CURRENT EVENTS OF THE WEEK SM U G G L ERS M O V IN G NORTH. Men Who Bring Chínete 'and Opium Are Hard Preated. Lot Angeles, April 11.— Driven from Angeles by the activity o f Federal sleuths, aided by the local authorities, the band o f opium and Chinese smug­ glers that has been operating along the Pacific coast and the Mexican border has transferred its scene o f operations to the Northern ports in Washington and Oregon. According to Deputy General Resume o f Important Events United states Marshal Durlin, who has had a large part in the two years’ war­ Presented in Condensed Form fare on this ¡particular breed o f law­ fo r O ur Busy Readers. breakers, the headquarters o f the band has been transferir«! to Seattle, with branches at Portland, Tacoma and Spo­ • Premier Asquith dreads to involve kane. A t [the latter place arrange­ ments are made for disposing o f the the king in the Irish controversy. contraband Chinese [and opium that is Eleven sections o f fine fruit land in successfully brought in by Pacific Eastern Oregon will soon be opened to liners and across the Canadian border. entry. "C h ick ” Wallace, the leader o f the Attacks o f the ship subsidy lobby are band, is now in the northern cities ar- resented warmly by members o f the | ranging for the disposition o f the house committee. smuggled Orientals and drug. He is , the brains o f the band, and is the only The incident between Roosevelt and jnent one o f the original gang the Vatican at Rome may cause the re- P hgs eS )ed . rreflt b the Kederal moval o f the papal secretary. Merry de authoritjeg fThree o f his confeder. L ob Doings of the World at Large Told in Brief. INDUSTRIAL DEVELOPMENT AND PROGRESS OF OUR HOME STATE C R A TER LAKE ROAD ASSURED T H IN N IN G NEAR AT HAND. S E N T IM E N T A L T R IP C U T S H O R T M r. and M r Roosevelt Showered With Flags and Flowers. Genoa, Italy, April 9. — Though “ deelighted” io an unusual degree, but in mind and spirit much perturbed, because o f ovations along his carriage jaunt to this 'city, ex-President Theo­ dore Roosevelt and w ife were compel­ led to call a halt today to their senti­ mental tour. A t every village or crossroads they were met by men, women and children, the former with flags and the latter with bouquets. As an instance o f the demonstrations accorded them, 600 persons, many o f them Americans, acclaimed Colonel Roosevelt and Mrs. Roosevelt with vivas and hurrahs after they left Ra­ pallo, where they had luncheon today. This was the climax o f their embarrass- sments and Colonel Roosevelt gave or­ ders to be driven direct to Genoa. The people and press o f Genoa have manifested the most intense interest in the movements o f Colonel RoosevelL His second honeymoon journey stirred their romantic natures to a high pitch, and when the news spread today of his coming, a big crowd hurried to the modest Hotel Brittannia, where he had engaged quarters, and with cheering and waving o f hats greeted Roosevelt’s carriage as it rattled up the stony street to the accompaniment o f the driver’s wildly cracking whip. Both Colonel and Mrs. Roosevelt were smiling when they descended from the carriage at the hotel enrance. They said they had enjoyed the trip hugely and were sorry only that the failure to observe their incognito by the people had compelled them to cut it shorL Colonel Roosevelt said he had a “ bully tim e” Thursday, when he and |Mrs. Roosevelt drove along the sunny slopes o f the Ligurian Alps from Spezia to Rapallo. H alf an hour after the arrival o f Colonel RoosevelL the prefect and the mayor o f Genoa called on him and greeted him in the name o f the city. Colonel Roosevelt relates an amusing incident o f the trip. When he and Mrs. Roosevelt reached the top o f the pass at Sestri Levante, where they stopped last night, the enterprising proprietor o f a tavern— a rival to the one in which they had engaged rooms— sent out couriers in advance bearing American and Italian flags and tri­ umphantly escorted Colonel Roosevelt and Mrs. Roosevelt to his own hotel. Uncle Sam Approves Plans, and May Hood River Will Need 2 .0 0 0 to 4 ,- Give Substantial Aid. OOO Hands Soon. The Crater Lake road will be builL Hood R iver— At the annual meeting Government approval o f the project o f the Hood R iver Applegrowers* Un­ has been secured by Will G. Steel ion, it was stated that the crop this recognition appropriation o f $5,000 year would reach 85,000 boxes and that made, Engineer B. F. Heidle aent by in four weeks from 2,000 to 4,000 em­ the government to Medford, and the ployes would be necessary to thin the promise given that 50 per cent o f the fruiL work will have been accomplished by A resolution adopted fixed the price July 1 o f this year. The Medford Com o f marketing the apples this year at mercial club’s subscription o f $25,000 at 10 cents a box, instead o f 5 cents, for the construction o f the road is well in order to handle the big crop proper­ under way and there will be no further ly. Strong recommendations were delays. Mr. Steel has just returned made for improvements in pack and from Washington. He represented the grading. Although the big meeting o f Medford Commercial club and inter­ the growers was unanimously in favor vened on its behalf with Secretary o f o f adopting a plan to pay the directors the Interior Ballinger and other gov­ for their services for the coming year, ernment officials. which never has been done before, the "T h e government’s approval o f the directors declined to accept any re­ Crater Lake road in effect nullifies the muneration and fought the motion on decree handed down by the Supreme the floor until it was lost. court last month,” said Mr. Steel. A letter from Representative Haw­ " I found about the halls o f the Cap­ ley, read to the meeting, said that the a - ates, including Larmon Gonzales, next Dr. Hollis B. Frissell, o f the Rocke- to Wallace the cleverest o f all, are in itol a feeling o f resentment that even Lafean bill had not been reported and feller Sanitary commission, says hook- jail in this city, held as Federal pris­ so august a body as the Supreme court was considered dead. The new board worm infection is spread largely by oners. Gonzales was captured last should deem the Crater Lake national o f directors elected consists o f C. H. Southern people going barefooted. week in San Diego, after a six weeks’ park a local affair, any more than that Sproat, L. E. Clark, C. Dethman, E. Yellowstone national park should be so H. Shepard, G. W. McCurdy, J. L. A duel between ex-Premier Count campaign directed against him. Carter, G. W. Simons and O. L. Wal­ ‘ " I have had a warrant for the ar­ considered. W itte and General Kuropatkin, com- "S ecretary Ballinger asked me how ters. mander-in-chief o f the Russian forces rest o f this man for nearly two much money we would be wanting I in the war with Japan, has been avert­ months,’ ’ said Durlin, after the cap­ from the government for the Crater P R IC E IS S 2 .2 0 0 AN ACRE. ed through an explanation by the form ­ ture. “ He is one o f the craftiest men I have had to deal with for a long time. Lake p roject I told him we would er. As soon as we aimed our shafts at him need eventually about $2,000,000, in­ Hood River Apple Land Sets New Smugglers o f Chinese and opium in particular, he apparently went into cluding making o f trails and various High Record Sale. have been driven out o f Southern Cali­ secusion somewhere in Mexico. A c­ other improvements. He assured me Hood River — The prediction that fornia and are beieved to have trans­ cording to my information he was in­ o f his belief that we would get that ferred their operations to Northwest terested mainly in landing contraband much, at the same time stating frank­ Oregon orchard land would sell for coast cities. Chinamen at the Mexican ports and ly that had it not been for the indom­ better than $2,000 an acre this year came sooner than was expected here, Miss Anna Morgan, daughter o f J. looking after their safe transportation itable energy and persistence o f the when Rede S. Delano, an Eastern man, Pierpont Morgan, attracted much at­ across the line at Nogales and El Paso. Medford commercial interests nothing further would ever have been done, paid $14,400 for six and one-half acres tention at Pasadena by going for a following the Supreme court’s unfav­ o f 8-year-old trees. three-hour cross-country horseback ride The price per acre is a little better orable decree. arrayed in a "pants suit” riding habit. “ I received an official communica­ than $2,200, and reaches a mark $300 D. C. Jacklin, a Salt Lake million­ tion stating that the United States fish higher than the best previous price, aire, has bought E. H. Harriman’s Berlin, April I I . — American tourists commission would place 50,000 rainbow which was obtained a week or two ago, Pelican Lodge property on Klamath soon will come to regard an airship fry in the Crater lake, to add to the when ten acres here were sold for $19,- lake, Oregon. He will carry out the tour as one o f the regular features o f stock o f fish already there.” 000. The orchard was purchased plans o f Harriman for making a sum­ a program o f summer travel in Europe Crater lake road, completed, will be through B. E. Duncan & Co. from Dr. mer resort o f the pllace. if the expectations o f the founders o f 87 miles long. Engineer Heidle will Stanton Allen, a retired physician, A fter being whirled down Hat creek the new Hamburg airship lines are give his time not only to making a sur­ who came here several years ago and in a small skiff, G. Magerstadt was realized. The promoters o f the enter­ vey o f all roads now planned, but in went into apple growing. The land is carried over Hat creek falls, in Cali­ prise recognize that the financial pros­ making a survey o f all roads and trails situated on the east side o f the valley. In addition to buying the acreage o f fornia, and dashed into the foaming pects o f the venture can be improved to be constructed at any future time, bearing orchard, Mr. Delano bought waters 60 feet below. The boat was greatly if proper efforts are made to seven acres o f brush land adjoining, E L E C T R IC L IN ES FOR LANE. Aerial excur­ dashed to pieces on the rocks and Mag­ interest Americans. W IL S O N IS S C O R E D . for which he paid $528 an acre. This erstadt managed to grab a boulder, sions are to be arranged, therefore, is also the record price for unimproved with a special view o f capturing the from which he was soon rescued. Will Connect Eugene, Springfield, Siu- land at Hood River. His total invest­ Professor Hopkins Says Farmers are custom o f travelers from the United slaw and McKinzie Valley. Wearing Out Land. Where and when the Pittsburg graft ment for the 13 acres is $18,000. Dr. States. One o f the German steamship probe ends is “ contingent,” to quote companies is contributing to the sup­ Eugene— Chief Engineer Fornert, o f Allen still has 15 acres o f bearing or­ Chicago, April 9. — Characterizing D istrict Attorney Blakely, on develop­ port o f the enterprise on that under­ the Lane County Asset company, o f chard which he will retain. the teachings o f Secretary ’ ames W il­ ments. Mr. Blakely has spread his standing. this city, which announces that it will son as "damnable, abominable and net and is waiting for more men to disgracefgul,” Professor Cyril G. Hop­ The new aerial liners will have cab­ build a system o f electric railways in Ice Plant at Eugene. " c o m e in and confess,” as a result o f kins, o f the University o f Illinois, de­ ins holding 20 persons each, and the this vicinity, inclduding a line between Eugene— The Weinhard estate has the intimations contained in the grand rooms will be equipped in luxurious Eugene ’and Springfield, one to the purchased the Eugene vinegar factory, livered a stinging criticism o f the de­ jury presentment. style. According to the computation Siualaw and perhaps to Coos bay, also and will at once install a large and up partment o f agriculture here today in Harry Thaw’ s mother, though aged o f Professor Hergesell, the aeronaut, up the McKenzie valley, has begun the to date ice manufacturing plant. The an address at the City club. Here are and worn, still continues her fight for the fares, owing to the low cost o f work o f surveying for the line between price paid for the property is $6,500. some quotations from Secretary Wilson construction and operation, can be low­ the two cities. The line will extend The lot has a frontage o f 160 feet on cited by Professor Hopkins as “ abom­ her wayward son. er than has heretofore been supposed. east on West Fifteenth street through the railroad tracks, and is approximate­ inably false” : Chicago police will exercise strict “ Practically all soils contain suffi­ It is estimated, for example, that a the suburb o f Fairmount to the city ly 100 feet deep, although it is irreg­ censorship over bathing costumes worn trip from Hamburg to Heligoland can limits, then turn north to the river, ular, varying at one end from less than cient plant food for yields; this supply at lake beaches this season. be made for 100 marks ($25), and pas­ which will be spanned with a first class 100 feet to over 100 feet at the other. will be indefinitey maintained.” The road Rural carriers at W alls Walla are sengers can travel an entire day, going double track steel bridge. " S o far as the present outlook is will then make a circle to the north An ice plant o f 25 tons capacity will be concerned, the nation possesses ample quitting because o f the small pay, and as far as Berlin or Copenhagen. installed at once. In conection with and east and enter Springfield by way no one seems to want the places. resources in its soil for any conceivable o f its northern limits, passing through the new ice plant, the estate w ill i increase in population for several cen­ SP O K A N E T R A IN S C O L L ID E . New York saloons sell wood alcohol, stall a cold storage plant. a thickly settled farming community. turies.” and four persons who drank it died, F. B. Kidder and John Baird, rail­ “ The soil is the one indestructible, while several others are totally blind. Building Boom at Lebanon. Block Signals Misunderstood—Thirty road men o f experience, who resigned immutable asset that the nation pos­ Injured, Many Seriously. Lebanon— The year closing April 1 Two men raced on horseback 100 positions with the Minneapolis Rapid sesses. It is the one resource that miles for the opportunity o f filing a Spokane, Wash., April 11.— A mis­ Transit company, o f Minoneapolis, marked the greatest epoch in the his­ cannot be exhausted; that cannot be tory o f Lebanon. The year has wit­ contest on an Eastern Washington understanding o f block signals resulted Minn., to promote this system o f used u p.” homestead. in a head-on collision o f passenger roads, are directing operations and nessed the greatest building activity, "F ro m the modem conception o f the there having been completed about 70 they claim to have the best o f backing. nature and purposes o f the soil, it is A 14-year-old school boy in Pitts­ trains Nos. 2 and 3 on the Spokane, dwellings. The com ing summer will burg, despondent at his playmates’ jibs Portland & Seattle railroad a mile Engineer Fornert also resigned as chief see greater things even than the past evident that it oannot wear out, that because he was slow in his studies, west o f Spokane Saturday night at engineer o f the same company to ac­ has seen. There are now assured five so far as the mineral food is concerned, cept this position. They promise that 9 :18 o ’ clock. it will continue automatically to supply hung himself. About 30 persons were injured, and work on the bridge will begin this sum­ business houses, a $12,000 city hall, a adequate quantities o f plant foods for concrete laundry building and a large Two brothers in partnership in the it is expected that several will die. mer and that the line will be in opera­ cro p s." real estate brokage business in St. The accident occurred on a high trestle tion between the two cities early next sawmill soon to be in operation. There “ As a national asset, the soil is safe are rumors o f other enterprises. Louis, committed suicide because o f over Hangman creek, on the Northern year. as a means o f feeding mankind for un­ business reverses. Pacific track, which is used by the Spo­ told ages to com e.” Masons Dedicate Temple April 20. Gravel Famine Ends at Albany. A fter he had cited these quotations. Miss Nellie Anhouser, one o f the kane, Portland A Seattle for several Roseburg— The Masonic temple will Albany— Councilman Miller has se­ Professor Hopkins said: fam ily o f millionaire St. Louis brew­ miles west o f Spokane. At the time o f the collision, accord­ be dedicated with appropriate ceremon­ cured permission from United States “ Can you blame farmers for contin­ ers, is fighting a dentist bill which ing to the stories o f trainmen and pas­ ies April 20. The dedication ceremon­ Chief Engineer McAdoo to take gravel uing to wear out their lands when amounts to $25 an hour. sengers, train No. 2 was at a stand­ ies will be conducted by the officers o f from the bed o f the river at Albany. these are the teachings promulgated The managers of the Northwestern still, ready to back up, when No. 8, the grand lodge o f Oregon. Owing ¡to The government had previously forbid­ from the highest authority in the and Western railroads are jubilant running at a slow rate o f speed, the large membership o f the order in den the taking o f gravel from the river United States? And these false teach­ over the spring movement o f colonists crashed head-on into No. 2, the force the state, it has made it necessary for bed, which made it extremely difficult ings are all the more damnable because into all the territory west o f the Rocky o f the impact smashing in the smoking the local lodge to lim it invitations. for local contractors to obtain concrete the common soil type on the abandoned monutains from the Canadain border car on No. 2, occupied by a party o f Between 500 and 600 Masons and their building material farms in Maryland, only a few miles to the Mexican line. Although official from Washington, contain only 169 Italian laborers, where the most o f the wives and members o f the various figures have not been prepared regard­ Eastern Star lodges are expected to be pounds o f phosphorous in the plowed injuries occurred. PO RTLA ND M ARKETS. ing the movement o f people seeking present. Invitations will be extended soil o f an acre, while the richest black homes in a new country, it is confi­ to every lodge o f Masons and Eastern Wheat— Track prices: Bluestem, $1 prairie soil o f Illinois, with a value o f Glass Must C over Food. dently stated that the number will ex­ Star in the county, as well as to the Iff 1.02; club, 95c; red Russian, 94c; $200 an acre contains more than 2,000 Indianapolis, A pril 11. — No more ceed that o f last year, when all records lodges o f Grants Pass and Eugene. pounds o f phosphorous in the stratum .” valley, $1; 40-fold, 97J(a 98c. shall the rich, red rounds o f beef and were broken. Barley— Feed and brewing, $24.50(9 the choice cuts o f porterhouse and ten­ Build Model Road in Lane. 27 ton. Theater Scene o f Panic. derloin hang from their accustomed Eugene— The work o f building the Com — Whole, $34; cracked, $35 ton. by her hooks on the walls or in the windows New York, April 9.— Panic broke Hay— Track prices: Timothy, W il­ out among 1,000 spectators at the A l­ o f the butcher’ s shop, and never again model road between Eugene and Spring- field has begun. John McElroy, the lamette valley, $20(9,21 per ton; East­ hambra theater, in Harlem, tonighL Stock In all copper mines throughout shall arrays ol seductive pies, rolls and expert road builder from Portland, has ern Oregon, $23(924; alfalfa, $16.50(9 when a gasoline tank o f a motorcycle the lake region has suffered a great bread be openly displayed at the bak­ ridden by a young woman on the stage eries In the cities and towns o f Indi­ a force o f men-at work at the west ap­ 17.50; grain hay. $17(918. decline. Oats— No. 1 white, $27.50(929 ton. exploded and sheets o f flames cur­ ana. according to an order promul­ proach o f the wagon bridge across the Fresh Fruits— Apples, $1(92.50 per river from Springfield. A fter that is tained the cage around the track. In­ gated today by the state board o f stantly the spectators rushed shrieking health. The board Bays a prime cause finished the crew will work toward Eu­ box; cranberries, $8(99 per barrel. gene and it is expected that the work Potatoes— Carload buying p rices: to the doors. The firemen on duty or­ o f the spread o f sickness has been con­ Oregon, 50(960c per hundred; sweet dered the asbestos curtain down and A bill i* before congress to extend tamination o f fish, meats and foodstuffs. will be completed early in the summer. Special attention will be given to the potatoes, 3(93}c per pound. with the fire shut off from view the the freaking privilege to Roosevelt, construction o f the road along the Vegetables — Asparagus, 3(9 9c per audience grew more reasonable and the Garden Hides Bad Money Plant. and also to widows o f ex-presidents. places where the river overflows in the] pound; cabbage. 1 J(9.2c; rhubarb, 4(9 police in the house were able to control Yonkers, N. Y ., April 11.— Secret Dr. E. E. Barnard, o f Yerkes ob­ winter time. 5c; spinach, $1 per box; sprouts, 9c the pressure at the exits. servatory, says Halley’ s comet is wear­ service men who have been at work in per pound; turnips, $1 per sack; ruta­ this section for some weeks past have ing itself out whirling through space. May Be Starting on Oregon Eastern. bagas, $1(91.25; carrots, 85c(9$l; Miss Gould to Get Home. unearthed a ¡rich counterfeiters’ cache Ontario— Healan Bros, have a con­ beets, $1(91.25; parsnips, 5 ictim s were charged with killing Congo civil servants, ahd $10,000 for lumber carriers in the coastwise trade, dry kip. 16<317e; dry calfskin, 18(3 submarine, today established a record the husband o f the woman and w ife o f a fund for the assistance o f their fam ­ and will have a capacity o f 1,000,000 20c; salted hides, 7$<98c; salted calf- by navigating at the depth o f 113 feet the man. ilies. fust. for 24 minutes. •kin, 14e; green, le lew. AERIAL PLEASURE TRIPS FOR TOURISTS The report that Hetty Green is seri­ ously ill is denied absolutely son. Nine persons were killed and twelve badly injured, three of them fatally, in a panic at a Mexican bullfight. JUDGE WILLIAMS PASSES TO REST Grand Old Man of Oregon Has Crossed Dark River. End Cams as Hs Had Often Wished In H a rn e tt and in Full Pos­ session o f Faculties. GEORGE H. W IL L IA M S . O f no distemper, o f no blast he died. But fell like autumn fruit that mel­ lowed long. E ’en wondered at because it fell not sooner. Age seemed to wind him up for four score years, Yet slowly ran he on seven winters more, Till, like a clock, worn out with beating time, The wheels o f wearly life at last stood still. Portland, April 5.— With the same serenity that had marked the later years o f his long and useful life. Judge George H. Williams early yesterday morning passed to the Great Beyond. Sunday night Oregon’s grand old man had retired at the usual hour, af­ ter a quiet day spent in goodjhealth and spirits. A t the rising hour the empty tenement o f clay was found re­ clining as he had gone to sleep, the face as placid as that o f a slumbering child. There was no evidence o f a struggle as the spirit left the body, no indication that there had been the slightest degree o f suffering. Judge W illiams had died in the manner he had often wished— by “ simply slip­ ping aw ay.” For a week Judge W illiams had been unusually cheery, and for five months he had been freer from physical suffer­ ing than for several years. For a long time prior to last fall he had been in­ convenienced by an internal disable­ ment more or less chronic, yet it was o f such a nature that his active inter­ est and pa rticip ation ^ business affairs was not impaired, and not even his most intimate friends realized the pain he had suffered. I5 T H A M E N D M E N T W IL L IA M S ’ O regon Jurist Last o f “ War Senate,” and Close Friend o f Lincoln. “ The right o f citizens o f the United States to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States, or by any state, on account o f race, color or previous condition o f servitude.” The foregoing is the Fifteenth Amendment to the constitution o f the United States, adopted by congress in 1870 and later ratified by the states. The text o f the amendment was pre­ pared by the Oregon statesman, George H. Williams, and was present­ ed and adopted with only a minor change in wording. Judge Williams was one o f the lasL if not the last, member o f the “ war senate,” and had been a warm person­ al friend o f Lincoln and also o f GranL Sent to the senate from Oregon in 1864, he soon became a power in the administration forces. He was the originator o f the “ reconstruction a cL ” which he later, as attorney general in Grant’ s cabinet, enforced. Peruvian Consul Quits Post. Guayaquil, April 7.— The Peruvian consul left here tonight fo r Callao. The American consul has taken charge o f Peruvian interests. The govern­ ment has established a censorship o f all dispatches. In the face o f popular excitement and rioting it was officially announced today that Ecuador and Peru would endeavor to settle their bound­ ary dispute directly at Washington. Ecuador's special envoy is Clemente Ponce, and he will proceed to the American capital. The military forces o f Ecuador are under arms. No Law to Punish Jap Spies. Manila, April 7.— Much indignation has been aroused by the release o f the two Japanese who were arrested here a few days ago on the charge o f being spies. They were given their liberty on cable instructions from Washington. Owing to the fact that there is no pro­ vision in the Philippine military code governing the trial o f spies o f a nation not at war with the United States, the alleged spies were turned over to the civil authorities. An investigation o f the civil laws likewise showed that the statutes were inadequate. Sermons Don't Please. Baltimore, April 7.— The Rev. W il­ liam E. Hauff, pastor o f Jerusalem Evangelical Lutheran church, o f Gard- enville, an eastern suburb o f this city, persisted in reading his sermons until some o f his congregation told him he was no longer needed. The preach­ er declares that the church door was locked by some o f his flock, who then barricaded the door with boards nailed from the inside. He has put the mat­ ter into the hands o f a lawyer. Miss Caroline aud Miss Matilda Bargle lived in an old-fashioned house with a lean-to shed, the roof of which ran nearly to the ground. Returning from church one day, they noticed on approauhing their dwelling that the churchgoers ahead of them paused in passing, and gazed upward with in­ terest and mirth. A moment later they saw why. Their neighbor's billy-goat had escaped, mounted the lean-to to the ridge-pole of the kitchen roof, and with one end of a flaring circus poster streaming banner-like from his Jaws, stood outlined boldly against the sky, a chamois on a mountain peak, calmly contemplating the Sabbath procession. Miss Matilda laughed. Miss Caro­ line did not. "The abominable beast!" she gasped, deeply scandalized. T never saw any­ thing so—so disrespectful!” The goat is indeed a disrespectful animal. He is no respecter either of property or person, as many an indi­ vidual held in honor by mankind has ruefully discovered. Admiral Evans has related with pride, as a worthy achievement, his triumph in his earlier days over a refractory goat on ship­ board, which refused to yield the milk required for a sick man. After it had baffled everybody whose proper task it was to secure the milk, the captain sent for Evans, and direct­ ed him to go and get it. Evans respectfully intimated that he had not supposed "m ilking goats to be part of the duty of a navigating officer;'’ but the captain thereupon ask­ ed it as a favor, and he undertook the task. With a little warm water, much per­ suasion, some firmness, and a recollec­ tion of the ways of certain “ darkies" with misbehaving cows, he succeeded, and was unmercifully chaffed by his comrades on his success. Indeed, he was far from happy in it until be bad taught bis method to a marine,and was assured that he would not have to keep on milking for the rest of the voyage. He was more fortunate than another distinguished man, Horace Greeley, who was a conspicuous failure as a milker of goats, although he was bred to the farm and Evans to the sea. When, In accordance with Mrs. Gree­ ley's theories of diet, goat's milk was desired for their little son, they at­ tempted to keep a goat in their New York premises, and Mr. Greeley under­ took to milk it. His ignominious tus­ sles with the creature became a source of delighted mirth to his neighbors. One saw from his rear windows the complete overthrow of the great editor in his back yard, while the goat re­ mained victoriously chewing the latest edition of the Tribune, which had fall­ en from Mr. Greeley’s pocket in the contest. He relates that he called down to him, gleefully: “ Well, Mr. preeley, nanny, there, hasn't much respect for editors!" Sitting on his hat, and with one foot In an overturned barrel, Mr. Greeley, in his high, squeaky voice, called back: ‘No matter, no matter! The man is nothing and the opinions everything. You see she appreciates the Trlbuwe!" M E X IC O S R IC H E S T M AN. H is C a ttle IA I e r a llr U p o a ■ a n d H llla * a T aos- General Luis Terrazas Is Mexico'* wealthiest man. General Terrazas la 9 years old, the same age as Presi­ dent Diaz. The lives of both men have been full of stirring adventure. It was in reward for daring military service that General Terrazas obtained from the government large gifts of land which placed him upon the road to the great fortune which he now pos­ sesses. It is conservatively estimated lust General Terrazas is worth not less than $200,000,000. His property hold­ ings are chiefly in the state of Chi­ huahua, but he also has large invest­ ments In other parts of the republic. General Terrazas is the greaitest land and live stock baron in the world, it is said. He owns fifteen ranch->s In the state of Chihuahua. Tho ranches embrace an aggregate area o' more than live million acres. For many years special attention has been given to raising horses upon these ranches. More than five million he-id of horses are grazing upon the -er- razas land. The mule supply for most of Mex­ ico comes from the Terrazas ranches. These animals now number more than one million head and are scattered over the different properties. General Terrazas' cattle holdings number more than one million head. Several hun- dren thousand head of goats and sheep graze upon this land. It is said that the choicest grass lands in northern Mexico are embraced in the Terrazas estate. Streams of running water pass through them, and the grass grows lux­ uriantly the greater part of the year. Some Idea of the vastness of these landed possessions may be bad when it is known that more than ten thou­ sand men are kept constantly looking after the live stock. The services of one thousand men are required >o ride the fences.” It is the duty of these fence riders to see that the wires are kept Intact, so that the ..ve stock cannot escape from the pastures. Many thousand miles of wire w e.e used in constructing the boundary fences. More than a score of towns, some of them of considerable size, are upon the ranches.— Kansas City ovar. Planning a Kntnre. 'I'm going to have my boy learn electrical engineering, chemletry. phys Ics and law and incidentally take a course in physical culture that will ,n able him to endure all sorts of expo- ur6 and muscular strain." Great Scott! What for?” 'I want him to be able to ran hit own automobile.” —Washington Star. The meanest man in the world is the man who Imposes on you because you are kind to him. People who are kind to you are so rare that you should appreciate them and not Impose o* them. It might be better for tbe world In general If happiness and shiftlessness didn't so often travel together. The more talk It takes to run things tho slower they n ov a