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prouuht Causee Immense LOSS.

Eel Paso, Tex. July 8.-Two million
dollars will no more than cover the
losses sustained by stockmen as a
result OF the drought In Northern
Mexico, according to conservative esti-
mates. The drought, which has lasted
nearly year. has been broken by
heavy rains. but cattle have died by
the tens Of thousands from starvation
and thlrat.
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Wandered Away From Home.

Madison, Wis. July 6.-Anna Spang
le7, the four-year-old daughter OF
wealthy farmer of Sun Prairie, near
here, who was thought to have been
kidnapped by two men In an automo
bile, was found three miles from
home, unhurt but hungry. She had
wandered away I'd passed the night
In the open. Her parents had offered
= reward Of $1,000 for her recovery.
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this valuable medi-
cine, Lydia Il. Pink
hams v e geta bl
Compound. | suf-
fered from terrible
headaches, pain in
my back and right
side, was tired and
nervous, and SO
weak Icould hardly
s tand Lydia Il.
Pinkham's Vegeta-
BILE Compound re-
stored me to health
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ENJOYING GOOD HUNTING
Members Of Roosevelt Party Get More
BIG Came

Members Of Roosevelt Party Get More
Big Game.
Naivasha, B. E. A. July S.-The
Roosevelt expedition is enjoying good
hunting and all the members of the
party are we'll. This information was
brought into Naivashe by oouriers
from the Sotih district
Mr.. Roosevelt has killed splen-
didly named lion, one lioness and four
rhinoeeroses. The hon was brought
down while in fuU charge. bullet
penetrating the middle of the beasts
chest Kermit Roosevelt has secured
one big bull eland. one lioness and
two rhinoceroses. In addition both
hunters have been successful in bring
ing down large variety OF other
game.
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SERvlAN RULER is INJURED

King Peter Has Painting Spell ano
Falls From Horse.
Belgrade, Servia, July 8.-Seized
with a fainting spell King Potter fell
Off his horse while riding in Ptopschi
der park. He was severely bruised
and shaken and was carried to the
castle by attendants in serious con
dition.
The whole city is aroused at the
accident. because II is feared that
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MORE
PINKHAM
CURES
Added to the Long List due
to This Famous Remedy.

Camden, Nd '1t is with pleasure
that I add my testimonial to your
already long list hoping that it may
induce others to avail themselves Of
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KILLS WIFE AND HIMSELF

Wisconsin Man Believed to Have Been
Insane
Lodi, Wis, July 8.--George Knerzer
OF this city killed his wife by crush
ing her skull with the butt end of q
shotgun. He then committed suicide
by drowning In pool four feet deer
near the house. Knerzer was be
lieved to be insane. The interior OF
the house bears evidence of a ter
rifle struggle.
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play the piano or sing after his or her
neiGhbors are asleep or in bed trying
to sleep"
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IF THE PEOPLE DESIRE II
General Bingham viii He Anti-Tam
many Candidate for Mayor.

New York, July 8.-What Tammany
Hall may expect because of the re-
cent ousting cf Police Commissioners
Bingham by Mayer Mcclellan is indi-
The Washington times., 1909-05-26

which the Scotch have produced by the
action of sulphuric acid on unrefned
sugar. It is true that this looks a
good deal like a refined sugar; but it
never fools a buyer but once. No dealer
viii undertake to handle a second in
voice of it, because the first will drive
away most of the customers who get
any of it.
Sulphur is very powerful bleach
ing agent, and applied to sugar will
whiten it. But the low grade sugar
thus whitened viii not remain white,
and nobody has yet discovered proc
ess to make it do so. 1t viii resume
its original color in from two to ten
days if it Is placed in the open air.
The housewife who buys it as white
suagr finds it turns dark while 1t Is In
her pantry, and concludes properly
that she has been buncoed. More than
this, such sugar lacks, if it is OF any
thing like so low a test as IS or 80,
the saccharine quality of the better
grades of sugar, and the user knows II
yery soon from experience Finally,
the volume of impurities in 75-degree
sugar is such as to make their detection
simple and certain. It is a mere matter
of experience to show that this is not
pure sugar.
The Times has taken the trouble to
learn on chemical authority that this
Scotch bleached sugar is well known
to the food authorities. Plenty of II
can be had at the establishment of the
Bureau of Chemistry, where it has
been studied with much care and found
to be a simple and palpable fraud
nothing more. 1t can fool nobody
more than once, and it is much more
likely to be denounced as violation
of the pure food law than to be I'M
ported as refined sugar and palmed of
on an innocent public.
The danger of frauds and sdultera-
tions in sugar is extremely small
Chemical reasons are in part response
bic for this, and commercial reasons
in still larger part Sugar IN the
tropics is worth about is cents PEI
pound; and nobody has yet found any
thing so cheap that it can be used tC
adulterate sugar.
Cut out the dishonest, unsoientific
and antiquated Dutch standard, and
give the people chance to get cheap
er sugar. It viii take a good many
millions away from the swollen profits
of the trust, but it viii help the con
sumner, increase the revenues, and not
iniure either the Louisiana planter OF
the beet sugar producer
The Washington times., 1909-05-26
KNOX WORST HIT BY ROW
OVER TARIFF; MAKER
OF AGREEMENTS.

This tariff question is making Secre-
tary of State Knox buster than an in
surgent Senator inspired by the convic-
ton that duty calls him to talk every
day and work all night in order to head
of jokers from creeping into the sched-
ules. On the foreign office viii fall the
great burden of adjusting international
arrangements and trade agreements to
the new conditions of affairs which will
be precipitated by the passage of a new
measure.
II the Secretary would tell just what
be thinks, these days, about the people
whose objection defeated the move to
create an under secretaryship OF for
eign affairs, his views would be quite
improper for publication. There was
objection TO establishing an under sec
retaTy on the ground that it had a
continental sound-too English. you
know
The truth is that that was the real
argument in favor of doing It. Nova
days the diplomats are keeping the ap-
pToaches to the State Department in a
continual cloud Of dust. what was COM
ing and going. in the effort to find out
what the tariff bin is going to do to
The business interests OF their various
countries. These diplomatic agents
don't fancy telling their troubles to an
Assistant Secretary OF State. but they
would be delighted to unbosom them
selves to an uEdsr secretary for for
eign affairs. English? Yes, Of course;
and. therefore, correct and dignitied.
No Under Secretary.
So Secretary Knox has to stick to his
desk when the lure o. the golf links
and the call Of the Aqued let boule-
ward are on him; his golf game is neg
lected and his auto doesn't get enough
exercise to keep the rust off. He is ex-
planning to the diplomats that he can't
! fix up the trade agreements until the
tariff bill shall have been passed Incl
dentally. he is assuring them of the dis
tinguished consideration of these United
States, and suavely representing that
even If the adjustment OF the schedules
as to certain Expectations may seem a
bit hostile TO their respective countries,
# really is all the result Of a trifing
1 optical illusion; there is no intention
whatever Of being disagreeable.
! The diplomats are being egged on by
/ the business interests In their coun-
tries. The tendencies of the revision
/ thus far have given anything but sat
/ isfaction 10 Germany. France. and other
continental countries South America is
/ IN terrific stew about the possibility
| that hides viii be continued on the
/ dutiable list and that coffee will not be
/ let in free. The Brazilians have been
! suspicious OF all assurances Ia the mat
| ter OF coffee. and suspect that, before
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the measure shall have passed, some
plaa Will have been developed to put
into 1t duty on their great procuct,
for which the chief market is the United
States. They manage to keep IN touch
with the operations Of The financial
cliques in this country which are anX-
ious to have the duty imposed in order
to make good huge speculation In
coffee which was undertaken in the eX
pectation that the duty would be i'm
posed.
The Argentines want free hides, or at
least, they rather think they do. Some
people In Argentina have the impression
that the invasion of their country by
the American Meat trust. which is build
ing stockyards and packing bChses there
and getting ready to annex the trade
of the country, may in time reach such
proportions that the packers will go
into the tanning and leather business.
Argentina. Of course would be glad to
have her hides tanned at home instead
Of being shipped to he outside world
for this process. But as matters now
stand. she favors free hides In America.
Germany, France. and japan are
deeply interested in the tartn legisla-
ton; seemingly much more than Great
Britain, which. with a policy Of free
trade, feels secure In the certainty that
she viii get at least as good trade
terms here as any other nation can ask.
To the Germans it is a matter of es-
pecial concern. The trade arrangement
between Germany and the United
States, negotiated under Roosevelt by
the North Commission, has never been
very popular in Germany because OF
the feeling among manufacturers there
that the United States get the better
end of the bargain The Germans are
at a great disadvantage in eickers OF
this sort with the United States. They
have nothing to sell which the United
States could not just as well buy else
where; but we have many things 10 sell
which she must have and cannot get
in any other market Cotton, meats,
and breadstuffs constitute the basis OF
/ are, therefore, left in an uncomfortable
position in the event OF a possible tariff
warfare and intimations that retaiia-
ton rather than reciprocity is to be the
keynote of the American policy under
the new law give them acute worry
Denounces Agreements.
The State Department has taken the
necessary steps to denounce the exist
ing trade agreements with OTHER coun-
tries. Some Of these require notice of a
year. and this mas been given: others
require shorter notice. In all cases,
however. in anticipation Of the passage
of the bill with new provisions as TO
foreign tra-5 relations, the notice has
been sent that existing arrangements
viii be abrogated at the earliest posi-
bic date. After the law passes, Secre-
tary Knox viii have TO make himself
an expert in trade relations and pro-
coed to negotiate a set OF new arrange
ments, and IL Is assured already that
these will be more complicated and diff
f1cuit than any thus far arranged.
The Washington times., 1909-05-26
FRENCH PLEASED AT AMERICAS
SIGNAL HONOR TO MAJOR
L'ENFANT.

The French newspapers just received
here comment IN glowing terms upon
the ceremonies attending the recent
transfer Of Major rEnfant's body to
the national cemetery at Arlington, at
which President Taft, Ambassador JUS
serand, and other dignitaries were
present. They look upon that graceful
act of the American nation as a great
mark Of friendship for France and AZ
added tie between the two countries.
La Construction AIoderne the leading
architectural journal OF that country,
says editorially:
- DEnfant played a most I'M
portant role in the establishment Of
washington as the young nations cap
itaI To him is due its beautiful plan
and the slightly locations OF its early
important buildings But later on, there
and elsewhere, the artistic and
harmonious scheme was abandoned and
the state buildings were located at hap
hazard, as best suited the needs OF the
moment or private interest or greed.
Then. in 1896, Architect Fitzpatrick, OF
that city, inaugurated a vigorous cam
paign TO persuade the nation that It
was time 10 revive the artistic spirit
and 10 revert 10 the original plan OF
The Washington times., 1909-05-26
MODERN PIED PIPER
KILLS NEVADA MICE

Ranchmen OF the fertile humboldt
valley, Nevada, are convinced that
Stanley Piper, of the United States
Biological Survey. is none other than
the Pied Piper Of Hamelin come TO life.
When they discovered that their vast
and luxuriant alfalfa fields were infested
with mice. 1900 to the acre. they are
said to have prayed that the ancie It
Teutonic rat charTner might be sent to
deliver them out OF bondage, compared
with which being in debt to a usurer
was blissful state. Uncle Sam sent
thu Piper, but he played no tunes, and
C0ldly announced that once he was
ready to quit Nevada not q rodent would
be allowed to follow him. Moreover,
during the summer OF 1907 the ranch
men witnessed the devastation of tfzsr
valuable hay crop. Piper on the scent
and as active as a cat the while. so
they concluded that Humboldt VALLEY
was too, a far cry from the wrath OF
him whom desperation had made their
patron saint.
But with the coming winter the
twentieth Century Piper showed that
there Is more than a little I'm a name.
de covered the fields with alfalfa hay
and poisoned with stryChnia sulphate,
and the Vermin died by the thousand
Martin Anglers in Van Norden Magazine.
The Washington times., 1909-05-26

FEnfant The idea was Wen received
and, as we noted at the time, the Pres
ident appointed an art commission 10
care for the systematic grouping IF
buildings and the control of parks and
improvements There has been decd
ed Renaissance. not only in that city,
but in the entire country, n the direc-
ton Of the City Beautiful
In France few Of rs remember th4t
PEnfant had rendered such signal ar
tistic services to the young republic
after having fought its battles beside
our Lafayette under the orders OF
Washington. the great general and
President, who has been the model OF
all succeeding Presidents in every re-
public. The Americans, il would ap-
pear, know better than we how to pre-
serve and honor the souvenirs of the
past They possess in a high degree
those practical qualities so absolutely
Indispensable for national progress, but,
we note they possess equally the nigh
er idealism and sentiment T. make
them grateful to all who have helpeS
them In their adolescence, a beautiful
quality. Since II is France and a
Frenchman that were honOrsd in this
recent touching ceremony 1t IL but meet
and just that we do not let the oc-
casion pass without showing our az
probation and extending TO them the
hand OF fellowship and good will 80
The Washington times., 1909-05-26

EDITOR. WASHINGTON TIMES:
II is not my purpose to enter into
a newspaper or other controversy on
the tariff question, but while reading
your editorial in The Times of this date,
under the caption Of What Has Hap
pened to a Splendid Opportunity"
wherein you state that seventeen Dem
ocrats voted against free lumber, was
reminded OF how differently the Demo-
Gratis lined up when the Wilson-G5r-
man bin was under discussion
I sat = the Senate gallery when the
lumber schedule was under discussion,
and heard the plea OF the Senators from
the Southern and Inter-mountain
States for free lumber. and 1 recall
how earnestly Senator Teller demand
ed the repeal Of the Mckinley duty of
81 per thousand feet on the cheaper
grades OF pine lumber. Well. there
were no seventeen Democrats then de-
manding protection for lumber, and the
duty was stricken out and lumber was
made free. But did that give Us free
lumber2 On the contrary. no sooner
had Canada gotten control Of our luTa-
Der market than the common grades
OF pine lumber advanced in price 81
per thousand feet.
In other words, the Minnesota. lumber
that had been sold at the mills at Sc
per thousand was permitted to rot. and
the Canadian raked in his s. per thou
sand feet And I distinctly remember
how the people Of Minnesota set up a
howl because Canada was permitted
to sell 100000 worth OF material that
went into the Duluth bridge, while. her
own lumber was permitted 20 rot IN the
woods.
What a change OF sentiment has come
over some people in The few years since
that happened! Nov seventeen Demo-
Gratis vote for protection for lumber
and the Minnesotans vote for free lun-
Der. but not for free wheat, corn, bar
ley. or rye.
May not history repeat Itself?
T. NJ SULLIVAN,
1909 Rhode Island avenue northwest.
The Washington times., 1909-05-26
SUGAR: AN OPPORTUNITY FOR
REAL REVISION. NO. XXVIII.

Congress wants TO know what will
happen if it amends the sugar sched-
ule of the tariff bill by striking out ihe
Sugar trusts joker. which is in the
words, mot above No. TO Dutch stand
ard in color" The sugar schedule Is
now before the Senate The fight is on.
The effort of sincere friends of revision
and the consumer will be directed
largely to determine how those words
got into the tariff law, Why they
nave been kept there, and what would
be the effect OF taking them out
The supporters of the present law,
the friends who would help the Sugar
trust TO retain and preserve and forti-
fy its graft. protest that to strike out
these woIds would allow a food of
low grade. unrefined, and unclean sugar,
perhaps highly adulterated, to come
into this country, and to menace seri-
ously the health of the people.
Senator Smoot has been exhibiting
70 fellow 1ators a little tin box OF
what looks Se good white sugar, and
warning them what it is. "That's the
kind Of thing you'll have coming into
this country if you take down the
Dutch standard bars" warns the Utah
Senator. "That stuff is made in Scot
land, from an unrefned sugar. Tt looks
as good as any refined sugar; yet it i.
merely an unrefned sugar of 75-de
gree test, bleaehed by a process they
have over there. You can't tell the
difference when you look at it; vet
Il is only IS per cent pure. It's fun o.
impurity and danger TO the consumer.
put it under the polariscope test and
you viii find it is IS test; refined sugar
Is 100. Yet in appearance they are tn,
same, and one would sell as easily a,
the other. Do yon want to subject the
American public 10 the menace Of that
kind of a fraudf"
Senator Smoot is interesting, but not
convincing. He had had palmed of OF
him-a sample Of the bleached sugar
The Washington times., 1909-05-26
THE LORD JEHOVAH
BRANDED SCOTCHMA

Judge George F. Lawton of the Md
dlesex probate court told me story
the other day of an American minister
who was spending his Sabbatical year
travelling abroad. Arriving in London,
he made every effort to get an intimate
view OF the two branches OF parlla-
nnent in session.
OF course no stranger is allowed on
the floor of the house Of lords, but the
usuaI amount of American push, tried
10 make his way in. There is rule,
however, that servants of the various
lords NAV be admitted to speak to their
masters Seeing the minister wa King
boldly in, the doorkeeper asked:
What lord do you server?
What lord?" repeated the astoniShed
American. the lord Jehovahi"
For a moment the doorkeeper hesi-
tated and then admitted him. Turning
TO an assistant standing near. he said
He must mean one of those poor
Scotch Iairds.
The Washington times., 1909-05-26
FEW MALE TEACHERS
IN CANADA SCHOOLS

In the province OF Ontario the number
Of male teachers in the public schools
is perceptibly decreasing In 1907 there
were 1,2J1 male teachers in the rural
schools as against 4.sS7 female teachers.
In the urban schools the number was
$50 men as against S,273 women. In 1906
the percentage Yves 1903. and 1t fell 10
1902 in 1907. The total expenditure In
primary schools was $7.556,l79, an in
crease of Sl,152.973 over the previous
year. while the expenditure on high
schools and collegiate Institutes were
81 1855, an increase Of S1S4, 402. The
amount expended in teachers salaries
in primary schools was s4,3ss,oH.
The school system is largely on the
line Of the American common schools,
although the English rule OF spelling is
adhered 10 by a majority OF the teach
ers. Formerly American text books and
histories were largely in use. but these
are being supplanted by Canadian or
English versions.
The Washington times., 1909-05-26
WHO SHALL SUPERVISE OUR
PUBLIC BUILDNGa

The Roosevelt Art Council has been
abolished. Nobody win care, if the work
of that commission can be done some
other way. What everybody desires,
who has any sense in his head, is that
our Government building shall be done
intelligently, with forethought, with
regard that each construction shall add
to the beauty of its environment and
be made more beautiful by that envir-
onment.
Now it may be that Congress is will
ing to undertake that task. 1t IS a
Congressional responsibility. That Is
TO say-if that responsibility be not
met Congress must bear the blame: If
it be met, by whatever means, Congress
is entitled to the credit. But as Con
gress contemplates the location Of new
public buildings, the designing OF them,
the adornment Of them, in the Capital
and elsewhere, it should not forget
these things
That for years the location of GUS
tom houses and postoffces has been a
fine revelation of political spokesman
ship and land grating; that here in
Washington at least one building has
lately been located by a process only
Just less than scandal; that the design
ing of our public buildings in America
has been saved from being altogether
shameful only by that special Provi-
denee which comes to the rescue Of the
idiotie; that every large plan for the
location OF buildings-with the single
exception Of the park commission plans
for Washington, for which Congress de-
serves the entire credit-1as originated
in America with business men and not
with Government officials.
Congressman are not allowed to get
lonesome. They have plenty to do
They are as eager to meet their full
responsibility as any set Of workmen
In the United States, all things con
sidered. VIII they feel under such cir
cunistances that they can undertake
the adjusting of Government buildings
to general city plans, the attainment OF
architectural character in those build
ings, the salvation of national parks
from art mistakes which expose not
only the 'erectors but the subjects OF
monuments to ridicule? It is the judg-
lnent of this newspaper that Congress
viii say it does not desire either tc
take the time or to rely upon its own
judgment for this work. Sooner OF
later, and the sooner the better, there
viii come into existence with full au.
thority of law a commission created
by the best judgment of our national
legislature to do the work for which
ghe Roosevelt Art Council was organic
ed without authority OF law.
The Washington times., 1909-05-26
HOW THE BAGPIPER
KEPT OUT OF RANGE

Andrew Carnegie is fond Of the Scots
national instrument. the bagpipe, and
when he IS at home at Skibo castle
usually has his pet piper play for him
at dinner. Particularly is the musician
In attendance when the great philau-
thr0pist has guests.
t.n one occasion a big company Of
men sat down TO table, and the piper
pranced up ana down the room as he
played.
The whole thing was new 10 French
literary man, who politely asked the
guest on his right, why does he walk
M ap5 down when he does this thing
Does IL add 10 the volume of the sound
on does Il make q Cadence2"
ono" said the OIL Ter. i don't think
IFS that. j fancy it's 20 prevent the
listeners getting his range with knife
on a water bottle "-Pittsburg Chronicle
telegraph.