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Retired Army Officer Dies of Pneu-
monia in California.
COMMANDED TROOPS IN CUBA
Bakersfield, Ca., Nov. 12. — Major
General William Rufus Shafter, U. 8.
A., retired, died at the ranch of Cap-
tain W. H. McKittrick, his son-in-law,
20 miles south of this city, after an
illness of seven days, despite the best
medical attention available in Cali-
fornia.
Captain and Mrs. Kittrick, the gen-
eral's son-in-law and daughter; Miss
GENERAL W. R, SHAFTER.
Edmunds, a niece, and Captain James
N. Shafter, a brother, were at the bed-
side when the end came.
Sketch of Major General W. R. Shafter.
The son of a pioneer farmer, Major
General William R. Shafter was born
in Galesburg, Mich., October 16, 1835.
With scant educations! opportunities,
he tolled on his father's fram until he
attained his majority. By that time
he had saved sufficient money to carry
him through the winter term at the
Prairie seminary. He returned to ag
ricultural pursuits, but the monotony
of a farmer's life was irksome to his
ambitious spirit, and the outbreak ol
the civil war found him ready and
eager to become a soldier.
At the first opportunity that pre
sented Shafter tendered his services
as a private. He was commissioned
first lieutenant in Company 1 of the
Seventh Michigan Infantry. He was
mustered into service a few days after
the repulse of the Federal troops at
Bull Run, and from that time until
his retirement, July 1, 1901, he was in
the military service of the United
States.
In the summer of 1862 the 19th
Michigan Regiment was organized and
Shafter was assigned te it, with the
rank of major. The regiment joined
the western army, and for a year or
more saw a great deal of hard service
in Kentucky and Tennessee, Togeth
er with other Federal officers, he was
captured by the Confederates, but his
gallantry in battle had been so con:
spicuous that his captors allowed him
to retain his horse and side arms. He
was a prisoner of war for three months
and was exchanged in May, 1863.
On May 3, 1897, Colonel Shafter wag
promoted to be brigadier general of
the United States army, and was as
signed to the command of the Depart:
ment of the Columbia. Soon after
ward he was transferred to the De
partment of California, becoming the
department commander at the same
station where he had for so many
years been post commandant.
With the development of plans for
the invasion of Cuba, after the war
with Spain began in 1898, the presi
dent and secretary of war began to
look about for suitable leaders. Prom-
inént among the eligibles was General
Shafter. President McKinley made
him a major general of volunteers on
May 4, 1898, and he was assigned to
command the troops in the Santiago
campaign.
Shafter was put in command, and
he conducted the Santiago campaign
in an original and peculiar style. He
is a big man and has long been afflict-
ed with the gout, and he ordered the
advance on Santiago while lying at
ease in a transport off the landing
‘place, far from the enemy's guns. Ac-
cording to the accounts of President
Roosevelt and others present in the
field, he ordered the men to march
through the chaparral under the mur-
derous fire of the Spaniards, and but
for the good judgment of the officers
in command our army would have suf-
fered ignoble defeat and terrible loss
of life. They concluded to ignore
Shafter’'s orders and proceeded on
their own plans, preventing further se-
rious loss and gaining such advan-
tages that the Spaniards, under Gen-
-eral Toral, were forced to surrender.
At the close of the war General
Shafter was congratulated by Pres!
«dent McKinley, and was sent to the
Presidio as commander of the Depart:
ment of California, and to superintend
the dispatch of troops to Manila.
October, 1889, General Shafter went
on the retired list of the regular army,
having reached the prescribed age of
‘64 years. He, however, remained in
«command of the Department of the
Great Falls, Mont, Nov. 12.—In a
25 years old and a native of Syracuse
N. Y., where his parents live,
THE TAIL OF A COMET.
its Ever Changing Mass and Why It
Flees From the Sun,
The tail of a comet is not formed of
the same particles which composed it
yesterday or even an hour or a moment
ago. It is constantly being renewed at
the expense of the nucleus, As the long
stream of black smoke from the neigh-
boring factory or mill is being continu-
ally renewed by fresh particles of car-
bon released by the combustion going
on in the furnace below, so is the won-
derful luminous train of cometary bod-
ies being constantly replenished by
particles flying from or rather driven
from the nucleus by the intense heat of
the sun,
Then, again, hov infinitely small and
how intensely luminous must these par-
ticles that go to make up the tail of a
comet be! This thought is suggested by
the fact that it has been proved that in
some cases the nucleus of comets which
are only a few hundred miles in diame-
ter will have enormous fanlike tails
stretching across space for a distance
exceeding 200,000,000 miles and having
a bulk exceeding that of the sun by
more than 10,000 times! Professor E.
E. Barnard beautifully illustrates the
formation of a comet's tail by “suppos-
ing” thus: “Suppose, for example, that
the nucleus of a comet is composed of
ice. Then suppose the heat of the sun |
to be so intense as to rapidly melt that |
portion of the ice globe exposed to the !
action of its rays, which are strong |
enough to immediately convert it into
vapor, which ascends toward the sun.
“Imagine now a flerce wind blowing
out from the sun, causing the vapor
which meets it to be whirled out into
space behind the comet. This will
clearly illustrate the theory of the for- |
mation of a comet's tzil, only that the
nucleus of the comet is not ice and the |
vapor is not water vapor, neither is the |
force which drives it away from the |
sun a fierce wind.” !
The unknown force hinted at by the
astronomer above quoted readily ex-
plains why a comet's tall, as a rule,
points in an opposite direction to the ,
sun. The Russian astronomer Bredie-
chen distinguishes three different types
of cometary tails—those composed of |
particles having the specific gravity of
hydrogen, those having the specific |
gravity of hydrocarbon gas and a third |
class having all the peculiarities of an |
equal mixture of hydrogen and iron |
vapor.
Sleeping With Open Eyes.
All fishes which sleep do so with |
their cyes open, as they are not pro- |
vided with eyelids and cannot there-
fore close their eyes. From experi-
ments made it was discovered that
some fishes have no preference for the
nighttime, but sleep equally well dur-
ing the day. They may be observed
resting quite motionless for periods,
apparently in sleep, except that, hav-
ing no eyelids, they are unable to close
their eyes or exclude all influence from
without. The hare also sleeps with
its eyes open, for the simple reason
that its cyes are unprovided with eye-
lids. Instead of these there is a thin
membrane which covers the eye when
asleep. This membrane, as in the case
of certain birds, folds like a curtain in
the corner of the eye and by an instan-
taneous action flies back when sight is
required, leaving the eye immediately
and fully open for the exercise of sight.
Some birds, such as the eagle, aise
have this membrane, which, when at
rest, lies in the corner of the eye, foi
ed np like a drawn curtain,
Blistered Linen.
To prevent blistering in linen, which
is almost always due to bad starching,
but occasionally to ironing the articles
when too wet, each article must be
well starched through, and when about
to iron it it must be dampened evenly,
but not wet. Use a hot iron. Collars
and cuffs that have to be turned down
should be fixed in the proper shape im-
mediately after each one is ironed, for
then the starch is still flexible.
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Orange Salad.
Sour oranges may be utilized in a
delicious salad. Slice the oranges not
too thin and remove the skin, leaving
the pulp in small triangular pieces.
Serve on lettuce or crisp water cress,
with French dressing or white mayon-
naise. The little oranges called cum-
quats are very good indeed served In
axactly the same way. Blanched Eng:
lish walnuts combined with such sal-
ads are a great addition’
Keeping Your Figure,
Always carry the chest further
front of you than any other part
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He Guessed Right.
“Ah, me” exclaimed Mrs, Nagget,
“my shopping was most unsatisfactory
today!™
“Hub,” grunted Nagget; “trying to
get something for nothing, I suppose!”
“Yes, dear. I was after a birthday
gift for you."—Philadelphia Press.
A WEEK'S NEWS CONDENSED
Wednesday, November 7.
The Reading Iron company, at Read-
Ing, Pa., will increase the wages of its
2000 men.
William McGraw, 69 years old, drop-
ped dead on Tuesday at Hollidoys-
burg, Pa., just after he had voted.
A 30-foot flywheel, weighing 80 tons,
of the Whitaker iron works, at Wheel
ing, W. Va., burst, wrecking the build-
ing.
In a collision at Hightstown, N. J,
two locomotives on the Pennsylvania
Railroad were badly damaged and two
trainmen injured.
Thursday, November 8.
John D. Rockefeller has given close
to $2,000,000 to Chicago University this
year.
Henry Faltermayer was struck and
Instantly killed by an electrain on the
Pennsylvania railroad at Glassbore,
N. J.
While despondent over financial
losses, due to the election, S. Henry
McCabe, of Philadelphia, shot and
killed himself.
Samuel Strother, formerly assistant
prosecuting attorney of Kansas City,
Mo., was arrested on the charge of try-
ing to bribe voters.
The four-story brick bullding of the
Harvest King Distilling company at
Kansas City, Mo., was destroyed by
fire. entailing a loss of $400,000.
Friday, November 9.
Mrs. Mary Brown died in Philadel-
phia of acute heart disease brought on
by taking a headache powder.
In a tenement house fire in New
York Mrs. James Ryan and John Mec-
Guire, 11 years old, were fatally
burned.
A powder megazine of the Dupont
company, at Tinley Park, near Chi:
cago, exploded, killing one man and
doing great damage to property.
The department of justice at Wash.
ington has issued instructions to 8. J.
Lehman, special counsel, to begin pro-
ceedings against the person or persons
believed to be implicated in the recent
embezzlement of $61,500 from the sub-
treasury at St. Louis.
Saturday, November 10.
Goat skins to the value of $32,000,000
were imported into the United States
during the fiscal year 1906,
The Aero Club of America will hold
next vear's balloon race for the James
| Gordon Bennett cup at St. Louis.
The Standard Oil company granted
a b and 10 per cent. advance in wages
to all employes of the refining branch.
Mrs. William Rush, 30 years old,
was asphyxiated in bed at her home
at Martin's Creek, Pa., by coal gas
from the kitchen range.
Jacob Hauser, Sr., father of Jacob
Hauser, Jr., who was hanged last Feb-
ruary at Johnstown, Pa., for wife mur-
der, committed suicide from worry
over his son's fate.
Monday, November 12.
Miners John Zonosky and Joe Zol-
sky were killed by falling rock in a
Mayfield, Pa., mine.
A board flew from a machine saw at
Lewistown, Pa., and stabbed J. M.
Mowery in the abdomen.
The Illinois Grand Lodge, Knights
of Pythias, has ordered the immediate
construction of a $150,000 home at De-
Francis A. Wesley, of New Smiths.
ville, stored and marketed 796 bushels
of apples, the largest crop so far rais-
ed in Lehigh county, Pa.
Brigadier General Funston has left
Kansas City for St. Louis to take com.
mand of the division of the southwest,
catur for old persons and orphans.
Three electricians were struck and
killed by a train while making electri:
cal connections on the third rail of the
New York Central railroad in New
York city.
Tuesday, November 13.
All the building contractors of Mo-
bile, Ala., have declared for the open
shop basis.
William Auth, of Newark, N. J., shot
and killed herself in Central Park, New
York, while suffering from ill health.
Bert Seely, who was under suspicion
of murder at Owosso, Mich., was found
dead in bed, and beside him was his
young wife, also dead.
A Michigan Central railroad engine
ran away in Detroit, Mich., and crash-
ed into the depot, killing one person
and injuring several others.
The United States supreme court
will take a recess from Monday, No-
vember 19, to Monday, December 3,
over the Thanksgiving holidays.
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