CONGER SAYS HE SAW ALLDS BRIBED Senator Takes Oath That New York Leader Demanded and Accepted Money HE WAS PAID IN HIS PRESENCE It Wat Given to Keep Allda from Pressing a Bill to Passage In the Assembly—Gist of the Charge on Which Benate Leader Will Be Tried. Albany, N. Y., Feb. I—That State Senator Jothu.n P. Allds of Norwi -h, Chenango County, the President pro tern, of the State Senate and Republi can leader of that branch of the Legis lature, received a bribe of SI,OOO while a member of the Assembly on April 23, 1901, for not pressing to passage certain legislation is the charge made here by Senator Ben Conger, also a Republican. In his sworn charge Senator Con ger says that the bribery in question was Initiated, by Senator Allds and that he demanded the SI,OOO, Instead of the bridge manufacturing com panies seeking out Senator Allda to buy him off from doing his duty. It is inferred that Senator Conger thus Justifies his<<)osttlon in this controver sy in that he would have it appear that the bridge companies had not tak en the Initiative but had paid up be cause they considered It "strike" leg islation and had to give up the money or suffer the consequences. Senator Conger declares that Sen ator Allds received and accepted SI,OOO In his (Conger's) presence In the Capitol Building. Senator Con ger has told his friends that he saw a man pay Senator Allds this SI,OOO and that the man is living. Scnntor Conger swears that he knows this chasge to be true of his own knowl edge. At the outset tome cf the Senators who heard Senator Conger discussing the bribery charges were led to be lieve that It was Conger himself who pa'tl Allds the money. Senator Con ger, however, has made it plain that he saw a man pay Senator Allds this money. This man's name has been carefully withheld by Senator Conger. It cannot long be kept secret. It must he brought out in the Investigation. BLACK HANDERS TO PRISON. Order of the Banana Is Cru»hed in U. 8. Court. Toledo. Ohio. Feb. I. The jury In tl.i iilark Hand caseh in the Federal iuua here returned a verdict of guilty tu charged against the fourteen Sicili ans whose trial has been on for the last two weeks on charges of conspira cy and using the United States mail In furtherance of the same. Sentence was passed as follows by Judge Tay let': Salvatore Lima of Marion, sixteen years Imprisonment; Sebastian Lima and Giuseppe IgnofTo of Marion, ten years each; Salverio Ventolo of Col un.Uus, two years; Salvatore Delia of Pittsburg, two years; Antonio Vl cario of Denison, two years in the Llir.ira, N. Y., Reformatory; Cologerio Vicario of Bellefontaine, two years; O'azlo Runfola of Pittsburg, six ) cars; Pipplno Calbo of Meadvillo, four years; Salvatore Arrlgo of Cin cinnati, four years: Francisco Spe data of Cincinnati, two years. BISHOP FOSS DEAD. Well Known Methodist Expires In Philadelphia. Philadelphia, Feb. 1. —Bishop Cyrus D. Foss, retired, of the Methodist Epis cotml Church, one of the best known cU-rgymen In the country, died in the H thr.emann Hospital here from a stroke of paralysis, suffered while rid ing in a trolley car on January 18. Cyrus David Foss was a moniber of a family that has done much to form the thought and direct the action of the Methodist Episcopal Church In America. He himself had been a bishop of that body sinje 1880. Before that he was for five years the sixth presi dent of Wesleyan University. He was born In Kingston, N. Y., in 1838, tho son of an itinerant Metho dist minister. GLEN ISLAND BRINGS $600,000. Ignatius Roth Buys Old Picnic Prop erty from John H. Starln's Heirs. "NiW York, N. Y., Jan. 31.—Ignatius Roth, ar. Importer of cloths, paid stioo,ooo for Glen Island, formerly a well known amusement resort and at one time the country home of the late John H. Starln. The sellers were Caroline Starln Carroll, Harriet M. Spraker and Gen. Howard Carroll, ex e. utors and trustees of the John H. fc ..rln estate. To Revive Good Templar Lodges. Middletown, N. Y., Feb. I.—With t!;a determination of reviving the de f, act Good Templar lodges In Orange ( ounty and establishing a number of iu:«v ones, the Grand Lodge of Che fi'.ate Is about to Institute a vigorous campaign. Sixth Cavalry Back from Manila. San Francisco, Jan. 14. —The army transport Sheridan arrived to-day from Manila, carrying the Sixth Cav alry, whose term of service In the Philippines has expired. The troop ers have been ordered to Fort Des Mfiines. la. GREAT FLOOO CHECKED BUT PaOIS IS CESOUTE Nine Square Miles Swept by Seine's Waters While Bursting Sewers Deluge Other Sections. Parla, Feb. 1. —The worst of the moat terrible flood Paris has ever known In Its more than thirteen cen turies of history has bepn reached. There is hope now that tha end is? in sight. The rain has ccised. The skies have cleared. The temperature has dropped, giving a ;:.o.uise of no more rain. Wlien the end came the river Seine lacked but a few inches of attaining the greatest flood on record here, that of 1615, and, when the country was without tile modern barriers which are designed to protect Paris and nearby points in such emergencies. In the lower Latin Quarter thera are many people still in houses that are under water up to the second story. They refuse to leave their homes, not knowing where to go. It is pitiful to hear their children crying for food to the men who distribute bread from boats. War would hardly play such havoc. The "City of Light" has become a city of slime, filled with muddy wa ters. Business is almost at a stand still, and the hotels are crowded with persons who have fled from inundated homes. The prices of necessaries are advancing by leaps and bounds, as the paralysis of transportation facilities entering the city extends. The North ern Railroad alone, of the vast net work of railways, still operates direct ly into the city. The flood damage is now estimated at $200,000,000. Hundreds of lives have been lost and the death toll may mount into thousands. A fever epidemic is feared. One hundred thousand rre home less throughout France, 15,000 in I'aris alone. The number of refugees arriving here is enormous. Charenton alone sending in 38,000, who have cc-uo there from Calais and other ai'dicted points. Practically all the flooded suburban towns above and below Paris to-night were without light, and several with out water. One quarter of the city or nine square miles, were inundated by ihe Seine, in addition to the overflow in bark streets from sewers and subter ranean rivers. O o Q Result of the British Elections. O P O p Lust X.M O O Horn;.-. It. MI:-, O O Liberals V.i'.-I _'T '. O 0 Labor members .. .">5 ?l 0 O Irish nationalists .S3 O O O Q /£ @56 Yj c. BEEVES—City Dressed, B@llVjiC. CALVES—City Dressed, 10@lGc. SHEEP—Per 100 lbs., $4.2505.25. I LAMBS Per 100 lbs., SB.OO. HOGS Live, j-er 100 lbs., S'J.OS; Coun try Dressed, per lb., 10 Vfe @l2 Vjo. FOUND PYGMIES II FAR-CHINA Dr. Ge;l Tel's of Hl3 Travels Along the Great Wall and Its Little Known Neighborhood REASON WHY TiIEY ARE DWARFS Legend Has !t that They Were Stunt ed Through Fear of Being Buried Alive for Mistakes in the Work— Modern Awakening in China. Dr. William Edgar CJeil, the explor er and writer, recently reached New York from a quest in China that in volved travelling tiie whole length of the Great Wall and the discovery of 200 miles of that harrier that never had been mapped before. lie says that he lias confirmed the story that in (he remote northern mountains of China there lives a race of hairy pygmies which has been there since 210 B. C. Dr. Geil started out in 1901 to study the primitive races of the world wherever he could find them. He crossed China and Africa in the course of his search and ventured further hno tlie pygmy forest of Africa than Stanley had gone. He was gone for ftfur years and traversed 120,000 miles. This recent expedition of about twenty-live men. headed by Dr. (lull, ; s arred in May of 1908 from Shan Ilia j Yuan, where the Great Wall's e.istein j extremity is washed by the Yellow ;f; ■>. Its purpose was to reach Tibet by sticking to the '.vail for all of iis 1 1,2:.0 miles. Crawling along with pack s the party got to the other end of the wall, at Kian Kll Yian, north of the Nan Shan Mountains, in Sepieni bc >•, 19 !S. Dr. Geil does not know tin ;, anybody ever did the trick be- I f< :v; it is certain, he thinks, that no | white man ever did. The whole trip I w about 1 .SOO miles. It took the i the explorers into Tibet, where Dr. ('■ ' Mil ill and had to be carried al mg ' by bis nun for several days. The explorer said that he made sure of the existence of the pygmy | pi .".pie by getting Chinese pundits to 1 ti .*nslate for him inscriptions in half i a dozen dialects on the sides of the j G:vat Wall. These learned men told I hi": that it was part of their folklore that vhenever one of the million.of i ; .1 who worked on the construction ri' "he wall was found to have erred at 1: t rir-T- he was iin mediately bur'i \ alive in the wail at the point win re hi had made his mistake. It was about 210 B. 1,'., according l-•< mlants now live. Some of them, I 11 (Mtion said, had become demented I rise of their frightful experience*. The interesting folklore that I r'vilied through intcpreters," Dr. Ceil said, "gave me a line on these : 'd men. We located them far in interior. I have a man among j r .' n row, and am interested to know i la.v.- he is faring. • The Great. Wall experience of the Clr'nese who ran away stunned the r 1 wth of their progeny, according to ?li<•> folklore experts, and that is why they have kept to themselves as a ra.ee of dwarfs." The explorer contributed the furth er information that the pygmies "live like animals, and their long nails and terrible faces give them the appear ance of being of a lower type ani ual family than the 11 -.onkeys of Africa." Dr. Geil said he found eviden eof the existence of at least ten great walls in addition to the famous one that he followed. He reasons that the energy that went into the ion struction of nil this masonry is ihe ! measure of China's true strength. He I believes that the empire presently will be in a position to reassert itself. He found that in?.<•".') cities an i near ly 100,000 tows fho Chinese were be ing instructed in the use of arms, an 1 heard that an army of from 3,000,000 to 4,000.000 men could be putin o the field before hog. Dr. Cell is one of those who believe that China is do-'ng a good deal more than merely turning over for another nap. The members of Dr. Geii's party had no serious trouble with the na tives, althot gh they met many to whom a white man was a novelty. The hard going in one place the trail led to an altitude of 12,000 feet seems to have been more hazardous than en counters with the men of Tibet. There was difficulty also in understanding the mr.::o of dialects. Dr. Geil crossed China six years ago, and lie says that in many other w; ys than the upbuilding of a stand ing army there has been a wonder ful advance. The traveller remarked that he had been in the African country where Roosevelt is to hunt and that he could not see any great danger ahead of the former President in so high an alti tude unless be should fail to protect himself against the tsetse fly, which the sleeping sickness is said to prefer as a common carrier. Cumulative Dangers. j "When you have made a statement for which you are sorry, you should ■ own a]) to it," said the idealist. "No," | answered Senator Sorghum; "it is bad | enough to say something you regret without following it up with an ex pression of self-distrust you are sure to regret still more." DOCTOR MADE A NEW THUMB. Whittled It from Patient's Leg Done and Covered It with Skin. Di. K. Koesske lias described in a German medical publication some re markable results in plastic surgery. "In one of his cases, which, as far as ho is aware, is unique in surgical literature," says the International Journal of Surgery, "he replaced a thumb which had been entirely lost in an accident, by a section of the tibia (leg bone) with its attached periosteum and by skin taken from the chest. The transplanted prrts united without undergoing subsequent contraction and degeneration. "The case is of special interest lie cause hitherto transplanted bone has always been interposed between healthy sections of bone, while in tills instance the piece of tibia was diie. t ly implanted into a funnel-shaped ex cavation in the head of the first me tacarpal. "An excellent substitute for a nor mal thumb, in spite of the absence of the terminal and proximal phalanges, was obtained in this way, the patient, a boy of 13 years, being able to bring it In contact with the other fingers, as in writing. There has also been a gradual establishment of the sens? of touch. Later, the author intends lo transplant the nail, with matrix and surrounding soft parts, from one of the toes to the new member. The Art of Life. It was remarked in a recent article upon woman's dress in our columns that when a Frenchwoman plans a costume she plans it as a whole, and that every part has to bear its proper relation to the whole; whereas an englishwoman at the dressmaker'.' ! s apt to say: "That will do," mil to choose each particular item of her dress just because she takes a 'aney to it and without considering its rela tion to other items. In fact, the Frenchwoman puts more fundamental brainwork into her choice. Shi? plans - d foresees, and considers nat only the fashion but her own peculiarities, with the result that her dress has character and seems all of a piece. The French have this superiority in .Veiny things besides dress. They ! li ive it, indeed, in nearly all the min or arts of life, which they take far r.iiro seriously than we do. Perhaps j t'.it is the reason why we are apt to i: ink of them as a frivolous nation.— j.isiidon Times. His Proper Field. A colored man was brought before ! a police judge charged with stealing | chickens. He pleaded guilty and re i (!<:vcd sentence, when the judge ask ! < d how it was he managed to lift I;I chickens right under the win • t,\. nt' the owner's house when there wis i dog loose in tlie yiml. "I!it \\ >>11!■ 111't In' no list?. said the n. ii."to try to 'sphiin this tiling lo J ■ all. 10 112 you was to try it you 111 CM ; not would get yer hide full of shot ;n' get no chickens, nuther. Ef yo' , v: nt to engage in any rascality, jinigp. yo' better stick to de bench, ; whar yo' am familiar." -Ladies' Home . Journal. Measured by Her Deeds. How in the name of common sense could Johnson, Poe and other treat minds have turned out even a frac tion of their work had they been the ; lazy loafers that common opinion and : report would have everybody le lieve? If a genius does things be yond the scope of gossips then they always can find out things about it to prattle of, because, as Shakespeare I says: | "There's none so foul, and foolish thereunto, liut does foul pranks which fair aDd wise ones do." Primitive Philosophy. Animism is the name of a theory originally propounded l»y Stahl, about | ITO7. It asserts that the soul is the i vital principle and only cause of life, ' and that the functions of plant and animal life depend upon this princi ple of vitality, and not mere mechani cal and chemical action. As the wor.l is now used, it denotes the general doctrine of spiritual beings, it is not | itself a religion, but a sort of primi tive philosophy. BIG PACKING PLANT CL.OSEC. Will Kill No More Hogs Till I teat Strike is Over. Nebraska City, Neb., Feb. 1. I'he Morton Gregson packing pl ait in this city has been so hard hit by the ov.i meat agitation that the managers hive : decided to cease operation?, until the strike is over. Notices to that effect were posted | and the company will buy no move j live stock until the agitation cc.mes. Chokes to Death Eating Meat. Pittsburg, Pa., Feb. I.—A dozen for- | eigners discussed the meat boyco;i at breakfast in a Mulberry Alley board- [ ing house, and all except "Mic" Sliov- | lac agreed to eat no meal. Skovlac j wat delighted with having the break- I fast steak to himself, tackled it so vio- ' lently that ho choked to death with | the first mouthful. ANGRY TALK AT HEARING. Such Words as "Graft" and Jobber" Exchanged by Publishers. Washington, Jan. 31. Such words as "graft," "robber," and "treason" i were exchanged between ice ,:bers of the House Committee on Post Offices | and Post Roads and magazine publish ers at a hearing held heic. The angry outbreak was incited by editorials pub lished in tiie magazines protesting against inert sing postal rates on magazines. 112 SUBMARINE SIGNALS. "" ] American Mechanism Introduced In Waters of Uruguay. Consul F. \V. Godlng, of Montevi deo, sends the following report on the further efforts In Uruguay to provide safe navigation there: "The government of Uruguay, In order to protect navigators from the dangers of the dreaded English bank, located In the La Plata river, near i Montevideo, some years ago plated a light-ship thereon, which, however, could not be seen in foggy weather, so frequent in this vicinity. This re cently has been remedied by the in stallation on the light-ship of a sys tem of submarine bells, manufactured in the United States, in connection with the national steamer Cyarvide, which receives the signals. The ap paratus consists of a bell submerged in nineteen feet eight inches of water; it works by compressed air, marking i each reef with a certain definite num ber of strokes. "Thus, in foggy weather, when the ! light-ship and lighthouses can not be seen, or when the wind Is so strong as to pre-'ent the voice being heard, ships provided with the receiving ap paratus will receive the signal that they are near dangerous reefs. In this manner it is hoped that the annual list of disasters recorded will be ma terially shortened, or disappear en tli ely. Pole Versus Equator. Unquestionably the Polar Circle Is steadily advancing toward the equa tor. From the time when the earth first took form and began its exist ence as a planet it has been slowly but surely cooling off, and it is as certain as anything in mathematics that some time in the future the earth will be quite cold and barren of every form of life. The polar regions will continue approaching each other, and before them the various living forms, animal and vegetable, will retreat, un til finally the only home of life will be a narrow belt at the equator, which itself will at last surrender to the cold, and the earth will be a "dead one." Jefferson's Spying. The expression, "The Federal Gov ernment is nothing more than the American department of foreign affairs," originated with Thomas Jefferson. As is well known, Jeffei son was a "Strict Constructionist," or thorough "State's Rights" advocate. Me held that the States were the cre ators and the Federal Government the created, and that Government had no powers save such as had been loaned to it for the time being by the States, for the purpose of translating (for and in the mime of the Stalest certain foreign in' interstate business which I t'ic Slates in their separate capacity j could not very well attend to. i Invented Naval Torpedoes. It was not until the American civil war that any successful application of the torpedo to naval warfare took plate. Its first invention, however, dates back many years before this, the credit for the discovery being gen erally gi\ en to David Bushnell, an American, in 1777. In 1805 Fulton's torpedoes were successfully tried in Britain, but their use was declined by the government, and various other ex periments were tried from time to tli e. Norway was the first country to order a fast torpedo boat, which was built in England In 1573. PITTSGUF.C- HAS MEASLES. Alarming Increnre of Scoercre is Re ported by Health Bureau. Pittsburg, Jan. "I. The measles re cord of 530 cases re: ortc-d to the Bu reau of Health la. t taoi.th is expected to be doubled in January. Up to the noon yesterday the cases reported for this month numbered GK7, with from thirty to fifty new cases being report ed daily. Yesterday there were thir ty-three new cases re; o-ted. While these figures are the official record, the health authorities say that many cases have not been report ed because 110 physician has been called. Latest from Atchison. Tliis is the latest story in Atchison: A young visiting man was declaring that the theory is all nonsense about kis. ing being dangerous on account of germs conveyed from one mouth to another. "I've kissed hundreds of girls," he declared, "and I'm not dead yet." Promptly one of the listeners in quiied: "But what about the girls?" Kansas City Journal. Japan Lost Trade. In 1008 purchases of Japanese por celains, lacquers and bronzes by Eng j land, France, Germany and the Unit ! Ed States decreased by $1,000,000. Ex j ports to China fell off $12,500,000 gen eta!!}', owing to the reduced value of [ silver and the Tatsu Maru boycott, j All exports decreased except mats, I (luor matting and refined sugar. Sey Texrs I arris with Whiskey. 1 San Antonio, IV-: ».s. J 11. 27. James B. Aitkin, of Fort Wor h, said here to | day that he has co:nple'id 'he of 100,000 acre, of ' nd in Brew iter ! and Presidio c-o :>'• "1 • 100.000 gal lons of whiskey. The I nl, which has 1 been purchase I by distillers of j Dayton, Ohio, is v.u. eJ at sl.lO an acre. Miners to Give V!feat. Wilke ; :to, Pa., Jan. 20. Leaders of the mir.e workers say that In a few , days soil e thousands of the anthracite ! workers will have joined the beof boy cott and they will abstain from meat until the cost of it is decreased. g NIGHT TALKS | Q By REV. F. E. DAVISON H rS Rutland, Vt. g ac