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-1 ,5 y. s- BRYAN lIlSlSOGGESTEDi Tlw Democratlo-Popnlist Linooln Ee- publican Combine Talked ot i Conference at the Sherman House Showed Townees Strength. An Effort to Aroid the Watson Blunder of 1898. Klddle-ef-the-Boad Fopnlists Befnse to Let Anjone Turn Them Into Bj-Boads. Chicago, May 6.Tn Chronicle to-mor- row will My: Bryan a ad Towat-that wu the way the probable Democrat, populist and LJn-rcoln Republican national ticket was framed up as the result of a conference yesterday afternoon between members of Anui nmiM at tt Sherman Mouse.

The' presidential nomination wtfs not dis-v coased as being a foregone conclusion, ttiA nnnferees had delved Into the pnszle of the vice presidential situation Charles A. Towne, of Duluth, stood on a pinnacle of Importance that I dwarfed other possibilities. -The populist representatives at the conference were Senator Marlon Butler, of South, Carolina, chairman of his party's national committee; General J. B. Weaver, of Iowa, and Congressman George Shibley.

of Virginia. The sliver Bepub-llcans were represented by Senator Pettl- frew, of South Dakota, and Ex-Senator ubols, otJdaho. Mr. Towne, though chairman of the Lincoln Republican national committee, did not attend the meeting owing to the position to which he stood regarding the matter under discussion. The Democratic representatives at the 'conference were Vice Chairman James G.

Johnson, of the national committee, and Daniel J. Campou, of Detroit, national 'committeeman from Michigan. Colonel Bryan was not present. am not Interested myself la the vice presidential nomination, ne iu. have seen the men of the three parties present in the city to-day, but I am not saying anything regarding conferences.

-i I'm going home for a two months rest on my farm. The populist plan does not contemplate he of Mr. Towne at the national convention this week in Sioux Falls, 6. D. The programme of the leaders, so "far as leaders of the populists can lay ut the work for a.

convention, contem-- platea the nomination of Bryan without nominating any one for second place. The convention It was stated would be asked to name a committee to attend the Democratic and silver Republican oou-rentions in Kansas This body will be empowered to ratify the nomination of the two parties, which are expected to agree on a national ticket, but in case of their failure to put up a satisfactory running mate for the Nebraska statesman, it will be authorized to name a populist candidate. The object in giving such extensive powers to a committee, it was Intimated, was i.that the party might hold a club over the Democratic party to insure the reaffirmation of the Chicago, platform. Assurances were declared to have been given that this will be done, in which it was said not Mag stod in the- way of a satisfactory fusion of all three parties, thus avoiding the "Tom Watson mistake" of 1896. MIDDLE-OF-THE-ROADERS Will Keep There and Kot Be Side.

trmelced by Anyone. Cincinnati, May 6. The advance work-! -ers of the national convention of 'vI v- middle-of-the-road populists which meets ir i ere next Wednesday rrlved to-day. They are all opposed to fusion, and else that has any con-I nection. with other poIlUcal parties.

V. Trvsiori PipVap aAtratMPT rt ha VIA. tlonal committee of the mlddle-of-the- Ir- Vbaders, has had headquarters here at ipSf Dennlson for some weeks, arranging I-''-1 for the convention. He was joined by many others to-day. They all claim that VV'J-tty represent a lance majority of the people's party; that in the contests at the late conventions at Sioux alls the fnsionists carried less than 300 of the 875 delegates and that the convention at Sioux Falls this week will be one of excursionists, with a majority of dele--1 gates, as over two-thirds of the delegates were instructed by their states for the Cincinnati convention, which will keep i J.

the middle of the road and not be sidetracked in the interest of anybody or party. They call attention to the fact that -their call is in accord with the Omaha law of 1892. excluding all holders, and charge that the Sioux Falls convention Is In charge of Senators But- a ler, Allen and Pettlgrew and other or-. y-i. flee hotders, the same as Republican and -r- (Democratic conrentlond.

"The Sioux Falls convention cannot de- T-5i'' liver a vote to Bryan that would not go to him aa the regular Democratic nominee," said Secretary Parker. "Any action that the Sioux Falls convention may take will only embarrass Bryan and glTe hla enemies In the Democratic party a chance to hammer him. He would be made stronger as a thorough Democratic candidate than as a fusion candidate, aid if the leaders of the Sioux Falls convention were really for Bryan they would go about the matter in a way to accomplish his election. They would openly join th Democratic party and help to elect its nominees. But they are not so much for Bryan as they are for themselves.

Why, this Idea was boldly argued in the committee on resolutions at Raleigh, in the North Carolina which caused Harry Skinner to at- tack Senator Butler for his insincerity. Mt. iJTjran In more danger to-day from these friends than ne la from the of-the-roaders." Air. denounced as false the charge of Senator Pettlrrew that Senator Hanna was the mlddle-of-the-Toailers convention. Popaliata Oil for Slonx Washington.

'May 6. Senator Butler, of North. Carolina; Senator Pettlgrew, of avonth -Dakota; 3d. C. Gavock, of Vir jsr w.

tnigerajd. or West Virginia, and George II. Sibley, of New York, headea a party of eastern popu-xtsts that left over the Baltimore and Ohio to-day for Sioux FaHs, S. to attend the popullAt national convention to te held there next week. Senator Butler is chairman and Gavock and Fitzgerald are members of the national committee.

Just, before he left senator Butler expressed the decided opinion that Bryan would be nominated by the convention by acclamation. Senator Allen, of Ne- vnisu, iw is xo piace rsryan nomination, accompanied by Representative Sutherland, also of Nebraska, left Washington yesterday for their homes, whence they wlH go to Sioux Falls. Bryan. Populists Belt. Fort Worth, May At midnight a conference of Bryan populists, bolters from the populist state convention held here yeateranj, was held and selected two delegates -all large to the Sioux Falls national convention May 0.

The men chosen were State Chairman Bradley, of Hill county, and O. P. Pyle, of Wood county. Accompanying them some thirty popnlista left here this morninsr for Stonx Falls. Pritchard Kot Candidate.

I May Prttch-' of rth Carolina, whom the R. s-jf pabUcao convention ot bis state indorsed fev- a i a-candidate tor vice said -i? to-day-ne. was in noaense tp be regarded as a candidate inx nomination. action of the convention was a most" graceful gradons compliment, one which-1 appreciate highly, but I am not a candidaite in. any sense of the Semis for the Conventlon.

PhQadelphla; May press committee of the national Republican convention, announces that mil appllca-' tions lor press seats from dally news for men: who will be actually en gaged in reporting the convention must be in the hands of William M. chairman, courthouse, r-. Independence eqnare; Philadelphia, by May 15. -It wlli V'ioe Impossible" to consider, application 'v received after that uBrai weaver Olsat Bar 'A It Bl t-her." Chicago, 1 tL General James A. Weaver, of Iowa, was Chicago to-day the on ms way i ciuu, r-crzi national ooDulIst convenUon.

s. Asked about the statement attributed, to T. 1 TMVBtlT' that him in he iVnted a cabin a portfoHo. General Weaver said he hao never 'made "such, -fatement. that the report was absurd.

jeinooratIe Snboommittee Meetlna- Kansas May' subcommittee of the Democratic national com mittee will meet in tms city wuwrniw, and decide definitely whether or not Ken sas City -will be able to rebuild conven tion nan tor ue wuiy iiuieim. Champ Clarlc BenomlnatedL laieXICO, ax a J. iu of the Ninth congressional district l3r renominated touimsiwu uuuu wua. WlulvUl vyiRintuvu, MALLORY WHARF BURNED. Biff Fire on the River Front ia New York.

Wnarf and Otner Property Destroyed and a Child Drowned Loss Abont 1,000,000. Slew York. May A Are that started at the river end of the Malkry JUiw steamship pier, at the foot of Maiden lane and the East river, this morning, completely destroyed the pier and its valuable contents. The ponce piace we loss art SI, 000,000. Several barges which mri mnnrni near tne nier were also burned, and many rescue of their cap tains and or tne memoers ox meu- uuu-Mom ah Krmrri vn made.

Only one life was lost. The 9-mottth-oiu daughter of Captain Charles ixens, or aae uarge Sherwood, was drowned. The Mallory Lane pier was 200 feet long nnA ail fpet wide. The nier shed was tilled with vaUuatrfe freight of a mi-ilanvnntt character, but mostly cotton. On the north side ot the pier were moored a number or coal ana cotton barges, while on the south sine was tne Rteamer san oiarcun idu a uuuuw barges.

sooner had the work of flgh-ting the flames begun than the firemen and citizens turned their attention to saving the lives of those on the barges, which were lying within the line of danger. fn hoard the bara-e Sherwood were Charles Lochs, the captain, his wife and their daughter Kosie, monma oia. ue Lochs family was awakened By the flames. Their barge was already on nre at the time they were aroued from sleep. The father took the 9-montn-nlrl hah? in hla arms, and with hus wife Kovian tyiunaea in 10 save ins wuiuau.

wno had become exhausted. Her husband, who still held the baby in his arms, saw that ms wife wm on tne point of going down. It became a question to him as to which be should save. his wife or. baby.

He let the oaoy go in the hope that she would be picked up bv some one else, and went to the as sistance of his wife. He managed to hold her bead above water unui Boy la reached them. All three were then landed by life lines. Tne half-drowned cap tain ana his wire were removearto rne Hudson Street Hospital, where later" they recovered. On the coal barge S.

H. Hand, which lay alongside the other, burning barges. were the captain, josepn niumo, nis wife and two children. All were res cued by the police, but Patrolman Jeremiah C'rontn was badly burned while, tak ing one of the children ashore. All hands on Doara tne ngnter atdo got aanore safely.

Michael eiheldon, of that boat, was compelled to Jump into the river, from which he was rescued. Three larre vessels were 4yinr so near the blazing pier that their safety was endangered, the steamer San Marcos and the steamer Neuces, which were towed out into mid-stream, and the bark St. James, tne rigging of which was burned before she could be towed out of harm's way. Xhe scene on the water was a most excitdng one, for the water was filled witn steam craft engaged in towing tne various vessels and bara-es to aafeT from their dangerous positions. Four cotton barges, otner laden with corn- meal and some loaded with coal caught fire and were destroyed.

Some of them were also sunk to prevent the further spread of the flames. A number or buildings on south street were scorched, and several were emptied of their tenant, who feared that the buildings would be burned. Henry Mauory saia regarding the Are: "1 have no idea how the fire started. and I can form no adequate idea of (the loss. The entire pier is destroyed, to- getner witn tne omces ana otner buildings In the bulkhead.

I cannot tell what our immediate plans will be or when we shall begin to rebuild. Our books and other documents were destroyed. I positively cannot fix the origin of the Are, give tne amount oi damage or approximate the amount of Insurance." As to the exact loss of property sus tained, theTe is some Henry jiiaitory saiu to-aay mat ine wnole practical loss to his comoanv would he pier and shed, together with a considerable amount of office furniture and some valuable papers. All of these, he said, were valued at about $25,000, or a little more. He declared that he did not Know wnetner or not there was any insurance.

All the other damage 'done, it la estimated, -will not ti xtn nnn of which John Longenabtue, canalboat owner, sunerea neariv $ouuo. The damage to the steamer Kneces and to the bark St. James is financially small. Sixteen macnificent sideboards bv auc tion this day at the Bodley building, 316 St. Charles street.

VICTORY BY WIRE. Manager W. D. West, of the Western Union Telegraph Company, announced last night that direct communication had toeen opened with oapouxHrriue, lie -genial cniei was on the scene directing the Improvement, and tele graphed from New Iberia. DEERFOOTS REMAINS.

The Body of the Fmmona Indian llnnner to Be Removed to Buffalo. (From the New York San.) The remain Af TWrfivtt fhm Tn dlan runner, will be removed from the burial ground on the Cattaraugus reservation, where they were Interred four years ago, to the Indian plot in Forest lawn Cemetery, Buffalo, on (The Idea of moTlng tbe remains of the great runner was conceived bT Jfoaenh Kcml.p nnw Chief GT-ant-w-ka ot the oenecaa) when he TiBitea tne anmancea grave in tne obscure little Indian burial ground. On his return to Mew York. Mr. Kennler suggested to the New York Athletic Club, of wuicu ne ia a memner, rne plan or tne reinterment, which was readily accepted by tbe members.

They at once took upon theraaelvea ioe rerfiiiDimj or tne project. XiVinjr iu the Forest Lawn Indian nlot. which is owned by the Baffalo Historical Society, are the bodies of Red Jacket, Captain Pollard. Destroy Town and others who wet friiwll to our side in tbe revolutionary The uieit lnoiaa to ne nunea in tnis cemetery, and the most distinguished of his generation, was General Ely S. Parker, military secretary to General Grant throughout the civil war, and afterward Indian commissioner.

these burials hare been under tbe auspices of tbe Buffalo Historical Society. It is possible that Mr. Keppler and a delegation from the New York Athletic Club may he present at the' cemetery Wednesday next. The remains will be received by a delegation from tbs Buffalo Historical Society. (Deerfoot was a brother by Indian adoption of Mrs.

Harriet (Maxwell Converse, who will attend tbs ceremonies. Hot-tTo-so-do-no (He Peeksfa the Door) or Iwls Bennett, commonly knows as Deerfoot, waa born on tbe Seneca reservation In 1830. He descended from a sawed Seneca family. His paternal grandfather, Noah Two-guns, did vigorous service in oar war of 1812, and was one of tbe first ea killed at the battle of Chippewa. Kfeerfoot made hi first "1 af county fair eld at Freoonla.

where be ran five JSI twentyve mlnntes, sad woo a purse or $o0. JKis second vacs took- place In the fan' of 1858. at Buffalo. Twelve Indians aid one white man were the competitors, Deerfoot wla- i0 i ile nfty-elght mis. ntea.

continued racing on various tracks against men and horses throughout tbs United States, never Josing. In" 1861 an Englisa trainer, George Martin, heard of his wondrous work a nd got Deerfoot to go to England with hixn. He Sad itln la training bat five weeks when, be-leaned a challenge to James Pntser: wbo at that time held tbe championship of all England fer long distance running. Putney railed to accept toe. challenge for tbe ten mile championship and it was awarded to Deerfoot without Vv- la November.

the- prince' of Wales, who was at that time at Cambridge, requested Deerfoot to visit him. Daring the visits the Indian ran- six miles In thirty-three minutes. It was a boast ef the Indian that the prince of Wales eatertslaed him at dinner and pre. senied him with a Watch and -chain and -other tokens friendship. His igneatest achievement was the, twelve mile run at Loodou.

en April 8. 1683. The time was 1 hear 2 jnlautea 21-12 I. k. a i.

352 PAGES. 1560 RECEIPTS. PtPDQBG nn YOUNG JiADY SHOT. Pistol in the Hands of a Young; Man Discharged. Girl's Father Fired Two Shots at Htm, Bat He Escaped aad Waa Arrested.

Special t( tbe Picayune. Independence, May 6 Abont 2 o'clock this evening the citizens of Inde pendence were startled by the firing of a pistol, followed by two reports from a double-barreled gon. Loud screams were heard In the direction of Joe Beaeditto's. Many citizens ran to house, and to their dismay and horror found his daugh ter, Miss Lena Beneditto. shot through tbe heart.

It seems that Mr. Beneditto, who is an Italian growing berries here, had sold a pistol to a young man who had been picking berries for him, also an Italian, whose name Is PhlBpino Antonio. He told the young man that he did not think the pistol was loaded, bnt if be -wished to examine it to take It outside of the house Mr. Beneditto' daughter was sitting at the dining-room table, near the cewer, copying a prayer from the Bible. Tbe young man was at the table, also, near the corner.

He was snapping the pistol, and the fourth time the pistol fired, the ball passing through the girl's heart. She lived about five minutes. The only, words she nttered after she was shot were. "Mother. I am killed." Her enraged father seized his gnn end fired two shots at Antonio as he ran from the bouse, hitting him with some of the small shot.

Antonio still continued his flight, and was centured in the Tangipahoa swamp and sent to the Amite city jail, wnere ne wm De kept until tbe grand Jury meets In Jane. Miss Lena was a beautiful girl, just 20 years old. and had many friends, and her1 death is universally regretted. Her father Kiev a uvu jki.cui ruu iimcu vj wvjrjr one. Opinion seems divided.

Some think it was an accident, while others think it was premeditated. Antealo at Amite City. Special to the Picaynne. Amite City, May young Italian, Pbilllpo Antonio, who shot' and almost instantly killed Miss Lena Bene- dHrto, a yonng and beautifnl Italian girl, at Independence, this evening, was brought here and lodged to Jail to-night, where he will await a preliminary hear ing or an Investigation by the grand Jury. He positively ret used to make anyvstate- ment or to talk about the killing.

The statement that the shooting-' wt dental win probawy hot withstand a searching and the' fact that it was a murder prompted by jealousy and revenger will very likely, be ionneuy, a living abont three miles north of Independence. was found on the: Toad between Cary's 'mill and Independence: early thla mornlnz in. an nnconsciohs condition wHh a terrible wound tn the. head. it is supposed be was srnck by some one frotn behind with a piece of acantUng.

i and knocked Into- insensibility for the purpose of roW berr. i -i yir-. C3TO7 GDipO VAST GROWTH IN LAKE TRAFFIC The Most "Wonderful Development In the Commerce of the United States. (Washington Dispatch to the New York Tribune. No feature of the commerce of the United States, whether domestic or foreign, shows a more wonderful development than that carried upon the great lakes, where navigation is about to be resumed for the season of 1900.

A growtb In foreign commerce from In 1872 to $2,000,000,000 In 1900 Is remarkable, and an increase of exports from $444,000,000 in 1872 to In 1S99 la even more striking, but this growth la insignificant when ccmpared with the growth of commerce on the great lakes, as measured bv the few available measuring rods which the piesent rather unsatisfactory statistical system furnishes. Yet the fact that navigation on the lakes is about to open and that the greatest season" ever known Is confidently predicted by those familiar with the traffic there make some facts which the tseasnry bureau of statistics has Just presented in one of Its monthly nnhlicatlnni esneclallv Interesting. The single point at which accurate Atafementa have been kvepj during a considerable term of years Is at St. Mary's falls canal, which connects lake Superior with lakes Michigan, Huron, Brie and Ontario; and by a study of these figures it is practicable to compare in some degree the growth of internal commerce on the. great lakes with that of our foreign commerce, as already indicated, the foreign commerce oi the United States has doubled since 1872, and the exports have trebled during thac neriod.

the same time the ton nage of vessels engaged in commerce 1 U.m. Valla Ktml hn-rMMni -fiwrn 014.735 registered tons In 1872 to 21,958,347 tons in 1899, the increase having been over iuw per ce as against an Increase of 100 per cent in xotai zoreign cvuuunw uu v- rnt 1-n ezDorts. The great articles entering Into the commerce on the lakes are wheat, flour and other grains; coal, iron and lumber. The statements of the quantities, of these articles passing through the "Boo" canal illustrate the growing of this greet water route" for transportation of these articles so readily transported in bulk. In 1871 the number of bnshels of wheat passttrg tnrouzn me was while in 1899 the number of bushels was- 58.397.335, or more than forty times as macn as tn ibi.

Meantime the receipts ot wheat at Buffalo Increased from 14.000.000 bushels In 1872 83,000,000 bushels In .1898 while the total receipts "of grain of all kinds (including wheat in the form of flour) received at Buffalo by lake. increased from 62.000.000 bushels In 1872 to 207,000,000 bushels in 1898. Meanwhile the exportation- of wheat and wheat flour increased from- 89,000,000 bushels, in 1872 to bushels In 1809. the increase it transportation by lake thus being much greater proportionately the increase in exports from the- seaboard. Transportation of flour through the "Soo'V canal has increased with even greater rapidity, growing-from barrels tn 1872 to 1.1 14.147.

barrels tn 1899. while grain Mher than wheat increased from 445,774 bushels in 18IZ, to so, uuu. uuu ousneis an 1899. In metals andt minerals" the 'growth of transportation on the lakes. Ia -qnlte as srrlking as In bread staffs, tc-, rinantlty of coal carried on the "Soo" canal having Increased from 80.S15 tons ls 1872 to (Bo 0 3,940,887 tons in 1899.

Coal from the Pennsylvania and Ohio fields Is supplied at low freight rates to the lake Superior xegon, where coal production Is light and fuel greatly in demand, as the vessels which carry the iron ore, grain and flour from the lake Superior reeion carrv pcoail on their return trips at nominal rreignt rates, ana as a consequence the coal passing through the Soo" canal has, as already Indicated, increased from 80,815 tons In 1872 to 3,940.887 tons in 1899. The product of the lake Superior region, which is poured through the "Soo" canal in increasing quantities every -year. Is, after grain and flour, which have already been mentioned, chiefly iron ore, copper and lumber. The iron ore shipments throurh the ca nal increased from 383,105 tons in 1872 to 15,328,240 tons tn 1899; copper, from tons In 1872 to 120,000 tons In 1889, and lumber, from 1.742.000 fee In 1872 to 1,038.057,000 fee In 18B9. The report from which these figures were obtained indicates that they also include the traffic through the Canadian canal lying Just alongside St.

Mary's Fails canai, which was opened to commerce Sept. 9, 1805. Some additional and equally interesting facts are shown for the period 1887 to 1898. These relate to tbe proportion of freight carried by American and Canadian vessels, value of American and Canadian craft, and ooet of transportation per mile ton of freights passing through the canal. It shows that the percentage of freight carried by Canadian hlch In 1887 was 7 per cent of the total, was In 1898 only 2 per cent.

The value of janaaian crart passing this point was In 1887, $2,089,400. and in 1895, 2,41,900, while that of American craft, which in 1887 was $17,684,650, was In 1898, the value of Canadian craft having Increased less than 25 per cent, while that of American craft had nearly trebled, and the total registered tonnage, as already Indicated, having lncrpd 913.43S tons in 1872 to 21.U58,:117 Ions in 1899. With this Increase in tonntgc and business comes an equally striking decrease In freight rates, the cost of transportation per ton mile having fallen from i.i muis in 188 to TP-loo of cne mill in 1898. THE MONTGOMERY COKFEREHCE. Indications That There Will Be a Xarare Attendance.

Montgomery, May 6. Booking at tbe hotels already promises a large attendance at the conference of the Southern Society for the Promotion the Study of Race Conditions and Problems in the South. The convention will hold Its first session on the evening, of Mar 8 and continue- for three davs. The convention will be held in the new auditorium and the first session will be called to order by J. B.

Gaston, of Montgomery, who will be temporary, chairman." Many- prominent scholars, thinkers and orators In the country are included in the programme, and the gathering will be of Interest rot only to the but to the i ea MaAvnie OClas.) Advocate The Advocate is Indebted to the Pica-ynae for a copy of its "Tourists' Guide Book to -the City of New This ia the fourth, edition of the Guide, r. vised and enlarged, Is -a 4 handsomely gotten -ay uw anu vauu uaca valuable and interesting descriptive and his torlcal data of the metropolis of the south. The price of the Guide by. mall is only 30 cents, -and everyone contemplating a visit to the city shoald first secure a Golde, else lose half the pleasures ot the v-, HIS CORICETR 17V BEBTtES, Aaybadr Who Wants a Hew Ant fclychUa Cyllndrlf ormli Mast Ji--VOs to Pvof. Sapw.vii'l''; (From the Kansas' City Star.) When the legislators are stingy: and the cause of higher -education Is threat-ened by reason of financial depression all Chancellor Snow, of Kansas University, has to do Is to swap beetiea for dollars.

He -is the 9nly Uvinr -man who ever ran a corner on a natural product and made it hold good for a' It waa In the spring of 1878 that Prof. Snow and two conspirators, who were students at the time in his department, went search of tiger oeetlea, ar.on to entomologists as amblychila At this particular time specl-meos of this species of beetle had a ready sale in -tne open markets of the world at $25 each. There was a clamorous demand from Berlin and Heidelberg. Edinburgh, Paris, London and New Yorg, which no one could supply. There was no suspicion in the scientific mind that this species of beetle ought to be found tn western Kansas.

Prof. Snow made confidants of two favorite students, promised them one-third of all the beetles they could and the expedition set forth In the summer of 188. It was tn Wallace county that the expedition. finally landed. Here it remained three months.

So many beetles of the rare species were captured that the young men sold a third inter, est in the collection to Prof. Snow for enough money to pay their way through college for two years. And at that the wtly professor drove the best bargain of his life. With more than a thousand beetles of a rare species which entomologists all over the world were clamoring for in his possession. Prof.

Snow sold a sufficient number to make good his payment to the students, pay all the expenses of the expedition and complete through an exchange a collection of 8000 species of beetles, the largest collection In the woTld. The chancellor of the state university still has beetles of this species' left, and they are the only available ones for the collector In the world. Never before aor since this famous trip has the Amblychila cyllndrlformls been found save in rarest cases, when one at a time would be captured. He Is the head of the tiger family of beetles, and unt'l 1878 many of the finest entomological collections could not secare a specimen. The prices had gone higher and higher up to 1878.

But the harvest reaped by Prof. Snow had such a bullish efreet on the market that amblychila were uoted as low as sliver bullion. But Prof, now refused to be stampeded. He withheld his product temporarily- from the market and bettles of the bead tiger species jumped back to $2 each and began to soar again. Others sought beetles in western Kansas, but had a loss of time and money only for their pains.

Wallace county had either lost its "ovulation or Prof. Snow had captured entirely. The collection of beetles at Kansas State University is famous the world over. Any species of beetle that Prof. Snow wanted he could get for his Wallace county find.

Not only beetles but any other Insect that the university needed other collectors were anxious to exchange. The remarkable find which resulted In the corner of the tiger beetle market was sot the result or a plunge in the dark. Prof. Snow and uls companions stopped in three or four western counties without getting on the track of a single amblychila. They spent three days In unsuccessful effort in Wallace county, but on the evening of the, fourth day.

just after dusk. Prof. Snow shouted: "Here's one, boys!" There was a hurried examination and consultation. The search was continued and six of the species found. At that particular place the-professor and his students decided to camp.

They began their search early the next morning and prosecuted it with vigor throughout the day, but could find no trace of the amblychila. But as dusk came on the beetle -was once more located. A score or more were gathered the second day. For three 'months the i party bottled beetles in the twilight, for three or four days' experience taught them that it was useless for them to search at any other hour. Since that time numerous expeditions have been made to Wallace county, bat no further traces or the head of the tiger beetle family have Been found.

Prof. Snow has designated the exact lo cation where he reaped the greatest scientific and financial harvest of his life, but other entomologists have sought there for beetles in vain. This particular species of beetle has no eyes and has to feel Its way feeding on insects. There are in tne United States seventy, species. Twenty-five species of insects have been named after Prof.

Snow, many of them by the best known entomologists. The cotocola snowiana. a species of moth uiKv.ncu new species ever found in the state, was found by Chancellor Snow, and Is named for him. This species was found before It was considered a crime In Kansas to drink beer. Prof.

Snow wan in the habit of luring flies and moths into his net by offering a compound of sugar and beer and the cotocola snowiana came among others. wvvw mrmm 99 Tmmn4tlM In ww vm fl. jf wv your blood will a1 so grow unless, you promptly expei uieu uj iin Sarsaparilla. SPBAKUIO BY SUHUOBT. How tbe Helloarravph Wa Use Ss Many Wars.

(From the London Daily MalL) Most of the news which came from Lady smith during the siege was trans mitted from the beleaguered town to General Boiler by means of either the aenograpa or nasniignt. Eight hundred years ago North Africa had a system of Wireless telegraphy, by which places a hundred miles spart could exchange messages In a few sec onds. In Algiers buildings were erected on prominent sites over tne tana, witn adjustable mirrors on the roofs. The sun's rays falling on these mirrors were flashed tn the say. and were visible at great distances.

It was easy to arrange a plan try wnicn tne nasnes ox ainrerent length should mean various letters, and so make It possible to exchange conversation. Tben -tne world, wwnt to lep. and It was not until the dme of the Crimean war that the possibility of talking by sunflash began to arouse attention. The unssians nsea -mirrors xor tnis purpose largely when they were besieged at Be-bastopol, and this led the mgllsh army to examine tne matter, out it was not until' thirty yean later that the "mir ror telegraph," as some called it, was adopted by the Indian army. In 1880 experiments were begun by the English army with the heliograph, and they were so satisfactory that four years later every regiment and battalion, tn the service was supplied with two.

Since then there has not been military campaign without abundant demon- scrsruons of its usefulness. In the recent campaigns against native tribes In northern India the heliograph was invaluable, and bv It the to4 wnt. tying nosts were keot In constamr Ich with headquarters. Your enemy tut? wuc vi 7uiu ucju infgrsDU mTOwa cannot Intercept the flashes of yd enter, tors. ttnnittee Manr years before this, in th He has vasl war of 1880.

one of the oruisn aarnsons rata or every nossinie means to open up communication with other British forces many miles off. Run ners were. Intercepted, messages never got urougn. at last a Dngnt idea struck one of our officers. There was no heliograph with our but the officer got a shaving mirror and used an ordinary cloth can as a shade.

He Dut the mirror at an angle to reach where he thought the onuM reiiex column migni oe, ana started flashlnar In the ikr br onicthr mm. ing snd exposing the mirror with' his cloth cap. At first came no response. The work was continued, the signal -word being flashed around all likely piaces. xnen tnere came a nasb back from the far distance.

With stnlnlnr eyes sad beating hearts the besieged men read out the signals, sent from scores of miles a war: "All welL Relief oirirklT What Is the-helloaraDh? Briefly, it is a circular adjustable mirror or mirrors. usually mounted on a tripod stand, and with sighting 1 arrangement attached. The mirror Is adjusted until the shadow from the sighting rod (the rod which stands out in front of the glass) falls exactly on an tmailvered moot in th center of the, glass. The ansilvered spot. ue jwmi- iue siam-Toa.

ana the -als-tsnt obiect which it Is wanted to-reach have to be brought in the same line of sight, There is also a rear screw arrangement by which the mirror can be moved to the right or left, without disturbing the sighting, so as to follow the apparent motion of the sun. A shutter Is so placed that it Intercepts the deflection from the mirror. which Is operated by a key st the- bottom of the mirror. 1 V' The operator, by depressing', the key. mnM have nrVved I ta der is.

of sTk reoscT th. whit, manures: a. gffiST 7 i young New Zealand ssttieZ sotfet, very mnch Uked by iJt s-tV of M.leknla taUnd'foe It laland. where they wars notkaVSi killed, ths other only eaespllifbr hard swimming, the aauVes wafer 'Z. herncs; hot stin eaambaiija f- beUerlng that by oaroorUx a eaaa t4r'J.

trtoeaph vwmr hW spirit XL cannibals havs tnasy good enaUtisa. 07Z occasion, while traTW tiibcii guides, I was surreiindsd by armed cx-i i a snd -osarmjd. ths ehiaf ardetaa all km parture the next day. I hare sleet la to treated. On another occasion.

wt; eat ea la estbprm. I -waa aavad ay to bal uUtm, at rraat risk ta thsmssiTet. i. r- ing om trip Inland was stoeplDf ia a PseiaJly faiwoa, t. I did sot know It st the dma Vrnsa i heatea ail xdght at iatsrvsls to vara attacks by hoatfle tribes.

-h-0ir I eaade friends with the chief by iTir. a 4 present of salt, snatch, ate, -'In- gave a spear, whlca ha bess down by sons generations Of cater, as gave me a beautifully polished ad rrl woodea spoon. Hearing that I had bets to thU Inland TtLUra, natlvaa asarer the ec langhsd, wt ballerina- sas. I stewed 1- spoon, and they fled la terror. I the ftnl that this spoon sras only easa atveasail feasts, sad the chief dog bis haf sat mi the cooked body wMh Cba aid ef Oua spooa That accounted for ths an polka, as also fw the fear of the mflves.

soo of ths Mttt esstoms are horrible la my part ot aaletua, people who are HI are Just buried alive wa their friends firs of than. Osee I rashtd 1st a rlllaae far th parpos oeihnnuif a Star-old firi, who I beard had beta- barfed, ut I waa just too 1st, snd sas wm ettd when I reached the spot, aitbooji tbs bocr was then warm. I recall sartleolarly rw some incident wtisrs a snan. whs ks4 beet stnnnsd la a OTJarrei, was burled whtrt fell. Joat aa ths see was xamialef eoe-scions neas, the dot, which are aiway pwl.

tng about, saccseded la seratchiac thraefi i shallow jrraTe, aad ths msa arose aad vtt home. The poor wretch, whoa appesraac his villa; caused a gnat eosxnwuos. tu never snbeeooantly ta emsylet eoasaausa st fa 9O0sSss" BerertiDC. to eooctisslnw, to the Tw-t st-tacks upon whites, Sir. Patos said: cent report of eny tcotbefs mvrtia es Island of Tanna la, happily, sot true, ur -b -was attacked wall on a visit lauod saTase trib.

and only ssaaaed weft a- culty." MMWMSSSSMaM gparldiaar Ahltal Helps klase7. WAurtnr woodicabcs. 1 Once Used for Keaee Balls, It How (From th Chicago .4 wm-M eras -easSwo" th best in the eooatry, 1 teing st dannded of tbe oec splssOM xioraswj- -wood timber that speculators are saelsf 1 or aobbUnc op aTaxytkiac hse suj ba ot la ha -way timber atacta. The walnut snd Wry Ohio are coDfldered tbe beat ttat and ths monster poplars nick -tb socleos for tha log worth lndlviduany mora ss TJL the acres they occupy win hrln wV "rm many a poplar tres selling for 1M jr' ax touches it. il The walnut that wss one so pW-J l-.

barn thnbera, boos sill. tta wr tnada from it is ecamla were tnaoe irom scarce, ana curjeu al 1 -almost fabulous prices, hjiha rit-T can scareely' some of the beat sections. v- v'- Lsst year's purchasa uZt arm of fifty-fire standing the northern Indiana lis for hanosom sum ttar wdiw ereil of this rare clomp JJJ eentive in the search tor "VV- -reetiooa. Grant eoant? SfJSS. instance in tbe sal of VSfib.

M. I. wvwt trsct. th lasl la Indiana, for JJTt, TIPgbt the walnut AJOOO; 400 acres ffred by th seller, l(Jtc ITS remain 630 acre of tJ1: Indiana, th walnut aiooe nexs Th. tnr.n will clear VJ In that timber.

Where year, ago tor large they individual trees, notably floe forest mocfc ir Tarlety Its wheresboots beooao and th vmietltloo tasecar It DonaldsonTlll Dally "Li-lVnt of The Times acknowledge rrc- handsome Tovrlsts New Orleans Iayn ne. oaeol and moat conservative south. It 1 one of the most elaborate lB.V5tTi k-by that favorite Jor7J In everything, never wUB-i ia Seooles eonudenceano-srs carta. The illasUoas make-op of the booker From Russia conies ttf Norshea eski has Jtorented a. ment.

the principle of wn" 'tEi i tlveness to light to "lta um. both of whk as conductors of electricity tlon in tbe light to which posed. In sUting rti, i phofThVuV- depression reflects a tv long depression a kmrer the ordinary dot and dash telegraphic lnstrnmL. wUlltr.ifai0ct which tbe wimai? or Captain of that United States Ar-4 i some pahrre, Col3rado83 nili used an 8-lach mirror 1 The larger the mirror possible flash. Tie 3 arvlce patteriris -ivlL It Is only in a very try that long distance, I ft wSdoblvvH slble to send a tneasaire auSz'T-.

miles, save under MuVnS' climate makes the hTlilr Uvely useless heret" rapa When it Is required to'seri to a place in suclTa dlre operator stands with thTa adnpiex mirror has the sun's rays are can rhr 1 and sent back 25 careful adjustment: and 1 cated than when the Sun US I Try -SparlUini "I Ablta AMOSG CAMIBaxg, A Mlssloaary. Experience the People of the New Henri (From the Leeds (Enr Benter's repreuUvs Us with the Ker. Frederick J. past seven yeara has bees 1 people ot Halekula, Kewehrffi 1 ot the cannibals In that im. Ubor traffic, he aaldT in the ruin of the taUty among tb.

mUt litj 7 01 traUa is very great. I more actire control wUl bV to." future, bat I hope thatnitJd 'T Australia wiU iai Jhd of the Kanaka UUoi- tr.ffi. VZ, Irregular methoo. which Sea Is DeaUna which prerails. aaqT with tB Air.

P.ton saidr on every UUnd that 1. sot on the isiaada of TaasaSl.tvJ' 1 Malekul. where I seres years. It la to be saesla -11 on the UUnd of Oba. where thi IT'' really fond of of my own Uland it not bnt la the north It oraLJ? people in the center canalbaU.

Murders are qsitTtim the natlres and the white ikLvT any klUed In tbeVtter is generally thiZw llL' attach to the actual lsclte7o Senerally Ures soma di.uTci Lr ara rarely killed etlyjtacthe, plunder Attacks upoaiiiTtoiirU! mon. and all ot as hare UuETl to being is more or naures beUera that wa seekto i Jf new doctrine of Family locior. -( ct, is indicated. WhUe their will be unaffected, they ww rions effects of changlpf i--- latsa Tl! f- tlon. It nas ciaiui man has been iNJft dows in a room, and after to distinguish inventor hopes tt'J so efficient that' to tell almost JJ approaching sn, epsqnt; or, substance.

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