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utiiO VALLEY FLOOD
CAUSES BIB DIM
Rise of Several River Is Reported
to Be the Highest in Many
Years.
SUFFERERS FLEE TO THE HILLS.
Boat Invades Flooded Cornfield to
Save Farmers and Stock Sick
ness Follows Privation.
The flood throughout the Ohio val
iey, caused by heavy rains and melting
snows, Is reported to be the highest
since 1870. Lives have been loBt,
homes, bridges and fences swept away,
and crops und roads ruined. Hun
dreds of families hnve been flood
bound In the overflowed nrens.
The Monongnheln, Allegheny, Ohio,
Wubanh nnd smaller streams have all
contributed to the destruction which
has moved down the Mississippi to
ward the Guif of Mexico.
Pittsburg, perhaps, has been the
greatest sufferer from the flood which
has been sweeping down the Ohio val
ley. Any one ncqualnted with the lo
cation of the Smoky City knows why
Pittsburg Is nnnually, and sometimes
several times n yroir, a victim of high
water. The Monongahela and Alle
gheny rivers, uniting to form the Ohio,
each flows through a narrow ravine
and when the waters of the moun
tains and highlands come down In un
usual quantities, owing to prolonged
thaws or persistent ruins, the flood of
necepslty must overflow the narrow
lolrit between the ravines, thus Inun
dating more or less of the city.
In the vicinity of the Junction of the
Ohio and Wabash rivers flood suffer
ers abandoned their homes to the rag
ing waters and fled to the hills. Here
they have been quartered In huts,
sheds and deserted buildings and as a
result of the exposure and privation
pneumonia has become prevalent.
People along the lower Ohio River
have prepared for the siege In store
for thorn, pearly a hundred families
on the Indiana-side, opposite Union
town, Ohio, were removed. The big
Ohio River steamer City- e-ftjgpottavliie
cut across a cornfield pid brought out
several families, with L'OO hogs, eighty
mules and fifty cattia The rescued
flood victims had spent two nights In
terror nnd fought Incessantly to keep
their stock from drowning., Residents
at Shawneetown, 111., are apprehensive,
us the levee has been weakened by the
excessive rain nnd the three floods of
last year. A constant watch Is being
kept of weak places.
The Evansvllle and Terre Haute
Railway Company has been anxious
about the safety of Its embankment
which pnrallcls White Itlver, nnd thou
enixls of bags filled with sand hnve been
placed to strengthen It This place Is
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This picture of the February flood, which threw 20,000 people
the scene at the river's worst stage. On the right is the North Side
down the middle of the stream. A wreoked houseboat Is shown in
now know a as the "Itlack Hole" be
muse of the dlsnpiMMirnnce of a train
tvme years ago. All efforts to till this
hole have .been futile.
AUpii. Took f 110,000,000.
According to figures compiled by the
North Herman Lloyd line. $110,000,000
was taken out of the United States Inst
year by. aliens returning to their former
homo in Europe. This computation is
based ou figures furnished by steamship
sgonts, inonuy changers ami others in a
position tn be informed, and Is made on
the assumption that the average amount
cai-riiMl by returning foreigners is $200,
and that 5W,045 immigrants returned to
their native land. It is estimated that
this $200 will maintain him In absolute
Idleness for a year or more, and when
the money is gone he will return. A pe
culiar fact is tlmt the returning alien
will not accept anything fur his American
navings except the gold of his own coun
try. America tteta HUlorlo Flair.
The flag captured on the American frig
ate Chesapeake at the time of her famous
fight with the British ship Shannon Id
1813 has been purchased for American
buyers at an auction sale in London, the
price paid being $4,2."iO. It is said the
flag Is for J. P. Morgan. At the same
ale parties said to represent American
buyers purchased for $l,r00 the bugle
upon which was sounded the order for the
famous charge of the Light Brigade In the
tattle of Dalaklava.
Poor quarters Almshouses,
THE WEATHER
Fair and Mild.
Rain and Warmer.
VICTIMS OF IGNORANCE.
Doukhobors of Canada Preparing
for Another Outburst.
Reports received at Ottawa, Ont., In
dicate that the coming spring will see
the 7,000 Doukhobors leave their Nortn
west communities and go on another
wild pilgrimage. All accounts agree
that the fanaticism of the sect has no
parallel In modern times.
Doukhobor leaders have been partic
ularly busy Issuing decrees since the be
ginning of winter, and, ?"' new pro
mulgation (teems to have been drafted
with a desire to outdo the preceding
ones In Inflicting hardship and suffer
ing on "the faithful." Children are
said to be dying for want of proper
food. The people are paupers. They
have obeyed an order to sell all their
cattle and sheep.
All products of the land go to the
sect leaders. All chickens have been
sold In obedience to a decree. Tea,
coffee, sugar and pancakes have been
tabooed and the general diet has been
narrowed to raw potatoes, onions, car
rots, turnips nnd a few other vege
tables. Among the latest decrees have
been those abolishing timepieces nnd
looking glasses. Agents of the leaders
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FLOOD RAVAGES PITTSBURG AND HUNDREDS
have taken away from tho people about
$7,000 worth of clocks and watches.
The women, who are noted for their
deftness with their needles, have been
forbidden to make any more embroid
ery. The Doukhobor wheat Is handled by
a committee, which docs what it
pleases with it. This committee con
trols pretty nearly everything In the
way of labor. The gangs which work
on the railway and in the community
brickyard pay over their wages to the
committee without receipt. But when
It comes to be laborers getting their
meager food allowances from the coin
lulttee they are compelled to give a
receipt for every ounce.
Iu one district 500 persons are living
In two houses. Each adult is allowed
a sleeping space of four feet wide. All
have to climb into their beds over the
footboards. The younger men ore
stowed away lu the garrets of the
houses after the fashion of canned sar
dlues. rians are being made by the Structural
Building Trades Alliance and the Central
Labor Union of Spokane, Wash., to erect
a labor temple In that city to cost $75
000. There are 7,000 union men in Spo
kane, and by 40 per cent of them taking
$25 worth of stock the amount can be
raised.
The demand for aluminium still ex
ceeds the Buiply.
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THAT'S PROMISED AND THE WEATHER WE GET.
Cold Wave.
Snow and Colder.
Cabinetmakers' Union, ' of St. Paul,
and Minneapolis, Minn., have formed a
district council.
Minneapolis, Minn., Trades Assembly
K-presec,, phn'i:. IJj.fWi mmhers 9f labor
unions in Minneapolis.
For the first time In Its history, Mex
ico is to have a great'central labor body
similar to the American Federation of
Labor, and exercising all its functions.
In Germany the strongest trade union
affiliated with the general f iteration is
that of the metal workers, which at the
close of 1006 had a membership -o-afA-075.
Detroit (Mich.) Lodge of Shipmasters'
Association has adopted a resolution, urg
ing Washington as a permanent mjetinj
place for the annual winter sessions. All
lodges along the lakes will be asked to
support this plan.
Efforts, are being made to organize a
branch of the independent labor party in
Toronlo, Canada. Fees aad applications
ARE MADE HOMELESS BY SWELLING WATERS.
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N'T'.w'-wTwmw .y.
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out of work end rendered thousands
B. & 0. station. On the left Is a coal
the ice floe.
from several hundred lab3" men have al
ready been received, and It 's expected tj
have at least 3,000 names before the end
of the year.
The union barbers of Washington. 1.
O , are waking up. They have appointed
a business agent and organise- to .push
the organization and strengthen its ranks.
The Central Labor Union and American
Federation of Labor will aid the local
In its work.
The new Alabama child labor law re
cently went Into effect. It forbids the
employment of children, under twelve
years of age in cotton mills and other in
dustries, and children between the ages of
twelve and fourteen are not allowed to
work full time.
In the Clyde shipyards the shadow of
the threatened strike has been removed,
the men having accepted a reduction of
5 per cent on piece rates, the masters
having on their side agreed to forego the
proposed reduction of one farthing per
hour on time rates.
The eleventh annual convention of the
Tennessee Federation of Labor, held re
cently, took practical steps looking toward
obtaining favorable legislation for tabor
In Tennessee, and a campaign will be In
stituted to obtain more thorough organ
isation of the laboring people.
Industrial conditions are greatly im
proved in Bridgeport, Conn. Every fac
tory has resumed operations, some in full
force and others to perhaps 75 per cent
of their capacity, and some which were
running on short time will Increase the
ttnmber ot working hours each week.
Warmer Weather.
Hot and Sultry.
TRY IT ON THE DOG.
Food Expert Wiley Deems Refrig
erated Meat Unsafe.
Dr. Harvey W. Wiley, Uncle Sam's wiz
ard in chemistry, believes that refrigerat
ed meat is unsafe. Meat and other foods,
if appearances are to be accepted, may be
kept in cold storage for long periods with
out any apparent degradation in their
nutritive value or quality. But between
the time they are removed form the re
frigerator and the time that they are
prepared for eating, ptomaine or alkaloid
al bodies may develop that would make
them fatal if taken into the human stom
ach. The meat, poultry, gan - i other
articles that have been In Dr. Wiley's ice
house for the last two years will not
therefore be fed to the poison squad.
Their condition will be tested by the chief
chemist and his assistants in other ways.
When put in the refrigerator plant in
the first instance he tissues of the meat
were carefully measured and have slnte
been remeasured at frequent Interval' !
Every change in texture has beeen care
fully noted from time to time. In the
final examination of the refrigerated foods
they will be tested by Dr. Wiley and his
assistants and their odor will serve as a
guide in determining whether or not they
are sound, nutritious and wholesome af
ter being for a long time behind closed
doors in an Ice cold atmosphere. In
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homeless in Pittsburg alone, shows
tipple wrecked by Ice and carried
taste and odor the refrigerator meat will
be compared with fresh beef. Then the
beef will be fed to the department dog,
who has waxed fat these many days on
foods generally regarded by the world
at large as hurtful to health'.
While Dr. Wiley absolutely declined to
comment on the lessons taught by the
experiments about to be conducted, there
is reason to believe that he will report
to Congress that it Is in all probability
unsafe and doubtless dangerous for one
to eat foods that are kept In cold storage
for periods exceeding three months. This
applies particularly to meat, game asd
poultry. What Dr. Wiley himself thinks
of eggs that have been on Ice from sum
mer until late In the winter he refused
to say. When the subject was mention
ed he merely held his nose.
The Board of Education of the United
Kingdom, sitting at London, has decided
to pay more atrention to pnysical needs
of the public school pupils this year than
ever before. In all schools medical In
spection Is to be established, and an ef
fort is to be made to supply pure milk.
This movement has been hastened br the
discovery of deterioration In the British jprlginalT New elaborations are Invent
youth og army service. Jed daily each one mon expensive than
t T77! TTT . tbe last but nobody la deceived. It la
The third great athletic stadium to be stm tne old p,nafore, ouly a little mad
built by American universities has lust ...I. ; . , .
been completed at Syracuse. It to 670 der' Uttl -London
feet long, covers six and one-third acres Graphic,
and will seat 20,000 spectators comfort- i When a man falls to attract atten-
ab'y- "J8 instructed of concrete and Uan to any otner way he can be ex.
Greek arenas.
SWASTIKA.
raahlonabl Ornament Wa Objeea
j of Weraktp Maar Ceatarlea Ago.
I What Is the swastika? This little
article of adornment Is just now hav
ing remarkable rogue as an ornament
for woman's dress.
As brooch, belt
buckle, stick pin,
collar fastener, or
hat pin, this up
right cross, with
each of Its four
arms bent to a
swastika. right angle at the
end, meets the eye everywhere.
Nearly every woman who buys on
knows that it is In some sense a "good
luck pin," but how It came to be con
sidered such and where the peculiar
and curiously attractive symbol origi
nated is known to comparatively few
persona -
The swastika is one of the great re
ligious symbols of the world. It has
been recognized as a religious emblem
by more people, very likely, than has
the cross Itself. As such symbol It is
very many hundreds of years older
than the Christian era, In fact, it is
perhaps, the very earliest of religious
signs or characters. It has been re
vered all over Europe and Asia, and
long before the dawn of Christianity
Dur pagan ancestors looked up to It,
as the emblem of what they worship
ed. It is one of the oldest things In
history, and there Is scarcely a land
In whose ruined temples It is not
found
"Swastika," the name given It by
Che Brahmins and Buddhists of India,
Is a Sanscrit word signifying "of good
fortune." In the Pall tongue It Is
"sutl," which means "It is well," or
"so be it," which is much the same
meaning as the Sanscrit word. The
Japanese call It "manjl" and the Chi
nese call It "manjl" and the Chinese
know it as "ouan" or "wan." The
French call It "le crolx pattee," the
footed cross, while the ancient Eng
lish name is "fly-fot," meaning either
four-footed or many-footed.
The most puzzling and most inter
estlng thing about the swastika is that
it Is found In nearly all parts of the
world, In this country as well as In
Europe and Asia, wherever archaeolo
gists dig up the burled cities of the
remote past Drawn, painted, cut,
woven, scratched or otherwise design
ed, not only upon burial urn and sacri
ficial stone, but also upon utensils and
objects of everyday use, the curious
symbol appears.
It has been found among relics that
mark the bronze age In Europe and
some antiquarians believe they have
discovered the fact of its existence In
the so-called polished stone age of
man.
Prof. Schlleman found It at Hissar
11k In the burled cities that underlay
the ancient Troy, of which Homer
sang, which Indicates Its existence at
a period from 3,000 to 8,500 years ago.
Those who look upon the region to
he northwest of India as the primal
home of the blonde races of the world
also consider that ancient land as be
ing the birthplace of the swastika. R.
P. Greg, an eminent English authority,
argues that "It was a much-used and
favorite religious symbol among the
earlier Aryan races, and was intended
by them, in the first Instance, to rep
resent In a cruciform shape an Ideo
graph or symbol suggested by the fork
ed lightning." Our primal white for
bears worshiped Dyausoltar (Jupiter),
the sky father, and the Jagged light
ning was the natural emblem of this
awful power.
With the successive emigrations of
the Aryans from northern India all
over Europe, the swastika spread and,
adopted as a symbol of Buddha In the
seventh century before Christ, It was
later carried into China and Japan.
The Arabs and Jews knew It not, nor
did the ancient Egyptians, but they
were not of Aryan blood.
Thus the hammer of Thor, the Scan
dinavian deity for whom Thursday Is
named, was this very same swastika
which the maiden of to-day is using to
ornament a summer shirt waist It
was with his mighty hammer, MIoll
ner, that Thor Is fabled to have crush
ed the head of the Midgard serpent,
destroyed the giants, restored to life
the dead goats which drew his car and
consecrated the pyre of Bladur, the
beautiful.
Old Tlm Plocarlnara.
An act of the time of Queen Eliza
beth ordained that vagrants were to be
"stripped from the middle upward and
whipped till the body Is bloody." Four
pence.each was the recognized charge
made by the "whipman" for every
male and female vagrant who passed
through his bands, but on special occa
sions this sum was exceeded. Says the
constable's account of Great Staughton,
Huntingdonshire: "May, 1691 Paid in
charges taking up a distracted woman,
watching her 'and whipping her next
day, 8 shillings 6 pence." After whip
ping people according to the statute
the authorities sometimes gave them a
letter recommending constables and
others "to be as charitable as the law
1 oermlts."
, Coatly Monotony ta Dreaa.
Our clothes are al alike, and this
monotony has led to unlimited extrava
gances. What has not been done to
make the eternal ninafore frock look
act
THEV7EE.U.Y
MHSTORlAr
1631 Soger Williams arrived in Boston
from England. '
1665 First number of London Gazette
appeared.
1682 La Salle began his descent of the
Mississippi. s.
1600 Schenectady, N. Y., attacked and
. burned by the French and Indians.
1603 Nearly 2,000 persons killed by
earthquake In Sicily.
1738 Severe earthquake feR In New
England.
1762 Martinique taken by the English.
1778 Americans took possession ot New
York City.
1778 The United States and France con
cluded a treaty of alliance.... Dan
iel Boone taken prisoner by French
and Indians.
1783 Final cessation of hostilities be
tween the United States and Great
Britain. . . .Sweden acknowledged the
Independence of the United States.
1701 Bank of the United States incoi
ported.
1794 Boston's first theater opened.
1790 American ship Sedgley rescued 169
men from the sinking British ship
Aurora.
.1807 Napoleon defeated the Bussians at
battle of Eylau.
1813 American troops raided Brockville,
Ontario.... British Admiral Warren
declared Chesapeake Bay to be In
state of blockade.
1814 tMassachusetts ' prohibited impris
onment for debt.
1831 Baron Aylraer entered upon his
term of office as Governor of Can
ada.' -v.
1847 Col. Fremont proclaimed the an
nexation of California and assumed
the office of Governor.
1849 Republican proclaimed at Rome,
1850 Henry Clay introduced In the Sen-'
ate a bill to compromise the slavery
question.
1852 Over 500 lives lost in wreck ot
British troop ship Birkenhead neaf
the Cape of Good Hope.
1859 Senator S Udell of Louisiana pre
sented a bill proposing to place $30,
000,000 in the hands of the Presi
dent for the purchase of Cuba.
1861 Jefferson Davis of Mississippi
withdrew from Congress.
1867 Evacuation
French.
of Mexico ; by the
1870 Prince Arthur, third son of Queen
Victoria, received by President Granf
at the White House.
1873 Congress abolished naval ranks of
admiral and vice admiral.
1876 Manitoba abolished the legislative,
council.
1881 British defeated at battle of In
gogo river, Transvaal.
1885 Italians occupied Massowah.
1883 Amos J. Snell, Chicago banker, as
sassinated. 1803 Long-distance telephone communi
cation established between Boston
and New York.
1805 Abdication of Queen. Lilluokalani
of Hawaii.
1808 Letter of Spanish Minister De
Lome, reflecting on President McKh
ley, published.
1809 Insurrection against the United
States government in the Philippine
Islands began.
1900 Hay-Pauncefote treaty signed at
Washington.
1001 Wilhelmlna, Queen of Holland,
married to Prince Henry of Meek
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Tho Prolongation of Life
The centuries-long search for the means
af securing perpetual, or at least extend
ed youth, is still being prosecuted by the
scientists. Dr. Moutier of Paris, studying
the rigidity of the arteries, which is a
characteristic of advanced life, has by a
specially constructed electrical apparatus
been able to reduce the Increased pres
sure of the blood which accompanies the
arterial changes and thus restore normal
conditions, which continue permanently.
The same treatment has also been suc
cessfully used in the treatment of patients
affected with neurasthenia
Elie Metchinkoff, Pasteur's successor In
the famous Pasteur Institute at Paris, in
a book entitled, "The Prolongation ot
Life," published by G. P. Putnam's Sons,
argues that much of the shortening of life
and the pain of old age is due to a
poisoning of the tissues through putre
faction of the Intestinal tract which may
be counteracted by certain acids, chiefly
that existing in sour milk, in confirmation
of which he instances the long life ot
some races which live mainly on such
iet
. Prohibition Convention Called.
The national convention of the Prohi
bition party has been called to meet at '
Columbus on July 15. There will be a
total of 1,512 delegates, the apportion
ment to the various States being based
qpon the vote cast for President in 1004
j American Caa Pro&ts.
j The American Can Company reports
earnings of I3.24CS27 for the fiscal jeaifc
I v naJa of over $700,000.
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