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New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1910-08-14
CHARACTER FROM CIGARS.

Character from handwriting and palm
fstry we are acquainted with. but a Paris
contemporary announces that dispositions
can be gagged from cigars The man who
smokes we learn, is easily recognized
His lips show it, without his speaking.
lie who fixes his cigar deeply in the mouth
Is OF "A nature resoute. sceptical and alb
rnpt; one who bites OFF the end OF his cigar
is careless thoughtless or listless. When
the cutter is used To nip of the end. the
smoker may be considered as a man OF
caution The user of the amber holder may
be considered delicate person. The man
who smokes his cigar to the end is a
faithful friend constant husband and OF
a persevering nature. IL one is In the habit
of throwing away the cigar when only half
smoked he may be considered tickle blase
and ii triher. Furthermore chara cteristics
can be deduced from the habit of allowing
the cigar To die out. Such "A person suffers
from want of memory. He may have anti
tude for mathematics. but he is not selfish
London Globe.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1910-08-14

Busy Man.
Robert Treat Paine, president OF the
American Peace Society, and widely known
as a phiianthropist, died At his home in
Waithau, Mass. Augustus Arthur Perce-
VAL eighth Earl of Eynlont, died in London.
Before succeeding to the title he was in
such financial straits that for several years
he earned his living as 6. member of a Lon
don fire brigade. He married Kate. daugti-
ter of Warwick Howell of South Carolina.
DR.; Charles Jewett, who WAS widely known
as medical authority, particularly as
genealogical specialist. died at his home
No. $50 Clinton avenue, Brooklyn, from
apoplexy. Colonel Harvey w Scott, editor
of The Portland Oregonian, of Portland.
Ore, and member of the board of direc-
tors of The Associated Press, died at the
Johns Hopkins Hospital, in Baltimore, fol-
lowing an operation. John 3. Studley,
noted tragedian of a past generation. died
III this city. Professor Ralph Barlow Page,
of Rutgers College, who occupied the chair
of history. died in Canada on his vacation.
DIR. Charles H Shaw, professor Of biol
gy in the University Of Pennsylvania, was
drowned in Kinbasket Lake, near Revel-
stoke, B. c. He was conducting a botan-
ical expedition through Canada. Joe
Cans, former lightweight champion pugilist
of the world, died at his home in Baltimore
of consumption Miss Virginia O. Ward
law aunt of Mrs. Ocey ". NJ. Snead, whose
body was found in the bathtub of an East
Orange, N J., house on November 30, died
in the House of Detention In Newark, n. J.,
where she was awaiting trial for the muir
der of her niece. Miss Wardlaw died Of
starva ton. For some weeks she had par
taken of food sparingly, and for the last
few days she had eaten nothing at all. The
woman insisted that food would not remain
on her stomach; that she was i'll. Her jail
ers are convinced, however, that she died
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1910-08-14

suicide. having starved herself to avoid be
ing placed on trial.
''Three sons of John A Straight, a
wealthy designer of Providence were in
stantly killed by Il New York express train
on the Shore Line division Of the New York,
New Haven & Hartford Railroad near the
Apponaug station, about fifteen miles south
west of Providence They were crossing
the tracks when they stepped from the
northbound rails TO the southbound to
avoid a way freight. The noise of the
freight train drowned the racket made by
the oncoming express.
Five persons were instantly killed when
an express train on the West Jersey & Sea-
shore Railroad struck automobile in
which they were riding and hurled the ma
chine and its occupants clear of the tracks.
The accident occurred at the Mill Lane
crossing, near Cape May n. j. The dead
are Mr. and Mrs. Frederick w Feldner.
their daughter. Mrs. Fritz Mergenthaler,
and her husband. and NJ. c. Jones, the
chauffeur. All lived in Baltimore. Mr..
Feldner was until last April president OF
the Cape May Real Estate Company, which
built the new harbor filled in four square
miles of land there and erected the Hotel
Cape May.
"Piurio Silverio, of Paterson. N j, was
mt 10 death in the electric chair at Tren-
ton. The crime for which Siverio paid the
death penalty was the murder of Mrs, Rose
Guarino. of Midvale.
"Gamaltel Bradford. 3D. of Wellesley
Hills, Mass, direct descendant Of William
bradford, first Governor Of the Plymouth
Colony, and a member of the graduating
class of 10 at Harvard shot himself to
death because the girl whom he loved, who
is engaged to another man, had refused him
A copy OF Byron's poems lay beside him
He was twenty-three years old Gamaie
BRADFORD I'd, the youths IA Their Is a widely
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1910-08-14
5 THIS FEATURE S INTENDED ESPECIALIY@S BUSY MAN r.

the chief object for which the Earl of Eus-
Wales visited the thirty-first triennial con-
clave in the Windy City. All the Templars
OF the world are affiliated with the govern
ing bodies of one other of the nations.
ard the new legislation practically con-
solidates them into a cohesive whole One
hundred and fifty millionsires marched in
the parade along with 29.S50 other Knights,
who wore s36o.0GO worth Of white plumes
on their helmets Tho total value of the
gorgeous uniforms was s2,225, 600. Emil
nent Sir William &. A1elish. of Cincinnati,
was elected grand master
Another step toward cleaning Queens
Borough Hail. as advised by Mayor Gaynor.
was taken when Borough President Law
renee Gresser suspended Robert r. Croweil,
engineer in charge of the Typographical de-
partment of the Bureau of Highways. on
charges, and appointed Dr. Walter e. Ehot
as engineer of the Typographical bureau. and
John II. Wefnberger as engineer IN charge
of the engineering bureau of highways
Portugal. like Spain, is almost on the
verge of an open rupture with the Vatican,
due to friction over the governments CEN
sure of the Roman Catholic Archbishop of
brdSa Tor SuppfeSSlng foitusueSO L t-Ai
ciscan newspaper without submitting the
order to the Portuguese government for ap-
prevail. Since the issue of the royal de-
cree. July Il. multiplying the action OF the
Archbishop. the Clerical forces, inspired II
is charged, by Cardinal Merry del Val, the
Papal Secretary of State, have been con-
Quoting a bitter campaign against the gov
eminent on this account
Professor Rein, of the medical Faculty
Of the University of ST petersburg, who Is
an authority on infectious diseafes. de-
scribed the present outbreak of cholera III
Russia as an imperial danger tie estiInal-
ed that the death list for 1910 already num-
bers $1,000, as compared with $4,000 In
1909 and H. 200 in 1908
"A loss of more than Sf.5OO.0O0 was
caused by a fire in the wholesale funoel
district of Boston II started in the lunl-
Der yards of Blacker & Shepard, at Dover
and Albany streets.
Soldiers OF the regular army were SET u
work fighting forest fires to save yellow
stone Park from devastation by flames Inc
drouth nurtured condagrations which nave
been ravaging the Northwest invaded the
ma RI
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1910-08-14
A SPEEDY WARSH1P.

official reports from the speed trial of
the new battleship Delaware are that the
ship exceeded her contract speed on all the
tests She averaged twenty-one and hall
knots for four consecutive hours under
forced draft and nineteen knots for tWen-
ty-four consecutive hours at normal
confirmation of the runors flying about
in theatrical circles that Miss Katherine
CORR Harris, daughter of Mr.. and Mrs Sid
new Harris, of New York and Paris, was
TO marry Jack Barrymore, the actor, was
obtained from three authoritative sources
the young woman herself, her mother and
Mr.. Barrymore.
Running the best race OF his career.
Abel Kiviat, the phenomenal young runner
of the Irish-American Athletic Club. forced
Mel Sheppard the worlds greatest run
ner TO add another worlds record to his
long string when he breasted the tape a
winner over Kiviat in the special Seo-yard
race at the Cavan Mems games NJ celtic
Park by three yards, winning in the great
time of 81 10. This time betters the hs-
ures of ? :O1 % made by Glarner, the Olym-
pic Athletic Club half-miler in 1898, by
AIS seconds Sheppard now holds seven
world records.
IF S Drew, lawyer and president or
the l.. L. White Lumber Company. OF san
Francisco. who arrived here from Paris,
chartered the special car Plymouth Rock
for the trip across the Continent 10 San
Francisco at q cost of $1,000 especially Tor
the accommodation of Mrs. Drews prize
French bulldog Radium, who was not al
lowed by the rules to travel on a Pullman
with other passengers
Busy Man snorted at this and seemed
about TO decIaim a bit. but thinking better
of It. he only growled out: After all, /
suppose wasting money like that helps rail-
road earnings just as much as ii il were
spent sensibly."
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1910-08-14

seriousness, but his injuries are considered
grave.
Ben PrInz, balloon parachute jumper,
fell to his death at the Asbury Park avia-
ton field on Friday. prinz was making
sensational double jump to show that ne
could drop with two parachutes and let so
the first parachute after ii had opened and
Jump again from it, attached 10 a second
parachute that was to open. He made the
first jump successfully when lis balloon
had reached 4 height OF five thousand feet.
But the second parachute failed to work,
After hanging to the trapeze bar for
second or two he was seen TO make a dash
for some part of the trapeze rigging. 1t
was an awful spectacle. Clutching the
trapeze rigging to him in a paralysis of
terror. Prinz plunged to earth. His body
was frightfully manglcd.
Eight aviators started at daylight on
Sunday in great 7S2-kilometre 49,
mile) 'cross-country race from lssy-les-
Moulineaux, France. and at nightfall six
OF them had covered the first stage of the
journey to Troyes, 135 kilometres eighty
three miles) from the starting point
LIE Blanc and Auburn again led the van
on the second leg of the 'cross-country aero
Plane race. The second section of the flight
was from Troyes TO Nancy, a distance of
G5 kilometres OF approximately 1913 miles.
The aeronauts travelled at an average
Height of about sixteen hundred feet. They
were badly shaken IN the eddies over the
Forest of Tout, lie Blanc's time was
IL 80 and Aubrun's was . 90 20.
IN. lie Blanc's good fortune continued
on the third les of the, course. Although
he experienced great difficulty he was again
the first to arrive at the post. The days
flight was from Nancy TO MeAeres. a dr.
lance of 1886 miles The leaders time was
| hour SIS minutes and seconds.
The conditions of the contest are severe
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1910-08-14
THE COWS OF MUScAT.

Muscat is famed the hctbed OF SNUG
glers in the Persian Gulf. the nearby des-
ert tribes being regularly supplied with
arms despite the efforts of the British
patriot. But TO the writer the odd antics
of the cows of Muscat seemed nothing
short of freaksh. They actually eat fish
No grass grows. so the willy Arab teaches
his family cow TO suosist on dates and
dried fish yhs milk tastes queer TO q for
eigner, which is probably why the Arab
likes it, He also claims II is richer and
makes more butter. but most ridiculous OF
all is the deception practiSed on cows when
the calves are Weaned. ealfSkin. or
sometimes a goatSkin. is stuffed with rags
and tied not far from where the mother
COW is anchored This ettigy OF her late
Ianented offspring sootheS her nerves and
keeps her from going dry according 10
Arabic trldition.-Boston Herald
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1910-08-14
COMPENSATION IN sPau

Concerning the Spanish accident labor
law. which has been in operation ten years.
Consul General Frank ID. Hin. of BARGE
Iona. says it appears satisfactory and is
considered an advance over the former sys-
tein For temporary incapacity the en-
pIoyer must pay the workman One-half the
usual wage, or TWO years salary III the in
capacity is permanent. also being liable for
drugs and medicines. In 1905 there were
80 $40 accidents, involving the payment of
S35T, go Including sickneSs), while in the
first half of 1909 there were l5.607 accidents,
with SllS.0s2 in payments Payment of in
IDENTITIES Is attended with very little fitiHa-
tion.-Consular Report
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1910-08-14
sWINDILNG A COUNTESS.

1.-The Countess of Tankeville. one OF
Engand's peeresses. figures as one or the
principal victims in an alleged mine promo
ton swinde exposed by the arrest OF W. l.
Wintemute. banker and broker In the
Whitehall Building. No. II Battery Pace,
this city. The charge against the banker
is the fraudulent use Of the mails In con-
nection with the sale of about s1,ooe,Ooo
worth of stock of the Gold Run Mining and
Tunnel Company of Boulder Col Docu-
mentarv evidence seized revealed the fact
that Nintemutes agent in London and the
man who induced the Countess OF TANKER
vile and her friend, Miss Henrietta Elout,
of Tunbridge Wells, to invest $4,000 in
stock of the Gold Run Mining and Tunnel
COMPANY was the Rev Hermann Warsza-
WAX. a former Hebrew, who was convert
ed to Christianity by the late Rev. DR. John
Hall OF the Fifth Avenue Presbyterian
Church. but who later was elected on the
charge OF immortality.
Chief Driscoll of the Bureau Of Weights
and Measures had a conference with repre-
sentatfves of the largest baking concerns
in the city. and told them he would give
them until October I to prepare TO bake
bread according 10 weight After that date
each loaf they sell must be plainly stamped
with its weight.
John D. Rockefeller, charged with speed
ing an automobile, pleaded guilty and was
fined So and costs. amounting 10 So. III a
Cleveland court. The justice explained why
he fined the richest man in the world only
s. and costs Tt was his first offence, he
said I didn't think 1t right to treat him
differently from any other person.
Captain John Calvin Martin. millionaire
coal operator, philantnropist and Civil war
veteran. who lives at the Wollaston apart
ment house. No. PSI West 96th street, and
has offices at No. / Broadway, was ad-
Judged a Iunatic and committed to a pri-
vate sanatorium.
George c. Cross. a Harvard graduate
and Rhode Island constable, made a raid
with several deputies upon the Narrasan-
sett Club, at Narragansett Pier, in the early
hours of the morning, and arrested the
proprietor and a lot of well-to-do men and
women who were charged with gambling
there Their names were not made public
1.-THE executive committee OF the council
of New York University appointed Francis
Hovey Stoddard. professor Of English. to be
dean of the college of arts and pure sci
ence.
The opening of the second annual meet
ling at North Randall track near Cleve-
land, was sigualized by the breaking of
worlds record. Uhlan driven by his own
er, c. X G. Billings. trotted a mile to a
wagon in ? :01 fiat. thereby setting new
mark for trotting geldingS.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1910-08-14
roorfonf Rea der Tells
W6of He Missed IN
Losf Week.
Pdpers.

what item c. news has filled most space
=, .te newspapers this week. asked Busy
.san es he met Constant Reader last even
sng
s7-rooubteGlx fAe attempt 20 assassinate
-se esiof executive % this cit:-," was the re-
,lv Mayor William J. Gaynor was shot
I, The neck on the deck OF the Kaiser VIII
,elr-, 0er Gy-cs-e as he was about 10 sail on
rer for a vacation. Big BIZ Edwards,
street Cleaning Commissioner. leaped upon
.he sgoI1ld-be assassin as he fired second
nine al the Manor. and received the bullet
:, his own arm. He bore the man down.
and never let him so until he was in the
hands OF Hoboken policemen The man who
ercd on the Mayor is James J. Gallagher,
dismissed from the Dock Department recent
w who had repeatedly tried 10 induce Mr..
6zaynor 70 have him reinstated- The victim
has q fair chance for recovery. Gallagher
VS. held without bail TO await the result of
Tie MAYORS injuries.
when Big Bill Edwards reached his Of
IRE next day he found the following letter:
Beware. You - YoU'n be where that
- Of a Gaynor is in forty-eisht hours
IN one corner. above some scroll work, was
.be one word Death, and in another corner
1-ae written, From 145th street The letter
WAS mailed from the College Station. Mr..
Wizards only laughed at the threat. Police
Commissioner Baker detailed a large number
of detectives 10 watch public officials against
,.horo a-y one is known TO have grievance.
aspstroiman Joseph 2. Hook, who is at
,.ched 10 the Madison street station. and
whose shield number is 7,s4s. was arraigned
before Commissioner Baker at Police Head
ous-ters and on the Commissioners order
was suspended on charges of being guilty
OF conduct unbeconling an officer, and using
disrespectful language against the chief
executive OF the city Hook was arraigned
as the result OF information given to In
spector Russell by DR.. Max Perlrlan. of No.
cps Henry street. and his sister. Miss Re
bscca Perlman, who lives with him. They
stated that on Monday night, thirteen or
fourteen hours before Gallagher shot Mayor
Gaynor, Hook had said the Mayor was TO
be shot. either on his sailing for Europe or
Oh his return.
James s. Sherman, President of the
United States. said: Within the seventy
two hours just prior to the attack upon
Mayor Gaynor I received threats against
nv own life I have received several such
threats during my official career, q great
many Of them in the last six months
An echo Of the shooting of Mayor Cay
nor reached the police courts Of Pittsburg
on Wednesday, when q magistrate fined Jo-
seph Mcdonald, e North Side resident.
charged with disorderly conduct, for making
public announcement that the shooting of
New York's chief executive was justified.
John Purroy Mitchell President of the
Board Of Aldermen, is now Acting Mayor,
and would be the successor TO Mayor Gay
nor should the latter's wound prove fatal"
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1910-08-14

Regardless of weather. the contestants are
required to make q circuit of 4SS mics III
six stages, starting at Paris and aiishtlns
at fixed points. Rain or shine to hold
straight course from station to STATION
where the landmarks along the route are
unfamiliar and no railroad or highway
serves to mark the shortest line OF flight
provides a difficult test
What else happened that I ought to re-
MEMBER asked Busy Man.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1910-08-14

| Consdon were three other representatives
OF tie organization. which was originally
! organized by Augustus NJ. Thomas in 1906"
RAILROADS DOING WELL.
Any developments in the world Of COM
merc?" asked Busy Man.
The report of the I.ehish Valley Rail-
road for the twelve months ended June So
1910. shows that the company prospered in
the fiscal year more than ever before in its
history. Gross operating revenue amounted
to s3s.le7 .3Ss, an increase of Ss029,565, or
S.i4 per cent. while net operating revenue
was si4,4SS.25o. an increase of s1,92L155.
or 0.3s per cent, comparison being made
with the preceding year. The ratio Of oper-
atins expenses to operating revenue was
1895 per cent, compared with e2.09 per cent
in 1909 After the deduction of taxes the
operating income was s13,3764S9 Other
Income brought total income TO s14.494 124.
compared with s12, 1s7.300 in the year be-
fore, while net income, after interest, rent
ais, miscellaneous deductions and additions
and betterments, amounted to s7,29S,523,
an increase of s3,o32.3 63.
Large increases In both gross and net
earnings for the last fiscal year were re-
ported by the Union Pacific and Southern
600 in the Southern Paciflc's gross earnings
brought them up to s135, 600, 0oe, while the
Union Pacific reported gross earnings of
s30.220,o92, an increase of s11, 4o0,0 900. The
Union Pacific showed s41.727.s39 available
for its common stock, equal to 1927 earned
On that issue.
That labor is more generally employed
Tow than at any time since the panic of
1907 was stated In report issued by the
State Department of Labor. Locally and
throughout this state, according to the re-
port, there has been a recovery approaching
almost normal conditions
William Loeb IT., Collector of Customs
by cutting out the dead wood. eliminating
red tape methods and generally enforcing
higher standards of efficiency, produced an
increase of ST.. 900. 0o0 in the revenue last
year collected at the Port of New York
The Treasury Department gave out
sta ternent showing for the first time the
actual workings of the Payne-Aldrich law
for entire year. The year ran from Au-
gust s, 1909. the day after its enactment, to
August 8, 1910 and the figures of the Treas
ury statement show for this period sur
plus of ordinary receipts over ordinary dis
hurSernents of S2o.214.02S 90
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1910-08-14
GORGEOUS KNIGHTS TEMPLAR.

A resolution unanimously adopted by
their courlaye In Chicago establishing a
concor,lst between knights Templar gov
ernirp bodies is said To be the most inn
portant step taken by the conclave for many
Years The concordat establishes amcable
relations between the knights of England
ireland scotland. Canada and the United
States. Its consummaton is said TO ne
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1910-08-14

known a4tllor.
I'm his Office, on the eighth floor Of the
Morris Building, at No. IS Broad street
Henri Weriemann. broker in oils. fatally
shot himself. Although his intimates said
they could give no reason for the suicide,
business associates suggested recently re-
ported losses as q cause"
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1910-08-14

down. left the Hotel Ten Eyck. where the
meeting was held, in much heat With Mr.
Consdon were three other representatives
OF tie organization. which was originally
organized by Augustus NJ Thomas in 1906"
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1910-08-14
THE DEATH ROLL.

my persons Of importance die?" asked
The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1910-01-13
ABUSE OF THE DEAD.

Queer Custom of the easas Forehs of
French Guinea.
The Bagas Forehs, who live in French
Guinea, quit life in a manner anything
but commonplace. When man dies
his wife and children do not lament
him. Instead they are angry at having
been abandoned. They prop the body
up against the house with the forked
branch of a tree and invite their
friends and relatives to come, all Of
own has left them. When all the guests
have arrived the wife Of the deceased
advances and addresses what was
once her husband in way well calcu-
lated to scare his ghost away from the
neighborhoOd.
"There now, listen! You'd leave me,
would you? So you don't want to live
with me? Why do you do this way?
Haven't l always been a good wife to
you? Haven't l been good mother to
your children? Haven't your rice and
fish always been we'll cooked? Have
you anything to reproach me with?
Nothing Then shall not you go? Cow
ard! Traitor! You shall not leave
without receiving the correction that
such conduct deserves"
Then the blows begin to rain down
upon the poor defenseless figure. Pres
emily the tired wife gives place to the
children, and they in turn to the rela-
tives and friends, all of whom similar
ly abuse it. At length. with a natural
human dmpulse, their fury spent, they
try to make amends to the hapless
corpse. They bathe it and bury it a
meter deep inside the house, and each
day at the dinner hour the family
places on the tomb some grains of rice
and little palm wine for refreshment
of the soul should it return.-Washing
ton Post
The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1910-01-13
Clover Seed.

To those who must buy clover
seed, we offer free a little timely
advice-Buy seed Now; nothing
to be gained by waiting. Prices,
in all probability, are lower now
than later on.
We have a good supply of Me-
dium Red, AIsike and Mammoth
Clover and all kinds of grass
seeds, which we offer at reason
able prices.
MACE & MANSFIELD,
26tf Greenville, Ohio.