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SWITZERLAND IS
READYJOR WAR
Little Republic Gan Mobilize
, 100,000 Men In a Day.
FIRST BIG SCARE SINGE 1870
Massing of Troop* by France and Ger
many a Warning to Alpine Ruler.
| Every Man Haa Weapon and Uni*
j fot-m at Home and Can Report
1 Promptly at Nearest Barrack*.
Geneva'.—There Is a widespread be
lief In Switzerland that war between
Franco and Germany Is Inevitable.
On her French und German frontiers
Switzerland has seen the gradual con
centration ' of large forces of soldiers
during the last two months. The fron
tier forts, especially Belfort, and those
opposite from Mulhouse to Isteiu are
on a war footing.
Since the. beginning of the year the
Swiss federal authorities have begun
to take precautions. All papers have
published ollicially an article stating
that in "the event of war” the Swiss
in Europe must return to the army at
once, while in the second zone of coun
tries, including America and ot,her con
tinents where the Swiss are liable to
military service, they must hold them
selves in readiness to return.
There will be no mobilization in
Switzerland, because HJO.Ut'O men can
wrsfi®
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f«und In the Black Hills Ims Just been
taken out of tile Summit mine, near
II111 City, which for years has been
yielding rich Hilda of gold from senins
and streaks.
While working In u drift on the 105
foot level the miners ran across a glit
tering piece of rock. It weighed four
ami oue-Quarter pounds avoirdupois
and when tested was found to coutaln
$1,025 In gold.
This is snld to exceed the richness
of even the famous chunks taken from
the old Holy Terror. Uncle Sum and
other rich mines In the hills.
TO HATCH MEN LIKE CHICKS.
Will
PRESIDENT EDWARD MULLER OF SWITZEH-
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be at their posts in twenty-four hours,
250.000 men in forty-eight hours and
500.000 within a week. ^
Every nian and officer of the citizen
army has a rille, ammunition, uniform
and' everything at. home and can an
swer the general roll call at the near
est barracks within a few hours.
Briefly, the Swiss army can give its
great and powerful Tfieighbors twenty-
four hours’ start and still be ready
before them.
This is. the first time since 1870 that
the Swiss government has taken mat
ters, so. seriously. Even the dangerous
Agadir incident found it calm and
hopeful.
Cereals of nil kinds whicli were or
dered in America and Cannda, because
the usual Uussian,supply had sudden
ly failed, owing tjv-the Balkan war. are
•arriving to (ill the almost empty gov
ernment storehouses.
Farmers have beeu warned to have
their horses in good condition. Chief
surgeons and doctors have received of
ficial letters from Berne asking, them
to.state whether they would like to
follow the ambuihnce in the field or
remain at a base hospital iu one of the
towns.
HISTORIC TROWEL FOR STATE.
.Hammer Also Used at (papitoFCornerr
etono Laying Given Governor.
Albany. — Governed Sulzeji was njfe
seiited by, Colonel and' .Mrs. Gorhiiin
Rico of Albany with the‘trowel and
hammer with which,, bn 'July 7,. lfilib,
wore laid the, cornerstone of the state
capitol. ! Colonel Rice’s father, William
A. Iiice, and Mrs. it Ire p .father. 'Jtrair
. V.\L. Pruyn, were in qliju’g^ of the
ceremonies and, retaimm 1 possession'of.
the tools. , . ,
They wort?’ presented 'to the governor
as representing- tho’.pcypje of, the state,
eneftsed In ; u 1 hfind.so.me,.nuiliogauy box.
Upward Of ;*2d.U00,0l}'0 '• lias been ^ex
pended oil the capitol siiioe, 1^00. ... -
Fin'd,$1',D0(> Nugget. . / .
Dead wood,'' S. D^-What-if^ believed
to lje Hid-: ryhestl'pfccf^dfc ailJU'L? dyer
Scientist Say* Baby Factories
Take the Place of Parents.
Bostou.—Thot It is possible to create
human life by chemlcul means and that
a buby factory Is not out of the quco-
ttori for the distant future Is asserted
by Dr. Martin ICellog Rehermerhorn of
the department of philosophy in Har
vard. While speaking before the Meta
physical club be said:
“Life Is not confined to the anlinni
and plant world. The whole universe
ts alive, and all that lives is conscious.
“Animals are conscious and gifted
with the power of thought and imagi
nation.
“Plnnts are conscious, and Rusklu
and Goethe agree they are capable of
exercising strategy and forethought.
Even Darwin said plants wore sensi
tive, and hence lie must have believed
■ they were conscious.
“It is'obvious that the evolution from
so called matter to human life is pos
sible. The chemist,of the future will
labor so that men shall be made in
baby factories as chickens are hatched
in incubators.”
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FINDS FISHPOND OF NERO.’
Professor Schltft is one of those who
have asked to be shown what there Is
In Dargct's X ray uotluus.
JAIL EMPTY TWO YEARS.
Pike County, Po„ Evidently Froo From
All Crimo.
Philadelphia.—Not a single jury trial
In nearly two years is the uulqne rec
ord of Pike county, according to Pre
siding Judge Charles B. Staples of the
Plke-Monroc district.
“The county Jail la empty,” said
Judge Stn'ples. “There are no cases on
the court calendars, either criminal or
civil, and I Journey to Milford, the
county sent, every three months to go
through the formalities of holding a
court wbero there are no trials."
Roman Excavator Discovers Reservoir
Under Palace Whcro Fish Were Bred.
Rome.—Professor Bold, who Is super-, coverios.
vising the excavations on the Palatine
hill, has made an Important archaeo
logical discovery. Beneath the basili
ca of the Flavian palace he found two
narrow stairways, lending to a ‘‘pis
cina,” a water reservoir consisting of
live large compartments. It is still in
tact, covered nnd'well preserved by
watertight cement.
The reservoir dates from the time of
Nero, when it was used ns n pond for
sen fish, with the object of breeding
exotic fish for the emperor’s table.
That the artificial rearing and hatch
ing of fish were praetlced In nncient
Borne is attested by Pliny, who refers
to a fish called senrns, found between
Rhodes and Crete, but bred artificially.
Rod* 76,000 Mile* on Ono Bik*.
Tarrytowu. N. V.—William F. Klngs-
Innd. a Tarrytown letter carrier, has
just completed Ills fifteenth yenr in
service. Kliigslnnd has used one bicy
cle on Ills route for twelve years and
In that time has traveled 75,000 miles,
or n distance three times around the
earth.
FIND MASTODON SKELETON.
Quarry Workers Unearth Bones of
Forty Foot Animal.
Nashville, Tenn.—Workmen digging
thirty feet underground in a quarry
six miles from Nashville discovered the
skeleton of an animal forty feet long.
The teeth and parts of the jawbones
were perfectly preserved, but the other
bones were so brittle they crumbled at
: lio touch.
Professor W. E. Mycr, member of
the American Geological society, visit
ed the place and said the bones were
those of a mastodon which probably
lived 100,000 years ago. An examina
tion of the strata leads’him to believe
there is a cave near by whicli probably
will yield oilier valuable scientific dls-
PAULINE ON RETIRED LIST.
Taft’s Cow Goes Back to Her Old Wis
consin Farm.
Washington.—Pauline Wayne, Presi
dent Taft's famous Holstein cow, will
follow him Into retirement March 4.
The president called in Senator Isaac
Stephenson of Wisconsin, who two
years ago took Pauline to the White
House, and gave her back to her former
owner.
Pauline has not been in the best of
health in several mouthB. President
Tuft believes that if she is taken back
to Wisconsin and put on Senntov
Stephenson’s farm again her youthful
vigor will revive. The senator was
glad to recover -Pauline, as she had
supplied tailk to the family of the presi
dent for two years, and he thought she
would nild dignity to his herd.
Claim of Freni Army Officer.
Paris Says “Tut!”
Paris—Commandant Darget of 'the
French army is trying by n further se
ries of experiments to convince the
Academy of Medicine of the truth of
his theory that thejiuman body sends
out u certain kind of'X rays by mCans
of which ideus in the mind can be plio
togriiphCd; •
His idea is that these mental images
canM)o visualized and then transferred
to a sensitized .photographic plate by
merely, pressing flibi plate 1 against the
body. For Ids purpose lie covers the
sensitized plate with printed matter,
.puts' tile plate In an opaque envelope
and then'firetjycs vft against tlie body.
■ Iii fjiis way bo is able* lie asserts, to
develop In a few-minutes a negative
or positive photographic," impression,
aecGrdfijg.iJs the pprsoii is electrically
negative or poiitiy.e.
-.ThQ. fc-nnr; total ]bfnSnrget’s theory is'
that the humane bcjdy, con-tains light,
'rujsj.' this; p£t>posjtIon the Acad
pinv snvs “Tiif? f-nf- M Vni* wovrlu tvv’Hmi
eiriy says' “Tilts tut!*’- or words tir thatj y-W.hcn he returhed 'Cli
effect. Whatever .aft-pears on tlits’iiin! '.Utfhisferred to nnothe
Chjtng hover caw. him ac
t‘H ca n’ t go Humic to C
debt; unpaid,'’*sftid the, i
Oiitliri, “You must find
money.” j
jjitlKtjrt plate, tliel jjcacierny argiieh) is
‘simply the oEfecfjTOffUei'nririler’s. ihk. •
Darget Is gAln^-tp'tienna and Bej f |
Mn.fo,repro,dtkt»?h|s experiments in th v
universities o.t.thoge eilies. ’>■
Raises Blue Apples.
Chicago.—A. C. Wllmnrth brought a
crate of blufe apples to Chicago from
his farm near Mountain Grove, Mo.
I-Ie said he filled tlifl hollow of tho tree
that grew them with concrete. The
result was a tree of blue apples, the
first of the kind ever raised, according
to the owner.
BILL FOR NATIONAL ANTHEM.
Levy Wants Law to Boqm Our Patriot
ism.
Washington.—A joint resolution ;to
moke the “Star Spangled Banner” the
official anthem of the United States
w/is Introduced by Representative Levy
of New York. It also provides—
"That whenever the ‘Star Spangled
'Banner' Is played on any occasion at
any public place where persons be
longing to any branch’of the govern
ment service are present they will
stand at attention and all other per
sons will stood, such positions being
retained until the last note of the an
them.”
WAITED 35 YEARS TO WED.
Family Feud Separated Lovers, but
Dan Cupid Triumphed.
New York.—Mr. nnd Mrs. Alfred Sut-
pheu, bridegroom and bride, sailed
from hero on a cruise flor the West
Indies. He is sixty-one, and his wife
Is fifty-three. Their marriage a few
days ago followed an attachment of
thirty-five years' standing.
The bride was Miss Mary Richards
[t Lodgepole, Neb. 'Mr. Sutphen's fa
ther and Miss Richards’ father were
neighbors'in Nebraska when the young
folks foil in love.
A feud started between the house of
Rlclgirds and the house of Sutpheii.
nnd all communication between the ad
joining ranches was broken off. The
lovers were kept apart.
A short time later Alfred Sutphen
went to California nnd then to Austra
lia, where he took a big ranch nnd be
came a rich man. Sutphen sold out
Inst summer and returned to Nebraska
to visit his old home. .He found'his.
early sweetheart still true to him.
CHANG WA& HONEST.
Aged Chinaman Wouldn’t Go Homo
With $3 of Ghin’c..
. San Francisco.—Cluing, Fook, eiglit.v-
'four years old, before sailing for Chi-
,ua gave to Attorney Jobji C. Cutlln six
worn half dollars, wrapped in a piece
of faded china silk, which lie had re
ceived, and held in trust'for fifty-fpijr
years. Catiln-4s coihiul&slotied' to tflld'
Gliin Foq and return to blip t lie, moiit/.v
which lie gave Chang pit the 1 frlgiiti?
Boston in 185S. • :
., Chang said he and Chln’iwero ciiliin
boj’s oil the 'Boston;" tiitteffcoiupiauffi'd.
b.v Cpiupmtlpre Deri'.v; j-While tlie’-vfeS:’
sel liiy at anchor' in
Chang- hgd, s.ho,re,.leavji>;
was given him'by Cnthi
a with this,
Chinese to
in und give
SPAIN SEEKS THE
SEPHARDIC JEWS
Offers Home to 70,000 Judios
Espanoles of Saioniki.
HONORS FOR GRIEF RABBI.
King Alfonso Desires to Repair tho In
justices Inflicted Upon Them During
the Inquisition—Government Would
Open Schools In Turkey For Ad
vancement of Commerce,
Madrid.—Advnnees showing n strong
desire ,ou the pnrt of the Spanish gov-
urninent to attract back to Spain the
Sephardic Jews of Turkey, wIioro an
cestors were driven out of Spain cen
turies ago, were made during a recept
visit of the Marquis de Nnntbufhct, the
Spanish minister of Constantinople, to
the Chief Rabbi Nnhoum.
The Spanish minister expressed to
the'chlof rabbi his regret that M. Na .
lioun had not . Invoked I lie protection
of tho Spanish government for (lie 70,-
000 Judios Espanoles at Halonlki as
well us.thnt of the British and French
ambassadors. The marquis added that
If. the Jews laid [suffered through -the
inquisition it should- not bo forgotten
that Spain, too, bad suffered heavily
from the consequences of tho acts com
mitted'centuries ago. Official Spain as
well as the people, ho said, was anx
ious to repair the great crime of their
ancestors, which they felt was the
blackest in their history.’
The chief rabbi replied that he was
deeply touched by tlie action of the'
minister ntid that the. fresh advances
made by him could not fail to produce
nil excellent impression on the Jews of
the east.
Before leaving the chief rabbi the'
strucMuu would lie given m Spanish,
the knowledge of which would fncili-
tntc commercial relations with Spain
nnd nil other countries where that Inn-
gunge Is spoken, and be declared thnt
French or nn.v other foreign language
nbovo all, Hebrews—could be taught In
those schools.
Sews With Metnl Hands.
St. Louis.-Gilbert \V. 1’ukhelser, n
fanner of Salem, lad., who lost lioth
arms, has metnl bauds, which lie man
ages so well that he enn shave, Bew,
write nnd catch or throw a bnll.
SAHARA AS FACTORY CENTER.
Plan to Use Sun’e Heat For-. Power
Practicable, Says J. Astloy Cooper.
London. — Utilization of the Sahara
desert us n center of Industrial produc
tion Is the suggestion made by J. Astley
Cooper.
It. lmd nlmost beeu necepted ns a tru
ism, he says, tlmt our coal supplies
were giving out, hut the Sahara desert
received an nuiout of sb.lnr Rent every
day equlvnlcut to that produced by
0,000,000,000 tons of coal. ;
In this arid region, with- the great
supplies of products tivnilnbV from the
wonderful forest lauds nearer to the
const and the country traversed' by
a network of r|ilhva.vs, thoughtful sci
entific men say that if some economi
cal method could, ho found to use thlg
lost solar energy—such, for instance,
us,the sc Items which was on I rial near
Cairo—there was no reason why tlie
dreams should nut lie realized of those
who saw great districts of.the world.
lio\v arid and useless oil account of the
intense.henl. given up tb (lie factories
of (lie future. .These would lie of
enprmous extent, with glass chambers
Instead of chillineys'mid fellertors in-
stei'.d of furnaces, all designed to re
ceive and transmit the daily gift of
the sun’s heat.
WALES A “HOOT MON.”
Prince Practices on Bagpipes For Chest
Expansion.^
London.—The Prince of Wales was
ordered to practice tho Scotchjiagpipes
ns n means of expanding Ills chest
which is below the normal for his uge
and height. 'The statement thut he
adopted this weird iustruhient because
of ineUuatiou was a polite Invention.
The captain of the Scots guards'
p(pers goes to Oxford once a week
to give the prince a lesson. Owing to
the extraordinary mid terrifying noises
made by the learner the college mi
thurifies are bestirring themselves to
find a sound proof room for the heir
uppureut to the throne. His lessons
disturb the whole college.
Certain Irresponsible undergrade got
up a band of pipers provided with six
penny toy pipes, with which they pa
raded the quadrangle, but they were
.promptly suppressed.
DIMPLES AT $26 EACH.
Fashionable London Women Submit to
Wounds to Enhance Beauty,
London.—Artificial dimple making is
not confined to Purls. Inquiries show
thnt It is being done In London too. A
well known “beauty specialist” says
fashionable women are now living ar
tificial dlnmles produefid on their faces.
The cost of making permanent dim
ples ranges from $20 to $52. The
process usually lasts n fortnight! A
small cut is made iu the skin. The
wound is then houiul up nnd dressed
daily until healed. Tlie dimples most
in deiunnd nre, little depressions near
Spanish minister invited him to pay a
visit iu ids company to the Spanish, the col ' ller of tlie mouttt, which show
cruiser, Rena Regente, which was an
chored hi the port. M. Nnhoum ac
cepted tlie invitation. As lie boarded
tbb vessel tlie officers nml men In full,
uniform presented anus and ranged
thcmselv<fs around tho chief rabid. The
Spanish minister thereupon addressed
tlie men as follows:’ 1 '- *, >
“I have the.honor to Introduce to
you the venerated and esteemed chief
of all tlie Jews in Turkey, your own
fellow citizeus, whose, riucestors were
unjustly nnd cruelly driven from Spain,
It is to this venerobje Chief that the
government of his majesty the king,
ns well ns his people, Is addressing
jts. desire to repair tlie injustice of
which we feel we are still experiencing
tlie hitter consequepcek,”
He added that tho occasion -was
doubtless the (ifst for almost Ifive con:
turies that the head oil t,lu| .Tows in
The 'east had set foot .upon a Spanish
warship. *
The coiQinander of the’cruiser enter
tained Ujq chief irt.bld^qt t’cy nipl fliefet
: nI ter cbuduoled him tliijupgh every part
Ot, the, ves;Hdj UpqjV lSavJug, tlie ship
M.’ Nahoiiiiii, wniChaiiorpiUliii yie same
way ns when he laid first boarded it,
and the Mui'quis.de .VrtriWtiillet Inform
ed Him that l|e would be pleased if*
Jfcf iiJlrfhWH.ei vf^plkji v#dt tiro
for which purpose ho pince'd stoaui'
launches at their.disposul. .,
The Spanish mjiiijd-qyr^fjsted tbpj itr
.the ej’cut of Salonik}'s..beiiig lletuched
frbm' Tiirkoy his?
gawl ycwffuy9rabjy
sgaat"
eminent, lie stnted, was' wfllin
open at its7?xpense ,Tp\v.isJi»8cii
Saloiiiki. or the hint'm-lah'd; wh
to
Wljisre’jr.-
themselves when the owner smiles. It
Is also possible to produce dimples last
ing for a l'ew hour.-S.
To Visit Panama and Pliiiip-
. pines While President.
Washington.—Washington officials ex
pressed interest iu ,li. rumor tlmt origi
nated with persons who have seen Gov
ernor’^ Wilson lately, that the'inenpitng
president lias .already - decided, on two
and possibly more ti’iii,s out of the
United States,alurlug : his admlnlstra-
tiprh • - These are. to 1 tlie Panama ctAial
aud tho’PhilTptdue islands.
The-president elect; Is said \to have
expressed the intenftpn of visiting Pan
ama -after tlie clqsje'fliC tlie extra ses
sion of congress tl
the complotitm an
a itiiily of tlie Fi
hp'fi.Le endQuyoi^U
ghuit'-tliem fteeil
.tJcc’^arii.y.Wfpiv
cIpsoTor coin
J also uudei
. - of-< visiting A In ski
Ms rtd'minlstriuion 1
mw
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4
year to witness
nformal opening
anxious- to make
aos at first hand
have congress
{' This trip would
until after tho
m'
lod to lie desirous
lome time during