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OF THE WORLD Resume of the iems of Inter. Cg^, CountrY aid the World h. Large For the Past Few I( Days. ton, A . t xtent of *=ý.,1,, a it Hirtm 'week.andn , lan.. wh : $ dead ttn ' <' ),;y .i c I u rall (; ti ich (,ecurr,',l i ~,,, t ·v, Inilt(, .[ý J lyVlania ,: (;ai orin h -tiir 0; I' n to the [ o s nb.-. I ll lWi a-i, , akwill 1 i re· n a in )t rlur i r. icll i t. g Com Fihi,, a 1 ti, beating that hrc l a, )aill' - airsn rk of Johad ar ie ' 1 . 'iii.. Will) Carethort iwn hiS a', n t.' the .ted.eofrabout tO •Ao . ,; S ougi Wosellam).(i, a'o i' ;r maker of Cieveland, 0).. Iwu aS i'ucl.', j, il has onfaesla d in t i r Sit ('iir flats I ju t above the Joe altie isummen in t [ort at Port oIuron. lich. a ssa Cora F' 'S'ini at th21, n01 jrig that her slitr, Mriss 1 iran - , had ma rri T iple td a ol tlc chI, er \Vif i ~. Carothlerso., who wha111 ttIt'ting atn Broroa trth yling ladies. ouslot and bridledherself at the hiie o her Ia; at pee ear ern, paid for a omti c hi OllWilsli champion. I Vlae C' olilw- Ain dnin the pr uitze. The an, ils., jail i Deputy Stohe United S tater avs onh co . hthe confessd i wfru iting that hae t murdered hiabo father, olicotton i- c the Senth.of the deparltiment of coln i or "eeause he was sleeping at the l time set for his nashinrri ton hass Sufrqnia Tiplett, a school teacher of I M orley, Mo., who was attendinig a instmmer term of the Noarnral school roin,to a traveling i s posnibleus athe of ptbridenhe intendedisto have.ntor hs fr What is believed to be the high- ia Snavalcirlee ever paid for a domestic hi ted by-425- la given by MIs:.id to I h hasve Chicago for Rob000 r its i., Econglad's champion male ('hi il- in mI Persian cat, and the winner of numerous prizes. The animal wiill d( be , at to the United States onr. ti band'the stemer Majestic be reverd t Invedotigation is to lie made into th gee in the cause of frequent fires that haveom occurred aboard steamship., cotton ladenical bound for N wa orfolk, Va., fromed the managth. Te department of coin- or ernite and labor at Washington has on inspectorsd the lcal hdroraie Treasurer James tilon.gill, tate Aney ew dirigible t. ajorpe, dio rected ntlyo Warden tenrd by a Swedish invenr to prepare las avalfor te practicale projectile is ofp stripes and to unifom the convictsa according to grades. Thereds and re to coube several grades of clottered, whileng. ac- CO mcording to the pomerit of the inpates- tr ur, at the will ho have attracted the high bandmerit unifore may notill be reveducrsed tolm thefuniformng denotingvorce w an inferior a grade ihen the olahomate the rule. t Therig the distitng oilu be retaint Musk- i ed in the case of Jennire B.for the in as vcorrigibles. eJudge John . Thomas. A searchincal innovestigation was ordered in the banagementks of Chicao iave form- of penitentlliary when the board of ephis, a on inspctd of forr oState Treasurer James Cowgill, State cAuditor John P. Gordonl letter asking ttor for ,00the practical abandonmlife taken.t of iobe several gradesk of clothingt. a. wascording to the merit of the inmates. r Those who have eattracted the hgreth mverit und iform will be reduced to t Thestrip end lof hing will be retainran-n taken by the Senate. cisco. John D. Rockefeller gave another $10.00o.0,00 to education. ter. President Taft has 1promised that Id he world give the South a "square A deald" in the appointment of census enullerators. to A Iluarrl over 35 resulted in the killing of lTim ( allowav, a negro Waiter. by IF rank M1artinez, a lPorto (' icanll in the kitchen of a hotel at a n I ulftport, 1i-s. M- T Tlhue govirfl\ullen l it Crop l'report for Ih .iulvl is c.trlelnel v f orahbl ' t, to e t Ce l'1'irieirs. indjiating a 'eord-break the w w 't- in ,.il yl ani other cereals in of pi l 'll[ii g (0 l lh titilli . 1l silll St. The only lhope of the downward a ho Speal,;r (Calllilon "fixed" the Hlouse It t'OlifleCs to suit senator Aldrich. l. th'e The striking milliers in the KaIn- th sas dlistrict to the ullIi iter of 8,)0) ti were ordered hlack to work by Pri'esi- t in dent Lewis of the United Mine fats W k hers of Anlrica, pending the w nor oilteolle of it conerltince hetween It the ilanallyers an i tle t n1110 , re quested by tie forml'er. Ii on to ani- GoverI n' Joollnili Of Minnesota 01 Vill in a rlc'ilt alddress is quoted as say- 01 en- ing: "1 i:tJe tO see the tille wheni Inl xV ilteil will join wil.h their hu1 i her hands in political affairs. Where woman is the atmonllsphere is better as and p)oliti(s would hie better with ail her reiniing inlllucnce." the The 'IJeniinessee Sluprenle Co irt ; hat has reversed the lower court in the o0 i- conviction of eight night riders P ill found guilty of the murder of ('apt. Quentin lankin at Wal- -1 the 1not Log last October, six of whom s liss wre ite ned to ihung. Thisope of 1- deci kin was exected to diake all it a for new trials. 00l- lussein wa ilmi Pasrha has sue- a " ' ceded in squeezing .$5000.000 out sa of Aiallru lamuid, 0l1td the screws arle ieing tightened ill the hope of p gi- making the late sultan disgorge all i' stue his ill-gotten wealth. The former b LA- sultan was always in fear of heinm ii., deposed, and he put away in foreign v hil- invcstmnents many millions. of The Indiana Supreme Court in deciding that toovnships cannot lie On compelled to supply conveyances to b carry children to school, argues ti nto that it is better for the health of a ave the pupils to walk some distance in a ton the open air than to be carried, i 'mn usually in closely covered carriagec st - or busses. ' has Suicide ended the gay career of n hie a wealthy young Cuban when Juan a the Balsinde shot himself in his apart- o ments in East Fourteenth street, ti tly New York. Nearly 200 seat chllecks e has from theaters. some memorandai t lish and a letter indicated that hle had ti op- Ieen infatuated with an actress and a to had followed her from place to place a its in Cuba and in this coutnry. ub- Thile Interstate Commerce Com- ri art- mission bulletin of railroad casual ties for the first three months of us- thlis year, based on reports from sed the railroad companies, gives a to aid tal of 663 persons killed and 15,1?2 u su- injured. This is an increase of 344- o tice in casualties, but a decrease of 65 re- in the number of killed. The wrecks L ko- numbered 2,28. I4 At midnight Saturday more than' 1,000 saloons in Texas ceased oper- a aed tions because of the comning into , ouri effect of the law enacted at the re- si ri- cent session of the state legislature r tate invalidating all liquor licenses is :ate sued after February 20, 1909, lim tor- iting the number of saloons in each la e county to ond for every 500 of popu- d are lation and barring new licenses in bi of conjunction with a hotel. icts The American Woolen Company, ao commonly known as the woolen C a trust, has formally notified the " manufacturers of clothing that they to must be prepared for an advance of s o about 25 per cent on all goods and ei le. to put up their fall prices accord- A in ingly. The trust circular tells the in- dealers that the outlook for business never has been brighter and that the rush of orders appeared to be the based on exhausted stocks. But it . goes on to say that the advance of from 30 to 50 per cent in the cost t rm- of raw materials naturally tends to- w o- ward higher prices. di The Hudson Subway Company at a New York has decided to take off the special cars reserved for women c the reason given being that they re- were not patronized by the women t ing themselves to any extent. ly Victor D. Brenner. a Russian xa., artist working in New York. is the se et designer of the head of Abraham w t Lincoln which is to appear on the r new cent to be issued by the Phila. an- delphia mint on August 1. LOUISIANA IVENTS All Around the State During the Past b, 1 Few Days-What is Going On ti and Where and Why. p Dairy Association Meeting. 11, Q Ilaninotd.-Th, !aniiond ('o-op- p o o'rativ( Iairy Ass~ociationi will put ill a it a l)a;st ourlizilg plant here, the laclhil- ii ery for . hicth will be ordcred at once. b, This was decided on at a meeting r held for tlhe purpose of devising bet- T Ster methods for placing their prod- A Ilcts oil the market. The meeting a! was addressed by JMr. N. O. Nelson ) 1 of St. Louis, who is a recognized al- ft thority lon all matters pertainling to) 1 the dairy business. l11 explained va- P rious metbhods of procedure in the v marketing of dairy products. No c1 definite plan was adopted, though the h. e nlembers of the association were unaninmous in the opinion that the pasteurizing plant was necessary as the first step, whatever plan was ul- ui () timately settled upon. Another thing t( that was considered as absolutely Pl necessary to the su:ccess of any pro- I ject advanced is co-operation. One tl c way of disposing of ne products of i the dairymen of the association is to Ic establish an agency of their own in di the city and ship the entire output ) t to that one distributing point instead st a of the individual members disposing st of their milk and cream to different nt buyers, and this method is likely to 1t be the one finally chosen at the next meeting of the association. r Complaints Against Salt Water. I Crowhley.-A petition is being cir culated among the rice farmers along the Abbott-Duson canal, sear Egan, asking the authorities to prevent the C oil men of the Jennings oil field from pumping salt water into Bayou des 1 ('Cannes, from which the water sup ply of the Abbott-Duson canal is a drawn. The water of the bayou is 1 t heavily impregnated with salt fronm this sour.ce and much injury has b en , done thereby to rice on the canal.o Salt water from the oil field is said it to extend into the Mermentau river it and to have been observed as far t lown as the Southern Pacific bridge. C Two years ago the same complaint s was made by farmers on the Abbott f Duson canal and oil men were en I joined from pumping water into the 0 r bayou. District Attorney Robira will take action in the martter if evidence a is given him that the law is being ie t violated. Fear Shortage of Cotton. s. Baton Rouge.-Whether the oil o mills in this section of the state will ix Shbe able to run is a question that at s the present time is giving the man f agement of the mills much concern. On account of the short cotton crop, hi and the ravages of the weevil :here t1 is danger that the supp'y of cotton fi seed will not be sufficiently large to ji justify the operation of all of lie c mills. The mill managers are n:ow making an investigation of the prob- it Sable supply of seed that will be put h on the market this fall, even should T , the crop not fall below the present d estimate. It may be necessary for a certain percentage of the mills in this section to be closed in order fl that the rsun of the mi!ls operated A d may be of sufficient duration to make s Sa run profitable. Few of the mills t in this section are ge:ting in a big it coal supply for the fall and winter p - run. ti f Arrest Made on Peonage Charge. 8 New Orleans.-The first actual ar- d rest for peonage in this state was P effected last. week by Chief Deputy SUnited States Mlarshal T. F. Laiche Sof this city, when he brought from SJeannerette, Iberia parish, a prisoner, i Lynn Smith, whom he took before V 8 United States Commissioner Chiapel la, holding a special session to re- o ceive the case and determine on the v bond to be given. There have been V several charges of peonage against P o planters and corporations in this s - state in past years, but no indict- t e ments were ever returned and no ar rests made. The United States stat utes define peonage to be the keep ing in involunta:ry servitude of any e h laborer or workman to pay off a debt. The offense is said to have o been committed in 1908. Special Train For Oil Men. o , Baton Rouge.-The Standard Oil c n Company has concluded arrange Sments with the Yazoo and Mississip pi Valley road to run a special train Y every day from Baton Rouge to the site of the two million dollars refin- b d ery now under course of construction u [ for the purpose of transporting to the plant the five hundred employes of a the company. h t Young Lady Passes Away. e New Orleans.-Catherine Thelma SDerby, a 22-year-old young woman of more than passing fairness, died at Hotel Dieu as the result of antisep t tic tablets taken with suicidal intent b Swhile the girl was in Memphis, six ' days before. Freight Conductor is Killed. SShreveport.-J. H. Bond, a freight n conductor on the Vicksburg, Shreve- f port and Pacific railroad, was thrown jt from a freight car while switching in 3 the yards at Sibley, La., and instant-o ly killed. Bond was on the top of aC car and the sudden stop made by the t train threw him actoss tha track and several cars passed over his body. He 1 was well known by all the railroad la e fraternity, liaving been employed bybe the Vicksburg, Shreveport and Pa-a efic several yeat s. fe New Water Transportation Scheme. New Orleans.--Water transporta tion frcm New Orleans to Mobile and Al thence tip the Alabama and Tonibig bee rivers, to Montgomery and a.I the central portion of that state, is the pr(position which lhe Birmingham. Jr Gulf Rail\.way and Navigation Compa- an ny, of Mobile, lpropoI(e to offer ship- w Spers. The lirmingham, (Gulf Railway a and Navigatin ('Cormpany has its I- headquarter's in lobil'. 11r. Dew- Le berry is vice president, and E.. It. al g ('obb is the general freight agent. an - This complany operlates boats up the it 1- Alabanul and Toimbighee ri\ers, going th g as far as Morgomriery. It is theiir n plan to put in throui i h .eight rates lI li i- from New Orleans to .Mobile ard At a Montgomiry. It will be in direct op i. position to the Louisville and Nash- ti e ville. ('apta in St. Amant believes he w o can make the run to Mobile in 16an e hours. In e - --- --tic e Miniature Statue Placed. s Baton Rouge.-ln the State Muise- i ti. , on ('arondelet street (Washing- (,d g ton Artillery building), there was su y placed last week a statuette of Jean tr B.aptiste LIemoyne, Stihur de Bicenville, to p the hardy Frlench-('aiiadian explorer, vi wt ho foundi d the city of New Or- at o leans in 1718. This miniature prod- t1 n duct of the sculptor's art is destined d t to be a model -of smice grandiose (i statue that is to be erectedt in Jack g son sqluare, ( pposite the ('abildo, iii t memory of the intrepid voyager, th" ,t i o man who laid the foundations of thlie t( Crescent ('ity'. and built mucth more Se than his imagination ever could have conceived. Offer by Department of Agriculture. Baton Rouge.-With a view to en Scouraging the parish fairs to make collective agricultural and live stock lt e exhibits at the State Fair to be held in Sat Shreveport, Ia.. Novemlber 1-6, 1909, the )el)partment of Agriculture and Immigration agrees to pay $25, and 50 per cent of the freight charges s to each narish fair association that will install a collective exhibit at the State Fair. Said amounts to be paidtl on satisfactory evidence of the exhib it having been installed and render Sin. of cop)y of freight bills. Circle of King's Daughters Organized. b Halmond.l-The outcome of -the to " visit of Miss Sophie Wright to this l' place recently was the organization :e of a circle of King's Daughters, which at 11 was successfully accomplished with " ea charter membership of 35 of the g leading ladies of Hammond. Miss at Wright was much pleased at the in terest taken in the movement, and said it was the largest circle she had ii organized in any town of this size 11 in the state. it _ of n- Money Still on Hand. 1' n. Tallulah.-The Madison parish po lice jury met in regular session and in 'e the first thing considered was the n in financial report for the fiscal year ci o just ended. The report showed re- st te ceipts from all sources of $45,301.23, w with $43,109.38 disbursements, leav- w b- ing a cash balance of $2,ltl.23 on tc it hand, and was unanimously adopted. 1 d The remodeling of the jail was also hi It discussed. B n Report on Louisiana Crops. an r Baton Rouge.-The Department of an d Agriculture is making every effort to ti e secure prompt and accurate data for lI s the second quarterly report on Louis- (l ig lana agricultural conditions. This re- a pr port is to be issued August 1, and the department has given notice to the assessors, who are the corre spondents for the board, that the ei r- data must be accurate and sent in g promptly. STo Protect Rice Mill. ce I Gueydan.-The Planters' rice mill p1 Sis Installing a $10,000 fire protection tt e plant at the Mutual mill of this place. n 1- The plant will consist of a $4.000 gas- p1 e. oline engine, deep well, tanks, reser e voir and pipes throughout the mill and n warehouses. It will make it the best t protected as well as the cheapest in 5 surance of any wood frame mill in i t- the rice belt. P t To Celebrate First Train. 1I p Baton Rouge.-All of the railroads c( y entering Baton Rouge have notified of a Secretary F. B. McQueety of the Ifat e on Rouge Board of Trade, that they will give a special rate of one and one-third of the regular fare on the tl occasion of the celebration of the il i crossing of the first trans-Misslssippi ca . train at Baton Rouge, July 31. STeachers' Salaries Increased. be Harrisonburg.--The parish school at Sboard and the police jury met in reg- NS Sular session last week. All schools e will begin work September 6. The isi , salaries of teachers have been re- ro vised and some important changes have been made, which are advanta. geous to teachers. Will Build New Bridge. Jr t Harrisburg.-The police jury has pe Scontracted for the erection of a steel 'i t bridge over Bayou Bushly two miles south of Harrisonburg. The bridge ly will cost $16,000. to Justice of the Peace Indicted. isl t Shreveport.-After being in session lel four days the Caddo -parish grand n jury submitted a final report, showing re n 31 indictments, one against Justice a - of the Peace E. T. Fuller of Bessler a City, who is charged with violating on e the concubinage law, and is now in of d jail here. The jury made special e e mention that few complaints of vo- an d lation of the prohibition law have y been filed since the April session, and on!y two true bills for 'thli' ot- fI fense were returned. mi TRUST OFFICER ARRESTED. M Alleged That Wyatt H. Ingram, Jr., His Embezzled Funds Amounting to $100,OCO. New Orletans.---\Vat 11i. Ingranm, Jr., trust oflicr" of the lliiernian r lank Cl aind TrusIit ('ipani. of New " rltails. \aiIs ll' eat, i( at his h iiie, 1-l40 S ate lstre't, hliorlly beforet ; o'clocik oln ihi etveriiin' of 'he tllh ll ll the clharige Leilg a ldefaulter a11 for1u e'. It 1 tlh a ll.e g ,.d th a t h ei is b et w\i' t n x - $ l 7 ,,,0 0 ati anid lht0,t o shli o !!ir li i , ac.cionlts til Ingrai'n way ýaid toi i," tli .1 \, hel fri the arrestling ofit'ers rit h-, li:, he lill)e to a, o( ltniany thl' to lt hi0e Fit lice station, bu!t I str; t Atn rneit h l AdamsI upon binh Iunir u fiieat(( Ite with, insistel d that Ih , a ui eii-"dl hle ti ibrolghr to p isoil wit holit delay. lie" Se was carri(,d to polii a h( ldquiula ers in an ambll a na .llbtll' 11. It V 1- I p, 'Ir d i ll;it Inlglrali hafd mliie' all alletm'lti , at s -lf (lestiructioin, but rlus is withat toni fti'uiation. It is hlit'le id, rather, tile the strain tinder which hie hiis lahoi)r ed ar(nd the rleceint exa( .-si\te heat re sulted in his partial collaipse The' trust officer is said tl have, iorflý'sd to Vice PI'resident IPool of tlhe Iliber Via Bank that his delalalltioi woulil approximate $10 ,ltiti. It is stated that a check for $,.i0tti, on which Il grain forged the signatulre of ta proIiiii llflnt busilnr'ss nmarl of New Orleans, ledI to the disclosuire of the elilbezzle mlilents and forgeries that norw alre charged againist hrn. ile has benll unrider police sur-'villanl'e for lltce pa`t several days. Peculiar Accident to Eye. Tallulah.--Mrs. O. It. Caret, whoM , ` Lb'icaise, of tari accidelt il sstirilied by her husband, was recalled to her homrne in \Viillona, Te', a few days Sago while on a visit to trirnids hlire, in a lhtt er to a fri ilnd relait es a mollr st peculiar accident, of which her hus band was the v\ictinm. Mr. (iilt anid ! a friend had been- to \VWinona and were retur-ning to the fruit farmn of which he is nltanager, when a glat i flew into Mr. Gant's eye. Amiong oth- Ht er purchases made in town, Mr. ?aint had pIulrchased a new handkerchief ,t and he twisted a part of it to remiove he the gnat. The handkerchief had borne a price tag, which had been fas- It ten-ed with a fine wire pin, and a it Spart of the wire was left in the hand- Cr kerchief when the tag was removed, th h and it happened that this piece of he wh ire was in the twist made in the he e handkerchief. This wire was drawni aacross Mr. (Gant's eye, and he is inv very grave danger of losing the sight pa dof it. He d lat d Object to Rushing Rice Crop. El New Orleans.-The rice committee tIc of the Board of Trade, of which S. ca Locke Breaux is chairman, took a de- tu , termined stand against shippers send. ma d ing rice that is not fully matured or hi fit for human consumption to the ti( r city, and ad\ertising it as "the sea I son's fir st new rice," and passed a to resolution condemning the practice, ev which resolution is to be presented ,1 n to the monthly meeting of the board de of directors. for consideration. In as o his letter to thie board of directors Mr. y, Breaux cites several instances of ca planters shipping rice to this city, fe and getting newspapers to publish it cle Sas new rice. Some of the rice adver- th Stised as such was sold. It wiL in the TI Slast two weeks of its maturity, and le; Sthie buyer found it useless, and could su . not even give It away. Tl d -- WI-- o Dogs Spread Disease. . Morgan City.-As a result of sev- ha e I eral cows and goars being bitten three sil a weeks ago by a dog with the rablel; TI the animals developed the disease a th few days ago, and were promptly kiill- br ed on P. and B. O'lriel's Riverside si Ii plantatiin. As a precaution, the ex n terninu ion of dogs was begun hi that . neighlborhood, and every one on the B p. plantation was killed. d Decrease Shown Over State. ;t Baton Rouge.--Instead of. the $25, 000,000 Increase which Governor SSanders and other state officials ex pected, the parishes so far reporting E show in the assessment abstracts for ni f1909 there is an actual decrease, in b s comparnson with the total assessment t d of 190b of $9,103,755. u SSTATE BRIEFS. li dI Woman convicts serving time on in e tile good roads in D)e Soto parish will e likely tie relieved of hard labor be- th i cause ,of protest by humanitarians. ot Wlliam P'. Tucker, 63 years old, su- sa perlntendent of education of Terre- es boone parish, Confederate veteran a i and prominent politician, who died in SNew Orleans, was buried at Houma. w S The police jury of Catahoula par- at e ish aplpropriated $12,000 for a good hi . roads campaign. ct s The Morgan City and Berwick Board of Trade has been organized. v John Fulco and Sam Piarro, con v-cted of the murder of W. Boney, pt Jr., at Benton, were .hurried to the hi penitentiary in order to escape mob st Sviolence. ai SThe Jackson Board of Trade recent- . Sly conducted a prosperity excursion to Bogalusa and return Sheriff Peterman of St. Mary par- b ish had no connection with the al- h leged whipping of young Castaing of a New Orleans. J. I.. Beasley was ar rested in connection with the case and placed in jail at Franklin. h , Governor Sanders, fo.lowing rec ommendations fromn the State Board it 1 of Pardons, extended 'executive clem- o ency to C. R. Jetton, Vince Loycaso and Alfred Dot y. f Avery Blount, under death sentence a at Arulte City for tile .aurder of J. O it Brelhnd, will app'y for pardon or com mutation of senticte. MEPHISTO, PARROT, FLIES INTO LOCOMOTIYE STACK CHAMPION SWEARING BIRD FRIGHTENED AT IRON HORSE DIVES DOWN SMOKE FLUE. Meitt hIe;r. N I i t heard of. hi I'oItu N ov'it wk to -hip ' I :'I.n cur;i:'5 t h':1r't. \\'Cmok (' ind1r; and 1 eat.' , * ilie it" Im ,e big i imerli he. ,. i 'e.t Pe thinIks Iot'Im. Ont, h:. other h:1" the Iimia bdad. erreonm l. 111' sIt'it 1 h.a ' Iott' o 0-i?_ stack in a moment of panic at ther station here. T'h last hard of him he was coughing and sneezing and he wan coughing and sneezinga and cursing the smoke, cinders and heat. It may be by this time he is breath ing a profane benediction on the crown sheet of the firebox or telling the steam-charred boiler tubes what he thinks of them. On the other hand, he may be dead. From the strictly profane point of view, Mephisto was the best educated parrot in this section of New Jersey. He could swear with fluency in five languages and also in several dialects. Every noun, verb, adjective, conjunc tion, preposition and article in the vo cabulary was either tainted or tinc tured with profarpty. Not one of his many friends expressed any hope for, his future. He was beyond reforma tion and redemption. Sorrenson, who lives in New street, took Mephisto to the station Thursday evening. The parrot was drawing iwith energy upon his vocabulary and delighting one part of a big crowd and shocking others when the New York train rolled in. Mephisto be came panic stricken at once. He flew from the arm of his owner, cir cled twice above the locomotive and then dived down the smoke stack. The astounded spectators heard a vol ley of oaths coming out with the smoke, and then there was silence. There is a division of opinion as to what produced it. Those who were shocked by the language the parrot had used say the silence was caused by suffocation. The bird's friends assert, however, that Mephisto simply was racking his brains to find words to fit the new situation in which he found himself. BOY 17 WEEKS WITHOUT FOOD. Nine-Year-Old Lad Suffering from "Bound Brain" Is Starving to Death. Cleveland, O.--Mrs. Nellie Lee, 337 East Seventy-first street, mother of nine-year-old Arthur Lee, who has been fasting for 17 weeks, is willing to let some brain specialist operate upon him. She has come to the con clusion with the primary hope of re lieviing his long suffering, secondarily in the interest of science. "I've spent with doctors every cent that I possessed, endeavoring to find out what is the matter with Arthur," said Mrs. Lee. "Ifi science is Inter ested science must aid me. I haven't a dollar except to buy food." The boy is entering his eighteenth week of fasting. . He takes only milk and brandy in sips. Doctors thus far have been baffled in diagnosing his cn~e. He has wasted to 18 pounds. The four years Mrs. Lee has de, veated herself to the sick boy have cost her dear. She used to weigh 1e pounds. She weighs 122 now. Her hair is streaked with gray, her eyes sunken and marked by dark circles and her condition one of extreme nerv ouBnes8. boctors have told Mrs. Lee that the boy's condition results from a "bound brain." Since he was 18 months old he has been absolutely helpless. He never talked. "Since a year ago Arthur hasn't tasted a drop of water and last year he fasted for 12 weeks. "If death would relieve his suffe' rigs, I would Be resigned to the will of God," said Mrs. I~ee, chokingiy. But the mother lo'-e that has led a forlorn hope for nine years keeps alive the belief that somewhere there is a man who can operate and save her boy. And Mrs. Lee is praying for that man.