The Washington Bee Newspaper, September 26, 1908, Page 7

a dl es i AGA IN {OSES Just How Lloyds Takes | Queer Chances on Po- litical Results. BLACK HAND POLICIES Company Has Taken Long Shots for | Two Centuries and Has Never De- faulted on a Just Claim.—Rain That Does Not Fall a Big Source of Income. New York City.—The insurance Q@gainst Black Hand and losses resulting from the election are Not the only queer policies written by Lioyds, Eng iation of underwriters against an adequate prem Lioyds business is no record faulted on a just claim. Designed or a for marine insurance Still its principal business—1it has 1s sued policies against all conceivable kinds of risks. As in the beginning of its career backed by a group of erous than t one stands to outrages the insure providing id insuring and there having almost a ha ever ot it ever nally Lloyds still much more first group, and each lose more than did the whole of the group. Each member of the must sub- scribe $25,000 on his election. This fund makes up the reserve is oris Te) SOCIAL WAR IN NEWPORT SET. Plec:ocratic Colony at Newport Into Factions. Newport, R. 1—A Newport social war due to friends of Alfred Vander- } bilt and his former wife, Mrs. Elsie French Vanderbilt, taking sides a8 a@ result of the divorce has been start. ed, and a big split in their large cir- cle of friends has resulted. Some take Mrs. Vanderbilt’s side of the case, and others lean to Mr. Vander- }but. There will be an interesting rivalry between the two sets during the Summer bere and during the | Winter in New York. On the Ccasion of bazaar at Mr. Vanderbilt’s farm at Portsmouth for St. Mary’s Church, a prominent woman in the cottage colony found her name among those She forthwith present. de- | a society | and that is | num | against | the legitimate business of Lloyds— namely, Marine insurance. All the freak insurance, such as the policies against Black Hand out- rages and American election losses, is written by different groups of men who are members Lioyds. If a man thinks the b.ack Hand is going to biow up his store and cause him a loss of $10,000, he goes to the iloyds agency, which communicates with the home office, and a group of say, ten members will bind selves to pay $1,000 cach in event of joss and is written. Nearly every licn of ance on the K y breeding farms is insured, some of them as mucu as $100,000 Many race horses training were insured until a years ago, when a success.on of loss- €s caused an advance of premiums to practica prohibitive figure The cr whin came when James R e’s Highball broke leg in the and had to be oO for few 4 ly g blow ng of a race i Highbali a very large amount was insured kace horses and vaiuable poio pon. | jes are still usually only while the animals uangers of the polo t for the Lioyds ot the vaga bets huge su is not to rain on a certain day Every once in a while it rain and it pays out a pretty sum. Pro- Prietors of race tracks frequently ix sure against a on F stake Rainy weather will cut the attendance in half, but the money Offered f must paid wh 30,000 sons witr suburban real spent $15,000 2 Sale of lots, took out a policy ag: &@ Talmstorm on the day of the s his concert nsured, but the possible poli cover los ar ansit 1 k and of the tot race trac i found too many ir makes a lot of money out < weather. It ng that .t going does rainstorm b ake or the race 10,000 per Recently a Th which estate conce st takes out halt a of insurance, and a ble fin also ke tours rand against which P. a accide different k and health separate policy Rubelik on his va!ua- the violinist. red on his other gers. € opera colds affect ically star and only all the tomobiles, not « hines against dan theft, collision or other also carry voeal ‘ac ealthy own insure th by fire dent, but If the Nability polic chauffeur runs down and kills or in-- jJures anybody. the victim ge liability comp: Many busine ry insurance a the life of King b for years prior to toria Some Wall street stock speculators Make it a practice carry insuran on the life of President Roosevelt, because of the market upheavel the d mages which paid ny men in Britain car. the year round on ward, as they did jeath of Vic- of the head of the nation. will not issue its gambling policies to everybody. it must know the man and know that his regular business Wl suffer a toss in the event of the happening against waich he insures. WIRELESS TALK WITH BALLOON Terrestrial Station Keeps in Touch With Aerial Motor Ship. Berlin, German communication —Wireless com- Sas been established successfully between the motor bal- | battalion and 8 | foon of an airsh. terrestria. wireless Station Several messages were exchanged in the course of an hour’s fight, The Prolific Rabbit. in four years a pair of rabbits could have a progeny of nearly j,- 500,000. A doe rabbit produces as Many as seven families a year. import- | in | ivertising an auction } tours, | by the ; ALFRED G. VANDERBIL' | reporter who had used her name in | connection with the affair and gave him to understand that she was not present, and did not expect ever to set her foot on the farm again. She | wished the reporter to be careful in | using her name further in connection | With anything Alfred Vanderbilt held { them- | trere or any place else. Other social matters in connection |with the farm and Mr, Vanderbilt are being discussed in the clubs and in the cottage colony. As a result of the recent fete at the Vanderbilt farm for St. Mary’s ;Church something like $1,300 was |taken in admissicns and sales, but there is nearly $1,000 in expenses to j Vanderbilt may as_ | | be met, wh sume the wise the $300. ieh Mr. responsibility net earning for, other- will FARMS FOR PICKLE MARKET. Yeung Miss Expects to Realize $100 from Her One Acre of Cucumbers. Pierceton, Ind.—‘“! don’t know that | am champion, but I have yet to learn of any other person of my sex in the State that is growing so many cucumbers for pickles,” said Miss Anna Rawlings of Piercetown | Mssi Rawlings is seventeen years old and has indomitable pluck and de- terminaion. Her father is cultivat- ing a farm east of town and raising stuff for a canning company. Miss Anna has leased one of the acres which she has planted in cucumbers. She declined the offer of assist- arce from ner father and ts doing the cultivating herself. She will al- market her product unaided, re- 70 cents a bushel for the She expects to realize near- 100 for her labors, so ceiving pic ly AIRSHIP INVULNERABLE. At Height of 1,000 Could Not Be Berlin, Germany.— scare in 2ngiand about the military qualities } of Count Zeppelin’s be lessened by a statement just pub- lished Captain Hildebrandt, of the Germany army, and one of the greatest living authorities who states the the balioon one thousand metres above th. ground practically vulnerable, as it is impossible train gun to the necessary In addition it is almost impossible to find the range, This can only be done exactly by taking an observation at two separate point. lating the contained triangle thus obtained. Metres Guns frained On It. by to angle of the be far out of range SEEK OWNERS OF BIG FUND. | 45,000 Descendanis of Indians Make \ which would follow the sudden death | Lloyds | Application. Bristol, Tenn.—#red N. Baker, as- sistant to Special Commissioner Mi' ler, who has the task of distribu $4,000,000 among the descenda ot Cherokee and otter Indian- in tie & South and Southwest heard receutly | }the cases of seven Bristol appli- cants tor a share in the funa, many | of them being in Virginia, Tennes- | See, Kentucky, North Carolina, Geor- gia and Alabama. The money repre- sents a judgment against the United States government in favor of the in- dians. ‘The ‘original sum was only $1,000,000 but the interest for sev- | enty-five years has quadrupled it. Unsolved Problems. The three great problems on the solution of which humanity is bent are the same that perplexed our an- cestors—the immortality of the soul, | perpetual motion and women’s hats. | Vanderbilt Divorce Case Splits the | the charity | sought the | be only ' baijloon will not | in-' angle. | and then calcu- | By the time | this could be done the balloon would | UNTER WOMANS TONE Tied to Horse By a Mob, and Dragged to His Death. A TERRIBLE REVENGE Who Just Re- Francesco Vergani, turned to His Home in Padua From America, Adoptet a Fiendish Method to Punish His Fatherless Sweetheart. italy.—Coming Boston, determined on vengeance Francesco Verganl , tore out the tongue of nis | former sweetheart in a village near here, and in a few minutes a mob | tied him to the heels of » horse and j; Padua, acme in | MRS. SAGE ON DUTY | OF PARENTS | One Sentence Written by Her & i Carved on a Marble Tablet at i Sag Harbor School. Sag Harbor, L. 1.—By way of per petuating Mrs. Russell Sage’s views : upon the obligations of parents in the Matter of giving an educatior to | their children a sentence from a let. ter written by Mrs. Sage to the Rev. | | NEGROES FORM HABIT Arthur D. Pierson and read py Him | at the dedication of the Pierson High School in this place has been carved ; On a white marble tabiet and set up in the main entrance hall of the school. ‘The sentence reads: | from his | yelled in frenzied delight as he was dragged to death. Vergani disguised himself as an itinerant dentist to carry out his plot against the young woman. He went ; to Boston years ago with | promise to be his wife. He | return here to wed her and then go | back to America. A year ago, the | girl wearied of waiting, was married ‘to a man who had been Vergani’s | rival, .nd she sent news of the wed- | ding to her old sweetheart. Vergani at once began to plan revenge He arrived her three wee ago, | and asserting he had been graduated } as a dentist in Boston, he began to | practice through the small towas. | He rode in a wagon, using it as an operating place He went to the vil- lage Monselice and attracted a large | crowd. He offered to extract a few teeth free and seeing his former sweetheart in the crowd, induced her to take @ seat in the wagon. He ad- dressed the crowd, saying he was j about to perform one -of the most | delicate operations known to den- | tistry. He turned and bent over the young ; Woman who had identified him through his disguise. With a pair of forceps he tore out her tongue, then, turning to the crowd he un- masked himself and shouted he had won the revenge he desired. The crowd pulled him from the wagon, | bound him hand and foot, tied him to the horse and whipped up the brute ‘which dragged him through the | streets. The horse was urged two | Miles, the body being battered al-- most to shapelessness. | i | her was to | FUNGUS IN STOMACH KILLS HER Grows from Pinhead Size, Causing Agony to Girl. te Cocoanut London.—Sprouting from a grain of oats or barley, a fungus caused the death of a girl fifteen years old j Shetfield, and an autopsy revealed | that the tungus had grown in the stomach to the size of a cocoanut. rhe growth had sent out roots which had invaded all the surrounding or- gans, and the girl died in agony, The case is held to be one of the strangest in medical r>cords in this sountry About a month ago the | girl! complained o. pains in her stom. ach, and a dozen physicians differed ir their diagonsis. As it turned out, ali were wrong. The girl gradually | Srew worse, each day adding to her suffering, until she died. The au- | topsy was performed and four doc- | tors testified to what was found. The doctors said that when a grain of oats or barley was eaten a tiny vegetable parasite known as ray fun- | gus, was growing on it. This para- site wags not k?'ed by being eaten. Instead, it thrived and grew until the size of a cocoanut it killed the girl UP HIS FAMILY TREE. the Father-in-Law of His Own Sister, Kalamazoo, Mich. Benjamin rearce recontiy married Mrs. Myrtle | Robinson- Force-DeForest- Ainsworth and thereby became father-in-law of sister and uncle and grandfath- his wife’s child. Mrs. Pearce by ame the mother of David Force. latter led to the altar Gladys Fearce, sister of Benjamin Pearce, They have a baby. of the sister’s mother-in-law, Benja- min Pearce becomes his sister’s fath- er-in-law As the plain brother of his sister, he naturally is Ler child’s uncle, and as the spouse of his sis- ter’s chiid’s grandmother he is the | infant's grandfather. MIX Pearce Is Now er of Flower Cure for Flies. The confectioner’s shop was quite free of flies, though all the cakes and | Sweetmeats were uncovered. “That mignonette,” said he, ‘is what keeps the filles away. We have it in pots } all over the place. The odor is un- pieasant to flies they won't come near us. the idea from the South. Yacie the butchers end confectioners always have mignon growing in their shops, and they can expose their wares without any fear of tlies’ attacks. “It's a good idea. One cprig of mignonette in my window keeps it quite fly free."—New York Wor!d. ot Steck Exchange Values. Of stock market value, over $2 060,000,000 on their face value are quoted on the London Stock Ex- change, as against a little over $15,- 000,000,000 listed on the New York Stock Exchange. her first husband | As the husband | \ MRS. RUSSELL SAGE. “Lt would like to have the people impressed with their obligations as | guardians of children, to see to it that their training and education be |} such that ta the future of this little namilet, as in the past, its good| women and noble men may enrich | the world.” The tablet was presented to the schoo] by Mrs. James Herman Al- drich of Manhattan, who has a cot-/} tage in this place. Mrs. Sage built the schoolho.se at a cost of more than $100,000. HEIR TO MILLIONS A BURGLAR. Allowance of $200 a Month from His Mother Insufficient for Him. Chicago.—Once more the police force have their clutches on Edward Fake, the “sporting purglar,” whose nother, in San Francisco, is a wealthy widow. Although heir to a fortune of $5,- 000,000, and receiving an allowance of $200 a month from his mother, young Fake cannot forego the ex- citement attending the life of a bur- | He has been sent once to Pontiac reformatory and once to Joliet penitentiary, on charge of committing numerous burglaries in towns along the north shore, “Dandy Eddie’ as he is some- times called by his accomplices, is a{ pal of George Stafford, who is said to have assisted in robbing the homes ot residents of Highland Park and Wilmette. he twc burglars used up-to-date methods in going about their work of robbing house. They dashed around the suburbs in an automo- bile. wore good <lothes, and after robbing a house were able to lean back in their auto and drive away without exciting suspicion. Their | hauls in the north shore suburbs are said to have been large and have en- abled them to live in style in Chicago. | The prisoners are accused of hav- ing looted the homes of the follow- ing persons: George D. Upson, Mrs. Leslie Gates, Robert Hill and Ar- | thur E. Southworth, all of whom re- side in Wilmette. Seemingly this | little suburb has a fascination for Fake. ‘Three years when he fi feil into the hands o- the Chi- eago police, he was arrested for rob- bing a residence in that suburb, Fake is well educated and at one time moved in the most exclusive circles in San Francisco. He be-| came involved in some trouble in his native city and came to Chicago, where he began associating with criminals and in a short time be- came an expert brrgiar. | “Too much wine, women and song said Fake nochalantly, in his cell atj the county jail. “I have tastes that are a little bit in advance of my in- come. 1 am allowed $200 a month | by my mother, but that wouldn’t buy me the necessities o. life, let alone any of the luxuries. I like to have an automobi.2 at my disposal, plenty of good clothes and plenty of vash. “Chicago is a warm burg, and it takes money to keep up your end here. ‘be easiest way to get hold of money is to take it when you find ic lying around. Race horses took a great deal of my money, and | took money belonging to other people. 1 am not really bad at heart. Just careless, that’s all.” glar a | them under the ago, Real Auto Hogs, Hedgehogs are said to be causing a let of trouble for Bangor automo- bilists who are fond of the wooded ; highways a score of miles from the | city. in the evening, these spiny bristling animais are often found in the roads and, fascinated by the glare of the head lamps of the motor cars, refuse to budge from the track, with the results that they are often run over. ‘The danger lies in the sharp quills which pierce the tires, making a puncture which cripples the caz | and is hard to men.—Kennebec Jour- ! nal { ‘ths class of @ jing jer | was | degree on the negroes, | th | to the | clared | it. [ L SMS Government Discovered That Great Quantities Were Sold to Users. Pure Food Experts Are on the Track of Medicines Which Contain the Drug.—Use of This “Dope” is Said | to Be a Greater Evil Than Whis- key Drinking igton, D to which armed by 2 cocaine hab.t eities of the Department uenying the use or its deriva- found neces- cocaine "TURKISH WOMEN’S | FACES BARE NOW. 'Veil Commanded by Keran Thrown | Aside by Many Thousands of | Women in Turkey. | Berlin, Germany.— Urged on by men actively promot..g the political up- beaval in the Ottoman empire, Dun- dreds of thousands of Turkish wom- en, despatche received here relate, | Rave torn off the traditions veil com- jmanded by the Koran and to-day jare showing themseives triumphant- ly in the streets with entirely uncov- Jered faces. All the women apparent- ly are delightec with the new-found freedom, which originated in Mon- astir, the cradle of the recent revolu- tion, and was caused by > procla- ‘mation of a Moslem priest from the mosque cancel the Koran’s com- mandment. “We will nelp to make the world beautiful by this act,’ the priest de- ions of Sec- stal regulations. ports show that aD ne is sent nd that grow- crusades waged the cit have to seek oth- procuri the powder, have been the innocent ough which tne work Gi been rendered par Much of the co sed through the che iurm of so dicines. These “medicines > fail under the ban. n ot Post Office De partment was taken by authority of Cong S$ granted at the last sion when it included ‘a_ prohibition against the drug in making up the department’s appropriation bill. said by the Post Office authori- ties that the order had it. genesis in the attempt of certain Southern leg islators to have a general order pass ed prohibiting the sending of intoxl- cating liquors into prohibition States either through the mails or by com mon carriers engaged in inter-State trade. it developed that tn the South the habit had fixed itself to an alarming The curse 0} to be as tion 4 Gov of the rhment Sus 2 sh the T against the habit driven the “dr means of and the mail channels th the tially caine greater tien crusaders ineft that will als the cocaine, in fact, is Said reat if not a greater menace to thej peace of tha. section of the country | than the liquor habit. The cifticulty faced by those whc | | have tried to combat the evil in the has been the ease with which drug has hitherto been obtained. While druggists selling the liquor without #. physician’s prescription have be@a arrested time and again and frequently convicted, there has beer much more cocaine obtained by those addicted to its use than ever was pure ed over the counters 01 drug stores Much of the additionai came directly from the ers to the purchasers Being dry citie supply through the mails a substance and susceptible of packing so that its real | | nature was readily concealed, it lent itself to mailing. fhe great increase in medicines that coatain cocaine in great quanti- ties has been a source of uneasiness Government. here are a great number of such “remedies” and the Bureau of Chemistry of the Agricultural Department is after Pure Food Law. The charge has been made that co caine has even found its way inte the proprietary drinks sold to the public at soda fountains. wr. H. W. Wiley, Chief of the Buerau of Chem-j istry, only a short time ago, publicly denounced one such drink. He de- ll contained cocaine, and be- cause of his statements its sale at army po and ir the navy was pro- hibited. Among the the cities negroes of it) ' where manufactur: | THE SULTAN OF TURKEY clared in the midst of scenes of wild jubilation at the startling innova- tion, which everywhere was greeted | with strong approval. This change—the most amazing feature of the rebellion and probably unequaied for its radicalism in Tur- kish history—was attended by the gathering of vast crowds of curious {men in the principle thoroughfares of every town, who cheered loudly every unveilied woman. Every- are heard expressions of praise for the relief from the mono- ny of the dark, ugly covering which has hidden the now smiling faces of the Turkish women from the world. The Ottoman Empire seems shak- en to the core and utterly renovated | by the new order of affairs, and that mystery formerly surrounding Tur- kish womankind has vanished. It is believed a daring reformer soon will attempt the introduction of European clothes, instead of the bag- gy trousers for the liberated women, and a general belief exists this move, too, would be received with acclaim by the many new-idea Turks. PLANTS HAVE INTELLIGENCE. Darwin to Assert Old Thesis at His Father's Jub.lee. London.—Francis Darvin presi- dent of the British Association meet- ing on the occasion of the ,ubilee of his father's announcement of his | famous theori reiterates in his in- augural address tne contention tha’ plants are endowed with intelligence, for which he was criticisec by con- scientists years ago. | Darwin illustrates nis theory chief- ly by climbing plants to the influence of light, deducting therefrom that plants have memory and so develo} habits. He will particulariy describy the hop and bryony plants, showiny that their intelligence and memroy are hardly less than those of the low- est anima 200,000,000 FEET OF RAIN, Census Taker cf Natural Resources the use of cocaine has assumed very | large proportions. Government agents who have investigated the matter in conjunction with State au- thorities have discovered that a regu- larly established trade is pursued in hing the drug to its users. ddjers are to the drug busi- | s what the “ho liquor traffi stock in trade in unique meas ing their « for a certaja sum, they sell it by the ‘eard A customer may purchase anywhere from a “deuce” to a ‘ten card of “coke.”’ as the drug is know in the vernacular by those who use The peddler spreads the powder over the spots on a playing card. His charge depends on the denomination of the card, and is based on the number of spotf he has to cover to complete the sale. The United States is a party to a treaty to stamp out the opium traffic, nt-leggers” y carry are to ad of giv- thinly and for years agitators have insisted | that the cocaine traffic should also ve attacked Whether the Govern- ment will take any further steps to- ward of the drug has not yet been consid ered An Extraord’nary Condition. A remarkable condition arose in the Muskogee (Okla.) clearing house the other day. When members of the association met to adjust their bank clearings, it was found that there was $40,000 in checks in the | day’s business, and that when gettle- | ment was made the accounts of each bank against all other banks bal- anced to a penny. No bank had to pay a cent to any other. their | 1 and sell it stome©rs so many grains | combating the transportation | Talks on Annual Downfall. Washing:on, D. C.—Just about 200,000,000 cubic feet of water falls from the heavens annually through- out this country,” said Lr. W. J. Magee, Chief of the Bureau of Sous, and one of the men who are making |census of the natural resources of this country. “If water can be used once for power, then for irrigation, again for power, «nc later as a highway it will have served its purpose weli,” he sata, “It is the essence of the w.ole work of waver conservation and utilization now in progress. “The census of natural resources }as expected to develop a vast fund of information and to show in a con- }crete and empbatic way the value of elements o: which little account is jtaken. it will be the basis from | which scientific work will be carried | forward, uesigned to show how best |to utilize all the resources.” BRITONS MAY WINTER HERK Possibility That This Country May B Popular Resort. ; London.—There are signs that be- {fore long it will be quite the popu- 'lar thing for English society people |to winter in the United States instead ot going to the South of France or- Egypt. 1 Power of Water. Water, looked upon as the tamest of liquids, is as great an explosive as dynamite under certain conditions. im one day water breaks up more earth and rock than all the gunpow- der, guncotton and dynariice in the. world do in a year,