V HUSSIANS PLAYING GAME OF DEATH Terribly Fascinating Forms Amusement Used by a Decadent Aristocracy. of THE "TIGER AND HUNT" A THRILL Six Shot In the Dark at Human Prey with Tinkling Bell About His Neck 8ulclde Clubs In Which Poisoned Goblets Are Used at a Feast. London. Playing blind man's buff "with death Is tho latest and most ter Tlbly fascinating form of amusement that tho long decadent Russian aris tocracy has como to Indulge in, ac cording to the St. Petersburg corre spondent of tho London Dally Mall. In ii cortaln clrclo of tho emplro's faHhlonnblu set men and women seem to havo gouo to tho last ditch of des peration In an effort to get a thrill of pleasure. The members of this circle tsuum to have becomo utterly jaded with all normal forms of pleasure and recreation and to have become bored with the attempt to sato abnormally developed appetites. In truth, this Bet has come to the brink of destruc tion and Is willingly Jumping into the grave. Strange clubs have been formed, and one of these devotes Itself to a game of life and death which Is called "Tiger and Hunter." In this game lots are drawn to decide which mem ber shall play the tiger and which the hunter. When this is settled the tiger has a bell hung about his neck and t'he hunter is blindfolded and given a pistol. The room is darkened, and from galleries above the other mem bers of the club enjoy the sport. The hunter is given six shots at his human prey, and if he hits tho terrified man with the tinkling bell about his neck he is the winner. If the prey manages to escape and come out of the pit of darkness alive then he Is proclaimed the winner. In the galleries above the members of the club applaud and cry out bravos to the hunter when he brings the tiger so close to the grave, and wagers are laid on the outcome. Wom en of the same sort as tho men clap their hands with delight, and the sport with Death continues. From the cheers and expressions of encouragement from his backers the hunter knows when he is doing well, and either jumps nearer to his human prey for a close shot or stands still and takes more deliberate aim, as sug gestions warrant. Sometimes the tiger knows that his antagonist in the sport will get him, and stands as if petrified in the gloom of the pit, watching tho muzzle of the pistol aimed at him, fearful of moving because of the tell tale bell, and noping to jump at tho last moment and avoid the fatal shot. While such organizations are prac tically suicide leagues, the very peril of death from another hand than of one's own raises in the heart of tho hunter's target a hope that death will not ensue and then, too, there is the sport of winning out. The game has become amplified and still more exciting, the latest rules formulated being that In the event of the hunter failing to bring down the tiger after six shots, he shall change places with the tiger and bo shot at, and so on, until blood has been drawn. The next step seems to be that tho game shall continue until one or tho other man is killed, for tho lust of the members in the galleries knows no sating save in death. But this is but one of the clubs that are suicidal in their purpose. There Is another at which the company sits down to a feast of champagne. One of twenty bottles is mixed with morphia. The guests' glasses are filled, they lift them high and drain them. Over the faces of those who have received the poisoned draught comes the pallor of death, and som nolence comes over them. They wilt, droop, die as the lucky ones look on with pleasure at the spectacle. Some of those who have not par taken of the poisoned goblets, and who wanted to die in such sport, frequent ly cry out in their disappointment. The correspondent of the Dally Mail aays that the frequent unexplained auicides are being laid to these terri ble orgies with death, and that, more over, many persons of fashionable so ciety are Journeying to Finland to throw themselves in the romantic Im tra Rapids, to be swept against the rocks and battered to death in the awift currents. While these terrible practices are prevailing in certain sets of ultrafash ionable St. Petersburg society, the Mail's correspondent adds, neuresthe nla is claiming more victims every day among all sets of the rich and the idle and the over-indulgent luxuriates. ARRANGEMENT OF GLASS COV ERING. of drainage material, preferably ctiarcoal, 1 inch deep, then a bit of gravel, and on top of this at least 3 Inches of sluan, gritty sand, not too fine. Another pane of glass, 12 by 14 Inches, rests on the top, as shown In the cut. Tender plants such as geraniums, coleus, begonias and others, root off quickly. Woody cuttings require 'more care. For instance, welgela. forsythla, honeysuckle, etc., should have cuttings taken from well ripen ed wood in July or August.. Cut to a length containing two pairs of leaves. Remove the lower pair and with a sharp blade make a clean cut right at the Joint. Many woody plants will not form a callus except hen cut at this point. Leave the stem projecting a little above the upper pair of leaves, so it may not dry back too far and injure the buds. Then the two leaves left should have the outer half of tho blades re moved. With roses, or other shrubs where the leaves are not In pairs, the same principle holds. Choose the wood which has bloomed and cut to in clude four or five Joints, always making the lower cut at a Joint. Re move the lowest two leaves and cut back the others. They should be pressed firmly In thj sa.nd, kept moist and given plenty of sunlight. SAFE FULL OF OLD DOUBLOON8. Found In Old Adobe House In Mexico Finder In Jail, Morella, Mexico. Vlcento Castillo, while tearing down an old adobo house on the hacienda of Ignaclo Flores, unearthed an ancient iron safe full of Spanish doubloons and did not top to say gooi'by to bis employer. Florea sent otlcers after him and Castillo Is now In jail, but says he only found 130 In the safe. Floros is hunting for the rest of the money. A MINIATURE GREENHOUSE Home-Made Box in Which Cuttings May Bo Propagated. For propagating cuttings, take a box 12 inches square and 5 Inches deep, inside measure'. A couple of drainage holes should be made in the bottom. Around the sides of the box place four 10 by 12-inch panes of glass, and fill In, first with a layer Great Is Cultnlpn. Arboriculture, an Indiana publica tion devoted to forestry, gives forty reasons why catalpa should be plant ed. A tew of these reasons are as follows: 1. By 1925 American forests will bi exterminated. 2. The only valuable tree which will mature in time. 3. Is antiseptic; requiring no chemical treatment. 4. It grows in almost any soil. 6. Is easily propagated and man aged. 6. Demands no professional manipulation. 7. Most durable wood known. 8. Valuable for cross ties; have endured half a century. 9. Nothing better for telegraph poles. 10. Miles of living trees used for telegraph lines. 11. Makes magnificent veneers. 12. Superior to oak for furniture. 13. Lighter than pine. 14. Stronger than oak. 15. Tougher than hickory. 16. Freedom from "warping. 17. Neither shrinks nor swells. 18. Makes best wood pulp and bookpaper. Thrashing Out of Shock. If thrashing can be done before the grain is damaged by rains all well and good. Even with some nice thrashing weather, under the common practice now of thrashing in circuits not many can get their work done during the most favorable time. Some must wait until the last of the thrashing season, and during this time the grain in shocks is sure to deteriorate. In some localities farmers are going back to tho prac tice of putting all grain in stack and giving It time to go through the sweat before it is thrashed. This in sures nice, bright grain, which may then be stdred without any danger of heating, and the straw Is much nicer for feeding. But If grain must be left in shock until a machine gets around to you, then by all means rut up good shocks and cap them with two big sheaves. Walk around the grain field every day and replace any caps which the wind may have blown off. If any shocks are dam aged better throw these out as you haul in to the thrashing machine. A few musty or smutted shocks will lower the grade of your whole crop, when you come to market It. L. C. Brown. Voluo of Alfalfa. Alfalfa is the dairyman's friend, surely, If the figures of D. H. Otis are correct. He figures that a ton of alfalfa contains 220 pounds of di gestible protein, which at six cents a pound would be worth 13.20, and, if we got four tons to the acre, we could hare a value of $52.80. Of course, for a dairyman to realize this much from an acre of alfalfa, he must feed Judiciously and in prop er combination with other feeds; but If he realises only one-half of this amount, he Is getting excellent returns from his land. Wheat bran, long the standard feed for dairy cows, contalta only 12.2 pounds of digestible protein In every 100 nound. SEES EHS DOOM "ark Star" Rushing from Distant Spaoe Wilt Crash Into Sun, Professor 8ays. Boston, Mass. Professor Perclval Lowell in a lecture at Harvard on "Cosmic Physics" gave a graphic de scription of the end of tho world bo cause of the collision of some dark star and the sun. The lecture at Huntington Hall is the first in a series of six. Professor Lowell stated that unseen bodies in the universe must be more numerous than the visible bodies. He described the approach of some dark star to the earth's sun. "It would of necessity be a dark one," he said, "for nose of the bright stars could do this In aeons of ages. But a dark star might well be within striking distance. We could be cognizant of it only through Its borrowed light as it approached the sun and by the perturbations of the outer planets. Suoh a body might be coming to meet the sun at about the speed with which the sun Is moving through space, tho relative approach being then about twenty-two miles a second. "If the stranger were caught at tho eleventh magnitude, which Is about the practical limit, it then would be twenty-seven years from the time it en tered the renge of vision before it rose to visibility with the naked eye. It then would be not quite double the the distance of Neptune. "With accelerated speed It would be coming on, increasing in three years to first magnitude and In two years and three months more it would have reached the distance of Jupiter and by far the brightest star in the sky. By that time the earth would be feeling the effects of the attraction of tho stranger. The seasons would have changed and the year would havo changed and the year would have grown longer. "In 145 days It would have tra versed the distance to the orbit of the earth. Coming as It would directly to the sun it would not hit any of the planets, but would have approached so near to the earth that the earth would have turned from the sun to follow It. "For nineteen days the chaos conse quent on the disturbance of usual re lations would continue, as, like some comet glorified a thousandfold, the tramp dropped silently upon the sun. Toward the close of the ninetenth day the catastrophe would occur; we should know no more." He added that such an occurrence is sure to come eventually. 'QUAKE VICTIMS WHITE SLAVES. Awful Fate Befell Hundreds of Girl Survivors. Borlin, Germany. Hundreds of Ital ian girls from the 'qualie region of Sicily and Calabra have been sold Into "white slavery" In Buenos Ayros and other South American cities, accord ing to a statement made by Dr. Green, who was in charge of the relief expe dition that Nathan Straus, the Ameri can philanthropist, sent to Sicily. Green sailed from Bremen on the Kaiser Wilhelm II., for New York. "Tho most horrible tragedy of the earthquake," he declared, "was the fate that befell hundreds of girl sur vivors, whose 'parents were killed. Un scrupulous dealers searched out these girls amid the ruins and enticed them away with promises that they were taking them to members of their fam ilies, who, the girls were told, had mira culously escaped and were now search lug for them. "In their terrible anguish these poor girls readily believed these stories and followed these human vultures to any place designated. The excitement throughout the whole of Italy was so great at the time that it was a com paratively easy matter to imprison these girls and ship them to South America, where agents sold them to houses of vice." PARIS SUPREME IN DRE88. America May Get Goods and Workers, but not the Cachet, Says Worth. Paris, France. Worth the dress maker when questioned concerning the storleB cabled from New York that women were rebelling against the Parisian dictatorship in fashions smiled a smile of placid content and said he had not the slightest fear of losing American trade. He added; "We can make dresses better than anybody in the world and we do not fear rivalry. It is impossible to pro duce the creations that have made Paris famous without Paris artists and Paris workwomen. The Ameri cans might Import these, but in six months after they left France they would lose the ohic which makes Paris gowns unique. "The experiment has ben tried in London, and although the models, ma terials and workers were all Parisian the experiment failed. It is the artis tic atmosphere of Paris which gives a dress made here lis cachet. Tho Americans have not got it and cannot get it." Workmen to Get 91,000 Each. New York City. One of the most remarkable bequests on record in Westchester County came to light when it was made known that by the terms of the will of Mrs. Eva Smith Coohran, who left an estate valued at $8,000,000, many employees of the Smith Carpet Company at Yonkers, N. Y have ben left a legaoy of 000 eaoh. The bequests are made to those who have been In the employ of the company twenty years or more. The eosspaay employs a larg working force sad It is said tfaat mora than 250 are eligible to resits IsfMlss un der the yrOTlstona of the tsatsjnsnt. CLASSIFICATION AND APPRAISE MENT. Tho undersigned duly appointed and qualified Appralaerof Mercan tile Taxes for the year 1909. makes the follow ing classification and appraisement of ven ders ot merchandise, etc. Dunn, Wm. Hessler, Geo, Ives, Wm. Faatz, Judson B. RETAIL, BEBLIK. BCTIIAtlY. BDCKtNOUAH. Carey, J. A. Farley II. N. Knapp H. Lorn. Cain Layton, Joseph Lake, Ralph E. Randall, John Spencer, H. W. Starlight Dairy Co. Woodmansce. C. E. CANAAN. Lake Lodore Imp. Co'. CHEBRV RIDOK. Cobb, W. J. Brown. F.C. Ilonear, 11. II. Rauschnieicr, F. W. Stahl, Louisa CLINTON. Fitzc, M. D. Ounimoc. Mrs. Wm. T. Hcrvation, .ioe .Mills, Harry O'Neal, H. J, l'lka, John o. . . DAMASCUS. Abraham, o. ( Abraham, a. J. Ijachrer H. J '"rk.O. E. Cunlleld.J. A. Canlleld A Rutlodgo Decker. Mrs. Julia Fromer. T.J. Gregg. A. (1. Oilmilp.W 1). Hill. Joel G. KayH it Pago Ixivelass, Isaac l'etlilek. O. M. Skinner, Cora E. Shea nl. Joseph St.ilker. 1). M. DREIIEB. Carlton, Mrs. CM. Ehrhurdt Jr., F. A. Elirhardt, Sr., F. A. (illpln it Barnes, Lange, C. .Miller. H. It. Kobacker, H. E. Summer. F. C. Sleg, Mrs. H.J. Smith. David 13. Smith, II. IS. Simons, Frank Waltz. Frank D. Wert. Chas. F. DYBERBY. Hates, J. I. Dodson, W. F. llnuser.J. J. Kimble, A. K. Kimble. M, K. Iteltler ifcSons HAWLEY. Atkinson &. Qulnney, llabcoek. O. E. Itarrett. M. It. lilgnrt, Homer S. Bower, 1. J. ilea. H. F. liasehon. Sr., Jos. Curran, John Corcoran. M. Drake, James F. Deltzer, Mrs. Mary Everdlng, John Foster, Frank Frank, A. 11. Gulnn Bros. Goldback, Edwin Gclsler, Louis llolden's Cash Store, Wells Hughes, F.J. Hensel, L. Kearney, P. II. Kohlmun, Geo. IjChniann, C. Labes, C. & A. Lynch, Michael Langan, C. E. Miller, S. Matter .t Son. O. Muyer, Miry Mangan Estate. Mrs. Thus. McDonald, F. II. Nell. C. P. Nallon. M. J. OberleCarl, Phillips. Lewis Pclltz. L. II Palmer. J. F. Peopple, Fred Richardson, E. J. Reader. Martin Kacker. Carl Snyder it Freethy Schardt, Wm. Swingle, F. F. Schlager, E. L. Skeir, M.D. Snyder & Freethy Skier, Benjamin Skier, Jos. Teeter, R. Thompson, John H. Tuttle & Co., F. L. Thompson, Geo. S. Vonfranek, Henry Vogler, E. Woodward. C, II. Watts it Son, Graham Wolf. W. Welch fc Ames Watterson, Mary A. Warg. R. lK Wetzel, Aug. Wick. Gustave Woods L. M. 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Coal Confectionery Shoes Batten, Robert Crockenbere.T.J, Denk, Jos.C. Dymond, J. B, Hlnes, F.S. Hull Bros. Keen, Jr., J, B. PiersonW.w'. Varcoe. F. R; Farm Implements ulnars Gen. Mdse, Farm Implements Flour and Feed Gen. Mdse. WHOLESALE. I10HE8DALB. Atlantic Refining Co. Hrady.J.T. Durland & Weston Shoo Co, Kround. Iienrv Honcsdalo Milling Co. Holmes. W. B. Kraft .t Conirer. Murray Co. Terrel, J. Oscar MANCHESTER. Atlantic Refining Co. PRESTOTt, Foo?w3Er Gen. UdM. Flour and FocO. Flour and Fwxl CM Hardware Gen. Mdso. Hacket & Co., E. E. Smith & Son, G. TEXAS. ou Flour and Feed Dairy Produce RESTAURANT. EATING HOUSE. PA WR Xf' II0NE8DALB. Costan &. Anastasu BILLIARD. POOL AND ALLEYS. BERLIN. Ives, Wm, Wood, Wm. F. HAWLEY. Woods, L. M. 1I0NESDALE. Shnmsteln A Urn.. J. W. Theobald, John BROKERS, AGENTS OR FACTORIES, 1IAWT.PV. Pcoppcl, Fred. IIONESDALE. Coleman A Co., A. J. rAUPAC. Schleupner. John Spellvogel, Herman An anneal will ho held nt. thn Cniintv Trpjin- urcr's olllco on Friday, April 30th, 1909. be tween the hours of U A. M. and 2 1 M. C. F. KELLAM, Mercantile Appralber. Four alleys Four alleys One table One table unctaulo Real Estate Stock Ileal Estnto Real Estate 29wl 512,000,000 FOR A HORSE Agreed to Pay Deans on Basis of Geometrical Progression, and It Will Take 5,000,000 Bushels. Kalamazoo, Mich. Twelve million dollars for a horse! That's going some and makes all the fancy prices paid for Dan Patch, Arlon, Salvator, and other equine stars look like thirty cents. Yet just such a deal has been closed in Kalamazoo, which for many days promises to be a record transac tion and in every sense of word is bonaflde. It is between Frank Kress, superin tendent of the Riverside Coating Mills and Louis Ehrmann, Rose street ho tel man. All came about through a dispute over the weight of a truck horse in question. Mr. Kress In sisted it weighed more than 1,160 pounds, while Mr. Khrmann was equally certain that It did not. There upon Mr. Kress snld ho would bo will ing to sell the horse to Mr. Ehrmann, taking beans in pay, one bean for first pound in excess of 1,160, two beans for the second, four tho third and so on. This bargain was snappod up in a hurry. The horse wolithed was found to weigh exactly 1,200 pounds, just forty excess of weight claimed by own er. Local mathematicians got busy and figured up on the transaction. Kress finds by allowing 5,400 boans to a quart, Mr. Ehrmann will have to pay him 5,000,000, bushels of beans for the animal. Beans now sell at $2.40 to $2.50 a bushel, which makes the price $12, 000,000 to $12,500,000, and half a mil lion is really a small matter In such a transaction. Kress delivered the horse and intends to hold Ehrmann to his contract. EARTH SWALLOWS A TREE. Jersey Maple Drops Into a Hole 100 Feet Deep. Dover, N. J. Forty feet from the gate of the yard of James Arthur and a step or two off from the main road at Richard's Mine, a section of tho earth's surface slipped through a fis sure in the roof of an abandoned bead ing. Mr. Arthur, superintendent of tho Chambers Iron Company, was leaving his yard when he noticed that a ma ple tree which stood across from hla place was missing. He crossed and found where the tree had stood a hole thirty feet across and a 'hundred feet deep. The tree rested on the bottom of the hole. This is the third happening of th kind in that vicinity in the last few years. The whole mountainside is honeycombed with abandoned workings. POETRY PARTS A COUPLE. Wife Writes It Husband Prints It Public Ignores It. Des Moines, Iowa. "She insists on writing poetry, which somehow tho genral reading public doesn't appreci ate, but it takes lots of my money to have the stuff printed and put out la book form." This is the charge made against Elizabeth Morris by her husband, George Morris, in a cross bill filed to her petition for divorce. Since their marriage, he asserts, she has led him away on "wild goose ohases" over the United States, at which time she sought to be close to nature, occupying all her leisure mo ments In writing pages of poetry. These effusions, Morris says, he was forced to put out in book form for her. And he says it was an awful drain on tils patience and his pocketbook. The Successful Cow. if the cow appropriates all the nourishment taken from her food to build up tat cells and does not di vert It to the udder to be drawn o in the form of milk, she Is a fail ure as a milker and belongs no where else than with tho beef cat tle. On the other hand, if a cow has the milk-producing qualities, Is small of stature and appropriates practically all ot her food to tho cause of increasing the milk supply, she Is pretty apt to be a success as a dairy cow and a safe Investment for speculation in that particular class of specializing. j t