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VOL. XXVII MANNING, S. C. WEDNESDAY NOVEMBER Bi RFET WEEK 11ARLESTON HAS GALA OCCASION ALL THIS fEEL iREAT MILITARY PARABE The City By the Sea Doing Herself Proud Through Her Splendid En tainment of the Sailors and Other Visitors Wisbtn Her Gate to See .America's Finest Fleet. Field and track day for the enlist ed men of the Atlantic fleet and pre mium day at the fair were the main celebrations of Wednesday with the brilliant naval ball that night at the Charleston navy yard and the open ing of the "fashion show" in the dec oration of the windows of the King street stores. The enlisted men had their usual daily matinee at the Vic toria theatre, but the football games were not played on Wednesday, on account of the field and track events, which had been arranged for their sport and entertainment. The award of honors interested the exhibitors especially at the fair grounds and with the increased crowds coming in for the celebration, the attendance showed a big gain over the prbvious attendance. While an -extended pro gramme of amusements and enter tainments are in progress in Charles ton, the naval vessels have also begun to entertain, and there are morning and midday luncheons, afternoon teas and night suppers being given on the big floating palaces. The navy yard ball Wednesday night was one of the big functions of the numerous entertainments in honor of. Commander-in-chief Oster baus and other officers of the Atlan tic fleet, and it was given on a scale surpassing anything of the kind, at tempted at Charleston before. While the ball was given at the navy yard and under the auspices of the Charles ton yard officers, it was a city func tion. and necessarily the attendance was large, taxing to some extent the capacity of the big building which is used for this purpose at the govern ment plant. As usual the building was converted from a work shop in to a magnificent ball room in which the electrical effects proved a fea ture. The music and supper were in keeping with the splendid atraction. The biggest day was Thursday, when with stirring martial music by many bands, flags flying, the glitter of the gold and brass of the uniforms and acoutrements of many commands made to show in sharper contrast with the less showy service dress, the largest and most spectacular military pararde which has ver marched the streets of Charleston marked the great land and naval parade, one of the ~ special features- of Fleet-Fair week. . In the parade weremr-etetaoil ed the entire fighting force of the na tion, in the battalion of four com panies of the United States artillery corps; the marine and blue jackets from the three divisions of the Atlan tic fleet, two regiments of national guard of South Carolina, three di usions of the South Carolina battal * ln- of the naval militia and the re erved military commands of the city -do Charleston, making upa splendid military pageant whicn was review ed by the ranking officers of the na -y,. Mayor Grace anid other specially Invited people of distinction at Mar ion SQuare, as the procession moved up King street. It was a great parade. Nothing like it has ever been seen in Charleston, ad thousands of people lined the route of march, assembling an hour before the time of passing of the troops in seeking vantage positioni to see the procession. It was an en-1 thusiastic crowd which saw the sol eessipmm.ippritoriwguadDe dirs and the seamen march by and frequently along the route, the pent up admiration of the crowd gave vent to its enthusiasm with loud applause, drwning the stirring music and the ttady tread of the soldiers as they moved with precision through the -rowded streets. It would seem a.difficul1t task to marshal Into marching order more than 7,000 men, but to the military -men', It was a comparatively easy task. The various organizations were assigned positions in advance of the time fixed for the parade to move off and when Brig. Gen. Wylie Jones ordered "Forward. March,'" the whole procession moved as one man, with the organizations turning into posi tion and following the marching or der at prescribed places. The landing of the several thous and men from the ships for participa tion In the parade was of itself an iteresting sight and gave to those who observed the operation an in sight into the readiness with which large numbers of men can be landed from naval vessels. The vessels put out several launches with big tows and hundreds of men were moved frem each ship in a few minutes. The offiers came with the men and as quickly as the boat loads were landed at pier 11, the men formed in march ing order and moved off to their place of asembly on east Battery. ear Admiral Winslow, who had been tendered the command of the whole parade, as grand marshal. pre ferred to command simply the naval brigade, with Mai. Catlin in comman~d of the marine regiment. .A company of marines were furnished by each shin to this regiment. There was no shortage of music with the many bands wbich were in line, starting with the United States artillery band, two National Guard bands, four naval bands, the naval militia band and the band of the ca det corps. The flags were draped with crepe and on the sleeves of the uniforms of the army and naval ofil es and on the hilts of the-ir swords and the swords of the National Guara egeers as well. crene was borne, in rspet to the memory of the late Vice PresidenTt Shermanl. Ti painz th, rrevewinr stand of automobles at Maronu senare, th~ reOtmnts executed "eyes right," the offers saluting and colors dipning. The proceession moved off' with the Unted States artilley leading the clsun. then enmiPe the naval bri gae. endetu of the Cit,,del and of the Porter Military Academy. the pro 15toal raximnit of National Guard, Neunaded 'by Col. Lipseem'b, made a oe +hq Colmbia. Chesterfield, ARM OF SHEEP'S LEG' WONDERFUL OPERATION OF A NEW YORK SURGEON. He Took a Sheep's Leg and Made a New Arm tor a Man Who Had Lost One of His. A New York dispatch says at the harlem Hospital there is a patient who has a new arm made from a sheep's leg. This sounds remarkable even in this age of medical marvels. It is one of the wonders performed before the delegates of the Clinical Congress which as been in session there for the past week. The op eration was performad by Dr. Walter Ambrickner. Just why a sheep's leg was chosen for substitution In the place of a decayed bone in the man's arm may not be clear to the layman, but it is to the surgeons. The leg bone of a sheep they say has the right knitting tissues and flexibility and In forma tion lends itself to replacement In the human arm. The leg was amputated from the sheep early Thursday morning, re mained in a solution twenty hours af ter being scraped and was carefully treated before long being ready to be cme part of the human frame. Every particle of the decayed bone in the patient's arm was carefully cut away, leaving a gap into which the sheep's bone was dove-tailed, then fastened with sterilized wire nails. The fleshy portion of the arm, which was sliced open, will be kept so for two or three days. until there is no doubt of the bones knitting properly. . Then the 1it will be sew ed up and in a couple of weeks Mr. Patient will have an arm as good as new. t There was exhibited at the Har lem hospital a most remarkable case of surgery. The patient was a wo man who had fallen four floors down a circular stairway and crush- 1 ed her face beyond all recognition, 1 fracturing many bones. Dr. H. J. 1 Kauffer, a surgeon-dentist, reset the 1 broken bones and wired the jaws I together and today the ,patient hasn't a blemish on her face. Dr. Kauffer, who Is a consulting i surgeon at the hospital, also gave a 1 demonsration of wiring broken jaw bones. He exhibited one patient who had 4ust broken his jaw, but could eat without any trouble. whatever. TIGERS IN COLLETON. Grand Jury Secures Evidence and In dicts Several of Them. 1 Taking a hand in the blind tiger situation, Cclleton's grand jury has gone out after them with gloves off and as a result of its activity four in dictments have been handed out by the solicitor, true bills immediately returned by the grand jury, and war rants issued for the violators. These ases will be called this week. 1 Reports have been rife of condi- I tions over the county by which the 1 prohibition law is being made a mockery. in certain sections this has become intolerable. Officers of the law seemed powerless either from 1 lack of effort or inclination or from ~ other causes and nothing at all was 1 being done to stop the illicit sale of I iquor. Judge Prince, who is now holding court at Walterboro was se- 1 vere in denunciation of this nefari- 1 ems business, and made a specially 1 strong presentation of the evils in his charge to the grand jury. Fired with enthusiasm by hIs re marks, the grand jury determined to take a hand-and see how effective Its efforts might be, and incidentally to show the offcers of the law that it is not such a hard mater to secure evi dence, if proper efforts are made. Consequently two of its mem bers were sent out Tuesday morning on the train towards Ehr hardt with a view of purchasing 11 quor and to secure evidence against the tigers flourishing 'up the road.'' Returning on thle afternoon train they had in their possession a half pint of Monogram whiskey in a neat grey package, which had been purchased from a tiger at Williams. Other no-1 ted places were visited by these grand iurors but unfortunately they were losed at the time. HIGER RANK IN NAVY. 1 Secretary Meyer Wishes to Have Ad mirals Again. Secretary Meyer will make an ear nest effort during the approaching session of Congress to secure the sn actment of legislation for increased flag rank in the navy, providing per manently for an admiral and several vice admirals so that when the Amer ican fleet, entering foreign waters, its offcers shall not be compelled to yield procedure to ranking offcers of foreign nations. Although the Unit ed States holds second place in sea power, 19 of the navies of the world include at least vice admirals. Nine of them have admirals. Legislation to cure this con'lttien progressed in Congress last session through both naval committees, but was defeated by a point of order in the Senate. Secretary Meyer will now urge that another measure of the same kind be reported. TERMS REJECTED BY TURKEY. Nazim Pasha Instruceed to Proceed Wih i Operations. The Ottoman government has re 'cted the terms offered by the allied Balkan nations. Nazim Pasha, the Turkish' commander-in-chief has been ordered to resume operations. Offal announcement of the rejec ion of Bulgaria's terms read: "The Porte. finding the Bulgarian's condi tons for an armistice inacceptable, has ordered Nazim Pasha to resume m~ilitary operations." Cmden. Elloree, Timwr nsville, Un Ion Oranebur~g and W: nsboro com panies. Third So'ith Carolina regi ment South Caroli!na naval battalion. the Geraen artillery, and the Char leston Light Draroons. The line of m i arch was from the Battery throuzhb I eeting to Broad,. to King. Colu m bbs and Meeting street. being dis-' iissd at its retlvyn to Broad street. ie fot troor's marched with a front e 12 files, the buttery in columns of setton, and the cavay~ tn eoIfUmns lIlNNINd REPORT CENSUS REPORT INDICATES VERY LARGE COTTON CROP. LESS THAN LAST YEAR rhe Number of Bales Ginned This Year as Compared With the Same Time Last Year Shows Decrease of One Million Bales--South Carolina Ginninge Are Similarly Shorter. The fifth cotton ginning report of he census bureau for the season, is ued at ten o'clock Thursday morning Lnnounced that 10,291,431 bales of otton, counting round as half bates, f the growth of 1912 had been gin Led prior to Thursday, November 14, o which date during the past seven rears the ginning averaged 72.1 per ent of the entire crop. Last year to (ovember 14 there had been ginned .1,313,236 bales, or 72.7 per cent of he entire crop; in 1908 to that date, ,595,809 bales, or 73.3 per cent and n 1906 to that date 8,562,242 bales, r 65.9 per cent. Included in the ginnings 62,490 ound bales, compared with 75,963 sales last year, 93,364 bales in 1910, 23,757 bales in 1909 and 173.908 ales in 1908. The number of Sea Island cotton ales included were 41,321 compared rith 71,204 bales last year, 68,495 ales in 1909, and 56,701 bales in 908. Ginnings prior to November 14 by tates, with comparisons for last ear and other big crop years and he percentage of the entire crop inned prior to that date in those ears, follow: - Alabama. 'ear Ginnings P. C. 912 .. .. .. ..961,378 911 .. .. .. ..1,239,211 73.1 908 .. .. .. ..1,020,724 76.6 906 .... .....834.910 67.3 Arkansas. 912 .. .. .. ..545,988 911 .. .. .. ..563,115 62.0 908 .. .. .. ..665,232 66.8 906 .. .. .. .. 453,658 50.7 Florida. 912 .. .. .. .. .. 42,154 911 .. .. .. .. .. 65,236 69.1 908 .. .. ... .. .. 51,497 72.8 906 .. .. .. .. .. 42,278 68.8 Georgia. 912 .. .. .. ..1,331,111 ... 911 .. .. .. ..2,106,305 75.4 908 .. .. .. ..1,564.037 79.1 906 .. .. .. ..1,193,141 73.1 Louisiana. 912 ..........300.811 911 .. .. .. .. ..269,548 70.8 908 .. ...... ..341.953 73.3 906.... .. ....552,919 57.9 MisslssippL 912 .. ... .. ..644,115 911 .. .. .. .. 719,638 61.6 908 .. .. .. ..1,086.183 67.0 906 .. .. .. .. 792,778 53.4 North Carolina. 912 ........ ..627.045 911.... .. .. ..716.200 63.6 908 .... .......451,434 66.0 906 .. .. .......84,275 62.9 912 .... .......7225123 . 911 .. ....... ..657,497 64.7 9081.... .......233051 46.7 906 .... ...-....484,996 55.6 South Carolina. 912 .... ..... 882976 .. 11 .... .....1,163.984 68.8 908 .... ..... 938926 77.2 906..........- 654,458 71.7t Tennessee. 912...........158072.. 911......... ..264777 61.6 908...........243493 72.9 .906.... .......142661 48.7 Texas. .912 .. .......4,019317 ... .911 .. .......3,473,702 84.6 .908 .. .......2,863528 78.9 .906 .........2,995791 75.7 Other States. .912 .. .........55,952 ... .911 ........ .. ..74,023 53.3 (908 .. .... .....46,751 63.9 906 .... .......30371 44.5 The ginnings of Sea Island cotton yrior to Novem.ber 14 by states fol ears Fla. Ga. S. C. 912 ..14.952 23,822 2.547 1911 .. .. 26,818 41.730 2,656 1909 .. .. 23,453 38,825 6.217 L908. ......23,620 26.833 6.248 Cotton ginning during the fifth pe-' lod of the season, from November 1 :u 14 was more active this year than ,t was during the record crop year f 1911 by about five thousand bales , working day, the census bureau's' eport showed Thursday. The total for the period was 1,422 209 bales compared with 1,342.331 bales last year. From the beginning f the season to November 14 the inuatity ginned was 8.869.222 bales :ompared wIth 10,291,431 bales last The average ginning a working day was 129.291 bales compared with 12 2.030 bales during the same period Last year. An estimate of this year's eotton erop will be issued by the department f agriculture December 12. CAUGHT IN CAVE. Convicts Trying to Saw Their Way out of Prison. Thomas Farney and Michael Miil ln, who sawed their way out of cell in the army prison in Alcatraz Island were captured Wednesday. They had burrowed a cave beneath a pile of driftwood near the prison where they remained for four days. half covered with slime and without food or wa Realizing that Franey was dying. Mullin crawled forth to gret water. A entry canght sight of him. Obeying Mullin's directions the guards dug F'raney from the cave. His condition was despc'ratte and \Iufllin also need ed medic.. attention. Carq Smash-18 Hurt. When a freight motor andl a street car collided Monday on the bridge connected Yuba and Marsville. Cal.. +h ear was thrown to the river bed, thirty feet below. Eighteen passen rer W'ere injured, several of them BRYAN TO BE FOUGHT THE COMMONER MAY BECOME A I REAL STORM CENTRE. Clark Will Align Himself with Men I Who Have Fought Bryan Because of His Action at Baltimore. A Washington dispatch says Demo cratic leaders admit that there is I bound to be a fight between the Bry- o an and anti-Bryan men in Washing- c ton early in the Wilson administra- t tion. They are fearful it will inter- a fere in the party's legislative pro- c gram, and probably involve President I: Wilson. The certainty of trouble among the Denocratic national leaa ers has been emphasized since the ar rival in Washington of Speaker Clark and William J. Bryan. Mr. Bryan has made it plain to his t followers that it is his purpose to take a lively interest In the legisia tive program and to make certain, b so far as it is possible for him to do, that the party lives up to the pledges S of the Baltimore platform. b On the other hand friends of d Speaker Clark and Leader Under- ti wood have caused It to be made d known that the Democratic party In f the house is competent to manage its , own affairs without the assistance or. p advice of Mr. Bryan. Democratic g leaders have felt it in their bones ev er since the election of Governor Wil son that Mr. Bryan would follow a course that would compel the new president to take sides either with or c against the Nebraskan. Speaker Clark, embittered by Bry- b an's opposition to his presidential candidacy at Baltimore, will, it Is c known, In the future align himself in the house with men who have fought u Bryan for years. Just how President s Wilson will be able to steer clear of a the factionalism in his party Is a mat- c ter of conjecture at Washington. Many public men at Washington, Republicans as well as Democrats, believe that when Governor Wilson C gets in the White House he will find himself in much the same situatic that confronted President Taft, when ne succeeded Colonel Roosevelt. Mr. Taft owed his nomination to Colonel S Roosevelt. and as events have since 0 shown, Mr. Roosevelt expected to be consulted by his successor. In selecting his cabinet Mr. Taft picked a number of men who were k regarded by Colonel Roosevelt and ti his friends as "reactionaries." The dissatisfaction developed at once, and t was not lon hefore Colonel Roose- a velt was in private bitterly criticising President Taft. REBELS WRECK TRAIN. t Mexican Bandits Kill Guards and i Run Train Through Bridge. g A fight Tuesday between rural s guards and'rebels for the control of a a railroad train cost the lives of a lieu- d tenant and three guards and two ci- ti vilian passengers near Penjamo. Gu- t3 anajuato. The train, traveling along the Gu- _ adalajara branch of the Mexican f. Central railroad, ran into a bridge ti from which the rails had been re moved. The engine and two cars fell b through.n A large force of rebels then ran v confdently down the hillside toward the wreck, not knowing of the pres ence of twenty-four rural guards in ne of the cars on the way to the cap ital from Manzanillo. The rural guards took up positions and held the rebels off. The fight around the wrecked train ?ontinued an hour. Then the rebels retreated c to the hills. t Besides the four soldiers and two t pasengers killed, several others were 3 slightly wounded. It Is not known s how many casualties were sustained t: by the rebels. PROBING UNEXPLAINED DEATH. c Coroner's Jury Trying to Solve Geor gia Murder Mystery. Efforts to solve the mystery sur rounding the murder of John King, 5: years old, whose burned and charred body was found Sunday in ~ the debris of a burned frame building ~ in the rear of the Hebron Baytist 1 Church, near Jonesboro, Ga., assum- I e active form Tuesday. Two long sessions of the coroner's. Jury were held behind closed doors.i I Many witnesses were examined, but' iteither the coroner, J. H. Camp, nor I any of the other six men would indi cate the nature of the evidence re ceived.. The police are still working on the theory that King was murdered as the sequel to a quarel that arose In connection with a card party in the building near the church and that the structure was then fired in the hope that the dead man's body would be 1 consumed. It is said that it may be imposible to toil whether the dead I man first met with foul play before'i his body was burned on account of it badly cremated condition. TRADE LARGER. America Smashes Her Record During Last October. In spite of the uns-ttled business conditions attending the month be fore a Presidential election, October, set a new high mark in the amount of foreign business done by the Uni ted States, both in imports and ex ports. A report just Issued by the bureau pof foreizn and domestic commerce shows that last month the imports were $1 77,995.830, the previous high water mark having been reache-l in April 1912. when goods to the value Iof $162.571,159 were brought into the country. Fxports last month w'ere $254.69 6.-j 185, the previous high mark beingl credited to December. 1910. when; the value of merchandise sent abroad reached $2?R.1?-63. His Excperiment Causes Death. Charles Schere, .34. of Greentown, Id., was Instantly killed Wednesday Iby a piece of iron passing through his hert while he was exnerimenting with powder in an anvil in an at tmnt to increase the noise. He had placed an-Iron ring on the anvil and another anvil on ton. He was 2501 feet away at the time ef the explo slon but the ring hursted and a part passed almost through his brwdy'. DEATH IN HURRICANE BORE THAN ONE HUNDRED PER SONS KILLED. 'he Coast Towns of Jamaica Alone Report a Fatality List of Over That Many Deaths. The official estimate of the dead a the huricane and tidal wave which isited the western portion of Jamai a recently places the number a pore than 100 in the coast town lone. Details which are gradually oming in indicate that devastation a the western section was complete. Practically all lighters and coast ag sloops and other small vessels round Mon Green bay island, Lu ea and Savanna la Mar foundered rere demolished and a large propor Ion of the crews were drowned. Many persons living in these towns )st their lives in the collapse of uildings. The governor general of Jamaica ir Sydney Oliver, reached Montego iy Thursday and found conditions so ireful that he immediately ordered he dispatch of several hundred ad itional tents and large quantities of )od supplies to Kingston. The rail ray lines are now working within miles of Montego bay, but the tele raph lines are still disorganized. The tidal wave at Savanna Ia Mar ras the highest in a century. One pasting vessel was washed half a ile1 up the main street. Fully 90 per ant. of the houses were blown down y the hurricane. The two principal otels were unroofed. as were all the lurches and the railway depot. At Green Island, eight miles south est of Lucea, one American turist lid, there was much wreckage shore and afloat, but no sign of life uld be discovered. TO PENSION EX-PRESIDENTS. arnegle Corporation Will Offer to Make That Provision. Future ex-presidents of the United tates are to be pensioned in the sum f $52,000 each annually, by action the Carnegie corporation of New 'ork Thursday. The grant is pro ided with the idea of enabling for Ler executives to devote their uni' le nowledge gained in public affairs the public good, free from pecun ry care. A similar amount is to be aid widows of ex-presidents as long s they remain unmarried. The pensions are to be promptly fered to the ex-presidents or their s dows, so that no application will a required from them. Payment is be continued as long as the recip nts "remain unprovided for by the1 Dvernment." The announcement followed the cond annual meeting of the corpor Lion, held at the residence of An rew Carnegie at New York and at ended by the corporation's eight 'ustees. The trustees announced a total of 125,000,000 In securities had thus I r been transferred to the corpora on. which will carry on the various corks in which Mr. Carnegie has I een engaged, and such others as he iay from time to time think It ad isable to estabish.1 CHINA TO FIGHT RUSSIA? Ilnese in United States Are Under taking to Raise Funds. Cablegrams received in San Fran isco Thursday from China announce bat the Republic Is preparing to go > war with Russia for possession of longola. The big Chinese Secret ocieties which fostered the revolu ion have been exchanging dispatches~ rith President Yuan Shi Kai. The Young China Association has! pened subscription list and lecturers!1 ave spoken at every Chinatown cor-Ia er explaining the encroachments of he Czar's troops In the ancient Ci-i ese territory. Dispatches have been received here y Yow Gook Har, secretary to Sung1 hi You. Secretary of State of Yuan hi Kai's cabinet, to the effect that an rmy of 60.000 has been mobilized a Pekin and that Gen. Won~g Heng-, ero of the revolution, had been ap einted its leader.I According tO a report Gen. Wong~ leng has ordered his army north to~ fongola with instructions to estn-' sh military rule and drive the Rus inn sodiers out. CONVENT Bt'RNS. runs Save the Lives of One Hundred Girl Students. Hudled in their night clothes in o a shrinking, terror-stricken line. ne hundred girls, students at St. roseph's convent, near Washington, la., were drilled by two courageous inns to the street and safety, when ?ire completely destroyed the con ent shortly before dawn Wednesday. The blaze was discovered by one f the students. Awakened from~ ;leep by smoke which filled the en-! ;ire building, she hurriedly alarmed; he inmates, going from room to~ oom, unmindful of her own safety., :aring only to rescue her sister stu lents from their impending peril. Among the first awakened were: :wo nuns, who. immediately set about :o the task of maintaining order. The1 .usdred girls were quickly drilled in-! o line, and while fervent prayers were offered the long line of students! :lad only in their night clothes,! arched to the street and out of dan-i Sentenced to Fivo Years. Charged with embezzling funds: the money order department of the, postoe, Major D. Houston Smith, ssistant postmaster, Wednesday wa found guilty and sentenced to five years in the federal penitentiary at! Atlanta. Smith admitted getting $8. 000 from the post-office. The indiYW met a~gainst him charged that he 0% tained $9.fl52. Wolves Hitched to Buiagy. The novel spectacle of a bn-gv rirawn by five timber wolves in har ness ~s presented to Tafavette ne', ne. The outfit passed thronrh there ron its way frnm Seattle. to New Yrrl ity. Frank Yomer and Darius Toine are riding in the bugry and they ITIABLE SCENES IN TURKISH CHOLERA CAMP NEAR SAN STEFANO MISERY AND SUffERING Rampant Among Dying Turk Sodiers a Who Are Terribly Neglected-At r One Place Scores Huddle on a Ma- a s nure Pile for Warmth, Some of o Them Being Dead. Scenes of suffering and misery are a o ha witnessed daily at the Turkish h . camp at San Stefano. A cor res'>oL ent of the Associated Press f uail a visit there Thursday. P Much skepticism had prevailed in il Pera, the foreign quarter of Constan- ti stinople, both among members of hte diplomatic corps and foreign resi- tl dents. No one there believed the t< tigures given by railroad employees i and others in contact with the Turks, r who declared that many thousands t were stricken with cholera. b The camp is situated at the side of C i railway embankment 30 feet in P ieight. A large open space like a vil- a age green stretches away for some 14 istance. This is surrounded by bet- d :er class houses two or three stories r igh, built in European style, for San t Stefano is the summer resort of the s wealthy resident of Constanstinople. C1 Two Ottoman soldiers were stand .ng on guard to the entrance to the h .amp but they made no motion. Their duty was to prevent those within the e .rdon from escaping and not to hin- n er other people from entering. A nauseating picture was witness- a !d at the side of the railroad. Bodies B which had been thrown from trains U ay as they had fallen. Some stuck on o op of the embankment, but others v iad rolled part of the way down. b Around a one-story stable at the it 'oot of tae embankment was a group a f 60 dead and dying, lying close, to ether apparently for warmth on the - slopes of a manure pile, which the L lick men had found softer than the a iard ground. One man on top of the c yile was digging with his fingers a t ort of trough in which to lie. The rough soon became his grave. As visitors came near the sick men T aised their heads and cried in the iearing of the attendants that they g were given no bread or water. Walk g ng half way across the field the visi- ti ors passed dead and dying men, ome times at intervals of a yard ometimes from 20 to 30 yards apart. A group of tents stood in the cen .er where four or five Turkish sol iers wearing the arm- piece of the Red Crescent stood on guard. Inside t] he sick and dead lay in groups. The s octor on duty counted 22 patients in S )ne tent while double that number e ay just outside sheltered from the wind just leaward of the canvas. r Some of the stricken found diffi ulty in getting into the Moslem posi tion for prayer, looking toward the h east. One praying victim was so h weak that he could not replace his h aanket around his head when the e ind blew it off. The Red Crescent attendants made to attempt to assist any of these suf- ti ering soldiers, not even placing t tones, which were plentiful, under c :heir heads to permit them to lie eas-t number of these attendants gath ared around to watch while the vi.3i tors were inspecting the camp. One f them became Insolent and was or-a lered off by the doctor. A water tank drawn by a donkey passed along the road. Those of thee victims wno were able to rise to their feet went unassisted toward it, and a trugled feebly for a drink. Those h unable to rise got none.t In a similar way what appeared o be army bread was distribut'ed tot hiose able to reach the place of dis- P tribution. Several of the sick men a raised themselves with difficulty and lumbled toward a well, from which they tried to dip water with their ~ long sashes. t There were hundreds of dead and thousands of sick in this camp many ying on the open ground and great numbers supporting their backa up igaint the houses bordering the open ields, most of which were deserted. The comparatively few Turkish soldiers brought to the hospitals, barracks and mosques at Constansti nople are more fortunate, although most of them die after reaching their destination. Some few of them are given beds to lie in and water to drink and all of them, if they do not C get warmth, are provided with shel ter from the r-ains and the wind. San Steafnlo is not the worst chol era camp. That at Hademkeul near the Echatalja lines is more extensive SCHRANK INSANE. Allensts to Report That the Assail'e ant of Teddy Is Crazy. That John Schrank, who, shiot Col Roosevelt on the night of tjct. 14 last is insane will be the substance of a unanimous report of th3 five alien-C ists appointed by Judge A. C. Backus to examine into the priso'aer'3 mente; 1 condition, according to the statement 1 of a court official at Milwaukee Wed-I i'esday afternoon. The commission held what was ex pected to be its last ses3'on with 'be attempted murderer WednesdIay, andu i was while he was being sub)ected to further questioning That the re port gained circulation that the6 pris oner would be adjudg3d insaaie. If' f'.nd insane it will be imposine to try him on the charge of attemptinlg to kill Col. Roosevelt. a~nd he will be confined in the hospital for the crim inal Insane at Oshkoshl. 1Eins Wife. Baby and Self. .Tohn Weed, a grocer's clerk. kill er his wire. his four-months old baby ~nd himself with chloroform during Thursday night. A note found by aI thirteen year old dau:hter at their home in Worcester. Mass., in the morning told of the crime. .ilted. Shoots Woman and Self. Angered because she refused tot talk with him when he called at her home in Gardner, Mass.. Wednesday night, Leon M. Jerome,. a young ath lete. shot and fatally wounded Mrs. THE BIRTH OF CHRIST ERY INTERESTING ACCOUNT BY DR. GLADDEN. L'hich Was Written Especially for the Christmas Number of the Wo man's Home Companion. In the Christmas Woman's Home ompanion appears an extraordinary count of the birth of Christ, writ >n by Washington Gladden. The sto y is told with completeness and re lity-just as one might relate the tory of the birth of Lincoln dr any ther great man. Joseph and Mary were young peo le who lived in Nazareth of Galilee -hich is sixty miles north of Bethle em. They had to go to Bethlehem ecause it was the city in which their imily belonged and the Roman em eror who was making a great census his empire required every family be enrolled in its native place. So Joseph and Mary had come, In ie middle of the winter, to this old >wn of Bethlehem. It was a long urney for those days and those >ads, far more wearisome than a 'ip to Denver or Minneapolis would a for people on the Hudson or the onnecticut. If they travelled by the rincipal road, as doubtless they did, e know exactly the route They fol >wed--across the great plain of Es raelon, over the mountains of Sama a and the hill country of Judea to ie great city of Jerusalem, then >uthward, abput six miles, from tna? ty to Bethlehem. Now let Dr. Gladden proceed with is narrative: "Whether Joseph and Mary had rer visited Bethlehem before, we do o know. "The first thing to do was to find place where they could abide in ethehem, and this was not an easy sk. The little town seems to have aen full of people who had come srhaps upon the same errand that rought them. You can imagine how would be if all the descendants of I the families that once lived in te of the old New England hill towns -in Litchfield, say, or Deerfield, or eomnster-if all the descendap.ts of l these families in all parts of the yuntry were ordered to go back sere and register. "'So it was at Bethlehem. Very lit e dependence was placed on inns or otels by travelers in those days. here were few places of public en rtainment. Every private family Ladly received and kindly cared for ich pilgrims as chanced to pass trough their neighborhood. "But no matter how hospitable en may be, when their houses are ill to overflowing they can take no .ore guests. and this was the cond. -n in which Joseph and Mary found te homes in Bethlehem. To the inn key made their way, but the inn was mply a shelter-a shed enclosing a )urt, with no furniture and no oth provision for the comfort of the 'aveler than the stone walls and the of which protected him from the orm. Here upon the bare floor he )ulispread his rugs for sleep; here could partake of the food that he ad brought in his haversack; and Is beast could be left secure in the >urt within the building. "Such were the Inns, or khans, of Le East when Joseph and Mary came >Bethlehem. But even such cold mfort as this was not for them. his bare shelter was so crowded at there was no room for them iere. The only place they could nd was in the stable, and this, as gems probable, was a kind of cai-e rexcavation in the side of the rock ear the inn. "It has been believed from the arliest day that the place where esus was born was a ->ave unde. sheltering rock. This story was! rrent among his followers not a undred years after his death, and ruth. It was perhaps some such are is no reason to dot its~5 lace as the pioneers in Minnesota nd Dakota used to call a "dugout" -a shelter, partly underground,i here man and beast together were metimes forced to find p'-otectionj om the wintry cold. This was e best entertainment Joseph and [ary could find in Bethlehem; and cr it was that the wonderful Babe1 as born, and found His cradle in-a tanger. 'Thus it was that the life which. as and is the Light of .Men began! ere on the earth. Doubtless this' as the greatest moment in the1 rorld's history. Could any one: rho looked on this Babe as He lay: a the manger have dreamed of be place He would fill. of the hanges he would bring, o*' the .ingdom that He would establish in he world'. Could any one there ave guessed that nineteen centur ss from that day five hundred mil ions of the human race would be' alling themselves by His name,,and more than half the earth's popula ion would be reckoning their yearsj rom the day of His birth: that ev-1 ry seventh day millions of hum~anU ices would be lifted up in song to; Um in churches and Sunday schools~ .nd missions all round the world; hat the noblest musiC the worl~i vould ever hear would be music. :lebrating the birth, the life, and. he death of the little Babe; that; he highest and purest art of all lie would be in which the story was old of tihe young Child and His mo her; that the noblest architecture he world would ever see would be hat which prepared a shrine for the vorship of this Babe of Bethlehem; hat His birthday would be kept all >ver the world as a day for giving rifts and sharing pleasures. and that t would be the happiest day of all he days of the whole round year? "No; none of us could have con elved of such a hytory as that to rose beginnings we look back on Tristmas day. There has been no 3arallel to it in the annals of the entures. The facts which I have 'ecited give some indication of the place that He has won in the thought and affection of nmankipd: hut there are those of ns who helieve that the sreatness of H-is dinii is yet to b schieved: for it is only within a enerationl that the real nature of His kindomn has heson to take pos. 5lllof Amverienn thonleht. The world is now at last bee:nn~fng to see what Chritianity means: that it real ly proposes to shape the whole of Tin mn society here and now according to its law of good will: that it call! a to sunniant strife by cooperation d sisicion hv symnoathy: to make thea sprt o Christmas the law o3 ARRESTS DRUGGISTS MISSUSE OF TUE MAIlS IS TIE QHAR AGAINST THEM IAIB IN MANY STATES Postoffice Department Plans and Cmi. ries Out Successfully a Nationwide Raid, Which Extended Over Tm.eo two States, and Arrested 173 Pet sons In the Principal Cities. In a nationwide raid involving ITS persons in the principle cities of the country made Wednesday by postof ice inspectors and United States marshals upon doctors and drug con cerns, charged with misuse of the mails to solicit criminal medical prao tice or to dispose of medicines and instruments connected with suck practice. The raid-the most active and far reaching ever made by any - depart ment of the government-was under the personal direction of Postmaster General Hitchcock and Chief lnspeo for Robert S. Sharp of the postoiflee department. So-carefully had its de tails been guarded that until the first of the arrests were made at Indian. apolis early In the day practically nothing was known of the govern ment's contemplated action. Working with clock-like precision, the inspec tion force spread over 22 States ear ried out the prearranged plans, and at an early hour Wednesday night the postoffice department had receiv ed word that nearly all of the desig nated persons had been arrested. The results of the crusade are still being received by the inspectors' di vision of the postoffice in the form of telegrams from various divisional headquarters. In isolated instances it was found for various reasons to be impracticable to effect the arrests, but the suspected persons against whom warrants have been issued are being kept under surveillance and will probably be unable to escape. Chief Inspector Sharp and a large part of the force of 390 inspectors had been engaged for seven months, under the orders of the postmaster general in working up the scores of individual cases in which arrests were made Wednesday. Many of those tak en. into custody were members of prominent wholesale and retail drug ccncerns or physicians well known ia their own communities. The government will prosecute the cases vigorously, acordihg to a state ment by Postmaster General Hitch cock Wednesday night. "The work of the postoffice Inspeo tors is the culmination of the cru sade instituted more than two years ago against the fraudulent and un lawful use of the mails." said Mr. Hitchcock. "In that comparatively brief time we have wiped out of ex istence concerns' which nave mutcted the people of this country out of more than $100,000,000 by frauds perpe trated through the use of the mails, and the courts have sent many of the promoters of the first fraudulent schemers to the penitentiary where they are serving time. The wide pub licity given to the arrests today will do more to put an end to this sort of criminality than any other process." Approximately 90 of the persona arrested already have been indicted by United States grand juries In va rious parts of the country; and the cases of the others will be presented to grand juries now sitting as rapidly s may be feasible. Strict enforcement of municipal and State laws in the East was said by the postal authorities to account for the comparatively few arrests In the large cities in that part of the ountry. While It was declared that violations of the law are frequent in such cities as Boston, New York, Philadelphia and Baltimore, the ac cused persons It was asserted, have been pursued closely by the State and Federal officials. Postoflice inspectors said the hot bed of this class of criminality is in the Pacific Coast States. In San Fran-~ cisco, it is claimed, a ficticious name was used by several well known phy sicians who employed a woman to do the necessary advertising and cleri cal work. Cases were solicited by correspondence and by printed circtz lars sent through the mails. Scores of complaints have been received by the department from respectable wo men, complaining of the receipt of this class of matter. Approximately 20 per cent of those arrested Wednesday are socalle:d "pill doctors-mel~n who advertised their practice by correspondence or other wise-and sent to their patients com pounds in the form of pills or pow ders. Careful analysis of these com pounds by the government authori ties is said to have disclosed that, some of them are wholly .Innoenous, while others are dangerous poisons. Under another section of the penal cole, the sending of poisons'through the mails is expressly forbidden. One of the men accused is said to have been the secretary of the board of health in the city of his residence. He responded, It is stated, to a decoy or test letter sent to him by the inspeO tors on the stationery of the board of health. He' has been indicted, so cording to reports received by the postofice inspectors. Robbers Loot n Blank. Kingston. Tenn., Blank Trust Com p-y' val was robbed Monday prnin sbvu four masked men who mcredn about a thousand dollars is securedive hundred In silver coin, go ,ses of currency and other pa prs were torn to shreals by the ez 1,oson. Prove'd Story Teller Insane, Chrles Suemus, a St. Louis busi res mn, was declared insane upon 19 evidence of an associate who tee tfe that Suemns kept telling the sa'e funning stories over and over, -epeting one of them no less than oer dcv in the year. Ti has ta~en the world a lone. lone time. to get Uld of the reil me'"ning of Chbrist's lire and techelinegs and tleath. but it enins to diwn uTnn esin these fist -ecr- of the' ton'~ti'-th century: and nd whern the (Thrictian' church learns to nt th, emfli's where it beioj 1~S tUnrdom will come, and m ~ j bedne in earth as In heaven."