Bemidji Daily Pioneer Newspaper, October 24, 1906, Page 4

WOMEN RESIST POLIGE _“ereey caueaen coser ONE HUNDRED FEMALE SUFFRA- GISTS CAUSE DISTURBANCE IN HOUSE OF COMMONS, OFFICERS COMPELLED TO USE FORCE VIGOROUS MEANS FINALLY RE- SORTED TO AND A NUMBER OF ARRESTS MADE, London, Oct. ment in connection with the reopening of parliament was caused by the pres- ence of about 100 woman suffragists, many of whom, despite the protests of the police, managed to find their way into the outer lobby of the house of commens with the intention of button- holing the members in support of their movement. A number of the suf- fragists mounted vacant chairs in the lobby and began to harangue the few members of parliament present in that part of the house. The police, after being reinforced, made a strategic advance against the invaders, taking the women singly and gradually ejected them, one by one, from the house. The most mil- itant of the women struggled so des- perately that two officers were re- quired to remove them. Toe hysterical shouting and screaming brought crowds of members from the house and the unwonted scene created tem- porary excitement such as has seldom been witnessed in or about the house. During the height of the tumult a small band of the staunchest suf- fragists determined to attempt to break into the house itself and, as though by concerted action, this band suddenly charged towards the en- trance of the inner lobby. Some of the women tried to climb over the barrier and others attempted to crawl under it. For several minutes the utmost disorder prevailed and the po- lice had all they could do to eject the stern, determined women without Utilizing More Vigorous Means, which would have heen used in the case of men. The women resolutely refused to leave the house without be- ing ejected by force, clung tenaciously to the stalwart policemen, the railings or other means of support and offered strenuous resistance o expulsion, while shouts of “we will have votes” and “you cowardly men dare not give us justice” resounded through the halis. Finally the police were forced to carry out several of the women bodily. and the struggling and shouting suf- fragists were all ultimately deposited in Palace yards, where for some time they coutinued their vehement pro- tests. A procession of house of com- mons attendants followed the women, bearing hats, cloaks and fragments of millinery and finery dropped in .the scuifle. So noisily demonstrative were some of the leading suffragists that after they had been expelled from the house the police arrested several of them and wmarched them off to the nearest police station, Altogether eight suffragists were arrested, including the well known leaders of the movement, Miss Kenney and Miss Billington, who will apfear in court charged with “riotous con- duct.” DISCRIMINATION ALLEGED, Ten Thousand Southern Pacific Ma- chinists May Strike, New Orleans, Oct, 24.—It is said that as a result of the discharge of ten machinists at the Algiers shops of the Southern Pacific railroad and be- cause of alleged discrimination of long standing against their organiza- tion 10,000 members of the Interna- tlonal Association of Machinists may be called out on strike on that system within a day oritwo. The men affect- ed are all in what is known as district No. 11, extending from New Orleans to Portland, Ore. Thomas L. Wilson, a vice president- of the international union, says the national officers will first endeavor to secure the co-operation of Mr. Harri- man himself to have the discharged men reinstated -and also will try to negotiate un agreement whereby arbl- trary powers of master mechanies in discharging employes . without cause will be ahrnzmed WATCHING ‘BEEF. MERGER. Federal Government Sends Letters to District Attorneys. ‘Washington, Oct. 24.—The federal and Jury's Oplmon of Tammany Leader’s Charges. . New York, Oct. 24.—At the conclu- sion of an investigation by the grand jury of charges made by Charles F. Murphy, the Tammany leader, that Tammany Hall candidates had been “held up for cash considerations” by the managers of the Independence league it was announced that the charges had fallen through completely. The official announcement to this ef- fect declared that the charges were “merely eampaign gossip and the grand jury did not dignify the pro- ceedings by making a presentment as a result of its inquiry.” The grand Jury announced that in its opinion there was npthing wrong in an offer made by Congressman Goulden to pay the expenses incurred in getting sig- | natures to the Independence leagne 24—Unusual excite- ' petition in his behalf. William Astor Chanler, who had been subpoenaed to appear before the grand jury, was not called upon to testify. OKLAHOMA BANK LOOTED. Robbers Secure $2,500 and Escape With Posse in Pursuit. Guthrie, Okla, Oct. 24.—Robbers blew open the safe of the State bank of Sparks at Sparks, Okla., fifty miles east of here, secured $2,500 and escaped after e\’clmngh\g 100 shots with a number of citizens drawn to the scene by-the explosion. The rob- bers are headéd f¢ he Creek country apparently amd a special train with officers and ‘$loodhounds has been started out h‘um Shawnee, Okla., in pursuit. tECHO OF LATE HURRICANE LONE SURVIVOR OF CREW OF THIRTY-THREE RESCUED BY PASSING STEAMER. New York. Oct. 24—The solitary survivor of thirty-three men who went adrift on the barge or houseboat Halfy from Lower Matacombi Key, on the coast of Florida, during the ter- rific gale of Oct. 18, was brought into this port during the day by the steam- er El Paso. He is John Russell of Salem, Taylor county, Fla, and he declared that he saw eight of the thirty-twe others drowned and believes that all of them went down when the barge foundered. Russell was adrift in a stormy sea for nearly two days and one night, clinging to bits of the barge which he gathered together to . form a raft. ‘When the El Paso, bound from Gal- veston to this city, was off Alligator lighthouse on the Florida coast last Friday afternoon the lookout sighted Russell still hanging to the raft, al- most too exhausted to call for help. He was quickly/taken on board and received the best of care. Russell said that he was-engaged in railroad building at Lower Mata- tombi Key and was attached to the dredge Oyama when the gale swept down upon them. Thirty-three of the men who were employed with him took refuge on board the Halfy, but the frail craft quickly broke away from ‘her moorings and in the height of the gaie was smashed to pieces. Eight of the men were rendered un- conscious from injuries suffered in the smashing of the barge or were beaten insensible by the driftwood among which -the¥ were thrown after the barge -went down. -He saw other members of the party who had sur- vived the sinking of the barge cling- Ing to a small skiff. He believes that they were lost. FRENCH CABINET COMPLETED. Premier clemeneeau Selects His Asso- ciate isters. Paris, Oct. 24.—The new French cabinet’ has been- completed as fol- lows: Premier and minister of the interlo. M. Clemenceau; minister-of justice, M. Guyot-Dessaigne; minister of edu- cation, M. Briand; minister of foreign affairs, M. Pichon; minister of finance, M. Caillaux; minister of war, General Picquart; minister of marine, M. Thomson;. minister of public works, M. Barthou: minister of commerce, M. Doumergue;’ minister of agricul- ture, M. Ruau; minister of labor, M. Viviani, ‘The portfolio of minister of the col- onies has been offered to M. Millies- Lacroix, MAY- CAUSE GENERAL STRIKE. Fourteen Socialists . Condemned to Death, at Warsaw. Warsaw, Oct. 24.—Fourteen mem- bers of the socialists’ fighting organ- izatlon, who were. arrested Oct. 20, government has taken notice of the have been condemned to death by talk about the formation of a holding drumhead courtmartial. It is expected company to take over the property that the action of the court will result and business of the beef trust. notice amounts to a letter to the at- | torneys in the districts in which the their domiciliary visits in the residen. ' act of forming the corporation may be tial districts. The in a general strike. The military authorities continue taken calling their attention to the the house of Count Krasinsk, the most newspaper reports, sent out as a matter of mutlne busi- ness, 3 Graft at San Francisco, San Francisco, Oct. 24 —Francis J. Heney has formally assumed office as assistant district attorney of San Francisco. From now on events may be expected to follow in rapid succes- slon In the investigation of graft charged against the administration official bosses. : tate amounted to $500,000. The letters were * prominent of the Rolish Nationalists. Wl».kel' WIII Held Valid, Chicago, Oct. 24.—By a verdict of.a. Jury in the circuit court the will of the late Thomas H. Wickes, formerly vice president of the Pullman com- pany, was declared valid and the tes- tator was sald to have been of sound mind when be made it.. The will was contested by the family of Mr. Wickes by his first marriage. ' The entire es- They recently searclied | the package is large. Everything in the drug market. FIXED PRICE OF GRAIN WITNESS TELLS OF COMBINE OF MEMBERS OF KANSAS CITY BOARD OF TRADE. PRINCIPAL ELEVATORS ALL IN TRUST BUYING PRICE ARBITRARILY ES- TABLISHED AND USUALLY ADHERED TO, Kansas City, Oct. 24.—At the day's session of the interstate commerce commission investigation into the grain business B. R. Beall of Kansas City of the National Grain and Ele- vator company, which is affiliated with the national board of trade of Kansas City, a rival of the Kansas City board of trade, testified that he had been a member of the Kansas City board of trade up to a year ago and that a combine existed on the board of trade for the purchase of ‘wheat, : Mr. Beall said that the elevator companies in Kansas City were in this combination and he named half a dozen leading local grain firms and individual grain men who were mem- bers of it. Among them, he said, was the Southwestern Grain elevator, owned by Armour. Attorney Marble, for the commis- sion, handed Mr. Beall a price card issued to members of the alleged com- bine Nov. 28, 1904, and witness recog- nized it as being similar to one he had received. Leading Dealers in Combine. Mr. Beall said that the combine was formed in the office of one of the prominent members of the Kansas City board of trade in April, 1904. He was a party to it one day only and then withdrew because he did not like the arrangement. All the principal elevator men in the city, Mr. Beall said, were members of the combine, which fixed its prices every morning. Grain generally was bought at the fixed price, which was fixed arbitrar- ily. It was determined on the basis of the Chicago option and a margin sufficient to insure a profit to mem- bers of the combine was agreed to. Mr, Beall explained that the national board of trade had headquarters in Kansas Clty. It had twenty-five active members here and about 400 in other cities. It had no exchange outside of Kansas City. In reply to a direct question Mr. Beall declared that the members of the national board of trade were blacklisted by the Chicago, Minneapolis ‘and Kansas City boards of trade and that the Kansas City <board of trade interfered with all ship- ments of grain belonging to the na- tional that™ passed through Kansas City. LAW HELD TO BE ILLEGAL. Railroads May Forbid Employes to Join Labor Unions. Louisville, Oct. 24.—In the United States district - court Judge Walter Evans, in the case of the United States vs. J. M. Scott, a train dis- patcher for the Louisville and Nash- ville railroad, on trial for alleged vio- lation of the Erdman act, which seeks to prevent interstate carriers from keeping their employes out of labor unions, held that section 10 of the act is void because it is not a regulation .| of commerce within the meaning of the commerce clause of the Constitu- tion ‘and therefore beyond the power .of congress to enact. The court sus- tained the demurrer to the indictment against Scott and discharged him from custody. Scott discharged an oper- ator in the employ of the Louisville and Nashville and the Railroad Teleg- raphers’ union took the matter to the courts. ISLE OF PINES SUFFERED. Recent Tornado Caused Considerable Damage. Havana, Oct. 24—Contrary to the statements contained in the report re- ceived by the govercment it now ap- pears that the Isle of Pines suffered considerable damage from the tornado. Many houses at Nueva Gerona and Santa Fe and in the intervening coun- try were blown down, much damage was done to the fruit crops and the wireless station was wrecked. The garrison of American marines rendered valuable service at the height of the tornado in saving lives and property at Nueva Gerona. BRINGS ABOUT ;50,000. Court Approves Sale of Stensland’s Chicago Bank. Chicago, Oct. 24.—Judge Brentano | of the superior court has authorized the sale of the Milwaukee Avenue State bank, which was wrecked by its i president, Faul O, Stensland, to the Assets Realization company for ap- proximately $750,000. ‘The bid accept- i ed by the court was 713 per cent of the face value of the capltal stock of the bank. Banker Pleads Guilty. Joliet, Ill, Oct. 24—Howard 8. Barker, president of a bank at Frank- fort, 111, which recently failed, plead- ed gullty to two indictments for em- bezzlement and was glven concurrent sentences of one to fifteen years. Barker will begin his term at once. lnmmdlmnx James McGarry. GOMPERS TAKES A HANMD, WIIl Attempt to End Interunion Strife at Chicago. 4 Chicago, Oct. 24.-—President Samuel Gompers: of the American Federation of Labor has been asked by leading Chicago manufacturers to compel local unions to cease fighting among them- telves, If his fighting was not stopped, he was told, the “open shop” would be established in the large woodworking ftactories of the city. The case was put plainly to Mr. Gompers, He was informed that either the unions must abide by their written contracts and ,conduct themselves peaceably or else a great lockout, which may involve as many as 6,000 or 7,000 skilled factory workers, will follow. After receiving the complaints of the employers Mr. Gompers admitted that they were in the right and declared interunion strife must stop at once. The labor leader left fof Lafayette, Ind., where he promised to confer with President William D.. Huber of th International Brotherhood of Carpen- ters, one of the organizations involved in the controversy. WILL VISIT PORTO RICO. Precident to Stop at San Juan on Way Back From Panama, Washington, Oct. 24.—According to the presenl programme President Roosevelt will ®5p at San Juan, Porto Rico, on his way back from Panama. He expects to reach the Porto Rican capital on Thursday evening, Nov. 22, remaining one day, and will then come to Washington direct. It was stated that he \vlll malxe no slop in Cuba. WESTERN STGRM CONTINUES SNOWFALL CF TWENTY-THREE INCHES IN DENVER DURING PAST FEW DAYS. Denver, Oct. which Le: continues rado, Soustiern Wyoming, New Mexico, Western Texas and Western Kensas and Nebraska. It is said to be the heaviest October snow storm here which there is any record of. The total snowfall in Denver was -twenty-thrce inches. The temperature continues to hover aronnd the fieezing mark and thus far but compmauvely little damage has been done. According to stockmen wiho are. in Denver the cattle on the ranges will not suffer greatly as a resuit of the storm, They are said to be in excel lent condition and- well able to with- stand a hard storm. Fruit on the Western slope will probably suffer considerably, as not more than hall the apple crop has been picked owing to lack of help. Trains on both the mountain and prairie roads have been greatly de- layed and some city streets have been rendered” almost impassable. Other- wise no serious consequences have yet resulted from the storm in this vicin- Ity. 24—The snow storm ast Friday night still throughout Eastern Colo- Northern All Traffic Discontinued. Colorado Springs, Colo., Oct. 24.— Meager reports from Limon, Colo., are to the eifect that the snow storm in that vicinity was very heavy. All Rock Island trafiic between Colorado Springs and Limon has been discon- tinued, - 5 EIGHT BILLIONS ESCAPE, Railroad Property Allegzsd Not to Have Been Taxed. Springfield, 11, Oct. ~24—It is claimed by Judge Fleming and J. M. Duffy of Chicago, representing Cor- poration Counsel J. Hamilton Lewis of Chicago, that some $8,000,000,000 of railroad property has escaped assess- ment at thé hands of the state board of equalization during the past twenty vears owing to the fallure of the board to include the indebtedness of the rail- roads in the capital stock of the roads, which, they allege, should Le done according to law. Judge Fleming and Mr. Duffy again appeared before the railroad committee of the state board of equalization during the day with a mass of statistics on the subject. THREATENED STRIKE NEARER. German Mine Owners Refuse to Rec- ognize Workmen’s Committee. Essen, Prussia, Oct. 24.—The Asso- clation of Coal Mine Owners has re- plied to the demand of the miners’ committee of seven for higher wages, saying that the association cannot recognize the committee as being rep- resentative of all the miners employed and suggesting that the owners of each mine shall deal direct with their | employes. * This action on the part of | the association brings the threatened strike of 220,000 miners applecmhly nearer. Russian Soldiers Arrested, Cronstadt, - Oct. 24—Over 200 sol- dfers of the garrison here have been arrested on:the' charge of being mem- bers of a revolutionary organization. The garrison has been reinforced by a regiment of grenadiers of the guard, I Police Battle. With Burglar, New York, Oct. 24—A duel with revolvers between two Brooklyn po- Hcemen on foot and a burglar in a wagon ended with the escape of the burglar and the fatal wounding of . TAKES STEPS TO INCREASE THE AVAILABLE CIRCULATION BY $18,000,000. ABJECT LESSON IN ELASTIC CURRENCY BANKERS SAY PLAN WILL DEM- ONSTRATE BENEFITS OF SUCH A LAW, New York, Oct. 24—Secretary Shaw's plan to increase avallable eir- culation by $18,000,000 through the de- posit with the government of approved securities of that value in place of government bonds is interesting to financiers, aside from the relief it is expected to bring to the money mar- ket, in the fact that it will be a dem- onstration of the benefits of an elastic currency. An officer of one of the leading na- tional banks voiced this interest. He said he thaught the plan would bring good results as an_object lesson in elastic currency. He thought that the working out of the plan would serve to demonstrate to congress the ad- vantages tltat would follow the adop- tion of d scheme of elastic currency. Congress may also be Influenced by This Experiment to repeal the law which now limits the requirement of national bank cir- culation to $3,000,000. This official said that his own bank would certainly take out all the circulation to which it may be entitled under this plan and he thought that most other banks holding government deposits would take their share of the new circula tion. Secretary Shaw's plan for an in crease incirculation provides for the substitution to the extent of $18,000, 000 of approved securities, other than government, for -government bonds now pledged as security for_govern- ment deposits. It is provided that the bonds so released shall immediately be used to take out additional national bank circulation. Shaw’s Move Helps Market. London, Oct. %4—Trading on the Stock Exchange opened dull, but im- mediately after the tenor of Secretary Shaw’s plan' to relieve the American money market became known' prices improved. VICTORY FOR DEFENDANTS. First of Alleged South Dakota Land Fraud Cases. Sioux City, Ia., Oct. 24.—Judge Car- land, in the United States court, on motion of attorneys for the defense; directed a verdict for the defendants in the first of the alleged land fraud cases to be tried in the federal court of South Dakota, the case being that of Thomas H. Ayers, John 1. Newell, Howard A. Binford, John F. McGuire, all of Pierre, who were indicted on twenty-three counts- for engaging in a conspiracy to defraud the government of tracts of land situated in Western South Dakota. The defendants pro- cured fifteen soldiers’ widows from Minnesota to make an entry of fifteen different tracts of land, which were immediately leased - to cattlemen. Judge Carland held in substance that at the time of the offense, alleged to have been committed in July, 1903, the™ rulings of the land department and the federal laws authorized: sol- diers’ widows to make. entry of public land without the necessity of making settlement upon it and also authorized them to lease land even without see- ing it. WOULD COMPEL DISTRIBUTION. Policyholders Sue Hartford Life In surance Company. Hartford, Conn., Oct. 24—Legal formalities necessary to attach in the sum of $1,000,000 the property of, the Hartford Life Insurance company and the Security Trust company, both in- corporated under the laws of this state, were carried out by the sheriff /n a suit brought against those two companies by attorneys representing about 20,000 certificate holders of the company in various parts of the coun- try to compel the distribution of a so- called “safety fund” of the company, which amounts to more than $1,000,- 000. A receiver is.also asked for. VIOLATED AN INJUNCTION. Four. Chicago Strikers Must Spend Term in Jail. Chicago, Oct. 24.—Four members of the United Garment Workers of Amer- fca must serve sentences of four months exch in the county jail, accord- pellate court. The men were found guilty of contempt of court by Judge Kavanaugh last’ year because they violated an injunction of his court is-- sued during a labor strike, ‘The day's declision. disposes of the appeal made by Lhe men to a higher court. Indianapolis, OeL 24—Williama J. lpenklns tour through Central and Northern Indiana, He was scheduled to speak in nine cities, the day to close with a night meeting at the In- dianapolis baseball park. Mr. Bryan traveled ina mpecial electric car o ing to a decision of the branch ap-: | 147, DON'T FORGET THE NUMBER--PHONE 3 'WHEN IN NEED OF ANYTHINIG IN THE DRUG LINE-WE DELIVER TO ALL PARTS OF THE CITY Of course; we haven't a “delivery wagon,” but you know, there are not many people buying drugs by the load, and you may depend on it that “our. small boy,” will get there alright, nfwr your order is in, even if BARKER’S DRUG STORE, TWO0 HUNDRED THIRTEEN THIRD STREET, BEMIDJI, MINNESOTA. “ SHAW TO THE RESGUE 7 woure v av cunve| ‘Score or More Pauengan Sustain Injuries. \Schenectxdy, N. Y, Oct. 24—A Bchenectady bound Troy car of the Schenectady Railway company- failed to take the curve at Union and Me- Clellan streets, dashed into a pole, turned over on its side and injured a Bcere or more of passengers. Two passengers who were sitting with an arm out of the windows lost these limbs and others sustained serious in- juries. Those whose wounds were gravest were taken to houses nearby, while the others were conveyed to the hospital here. Another Troy car, which was follow- ing the derailed car, bumped into the wreck, but escaped injury. TO SETTLE RACE . QUESTION. Proposal, to Make Idle Negroes Work on Panama Canal. Washington, Oct. 24.—Secretaries Root and Taft were in conferente during the day at the war department for several hours with representa- tives of some of the great public con- tracting firms respecting the form of contract and specifications to govern the Panama canal construction. Colonel N. F. Thompson of Chatta- nooga also was given an opportunity to exploit his theory of Settling'the race question in the South dy rounding up all idle negroes and sending them to the isthmus to work on the canal. TO - SUPPRESS CUBAN REBELS. American Soldiers Ordered to Prov- ince of Puerto Principe. Havana, Oct. 24—Because of the unsettled conditions in Puerto Prin- clpe province, where armed rebels are hovering on the outskirts of the cap- Ital, committing depredations, 300 men of the Seventeenth infantry, under command of Colonel John T. Van Ors- dale, have been ordered there. FIGHT IN RUSSIAN PRISON. Nine Convicts and an Official Killed During Battle. Irkutsk, Siberia, Oct. 24—Ap at- tempt of the convicts here to break out of jail led to a serious fight, dur- ing which nine convicts and the gov- ernor of the prison were killed and several persons were wounded. Seven: teen convicts succeeded in escaping. Great Western Wreck. Marshalitown, Ia., Oct. 24—Chicago Great Western train No. 6, south- bound, was wrecked three miles west of Melbourne. The engine went through a bridge which workmen had been repairing. Engineer Hill was killed and Fireman Mitchell fatally scalded. * No passengers were hurt. Carter Harrison Injured. Montreal, Oct. 24—Former Mayor Carter H. Harrison of Chicago has been taken from Ridout, Ont., via Toronto, to Chicago, suffering from a badly strained back and possibly in- ternal injuries sustained while hunt- ing moose. BRIEF BITS OF NEWS. In consequerice of a slight indisposi- tlon the pope has been obliged to sus- -pend his audiences. The president has issued.a procla- mation naming: Thursday, Nov. 29, as & day of thanksgiving. - The condition of Congressman Rockwood Hoar of Massachusetts is reported as being most serious, Mike and Joe Cantillon have pur- chased the Minneapolis baseball team. The price paid is said to be in the neighborhood of $30,000. 3 o A ten-pound daughter has been born to Mrs. Kataro Nakahara at the St. Paul city hispital. It is the first Japa- nese baby ever born in St. Paul, MARKET . QUOTATIONS, Minneapolis Wheat. Mlnneapons Oct. 23.—Wheat—Dec., 7814 @78%c; May, TT%¢; July, 78%c. On track—No..1 hard, 76%ec; No. 1 Northern, 75%c; No. 2 Northern, 18%ec. § < St. Paul Union Stock Yards, St. Paul, Oct. 23. —Cattle—Good to choice steers, $5.50@6.25; common to £good, $3.25@4.00; good to choice-cows and heifers, $3.! 50@4 50; veals, $4.60@ | 5.76. Hogs—$5.70@6.20. Sheep—Weth- ers, $4.50@5.10; good to- prime spring lambs, $6.25@6.60. Duluth Wheatllnd Flax. Duluth, Oct. 23.—Wheat—To arrive and on track—No. 1 hard, 77¢; No: 1 Northern, 76c; No, 2 Northern, 741 Oct., 75%c; Dec., T4%c; May, 78%: July, 78%c. Flax—To arrive and ‘on track, $1.13%; Oct. and Nov., $1.13%; Dec., $1.113;; Jan,, $1. 11%; M‘y, Sl. Chicago Union Stock Chicago, Oct. 23. —Cattle—Beeves $410@7.30; stockers'and’teeders, $1.65 @5.26; Texans, $3.76@4.30; Westerns, $3.90@6.25; calves, $6.00@7.50. Hogs —Mixed and butchers; $6.05@6.50; good heavy, $6.25@6.50; rough heavy, $5.80@6.10; light, $6.05@6.45;. plgs, $6.76@6.15. Sheep, 3&65@5 70; lunbs, $4.60@7.50. _Chicago Grain and Provision Chicago, Oct. 23.—Wheat Dec. | Bryan left here early in the day for a T78%@733%c; May, 78@78%c. Curn— Dec,, 42%c;° May, 43% @48%o. —+Dec., 33%c; May, 34¥c. Pm:l(— Jan,, $18.62%. Flax—Nothing doins.- Bnmr—creamefles, 18025%0) dair- Y2 @28¢. Holtday Crowds. For some men it is sufficient recrea- tion to have no work. The momexnt that the “knaapsack of custom” fails from thelr backs they are happy. Not to awake In the morning with the thought of what must be done in the day is in itself a sufficient recreation. Naturally, they have no very definite taste In holidays. They go where it suits their purses or their wives or their children. To such men, though they may spend all thelr working days in the thick of a town, the sight of na- ture never Lecomes a necessity. It Is a luxury, an agreeable augmentation of .the sense of doing nothing. A holiday maker of this type very often goes to a watering place, one of those resorts which it is now the fashion for. culti- vated people to despise. - Such con- tempt is affectation. A number of hap- Py people create, no doubt, an exhilarat- ing atmosphere. Well behaved pleas- ure seekers make an agreeable and ever changing picture. A well kept public garden, a good band and a fine view form attractions which no con- tinental affects to despise, and English people do not despise it either if only the brightly dressed crowd should hap- pen to talk in a foreign tongue.—Lon- don Spectator. The Englishman Abroad. An English observer says that he finds the American abroad both civil and genial: “I climbed to the top of Notre Dame in Paris and found there a party from across the Atlantic enjoy- ing lunch. The day was hot, and a young man in the group offered me a refreshing drink.. At the top of the lacework in marble which is the spire of Milan cathedral three English speak- ing men met accidentally—an Ameri- can, an English clergyman and myself. He who hailed from the land of the stars and stripes offered me his field- glass; the other did not even return our good morning salutation. In a beer garden at Lucerne I followed the custom of the continent and asked per- mission before sitting at a table of those already seated there. The only one who did not raise his hat and re- ply was an Englishman, and the only one to make excuses for him was a young man who prefixed his words ‘with ‘I guess.’” Parchment. Parchment is the skin of sheep or other animals prepared in sheets to render them fit for being written upon. The heavier parchment, tused for drumbeads, is made from skins of asses, older calves, wolves and goats. All these are similarly prepared. The skin, being freed from the bhair, is placed in a linie pit to cleanse it from fat. The pelt is then stretched upon & frame, care being taken that the surface is free frem wrinkles. The flesh Is then pared off with a circular knife. It is then moistened and whit- ing spread over it. The workman then with a large pumice stone rubs the skin. He next goes over It with an fron instrument and rubs it carefully ‘with pumice stone, without chalk. The skin i{s gradually dried, tightening be- ing occasionally required. A Literary Prise. The largest amount ever offered as a prize for -a fliterary contribution Is 1,500,000 rubles, which is still open for competition and will be awarded at St. Petersburg on Deec. 1, 1925, to the writer of the best history of Alex- ander I. of Russia. Araktchelef, found- er of the military .colonies of Nov- || gorod, left a fortune of 50,000 gold ru- bles to provide for this unique prize. The prize giving day is the centenary of the .Czar Alexander's death, by ‘which time the money will, it 1s esti- mated, have increased to 2,000,000 ru- bles. One-fourth of it will be used to defray the cost of publishing the work which wins the prize. At Which Age? An amusing discussion recently took place between an artist and an author as to which period of her life a ‘woman was the most fascinating. Ac- cording to the artist a woman should ‘| not be.painted between the ages of twenty-five and forty, as she was in the greatest transition period of her life. The author, on the other hand, declares that she is at the height of her fascination and beauty between the ages of thirty and forty. The ques- tion is still _nnsemed,—Bremen Zeitung. Sca Snalkes. Sel snakes are very plentiful in the south Paclfic. They are widely distrib- uted, stray individuals having been se- cured on the coast of New Zealand. When swimming close to the surface they exactly resemble an' ordinary snake, except that the head is always below water. * At night they come ashore and lle among the rocks. They. feed on fish and, although their small double fangs appear harmless, they are reported to be very venomous. _ Clean Young Men. 'l'here lm plenty of bright young men iin the country whose hands have not beefr solled by the dirt of latter day ‘polltlcs. It ‘will bé a good thing for ‘the state and for. the nation to have them come forward and take an active part in public affairs. It will be a goodmlngtornnyplmthatm nizes them and gives them proper en- eoun:emeut—!{nmllle Journal and Tribune, | End of the Honeymeon. “Finished your honeymoon yet?’ “I don't know. I have never been able to dahemlne the exact mreaning ot the word honeymoon.” ‘Well, then, has your wife commenc- o to do the cooking yet?'—Houstou mh.yonflmbound-.