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TELEGRAPH THE TV/ICE-A-WEEK TnwAa.y, July % 1B0T THE JUNCTION POINT GAifijAbE COLIiCTOSS OF THE TALK TRACKS: MO |(J K[f| STRIKE EPIDEMIC OF DISEASE. Story of the Evolution of the Telephone Switchboard— NEW Y0RK CITY ' N PERIL 0F AN | ing brought out This Summer Sees Its Thirtieth Anniversary— First true Device for Connecting the Avenues of Speech Contrasted With the Intricate Apparatus Employed Today ROSTOV. July 1.—Next to the an-l of usefulness has been found for such XEW YORK. July 1.—Two thous and garbage collectors and an equal number of ice wagon drivers are strike here and the oity is In peril of an epidemic of disease. A conference between Commssioner Craven of the street cieaning depart ment and a committee representing the striking cart drivers will be held tomorrow. The men demanded hours as a weeks work, with 25 cents niversary of Alexander Graham Bell's invention of the telephone Instrument, no Industrial birthday is more inter esting—and none, perhaps, Is more important—than are tiie birthdays of the lirst telephone line and the first switchboard, which fall together about Bow. Thirty years ago in April a sin gle wire was strung from the factory in Boston where Bell's instruments were made to the manufacturer's resi dence in .Somerville, two or three miles out in the suburbs. This was the first telophno line ever construct ed—the primal ancestor of the seven 1902 ’no and a half million miles of wire which I t) 0ar( j mechanically worked exchanges. Bu-[ an j) 0Ur over-time: no lines without a the contention of telephone engineer that "automatic” equipment will never, in cities and towns of any considerable size, supplant higlflv perfected me chanism operated by skilled, trained intelligence at the' central station seems to be borne out by the United States Census Bureau’s bulletin on manufactures issued last month, which says, after describing the differ ent types of switchboards: "These manual boards constitute a very large proportion of the boards included in the present statistics. There were in war than I0.S42 manual use, and while no detailed hearing and substitution of suspension for fines. Today the situation grew hourly worse. With one hundred la borers expected from Philadelphia Commissioner Craven believs there will be 300 men at work tomorrow. A CENTURY’S EVENTS IN IRON, STEEL AND COAL. now connect more than three million j figures ar e given, It is the fact that Extracts from certain data publish ed in the Iron and. Coal Trades Review of London show some remarkable fea tures in the way of landmarks of pro gress and the use of coal, iron and steel in regard to the American inrlus- ubscribers’ "stations" in the Bell sya- ; ncarlv all of the'central switchboards *nr during the past 100 years as fol- tom. At the beginning of the summer of 1S77, soon after the erection of the first telephone line, several wires ra diating from a common center were and private exchange boards made in the census year were also of the man ual variety.” It has recently been ated on good authoritv that while for the first time inter-connected by , -hero are 3,000.000 and more telephones of a crude device which, through evolution, has become the huge, intricate, highly perfected switchboard of today. Next to the telephone itself the switchboard is the most marvelous and most necessary feature of the commu nicating system. The work of the lino builders has been the most snectacu- lnr, no doubt, but It would, after all, have counted for but little were it not allied with the inventive genius that devis, d the means of .ioining into one any two of the myriads of copper threads by which our voices are car ried far and near. The earliest attempt at inter-connec tion on the general plan of the ex change as we understand it today was made in Boston In May, 1877. There was then operating In this city a com- which provided electrical burglar I tral connected with the Bell system, and 2,000,000 or .so connected with "inde pendent’’ lines, only about 100,000 of all these are “automatic” instruments. The rate at which facilities for verbal communication by wire have expanded, till now the Bell system alone lias in use one Instrument for every 28 men. women and children in the United States, and the enormous cost of this growth, are probably the most impressive things In American industrial history. They are pucacsted it, th- c.,;d figures of the census report already referred to when it says: "The total value of telephonic ap paratus manufactured, as reported In the census of 3305. had a value of S13.863.fi9S, as ■■ r.r::r■ '!-<•< 1 with $10 512.412 for tile cen sus of 1900. These figures do not reveal all the facts, for during the period cov ered no greater activity was shown in any department of electrical application than In telephony. “The value returned for the 4,283 cen- itchboards was $3.1-4.417, to which alarm service. It had a central sta-1 should he added the 31917 private ex- tion whore the alarm signals were lo- ' chance hoards of a value of $364 795. mak- eated, connected by wires with the a total of $5,719,242. To this should premises of its various subscribers. £ rSpoH?d°f te?ep°ho£l! wte v ho were chiefij hankers and mer- ntl( j cmppjjcs. The subscriber’s appara- chants. Arrangements were made for f „ s used in connection with these ex- ^ . . ,, . , . ,, the use of these lines and the central I change hoards and smaller equipments: 1S36—Crane hot blast for Anthracite nation as an experimental telephone 1 was reported as having a value of $8.003.. ' exchange. Telephones were attached tf ' lows: 1807— Fulton steamboat makes Its first trip on the Hudson. 1808— French constructed oscilliatlng marine engine. 1509— Production of pig iron in the United States was 53,908 tons. 1510— United States patent granted to Reutgen for rolling iron rounds with grooved rolls. 1511— Rolling mill built at Fittsburg by C. Cowan. 1812—First use of Anthracite in the manufacture of iron. ISIS—First blast furnace built in Ala bama. 1819—First coke used in American blast furnace in Pennsylvania. 1S19—Bituminous coal first used in U. S. to produce pig iron. 1825—Anthracite coal first used for steam raising in U. S. 1828—First passenger railway in the U. S. commenced (Baltimore and Ohio.) 1530— Production of pig iron in U. S. 155.000 tons. 1531— First application for patent in the U. S. for smelting with anthracite and not blast. 1834— Bitumous coal discovered ,1n Alabama. 1835— Henry Burden invented the machine-made horseshoe. fivi 35. of which 86.483.43$ was represented by complete sets of transmitters and re- of the circuits—three in banks, , ,,. . . ... ...... ice of a firm of bankers. | - And - this ,s j:l5; the aDI>aratul nd equipment for central offices had sub scribers’ stations, taking no account of tile expenditures upon the outside lines, overhead, underground, and submarine. I U. S. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE. one in the off! and one in the office of the manufac turer of the instruments—and repeat edly the wires were so connected in tiie alarm company’s headquarters that conversations were carried on between tiie several subscribers. j The crude apparatus used for mak- : ing these connections could hardly be j ~~~ called a switchboard, though it served. > following data, covering a period in its small way, the same purposes as etght years, have been comoiled does the largest modern exchange, j from the Weather Bureau records at But it contained the germ of a great; Macon, Ga. They are issued to show idea. It started experimentations as . the conditions that have prevailed, dur- tho result of which there was put intof, ng tho month in q Ues uon, for the operation the following January a real I . . , - . . telephone central office. Dbwn in , above period of years, but must not be Bridgeport, Conn., there was a private ! construed as a forecast of the weatli- telegraph system, private telegraphy er conditions for the coming month being a sort of social fad at that time; Where records for more than eight nnd among the enthusiasts connected years are available the number of years with it was Thomas B. Doolittle, ai- ; is given in parenthesis, ready the inventor of many Ingenious : Month, July, for eight years, devices, and soon to he the producer | Temperature, of many more. Mr. Doolittle attached : Mean or normal temperature, 81 deg. the telephone instrument to his society 1 (33). telegraph wires, modified the switch-| The warmest month was that of 1878, hoard through which the lines had heen connected, so that it could be manipulated by an operator, and at tached signal hells to ail the circuits as a means of calling the operator’s attention. There were twenty sub scribers served by this pioneer switch- hoard. In the same month that Mr. Doo little put his switchboard into opera tion. tho first fully equipped commer cial telephone exchange ever estab lished fo.r public or goneral service was opened in Xow Haven. Conn. It was a success from the start, and no sooner was the success of the Xew Haven undertaking apparent than other cities began installing central offices. The possibilities thus given the telephone thus increased its pop ularity enormously in spite of the doubts and hesitation nearly everyone showed in the early days. June 30. 1877. there were 230 telephones in regular use—230 telephones in the •whole world thirty years ago today, ■where now there are upwards of 7,- 000.000. Within a month after the number had more than trebled; with in two months it had been multiplied by six; and by the spring of 1SS0, when the American Bell Telephone Company, the first concern to attempt the unification of the telephone sys tem which alone gives ?t its full value, took up the business there were in operation some 61.000 transmitting and receiving telephones. Meantime the central offices had multiplied wonderfully, and by March. 1881 there were In the United States only nine cities of more than 10 000 inhabi tants. and only one of more than 15,- 000. without a telephone exchange. The early switchboards were curious contraptions beside the modern type of apparatus. They took several forms before the "multiple board” used by the Bell companies for nearly twenty years now was worked out. At first they had signal bells of dif ferent tones, one at the end of each subscriber’s circuit, tiie distinctive tone indicating which line was "ring ing up." Then numbered drops were adopted, each line having a metallic shutter in the front of the hoard which, when the subscriber turned the generator crank at the side of his telephone instrument, fell so as to display the number of his line. And finally came the “common battery” switchboard now in use in all large cities and being adapted to smaller exchanges. In which the operator’s i signal is given by a tiny tncadescent electric lamp. The nn« place in the telephone system where a hell never rings is now the central office. Some of the early switchboards were big frames set along the side of the j operating room, the connections being i made by boys who ran from ope point I to another as the calls came in. Others 1 with an average of 85 deg. (31). The coldest month was that of 1892, with an average of 7S deg. (31). The highest temperature was 101 deg. on 12th.. 1901 and 1st., 1902. The lowest temperature was 60 deg. on 2nd., 1S99. The earliest date on which first "killing'’ frost occurred in autumn, November 5. 1S99. Average date on which first "killing” frost occurred in autumn. March 15. Average date on which last "killing” frost occurred in spring. April IS, 1905. Tho latest date on which last "kill ing" frost occurred in spring. Precipitation (rain er melted snow). Average for the month, 4.61 inches. (33). Average number of days with .01 of an inch or more. 12. The greatest monthly precipitation was 8.67 inches in 1S76, (33). The last monthly precipitation was iron furnaces patented. 1836—First rolling mill built in the Leihi Valley. 1S39—First iron steamboat built. 1840—Production of pig iron in the U. S. 286.903 tons. 1840—First suqcessful attempt to use Bitumous coal in blast furnaces in the U. S. (Western Maryland.) 1840—Anthracite for smelting iron ore introduced in Xew Jersey. 3S42—R. L. Stevens protected a floating battery in America with armor plate. 1844—The first ton of T rails rolled in America. 1844—-Horseshoes first made by ma chinery In the U. S. 1850—Production of pig iron in U. S. 564.755 tons. 1S51—Fowie, of Philadelphia, patent ed. air-driven pursuasive rock drill. 1854— United States produced 12.5 par cent of the world’s pig iron ton nage. 1855— The American Iron and Steel Association, Philadelphia, founded on March 6. 1857—The Kelley converter process patented in the United States. 1859— Petroleum discovered in Penn sylvania by S. E. Drake. 1860— Production of pig iron in the United States 919,770 tons. 1863—First open-hearth furnace (gas) laid down in the United States. 1564— First heat of Bessemer steel made by William F. Durfee, in Ameri ca. at Wyondotte. Mich. 1565— First Bessemer steel rails made in America were rolled at Xorth Chicago. 1867— George Fritz. In Pennsylvania, invented blooming mill to roll steel ingots into blooms. 3$67—Manufacture of steel castings introduced in America. 1868— The first Seimans-Martin open-hearth furnace built in America, at Trenton. X. J. 18.69—First regenerative furnace for puddling iron in the United States. 1S70—Production of pig iron in the United States 1,865.000 tons. 1871—First American Iron trans-At- & AUTO RAN OVER 40 FOCTJBANKINT ORTOXVILLE. Minn.. July 1.—An •who believed himself not to be my | automobile containing Charles anil j husband." The family refuse to divulge ; waiter Rucholz and child today ran j the whereabouts of the old man. He ; full speed over a sheer embankment has promised to visit his brother at of forty feet into Rig Stone lake, land— Pavonia Sunday, and they are plan- ! j ng right side up in twentv feet of ning to have all the family present, j water. Charles Bucholz was ‘internally They will make a supreme effort to hurt by the steering wheel and may efface the second personality. " - THE DEBUTANTE'S CATECHISM. ( hospital, somewhere in Eleventh street, 1 Xew York, where there was a doctOT 1 (To be carefully committed to mem- j named Fithian. “He told me I was j ory by young girls who are entering. Charles Johnson,” the old man would j on their first season.) : cry again and again, as they would Q. Who are you? 'call him bv name. A. A society deputante j Wife Give* Him Up. Q. What is a society debutante. : «j w-ould n0 { have him among us | A. A girl of eighteen who is going : a g a i nst his will.” said his resigned: through t.ie important process of be- jwife. "How could I live with a man j Q. Who brings you out? A. My mother. Q. For what purpose? A. For the purpose of what is tech nically termed "getting you off.” Q. Explain the meaning of this tech nical term “getting you off.” A. It means to convey me bodily, with all my contingent advantages, drawbacks and expenses of mainte nance, to the first eligible man who Is willing to take an assignment of the property. Q. What is an eligible man? A. A man begins .to be eligible at ten thousand pounds a year, and his eligibility increases upward In arith metical progression. Q. Of what age is the eligible man? A. He may be of any age from 20 to 80. Q. Of what appearance is he? A. He may he of any appearance from a Belvedere Apollo to an Orange Outang. But he is more often in clined to the latter appearance. Q. Of what character is he? A. He may be of good character, or, as is more frequently the case, of no character. Q. Of what nationality is he? A. The eligible man may he of any nationality, or (which is more usual) a conglomeration of all nationalities from Palestine westward. Q. What is a society wedding? A. A ceremony in the course of which, amid the most sacred surround ings, and the most solemn formulas, the greatest possible amount of lies and perjury is compressed into the smallest possible compass of words. Q. Where are these perjuries com mitted? A. At the altar of a smart church. Q. By whom are they committed? A. By both the bridegroom and the bride, who. in the name of God, make all sorts of solemn promises that they have no intention whatever of carry ing out. Q. Is there any sin in committing perjury under such conditions? A. There is no sin but rather a vir tue in so doing. Q. By what proofs can you support this? A. By the presence and approval of my dear father and mother, and by the benediction of the Bishop or other high ecclesiastical dignitary, who per forms the ceremony. Q. What is a -detrimental? A. A good-looking but impecunious young man whose attentions I have repelled coldly before marriage and shall encourage warmly afterwards. Q. What are children? A. The plague of married life, from which it is my most earnest and pious wish that I may be exempted. Q. What is the maternal instinct? A. A fashionable sentiment among our ancestors which went out with bonnets, chaperones and table-centers. Q. What it a heart? ’ A. An internal organ connected with the circulation of- the blood. Q. What is love? A. A form of mental disease describ ed by poets and writers of fiction, but only prevalent in the present day among the lower orders.— London Truth. INTERESTING GOSSIP FROM NATION’S CAPITOL WASHIXGTOX, June 30.—General James H. Baker, of Minnesota, who was commissioner of pensions under President Gr$nt, has been visiting rel atives here. He tells a good story of an encounter with an aged man who asked him for money with which to buy a drink. General Baker was wait ing for a car, when the old'fellow, who noted the G. A. R. button on the gen eral’s coat, saluted and made his re quest, declaring that he had fought in the war. General .Baker doubted the man's statement and said so, ask ing why he wore neither his button nor the uniform. The old man replied that he had an unfortunate appetite for strong drink and that, when going on a spree, he put aside all the insignia for the reason that he did not want to disgrace them. To prove his assertion he produced an old worn envelope out of which he took a pension certificate dated 1873 and bearing General Bakers own signature. He got his pittance. Secretary Wilson, who. as everyone knows, hails from Iowa, is engaged in a pretty feud with F. D. Coburn, secre tary of the Kansas Board of Agricul- ture. The row started two years ago die. Walter Bueliolz is in a serious condition. The child escaped. THIS DOG A TELEPATHIST. Able to Tell Mistress Whether Master is Coming Home to Supper. CLEVELAXD, July 1.—Mrs. Henry Glenzer, of Xo. 1S3 Cork avenue. Lake- wood, hate a pet dog that tells her whether her husband is coming home for supper. "I don’t know how the dog knows whether Kis master is coming home,” said Mrs. Glenzer tonight: "but he has never failed me yet. I merely yell: ‘Rover, get your master’s slippers: it is nearly time to meet him.’ If the dog leaps up, and, taking the slippers in his mouth, runs across the fields to meet my husband. I cook supper for him and myself. But if Rover merely wags his tail and makes no move to ward the slippers, I know Mr. Glenzer is working overtime, and I prepare supper only for myself.” NEW READING OF Will COST HER (000,000 UNIQUE PHILADELPHIA COIN DEAL ALSO FIGURES IN HOUSEKEEPER’S CLAIM ON ESTATE Broken Rail Was Cause of Accident FAYETTEVILLE, Ark.. July 1.— The Frisco’s fast Southbound cannon ball train, was wrecked five miles from hero at S o’clock Sunday morning as a result of a wash-out. Ten passengers were injured, or.e seriously. A heavy freight had passed ovc-r tiie track after storm, breaking a section from the rail, nearly two feet in length which was not noticed by the crew. when Secretary Wilson put Kansas in (Engineer Stevenson was but a few the class of 'arid” States. Instantly from the trouble when he saw it. and there "as a long howl from every as it was too late to stop the train, armor in Kansas and Secretary Co- i with presence of mind, he opened the burn promptly issued a pamphlet show- throttle wide with the hope of running A PUZZLING CASE OF I A MAN FAILS TO RECOGNIZE WIFE AND CHILDREN AND .IMAG INES HIMSELF ANOTHER.* 1.15 Inches in 1901. (33). The greatest amount of precipitation lantic steamship built at Cramp recorded in any 24 consecutive hours I Son's ship yard. Philadelphia, was 2.02 inches on 23rd and 24th 1902. : 1S73—Manufacture of tin plates first The greatest amount of snowfall re- Introduced in the United States corded in any 24 consecutive hours | (Wellsville. O.) (record extending to winter of 1SS4-S3 j 1873 —Natural gas first used in only) was — inches on . I American iron works. Clouds and Weather. ! 1876—Committee on nomenclature of Average number of clear days, 7; j iron and sleel_met at Philadelphia. partly cloudy days. 17: cioudv days 7 Wind. The prevailing winds have been from the South. The average hourly velocity of the wind is 4.8. The highest velocity of the wind was|T. 1S77—Bell Telephone first used ih | United States. i 1SS0—Production of pig iron in the United States 4,295,414 tons. 1SS2—A. L. Holley received the Bes semer medal, and died at Brooklyn, X. 55 miles from the South on July 1902. Station: Macon, Ga. Date of issue: June 29. 3 907. W. A. MITCHELL. * ^Observer, Weather Bureau. HONEST RAILS TO BE DEAR. 11,1 1882—F. W. Shippen used petroleum ’ j as blast furnace fuel at Meadville, Pa. | 1S44—First bassic steel made experi mentally at Steelton, Pa. ; 3SS5—The Bessemer casting pit first dispensed with in America. 18S6—Last charcoal furnace operat- j ed in the Lehigh Valley. 1SSS—Edgar Thomson rail mill de- Capt. W. R. were like elongated tables, the switch- j . . Z* sockets being set into the flat top nnd ! SAX AXTOXIO. Tex.. July 1.-—A the cords for connecting them being special to the Express from Saltillo, suspended from the celling. Appara- i Mexico, says: tus of this sort was clumsy and slow '■ A plan to rid the sidewalks and pub- to operate, besides being limited in the 1 He gardens of the street beggars 's number of lines it could provide for. : under advisement by the Federal au- It was abandoned in tiie United States j thorities of Mexico. A commission is n quarter of a century ago. but it : to be appointed to investigate the is a curious commentary on the lack i matter. of progressiveess in some directions of ! It I s the intention to compel al! able The Cassatt Soecificatlon Bars the Steel signed and started by Trust’s Air Holes. : T or1( -<; makers.^rett:'• riir.g'front ^confereame’Tn Xew 1 l 888 —Basic steel first produced York with the railroad men tell for the commercially in the United States, first time what .caused the United States] 1889—Capt. W. R. Jones killed by ed trust to demand $5 a ton advance ! an accident at the Edgar Jones steel manufacture of the proposed Cas- j mill. 1890—The Iron and Steel Institute met in America for the first time. 1S90—W. D. Alien and Hon. Abram S. Hewitt received Bessemer medals. 1890—Production of pig iron in the United States 10,307,000 tons. 1899— The world’s production of pig iron was 39.100.000 tons, of which the United States produced 34.6 per cent, 1 men have cut off i and Germany and Luxenburg 20.7 per u 1 ’"■* ■‘’" cent. 1S99—Basic open-hearth steel commercially manufactured i: United States. (Alabama.) 1900— Production of pig iron in the United States 13.7S9.242 tons. 1904— The Iron and Steel Institute met in America for the second time. 1905— The world’s production of pig iron exceeded 54.500,000 tons, of which the United States produced 42.7 per cent. 1906— Joint meeting of the American Institute of Mining Engineers and the Iron and Steel Institute in London. for tl satt rail Under the specifications furnished by the Pennsylvania Railroad for the Cas satt rail the steel makers will he com pelled to cut off 27 nor cent from the ton of each ingot from which the rail is made. The late President Cassatt always de clared that airholes formed at the 'top of every Ingot. and that the rails were weakened by their nreseni Heretofore the ste- about 2 ner cent of specifications for the 25 per cent. MEXICAN AUTHORITIES ARE PLANNING TO OUST BEGGARS but th satt rail call for rails the our trans-Atlantic cousins that it is still in use in some of the Government operated exchanges of Europe. Xo doubt their backwardness in adopting improvements accounts for the small development of European telephone systems as compared with the devel opment in this, country. Tn the last few years there have been devised so-called "automati •*" telephone systems In which the sub scriber does the work of making con nections between his lines and the lines of other subscribers, instead of that work bei: g done by an operator in the central office. In small communi ties where the expense of giving dav- td-night. Sunday-and-holiday. a'l- -year-rountl service by irean: bodied men who are found begging to learn some trade by which they can make a living. Already there is a law- in Mexico restricting begging to cer tain days. DOZEN PEOPLE HURT IN DERAILMENT OF CAR. RROCTOX. Mass., July 1.—A dozen people were badly hurt in the derailment ] of an electric car of the Old Colony street railway line here tonight. STEAMER PERSIAN GOT HOLE FROM COLLISION. SYRIAN EMIGRANT FATALLY WOUNDED HIS WIFE. BOSTON. July 1.—The steamer Persian arrived today from Philadel-1 pliia with a hole in her bow and sev eral plates damaged as the result of a collision in Pollock Rip Slue. Vine yard Sound last night with another steamer supposed to be tiie British steamer Hesperides. from Boston to The Persian teas not PARIS. July 1.—A Syrian emigrant. -sa Hi a-, on his way from Shreveport t.. to Revruth. shot his wife and mor- 11 v wounded her. He attempted to shoot s five children also, but was seized liy titer passengers, who tried to lynch him. i the brother. “Let me show you.” BURLINGTON, N. J., Juno 30.—Re stored aiive to his family after having been mourned four years as dead, but lost to himself, is the strange sacLfate of Ccharles P. Brewin, for thirty years a staunch citizen of this old Revolu tionary town. He is a man that was. To himself Charles P. Brew-in is child with but two years of memory, in pite of the three score that have set snow on his head. He is now, thinks, Charles Johnson, a gray little tailor, whose interest in life does not extend much beyond his “goose.” whose economy includes naught but his daily bread, and whose love and affection never having been reborn to illumine the blank wail or aphasia, knows not wife nor child. Yet wife and children are weeping over him. trying to per suade the amazed little man he is of their flesh and blood. A stranger case of dual identity, with oneself dead, has seldom been dis closed. Physicians who have known the whilom tailor as the prosperous Charles P. Brewin say the pressure of a small bone on the skull is the cause of all the trouble, but “Charles John son” knows naught of medical science and cares less, and he is very much averse to having doctors open his head to see what is the matter. His dual history dates from four years ago, in November when his wife and children awoke to find him gone. He had heen a deacon for a generation in the First Baptist Church of this city, and was prominently identified with the G. A. R. These and other or ganizations gave aid in the search. The curtain seemed to fail on the last act when the missing man’s hat was found on a Jersey Central ferry-boat in Xew York, with a note, telling his wife he would die. During his service in the war he suffered sunstroke, which brought on a neurotic condition inter mittently, and this was charitably ascribe as the cause for his act, by the friends and family who loved him. There were trials for the family in th« years that followed. The son took up the business of tailoring, and the wife opened a bakeshop. The disappearance of Brewin was not a mystery to them. He was dead and a memory. Discovered by Chance. Monday last Alfred 'Woolman, a trol ley conductor, was taking his car into Plainfield when he thought he recog nized a weakened-faced old man, and called him by name.. “I am not Charles Brewin.” cried the old man. “I am Charles Johnson.” He sprang from the car and disappeared Woolman told Frank, the missing man’s son. and Will, his brother, who lives at Pavonia. Tuesday they set out for Plainfield and found the little tail or busheiing a suit of clothes. The son walked on him abrupty, cryingt “Father, don’t you remember me?" The old man took his eyes from his board, and stared blankly at the youth. He appeared bewildered, but there was no ray of recognition. "Xo, I do not know you. I never had a son. I was never married,” he said, and returned to his tailoring. "But. Charlie, you surely remember me—Will?” cried the brother. “Will—Xo I do not remember Will. I never knew Will.” And he turned again to his work. “Don't you remember when we were kids: I hit you and cut your lip? There is the scar' yet.” The old man felt of the scar, but shook his head. He took a bunch of keys from his pocket to unfasten his locker. "That's the key ring that Uncle Ned gave you when j-ou were a boy.” cried ing that Kansas produces more stuff than Iowa, and that in the production of wheat and corn combined Kansas leads al! the States in the Union. This direct jab at Iowa hurt Mr. Wilson, and when the green, hug was devasta ting the Kansas wheat fields recentl.v the Secretary of Agriculture ignored Secretary Coburn and issued advise to the Kansas farmers direct. This ad vice was to the effect that the farmers of Kansas should plant turkey ret* wheat. The Secretary said that in 1897 he had made some experiments with this wheat and found that it withstood the ravages of hugs hotter than any other variety. The advice was contain ed In the form of a letter, which was published in all the Kansas newspa pers. Coburn let it get its widest pub licity and then he gave out a state ment himself, showing that for the last 20 years Kansas has produced practi cally no other kind of wheat. Imme diately. millers and wheat growers all through the country began to poke fun at "Farmer” Wilson for making experi ments in 1897 with wheat which Kan sas had grown successfully and almost exclusively for a decade prior to that year. This hasn't served to sweeten Secretary Wilson’s temper, and the war between the head of the Agricul tural Department and the Kansas of ficial promises to be more interesting than ever. A new plan for connecting the Mis sissippi with the South Atlantic is now attracting attention. Lewis H. Haupt, a well-known engineer, would con struct a ship canal reaching from Cairo, Ill., to Brunswick. Ga. He as serts that this route is only 1308 miles long and that it would be the shortest and most practicable connection ob tainable between the Mississippi Val ley and the Atlantic Coast. Mr. Haupt would utilize a number of the rivers of the South, and thinks that the en tire canal could be constructed for $40,000,000. He is confident that it would pay for itself in thirty years. Interesting information concerning the plans and ambitions of Senator LaFollette have been brought to Wash ington from Wisconsin. According to this information the Badger State is going to indorse the Senator for Presi dent. and he will go to the Repub lican national convention next year with its 26 delegates behind him. There is a string to the delegation, however, for it wiK be thrown to Roosevelt provided the President re considers his refusal to accept a third term. There is one thing, though that LaFollette will not do, according to the report, and that is support Presi dent’s Roosevelt choice in the conven tion. His phsition may' seem rather paradoxical, but it may be explained on the ground that the Senator, while willing to vote for Roosevelt for an other term, holds a grudge against him personally. He contends that the President has been ‘mocking’ him. and has said so to a number of his per sonal friends. Mr. Roosevelt, the Sen ator declares, classes him as an ex tremist and as- an unsafe man to have in the’Wliite House. over the gap The engine, baggage car. smoker and chair car passed safely over, but t io heavy Pullmans refused to follow. The dining car and two sleepers turned over Most of the damage was done in the dining car. The injuries were confined almost entirely to cuts and bruises. R. R. Weems, of Vanburen, was more seriously injured than any one else but will live. Others injured were: J. E. Harness. St.. Louis. Mrs. McGehee. Kentucky. F. E. Adams. Biackrock, Ark. Mrs. G. N. Callahan. Fort Smith. J. J. Xessbaumer, San Antonia. Tex Miss Robertson, of Snringfieid, Mo. B. L. Barry, Dailis, Texas. A. F. Dunyan, Richmond. Vn. F. E. Goodman, St. Augustine. Fla. FALL RIVER LINE STEAMER COLLIDED WITH SCHOONER. NEWPORT. R. L., July 1.—During very thick weather and a rough sea the Fail River line steamer Puritan, from New York for Newport and F;V River, ran into and badly damaged the schooner Mildred A. Pope, off F^tikners Island, near Xew Haven last night. There was no loss of life, although Captain Robbins of the schooner and two of his crew and the mate’s wife were rescued with great difficulty. PITTSBURG, July 3.—Believing that it was the wish of his dying brother, Robert K. Wilson turned over to his cousin. Miss Mary Baird, the entire estate of the deceased, valued at $250,000, only- to have it forced back on him by a decision of Judge Miller, handed down in the Orphans' Court A few complications are also added ta the case. When David G. Wilson died in Feb ruary. 1906, he left a will bequeath ini his entire estate to his brother ana ‘naming the latter as executor. A let ter attached to the will was. howevet, interpreted as a codicil by the execu tor, and he turned the estate over to Miss Baird, who for many years had heen housekeeper for her bachelor cousins on their large estate at Leets- dale. Included in the estate was a rare collection of old coins. These Miss Baird gave to her nephew, P. Leet Oliver (the young millionaire who was killed in an automobile accident at Xew Haven. Conn., a few days ago, and who was buried here), for ap praisement. He fixed a low price and she sold the collection to a Mr. Chap man. of Philadelphia, for $8,S00. Tho latter resold it for $15,000. and Miss Baird sued fcg- its return, claiming misrepresentation. This suit is now pending. Judge Miller in his decision decrees that the letter left by David G. Wil son provides that Miss Baird receive $40,000, not tho whole estate, and or ders the fortune turned over to Rob ert K. Wilson. BODY OF.DEAD FARMER FOUND IN YARD OF NEGRO FAMILY. COLUMBIA, 8. C.. July 1.—The body of Dick Williams, a farmer about 40 years old. was found in the yard of a negro family named Baker, near Springfield early this morning. It Is alleged that when hailed Williams re fused to give his name or his busi ness, whereupon a boy of the family- shot him to death. Late tonight it is said that a posse of fifty men are in search of the boy who did the killing and it is feared that he will he lynched if captured. PROF. KARL HAU’S DEFENSE MENTAL IRRESPONSIBILITY. KARLSRUHE, Germany. July 1.— Notwithstanding that he has been for mally examined and pronounced sane by experts, ti is probable that mental irre sponsibility will play a part in the defense of Karl Hau. the young professor for merly attached to George Washington University, who is charged with the mur der of his mother-in-law. Frau Molitor. The trial will begin on July 17 and his counsel have given notice that thov will call Prof. Schaffenberger, of Cologne, as an expeht on insanity. Although "reatlv affected by tiie sui cide of his wife, who drowned herself near Zurich a few weeks ago. Hau hears up 'well. He occupies a room alone In prison, which was given him at his own request. He is given considerable liberty-. MONKEY COMMITS SUICIDE. CHICAGO. Juiy 1—"Hooligan” lov ed a young woman and mourned when she left. He committed suicide by hanging himself from a gas fixture by- means of a chain attached to his neck. This tragic ending was the last of three attempts made by "Hooligan”— a monkey*—to kill himself. “Hooligan" was tile name of a small pet reared by- the family of Charles Keller. 2107 Michigan avenue. Kath erine Carson, a nineteen-year-old girl who lived there, formed an attachment for the little animal and devoted much of her spare time to his amusement. Several months ago Miss Carson left to be married. "Hooligan” was in despair. He haunted the room for merly occupied by the young woman and wandered disconsolately- through the house looking for her cheering presence. Six weeks ago the monkey made two attempts to kill himself. !•<> had grown thin and ematiated and refused to eat. One day he was found stretch ed out on the floor near the chai* where Miss Carson was accustomed to sit nnd by his side was discovered an empty ether bottle, which was used for cieaning purposes. A doctor who was called declared that “Hooligan" had drank part of the contents of the bottle. The second attempt to end his life was made a few days later, when tho monkev swallowed part of a bottle of chloroform. He was brought back to life by liberal applications of mor phine administered hypodermically. After the second attempt at suicide, Mr. Keller tied "Hooligan" by a chain to a wall gas bracket in one of tho downzstafrs rooms and kept all instru ments of self murder from his reach. The animal, however, was gradually starving to death. Today he leapeh from a chair to the gas bracket and succeeded in en tangling the chain so that lie swung clear from the floor. When found by- Mr. Keller he was dead. DEVELOPMENT OF ART CULTURE IN UNITED STATES. XEW YORK. July 1.—The development of art culture in the United States is fore casted In a movement which has begun throughout the country for the establish ment at Washington of a national depart ment of fine arts, the head of which shall be a member of the Cabinet. Plans for the national department of fine a-rts, which have just become public, include the establishment of an Athenaeum, which shall have control over a sehooi of arts ami a conservatorv of music and the erection of art galleries by the Gov ernment in many- cities throughout the country. Five leading colleges are behind this movement, which Is being directed by several leading architects in the United States. NOTED ALABAMA WOMAN, NATIVE OF GEORGIA, DEAD. MONTGOMERY, Ala.. July 1.—Mrs. Carrie C. Lomax, one of the most noted women of Alabama, died here tonight. She was the widow of Col. Tennent Lo max. who was killed at the battle of Seven Pines. Mrs. Lomax was a native of Jones county. Georgia, and was 81 years old. She had a large fortune and devoted many years of her life to charity. MINERAL WELLS WERE THREATENED BY FIRE. trators is prohibitive, a limited field damaged enough to require assistance. 1 ness losses. He wac rescued however, and has been nt to jail. Risk established himself in Shreveport fifteen years a n as :, nr r- ehant of Oriental goods. He left ,\me-ica cause he had recently suffered bitsi- It was a thick ring that could be opened only by a pin. The brother opened it. i he iiitie tailor turned on him in amazement. The birth of his memory began in a In the appointment of the immigra tion commission the administration has taken official notice of the serious labor problem involved in the exodus of nearly- 100.000 people in 1906 to Canada, and the strenuous and sys tematic efforts being made by the Dominion to secure new settlers for the western provinces. The construc tion of the Grand Trunk Pacific, 3,600 miJes in length alone, is requiring an immense number of laborers. The Canadian movement, on top of the un satisfied requirements of American industry, has made it imperatively necessary that wise stimulation of immigration be taken up, and the newly appointed commission will make a study of this matter immediately abroad. Until r.ow Canada h^s out stripped the United States in its com petition for labor. One reason for this lies in the allurements of the rich i and fertile lands, which are being awakened by the new Grand Trunk Pacific. Already 3,000 people have set tled where it was supposed five years ago no human being could attempt to make a livelihood, and these settlers are said to have found mild winters and delightful climatic conditions. Dr. Harvey- 1Y. Wiley, chief of the government bureau of chemistry, sailed for France this week. When he re turns he will find another fight on his > hands, and one that will be pushed ! vigorously. The sugar interests of the South are resentful of the official's statements that he use of molasses is deleterious to health. In order to disprove this assertion negro prisoners in Xew Orleans were utilized as sub jects for experiments with the treacle. As a result, it Is declared, it has been shown that molasses, instead of being injurious, builds up the human system, enriches the blood, and aids in the digestion of other foods. It is said that if Dr. Wiley sticks to his decision and puts molasses under the ban it will mean an annual loss of approxi mately $5,000,000 to the sugar growers of the South. Miss Elizabeth Nye Dead. _ ?°y* a ‘ Oyster Bay. AUSTIN, Tex.. July J.—Miss Eli- dnre. Jr. anil Ktrmii' Roosevelt have ? a beth Xye. a sculptor died today of arrived at Sagamore Kill to spend their heart disease. She has been living here school vacations, ... 1 quietly * or ten years. Beauties of a Cold. From the London Sketch. There Is nothing quite so comfortable as a slight cold in the head. Catch a slight cold in the head, and you will en-*» joy a stuffy satisfaction that would drive’ an opium-eater mad with envy. .Cara cannot touch you; the mere everv-day concerns of life shrivel and disappear. You walk about with an open mouth, screwed-up eyes and a red nose: the ef fect is not pretty, but your appearance solicits sympathy. and you eret any amount of it. There is something very disarming, too. about a slight cold in the head. It is practically impossible to suspect of hypocrisy a man who is snuf fing and coughing, and patting his chest and dabbing his eves. Some* men are ."ifted with perpetual colds in the head, and they drive extraordinary bargains. A cold is soothing, moreover, to the nerves. A man who ordinarily would m?H a circuit of half a milo or wait, until Sunday in order to cross the Strand’ will stroll calmly under the very nose of- a motor ’bus when be happens to have a cold in the head. And nobody will deny,' I suppose, that a cold improves th« apo^-- tite. Hence the old wife's maxim with’ regard to feeding a ccld. As io drink, everybody knows that a man with a cold in the head is proof again«t the evil ef fects of alcohol. Be thankful, therefore, that you have one. Snuffle and be merry, for tomorrow vou will be well. MINERAL WELLS.- Texas. July 1. —Mineral Wells, with nearly ten thous and visitors from all over the South, was threatened with total destruction bv fire tonight, the loss aggregating $100,000. The fire started in a new skating rink not yet opened and spread to Mineral W'ells sanitarium, a four- storv brick building filled with pa tients. No loss of life is reported. The empty Mineral Wells bath house, Lithia pavilion and part of the W r ann Hotel, were destroyed. About 30 small frame structures were also burned. Ubiauitous Tin Can. The ubiquitous American tin can is proving in its way a kind of universal civilizer, since It is found doing duty for a variety of purposes in almost every country on the face of the earth, says Zion’s Herald. In Japan tomato cans are utilized as flowerpots. In China salmon cans are used as soup ladles and in the Himalayas painted tin cans serve as head-dresses for idols. Soutli Sea belles use tin cans as hand mirrors, while Pat agonian chiefs wear them suspended about their necks as ornaments. The Eski mos use peach cans for bird traps, the. bright flashing of the tin on the top of a pole attracting tlie curiosity of the birds so that they are Induced to fly close to the hunters. A quorr sort of drum was found by one explorer in the Tierra del Fuogo Islands made out of tin cans, tn Turkey oil cans are commonly used in the place of pails to carry water, or, bat tered out. are employed for sheathing on huts. Tin plate has been manufactured in America since 1392. and tin cans have been made for a longer period. This in dustry is now one of the most important In the world. Every month America makes enough tin cans to belt the globa if the sides were spread out. TEXAS HAS NOT YET RAISED BARS AGAINST CONSUMPTIVES, WILLING TO RETURN WITHOUT EXTRADITION. SAX FRANCISCO, July 1.—Paul Kelly, a Xew York motorman. who was arrested night, tonight said that he was willing to return to Xew York without extradition. In 1905 Kelly was in charge of an elevated train which was wrecked, resulting in the death of six persons. AUSTIN. Texas. June 30.—State Health Officer Brumby has made no official order looking to the quaran tining of consumptives attempting to enter Texas, though in consequence of an agitation of the subject his atten tion has been directed to the subject for a week or ten days past. The matter has been discussed on several previous occasions when oth-r health officers were in charge under* previous administrations, but nothing has ever resulted. The present agita tion was prompted by the death of at consumptive on a train in West ^exas a’bout two weeks ago. He now has the matter under consideration, but what ever he does will only be done after mature deliberation. Hundreds of consumptives come to Texas every year and up to the pres ent time little formidable opposition has been offered. It is believed that Dr. Brumby may issue a statement on the subject within a few days. RABBI JULIUS T. LOEB ACCEPTS ATLANTA CALL. ATLANTA, Ga., June 30.—Rabbi T\ Loeb, of Washington. D. C., a well- know Hebrew theologian, today accept ed a call from Beth-Israel congregation of this city. Beth-Israel is a new con gregation and has a handsome church 'building nearing completion. Rabbi Loeb will assume his new;, duties thK first Sunday In August. ,