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6 BURIED ALIVE IN MINES. ...... j.... ACCIDENT* THAT BGFALL THE TOILER* BEYE-VTH THE GROI \5. .Uinrri in the Owl Region* Moat Dread til© CartnK in f Enrth. Srorfß iif Men llnve Been Kntnmli nl Ainu; Day*—Rescuing I'nrtle* Work With a AYill, Hut Often Without Brw. Prom the Washington Post. Accounts of the terrible explosions In a Utah coal mine on Tuesday have brought to mind forcibly the precarious existence that the miner leads beneath the earth. But of oil the accidents which threaten the life of the anthracite coal miner none Is mere feared than the deadly cave-in. It Is far mar© liable to cause death than explosions or floods, runaway cars or falls down 3haft. Dozens and dozens of men are crushed to death every year by it, and the re ports of the mine inspectors show that a large majority of the fatal accidents of the year are due to it. Witness the great accident at the twin shaft, Plllston, Pa., a few years ago, when-flfty-Olne men were shut in or crushed to death, and the fall at No. 11, Plymouth, Pa., where thirteen men were killed. None of these victims were ever found, nor is there much prob ability of any trace of them'being discov ered. Sudden and horribly fatal as they are, the caves give warning of their approach. A short time ago the writer was in an affected gangway. There was a constant and menacing noise, which is almost in describable. It was like the distant mur mur of a thunderstorm or the deen rum ble of faraway breakers. For hundreds of feet above ond around the rock and coal was “working.” It was moving and roll ing and crushing Itself, groaning under the Immense weight it bore, staggering nobly to sustain It and giving evidence In every fiber thal the remorseless load would very soon obliterate the gangway in whlcto we stood. A Seen© of Terror. Massive timbers, eighteen inches In di ameter, uYre being crushed and splinter ed. bulged ond cracked; the car tracks were distorted in a hundred different ways and all the time, from roof and sides, lit tle splinters of rock and coal were flying, with sufficient force to out the hands or face. At points the roof had sunk two or three feet, and at others the sides of the gangway were bulged In and threatened at any moment to burst, like overripe fruit. Big mine rats, wise as the miner, were scuttling to a safe place and we soon fol lowed their example. A minute in the gangway seemed as long as an hour on the surface. But with all the warning It gives the cave too often proves to be the deathbed and grave of the miner who Is rash enough to try to save his company what nature Is reclaiming as her own. So it was in the two great accidents previously men tioned. Valuable chambers of the mine threatened to cbve and thousands of tons of coal would be lost. At Pittston Supt. Langan started, on a Sunday night, with sixty-five men to place massive timbers under the affected roof, hoping to avert the threatened destruction. So awful was the noise and so near did death appear in those trembling passages that seven men, Supt. Pangan's son among them, re fused to work and went back. The superintendent and the fifty-eight labored for an hour or so; then suddenly many tons of rock ond cool fell, and in an instant nature had constructed for them an immense sepulchre. Whether they werje instantly crushed to death, shut in ana.guflJpeAted or slowly starved will prob ably. nevgr be known. For weeks men as brave as the flfty rtne lal ored at th' work of rescue, a g eat. but unavailing struggle. Torn, sha ken and mmhllrg from the shock of the first faH. which dragged upon the other portkns of the mine like massive chains drawn by a monster, working after work ins collapsed, hour after hour, for some fiats, b fore 1t all settled quietly and the dangers of the rescuers were fully as great as these the entombed men had confronted. There was but one. practica ble way of getting at the victims, and that was down a long slope at the foot rf wh'ch it was expectel the unfortunates w. uld be four and Item nieil In l>y Earth. Fcur hundred feet was clear space; the remaining Ift) was blocked to within a few loch- s cf the roof by the fallen masses of rock. It was through these 100 feet tost the rescuers had to force their way. Volunteers were numerous, the most able ra nir.g experts in the region directed the operations, and the work went on day and night. At first good progress was made, ond then, as they advanced foot by foot the danger and the and fficulties in creased. Some e’ays they would gain twenty or thirty feet and th-n be driven ba k some distance, only to attack the living moss again with macnlflcent cour age and endurance. It was In the midst of this work that the Wilier saw them. Some ninety feet had been gained through the fall. The wild* s < pc, seme nine f et in width, had not been cl ; ared, but a narrow passage four feet wide had been dtiven through the center of It. This was propped and str'ngth'ncd by great timbers, for there was tovs'ant dargrr of ths roof coming and wn. The gos wes htavy and safety lamps lad to be used, so the light was dim and uncerta in The morning of ihe m'ne was st'll -to be heard and had a most weird effort, as if breasts and gang ways wire m-urrlng for their victims. The men worked in shifts cf half a dozen each, ihree hacking end pecking at the "face” of li e f ill with their picks and three shoveling hack the debris to others behind thrm, who passed It out in a line. Or at mases of took had to be shat tered with drill and hammer, for it was DEMAND POND’S extract. • avoio JL' iLdJ l*. ALL IMITATIONS. - , - . SALL PAIN Rheumatism 0.-t .et Lie o Wounds f • C-SI M I L C 0 *4 ‘-otti.e win- :V Jl E*J r T ."RAIVig. llnr a a ' airn “ iIVF ourns W 0.4. Piles POND’S EXTRACT _ Zt will Cure, ; Triumph of Worth. *The very hearty re ception accorded to Pure Rye Whiskey Is Indisputable In dorsement of its excellent quality. Murray Hill Club Goods sold et area- I aonabie p, .ct—a pre-eminent whiskey * without a rival. It is listed by all the i leading Clubs, and served at the ’ most exclusive functions. Sold by , flrsf-ciass dealers everywhere. Ijos.a.magnus&co. ; ' ’CINCINNATI, OHIO. not safe to use powder, and the progress was distressingly s'ow. As soon as one sh ft became tired another took its place anti the work went on. Inspectors and foremen stood' about directing the work and keeping a careful eye on the danger ous roof. As (he writer watched tl\ere was a cry of warning, the men came tumbling l ack frem the “face” and a rush was made up the slope. There was a crash, a roar, we were blown oft our feat and dashed against the sides of the slope by a concussion which extinguished the lights. An investigation revralcd the fact that twenty fel. gained by hard work during the last twenty-four hours, had been filled up again. ' We must keep at it. bays,” said one of the foremen cheerily, and at It they went. Tolling Against Odds. But In the days that followed falls came fr quently and the men despaired. They were ready to give up their seemingly hopeless task, when one night they wera ell ered i y rappings. The news was quick ly sent to the surface and women's eyes were dry with hope for the first time since the dreadful tidings wire heard. The rappings continued at intervals and everybody was sure some of the entomb ed men were alive—everybody except one poor boy of 18, who day and night was In the sl pc with the workers. The rappings were heard on the Iron pipes through which water bad been pumped from the bottom of the slope. It was evident that some of the entombtd men had reached an open space thers and were hammering on the pipes to encourage the workers. Work went em with renewed enthusiasm, and young Langan, the entombed super intendent's son. performed as heroic a act as is rec-.Tded in the history of min ing. Between the top of the) fall and the re of was a space of a few inches, and with wonderful daring he dragged him self along over the fall. At any moment he might have been crushed by the roof, but he returned. He was gone three hours and in that time crawled neatly 300 feet and back. His clothes were torn to sherds and his body was covered with blood from scores of cuts and bruises. He had found no opening and learned nothing of the For three days the rapping continued, and then, one night in a dark and obscure corner of the slope, one of the firemen came upon a water boy hammering the pipes with a piece of rock. Almntloncd to Their Fate. It was an awful discovery, the hope that had cheesed the men. on for the past three days was dispelled, and dispair replaced it. The poor boy, when arraign ed before the mine officials, confessed that he had been rapping on the pipes during the three days, and he said, in extenuation of his act: “I've got a father and two brothers in there, so I rapped to encourage them, because I want them to find my father and brothers." The work was kept up for months, but no trace of the entombed men was found and the at tempt was abandoned. The accident at Plymouth. Pa., was caused in a like manner. As may be well imagined the conflict between hope of rescue and fear of death in the hearts of the victims’ friends is terrible. Hope died slowly at Pittston, and it .is the same ejsesvhere. This is due to the ab solute uncertainty. Some argue that the victims may be hemmed In an open cham ber with a plentiful supply of air and water, and quote the well known, cases, where at Sugar neck a number of men lived two weeks, eating a mule en tombed with them, find was finally res cued; where, at Jeanesville, Pa., a rescue was affected after nineteen days, in which the men had nothing to eat except the leather of their boots—owing to their igno rance the life-sustaining fish oil in their lamps -Was untouched—and again of the two men at Nantlcoke were rescued after sitting astride a log In. .flooded workings for pine days with nothing to eat. With these instances of recovery from the hand of death, after persistent attempt at res cue, it is hard for friends of entombed men to believe that nil hope is gone, and frequently—os at Pittston—as late as six weeks after the accident, they implore the mine officials to keep up the effort. Other accidents affect oniy the mine and the owners. Caves affect the surface and ranny property owners in this region have cause to regret the day when they bought land which was undermined because it was cheap. Recently a large section of street at Wyoming, Pa., went down, with several buildings, and instances are nu merous of houses being swallowed up by the greedy earth, of cattle engulfel and suffocated. People are sometimes caught, hut not often, for the earth generally Sinks Slowly and there is usually plenty of time to escape. There have been In- Stances of a quick settlement; two close to this city were especially Interesting. A peddler was driving slowly along the road lea.llng from this city to Tlolns, Pa., when hi* horse suddenly sank, dragging the frons wheels of the wagon after him. When the driver recovered from his sur prise and terror the wagon body was on the edge of a hole thirty feet deep. Some time later near the same place an old woman was sluing near her doorstep shelling peas. Her husband, coming over th hill, saw her suddenly drop out of sight, '/an up and found her busy pick ing up her scattered |-a forty feet be low the surface. She was uninjured and was quickly rescued. • in February a portion of the tracks along the line of the Central Railroad of New Jersey, two miles from here, was sucked down by a onv-ln. In the early morning a freight train speeding toward this city doshpd Into the hole, wrecking the engine and several cars. —The United States of America has now become the greatest raw silk consuming country in the world (excepting, of course, China, and perhaps Japan, where Correct statistics of home consumption are not available). In other words. New York city, the only raw silk market In America, holds now the tlrst place among all the raw silk markets In the world, Shanghai alone excepted. In New York city more raw silk is now sold than Is consumed In France, which Is still the largest raw silk consuming country In Europe, THE MORNING NEWS: THURSDAY, JUNE 7, 190(1 MILE HANDICAP THE FBATTRE Star of Rethletiem Won Main Event nt Clneinnnti. Cincinnati. June 6 —The mile hatvfieap was the feature at Newport to-day. Flo rizar, the favorite, was all tangled up nt the start, and The Star of Bethlehem went to the front at, the quarter pole, and was never headed. Summaries: First Race—One mile, selling. Dr. S. C Ayres, 9 to 2, won, with Midglen, 4 to 1, second, and Gadsden, 25 to 1, third. Time 1:4214. Second Race—Five furlongs, selling. Queen Carnival. 4 to 5, won, with Lyror Biji, 10 to 1, second, and Francis Reis, 30 to 1, third. Time 1:0244. Third Race—Blx furlongs, selling. King Deilis, 4 to 1. won. with Crynkle, 8 to 5, second, and Sackchen, 100 to 1, third. Time 1:15. Fourth Race—Handicap, one mile. The Star of Bethlehem, 4 to 1, won, with Charlie O'Brien, 8 to 1, second, and Eitho iin. 6 to 1, third. Time 1:41. Fifth Race—Four and one-half furlongs. Porter 8., 0 to 2, won, with Juno Gale, 8 to 1. second, and Faraday, Jr., 20 to 1, third. Time 0:56%. Sixth Race—Seven furlongs, selling. Os mon, 8 to 1. won, with Juanetta, 6 to 1, second, and Bently 8., 15 to 1, third. Time 1:29*4. Dnll liny at Gravesend. New York, June 9.—Only two favorites at Gravesend got home in front to-day. Tho racing was very dull. Summaries: First Race—About slic furlongs. Rikki Tikkl Tav|, 6 to 1, won, with Vulcain, 4 to 1 and 8 to 3, second, and Vesuvlan, 12 to 1, third. Time 1:10 4-6. Second Rare—Selling, one mile and a furlong. First Whip, 7 to 2. won, with Kinnikinnlc, fi to 5, and 1 to 2, second, and Nansen, 6 to 1, third. Time 1:66 3-5. Third Race—Five furlongs. Rosa mond. 15 to 1. won, with Cherries, 5 to 2, and even, second, and Princess Pepper, 6 to 1, third. Time 1:02 4-6. Fourth Race—The Gazelle stakes, one mile and a sixteenth. Indian Fairy. 6 to 5, won, with Oneck Queen. 16 to 5 and 4 to o. second, and Motley, 7 to 2, third. Time 1:50. Fifth Race—Steeplechase, about two and a half miles. Charagrace, 10 to 1. won, with Phllae, 5 to 2 and even, second, and Ronkomkoma. 7 to 2, third. Time 4:53. Sixth Race—Selling, five and a half fur longs. Lief Prince, 11 to 5. won. with Sctirry, 7 to 2 ond 7 to 5. second, and Moor, 5 to 1, third. Time 1:08 4-5. HESIidS OH THE DUIIOAD. Brooklyn Piled I'p Fire Huns In the Third Inning. Brooklyn, June 6.—Three hits and five errors gave Brooklyn five uns in the third inning to-day and won the game. Ken nedy was in fine fettle, holding Chicago down to five hits, three of which were bunched in the fourth, thereby saving the visitors from a worse fate. Attendance 1,700, Score: R H E Chicago 0 00201000-336 Brooklyn 1 0 5 0 0 1 1 0 X—B 8 1 Batteries: Garvin and Donahue; Ken nedy and Farrell. New York’ Poor Playing. New York, June 6.—The New York team to-day gave a poor exhibition of ball at the Polo grounds and the Cincinnatis won the final game of the aeries. Score: R H E Cincinnati ..0 2012114 0-4114 3 New York ...2 0001110 0-599 Batteries: Hawley, Doheny and War ner; Breitenstein and Peitz. St. Bonis Rent Boston. ) Boston, June 6.—The Boston's started to bat Hughey with a rush, but after the second inning they could bat him effec tively In only one inning, when two singles and a two-bagger scored one run. Cuppy retired in favor of Willis in the fourth. Attendance 2,700. Score: R H E Boston 23000001 0-8 10 4 St. Rouis ....1 1 1 6 2 0 1 0 1-12 14 3 Batteries: Willis. Cuppy and Clarke; Hughey and Robinson. Pittsburg Won the East Game. Philadelphia, June 6.—Pittsburg won tho last game of the series with Philadelphia by good work at the bat.' Attendance 4.- 493. Score: R. H. E. rtttsburg ...0 3000021 o—6 10 1 Philadelphia 00000111 0-3 81 'Batteries—Waddell and Zimmer; Orth and Douglass. Other Bnarbnll Gautea. Milwaukee, 3; Detroit, 0. a Chicago-Cleveland rain. • Providence, 0; Springfield, 2. Toronto, 1; Syracuse. 5. Hartford, 4; Worcester, 2. Kansas City, 8; Buffalo, 6. Minneapolis, 6; Indianapolis, 6. Montreal 16; Rochester 5. ' Montreal 5; Rochester 9, second game. Whipped Priest Then Married Him, From the New York World. Paris, June 2.—Emily Delaney, a young American divorcee, who for the last two years has been ruling the Fontalnbleau arlist colony, to-dv married Father Reounler, the priest, whom she publicly cowhided a few weeks ago. Kmlly Delaney had coma to Paris to marry a French cavalry officer, to whom she had been engaged for some time. Father Beaunler, being a. close friend of the officer, dissuaded hhn fiona wedding the fair American by repeating stories heard about her. Thereupon, to revenge herself, she horsewhipped the priest oppo site the Madeleine Church. Thai was their first acquaintance. Later Boaunier called uopn Miss Delaney to apologize. Soon he was completely fasci nated. He decided to renounce his Catho lic vows, become a Protestant and marry the girl he had pronounced unworthy. CASTOR IA for Infant3 and Children. The Kind You Have Always Bought has borne the signa ture of Clias. H. Fletcher, and has been mode under his personal supervision for over 30 years. Allow no one to deceive you in this. Counterfeits, Imitations and “Just-os-good” are but Experiments, and endanger the health of Children—Experience against Experiment. The Kind You Have Always Bought y* Bears the Signature of In Use For Over 30 Years. MWWWAT fTWtEr, Niy/ YQW* gITY THE MOON HOAX. SIR JOHN HEK94 HEi'S SI PRUNED DISCOVERIES. Hainan Beings In Ihe Moon—Fabri cated Science—What llersehel Re ally Discovered—His \isit to the Cape of Good Hope—New Fork Newspapers Deceived—Astronomi cal Predictions for June. From the New York Evening Post The public attitude toward matters sci entific is one of the mysteries of our time, It can l>e described best by the single word, Credulity: simple, absolute credulity. Perfect confidence is the most r'emhrjrable characteristic of this unbe lieving age. No charlatan, necromancer, or astrologer-of three Centuries ago com manded more respectful attention than does his successor of to-day. Any person" can be a scientific authority; he has but to call himself by that title, and every one will give him respectful attention. Numerous instances can be adduced from the experience of very recent years to show how true are hose remarks. We have had the Keeley motor and the liquid air power schenms for making something out of nothing. Exiractlng god from sea water has been duly heralded on scientific authoriiy as an'easy source of fabulous wealth for _ the million.. Hard-headed business men not only believe in such things but actually invest: m them their most valuable possession, capital. Vendors of nostrums and proprietary med icines acquire wealth as If by magic, though it needs but a woman’s reflection to realize that these persons cannot pos sibly be In possession of any drugs, or se cret methods of compounding drugs, that aro unknown to scientific chemists. If the world, then, will persistently In trust Its health and wealth into the safe keeping of charlatans, what can we ex pect when things supposedly of far less value are at stake? The famous Moon Hoax, as we now call it, is truly a clas sic piece of lying. Though It dates from as long ago as 1835. It has never had an equal as a piece of "modern” Journalism, Nothing could be more useful than to re call it to public attention at least once every decade; for it teaches an Important lesson that needs to be iterated again and again. Specimen* of Imaginative Lying. On Nov. 13. 1833. S’r John Herschel em barked on the Mnunstuart Elphinstone, bound for the Cape of Good Hope. He took with him a collection of astronomi cal instruments, with which he intended to study the heavens of the Southern hemisphere, nnd thus extend his father's great work to Ihe South Polar stars. An earnest student of astronomy, he asked no better than to be left In peace to seek the truth in his own fashion. Little did he think that his expedition would be made the basis for a fabrication of al leged astronomical discoveries destined to stortle n hemisphere. Yet that Is pre cisely what happened. Some time about the middle of the year 1835 the New York Sun began the publication of certain ar ticles, purporting to give an account of “Great Astronomical Discoveries. Lately Made by Sir John Herschel at the Cape of Good Hope.” It was alleged that these articles were taken from a supplement to the Edinburgh Journal of Science; yet there is no. doubt that they were manu factured entirely in the United Slates, and probably in New York. The hoax begins at once in a grandilo quent style, calculated to attract popular attention, and well fitted to the marvels about to be pelated. Here Is an Intro ductory remark, as a specimen: :“It has been poetically sold that the stars of heaven are the hereditary regalia of man, as the Intellectual sovereign of the ani mal creation. He may row fold the zo diac around him with a loftier consc'ous ness of his mental supremacy.” Then follows a circumstantial and highly plaus ible account of the manner In which early and exclusive information was obtained from the Cape. This was, of course, im portant In order to make people believe In the genuineness of the whole; but we pass at once to the more interesting ac count of Herschel'* supposed Instrument. Nothing could be more skillful than the way in which an air of truth Is cast ovei* the coming account of marvellous dis coveries by explaining In detail the con struction of the imaginary Herschellan Instrument. Sir John Is supposed to have had an interesting conversation in Eng land. with Sir David Brewster, upon the merits of some ingenious suggestions by the latter, in his article on optics in the Edinburgh Encyclopaedia (p. 644). for Improvements In the Newtonian reflect ors.” The exact reference to a particu lar page is' here quire delightful.\After some further talk, “the conversation be came directed to that all-invincible enemy, the paucity of light In powerful magni fiers. After a few moments’ silent thought Sir John diffidently inquired whether it would not he possible to effect a trans fusion of ariifidal light through the focal object of riston! Sir David, somewhat startled at the originality of the Idea, paused a while .and then hesitatingly re ferred lo the refraglblllty of rays, and the angle of Incidence. * * * Sir John continued: ‘Why cannot the Illuminated microscope, say the hydro-oxygen, be ap plied to render distinct .end, if necessary, even to magnify the focol object?' Sir David sprang from his chair In an ec stacy of conviction, and leaping half way to the celling, exclatmed. 'Thou art the man.' ” Thlz nbsyrd Imaginary con versation contains nothing but an assem blage of optical Jargon, put together with out the slightest intention of conveying any intelligible meaning to scientific peo ple. Yet It was well adapted to deceive the public; ar.d we should not be sur prised If It would be credited by many newspaper readers to-day. Wlinf lleatly Happened. The authors go on to explain how Bar-Ben remove* the shadows from the careworn • face of premature age and makes it youthful and happy again. It makes delicate people strong, sick people welL _lt gives to women that vigorous, queenly bearing, and to men that power and strength which emanate only from sturdy health. Bar-Ben Is the greatest known nerve tonic and blood purifier. 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Address Dra Barton Sc Benaou, 105 Ba- Ben Bit -Cleveland O. money was raised tq build the new instru ment and then describe Herschel’s em barkation and the difficulties connected with the transporting his gigantic ma chines to the place selected for the ob serving station. "Sir John accomplished the ascent to the plains by means of two relief teems of oxen, of eighteen each, in about four days, and, aided by several companies of Dutch boors (sic), proceeded at once to the erecting of his gigantic fabric." The place really selected by Hcrschel cannot be described better than in his own words, contained in a genuine letter dated Jan. 21, 1833: "A perfect paradise In rich and magnificent moun tain scenery, sheltered from ail winds. * * * I must reserve for my next all de scription of the gorgeous display of flow ers which adorn this splendid country, as well as the astonishing brilliancy of the constellations." The author of the hoax could hove had no knowledge of Hersch el's real location, as described in this letter. The present writer can bear witness to the correctness of Herschel’s words. Feld hausen Is truly an Ideal secluded spot for astronomical study. A small obelisk under the sheer cliff of far-famed Table mountain now marks the site of the great reflecting telescope. Here Herschel car ried on his scrutiny of the Southern skies. He observed 1,202 double stars and 1,708 nebulae and clusters, of which only 439 were already known. He studied the fa mous Magellanic clouds, and made the first careful drawings of the “key-hole” nebula in ihe cancellation Argo. Very recent researches of the present royal as tronomer at the Cape have shown that changes of Import have certainly taken pin- e in this nebula Since Hersehel's time. He had seer a sudden blazing up of the wonderful star Eta Argus, situated with in the nebula. This objeot has undergone more remarkable changes of light than any oilier star in the heavens. It is as though there were some vast conflagra tion at work, now blazing into incan descence, and’again sinking almost into invisibility. In 1843 Maelear estimated the brilliancy of Eta to be about equal to that of Sirius, jhe brightest star In the whole skv. Eater it diminished In light, and cannot be seen to-day with the naked eye; though the latest telescopic observa tions indicate that it is again beginning, to brighten. Inhabitants of the Moon. Such wns Herschel’s quiet study of his lieloved science. In glaring contrast to the supposed discoveries of the “Honx.” Here are a few things alleged to have been seen on the moon. The first time the in strument tvas turned upon our satellite • "the field of view was covered through out llb entire area with r beautifully dis tinct, and even vivid representation of basaltic rock.” There were forests, too, and water, “fairer shores never Oflgels coasted on a tour of pleasure. A beach of brilliant white sand, grit with wild castellated rocks, apparently of green marble.” There was animal life as well; "we beheld continuous herds pf brown quadrupeds, having all the external char acteristics of the bison, but more diminu tive than any species of the bos genus In our natural history. There was a kind of a beaver, that “carries' its young in its arms like a human being,"'and lives In huts. “From the appearance of smoke in nearly all of them, there is r*o doubt of its (the beaver's) being acquainted with the use of fire." Finally, as was, of course, unavoidable, human creatures were discovered. “Whilst gazing in a perspective of about half a mile, we were thrilled with astonishment to perceive (our successive flocks of large winged creatures, wholly unlike any kind of birds, descend with a slow, even motion from the cliffs on-the western side, and alight upon the plain. • • • Certainly they were like human beings, and their attitude In walking wtyi both erect and dignified." We have not space to give mors extend ed extracts from the "Hoax,” but we think the above specimens will show how deceptive the whole thing was. The rare reprint from which we have extracted our quotations con.nlns aUo some interesting Lindsay&Morcah ] ARE TAKING UP, CLEANING AND STORING Carpets, Rugs and Draperies. All work done by experts. Awnings, Porch Curtains, Hammocks, Dixie Nets and Frames* SEE AD. IN PRESS— FIRE PROOF SAFEST * We carry tlie only line of Fire Proof Safes that aro for sale in the State. 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The Mercantile Advertiser said: "Discoveries in the Moon.—We commence to-day the publi cation of an Interesting article which is stated to have been copied from the Edin burgh Journal of Science, and which made Its llrst appearance here in a con temporary Journal of this city. It np pears to carry intrinsic evidence of be ing an authentic document.” Many other similar extracts are given. The New York Evening Post did not fall into the trap. The Evening Post's remarks were as fol lows: "It is quite proper that the Sun should he the means of shedding so much light on the Moon. That there should bo winged people in the moon does not strike us as more wonderful than the existence of such a race of beings on the earth: and that there does or did exist such a race rests on the evidence of that most veracious of voyagers and circum stantial of chroniclers, Peter Wilkins, whose celebrated work not only gives an account of . the general appearance and habits of a most Interesting tribe of Hy ing Indians, but also of all those more delicate and engaging traits which the au thor was enabled to discover by reason of the conjugal relations he entered Into with one of the females of the winged tribe.” We shall limit oltr extracts from the contemporary press to the few quotations here given, hoping that enough has beert said to direct attention once more to thl important subject, the Possibiiity of Bo* Ing Deceived. J Hon- Long Wars Last. From the Ldndon Mail. May 14 was the 215ih dey of the war. It will be Interesting to compare thg duration, so far, of the present struggle with that of some of the great wars of the nineteenth century. The Spanish-Amcrlcan waf will be re* membered, among other reasons, for It! extreme brevity, for, begun on April 21* 1898, It was over and done with on Jul! 26 In the same year—a short, sharp three* months' struggle. The Zulu war lasted eight months, frotrt Jan. 11 to Sept. 3, 1879. The Chlno-Japanese war occupied only nine months-from July 25, 1894, to April 17, 1895. '' France and Germany were ten month# In settling their dispute in 1870-71. The Russo-Turklsh struggle lasted nears ly eleven months—from April 24, 1877, to March 3, 1878. The Crimean war lingered for two yea*! from March 27, 1854. until March 31, 1* The American Civil War has the un enviable distinction of having been by faf the longest of the latter half of the os o * tury. It began on April 13, 1861. and peacf was not restored until May 26, 1905- . In the present campaign In South Aij rica we shall most likely break no record! either way. Jl