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FOB THE B IN MEWS EPITOME THAT CAN SOON BE COMPASSED. MIXT EVENTS IRE MENTIONED Her* and Foreign Intelligence Con densed Into Taro and Four Une Paragraph^ WASHINGTON. Oj.p-wiuoo *I'.hic democratic ranks Co ' hm demands of labor for amend ments to the omni-is anti trust bill s.rua ) o-l-asped while the house was < oorlttd.bg general debate oo the praiurt • • s The onpreme court has dismissed at appeal from tbo supreme court of Texas, which held valid an ordinance of the city of Ebb is. Tex., annulling the franchise of the Ennis Water Nocks company - • • s Tie Oklahoma rec.procai demurrage la* ass annulled as uuconstituttonal 11 the supreme court on the ground fas • ..e Oklahoma court had held it a;.J 'o .uterslate commerce os We., as state commerce. • • • Th*- hows* pa>>*-<] the Rucker reso lution. nuich to efiect. exonerates the democratic c -igtHtioul cummittee «f charges that it violated the corrupt pra- tw-es net ..n assessing senator* a- i r., (or campaign c«n p.:tr.*st # • • * expes.'ion to be held at Pana ma comtarmeKniing the discot try of th* Paeifr ocean by Halbua will open JC*w*wher S next and last until April f*. l.-U according to announcement of the Pan-American bureau at W'ash hpf*. • so !«■ Maursc# Francis Egan. Amen rna ttiniser t~ leusuri. is serious |) Hi m Washington Dr. Egan came |r>nn « .-pennagen recently tor a vaca t* a to kid are through th* south and «*•-. A!1 of hto engagement* have been r - veiled • • • Emote Nathan, former mayor of turn* non Italian commissioner gen nra. to the Panama Pacific exposition, h t. aa interview with President W’U *--*. lie sas accompanied by the J i an ambassador and Ira Nelson *! <rrt» Earlier the party called on p retary Bryan • • s The administration antitrust pro gram was definitely rtarted oa Its way to the statute books «h*n the L use. with the legislative machinery work-ng under farced draft, complet ed consideration of the Covington Trade Coin mission bill and laid that measure aside for final passage. • • • Organization certificate* incorporat ing the taelv* federal reserve banks have been received at the Treasury d* nr-met- Ejection of director, class s A and B for each bank will be takes up at once and it is expected the forms of the ballots will be sent to the :>*; member banks at once. • • s The senate interstate commerce r- a- ie* began ciis.deral.on of a wx-'ion to report only one anti-trust t»tl at the press-** session of congress. Tb* btU proposed to receive the com r approval would create an in ter v-t-t* trndtt commission w ith powers of ivcrigiiiiw to report u> congress •cits inter 1 *.*• body of fenater Bradley of Krwtacfcy. was takes from Washing tea for banal at Frankfort. Both houses at encrt-M adjourned as a mark of expect, rtsolutksu sere in t;>*snnd and eskuoe* sere spoken. The funeral party included Senators James tia: rtaer. Warren. Smoot. Overman. 8imi*-y. Root K»-m. Martin pomades ter. Ufkraaa Fall. Smith of Ancona. Hughe*: all the Kentucky d*le«*? joe of the house esrept Kep f*-»~*iat!»*- Posers, and Representa tive* Anaua Kahn Ureen Smith of M < mean. Ssitacr and Johnson of %' aahtngt.ua. OOMKSTtC. Ax bouncemeet of h.s candidacy for P«sm«s has been made at Driver fey I tiled Stg’.e* Senator Charles H. Thomas of Colorado. deaiocraC • • • An estate valued at nearly 92.000. t a vs a la posed of largely to charity by the mil of Mitt Klizaoeth ci. Ship j*« trf Ptilad-lphia sho died a seek Ogo. see The gfih private bank In Chicago to tall la tse seek* seat under when far Jack tot: hank closed its doors. It had depuaits of 9tt.od* Private hit.at have been under Are !a Chicago lor some tins • e * The Xigara Fails conference and its d^tetopmnnts is receiving the close attention of official in Washington. Wk.i • neither shite house nor state deperttoent officials dua is* the pro grot of negotiations. au evident ab sence at lefuiue and a gem-mi air of hLpri<dnea» prevailed among official*. • • • Fader guard of I'nited States cav alry, bodies, the striking coal miners ten* coioey, shies was destroyed in the fatal battle between tn nera. mi )Uia and mine guards on April ro. has hem i e**t*Wished. • • • practically every department store p the country nnd every trade jour •al is owned by New Yorkers, accord J g to W. J. Hilunton. repre#?ai:ng a trade journal at De« Moines, la., sbo spoke during the journalism seek telenmfion by the School of Journal i f the Lniversttg of Missouri. • • • _ tytr ban M Roberta of Terre flattie, lad- charged with conspiracy to corrupt elections, sas found not guilty by a jury in the Terre Haute circuit court The jury wan out thii» Greater New York spends $38,293, 4J8 on public schools yearly. . • • In the United States cities there was last year one bank to every 9,709 people. • • • The date of the international avia •ion meet and start of the around-the i world aerial race at San Francisco has been fi ted for May 8 to 18, 1916. • • • j Hugo Poynter. son of Sir John Poynter, pros.dent of the British academy, and a cousin of Rudyard Ktp ing. hus armed at San Francisco j on the steamer Persia. (• a • Forest fires that broke out along the Tamarack river in Minnesota lum ber can ps out of existence. Rangers from Robinson and Ely were sum moned to fight the flames. • • • Granting of the Saturday half holi day as a means of a s'.ricter observ ance of the Sabbath was urged in the report of ■ ae committee on Sabbath observance, made to the general as f*-n; bly of he Presbyterian church in the United States. • • • The t dy cf Harry Weakley, a rancher, burned almost to a crisp, was found under the wreckage of his automobile on a highway near Fresno, Cal Nearhy lay Waiter Robinson, un ci >nsc ious WeakleCs machine had •■..raed turtle and burned with its own er pinned underneath. m m c An awakened public conscience and tosher ideai* of the people in the last score of v. ars have made actual •;als of many thousands, accord ing to Wi: :am X. Gemmill. president «f the Ui.t.e:, Society Of the Ameri can Iiis'kute of Criminal Law and Crtm olcgy at its annual meeting at Chicago. • • • An avalanche of claims for refund of it come taxes paid under protest, rd in ewes • f '!e ega! amount due, s expected by the treasury depart :ti- nt n -ne near future. This is the intimation given by Wiiliam E. An drews. auditor for the treasury de partment. a former member of con gress frc-m Hastings. Xeb. • • • A man who claims to be the Rev. Louis R Pat moot, a prohibition ad vocate. who had been missing since | . Went vi:l*. HI., March SI, was found in an aband->ne<i farm house near Columbia, 111 The man was found in the house by farm Lunds who were working about the place. • • • Society is too ready to intervene in • half of the criminals, according to John B. Winslow, firmer chief justice of the s ipreme ct :rt of Wisconsin, in aa addreti- to the Illinois Bar associa te a at Chicago. "The un-written law or senti i entai nonsense is invoked to prevent atie , ,ate punishment,'’ he said. • • • Shan Ching Shu. Chinese consul -' :n.i' at San Francisco, reported to the poll e the disappearance of his two dan ibter- Siao Quai, 15 years ole. and M.n Lien. 5 years old. He could nw account for their disappear ance. They were later found in the woods, where they had gon to gather flowers and bad gotten lost. • » • Asserting that ts order was made necessary by he ’’plundering" of tht United railroads of San Francisco of upwards of a mi .ion dollars by the corpofai; n s former president, Patrick Calhoun, on the authorization of di «. the Califor nia railro.it. commission gave reluc tant con.-i-m to tat borrowing of more n < my : j • .e Cr.ited railroads for the purchase of roiling stock. 1-- unit' if a nation wide call for : ' ififial ariii m trul support for the ■'r > - ('"’'iraiio coal miners, en dorsement of Congressman j. w. I i"■ jt: ~ 1 . i ii.iit:. for federal owner -1 p of ’he Cob r.dn coai mines and 'in •election of Itenvor for the next meeting place wire the principal acts f tie eo:.v.-f.on of the Rocky Moun tain Aaaot i of eke United Mine A'urker* of America at Seattle. FOREIGN. The Duti h Dockers' union has pro claimed a gen* ral strike of the work men employed by the Hoiland-Amer ican lice at Rotterdam. • • • Advices from Paris bring informa tion that the late Sir John Murray Scotts m collection, consisting of. the part that remained in Paris, has t»< en su'd by the owner. Lady Sack villeWeM, to an an dealer for |1, 4W.0M. • • • Btoppaee of the Tehauntepec rail way route across Mexico has so in creased traffic across the isthmus of Panama tha* the Panama railroad is jateoct unable to cope with the situa tion. Practically every car the rail uad own- is in service and still moun tains of fr-ight at the terminals show no signs of diminution. • • • After a conference with President Huerta, the minister of the interior, said: "The president is highly grati icii with the latest news from Niagara Falls. It seems that we are near a satisfactory arrangement.” • • • Brought to & halt in his march to be south, Gen. Morelos Zaragoza, the defeated federal commander of the Tampico garrison, will have to face in battle once more the constitutionalist who drove him out of this place, or enter the wilderness of mountains in the Huasteca district to the west. • m m Army circles of Honolulu are stir! red over the reported theft from army headquarters of complete maps and information concerning the island of Oahu. The theft is said to have been discovered on the morning of May S • • • The famous yacht. Princess Alice, formerly owned by the prince of Mo naro and used by him in his deep sea researches, lias been purchased by l-ord Inverclyde, who will take a Party of friends on it to San Francis co for the opening of the Panama Patg^c International exposition. a, PUT flIVEyN MAP COLONEL ROOSEVELT GIVES GRAPHIC STORY OF PERILS IN WILDS OF BRAZIL. ALL THE MAPS ARE WRONG Reasserts His Claims to Discovery of River Duvida in Address Before National Geographic Society—River Is as Long as the Elbe. Washington. Theodore Roosevelt last night gave an extended account of his discovery of the Duvida river, or river of doubt, before the Na tional Geographic society in this city. He declared that the river is as long as the Elbe and is not shown on any map. As a result of his explorations. Colonel Roosevelt declared that all of the maps of the country he traversed . are wrong. Mr. Roosevelt's address was in part as follows: "Hardly ever can you do anything of note, except by building on what has been done by your predecessors' work. Columbus could not have dis covered America, if it had not been tor the deeds of Portuguese and to a less extent of Spanish sailors, from the days of Prince Henry the Naviga tor on. Peary could not have discov ered the North pole if there had not ; been for generations men who had been pushing far northward the limits of knowledge of the polar regions. "To take an infinitely less import-; ant instance, I could have done noth- j iug in South America if it had not been for the work done by scores of i other men during the years that \ passed, and especially during the last' seven or eight years. • • • “Here is the Amazon river. It was j descended and discovered for the first time nearly four centuries ago by the early Spanish explorers, whose feats I were so phenomenal that they make all the work of all of us who have ! anything on that river today seem! child's play in comparison. I say that, meaning it literally. "The people who went up and down the Amazon speedily discovered the mouths of a number of rivers. One two and three centuries elapsed before ! they discovered anything about those ; rivers except the mouths, and in the ! > ase of the river of which I am going to speak what they did say about the , mouth was entirely wrong. “1 did not go down to South Amer ica with any intention of making such an exploration as this. • » ft "When 1 go off on a trip I do not like to make pictures for myself of what I am going to do, because I do not know, but I had supposed that our trip would chiefly be a zoological trip, and I went primarily for the American Museum of Natural History with that end in view. "When 1 got to Rio Janeiro, Mr. Lauro Mueller, who visited us iast year, and who is the minister of for eign affairs of Brazil, toid me that, of course, they would help me to do what I w ished, which was to go up the Para guay and then down into the Amazon, but that he thought he had something which would appeal to me much more; that the telegraphic commis sion which had been working in the vestern portion of Brazil had found that the best existing maps were total ly wrong, that the whole region would have to be remapped after the discov eries of the telegraphic commission, and that they had found the sources of two rivers running north, which went they did not know where. "One of those rivers, the smaller, was called the Pineapple. The other,' and larger one, was caller the Du vida, the River of Doubt, because they did not know where it went out. He told me that the head ‘of the tele graphic commission. Colonel Rondon, who had for 25 years been engaged in the work of exploring that wild western wilderness of Brazil, would, if I desired, accompany me, down that river and see where it came out, and he said: “ Now, we will be delighted to have you do it, but. of course, you must understand, we cannot tell you any thing of what will happen, and there will be some surprises not necessarily pleasant’ I said, Well, by George, that Is just what I would like to do te make the try and see what would happen down that river.' • • • And now here I want, with all the emphasis possible—and I wish that the Brazilian ambassador were here to report to his government what I say—I want with all the emphasis pos sible to attest that everything that we did this year was a sequel to and was conditioned upon what the tele graphic commission of Brazil, under Colonel Rondon and his associates, had done during the preceding seven years "We would not have known the ex istence of the headwaters of this river. We could not have crossed the high land wilderness at all if it had not been for the work of that commission. All that we did was to put the cap on the pyramid of which they had laid deep ’and broad tile foundations. “I greatly wish that this body would pay some recognition—would give some recognition—to the really re markable work that has been done by Colonel Rondon and bis associates of the Brazilian telegraphic commission during the last seven years—work t which, from the geographic standpoint, and from the standpoint of the devel opment cf the natural resources of the nation, is as noteworthy as anything that has been accomplished during the same length o£ time anywhere in the world. "They have not had too much recog nition in their own country. A prophet is not without honor, you know, save in his own country. They have had practically no recognition abroad. ■'We started up the Paraguay and then struck across country on mule back to this point and then went down to there. It is almost impossible for me to show you on these standard maps what I did, because the maps are so preposterously wrong. For in stance, there are two rivers close to gether, the Sacare and the Tapajos— that is within ten miles of each other —each of which has a waterfall about the size of the falls of the Yellow stone, in one case about 150 feet high and in the other case about 250 feet high, of which we took numerous pho tographs. There is not a hint of the existence of those waterfalls, nor, as far as 1 can find, of those rivers on that map. "We then journeyed three weeks further on and came down to this point here (indicating on the map). There, on the map, is a mountain. There was really a valley with a river flowing down the middle. It does nothing of the kind. It does not run anywhere near it. Here are those rivers heading up there. They do not head up there. “We went down another river where their sources are supposed to be, and these mountains are almost as irrele vant to the facts as are the rivers themselves. Y'ou can see, as 1 said, better on this map here. Here is the Tapajos. Here is the G. Parana run ning into the Madeira. m * * “On that map and on this you will find a little river in about 5V6 degrees. I think the actual course is about 5.12 or 5.15, but very nearly 5%, a little river there put on there and put down here dotted without any name. I want you to look at this map. This is Bar tholomew’s map of South America. 1 want you to be able to check off for yourselves exactly the statement that I make. “We found that this river, called the Dubitas (river of darkness) arose be tween the fifty-ninth and sixtieth me ridian of longitude west from Green wich, just north of the thirteenth de gree of latitude south. It first flowed west and then south, and then flowed north, originally as a mountainous, timber choked brook, not navigable until in latitude 12 degrees 1 minute south and longitude 60 degrees and 18 minutes west about in each case; may be two or three minutes wrong. • • • "We crossed the telegraph line at a point where it becomes navigable, and it was there that we embarked, and we then ran on down about five de grees. I will put it in here. I do not know whether those in the rear of the hall can see it. but I have put it there now, that river as we have put it on the map. I want to call your attention j to the fact that I am using my terms with scientific precision, and when I say ’put it on the map' I mean what I say. I mean that it is not on any map. and that we have put it on the map. “The different portions of the course that we followed varied widely in dif ficulty. We first of all ran four days surveying of the river very accurately, and therefore going very slowly with out encountering any rapids or other obstacles. "I went down that river, going down there for the first time and of course endeavoring to map it in detail. "It is much easier now for anyone to follow us, and if this geographic so ciety or any other responsible organ ization wishes to send a man to or down that river I will give him letters of introduction and advice which will enable him, with comparatively little difficulty, to go over the entire course of that river and report on all the fea tures in detail which, of course, the first explorers necessarily sketched in outline. “I will give him letters to a rubber man who will unquestionably assist to get the canoes and the rowers that will enable him to ascend as far as the lowest of the uppermost rapids and come back, covering two-thirds of the distance and going up to the tenth degree. “And this river, of about the size of the Elbe or the Rhine, through a region which on the maps issued to day, the best maps, is not shotfn at all, is itself not shown on any map. Anybody can go up there and see for himself what has been done and can go through the work in detail, as 1 cannot go through it, and as we could not when we made our exploration through it. "Now, when we embarked, having gone some 30 days by mule and ox train across this high central plateau of western Brazil, our party consisted of 22 men. We said good-by to Mr. Mueller and his associates here on the 27th of February. "Exactly 60 days afterward, which consisted of canoeing work, we met Lieutenant Perrirez and the little steamboat which he had at that point. On the trip, of our six members, Mr. Cherrie, my son, the doctor, and Lieu tenant Lira kept diaries day to day. Colonel Rondon kept the record in the order of the days. I kept the record in the writing that I had to do. “1 will come later to tell you what part of it had never been traversed by any civilized man before and what part of it had already been known to the rubber gatherers, but absolutely I unknown to any map maker; to these map makers here that 1 have quoted to you—English. German, French, American, or Brazilian—none of them know anything about it at all. “For four days we ran, as I say, rather slowly before encountering any rapids. We then struck our first se rious rapids. After that, which was in about 11 degrees 45 minutes Bouth. we spent 42 days during which we slept every day at the head or foot of a rapids, and during the 42 days we only covered one degree of lati- ■ tude, going to about 10 degrees 45 minutes south; that is, from 11 de grees 45 minutes to 10 degrees 45 min utes, and therefore making not much more than a mile and a half a day in a straight line, the curves of the river adding greatly to the distance actual ly traveled. • • • "We had by that time gone not more than a sixth of the distance that we expected to go and had used up about three-fourths or four-fifths of our food. We had been on half rations pretty much all the time, eked out with parrots and monkeys, which we enjoyed there. But 1 can assure any of my zoological friends that they can leave me with entire safety in the monkey house without my making any pasault on any of the inmates. I have had all the monkey I wish. “Then, during that time, of the sev en canoes. and seven dugouts with which we started we lost five canoes on the rapids. We built three others and lost one of those. One man was drowned in the rapids. There were | several other narrow escapes from drowning, and under the strain, which was great, one of the men went com pletely mad and murdered another 1 and himself fled into the wilderness. “Then we came out of the last suc cession of rapids, having "been gone 46 days. It might have been 42 or 43 days, and either 46 or 47 days, and all of our troubles were over. • • • “We struck a long stretch of smooth water. The river_ was broad and big in that part, and after two days more we struck the uppermost camp or house of any of the rubber men. We were able to get food—sugar cane, manioca. sometimes rice or bananas occasional}* a chicken or a duck, not very often. And In the 11 days, if 1 remember rightly, we got eight eggs, which divided among the six of us would have given each man one egg a week. “Until men have had experience they can hardly realize the insuffer able difference there is going down a stream broken by rapids which are unknown and going down a stream just as difficult which is known. “In the first place you come to the head of the rapids and you have not any idea what is ahead. You have tc land and send people forward to ex plore. "They may have to be gone three or four hours. They come back. They may have only explored one side ol the stream. If they find it very bad they may have to cross over and ex plore for three or four hours on the other side, down, to see If there Is not some channel on that side on which you can get your canoe. Then you i have to come back and report as to j whether you can run the canoes j loaded. "Our canoes were so overladen that we could not often do that It Is a question whether you can run them j down empty and merely portage the i goods, or whether you must portage the goods and let the canoes down by ropes, or whether you will have to do i as we had to do on three or four oc- ; casions—cut roads through the woods lay down logs, and with block and tackle and by the severest kind of bodily labor drag the heavy, clumsy dugouts overland down to the foot of the rapids. “If you are overcautious you will take so long a time that you will ex haust your food supply and be in dan ger of starvation. If you are over risky you may lose the canoes and j what’s In them. Then you face star vation, not In the future, but In the present “The medicines are almost as impor tant as the food. We had to keep the men and ourselves all dosed with qui nine the whole time in order to keep the fever from us. I think everybody got the fever more or less, but If we had not had the quinine we would have been laid out. "We were fortunate enough on our trip down the river not to lose any of our instruments or any of the speci mens or notebooks or anything else that was of consequence to the expe dition. but we had to cut all our per sonal belongings to the bone. • • • "On the upper course of the river there were Indians. They were afraid of us and somewhat hostile. I think their hostility was due only to timid ity. but if you are shot by a man be cause he is afraid of you it Is almost as unpleasant as if he shot you be cause he disliked you. “In the wilderness people portray you as being in danger from croco diles and jaguars and so on. They are not the things you mind. It is the mosquitoes and the poisonous ants It is the ants that eat up your cloth ing. It Is the moribund wasps that are perfectly awful. It is these 60 called borochuda and pium flies, which are like the black fifes of the north ern woods, only worse, and it is the insect pests of that kind that are really serious drawbacks to work in the wilderness. The life lacked a good deal of being undiluted pleasure during the time we spent at that camp. We were about three days, al most four days, in the camp.” Which Is Some Distance. "You aro a relation of the Rich leighs, aren’t you?” “Yes, a distant relation.” “How distant?” “Well, as distant as they can knap nee.” The Time. “A sudden light broke on Benedict, the married man, when—” “Yes, when?" “When his wife threw th* lamp at his head.” Just So. Wombat is bossed by his wife, his mother-in-law, his sister and a maiden aunt. What do you think of that?" "Looks like an interlocking director ate to me.” The Nature of It. “I suppose it is really hard to pick a bad magistrate.” - "Why so?” "Because in the nature of things, a magistrate must be a fine charac ter." Cheeky. Sponger—Have you a spare cigar about you, old chap? Sparks—Certainly! But I thought you’d sworn off smoking? Sponger—Right! but that was only bought cigars. His Opinion. "I don’t see why they call that thing the hesitation dance.” “You don’t?” “No, It looks to me more like Jump ing at conclusions." EXECUTE CAPTIVES REBELS MAKE END OF FEDERAL OFFICERS. PREFER DEATH TO DISLOYALTY Nearly One Hundred Fall Before Vil la's Firing Squads at Tepee and Paredon. Armagos. Coahuila.—Thirty-five wo men camp followers lost their lives with 300 federal soldiers in the battle of Paredon, it was learned, and thirty seven federal officers were executed after the battle. Among those who feli before the firing squad were: Gen eral Munoa, a nephew of ex-President Porfirio Diaz; General Orsono and nine colonels. Reports of these executions at first were denied, but now seem well estab lished. The men shot, it was said, reiterated their loyalty to the Huerta government, and rather than violate their oath of allegiance to it gave their lives. Also twelve members of the federal military band were shot, although this was done by constitu tionalist soldiers without the sanction of their officers. After a stop had been put to the carnage, the remain ing seven members of the band were asked to give a concert, a request which was met promptly. Fraternize with Slayers. Later at Hipolito the seven remain ing musicians were sent to fraternize with the very men who had killed their comrades. This was the only instance in which enlisted men were executed. Government Issues Warning. Washington, D. C.—Evidence of what appears to be a well organized campaign to delude farmers through out the country into buying an al leged cure for hog cholera, under the impression that this has been investi gated and approved by the United States Government, has reached the Department of Agriculture. Articles praising this medicine, Benetol by name, are being sent out widespread to newspapers. These articles are so worded that it appears as if the De partment of Agriculture had received reports from the state of Minnesota showing that the medicine had proved most beneficial. As a matter of fact the one report received by the Depart ment was an official and unsolicited statement sent presumably from the promoters themselves. The Depart ment attaches no importance whatso ever to this statement. It has no rear son to believe in the efficiency of any proprietary cure for hog cholera and does not recommend any. Under cer tain conditions it urges farmers to protect their stock with anti-hog-ehc lera serum but that is all. In connection with this attempt it may be said that the medicine, which is now put forward as good for hogs, was advertised some time ago as a means of killing tuberculosis, typhoid, and cancer germs, according to an ar ticle published in the Journal of the American Medical Association. At that time it was asserted that the Army was interested in it. As a mat ter of fact the Army was nc^ more in terested then than the Department of Agriculture is now. In view of the evidence that the at tempt to create this false impression is persistent and widspread, all hog owners are warned to communicate with the United States authorities be fore accepting as true any statement that the Government recommends any treatment other than the serum al ready mentioned.—U. S. Department of Agriculture. Will Help Husband Win. Alameda, Cal.—Mrs. Joseph R. Knowland, wife of Congressman j Knowland. who is a candidate for th# i T nited States senate, announced that she will stump the state for her ou-s band. She will go with him up and down the state and while the con gressman is addressing general polit ical gatherings. Mrs. Knowland will make campaign speeches to women. -\ . Carranza Complains. Durango, Mexico.—General Carran za sent a message to his representa tive at Washington, complaining of what he inferred was the failure of the A. B. C. mediators to request him to appoint delegates to the peace parley at Niagara Falls. Ont. He ex pressed doubt that the negotiations would be successful without represen tation of the constitutionalists’ tac tion. Saves Nine From Flames. St. Louis, Mo.—Samuel Fitzgerald, a soldier stationed at Jefferson bar racks, saved nine persons from prob able incineration during a tenement fire here. Cargo Through the Canal. New York.—The steamer Colon, which arrived from Cristobal, brought the first freight that came through the Panama canal. The cargo consisted of sugar and was towed ihroueh the canal on barges. It was the first cargo to pass through the canal. She Shoots Blank Cartridge. Epsom.—Ada Rice, supposed to be a militant suffragette, was arrested on Epsom Downs after she had dis charged a pistol loaded with blank cartridges at a policeman. Frivate Bank Goes Under. Chicago.—The fifth private bank in Chicago to fail in two weeks went un der when the Jackson Park bank closed its doors. It had deposits of $65,000. Private banks have been un der fire in the city of Chicago for some time. Switzerand Decides to Come. Berne, Switzerland.—The Swiss fed eral government decided that Switzer land should be represented officially at the Panama-Pacific exposition at £ta»n Francisco. Clothes are expensive —rubbing wears them out quickly—stop nib bing— use RUB-NO MORE CARBO NAP THA SOAP. “Carbo” kills germs. Prevents sickness. “Naptha” cleans instantly. Saves clothes—saves money—saves you. 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But as the eye is not covered by the lid as long as this, a new view arrives to supplement the old view before the old one has van ished. Thus the darkness is not no ticed, although there is no doubt that it exists. This same peculiarity of the eye enables moving pictures to have their being. It also is the reason why a lighted torch whirled rapidly around shows a path instead of a sequence of torches. Also why a rapidly rotating wheel does not show its spokes. If a snapshot be taken of such a whele it ioes show the spokes, however, and proves the above fact of persistence. Or of the wheel be viewed by a light ning flash it shows them. Found No Bottom. When John Findlay, the actor, was revisiting the scenes of his parents' childhood and youth, Kerry county, Ireland, he was shown the famous Devil's Punch Bowl. “That there bowl is so dape. me boy, that nobody iver sounded the bottom of it,” said the old man. "Only one man iver at tempted to pinitrate its depths. 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