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for IL that signifies Smoke that sounds
and Dr. Livingstone got his first intima' or
OF the falls when the negroes 9n miles away
asked him Have you any smoke sounding.
In your country" and what cause. the
smoke TO rise forever 50 high out Of the
wster?"
The electric. plant will be built on a shelf
cut into the side near the bott an 81 one OF
the ziEneG cracks below tue falls. The
water Will be carried around the cataract In
great steel tubes and dropped 500 feet to big
turbine wheels. The engineers ~ the SOUTH
African Company estimate that the falls viii
furnish 100000 horsepower: Niagara, y
every dron OF water were used would not
furnish more than 7,00.O0 horse-nower.
This means the equiv aIent OF more than ten
horses. working day and night. for every
white peTeon In South Africa; IL Is enough.
one would think, to manufact ire every ar
ticie that South Africa needs; II H. enough
to light the city Of New York. run its street
cars, and do all ia manufacturing. Niacsra.
u " vel known. would run dry within
year ~ there were some economic means ~
carrying the power M fat 1 New fork:
In South Africa. since the power cannot
sSSms 70 ahe city The city yiii 20 70 ne p8Ts,
burg en- the edge of Niftoria Falls. II any
one has ever sighed with the man who hfty
year. sko could have bought 4 square mile
Of what b now Chicago for o., oo. let him 60
% sooth Africa and buy land near victoria
universities and public libraries. The stories
Of Chicago. Minnehpoli. and Denver are
sure 10 be repeated and magnined.
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as though il had brought the incorporation
about all alone. They told the young men
of the town who were In the organization
that they weren't the whole cheese and
called an opposition meeting on the same
night in the basement Of the synagogue.
The Civic Club had two brass bands.
the old settlers didn't have anything but
in front Of the synagogue. with most OF
the town behind them, some OF the sixty
year-olds went over TO them. and the back
Of the opposition was broken. Then all
joined in a general rejoicing
The election was held last K. Thera
was only one choice for A''yor-.H a.
Sabeovich. the head OF the sgricy.tu-Fl
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iirsf lot, got IN the following year, those
whe we're already there were in position
TO hslp them and they did. They were. in
fast, eager 10 aid one another in those
days, for the harsh experiences which they
had been through bore in upon their mind
the nrm conviction that all the rest OF the
world was arrsyed against them and that
thsy must stand or fall together.
Ths process has gone on In this way
ever dncs. Each year there have been
many new arrivals. and each year those
who we're already settled have extended
a helping hand to the others.
There has. accordingly. been a steady
increase In the amount OF workable land,
a sound. broad development In the family
life toward a good American standard and
a remarkable growth In the towns educa-
tional, religious and commercial facilities
until now the Woodbine Of twelve year,
ago. With its three shanties and tract Of
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graduate of the University Of Odessa and
Of q Swiss agricultural college. who il also
at the head o. the Management OF the Hirrch
Fund at Woodbne Al present there are at
and 20.
All that is required to get in Ia that the
candidate shall be OF sturdy physique,
weighing not less than 100 pounds and With
q fair chest measurement and height. The
tuition h free. but the studente are expected
to pay for their board or to do extra work
on the farm Of 80 acres which is connected
with the school.
Many of the boys who attend the school
are fresh from Russia and have come to
prepare the way for their fathers and fami-
lies In summer the boys are hired out on
the farms all over New Jersey and Pennsyl-
vania.
The school Is thoroughly equipped with a
library, physical and chemical apparatus,
dairy. an apisry, greenhouse y, incubators,
ments that 20 with . well-orGanised agri-
cultural institution. In addition TO being
taught practical farming, the boys also go
through rudimentary English courses and
receive Instruction =, IN the Tsimud; .osoo,
farm. They get up at $50 O'Clock in the
morning in the spring and are out In the
fields before Z. They receive derherit marks
for coming to work late, for Quarreling
or disobeyins orders. for taking fruit tt from ON
tools.
Some OF them know considerably less
about farming than about other things.
The last lad who got In from Russia q few
weeks ago was sent over to the apiary.
He picked the top on beehive and came
running back TO the once yelling that he
was on fire and burning UP. and would
somebody please throw pail Of water
on him.
They all march into the dining room for
their meals tn single hle. wearing clean
white jackets that are slippsd on Tor the
occasion. They are served at long, un-
spread wooden tAbles. Their food n pre-
pared strictly according to the Mosaic law.
Before they sit down TO eat all turn toward
Jerusalem, bow reversnuy and oder up q
prayer OF thanks. Nobody 10 allowed
to speak during the meals. When any
student wants anything he indioatss hts
desire by rsising his hand and . waiter
attends 70 him.
After the meal u finished they all bow to
march out without . word. They have q
military company and baseball and foot
ball team.
A few giris attend the school. but their
couree Of Instruction " confined mostly TO
the dairy department. Numerous lectures
and entertainments are given At the school.
and the colonists are always invited, 90
that the institution, besides bang help
to the farmers OF Wopdbins, also exerts Q
wholesome influence on tbs community ~
large. -,
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woodbine. a colony of Russian Hebrews
IN tho northern part Of Cape May county,
N. j. wrs recentlv organized by the New
Jerscy Legislature into borough with a
politicsl identity OF its own. Officers weie
elected last week, and 1t now enjoys tho
distraction OF being the only place In the
world governed entirely by Jews. II was
formerly part Of the township Of Dennis.
The colony had its beginning twelve years
ago when the Russian persecution OF the
Jews was at its height and when Hebrews
In France and England were doing all they
could to get their people out OF the Gar :
empire Il was founded through the gen.
oresty OF Baron de Hirsch.
lie sent three men to Cape May county
in the spring Of 1891 20 buy land and to
,stahlish thsre a refuge and home for the
,uiferers who were being brought 10 this
country Nv the boatload and dumped into
New FORKS ALREADY overcTowded Ghetto
They got $500 acres, including all OF Wood
lipe proper. which at that time consisted
CRAZY Of three shanties occupied by rail-
road employees.
They bought al, this land, but none OF
hiui ever seen plough and only a little was
even half cleared. II w&s Of white randy
Ioam, grown thick with scrub oak and
stuntod pine, swampy in spots and nat.
with hardly knoll to break the notony OF
thu streich-almost the last place one would
,Ioose for a home and certainly about the
act place an American farmer would Sc
Get. .-
The three men built cabins and did what
thew could in the way of clearing bits of the
prpputy. A year later thirty Immigrants
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THE SCHOOL BUILDING.

i0.which the De Hirsch Fund offers annually
for the best kept place In the town.
The total estimated cost Of the houses
occupied by factory employees Ia about
Sle0 900. and Of this amount almost 10 per
cent. has been paid OF In full. :
Ths earning capacity OF the town. 1t 10
said. compares favorably with that OF any
other community Of equal size IN the coun-
try. More than S1o0y0o0 year. II is as
serted. 10 taken in making an average OF
$500 for each OF the 100 families Almost
without exception, the factory workers are
sons or daughters Of settlers or young
settlers themselves who worked AT q trade
before coming to Woodbine. The older
people stick 20 the farms or the stores.
Whether agricultural Woodbine Is a
SUCCESS Ia doubtful, although II has with
out question been an indispensable factor
IN ths success of the whole. Indeed. most
attempts to establish Hebrew agricultural
colonies. both in this country and In South
America, have failed, and il has been argued.
perhaps rather hastily. that Russian He
brews cant be successful farmers. that
they aren't adapted for that business, and
that " they are to succeed they will have TO
stick to barter and trade.
Yet Hebrews don't always fail at farm
ing. a. Is shown BY the things that are
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Potashnif also came 10 woodbine from
Russia In the early '90s. He had just money
enough to buy the forequarters Of beet
He began peddling meat from house 10
house, and now he owns butcher shops
in many other places In the county. and.
in addition to supplying the Jewish trade
with local meat. has large quantities Of
Chicago beef shipped in for sale In Other
parts Of the county.
He is building big cold storage plant
which viii cost 3l5, 900. and he will also 60
into the Ice manufacturing business. sup
plying the summer resorts along The coast
He n rich.
But the end OF wbodblne's jubilation
Is not yet The ofIicers are TO be Installed
on May and everybody u then going TO
celebrate formally. 1t is going to be
Woodbine holiday.
The band u practising every night for
the occasion, and II Michael McAmond
Of Sal City, who IL drilling the playere, can
continue to stand the strain. 1t will probably
be able to do . few stunts on the big day,
When tho band practis - now II goes where
nobody can hear It, out In the woods about
q milo from town, and tries marching TO
the music. Not that Il objects 70 having
people listen to its music, but the old settlers
are getting hot again and have Registered
q kick against being disturbed at mig ht.
On Inauguration day there will be Q big
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streets and that there are no records Of any
cases in the county court In which Wood
bins Hebrews are named except one or
two trifing squabbles about land and debts.
Beer and wines are sold al one Of the hotels,
and about all the colonists keep on tap
domes tic wine.
Before the town was Incorporated there
lived in q ttate OF happy and harmless
anarchy. A Jus tice OF the Peace was the
only officer In the place and he never did
anything.
The sanitary conditions and other mat
teri. pertaining to the physical welfare
OF the Woodbine Improvement Society,
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being accomplished at the agricultural
school at Woodbine. and even on some
Of the farms.
Most OF the settlers, Il is true, come TO
Woodbine entirely ignorant OF even the
Art principles Of agriculture: but that h
chiefly because they and their ancestors
have not been allowed to hold land In Rus
STA for many, years; They learn quickly
TO be more in the land itself than In the
people who till It..
1t In a sandy loan which requires q large
amount OF fertiliser. and unless the farrne r
has the capital to begin with. he has hard
time in eping his head above water. One
of the first settlers, who il still living on the
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the savings which their fatheEs pyt sway
from the farm or businpss. In thh way
revenue from three o. four scurces y con-
inx into the same family pot. The average
family consists OF about seven persons.
A. remarkable thing about the iactory
OF his own. In feet. only about twenty,
Ave OF the lis houses in the town occupied
By, men employed In factories are rented
houses. Industrial woodbine "a small
town OF home-oWners, and that - why
all the place. are so well kept up. -
wherever a broken fence has been allowed
to 70 unrepaired. that place can be set
down a. rented property. Neatness IN thls
respect b further encouraged by prize OF
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A FARMERS HOUSE.

Joseph Rabinovich, a factory superin-
tendent; Jacob Feldman, the postmaster;
DR.. Joseph Jofe, the town physician:
William Robinson, a hotelkeeper and the
only Gentle on the board, and Max Pot
ashnif. the butcher. All are pretty well
The histories Of Bayard and PotarhniR
are especially interesting. Bayard came
to the place from Russia ia 1892. He didn't
have q cent. and worked for other people
until he got money enough TO put up a
little blacksmith shop.
Now he owns q big machine ehop there
worth go, 900, and has other interests In
the town valued at $4,000. He manu-
features attachments for automobiles and
steam engines
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from Dennisvile and other neighboring
hamlets which would come In for ehare
of the taxes couldn't think Of suoh thing
The only Il ne the Woodbine colonists were
able to get anything through a school meet
and. marching to Dennisville In o body.
stormed the meeting before the Dennis
vile people had chance 10 call their women
folk to the rescue.
The Woodbne colonists also showed the
Legislature that they didn't have any
active voice on the Board Of Assessors
and that they were being taxed out Of pro-
portion 10 other places in the township.
The bill giving them a saparate political
identity was pass I'd on March 3. Wood
bine heard about il the ext morning, and
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all work was called of for the day. The
brass band, which had been organized
in anticipation of this very event. was called
out In lis balf-developed condition. and all
the musical prodigies at the agricultural
school were brought out. There was q
great hurrahing. a big footing OF horns,
display OF fireworks. which had been bought
in Dennisville itself
The Civic Club got out posters announcing
that there would be q big MAS meeting
al Werner Hall on the following night.
The old settlers didn't like the way the
Civic Club signed its name to the posters.
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A GROUP OF PUPILS OF THE AGRICULTURAL SCHOOL

parade with floats representing all sorts Of
things and events. public speaking and lots
Of other doings.
The Council met for the first time last
Monday and had q Philadelphia lawyer
present to show them what to do. The
FIRST announcement OF general interest
was that members Of the fire company
empt from taxation In the future
A petition from the band for uniforms
was handed over to the Finance Committee
TO await the appearance Of the budget
The Board Of Fire Commissioners and the
next week. and then Mayor Sabsovich
expects TO have everything going smoothly
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undeveloped land has been changed into
a thriving Jewish Community OF ZOO PEG.
Pile. with factories, storee. schools and
other place In Cape May county. and with
about half the original tract ft for culti-
vation. - "A ~ ~
Tho success OF Woodbne as q Jewish
colony b due. Of course, largely to the
philanthropc aid which Il has had from
the fund established by Baron de Hiisch
and other wealthy Jews. Other colonies,
started near Il for, speculative purposes.
failed completely and consist now OF the
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little green lovehirtis were at that moment
illustrating the beauties Of . happy homo.
When both are we'll. Darby Wal bring
a. aha Ia perfectly well able 70 pick Il up
herself. But now Darby was Ill, and
Dorothy was additionally bringing him
chotue bits from the seedbox In the in
tervals Of feeding they would croes their
bills lovingly, an action - much Ike q
IF Darby dies,' said the birds friend.
soberly, Il am afraid Dorothy win pine
away and die. too. They do sonetimes.'
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school and the leader Of the communitx
ever since the colony was ssisblshsd
As told above. he u O university Sraduate
and was one Of the three men Sent out
by Baron de Hirsch to found the COLONY
There were sixteen nominees for Council
men, aud the tickets we're split 30 badly
that some were elected by 65 votes. 1bosA
elected were VI. l.. Bayard. manufacture,
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WAYS or WOMEN AND BIRDS.
the Pet Hen-Ill-treated Btrtis-MlSf1t
Nsrrtages Among CanaFies.


A wslI-dressed woman. her hands loaded
With jewels, entered bird hospital up
town the other day Under her arm she
carried q white bundle. out Of which pro-
truded. with quaint effect. a little coalblack
head
She mwrapped some yards Of white
flannel, and out stepped black pet hen.
I'VE feel 80 bad over Emily said the
women. my husband has been very sick,
and nov Emily is sick, too
Emily was the hen. II was dificuit.
from the woman's manner, TO tell which
had been the greater calamity. Emily's
illnes or her husbands
II was the hrrt time tho young woman
proprietor Of the bird hospital had ever
had hen for q patient. but she proceeded
10 treat Emily. Both the bird doctor and
her assistant worked over Emily with
specisf care. for they had notion that 20
unusual pet must be endeared to the
mistrtS by some tender association. IL
had belonged to a dead child, probably,
and was CHERISHED In lite memory. Later
when they found that Emily's mistress had
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which was organized for that purpoee.
The only matters the settlers were inter-
eeted In politically were their schools and
their taxes, and II was through an appeal
on the ground OF injustice In these that
Incorporation. r. $500. 10
They wanted to enlarge their schools,
but representatives OF the school board
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TURKISH ATROCITIES.
Mutilated Corpses of Women
and Children Found.
Fifteen of the Principal Merchants OF
Monastr Killed and Their Heads
Exhibited on PoIes-Other
Outrages Committed.

Sofa, Aug. 25.-With the rumors OF
massacres and the murder of prisoners
in Monastir now authenticated, the
general situation is considered here
as fast becoming intolerable. Official
and diplomatic circles alike are con-
cerned, having every reason to fear
that only part of the horrors, enacted
in the interior Of Macedonia, have
come to light as yet.
The revolutionary committee are do.
ing their utmost to force the hands OF
the Bulgarian government and the i'm
mediate outlook is exceedingly seri-
Gus.
1t appears that the Turks have OBJ
tanned the upper hand in the Vilayet OF
Monastir and the insurgents are plan
ming to remove the center of their ac-
tivity close to the Bulgarian frontiers.
Dispatches arriving Monday from the
disturbed area are exceedingly gloomy.
From Adrinople comes the news of a
Turkish defeat and the extension of
the revolutionary outbreak; from Mon
astir, the news of Turkish victories &C
companied by barbarous excess.
While many of the reports remain
without confirmation, sufficient authen-
tic details are forthcoming to cause
the authorities the gravest anxiety.
According to the Sofia Dnevnil1 the
Turks committed unspeakable atrOci-
ties at Krushevo.
The mutilated corpses Of 80 women
and children were found in one build
ing; pieces of the bodies had been
thrown into the street. Fifteen of the
principal merchants of the town were
killed and their heads exhibited on
poles at Monastir.
At Monastir the churches were de-
molished, the houses sacked and the
town is now in a heap of ashes. The
populace fed to the hills, where they
are in a starving condition.
The Dnevnik also asserts that gen.
eral massacre has taken place in the
whole vilayet of MOnastir. Nearly all
the villages have been destroyed. The
treacherous murder of 80 insurgent
prisoners by their guards near Monas-
tir has made an especially bad impress
sion here.
Many rumors are current of massa-
cres in the city of Adrinople but con-
firmatiOn is lacking. The situation
there, however, undoubtedly is seri-
Gus. The population is afraid to leave
the houses. The prisons are full and
the vail has taken private houses to
be used as jails. When the Russian
consul protested at the situation, the
vail is reported to have answered that
he was powerless against the fanant-
ical population.
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The ouestion Anayvered.

Estal Springs, Tenn, Aug 24th.--Many
quest~'ns are being asked of Mr.. Z. ID. Holt
of this place IN regard to his wonderful re-
covery. For two years he has been down with
his hack. lie was so very bad that he could.
not even lace his SHOES, and from this con-
diti@n he suddenly appeared well and strong
as ever.
are asking him How did you doit
He tells them all: "Dodds Kidney Pills
did it, and adds This remedy is a genuine
good medicine and one that l can heartily
recommend 10 everybody.
Everyone around here knows how very
bad | was. | was so weak in my back that
| couldn't DO anything that needed Stoop-
ing or bending over, and three boxes Of
Dodd's Kidney Pills made me as you see, as
well as ever | was"
They certainly had wonderful effect on,
nv case"
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DROWNED IN A STORM.
Six Lives Lost in the Vicinity
Of New York City.
A Severe Northwest Wind and Electric
Storm Did Considerable Damage
to Yachts and Other Vessels
at Sandy Hook.

New York, Aug. 26-During the
height of storm Tuesday huge der
rick on the Central Railroad of New
Jersey bridge across Newark bay from
BayOnne to Elizabeth was swept from
its support into, the water, carrying
with it nine workmen. Four Of the
men were drowned and several badly
injured. At least 60 men were at work
on the bridge at a point about half a
mile from the Bayonne shore. The top
of the derrick was $50 feet from the
water and nine men were working at
various points up the huge structure,
Gustav Fisher, Of BayOnne, being on
the very top of it. Strange to say he
was about the only one to escape in
jury. He realized that it was impOs-
sible for him to reach the bridge, so
he chung to the rigging and fell with
it into the center of the channel.
When he came to the surface he swan
ashore. Although he collapsed after
reaching land, he seemed to be in very
good condition Tuesday night.
In the gale Tuesday afternoon two
women lost their lives in Jamaica bay.
They were Mrs John Holm and her
sister, Miss Ragna M. Rasmussen, of
Brooklyn. They went sailing in a cat
boat with Mr.. Hold and the boat was
upset about half a mile off shore. In
the heavy sea that was running all
three found it impossible to reach the
boat and finally Holm started to swim
ashore. He was picked up by sail
boat. The two women were taken
from the water by party in steam
launch, but they died without regain
ing consciousness.
A terrible northwest wind and cleo
trical storm struck Sandy Hook short
ly after o'clock Tuesday and Sham
rock Ill and Reliance and a feet of
half dozen fine yachts, including the
Erin, c. Oliver Iselin's Sunbeam and
the Herreshoff's Roamer were in great
danger for time.
The yacht Eureka, breaking from
her anchorage. was blown violently
against a coal scow and carried the
scow before it. 1t seemed for time
that The two boats would crash into
Shamrock I'LL, which lay almost in the
path of the gale not hundred yards
away The Roamer, which was dan
gerously near the Shamrock, began to
drag her anchor and despite the efforts
to hold her drifted down rapidly. Sud
denly she swung against the Sunbeam
and then getting a chance to start her
engines, managed to get away from
the danger line.
The Sunbeam, too, as the blow in
creased later, again began to drag and
in a moment went with a loud crash
against the scow, which also com
menced to drift and for a moment it
looked as if Shamrock III. would be
overwhelmed.
The two steam yachts, the Giralda
and the ALTA, anchored further out in
the horseshoe, were torn from their
anchorage and came into bow and
stern collision. The bowsprit Of ore
crashed through the stern of the 9TH
er and the two, thus locked, drifted
before the wind dangerously near to
the challenger. The tug Cruiser saved
them, pulling them apart and away
from the other boats.