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The dreadful custom among the
Dyak natives of Borneo of hunting for
the heads of fel1ow-creatures has I'M
happily not yet been quite stamped
out
There is, unfortunately, strong rea-
son to believe in story current among
the Sea DyakS dwelling along the
banks of the Batang Eupar river, in
Sarawak (the district of BOrneO ruled
over by Rajah Brooke) that the town
of LobO Antu, near the source of this
stream, and hardly twenty miles dis
tant from the frontier lines of Dutch
BorneO, has been invaded and raided
by force of Land Dyak tribes from
that country and about twenty or thir-
ty of the peaceful inhabitants ruthless
ly murdered.
What lends color to the grewsome
story, says the New York Press, is
the fact that, although preparations
are being hurriedly made in Kuching,
the capital of Sarawak, for a strong
expeditionary force to be sent into the
interior, great secrecy as to it's pur-
pose and destination is maintained by
the official authorities.
The custom of head-hunting is as
old as the hills among the Dyaks, and
is similar to the scalp hunting of the
Indians The belieftamong the Dyaks
is that every head captured in one OF
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This is the time of the year when
the annual pilgrimage to Mecca occurs
and again there comes the sad story
that cholera prevails among those who
are arriving in the sacred city From
200 to 800 persons are dying daily
Cholera is nearly always a feature OF
these annual pilgrimages, but the evil
is particularly serious this year, and
fears are expressed that its ravages
will reach an alarming extent when
the great flood of pilgrims arrive at
the port of Jeddah on their way to
Mecca
1t is difficult to estimate the num-
Der of pilgrims who annually visit the
holy city. Only those who pass
through Jeddah are counted with more
or less accuracy The large caravans
that travel south through the Arabian
desert, have never been counted and
only rough estimates have been made
of the number of people coming by
these land routes. 1t was estimated in
1914 that the totaI number of pilgrims
visiting Mecca in that year was 10000
1t is believed that this year the total
will reach over zoe, 900 OF late years
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re E E e E e e e SIS So
MURDER BY SCIENCE :


of time and much energy to the study
of bacteriology- He was familiar with
the various forms OF microbes common
to different contagious and infectious
diseases, and knew how to use them
with deadly effect Recently the young
man attempted to extort money from a
rich widow by threatening to scatter
disease germs in her room if she re-
fused his demand The woman at first
was inclined to laugh at his threat,
but finally he became so insistent and
maintained such menacing attitude
that she reported the matter to the
police and the medical student was ar
rested When taken into custody there
were found in his possession test tubes
containing a sufficient number of bac-
terra to have carried death to half the
residents of the town if properly cir
cu1ated. The tubes contained cultures
of cholera, typhoid fever, and lOckjaw
microbes and showed conclusively
that the young student was prepared
to carry out his threat.
This, it is believed, is the first in
stance on record when a crime of this
character has been brought to the at
tention of the authorities, but it by no
means represents the possibilities OF
such a misapplication of scientific dis
cOveries. The possibilities along this
line are as a matter of fact almost
limitless.
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From Everywhere
SEASON OF THE BASEBALL FIENo
What's Score - the Universal
0uestIon of the Hour.

whats the Score Universal
Question of the Hour.
This is the season of the year
when the baseball fend sca-npers to
the center of the stage said the
growler, and you will find that I'M
der the most trying circumstances,
when mems minds are busted with
other things, when men are really
bordering over the more SerioaS pros
lens of life. he will fall into the con-
versation suddenly as if he had drop
ped through the skylight. and ask:
Do you know what the score was to-
day. Here is a crowd of gentlemen
discussing some serious question of
state, and they are weighing problems
of great import, and they are grave
and sedate and wear worried looks,
when suddenly the base ball fiend
busters into the crowd and asks ::
day.? Go into the newspaper office.
The wires are all busy carrying the
story of some fearful disaster some
| where which has resulted in the dea.h
| of thousands of persons, when sud
denly the telephone rings, and an ex-
cited fellow at the other end of the
line asks, viii you please tell me
| the way it goes. 1t is simply one OF
| the things of the season, and I suppose
a man ought to be patient with it all
/ for we all have our little weaknesses.
IN. 0. Democrat.
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WORK FOR SLEUTHs
PUZZLE FoR POLICE OF CHICAGO
Omcers Unable to Explain Mysterious

Omcers Unable to Explain Mysterious
Attempt a nIurder.
The mysterious shooting of Daniel
Hill, prominent broker on the Chi
cago board of trade, battles the police.
So peculiar are the circumstances that
every one who has examined into the
case has different theory to advance.
Members of the police differ radically
in their ideas regarding the crime
According to Hills story, he was
awakened by slight noise in his room
and saw a shadOwy form advancing
toward his bed
Who are you and what do you
want?" shouted Mr.. Hill He raised
himself from his pillow and drew his
revolver Again he challenged the
man There was no answer
Crouchfng low. Mr.. Hill fred There
was an oath and bullet crashed into
Mr.. Hills head. He fell back on the
pillow. He raised himself and fired
again. A second bullet struck him,
this time near the nose Again he fell
back in bed
Then Mrs Hill was vakened- She
had not heard a noise until her hus-
band had fired the second shot, she
says. She did not move, she only
crouched low in bed and said not a
word Mr. Hill says he fired the first
time in the air. Or at least that is the
statement he told his daughters He
only wanted to scare them, he said
Two bullet holes in the wall near the
ceiling carry out this statement To
the police, however, he says he shot
and shot to kill. The difference in the
statements is explained by the family
that they were and are SO excited that
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Rural visitor AStoni.hed.

Fourth Assistant Postmaster Bris-
tow stands six feet four inches in his
stockings, but when seated shows lit
tie or no indication of his great stat
ure- The other day a country post
master called to pay his respects and
found Mr.. Bristow seated in a low
Office chair with his long legs showed
out of sight. The rural visitor little
fellow, stepped up to the desk with
outStretched hand and Mr. Bristow
proceeded to untangle himself He is
very deliberate in his movements and
as he slowly raised himself to his feet
the rura1ite dropped his hand and
gasped: Good Lord, is he never going
to stop getting up?"
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Brooke abrogated rights held by her
through inheritance to the privilege
of conducting the slaughter house at
Havana and of the distribution of
meats and the collection of the fixed
charges for meats The countess
claims these privileges by virtue of a
royal decree from the king of Spain.
The countess declares that the bust
ness under the privilege was success
full and profitable until 1899. In that
year, she alleges, Gen Brooke, then
military governor of Cuba, issued or
ders to the effect that the hereditary
privileges connected with the Slaugh-
ter of cattle in Havana were termi-
mated.
This order, the plaintiff alleges,
was in direct violation of a section of
the treaty of Paris declaring that SO
long as the occupation lasted the
United States should assume and dis
charge all obligations under interna
tional law for the protection of life
and property
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the number of pilgrims has greatly in
creased, but their generosity in gifts is
much on the decline This is probably
due to the fact that the world of Islam
has been feeling very poor for years
past.
In the early ages of Mohammedan-
ism it was considered obligatory for
every one of the faithful to visit the
sacred city at least once in his life
time The pilgrims have never been SO
numerous in the later history of Mo-
hammedaniSm- In the early days the
Ka1ifS were building towns in the
desert as stopping places for the pill
grins and did a great deal to facili-
tate the journey and make it comfort
able The fact that this solicitude for
the well-being of the devout has not
been manifest for a long time may
account in part for the falling off in
the number of pilgrims. The members
of a single caravan on the way to Nee
ca in the thirteenth century rode or
100, 900 came1s.
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they hardly knew what they told the
police
A third time the intruder shot and
again the bullet sped true, striking Mr.
Hill near the right shoulder
Mr. Hill, how it is not explained, got
out of bed and staggered towards the
man. One more shot was fired This
time il struck the bed near Mrs
Hills head. Mr.. Hill had dropped his
revolver Or at least it was found in
the middle of the bed when the police
came, filed with blood
While some of the police officials de-
clare they have adopted the burglar
theory of the case, they admit many
facts to be unexplained still
They admit that the average burglar
does not break down a door when en-
tering a room in which there are peo-
pie sleeping
Neither can they reconcile the fact
that the burglar or burglars when dis
covered and shot at by Mr. Hill re
turned his fire and then advanced to
his bed and fired two more shots at
close range
The average burglar prepares for a
'sget away the moment he is discOv-
cred. Then again, there are many
facts to indicate that the persons who
entered the house are familiar with
the premises.
A careful Investigation of the VIII re
abouts the night of the shooting OF
various people acquainted with the
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these inhuman raids, after it has I'M
dergone a process of cleansing and rit-
ua1 at the hands of the medicine men,
becomes a martial spirit for the in
dividuaI and tribe to whom it has
un1uclxily fallen a victim Great jeal-
ousy exists among the tribes with re-
gard to the numbers each can muster
for war, and if any tribe is in this re-
spect inferior it at once sa1lies forth
to remedy the defect in this grew some
manner
Individual head-hunting exists, also,
the heads gained by these individual
SportSm en- becoming for the most part
vOtive offerings at the shrineS of Love.
1t is no uncommon thing for a young
Dyak lady to refuse to entertain pro-
posalS from her lovers till a certain
number of these horrible trophies can
be laid at her feet.
In spite of the most stringent police
regulations this fearful custom still
exists, but it speaks we'll for the ad-
ministrative powers of Rajah G. Brooke
that in Sarawak itself head-hunting
seldom occurs, and if it does, in
the case OF the last dreadful incident
the delinquents come usually from the
dominiOns outside his jurisdiction
If two pounds of beef cost 80 cents
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TWO RELICS OF GREAT INTEREST
Chair Penn and Rock Which
al

Chair Penn and Rock Which
washington Stood.
The Site and Relic Society of Ger
mantown is rejoicing over the gift it
received last week of a chair and
rock. The chair, which is over 200
years old, belonged to William Penn.
and the rock which is much older
than the chair, is the one on which
George Washing tOn stood while he
directed the battle of Germantown
Two maiden ladies were the donors
of these reucS, two sisters, whose old
and picturesque house is crowded
from drawing-rOOm to attic with
other relics less interesting and
rare. Where the sisters live is not
to be told, says the Philadelphia Rec
ord, for they are daily worried by
strangers as it is, and if the fame of
their really invaluable collection were
to be any further spread abroad-if
the brass knocker of their door were
to be struck oftener than it is by
sightseers-the vexation of these Ia
dies would be inconceivab1y great
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tain conditions made by the testatOr.
When the safe was opened by credi-
tors recently it was found to be empty
The Crawford brothers, who We're pur-
ported to have left the fortune to
Nine Humbert, are believed to have
been myths, as no one has ever been
able to secure any information in re
gard to them. M and Nine. Hum bert
have been living in Paris in regal
style, and had an imposing chateau in
the country. There have been num-
Der Of suicides a result of losses
through the loans, and the expected
failure of an insurance company and
other affairs in which the HumbertS
were interested will affect thousands
Prominent men in France, including
judges and politicians, are suspected
of completely in the swindle-
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If one quality of character be more
conspicuous than another in Lord Sal
isbury it is patience, a profound belief
in the efficacy of time. He will not be
hurried. In all his diplomacy and I'M
der all kinds of pressure there will be
found the same note, the same tran
guilty the same confidence in return
ing reason among rulers or people
whom for the time, in his opinion, it
has deserted. His fault as a diplomat
ist-or, at any rate, as dispatch
WRITER'S his inability to resist max
ing a point When Mr. Olney told him
that the fat of the United States was
law all over the North American con-
tinent he could not refrain from re-
Winding Mr.. Olney that Great Britain
was an older and greater North Amer
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building, unveiled Memorial Day. The
subscribers to this memorial, more
than 1000 in number, are all employees
of the postal service in that city and
members of the William Mckinley
Memorial Association formed for the
purpose. The bust of the monument,
which is in bronze, was made by Ed
ward L. Pausch, the Buffalo sculptor.
who was engaged by the government
to make the death mask of Mr.. Nc
Kinley- The shaft is of polished Quin-
cy granite The treasury department
gave special permission for the plac-
ing of the memorial in the postOffice
building.
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ciety. she tacitly promised her hus-
band to dress better than any other
women in the country. Her husband
has for five years been the acknowf-
edged authority in mems dresa The
link cuff button, in common use. and
the dangling fob. an adjunct of snob-
berry, were introduced by him. He has
caused some sensations His wife is
now causing others by her novelties
of dress. She is, indeed, the leader OF
style She made the sweep skirt popu-
lar. She compelled the elbow sleeve
She made the low couture what it is.
She revived the elbow pose. She
brought into popularity the red rose
These are some of the things which
this aristocratic, quiet, dignifed, re-
fined and handsome woman has done
She is the most sought-after woman
of the Upper Ten and she and her
husband are the sensation of the sea-
son at Newport
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Fashionably Chastened.

81 quite like Mrs. A now said one
of her acquaintance. Il used to think
her insuferab1e. but I never saw any
one SO improved; 1 wonder what has
changed HERO
--She is chastened,' answered her
friend e-She finds that she is not half
so smart as she thought she was and
the position she expected to take is
not SO easy to acquire, consequently
her manners to the world at large are
much more acceptable A little disap-
pointment is a great sweetener to the
disposition Mrs. E, who used to be
naughty, has become as cordial as
possible, since her husband lost half
his fortune in Wall street, and Miss
s., who used to snub all men who
came near her, is becoming quite
agreeable, now that she finds that they
avoid her. This is SO often the ca Sc
that when / see a radical change in
the manners of a person I always find
that he or she has been chastened-'
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A subtle and horrible method OF TAX
ing life has been placed within the
means of INSCRIPTIONS men of science
Modern study of bacteriology has
placed a new and terribly effective
weapon in the hands of humanity 1t
is a weapon with which entire com
munities and towns may be stripped
of their inhabitants Wholesale deaths
may be brought about without even
directing suspicion toward the perpe-
traitor of the crime, and. what is more,
the man who seeks to deal out death
in this way may select the specific
disease he wishes to employ in carry
ing out his purpose. All of these men
acing possibilities have developed
through the advanced study of bacte-
ria and the various uses, beneficial
and otherwise, to which micro-organ-
established beyond all question of
doubt that most contagious diseases
are spread through microbes, and add
ed to this knowledge is the additional
information that each disease has it's
own specific kind of bacteria, which
may be cultured and produced in
countless numbers.
AS indication of the extremes to
which a man may go in making use OF
his knowledge of microbes, the case of
an Austrian medical student is given.
This student had devoted good deal
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IS OWNER OF WONDERFUL ANIMAL
This Mans Cat Entitled to the Palm
Cuteness.

This Mans Cat Is EntItIed to the Palm
Cuteness-
J. Clark King of Woodmont, Pa, is
confident that he has cat which for
intelligence has all the other smart
cats of the country beaten to a stand
still
He writes in the Philadelphia Rec
ord: q have been greatly interested
in the reports of your NOsegay read
ers concerning the wonderful sagacity
of their pet cats, and, but for the fact
that I possess a smart cat myself 1
would be inclined to believe that some
of the contributors were not adhering
strictly to the truth AS my cat, how
ever has exhibited greater degree of
inteliige than any you have heard
from I cannot for a moment question
a single story that has been printed
This wonderful cat was only a
commonplace puss until an opportun-
ity occurred a few days ago permit
ting me to demonstrate his cuteness.
Ny wife had been in the habit of feed
ing the cat regularly before din
nertime, but couple of days ago she
overlooked puss in her haste He
<newed once or twice impatient1y. and
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Game Commissioner c. X Sober
Lewisburg, Pa, is known as the
chestnut king on account of his ex-
tensive and successful venture in this
new field of raising an improved vari-
ETY. of chestnuts- His ability and prac-
teal knowledge of the subject are
such that he has been engaged by the
national authorities at Washington to
prepare for gratuitous distribution a
report to be issued on chestnut cub
ture.
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swINDLED PROMINENT FRENcHMEN

Principals In Colossal Fraud Believed to
Be in America.
Nine Humbert and her husband,
who are fugitives from Paris and are
being sought by the New York police,
have in twenty years secured S,O00,-
900 from French bankers on the Secur-
ity of an alleged inheritance left them
by an American and locked up in a
safe pending a compliance with GER
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TALKED OF AT HOME
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LEADER OF STYLE IN AMERICA

Mrs. Harry Lehr, to Whom Kew York
Society LOOKS In Matters % Dress
When Mrs. J. Vincent Dahlgren took
off the black of widowhood to become
Mrs. Harry Lehr last June and &eepped
out into the world of metropolitan So
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WANTS QUARTER OF A MILLION

Countess Vista Demands Big
Damages from Gen. Brooke.
Suit has been entered in the United
States district court at New York by
the countess of Buena Vista against
Gen. John r. Brooke of the United
States army for $25O,0O0.
The countess alleges that Gen.
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Mexican Cornbin.

Primitive customs still prevail in
some parts of Mexico, and among
them is that of storing corn in a
queer, cone-shaped buildings. A corn
bin of this kind is strong and solid
and grain can be preserved in it as
well as the most modern storehouse.
Some years ago bins of this type
were more common in Mexico than
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Noted 1atiSant Adjud<ed Insane.

Hallett Kilbourne has been adjudged
of unsound mind and committed to the
st. Elizabeth s hospital for the insane
at washington Mr.. Kilbourne was
formerly one of the prominent real es
tate brokers of Washington. He be
came widely known about twenty-five
years ago because OF his suit against
the sergeant at arms of the house of
representatives to recover $1oO. 900
damages for false arrest and imprison-
ment. The jury which heard the tes-
timony awarded Mr.. Kilbourne dam
ages in the full amount asked. The
sum was afterward reduced to $2S 900.
which was paid by congress
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E,.v.tor. ana RaiIroad..

Mr.. C E. Benton told the Society of
Eneineers in Boston the other day
that more persons ride in the elevators
in New York buildings every day
than are carried in the same time on
the electric and elevated railroads of
the city Some office elevators, he
said. carry 10000 passengers daily
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Grave of Capt. Kidd.
In the quaint old cemetery in the
heart of the city of Savannah is a

grave surrounded by mystery, and a
tombstone with inscription nor
symbolic carving save a circIing
pent exactly the same on all four
sides. The stone was erected in the
night, and there seems to be no reli-
able record concerning it, though the
visitor is always told that it is the
grave of Capt. Kidd. tbs pirate
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seeing no dinner forthcoming scam
pered into the garden In a minute
he was back. carrying something in
his mouth. What do you suppose it
WASP A sprig of forget-me-noti'
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Poverty does not destroy virtue. nor
does wealth beStow it,
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If two pounds of beef cost 80 cents.
how much is a whole COW worth?
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Mrs. Hill

Hill family is being made The police
are working to satisfy themselves be
yond a doubt that none of the persons
on terms of intimacy with the family
was connected with the affair.