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Steamboat Memories. fx)ndou Opinion, commenting on the recent celebration of the centen ary of the steamboat, remarks that it is interesting to note that the Brit* j ish admirality of. that period rejected the invention with the declaration that "a paddle wheel steamboat could be of no use in navigation," and that • a Dr. Lardner, a pundit of that day, who proved "that no steam vessel could ever cross the Atlantic, lived ! long enough to bolt to America in a steamer along with another man'i wife!" EXCEPTIONAL LUCK. "Did Gadderly have much luck on his fishing trip?" "Remarkable luck! Why, everyone believed the tales that he told!" ™ mmmm A Million Persons Breakfast every morn ing on Post Toasties Suppose you try the food with cream and sugar, as part of break fast or supper. You may be sure it will be a delicious part. " The Memory Lingers" Post rim Orfiil Company, Ltd. Uuttl* Creek, Mich. i' VERA CRUZ FALLS; DIAZ A CAPTIVE Mexican Rebels Offer Slight Resistance to the Attack 103 DEAD AND WOUNDED j - American Warships Send Medical Aid i and Supplies Ashore After Fighting in City—Washington Believes Oth er Rebels Will Soon Surrender. Vera Cruz, Mexico.—The revolt of j Gen. Felix Diaz, nephew of the exiled | I President, has beeu short lived. The j ' town of Vera Cruz, which he occupied j I with about 2,000 adherents for several ' days, was captured by the Federal | forces, Diaz and his staff being made i prisoners. The casualties were few. | Two Federal columns, commanded ' by Gen. Joaquin Beltran and Col. Jimi nez Castro, entered \ era Cruz lrom the north and south. There was little opposition to their advance. Col. Cas tro, with less than fifty men, captured Gen. Felix Diaz, whose 300 men at Po lice Headquarters refused to fire at his ; command. The killed and wounded number less than 100. No foreigners were hurt. | Desultory firing continued after the | Federals entered the town. Instead of a great battle, everything was in a I muddle. Rebels and encount ered each other in the streets without [ knowing which side the others were j affiliated with, as the uniforms of ail were alike. The Federal troops first took posses ! sion of the Custom House. They then | seized the municipal buildings and the | telegraph office. The majority of the men of the re i bellious Nineteenth Regiment of In ! fantry surrendered their arms without ! fighting. The barracks in which Felix | Diaz and his followers had concentrat j ed were then surrounded. Medical officers and assistants have j been sent out through the city by j Commander Hughes, United States I Navy, to give such assistance as might be possible. Gen. Diaz is believed to have had | about 2,500. The battle differed from j all previous conflicts fought during j the two previous revolutions under ! Madero and Orozco in that nearly all j the forces on both sides were seasoned j regulars, directed by trained military j men. Heretofore in the two revolu | tions regulars had never opposed reg- I ulars in a pitched battle. FIVE BANKERS GUILTY OF FRAUD Federal Jury Convicts Financiers of Conspiracy. Memphis.—Five bankers well known in Memphis, Kansas City, Oklahoma City and other cities, who have been on trial here charged with conspiracy to defraud, were found guilty by a Federal jury. W. C. White, ex-director of the All j Night and Day Bank of Memphis and I the Union Trust Company of Hot Springs, Ark., also named in the in dictment, was acquitted. Those convicted are E. L. Hendrey, J ex-president of the Memphis All Night I and Day Bank; If. C. Wynne, ex-presl- I dent of the Little Rock (Ark.) All I Night and Day Bank of Oklahoma j City; C. A. Bonds, ex-president of the j Kansas City All Night and Day Bank, | and J. H. Brooks, ex-director of the | Memphis Bank and head of a local I lumber company. I "MORMONS ARE NICE PEOPLE." Danish Deputy Defends Them Against League of European Powers. Copenhagen.—ln the chamber a sen sation was caused when the Socialist member, Samuelsen declared himself a Mormon and made a lengthy defense of Mormonism. The Mormons, he i said, are "nice people who acted hon estly." He then asked the government i if it were true that a secret agreement existed between the Scandinavian | countries and the Powers against ! Mormonism. M. Appel, minister of worship and ; education, denied such an agreement existed but he added that he sympa thized with the efforts of the clergy and other persons against Mormonism because it induces girls to leave home, driving many families to despair. AERO'S FALL KILLS MITCHELL. Presidentj of Aviators Association Dashed 600 Feet to Death. Montgomery.—Louis Mitchell, presi ! dent of the American Aviators Asso ciation, while flying at the exposition grounds 10-st control of his machine j at a height of 600 feet and was dash ed to death. Mitchell was making a spiral glide w,lien he lost control. Seven thou : sand persons witnessed the trag edy. I : SCOURGE KILLS WILD DUCKS. Thousands Die from Unknown Diseasa in California. San Francisco. California wild | ducks are dying by thousands of a dis ease new to sportsmen and scientists. | After examination of six ducks that died of the scourge at Vista Lake, | Kern County, th<> I,'nlted States Bu | reau of Health here is unable to make j a diagnosis, but finds that the symp ' toms resemble those of h scourge on Great Salt Lake, in which it is esti mated that a million due ks died. ! POTATO BELT GAINS WEALTH Berks and Lehigh Counties Unit ue in Productiveness THE TOIL THAT MAKES GOOD 1 Plenty of Backache Before Tubers Change to Gold and Bring Asset. One of Most Interesting Places in State. Reading.—Like the promised land ! of old, the Potato Belt of Berks and j i Lehigh counties is fertile farming soil; 1 i but it demands, as did that ancient i ' heritage that 'flowed with milk and | honey," constant cultivation if it is to I produce at its best. That's why the i | successful farmers of the region must i ! go to bed with backaches and arise I | before they can quit yawning. That's I why their wives and daughters know j I that the best dinners, breakfasts and S suppers iu Pennsylvania are none too i good for such workers —and why they . get them. The Potato Belt is one of the most interesting places in the | Keystone State. It stretches along I ! the Blue Mountains, practically from Hamburg in Berks County to Slating ton in Lehigh County, with the great ! centre in the townships of Greenwich j | in Berks and Lynn in Lehigh. Here j i every farm is a bank, every farmer j 1 his own banker with time enough left j after the hard harvest is gathered to enjoy life to the limit. Backbone of Community, j Visiting such a locality at various j seasons of the year one cannot leave | it and not hear of two persons the j j very backbone of this singular com- ; j munity. The first one is that veteran j ' and genial good fellow, Reuben Bach- : man, who claims to have been the first farmer in this belt to discard the old ; idea of raising wheat only, and plant- ' ed the first really big acreage of po- i , 1 tatoes in Lynn township; and to-day ! he is king among the potato farmers. The second is William Hoffman, who S started out as a potato farmer sue- | i ceeded, then bought another "run- [ down farm," and made it burst with j j tlibers, then adopted the roll of ship- { per, taking care that Ills fellow-farm ers found good markets for their po tatoes, and that they got the highest prices possible. While the total acreage of potatoes j . : in the United States is close to 3,700,- j j 000, and the crop is estimated at 401,- j 000,000 bushels, this Potato Belt of | Berks and Lehigh counties can well hold its own. Every farm here —and I there are more than 1,000 in the belt-'- i has from 10 to 50 acres in potatoes. j j If you draw a line five miles in either ' ! direction with New Tripoli as the cen ; ter, you can count on a crop of half | a million bushels; and you can draw ! similar lines from other centres, tak- j ing such towns as Kempton, Trexler, 1 i Wanamakers, Lynnport, Lynnville and j j others; for whether you look north, j south, east or west the potato bug could find a luxurious subsistence in either direction, if the wary farmer | would but let him. Bobs Up to Die. Wilkes-Barre. —While shooting at a , target at the Ninth Regiment, N. G. P., j rifle range, at Wanamie, Bruce Lorah, ' 18 years old, the attendant and scorer, was shot and killed by one of the ' marksmen. Lorah, who was in the I pit, raised his head too quickly, and the ball from a markman's r.fle struck ! him in the neck. The National Guards | man surrendered himself, and it being j shown that the shooting was purely , 1 accidental, he was released on bail. Slays Bear in Village. Bloomsburg.—Following three days' ■ 1 bear chase by Benton residents, dur- • ing which scores of hunters left for the woods, Ira Michney, of that town, ' i shot a 300-pound bear in the borough . j limits. Four bears have been seen in ; \ and near Benton in the last week, and | every man in the borough who could 1 I beg or steal the time from work has " | been daily on the bear-hunting job. ' Fortune in a Gas Gusher. ' I Kane. —A big gas well, going at a rate of a million and a half feet a day, and the second largest ever struck in L this part of the country, was opened ' live miles north of this city at a depth i of 2,500 feet in the Cooper sand. The I well is owned by J. F. Wood, John 1 Stoll. John Nelson and John Lindberg, and will be marketed by the Keystone 1 Oil and Gas Company. Prosperity for Weatherly. Weatherly.—The Weatherly Iron 11 and Steel Company has purchased the 3 abandoned shops of the Lehigh Yal l" ley Railroad Company here. When the Lehigh Valley Railroad abandoned s the shops it was feared that it would l " be a deathblow; but there are assur '* ances now that the town will enjoy an era of unprecedented prosperity. Want $250,000 Hospital. Jenkintow® — Prominent men and 8 ! women of the Old York road section I have inaugurated a comprehensive 1 , plan to raise the funds desired for the proposed Abington General Hospital. '■ ' Plans for the structure have betn ac -1 cepted, and with thousands of dollars '• already pledged work will h ■ started at the earliest possible date. It is B | planned to raise $250,000; but active 1 work will begin when ?UM>,ouo Is " raised. The Board of Trustees in eludes members of the Elkius, Wide I oer, and other noted families. ARE AFRAID OF FIRE MARSHAL existence of Departments Tends to Decrease of Incendiarism BUT FOUR SUITS IRCU3HT . •'I f-ear of Detection and Punishment 9 Preventive of Arson—State Mar shal Baldwin Confident of Effect of New Plan. (Special Harrisburg Correspondence.) Harrisburg.—Joseph L. Baldwin, ! State Marshal, says that the very ex istence of a department to prevent llres and detect causes of fires has re sulted in a marked decrease of incen ' (liarism in this State. Statistics are not at hand to make comparisons of j i arson during other years aijd this year, but only four suits for setting fire to | j buildings have been brought since the lire marshal's department went into ! ! operation. This is an average of | about one a month, and Baldwin says this is far less than the number which ! would be expected by men familiar I with such matters. "I haven't the j slightest doubt," he said, "that the lire marshal law has acted as a deter rent. Fear of detection and punish ment is one of the greattest prevent | jves of all crimes, of course, and the | fact that a detective force exists, one i at whose principal duties is the in | vestigation of all cases of suspected j arson, is naturally going to make a ! i man think before wilfully setting lire I to a building." A number of cases of suspected incendiarism have been in- I vestigated by Baldwin's inspectors, \ evidence lias been found in four. Many Corporations Report. Over 24,000 corporations of Pennsyl j vania will be called upon by Auditor | j General A. E. Sisson to file their re- , i ports oil capital stock and corporate loans for 1912 at his department dur- J ing the month ot' November. The blanks for these reports are prepared for mailing at the department and j comprise a couple of cart-loads of en- j ! velopes, the postage bill on this mail- j i ing list being the largest of any opera- j tion of the kind oil Capitol Hill. Un- j der the law the corporations must (lie i their reports during the month of No | vember so that the basis of capital I stock taxes may be established. The | corporate loan reports are also to be I made at that time, although they cover such items for the calendur year. For years the proposition of j changing the capital stock report pe- | riod has been under discussion, as the j business of most of the corporations ( runs with the calendar year, there- j quirement of State reports up to No- | vember necessitating the making of j special statements of business. Coal Rate Inquiry. The subject of inquiry into the j charges that anthracite coal carrying j rates charged by the Philadelphia Ai Reading, Pennsylvania, Val- j I ley, Central Railroad of New Jersey, J ! and Delaware, Lackawanna & West- j j ern to Philadelphia and vicinity are | exorbitant was taken up by the State j Railroad Commission. The conimis- j siou will call on all of the railroads j made respondents to answer, and will ; then appoint a time later in the fall for a hearing. The inquiry will be the most important ever undertaken by the commission, and will probably re quire many weeks of investigation of - conditions in the coal fields and Phila- : delpliia and railroad facilities. The 1 question is solely one of charges for j carrying coal. Rifle Practice Keen. , Rifle practice season for the Na- j Clonal Guardsmen will close with Oc tober 31, and the militiamen are hard at work oi\ the ranges making up their scores so that they can be forwarded to the Inspector-General of Rifle I'rac tice promptly. Practically every regi ,mental inspector of small-arms prac tice is now making the rounds of his organizations, looking up the work : that is being done, and urging the completion of practice. Under the law every member of the Guard mtist qualify at the ranges, from the gen erals down to the privates, and in many organizations the rivalry is very keen regimental and battalion shoots being held. Pave Way for Big Park. | The State held an auction sale of ! houses at the Capitol, when 33 houses in the Capitol Park extension area ! were knocked down to low bidders for the material in tliem. Altogether ! £1,14.650 was realized, or ?i>('o more j than was obtained for 52 houses which were sold in one lot through bids pre sented after advertisements. The successful bidders must remove the houses and fill up foundations before the end of the year. Typhoid in Reedsville. At Reedsville John Albert Butler died from typhoid fever after an ill ness of only two weeks. He was a Ron of Commissioner G. A. Butler and proprietor of the McDonald Drug Com pany. Mr. Butler is the second victim of an epidemic of the disease which prevails , in the little tow ns along the banks of the Kishaeoquillis Creek, and many believe that this stream, from which much of the drinking water is obtained, has become infected. It drains the dumping ground for slaugh ■sr house offal. SNAPSHOTS AT STATE NEWS All Pennsylvania Gleaned for Items of Interest. REPORTS ABOUT CROPS GOOD Farmers Busy in Every Locality— | Churches Raising Funds for Many Worthy Object#—ltems of Busi ness and Pleasure that Intere&t. Judge Criswell, at Franklin, revoked the sentence of a Greek prisoner In or der that he might goto war. Peter Alaburds died at the State Hospital, the result of a fall of coal at Boston Run Colliery. The Allentown Playgrounds Asso j elation has been organized, with Mrs. ! Waiter C. Guilder as president. Seventeen foreigners were arrested In South Bethlehem ar.d fined $2 and costs each for creating a disturbance ; in a coffee house. Members of the Industrial Commis sion, of Bethlehem, are trying to ef fect, annexation of North Bethlehem to the borough. Thomas Ferguson was sent to jail for two years by t.he Lancaster Court for robbing the house of illiam L. j Reinhart. James McDonald, a well-known Cen- I tralia resident, temporarily insane from ill health, killed himself by cut ting his throat. Clearfield people believe that cer tain improvements and additions to industries will bring their population up to 25,000 in five years. A three-acre field of buckwheat own !ed by Jacob S. Moyer, of Bergey, i yielded 150 bushels of the three-corner ed grain. The jury of view appointed by the ; Chester County Court has decided to ; report favorably for the erection of a new bridge over Brandywlne Creek on West Main street, Poatesville. Leaning out of a second-story win dow at York, Gladys, two-year-old daughter of James West, lost her bal ance and plunged 30 feet to the side walk, sustaining fatal injuries. It is recalled by old residents of Al lentown that the Rev. Robert %V. Lan ! dls, who became the pastor of the i Mrst Presbyterian Church there iu | 1839, inaugurated the system of rent-, ! ing pews in that church. George Matzik was sentenced in : Montgomery County to not less than ' 14 years nor more than 17 years in the ! Eastern Penitentiary for fatally stab bing Andrew Babyok at King-of-Prus sia. For taking liberties with Linnie Mc ! Neill, of Chester county, while she was a guest at his home. In Norristown, I Thomas McCool, middle-aged and mar j ried, was sent to jail for two years by | Montgomery County Court. The Perkiomen Seminary building committee has awarded the contract for the $20,000 Carnegie library which is to be built on the campus to the ! Ochs Construction Company of Allen ] town. Men who cut down an immense oak j tree on the lawn at the Park Hotel, at Wiliiamsport, found two owls' nests in the trunk. The tree was long the ; refuge of an owl that looked calmly upon the people bound to and from the Pennsylvania Railroad depot. William A. Liglitner, who was killed by a locomotive at Erie a few days ago, was Treasurer of Perry county from 1885 to 1888. He taught school for 17 years in Perry and Cumberland counties. He was secretary of the Perry County Fruit Growers Asso ciation. H. L. Murray, secretary of the Al ! toona Market Company, while fishing in the Juniata River, near his cottage | at Aughwlck .Mills, Huntingdon coun- I ty, caught a large water-dog, or fresh i water alligator, which put. up a feroci | ous tight before being landed. This is ' not the first specimen of the rather : rare species of reptiles Mr. Murray has j caught. The water-dogs, which are more than a foot long, and have the j legs, tail, mouth and other equipment of a full-fledged alligator, are rather i prevalent near his cottage, and he ai -1 ready had one in a collection Qf nat -1 ural curios he and members of his family have been gathering at Uieir summer home. i A 10-pound red beet was frown 1 Mrs. A'treu Gruber, of Jefferson towu j ship, Berks county. | i Postmaster John B. Hess, of Dußois, | has been notified that he has been ap pointed custodian of tne new Federal ' lot recently purchasod by the Govern ' in nt in that town. According to the J instructions in the letter Mr. Hess must keep down the weeds?, c!enn the ! sidewalk in winter, allow no use of ' the grounds that would offend tho pub lic and in other ways keep close tab >n this lot. SUCCESS FOLLOWS JUDICIOUS FARMING IN WESTERN CANADA IT 18 CERTAIN. The fitory of the Big Farmer In Western Canada, and the immense profits he has made in the glowing of grain, has been told and retold. Ha has been found in all parts of th«t provinces of Manitoba, Saskatchewan and Alberta. His splendid farm build ings have been pictured, his traction outfits dercribed and his princely sur roundings, resultant of his success in growing grain, have been portrayed by letter, press and camera. It certainly is not to his discredit that by suc cessfully applying common sense and up-to-date methods to the conditions that climate, a good soil, and splendid market have placed at hand, that he has made the best use of them. He ia not too proud to admit that he came to the country a very few years aga handicapped as to money, leaving be hind him unpaid mortgages in his old home land (which are now wiped out), and he is still today the same good hearted fellow he was in the days that ha had to work for a neighbor, whila the neighbor broke the land on his homestead, which went to make up tht settlement duties. Then, there, too, Is the farmer the farmer's son, already wealthy, whft has bought large holdings in Western Canada, in either Manitoba, Saskatche wan or Alberta, who has made forty to one hundred per cent, on his invest ment, whose big grain crops and whose Immense cattle herds are help ing to improve the country. Health and strength, energy and push, and bull dog grit are as essential in West ern Canada as in Ohio, Indiana, Illi nois, lowa, or any of the states from which BO many of these people come, and then, when you have added to that a fair amount of means, with which to make a start, the land which is only waiting for the skill of the husbandman will quickly respond. But there is the smaller farmer, th« man who has not. made sufficient in ! four or five years, that he might com i fortably retire if he felt like it. There are many of them in all the three Provinces. It is not the less to his credit that he has earned hia home stead by the three years residence, j that he is free from debt, and has a I reasonable bank account. He, too, | came to the country handicapped by debts, and with very little means. Ha is contented, has a good home, land free of encumbrance, some stock, and with good prospects. One of these ! writes: "I formerly lived near Day ; ton, Ohio, on a rented farm, had as j good a chance as the average renter, I but after ten years of hard work, satis fied myself that if I ever expected to secure a home, I would have to under take something else. Hearing of West ern Canada, 1 investigated, and seven years ago last Spring settled in a j homestead and purchased (on time) ;an adjoining half section, arriving i with a carload of household effects and i farm Implements, Including four ; horses and three cows, and SI,BOO in ' money—my ten years' work in Ohio. "The first year our crops gave us j feed, the second year 100 acres of ! wheat gave us $1,S00; no failure of j crop since starting here. I have now ! 22 head of horses, 15 head of cattle, | and 35 hogs. We own 1,120 acres of land, and have same all under cultlva j tion. Was offered at one time $35.00 per acre for a half section where w® | live, and all the other land could be I sold today on present market at $30.00 j per acre. Should we care to dispose ; of our holdings, could pay all debts j and have over $30,000 to the good, but j the question is where could we goto Invest our money and get as good re turns as here? "We have equally as good, if not bet ter prospects for crops this year, as we had three years ago, when our wheat reached from 30 to 4S bushels per acre. I never believed such crops ' coulil be raised until I saw them my | self. I had 15 acres that year that j made 50 bushels to the acre. Our har | vest will be ready by the 12th. We j have this season in crop 400 acres of j wheat, 125 of oats, 90 of flax, and 1 run three binders, with four men to do the stooking. "We certainly like this country, and the winters, although the winters are cold at times, but we do not suffer aa one would think. What we have ac complished here can be duplicated in almost any of the new districts. If anyone doubts anything I have satd in this letter, tell them to come and I can prove every word I lia\ a written." The name of the writer can be had from the Superintendent of Immigra tion, Ottawa, Canada, who can give the names of hundreds of others equally successful. Adv. For the Sake of Variety. I Customer —This,l suppose, is a fold- I Ing bed. j Merchant —No, sir; we call this an unfolding bed. I'll show you. (Un> ; folds it.) The straight and narrow path doe» ' n't look good to the rounder. FOLEY KIDNEY PIUS Are Richest in Curative Qualities FOR BACKACHE, RHEUMATISM, KIONEY3 AND BLADDER o-. I,4Boacres. II mom bonso. Silo. 1 ! barns. Hi head fitock, f&UUO. 20ii<»st i farms in li.S., blit<*k loam, iid stonos 112 vi.OO j»er hohv j cataloguo ir«»o. J.IMSIIAIIAN.POKT IIKNHI, Mcvrvoo* Ue*t Cough Syrup* Tiilei Good. U«e Ej IM in ttra®. Sold by Pnigfffete. pM