THE CLOSED DOOR.
If you had come to my door alone,
Love, my lord;
Had I heard no footfall save your own,
No voice but yours,
Oh, how wide had my door been thrown,
Oh, how gladly the way been shown,
.Love, my lord!
But I peered from my casement cautiously,
Love, my lord;
iVon stood nt my door with henchmen three
J knew too well;
Doubt and Distrust stared up at me
And (taunt-faced, white-lipped Jealousy,
Love, my lord.
FIGHTING TO THE DEATH
A BULGARIAN LGONIDAS AGAINST THE TURKS.
Thirly-elht Men Repel the Attack of Thousands A Gal
lant Defense of a Mountain Passlh: Robin Hood
of Macedonia and His Exploits.
BY ALBERT
p50H the past few weeks I
JfSr have boon studying bits of
Hill J? reports that have come In
IM from Macedonia from va-Kfa-Elj
lions chiefs of chetas, se
cret agents and other In
dividual members of the organization,
all regarding a certain Incident which
occurred some weeks ago down in
Southern .Macedonia, in the caza, or
f"1'"" IT
oistriet of Tevgell. It was much tele
graphed about t the time and men
tioned in the European papers, but
some of the main facts and all the
details have as yet remained secret.
Putting together the dry official re
ports to the committee with the nar
ratives of several participants or wit
nesses who arrived here several days
go, nnd excluding obvious Individual
exaggerations, there still remains the
story of an event which stands out as
remarkable, even in this country or
sensational events. It is just such a
one as you may find hero and there
In the pages of Herodotus a second
Lconldas in another Thermopylae. It
is the story of how Lhirty-eight coml
tajis, well armed and well entrenched,
for a whole day stood off the repeated
attacks of 2000 regular Turkish
soldiers, a horde of several Ihousand
basbi-bazouks, several hundred Alban
ians nnd a band of thirty Greeks.
These numbers are quoted in the Turk
Ash reports.
Few people familiar with events
here for the past few years have not
heard of Apostol Voyvoda, known to
the Turks and gendarmerie officers as
Captain Apnstnl. There is a standing
price of 5000 liras, or Turkish pounds,
on his head. He is a small, dark,
keen-eyed man of about thirty-five
years, who can neither rad nor write,
and always signs his dispatches, writ
ten by his secretary, with a rubber
stamp hanging as a watch charm.
Were he a man of education, he would
be one of the general lenders, for he
is intellectually keen. But lie is the
Robin Hood of Macedonia. It is about
bira that the story centres.
A week before Lent Apostol came
here to Kustendil, to recross the fron
tier some days later with several horse
loads of munitions. He was going to
take them to his cwa district, cache
them in the mountains to use them as
reserve for the summer's fighting.
With him were Save Michaeloff, his
sub-chief, and thirty-eight men. On
the day before the beginning of Lent,
Apostol nnd his baud were In the
Giarato Mountains. He wanted to
get over into the Chernl-Dervent Moun
tains; between the two ranges runs
the Elver Vardar. During the day he
had sent a courier across the river
to the Tillage of Spallvo, asking the
villagers to send horses for the ammu
nition. As was afterwards known,
the courier -was stopped in the intcr-
. mediate village of Stoyak, where a
conipitCy of soldiers were quartered.
And this iMheV-CQsnn he was stopped.
A Greek shepherif'boy; -wandering
about the mountains ,with his flock,
came accidentally npon Apostol's band
in hiding for the day. They took hiai
prisoner. Now, every Grockj is an
enemy to every Bulgar, and for sonic
moments the boy's life was In danger.
Terhaps it was his youth which ap
pealed to -the chief; at any rate, he
released him. The boy at once went
to the Tillage of Stoyak and reported
Apostol's presence In the nearby moun
tains, and later pointed out the courier
passing through the village for Spallvo.
The latter was arrested. When night
came and the horses from Spalivo did
rot appear, Apostol do ded that per
haps the villagers had lost the way,
so he and his men shouldered the am
munition barjs among them, descended
to the river, crossed it, tnd by moon
light had reached their destination,
Spallvo. This village was several
miles higher up the same bank of the
river on -which stood Stoyak, where
the soldiars were quartered. On one
side are jigh mountain bluffs, on the
other the Klver Vardar.
But as the villagers had not received
'Apostol's message, they, not expecting
liim, had made no preparations. First,
they had allowed their dogs free, who
noisily announced the entrance of the
bandsmen into the village. Their bark
ings were heard by some Albanian
shepherds a short distance outside.
However, the ammunition was
stored in an old, half-broken-down de
serted house, and two of the bandsmen
iwere detailed to sleep upon it. Apostol,
Michaeloff an their companions then
divided themselves among a half dozen
bouses nearby. In half an hour all
iwere asleep, save a few ot the vii
lagers, who remained awake to guard
cgaiust surprise, iieauwuiie uie soi
Oh, the house of my heart i over small,
Love, my lord;
An' if I let you in I must let in all,
Oh, every one!
And riot would reign in my quiet hall,
And I fear me soon would my dwelling fall,
Love, my lord.
Yon went who might never entrance win,
Love, my lord;
Strange that I thought it little sin
To bar my door:
Kut a king comes ever with shout and din,
And not alone had you entered in,
Love, my 'ord.
lhen'ia Garrison, in Puck.
SONNICHSEN
dicrs in 'w,rjs bad quietly marched
u; to Spallvo and surrounded it. Then
a search party entered the village and
began searching the houses. The Al
banian shepherds, who had heard the
barking of the dogs, joined them. The
soldiers were now doubly assured that
they had Apostol and his baud sur
rounded at last.
Meanwhile, the pounding nt the doors
as the Turks demanded entrance to
the houses, alarmed the village. For
tunately, the search began from the
side opposite to that where the bands
men were quartered. Now, it is a
standing law of the committee that the
bands must never fight In tho villages,
unless absolutely cornared, so Apostol
and his men, still half clothed, gath
ered themselves together, and deter
mined to break through the ring. :t
Is probable that the traitor, who, as a
Greek, hated the Turks only a little
less than the Bulgars, had minimized
the number of the band, nnd that the
Turks thought they hnd only a band
oil ordinary size to deal with, of from
fifteen to twenty men. At any rate,
Apostol and his men had no difficulty
In walking through the circle. They
retreated quickly up the pass through
which the river runs until they could
go no further. Behind them tho bluffs
descended abruptly into the Vardar;
on one side rose cliffs, on tho other,
below them, ran the river, a wide,
swift stream just then, for the snows
were melting. Before them the rocky
ground descended toward the villa-re.
From a military point of view, it was
an ideal position for defense and
death, for no escape was possible.
Day was dawning then, as the
bandsmen hastily threw up three lines
cf trenches with loose rods nnd
boulders that had once tumbled down
from the heights above them. As
soon as the Turks were able to
locate their positions by the growing
light, they spread out In fan formation
below, nnd began to tire. The bands
men numbered just thirty-eight, for In
the hurry there had not been time to
gather in the two men who were In
the hut with the ammunition. As
was found later, they continued sleep
ing undisturbed, for the iurks had
not considered the hut worthy of
search, and there the ammunition and
its two guards remained in safety dur
ing the whole day. The first line of
trenches in the pass was defended by
Save Michaeloff and eleven men.
Fifty yards beyond and higher up
fifteen men were stationed, and ftill
higher up were Apostol tnd twelve
men.
Meanwhile the firing had begun to
attract to the spot tho vultures of the
Turkish army, the hashi-bazonks.
These are a disorganized, Irresponslbb
rabble, who seldom fight but nre at-
.ays on hand to share the plunder.
On occasions, they will sometimes sup
port tho troops iu a charge, for tlu'v
are well armed. These began to gather
in great numbers now, nnd took up
pSj,tlons with the regulars. When the
fight wit.": two ho ;rs old a Greek hand
ot thirty men. commanded by an oEieer
In the uniform of-the Groel: army, ap
peared and joined the Turks.
Evidently the Turkish bflieer in com
mand had recognized the stroiigtli of
Apostol s position, for hitherto ho had
ordered no attack. Meanwhile it had
been telegraphed to Salonica, two
hours away, by train, thnt Apostol
was cornered and more troops were
needed. But, anxious to gain the big
reward on Apostol's head, the Turk
ish officer determined to get him
before his superiors arrived. En
forced by the bashl-bazouks, the Al
banians nnd the Greeks, he ordered
a general charge. The bandsmen al
lowed the charging throng to come
hnlf-way up. Then four hand gren
ades were thrown and as many volleys
fired. They also rolled down huge
boulders into the panic-stricken Turks.
The destruction by the bombs was tor
rifle, for even the Turkish regulars,
fierce fighters as they are, poured down
in scrambling retreat.
Having lost heavily, the Turks made
no further efforts then to storm Apos
tol's position. But in three hours the
reinforcements from Salonica began to
nrrive. By noon twenty-five carloads
had come, two thousand soldiers in nil.
Meanwhile the bashl-bazouks had
streamed steadily in from the sur
rounding villages to the number of
five thousand, some reports say. That
is probably an exaggeration, and then,
too, as far as actual fighting was con
cerned, most of these fellows prob
ably took up the passive attitude of
expectant spectators.
Upon the arrival of the general offim'
in command from Salonica, lie im.
patiently ordered a general nttack at
once, i The soldiers made n wild up.
ward scramble, but again the bombs
were blasting up the loose lava among
them. That nttack failed, os had the
first. Two more equally desperate at
tacks had n similar result soon after.
Then the Turks withdrew and began
to open up a heavy lire on the rocks
above, depending on rock splinters to
destroy the Insurgents behind their
positions. These tactics, although
costly-for Apostol and his men were
slow ly pot shooting individual oflloers
wherever visible were more success
ful. By seven that evening, nt fifteen
o'clock by Turkish time, the insur
gents had been much reduced. Another
nttack was ordered, before dark should
give the few survivors n possible
chance to escape. In tho-first trench
only Michaeloff and three men were
alive, and they all wounded. In the
other two lines of trenches were eight
men unwounded.
As this last general attack began
the nnimnnltjn of the bandsmen gave
out In n few last volleys. Then
Michaeloff and his three men In the
first trench rose, deliberate! smashed
their rifles over t've rocks, destroyed
their watches In a similar manner
and drank the poison, which is part
of every bandsman's equipment, to
save him from torture, if wounded.
The eight men above killed their
wounded comrades with their knives,
and then made a break for the river.
The Turks were successful. They hnd
gained ihr position. The news was then
telegraphed that Apostol had been
killed. From one of the bodies were
taken personal biters addressed to him.
a rille with Ills name engraved upon it
was found, and various villagers Iden
tified the corpse. Later it was found
that this was the body of Apostol's
secretary. So well was the Sultan
pleased with the tews that lie imme
diately telegraphed his personal thanks
to the troops, and sent 3ii0 to be
divided among them. The gendarmes,
the creatures established by the re
forms, who had taken part in the
light, were nil promoted.
Next day Georgls Pasha, the Italian
gendarmerie officer, commissioned
there by the Towers, arrived and be
gan an Investigation. It seems he
was tiie first to question Apostol's
death. At any rate, he sent for Apos
tol's wife, who lives In n village near
by, and the dead having already been
buried, he ordered them disinterred,
that she might Identify her husband
among them. She failed to do so.
But several days after all doubts
were settled when the kalmnkam, or
governor of the caza, received a letter
bearing Apostol's rubber stamped seal,
announcing himself in good health,
save for a sprained ankle. Of the
whole band of forty men, six escaped.
two being t lie guards who watched
over the ammunition and took no part
in the light. They remained with it
until another band came a week later
and carried it safely off. Of the eight
who broke for the river, three were
drowned while attempting to swim
across, ami one, realizing that he could
not even attempt, it, drank poison.
One reached the opposite bank and
escaped, and Is now here in Kustendil.
Apostol and his three comrades
crouched among some rushes in shal
low water, and escnped later in the
night when the search was over. He
is now recovering from his sprained
ankle in a secret hospital in the
mountains.
What the Turkish losses were In the
fight is hard to estimate truly. Turk
ish reports only mention two Greeks
and sixteen Albanians killed. Vil
lagers of Spallvo say 1200 in nil fell,
but that is perhaps an exaggeration.
Still, the casualities must have been
heavy, otherwise such a large force
could not have been checked for a
whole day by thirty-eight men.-New
York Tost.
Unction Sister Still LIts.
Comparatively few persons nre
n-.iro tlmt tho once crent actress of
the C'omcdio Frnncnise, Bachel, who
died so far back as INkS, lias a sister
aim livimr in Paris. This sister. Mile.
Lea Felix, was hurt in a carriage accl-
lent recently, but is now geunig
letter. Mile. Felix retired from the
stage fifteen years ngn, uer last up.
earanee being ns Joan ot Arc. in
'..nhier-s drama, nt the Porto Saint
Martin. She always retrined her fam
ily name of Felix. Mile. Bachel. the
great trasediemie, uau imu-
and one brother. All her sistera were
actresses, like herseli. and linn con
siderable' succss in the profession. Lea
T,-..i!v 1 in nil nrounbility. the only
one of the sisters now lU-mg.-Lon-
doa Telegraph.
-lile KovenBe.
r n inv nnd the dray horse
and the thoroughbred carriage horso
nappened to be drinking nt tne same
'.rough.
"You're a perfect fright." said tho
ti,rrmi,-M..ui indulging in a horse
laugh, "with that hideous old straw
hat on your head."
The dray horse looked ai mm, uui
lid nothing.
Tk ui. lirnsli of his ample
tall, he bruaned a fly from the quiver
ing hide of the carriage liorse. wmiu
the latter, with his poor little stump
of a tall, was nnnule to rencu, ami
dipped his nose in the trough again.
Chicago Tribune.
A Curio"" Clob.
One of the most curious clubs on rec
ord has recently been formed by so
ciety ladles In Berlin. The principal
condition of membership Is that the
applicant must ho deaf. The club has
over a hundred members, who meet
regularly on e a week In handsomely
furnished rooraa In tho Wllhelm
Strasse, where they converse by means
of ear-trumpets aul the sign langung
aud drink tea.
QOME PRIMITIVE
3 PLANT FOODS
E nre accustomed to spotlit
41. Tn.llni. n n ltllnti.t
vi iiiu 111111111 tia i huiiiiii
11 I to think that his food con
JLjL I olctml Tvhottl nt floisll nnil
that ho lived purely on the
products of the chase. This
Impression Is very far from true. The
Indian Hke man everywhere except In
1he Arctic regions Is an omnivorous
creature, and while he may subsist
chlelly on flesh, he also greatly relishes
vegetable food. As a matter of fact,
the great majority of tho aboriginal
tribes of North America were cultiva
tors of the ground. The popular Idea
that the Indian was a nomad wander
ing from place to place and never
camping twice in the same spot arises
from an entire misconception of facts.
We have been told for years by the
newspapers and other equally Ill-Informed
authorities that the Indians
were wanderers, and we have come
to believe that this was true. It was
not. The Indians lived In very largo
measure In permanent villages, near
which they had their cultivated fields,
and which they occupied for the great
er part of each year. At certain sea
sons special absences more or less
protracted were necessary for the pur
pose of hunting some particular game
or of gathering some special sort of
wild roots or fruits.
This permanency of habitation was
true even of some of the tribes Inhab
iting the seml-arld plains who depend
ed for support on the buffalo, and to
day, one who visits one of the plains
tribes and asks the old men how their
fathers used to live will everywhere
receive the same answer. They will
say that they used to grow corn, beans,
squashes or pumpkins, and tobacco
and besides this they gathered ni
abundance of wild crops which gave
them n certain amount of vegetable
food all through the year.
Of the Iroquois we are told that the
crops they harvested were so large that
they frequently had In their store
houses two or three years' supply of
corn, beans nnd squashes. The Paw
nees, occupying the arid West, like the
Delawares of the moist sea coast,
stored their crops In great pits dug In
the ground, which they lined with
mats, and In which their corn was per
fectly preserved all through the win
ter, or until the supply was exhausted.
Very different was the situation of the
Cocopahs Inhabiting tho desert away
to the Southwest. They scraped aside
the rocks that covrred the dry moun
tainside and, uncovering n little soil,
planted there a few hills of corn nnd
squashes, carrying on their backs from
the distant spring the water which
should moisten the ground to cause the
seeds to sprout and to refresh the
plants until the crop matured, and
when it was gathered they at once con
sumed it.
Within the memory of living men,
nnd wliile there were yet buffalo In
nbundance, the Western Indians of
many tribes continued their primitive
culture of the stubborn soil. The Paw
nee women used to hoe their corn with
hoes made from the slioulderblnde of
the buffalo lashed to a wooden handle,
nnd about the same time the warlike
Cheyennes were planting their littlt
cornfields on the Little Missouri River.
We know that In early days, when
wooded Minnesota was much fnrthet
from the centre of things than Alaska
Is to-day, the Indians of thnt territory
planted little crops of corn, loosening
the soil, either with hoes purchased
from the traders or with the hardened
sharpened branch of a tree. Their
fields were small, from n quarter of
an acre to an acre in extent, nnd pro
duced a small corn the ears of which
were from three to eight Inches long,
nnd which was chiefly consumed green
ns roasting ears. A part of the crop,
however, was boiled on the ear while
green, cut from the cob and dried In
the sun to be kept or winter use.
Boiled with meat It made a nourishing
and pnlatble dish. There was no food
more delicious, nnd none better to work
on than dried corn and buffalo meat.
Over the whole of North America,
wherever the climate permitted It to
ripen, corn was cultivated by the In
dians and constituted tin important
pnrt of their subsistence. Loskiel, who
In the eighteenth century wrote Inter
estingly nnd nt great length ot the
Indians among whom the United
Brethren worked, enumerates no less
than twelve methods employed by the
Indians In preparing their corn fori
food. A concentrated form of nourish
ment much employed when traveling
on the warpath, or where It was neces
sary to go swiftly or with light loads,
was citamon, an Interesting analogue
of the penimlcan used In old prairie
travel, remniican consisted of pul
verized dried meat mixed with melted
fat, but, as those will remember who
have read the old works of travel In
the Northwest, or even those "Trails of
the Pathfinders," which have recently
appeared In Forest nnd Stream, there
was another sort of penimlcan made
of the pulverized flesh ot fish also
mixed with fat. Citamon, on the other
hand, was finely pounded cornnieal
mixed with powdered maple sugnr, and
then packed In a sack so tightly that
the air could not enter It. While pom
mlcnn was purely a flesh food, citamon
was wholly vegetable.
It Is well understood that the In
dians had discovered the art of making
maple" sugar long before the coming
of the whites, nnd that they taught
first the French In Canada and later
otht r white people how to manufacture
sugar and syrup from the sap of the
maple tree. They used not otny the
sap of the hard or sugar maple, but
also that of the soft or white maple,
though of the latter much more sap
was required to make a giveu quantity
j of sugar. In the Western country,
even out on the plains, sugnr was made
by Indians from the sap of the common
box older tree. Forest mid Stream.
THE ORIGIN OF RADIUM.
It Is ltelloved to He Derived From Some
Parent Kleineiir.
Professor F. Soddy has made recent
ly some Interesting contributions to
our knowledge of radium, about whose
probable origin there has been so much
speculation. Radium Is now believed
to be derived from some parent ele
ment which Is decomposing nt a very
slow rate, nnd Trofessor Soddy not
oHly supports this view, but states
that from the disintegration of radium
must follow other and better-known
elements. On the assumption that
there Is such n parent element and the
quantity of radium Is minute, this par
cut element must exist In large
amounts, nnd It must have n large
atomic weight in order to give radium
on Its disintegration, n process that is
known to be very slow.
Tho only two elements answering
these requirements nre uranium and
thorium, nnd ns the former is practi
cally always found in company with
radium It must be the substance
sought. Trofessor Soddy has been able
to demonstrate this fact experiment
ally by obtaining from uranium, which
originally was free from radium, an
unmistakable emanating power. The
original uranium, It was proved, did
not possess the power of emitting an
emanation, nnd as the emanation thus
obtained seemed to be In all respects
Identical with that of radium, it
seemed n proper Inference thnt the
uranium in the course of its decompo
sition was producing radium.
Professor Soddy believes that ra
dium, actinium nnd polonium nre in
termediate 'products in the disintegra
tion of radium, and thnt the ultimate
product must be an element of lighter
atomic-weight nnd should be n known
substance. The logical candidates for
such n position are bismuth and lead,
and inasmuch as the Intter occurs in
the jirnniuin-rndlum minerals the pre
ponderance of opinion Is In Its favor.
This seems in n fair way soon to be
settled, ns polonium not only is easily
obtained, but also changes very rapid
ly, nnd the question of deciding defi
nitely on this final product is apparent
ly only one of cost and experiment.
Harper's Weekly.
V. V nnil W.
"Spell It with a We, Sammy, spell it
with a We!" tho elder Mr. Weller
shouted from the gallery of the court
room to his son when the judge desired
to learn tho correct Initial of his name.
Doubtless, In a delightful anecdote re
cently related of .Mr. Laurence Hutton
nnd two ot his friends, It was n recol
lection of this famous injnnction that
moved n perplexed parent to adopt,
when the propriety of n W was ques
tioned, the simple rule, "When in doubt
choose V."
Laurence Hutton nnd the actor, Law
rence Barrett, were both intimate
friends of the artist, Frank Millet: so
when, one summer In London, a baby
son was born to Millet, they both ac
companied him to the vestry-house of
St. Mary's, Kensington, In which parish
his residence lay, to have Its birth duly
registered.
The usual questions were asked nnd
answered, Mr. Hutton relates, and fin
nlly the name of the child. "Law
rence," said the father.
"L-a-w-r-e-n-c-e," said Barrett, In his
most formidable high-tragedy voice,
and with a strong accent on the w.
"Pnrdon me," said Hutton, "L-a-n-r-e-n-c-e,
if you please," with the accent
on the u.
"L-n-W!" shouted Barrett.
"L-n-u!" Insisted Ilntton, nnd the
poor little official laid down his pen in
amazement.
"The clerk was on the point of faint
ing or calling the police," added Mr.
Hutton, "when Mr. Millet, in his quiet
way. came to the rescue."
"'It appears to me,' he exclaimed,
'that in a case of tills kind the father
of the child should have something to
say! I never interfered with the nam
ing of any of your babies, did I?' Then
turning to the clerk, he said, 'Spell him
with a v.'
"And Lnvrenco Millet ho is by law to
this day." Youth's Companion.
A School of Glove linking.
Mainly because of objection on the
part of skilled employes to having an
unlimited force of green hands en
gaged, nnd also owing to chronic scare
ity of competent help, the Master Glov
ers' Association, principally composed
of wholesale firms In the metropolis,
ironed n free school of instruction nt
Cloversville, N. Y.. Inst week. It is In
tended to make this Institution perma
nent, with the purpose of supplying
present nnd future shortage in the kid
glove labor mnrket. The various styles
in stitching nre taught, among other
branches of the business, under the
general direction of a corps of expert
mnle and female tutors. As the ap
prentices become proficient operatives
they are at liberty to seek employment
in any factory operated by a member
of the organization. A uniform wage
schedule prevails. Many applications
have been received from both men and
women. New York Press.
Destroying Genn.
The inspector ot the disinfection
office of Turin, Italy, has instituted an
innovation in destroying germs in
dwellings. lie uses a one per cent, so
lutiou of sal soda for cleansing the
Boors, whereby the bacilli of diphtheria
and typhus aie killed in one minute.
Pilfer c"" & -
If n ton of coal Is placed on the
ground and left there, nnd another ton
Is placed under a shed, the latter
loses about twenty-five per cent, of its
heating power, the former about forty-seven,
per cent.
According to the Scientific American,
the power generated In a modern
steamship In a single voyage across
the Atlantic is enough to raise from
the Nile and set In place every stone
of one of the great pyramids.
A French journal describes nn at
tempt to produce a sufficiently thin
sheet of aluminum to serve ns a sub
stitute for tinfoil as a wrapper for ar
ticles of merchandise that might be
Injured by moisture. Paper coated
with tin Is also cmloycd for the same
purpose.
It has long been known that ozone
Is a powerful germicide, nnd a num
ber of different methods of using It to
purify city water supplies have been
devised. A well known plant for that
purpose Is situated at Wiesbaden, Ger
many. Another has been Installed at
Philadelphia.
Enormous swarms of butterflies
move along the Amazon and other
South American rivers. M. Goeldl, of
Para, Brazil, finds that detached
masseB make detours to visit trees
in bloom, but does not explain the gen
eral migration. One suggestion Is that
the great flights are made up of fe
males seeking mimosas as a place of
egg laying.
Electric waves and sensitive receiv
ers offer n means of performing n va
riety of operations nt n distance. Pro
fessor E. D. Brnnly has been trying
to attain such results, nnd has shown
the Paris Academy an apparatus by
which he can start on electric motor,
cause incandescent lamps to glow, nnd
cause nn explosion. These effects may
be produced or discontinued In any
desired order, one after another.
Veterinary surgeons know, but tho
general public probably does not, that
some animals are as liable to menin
gitis as are human beings. Goats nnd
horses are the principal sufferers in
the dumb creation, and from them the
Infection may be transmitted to man.
In horses the disoaso is known as "hy
drocephalus nonius." Of horses affect
ed with the disease, seventy-eight per
cent. die. and tlio remainder have a
chronic tendency to relapse. Loudon
Globe.
CANADA'S NORTHWEST POLICE.
No Other Such. System of 1'uhiic (iuaul
Innttlilp In tho World.
Readiness for duty in any form has
made the Royal Northwest mounted
police what they are, the trusted guar
dians of life and property in Western
Canada. Their field is from the Uni
ted States boundary to the Arctic
:oast, and in this vast territory, 1000
miles from south to north, S00 scarlet
ooattd men keep peace and order,
l'hroifgh any part of It, prairie, wil
derness or woods, a defenseless wom
an may go alone nnd have no fear. To
make thus easy tho traveler's way
meant years o vigilant iol!eing nnd
?ven of lighting. Those were stirring
times, when mounted police service
hnd zest and glory. To-day there is
loss glory nnd more hard work; for ns
the country is settling farther north
the police, too, are moving up nnd wid
ening their beats. Smugglers on tho
border, thieves on the ranches, crimin
als in the settlements, Drcs In the for
ests, to guard against these and to rep
resent tho law in a land that would
easily be lawless are their duties to
day, and to these haVo now been added
the carriage of the malls in the ex
treme north and the protection of Uio
whale fisheries on the Arctic coast.
The Royal Northwest mounted police
nre unique. There is no other such
system of public guardianship in tho
world, r.or are there now in any other
country quite the same conditions
which called it into being. Aubrey
1- ullerton, In the World To-day.
"Mnn Is Nature's Knerov."
".Man," says Professor Lankaster In
his Romanes lecture at Oxford, "is
nature's rebel." Natural selection hav
ing, ns supposed, lifted him from so
low the mound to his present high
estate, is now believed by many of
it3 advocates to be a failure as regards
raising him any higher. Having done
so much in the past, it is thought to
bo Incapable of doing "the i;tt!o
more" which is of such great import
ance. Wliile in the case of other crea
tures their actions nre supposed to play
Into tho hands of natural selection,
so that this bencficlent force becomes
the alma mater of new races, in the
case of man it has been otherwise.
His own actions have defeated the
aims of natural selection for his wel
fare. Darwin held similarly pessi
mistic views. "In one of my latest
conversations with Darwin," writes
br. A. It. Wallace, "he expressed
himself Tery gloomily on the future
of humanity." And this was on the?
grounds that under present conditions
the fittest did not survive. Many evo
lutionists, therefore, as Mr. Francis
Galton and Dr. A. R. Wallace, have
suggested ways In which natural se
lection may be assisted rather than
thwarted in producing a more perfect
race. The remedy proposed by Prof.
Lankester Is that men should acquire
greater control over nature by means
at a deep study of science. And in the
reformed education advocated by
Pre. Lankester Latin nnd Greek nr
to be eliminated as iujurlaus. London
Globe.
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DENTIST.
Office on second floor of First KsV
tlouul barjk buiiuing, Main btrest.
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DENTIST.
Office on second floor ReynoldsTfll.
Real Estato Building, Main street.
RnynoUlsvllle, Pa.
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JUSTICE OF THE PEACH
Aud Real Estate Agent.
Reyno!dsvU2, Pa.
gMITH M. MoCREIGHT,
ATTOIIN EY-AT-LAW.
Rotary Public and Itoal Estate Agent. 0b
lections will fioelve prompt attention. OOloo
In the KnynolilHville llnnrwaro Co. liulldluf,
Wain streot. 1 yiioMhvillo,
PITT8BURQ.
Grain, Flour and Feed.
Wheat No. S red t 75 89
Hjn No. 2 M t
Corn No 2 yellow, ear i r,j
No. 2 yellow, Btiellod flj m
Mixed ear 4' !)
Oats No. 8 white r.n 81
No. H white no
Flour Winter patent ft 0 1 5 to
Fancy etratirht winters n H.t IX
Hay No. 1 Timothy IS 01 14 0
Clover No. 1 1100 1110
Feed No. 1 white mid. ton 1(1 so ;0i
Brown mlddllnKS 1U 50 17 '0
Ilran. hulk Ill .',0 17 go-
Biraw Wheat 0 50 7 (HI
Oat ' II 60 7 00
Dairy Products.
Butter Elgin creamery ...J W 84
Ohio creamery iw tt
Fancy country roll Id is
Cheese Ohio, new It 12-
Now York, new 11 12
Poultry, Etc.
Menu per Ih $ II to
Chickens drenned It! 1ft
Eggs l'o. and Ohio, fresh 19 21
Fruits and Vegetablos.
Apples bbl j ui sm
Potatoes Fancy white per bu.... 51) e
Cabbago per ton KM al IK)
Onlon-per barrel g 50 3 oj
BALTIMORE.
Flour Winter Patent $ s n-, 5
Wheat-No. 2 red si:1 J,
Corn Mlxod
F.kks in 'ih
Mutter Ohio creamory q
PHILADELPHIA.
Flour Winter Patent $ 5 so s f 5
Wheat No. 2 red 99 j 01
Corn No. 2 mixed 60 51
Oats No. 2 whi.o 30 d7
Butter Creamery yo
Eggs Pennsylvania firsts ig 17
NEW YORK.
Flour Pntents $ 8 00 6 51
Wheat-No. 8 red 1 i 104
Corn No. 2 65 56
Oats No. 2 white 87 t
Huttor Creamery 20 22
Eggs State and Pennsylvania.... 17 18
LIVE STOCK.
Union Stock Yards, Pittsburg.
Cattle.
Extra, M.VI to 1W0 lbs 5R0 575
Prime, 1300 to 1400 lbs 6 85 5?o
Medium, 1200 to 1800 lbs 6 00 6 80
Tidy. 10W to 1150 4 41) 4 H0
Butcher, 00 to 1100 ... 4 00 450
Common to fair aiw 87,1
Oxen, common to fat 7i 400
Common togood fat bulls and cows 253 S.V)
Milch cows, each I61W 450O
Hogs.
Prime heavy hogs i 6 S5 6 40
Prime medium weights 6.iu 6S0
Beet heavy yorkers and medium- 6 85 0 40
l-ood pigs and llghtyorkers 6 70 6 75
Pigs, common to good 4 70 4S5
J?otfhs 7J 410
B,s 823 850
Sheep.
I 6 60 6 ?5
t'OOd to cholos 5 25 5 50
Medium 47., 0(X,
Common to fair., .yj 400
Lnnibs 550 SO.P
Calves.
Veal, extra 600 7 75
eal, gooa to choice 8W 45i
V eui, common heavy 8JJ 871)
TIIR NATIONAL OASIE.
Matliowfon certainly is tbo mainstay
0" the Giants.
Wn.sncr in fifty-three games bit safe
ly forty -eight times.
Fiiltss still loads the base running In
the American -League.
rittfftnrg lias allowed Cariseh to go
home for the rest of 1!)05.
Lajoic's men maintain their suprem
acy at long distance hitting.
Thorn is a great scarcity of catchers
In the liig leagues this year.
Thomas, of the I'll ill i ps. Is doing the
best batting of his career this season.
Tho Chicago American Club has se
cured 1'itciior l-'ieno from tho Toledo
Club.
Seven home runs were made In the
Boston-Cincinnati double-header of Au
gust It).
Dick Padden. commissioned by the
St. Louis Browns to dig up a live one,
returned with a Starr.
The Erooklyn Club has purchased
Inllelder Hummell and l'itclier Ilart
ley, of the Holyoke Club.
The Detroit Club has bought pitcher
Tyrus Cobb from the Augusta Club,
of the South Atlantic League.
Young "Cy" Young led the National
League In shut-outs for a good while,
but Mathewson has supplanted him.
Clymer nnd Howard are the only
fledglings in the National League that
aro batting better than .300 per cent.
The Cincinnati Club lias secured out
fielder Thomas Fogarty, of tho Pough
keepsie (Hudson Hiver League) Club.
The New York American Club has
purchased pitcher Robert Keefo from
Taeoma, and outfielder Frank Dele
Utility from Dirniiiigham.
Pitcher FnlUenberg' nnd outfielder
James Hurray have left the Harris
burg outlaw club, tho former joining
Washington and the last named to
Bufialo.
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