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The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1907-01-24
STUDENT SHOT HIMSELF.
In Grand Union Hotel Just
Before Committing Suicide.

New York. Jan. "a Within ffteen
minutes after he had registered at the
Grand Union hotel, Iathrop Smith, a
student in the law school at Columbia
university, from Kansas City committed
suicide late yesterday by shooting him
self through the head
No cause for the suicide can be
learned. His fellow students are I'M
able to account for his act A message,
apparently written just before he fred
the fatal shot reads
Mother and all the loved ones
Good bye. Mother, Good bye
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1907-01-24
Member u Prorninent FamiIy.

Kansas City, Mo, Jan. "a Iathrop
Srfith, who committed suicide in a
hotel in New York yesterday was a
member Of one Of the most prominent
families in this city and was well
known leader in exclusive circles here
We was nephew 81 Gardiner Latbrop
general solicitor Of the Sansa Fe rail
road. with headquarters in Chicago,
ana son of w. Medill Smith, gen
eral claim agent Of the Santa Fe. Young
Smith was attending Columbia univcr-
sity in New York and his relatives
here knew of no reason which might
cause him to take his own life,
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-02-24
,DErEo1r Nays.

want you to know that I'm doing it for
Durkin. I'm doing it all, everything, for
him."
For Durkin?" he choked. with an oath
What are you fghtin' for that washed-out
welcher for?"
Because Durkin is my husband" she
said. In her ashen white determination, as
she stepped quickly to the door and double
locked it. and because I would die for
him"-she laughed shrilly. horribly, as she
said it-"before I'd see him hurt or I'M
happy
She stood firmly with her back against
the door, painting a little, her jaw fallen
loosely down, her eyes luminous with their
animal-like fire.
'"Then, by -. you will!'' said Mac
Mutt in his raucous cultural, with his
limbs beginning to shake as he glared at
her.
She stood there motionless. trying to
think out the first moves in that grim
game for which freedom ana love and life
itself were the stakes.
Then. by -. you WILL" repeated Mac
Mutt. with the sweat coming out in beads
on his twitching temples.
(To be Concluded Tomorrow
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-02-24
Moose Horns Growth.
From the Cutters Book.

From the Cutters Book.
A moose Is not a pretty creature. but il
one Of the most interesting of our forest in
habitants. In the early fall when the i'm
mense horns of the buck are at their best
they are quite imposing. 1t is hard to be-
lieve that horns so large are the growth Of
but one season. The antlers fall off when
the cold weather sets in and begin to grow
once more in the early springtime. They
grow rapidly and harden they increase
in size. The moose does not appear to feel
well when the horns are starting in the
are tender. They are covered with downy
fuzz known as the velvet Later on this
drops away. While at this stage the ant
lers have ragged appearance. By rubbing
against trees, ETC., the moose finally sue
ceeds in presenting horns that are entirely
free from 1.-The velvet"
The upper teeth Of q moose project over
the lower ones, thus enabling 1t to feed on
the moss which grows on the trunks OF
trees.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-02-24

d. c.; 220-yard hurdle, championship A. A,
n. G. d. c.; 220-yard dash. champ. onsh.p
A. A, n. G. ID. c.; 4i0-yard dash, H. NJ.
order. championship \. A.. n. q. ID. G.;
SSo-yard run. championship A. A.. n. G.. ID.
e; one-mile run, championship \. A.. ~.
G ID. e; shot put III pounds. championship
A. A, n. G. ID. c.: running high jump
championship A. A.. n. c. ID. c.; potato
race; three-leg race, 80 yards: obJtacle race
team OF two; company, battalion and regi-
mental relays; wall scaling team Of four
First and second prizes will be given for
each individual event, with cup and ndi-
vidual medals for relay race and wall seal
ing.
No one will be allowed to compete I'm any
of the games who was not regularly en-
listed prior to March l. 1907 as shown by
the enlistment papers on file at District of
Columbia militia headquarters. Spike shoe :
Will not be allowed.
There will be open relays for athletic
clubs, colleges. schools. y. NJ. c. A. and
boys from twelve years. Special events
will be announced later.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-02-24
HARD TIMES FOR
RUSSIAN POLICE
Special Correspondence of The Star.

Special Correspondence of The Star.
ST. PETERSBURG. February Il. 1907.
People are fond of talking about the
dangers faced by the revolutionists, but
those the police encounter are far worse.
Not only are they shot down in the
streets. but nowadays. as soon as they enter
house to search for suspects. they arc
greeted by storm of bullets. The follow
ing incident affords good instance Of what
the much-maligned St. Petersburg police
have to put up with for wage which hare
ly keeps body and soul together.
The most dangerous quarters of st. Pc
tersburg are the two Ochtas. small and
large. The inhabitants are rowdies Of the
worst type Robberies and murders are OF
daily occurrence. Lately. toe, the social
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-02-24
GERMAN ISLAND SCHOOL
SMALLEST IN THE WORLD
pecial Correspondence of The Star.

Special Correspondence of The Star.
BERLIN, February II, 1907
Almost at the mouth Of the Kiel canal in
the Baltic Sea is situated the smallest school
in the whole world. 1t is a government
school, and costs far more money than the
school board Of the district receives in
school taxes. The government built the
school house, and supplies resident
teacher. Yet there are only two scholars.
and 1t may be some time before the class
roll increases.
This record-breaking school is on an
island, Suderoog. There is only one family
occupying the island. Martin Paulsen is
both fisherman and farmer, and also lord of
the isle. He Is in comfortable circum-
stances and has a growing family Of young
sters. Three years ago young Martin, his
eldest child, became Of school age. Paul
sen found it impossible to send the boy
daily to the mainland. Being advised what
to do he made application to have Sude-
roog created a school district. He showed
his tax receipts, proving that for many
years he had paid school taxes for the
whole island.
The government, replying to the applica-
ton. said that under the law 1t was not
obliged to supply a school for only male
children, and as Martin Paulsen. jr. was
the only scholar, Suderoog must wait. In
two years Katrina Paulsen became of legal
school age, and again the father applied to
the government. this time demanding the
establishment Of a school.
And SO last year Germany sent bricks
and mortar and lumber and workmen and
built small but regulation national school
house. Then government teacher, Helm
rich Arp was sent from Kiel. The two
scholars were enrolled and the smallest
school in the world began its sessions.
Teacher Arp, who Is twenty-five years of
age pinned in the solitude of the islet. In
few weeks he made application for billet
elsewhere The sole society of the Paulsens
and their children soon wearied him. But
governments move slowly. 1t has been six
months since Teacher Arp asked to be
moved. Now he has amended his petition
by asking to remain at Suderoog. In the
summer there were many excursions to the
iset from the mainland. and the teacher
met a pretty fraulein at one of the picnic
parties, who has consented to become Mrs.
Arp and live on Suderoog. For a married
teacher the government supplies quarters,
so dwelling is soon to be erected near the
tiny school.
In few years. if all goes well. the teach
er may be teaching his own children, and
Suderoog school will lose it's record of the
smallest school in the world.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-02-24

revolutionaries have made the Ochtas their
headquarters as large numbers of factory
hands live there One of the houses was
the other day the scene of a terrible trag-
edy. The secret police learned that
certain fiat occupied by three men en-
ployed in small arms ammunition factory
contained important papers.
~
Thirteen policemen and three agents Of
the secret police were sent there. under the
command Of a captain of the gendarmes.
The windows of the fiat were dark-the
party thought the occupants were asleep.
Having set men to guard the exits from the
house. the captain. accompanied by the
dvornik (house-porter) and some of the
police, went to the fat, which seemed per-
fectly quiet They knocked again and
again. but got no answer.
At last one Of the agents a heavy man,
suggested breaking the door open. when
lamp from the captains hand and, amid
the darkness. a volley Of bullets poured
from the room. The occupants of the room
then rushed out, firing as they went. Sew
eral of the police fell with shrieks of pain,
and the panic and confusion that followed
in the dark corridor allowed the three work
men to get downstairs, closely followed,
however. by the few unwounded policemen.
But those who were guarding the exits
could not distinguish between their own
men and the fugitives in the darkness of
the winters night, and We're afraid of hit
ting their friends if they fired: so all three
escaped.
On returning with lights to the room, a
fearful sight met the police. Four bodies
of dead comrades lay the floor, while
the dvornik and two agents were groan-
ing in pain beside them After their re-
moval the room was searched, and proved
to be perfect storehouse for the fighting
section of the revolutionary party. 1t was
packed with cartridges bullets. rifles OF
different caliber. smokeless powder. re-
volvers, stilettos and daggers. They also
found a great deal of revolutionary CORE
spondence, which incriminated many we'll
known people in st. Petersburg. Among
these papers were the details of a plot to
put bombs in the houses of men and women
known to sympathize with the old regime.
The police had long suspected the existence
of such plot as terror has reached a pitch
hitherto unknown in St. Petersburg.
roubles for 1.-The cause was blown into
pieces by means Of an Internal machine
which some unknown person had placed in
his study. and which killed several other
people in the house as well. Things have
got to such a state that the Union of the
Russian People" has published a circular
In which 1t warns the revoutionaries that
for every member Of their organization who
is assassinated three leaders Of the terror
lists shall die. The discoveries in the work.
mems fat in the Ochta have led to 50 many
arrests that, though 800 political suspects
were released at the Russian New Year,
the prisons in the city are overcrowded and
the governors are at their wits ends to find
1t Is worth noticing that most of these
prisoners, both men and women. are about
eighteen. and very few Of them more than
twenty -four years of age.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-02-24
The Editors Wedding Notice.
From the Bluejacket New

Writing up our own marriage announce
inent is a serious proposition. and one We
would gladly pass over. as the consoling
effects of our wife Is not to be measured
by words and sentences. but by bumps and
bruises We will be glad to admit that
1t is all accomplished under the guise of
love because our newly made wife is kind
and affectionate. She has been the mellow
sun rays Of our past existence, and now.
since we have anchored ourselves together
in order to spend our terrestrial days she
shines out more brilliant than ever. 1t was
Thanksgiving day, 1906, which caused the
editor, c. ]. Howell, to be thankful by be-
ing united in marriage to Miss Beulah Up
ton of Welch. whom, we believe. is about
tho most perfect unwinged creature this
side of the pearly gates.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-02-24
A Military EFFICIENCY.
From the Philadelphia Record.


Military circles have been convulsed over
q case Of discipline that recalls the problem
of the irresistible force meeting the i'm
movable obstacle. An officer ordered an
enlisted man to go to church, and the man
refused. The officer had no right to give
the order, but the enlisted man had no right
to refuse. This extraordinary situation has
been solved by transferring the enlisted
man to another post as mark Of disap-
proval. and sending the officer to another
post on temporary duty.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-02-24
Departmental Desks
That Are II ioodooed

A SERIES of misfortunes. such as dis
~ missals, designations and deaths
from a particular desk develops
what is known in divisions OF Uncle Sans
workshops as the 'hoodoo desk" This bit
of office furniture comes under the ban of
suspicious superstition and no one in that
room cares to do clerical work from thai
spot. In room filled with clerks the hoo
doo' desk is easily distinguished. for IL is
generally covered with the surplus books
and general refuse of the daily routine
work 1t remains unoccupied sometimes for
months, until some new clerk is assigned
to 1t. Bureau officials have a certain con-
sideration In regard to assigning their new
clerks to the hoodoo," and II there should
be any other vacant place in the room the
clerk gets IT. Only radical changes i'm the
personnel OF the whole office obiterate a
desk reputation. Generally the "hoodoo
desk lasts through an administration.
In one of the executive departments in
" ashington there Is "hoodoo," from
which four clerks have died In the last
two years. two others have resigned. one
has been dismissed and three have been
transferred. No one cares to occupy it at
any price. A 200 clerk said several DAYS
ago. in a half-hearted way. that he would
move from his present room and try it for
a while II they would promote him to 81 800
He said afterward, however, that he was
merely joking.
In the natural order of vicissitudes in the
washington governmental machinery where
thousands are employed and where many
changes must occur, 'hoodoos'' have every
chance to develop. Outlines with sides deep
ly pathetic.
Some years ago doorkeeper's position in
the War Department building came under
the ban Of i'll fate, and became, 1t is said a
source Of considerable annoyance TO Of
ficials. At this particular door the first
doorkeeper was overtaken by death: the
second, dismissal; the third lost his wife by
death. then fell and broke a limb, and the
fourth appointee in succession lost a child
and then resi- ed. This resignation kept
the place vacant, no one could be in
duced to take 1t. II being regarded as a
regular ''hoodoo." The place had to be
iIled by calling on the civil service COM
mission for some one from the outside.
Perhaps the most conspicuous case OF an
ill-lated desk position is that of a private
secretary of one of the assistant secretaries.
Several deaths and other misfortunes have
made the place a dreaded one.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-02-24
Nine to Account For.

FrJl,i Cck.
Thomas caterwaul-"I love you better
than my life. my petv'
Kitty Mouser (cautiously)-''which one.
Tommy, dsar?'
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-02-24
Method In His Madness.
ticn' rtck

Crawford-"How in the world can you
Fay social visits to your janitor?'
Crabshaw-"Tt makes me feel 90 good to
see his wife boss him"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-02-24

The eighth annual indoor games of the
Athletic Association. N. G.. D. c., will be
held at the National Guard Armory Hall.
Thursday evening, April 4. The prelimi-
naries will be held Tuesday. April q 1907.
The list Of events includes 50-yard dash.
novice; 50-yard dash. consolation: 50-yard
dash, championship A. A., N. G. d. CT:
1O0-yard hurdle, championship A. A., N. 4.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-02-24

GRANDFtoRA NFluENzv
PLANTED
FROM $50 TO 700 YARDS NR BEGINS 10 APNR EARLY fEBRu
GWEN BLOSSOM oul LATER IN THE SEASON
| ' NEpx
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-02-24

Company E. LIST Regiment (the corcoran
Cadet Corpsl. has issued Invitations for its
twenty-fourth anniversary dance next
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-02-24

revolutonares have made the Ochtas their
headquarters. as large numbers of factory
hands live there. One of the houses was
the other day the scene Of a terrible trag-
edy. The secret police learned that
certain fiat, occupied by three men en-
plOyed in q small arms ammunition factory
contained important papers.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-02-24

The I'd Regiment of the New York Ma
tional Guard at Schenectady has offerd 6
trophy to be awarded to the company max
ing the best figure of merit and for indi
vidual work in marksman's class for the
months Of January. February and March
A number of medals and prizes are also
offered by the regiment.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-02-24

The committee in charge Of the reception
to be given by Company G, I'd Regiment.
in Its quarters, Center Market Armory, the
2Sth instant. consists of First Sergt. ]. H.
Reynolds. Corp. C. o. Sears and Privates
B. ]. Madert. ]. Ruppel and q. Clark In
vitations to attend have been extended to
Gen. Harries and the members of his staff
and Col. Urell and his staff.
Los Angeles herald., 1907-09-15

or three; but, as winter comes on, they con
gTegate in herds of dozen tosa hundred for
their migrations southwark
During the winter months they have two
methods of getting their food-one from the
hilltops and high ridges, laid bare by the
heavy winds clearing the snow from them and
leaving exposed stunted kind of rock moss,
and the other by digging through the snow
after the better variety.
That such diggings take place is certainly
true, as large portions of fiat bottom land are
often found upturned in this manner, not over
all of it, but in places here and there, where
evidently the best moss is to be found.
1t is quite clear that the reindeer and musk
oxen are enabled to make such selections,
however deep the snow may be, as it is very
porous and will allow scent to pass through it
readily.
/ have, in fact, been in a snow-house, the
walls of which were not only six or eight
inches thick, but also had an additional cover
ing or banking of two or three feet Of snow,
and yet during gale, candle held near the
walls on the windward side had its flame
blown quite perceptibly by the wind coming
through
So it is not unreasonable to infer that the
scent of the moss penetrates to such keen
nosed animals, and they can. therefore, pick
out the best patches in the field about them.
in the fall as do the reindeer, but they main
tain what they have more steadily throughout
the year, lean musk OK never being found at
any time.
They stay in the hilly districts of the Arctic
and live on the coarser MOSES that grow on
the exposed ridges. They do not migrate with
the seasons, like the reindeer, to gain living,
but remain nearly on the same ground the year
around.
The musk OK and reindeer are, as have
said, the only lherbivorous animals of the Arc
tic proper, although in Alaska, the moose and
caribou intrench on the frigid zone for short
distance, where the Yukon River dips into it,
but this hardly warrants calling them Arctic
animals.
The polar bear has quite varied diet, de-
pending on his whereabouts and the season
Of the year. If in country whose waters
abound with seal this is his principal article
of food and the ability he displays in catching
re Ssder Is tbe seal the arest and ons nat
Los Angeles herald., 1907-09-15

work of channels spread out over the wide,
fiat bottom land, often hundreds in number,
and between these is thick carpet of bright
green moss, growing luxuriantly, although the
frozen ground is not over foot or two from
the boggy surface.
1t is SO very marshy that person crossing
one of these wide stretches will ofen sink up
to his knees; in fact, the solidly frozen ground
rs the only thing to stop him, and no problem
i'll our summer travels in the arctic was great
er than to cross these places without exhaus-
tion by making detours. along the hillsides
Along the edges of these marshy flats the
reindeer finds ample grazing ground in the
summer, and it must be nutritive, indeed to
put five or six solid inches of fat on their loins
in couple of months. There is nothing fatter
in the world than a reindeer late in August,
and / might add there is nothing poorer than
one in the early arctic spring, about June.
The Eskimo call this fat toodnoo, and dur
ing the intense cold of winter it is eaten as
much as the meat itself. The great accumula-
ton of fat in the reindeer must help it to
withstand the cold of the arctic winter, and
yet it has nearly disappeared by the first of
January, and therefore the animal is quite
poor and lean until the snow starts to leave
the ground, and January and February are
the two coldest months in the arctic.
During the summer the reindeer are seen
grazing sngy, scattered over the country. or,
at most, in small groups of not more than two
Los Angeles herald., 1907-09-15
SnoiIes for Sunpmer's EpdiDe

let It go quicker'n wink; but if he has to take
three thousand five hundred dollars he'll hold
off little, and try and get couple of months
rent out of it,"
Look out!" said the cyclone to the zepbvr
Took out, or you'll be worstcdr'
-Customer-"You advertise pants mada
while you wait: but I've been waiting three
hours and you don't seem to have 'em ready
yet"
Tailor-"You'd prob'ly find it more comfort.
day after tomorrow"
Proud Father-"Taken high degrees in
your scientific course? Proud of you, my bow
By-the-way, can you prove that heat expands
and cold contracts%
College Graduate Certainly. Don't the
days grow longer in warm weather and short
er in winter"
Los Angeles herald., 1907-09-15

-"Pm broken man." said the actor, dole
fully.
81 shouldn't wonder" said his friend. 1--WE
seen you in several pieces"
is it quite right to call an expert oarsman
frst-class sculler?
1t is well to make the best of this world,
for you'll never get out of it alive.
1T is strange that the waves remain wild
when they are SO much cultivated by pleasure
seekers.
"A dog may be said to have reached his end
when he gets the tip of his tail in his mouth.
wants"
eyes, sir. He says that if anyone is fool
enough to pay him four thousand dollars, he'll
Los Angeles herald., 1907-09-15
Copyright by James Elverson.)


eler and author that he guided his
writings in great degree by the
Rl many questions asked him about his
travels and the strange sights seen,
to assist him in determining what
| interesting to people generally, although,
kourse, having the advantage of sitting it
of matter culled directly on the ground
ribed.
here is no question asked me more fire.
billy about my arctic experiences than
this or that animal subsists in that in
bitable cline; and this is especially true
krding the reindeer, of which game my
Fy killed about fifteen hundred and saw
by thousands during our two years life
hg the natives.
LARGELY any grass can exist in such coun-
Ind that taken from the list leaves herbiv-
5 animals but little to choose from, and
This order are the reindeer and musk OK.
Ehe narrow valleys and at the foot of steep
B, where the snow buries the ground many
in depth, this thick mantle is enough to
kect alSmall amount of hardy grass from
[ bitter cpld of the arctic winter; and there
lso SOFT of tough, coarse saltwater sedpe
fling along the beaches of the bays and in
just above high-water mark. But of the
BY thousands of reindeer l have seen graz
Sin all sorts of places, have never seen
single out the grassy places to get its
u; in fact, they always reject the coarse
he of which | have spoken, and | know
kothing in that desolate land that does use
BIZ food.
he reindeer and musk OK live the wear
Ehd on the arctic moses, several varieties
Which cover no small portion of that sup
Ed barren country, and especially the low,
valleys along the streams. Most of these
Eie streams, during the short time they are