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hibition at a Lowell , Mass. ,
Garage.
ECCENTRICITY OF INVENTOR
Worked on His Contrivance During
. Civil War and Exhibited Result
Throughout Country.
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cal garages at Lowell , says the Bos-
ton Herald , is on exhibition what is
believed to be the first steam-driven
/ -automobile ever invented in this coun-
try , one. which served the ideas and
fulfilled the expectations of its builder
perfectly. The machine , a rather odd-
' looking affair as compared with a mod-
t. ern car , was the invention of William
i W. Austin , who died last year in Win-
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Mr. Austin was born in Dighton
eighty-five years ago , and at the age
of 9 was left an orphan. When a
young man he became apprenticed to
a blacksmith and after remaining at
his : trade for a few years went to
Boston and eventually to Lowell.
In 1860 , at the very outbreak of the
r Civil War , he started to work on his
.first automobile. His second effort
was the machine which is now on ex-
hibition here. He took his invention
to the larger cities of this section of
the , country and on his return to Low-
ell some time later he brought with '
. him $14,000.
Eccentric in some particulars , Mr.
Austin , instead of placing the money I
in the bank , buried it and made a map I
of its detailed location. When he left
the city some months later he placed
the map in what he considered safe
. keeping , but on his return it was -gone ,
.and , not being able to remember just
where he had placed the money ,
mourned it as lost.
A few years later , while away from
the city , a mental picture of the spot
where it was buried flashed into his
mind , and he returned here with all
haste and after some efforts located
the notes where he had buried ' them.
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Decompositio'h had destroyed the outer
. edges , but he appealed to the Secre-
tary of the Treasury and the notes
were redeemed.
CANADIAN WRITER AND
EDUCATOR WHO IS DEAD.
Professor Goldwin Smitli , one of the
most distinguished educators and writ
ers of modern times , died at "The
Grange , " his home in Tonorto , recent-
( ly , at the age of 86 years. Since ? the
, ; deatK of his wife last summer the in-
-firmities of old age have been creeping
rapidly on Dr. Smith , and several
months ago he gave up all his literary
work. On the morning of Feb. 2 , as
rj lie was walking through the hall of his
" Tiome he tripped and fell , fracturing
l his thigh bone. On account of the pa-
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not knit , and from the first there was
no hope of his recovery. :
Goldwin Smith was born at Reading ,
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educated at Eton and Oxford , and be-
came in 1847 a fellow of University
College. He was Regius professor of
'history at Oxford from 18GS to 18G6.
In 1868 he was elected to the chair of
English and constitutional history in
Cornell University , and in 1871 he set-
tled in Canada , where he devoted him-
self largely to Canadian journalism
and to literature. His pleasant home ,
the Grange , is situated in the center
0f Toronto. His various works , lit-
erary and political , make up a. very
ne record , but to many he is of inter-
est as a leading figure in now-forgot-
ten controversies in which both. Mr
ladstone and Lord Beaconsfield took
; art. In addition to his work in bi-
t graphy , criticism and political essays ,
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MILLIONAIRES ON A HUNT
MAY SEEK NORTH POLE.
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Paul J. Rainey , millionaire turfman
and polo player , who is said to have
spent nearly $1,000,000 on the turf , has
decided to give up racing for good.
Many of his horses have already been
sold. He is going to the frozen north
for a six months' ! hunt after big
game. Mr. Rainey plans to penetrate
the wilds of Labrador and perhaps .
even make a dash for the north pole.
He will hunt all over , Ellsmereland.
Harry Whitney and Mr. Rainey
have gone to Sydney , C. B. , where tT.ey
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will join the arctic ship Beothic , which
they have chartered for the trip into
the northern latitudes. Capt. Bart-
lett , who accompanied Peary on the
Roosevelt , will command th.9 Beothic
and have a crew .of twenty-nine. This
entire expedition is to be recorded in
photographs , and in this respect it
probably will. differ from any similar
undertaking. There will be ten cam-
eras with duplicates of them all to
be used in case of accident. Some of
the cameras are especially adapted
for over-ice photography. There , will
be motion pictures of all the hunts
and of the fishing , the harpooning of
walruses , the fights with polar bears ,
and the caribou chases.
NEGRO CADDIES DOWN SOUTH.
Oblig'ing ami Cheerful Helpers Hie
VixitJuj Golfer Finds Tliem.
The winter resort golf player meets
a refreshing novelty in the negro cad-
dy. Sometimes the "boy" is a grizzled
old fellow rising 50 , who totes the bag
of clubs . about with the alacrity of
youth.
The caddies come in all sizes , from
six feet or more with the muscular
build of a prize fighter down to lads
just about able to handle the bag ; but
no matter what his age or size , the ne
gro caddy has infinite ability to be
cheerful. He doesn't adopt the some-
what cynical manner of the. white cad-
dy , and his manners are better.
For another thing , the black lad
ordinarily has the eye of a hawk and
traces the balls with marvelous sure-
ness. .one ) caddy said he hadn't lost a.
ball in the two years that he had been
caddying , which is a remarkable rec-
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The negro caddy comes into his work
with an amiable idoa that he is the
partner of his employer. The ball is
"ours. " "Whose ball is that near the
pin ? " asks the golfer. "That's ours ,
sir" : the caddy says.
When the golfer gets a good long
ball from the tee , the caddy does a lot
of quietrooting. . . "Ride on , ball , ride
on , " he calls , much as if he were 1'011i i
ing the bones and rooting for his num
ber to come up. He does his best to
coa the ! ball into the cup , too , in much
the same way , but his sense of eti
quette is too strong to permit him to
make any noise while the play is ac
tually being made.
Xo matter how much of a dub he has
for a boss at the time , a writer in
the New York Sun says , he doesn't
sneer or say , anything impertinent
which is a relief to the player from
up North , who knows the unpleasant I
habits of some of the white caddies.
The only bad habit the boy has is to
gamble on the result of the match he's I
accompanying. It can be seen what a I
test of cheerfulness it is for him when
his player is a dub and misses an easy :
shot for the hole and so throws ; away :
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INNTIN NEVI ANINIAI. '
EN years ago it was found that it was possible to cross the
" 1" cow with the native American buffalo. In fact , the cross was
T made , and the herds have been developed until at present there
are more than 300 head in the United States. "Buffalo Jones"
lV of Arizona has al | thriving herd , and another of even greater
numbers is that on the Goodale ranch in the panhandle of
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Texas. Great , shaggy , high-withered steers stalk about the
fields , overlording their domestic ancestors in no mean manner.
This is a creature that never existed in the world until recently , says
the Washington Post. All the suns that shone in the past failed to see its
like. It is a new thing in the world. The important question is whether .
it is a useful thing. This question is not yet decided , but it is well within
the range of possibilities that it will prove more profitable to raise the hybrid
than the cow , and if this is proved the latter will pass away and in its place I
will remain the new creature , the cattelo , for so it is called through a com-
bination the names of its ancestors.
There are a number of points in which the cattelo surpasses the do
mestic cow. It is of greater activity and can find a livelihood where the
cow would starve. Mountain fastnesses and barren plains lend themselves
as pasturage for it where herds of cattle could never graze. Likewise the
frozen north countries ' lend themselves to the grazing of cattelo where cows
could not resist the cold. The cattelo has a shaggy coat inherited from its
wild ancestor that is without a peer as a resister of cold. Interior Alaska
might be induced to yield up billions were cattelo brought there to pasture.
But there is still another of the brand-new animals that appears more
attractive than all the rest. This is the zebrass , offspring of the royal zebra
of Abyssinia and the plebeian ass of the west. It has been developed under
the special care and guidance of the United States government itself , and
the hope is strong that there will result a bearer of burdens and drawer of
loads that will surpass any domestic animal now known. Five years ago
King Menelik of Abyssinia sent to President Roosevelt the finest zebra in all
his domain , and the Abyssinian < zEibras are the largest and handsomest in
the world. As his back yard was already filled with things from the wild ,
the President turned the zebra over to government scientists of the Depart-
ment of Agriculture , who , being agog with the newly found idea of the times ,
that of inventing new animals , set about using his royalty of the stripes for
that purpose.
The asses they already had in plenty of the variety of the patient Mexi
can burro that bears the packs of the prospectors of the west. The experi-
ments were carried on at the experiment station at Bethesda , near Washing-
ton. To-day ' there are five young hybrids running about the place and de-
claring themselves the : very latest things in animals. The oldest zebrass , the
first of its kind , was born a little more than a year ago. It is a male , and
those that followed are all females , this fact offering the possibility of devel-
oping the herd very rapidly. Animal growers throughout the country are
waiting with great interest the further development of these strange crea
tures.
And the possibilities loom large to all appearances. The zebrass seems
to have combined many o the good qualities of both its parents , and is one
of the prettiest creatures in the world. It has the heavy coat of hair of its
mother on the body and the short coat of its father on the head and legs ,
thus exaggerating its already apparent trimness. The stripes of the male
parent are present , but greatly dimmed on the body , while vivid on the legs.
The greatest hybrid that the world has ever known is the mule. This
is a cross between the horse and the ass. The resultant mule was , however ,
barren , and the possibility of developing a more perfect type through selec-
tion did not exist. The mule 'had to be taken as he was and made the most
of. At that he has borne the brunt of cornfield labor at home and tugged
the nation's cannon into the ever advancing frontier. He has surpassed in
many ways both the horse and the ass that bred him. The zebrass is evi-
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INDIAN 10 WOOD PILE
Modern Methods Have Killed the
Picturesque Sentinel of the
Cigar .Store.
WAS VENERATED BY. DEALER
City Ordinances Against Obstruction
of Streets and Other Causes
Hastened Downfall.
The wooden. Indian has gone to tb.3
attic , the basement and the wood pile.
He no longer is the recognized sign of
the tobacco store , says the Chicago
News.
Time was when the proprietor of a
tobacco store considered the statue of
the American aborigine standing at
the entrance of his doorway neces-
sary adjunct to his business. It was
regarded by the proprietor with the
same feeling of pride that now swells
in a man's bosom when he watches
his huge electric sign attracting the at-
tention of the crowds in the street.
When a new coat of paint covered the
front of his store the Indian was adorn-
ed with a new suit of attractive colors.
At night the statue carefully was re
moved within the building , and the
first duty of the janitor the next morn-
ing was to put the sign on duty in its
accustomed place.
A few tobacco dealers still have the
Indian sign. They consider it now
more as a keepsake than an asset to
their business , and don't give it the
care and attention it demanded former-
ly. They bought it many years ago
when its presence was considered nec-
essary to the sale of tobacco and their
attachment for the relic prevents them
from using it for kindling.
The retail tobacco business has un
dergone a revolution during the last
fifteen years , and the Indian was one
of the old customs slated for the tobog-
gan. When modern ways and .modern
stores began to encroach upon the din-
gy , untidy tobacco stands of the pio-
neers , the reformers chose to regard
the absence of the Indian as a mark of
their kind. The electric sign or the.
unassuming "Cigars and Tobaccos" on
the windows downed the chief.
Other things , too , aided custom in
discarding the wooden Indian. On nar-
row sidewalks the life-sized statue
mounted on a large base was a seriocs
obstruction and often it was necessary
for pedestrians to pass it in single fil. : : .
This led to ordinances and laws
against street obstructions , and the
wooden Indian became ill. At this
stage in the history of the retail tobac-
co business window decorations came
into vogue. The big signs prevented a
view of a clever window display and
discretion led the shopkeeper to aban-
don the old scheme for the new.
The use of an Indian statue as a
sign of a tobacco store is commonly
accredited to the fact that the red man
was the first to use tobacco.
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dentiy a creature superior in every way to the mule , and , it is believed ,
v/ith selection and scientific breeding , it will take a place in the world that .
will tend to retire the latter and possibly the horse from the field of action.
1 But of the new turn taken by scientists is a great law of heredity which
was deduced first by an Austrian monk , Gregor Mendelao lived half 2'
century ago. This monk in his cloistered garden studied long the laws that
govern the things that grow and their relation the parents that bred
them. He established ; , in the first place , the fact that all things having life ,
be they plant or animal , are controlled by the same laws. Then he worked
on the hypothesis that given trait of either or both parents would occur
in generations that followed in certain mathematical proportions. He bred
together for many years plants and animals having certain dissimilar and
readily recognized qualities and noted the recurrence of each in the genera-
tions that followed. Finally he worked out of these figures the greatest law
of Iheredity ' that science has ever known and set it down for posterity.
Little was thought of it at the time , and it was neglected until , within tlTa
past ten years , it has been hit upon , has been proved and reproved a thou-
sand times and finally has been established as the one great and correct
law. This law the government 'has ' taken great pains to prove.
WIFE AND CHILD OF MAN LOST A YEAR.
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After waiting a year for the return of her husband , who left his home
to go to a neighborhood store , Mrs. Sophie Oiserman of Chicago has asked
the police to assist her in finding him. Oiserman and his family lived at
589 Sangamon street. According to the wife's story they were happy and
never quarreled. He left the house , waving a good-by to his little daughter
Dora , then 1 year old , and he has not been seen nor heard from since by any
member of his family. :
l\Iontlr-after month the wife sat waiting for the return of her husband.
She would not call the police into the search , believing that soon he would
be back. She taught her little girl to lisp the name of her father and pray
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BOY IS VICTOR OVER
TWO BIG BALD EAGLES.
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Ten-year-old Ira Cunningham , son
of a farmer in a remote section of
Pennsylvania , known as Ringdaje , had
a fight with two huge bald eagles for
his life , and he will carry the marks
cf their talons to the grave. He was
returning home from school when two
eagles swooped down upon him , knock-
ing him down and attacking him
with great fury. They repeatedly
sank their talons in his shoulders and
tried to carry him away. The boy
fought pluckily and , getting hold of
a club , resisted the birds so sturdily
that they abandoned the attempt and
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DRIVEN HOME.
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strapsywere , coming into demand when
the woman boarded the street car. She
was beyond the age generally consider-
ed attractive , her attire was unfash-
ionable , and she was undeniably fat.
There were several men , but no one
of them rose as she reached vainly for
the strap that eluded her short arm.
"Take my seat , .ma'am , " piped a
voice-a small , red-haired boy had
risen ,
The woman stared at her diminutive
benefactor. Then she recovered her-
self , thanked him gratefully and tried
to take the proffered seat. _
Of course everybody was looking on
by this time. But the lesson that
should be conveyed to the seated speci-
mens of mankind threatened to be lost.
The boy was not over 11 , and small of
his age. The efforts of the portly wom
an to insert herself into the space left
by the boy were fast becoming ludic-
rous. Broad grins were appearing : , and
a girl. or two giggled.
The boy , who was of the "red-hair-
ed temperacnent , " began to blush
furiously , and was evidently embar-
rassed at the turn events had taken.
"I'm sorry I ain't bigger , ma'am , " he
said to the woman , letting his shrill ,
thin voice go distinctly through the
car , "but if I'd 'a' been big enough to
leave a good-sized seat , mebby I'd 'a'
forgot to pull all of me up out of It
when a lady come along ! "
COLUMBIA PROFESSOR
SUED FOR HEART BALM. :
Suit for $50,000 damages for allege :
breach of promise of marriage has
been brought in the Supreme Court at
New York byIiss Esther Quinn
against Prof. Harry Thurston Peck ,
A. M. , Ph. D. , L. H. D. , LL. D. , holde
of the chair in Latin at Colu.mbia Uni-
versity , president of the 'Latin Club o (
America , member of many prominent
literary clubs and associations , maga-
zine writer , critic of the fair sex , and
essayist on morals.
The first wife of Prof. Peck obtained
a divorce in South Dakota in Septem-
ber , 1908. The grounds were deser-
tion. On Aug. 26 of the following year
he married Miss Elizabeth D. du Bois
a teacher of classics in the Morris
high school. Miss Quinn in her com
plaint alleges that her friendship with
the scholar-critic-writer began in June ,
1900 , and continued until Feb. 3 last ,
when she heard for the first time of
his marriage to Miss du Bois. In the
same document Miss Quinn asserts ;
through her lawyer , Daniel O'Reilly
that in September , 1908-the month in
which his first wife divorced him-
Prof. Peck proposed marriage to her
and she accepted ; him. The Columbia
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professor is 54 years old. Miss Quinn
is much his junior. Through his at-
torneys , Tappan ' & Bennett , Peck has
entered a general denial of the charges.
The woman's lawyer will offer in evi-
dence on the trial of her cause more
than a hundred letters written to her
she affircns , by the famous litterateur.
It is a remarkable collection of letters
with dates running from 1900 to 1909
crowded with tender phrases , many of
them filled with expressions of adora
tion declarations of unswerving devo- .
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