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DRINK SEA WATER TO LIVE,
Daily Tonic of Joraey Octogenarian
Beats Sour Milk.
Mnnnsqiinti. X. .1.—Sour mill: ns nil
antidote for age is not comparable with
plain sea water. according to William
nbout forty. He is proprietor of a lo
cal amusement hall and works ten or
more hours li day.
Up at 4 o’clock every morning, he
Jinnies to the beach, where ho dips up
a glassful of water from the waves
and quaffs It ns if It were the elixir of
life. Iretou says it does not taste goeffl.
and lie does not like it, but ft has the
effect he desires.
SEEKS PURSE OF CROESUS.
STORMY CARTER
OF FELIX DIAZ
Leader ot Mexican Revolt Has
~ Had a Charmed Life.
DEFEATED MANY TIMES.
Greatly^ Rosemblet' Hla Uncle Porfirio
• Ip Personality and.boede—More Lib-
'eVal In Views.Than Former Dictator.’
Appoalo'to Native-, Love of Speotacu-
lar-rJust Eocapcd Execution.
that Play, should lie shot at snnrNe hi
tlje morning of Oct. ‘.Ml. Hut when tin
news renched tlio City of Mexico there
was dissension In the cubluet over whin
course the president should take. The
majority. Including the president’s
uncle, Ernesto Mndero, the minister of
flnnnoo. and Gustavo Mndero. the presi
dent’s brother, who was taken prisoner
by I)ln*. Insisted that he bo shot. With
out deciding just* wlint to do Colonel
Dins wits placed In prison at Vorn
Cm and Inter confined In the Santiago
prison, front which he osenped.
POLAR DISASTER
STIRS SDSPICIOM
Victims’ - -
Investigation.
ONE GAT UPSET
City-' of Mexico,;—Colpoql - Foils Dlqx..
■tvlKWe atltialt flti Mndorb led lii'Ceneriil'
Huertais election 11s pyqvlsUmnl p^esl-
djuit'. Is one of the most’ri’iilarkable per
sona lit! os Mexico h'ad-evor pWifitu-vd. He
is tiie’nephew tff Fortlrlo UTiVz.lw'ho for
inorq tliaii tlilrtyiycaVs was‘dictator of
Mexico. Ills father «wns r Gent»rul', Felix
w ; lu>; w a s' hT:i|i t 11 f • W71. ip tliere-
volt of. the loiai "faction ngtilust Pnesl-;
dent jv.eiilto .luaref..- . . .•
Xot only ’dues tlio younger Diaz
physically resemble Ills-- banished. mV
cle. but their cni'eers up to tile present
are remarkably parallel. Admirers of
Porllrlp Din'/, have, said that since
Richard Coeur de- i.lon the w'orld has
produced no ufu’n ot so tbrllilug a per
sonal and military career.as “the. man
'of Mexico,” ns'.be was called.- He was
• the lieyj of •fifty-pitched battles, a lead
er of the forlorn hope of Mexico
against tlie trained unities of France
in’ the w.nv of tile intervention, when
Benito Juarez und Ills capital were be
ing chased from pillar to.post. •
Felix phiz. ns does his uncle, seems
-to-bear a charmed'life. In the six
years lie was chief of police of. the
City, of Mexico Ids life was attempted
n number oft trams.' The, Mexican
cbnrncjter is boyish In love of the spec
tacular; It is a hero worshiping peo
ple. -The latest exploit of Dims in es
caping from a death coll and sudden
ly showing himself at the head of nil
•army will appeal to the characteristic
trait of n people that love daring.
NEW REPUBLIC
Scandalized. Mount, Allies by
Raising
FUEL SHORTAGE A PUZZLE.
Either Fopti Evaporated or Explorer’s
Caches Were -Tapped by Roturn Par
ties, According to Authorities—.Lieu
tenant Evans and Survivors on Terra
Nova Rofuyo to D.iscuss Details.,
m
Falohlkl,. European Tiirjra.v. — Eli-'
rope’s liitest ■afiiLsiiinTlffst fepnbllq lias
trow,li- oilt .of..the; Balkan war. jit hi
Mount Athos. tlie sacred. peninsula
near Siilohiki.
It contains nothing hut twenty one'
ancient monasteries founded by- Rus
sians. Greeks,‘Bulgarians mid Servians
In the twelfth and thirteenth centuries.
All overhung the cliffs of the Aegean
sen, and .tin* monks go up and down
from the shores,, in baskets worked on
pulleys by iheir brethren.
So sucred Is the peninsula that no
female Is allowed therein, not even a
cow or. a hen.
The abbot of the older Russian mon
astery kept a cat. which recently dis
graced the island by having kittens
Alt the monks held u court to try her.
.declared she had broken their sacred
rules iind laid her-drowned.
Some of the monasteries are very
strict and never allow the inmates to
wash cven-thelr hands or faces or to
go. outside, the gardens, which are said
to he very beautiful. Others contain
the oldest Greek manuscripts in tlie
World, supposed to he able to fill gaps
in the Epistles and other parts of the
New Testament.
This Idea of inukiiig Mount Athos n
republic game from Russia, anxious to
keep her intlucnce in Macedonia, and
is unwelcome to- Bulgaria, tired hr tu
telage and ' used to considering the
church as a politieal factor, now of
less importance than before. But the
other allies pressed Russia’s proposal
because they felt Jealous of Bulgarina
domination iii that sacred territory.
Delegates from all the allied states
will meet in Siiloulki under the Rus
sian consul and draw up the new re
public's inws. The patriarch of the
Bulgarians, who hitherto has lived In
Constantinople, probably will live on
the pctainstiln.
, Littleton. New ZcjilnmU—If any one
of tl(e sil|ipprtlpg px|ii*diljptfs .was In
ahV .way ..responsible' l'or t.l^e ,deuf|i ol
Captain Scott anil Ids foilc companions
within' eTevihi tulles of safety it- wYVl
Wilson and Bowers could linvo been
brought home, but nil agreed that it
would he more lit to leave them when}
they Imd worked and died. The motor
sledges proved a failure nml frequently
broke down. When the Inst ono col
lapsed everybody was pleased.
The diaries of all tlio members of
the Scott pnrty who tost their lives nre
Intact and will he sent to their rela
tives. Lieutenant Evans and others
will compile Captain Scott’s hook on
Ills discovery of tlie polo and tlie ex
periences of Ills pnrty,
ENVER BEY MAY BE
POLISH NOBLEMAN
Ramor That Young Turk Lead
er Is NoMolianedae.
1—VWL’Pi'/.Vr ‘
rjbti'dhh.-i-Tlie Curious - story -Is told
<»> : <*«**. Kits
and .records.of the dead uxen are
in the hands ot tljolr fumtlius.
,-TUe. reticence of .Commander l{. It.
Evans and the other survivors aboard
jtho Terra Nova lias excited the suspi
cion of those who visited the relief
ship that there was.some sordid story
hack of Wliat' lit llrst seemed a tale
heroic- In' every detail.
Commander F.van.s said that no rec
ords found with tlio dead .would lit
■lliorlty tliAt F,nvor Boy. tlK^yoluig head
of the recoil t' cbiip'd'otnt In'CnUstHnil
NOTES FROM THE NEWS.
COLONEL FELIX DIAZ.
■whether in the bull ring or on the bat
tlefield. and is likely to contribute the
•elan the cause might otherwise have
wanted.
Temperamentally the younger and
the elder Diaz are different. The old
•dictator, suspicious and intolerant, rul
ed his people with tlio ”mnno ferro,”
the iron hand. Felix was for a larger
measure of personal freedom and more
than once incurred tils node's dis
pleasure by the liberality of his views.
Felix supported Ills uncle throngh the
Madero. revolution, but when the latter
triumphed ho went under the yoke
with good grace.' Up to two months
before he organized the tinshy ltttle
revolution that resulted iu his capture
and the immediate surrender of Vera
Cruz he kept his rank of colonel in the
regular army.
Wh)|e serving under Mndero he whs
visited by envoys of disaffected lenders
who represented that the dreamer of
Nuevo r.eou. with none of the ability
of Porllrio Diaz, was a worse tyrant
thnu Diaz had ever been. He was as
sured of the support of the army if he
would tube the lead In a revolt. When
be reach, d a ' ilei ision-riiml no wasti t
. iolig iihput If—lie resigned l|l;» 1 "rnn^Is-
stou. With tlie following of Orozco.
Zapata and Aguiar promised him,- a
Diaz ouco more Issued his , ‘|e_ ’,uiucia-
mento;" He« proclaimed hluisclf‘chief
of nil the rebel forces In Mexico and
took possession of tlio city of Vera
Cruz, every federal soldier In the gar
rison deserting to him. ns well us the
police, firemen and citizen volunteers.
But the Mndero government had been
warned, and the loyal troops recaptur
ed Vern Cruz after two hours of tight
■ ing nnd made Diaz prisoner.
The order of the court martini was
Charles W. Berry of Rnngeley. Mo.,
has a young Scotch collie which an
swers the telephone and which speaks
five words, ••oh," •‘no.’’ "how," "papa”
and "out” clearly.
William Tumbler of Yonkers, once n
noted wrestler. Is si deceitful old man.
A stranger stopped him on the street
recently and demanded his watch and
cash. Tumbler picked him up, threw
him over a fence add went on his way.
- Thomas A. Downs of Detroit, who
posed ns Woodrow Wilson before an
audience oi SCO’during the cnmpnigu
and who Is known ns the "double" of
the president elect, is planning to
shake hands with him on inauguration
day.
Ur. Harry I*, .ludson. president of
Chicago university, declnres that he
has found these "Jokes" inscribed on
bricks dating back to 11500 B. O.: The
mother-ln-lnw Joke, the bnshful young
man who interviews the grouchy papn
of his sweetbenrt and the "souse" who
can’t find the keyhole of his door.
Sam Smith pleaded guilty to murder
at Murphysboro. III., and got a thirty
year'sentence. Now he insists be is
innocent and says he was forced to
plead guilty by tho ghost of a man
hauged there seventeen years ago,
which has been haunting the jail ever
since.
SAYS MARS IS INHABITED.
Professor Hendbrson ot Harvard
Thinks Lifo Exists There.
Boston.—I’cofessor Lawrence .1. Hen
derson of Harvard, a scholar of pro
found scientific attainments, indorses
to a certain extPiit the world known
views of Professor Perclvnl Lowell
that the plnnet Mars is inhabited.' 7 *
J’rofessor Henderson >a.vk r.uv. ah-,
strnet considerations support Professor,
•Lowell so far as they iudr rife that
there is no reason why life should not
exist upon Mara! s
"There are A-ertnln chnriiqtcristlds of
earth which may he regarded ns -spe
cific,^ he says. > "There were great
qunntl.tles of water and ’carbonic''held
in the atmosphere when it formed.
The result will he generat or any plan
et tendency to form oceans. lakes and
streams. Wherever such a process ex
ists life; if it once gets a foothold, can
exist."
uop|c, lender of the Voling Turks and
most obstinate, loader of the,,Ottoman
forces against the it'nlmiTs' In Tripoli,
is hot n Turk at nil by race, lint a
member of the ancient Polish nobility.
A correspondent writing to tlie Lon
don Observer says that when Enver
was last in this capital Ills visiting
card Imre his unine In Turkish charac
ters. hut underneath appeared Ills Po
lish name and title and the armorial
hearings of Ills family. The corre
spondent mills that in conversation Ha
ver Bey .attempted no concealment of
Ills Polish origin and. Indeed, seemed
rather proud of it.
It Is also said that Haver Boy is not
even u Mohammedan, but is }u religion
a Catholic. This, however, hardly
seems possible In view of the fact llia.t
Ills wife is a princess of Turkish royal
blood.
HERO IN NEED
Oely One of Sex
to Fight For Union.
B0RN-.CH A BATTLEFIELD.-
y , , ■ „ V «-*j , | ^
Wont to Front With Husband f \Ailio.n n
• Bride of Three Yo^rs—Now Cuotb-'
dian of .Famoua Jumel Manelpn 'tn
NciA/ York—Once Heaflquarjk|ys ot
Washington.
Now ( York’.—Kmly H|'(nvpi*ll. Ijofii, 09
a hqltlvllcld. tlio only yi'otiian 'member
of tim‘'‘fj. A.'.R; "!uTd 'cilMUitnir’ ^f the’
■Mstorii-al .YmhePunaiiSioh 1 . Inis’ ffhikeu
down, and is.now eoiilluiHl do;l|oii Imd.
Her faculties afe fulling, ajuI^elVort is
heih'g-imtde rtif'iild' her IliliduNid's eon-
senf to have. I;er, rcuuived to -Home In
stitution. ■ , '
He Is ‘Udherr S. BroWncIf and. like
her, a wounded veteran of tile civil
war. He was quite badly'' hurt. 111111
she always has heel) the responsible
head of the family. Since 18P>"> she
tins been tilt employee of tfifc park de
partment. Init is now Incapacitated fbr
duty. She Is the recipient ol’ a pen
sion. passed by special act of congress.
Her father was Colonel George
Southwell, n British - cittlecr. who t
stationed in the year 1MTJ in (.’nffrnrln.
South Africa. Ills greatest friend, a
other olheer. was Sir .lames Kmly.
who had been married at ahoiit. the
sumo time as Colonel Southwell. The
two men agreed that vfhouver hud the
first child should liable him after the
other. Colonel Southwell’s wife was
proud In the knowledge,that she was
soon to let him fulllll Ills part of the
bargain.
There was fighting near the station
In those days, mid the colonel’s wife
drove out with some friends to ob
serve the lighting from a distance. It
was while she was there that slid was
taken ill. An army tent was hastily
pitched, and her child was horn, a girl
child.
A few days Inter the little girl’s
mother died, nnd when her father could
CAPTAIN KOUEllT P. SCOTT AND CIIEW ON
TEUttA NOVA.
made public until they were given
over to the families of the men. Cap
tain Scott In his Inst message, to the
public vaguely hinted that his return
to shelter was Impeded by shortage of
fuel, for which, he said, he "could not
account." If the diaries of the other
dend uten make similar comment their
families, it was hinted, might demand
an Investigation through any of threo
channels—the admiralty, tbo Royal
Geographical society and the British
Antarctic society.
At frequent intervals on his way
south Captain Scott left caches or
blubber and other supplies to sustain
him on the return trip.
On two occasions on his final dash
tho commander sent back return par
ties. Tho Inst of these, from latitude
87 degrees at) minutes, consisted or
three men. trader the leadership of
Commnuder G. it. Hvnns. in his Inst
'messngo Cnptnlu Seott commented pa
thetically <m the shortage of fuel and
food In Ills supply depots.
Experts mi polar exploration agreed
that there was one of two,possible ex-
phinntions—Captain Scott’s depots were
tupped by the return parties or the
bljlhher eniponifed.
The 1 lirrespoiident of the Dully
Chroiilole ut Christchurch. New. Zen-
; luTid. siiiit 'a' dispute'll Idling of ’ Ills un
successful efforts io get tlie.ieuders of
the exp' dltidii to talk oh these subjec ts.
Lieutenant Kvnhs, he said, ns’ well lis
other offleers of the party, was emu-
1 muniehtlve until fuel nnd Petty Officer
Evans were tnqched off. Then, he said,
all the officers became* suddenlyretlceiit.
Lieutenant Evans said the fuel short
age wns hardly of sufficient importance
for 11 uewspnpcr to deal with nnd add
ed, "I think you bud better-not touch
upon It."
The officers sny the bodies of Scott.
Archaeologist Digging For Palacg of
World’s Richest Men.
■Prlncetoii. X, .1.—Howard Butler of
Croton Falls, -professor of arts ami
archaeology In Princeton university. Is
•now on the way to S'myrna. Asia, to
make excavations at Sardis in quest of
the poeketbook of Croesus, reputed to
have been, the richest man hi tin 1
world.
Professor Butlor nnd Ids assistants
will coutlnue their search for several
weeks.
Siirdis wns a great commercial me
tropolls and the home of Croesus.
Harvard’s Namesake Gets Scholarship.
Toronto.—Wheo It became known In
a meeting of the Toronto Hnrvnrd clo’.i
that John Harvnrd. n namesake of the
founder of the American university,
lived in Wellnnd. Ont., nnd that ho
would soon be ready to enter college
arrangements were made to nward tho
club’s scholarship to the young man.
Tile club also arranged to trace the
genealogy of the Hnrvnrd family in
Canada to ascertain the exact relation
ship of tho Welland youth to the
founder of the university.
INTEREST IN NEW GAS.
Does Not Fall Into Any Place In Proa-
ent Grouping of Elements,
London. — The- announcement made
by Sir Joseph J. Thomson that be Imd
discovered a new gas which Is nit ele
ment of thrice the atomic weight of
hydrogen, the lightest element known,
has been received with Intense inter
est by chemists.
The new gns appears to belong to
the same group as helium, neon.-argon.
Krypton-and xenon, all of which are
found ih minute quantities in the air
nnd which have the peculiar property
of complete inertness, so they do tmt
form elieniicni combinations.
S|r Joseph Thomson’s gas. which he
Calls provisionally "X3.'* does not fall
into any place In the present grouping
of the elements, according to tludr
properties and atomic weights. The
silthe difficulty arose when helium,
neon, nrgdu. krypton anil xenon were
discovered, hut it was surmounted by
the creation of a new group into which
they a'l fall.
Photo by American Press Association.
JUMIlL MANSION IN NEW VOI1K, WHERE
KADV UltOWNBLb LIVES.
get away he took her back to England
Then ho was ordered out with his reg
Intent again, and be gave her into the
hands of another friend. Cameron Me
Kenzle. who wns coming to America.
She met Robert Brownell wbou they
both lived In Central Falls, R, I. There
they were married threo days before
tbo first shot of tho civil war. He Imd
been one of the charter members ot
the Mechanics Rifles of Providence,
where his mother lived. He took his
brkle to see bis mother, and the even
Ing of their arrival it call was Issued
for a meeting of his compnny. Gover
nor William Sprague wns raising troops
nnd tbo Rifles were called upon. More
than 200 men were there when they
were asked to step forward If t hey had
nothing to keep them from volunteer
ing. There wns Just one man who
didn't step * forward, nnd lie wns
promptly thrown down two flights of
stone stairs.
Robert Brownell went home nnd told
his bride ttint he was going to wnr.
She snid that he shbi*dn,’t go' without
her. At first he laughed, then he for
bade her to. go. and .finally lie begged
her-not to, go. He told her tLidf a regi
ment made up of men of till sorts wns
not a place for a woman.
"If a woman wants to she; can he
a good woman in hell.” she answered.
When be emhnrked with the 1 rest of
his regiment he Was dismayed to find
her on hoard. It was only after the
hardest kind of work that she wus
taken'ashore, nnd she Immediately be
gan her pleadings with Governor
Sprague. She urged to such good ef
fect that the governor escorted her to
■Washington and allowed her to take