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riJK HAHTFOKD DAILY COUIiAXT, WEDNESDAY, JAXL'AltY 4. 1905. 1 CHINA'S INLAND CANALS. HE TOOK POSSESSION. BILL TUMM.

home nf Mrs. c.iodwm on Friday vrnoon at 3 o'clock. ROBBERY MOTIVE OF PAGE MURDER. your folk the tale o' Bill Tumm Deep Arm." Tis not." I answered, "such ft tale as they like to be told." "Never you mind that." he persisted. "Do you tell un that tale.

'Twill do un good." "But," I protested, "they'd never read it." "Do you put it in print." said he, doggedly. "They ought read It." "Even so," I continued, 'twould never impress them." "Put it in print," said he, "at Christmas time. For, maybe then," he concluded, wistfully, "they'll be askln' you how they can help the folk that lives down north on the Labrador." "I'll tell the story, skipper," said I. And I have. CANNOT TALK WITH MRS.

CHADWICK IN PRIVATE. Federal Oflieer Will be Preet vi hea Doctor Hold Intertieir. Cleveland, Jan. 3. Dr.

Chadwick today called at the county jail and asked that he be permitted to see his wife privately, in order to talk over their affairs. He was informed that he could visit his wife as often as desired, but that a federal official must be present at all such interviews. According to Louis Grossman, attorney for Receiver Nathan Loeser. the trunk and satchel belonging to Sirs. Chadwick will be opened tomorrow by Mr.

Grossman at the Chadwick home Euclid avenue. Nothing is known definitely of their contents. The care that Mrs. Chadwick took of the two pieces of baggage while she was in New York had aroused a great deal of interest. She has not had possession of them since rhe left New York and they were received in this city only few days ago.

And the Bad Man Took Wafer. (Washington Correspondence of Cleve. land Plain Dealer.) One who saw an account in these dispatches of the duel Alfred Henry Lewis did not fight with Prince Iturbide supplied the narrative of the one other experience Mr. Lewis has had with the code duello. While it was strikingly different in scene setting and the Bot Acres of this affair was the antithesis of Prince Iturbide it has been suggested that this incident illustrates as graphically a phase of human nature exempli, fied in the recent meeting of Tom Law-son and Colonel Bill Greene, he of the four notched gun.

This first of the duels In which Alfred Henry Lewis figured as the intended victim took place in the West. Within thU circumstance lay, it is said, the friendship Lewis enjoyed -with one Bat Masterson, which now culminates in not a little literature from the pen of this Cleveland author. A difference had arisen between the cattle concern with which Mr. Lewis was connected and another. A ranch was the matter in dispute.

There was litigation and bad language over that ranch. At last the rival concern, recalling the saw about possession being nina of the essential points, retained the services of a local bad man, who took possession for his employers. While it was believed that the reputation of the bad man, which was very bad indeed, would be "sufficiency," yet no precautions in the way of a email arsenal or an ammunition supply were neglected. The cattle concern with which Alfred Henry Lewis was connected, however, had no mind to yield its claim without action. Lewis was sent to take the ranch away from the bad man.

It waa understood at the time that a fresh murder charge against the bad man would be of great assistance In recapturing the ranch and in the pending legal action. At any rate Mr. Lewis was dispatched on his errand. He rode for a few days through that western country, thinking, possibly, upon his past life, and anon he arrived at the disputed ranch. His hall was unanswered.

He relieved his pony of saddle and bridle, turned him into the corral and entered the ranch house. Perhaps the cook informed him that the bad man was abroad and would return soon. Perhaps there w-as no cook. At any rate Mr. Iewis sat stiffly on a chair in the ranch house, waiting the return of the bad man, and mediating anew on several details of his past life heretofore overlooked.

At last came the co-partner of death, a small piece of artillery bulging from each hip and the good natured indifference of the man who has no reason to fear harm. For some time his awesome reputation had been shield and buckler to the bad man. "Hello, Alf," he cried cheerily. And "Hello," Mr. Lewis replied.

Across his knees rested a Winchester rifle of generous caliber. Mr. Lewis toyed with it carelessly as one might twirl a bunch of keys about his fingers. The bad man, standing In the open doorway, made careless inquiry into the errand that might have called Mr. Lewis to the neighborhood.

It was evident that his polite curiosity was chiefly Inspired by ennui. Mr. Lewis smilingly "reckoned he had been sent to take possession of thin ranch. The bad man laughed heartily. "And what do you reckon you're a' goin' to do about it, Alf?" ho inquired with perfect good nature.

Mr. Lewis leaned comfortably back in his chair and played with his Winches ter. The pressure of one of his chubby fingers on the trigger, with which he toyed, would have furnished that country with a notable funeral. But still Mr. Lewis smiled affably and looked with directness into the eyes of the bad man.

A dawning suspicion had crept Into the bad man's face and he took notice for the first time of the conveniently placed rifle. He still smiled, but his smile had shrunk. "What do you reckon you are goln' to do abut it, Alf?" he asked again. "I reckon I'm going to take possession," said Mr. Lewis.

"In fact, I reckon I have taken possession. What do you think about it. Bill?" There was a long pause. The bad man looked at Mr. Lewis, who looked steadily at the bad man.

Mr. Lewis still smiled cheerfully. Finally the bad man spoke. "I don't know's there's iany use of you 'n' I quarrelln' about it," he said. Mr, Lewis kept the ranch.

Still a Member. a (New York World.) Edward Everett Hale, the chaplain of the Senate, is chuckling over the grind he has on a certain New England senator whom he will not name. Some time ago the chaplain went to this senator and said: "I have never heard that you are a member of the church." "Oh, yes," the Senator replied, puffing out proudly. "I am a member of Old Plymouth Church." "I am glad to hear it," rejoined the chaplain. Two or three days latetr the chaplain went to the senator again and said: "By the way.

Senator, I have been looking up the record of Old Plymouth Church and find it was burned eighteen years ago and has never been rebuilt." "Very true," replied the senator calmly. "I belonged there twenty years ago and did not let a mere fire disturb my membershlp.M MARVELOUS MY DISCOVERY The Secret of Certainty in Recollection, PLAINLY STATED; SIMPLY TAUGHT, PrraonalW by Correnpondeaee. W. T. Stead, "Hevlew of Kevlewn." nyt "I consider Pelmaii a Benefactor of the bamao nee." PELMAN SCHOOL OF MEMORY, SO Whitehall Building, New York City.

Mr. Pelmtn'i book "MEMORY And What CM Done To Impme It." Sent POST FKEE upon request. For laternal and F. ternal I r. Cure and prevents Colds.

Coujia, Bore Throat, influen. HromiiltU, Piunmenla. Swelling of tha Joints, Infliim-matlorik, Rheuinatlom, Neuralga. Headache, Toothache, Antlima. Difficult itreathlna.

Httdway'f Ready Relief Is a lure cure for Kvery Pain. Ppralns. Hrulfs. Peln IE The Part They Play I Fwlin the People and FertlliiiB the Final, (Consul George E. Anderson, Hang- chau.) There are several features of the can- I system of China, especially of the Imperial or Grand Canal, which can be studied with profit by the people of the United States.

One of these is the use of the canal for the production of food in addition to its uses as a means of transportation. Allied to this is the use of the muck which gathers at the bot tom of the waterway for fertilization. Another is the use of every particle of plant life growing In and around the canal for various purposes. The Chinese secure a vast quantity of food of one sort or another from their canals. To appreciate the exact situa tion with respect to the waterways, it must be realized that the canals of China cover the plain country with a network of water.

Leading from the Grand Canal in each direction are smaller canals, and from these lead still smaller canals, until there is hardly a ingle tract of 40 acres which is not reached bv some sort of a ditch, gen erally capable of carrying good-sized boats. The Srst reason for this great network is the needs of rice cultivation. During practically all of the growing season for rice the fields are flooded. Wherever a natural waterway can be made to irrigate the rice fields it is used, but, of course, from these to the canals or larger rivers there must be waterways. Where natural streams can not thus be adapted the Chinese lead water in canals or ditches to tne edge oi their fields and raise It to the fields Ci rice by the foot power carriers which have been described so often by tourist riters.

However the water is supplied to the rice, it Is evident that there must be a waterway leading to the field and back to a principal stream, which is generally a branch canal, inese waterways naturally take up a considerable portion of the land, and the Chinese make as profitable use of them as of the land Itself. The first use of the waterways is ror fishing. The quantity of fish taken from the canals of China annually Is immense. The Chinese have no artificial fish hatcheries, but the supply of fish is maintained at a high point by the fact that the flooded rice fields act as hatcheries and as hiding places for the young fish until they are large enough to look out for themselves. tne United States this fish propagation an nex to the canals is probably neither possible nor needful in view of tne work done by the State and national bureaus; but In China it Is nothing less than providential.

Along the canals in China at any time may be found boatmen gathering muck from the bottom of the canal. This muck is taken in much the same man ner that oysters are taken by hand on the Atlantic coast. In place or tongs are large bag-like devices on crossed bamboo poles which take in a large quantity of the ooze at once. This is emptied into the boat, and the process is repeated until the boatman nas a load, when he will proceed to some neighboring farm and empty the muck, eithti directly on his fields especially around the mulberry trees, which are raised for the silkworms or in a pom, where it is taken later to the fields. From this muck the Chinese farmer will generally secure enough shellfish to pay him for his work, and tne reraiizer is clear gain.

The fertilizer thus secured is valuable. It is rich in nitrogen and Dotash and has abundant humus ele ments. This dredging of the canals for fertilizers is the only way by which tne Chlnestevhave kept their canals in reasonably good condition for centuries. The fertilizer has paid for Itself both ways. Recently there were complaints filed at Peking that tne asnes irom the steam launches plying on the can- ais were injuring the muck for fertilizing purposes, and the problem has been considered a serious one by the Chinese Government.

In addition to securing fertilizers rrom the canals, and thus keeping the canals in condition, the farmers help keep them purified by gathering all floating weeds, grass, and other vegetable debris that they can find upon them. Boatmen will secured great loads of water plants and grass by skimming the surface of the canal. The reeds growing along the canals are used for weaving baskets of several grades, and for fuel, in snort, no plant me auouv the canal goes to waste. Where there are so many canals there In more or less swamp ground. In Chi na this Is utilized for the raising oi lotus roots, from which commercial ar rowroot Is largely obtained.

There Is no reason why much of the waste swamp land in the southern portion of the United States should not be used for a similar purpose, and the commercial returns from a venture of this sort in that part of the country ought to be satisfactory. Where the canals of China widen, by reason of natural waterways or for other reasons, the ex-naiise of water not needed for actual navigation Is made use of in the raising of water nuts or several varieties, especially what are known as water chestnuts. These nuts are raised in immense Quantities. They are, strictly speaking, bulbs rather than nuts. They f.re rich In arrowroot and are prolific, an acre of shallow water producing tar more than an acre of well cultivated soil planted In ordinary grain or similar crons.

There are duck farms all along the canals In China. These are profitable Chinese canals, as a rule, considering the population upon them and their va-ncd uses, are cleaner than canals In the United States. There are few If any factories to contaminate them. The Chinese use of certain sewage for for. tillzatlon also prevent contamination to a great extent.

The canal water Is used for laundry, hath, and culinary purposes Indiscriminately. A canal in the United States could never be what It Is In China, but the Chinese have a number of clever devices and idem in connection with canals which can be adopted In the United States with profit I nele Joe In Illah ife. (Washington Post.) Out In his own Congressional district Speaker Cannon is not an unfamiliar figure driving along the highways In an old buggy and saluting every farmer he encounters with a friendly "How de." He drives hither and thither over the prairies in that old rig, which the voters regard as real evidence that the Speaker, in spite of his hUh office, la still one of them. What would they think If permitted to view the Speaker In a picture which reposes on the mantle of his private room at the Capitol? Therein he up. pears on th front seat of as magnificent a tally-ho as Bar Harbor ever saw, whisked along behind four bob-tailed high-steppers.

He sttt erect as a ram rod and seem to be sniffing the exhil arating sea air. The explanation la found In the gen tleman by the Speaker's side Kepr' sentatlve Morrell, of Philadelphia. It Is Mr, Morrella own fashionable turn out, and It was he who hospitably lured the Speaker to take such an unusual ride. A Iteelpe from I s. (New York Hun.) Job ai asked how ho acquired lis repn'st'tn for patience.

"Rocauw," he anawer.1. "I alwava Dr. Weilinston reports that the Yannais child that was sick with spotted fever has nearly recovered. Georsre At wood, who was injured while rliying football on Thanksgiving tay, is in a very bad condition. NO RESULT IN DELAWARE.

First Ballot for ntlieers Find I.eg-iliiture Deadlocked. Dover. Jan. 3. The General Assembly of Delaware Is deadlocked on or-ganizilion.

The union republicans with twenty-two of the thirty-one members the Legislature. Insist upon having two-thirds of the legislative offices, including president pro teni. of the Senate speaker of the House. The regular republicans insist on an even division. The opening proceedings in the House showed the following vote for speaker: Representative William D.

Denny (union rep. Kepresentative lison (reeular Representative Smith dem.l. 15. A similar deadlock prevailed in the Senate over the attempt to elect a pres- deiit pro tern. Clapp for Senator in St.

Paul, Jan. 3. The rcpubli-an members of the Legislature held a aucus tonight for the purpose of nom- nating a I'nited States senator to suc- ed Moses E. Clapp. By a vote of 1-7 1, Mr.

Clapp was endorsed for re- lection. The two houses will vote for United States senator on January 17. PUTNAM. Common Council Meetiiigr l.at Eve ning Church Flection. Putnam, Jan.

3. The regular meeting the common council was held this evening. The standing committees for the year are: Finance, Mayor Perry, Alderman-at-large F. E. Clark, Aldermen Henry J.

Thayer and Edward Mullan; highway Clark, Dady, Beaudreault fire depart ment, Macdonald, Bradway, Pechle; ity property, Dady, Beaudreault. Iiyan; police, Thayer. Macdonald. Pechie; or dinance. Mullan.

Clark, Bradway; street lights, Bradway, Dady, Ryan. The street labor bill for thirteen men the nioiilh of Decent her was $122.69. The Putnam Light and Power Company's bill for December was The lire department bill from October 1 January 1, 1903, was $442.50. Michael Morlarty, ex-superintendent of streets. sidewalk and sewers, sill believes he holds the office and presented the fol lowing bills: tor services, 1902, for 1903, for 1904, $500; interest; $Ui0; total, It was disallowed.

The Congregational Society has elect the following officers: Clerk, Clark; treasurer, F. J. Daniels; histo rian, Miss Harriette Brown; necrolo gist. Mis. Ellen Stoddard; superin tendent of Sunday school.

Arthur M. Clark; deacon, Chester E. Child; new member on standing committee, Ste phen A. Wing. The membership of the church on December 31, 1903, was 391 addition by letter, by profession, 14; total, 20.

Losses by dismissal. 11; losses by death. total, 1. Membership, De cember 31, 1904, The Methodist Sunday school has elected these officers Superintendent, Edward Wood; assistant superin tendent, Ernest Gilmore; secretary. Ellsworth Wilcox; treasurer.

D. B. Gil bert: librarian. Miss Lena Rowley; chorister, Frank M. Bennett.

City Treasurer Charles H. Brown and Mis. Brown of Oak Hill are entertain ing Mis. Delia Brown of Rochester, N. Y.

Miss Helen Hammond hns returned to the Emerson School of Oratory, Henry Wheelock to Yale, Herbert Smith to Princeton, and Harold Sargent to Wil liston Academy. Before the council meeting adjourned this evening City Engineer Huber D. Card tendered his resignation. The rea son he gave was that Charles E. Chandler of Norwich had been engaged to draw plans for the new sewer system, and that he.

under the charter, should do the work. The resignation was tabled until the next meeting but Mayor Perry was authorized to sign contract wilh Mr. Chandler for the plans. TH0MPS0NVILLE. Louis Galloway and John Mack were in court yesterday charged with breach of the peace as a result of a fight In Furey's saloon Monday afternoon.

They both pleaded guilty and were fined $10 and costs, amounting to $23.38. Gallo way paid and Mack was taken to jail Ernest Twenty, who had a card show ing that he was a member of the cigar makers' union, was charged with drunkenness. Sentence was suspended on condition that he leave town. Bernard Wynne was stricken with heart failure while at work In the car pet mill Monday nud died in about flf teen minutes. He leaves a wife and four children.

The body will be taken to New York this morning for burial The mills of the Hartford Carpet Corporation, which have been closed during the holidays, with the excep tion of one or two departments, ill re sumo work Thursday morning. UNIONVILLE. The public schools opened yesterday with the same corps of teachers as las term. This evening Hie newly elected ofll cers of Ada Chapter, O. Iv will be installed.

liiionville Lodge, Fraternal Honen League, which was instituted recently with a membership of thirty-six, has decided to meet the first and third ii day evenings of each month at the Ci A. R. Hull In the town building. The Installation of the officers Evening Star lodge. A.

F. and A. will take place at their lodge room a 7:30 o'clock Thursday evening, and wl be followed by the annual banquet am. dance at the low hall. FORESTVILLE.

The stock of th American Self-Wind Ing Clock Company was so at auction yesterday by Deputy Sheriff A. L. Morse to satisfy judgment due F. N. Man-; for rent of his factory.

The stock iotisited of eighteen finished clocks and about movement. Henry W. Porter purchased the lot. orld hinnlotttili tinmen. Cincinnati, Jan.

3. chairman Heirnuinn of the national Imsehal! com. mission said today that he believed rules fur the government of a series of h.iKol.ul; gann for Ihe Imniplonshlp of the woii. i would be adopted with the mining meeting of the national commission, which Is to control such contests. Mr lb iiiiHiun believe.

that under these e.iii.iii urns then- is no reason why the Boston American and New York Nationals should not meet In the spring. .1 -n ti ii Would llne ftnld Amen to i til. I 1'ougllkerpnlc Fugle To be plain about It. liee.l Smoot has light to be ii Monnoii If he chooses, has a right to be Mohammedan If he i huosf. to womliip Buddha, or to "i ship nobody and believe In nobody; an i exclude blin fiotn sent In or rien to question his rlaht to len II selll llleeallH" of Ills MeWS op I'figlom it mnk violation uf the slliulloii of the I niteil und.

tf II should be nuceeVful. would be one the oiitias.H timi lias been pe; peli ate. I in oiii tune. in a A Story Front the Forrcantle. (Norman Duncan in The Congregationalism.) We bad run the stout little Bird in Hand into Hollow Harbor of the lower Labrador to escape the rage of a rising gale a dirty switch of wind blowing down and in, coming viciously from the gray, mysterious seas of the north, where evil winds gather.

It was too much for the trader, able as she was, but now low with the fish in her hold-too much for our courage and will for toil, for one may beard winds only by their grace 'tis by indulgence we sail the seas, not by virtue of the greater might. And now we lay at anchor, the various noises of the gale subdued by distance, the water placid, the forecastle lamp alight, the bogie-stove glowing. Twas marvelous cozy, lying there in snug harbor; and we yawned and smoked and hummed lightsome melodieswith never a thought of the driv ing wrind and the black, tumultuous fiea which were beyond and concerned us not at all. as always in harbor of a dirty night we told tales. "Ever hear tell o' what Bill Tumm o' Diep Arm done?" the skipper asked, breaking a dreamful silence.

"Cook," he commanded abruptly, "brew us a cup o' tea. An', lad," he added, "give us a snack o' biscuit. It makes me hungry t' think o' Tumm o' Deep Arm. Just," he concluded, 't'think o' that man!" The cook busied himself with the kettle and tin cups. The rest of us cocked our ears for the skipper's yarn.

"I was cook o' the Decks Awash, when Tumm well when Tumm o' Deep Arm done what he did. We was fishin' the Labrador at Caribou Tickle late in the fall o' that year. Beatin' up for home with a tidy v'y'ge, an easterly gale, veerin' t' the s'uth'ard, drove us into Yellow Cove, with the old tub leakin' like a bag; an' there we was colched by ice an' winter weather afore we was able refit an' get out. An' they wasn't nobody livln' anywheres near Yellow Cove. says the skipper, 'here we 'You isn't got that quite right, says I.

says he. 'Isn't says 'you isn't. 'Tis not here we says 'Tis here we says he, 'we got the says 'we got Ihe says 'an' we'll have the 'Tis a beggarly stretch o' coast 'long about Yellow Cove bare as a bone, with but a scattered livyere livln' up the bays, hidin' from the wind an' snow. 'Twasn't no use settin' out afoot, for th was nowheres us could go. Nowhere," he added, with a grim smile, "where they'd shout a joyful welcome t' five sizable stomachs, all in the best o' workin' order.

An', we was snug aboard the Decks Awash, lyin' In the lee o' the Giant's Hat a wonderful sight snugger, I'm thlnkin', than in a Labrador tilt with a holt in the roof where the chimney ought t' be. So we squatted down for the winter hopin' for an early spring, says I the skipper. 'I'm wishin' we had more 'Tis no use, says he. 'They isn't a barrel o' flour on this coast that somebody wouldn't do murder keep. says he, 'they never "Deep Arm lies some fifty mile t' the nor'ard o' Yellow Cove; an' that's where this Bill Tumm lived, with his woman an' five young ones.

Cook" the skipper burst out, irrelevantly, "put a bit o' beef with that there biscuit! Ecod!" he muttered, "it makes my teeth water think o' that man. Ay, but," he resumed, sighing, 'twas there that Bill Tumm lived. I've always loved that man. Just for what he done. 'Tisn't every man would do it.

No, zur! Most o' we would think we'd do it, an' go do it; but we'd haul off the tops'i'n turn tail t' the gale when it come t' tha pinch o' holdin' on t' the end. Ay, I've loved that man ever since I seed un lyin' there. says I myself, 'he done well. A man like says 'ought t' have a tombstone. "Well, fish was poor, that year, at Deep Arm, an' this Bill Tumm got Into the winter with nothln' but flour an" water t' see un through, an' only plenty water.

'Long in November Missus Tumm she put her foot down. She'll seo them young ones fed once a day, says she, no matter what comes of it. Bill he had give in, for when Missus Tumm put her foot down, Bill had stand by. He says he'll have the kids eat once a day, within reason, but he'll have her eat once a day, too, says ho. If 'tis only for the baby's sake, which can't thrive on flour an' water, bein' very young.

She says she'll eat once a day If Bill will eat once in a while, and Bill says he'll cat once in a while if she'll eat enough t' keep that baby goin'. He won be unreasonable, says he; he won't mind If the kid gels a bit thin, but it's got t' be kept goln', says he, 'til the spring break-up. An I keeps my right, says he, eat as seldom as I says he, 'after Febooary "So they goes ahead on tiiat there arrangement. But in March it looked like a late spring, an' BUI sees that there isn goln be enough keep un all alive 'til the Ice got out an" the fish got in. 'I ll have go the neighbors.

says he, 'an' get some An' next day he sot out for Butter Cove, forty mile t' the s'uth'ard, where lives Jim Tull an' his woman an' kids. Hut Jim didn't have nothln" t' spare. 'I'll give you what you'll take. says he. 'Go help But Bill wouldn't take says he, '1 11 go says he, 'C Ragged Head, where Zach Tupper lives.

says he, 'he's got innie'n An' away he went. says Zach, 'there's my flour barrel." "Bill took a look. An' says Zach, 'here's my 'There was eight o' them an' a wonderful fklnny outfit. So Bill Tumm went home. 'Mary, lass," says he, 'the neighbors hasn't got nothln' t' spare.

I'm sorry, says he, 'hut they Isn't enough In our barrel for us all. I'm snys he 'that you an' Billy an' Mary oould get along on what's left, If the young ones an' me wasn't here. An' Mary, says he, 'I'm wantln' be alone a bit. Do you tnke which was the oldest maid, 'an' do you take which was the oldest lad. an' fine one, able take care of his mother an' sister, says Bill Tumm.

"do you lake Mary an" Billy the woods t' look for spruce tips. I'll tend the says 'til you gets back. Don't you fret about me, says he, 'for I'll do the best 1 knows how for them The skipper of the Bird In Hand paused. "And then?" I asked, forseelng the tragedy. "He got a ax." the skipper answered, "an' killed the three kids." "And then?" "He got a gun." said the skipper, quietly, "an' killed hlsself like a man!" "Do you know this to he true?" I demanded.

"Well." the skipper drawled, "when wn heard tell o' the need o' Bill Tumm. me an' the skipper o' the Decks Awash sot out for Deep Arm, with some rotten fish on our backs. But we got there lust too late. The talc's as Irue as the blood we seed." The tea was now brewed; and with a hnmd grin of auth Ipstlon, the lolly little cook poured It. The skipper lifted his ateamltiR cup, blew a reusing gate of wind across it and set It down.

"Mister Cmher, mr," said looking uu, "when you goes home, do you tell GOVERNMENT OUTLINES ITS CASE AGAINST TUCKER. MVS BODV AS PR KitiKI) TO HOOll WHERE FOlD. Fiber from Hall Matting Found In Skirt Blade of Knife Owned by Toeker Fitted Wonnili Telltale Handwrltlna. of Prisoner. Cambridge, Jan.

3. The outline of the government's case as presented by District Attorney George A. Sanderson today to the jury in the trial of Charles L. Tucker for the murder of Miss Mabel Page. In the morning the jurors visited the scene of the crime.

The district attorney said that the motive for the crime was robbery and he declared that the commonwealth was prepared to prove that in addition to committing murder. Tucker had stolen money and jewelry from the Page house. To connect Tucker with the crime and prove his presence in the Page house on the day the murder was committed Mr. Sanderson said that the government would attempt to show that a piece of, paper hich was found in one of the rooms of the Page house bearing the address L. Morton, Charles-town, was written by Tucker and forgotten by him.

Mr. Sanderson also declared that a knife, the blade of which had been broken in three pieces and otherwise mutilated and which Tucker admitted to be his, fitted the wounds in Miss Page's body, which caused her death. According to the district attorney, the accused man also admitted, directly after his arrest, that he tried to destroy the knife in order that suspicion should not be directed towards him. The district attorney described the conditions In the Page House immediately preceding the murder, showing how, one by one, the victim's brother, Harold, left ior Boston, louowea ty tne tauter anc then the housekeeper. Miss Amy Roberts until Miss Page remained alone.

Before Miss Roberts started, Miss Page gave her a dollar, taking it trom purse which contained a sum ex ceeding 112. Miss Huberts had gone when, about 11 o'clock, a laundrymiin named Maynard. called at the Page house to deliver laundry. "He is the list per son Known to nave seen jmiss rage alive, said Mr. Sanderson.

The condition and position of the body were described by the district attorney particular stress being laid on ihe fact that it had the appearance of having bee laid down. Mr. Page found the followin note on the table: "Have Just heard that Harold Is hurt and Is at the Slassaehusetts ueneral II pital. Have gone in at 12 o'clock. Will leave key of front side door with barn key Will telephone Mrs.

Bennett. After stating that the nole would have an important bearing In the ease, Mr Sanderson described the wounds on Mis- Pages body, faying that although at first it was considered case of suicide, later developments Indicated that a foul crime had been committed. Heath was caused, said the prosecutor, by wounds in flicted in the back and tie breast, which penetrated to the heart. The dead woman's skirt, which was removed, was thrown behind the door and adhering to this skirt were traces of straw matting. Some of the fibers of the matting were white and gome of them were red.

"Now," continued the district attorney, "there were no red libers in the carpet on the room in which the body was found There were red fibers In the carpet of the hall outside and there were red libers In a carpet down stairs. The commonwealth will show that Mabel Page was not killed In the room where her body was found but that she was murdered in another part of the house and her body dragged Into her bedroom. Mr. Sanderson then referred to the ride Tucker took with Artnur Woodward on the day of the murder and the finding of a unite slieatn wnicn Tinner at nrst oe tiled that he owned, but afterwards ad mitted was his. Mr.

Sanderson said that on the sheath were teeth marks, whl the commonwealth would show were made be Tucker teeth. The alleged motive was taken up by the district attorney who s.ml: "in tlia pocketbook which was known to contain at least $12 Itefore the murder, onlv cents was found after the discovery of the crime. "It will appear." said the district sltor nev. "also that a few days after the mur der the prisoner displayed a sum of money in which was a $1 bill, one of the rune denomination having been In Miss l'ng purse on the morning of the murder." It was then staled by the prosecuting attorney that bloodstains were found on Tucker's clothing. In the pockets nf hi overcoat was also found a pin, which, th government claims, was In the plncush ion on Miss I'age bureau on the day at ter the murder.

TERRYVILLE. itoll all at Congregational Church Knd of Dnemiell Klulit in Mulil Tcrryvlllc, Jan. The annual roll call given In the Con gregationa! Church last night was the best In many of its features of any the three that have been held. Th church has a membership of over 300 and of this number 2t0 were present to answer to their names. Of the remainder most sent notes explaining why they could not be present.

After this part of the affair was over, there was reception, and to the pastor. Rev. S. E. Evans, was gien a purse containing a sum of money.

There was singing by Miss Nellie Gowdy of Bristol, the soprano einger of the choir, und Herbert Knox, At the business meeting, rule Xii of the church was changed to read that the deacons shall be less than four. tiuler this change Kollin J. Plumb and George M. Boyuigton nv i toil, i The deacons are, in addition to those elected last night, homer W. Griswold, I Andrew S.

GaylorJ, Ernest Wood-I ward and Jason C. lYnn. The tight between the two factions of St. Pau, German Lutheran church which has been In court for six months and which has kepi the chun doors closed for tint ngih of tune Is within sight of being ended. The waning Lo tions have agreed to hold their annual meeting on the evening of January 17 at 8 o'clock when a voting list wl.l be used which Rev, Mr, Dmssell admitted was right except that some men on it have not paid their dues but ttie pto ed at once thai they had.

A general call has been posted on the sign post and the call which as ssm by the dis-to-ntlng niernliem for nn eting on wry has been rem Indeil. Judg I'eck, counsel for the dissenting member, and Noble K. Pierce, counsel tor Rev, Mr. Dtiossoll, have agreed thai the presiding othVcr at the meeting sha I he Kmll Haul, an fidh'ient of the niin-isler'a, and the, rleik Is to be Kuieyt Kartell, who bc'oiigs to the other fin Hon. The basketball git me tomorrow' vep.

Iiig will be played by a picked Ave from Hartford and the regular Terry vllle Ave. The game' ill tommeiuc at 7 4'. clock. ihe young Miialilana' cinh will have ltd postponed meeting on Friday after-1 noon of thin week at 4 o'clu, k. The Ladles' Foreign Missionary So-ctety of the t'nnsn gut ions' church will l.u.d 111 annual iiieinuiiul iiin the of and to for to ed a I I 1 The Filipino Seoom.

(General Leonard Wood.) The men prior to enlistment, wore very clothing, seldom or never shoes, and lived principally on a diet of fish and rice. Scouts and United States troops have served together on several occasions, involving extremely hard marching and service under difficult conditions, and the comparison was unfavorable to the frcouts in every instance, In the white soldiers readily outmarched them. Natives of the same class, an the Scout soldier, employed as cargadores, corrying weight considera bly in excess of that carried by the Scouts, traveled very much better, notwithstanding the fact that they were without shoes and lived on a ration composed almost entirely of rice. If the Scouts are to be maintained on exactly the same footing as regular troops and detailed for service under the eame conditions, it may be well to dress, equip, and feed them as do the men of our permanent regular Establishment; but if the purpose is to main tain them for service In these islands ar.d require of them a high degree of mobility, and expect them to carry little Impediments, the result of our policy th.rs far has been a failure. We have produced a native soldier costing us two or three times as much as the native soldier of these islands cost the Spanish government, and it is certain that as he now stands represented in this Depart roent by companies of average excell ence, we have not to any extent in creased his marching ability or his usefulness for the purpose for which it It understood he is maintained.

The piincipal causes of the Scouts' inability to march seem to be sore feet, due to wearing shoes entirely unsuited to his type of foot, incumbrance with a bulky ration, and unnecessary clothing and equipment. Much greater attention should be given to seeing that he is properly shod, with a light rather soft shoe; in brief, a shoe made to fit an unspoiled natural foot, very wide at tut widest part of the foot, the toe. The Scout, when hard pushed, will, if left to himself, carry his shoes most of the time and only wear them in exceptional ly rough or thorny country. The Scout, when we first get hold of him, has, as a rule, excellent feet, capa ble of days of the hardest kind of work, Unfortunately his feet are only too frequently spoiled by the issue of ill-fitting siroes, which pinch and ruin them, rendering him a clumsy and poor marcher, and cripple his feet for marching without them. This condition of affaire is chargeable largely to the officers, who give far too little attention to this most important detail, a condition not limited by any means to the Scouts, but fre quently encountered in the regular es tablishment.

The Scout's ability to do excellent marching bare-foot should be Improved to the utmost and his feet kept in condition for so doing. The shoe issued should be built for his foot and used only on exceptional occasions, such as unusually rough or thorny country occasions of ceremony, under arms in towns, etc. The legging should be much short er only sufficient to catch the bottom of the trousers securely, and the blanket furnished him should not be over two- thirds the weight of the present blanket The haversack, the greatest encumb rance to the soldier, should not be fur nished him, but a small, light canvas pouch like that used by the Constabul ary. We have swathed and toggled our tropical native soldier, whose natural clothes weighed only a few ounces and hung loosely on him, with all the cloth ing requirements of those of the tern pet-ate zone. The native is.

of course. proud to put these things on. but they only serve to Increase his cost and limit his usefulness in this country. As rice, chickens, eggs, or other native food can he procured in most parts of the Islands, it would he well, under certain condi Hons, to fllow Scouts twelve cents gold per day to subsist themselves, thereby saving cost of transportation and avoid Ing carrying of rations on the person in other words, render Scouts much more mobile. The Eternally Feminine (Pittsburg Times.) Bascom exulted openly when Ms pretty cousin from Johnstown called him up on the 'phone to say that she was yielding to the shopping fever for a day and that he could take luncheon with her.

If he would. If he would Machine guns couldn't have kept him away and the pretty cousin did full jus tlce to the elaborate little affair to which she sat down. She had expected that Bascom would do something of that sort. "Now," she said, "I'm going to look for some silk for a shirtwaist. To' have been so nice that you can coma along, if you care' to.

Men need to be shown how to buy," she concluded sweetly, and Bascom followed her Into the elevator with an entirely proper sense of his incapacity. lb? stood by helplessly while she sal unintelligible things to the clerk whose hair had been brushed with offensive car. His feeling of being where he did not belong Increased as the pile of ma terlal on the counter grew. "What ild you say this sold for? asked his cousin. "Eighty-eight cents," said the clerk suavely.

"Why It noesn look a bit beter than that sixty-five cent stuff," she mur mured as she felt Its texture with her daintily gloved fingers. "Oh, it's a very different port," in terrupted the clerk. "See, and ti Hunched Into an elaborately technical explanation. "Haven't you got something that just the weest bit deeper brown the unimpressed girl, and Bascom somehow felt proud of her indifferent: to the other dletums. At the end of half an hour the prett cousin picked up her hand bag and turned away.

Bascom was astonished but he didn dare to say an thing, "Wasn't that seal colored piece Jusi the dearest thing, said the girl with en thusinsm, as they reached the street. "Why didn't you tnke It, asked Bascom, surprised in spite of nun seir. "From a nasly-nlc fright like that clerk! I'd go without a shirtwaist all my life first!" The llnrtor'a Tree. (New York Sun.) Senator Depew says that the meanest remark he ever heard about himself came from a passenger on sightseeing automobile In Washington. The autO' mobile was going past the senator' nouse in 11 street, "That tree In the yard, ladles and gentlemen, said the megaphone man "waa planted hy stenator Depew hlmse almost six years ago.

Say, piped up a tiiasenger on th buck seat, loud enough for the senator and hi wife, who were standing in rront or me nous, to near, I 11 bet ft cltt'slnul." It THE COTTON AGITATION ON IN FULL BLAST. Farmer to Orftnnine Pledge Lens Acreage eit Year. Greensboro, Jan. 3. At a meet ing of farmers held here today for the purpose of devising plans for raising the price of cotton, Thomas E.

Watson delivered an address on the subject of organization by the farmers. Mr. Wat son asserted that it was absolutely nec essary for the cotton farmers to organ- ze and agree to hold cotton till the price demanded by them is paid. Delegates were elected to attend the national cotton growers' convention. Fort Worth, Jan.

3. The fol lowing notice has been mailed to every county judge In the South: National Cotton Association, Office of the Secretary, Fort Worth, Jan. 3. In compliance with a resolution of the national executive committee you are requested to call farmers, bankers, merchants and others interested in the cotton industry together on Wednesday, January 11, 1905, at 10 a. at the county seat to elect vice-presidents who will hold precinct meetings at each schoolhouse in your county Saturday, January 14, at 2 p.

for the purpose of taking definite action on reducing the cotton acreage this year. At taese meetings have all farmers who will sign this agreement: we, the undersigned farmers, resi dents in voting precinct Number county hereby pledge ourselves to reduce the acreage of cotton to be plant ed by us In 1P05, twenty-five per cent below the amount that we planted in 1904." Those who will not sign, take their names, addresses and the number of aires they will plant this year. Have a committee appointed at the precinct meeting to visit every farmer, landlord tenant, while or black, in their pre cinct who- are not at the meeting to secure their acreage. This request is sent to every county In the cotton states and unless prompt action is taken, the acreage ill not be reduced Texas) has begun, but It will take your support to avail anything. Give notice to all newspapers.

Mail written report January 18, giving name and acreage of all who sign and those who do not sign. (Signed) Oswald Wilson, National Secretary, Forth Worth DRANK TO THEIR HEALTH THEN SHOT TO KILL Friendly Parley Between Rnaainn and Japnneae Oillcem. Mukden, Jan. 3. Some Japanese and Russian officers had a friendly parley between the lines yesterday.

The meeting was the result of correspondence between two outpost commanders, begun in a spirit of banter, both finally securing permission from their respective commanders for the meeting which lasted two hours. The officers drank each other's health. The conversation by agreement did not touch on the war. Immediately after the meeting was end-td the artillery opened fire on both sides. The Canal Dlgeera Will Re Cared For.

(Letter to Cleveland Plain Dealer.) The government will deal generously with its canal construction force. Transportation will be furnished to the isthmus. Zt ihe canal commission lias no cause for criticism of ihe employee he will be allowed transportation buck to the United States when he severs his connection with the work. That much ts roimsed. As a matter of fact no American who goes to the Isthmus to engage in canal work need fear that his transportation home will not be forthcoming when he Is ready to come homo.

Tlv can il ipmmlsslon will soon come to consider steamship tlcketJ cheap expedients for ridding their territory of discontented or mischief ma't-lng men. The best medical attendance obtainable will be placed at the disposition of the canal force, free. Ample hos-pltuls will provide for those fe-liously 111, accommodations more conducive lo recovery In many oases than the same patients would enjoy if sick at home. This Is economy, not philanthropy. An alarming sick ar.d (loath rate along the big ditch would soon frighten Home those attacked there by salaries promised and keep other from coming It would be the hlstory (V the French company over again.

The experience of the marine garrison of the Isthmus has be.M that Panama is fully as healthy its most sections of ue I'nited State for men wno take ire of themselves. A splendid medical for under thr c.nif.1 commission will cn. I avor to extend the halih recor I made by the marbi-; corps along the entire line of excavnt ion. Thev will not be ahle to do tlia, but those who should know say 'be outlool; promises a more healthv ospect for the canal than could le exoee'ed (i-, a ci nuructlon corps working uit the low- Mil hKtpj.i levees. l.nnor-SavInK Card.

Philadelphia Telegraph.) General Louis Wagne.r, president of the Third national bank, Is frequently seen limping as he passes along the tivet. Being a man of prominence In the city, he Is saluted on all sides by friends, not a few of whom are solicitous of his health. Occasionally he is observed leaning heavily on a cane, and lim Ing percep tlbly, which most Invariably causes an Inquiry to be made as to the reason therefore. It In not generally know that General Wagner periodically suffers from ii wound stitdnlned In the civil war. and Instead of going Into a long explanation, he has had prepared a punted i aid which he hands lo all inquirers.

The card Is as follows; "NO. SlU! II Is not either Rheumatism or Ihe (lout; neither was I thrown out of catiiitge, or kicked by a horse. At nr. on Saturday, Au. 30, I at the second buttle of Bull Bun, I foolishly got In the way of a rebel bullet, and lost three Im In of the shin hone of the light leg, This old ound suine! inn brenkn out.

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