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THE DAILY STAND AHD UNION BROOKLYN. FRIDAY, AUGUST 19. 1910. MOLDS TRUMP CARD CLINGING TO TREE Duffy's CAS II opu Wvnim CASII BEST AND mUMSTCASH GROCER RESGUKJIISBANI3 ng Sensational Report On Make-Up Barth, 200. Pounds, Grasps tTWFITXX BCTS Bill A aav Fees ef Park Ave.

aUattoet 11 INQUIRY Sparkli Apple Juice e- BROOKLYN of "Citizenship' Rolls" of Five Tribes. 'Frail Wife's Ankles; Pulls' Self Out of Quicksand. August Furniture Sale Every bottle a laughing pring of gladness and health." Exhilarating with-S out reaction. This, tho area test 'of all sale. 1 now almost over.

If rou have not taken advantage of the specials we are offering, why not kItc us a call and allow us to show you through and quote price. Yon are not compelled to. buy! We consider a pleasure to ahow yoa HAS HOT BEEN. PUBLISHED. IN EMBRACE OF QUAGMIRE tnrough and point out tno merits 01 oar furniture.

"aSST1: 74 STORES ALL OVER LARGE CANS Jn fl pf Lion, Magnolia, pno COHDEHSED tl VU il UsalSw, Clover, StarLHDpG After Terrible Ordeal Brave Speculation When Chairman $00.75 TAFT VISITS MEN DEN, ANCESTORS' BIRTHPLACE. HOPED ALE. Aug. 19. With few matters Of importance on his hands.

President Taft, who is visiting Gov. Draper at the liter's home here, left In an auto for Menden. this sfternoon, where some of his ancestors were born. It was expected hi would Inspect the cotton machinery plants here during the day. AND SELECTED BEARS, COOKED RIGHT LARGE HO.

2 CAN This Handsome Parlor Suit, $28.75 Loose cushions, handsome deep carvings, guaranteed con- 6QQ 7fZ struction, best silk plush coverings; only yAOilw 3 swfftssobr CORN ess 25c 3WPEASim2Bc FRUIT I flf SAUGE JAR 1WW A TCI ID UA I to Etc, Worcestershire. Adds Zeat Cold Meats, Fish, Game, Per Bottle Faultless Brand I fra Rich mural Flavor, per Bottle I Home-Made Style. A Delightful Appetizer. Per lOc SARDINES Chaice Selected Fish CM 10c BRAND Per I mm RELISH PLUMS ORO Packed Syrup C0 I statf Special Per Bottle 5c vy in VINEGAR CIDER OR WHITE a Mother Cook's Home Made Pwtfl Jelly" Aortcd navr PergQ $25.00 Dresser $16,00 Bird's eye maple mahogany or golden oak pentine front, 21x 42 base. 22 x28 French glass.

$16.00 whole onmco special IQc griuctfPER PKG.au GUARANTEE Our goods are warranted to be exactly as we represent them, and we assume all responsibility for any defects In materials or workmanship. Woman Promptly Faints. Fo.r being alive to-day James Barth, of Jamaica, may well thank his wife, Mary, a frail but unusually plucky Utile woman. Had it not been for her heroism Barth might yesterday have been drawn alive Into 1 a grave of Quicksand. He was only saved when Mrs.

Barthman, clinging to the overhanging branch of a tree, permitted him to take hold of her ankles and pull himself by Inches from the quagmire that had the lower portion of his bedy in a death embrace. The Barths are well known in Ja maica, where they have lived for some time in West street. Barth is trass soloist in St. Mary's Cathoii: Church. He weighs more than 100 pounds, while his wife is a mere slip of a woman.

What she lacks In physical proportions, however, she moru than makes up in sheer grit. Yesterday afternoon the couple went after elderberries in a piece of boggy grouna on toe shore of Jamaica Bay, They became separated, each finding plenty or berries at opposite ends of the bog. Suddenly Barth found his feet were being held fast by shifting sands. The more he struggled the worse became his plight. Soon he was up to his knees.

He called In alarm to his wife. When she reached him he had sunk almost to the waist. First Barth warned his wife not to venture too close to the quicksand. Then he pointed to a branch overhead. "If I could only reach that," he said.

"I could free myself." I can reach It, she replied, and you can grasp my ankles snd pull yourself out." Grasping the limb, she edged her self carefully along until she was close to her husband. Then she swung oacn ana rortn several times until finally he was able to craso her ankles. Mrs. Barth knew that her husband's life dpended upon her ability to cling to the branch. Barth tugged and tugged, for he had sunk almost to his waist.

Encouraging his wife to hold on, he drew himself out little by little. Finally he was able to grasp his wife about the waist, give a mighty heave, and emerge from the sand. Mrs. Barth's last ounce of strena-th left her at her husband's final pull, and she fell helpless. Barth ntrke.1 her up and carried her to the nearest trolley car line, a mile away, and both reached home little the worse for their experience.

TIRED OF DICTATION, ASSERTS WADSWORTH. ROCHESTER, Aug. 19 Speaker James W. W'adsworth yesterday attended a Monroe County farmers picnic at Manitou Beach. He iddIui to 'them about direct primaries, saying that certain persons had created a condition of hysteria, far beyond what is warranted by the actual situation.

"I don't want anybody to go crasy In discussing any subject," said the Speaker. "I want all to study and work things out in every walk in life, in business and in politic. I Insist that every man is entitled to his honest convictions. It Is simply a political problem how to nominate the best men for office. I am against any plan that puts a premium on a rich man who can afford to make two canvasses in one year." After his speech he was asked about the State Committee meeting and the rejection of Roosevelt for temporary chairman of the State convention.

He said: "I supported Vice-President Sherman for tho place because I thought It was an honor that was due to the Vice-President of the United States from the Republicans of New York State. Another name was sprung In the fifty-ninth minute of the eleventh hour and it was relected. don't want to say so out loud, but I think a lot of people are begin-nln- to grow somewhat weary of be-lnr dictated to by telephone and telegrams at the last minute, but I guess I have said enough." BRIST0W PREDICTS LA' FOLLETTE WILL WIN. SALINA. Aug.

19. Senator J. L. Bristow, who recently returned from Wisconsin, in which State he delivered a series of speeches, to-day predicted tbe nomination of Senator LaFollette. "I don't believe they can beat him for the renomlnatlon." said the Kansas Senator.

"I believe he will win out by a majority of from 60,000 to 75,000." YOUNG WOMAN HELD ON CHARGE OF GRAND LARCENY. Amelia Hlnze, 21 years old, of 124 Commerce street, was before Magistrate Voorhees the Coney Island ccurt 1 3-day charged by Edward Fogarty, 23 years old, of 9S Second street, with stealing 1104 from him last night. She pleaded not guilty aad was held In ball for examination Monday. The charge is grand larceny. fall off electric light pole Breaks his spine.

'While working at the top of an electric light' pole at Union street and Pitkin avenue to-day, George Seaman, 19 years old, of 412 Essex stret. slipped and fell to the ground, fracturing his spine. Ambulance Surgeon O'Keefe took him to 8t. Mary's Hospital. ii 11 gfl Lake Hopatcong I mdara A.M.: UtMrt Si.

e. Sundays A.M.J Friday A.M. jjfl SO Mauch Chunk i 'T "rDAV. AtOtrf T. I I Isva' 23d (St.

1:50 A.M. Llhertr it. A K. Burke Will Spring It (By Catted Pnn) Aui. 19.

A trump tart. It was learned to-day. i the hands of Chairman Henry Burke Rp S. of the House commi: tee now Investigating the Gore charges, which involve lands worth hundreds of millions of dollars. This card is a sensational unpublished report made by an expert of the Interior Department, J- H.

Howell, on conditions surrounding the makeup of the "citlxenshlp re" 'five civilised tribes. There is great interest among those on the inside as tc. whether Burke will ever play tee trump. The report was made after a person -'ai Investigation of methods obtaining In Oklahoma for admitting as dtisens the Indians of the five civilised tribes. making tnaa participants in the an -iarir wit." the remainder of Ha is to be divided among them, and the methods of these alreadv admitted, and their counsel, 'to keep the otners ouu -Hnwoil was called at the last sea sion of Congress before the House Committee on Indian Affairs to tell these facts.

The meetings were in "executive session." and Howell's tes- tiraor.y was not made puoiic. xne iu report made by Howell to James R-Garfield, then Secretary of the In terior, upon this subject was iaia De-fore the committee at that time. Howell, it was learned to-day. asserted ridiculous limitations as to time were placed on the Dawes Commission which adjudicated the Indian claims. This rendered an adequate consideration or each Indian case Impossible.

It showed how Congress further legislated to restrict the membership of the rolls, and give it as hearsay that a member of the Dawes" Commission. Archibald McEnnon. recommended the passage of the law restricting the membership. Howell produced evidence of flagrant disregard of rights of Indian claimants for citlxenshlp. Seven hun- cred and forty-one cases were presented by Howell as worthy of admission or at least further investigation.

Ha presented to the Commission information concerning the activity of Mansfield. Mc Murray and Cornish, the Oklahoma attorneys Involved in the Gore charges, in keeping the rolls dosed against as many Indians as possible. They entered into a contingent contract." said Howell, "at a fee of per cent, of the total value of each allotment which they might defeat. That contract was predicated on the theory that an allotment was worth $4,800. I have heard it stated they would have received about $1.500.

000 the full amount The citlxenshlp court allowed them J750.000." Before; the House" Committee testified: "I filed my report with Garfield -on March 2. 1909. and he went out of office on March 4. He did not take any action, but wrote a letter statins I had filed my teport and it would be on file in the department subject to the inspection of the committee at any time tbey wished to see it." It is known that since then a copy of the report was put in Burke's hands. At the Interior Department it Is filed as "confidential" and is not available to the public.

CANNON SAYS HE'S STILL IN SPEAKERSHIP RACE DANVILLE, 111.. Aug. 19. Despite tbe declaration of Congressman Long-worth that he will not again vote for Joseph G. Cannon for the Speakership, Mr.

Cannon will continue In the race, according to a statement issued by the Speaker. Mr. Cannon said he would go into the caucus as a candidate, no matter how many Republican Congressmen declared they would oppose his re-election. Ail he asked, lie was that thOFe who went to the caucus abide by its decision; he promised to do the same. He would not ask any man to pledge himself to vote for his re-election if he believed that pledge would work against him In the election this fall, nor "Republican nomination for Congress to repudiate his party by failure to enter the caucus.

Mr. Cannon evidently believes that the Longworth statement was inspired by President Taft. He did not say so. but he intimated as much when he said: "It is time enough to answer the President of the United States if he has any statement to make touching on the Republicanism of the Speaker of the House of Representatives when he 'makes that statement under his own hand. I will not fight windmills filled by breesea blown from the lungs i.

cowards." ACCUSED OF THEFT FROM. BRIGHTON BEACH HOTEL William Jones. 29 years old. of 448 West Forty-third street, Manhattan, was Magistrate Voorhees In the -j Coney Island court to-day, charged with petit larceny. Tbe complaisant was Bart J.

McDonald, man. ager of the Brighton Beach Hotel. McDonald said that on June 27. while Jones was employed at the hotel as a waiter, he stole 115. Jones plead- uv.

u.tu 0UV baQ. for examination Monday. BURNS TELLS FOLLOWERS HE'S FOR HOME RULE The Regular Democratic Club of the Twenty-eecond Election District, Fourth Assembly District, met last evening at Its headquarters, 713 Myrtle avenue. Thomas F. Burns, candidate for leader of the district made an address to the membrra.

He declared himself strictly a home rule advocate and promised to meet the needs of the voter In tbe district. -j- (U1E YOU nUPTURED? I SK THJ! LKvntAOB TKl rO SPRINGS: NO LEG STRAPS TERAGE TKl 88 CO, Ml Myrtle sr. Saw NOTE GO. CASE IS AGAINST EXCHANGE ONLY Judge Hough in the United States Circuit Court to-day handed down a decision in the case of the New York Bank Note Company against H. Thomas Individually and as president of the New York Stock Ex.

change, each individual member of the exchange and the American Runic Note Comoany in which he considers the motions made on Aug. 12. by the plaintiff for leave to amend the complaint and motions of the defendant to dismiss the bill against the individual members and also by President Thomas to strike out certain portions of the complaint, as irrelevant, redundant ai scandalous. iniiM Hnnrh savs the only cause of action is against the New York Stock Exchange as an entirety. A long statement naming members of the Stock Exchange who are or tivi hMn shareholders of the American Bank Note Company, he holds to be Irrelevant.

BROOKLYN SOLDIERS START HOME TO-NIGHT (Special to The Standard Union.) PINE CAMP Aug. 19 The Red armv. under Col. H. C.

Barthman. of Brooklyn, won a decisive victory over the Blue forces, commanded by Col. Frank H. Norton, also of Brooklyn. this morning.

The Red army was composed of the Forty-seventh Regiment and Troon of Squadron C. of Brooklyn; the Battery D. Third C. S. Field Artillery, while the Blue forces rnnditw) of the Twenty-third Regi ment, of Brooklyn.

Squadron C. and the Sixth Battery Field Artillery, or Blnghamton. The officers of Squadron enter tained Gen. jcaay ana imn iui whilo Qen. Grant dined- N.

G. N. Y. The Brooklyn guardsmen are now packing up pre-, para to ry to their departure for home. The Twenty-third Regiment, with Gen.

Eddy and staff, and Squadron leave to-night and the Forty-seventh Regiment early to-morrow morning. HELD FOR BURGLARY ATM ISLAND James Young. 82 years old, colored, of Mount Vernon. N. was held by Magistrate Voorhees in the Coney Island court to-day without ball for the Grand Jury on a charge of burglary.

Victoria Powers, of East Second street and Kings Highway, and Josephine Martin, who lives nearby, charge htm with entering their homes last Monday. FIRE SWEEPING ALBION; TOWNS ASKED FOR AID ALBION. Aug. 19. Flames are raging In the business section of this town, and local firemen are seemingly unable to cope with them.

The Orleans County National Bank. Lan-dauer Brothers' dry goods store and other places have been destroyed, and the flames are spreading. The loss is now about 175.000. Medina and Holly have been asked for help. KRACKE AND CALDER MUM ABOUT OYSTER BAY TRIP.

Naval Officer F. J. H. Kracke and Congressman William M. Calder got hack from Oyster Bsy to-day.

They attended a conference with CoL. Roosevelt, Collector Loeb. Congressman Cocks and Chairman Grl scorn yesterday. Both the Congressman and Naval Officer refused to discuss the trip or the subjects discussed at the confab. NFW ENGLAND CATTON MILLS CLOSE DOWN.

GREENVILLE. N. Aug. 19. Notices have been posted in the Columbian Cotton Mills here announcing a shutdown to-morrow until Aug.

29. The plant is controlled by Bliss. Faby-an and Company, of New York and Boston. HUGHES NAMES FINLEY TO REPRESENT STATE. ALBANY.

Aug. 19. Gov. Hughes to-day appointed John H. FlnJey, president of the College of the City of New York, ss an additional delegate of the Stats to the National Con.

serration Congress at St. Paul, On Sept. i. The Governor also has appointed Wnilaw W. Fsrler, of Btnghamton, ss a manager of the Blnghamton State Hospital.

$25.00 Chiffonier $16.00 Bird's eye maple mahogany or golden oak pentine front, 19x 33 inch base. 16x20 French glass, $16.00 James, and three daughters, Mrs. David Hall, Jane and Julia. CATHERINE L. MARTIN.

Catherine L. Martin, widow of Hugh Martin, died yesterday at her home. 552 Wythe avenue. She was a parishioner of the Church of the Epiphany, South Ninth street, and is survived by four daughters. May.

Nellie. Cecilia and Mrs. Kathleen Halligan A solemn mass of requiem will be celebrated at 10 o'clock to-morrow morning at the Church of the Epiphany and Interment will be made at Calvary Cemetery. MARY L. FITZGERALD.

A solemn mass of requiem was celebrated this morning at St. Joseph's R. C. Church, Vanderbilt avenue and Pacific street, for Mary L. Fltsgerald.

and interment was made at Holy Cross Cemetery. She was born in Brooklyn and was the daughter of Edward and Ann Fltsgerald. Besides her parents, she Is survived by a brother; 6he was a parishioner of St. Joseph's Church. EDITH R.

STEINER. Edith Rose daughter of Jacob and Emma Steiner, died on Wednesday at her home. 182 Lincoln place. She was born In Brooklyn. Nov.

25. 18S0. and was a member of the Sunday school of the First Reformed Church. She Is survived by her parents and a sister. Mrs.

Beth une Jones. Funeral services will be held at 2 o'clock to-morrow after- noon, the Rev. James M. Farrar of ficiating. JOHN C.

BARDORF. John C. Bardorf, a shoemaker, died on Wednesday at his home, 613 Wythe avenue. He was born In Germany seventy-nine years ago and Is survived by two sons. Burial in Gricnwood Cemetery to-morrow morning at 10 o'clock, under direc- I tlon of the National Burial Com pany, of 386 Broadway.

JOHN John McNealey died on Wednesday at his home, 672 Bergen street. He is survived by his parents and a brother. Interment was made today at Greenwood Cemetery, under direction of W. A. Martin, of 713 Washington avenue.

JOSEPH ROELOFSEN. Joseph Roelofsen. for twenty-five years a cigar maker In the Ridge-wood section, died yesterday at his home, 295 Woodward avenue, ki his sixty-third year. He was born In Germany and is survived by a widow, Julia, three sons, George, William and Reinhold, and two dsug-hters. Mrs.

Louisa Beta and Kmma. He was a member of the Church of St. Mathlas, Elm avenue, where a solemn requiem mass will be celebrated at 10 o'clock to-morrow morning. C. L.

Hatch, of 271 Woodward avenue, has charge of the burial In St. John's Cemetery. KATHERINE A. KIRNAN. Catherine Agnes Klrnan died Wednesday at her home, 1(1 Rutland road.

She was born in Brooklyn. Aug. 10, 188S, the daughter of Mary A. and the late John Klrnan. She Is survived by her mother, eight brothers, John.

Frank. Fred. William. Thomas. Charles, George and Philip, and three Flsters, Mrs.

Margaret Engelke. May and Gertrude. She was a parishioner of the Church of St. Francis Assist, where a solemn mass of requiem wan celebrated this morning. Interment was msde at Calvary Cemetery, under direction of M- J.

Smith, of 146 Prospect Park West. JOHN A. WINFIELD. John Arthur Wlnfleld. of 88 Wolcott street, died on Wednesday in the Long Island College Hospital.

Be was born in Lancasttrshlre. England, nineteen years ago. and had been a resident of Brooklyn for years. He was a member of St. Paul's M.

E. Church, and is survived by his parents and one sister. The funeral will be held at o'clock to-morrow afternoon, with Interment at Evergreen Cemetery, under direction of Joseph F. Redmond, of 90 King street. MART BUTTON.

Mary Sutton, a native of County Wexford. Ireltwid. died to-day at her home. 247 Marcy avenue. In her seventy-sixth year.

She had been a resident of Brooklyn for fifty years and JELLY POWDER was a member of tne cnurcn oi iut TnfiiriirTtinn Marcv avenue and Hooper street. She is survived by one sister. Mrs. Denis tirien. a suicum will be celebrated at 10 o'clock to-morrqw morning at tha cnurcn or ine iranBHKuii" terment will be made at Calvary remsifrv under direction of William T.

Foley, of 270 Marcy avenue. MARY NELSON. Vfair Nelson, widow of Joseph Nel son, who was connected with the old New York City Volunteer Fire De- aa iirMnlv Wednesday at her home. 131 Heyward street. She was born in ew iom ny nrA anAnt iYic trrpflter cart i ov of her life in the Eleventh ard.

She had been a rcsiaeni oi diwrijh a nf the Church of the Transfiguration, and Is survived oy inrce sons, r.uutu, and Thomas, and two daughters. Catharine, wife of Capt. James Doo- ism U.aHnnflr. nan, ui i ters. and Mrs.

Daniel J. Carroll. The funeral will be held sunnay aiiernoun it nvlnrk nnd interment will be made at Calvary Cerretery. JOHN H. BENNETT.

John H. Bennett. manager of Charles Kurthman's cafe, at 7 7 Park Row, Manhattan, died yesterday at hi home. BIO Ninth street. He was born in New Haven, in 186 2.

and had been a resident of Brooklyn for thirty years. He was a parishioner of St. Saviour's R. C. Church.

Eight avenue and Sixth street, and Is survived by a widow, Julia L. Car-den, and one daughter. Funeral services will be held at 1 o'clock tomorrow Joseph L. Hart, of 4J6 Court street, has charge of the arrangements. LOUIS F.

TH1BOCRET. Louis F. Thibouret. a retired afrhmaker. died on Wednesday at his home.

256 Logan street. He was born in France sixty-six years ago. nd came to mis country in joiv. ttHrtr in Ttrnoklvn. He Is survived by a widow.

Otella Filleau. Funeral services will be neia to-morrow i-ternoon at 2 o'clock, and Interment will be made at Evergreen Cemetery. The funeral director is James J. Stack, of 3249 Fulton street. DAVID TIANKEN, DEAD; ST.

LOUIS BENEFACTOR. ATLANTIC CITY. N. Aug. 19.

David Rankcn. the St. Louis philanthropist and founder of the School of Mechanical Trades In St. Louis, which bears his name, died here yesterday from heart disease. ST.

LOUIS. Aug. 19. David Ranken, was 74 years old. anl a native of Boyston.

County Londonderry. Ireland. Just before departing for Atlantic City In June Mr. Ranken gave $3,000,000 to the School of Mechanical Trades, of which he was the rounder. For the rest of his natural he declared, he had to be contented with a meagre 13,000 each year, or 18 a day.

The aim of the founder of this school was to make good bricklayers, good plumbers, good cabinetmakers, glaxiers. Iron molders and shoemakers. BRYAN DISAPPROVES WATTERSON'S HINT. LINCOLN. Aug.

19. William J. Bryn declines to approve a recent editorial suggestion by Col. Henry Watterson. of Louisville, that Bryan should csnsent to the nomination of a candidate In 1812 who bolted In 189.

Bryan serves notice he will fight any such plan. CYLINDER EXPLODES AND INJURES BRASS POLISHER. i I. Edward Palmer, 4 years old. was polishing a brass cylinder In a factory on North Tenth to-day when the metal he was handling broke from the result ef an explosion snd smashed his fingers and some of the bones in his hand.

A piece of flying brass cut -him severely on the chest. Surgeon Cohen of the Eastern District Hospital, attended Palmer and took him home In the ambulance BOY PLAYING NEAR HOME BITTEN IN HIP BY DOG. i i i While romping outside his home. BS7 Manhattan avenue, to-day, Hioh-ard Monks, eight years old. was bitten on the right hip by a dog.

Surgeon Cohen, of the Eastern District Hospital, attended to the child's injury at the Qreenpoint police station. The canine Is atttl at large. EX-SURROGATE STERN SUCCUMBS TO APOPLEXY. BUFFALO. Aug.

II Jacob Btern. s-surregate of Erie County, dropped dead at his home here to-day from 1 upiexy. MIXED THE LUMBER WOODS Exploits of Paul Bunyan Related in Every Forest Camp in Minnesota. VOICE BR0KETREE BRANCHES Monster of Hideous Mien Was the Hodag. No region Is richer In myths than the northern Minnesota lumber woods, but with the passing of the I old-time "lumberjack" and the coming of the modern woodsman, the myths are rapidly being lost.

The old stories told around many a roar-! Ing log stove are likely to be for gotten unless an effort is made to preserve them In print. But occasionally In the camps of northern Minnesota, men may yet be found who have logged In Maine, ridden the rapids of the Ottawa, helped strip Michigan of her forests, end who are now beating down the last stand of the white pine In the north, writes J. E. Rockwell in the "Outer's Book." These are the men who will tell you of Paul Bunyan and his famous camps, for nearly all of the lumberjacks' myths centre about Paul Bunyan and the "Side HU1 Gouger." the "Hide Behind," the "Swamp Bogger." "The Snow Snake" and the "Hodag." The stories of Paul Bunyan are innumerable. This fa-J rr.ous hero of lumberjack mythology was the centre of almost every tale told In the camps in the old days.

His exploits were related in every tie camp, every cedar camp, and every white pine logging camp in northern Minnesota, and they lost nothing In the telling. Each camp had Its own set of stories, and the men, in traveling from camp to camp for the old-time lumberjack was a rovei swapped these yu-ns In the long winter, evenings, when the steaming socks were hung over the roaring sheet iron stove. It would be impossible to collect them all. but some of the best known exploits of this, famous character will be related: Back in the Ws Paul Bunyan set up the first of his famous camps at the forks of the Little Onion and the Big Tobacco rivers. It was the biggest lumber camp ever built, and Paul ruled with an iron hand over the three thousand men under him.

He was eight feet tall and weighed three hundred pound a He had a voice like a bull roaring, and ever' man In his employ jumped when he spoke. When he yelled th noise broke the branches off the trees. It seems that Paul was a powerful heavy smoker. He had a pipe with a bowl that held about a bushel of tobacco, and he kept one coolie busy shovelling tobacco Into It. He alwayw smoked the test of the real lumberjack.

It was the winter of the "blue snow" when Paul was first heard of. In that winter, the tale goes, there was a forty-foot fall of blue snow in northern Minnesota. That winter they had to eut the trees from forty faet above the ground, and in the spring there was a forest of stumps forty feet high. But the pine was so big at that time that It didn't make much difference in the size of the logs. During the winter of the big blue snow, the famous snow snakes made their appearance.

They frose up in the winter, and the jacks used them for skids. In the spring they would thaw outi The cooking arrangements in Paul Bunyan'a famous camp were unique. Cooking for three thousand men was no easy task. They had a cook stove so long that a man could not throw a stone from one end to the other. Tbe cook had two little boys, and he would strap slices of fat pork to their feet.

They would skate up and down the stove, and the cook would follow on roller skates, pouring out the pancake batter as he went. A strange bird, called the "deep winter flying midget." made Ita heme on the Little Onion Mountain. The bird uaed to frequent Paul Bunyan'a camps, and the cook always kept it supplied with food. It would lay Its eggs right out on the surface of the snow. Cold.

Instead of warmth, hatched the eggs. To prevent the egga rolling down the mountain aide, the midget always laid square eggs. But if the animala and the birds of the Little Onion region were atrana-e creatures, the fish In the Little Onion and Big Tohaeco Rivera were much more so. The commonest f'sh was the "whirligig" fish. The jacks, Sunday and holidays, spent all their spare -time catching the whirligig fish.

They would bore a small hole MYTHS In the ice of the river and bait It with cheese, smearing the cheese around the edge of the hole. The fish. It seems, had a ravenous appetite for cheese, and could smell it for miles. They would come, to the hole, and then one of them would begin its whirling motion under the hole. Presently it would shoot up through the hole.

and. holding Itself up by Its back fins, placed near the tail, would begin eating the cheeee. The fish had a queer mouth, shaped like a sucker's mouth, and would suck up the bits of cheese. It would soon begin to swell, for the fish ap parently ould not control their appetites for cheese, hnd presently it would pop out of the ice like a seed squeezed from between the thumb and first finger. It was then an eay matter to catch it on the ice, and the hole was rebaited.

The whirligig fish was very fine eating-. The "Hodag" was a monster of hideous mien, a reincarnation of the spirit of the lost ox. In Paul Banyan's days horses were not used in the lumber camps. Oxen were the beasts of burden in the woods. Once in a while one would wander away and never be seen again.

The lost oxen, according to the lumberjacks, turned into hodags, and became as wild and terrible as they were for merly tame and peaceable. Their cry was something to make the stoutest heart quake. Not many years ago "Gene" Shepherd, the famous Wisconsin woodsman-Joker, hoaxed the whole scientific world with a photo- a-ranh of a hod nr. caught in hia lair. Among other things Gene had learned taxidermy, and at some expense and no end of labor he transformed a peculiarly shaped loir into as ferocious an animal in appearanoe RS ever Jack saw in his wildest nightmare.

During the winter of the blue snow, much of Paul Bunyan's work went for nanirhr It aema that Paul had I a mortal enemy. Old Drumbeater, and after his winter's drive had been completed. Paul found that the logs he had cut were taken from Old Drum-beater's land, and his arch enemy threatened to take possession of them. This was too much for the lumberjack king, and he assembled his river hogs once more. Collecting the logs from the pond, he drove them back unit ream and rolled them back on Old Drum beater's land, determined that his enemy should not profit from the mistake.

There are many conflicting- state ments regarding the exact location ef the Little Onion River and tha Big Tobasco. Many place them In aorta em Minnesota, but some of the old time lumberjacks claim they were located In the Dakota, and that Paul Bunyan logged so thoroughly that be turned these States into wind-swept prairies. Mrs. Bunyan'a personality is wrapped in tsne la described as almost equal in size to her husband, and some lumberjacks make her the cook in tho famous camps while others have her as a lady of leisure, who waited in the city for her husband's return from the woods Paul Bunyan stories are seldom heard ir. these modern days, when the aver age lumber camp is a babel of tongues, but they cut a big figure in.

tbe life of the old-time lumberjack, and many old woodsmen will remember the first time they listened with open-eyed wonder to the tales of the famous old hero of lumberjack myth ology. LOST AND FOT7XP. POCKCTBOOK OS" GRANT) AVKSVB, BBTWSES WlUXrOHBr AHD MTR-TLE AVBNTTES. REWAJU) IF RETVRM-KL TO i4T grand Avxjrcte. DIED.

BOOMER vr. T-. Wednesday. Aaav if. In tha 44th rar of his a-.

Peaeral sar-rtcca ta hrtd at his resides oa, 9a President at. Bandar. Ana. tU at 3 T. M.

Interment la Grain-wood. CAJt-VET. On Ana. IT. ataxsnrat.

wife et John Camay. Fwasral from bar late residence, 8M Brtd-a a Bandar. Au. SI. at P.

at. Retetrrae and friends Invttee. to attend. CROWLKT. Cm Thursday, Ana.

Is. 10(, Margaret (as Beesna), beloved wife ef Cornelius Crawler, formerly'; ef tha Thirteenth Ward. Manhattan." Tnnerat I i vin n.r mn mnvRR. ssantron wi4 on Sunday at F. M.

HtlMlna el 4 rrtenda are reapsetrally lntttea. GROWN ET. On Ana- IS. A an la Cr baiored wtfa at Lawrence Growney. Relatives and friends are Invite ta attend tha raneral from her lata -reaidenea, SI ts.er.lnc Plata, A tar.

at a A. thane te AaranlM't Church. O-COXNOR. Catherine, on it. nt ha Into roeMeaoe.

STS Bedford by -after-a short 11 mesa, belowed aauchter of and Mary O'Connor, In her tad year, ranarnl aatnrday. A as. lo, nt 1 p. from her late reaidenea. Interment Holy Cross Cemetery.

RR.VXBU. Albert- BTeakel. eon of Jacob KanksU. born ta Brooklyn Dee. ISid, ISTX Funeral eervtera will be bald Bat-nrdajr.

Ana. F. aL, -at Stockton at. Interment at Lt heron Cntei tery. John W.

Madden, funeral director. TKTNClt. On WrdeiJay. Ana. IT, IMS, K44th th beloved "ut ht-ee et Jacob nnd Knunn Steiner.

aged SV year months. Servtce at th roudrar. Unco.n place, alsrdav 1 1 I Fleas emit flowers. lateraest prtrs WATERS On A at. IS, at his late denoe.

Pater, etod bus hand of VCir. Pnaarai im Monday ai from tbe Church, ot Oar ijtly of lx OBITUARY. LOUIS P. Louis Philip Tennis, a retired con tractor, died suddenly yesterday at his home, 454 Balnbrldge street. In his sixty-fifth year.

He was a member of the Church of the Holy Rosary, Chauncey street and Reid avenue: Holy Name Society, St. John the Baptist Council, C. B. and Knights nnd Ladk-s of Honor. Mr.

Tennis was born in New York City sixty-four years ago, and had been a resident i Brooklyn for thirty years. He is survived by a widow. Margaret; thre sons, Joseph. George and Clarence, and two daughters, Mrs. Anna Schumacher and May.

A solemn requiem mass will be celebrated at the Church of the Holy Rosary at 9:30 o'clock tomorrow morning. Burial in Calvary PETER HUGO. Peter Hugo died on Tuesday at his home, 150 George street. In his fifty-first year. He is survived by a widow and several children.

The funeral will "be held at 2 o'clock tomorrow afternoon, with bu-ial in Holy Trinity Cemetery', under direction of G. Schlltx. MARIE REHBERGER. Marie Rchberger. a parishioner of St.

Brigld's R. C. Chorch, Linden street and St. Nicholas avenue, 6lorl last Sunday at her home. 161 Wyckoff avenue.

A solemn mass of requiem was celebrated at St. Brigid's Church this morning, anil interment made at Holy Trinity Cemetery, direction of George Schlitz, of 720 Metropolitan avenue. PHILIP SCHWARTZFAGER. Philip Schwartrfager died on Monday In his seventy-second ysar. He was born in Germany and for the last flfty-flve years lived in Brooklyn.

He was a farmer In Flushing and a member of the Protestant Church there. He Is survived by a widow Mary, three sons and three daughters. The funeral was held yesterday afternoon with burial in Maple Grove Cemetery- John Sehy was the funeral director. RICHARD GREGG. Richard Gregg, who died on Tuesday of pneumonia -at his home, 1766 Sterling place, in his fifty-third year, maa buried In Cypress Hills Cemetery yesterday.

ANA8TATIA PLUNKETT. Anastatia Plunkett. wife of Hush riunkett, dtcd on Wednesday at her home, 334 Union street. She was hoin in St. John.

N. on Feb. 1'4. Ib56 Sh- had resided In Brooklyn for past six years, and was a member of St. Agnes' Church, where mass will be celebrated to-morrow at 9:30 A.

M. She. Is survived by her husband, one Cora, a brother. John and three sisters, Mrs. Bride it Devlne, Mrs.

M. J. Coila and Mrs. Anna Costlgan. Interment at Holy Cross Cemetery under direction of Joseph L.

Hart, of 49S Court street. ANNIE BAH AN. Annie Bahan. a parishioner of the Church of Ht Mary of the Immaculate Conception, Leonard and Mauler streets, and an attendsnt of the parochial school, died yesterday at her home. Ell Grand street, in her fourteenth year.

She was born In Brooklyn ana Is survived by her' James, two brothers and two slMers. The funeral wtill be held at 2 o'clock to-morrow afternoon, with Interment at Calvary Cemetery, under dlmctioti of J. Galls goer's Bona, of 215 North Fig-nth street. THOMAS CARNEY. Thomas Carney, a retired me Tiber of the Fire Department, died on Wednesday his home.

430 Seventh street. Mr. Carney was born, in Ireland, atxty-flve years ago. and came to this country when he was nineteen years old. He was for thirty years with, the Fire Department and at the time he retired In 1903 waa attached to EnElne Company S.

He had been a resident of Brooklyn for five years and was av member of the Chunh of St. Saviour. Eighth avenue and Sixth street, hrc a solemn mM of requiem will be celebrated at 10:30 o'clock to-morrow morning. Interment will be made at Holy Cross Cemetery. He is survived by widow, Julia; two sons.

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