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The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1902-04-24

chardlsts, spreading the plague when they
80 after the honey In the blossoms.
~
Galveston. Texas, April %. "A s. New
son states that he now feels positive u.ot
tho efforts of Prof. NJ. h. Waite, pathol, gist
department of agriculture at Washington.
to exterminate the pear blight in his or
chard will prove successful, He says that
the indications are that he will have line
crop of peers this year. while I'm other or
chards where no effort has been made TO
check the blight the crop will be practically
failure. For the past three years the
blight has heen playing havoc with the pear
orchards of the coast country, and the
eminent for assistance after their own et-
forts to get rid of the disease had proved
unaVglling. Prof. Waite was sent here IN
Response and he selected the orchards Of
Mr.. NeWson H. which I" test hls methods.
Al the same time the owners Of other OIL
ChardS were allowed the benefit Of his in.
structon and quite u few have ptobted
thereby The majority, however, nave
waited to see the result accomplished In
the NeWSou orchard,
The methods adOptcd by Prof. Waite were
extremely vigorous, All trees affected
with the blight were cut down and the
young Sprigs and underground Of other
trees In that part of the orchard were also
tried the methods of Prof Waite have not
met with as good results as In the NeWSon
| orchard. as II tnkes an experienced eye 9
detect the blight In its earlier stages and
some little experience Is necessary to do
So Mr. Ncwsou says that he feels sure
| instructions Of Prof Waite are carried Out
| will be freed from the disease.
The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1902-04-24
OOKSLIKE ADOUBLE MURDER
j Peterson and Wife Have Disappeared
from Their Home Near HilIendahl.
M Residence and Barn Were Found in Ashes
Yesterday Morning, but No Trace of Either
of Them Could Be Found.

oorhood after several hours hunt, he came
10 the city aud notified SherlN Anderson
VINO with Deputy Ilillendahl left for tho
scene about o'clock Yesterday afternoon.
On the Peterson premises there Is a
wei from which the family secured It's
water Mr., Rummel Informed the sheriff
that this well was oiled up With debris.
and he fears that his sister ana her hus.
band have been killed aud their bodies
thrown into the we'll, and that the supposed
murderers have attempted to hide their
crime by thus dlsposing Of their victims.
Sherin Anderson and Deputy Hulendahl
returned this morning about O'Clock The
search for the bodies was without result
but Sheriff Anderson expressed himself as
confident that murder had been committed
and viii rctura to the scene this morning
better equipped Tor the search The well
was cleaned Of the debris aud Deputy Ill
lendahl went into the water until OILY
his head was out, but he was unable IA
touch the bottom Of the well, consequently
the well win either be bailed or graphing
hooks will he sent down In an effort to
ind the bodies II they are there.
The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1902-04-24

The anti-spitting ordinance will hereafter
be enforced by the police department DO
not spit ON the sidewalk If you wish TO
avoid trouble.
Arizona republican., 1902-03-10

Bank exchanges at all leading cities in the United States for February were S, 763, ,O91 O7S. a loss of only per cent compared with last year. The loss is wholly at New York, where Wall street operators. which affect bank settle ments heavily, were only two-thirds of the enormous total last year. Quitting New York. exchanges are $2,414.120. 101. against 2.1S7 .351, ,002 in February last year, q gain of 10.4 per cent. Deducting the market value Of stocks sold at New York both years, total exchanges of all leading cities in the United States are so per cent over last year. Settlements through the banks are heavy for Feb ruary and reflect large trade payments. Boston. Philadelphia, Baltimore, Chi caSo, St. Louis and San Francisco all report larger exchanges. At nearly every city there is an increase, even in the south: the increase is especially marked at the west. Insolvencies, though trine larger than last year, are relatively small. but solvent pay ments through the banks are the largest ever known.
Arizona republican., 1902-03-10

Tn any well regulated household the chief percentages in their order of i'm fcrtance are the cook, the baby and the babys puppy dog.
Arizona republican., 1902-03-10

the first year and only seventy per cent of all children born attain the age of ten; sixty-four per cent the age of twenty and sixty-Cne per cent the age of thirty, while one-half of those who live to be twenty years old attain the age of siXty-three.
 Among carefully selected insured lives we know that more than half of those insured at any age Cbeginning with 25) will live beyond 67. By the Farr table No. the oldest age at tained is 109, by the Actuaries' table it is 99 and by the American table it is 96. No insured life in this country has lived to the age of leo. but several nave died at the age of 99, and one, after his policy was paid on surrender, died just after his tooth birthday.
 Probably it is true that medical and sanitary science has already tended and may more and more tend to in crease the healthfulness and strength of children at birth, so that under bet ter hysienic conditions. more tender care and rational treatment. large proportion may live to maturity But it is almost certain that the chief re- suit, among the average population. N HI Dc lD lCiiS liIEil L4lG ilN CS OA NStlfA- lings and increase the number of such to the year of completed manhood and womanhood, when they enter upon tha period of responsible citizenship. And this would tend to increase the death rate among the impaired CT less robust { Hives and thus reduce the number living at the end cf the next twenty years or so to the normal number shown by the mortality tables.
 Again. the mode of living and eating in this generation. the nervous and physical tension and strain put upon every man and woman and child, what ever their place in cur social and busi- ness economy, certainly tends to short en rather than lengthen the lifetime oi the individual, and. it would seem. must destroy the possibility of any in- crease of the average age of man. in cur day and generation.
Arizona republican., 1902-03-10
FOR OVER SIXTY YEARS

MRS. WTNSLOW'S SOOTHING SYRUP has been used for children teething. IL sootles the child, softens the gums. allays all pain, cures wind cclc, and IS the best remedy for Diarrhoea. TWenty-iiYe cents q bottle.
Arizona republican., 1902-03-10

One of Chicago's school trustees, Thc.lGs Brennan. declares that cigar cite smoking and football playing are twin evils tending to impair the eff cienty of our public schools. Football occupies the time which should be spent in gaining knowledge. while smoking lessens the capacity to absorb knowl- edge. The combination of these two habits is enough to make dolt of any boy, consequently ar. Brennan proposes to organize anti-cigarett2 children from using the filthy weed oy moral suasion.
Arizona republican., 1902-03-10

whether to attend the wedding or not.
 Miss Wild has very sensibly re nounced the glory of having queens ant princesses attend her wedding, and plans. it is said, to have the simplest of ceremonies in a little church in the Latin quarter, where she and her royal husband are very fond of going. Afte"- ward they will take q few months trip before they settle down in Paris. ani gossip says II is not unlikely that May will find the young couple on soma transatlantic steamer on their way to New York.-PaIis Correspondence oi New York World.
Arizona republican., 1902-03-10

The case of Collector Ivey of 5itka. Alaska. who blandly refuses to obey orders from the secretary of the treas u~y and tells that official not to worry because of possible international com piications. reminds the Philadelphia North American Of the historic case of the postmaster at Jump Of-J oe, Ore: "A postal inspector objected u the general delivery arrangements. which consisted of cigar box on the bar of the possTaster's saloon. from which the citizens of Jump-CG-Jo DC selected their letters while ordering drinks. No attention was paid to the inspectors protests until he presented his card and assuI.--d a tone of au- thority. Then the postmaster came from behind the bar, took the cigar box full cf letters to the door, made drop kick which sent box and contents to the middle of the street, and said to the inspector: You go back u Wash iaSton ar! tell Grover Cleveland that the postmaster at Jump On-Joe has resigned
Arizona republican., 1902-03-10

The Chicago Tribune gave the follow ing orde; c: parade for that city's dem onstrstion in Prince Henry's honor: The Chicago Pretzel NGrnishers' union 1e0 strcng; the Sauerkra1t Treaders Nercin, 5o very strong: the Sausage Suffers sanserbund. l5o strong; the Pic!sled Herring Nerein, 15 strong: tl;e Limburse; Guards. @00 very strong; til, DelicatesSen Sanserbund. l5O strong the Frankfurter Free Arch4rs. ;. strong; the Sweftzerkase, Rye Breao ard Mustard unions, 500 strong.
Arizona republican., 1902-03-10
PHOENIX. ARIz., MARCH 10, 1902

The chief statistician of the New York Mutual Life Insurance company.
 Mir. J. w Guiteau, in an IS LENGTH article in the New York OF LIFE Daily News contends INCREAS- that there is little ING? ground for the popular
 belief that the averas ase length of human life is increasing
 In many cases. says Mir. Cuiteau, with which the public is familiar. q pronounced success has resulted: and it is this fact. proba bly,. that has ere ated a widespread popular sentiment that the length of human life is being prolonged. so that the race has acquired new and greater vitality.
 So far as I can find. there are no rec ords to justify this sentiment or the assertions so positively made. In all. about one hundred mortality tables have been scientifically compiled and constructed, and We now know what is the Flaw of mortality and the average rate of death that may be expected for each age of life The Breslau mortality table. covering deaths that occurred in the five years 1ss7-91 was the first nor 
 accuracy ever published. Between that and the middle Of the last century scores of others were compiled from government census records and from the more accurately kept records of in sured lives. The last important gov ernmental table was Dr. Farr's Eng fish Table No. 3, published in 1S6+. It includes the largest mortality experi- ence ever tabuiated, being deduced from the censuses of 1S41 and 1851 Of the entire population of Great Britain, embracing some fifty millions living and 6,47O, 720 deaths registered in seven teen years. In the language of Dr. Farr, this table twas not deduced from the population CT the deaths alone, but / from the ratio the one bears to the other at different ages" No other con- parison than of the lives exposed and the deaths occurring at each age can determine the average duration oi life" And no data has been collected ~ and compiled fer making such Q con- parison, or large populations, in recent years, nor since that made by Dr. F7arl on the records Of fifty years ago.
 In the last 15O years every phase ot human life and of the diseases aE6 causes that produce death have beer carefully and scientifically investigated for the purpose of determining witt mathematical accuracy reliable data for basing and assuming financial ob- legations in a corporate and responsible form, that would stand the tests oi time and all financial and social nuctlI- ations.
 The correlated values obtainable bl combining the laws Of mortality ant compound interest are known to : mathematical certainty. The result. are no longer proble1natical Upon the certainty O. this knowledge are paseC the largest money transactions eve accomplished by corporate organiza- tions, and their contract obligation. may be made more secure than tho bonds of any state or nation. for popJ1- 1ations may continue where govern ments fail and change.
 English Life Table No. , shows tha the death rate per annum among in fants is as great during their first yea of life as among an equal number O persons living at the age of eighty that more than eighteen per cert di
Arizona republican., 1902-03-10

Tor once the newspapers have lone an injustice 10 Senator [Tillman. 4 dispatch was sent cut from New York last week stating that Tillman had told Senator Platt at the Fifth avenue hotel that President Roosevelt could not at tend the Charleston exposition in safe ty-that on account of the president $ withdrawal of his invitation to Till man to attend the dinner in honor of Prince Henry, Mir. Roosevelt would be subjected to insult in South Carolina, and would be in personal danger. Throughout the country, and in south Carolina particularly, there was in tense indignation. Both Platt and Till- man deny the story, and it is safe to say Tillman did not utter the words imputed to him.
Arizona republican., 1902-03-10

Tn appointing Admiral Sampson's son d cadet in the naval academy at Annapolis, President Roosevelt has done a proper and gracious thing. Ad- miral Sampson has served his country long and well. He was one of the most intellectual men in the navy, and in every Way Was q great commdnde~. He is now undergoing bodily affliction worse than death. The darkness into which his mind has passed is largely on account Of the rabid and senseless 'Sampson-Gchley controversy, q TOW with which neither of these brave off cers had any willing connection, and the whole country will commend the presidents act ia appointing young Sampson to the naval academy.
Arizona republican., 1902-03-10

The difference between T thief anl an embezzler depends upon how much he steals.
Arizona republican., 1902-03-10

The four greatest men of today, in the opinion of Henry Labouchece, are Mareoni, Rontsen. Edison and Car nesie. "Ce!ebrated statesmen and dis tinguished soldiers he says, general ly do more harm than good. The fore most benefaCtor of the race have beer those who fought against abuse, super stitiou, ignorance or disease, or have Discovered the means of adding to n; rcrourccs of mankind"
Arizona republican., 1902-03-10
T0 WED AN AMERICAN GIRL.
Prince Eugene Renounces Claim |.
 Crown fur t-uT-.

Ar American GiIi to marry a royal prince. Just as sunl ;,* i;o uaE disp0s. of 5lle royal red tape that accompanies g kings sens renUnciation of his right: and privileges of birth, the very hand some and interesting Prince Eugene oi Sweden will make Miss Helen Gorhan ', i'd of West Virginia his price.
 Social and artistic Paris has got dis played a- much interest in a1 rngaSe- rDout for many q season.
 Mi Wild is suuie and e4,treln-ls l.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1902-12-03
NATIVES QUEER IDEAS.
Mindsnaons Expected to See Amer
leans Ten Feet Tall With
Horns and Tails.

Captain Pershing. with 60 men,
has completed march across the
Island Of Mindanao, Philippine Is.
lands. from Camp Wears to Yligan,
This Is possibly the first time that
white men have made the Journey.
Captain Pershing visited the villages
OF Madaya and Marahui On his way
to Madaya he found the Moros were
surprised to learn that Americans
wcrN not monsters 10 feet tall. with
horns and tails At Marahu he ad.
dressed 500 Moros telling them OF the
friendly purposes Of the Americans
representatives of the Nato and
Bocayutan tribes. which are now at
war, asked Captain Pcrshing to arbi
trate the difference between them.
The captain agreed TO visit them and
give his arbitration on his return
journey TO Camp Wears. No hos.
tility was shown toward the column
on The march The constabulary IN
the Zambales province reports a re.
pulsive incident of cruelty perpe-
trated by Ladrones. Several columns
Of constabulary had been chasing the
Ladroncs with the assistance OF
friendly natives. Five Of the friend
lies struggled from the column and
were captured by Ladrones. who
amputated the tongue and gouged out
the eyes of one friendly and then sent
him back to the constabulary. The
fate of the other four is'unknown.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1902-12-03
STUDENTS IN THE LAWS CLUTCHES.
BREACH OF THE PEACE.
Leading Yale College undereradli.
ates Must Answer Serious
Charges--Ten Arrested.

For the alleged mobbing of a squad
of New York spectators who came
to New Haven, Conn, TO handle tick.
cts for the Yale.Harvnrd football
game five of the most prominent
students In Yale have been prregtCd.
one of them has been charged with
highway robbery, the other four with
breach of the peace. The under.
graduates who are awaiting trial
are: John Aston Moorhead. Pitts.
burg, class OF 1904; Henry Barnum,
New York 1905: William Robert
Orthwein, st. Louis, 1903; Harold
Merriam Sawyer, Bridgeport, 1903,
and Bradford Ellsworth, New York,
1903. Moorhead has played end rush
on the the Yale varsity football
eleven most of the fall. He cracked
his shoulder month ago and was
crippled for the rest of the season.
He Is q member of the Yale varsity
basketball team. The arrest of Moor
head Orthwein and SAWYER took
place Tuesday. Ellsworth and Bar
mum We're arrested within "a hours
after the riot occurred. All of the
students have bden released under
bonds. Ellsworth's bonds have been
fixed at $1,000, those of the Others
5000 each. All OF the students UNI
der arrest are attending recitations
but were not allowed to go home for
their Thanksgiving recess. Wit
nesses say that 500 students piled on
the spectators, searched their cloth.
ing, found 16 tickets, took these to
the Office of the football association
and gave the spectators a piece OF
paper on which was written: THESE
are the men we took the tickets
from. Pay them their face value"
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1902-12-03
RUSSIA PAYS INDEMNITY.
owners OF American Vesseis Seized
In Sealing Dispute Recover
Value Of Ships.

Prof. Asser. the Dutch jurist, at
The Hague, Holland. who has been
arbitrating the claims OF American
sealers for the seizure OF their ycs.
sells by the Russian government.
about ten years ago. has delivered
his award In favor OF the United
States. He appraises the damage in
the case OF the American schooner
G.. H. White at S32iil, in the case
of the James Hamilton Lewis mt $28..
5SS, the Kate and Anna at 1,4SS and
the Cape Horn Pigeon s3S.750. Prof.
Asser delivered his judgment in the
arbitration court In the presence of
the representatives of the United
States, and of Russia and others, In
cluding the foreign minister of the
Netherlands, Or Van Lynden. In
giving his reason for the award Prof.
Asser held that the schooner G. ".
White was seized outside Russian
territorial waters, and that the Rus.
Sian contention that warship of one
nation was entitled TO pursue beyond
the boundaries OF its territorial seas
Il ship of another nation guilty of II.
legal action within those waters was
untenable. The arbitrator declared
that the jurisdiction OF the state
could not extend beyond It's terri
torial waters. except by special
treaty The seizure and coniiscation
of the G. II. White and the imprison.
ment of her crew was therefore II.
legal, and Russia was condemned to
pay the G. II. White s32,4i4, with in.
terest ut 6 per cent The case of
James Hamilton Lewis Is governed
by the same decision, while In the
case of the Cape Horn Pigeon Prof.
Asser. In fixing the damages Of $685.
$50 and the interest at 8 per cent,
held that the general principle that
damages should include the prospec-
tive profits of which the victim had
been deprived. applied equally to In
ternational litigation. In the case OF
the Kate and Anna the arbitrator de-
cided that the captain could have
continued seal hunting, and that
therefore Russia was not responsible
for the prospective profits.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1902-12-03
USE TROOPS IF NECESSARY.
Roosevelt Ordered the Cattlemen's
Fences to Be Torn Down.

Colonel John S. Mosby, special gov.
eminent inspector at Omaha, Neb.,
says concerning his proposed raid on
the cattlemen who have been fencing
government lands: There will be
bloodshed In Nebraska over that fence
matter before 1t is done with, but
propose to have the fences torn down
if | have to send cavalry force there
to do it. President Roosevelt hes as
sured me that the fences would be
removed. lie said: This thing must
stop or there will be bloodshed over
ii. And President Roosevelt knows
just as much about this Western land
question as anyone in the country. for
he lived in the West number Of
wears"
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1902-12-03
AMATEUR TRAIN ROBBERS.
Aold.Up Near Kansas, but Make
a Mess of 1t.

Two men made al unsuccessful at.
tempt to hold M The eastbound Chi
cage Il Alton train, which left Kan
sas CITY. Mo-. for st. Louis at the
Alton station at independence, a Sc
cluded spot in the eastern suburbs
of that town. The train had stopped
at the station and the two men. arm
ed with rifles, bearded the rear of
the train there. As the train was
pulling out at 10 o'clock the men COW
cred brakeman with their rifles
and commanded him to throw up his
hands. The brakeman refused to
obey. and one Of the bandits shot
him in the leg. The report of the fir.
ing was heard by other trainmen, who
hurried to the rear of the train. The
two robbers evidently were discon-
certed by the turn events had taken
and leaped from the train before it
had gained much headway. They evi-
IDENTIFY We're amateurs III train rob-
bing. They were not masked, and the
injured brak man was able to give
tho police a good description OF them.