Show INg f Dr Wu Seeks Light on Spirit World I + rtt31NCT I RRg1NF1 WASHINGTON Having satisfied I himself regarding tho technique of flying machines when he visited Wilbur Wright to Collono Park Mil nnd piled him with all sorts of ques Ions Dr Wu Ting Fang Chinese minIster min-Ister tll tho United States turned his attention to spiritualism nnd took his first plunge into tho mysteries of the spirit world Ho attended n meeting of the Temple League of Spiritualists where he was informed by n medium lint half n dozen spirits hovered by its side From the time the human Interro atlon mark as Dr Wu has become known here entered tho hall accompanied accom-panied by Wu Chang an attache of the Chinese legation and took a sent directly In front of tho speakers platform he was nil openeyed atten Linn Notwithstanding his flowing purple pur-ple robes tho minister was not recognized recog-nized by the halfhundred attendants bU was tho center of curiosity When Mrs Honnon regarded as a firstclass medium by the spiritualists took the floor and asked whether anyone any-one was present who had never received re-ceived a message from tho spirit world Dr Wu signified that ho was such The medium declared that she saw standing by the Chinese ministers minis-ters side n woman of his country with two children She said she had not been given their names but described them to him and remarked that If during dur-ing tho evening the names were given her by tho spirit sho would make them known to him While sho gave spirit messages names and descriptions of spirits to persons in tho room Dr Wu watched and listened with the keenest attention atten-tion To his companion another medium me-dium gave n long reading Informing Mr Chang ho was going away shortly but would return Dr Wu returned a few nights later and had a private sitting during which ho was told that tho spirit of William McKinley martyred president presi-dent of tho United States urged him to use his efforts for peace The spirit of the Chinese envoys mother also talked to him Why is It I cannot see the spirits was Dr Wus question The mediums explanation hns not been made public Uncle Sam Plants Fish by Billion on n 2 311 rsp A D01 FCCS DURING the last fiscal year more fish and fish eggs were distributed by tho bureau of fisheries of the Department De-partment of Commerce and Labor in Washington than ever before In Its history For the first time the total of fish and eggs distributed passed the three billion mark Tho exact number was 3117301625i Last year the total amount of the distribution wns 2871450280 and although al-though Commissioner George M Bowers suggested early In the year that he hoped to pass tho three bl lion mark small hope was entertained that he would be able to do It In addition to the Increased distribution distribu-tion a careful estimate has shown that the cost of distribution has been reduced to about 152 n million of fish and eggs distributed which Is a lower average cost than has ever before been attained Tho cost during the previous fiscal year was 16025 In 1007 It was 17228 100G 21680 When tho bureau was established In 1904 the cost of distribution was 40351 a million while In 1897 the year before Commissioner Dow rs took charge of tho work tho annual output was 568144042 and tho coat was 39770 n million Ten years ago the number of applications appli-cations for the stacking of rivers and streams with fish of various kinds was less than 4000 During tho last fiscal year the applications increased to nearly 11000 and tho bureau responded respond-ed by planting fish In nearly that number of rivers streams lakes nud ponds Of the entire amount planted 98 per cent was for market fisheries I only two per cent being for the use of sportsmen In summing up tho conditions for tho fiscal year Commissioner Bowers has come face to face with the contingency con-tingency that In tho near future the Pacific coast may bo called upon to restock the Potomac river and Its tributaries with shad Only a fow ysars ago shad wore taken from the Potomac and planted In the Sacramento Sacra-mento river where they are now more plentiful than on the Atlantic const The commissioner Is I having prepared pre-pared maps showing the extent to which nets are planted along tho Potomac Po-tomac and Its tributaries for catching tho shnd as they return from tho saltwater salt-water of the Chesapeake Bay to tho fresh water In which they spawn So great has been tho onslaught on the fish ns they attempt to reach their spawning ground that In spite of all tho efforts of the bureau to plant eggs tho catch Is constantly decreasing decreas-ing Solve Post Office Department Mystery I HDUSE THE postofflco department In Washington Wash-ington has Just solved a problem that of several years standing arid Which for a long time they feared they sieved would be nblo to solve Since as far back as August 1904 at regular regu-lar Intervals the Boston postmaster has been sending with his consignment of dead letters to the dead letter office a number of small envelopes all addressed ad-dressed with a lead pencil In the same handwriting to the same person street and number In Boston with no postage paid upon them I When in time it became necessary I to open these letters at the dead letter let-ter olllce each was found to contain a I 1 bill wrapped in a scrap of brown paper or old newspaper without the least sign or mark by which tho sender sen-der might bo Identified Tho number of these letters sent to the dead letter office having reached 146 Fourth Assistant Postmaster General Gen-eral De Graw concluded to send out his Inspectors to run down tho mys 4 L e 4 apD m LIEUT FLATHER of tho Washington Washing-ton police gave away one of tho secrets of tho third degree when ho told Judge Aukan how ho extracted about two dollars In small change from the mouth of a colored woman who pretended that sho had a gum boll I I Policemen Hussoll Looper and IIar fey had made a raid on a bouso on G street southwest that was thought to be a speakeasy or in legal terms an unlicensed bar The police sent Into the house two or three people with marked coins When time raid was made George rub man Annie Tubman and Charles Nor tery for mystery ho felt there must be After a long search the postofflco inspectors in-spectors found that tho name upon the envelope and tho addresses were correct for the years 1901 to 1907 The man named upon tho envelope had finally been discharged and Is now an object of charity The proprietor pro-prietor of the hat establishment where the man used to work stated to the postolllco Inspectors that the man had formerly worked for him and that ho had In the past received a number of anonymous letters Then tho Inspectors started out to chase the old man down finally finding him and when they told him that 110 were In the custody of the dead letter office for him he was overjoyed The old gentleman was somewhat dubious about taking the money na ho said that there was not anybody on earth who owed him anything Then ho made an exception to this state mont by saying that a groat nlany years ago ho had made n silk hat for a man who had promised to pay for It but never had and he thought very likely that this man was trying to get oven with his conscience by sending this small sum every month The 110 helped to put tho old man on his feet and get him out of the poorhouse Womans Mouth Was a Speakeasy Till man wore gathered in together with a lot of evidence In the shape or whisky nnd beer Annie Tubmans Jaw was swollen enormously Lieut Flathers asked her what was tho matter Gum boll was her laconic reply Ahem said the lieutenant Then he began to massage Annies face Out came a dime Any more ho asked and Annie shook her head The lieutenant gave the face n pinch Out came two quaitors marked money Another massage and Annie disgorged five nickels More pinching more money until about 2 were In the lieutenants hands Telling about It In court Assistant sistant Corporation Counsel Pugh had the nerve to Bay to Judge Aukuin that tho woman was forcedto cough upi Annie and George Tubman wore diRt missd and Churlaa Norman was hole I for further examination |