Ligonier Banner., Volume 38, Number 38, Ligonier, Noble County, 17 December 1903 — Page 2

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The London Times states that in 34 ¥ezrs 40,0660 English children have been sent to Canada., Further fnvestigation would show that most of them now resife in the United States. .

" Soap that contains lard can have no more place in Turkey, according to the suitan’s decree. The Turks will have to use a brick, or go back to their old cusicm of not bathing at all. . Quotizations on ears show great fluctusiions on the New York market. The man who recently sold his ear for £5.600 to a wealthy western mine own€T is offering $l,OOO for an ear to take its piace, with the hope of clearing $4.00% in the speculation. Charley Crow Dog is the name of an Indian who has been arrested for robbing a post office. He is the first Indian €ver deiected in such a crime. ‘“‘Givea €O2 2 bad mame”—as the old proverb savys—azand the government gave him his. Now he will be allowed to exchange it ior a number. "1t is now estimated that an ource of ‘radium would furnish sufficient energy 1o drive a S5O-horsepower automobile at ihie tale of 30 miles an hour around the werid, which is all right as a theory, ot the alarming thing about it, now thzl it has been made public, is that =ome fellow is likely to try it any minwis : | Burzglar-procf pay cars are to be put in service on the Pennsylvania railroad. The cars will be covered with 572:1 sheeting which no bullet ¢an peneiraie. Another blow {o the business of {he picturesque train robber. If he iz ‘o succeed in this prosaic age he will find war balloons and 16-inch £EDS necossary. : . } J. H. Ackerman, state _superintendent;} of public instruction in Oregon, urges ' ikai the glements of seientific farming be vaught in public schools. He does not contémplate thorough agricultural traiming, but rather that pupils be. tzugh: such facts and principles as should be understood by every one liv‘:s in ar agricultural country. Swiizeriand has long been a harbor for anarchists who find its easily accessible’ frontiers 4 convenient escape from the consequences of their crimes. The republic has resolved to give the nefaricus tribe sanctuary no longer. To ILis course it is forced by self-preser-vation, for the ingrates menace its law and order as seriously as the law and order of every other country. Coiorado, Wyoming and Utah have mzany women officeholders, three recent <izztions giving the office of city treasTTEr 10 women, two receiving the city clerkship and one town elected a woman clerk and recorder. Both Idaho and Ccolorado have women state superintendents of public instruction, the one in the latter state now serving her third t=rm. The national superintendent of indian schools is a Wyoming woman, - A Boston scientist' says there is encugh radium under the soil of the sizte of Corpecticut to make or unmake. the United States. No man is iikely to- be satisfied, however, until Connecticut bas proved that its supiy is the genuine article, and not a cardboard imitation. The public remembers the shoe peg oats, the wood€l nutmegs, the “Havana” cigars and ike turnip horseradish. ' : et em— : A XNew York problem in real life ibreaiens to become as troublesome as Ihe age of Ann. A man died of deliriumn tremen§ who, it was proved, zgver took but two drinks a day—one in the morning and one in. the eveninz. Physicians, bartenders, whisky men and nurses are being interviewed 2= 1o the possibility of tnis phenomemon. The answer seems easy, however., iz 211 depends on the size of those two €rinks, . e e ee e e ¥ 3 The associated billposters and disiributers of the United States and Cana2¢a met in Chicago last week and discussed plans “to check the inroads made iz their business by newspaper adveriising.” It appears that in all parts of the cour?ry merchants are reducing iZelr poster advertising and giving increascd paircnage to the newspapers. &hese merchants are after results and the billposters will hardly be able to check the movement. - e e S——— ~ The number of recent immigrants to ihe United States who are transforming themselves into emigrants will surprise the country. One steamer recentIy left New York with 1,500 steerage passengers for Liverpool, which is the iargest number ever carried by any vessel from any port of the . United ' States. It is said that the number of recent arrivals who have left New York for their old homes in Europe in one week is about 9,000. Nothing like this hegzira was ever seen in the past, alw.ough some emigrants leave New York every day in the year. ‘T

Herbert Spencer, who died recently at Cheltenham, England, at the age of &3 years, was the last of a group of great Englishmen who made the Vieterian age noteworthy in literature and philosophy. He was a contemporary of Darwin, Huxley, Tyndall, Tennyson, Carlyle, Ruskin, and Browning. He was born in the same year as Tyndall, one year after Ruskin, five years before Huxley, 11 years after Darwin and Tennysen, and one’ year later thxhn Queen Victoria. He had outlived them: all, and he will be remembered as long as any. : ; S The annual report of the comptroller of the currency shows a marvelous increase in the banking business of the country. The loans and discounts of the national banks this year reached their maximum in the history of the system, and on September 9 they aggregated three and a half billions of dollars. The cash holdings of the banks increased $25,060,000 over last year and deposits increased $347,000,000, bringing the total to $6,352,700,055. This sum is greater by more than $611,000,000 than was credited 1o depositors in all reporting banks in 3888 : :

A WEEKS HISTORY The Important Happenings of a ~ Week Briefly Told. IN ALL PARTS OF THE UNION All the Latest News of Interest from . Washington, From the East, the . West and the South.

THE LATEST FOREIGN DISPAT{)HES' IN EXTRA SESSION. Congress Meets to Consider Cuban Reciprocity and Other Matters. Investigation into frauds in the post office department was the basis of a sharp debate in the senate on the Bth by Senators Gorman and Lodge. Senator Teller spoke in opposition to the Cuban bill. The Panama canal treaty was referred to the foreign affairs committee. . In the house bills were introduced to prevent the sale of intoxicating liquors in buildings owned or controlled by the government; to protect anti-gambling laws from nullification through interstate gambling by telegraph. A resolution was adopted requesting the postmaster general to furnish the Yost office committee with all papers in ‘connection with the recent investigation of his department. In the senate on the 9th Senator Hoar (Mass.) introduced a resolution calling for information covering every phase connected with the founding of the new republic of Panama. Senators Teller and Morgan spoke against Cuban reciprocity. In the house bills were introduced for the upbuilding of the navy; to create a commission to consider legislation for the development of the American merchant marine; to appropriate $lOO,OOO for the erection of a federal building at Lincoln, 111. : On the 10th bills were introduced in the senate providing that after March 4, 1904, salaries of senators, representatives and delegates in congress shall be 87,500 :per annum, and to make the provisions of the naturalization laws of the United States applicable to Porto Rico. In the house the pension appropriation = bill, carrying $138,150,100, was reported. A bill was introduced limiting the meaning of the word “conspiracy” and the use of injunctions. :

FROM WASHINGTON. In his annual i'eport Secretary Shaw days that all danger of a financial stringency. is past. The available cash balance at the end of the year was $388;686,114, exceeding that of 1902 by $26,498,753.07. The battleship Maine left Colon for: the United States to undergo repairs. Severe earthquake shocks were felt at Enumclaw, Wash., at the base of Mount Rainier. - ~ In his report Secretary Cortelyon says the new department of commerce and labor has no authority to settle disputes between employer and employe. ' A government report estimates the winter wheat area at 32,000,000 acres, a ‘decrease of six per cent. from 1902. During the season just closed 24 lives. were lost in navigating the great lakes, ten being passengers. : According to plans of the Interstate association 8,000 independent telephona ‘companies will be merged into a combine with $35,000,000 capital. ' Gen. MacArthur is said to have predicted war between the United States and Germany over the latter’s encroachments in South America. ; e THE EAST. Fire destroyed the house of Clayton Fowler at Clarksßurg, N. J., and he and his wife and four children perished in the flames. . At the age of 88 years Rev. John Lanahan, one of the most widely known ministers of the Methodist Episcopal church in the country, died in Baltimore, Md. : o The death of Rev. Henry Clay Trumbull, editor of the Sunday School Times, and author, occurred at his home in Philadelphia, aged 73 years. . At the age of 70 years Rev. Seth K. Mitchell, an evangelist of national reputation, died at his home in Dorchester Mass. (' At Butler, Pa,, 1400 persons are down with typhoid fever and Mayor Kennedy has appealed to the werld for help. : : . At the Brooklyn navy yard orders have been received direting that the battleship Indiana go ot of commission for repairs. At the age of 71 years Rear Admiral Bancroft Gherardi (retired) died at his residence in Stratford, Conn. ; . In the New York courts Mme. Nordica has entered suit for a divorce from her husband, M. Doeme.

: WEST AND SOUTH. At Frankfort J. C. W. Beckham was for the second time inaugurated as governor of Kentucky. Fire nearly wiped out the town of Abbott, Tex. At Victor, C 01.,, a cemetery known as the “nonunion graveyard,” because it is owned by a firm opposed to labor unions, was attacked with dynamite and destroyed. = 1 ‘While sinkiflg an artesian well near Cheyenne, Wyo., the drill at a depth of 265 feet penetrated a lake or stream and water spouted out toa height of 40 feet. Soundings failed to find bottom. : In a lecture to an eclectic society in Chicago Prof. J. D. Robertson declared doctors will have nothing to do when people stop bathing. ‘ ; In'a lake near Kenosha, Wis., Clar‘ence Walker, aged seven, was saved from drowning by his six-year-old sister, who threw a scarf to him and held him from sinking. The Wabash road has gained an entrance to Cleveland; using trackage rights over the new Erie cut-off. In Zion City the dismissal of the receivers was celebrated and Dr. Dowie announced to his followers . that the town will hereafter be on a cash basis: The president. has decided to appoint Thomas J. Atkins, chairman of the republican state committee of Missouri; to be assistant United States treasurer at St. Louis: = : Edwin Holt Hughes has been inaugurated president of De Pauw university at Greencastle, Ind.. J

The LouiQana Purchase Exposition company at¥WSt. Louis will ask congress for an additional appropriation of $4,000,000. . Elizabeth Gillespie, of Rising Sun, Ind., died of shots fired through the window of her home and her twin brother was called before a grand jury for examination. - In Chicago the National Contractors’ conference held its first meeting and made plans for a permanent association. Rioters assaulted the nonunion crew of a Chicago City railway car and wrecked the car. - Mary McKnight was convicted at Cadillac, Mich., of poisoning her brother, his wife and their baby, and was given a life sentence. £

FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE, It was said that Colombian troops were marching on Panama, while United States warships were patrolling both coasts to prevent landing. The death of Charles Waldegrave Sandford, for nearly 20 years bishop of Gibraltar and founder of the Gibraltar mission to seamen, occurred at Bishopbourne. : United States marines and bluejackets landed at Guantanamo, Cuba, and installed the naval station at that point. Standard Oil officials ordered bloodhounds sent to Montpelier, Ind., where some cne opened the valves of five immense tanks and permitted the oil to escape. = A plan is on foot in Virbginia to erect an equestrian statue of George Washington, to be constructed entirely of tobacco, at the St. Louis world’s fair. In a train cellision near Steubenville, 0., 15 persons were injured and Frank A. La Salle killed. .

LATER NEWS, There were two speeches in the United States senate on the 11th on the Cuban reciprocity bill, one of them in support of the measure and the other against. Bills were introduced for the erection in Washington of 2 monument to the memory of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow; providing for the promotion to the grade and pay of major of army chaplains who have had notless than ten years’ experience. Adjourned to the 14th. In the house Mr. Dinsmore (Ark.) condemned the recognition of the Panama republic and Mr. Hitt (Ill.) upheld the action of the United States. The pension bill was discussed. Adjourned to the 14th. : Capt. Charles A. P. Talbot, British consul at Boston, died suddenly of heart trouble. : The resolutions adopted by the AntiSaloon league in session in Washington proncunce the saloon the greatest criminal the world has known. John McCrea, the colored murderer of Detective William Murphy on June 25 last, was hanged in Peoria, 111. There were 331 business failures in the United States during the seven days ended on the 11th, against 269 the same week in 1902. - _ Prominent educators met in Washingten and started a movement in behalf of better salaries for teachers. : Weekly trade reviews say that business in all seasonable lines makes a favorable comparion with the corresponding period of the previous year. Senator Hanna will request the senate committes on military affairs to subpoena Gen. Wood to answer charges A United States flag raising at Guantanamo was avoided by Cubans, who declared the naval station there has been forced upon them. - National and local labor leaders in Chicago decry use of violence in strikes, while attacks on nonunion men are almost of daily occurrence. ’ . At New Haven, Conn., the Yale university forestry school building was destroyed by fire, the loss being over $lOO,OOO, : : - Isaac Price, said to be the oldest man in Brooklyn, N. Y., died in his one hundred and second year. , Mrs. Rachel A. Beall, an eccentricand well to do widow, was shot to death at her home in Washington by some one unknown. - Gov. Brady, of Alaska; in his annual report urges provision for Alaska’s representation by a delegate in congress, and says that Alaska’s main need is for pioneers and home builders. :

MINCR NEWS ITEMS. The fifty-ninth birthday of Queen Alexandra’ of England was cglebrated in London. ; : American Jews are now forbidden to enter Russia without special permit from the interior minister of that country. Citizens of Cleveland, 0., formally presented a handsome bronze ship’s bell to the new cruiser Cleveland at Portsmouth, N. H. : , Geronimo, the famous Apache chief, has joined the Dutch Reformed church. Theodore C. Hinckley, of St. Louis, appointed district attorney of Manila, is 23 years of age. C. W. Cotton, aged 77, is the oldest reporter in the country. He works on a New Albany (Ind.) paper. A monument, is to be erected at Newark, N. J., to the memory of Thomas Dunr English, author of, “Ben Bolt.” A construction and equipment budget of the Pennsylvania railroad for 1904 comprehends the expenditure of $30,000,000. : Jacob Hinds shot and fatally wounded Jerry Arnold at Cadiz Junction, 0., because the latter defeated him in a sparring exhibition. : Wilhelm von Polénz, noted German traveler, who wrote a book with the title “America, the Land of the Future,” is dead. ; Consul General Wormen reports that the University of Munich, which has thrown open its doors to women students, has extended the privilege to Americans. Joseph Weber and Lew Fields paid $2OO a minute to hear Mme. Patti sing in their Harlem (N. Y.) theater. A total of $2,000 of the $5,000 guaranteed to her was not taken at the door. _ An accident at their wedding, by which blood fell on the bridal cake; resulted in the immediate separation of Patrick O'Malley and Mrs. Mary Gallagher, whom he married in Chicago. “Heads of governments have arranged an international exchange of detectives to guard against anarchy, and police from other nations will come to protect the president of the United States. After a service of 61 years, Thomas Wentworth Higginson, ‘the well-known historian, has resigned as chairman of the committee which inspects the course of instruction in English literature at Harvard university. :

- FLAG HAULED DOWN. Consul Davis Quits Post at Alex. andretta, Turkey, for In- : sult by Police. Constantinople, Dec. 9.—The United States flag over the consulate at Alexandretta, Asiatic Turkey, has been hauled down and Consul Davis has left his post for Beirut in consequence of a serious diplomatic incident during which Mr. Davis was insulted and assaulted by the local police. The affair grew out of the arrest of an Armenian—Channes Attarian, a naturalized American citizen. Attarian had been in prison at Aleppo during the last two months and had just been liberated through the intervention of the American consular agent, on condition of his leaving the country forthwith. Mr. Davis was accompanying Attarian on board a departing steamer when the police intercepted the party, assaulted and insulted Mr. Davis, and, despite the resistance of the consul and his attendant guards, rearrested Attarian and took him back to prison. Mr. Davis immediately lowered the flag over the consulate and formally broke off relations with the Turkish authorities by quitting Alexandretta, leaving the consulate in charge of the viee consul. A mob of Moslems seized on the occa~ sion to make a hostile demonstration against the consulate and against the Christians generally. ‘Washington, Dec. 9.—The state department has received a brief cablegram from Consul Davis at Alexandretta, Asiatic Turkey, saying that he had had trouble with the local police at Alexandretta and had left for Beirut in consequence. The state department promptly cabled Minister Leishman at Constantinople to institute a thorough investigation of the whole affair. It is expected that Minister Leishman will call at the foreign office Tuesday to inquire of the Turkish officials regarding the matter. ;

HOUSE COMMITTEES. They Are Announced by Speaker Can- " non—A List of the Most Important Chairmanships. Washington, Dec. 7.—Speaker Cannon announced -the house committees upon the convening of that body Saturday. The chairmen of the important committees are as follows: Appropriations, Hemenway; judiciary, Jenkins; banking and currency, Fowler; interstate and foreign commerce, Hepburn; rivers and harbors, Burton; merchant marine and fisheries, Grosvenor; agriculture, Wadsworth; foreign affairs, Hitt; military affairs, Hull; naval affairs, Foss; post offices and post roads, Overstreet; public lands, Lacey; Indian affairs, Sherman; territories, Hamlltdn; insular affairs, Cooper (Wis.); public buildings and grounds, Gillett (N. Y.); labor, Gardner (N. J.); militia, Dick; invalid pensions, Sulloway; pensions, Loudenslager; District of Columbia, Babcock; irrigation of arid lands, Mondell; immigration and naturalization, Howell (N. J.); census, Crumpacker; library, McCleary; printing, Charles B. Landis (Ind.); industrial arts and expositions, Tawney.

ARE CONVICTED. FPostal Clerks on Trial in Baltimore ! Found Guilty eof Conspiracy to Defraud Govermment. . Baltimore, Md., Dec. 9.—Former Postal Clerks Thomas W. McGregor and Columbus Ellsworth Upton were convicted Tuesday in the United States district court of conspiracy to defraud the government in connection with the purchase of 20,000 leather pouches for use in the free delivery service. Charles E. Smith, who received the order for the pouches through the influence of- Upton and McGregor, was the principal witness against the accused. The case was given to the jury late in the afternoon, and after deliberating 45 minutes, a verdict of guilty was returned. Counsel for the convicted men immediately made a motion for a new trial, and Judge Morris agreed to hear arguments on the motion on next Saturday. Bond in $5,000 was furnished by Upton’s friends, and he was released. McGregor is in charge of United States Marshal Langhammer pending the arrival of friends from Washington to furnish a similar amount of bail for him.

3 The Emperor’s Condition. London, Dec. 7.—The Daily Mail understands that there is reason to fear a recrudescence of Emperor William’s throat trouble and that it may be many weeks before the emperor regains the use of his voice, although the doctors are agreed that the trouble is not of a malignant character. Alfonso Welcomed to Portugal. Lisbon, Dec. 11.—King Alfonso of Spain arrived here Thursday atd was welcomed at the railroad station by King Carlos and a striking gathering of princes, ministers, peers, deputies and naval and military officers. The monarchs cordially embraced and the official introductions followed, - Stock of Millinery Burned. Cedar Rapids, la., Dec. 11.—Fire destroyed the wholesale millinery stock of Lyman Bros. Thursday night. The total loss is $85,000, with about half that amount of insurance. : Sentenced for Perjury. New York, Dec. io.—Henry Farley, walking delegate of the Painters’ union, who committed perjury in connection with the trial ef Samuel J. Parks, pleaded guilty Wednesday and was sentenced to not less than one year nor more than two years in state prison. Chair Factory Burned. Boston, Dec. 10.—Fire in the chair factory of John A. Dunn, in this city, Wednesday caused a loss estimated at $125,000. There were a number of narrow escapes among the employes, but all persons in the building are thought to have escaped safely. Well-Known Minister Dead. Baltimore, Md., Dec, 9.—Rev. John Lanahan, one of the most widely known ministers of the Methodist Episcopal church in the country, and “Nestor” of the Baltimore conference, died Tuesday at his residence in this city. He was 88 years old. ' i Epidemic of Smallipox. Dover, Del.,, Dec. 9.-——An epidemic of smallpox prevails at Woodland, a small town near Seaford, Del. Out of a population of about 100 persons there are 25 cases of smallpox. The state board of health has placed a strict quarantine on the town. i

INVASIONS PUT OFF. Colombia Starts Several Armies To- - ward Isthmus, But Speedily. Recalls Them. ! Colon, Dec. 12.—Colombian troops sent to the Atrato river for the purpose of invading the isthmus and marching on Panama have abandoned the attempt. The French steamer Fournel, which arrived here Friday,brought information that the army of invasion had returned to Cartagena. The Colombian warships Gen. Pinzon and Cartagena left Cartagena at the beginning of December, having on board the same 450 troops which Gen. Tovar braught to Colon. These were landed at the Rio Atrato, with instructions to build a road toward Panama. But after terrible suffering for four days in their effort to go up the river in small boats and canoes and being in want of provisions of all kinds, their supplies having been scaked with water and completely spoiled, the troops resolved not to go any further. - . Gen. Melendez said Friday that he had sent commissioners to the chiefs in the Indian territory requesting them to come to Colon and interview the officials of the government on important matters concerning their interests. One chief from the Indian settlement at Point Diablo has already accepted this invitation and arrived here. He gives assurance that Colombian troops have not been seen in this territory, and, further, that they would not be allowed to cross the country. Other chiefs from San Blas and Cape Mosquito, who have accepted the government’s invitation, are expected to arrive here shortly. . Washington, Dec. 12.—The state department has received a cablegram from Consul General Gudger, at Panama, announcing that the Colombian expedition to Panama, according to his information, had been abandoned. . Colon, Dec. 12.—Admiral Coghlan has received a letter from Luther F. Ellsworth,” United States consul at Cartagena, which says that the Coclombian warship Cartagena left Cartagena early in December carrying about 800 soldiers, its destination being the Atrato river district. The contents of the letter, which give no details of the movement, have been transmitted to the Washington government. The Mayflower, which left in a southeastward direction Thursday, will join the Atlanta and both vessels will proceed to the Gulf of Darien for the purpose of obtaining definite information as to what is happening there. The Mayflower will return immediately and report to Admiral Coghlan. : News has been received hers from the interior to the effect that 4,000 Colombian troops left Bogota a fortnight ago to go down the Magdalena river, but on reaching Honda, they received orders countermanding the movement and returned to Bogota December 2. It is believed that Gen. Reyes is responsgible for the countermanding of the order.

TRADE REVIEW. Iron and Steel Show Evidence of Bet- : ter Conditions—Cotton and Other Lines Not Soe Encouragiag. New York, Dec. 12.—R. G. Dun & Co.’s Weekly Review of Trade says: ‘“Developments are not encouraging as to cotton spinning, but there ‘is evidence of better conditions in the iron and steel industry, while retail trade feels the usual impetus as the holidays approach. Idleness among New England lumber mills is offset by increased activity in the south. Owing to pressure of grain there is still delay in handling freight promptly at a few western points, but as a rule traffic facilities are adequate, and railway earnings for November show an average gain of 4.0 per cent. over las¥/ year. Throughout the iron industry, there is a growing sentiment of hopefulness regarding the new year. Prices nave steadied and orders are being placed more liberally. - “Failures this week numbered 331 in the United States, against 269 last year, and 20 in Canada, compared with 30 a year ago.” ¢ Bradstreet’s says: “Distribution along consumptive lines grows in volume with the continuance of cold weaiher and the nearer approach of the holidays. Jobbing distribution also feels this stimulus in reorders to fill depleted stocks, and also market reflects more assured buying for next spring. Wholesale trade generally is quiet as | usual at this period, and industry shows slackening in some lines. The improve- ‘ ment in crude iron apparently holds, judging from small price advances at several markets. KEastern shoe manu- 1 facturers are still shipping heavily on winter account, have an average spring business booked and report fair orders for next fall. Seasonal conditions, stock taking or readjustments to lessened demand are all assignable reasons for the quieting down of outdoor activity, such as building, or for reduced running time or suspensions in a variety of industries employing large numbers of hands. Im-. proved demand for the next three months’ delivery and advance demanded of 25 to 50 cents in prices, with refusals to book beyond that time, lead to the belief that the lowest point has been seen in the iron trade.”

Crime in Paris., Paris, Dec. 12.—The local police have completed the gathering of statistics relating to e¢rime in Paris. During the year ending December 1 a total of 70,699 cases occupied their attention, of which 3,200 were criminal assaults and 15 were murders or attempted murders. Held for Murder, : Buffalo, N. Y., Dec: 12.—Charles Bonier, 74 years old, was held Friday on the charge of having murdered Franz and Johanna Frehr, the aged couple who disappeared on November 19 and whose mutilated bodies were found on December 3, buried in their own yard. Many Foreigners Going Home. New York, Dec. 12.—Twelve hundred steerage passengers sailed from this port Friday on the steamer La Champagne and 850 on the Lahn, making the total number returning to Kurope during the ante-Christmas rush nearly 50,000, ' To Resume Business. - Pittsburg, Pa., Dec. 12.—Authority having been granted by the comptrolier pf the currency, the Federal national bank, which closed its doors in October, will resume business next Monday, with Col. Hugh Young, for 25 years bank examiner of this district, as prezident.

FORTUNE IN PORPOISES. Many of the White Cetaceans Frequent the Gulf of St. Lawrenee, and Are Valuable. American tourists crossing the Bt. Lawrence from the mouth of the Saguenay can almost always enjoy thesight of a number of porpoises disporting themselves upon the water in the neighborhood ef Tadoussac, says the New York Sun. The great white cetaceans appear like shapeless masses of blubber as their arched backs show from time to time above the surface. Th'ey are «doubtless aftracted to the mouth of the Sagueray by the large number of salmon which enter the river throughout the season. A large industry is expected soon to spring up in various parts of the Gultf of St. Lawrence in connection with the hunting of porpoises. It has already been attempted upon a small scale, but the difficulty of capturing any great number of the animals has stood in the way of success. Now the difficulty has been overcome through the ocbservations and experiments of Campbell°McNab, a Canadian hunter, who has spent mauy years in the study of these animals. The adult porpoise of the St. Lawrence and the North Atlantic ocean .is from 12 to 18 feet in length. It somewhat resembles'a dolphin in shape, with large dorsal fin and a mouth armed with many strong and sharp teeth. Each porpoise is believed to eat from one to three barrels of fish a day, so that it is difficult to estimate the frightful ravages which they make among the salmon, the herring and the cod. They are largely gregarious, though they often hunt their prey in couples. Mr. McNab has often peered over the edge of an overhanging rock to watch them catch salmon at the mouth of a stream and sometimes a long distance up a river, where they follow their prey. They chase a salmon into a shallow and then two approach it from either side. The salmon appears unable to move, as if paralyzed with fear. If he attempts to rush from one of his pursuers he falls into the open mouth of the other.

i The porpoise is equally expert in fishing for the slippery eel. Mr. McNab opened one of these animals the other ~day and found more than 40 eels in its | stomach.: To prevent their wriggling, and to aid digestion, the porpoise cracks the skull of the eel bet Teen its teeth before swallowing it. ( o Like the eel; the porpoise can live a ‘long time out of the water. In fact, it is virtually amphibious. Some time ago Mr. McNab shot a number of the animals which had been hauled ashore and bound together by their tails. After skinning another lot at some distance and taking out the blubber, he turned a few days later to the lot which had been last shot. Unknown to him one had not been killed outright. As-he passed in front of it it growled at him “likea dog.” he says, and opened its jaws to snap him. The porpoises are captured by being imprisoned at low tide on the shoals, over which they have journeyed when the tide was high, in pursuit of their prey. Hitherto the difficulty has been to find any barrier strong encugh to retain’ such enormously strong, heavy beasts, and so many of them together as are sometimes enclosed. Mr. McNab has made the interesting discovery that the enormous nets thro®gh which they often broke are not necessary to hold back the brutes. They are unable to stand the slightest vibration in the water, and so all that the hunter now finds necessary is ‘to fasten a long thin pole like a fishing rod to a stake in the mouth of the ‘stream, the bay or the estuary within ~which it is desired to retain the porpoises. They remain to be stranded and killed upon the shallows rather than venture past the vibrating rod.

This sensitiveness is believed to have fts seat in the ear of the animal, which has so small an opening that it might almost have been made with a pin. For years McNab has held firmly to this theory, only to be laughed at for his pains. He has now proved it beyond peradventure, and has reaped the fruit of his persistence. At one tide the other day he secured 69 of the animals on the shoals of the Portneuf river a few miles below Tadoussac, and next year will pursue operations there upon a larger scale. He has secured a nine year lease of the shoal from the government and has apparently a fortuneJwithin easy reach. The skin and oil from a single porpoise are worth from $3O to $5O. . The utmost caution has to be taken not to drive the animals away from their haunts. If any of the blood or refuse of their dead is permitted to reach the water, Mr. McNab declares, they will desert the place entirely. This is the explanation he gives of the present absence of porpoises from the River Quelle and other places on the banks of the St. Lawrence, where a few years ago many of them were annually Kkilled. The porpoise, he says, is one of the most intellifent animals created. : New Calculation. Prof. See has watched the duration of the blue sky after dark, and found it to continue for about an hour and 15 minutes, and from this he shows that our atmosphere extends to a height of fully 130 miles. Astronomers have usually found the height of the atmosphere by computing the height of the meteors, but none have made the height of the atmosphere over 100 miles. The study of the blue color of the sky thus proves also that our atmosphere extends considerably higher than scientists have heretofore supposed. On our dark days the blue color of the sky is shut out by clouds, and combinations of colors due to reflecting clouds and countless myriads of particles in the ethereal regions high above the earth give the bright light which is so much relished in daily life.

Chloroform for Plants. Albert Maumene, in the Review Scientifique, Paris, referring to experiments of M. Johannsen, of the Agricultural school of Copenhagen, gives it as his opinion that by the use of anesthetics, such as ether and chloroform, early foreing in plant development by present methods will all be superseded, gince the anesthetizing process makes possible the flowering of these plants four or five months earlier than the ordinary methods of forcing. ‘A Health Indicator. “Mrs. Nexdoor—How is old Mr. Moneybaggs this morning? Mrs. Sharpeye—l haven’t heard; but 1 noticed that Dr. Bigfee looked very gloomy when he left the Moneybaggs residence a little while ago. “Ah, then the dear old gentleman ir getting well.”—N. Y. Weekly. | Sy i e Re T e

; TWO PRAYERS. : Queer Regquests Made in the Supplications of Imaginative - ‘ Preachers. “Speaking of ‘queer breaks’ occasionally made by pastors in addressing their faithful flocks, here is one that | tnink takes the cake,” observed a New Yorker to® some friends as they were chatting at the club, according to toe Times. “The case in question was that of a young clergyman whose imagination sometimes exceeded his common sense. At any rate, fn one occasion he began his prayer as folows: *“‘Oh Lord, we thank Thee that there is one small spark of grace remaining in our hearts. Water it, we beseech Thee, Oh Lord, water it - . “That reminds me of the favori{é climax of the minister of the one church in a little country place where I was staying one summer,” remarked one of the others when the laugh had subsided. ‘“He was of extremely pacitic tendencies and rare}_\' ended his prayer by any other phrase than the following: - | “‘Oh iord. we pray Thee that the dove of peace and the eagle of freedom may soar heavenward together, bearing between them a banner with the motto, “E pluribus innum,” A-a-men.”” :

AN EXPERT. . He Wanted a Confidential Clerkship Because He Could Be Very ; Centidential. ) Secretary Shaw says that shortly after he assumed his duties as head of the treasury department he was called upon by an old gentleman from his own state of lowa, who wanted an appointment as confidential clerk to one of the assistant secretaries of that department. . “In spite of the fact that I was very busy at the time,” says Mr. Shaw, “I gave the lowan the*better part of an hour, for he was as pleasant and entertaining an old chap as one could meet—bright, chipper and ‘witty.” On account of his age, the secretary telt that he could not comply with the request. So, gently but firmly, he informed him that. he did not see his way clear to give him the appointment. This did not dampen the old gentleman’s spirit in the least. “Now, sir,” said he, “as I feel myself peculiarly well qualified to fill one of these confidential clerkships, 1 hope that you will con~ sider my application further.” ) Then, wagging his head most impressively, he added earnestly: o “Oh, sir, 1 could be so confidential!’” CE R T ] Hard to Conceal. ) . A Bad of Enid, Okla., in the geography class, was deeply interested in learning the points of the compass. -Said the teacher: - “You have in front of you the north, on your right the east, and on vour left the west. What have you behind you?” After a few . moments’ reflection Charlie exclaimed: “A patch on my pants.” - And to make the information more binding Charlie continued in a shamefaced manner: “I knew vou'd see it; I told mamma you would."—N. Y. Tribune. ' ' e ’ Well Remembered. Valley City, N. Dak., Dec. 14.—Two years ago Mrs. Matilda M. Boucher of this place suffered a great deal with a dizziness in her head. She was cured of this by & remedy called Dodd’s Kidney Pills, and has not beerk troubled since. , Shortly afterwards she had a bad bilious attack and for this she used Diamond Dinner Pills and was completely cured in “a short time. . In January; 1903, she had an attack of Sciatica of which she says: “I was almost helpless with the Sciatica, but remembering what Dodd’s Kidney Pills and Diamond Dinner Pills had done for me before, I.commenced a treatment of these medicines and in three weeks I was completely restored to health. I have reat faith in these medicines for they have %een of so much benefit to me.” : Dodd’s Kidney Pills are very popular in Barnes County, having made a great many splendid cures of Sciatica, Rheumatism and Kidney Troubles. Many families use no other medicine. i ——————— Tess—" “He was pleased to say I sing like a bird.” Jess—“l heard him say that to you, and just after that he began to talk to me about owls and their habits.”—Philadelphia Press. ) — Provided the collar of servitude-is thoroughly modish and up to date, it doesn’t chafe the average man very. much.—Puck.

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