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ator Foster, of Washington, has ceive Renee tnd se meotnnion 8 ys Saute ent Roosevelt wants a glorio* 3 huxtt for bruin he can tell when the great game is plentiful. The Alaska ar of bear is said to weigh from to 1,800 pounds, ‘ A recent letter in Mr. Foster's a ‘from Seattle tells the story. ° “shipped 300 head of cattle and 9,100 breeding ewes to Kodiac, Alaska, last spring,” writes a firm of packers from that city. “The bears have been getting into the bunch and have killed 503 up to date. During the mixup about 12 bears ’ were slain.. About 30 days ago two bears got into the sheep and after killing 21 sheep and tearing the coat off one man the bears were killed. The United States marshal, on hearing of this, had all our men arrested for killing the bears. Five of our men were compelled to stand trial at considerable expense to us. _ “The bears are very numerous on the island,” concludes thie letter, “and since they have tasted sheep the sheep are badly scared*and are continually piling up. Unless something is done with the bears they will put us out of business,” Senator Foster is puzzled as to just how he can help his constituents in their plight. They assert that “‘a bounty ot atleast $5 a head should be placed on bears for a year or two in order to clean them out.” INDOMITABLE AUTOMOBILE. “Made Its Way Through When Wires an, Were Down and Railroads ie Were Tied Up. ~The furious rainstorm that swept over the eastern states in the early part of last October raged during the first four days of the automobile en- durance run from New York to Pitts- -burg. When the vanguardof the con- testing machines -having struggled through tremendous hardships, reached ‘Bath, N. Y., on the third day, the newspaper men hurried to the tele- graph office with their reports. To their dismay they found that the wires}. were down, and that any messages would have to be sent .from Corning, several miles away. i “When is the next train for Corning due?” the operator was asked. “No trains have been running for several hours,” he repiied. “A good many of the bridges about here have been washed away. You can’t get a horse. No farmer would stir out on a day like this.” “What is running?” Wsked a repore ter, in despair. “Only the automobiles,” was the ree ply. : through the mud to Corning. The value of the American automobile foe hard, practical service had been proved, INSULTED TWO MEXICANS. | * . z | : An American Accidentally Brushed Against Them and Affair Nearly Ended in a Duel. A-well known member of the Amerl- can colony boarded a crowded car one day last week and in the jam happened to brush against two Mexican gentle- men, well dressed and of distinguished appearance. One of them, after a few tense words With his friend, turned to the American gentleman and com- menced expostulating with him, saya the Mexican Herald. The American, not understanding Spanish well, thought nothing particular of the inci- dent until the two men got offthe car when he did and continued to address im as before. Calling a friend who was passing he asked him to act as interpreter. Then’ he discovered that the two men thought he had insulted them by brushiag against them and they asked for satisfaction. The Amer- ican got mad. He told the two gentle- men that he would meet them, one after the other, at ahy place, with any weapon, and would give them all tho satisfaction that they-tould--possibly}° want. With that the American hand- ed them his card. They glanced at the » Mame on the card, then took off their hats, bowed low and begged the Amer- icano’s pardon, saying that ‘théy were mistaken, for the Americano was a _ gentleman and would not insult them under any circumstances, : Coconut Set THYUgH Malls, A letter carrier in the Louisville (Ky.) post office was surprised to find among the mail matter ready for his distribue tion a few days ago a large cocoanut in all its natural hairy coverings. He thought at first that some one was try~ ing to play a joke on him, but opoa looking closely discovered that the coanut ‘was duly stamped, postmarked, and addressed to a young woman on his regular route. It had been sent froma Florida town and bore 16 two-cent f’amps to cover postage. At ono spot the hair had been carefully scraped off, révealing a sooth stirface on which the address was written in ink. The unique “mail parcel was promptiy delivered to young woman, and she lateg told the a at A i-tost nothing of ite y reasou of its odd method of A car was soon plowing its way ‘| bluejaciets know chieily training—the fact must be taken into account that these people have never heretofore been obliged to work. Since tre old hunting days ‘whose heavy iabors were relieved by the excitement of the chase, their maintenance for the most part has been provided by the federal government in return for lands ceded, says the Southern Workman. cost to them. Content with a simple | life, they are without our complex and | multiplied’ wants, and with an inherent improvidencé, they have no care for the morrow. Whether or not they “have far too much done for them\ de- pends perhaps on the point of view. Doubtless, we should not think it too much if done for ourselves and our children, and yet it has surely been enough to weaken the Indian's power of initiative’ and in so far to do him wrong. The effect will pass, how- ever, and.in the meantime, the impor- tance need not be exaggerated, for the Indian trained ct school can and will work even at the steady drudgery of the farm or shop. THE UNDERGROUND SYSTEM - How. Diseased Immigrants Get Into the United States—Temporary Remedies Help. 4: I drew the Neapolitan into talk about the underground system for admitting diseased emigrants. into the United States, writes Broughton Brandenburg, in Lesilie’s Monthly, and he said that there were doctors in Naples who could +-so relieve trachoma in 48 hours that if othe emigrant kept up the treatment he or she could get by the doctors at New York or—Bosion. The eyes would be worse after the treatment was stopped than before, and if the treatment was continued too long it would cause blind- hess. Those emigrants who could not ..be...doctored . temporarily. were. sent through. “How sent through?” For answer a shrug of the shoulders and a “Oh, pay some money to some people.” ’ However, having heard of the system in Meseina, on the steamer, in the city of Naples, and now seeing such palpable signs of it right in the shelter of the Capitaneria, | began for the first time to believe what I could scarce credit be- fore, that the “gold paved avenue” tnto my beautiful, healthy home country, for the loathsomely and contagiously dis- eased did exist. ‘HAD A PROPHETIC VISION. ’Bussian Writer Foretold Disasters That Recently Befell His Coun- try’s Mavy at Port Arthur. One of the most remarkable instances of political prophecy that have come Dr. EB. J. Dillon. A Russian named Lev- ftoff published recently at Port Arthur a pamphlet urging that the Russiana do everything possible to gain time and that they withdraw the fleet as an in- cumberance and depend upon their nu- merical superiority on land. With great clearness he pointed out the perils af meeting Japan on the sea. ‘ of Corea) “is a trap into which the Japs, at England's instigation are try- ing to entice us. So long as we steer clear of a sea fight,” he continues, “the command of the sea and the Anglo- Japanese alliance are not worth a sucked egg. If we resolve to keep out of an engagement on water and if we are further prepared to do without our fleet, not only by refusing to increase it but by rotting rid of it wholly. and without reserve, then the Japanese doc- trinc, Asia for Asiatics, becomes mean- wiilch to continue our work of culture in that part of the globe.” POPULAR RUSSIAN DRINK Vodks, the Muscovite Firewater, Is Nearly Three-Quarters Pure Alcobol. a Vodka is the popular Russian drink. It is-to the Muscovite what flrewater used to be to the aboriginal Indian. Tt provides him‘ with courage when all else fails and he will fight to the death for it. There are eight. vodka distil- ferles-in: the new town: of Herbine the eenter of Russian industrial and com- mercial development in Manchuria, and the inhabitants drink vast quantities of the product. Forty-six thousand men are in Harbin. At least 40,000 drink vodka. The~daily consumption is 3,000 gallons, or about three-fifths of a pint cach. That would make for ev« | ery man about five good drams—-noth- tng at all but for the fact that vodka is about 146 proof; that is, in each 100 gallons there are 72% gallons of pure alcohol, Vodka is as strong as schll- vowitz, three drinks, of which will a man silly. For comparison, most of the American whisky sold over the bar is from 90 to 93 proof. a es - Warships: - ack” likes.a name which rolls easily off the tongtie, short, handy, and opento class, which he has . dubbed the Aeolus, “hinown ae the “Rollicg Rezzy;\ the Barham, which as 6“Baa- m;\ and the “Old Immortality” of mmortelight,” by which he ts wo oe the handsome « ee as | ave han thy boher a nel bog aries Bem oe ‘Their children are educated without | to light in recent-years-ts-reported-by}: “The Yellow Bosporims” (the Straits[ fngless and we ‘have a free flold on|* .| familiar alteration. 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To ald in forming your estimates, we furnish the following figures: ~~ 1388, on Os) oe Rang... “oor @ increase of 42.23 per cent ES BETB, WAGs cnc cs vececscseccccc cence, GQMEMMEBD ts sve. heb eseperneens increase of 12.04 per cent » MMO ese cce ee eee eer eeee eee eens SENS EEE EN EAM NESE Se EN ERE TES Ory Senay ener enns BWBVD, WEB... ccc ceccep ss cceewececeess ... iinerease of 90.10 per cent 1880, was ...inerease of 9.47 per cent Postado seins cisdis cess covevsvoedssvescscadsocnvecstudschel ys va csubtoseseseleebed BEBE, WOO. cece eset ce cepe neoe MOR IBy. wes ee ee cee ec eee es increase of, 9.01 per cent M8, wee: memenadrig~ echoes LEE LLIN 5 A METRE WOD2, wae. Te IE Meee errr seen eens nerease per ce WM, dnl deipschp seks cacecchi coves ..cea'vs inerease of 15.45 per cent My Retimatesof the total votes 60 beoust en Movember 5) 80h, Sex she office 1900, was. .u ... ««--inerease of «28 per cent 1904, what will it be? 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