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CANNON ANSWERS
CRITICS
A Majority Should Be Discipline
ed, Because It Will Be Held
Responsible for Results
HAS SCORN FOR THE TRESS
8w!tches to the Subject of Newspaper
Abuse of Him and Defense of the
House Rules Majority Must Have
the Machinery to Transact Business.
Washington, Feb. 17.--Just like an
ordinary member. Spei.ker Cannon
stood In the middle of the House of
Representatives nnd spoke In favor of
the $42,000,000 Rivers and Harbors
bill, which was under consideration.
He made no effort to discuss Indivi
dual items of the measure, but sup
ported It in general, on the ground
that the Nation was growing and
would need all the waterways it could
develop.
In the latter part of his address, he
got on to the subject nearest to his
heart, that of majority rule, and dis
cussed it to the evident satisfaction
of the regulars, who applauded freely.
Incidentally, be took the newspapers
and magazines to task again, for pub
lishing inacurate Information regard
ing Congress In general and his part
In the proceedings In particular. He
aid, that on the recent trip down the
Mississippi River the accounts In the
public print were so imaginative, that
when he read them he didn't know
whether he was "a-foot or a horse
back." "It is for us," he went on, "while
we temporarily occupy the places that
we do, to preserve the machinery by
which a majority can transact the
public business and to preserve it,
looking Into the faces of the gentle
men on the other side, so that when
the wisdom of the American people
and the favor of God may give, per
chance, a majority to them, they will
have the rules and the order of pro
cedure, a product of the experience of
120 years, unhampered, and thua run
the business of this House for the ad
vantage, not of the men of their or
ganization alone, but of all the 90,000,
000. And while we seemingly strut
and fret, declaim and are Interviewed
constantly in the public prints, the
people of the United States will hold
responsible from time to time the par
ty in power for legislative results, and
unless that party has the machinery
and the procedure to achieve those
results, they will not have the full
power, though they may have the ma
jority. "I expect we will continue to re
ceive all kinds of fake information
that is finished for here and thero,"
continued the Speaker, "in order that
our great metropolitan journals may
continue, some of them, to make their
papers from day to day, like the Yan
kee made his razors, to sell. But I de
sire to say to the gentlemen on this
aide of the House, and to the gentle
men on that side of the House, that
in the last analysis out of one of the
:wo great organizations the minority
om time to time putting the majority
m Its good behavior, seeking to be
ome the majority will come correct
egislation and correct appropriations,
or the greatest good to the people of
he Republic; and if we lose sight of
mr own importance and of our post
ion for the time being, there will
ome into our places better and wiser
nen, who will not lose sight of these
lecesgltles. Where responsibility rest,
there must be power."
WAR ON LAWLESS TRUSTS.
Wlckersham Drives Home Points In
Taft's Speech Here.
Washington, Feb. 16. It is a bitter,
-alentless war to a finish on the law
"sb trusts that the Taft Admlnistra
.'on has entered upon.
The Administration issued another
roclamatlon in this struggle to-day,
manifesto from the office of Attor-ey-General
Wickersham, driving
ome the savage thrusts of President
"aft in his New York speech of Satur-
lay night. It is in the nature of a
nal warning, which clearly and ex
: !icltly set forth the purposes of the
Administration.
"It was not the intention of the Ad--InUtratlon,"
says the Attorney-General,
"to provide a revenue from
"rusts, nor, through the enactment of
his law, to repeal the Sherman act. It
ras pointed out by the President In
' Is message of January 7 that its pur
rose was to provide for the grant of
Federal charter to an Industrial com
Mnation, 'to make and sell in Inter
ate and foreign commerce the prod
ats of useful manufacture, under
ten limitations as will secure a com
pliance with the anti-Trust law."
HIGH PRICES FOR YEARS.
i Professor Jenks Predicts If Gold
Production Continues.
Ithaca, N. Y., Feb. 14. Professor
'. V. Jenks, of Cornell University,
?rees with those economists who
scribe the increase In the cost of
'Ing to the Increased production of
ld. To a large number of farmers
're for Farmers' Week at the State
ullege of Agrlculturo, he said:
"Money is no more fixed In value
ian the articles it purchases. There
no sign of a let-up in the Increased
:oductlon of gold, and, unless some
lange is made in our monetary sys
m, we may expect prices to go up
u..- years to conje,"
PEACOCK CHASTISES
ROBBING EMPLOYEES
Millionaire Hero of "The Curse of Too
Much Money" Shows How It
Shouldn't Be Spent.
rittsburg, Feb. 17. Alexander R.
Peacock, perhaps the most unique of
Andrew Carnegie's "thirty young
partners," and hero of the story, "The
Curse of Too Much Money," has again
astounded Pittsburg by the unexpect
ed. After making a discovery that,
through carelessness or worse, two
of his employees had squandered
about $2."0,n00 of his money, he locked
himself in a room with them, one at a
time, and administered to each a
sound thrashing. Then he ordered
them from his office, and refused to
prosecute. Before chastising them,
however, Mr. Peacock, who is yet
worth $13,000,000, made the employees
sign over to him all the property that
they own.
Some months ago Mr. Peacock be
came suspicious and employed a de
tective bureau to watch the two men.
The first report showed Peacock that
the two trusted ones had bought wine
by the case for chorus girls.
Peacock refused to believe the re
port, since one of the men mentioned
was high in church and social affairs.
He ordered a second report, but It
was far more convincing than the
first.
It required only a few days on the
part of Mr. Peacock to And that there
had been $250,000 in profits in the
past year which he had never seen.
Finally, when he hnd conclusive
proof, he called one of the men into
his office, locked the door and told
what he had discovered. The em
ployee begged for mercy.
Peacock made him sign over to him
all his property, nnd then the million
aire chastised him as a mother might
chastise a naughty child. When the
disgraced employe escaped he said he
had been knocked down nine times.
The other employee was then sent for
and passed through the same experi
ence. As an amusing finale to the affair,
one of the employees consulted an at
torney, seeking to enter suit against
Peacock for assault nnd battery.
When the attorney heard all the facts
he, too, hit the recent Peacock em
ployee in the face for taking up his
time.
PEARY A REAR ADMIRAL.
Retirement Gives Discoverer $6,000 a
Year for Life
Washington, Feb. 14. Commander
Robert E. Peary, discoverer of tne
North Pole, was made a rear-admiral
of the highest grade and with maxi
mum pay, so far as the Senate can
accomplish such recognition of his
services. The bill recently Introduced
by Senator Hale was favorably report
ed from the Committee on Naval Af
fairs and promptly passed without dis
cussion. The bill authorizes the President to
appoint Commander Peary a rear-admiral
with an extra number and
places him on the retired list. An
amendment was adopted giving him
the pay of a rear-admiral of the first
grade.
The top notch pay of a rear-admiral
is $8,000 a year and that of the same
officer on the retired list three-fourths
of his active compensation. Thus Ad
miral Peary will receive $G,000 a year
for the remainder of his life.
A THREATENED MILK FAMINE.
Chicago Producers Want Better Prices
and May Curtail Output.
Chicago, Feb. 14. Chicago Is
threatened with a milk famine unless
the big companies meet the demand of
the producers' association for an in
crease in the price.
The attitude of the retail dealers
will be shown by the dictation of the
Borden company, whose contracts
with the producers will soon expire.
The Borden company recently raised
the price of milk to the consumer one
cent a quart and the producers de
mand an increase of 20 cents a hun
dred pounds wholesale. The associa
tion which is making the demand con
trols 75 per cent, of Chicago's supply,
and threatens to curtail It.
WANT ROOSEVELT TO LEAD.
Professor McMillan Hopes He Will
Head Antarctic Expedition.
Portland, Me., Feb. 17. That form
er President Roosevelt may lead the
Antarctic expedition to be sent from
the United States, was the statement
made today by Professor Donald B.
McMillan, the scientific member of
Commander Peary's successful North
Pole party. The proposition has been
discussed, among the probable mem
bers of the party, and Professor Mc
Millan hoped the former President
would accept.
DEPOSED SULTAN DYING.
Has Refused to Eat Since His Last
Fit of Madness.
London, Feb. 17. A Vienna dis
patch to the Dally Chronicle says:
"From Salonika it is announced
that ex-Sultan Abdul Hamld is dying.
"Since his last violent fit of mad
ness he has refused to take food. His
body Is reduced to extreme moagro
nesa and his face is hardly recogniza
ble. "Since yesterday he has been suf
fering great agony."
Washlntgon, Feb. 14.
Alexander Sharp, president
naval inspection board and
commander of the battleship
died at the Naval Hospital In
this morning, after about a
Illness, from typhoid fever.
Captain
of the
recently
Virginia,
this city
month's
C CI It
tJULIi
HIE PIER
Sioterjof Girl Killed in Atlantic
City Tells of a Good Nalurcd
StruggJe Night of Crime
HAD FOUGHT FOR HER HOUOR
Police File Formal Accusation of Mur
der Against Man Last Seen with
Her Investigation Falls to Support
Suicide Theory.
Atlantic City, Feb. 17. There is
conclusive evidence that pretty eighteen-year-old
Jane Adams, whose body
w as washed up on the beach here,
was held a captive end slain on the
end of the million-dollar pier while
defending her honor, and then hurled
Into the sea by her assassin.
Investigations made by the police
since the finding of the girl's body
convinces them the case Is one of the
most startling the criminal authorities
have had to deal with In many years.
The autopsy performed by County
Physician Lewis Bonder establishes
that the girl wa3 brutally beaten r.nU
struck on the head with pome sharp
pointed weapon which penetrated her
skull, causing death.
Now that sulclCe and accidental
drowning theorlei are disposed of,
Chief of Detectives Richard Whalen
has sent an alarm to every city In the
United States requesting the police to
arrest William Seyler for murder and
his brother, Orvls.
The letter's disappearance mysti
fies DetecMve Whalen. It has been
satisfactorily established that he
could not hnve been concerned in tho
struggle that preceded the girl's death.
It Is believed that hla older brother
persuaded him to go with him when
he fled.
Circulars sent out asking for the ar
rest of William Seyler are headed:
"Wanted for murder."
Alice Adams, the sixteen-year-old
sister of the slain girl, in her account
of the events of the evening of Febru
ary 4, s ays that when she and Orvls
Seyler started to go home, she called
to Jane, who was with William Seyler
far out on the pier, to come along.
William, she declared, held her sister
a good natured struggle between the
by the arm and there appeared to be
a good natured struggle!! eteen tho
two, Jane calling out: "He won't let
me."
This and tho autopsy have con
vinced Detective Whalen that as soon
83 Orvls Seyler end Alice Adams dis
appeared in the darkness the strug
gle became earnest.
"I am convinced," said Whalen,
"that the girl fought and was merci
lessly beaten and then hurled into
the sea from tho end of the pier. The
evidence shows conclusively that Jane
Adams was the victim of a premedi
tated crime."
..While the police are striving to find
the two men who were, with Jane
Adams and her sister on the million
dollar pier on the eve of February 4,
the mother of the dead girl is almost
frnntle with grief, and has haunted
Police elladquarters urging the police
to clear up the mystery of her daugh
ter's death. She still sticks to the be
lief that her child was murdered while
protecting herself.
TO REPEAL JAG BOARD LAW.
Only Few Places Have Tried New Jer
sey Temperance Measure.
Trenton, N. J.. Feb. 17. Assembly
man Olwell of Hudson introduced a
bill to-night to repeal the Hlllery "jag
board" law, under which habitual
drunkards or near drunkards may
have their names posted publicly,
after whlph no saloon or tavern keep
er may sell them liquor. Jag boards
have been named In only a few of the
smaller municipalities, but their ef
forts to reform the rounders in their
communities have been the cause of
several disputes and complications.
BURNED TO DEATH UNDER AUTO.
Aviator Johannsen Killed While Mo
toring with M. Mumm.
Paris, Feb. 14. M. Mumm of the
firm of champagne makers was severe
ly hurt to-day in an automobile acci
dent between Bordeaux and Pau.
Ills companion, the aviator Johann
sen, was burned to death. Mumm
was driving and dashed into a tree
while avoiding a cart. The automo
bile turned over and the gasolene
tank burst drenching Johannsen, who
was underneath the machine.
The gaslene caught fire and Johann
sen was incinerated.
P. R. R. BARS TOBACCO.
Its Employees Must Abstain While on
Duty.
Altoona, Penn., Feb. 14. Tho use
of tobacco In any form, while on duty,
Is forbidden all employees of pas
sengor trains on the lines ' east of
Pittsburg and Erie, by new resulatlons
promulgated by tho Pennsylvania
Railroad Compnny. The new rules be
came effective last night.
70 Dead, 65 Badly Wounded.
Bruesel3, Feb. 14. Advices from
tho Conso say that Col. Proko's col
umn recenUy surrounded and captured
ii rebel bp..id, but at frichtful mat.
The troops lost thirty killed and forty
iu:era wno succumbed to wounds or
Ktcknesr. In addition sixty-five men
wi;re reriously wounded. The rebel
'!: v.v.3 sisty-ftvo killed.
JANE ADAM
WORLD NEWS OF
THE WEEK.
Covering Minor Happenings From
All Over the Glob
DOMESTIC.
Ex-President Roosevelt will return
to the United States on or about Juno
15 and plans are under way to make
his reception the grer.te&t In history.
Officers of the Excavators' Union of
New York City assumed warlike atti
tude In calling 23,000 men on general
strike.
Mrs. O. II. P. Belmont, who Is tour
ing New York State In behalf of wom
an suffrage, declared In an Interview
at Elmira that women are bound to
vote nt an early day.
Kx-Lleutenant Governor Chnnler In
troduced In the Assemkly at Albany a
resolution providing for a more
searching Investigation cf legislative
corruption.
Eighty thousand dozen eggs have
been received In New York City from
French, German and Austrian hens
for the market here.
Mr. James R. Keene, financier, ad
mits before the Federal Commission
er, Thomas Alexander, that he man
aged the Columbus and Hocking Coal
and Iron pool. .
The Rev. Dr. William Carter de
clares that New York Is a graveyard
for ministers, and they avoid rather
than seek New York pulpits.
Leaders in the business and finan
cial world in interviews expressed ap
proval of President Taft's Lincoln
Day dinner speech.
That Colonel Swope died from
Btrychnine administered at the in
stance of Dr. B. C. Hyde is the ver
dict of the Coroner's Jury, Kansas
City, Mo., which declined to pass on
the question of Intent.
Employers threatened the greatest
labor war In the history of New York
city If the building trades vote a sym
pathetic strike in aid of the steam fit
ters. Fire at the Brighton stockyards, at
Boston, caused damage of half a mil
lion dollars.
Judge Swayze, of the New Jersey
Supreme Court, delivered a special
charge to the Hudson county Grand
Jury, which is investigating the cost
of living.
WASHINGTON.
Attorney General WIckershum In a
Statement declares that the new fed
eral incorporation bill Is seemingly
being misrepresented In order to
arouse prejudice against It.
As a result of President Taft's
speech In New York his legislative
programme is halted In Congress.
A deficiency appropriation of $307,-
000 to replace medical and hospital
supplies destroyed by lire at the army
medical supply depot In New York
City on February 4 last, was recom
mended to Congress to-day by Secre
tary of War Dickinson.
L. R, Glavls testified again in the
Ballinger-PInchot inquiry, telling on
cross-examination why he considered
the Secretary of the Interior unfit to
hold his office.
After nearly half a century in the
Treasury Department, Thomas Glenn
Jones, seventy-six years old, died at
Washington. He came here from
Ohio to be an accountant In the loan
and currency division in 1861.
Captain B. S. Osbon attacks Mr.
Robert E. Peary as a "selfish egotist"
and says his promotion to the grade
of rear admiral would be a blot upon
Congress.
The annual report of the United
States Civil Service Commission was
made public at Washlntgon; it show
ed notable Improvements in the ad
ministration of the service.
Representative Perkins, of Roches
ter, went to a hospital In Washington
for rest and medical observation.
President Taft will probably come
to New York at the time of Mr. Roose
velt's return on June 15 and speak at
a banquet.
The Houeo Committee on Naval Af
fairs practically decides sgalnBt Sec
retary Meyer's navy reorganization
plan, but may favor transfer of funds
so the system may be tried for a year
without burdensome "red tape."
FOREIGN.
Dr. Charcot gives details of his
Antarctic expedition and discovery of
new lands, in a special cable despatch
fnrm Puwta Arenas.
The Japanese fear passage of the
Hayes exclusion bill in retaliation for
the neutralization plan, say special ad
vices from Pekln.
Winston Spencer Churchill gets the
post of Homo Secretary In the new
British Cabinet.
Tho Gorman Emperor deprecates
tho use of force in the demonstration
by the socialists and hopes for satis
fying amendments In the Prussian bal
lot law.
Capt. Saenz, executioner of Cannon
and Grote, wa3 killed in Managua by
a Nicaraguan soldier.
A dispatch from Valdlvo, Chill, Fal
that Dr. Frederick A. Cook and Mrs.
Cook had been found there and had
sailed northward.
Premier Anquith, according to a
rumor from London, has yielded to
the Extremists and Nationalists by
agreeing to Introduce the veto bill b
fore the budget; such a course, it la
believed, may bring on a general elec
tion eooo.
China and Japan have signed a pos
tal working agreement on the basis of
tho Postal Union rules.
All differences between the con
ductors and engineers and the man
agement of the National Railways of
Mexico have been settled.
A dispatch from Vienna said that
Abdul Hamld, the deposed Sultan of
Turkey, had attempted to commit sui
cide. '
DEAD
CHILDREN
WERE BEWITCHED
Garls of Reading Say Seventeen
Have Died of an Evil
Spell
WOWS SAVED THREE
Charms, Pctlcns, Drove Out Evil In
fluenceThose Who Perished "lost
Their Rest" and Wasted Away
Witchcraft In America.
Rending, Pa., Feb. 17. Seventeen
of their twenty children died because
they were bewitched; an evil spell
was put on them; they wasted awny;
the dwindling flame of their lives was
snuffed by some weird breath.
So decided Mr. nnd Mrs. Frederick
Carl of this city to-day; the seven
teenth child they have lost a daughter
of twenty-eight years old, died lust
week.
Tho parents' declaration Is another
proof that ancient superstitions sur
vive In this county, Berks, and coun
ties surrounding, where colonies were
planted long ago whose members have
been slow to forget the mysterious
folk tales of their Old Country ances
tors, Mr. and Mrs. Garl employed "witch
doctors," "pow-wow doctors," but their
(harms, Incantations nnd potions did
not save the Garl children's lives. Phy
sicians of established schools say
some of the Garls died of marasmus,
which' Is a loss of health, flesh and
vitality, caused oftenest by Inanition.
Others of the children died of tuber
culosis, say the regular doctors.
Mr. and Mrs. Garl deny this.
"Both of us are perfectly healthy;
neither has been ill for a day," Is their
argument. "Our children were born
perfectly healthy.1 They were be
witched, that's all. The witch took
their rest; would not let them sleep,
and fo made them waste away."
"When one of the children was tak-
tn 111 I called In a regular doctor who
said the child would not live over
night," said Mr. Garl. "A neighbor
suggested that I engage a 'pow-wow
doctor' who has the reputation of cur
ing people whose rest have been tak
en. I did so. The pow-wow doctor
said the child had been bewitched by
a woman, but he did not tell who the
woman was. The doctor put some
thing In a bag, hung the bag around
the child's neck and gave him two
kinds of medicine. From the moment
the witch doctor began to attend the
child it Improved, and is one of the
three left to us.
"Another daughter fell 111," Mr.
Garl continued. "One old man heard
me telling a neighbor about losing bo
many children. The old man said he
could cure the sick girl, and I asked
hlin to try. He brought a piece of
muslin, a needle and thread, a pen and
red Ink and the fifth book of Moses,
Deuteronomy. After examlulng the
child he said its rest had been taken
by a witch womun. He powwowed and
copied a verse on a slip of paper, writ
ing it In red ink. He put the paper
In a little muslin bag and hung it at
the head of the cradle. The verse
said:
An Incantation.
'"Trotter head. I forbid thee my
house and premises. I forbid thee my
horse and cow stable. I forbid thee
my bedstead, that thou mayest not
breathe upon me. Breathe in some
other house until thou hast counted
every fence post and until thou hast
crossed every water, and thus dear
day may come again in the name of
God, the Father, the Son and the
Holy Ghost. Amen.'
"The little girl got well," concluded
Mr. Garl.
When Dr. R. E. Strasser was Coro
ner recently he made a crusade
against the "powwow" doctors, but
they are still do'ng active business In
Berks County, and will probably con
tinue to do so until more drastic ac
tion Is taken to put them out of busi
ness. .
TRY TO EXORCISE A
DEVIL IN WISCONSIN.
The Girl "Possessed" la Dying, but
Person Who Gave Potion Is
Not Discovered.
Fond du Lnc, Wis., Feb. 15. Be
lieving her daughter, Mabel, eighteen
years old, was possessed of a devil,
Mrs. John Clemens went to Rlpon,
this county,' and got a potion from
some person, which she gave to the
girl. Tho doctors bolleve Mabel will
not recover. The authorities are try
ing to learn who prescribed the devil-
ousting potion, and what It contained.
MISSING GIRL IN THE SURF.
Body of Jane Adams 8hows Indica
tions of Murder.
Atlantic City. N. J.. Feb. 15. Th
body of Jane Adams who has been
miBslng since she spent the evening
on tho pier on Friday, February 4, was
found in the breakers off Harrisburg
avenue, Ventnor. She was 18 years
old and the daughter of Chnrien
Adams of this city. Still clad in the
finery whicft she donned for th oven.
Ing at tho pier, the body was Identi
fied by the mother and father. It
showed Indications of murder.
Tho police have started a search fn
William Seyler, a young married man
of this city, who was the last person
seen In Miss Adams's comnanv nnri
who disappeared on the day followiug
ner disappearance.
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PENSION BILL SHOWS
55,234,000 DECREASE
Appropriation Made for 1911 la $1S5r
674,000 Grand Total Is Near
ly Four Billions.
Washington, Feb. 17. A pension
appropriation bill aggregating $155,
(171,000 was reported to the House.
The appropriation for 1910 was 5160-
908.000.
The bill follows custom and abol
ishes seventeen of the elclit
sion agencies, concentrating the work
111 wasinngton. Following custom the
Senate will restore them.
There are a score of bills pending
in Congress which, if passed, would
greatly Increase the exnenrflt uron for
pensions. These bills would place all
volunteer officers of the Mexican, civil
and Spanish wars on the retired list
when they reach sixty-four at $75 a
month and $100 whrn thev reach Rev.
enly. All enlisted veterans would re
ceive $25 a month at sixty-four and
$00 a month at seventy.
The following table shows the nen.
slons paid by the Government since its
establishment:
Wnr of the Revolu
tion J70.ooo.nnn nn
War of 1812 45,757.396.84
Indian wars 9.995.609.47
Wnr with Mexico 42.492.784 07
Clv" war 3.C86.461.S40.35
War with Spain and In
surrection In the Phil
ippine Islands 2fi sun Rnr, ?t
Regular establishment 1,507,028.02
Luclassifletl 16,484,049.77
Total $3,913,082,513.73
Those ftfrurPR nra Kpnuo-Tif ttn h
o w vtwuut, y I VS 111 U
beginning of the present fiscal year.
NATION TO CONTROL
INDUSTRIES.
New System Urged for Corporations
By Commissioner Smith.
Washington. Feb. 14. "Our ereat
interstate industries must come under
permanent national supervision," says
Herbert Knox Smith, Commissioner
of Corporations, in his annual report.
1 ne situation, he says, is readv for
a complete system, where "all imnor-
tant Interstate commerce corporations
snuu regularly make renorts to a
federal agency: where that asrencv
8hi.ll have tho further, right to verify
ana extend the racts presented; where
business transactions of public inter
ests shall be made nubile, safeguard
ing at the same time all proper busi
ness secrets; where there will be a
permanent meeting around for co
operation and adjustment between the
government and business interests,
and whereby those corporations that
deal fairly and openly shall corre
spondingly acquire public confidence
and support.
IN DEFENCE OF DEACON MOE.
Hit Pastor Says He la One of the Best
Men He Ever Knew.
Auburn, N. Y., Feb. 15. The Rev.
E. E. Smiley of the Congregational
Church at Groton, preached to a large
congregation, closing the service with
a strong defence of the character ot
Deacon Moe, who remained at his
home in seclusion, doubtful as to the
attitude of his home folks at the dis
closures regarding Senatorial bribery
made at Albacy last week. Moe had
been away from Groton for several
weeks to evade detectives and news
paper men, but bis townsmen, follow
ing the pastor's siatement to-day,
called at his home in large numbers
and assured him of their belief in bis
Integrity.
Cost of Song Birds.
Tho American rrinmil nt ITnnovp"
reports It costs $7,500,000 annually to
leeu me o.uuu.uuo canaries in the unit
ed Stutos. Uetiirim nf th rost oJ
feeding song birds at Rector's are not
yet In. Washington Post.
"Der true science of ernfamment Is
vot eferypody knows and nopody
aoes. Cleveland News.
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