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MALHEUTl ENTERPRISE. BELGIAN KING DYING Mind Remains Clear, Condition Is Practically Hopeless. MAY OPERATE AS LAST RESORT Dying Monarch Calmly Makes Will, Receives Sacrament and Bids Farewell to All. Brussels, Doc. 14. At 5 o'clock this morning the condition of King Leopold was unchanged. Brussels, Dec. 13. Leopold II, king of the Belgians, tonight is making a desperate effort for his life, and the odds are strongly against the aged mo mi rch. , As a last resort, the surgeon's knife Hill le tried tomorrow. If the opera tion is successful, King Leopold may live. If it fails, the end is inevitable, .All will depend on the king's strength and vitality, which aro ebbing fast. Rheumatism has already conquered the aged and wasted frame. Dropsy has developed, and an obstruction of , the intestines, which must be removed, lias greatly aggravated his condition. The general opinion is that the king will not survive the operation. Indeed he may die at any moment. The mon arch is rather optimistic, and today 'exclaimed to his physician: "Operate, and the sooner the bet ter." But he added with a wan, wist ful smile: "I'erhaps, doctor, the long, long jour , ney is at hand." King Leopold is still as lucid of in tellect as ever. This masterful mind, which conceived and carried out the gi- gantic Congo project and roused the whole world into bitter indictment and discussion, calmly directed what seems to be the final chapter in his spectacu lar career. The picture was pathetic enough. Separated from his two eldest daugh ters by a tragic skein of events, with scandal of his own personal life whis pered by every tongue, Leopold lay tonight in "The Balms," a little pa vilion of six rooms, close to the great Lacken attended by his faithful daugh ter Drincess Clementine, Crown Prince Albert and the royal household. The day was a mixture of anxiety, hope and despair. As his strength failed the king, his chaplain, an aged priest with tears wetting his cheeks, ... approached the bed to hear the king's confession and administer communion and extreme unction. In the morning the king, assisted by a notary and so licitors, settled his private affairs. To Count Oultremont, marshal of the court, his majesty said: " Vou have served me well for more than L'O years. I am grateful. Before I die, I want to tell you so and give you my thanks." The king then summoned Frincess Clementine, whom he kissed several times, telling her not to cry. She was led fainting from the room. Other rela tives followed. Subsequently he received the papal ' nuncio, who brought the benediction of the holy father, and the Spanish min- i. ister. The mayor of Brussels came to the caslle as the bearer of the good ' wishes of the people of Brussels, and to express the popular hope that his majesty would recover, but the king was too tired to receive him. AMERICAN MEAT SHUT OUT. German Conservatives Strongly Oppose Tariff Concessions.. Berlin, Pec. 13. In the conservative party convention today at Berlin, Count Sehwerin Leewitz, one of the most prominent agrarian members of the reichstag, took strong ground against Germany's making concessions on American meats in order to secure bet ter tariff rates. "The higher duties in the new tar iff," he said, "are especially unfavor able to Gerinany, but German agricul ture is practically concerned about the question whether the German conven tional tariff will be accepted again by Americans without something equiva lent in the way of concessions, because of the fear in agricultural circles that the federal government might make the provisions for the American meat im ports adopted for the protection of the health of our people and today more necessary than ever the subject of commercial treaty negotiations. This fear I regard as unfounded, in view of the 'certain information which has been conveyed to me. "Such a thing I would expect even less from the present chancellor than from his predecessor. He values too highly the interests of our public health and it too just toward our Ger man livestock growers to do such a thing. Moreover, the chancellor knows too well the sentiments of the country and the great majority of the reichs tag." BREEDING IS ALL PROFIT. FERRY BOAT IS LOST MOVING PICTURE OF MURDER Big Steamer and Crew of 32 Is Five Days Overdue. WENT DOWN IN LAKE ERIE STORM Ship Wat Valued at $360,000 and Cargo of Loaded Freight Cart at About $40,000. SEVEN DIE IN FIRE. Cincinnati Tenement House Scene of Fatal Panic. Cincinnati, Dec. 14. Two women, two men and three children lost their lives and seven other persons were seriously injured in a tenement fire at Third and Sycamore streets, which broke out at midnight. Three of the dead were burned to cinders. The frenzied inmates gathered in the windows and climbed to the roof whence they jumped into blankets. Six men fled to the roof, where fire men had to use force to prevent them from virtually committing suicide by jumping to tho street. A woman, clasping her 8-year-old son in her r.rnis, jumped from a third -floor window. Both were instantly killed. Dwellers in tho tenement were so overwhelmed by panic that some rushed headlong into the flames. The fire was extinguished with slight trouble with a total loss of about $25,000. Ruin as Governor Snaps. Camus, Wash., Dec. 14. The governor on one of the high-speed engines used for running a dynamo at the Crown Columbia paper mill broke about noon today, causing the engine to tear it self to pieces. One large piece of the flywheel wont up through the second floor, tearing out heavy timbers and seriously injuring Sam McKever, who was working on a papor machine on the second floor. One paper machine was also badly wrecked. Several men were near the engine wh-en the accident happened, but were not injured. Part of the mill is shut down for repairs. $206,9'J0 Theft Exposed. St. Petersburg, Dec. 14. Members of the Duma have introduced an interpel lation in regard to the recently dis covered thefts of government bond cou pons presented for redemption com mitted by employe of the state bank and of the controller department act ing in collusion. Thefts amounting to Jik,!ioo have been established, but it is known the total amount is several times greater, the criminals having for several years taken large quantities of canceled coupons from bundles about to be burned. Paper to Be Devoted to Enrichment Through Better Stock. Omaha, Dec. 13. Willett M. Hays, assistant secretary of agriculture, with his associates, will start a magazine devoted to the scientific breeding of plants and animals. A new department has been organized in the American Breeders' association to study the heredity in man, and David Starr Jor dan will head the work and conduct this department in the magazine. This was decided at the closing meet ing of the American Breeders' associa tion today, when 1200 new members were obtained and the organization voted to ask manufacturing, commer cial and transportation interests desir ing nn increase in farm products to provide the association with sufficient funds to put the publication on a busi ness basis at once. Assistant Secretary Hays, of the Breeders' association, said: "We have at least induced the public to believe that a billion dollars can be added to our plant and animal products by scientific breeding. Another billion can be added by bringing more acres under cultivation and adding fertilizers. "The scientifict fact, however, is that the billion added by breeding will be almost all profit, while the increase from more and better farming will cost $900,000,000." ST. CROIX OIL SOAKED. Former Engineer on Burned Craft Tes tifies Tanks Leaked. San Francisco, Dec. 11. That the fuel oil tanks of the steamer St. Croix, which was destroyed by fire off the coast of southern California, leaked badly and allowed seven barrels of oil to ooze into the bilge during one trip, was the statement made today to the federal inspectors by John D. Druillard, formerly first assistant engineer of the burned craft. Druillard was not on the St. Croix at the time of the disaster. He stated that the condition of the vessel was such that he did not care to go to sea aboard of her, and left the employ ment of the company after making his fourth trip. Druillard said he discovered the con dition of the tanks and reported it to Chief Kngineer Doe, who ordered that they be loaded only to the point where the leaks were located. This order was later countermanded by Captain Warner, according to the witness, and tho tanks filled to the top. The wit ness stated that he measured the oil in the hold, and found it was several inches deep. From this he computed the total leakage at 7 barrels. Or ders were issued against open lights below decks, but Druillard said that he twice found lamps burning and threw them overboard. Druillard believed that a lighted cig arette might have been thrown down a ventilator by a passenger and caused the fire. The inquiry closed today. Editor's Home Dynamited. St. Louis, Dec. 13. The residence of Harry B. Wandell, city editor of the St. Louis Star, was dynamited early this morning. The front door and windows were blown out. A man was seen run ning awav from the house. No person was injured, Recently Wandell was slugged as he was entering the Star building. A note shoved under the door and found after the explosion, read: "H. W, D. Be careful; next time under your chair." Twenty minutes after the explosion Wandell collapsed and was put under the care of a physician. Detroit, Mich., Dec. 11. All hope that the car ferry Ma.rquet & Bessemer No. 2 outlived the wintry fate that has mado Lake Erie a watery graveyard in the lust 70 hours has been practically abandoned at the head offices of the Marquette & Bessemer Dock & Navi gation company, owners of the vessel. It is believed that Captain R. It. Mc- Leod of Conneaut, and his crew of 31 men, have gone down with the steamer. The Marquette & Bessemer No. 2 left Conneaut, Ohio, at 10:23 o'clock Tues day morning for Port Stanley, Ont., with 30 loaded cars and, under ordinary conditions, should have reached her destination at 3 o'clock that after noon. She has not been sighted by other boats. An empty green yawlboat and some wreckage was seen by the steamer W. B. Davick, near Long Point, Ont. Yawlboats of the No. 2 are painted green. The Marquette & Bessemer No. 1 left Conneaut at 6 o'clock Tuesday for Port Stanley and it was 60 hours before she was heard from. She has since searched the lake toward Point relec, but has found nothing of her sister ship. Tugs have scoured the lake and report no trace of the No. 2. The Marquette & Bessemer No. 2 was valued at $350,000 and the carg. at more than $40,000. She was built ii Cleveland in 1905. The boat is operated by the Pore Marquette and the Besse mer & Lake Erie roads. Film 600 Feet Long Depicts Tragedy of Ito at Harbin. Victoria B. C, Dec. 10. A moving picture of the assassination of Trince Ito at Harbin is to be used in the trial of tho Corean assassin, accord ing to advices brought by the steamer Kaga Maru today. When Prince Ito was meeting M. Kokovostaff, the Russian minister of finance, a Russian cinematograph pho tographer had prepared to make mov ing pictures of the meeting and took the scenes attendant upon the assassi nation of Prince Ito. When the Jap anese officials learned that the pic tures of the tragedy were successful, they obtained a film 500 feet long, and this will be shown in court at the trial of the assassin. Another set of the film will be exhibited in Japan. Chinese newspapers fear that the death of Prince Ito will result in a changed policy of Japan toward China, owing to the military party being brought to power with the passing of Ito as head of the civil party. The COOK BOUGHT PROOF BUST AT OVERAMMERQAU. j V70MEJI OF THE ARCTIC CIRCLIL Already PreparlnaT for the Prescata Ion uf tfc I'uaaloa Vlmy, Oberammergau Is already busy with prtparatlons tor the periorniance ot tablae Mil, froaa So-Called Civil laatloa Horn of Happlneas, Every spring hundreds of brldua Remarkable Story Sworn To by the passion play, which will take place 'young women go north, with more or uexi year, a jLonaon leuer 10 me .New iess trepidation, to bo married, so that Vorx Sun says. Thirty dates have the number of home In the neighbor been fixed between May 16 and Sopt.'hood of the arctic circle grow larger 26, of which nineteen are Sundays, each year. Frances Sterrett saya in tho Extra performances are sometimes glv- Housekeeper. The trepidation only cn on Mondays, wncn mere are more lasts while the brides are "cheechalk people in the village on the preceding os,", or tenderfeet After they have Brooklyn Men. CAPTAIN MADE "OBSERVATIONS' Mat Promised $5,000 for Manufac turing Records and Instruct . Ing Cook What to Say. ANDRE'S BALLOON FOUND. Boys' Play Proves Fatal Los Angeles, Dee. It. Wesley Haughtelin, 11 years old, died early to day as the result of a schoolboy en counter yesterday over a game of mar bles. According to statements of otter boys, Haughtelin became involved in an argumeut with Truman Flint, a 15 year did lad. Their dispute led to blow, and a rough-and tumble fiabt. W. E. Haughtelin, father of the lad, and attempt to secure indictment of cue Arbitration Will Begin. Chicago, Dec. 13. Negotiations be tween the railroads conference commit tee, representing the General Managers' association, and the switchmen's com mittee will begin in Chicago on Mon day, according to an unauthorized state ment issued here today by the General Managers' association. Interstate Com merce Commissioner Knapp and Labor Commissioner Neill on Monday will take also the dispute between the Illinois Central railroad and its telegraphers, who have asked for an increase of 10 per cent in wages. Sutton Case Is Up Again. Washington, Dec. 13. The Sutton ease is to be revived. Mrs. Rosa B. Sutton, mother of Lieutenant James N. Sutton, who died at Annapolis under peculiar circumstances, is preparing, with her attorney!, to go before the Maryland grand jurr when its sessions are resumed in Baltimore next month Party Met Death in Fight With Eskimo Tribes of North. Winnipeg, Manitoba, Dec. 11. Bishop Pnscal, who has charge of the diocese of Prince Albert, which em braces the sub-Arctic country to the north of that city, brings back with him a story of the finding of traces of a balloon in which S. A. Andre, Swed ish explorer, attempted to drift across to the North Pole. One of Bishop Pascal 's missionaries reported to him that, while working among the Eskimos of tho Arctic re gion, lie met a tribe wuicu had some of the plunder of tho party with them. Those natives had in their possession a qnantity of rope of a quality which they could not get in a barker from ships which enter the Arctic Sea. When questioned the Eskimos told that many years before they had come across two white men who came down out of the sky in a "white house." These men had afterward starved to death, and the natives had seized upon the balloon, the cordage of which they converted to their uses. Bishop Pascal instructed the mission ary to return and get further details. A Hudson s Bay factor has the same report in a somewhat different form. His story is continued lrom tbe Lon don ollicc of the company, where it was sent in ofiicial dispatches. Accord ing to the factor, an Indian arrived at his post on tho Upper Churchill in 1!)00 from an extended trapping and trading trip along tho borders of the Arctic in northern Canada, Tho Indian told of having met a party of Eskimos who had been hunt ing on one of the islands of the Arctic ocean, and one day they behold a pe culiar apparition in the sky. When it finally landed, three men stepped out. They started to approach the na tives, who were in a state of terror and made hostile, demonstrations. One of the white men fired a gun and a fight followed in which the natives were victorious, killing all three of tbe wanderers. New York, Dec. P. The New York Times presents tomorrow the remark able narratives of two men, made under oath, declaring that thev wore employed by Dr. Frederick A. Cook to fabricate astronomical observations for submis sion to tho university of Copenhagen, winch is about to pass upon Dr. look's Pekin Times says that, whilo Ito re-1 assertion that he discovered the north f rained from making coups to boost P"'1 n April --1, jwuk. his personal ambitious, his successors These men are Cenrge H. Dunkle, an are likelv to bo acirressive. and China insurance broker of New York, and mav suffer the couseouence. i Captain August Wedell Loose, a sea I captain of Brooklyn. For their labors . , . thev were to have received lointlv from COPENHAGEN STANDS BY COOK nr rooU $4()00, with an additional , . . . I bonus of toOO to Captain Loose upon Pure Fiction. Copenhagen, Dec. 10. Dr. Torp, rec tor of the University of Copenhagen, said tonight that the charges pub lished in the New York Times against Dr. Frederick A. Cook are based on pure fiction. Nevertheless, he added, he would accept the offer to examine tho documents prepared by Loose and Dunkle which the Times has agreed to send to Copenhagen. Walter Lonsdale, secretary to' Dr. Cook, who brought tho explorer's rec ords to Copenhagen, also declared that accusations publishod in New York and London against Dr. Cook were totally unfounded. He said that the papers delivered to tho University of Copenhagen contained the original ob servations mado by Dr. Cook on the trip, without alteration. Mr. Lonsdalo said the explorer's re port was founded on these nud dic tated by Dr. Cook to him, no other person having anything to lo with it. Loose and Duukle, Mr. Lonsdale added, were guests at tho Waldorf Astoria when Dr. Cook was there, but tbe explorer's acquaintance with them was slight. MINE VERDICT REFUSED. the acceptance of the records by the university of Copenhagen. They say that Dr. Cook had paid them only $200 when he disappeared on the eve of the dispatch of his "records ' to Copen hagen, two weeks ago. Tho Times has followed the steps do scribed by these two men, and has veri fied their goings nnd comings, their purchases of books and charts, and the fact of their intimate relations with Dr. Conk. The full narratives of Captain Loose and Mr. Dunkle constitute one of the most fascinating chapters in tho litera ture of imposture. Captain Loose frankly expresses his scorn of Dr. Cook's claims, laughs at his ignorance of the simplest essentials for accurate observations in the Arctic regions, and describes at length how, working back ward from tho pole, he calculated ob servations that would fit in with Cook's narrative, and coached him on the neces sary modifications of the latter as, for example, that ho must be sure to record that he rose before 4:1." o'clock on a certain morning, because it was at that hour that a certain star mentioned in one of Loose's calculations would bo visible. Mr. Dunkle describes the inception of ho enterprise; how from the newspapers they gathered that Dr. Cook was in deep water, and inferred that ho would be glad to pay for help; how Dunkle got John R. Bradley, Cook's backer, to introduce him, how the subject was led up to delicntelv and the bargain finally struck nnd carried out, and how at. last v ook disappeared Officials Scored for Laxity in Search for Witnesses. Cherry( Dec. 10. -Tlic Juquiry of the coroner's jury into the St. Paul mine disaster, in which 300. men wore killed, came to an abrupt close today I sihfj. without a verdict being reached. One chart covering route from The jury announced it would not ! "vnrtevaag to the pole, with all of Dr Sundays than can find places In the theater. The great problem "of the passion play committee is to prevent the per formances from, degenerating into commercialism. The play commemor- tes the departure of the plague from :he village In 1633 and the devoutne3S f the actors Is no less now than it bos ever been; but already this au tumn agents have canvassed the en tire village to buy up sleeping aceom Diodatlons for next summer and prices liavo been offered for single rooms slilch have almost turned the heads it the peasants. No one can witness the passion play who has not spent the previous night in the village itself. Every house is registered as possessing a certain amount of sleeping accommodations, and the total number of beds in the village Is approximately the number Ot seats in the theater 4,200. One third of the beds in each house must he placed at the disposal of the local official lodging bureau. The house holders may make their own terms for be other beds, with a maximum hare rigidly fixed by the committee. Three great tourist offices of Ixin- don, Berlin and Munich have secured certain number of .beds for the light betore each performance. Many ot the villagers are reserving accommo dations for visitors of 1900 to -vhom they are pledged and whom they re gard as friends. The burgomaster, Herr Buuer, has promised all his available beds to an English woman, who has taken a vl!l:i at Oarnilsch, twelve miles away, and will convey her guests to the village in a motor car, She has already re ceived 200 applications for the .iccom mod itlon. Tne large firms of tourist ngeuts have already about 3,000 appllcat'ons and the local bureau Is receiving scores dally. Offers of $6 and 7 a night for convertible sitting rooms, which the villagers would gladly let in ordinary seasons for 25 cents a day, are being made by agents, but such speculative offers have no chance ot aeceptan.-e. Anton Lang, who will be the Chrls tus, as In 1900, Is now 35. Since the last performance he has married a watched the ice go out and are real "sour doughs," they want no sympathy because fats sent them to a country where coal Is $30 & ton and lemous a dollar a dozen. You cannot find an Alaskan who will find fault with Al aska, and so, as every one Is satisfied. the mining camps at Dawson, Fair banks and Nome, or the cabins out along the creeks, miles and miles from what we call civilization, hold only happy housekeepers, women who know more about canned goods and what can be dons with a tin of beans than any body on either continent. Everything that comes to their doors is canned, milk, eggs and potatoes, as well as tbe vegetables that we all use. In the larger camps fresh vegetables are brought In by steamer In the sum mer, until the shops bloom with a wealth of succulent green things, but only the anecdotes of these delicacies reach "the creeks." The gardens at Dawson are famous, for almost any vegetable will grow If the housewife will bother to plant It Although tho eason Is so short the sun Shines night and day and the cabbage keeps ths same working hours. Condensed milk Is the arctic house keeper's stand-by and you would not believe how much was used unless you aw the pile of empty tins. Every woman has to learn to make muffins and rnka all over attain until BhO knows Just the proportions ot milk and water that will produce the light and feathery result. Canned eggs offer a similar course ot study and so do tinned potatoes to the woman who must serve three palatable meals a day from canned or dried foods. ' It Is a wild, free life these arctic women live. They know how to shoot and can keep the larder replenished when the men are busy. The.can also take a big pan of pay gravel and wash. It until the specks of gold are tree from dirt. In their fur parki and muckluks they can trot beside the do sled on the winter trail and when, the Journey of several hundred miles Is over they can play Mendelssohn or Chopin on the piano that takes up half the room in the little cabin. "We never sleep," declared a happy arctic hniiaabswner "In tha anmmer It Captain Loose asserts that he supplied Dr. Cook with: Iwontvfour altitudes for latitude consider returning a verdict until Alexander Rosenjack and Robert Deane, missing witnesses, either had bcon found or county oflicials showed evidence of a genuine desire to find them. The hearing adjourned to De cember 20 to give officials an oppor tunity to search for witnesses. John Hand, a miner, who was among the first to enter tho mine tho day following the disaster, testified that he heard signals from entombed min ers, but that ho could get no help f loin oflicials or experts to whom he told his story. The miner said he was standing at the top of the shaft when he heard repeated tappings that could have been caused by nothing but tho picks of the entombed men. Eagle Carries Trap Far. Sacramento, Cal., Dec. 11. Last week an eagle was killed at Ellison ranch, near Edgewood, in the upper part of Siskiyou county, and on one of its feet was attached a No. 3 steel trap. It has just been learned that on Novem ber 22 an eagle got into a No. 3 steel trap belonging to N. Greenslate of Plymouth, Amador county, and carried the trap away with it. It is believed the eagle killed at Edgewood, which is just about 300 miles from Plymouth, in an air line, is the same that carried off Mr. GreenHlate's trap about ten d'iys before. 7 Long Walk Safely Made. Denver, Dec. 10. Miss Arizona Owens, who completed her 433-mile walk from Shoshone, Wyo., to Denver last night at 7:30 o'clock, appears little the worse this morning for her experience with an almost continuous blizzard during her 10-day trip. "To make a living," is Miss Owens' ex planation for tho unusual journey, which sho says was made on a wager that she could accomplish the feat in 17 days. Miss Owens, who is small and almost frail, has walked long dis tances before. Cook's assumed positions marked upon it. Complete observations for time and chronometer r;rte, as thev might have been taken by stars at Anoratok nnd Svartevaag, probably .'10 in all. Diagrams for compass error and cor rection at different points. Calculations for longitude, about 20 in all. Sixteen observations as they could have been taken at the north pule, in two sets, eight with depression of polo considered and eight with depression ignored. "It took me only about three min utes on my first acquaintance with Dr. Cook," says Captain Loose, "to get the idea into my head that he had never found the north pole. 1 found that he was entirely ignorant on many vital points of the method of taking observations." (pretty young woman and they h:ive a light (or twenty-four hours and It I uiree cnuaren. jib is ami a huihiib riot worth While to go 10 Dea, ana mi potter, and his little shop Is con-1 toe winter when it Is dark for twenty stantly Invaded by visitors. He four hours, we have to be doing things; played Chitstus In 1905 In a apeelal t0 f0rget the darkness, so there is no piny on the history of David, and his cnance to sleep." wife complains that he often spent five j But whether they sleep or not they look fresh and untagged like the days they go forth so Joyously to meet. ayi death was the result of an aeci dent, and taut be Will not projecute joui.g Flint. Siceuttfle Data Burned. I.oi Angeles, Dee. 14 Tbe "Moa- aM.rv," the home of the srirutlstt Sd or more of LU-ut.-natit Sutton's fellow officers who figured In the Annapolis inquiry lat summer. Oldest Oddfellow Dead. Bangor, Me., Dee. 13 I'blneas Barh elder, said to have b-ru I tin oldest infill Defer Excursion to China. San Francisco, Dec, 11. The excur sion to China of delegates from tbe various Chambers of Commerce and other commercial bodies of the Pacific coast, which was to have started from this port on February 8 next, has been postponed until September at the re quest of the Chinese Chambers of Com merce. The reasons for asking tho postponement are that in September a great industrial exposition will be held in Nanking, which it is desired tbe visitors should see, and also because ( or the better eumaue conumons. Annual Orgy Squelched. Chicago, Dec. 10. Protests from '"''Wi civic, organizations, charity workers and citizens against the an nual "FirHt ward ball," which, in other years has been described as an orgy, hail its effect hero today when Alderman John Coughlin announced there would be no ball and that a concert would bo given in its stead No drinking or dancing will be al lowed at the concert. Mayor Bussn said today that ho had received let ters threatening that his houso would bo blown up if he did not prohibit the ball. Farm Hires Professor. Pullman, Wash., Dec. 9. The nevtf position accepted by Professor George Severance, whoso resignation as pro fessor of agriculture in Washington State college was handed in yesterday, is responsible and unique. lie will bo general superintendent for tlnee large farms in British Columbia between Lothbridgn and the Montana state line. There aro 1.1,000 acres in the three farms, which lie within 10 miles of each other, but he country is level ami roads are good, and Mr, Severance will havo an automobile. hours a day signing photographs. All profits from the sale of sea's will be administered by the committee for tho benefit of the village as usu.il. The actors are only nominally compensat ed. For them It Is a labor of love aid devotion. It Is expected that about 200,000 per sons will go to the play next year, in ?li'dlng fully 40,000 English and Amer icans. RESOURCES OF SIBERIA. Sailor's Oral Will Filed. New York, Dec. 0. An unusual for mality, tho probaling of an oral will, took place in surrogate court in Kings county today. It was that of Georgo O'Connor, who at the time of making it was two days out of port. O'Connor was dying, and when the ruptain and mate asked if they could do anything for hinij he replied: " N'o, except that everything I have belongs to my daugh ter, Lizzie." That was O'Connor's will, and it was proved today by tho two seafaring men. The. right to nmkn an oral will is only accorded soldiers in the field or sailors at sea. Goodwin Back to Stage. Los Angeles, Dec. 10. Nat Goodwin and his bride, who was Edna Good rich, today announced that they would return to the stage in three months, but would appear in different plays. Steel Firm Not Ouilty. Boston, Dec. 9 Thirl v three Ameri can steel firms and individual agents for thti aleel companies were found not guilty of collusive biildini for citv steel Unostentatiously Mr. and Mrs. Good-1 contractu in the superior court today. win slipped into Los Angeles a few , I he chho was the outcome of a report days ago and betook themselves to ' of the fiiiniire couiinikion two years their winter home in Santa Monica. I ago. The commission declared inany Goodwin will appear in "An Old New I steel companies hud eombiued to main- lorKer three mouths hence. Mrs. tain prices by perm it tin it one of tho Goodwin's appearance will be made at about the same time Mrs. Nation Wields Orip. Washiagtci, Dec. 9. Mrs. Carrie Nation, who came here to keep her eye on congress, went into the buffet of the I'.. : -.. .l:.. ... I i limn naiion inn anernnon, ani, wun her satchel, smashed about .Vi worth firms in the combination to submit bids for steel work in the city of Boston. The rvport created a sensation, and was quoted by President Hoonevelt in a lues sage to congress in April, 190M. Strikebreakers Blown Up. St rut hers, ()., Dee. 9. A Urge house, Occupied bv tin worlutra l.n.n.rl.t l...ru of bottled whisky. She hi at r.ncn to break tl. alrika at thm ,.!.., u . Peary's Boat May Be Sold. arrested, charged with destroying pri- American Sheet k Tinplate company, Astoria, Or., Dec. 11. Tbe Alaska ; vate property. ' was dynamited early today. The house Fishermen's Packing company received! , ' occupied by tho famil.e. of Harry a lefer today from Samuel Holmes PftUDt "l 300.000- ! Birney and Louis Hrnlth, who were re a 1 t er today f rom amu. 1 Holmes, a eAvin , cent ly Imported. William Bin.ev, father broker in New Wk . offenng o ll .....j b h ,;,;,,, HMlf JUrry llirny, ... almo-t ...ffo.-trd the company omnia ode r 1 eary s Are- that it had imrrhaae,! ,i.i'y U-ing buried under it.-t.ris. and ail - ... ... - ...i . . . . . . . . tic steamer Kouaevelt. The letter states is a fariittr and mer on. attaches ,f U Mount Wllaoo obrte Iber ,f the Indei.eadeet Ord.r .f Odd ... ur.iruyru VJ ura iouy, .Ml feo, n the world, d.rd U.t .irfl.t, I valuable records and J a .. : , rf.f H yrars. JU tad U.u aa Odd . t ratory, lo.ihrr with ibe t,i J frj!w fuf u.r than U;f a rrMurr, J I'tiary y f J ufi.r Jial., ,! sad Sal Laid Hte uf gfaaj pal . jrurtk. other members of the f.iliii e suit ailied light injiirlra, The house i prac ticully demolished. King Leopold Paralysed. Par. a, Dec. 0 Privaln adii.-r fr.on liu.el atala that Kii.j 1 .,..,..,1,1 i. Jr.aeph, S. ., Dr. 1 0 - - rlf lnr.B .1 . ihl ly Improved. The ai.t... .il.l livn ani I'ikUi') worth ot iropert y . i i u.mIv. I I, i ., ,,!,. o. l,..,. 1'ar.bsuU, Mlua , Ie. Jl.TLe Hl.af !t,ih on laud and aea ia lU total m. tn hl.l.i to d-on.. i.M. Ha th!) flrbJKii. flour u.UI, employing l l,t,,u lo t.ave b..a takrs by th. ,.,IT.i. gi.tly from rheumatism, sad m.b, has fvrrrd 1 eloae btciiiii alorm that ttt.pt Nw ) yutdlab 1 sad ait. i. lii,rf d.a.r.a tall ut Us raises the ivu.jaiy faaavl t wUtt. H waLi. ( L,. dailr. ;; ' " . ,, , . .ipaim range n.oler an 'I ilitiUnra a, that the sli-ame-r is especially adHd f,lf V)l)im. The invntioB for sailing nortiiera waters, and eon j, ,,,,. ,u irlg , Ug , ,,, ....... a : nmy. J.,aiM Is pushed htr purpose, the owners have i ,.fML t,f (,,,,,., Aj no further use tor her and will dispose j of the rraft for '10,m0. j lW.nt Btorw Is Costly. striae Closes Hour Mill. lilllaattoa of Mature' Ulfis Will Make Poaaantr- Illok. In the forests there Is wealth, the half of which cannot be told, aye Consular Reports. There Is scarcely a farm that does not support one or Whr Are tbe oii roorf more valuable forests that add to tn Is It not the old man's fault that he beauty ot the landscape and afford Is poor?" you ask. Often It Is. The ni0i or less protection from the cold, aged man and women who drag out ( both for man and beast. Birch, pln their weary Uvea In a hopeless effort Bn(j oav: predominate. The linmeus to hold on are often the victims of weauh 0f the forests may be Indicated) their own bIiis. says Walter Weyl. In j ,y the fact that the area of forest b Su cess Maguzlne. A man may drink )0ngltig to the crown alone exceeds 3. to excess for forty yars, and wonder j rl0u,ooo acres. In addition to the na that at l) be Is not an established and llve foreHt8i B well-regulated system of respected citizen. The old man who (ore8try has been established and th waits at midnight In the bread line for ' l)lttllJ hitherto barren are now being crust and rorree, may tie a wreicnea f apldly planted. record or an ni-speni me. And yet be may not tie. He may be more sinned aKalnst than sinning; he may be turned out Into the storm, as was King Lear, by his ungrateful children, or by the ungrateful chil dren of bis neighbors. The tottering, Siberia Is richly endowed with navi gable rivers, the Volga, Kama, Chuso vaya, Serebrlanka, Tagil, Tura, Tobo!. Irtysh, Obi, Amur and many others affording transportation for millions of tons of freight In and out. It Is nota ii that many of these streams flow to decrepit, dissolute old man may be the hfl nQrtn A aMound )n flBn of rr. senile child of the boy who worked at 8, of the young fellow who was cast Into Jail for a trivial offense. It Is not true today that the right eous In their old age never beg bread. The (bailees of life are many, and a man may work, and save, and yet In varieties, the sturgeon of the Volga be ing noted world over. With the settlement of Siberia, rail ways will follow, and eventually tbe exports will surpass the brightest dream of the peasant, who will become rUh and prosperous. Already thou- . a . a. ..M .... I m.. ne UHinoiir , . of to, of th, flneit butter ar less. I n IMMiiii i on ii ii iiiuy uirnit. the trusted friend defraud; even lbs Insurance company may fall to Insure. And there are men, honest and Intel ligent men, and great men and geni uses, too, who cannot keep their heads above water, and who are driven by their very humanity Into a penniless old age. Mub.rrraurau Walrri, Successful ttM have been mads of ao apparatus Invented by M. Dlenert, one of the city engineers In i'arls, by which the microphone Is used for dis covering subterranean water, says an exchange. The apparatus consists of an acoustic cone with a small cons being sent to Denmark, Holland, Ger many and Kngland. It Is of lata shipped In tubs to China and Japan, where It Is rapidly replacing the tinned butter Imported from Denmark and Holland; It also finds Its way to Soutb Africa. Ths herds are being Improved, th shorthorns and Jersey replacing the long horned, small and unproductive native breeds. Better horses aro to b seen, owing to ths cross of the natlva animals with Imported breeds front France and the United States. Th common black sheep, small, ugly, with cosrse wool, are being replaced with the flat-tall Cotswold, the Southdown. II tiff iiai'ia ii vi uuu uiguw i and other Imported breeds. Five years cone Is turned toward the narrow white sheep In a flock was ths of tbe acoustic cone. A special cover L,..,,.!,,., ,.. it i. different now. Th prevents the air outside from causing' a noise by blowing the apparatus. To use the apparatus a hole Is dug eight or ten Inches Into the ground, or It can be placed In a receptacle holding water which la flat on ths ground. The acoustic cone ts placed la the hols or water and rubber tubes, the suds of which are placed In tho listener's sars, conduct the sound. Ths sound of subterrsnean water thus beard Is continuous and Is particu larly Intense when ths water falls la a gallery. Tbo apparatus was successfully uoed a tew da ktfU In a valley in ths marine department, where three farm- era wsis gieally Inconvenienced by having to dind on the river suuie dUtaiwo away (or their water supply, After l hie dS Searching water was huard at what proved to U a deplU of aU'ut sliteen yards razorback, long snouted swlns are also giving way to ths Poland China and other Improved breeds. They grow fat on ths cheap grains grown ou the Siberian plans and from ths wastes ot ths dairy, and from them ths flnest hams and bacon are produced, which And a ready market In Germany and Isewhers. When there I a insulate, the wont in say: ''lie seeins to wwehlp htr; 'ut I dU I Ullsvs Le ta'vt luuiti Ut The Kaslest Way. "Hers, you." said ths conductor ang-tly, "you rang up a faro. Do that again and Ml put you off " The small man standing In ths mid dle of ths crowded tar promptly ran up another fare. Thereupon ths con ductor projected hint through ths crowd emd to tbe edge ot ths platform. Tbsuka," said lbs little man. " did not see any other way to got out. Here's your dime"- Huiv.aa Ikewrr sss v-raetlee. (ieraldine- A rose by any other bsii.e would smell as swe.l, Gerald y 1 have lirver tvru able to make )i Lellete It wh.tt I hioii,bt )uu Uwella, ' New Vwis I'lvsa.
