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Gain or $114,000,000 Shows New
Tariff to Be Lower Than Old
Average Ad .Valorem Rates On All
Product 20.86 Per Cent Rev
enue Not Impaired,
Washington Import exceeding by
more than $114,000,000 those of any
previous similar period came into the
United States during the first 11
months of the operation of the Payne
Aldrich tariff law, ended June SO last.
More than 49 per cent of these im
ports entered free of duty, being a
larger percentage than in the correS'
ponding period, or any previous year
except 1897, the closing year of the
Wilson tariff law, and 1892, 1893 and
1894, when sugar was admitted free
under the McKinley law.
Customs receipts during the 11
months of the new tariff law were
$302,822,161, exceeded only in 1907,
when the first 11 months brought in
$307,053,381. These figures were
made public by the bureau of statistics
of the department of commerce and
labor.
Under the Payne law the average
ad valorem rate of duty on all imports
has been 20.95 per cent, which is less
than in any previous similar period
since 1890 except in 1896, when it
was 20.58 per cent, and in 1894, the
closing year of the McKinley law,
when it was 19.78 per cent. ;
On the dutiable imports the average
ad valorem rate under the present law
has been 41.19 per cent, the lowest
of any previous year since 1890, except
in 1896, when it was 39.33 per cent.
Comparing the entire period lot the
operation of the present law with the
ontire period of the operation of the
Dingley, Wilson and McKinley laws,
respectively, the average "ad valorem
rate under the Payne law is shown to
be less than any of the others.
Under the Payne law it has been
20.95. Under the Dingley law it was
25.48 per cent, under the Wilson, law
21.92 per cent, and under the McKin
ley law 22.12 per cent.
In regard to the average ad valorem
Tate on dutiable merchandise only, the
same is true. Under the Dingley law
it was 45.76 per cent; under the Wil
son law 42.82 per cent., and under the
McKinley law 47.10 per cent.
The percentage of merchandise en
tering free of duty under the Payne
law has been 49.14 per cent. Under
the McKinley law, which admitted
sugar free, it was 35.04 per cent, and
tinder the Wilson law 48.82 per cent.
The figures of the Payne law include
the first five days of August, although
the law did not become operative until
August 6. The returns to the bureau
of statistics did not enable it to separ
ate the business of those five days from
that of the rest of the month.
PORTLAND HAS BIG FIRE.
Exposition Building, Multnomath Club
and Many Residences Go.
Portland.Or. Fire broke out in the
Exposition building at 12:50 Thursday
morning, and destroyed that building
and the greater part of Beven blocks
adjoining it
Though it is impossible to approxi
mate the loss, it is feared it will ex
ceed $1,000,000. Over 200 head of
horses are said to have died in the
flames in the Fashion stables in the
Exposition building.
Frank R. Price, of Oregon City, is
dead. He, with three other men, was
sleeping in the Fashions tables. It is
not known if the others escaped. A
young man terribly burned was taken
from the Exposition building and rush
ed to St. Vincent's hospital. He will
die. His name is unknown.
The Glendora hotel, 45 Nineteenth
street north; three apartment houses
on Washington street, the Multnomah
club and several stores on four corners
covered by Washington, Couch and
Ella streets, are destroyed.
The entire fire apparatus of the city
was called out, but despite the heroic
work of the firemen it was impossible
to check the flames.
Town Twice Destroyed.
Reno, Nev. The town of Palisade,
18 miles west of Carlin, at the inter
section of the Southern Pacific and Eu
reka & Palisade railroad, has been des
troyed by fire. With the exception of
the railroad buildings, which were
saved by heroic work, every business
building in the town and several resi
dences were burned. This is the sec
ond time the town of Palisade has been
demolished this year. The entire
town, then standing on the south side
of the track, was washed away this
spring by a flood.
Phenomenal Score Made.
Wakefield, Mass. A phenomenal
score was shown in the annual New
England State Rifle competition when
Corporal Percy B. Scofield. of Company
E, Fifth Massachusetts, nearly doubled
the world's record for 600 ards at
the Bay State rifle range. He scored
116 consecutive bullseyes. The world's
record, held by Captain Stephen W.
Wise, inspector of small arms practice
of the Sixth Massachusetts, was 60
consecutive bullseyes.
Lightning Strikes 13.
Belt, Mont. Thirteen harvesters
who took refuge under a tree during a
storm were rendered unconscious by
lightning and one of them instantly
killed.
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AEROPLANE DROPS "BOMBS.
Curtis Lands Oranges Accurately on
War Ship's Deck.
Atlantic City, N. J. -Glenn H. Cur
tiss tossed oranges as mimic bombs
within three feet of the decks of the
yacht John E. Mehrer II, used in place
of a battleship during the sham battle
arranged to demonstrate the utility of
the aeroplane in coast defense.
The mock "bombs" were dropped
from a neight of about 300 feet and
Curtiss purposely failed to strike the
deck of the yacht for fear of injuring
the officials and passengers on her
decks.
Experts agreed that the experiments
showed that a fleet of aeroplanes armed
with bombs could wreck any warship
before guns could be trained on them.
Curtiss was flying about 45 miles an
hour when he dropped the "bombs"
and officials on the deck declared that
he was within accurate distance of
rifle fire less than half a minute. Col
onel William Allen Jones, retired,
formerly of the United States Engin
eer corps, who is an advocate of aero
planes for coast defense, stated after
the trialc his belief that the air ma
chine has proved its efficacy.
"The armored battleship is ap
proaching its last days as an engine of
attack against a city or country guard
ed by aeroplanes," he said.
I believe a fleet of a seore of air
machines would absolutely protect any
coast city. A night flight by such a
fleet not only would probably demolish
an entire fleet of battleships, but would
so demoralize the crew of the attacked
vessels as to make them useless."
Curtiss also dropped oranges over a
fortification marked out on the beach,
making practically every shot a "hit,"
although the trajectory was sometimes
as great as 30 degrees, because of the
wind and his speed.
Walter Brookins' night here was
sensational, the adept driver gliding
his machine toward the ocean until its
runners were submerged in a breaker,
He arose safely and glided to the
beach.
JAPAN AND RUSSIA
SIGN CLOSE COMPACT
Washington Evidence that the en
deavors of Secretary Knox to bring
about a concert of action of the powers
to obtain the neutralization of the
Manchurian railroad and to further the
construction of another railroad in
Manchuria and Mongolia had. in real
ity, the opposite effect of cementing
relations between Russia and Japan,
was manifested when the text of the
Manchurian convention between those
two nations was received in Washing'
ton.
The convention is a brief document
so short as to be remarkable among
the important treaties of modern times
but it tells the story of the com
plete understanding of two nations only
recently at war. Diplomatically, it is
a document with which masters of in
ternational law can And no fault. The
treaty will be objected to neither by
Great Britain, Germany nor the Uni
ted States.
ENGLISH AVIATOR KILLED.
Trying to Land on Marked Spot, Ma
chine Collapses.
Bournemouth, England In full view
of thousands of persons, Hon. Charles
S. Rolls, the daring young aviator,
whose feat of flying across the English
channel and back recently thrilled Eng
land, fell 100 feet to his death when
the tailpiece of his Wright biplane
suddenly snapped off, causing the ma
chine to plunge with terrific Bpeed to
the ground.
The tragedy could not have been
more dramatic. The wrecked aero
plane struck the earth directly in front
of the grandstand. Rolls was dead
before the doctors could reach his side.
Wrapped about by the twisted and
tangled wreckage of the broken air
ship, it was several minutes before his
mangled body could be extricated from
the mass. The doctors found that he
had sustained a fractured skull.
If the falling plane had struck a few
feet more to the side, it would have
crashed directly into the grandstand,
Explosion is Felt Atar.
Pittsburg A powder magazine at
Cabot, Pa., exploded here killing one
person and injuring 20 others. The
magazine was the property of the
Standard Plate Glass company, and
contained 1,000 pounds of dynamite
and 5,000 pounds of blasting powder.
The man killed had gone to the maga
zine to get powder for quarries.
Shortly after he was seen to enter, the
explosion occurred and he was blown to
fragments, leaving no clew as to how
the powder became ignited. The in
jured will all recover.
France May Change Time.
Paris The cabinet has decided to
submit a bill for the adoption of West
ern European time in France. During
the old days of enmity toward England
the French steadily refused to accept
standard time, maintaining the solar
time of Paris, which is nine minutes
slower. The confusion resulting, es
pecially in telephone communications
with England, as well as the change in
Franco-English relations, is responsi
ble for the decision.
Parents of 13 Honored.
Pensacola, Florida Mr. and Mrs.
Bsrberi, of this city, received from
Governor Gilchrist "a handsome spoon
bearing the seal of the state of Flori
da. The wife is now only 37 years old,
but Mr. and Mrs. Barberi are the par
ents of 13 children. Governor Gil
christ suggested I that the legislature
pass an act allowing the parents a pension.
GENERAL NEWS OF NATIONAL HAPPENINGS
AMERICAN ATTITUDE WATCHED
German Diplomats Believe Treaty
Is Defeat for Knox.
Berlin While the German foreign
office has refrained from giving an offi
cial suggestion as to its view on the
new Russo-Japanese agreement, the
question has been the subject of care'
ful consideration. The feeling is that
the compact introduces a new element
in the arena of world diplomacy. The
attitude of the United States is watch
ed with special interest for an indica
tion of its possible effects on the inter;
national situation.
The press here is divided, one sec
tion urging the foreign office to take a
firm stand in seeking the co-operation
of America against the Russo-Japanese
exclusion policy. Most of the other
newspapers urge the government to
seek friendlier relations with Russia,
which is now free to play a more im
portant and dangerous role in European
affairs.
In diplomatic circles the agreement
is regarded primarily as a diplomatic
defeat for America. . It is said here
that Knox's naive proposal to manage
the Manchurian railroad question
forced Russia and Japan into each
other's arms.
DR. WILEY STANDS FIRM.
Believes He Will Win Fght
on Ben-
zoate of Soda.
Washington Although the Ameri
can Institute of Homeopathy, at its
convention at Pasadena, Cal., recently,
adopted a resolution rescinding its ac
tion taken last year condemning the
use of benzoate of soda, as a food pre
servative, Dr. Wiley, chief chemist of
the department of agriculture, has
stronger opinions than ever before on
that subject.
But Dr. Wiley's views did not pre
vail in the department of agriculture,
as the board appointed by Secretary
Wilson to consider questions arising
under the pure food law sanctioned the
use of benzoate of soda as a food pre
servative. '
"The developments in .the last
year," said Dr. Wiley, "have accentu
ated my opinions as to the harmful
character of benzoate of soda as a food
preservative. I expect to see that
view sustained by the Federal courts,
as evidence submitted recently in Indi
ana cases points. that way."
RATE SUSPENSION PROVIDED.
Authority to Be Exercised Cautious
ly, Commission Says.
Washington In an official state
ment, the Interstate Commerce com
mission announces that it is its inten
tion to suspend all tariffs naming gen
eral and important rate advances,
pending an investigation as to the rea
sonableness of the proposed increases.
"No more definite statement in this
regard can now be made," says the
commission, "but the specific orders
will be announced from time to time as
they are entered and served. It is ex
pected that the suspension in each case
will be for 120 days from the effective
date named in the tariff, but the com
mission intends by subsequent orders
to provide for making effective on the
same day such advances as may be al
lowed." It will be incumbent on the railroads
to show reasonable cause for the ad
vances they may make in these tariffs
from time to time, the burden of proof
of the reasonableness of the tariffs
bearing on the carriers.
Militia to Get Monitor.
Vallejo, Cal. The oil burning moa
itor Cheyenne was commissioned at the
Mare Island navy yard. Lieutenant
Charles T. Owens, who is temporarily
detached from the cruiser West Vir
ginia, is in command of the new boat.
He is under orders to sail for Seattle
on July 23. There the monitor will be
turned over to the naval reserve of the
state of Washington. Owens and the
skeleton crew will then return to Mare
Island.
Submarine Boat Contracts Sublet.
Washington The Electric Boat
company, which has the contract for
building three submarines for Pacific
Coast duty, has sublet contracts so
that one boat will be built at Seattle
by Moran Brothers, and two by the
Union Iron works, of San Francisco.
The subcontract price is approximate
ly $400,000 for each boat
Canal Work Accelerated.
Washington The total excavation
on the Panama canal for the month of
June was 2,616,609 cubic yards,
against 2,477,618 for May; concrete
Had during month, 124,214 cubic
yards, against 107,043 cubic yards for
the month previous. Daily average
output was 100,639 cubic yards against
99,105 for May.
Knox's Proposal Comes Late.
Tokio The terms of the new con
vention between Japan and Russia, it
is said on good authority, were virtu
ally settled before Secretary Knox sub
mitted the proposal for the neutraliza
tion of the Manchurian railroads.
American interests in no way will be
affected.
30,000 Acres to Be Reclaimed.
Washington The bureau of Indian
affairs has completed plans for re
claiming about 30,000 acres of swamp
lands in the Yakima reservation in
Washington. All plans have been
made and active work probably will
begin next week.
LAND RESTORED TO ENTRY.
Areas Taken Out of Irrigated Tracts
and National Forests.
Washington The secretary of the
interior has restored to the public do
main several tracts of land that had
been withdrawn in connection with the
irrigation projects but that are not
needed now by the reclamation service,
The restorations of the week include :
Boise land district, Idaho, 43.980
acres, subject to settlement September
X7 ana to entry October 17.
Phoenix land district, Arizona, 3,200
acres, subject to settlement September
1 ana to entry October 19.
The unappropriated public lands in
the area eliminated from the Coeur
d'Alene and Pend d'Oreille national
forests in Idaho by presidential procla
mation will become subject to settle
ment under the homestead laws on Au
gust 22 and to entry September 21.
About 8,200 acres were eliminated,
but only about 1,000 acres were unap
propriated, ine lanas are located in
Bonner, Laah, and Kootenai counties.
An area eliminating from the Pecos
national forest, New Mexico, and
amounting to 31,560 acres, can be set
tled on August 15 and entered Septem
ber 14. The lands are located in San
ta Fe and Rio Arroba acounties.
BOARD MEETS THIS MONTH
Army Engineers to Take Up Work
on Irrigation Projects.
Washnigton General William Mar
shall, retired, formerly chief engineer
of the army, who recently was appoint
ed consulting engineer of the secretary
of the interior for the reclamation ser
vice, has returned to Washington after
a brief vacation.
The board of five army engineers ap
pointed by authority of congress to ad
vise the president in the expenditure
of the $20,000,000 issue of certificates
of indebtedness will meet here this
month. At this meeting plans for the
prosecution of irrigation work will be
formulated. Dr. Newell, of the re
clamation service, called on General
Marshall, but pending the arrival of
the army board they did not go deeply
into the situation.
General Marshall believed, in view
of the president's desire to expedite
the work, that the board would divide
into two or more parties and operate in
assigned districts.
CORN CROP WILL BE LARGE. J
Increased Acreage This Year is
Fig-
ured at 5,000,000 Acres.
Washington According to the opin
ion of the statisticians, the falling off
of the crop of spring wheat was consid
erably exaggerated throughout the
country, so far as its effect on the
great transportation companies and
upon the total yield of the crops is con
cerned. It was pointed out that the corn
acreage showed an increase of more
than 5,000,000 acres, while the condi
tion of winter wheat, a more import
ant crop than spring wheat, showed
an increase for July over the report of
June 1. The corn crop promises to be
so large that, in the opinion of many
of these statisticians, the amount to be
transported will exceed that of last
year.
Shy at Postal Banks.
Washington Because postmasters
are slow about asking for the estab
lishment of postal banks, the bank ad
visory board will decide which cities
shall have these banks, without wait
ing for for requests.
Postmaster General Hitchcock states
that San Francisco will be one of the
cities in which a bank will be estab
lished. "We expected many more requests
for postal savings . banks than have
come in," said Mr. Hitchcock. "This,
however, is not surprising. Postmas
ters naturally do not want to do more
work without more pay, and postal
banks would entail much additional
labor."
Few Corporations Tardy.
Washington Reports received at
the Treasury department give the total
payments on account of the corporation
tax as $25,793,610, out of an assess
ment of over $27,000,000.
The time allowed by law in which
corporations were allowed to pay with
out incurring any penalty for default
expired on July 10, but as that day fell
upon Sunday one day more was allow
ed, and many of the big corporations
toof advantage of it.
Won Praise From Roosevelt.
Oyster Bay A reporter who called
on Roosevelt at Sagamore Hill appear
ed before the colonel with one of his
hands bandaged. Roosevelt asked
what was the matter. The reporter
replied that he had sprained his hand
while whipping a foreigner who was
beating his wife.
"Fine, just fine" exclaimed the
former president with enthusiasm.
"That's an honorable wound. I am
proud of you men who will not permit
wife beating. -
Crop Averages Less.
Washington A bulletin issued by
the department of agriculture says the
general average of the crop growth all
over the United States on July 1, was
5.5 per cent lower than last year at
the same time. The condition of the
crops in the far West on July 1, the
bulletin says, was 3.6 per cent below
the average of last year, and 4.3 per
cent below the general average.
"OLD BILL MACABBE."
aw Haller'a Visitor from Deeh o
be Constitution In 1 88(5.
Probably one of the most Interested
spectators of the comet's Journey from
the eastern to the western sky last
night was William Macabbe, an In
mate of the United States Naval home
at 24th street and Gray's Ferry Road,
the Philadelphia Inquirer says.
"Old Bill," as he Is familiarly called
by his comrades at the home, Is 106
year old, and when Halley's comet
made Us last appearance In 1835 he
was a sailor, 31 years old.
When seen yesterday Bill was
propped up In bed, for he has had a
broken leg which has kept him In
doors for more than a year, and when
asked If he remembered seeing the
comet seventy-flve years ago, the old
sailor, taking another pull at his corn
cob pipe, said, "Yes, I believe I do."
"Now, since it comes back to me, I
remember the night distinctly. It was
my watch, and we all had been on the
lookout for the comet to cross the
sky for several days. I do not re
member exactly what boat I was on
at that time, but 1 think It was the
old United States frigate Constitution.
"I had been pacing the desk for
some time when I suddenly spied the
comet, and I called some of my ship
mates to witness U as It trailed
across the sky. It was not very large,
probably as big as a head of cabbage,
and it had a long, milky tall. We
saw it after that for two or three
nights, and then It disappeared.
"I have seen many comets while at
sea, and several times I have seen
huge meteors shoot through the sky
and fall with a loud hiss Into the
ocean, while a column of steam
caused by the meteor's contact with
the water rose Into the air."
Last night "Old Bill" was wheeled
out on the naval hospital veranda to
see the comet He has been very
much Interested hearing the other In
mates of the hospital ward where he
has been for so long a time talk about
It, and he expressed a desire to again
see the aerial visitor on Its Journey
across the sky.
For the sins of their business few
men punish their stomachs. People
eat three times a day In dull times
as well as In active times. They will
buy those things of the man who tells
them that he has them for sale. Peo
ple do not buy as much In dull times
as In good times, nor will they buy
certain things at all when depression
comes. However, at dull seasons they
have time to think about these things
beyond their present reach and will
cull out certain objects of desire which
they will surely purchase when pocket-
books are fuller. In the dull time.
therefore, press upon the public mind
the worth and beauty and utility of
the goods you have for sale. Then,
when money Is more plentiful, the
goods will move. Emulate the furn
ace makers, who advertise in sum
mer, and the refrigerator people, who
fill the winter magazines with their
advertisements.
He didn't have a dollar, be didn't
have a dime; his clothes and shoes
looked as though they had served their
time. He didn't try to kill himself
to dodge misfortune's whacks. Instead,
he got some ashes and be filled five
dozen sacks. Then next he begged a
dollar. In the paper in the morn he
advertised tin polish that would put
the sun to soorn. He kept on adver
tising and Just now, suffice to say,
he's out In California at his cottage
on the bay. Mecca Herald.
That advertising may bring the most
returns for the outlay, and that it may
be definitely known that it is or is
not paying, requires concentration of
effort experience and careful calcula
tion. Some one has said that trying to do
business without advertising is like
winking at a girl In the dark; you
know what you are doing but nobody
else does.
Th Hope Cheat of Matdea.
Every German gtrl.has a hope chest.
This Is much different from the dowry
chest which the American girls, on be
coming engaged, begins to fill In ad
vance of her wedding day. The Ger
man maiden begins to stock her hope
chest even before she meets the man to
whom she is to be married. She be
gins to save for her wedding day long
before she is engaged. She is Imbued
with a sense of thrift and also with an
ambition to have a larger dowry than
her mother had. Often the German
girl begins to collect things when she
enters her teens, biieniiy fine saves
her money to use in buying articles for
her chest With skill she embroiders
her Initials on each article of linen.
Thus by the time she is engaged to
be married she is thoroughly equip
ped with hundreds of little articles
nat are useful in housekeeping.
Uaeleaa Coareriatloa.
Yeast I see a Miss Elizabeth S.
Oolton, of East Hampton, Mass., can
express her thoughts in fifty-four dif
ferent languages.
Crimson beak What's the use? My
wife can say Just as much In ont
language. Yonkers Statesman.
If the fool and his money were In
separable there would be no get-rlch-qnlck
schemes.
It Is better to
to bs corrscUf
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ALL ABOUT THE HOG
80ME 8TORIE3 OF THE USEFUL,
IF U NORN A MENTAL, ANIMAL.
Razorback Variety May Bs Depended
Upon to Furnish Something New
How Woodpeckers Fooled
Drove of Arkansas Man,
The group on the porch was talk
ing about razorback hogs and the
storekeeper was telling a story.
"There was a feller travelln' through
here," he said, according to the St
Louis Post-Dispatch. "He was a
stranger in these parts. One day he
came across a bunch o' hawgs that
had big silts in their ears. He figgered
at them slits. They was too big fer
brands. What else could they bef
After a bit a native come down the
trail. 'Jess lookln' at them hawgs,'
said the stranger. 'You was,' says the
native. 'D'ye min' tellln' me what
them big slits In their ears is ferT
said the stranger. 'Not at all,' says
the native. 'Have you noticed these
hills r 'What d'ye mean?' 'Noticed
how steep they is?' 'Yes, I have.' 'Wal'
says the native, 'that's it. We have
to put them slits in the hawgs' ears
so they kin stick their hind legs
through 'em and rough lock them
selves down these hills to keep from
killln' themselves.' "
There was a salvo of very hearty
outdoor laughter at this, and Mr. Ant
wine stirred behind his newspaper.
"That remln's me of one they used
to tell down on the Arkansas line,"
he said. "There was a feller goln
through there, too. He saw a drove o'
razorbacks carryin' on mighty queer.
There was about 20 of 'em, and they
acted like they was crazy. They woald
nra fust to one tree an' then to an
other, tryln' to climb it Then they
would spin aroun' on their noses,
crack their tails, an' squeal in the
,most plaintive way you ever heard.
The traveler watched them hawgs fer
15 minutes, an' the more he saw of
'em the more they puzzled him.
"Finally he went on through the
woods till he came to a house. There
was a man out In front He was
paskln' in the sun. 'Is them your
hawgs up there In the hills?' the stran
ger asked. 'Yep,' says the native.
"At that the traveler stepped up an
looked his man In the eye. 'Say,' he
said, 'what in the Sam Hill's the mat.
ter with them hawgs?'
."The native kin' o' half smiled.
They does act queer, don't they?' he
said. T should say they does.' 'Wal,
It's this way,' said the native. 'We had
a hard winter in here this time an
there was no feed in the hills for them
hawgs. ' Ah had. to let 'em have corn.
Along late In the winter Ah took such
a bad col" Ah couldn't holler plg
ooeey any more. Ah had to call 'em
up by hittln' the corncrlb with a ax
handle, an' now, he says, lookln' up
the hill, them damn woodpeckers is
settln' them crazy.'"
Were Glad to End 8eason.
A New Yorker who has Just re
turned from London gives one expla
nation of the promptness with which
Englishmen closed their town houses
after the death of the king and so
readily consented to give up all enter
tainments for the rest of the present
season.
"Londoners were In many instances
very much relieved to shirk a Beason
of expenditure," he said, "because this
has not been a good year financially
for them. They were not anxious to
spend any more money than neces
sary, and when court mourning gave
them a dignified opportunity to close
up their bouses and skip a season
they were very well satisfied that they
could do this without having to have
undertaken anything so unconven
tional on their own responsibility. So
nobody need think that English
houses in London will be opened later
In the season or that there will be
anything like the usual entertaining
there."
Typewritten Signatures.
"I had a letter from a friend today ,"
said a literary man, "giving me a wig
ging for signing my typewritten let
ter to him with the typewriter, and I
notified blm at once that he dldnt
know what he was talking about I
tcld him I had written the letter with
my own hand on the machine and it
was proper to sign it in type. If I
had written the letter with a pen, I
told him, the signature with Jie pen
weuld have been all right, a.d a pen
was Just as much an Implement of
writing as a typewriter was. There
fore my signature In type was quite
proper, though I admitted it would
not ress as a legal signature. How
ever, I was not writing a legal docu
ment and a signature In the text of
the letter was perfectly good form.
That Is my contention now and If
anybody can prove that I am wrong
I'd like to hear his argument"
Dolls' House Many Years Old.
There are at least two famous dolls
houses In England; one is at Nostell
priory, the Yorkshire home of Lord
and Lady St. Oswald. This dolls
house dates from 1690 and it contains
some exquisite Chippendale furniture
made in miniature. The dolls which
inhabit It are dressed in gorgeous old
brocades and the dinner service off
which they eat Is of silver. The other
dolls' house is In a house near Peters
field and If not quite so valuable Is
nevertheless very beautiful and a
much cherished possession. A curi
ous fact In connection with the lovely
Chippendale furniture, some of the
finest specimens known at Nostell
priory, is that the receipted bills for
It are also preserved there, conclusive
ly proving that It Is genuine