REBELS PREVENT
SENDING ARMS
Americans in Mexico Cut Off by
Insurrecto Band.
r.lnl Darsilsd. Brldt Borneo),
a Blieve! In Ptrll.
Ch.v.nn. Wyo.-On datarhmant
, ,L Ninth cavalry, und.r order lor
lxlcan border. Uft heraatd.ao
guJay nliht. Other detachment
will ! shortly.
Junction City. Kn.-Klnal order,
j.-.tm th Thirteenth evalry to
aim- . u.ian hontar nri
j to thu Mexican
by Colonel Charl
iutfl.ld. commander of th regiment.
1' JmL nearly 10U0 man, and
' " L.n. .rjn Dlatuon. will leav
Jwt KileX 1" fw for El ,,'H,
Naco, Aril Mexican rebal have
M ill trails and communication ba-
here and Cananea, Sonora.
Ilrtico where "l,out 600 Americana
Mid ' Shortly afterward pasaen
r?r train arrived here carrying 600
t and l.io.oito round of ammunl
Knt by th. United State, gov
rnmcnt from the araenal at rort ham
Houston. San Antonio, Tex., to arm
tha American resident In Cananea.
Tb rebel cut the. railway in an at
uapt to prevent lh ahipment of arme
from rearhirtt the Americana at Ca
ninsa. Th pass-ngcr train fur Ca
atn was rapturd by rebel a fw
Biles south of tha international Una,
k.nirina wa (Lirailed and the pea-
unfpm allowed to coaat back Into the
United Si alea on a paasenger coach
down ths gra.le. Si Lrldgt were
turned.
Cam had been taken to conceal the
ideotity of the shipment Jnf arma, but
tfti that the Americana of Cananea
had reii'Je'ted Washington authoritloa
to aand them anna for eelf-protuctlon.
and that the request had ben granted
ii believed to have become known
among the rebel chicfa operating in
tin i vicinity.
Not only are American live be
lieved to he in dimmer aa a reault of
rtceat operations by the rebel, but
the minea must cloao for lack of fuel
within a few daya, mining engineer
lUte.
Cananea ia one of the moat exten
live copper mining center in the
world, and the Cananea Copper com
pany ii the richest corporation of Ita
kind in Mexico. Th railway destroy
ti by rebels runs from a point on the
American bonli-r to Cananea, and i a
part of the Southt rn Pacific of Mexico
ijntem.
In Cananea are about 500 American
ata and shout 60 American women.
About 100 of theae are American cow
boy! from aurrounding ranches. Ka
rent threata of rebel leader to attack
Cananea now are now taken aerlonaly
btr. In view of the late develop
ment!. PLAGUE STOPS FARM WORK.
Kims I Farmer Without Hon Can
not Git Fall Plowing Don.
Toptba, Kan. Farm work la going
undone in Wentern Kansaa for lack of
Hnrte killed by th tdairue. Crop
rrniiin ungatherel and fall plowing i
ki behind. On many farm all
Ihs boriri have died. Until eiperta
certain a remedy for tha diaeaae.
firmer! are unwilling to purchase
ior hornr.
Th dieae I rapidly spreading
tulsard, according to reporte receiv-
poftyj. II. Mercer, state liveatoik
f "miioner.
Mercer aent out a warning that
birie all over the state should be
ptofT paturea and iven no water
lfpt from well. The stream and
rodi are aaid by tha expert to
pirm with diplncoccl. a variety of
Fnc causea mcnlngitia.
Nitrate Supply Limited,
Nrw York -There will ba no ammu
tion for Iiritiah guns In time of war
Md Great Ilritain' enemy cut off
pr supply of nitrates from Chile, ac-
Hmg to a declaration mad by Colo
fl Samuel Kwle. of Chrletlana, Nor
ly, before the eitfhth International
rmicj congress at Columbia Uni-
Fr,i'y 'Nitrate of ammonia pro
fd from atmnapherica nitrogen ia
ff. snd s-cordlng to tha experience
1 oritish navy ha a great bear
VOpnn the life nf tha mini tha nur.
f "f the product reducing th heat."
Convict Honor Booth.
sn Q'ientin, Cal. Nearly 1000 men
'"pes paid tribute to tha memory
"s lata Cener.l William Il.tnth
Her of the Sa Ivattnn Arm mt ma.
Macrvirca held at San Quentln
Pn Abraham Ituef. tha convicted
IT delivered tha main mtirm. I
uIot?i-;H tLA a i .... i i..
. . I f7Jfc ftlTSII.MIIlini,
Pawltat length on hi work for
f' poor n,l tk. . i .u.
i'rison (nm A K
. i . n miii, iiitiiii ir r i m
"i armv mm. in a.
f - ... hl.ll A I RIILIR
music anil ad,
Bomb S.tlBy Black Hand.
Yorl-"Hlack Hand" agent
."tmpt to blow op a
' ionngs in the city Sunday,
tenement in ,i.i.k u. k v..
placed housing mn th.n in
""" iwo of the Infernal r
i7i.W,'re.'1il,c"vered ln tlm" P
d .h.M .m "P'odlnir. while i
"nsttered window, and door
"'i- Two nf Ik. l I
iii.ciuiii ma'
p ra
the
- - , anu iioi.ri no
"'or of a h,,iM:- l MJ .
f'y dfth street In .ki.i, it k.
P Placed. Noons... lni.,,-1
Chin... Troop Revolt.
nU nA ...i ....
t - .-noua military
enr,Uoa Yunnan
uprl
The town.
" nesi.m.ti..- i. .
Public v "nown lo
fuilC. Yunnan I. .1- -I
bmi. . lMO "i
ImtlT f th ,,rn " la
hznl'"1 Chin- Tha province
nhahli.. mtm i,ooo,
- 1. 1 1 1 V .. n IL.
city,
ke it. n of 100-000-
It I
BIQ QUN8 SMASH TARQIT8.
fort Sleveni Send einch
Mom at 6-Mil R.r,..
Shell
Fort St.veni The thlrj $1800
mint h ( i -.I. I - . . .
Sea-
. .... ...Fi.rgei i a maaaof
pllntered wreckag. as . ru,t f th.
moat aenaatlonal target practice ,.r
ne.uacrortHUven. Th. ..t targ.l
wa demolished by the Thlrty.fourth
company with a ail-inch .hell. Im
meoiateiy 70 men under Lieutenant
Norton, and ordnance officer, were
p.acei at work putting together an
other target. Working for eiKhl
hour wlth.ut reaaine- thev .
pllahed what ordinarily requires full
a week a effort.
Th. target, mad. of 10x10 tin.hera,
with three ateel m.at. enmeahed in
netting wa. towed out from the Co.
lumbia river to aea by the iteam.r
r uruancv.
Getting on ita courae 9000 yarda
from the battery, the Kornanr.
(teamed full aieed ahead with the
ocean apray daahing over th target
The gunnera aprang to their positions'
th huge tUo-pound ahell was rammed
home, the breech block slammed ahut,
the 36-ton ateel barrel aroae above the
cement breastworks, aeemingly poia
ing I tut If like the atriking head of a
eerpent.
A minor correction by the gun
pointer, the command to lire, and the
projectile, propelled by 175 puunda of
high exploaive, wai on ita way toward
the target.
A it traveled through the air to
warda ita destination, a aecond ahrll
w. hurled from another rifle. The
net ahell atruck. acatterlnir the wood.
en framework in all directions; almo.t
instantly afterward th second uroiee.
tile buried itaelf amongat the tangled
wreckage of tha $100 target.
The Urgent liriti.h dreadnauuht
planned I 700 feet long. Theae tar-
get arc CO fret long; therefore auch
an enemy would represent a atriking
place for shell a 12 times the aii of
the target used for representing battle
conditions.
MOTORCYCLE KILLS TWELVE
Haer Oolrg 00 Mile an
Hour
Cratrte Into Crowd.
Newark, N. J. tddie Hash, of
Waco. Tex., hoi ler of aeveral world a
records for motorcycle racing, plunged
over the rail of the courae of the New
ark motordrome, into a crowd, caus
ing the death of aix persona, including
himself, while aix are dying and 13
are bady injured.
The only three of the aix dead posi
tively Indentiiled up to a late hour
wer llasha, Johnny Albright, a Den
ver motorcyclist who waa riding third
In the race, and Kdward f'ischer, a 17-
year-old boy of this city. The other
three dead were hoya and young men
among the spectators. Two of the
probably fatally injured are Kdward
Ilolle and Frank J. Amburg, each 17
yeara old.
Five thousand spectators were wit
nessing the finish of a four-mile free-for-all
race when the daring young
rider, doing 90 mi lea an hour, took hia
fateful plunge. Ha waa pitched head
first 60 feet into the air. Hia body
waa ahapeleaa when it was picked up,
almost at the feet of bis wife, seated
in the bleachers.
Albright was thrown head first in
the other direction into the enclosure
of the track, when the champion's
wheel csme sliding down the steep
bank and atruck him. He was picked
up for dead, but he lived in an uncon
scious state mora than two hours.
Qjn I Learning Golf
Aberdeen, Scotland Queen Mary Is
learning to play golf at Dalmoral In
emulation of her daughter, who has
recently been tilavine daily there. Her
Maieaty has often expressed amaie
merit over the Infatuation for the
game by ardent golfers. At the con
elusion of her first losson ahe ex-
preased the opinion that the game waa
"very bracing but tiring." Her
daughter, rrincesa Mary, la quoted as
saving of the queens playing:
'Mother's driving is strong, but oc
casionally wide."
Pearl Fisheries Opened.
San Meeo. Cal. David Zarate,
mivnr of Knsenla. estimates that
S0U0 neraons. residents of Lower Cal
ifornia, will obtain employment as a
result of the reported revocation of
the pearl and other fishing concessions
along the I,ower California and Gulf
cnaatn. Aurelin San loval. in charge
of tha Sandoval interest! of I-oe An
geles, has controlled tha pearl fishing
and other conccsaiona as far south a
Magdalena, hia firm having held a
monopoly. The privilege now is open
to all Mexican citiiens.
Mobilization I Indicated.
JJougtaa, Aril. Movement of Mex
ican rebel below thi point indicate a
mobilisation. Rafael and Emilio
Campa. two rebel chiefs, hava joined
their forces 20 mile south of Agu
Prieta. the Mexican town which ad
join Douglas. Salaiar' avowed In
tention of moving west along the bor
,w and attacking Cananea would in
dicate a general mobilisation of all
rebel forces, numbering 1000 men,
and euperior to federal commands.
8alaxar Make Apology.
Haehit. N. M. Conferences be
tween United States army officer sta
tioned here and tha Mexican rebel
leader Inex Salaiar, took place on the
border about B0 miles southwest of
hero. Major SedgwicK nice roue j
tha boundary to talk with the rebel
leader. Salaiar aologiied to the
American officers for the incident a
few days ago, when Mexicsn rebels of
hi command crossed the line and fired
on American soldiers on patrol duty.
Morgan Would Buy Ruins.
Rome Newspapers here say that J.
P. Morgan has submitted the Ital
ian government a plan for completing
the excavations of Pompeii and llor
culano.im. It la said that Mr. Morgan
la willing to bear the entire cost of
uncovering Horculaneum.
Airship Falls: Four Killed.
Gray. France-An aeroplane got
out of hand at an aviation meeting
here and swept to the ground, crush
Ing cor of pectators, four ot
whom wr killed outright.
FARM k
ami W'"flon, Sp.ially
BEST SOILS FOR ONIONS.
O. A
C. Graduate Tails of c...;i:
. , mi.grg
10 D Used On Crop.
ur. Although oniona will
grow on a large variety of soils, they
thriv beat In a rich, mellow eoll with
Plenty of moisture. Just what fertil
izer and soil treatment to use la ex
plained by Jay C. Leedy, of Sher
wooo., one or thia year' aeniors at
th Oregon Agricultural college, in an
ariici on --.njii. and Fertilizer for
Union, in the Oregon Countryman,
published by the atudent.
"Fur commercial onion growing in
K"" me oeaver meadows are prac
tically the only ones given considers
lion saya Mr. Leedy. "These landa
are located mostly in Washington,
Y.meaamas ana Marlon m-mri..
1M .... .
ineoreucaliy these landa have reault
ea irom leavers aamming streams and
ouleta to lakes, hence the name; but
nature has played a large part in the
oil formation, in many cases without
me aid or the beavera.
1 hia aoil forma a type known aa
cumuiote, composed largely of organic
matter and humua. and ana vsia ua.
uaur anowa aoout per cent of nitro
gen. Large portiona of this plant
food element are unavailable for the
use of plant life. Thia type of soil
Kenerauy coniaina a moderate amount
or phosphoric acid, and usually very
small amounts of potaah, sometimes
aa low as 2 per cent. Chemical analy
ma vi me rou ia noi 10 oe relied upon
in all casea as an indicator of the
soil's power to produce crops, but is
merely an index to the amount of the
varioua plant foods present in the soil
It ha been found by experiments that
thee nam soils will not continue to
produce profitable yields of oniona
without the addition of potassium in
the form of animal manure or com
mercial fertilizers.
- Analysis oi yellow Uanver onions
showed a content of .225 per cent ni
trogen. .84 per cent phosphoric acid
and .217 per cent potash. Taking an
average yield to the acre of 300 sacks.
each weighing 100 pounds, the analy
sis would remove from the soil 67.5
pounds of nitrogen, 25.8 pounds of
phoKphoric acid and 65.1 pounds of
potash. Thus it can ba seen that the
onion crop uses comparatively large
amounts of the three essential fertiliz
ing elements, and these must be sup
plied to the soil if it does not already
contain them.
"Barnyard manure ia almost indis
pensable in the production of onions in
any except the beaverdam aoila, and ia
more used than any other fertilizer
even on these soils. Indeed, there is
no fertilizer so well adapted to the
production of onions as a liberal
amount of clean, well composted barn
yard manure. It is important that all
stable manure uaed on onion land be
well rotted before applied to the aoil
in order that the weed aeeds may lose
their germinating powers, and that
the danger of disease! attacking the
onions be lessened. A heavy applica
tion of fresh manure may produce an
overgrowth of tops at the expense of
the bulbs, and is sure to bring in a
large amount of weed seed, increaaing
the cost of weeding. It i difficult to
make the aoil too rich for onions, pro
vided the manures are incorporated
with the soil. The usual amounts,
however, are 10 or 12 tons to the acre,
spiil ied before ploughing in tha fall
and then harrowed with the disc be
fore planting in the spring.
" Where enough manure is not pro
duced on the farm, and where it can
not be accured profitably from a city
near, commercial fertilizers must be
resorted to. They can supplant
stable manure profitably, especially on
the beaverdam toils, already rich in
organic mattter. In some instances
commercial fertilizers are used exclu
sively with good results. One great
advantage over stable manure is the
fsct of reducing tha weeds to a mini
mum, thus lessening the expensive
production. A higher initial cost
than stable manure tends to offset the
disadvantagea in weeding. As it is
an intensive crop yielding large
amounts of bulbs to the acre, growers
sre justified ln manuring heavily.
"Additional nitrogen increase the
yield. The onion is planted early in
the spring, before bacterial action be
gins, and these agent In the soil
which render the nitrogen available
for plant use do not begin to work
very actively until the soil is
thoroughly warmed and the season
well advanced. An application of ni
trogen immediately available early in
the season is thus beneficial in giving
the plants an early and vigorous start.
Sodium nitrate, containing about 16
per cent nitrogen, ia the best form,
100 pounds to the acre as a top dress
ing after the onions are planted.
"Rone meal containing about 22
per cent phosphoric and 4 per cent ni
trogen is a good fertilizer for onions.
Making Hi Opportunity.
A New York banker has made it tha
rule of his life never to swear except
when he drops his watch, as he some
times doe absent-mindedly, and
break it Under strong provocation
he took out his watch and flung it on
tha marble floor of hia office. So, it
. - : J nn i
seems, wnen you pui our uunu
there I a way to solve every problem.
Unworthy of th Wise.
Revenge is ever the pleasure of a
paltry spirit, of
mind. Juvenal.
weak and abject
Separating Honey.
To obtain strained honey, aeparat
ing the honey from the wax as it
comes to us in the frame, place tha
frame In a howl In the oven, just
warm enough to melt the honey and
the wax; then remove the frame and
let the honey stand until cold, when
the wax may ba skimmed off the top
without any trouble.
Won Her Disapproval.
Little Elsie (after being punished
I think nana la dreadful. Wa ha th
'only man you could get, mamma?
ORCHARD
SuUabk to Pacific Co. Condition,
It I not immediately available, and
the beneficial effect of one applica
tion will extend over a period of lev
earl year. It I sometime applied
in amount aa high a 600 or 800
pound to the acre. Acid phosphate
or super-pnospnate, containing about
16 per cent phosphoric acid, is also
good for onion. It Is made by treat
ing finely ground phosphate rock with
sulfuric acid, and is available for im
mediate use. It I usually applied at
the rat of about 400 pound to the
acre.
"Muriate of potaah is the chief
source of potash. It .contains about
50 per cent of actual potash' and is
available for the use of the plant. It
usually come directly from its source
in Staisfurt, Germany, in 221-pound
sacks. It can ba applied profitably at
me rata or 1 sack to the acre. In
some case frertilizer are applied to
beaverdam soil containing no nitro
gen, but usually much better results
are obtainable when some nitrogen I
applied.
"Voorhee, in hi 'Fertilizers,' rec
ommends an application of a thousand
pounds of fertilizer containing 5 per
cent nitrogen, 6 per cent phosphoric
acd .and 10 per cent potash for onion.
The Indiana experiment station states
that, for muck lands in Indiana, 800
to 1000 pounds of fertilizer containing
1 to 11 per cent nitrogen, 6 to 8 per
cent phosphoric acid and about 10 per
cent potash gave satisfactory results.
Both phosphoric acid and potash fer
tilizers are readily fixed in the aoil
until the plant is ready to use them,
and there is scarcely any loss by
leaching. Hence they may be applied
to the soil some time before planting.
With sodium nitrate there is danger
of loss from leaching, so it is not sown
until the crop is ready fur its imme
diate use."
FERTILITY IN PRODUCE.
Demand of Different Crop on Soil
Explained.
Corrallis, Or. "It i a matter of
considerable interest and importance
to know the demands which particular
crops are making upon the soil, espe
cially when plan are being made as
they are in modern method of farm
ing, to meet the demand by appropri
ate fertilization, says Prof. C. E.
Rradley( of the Oregon Agricultural
college chemistry department, in a
new bulletin on "The Soil of Oregon'
(No. 112 )
"The loss of mineral food and nitro
gen by leaching and the loss of nitro
gen by direct oxidation are, of course,
additional demands which come to the
cultivated soil," ha contiues. He
then gives a table of fertility of
wheat, vetch hay, alfalfa hay, timo
thy, potatoes, apples, fat cattle, milk,
butter, and fresh kale, showing the
composition and market value.
"The value of the plant food in one
acre or wheat equals fll.to, says
Prof. Bradley. "In like manner,
$24.25 worth of plant foods go into
SO0 buahels of apples. The large
mount of nitrogen and consequent
high market value of plant foods in
alfalfa and vetch is offset by tha stor
age of atmospheric nitrogen in the
soil by these plants, so that the real
nitrogen draft does not come on the
soil. The mineral fords which these
leguminous crops carry, however, are
large and represent real losses when
they are sold, as hsy from the farm.
The values for kale are extreme and
represent the real demands on an acre
of soil by an average kale crop, which
by experience, is known to be 'hard
on the land. lot small-amount ot
fertility entering into dairy product
and iive stock explain the well known
fact that these industries do not de
plete the soil."
GETTING RID OF ANTS.
How To Exterminate Peit on Lawn
and In House.
Corvallis, Or. The best methods of
ridding lawns and house of ants,
which frequently become troublesome
pests, are described by the crop pest
workers of the Oregon Agricultural
college, thus:
"Whenever the ants' nest can be
located the best means of destruction
is to make a hole in the center of it
with a crowbar or similar instrument,
pour into it one or two ounce of bi
sulphide of carbon, tamp the aoil
back into the hole and throw a heavy
blanket over the nest to hold in the
fumes of the bisulphide.
"To destroy ant in the house a
mixture of three grains of tartar
emetic and four ounce of syrup should
be smeared over bits of china or chips
and placed in tha ants' runway. It is
especially good a a remedy because it
will not kill tha ants immediately.
They carry the mixture to theif nest
and feed the larvae upon it, and thus
kill out the entire colony."
Charcoal in tha lea Box.
A piece of charcoal in the ice box
will take away tha disagreeable "ice
box" smell. If your ice box stands
on the porch, where the ants are apt
to get into it, place small piece of
bacon or ham on the lowest shelf. It
will attract the ants, and yon can
easily remove them every day by re
moving the piece of bacon.
And There You"Are.
Self-made men brag of their rise,
and their daughter boast of their
descent Lippineott'.
Floating Bath Condemned.
Floating baths near great cities are
now condemned by sanitary authori
ties. Tha vast quantities of sewage
that are discharged into tha waters
that usually border such cities are
thought to be productive of disease to
bathers, and certainly render their
ablutions of doubtful value as a
cleansing agency.
Old Conundrum With New Answr.
Why doe a chicken cross the road?
Because an auto Is coming. Judge's
Library.
PRESERVED THE OLD STYLE
How Ona Young Bride Brought At
mosphar of tha Paat Into Her
Nw Home.
A young bride who went to house
keeping In ber husband' old horn
waa very much disappointed to And
that hi mother, with tb very best
Intention In tha world bed bought a
lot of modern furniture and put away
aom really antique plecea, becauae
aha thought they were too out of data
to pleaae her boy'a city wife.
The wife, however, ln a quiet way
found out that the new furniture had
been purchaaed with the underatand
Ing that th bill ba settled within all
month. She talked tba matter over
with ber husband and hi mother and
then with the proprietor of th (tore,
and, ln tha end, all tba "modern fur
niture wa taken bark and tba am
amount traded out for several beauti
ful rug and the curtalna for all th
room on the first floor of tba old
house.
Then tha bride went to work and
fixed up all the "old fashioned" furni
ture which had been atored ln tha at
tic. A dining table waa found and
four chalre to rr.atch. These she bad
scraped and sandpapered, thn a filler
applied, and, lastly, a good quality var
nish. This, when thoroughly dry was
again rubbed down until the final fin
ish waa dull, and the effect was splen
did. It suggested age, but good con
dition. Tha young wife also removed the
screens from the old fireplace and
they laid down new hearth-stones of
cream brick. And the most delighted
Inmate of the home was the mother,
who saw In it all a vision of bygone
days.
LONG IMBEDDED IN AMBER
Dragon Fly, Preserved for Canturles,
I a Most Remarkable Natural
Curiosity.
Files ln amber are not uncommon,
but a dragon fly. almost perfect, la
unique. The piece of amber with Ita
large Insect lmperlshably Imprisoned
waa presented a few week ago to an
English statesman by a rich Russian
merchant
The piece Is remarkable for It size
and the purity of Its transparent yel
low, but more especially for this In
sect It contain. Thl particular
dragon fly flitted about over the
marshes of what geologists call the
tertiary period, teoa or hundreds of
thousands of years ago, and waa en
gulfed by the resin that flowed from a
pine tree. This resin. In the course
of ages, turned to the stone that we
now call amber. Several thousand
species of fossil Insects have been
found in amber but this Is one of the
finest ever seen.
Life's Healings.
Of all the amazing forces of nature
her thunder and cataracts, oceans ln
wild storm and volcanoes ln floods of
molten rock, and those hidden monster-powers
of electricity, gravitation
and chemlc affinities the most won
derful of all Is her healing power, her
ability to get over anything, her In
finite resources of ' recovery.
Haven't you often wondered why
the whole world did not die of the
cholera? And those other plaguea no
one aeems able to stay, the typho, the
smallpox, the bubonic plague, be
sides the awful pests of history, the
red death and the bla:k death; why
have any of them ceased at allT
One reason of thia ia that the four
huge rooms in nature'e house are full
of health supply. Tbe?e rooms are
sunshine, water, air and earth.
For Nature' other name 1 The
Healer. She 1 tha original and
only cure-all.
And all this is quite as true In the
realm of mind and soul aa It la In
tha realm of body. Woman'a World.
Horse Up a Tree.
Visitors to Ferry Bar were much
surprised yesterday morning to see a
horse up among the branches of a
(re. The animal had got ln it un
comfortable position by falling ten
feet from a bank that overtopped the
tree. The tree probably saved the
horse's life.
Blocks and fall were fastened to a
tree stump on top of the hill and
leather belts Were wrapped about the
horse. When the work of hitching
the belts waa completed It was found
that the animal could not be rescued
until several of the limbs of the tree
were cut off. This took considerable
time, during which the horse rested
and watched the work ot the score or
more of men who were trying to re
lease htm. With the removal of the
last limb the horse was slowly drawn
to the top of the bank from which he
had fallen. A close examination re
vealed that outside of a few
scratches b was unhurt. Baltimore
American.
Th Dog In Politic.
An Italian paper ha been collecting
Instance where dogs were used to
Influence politics or express tha politi
cal feeling of their owners. We are
told that ln 1894, when bilingual teach
ing waa Imposed on Istrla, doga were
painted black ln sign of mourning; in
1S97 a candidate for the town coun-
clllorshlp of Milan decorated hi
Newfoundland with a scroll Inscribed,
Vote for th Socialist." The fol
lowing year thia waa "Imitated" ln
London, where number of dogs wore
mantle on which waa written "Vote
for Chamberlain," or "Vote for tha
Socialist." It Is also said that In
1902. on tha rewpflon of the new that
tha Boer war wa ended, the streets
were enlivened by the apparition of
Jogs wearing the Union Jack and oth
ers drunk on whisky. How the na
ture of tha tipple wa determined by
th Italian observer la not atated.
Special Juries for Rhodesia.
Aa the result of the Investigations
of the Select Committee, ln Salisbury,
Rhodesia, a new Juries Ordinance
has been fromed, providing for the
trial of certain criminal cases. Involv
ing Europeans and natives, before a
Judge and special jury numbering
five, ot whom not less than four (hall
concur In the verdict The Jury will
be selected from a special list desig
nated by the administrator and ap
proved by th legislative council.
NEW NORTHWEST
LINE BUILDING
Direct Route Los Angeles to
Spokane Is Project.
Distanc Only IOO Mil Mora Than
From San Francisco Offset
By Batter Gradaa.
Los Angeles A new railroad, bind
ing the great Northwest and South
land, making possible tha settlement
and development of hundred of thous
and of acre heretofore far removed
from avenue of traffic, i to link Los
Angeles and Spokane. It will reduce
the distance between them several
hundred mile and bring thi city
nearly as cleae to Spokane aa ia San
Francisco.
Tha survey hava been completed,
and the new trans-state line will be
finished within three yeara, or by the
time the Panama traffic ia well devel
oped.
Advice received from town which
will be on the new line are that the
plan have so far progressed that the
actual work of construction is under
way at two points, and before long
the dirt will be flying at several oth
er.
Tha new railroad i a part of the
Harriman system, and in working out
the right of way, several hundred
mile of existing line are to be used,
plus approximately 60 mile of con
struction flung across rugged moun
tains and about ISO mile of narrow
gauge reconstructed to meet tha new
requirements.
The distance from Los Angeles to
Spokane over the shortest existing
line is 1550 miles. By way of the
new road it will be reduced to about
1175 miles. It is now 1075 miles from
San Francisco to Spokane, and this
slight difference in favor of San Fran
cisco will be more than offset by the
elimination or material reduction of
many heavy grades.
UNPRECEDENTED RAINS
RUN FRUIT AND HOPS
San Francisco For the first time in
25 years, this early in September, rain
fell Friday and Saturday. Up to noon
nearly half an inch waa the record
established for the two day.
From the great interior valley of
the state come wails from orchard
ists, vineyardists and hopgrowers that
the greater part of their crops have
been ruined. A report.from Fresno
say that from one-half to two-thirds
of the entire table and shipping grape
crops have been ruined by the rains.
Hundreds of carloads of drying fruit
spread on racks in orchards could not
be stacked and covered in time to pre
vent loss, the rain came so suddenly
in the middle of the night.
In the great Sonoma valley thou
sand of hoppickers hava suffered
three days and night of severe hard
ship, a they have never been a accus
tomed to go to the fields provided
with tents or other other protection ,
from rain. The storm found these
thousand sleeping unprotected in the ,
fields. A dispatch from Santa Rosa
report more than 1200 acres of hops,
together with supporting poles, were
collapsed and on the ground as a re
sult of the storm. It is feared that
when full report from the entire state
are received the amount of damage
will reach an enormous figure.
Oil Lands Held For Navy.
Washington, D. C. Thirty-seven
thousand acres of oil lands in the Elk
hills, California, adjacent to tho Mid
way and McKitrick oil fields, have
been withdrawn from entry by the
president and will be held for develop
ment and use by the United States
navy. It ia the intention of the Navy
department to sink wells on this area
and use the oil on naval vessels equip
ped with oil burners. In the opinion
of many officers, the time is coming
when oil will be universally used on
all warships.
Mabel Kelso Loses Job.
San Francisco Miss Mabel Kelso,
who has occupied the unique position
of being the only woman wireless
telegraph operator in service aboard a
Pacific liner, is out of a job. For the
past two months she has sat at the
key on the steamer Mariposa, which
plies between Seattle and Alaskan
points. The company for which she
worked released ber recently with the
explanation that the Federal depart
ment of commerce and labor objected
to the employmet of women as wire
less operator at sea.
Explorer Will Return.
Pasadena, Cal. Ernest DeKoven
Leffingwell, a young American ex
plorer who ha been absent on an Arc
tic exploration expedition for three
and a half year, will return this fall.
according to a letter received by his
parents from Flaxman island, on the
northern coast of Alaska. Leffing
well' most . important work during
the last three years haj been in map
ping the north ciast of Alaska and
making geographical explorations In
the hitherto unexplored mountain
range of Northeastern Alaska.
Aviator Up 19,240 Ft.
Houlgata, France Roland G. Gar
ros, tha aviator, eenpsea me oia
world's record for altitude by about
2461 feet Ascending in a mono
plane, Garros went up 16,240 feet.
At this height the rarified atmosphere
caused his engine to stop and the av
iator ha1 to volplane to tha ground.
The previous record of 13,779 feet
was made at Vienna. June 29, by the
Austrian aviator Czakay. In this
flight he carried a passenger.
Canad an Immigration Heavy.
Ottawa, Ont During tha four
months from April 1 to August 1,
209,612 immigranta arrived in Canada.
Of thi number 143,742 arrived at
ocean porta and 65,900 from tha Unit
ed States. These figure show an in
crease of 15 per cent as compared
with those of the corresponding'monthi
of tha last fiscal year.
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BLOWING A CARD FROM PIPE
Nothing Would 8em to B Mor Sim
plePeculiar Principle of Aero
dynamic Involved.
At f rt thought, nothing would leeih,
almpVr than blowlDg a card off from
a pipe, If the card 1 laid horizontally
on the bowl cf It and one blows
through the pipe stem; but when ona
tries It, he 1 amazed to find that ha
cannot do it. says the Popular Mechan
ics. In order to make the experi
ment satisfactorily, a pin should ba
put through the card into the bowl of
the pipe, so that it cannot slide side
wise. Under these conditions, the
card cannot be blown from tha
pipe except ocaslonally by a very
sudden puff.
The uncanny fact that the card can
not be blown from the pipe depends
upon some of the peculiar principles
of aerodynamics. Ono would feel cer
tain that, when ha blows, the card
would fly Immediately Into the air. It
will bo noticed, though, that the col
umn of air which ascends I only as
large aa tha bowl of the pipe, while
Card Cannot Be Dislodged.
the aurface of the card which 1 ex
pected to be lifted 1 many time
greater. A aoon aa the card rlae a
little, the downward pressure holds
It to such an extent that tha air Bowe
out sidewjse ln every direction along
its surface. When It geta to tba
Blow Ever So Long and Hard, tha
edge ot tha card, it draw aoma ot
the air from the upper aide with It
Thl causes a current ot air from
above to descend upon the card and
to bold it down.
PATIENCE OF A LITTLE BOY
Affecting Little Story I Told by
Lady Somerset of London Youth'
Remarkable Courage.
Lady Henry Somerset, whose labor
In behalf of the children of the Lon
don slums are constant and earnest
saya the Touth'a Companion, telle this
affecting story of the way ln which
her Interest ln these little ones was
aroused:
I was moved In that direction by.
tha rare patience and Imagination ol
one Httle boy. His example convinced
me that patience was one of tha
qualities 1 needed most, and in seek
ing It I grew Into that work.
I was In a hospital on visiting day,
while the doctors were changing a
plaster cast which held the crippled
boy's limb. The operation was ex
ceedingly painful. I was told. To my
surprise, tha little sufferer neither
stirred nor winced, but made a curi
ous buzzing sound with his mouth.
After the doctors left I said to him:
"How could you possibly stand it?"
"That' nothing?' he answered.
"Why. I Just made believe that a
bee wao stingln' me. Bees don't hurt
very much, you know. And I kept
buzzln' because I wa afraid I'd for
get about it being a bee It I didn't"
Odd Riddle.
When may a man call hi wife "hon
ey?" When she ha a large comb In
her head.
Who waa tha first to swear In This
world? Eve. How o? Whan Adam
asked her It h might take a klsa, she
said, I don't care A dam If you do.
How can It be proved that a horse
has six legs? He has fora legs In
front and two behind.
Why Is a gun like a jury? Because
It goe oft when discharged.
What I that If you use It well v. Ill
look at everybody; but if you scratch
Its back it will look at nobody? A
looking glass.
Why had Eva no fear of th
measles? Because she'd Adam
(had em).
English Churchyard Tree.
In England there are yew tree to
ba found ln practically all church
yards. Frequently, in the works of
English poet, one come aero ref
erence to these tree, especially when
tha writer wishes to express anything
sorrowful. Yew trees did not coma to '
grow In English cemeteries by chanca.
It wa ln the time of King Edward I.
that they were first planted.
Knowing that tha yew trea 1 yery
fine shade tree, strong and sturdy,
and not given to spreading too great
ly, tha king ordered thl trea to b
planted in all churchyard, for th
purpose of protecting tha church
from violent wlndatorma.