WINNERS OF ROWING HONORS IN ENGLISH REGATTA OWES HER LIFE TO Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound f"1 k 1 Tlf .. . m ... '"" " ' " i n-v Mil Odd News From Big Cities Stories of Strange Happenings in the Metropolitan Towns ffl I it. ii SHE! : ;snf . .. ... A- -HP Winnipeg, Man. The peopln of this city are proud of Its oarsmen, and wrn reason, for the Winnipeg club four won great honors at the recent regatta at Henley, England. The fact that oarsmen from other lands do not often succeed in defeating the Englishmen on their own waters adds to the glory of the Canadians' achievement. ELECTRICITY IN WAR Japanese Use Novel Expedient in Subduing Savage Tribes. Most Curious Duel Being Waged Against Bloodthirsty Aiyu Tribes i in Island of Formosa Soldiers j Unable to Check Outrages. Philadelphia. The most ferocious instinct of primitive savagery, head hunting, Japan Is to fight with the most modern of military agencies, electricity. It Is a most curious duel that is now being waged In the island of Formosa between the Japanese and the bloodthirsty Alyu tribes. It Is the proudest achievement of the head hunter to increase his col lection of skulls. He who has most of these sanguinary relics Is esteemed the great man or the tribe and the gruesome skulls are exhibited with the utmost pride not only to residents ,but to vlsltoi'8 who may chance under proper guard to penetrate to the fast nesses of the Interior. It has not taken long for Japan to find that her soldiers can not avail to stop the depredations and outrages committed by the head hunters. There are some hundred thousands of these savages, who became a prob lem to the Tokio government when the outcome of the war with China In ' 1895 brought Formosa under Japanese dominion. The gallant little brown men who had been able to overwhelm the Chi nese and who later were to strike uoh a frightful blow at the prestige of Russia, were unable to deal with the head hunters. In the guerilla warfare that ensued as soon as the Japanese soldiers came Into the country the modern sons of Jupiter were constantly worsted. It was a private trick of the head hunters to perform their deadliest out rages right under the noses, so to spok, of the new rulers of the Is land. ' Then a tactician In Hie army struck on a great Idea. Fight them with electricity. A wall was built across the coun try, a wall four hundred miles in length, not a wall of stone, but a far more deadly and treacherous wall, one made of. wire and charged constantly with a current that carried death ust as certainly as tho bullet of a lend shot. Only It needed no soldier to fire this death message. All that the head hunter needed to do was to come Into contact with it Just for the briefest space of time and with any portion of his body. Death was then the sure outcome. The deadly obstruction with secret entanglements most cleverly contrived extends across the land from the coast of Giran, in the cast, to the shore at Nanke, on the west side, where it takes a turn north and circles about In such a way that the savages, once within its lines, would find escape difficult without fatal contact with the wire. The fences are connected with pow " erful electric plants and the wires are constantly , kept charged with the death-dealing fluid. Already it has been .found that the new system is the most efficacious that the government has yet con trived. The savages are baffled and mysti fied. They cannot understand what It Is that has the power of striking down their comrades so suddenly. Taey are afraid to move about in the . WMrY s.ZZ'lfai) ua. 77- IVinmPErQ CLUB F-OUR AT night on their horrible head-hunting expedition, for tho wire has been placed with such cleverness that they never can tell when they are likely to come Into contact with It. The plan or campaign at present is to drive tho savages Into the moun tains, prevent them from coming Into the low countries or near the towns, and so hem them In eventunlly by the wire barriers (hat they wlll.be cut oft from supplies and forced either to surrender or die. Hardly will this be regarded as cruel, when the atrocities of the head hunters are taken into account. Japcn could hardly be expected to view with Indifference such things as have hap pened. In one case a rebel raid on a Jap outpost resulted in the killing and decapitation of thirteen soldiers, and so clever and crafty was the en emy and so skilled at taking advan tage of a knowledge of the country that the peril was persistent and un remitting. The Japanese call the head hunters tho "Seibans." They are said to num ber more than one hundred thousand, divided into seven hundred tribes! Each tribe occupies its own territory and they are all independent of each other, each seeming concerned alone in preventing encroachment on its land. This lack of unity, instead of being a handicap to the head hunters, has really made their subjection harder. Jap generals say that if they wero united in some port of bond to protect them all it would be possible to get them together in a big enough force where they would dare a pitched bat tle with the Invader. The outcome of such a contest would, of course, be victory for the trained soldier of Japan and would eventually be the obliteration of the Seibans. But the head hunters steadily de cline any such Issue. They fight In MAN IS MARRIED TO SISTER Wife's Son Falls In Love With Hut band's Daughter and Blessings Are Bestowed. New York. Romance set out to prove in Corona, that a woman may be a sister to a man and a man may con tinue as a brother to a woman, and still they may marry with every pros pect of happiness. Such is the situa tion In which Frank Gannon, a post office clerk, and Anna Padran, an op erator In the Flushing telephone ex change, find themselves. Gannon's mother was persuaded to abandon her widowhood a few months ago by John Padron, who is in the pay bureau of the Long Island city fire de partment. They decided that It would be nice to have her son and his daugh ter live with them, and hired a house at No. 42 De Witt - street. Corona. That arrangement pleased the young people so well that In a little while there was no doubt that the house held two pairs of lovers. While pleased that their children got on well together, the elders looked with dismay on love-making between them and took tbem to task for it, protesting that they were brother and sister and had no right to fall in love. This view of the case struck the young people as one not to be argued and they seem ed to acquiesce In the properties as laid down by the parents. : All the same they had their own opinion and. having obtained a marriage li HENLEY roving little bands, they move over the country with amazing rapidity and until the deadly electric fence limited their operations to one little section of the island there was no extreme of daring not possible to them. STAGE AS CURE FOR "BLUES" Boston Society Woman's Physician Prescribes "Glare of Footlights" as Remedy. Boston. The dazzle of the footlights is the latest cure recommended by a reputable physician for neurasthenia. Mrs. Alice M. Ingoldsby, a prominent Hack Bay society woman, was advised by her physician eight months ago that a career on the stage would cure her of the "blues." Mrs. Ingoldsby has accepted an engagement with the "Up and Down Broadway" company for next season. Mrs. Ingoldsby's career Is remarka ble. Possessor of a large fortune, she always has been a lavish entertainer. Last year she created a sensation in Boston by suing C. C. Hutchinson, a prominent Lowell banker, for $20,000 in a breach of promise action. In 1900 she sued a Mr. Brown of New York Jor divorce, which she obtained. Before that she had married George Ingolds by as the result of a boy and girl at tachment formed while he was a stu dent In the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Prize Queen Bee. Stoughton, Mass. One hundred dol lars for one tiny bee, measuring less than an inch in length and whose span of life is reckoned now at less than one year, Is tho sum offered to and refused by Henry W. Britton. a bee fancier of Stoughton, for the prize "queen" bee that he has been treasur ing for three years. The value of the insect lies in that It. has been the means of bringing into existence ap aproxtmately 3,235,000 bees, capable of becoming honey makers of an un usual order. cense, they slipped around the other night to St. Leo's church where Fa ther John O'Toolo married them. As Frank Is thirty-one and Anna twenty-one, there was no going be hind the returns and the elders cheerfully bestowed upon them their blessing. NEW RECORD FOR DIAMONDS Imports at New York Port for Last Fiscal Year Will Be Above $45,000. New York. Imports of diamonds and other precious htones, as reported by the customs officials this month, have sent the total valuaUon for the fiscal year, which 'inded June 30, above $45,000,000. The highest prior record was $43,602,476 for the year 1907, as shown In a report recently prepared by Douglas K. Sterrett for the bureau of statistics. More than 95 per - cent, of these imports now come through the port of New York. Importers have been predicting for some time that the present fiscal year's Imports would break all rec ords, but this month, has sent the to tal even higher than they expected. About 85 per cent, of the Imports have been diamonds. Cf the total Imports of diamonds, about one-third have been in the rough and the oth er two-thirds were cut and polished In Europe. Uncle Sam Asks All to Swat the Fly NEW YORK. The whole United States government, with its vast treasury of wealth. Its brainy states men and Insurgents, Its army and navy, its immense horde of high brows, against the poor little house fly! That's the line-up in a bitter war of extermination scheduled to set the nation by the ears and enlist the cour ageous support of every man, woman and child in this broad land. The final knell of the house fly has been sounded and the battle has Just be gun. "Catch 'em and kill 'em; show no quarter" that is the war cry of the army of extermination that Is to put forth every effort to rid the land of the Musea Momesttca, the polite name by which the house fly should be ad dressed by strangers. Tntll the scientists got busy with their Investigations tho house fly was considered merely as a pestiferous In sect, designed by the Creator of all things merely to take its bath in the sweet creum and muple sirup, annoy the lata morning sleeper, skate about with abandon ou tbe polished surface of bhlny haldheads and practise tbe Morse telegraph code on the cleanest of windows. Long suffering housewives since time begun were the only reahy active enemies of the seemingly insignificant little fly, and they alone and unaided applied the Imprecations and dish cloths vigorously against the nuisance. But after tbe scientists got onto the 'Gators and Insects NEW ORLEANS. More than 1.000, 000 acres or marsh land lying with in 50 miles of New Orleana are to be drained, reclaimed and transformed from a wilderness Into gardens, homes, iiamleta and towns. The work of re claiming some 50,000 acres within the corporate limits of New Orleans is now woll under way, while contracts have been let for the reclamation of fully 100,000 acres additional in ad joining parishes. This .neans that within two years the alligator will no longer find abori ginal harborage In the Carnival city, that the breeding grounds of countless billions of mosquitoes will be turned Into highly productive farms on which mosquitoes cannot breed, that hun No Corsets are Worn at West Point (ESffife HIS NAME - "hJ WASHINGTON. "I have often heard a question as to whether West Pointers wore corsets. It is absurd in a way, beoause should any effeminate youngster resort to such a thing It would be Impossible to keep the affair a secret, and once known his school life would become a burden to him on account of the endless amount of criti cism he would receive from bis fel lows. He would be made the laughing-stock of the school and would soon find himself the possessor of any num ber of effeminate nicknames that would grate upon his ears in any but a pleasant manner. "It Is truo," continued the old sol dier, who was no other than Col. K. B. Collins, a retired army officer, in a Dentists Believe They Have a Kick CHICAGO. "Well, I don't know what under the shining forceps I am go ing to do, anyway," and a dentist in the Masonic temple sighed a perfect mammoth of a sigh. 'The matter? Hair, Just plain hair. No not plain, either. Now, for In stance. A lady came up to my office the other day and wanted her teeth fixed, and finally I took hold of the top of her head with one hand, while I worked with the other. Then I turned away to get an Instrument, and my sleeve button caught In her hair and tbe whole back of it, about fifteen fat, shiny , curls, came along with me.. She simply froze me up, and she didn't oome back to pay her Job tho fight against the Insect began to assume proportions of magnitude. That little insect which the average citizen was wont to regard merely as a domestic pest Is now branded as the most dangerous creature on earth. The house fly has been publicly Indicted ns a murderer of the human race, the greatest disease propagator and tho carrier jf more menacing and malig nant germs than all other creatures put together. This little, but potent, messenger of death wanders' from the sick room, Irom the tilth or the garbage pall, trom tho henp3 or. refuse of all kinds, Into the peaceful, happq homes of our land, walks upon the butter, the meat, tho fruit, the sugar, takes a bath In the milk, leaving everywhere the germs of disease that have gathered upon Its furry feet and body. About half tho deaths from typhoid In New York, according to the health authorities, are attributed directly to the distribution of germs by house files. And worse than that, the figures j show that of 7,000 deaths of cooing uuljtes in that city from Infantile dis eases, more than 5,000 were traced to Infection carried by house flies. According to a noted scientist the extermination of the pest is compara tively easy. All that is necessary, he says, Is a systematic effort on the part of the public. If all the people will practise the utmost cleanliness, It Is declared, the house fly will be extinct In this country within a few years, for the house fly cannot exist without filth. "Cleanliness," then, Is the watchword for the American public to put an end to an Insect that is not only a terrlblo nuisance, but a terrible Instrument of death to thousands of our population every year. Hunt New Home dreds of miles of paved roadways will lead from New Orleans north, east and west, and that for the first time In Its history New Orleans will posess sub urbs. The nearest town or settlement of any consequence Is now 50 miles dis tant from New Orleans. Within fifty miles Of every large city in the coun try a million or more people reside, and many Industries develop business and wealth for the urban population. This is the end New Orleans Is working to and will have reached, in large part, anyway, by the time the Panama canal is opened to the ships of the world. Meanwhile modern sewerage and drainage within the city proper have practically and wholly solved the city's sanitary problems, and the discovery of a simple method of filtering the waters of the Mississippi river has given the city a pure water service ex celled by none in the world. These sys tems are in operation and are nearly complete. They have cost the city about $25,000,000. discussion of West Pointers, "that many West Pointers acquire a figure of perfection of symmetry and a car riage the acme of manly grace, but these are due not to any Ingenious ap pliances, but to the systematic drills and exercises that make the cadet, to a certain extent, an athlete. At the outset these young fellows are put through what are called the 'setting up' exercises, their object being to straighten the body and develop the chest. One might suppose that it would require a great amount of such exer cise to make any marked showing, but three long hours of such exercise dally will soon produce beneficial re sults In the most stooped forms. "The cadet uniform Is also a great help in this direction. The dress coat is tight, very tight. The shoulders are heavily padded In order to give them a square effect. The chest is made thick, so that there will be no danger of wrinkling. All this for the sake of looks; comfort has no place in the make-up of a West Pointer; It Is dis cipline and looks." bill, either. Say, this new fangled hair style is putting me to the bad. . "The worst feature of the whole thing is that the heads, or rather the Xair, won't fit Into the headreBts. I have tried all manner of schemes, and even had a new headrest built along lines that f was sure would fit, but the heads simply won't fit into any thing. "If we do succeed In getting the mass laid out and tucked away care fully where it won't bother us, we get something like thlB: " 'Oh, mercy, doctor, you are mus I nc my hair all up. And I am going to a party this afternoon, too.' "But the most usual thing Is: 'Oh, doctor, there Is a hairpin sticking In my head. Watt a minute. O, dear, it's coming down. Doctor, do stop a min ute while I fasten up my braid.' "I do tell you what, the dentists ought to get together and boycott the present style of h'alrdress, or else in sist that all extra hair be taken off before any dental work will be done. That would settle it, all right," viuuinu. in x was ironDiea wun falling and Inflammation, and the doc tors saia l couia not get woll unless I had an onnrAfcinn. I knew I could not stand the strain of one, so I wrote to voa somefdmn a.on about my health ana you told me what to do. After taklncr T.vAIn n Pinkham's Vege ta me, uomnouna ana bulnra u-imco, ooo u . Z1SC Dl., lUlCagO, 1U. 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It Is common to deplore the lack of humor In a person Yet the very want of it may save a certain amount of embarrassment, as was the case on a certain occasion with President Johnson. "He was one day," says a writer In Harper's Magazine, "visit ing my mother, and a friend, Mrs. Knox, a widow, came In. She had known Mr. Johnson some years be fore, when he was a member of the legislature but they had not met since then. After mutual recognition, Mr. Johnson said: 'How Is Mr. Knox? I have not seen him lately.' " 'He has been dead six years.' said Mrs. Knox. '"I thought I hadn't seen him on 1 the street,' said Mr. Johnson. Y "When Mrs. Knox left, my mother ' said, laughing: 'That was a funny mis take of yours about Mr. Knox.' "'What mistake did 1 maker said Johnson. 'I said I hadn't seen him on the street, and I hadn't' " One Side Enough. Senator William Alden Smith tells of an Irish justice of the peace out in Michigan. In a trial the evidence was all in and the plaintiff's attorney had made a long and very eloquent argument, when the lawyer acting for the defense arose. "What are you doing?" asked the Justice, as the lawyer began. "Going to present our side of the case." "I don't want to hear both sides ar gued. It has a tlndency to confuse the coort" Washlngtonian. One of the first necessities of our life is that we grow upward like men. When we cease to aspire we descend in the scale. Freston. A business man's leisure Is simply the time he doesn't know what to do with. The minute a man begins save money his friends can tightwad. Convenient For Any Meal Post Toastie Are always teg serve right from t with the addit cream or milk. Especially with berries fruit. Delicious, wholesome, , economical food which saves a lot of cooking in hot weather. The Memory Lingers" ' VOBTOf CURB 4.1, CO, 1 Bsttto OrMk. Klok. ll:hllS!iiilii;!iiliJ I: ii! JVi I J rjleasingv or' fresh rv