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
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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
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* 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
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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.
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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
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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
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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"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.
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“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.
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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.
Carbo Disinfects
RUB-NO-MORE
Carbo Naptha Soap
RUB-NO-MORE
CARBO NAPTHA
SOAP should also
be used to wash
the finest fabric. It
purifies the linens.
Makes it sweet and
sanitary, ltdoesnot
need hot water.
Naptha Cleans
RUB-NO-MORE
Washing Powder
rive Cents—All Grocers
The Rub-No-More Co., Ft.Wayne. Ind.
NOT AN ABSOLUTE BLANK
Eye Retains Impression of Last-Seen
Spectacle During the Duration
of a Wink.
When a person winks his eyes he
momentarily covers the entire eye
balls, and everything therefore should
turn absolutely bjack and be in total
darkness for the instant. As a matter
of fact, he certainly is in total dark
ness, but he is unconscious of the
same. The reason he is unconscious
is that the eye is incapable of remov
ing a certain view from itself unt 1 an
eighth of a second has elapsed. Sc the
view seen just before the ball goes in
to eclipse continues to be seen for an
eighth of a second. 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. He
took off his clothes at the idge, and
then doived down into the Devil's
Punch Bowl. He never found the bot
tom. The next day we received a tele
gram from Canada which said, 'Ship
over me clothes.’ ”
The World’s Library.
It is computed that the total num
ber of printed books in the world is
no less than 11,638,810, and that about
8,714,000 of these have been published
subsequently to the year 1800. From
1500 to 1535 the number of books pro
duced annually averaged only 1,250
It was not until 1700 that the annual
average passed 10,000, and it was not
until 1887 that it reached 100,000.
From 1900 to 1908, however, the an
nual output averaged 174,375—exactly
140 times the average output between
1500 and 1535.
Easily Suited.
"Is that Ella's husband?”
“Yes.”
“He must be easily suited."
’Easily suited! Say. that fellow
would take a round trip in a street car
Just for the ride!”—Cleveland Plain
Dealer.
Worked Poorly.
“We thought this year we’d rather
move than clean house.”
“Great scheme!”
Unfortunately the same idea had oc
curred to the people who vacated tbe
house we moved into.” '
Toastie
Flavour
A Winner
Every day many are finding
out that
Post
Toasties
are different from other “ready
to eat” foods. It’s in the
making.
Toasties are carefully
cooked bits of choicest Indian
corn toasted to an appetizing,
golden-brown crispness.
Care and time in toasting
and the delicate flavoring
make this crisp corn-food de
lightful.
Post Toasties—ready to eat
direct from the sealed package,
•with cream and sugar to taste.
—sold by Grocers.
