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(Continued from page 1)
Febiger, U. S, A., commands the left
commanded by Captain Lansing, U.
wing, and the mountain battery is
S. A. Wagon trains are located a
mile in the rear, which is the base.
Cavalry occupies the lines of com
munication, backed by raipd-iire gun
detachments from the Fourth U. S.
Artillery. The Blue brigade is made
up of the third battalion of the Sec
ond U. S. Infantry, the Fourth Ore
ton, the Second Washington, the
Sixth U. S. Infantry, two batteries
Fourth U. S Field Artillery, two
troops Fourteenth Cavalry, and hos
pital, signal and engineer corps de
tachments. As soon as the battle
now under progress has been com
pleted hostilities will be suspended
during a general discussion by offi
cers of the tactical points involved.
DUELING STORIES.
Cirardin'a Satisfaction and a Winning
Choice of Weapons.
M. de GIrardin. tba father of the
statesman and author. Euiile de Glrar
iln, on one occasion entered a place
where several men were firing at a
target A gentleman present whom
If. de GIrardin did not know, bit the
fccllseye at every shot Several by
standers expressed themselves in very
great admiration of the gentleman's
frocteion.
"Tea," said De GIrardin, "he shoots
swaarkably well, bnt It's quite a differ
ent thing to hit a man In a duel from
kitting a piece of pasteboard."
The marksman overheard the remark
and was offended.
"I think yon are mistaken, sir." be
said to De GIrardin. "I assure you that
If I bad you before me I shouldn't miss
you"
Ton can have me when you like.'"
said De GIrardin.
' "Let it be Immediately; then." said
the other.
' An attempt was made to patch the
siatter up. but neither man would
agree to an amicable settlement The
seconds were chosen, and the men
went to a locality favorable for the
4ueL It was decided that they should
fire separately, and It was left to a de
cision by lot which fired first.
The lot fell to the mysterious marks
man. He fired at M. de GIrardin and
missed him. De GIrardin stood still,
soaking no sign as if to. fire at bis an
tagonist "Come, why don't you shoot?" asked
his seconds.
"Why should 1 shoot?" asked De GI
rardin. "There Is !j reason why I
should kill this gentleman. I main
tained that even a crack shot could
easily miss bis man at twenty-five
paces. This gentleman maintained the
contrary. He must now be convinced
that he is wrong. I owe him no 111 will
for having discovered that'
A better method of meeting a duel
ing challenge was no doubt one which
was employed on a certain occasion
fcy a French statesman against M. Vic
tor Noir, an Illiterate bully of the press
In the time of the second empire. The
statesman received from Noir, for no
real reason whatever, a challenge to
fight a duel.
Noir was a densely Ignorant man.
and nearly every word in the challenge
was misspelt The statesman respond
ed with the following letter:
Dear Sir You have called mo out wlth
ot any good reason. I have therefore
tba choice of weapons. I choose the
spelling book, and you are a dead man.
The duel was never fought London
Tit-Bits. .
POISONING AS A FINE ART.
Scale of Prices Submitted to the Vene
tian Council of Ten.
' Venetian poisoners first came Into
notoriety in the fifteenth century. At
that period the mania for poisoning
tad risen to such a height that the
governments of the states were form
ally recognizing secret assassination
by poison and considering the removal
f emperors, princes and powerful no
fcles by this method.
The notorious council of ten met to
consider such plans, and an account
and record of their proceedings still ex
ists, giving the number of those who
oted for and who voted against the
proposed removal, the reasons for the
assassination and the sum to be paid
for its execution.
Thus these conspirators quietly ar
ranged to take the lives of many prom-
fctent Individuals, and when the deed
sat
margin of their official record by the
significant word "factum."
On Dec. 15. 1M3, John of Raguba
offered the council a selection of poi
sons and declared himself ready to re
move any person whom they deemed
objectionable out of the way. Ho
calmly stated his terms, which for the
first successful case were to be a pen
sion of 1,500 ducats a year, to be In
creased on the execution of further
services.
The presidents Guolando Duoda and
rietro Gularnl placed this matter be
fore the council on Jan. 4, 1344, and
on a division it was resolved to accept
this patriotic offer and to experiment
first on the Emperor Maximilian. John.
who had evidently reduced poisoning
to a One art. submitted afterward a
regular graduated tariff to the council.
The highest fee was for poisoning tbo
sultan, 000 ducats; for the king of
Spain, 150 ducats. Including the ex
penses of the Journey; for the Duke of
Milan, 00 ducats: for the Marquis of
Mantua, 50 ducats; for the pope, ISO
ducats. Health.
New Light en the Zones.
A class of boys averaging about
twelve years of age had been exam
ined In geography, which had been pre
ceded the day before by grammar.
Among the questions id the geography
paper was the following:
"Name the semes."
One promising youth of eleven years
wrote this answer:
"There are two zones, masculine and
feminine. The masculine is either
temperate or intemperate; the femi
nine Is either torrid or frigid." New
York Sun.
Then He 8ubsided.
"I never saw such a woman In all
my life," said Bass, "ou are never
satisfied with anything."
"People who know the man I took
for a husband." replied Mrs. B., "think,
on the contrary, that I am easily sat
isfied." Liverpool Mercury.
Trouble Ahead.
Book Agent Madam, I was request
ed to call on you to show you this great
work. "How to Cook Properly." Mad
am Who sent you here? Book Agent
Your husband. New Ycrt Press.
The Ring Finger.
To the question often asked why the
marriage ring should be placed oa the
left band many answers are given.
Some say because the left hand Is
much less used than the right and
therefore the ring Is less liable to get
broken. In the British Apollo of 1788
It is stated that for the same reason
the fourth finger was chosen, which is
not only less used than either of the
rest, but Is more capable of preserv
ing a ring from ' bruises, having this
one quality peculiar to Itself that it
cannot be extended but in company
with some other finger, whereas the
rest may be singly stretched out to
their full length and stralgbtness.
Voltaire's Church.
Voltaire at no time claimed to be an
atheist In the generally accepted sense
of that term. So far as can be learned
from bis own utterances and those of
bis contemporaries be was a deist a
believer In God. but not In "revelation,"
save as the revelation comes through
God's visible creation. Voltaire built
a church In Ferney. Switzerland, above
the door of which be had inscribed the
words. "Erected to God by Voltalre."
New York American.
Consolation.
"Wot's hup. Billy?"
"Fader says my bis brudder's gorn to
'eaven."
"Don't cry"-liopefnlly "mebbe e
aln't!"-London Opinion.
Mixed.
The following appeared In an Irish
newspaper:
"Whereas, John Hall has fraudulent
ly taken away several articles of wear
ing apparel without my knowledge,
this is therefore to Inform him that
If he does not forthwith return the
same his name shall be made public."
London Tattler.
An Imposition.
Magistrate So you acknowledge
having stolen the overcoat Anything
more to say? Prisoner Yes, your
honor. I had to have the sleeves re
lined. Punch.
Why is it that the only time the
newspapers spell a man's name right
Is when he Is arrested for street fight
ing? Los Angeles Times.
Not Exclusive.
Nellie (aged five)-Our family Is aw
fully exclusive. Is yours? Bessie (aged
four) No, Indeed! We haven't any
thing to be ashamed of. New Orleans
Times - Democrat
STUDY ESPERANTO
The United States Will Send a
Representative
WILL MEET IN GERMANY
Official Recognition is Given to the
Remarkable New Universal Lan
guage by the War Department
Congress to be Held in Dresden.
it
WASHINGTON, Aug. 10.-F.spe-ranto
has been recognized officially
by the United States government in
the recent appointment of Major
Paul F. Straub of the Army Medical
Corps, to represent this country in
the Fourth International Esperanto
Congress to be held at Dresden, Ger
many, August 16-23, 1908. Belgium
was the first nation to give its official
recognition to this remarkable lan
guage by sending Lieutenant Cardi
nal to the third congress, held af
Cambridge, England, last August.
The War Department library was
the first institution in Washington to
recognize the value of Esperanto as
an auxiliary language and it began
the accumulation of Esperanto litera
ture in January, 1906. The Washing
ton Esperanto ociety was organized
in the Spring of 1907. Its presidents
thus far have been James W. Cheney,
librarian of the War Department,
and Charles W. Stewart, superintend
ent of navy war records.
Esperanto .has taken firm root
throughout the world. This is indi
cated by the number of groups form
ed in various countries and the di
versity of their scope and composi
tion. By its advocates Esperanto ,
destined to become one of the most
important factors of the world's pro
gress. At the end of December, 1907,
the total number of Esperanto schools
and societies throughout the world
was 753. At the present tune the
total is practicaly 1000. A proof of
the progress of the Esperanto move
ment is the appearance of the new
Esperanto gazettes, most of them
monthlies, an increase of IS over the
number in December, 1907.
In Bohemia, the Postmaster-Gener
al has authorized the use of Esper
anto in telegrams on equal footing
with European modern languages. In
Japan, Count Hayashi, minister of
foreign affairs, has accepted the
honorary president of the Japanese
Esperanto Association and in a
public letter has recommended that
his countrymen take up Esperanto
which he called the gospel of the
world.
FATAL COLLISION.
Three Killed and 20 Injured Owing
to Misunderstood Signal.
PIQUE, Aug. 10 Three were kill
ed and 20 injured in a 'collision be
tween two cars on the Western
Traction Company's line, 20 miles
north of here today. The cause of
the wreck is thought ' to have been
though a misunderstood signal. The
north bound car ou of riue was run
ning on time while the south bound
car out of Sydney was running at a
great speed.
BIG TREES IN DANGER.
All Efforts to Check Forest Fire Are
Unavailable.
t
SONORA, Aug. 10 The forest fire
vhich has been raging has reached'
the outhern Grow near the Calaveras,
big trees. All efforts to check it have
been unavailing so far. Advices from
the scene are that the big trees are
in no immediate danger owing to the
nature of the ground and the fact that
the underbrush is cut out. The area
of burned section is now about 30
miles square, but the property loss is
small. The trees are oil swampy
ground which makes the fighting eas
ier than elsewhere. It may be set
down that unless unforseen circum
stances arise they will be saved.
CALIFORNIA PRIMARIES.
Will be Held Today Throughout the
State.
SAN FRANCISCO, Aug. 10-The
primaries, will be held tomorrow
throughout California, for the elec-
tion of thre sets of delegates to the 65 cents per month, delivered by car
state convention which will select ,rier. Contains full Associated Press
the presidential electors; to congres- report? and all latest local news,
sional conventions, for the noinln.it
tion of eight congressmen, and to th
county and local conventions, More
than usual importance attaches to the
election of the full house ami half
the senate, because a United State
senators is to be chosen this year. "In
also every county in the state two
factions are contesting for control In
both parties. In the Republican party
there is a contest on between , the
Lincoln-Roosevelt League and the
regular organization with both wing
expressing the confidence that they
have the majority In the legislature,
The democrats are in a similar po
sit ion. They have a regular orgnni
zation known as the McNab faction
and adherents of ex-Congressman
Bell who routed McNab at Fresno.
In addition to the tickets of the
great parties, there are in the field
those of the Independence League
and the Union Labor ticket,
A CHINESE DROUGHT.
Tragic Scenes That Come With i
Long Spell of Dry Weather,
lu many districts of China witter be
comes very scarce during the summer
months. Some of the fearful result
of the drought are described thus !
the Rev. John MacGowau: "The grea
situ blazes down from an unclouded
sky and drinks up the water that I-
clinging to the roots of the rice. Tin
toll now cracks with the fervent beat
and every blade of rice seems to I
making an appeal to the benrtbrokoi,
farmer for the watef that alone wll
enable It to live, lie Is now at lib
wits' end to save his crop, for that per
haps is the only thins now that Ilex
between him and poverty and despair
A failure of a crop means very likely
that be will have to sell his daughter
or a son perhaps or even barter awu.v
his wife if he would keep the home
stead from slipping from his grasp
Some of the most piteous scenes tu the
many tragic ones that cast their shad
ows over the home In the experience ol
the Chinese buslmndineo can be wit
nesscd during the summer mouth
wheu there has been a shortage In the
fall of rain.
"The wells have become dry. and the
liliiv uuua uiiv wru umiueu ui
drop of water they contained. The
rice In the field has lost the dark green
color that with Its rich sheen tells of
health and vitality and Is turning Into
a sickly yellow that means decay and
death. Water must be got now and at
any price, for two or three days more
of this will see the grain blasted in tbr
fields. They accordingly dig the ponds
deeper to catcb the tiniest rills that
may flow luto them, and as the work
In the blazing sun might at once drink
these up the work Is carried on during
the midnight hours, so that not a drop
of the precious fluid may be absorbed
by the great thirsty dragon In the sky.
"Often these most pathetic endeavors
to save tbelr crops end In tragedy and
death. Men are making a supreme ef
fort to avert disaster from their homes,
and in the mad endeavor to gain the
water for themselves the wildest pas-
BKHI9 UI lUl' UlU(l HIV (MUtini-U, U11U
neighbors will struggle with each oth
er for the slowly trickling drops of
water. The solemn air of night Is
broken with the sounds of conflict, and
the stars looking down from the mid
night sky see murder committed by
men whose sole and controlling motive
Is the preservation of their bomes."
Cblcago News.
LONDON'S SAFETY VALVE.
Trafalgar Square, Where Agitators
"Blow Off Steam."
There Is perhaps no other great city
where the measure of free speech
which is accorded to agitators of all
hinds is larger than It is In London. It
Is the practice there to give anybody
and everybody a chance to spout away
to his heart's content in certain well
recognized places of rendezvous, such
as the spacious Trafalgar square, and
especially the far more spacious ex
panse of field or common In that por
tion of Hyde park where the "re
formers' tree" stands and where there
Is room not only for thousands and
tens of thousands, but even hundreds
of thousands.
Ordinarily in favorable weather on
almost any fine afternoon or In the
early part of the evening little meet
ings are going on there, each having a
piece of ground allotted to it by the
police, but on a Sunday, from early In
the morning until well into the night,
these assemblages are very numerous
and In full blast Twenty, thirty, forty,
even more, I have seen In operation at
the same time, the speakers, men and
women, haranguing to groups or to
big crowds on every theme imaglnabls
religion, spiritualism, politics, the
tariff, woman's rights, astrology, pe
nology, the faith cure, bad literature,
theosophy, socialism, anarchy, govern
mental abuses, the abolltlou of the
house of lords, home rule, local re
forms and the vices of the aristocracy,
while the red flag was as likely to be
as conspicuous as any other emblem
on the poles that are stuck lu the
ground or on the folding platforms
which are rolled In on wheels. The
whole practice has long been regarded
by many Englishmen as an excellent
means of letting the people "blow on
tbelr steam,"-Phlladeiphla Bulletin.
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MANY INTERESTED
Deluge of Requests Made on
Aero-Dynamics
TO STUDY AERONAUTICS
Smithsonian Institute Has Prepared
Booklet Containing Four of Prlncl
pal Papera Written by Prof. Lang
ley, a Pioneer in the Movement.
WASHINGTON. Aug, 10,-Witl
interest aroused by Count Zeppelin'
airship flight several days ago and the
tests now being held at Fort Mycr,
the Smithsonian Institute is being
leluded with requests for the work
on aero dynamics, by Professor S. P
Langley.
To meet these demands the insti
tution has prepared a booklet con
taining four of the principal papers
written by Professor Langley, on his
flying machine. The "Stories of Ex
perimepts in Experimental fliKlits,'
"The Langley Aerodrome," "The
Great Flying Creature," and "F.xperl
ments with the Langley Aerdrome,"
in which Professor Langley gives his
version of the last attempt to fly his
airship which ended disastrously
Professor Langley was probably
the pinner instigator and experinien
ter with machine lu-avier-than-nir
that were supported in (light only by
their own mechanical energy. He de
signed and built several small mod-
els ami a quarter size model of a lar
ger man-carrying machine which
made successful flights of over half
a minute each, keeping In the air as
long as fuel lasted, The first of these
flights was made in May, 1896, over
12 years ago. The small aerodrome,
two driven by steam and the third by
gasoline engines, are on exhibition in
he United States museum.
The latter large machine built not
ong before Professor Langley
leath, has never been fully tested, a
break occurring in the launching ap
paratus at each of the two trials in
1003.
The underlying principle of ' Pro
fessor Langley's experiments work
ed out through his scientific study is
expressed in one of the papers pub
ished originally in 1897:
What is popularly known as 'Fly
ng Machine' Is literally a machine
without gas to support it. in no way
resembling a balloon and which its
nventor has called the aerodrome.
The aerodrome (from words signify
ing 'air runner") is then the name giv
en to this apparatus by Mr. Langley
to indicate the principle of its action
which in no way resembled that of a
balopn that floats because it is lighter
than air, while the aerodrome is
hundreds of, times heavier than air."
Although some of Mr. Langley's
models had flown short distances be
fore, he preferred to consider the
flight of May 6, 1896, over 12 years
go, referred to above as the first
really successful one. Dr. Alexander
Graham Bell, Mr. Frank G. Carpen
ter, and others, were witnesses on
this occasion. The model repeatedly
ew a distance estimated by Dr. Bell
at about 3000 feet or more than half a
mile.
REPORTS PLEASE BRYAN.
Regarding Political Outcome Affect;
ing His Candidacy.
FAIRVIEW, Aug. 10-From the
lips of a number of callers from var
ions parts of the country and letters
received Colonel Bryan today heard
gratifying reports regarding the po
litical outlook as affecting his candi
dacy., Altogether he had ojie of the bus
iest days since his , nomination. In
addition to some traveling men a'nd
visiors, including Representative
Clayton of Alabama, delegation of
of Christian Scientists from various
parts of the country and 300 Epworth
Leaguers to whom he delivered a
brief address, Numbers of the noti
fication committee are rapidly coming
in. Tomorrow important conferences
by the democratic managers will be
held in Lincoln. One of these will be
between Chairman Mack and the
members' of the executive committee,
and others bet wen Mack and the
committee appointed to compile the
campaign text book. In the after
noon it is expected Mack will go out
to Fairview where he and the demo
cratic nominee will discuss the gen
eral of the camapign.
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Ver. Barracks, Wash., August 1,
1908. Sealed proposals, in triplicate,
will be received here until 11 o'clock,
. m., September 1, 1908, for furnish-'
ng a supply of forage and bedding
for posts in Department Columbia
mbraced within boundaries of United
States, Deliveries of supplies to
commence October I, 1908. Informa
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serves the right to reject or accept
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