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The citizen., 1906-04-06
Indians Save Whites.

Lander, Wyo., April "a band of
Arapahoe Indians saved the lives of
|eight white persons who were strug-
|gling in the waters of Wind River,
where they had been thrown by the
giving way of bridge weakened by
|high water.
The whites were in stage coach,
and when the bridge gave way the
coach was swept down the stream.
The Indians were camped on the
banks and with their lassoes man
aged to drag the passengers ashore
one by one. The horses, coach and
mails were swept away.
The citizen., 1906-04-06
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"SENATE A CON GAME"
Declares 1t is Un-American Because
Ruled by Minority.

Chicago, ILL.,, April 5.-Former
United States Senator William E.
Mason says the august body which
he lately adorned is a Gigantic con
game" He spent six years in the
game, and made an unsuccessful
play for six more. He said:
while l have the best personal
feeling toward the men with whom
served in the Senate, the body, as
a body, is wholly un-American, un-
Republican and un-Democratic. 1t is
the only legislative body in the world
where the minority governs. All you
have to do to defeat legislation is to
object to having a time set for final
vote. One Senator has more power
under those rules in defeating legis-
lation than fifty Senators have in
passing legislation"
The citizen., 1906-04-06
Fastest BattIeship.

Boston, Mass, April 5.-The per-
lormance of the battleship New Jer-
sey In maintaining a speed of 1918
Knots an hour in four hour endur-
ance run off the New England coast.
coupled with her remarkable squirt
over a measured mile at Rockland,
Me- at a 19.4S knot an hour gait.
places her at the head of all Ameri-
can built battleships, so far as speed
is concerned.
The citizen., 1906-04-06
NJ. O. Wins in Chicano.

Chicago, ILL.,, April By the
heaviest vote ever polled in an off
year, Chicago declared for munich
pal ownership but did not declare
hard enough to carry the desires of
the majority into effect. The vic
tory is weakened by the failure of
three-fifths of the voters to vote for
the first proposition on the little
ballot" Shall the city of Chicago
proceed to operate street cars?"
The other two propositions were
carried. The total vote was 2S1,171.
The citizen., 1906-04-06
Don Car,os,s Mother Dead.

Paris, France, April 5.-News was
received of the death at Goritz of the
Princess Marie Beatrice of Bourbon,
mother Of the Spanish pretender,
Don Carlos, and of Prince Alphonse
of Bourbon. The Princess died of
paralysis of the heart at the age OF
eightytwo.
The citizen., 1906-04-06
25O,O Mill Workers to Strike.

London, April "a serious situa-
tion has developed in Lancashire as
the result of the decision by the
100000 cotton mill workers to de-
mand per cent. increase in wages
with the threat of a strike at the
end of the month. Mill owners de-
clare that a strike will prove disas-
trous
The citizen., 1906-04-06
Congressmen snnb Lahor.

Washington, D. c., April 5.-By
refusing to hear President Gompers,
Of the American Federation Of La
Dor. and other leaders In favor Of
the bill to limit the judicial abuses
of injunctions in labor disputes, the
House Judiciary Committee has ad-
ministered a snub to organized la
Dor.
The citizen., 1906-04-06
Newton w. Gilbert,

Republican Congressman from the
twelfth Indiana district, has an
nounced that he will resign his man.
date to accept appointment as
Judge of first instance in the Philip
pines at salary of $4,000 year.
lie was born in Ohio, but moved to
Fort Wayne, Ind, at the age Of
thirteen.
The citizen., 1906-04-06

Norfolk, Va, April "a desperate
fight took place between members OF
the crew of an Italian ship which has
stranded off the Virginia coast and
the life savers who went to their
rescue.
No details of the trouble have
been received here, but aid has been
hurried to the life savers.
The citizen., 1906-04-06
STORK HOLDS UP A TRAIN.
Not a Passenger GrumbIed When
Kept Waiting an Hour.

Urbana, ILL.,, April 5.-While a Big
-Four passenger train was held an
hour at Muncie, near Urbana, a baby
boy was born to Mrs. G. L. Dobyns, a
young Kentucky woman who was
travelling from Maysville, KY, to
join her husband here Not a pas
senger grumbled at the waiting. A
big cheer went up from the group
outside the coach when the an
nouncement was made that mother
and child are doing we'll"
When a physician gave the signal
the train moved on.
The citizen., 1906-04-06

respect and esteem of all Americans.
As the court of last resort of the re-
public the nine justices of the supreme
court possess powers which have no
parallel among the courts of other ma
tionS 1t has been said that the con-
stitutional convention of 1887 scarcely
realized the great powers 1t conferred
upon the supreme court in creating
that body and that if ii had and the
people Of the states had understood the
same the constitution might not have
been adopted. so great was the jeal-
ousy of the states at that time as to
the powers they themselves claimed.
II is generally recognized today as the
most august body of the kind in exist
ence II is the balance wheel by which
the affairs of the nation IN its relation
to the states are kept in order and is
the final judge of the validity of all
laws passed by congress or by the leg
islatures Of the several states when
brought to the test of the constitution
of the United States The lawmakers
at Washington stand In wholesome
'O"' " 10 P'N''N' anu III tue ulSSuS-
sion now in progress on the railroad
rate bill every effort is being put forth
by friends Of railway rate reform to
frame Il measure which will pass the
inspection of the supreme court.
The court has made several decisions
recently which are considered to
strengthen greatly the interests of the
people when opposed by the power of
corporations. Some of these decisions
trust law, and one sustains the conten-
tons made by the city of Chicago in
its contest with traction corporations,
thereby creating u precedent for the
guidance of other judges in the de-
The citizen., 1906-04-06
Bursting Boiler Kills Two.

Chittenango, n. Y, April 5.-The
sawmill of Edward Diefendorf at
Chittenango was blown up by boil
er explosion. Edward Diefendorf,
Jr., and Patrick Baker were instant
ly killed and John Higgins and Jesse
Kelsey fatally injured.
The citizen., 1906-04-06
Mohican Reported Lost.

Havana, Cuba, April 5.-The Brit
ish steamer Mohican from Porto
Padro for New York or Philadelphia,
is reported wrecked off Confites Key
in the Old Bahama Channel.
The citizen., 1906-04-06
Wright is Ambassador.

Washington, D. c., April 5.-Luke
E. Wright, former Governor-General
of the Philippines, has taken the
oath as Ambassador of the United
States to Japan.
The citizen., 1906-04-06

Middletown, N. Y, April Sc. H.
Hartman has purchased 700 addi-
tional acres in Orange County, his
tract now covering almost $4,000
acres.
The citizen., 1906-04-06
600 600 Bonds Missing.

Pittsburg, Pa, April 5.-Two mil'
lion dollars worth of bonds of the
Santa Fe Railroad which were sup
posed to have been in the defunct
Enterprise Bank are missing.
The citizen., 1906-04-06
German Still Very Ill.

Washington, D. c., April 5.-Sen-
ator Arthur P. German, of Maryland,
is in such a weak condition that it is
feared he will not be able to resume
his Senatorial duties during the
present session.
The citizen., 1906-04-06

Alexandria, April S.--Rear Ad-
miral Sigsbee and his offlcers are
receiving many social attentions In
Egypt. -
The citizen., 1906-04-06

Former Judge Alton B. Parker
declined to be a member of the COM
mission to investigate the New York
State Banking Department.
The citizen., 1906-04-06

King George of Greece will per-
sonally open the Olympic Games
which will begin in Athens on APP
ril IS. He is the protector and SUI
preme director of these athletic
games, which will be held in the
Panathenian Stadium.
The citizen., 1906-04-06

The De Forest Wireless Telegraph
Company sent 572 words from the
Manhattan Beach station to Dursey
Head, Ireland.
The citizen., 1906-04-06

Senator Depew is still in retreat
on the Elliott Shepard estate, near
scarborough. He may go to Europe
next month.
The citizen., 1906-04-06

Debate on the Railroad rate bill In
the Senate revealed new differences
and disturbed the outlook for an
agreement.
The citizen., 1906-04-06
John Alexander DOwie.

City, repudiated by his wife and son
charged with fraud involving $2,-
100000 he never accounted for.
Other charges against him are hypo-
crisy, tyranny and the teaching of
polygamous doctrines.
The citizen., 1906-04-06

A short time ago the rumor was
published here as we'll as abroad
that Mrs. Potter Palmer, the leader
of Chicago society was engaged to
the Duke of Atholl and would soon
marry him. Since then the Duke
himself has declared the rumor as
perfectly absurd.
The citizen., 1906-04-06
Ustica Shaken Again.

Palermo, April additional viol
lent earthquake shocks have caused
the inhabitants to fee from the
Island of Ustica The six hundred
prisoners there have been taken to
Palermo.
The citizen., 1906-04-06

Thirty years ago Stephen G. Cree,
town clerk at Wheelock, Vt, in
vented a machine for recording and
reproducing the sound Of the human
voice, almost identical with that
which Edison number of years la
ter patented under the name of pho
nograph. Mr. Cree still has his
original phonograph and it is still in
good working order. He never made
an attempt to have his invention
patented.
The citizen., 1906-04-06
Dowie Officially Repudiated.

Chicago, ILL.,, April 4.-John Alex
ander Dowie, stands discredited,
stripped of all his property in Zion
The citizen., 1906-04-06
Moro Powder for Navy.

Washington, D. c., April 5.-The
House Naval Committee will recon-
mend the appropriation of $4,000
900 for the purchase of additional
oYnnnuniti0n q M
The citizen., 1906-04-06
Coming Changes
In Supreme Court

THE recent deci-
a sion of the
United States
supreme court on
the subject of the
trusts and the an
ticipated changes
in the membership
of the body have
drawn especial at
tention to the judi
cial institution
which occupies so
high n Dlace in the
The citizen., 1906-04-06
Many coal dealers in New York
city advanced the price of. anthl l.
cite 81 ton.
Foreign.

According to a despatch from Ber-
lin, Germany is calling experts as to
the proposed participation in the
Russian loan and is not very favora-
bly, disposed.
The citizen., 1906-04-06
Sports.

Jay Gould defeated ]. ]. Cairns, of
Boston, three straight sets in the
preliminary round for the court ten
and Tennis Club.
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LUNCH AND EMERGENCY
ROOMS AT HIGH SCHOOL
BY CHAR LES FELL.

There are few people in this city, per
haps, who have any definite idea of the
work that is being done by the Birmng-
ham School Improvement association. The
practical efforts of this organization have
been manifested In many ways at the diff
ferent schools by way of improvement of
the grounds, additions to the Libraries,
and so on.
But probably the most useful, and GER
tainly one of the most enjoyed and one
of the pleasantest features attributable To
the association is that of the dining room
at the High school. Luncheon hour be-
gins at 1890 o'clock. Some day when you
have an idle hour just enter the High
school at about 1:35 O'Clock. On every
flight of steps there is "A furry and n
hurry, and everybody is apparently headed
In the same direction. The general cry is
Come on, let's go to the lunch room,"
and a great majority of the six hundred
pupils in attendance at the school accept
this invitation willingly.
In a spacious dining room with about
twenty or thirty long tables all spread
in snowy white linen. Along one side of
the room, running-t the entire length, is n
long counter where there Is a boy or girl
for nearly every six inches of room, try
Ing to get one of the ten or fifteen walters
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few days in the wholesale iewelry dis
trict, and 1t Is said that the products,
while artificial, are the same in ceinpasi-
ton and properties as the natural stones
that are simulated. The fear Is expressed
by jewelers. that If they are really all
that 1t Is claimed the sale of natural
emeralds and sapphires will be injured
All the new stones were placed by Col
1ector Stranahan in the class of nom
enumerated manufactures on which the
tariff law places a duty of 20 per cent
The importing concerns paid the duty.
but filed protest with the board of
United States general appraisers. claim
ing that the duty should be 10 per cent
the rate for precious. stones that have
been advanced in value by cutting or pol
ishng.
Difficulty is expected in proving exact
ly how the stones are made, as the inn
porters frankly admit that they know
little except what they are told by the
manufacturers in Paris-who call the
stones reconstructed
The so-ealled emeralds. according to a
preliminary statement made to the gen.
eral appraisers in the behalf of the i'm
porters. are really aquamarines a much
cheaper stone, to which the Characters
tic green emerald shade has been i'm
parted by a secret process known only 10
the manufacturers, but supposed to in
elude the application of intense heat and
strong acids. Jewellers say that IL such
a process has been discovered It will
mean revolution in the emerald trade.
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houses in the next block. now devoted
to business; several new loft buildings,
the court yards of which project: the
Holland house. the Waldorf Astoria and
the buildings across the street from 1t;
liam hall, the Engineers club and 3. ALT
Ian hall, the Engineers club and B. Aalt-
man & Co.
Further up, it is said. every old-fash-
Toned building with a stoop or court en-
eroaches; Sherry's, where is maintained
an open air cafe deeked with tropical
plants, and many buildings and clubs
above that The Vanderbilt home in Fiji
ty-seeond street. with its costly iron
fence is said to be over the line the
home of Harry Payne Whitney, in Fifty
seventh street; the new home of William
*. Vanderbilt, Jr., the home of Mrs. Her
mann Oelriehs, and the other buildings
north to Fifty-ninth street.
It is admitted that to slice off the
stoops remove the porticos. fill the areas
and courts and draw back the fences,
pillars and columns will cost altogether
hundreds of thousands of dollars, and in
some instances will mar the architectural
effect of the buildings themselves. but
against this is weighed the necessity of
widening the thoroughfare to suit the in,
creasing business and the city has re-
solved to take action.
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Blow to Fifth Avenue.

Back%l by a decision of the supreme
court Corporation Counsel Ellison has
notified property owners in Fifth avenue
to remove all stoops. porticos, areas and
courtyards which encroach upon the street
or undergo the expense of having the
city do it for thenl
From Forty-third street to Fiftyninth
street representatives of the city informed
the owners that under the law by which
the thoroughfare was laid out they have
been for years occupying from two to
ten feet of city property, and the city
now wants this space TO widen the ave-
nue. for increasing traffic
The most notable buildings in the dis
trct mentioned are included Beginning
In Twenty-sixth street there will be Mar
tins, which maintains an outdoor cafe:
the remaining brown stone high stoop
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to get him or her "hot chocolate and
rolf or a milk and sandwich and oc-
casionally hot soup is served, and nearly
everybody puts in an application for this
speciality.
The bill of fare, while not at all large,
is made up of the best grade of food OBJ
tainable. and there Is no complaint what
ever, on the part of the hungry pupil.
There is room for everybody to have a
seat at one of the tables in the dining
hall, and here the pupils assemble. usually
in pairs-two girls, two boys or a couple
and talk of what Miss or Mr.. So and So
said about their lesson, or very likely
like most girls and boys, they talk of
somebody at the next table, and perhaps
the next day go and tell what the other
said. 1t is, however. strictly place of
enjoyment and joviality, and a place
where congenial spirits reve. The cents
paid for lunch there Is certainly well
spent.
The room is prettily draped with six
very large American flags and around
the walls hang High school remnants, of
which every pupil is proud
Another idea which the School Improve
ment association, assisted by the junior
class of 1905-06, was instrumental in max
ing a reality, is the emergency ROOM 1t
is intended to be resort for pupils who
may, during the course of the day, be-
come i'll, or a place where in inclement
weather the girls may go to dry their
wraps The association employs a maid
to stay in the emergency room during
school hours. The room is comfortably
furnished with a courch, steamer rug,
table, chairs rugs, washstand, toilet set,
towels and pillows.
This convenience, looking from the view
point of boy, is out of place at times.
We all know boys will be boys" and
usually when they are taken "dreadfully"
i'll at school, they are generally In a
notion that they want to so home. or
elsewhere, and are not much sick
imagine that IL Il boy went to the prin-
cipars office and asked to be allowed to
go home on account of a violent head
ache. and Was told 10 60 down to the
emergency room and stay there in the
quiet until he felt better--I imagine
that he would get well almost as soon
as II he had gone home-in about nine
cases out Of ten. The room has wonder
fu1 curative powers at times.
Yet this room is really luxury. While
the furniture is not much worn from use
now, and although pupil is usually sent
home when Sick In time the emergency
room will be regarded as not only SER
viceable, but n necessity
All praise to the women of the School
Improv einent association for the helpful
things they are accomplishing.
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as to the value of the claims of these
gentlemen. 1t is well established that
the problem which they have set out
to solve is not an easy one. Attempts
have been made to solve it by men we'll
equipped for the purpose, but thus far
without success.
Not long ago M. A. Nisco of Belgium
made a careful study of many of the
methods that have been proposed for
seeing at a distance electrically, and
concluded that none of the devices
thus far experimental with possess the
necessary requirements for successful
operation.
In the majority of the methods for
transmitting sight to distance that
property of selenium by which its cleo
trical resistance varies with the in
tensity of the light thrown upon it has
been employed, but this use of the sub
stance has not hitherto met the eX-
pectations of inventors.
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SEEING BY ELECTRICITY.
Two Separate Assertions That the
Problem Has Been Solved.


Almost simultaneously from two diff
ferent places in the United States the
invention of device for seeing at Il
distance by electrical means is an
nounced by two different inventors.
Somewhat strange to say, the name
adopted by each inventor for his de-
vice is "Televue." The names of the
two inventors are given in Casters
Magazine as ]. B. Fowler and William
H. Thompson.
A description of Mr. Fowler's device
in one of the electrical papers shows
a woman speaking into telephone
transmitter, while at the side of the
transmitter is projection akin to that
of hand stereoscope. The idea is
that apparition of the person at the
within this projection.
1t is said that four wires are at pres
ent required to accomplish the speak
ing and seeing, but that eventually
two wires only will be necessary. 1t
is also said that natural colors are re-
produced in the apparatus.
Complete details of the operation of
this interesting apparatus are withheld,
it is said, for certain reasons connected
with patent office matters. In the
meantime, however, it is reported that
a company has been organized to push
the scheme, and stock in the company
will be offered to the public.
Mr.. Thompson does not appear to
have progressed SO far with his inven-
ton as Mr.. Fowler but it is stated on
Mr.. Thompson's behalf that his device
will be an improvement on the other
one.
In the absence of details, it is OBJ
vious that no opinion can be expressed
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The Harrlman-Fish Feud.

Though E. II, Hartman protested that
nothing is further from the truth, it is
pretty well understood that the ousting
of Stnyyesant Fish as the president of
the Illinois Central railroad is the out
growth of the Mutual Life Insurance
scandal 1t was Mr.. Fish who demanded
a thorough investigation of the Mutual,
and it was Harriman's, man. Peabody.
who opposed such a course. When the In
vestigatng committees inquiry APP
preached the trustees themselves. it was
Charles A. Peabody, president of the
Mutual, who answered: Il do not feel
that I am called upon, or indeed have
any right, to conduct such an inquiry
as you ask me to make" 1t was this
same Peabody who, when Stuyvesant
Fish. pressed for a thorough investiga-
ton, used his position in the Illinois
Central board to propose counter-resolu-
lions investigating Mr.. Fish.
But of course, Mr.. Hartman had an
other motive in. driving Fish from the
Illinois Central presidency The ILLINOIS
Central would be useful to his Union
Pacific combination: he had not been
able to buy it up. and he could not con-
troll it with Fish in the presidency.
To force Fish out. Mr. Hartman called
a special meeting of the Illinois Central
directors. Mr.. Fish and his supporters
did not contest the election, and did not
even vote. Considerable bitterness devel-
oped at the meeting, nevertheless, owing
to the reading of n statement signed by
the eight directors who opposed the presi-
dent of the road, and who charged him
with bad faith in various actions and
with having broken the agreement relat-
ing to the election of a successor to the
late Mr.. Grinnell. Mr.. Fish displayed
his resentment at the accusations leveled
against him and used emphatic language
in denying that he had been guilty of a
breach of faith. 1t is significant that one
of the names signed to this statement
was that of Charles A. Peabody.
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THE VALUE OF CHARCOAL.
Few People Know How Useful 1t Is In
Preserving Health and Beauty.
Costs Nothing to Try.

Nearly everybody knows that charcoal
II the safest and most efficient dlsin-
festant and purifier in nature, but few
realize its value when taken into the hui
man system for the same cleansing pur-
pose
Charcoal is a remedy that the more
you take of it the better; Ii is not a drug
at all, but simply absorbs the gases and
Impurities always present in the stomach
and intestines and carries them out Of
the system.
Charcoal sweetens the breath after
smoking, drinking or after eating onions
and other odorous vegetables.
Charcoal effectually clears and I'M
proves the complexion, it whitens the
teeth and further acts as natural and
eminently safe cathartic.
1t absorbs the injurious gases which
collect in the stomach and bowels; 1t dis
infects The mouth and throat from the
poison OF catarrh.
All druggists sell charcoal In one form
or another. but probably the best char
coal and the most for the money Is in
Stuarts Charcoal Lozenges; they are
composed of the finest powdered Willow
charcoal, and other harmless antiseptics
In tablet form, or rather in the form of
large, pleasant tasting lozenges, the
charcoal being mixed with honey.
The daily use of these iozenges will
soon tell in a much improved condition
Of the general health, better complexion,
sweeter breath and purer blood, and the
beauty of it is, that no possible harm can
result from their continued use, but, on
the contrary, great benefit.
Buffalo physician, in speaking Of
the benefits of charcoal, says: II add
wise Stuarts Charcoal Lozenges to all
patients suffering from gas in stomach
and bowels and to clear the complexion