Crawfordsville Weekly Journal, Crawfordsville, Montgomery County, 28 December 1900 — Page 2

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FRIDAY, DECEMBER 28, 1900.

WASHINGTON wants to entertain the (J. A. R. again, and if the railroads do not offer better terms than they have yet done, to Denver, where next year's encampment had been booked to be held, it will endeavor t,o get it when the executive committee of the (I. A. R. meets in St. Louis next month to settle the matter definitely.

WASHINGTON is full of the sort of rumors that are always heard after an important argument before the United States supreme court, and a man gullible enough might believe that the justices of the court had taken a whole lot of newspaper men into their confidence and told them just what the decision of the court, which is not expected to be handed down for weeks, will be in the casesanvolving the constitutional status of Porto Rico and the Philippines. While no one knows what the decision will be, the very able argument of At-torney-General Griggs has increased the number of those who believe that the decision will put the same construction upon the constitution that President McKinley's administration has done. •.

THE TREATY.

Senator Lodge, who had charge of the Hay Pauncefote treaty which was amended and ratilied by the senate the day before the adjournment for the Christmas recess, has made public a statement concerning the treaty as ratified, in which he said: ''The amendments were not dictated by hostility toward England, and still less were they in any way reflection upon the secretary of state, whoso patriotism, purity of purpose, knowledge, accomplishments, and high achievements in dealing with our foreign relations, especially in China, are fully and cordially recognized by men of all parties and all shades of opinion in the senate. The amendments were made by the senate solely because, in its opinion, they were necessary for the interests of the United States. The senate is part of the treaty making powjgf, and treaties sent to it for ratification are not strictly treaties, but projects for treaties. They are still inchoate. In the exercise of its undoubted rights, without the slightest reflection upon anyone, and without a shadow of hostility to a friendly nation, the senate, continuing the negotiation begun by Mr. Hay, offers three new propositions to England. They ask her to omit the clause inviting other nations to adhere which does not touch her at all. They ask her to conform to our desires by agreeing in unmistakable language to the suppression of the Clayton -Bulwer treaty by the Hay Pauncefote treaty, which is the whole purpose of the negotiation. They ask her, finally, to accept in this treaty, the reservation of rights in time of war, which she grant ed to Turkey in the Suez convention, and of which, as the present possessor of Egypt, she is now herself the beneficiary. It is as much for England's interests as ours to accept the new propositions in the friendly spirit in which they are offered, and thus end a controversy over an outworn treaty which is only a stumbling block to both nations." Mr. Lodge is confident that the amended treaty will be accepted by England.

Obituary.

On Dec. 21, J900, John Hitch, aged 5a years and 28 days, passed peacefully away at his home seven miles northeast of Crawfordsville, The deceased was born in Crawfordsville, Montgomery county, Ind., Nov. 23, 1841. He united with the Christian church and was a firm believer in the truths of Christianity. He had a strong hope of a happy exiitence beyond the grave. On Nov. 5, 1879, he was united in marriage with Miss Ella Pottenger. To them were born five children, three boys and two girls. Four of the children survive him. The other, Perrie, died in childhood. His father has now gone to meet him. Mr. Hitch was a loving, kind and gentle father and husband, an obliging neighbor and a friend to the needy. He leaves to mourn his loss a wife, four children, three brothers and a sister, besides a host of friends. X.

MANY have lost confidence and hope as well as health, because they thought their kidney disease was incurable. Foley's Kidney Cure is a positive cure for the diccouraered and disconsolate. Take no other. Nye & Booe.

HICKS FOR JANUARY.

We Shall Have All Sorts of Old Weather To Open the Century.

The lirst day of the new year is the central day of a vulcan storm period. The moon will be at extreme north declination on the 2nd and at the full on the 4th. The indications are that a change to southerly winds, rising temperature and falling barometer will be spreading eastward from western parts of the country in the opening days of January. These conditions will result in rain and snow progressively across the country from about the 2nd to oth. the culminating storms of the period falling on and next to the 3rd and 4th. A very active high barometer will follow these ^storms closely out of the north west,'accompanied by high northwesterly winds and a cold wave. The moon being.at extreme north declination at this time will tend to hold the atmospheric tide northward from the equator, preventing in all probability that extreme cold which might certainly be expected were the moon at her south declination. Tt is a fact not generally.^understood that the great volume, oi"_swell of the atmosphere may be attracted either to the north or south ofthe equator, with decided wind currents passing through it in the opposite.direction. In such cases in our northern 'hemisphere, the barometer, as a rule, will not rise so high, and the cold will not.be so „severe, even with stiff north winds, until the moon passes southward ,over the equator. Reactionary disturbances will appear on and about the Tth to itth, causing changeito warmer with falling barometer and more rain and snow. These perturbations will culminate on and touching the !Hh, the d&te of the moon's passage'Southward across the celestial equator. Change _to high barometer and much colder will wind up the reactionary storms.

On- and about the 12th look for a rapid fall of the'barometer in all western sections, followed by rising temperature and more storms of rain, wind and snowj from the 12th to the 14th. The moon isjit apogee and last quarter on the 12th, facts tending to squalls and blustering storms on and near that date. The .indications are that a cold wave of wide extent and marked severity will bring up the rear of storms from about the 12th to 14th, causing a general spell of very[cold weather up to the reactionary changes due about the 18th to the 20th. On these dates there will be a return to falling barometer, rising temperature atJ more storms of rain, wind and snow. Another sudden and sharp cold wave will follow these storms, spreading east and south immediately after thenew moon on the 20th.

The storm diagram shows that the moon is in perigee and oa the celestial equator on the 2.'ird, the central day of a regular storm period. The Mercury period also extends into this period. We predict that a marked fall of the barometer and change to warmer will set in about the 2Ilrd, that storms of rain and probable thunder will develop in southern sections, and that snow, sleet and blizzards will visit central and northern sections from about the 2I!rd to 26th. Artie currents will How down to meet the tropical conditions southward, drawing a great cold wave down over most parts of the country about the 24th to 27th. Mercury sleet storms will ba accompaniments to all the disturbances during the last part of January and into February. This will be especially noticeable during reactionary storms which may be expected during the 27th to 29th.

A Handsome Present.

The employes of Jacob Joel's store Tuesday afternoon presented Mr. Joel with a handsomely jeweled Elk badge. The presentation speech was made by Mr. Charles Lincoln in his most felicitously felicitous manner and was quite affecting. Mr. Joel responded in kind, although considerably oven by the thoughtfulness of his friends

Birthday Dinner.

A birthday dinnerl was given Tuesday at the home of U. M. Scott, in honor of Mr. Scott's and also his brother Sam's birthday, both having been born on Christmas day. It was a family affair and was a very enjoyable occasion. Tom Bell and wife and daughter, Miss Edith, were over from Indianapolis for the event.

Leg Crushed.

On Monday afternoon while working in the ivoods Pete Barnhart, a well known teamster, was so unfortunate as to get in the path of a rolling log. His leg was terribly crushed and it will be some time before he will be able to get out.

A Card.

The family of John S. Hitch, deceased, extend their many thanks to the neighbors and friends for their kindness during his sickness and death.

Off For the Philippines.

Capt. C. O. Wilhite left Wednesday for the Philippines to take his position as stenographer with the Taft commission.

For Pneumonia.

Dr. C. J. Bishop, Agnew, Mich., says: "I have used Foley's Honey and Tar in three very severe cases of pneumonia with eood results in every ca e." There Is nothing so good. Nye & Boo®.

THE STATE MAY LOSE

Disagreeable Fact In Connection With Congressional Reapportion­

ment Bill.

A PHOBABIjH LOSS TO INDIANA OK ONK OF HEIt CONGit 10SS EN.

A Few Observations Along This Line and Something of the Meaning of Judge Crumpacker's Minority Report—George Lockwood Contributes His Customary Gossipy

Budget Concerning the Doings of Hoosiers at the National Capitol—A Young Hoosier Cadet's Experience.

fSpifo!nl Cnrresponflonce.]

Washington. Dec. 2(1.—Hy the time the India nil legislature is ready to tackle the task of reapportioning 1 lie state, all tin plans published up to dale are likely to disarranged by the very disagreeable l'aet that Indiana i»to be held up for OIK: of tier members of congress. The Hopkins bill will, in all probability, pass both the house and'senate.: If it does, Indiana will have but 12 representatives, and 14 electoral votes. Her influence iu na tlonal polities and national legislation will tn' correspondingly diminished. Mr. Crumpacker and .Mr. (iiitlith. the two Indiana members of the census committee, sign a minority report, in which they are joined by Messrs Ileatwole, l_tirloigh, llussell and Wilson. The minority report: recommends a house of oNi members, which would prevent loss of representation by acetate. "No practical inconvenience,'' they argue, "as to the sealing capacity of the house can result from this increase. A plan prepared by the architect of the capilol shows that a slight lengthening of the outer row of seats in the corners on each side of the chamber and a rearrangement of eight seats in the body of the hall will accommodate the additional representatives.

Mr. Crumpacker presents still another minority report, in which lie proposes to place iu operation the Fourteenth amendment" of the constitution, which makes mandatory the-reduction of the representation of states wherein there has been a curtailment of the suffrage. His plan contemplates the reduction of Louisiana's representation from seven to four voles, of Mississippi's from seven to four, of North Carolina's from nine to six. of South Carolina's from six to four. "The measure 1 propose." he states, "carries uo resentment toward any state, north or souili. li is not designed for punishment. but it simply aims to place representation in the house upon its constitutional basis, and no state can justly complain if it be accorded its full rights. No compromise can be made with wrong." Judge Crumpaeker's proposition would prevent Indiana's loss of a representative in congress and the electoral college. lie considers it incongruous that Indiana, which cast ."(!).Kilt votes for 13 representatives in 1808. should suffer a serious curtailment: of her influence, while South Carolina, which cast. 29,42S votes for seven representatives, is permitted to retain six members. The average vote for each representative in Indiana in the election of 1800 was 43.72.~i. or nearly 14.000 more votes than were east for all of South Carolina's seven representatives. The lowest: number of votes cast for representative in Indiana in that year was 87.870 votes in the Third district, or 8,000 more votes than were cast in all the seven districts of South Carolina. The highest number was in the Seventh district. 40,!l41. "J'J.OOO more votes than were cast in the entire slate of South Carolina, and 17.000 more voles than were cast in the two districts of Florida, a stale which holds its own under the Hopkins apportionment.

.Judge Crumpacker's proposal does not have the approval of the administration and will not be adopted. Kven Senator Fairbanks is quoted as opposing if. The administration is especially anxious to keep the South in a friendly temper, and nothing will be done to rutlie the feelings of that seel ion.

The ollicers and alumni of Purdue university arc taking considerable interest in a bill now pending in congress. which appropriates $10,000 a year to each of the land grant colleges. for the purpose of establishing departments or schools of mining and metallurgy. It is quite likely that the bill will lie passed at the present session. lion. James W. Noel, a member of the last legislature from Marion county and a prominent alumnus of Purdue, says of this bill: "In Indiana there has long been felt the need of a special appropriation for research along the lines which would develop the natural resources of the state. All of the work along these lines has been done heretofore either by the staff geologist under a small salary am with very limited traveling expenses or by private individuals in the son ret of investment. It is being developed In the stale every day that: a sinal' amount of experimentation would (lis cover in our own state splendid mill eral deposits, particularly in the shape of clays which are peculiarly adapted to the manufacture of the finest pottery and building matefinl in tin world. Through the efforts of our state geologist, under great limitations. hundreds of thousands of dollars have already been employed in Indiana in the development of this

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class of resources. Ten thousand dollars a year applied iatlio way contemplated will yield wonderful results for the state, and will lie the means of adding, tremendously to the wealth of Indiana." In connection with this measure, It is pointed out flint: the rapidity of the development of American mining and mineral industries is not generally appreciated.

Professor Francis Maurice Egan. ot the Catholic university at Washington, was formerly a professor at Notre Dame university, and has many friends in Indiana, by whom a sfory told of an incident at the Philadelphia convention in which lie figured will bo appreciated. Professor Egnn, in company with Senator Chandler, who had just returned from Senator ITanna's rooms with the inside information that Roosevelt's nomination for vice-president could not be prevented. dropped into a Broad street reslauranf for rest and refreshment. A large and enthusiastic, not to say exuberant, crowd of New Yorkers, entered. wearing Woodruff badges. "Who is to be nominated for vicepresident Senator Chandler was asked. "Woodruff, of course," replied Chandler, whereupon there was greaf cheering, and the senator and the professor were decorated with Woodruff streamers. "Speech, speech," cried the crowd, and Senator Chandler was pushed upon a table, where lie delivered a glowing eulogy of New York's lieutenant-governor. The enthusiasm rose to white heat and Professor Egan. who felt himself in strange company for a learned professor of English. was also compelled to mount a table. where he launched upon an eloquent oration on the transcendant merits of Woodruff, whom he did not know from Adam's off ox. Nevertheless the crowd left full of confidence and boisterously enthusiastie. After Roosevelt had been nominated, one of the crowd approached the senator and ills professional protege in the con venfion hnII. "We didn't got our man in," said lie of the New York push. "No," replied Senator Chandler. "Tough, wasn't it." Put the incident left Professor Egan with the unique distinction of having delivered an eloquent eulogy of a man ho had never seen or heard of.

The Washington Post says that during General Harrison's visit to Washington lie entered a tobacco shop on Sixth street and indulged in a plug of the finest tobacco iu stock. "Did anyone ever tell you," said the storekeeper, as he looked the distinguished Indianinn over, "that you looked like ex-President Harrison?" "Yes," he replied. "I have heard that said very often. Do you think there is much of a resemblance?" "From his pictures," replied the tobacconist. "I should say you were a dead ringer for him." General Harrison chuckled and passed into the street. To a bystander in the doorway the storekeeper said, as the ex-president trudged toward the capitol: "Did you sec that man who was just in here? I told him he looked like ex-President Harrison." "He ought to. was the reply. "That was a

Oh-orge W. Steele. .Tr.. a cadet on the Lnited Slates ship Rrookly.n. now at Cavite. sends to his father. Representative Steele, a quaint relic of the foreign occupation of China. It a part of a poster. "Published." lie writes, "in Tien Tsin by the man whose name appears in the lexl. S. C. Wait. He is one of the city's greatest men. You will notice th peculiar construction lie uses, and the altnosl faultless spelling. The English was printed in square typo about half an inch high, and appeared to be done with a brush. If so. it took a lot of work to get out the number of posters with which tile city was flooded. The English portion of the proclamation follows i'lil K.'I.AMATM I

I inn very suny fur mII the go.iil inlnhitiuits I luiI

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which .vim met with. Now I

inl'onii you [u be pi'iieefiil l,y Major of 1,. S. M. ('. vlicii I his |]-x-l.-i• ti:it inn is hnngliif to ill! bu iiliiii of all the streets: so 1 enler all I tic people slaved within tilAmerican scriimi anil all tlit sohliers -if all nations as follows: t. Many kinds of wi-apmis are not Nillowed to keep in all dwellings belonging to the section, ami your inhabitants shou'l semi the weapons to the Interpreter of !!. S. 1. I'.. S. ('. Wall's house, if you hu\« kept before.

Von should lake the i'eat euro for tile lire setting out in any time. The Tien Tslen Water Society iniist he allowed tc carry waier in pulling down the lire as possible. .'!. Vou should come to the I". S. M. reporting all soldiers of all nations or th* inui\e robbers when they disturb in ,iii» building of this section. 4. I have paid llic wages to the labour: •to bury all death, and eloau all streets tt lake awsiv the dirts, ami you should kee| tho cleanliness. .". If all I ne escaped people like to coma bark in their origin.ii buildings, 1 innst piotect ,voi] by the American force, ami yov may sla.\ here as usual. (. All native ships sh nil 1 open for sale, been use you certainly 11 upon Hie pose. II' any pe-M.i:' disl ash lb" shops oi da not pay the -nenev for buying ili-rgs: must give some pti.i dnr.cris to lliom. 7. The sohliers ihe ". S. I'it'ees in tlncity will give prnl...-.i,,u to I he Chi iesi' scholar "Wall. All neoole are directed to preserv and behave in a quiet o'.iti rly manner.

Hy order of the (iuanl of American troops in the South Kast Quarter. July 1!I0U.

The distinction which tho proclamation draws between the foreign soldiers and the "native" robbers will be noticed. Perhaps it was unintentional. The news of the election, writes Mr. Steele, reached Manila on the mornieg of Nov. 7. and consisted of a single word cabled by Adjutant (rotioral Corbin to the Governor General of the islands "McKinley." The young man has been seeing a groat deal of the situation in the East, the Brooklyn having spent some time off the Chinese coast, and visited Nagasaki, Shanghai. Iloilo and other porta of present interest to Americans.

GEORGE B. LOCK WOOD.

TFF JOUKNALI office tor calling cards

JOE MULHATTON INSANE

Man of Riotous Imagination Finally Goes Wild.

WON FAME AS A PEEYAEI0AT0E.

Pitifnl Kate of (lie Traveling: Man WIio Originated Many Stupendous Newspaper Pukes—He la Product of Peiuisylvnnin—Some of His Startling' Stories.

•Toe Mulhatton, perhaps tho most noted writer of newspaper fakes in America, is in the territorial insane asylum at Plicnix, A. T., a hopeless maniac, says tho Chicago Times-Herald, lie believes he has killed a man and that a horde of avengers are on his trail. Though at times helpless, he tears his clothing from him and lias to have constant attention. lie was committed from Kelvin, Pinal county, where he has lived the last three years. He was instrumental lately in selling a valuable mine in Mineral Creek district and received several thousand dollars as an advance payment on his share of the proceeds. He spent several hundred dollars, but the rest of the coin cannot be found. His dementia is attributed to the excitement of the financial transaction, though alcohol may have had something to do with the case.

Mulhatton has been in Arizona about six years and lias been dabbling in mines all the time. He established a mining exchange ac Florence and has done a little newspaper work. During his Arizona residence his fertile imagination played its usual tricks, and the plots of some of his most notable inventions have been laid in the southwest.

Joseph Mulhatton was born in Alleghany City 52 years ago. At least that is what he says, but considering his reputation as a gorgeous and ornamental prevaricator even this statement must be taken with caution. As a unique, ornate and bewildering liar he has a reputation extending from Maine to Texas and even extending across the Atlantic to England and France, for the newspapers of those countries have been sadly taken in by the Mulhatton stories.

Even in his youth he displayed remarkable aptitude in the line of picturesque prevarication. He evolved from his fertile imagination a number of thrilling stories that found their way into the Pittsburg papers and were widely copied. As he grew older and gained a little experience he branched out along more pretentious lines and framed up an assortment of glittering newspaper fakes that brought special writers and sedate scientists scurrying across the ocean to investigate alleged marvelous phenomena which Mulhatton claimed to have discovered in remote parts of the country, but which lie really discovered during his idle moments in some hotel corridor.

Nominally he was a traveling man, but lying on a tremendous scale was his specialty. Perhaps his most notable work was the story of the meteor supposed to have fallen in Texas. Under his vivid imagination and facile pen this meteor landed in Brown county, covered an acre of ground, destroyed all the ranches for miles around by reason of the sulphurous fumes it gave ofE and was still sizzling its way into the earth when lie gave the story to the newspapers. That glittering invention sent a trainload of newspaper reporters and scientists into the mesquite bushes of Texas. They never located the meteor, but the railroads and boarding houses and ranchers with horses and guides to let did thriving business for several weeks.

His story of a wonderful cave in Pike county. Ky.. was also a highly decorated work of art. It appeared in a Louisville paper and set people on two continents talking of long halls lined with great blocks of virgin gold and of subterranean rivers rippling over beds of diamonds. People flocked to Pikevillo by the hundred, and town lots sold for $100 as fast as the papers could be made out. Even P. T. Barnum, tho wily old showman, was caught in the trap and hastened to Pike county to see if he might be able to pick up a few rare skeletons or strange cave dwellers that the excited discoverer had overlooked. In due course of time the phlegmatic and ponderous English tourists arrived in Pikeville and helped to swell the receipts of the hotels and bars.

In 187f», having a few moments to spare, Mulhatton wrote a story to the effect that the tombs of Washington and Lincoln would betaken to theCentenniai exposition In Philadelphia and put on exhibition, the fund thus created to be devoted to completing the Washington monument on a grand scale. Before this fake was exploded a number of sedate editors were clawing at each other over the impropriety of the scheme.

His story of the discovery of detached sun spots brought orders from Paris and London to send crack reporters to the scene at once and spare no expense in securing complete details. His tale of the man who was able to generate electricity in his body and make himself impervious to the poison of the deadliest snstkes had quite a vogue, as the man made a sworn statement to the effect that in one season alone he had killed 17.000 snakes.

In personal appearance Mulhatton is a slight, modestly dressed man, with a keen eye and quick movement. Fie would never be selected as the man who has upset more newspaper offices and sent more reporters on long and fruitless chases than any other in bisTory.

AMERICAN AUTOS LEAD.

We Are Behind In Records, but Make Best Machines.

THE GREAT DEMAND PROVES THAT'

Wn*4ltiii£'(oii Man Who Has Rctnrucd From a roup Month*' Korel&n Trip Tells Where in American Machine*

Are Superior to All OUiers—l.iuliilies* oC Gear Chief Advantage.

''Tho American automobile has invaded England and is getting a strong foothold on the continent." said a young Washington busim J-S man whorecently returned from a four months' trip oil the other side to it report the Washington Post. "1 went over to make a special study of automohilisni on its native heath. I wanted to Irani all the latest wrinkles in autocarriage.s and thought that would be a good way: to find nut. Well, before 1 got through I found out that we were up with tlieni on this side in practically every particular except racing records and that in most things we were considerably in the lead. The American made machine is taking the first rank in England just as It) or 15 yi ars ago the light Aieerican built buggy startled the coach builders in Cerinany and created such a demand for itself that the dealers were forced to import from this side till they had time to steal the American models and put tlieni out in their own markets, "As the case stands today there are three great classes of automobiles in use. the sti am carriage, of which there an several makes, all of tlieni driven by a light steam engine burning petroleum fuel the gasoline rig. using gasoline to drive an explosive motor, and lastly the electric rig, carrying its own •Storage !::uterics. "Now, what is the situation in England? Practically the only steam carriages they have are heavy trucks for the heaviest sort of hauling around the docks and warehouses. Their gasoline motors up to date have nearly all been imported from France and are noisy and evil smelling and have more mechanism to tin in than a Swiss watch, and they don't know what an electric vehicle is except such as have been imported from this country, which have taken the auto fraternity by storm. The lirlit steam runabouts, such as we have turned ot.t in the past year oil this side, are next in favor to the electric carriage and are selling as fast as the dealers can get them from the factories on this side simply because there is nothing built in England to compare with them. The- American gasoline motors are simpler, stronger and more satisfactory in every respect than the French or Cerman. They are built, to look more like carriages and less like a Chinese puzzle turned wrong side out. and they have the advantage of having been built to stand the rough work on American roads, so that when they are turned loose on a line macadam English country road their performance always astonishes the people who thought that automobiles were built nowhere but in Paris, "Well, I rode in everything in the automobile line that ever came down the Piccadilly pike, and it was a great satisfaction to be able to pick out an American machine as far as you could see it merely by the fact that it was always sure to bo the lightest anil handsomest and the best running rig in the crowd. I extended my trip over the most of the continent, taking in France, Germany and Italy. It was the same story everywhere. The American rig was first wherever it had appeared, and the others were nowhere. "In Paris there are a great number of gasoline cabs and hotel omnibuses that make a noise like it cotton mill and leave a trail like a polecat, but the.y are not what tho public over here would demand by a long shot. London is particularly shy on public auto vehicles and seems inclined to do her importing from this side rather than from the continent, though the market over hotels more than ready for all the vehicles our manufacturers can turn out. However. while I was in London 1 got some English capitalists interested in American machines, and they have formed a company to take the English and continental agencies for American machines. "Incidentally they have acquired English and European rights to one of the best American automobile tires, which is considerably ahead of anything In the vehicle tire line in Europe, and in the course of the next year the prospect is that half the English autos will be running on American tires. "1 have found another thing, too, that in spite of the high wages that American manufacturers have to pay their workmen they are putting their machines on the market -10 per cent cheaper than can be done with the same class of rig on the other side. Thething that does it is the use of machinetools and doing things on a lar&o

scalk

with the best class of mechanics in the world and the most improved labor saving devices. The result is that I closed a contract some weeks ago with one American firm for a lot of motors, frames and running gear for use in London at the same price for a seven horsepower motor that 1 would have had to pay for it three horsepower motor of the same grade in England. No it wasn't the same grade either, for it was a better motor than I could have got at all in the English shops except at a prohibitive price."

Also lic Dovnyeil One.

They are now making artificial egg3, but the hen may safely defy the manufacturer, says the Baltimore Herald, to get up nn qrticle that can be hatched.