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THE BUFFALO COMMERCIAL. SATURDAY EVENING. NOVEMBER 3 1900. A MYSTERY. STEAJCERs.

NEIGHBORHOOD NEWS. PURE BLOOD ACW STROUG NERVES With glowing- health all things possible, small annoyances fade into nothingness and real troubles are battled writh successfully. Women who are when It cresses ever Its center sad lets the rat In. Bat the park rats have been knows to go ever a tip-op and bear It down at the Inner end, and then keeping enough weight oa It to bold down, to sweep the floor of the trap ia front for all they could reach before backing ont In safety. But most of the rats that trilled fate at the trap were caught, and in the earlier part of the attack npon them, when game was still plenty, the biggest of the traps were sometimes caught packed so full that It was impossible for any more to get into them.

Incidental to this warfare npon the rats within the menagerie grounds there has been carried on a side campaign against the rats that have been robbing the water fowls on the lake of their food. Traps have been 2 blessed with perfect health are a constant Joy to themselves and all around them. The beauty which health alone can make permanent is a crown which raises a woman above ether women. Snoh beauty ia always aeoompanied week. It- is expected that full work will be begun on Monday next.

A very large number of residents went to Olean to see and hear Gov. Roosevelt. The K. O. T.

M. band were engaged for the republican rally, both at Olean and Bradford. Another anion service will be held on Sunday evening in the Methodist Episcopal Church. The theme of the address will be the missionary outlook in China. Mrs.

O. W. Wood of Olean will sing. There is a decided improvement in the condition of Mr. C.

K. Wright. by a sweet disposition, for snappiahness are sign of ill-health and leaves its mi quickly on the features. It seems to be the fashion er women to ignore health and sacrifice it te the little every-day trials, or offer it np on the altar of devotion to daily tasks. Then again the nervous organization of women is constantly attacked by woman's natural experiences, so that it is practically impossible for her to retain the beauty which nature gave her, unless she has discrimi nating advice and right swpport.

Dr. Greene's for the Blood and Trials and troubles are easily overcome by the women whose strength is the genuine strength of perfect health. Dr. Greene's Ner-rura blood and nerve remedy, bridges the chasm that separates the sickly woman from happiness. It nils her veins with blood that is pure and clean.

Mas. WM. E. Bosse, of 85 Farringten Flushing, L. says: In regard te myself, I have suffered for years with disease, having been troubled with great ner- NIAGARA FALLS.

Funeral of the Late Don Col lint Cava of the Winds Oesed Last Republican Parade. pedal to The Commercial: Niagara Falls. Not. 3. The funeral of the late Don C.

Collins was held from his borne on 10th street yesterday after noon at 2 clock. The attendance was very large, including many who had known the deceased during his entire residence in this city and who were mnch saddened at his death. Tie v. A. Bacon of the First Presbyterian church officiated, and he was assisted by the Iter.

Thomas Doggett. The kindly words spoken by Rev. Mr. Bacon found hearty response in the hearts of all. The bear ers were members of the typographical union of which the deceased was a mem' ber.

The members of the 42d Separate Company accompanied the body to the grave, where the burial wps with mili tary honors. Mrs. Hortensia Cook, widow of the late Lawrence Cook, died Thursday night, aged years, one bad been a resident of this city for 38 years. Four sons and two daughters survive. The funeral will be held this afternoon from the house, 11th street and Ferry avenue.

Tonight the Cave of the Winds will close for the season. The year has been most successful. Yesterday Dr. T. J.

McBlaih of this city received the sad news that his brother. Dr. David McBlain, had died at Castle Bock. aged 31. Deceased was formerly of Bansomville, which place he left in June to go to Colorado for his health.

The trip did not benefit him, and he suffered until death came. The body will be brought to Ran-somville for burial. Tonight the republicans will hold a grand demonstration to close the earn-, paign. It Is not Intended there shall be any speaking, but about 3,000 men will be In line and march through the principal streets, centering finally at the convention hall where lunch will be served. i ffki GOWANDA NEWS.

Opening; of the Free Library Several Football Games--The Bear Ex-. citement About Over. Special to The Commercial: Gowanda, Nov. Gowanda free library will be formally opened for the issue of books this afternoon from 3 to I 9 o'clock. The library committee have I decided on the following days for issu ing books to patrons: Tuesdays and Thursdays from 3 to 6 p.

m. and Saturdays from 3 to 9 p. m. The committee wish it understood that the library is just what the name implies, a free library and is for the use of the public. The library will fill a long felt want in this village and it is to the Monday anon nff jrArnrv Tnnr nil prenit Tousneas, lemale complaints, inaigesuon, ana treat weakness and prostration.

I did not have strength te do much of anything. Knowing the great value of health and strength 1 consulted doctors ana toot many medi cines, but they ail failed to cure me, and I grew worse rather than better. I happened to see in the papers how much good Dr. Greene's Nervnra, blood and nerve remedy, was doing in restoring to health evervbody who took 1. and I thought I would try a bottle.

I used it and to my surprise I began to gain strength It is certainly tbe most excellent tome anastrengtn giver. 1 recommend it very highly and wish that other people who are troubled in any way would 'taks warning and use it." TO PRESERVE WOMANLY BEAUTY At all the stages of a woman's life Dr. "Greene's Nervura blood and nerve remedy, is shown to be efficient to ward off the results of nervousness, or overwork, or impure blood. From early girlhood to advanced years, this world-renowned medicine builds np the forces destroyed by disease, grief, or overexertion, and the effects of this great medicine are quickly felt and permanently retained. Let women guard well their health, and consult Dr.

Greene freely. Nothing they can possibly do will so surely keep them strong and well, or repair the exhaustion from acute illness, nothing will work so "continually to the preservation of beauty as the great health-giving Nervura. Dr. Greene's office is at 85 West 14th Street, New York City, where he may be consulted either by personal call or by letter Women may write in perfect confidence, and get Dr. Greene's advice free.

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Telephone, Seneca 1071. Passports secured. "THE FARGO PROPERTY'' Bounded by Pennsylvania street. West Jersey street and Farsro avenue, is now offered for sale in lots. Owners will accept reasonable down payments and allow balance to remain at 4 per cent, interest.

Gurney Oyerturf 16-18 W. Swan Street- Frank Danforth. REAL ESTATE, LOAIS and UISURAICE, 809 Mutual Life i210 PEARL STREET, BUFFALO. Telephone My Specialty: REAL ESTATE. Builders'Material y( At a Bargain.

Having bought the doors, window frames, casings and general building materials of the Fargo Mansion. I will sell -very cheap. This material suitable for for Pan-American- Hotels, Restaurants. Saloons, Inquire of J. C.

MUSSEN. at Fargo Mansion or 45 Potomac Avenue FOR SALE. No. 67 North street, head of Franklin, lot 51 250, with brick stable. Will take small house in part payment.

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aaplyto JAMES MOONEY BRO. Ha. 1 OraaS Cavrt MaaseHMskaa Bsilslag SEEDSJ3ULBS O. W. CLARK SON CCDSMEN, te Seneca Street Bdy of an Unknown Man, Evi dently a Swedt, Found at W.stfield.

EVIDENCE OF FOUL PLAY. Stranger Probably Came from James townMay Have Been Murdered Investigation in Progress. Special to The Commercial: Westfield. Nov. 3.

About half-past twelve yesterday the body of a man, evi-dently a Swede, was found in a pool be hind the Westfield steam laundry. it was taken out after having apparently been in the pool a number of hours. The bodv was clad with a pair of trousers and black satin shirt. At first it was thought the man had accidentally fallen into the pool and been drowned, but circumstances developed which indicated foul play. Earlier in the day a coat and vest had been picked up a short distance away, for which there appeared to be no owner.

In the pocket of the coat a diary was found with a number of entries in Swedish. The parties who found the coat and book thought it somewhat strange, but took no further notice of the matter until the body of the man was found. Then it appeared that the coat and vest belonged to the dead man. Acting on this theory a careful seach of the premises was made for any possible clue to the mystery. On the sidewalk between Sherman's art gallery and the laundry large patches of blood were fonnd and the ground was considerably disturbed, giving rise to the belief that the man was assaulted on the walk, either killed outright or beaten in sensible, and his.

body thrown into the pool to cover up the crime. If so, the coat and vest must have been removed and thrown down as a blind. Another theory is that there was a quarrel and the man pulled off his coat and vest and threw them down so he could fight, and that he got the worst of it, his body being thrown into the pool to get it out of tight. From the diary found in the coat pocket it would appear that the man lived in James town, or visited there. He was a stranger in Westfield, although several say they saw him on the street Thursday evening under the influence of liquor.

Sheriff Greswold and District Attorney Greene are working on the case, but so far there is absolutely no clue as to who the man is. or how he met his death. THE FEUILLETON. Its Effect Upon Journalism in France A Forced Production, the Centenary of Which Received Scant Notice. The completion of the first hundred years of the existence of the feuilleton is a literary event which, in these crowded times, has received but scant notice.

It was bv no means a natural literary growth. It was a forced production, and the forcing power that produced it was not of the every day order. The feuilleton, in fact, was the literary consequence of the Dixhuit-Brumaire. JTbe First Consul was the cause of its engendurc. A consular edict of January 17, 1800, made a clean sweep of the revolutionary press, and cut down the number of Paris newspapers, as we understand the term, to thirteen.

Under the Consulate, and under the Empire, twelve of these newspapers found themselves reduced to mere echoes of the thirteenth the "Moniteur, Journal Official." As was truthfully remarked at the time, the only msn in France who had the right of wrltin? a "premier-Paris" was Bonaparte. Then there appeared a writer who had discovered that what might not be written in an editorial column might appear with perfect impunity on a lower level on the rez-de-cbausee, the "ground floor" of a journal. The name of this writer was Louis Geoffroy. He was a Jesuit bv education ni1 a -irtiirnoltet 1v He had edited a royalist print. "TV Ami du Roi." which had foundered with the monarchy on the Dix-Aout.

He was forty-seven when he got his real chance, and started the first feuilleton in the "Journal des Debats," just a century ago. The idea caught on at once. The feuilleton, which dealt ostensibly with literature, the drama and other harmless topics, but which, nevertheless, could make political capital out of the failure of a book or a play, nnder the Napoleonic uose, became a power. In the hands of its inventor it was the making of the "D-bats," which presently could show a then astonishing subscription list of thirty thousand. Geoffrey's own feuilleton dealt with the theatre.

He was a trenchant critic. His pen was vitriolic where loved nor. He was for Mile. George against tbr. Duohis-nois; and for Lafon against Talma and Larive.

There is a story, more or less apocryphal, of Talma's ha ring caned is another to the effect that his death was due to his having incaaivwsly sucked his pen. But his pnbi: believed in him. Dussanlt, Htrtmanu, Fe'letz and the rest hardly counted. Geoffry was credited with the whole literary Wput of the paper. It was a matter of common credence that he was its proprietor.

The "Debats" cashier, then, was his hoaioijym. As late as 1852. at the Tremont sale, a receint signed by the homonym was bought, at a fancy price, for the autograph of the more famous Geoffroy. He had been dead since 1814. After him came Janin.

On other papers there were feuilletonists like Theophile Gautier. J-Paul de St. Victor, De Bieville, Louis Ulbach, Francisque Sarcey, who occupied the "ground floor" of the "Temps" in our own day. The musical feuilleton has been signed by Adolphe Adam, Hector Berlioz, and CoutH-Blaze. The scientific variety by Bablnet, Louis Figuier and Meunier.

The bibliographical by Pontmartin. Gas- tave Flanche, and, of course, Sainte-Beive. But, since Geoffrey's time, the feuilleton cannot be said to have fairly "boomed" till the novelists appeared there. Is it remembered that "Monte Cristo," the "Mousquetaires" and "Vlngt Ans Apres" have all filled the downstairs of the Eugene Sue's "Mysteres de Paris," in the and his "Jjff Errant," in the "ConstitntJonnel," were the counter attractions. The "Constitu-tionnel" did not sec-ire the famous "Juif without a fight.

The "Pressc" and the "Debats" both bid for him. Their rival had to put down a hundred thousand francs as the price. Those were good times. The early feuilletonist had naturally to acquire the knack with which his successors haTe become only too familiar since the knack of always writing np to, and always breaking off at a situation. Where the number of lines was exactly measured, and the interest had always to be stretched over to the next day.

this, in the case of the arly practitioner, required some -T doing. But read' your "Monsquetaires" with an eye to this "curtain" arrangement, nd you will perceive used for them and this year the keeper who looks after the lake fowl paddles about In a skiff with a shotgun In the boat doing a little gunning for rats and his bag has been sometimes twelve or fifteen a day. New York Sua. SEA TURTLES. The Manner in Which the Fishermen of Savannah and Vicinity Capture Them Fun for the Hunters, One of the favorite summer sports of the fishermen and marooners of Savannah is turtle bunting on the sandy beach' es of the neighboring islands, where from May to August the turtles come out to lay their eggs.

On the long, flat stretches of sand the turtle crawls about 100 feet or from the water line and there, with her flippers scooping out a round hole from two fyet to three feet deep, de posits her eggs, often 300 or more, cov ering every fifty or so with a thin layer of sand and putting a final layer of con siderable thickness over the top of the nest after her maternal duties are finish ed. This final filliDg in of the nest she smoothes off even with the beach, and, after making the surroundings as near as Qossible like the remainder of the beach, if undisturbed, crawls back to the water with the pleasing conscious ness of duty well performed and the confident conviction that in a short time her maternal heart will be gladdened with a numerous progeny Even when she escapes with her life. however, her hopes of a family are often disappointed, for turtle eggs are con ceded to be a delicacy by nearly every body who has tried them, from the greenest cracker, whose only conception of a turtle is the pound and a half ter rapin of the inland swamps and ponds. to the most accomplished epicure, famil iar with the celebrated dishes of every land, and it is this toothsomeness of her product that leads to the undoing of the turtle's hopes, for during the season of her laying the nests are sought for continuously, and many of them found and robbed of their contents. The method of search is vexy simple; where the tracks of the turtleiae found leading up the beachthey are followed, and the ground at various points along the trail nest ed by means of a slender rod or walking cane.

The nest is distinguished when reached by the ready yielding of the sand, and the hunters scoop out the sand with their hands and appropriate the eggs. But it is in securing the turtle Itself that the hunter finds the greatest pleasure. The hunt is almost always made at night and preferably during the moonlight. The conditions are best about the middle of May, during the full moon, and in the early morning hours. Then skirting the water line, the hunters walk along the beach, keeping a sharp lookout for tracks as they pass along, and a still sharper lookout ahead for the creature itself.

On a clear night the great lumbering animal can be distinguished a long way off. When one is sighted the hunters determine their further proceedings in accordance with the position of the creature in respect to the nearness of the water line and its evident intentions. If on its way to make a nest, which is known by its crawling up the sand and away from water, there is no particular need to hurry as, unless disturbed the turtle will not return to the water until she has deposited her eggs. So usually the hunters are content to wait a safe distance away until the nest has been completed and the actual laying of the eggs begun. Then they may approach with impunity, for the turtle once on the -nest will not move until she has completed her task.

It is when she commences her retreat to the water that the hunters secure her by catching the side of the shell and turning her over on her back, where she lies helpless and can only fan her mighty and powerful flippers in wrathy impotence. The turtle is a firm believer that discretion is the better part of valor, and she shows fight only when cornered and has no way to escape. Should she catch sight of her natural enemy, before she has begun to lay, she will at once hastily retreat toward the water, scaling the beach and throwing back quantities of'sund in her haste. But when she is brought to bay she will both bite and strike heavy blows with her flippers, and these must be carefully avoided while she is being turned on her back. I is owing to her efforts to injure her enemies that her final undoing is accomplished, for, like most of the family, Testudinata, the turtle can draw its head into the shell and close its nippers close to its sides, making itself practically impervious to attacks.

This its captor knows and so when ready to slaughter he pokes its head with a stick until to stop the annoyance the animal extends its head when it is cut off by a well-directed blow with hatchet or ax. Some persons claim that there can be found in the turtle portions that taste like and resemble in appearance chicken meat, veal and beefsteak, but the average marooner finds in the turtle only turtle, which both in texture and taste closely resembles beefsteak. Turtles are still quite numerous in Warsaw, though not nearly so plentiful as they were several years ago, when as many as nine have been turned in one night. They average in size from the comparatively small one of 100 pounds to 500 pounds, and in exceptional cases 600. One caught seven years ago weighed fifty pounds more than the 4ast number, and established a record for large turtles that has since remained unbroken.

A few have been caught during the present season, but no very large ones. Only last week one was caught out on the beach of Cabbage Island during the broad daylight. Its life paid for its temerity, however, for itwas seen by a negro fisherman, who forsook his lines for the bigger game, and sncceeeded in bagging it. Savannah News. ISITOCEXT 6UTX.T.

Miles I saw a dollar lying on the sidewalk this morning and didn't pick It up. Giles How did that happen? Miles It was counterfeit. Giles Don't yon know yon have committed a very serious offense? Mites Why, what have I doner Giles Passed a dollar, knowing It to be a counterfeit. HIS TURK. "Henry," said the woman who had given ber baa band a terely combination writing-table and sewing macbine on bis birthday.

'T hope jroa haven't forgotten tomorrow will be mj birthday." dear," he replied, Tve bought yon some cigars. Tbe box will be nsef ul to keep lobblne battens In." Philadelphia is a every day. I am so thankfnl that I tried itt in Germany, end there is absolutely no sale for it in France, or, in fact, anywhere on the continent. England uses a greatj deal, but they don care mnch for a va riety of brands there. "Do you think the chewing gum habit grows on one, like the clgaret or the opium habit?" Wot to such an extent as those you mentioned.

Now take it in our factories, When we employ new girls, we tell them to go ahead and chew all the gum they want. The first few days their jaws are never at rest, but about the end of the 6rst week they don't chew quite so steadily. At the end of two weeks they chew very moderately, and after they have been in the factory a month they don't chew at all. They are cured, and you couldn't hire an old hand to chew New Orleans Times-Democrat. MOVED ACROSS THE PRAIRIE.

Courthouse and Banks Hauled from One Town to Another in Nebraska. When a new town is started out west, if the people decide to have the country seat there and tbe courthouse is In another part of the county. It makes little difference. They move the courthouse to the new town. If a banking firm thinks a change- of place advisable, the owners simply get to work and take building, safe, money and all across the prairie.

Recently the people of Alliance. decided that their town should be the county seat. Hemmingford had been the site of tbe courthouse of Butte connty. Hemmingford is ten miles from Alliance, and has only twelve hundred population, while Alliance has. thirty-five hundred.

The Alliance folks obtained a court decision in their favor, and decided to move the courthouse building to their town. It Is a frame structure, three stories high, and nearly fifty feet square. JaekscrewB were first placed under it, then A track connecting with the Burlington railroad was laid to the site of the building and the courthouse was transferred to twelve freight car trucks. It was then "made up" into a freight train with coal cars before and after, and hauled to Alli-anee, the actual moving time being about two hours. Here a track bad been laid to the new courthouse site, and another set of screws lifted the building from the car-trucks, which were drawn from nnder It.

A foundation of masonry was then built np for It. The arrival of the courthouse and the county officials was celebrated by a procession, headed by the town band, in which most of the citizens took part. The Chicago. Milwaukee and St. Paul railroad completed an extension to Selby, 8.

a few months ago. Tbe extension made Selby one of the most Important towns in hat section of the state, and as a result about half the population and most of tbe stores in Bangor, a rival town about" five miles distant, moved to Selby. The mana gers of the town banks at Bangor the Farmers and Merchants' and the Walworth County banks saw how the other town was growing, and each quietly decided to move to Belby. Procuring teams, they began a race across the prairie to see which bank could get Its building into the new town flrBt- Dd Merau' a frame building two stories high, and 20 by 30 feet in size. The Walworth connty.

peo ple had the start of about a quarter of mile, bnt the Farmers and Merchants cured four or five additional horses and made np the difference, reaching Selby several lengths ahead. While the moving was In progress clerks were at work in both bank buildings, and this sign wSs posted on the Walworth county institution: "No post ponement of business on account of rmovaU' X. T. Tribune. DIIP RKVMEJICI.

"Do yoo think Bllkins has a real respect for the truth?" He has so mnch respect for it that he never makes common ase of It." Cleveland Plain Dealer. HIS METHOD. "Amelia, when a letter came from yon while yon were away I did aot receive It for TJlTe Mt on the money yoa asked for. "Chicago Record. ark I 1 1 17 I rary and assist in improving it by par tronizing the benefit entertainments et which will undoubtedly be held during year.

Mr. Henry A. Bull of Buffalo will officiate at the Episcopal mission Sunday 11 a. m. Sunday school immediately after service.

The basket ball club held their first meeting for practice and organization this week. The name decided upon for the club was the Four B's. Mr. William L. Woodin is moving into the Torrance house corner Jamestown and Chesnut streets, the former occupant Mrs.

Mason, moving to East Main street. The Thomas Indian Orphan Asylum football team which was organized this year and coached by Herman Johnson of this village will go to Silver Creek today to play the High School eleven of that WYOMING COUNTY. Total Registration in the County Iroquois Salt Company, Special to The Commercial: Warsaw, Nov. 3. The total registration in the county of Wyoming for the year 1900 in 9,709.

In 1898 It was 9,822 and in 1899 it was 9,795. Registration by towns: Arcade, 616; Attica, 940; Benning ton, 359; Castile, 793; Covington. 348; i Falls. 237; Java. 632; Middlebury, 461 Orangeville, 320: Perry, Pike, 477; Sheldon, 615: Warsaw.

Wethers-field. 303. The New York State Women's Suffrage Asociation at its annual meeting this week in Glen's Falls elected Mrs. Ella Hawley Crossett of Warsaw, vice-president at large, and Miss Elizabeth Hum phrey, daughter of Senator L. H.

Hnra- phrey of this village, one of the delegates to the national convention to be held the first week in June 1901, at Minneapolis, Minn. The Iroquois Salt Company is putting down well No. 1 on their lands on the east side of Silver Lake, near the Wyoming County Pioneer grounds, and the lumber for the buildings is being delivered. This company, like the Worcester Salt Company at Silver Springs, of which Woodruff is treasurer, is outside of the National Salt Company. The Genesee Salt Company at Piffard is also an outsider.

BROCTOS ITEMS. Special to The Commercial Brocton, Nov. '3. Hon. S.

F. Nixon addressed the Republican Olub Thursday evening. Hon. J. 8.

Bnande will exchange pulpit with Rev. A. R. Spencer of Foreet-ville Sunday morning and evening. C.

F. Crandall was on a business trip to Mansfield, Ohio, the first of the week. alrs- ana Miss Mabel xjuhiuo were guests oi inenas owS.dunnf Vineyard Hotel has been leased to wno look possession yes- terday. Nearly every grape grower is through, wifb. the harvest.

H. G. Ireland Is home frpm Bradford to spend election. WAR AGAINST RATS A Lively Campaign Waged Around the Menagerie in Central Park Gunning for the Rodents. As every showman knows, a menagerie established In a fixed location Is snre sooner or later to become, and especially In winter, a swarming place for rats; the rats gather In such places for warmth and shelter and, what Is of more importance to them, for food.

The Central Park menagerie. In this city, has proved no exception to this rale. In summer It has not been mnch troubled with rats; bat there came to be a time, a few years ago, when great numbers of them gathered there In winter. In summer, un-seen, and their presence unknown to visitors, they stayed about In the park, finding subsistence where they could. In winter, when the ground was frozen and their ordinary supplies were largely cut off, they mnde tracks for the menagerie, fox- food and shelter and comfort.

When they came to be too thick there, six or seven years ago, Director John B. Smith set about destroying them, and he has continued the work ever since, with the result that now there Is not one rat there where formerly there were ten. It, Is of coarse Impossible wholly to eradicate rats from a menagerie; the attractions are too great to be resisted, and rats will brave any risk to reach them. It is possible, though by Unremitting care and attention to keep them down to a very low limit, and that Is what has been done and Is still being done, In the menagerie in Cen tral Park but In getting the pest down the attendants have had some lively times. Commonly, even when the rats were thick Lest the visitors did not often see them: but at night they walked abroad on the paths I which visitors had trodden by day.

They walked over the feet of the watchman as he I went about with his lantern, great rats that I not afraid of anything or anybody, tht were more likely Indeed to frighten those who came In contact with them; In the wMch tney were tnlckeat herc i tbere wonjd gometimes hundreds of them UDder the Hon house, and many nnder other shelters on the grounds, and at night they came forth to feed. They would go up the hill to the cages of the animals there, the raccoons, and the gray fox and the bears, tht children delight to feed with peanuts i and they took care of the nuts the children dropped on the way there. They would walk into the cages of the elephants, and bite at the elephants' feet, and on nights after the two-horned rhinoceros had been oiled which is occasionally done to keep his skin In condition they would gnaw on his hide as they would on a turnip, sometimes getting deep enough to make the blood show through. When the rata began to get this troublesome Director Smith started in to was captured an oyster basket fall, rounded up; and their size may be Imagined from the fact that the lot contained only about ninety rats. Later there was taken a rat measuring fro-n tip to tip twenty-two Inches.

This specimen Is now preserved as an exhibit among the mounted animals In the American Museum of Natural History, In Manhattan Square. The same winter, when everything was workng to the best advantage, the hunters got on some nights In the menagerie as many as three or four hundred rats. Traps were the means principally employed In their capture, as they still are In keeping them down; bnt there was early enlisted In the work a cat belonging to the proprietor of the restaurant in the menagerie grounds, and the cat did good service, as likewise did her kittens, when they grew to be big enough. Elephant Keeper Snyder's pair of fox terriers were enlisted too, and these weren't the poorest ratters, and an amiable-appearing bnt able ball terrier also belonging to Keeper Snyder slew many more. A menagerie keeper who Is handy with firearms was turned loose at night with a popgun rifle shooting a bullet about as big as a small pea and he killed a few dosens and Improved his Bnt the chief reliance was on the traps, which Included some big wire traps with rounding tops, not unlike aa old-fashioned hair trunk In shape, half as big, and In keeping ont of them some of the rats showed a degree of Intelligence that was remarkable.

Some of the traps naed have tlp-nps, which the rat goes over In order to get at the food Inside the trap. The tlp-np tips down under the rat's weight The bear excitement here is about over a a the reDorts now are to the effect that the bears not killed have left tnis vicinity and are near Cherry Creek making for the Pennsylvania mountains. Gowanda's football team will play the Dunkirks here today on the St. John's Park rrfdiron. Last year's game between these clubs created a great deal of rivalry and for this reason the game will be watched with special interest.

The football game at Jamestown Thurs- how admirably Dumas contrived to do it. In later days, the "Petit Journal" has entranced countless concierges with its Instalments nf Onhnriau. and Ponson du LI 1 11.1 A.lici lit L. everybody that is, or was. anybody, from Jules Claretie to Robert Louis Stevenson and Rudyard Kipling, has drawn his par-1 ticular public under other rubrics.

The i feuilleton. in short, has carried the news- paper where, without it, the newspaper would never have gone. Good or bad, its effpet npon the growth of journalism is asj indubitable as Mall Gazette. it is incalculable. Pall CHEWING GUM.

Chicago the Best Market in the Country The Newer the City the Greater the Demand. J. J. Amend, traveling representative of one of the largest chewing gum manufacturing companies in the United States, yesterday expressed surprise, in speaking to a reporter, that the establishment of a chewing gum factory at this point is talked of. "It is true that much of the gum we use comes by way of New Orleans, in ins raw state, from the tropics," he said, but I can see no other reason for putting up a factory here.

I don't believe sugar is any cheaper here than it is in the North, and glucose is no cheaper, if as cheap. Then this is a very poor market, locally, for chewing gum." "It is?" "The worst in the United States." "Why is thatr "I don't know the reason, but it is a fact, nevertheless. Why, I know lots of towns in other parts of the country that 1 use 10 times as much chewing gum yes. 50 times as much as New Orleans, and they are not nearly as big as this city, either. I've been around to the drug Btores since I have been in the city, and 1 find that their sales are very light.

The first-class stores tell me that sometimes they don't have a call for chewing gum more than once in two or three days. They only keep one or two kinds on hand, whereas in such stores in the North and East a dozen different kinds will be kept constantly for sale, and the demand is I steady at all times." i "Where is the best market for chewing gum in the United States?" "All west and north of St. Louis. Lot of gum is sold throughout Kansas, Nebraska, the Dakotas and Minnesota. Kansas CSty is a great town for it." 'How about "Oh, Chicago is one of the greatest 1 chewing gum cities in the country.

Chi- 1 cago bas gone ahead of ork in this respect. New York used to be a great town for it, and one couldn't go anywhere in the city without seeing girls working! their jaws as if their lives depended on it. But the caricaturists and the paragraph- ists made such fun of the habit that a good many of the girls stopped chewing and the sales fell off very heavily. Boston was a pretty good gam town at one time, but never so good mf our western cities. i "As a rule, tha newer the city tbe better the chewing gum trade in it.

In an old city like New Orleans the people don't seem to take to the habit at alL The French element here hurts ns, for the French are not gum chewers. The Germans don't chew gum either. In some of the places where there are many Germans, es in some of the cities of the Northwest, we sell but little chewing gum. The young people like it, but tbe old people won't let them use it, I have seen many a boy spanked by his German I mother for using chewing gum." I -Do yoo export much of it?" It rOnlyto England and None of tbe European nati.ns take kindly to chewing gum. They won't have It at all day between the Jamestown and Gowan da High school team was won by the former team, the score being 17 to 6.

The Gowanda boys played a fine game and are to be highly complimented for their work in holding down their strong tneir wort in uoiuj.uk a opponents zo bu A large number of Gowandians went to Dayton Thursday, where a very en- thusiastic meeting was held in honor of Governor Roosevelt. Mrs. John Horton, who has been the guest of Mrs. William H. Bard has re- brned to her home in Cleveland.

Welch returned from tw Buffalo yesterday where she has been the ruest of Miss Fowler of Ashiana avenue. EAST AURORA ITEMS. "eclal to The Commercial: ast Aurora, Nov. a There was a jusicale at the residence of Mr. E.

T. i vtr cwiot ThnnuinT i "-TT ening. at wmcn attssxva0iiclemn taem ont Qn firtlt tnere iantralto. Mr. Joseph Phillips, baritone, -tV -11 TJF 3ir.

Alien H. uay, rtrnun, Jalo, appeared. Miss Ida Johnson was accompanist. Last night a large audience assembled at the Roy croft to see Edwin R. Weeks, the imper-rtjator.

There were musical features. A middle-aged farmer, named Frank Zrake, sustained serious injuries while driving on West MJKn street Wednesday afternoon. He collided with another rig and was thrown out on his. head, receiving bad scalp wounds. The Women's Club will give a reception next Friday evening.

W. B. Moore has been on a hunting trip in Cattaraugus county this week. Mrs. Lacey Of Perryhas been a guest of Mrs.

Charles A. Rcckwood. POBXT1LLB ITEMS. Sped! to The Commerdalr Portville, Nov. 3.

The PortviUe High School football team has, to date, played six games this season. The first three games they lost, the last three they won. Their Improvement in play is due in part to hard work in practice and in part to the good coaching of Mr. Jake Trenkle, who serves as both coach and manager. M.

B. Jewell of Olean addressed a democratic meeting in the Opera House last evening. Mr. M. J.

Smith of Mersereans com menced running the new saw-mill this.