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Newspaper Page TextDEATH 11 TO Nod and Wife Die True General to Ancient I ustom. Honor of if.lon CareMlf Made Oncral Count Mureiuk Tokio I . nir. ami m "-- ... eeromittced suicide In accord- l' ... ..... .nr;..nt Jmianaxa 'ti I"?' .Ll tril.nto l' tt'-lr depart ami friend. Mutstihito. 1.4 imp"' hand of the wife wa an I nri - . I Hi"" - .. .,..1 ti, vunura it. I. Th I .11 II w " ,rT":.;,...tWitha hort sword and ? i... committed bar kart (Menu c.,lir. .u.i.irti. the MktK . .. -.. .V -i. had carefully prepares im ir . . ... ktllinir themselves and timed I (""" .L . .i...u ufniil I l coincident h tW Heparin." fth.de.d """r,,1r,. r.1 Ndlti and the countcs had adedth. lwr.1 .rlcr. of Mul- uhilotime - " waa rx- " twj they would proceed to Aoyarna jUlth funeral cortege. Instead, k ...r at tli conclusion of thu cere- " .it the palace they withdrew to hir nude! I"""" in Aaanaka. a sub orbof Tukio. and there began their foil preparation lr Oram. Kirt, the general wroto a letter to biiiww rmix-r.tr, Ynahihito, which U W wu found bcaidn the body. Then bedraped"1 """uniinK K.rtraitin k !! of the ! fmiKTor. and af- trrd he and ta wife dred them Hria full Japanese font umo and drink a farewell cup of a irm I . ... i k ........ .i Iffipa wnicn ni inn Own by Mutnuhit". Darknea hn I fullen ant! i.emeral INofi nd th count Rat and awaited tlieiiirnal they had agreed upon to an- ranee their leave-taking. Thla wa tbt boominu of a irKl K" l tha Mlir gmuntlii at Tukio, whlrh w t.i I let the mvt know that tho txidy of llnemienir i utarlinij on tho fun- ril cr for it" l"1 rmtinit plaro. At the txHim of the Kiin rf'iin !h1 Ithtoagh the rlf.tr, till nii;ht, Gcnrral No(i irw, and, Kraiiiir In hand Ia (hurt (word, luni(rd it into hie throat, whilf Iho ouiitrM atatihd Ibenelf thMiih thn tfKly. A atudi-nt I aha rraidi-d in () N.'Kl home hoard the fill of the hod km and ruahrd into the room. JAPAN PAYS TRIBUTE. You'l'tmprror Henri Addratt o Lameniaiion al Funeral. Aojrama - Hoth the vrntx'ror and the penple of Japan nid homairn to the memory of KmiHTur Mutauhito at the funeral hall at Aoyaina. la front of tho. great rankrt th liourf rmM-rr rrail an aditree of limentition. in whirh he refi'rrtwl to theerrntu in the life of hi (Treat ftther. Then in hi half of the) iHHtnle lof Japin, the premier, Marquia Sainn 1)1, delivere.) a iiatrintic attdrena and u followed by Iho miniiter of the hDutehol.l, who eMike for the) dead em peror' attendant. The halt wa eroaded with thouxanda of hifrh dirni Urie. arnonif whom were) nprinkled eoniideralile nurtiher of foreiifner. When the ifn at troreion aceom- I panyin(f the hoty from tho imperial piir in Ti.km arrived at tha en trinfe to the (rnniml of the palace at Aojama, t.-n hnife ira lantern were lighted. KitualUt then arranged hite curtain at the hnrk and aide of thtbler and a half-drawn tdind in front While tha preparation were i prog-re the emperor and tho other member of tho imperial famil wait- I to in a retinir rMim. la ritualiHtie ceremoniea then b ln, the chief ritualUt reciting prayer, which wa followed h haoumfnl Shinto hymn, chant! to the trcornpanunent of aacred instrument. Cold Ship May Be Raited. Ellennhurg. Wash. "Uncle Joe orrell, of K.llenshurg, sole remaining wrvivor of the ship Golden Gate, mm burned and sank off Manianillo, "ico. in Hlii with mora than 12.. WO.Oou in C., ',.(, Kld on hoard. MS received a letter from a Kan Kran- lco syndicate asking certain detail of the wreck and bearing of tho pot her the ship sank. Morrell I promised a liberal ahare of the WO in return foe hi Infr. nnuld the expedition prove lueee- Mara Uland Would Bid. Vallejo, C,,l. c,ptl,in Hry T. yo, commandant of the Mare Island ""J yard, ha telegraphed to the Ny department asking that plan specification for the nronocd w. dreadnaught Pennsylvania, u- UMrixed hv 11 1 tt IT ltd, f taauuniAil i. -S ""S 3 i wnitivu ,r "n. that the yard may bid on her con tructmn. The l'ennsylvani i to be " largest vessel In the navy and will t llS.oiHumo. Captain Mayo bc- the Mare Island yard can con trurt the IVnnsvlv.nl at aa low a Igure as any other government plnnt. 'Mikado' Given Up for Day. Ixindiin A . i. - - . u . a ' ma suggestion oi me ori Chamberlain tk. UiU. ado1 " not played at any theater jnt-reat liritain Saturday, the day of " Japanese emperor's funeral. Im mediately Bfler th. p,,),,,,, wprfl .j. M thf mnitk.,i. a at t:.it. InG t , "viirnilBUI 1119 OriilNII Will- "ips in home and foreign water they "nau-mated In memory of the ' emperor. Th n LtnP ffn criiV anient otllce and on many businoss ""Use likewise were lnt Negro la Mad Major. W ashin.... ? m stt t y i. capiain .naries oung, nf tha Ki:nk iiiu.i ct.i... r, th" only negro army officer hi!. ,rom West Toint. has been Pmoted to the rank of maior. It is "';10hr negro has attained that In the regular army. YnunR Is military attache to Liberia, and 'RWiilnK the army of that repub- EMPtnOR'S FUNERAL BlGlNs" Aeilcnt and Mod.ro Mite ,J Cu lon M.nKl ) Tuk,Q. T..LI.. L'.. i uc.eiai rereinonii, f ( .,...,,..r.,r niut.uhitu, ut Jarmn ,a..lhu.n.,u-.l, known .',h 1:,,,,,..,; of the Kra of tl, KiiliKhtei,,,.nl. .. Ran amid iirroundniH in hi. h rei,. lury-ol.l ritea and rut.,f were ii Kled with modern mlliUry ilipay From tha m..t ,t,,le Mlitl,; ()f Japan l auhjert. have heen aH.emhli,,,, In I ok I... A tmidnlKht Kreat rrow.l, had KMlhe red alon tho muto of the proci'RMion. Tim weather wa fir. A ,Urm cordon waa eatahliHhed, nhuttinK olf tho atrei t tlironKh which tho body of tha rmiM-ror will he tranxported ami l..U... It I . ... ' ' "i"" "" " fMtimate half mil nun person Soon after rni win ie arroinmodated. dnihl oflicial proceeded .:n i . Ki mo paiaro In lireiiaration f... i... riy rrroinony. i i . . "riiora romririif aneociated with nrenern mourrnnif wa a Imn.i ly ahent, tielnu replaced hv the l.r.l liant hue of the Orient. Ullcial ropreiieiitativea of everv country had mnk to Tokio to partici pate in wie aoiemnilir. Amonv them wero prin-e repreeritini reinninu hoUHea ami fpecial emlm-Hien ri.ii.n.w. alontd hy repulilican preniient. The llt Included I'hilander C. Knox, ee. retary of atate of the United .State. who wa accornpnnied hy lUimford l. Miller, chief of tho Kar Intern ec. tlon of the .State department at Wah Inttton; Hear Admiral Alfred llev- nold.4 arid liriifailier General John J. I'er.hinif. Meml.er of the regular foreign diplomatic body were nn-Hent ill their uniform. Kroin an early hour the palace in it Kreat private pnk in tho heart of the capital wa the (oal toward which virtually everybody in Tokio made hi way on foot. The late emperor only occasionally durinif hi life left the mouted inclovure where hi Uidy had luid in Nlato Hince Auyunt 13. Since that date on each tenth day. aolemn n.entorial -rvice and racritice to the pint of the departed ruler were per- lorrneii. 1 lio ranket containinif the Itody lay n atate in the main hall. It had been decorated according to Shinto rite hy apecial corp of ritualint. Tho canket meaaured nearly ten feet y flvo and weinhed one and a half ton. The chief ritimlint and hi anintant mtTen-d the otferini; of aacred food i the continued accompaniment of hinto munic, after which other olTcr- n(i of red and white cloth incloed n willow bor were made, frayer for the dead were recitwl by the chief ritualiet. Tho miwt aidemn act of all followed when the emperor, the emprea, the dowager empre and the prince and princee advanced toward the racket and worhipHd the pirit of the de parted emperor. A nhort ailence enxued; the procemnon were rc formed and the member of the im perial family retired. The other mrmber of the I'lfin blaire however, remained to worship the dead emperor' apirit, after which the Shinto ritualist advanred to the altar and removed the otTerinif to the oun I of ancrwl music. The creen in froi.t of the catafalipie W'a lowered hy the chief ritualist ami the first cere ninny of the funeral wa ended. GOLD BRICK VICTIM SILtNT. Metal "Chieie" Hidden In trunk By Stoical Loser Till 0lh. Seattle A $10,000 gold brick swindle perpetrated three year ago on W. It. Marion, a wealthy resident of South llend. Wash., who has since died, wa disclosed Saturday when a cheese-shaned "brick" weighing 100 pound wa declared at the United Stale assay otlice here to he made of an ricellent grade of copper coated with a thick layer of pure g old. Marlon, who ia believed to have bought the "gold" from a half-blood Mexican who visited him three year ago, evidently discovered that he had been swindled, but did not complain, and the operations of the confidence men were brought to light only when his widow began an investigation of an apparent $10,000 shortage in her husband' estate. Eiht Amendments Lost. Columbus, (). Final figure from N7 of the XX counties in the state just completed by the secretary of tate how that eight of the 42 amendments to the f tate constitution voted on at the special election September 3, have been defeated. Among the de feated amendments are: Fipml suf frage, ffi0.000.000 good roads bond issue, prohibition of outdoor advertis ing, abolition of tho death penalty and the appointment of women to certain offices. The total vote wa ies man 650,000, below 60 per cent of normal. Zapatista Abduct Womir, Mexico City-Word wai received here that F.miliano SUpsH in "u,,'n- traling hia force at Al-itixnpan, i .. . 4 . . a with thtt mile soutn 01 iumii. - announced intention of marching on Cuernavaca. the enpitnl of Moreloi. In an attack Tuesday by .apaiiaw on a passenger train. 60 miles south of Mexico City, nine person were in jured, one fatally. I wo women i -enger were carried into the moun tain by the bandit. The wife of General Angeles, of tho federal troop waa amonu the passengers robbed. Baldwin la Renominated. Hartford. Conn. Governor Haldwin ... . t. .... n...u.ailliitt at wa renominated wunom the adjourned session of the IVmo cratic state convention. Other ofl.eers and several presidential electors also were named and a platform wa adopt- Tka ant $ tnrm favors direct election of United States senators, the direct primary. Initiative ami and the "further extension of suffrage to women." Log Rat. Will Advance. A.i.l. Or. The local logging camp have notified their customer, that on October 1. the price of log will be advanced l a inousn.... above the grade rate " In force for .me time. The act on follows a similar raise made by the npHBr river mina ami fective on September 1. HUGE SALE OF PUHUniMER Sierra Forest Opened to Lum ber Companies. Calf, rni. firm Bui 800.000,000 rM - Orcwih Will Raptaca ma'l Percental Ued. WuHhinirton. I). (;.-Kinl ,r.n "r irm aie or H00 nod nun r..t ..... , a"vernmeni jtimlMT to tha Sierra I uiar I'ino company, a California cor poration, will ahortly be concluded in San Kranciaeo by Chief KoreHter I enry H. Grave, who ia due to arrive mere on neptember 2H. The timber, which tan' in the Si erra national forest, ha already been wroen, aner pulilic advertisement, ui, unner uie term of the advertie mem, inn contract will not become hmdinif until the company ha been shown on the ground what timber the government will reserve in order to provnie for reproduction, and 3 airree in writin,; to the term im- Hise(I. The company will be allowed to cut in full Mill.ooil.llljo feet, but it will not he allowed to cut clean. A a rule, the Forest Service reserve about one-third of the Htand. "Such lare and lonfr-term inle are a new development of the service," aid Chief KoreHter Grave. "Great bodie of mature but inaccessible tim her run be put on the market only if sale contract are let on term which will justify a very heavy initii.1 in. vestment in transportation facilities. In entcrintr; into auch contracts, how ever, Dperinl narrpuards. to protect the putilic against monoiioly and to pre vent an undue erulntive profit to the purchaser are employed. The national forests contain the equivalent "of nearly BOO, 1)00,000,000 feet of timber now of merchantable iio, beaide young growth for future harvest. Kerause of it remotene from market, only a imall percentage ran now be sold on any term. The sale of les than one-fifth of 1 per cent of our total fupply to one company leave plenty of room for competition by other companies. "The timber which ha been sold to the California, companies lie well back in thcSierra Nevada mountain and will require the construction of 70 mile of standard gauge railroad to open up the area. The company is given a cutting period of 22 year to remove the timber, beside an addi tional two years for the construction of logging and manufacturing facili ties. "For several year the Forest Ser vice ha heen selling in tho neighbor hood of $1,000,000 worth of national forest stumpnge each year, but this, combined with whU is cut for free use, is only one-eighth of what might he rut without reducing the perma nent stork of the forests. The supply will be kept up through growth. Hy making long-term sales, it will be possible greatly to increase the amount available for present needs of the timber-consuming public, without endangering future supplies through over-cutting. STRIKERS CAPTURE UTAH MINE; FIRE ON SHERIFFS Ilingham. Utah Forty-five hundred men employed in the copper mines here laid down their tools Thursday morning, after the operators refused to meet their demands for an increase in pay of 60 cents a d.iy. Kvery mine in the camp, with one exception, is idle. The strikers are mostly foreigner and are determined that no one shall enter the mine or buildings until their demands have been granted. Shots were fired when deputies marched to the mines to draw the fires. A striker was shot by a deputy at another point. Bayonets Win Battle. Kome The most sanguinary engage ment of the war in Tripoli was fought Thursday near Derna, a town on the Mediterranean coast 140 miles norm west of Itenghari. The Italians lost 61 men killed and 113 wounde I. The Turk and Arabs left more than t00 dead on the held, rorty-one prison ers, inclu ling an Arab chief, fell into the hand of the Italian. Iho battle . . l L 1. . I- A t .... nt opened al oaynreaa, worn a in. Turks and Arab surprised and attack ed the Italian lines. The fight raged for four hour. New Southern Line Short. Sookane. Wash. Construction on the new llarriman line between Spo kane and I.os Angeles Is proceeding rapidly. I-" Angeles official of the Southern Pacific in charge of the iiil,linir of the line from the southern terminus say that the survey for the iin h been completed and that the distance will be 1175 miles, only 100 miles further thsn the shortest route now between Spokane and San Fran cisco and 475 mile shorter than the shortest existing line between Spo kane and I .os Angeles. Hnat Record Is Broken. sn Francisco San Francisco and Sacramento were singled out as points of attack by a heat wave Ihursaay, both citie recording temperatures of about 10 degrees above the average for tho rest of the state. ine aim Francisco maximum was 94 degrees, a record for the year. the propnecy is for a drop In the thermometer oi imm 6 to 10 degrees, with indications oi clear weather Immediately to fol low. f hint;! Market I Firm. RMI... Wash. Efforts of whole sale shingle dealers to break the mar kct and force prices down so far has met with little success. Seattle wholesalers have recently sold clear shingles for future delivery at $2.60 in the Fast, the prevailing price at the mills on the laat. known the wholesalers have been un- able to fill all the orders taken at the cut prices. OTTES2L Shylock's Insistency Beaten by a Black Portia BIRMINGHAM, AI.A Notwithstand ing the fact that tho United States Coiutltulon declares that no one shall bo Imprisoned for debt, tho effort Is sometimes made to use the police court aa a collecting atency. generally by a creditor preferring a charge of obtaining goods by fulse pretences or embezzlement. Of course this doesn't always work with tho Judu. and It Kern-rally results In the prosecutor beliiK taxed with the coats. There wa a reversal of this pro cedure the other day at the police court when KIhIo Allun, a tall, gaunt liek'ro woman of forbidding aspect, was arralKiied on a charge of disorderly conduct based on her efforts to collect a deht of 20 cents. Tho old woman acted as her own attorney In tho case and In the ability to ask rambling oiicstlona easily came up to any of the distinguished prac titioners that dally haunt tho city forum. Not only that, ehn did what lawyer rarely does In tho police court-she cleared tho defendant, thereby setting asldo the familiar ad ase that "ho (or fche) who Is his (or her) own attorney has a fool for a client " Thij principal witness aealnst the amlablo KImIo was a Xanthlc colored maiden of elephantine proportions named Molly Maybray. Molly's state nieut was to the effect that Bhe had purchased 20 cents wor'h of peaches irom me angular KIsle, tind that she Go-Cart Is Cause of Mix DETROIT. MICH. "The Comedy of a Go-Cart" would be an aot title for a sketch lu which a woman, her two little children, a boy and a trolley car figured the other nfternoon. The curtain rose when K. II. Lerchen. 148 Tuxedo avenue, hired Ed Schultz. aged sixteen. 322 Hunt street, to take a Ro-cart to his Bister on the West side. From then on the action was awflt. Ed boarded a Jefferson car and not having any llttlo brothers and sisters who uso one of the tiny carriages, he forgot all about Mr. Lerchen's when he alighted from the car at Fourth and Grand River avenues. In a few seconds It dawned on Ed that he must be In that part of the city for eomethlng. "Ah, ha, I have It," exclaimed the boy. "I was to deliver Mr. Lerchen's gocart. Hut where Is It?" he asked himself, feellr.g In his pockets. "Must have left It on the car." he said finally. Ed appealed to a patrolman, who advised him to wait on the corner for the car to return and recover tho cart That appeared loclcal. so he tat dow u on the curb to wait. After a while a pay-enter came along and Ed saw a go-cart on the rear platform. He jumped at the conclusion that It was Mr. Lerchen's. He stopped the car and the platform door swung open. Refore the conduc tor could close It again Ed bad the Municipal . Elephant Serves as a Thief Chaser i win rut' Va&M MNNIE. the municipal elephant, the other day rescued Mrs. Jennie I'liiu. 3338 I'aris avenue, from three hoodlums In the Rrookslde Tark woods. Minnie dispersed the young men and nearly caught one of them In an exciting chase down the aide of one of the peaks that rise across Rig Creek opposite the Fulton road en trance. Mrs. I'lau Is the wife of Paul Plan, Minnie's keeper. She bad taken her young son. Arthur, eight years old, to the park to accompany Minnie and her husband on their morning walk before the visitors began to throng the meadows and woods. Minnie Is becoming very sure-foot ed and climbs bills like a goat. Plau iinys. On the morning of the ad venture he had taken on a high pnth. fringed with bushes, that runs near the edge of the cliff. Mrs. Plau and Homes Disrupted and PHILADELPHIA. TBI city Is agi tated as over a question which baf fles solution. Wherever one goe It I being discussed. Argument have arisen, tights have followed and ar rests resulted. Homes have become disrupted and the whole city 1 prac- tlraMy divided Into two factions. The question is: "What I a Io6- ster7" It was handed up to a higher court hrrn the other day by a police magis trate after he had spent a week In conferring with the leading lobster au thentic all over the country. 1 he rase is that of John Hauducaur. a chef In a local hotel, who wa af ro sted on a charge of cruelty to ani mals for placing a wooden peg In the first Joint back of the claw of a lob- wr to prevent It from snapping. The case waa argued today before follco Mnglstrate Haggorty by two lawyers, an amateur fisherman from Mulnu. a member of the cruelty o clety and the proprietor of the hotel. The fisherman declared that he wa will ucmiutnted with lobster and that he never knew one that lived In salt water tbat could feel pain. The at- Intended to pay for them sometime before the winter holidays. According to Molly's testimony, Shylock was not more Insistent for bla pound of flesh than was KUIm for her two dimes, the aforesaid Insistency resulting ia an at tack on the fairy form of the corpu lent Molly. "Do you want to question the wit ness?" asked thn judge at the conclu sion of the statement of Molly. "Does ah want to ax any questions?" snorted Elsie. "In course ah does. Didn't ah gin yo dat basket er peaches fur 20 cents?" "Ah reckon so." "Did yo' pay me dem two dime when ah axed yo' fur 'em like er lady?" "Lak er lady! Yo' said If ab didn't pay yo' would frow er brick at ma head." "Did jo' gin me dat change?" "Ah done tole yo' ab didn't have no money." "Yo' ain't payed ma twell yet, la yo?" "No." "Dar yo Is," said Elsie, triumphant ly addressing the Caledonian on the bench. "Do you wanl to ask any more ques tions?" asked Judge Douglas. "Mo' questions? What mo' ques tions does yo' want me ter al? Ah knows nuffln erbout dls yere cote, ah nevah has bin in jail." "That will do" commented bis honor, "you are discharged, but you must not undertake to collect any debt by sucb forceful methods." KIsle glared at the judge a moment and said: "Ah bet ah got dat 20 cents befo' dat yaller nigger is er day older." - Up in Thrilling Comedy go cart and was making off. Mrs. Frank Marvin, 278 McGraw avenue, spied him. She had two little childrenu with her, but that didn't de ter her. She grabbed them both and made a race for Ed. "Where are you going with my go cart?" she commanded. "Put it down this Instant." Rut Ed Ignored her and tried to con tinue bis Journey. Sirs. Marvin wouldn't bave it that way and there was a struggle for possession of the cart The boy wouldn't let go and Mrs. Marvin clung on. Somebody called the police and Mrs. Marvin, the children. Ed and the go-cart were giv en a ride to police headquarters In a patrol. ' At the station neither Mrs. Marvin nor Ed would relinquish claim on the cart. Finally Mr. Lerchen was sent for and he quickly settled everything by saying the cart wasn't the one he gave the boy to deliver. At that point the curtain fell on the first act. The cast Is still Id rehearsal on the Best of the show. her son had preceded the keeper and the pachyderm by 100 feet or more. Suddenly three young men Jumped from behind a clump of trees and one of them made for her. Mrs. Plau carried a handbag with $40 In it In notes and &ho screamed. Plau and the elephant arrived In a hurry. The boys bad not aeen the clephane. which had been concealed by the bushes. "One of the boys was only a few feet away from Mrs. Plau when Min nie saw him," said Plau. "I tad heard the elephant snort a little while before and I thought either a man or a dog was near. "Co after him. Minnie.' I told the elephant and she did. It waa the first time I had ever seen her try to In jure anyone and she surely did try to get that fellow. He dodged be hind a tree and then ran down hill. Minnie went after him, but the grade saved him. Minnie is slow In going down bill. The other two fellow ran In the direction of the log cabin and all escaped." Minnie was back In her house be fore 8:30, rolling her 4.300 pound from oce foot to another a If ahe had never seen a bandit City Divided By Lobster torney for the society then pleaded that all animals experienced pain and that the chef wa guilty of cruelty. The defenae argued that the charge fell because the lobster Is not an ani mal. Then the same argument that caused the adjournment of court a week ago arose and the magistrate threw hi hands up In despair. "It's too much for me," be said, "I'll hold the defendant In $100 bonds and let the court decide the matter. When the action of the court was announced, several fight occurred In various saloon where wager had been placed on the outcome of th case. In the meantime the defense Is planning to make a bitter fight and to carry the case up a high a It will go, provided a Judgment I rendered against the USEFUL LITTLE POCKET BOOK Knlfa, Pin. Nssdle. Notebook, Pencil Sharpener and Other Article In Combination. One of the most complete combina tion articles ever put on the market is th pocket box designed by a Pennsyl vania man. This compact and aston ishing little device include a pen knife, pencil sharpener, notebook, pin cushion, call clip and several other necessary things. The contrivance Is abot the size and shape of a large match box. In a slide along one side Is a knife blado, which, by means of a projection extending through the slot, may be thrust out when needed and replaced when not In use. Part of the box Is a lid, on the bottom of which Is fastened leaves of blank paper, forming a writing pad or note book. Beneath this lid is a padded Handy Pocket Box. surface for pins, needles, etc. At one end of the box Is an opening large enough to admit a lead pencil and equipped with a sharpening knife In side, while the nail clip Is operated by the lid of the box, which works on a spring. With a change of linen and undergarments and one of these boxes a man might travel round the world. SPRING SWING FOR CHILDREN Interesting and Amusing Arrangement for the Little Folks Is Shown in tha Illustration. An Interesting swing arrangement for children. Attached to the support ing frame are four lever pivotally mounted relative to each other, two lever extending In one direction and two In tho other. The rope support ing the swing-scat pas through the upper lever ends and are attached to the lower ones, and the weight of the person twinging tend to draw the Spring Swing, lever together, thu giving a springy action and considerably extending th winging period. FLINT LOCKS STILL IN USE Old-Fashtoned Musket Remain Prin cipal Weapons of Many Natives In African Jungles. Old flint lock muskets are still the principal weapons of hordes of native over vast tracts of Africa. The exis tence of these ancient arm keeps alive a steady demand tor gun flints, a demand which Is supplied from the little Norfolk village of Brandon, where there are flint pits which have been worked, as remains found estab lish, for at least 30 centuries. The business Is a hereditary one. Large masses of flint are got out of the quar ries and then flaked or split (the proc ess being termed "knapping") In or der to get at the core, which alone Is used. The workmen place the flint upon a pad upon their left leg and tap It with a short, heavy hammer. Four fifths of the flint thus dealt with Is waste, but of the remainder gun flints, carbine flints and pistol flints are still manufactured, while tlndcrbox flints are prepared for the shepherds of thr -enioter parts of Spain and Italy. Amusing Puzzles. A person may, without stirring from the room, seat himself In a place where It will be impossible for anoth er person to do so. Explain this. Answer: The first person seat himself In the other's lap. Place a candle In such a manner. that every person shall see It except one. although he shall not be blind folded, or prevented from examining every part of the room, neither shall the cad! be hidden. Answer: Place the candle on hi head, taking care that no mirror Is In the room. Make one word of the letter of word "new door." Answer: One word. Sourc of Buttermilk. "See all those lovely cows," said the fanner to Johnny; "they gave you the rich white milk you drank today." "Did those goats give the 'butter milk Aunt Susan drank?" asked the boy. SOLD HAIR FOR BREAD WIFE'S SACRIFICE WON HER WAR RANT FOR HER HUSBAND. Kansas City Woman Showed the Prosecutor Where She Had Cropped Her Lock, and "Official Policy" Yielded. tt Kansas City, Mo. A woman who told her hair a few weeks ago for the family support obtained a state war rant for the arrest of her husband by removing ber hat In the prosecuting attorney' office, showing the hair closely cropped from the top of the bead. A moment before the woman, Mrs. Monroe Burch, 6832 Perry avenue, had been refused a warrant by E. J. Cur- tin, acting warrant officer. With ber little boy, Mr. Burch had taken a seat before the assistant' desk. Her husband, a carpenter, had left her, she said. And he had mad little effort to support the family of three for several months. "It Is against the policy of the of fice to Issue a warrant so soou after the husband has left a a result of a quar rel," Mr. Curttn explained. "Your hus band may return In a few days." ' Mr. Burch started to the door. She hesitated, turned and removed her hat "That waa one of my sacrifice," she said. "I do not think my husband sought work as he should. Two week ago we were hungry at our home. I had begun to look for washing to do, but we needed food. I went to a wom an who has a small hair shop near Twentieth street and Indiana avenue. My hair had often been admired. The shop woman offered me 50 cent an ounce. I let ber clip four ounce. 'A week later I asked my husband for 80 cent to pay the milkman. He had been drinking and exclaimed an grily that I should bave paid the milk bill out of the hair money. I told him two dollar would not last so long. but he started a violent quarrel. He took a stove poker and did some dam age to the house before he left" Mr. Curtin had picked tp a pen. He was writing an information for a warrant from the Justice court of Charles Clark. The "office policy" had been forgotten. YOUTH'S PAST LIFE A BLANK Assistant Gunner on Training Ship I Afflicted With a Strang Malady. San Mateo, Cal. One of the strang est cases that the surgeons In the ma- marine hospital service ever have met w ith I that of Horace Walling, the eldest son of Mr. and Mrs. H. H. Wall ing of San Mateo, who was stricken with a mysterious malady while with the United States tralnlngship Nash ville in San Domingo bay, Haiti, and now lies in the naval hospital at Portsmouth, Va., suffering from a complete loss of memory. One day, while the Nashville wa In port at San Domingo, Walling, assist ant gunner on the training ship, went ashore alone. Half an hour later he wa brought back to the ship In a dazed condition, unable to speak, hear or walk. At first the surgeons were Inclined to believe that he had been drugged by the natives, but as his con dition remained the same, that theory was abandoned. An examination failed to reveal any evidence of sunstroke and no bruise of any kind were found on his- head or body. It was four weeks before Walling regained his speech and hearing and wa able to walk, but be was aa help less as a small child. He could neither read nor write and he recognized none of his former companions. With pains taking care and training the phy sicians began to teach their patient to read, write and walk, and the pro gress was so rapidly that In a month he had regained all past book learn ing. Walling Is now normal In every re spect, except that his mind 1 a blank a to all persona, places or event that took place before his Illness. He can not recall his home, family or friend. H. H. Walling, the boy' father 1 a merchant of San Francisco. Too Lazy to Live. Paris. M. and Mme. Bouzer and (heir daughter, Madeleine, twenty-five years old. were found dead In their flat In the Hue Albouy, the other morning. They took their live because they did not think them worth living. They were all "cranks." and when the daughter preached Mr. Macdonald Hastings' theory that death wa some times a duty, the parents allowed themselves to be persuaded. . Mme. Bouzer wrote a number of let ters, which were found on the dining room table. In all of them she ex plained that she. her husband, and her daughter were going to commit suicide because their lease to the flat had run out and they did not want the trouble of moving. Machine Kill Bird. Ellensburg, Wash. Fully SO per eent of the annual hatch of the Chi nese pheasant have been killed this year during the haying season, ranch er report Hay putting time Is the time for the birds to nest, and when the mower and rake pass over the Held the eggs are broken or the young birds are accidentally run over or trampled by the horse. Most of the farmer exercise much caution and try to protect the bird. Hair Turn Whit In Hurry. . Sunbury, Pa. John Lenta of 8even Point, while driving over the Read ing railway near here, wa struck by a passenger train and hurled 30 feet. being badly Injured. HI black hair tutned white, one of bis horse wa killed and the wagon wrecked. ' Wa Cursed 17 Way, Reno, NaT. Mr. Bertha Nathansoti, wife of a New York professor of lan guages, baa brought suit for divorce because "her husband cursd her la 11 different languages."