Hillsboro independent., June 22, 1906, Image 3

BIALYSTOK SCENES
Horrible Details of Butchery of
Jews Given Out.
DRIVE 1 HEM FROM STATE.
drawn ey packers!...::
PAS5INO Of CH Uptown.
New Meat Inspection Bill Was
Their Suggestion.
REPRESENTATIVE WAS IN CHICAGO
California Declares War on Dishonest
Insurance Companies.
San Francisco. Jane 15. Tbe official
o( California are agreed, it it said, that
the insurant com pan in which refuse
to nisei their obligations and pay their
losses id fall will not on iv be driven
from the itat hnt rsicsd bt!it
I 1 J i s ... . . a . s .
Rfinirc IDr m... "" V" uei publication oi their
uuuiLO AdL AlAdtlLlJ III I .1 F 1 1 f I ittoda can accomplish that end. In.
-... w ...... in,..u i tt u..i ir.n
i . vuuiiuwiuu.r x.. .uarioii nun
ii backed by Attorney General Webb.
The attorney general eipreeeed himself
forcefully today regarding tbe propoei.
tion made by bO companies at a meet
ing in Oakland Taeaday to pay only 75
per cent or adjusted losses.
'Under the law of California." be
aid. "the Hate insurance commission.
bi. retersburg. Jnne la Tk. - er can rtvoke the license of anv Insnr.
bargo on newt from Bialvstr.k . .. i,i,j ance company for the state when there
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wuay, ana ttie Associated Pr. canse. Certainly the payment o
correspondent was for the first tirnn l. 0D' Pr cent of losses would be
lowed to telegrsDh directl I rnm .. cause. And not only would it be proof are endeavoring to render ineffective
sacked city a picture ol the scene of ?' unsoundness and unfitness to do the Beveridge meat Inspection amend
ruin and desolation left in tha business, but it will be tha plainest I A. .... . . ,., .
(h. ...i. i j, . . "r -1 jj-i ... t. ' u . meo o tne agricultural um. it us
Aixuruinv in Iran n.nt hn . I i unuuuwi v. ii wuum urn i ....
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cause iur me commissioner 10 revoxe - - ----- 1 -
the state license of any company stand-1 mittee substitute for tha Beveridge
ing for such a proposition, and I know amendment was actual I v drawn bv the
it . mat mar w . . t I
tnai Air. tvou, wnose neart is in im .,.l... ., ,i u
... . .1 vuikv faivawiw null ws arnaj ivvvl VU aT
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"pea wob Bullet and Bay
onet Wounds Betray Work of
Brutal Soldiers.
Member of Committee Submitted Sub
stitute to Packers Changes Ac
cepted in Full.
Washington. June 16. President
Roosevelt has, yet to play bis tramp
card against tha men in congress who
letms, order was restored this morning
in story told by the Associated
rress correspondent is a dreadful one.
du mere are indications that be has
peen prevented by the censorship from
relating iurtber details about the con
anion oi corpses, the utter hestUlit. i
the mob and the inabii ty of the troops
m cope wun ine excesses during the
urav uays oi tne rioting
Ji is evident from the dispatches that
an agree-
companies that enter such
ment.
'This is the limit of his power of
punishment under the Calliornia law,
but be can go much farther. The in
sarance commissioners of all the states
the excesses assumed the character of a ,t,I!d together. Through them, Com
three cornered fight between the mili
tary, the mob and armed members of
the Jewish Bund, who, instead of sub
routing passively to slaughter, as their
unarmed co-religionists have done here
tofore, carried the war into the enemy's
camp ana fought bravely.
missioner Wolf can advertise to all the
vorld the dishonesty of the companies
bat refuse to meet their obligation
I am certain that he will nie that pow
er against those thst give him cause
There was no change today in the
alignment of insurance companies on
Merelv savinir that th..n... ..... the proposition to make a general 25
mutilated," the correspondent writes Pr cent cut, but the companies that
"fails to describe t,a .f,,l voted for full payment still hope to
scenes.
The faces of the dead have lost all bu
man semblance and the corpses simply
are cruenea masses of tush and bone.
soaking in blood. It is impossible to
conceive of such bestiality. The corpse
of Teacher Aptstein lay in the grass
wun ine hands tied. In the face and
eyes hail been hammered three-inch
nails. Kioters entered his home and
after fearful outrages killed him and
murdered the rest of his family of
seven. When the corpse arrived at
the hospital, it was also marked witn
bayonet thrusts.
"Beside the body of Aptstein lay the
corpse of a child of 10 years, whose
leg bad been chopped off with an ax
Here also were the dead from the Ach
latter home, where, according to wit
nesses, soldiers came and plundered the
bouse, killed the wile, son and a neigh
bor a daughter and seriously wounded
Achlacter and his two daughters.
"I am told that soldiers entered the
apartments of the Lapidus brothers,
which were crowded with people who
had fled from the streets for safety, and
ordered the Christians to separate
themselves from the Jews. A Chris
tian student named Dikar protested and
was killed on the spot. Then all the
Jtwa were shot."
win over many of those that took
stand for a percentage settlement.
the
LIFE DISGUSTS DOWIE.
Aged Prophet Lay Down to Die Once,
But Could Not.
Chicago, June 15. John Alexander
Dowie, on the witness stand in Judge
OHIO'S GOVERNOR DEAD.
Landis' court today, tremblingly begged
lor death to relieve him oi his sorrows
and his defeats. - He declared also that
should he die he would come back
earth again as Elijah the Restorer.
Dowie, in the course of his test)
mony, gsve the following rules to guide
a man who is about to die: "Do
things in order even when you go to
die. Don't make a splash and mess of
it. Go to your death couch and await
the end in calm."
The occasion for the discussion of
death came when Dowie, fighting for
the ownership of Z oo City and re.
claiming possession, which is now in
the hands of Wilbur U. Voliva, was
telling of his first serious illness as
part of the test i rrory on his present
competency to rale the citv which he
built, uowie msde the amaxing asser
tion that after he was first stricken he
lay down to die, but awoke two hours
later, alive.
I wm never mo dieffaataU when I
awoke two hours later alive," he said,
"and I am still alive and disgusted."
the men whom the president proposes
to place under government inspection
The home committee last Saturday
morning reached an agreement to re
port its substitute and immediatly Rep
resentative Lorimer- left for Chicago
with a copy of the committee bill, lie
spent half a day Sunday in conference
with the leading packers of bis home
city, submitting to them the substi
lute drawn by himself and Chairman
Wadsworth and accepted by the major
ity of the house committee. The pack
ers went over this proposed legislation
very carefully, wrote in many changes
which they desired, and asked Mr. Lor
imer to do his best to have their ideas
carried out.
Mr. Lorimer hastened back to Wash
ington, submitted the packers' ideas to
the committee, and the majority of the
committee actually adopted every sug
gestion that was made to Mr. Lorimer,
reporting a substitute for the Beveridge
amendment identical with that which
was endorsed by representatives of the
packers in Chicago on Sunday. These
facts are vouched for by two members
to I of the house committee, and they have
reported them to the president.
Such evidence as this is the strongest
kind of club In the president, and
will do more than anything else to de
feat the committee proposition and
force the bouse to accept something
very similar to the original Beveridge
amendment; to do otnerwise, the house
would have to acknowledge that it was
legislating at the direction of the beef
trust and few congressmen care to go
Into the campaign this fall with any
such record to their credit.
For many years Wj-J blOiIlg InJ
dent element of n.iv htt
urged the bluttlul oat or it, CbJaatowo.
Nature baa solved tt PMllsia. U Wu,
too Involved for bum" 'Minion, but
the earthquake nd , fln a.vom.
pUshed It so tborou.H'y tut so d,.ut,t
reuialua. There J nt'"f b. auutuer
San Fraucit Cblnto 00 the oJ
alte. When tbe n- c'l rils, out gf
the desolation wMdJ f!Wn upolJ
the old one there M little to recuii
the alien. alMt IlorlnC .limp of
Asiatic life that oa out so viv
idly amid the rush uj lnlteuce 0f
W extern progress.
Tha aarfluiuuk W Brs reraala.1
to the Bhudderlng wof'1' ths depth 0f
the Infamy thst d "m lodgment
there. Thirty thousand Chine, Uuat.
Ited this uusavory quarter, ten city
blocks, only six mu' rrom what
waa known as Newspsper corner. They
hmt converted tb fm buildlmra
which covered ths district int0 piflg,
iK.ta. In which they lived ths strange.
discordant lives of the Oriental lower
classes. Their dally "lk was fash
ioned after a pattern QiHU unknown to
those of the West, nd they giivt ale.
glance to laws ana c-iwoms entirely
distinct from those of their near neigh
bors. For years they ban been a mys
tery even to those wbo business It
was to know tliera Intimately. They
have defied aiNvewft'"' ill the efforts
of San Franclw-os ponerorrs to find
them out It has taken nature to pen-
ored lanterns,' snd the ahope, theaters.
Jems bouses and reftauranta were wak
ing ready for the dally harvest
The old Chinatown will never be re
stored, writes O. II. Tlcard. The flat
has already gone forth, and hereafter
all Celestials tu the vicinity of the Gold
'. i tl
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IX A SWELL HESTAUBANT.
en (iate will lie urged, to settle only
at the southern extremity of the county
on the bay shore, hear Fort Mason.
UABKET 15 CHIXATOWlf.
WANT APPEAL TO COURTS.
M.
B right's Disease Carries Off John
Pattison Suddenly.
Cincinnati, Jone 19. John M. Pat
tison, governor of Ohio, died of Bright's
disease at 4 :20 yesterdav afternoon at
his home in Milford, IIS miles east of
this city. On a beautiful hillside near
bis home his body will be laid to rest
on Thursday afternoon at 2 o'clock after
services in the Methodist church.
His death came suddenly and was
unexpected even by bis physicians and
family. Ksrly Sunday evening the
governor suffered considerable acute
pain, but later he sank into a quiet
sleep. At 10 o'clock yesterday morn
ing Dr. Belt made his usual visit and
found his patient in a comatose state.
The governor never rallied and death
came peacefully at 4:20.
Andrew II. Harris, lieutenant gov
ernor, who, under the constitution, be
comes governor during the rest of the
term for which Mr. Pattison was elect
ed, is a Republican. He wss born in
Butler county, Ohio, November 17,
18.TV He waa admitted to the bar in
1865. Hi was elected lieutenant gov
ernor both times that William McKin
ley was chosen governor.
Cannot Enter Conspiracy.
Pueblo, June 19. Holding that
corporation cannot enter into a conspir
acy or commit a crime, District Judge
Dixon today sustained a motion to quash
the Indictment returned bv the grand
jary against the Colorado Fuel A Iron
company, and the Colorado 8'ippl) com
pany, charging them with the violation
of the law bearing on the "truck sys
tem." Judge Dixon stated that the in
dictment was fatally defective In that
it failed to state connection Frank J.
llearne. D. C. Mann, J.C Schemkand
others had with the companies.
Insists on Direct Answer.
Carson City, Jane 9. The message
sent bv Insurance Commissioner Davis
to the National Fire Insurance companv,
of Hartford, calling upon it t- pay its
Ssn Francisco losses ii full, elicited the
following reply: "This company is
able to pay ell pn Francisco losses
in full. Any report to the contrary
is a malicious falsehood. Mr.
Pavis replied as follows: "Jrd
your answer as evasive. Will yoo
or will yon not ptT San . Francisco
losses on a bas'i of 100 cents on the
dollar?"
Total of Dead Uncertain.
Bialystok, Jane 9. Qiiet reigns to
ds thronghont this devastated town.
Firing was heard at midnight on the
outskirts of Bialystok. near the ceme
tery. but no farther disorders have oc
rnrred. The total figures of the casn
IltieT are not available, but 70 bodies
ier. baried today. This is claim I to
Ka less than half the total of the kjlled.
Jewish estimate, ssy that not less than
Yoa were killed. The number of
woandeJ H enormons.
Counted 290 Jewish Dead.
Odessa. Jane 19.-The Nevoetl of
thf?yubli.h.d . dispauh UkW
SSI,1- VTJA
t 7 1' enrnseT reat number of
is Christian- wetw killed.
MASSACRE AND PILLAGE.
in
Bomb Flung at Christian Parade
Russia Provokss Riot.
Bialystok, Russia, June 15. A Jew
ish anarchist threw a bomb imrn; the
Corpus Christi procession, which was
in progress here today, and killed or
wounded hund'eds of persons. In con
sequence the Christiana attacked and
massacred the Jews and demolished
their shops.
The bomb was thrown from the bal
cony of a house in Alerandrov street
A Russian clergyman named Federoff
was among those killed.
Immediately a'tr the explosion Jews
began to fire from the windows of tbe
house. Soldiers surroimded it and fired
two volleys. Meanwhile the enrage!
Christians attacked the Jewish stores
in Alexsndrov and Surax streets, demol
ishing the fixtures and windows, throw
ing the goods into the gutters, and
beating and murdering tne Jews. Many
Jews fled to the railroad station, pur
sued by the mob, which killed several
there.
Hold-Up Must Stop.
Washington, June 15. Jndge James
Wickersham, of Alaska, will be con
firmed by the senate before adjornment.
Notice waa served on Senators Nelson
and McCumber today by the steering
committee that the senate will not per
mit them to continue their hold-up of
this nomination which it is apparent to
practically tne entire senate that Wick
ersham has been unjustly accused and
that the fiht against him is not being
made in good faith. It is unusual fur
the senate to take such drastic meas
ures with its own members.
Lighthouses for Pacific.
Washington, Jane 15. The omnibus
lightnonse bill agree. I to in conference
tr.Uy will carry the following appropri
ations: Light vessel for nse at the
month of the Columbia river, $130,000,
Victims of Postal Fraud Ordera Want
Cortelyou Curbed.
Washington, Jans !. KfforS Is
ing made to curb the power exercised
by the Postofflce department In issuing
fraud orders against mail. The house
committee on judiciary has reported
favorably a measure granting appeal
from department fraud orders to the
courts, W 'ere the petitioner shall be
insured tbe right to a full judicial
hearing on the facts and judicial judg
ment as to whether the postal laws and
regulations are being violated.
Department rulings on use of the
mails, especially on the point whether
fraud is being committed, have been
the snbject of many sharp controversies.
The plenary powers of tbe executive
officials have been as frequently es
tablished. Accumulated disappoint
ment of those denied access to the
mails is offered in explanation of the
present movement. Since the removal
of Tyner, there have been no charges of
wilful abuse of the powers of the de
partment, but the purity of purpose
concexled to officials has not removed
the sting entirely for those who have
suffered.
There is little prospect that the
mesaure will be passed by the house
this session, but assurance is had that
a serious effort will be made to put it
on the statute books before the close of
the Fifty-ninth congress.
Ready to Reduce Navy.
Rome, Jane IS. In'the chamber of
deputies todsy, Signor Brunialti inter
rogated the government relative to the
proposal of the British government at
The Hague conferencs for reduction of
armament. Foreign Minister Tittonl
replied that he was glsd of the oppor
tunity to publicly express Itsly's ad-
oesion to the humanitarian proposal of
Great Rri'ain. adding that Italv al SMI
wss ready to co-operate sincerely with
initiatives aiming at the simultaneous
reduction of armament to avert the
dangers and diasters of war.
Berwind is Not Pleased.
Philadelphia, June 16. E. J. Tier.
'nd. head of the Berwind. White final
Mining company, and his brother, John
K. Berwind vara katn.. I.l... ....1
x . - , .... w ... .... tutisj . nweniiin
lightkeVper s dwelling, Robinson Point, of the Interstate Commerce commission
Washinston; I5.C00; fog signal. Edit here. The latter was examined by Mr.
Hook, Washington, 110,000; new tend- Glasgow, who stated, however, that hi
er for Inspector 13th lighthouse district, waa not ready to call K. J. Berwind
1110,000; light and fog signsl, Cape This was not pleasing to Mr. Berwind
II inchinbrook, Alaska, 115,2000. The I and he criticised the investigation and
committee struck out Senator Piles' said that the results would ha raaohaH
amendment for a stsei
Swiftsure bank.
Tours of Mutinous Garrisons.
Odesst. Jane 15. Generals Ksul
bars, of Odessa, and Soukhomlinnff, of
light vessel for more rapidly by call n officials of the
company who are familiar with the de
tails oi the business.
No Liquor In Federal Buildinrs.
Washington, Jane 16. The nnnse
Kiev, start tomorrow, accompanied by committee today authorised a fsvorable
large staffs, on tours of inspections of
garrisons in the southern and south
western provioces, where the disaffec
tion of numerous regiments is increas
ing in gravity. The seriousness of the
agrarian situation is enormously en
hance. 1 by this military discontent,
which Independent testimony avers is
purely political.
Major Scott To Be Superintendent.
Washington, June 15. Major Hugh
L, Scott, Foorteentb cmvalry, now in
the Philippines, has been selected by
Secretary Taft to succeed Brigadier
General A. L. Mills, as superintendent
of tbe military academy, who is to be
given charge of aa army department,
probably la the Philippines.
report on me Terrell bill. prnhiMting
the sale of alcoholic liquors in biii.l-
ngs or on premises loaned or Ua.a.t v,
Ihe United States government. Rai.l
applying to all government soldiers'
homes, this bill will prohibit tha ..U
of liquors in the hotels on the sorern-
ment reservstions at Old Point Com
fort, Va., and Hot Springs, Ark., and
in several hotels in Yellowstone Park
Oenied to the Women.
Helena, Mont., Jane 16. Holding
that upon constitutional grounds wo
men cannot bold notarial commissions
in this state, Governor Tooie todsy re
voked all outstanding commissions held
bv women, seven ia all, and denied as
many applications. -
etrate the mask, to make positive the
drendfus suspicion.
When the high wliuls which came
after the fire scattered the piles of
ashes that covered the surface of Chi
natown the mouths of numerous yawu
Ing tunnels were disclosed. The en
trances to these subterranean passages
had been concealed so carefully that
the existence of a Chinatown under
world was not known to many San
Franciscans. It Ii certain that very
few white men have ev explored these
Ulldf-raroutic! in no.
la tin. """ -:W., t.rn hm.
ureun oi men anu worn ,., , ,,,,
deaths yearly without a, um,lg ot the
manner oi uieir uiKing iff u,,.a known
to the police. Some of tie tunnels were
100 feet below the surface, ,j u was
easy to concenl all evicioii,. 0f rrnie
committed In them. M'iiiH,r of the
constantly warring tongs, lr .ret so
cieties, w ho were slain left friends who
sought revenge In th secret and far
away chainlers of horror. jj,.n who
were suave and discreet Chinese mer
chants above ground comlucted dens of
Infamy and, slave markets In the lower
regions. Gambling: " un
proved forms was ths chief occupation.
It will never be kiw how many
human beings perished In this under
world during the eartbliinke upheaval.
It Is certain that there were scores of
men overcome by opium, women Incar
cerated In their nolsom dungeons and
helpless children who were overtaken
by the sudden tremor and the shock
which tumbled the structures overhead
Into a shnpeless dust bMP- No attempt
will be made to Investlpte the matter.
The gaping mouths of the tunnels will
Didn't Vast Too Mirk Leaway.
Counsel for the defense in a murder
trial In Chicago recently had been try-
ng to bring out testimony along a cer
tain line to which the AsslHtunt State's
Attorney, who was conducting the pros
ecution, hud In each Instance objected
and been supHrted by the ruling of the
court Finally after on unusually spir
ited tilt between the opimslng lawyers,
which had been terminated by the
court's ruling In favor of the jiosltlon
taken by the prosecution, the attorney
for the defense addressed the presiding
Judee with some heat. Intimating that
sutltclent leeway In the Introduction of
evidence had uot leen given him.
'I think you have had a proper de
gree of freedoiu with regard to the In
troduction of evidence, Mr.' Attorney,"
remarked the court mildly.
"I have not had too much, certain
ly." replied the lawyer, warmly.
For a moment the nffnlr appeared
serious and the courtroom was silent.
Then the judge said quietly, "Do you
want too much?"
The attorney saw the point and pro.
ceeded with his case without remark.
Chicago Inter Ocean.
WEARY WITH THEIR INCOME.
Er. nsstsr Cer!-ett, ct CLcfoo, China,
who waa elected moderator of the Tree
byterlan General Assembly, at Dee
Moines, Is one ot
the greatest preach
era and strongest
in I a s I o n a r lea lu
China. He was born
In Leather wooL
l'a.. In isas, and
settled as a mission
ary lu Cliefoo lU
13. Ills constant
ly growing Influence
lu gospel sucvsses
pa. iii'XTta coBBrrrhas spread through
out the whole of the great province of
Shantung. He Is the most indefatiga
ble traveler aud the greatest evangelis
tic preacher among the Presbyterian
uilsslonarlea in the Middle tvingaoiu.
he prominent feature of his long ca
reer is his great faith in the usefulness
of native preachers, of whom there are
now between forty and fifty attached
to the Cliefoo station. When Ir. Hradt
persuaded bis Wichita church that It
hould have a foreign pastor, the board
sslgned Ir. CorU'tt to the church's
uptwrt, and the npixal which tne per
sonality of the man made to the Wichi
ta ieop!e helped greatly In Increasing
the gifts of the congregation, which
now uinlntulna not only Ir. Corbett but
manyof his native helper. Though now
well past the age of i0. the stalwart
missionary sieaks, as he works, with a
oung man's intensity.
a vxorrABii rmnira.
t filled with earth, nJ further ex
ploration of the sul.ternniean plague
siot will 1 left to future generations.
But the external Chinatown that has
helid so unmistakably to nmke San
Francisco one of the I'hv ul h the
traveling American ii'U,t "HI not
be forgotten soon. It one of the
most unforgettable spots under the sun.
It was the very treasure Mise of color.
The tiny shops, both ln'l(e and out,
were fairly ablaxe. Tbe de,-orations
were lavish and wholly Oriental, and
the wares In them were even more than
that It waa a strange and heathenish
sggregstlon vsses InwroiitfM with fsn
clful pictures In gold and 'liver, carv
Ings of Ivory that rivaled tbe delicate
work of the patient Hindoo, grotesque
moldings of bronze and npires of brass
beaten with the cunnln. "kill known
only to the Cantonese. There ere ir.
gosles of silk such as a q'in might
wear and lace that was fit to rsrnlsh It
This San Francisco tiiin'Hwn was a
complete city within Itself. Its Inhab
itants acknowledged no li:snra to
any other municipality n'' bsd no In
terest In the "foreign devils" ouNhle
that was not strictly commercial. They
Issued from their burro- ' the early
morning snd went so!rly la pursuit
of their vsrlous callings of houses ser
vants, laundrymen. vegetable fnilt
peddlers and all the other thingl th(t
they do so well. returnlit to their
cramped and aln Infested nrter at
nlghtfalL There the real living 0Iy f
Chinatown waa Just dawnlni and the
narrow lanes were beginning to gjaan,
alluringly beneatb the soft Itxht sf cel.
Mrs. Jon a D. Horkefellar Woild
Prafer Thouaaads to Mlllloaa
Mrs. John I. Rockefeller shrinks even
more from personal notoriety than her
husband. Although she might easily
soend .5.000 a day if she chose, Mrs.
n.
LIBEL LAW OF AUSTRALIA.
Ia.ka.btla.ata Wk Mill I'rl4
f Aaoaatrr Are Proll.
The libel law of Australia is the
queerest In the world, lie who Is sued
for libel there must uot only prove
that the accusation he published were
true, but also that to publish them wa
for the public benefit. Klstew here the1
truth of the accusation alone uecds to
be proved.
An Australian sheep raiser explalnej
this queer lllel law at a wool sale.
"Austrulia was practically colonised
by convict." he said. "There is no use
denying this. The colonisers of Aus
tralia were convict lu the main.
"The descendants of thso convict
are now Australia's leading families,
the richest, the most Influential, the
most Intelligent, the most reiected.
Ami yet these excellent people were)
in the past at the mercy of every edi
tor. Let them get Into the smallest
siuablile or dispute with some editor
and the man would bring them Into
general ridicule and contempt by print
ing their ancestry, by showing that Sir
John Smith's greatgrandfather haj
been sent out for robbing an old wom
an of 7, or that Judtfe Itrowu'a great-
aunt while employed as a servant girl,
had tried to poison her master's sou,
with whom she wa in love.
"It I undeniably true that the best
Australian have convict blood lu their
vein. The newspapers that they quar
reled with used to taunt them with
their convict blood. Hence the present
queer libel law, which protect them.
for of course It can never be for the
public good to publish that the grand
mother of Judge So-and So or the great-
uncle of Dr. Blank was a convict"
MRS. JOll.X
ROTKEFEI.I.KR.
Rockefeller does uot sK-nd (0O, and
say that eveu to do that is a bur
den to her, says a Philadelphia news-
pa per.
She can't understand what In the
world anybody should want with so
much money as her husband possesses.
"Every wish I have In life could be
gratified with a fortune of lloo.ou)
she once said. "I don't care for mor
than SlOO.Oo). Anything above thai
amount Is merely a trouble and an an
noyance." Mra. Rockefeller never goes to a
theater, never rides in an automobile,
or plays golf, or cards, or tennis. She
has given up trying to aiend her In
come, ana says, wearily: um it
away. IKn t bother me witu ir"
Art ( Sparta". Mather.
The wife of a well-known official in
Washington holds some novel Ideas
with reference to the punishment of re
fractory children. Physical chastise
ment Is most repugnant to this lady's
mind, but she has evolved a unique sys
tem that has proved successful.
On one occasion a friend was visit
ing her when one of the Uys had sur
reptitiously appropriated an orange 1?
longlng to his younger brother. The
misdemeanor was discovered before the
culprit bad dlsosed of his spoil; so
the youngsters were summoned to the
judgment seat.
"James," was the stern command of
the mother, "take this seat; and you,
Thomas, that one. Now, Thomas, give
James the orange you have stolen from
blm."
When the lads had done ss they were
ordered, the mother added :
"James, I want you to take as long
ss possible to est that orange. Tou,
Thomas, are to rlt there and watch
him eat It I'nder no circumstances
sre you to leave the room." Harper's
Weekly.
Tha Krlr :r.
In the early days of Christianity
many styles of dating were In vogue,
and eras were established with the sn
nunelatlon. the birth, the transfigura
tion, the ascension snd other events Id
the history of Christ as starting point
The Barber's Art.
The barber'J art In Europe dates
from the time of Alexander the Great
B. C 3.TO. He ordered every soldier tc
shave, lest the beard should give a ban
die to their enemies.
The women who ran argue should be
man like enough not to cry.
George E. McNeill, who died lu Bos
ton after undergoing an operation, was
widely known a a lecturer aud writer
on economic sub
jects, lie was pop
ularly known as the
"father of theelght-
hour workday
movement from the
purt he took In ad
vocating the eight-
hour work day. Mr.
McNeill was trn In
Amesbury, Mass., lu
1 R'lrt A a a liov he
.' . . . . UEOROtt . It NEI1X.
worneu in ine wooi-
... a ..
en mills ana niter learneu mo
making trade. Fifty years ago he was
an active advocate of the shorter work
ilv smt with Ira Steward, had much
to do with the establishment of the ten
hour law In Massachusetts. With ths
snnnort and eo-oteratlon of Wendell
Phillips and Governor Claflln ho was
Instrumental In founding the Massachu
setts bureau of InlKir statistics, the first
board of Its kind to be created in this
country. In 1HK3 he Joined the Knlghti
of Lalior, but later severed his connec
tion with that organization because ns
did not approve of Its policy of mixed
assemblies. In he was elected fra
ternal delegate from the American Fed
eration of Lnlsir to the British Trades
Colon Congress.
Trlvy Councilor Goreniykln, who
succeeds Count Wltte as Russian pre
mier, for some yei
THE PLAGUE OF FLIES.
ft'
Of all the annoyance of the house-
keeier, there ure few, if any, mora
troublesome than the common house
fly. So prolltically doe he breed and
so quickly mature that he would Is9 a
nuisance If no more sertou charge
lay ugalnst him. But more scrlou
charge do lie. I.Ike the mosquito, ha
spread disease, especially typhoid fe
ver, uud other Intestinal disorder.
lu the teiniH-ruto xone the Muscn do.
aiestlcu, or common house-fly, matures
from the egg In from ten to fourteen
day's. A the female lay about 129
eggs, and a from twelve to fourteen
generations develop in a single sea
son, to jK'iietrate every room of every
house, the dunger from this Insignifi
cant pest I no small matter.
The favorite breeding-place of tha
house-fly I stable manure, particularly
the inuiiure from horse ; but open out
houses, such a are common in tha
country, are also favorite places for
dejiosltlug the eggs. It 1 here that tha
most serious danger arise, for files
which have alighted UMtu the excreta
from typhoid fever or cholera patlenta
may afterward convey the disease
germs to food.
From knowing the source of a dan
ger, the next step Is to prevent the
evil. In the case of flics, certain sim
ple measures ought everywhere to he
taken, not merely to avoid a Hrsonal
annoynni-e, but for the protection of
life itself.
First, every door and every window
should lie carefully screened, and sticky
rs has taken a con.
solcnoiiH tuirt In
Russian Miltlcal ' ly-pnper should be generously dlstrlb-
M. VOBtMYKI.V.
affairs. He will
minister of the In
terior from is'.)."! un
til IWf.l, and a year
ng was made hem)
of a commission to
counteract the agra
rian movement In
the Caucasus. In a
general way he If
considered to be a
lncoiiiMieut to deal
reactionary nnd
with the present crisis, but his admin
istration has not been marked with
any undue harshness. Count Wltte lint
won a name In history for his negotia
tion last year of the eaee trenty with
Japan at Portsmouth, N. II. He Is 57
years old, and has hnd official connec
tion with the Russian government sines
3877. He hns leen at the head of ths
railway and finance departments, and
from August 1!".1, until the establish
ing of a "resKnslble ministry," was
president of the committee of minis
ters. He was born in JM'.t, or Uermao
origin.
M. Leplne. prefect of the Paris po
lice, and on whom fell the biggest por
tion of the burden of maintaining or
der during the re
cent disturbance
has been In the J"
lice service of tin
Frenchcnpltal slnci
1HSS snd has tx-ei
prefect since ls'll
His fitness for th
office, with Its mill
tltudlnous duties, I
shown by his resp
polntment to the of
flee by the various
president elected since lie first Itccsme
prefect He has Ij.oisi men under him,
relnforceable by . foot and mounted
troops of the republican guard.
A monument is being designed In Rich
mond, Vs., to be dedicated to the memory
of Edgar Allan Poe.
Carolus Puran, ths famous port rs It
painter, is sbout to pslnt s portrait of
Pods Plus X, taking his inspiration from
Titan's portrslt of Pope Paul III.
A London psper Is responsible for the
statement thst .Mr. snd sirs. Mrholat
Ixmc worth, when they visit Ixndm in
June, will make s stsv st Buckingham
pilar- as ths guest of King Edward.
Theodore A. Cook, brother of Ir. Fred-
ericx a. i oos oi iM"",ij ii. j iMiiiiiJiif
three motnr rsrt st his home In ( allinstn,
N. for the use of the sooth pole, eipeji
tion. ahich is to sMrt in i:s7.
uted.
Secondly, stable niauurtt should tie re
uioed every day, and placed, not In an
ois-n pile, but in a screened bin. This
Uitthod, pursued by the Ik-purtmeiit of
Agriculture at Washington, gave Im
mediate relief, after treatment of tha
stable manure by chemlculs had been
fllnndoncd as unpractical, because of
the expense.
Thirdly, all open vaults should be
kept carefully screened; and,
Lastly, food should be always pro
tected by covers of wire netting an
old fashioned country practice which
deserves to be revived. Youth's Coin
I anion.
iw
M.
I-KI'I.NK.
DMa't Peal Sara af Himself.
The Flirt Congrstnlate me.
The Bachelor Real ly?
Tea; I'm going to be married."
"I'm so glsd."
"Are you, resllyT
"Tes, resllyl Tou know I wss al
ways little afraid of you!" loo
kers Statesman,
The Klrat .tawapaper.
The honor of having produced the
first newspaper has long been disputed
by Italy, France. Germany, England
snd Holland, and for years the British
Museum exhibited a paper called tha
English Mercury, sld to have been
printed In 15NS, but which proved to
he a practical Joke of Lord Hardwlcke.
Aa the first German pajier only apiear
ed in 1(515, In Frankfort; the first
Dutch paper In Mt7. the first English
paper, the Weekly Gaxette, In IGL'il, and
the first French paper In liLU, the pri
ority of Antwerp In the field now seem a
to be established by exhaustive re
searches, which show leyond a doubt
that the printer, Abralmm Verhoeveu,
of Antwerp, obtained In I'iori from tha
Archduke and I Miches Ali.ert and Isa
bel le the privilege of printing the Unit
regular newspaper.
Hir an loo llrallr.
"This won't go for only one stamp,"
said the village postmaster to tld Co
de Kiah as the latter banded him a
bulky and much sealed missive.
"Whuf for? What's de uinddab wl
dat?"
"Too heavy," replied the postmaster,
balancing It on his hand.
"Cniphl I tole dat hoy so when he
waa a-wvltln' of it I tole blm be waa
wrltln' too beaby a ban', but be kep'
on a-bearln' down an' a-benrln' down on
de pen, lahk a load o' hay. I'll take It
back, sah, an' nick him write wid a
pencil. I ain't gwine sn' no mo' twe
censes Jes' fer his plgheadednets."
liar UssseMlns.
"Sing m something very sweet
Of esrtb's brighter, hsppier lives."
And he said: "If sweet's the thing,
llow'll It plesse you if I s.ng
Of the honey in the hives?"
At her full height then she stood
I '.ca ill i fill sh wss to sea;
"Ilon'y In tha comb's no fod
Wouldn't hsv It if I could;
rl'pose you mske a song of me?
Atlsnts Constitution,
Tou don't know anything a Unit work
unless you have witnessed hous clean
ing in a lawyer's oflW.
All tbe letters a married man gets
are abort one. If he la a perfect! j
proper man.