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YEAR WITHOUT SUMMER.
Record for 1S16-Ice in Low Latitudes
in June, July and August.
From the Boston Globe.

From the Boston
While every one is speaking of the pres
ent season as being remarkable in its char
acteristics have gathered for your readers
some reliable facts of the year 1916, known
as 1.-THE year without summer Few per-
sons now living can rccollect it, but IT was
the coolest ever known through Europe and
America The following is a brief abstract
year:
January was mild so much so as to render
fires almost needless in parlors. December
previous was very cold.
February was not very cold: with the
exception of few days IL was mild, like its
predecessor.
March was cold and boisterous during the
first part of II; the remainder was mild A
great freshet on the Ohio and Kentucky
rivers caused a great loss OF property.
April began warm but grew colder as the
month advanced. and ended with snow and
ice and a temperature more like winter than
spring.
NAV was more remarkable for frowns
than smiles. Buds and fruits were frozen:
ice formed half an inch thick; corn killed.
and fields again and again replanted I'M
til deemed too late.
June was the coolest ever known in this
latitude. Frost, ice and snow were COM
mon. Almost every green thing killed.
Fruit nearly all destroyed. Snow fell to the
depth of ten inches in Vermont, several in
Maine. three in the interior of New York
and also IN Massachusetts. Considerable
damage was done at New Orleans in conse-
quence of the rapid rise of the river. The
suburbs were covered with water, and the
roads were only passa BILE with boats.
July was accompanied by frost and Ice.
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INSURANCE OF woRKMEN.
How It is Carried on Successfully in
Hungary.

Translated for Public Opinion BY Maurice Bcliom
Workmen's insurance in Hungary Is OBJ
lieatory only SO far as sickness Is con-
cerned. The law Of 1891. with reference to
insurance against sickness. was followed by
the law of 1900. which created fund for
agricultural workmen. although this latter,
unlike the one of 1891. is not obligatory.
The first of these laws commanded insur-
ance against sickness on the part Of work
men in general, leaving the liberty OF
choice among a series of funds called dis
trict funds, factory funds. construction
funds, corporation funds. society funds, etc,
while the second law established relief
fund for agricultural workers and specified
that this fund was to be fed by the work.
men, the employers and the state. the work.
men being divided into three classes, ac-
cording to the amounts of their contribu-
lions. OF these CLASSES the first only has
the right to the full payment. the payment
for natural invalidity, for old age, and for
non-accidental death being reduced one-half
for the workmen Of the second class, and
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The Pepper Bath.
From the Los Angeles Times.

L
Salt baths are common, but pepper bath
is something new to most people. Such a
bath is recommended to patients of the Los
Angeles Institute of Suggestive Therapeu-
tics as a healthful stmulant, and to pro-
mote perspiration. 1t is simple, and can be
taken by any one at home. Here are the
directions, as furnished the Times by DR..
F. w. Rayburn:
I'VE, in our practice, lay much stress upon
keeping all the avenues of elimination in
perfect working order. In order that the
skin may do its full share, the pores must
ter. Now, the ordinary scrub does not do
my patients object, and for many and va
rious reasons, but have found that they
unanimously agree as to it's efficacy after
a few trials. 1t stimulates and helps to
equalize the circulation, also.
'Unon retiring, fill your tub with water
as hot as can comfortably be borne; after
the water has been turned off put in tea
cupful of sea salt and a tablespoonful of
cayenne pepper. Fold a cold wet towel
about the forehead, and remain in the tub
about ten minutes. After getting into bed
drink glassful of lemonade, hot or cold,
preferred In the morning you will fully
realize the need of your morning scrub.
followed by a cold sponge, in which you
have dissolved sea salt. After a brisk rub
with a rough towel, you will feel new life
vitality and vigor tingling through every
vein and artery / know whereof l speak;
take it twice week myself; oftener would
not be advisable
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completely suppressed for those of the
third The employers contribute 100 hellers
per workman at the beginning of the year.
and the state gives an annual fixed subsidy
of 100000 crowns by the law of 1900 and
100 OCO crowns by a law passed in 1902. The
later law has further provided for an in
surance in case of death ranging from GO
to 200 crowns and an annuity of from 60 to
215 crowns per year. depending on the
length of membership.
The statistics for insurance against sick
ness in Hungary show that the number of
insured increased from 6353J0 TO 631 ,343 in
1901, the Importance of the services render
ed by the various funds appearing from the
figures for that year. during which time
the expenses of the different funds increas-
ed to 1880 600 crowns. OF which 5000. 600
were for pecuniary indemnities. 100000 hos
pital expenses. $4,000 medical expenses,
2, 100 600 medication. and 100000 funeral ex-
penses. The number of sick days was q
1851 and the number OF patients treated
was 245.627.
The greatest Importance is attached to
the project recently prepared, at the request
of parliament by NJ. Joseph Szterrayi, and
presented to the chamber in May, 1903.
This project is very far-reaching and pro-
vides for obligatory insurance in many In
dustries employing minimum or nve per-
sons and in others for minimum of eleven
to twenty. The bill states that employers
are to be formed into groups according to
industries, and these, again. into an asso-
citation which shall provide for injured
workmen. the association being admins
tered by the employers themselves with the
aid of local commissions and of a board OF
directors and general assembly. Pensions
are also to be granted widows and other
dependents of the persons injured and one
half of the annual salary is given to per-
son whose carelessness. or even fntoxica-
ton. has made the accident possible. The
state is to contribute from 100000 to 6oo,-
600 crowns to the fund.
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On the 9Th ice was formed of the thickness
of a common window glas throughout New
England, New York and some parts of
Pennsylvania. Indian corn was nearly all
destroyed; some faVorably situated fields
escaped This was true Of some of the hill
farms of Massachusetts.
August was more cherries, if possible,
than the summer months already passed.
Ice was formed half an inch thick. Indian
corn was so frozen that the great part of
1t was cut down and dried for fodder. AL
most every green thing was destroyed, both
in this country and in Europe. Papers re-
ceived from England state that it would
be remembered by the present generation
that the year 1915 was a year in which
there was no summer" Very little corn
ripened in the New England and middle
states. Farmers supplied themselves from
corn produced in 1915 for the need Of the
spring of 1917. 1t sold at from 81 to IS a
bushel.
September furnished about two weeks of
the mildest weather of the season. Soon
after the middle 1t became very cold and
frosty; ice formed quarter of an inch
thick.
October produced more than its share of
cold weather; frost and ice were common.
November was cold and clustering. Snow
fell so as to make good sleighing.
December was mild and comfortable.
The above Is brief summary of the cold
summer of 1S16.' as it was called, in order
to distinguish it from the cold season. The
winter was mild. Frost and ice were COM
mon in every month of the year. Very little
vegetation matured in the eastern and mid
die states. The suns rays seemed to be
destitute of heat throughout the summer;
all nature was clad in sable hue, and men
exhibited no little anxiety concerning the
future of this life.
The average wholesale price of flour dur
ing that year i'm the Philadelphia market
was $13 a barrel The average price of
wheat in England was 90 shillings a quar-
a
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IMPORTANT INSURANCE CASE.
Suicides Heirs Cannot Collect Agains
Anti-Suicide Contract.

KANSAS CITY, Mo, November 3-ln
decision in the United States district court
here, Judge John F. Phillips has held that
insurance companies may enfore the anti
suicide clause where previously entered into
by the insured. The decision was in the
case of James Whitfield, a well-known
newspaper sporting editor who killed HIM
self Whitfield insured for 5000, receiving
policy that contained clause specify
ing that $500 only should be recovered in
case of suicide. Although the statutes of
Missouri declare that insurance companies
may not make suicide defense in refusing
to pay policy Judge Phillips held that
"as the pleading of the contract in question
voluntarily entered into by the parties goes
merely to the question of the amount OF
the recovery, and not to defeat recovery,
my conviction is that the plaintiff is justly
entitled to recover the sum of 5000.
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Addicks Will Not Retreat.
TEN DAYS TO DAWSON.
Proposed Railway Will Reduce Time
From Portland.

PORTLAND. Ore, November 3.-Capt.
Richard Chilcott, a well-known Alaskan
promoter, addressed the board Of trade last
night relative to the proposed Valdez, Cop
per River and Tanana railroad.
He stated that it is the intention of the COM
pany to construct a railroad from Valdez
to Eagle City, distance of 43O miles. In
addition to the railroad line, the plan con-
templates the operation of a steamship
line from Portland to the southern termi-
nus of the road at Valdez.
The run by steamer from Portland to
Valdez can be made by the outside passa ge
in four days, as against eight days require d
at present from Seattle by the inside pas
sage. With the completion of the road
Portland will be brought within ten days of
Dawson.
Captain Chilcotts plan is to put the
steamer line into service at as early a ate
as possible for the purpose of transporting
materials and laborers to Valdez for the
construction of the road.
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.ADD|CKS IN THE WAY
To Harmony Among Repub-
licans of Delaware.
CONFERENCE AT DOVER
PREDICTION THAT IT WILL BE A
FAILURE.
The Leaders of the Regular Repubh-
cans Will Not Attend the
Meeting.
CONFERENCE AT DOVER

Special Dispatch to The Evening Star.
WILMINGTON, Del, November 3.-The
conference at Dover tomorrow, which has
been called by United States Senator AL
lee for the purpose of effecting harmony
in the republican ranks in Delaware, will
not be productive of result. The leaders
OF the regular republicans Will not be
present, for the reason as they say, that
harmony is out of the question so long as
John Edward Addicks shall remain fac
tor in the politics OF the state. Senator
Alice, who is the most active Addicks
worker in Delaware, is being aided in ar
ranging for the so-called harmony meet
ing by Secretary of State Caleb r. Lay
ton, another prominent union republican.
Alice and Layton have prepared a Sc
rieS of resolutions which will be adopted.
Their object is to endeavor to pave the
way for the election of Addicks to the
lcng-coveted senatorship by the legisla-
ture to be chosen at the 1904 election,
and also to build republican struc-
ture" which will be used at the next ma
tional convention, when application shall
be made for the seating of the Addcks
set of delegates
Proposition Will Not Go Through.
The refusal of the anti-Addicks republi-
cans, however, to take any part in the pro-
ceedng will nullify the purpose and conffne
the meeting entirely to the Addicks follow
ers and to the "want-to-win' element of the
party. Henry B. Thompson. chairman of
the regular republican state committee to-
day defined the position of the regulars.
When asked if he would attend the confer
ence. he said: "No-what is the use? 1t
seems to me that harmony meetings at
this period simply mean a waste of time.
There is only one issue between ourselves
and the union republicans and it is this:
Shall corrupt politician debauch the en-
tire electorate of a state in order to buy
a seat in the United States Senate, there
by gratifying his selfish ambition or per-
sonal whim The union republicans in
dorse this. The regulars repudiate it.
Il will do Senator Alice and Secretary of
State Layton the justice to say there are
times when they think Mr.. Addicks has
got them in double harness, in good con-
troll, and when he says get up they get,
and that is about all there is to it.
Addicks Will Not Retreat
"Mr. Addicks has stated that he is still
in the fight consequently 1 cannot
that time has changed conditions, and l
see no hope for one republican party in
the state until the final defeat or retire
ment of Mr.. Addicks from Delaware poll
tics"
Chairman Thompson Is a son-tn-law of
Cen James H. Wilson, who is also prom
inent regular republican.
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MRS. T. A. HENDRICKS DEAD.
Widow of Former Vice President Hal
Been Ill Several DAVIS

CHICAGO, November "A dispatch to
the Inter-Ocean from Indianapolis says
that Mrs. Thomas A. Hendricks. widow of
the late Vice President, died last night. She
had been Ill for several days
Mrs. Hendricks was born in North Bend.
Ohio in 1923 and was the granddaughter of
Dr. Stephen Wood, who one of the
earlier settlers of the state of Ohio
She was married to Thomas A. Hendricks
in 1915 and had made her home in Indian
apolis since 1860. She was woman of
great learning and always took a great in
country.
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DEATH OF BISHOP BRoNDEL.
Distinguished Prelate Was Head Of
Catholic Church in Montana.

HELENA, Mont, November 3.-Right
Rev. John Brondel the first and only bish-
op of the diocese OF Helena and head Of
the Catholic Church in Montana, died early
today. Late last night the bishop had
lapsed into Inconsistencies and never re-
vived. rs
Father Victor Day of Helena. who is
placed temporarily in charge of the affairs
of the church in Montana, and other priests
of the diocese were at the bedside when
the end came.
Rev. Father Victor Day. who during the
several absences of Bishop Brondel has
been in charge of the diocese. will imme-
diately become the temporary head o. the
church in Montana
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MISS .RoosEvELTs PORTRAIT.
Presented by Mother to Officers of Ger
man DISPATCH Boat.

BERLIN, November 3.-Ambassador Tow
er. who recently returned here from a
visit to the United States, brought with
him a photograph Of Miss Alice Roosevelt,
presented by Mrs. Theodore Roosevelt to
the officers of the German dispatch boat
Alice Roosevelt. in consequence of the de-
sire expressed by them to have portrait
of the lady after whom the vessel was
named. CO. il
The pho ,ograph, which is in a soft tone,
about twelve inches long by nine inches
wide. and which represents Miss Roosevelt
at full length bears her, autograph.
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chair of laryngology on June 80, 1904, when
he will have completed thirty years OF
academic service, has presented to the uni
versity his collections of apparatus for
illustrating the teaching of laryngolosy
and rhinology. The board of trustees aG
cepted the gift, and ordered that the co.,
lection of apparatus be hereafter known as
the Lefferts collection. The collection has
great pecuniary as we'll as educational
ya1ue
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RAINING IN IOWA
This Will Bti4g Out the
Corn Huskers.
LARGE VOTE EXPECTED
GENERAL IMPRESSION THAT
CUMMINS WILL WIN EASILY.
Although Democrats Insist Their
Chances Are Better Than for
Several Years.
LARGE VOTE EXPECTED

Special Dispatch TO The Evening Star.
DIES MONIES, Iowa, November Sowing
to a heavy rain throughout Iowa Monday,
the vote today promises to be larger than
anticipated While the weather forecast
for today was rain, still many farmers will
visit the polls who otherwise would not.
The Iowa corn husking season is at its
height, and with continued fair weather
the bulk of the farmers would have re-
manned in the fields, but on account of the
rain are idle today and will probably brave
the showers to vote and to get to town.
Governor A. B. Cummins takes an optim-
istic view of the situation, and estimates
his plurality at coco. He claims the al
legged apathy has not been as marked as
supposed, and as he has visited practically
every county in the state in his campaign
tour he is able to judge the situation from
a practical standpoint.
Chairman Spence or the state republican
central committee is optimistic concerning
the outcome and says: The result In the
1913 legislative districts electing member
of both houses this year Will be as follows:
Republican, 100; democrats, IS; in doubt,
IL
Sullivan Does Not Concede Cummins'
Claims.
+ r Sullivan the democratic gubernato-
rial candidate does not even concede Cum
Minis election. He claims that the outlook
for democratic victory was never better
in the history of the state.
Chairman Jackson Of the state democratic
central committee says that the outlook
could not be more favorable. He will not
even admit CumminS' election, and says the
gains in the general assembly Will be more
marked than anticipated. He claims that
the democrats are all united, and they have
exhibited marked interest in the campaign
from the start, winch lnsures the heaVy
democratic vote. He estimates that the
democratic vote will exceed 100000.
Judging from estimates of leading polti-
clans, Cummins will have a plurality OF
80 600. The indications are that the next
general assembly will be made up as fol-
lows:
The senate-Democratic: Forteth, thirty
sixth. twenty-fourth fwenty-ffth, twenty
third In doubt, third, thirty ninth, fiji
teenth. saz-E1r
The House of Representatives.
House of esentatives-Democratic
Eighty seventh, sixty-seventh, seventy
second, ffty-fifth, forty-fifth, thirtieth,
eighty-sixth, SEVENTEEN fiftysixth, sixty
ninth, third, SIXTH twentyfirst, thirty sec
ond. fifty-seventh, forty-first. first, forty
third, thirty third, fftieth, eighteenth. four
tenth.
OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES fifteenth eighty
first, fortieth, sixty-fourth, forty-sixth,
twenty-fourth, sixty-ffth, twenty-sixth,
ninety first, eightieth, seventy-siXth, seven
ty-eighth.
In the doubtful districts the odds are in
favor of the republicans. The majority OF
them are districts that usually give re-
publican majority. but are ciassed as doupt-
full this year on account of local national
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THREE BURGLARS CAPTURED.
Two of Them Were Wounded While
Being Arrested.

DAYTON. Ohio, November 3.-Frank
Cook and John Guncsel were wounded and
Edward Purcell captured without resistance
last night while in the act of breaking into
a boarding house in this city The police
had been given information in advance and
detectives were secreted in the house.
When the intruders appeared the officers
ordered them to throw up their hands. Pur-
cell complied, but Cook and Gunckel, max
ing a dash for liberty, were shot and cap
tured. Neither was severly wounded.
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Several More Victims May Die.

INDIANAPOLIS, Ind, November g.
The condition of the injured victims of
the Purdue special calamity, taken as
whole. shows a marked Improvement to-
day. There is still grave apprehension
that the lives of at least seven of the pa
tients are hanging in the balance, but the
physicians are not without hope that all
Of them will be saved.
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CONGRESS OF P. E. CHURCH.
First Session of Body Was Held a
Pittsburg Today.

PITTSBURG, Pa, November 3.-When
the twentysecond annual congress of the
Protestant Episcopal Church was called to
order in Trinity Church today by Rev. Cort-
landt Whitehead, bishop of the Pittsburg
diocese. there was a large attendance of
delegates from all parts of the country, in
Guiding many prominent churchmen
The convention was opened with COM
nunion service, Rev. A. H. Vinton, D. D..
bishop of Massa chusetts, officiating The
convention will be in session until Friday.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1903-11-03

Mrs. Gaswell docking up from the guide
book)-"This tells about the mosque of
Omar. What is the mosque of Omar?"
Mr. Gaswell-"Some new kind of perfume,
] guess. First time l ever heard of it,
Chicago Tribune.
The Savannah morning news., 1903-02-06
0CALA RACE TRACK
Will Soon be Built - Protests
Against Draining Orange Lake.

Will Soon be Built - Protests
Against Draining Orange Lake.
Ocala, Fla, Feb. 5.-The ground for
the race track has been surveyed, and
the money is in hand to commence the
work of laying out grounds and erect
ing buildings, which will not only en-
able Ocala to bid for the Florida State
Fair next autumn, but to become a
permanent center for athletic contests
and agricultural exhibitions Fair
grounds, race track, diamond and grid
iron, as contemplated, when completed,
will make this city a modern Olympia.
Already there are superb golf links.
Mr.. Camp, a phosphate magnate, is
the leader in a scheme to drain the IA
nous Orange Lake and turn it into
truck farms and pastures. But the
people of the parts of three counties
Marion, Putnam and Alachua-which
are washed or soaked by the waters of
the lake-are very much opposed to the
scheme, and with reason. as the drain
age of the large area now covered by
its waters would deprive them of the
water protection that renders the cli-
mate of their section warmer in winter
than that Of the country many miles
south, and. for a while at least, would
turn the country into hot-bed of few
er. The state and the general govern
ment are being importuned by the peo-
pie to defeat the scheme.
The Savannah morning news., 1903-02-06
TRYING TO RECOVER
$50 POORLY PLACED

New York, Feb. 5.--Oficials of rae
ing associations and men who operated
for bookmakers were on the stand to-
day in the suit before Justice Murray
and jury in the Tenth Municipal
Court, brought by Raymond P. Moulton
against bookmaker and the West
chester Racing Association as a code
PENDANT Moulton is seeking to recover
$50, which he says he lost on a wager
at the Morris Park track last October.
The case is regarded as a test of the
Percy-Gray law of 1895.
The only complete testimony was
given by H. F. Berger, treasurer of the
Westchester association, who declared
that he had never received any money
from any person for the privilege of
gambling on the track, and that he
knew nothing of any money dealing be-
tween the association and the organi-
cation of bookmakers known as the
Metropolitan Turf Association, or with
individual layers of odds.
The case went over until tomorrow.