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About Dakota County herald. (Dakota City, Neb.) 1891-1965 | View Entire Issue (Jan. 21, 1910)
owWxc )owcs; dcawscs o sy scm cj$ccuay ; assvss cwiovcxcoTT abwa coTs'poXo pcxmxvcTvuy. To des bcic5vco cjjecWwas)uv Ccwuwvc, O riANUrACTUPrOBVTHl CALIFORNIA Fig Syrup Co. SOLO BY LEADING DRUGGISTS 50' A BOTTLE The Illne Whalr. What la claimed as the largest ani mal In the world Is represented by a colossal skeleton In the museum of Chrlstchurch, Now Zealand, sayH the London Globe. This Is the remains of a large specimen of the blue whale stranded on the coast of that country. This whale Is probably the largest of all living animals. The length of tha skeleton is eighty-seven feet, and the head alone la twenty-one feet. The weight of the bones Is estimated at nine tons. This gigantic whale gets Its mme of blue whale from the dark bluish gray of Its upper surface. The tinge of yellow on Its lower part bas led to the name "sulphur bottom," by whir-to It is known on the western side of the Atlantic. It U otherwise known as Sibbald's rorqual (Balenoptera Sib baldll). The chief food of this gigantic ani mal is a email marine crustacean (Thysanopoda lnermls), known to tha whales as "krll." Another species of the same shrlmpllke group has been obtained in thousands from the'stom achs of mackerel caught on the Corn ish coast. The nearly related opossum shrimps found In enormous numbers in the Greenland seas form the chief food of the common whale. Some of the thysanopodae are phosphorescent and contribute to the luminosity of tha sea. How's This? Wa offer One Hundred Dollars Reward tor any caao of Catarrh that cannot be cured by Hall's Catarrh Cure. . , P. J. CHKNKY CO., Toledo, O. We, the undersigned, have known F. J. Cheney for the lat 15 yenra, and bellov fclm perfectly honorable In all buslnem trnmyictlon and financially able to carrj aut any oMIxntlona made by bin firm. Wai.diwo, Kinnan & Makvih, WholRwale I'rugsristn, Toledo, O. nail's Catarrh Cure la taken Internally, acting directly upon the blood and murotu urfacea of the aystem. 'Jmlmonlnl aent free. Price 75 cent per bottle. Sold by all Prus'-ilnta. Take Hull's Family rills for constipation, DIRECTOR WAS ALARMED. Rnnalaa Contralto Who Wished Ntare MaunKeinent Trouble. M. Andreas Dlppel, one of the twin bosses of the Metropolitan Opera Mouse, sat at bis desk the other day, when a breezy lady blew In,' the Cin cinnati Times-Star New York corre spondent says. M. Dlppel Just gobbled at her, he was so surprised. She wi 11 die. Anna Meitschik, a Russian con tralto, and had not been expected for a week or so. "But why did you not let us know you was coming to-day?" tie aBknd. after he had caught his breath. "I would have had some one meet you, and find quarters for you, end spare you all unnecessary rou- ble." : "I didn't want to worry you," said -Idle. , Meitschik in Russian. "So 1 tame on by myself, and I have found Very satisfactory quarters in a good hotel." M. Dlppel coglUted a moment. "My Russian ) not very good, mademoi selle," said he, courteously. "I fear I have not thoroughly understood you Would you be so kind as to repeat that statement In another language?" .So Mdle. Meitschik repeated it la German. M. Dlppel scratched his head, "I do not wish to annoy you, made moiselle," said be. "But I certainly am not hearing rightly this morning. It you would ba so kind as to say It In French?" So Mdle. Meitschik said It In French, although she was a bit annoyed. "Extraordinary," said M. Dlppel, earnestly, at last convinced that he bad ' mastered her very remarkable statement. "Mademoiselle, I have been In the opera now for many years. I have met every opera singer In- the world of rank equal to your own. And never, mademoiselle, never, have I ever heard an opera singer even lntl mate that she wished to spare any ona any trouble whatever. Mademoiselle, are you quite well?" Hero an Then. A man waa waiting patiently for a Itreet car the other day at a transfer ttatlon, says the Boston Record, when l woman, highly excited, rushed up to him. and cried. "Are you the man here?" "1 don't understand," ha said. "Are you tha man here?" she re peated. "No, madam, be said, concealing a imile. "The man here Is that man over there." f1 W The Quest of i etty Vy WACBA Q CopyrUht. 1909, by W. 0. Chapman. CIIAPTKft lit. They held the Inquest that same sfternoon, and In the room where rVrlsse Wayne's body hnd been found. Dr. McClann, the coroner, could find no trace of violence on the young; and perfect body. ".She died of heart failure," he re marked, very simply. "Probably the animal who caused the police such frlfjlit and trouble gained access to the room, and the sight and shock were too much for her patently fragile con stitution to withstand. Remember, thnt this apparition has brought on Mrs. Desterle a stroke of paralysis. and may result In the permanent de rangement of her mind. "I have wired Doubleday, Frans & Co., In Ban Francisco," he continued. "Their reply Just received Is that they know but little about Cerlsse Wayne. They declare that they knew her 'as Mrs. Wayne. Also that for" five years past 12,000 a month has been de posited to her credit with them. Parke & Gray, , solicitors, of London, Eng land, have handled the drafts aent to the San Francisco bankers. Mrs. Wayne drew on this amount so freely that at times her balance wa practi cally nothing, and frequently her ac count showed a small overdraft. For the past several months, however, her demands on the account have been very slight. Last month $4,000 was sent for her credit, and her present Daiance is approximately $6,000. Be sides this they have a casket, said to contain almost priceless Jewels, that belong to her. A copy of a photograph of Mrs. Wayne, which they have In their possession, has been forwarded, ana Henry Franz, one of the Junior members of the firm, Is coming East to view the body. They report they have cared for her mall for lotne time past, and during this time she has had It forwarded to nearly every Imaginable point, both In this country and abroad. in her handbag there was nearly $150 ana nothing to indicate that she had been mentally depressed or was In poor neaitn. Over-indulgence In cigarettes may have unduly excited her mind. It Is patent that she read and smoked till she grew drowsy and then lightly tossed her book aside. Possibly she wakened from some quiet dream to be hold that creature In the room, and died of fright There was one second Of intense horror and all was over." ' "How did that that that get In. doctor?" Interrupted the still dishevel ed Doherty. "Don't you know that there's no place on the rront of this, nor any othor bulldln' in the block where a cat could crawl up for a footln'? Ain't they all smooth sandstone, worn as slick as me last year's coat And wasn't both of I the windows there closed and locked In the bargain, and no chimney In the room? Maybe the creature killed the prltty little girl after It got' In al right, but how did it get In? Here's another thing. Will ye look at that bed? Now there's been two people sleeping In that bed, sir, one of them far heavier and bigger than the poor little girl you've Just been inquesting 1 over. And here, now, Is a cigarette stub that's different from the others 1 stronger, can't you see?" I The policeman held out the stub In 1 question, and It was passed wonder- lngly from hand to hand, and later marked exhibit "A." "Entrance might hava been effected from the hall," said the Coroner with a puzzled frown. "So? Wasn't the door bolted from the insldsT Can't you sea where It was broke to get In?" retorted Do herty. "Ah, someone was Inslda and rush ed out when Mrs. Desterle opened the door," muttered Larry Morris of the "Times." Everybody In the room directed his attention to tho corner where the newspaper folk were sitting. There were eight or ten men In the little group and one woman, a fair, calm eyed girl, Betty Lancey of tha "In qulrer." Betty waa barely 13, ona of those tall, athletic, wholesome girls who demand classification In tha men tal menu as well-cooked oatmeal with rich cream, country honey, baked apples or new milk. Larry Morris waa very much In lova with Betty, but ha didn't know It and neither did she. rierre Desterle denied Larry Mor rls' auggeatlon. Ilia wife Annie Des terle could not come as a witness to corroborate his statement Raving and shrieking they had carried her oft to the hospital hours before. Pierre. for his wife, and himself, told all ha knew of their unfortunate boarder. 'She came Monday night," quavered the little black-skinned fellow. "She was all dressed In green. She had the prettiest eyes you ever saw, they were Just like those of a hurt baby. So many violets were pinned on her breast you'd have thought 'twould have wearied her to carry them. She brought no trunks, only tha green bag there. Said she wanted room and board for two weeks and would pay well for them. Annie took her because of what she paid, and because she was so pretty. She slept late mornings and Annie was going to make her move to-morrow because she slept so late It made breakfast drag along till noon. The women In the houstt didn't like Miss Wayne. They said she painted her face and smoked cigarettes. The men made soft eyes at her and the woman got Jealous, Annie said she had awful fine things In her valise, and lots of Jewelry. An- nle came up atalrs to waka her, for It was lunch time, and then It all hap- pened. There couldn't anybody have rushed down the atalrs. I waa in the hall when Annie foil, and Doherty was with me, and he came right up here after we'd carried Annie to her room, That was the only time the hall was alone." 'How long did that take you. Do- nerty?' asked Johnny Johnson of tha newspaper coterie. He was thinking that the Coroner was a shade toa Judl- dai and prosy about the Inquiry. some aix minutes or so." slowly an- swerea Doherty. "Mrs. Deeterle's a ,v sues preiiy rat, you, unow. lately. Her room, too, It's clear nacK on me second fleer. They read tha letters aloud. The B o Lancey r. WE.VT Coeyrlfht la Great Brltala 9 enterprising newspaper boys had al ready had them photographed so that their papers might reproduco them. The long'T of the two was undated, the other bore date of eight months previous, In mid-August and ran: "(Vrlsse Dear Heart of mine, I have so longed for a letter. Do you still refuse to remember? Will you not forgive or must I die without word or sln from you? Forgive me, Cerlsse, clear, forgive me." The other, couched more formally, though in the same writing, read: "Cerlsse So the wander-hiBt still pervades your heart? Can you calm your restless mind and soul and body sufficiently long to realize that home, husband, children and the . develop ment of womanhood's Ideals Is the tithe life exacts from each of your sex? "You must pay now, Cerlsse, or pay at the end. If you defer payment of your Indebtedness to the scheme of all creation till the end you will find the Interest hard to handle. I shall ap peal no more. Entreaties do not move you. Neither do threats and commands are naught to you. But let mo Impress one thing upon you. If you do not return to me before the first of the coming year, I will kill you. Do you understand what I mean when I write this? I have never seemed able to make you comprehend anything I have ever written or said. You won't understand this, you won't realize that you will be dead, murder ed, before the blossoms weight the orchards if you still persist in absent ing yourself from H." "Seems to me that 'II,' whoever 'If Is, must have been intoxicated, de ranged or doped on his correspondence course," whlsperwl Lorry Morris to Betty Lancey. "Oh, don't Joke," replied Betty. "How can you at such time? Such a beautiful woman as she was, too. I'd have loved to have seen her as she must have been when she was alive." "Death from causes unknown. Prob ably heart failure superinduced by frlsrht," came the Coroner's verdict This ultimatum disposed of the body, which was burled next day. But it didn't of the Monster. That was in a cage In the municipal zoological gardens, snarling, whining and mak ing the hours hideous. And it didn't dispose of the story. That went flash ing around the world on the wires, while newspapers the country over seized the scent to track the "greatest crime mystery of the age." CHAPTER IV. Early next morning Larry Morris sat In Le Boy's cafe, an all nleht res- taurant and rendezvous of the nows- paper men, Industriously disposing of a roast beet sandwich. Ijirry's forehead was twisted into half a dozen corrugations. He was hoping none of tho boys would come In till he had got this Wayne story a I little clearer In his. head. Larry and two photographers had made three trips out to the Park to see the awful Thing which some apt reporter had christened the Mun-apcrllla, Ono by one the boys came trooping in. And the Wayne murder was-the topic of the night. "I'll tell you what it is, boys," said Hank Smith. "That Man-Aperllla is half-human and I know It. When those white and black eyes were turn- er upon me I felt my soul crawl out from under me, and I was left there hanging In space. Tell you what It la. there's a atory there." "Cut It, Ilank, cut It." called little red-headed John Johnston, the best police reporter In town. "Here, Ma mlo," to the waitress, "bring Hank I some eatings so the rest of us can take a rubber at the converaatlonal game. Wasn't that girl a stunner, though? And did you notice, too, what a dead match that her hair waa for the color of the pelt on the beaat?" Now every man at the table had noted Just that point. It was ao ob vloua a point that It was ' startling. Each had been loath to launch an opin ion on it But Johnny had a way with him of pumping all you knew by bold plays. Each man took counsel with himself wondering what Johnny would do next For ten years these boys and Johnny had met every Mon day night, and the crowd had learned when to give him rope. But Just now Johnny and his bowl of rice and milk relapsed Into silence while his companions ranged far In wild theories of who "H" was, what part he had played In the life and death of Cerlsse Wayne, whether she was wife, widow, murdered or simply another victim of the suicide list By and by Johnny dug down Into one of the ever bulging pockets of his always baggy trousers. The by-word was that jonnny always looked so much like a burglar that he never had any trouble gaining the confidence of the rather reticent people of that pro fesalon. 'Hunting for a quarter, Johnny, or a toothpick?" questioned Lurry Morris. 'Here, look at this," answered John ny, Into their mtdat he twirled the aome thing he had drawn from hla pocket I 11 was man's garter of lavender silk I elastic, the buckle hand wrought from rosfl Bold, aet round with amethyst I and on the face the Initial "11," worked out n emeralds and amethyats of ex cesslve amallneaa but exceedingly great I brilliancy. "Where did you get that?" came th chorus. "Well." said Johnny, "listen. I pick I ed thla up In the Desterle house abou I an hour ago. Say, everybody about that house has got atage fright They I are all moving out An earthquak couldn't move them quicker than they are going. Tha death watch has got Its grtD on tha whole thirtv-flve board I era. Mora than half of them ara soeed I lng away to spend the nlKht with I hand-baggage only. Great show, too, I to watch them hustle out I'm going to aleep up there to-night. I picked I this carter up In the closet where it had rolled down behind a little shelf. I in ow women, you Know, aon l wear garters like this." -Might." bellowed Hank Smith. "Saw a telegraph story tha other day that they had takrn to wearing bait hose in New York." "Hut here's the question." continued Johnny, "no nmn In the house knew Mrs. Wayne nor anything about her. Why, the only decent word any one of those curious passed about her was that no one hod come to see her since she arrived, and that she had appeared embarrassed when her fellow boarders of the sox masculine attempted to pay her nny attention." "I'll Just wager Unit she wns soma poor, sweet little girl who had mar ried some old fool for his money," In terposed Philip Hartley, whose sym pathetic heart beat for all the mis treated women In the world. "She's found him unbearable, and refused to live with him. and he's Just hounded her to death. That 'H' may have stood for 'Hubby," In the letter that had the threat to kill her. I believe bIic's been taking slow poison, and camo here where she wasn't known to snuff It off quietly." "How about the Man-Aperllla?" flouted Iarry Morris. "Proceed, Jules Verne II. Why don't you go farther, and have It a trnlned ape sent carrier pigeon, bloodhound-fashion by the OKre-husband, to choke her to death?" "Because she wasn't choked," con tended Hartley. "Heavens, what a woman she must have been." "Oh, to kill from Jeolousy," added Hank Smith. "Why, hallo; here's Bet ty Lancey at this hour of the morning. Hetty, don't you ever get through work? And you're all out of breath. What's wrong. Mamie, get her some tea. What Is the matter, Betty?" Betty, white as print paper, sunk on a chair. Her big blue eyes were open ed wide. "Boys," she said. "Come with me; come quick, don't say a word, but tell me, am I crazed or dreaming; has It really happened or am I hav lons? Oh, no! don't stop to finish eat ing; come quick or It will be too late. I am afraid to stop alone In that aw ful room. You know I missed my train home and stopped at the hotel to night, and, oh, It startled me so." "What's up, anyhow?" asked John ny. "Tell the rest of them, Betty. I'm going up to get chummy with the mystery, sleeping all night In the Des terle house. Maybe I'll have a visi tation, seeing as how my own head Is some reddish. 'Tlsn't like you to have stage fright, Betty." "I haven't got it," she snapped. "But Just as I started to get into bed and went over to raise the shade, I looked across the court into one of the other rooms of the hotel. And In thera what do you think I saw?" Womanlike Betty paused to give her audience a thrill. "Oh, nonsense; out with It," com manded the boys. "Cerlsse Wayne, her ghost or her double, and the handsomest man I ever saw!" 1 (To be continued.) MARYLAND HISTORY. Klaar Snatched Oat of Barbara Frlet- chle'a Unmix, Kanaaa, Says. Poor Barbara Frletchle, will they never let her rest? Conies a Kansas historian with a discovery, the 1,249th mad in relation to the affair, the Bal timore Sun says. He snatdhes the flag right out of Barbara's hands. Twaa not Barbara who waved the flag in the face of the Confederates, he says; it was not any member of the Frletchle family. In fact, he accuses her of being a Southern sympathizer and "not patriotic Northern woman." This Kansas chronicler, by name William E. Connelly, avers that it waa Mrs. Archibald Quantrell and her daughter Virginia who "waved the United States flag defiantly In the faces -.' tue South ern troops as they marched down tha streets of Frederick, Md." He proudly points to the fact that Mrs. Quantrell was the aunt of William C. Quantrell, the guerrilla leader, who "led many a band into Kansas" and who "laid waste the town of Lawrence." Mr. Connelly puts some new frills on the old story. Ho says Miss Vir ginia was waving a little United States flag at the gate, which so aroused the anger of the Confederates that a lieu tenant with his sword cut the flag from her hands. About Barbara the Marylanders cer tainly have to "go from home to hear the news." Whittler.who knew perhaps as much of Maryland as he did of Senegumbla, wrote a poem that gave wide currency to an incident that they tell us either never occurred or cer tainly did not occur at all as he re lated It. Then it was embodied In a play, which not only differed from the facts hut disagreed with the poem. Now comes the Western Iconoclast who takes the glory entirely away from Whittler's favorite and confers it upon an aunt of Kansas. The Bar baraltes seem to he unable to agree with history, recollection, or to agree with each other. The story has as many twists and turns to it as the north pole dispute,, and perhaps the test way to settle it would be to name a commission empowered to determine the true and authorized version, the said board to be composed of represen tatives of the following: 1. Those who declare that no such Incident ever happened In Frederick or anywhere else. 2. Those who hold that something r other occurred, but nothing resem bling in any way what tradition or the poet describes. 3. Those who assert that Barbara waved the flag In Stonewall Jackson's face and dared the Confederate to shoot 'her, Just as Wlvlttler has related it. 4. Those who hold that there never was any such person. 5. The new clement who assert that the flag waa waved, but that Barbara didn't wave It, the glory going to some party who lived down the street two blocks. 6. Those who do not care 3 cents whether It ever occurred or not, but would like to hear the last of it. Thus every element of our citizen ship would be represented. If the com missioners settled the thing, it would give the public a grateful rest. If they didn't, it would provide a row that would be amusing and exciting. Trot Out your Barbaras, gentlemen. Entries for the Frletchle flag-waving contest ara open. Taklnar th Tla. "Why did Dollarby sell his hoteir "lie wasn't making money fast enough." "What la he doing now?" "He's luxuriating in the posltloa el head waiter." Washington Star, N HALLEY'S comet, which Is moving in this direction at an Inconceivable rate of speed and will soon be visible to ell who have tho time to look up at the sky, is a story of human amblfion equal, in its way, to most of the stories that make up the pith and pulp of history. Why are astronomers so keen on llalley'g comet? Thousands of comets ns good or better than Halley's nightly sweep the horizon and may be seen by ,i naiBi V the mere effort of looking up at the sky through a telescope. Why this par ticular talk of Ilalley? " Edmund Ilalley was the son of a London soap boiler and was born at London In 16."C. He studied for a time at Oxford, but left that university without taking Ma degree. He may be said to have been the father of com ets, or rather the tamer of comets. It was he who, armed with the invincible, sure-cutting sword of higher mathematics, scaled the empyrean and cut out the comets from the mass of superstitious tenor with which they had been surrounded from time immemorial. Early in his career Halley took. up tha study of comets and calculated the orbits of no less than twenty of the spe cies. Among the twenty were three which Halley regarded with peculiar Interest.' These were the comets which hnd appeared In 1531. in 1607 and 1682, three comets the orbits of which seemed so much alike that Halley suspected that In reality they might be one and the same comet returning to the sun at regular intervals of about seventy years. Revising his calculations and going more deeply into them, he became convinced that this notion of his was right, and after submitting his theory to every conceivable test and finding it good, he decided to make a bold stroke and to predict the return or the comet in 1757 or 1758. Halley died In 1742, sixteen years before the date he had set for a return of his comet, and tho world for a time forgot about him and it. But the astronomers did not forget, and were watching. Clalrut, a French mathematician, redid Hal ley's calculations by new methods and found them correct. The big planet Saturn, he said, would hold the comet back 100 days, and the gigantic world, Jupiter, would hold it back 518 days. This would bring the comet to its nearest to the sun in the middle of April, 1739. Halley's comet was scheduled to return in 1835, and again were the as tronomers on the watch, and were not disappointed. The astronomers who saw it then are all dead. The astronomers who see it now will all he dead when it makes Its next appearance in 1985. But the present appearance of Halley's comet will be useful in another and a fascinating way to the men who have nothing to do but watch the sky and figure on the doings of the contents. THE DECADES' FARM EXPORTS. Cotton Alone Shows $3,651,000,000 in Shipments to Foreign Lands. Nine billion dollars' worth of agri cultural products have been exported from the United States during the last ten years, those exported In the fiscal year 1909 having alone amounted to practically $900,000,000, against less than $800,000,000 in 1899. The above statement summarizes the results of a special compilation made by the Bureau of Statistics of the De partment of Commerce and Labor showing the exports of the principal products of agricultural origin in the period from 1899 tq 1909. The exports of agricultural products as a whole have increased from $785,000,000 in 1899, to $898,000,000 in 1909, the high est record having been made in 1907, when the total exceeded $1,000,000,000, or, to be exact, $1,049,000,000. While the general agricultural group thus shows a gain of over $100,000,000 during the decade under review, it must not be understood that the growth applies to all or even a large share of the important items. On the contrary, mqst of the staple farm prod ucts used for food, such as breadstuffs, meats and live cattle, show decreased exportrftions during the period, the loss in that line of articles having been more than offset by the great increase In cotton and certain comparatively new industries whose chief develop ment has occurred in the last few years, notably cottonseed oil, corn oil, oil cake and oil cakemeal, oleomargar ine, lard compounds, sugar and molas ses, fruits and nuts, etc. Cotton, the largest item in the agri cultural group, shows a total exporta tion in the last ten years amounting to $3,651,000,000, its annual exports having Increased from $210,000,000 In 1899, to $481,000,000 in 1907 and $417, 000,000 in 1909. This increased eipor tatlon is due, in some degree, how ever, to higher prices prevailing in more recent years. In 1899 the aver age export price of upland cotton was 6.6 cents per pound; in 1909, 9.4 cents Europe took fully $25,000,000 worth of American tobacco, out of a total ex port In the fiscal year 1909 of $31, 000,000. MEAT INSPECTION. There Must Be Local Co-operation to Hake It Effective. Under the present Federal system of meat inspection during the past year 36,000,000 animals were Inspected at the time of slaughter and 1,000,000 were condemned in whole or in part. On re inspection more than 25,000,000 pounds of .meat and meat products were condemned which had become un wholesome since Inspection at the time of slaughter. On the face of it this report indi cates a very satisfactory condition. It shows that a vast quantity of meat, which otherwise would have reached the consumer and been purchased as wholesome, was declared unfit for food and was kept from the market as such. But this Inspection was federal. Its main effect was in assuring the for eign purchaser that the American meat he purchased was from animals which were in a state of health at the time of slaughter. But the result is not so reassuring to the local consumer. Blgld Federal Inspection drives to those slaughter houses, not under Fed eral inspection because their product Is not Intended for Interstate trade, thousands of animals which could not pass inspection. The result is that the local consigner is more likely than ever to have imposed upon him meat from animals which could not pass in spection. Dr. A. D. Melvln, chief of the United States bureau of animal industry, in his annual report calls attention to this condition and recommends more rigid State and municipal Inspection A tack hammer, the head of which 4olds Into a recess In the stick, for conveniences In carrying, has been pat ented by a Pennsylvanlan. Lightning will strike more than once In the same place. A transmission line In Colorado was recently struck Ave times in the same place. Complete skepticism as to the exist ence of canals on Mars was displayed by prominent astronomers at the meet ing at London of the British Astro nomical Association. Hale's Mount Wilson photographs were exhibited on lantern slides, and were pronounced the best yet seen. y- Prof. Hergezell, aviator and friend of Zeppelin, who was sent by Emperor William to Jamaica to study trade winds and the temperature of altl tudes in and near the tropics, reports that at an altitude of 10,000 meters he found the air of the tropics colder than that of the Arctic regions at the same height. Of nine balloons sent up with instruments for these tests, four wer9 lost in the Caribbean Sea. The profes sor intimated that he would make au air test for an expedition to the north pole two years hence. The recent tests conducted by the scout cruisers Birmingham and Salem of a long-distance wireless telegraph system were pronounced not conclusive and will be repeated in the near fu ture. The scouts cruised about 1,000 miles apart, and the same' distance from the high-power station at Brant Rock, Mass. There was a bad storm and the system worked only intermit tently, whereas the requirement of the Xavy Department is that communica tion must be maintained during all conditions of wind and sea. If this system proves up in subsequent trials at 1,000 and 3,000 .miles, it will be in stalled on all naval vessels. Nikola Tesla, who has been at work on a wireless light for twenty years, at last announces that he has invent ed something which actually works, He says: "It would be possible by my wireless transmitter of great power to light the whole United States. The current would pass into the air, and traveling in all directions would pro duce the effect of a strong aurora bo realis. I would like nothing better than to undertake to light New York harbor for say 100 miles around. There would be great economy in produc: Hon, as there' would be nothing about the lamps to give out." Tesla has a plant in process of construction on Long Island and says he will be ready soon to make a public demonstration Dr. Jonnesco, of Bucharest, the s to vain expert, in replying to criticisms that had been published during his ab sence in the West, on his return to New York got back at the American doctors by calling thera slow and away behind the times. He criticised the operating tables used in American op erating rooms as being uncomfortable, to the patient and inconvenient to thc operator. He said he was surprised to see American doctors still using antl septic surgery, which, he said, they had put aside long ago in favor of aseptic methods. He also criticised tho instruments used here, and regretted his lack of the English language it trying to direct operations. Forty minutes he considered the longest time required for any operation, while here they seemed to think that a short time, Our doctors were slow, though our hos pitals were of the best. HOLDS CHURCH IS GAINING. Crnigi Flaurra Quoted to Horiolo- alta In Seaalou at Vew York. The church is not losing Its grip on the people, in the opinion of Prof, George A. Coe of Union Theological seminary, one of the speakers at the annual meeting of the American So ciological society, In session In New York. Prof. Coe based his argument on census figures, comparing the mem' bershlp of 1906 with that of 1890 "While the population increased 4 per cent in these sixteen years, church aembership increased 60 per cent." CHICAGO MERCHANT MAKES STATEMENT. Alter Spending Thousands of Dollars ind Consulting the most Eminent Physicians, He Was Desperate. CHICAGO, ILLS.-Mr. J. Q. Becker, of 1 34 Van Buren St., a well-known wholesale dry goods dealer, states as follows: 'I have had catarrh for more than thirty years. Have tried everything on earth and spent thousands of dollars for other medicines and with physicians, without getting any lasting re lief, and can say to you that I have found Peruna the only rem. edy that has cured me per manently. 'Peruna has also cured my wife of catarrh. She always keeps it In the house for an attack of Cold, which it invariably cures in a very short time." The average value of land on Man hattan island, according to the assess ment. Is $272,173 an acre. Tour of the World. A series of 50 post curds In colors vlll be mailed to any adilress upon re eipt of 15 cents In coin or stamps. duress Tne livening Wisconsin Co., M mvauKee, wis. Sectional I'r-)n1l-. "Have you any good apples to-day, Mr. Barlow?" "Yes. we have some unusually fine Northern Spies." "O. ha g your northern spies!" BETTER TUMI SPANKING. Spanking does not cure children of bed wetting. There is a constitutional causa for this trouble. Mrs. M. Summers, Box 4, Notre Dame, Ind., will send tree to any mother her successful home treat ment, with full instructions. Send no money, but write her to-day If your chil dren trouble you In this way. Don't blame the child, the chances are It can't help it. This treatment also cures adults and aged people troubled with urine difficulties by day or night. After regarding It is a true mollusc for many years, French scientists have found that a small snail-like creature found on trees Is the larva of a species of fly. TtOTCT NKOI.ECT THAT COtTOH It cffrtalulr rack your aratem and mar rtia Into somnttaing wtiioua. . Allm't Lung Hnliam will check llqulck.17 and permanently. For&alealaUdrugglata. Experiments are under way In Bos ton with nickel-ln-the-slot turnstiles in elevated railroad and subway sta tions. The Idea is to save the pay of ticket sellers. Only One "BROHO QUINIWE" That la LAXATIVE BROMO QUININE. Look lor the aianature at E. W. GKOVK. Used tha world over to Care a Cold in One Day. 25c FASHION HINTS Draped ileevei are back again at tha newest sleeve touch . There are many wya of doing them, but the accompanying sketch shows one of the most attractive arrangements. She who hat remodeling in her mind teea boundless possibilities for the slightly wora waist of her silk gown a little chiffon, net, or novelty stuff, and there you are. Not Handlnsr Oat Statistics. The Missus Norah, how many fam ilies have you ever worked fort The Maid Wurruked, is it, ma'am T I'll have you know, Mrs. Pa-arker, I've wurruked f r lvery fam'ly I lver lived with!" Chicago Tribune. when rnrtiEB comes One Ooatht to Have a Good Appetite. A good appetite is the best sauce. It goes a long way toward helping in the digestive process, and that is absolute ly essential to health and strength. Many persons have found that Grape Nuts food Is not only nourishing but Is a great appetizer. Even children like the taste of It and grow strong and rosy from Its use. It is especially the food to make a weak stomach strong and create as appetite for dinner. "I am 57 years old," writes a Tenn. grandmother, "and have had a weak stomach from childhood. By great care as to my diet I enjoyed a reason able degree of health, hut never found anything to equal Grape-Nuts as a standby. "When I have no appetite for break fast and Just eat to keep up my Btrength, I take 4 teaspoonfuls of Grape-Nuts with good rich milk, and when dinner comes I am hungry. While if I go without any breakfast I never feel like eating dinner. Grape Nuts for breakfast seems to make a healthy appetite for dinner. "My Utile 13-months-old grandson had been very sick with stomach trou ble during the past summer, and Anal ly we put him on Grape-Nuts. Now he is growing plump and well. When asked if he wants his nurse or Grape NuU, he brightens up and points to the cupboard. He was no trouble to wean at all thanks to Grape-Nuts." Head the little book, "The Road to Wellville," In pkga. "There's a Rea son." Ever read the above letter? A new one appears from time to time. They are genuine, true, and full of kumaa interest.