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Don't forget to men- lion you read , this generous offer in the _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ - - - - - - - - - - , theIf in need of advice write our Medical Department , stating your case fully. Our physician in charge will send you ad , ice free , together with literature con- _ taining common sense rules for health , - which you cannot afford to be without. Where He'd Be. Mrs. McSosh-I wish all the saloons In creation were in the bottom of the Ma. Ma.Mr. . McSosh-Gee , you gotta mean dis- ; p'sition ! Wanner get me drown' , eh ? - Cleveland Leader. HAVE YOU A COUGH , OR COLD ? i If so take at once Allen's Lung Balsam and watch j results. Simple , safe effootlvo. All dealers. Popu . nrices - .5c.bOcaad Sl.OO ) ( ) bottles. \ QUEER VILLAGES. /Some Peculiar Ones That May Be + Seen In England. The English village is very dear to the hearts of poets and painters , and thousands of them are certainly charm- " however more amus- ing. A few , , are ? ing than anything else-as , for in- stance , one which consists entirely of . old railway carriages , even the chapel being composed of four horse trucks. -Another village , with a population of i T.,100 and taxed at the valuation of -$8,000 , has neither school , church nor .other public building , the only thing -of the sort being a letter box on a jpillar. ! 7 . Villages with but a single. inhabi- tant ; are not unknown , one of them , . The being : Skiddaw , in Cumberland. single villager complains bitterly be- cause he cannot vote , there being no overseer to prepare a voters' list and no church or other public building in which to publish one , as the law re- S\ quires. The lonely rate payer in a ; \ ' Northumberland village has declined to contribute money to maintain the roads , remarking that the one he has is quite good enough , for its use. In the Isle of Ely Is a little parish with about a dozen inhabitants that has no ' rates , as there are no roads or public institutions of any kind and conse- + quently no expenses. Kempton , near Bedford , can prob- ably lay successful claim to the dis tinction of being the longest village in the world , as it straggles along the road for a distance of seven miles. Sometimes a village will entirely disappear , having been built either on the edge of the crumbling cliffs that make part of the coast line or over an ancient mine. One of the latter class Is in Shropshire , and each year one ' . . or more of the cottages tumbles as the earth sinks beneath it.-Harper'r Weekly. v ; " " POSTUM FOR MOTHERS. J I'he Drink That Xonrlshes and SUJIJ- piles Food for Mother and Child. "My husband has been unable to -drink coffee for several years , so we -were very glad to give Postum a trial and when we understood that long . sboillng would bring out the delicious jflavor , we have been highly : pleased -.with It. "It Js one of the finest -things for . nursing mothers that I have aver seen. -It .keeps up the mother's streagth ' and -.increases : the supply of nourishment for the child if partaken of freely. . I drank it between meals instead of wa- ster and found it most beneficial. "Our five-year-old boy has been very" , delicate since birth and has developed . : -slowly. He . was. white and bloodless. ; : I began to give him Postum freely and , . : you would be surprised at the change. When any person remarks : : about the < .great Improvement , we never fail to . stell them that we attribute his gain rfn strength and general health , to the : free use of Postum and this has led .many friends to use it for themselves - -and children. "I have always cautioned friends to whom I have spoken about Postum , * to follow directions in making it , for i unless it , is boiled fifteen or twenty .minutes , it is quite tasteless. On the Bother hand , when properly made , it is very delicious. I want to thank you 'for the benefits we have derived from \the use of your Postum. " . Read "The Road to Wellville , " found . 'in pkgs. "There's a Reason. " Ever read the ebove letter ? A . ew one appears .from time to time. . hey . 'r.e genuine , itrue. and full of filumaa interest > . . < . . , . . ' f- l. Y . I . 1 . _ . . ' - " o- f . " HIS BUSY BAT ! I . . . . . - . - . . . eo. . . , . . : ' . ' , . . ' .t : . ' . . . ' . 1 ' . : ; 1PA .i : " ! \ ' I . 10 'BAl.\ \ . , , l PAR\ , /i FNYRNNCF II g . . 1 ' 1 / . . ; , . . - . [ n 00 I - . : 9 J OJ l , ( q.IdL In& . , , 3t tll \\t1Hlb/ \ \ . ' : _ _ BL ' 3EBALL SEASON BEGINS Opening League Games Are Played in Eight Cities. Big doings the other day on the ball lots of the National and American leagues. Smiling skies prevailed ev- elsewhere , eight umpires each "tossed out a new white ball , " eight umpires each in his finest voice criedplay ball , " and in eight cities the sporting writers chronicled that "the game was on. " At least these quotations have done .service from time immemorial and there Is no reason why they should be discarded at this late date. It was the day when all the teams were equal and that marked the initial puncture or the initial impetus to the hopes of several million fans. What will the end be ? Call around in Octo- ber and the answer will probably be ready. In the American League the rapid development last year of Philadelphia and Boston and the hard tussle that Detroit had to repeat for the second time her pennant performance , makes the picking of a championship team this year the merest guess work. About the only thing that does seem assured is that the first division teams in each league will not differ material- ly from those of last year. Pittsburg , Chicago , New York and Cincinnati again look to be certainties in the Na- tional for the upper tier , while in the American , Detroit , Philadelphia and Boston appear reasonably safe , with either New York or Cleveland having a good chance to wrest from Chicago her berth in the upper division. - And " . . . added . . . . . . . ; _ interest . . . - _ . - . in . . , the . . . . _ jtfetjpnars I race this year is the adoption a strong policy regarding the umpiring and the protection of the umpires. President Lynch bids fair to follow the example of Ban Johnson , of the Ameri can , in this respect , and it is predicted I that the day of umpire baiting is for . . . ever past. . . : " S'J v _ . . . : - = - _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ I-- : : . PERISH IN CHINESE R OTS . -t' " ' = British ' Consulate &ily Foreigii- Owned Building Le& Standing. In the rioting in Chang Sha ; China , In which not less than 24,00t' { persons , including the governor of d& prov- I ince of Hu Nan , have perished , 'U'the ' foreign-owned buidings in the city have been destroyed by fire except . the British consulate. All the buildifrgs ' ! , rented by foreigners have been looted- . . The Chfnese officials as long ago as Thursday issued a proclamation that they were unable to protect the lives and- property of foreigners < , and there upon. all foreigners made haste to leave' the city. So' far as is known no foreign' resident lest his ! life. The missionaries : attached to the American EJ"I ! r- ' . ilinn : Ai'.uu.'e , the United Evanjrr ! , jca ( ( "mire. * ' & the1 ( " ' . . . ' Wesleyan and - _ ' missions , number- ing forty-ohe in all. took refuge in boats. They lost all of t eir effects. The destruction of all foreign prop- erty , including-the Japanese consulate and the British' warehouSes . warehousesfollowed . rhe fate of the Standard' Oil Com- oany's new tank's is' unknown. : . . . I . Hor . e . Spreads-1 neat > t'hetioa. , Having wrecked' a trolley car , smashed a wagon- into splinters , in- ! jured five men arid1 hTelfl1 up' a Big Four train , a runaway horse ended : its spectacular cnreer inr Springfield , . O. , by being killed with' a * pick- and- bur led in Mad river. . , . - . ACTIVE LAKE NAVIGATION OPEN First Boat Passes the Soo and Ex- cursion Steamer Make Ready. Reports to the effect that the first boat has gone through the Soo , cou- pled with the manning of Chicago's excursion steamers and the issuing of new pilot charts of the great lakes by Hydrographical Department of the United States yesterday , signified the active opening of navigation : on the great lakes. The first boat to enter the Chicago harbor was the City of Traverse , on March 13 On March 6 the. ice had disappeared from Lake Michigan , according to reports in the weather bureau. The average closed season of navigation about the Chi- cago harbor is from Jan. 7 to Feb. 27 , and the closed season in Sault Ste. Marie usually is from the middle of December to April 30. A report from Sault Ste. Marie stated that the steamer J. E. Upson , In charge of Captain J. B. Wood , the first up-bound boat to pass through the Soo this sea- son , had signaled for-landing. STANDING OF THE CLUBS. Progress of the Pennant Race in Base Ball Leagues. NATIONAL LEAGUE. W. L. W. L. Philadelphia 3 1 Cincinnati . . .2 2 Pittsburg . . . .2 1 Boston . . . . . .2 2 Chicago . . . . .3 2 St. Louis..1 3 New York..2 2 Brooklyn . . . .1 3 - AilEBlCAN LE O'GE. W. L. W. L Cleveland . . .4 1 Detroit . . , . . .2 2 Boston . . . . . .3 2 St. Louis . . . . 1 2 Washington. 3 3 New York..1 2 Philadelphia 2 2 Chicago . . . . .1 3 - AMERICAN . . - 10. ASSOCIATION ' . - W. L. W. L. Toledo . . . . . .5 1 Kansas City..3 3 Minneapolis. .5 Indianapolis. 4 Columbus . . .4 2 Louisville < . . ! 5 / St. Paul . , / < vS f. . Milwaukee l - . - - - - . . .1 5 I Qtf.TICS- > , f _ L _ } [ 8 ] @D'LITItlli5 r A. The' MarylaTfu .Legislature p 1sstf a ! xcs , < iJ1Jt'o.n' ' favoring * the " adoptionx > f the ; , . fedefkl income1 tax amendment t& the" , , < : .Const ! lbn. - Federal siipe'rv'jslon" = of speculative effcchanges v ' as"4 recommended by W. H- Th&hipsbh , pVe'sIdefit' of the New Or- leaiis , Cotton Excharg . ' , in an address beforV : the ReputillbkjA Club of New York ' 'city ; . East ra' . ' d. , : West ' ' wlii1 ! llpV \ * horns in an . . ? > uguai's5rugg'te' for'doll " ' . ti ° 1 of the ap- po- > .tmenf w , 'the" , ' Supi riffle' \ ourt : : bench 'n ' auccessRJn' to to the late"Avi5al ociate Jus tice BrewefC ; , . according t\s > \ redictions heard in concessional clrtjllea , The porte ttus' , ) political1 & , , evelop- tients of the past' ' ' 1d the past few we'elcff w. . . general discontentwith theC.F ed'gua 1 ad- " ( ministration that7'.appears " : t(1 ( e. " 'n < many States will 'form the subject tf a party conference , asoon to bA" ! itef i \ ' > y the Republican leaders In W'Si'i , - ton. _ on.With With a brass band } pa'radinr : f < he ' . street , and with the 'great ; ' auditorIum I Jf the Y. M. C. A. packedto"life"dbor ! with enthusiastic citigfens * De's " ' ' 1 J , DeVvM6n'e losed one of the most emarlcabiepcam I 1 ialgns ever fought In' 'aiiy'clty ' ' ' j t a 'city''off the' Inlted [ States for pure g6vernment an'd I ] r edom from the yoke- of ! ' ' nt1OH. f. s. It 1 , - - r . . . . MILLIONS LOST THROUGH FROST Heavy Damage in Iowa , Where Tem- perature Drops to 22 Degrees. Secretary Wesley Greene of the Iowa State Horticultural Department estimated that the damage to the Iowa fruit and vegetable crop ' from the freezing weather will be between $5- 000,000 and $10,000,000. He asserts that early fruit , cherries and plums in particular , have been destroyed , but vegetables may be replanted , thus re- gaining a part of the loss. Snow has been falling in many parts of Iowa. A temperature of 22 above zero was re ported from the southern part of the State. Temperatures ranging from 27 to 38 above zero , accompanied by flur- ries of snow , represented the weather in Western Missouri , Eastern Kansas and Southern Nebraska. In Illinois frost has greatly damaged fruit at Galesburg. Springfield and Central Illinois were visited by a heavy snow- fall and budding fruits were killed by frost. A cold , drizzling rain fell throughout Southern Illinois and hard rains fell in Southern Indiana and Western Kentucky , washing away many bridges. ROB FAST MAIL TRAIN Two Bandits Hold Up , China-Japan Fast Mail in California. The China-Japan mail , which left San Francisco over the Southern Pacific Railway for the East at 9 o'clock Sat - urday night , was held up by two masked men at Sprig , two miles east of Benicia , Cal. , at 12:30 o'clock the othej mQjjiinjr and robbed . _ of nine pouches of registered mail. I The train carried no express mat- ter. . Four . - . , . ' of " ' the pouches have been recovered , but - the robbers rifled the others and now are hiding" the hills and canyons between Martlh'etf and Oakland. Sheriffs' posses from two counties , detectives and postoffice in spectors on horses and in automobiles are engaged in the man hunt. The robbers were well armed and a battle is anticipated. The passengers on the train were not disturbed and several of them did not learn of the robbery until the . next morning. After getting the mail Nsacks the robbers cut the engine loose from . the train and sent it wild , throt tle open , down the main track to the le st. I VOTE TO END STRIKE. PhilaSelphia ' Committee Reported to Have 'Acce ; ted Company's Terms. The committee of nineteen , , com- posed of representatives of striking motormen and conductors from each of the barns of the Philadelphia Rapd Transit Company , met the other night \ and voted in favor of accepting a set tlement offered by the company through representatives of the Amer- ican Federation of Labor. The terms of the settlement have not yet 'been , made public , but it is said they in- : clude many of the features of the proposal made through Mayor Rey- burn on March 20 , when the comp .ny agreed to take back all the strikers it nd to guarantee them $2 a day until ' Tular runs could be secured for n . The cases of the 174 men whose tri iTBd.arge precipitated the strike on . ' 9 will be submitted ! to arbitr g efl ' . . , l mr. . - - . - - : . \ . . , . . . . . . . ' ' ' . , , 0 - CUBA fEARS UPRISING ; 1 RUSH $ MACHINE GUNS Troops Dispatched to Santa Clara Province , Where Negroes Are Reported in Excited State. GOVERNMENT MAKES A DENIAL Promises Impossible of Fulfillment . Said to Be Cause of Agitation- Rumors of More Trouble. The other night a special .train car- rying a battalion of infantry and a battery of machine guns under com- mand of General Rivas left Camp Columbia , near Havana , Cuba , bound for Santa Clara. A rumor is current that an uprising is in progress in Santa Clara province , but this the gov- ernment denies. Secretary of the. Interior Lopez Leiva issued a statement saying that there is not the least disorder in any other part of the island. The secre- tary said reports had reached the gov- ernment that there was a condition of suppressed excitement among the ne groes of Santa Clara and the eastern provinces in consequence of the incen- diary utterances , of the negro agitator , General Svaristo Estenoz. Because of these reports , the secretary said , the government had decided to send troops for the sake of the moral effect which their presence would have in overawing possible disturbers of the I peace and in giving confidence to loy- § 1 , lawdibiding citizens. There has been great unrest in the country recently because of the . . agitf . . . . _ . . " ' --'t " tion of the negroef't ? 5he ; newsp j r' La : ' Lucha , which was f-U § most influential instigator and suppoftfirjof the August revolu ' tion , but which J i § now a Zayista or- .gan , commenting on a ' recent meeting of the negro members of congress ' , says the government is responsible , having before the election promised the negroes things impossible of ful- fillment. The paper adds that it is now incumbent on the government to check the race agitation energetically. General Estenoz , leader of the negro movement , is making inflammatory speeches in Santiago Province. When he reaches Havana after inflaming Santa Clara , Camaguey and Pinar del Rio he will present an ultimatum to President Gomez to resign with the alternative of having the Americans brought back to Cuba. Everyone is wondering who is financing Estenoz , who is a Jamaica negro. Haytian ne groes are accompanying him. They travel in special trains for which they have no means of their own to pay. . It Is rumored that an Insurgent party , has been formed in Santa Clara Prov ' I' ince. The government denies this , but the negro agitation has caused the dis I patch of troops to garrison the pro vincial capitals. DEMOCRAT 'WINS IN LANDSLIDE. Tames ; S. Havens Elected to Con- t gress in New York State. In the Congressional election at Rochester , N. Y. , the other day Re- publican standpatism was dealt a blow as terrific in its effect as that which it sustained a few weeks age In- the Fourteenth Massachusetts Dis- trict , where Eugene N. Foss , running as a Democrat , reversed the tradition- al majority in a district supposed to be rock-ribbed Republican. James S. Havens , a Democrat , has been elected to fill the vacancy in Con- gress caused by the death of James Breck Perkins over George W. Al- dridge , the Republican boss of Monroe County , by the unprecedented plurali ty of 6,500. The district , the Thirty- second , had not gone Democratic since . ' " * ' . ' - - 1900. . . - * The defeat was overwhelming. Mr. Perkins , a Republican , carried the dis- trict in 1908 by 10,167. Fighting sin- gle-handed , Mr. Havens succeeded In almost reversing this plurality in a campaign that lasted but seventeen days. While the so-called "moral is- sue" was undoubtedly paramount in the campaign , there seems also to be. no doubt that the Payne-Aldrich tar- iff bill had a great deal to do with the result. Aldridge had come out flat-footed as indorsing the tariff law as it stands. Havens was avowedly a tariff reformer. FIRE SWEEPS WRECKED TRAIN. Shriner' Forms Relief Corps Which Saves Passengers in Dixie Crash. Four mail clerks are dead and three trainmen and a mail clerk injured as a result of the wreck and burning of the through flyer No.2 , north-bound on the Illinois Central Railroad , five miles ' north of Jackson , Miss. Col. William Craine of New Orleans , who was officer of the day during the recent Shriners' drills at New Orleans and who was on the train , organized a relief crew , taking passengers out through the windows. Procuring fire extinguishers from the mall car , Craine and his fellow passengers played streams upon the flames in an effort to rescue the mall clerks , but without effect on the fire. None of the pas- sengers was injured. The bodies of the dead mail clerks were cremated In the wreck. The wreck was caused by the engine leaving the track and plung- ing down a fifteen-foot embankment , carrying with it the baggage car , maiJ mmd library car and two Pullmans. , - OPPORTUNITIES FOR TRADE. . , Bryan Trip Ended , Points t . Chances in South America. William J. Bryan , who has just made a tour of South America , rd - turned to New York the other day ozx board the Red D. Line steamship Car acas. Mr. Bryan talked of his trip to the newspaper men. "He was en- thusiastic over the possibilities of South America to be developed by tha . opening of the Panama Canal. "South America is bound to become the great market for the products of this country , " said Mr. Bryan. "Here- tofore our merchants and manufactur- ers have been kept busy with the home markets , but now they are reaching' out for the trade of the countries to the south of us , and they will gain it in time. The Increased sale of our goods within a very recent period dem- onstrated that we are already begin- ning to see the necessity for reaching out and grasping the opportunities that lie all ready to our hand In the South American countries. The open- ing ofthe Panama Canal , which will . not be delayed later than 1915 , in my , opinion will lead to a marvelous de velopment of trade relations with the countries on the west coast of South America. " . "During the next fifty years , " con- tinued Mr. Bryan , "between 25,000,000 and 50,000,000 emigrants will find a home in South America , and the so- cial and economical changes that will be brought about by this shift in pop- ulation will bring up for consideration wholly new and probably difficult prob- lems. " Mr. : Bryan would not discuss the letter sent by him to be read at the Jefferson day dinner In Washington. RESCUE 95 FROM SINKING SHIP. \ Life Savers. Take Passengers from Santa Clara Off Eureka. ; : CaJ ] ! , J ' N9.ucty-five persons rescued from the " Nbrui " Pacific . Steamship Company's I steamer Santa rl ra , . . which founde . . . . ' the other day , arrive : = u eta . on he tug Ranger. Every one on tne otIID. ( . ship was rescued. The . anta ! act sank about four miles down the coast. According to a wireless message , the Santa Clara struck heavily in crossing the bar when leaving Eureka , and it ' is believed her seams opened after she got to sea. A few moments before darkness fell and hid the vessel from the view of those watching through glasses at Table bluff it was seen that . f an attempt was being made to transfer the passengers. One man was seen to fall overboard , cling for a time to the anchor chain and then disappear. A tremendous sea was running , and when last seen the small boats which had left the Santa Clara had not been able to get alongside of the Ranger. The Eureka life-saving crew put to sea , but were unable to cross the bar. An other attempt was made , which was successful. The Santa Clara was in command of Capt. O. Noran and car ried o crew of twenty-five. ENTOMBED IN A MINE. Alen Imprisoned by Explosion at Mulga , Ala. , All Dead. Forty men were entombed in the Mulga mine of the Birmingham ' 'Rail way Coal and Iron Company at Mulga , Ala. , by an explosion at 9 o'clock the other night and it is believed that all are dead. Fifteen white men and twenty-five negro laborers are in the mine. The foreman , who is entombed with the others , has the only list of those working at the time. When th * first crew of rescuers reached the bot tom of the shaft the following morn ing the bodies of two miners , were found. On returning to the surface tto rescuers- expressed the opinion that all the .men were dead. After the explosion flames shot up the shaft for about 400 feet and th . ground is covered with charred tim- bers , which are blown up from the bot- tom of a 350-foot shaft by the force of the blast. Every window in the vil- lage was broken. . LOWER FOOD PRICES IN SIGHT. Sew York Provision Men Look for Decline in Beef : and Pork Values. Close observers of the food products markets in New York expressed expec tation of an era of low prices for food- stiffs. "The wish in some degree may be father to the thought , " said one provision man , "as lower prices would help us as well as the consumer , but the tendency of prices now is unmis- takably downward. It seems to me reasonable for people to look for a ; decrease in the retail prices of beef and pork in a short time. The plenti- tude of grain has compelled the farm- er to feed it to his cattle , which are waxing fat , and which must be put on the market. " Other provision men expressed similar views , based largely upon the decline in the grain markets and predictions of bountiful crops , both here and abroad. OCEAN LINER IS WRECKED. Minnehaha Goes on Rocks , but Pas- sengers and Crew Are Safe. The Atlantic transport steamer Mla- nehaha , which sailed from New York on April 9 for London , is ashore oa the seal rocks at the Scilly islands , near Bishop's rock , according to a wireless message received at Lloyd's signal station at the Lizard. The wreck was caused by a dense fogv The passengers and crew of the liner landed on Bryher Island , one of tha Scilly group. The Minnehaha sailed from Ne . York with sixty-one cabin passengers. The boat is a cargo carrier of 1S.44J tons I . 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