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Show T5he INDEPENDENT. D. C. JOHNSON, Poblisher. SPR1NGVILUE, . . . UTAH The sale of Limburger cheese hat been forbidden in Louisville, Ky Hoch, Louisville! Philadelphia expects to have a subway sub-way under construction within a year Philadelphia iar not so slow! An Omaha man has invented a whisky tablet. Take two in a glaB9 of water, and the earth is yours. The new society recreation called progressive peanuts is not the first shell game introduced into society. Colorado's legislature has adjourned, adjourn-ed, in order that the rural members may put in more time boring for oil. If Joseph Chamberlain is not a blank liar what kind of a distinguished statesman is he? Ireland pauses for a reply. If John L. Sullivan has really quit drinking for good, it means an awful loss to the breweries and distilleries of the country. ' The principal motive in writing a novel nowadays seemsla-bnnt- Young Mr. Havemeyer, who sent his coachman to represent him in court, discovered that the law is no respecter respect-er of millionaires. ' To a photographer belongs the distinction dis-tinction of being the only man In America who succeeded in making the prince look unpleasant. The story-of the tramp who stole a bar of soap is preposterously conflicting. conflict-ing. Either he was not a tramp or he did not steal a bar of soap. A Baltimore man wa3 suddenly struck dumb while swearing at his wife. It is not stated whether she used the rollingpin or a flatiron. ' The growth of the concentration idea has induced the Invention of the whisky whis-ky tabloid. Eventually the invitation will be to take a chew instead of a drink. . j Colombia evidently wants to impress the world with the idea that its revolution revolu-tion is to be taken seriously, for it has issued orders that all news must be censored. ' A big piano factory In New York has just burned down. Of cc -rse, when the company gets keyed up to the right pitch they will have a new factory on the string. It Is said that there are more than 2,000,000 brands of cigars on the market mar-ket The campaign cigar, however, ah ways smells the same, no matter what name it goes by. The Bacon enthusiasts will sniff, of course, when they hear that a quarterly quarter-ly magazine devoted to Shakespeare aridStratfor-on-Avon is about to appear ap-pear in London. A bigamist in Lima, Ohio, has asked ask-ed the police to arrest him because he wants to be punished. fA jujXJfrib " 1 " ' " fbr" iSiow baa auf- ody's -declaration raws the bow from a war vessel Is frank, at events. And he hasn't begun hitching up his- trousers yet A gentleman of the name of Moss has been seated in the national house of representatives from a contested district in Kentucky. Congress proudly proud-ly points to tie act that it gathered him. In a city in Russian Poland students stu-dents set fire to the schools and attempted at-tempted to lynch the teachers. The Chicago small boy who has supposed that he held the record will have to give up the competition. Two men have declined the assistant assist-ant postmaster generalship with its salary of $4,000 a year. It isn't likely, however, that the office will have to be left vacant permanently because of a lack of applicants for the job. After the Brooklyn women got through hugging and kissing Fiddler Kubelik he was so limp that he couldn't walk alone. It is beginning to look as if the poor boy may. In future fu-ture be able to fiddle only under police protection. An Illinois teacher inflicted corporal corpor-al punishment on a pretty girl pupil, and then they were married. The sudden development of love on the part of the teacher is understandable, but how about the girl? Are we to understand that that is the proper way to woo? A Baltimore lady donned an $18 new hat for a promenade and wondered why the first admiring glances on the street were changed to stares. Eventually she found that the hat had dropped off, and a search for it proved prov-ed vain. Burns were really written by Adam Smith, author of "The Wealth of Nations." Na-tions." It is as plausible as most of the books on the Baconian origin of Shakespeare's plays. , The sultan of Turkey is giving away some of bis wives to favorite pashas. The sultan has a large supply of old and slightly passe wives that he can spare just as well as not, but hasn't he wit enough to see that his method of getting rid of them may be thu cause of a good many of the troubles that are cropping out in Turkey? Emperor William has taken a particular par-ticular liking to buckwheat cakes, but wait- until brother Henry tells him about baked beans,' codfish. Mulligan stew, terrapin and esealloped oysters. Russell Sage has lost a lot of money in a real estate and Investment company. com-pany. Clearly Uncle R,jiss has reached the age when retirement from business would be discreet and profitable. That Connecticut woman who Is carrying a rural-mall route seems to be also routing the males out of a position which was made for man. Possibly the women who are so anxious to admit men to membership in their clubs have a foolish iden that the men will reciprocate. I I Onslaught of wX)uls H. Ayme, United States control con-trol at Guadeloupe, sends the following follow-ing cable to the Chicago Tribune from Fort de France, Island of Martinique. I have Just returned from St. Pierre. The deflation of the ruins of the city blasted by the fire and sulphurous fnmes from" the angry crater of Mont Pelee can only be inadequately pictured. pic-tured. Not a half of the horrors to be seen there have been told. I left the Island of Guadeloupe In a chartered 6teamer Saturday night We approached the site of the once fair tropical city soon after 6 o'clock in the morning. The island with its lofty hills was hidden behind a leaden colored haze. Enormous quantities of the wreckage of large and small ships and houses strewed the surface of the sea. Huge trees and, too often, bodies with flocks of sea gulls soaring above and hideous sharks fighting about them, were floating float-ing here and there. From behind the (From the New volcanlc veil came blasts of hot wind mingled with others ice cold. At Le Precheur.-five miles north of St Pierre, men and women frantic to get. away begged for a passage on the little steamer. We had room for none, but managed to pick up twenty-eight twenty-eight half dead men, women and children, child-ren, who were so badly burned that they had to be lifted over the steamer's side. Of the twenty-eight, sixteen died on the boat before we reached Fort de France. Only three or four of the others are likely to live. ' The condition of these unfortunates is no worse than thousands of refugees In the hills about Le Precheur. Hundreds Hun-dreds of them will die before relief can reach them. Thousands need medical med-ical care, food, clothing, and above all. water. 111 I CtUBELWt Njul I II I 1 I aaSTArPmr M III I I 7 &n r1 1 87 L vJiomW? w Kr ar-tedKod L1VTS REPODTtO LOCT- lUNSSIWMp J """ iwe sroe ton BwaxEJs i (mmtumj y 9USPENPCD J S. Jjhi, I pr 9 itt . I I CuSTSrOBKl : SSSffe-Es . 4 sis eli tad " e MONT CAR.0V, ST. VINCENT'S DEATH-DEALER. Th Amotion lf tH vnlrAnn nn fit ?Iv.?,ffJ.K iS'T,d w,th mol,en lo-v innoltk.nt, una.ble to escape, &re pzv.nic As the steamer felt its way down the west coast of the island we could see that the whole north end of the island was covered with a silver gray coating of ashes resembling snow. Furious Fu-rious blasts of fire, ashes and mud Bwept over the steamer, but finally St Pierre was reached, or rather the spot ,-erB,otpiPTTe Rtood before that aw- For two miles along the water- fronT and for a half a mile back from shore to the foothills at the base of the volcano vol-cano stretched the heaps of smoking ruins. Streets there were none. One ORNAMENTS USED BY ARCHITECTS EJona' Heads Predominate Over Those of AU Other Animals. It was the city salesman who said: "If anybody with a few hours to throw away will devote his time to the study of our big office buildings, he will find that much of the ornamental 'carving on pillars and cornices consists of heads. I have been spending some of my time in this interesting examination, examina-tion, and I have found that out of every hundred heads that decorate the fronts of our great buildings at least ninety-five are lions' heads. I have looked patiently in our zoos and menageries, men-ageries, but as a rule the search has been in vain. The face of the tiger ought to make an artistic trimming, and I'm sure nothing could be more striking than an elephant's head and tusks, but, strange to say, these mighty beasts have been ignominiously slighted slight-ed by the architects, have most of the other denizens of the jungle. "Now d then, to be sure, a dragon is seen perched up on the ledge of a tenth-story window an6 occasionally a horse or long-eared hoaad is pressed Fire Gas Overw could scarcely distinguish the sites of the large buildings that had been destroyed des-troyed under the rain of fire, lava, mud and ashes. The still smoking volcano towered above the ash-covered hills. The ruins were burning in many places and frightful odors of burned flesh filled the air. With great difficulty a landing was affected. Not one house was left intact in-tact Viscid heaps of mud, of brighter ashes, or piles of volcanic stones were seen on every side. , Here and there amid the ruins were heaps of corpses, almost all the faces were downward, al if the unhappy victims had rushed -fnto the streets when the first shock of the catastrophe aroused them, only to meet a sudden and awful death that smote them to the earth as they ran. So many piles of corpses were to be seen that Is is difficult to describe any In particular detail. In one corner twenty-two bodies of men, women and fco.iti f son mRruuQot VOLCANO MA0DUSI- LIVES 10ST 0.000 l ivc lost-twy 1 U I ssJ! "i ceupTiaw or URTWrQUE MOOT (tvu fmtMCM JTPtFNC tesrXMS ATlANTfCx Lt LOCAL VOUN0(SQUIl QKtODSI STDSnS-INTfltJe HEAT-MO LIX3 LOST I 90S' post STount nan bription on STvwcrtr-- tCf5IVt HEAT 1 U5- York Herald.) children were mingled in one awful mass, arms and legs protruding as the hapless beings fell in the last struggles strug-gles of-death. From under one large stone the arm of a white woman protruded. pro-truded. Most notable was the utter silence and the awful, overpowering stench from the thousands of dead. The fiery stream which so completely destroyed St,. Pierre must have been composed of poisonous gases, which instantly in-stantly suffocated every one who Inhaled In-haled them, and of other gases burning burn-ing furiously, for nearly all the victims vic-tims had their hands covering their mouths or were in some other attitude showing that they had sought relief from suffocation. All the bodies were carbonized or roasted. Through the middle of the old Place Berlin ran a tiny stream,"the remains VlnMM'a kl.L f 1 i killed Kindreds, continues, end the - stricken. of the River Gayave. Great trees, with roots upward and scorched by fire, were strewn in every direction. Huge blocks and still hot stones were scattered about. The completeness of the catastrophe is evident when it is stated that, so far as known at the present time, no one- save a handful of survivors picked har T 'rench cruiser Suchet,' escaped. Even they are unable to tell what actually happened, so crazed are they from, the 'experiences they passed through. It is certain, however. Into service, but in the great majority of cases the animal chosen for a model is the lion. Whether the prevalence of countenance is a tribute to the native na-tive majesty of the beast, or is merely an accident, I am not prepared to say, but certain it is that lions, rampant and couchant, flourish as abundantly on the walls of New York's down-town buildings as in their tropical jungles." New York Times. Satisfied Anyhow. "Maria," said the colored citizen, "I feels lak my time bez come at las; I is mighty low'." v "Ain't you been eatin' de kunnel's watermillions?" "Oh, yes." "Well, didn't you know he done piz-ened piz-ened de las' one er dem?" "Did he pizen "He sho did." "Dat settles me. But, Maria "What you want?" . "I wuz all day at um, en I eat nine befo I quit" Atlanta Constitution. i . Truth is the simplest of all virtues; it requires neither study nor art . jt ummJ 7l 90 ' SO figi. and Po that the disaster came suddenly. On the morning of the disaster t Inhabitants of the city awoke to fir Jeavy clouds shrouding the Mont Pt lee crater. All the previous day I detonations from the volcano had bee heard, so loud that the reverberatioi echoed from St Thomas on the nort) to Barbadoes on the south. The feat ful crashing sound ceased and there b gan a shower of fine ashes, which fe like rain over the city. The inhabita became, alarmed, but Gov. Mountel who arrived at St Pierre the evening before, did everything possible to all lay the panic. They partly succeeded! Dut scarcely had the fears of the pea pie been allayed when there came tlr explosion, and in an instant St. PierrV, its people, its houses, had been blotte out of existence. Aftor n fi0&rh rf throo Tioiira In il ruins I found no trace of the America consulate. Consul Thomas T. PrentJ his wife and two A ' city is still a f main of ' bla ruins. Nor has any trace of Ja: japp, me British consul, been founi Mr. japp naa a large family at S Pierre. From everything I saw I feel confl dent that 30,000 is not too great a estimate of the loss of life. Every o: in the city perished, and suburban A . J JJ IL - 1 i . . . - luwus uuueu uuusanua io tneTlUHli et of victims. Plantations and small villages have been devastated by the ceaseless rain of ashes and fire which has poureJ from Mont Pelee. These survivors have taken refuge in the hills, away from the danger oA the lava flow in the valleys, but still menaced by the showers of fire. They must be relieved, taken to places of safety, fed and clothed.- The work" must be done quickly. Hundreds and even thousands of them must perishI as it is before help can reach them. The work of exploring the ruins of St. Pierre, of bringing away the refugees refu-gees in the hills in the northern part" of the island and of burning the bodies of the victims is progressing as rapidly as circumstances will permit. Fort de France is crowded with refu-f gees and food is already so scarce that alarm is felt that It will be exhausted! before supplies can, reach here. ' As a result of the relief work the people who had fled to the hills be hind the village of Le Precheur, nearly" 4,000 in number, have been brought here. They are In a most pitiable condition. condi-tion. Hundreds of them are frightfully frightful-ly burned and in most urgent need of medical care. All the doctors and nurses In Fort de France are working night and day among the injured and they are assisted by scores of volunteer, nurses, many wolnen of the wealthiest families of Fort de France giving their services. A number of steamers, including the government vessel Rubis, started from here for St. Pierre. They carried gov ernment delegates, a number of gend-J armes, a detachment or regular infantry in-fantry and several priests. ThA vessels also carried a auantitl for use in the cremation of the bodies of the victims of theterrlble volcanic outbreak. Large quantities of disinfectants disin-fectants and stocks of clothing for the refugees were also shipped to St. Pierre. The refugees had, as a rule, assembled assem-bled at Le Carbet and Case Pllote, not far from St. Pierre, and, it Is reported, over a thousand of them have died since the fearful stream of lava poured down Mont Pelee. The sea for miles round was covered with the wreckage of the vessels sunk off St Pierre at the time of the disaster, dis-aster, and ashore only a few trees, all bent seaward by the force of the volcanic vol-canic shower, were left standing. When nearing St Pierre the Rubis met a number of tugs towing lighters filled with refugees. The heat from the smoking, lava-covered lava-covered ruins at St Pierre was suffocating suf-focating and the stench from the corpse-strewn streets was awful, only a few walls were standing. The report re-port that the hospital clock was found intact with its hands stopped at 7:30 was confirmed, as was the statement that the offices of the cable company had entirely disappeared. On all sides were found portions of corpses, which were gathered up by the soldiers and gendarmes and burned on one of the public squares. Not a drop of water was procurable ashore. The darkness caused by the clouds of volcanic dust shrouded the town, and continuous subterranean rumbling added to the horror of the scene. The fort and central quarter of the town were razed to the ground and were replaced by beds of hot cinders. The iron grill work gate of the government gov-ernment offices -alone was standing. -There was no trace of the streets. Huge heaps of smoking ashes were to be seen on all sides. At the landing place some burned and ruined walls indicated the spot where the custom house had formerly stood, and traces of the larger shops could be seen. In that neighborhood hundreds cwT.Kffwpreaijnd lying the vlCtiOka ifiel their death aa It tflT a lightning stroke. "Every vestige of clothing was burned away from the charred bodies, and in many cases the abdomens had been burst open by the PULSE BEATS THAT CAN BE SEEN Physician Says f neb Cases Are by No Means Uncommon. "It is not such an uncommon thing, said a physician, "to find a person whose pulse beats can be plainly seen, and yet I suppose there are but few outside of the profession who realize the fact In most persons the beat of the pulse cannot be perceived, but the mere fact that the beating is perceptible percepti-ble does not mean that the pulse is other than normal. I have come across a number of cases where the throbbing of the wrist could be plainly seen, and yet the persons rarely gave evidence of 'abnormality In temperature. They were rarely feverish, and were In good physical condition generally. Pulses of this kind, from this view, which is based upon actual observations of cases, not indicate anything more than an abnormal physical condition in the formation of the wrist veins. "I have met with one case which wan nossibly a little extraordinary, in that it was plainer and much more distinct than any I had ever seen be- tnr-a it cnuld almost be heard. The I I 1 isoeoiiis helmed M intense heat Curiously enough, the features of the dead were generally .calm and reposeful, although in some eases terrible fright and aeonv were depicted. Grim piles of bodies were stacked everywhere, showing lhat death had stricken them while the crowds were vainly seeking escape from the fiery deluge. On one spot a group of nine children were found locked In each others' arms. The vaults of the Bank of Martinique, Martin-ique, at the head of what had been the Rue de l'Hospital. were found intact They contained 2,000.000 francs ($400.-000) ($400.-000) in specie and other securities, which were sent here for safe-keeping. The vaults of the government treasury treas-ury are now being searched in the hope that a large amount of money and other valuables deposited by the principal merchants of the city may be saved. THE CABLE STEAMER "POUYER G BROUGHT 450 SURVIVORS Nearly 4,000 of the refugees from the vicinity of the village of Le Precheur, a suburban village, were rescued by the French cruiser Suchet and the cable repair ship Pouyer-Quartier and were brought here. As a result of his Inspection, the commander of the Suchet reports that crevices and valleys are constantly forming in the northern portion of the Island, where the land is in a state of perpetual change. Fortunately, that part of the country was evacuated in good time by the Inhabitants, who fled to Fort de France. Lava continues to stream down the mountain side, accompanied by terrific ter-rific thunder and lightning. The stories of the survivors added to the awful details of the particularly harrowing account of the loss of the British steamer Roraima. C. C. Evans of Montreal and John G. Morris of New York, who are now at the military hospital of Fort de France, say the vessel arrived at 6. As eight bells was struck a frightful explosion ex-plosion was heard up the mountain. A cloud of fire, toppling and roaring, swept with lightning speed down the mountain side and over the town and bay. The Roraima was nearly sunk and caught fire at once. The steamer Roraima had reached St. Pierre that day with ten passengers, among whom were Mrs. Stokes and her three children, child-ren, and Mrs. H. J. Ince. They say they were watching the rain of ashes, when, with a frightful roar and ter- HOWAVOtCANIC 5 ijL, I VNf CONE OF LAW AND ASHES V V WHICH ACTS AS A STOPPER jC AND PREVENTS EWJtTIONS ivy -UN OtR ORDINARY rfltiiURE. r y r--- - -v-s rv V ' M"' -'fNv .j.af-- JJ&x?- QrS"? JVC fcr ,5is r-.TI A study of the above picture will show how a molten mass In the mountain's Interior met the water and how the steam generated thereby, following the line of least resistance, blew oif the top of the volcs.no. rifle electrical discharge, a cyclone of fire, mud and steam swept down from the crater over the town and bay, sweeping all before it and destroying the fleet of vessels at anchor off the shore. There the accounts of the catastrophe cat-astrophe so far obtainable cease. "I never can forget the horrid, fiery, choking whirlwind which enveloped me," said Mr. Evans. "Mr. Morris and I rushed below. We are not badly burned not so badly as most of them. When the fire came we were going to out posts (we are engineers) to weigh anchor and get out When we came up we found the ship afire aft and fought It forward until 3 o'clock, when the Suchet came to our rescue. We were then building a raft" ima. sal china, when I heard an explosion. The captain ordered me to up anchor. I got the windlass, but when the fire came I went into the forecastle and got my 'duds.' When I came out I artery would rise to a point almost as large as the ball of the little finger -of a child, and would change from the white of the" skin to a blood purple with each beat of the pulse. I found it easy to countthe pulse beats without with-out touching the patient's wrist I could see plainly enough to keep the record, and, in order not to err in any calculations, I tested it In several ways and found it was correct and that there was no mistake in my counting with the naked eye." New Orleans Times-Democrat WodM Allow No Indecent Baste. Many stories are told of the conspicuous conspic-uous bravery of Field Marshal Sir Neville Nev-ille Chamberlain, who died recently, full of years and honors. In the Sikh war, Chamberlain, who then held the rank of colonel, called for volunteers to assist him in blowing blow-ing up a bastion. Three or four responded, res-ponded, and the colonel led the little party close upto the point where the mine was to he fired. As soon as the explosives were in place and the fuse lighted, the volunteers started to run. artinlque talked with Captain Muggah. Mr Scott, the first officer, and others. Thej had been on tire bridge. - "The captain was horribly burned. He had inhaled flames and wanted to jump into the sea. I tried to make Mm take a lte preserver. The captain, cap-tain, who was ndressed, jumped overboard over-board and hung on to a line for a while. Then he disappeared." "Gus" Linder, the quartermaster of the steamer, who is horribly burned and can scarcely tali, confirmed this. Francisco Angelo, who speaks poor English, vividly described the onrush of the fire. He says the captain was a brave man. too brave to be burned to death. Angelo further asserted that the storm of fire lasted not more than five minutes. Joseph Becklea, a seaman, sea-man, who is fifty years of age and is so frightfully - burned that he cannot UERTIER," OF HAVRE, WHICH TO PORTE-DE-FRANCE. live, having inhaled flame, said In weak tones that he was the last man to see the captain. The captain was then trying to reach a floating mattress. From the Italian ship Teresa Lovico several men were saved, but they are in a frightful state, except Jean Louis Prudent of St. Pierre. Although on deck and unprotected, he was little burned. Prudent says there was first an awful aw-ful noise of expl6sion, and then right away a cjclone of smoke and fire, but such was the poisonous, choking nature na-ture of the smoke that it arned worse than the fire. The cyclone of gas tore the. masts out of ships, blew others up, and sunk some of them. Soon afterwards af-terwards came a wave of fire bigger than the smoke cloud. "That cloud," continued Prudent, "was bigger, it seemed, than the mountain. "The fire burned the city everywhere at once. Near me I saw only dead men, but on 6hore I saw men and women rushing back and forth for an hour. They would not run"- long. Then came that chocking smoke, and they would drop like dead flies. "The explosion, smoke and fire all came and went In three minutes, but the city burned for three hours. Then every house was finished and -nothing alive was left. "Some men from the sinking ships got to the shore, but they were burne up there, f " EXPLOSlONS CAVSEIT "At no time were any earthquakes, but big stones were rained "down, and fire fell like rain for a long time." In a separate part of the hospital were found several persons saved from Corbet village, four miles from St Pierre. The village of Irrine, south of St Pierre, was almost entirely burned and almost all the .inhabitants were killed. One of the survivors of Irrine, who will die, says the" sea, boiling hot, invaded the land. Six women, whose bodies are one solid burn, are writhing In another ward of the hospital. Ten women severely burned from Irrine were brought in and four of them have died. It is doubtful if any of the six still alive can recover. wins; a man hesitates and loses. With money, you would not know yourself; without money, nobody would know you. ' in order to get out of the way of the explosion, no less than to effect as speedily as possible their retreat to .the safety of the British lines. They had not gone a dozen yards before Chamberlain shouted: "Come back! There's to be no indecent haste, young man. We'll walk." And walk they did, while the fuse slowly sputtered down to the waiting powder. London Truth. What the Parrot Fald The ancient whaling bark Kathleen, while cruising off the West Indies, wa recently struck by an infuriated harpooned har-pooned whale and so great was the damage done that the vessel immediately immedi-ately began sinking fast The captain's cap-tain's wife had barely time to get Into a boat when the old bark went down. The sailors declare solemnly that the favorite parrot of the captain's wife, which she rescued, said plainly as he was being lowered over the side, "D d hard luck; that's what I say." A self-made man ; always worships his maker himself. ' I2S WEEKLY PANORAMA NEW HEAD OF WOMEN'S CLUBS Mrs. Demies T. 8. Denisoo Has Long-Been Long-Been Prom'nent in the work. Mrs. Demies T. S. Denison, the nev-ly nev-ly elected president of the Federation of Women's Chibs is a New Yorker, and one of the most prominent club women in the east. She has served as vice president of the federation and has shown unusual discrimination, tact and general wideawakefulness in dealing with the knotty question of interstate politics in the organization. She went into the convention with a strong following for the presidency. An accomplished linguist and' extemporaneous ex-temporaneous speaker, by reason of a life devoted to study, Mrs. Denison possesses all the characteristics essential essen-tial in a successful leader. A King's State Barge. London will entertain many distinguished distin-guished foreigners at the coronation in June, but King Lewanika, the paramount para-mount chief of Barotseland will surely be the strangest of them all. He is described as being an enlightened potentate, po-tentate, with "quite English ideas." One of his ideas hardly seems so English Eng-lish as it might be. He has a great state barge, which is rowed by eight rowers, all men of rank. The prime minister himself has to ply the oar as one of the eighty. This is, no doubt, most English and athletic, but the costume cos-tume of these noble bargees is not yet adopted on the Thames. The unfortunate un-fortunate prime minister has to divest himself of his European clothes and take his place with seventy-nine others clad like himself with tiger skins round their loins and lions' manes on v their heads. The barge in which these statesmen row is decorated decorat-ed with stuffed figures of elephants and giraffes, made by King Lewanika himself of calico and cane. ARE PLACED ON RETIRED LIST Generals Snyd?r and Anmaa- Have Seen Forty Years S . rvlce. Gen. Simon Snyder and William Auman, recently appointed brigadier Brigadier General William Auman. (Placed on the Retired List After Forty Years" Service.) generals, were placed on the retired list after forty years' service. Both officers are now in the Philippines. Gen. Snyder entered the military service from Pennsylvania in April, 1861, as second lieutenant of the Fifth infantry and served throughout the war of the rebellion. Gen. Auman also is a veteran of the civil war, during which he was brevet-ted brevet-ted captain of volunteers for gal lant and meritorious services before Petersburg. Va. He began his military mili-tary service as a private in the Twenty-fifth Pennsylvania infantry. Internal Fires in RuMla. There may be developing a great upheaval of the Russian people unless un-less wise counsels prevail in the beau-reaucracy beau-reaucracy and concessions are made to the demand for reforms. Preseent conditions at least go to prove that the ambitious .imperialistic and aggrandizing ag-grandizing policy of the empire, at the sacrifice of home interests however popular it may be with the aristocracy, the army, the Russian church and even the masses is raising up a domestic radicalism of the socialistic and revolutionary revo-lutionary sort that may in time convulse con-vulse the land. To Keep Feet Dry, Before the invention of overshoes clogs like these made of wood were worn to keep the feet dry. The clogs were called pattens. Cancer Is Contagions. Long and careful inquiries by German Ger-man doctors indicate that cancer is not probably hereditary, but that it i perniciously contagious. In certain districts the number of sufferers in proportion to the population is much larger every year than in other areas. Dog and cats in many instances become be-come cancerous, but few horses and cattle are attacked. Men and women are stricken on the average earlier In life In this generation than in those which preceded it. It is hoped that these German investigations of this frightful curse, which are to be kept up persistently and upon a-' scale both liberal and extensive,' may result in the discovery of some remedy for cancer. can-cer. But, of course, that can be only a matter of conjecture. New . York Tribune. The First Tolanteer. Dr. Charles F. Rand, who is accepted accept-ed as being the first volunteer for the civil war, is still living in Washington. Washing-ton. He was also the first soldier to win the congressional medal for honor for distinguished gallantry in action. Persons, Places and Things SHAFT TO MARK HISTORIC SPOT Where the First European Colony in America Was Established. A memorial shaft is being erected on Gosnold's Island in Cuttyhunk Pond, Mass, where Bartholomew Gosnnld and his companions in 1602 planted the first European colony in America. Tha corner-stone jprobably will be laid on the three hundredth anniversary of Gosnold's landing. Gosnold first stepped ashore on Cuttyhunk Cut-tyhunk Island, but it was on a small islet (now known as Gosnold's Island) in a fresh water pond at the west end of the island, where he built a fort and storehouse, and traded with the Indians. In-dians. This storehouse is supposed to have been the first habitation built on this coast by Europeans. Gosnold was accompanied by thirty-two thirty-two men, eight of whom were mariners. marin-ers. Among the others a clergyman, Gabriel Archer, a journalist and James Rosier, who wrote an account of the voyage and presented it to Sir Walter Raleigh. Gosnold discovered the islands isl-ands known as the Elizabeth Islands and named them in honor of the queen of England. . The memorial is to be a plain siaft, sixty feet high, so high above the surrounding sur-rounding objects at the wedge-like pClLT Ul rMf-MiaMieiiWjMMMn and Vineyard Sound as to be an inevitable in-evitable landmark for every vessel passing through those waterways. The shaft will cost approximately $3,000. After its completion and dedication dedi-cation the memorial will be turned over to the Massachusetts Historical Society. WHERE DEADLY INSECTS LURK I "aim and other Tropical Trees and Plants Infected with Them. It may surprise some casual visitors to Horticultural Hall, In Fairmont Park, Philadelphia, where trees and plants from the torrid zone are kept in tropical bloom in midwinter, to know that extreme care is exercised to keep these growths of the hot climates from becoming a source of danger to the public. Stately palms, tall banana trees and other tropical growths are all a source of. possible peril to the unwary who come in close contact with their leaves, unless precautions are taken to denude them of deadly insects. In the natural state of tropical plants there is a small venomdpis insect known as the red and blackNfepider, whioi- t-freTtrtntly adhgrfAK Hi fwn Htnd leaves. It is aMcious little object and its bite has been known to be fatal. When tropical plants arrive at Horticultural Hor-ticultural Hall, says the Philadelphia Record, they are systematically and carefully inspected for the presence of these insects, tarantulas and centipedes. centi-pedes. Even when no members of the family of spiders are detected the stems and leaves are sprayed with a powder that destroys them or the eggs from which they breed. THREATENED WITH BLINDNESS JUS'S. M iry A. Llverraore, Noted Lecturer, in a Serious Condition. Mrs. Mary A. Livermore, the noted lecturer and woman suffragist, is confined con-fined to a dark room at her home at Melrose, Mass., under the constant Vrs. Liver more. care of a physician. The aged reform er's condition is very serious and it is feared that she will become totally blind. Mrs. Livermore is one of the most widely known of American lecturers. lec-turers. Her life has been devoted for more than half a century forms in Europe as well as in America. She was born in Boston eighty-two years ago and until lately she has enjoyed en-joyed a life of almost uninterrupted good health in spite of her continuous .and exacting labors. Bememberel Old Sweetheart. Thirty years ago Miss Rachel Dickson Dick-son and Peter Barclay of Middletown, N.Y., were lovers. A quarrel separated them and he went to Ringold county, Iowa, where he married. His wife and two children died, and lately he followed them. In his will he left all his estate, valued at $30,000. to his old sweetheart, who remained single. Enough for Eoth. A Boston policeman named Flynn did some heroic work at a fire and the newspapers of that city have been showering him with compliments. Officer Of-ficer Flynn publishes a statement urging urg-ing that one William Wiley be given equal credit with himself, and he adds, "There is enough life-saving glory for both of us." . Mew Use for Fa bile Fcliools. Jacob A. Riis of New York advocates advo-cates the opening of public schools in great cities on Sundays. Lectures and entertainments should be given to keep the boys from the evils of tenement-house life and the all-alluring glitter of the saloons. auu uit- ,u- |