DEATH
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."