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Evening star., 1904-03-17
SPAIN'S CAVE DWELLER.
He Proves to Be Farm Hand Driven
to the Forest by Lack of Work.

From the London Express
The discovery of troglodyte (cave dwell
er) In the Basque province. near Fuenterra
pla, on the Franco-Spanish frontier has
aroused considerable curiosity here.
AS a customs guard, with his dogs was
searching In a wood yesterday an extraor-
dlnary being in the image of a man was
seen to rush before him with wonderful
rapidity and disappear into hole in a
mountain. The guard followed on and
found the wild man had blocked up the en-
trance to his cave with pieces of timber and
stones, which, however. were easily re-
moved and the man captured.
He was absolutely prehistoric in appear
ance. His only garment was skin tied
round the hips. His long and matted beard
fell over his chest like a cloak. while his
hair trailed down his back in a thick mass.
In his cave We're found numerous bones of
sheep, deer and other animals which he had
eaten, a sling, club and stone ak. A bed
of moss was his only furniture.
The guard brought the troglodyte to
Fuenterrabia, where his appearance created
a sensation. Before the magistrate he ex-
planned that his name was Prudencio he
was twenty-eight years old and had been,
when an infant an inmate of founding
hospital in San Sebastian. He had formerly
acted as farm hand. but two years ago, be-
ing unable TO find work, and being in great
distress, he took to the forest. There he
lived on acorns, hazel nuts and birds eggs
Little by little he learned to use sling and
the AK and was able to kill deer and sheep
which had strayed. AS he had no fire lie
ate the flesh of these animals raw.
Evening star., 1904-03-17
CLEVELAND's BIRTHDAY.
Is Sixty-Seven Years Old Today-De-
clares He Loves Retirement.

Grover Cleveland, to whom so many eyes
are turning these days during the discus
sion of the democratic nomination for the
presidency. is sixty-seven years old today.
'It must be evident to any one who sees
my life here" he said to a reporter in
Princeton, N. j., yesterday with a kindly
smile "that this is what love- ANY one,
1 should think, who sees my home life and
how deep and entire Is my satisfaction in
my present surroundings, must wonder how
any one surrounded as I am with all that
a man cares the most for. could even con-
slider giving 1t up for any honors, however
great
would you be willing, Mr.. Cleveland,
to make your birthday anniversary the oc-
casion for another word to the American
people as to your views on your possible
candidacy for the presidency You know
that"
mot word he interrupted his face be-
coming suddenly stern, and the kindly light
in his eyes giving place to one of disap-
proval. He turned away for the moment,
and it was evident that while willing to
talk on general subjects questions of poll
tics are distasteful to him.
If combinat tion of circumstances should
force Mr.. Cleveland to take the lead again
there can be no doubt in the Judgment of
his friends who see his daily life al Prince
ton that he would sonsider that or any
change, in fact, from his present mode of
life as positive sacrifice.
Those who have seen Mr.. Cleveland only
officially, and when he has weighty mat
ters to occupy his attention, have no con-
ception of side of his character which Is
reserved for his home life. His love for his
children is veritable passion and their
companionship is his greatest pleasure.
He is very fond of the last born, Francis
Grover. who opened his eyes in Gray Gables
last summer, and he is never so happy as
when he has all his children about him.
Of fc, f- rhnf 1.xr l. "A
ness" he said. Would any man be likely
to want to leave it?"
Mr.. Cleveland denied emphatically the
rumor that he is going to become Free
mason. 1.-THE nearest the report comes to
any truth whatever" he said, ''is that
long time ago / was delicately approached
on the subject, but L have never formed the
intention of applying for membership in the
Order''
Evening star., 1904-03-17
Cause of Baltimore Fire

dispatch from Baltimore last night
says: The general loss committee of the
insurance companies, which has been ad-
Justing the losses incurred by the recent
Dig hre here, has thus far completed the
adjustment and made payment in GOO cases
out OF 1900 submitted. 1t is estimated that
1t Will require three weeks to clear off the
docket The special committee has decided
that the fire, which started in the Hurst
building, German and Liberty streets, on
February Z, causing the greatest confiagra-
ton Baltimore has ever known was due to
outside causes, and says it must have been
due to some one dropping a lighted match
OF cigar or cigarette stub through a
cracked or broken headlight in the side
walk. This fell on inflammable material
and 1t smoldered for hours. creating heat
and smoke, which after the doors had been
burst open by the firemen caused flames
and the later explosions which resulted.
Evening star., 1904-03-17

in old wines may be due to the disappear
ance of the acids, their sour taste making
the natural sweetness of the wine, while as
the acid flavor diminishes by the separation
of the acids in the form of crust" the pal
ate more readily recognizes the sweetness
of the glycerine. Possibly also as age is ac-
quired the glycerine combines with the
acids. forming new compounds which are
sweet to the taste. The ethers of wine dis
solved in alcohol are perceptibly sweet to
the taste. In the same way old matured
spirits possess quite sweet flavor, which,
according to analysis, is due neither to
glycerine nor to sugar, but to subtle ether
compounds.
Sweetness is probably only matter OF
chemical structure, and given the atoms in
a certain position in the architecture of the
molecule sweetness becomes property OF
the substance.
Evening star., 1904-03-17
EELs FROZEN STIFF.
Curious Effect of the Excessive Cold on
Creatures in Hibernation.

Quebec Corr. New York Sun.
The excessively cold season has had
curious effect upon the salt water eels 1t
is their custom in winter to bury them
selves in the sand or mud below h1gn water
mark and there hibernate.
This winter the frost has been so keen
for weeks at time that the surface OF
the wet sand has become sheet OF ice
directly the water ebbed away. Probably
this has had the effect of partially depriv-
ing the buried eels of air and the fear of
death by asphyxiation has sent them
scurrying out into the open. where they
meet with immediate paralysis from the
cold.
The appearance Of the beach on some
cold mornings has been remarkable. Thou
sands of cells from thirty to seventy inches
in dength, each one about as brittle as an
icicle, and stretched out as straight as
stick, lie about or stand upright from the
sand for good third of their length.
Carts and wheelbarrows, as well as boats
have been filled day after day, and the
available markets for fresh eels were long
ago glutted. Skinning, sailing and smoking
have given employment to many who
otherwise would have been idle.
The question which suggests itself is:
Do these eels hibernate naturally when
they experience cold beyond certain
point, or is the condition noted that Of tenn
porarily suspended animation. the forerun-
ner, or preliminary stage, of death?
For it Is certain that the eels are not
really dead. The returning tide bears
them on it's surface at first, as though
they were lifeless; but after few minutes
they wriggle about little, and soon they
dive below slowly and carefully, but very
much alive. The fishermen usually make
things certain by chopping of the heads
of their captured fish before they thaw
them out.
Apparently no one has ever taken the
trouble Of deciding whether the fish were
frozen through and through. SO that there
could not be any little stream of life
kept in motion In the interior of their bodies
by ever SO slight q circulation.
Evening star., 1904-03-17
THE ARsINoITHERIUM.
Bones Of Prehistoric Animal in the
Desert Of Fayum.


From the Chicago Record Herald.
The desert of Fayum. southwest of Cairo.
In Egypt, is the locality in which the old
est known inscriptions written in Greek
letters have been discovered. In the last
two years it has become equally famous
for the number of hitherto unknown vari-
eties of extinct animals whose bones have
been disinterred from the sands. One Of
these beasts is the Moeritherium-the an
cestor of all elephants-a creature with a
long snout. but with lower jaw so long
that the snout could not hang down in
trunk style
Still more interesting. from the point of
view of scientists. however. is the Arsino-
itherium. an animal that was bigger than
the biggest of our modern rhinoceroses.
Some six or seven skulls of this animal
have been secured. the largest having a
lower Jaw over two feet in length. Above
the nostrils the arsinoitherium had a huge
pair of horns projecting forward. The
striking thing about these horns Is that
they were not of horny. fbrous ms terial,
but bOny outgrowths. covered in life with
blood vessels and skin. like the horns of
giraffe though probably protected at the
tips with hony matter. Behind the big
horns was a pair of smaller ones. The
nearest relative Of the ArSinoitherfum
known to science is the dinoceras, speci-
mems of which have been discovered in
Wyoming in sands of the same age as those
Of the Fayum. The Egyptian beast had the
Wyoming one beaten In the size OF Its
horns, though some of the latter have three
pairs of horns.
The Arsinoitherium is named after Queen
Arsinoe daughter of the first Ptolemy,
who had palace in the Fayum in days
when that region was more nearly habit
able than 1t Is today. The time that has
elapsed since the Arsinoitherium lived Is,
however, as much greater than the since
Arsino as a century is greater than couple
Of minutes. Excavations in the Fayum are
still being pushed. though under great dis
advantages. owing to the fact that the
Best localities are three full days march
from water. and many more finds are an
ticipated
Evening star., 1904-03-17
Sweet Wines and Sugar.
From the Lancet.

From the Lancet.
It is not always correct to attribute the
sweetness of a wine to sugar; 1t may be due
to glycerine or to the formation as age is
acquired of sweetly tasting ethers. The
presence of glycerine in wines is frequently
overlooked, and yet this sweet body Is
always present. but in varying amount ac-
cording to the activity of the yeast con-
cerned In the production of the wine. Some
times the proportion of glycerine is as much
as one-fourteenth of the volume of the al
cohol. We have examined old wines which
possessed peculiar sweet flavor, yet which
on analysis showed a proportion of sugar
quite inconsistent with the degree Of sweet
tastt,. Such wine would be rejected by
garded as an indication of an undesirable
proportion of sugar.
The sweetness which sometimes develops
Evening star., 1904-03-17
Train Fireman's Skull Crushed.

A dispatch from Danxtlle. Va, last night
says: John Sullivan3 fireman on No. 81,
the southern's fast mail train. was fatally
injured at staunton river bridge this after
neon while on the south-bound run. Sulli-
van was leaning out ofithe cab window in
order to get view ef a hot box when the
train entered the bridge over Staunton
river. The mans head came in contact
with the end beam OF tie bridge and his
skull was crushed. 81 bh
Evening star., 1904-03-17
Suicide in Midocean.

A dispatch from Philadelphia last night
says: When the steamer Barnstable
reached this city today Mrs. David Muir
ray and her daughter were waiting at the
pier to greet the engineer, who was their
husband and father. When the boat came
In the woman and girl learned that MUIR
ray had leaped overheard in midocean on
March 8, when only short time out of
Kingston, Jamaica. Murray rushed on
deck shouting: 1.-THE boilers are going to
explode, there is not enough water in
them,'' and leaped overheard.
Evening star., 1904-03-17
Cuban Election Contests.

A cablegram from Havana last night
says: Two provincial boards Of canvassers
in Pinar del Rio have proclaimed the cleo
ton of three conservatives and three lib
erals. respectively. to congress The two
boards exist owing to a previous split
among the liberal and conservative mem
bers, each side constituting itself an inde-
pendent body.
Evening star., 1904-03-17
An Iowa Banker Indicted

dispatch from Sioux City, Iowa, last
night says: w. e. Brown, president of the
First National Bank of Storm Lake and
owner of the Farmers and Merchants at
Lynn Grove. the Farmers and Merchants
at Sioux Rapids, and the Bank of Royal,
all failed, was indicted today by the Buena
Vista county grand jury on eight counts
for receiving money after he knew the
banks to be insolvent. A. j. Wilson, re-
ceiver of the banks, testified that Browns g
liabilities were over $jOO0OO
Evening star., 1904-03-17
B. and O. Brakeman Killed.

dispatch from Cumberland, Md, last
night says: John Connors. aged fifty years,
of Frostburg, Baltimore and Ohio brake
man, was so seriously injured today in at
tempting to board an engine that he died a
few hours later. He is survived by two
children.
Evening star., 1904-03-17
iGls 10
Divorced From a. Washington Man.

dispatch from ffagerstown, Md, last
night says: Mrs. May L. Widmeyer of
Hancock was today stfanted by Judge
Keedy. in Hagerstown. an absolute divorce
from her husband, Smith L. Widmeyer of
Washington. She is fgtyen the custody of
her children, and allowed to assume her
maiden name, May l.. Watts. The decree
was granted on the grounds of cruelty and
desertion, &
Evening star., 1904-03-17
Examination Of Col. Helm.

Lieut.. Col. Otto L. Helm, 10th Cavalry.
now in this city on leave of absence, has
been ordered to appear before an army
retiring board, of which Col. William M.
Wallace, 18th Cavalry, is president, for
examination to determine his fitness for
further active service.
Evening star., 1904-03-17
Three Months, Leave for Gen. Hains.

Brig. Gen. Peter c. Hams has been grant,
ed three months leave of absence in antic-
ipation of his statutory retirement, July 6
next. Gen. Hains was formerly in the
corps of engineers and was stationed in this
harbor works.
Evening star., 1904-03-17

AS an evidence of his special benevolence
the pope received Archbishop Farley of
New York again last night. notwithstand-
ing the fhct that the archbishop already
had a farewell audience.
Evening star., 1904-03-17

The trial of Mrs. Cordelia Botkin for the
murder of Mrs. j. p. Dunning was resumed
at San Francisco. After thirty talesmen,
not one of whom was accepted, had been
examined, the venire was exhausted
Evening star., 1904-03-17

Thousands of situate have been OBJ
tatned through the want columns of The
Star.
The Fairmont West Virginian. (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1904-1914, 1904-09-26
Too Many Democratic Generals.

In Heavens name let some OF these
mere retire or be retired: At pres
ent We have several plans of cam
paigu III operation in various parts
of the country. General Pulitzer, OF
the New York World. is conducting
one campaign on the theory that the
Eastern Democrats are the whole
thing, and, moreover. that he World.
and not Judge Parker. must be cred
tied with the Parker telegram; Gen.
Bryan. of the Commoner. is carrying
on another with the avOwed purpose
Of having certain ideas put into the
Democratic platform in 1908; Gen.
Hogg, of Texas. is leading a light
brigade charge of his own, declaring
that Judge Parker is much nearer the
trusts than is President Roosevelt;
Gen. Hearst has one shot for Parker
and a battery of shots against August
Belmont, a national committeeman,
and there are editors all over the land
who are on the skirnlish line, honest-
" but ~mistakably firing at ndO
hoping to bring down an enemy that
is far back in the rear, saying moth
ing.-AIobile Register tDem)-
The Fairmont West Virginian. (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1904-1914, 1904-09-26
AVAILABILITY.

Nobody has denied to Judge Parker
the possession Of an extremely
arniable disposition. He has a kindly
feeling for all men including political
r~ascals. If he had not he could not
have maintained intimately friendly
relations with a Hill and Blue
Eyed Billy Sheehan for thirty or forty
ears, and could not have consented
tc have Pat McCarren and Tom
Taggart associated with him in the
present campaign. He disliEeS to
take harsh views of anybody, and if he
were TO get elected the rascnls of his
party would not suffer much harm at
his hands.
George AIDE, the author and play
wright. seems to have sized up the
Democratic candidate with that unerr-
ing insight which is his eminent char
acteristic. Il heard a story he said
recently, out in Indiana which seems
tC fit him. An old farmer said: 1
eve seen his here Teller, Parker,
and I never heered him speak, but,
Judging from that I've read
of his Goin's, he's just about the sort
OF a chap hat folks would take to a
Sunday School picnic to hang UP the
swing for the children
The Fairmont West Virginian. (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1904-1914, 1904-09-26
WAGES oFRAiLwAY EMPLOYEES.

The Democratic TEXTBOOK has reck-
Iessly yentured on the discussion of
wages and admits th~at""railroad labor
affords the most accurate barometer
of wages" Then it seeks to show that
the wages of railway employees adj
vanced only one and one-ha!f per ent
from 1892 to 1902. The editor of the
Democratic bible very d~iscreetly
passes entirely over the Democratic
administration Of Grover Cleveland
and goes back to the prosperous days
Of the administrator of Benjamin Har-
rison when wages were higher than
ever before known.
From 1885, to 1897 we had a Demo-
cratic administration and for four
years wages went down and also the
number Of men employed decreased
according to the estimate Of Samue1
Gompers, more than three million.
This was true Of railroad labor as well
as of factory labor. In 1893 at the
close Of the Harrison administration
there We're $4,000 men employed by
the railways, and in 1894, after n
year of Democratic administration this
nj was educe to 779,GOo, de-
rea OF "a 900 employees. The wages
of those remaining were reduced. and
the men engaged in railroad York did
not receive either the work or the
wages that they did under Harrison.
In 1898, after year of Republican
administration, the umbe OF men
employed by IL railroads was again
substantially as in 1898, when the for
mer Republican administration closed,
and in 1908 the work and wages on
the railways had increased until there
was one million, three hundred and
twelve thousand. five hundred and
twenty-seven employees receiving
wages amounting to S757.OOO 900. This
is an increase of nearly 20 per cent.
in employment and wages for rail
road men, and it runS through all de-
partments Of railway business, from
engineers TO common laborers- AS
to the rate OF age it can be safely
left for the railway men themselves to
say whether they are better off now
than they we're under the Cleveland
administration. They know that they
have received substantial increases in
wages, and that engineers, fremen,
conductors and brake1nen receive
from fifteen 10 twenty per cent. higher
pay now than they did ten years ago.
The admission of he Democratic
Textbook that railway is the
best barometer of labor conditions
now and in 1894 is fair, and working
men may safely accept it. Last year
the railways paid $500. 0OO, 900 more to
their employees than they did in 1891,
and that $500. coo 900 marks the diff
ference in earnings for railway men
under Republican and Democratic adj
miniStratiOnS
The Fairmont West Virginian. (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1904-1914, 1904-09-26

WHY2

If Theodore Roosevelt is not con
sidered safely the commercial n
financial interests OF the country why
haze stocks continued to rise during
the past thirty days even in the midst
Of q Presidential campaign when sus-
pension and doubt nave heretofore
been the ru1e2
Why did Oregon in June roll up such
a splendid majority for the Republican
candidates?
Why did Vermont on September 6
give her candidates such a rousing
majority?
Why did Arkansas on the preceding
day show a large Democratic falling
off?
Why did Maine on September u
maintain the great majority Of 1900
and give a Republican majority of
several thousand in excess of the
average Republican September MAORI
ties since 1854?
Why is the betting Two to one upon
Roosevelt and Fairbanks without m
takers of<the short ends?
Why are the Democratic papers
without exception pounding the Demo
cratic management of the campaign
and calling upon the candidate himself
to come to the rescue?
Can there be but n answer to all
taese indications, and can they point
only in one direction as to what will
be the result on November s? The
fact of the matter is that b financial
and commercial interests of the coun-
try, the agricultural interests of the
country, the transportation interests
Of the country, the mining and forest
interests of the country, and, most of
all, the laboring interests OF the coun-
try, want a continuation of our present
administration; they want Hay
retained as Secretary of State, they
want the Dinsley law t be continued
without any tinkering whatever, and
they want TO feel safe against the
aggression of foreign competition OF
any nature, or of foreign arms, by
placing Theodore Roosevelt again at
the head Of the nations affairs for
another four years.
Some OF the best lots on Fairmont
The Fairmont West Virginian. (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1904-1914, 1904-09-26
INCREASE OF EMPLOYMENT AND
WAGES.

IL was expected that the Democratic
campaign textbook would attempt to
s~ubstantiate the claim that the cost Of
living during. the past few years has
increased at a greater ratio han in
comes and wages Even if the cost
of living has increased say 25 per cent.
and if wages had increased only "a
per cent. (Which is not by any means
true). there would be no argument
whatever in favor of a return to the
days of Grover Cleveland and the
Wilson-Gorman law. During that pc
Rod Samuel Gompers say there
idle in this country fully three mil
lions of men, most of whom have en-
ployment to-day. Will Democratic
kindly tell us the percent
age in increased wages received by
those three millions of men? During
the same period there We're three mil
lion more workers in the United
States employed only part of the
time. Those three millions are to-day
almost without exception employed
at full time. VIII the Democratic
managers deny hat their wages have
not been doubled during the past few
years under the operation of the Ding
ley tariff and that if their cost of liv-
ing has been increased by from 30
to 80 per cent. they are not even then
very much the gamers? In addition
to this full measure OF employment,
in addition to this added employment
are the increased wages over 1891
1895 and 1896, which has permitted
these w~age-earnors to almost double
the aruer to cancel their
and which has permitted the highest
scale of living and existence ever
known before in this or any other
unit
The Fairmont West Virginian. (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1904-1914, 1904-09-26

Tie Kings Daughters will hold
their union meeting tonight in the
NJ. f. Church. y good attendance is
earnestly requested, and will be need
ed in consideration OF the manifold
duties that await advice. The suppers
arranged for next Thursday and Fri
day evenings will be q sure enough"
go, and provision win be made for a
very large number of hungr% people,
Your attendance is requested and q
guarantee nf yo';H approval given.