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About The Valentine Democrat. (Valentine, Cherry Co., Neb.) 1896-1898 | View Entire Issue (Aug. 4, 1898)
STATE OF NEBRASKA NEWS OF THE WEEK IN A CON DENSED FORM Bloodhounds employed in Burt County to Run Down an Un known Fiend Who Has Been Com mitting Many Depredations Depredations Near Lyons The Neary boys living with a widowed mother upon their farm about three miles west of Lyons have been victims of an unknown fiend for about a year who is bent upon the malicious destruction of property and doing all the damage he can otherwise Farming implements left in the field would be found broken or chopped to pieces At harvest time important parts about the reapers and mowers would be found missing The harness has been taken from the barn time after time and entirely cut to pieces Last Sunday morn ing when the boys found their harness all cut to pieces again poison in the horses feed boxes and in the cattle yard and hog pens it was resolved that something would have to be done Bloodhounds will be used to trace the criminals Turn Hose on Tramps About thirty tramps were hauled into Bancroft by the St Paul Minneapolis Omaha Railroad on accommodation No 6 and sidetracked They remained at the depot until local freight No 16 came in from the south when they boarded it and were ordered by the railroad officials to be taken to Pender But the village authori ties took the matter in hand and turned the hose oh them The train was cleared and a band of as tough looking characters as ever were associated together demanded the mayor to furnish them with a supper and nights lodging The general sympa thy is with the tramps Trouble Over Dog Ordinance c The newly enacted dog ordinance is causing the mayor marshal and many iprivate citizens of Fairfield considerable trouble The marshal is under arrest for trespassing upon private property in his efforts to destroy all unlicensed dogs within the corporate limits of the town Prominent private citizens are under ar rest and on trial for owning and harboring unlicensed dogs The mayor and council are defendants in suits for damages grow ing out of the efforts of the marshal to en force the ordinance Wreck on Missouri Pacific During a heavy windstorm at Stella two box cars left on the switch were blown out onto the main line stopping half a mile east of the station Passenger train No 2 on the Missouri Pacific ran into them at 2 oclock while running at a high rate of speed The engineer Edward Finnu cane and the firman reversed the engine and jumped The engineer struck on a pile of ties fracturing his skull from hich he died in three hours Killed by a Train Anton Pfiefer a Germau aged about -50 years was instantly killed on the B M He was driving to his home about two miles east of Columbus and was caught on the crossing His team escaped but the hay rack on which he was riding was en tirely demolished Almost every bone in Pfiefers body was brokeu and his legs and arms were broken in numerous places Tries the Strychnine Route John Kakrda an aged Bohemian com mitted suicide by swallowing a large quantity of strychnine The deceased pur chased the poison of a West Point druggist under the pretense of killing rats and im mediately swallowed -it Ha had been in ill health and despondent for some time He was quite alone in the world having neither wife nor children Fell from a Train A Bohemian by the name of Klasky was killed at Lincoln the other night while trying to get off a moving freight train Together with two pals he was stealing a ride up from Dewitt and all having been drinking it is supposed that he was too unsteady to use the necessary care in get ting off Death seemed to have been in stantaneous Unknown Boy Killed by the Cars A boy about 10 years old was found by the section men three miles east of Papil jlion the other morning frightfully man gled by the cars The boy could not be identified He answers the description partly of Albert Stein who ran away from his home at Shelby He fell off a train and was ground to pieces by the wheels Roller Mills Sold The South Sioux City roller mills which lor two years past have been in litigation wereold at auction by Sheriff Borowsky - at Dakota City under a foreclosure of tax lien to M A Ayers banker of that place for 600 This property is estimated to have eaten up between 3000 and 10000 Elkhorn Conductor Killed Charles D Johnson of Chadron one of the best known and most popular con ductors on tho Fremont Elkhorh and Missouri Valley Railroad was killed one morninc last week near Stureis S He was walking across his train and felLbe 1 tween the cars his body being cut in two To Aid the Volunteers The ladies auxiliary of the Company M aid Society gae an open air concert and ice cream social at the court house square in Grand Island which was at tended by several thousand people A neat sum was raised for the benefit of the company Kicked by a Horse W B Taylor a carpenter of Clay Cen ter was badly kicked by a horse a day or two ago One of tho horses hoofs struck him on the forehead cutting a long gash into the skull the other hoof striking him on the ribs Fortunately no ribs were broken - Artcsinn Well J W Tippery three miles south of De catur lias an artesian well It is forty five feet deep throws water twelve feet above the surface and has a flow of thirty gallons per minute New School House for Gretna At the special school meeting in Gretna to vote funds for a new school house the bonds carried by a vote of 56 to 5 The structure will be built of brick The building a four room structure will be ready for occupancy b3r December 1 Congressman Stark Renominated Congressman W L Stark was renom inated at York by the Populist convention of the Fourth district The nomination met with little opposition no other can didates appearing on the political horizon to any degree of prominence Children Fatally Burned Two children of Mr and Mrs Ehme Wallman who live ten miles northeast of Beatrice were burned to death a few days since and two more were burned in a hor rible manner After dinner the parents went to a neighbors to spend the after noon leaving five children at home alone About 3 oclock they saw from where they were that there was a fire on their place and hurriedly started home only to find on reaching there that their home was then almost entirely destroyed by fire with the result as stated aboue A neighbor named Leners says he thinks the children in their excitement ran through that part of the house which was in flames instead of tak ing a safe exit on the other side of the house Jail Breaking Another prisoner has made his escape from the Hall County jail at Grand Island In the jail there is a cage where all pris oners are kept during the night During the day they are let out in the corridors the cage being small and it being severe on the prisoners to keep them locked withiu the same In the evening while corralling the prisoners the deputy sheriff evidently overlooked one of the men and during the night he succeeded in sawing one of the bars across the open window in two and making his escape The man was Charles Hayden who had been bound over to the district couiton the charge ol forgery Fatally Shot While shooting at a mark in Grand Island and while his companion Charles Renecke was not looking William Bal com suddenly turned his weapon to his own head fired the 82 caliber ball into his brain and died ten minutes later Bal com recently married a fast woman and she deserted him He traced her and had her arrested at Cairo aud there attempted to shoot her There is no doubt on the part of any of his family that it was a case of suicide Curtails Their Powers In a decision rendered at Lincoln Dis trict Judge Cornish deprives the state board of transportation of much of the power conferred upon it by the last legis lature Attorney General Smythe and the members of the board acting under the law giving them jurisdiction over tele phone and express companies proceeded to enforce reductions in rates in violation of a restraining order Judge Cornish purged them of contempt but assessed costs against them and issued strict orders to make no further efforts in this direction Prostrated by the Heat While out on the Platte bottom near Plattsmouth Mr Petty found a man lying out in the sun who appeared to have been lying there for three or four days Ho Was unconscious and seemed near deaths door The man is 85 or 40 years of age fairlj well dressed but nothing is known about him He was probably prostrated by tho heat It is possible that the unfortunate man may be Caney Hanks the missing Otoe County fanner Held Up by Tramps George Hawkins of Dii Bois was held up by two tramps who approached him on the road and ordered him to throw up his hands Hawkins refused to obey the com mand of the outlaws whereupon they overpowered him and abstracted from his pocket between 20 and 25 but declined to carry away the gold watch he possessed Mr Hawkins was considerably bruised Liquor Dealer in Trouble A state complaint was filed against Eg gert Oft of Bennington charging him with selling a half gallon jug of whisky to a small boy The jug of whisky was seized by the constable and will be used as evi dence in tho case This is the second time within the last two weeks that Oft has been arrested charged with selling liquo unlawfully - u AttemptedSuicide A young man who gave his name as Ed Vansheets aged 19 years and the son of a farmer living near Pacific Junction Iowa attempted suicide at Nebraska City by gashing his throat with a pocket knife He stated that despondency over the loss of 10 was the cause Electric Lights for Hastings The city of Hastings will once more illuminate its streets with electric light The city council has directed the clerk to advertise for bids for street lighting 3 C00 having been appropriated from this years levy for that purpose Accidental Shooting Charles Cassellman living five miles west of Ainsworth was accldentiy wounded by a son who was hunting chickens the shot taking effect in the face and side Fusion in Lancaster The three wings of the fusion parly ol Lancaster County met in Lincoln agreed upon a county ticket and selected dele gates to the state and congressional con ventions Nebraska Short Notes Five thousand five hundred sheep from California have been recently unloaded at Kimball Northrup people have formed a company for the erection of a large double brick building- Wilker Van Boauug a well-to-do farmer residing near Glanville died Mon day morning from injuries received in a runaway last week Dr J K Whlteman for some years one of the leading practitioners of medicine if Harvard was found dead in his office one afternoon recently B H Goodell lost about eighty acres ol wheat near Kearney a few days ago by fire The fire started by an engine on a passing Union Pacific freight train Gotlieb Hunt living eight miles north o Utica got his right hand caught by the needle of a binder and is now laid up with one less finger and a very sore wouud - The proprietors of the Kerr Operz House at Hastings have awarded the con tract to Will L Yctter for re decorating the interior and making other valuablt improvements about the house Clyde Davis an 18-year-old boy who with his brother Frank Davis was en gaged in carrying the mail in Beatrice was drowned in the Bine River two mile north of the city while in swimming Luther Overstreet is a York boy who if an officer on board the battleship Oregon having charge of one of its celebrated guu crews In a letter to his parredts datad July 4 on board the ship returning tc Santiago Overstreet tells of the the greal sea fight from a fighters point of view W P Freeman of Auburn was severed injured by being struck across the fact and shoulders with a sandbag or fiom similar instrument in the hands of burg 1 jars lie was uivhjiciicu uuuut a a ui uj someone in tho room and called out to find fc who it was He was answered by blows which left him insensible T3 tW r g HAWAII VEJJY HAPPY I HAVOC DONE BY KAIL OVERJOYED AT THE NEtfsoF ANNtXATION SL Coptics Arrival Greeted with Salulea and Muaic People Stop Busineas Bands Play Patriotic American Air and a Procession Is lormed Honolulu Jubilant Hawaii is in the Union and feels it Tho roar of cannon the cheers of enthusiasm the unfurling of the Stars and Stripes from every house top and vantage point which greeted the news the Coptic brought to Honolulu has been repeated to the other islands of the group as fast as the message of annexation reached them And the echo of their enthusiasm came back to Honolulu to redouble and re enforce the swelling Hood of exultation and demonstrative satisfaction Never was vessel more truly a gospel ship bringing good news to those who heard it gladly than the Coptic when she came in last Wednesday afternoon July 13 with flags floating from every mast and streamers and pennants from every shroud and stay While she was still far out at sea the message she bore was read in her signal pennants and to every vil lage and plantation and house on the isl and of Oahu tho news was sent by tele phone and messenger and by that subtle mc7e of swift communication which ev ery primitive people has and which tho native Hawaiians have not forgotten With the spread of the news there be gan a display of American flags from housetops and doorways and from tall co coanut palms and hilltops and mountain peaks as though the spirit of freedom had just turned loose upon a whole peo ple until to an aeronaut the whole isl and would have looked like a garden of red and blue flowers against the back ground of tropical green The whole population was awake alert each to assure himself that the news so long hoped for so often deferred had come at last to grasp its full meaning and to exchange with his neighbors mu tual congratulations Business ceased Buyers deserted the stores and merchants their counting rooms to join in the streets and at the wharf their fellow citizens in celebrating their great event Factories closed Work everywhere came to a standstill We are Americans was the only theme upon which men would talk The steamship Coptic arrived from San Francisco on the evening of the 13th inst with the important news that the United States Senate had ratified the Newlands resolution making Hawaii a part of the United States Long before the vessel had reached the harbor it was known that the steamer brought annexa tion news the information being signalled to the Mohican After the Coptic was docked the official message of Minister Hatch announcing annexation was read from the balcony of the Government building and was greeted with intense enthusiasm The Govern ment band played American national airs and the people went wild Then there was an informal procession and cheer ing thousands marched through the streets It- was far in the night before the patriotic jubilee ended EFFECT OF WAR ON HARVEST Help Scarce in Dakota Because the Boys Joined the Arniy The farmers of the Northwest are con fronted by a hard proposition as one ol the results of the war With so small a percentage of soldiers from the West it would seem that their absence could make no difference in the affairs ofcthe Statosr But the situation is serious for the farm er who is ready to harvest his grain Heretofore the help has not been large but with the assistance of tramps during the harvesting season the farmers have been nble to care for their crops Now not only are their own sons away in the army but there are no tramps in the Northwest I have never known anything like it said one of the largest farmers in South Dakota I went into a town near my farm last week to get harvest hands I could easily have secured 200 men there last year but now I could not get one Tlietown has a population of 500 but it sent 210 men to fight against Spain If there are any idle men in the Bast looking for plenty of work they should come out hero We must have help or some of ua will lose our crops KLONDIKERS IN DIRE STRAITS Thousands Kept on Boats at St Mi chaels Unable to Land The steamer Humboldt which arrived in Seattle from St Michaels brings the news that many river boatB and thou sands of Klondikers are in dire straits at St Michaels on account of lack of dock ing facilities Many river boats and oth er vessels towed to Alaskan ports have been unable to land their passengers some of them having been in port many weeks The result is that provisions are very low on the boats Thousands who have landed have been unable to get up the river owing- to Iowness of the water in the Yukon and provisions in the town are getting short Many of the ves sels and passengers would return south at once if they had food sufficient to make the voyage to Seattle or San Francisco CANNOT EXPEND THE MONEY Cincinnati City Restrained from Ex pending 10000 on G A H Judge R B Smith of the Ohio Su preme Court in the suit of A M Stem a taxpayer to restrain the city of Cincin nati from expending 10000 for the en tertainment of the Grand Army of the Republic during the encampment next September found that the objections to the appropriation which had already been passed by the board of city affairs were valid and granted an injunction The court ruled that the purpose of the ex penditure is beyond the scope of the pow r of a municipal corporation S- Hoolcy Wrote His Own Pans Ernest T Hooley the London specula tornnd company promoter against whom a receiving order was issued upon his own petition several weeks ago was examined in the bankruptcy court Wednesday Mr Hooley said that he had paid Earl Del awarr 25000 to act as chairman of the Dunlop Tire Company and had paid the board of directors of the company alto gether 50000 Lord Albemarle he said received 12500 and two solicitors re J ceived 20000 each in addition to their fees rw ir Chicago Visited bj One of thellWorst t Storms in Its History One of the most severe hailstorms ever experienced by Chicago came upon the city early Thursday evening The sweep of the storm was through the center of the city from west to east Tens of thou sands of windows were broken Horses made frantic by huge hailstones striking them ran away and pedestrians on trceir way home from work fled terror strtken to the nearest place of shelter day had been hot and sultry In the west a formation of clouds gave promise of a shower but no severe storm was antici pated even by the weather man At 43 oclock the sky was clear except in the southwest where there were a few scat tering clouds In the short space of thir teen minutes the storm came up and broke upon the city At G15 oclock hail com menced to fall The hailstones averaged an inch in diameter and many were picked up that were as large as lemons During the height of the storm the wind blew at the rate of forty eight miles an hour In the business district many of the sky scrapers suffered Reports from various points show that storms did much damage elsewhere on the same day Mrs Wesley Thornton and infant child were killed in a cyclone near Hawthorne Iowa Three farm houses were demolished W R Henry was killed by lightning The Swedish Lu theran Church at Wallin was struck by lightning and burned Serious damage to crops was done by the wind and many horses and cattle were killed At Lyons Iowa the factory of the Warner Lock Company was damaged to the extent of 10000 A cyclone passed through the Indian reserve five miles north of Ma rion Ind doing a great deal of damage to timber and crops Reports from vari ous points throughout the Michigan fruit belt show that ripe peaches and black berries suffered severely from the heavy rain and hail It is feared that the loss will run into thousands of dollars In many cases peach trees were stripped of their limbs while thousands of cases of brries were strewn upon the ground 0 MUST PAY WAR TAX Expre83 Companies Are Defeated in a Test Suit A decision of great importance to ship pers was rendered in Chicago by Judge Tuley in the test suit brought by the Illi nois Manufacturers Association to deter mine whether the war tax imposed upon bills of lading must be paid by the ship per or by the express company Judge Tuleys ruling is to the effect that the ex press companies must bear the burden of the tax and that they are required by law to issue to the shipper a stamped bill of lading without extra charge While admitting the right of common carriers to fix prices for the transportation of mer chandise the decision declares that such companies have no right to arbitrarily make a horizontal increase in rates with the plain intent to force the public to pay a tax which the law making power aimed to place on them The suit in question was brought against the United States Express Company The case will be car ried to the United States Supreme Court CABLE TO THE PHILIPPINES Contract Is Made and Line Will Soon Be Working The contract for a cable between the United States Hawaii the Ladrones and the Philippines has been let and commtf nication will be established within a few months Most of the surveys have been made except some soundings between Hawaii and the Ladrones It is under stood tlmt the pontrnot was made with the Pacific Cable Company after the Gov ernment had sounded enough members of Congress to make sure of the annexation of Hawaii and the passage of the Pacific cable bill On July 2 the executive coun cil of the Hawaiian Government signed a contract granting the right of the com pany to lay a cable between the United States Japan China and the Pacific islands The contract is for a period of twenty years Cables to the United States and the Philippines will be first laid OPPOSES WOOD IN WARSHIPS Secretary Lone Gives Directions to Constructors of New Vessels The lesson taught by the engagement between the United States and Spanish armor clads off Santiago on July 3 that the use of inflammable material on war ships is one of the greatest dangers In modern marine warfare has not been lost sight of in the Navy Department and Secretary Long has directed the board of construction to give consideration to the matter in arranging the details of the three battleships and four coast defense monitors authorized at the last session of Congress The board is discussing the advisability of using fireproof wood in these ships and a report will shortly be made to Secretary Long The business man is now stamping and kicking The Texas is nobly living down her old reputation The latest definition of a coming out party is Cervora Uncle Sams demand for revenue stamps caused a stampede Spain is rapidly realizing how it feels to be a reconcentrado herself Meanwhile do not forget that the ha exposition goes marching on a Camaras naval motto evidently is small profits and quick returns If there are any blowholes in American armor plate Spain cant prove it JlvS Vnw that Rnntincrn tins fallen isrirf it v it iio time ior ruanco to iukc u muiuie The temptation of a free vacation trin to Europe proved too much for Toral Still Camara cant claim that he was given a coaled reception at Port Said Spanish honormay hot yet be preserved but it is assuredly in a pickle just now Sagasta seems to have studied states manship under the man who blew out the gas Peace is in the air remarks a Phila delphia paper It is probably a piece of Snain V - - roAfjfrz - 3 VAR HISTORY OF A WEEK Friday Blanco expressed bitter opposition to peace negotiatiqns Maj GenCJffec in thc ficJd U0SPltaI at SantiagflihWcrJng from dysentery The first detachment of troops from Chickaniifagn left for Newport News to embark for Porto Rico Aguinaldo has proclaimed dictatorship over the Philippiuesand refuses to subor dinate himself to American authority De barkation of American troops rapidly con tinues near Manila Reported that 5000 Spaniards included in Torals capitulation while marching to Santiago torrcnuer to Shatter were ambushed byOOO Cubans under Garcia but puttthe latterto rout after hot fight ing rif th Lieut Hobsou hero of the Merrima episode arrived in New York on the cruiser St Paul and proceeded to Wash ington He was sent to confer with the Government regarding raising Cerverad Bhips Saturday Five transports tailed fi r Porto Kico from Tampa yrf Gen Brooke and hisnstaff left Chicka mauga for NewportNews Details of thCiiaval victory at Nipo show it to have been one 3f the most spirited sea battles of tho war Advices from Santiago say the letter al leged to have been written Ly Jen Gar cia to Gen Shafter was writtou by a newspaper man probably without the knowledge or consent 6fGen Garcia Gen Shafter reports rimt a colonel of Spanish engineers from Guantauamoaf rived at Santiago to learn of i the surrtfn der and declared that the garrison at Guantanamo will gladly accept the terms of surrender Sunday Admiral Sampsons report on the naval battle at Santiago which ended in th destruction of CerveraV fleet has been re ceived in Washington but not made pub lic - The Spanish troops in Havana togetlir with the residents havestrongly fortified the city say Spanishreportsf and are eager for an opportunity to measure arms with the American forces Lieut Hobsons plans for raising the sunken Cristobal Colon thc Spanish war ship have been approved by the Navy Department nud arrangements have been made to begin the work Monday Seven thousand Spanish troops at Guan tanamo laid down their Gen Miles has begun to land his expe dition near Ponce Porto Rico Gen Shafter reports 500 new cases of fever among our troops at Santiago Gen Brooke has arrived at- Newport News preparatory to sailing for Porto Rico Cubans at Cienfuegos sent to Admiral Sampson a pitiful appeal that he take the city as they are starving Tuesday Details received of the landing of Gen Miles expedition at Guanica Porto Rico and the hoisting of tho Stars and Stripes Gen Shafter sternly rebuked Senor Ros the civil1 governor of Santiago for unauthorised dismissal of Spanish ofli cialtf Reports of Admiral Sampson and Com modore Schley on the destruction of Cer veras fleet at Santiago made public by the Navy Department Spain suedfor peace through M Cam bon the French ambassador in Washing ton who formally asked President Mc Kiuley in behalf of Spain if he would con sent to negotiations to end the war Gen Shafter while regretting any clash with the Cubans said their claims to Santiago were untenable He sent a letter to Gen Garcia explaining the po sition of responsibility which the United States occupies before the world n W ednesday Announced on authority that no armistice-will be granted Spain Arrival off Porto Rico of the transports Mobile Grand DuchesVaiid No 30 with re enforcements for Gen Miles Spanish adviees to Madrid alleged the repulse of th advance of Gen Miles upon Yauco after fighting lasting all night Spanish troops in Porto Rico reported to be concentrating in San Juan the cap ital for defenselagainst Gen Miles troops- tu ii Gen Shafterrpleasedthe native Cubans by permitting them to occupy and rule oyer live town of Songo near Santiago snrrehuercd by the Spanish Tnnraday Gen Brookes expditionsailed Jf froin Newport News for Porter Bfco Several American rxansportsprobabiyj those from Charleston cruising off Porfo Rico ln iTr - Secretary Alger denounced that as soon as fever conditionjnjfemitShafters army will be removed to ntraefcofand adjoin ing Point LongIslandr Gen Shafter now reports 4122- of hitmen sick 3193 with fever of various types but the low death rate shows the sickness to be of mild form u uwix TcleaphicBrefifiea i J v- Two thirds of the male populatibnfii1 the world use tobacco South Dakotas wheat yieldhsaOO per cent greater than last ycnr ti - 5 - Flax is being successfully grown ViVtnrin in pouthernTxfasyi t A Northern Pacific officials report an mous wheat crop along theirdine Six members of a family by the name of VonZostrow of SherburneVyNJY have died of trichinosis from eatingjiaw pork Considerable damagejjfas bepn done to mountain toyns jflg Jstlfipus of Te hauntepec by a seriesofearpiquake shocks In an altercation at aCnr Mo between James Long a drayman and Whltsett M Harris LdngstruqkHarria over the head with a draystanaardj frac turing his skull -- During the recent German elVctfionsiiof dne vote was cast in tietown bf PostrofffJ n TKlann rf R ftOrt trihnhitjfritflr5TA gfrnllfttet booth was erected huTTJaleJnonfi of the citizens appeared to xote eyenlhe elec tion officers refrainedfrqni easting their ballots - u W A Thomas of Sevierville Tenn while driving in a heavy wagon along a country road became fcfigaged in an alter cation with JnmesMitenelIanegt6 who struck him with brasaTcnricklejf knocking him under the wagon the -wheels-of-which passed over his body killing him Instantly Mitchell wasarrsted SIBERIANS IN CHINA Wild Race of thc Siyots Fled Before Russian Iuvasion One bt 14ie most curious of many cu rious people who make up the great nation of China Is the Siyots They live in the far interior north of the desert of Gobi in a region of which little is known The best maps of the country close to the boundary line be tween China and Siberia near the headwaters of the Yenisei are inac curate and are of little value to the traveler The Siyots are Chinese only by adop tion When the Russians invaded Si beria 300 years ago the Siyots refused to bend the knee They retreated southward and forced their way Into the Chinese empire They dispossessed a quiet and peaceful people in order to make homes for themselves The Siyots are a nomadic people They live in portable tents built of lat tice work with a fet covered conical top Inside the tent is an arrangement of boxes which serve as seats and beds They also hold the family stores Near the Siyots live the Turbets The lat ter have no boxes inside their tents and the Siyots consequently have a su preme contempt for them The Siyots are deeply religious and evidences of their religion may bo found all over the country At every dangerous ford or difficult mountain pass are piles of stone or sticks adorn ed with bits of rag or with wisps of horse hair Every man who crosses the stream or mountain adds a trifle te the collection as an offering to the deity supposed to look after travelers Smallpox is quite common among the Siyots Their treatment of the disease is primitive A medicine man is call ed to see the patient and effort is made to drive away the devil who is thought to be the cause of the trouble The medicine man enters the apartment of the patient dressed in a long red robe adorned with imitation snake and brass ornaments He beats a tam tam and yells all night working him self into such a frenzy that he falls to the ground biting his lips and cover ing his face with blood Some of the Siyots are Buddhists and are under the control of red robed lamas The Lama sometimes has a vis ion in which he clams to be informed that a certain Siyot is to die The doomed man raises a bribe and tenders It to the Lama who interferes and a respite is secured for a time Then the process is repeated New York World Educating Muscles And now comes a Russian professor with a book of his own making in which it is shown that muscular exer cise does not develop muscular strength where there was none before In short Professor Alexis Horvath completely upsets the theory that the absolute strength of muscles may be largely increased by exercise taken for that purpose says the Washington Post He contends that muscles are a gift of nature and that no amount of ex ercise can convert a congenital weak ling into an athlete and a strong man may preserve considerable strength for many a long year even in the face of absolute physical exertion The principal difference between a man who exercises his muscles and one who does not lies in the greater endurance of the former A regular course of gymnastics does during the first weeks increase the muscle power by a little but the improvement soon ceas es and the size of the muscles changes very little The beneficial effects of gymnastics and of work shows itself principally in the greater staying power of the mus cles The best means Horvath thinks for perfecting the muscles and giving them the power to resist fatigue are oft repeated rhythmical contractions He gives as a corroborative example of this theory the human hoart which although it goes through these con tractions consecutively during a whole lifetime never tires or ceases its func tions for a minute Hottest Spot on Earth One of the hottest regions of -the earth is along the Persian Gulf where little -or no rain falls At Bahrin the arid shore has no fresh water yet a comparatively numerous population con trives to live there thanks to copiou3 springs which burst forth from the bot tom of thesea The fresh water is got -by diving The diver sitting In his boat winds a great goat skin bag round his left arm the hand grasping its mouth then he takes in his right hand a heavy stone to which is attached a strong line and thus equipped he plunges in and quickly reaches the bot tom Instantly opening the bag over the strong jet of fresh water he springs up the ascending current at the same time closing the bag and is helped aboard The stone is hauled up and the diver taking breath plunges In again The source of these submarine springs is thought to be in the green hills of Osman 500 miles distant Sat urday Evening Post Woman Steals Meerschaums The French have produced the most remarkable kleptomaniac on record This is an old woman named Bide whose passion for smoking has im pelled her to pilfer pipes from Parisian shops with suchjndusrry that no fewer than 2600 were found In her lodgings All were meerschaums and thirty nine were well colored Former Sea Port Now Fur Inland In the eleventh century Sandwich was the most famous Englsh seaport It is now however two miles inlan J owing to the sea receding When a man proposes to a woman in fun and is accepted for a joke the foun dation for real trouble has been laid Other people dont take as much jn terest in your Hop -- T A r K -v-1