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eventually be profitable. The Moors and
Berbers viii object to such roads at first,
but they will soon learn their value. Last
year there was famine In and about Fe1,
and large part of the -four consumed had
to be imported. That which cost SO
sack at the seaports sold for more than $40
a sack in Fee, the extra 50 going to trans
portation. Had there been q railroad that
flour would not have cost more than rs
cents per sack for freight, and It could have
been sold for $1,000 in Fee, making q clear
saving to the people Of $3.50 on that amount
Of their bread bills.
A Talk With 81 El-Mehdi El-Menehbi.
It was through Mr.. Harris that was
given an audience with 81 el-Mehdi ell
Menehbi, who as minister Of war under the
sultan, and as his favorite adviser for a
long time, practically controlled Morocco.
He was in high favor until the rebellion of
the so-called Son Of the She ASS, who
claimed to be the elder brother of the sui
tan, but after that became unpopular and
was forced to resign. His excuse for leav-
ing Fee was that he wanted to make a pill
grimage to Mecca. He went there via the
Mediterranean, and after coming back set
tied in Tangier, becoming a British subject,
and thereby protecting himself against any
possible persecution from his enemies who
had taken his place in the favor of the
sultan.
understand that Menehbi saved a lot of
money while he was one of the sultan s
chief officials. and that, instead Of burying
1t in the walls of his house at Fee or under
it's floors, as is sometimes done by the
Moors, he deposited 1t in the Bank of Eng
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power of resistance than the larvae cuiti-
waited under natural conditions in the same
laboratory, and some of those artifcially
formulated have become young sea urchins.
will grow up. AS in general only one out
of a million larvae grows into the adult sea
urchin, the chance Is very small, as NJ.
Delage admits.
Summing up the result Of his experiment
NJ Delage says: The action of nickel
onstrated-a fact which Is in itself curious.
and which may be of consequence in the
experiments for creating life. At Nantes.
NJ. Stephane Leduc professor at the Nantes
School of Medicine, has been experiment
ing with artificial cellules. He took grain
made of mixture of copper sulphate and
glucose, about one-sixteenth of an inch in
diameter, and placed 1t in a mixture of a 3
per cent solution Qf potassium ferro-cyanide,
and per cent solution of sodium chic
ride, and 2 per cent solution of gelatine.
In a few hours-the exact time depending
upon the OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES grew from
the grain which NJ. Leduc calls pseudo
plant. The copper sulphate grain Is sur
rounded by q membrane OF ferro-cyanide
of copper, impermeable TO the sugar soiu-
ton, but not waterproof.
The water Is forced through the menu
brane by the osmotic pressure, and rhe cell
lule grows. In a few minutes bud pro-
trudes from It, which itself is surrounded
on. When the grain Is sown In a deep
vase 1t grows both vertically and horizon.
tally and when 1t touches the surface 1t
grows leaves like those of a water plant.
A plant has been grown in this way eight
or nine inches high. The form OF the plant
grows. Some plants have had pear shaped
and other mushroom-lke ends. An author
ity on biology and botany says that In these
plants there is nutrition BY intussuseeption.
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tributes in a more solid form to the menu
in some parts of China. Mrs. Bishop tells
us how the dried flowers Of certain species
of lily are largely eaten as relish with
meats, especially pork. AT Chinkiang, on
the Yangtse, these lily flowers account for
nearly fourteenth Of the value Of the
exports.
Hooker mentions two cases of flower
eating in the Himalayas. The Lepchas
eat the flower buds of plant of the ginger
family. And then there is plant which
the natives call Choklibi, sort of lily of
the valley, two to five feet high, with
crowded clusters of bell-shaped flowers.
They have discovered that the young flower
heads. sheathed in tender green leaves,
make an excellent vegetable. ..-,.T,s.
Another more recent Hmalayan traveller,
Col. Waddell, tells how the Lepchas cook
and eat the flowers of species of rhododen-
dron. A traveller in Persia, again, relates
that the Baluchis eat the pollen bearing
flowers of certain tree. The name of
the tree is unfortunately not mentioned
but travellers who have tasted the flowers
say they are unpalatable.
The Pagoda Tree.
Again, in his journey from Tonking to
India Prince Henri d'Orleans found that
the Pals made a preserve Of the thick glu-
tinous calyx of the cotton tree, or as 1t
was there called, pagoda tree. The same
traveller relates how the Locha use q small
yellow immortelle flower as food. Flowers,
leaves and stalks were thrown into the
pot and boiled till tender
A favorits sweetmeat in former days was
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CREATION OF LIFE.
French Scientists Remarkable Ex-
periments.

Paris Cor London Standard.
Two series of experiments in partheno-
genesis-propagation by other means than
by biogenesis-which have been reported on
lately before the Academy of Natural
Sciences, have caused a good deal of un-
necessary excitement, and not little fool
ish prophecy. 1t was understood by some
that at last means had been found for Gre
ating life. One can understand the excite
ment, and one can guess what some of the
prophecies were. But it seems that, al
though the experiments do prove great
deal, they do mot prove that life can be
created. In one case they give cause for
some sort of hope that life may soon be
created, but that hope is not very great
for once. In this case 1t seems 1t is not
le premier pas qui coute. Chemists and
biologists may, almost, and, indeed, may In
appearance quite succeed in their attempts
to create life. but all admit that the hard
est part of the problem Is the changing of
comparative into absolute, and Of apparent
into real
M. yves Delage. who reported to the
Academy of Science on Monday on his
experiments with the germs Of sea urch-
ms, treated the germs with solutions
which he calls "hypertonfc," having as
their base sodium chloride much more con-
centrated than II exists in sea water. To
this a very small non-toxic dose of nickel
chloride was added. and thus considerably
increased vitality was given to the larvae
of the sea urchins. The cellules multiplied
from 60 to 81 per cent, and the larvae thus
treated u. Delage says. have Q greater
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New Antidote for Opium.
n the London Daily News

FROM the London Daily News
A remarkable movement has taken place
In the federated Malay states against the
opium habit. About three months ago a
plant was accidentally discovered In the
jungle whose properties were found to be
very efficacious in assisting opium smokers
10 break on the habit and in removing the
terrible pains which accompany an attempt
to give up the drug
The Chinese preachers and members NJ
the Chinese Y. NJ. Ca. in KwaIa IIlmnor
in connection with the Methodist Episcopai
leaves of the plant o
Before long the mission hall kitchen wa,
turned into large dispensary, where thou
SANDS OF gallons of the medicine were nre-
pared. The news spread and nearly ten
tnousand applicants came for the remedy
Maiays. Bengaiese. Chinese merchants.
s s..a ana mining coolies. Other depots
was formed.
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land to his own draft. This prevented his
enemies getting possession Of his fortune.
After his settlement in Tangier he with
drew the money. and he has now invested a
great part of it in large apartment house
and other buildings there. His own home is
one of the finest In the city, and DOUBT
not it will compare favorably with any pri-
vate home in the country. It was there
that visited him.
Travelling upon my mule through street
80 narrow that I could almost touch both
walls with my hands, rode by the kasbah
or the governors palace, past the soldiers
and officials sitting at the gate of the city
and on out into the country. About half
mile from the city gates we came to q
walled Enclosure with a plain, unpreten-
tious door. We knocked upon this and 1t
was opened by negro slaves, who took
charge of our mules. We passed in through
sort of porter's lodge. where half dozen
selves in great court or park surrounded
by Moorish buildings. the rooms of which
looked out upon it, This park was largely
made up of gardens filled with beautiful
flowers and semi-tropical plants and trees.
One section of 1t contained tennis court,
with a cement floor as smooth as marble,
where the ex-minister delights to play ten
mis- with his European friends. There Is a
central path through the gardens, and down
this we walked until We came into two great
reception rooms, where the war minister
receives his men friends. We passed through
the first set of parlors, which are fiOored
then came into a large room walled with
glass looking out upon the Atlantic ocean.
The house is built on n high bluff hanging
right over the sea and the mountains Of
Spain were in plain sight across the way
We could hear the surf roar as it dashed
against the rocks below.
At the entrance to this room stood two
tall clocks of the kind that sell in the
United States for $500 apiece, and they
played the chimes at the striking of the
hours. The tiled floor was covered with
oriental rugs, the great divans were uphol-
stored In rich red Morocco leather, and
about the walls were cases containing rare
china and swords, rifles and other weapons
inlaid with gold and silver. The surround
ings were those OF man Of taste, and this
was my impression Of Menehbi when he
appeared.
A Typical Moor.
Let me tell you how he looks. He is a
typical Moor Of the better class and of a
kind one does not expect to find in what
is generally known as one Of the black
spots of this black continent. 81 ell
Mehdi el-Menehbi would make one of the
handsomest Othellos who ever trod the
stage. He is tall, straight and fine looking,
anu his MOORISH costume makes him look
taller He has light complexion and like
all Moorish men, wears full beard, his
whskers being brown and curly and as fine
as silk. A broad forehead with large hazel
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aside for the protection of foreigners at
the ports will be totally inadequate. Only
$500 are provided for the eight towns, and
5000 could be employed here in Tangier
alone"
The Morocco of the Future.
do you think that changes will soon
take place in Morocco?'
THAT depends much upon the govern
ment and how the people are handled. If
they could understand that Morocco could
hold its independence and still have mod
ern reforms l think many new things
could be introduced. A strong government
is needed, however, to make the expert
ment When 1 went to London as the
sultans ambassador l entered into certain
arrangements as to railroads and other
the country and the antagonism to foreign
ways were such that I was not able to
carry them out 1 believe however, that
Morocco has future, which will be far
try here which is wonderfully fertile. We
can raise grain Of many kinds, and fruit
that Is surpassed by that of no other land
Cattle. horses and sheep will thrive almost
everywhere, and our people make good
stock men and farmers. Morocco is also
rich In minerals. There is coal right here
near the Strait of Gibraltar, and the Atlas
mountains have deposits of gold, silver
copper and iron. The country has never
been prospected, but its possibilities are
undoubtedly great"
A Message for the American People.
In closing our conversation. asked Mr..
Menehbi to send. through me, a few words
of greeting to the American people, saying,
Your excellency is about the most progress
sive man in Morocco, and should like
to take from you word of greeting to
what we consider the most progressive
nation Of the western world"
. The sultans war minister smiled at this
His face, however, soon grew serious, and
he said:
Il have a great admiration for you
Americans, and hope shall soon be able
to cross the Atlantic to visit you. The
only message / have for you Is that you
should study this country, and cultivate
closer trade relations with 1t. We have
here about ten million inhabitants, and
we are now large consumers Of cottons and
other things which Americans make. Our
homes are chiefly lighted by American Pc
trOleum. and our people wear clothes made
of stuff grown by you. Your raw cotton,
however, goes to England; and the English
do the weaving and sell US the goods /
understand that you have cotton mills of
your own. Why not make the goods your
selves and get all the profit? We Moroc-
cans are friendly to you. and we would
be glad to trade with you: but as it is our
chief supplies come from the various coun-
tries Of Europe, and mostly from England.
Spain, Germany and France
FRANK G. CARPENTER.
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and the floral dainty is perhaps coming
Into favor again. But the flower of the
mahwa tree Of India is SO full of sugar
that there Is no need to candy It, and 1t is
These flowers are largely eaten by the
natives along with their rice, etc. They
are said to have a luscious but peculiar
taste when fresh and to resemble in flavor
inferior figs when dry. It has been reckoned
that man and his wife and three children
might be supported for three or four months
on the flowers of one hahwa tree. In other
cases 1t is the pollen OF the flower that is
eaten. The pollen Of certain species Of
reed is made into bread and thus eaten
both tn Scinde and New Zealand The
pollen OF the sago palm is also eaten.
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FLOWERS USED ASFOOD
ARTICLES OF DIET FOR PEOPLE
OF MANY PARTS OF WORLD.
TIL Lotus Eaters Did Not Feed on the
Blossom, but on the
Jujube rec.
From the London Globe.

From the London Globe.
The lotus eaters of old. they tell us. were
not flower eaters at all. What they did eat
was the fruit of a prickly shrub, the jujube
tree. This fruit is still eaten by the natives
in parts of Egypt and apparently without
any remarkable effect. But a native wine
is made from the juice. But If we must
give up the Lotophagi as flower eaters,
there are yet number of blossoms which
are really eaten at the present day.
There is, for example the globe artichoke.
the thistle. which. according to Alfred de
Musset, has left the ass jaws to be flooded
with sauce In the bishops silver dish. "
For 1t is the unopened flowers OF this plant
which appear on our tables as a vegetable.
II they are left on the plant they open out
into handsome purple blossoms. And then
there IL the caulihower. which Dr. johnson
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corot's Dying Words.

TUT tnc Lofu0H CurUulCIe.
The Westminster Gazette has Just re-
quoted the story Of Corot's dying words:
when the spring comes will paint a
beautifuNpicture. I see sky full OF roses. >.
Now who first took upon himself to note
down the word as "roses"? The French
could only be. "Je vols un ciel tout plein de
rose" Cor "roses'). Whether plural or sim
gular would be inaudible because unpro-
nounced. 1t Is surely much more probable
that the master simply said II see very
rosy sky"-a sky full Of pink color-than
"A sky full Of roses" great student of
skies would be less likely to see flowers
there than a sentimental biographer would
be to think he did. The false phrase Is al
ways italicised with delight
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Wisdom Of am Empiricist

From the st. Louis Globe Democrat.
A cynic is a young person with dyspepsia.
A philanthropist is q capitalist with a
conscience.
A statesman IL an uninvestigated poll
tician.
A misanthrope IL a man who refuses to
loan you money.
A plutocrat IL a man who is q director
In two or more companies.
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Sworn With Daggers at Hearts.

According to his story he returned to
Baltimore and landed there March 9-just
thirty live days prior to the assassination
Of Abraham Lincoln. There he was met
by his companion. Booth. who was playing
in that city at the time. He accompanied
Booth to Washington, arriving there on
the Sd of April. He was then taken by
Booth into the third story of the old Pa
cific Hotel, and into the rooms which were
the quarters of the Knights Of the Golden
Circle. On the 10th he became a member
Of the Golden Circle. He was conducted
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organization. circulation and increase. but
that the experiments give us no explana-
ton whatever of the origin of life
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ASSASSIN Of LINCOLN
Tennessee Attorney Claims He
Was Not Shot.
SAYS HE LIVED UNTIL 1903
And Then Committed Suicide in an
Oklahoma Hotel.
STORY OF MAN NAMED RITTER
Declares That Booth Escaped to
South America and Became
"Enos," the Prominent Actor.
STORY OF MAN NAMED RITTER

Copyright 1906, by John Elfreth Watkins)
Apropos Of the ninety-eighth anniversary
of the birth of Abraham Lincoln, which
occurs on Tuesday, 1t may be Of interest
to state that the Speaker Of the Ma
tional House of Representatives has
referred to the Smithsonian Institution
the request of an attorney of Tennessee
that the government definitely establish
whether John Wilkes Booth was really shot
by Sergt. Boston Corbett, as history re-
cords, or whether he made his escape and
that another was shot through mistaken
identity. This attorney, whose name is
withheld for the present, claims that the
supposed assassin who was shot was not
really Booth and that the latter escaped,
This letter states:
Il knew Booth, as John D. Heley, while
living in 1872, and was associated with him
as my client until the fall of 1877, when
we separated In western Texas, he going
to Leadville, Col, and I returning to Mem
phfs. Booth left with me a small tin-type
for his future identification. This picture
was taken some twelve years after the
assassination of Lincoln and has been
identified by Junius Brutus Booth, eldest
nephew Of John Wilkes Booth, as being
identified by the famous actor. the late
Joseph Jefferson, and many Others"
Real Booth Committed Suicide in 1908
The real Booth committed suicide Janu-
airy IA. 1908. In the Grand Avenue Hotel,
Enid, Okla, according to this writer, who
suggests that the body, which has been
mummifed, be turned over to the Smith
sonian for positive Identification.
That Booth was not shot when supposed
to have been q number of the older resi-
dents of Washington are still willing to be-
lieve. Greed for the large reward offered
for Booth by the government was believed
by citizens Of those stirring times to have
resulted in the shooting of another man.
One Of the secret service men assigned to
that the identification Of the supposed as
sassin was not satisfactorily made.
That Edmund Fox, greatly resembling
Booth, was the actual victim Of Boston
Corbetts bullet, was claimed some ten
years ago in the alleged confession Of one
very i'll and near death at St. Marys Hos
pital Anderson. Ind. Ritter. who came to
Anderson from Cynthiana, KY, was said to
be the grandson of man enobled for great
valor under Napoleon and the son Of an
exiled German revolutionist.
Ritter claimed that he had been reared
in the German military service and had met
in 1851. Booth, he said, was there in the
interest Of the confederacy, and he and
Booth fell In love with two sisters named
Enoch, one of them a concert singer. Rit-
ter further averred that he accompanied
Booth to America. landing at Baltimore
confederate army. He was wounded. and
returned to Germany to get SIP 600 which
his mother had left him.
Troy weekly news. (Troy, Idaho) 1897-1933, 1907-07-26

Uncle Jimmy Wilkens, substitute Carl
er for rural No. /, made the trip Wednes-
day and came home satisfied that
he never saw better country in his
life than he passed through on his
route. All over American ridge he
says he never saw better crop prospects
The grain looks great, and the beans
and corn, great fields of them, made
me think Of old Missouri and the east.
ern states. Talk about not raising
corn here" exclaimed MI. Wilkins
with his face wearing broad grin, III
saw jas good looking crops today as I
ever saw in my life and ] have seen
some good corn before came to Latah
county" Charley Cummings was lust
starting in to cut his grain and Mr.
Wilkins was enthusiastic over the gold
en- grain being put in the bundles on
the Cumming farm. This is a great
country" is the way Mr.. Wilkins con-
cluded his remarks. And the half has
not been told.
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Why He Did Not Marry.

AS reason for not marrying
Brahms once wrote to a friend: "At
the time when / should have wished to
marry, my compositions were either
Kissed at or at any rate very coolly
received. knew their worth, though.
and that sooner or later the page
would be turned, and In unmarried
solitude I never really took my re-
verses TO heart But to be questioned
by a wife at such moments, to have
her inquiring eyes anxiously fixed
upon me, to hear her ask. Again a
fascoY no, that could never have
borne, for, however much she loved
me and believed In me, | could not
have expected her to have unwavering
faith In my subsequent victory. And
had she attempted to console mel UGH
l can't even think Of 1t. 1t would have
been little less than helly'-Monthly
Review.
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Has Left Trov.

DR.. Richardson and family left Mon
day for Independence, Oregon, where
the doctor has some two weeks work
From there he will go 10 Portland
where he will locate permanently. The
News, while it is sorry to see TROY
lose fist class veterinary and fine
family, is really glad to find the field
for advancement open to one of our
promising young men. DR.. Richard
son has been very successful in his
profession during his stay here of lit
tie over year, and will, because he
has the ability and the determination,
make a success in the larger field of a
city like Portland.
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VENUS OF MILO.
The Famous Ancient Statue In the
Louvre at Paris.

The Famous Ancient Statue In the
Louvre at Paris.
The Venus of Milo In the Louvre.
Paris is supposed by some to be the
work Of Alexandros, one of the Asiatic
Greek sculptors. 1t is said that the
base OF the statue bearing the artists
name was destroyed for the purpose of
causing the king of France to believe
that the work was more ancient than
1t really was.
1t was discovered on the island of
Milo In 1890 by a peasant 1t was in
niche In wall which had been
buried for years. The Marquis of Ri
we're bought IL and gave II as a present
to Louis XVIII. of France. 1t is made
from two blocks of marble joined above
the drapery which envelOps the legs
AS 1t now stands 1t has two blemishes
which have been repaired by modern
artists. The tip of the nose was bro
ken when 1t was found and also the
foot which projects beyond the dra-
perry.
In point Of fact II has a great deal
more resemblance to goddess than
to beautiful woman. At one time il
was dressed in clothes of modern
sort, and the effect was anything but
pleasing The figure of the statue is
not at all adapted to modern clothes
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