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LEISHMAN- TO SUCCEED HILL
be sent there. It has been stated thai Major von Kiderlen Waechter, the
German secretary of foreign affairs, who has a personal acquaintance with Mr.
Leishman, is much pleased with his appointment. The selection also is very
acceptable to German society, in which Mr, Leishman and his family have
many friends. Mr. Leishman’s transfer was necessarily followed by other
changes in the diplomatic service.
GORDON-BENNETT CUP WINNER
Charles T. Weymann, winner of the
prize cup at the Gordon-Bennett avia
tion race, was the sole American rep
resentative in this tte principal inter
national speed contest of the year.
Weymann was born in Haiti twenty
two years ago, and has lived practic
ally all his life in France. He is much
more at home speaking French than
English. Called upon to respond to a
number of flattering compliments that
were showered upon him at an in
formal dinper after the race, the vic- -
torious American, after much hesita
tion, replied with the one word “Mercl.”
He is not a Don Quixote of the air,
but has held records for speed, pas
senger-carrying and cross-country
flights. On his wonderful overland
flight from Paris, for 280 miles to
Clermont-Ferrand, only dense fog pre
vented him from fulfilling the condi
tions of the Michelin prize of $20,000
for flying with a passenger from the
French capitol to Puy de Dome, a
mountain 4,800 feet in height, within SRR
six hours. He was the only airman to start with the ill-fated Chavez for the
flight across the Alps last autumn.
Weymann is the Good Samaritan of aviation. In several of the big coun
try flights in Franse he stopped by the wayside to give first aid to fledglings
with crippled wings and lacerated heads., On one occasion he halted in his
breathless race across the country to carry a luckless comretitor in his aero
plane ambulance to the nearest town. After losing his chances in the con
test, Weymann philosophically resumed his flight. Because of his surplus
of good nature, Weymann is a favorite with the flyers of all nations.
COMMISSIONER OF PATENTS
depurtment to nine principal capitals of Europe on international reciprocal
patent protection. Then he served as delegate to the Fourth International
Conference of American States at Buenos Ayres, Argentine, in the summer
of 1910, in charge of matters relating to patents, trade marks and copyrights.
GOMEZ A CUBAN MALCONTENT
Juan Gualberto Gomez is a Cuban
malcontent who has been conspiring
with others to have President Gomez
{mpeached and to make a qo»conspira
tor, Vice-President Zayas, governor of
Cuba under American suzerainty. It
s unlikely that he will succeed.
A little over ter years ago the
United States undertook a costly war
to free Cuba and when after some
years of self-government the Cubans
failed in the primary purposes of all
governments—to secure the safety of
jife and property—this country was
forced to intervene. When the last
of our soldlers after the period of
occupation left the island the state
ment was made on the floor of our na
tional congress that if the United
States were again called upon to in
tervene the American flag might never
again be lowered in Cuba
But in spite of this warning political
plotting is going on in the island and,
_‘_‘gccording to reports, with the object
of bringing about United States inter-
vention. Our government, however, gave assurances that it had no imme
diate intention of interfering in the affairs of Cuba, but the criminality of
‘Juan Gomez is no less pronounced on that account.
. The poison of political discontent and revoluticnary plotting seems to
pervade Latin America, Central America today is in a turmoil. Venezuela,
in South America, after a respite from the years of bloody despctism under
the iron rule of Castro, is facing another revolution. Mexico is in a transition
_stage from bloody conflict to uncertain peace,
John G. A. Leishman was proposed
to the German government by Wash
ington as American ambassador, to
succeed Dr. David Jayne Hill, who
resigned last spring.
The United States asked whether
the appointment of Mr. Leishman, who
at present is American ambassador at
Rome, would be acceptable to the
kaiser’s government, through Count
Von Bernstorff, the German ambassa
dor at Washington. Mr. Leishman’s
name was submitted by telegraph to
Emperor William, who was touring in
the grand duchy of Mecklenberg. Em
peror William, immediately on receiv
ing the proposal of Washington, tele
graphed his reply to the foreign of
fice. The action taken is almost un
precedented in promptness.
Mr. Leishman’s long service as a
diplomat qualifies him particularly in
the eyes of the emperor, who several
times has spoken of the need of an
experienced ambassador for the Berlin
post and to his desire that no novice
Edward Bruce Moore, commissioner
of patents in Washington, came promi
nently into the public eye the other
day when the one millionth United
States patent was issued.
Mr. Moore has worked his way up
from the ranks. He entered the patent
office as assistant examiner in 1883,
and from that time served in various
capacities until he was made commis
gioner, in June, 1907. He has spent
twenty-eight years in the government
service.
Edward Bruce Moore has had a
wide and varied experience while serv
ing Uncle Sam. Before he was ap
pointed commissioner of patents he
was assigned as special commissioner
to the Paris exposition, in 1900. In
the summer of 1908 he was appointed
United States delegate to the Inter
national Conference for the Protection
of Industrial Property, which was held
in Stockholm, Sweden.
Later, in the fall of 1909, he acted
as special commissiorer of the state
HAVING conducted successfully the Mexican revolution by which Diaz was driven from the country, Francisco
1. Madero, Jr., now finds that it is not easy to put an end to the fighting. Bands of Maderists in various
parts of the republic still are in arms, and Madero is traveling about trying to pacify them and to restore
peace among his countrymen.
METTLE OF FILIPINO
Tossed About on Open Sea for
Forty-Eight Hours.
He Had Eeen Maddened by Fear of
Sharks and by the Lost Chances
of Rescue—He Had Done
Best He Couid. ?
Manila, P. .—When the ship Poisat
went down off Malabon, Phillipine is
lands, recently Alejandro Lorenzo
jumped clear of the wreck. After an
hour’s swimming he found a hatch
cover on which he rested. Then he
started toward San Nicholas, pushing
the hatch cover ahead of him. He
was nearly successful and was just
reaching shallow water when the tide
carried him out to sea again. As night
came the wind increased and the
waves tossed him and his Watch cover
back and forth until he thought it
would be impossible for him to hold
his support, but toward midnight he
found that he was being washed to
ward the Cavite shore. Just as his
hope was strong the tide wind car
ried him to sea again. He struggled
against them, but was swept out.
Something brushed against his leg.
He thought it a shark and screamed
in fear.
“It - did not touch me again or I
should have gone mad.”
The water was cold, the night dark
and the rain beat down on him. He
heard a cry in the darkness and push
ed his hatch cover in the direction
from which it sounded. Toward morn
ing he found a Filipino boy, another
survivor of the wreck, clinging to an
oil box. They drifted together. When
daylight came they could see boats
and they shouted until they were ex
hausted, but could not make them
selves heard or seen. They were tor
tured by thirst. Salt water got into
their mouths. They drifted all day.
Night came again and shortly after
dark they saw the lights of a break
water, and with new hope noted that
they grew larger and more distinct.
They were being washed in again. The
boy was taken with cramps, lost his
Grizzlies Flee From Fire
Grazing District of Oregon Overrun
Ry Bears Driven From Homes by
Last Year’s Fires.
Portland, Ore.—One effect of the
forost fires which swept great areas
last year has been to drive a lot of
grizzly bears from their former feed
ing grounds and make them a men
ace to stock. Many reports have
ben received here recently of the
depredations of these big-animals on
the east slope of the Cascade moun
tains, and preparations are being made
to hunt them down.
The Cascade mountains have never
been known as the haunt of the griz
zlies. In the Blue mountains, about
260 miles to the east, however, the
animals have been known to be fair
ly plentiful.
Great areas of the Blue mountains
and near-by ridges were burned over
in the great forest fires of last year,
and so that spring the grizzlies did
not find the supplies of food to which
they had been accustomed. It is be
lieved that they then wandered across
the valleys to the range mnearer the
crest. Here they also found insuffi
cient supplies, and so they have turn
ed on the stock which ranges the east
slope of the Cascades.
Berry Hickson, an old-time woods
man of the Upper McKenzie river, had
a great surprise recently when he set
out on an expedition into the Cas
cades. In the middle of one night
severa: bears brought down one of
MADERO LABORING TO RESTORE PEACE
hold on the oil box and went down.
The man was washed toward the
middle of the bay and drifted during
the night. At dawn he was almost
ready to give up, but the wind and
waves headed him for the east shore
and he took heart. Then he saw boats
and used his last strength in trying
to reach them. The boatmen saw him,
and were able to get him in time, and
picked him out of the water. There
was not much of the man left, and
he was shrieking for water as he col
lapsed in the boat. He had been 48
hours on a rough sea in a bad storm
with a hatch cover for support. He
had been maddened by fear of sharks
and by the lost chances of rescue. As
he lay on a pallet after he found
himself able to talk again, his rescuers
spoke of his wonderful endurance. He
said, of course, he had done the best
he could. He wanted to live, he said.
Fish Imported Into Pacific Ocean Wa
ters Threaten Great Canning In
dustry—Feast on Young.
Seattle, Wash.—Men engaged in the
salmon industry in this state and Ore
gon are vastly excited over the dis
covery that their livelihood is threat
ened by the ravages of bass. There is
a demand that immediate measures be
taken to exterminate the latter fish.
It was only a few years ago when
in response to the agitation of sports
men and others who wanted more va
riety in fish, bass fry were imported in
large quantities and were planted in
various inland waters and the rivers.
It appears that they have multiplied
at an astonishing rate and at the be
ginning of the season they were re
ported to be very plentiful. Recently
the salmon men made the discovery
that has dismayed them. The bass
have penetrated far up the Columbia
river and its tributaries and have been
feasting on young salmon.
John M. Crawford, superintendent
of the fish hatcheries of Washington
his pack mules and ate it. He had to l
guard the others on succeeding nights,
and with difficulty got out of the coun
try with any of them. He has also
suffered losses in stock, and will join
with other hunters in going after this
big game.
Boy Plays Spartan.
Cincinnati.—An example of great
fortitude has been brought to the no
tice of the Cincinnati police. When a
patrol wagon rushed to the scene of
an accident, the crew found a boy of
19, who gives the name of John Cron
in, of Indianapolis, sitting calmly
against a telegraph post, with both his
legs cut off. He had tried to board a
freight train and had fallen beneath
the wheels. After the accident he
crawled to tke pole and braced him
self against it. A passer-by noticed
him. "
“What's the matter?” asked the
stranger.
“Nothing much,” he answered;
“Just lost both my feet—that’s all.”
Then the stranger called the police.
Record Wheat Crop.
Dixzon, Ill.—Elmer Byers of Palmyra
township has won the record of hav
ing raised the best crop of wheat in
that township. He had ten acres that
yielded 298 bushels by machine mea
sure, giving sixty pounds to the bushel.
The wheat average in Lee county has
increased about a third over last year. l
Bass Killing Off Salmon
RADIUM AND IODINE TO CURE
Remarkable Results With Consump.
tion Are Claimed for Preparation
of Hungarian Doctor.
Paris.—A new treatment for tuber
culosis, for which is claimed unusual
efficiency, was described to the Inter
national Tuberculosis society and
Therapeutic society here by the emi
nent tuberculosis specialists, Bern
hein and Dieupart.
The specific employed is a prepara
tion of radio-active menthol and
jodine. It was discovered by Doctor
Dessendeffy at Budapest. The com
position of the preparation is pep
tonized iodine, 0.06 centigrams, and of
radium bariumchloride, one-tenth of a
drop, in a gallon of ether.
Experiments on animals were so
encouraging that careful experiments
on humans were tried. After ten in
jections, in one case, almost all the
distressing symptoms ceased. Bern
heim and Dieupart detail 75 cases.
state, tells of the ravages he has ob
served. The hatcheries he conducts
are of great importance to the indus
try. They were started because it
was discovered that the trout played
havoc with the young salmon. In big
ponds the fry are hatched and millions
of salmon are guarded until they are
about three inches long, a size suf
ficient to permit them to escape the
trout. This plan has proved effective
for years.
“We can rear the salmon large
enough to get away from the trout,”
says Mr. Crawford, “but not the bass.
When you think that a bass can eat a
salmon four inches long or even
larger you can see how utterly impos
gible it is to keep the fish in the
ponds until they are of sufficient size
to care for themselves against the
new enemy without going to huge ex
pense. We raise them until they are
three inches long and then turn them
into the Kalama river, from which
they make their way down to the Co
lumbia. We have found that the bass
are lying in wait for them and gob
bling them as they appear.”
He advocates the prohibition by law
under heavy penalties of any further
planting of bass in the waters of the
state, an open season for this fish all
the year round and stringent meas
‘ures to destroy them. Unless some
thing is done he thinks it will be only
a few years before the salmon indus
try will be seriously crippled. He
would also bar pickerel, pike and
perch.
INDIAN CARVINGS ON A TREE
Missouri Woodmen Make Peculiar
Discoveries in Felling an Old Oak
—Work of Chickasaws.
Exeter, Mo.—While woodmen were
cutting timber on Indian creek the
) other day a large oak tree was felled
that proved to be historic as well as
an old Indian landmark. A picture
of an Indian with bow and arrow
pointing at a running deer was carved
in the bark of the tree near the
ground, while higher up were piec
tures of the rising sun with an In
dian kneeling, a flying eagle, a turtle
lying on its back and a victure of a
snake.
More than a dozen arrows were em
bedded in the tree, where they had
been shot many years ago. From the
character of the carving it is thought
to be the work of Chickasaws.
Suffer From “®ily Eye.” ?
South Norwalk, Conn.—One hundred
thousarnd gallons of oil have been
placed on the streets of this “town.
Now the people are suffering from
"‘Ofly eye,” the newest of human as
fllctions, according to the physicians
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threw away the fish and brought home
the bait.
Could Take Her Choice.
As the railroad train was stopping,
an old lady not accustomed to travel
ing, hailed the passing conductor and
asked:
“Conductor, what door shall I get
out by?”
“Either door, ma’am,” graciously
answered the conductor. ‘“The car
stops at both ends.”—Galesburg Mall.
A Thirst for Information.
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“Who made the after-dinner
speeches at Belshazzar’s feast?”
A Commuter’s Explanation.
Ihe man in the iron mask explained.
“They assured me there were no
mosquitoes here,” he cried
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