MEAT FAMINE. Small Riots Follow Strike of Chicago Teamsters. Chicago Is Face to Face with a Very Serious Condition. Jluiidred* ol llntclier Nhnpa Closed - lee and Cu»l Team»ter» Are Act ing 111 1 nlson Willi Tlieir Fel low t'ralliimeu of the Mock 1 arda IMMrlct. Chicago, May 30.—Prospects of a rise in the price of meat and a fight to a tinish between the packers and Teamsters' Union No. 10 developed at the Union Stock Yards yesterday. Signs of peace faded as the result of ineffectual conferences and indica tions of a general strike grew strong er. Two smaller unions are already out. The distribution of meat to local houses was attended by great dif ficulty, owing to the attitude of the striking teamsters. No work was at tempted without the presence of the police. A non-union teamster made an at tempt to deliver meat to the Pal mer house and was severely beaten. He was set upon by three men, sup posed to have been the teamsters of ice wagons. He succeeded in unload ing his wagon, but later his injuries made it necessary to take him home. The officers had scarcely reached the station when there was a call from the Illinois Central tracks at Randolph street. Lieut. Cudmore and 12 men found upon their arrival that .James C. Irwin, president of the Ir win Brothers Co., butchers, and his brothers, Alexander and John, mem bers of the firm, wanted protection while removing' three loads of meat from the cars to their shop. The po licemen surrounded the wagons and proceeded east on the viaduct over the tracks. A big crowd followed, jeering and throwing missiles. Lieut. Cudmore's hat was smashed. Chicago, May 31.—The four big packing concerns of the stock yards at conferences held Friday with union leaders representing the strik ing' teamsters refused absolutely to grant the concessions asked, or any part, and went openly on record as being unalterably opposed to the rec ogition of union labor in the yards. Thousands of persons had their usual supply of meat cut off entirely and many others who were unable to buy a little ment. here and there paid fancy prices for it. All through the city butchers closed their places and many of them will not open again until the strike shall have been set tled. The tie up in Chicago, which is de clared complete, is to be carried to Omaha, Kansas City, St. Joseph and St. Louis, and the teamsters, whose national headquarters are in Chicago, have received assurances from their locals at those points that all the men will obey the summons and go out. This move will be national in its effects. At the leading hotels and restaur ants, it was stated that the supplies would last three days longer, if the strike is not settled bv that time the managers do not know what they will do. It. might be possible to get meat if they had only to deal with the packers' teamsters, but the staunch sympathetic stand of the iee men and coal teamsters leaves the restauranteurs completely in the hands of the strikers. FLOODS IN OKLAHOMA. Milcli Damage tot ropnand Itnllroads Follow* a Ilelime. Guthrie, O. T„ 'May 30.—Residents of Wooodward report the Santa re railroad bridges over both the North Canadian and South Canadian rivers washed out and the city isolated. Six hundred feet of the South Canadian bridge are gone, find all the wagon bridges over the Cimaroon in its route of more than 200 miles. Okla homa's rivers are again rising on ac count of the rains. In the city of Woodward the water stood two feet •deep in the streets as the result of a waterspout in the hills near there. Oklahoma City, O. T., May 30.- —The unprecedented rains of the past three days in the western half of Oklahoma are causing serious floods. The Washita river rose nearly two feet and is still coming up. The Rock Island track between Anadarko and Lawton was washed out. At El Reno, where the North Canadian river is at. the highest point ever known and still rising, the bridge has been washed out. The damage to crops and railways will be heavy. FOUND WATERY GRAVES. Four People llrotined by ilie t apalz liiU of n Small Boat, Portland, Ore., May 30.—Four per sons were drowned Wednesday night by the capsizing of a row boat in the •Columbia river near Martin's Bluff, 12 miles above Kalama. 'Besides those drowned there were in tin' boat Mrs. 'Jones, Mrs. M. C. Martin and Ella Martin. Herbert 'Martin saved his mother, one sister and Mrs. Jones. After taking them to shore he swam back to save the rest of the party, but became exhausted and was drowned with three others. Settled llcr Claim lor 9.*>0,000. San Francisco, May 30.—Mrs. Net tie O. Craven has abandoned her light for recognition as the widow of the late Senator James <;. Fair. She has been paid $50,000 for withdrawing from the various lawsuits against the estate of the deceased millionaire and the estate, valued at $20,00,000, which has been so long in litigation, vests absolutely in Charles L. Fair and his sisters. When Mrs. Craven first appeared as a claimant for a share of Fair's millions, she was of fered $300,000 to abandon her contest, fshe demum'ed ?oOO,OOQ FAVORABLE CONDITIONS. ■< O. nun A Co.'a Wo(kl) Hevlevr of Trade. Xew York, May 31. —R. O. Dun <& Co.'s Weekly Review of Trade says: Ease in the luoucy market, favor able crop prospects and confidence abroad are the favorable factors which outweigh the disturbing' ele ments of labor conflicts and unsea sonable weather for retail trade at many points. Effects of the depress ing influences are less keenly felt be cause they are believed to be only temporary, and confidence is ex pressed that with the resumption of work and normal temperature there will be a return to the liberal dis tribution of merchandise. Despite the short corn crop last year, the large yield of wheat and high prices for both resulted in the greatest value for the two crops ever recorded, which means that the agricultural sections are prosperous, and other in dustries must share the pood fortune by increased sales of products. Efforts to place contracts for 100,- 000 tons of pig iron, deliverable second quarter of 1903, indicate the confidence of the leading consumers as to the future of this industry. There is no cessation of activity at the mills. No improvement is reported at New England boot and shoe centers, where the shops are still running only about half time. Stocks of textile fabrics are not ac cumulating, although the markets are extremely quiet. Domestic jobbing trade is fairly satisfactory, but ex ports of cotton goods fire small. I'rint cloths are dull and unchanged, with the situation unsettled as to new prints for the fall. Clothing manu facturers are purchasing woolen goods in moderation only, and larger deliveries by the leading company in creases the disposition towards con servatism. Grain quotations made a decided ad vance early in the week, which was not easily explained, except on the basis of light supplies in sight. Sub sequently the gain was lost in option trading, although cash corn was firm ly held. Failures for the week numbered 1!)4 in the United States, against 14S last year, and 20 in Canada against 27 a year ago. COLLEGE BOAT RACES. Cornell Wins on Luke I'ajruK* and Fennarlvaiila on the Sillily Ik 111. Ithaca, X. Y., May 31. —Cornell easily won the triangular eight-oared boat race on Lake Cayuga yesterday. Syracuse finished second, over thrci lengths behind the winner, and Har vard's Newell club eight was beaten by more than four boat lengths. Corn nell covered the two miles in 10:48. Owing to rough water the race was postponed for two flours. The obser vation train pulled out to start about 3:15 o'clock, but it.was 7:20 before the crews took the positions and re ceived the word from Referee Bran degee. The [thacans worked easily a!! tlis time and were fresh at the finish. Two or three of the Syracuse oars men were exhausted. Harvard's men were less fatigued. Cornell's lead was taken at the start anil held to the finish. Syracuse followed pluckily for a half-mile, but gradually gave up, nursing her strength for the final spurt with Har vard, but keeping in second place throughout. Philadelphia, May 31.—The Univer sity of Pennsylvania won the junior 'varsity boat race from Colombia and Cornell on Schuylkill river in Fair mount park, Friday afternoon. Co lumbia was two lengths behind Pent sylvania at the finish and Cornell was five lengths to the rear of Columbia. The course was one and a half miles straight away, and Pennsylvania's time was S:4S. Considering the con ditions the race was a good one. A strong wind blew directly up the course, which made the water chop py. Large crowds lined both shores, and there was much enthusiasm over the home team carrying its colors to victory. A l>ozm Paaaenuera Injured. Poughkeepsie, N. Y„ May 31.—A car carrying 40 people and a freight car collided on the new l'altz & Pough keepsie electric railroad, two miles from Highland, Friday afternoon, and a dozen passengers were badly hurt. The ends of both cars were crushed in and some of the passengers were caught in the wreckage. Motorman Emory Aver had both legs broken, and four women sustained fractured legs and severe cuts. The accident was caused by one of the cars neg lecting to remain on a switch until the other had passed. Burglar* Loot a County Treasury. Beaumont, Tex., May .'ll.—The safe of the treasurer of Hardin county, at, Kountze, 2D miles north of here, was blown by burglars Thursday night and all the county money stolen. The exact amount is not known. The burglars and citizens had a battle at Silsbee, ten miles east, at daylight. One burglar was wounded, but all escaped into a big thicket. The <«mi I. \ ploil. U. Wichita, Kan., May 31.—'While pre paring to fire a Decoration day salute here yesterday, a gun belonging to Battery A, Kansas state artillery, ex ploded prematurely, wounding three members of the battery, (ieorge Hat ter was fatally hurt, Burt Davis was dangerously wounded, and (1. W. Thomas was seriously hurt. Will Jlml at Tarklo In lUIKI, Pittsburg, May 31.—in the United Presbyterian assembly yesterday the opening guns in the coming fight owr the membership covenant were fired. The discussion was short, but it served to indicate how lively the con sideration of the special committee's report will be. A well defined move ment is under way to defer action on the covenant. The opposition to such treatment will be strong. Tarklo, : Mo., will entertain the assembly next year, somewhat to the surprise of many who had expected to sec it go [ to the east. CAMERON COUNTY PRESS, THURSDAY, JUNE 5, 1902. 3TOKY OF DISASTER Latest Reports of Volrano Erup tion in Martinique. llonl Pelee l« Still on tlio Hampase and < aiialnu; Destruction Slew Cliinrrn Have Opened ou t lie Side lit Hie itloiiulaln. fflS Washington, May 27. —The navy de partment has added one more and perhaps the last to the good offices which it has been called upon to per form in behalf of the West Indian volcanic sufferers, by undertaking to transport to the homeless people of St. Vincent a large quantity of build ing lumber which the Canadian gov ernment has donated. Fort de France, Martinique, May 28.—'Mont Pelee is again in eruption. Huge, inky-black clouds are rolling over Fort de France in great masses, in which there are peculiar lightning flashes. Castries, St. Lucia, B. W. L, May 28. — Flames were seen on the island of Martinique at frequent intervals Monday night. i Kingston, Jamaica, May 28. —The planters here are warmly supporting the proposal to bring hundreds of the sufferers from the volcano outbreak on the island of St. Vincent to work on estates here and also to settle them on the crown lands. The gov ernment of Jamaica is being asked to transport people from St. Vincent to Jamaica. Fort de France, Martinique, May 29.—« A tremendous explosion of very black smoke from Mont Pelee at a quarter before 9 o'clock Wednesday morning accentuated the fear enter tained for the safety of George Ken nan, the American author, who with a land party has been examining the northern part of the island. About 11 o'clock Fernand Clec, a wealthy landed proprietor of Martin ique, arrived here and announced that Mr. Ivennan and his party were safe on a plantation at the north end of the island. I'rof. Robert T. Hill, I'nited States government geologist, and his party, who left Fort de France Monday on horseback, for the volcano, returned here yesterday. Prof. Hill recites an interesting story of his examination of the dis trict through which he passed. He left. Fort de France on Monday. He was accompanied by a Mr. Cavanaugh, an army officer from the British isl and of Trinidad, and a boy named ,Toe, who was to act as interpreter. The party set out on horseback and took the north road for Morn* Rouge. Between the hamlets of Deux Choux and Fonds St. Denis the party entered upon the outer edge of the zone of ashes. Except for occa sional patches all the country to this point was green. Upon reaching the Raibaiul planta tion, one mile southwest of St. Pierre, the explorers met the clear line of demarcation of the zone of Maine and destruction, although not of annihilation. Monday night was spent in a deserted house at Fonds St. Denis, from which Prof. Hill wit nessed the volcanic eruption of that night. Early the next morning Prof. Hill pushed onto Mont Parnasse, where several people were killed in the erup tion of May S. He encountered no human beings, but he did meet a num ber of abandoned cattle, which tried to follow him. Speaking of his expedition to Mont Pelee, Prof. Hill said: "My attempt to examine the cra ter of Mont Pelee has been futile. I succeeded, however, in getting very close to Morne Itouge. Monday night I witnessed, from a point near the ruins of St. Pierre, a frightful explo sion from Mont Pelee and noted the accompanying phenomena. While these eruptions continue no sane man should attempt to ascend to the crater of the volcano. Following the salvos of detonations from the moun tain. gigantic mushroom-shaped columns of smoke and cinders ascend ed into the clear, starlit sky, and then spread, in a vast black sheet, to the south directly over my head. "Through this sheet, which extend ed a distance of ten miles from the crater, vivid and awful lightning-like bolts flashed with alarming frequen cy. They followed distinct paths of ignition, but were different from lightning in that, the bolts were hori zontal and not perpendicular. This is indisputable evidence of the ex plosive oxidation of the gases after they left the crater." Will Put on Fanter Train*. Chicago, May 30.—The Chronicle says: The Ist of June will witness the first great step toward faster time between New York and the Pa cific coast. There is a well founded report that an agreement lias been reached between the Pennsylvania and the New York Central officials by which the fast trains are togo on at once and that the time to be made between New York and Chicago will be 20 hours. Climber* Killed. Vienna, May 30.—The first fatality of the mountaineering season oc curred in the ■Semmering range of the Alps Thursday when Dr. Hrzezin.i and llerr Payer were killed while at tempting the ascent of the Kax Alp. ■lnzer* are Arretted. Chicago, May 27.—'Sixteen of the most prominent students of North western university, at Evanston, were arrested Monday, charged with disor derly conduct, assault and battery and resisting the police. Tlivy were released on bonds to appear before a magistrate to-dav. The trouble start ed with the hazing Friday night of George Tilrose, a junior, who had criticised the athletic ability of some of Northwestern's best men. lie was a popular man, but when the crowd of indignant students, many of them masked, got hold of him he was rcugl.l.y THE MINERS' STRIKE. I* I* I.lUrly to 1)0 a Luii|{ Stru|f|{le lin» porting >on-l nloiilvt*. Herrisburg, I'a., May 28.—The situ ation in the anthracite coal region was discussed at a conference Tues day between Gov. Stone, Attorney General Klkin and TJiomas Duffy, D. N. Nichols anil John Fahey, district presidents of the United Mine Work ers, in the governor's office at the executive department. Shamokin, I'a., May 28.—The joint vote of 100 colliery firemen taken at a meeting 1 last night was unanimously in favor of a strike in case the eight liour work day was not granted by next Monday. Local No. 47 of the In ternational Steam Kngineers also de cided to engage in a tieup June 2 pro viding the same concessions demand ed by the firemen are not granted. VVilkesbarre, I'a., May 2'J.—The of ficers of the I'nited Mine Workers' assemblies of this city held a meet ing here Wednesday and reports were received from committees appointed to interview the engineers, firemen and pumpmen employed at the vari ous collieries in this city and vicinity. These reports, so it, was stated after the meeting, showed that very few of the firemen and pumpmen were unwilling to join the striking min ers next Monday unless they were granted an eight-hour day. At a mass meeting in Freeland last night the union and non-union pump runners, firemen and engineers em ployed by Cox liros. & Co. unanimous ly decided to quit on Monday if the concessions asked for are not grant ed. About .'SOO men will respond to the strike order at Cox's mine. Wilkesbarre, Pa., May 30.—The lo cal coal operators do not credit the report, originating in New York, of a settlement of the miners' strike. Op erators say it is doubtful whether the men would be allowed togo back to work at the old rate. They could re turn as individuals, but not in a body. At strike headquarters yesterday nothing was known of a contemplat ed settlement. National Hoard Mem ber Dillon says that the strike could not be settled off hand, as some per sons imagine. If the coal companies had a proposition to make, looking to the return of the men to work, a convention of miners would have to be called and the terms offered by the operators passed upon. This would take time. The arrival of President Mitchell and what action he will take regard ing the petition of the Scranton en gineers, firemen and pumpmen for a withdrawal of the strike order issued by the executive committee of the United Mine Workers is awaited with much interest. llarrisburg, Pa., May 30.—There have been issued from the state and executive departments commissions for about 1,600 coal and iron police men since the beginning of the strike in the anthracite coal regions. Gn Thursday applications were made by 15 companies for the appointment of nearly 200 more and their commis sions were promptly issued. The ap pointment <>f so many special police men is taken to indicate that the coal companies propose to settle down for a long contest. Hazleton, I'a., May 30.—Fifteen strange men arrived here last night on a Pennsylvania railroad train from Wilkesbarre and were taken on a trolley car to Freeland. The mine workers believe they are non-union ists who have been imported to fill the places of any of the firemen ami pump runners who may strike on Monday. New York, May 30.—The strike of anthracite coal miners has prevented the city from getting a supply of coal for the Brooklyn bridge. Bids for 2,800 tons were to have been opened yesterday, but when Bridge Commissioner Lindenthal examined the box where bids are deposited i»! found none there. A DEADLY CRASH. I»ne nail Killed und Several Injured In a < olllnlon. Alma, Wis., May :!0. —One man killed and four others seriously injured, some probably fatally, is the result of a disastrous wreck on the Bur lington road at Alma yesterday af ternoon. A gravel train, on which were six officials of the road, includ ing Superintendent Cunningham, was going on a switch, when another gravel train coming from the north crashed into it with fearful results. Superintendent Cunningham is in a precarious condition, and t.he grav est doubts are entertained of his re covery. Consulting Engineer Blake was killed instantly; Uoadmaster T'urdy had both legs crushed, requiring am putation; Superintendent Cunning ham lost one leg, badly crushed, must l»e amputated; engineer of gravel train had fracture of the right leg. ICver.v Stream n liaulns Torrent. Wichita, Kan., May 31.—A message from Lawton says there are four feet of water in the town of Wallers and the transaction of business is impos sible. Every stream in Comanche county is a raging torrent and fur ther loss of life is feared. An un known traveling man was caught in Cache creek and his team and buggy were swept away. Much loss of prop erty is indicated by Cache creek be ing blockaded in places by dead ani mals, farm implements and house hold goods. IntereMtliiiX Hxpertinent*. Merlin, May 30. —One i>f the most interesting demonstrations of the in ternational aeronautic commission, in session here, was that of Prof. Assmann's rubber balloons, with au tomatic registers for recording phe nomena in the highest altitudes, where they finally explode through gas pressure. After the explosion a parn.'hiite safely lands the apparatus. The professor sent up three balloons, the apparatus of two of which were found. One of the balloons regis tered an altitude of 20,000 meters, the highest attained by a bullosa, i DEADLIEST WAR ENGINE. Romnri About n Wirrlena, Crewleai «ud Ik ««i I > HiriKiMc Submarlue I n Oriin I >lu<»iiiiie. A rumor is current that the Brttlsh government is on the eve of com pleting the purchase of a submarine topedo boat which will prove the deadliest engine of var ever invent ed. There are several types of sub marine boats familiar to naval con struction. We have the craft de signed to be navigated by the agency of a crew, the Whitehead automobile | torpedo, which contains no human I crews, but is fitted up with a median j ical contrivance for motive and steer j ing power, and other mechanically controlled automobile destroyers of I the Brennan and Sims-Edison pat j terns. | Some of these craft, once started, are no longer under the influence of the person who discharges them, and are lost. Others, steered by wires, can be recovered with ease, and will do the work of a submergible boat. But the dangers of a wire-steered torpedo are many. It has only a lim ited field of operation, and its wires frequently entangle and snap. This new torpedo, however, can be piloted from a base by means of a wireless electrical impulse sent through the water to a receiver, fixed up in the torpedo and attuned to the pitch of that of the transmitter. No elec trical influence can interfere with the impulse generated, and, provided that there is sufficient motive power in the torpedo, the unseen foe can follow a ship like a shark and can be made to strike it and explode at any moment. Control Is so perfect that steering and maneuvering can be accomplished by simply jiressing a button. The new vessel has many marked advan tages over the submarine boat. The utmost speed of a submarine is three knots an hour. If she exploded a ship at anchor she could not get away in time to avoid her own de struction. We learn that the new invention contains nothing but her engine power chamber, steering gear and explosive head. She is very small and built for great speed. In running she maintains an average depth of ten feet, the striking distance in submarine warfare. —London Ex press. THE TELAUTOGRAPH. It I* A Clever I.lttle Machine Which •'Write* l»>- TeleKrnpli" Over (jreut Dlntance*. It is a very easy matter to telegraph your exact handwriting—when once you are shown the way. All you have to do is to seat yourself before the apparatus shown in the picture, and, with the pencil which lies on the edge of the slab, write your message on the slip of paper which passes through the small framework behind the sl.*b, and far away in your correspondent's office a little pen comes out on the upper roll of paper, dips itself in the THE TELAUTOGRAPH. inkpot and faithfully reproduces your autograph. Such is the whole system of the telautograph, the invention of Mr. Ritchie, "an English electrician, of which M. Breuer, the French engineer, gave an exhibition the other day at the Central telephone office in Paris. Au tograph messages were exchanged be tween Paris, Lyons and Tours with great ease and exactitude. When a writer's paper is full he presses a lever and more paper is reeled into the frame. At the same in stant the same amount of fresh paper i* reeled onto the receiver, and the pen goes back into the fnlipot and dips itself, ready for the next page.—Paris Letter in Cincinnati Commercial Trib une. Xntui'nl lien t Accumulator*. A Hungarian chemist has discovered that some of the salt lakes in Transyl vania present the peculiarity of a layer of warm, or even hot, salt water, be tween two bodies of colder water. Thus in the Medoc lake the surface temperature in summer is about 70 degrees, but at a depth of a little more than four feet the temperature be comes 132 degrees, but declines again to 60 degrees at the bottom. The sur face water is fresh, but the warm wa ter beneath is intensely saline, and the explanation of the difference of temperature is that, since the specific heat of salt water is less than that of fresh water, the salt water is more easily heated by the sun, and having risen to a higher temperature than that of the overlying fresh water, re tains its heat because the fresh water prevents its escape by radiation. It is suggested that some use might be found for these natural reservoirs, or ftccuinulaltrs, z.£ iolur Lent, PROBING BY 'PjBONE. Sarp;triil Eiperliurnt« at I.ondoa Have Atlmctt'd Attention In Kurope aa Well aa Amerl***. In several London hospitals *ur geons are now using the telephone whenever they have occasion to probe for bullets or other metallic objects. The receiver of the telephone, says the New York Herald, is placed on the head of the operator and the patient is placed, in the usual manner, in con tact with a plate, the general medium employed being a wet sponge or soma paper saturated with a saline solu tion, which is spread over the plate. The latter is connected with the tele phone by a wire and the probe, after it has been introduced into the body, naturally vibrates as soon as the for* THE TELEPHONE PROBE. eign metallic substance comes in con tact with it. The probe is also connected with the telephone by a wire, and thus no such blunder is possible as sometimes hap pens when an ordinary battery is used. \\hen a telephone is used in this way the plate acts as one pole and the probe as the other. Needles, bullets, grains of shot and pieces of steel and copper can be easily located by tha use of this simple method. Indeed, it is said that the only instance when the telephone did not work satisfac torily were when the objects to be lo cated were of the same metal as the probe. Eminent French and German sur geons have been watching these ex periments in London, and intend tt» introduce the same method into tha hospitals of Berlin and Paris. CLOCK IN YOUR HEAD. Kntnral Tlnifplfcf Telia the Average l'eraon Just How I.oiik He Haa lleen Aaleev. "Speaking of the brain," said a well known neurologist the other day, "one of its most striking peculiarities is that in the soundest sleep of which wet are capable Some part of the brain or ganism takes upon itself the duty oC measuring time. "You may sleep your soundest, sweet est sleep and be awakened suddenly out of it. Almost your first mental prompting is that of time; there is am involuntary attempt on the part of the brain to tell you just how long you have been asleep. You will get some idea of the time, too; you can make » pretty intelligent guess as to whether it is nearer 12 o'clock than it is to 3 o'clock. "But when one has lost conscious ness, whether through violence or ether, or fainting, there is absolutely no knowledge of time. A man cominff from under the influence of ether does not know whether he has been uncon scious an hour or a month. He has no sensation that will suggest it. "In sleep, however, it seems as if the brain's time card can be thrown off completely. For instance, a person, unexpectedly, may goto sleep on a warm summer day. It is morning, we will say, and the sun is shining. When he awakes the sun is still shining, and most frequently, unless sleeping ii* daylight is common to him, he will have no idea whether the next meal will be a late breakfast, a luncheon, or a din ner; he has lost liis bearings com pletely. "Another faculty of the brain in time keeping is that in many individ uals it is possible for them togo to sleep and awaken at almost any hour they may decide upon. In some per sons this ability to awtoken at pleasure is almost marvelous. As this brain timekeeper works in man, subcon sciously, all through the day, we may well wonder how and when it gets its period of rest." —Chicago Tribune. I'nliiue I'olnr Kiiulpment. Capt. Joseph E. Bernier, the Cana dian. proposes to make a dash for the north pole, starting next year. He al lows four years for the whole journey. A large part of the time will be con sumed in drifting into a position fa vorable to reaching the pole. He will carry a complete wireless telegraph apparatus. By means of a telescopic pole attached to the mainmast, he be lieves he can elevate the transmitting apparatus 200 feet above the deck, and with this he hopes to keep in com munication with the inhabited parts of the earth. Two motor cars, so con structed that they can quickly he turned into boats, are to be included in his equipment. Two Ancient Trn<l# Secret*. The two oldest secret trade pro cesses now in existence are said to be the manufacture of Chinese red, or vermillion, and the method of in laying the hardest steel with gold and silver, which seems to have beer* practiced at Damascus ages ago, and is known only to the Syrian smiths and their pupils even to this day. DrcrenNe in lllr«l*M I.ifV. Systematic inquiries into the pres ent condition of bird life in Missouri bring to light the surprising discovery that within the last 15years insectivor ous birds have decreased 03 per cent, and game birJs SO yer rent. 3
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