The Syracuse Journal, Volume 5, Number 32, Syracuse, Kosciusko County, 5 December 1912 — Page 2

The Syracuse Journa’ GEO. O. SNYDER, Publisher, Syracuse, - - - 'lndiana A TERRIBLE TYPHOON WRECKS PART OF A PHILIPPINE TOWN. MOST DESTRUCTIVE KNOWN Taclobau. t!:’c Capital of Leyta Almost Destroyed—Governor General Preparing to Rush a Shipload of Provisions to the Stricken City—Other . News of the Day. Washington. Nov. 30. —According to a dispatch received yesterday at the Insular bureau from the governor general of the Philippines, the typhoon which swept Visayas November 25 practically destroyed three-fourths of the town of Taclobau, the capital of Leyte. The dispatch says that the typhoon was the most destructive in the history of the island, and had ’come only a few days after another violent storm had passed over the • Island. The governor general reported that he was. preparing to rush a shipload of provisions to the stricken city, whfch had a population of 14,000. Heavy losses were also reported to Capiz, capital of the province of that name. The governor general gave no estimate of the loss of life. Chinese Girl Stowaways Halted. San Francisco, Cal., Nov. 27. —Four Chinese girls, dressed in men's clothes, who had been smuggled across the Pacific in the hold of the steamer Nippon, were borne, shrieking and hysterical, through the city streets yesterday to the office of the surveyor of the port. They were secretly arrested as they stepped from the ship’s gang plank in company with Leong Moon, Chinese interpreter for the vessel. W. H. J. Deasy, a custom guard, who made the arrests, refused a bribe of SI,OOO from Leong to release him and the girls. He then marched all five back aboard ship and locked the girls in one room and Leong in another. He then telephoned to the surveyor’s office. The girls gave their names and said they were pairs of sisters. Supposedly they are stowaways from Hong Kong. Cashier Suicides When Found Short. Paducah, Ky., Nov. 30. —While bank -examiners were investigating his accounts Emmett 5... Bagby, assistant cashier of the City National Bank here, went to the basement of the bank building and shot and killed himself. The examiners say they have found a forged check for S7OO against a local firm which had been carried by Bagby on the books from day to day as cash. They refuse to either affirm or deny the report that Bagby’s shortage will amount to $6,000 or $7,000. Three Negroes Lynched. Shreveport, La., Nov. 29—Wood Burke, Jim Heard and Silas Jimmerson, three negroes, who attacked and seriously wounded Deputy Sheriff Edwards, of Bossier Parish, several weeks ago, were taken from three deputies who were removing them from the Caddo parish jail to Benton, the parish seat of Bossier parish, and lynched at Vanceville, a short distance from Benton. ♦ 4 Ritchie Wins Championship on Foul. San Francisco, Cal., Nov. 29. —Ad Wolgast, lightweight champion pugilist, lost his title to Willie Ritchie yesterday, in the sixteenth round of their fight at Daly City. In that round Wolgast fouled Ritchie twice and Referee James Griffin awarded the fight to Ritchie, Wolgast, however, was already a beaten man. His eyes were glazed, his legs shaky, his whole body tottering. Splinter of Bone Causes Boy’s Death. Philadelphia, Nov. 29. —A particle of bone from a fractured knee cap received while playing baseball, worked its way through his system to the heart of George Hayes, 15 years old, and caused his death in a hospital , herei Ten Thousand Men Idle. Pittsburg, Pa., Nov. 27.—0 f the six thousand men employed at the Edgar Thompson plant of the Carnegie Steel Company, at Braddock, five thousand were idle as a result of the •trike of engineers and firemen. The men wen went into secret conference. Set Afire By Shells. London, England. Nov. 27.—A Sofia despatch to the Daily Mail gives a report from Adrianople that part of the town near the Mosque of Sultan Selim has been burned. It was set afire by Bulgarian shells. Robert Knight Dead. Providence, R. 1., Nov. 27.—Robert Knight, the owner of more cotton mills than any other individual in the word, died at his home in Elmwood, at the age of eighty-six. When he was eight years old he went to work In a cotton mill as an operative. What Sort of Turkey, Thia? Sheldon, lowa, Nov. 29. —Adolph Beheld, forty-seven years old, of this city, swallowed a piece of his false teeth while eating Thanksgiving dinner yesterday and died. I . Four Die of Burns In Teledo. Toledo, 0., Nov. 27.—Fire claimed Its fourth victim in Toledo within a tew hours, when pretty Hazel Fenton, aurse at the Toledo state hospital for the Insane died yesterday. Her clotnIng caught fire from an overturned oil itove

ny fight SAGES FURIOUSLY Bulgars Capture Two Entire Turkish Divisions. GENERAL WAR IS PROBABLE Germany, Austria, Roumanla and Servia Renew Active Preparations for Conflict Which May Involve All Europe. Constantinople, Dec. 2.—A formal armistice for .a fortnight is now within sight, according to an official announcement on Friday. “The pourparlers at Haghtche are proceeding in a satisfactory manner, and there is reason to hope an armistice may be signed in a day or two,” the announcement said. . * The information was given out following a meeting of the council of ministers, called to discuss a report submitted to Kiamil Pasha, the grand vizier, by Osman Nizami Pasha, Senator Darned Ferid and Mustapha Rechad Bey, minister of the interior, who wjsnt to Baghtche and conferred with the peace plenipotentiaries. Prior to the meeting of the council of ministers the grand vizier had an audience with the sultan and also visited the British and Russian ambassadors. London, Dec. 2. —Active war measures by Germany, Austria, Roumania and Servia are proceeding after an apparent lull of two days, and the conflict which the European chancellories have been trying to avert is no longer a possibility, but a probability. Meanwhile the Bulgar-Turkish conflict on the Tchatalja lines has been resumed with renewed fury. The Bulgarians have enveloped two entire Turkish divisions near the village of Marhamli, between Dodaghatch and Demotica, and captured the entire force, consisting of about ten thousand menf' including two generals and 300 officers. Eight mountain guns, one thousand horses and great quantities of munitions were also taken. Roumania, acting in concert with Austria, and jealous of the rise of Bulgaria’s power, is concentrating her troops on the Russian frontier with all possible dispatch. A general mobilization order has been issued, according to advices from Bucharest. Eight thousand German reservists were ordered to be ready to join the colors. The Russian ministers are energetically pushing their war plans. Mobilized on the frontier, in the vicinity of the points of centralization of the Austrian forces, are 60,000 Russian troops, ready for instant duty in the field. Albania, having proclaimed her independence, has asked Austria’s aid in repelling the Servian occupation. This action very plainly pleased Italy, which country may yet be drawn into the imbroglio. The Servian government, in view of the hard fighting done by the Servian troops against the Turks, is showing amazing alacrity in mobilizing formidable forces and rushing them to the chief objective points. Despite the Turkish campaign, with which she «may not yet be done, Servia Is taking every precaution to be able to do the lion’s share of fighting in a second and far greater conflict. The Danube division has already occupied Intrenched positions near the town of Semendris. The war office has called out the recruits of 1913 and 1914, and the ranks of the Turkish prisoners are being searched for Christian soldiers willing to enlist in the new cause. Hundreds of such Christians have been found. The Bulgarians have been steadily advancing on Adrianople, and now their most advanced lines are within I, yards of the Inner city. ADMITS KILLING TWO BOYSJ. Frank Hickey Makes Confession of Slaying Youths. Buffalo, N. Y., Dec. 2. —J. Frank Hickey of Quincy, Mass., who was recently arrested in New Jersey, has confessed to the murder of seven-year-old Joseph Josephs of Lackawanna, N. Y., in October, 1911, and whose dismembered body was found in a vault back of a saloon November 16, following the receipt of an anonymous postal card from Boston telling of the murder, and for which he stands Indicted, to the slaying of Michael Kruck, a young New York newsboy ten years ago and to having caused the death of a man named Joseph Morey in Lowell, Mass., twenty years ago, by putting laudanum In a glass of whisky to make him sick. He tfill be arraigned Monday, when he will plead to a charge of first degree murder. He was indicted by the grand jury on this charge for the killing of Joseph Josephs. Hold Funeral of J. T. Brush. Indianapolis, Ind.. Dec. 2.—The funeral of J. T. Brash, president of the New York National league baseball club, who died in his private car, was held at St. Paul’s Episcopal church and burial was at Crown Hill cemetery. Two Killed in Collision. Brownsville, Ind. Dec. 2. —Percy Shepard of Hamilton, 0., an engineer, and F. A. Adams of Indianapolis, a fireman on the Cincinnati, Hamilton & Dayton railway, were Instantly killed in a head-on collision Friday. King Albert’s Mother Dead. Brussels, Belgium, Nov. 28. —King Albert’s mother, the countess of Flanders, Princess Marie of Belgium, died here Tuesday. She had been suffering from pneumonia. The countess was in her sixty-eighth year. Huge “Turkey Trot” In Texas. Cuero, Tex., Nov. 28.—Governor Colquitt of Texas and members of his staff headed the biggest “turkey trot” of the year, when they led a procession of 18,000 turkeys through the streets of Cuero Tuesday,

THOMAS STERLING FWWWI ! I|| i jfcqjk. Mr Thomas Sterling, the newly chosen senator from South Dakota, is a lawyer and lives in Vermilion. He was born In Ohio and admitted to the bar in Illinois. He went to Dakota when it was a territory and was a member of the constitutional convention of the state. He has been a member of the legislature, but has held no other public office.

KNOWN BOMB MEN BUSY AS DETECTIVES WATCH Ten Explosions Carried Out After Hockin Betrays J. B. McNamara and McManigal. Indianapolis, Nov. 30. —Five months and six days was fixed by Raymond Burns, son of William J. Burns, at the “dynamite conspiracy” trial as the time it required to arrest James B. McNamara, dynamiter of the Los Angeles Times building, in the wrecking of which twenty-one persons were killed, after the dynamiter had been pointed out to detectives. Ten explosions took place after McNamara and McManigal were fully described. i Raymond Burns was on the stand Friday. He described in detail information given him by Hockin and the subsequent steps taken to “shadow” and finally capture McManigal and J. B. McNamara. In the course of the testimony he said: “William J. Burns told Hockin the result of the investigation on the Pacific coast, which was that Olaf A. Tveitmoe and Anton Johannsen of San Francisco had furnished Caplan and Schmidt and arranged with them to blow up the Times building. William J. asked Hockin if he knew anything on this point. Hockin replied he knew nothing about what Tveitmoe did, as that was a matter handled on the coast. “Hockin did say, however, that Tveitmoe and Johannsen had arranged to blow up William J. in Seattle or San Francisco by placing a bomb in a room next to his room in a hotel.” Johannsen was formerly a business agent In Chicago. The identification of Nipper Anderson and Peter Smith, Cleveland Iron workers, as two men bound toward the big ore conveyor at North Randall, 0., March 24, 1911, carrying on a stick an oblong box; other testimony concerning the explosion, which cost Heyl & Patterson $60,000, and some testimony against Michael J. Cunnane, business agent of the Philadelphia local, were other features brought out by various witnesses. A plot to destroy the whole city of Los Angeles by explosion and fire, to make history on the coast date from the destruction of that city. Instead of from the date of the San Francisco earthquake, was among those of which the dynamiter told. How J. J. McNamara sought to get McManigal to go to Panama to blow up the canal locks under construction by the McCllntle-Marshall company, was another interesting episode in the conspiracy, as related by the dynamiter. RUSSIAN PACT TAFT LEGACY. President to Leave Treaty Question for Wileon to Settle. Washington, Dec. 2. —The Taft administration, it was made known, does not Intend to make any agreement or enter Into any modus vivendi to supplant the treaty with Russia, which expires January 1. The question of a new treaty and the subject of the treatment of American Jews traveling in Russia, which raised a storm all over the United States last spring, will be one of the heritages President Taft will leave Mr. Wilson. Edgar M. Noel Falls Dead. Baltimore, Md., Dec. 2.—Suffering a sudden attack of acute uraemia and Indigestion, Edgar M. Noel, head of the construction company that bears his name, fell dead in his den In the basement of his home Friday. Sioux City News Burned Out. Sioux City, la., Dec. 2—Fire here on Friday destroyed the plant of the Sioux City Daily News. The loss Is estimated at $30,000, with $22,000 insurance. The cause of the fire has not been learned. Former Senator Gordon Dead. Jackson, Miss., Nov. 30.—James Gordon, former United States senator, and once a notable figure of southern life, died at Jiis home in Okolona Thursday at the age of seventy-nine. He had been 111 for several weeks. Ex-Senator Jones Dies. Los- Angeles, Cal., Nov. 30.—Former United States Senator John Percival Jones, who represented Nevada in the upper house of congress for many years, died here Thursday after a long Illness.

4 DEAD, 50 HURT • 111 TRAIN WRECK Cincinnati Express on Pennsylvania Road Is Derailed. V BROKEN RAIL IS THE CAUSE Day Coach and Three Pullmans Hurled Down Embankment —Passengers Are Pinioned in Debris for Hours. Philadelphia, 'Nov. 30. —Chief Inspec tor H. W. Belnap of the interstate commerce commission and James E. Howard, an expert of the bureau of standards, are at Glen Loch, Pa., 25 miles west of this city, investigating into the cause of the Pennsylvania wreck. Four persons are known to have been killed and more than two score were injured, some probably fatally, when the Cincinnati express was derailed at Glen Loch on Thursday. The train, a double-header, was running at the rate of fifty miles an hour when the accident occurred. Derailed, it is believed, by a broken rail, one day coach and three Pullmans, all of steel construction, rolled down an embankment upon a string of coal cars standing at a lower level upon a parallel track. The cars, with their human freight tossed about the seats, berths and corridors, were piled high on both sides of the coal cars, some of which were derailed and turned around by the force of the impact. The passengers were pinned under huge piles of debris, and many of them were not rescued for several hours, suffering intensely not only from their injuries, but from the biting cold weather. The dead: J. H. Collins, passenger, Buffalo, N. Y. Howard E. Baldwin, Pullman conductor, of Brooklyn, N. Y. Edwin R. Jones, Pullman conductor. Pittsburg, Pa. L. D. Finley, passenger, Pittsburg, Pa. PATRICK LEAVES SING SING. Alleged Slayer of Millionaire Has Joyous Reunion at Home. New York, Nov. 30. —The barred door of Sing Sing swung open for Albert T. Patrick on Thursday, and the lawyer, who for nearly eleven years was cooped up in the gray walled prison, convicted of the murder of William Marsh Rice, his millionaire client, stepped out a free man, pardoned by Governor Dix. With the release of Patrick there began the long deferred honeymoon with the brave hearted little woman who married him ten years ago when he was taken to the Tombs after his sentence to the electric chair. In the apartment ready for him at No. 180 Claremont avenue, Patrick sat down last night to a Thanksgiving dinner with Mrs, Patrick, Thomas Maher, an ex-convict, released a year ago by Governor Dix, who has\ worked hard after gaining his freedom to get th-' lawyer out of prison; Henry Barber,, a merchant of Peekskill; George Mothersell, messenger in Governor Dix’s office, and a woman chum of Mrs. Patrick. A joyous reunion it was for the lawyer who, for years, stood In the shadow of the electric chair. CHARLES H. HYDE IS GUILTY. Former City Chamberlain Convicted by Jury on Bribery Charge. New York, Dec. 2. —Charles H. Hyde, former city chamberlain, was last night convicted of bribery, the punishment for which is ten years’ Imprisonment, or SIO,OOO fine, or both, at the discretion of the court. After the formal motions for setting aside the verdict and the granting of a new trial had been made, Hyde was hurried to the Tombs. The crime for which Hyde was convicted consisted of forcing President Robin of the defunct Northern bank to make a large loan to the tottering Carnegie Trust company on a threat that if the loan was not forthcoming the city deposits in the Northern bank, over which deposits Hyde had control, would be withdrawn. WILSON TO MEET LEADERS. President-Elect Will Confer With Party Chiefs in New York. Hamilton, Bermuda, Dec. 2.—Presi-dent-elect Wilson has determined not to take the advice of one man only, but of the leaders of the Democratic party generally, on the question of the formation of his cabinet and in the selection of men to fill Important official His invitation to William J. Bryan to meet him in conference at Princeton is, it is thought, only the forerunner of numerous invitations to other party leaders to meet him in a series of consultations in reference to his legislative program and his appointments to office. Bank Officer Commits Suicide. Paducah, Ky„ Dec. 2.—Emmet 8. Bagby, assistant cashier of the City National bank of Paducah, shot and killed himself in the basement of the bank here Friday. Officials of the bank refused to make statement. Turkeys From Rockefellers. Tarrytown, N. Y., Nov. 30.—Following their custom of giving Thanksgiving turkeys to their employes, Miss Helen M. Gould and John D. and William Rockefeller distributed over 125 Thanksgiving turkeys Thursday. Falls Dead at Thanksgiving Dinner. Bloomington, HL, Nov. 30.—Just as he finished saying blessing at Thanksgiving table Thursday at which were seated relatives in family reunion, Edward M. Brown fell from his chair dead. He was seventy-two. Secretary Meyer Will Not Resign. Washington, Nov. 28.—Rumors that Secretary Meyer of the navy department was about to resign, which were in active circulation in Washington Tuesday, brought an emphatic denial from the secretary himself.

M. PASHITCH | 1 I ' I I I I ... ■ B - i f : ’ br I M. Pashitch, premier of Servia, is one of the most prominent figures in Europe just now, owing to the dispute between his country and Austria.

THOUSANDS DEAD IN BIG , TYPHOON ON PHILIPPINES Reported 15,000 to 17,000 V/ere Killed —Two Cities Are Wiped Out. ' Wshington, Dec. 2. —Details of the typhoon, which it is reported resulted in the death of many thousands of people of the Philippines islands, are anxiously awaited by government officials as it is feared that some citizens of the United States were among the victims. Acting Governor General Gilbert cabled to the insular bureau of the war department the meager details he bad received from the desolated islands, saying it was reported in Manila that from 15,000 to 17,000 persons had been, killed by the storm which swept from the eastward across the Island of Leyte to that of Panay, completely devastating the cities of Tacloban and Capiz. It is feared that a number of Americans and other foreigners who either - are employed in or have homes near these places have met their deaths, and it is known that the destitution on both islands and on the western coast of Mindanao was tremendous. TITLE IS GIVEN RITCHIE. Ad Wolgast Loses Lightweight Championship by Foul Blows. San Francisco, Nov. 30. —Ad Wolgast is no longer champion of the world. He lost his title by striking Willie Ritchie a foul blow in the sixteenth round of their battle at Daly City Thursday. Whether Wolgast saw that knockout was inevitable and preferred to lose his laurels the way he did is an open question. With the wave of Referee Jim Griffin’s head, which disqualified him, the lightweight championship of the world passed, for the first time in Queensberry history, into the keeping of a Californian. DANIEL M. RANSDELL DIES. i Sergeant-at-Arms of U. S. Senate Expires After Operation. Washington, Nov. 30.—-As a direct result of an operation performed on him on November 7, Col. Daniel M. Ransdell, sergeant-at-arms of the United States senate and former United States marshal for the District of Columbia, is dead in this city. Colonel Ransdell was one of the well-known figures of public life. He had been sergeant-at-arms of the senate for nearly twelve years, having been elected to the post in January, 1900. As such officer he had practically complete charge of all official senate affairs, the issuing of subpoenas in senate inquiries and the conduct of senate functions. He will be buried at Indianapolis. JACKSON SUCCEEDS RAYNER. Maryland Governor Appoints Taft Man United States Senator. Baltimore, Md., Dec. 2. —Governor Goldsborough announced the appointment of William P. Jackson, Republican national committeeman from Maryland, to succeed the late United States Senator Isidor Rayner. He will serve until the legislature which meets In January, 1914, fills what then will be an unexpired term of three years. In the recent presidential campaign Mr. Jackson was the leader of the Taft forces In this state. He is forty-four years old and a business man of large and varied interests and is reputed to be a millionaire. Seek American Polo Cup. London. Dec. 2.—Major Egerton Green, manager of the Hurlingham club, announced that challenge was sent Friday to the American Polo association to compete for the American International polo cup In 1913. Wreck Due to Sagging Bridge. Philadelphia, Dec. 2.—A coroner’s jury which held an inquest Friday over the death of four in a wreck on the Pennsylvania railroad rendered a verdict that the accident was due to sagging of bridge. Postpone Fitzgerald Trial. Chicago. Nov. 30.—The trial of George W. Fitzgerald, charged with the theft of $173,000 from the government sub-treasury several years ago, was postponed Thursday, owing to illness of Federal Judge Carpenter. Blanche Bates Weds George Creel. Yonkers, N. Y., Nov. 30.—Miss Blanche Bates, the well known actress, and George Creel, editorial writer and police commissioner of Denver, Colo., were married in Miss Bates* home in Newcastle, Thursday.

JI THE SEASHORE It All Happened on Lonely Stretch of Beach on a Summer’s - Day. By ANNE MOOR. “Oh, hello!” remarked the young man pleasantly, as if it were quite the usual thing for him to meet beautiful young girls on a lonely stretch of beach, miles from nowhere. “How do you do,” she replied, just as pleasantly and properly as if speaking to a passing acquaintance on Broadway. She strolled indffferently along the . sandy shore and finally, with deliberation, selected the shadow of a large rock as an inviting resting place. He followed aimlessly, as it seemed, and selected the other side of the rock as a convenient, although decidedly uncomfortable, stopping place. The rock was thin. Also not very high. The young man was tall. Also very determined. He stood up, and in the interested gaze that he bent on the surrounding country was startled to see that the girl was reading. He sat down suddenly. “Well!” be mumbled to himself wonderingly. There was unbroken quiet for several minutes. This silence was unbearable. The quiet of a deserted beach was qne thing. Enforced silence was another. “This sun is decidedly uncomfortable,” the young man remarked at last. No answer. “I say, I’m exceedingly warm.” A smothered giggle. The next instant he was standing before the girl, but she was reading intently. Perhaps he was mistaken about that giggle. But he was sure that he had heard something of the kind. “It’s a nice day,” he remarked guilelessly. “Very nice.” she agreed gravely, without looking up. He dropped to the sand with a sigh, but he was a big man, and the rock would not throw a shadow large enough to shade him. “This shade is not the right shape for a man of my size,” he 'complained conversationally.. “There is another rock over there,” the girl explained indifferently. The man set his teeth. “My name is Robert Villiers,” he stated presently to the world at large. “It’s a very pretty name,” she replied demurely. “My home is in New York.” he further imparted to the waves. “Oh, well, some very respectable people live there,” she said consolingly. He wished she would look up from that book. It was so very hard to know just what one meant when *ou could not se that one’s -eyes. The book must be very interesting. He would just take a peep. When the man settled back into his old position, there was a peculiar expression on mis face. book was upside down! Now he had an ally. “That’s an interesting book,” he said presently. “Absorbing,” she replied. “I always read that way myself when I’m at the sea shore. Isn’t it strange that the beach affects one’s eyesight in that way! Almost makes, one see thihgs upside down, as it were.” The man appeared much interested in the subject. Swiftly to the girl came the knowledge that the man saw through her little pretense, and she was exceedingly angry, as is the way of a girl when found out. She rose hastily and stamped her foot angrily. The next instant she was gone, and the book lay at the man’s feet He mused disconsolately. He should have kept his knowledge until a more auspicious moment, when her humor responded. The charm of the place seemed strangely gone since the girl had gone, and the shade seemed gloomy since there was no golden hair to catch any of the surrounding brightness. . He drew a long breath, and gazed moodily over the water. Suddenly a low laugh made him turn, and he saw the girl flash by in a bathing suit, and he heard her say gayly: “Come on. I dare you.” The next instant she was In the water, and out of sight. The man was just thinking of going 1n after her even as he was, when she bobbed up quite near, laughing into his anxious face. He watched her gravely for a few minutes, then turned away. The girl seemed to be having a splendid time all by herself. Well, he would show her he could have just as good a time! He resolutely settled himself against the familiar rock, and turned his attention to the book, which had been so angrily left, with commendable application, considering the position of the book. So intent was he that he did not hear anyone come up behind him, until he felt streams of water dripping down his neck, and he looked up to see over the rock the girl draw back her hand, and mischievous eyes gazing at him, while a mocking voice said: “I always read that way myself when I’m at the sea shore. Isn t l t ” The last was lost on her lips, for it took all her breath to elude her tormented pursuer. Into the water she plunged again, and watched with a mocking smile the Ineffectual efforts of the man to stop at the water’s edge. There is nothing so offending to a man’s dignity as to be laughed at by a pretty girl, and this particular man was no exception. So he repaired to the same rock to nurse his wrath, and at the same time dry his footwear. This necessitated taking off the shoes, and placing them in the sun. While engaged in thus removing the effects of the water, he did not

know that the girl was near, until he heard the teasing voice say: “Did it get it’s ’itti feet wet? Poor lil boy. Too bad! Go tell its mamma and she’ll give it sonle bread and milk!” She danced around him on the sand ever ready to fly at the man’s least attempt to rise. The man said nothing. A plan was forming slowly in his brain. “Oh, is it mad? Why doesn’t it go home?” the-girl mocked. Suddenly the man sprang up. and there was a wild race for the water. The girl reached it first and. think ing the man would profit by his recent experience, went but a few feet into the water and turned to laugh at him. But he had resolutely followed her into the water, regardless of damage to his clothing, and before, she could turn to flee, he caught her. The man easily carried her to shore and deposited her in the shade of the rock. Then he stood up and said grimly: Now. then. Miss Margaret Leighton. what have you to say for yourself?” Then .before tbe girl could answer, he laughed. “If you only knew how funny fl is to see you so completely wilted.” he explained between laughs. She started to be severe, but when she looked at him she joined his laughter. “Oh, Bobby, Bobby, if you could only see how bedraggled you look, you would never look me in the face again!” The man sat down suddenly. “Margie, why were you angry with me this morning?” he asked abruptly. “I’m sure I can’t remember," she said whimsically. “Perhaps I wasn’t so very angry.” They looked vith laughing defiance at one another for a minute, then she leaped gayly to her feet, saying: “Come op. 11l race you to the big pock. I don’t like the look in your eyes, or what you are going to say.” Then clapping her hands she conceded: “Oh, well, if you win you may say it.” And he knew by the look in her eyes that he would win this time. WORSE THAN PEST OF FLIES Plague of Crabs Make Trouble for European Housekeepers in Tropical Honduras. The trials of a housekeeper in British Honduras are many and varied, writes Lady Swayne, wife of the governor, in the Wide World Magazine, service being indifferent and food not of the best’quality. Milk and butter are tinned, and vegetables have to be imported from the states. Thinking to remedy this, we attempted to grow our own vegetables, but soon found this to be impossible, owing to the fact that the garden was infested with crabs —a novel pest for a garden, surely! The crustaceans may apparently have all been killed off one year, but the next autumn they swarm dowm to the sea again from, their unknown breeding places inland in ver- ' itable armies. Sitting in the veranda, one can hear their shells clacking and clashing against each other, as they hustle past the house. We tried to circumvent the pests by wiring in the vegetable plot; but this proved unavailing, as there is water about a foot below the surface, and the crabs had only to. dive down’one side of the fence and come np smiling on the other. These crabs are not the ordinary variety, and are not generally used for food. At one time of year, however, their shells turn blue, and then the colored people consider them edible. Two men go out at night, one with a lantern and one with a sack, into which the crabs are thrown as they are collected. We occasionally sit on the lawn close to the sea, and if we remain perfectly quiet and motionless for a minute or so the crabs come out of their holes all around us; the slightest movement on our part, however, sends them scuttling back to their habitations. Old-Time Balkan Fighting. The present is by no means the firs occasion on which prisoners have been taken in a war between Turkey and Montenegro. In the hostilities which preceded the so-called Montenegrin. Vespers” of Christmas, 1703, the Montenegrin “Vladika” was a prisoner at Scutari, and it was necessary to sell all the holy vessels in the Cettinje church in order to raise the ransom of 3,000 golden ducats demanded for his release. In the hostilities of 1707, on the other hand, many Turks fell into the hands of Jrtie mountaineers, who showed their hatred and contempt for their Ottoman enemies by insisting that the ransom should be —for evenman a pig- An eminent English statesman once based on this incident an elaborate defense of the Montengerins against the charge of cruelty ; but it is fairly safe to affiriri that their intentions were offensive, rather than humane. Uce Luminous Bait The fishermen in some parts of Portugal make material increases in the amount of their catch by the use of luminous bait. This is done by a fluid secured from the body of a fish which is quitd plentiful in the waters of that country, while it is quite rare in other parts of the world. The fluid is spread in a piece of meat bait and the effect of the application may be ob served at once. The luminosity increases as the bait is placed in the water and the attention of the fish is attracted to it at once. Game of Life. Os all the games the game of life is the greatest, and you may depend upon it that the score is well kept and i the records are accurate. This re minds me of the excellent advice given by Rev. Dr. Reisner of New York—the great baseball enthusiast—“Keej your moral training as well as youi physical training, and play the game of life with the same thought of doing your best; and no matter what tin. score will be at the end, the Great Umpire will pronounce you safe.” To Make a Showing. “Pa, what Is a dead game sport?” “One who buys his game of ths butcher after his bunting trips, mj Son.” * fi’