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OF THE A
n
WOODSTOCK, VERMONT
The People's Rights A Representative Deir.ocracy The Unfon and the Cohstitution Without Any Infractions.
VOL. L. NO. 39 WHOLE NO. 4490.
SATURDAY. FEBRUARY lf 1913.
GE
UNDER the terms of .0 teaty con
cludod at Washington by tbo
Unlted StateB, Great Drltain,
Russla and Japan, the fur Beals
of the north Paclflc ocean are
destlncd to obtaln for tho flrat timo a
form of protoctlon that recent cxperl
ence has Bhown to be absolutely cssen
tlal for tho consorvatlon of tho seal
herds1. Tho agreemont between theso
four great powers prohlblta for a
perlod of 15 yoars the indtBcrlmlnate
slaughter of Beals, whilo at 80a, and
places-tho legltlmato kllllng of surplus
eeuls 6n land under tho lmmedlale con
trol of the nationa havlng sovorelgnty
over iho lslands to whlch tho scala re
Bort for brecdlng purposes. The na
tiona whlch may be sald to liold a
klnd of property rlght in fur seal herds
aro tho Unlted States, Russla and
Japan. Tho interoats of Great Brltaln
In thls mattor nrls'e from the extstenco.
cf on extenslve fleet of Beallng vessels
that for many yoars had boen operat
lng from Brltish Columbla ports off the
coasts of Amerlca, Russla and Japan.
Although fur scals aro found tn both
tho northorn and southern heml
ephercs, the largest herds are those of
tho north Paclflc, whlch represent
threo closcly-related specles dlstln
gulshed by pccullarltles ln form, physl-
jognouiy and pelage, and known as the
Alnskan. RusBlan and Japaneso fur
TCaeals, respectlvely. The herda roam
laoiy otr tno" hlgh aeas. and thelr wa-
ter habltata approacli one another lf
they db not overlap; but tho dlfforent
specles do not nssoclato, and always
resort for broedlng purposes 10 par
ttcular lslands. It la thls hablt whlch
glves cortaln natlons a temporary Jur
lsdlctlon and control over thera. and
baa creatod several lnternatlonal com
pllcatlons. Go Far South,
The Japanese fur seal', whlch la tho
leaat abundant, never vlslts nny land
oxcept Robben reef and somt- "tlny
lglanda of tho Kurll chaln. The Rus
slan fur seal, the next ln abundance.
never rcsorta to any" ahorea except
those of the Commcnder lslands. lylns
far off the east coast of Knmtchatka
The Alaskan fur seal. far moro numer
ous than the othcrs, roamB over n
large part of the eastern Paclflc ocean
as far south as southern Cali'ornln
and raakes an annual pllgrlmage to tln
Trlbilof lslands In Berlng Bea. Thesi
lslands, whlch ctme to the Unlted
States ln 1867, when Russla ceded lu?
lsdlctlon over Alaska, and are the sol
land resort of thq Alaskan fur st'iil
have brought on the country much do
mostlc and lnternatlonal turmoll, It is
a cause-for grent satlsfaction in itu
Unlted States, as tt must be also li
the other countrles Invplved, that wir
atatesmanshlp has prevatled over an
untpward influences that may hnv
prevented un eorller settlemmt of th
fur seal questlon, and ha resulted I
thls conventlon, whlch insures the re?
cue of the dopleted fur seal liprds o
.both Amerlca and Asla from comm r
clai extinctlon.
Although the seals are easlly kllle
by the methods adopted by man fo
thelr deatructlon on sea and land. the
aro capablo of wlthstandlng great pri
vatlon nnd of undergolng extrnordi
sory muscular exertlon.
To malntaln themselvcs durlng tl:
wlnter without resortlng to land Is li
ltself no small accompllshment for nlr
breathing, land-breedlng anlmals. Thn
females, leavtng the lslands ln Novem
ber, go further south then nny other
members of the.herd, and ln December t
appear off southern Callfornia, where'
they remaln untll March. Thoy then
begln thelr long return Journey. reach
lng tho lslands early ln Juno. Tho aeals
aubslst chlofly on squld, but also on
amelt, herrlng, salmon nnd other klnds
of flsh, whlch nre caught and oaten ln
the water.
Easy for the Malea.
Tho bachelor aeals, havlng fow re
Bponslbtlltlea and cares, roquiro less
food than tho" mothor aeals, and make
less frequent and Ieaa expodltloua trlpa
to the feedlng-grounda. They paat
much of thelr tlmo Bleoplng on land or
playlng ln the water noar the shorcs.
The old bulls, howovor, havo the moat
oxtraordlnary vltallty. Arrlvlng on tha
lslands about May 1, they remaln con
stantly on land untll tho Inst of July 01
tho early part of August without eat
lng a slngle thlng or even drinklng,
but Uvlng on the great amount of fat
they have stored up whlle at sea. Dur
lng all thls tlmo they malntaln mosl
"vlgilant watch over thelr ,hnr?m, and'
re always ready to ropel lnvadcrs,
whether human or others, and to flght
22 COW3
.V. .ilmca, ctpeclally early ln the sea
011, all the scals on land sleop tho
,reuter part of the tlmo A peraon
may noto a- harom of whlch .every
nu mber, even the vlgilant maoler and
ho hungry pups, ls sound asleep The
eealB furthermoro have tho faculty of
floeplns ln the water, restlng on the
brck wlth tho long hlnd fllppers held
loft or Gnugly folded along tho body,
and wlth the nose protrudlng from the
surface. It ls thls hablt of sleeplng at
scn whlch enables the huntor to ap
proach close .enough to hurl a spear or
dlscharge a load of buckshot, and haB
resulted ln pclagtc sealfng wlth all tta
attendant evlls. Whilo Indlvldual soals
or entiro harems -may bo asleep, the
rookerlcs as a whole always prcsent
an antmated scene, accompanled by a
stendy .volume of dlscordant soundB,
both day and night. Tho bulls fre
quontly utter savngo roara of deflance,
and keup up a constant scdldlng, chuck
llng nnd whlstllng In order to malntaln
dlsclpllnc, and tho cowb have a shrlll
blfiat and the pups nn answerlng cry
lar moro penetratlng than tho calls ot
owe nnd lamb. Qff each rookery there
(s thruughout tho season a party ot
swlmmlng, playlng and aleeplng seals,
nd an Incessant passhgo of seals to
nd from tho rookery and hnullng
rounds. Somq of thom are bachelors,
ut most of them aro cows, whose ne
esslty for golng to sea fbr tood ls
,reater than that of any other mem
iers of the.herd, for they have to sus
iln themselvcs nnd also provldo nour-
hment for thnlr pups. On tbo ap
roach of cold weather, the cows and
pups leave the Islanda together Up
to that tlme the pupa have aubslated
Eolcly on mllk. and they then have to
lenrn to catcb thelr own food, conslat
lng of flsh and squld. Inasmuch as the
natural mortalfty among the pupa ln
thelr flrst year ls fully flfty per cent,
lt la evldent that they experlencc many
vIclSBitudes ln the tempestuous seaa to
whlch they comralt themselvea The
males follow shortly after, but somu
remaln about the lslands throughout
the wlnter lmmlld Beasons, and the na
tlvcs always dcpend on seals for food
ln December and January.
Grove ,of Blg Trees Found.
"In the forest rescrve between tho
headwaters of the West Fork of Hood
Rlver and the Bull Run Lake, Ore..
aro Borae large trees,- btgger than any
I have eve'r seen anywhero elso In the
northwest," sald Oeorgo T. Prather, a
ploneer nowspaperman and orchardist.
of the Hood Rlver Valley-
"My nttentlon was flrst called to
the glanta of the foresta nbout flfteen
years ago by L, Ferdinand Floss of
Latourelle, who made a vislt every
summer to the northwest base of Mt
Hood. Mr. Floss at that tlme had a
communlcatlon tn the Oregonlan ra
tlve to tho trees."
The trees are sald to be several
hundred feet hlgh and to atand on the
flat of a hldden canyon. Steep bluffs
on clther hand shut-Jn the gorge in
whlch they rear themselvea, and thla
season ls given for falluro of those
who flsh ln the, Lost Lake dlstrlct to
have found tho troea.
There are two apccles of tho great
trees. One has a yellowlah and not'
very rough bark and la stralght and
as round as a candlo. It has,no llmba
to a great helght. and haa a beautlful
crown. The second specles ls cedar.
New York World,
Dew Baths,
Occaslonally I have seen from my
study wlndow red-headed llnnets bath
lng ln dew when water elsewhere was
scarco. A largo Monterey cypress
wlth broad branchea and Innumcra
ble leaves on whlch the dew lodges
ln stlll nlghts made a favorlto bath-Ing-place.
Allghtlng gently, as ' lf
afrald to wasto the dew. they would
pause, and fldget as they do before
beglnntng to plaBh ln pools: then dlp
and scatter tho drops In showers and
get as thorough a bath as they would
ln a pool. I havo 'also seen tho s,amo
klnd of baths taken by blrda on tho
bougha of Bllver flrs on the edgo of a
glacler meadow, but nowhere havo I
seen tho dewdrops so abundant, as on
the Monterey cypress; and the plcturo
made by the qulverlng wlngs and
lrlscd dew was momorably beautlful.
Chlldrcn, too. make flnp flgurcs
plashlng and crowlng ln thelr little
taba. How wldely different from wal
lowlng plga, bathlng wlth great show
of comfort, nnd rubbing themselvea
dry agalnst rough-barked treeat
Joha Jtfulr, la tka Atlantic,
PROPER DEALING OF JUSTICE
Judge's Stern Rebuko of Would-Bo
Brlber Accompanled Wlth Appro
prlate Reductlon of "Sock."
The Juatlco of tho peaco was ln a
marked state of lgnorance. Howas
approached. by a man doslrlng a dl
vorce, and he dld not know what to
do. , Calllng a frlend to hla slde, ho
whlspered:
"Whafa the law on thla polntr
"You can't do lt," waa the roply.
"It'a out of your Jurlsdlctlon."
The husband, observlng tho con
Bultatlon, and feellng keenly hls do
slro to OBcape from tho matrlmonlal
woo, cxplalncd:
"I'm wlllln' to pay well; got tho
money rlght horo ln my sock."
At thls Juncturo the Juatlce ao
sumed hls gravest Judlclal alr. Obyl
ously ho was dooply palned. Never be
foro ln all hla llfo had ho beon bo bow
ed down by grlef.
"Tou knew betoro you came hero,"
ho aald aadly, "that lt waan't for jno
to aeparato husband and wlfe, nnd
yet you not only take up tho valuablo
tlmo of thla court by talklng, but you
actually p'roposo to brlbo mo wlth
money. Nowf how much havo you got
ln thnt bocU?"
"About $G,50, yonr honor."
"Ib that bo? Then I flne you ?5
for brlbery and ?1,50 for taklng up
my tlme wlth a caae out of my Jurls
dlctlon; nnd may tho Lord havo morcy
on your bouI!" Popular .Magazlno.
HAD IT .PROPERLY NAMED
Engllsh 8allor May Have Forgotten
Pollteness, but He Had Appro.
prlately Deslgnated Dlsh.
. A cortaln London clorgyman who
had been travellng ln Oreeco found
hlmself compelled to stay the nlght
at a monnst,ery nt Mount Atbos. Tbo
welcome was warm, but the food oxo
crable, ln partlcular the soup, whlch
tho guoat could hardly force hlmself
to swallow. Belng a classlcal echolar,
hlB knowledge of anclent GreeU help
cd hlm to some understandlng of the
monks, who spolco tho wldely differ
ent modern tonguo, and hp waa as
tonlshed to hear that the unpalata
ble soup was an Engllsh dlsh.
"Engllsh!" crled one of tho monka,
adding that an Engllsh sallor had been
there not long beforo and recognlzed
lt
"What dd he call It?" asked tho
clorgyman.
The monlc had to thlnk for a mo
ment before ho could recollect tho
strange Engllsh namo of that soup.
Ahl ho had lt. It was "bees'ly muckl"
Mechantcal Horse.
A real "mechanlcnl horse" la belng
experimonted wlth nbroad. It la a
"tractor" that is easlly hltched to any
horse-drawn vehlcle, juat as a team
of horses may be, and comblnca all
the advantagea of tho horao wlth
those of the auto truck at an exceed
ingly low prlce. The outflt comprlses
a steel bar and coupler and sprocket
wheels desfgned to be attached to tho
wheels and tonguo of tho wagon.
There ls only, one wheel on the
"horso" and that la at tho front, the
most of the support for the tractor de-
pendlng upon tl(o front wagon wheels
by whlch lt is drlven. Tho englne,
mounted .under the front hood as in
dn automobllo, ls of 40 or 50 horse
power and drlvea tho wagon at a
speed of from 8 to 30 mlles nn hour,
the latter speed only belng used when
It ls dealgned for ilro'englno servlco.
The. front wheel la used to stoer by
and It allows a turn belng made at an
angl'e of 85 degreea, thha glvlng re
markablo turnlng nblllty In narrow
streets. One of tho greatest advan
tages of the "mechanlcal horse" is the
fact that lt mny bo kept constantly at
work whilo unloadlng or loadlng is
golng on.
Cement Gun.
There ls a cerrfent gun whlch ia uaed
to npply a mortar coverlng to struc
tural steel work. A mlxture of dry
sand and cement ls sbot from a noz
zlo by compressed alr. A second hoso
dellvers to tho eamo nozzlo a supply
of water undor presaure, and tho mlx
ture of aand cemont and water ls
shot out wlth a vcloclty of nbout 350
feet a second. Tho nozzlo is arranged
to produce a thorough wettlng of the
materlal. As the mlxture strlkes the
surface to be covered, the.Voarso sand
gralns rebound untll tho fino cement
mortar, whlch adherea lm'medlately,
hcs formed a plastlc base ln whlch tho
coarso partlclea becomo lmbedded, A
coverlng of any rcqulred thlckness is
then rapldly bullt up.
One of theso guns has been used
on tho Panama'Canal ln coverlng the
Bldea of tho Culebra cut wlth cement,
to prevent tho unstablo earth from
alldlng lnto tho canal.
Nero'a Clalm to Dlstlnctlon. ,
Aubrey Beard&loy, the famous nrt
lst, onco outshono Oscar Wildo, who
was the greatest wlt and conversatlon
allBt that ever Jlvodi '
At a dlnner at whlch both wcfd
guests Wlldo talkod lntorostlngly' on
Noro for nearly two houra.. When ho'
concluded, Beafdsloy, wbo was only a
boy, apoke up: '
"Mr, Wllde," ho sald, ''you havo for
gotten to mentlon Nero'a greatest
rellgloua 'achlovement ,
"I must confess I do not know to
-what you are roferrlng," admltted
Wlldo.
"I am refcrrlng to.hls actlon of pour
lng oll on ChrlBtlana and setttng Ore
to them," sald BearJsloy. "Wasn't lt
Nero who llghted tho flrst flres of
Chrlstlanlty that lllumlaaUid tha
worWf
DREADNOUGHT OUT OF DATE
Brltish Shlp of That Namo Aaalgne4
to Fourth Battle Fleet4-Wi
Bullt Slx Year Age.
London, How fleetlng ls the glory
of tho modern flghtlng shlp (a lllua
trated ln the caae of the Brltish bat
tleshlp Dreadnought, the bulldlng of
which, as a result of tho report ot
the Brltish naval attachea who ac
companled Admlral Togo's fleot In the
flrst naval battlea In the Gulf of
Pcchlll agalnst tho Paclflc fleet of Rus
ala, caused a rovolutlon ln battleshlp
constructlon.
Thla onco proud vossol la now con
aldored so far out of date that aha
1b belng removed from the flrst bat
tle squadron and asalgned to the
fourth battle squadron, whlch la
based on Glbraltar. The Droadnougbt
has been ln commlaalon less than slx
yoars, and whlle not consldered obso
leto ls more outclassed by tho lateat
shlps than were tho pro-Dreadnoughta
Slstanced by hor when abo waB flrst
ullt
A fow weeks ago the battleshlp
Klng Georgo V. waa commlssloned.
Sho haa a "broadsldo of no les'a than
14,000 pounda. Thls glves her a su
porlorlty of 106 per cent. over tho
Dreadnought, whlch waa only 28 per
cent, better tban the laat pro-Dread-noughts.
The now armqred crluacra
even are 50 por cent. more powerful
than the Dreadnought No Brltish
armored shlp ls reckoned effectlve to
day that has been launched over 18
years.
At tbo battle of Trafalgar the 27
Brltish Bhlps averaged 27 years from
the date of launching. The Victory
heraelf waa 50 years old.
THIEF PliT BLAME 0N M0USE
Confesoed Forger Tella How Hla Moth
er'a Frlght Before Hla Blrth
Marked Hlm.
New York. That a mouBe runnlng
up hla mother'a sklrt two months be
fore ho was born left hlm wlth u blrth
mnrk of a rodent'a flguro on hls lcg
and an Irroslstlble lmpulse to steal
was the unlquo dofonae offered In
court the other day by Edward H
Huppo, after confesslng to forglng a
check on the Corn Exchange banlt for
$90. He sald he has also served a
term ln the Elmlra reformatory for
thett.
Huppo la a well-to-do young German,
who camo to thla country from Old.
enburg, Germany. He sald he ba
came convcrted to Chrlstlan Sclence
laat fall, and after overcpmlng hla
parontal influence ,to Bteal resolved
to confeaa- tp the forgorytthd start
llfo wlth a clean Blate.
The young man rolled up h8 troua
er leg and showed a blrthmark on
hls rlght calf whlch closely resem
bled a plcture of a mouso.
"My crimea were Uke those of a
mouse, always stcallng Bteallng
thlngs I dld. not need," aald Huppe. Ho
waa romanded to the Tomba for .ex
amlnatlon by nllcnlsts.
HEN TRIES T0 HANG ITSELF
Concclence' Strlcken Because It Fall
ed to Lay Ita Sharo of Hlgh-'
Prlced Egga.
Tarrytown, N. Y. Mary, the pot
hen of Mlss Hannah Mace of North
Tarrytown, attorhpted sulclde. Mlsa
Mace gravely Inslsts. that Mary was
consclenco strlcken, because, at tho
hlgh prlce of egga, sho had not been
ablo to contrlbuto her Bbare.
The hen flew up on a wlre fence,
and, then, sticklng her head through
one ot the holcs, Jumped off. There
abo waa alowly atrangllng to death,
when her owner, attracted by the oth
or chlckena cackllng and maklng a
great nolae ln the yard, ran out and
rescued her pet.
To a reporter Mlsa Mace aald:
"Mary was hlt by an automobtle some
months ago, nnd alnce that tlme sho
haa not been able to lay any egga.
"Mary became despondent, and for
a week I have notlced a far-away lcok
ln hor oyos. She dldn't care about
her appearanco, and hor feathors were
loft uncombed. Flnnlly she began to
atarvo heraelf, and whon ahe could
not atand lt any longer ahe Just trled
aulcldo." 1
HUNTERS ' BATTLE WITH FIRE
Soclety Men and Women 8ee Fine
Realdence Deatrowed Near
Baltimore, Md,
Baltimore. Md. Wlthln a short dls
tance from Avalon inn, burncd to the
ground lato laat summer fhe homp of
M'ra. Frank Baldwln cnught flre nnd
waa destroyed. Tho estnte llea .tuit
west of Chattolanee and near Kcclps
ton atatlon. The bouso was onp of
the flneat in tho famous Green Sprlntj
Valloy, and very near the home ot
Walter Brooke. Jr.,
E. T. Stotesbury of PhlladVlDhlt The
damago wlll amount to' nbout J30 000
The flre was dlacovered In tho roof
of the houso by members of the
Green Bprlng Valloy Hunt club who
were Just Btartlng on a fox chns4.
Led by Homund C Stowart, a brother
of Plunkett Stewart of Phllndelphta,
tho members, Includlng soclety men
and women'. drove thelr horaea to the
sceno, and beBlde'a flghtlng the flamca
aaved nearly all the furnlture and
valuablo artlcles on the flrat and sec
ond floora.
Bobsled Cupld'al Ald. 1
New York. Cupld wi a mcmber '
of the part'y of forty youws nnd mem
bers from the fashlonabV sectlon of 1
the Bronx who went slelfehlng. When
the party returned fourfot Ita meio-
"DOPE" FIEND IN SHY
Qulck Wittcd and Dangcrous Per
sons Who Use Cocaino.
Many Are Sald to Have Becotne Ad
dlcted to the Hablt Through a Mere
Toothache -Eflorta Belng Mado
to Stamp Out Evll.
New York. DtBcloBures made be
fore the grand juries 6f Rlngs coun
ty recently and tnqulrioa at pollco
headquarterB reveul that the llllclt
bule of coculqo hus grown bo rapldly
durlng tho lust two years that lt Btands
ut the head ot the lUt ot drugs whlch
mo 80ld lllegally throughout tho clty.
ibe pollco record for J011 shows Uvo
arresta and threo convlctlons for aell
ing tho drug. Forty-threo lndlct
mtnta returned by the grand juries ln
urooklyn lu tho laBt two months and
26 caaea brought into court by Man
hattan detectlvos show that tho cru
sade agalnst the evll Is bearlng frult.
Two detectlvos who have been busy
runnlng down Ulegal selleru ot the
drug for the last suven or elght years
told recently of eccentrlcitlcs of the
vIctlmB. "It ls a strange thlng," sald
onq, "that more than two-thlrds of the
men who sell tho drug lllegally are
numbered among the vlctlms. Negroes
aro addlcted to tho hablt to a great
degree. ln fact, it waa In tho south
that the hablt of snulllng the drug
llrst camo to light. In Now Vork
clty there aro hundreds who have becotne-
vlctlms through a mere tooth
ache. "In runnlng down those who vlo
lated the penal code In selllng the
drug I havo "found the cocalne vlctlm
to be a qulck-wltted and dangerous
peraon. I recall one placo ln partlcu
lar ln lower Thlrd avonue, where I
took part ln a rald on a saloon, and
found four drug users. One had Bll
ver buckles on hls suspenders and
tho buckles were ln box form and
contalned gralns of the stuff. Another
had a seal rlng ,tho top of whlch
opened on a htnge and the Inslde was
fllled 'Wlth cocatno. I entcrcd a pool
room near1 Chatham square looklng
for cocalne and was sure that the
"white stuff" was sold on the prom
lses. I jiearched for several houra,
and flnaliy came upon Beveral books.
A hole' l'nto tho center of the leaves
about nn;lnch square was used as a de
poBltory for the drug. If tho 'hang
ers on"had notappcared Bo Btudlous,
I bellcve I would havo been comploto-
ly foolad."
The pbllce of the large cltlos, from
Matneto Callfornia, aro flghtlng tho
evll. In Phlladelphla, Plttoburg, Bal
timore. Denver, Salt. Lake Clty and
San Francjsco the lncreased salo ot
cocalne has made the pollco suspl
clous, and they are tryjng .to dlBcov
or the medlum through whlch the
drug reachcs tho undorworld, The
tompt&tlon to sell the drug lllegally
ls due to the enormoua proflt do-rivcd.-
The" avcrago cost of the drug nt
wliolesalo ls about $3 an ounce ,and
lt sells at the rato of $10 an ounce.
APPLAUSE MADE SHAW ANQRY
But a London -Audlence Wouldn't
Keep Qulet at Play Revived. at
Klngsway Theater.
London. Georgo BernnrcT Shaw'a
appeal to audlencos for "sobrlety'
was ln valn at tho flrst porformance
of hls play, "John Bull'8 Other Ib-,
land,' .whlch was rovlyed at tht
Klngsway theater. '
The. audlence trled to comply, but
the wlttlclsms of the play "were toc
much' for a majorlty of them and soll
tary guffaws more rapldly merged
into general roara.
Mr. Shaw appealed In advanco foi
the ceasatlon of applause and told
the people that thoy would get out Ot
the theater balfan hoiir earller II
they dld not npplaud untll the end
of tho play; "that if you laugh loudly
nnd ropeatedly for two hours you got
tlred and cross, and that you are aor
ry tho next mornlng that ybu dld not
stay home.
"Have you notlced." he wroto, "that
peoplo look very nlce when thpy
smlle or look pleased, but are shock
Ingly ugly when they roar with
laughter, shout oxcitedly or s'ob loud
ly, Wlll you thlnk mo very ungrate
ful and unklnd if I tell you that
though you canriot posslbly applaud
my plays too much at the fall of.the'
curtain. yet, tho moro you applaud
tho performance the moro nngry you
make mo?"
SEES WIFE, MIND RETURNS
Volce and Face of Woman Brlng
Memory Back to Resldent
of Elyrla, O,
Cle.velnnd Slght of hls wlfe'a fnce
nnd the sound of her volco brought
memory back to Shcrwood Anderson,
palnt mnnufncturer of Elyrla. O.. who
nppenred 'tho dny before ln a dnzed
condltlon nt the drug store of J. H.
Roblnson. No 785 East 152d atreot.
Ho tnlkert lncoherently nnd the
drugglst called a doctcr. who took tho
man to Huron Rond Hospltal, Thoro
bla ldentlty waa learned.
He had dlsappcared from hls home
four days ago and had been wander
lng over slnce Hls. wlfe, who has
beon searchlng for hlm, hurrled to
Cleveland. Tho doctors say hla con
dltlon ls the result of ovorwork
Celebrate Nlnety-Fourth Dlrthday.
Bnbylon, N. Y Samuel and Wll.
llam Muncy, reparded aB the world's
oldcst twlns. ce!"bratcd thelr nlnoty-
MORE SCH00LS IN RUSSIA
Czar's Pollcy Glvea Impetirt to Popu
lar Educatlon Blg Qaln In Laat
Flfteen Years.
St. Petcrsburg. Popular educatlon
ln RuBsla ia maklng rapld strides In
advance; so much bo that tho next
atatlstics of peoplo who can nolther
road nor wrlto, not long ago offlclally
estlmated at 60 per cent. of the total
populatlon, wlll cortainly lndlcato a
notablo dccrease. In the last flfteon
ycara publtc Inatructlon haB lmmonao
ly Improvcd.
The existlng aystom of stnto schools
was founded In the secoad half of
tho nlnetoenth contury, when tho
edlct of tho abolltlon ot sorfdom ap
peared. Untll the year 1860 Russla
only had 4,077 publlc schoolB. Whon,
ln 18C4, the zemstvoa wero cstab
llsbed, tho number of schools ln
creased rapldly and nt tho ond of the
Blxtles there woro tn Russla 22,770
schools wlth 1,140,915 puplls.
Under Alexander III. popular edu
catlon made further advanccs, and at
the end of hls rolgn tho number of
schools had reached 43,285 with 2,
970,000 puplls. Under tho presont
czar educatlonaj matters have re
celvod lncreased attcntlon. Thus the
schools opened by tho zemBtvos woro
granted a Btato subsldy of $190 for
ovory flfty puplls, whilo tho toachors
got Increases ln salary.
At tho present tlmo there nre ln
Russla 100,295 olomentary Bchools and
6,180,510 puplls. Of theso schools
50,910 havo beon opened undor tho
relgn of Nlcholas II., tho prcsent czar.
In the snmo perled the .number of ln
dustrlal schools has TfBen from 1,233
I to 2,748. A teacher ln tho Btate
schools now beglns on a salary of $172
a year. After flvq years ho drawa
$200, after ten years $220 nnd the
maximum ls only $270 a year. , 1
JEZREEL TEMPLE IS FOR SALE
Famous as Home of Engllsh 8ect
Whlch Put'Ban on Barbera Found
er Sald He Would Llve Forever.
London, England. The famoua Jez-
reel temple nt Chatham has been qf
fered for sale. Tho bulldlng, whlch is 1
a consplcuous landmark, was begun .
In 1S82 by a Brltish solder named
White, who, after an attack of sun
stroko ln Indla, proclalmcd hlmself
tho propher of a now rellglon and
, adopted the name of "Jamos Hershon
Jezreel."
An artlclo of the new falth. was
. that none of its disciples should vlslt
I a barber, and the Jezreelites rapld
( ly became known n the .Iocality and
Duyonu iu -jezroer gamoreu nun
dreds of followers and organlzed a
little colony of fnrms and workshops,
out of whlch ho made a fortune. Ho
begnn the constructlon of tho temple
with tho objcct of accbmmodatlng
5,000 of the falthful of tho 144,000 who
wero to bo savcd when tho end of
tho world camo.
He promised hla followers that he
would llvtf forever, but ho dled before
the tower waB flnUned. It remalna
' unflnlshod today deaplte tho fact that
over $200,000 waB enont on lt. Tho
bulldlner ramalnrtd unnorlinlnil imtll '
1906, when lt was taken by an Amerl
can named Mllls, who adopted tbo tl
tle of "Prlnco Mlchael," and proclulm
ed hltnself the successor pf -"Jezreol."
About threo yoatB ago "Prlnco MI
chael's followers wore evlctod, hav
lng failcd to pay the rent to the own
or, a contractor who had taken ovor
tho bulldlng on tho death ot "Jez
reel." FURS IN SPITE 0F WARMTH
Parlslan Women Have Separato 8ets
for Different Occaslona Durlng
the Day.
'Parls. Dcsplte the mlldness of, the
wlnter, Pnrlslans havo never worn
BUch a wcalth of furs as are now dis
played by those who can afford them.
Women keep soparato sets'of'fuvs for
mornlng, afternoon and ovenlng wear.
Before noon astrachan is worn. When
madamo goes shopplng or mnkes calta
ln tho1 afternoon sho p'refjjrs mlnt or
skunk. In the evenlng she has a de
collotto' costumo llghtly trlmmed' wlth
ormlno, whlto fox or chlnchllla.
Tho comploxlon of tho wearer must
bo taken Into nccount, for, whlle I
southern boautles enjoy tho advan- I
tage 'of looklng woll ln all kinds of
furs, tho womnn with fair halr looks
bost ln bluo fox, moleskln or some
grny fur. Chestnut hnlr harmonlzes
wlth skunk, whilo ottor goes wlth
auburn trcssos.
MAGNET HAD DEATH GRIP
Laborer Carrying a Steel Plato Waa'
Plcked Up and Dropped by
Powerful Machlne.
Plttaburgh, Pa. Whilo carrying a
steel plate ncross tho mlll yard at
tho Amberg plant Joseph Stedler, 33
years old, got wlthln tho zone ot ln
fluencQ of a powerful magnet whlch
was unloadlng acrap- lron from a
frolgh'- car. 1
The magnet suddenly drew upward
tho plate whlch tcdler had on hla
shoulder, and to whlch ho held ftfjht- '
ly. When tho workman's feet left
the ground ho yollod. Tho man con-
trolllng tho magnet ahut off1 the, cur-'
rent. The steel plate dropped. with
Stedler undcrneath. Ho waa cruahed
bo Bovercly that ha dled nn hour Inter
In tho Alleghony General Hospltal.
Planned to Rob Squlrrels.
Chlcago Barnard Rogcrs, a ragged
etght-year-old boy waa found ln a Chl
cago oark watchlng aqulrrola burylng
peanuta anu pianning to stoal thelr
NO PLACEFOB PQOB
Mlning at Dawson Availabls'Onty
to Men With Big CapitaL
Ploneer 3ya There Aro SectloM .
tho Yukon That Hve Not Yat
Boen Scratched by
Proapector.
New York. Henry Plnkiert, ho
uaed to be a morchant ln San Frsua
claco and went to the Klondlke Ia
1897, and haa been ln bualnesa la er
around Dawaon Clty ever slnce, ar
rlved recently at tho Brealln. He aaya
thero aro no mlning opportunitlea ia
tho tmmedlato nelghborhood of Daw-aon,-
oxcopt for men and compaaleii
wlth blg capital.
"Dawson Is not growInB," aald Mr.
Plnkiert "in the early. daya there
woro all klnda of mlntng rlght thero
on tho ground for tho indlvldual, but
now. for a radlua of about 50 mllea
around the town, the torrltory. te ao
worked, out that only blg corporatloaa
can make money worklng it, and tbeae
have takon up a great .deal ot tha
land. Tho blggest operationa Im. the
nelghborhood nre belng carrled on by
a South Afrlcan cbmpany, whlch bw&fl
or practlcally- controla all the clalma
wlthln that 50-mlle radlua that tho
Guggonhelma do not controL
"In the daya of tho gold ruih a man
would atako hla clalm, whlch would
run 500 feet The moment he got
that worked down to low grade be
was up agalnst a proposltlon that re
qulred drodgoa and hydraullo a
chinery to work on a profltablo baals.
Tho majorlty of amall claimholdera
Bold out, and aome gave optlooa. X
fow are atlll holdlng out for thelr
pricca. The government glves a man
the. rlght to hold hla clalm so long; aa
$200 worth of work ia done on lt lri a
year.
"But the altuatlon at Dawson doea
not end the Klondlke for the proapee
tor by any meana. I ahould aay that
part of Yukon terrltory Ib atlll in Ita
lnfancy as a gold producer, ln aplte
of tho mllltbna that havo boen taken
out. The great dlfflculty haB beea
gettlng Into tho interlor. Small boata
go up the Btreama now for hundroda.of
mlles, but stlll thero aro regiona prac
tlcally unproBpected. In tho paat few
years the Canadlan government haa
hejped transportatlon by aubaldlxlnc
theso cratt, and thls makea it posalbla
for mtnera to carry up thelr grub ln.
the fall and contlnue thelr work tn
the wlnter, In my-oplnlon, one of
theso days wo shall hear of dlscoveries
up thero that will mako tho Klondlke
flnds seem lnslgnlflcant. From Daw
son to White Horso it is 410 mlles and
there are'numerous regiona on botb
aidea of tho wny.that nover have been
prospected,
"Wo lost a lot of prospoctorB elght
or nlne years ago. They went orer,
tho border Into Alaska, whero they
seem to havo dono well. These lnclud
ed aome of the best of our proapeotora.
Stlll about 250 men nre worklng on
Scrdgg'B creek thls wlnter. They
take out the frozen soll by thawing.
wlth ateam and uslng plckaxes, pllo lt
up and then put It ln the sluico boxes
for wasbtng ln summer.
"Dre'dgeB are now worklng longer ln .
tho nelghborhood of Dawaon than
used to be posslble. Of courso, you
cannot work a dredge ln.winter unleaa
you bolL.the "water about lt, to keep lt
from freezlng. Tho dredge haa to be 9
turned around lh order to be uaed.
Before they got to dolng thla a dredgo
could not start to work untll Juno 15,
and lt had to ahut down ln September.
Now It can begln work May 1 and
contlnue untll the end of the ydar.
"Commerclolly, thero ls nothlng do
lng ln Dawson. Stlll, tho bualnesa peo
plo there are in flno condltlon.
"Tbo danco hall eloment and all the
undealrablo part of thq former popula
tlon of iDawson havo boen weoded
out," added Mr. Plnkiert, "and today
the town la aa clean aa any ln the
world."
PARROT FA1LS AS WATCHD0G,
Polly Couldn't Call "Burglaral Bur- v'
gtarsl" and Now Llea Dead at -Allentown,
Pa.
Allentown, Pa. Burglarn entered
the homo ot Thomaa Stern, and boforo
attemptlng to rob the houso took
the precautlon to atrangle the famlly
parrot, whlch tho Sterna had tnatalled
aa a wa'tchdog, bellovlng the bird to"
bo better than any canine aa a guard
ian of the famlly at nlght Tho
Sterna, however, neglected to teacti
Polly to aqueak "BurglarBl Burglaraj"
ln, the nlght members of tho Stern
famlly heard Polly yell "Maggle, Mag
gie," and. then all was qulet Thoy
thought Polly waa dreamlng and pald
no attentlon to the calls.
In the mornlng Polly waa' found
doad ln tho yard. The burglars had
taken, the famlly Jewelry at thelr
lelBuro. j v
PR0VIDES rOR HIS SHAFT
Wlll of Georgo H. Valentlne, Manu
facturer of Clgara, Flled at
Reading.
Reading. Pa. The wlU of tho late
George H. Valentlne, wbo pperatad
clgar faotorlea tn Phlladelphla, Wora
elsdorf and clsowherj waa flled for
probato in court horeU The entlra
estato ot about $200,000 goes ta th
eon, H Leroy Valentlno. wlth tho ex
ception of $1,000, whlch la td be ia
veated for tbo uso of the Wombladorf
Ccmetery Company, and to keep tha
decedent's monument ln ropaJft TImi
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