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fAGE S.
' Colonel 1
TODHUNTER
! of Missouri .
By RIPLEY D. SAUNDERS
Copyright, 1911. ty the Boths-MerrD
. Company
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""The girl wassilerit ,for a "moment.
Her face flushed a dark red and then
went -white again.
"Tom Strickland made me eat my
heart out-for him!" she cried sudden
ly, shame and a desperate defiance in
the passionate eyes, that confronted
her audience. "lie wouldn't see that
I loved him better'n anything else in
all this world and that I wanted him
to love me the' same way. And the
reason he wouldn't see what I was al
ways a-showin' him was that he was
bo dead in love with Miss Mary Tod
hunter. That's what made me tell
that lie against" him when I knowed
that Mrs. Todhunter was . a-goin' to
ask me to leave the party." .
There was a pitiful break in the
girl's voice.
"I didn't care the tip of 'my finger
for Jesse Dream!" she cried. "I hated
and despised him. Hut he was willin
to marry me and take me away from
Nineveh, and so I kep' my mouth shet
and waited for him to come and do it."
VI am going to ask you, Miss Dog
gett," said Major Gentry Dryden.
"when was the first time you saw
Jesse Bream after Colonel Todhun
ter's visit to you that day?"
"I didn't see him till the day before
this here trial begun, suli. He had
gone .away to Qx things up for mar
ryln' me and to kin me down some
where In Oklahoma; and he didn't
come back till then." t
"What time of the day did you see
him?"
"I reckon 'twas 'long about three or
fo o'clock in the day, sub. He. didn't
come clear to the house 'cause he saw
grandfather settin on the front gal
lery. But he give a whistle I knew,'
and I went out and met him."
"Where did you meet him?"
"In a little clump o' woods 'cross the
road, not far from the old cabin where
Aunt Mirandy Hansom and old J'ed
Itansdm, her husband, two colored peo
ple, are Hvin', sub."
"What had he' come, to see you
about?"
"He come to tell me that ever'thing
was ready for us to run away that
very night. He was plannin' to drive i
over into Kails county, and we'd get
married there and then start for Okla
homa. And he'd been drinkin' and was
braggin' about how he'd killed Stani
Tucker. It was then I knowed for the
first time, from his own lips, that it
was 1dm that killed Stam, but I'd been
certain of it iu my mind all the time."
"Did you consent to go away with
him?"
"Yes, sub, and we went away togeth
er. The first day and night he got to
drinkin', and wheu we stopped at the
hotel In Sidon he quarreled with me,
keepin' on sayin' that I waa in love
with Tom" Strickland and would blab
about . who did really murder Stam
Tucker If I got half a chance. And
somethin I' said then about my wish
in I had told the truth at first skeered
him. 'Stead o' stayin in Sidon till he
was ready to go straight to Oklahoma,
he took me away from there the nest
day. We went fur, too, and be was al
ways a-watchin' me. At daybreak one
mornin' we come to a . tumbledown
cabin deep in the woods, and he said
that's where we'd stay till dark, and
then I begun to be skeered myself."
"Of what were you afraid?"
"I begun to feel skeered that he was
a-goin to kill me. We had quarreled
and quarreied, and whenever I lost my
temper good and proper I told him the
truth that I oughtn't to leave Tom
Strickland to be hung when I knowed
Tom wasn't guilty and knowed who
was. Then well, all of a sudden we
had our biggest quarrel, and what I'd
been skeered of come to pass!"
"What do you mean by that, Miss
Doggett?" .
"I mean that Chickasaw Jesse tried
to kill me, sun. He sorter went crazy
and jumped for me with his bowie
knife in his hand, and I'd ha been
dead the next minute if it hadn't been
for Colonel Todhunter, sub.'
"For Colonel Todhunter?"
"Yes, suh. Colonel Todhunter bust
ed la the door o the cabin that very
minute, bringln' the sheriff o' Kails
county along with him. Him aud the
sheriff both had their pistols sighted on
Jesse and made him throw his knife
down. And then I done what I'd want
ed to do all the time. I told them it
was Chickasaw Jesse Bream wao had
killed Stam Tucker."
"And .what happened when you did
that?" .
The girl shivered. "I don't like to
thiuk about it. H made uie fee I like
a cowardly houud dog!" she said, a
new shame in har re-kle-ss eyes. "Jesse
Bream just laughed and foldad hi?
arms and looked at me and -then at
Colonel Todhunter and the sheriff aud
said that I told th3 truth. M kiJleS
Stam Tucker because he ruined Lottie
Majy he said, srailin. 4An'd I rim
awjiy with her to marry her. But she's
tellm' the truth now to get shet o' uie,
n-ud I dou't care what comes next.
TaTve v: a::d kaug me. I':a done!' "
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A moment later the witness was
turned over to the state. The cros3
examination strengthened rather than
shook her testimony for the defense.
Briefly under the questioning of the
leading counsel for the defense Colonel
Todhunter told ofJiis visit" to Lottie
May Doggett on the forenoon following
the murder of Stamford Tucker.
"Where did you go, Colonel Todhun
ter," asked Major Dryden, '"when jou
left the Doggetts' house after that
visit?"
"I went to a cabin across the road,
just a few yards down from the Dog
getts' gate, to sec Aunt Mirandy Han
som, au old colored woman who lived
there."
"What was your reason for wanting
to see Miranda N Kansdm that time.
Colonel Todhunter?"
"I wanted to engage her to keep a,
close watch on the girl, Lottie-May
Doggett, suh. I did not believe that
Tom Strickland killed Stamford Tuck
er, ncr did I believe that ha was guilty
of wrongia Lottie-May. He himself
had told me that the girl confessed to
him that Stamford Tucker had been
makin' lovo to her secretly. I felt sure
in my own miud that Stamford Tucker
had been killed for wrongin' Lottie
May Doggett, and this would mean
that he was killed by some man who
loved Lotfle-May aud knew that Stam
ford Tucker had wronged her or that
the girl herself had killed him. I want
ed somebody to watch that house, and I
knew I could depend on Auiit Mirandy
Ransom better'n on -anybody else."
"Did you see this woman, , Miranda
Ransom, sir?"
'"I did, suh. She promised to keep a
close watch on the girl and on the
house, and shejiopt her word. It was
through her that I learned the news
that sent me away to Kails county
lookin' for Chickasaw Jesse Bream and
Lottie-May Doggett, suh."
"Do you mean that she learned of
their flight, Colonel Todhunter?"
"Yes, suh. She crep up close enough
to overhear what they was a-sayin'
when they met in that clump o' trees
between the Doggett house and the
Ransoms' cabin, suh. She heard all that
went on between em, suh. She was
waitin for me when I got home from
Colonel Bill Strickland's the night be
fore this trial began, and she told me
the whole story."
"What did you do then, Colonel Tod
hunter?" "There wasn't but one thing to be
done, suh, if Chickasaw Jesse was to
be caught and Tom-Strickland saved
from bein' found guilty of murderin'
Stam Tucker. That one thyig was to
follow Jesse Bream and Lottie-May
Doggett without losin' a minute's time
nnjl nrroct Mm 1 iO fiV Ck rrnt nil f r thp
state, suh." . ' I
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that part of the girl's testimony relat
ing to the capture of Jesse Bream.
. "Did thi3 man, Jesse Bream, make a
confession of his guilt as being the
murderer of Stamford Tucker?"
"Yes, suh. And, furthermore, under
oath, he told a mighty strange story
of a happenin' that in itself might ha
huug Tom Strickland."
There was a quick stir of heightened
dramatic expectancy in the courtroom.
Major Gentry Dryden paused until it
had subsided., . .
"What was that strange story, Colo
nel Todhunter," he asked, "which, as
you have just testified, the man Jesse
Bream told you and the sheriff of
Kalis couuty under oath?"
"He told me, suh, that Tom Strick
land liimself appeared on the scene
of the murder almost the next moment.
'As-1 hollered to Stam Tucker, cusslu'
hlili and telliu' him, that I was a-goin'
to kill him for haviu' wronged Lottie-
May said Chickasaw Jesse Bream,
'Stam Tucker drew bis gun and fired
just the iniiiit I fired. My shot got
him, but hia'n didn't tech me. When
I saw that he was a-Iayin still I ran
up to his body, looked down and saw
that I had plunked him through the
head, right between the eyes, and that
bp was stone dead. TLen-I turned and
tarted to run down the road to'ards
the town of Nineveh.
'"'I hadn't gone any- ways hardly
whoa a man came to'ards ine on that
road. When be saw tu& i4 laughed,
and the next minffbe" outs with his
gun cud fires at me. --I was skeered.
'yiiiSi I didn't watit ' tq. be. recpgatzed.
and I" turns" ahdruns" strhigtst tCrougE
the woods, lookin' back once or twice.
And that man came to the edge of the
woods. aud I Leurd him laugh and
then mutter like be was drunk and
talkin' to himself, and then h delib
erately turned back cn the Black Bot
toms road and went to'ards town. "
"Did Jesse Bream tell you and th
sheriff of Kalis couuty. Colonel Tod
iiuiuer, mar ue recognized tue man
whom he' thus met after having killed
Stamford Tucker?'
"Ne did, suh."
"What was that man's name?" -
"It was Thomas W. Strickland, suh,
Chickasaw. Jesse Bream swears that
he saw him plainly, and he takes his
oath that it was Tom Strickland'
"Did Jesse Bream tell you what be
did after that encounter?"
"Yes, suh. He says that he lay out
in the woods for about an hour and
him and herself beyond the seeing 6
that which had so moved her to uncin
trollablo anguish.
The next moment the door had closed
upon the two, shutting them out from
Nineveh's vision.
XTo Continued.)
BRITISH MINER'S FEATS
OF MEMORY WONDERFUL
His Stranga ' Faculty Compared With
Performances of the Past.
A. Northumberland (England) quarry
miner, George Ilarbottle by name, has
been the subject of many tests lately,
and he has been proved to be in pos
session of a memory which retains an
indelible impression of everything he
hears or reads.
He can repent half a dozen pages of
a uooii without the omission or mis
placing of a single word after he has
once heard or read tucm. lie is aiso
able to repeat loug lists of words back
ward or forward after they have been
read out to him.. For a wager recently
ho read ence through a whole pam
phlet of street songs, a task that occu
pied twenty minutes, and then repeat
ed the whclo from beginnLng to end
without a mistake.
His gift, though now regarded as
wonderful, would have been regarded
as an "ordinary accomplishment in old
en times, when men were accustomed
to train and exercise their powers and
gifts of memory. This was particular
ly the case with the priests of the dif
ferent religious systems, as in the ma
jority of instances the contents of the
sacred books were not permitted to be
committed in writing.
. Thus the Vedas. the Talmud and oth
er sacred, writings - wero preserved
mainly by committing them to mem
ory. Apart from these, however, there
are many authenticated cases on rec
ord of people in all classes and posi
tions kings, statesmen, soldiers, art
ists r.nd others who had remarkably
trained natural powers of memory.
"Justus Lipsius, a Flemish writer of
great celebrity in his time (the elev
enth century), knew by heart the whole
of Tacitus. About the same time a
French poet of the name of Nicholas
Bourbon astonished the Parisians by
reciting accurately the French history
of Chancellier do Then and the eulo
gies of Piolo Giovio," says the Stand--ard.,
"Avicenna, the famous Arabian
physician who lived in the eleventh
century, could repeat word -for word
the whole of Aristotle's 'Metaphysics
and also knew in common with many
Moslems the whole of the Koran by
heart. v
"George Yogan de Arrezo knew by
heart line after line the whole of Ver
gil's 'Aeneid.' which he bad learned
when at school. Klopstock, the cele
brated German epic poet, is said also
to have known the whole of Homer's
'Iliad,' which he. had memorized in
his school days.
"Before the days of shorthand writ
ing, Memory Woodfall used to attend
the house of commons and after listen
ing to a debate, could reproduce the
whole without taking a single note, a
power alsa possessed by William Kad
cliffe, the husband of Mrs. RadclUTe,
the novelist.
WHEAT OUTLOOK PROMISING.
Yield Probably Will B Greater Than
Big Harvest of 1912.
Prosperity is indicated by the wheat
crop prospect. The present outlook for
the total yield of spring and winter
grain is' that the n.ation will produce
as much as it did last year, when the
aggregate was estimated at 730.000.000
bushels.
Winter wheat, according to the latest
governmeut report, indicates a total
of 4S3.00O.O0O bushels compared with
400,000,000 bushels last year. Iowa is
sending flattering reports of the win
ter wheat yield. Thrashing machine re
turns in many instances are from forty
to fifty bushels an acre. The average
yield for that state, it is now estimated
by the. state weekly crop bulletin, is
Ibout thirty bushels cn acre.
'Compilations on the government re-
port Issued some .time ago show that
the spring wheat yield probably will
be 21S.000.000 bushels instead of 2IS.-
000.CC0 bushels, as was suggested im
mediately after the report became pub
lic. If these' later estimates be correct
the total production of wheat iu the
country will be slightly more than that
of 1012. or approximately 731,000,000'
bushels. .
Girl stenographer in Chicago sMppcvl
as a waitress on JuaKe jaicmgan ior
the summer. Unaccustomed to rules
of the sea, she disobeyed the head
waitress, was docked up for mutiny
asd isa't out of trouble yet
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Would Probably Cost United
States $500,000,000 and
I 50,000 Soldiers.
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THERE was a time when the gen
eral staff of the United States
army did t,hink an invasion of
Mexico. an easy matter, it was
thought then that a certain phenomen
al military success, which landed the
American troops in Mexico City before
the world had, thought it possible, could
be repeated at pleasure. Today a dif
ferent view prevails in the war depart
ment. To it is due the fine control of
the governmental temper.
Three years ago everybody would
have laughed at the statement that it
would take 250,000 men to invade Mex
ico effectively, writes George Albert
Schrciner in the New York Evening
Post. It was the habit then to assume
that a company of Texas rangers could
cross the Rio Grande and subdue the
entire republic just as fast as their
mqunts could cover.it. The Mexican
army was then known as a most un
soldierly aggregate of hombres who
had discarded the rags of the peniten
tiary for the cheap cotton trousers,
gaudy tunics and headpieces of the ar
my. In a way this impression is yet
held, though the continuous insurrec
tions and revolutions of the last two
years have modified it ia at least one
important respect.
Mexican Can Fight.
It is admitted today that the Mexi
can can fight when he has a mind 'to
do this. But something is likely to be
overlooked here. The Incessant tur
moil has made soldiers out of Mexicans
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AMERICAN OFFICEB SIGHTING rwA.ni FITtB
orx of xyrE now is sEnviciz in tub
AK11T. . -
who formerly were not soldiei's. In the
states of Nuevo Leon. Coahuila, Tam-
aulipas, Chihuahua and elsewhere there
has come into an existence fighting ma
terial that is highly respected by all
who know it los fuergos auxiliares, a
sort of mounted police, under state su
pervision, that would be heard from
most disagreeably in case of interven
tion.
The men forming this contingent are
probably superior to anything the re
public has in its military establish
ment. The first demonstration of this
was given when, though recruited
from the rural population in the in
surrection districts, they refused to ad
here to any but the de facto govern
ment. Like the regular army, this lu-
stitutlon recognizes nothing but el go
bierno. What individual bappens to
be president does not matter. The
auxiliares of Nuevo Leon haunted
General Reyes until he thought it well
to surrender, in spite of the fact that
this old rebel had hoped to win them
over to his side, as, according to all
precedents south of the Rio Grande,
ho had good reason to hope.
Strong National Spirit.
A word must be said here for the re
maining human elements that would
take up arms. 'Even the most preju
diced must admit that the Mexican, no
matter what -his station In, life, is
warmly attached to his ountry his i
republica. So great is this love of
country that only the supply of arms
could limit the number that would go
into the held in case of an Invasion.
Since this Is estimated at .over a mil
lion stands of rifles, tbere rwould be
no dearth in that direction, in a
united Mexico, moreover, there would
be no lack of ammunition for a long
time. The -republic not alone has ac
quired Targe stores of artillery and
small arras ammunition; but it ha3 also
the mechanical equipment to manufac
ture these in case an inevitable block
ade should make the importation of
them impossible.
The Mexican army would-confine its
efforts to the most tryingsort of war
ware guerrilla, a sort of military op
eration .to which their kinsmen in
Spaiu gave the name and with which
the Mexicans themselves are fully ac
quainted. To an army organized like
that of the United States this is very
disastrous until such time ns the nec
essary modiaeatious are made. Great
Britain, to meet similar conditions la
SoutlL Africa, had to. ioavert her ia-
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I OPINION OF 111 EXPERTS!
1 EIllllliH 11 n B -A V K IT .J B D . V if & n iT"W C
Army of 250,000 Men Neces
sary to Invade Mexico
. Effectively.
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Cantry into mounted infantry, the de
sideratun. being greater mobility, but
the change involved was a slow and
trying one and led to the great protrac
tion of the campaign. The .United
States would have to meet the same
problem before it could hope for suc
cess, but the British infantryman at
least knew how to handle his rille.
The American militiaman and volun
teer would have to be "taught even
that.
Initial Success Important.
In modern warfare, though this has
been badly overrated, the initial suc
cess is everything. With this natural
ly goes a great degree of mobility. It
is as necessary to penetrate well into
the country invaded as to win big en
gagements. . With this in view, the
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GEXEBAIi VICTOEIAXO EtTEKTA.
general staff of the United States army
has receutly revised its plan of attack.
As late as the mobilization of the "ma
neuver division" in 1011, in some quar
ters the opinion was held that an inva
sion from the north was indispensable,
though secondary to the main move
ment from Vera Cruz and an advance
from Tampico. It is still somewhat
fashionable to seize capitals, though in
the light of recent experiences it does
not always serve any particular pur
pore. The present plan of the war
department provides for a concentra
tion upon Vera Cruz and the capital.
Vera Cruz offers the best opportu
nity as a base -for the main attack
upon Mexico City. The distance to bo
traversed is not very great 204 miles
by the best route. There would be no
difficulty landing at that point a force
sufficiently large to penetrate to the
capital in time. But there are consid
erations of terrain that make opera
tions from this point difficult. At Ja
lapa, but eighty-two miles . from .the
coast, the couritry has already risen
to an altitude of 4,010 feet, or nearly
fifty-seven feet to the mile. Beyond
Jalapa and until Puebla is reached the
country is every bit as difficult
125,0.00 Ken Needed.
. It is doubtful whether Mexico City
could be taken via Vera Cruz with le?s
than 123.0CO men. The only hope of
the officer in charge of these operations
would lie in the superiority of num
bers the possibility thav; an extended
front, or lice of attack, would develop
weak spots in the defensive tactics of
the Mexicans. Individual courage is
a sadly futile thing in a terrain such
as this, and the fortune of war gen
erally is with the man behind the
boulder up on the hilL It is almost
unnecessary to have seen panting in
fantrymen scale heights to understand
this.
Mexico City might be taken via Vera
Cruz in six weeks if no severe reverses
had been suffered. Seven miles per
day with the country to be carried is
no meaa performance.
Needless to say, the railroad to the
capital could not be used by the invad
ing forces, and such is the territory
which the line traverses that in many
places it could be put out of commis
sion for months. The Hue. between
Mexico City aud Vera Cruz is as diffi
cult a piece of railroad engineering as
can be found. The same is true of
most of the other railroads operating
east and southeast of the capital. Es
timating the cost of military operations
at 52 per -diem for each man employ
ed, we find that the taking of the Mex
ican capital, outside of the mobiliza
tion expenditure and cost of ?quip
tant, would amount to $12,000,000.
Es-rersss Possible.:
It must be .borne in mind, however,
that the case as here presented does
hot discount even a single serious re
verse. With the Jlexicans hard to dis
lodge, the invading army might find
itself . clieckmated to such an extent
that. weeks would be consumed in the
carrying of points of strategical im-
porlance. It must be remembered here
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that the American army would "Bght
uphill from the moment it set foot on
Mexican sol1 and that every 'military
crest would i;e a point 'of vantage for
the Mexicans. Most of th& fighting
would occur in the defiles between the
escarpment' walls. With fanatical
Mexican soldiery holding the heights,'
thi3 would become bloody work in
deed. . ,
The diversion movement upon Tam
pico would have little value, except it
sustained an invasion across the lower
courses of the Rio Grande. Strate
gically Tampico is hardly on tho
map, and the American military sphere
to be established there would extend
to the north rather than to the west
and south. The country's topography
determines that
But with Mexico City taken and with
the territory toward the coast cleared
the pacification of Mexico would not
yet have commenced. To all intents
and purposes that part of the republic
is tranquil today as it ever has
been or probably ever will be.
Capture of Capital.
To what extent would tho taking of
the capital influence the Mexicans Is
now the question to be considered. To
be sure, when the Germans hud taken
Paris in 1871 tho backbone of all re
sistance had been broken. There are
many instances of tlii3 sort of history,
but in this respect the City of Mexico
means so little to the Mexicans that
such a result could not be hoped for.
The pacification of Mexico for that
could be the only reasonable objective-f
of intervention would have to be car
ried into the most remote parts of t!:e
republic. In that would lie the difa-,
culty.
There is the hope, of course, that the
saner element cf Mexico would by that
time realize that law and order were all
the American army demanded. But
this i3 merely a hope, not well sup
ported by the' country's antecedents.
One has to know the Intimate history
of political Mexico, from Hidalgo and
Juarez down, to understand how little
justification there is for such a conclu
sion. The Mexican is not above de-
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TiriCAL SirXICAN SOLDIIIKS.
manding that before he would treat
with tho invader for his own good
there would have to bo a complete
evacuation. Naturally to this the
United States government could not
consent Interminable guerrilla war
fare would be the consequence.
An Unpleasant Picture, r
With bases established at Vera Cruz,
tho City of Mexico and Tampico. mil
itary operations in tho republic would
be less difUcult But before the coun
try could be swept clean of roving
guerrillas aud order established the
American army would have to be great
ly augmented. Nothing short of li.'O,-
000 men would be needed for this
work, entailing an expenditure of at
least $500,0U0 per day, or $1S-500,000
in a year.
The claim made now and then that
it would take from ten to fiftwn years
to subdue Mexico is vcrf extravagant
of course. Yet the task might stretch
over three to four years easily euough.
This is hardly a bright picture, but
it Is the best that can be given of the
subject Probably the cost of pacifi
cation would be not a cent less than
$o00.CKX),C0O. and casualties could not
be expected to number less than 50,000
men killed and invalided.
Those who may have been unable to
understand tho inaction of tho govern
ment can rest assured that the magni
tude of the pacification of Mexico Is
fully appreciated by the war depart
ment. Intervention In Mexico might
become a retreat or a job badly done.
MAKES BODY TRANSPARENT.
German Scientist Finds Strange Fluid
Which May Obviate Dissection.
A new method of giving medical ttu
deiits instruction which. It is said, will
largely obviate the necessity of dissec
tion will be put into practice at the
Ilahnema'na Medical College in Phila
delphia at the beginning, of the nxt
term. Physicians and s'jrgeon3 con
nected with the department cf anat
omy are now perfecting the process,
which originated . through the recent
discovery by a German scientist of a
Enid by the use of which tho human
body can be rendered transparent.
The fluid, which is composed of sev
eral o:!s. turns the" tie.-.h' iiito a sort of
transparent jeily when' injected, en
abling the stndent to study the veins,
iquscles ,iiid bones far better, it i
asserted, than if they resorted to the
dissecting knife, it 13 said to lie one
of the most valuable discoveries In
flaedical science of late years.
I WILL
OSSTION
Halienal Consarvalion Ex&ifiit
at Koonllle, Tenn.
WILL LAST TWO MOUTHS.
Every Southern State Will Bo Repre
sented, and Display Planned Promises
to Ee of Great Industrial and Human
Interest Project Has Been Carefully
Financed In Every Detail.
With the opening of tho National
Conservation exposition in Knoxvllle,
Tei;:i.. set for Sept 1. the preliminary
work is practically completed. And on
the day of opening the exposition com
pany will not owe one penny, so care
fully lias the financing of the project
been, done. Furthermore, the exposi
tion will be complete to the smallest
dtiliiil on the opening daj Every ex
hibit will bo in place, every bulfding
Gr.ished.
sThc National Conservation exposi
tion, conceived and brought into exist
ence by business men of the south,
will bo the first exposition in history
to have for its main aim and object the
teaching of the necessity of conserv
ing llio grrst natural resources of the
country, and also of conserving tho
lives and health and energy of the peo-'
pie.
Exposition Grounds Spacious,
Over ten acres of exhibit space has
been provided in the different build
ings. These buildings are the liberal
arts 'building, the land building (with
an auditorium annex seating 3,000 per
sons), the woman's building, the child
welfare building, the Tennessee build
ing, the all south bulidirjg, the mines
and minerals building, the forefchry'
building, (he. art building and the
uegro building. i
The grounds ape rolling and are cov
ered with a wealth of shade and grass.
In the distance the Great Smoky moun
tains are to he seen.
Special attention will be given to tho
wonderful growth of the south In the
last' few years. "During September and
October (the exposition will continue
from Sept. 1 to Nov. 1) the new south
will be put on display as never before
In its history. Every southern sU'.te,
practically every largo city in the
south, and many separate counties will
be represented by'cxbibits.
The government will have exhibits,
prepared especially for the exposition,
in tho departments of land, forests,
child welfare, mines ami minerals, etc.
Heads of the different departments say
they will be 1 ho best displays that ever
have left tho national capital.
Notables on Advisory Board.
Engaged in advancing the interest
of the exposition is a national advisory
board at Washington, composed of Gif- '
ford Pinchot (chairman). Dr. Joseph A.
Holmes of tb.o bureau of mines. Miss
Julia C. Eathrop of the children's bn
roatT of the department of labor. Dr.
P. P. Claxton of the bureau of edu
cation, Logan W. Page, director of the
good roads department: Dr. Harvey YV.
Wiley, Bradford Knapp of the depart
ment of agriculture and othera.
Kuoxville figures on entertaining at
least 1,000,000 visitors, the railroad
systems of the south having 'counted
on carrying that number of persons to
Knoxville.
Kuoxville 13 rich ia historical spots
and places. Near the city fifty years
ago were fought a nnmber of engage
ments of the civil war.
U. S. TO IMPROVE SARDINES.
Establish Laboratory to Aid Business
. - Now In Deplorable. Condition.
To re-establish the American sardine
industry and to improve the quality of
the American fish product, the depart-
. ment of agriculture has Instituted a
special sardine laboratory at Eastport
Me. This field experiment station,
which is in charge of Dr. F. C. Weber
of the animal physiological laboratory
of the bureau of chemistry, will make
a thorough study of the fish caught ia
the - Maine sardine waters and the
methods of packing them employed by
the Maine canners.
' American sardines of late, with few
exceptions, have been of inferior qual
ity and often packed when unfit for
packing or else so packed as to-be a
very poor article of diet The atten
tion of the department was brought to
the situation very forcibly when it was
found necessary to order the seizure of
about 00,000 cans of American sardines
In Pittsburgh, and 2,000 cases, or near
ly I.jO.OOO quarter and half cans, in
Norfolk. The industry at present, tue
American canners themselves admit, is
ia a deplorable condition. What was
once a flourishing aui money making
sea food indus'try has through destruc
tive competition been brought to a
stage where many canneries are m
longer packing, and where those which
do pack ere compelled to sell their
product at les3 than cost.
First Parcel P0$t Package.
The silver loving, cup commemora
tive of the opening of tho parcel post
system is now in the National mu
seum at Washington. it was the
first package to go through the mail -under
the new system and was roaib-d
in Washington by Postmaster General '
Hitchcock, on Jan. 1 to 'Postmaster
Morgan at New York. The cup U
eight Inches high and is suitably in-scribed.
NEW-SOOT!
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