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1450 French defeated the English at
Formigni.
1512 Gaston de Foix killed at the bat
tle of Ravenna.
V , 1006 King James I. issued two land
'l. patents for "The First and Second
Colonies" in North America.
1044 The parliamentary forces victori
ous , at the battle of Selby.
1C70 Staten Island bought for the
Duke of York.
1709 First number of The Tattler ap
peared.
1733 Treaty of Utrecht , terminating the
wars of Queen Anne.
1741 Prussians defeated the Austrians
at the battle of Molwitz.
1.747 Simon Fraser ( Lord Lovat ) exe
cuted for his part in the rebellion of
1745.
7GS One-quarter of the city of Mon
treal destroyed by fire.
1782 Admiral Rodney defeated De
drasse and tbe French fleet in the
West Indies..Naval battle between
Hyder AH and Gen. Monk.
1805 Alliance of St. Petersburg Bey
of Algiers declared war against
Spain Aaron Burr arrived at
1 Blennerhassett's Island , in the Ohio
river.
/S13 Mobile captured from the Spanish ,
IS14 French defeated by Wellington at
battle of Toulouse British army
' .entered Toulouse , France.
i&18 King Christian IX. of Denmark
. * " born. Died Jan. 29 , 1906.
859 Omnibus first used as a public
conveyance in New York Presi
dent Bustamente of Mexico forbade
further immigration from the United
States.
831 Russians defeated in battle near
Siedloe , in Poland.
1841 Halifax , N. S. , incorporated as a
city.
1847 Present Houses of Parliament in
London first used by the Peers.
1854 France and England signed a
treaty for the defense of the Ottoman
empire The town of San Salva
dor destroyed by an earthquake.
805 Mobile , Ala. , captured by the fed
erals Gen. Lee surrendered to
Gen. Grant at Appomattox Court
house , Virginia Raleigh , N. C. ,
surrendered to the federal army. . . .
Montgomery , Ala. , surrendered to the
federals.
SGS Magdala stormed by the British
under Sir Robert Napier.
1874 Murat Halstead arrested in Cin
cinnati for publishing a lottery ad
vertisement in his newspaper.
18t5 paui Boynton made unsuccessful
attempt to swim the English chan
nel Martial law declared in the
Pennsylvania mining region.
2SS4 Gen. Gordon close pressed by the
Arabs near Khartoum.
1891 First locomotive passed through
the St. Glair tunnel Beginning of
the second century of patents in the
United States celebrated in Wash
ington.
jS92 [ Six thousand houses destroyed by
fire in Tokio , Japan. . .United States
government paid $25,000 indemnity
to the families of the Italians lynch
ed at New Orleans.
2S93 Complete Syrian text of tbe four
gospels of the New Testament dis
covered in the Mount Sinai convent
American protectorate in Tawaii
ended Japan seized the Pellew
islands in the North Pacific.
3894 President Cleveland issued the
Bering sea proclamation.
3395 American line steamship St Paul
launched at Philadelphia.
- < i897 Greater New York charter passed
by New York State Senate Five
lives lost and $2,000,000 in property
destroyed by fire in Knoxville , -Tenn.
3.900 Charles H. Allen appointed Gov
ernor of Porto Rico.
-jflOl Civil jurisdiction in the Trans
vaal inaugurated.
3902 Convention signed at Pekin be
tween China and Russia , the latter
agreeing to'evacuate Manchuria.
- 903 Moro fort > at Bacalod , Philippines ,
captured by American soldiers.
-J904 German troops in Southwest Af
rica defeated 3,000 Hereros An
drew Carnegie established his $5-
000,000 "hero fund" Russian bat
tleship Petropavlovski sunk by mina
'near Port Arthur. . . .Anglo-French
Colonial treaty signed in London.
3.905 American Ambassador Joseph H ,
Choate elected a Bencher of the Mid
dle Temple , London.
; 1906 Greene and Gaynor found guilrj
at Savannah , Ga.
Tar the Sporting World.
The Brooklyns did so well in the exhi
bition games in the South that their ad
mirers look to see them make a fine stari
-in the pennant race.
Emanuel Lasker won the chess matcl
-for the championship o ? the world in
[ New York Monday , when he defeated
Frank J. Marshall for the eighth time.
Maguire , the former national amatew
champion oarsman of several years ago ,
.when Whitehead , Edward Hanlan anij
* Fen Eyck were contenders , has decided
-'to enter the game again.
HEIB TO PEESIA"S THB01TB.
LITTLE PHINCE AHMED.
At cute a little boy as ever you saw
Is the heir to the throne of Persia. Lit
tle Sultan Ahmed Mirza , who has been
chosen as crown prince , is only 9. He
is the second sou of the new shah. In
Persia the first born does not neces
sarily succeed to the throne , so it Is
necessary to designate one of the
princes for the succession.
Prince Ahmed's lot is a happier one
than that of hundreds of thousands of
other children in Persia. The national
reforms recently instituted are bringing
with them a great burden of taxation ,
and many poor people have had to sell
their children in order to meet their
taxes.
COLORADO LEADS IN DEER.
They Outnumber the Cattle , Owing
to Ri IiI Game L-nvr.
Colorado has more'wild deer now
than any other State in the Union.
Therp are as inauy wild deer in this
'
State as cattle. The laws protecting
them from the reckless and greedy slay
ers have made a great increase in their
number and hunters who have visited
their haunts this season make the most
enthusiastic reports.
W. S. Kincaid , general superintend
ent of the fish hatcheries , killed one of
the biggest bucks ever brought to Den
ver. The animal weighed 275 pounds.
There are eight points on one of its
horns and seven points on the other.
C. L. McFndden , the taxidermist who
mounted the head , said it was the
largest he ever saw.
H. H. Zeitz , who just arrived from a
hunting trip , said he saw over 200
bucks in the mountains about seventy-
five miles northeast of Newcastle. He
went past the Sleepy Cat mountains. In
Rio Blanco , Routt and Garfield coun
ties the hunters say they never saw so
many deer before. In 1S99 , when the
body of the game law went into effect ,
the deer were scarce because they had
not been protected. Under the first law
the open season lasted nearly three
months and this was not protection
enough. But in 1903 an amendment
was made shortening the open season
to sixteen days , as it stands to-day. A
hunter Is allowed to kill only one deer
and that must be a buck with horns
and at least one year old.
There is no open season at all on elk
and they are increasing rapidly in num.
bers too. Denver Times.
Weasel a. Small Horror.
The weasel is one small horror. As
tonishingly strong , apparently fearless
and as persevering as an ant , when
once he has settled to the track of a
rabbit , that particular bunny is indeed
in grave peril , says Edwyn Sandys in
Outing. The rabbit seems to know , too ,
and the knowledge to half paralyze
him. for he seldom attempts the one
saving chance a straightaway , long-
. sustained run at top-speed. And
the end of the patient , if-we do-
but-wait-the-hour sort of pursuit !
'Tis indeed bloody murder. The fiend
in angel garb finally toils within dead
ly distance. There is a snakelike
stroke , most likely aimed at the big
vein near the butt of the rabbit's ear.
Once there , the brute sticks leechlikc to
the blood-sucking , while the trembling ,
wailing rabbit totters aimlessly about
till its drained body falls limply to pay
its tax to mother earth.
to 9200OOOOOO.
Senora Creel , wife of the Mexican
ambassador to the United States , is
the richest woman of the diplomatic set
in Washington. . She is the daughter
and heiress of General Terrazza of
Chihuahua , whose wealth is estimated
at $200,000.000.
Thre is mighty little fighting in the
world compared with the Big Talk
about it
A woman is apt to frown whim her
husbaivi "smiles" too often.
GRAFT IN 'FRISCO.
Municipal Rottcnne H of California
City Forms Black Pacre.
Not since the famous trial of Boss
Tweed and his ring of boodlers In New
York , In the early seventies , has there
been such a remarkable prosecution of
political boodlers as in San Francisco
now , according to reports from tbe
Golden Gate City.
Those who take-an extreme religious
view of mundane conditions are sayIng -
Ing that San Francisco was destroj'ed
because the Almighty could not long
suffer its sinful state. America is not
unfamiliar with municipal rottenness ,
but , according to a San Francisco cor-
ABRAIIAM REUF.
respondent , there is no other page in
the history of boodle so black as that
which Prosecuting Attorney Heney has
unfolded. Graft in tbe Golden Gate
City 'has ' been wholesale , limited by ,
nothing ; it has included anything
and everything out of which a dollar
lar could be squeezed. Tbe grafters
overlooked nothing , spared nothing , ap
parently feared nothing. From street
vendor to millionaire , from dive-
keeper to corporation official , from the
brothel to the brownstone front there
lay tbe course of graft. Nothing was
too little to be accepted as tribute. !
When Heiiey started on the trail of
corruption tbe first men to be indicted
were Schmitz and Reuf. Next came
Chief of Police Dinan , and others who
DEATH TRAIL GROWS.
Mexican Earthquake Known to Have
Affected "Wide Territory.
Late news from the .area of destruction ,
in the recent Mexican earthquake shows
that the devastation wrought was greater
than at first supposed. Besides the de-1
struction of the cities of Chilpancingo
and Chilapa it is now reported that the
city of Tixtla , between the two cities
above named and containing about the
same population as Chilpancingo , was
also leveled to the' ground , and messen
gers from the coast who have reached
Chilpancingo say that the towns of Ayut-
la and Ometepec have been wiped off the
map. Aytitla is one of the most historic
towns in the republic ;
Ometepec is farther south , near the
boundary line of the States of Fuerrero
and Oaxaca. It.is a town of about 4,000
inhabitants and it is feared that the loss
of life here may be heavier than at
Ayutla. Tlapa , a town eighty miles west
of Chilpancingo and near the border line
of the State of Oaxaca , is also reported
to have been wiped out. The report .from
Chilpancingo says that the whole of the
west con $ ? from Acapulco south to Salina
Cruz , the Pacific terminal of the Tehuan-
tepec National railway , Mexico's new
transcontinental road , which was opened
with elaborate ceremonies last January
by President Diaz , has been badly dam-
a\ed.
It is reported that Acapulco is partly
submerged from the great waves which
dashed over the breakwaters. Although
no breath of wind was stirring on thfe
night of the first shock , when the earth
began to tremble , the sea was lashed into
a fury and as the shocks continued the
harbor took on the appearance of a ty
phoon-swept ocean.
Devastation wrought by the earth
quakes is much greater than at first re
ported. Many more than 500 are believ
ed to be dead. Reports summarize the
damage as follows :
City. Population. Damage. Lives lost.
Chilpancingo. . . 8,000 In ruius. . 38
Chilapa 4,000 In ruins. . 14
Tixtla 7,000 Destroyed. 12
Ayutla Small Destroyed. Unknown
Ometepec 4,000 Destroyed. Unknown
Tlapa fj.OOO Destroyed.Unknown
Acapulco 0,000 Partly sub
mersed. .Unknown
Hypnotic Treatment a Success.
Dr. John D. QuackcnboS , specialist in
nervous and mental diseases , hypnotist
and student of psychic phenomena , re
cently made public the details of a series
of interesting experiments which he has
been conducting on wayward girls from
the Ketr Jersey home for girls at Tren
ton.
ton.The
The patient is first put into a sleep
induced by talking in a monotone. This
& * * > * * * > PAI
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mxoz. acrirafc
FORMER HOME OF SCHMITZ AND HIS PRESENT RESIDENCE. 1
have been indicted include two of the
city's wealthy capitalists and sixteen
supervisors. The inquisitors are not
through , either.
On an income of $6,000 a year Mayor
Eugene E. Schmitz has been able to live
like a millionaire. He has furnished a
$50,000 miniature palace with furni
ture , art treasures and draperies valued
at more than tbe cost price of the buildIng -
Ing he now calls home. Then he has a
$7,500 automobile fit for his Majesty
King Edward VII. He has butlers and
valets and chambermaids and chauf
feurs and other menials to come aud
go at bis beck and call. And all on
$6,000 a year. Then there was that trip
to Europe. It cost something.
Besides spending $151,000 with only
a risible $4G,500 going , bo still has
money in the banks , a few bundles of
negotiable securities and a little bunch
of real estate that would trouble a
working man to pay taxes on. . The
wonder is , "Where did it all come
from ? " San Francisco's grand jury is
trying to uncover the answer.
Rudolph Spreckles , who is backing
the prosecution in the graft investiga
tion at San Francisco with his fortune ,
has guaranteed a fund of $100,000 , or
more if necessary , and contributions to
this fund from other citizens are being
received daily.
Heart Movements Photographed.
A report from London states that sci
entists have succeeded , by the combined
use of the X rays and cinematograph , in
taking photographs of the actual move
ments of the internal organs , like the
heart and lungs , and these movements
can be reproduced on a screen after the
manner of moving pictures. Medical men
believe that this will prove of great value
in diagnosing doubtfuHcases of lung and
heart disease.
droning serves the double purpose of
bringing on the hypnotic state and at the
same time making the patient feel at ease ,
and that there is to be no scolding or
cross-examination , the subject of conver
sation being such as to soothe the person
under treatment and turn her thoughts to
ward cheerful matters. As soon as the
hypnotic slumber ensues certain admoni
tions are given to the sleeper in a sharp
er , more decided tone , assuring her that
definite changes will take place in her dis
position that will make her better and
happier , care being taken to first ascer
tain the particular bent of mind or tal
ent , if any exists , so that her energies
can be directed along the lines of natural
fitness. This discourse is repeated several
times.
The good effect , the doctor says , is im-
mediate , and usually lasting , although f
there are occasional lapses. In such .
cases , however , the second treatment is ,
apt to be more effective and permanent
in its results than the first. It is not C
claimed that it will heal a physical le-
sion. All that Dr. Quackenbos claims is
that by suggestion in hypnosis one can
make a man do anything physically possi
ble and morally right. It brings about ,
he says , a physiological as well as a
psychological change of being. He con
tends that there is in every person what
Prof. James calls the "higher spiritual
self , * ' and St. Paul denominates the
"inner man , " which , when aroused by
suggestion , is stronger than any passion
or appetite.
Brief JCetvs Items.
Fire destroyed the Moore cotton mills
and gin at Mangum , Okla. , with 2,000
bales of unginned cotton. Loss $150,000.
The nine men who were on coal barge
No. 1 , which was lost in a storm off the
Florida coast , while being towed by the
naval collier Caisar , have been landed at < *
Galveston.
S
President F. D. P. Glass announced at
Montgomery , Ala. , that the fifth annual ti
meeting of the Newspapers and Publish-
ers * Association will be teld in Rich * tl
icond on May 21 and 22. \v
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DR. WILEY'S DIET GAUGES.
Latest and Most Practical Concln *
ntonfl Reached by Expert.
. Some of the latest and most practical
conclusions which Dr. H. M. Wiley , chem-
Val expert of the Department of Agri
i
j
culture , has reached
on the subject of
eating for health
and strength were
aired by him in a
statement before the
House committee on
expenditures for the
Agricultural Depart
ment. When asked
by Chairman Little-
field what he regard
ed as the best food
frvr n mnn tft Pflt.
DB. WILEY.
Dr
"I think a man ought to choose his own
ration. Lots of people are vegetarians.
I think we eat too much meat for health.
For the sustenance of physical exertion
if you have hard work to do there is
nothing better than starch or sugar. The
cereal-eating nations can endure more
physical toil than the meat-eating nations.
That is not the accented view , but it is
true. You cannot tire out a Japanese ,
who eats rice. lie will draw you around
the town on a pound of rice and be as
fresh at the close of the day as when he
started. You could not do that on a
pound of meat to save your life. "
As to the much-advertised nerve and
> rain foods , Dr. Wiley thought these all
aonsense , as also the idea of getting fat
on drugs. On the contrary , he said , most
of them have a degrading effect. For in
stance , a man will fatten for a time on
arsenic , but if kept up the treatment soon
causes death.
Dr. Wiley is also authority for the
statement that every man eats every day
1 per cent of his weight in dry food , so
that it requires 100 days for him to "cat
his own head off. " This at least is the
average for the normal individual. If
he eats less than this amount he will lose
in weight ; if he eats more he will gainT
The doctor thinks that every person
should consume a total in liquids and sol
ids of 4 % pounds per day.
Referring to the necessity of maintain
ing a high condition of physical energy ,
Dr. Wiley says : "A man may drink a
glass of typhoid germs if he is in vigor
ous health and may not get tj'phoid fever ,
because his system may throw off the poi
son , but if he is broken down one of the
germs will produce typhoid. Not a man
but has a pneumonia germ in his mouth.
It will not affect the healthy being , but
let a man get a cold and it will take its
seat in his lungs. "
Of a grana total of 4,902,314 union
workers in Europe only 82,000 are
women.
Stonecutters' International Union , the
oldest in the country , has affiliated with
the A. F. of L.
The Labor Temple Association of Kan
sas City , Mo. , has decided to commence
work on its building.
New Bedford ( Mass. ) Weavers' Union
has voted not to apply for a charter to
the United Textile Workers.
The next meeting of the Massachusetts
State Council of Electrical Workers'
Unions has been called for April 14 , in
Boston.
Boston ( Mass. ) Cigarmakers' Union
has assessed its 2,600 members 25 cents
each to assist the striking cigarmakers of
Antwerp , Belgium.
Carpenters of Stockton , Cal. , have no
tified the contractors that they want $4.50
a day. The date fixed for the raise to
take effect is June 1.
Twelve national organizers of the Unit
ed Garment Workers' Union are to visit
Boston , Mass. , to assist in the vigorous
organizing campaign to be undertaken in
that trade.
Exclusive of seamen , the number of
British work people reported as killed in
the course of their employment during
December , 1906 , was 260 , .an increase of
four as compared with the previous
month , and of thirteen as compared with
December , 1905.
There is no child-labor law in Japan ,
and some very young children are work
ed. The mills do not want to work any
under twelve , as it does not really pay ,
but in order to get help they ftea have
to take the whole family , and HO a good
many younger children are employed.
The Union Carpenters' Hall Associa
tion of Oakland , Cal. , has purchased a
lot for $17,000. Six of the stanchest
unions in Oakland are represented in the
association. It is the intention of the
corporation to proceed at once with the
erection of a three-story frame building
containing halls and banquet rooms. The
cost of-the structure will be $25,000.
Conditions in the cigarmaking industry
in Winnipeg , Man. , have been unsettled
for some time- , owing to differences be
tween the employers and the union. The
local in that city has been unable to
come < to any satisfactory understanding
with the bosses , so the international
union was appealed to to send a repre
sentative to Winnipeg to make an effort
to effect a settlement.
The Prussian authorities have so im
proved the appliances needed in coal min
ing and have adopted so many precaution
ary measures to protect the lives of min
ers , that while , on the average , 571 min
ers out of every million annually lost
their lives during the decade 1.SS1-1S90 ,
this record has been steadily reduced un
til , in 1905 , only twenty-nine perished
from explosion by fire damp.
Boston ( Mass. ) Brass Workers' Union
recently withdrew from the metal polish
ers , buffers , platers and brass and sih'er
workers' international , and formed an in
dependent local of its own.
Samuel Gompers , president of the
American Federation of Labor
, is now en
gaged in the preparation of the manuscript - .
script ( for a work on the origin , rise and
progress of organized labor in this coun
try , giving a complete review of union
labor and what it has accomplished for
the laboring man. In all probability th
work will take up two or three large vol
tunes.
HOTT He Killed Hi * 3In
General Wheeler and a number of
hla colleagues in the service were enc
swapping war stories , when "Lltt $
Joe" was reminded of one that he hao
heard not long before. "A friend of al
veteran of the Union forces once asked ?
whether the latter , in his term of ser
vice In the Civil War , had ever killed ]
a man. The old soldier hesitated &
moment before replying. 'Well , ' said
he , 'I think that about the only one
was a Confederate at the first battle
of Bull Run. You see , I was footing
it In a startling way , and tbe "Reb"
chased me for something over a dls
tance of ten miles. Then he dropped
dead from exhaustion. ' "
A MISSOURI WOMAN
a Story of Awful nlTerinir
\VoudcrfnI Kellcf.
Mrs. J : D. Johnson , of G03 West
Ilickman St. . Columbia , Mo. , says :
"Following an operation two years
ago , dropsy set in ,
and my left side was
so swollen the doctor
said he would have to
tap out the water.
There was constant
pain and a gurgling
sensation around my
heart , and I could not
raise my arm above
my head. The kid
ney action was disor
dered and passages or the secretions
too frequent. On the advice of 1117
husband I began using Doan's Kidney
Pills. Since using two * boxes my
trouble has not reappeared. This 1
wonderful , after suffering two years. "
Sold by all dealers. 50 cents a box/
Foster-Milburn Co. . Buffalo , N. Y.
in a Xoble "Work.
Employer Jimmy , I let you off yes
terday afternoon because you said yeti
had some necessary work to do , and on *
of my clerks says he saw you an hour
or tw"o later at the ball game.
Office Boy Yes , sir ; I was rootin' fur
de home team.
Deafness Cannot be Cured
by local applications , ns they cannot reach
the diseased portion of the ear. There Is
only one way to cure deafness , and that is
by constitutional remedies. Deafness Is
caused by an Inflame'd condition of the mu
cous lining of the Eustachlan Tube. "When
this tube Is Inflamed you have a rumbling
found or Imperfect hearing , and when It Is
entirely closed. Deafness Is the result , and
unless the Inflammation can be taken out
ind this tube restored to its normal condi
tion , hearing will be destroyed forever ; nlns
cases out of ten are caused by Catarrh ,
which Is nothing but an Inflamed condition
of the mucous surfaces.
We will give One Hundred Dollars for
any case of Deafness ( caused by catarra )
that cannot be cured by Hall's Catarrh.
Cure. Send for circulars , free.
F. J. CHENE1' & CO. , Toledo , O.
Sold by Druggists , 75c.
Take Hall's Family Pills for constlpatloa.
Side Lights on Hiatory.
The Hessians at Trenton had surren
dered.
"Ah , well , " they said , "think how much
more disastrous it might have been if wa
had had to make a hurried retreat ! "
Later , as if to verify their words , cam *
the Hessian fly.
Garfield Tea. which is guaranteed un
I der the Pure Food and Drugs Act , is th *
best remedy for constipation , sick-head
ache and indigestion. It purifies tht
blood and cleanses the system.
Fortune' * AVheel.
"See that old chap ? " remarked th
clubman , pointing out the window to an
old peddler , who carried a basket of she <
laces. "Well , he came to this country
from Russia ten years ago. He borrowed
some money to purchase a basket and be >
gan to peddle shoe laces. How much d
you think he's worth to-day ? Just makl
a guess. "
Several large sums were mentioned e
pectantly.
" " . "He isnl
"Wrong , said the clubman.
worth a cent and he still owes for tin
basket. " Puck.
Wasted Effort.
"It takes time , trouble and infinite pa
tience , of'Course , to be a geol Sundaj
school teacher , but you have the satis
faction of knowing that you a.zt helplnj
to mold the character of. the rising gen
eration. " *
"Yes , but it makes me sad to think ho *
quickly a year's work is undone wheai
green apple time comes. "
. DON'T GBTTMBLE AT TBIffLES.
Twenty-five Burfhel * Wheat aa < i
Forty-five Bnnlicls Oats Per Aer *
Are In Western Canada.
Saltcoats , Sask. , Dec. 8 , 1908.
To the Editor Dear Sir :
I willingly give you the resultof , mj
four'and a half years' experience la
the District of Saltcoats.
Previous to coming here I farmed In
Baldwin , St Croix County , WIs. , and
as I have heard a great deal about tha
Canadian Northwest , I decided to taki
a trip there and see the country foi
myself. ] I was so Impressed with th
richness of the soil that I bought hall
a section of land about five miles from
the town of Saltcoats. I moved on ta
the land the following June , and that
year I broke 90 acres , -which I crop
ped in 1904 , and had 39 bushels wheat
per acre. In 1905 , with an acreage ol
160 acres , I bad 24 bushels -wheat and
35 bushels of oats per acre. In 1906 ,
with 175 acres under crop , I had 23
bushels wheat and 45 bushels of oata
per acre.
From the above mentioned yields
you can readily understand that I am
very well pleased with the Canadian
West Of course , I have had to work
hard , but I don't mind that when I get
such a good return for my labor.
To any one thinking libout coming to
this country I can truthfully say that
if they are prepared to work and not
grumble at trifles , they are bound to
get on. Some things I would like dif
ferent , but take the country all round ,
I don't know where to go to get a bet
ter. Tours truly ,
( Signed ) O. B. OLSON.
Write to any Canadian government
agent for literature and full particov
lars.