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( Loup City Northwestern VOLUME XXVI_ LOUP CITY, NEBRASKA, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 9, 1909 NUMBER 44 ]AS TOLD IN A LINE A BOILING DOWN OF THE NEWS OF THE DAY. MENTIONED W SMALL SPACE The Busy Reader Can Absorb in a Few Moments a Good Deal of Information. Foreign. Baron Kagora Takahira, Japanese ambassador at Washington, who was called heme by the government to at tend a conference on various import ant international matters, arrived in Tokio and was warmly welcomed at Shimhashi station. The sultan of Turkey left Constan tinople on board the imperial yacht for Brusa, Asia Minor, He was accompa nied by ihe heir apparent, the princess and the grand vizier. The west wing of the parliament building at Toronto was completely destroyed by a fire. The loss to the building is about $100,006, fully cov ered by insurance, but the line Mo wat law library, one of the best col lections in the Dominion, is a total j loss, with no insurance. rA number of men on strike in Stockholm have received notice to leave their homes October 1 unless they return to work in the mean time. The unions have issued a proclamation that no strikers are to pay rentals due in October. The ‘ strike leaders maintain it will be ' impossible to turn thousands of families into the streets. Vis* The Rueekoe Slovo publishes an in terview which its correspondent at Teheran had with the desposed shah of Persia, who is now a refugee at the Russian legation at Zerzeude. The • former ruler of Persia complained that his abdication was due to in trigue and treachery, hinting broadly at Russian and British diplomacy." A Paris newspaper publishes a state ment that Princess Helie de Sagan was robbed of $5,000 during her re cent, stay at Rheims. and her husband, the prince, was at the same time re lieved of $10,000. El Roghi the rebellious subject of tin- Sultan of Morocco, who was cap tured recently and brought into l’ez in an iron < age, is still exposed to the gaze of passing crowds in bis open , cell. — ■ ■ — General. The steamer Empress of Ireland, which sailed from Quebec August 20 for Liverpool, has broken the record l>y a passage of five days from Can ada to Mahn Head. The authorities at Warsaw have suppressed the Society for the Aid of the Poor Scholars studying in Polish schools. The society has 184 branches throughout, Poland. Two persons were fatally hurt and eleven seriously injured when a local Lock Island passenger train, carrying state fair visitors, returning from the show grounds, struck a packed Fort A lies Moines car, fully ami'dship, and Jr crushed it to kindling wood. Very little rain lias fallen in East ern Pennsylvania for several months and the drouth has caused serious damage. Crops and pasture fields have burned up. Thirty-eight children mourn the death of their father. John W. Miller, aged 70 years, who died at the coun • try .home at Indiana. Pa., where he lias been an inmate for several years. Mr. Miller was married four times. ,4 One wife survives him. f The taxable wealth of Missouri as fixed by the state board of equaliza tion is $1,549,703,347. an increase over 3 908 of $34,350,109. The valuation of the real and personal property is $1,379,048,573 and of corporate prop — , erty $170,114,€74. ' September 20 is the day that Presi dent Taft is scheduled to be in Omaha. i tie seen tarv ot tne interior wm open bids at Denver, Colo., October 2s at tlioffice of t!:e reclamation service for building the Pathfinder dike in connection with the North. Platte irrigation project in Nebraska and Wyoming. Dr. Cook, the American explorer, reached the north pole April 21, 1908, according to a telegram received at the colonial office in Copenhagen. The message was received from Ler wick. Shetland Islands. Details are awaited with much interest. The quaint little city of Gloucester. Mass., had the hoonr of entertaining President Taft at his first public ap pearance since the beginning of his vacation. Mr. Tafts visit was in com pensation for liis inability to attend the pageant of the Canterbury Pil grims. held there just prior to the adjournment of congress. William Jennings Bryan was the principal speaker at exercises in Wa terloo. 111., in celebration of the found ing loO years ago of the Bethel Baptist church, the first protestant church in Illinois. Panama lias just paid Uncle Sam $14,300 for mistreating Americans. W. S. Kenneth, a traveling buyer for the ‘Panton-White Dress Goods com pany of Duluth, Minn., was almost in stantly killed hy falling down an ele vator in an Omaha hotel. E. H. Harriman has retired to the exclusion of his mountain estate to complete his "after cure.” President Taft will urge postal savings banks on next session of con gress. There is revolt against Cannonlsm, hut the old man is not losing any sleep. An advisory staff lias been appointed for temporary service in the special work of the census. The woni n ticket agents on the elevated loop of Chicago ha\e refused to accept a raise in wages. Their ac tion is said to he without precedent in annal of local labor unions. Additional reports from the Monte rey (Mexico) Hoods show increased loss of life. The bureau of the census an- j nounced that approximately three thousand temporary clerks would he appointed in connection with the work of taking the thirteenth decennial cen sus. Oriusby Me liars, assistant secretary ' of commerce and labor, will retire from office September 1. Several suspected cases of cholera have been reported in Rotterdam since the discovery of the disease there, notably among the occupants of a barge on board of which a child had died previously. The Burlington system is shortly to establish an air line through Nashville connecting the grain fields of the northwest with the Atlantic coast. Ambassador David E. Thompson em phatically denied the report that lie tiad purchased’the Pan-American rail road for $40,00(1.000, acting as the agent for E. H. Harrintan.* Henry Farnam. the English aviator, broke all records for distance and time in the air at Rheims. Pinning his last hope,*ou his be ief that he would rVriain his eyesight if he bathed ill the sea on the feast day of the Blessed Virgin. Peter Kelly, Brooklyn, found that it failed him and, concluding that he would never be able to see again, committed kuieide by inhaling illuminating gas. The cotton manufacturing plant of the York Manufacturing company at i Augusta. Me., has shut down indefin j itely in consequence of a wage sttike of sixty twp weavers. The Renault car. driven by Charles lt.i le. won the twenty-four-hour a.ito mohile race at New York in go-as-you please fashion. The'car traveled 1.070 miles. 117 miles less than the record made by Robertson and Lfscault last year, but 112 miles more than its nearest rival in this race. Thomas A. Wood, newspaper man, club man and civil war veteran died in St. Louis, aged 04 years. I'ntil his retirement two years ago lie had been business manager for the St. Louis Globe-Democrat for thirty-nine years. Sedgwick and Rarnt^ will have first and second places for the supreme judgeship in Nebraska. Hamer and Fawcett are running close, and the re sult is uncertain. President Taft has accepted an in vitations to visit Mexico on October 4 0- next; when he will exchange visits with President Diaz of Mexico at E! Paso Ctiidad Juarez. Washington. The postal deficiency for August amounted to $3,0ou.ouo as compared with half that amount for July. The war department used over $12.00.1,000 during the last month, while the maintenance of the navy called for a little more than $10,000,000. The public debt, less the cash bal ance in the treasury at the beginning of business September 1. was $1.047,21 l.i no. This does not include $1,345,211.8)!!) in certificates and treas ury notes, which is offset by an eipial amount of cash in the treasury. The recapitulation of the debt shows I $915,317,49ft in interest, bearing debt. 2,814,475 in debt on which interest i has ceased since maturity and $380, 417,144 in debt hearing no interest, j President Taft has refused to con I sent to pardon W. S. Harlan, l'o-nier f !y of Iowa, who was convicted of peon age in Florida, io escape a prism sen tence. He has commuted his sentence to six months imprisonment. The interior department officials who have been called in by President Taft to report to him as to their course I in the Cunningham coal land cases in I Alaska are busy preparing their re ! ports. In the beantime the Pinchot Halltnger row continues to smoulder. Senator Cummins' bill to give the in ' terstate commerce commission in j creased authority, so as to enable it to fix a general schedule of rates for the whole country, promises to.attract much notice next winter. A lot of old French junk that lias been accumulating along the line of the Panama canal is about to lit* sold by the Isthmian canal commission. The amount lias been variously estim ated at from 45.000 to 120,000 tons. ! The federal circuit court at. Chi cago made a ruling in wliat is known as the Missouri liver rate cases, it favors the railroads. Authorities at Washington refuse to await a test before continuing seizures of bleached flour. Personal. Harrinian. at his mountain home, is said to he improving daily. The sickness of Harrinian. it is said, cannot be cured by an operation and none will be performed. Samuel Gompers. president of the American Federation of Labor, is in Paris. William Shafor, the first clown that traveled with Dan Rice's circus, fifty years ago. died at Newton. X. Y.. aged 8:5 years. Governor t rank \Y. Benson of Ore gon is not especially fond of hit: office as chief executive and will not be a candidate for renomination. When President Taft becomes Ha guest of the Boston Chamber of Com ; merce September I t it is expected that about 10u persons will dine with him. United States Senator Nelson \y. Aldrich of Rhode Island, chairman of tie national monetary commission, i sailed for Europe. Miss Mary McClain. Philadelphia, celebrated liar li'lst birthday by tak ing an automobile ride. Secretary of W.ar Jacob M. Dickin son appeared in the court at Nashville, Tenn.. in behalf of his chauffeur, who was charged with exceeding ths*speed~ limit. STORK IS BELIEVES DR. COOK CREDITED WITH REACHING NORTH POLE. VIEWS OF THE LONDON PAPERS Shackelton Says Reported Finding of North Pole Not Improbable in Light of His Experience. Washington.—Maurice E. Egan, the United States minister at Copenhagen, has telegraphed the State department that Dr. Cook's reported discovery of tlie north pole has been corroborated by Dergaard Jensen, the Danish inr spector of north Greenland. London.—Dr. Cook's narrative of his thrilling journey to the north pole, which he reached on April Hist, while it has not removed the doubts raised to his having really accomplished the feat he claims, has at least set at rest the improbable suggestions ad vanced in some quarters that he bad attained not. the north pole, but the magnetic pole. Captain Kenold Amundsen, in an in terview at Christiania on this point says: “Such a supposition is non sense. The magnetic pole is situated on the American side and it is quite impossible that Dr. Cook could have driven so far from his planned route. 1 feel certain that Dr. Cook has expressed nothing definitely about the result. I know him to be absolute ly discreet and taciturn. Other peo ple have misunderstood him and it will be necessary to await his ar rival at Copenhagen for th'j real facts." The London newspapers are not wholly convinced by the narrative and persist that it will be necessary to await more details and reports. They are unable to conceive how a task which has beaten the ablest polar ex plorers provided with everything that money could purchase, would have been achieved in such a seemingly off hand and unprciuediated manner, and with such ease and quickness. The Daily Telegraph says: “It is for the moment beside the question to discuss the accuracy or probability of Dr. Cook's statement. It is neither just nor generous to question in any way the genuineness of such a claim before full details of the expedition are made public by the traveler himself. Indeed we have much sympathy because of the dif ficulties by which Dr. Cook or any other solitary explorer is hampered in attempting to convince a skeptical of geographical experts of the reli ability of his assertions and reports. We trust when the proper time comes for a I'nlf and impartial i xamination of tin- record of the expedition Dr. Cook will meet with the fairness and consideration ills particular case espe eiarty invites." Dr. Hugh 1!. Hill, former librarian of the Royal Geographical society, is skeptical, but says that great weight must be attached to the opinion of polar experts in America. ' i should particularly like to know General Greely's opinion." he said. ".\ly own feeling is that our present information is insufficient to base any opinion upon.” Sir Martin Conway, a noted ex plorer. thinks that Dr. Cook’s claim could be accepted if his story on ex amination was found to hang together. Prof. Milne, the noted seismologist, thinks that if Dr. Cook has a few properly taken photographs of the sky at the pole on April 21. 1008. they may assist in determining the position lie reached. After reading a brief summary of Dr. Frederick A. Cook's account of his dash to the X’o.rth pole. Lieuten ant Ernest H. Shackleton. who recent ly led an expedition to the South pole regions, said that nobody had any right to be skeptical. There was nothing in the explorer's statement but what was perfectly possible. Taft to Visit Alaska. lleverly. Mass.—President Taft, in bidding goodbye to Walter Ely Clark, who Is to be inaugurated at .luneau as governor of Alaska, October 1, an nounced that lie probably would visit the far northwestern territory next summer. < „ Father of Thirty-eight. Indiana. Fa.—Thirty-eight children mourn the death of their father, John \Y. Miller, aged 70 years, who died here at the county home, where he has been an inmate for several years. Mr. Miller was married four times. Harriman is Improving Daily. New York.—E. H. Harriman. who is resting at his home in Arden after treatment at the German baths, was in communication with his office in this city Thursday. It was stated that his condition is improving daily. St. Louis. Mo.—All new territory discovered by l)r. Frederick A. Cook when he reached the north pole will belong to the United States by right of discovery, according to the Rev. C. M. Charropin. S. J., professor of astronomy at St. Louis university. VOLIVA WANTS OUT OF JAIL. Dowie’s Successor Secures Writ of Habeus Corpus. Chicago.—-Wilbur Glenn Voliva. suc cessor to the late John Alexander Dowie as head of the Christian Ca tholic church in Zion, and who is now in jail for failure to pay a judgment of Slu.rtOO, obtained'by a former mem ber of tlie church on a charge of libel, obtained a writ of habeus corpus from Judge Seanlan here. The writ is made returnable Friday. NORTH POLE REACHED. Dr. Cook, American, Realizes Ex plorers’ Dreams. “I told Etukishook and Ahwelsh (the accompanying Eskimos) that we had reached the ‘Great Nail.’ Everywhere we turned was south. By ?. vingle step we could pass from one side of the earth to the other; from midday to midnight. At last the flag floated to the breezes at the pole. It was April 21, 1908. The temperature was minus 38 centi grade. barometer 29.83. latitude 90. As for the longitude, it was nothing, as it was but a word.”—Dr. Fred erick A. Cook as he stood at the pole. Paris—The Paris edition of the New York Herald this morning pub lishes a signed statement from Dr. Frederick A. Cook, which is dated "Hans Egede, Lerwick. Wednesday,” on his experiences in the Arctic re gions. “Alter a prolonged fight with fa mine and frost.” says Dr. Cook, “we have at last succeeded in reaching the North pole. A new highway, with an interesting strip of animated na ture. has been explored and big game haunts located, which will delight sportsmen and extend the Esquimo horizop. “Land has been discovered on which rests the earth's northermost rocks. A triangle of 30,000 square miles has been cut out of the ter restrial unknown. “The expedition was the outcome of a summer cruise in the Arctic seas on the schooner Bradley, which ar rived at the limits of navigation in Smith sound late in August. 1007. Here conditions were found favorable for launching a venture to the pole. .1. It. Bradley liberally supplied from his vessel suitable provisions for lo cal use. My own equipment for emergencies served well for every purpose of Arctic travel. Many Eskimos had gathered on tlie Green land shores at Annatoak for the win ter bear hunt. Immense quantities of meat had been collected and about the camp were plenty of strong dogs. The combination was lucky, for there was good material for equipment. aii that, was required was con veniently arranged for at a point only Too miles from the boreal cen ter. A house and workship were built of packing boxes by willing hands and tiiis northernmost tribe of 250 people set themselves to the problem of devising a suitable outfit. Before the end of the long winter night we were ready for the enter prise and plans had been matured to force a new route over GrinneH land northward along its coast out to ward the polar sea. “The campaign opened with a few scouting parties being sent over the American shores to explore the way and seek the game haunts. Their mission was only partly successful because of the storms. At sunrise of 1908 (February 19) the main ex pedition embarked on its voyage to the pole. It consisted of eleven men and 103 dogs, drawing eleven heavily laden sledges. The expedition left the Greenland shore and pushed west ward over tlie troubled ice of Smith sound. The gloom of the long night was relieved only by a few hours of daylight. The chill of the winter was felt at its worst. As we crossed the heights of Ellesmere sound to the Pacific slope the temperature sank to minus S3 centigrade. Several dogs were frozen and the men suffered severely, but we soon found the game trails along which the way was easy. ur. Cook’s Success. Copenhagen—Dr Frederick A. Cook's credit stands so high with Danish polar experts that the first message announcing his success in reaching the north pole, meager as it was, was accepted as conclusive. Commodore Hovgaard said: “I be lieve the message is true, because Dr. Cook is most trustworthy and op posed to all exaggeration.” C. A. Nielsen, an official of the immigra tion department, who is well ac quainted with Dr. Cook and was as sociated with him in Greenland, said he had no doubt tiiat Dr. Cook had reached the pole. RECEPTION FOR THE EXPLORER. His Homecoming to Be an Event of National Importance. New York.—-Preparations are afoot here to make the home-coming of Dr. Frederick A. Cook an event of na tional and possibly international im portance. If the plans outlined by the members of the Arctic club are car ried out, the welcome home which Dr. Cook will receive in New York will be an ovation in which city, state and nation will take part, while prominent explorers—Cook's former rivals—from all parts of the globe will gather to pay their personal tribute to his achievement. Mint Is Not Very Active. Washington—'The month of August was a decidedly inactive one for the mints of tlie United States, the monthly coinage statement issued Wednesday by the mint bureau ol the treasury department showing that only $H94,79o was coined during ihe last month. Bryan Helps Unveil Shaft. Waterloo. Ill—The centennial of the Bethel Baptist church, the first Pro testant church in .Illinois, founded by the Rev. James Lemon, sr., near here, was celebrated Wednesday. W. J. Bryan was one of the speakers. Lord De Clifford Killed. Loudon.—Jack Southwell Russell, Lord De Clifford, was killed in an automobile accident at Bamber, near Brighton. His car collided with an other vehicle and turned turtle and Lord De Clifford was instantly killed. FAVORS SMALLER NAVIES George E. Roberts, from 1898 to 1908. director of the United States mint, j and at present, president of the Commercial National bank of Chicago, is an ardent advocate of smaller navies and international peace. Mr. Roberts was i born in Iowa, and was brought up as a printer. He is recognized as an author ity on finance and nas written several books on the question. ______ STARTS AT BOTTOM Harriman. Jr.. Is Learning Rail road Business Thoroughly. Railroad Magnate's Son Lugs Cham in Western Surveying Camp—In Training to Succeed His Father. Chicago.—Averell Harriman, son of Edward H. Harriman, lias started to learn the railroad business from the ground up. Young Harriman, who is 18 years of age, is making his start in l the direction of a railway magnate's ! commanding p. iiicn by carrying the j chain in a surveying gang on the Ore | gon Short Line in Idaho, i During the summer months, when t most rich men's sons spend their time : in idleness or1 in seeking pleasure, Averell Harriman has been doing his share of manual labor in a rough sur ; veying camp in ihe mountains, and 1 doing it without a murmur. When the father went to Europe in : search of health, Averell had his j choice of how he should spend the | summer and his choice included the opportunity to go to Europe. He de clared that he wanted to learn some thing about how railroads are located, as that was the foundation of the science of railroading. Asked if he wanted to start at the bottom, as any other boy would have to, he replied that he did. His father agreed to give him the opportunity, but was apprehensive that he would not stick to such rough work in the mountains of the west. George Dixon, son of Dr. George A. Dixon of New York, one of Harriman’s family physicians, is a school chum ol' Avereil Harriman ami he decided to join the "rain gang." Both boys were put in positions at $05 a month and were placed on the pay roll of the Oregon Short Line with instructions to the general manager to see that they were treated just as other em ployes are treated. During the entire summer both boys have tilled the bill perfectly, as shown by the reports which were made front time to time. This week the boys "knocked" off work, drew tbeir pay and started for Seattle to visit the Alaska-Yukon-Pa cifie exposition, alter which they will return to school. It is understood thai Mr. Harriman hopes to make Avereil his successor in the railway field. Avereil always lias shown a deep interest in railway construction and railway management. T. H. Kruttschnitt, son of Julius KryiUschnitt. director of maintenance and operation for the Harriman sys tem, is another rich man's son who is learning the construction and oper ation ends of railroading from the j beginning. He is assistant road master of the Shasta division of the Southern Pa cific at Weed, Cal. Weed is a lumber camp and there are practically no houses* except those in which the em ployes of the Weed Lumber Company live. Such a small matter of incon venience as the lack of a house did not bother Sir. Kruttschnitt. He re quested that a second-hand Southern Pacific day coach be brought to Weed, had it partitioned off into rooms and set upon a small hill near the depot. Then he moved his wife and children into it. built a protecting shed over his home, to break the intense heat of the sun. and there lie is living. CLEW IS THREAD ON A NAIL Corresponds with Tear in Alleged Thief's Trousers and Causes His Arrest. Kan Claire, Wis.—A few threads clinging to a nail served its a clew upon which the police arrested a young lnan whom they are quite sure robbed Chris Melby's s;::oon on Gal loway street of a small sunt of n oney, some liquor and bottled beer. The man arrested is no other titan the son of the saloonkeeper whose saloon was entered ami robbed, .Melvin Mel by. aged 19. The head of a nail stuck itj> on the bottom sill of the window of the sa loon and a number of threads were found sticking to this nail. The po lice at once surmised that the burglar had caught tho seat of his trousers thereon. They also figured that the guilty party must have hud knowl edge of the building and its various entrances. Later in the day it was learned that there was a trio of men holding a beer party in the park near the hospital on the North side hill and a policeman war detailed to ar rest the bunch. Three men. of whom Melvin Melby was one, were found there discussing a few boltPs o! gin, brandy and beer. The three were brought to the city jail, but after questioning them two were released as they could not be connected with the robbery, but young Melby was held as the s* at of his trousers revealed a well developed rent such as would he made by a nail. He did not know how the rent came there, but he denied robbing the sa loon. He will be arraigned later. WINS WIFE IN 30 MINUTES Prominent Tennessee Politician Was Ready to Propose Soon as He Saw Her Eyes. Chicago.—dt'n. Thomas S. Hutchin son, who lias been prominently men tioned for the governorship of Ten nessee, and .Miss Louise Cheatham of Clarksville, Tex., were quietly mar ried recently, and are spending their honeymoon in Chicago. The general' says it ought not to take a man more; than 80 minutes to win a wile. At their apartments Gen. Hutchin son told of his courtship and mar riage while his bride nodded her ap proval. "It was this way,” said the general. "I attended the confederate reunion in Memphis in June. I was on Gov. Patterson's staff and my wife was maid of honor front Texas. "The governor introduced me to Miss Louise Cheatham a few minutes after her arrival in Memphis. I looked into her eyes and saw that I loved her. I pushed her out of the crowd, told her that I loved her and asked her to be my wife. I did not wait for her answer, I took it for granted it was ‘yes.’ The whole transaction did not take over 80 minutes. When we rejoined Miss Cheatham’s friends l acted as it 1 owned her. “Every man could win a wife if he followed my example. The man who hesitates in warfare or business is lost. Why should he take months in winning a wife? Thirty minutes is long enough.” Hog Has Five Legs. Garber, Okla.—-A freak in the swine family is rather an uncomomn thing, but K. S. Goode, a farmer living near this city, has a hog with five legs, all developed perfectly. The fifth leg grows out behind the left foreleg and is the same size as the others. The hog is a very healthy animal and weighs nearly 800 pounds. TURNS OLD IRON INTO STEEL! i Inventor Takes Metal Costing But Two Cents a Pound and in Short Order Transforms It. London.—M. Martin Kallnian. presi dent of the Oriental Trust Company j of Paris and London, is in London I again on business in connection with i a new process he is developing for i turning iron of all grades into fine steel. In a recent demonstration the first J test was a plain bar of iron. This was ! coated with a peculiar chemical pow der and placed in an air-tight retort in a furnace. The result was that the entire bar was transformed into steel, which the experts pronounced, after testing it. to be of very fine quality. Models' of several steel ob jects were worked up in ordinary iron and put through a process success fully. Some were made into solid steel, while on others only the outer surface was transformed into steel. An iron car wheel was given a steel rim and a heavy iron chain was turned into solid steel at one end. which graduated into a thin coat ing of iron at the other end. There was no question of the steel being i fixed onto the iron. It was clearly demonstrated that in every case the ; iron itself was transformed into steel. “The peculiar thing about this pro cess,” said Mr. Kaliman. after the i tests were finished, “is that low-grade, cheap iron can. by our method, bo I transferred into a higher grade of steel than other and better grades of | iron. We don't know much about this | feature yet, but our experiments are | teaching us a great deal. ■ “1 estimate we can take a piece of i iron costing two cents a pound and j put it through our process at a cost of I five cents a pound and produce steel j which, at the lowest valuation to-day, ; is worth $1 a pound. Other methods would cost from 30 to 20 times as much.” — A quick way to learn how to waste money is to get hold of it. PUTS FACE ON MAN Follows a Series of Operations Extending Over Three Years. Also Provides Prolific Crop of Hair and Covering for Neck—Head Burned in Fire Made Practically New. Boston. Mass.—Stephen Calabro, 25 years old. of Qunicy, was discharged from .the Massachusetts General hos pital the other day. literally with a new face and scalp, following a series of operations among the most re markable in surgical history extend ing over a period of three years and done as a work of scientific interest by Dr Charles A. Porter of the Har vard Medical school. Calabro, who was horribly burned and thought to be disfigured for life in a fireworks explosion, in Wey mouth, in 1905, submitted himself for treatment at the Massachusetts Gen eral hospital in March, 190f>. His face, neck, scalp and arms were a mass of turtle-like skin that is known to the medical profession as elielyoid tissue. He left the hospital with a new fore head, new eyelids, new cheeks, a new nose, a new chin, a new neck and. fin ally, a new head of hair, the result of three years’ treatment and unselfish devotion of l)r. Porter in the cause of science. Calabro was given ether no less than 30 times. The operations con sisted of skin transplantation and grafting. Much of the skin was taken from other parts of Calabro's own body, but his brother Thomas and other members of his family sacri ficed portions of skin to aid their brother. One of the greatest difficulties met with in the treatment of Calabro was the making of a new head of hair. Nearly the entire scalp had to he re placed. but this was finally accom plished. and now the young man has a prolific crop of hair "as good as new," which comes well down over his forehead. Calabro has returned to his broth er's home in Quincy, where he has a little farm, lie intends, he says, to raise fancy poultry for the market. HAYSTACK FOR RAIL CHIEF President Louis W. Hill of the Great Northern Compelled to Spend Night in Hay. Great Falls, Mont.—Pres dent Louis \V. Hill of the Great Northern railway was compelled to spend a night in a haystack. He started from Helena to Great Falls in his automobile. Near Fort Shaw the machine stuck in a mud hole. He applied to a settler for a bed and supper, but was told that he could find a bed in a near-by hay stack and that he could help himself to refreshment at the pump. When the railroad president did not appear here on time a searching party started toward Helena. They found the automobile in the rnud hole, and a short inspection of the near-by neighborhood revealed Mr. Hill and his chauffeur sound asleep in the hay stack. Kills to Prevent Wedding. Paris.—-After vainly trying to dis suade. his father front remarrying, a young schoolmaster of Wintherthur natttqd Hadenbaeh, killed him the other day with a hatchet as he was preparing for his wedding. The young man then committed suicide.