Bemidji Daily Pioneer Newspaper, November 17, 1906, Page 4

% RIVERS STILL RAGING ONLY BAD REPORTS RECEIVED FROM FLOODED SECTIONS OF WASHINGTON. THOUSANDS OF PEOPLE HOMELESS COMPELLED TO SEEK SAFETY IN FLIGHT, SAVING BUT FEW OF THEIR EFFECTS. Portland, Ore., Nov. 17.—News from the flood swept valleys of Washington shows no improvement of conditions. Telegraphic communication is inter- rupted and but one important point, Kelso, can be communicated with by telephone. The Cowlitz river is still carrying houses, barns, logs and other drift down the flood. Bridges have been washed out and others are in peril. The crest of the flood, however, seems to have reached Kelso and news that the Cowlitz is falling will doubtless soon be received from points north of Kelso. Between Kelso and Castle Rock hun- dreds of people have been rendered homeless and many families are in want, having saved but few of their effects and but few provisions. The operation of trains north seems out of the question at this time. Sev- eral trains are stalled along the route and it is certain that railroad com- munication with Puget Sound points over the Northern Pacific will not be had for many days. Several railroad bridges have been washed out and will have to be replaced with temporary structures before traffic can be re- sumed. There is no telegraphic communica- tion nearer than Castle Rock. Thou- sands of telegraph poles are down and in the vicinity of Puget sound the tel- egraph companies have suffered in- estimable damage. THOUSANDS ARE HOMELESS. Camped in Foothills to Escape Raging Waters, N Seattle, Wash., Nov. 17.—Homeless and suffering from hunger and expo- sure and in hourly dread that the ris- ing waters will overwhelm them thou- sands of residents of the fertile val- leys lying between Seattle and Taco- ma are camped in the foothills nearby with what few provisions and effects they could carry in a hurried flight. Six deaths have been thus far <hron- icled as due to the floods which have followed the rapid rise of the rivers in King and Pierce counties. Black, ‘White, Green, Cedar, Stuck, Snmoqual- mie and other streams having their source in the foothills of the Cascade mountains have risen over night and have flooded thousands of acres of land and caused incalcuable damage. How many farmers’ families have lost some member through the rapid ad- vance of the treacherous waters will not be known until the waters subside. All the valley towns are under wa- ter, the depth ranging from eight to twenty feet. Railroad communication has been cut and the towns cannot be reached except by message over the long distance telephone wires. With the water already standing on the streets at such a depth that it is no longer safe for residents to remain in the first stories of their houses the men are organizing in each town and either removing the helpless ones to the second stories or carrying them away to places of safety. FORTY LIVES Two Score of People Marooned on an Island. Portland, Ore., Nov. 17.—The report recelved here that the forty or more people ‘who were marooned on an is- land ‘at the juncture of the Cowlitz and the Columbia rivers had been res- cued by the steamer Burton, sent from Portland to the scene for the purpose, proves untrue. The Burton was un- able to approach the island on ac- count of the powerful rush of the wa- ters and the presence of logs and drift. The steamer Sarah Dixon has gone to the scene and will endeavor to rescue the marooned people, who are belleved to be the families of farm- ers and fishermen. Owing to the fact that the Cowlitz has about reached the limit of the flood, it is to believed here that the people will be saved. IN DANGER. WEATHER TURNS COLDER. Residents of Washington Believe Re- lief 1s at Hand. Seattle, Wash,, Nov. 17.—The rains of the past few days have ceased, the chinook has turned colder -and the water In the upper part of the White River valley is slowly receding. The greatest danger point at present is at . South Park, a suburb of Seattle, near the mouth of the Duwamish river. As the flood sweeps down the valley ' to Puget sound the water is steadily .rising at this point. From Yellowstone Park, a small tract on the north side of the Duwam- ish just opposite South Park, comes the report that a house containing several persons was swept down the river. 4 Peasants in Starving Condition, St, Petersburg, Nov. 17.—In several of the interfor provinces the pedsants Ihave taken to their beds, lying motion- less for days at a time In order to have forced him to the decision w re- cape before citizens, aroused by thi weaken the pangs o! hunger. OFFICIAL COUNT IN NEW YORK. 3oth Hughes and Hearst Ran Ahead of Their Associates. New York, Nov. 17.—Complete offi- clal returns from thirty-five counties in the state show that both the lead- ing candidates for governor, Charles E. Hughes, Republican, and Willlam R. Hearst, Democrat and Independ- ence league, ran ahead of nearly all their assocviates on the state ticket. Mr. Hughes led M. Linn Bruce, the Republican candidate for lieutenant governor, by nearly 2,500 votes in the thirty-five counties. He led the other Republican candidates by from 2,700 to nearly 3,500. Hauser, the Demo- cratic candidate for treasurer, was the only man on the Democratic ticket to run ahead of Mr. Hearst. He had a lead of 539 votes over the head of the ticiet in the thirty-five counties which have reported. Mr. Hearst leads the other candidates on the ticket by from £ss than 100 to more than 400 votes. VAST BED OF MANGANESE. ® Seven Million Tons Said to Have Been Found in West Virginia. ‘Wheeling, W. Va.,, Nov. 17.—The dis- covery of manganese in almost unlim- ited quantities has been made in West Virginia at a pcint not yet made pub- lic and the claim made that experi- ments and tests already made show the presence of millions of tons of the mineral. BATTLE WITH HOLDUP MEN TWO DEAD AND TWO DYING AS RESULT OF BLOODY FIGHT AT SAN_FRANCISCO. San Francisco, Nov. 17.—Two men are dead, two others dying and an- other seriously injured as the result of a pistol duel in the attempted hold- up of a saloon by two masked rob- bers, - Shortly before midnight two men with handkerchiefs over their faces and reyolvers in their hands entered the saf%on of John O’Connell at Sixth and Brannan streets.. All the inmates complied with the order to hold up their hands given by the masked men except George O'Connell, a retired and pensioned police officer, who drew his revolver and commenced shooting at the robbers. Seeing the gun flash in O’Connell’s hand the two robbers be- gan firing at the ex-policeman and patrons of the saloon at almost the same moment. When the smoke of the battle cleared away four men were lying on the floor of the saloon, three of them dying and the fourth serious- ly injured. O’Connell, with two bul- lents in his chest, Stephen Lynch twice shot in the abdomen, Louis De- latour, with his jaw torn away by a bullet, and Michael Kennedy shot in the ear. From the sixth street door a trdil of blood led across the street to the sidewalk opposite the saloon, where was found one of the robbers with the mask still on dead with twb bullets fired by O'Connell in the chest. The second robber escaped. The dead man was identified by detectives as Frank Burke, an ex-convict: O’Con- nell died soon after being taken to the hospital, where it is said that Lynch and Delatour, both laborers, cannot recover. NEW TRIAL IS ORDERED. Ex-Auditor Sherrick of Indiana Re. leased From Prison. Indianapolis, Nov. 17—The supreme court has reversed the decision of the lower court by which David E. Sher- rick, former auditor of state, was sent to the penitentiary for an indetermi- nate sentence of from two to fourteen years, charged with embezzlement of the state funds. The decision of the court orders a new trial of the case. Sherrick has been in the penitentiary at Michigan City for several months. He will be brought back to Indianapolis at once and held subject to the order of the criminal court. He probably will be released on bond. The court holds that Sherrick did not embezzle state money, as the money belonged to the insurance companies and not to the state. RETURNS TO STARTING POINT. cessful Flight. Mantes-Sur-Seine, France, Nov. 17.— M. Lebaudy’s new dirigible balloon, La Patrie, constructed for the aero- statlc division of the French army, had a trial here during the day. The airship was maneuvered over the plain to Lavacourt and as far as Bonnieres, ten miles, and back to the starting teen minutes, with five men in the car, War Minister Picquart was present. La Patrie is constructed on the same ous airships. PLATT TO QUIT SENATE. Resignation Ready for Transmission to Governor, New York, Nov. 17.—The Evening.' Post publishes the following: : Thosas C. Platt's resignation. from the United States senate is said to be ready for filing with Governor Hig- | gins. Senator Platt, it is reported, has decided to retire altogether from pub- 1 le life. Recent disclosures concernlng fhe senator’s’ domestic s les; added to, his increasing age, are declared to nnqullh his office. M. Lebaudy’s New Balloon Makes Suc- point, being aloft one hour and fif- general plan as M. Lebaudy’s previ- | Late News of the MR, GOMPERS REPLIES DECLARES LITTLEFIELD A MONO- MANIAC ON QUESTION OF ORGANIZED LABOR. i IS ONLY A SIDE ISSDE POLITICS ADVANCEMENT OF TRADES UN- IONISM PRINCIPAL OBJECT OF FEDERATION. ' & Minneapolis, Minn,, Nov. 17.—“Ma- |* licious silliness” were the words with which President Samuel @ompers of the American Federation of Labor characterized the attack upon him by Congressman Charles E. Littlefield of Maine at the Founders’ banquet in New York Wednesday night. When approached with a copy of the press dispatch reporting Mr. Littlefield’s ut- terances at the close of the morning session of the federation convention President Gompers was ready with a statement. He had already read the dispatch and at once used forceful lan- guage on Mr. Littlefield and his ut- terances. “Mr, Littlefield,” said President Gompers, “is a monomaniac so far as all questlons of organized labor are concerned. He is unable to look with- out prejudice at any measure advanced by its representatives. So far as Mr. Littlefield’s attack on our agitation for an anti-injunction bill is concerned I am contert to let my answer be taken from the report which I presented to the federation at the afternoon ses- sion of this convention on Monday. “Finding himself in a congenial gath- ering, a gathering made up of men | bitterly hostile to organized labor, Mr. Littlefield evidently decided to vent his spleen against the movement and against myself. The fact that he had the newspaper men removed from the room after saying as much as he did would indicate that he wished to in- dulge in further rancor, were such a thing possible. ORGANIZED LABOR IN POLITICS. Subject Discussed at Federation Con- vention. Minneapolis, Nov. 17.—Hard detail work in committee was the order of things in the American Federation of Labor convention. After a short ses- sion, which resulted in a considerable display of oratory over technical ques- tions of procedure, the convention ad- Journed at 10:15 and resolved itself into committees to hear subjects to be presented later to the convention. The chief cause of the oratorical dis- play was a motion by E. Garry Brown of Brockton, Mass., that the conven- tion practically resolve itself into a committee of the whole to discuss such subjects as might properly be introduced. It was evident that the majority of the delegates who took part in the discussion following the motion planned to say something about the political future and the fu- ture political activity of the federa- tion. James Duncan, first vice president, announced that he is prepared to take the stand that the original purpose of the federation, the advancement of trades unionism, is the first policy of the federation and must remain so, and that politics shall be a side issue. He announced that he was prepared to take issue with those who hope i to see the future political activity of the federation its main feature. In the drifting from the point that fol- lowed others expressed different cpin- ions. - Delegate Brown asserted that the results of recent activity had been that labor had succeeded in electing its enemies and defeating its friends. He declared that this defeat of the purpose of the recent political move was due to failure to properly organ- ize and that because of the failure attacks had been made on President Gompers, whereas he was not person- ally responsible. Mr. Brown has a resolution before the convention call- ing for the creating of an auxiliary political organization to carry on all political work to the end that the ef- forts of labor in politics may result in the election of friends of labor and the defeat of its “enemies. The as- signment of this resolution to its prop- er committee was discussed and final- ly the convention was adjourned to allow all committees time for business and hearing all who desire to be heard. INCREASE OF TEN PER CENT. Express Company Raises Wages of Employes, New York, Nov. 17.—An increase of 10 per cent in the salaries of the em- National per month has been announced by the directors of the National Expres# com- pany. The increase is to be given to i all employes who have been in the s¢rvice of the company upwards of ! one year without an increase in sal- ary during the twelve months ending Nov. 16,1906, Burglars Rob Illinols Bank. Danville, Ill,, Nov. 17.—Burglars en- tered the Witherspoon bank at Ja- malca, twelve miles southwest of here, , forced the door with tools stolen from a nearby blacksmith shop and dyna- mited, the safe, securing several hun dred dollars. They made their es: explunlon could rumh t.hs scene. ployes now recelving less than $200.. RESULT OF KNOCKOUT ‘BLOW. Mike Ward, canadlan Pugilist, Dead | at Grand Rapids, Mich, Grand Raplds, Mich,, Nov. 17. Mike Ward, the pugilist of Carnia Ont., 1s dead as the result of a knock- out in a fight here with Harry Lewls of Philadelphia. Ward died * from cerebral hemor- rharge, according to the physicians who attended him. Excepting a very brief period of consciousness shortly after he was knocked out Ward was unconscious until his death. Four physicians worked over him through- out the night. Harry Lewis, Referee Ed Ryan of Detroit and Frank O'Brien, Lewis’ trainer, were placed under ar- rest when it became apparent that ‘Ward was in grave condition and are being held by the police. Other ar- rests and precautions are anticipated in connection with the fight. Lewis and his friends assert that it was not the knockout blow which caused Ward’s death, but the heavy fall to the floor that followed it. They claim that the floor was not sufficient- 1y padded. Others assert that ghe ter- rific blow received by Ward cafsed his collapse and death. He had just risen from the floor after taking a count of nine seconds, following a hard swing on his jaw. Lewis swung again to his jaw and Ward dropped to the floor and was unconscious when the count of ten was finished. BY NAVAL DEMONSTRATION FRANCE AND SPAIN DECIDE TO MAKE AN EFFORT TO SCARE THE MOORS. Paris, Nov. 17.—Spain and France have arranged to malke a naval demon- stration and land marines in Moroc- co should such measure prove neces- sary for the protection of foreigners before the ratification of the Algeciras convention and the installation of the internaticnal police, which is not ex- pected to take place before Feb. 1, 1907. The French armored cruisers Gloire, Admiral Hube and Leon Gambhetta and several torpedo boats and destroyers will be held in readiness to sail at short notice from France to Moroccan waters. ON’CHARGE OF EXTORTION. Francisco’s Mayor and “Boss” Ruef Indicted, San Francisco, Nov. 17.—Five in-; dictments have been returned by the grand jury against Mayor Eugene Schmitz and “Boss” Abraham Ruef on the charges of extortion. On each charge the bail was fixed at $10,000. Accoring to the indictments Ruef and Schmitz on Jan, 15, 1904, extorted $1,170 from Tony Blanco of the “Poo- dle Dog”. restaurant and on Feb. 6 of the same year they forced him to give up $1,000 more. The third indictment is based, or the extortion of $1,1756 from the proprietors of Marchland’s restaurant. They are charged with demanding San and receiving on the same day $1,175 | from the proprietors of Delmonico’s restaurant. It is charged that on,Feb. 6 they. forced these men to yield up $1,000 by threatening to take away their liquor licenses. The indictment of Ruef was ex- pected by the public, but they ‘were not prepared for immediate indict- ments agalnst the city’s chief magis- trate, who is now on the Atlantic re- turning from a visit to Europe. For nearly two years the alleged objection- able relations between the French res- taurants and the municipal adminis- tration bave been a subject of severe criticism and public denunciation. FULL EQUALITY WITHHELD. Official Statement Regarding Jewish Reforms in Russia, St. Petersburg, Nov. 17.—Premier Stolypin’s organ, the Rossia, publishes a long article apparently intended to prepare the way for the promulgation of the reforms in the conditions of the ! Jews. The paper states that with the view of allaying the anticipated storm of protest upon the part of the reac- tionists the projected Jewish reform will not give the Jews full equality nor permission for them to spread through the country and acquire the lands of the peasants, but they will have the right to live everywhere- inside the pale, in the country, as well as in the/| cities, and the restrictions imposed on Jewish merchants and artisans will be revised, including granting them permission to dwell outside ‘the pale. The article reviews the Jewish prob- lem since it was acquired with Poland 130 years ago. It declares that.the forcible concentration within the pale of five million Jews or 113 per cent of the population has proved a fail- ure and has not prevented the most dangerous element, the Jewish intel- ligencia and plutocracy, from pene- trating Into Russia over the ' golden bridge, while poverty has stricken the residue. The pale, the article asserts, forms an nccumnlator in which the revolutionary emergy of the ‘Jewish proletariat has: been- developed. . ViSITB cu EBRA CUT. | President Inspects Portion of Canal b 3 ute. —President Roose: eft his Hotel at 7 a. m. with Mr; Roosevelt ‘ami made an examln-.tl sofi the. Gulebr‘k cut, 'He returned t La Boca at noon,and, ;made a_trip o mhogh ident N I.|Ell OF DEMANDS | RAILROADS SAID TO BE WILLING TO PAY TEN PER CENT IN- CREASE IN WAGES. AFFECTS OVER (ONE MILLION MEN AGGREGATE SUM INVOLVED BY OFFER MORE THAN EIGHTY MILLION DOLLARS. Chicago, Nov. 17.—The Record-Her- ald says: The railroads of the en'ire counn'y stand ready to accept the standard of wages set by the Pennsylvania and to grant their employes an increase of 10 per cent in lieu of all other demands. The “melon” which the railroads are willing to cut and to dis- tribute among more than 1,296,000 em- ployes would aggregate between $81,- 000,000 and $82,000,000 annually. This sum the roads are ready to give the large army of employes,, provided the latter will accept it and cease for the time being any further demands for increases in all branches of the rail- way service. Several railway magnates have al- ready taken action in the matter and have decided to grant the increase if the matter can be arranged amicably with their employes. The magnitude of the concession to labor is understood when it is stated that the increase will amount to a dividend of nearly 1.4 per cent on allj the capital stock of the entire railroad systems of the country and to nearly 87 per cent of the amount of divi- dends declared and paid on that stock for the year 1905. There has not been concerted action on the part of the railroads, but the question of increase in wages has been the subject of discussion in many meetings which have been held | among the Western presidents and executive officlals at Chicago and among the Eastern men at New York. WILL AWAIT COURT’S DECISION. Standard Oil Company Will Not Dis- solve Voluntarily, orld By Wire Domestic--Foreign--F inancial--Social--Political and Commercial , % SUITED TO THE NORTHWEST. Species of Alfalfa Found in Northern Siberia. Washington, Nov. 17.—After twice risking his life and once nearly losing it in the interest of agricultural sci- ence Professor N, E. Hansen of the South Dakota experiment station of the department of agriculture has found in Northern Siberia an alfalfa suited to the arid lands of the North- west, where the winters are bitter cold. Professor Hansen got on the track of the alfalfa a year ago, but was 80 late in searching for it that he was badly frozen in Siberia. De- spite this experience he made another trial this year and has just informed Secretary Wilson that he has been successful and is on his way back with seed. Professor Hansen, before going to Siberla, visited Northern Norway and Sweden with a view to finding new crops which might be of value in the .cold arid lands of the United States. The alfalfa he discovered has a yel- low flower instead of a blue. It is a native of the dry steppes of Siberia and grows well where the mercury falls to 40 degrees below zero. The country is exceedingly dry and yet the new alfalfa is an excellent forage plant. JEROME AFTER GAMBLERS. Gives Warning That All Will Be Pun ished to Extent of Law. New York, Nov. 17.—A warning to gamblers that they will be prosecuted to the extent of the law and that a bill will be introduced in the legisla- ture at the next session to repeal the present law which permits. betting at race tracks has been given by District Attorney Jerome in the supreme court. It was supported by Judge Gtto Ro salsky, who declared that he would impose the severest penalties upon persons convicted of gambling. At the same time Mr. Jerome announced that in the future all gambling cases will be tried before Judge Rosalsky. On the calendar before Judge Ro- salsky were thirty-six indictments, in. volving nearly 180 persons, who had been arrested during poolroom raids and other forms of gambling. In a majority of the cases first offenders ‘were arraigned and upon the motion of the district attorney $25 fines were quent fines will be heavier. In addi- tion to this Mr. Jerome forced the prisoners to tell the names of the owners of the various gambling houses. Sugar Trust on Trial, New York, Nov. 17.—The Journal of | Commerce prints an interview with a ' representative of the Standard Oil company who, the paper says, spoke with authority. It concerns a report that the company was preparing to voluntarily dissolve and is as follows: “Any reports that steps have been taken by the Standard Oil company to dissolve are entirely without founda- tion. Surely such a report carries its own contradiction. The Standard Oil company adopted its present form of doing business in obedience to the law when the original organization ' was condemned by one state. We have done business as the Standard Oil company of New Jersey for more than a dozen years and. until it can be shown that our organization is il- legal we shall continue to do business. It is an expensive ordeal to ‘turn over’ | a corporation of the size of Standard Oil, with its world-wide ramifications, | and one not likely to be undertaken voluntarily. Besides, what form does the government wish the oil business | to take? You cannot legislate a gal- lon of oil out of existence. The busi-, ness must be conducted. Even if it should be held that we have done ‘wrong it would not save us from the consequences to dissolve now. You may, therefore, give a flat contradic- tion to any ‘report that we have ar- ranged to take such a step.” TEXAS OUSTER SUIT. Connection Shown Between Standard and Waters-Pierce Companles. St. Louis, Nov. 17.—Five witnesses have been examined in secret hearing | by Assistant Attorney Genmeral Light- foot of Texas' in the thking of deposi- tions relevant to the suit to oust the ‘Waters-Plerce Oil company from Tex- as. It is learned that the examination has developed from the testimony that a connection between the Standard | Oil company ‘and the Waters-Pierce company existed. and that in certain , sections of Texas where the Waters- | Plerce company was unusually strong all the competing forces were destroy- ed by the Standard Ofl company. Witnesses testified that the Corsi- cana Oil company and the Security Oil company, at Beaumont, two re- | fineries owned by the. Standard Oil company, did not sell to companies competing . with the Waters-Pierce company 'and that in return the lat- ter company purchased all the oil sold in the, state of Texas from these | two refineries. 'HOUSE OF COMMONS ACTS. + Emigration Unden‘- False Representa-" tion Prohibited. London, Nov, 17.—fn consequence of the recent action. of certain agents in ' Inducing workmen to emigrate to Can- ! ada under false Tregreséntation . that work ‘'was awaiting them thera. ‘Where- 88, they were. really. wauted to take the ace of ltrlksu, the president of | thb board of trade, Mr.’ y_dmorge. gt rcured or the New York, Nov. 17.—The trial of the American Sugar Refining company, charged by indictment with having violated the Elkins act in the accept- ance of rebates from the New York Central railroad in the spring of 1903 amounting to $26,000, was begun be- fore Judge Holt in the United States circuit court. BRIEF BITS OF NEWS. Dispatches to Dun’s Trade Review indicate that business continues pro- gressive, with distinct improvement in collections. King Alphonso has been hastily re called to Madrid from his hunting ex- pedition. It is believed that a cabinet crisis is impending. Timothy E. Byrnes, assistant to President Mellen, has been named first vice president of the New York, New Haven and Hartford railway, vice Perry R. Todd, resigned. King Victor Emmanuel has present. ed the British national museum with the fragments of a beautiful Greek statue found during the excavations on his preserves at Castel Porziano, near Rome, Robbers dynamited the safe in the Bank. of Lahoma, at Lahoma, OKla., and escaped with $2,700 in cash. The bank had just received $10,000 to pay farmers for their cotton, but the Tob- bers overlooked this. MARKET QUOTATIONS, Minneapolis Wheat. Minneapolis, Nov. 16.—Wheat—Dec., T73sc; May, 80c; July, 80%c. On track—No. 1 hard, 81%¢; No. 1 North. ern, 80%c; No. 2 Northern, 78%¢c; No. 3 Northern, 756% @176c. St. Paul Union Stock Yards. St. Paul, Nov. 16.—Cattle—Good to choice steers, $5.50@6.25; fair to good, $4.60@5.50; cows and heifers, $3.50@ 4.50; veal calves, $4.00@5.25. Hogs— $5.90@6.05. 'Sheep—Wethers, $4.50@ 6.10; good to prime spring lambs, $6.25 @7.00. Duluth Wheat and Flax. Duluth, Nov. 16.—Wheat—No. 1 hard on track, 81%c. To arrive and on track—No. 1 Northern, 80%c; ‘No. 2 ! Northern, ~79%¢c; -Nov.,- 80c; Dec., T7%e; May, 80c; July, 80%c. Flax—To arrive and on track, $1.24%; Nov., $1.24%%; Dec., $1.19%; JanA. $1.20%; May, $1.23%. P chlclno Grain and PNN"IMHI- ki 16 —Wheat—Déc., ‘Chicago, “Nov. 73%@78%c; May, 79¢. ' Corn—Dec., 42% @42%¢; -May, 48%c. Oats—Dec., 84%c; May, 38%ec. Pork—Jan,, | $14.47%; May, $14.65. Flax—N’othlng doing. 'Butter—Creameries, 20@26c; , dalries, 19@24¢. Eggs—23@26¢. Poul- try—Turkeys, 16c¢; chickens, 10c; spring, 10c. i 4 . Chicago Union Stock Yards. Chicagd, Nov. 16.—Cattle—Beeves, $4.00@7.25; cows and heifers, $1.60@ 6.16; stockers und ' feeders, 4.50; Westerners, $3.90@6.10; calves, t:hgt JGQOG’( 756 .Hog&-:lxed and butch- imposed with a warning that subse’ 4 The Endless Procession. A myriad of men are born. They la- bor and sweat and struggle for bread; they squabble and scold and fight; they scramble for little mean advantages over each other; age creeps upon them; infirmities follow; shames and humilia- tions bring down their prides and their vanities; those they love are taken from them, and the joy of life is turn- ed to aching grief. The burden of pain, | care, misery, grows heavier year by year; at length ambition is dead, pride 1s dead; vanity is dead; longing for re- lease is In their place. It comes at last—the only unpoisoned gift earth ever had for them—and they vanish from a world where they were of no consequence; where they achieved noth- ing; where they were a mistake and a failure and a foolishness. There they have left no sign that they have ex- isted—a world which will lament them a day and forget them forever. Then another myriad takes their place, and copies all they did, and goes along the same profitless road, and vanishes as they vanished—to make room for an- other, and another, and a million other myriads, to follow the same arid path through the same desert and accom- plish what the first myriad and all the myriads that came after it accomplished —nothing.—From Mark Twain’s Auto- blography in North American Review. Origin of the Balloon. The word balloon means “a large ball.” To Montgolfier of Annonay, France, the invention of the balloon is credited. It is said that he was led to turn his attention to balloon making from the following incident: A French laundress, wishing to dry a petticoat quickly, placed it on a basket work frame over a stove. To prevent the heat from escaping by the opening at the top of the petticoat she drew the belt strings closely together and tied them. Gradually the garment dried and became lighter, and as the stove continued to give out heat and rarefy the air concentrated under the basket work frame the petticoat began to move and finally rose in the air. This so astonished the laundress that she ran to her neighbors and asked them to come and witness the strange sight. Montgolfier was among those that came in. The petticoat suspended in midair suggested greater things to him, and he returned home with “gomething to think about” He at once began studying works on differ- ent kinds of atmosphere, and the in- vention of the balloon was the result. No Excuses Accepted. French officials are said to be par- ticularly strict in their discipline of tourists. A lately returned traveler tells several more or less apocryphal stories to illustrate the state of affairs. An American lost his footing, slipped down an embankment and fell into a small, shallow pond. As he scrambled, dripping, up the embankment to the footpath he was confronted by an arm of the law. “Your name? Your address?’ de- manded this uncompromising person, notebook in hand. “But I fell,” began the astonisbed American. “I only”— The man waved his arm. “It is for- bidden to bathe in this lake,” he said firmly. “I am not here to listen to extenuating circumstances.” A Quotation. A correspondent wrote to a newspa- per to ask the author of this couplet: How much the fool who has been sent to Rome Excels the fool who has been kept at home! He had barely written when he an- swered his own query, having found the source of the lines and how he had misquoted them. They are from Cow- per’s “Progress of Error” and read: How much a dunce that hath been sent to roam Excels a dunce that hath been kept at ‘home! ‘We are not sure but that, as is fre- quently the case with* misquotations, the popular version is better than the poet’'s.—New York Tribune. Brains of Great Men. Brains of great men vary very much. It 1s found that men of encyclopedic mind. have large and heavy brains— Gladstone had to wear a very big hat— with an enormous bed of gray matter and numerous convolutions. On the other hand, men whose genius is con- centrated upon one line of thought are of small brain and, consequently have small heads. Newton, Byron and Cromwell were In this class.—Kansas City Journal. Latchkey as a Source of Trouble. Ever since some mechanically inclin- ed person, with an almost diabolical in- stinet for making mischief, Invented a form of spring lock which can be open- -ed on the Inside by & knob and on the outside only by a key there has been trouble. - The latchkey from the first has been a domestic storm center. Tt has divided family circles and even broken up homes.—London Telegraph. The Best. There Is a legend, says an English writer, to the effect that ‘after Lord Stanley -came Into ‘the house of peers a iady somewhat iIndiscreetly asked Lord Brougham at a dinner party who ‘was the best speaker in the house of lords and that Lord Brougham prompt- ly and emphatically answered, “Lord Stanley, madam, is the second best.” Hasty Conclusion, Tommy paused & moment in the i Work of demolition. “This Is angel cake, all right,” he sald. ; “How 'do you know?’ asked Johnny “I've found a feather in It.”—Chis v