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• • BLAST KILLS 8 IN RAILROAD CAMP AT GRASS VALLEY, ORE. , SEVERAL OTHERS MORE OR LESS INJURED -MOSTLY ITALIANS, BLOWN TO BITS. Grass Valley, Ore., Jun. 10. -In a blasting accident on the Oregon Trunk line nine miles west of Grass Valley at least eight or nine men were killed out- right, and it is thought several others were more or less injured. Mike Burns, a railroad contractor, was seriotely and probably fatally hurt, and the foreman of a section gang of Ital- ians was blown to bits. Some of the gang of Italians were blown 50 feet into the air. As soon ais news of the accident reached here a special train was made up and unmatched to the Hill farm, where the explosion occurred. On board were Dr. Taylor, a resident physician, and Dr. Walker, surgeon of the 0. R. & N. company. The dead and injured were brought back to Grass Valley. According to the meager information received the gang was blasting. Two blasts were set, one went off and the other was delayed. When till workmen went to see if the second was dead it exploded just as they were over the place. LIVING EXPENSES CUT WAGES. Senator Elkins, Multi -Millionaire Mine - owner, Tells of Conditions. 'The cost of living is outstripping wages and incomes. That brings want and misery to large numbers ' of families. It means that Women and ' I. W. W. 's QUIT SPOKANE. PARTY Are Willing Now to Go Along and , Mind Own Business. Spokane.-\ We are willing to quit and abide by the decition of the supe- rior court in the Filigno case, There will be no more street speaking or in- flammatory speeches reviling the flag, courts and polico. . A campaign of edu- cation will be substituted for the pres- ent tactics.\ This, in brief, is the message carried to Captain of Detectives Illartin J. Burns by a committee of I. W. W. workers Saturday. The lowering of the red banner of their organization and raising of the white flag means the first defeat and unconditional surrender in the official career of the organiza- The present week probably will .de- 'tion in the northwest. termini, whether there will be a pro - Lack of funds and men to go to jail, - longed conflict involving the president coupled with the solid front presented by the city and county authorities, of the United States within the ranks CONFLICT IN RANKS Ok REPUBLI- CANS IN CONGRESS. DISMISSAL OF FORESTER PINCHOT FROM THE SERVICE TENDS TO WIDEN BREACH. compelled the I. W. W. leaders to give up. Fifty \orators' who sacrificed their liberty in the \free speech\ fight and who are now confined in the county and city jails will serve, out the remainder of their sentences. \Every min will stay in jail until the last minute of his sentence is served,\ was the ultimatum issued by Chief of Police John T. Sullivan. The kitchen of the I. W. W. head- quarters has served its last meal, be- ing closed upon instructions from head- quarters. \Orators agitators and un- desirable characters connected with the fight will leave, it being one of the crib- ditions of the surrender that the sub- ordinates move. A vagrancy cffarge will face all who remain. The success of the I. W. W. organiza- tion in its \free speech\ fights at Goldfield, Nev., and Missoula, Mont., preceded the attempts of the \work- ers\ to force the city of Spokane to repeal its street speaking ordinance. By force of numbers in Goldfieleand Missoula they compelled the authori- ties to yield. From these victories the organization invaded Spokane, enlisting idlers from different parts of the country. children are not getting proper food BINGER HERMANN TRIAL IS ON and clothing and that children can not be sent to school and get either an education or the foundation of an edu- cation, and that means our civilization is being injured.\ These views are not a socialistic leader's, but from multi -millionaire Sen- ator Stephen B. Elkins of West Vir- ginia, chairman of the committee on in- terstate commerce. Senator 'Elkins has introduced a resolution asking for an investigation into the prices of the ne- cessities of life and the cost therefor since row. The qld-time leaders in the senate and house have little sympathy with an inquiry of this sort. A great outside pressure is being brought to bear on cougrese to get at the real farts. Senator Elkins is tine of the niost prominent men in the senate. He employs thousands of men in his West Virginia mines and these sentiments corning from him haye created a sensa- tion at Washington, D. C. BANK DEPOSITS ARE ••••••••••. LARGE. Figures for Washington, Oregon Idaho Increase. Deposits in state and national banks of Washington, Oregon and Idaho on November 16 aggregated $328,597,000, the loans and discounts $218,238,000, and the cash and exchange $119,082,000, a reserve of about 30 per cent. These figures are given in the Financial Rec 'ord of Seattle. The banks of Washington bad de- posits of $187,195,000, the highest mark ever attained, and a gain of $35,000,- 000 since November, 1908. Loans have increased $27,000,000 since November, 1908. Oregon banks bad $104,112,000 in de- posit November 16, an increase of $19,- 000,000 in the year. Loans increased from $52,375,000 in November, 1908, to $63,540,000 in November, 1/09. Idaho banks , had total deposits of $37,29000, an' increase from 2$26,599,- 000 on September 23, 1908. Loans ag- gregated $28,231,000, an increase from $20,825,000 on September 23, 1908. CLIPS N. P. LAND GRANT. Federal Court Returns 180,975 Acres to Yakima Indians. By a written opinion in the ease of the United States against the Northern Pacific railroad rendered by Federal Judge Edward Whitson at Spokane, 180,975.74 acres of land in the southern and southwestern part of the Yakima reservation, located in the Cedar river valley, and held by the Northern Pa- cific through a land grant of congress in 1887, reverts to the Yakima In- dians. The suit was brought by the govern• meat, as trustees and guardians of the Yakima Indians, to quiet title to 55 land patents, covering the grant. Nearly $2,000,000 is involved in the suit, and the decision is regarded one of the most important rendered in years, covering 4 ' the legalit i y of the railroad land grants Col. Shaughneery Im Dead. Salt Lake, Utah., Jan. 10. -Colonel Michael Shaughneasy died in this city Sunday. He had been ill with pneu- monia. olonel Shaughnessy wan born In Iowa 63 years ago. Ile served with . a New York regiment during the Civil war and was wounded at Gettysburg. Ile lot much of his wealth, and in „ recent years had engaged in mining in Utah. Bobsled Accident. 'Alton, Ill., .Tan. 10. -Thirteen persons were hurt, six seriously, in two coasting aecidents taunday. A bobsled carrying eight perms col !ides] with an ambulance en route to the home of a suicide, and the horses fell upon the sled. Another Land .Fraud Case Starts at' Portland, Ore. Portland, Ore., Janu. 9. -Binger Her- mann, who for 16 years represented Ore- gon in the national house of representa- tives and for several years was commis- sioner of the general land office, this week, in the United States district court, faces the charge of conspiracy to de- fraud the United States government of a part of the public domain. The indictment under which he is to be - tried was returned in 1905, and the conspiracy it alleges was the most stu- pendous of all the Oregon land fraud cases. Hermann was jointly indicted with the late United States Senator John 11. Mitchell, former state senator and ex -deputy United States Attorney Franklin Pierce Mays, former State Representative Willard N. Jones, George Sorensen, a prominet politician, and It. A. Smith, deceased. Of these Mays, Jones and Borensen were on September 12, 1906, convicted as charged in the and indictment. ..ilenator Mitchell and Smith died without coming to trial un- aer it; Congressman Williamson was convicted under another indictment and following the procedure of the gov- ernment prosecutors in the Oregon land fraud eases was not tried on this indict- ment. Hermann 's trial under this indict- ment has been postponed year after year, sometimes at his own request and sometimes by the inability, for various reasons, of Franeis J...Ileney to conduct the trial. COMING THEATER ATTRACTIONS AT SPOKANE THE AUDITORIUM, H. O. Hayward Post St., north of Riverside Ave Kir. High -Class Productions - January 13, 14 and 15 -Blanche Walsh in \The Teat.\ January 19 and 20. -\The Right of Way.\ January 21-Carreno (Wagner club). January 23, 24, 25 and 26 -McIntyre and Heath in \Hayti.\ January 31 - \The Top o' the World.\ January 30 -Maud Powell. THE SPOKANE, Chas. W. York. mgr. Post St., south of Riverside Ay*. Every Night -Popular Pineal. - - - - THE ORPHEUM, Jos. A. Muller, Mgr. Howard ID, South of Riverside Ave. High -Clain Vaudeville -Popular Prices. _- Hove ants repirr•ed by mall, sending deposit to manager sod misting about where yoe desire meta, naming attraelinn and date \Man of the Hour.\ Whoever respects the dignity and decency of the stage, or is desirous that the drema maintain its high place among the fine arts, must rejoice in the continued success of George Broad- huret's masterpiece, \The Man of the Hour,\ which ham started in upon the fourth year of its career, and which opened a week's engagement at the Spokane theater this week. Blanche Walsh. \The Test,\ by Jules Eckert Good- man, is said to be the best play Blanche Walsh has ever presented, and this will seem n broad statement to those who saw her in \Resurreetion \The Woman in the Cage\ and \The 'trent- zer Sonata.\ Tier new ogering is a wonderful piece of stage literature, , touched here and there with genius, sparkling at times with epigrams, always interesting, never mediocre. \The Test\ will be seen at the Auditorium theater, Spo- kane, three nights and a matinee, begin- ning 'Thursday, January 13. Longevity is !host frequent in eoun- tries of low birth. of the republican party in es:digress. Conditions have tended in that direc- tion for some time, but instead of adding to tlienpultre the dismissal of Mr. Pinchot apparently has caused a halt. There is no denying, however, that in some respects the situation remains critical. Mr. Pinchot has a large num- ' her of personal friends in both houses ,of congress who would be inclined to take up his cause if favorable oppor- tunity should present itself and if they could do so without endangering the peace of the party. On the other hand, many are saying that the peraonal for- tunes of Messrs. Ballinger and l'inchot are of little importance ,compared with party harmony and are urging the ne- cessity of preventing any sharp con- flict in congress on the differences be- tween the secretary of the interior and thoefortuer chief of the forestry service Whether the conservative course of this element prevails will depend upon the course of events in congress during the next few days. There is no doubt that the investiga- tion of the interior department and of the forestry service will proceed along the lines indicated by the Jones-Htufl- phrey resolution, but it will be compe- tent for the investigating committee either to broaden or narrow the inquiry. If the advice of many leaders is foir lowed this inquiry will be restricted as much as possible, especially as Mr. Pinchot is eliminated from the dispute as an official factor. Cannon to Bow to Will of Houma The question will receive its next at- tention on the floor of the senate. The present situation is: The house has adopted the resolution providing for the appointment of its members of the committee by the house itself rather than by the speaker, as was originally provided. Without awaiting official notification as to the ikction of the house, the senate committee on public lands has decided to report the resolu- tion in ouch form as to authorize the selection of the house members by the speaker. Unquestionably, this action was taken with .the intention of compli-. menting the speaker and it will be re- ported to the senate. Speaker Cannon, it is hold, feels that it will be impolitic for him to take ad- vantage of this condition and override the expressed order of a majority of the house, and it is probable, therefore, that the senate will steer clear of a con- troversy with the other chamber. It is now said that the speaker will prefer that the house elect the committee. In case this course prevails the republican members probably will designate their members in caucus and it is claimed that in that event the insurgents would participate in the caucus proceedings. No matter how the general situation shapes itself, the controversy between the secretary of the interior and Mr. Pinchot is expected to be the principal topic in congressional circles d,uring the week. Keep Off of Administration. Every effort will be made to prevent the investigation of the administration in a too general way. The senate calendar is still very lean, and aside from the 13allinger-Pinchot resolution the prospect for the present week is not favorable to any legislation of importance. The house will proceed with the consideration of the army ap- propriation , bill and it is thought that measure will be beftire it until Tuesday night. By that time the fortifications bill will be reported and will be taken up at the first opportunity. , Insurgents Get Warning. Those who are opposed to the repub- lican doctrines and policies as interpre- ted by the present administration can expect no support from the regular wing of the republican party. Such a warn- ing to the insurgents was sent out to the country in a statement by the re- publican congressional committee. Cardinal Satolli Dead. \ 110111e. -Cardinal Francis Satolli died Friday morning. Seeoud only to Pope Pius among the high officials of the Catholic church in Rome was Cardinal Satolli loved by his fellow churchmen in the United States. A title not con- ferred upin him by the church, but one which is said to have pleased him very much, was the% of \The American Ceti- dinal,\ bestowed upon him beenuse of his interest in the affairs of the United States. Colorado Penitentiary Bad. Misappropriation of funds graft in eonstruetion of buildings, in the pur- chase of supplies and in the sale of products from the labor of convicts are the general charges reemning from an incomplete investigation of the adminis trntion of.the Colorado penitentiary af- fairs for the past half dozen years. SPOKANE MARKET. Wholesale. Dairy products -Eggs, fresh eastru, 111 case; local ranch, recandled, $14 case; carton eggs, April carton, $9 ease; butter, fresh Washington state cream- ery, 38c lb.; fresh eastern extras, 36c; Wisconsin 'cream cheese, 18%419c; Wiscutisin limburger, 19c lb.; block and wheel domestic cheese, 20421c lb.; lin ported Swiss cheese, 28c lb.; Edam cheese, $10.50 duz.; Roquefort cheese, 40c lb.; Canadian cream cheese, $1.25 doz. Flour -First patent, $5.75 bbl.; sec- ond patents, $5.50 bbl. Fancy Yakima Loney, $3.50 ease; Idaho, $3.25@3.50 case. Figs -Dried, 80@90c 10 -lb. box; figs in bulk, 6@7e lb.s raisins, fancy, 6 3-4e lb.; raisins, bulk, 5 1-2c lb.; currants, 10c lb. Seeds, Wholesale. 'Red clover, $17418 per cwt.; fancy Kentucky bluegrass, $18420 cwt.; tim- othy, prime, $5.5046 cwt.; white clover, $22@23 cwt.; alfalfa, $19@20 cwt.; winter rye, $1.90@2 cwt.; winter wheat, $1.75@1.85 cwt. Sugar -Cane, $6.40; fruit sugar, $6.40. Coffee -Common package goods, $18 cwt. Prices Paid to Producers. Timothy hay $20 ton; grain hay, $16 @17 ton; alfalfa, $17 ton; oats, $1.50 cwt.; feed wheat, $1.50. Hides -Green, 8 1-2c lb; green bulk, Sc lb.; green calf, 14c lb.; green kips. 9c lb.; green salt steer hides, 10c lb.; dry butchered hides, good, 16@18c lb.; dry country hides, good, 15c lb.; wool, 16420c lb.; shearlings, 25@30c each; city butchers' steers, 10c lb. Live stock -Steers, live weight, 4(a 4 1.2c lb.; cows, live weight, 3@3 1-2e lb.; sheep, live weight, Sc lb.; hogs, live weight, 8 1-4@8 1-2c lb.; veal, rough and heavy, 444 1-2c lb. Poultry -Live hens, 12e lb.; dressed hens, 13c lb.; live roosters, 9e, dressd tic lb.; spring chickens, dressed, 13e lb.; turkeys, live„ 21e lb.; turkeys dressed, 24e lb.; spring ducks, 14c lb.; dressed, 16c lb. Ranch eggs -Case, $12413, case count. Butter -Good ranch, 25430e lb. Pacific Coast Wheat. Tacoma. - Bluestem, $1.20; club, $1.10; red Russian, $1.08. Portland. -Track prices: Club, $1.11; I bluestem, $1.21; red Russian, $1.10; turkey red, $1.12; forty -fold, $1.15; valley, $1.10. OTHER MARKETS. Dispatches cone -taming market quota- tions, conditions and phases are as fol- lows: Chicago. Flous-Firm. Rye -No. 2, 80481c. Barley -Feed or mixing, 59465c; fair to choice malting, 67471c. Flaxseed -No. 1 southwestern, $2.03; No. 1 northwestern, $2.13. Timothy seed, $3.854 3.90. Clover, $9.50413.75. Mess porks-Per bbl, $22422.25. Lard -Per 100 Ilia, $12.600Z12.62%. Short ribs sides -Loose, $11.25411.75. Short clear sides -Boxed, $11.62%4 11.87%. Butter -Market steady. Creameries, 26034c; dairies, 25430c. Eggs -Market strong. Receipts, 2540 cases, 24 1 / 2 428e; firsts, 35c; prime firsts, 36e. Cheeee-Market steady. Daisies, 16% 417c; twins, 16 1 / 4 419%c; young Amer- icas, 16%c; long horns, 16 1 ,4 2 c. Cattle -Market strong to a shade higher. Beeves, $4.3048; Texas st'ers, $4.1500.20; western steers, $4.2546.30; stockers and feeders, $3.1545.30; cows and heifers, $3.2545.65; calves, $7.504 8.50. Hogs -Market Sc higher. Light, $8.30 8.65; mixed, $8.304.8.75; heavy, $8.40 (08.80; rough, $8.4048.55; good to choice heavy, $8.5548.80; pigs, $7.504 8.50. Bulk of sales, $8.3548.75. - Sheep -Market strong to 10c higher. Native, $3.8546.15; western, $44)6.25; yearlings, a 6.50@8.10; lambs, native, $6.25q8.90; western, $6.25@8.85. New York. Flour -Firm but quiet. Wheat -Spot firm. No. 2 red, $1.30 elevator domestic and $1.29 f o b afloat nominal; No. 1 northern huluth, $1.29; No. 2 hard winter, $1.29. f o h afloat. Wheat was nervous, but prices were firmer on higher cable., bullish Argen- tine news and strength in the North- western markets. Professionals sold on the bulges, but commission houses bought. At the elose prices were %c net higher. May, $1.21%; July, $1.11%. Butter -Market firm. it hees and Eggs -Market firm; un- changed.Bar silver, 52%e; Mexican dollars, 44c. Local dealers quote lake copper at $13.75P14; electrolytic, $13.40@13.75, and caking at $13.25(4)13.60. Tin closed easy with spot quoted at $33@33.25; January $32.75@33.10; 33.20. 8I(. $32.80433.15; April, $32.8.kr o Lead was quiet, with spot quoted at $6.1046.25 New York and 8.07% asked East St. Louis. Iron was higher at 515 4%d for Cleveland warrants in London. Locally iron was unchanged. Available Supplies. Special eable and telegraphic corn municatione received by Bradstreet ',I show the following changes in available supplies as compared with previous ac- count: Wheat, United States east Rockies decreased 704,000 bushels; Canada in- creased 445,000. The total United States and Canada decreased 250,000 bushels; afloat for and in Europe increased 900,- 000 bushels. Total American and Euro peen increased 341,000 bushels. Corn -United Staten and Canada in- creased 183,000. Oats -United Staten and Canada in creased 698,000 bushels. Frick Restores Wage Scale. Pittsburg. -The Frick company wilt\ now restore the wages that were cut as a ;mill of the business depression of 1907. on a salary of VI a week, but staying married on It is another proposition. HARVARD'S HISTORIC CHAIR. IIAR1Alia8 UNIQUE SEAT. The antique chair shown In the cut has been used so long for commence. went and inauguration ceremonies that no sutfh • occasion at Harvard would be complete without It. Presi- dent Lowell sat in it during his in- auguralleeremony just as, his predeces- sors in office have done for the last two centuries. I Tradition says that it came Into the possession of the university during the administration of President Holyoke, but it is not known exactly when nor how. Tradition again says that it was given to President Holyoke by Rev. Ebenezer Turell, of Medford, a rela- tive of the Slathers, who were among New England's earliest settlers. President Holyoke always believed that the chair was brought from En- gland by some meilber of the Mather family. Benjamin Pierce, one of Harvard's historians, connects the chair with a certain variety of furniture found In the Cheshire district of England in the last of the seventeenth and the begin- ning of the eighteenth centuries. I Horace Walpole, England's great statesman, wrote to a friend, asking him to get one of these curious chairs from the Cheshire district. He de- scribes them as being - of wood, the seat triangular, the back, arms and legs loaded with turnery, and carved and turned in the most uncouth and whimsical forms.\ The whole question is now dismisis- eid by the statement that It was proba- bly brought from that English district, but \in times unknown.\ President Holyoke himself turned the knobs and put them on the main posts wtih his own hands. The quaint and elaborate seat Is now stored In one of the closets of Harvard Hall, and is brought out only for specified ceremcs tiles -Christian Science Monitor. TREED THE HOMESTEADER. Two Shin'. Ball Moose In Battle log Ittapremner In Herd. Battling to the death and making the woods ring with their cries of anger and pain, two huge moose vest*. seen in a terrific struggle for suprerzi acy by Hans Nelderson. a homesteader residing about ten miles north of this place While making his way through the woods to Winton, Nelderson, suddenly coming into a clearing, facecIA huge bull moose, head high in the air and eyes blazing apparently with anger The homesteader thinking the animal was angered by his approach, hur- riedly sought refuge in a tree. The moose, however, paid little attention to the man, and, after sending forth numerous calls, turned about, and Nelderson, following the animal's gaze, taw another moose of almost equal pro of - ikons approaching. The two animals faced each other for a moment, as if hesitating as to their course of action. Suddenly the first moose attacked the other, and for nearly half an hour Nelderson, in the tree, witnessed probably the fiercest struggle man has ever seen. • Fighting with antlers, hoofs and teeth, the animals continued the con- test until the first moose had been defeated. Nelderson's aelmiration for the vanquished king of the woods nearly resulted in his sustaining seri- ous Injury. When the moose which came upon the scene last indulged in unfair taetica, according to Nelder son's opinion, by planting his antlers In his opponent's breast when the lat- ter aw1111 \down and out,\ the bean* steader fired twice with a rifle of small caliber. The wounds were only slight and the oonquering moose turned his attention to the claim owner. Butting the small tree violently, the animal nearly threw Nelderson to the ground. As it was, the homesteader, holding on to the tree trunk. for safety, roundly berated himself for attempting to take part in the battle. Finally, tired out from its exertions, the successful combat. ant trotted peacefully away. It was not, however, until some hours after that Nelderson worked up sufficient courage to drop to the ground and mike his way to Winton. -Duluth Merald. Joy Riding. Stubb--There goes Henpeck in his machine. Where is he going in such a hurry? Penn -Joy riding. Stubb- Joy riding? Penn -Yes; he is going to take his wife to the !nation, and she Is going to be gone two weeks.-Ohicas go News. JAPAIIIISR PB.INTKILIP TRIAL& Mork in a Babel of Nola* with Ina Aid of litany Assletaate. If the ty resetters of the western* Worlds have their troubles, they are noth:ng compared with those of the Japanese composing room, an exchange says. The Japanese, Ilke their brethren. the Chinese, employ a written language -what might be called a literary di& lect-e-that Is quite differeltit trout the colloquial tongue. In other words, they do not, as we, write as they speak. This proceeding requires the printing of their Journals in two languages, the \Kane\ and the square characters serv- ing as a key to the other. These square characters are modeled on Chinese ideographs, a jumble of geometric fig- ures, crosses, etc., presenting a pictur- esque zigzag effect. There are 4,000 to 5,000 of these Ideas graphs in everyday use. The composi- tor must therefore 4 0 something of scholar, in the ortental sense, to be. able to recognize the .characters at sight. In order to facilitate his task: as much as possible, the arrangenient of his workroom is *something like this: The compositor seats himself at a little table, upon which are spread forty-seven liana characters. As ne receives copy he cuts it into smali strips, handing each strip to a boy. This boy marches along the room un- til he has finally been able to collect from a number of cases arranged fa files down the room the different Ideo- graphs desired. About six or 'seven boys are thus employed in the average Japanese composing room running hither and thither. As they go their rounds In search of the Ideographs they keep up a dirgelike chant, whIcto would certainly be very trying to the nerves of any but an oriental. When the boys have collected. :all_ their Ideograph's they place them be- fore the compositor, who then has re- course to a pair of goggles in order tot decipher the characters, fish out the corresponding types In the \Nana\ character, and finally set up the whole for proving. The proofs are sung aloud by one reader to another, thus adding to the confusion of weird sounds already reigning in the room.. Mnehroorn-Polsoolaii. When one considers the frightful consequences of gathering and eating poisonous mushrooms in mistake for the edible variety, it Is little short of marvelous that one without knowledge should dare go into the fields and woods and pick and eat any of th• fungi growing there. If one is thoroughly familiar wits some particular variety of edible mush- room, and can distinguish it at sight from all others, however *similar in color and form, It is safe to eat that particular variety; but one must be- ware of other kinds that resemble it. for however slight the difference In appearance, one may be edible and th• other poisonous. There is no absolute rule for distinguishing the edible trona the poisonous kinds, and it is better, therefore, to give no general rules, but to follow only one: Suspect every mushroom which you do not know positively to be edible. To this rule, perhaps, may be added a second: Learn to distinguish the white-eporel agarics and avoid them all; for al- though there is an edible species. it requires an expert to tell it. and the poison of another species Is deadly, and there is no known, antidote for it. The chief poisons in mushrooms are two in number-muscarin and phallic'. The first of these produces symptoms resembling those of alcoholic intoxica- tion. followeil by convulsions or par - !Orris, rename, and death from heart failure. These symptoms come on soon after the mushrooms have been eaten. In poisoning by phallIn the symp- toms do not appear until several hours after the meal. They resemble chol- era, beginning with severe abdominal pain, soon followed by vomiting, purg- ing and collapse. In all cases of muehroom poleionling vomiting should be induced as soca as possible, and a large dose of castor oil may be given -to hasten the Ohs - !nation of any as yet unabsorbed por- tions of the mushroom. Stimulants are needed to Pmpport the heart, and milk containing as abundance of magnesia or bi-carbonat• of sodiummay be given. Infections of a salt solution into the veins and -in case of muisearin seining- hypodermic Injections of atm- pin are often employed by physicians with benefit. .IInjunt Discrimination. The little girl told of by Lippincotru Magazine was not old enough to real- ize that most people do not want to be Preached about. Four year -old Barbara went tee dhurch with tier two sisters, and milli, It's an easy matter to get married home crying. \What is the matter, dear?\ has clime, her mother. \He preached a whole a -sermon-. Remember, When you aro hurting about- M Mary and Martha,\ sobbed smother roan's reputation, that you Barbara. , \ and -- never said - a aren't doing your own any good --w-word about mu\ We are Strata of any woman, but et a suffragette most of all At the time a man is writing a One letter he really thinks he means IL • 5 .
