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iSpp INtFOOD
!) Ends Persecution o English-
cea Id LIberlio Republic.
BAN ON MONEY
TfJREW;VITRlOL:
Blackmailer ' Attempted to Ctrry
COST :reticuie
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London Substituting Coupons for
Coin in Commercial World
trench lidr Waots . Damages for.
. .rr Iheft:i)f-:.WiJte; ?.
Out TJtrett of Deitb. 1
TELUNG FIRED AT WIGHT
BOY DEVELOPS BASS VOICE
GIRL DIES A SUICIDE
PEASANT TO PRINCESS.
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car f England in Open Shooting
Cause Officials to Seek Under-
fluid Methods in Revenge
't '-. for Libel Suit.
Eight-Ycar-Old Musical Prodigy Dis-
covered by Organist Color En-
vironment New Scheme for
Beauty Doctoring.
Driven Despondent by Prophecy of
.' Fortune Teller She Procures a
1 Revolver and Shoots Herself .
Before Her Lover.
Dancing Girl at Madrid paptirated
' Maharajah of Kapurthala Who
Carries Her Uf f to Palace
and Orders ' Marriage.
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BT ALEXANDER GILMOUR
(nuM Pojt Cablegram.)
: LOWDON. lurch a. The BriUah gov
ernment Is demanding compensation from
the negro republic of Liberia for the
death of two Englishmen who. it li al
legedV Were slowly poisoned by prominent
Llbarlaas at Cape Palmas. one uf the
principal porta of the West African re-
pubUe. Evidence now In the possession
of tha foreign office thoroughly Justifies
thesa serious charges. and reveala an
amazing atory of aystematic persecution
and tyranny at the hands of negroes who
live under title so-called "model" black
republlc
Thw victims were E. A. Ditchfield
agent (or Ditchfield. limited of Liverpool
and the dlatrlct agent for Lloyd' a at
lap farinas and Mr. John Blenltinsop
on of hla asaistanta. As Lloyd's agent.
Mr. Ditchfield made certain complaints
agamst a local rirm of timber merchants
at Cape Palmaa regarding a abipment of
mahogany loga. In tome manner a ropy
of these oomplatnta. which Mr. Ditchfield
had forwarded to the British consul at
.Monrovia fell Into the hands of the firm
in question.
A libel action resulted and Mr. Ditch-
fleM was ordered to pay 115.000 damages
this mount being afterwards reduced by
the appeal court to 110000. Mr. Ditch-
field placed the matter In the hands of
the Consul at Monrovia and demanded an
investigation by the British government.
-Following this libel action both . Mr.
DHehfleid and Mr. ttienkiuaup war. uh-
lected to every conceivable Insult by the
' LibeYians at Cape Palmaa. Their dwell-
In was fired Into every night and on
several occasions they narrowly escaped
shot.
ASSAULTED BT IN8PKCTOR.
. Mr.' Bl en kin sop was assaulted by a
dranken customs inspector on one occa-
sion and seriously Injured. He was aft-
erward arrested on complaint of the In-
spector and was subjected to great an-
noyance by the authorities who harassed
Mm with continuous legal proceedings
and eventually imprisoned htm for some
hours in a filthy Jail. After bis release
Mr. Blenklnsop was taken Ul and he died
on August 11. having obviously been pois-
oned. Mr. Ditchfield. who had a long experi-
ence On the coast and a close acquaint-
ance with danger. Ignored the outrages
against him. and although the Libertans
heaped Insult upon Insult on him yet to
use bis own words "he stuck It out and
was determined to see the thing
through."
The Cape Palmas officials arrested btm
and released him; they placarded his
business premises with offensive notices
yet be refused to leave the country but
did what trade he could in hla store by the
water's edge during the day sleeping as
well as he might in his fortified bunga-
low. Matters went from bad to worse and
finally Mr. Ditchfield sent an urgent tele-
gram to Sierra Leone for assistance. The
British gunboat Dwarf was dispatched
under full steam to Cape Palmas stop-
ping at Monrovia to pick up the British
consul. She came into the harbor at
Caps Palmas on the morning of April L
and Mr. Ditchfield thus exultlngly de-
scribes the scene: .
IWfICIALB FEARED BRITISH.
immediately- went aboard with an-
other ' British agent and after having
breakfasted cams ashore In fine style. I
took the helm and acted as pilot When
we arrived off the wharf I asked if we
could pass; the cry came back like thun-
der.: Yes. The British flag at the bow
and' six bluejackets in the boat put the
-would-be mighty'. In a atate of fear. The
town seemed dead and there was a great
silence everywhere; hardly a soul was
about. The officials who had been mak-
ing my Ufe unbearable had cleared off
into the country.
. "After visiting my house the consul
and commander proceeded to the office of
the superintendent and delivered an offi-
cial message. The consul told the super-
intendent that he would not warn him
any- more; the British government had
been watching the plnprtcktng treatment -Imposed
upon Europeans and the time
had coma to put a stop to such annoy-
The consul then demanded tt'M
negro prisoner who had been confined In
chains In a filthy cell for seven v years.
Me was formerly a sergeant In the Sec-
ond West India regiment and was Im-
prisoned as a dangerous lunatic having
killed his wife while suffering from brain
fever. The conaul found him wearing a
seventy-five pound chain and greatly de-
JeoteA but apparently sane. Before leav-
ng the consul promised that he would se-
cure the negro's release If It could be
J roved that lie was really a British sub-
set No sooner had the gunboat left Cape
Palmas than the persecution of Mr.
Ditchfield and his assistant was resumed.
After Mr. Blenklnsop's death there was a
lull in the hostilities but in October Mr.
Ditchfield became ill. and he died In
great agony on December 11.
It ts alleged that both Mr. Ditchfield
end Mr. Blenklnsop were poisoned at the
Instigation of certain Llberians who
judged It to be In their best Interests
that these two Knglishmen should dis-
appear. JUisuli Declines Show Life.
(Houston Post Cablegram )
TANGIER. March 21. -a letter has
been received from Ralsuli the brigand
in which he states that he has no inten-
tion of leaving Morocco for Kngland to
be "On show" at muitr halls or for any
nther purpose. He may possibly at some
Miture. date he saya. perform the pll-
j.i'linage to Mecca.
JOFFEE
brings sleepless nights and
drowsy days to many persons.
There's a drug; caffeine in cof-
fee) Which causes a lot of trou-
ble:' .
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" Tho ill effects of coffee soon
disappear when it Is left off and
the tot of.
1
la lt place tends to build up
steady nerve and a clear
trnfcridn. .
This .health beverage is made
:. ora eholc. wheat and contains
no; toff or other drug-lilts ma-
10 days' trial of Poatum will
''owl valuable results. If one Is
"ferint from any of the many
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(BY W. HAMILTON RHODES .
LOA'DON. March a. The announce-
ment that books of ti keis for motor
cab rides are about to l issued auggeata
tl at the time la eomini; when money will
scarcely be used at all. Kven now It ia
possible to ride in train.-. tuoea" and
tramways With coupons or eason tickets;
to pay hotel bills with cn pons; to have
an "adonnement" at a barber s shop. In
Soho there ore certain restaurs ta where
customors can pay so much u month for
dally lunch or dinner on the continental
plan. A hotel company possessing large
establishments In London on the South
(toast and in the pro inces undertakes
for an annual pavinent to house and feed
one the whole year round with full liberty
to change from hotel to hotel as buslneas
er Inclination dictates. It is a wonder
that some of the big restaurants have not
started this system for their regular pa-
trons. It may be objected that all these
services have to be paid for In money lo
begin with when tho coupons or season
tickets are purchased. But that Is not so.
Payment can be made by check. It is
quite within the bounds of possibility that
the day may shortly arrive when money
will be needed far lesjs than It la lodav.
when
all.
Indeed It will hardly be wanted at
BASS HIN'QER AT EIGHT.
Joseph Williams the 8-year-old son of
a decorator living in tile Malda Vale dis-
trict is the most remarkable noy In Lon-
don. At the age of 7 his voice "broke"
and became sepulchrally bass and now
at the age of 8 he is the possessor not
only of a full-grown man's voice but of
a budding moustache. He has proved a
sore puzzle to thirteen doctors Including
the late Sir William Broadbent. who have
examined him and pronounced him a
"freak of nature." This very precocious
boy wa "discovered." by I'grry Cole the
organist of a church in Malda Vale and
the composer of several light operas and
songs. The boy came to him a week ago
to have his voice tried for the church
choir and Mr. Cole at once noticed that
the boy. whose birth certificate he can
produce possessed a deep bass voice.
Parry Cole became so Interested in the
case that he made an arrangement with
the parents of the boy to teach him sing-
ing for seven years. Joseph Is tall for hla
age and sturdy and amazingly solemn.
He Is very dark and on the upDer 11d is
a well-defined moustache which his
mother cuts for film now and then it. i.
extremely Intelligent and has a voice of
Immense power. He sang a patriotic song
entitled "Queen Victoria" composed by
Parry Cole and the power of his voice
would have made a socialist nn nuih.m
Common green with envy. Then he sang
a scale and reached the C In the baas
clef. At present bis ear is poor but Parry
Cole believes that he has In this boy a
pupil who will one day become a great
basso prof undo.
NEW SCHEME FOR BEAUTY.
A novel scheme to promote the beauty
of women has Just been started by an
artist. Mrs. Florence Scott. In Wlgmore
street. Mrs. Scott has organized a
beauty club." In which clients can stav
for a week or two while they are under
going a course of beauty osfrure. The
moat original feature of the. club ia that
each client lives In an environment of her
temperamental color surrounded by her
favorite flowers.
"AU my life I have been a beauty
lover said Mrs. Scott "and aa an art
student my work led me to think more
and more about the necessity for beauty
In the faces of every-day men and wom-
en. Of picture makers there la no end
What we want la a maker of human pic-
tures artiste devoting themselves to the
perfection of face ana figure. I have ul-
waye had a theory that the color of our
environment 'baa a much greater influence
than Is usually recognized and that we
each posse us a color which affects us
tnore than any other. In my experience
of treating seventeen thousand cases of
all kinds of face blemishes. I have found
at many patients did not progress as
rapidly aa they should. I came to the
.eoRChsalon that not only treatment but
Special environment after the treatment
was necessary. It is for this reason that
I have- founded this club which Is the
development of my theories. During the
flrat treatment 1 learn my client s tem-
peramehtal color and also her favorite
flower. I am thus able to judge what
color will prove most successful In her
case. She may be advised uprloot lilac
white or rose pink and. If tho season al-
lows her room la transformed into a bow-
er of her favorite flowers."
PROGRESS OF IRISH LANGUAGE.
In the house of commons the other day
Claude Hay representing a North of Ire-
land constituency said he was much
scandalized at the progress which the
Irish language was making. In a voice
tremulous with suppressed- Indignation he
Inquired whether the Bank of Ireland
was not accepting from its customers
checks signed In Irish and whether the
postmaster general and the colla tors of
the inland revenue were not receiving
postal orders and checks signed In the
same language. Mr. Hunclman the finan-
cial secretary to the treasury told Mr
Hay that the hank was master of its own
affairs in transactions between Its cus-
tomers and itself With regard to the
poatofflce and tho treasiirv his anuu.r
Js effect was that all that these depart
ments required was to he satisfied that
the signatures were genuine. Mr. Runcl-
san addeii that tii question whether
Irish was In the future to be the "com-
mercial and nanking language" appeared
to him to be one which should be de-
cided by the cominerclul and bunking
community rather than by the govern-
ment. TWIN GIRLS TTNITED T0GETHEB
Indissoluble Bond of Flesh and Bone
at the Hips.
( Houston I'ust Cablturam.)
LONDON. March -1 A Britrhton wo-
man lias given birth to twin girls who
lire united nt the lilps by what Is be-
lieved to be an Indissoluble bond of flesh
and bone. Ir James Rooth. who Is at-
tending the case states that each child
has a dlFtlnct Individuality for one has
been noticed to be crying while her sister
was sound asleep. T)f- babies are Joined
in such a way that they ure almost back
to back. unl they iHve to sleep on their
sides with faces turned from each other
ll Is believed that any attempt to sepa-
rate them woujd lend to the death of
me or both but lo ascertain exactly
whether this Is so the children are to be
photographed under the X-iavs In order
to reveal the nature of the connection.
At present the children are verj healthy
and lively. Their mother is poor and
the strange twins have been adopted by
a childless woman.
PREPARE FOR B0YAL VISIT.
King Edward to Be Greeted by
modern raiaoe at Madrid.
(.Houston Post Cabhtrain.1
MADRID March 21 From a well-informed
source it Is learned that at th.i
Palace of La Oranja Important modifica-
tions are being made In all the rooms.
Floors are being taken up and the wall
decorations altered. A plant for provid-
ing electric light la being Installed in
the gardens. The bedrooms are being
refurnished and the bathrooms redecor-
ated. Well-informed persons say that
tnese arrangements are belna: mad in
t: I
ELsoJiE? ai...m .m .i"B Swara
t&&A.ZlIJL.- th 8Puln
expectation of a visit from King BdWard
sv-..a .jama. i
swssnws uunug we .coming spring.
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A View of the Water Front of the Port of Talcahuano. Chile.
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HORROR IN DREAMS
ITALIAN PRAYED FOR ARREST
AS A MURDERER.
Sought Relief From Visions of Crime
in Which He Poisoned Compan-
ion Who Sought His Life.
(Houston Post Cobltgram.
FLORENCE. March 21 -One night this
week a ragged Individual named Jacobin!
appeared at the police depot and aaked
to he arrested. He is a victim of re-
morse. To the police officer In charge
he told the following moving tale
"For pity's sake arrest me! I can no
longer sleep because my nights are dis-
turbed by visions of a tremendous crime
which I have committed and which has
heretofore gone unpunished. Put me in
prison. In consequence of a condemna-
tion for homicide I was expelled from
France where I was a shoe-black. I
went to Livorno. where I lived with
some relations. But one by one they
died and I took up my abode with a poor
old ragpicker to whom I paid a few
pence weekly tor my bed. His name
was Giovanni Colombia. We did not
agree together and there were perpetual
quarrels.
"One day I found out that Colombia
was trying to kill me by putting poison
In my food. Then I took a box of luci-
fer8 dissolved them In water and threw
the solution Into some aoup which Co-
lombia greedily consumed. Shortly
afterwards he was seized with the mosf
atrocious pains and was taken to the
hospital. But tho doctors could not aave
him. Nobody suspected what had been
the cause of his death. It was believed
that he had picked up something In the'
street swallowed it and became the
victim of hla own gluttony.
"Three years have now passed and
nobody could accuse me. But I can not
live any longer. For three years I have
not slept. I am always persecuted by the
most dreadful visions. I think If I was
tn prison and under trial I ahould at
last sleep calmly and condemnation
would bring peace to ray conscience. So
I pray you to arrest me."
All the people who know Jacoblnl sav
that he haa never ahown any algns of
Insanity.
LABOR UNDER OPPRESSIVE TAX
Congo Native Bound to Continual
Work for the State.
'Houston Post Cablegram.)
LONDON. March 21. -A batch of consu-
lar reporta relating to the condition of
the natives in the Congo Free State haa
been Issued aa a white paper. The most
Interesting of the reports Is a memoran-
dum written by Mr. w. Thesiger British
conaul at Boma. on December 31. in which
he states that through the operation of
the labor tax the native Is practically
tied down from one year's end to another
to a life of continual labor for the state
receiving in return for hla produce a price
far below Hie market value and for bla
work u remuneration leas even than the
low cost of labor as fixed by the state It-
self Not content with fixing the price
of the native's produce and the value of
the goods which It compels him to accept
in exchange In lieu of money which the
native never gets the administration
takes credit for the payment of any sum
at all as "un acle dp pure condescend-
ance" In no way obligatory upon It.
AMERICAN BEEF IN ENGLAND.
One-Fifth of Supply Controlled by
Four Firms.
Fost Cablegram.)
LONDON. M:n.h '.'1-The Dally Mail
says: The condition of the English meat
trade has for some ilrfte excited consid-
erable uneasiness among all Interested
In the problem of the food supply. The
output of home-grown beef hns largely
and continuously declined in bulk and
much of it haa fallen in quality. We have
become more and more dependent on the
foreigner and at the same time our for-
eign sources of supply have become
limited and the wholesale dealing in for-
eign meat has fallen into fewer hands.
One-third of tho beef eaten In the
United Kingdom today Is supplied by ten
corporations threo working from the
1'nlted Htates six from Argentine and
one from both America and Argentine.
One-fifth of our beef supply Is controlled
by four firms.
DIAMOND FOR A POODLE DOG.
Paris Stares at Canine Bedecked
With Stones in the Ears.
(Houston Post Cablegram.)
PARIS March 1 tjulte a commotion
was caused In the Boulevard Haussmann
the other afternoon when one of the best
known women In Paris got out of an ele-
gant motor cur leading with a silver
chain a tiny poodle dressed In the height
of fashion. The dog was wearing a pig-
skin collar adorned with gold coins and
a little fur coat with a side pocket from
which peeped a small lace handkerchief
while Its paws were protected from the
damp by Indian rubber shoes. In the
poodle's ears were two pairs of diamond
earrings one pair In each ear the ears
being pierced at the base and at the tip
GRAPHLED WITH AGED ROBBER
Hacktfnschmidt Had Little Trouble
in Subduing Thief.
(Houston Post Cablegram.) i
PARIS March 21. Hackenschmldt. the
well known wrestler while recently stay-
ing at a hotel In the Rue Lafayette was
aroused early one morning by a slight
Round and on turning on the electric
light saw an old man with a white beard
rummaging In his valise. '
Hackenschmldt Jumped out of bed and
grappled with the thief who made no
resistance. When taken to the police sta-
"c svo iui
iiuii lie sHve iiuiiiTi mn Mian jviifiviih.
aged 71. tie said he waa penntleSag and
?. He penmiessa and l
has been without food for tweatyf-fpur I
uours. .o fl i.l I
COIN MONEY IN JAIL
CONVICT COUNTERFEITER PUR-
SUED CRAFT AT NIGHT.
Corrupted Warder Slips Tools to
Prisoner and Circulates Spurious
Pieces After' Manufacture.
(Housiou Pttt CsMsgnrai.)
BERLIN March 11. To turn a prison
cell Into an amateur mint and circulate
false coin therein manufactured direct
from the scene of his csptlvity was the
brilliant Idea of a convict at Rendsburg.
For some time the police of tne
Schleswlg town had been much puszled
by the prevalence of spurious five-mark
pieces the source of which it was Im-
possible to discover. At length the
mother-in-law of a prison warder was
detected in the act of trying to pass two
of the fraudulent colna. She denied how-
ever all knowledge of how they had
come Into her possession and a watch set
on the house of her son-in-law revealed
nothing of a suspicious nature.
But one of the detectives had the happy
idea of having himself confined In JaU
as a aupposltltltlous prisoner la the dead
of nigni. as he sat In his solitude pon-
dering over the problem his attention
was suddenly aroused by a strange tap-
ping In a neighboring cell. Slipping out
quietly he peeped through the observa-
tion window of the ddor from behind
which the sound seemed to come and
to hla astonishment saw a convict and
a warder hard at work with a very com-
plete smasher's plant.
It appears that the prisoner who was
in tor coining had corrupted the guar-
dian and Induced him to bring his Instru-
ments to Jail from their hiding place. He
had then Initiated him into the mysteries
of his craft and they had set to work
together while the warder's 'wife and
mother-in-law placed the produce of
their labors on the market.
KILLING GYPSIES BY SCORES.
Terrible Reprisals of Farmers to Bid
Country of Plague.
(Houston Post Cablegram.)
VIENNA. March 21 The plague of
Gypsies in Croatia and Hungary has re-
sulted In terrible reprisals by the farm-
ers who have suffered greatly from the
depredations of these marauders. Nine-
teen Gypsies comprising an entire band
died auddenly near Tompokevac Croatia
after eating portions of a cow which they
found dead In a forest. It wsa after-
wards found that the body of the tow
was poisoned.
In a neighboring district aixteen Oyp-
alea belonging to another band died after
eating hares which had been poisoned by
the farmers and left dying In the fields.
Both Croatia and Hungary are overrun
with Gypsies who rob wayfarers levy
blackmail burn lonely farm houses and
are often accused of stealing children.
The authorities have been unable to de-
port them and Imprisonment apparently
has no effect on them.
Fire Loss at Huntsville.
(Houston Post SptciaL)
HCNT8VILLE. Texas. March 30.-A
fire which occurred about 2:30 this morn-
ing destroyed the old Locke or Cox hotel
property and an adjoining residence own-
ed by S. Glbhs. J. R. Hampton owner
of the hotel property carried email Insur-
ance. The hotel man W. H. Secrest lost
all household goods; Insurance tiOO. The
Gibbs residence Insured waa occupied
by Dr. L. H. Uush. who loat heavily; in-
surance 60V.
Avoid Secret
Stomach Remedies
Because Most of Them Contain
Dangerous Ingredients Which
Produce the Durg Habit.
Thousands of people having dyspepsia
or stomach troubles In some form con-
tinually "dope themselves with all sorts
of secret tonic drugs pllla. oathartles
etc. which not only Inflame and Irritate
the stomach and intesllnee but In many
cases cause the oinum morphine and co-
ceine habits.
You have a right and ahould demand to
know what any medicine contains before
you take It. unless it Is put up or recom-
mended by scun. reputable physician
?"akes and quarks will put most anything
nto their secret preparations to make
you like their useless stuff so as to want
more of It. umii it makes you the victim
of some druc Imhlt. which will ruin vour
health In a ahmi time.
Stuart's Dyspepsia Tablets are not a se-
cret remedy thev do not contain Injurious
drugs and thev are recommended by
thousands of physicians In the United
States and Canada to their patients for
dyspepsia catanh of the stomach and all
other stomach troubles resulting from Im-
proper dlgesthm of food.
These wonderful tablets actually digest
food because they contain the very ele-
ments that are required of a healthy
stomach to properly digest food thus act-
ins as
most note and giving the over-
Worksd digestive
organa
a rest
and
chance to regain
their
former
health.
strength and vigor.
Stuart a DyapepsiM Tablets contain fruit
and vegetable essences and pure concen-
trated tincture of hydrastie. and golden
seal. which tone up and strengthen the
mucous coats of the stomach and increase
the flow of gastric and other digestive
iu.T. v-.iHcieu i rum milk); nux
strengthen the nerves controlling tho
action of the stomach; bismuth to absorb
gases snd prevent fermentation' and
asepiic poimiii igov test) or the highest
digest v power All of these are scien-
tifically incorporated in these tablets or
lozenges and constitute a complete nat-
ural speedy cure for any stomach trouble.
. Bt0I.t1 DrPP'"a Tablets are sold In
law flftV-eeiit boxes by all druggists.
Write US -for a rr lamnl. n
iniai serayie aione win aive vou suffinUnt I
T1?K"1mpl!La.m wn ' ym sufficient
relief tS convince you. Address F A
relier l convince you.. Address F. A
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TURKISH OUTRAGES
MACEDONIA SCENE OF FRESH
ATROCITIES BY TROOPS.
Four Shepherds Were Killed in At-
taok on Settlement and Herds of
Sheep Wantonly Slaughtered.
Houston Pott Cablegram.)
SOFIA. March IL During the past few
weeks a number of fresh atrocities have
been reported in Macedonia. The con-
tinuance of outrages on a large scale at
this season of the year Is altogether ex-
ceptional and Is very ominous for the
spring. The principal event last week
according to a report by gendarmerie of-
ficers was an attack on a settlement of
Vlach shepherds near Karaferla by a
Greek band. Four shepherds were killed
three were wounded snd 3280 sheep and
goats and 150 horses and mules wers
slaughtered.
Recent occurrences Illustrate the state-
ment in a memorandum by gendarmerie
officers that the excesses of the Turkish
troops In the villages show no diminution.
The French adjoint. Colonel Verand haa
protected against the misbehavior of the
troops in carrying out perquisitions in
the kasas of Nevrokop and DJumala. In
the Zarovo district of Seres the troops
compelled a priest and several villagers
to set fire to a houss In 'which a band was
concealed. In view of the British pro-
posal to tranafer the pursuit of the bands
to tne gendarmerie the following official
figures are Interesting as indicating how
the troops discharge this duty: -Killed
in vtvi Bulgarians xw; o reeks t; Serbs
88: Vlacha. 4. Cantured. Bulararlana 10:
Greeks 28; Serbs t The ratio of- killed
w capiurea m tne case or. tsuigansns
is especially noteworthy.
Two remarkable figures in the Mace
donian conflict have disappeared. The
famous Bulgarian bandit Daeff who en
deavured to kidnap Colonel Billot Is r
ponea to nave been "executed" by order
or nis cmei eanaansKy lor insubordina-
tion. The equally celebrated Creak arch.
bishop of Kastoria according to a tele
gram rrom canstantinopie has been ban
lshed to Samsun for complicity In the
proceedings or the bands in his diocesa
THE HAPPIEST MAN ON EARTH.
Suhr Villager Proclaims Himself in
Sign on House.
(Houiton Post Cablegram.)
GENEVA. March 21. Johann Schmld.
who lives In a cottage In the village of
Suhr In the canton of Argovle haa had
painted across the front of his dwelling
In large letters the sentence :
"Here lives the happiest man on earth "
Schmld who is 65 years or age said
to an Interviewer: "I defy you to find
a happier man than myself. I have
never worked never married never been
111 and have never been anxious for the
future. I eat well drink well and sleep
well. What more would" you have?"
When In Ida teens Schmld was left
by his father an Income of about $3 a
week and a smlll piece of land. He built
hla cottage on the land and haa occupied
It ever since.
Preached Polygamy.
(Houston Post Cablegram.)
GENEVA March 21. -Four American
Mormon missionaries from Utah who
were arrested recently at Colre were
sentenced to three days' Imprisonment
without the option of a fine and also to
expulsion from Switzerland for preaching
polygamy.
Lady Injured in Runaway.
(Houston Post Special.)
GONZALES Texas March . Yester
day evening while returning from a visit
to frianda In the country Mrs. Dr. Carl
Aldehoveu wife of City Health Officer
Aldehoven waa thrown from her buggy
and painfully Injured In a runaway ac-
cident near the city limits. One hand
was badly cut and several fingernails
torn off besides several other bruises
about the body. One peculiar leature of
the occurrence was that another lady
Mrs. Menklng of this city with her small
baby were also In the buggy with Mrs.
Aldehoven and were also thrown from
the buggy and neither mother nor child
received any Injuries whatever and the
mother rose from the ground with her
baby still claaped tightly In her arms.
Mrs. Beaumier Not Indicted.
(Houston Pott Specud.)
HALI.ETT8VILLE Texas. March 20-
The grand Jury which convened Monday
today adjourned finally. No felony in-
dictments were returned except those
against Rome Foley and Jim C'onley.
Mrs. Beaumier who on January 2 last
shot and killed her husband W. R. Beau-
mier In front of the Herald office waa
not indicted although the court In hla
charge to the grand Jury called attention
thereto and Instructed the grand Jury that
It was not within Its province to say
whether she was guilty aa this was a
matter for a petit Jury to determine.
An old Mexican by name of Martinez
who haa been In JaU for some months on
the charge of robbery was Ordered re-
leased. journalists Commits Snicide. -
(Associated Preti Report.)
WASHINGTON March SO. Frank H.
Hoaford. at one time reading clerk of
the houae of representatives and for
many years a newspaper man well
known in this cay and throughout the
State of Michigan cooimltted suicide to-
day. - i
Killed by Kick of Hone.
(Houston Pott SptcUi.)
MEXJA Texas March J0.-W111 li.
Richardson. sob of Hall . Richardson of
mis cirv. was Kicked in tne siomaon oy i
this eltV. was kicked in the slomaoh by
a horse yesterday afternoon sand died I
froth tha effects this morning- at S o'clock.
" - - "-
(Houston Pttt Cablegram.)
BT BERNARD FISCHER.
BERLIN March XL-A diabolical case
of blackmailing fn which the miscreant
attempted to carry out his hideous
threats. Is reported from Munich. A few
weeks ago a manufacturer-millionaire.'
named Wilhelrn Ludovlct. received a let-
ter in which he was summoned to leave
tM0O at a spot afterwards to be In-
dicated and to Intimate his willingness
to do so through the advertising col-
umns of a local paper. The communica-
tion continued:
"Ton wUl now as I assume hand this
letter t the police and have me arrest-
ed when I go to get the money. In the
latter you would not succeed but you
would nevertheless experience the follow-
ing: To convince you of the serious-
ness of the matter I would first kill one
of your children and do It with means
or which you have no idea and against
which there Is no protection. Then 1
would again address to you my demand
for money but this time require two
million marks (SMO.OUO). If you remained
atlffnecked I would cause another of
your children to follow the first and
each time demand a million more till
your resistance was broken. Take care
pf your eyesight in case you should lose
It. acape from this doom is Impossible
for you and yours. Tou may have your-
self watched by detectives. In vain. You
may leave Munich but I will follow you.
Jpven if I ahould be caught that would
be nothing to me. No one Is executed
now. and JaU has no terrors for ma Ex-
perience gives wisdom and as a rule one
evil experience Is enough. Take care
that you do not recognise In the corpse
of your first murdered child how fool-
ishly you have acted. But It will be too
late. jr0U wm not know another peace-
able hour for every moment you may
expect another Job's messenger whereas
now by payment of a trifling sum you
escape it all. It rests with yourself to
choose what form your life ahall take."
This letter which waa written with the
freedom of a cultured man. bore the sig-
nature Josef Meier. Herr Ludovlcl. who
la generally known to be particularly de-
voted to his three boys regarded the
document aa on a level with other crazy
applications of which every notoriously
wealthy man Is the object and said
nothing about It. He also paid no at-
tention to a further letter. In which the
writer announced that the death sentence
ui ins iirsi eon naa lauen.
One evening last week however as two
of the millionaire's sons were returning
rrom school to their father's villa in the
suouru 01 oogennausen. they were fol
lowed by a couple of lads of some 12
i jea.rs ui age wno. ss soon as tney
reached a lonely spot rushed at them
and attempted to empty bottles of vitriol
over tneir neaas. Liuckliy the plan railed
only one of the boys being touched on
the back of the neck by a drop of the
kciu xne assailants maae on. one or
them who had apparently scorched his
own nana witn tne acid flung away tho
bottle wrapped In cloth aa he ran.
Herr Ludovlcl of course now Informed
the police of what had occurred and
they inserted a trap advertisement in the
press. The villain who bad planned the
outrage nowever evidently smelt danger
failed to appear at the appointed
rendezvous. Meanwhile he bad written
to1 the now Sntlous millionaire. Inform-
ing him that the attack had merelv haan
Intended to show that his threats were
to ne iatsn in earnest. The police have
aiscoverea tost a lew days ago a man
of whom an exact description has been
obtained vainly attempted to persuade
ums taas piaying m tne street to throw
what he called "salt water" over the
poys wnom ne would point out to them.
Harr Ludovlcl s children are no longer
auoweu lo go out uuaiienaeo.
EVIL I2f FORTUNE TELLING.
How much mischief can be wrought by
fortune tellers Is shown by the melan
choly fate of Augusts Reltzensteln a
young Vienna ballet dancer who had
come to BerUn hoping to find employ-
ment. The girl had been unsuccessful
In her efforts In this direction but had
formed an acquaintance with a decora-
tive artist which rapidly ripened Into a
tender relationship. In an evil moment
she consulted a fortune teller who In-
formed her that before reaching the age
of 23 she would shoot herself In conse-
quence of the infidelity of her lover.
This dismal prophecy preyed upon her
mind and cast a shadow over her love
affair. Finally she bought a revolver
with which she journeyed out dally to a
suburb to practice shooting in prepara-
tion for her destiny. Yesterday she paid
a visit to her lover and after loading
him with reproaches for his Imaginary
treachery pulled out the revolver arid
aiming only too well shot herself through
the head.
REFUSED A PARDON.
The kaiser haa refused the petition of
the old shoemaker Voigt of Koepenlck
fame for a free pardon. Volgt. whose
exploit in December. 1906. was one of the
Jokes of the century states that he Is
in ill-health. He ia aervlng a term of
four years' imprisonment. The release
of the old man would be very popular.
The ludicrous manner In which he held
up the town of Koepenlck with the aid
of the kaiser's soldiers amused the whole
empire Admirers have sent him all
sorts of presents which have not of
course yet been allowed to reach him.
and a wealthy lady baa promised to pro-
vide for him so that he shall never want
when he is released.
POST CARD INSTRUCTION.
German Educators Introducing Them
IntePublic Schools.
Consul FraP S. Hannah In the follow-
ing report from Magdeburg tells of the
new educational use of pictorial post
cards In Germany:
At the recent meeting of the German
Geographical society the Idea waa ad-
vanced for the first time to employ picture
postal cards as means of instruction In the
schools. The post card Industry has
made enormous progress In the lost few
years and In the last few months cards
have been brought Into the market Illus-
trative of natural history political his-
tory and for use In instruction in the Ger-
man language which have met with the
hearty approval of professors and teach-
ers of reputation.
The school museum at Breslau haa un-
dertaken to form a collection of these
cards and for this purpose has requested
the various publishers to forward them
samples of their output that It may be
determined to what extent they may be
need for purposes of instruction. -Further
two teachers In Leipzig have established
a central bureau for meritorious post
cards of all aorta intended for purposes
of Instruction coUectlon and travel. They
have also developed and offer for sale two
practical systems for the display and
filing of the cards. These gentlemen se-
lect and arrange the Cards moat carefully
according to pedagogical principles. Such
prominent educators aa Harms Tischen-
dorf Rudolf Schmidt and others have In-
dorsed the plan of using Illustrated card
as an aid In Instruction and even official
bodies such as the Provincial Bohulkol-
leglum In Potsdam anticipate favorably
results from them.
Wilson Boys at Brenham.
(Houston Post Special.)
BRENHAM Texas March W. Deputy
Sheriff J. . Perry and V. S. Randle
of Hempstead brought up from that
place today John and Arthur Wilson arid
lodged them In the county Jail at this
place cnargea witn tne murder or WUl
Gammage at Hempstead .last Friday.
ge hi rter
writ of hi
. on a writ or habeas cornus their wars I
On a writ of habeas cornus the'
remanded wlthont ball and the case waa J
transferred from that district to Wash- 1
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BY A. W. L'AMORBAtJX.
(Houston Pott CsMsgrast.)
f ARIS. March xL A "Lady from Max-
im's" Is suing Maxim's for the loss of
12000 worth of Jewelry. She was sitting
at the bar in the Rue Roy ale and put
down beside her a reticule In whloh for
some unexplained reason she had placed
all the valuables she possessed. The
areas of a friend of here "happened to
get disarranged." Like a good soul she
helped the lady In distress and "read-
Justed her toilette" for her. While en-
gaged in these sisterly ministrations hei
attention waa withdrawn from the reti-
cule. When shs bethought herself again
of the latter it had gone. A waiter had
vanished with It. and he was not found
till long after minus the valuables when
he was arrested convicted and sentenced
to eighteen months' Imprieonment. The
ludy la rot satisfied and claims $200 dam-
ages the price of her lost property from
the Maxim's cafe as responsible for its
servant. But the c afe disclaims all lia-
bility and saya that the lady was guilty
of contributory negligence by putting
down her reticule on the bar counter and
leaving It there.
DANCING GIRL WEDS PRINCE.
Romance has entered the Ufe of the
proud and splendid niaharajah of Kapur-
thala according to a wondrous tale of
the potentate and a beggar maid dome
years ago the Dolgados father mother
and two little girls lived at Malaga on
the proceeds of a fried fish stall at a
street cWner. They went to Madrid to
better themselves and the two little
girls leurned dancing. The "Hermanas
Camelias" were tiny star Just begin-
ning to sparkle on the music hall stage
In Madrid at the time of Alfonso XIII s
wedding. For the latter ceremony the
maharajnh of Kapurthala went to Ma-t
drld saw the sisters and was van-
quished by the elder. He carried her off
gave her a palace In Paris and masters
and mistresses to teach every accomplish
ment befitting a princess. The other day
Anita Delgado that was the little Span-
ish dancing girl whose father kept a
fried fish stall In the streets of Malara.
ripras married to the Indian prince and
he Is now her highness the maharanee
tf Kapurthala and both are expected in
Paris on their honeymoon.
WOMEN A8 GUARDIANS.
The minister of the fine arts In Franca
can not be considered to be opposed to
feminist progress as he has Just signed
a decree authorizing women to be ap-
pointed attendants In the publlo museums
and libraries. The women of course
are to be entirely on the same level as
male candidates that is they must pas
an examination which varies with ease)
post and in some cases academic de-
grees and a knowledge of foreign or an-
cient languages Is required. The news
hss come like a bolt from the blue to all
the museum officials In Paris not one of
whom. -from Mba chief curators down to
Uie ushers . knew that the minister had
signed such a degree. When asked wht
they would do they said that they would
simply wait for further orders and soma
one. very cruelly remarked that there wa.
talk recently of employing dogs there-
fore why not women to watch over the'
safety of the museums. At the Louvre
certain officials were very skeptical and
took It almost as an offense to 'their
pereonul dignjty. There will always he
the question of the uniform" said one. "
"and the Idea of a woman wearing a uni-
form is not to be thought of."
Rl'NS AMUCK IN CROWD.
Louis Tarturln. thfi inventor of a new
dlabolo game called yoko was demon-
strating In the Tulleriea gardena the other
afternoon when the pointed yoko el
wooden peg-top-shaped Instrument fell
on him and broke his nose. The crowd
ahouted with glee and this made Tartarin
ao angry that he ran amuck among them
and. tying hla yoko to the cord swung
t round and roun breaking one man's
leg and badly hurting anothor. He is In
prison.
Wreck Near Bronson.
(Houston Post Special.)
BRONSON Texas March 20 A tie
train waa wrecked about seven miles
north of thla place four cara leaving
the track tearing up a bridge which de-
layed the southbound passenger train
about seven hours. No one was hurt In
the wreck. A section man had the
misfortune of mashing one of his thumbs
so badly that amputation waa necessary
while repairing the wreck
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