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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
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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,"
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Mr. Johnson Unable to See Where In
Any Way He Had "Put His
Foot In It."
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.
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