ef ective work. "County superintendents of public nstruction are organizing boys' clubs yn a large scale. The superintendent loes the work free of charge. The >oys dem~onstrate on their father's arms. The public gives suitable )riles. Our department furnishes teed ar.n instructions. "1p ad-iition, our agents visit the -u:l schoolIs when invited. (and his is almost univeral). at'.d instruct .he boys in demonstrations.'' It is thus seen that this work is lr,r~g a great deal of good through mt the South. and with more Tiberal Lppropiations by Congress in the utre this work will greatly aid to >ing the South b ack to the top of ie ladder where she was before the ar. and to which she is n<>w taking g:eat strides. The Sucessful Matn. The successful man is the ruan vho has made a happy 'home for his rife and children. No matter what e has not done in the way of achiev ng wealth and honor. if he has done hat he is a success. If he hasn't dlone hat, and it is his own fault, though te be the highest in the land, he is most pitable failure. How many en in a mad pursuit of gold. which haracterizes the age. realize that here is no fortune which can he left o their families as great as the aemory of a happy bomne. Al who try don't succeed. but al! LIPTON'S CHARITY. He Took First One Hint Then An other. Sir Thomas Lipton has committed ..nany generoas acts during his life about which he can never be induced to talk. He is fond, however, of telling nt an incident which happened in his early days. cncerning an astue mother who forced himl to rake ,et son's wages becaus" Sir Thuma:- had presented him with a brand-new suit of clothes. Sir Thomas started busintess Wia one assistant, a boy of fourFee:. who was willing and hun's.. One d: y' lad was overhird conphiig t h'at his clothes were so shaoy he war unable to go to chapel. Mr. Lipton. as he i1", was. was making every sacrifi'e t enlrge his little shop. but he ook a sa'-ll amount from his carefully heatned savings and bought the boy a suit of blue (loth. The next day the boy didn't come to work. and Mir. I.ipton. r--sing hi mother in the street. asie-d her the reason. "Why, Mr. Lipton.~ she said. eurt sying. ".ilinnie loks so resp"-tahie. thanks to you. sir. that 1 ihO lt would send him round the t; o wn today to see if he couldn't get a l tt r ''b." Sir Thomas meekly took the int and offered an increased sa'ary, whiih was accepted ('n behalf of Jimmie by his mother. '-Detroit New sTribune. Atways For Each Other. Kenesaw Mountains Landis. feleraI judge at Chitago, who fined the Stan dard Oil Company S:4.:'4 is a much talked about man in the United States. A picturesque ebaracter. many stories are told of him and of his al most equally picturesque brothers. it is probable that no family of boys were ever more devotedly attached to one another than these LanesEs. Any one of them has been ready at any time to make any sort of sacrifice for any other of them. They hold their interests mutual. and all of them -they number five--have prospered. When Fred Landis derided that he wanted to come to congress his broth er Charles, who already held a seat, had the brightest sort of prospect of securing the nomination for governor of Indiana. His friends knew, and so did he. no doubt. that i'red's eatrance into polities would lead to the cry of "too much 1.andis." and injuriously affect Charles's giuhernatorial chances butt the congressman was for his brother. Fr-U. nevertheless, lHe was willing even to lose his own -seat n coigiess in order to see Fred get to the front. Fred got there. out served only two terms, owing to a political upheaval in his district, and is once more in private life. If Kenesaw Mountain l.andis should develop as a. political quati ty-be put forward. ifr instance. for governor of Illinois or for vice president. as has been sg -sted-you n:ay depend upon it that the other Landis boys. every mother's =o'n of them. will he for Kenesaw M.ountain to the last ditce. That is t1e way they are built. A Quaint Custom. The annual historie' 'red hose" attes have just been held on the yil age green at Carnwath. According -o) the~ conditions in the charters a::t'ng the lands of lee and Carn 'vat i to the LockLhart family. this ae mnus. be run annually at a statea ucr'od. The winner ecomnes toe heir n succes~ion to the estates should the .or-i:t f:nmily die out witnout issue .;it bin the ensuing year. his name he "'g proclaimed at the Cross of Edin mrh.-ondon Globe. I rit'shers Eat More Sugar. Thie annuah per capita consumption s ari the United Kingdom nas radullyinernedfi om 29% poundis S-:;tone:': 19" !pounds at the reet tme.But the British refinflng ndusry as tettdily declined rela ively. Fifty ye-ars ago practically all of :1e sugar used in the kingdom was refined there, while now the prop 'rtion is only 11 per cent. Many EIectro-Technical Patents. ..tout 5. OJ electro-teentnical pat ents were taken out in various couna trics in 19011. The United States is credited with 2.(,50. United Kingdom and colonies with inO. Germany' 7fl. France 4:0. Austria 2ii. italy. Is'. I -ug:ry 12h. and Switzerland with 120. Bicycle Trade Bad in England Though the British automobile trade is procsperons beyood precedent this year ihe bicycle trade has been I nucsally depressed. chiely becanse of th we*t summetLr antd partly" heranse the new Australian tariff amounts to a prohibition of exporzs to that rol ony. I The False Orange. In Kamec~tha there grows a mutSi room called tw: &x rtc. ' which is niade :t. ligiaer that pirtdts deliriumn andl wu~1v lsions. Nearthe less, it is a favc.:-it beverage. Defective Visieo Makes Men Drinkt Bad sight is given as the reason for men going wrung. Dlefective vision has been proved to he the calsi' of lack of self-control. akleoisma ani' drug taking. W ~\hen there is too much omcsirI speclation.-te muatrimuonial bandth decreases in iccercst. Pa says it is not how much money or how much knowledge a m:.m pos sesses.-but what is character, thia: counts. There is no disgrace in playing the second fiddle if youI play is at wvell s you can. Br-yan Will Be Elected. The Augusta Herald says the Hon. Clark Howell, editor of the Atlanta onstitution, h as just returned from visit to the North. As the natio nal democratic committeeman for eorgia. the editor of the leading ornng paper in the state. ex-presi-, dent of the state senate and one of the best informed men in Georgia it was natural that he should be ask ed for an expression of his views on the national polhtical situation. In speaking :>f the probable nomination f Mr. Th. and the expected nomi ri.~?Mr. Bryan. Mr. Howell ex-' ressed himself as being confident. that the Democrats would win should these two gentlemen be pitted against each other. Mr. Howell's view, that Mr. Bryan will beat Mr., Taft, if these two men become the candidates of their respective par ties, is shared by many well inform d men. H -AVY DAMAGES FOR A JOKE. Two Young Men Fined $14,000 For Hazing. Fourteen thousand :ollars damages was the verdict of a jury recently in a suit brought by Charles Stoner against five young inxi of prominent families in Bradford. Ill., for injuries caused in a hazing prank of vhich he was the victim. The defendants are William Real. Earl Lappin. Ar ley Harwood, Eari hlowe, and Fran cis Long. Stoner. the son of a farmer, was at tending schuo in Bradford last spring when the. incident occurred. He was entice'd from home one evening and dragged to a cemetery at the edge of th city, where he was tied to a tomb stone. He was terribly frightened at shadowy forms approaching among the trees, and made a desperate ef fort to free himself. As ne lunged forward he pulled the tombstone to which he was tied over upon him. His knee bone was broken and he suf fered internal injuries. His captors freed him, and he was taken to a hos pital, where he remained a nervous wreck for many weeks. One of his hazers. Arthur Pilgrim, is in California. Another. John Shar key. is thought to be in South Da kota. These two, together with the five against which the civil action was brought, have been indicted for conspiracy.-Chicago Tribune. The Murdock Family. Bent Murdock tells of the comn!n- to K-nsas of the f ther of the MurciuckS as follows: "H : cut a short hickory stick on the sou~h ..auk of the Kaw River near the fort of ansas avenue. Topeka, hung a pack on tae stick. put it over his shtoulder, ct ossed the river on a log wagon. t'ckc his foot in his hand. started on a beedine and walked from Topeka to Mount Pleasant, Ia., where he landed in twelve days. the distance being over 30tt miles. That was fifty years ago last March. Thom as Murdock-he was the Colonel of a I irginia regiment that was mustered for the Mexican War but aidn't go left the Allegnany Mountains with a wife and five children in a covered wagon and a carryall early in the fall of 1856 for the Territory of Kansas. The father and two oldest sons made the overland trip from Mount Pleas ant, Ia.. to Topeka in the winter ot 1Si-7 by wagon. the wife and three younger children remaining in that town. When Thomas Murdock re turned to llount Pleasant be loaded his family into the cars for Burling ton. where they took a Mississippi steamboat for St. Louis. Here they changed boats. taking a Missouri Riv er one fcr Leavenworth. where they were met by a team '.nd nauled to Topeka. Colleges Undesirable Insurance Risks. Colleges are nowr egarded as rather undesirable insurance risks. and it is probable that the rate will be gen erally increased. In 18 years 784 fires have occurred in college ouildings. en tailing a loss of $10.500.00() in money and a heavy loss of life. This makes the average money loss over $13,000i. First Woman's Rights Convention. Mrs. Elizabeth Smith-Miller and Colonel Thomas Wentworth Hilggln son are now the only survivors of the 89 persons who signed the call for the first National Woman's Rights C'an vention which was held in Worcester, Mass., in 1850. Another Cure For Sleeping Sickness. Dr. Plimmer has discovered a drug which is far more effective in thev treatment of sleeping sickness than atoxyl. Dr. Plimmer's researches nave been carried out for the tropi cal diseases committee of the Royal Society of Great Britain. English Schools in Santa Clara. English will be tsught in the 18 public schools of Santa Clara pro vince. Cuba. next year. Ultimately It will be a required study in all the Cu ban public schools. Shorthand Engravers Few. There are only three e-ngravers of shorthand in England. One lives at Bath. He has, as a joke. s'iggested to his two~ London fellow-workers the propriety of a trade union. Population of Canada Growing. The population of Cana da, according to the official estimates of th'at. c~oun try, was 0.54.9A% on April 1. an in crease of 21 per cent in six years. Arctic Explorers Don't Have Colds. No Arctic explorers ever have colds until they return to civilization. Then. ne and all. they atre prostrated by severe iniluenza. Swudents To Sit Erect. The public schools of Cleveland may be equipped with book holuers wnich naile .. bclhuar s Lu sit erect. wile sa:ding. Koreans Paste Their Clothes Together The Korean tailor d:oes not etitch garients. He pastes the edges to gether and presses them down. iKor eas ecarry glue arounid to stick their clothes together when they are torn. Vicomte and Vicomtesse Who Walk. Since 18911 the Vicome and Vicomi tese de Gruard have been making their honeymoon on foot. They have arri.ed at Turin after walking 41,250 miles. It is on a wager. A girl may prune herself on her good looks without living in a board ing house. A ('RADLE costing .$1.000 has just been imparted for a Chicago baby, but a baby in the next block may sleep as well in a 60 cent crib and get to the White House first, says the Biirmingham Age Herald. "CAN'T some one write a tribute to the mule in front of the plow?" asks the Aun'sta, Ga., Chronicle. We nresume so. says the Washington Hera!d. Certainly it ought to be easier in front of the plow than be hind it. _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ TH E directors of the bank at Way cross. Ga.. declared themselves one hundred per cent dividends out of the money of the depositors and then the bank failed. The board is now facing a jmI . Now it is reported that "razorless shaves" have been perfected. Ruf s Ratus Johnsing Brown will see to it. says the Washington Herald, that razorless "scraps" are never WILL FIGHT PLAGUE. P YSICANS WHO WILL WAG1 WAR ON TUBERCULOSIS. Names of the Physicians in Eac County Who Will 14)ok After the Matter. Dr. Walter Cheyne. the very effi cient and popular secretary of th< South Carolina Medical association has made public the names of th< physicians, one from each county ii this State, constituting the committe on formation of the Anti-Tuberculosi: league of the State Medical associa tion. This league is the authoritativ< and professional organization whic) will take the necessary steps to sur press the spread of tuberculosis ui South Carolina. Each of the physicians below nam ed. who have been appointed by Dr John I. Dawson, the chairman. unde authority in him vested by the Stat Medical association, will supervis the proper organization in each coup ty under scientific and professiona supervision as the representatives , the State Medical association. Committee on formation: Dr. Johi L. Dawson. chairman: Dr. G. A Neufer. Abbeville: Dr. W. A. Nardin Jr., Anderson; Dr. Filmore Moore Aiken; Pr. T. T. Cickley, Bamberg Dr. R. C. Kirkland: Barnwell; Dr W. R. Eve, Beaufort; Dr. B. B. Steed ly, Cherokee: Dr. Frank Lander Chester: Dr. T. E. Wannanaker. Jr. Chesterfield; Dr. W. M. Brooking ton.. Clarendon; Dr. W. A. Kirbt Colleton; Dr. Wiliam Egglestor Darlington ; l)r. F. Julian Carroi: Dorchester; Dr. R. A. Marsh. Edge field; Dr. Samuel Lindsay, Fairfield Dr. B. G. Gregg, Florence; Dr. W. 11 Gaillard, Georgetown; Dr. Davis Fm man. Greenville; Dr. C P Neal, Greet wood; Dr. C. A. Rush, Hampton; D1 J. A. Norlan. Horry; Dr. J. W. Cot bett, Kershaw; Dr. T. L. W.,Baile: Laurens; Dr. C. W. Harris, Lee; Di C W. Barron, Lexington; Dr. A. 3 Brailsford, Marion; Dr. W. .T. Cros: land, Marlboro; Dr. P. C. Ellisor Newberry; Dr. A. E. Hines, Seneca Dr. L. C. Shecut. Orangeburg: D W. A. Tripp, Pickens; Dr. A. Ear] Boozer, Richland: Dr. E. B. Frqnti Saluda; Dr. G. A. Bunch. Spantar burg: Dr. L. M. Parlor. Sumter, D D. H. Montgomery. Union: Dr. Y. I Durant, Williamsburg: Dr. R. Bratton. York. Calhoun county committeeman yE to be named. Perhaps the most important wor done by the State Medical associatio at its last meeting was the inauguri tion of this systematic and intelliger warfare against tuberculosis. Whil 1nothing has as yet been actually a< complished beyond the preliminar steps toward organization. neverth less the fact that the physicians this State have agreed to go into campaign of education in which tli masses of the people are to recen~ free instruction in the methods< preventing the spread of this drea disease will be received with grat tude and unusual interest by tb people of this entire State. HAVE SOCIAL EQUALITY DINNE IN NEW YORK. Nothing in recent years has stirred the white people of this con: try as the "social equality" dinnm 'given in New York on Monday nig) week under the auspices of the Co mopolitan club. The purpose of the dinner, and< the movement of which it is a par was, frankly and confessedly. break down the social barriers be tween the two races. and the advi cacy of intermarriage, expresed 1 whites and blacks; alike at this ri markable dinner, was greeted wit the loudest enthusiasm of the eve: Thei-e were ninety-three peopleI the dinner, the proportion of negro' being about two to one, while amor the whites were a large number< white women. affiliated with "settli ment" work and socialism. The seating arrangements were dvised that a white wc man inva iably sat between negro men. Wants t o Eat 'Em Alive. Senator Jeff Davis, closing h 'fire-eating speech in the Senat< the other day, said. Go. damnable imps of pelf and gred I defy your taunts! Tear tofragments my political career. Lash my poor form into insensibility. Gnaw from my stiffening bones every vestige of quivering flesh. Howl in wretched bestiality through my own innocent blood as it drips from your fiendish visages. Only God can stay my voice in behalf of organized united labor and the yeomanry of America. This exeoriat. ? -ass directed the magnates, v have robbed t of billions--billions. sir, 1 repea Methuselah could not have counte it by dollars in twice his lifetim< IAdam, indeed, had he survived ti this day and had computed a thou. and dollars every minute since hi expulsion from Paradise, must hav lived 50.000 other years to hav completed the tasuc." Having thus demolished the trus magnates the eat-'em-alive Senato reached for the scalps of the true eeditors, big and little. Hear hirr "Diminutive editors in parox isms of frenzy, grimaced and gesticulated as though there had been committed an unpar donable sin against the Holy Ghost. Puniest of creatures, misnamed man, pressed trous ers and all, slinking carvens at the golden feet of Mamnmon, frothed madly upon seeing my words. their little, weak bodies trembled, the limbs twitched and jerked as in spasamns; the eyeballs rolled nervously and tle eyes emitted a greenish light, while the poor, brainless creatures snarled and snapped aimlessly. as do ordinary~ dogs, as it is said, affected with hy brophbia. Such seems to have been the first effects upon a plutocratic press." As we do not flock with the pluto cratic the Senator's remark~s doe not touch us, but really exhibition: HAD BROKEN NECK I ,IWT DID NOT KNOW ir FOR YEARS. Senator Money GiYen Startling i. 'ormation When He Visited Osteo path in New York for Treatment. A dispatch from Washington says the fact that Senator Money of Mis sissippi passed through life for 35 years with a dislocated neck and did not know it became known to some! of his associates recently and created - general astonishment. The condition was discovered when the senator be 1 gan to take osteopathic treatment for -neuralgia. He has suffered intensely 1 from that ailment for many years. At the first battle of Franklin. in - April. 1863. Mr. Money was a cavalry - man in the Confederate service. r.! While riding through the streets, he was struck by a bullet that circled around his ribs, doing no other in jury. The shock was such that Mr. Money was thrown from his horse and struck on his head. Being help less he was captured and taken with 'in the tederal lines. He did not ask for hospital treatment. was exchang ed later, rejoined his troop and fought until the war was closed. - ears passed and Mr. Money enter I -d the senate. Neuralgia had taken a firm hold on him and his eyesight had grown so-bad as to approximate blindness. Senator Foraker advised Mr. Money to try osteopathy, which was just beginning to attract much attentiion. Mr. Foraker's daughter has been benefited by the treatment. I Senator Money went to New York accompanied by his son and visited the osteopathist. Almost the doctor's first remark was: "Why, senator you have had your neck broken." Senator Money denied all knowl edge of such an affliction. The phy sician declared that one of the verte e be had been entirely pushed from the top of the column supporting the head and was in a wrong position. He demonstrated that the muscles on e one tide of the neck were flabby and useless. "If you had been old enough to take part in the Civil war," said the physician. ':I would say you were thrown from a horse and sustained the broken neck." "That is just exactly what did happen." replied Senator Money, re k calling the injury at Franklin. "I can cure your neck." said the physician; "it will require but a mo t ment's time." e The osteopath laid the senator on a table. took hold of the misplaced 'ertable with both hands and snap iced it into proper position. .he noise made by the bones swinging into place was like the report of a a ,istol. The senator's son, who was looking out of the window, turned in alarm. saying: "Father, have you broken your neck'>" "No," replied tre dsenator. "I have just had it set." eThe physician told Senator Money ethat he mnust exercise precaution until the weakened muscles regained their normal strength. He was cautioned not to turn his head in looking at anything. but to move the entire body. These instructions were ob served, and the neck aparently be :ame as strong as it was thirty five years before the operation. * Johnson Has. No Chance. >G l. Wattserson has deserted John t son and is now a loyal supporter of o Bryan. He has not only deserted :- Johnson, but he has burnt the >- bridges behind him. Col.Watterson y says Bryan is the man to nominate -as the time has passed for "some hone else," and with an enthusiasm - that has always led Mr. Watterson to follow the democratic standard t bearer he pledges his support to the SNebraskan. Mr. Watterson recalls .his effort to place before the people S"some one else." and reviewing the . withdrawal of all the talked-of-can didates, he says, ."Why, then right oout of the mouth of Wall street, - came a stentorian voice, 'John son.' " Of Johnson's chances Mr. Watterson has this to say: "What chance would Johnson have over the dead bodty of Bry is an? What chance would John ,son have carrying a Wall street tag? What chance would John son have using the undemocra tic two thirds rule to defeat the will of the majority, and that at the behest of the east' defying the west and w'orking the south? The thought is preposterous." Continuing his diagnosis of the national situationa and reverting back to the original fact that the great majority of democrats want Bryan, Mr. Watterson continues: "The time has passed for 'some one else,' Mr. Bryan retained the field: it is too late for 'some one else,' teconditions what they are; and I confess that I am in sympathy with iMr. Bryan in refusing to be ruled I off the track by a group of New L IYork newspapers, whose motives L are, to say the least of them, suspi d 'lo.us, which will support no ticket ,except one framed by themselves. Sand which do not agree with one an Iother touching the ticket to be nam ; .ed. Wha4 ever his claims may be, or s may not be, Mr. Bryan has his rights and no thoughtful man elect eed, the ipse dixit equally of the ur ethinking, the interested, and the prejudiced to the contrary being of tno weight whatever. In American r politics anything is possible. As suredlv Mr. Bryan may be elected; ta< an affair of dinner pails, if emp ty~, he will be." What W~atterson Says. The country is always interested in! Mr. Watterson's utterances. He re peated Saturday that there is now no question about it, that Bryan is the n tmiee To quote him further: "fteCourier-Journal can get to Bryan, surely the most disaffectedi ought to be able to reach him with out much trouble, in case they be democrats and not republicans. Wel fought a good fight against him, andj we. fought it to a finish. We fought| It t o unite, not to divide, the party, ard we fought it whilst there was yeL time for parley. We fought it s~icerely, openly, frankly, unspar in gly Not until money, mysterious and~ unexpected, took the field---af ter the Courier-Journal had plead arri plead in vain for some intelli gent, disinterested, popular re-; sp mse--did the newspapers of New Y.rk City begin to open their eyes, t)> sit up and take notice. It is too iate. In short and fiw. Amrm'of of the emant-rvan habit. it i:a I Economizes the u ter and eggs; ms cake and pastry ing, nutritious a ABSOLUTE This is the ( powder made Grape Crearr It Has No I There are Alum and Phosphat a lwerprcebutnohouseke of wer family can afl oI= TRAPPED BY FLAMES. FIRE GAUSES THE LOSS OF SIX LIVES. Many People Rescued by the Firemen and Police-Origin of Fire Very Peculiar. An early Sunday morning fire in a four-story brick tenement at No. 17 Humboldt stret, a thickly populated section of Brooklyn, caused the death of six persons and the serious injury of four others. Every member of the family, consisting of a mother and four children, are among the dead. There were many thrilling escapes by police and firemen and-it was due to their brave work that the death list was not larger. A half dozen or sore persons who were trapped in the upper stories were saved by jumping into life nets. The financ!i. list caused by the fire is estimatedl ;t 40,000. The fin ma.xd in th cellar of thel building i . the people comprising the eight : ilies living in the house were asleeg. It had gained much headway be'r"e it was discovered and three polic-men repeatedly risked their lives in dragging people, from within reach ,of the flames. When the firemen came the fire had spread through the entire rear of the house where the fire escapes were, and the terror-stricken inmates of the upper floors had been driven to the front rooms where they were hanging from windows shrieking for help. Lad4ers and life lines were quickly brought into use and most of the imperiled persons were thus rescued. The Abrams family lived on the third floor. For some reason, the flames swept through their apartment so that t~,e only way of escape was by jumping from the windows Charles Abrams and his sister Anna did this', but both struck an iron raii Iing and were dead when picked up. Mrs. Abrams and her other children, Sadie. and Carrie, were burned to death, clasped in each other's arms. * ILAUNCH BREAKS DOWN. Four Young Ladies Were D~rowned as' as aResult. Four young ladies, Misses Elma Webster. 18 years, Edith Wasster. 16 years; Grace Lytle, 16 years; and Bessie Lawrence were drowned in the Neosha river at Hartford, Ill.. ISaturday morning. In company with Kate Griffith, Mary Griffith, Carol Lytle, Emil Steinholst and Howard Lyon. they went boating in a gasoline launch. When the party was a short distance above the dam, at the Hart Iford mill, the supply of gasoline gave out and the engine went dead. *' Eleven Drowned. The steamer Minnie E. Kelton wasI wrecked off New Port, Ore., on Tues day and eleven of her crew drowned. The steamer shifted her cargo of lumber during a storm, and when a~ big wave struck her became unman ageable. Don't grumble when things go wrong. Roll up your sleeves and! make them go right. Don't sit down at the bars and wait for the cow to come 'and he: milked. Go get the cow. A woman worries over chapped knees as if every body knew it A hundred years cannot repair a moment's loss of honor. To blow your' own horn successful ly always speak well of others. Use your head to think with. Hatt racks can be gotten at the 10-cent THE discovery that there is one divorce to every twelve marriages in Maine leads the Washington Post; to suspect that love doesn't take vrery deep root in a dry state. r nothing. Except that too many fools got to the front, the party might have been saved in' 1896. It :an be saved now, if too many fools :'a not get to the rear. There must be a change of parties in the gov rnment, else there will never come: change of policies short of revolu :ion, the one-party power, next af :er the one man power, being fatal o jierty. In a contest of this sort c h'o a hominc n- argument shou'd I i;appear from the minds of men h se of flour, but. Lkes the biscuit, more appetize and wholesome. Powder IY PURE )lly baking from Royal of Tartare Substitute a of Lime mixtures sold at sper regarding the huosth org to se tbmU THE DEATH GRIP. Terror-Stricken Plague City Has Been Cut Off From REST OF THE WORLD. La Guayra, Venezuela, Is Being Do populated by the Terrible Disease Known as the Bubonic Plague People Fleeing From the Country. -The Death Rate Very Heavy. La Guayra. Ven.ruela, is 1a city of death. The plague is spreading there. The inhabitants are Agh ug It fau tically, alone and unaider-. From the rest of the world they are cut off, on one- side by the sea, on all others by military patrols under orders to shoot fugitives on sight. News from the town 'Is hrd to ob tain, so strict is the quarantine, but enough has leaked out, however, to prove the spot an inferno. Business is practically suspended, stores closed, and residences shutter ed. None venture abroad except un der absolute compulsion. Food is. hardly to be had on-any terms. Who ever will may .enter with supplies, .but having 'entered, Nione can leare. *ven for the enormious prlces offered for provisions, few will accept the certainty of imprisonment and the risk of death. From'miles away the smoke can be seen by day and the flames by'night of blazing houses where the plague has been, of burning lumber piles from which the people are trying to drive the disease-laden rats, and of the fires in the oil fioo~ed streets, a. plan adopted by the .authoritis as the . readiest and speediest means of rid ding the community-of the accumula tion of filth which.: probably was mainly responsible bor te epidemic. Most of the workingmen, who, pan icked by fear of the plague and ren dered desperate by famine, broke through the miliatary cordon and scattered through the surrounding country, have bees herd'ed together and driven back by the troops. The terrified villagers and country people among whom they sought ref uge did everything in their power to aid in the hunt. .Dr. Gamez Peraza, of La Guayra, who fizr-diagniosed the disease as huboni&fplague, and was thrown in prison~ by President Castro, only to b~ereleaked later when it became evident that his judgment was correct, -is leading the sanitary workers In their effortsl to stamp out the epidemic. Except for a few persons who rush ed from the city before the cases became numerous, the only ones who have .escaped have been those rich enough to pay the skippers of small craft to smuggle them from the har bor and land them surreptitiously at distant places on the coast. President Castro has declarei a blockade at the port, and reguiar shipping Is suspended. Even the blockade runners are few. The prices they charge for the supplies they bring in, and the passengers they take out, are enormous, and only the most imminent risk of death at the hands of sanitary guards are they' able to break the emb'argo. The La uayra railroad has ceased oper ations. The rate of mortality from the dis ease is enormous and those who suc :umb are said to do so in the major ity of cases in about twenty four sours from the time they are-strick There have bee a few cases of the isease outside of La Guayra, but the ;overnmient is making herculean ex artions to prevent the disease from etting a foothold, and the sanitary precautions promise to ace~omplish .he lesired result. Foreign resdents and wealthy Yen hzueans who are able to leave their nsinss are 'quitting the country in arge numbers, however, lest the epi lemic spreads. CONVICTED OF MURDER~. or Hling Man Who Lived in House With THin. A dispatch ft Gree'. ,iHe to The tare says Benjimin Me .---. a on hire man. '. s convi a : h 'urt o'f Genwral Session~s i0 .2-.- of irder, a ' as recommended to he- mercy r :he Court. He shot and illed Johr .'owler, a man who lived a the hou e with .him,. in March. He laimed that Fowler was intimate ith his wife. Mc.Xbee's attorneys ave given notice of a motion for a