The Davenport Weekly Leader from Davenport, Iowa • 3

rflE DA YEN POUT V.rEEKLY LEADER TUESDAY JUNE i), 1003. required to conceal the fact that a SUN SPOTS ARE CHILDREN SAVE millions of policy holders. Xe doubt iL.i aieiiiuulaiU-u of wealth has bom a considerable laetor in making low interest rates. It has enabled the farmer to borrow money on his land on more favorable terms and made In predicted nf the time of making th's announcement, that Hie years r.M'2, and would have umismuly cool suamii rs. cerrespondinir to those In ic.c and He' was right as to the snmni-r of li'iO, anyway.

NATIONAL G. A. R. AT SAN FRANCISCO WASHINGTON LETTER (From Our Regular Correspondent.) Washington, D. June if, p.3 great is popular interest it.

Washington in the postuffice invest: caiien that it is difficult to find anyone willing or prepared to talk on any ether subjec t. Manv minor incidents ave happened which ro to make up convim-int; evidence of the relnc fame of Postmaster lietieral Payne to make a clean breast of the rottenness which has permeated the administration ot one of the most important, depart meiitsof ihe government. Just at present is severely crii ieisitig Fi'st Asslfant Post master General Wynne, to whom belx.11.es the credit oi exposine Maehtn. Miller, et set- ll rid of IVavers, Tyuer. Christ nu cv and others.

The pursnis? of t'n derailment of thee officials has or-, ciured only as a result of the power of the press and Wynne has availed himself of the power to accom plish, vi hat he retarded an a most able cud. lieeause, however, the press! has also placed ex -Per, I master Genera! Smith. ex-Assistant Postmaster (e it'T-i al Perry Heath and ethers in a mo: unenviable light be fere the public and Is on the high road to showing that llanna was not above the most practical of "practical politics." Pavne considers that Wynne hns been guilty (if grave partisan disloyalty and will the President to pet rid of him. Postmaster General Payne, nfter the idutrites of ex-Cashier Seymour TnlUich as "hot "wind." a "stump speech" has hastened to publish the replied of Smith, Heath and other officials who deal In generalities and fall in every instance to "make good', as Mr. Payne expresses ii.

In fact, the chief motive of nil their fetters personal tuiimns towards Tolloeh. The one reply to the TuHoeh 1 barges in which the public Is Interested. Payne keeps on his desk refuses to make public. It Ii ivnorf -made bv Fourth Assistant General Prlstow. in ting very thomngh-1 Iv Into the conditions which have existed in the Washington pt.stoft'lce and support in It is understood.

Till loch in many de tails. ei According; to the must confidential reports received from Columbus this week then1 wan wecpintr ami wailing and of teeth in the llanna camp the state convent fun. Tin' Gridiron Club of once greeted Gorman with a sonst which ran. "Arthur Pu Arthur Pue, What In the world is the matter with you? We' ve heard of you downed. nnseatiM uncrowned." and those words would appropriately anply to Hanna.

It is call and wormwood to the Hannn-itcs to see the ir pe '1'less lender heat-en and compelled! to supinely accept flie Foraker resolution, hut such it the situation anil they rtai not take nn sieps to ftoi even with Foraker be-cane Manna's re-election to the Se nate Is close tit band nnd that election eh pi inls on' peace and tnon v.S'-nator llanna himself has little difficulty concealing- his resentment nnd acting in harmony with Senator Foraker hut the Manna lb titenants. henchmen and are bewailing the situation. W'lh Maura out of the wav, the nomination of Vtoosevclt by the republicans is regarded as certain, nnd the fight of the1 democrats is nil cut nut. They must nominate man who ran bent the pxeshlont. That such a man must be conservative Is admitted by all.

lie must command then respi-ct of that largo Moment In the cast whb tecards House-veil erratic and unsafe. He must i-emnnd the support, of the Independent- voters, that large and constantly increasing number which re-fnsis to accept bravado for brave-ry shouting about. Americanism for loyalty, militarism for patriotism. The most astute democratic politician elo not regard it na at all essential that tlii'ir nominee be named fit this early dale, would only limimo the bull cf republican ridicule nnd invective. So the policy will be to keep the republican-! guossinir.

for a hile humor snd then nominate a strong man. conduct a whirlwrml campaign nnd land the proper man in the White? Mouse. Representative Rieharilson oT Alabama talked interestingly of the r.ilua-lion this week, lb- Mid. "I do no b'-b'eue Mr. Cle veland will be a candidate and I fee-l sure that be wi'l declare himself in due tirne.

On the ether band, 1 believe ihe wave of popular se mime tit in favor of Mr. Cleveland should be regarde-d as an oulie-a-tion of the kind of man who could win and that this wave of popularity can be turne to pood purpose in mnk ng s'roiig'T th actual nominee. There-are plenty of good nn 11 in the party who could command the reppi-ct ami support of all factions and would -crve to unite the tnembi-rs of the par ty In every f-ectinii. Sm a man should iie seie-eted and then, if we all put ourj shoulders to the wheel we win. ra.hmbted'y iome of the" ft ill he eon tin? conduct of affairs inj departments! Lie red lu the ca pai ii, noi'j-e is broken winded, ami drugs an chemicals of various kinds are used doing this.

Another graft is to con ceal the fact that a horse is lame. That is often done by inserting some thing on the shoe so as to make the other hind, or fore, foot as the ease may be, lame also, and while this gives the horse a peculiar gait it makes the feet woik alike. These are, of course, onlv a few of the more com mon forms of trickery wiih which horse dealers have to contend." RARELY BALD. Nearly Every Farmer of Hair. Has a Good "Ever see a real black-country farm er with a bald head?" asked a suburban barber replying to the request of his intellectual sister for a reason for the thinning of his capiiiary thatch.

"Now, I have worked in fully half ihe states in the Union, in town and in country, and I never have. The head of the kind of a farmer I'm thinking of may be well supplied with hayseed and barn dust, but the hair is generally very silky and wel nourished. "No, 1 don't believe that dust or seeds are good for the hair. Don't make any mistake there. But I am sure that tne continual washing of the scalp is about the worst thing possible for the roots ot the hair.

Now, gent.e-men think nothi.ig of taking a bath every day. Some use a little ammonia in the water to soften it. Most ot them make sure of a clean scalp by using soap. The effect upon the bead is the same in both cases. The natural oil, which ought to exist about every healthy scalp is completely removed And that just starves out the roots of the hair as really as though you wash a lily bulb clear of its soil and set it to grow on that slab.

"Pomatum: Say, I can sell you cheap is you can buy anywhere pretty nearly kind used nv the profession! Maybe they are pretty good; most ol anyway. Put no maker has yet claimed to have discovered a hair pre server quite as good as the natural oil which you find about the heads cf healthy young children, for instance. If I could discover just how to make that and how to apply it 1 could strike a fortune in no time. Now, the, back country farmer I am talking about washes his head mayebe twice or three limes a year; that is, in thrasn" ing time or.when he takes a dip in the creek. And you see the result.

"Then there's another tiling to re member. The farmer lives pretty much by physical labrr. That means he does not, as a rule, overheat his head by planning and thinking, like the city man, or the rest who get their living their brains. Such men dry up all the natural oil springs nature stuck about the head by their inside heat. We find when we cut it that their hair is quite crisp and hard, what there is of it.

"Then your advice would he, 'keep cool and let your hair as the boys used to say? "Sure, and, more important still never wash your head with anything which will make a lather unless you are obliged to. If you have to, be sure you wash all the lye and ammonia and such like well out of the scalp with water to give the oil a chance to do its best. "Next." A Compliment. "I can't understand why a woman of her age should care for the kind of clothes she affects." "Why, I don't think there's anything radically wrong with her clothes. Of eourse they might be a little more befouling if she ere two or three years younger, but, you know, we can't all be your age, Mrs.

Kazamms. Still, I don't blame you for objecting to it when she copies our styles so closely." Chicago Record-Herald. A Iocky Fellow. Young Million (sadly) My cousin George is a mighty lucky fellow handsomest chap in town. Friend Handsome, yes; but he is as pour as a church mouse.

Voung Million (enviously) That's the beauty of it. He has a new girl every season, and not one of them makes a fuss when he casts her oil. N. Y. Weekly.

Hrr Mild Siniri-mtlon. "Charley, dear," said, young Mrs. Torkins, "will you join our progressive euchre club?" "Certainly not. I have no time for euchre." "Well, I won't urge you. Put I can't help thinking that if you played the horses as well as I play euchre we'd have a lot of money now." Washington Star.

III Srnilv Cuimrleticv. "Don't you always feel a- little mean when a street car conductor overlooks you and you get your ride for nothing?" "Yes, and I always spend the nickel for a cigar or something just as soon as I can. so as to get rid of the feeling." Chicago Tribune. Itnrd I. inn.

"What! Marry you?" snorted the fiery-tempered maiden, "Huh! What do you take me for?" "For better or worse." he replied, promptly. So they were married and lived unhappily ever after for, nhis! she was worse than be took her for. Philadelphia Press. Trmta Her Like a AniirL Ethel She's sorry enough that she married him, I'll wager. Mabel The idea! How can you say He thinks her a perfect angel, I ml treats her Ethel As- though sdie really were one.

lie doesn't buy her anything to wear. Polh of the- Same Mind. He Your friend, Miss IVachblow, i ery pretty. She Well, you must he a mine-feader. He-Why.

She Thut's esactly what she thicks. Town Topics. loUKAftl WHAT IT MEANS SCIENCE AND HISTORY OF MOD ERN INSURANCE METHODS. Vast Proportions Which Life Insur ance Business Has Reached in America is Set Forth. In a recent lecture before the stu dents of Iowa College at Grinnell, Mr.

H. S. Nollen, of the faculty of thai in stitution, gave an exceptional compre hensive presentation of the subject of life insurance. Iu the briefest possi ble manner, for so exhaustive a theme. Mr.

Noilen dealt with this great sub ject and owing to the general interest aroused by the paper, some' of Its lead ing features are herewith reproduced. In sett iiia; foith the amazing scope of the life insurance business. Mr. Nollen said: "1 know of no other business of industry which comprises so Teat a variety of human interests. such a diversity of problems which call for the highest exercise of pro fessional skill in different lines.

The art of dealing with men; the eoi.staii'. adjustment to new conditions; the in genuity and accuracy of the mathematician; the investigation and analysis of new data; the foresight and calm judgment of the financier; the broad est application of the science of medicine; the wisest use of ike principles of the law; and the opportunity lor the exercises of the initiative in all these vocations are included ithin the scope of the lile insurance. business." Tremendous Proportions of Eusiness. In the concluiNug part of his address, Mr. Nollen gave figures on the vast proportions of tne life insurance business, that to the average man will seem startling.

In this connection, he said: "it is difficult to grasp the real meaning of the figures which show the magnitude of the life insurance business. In measuring the distances ol stars, ii is necessary to use the diameter of the earth's orbit as a unit, so we shall find it necessary in form ing some conception of the operation of life insurance companies to compare them with other transactions oi considerable importance. From the latest available reports it is shown that life insurance organizations in force to the amount of seventeen thousand millions of dollars. It is more than the value of all farm lands and improvements in the United States, bp shown by the last census; it is one and one-third times the total value of tiie manufactured products of all manufacturing industries as shown by the last, census; it is three times the capi tal stock of the railway corporations of this country and is equal to four-fifths of the total international commerce of all nations according to the latest published estimates. "Life insurance companies have in assets over 2.1.r(1 millions of dollars, which is twice the total capital stock of all national, private and state banks in this country.

It is one and one-fifth times the total value of Iowa farm lands and improvements as shown by the last census; it is more Aian two times the national debt and more than two times the vaif.o of the corn crop of this country for the last year, it is four-fifths of the total amount of gold, silver and paper money in the United States; four-fifths of the total wages paid by all manufacturing in dustries according to the latest census, and four-fifths ot the total value of exports and imports of the United States for 1902. "The income of the life insurance companies approximated KI0 millions of dollars in 1902, which is more thar the gross income of the United States Steel corporation, as shown by its last published statement. It is about three-eights of the total gross railway traffic! earnings for last year, and about ten-elevenths of the total annual income of the national government. It is about one-third of the value of the five leading ceresls produced in the United States last year. Insurance Disbursements.

'Life insurance companies disbursed about 4oti millions of dollars during which is over two-thirds the amount of national expenditures for all purposes, and equals a daily distri-butionof about one and one-third millions ot dollars for each business day. Suppose we could take a trip to the sun, which is distant from the earth about miles. At the rate ot two cents per mile, the assets held by life insurance companies would pay for a round trip for 57i persons, arc traveling at the rate of fifty miles per hour continuously the trip would take 421 years. There is another comparison which impressed the writer, and which may be of interest, to you. The total drink bill for intoxicating liquors the year is reported to be 1,172 millions of dollars, which is equal to more than two times the premiums paid for al ltlie insurance in force last year.

One can scarcely imagine the effect upon the social condition of our people if only the greater part of money spent for lnmxtcants were used in the purchase of insurance protection. It we. flirt go far toward improving the condition and relieving the misery of millions of people. "Aside from the economic importance of the life insurance business in its encouragement of thrift among small wage earners, and its salvation of millions from penury by the annual accumulation of funds has been a very important factor in our country's in-dnstrfal progress. "Heposits in banks are puhjoct to withdrawal en short notice, and consequently bank securities must be easily convertable into cash, and the larger part mature within a short tiner On the other hand, the funds of life Insurance companies stand in need of investment for a long period of tim, and are available for large enterprises which demand financial aid for many rears.

Dnrinsr the past live yofrs the assets of these companies have in creased 700 millions of dollar, which called for investment In bonds and mortgages. These vast 911ms were produced in largo part by the constant flowing iu of very small sums from ONES TO BLAME SCIENTISTS ATTRIBUTE ERRATIC WEATHER TO THIS CAUSE. Effect is Problematical, But a Change cf Some Kind is Bound to Result. If anyone anywhere has any fault to find with Ihe weather this summer, a year from now. or tti the summer of tne whole business may, with perfect- safety, be blamed upon sun s.pois, Authority is found for saying that sun spots cause exceedingly cool summers, that tliey cause exceedingly hot summers, thai they cause exces sive and that I iu are the soie cause bir drought.

In li'i'o. whe.i the maximum eleven ear sun spot period was approaching, the eminent Frviich ronomer, C.imile riamtnarleu, it down as a prediction that for the years lrom that time the summers would be the hottest known in ihe his tory of the world. It happened that the summer oi Unit) was Just an ordin ary summer, not excessively hot nor xecssivcly cool. The summer of however, must, have made M. Finiu-nmrioti feel himself to be a great long distance weather sharp, for everyone will recall the week of scorching weather that spread practically around the world iu the northern temperate zone that year.

Then came the summer of last year, with its moderate temperatures for the whole season, and there were more sun spots in 1102 than in just as there will be more this summer than ami more next summer than this until the maximum of the eleven-year circle is reached in The United Statrs we ather bureau has long been studying the relation of nin spots t'l the weather, and has ar rived at no conclusion except, possi bly, that numerous sun spots are gen erally for some reason or other, accompanied by abnormal weather sometimes abnormally hot and some times abnormally cool. The next threw years will give the experts a bet ter chance than they ever have had. and they hope to be able to make de-ind they hope to be able to bake deductions that will be of value to the scientific world. Sir Joseph Norman I.ockyer has Ss- 'ened. as regards India, that faminino years or years of great droughts in that count rv.

are related. alwayB, to the appearance of sun spots, his con tent Ion being that they are accompanied by excessive heat and no rains This contention is not borne out by observations made in the United Slates. In the late '(ids. when then was an abundance ot sun spots, a re cord of temperature and rainfall kept by the Pennsylvania hospital shows that in that Instance the appearance of the spots in large numbers was ac companied by moderate temperature? nil heavy rainfall, ns a general rule In the year for instance, the re cord kept, nt the Pennsylvania hospi tal, ni iu Ihe months of June, July. An 1 September of that year the t- u.j-ia-.:v rose as nigh as degrees one -lay.

In IWS the temperature iu those months got up to t0 degrees otiiy -n twelve days. In l.SCII it. reached decrees only on fourteen days, and ,11 IK70 there were thirty-three days in the summer with a tempreature so high as 10 degrees. In all these sun spot years, according to the record kept at the hospital, the thermometer never wont above tnd. while the record is not clear upon that point, the Inference is thnt It reached PS degrees only one time tn the lour sun spot Rummers in which the record was kept.

This, with the experience of one half of the world with sun spots last summer puts a slight crimp in the contention that sun spots are accompanied by long heated lerms to be dreaded by humanity. In Abbe Mareux predicted a very hot summer on account of ihe appearance of a lame number of sun spots, and more especially because of the appearance of one very large spot discovered about that time. The summer of Urn', while hot. was not excessively hot, and, therefore, the prediction for that year a not fullilled. There bus been since thai time a erad-u a 1 increase iu the number of spots, and the record of last summers moderate weather comes up to placue those who say that sun spots cause or tire accompanied by prear beat, and the record of comes up to plague those who contend that the frpeits briiiR cool west her.

It is bclioved by many that the matter of sun spots, when be'ter umb-rsteod. if that time ever arrives, will amount to about this: That tile appearance of the-spots wh! be the signal for violent weather of one kind or another. It. whh sucgeJt cd to a Fce-niis! 1 inn jioinaps larae ltuml.n of cyclones and tornadoes that lately swept over the middb west, jiiiuht he related to sun stints He said that very probably Ibis mi-h' lie so. At any rate, all tnat Is known about it just iwv is that there hn- been tin nnuhiially large number i veer cyclones tn the west, acrompan- by heavy rni.is, and there are just now large and ir.crein ing numbers of sun spots.

When as? cd to say whether on" wa- the cause and the other the effect the was sibnt. Asain, whilo the middle west, has been thoroughly drenched with rain for a good part of the sprinu and while nigh winds have prevailed there, iu the cast, scarcely l.luKl mile away, there has been, -r the mo-i part, constant, sunshine and so little rain that, crops were at one time s-r loiisly threatened by tin1 drought. At ihf ti'nii t-mii t-Vrnni Wiather tvit- been Jbkle. plaits only a comparatively short distance apart experience weather fluctuations almost startling in their varii ty. While the eleven-year cycle for the appearance of the maximum number if sun has been commonly accepted, W.

J. S. Lnekyenr in up th" theory that there are five year cycles and that lrom to 1'tOl or V.ift't a thirty-five years cycle ar.d on eleven-year tycb will f-r-initiate, thus can ing proi.abiy mor than the usual number of spots. 1 PARENTS LIVES MR. AND MRS.

SIDNEY ALLERS NEARLY ASPHYXIATED. To Little Daughters Sleeping in the Next Room Wake and Arouse the Roomers. The fact that their two little daughters awoke and alarmed the house undoubtedly saved the lives of Mr. and Mm. Sidney AUers, who run the Tii-City hotel, this tiMHiiu.g-, As it is the two are still to their bed the ha stnted that alt danger is past, J.

tst bow the' ca-t was I I 1 I 1 1 has not yet leett a a.4 Mr. and Alers are stil unable talk but it is thought that the gat was turned on by mistake. The 3 pet and the electric light are but a few im In apart and unless e.ai'etiil niic would be liable to turn the wrong knoli by mi-take and it is thought that this, was rmnv Mrs. retired shortly af.er 10 oVIihI; night and the huban.l came to bed about midnight. It thought that when he came up u'airs cctrie light without turning lie other lie turned the gas knob by mistake and then discovering this turned on t'10 el-eff, The jet was turne on to in fullest capacity and haei it not been that the was warm and a door loading; outdoors had been left wide open tie? people would have smothered to death hum before they did.

The children sleep In a room adjidn-ing their pare nts ami were by the noise of ihe mother tumbling to the1 floor. Mrs. A Hers evidently aroused about, o'eloek and found the condition that she was tn for she elragged herself from the hi-d and made an attempt to open the door leading ei the ball. She had Inst iie-hcd the' place whe.v she might call for aiel when she dropped nneotise ions to the bor and it was this (bat aroused Ihe little? Kir's, The eblblren are only six and "Igh.f years old but they Jumped out of bee and when they found their mother on the floor ran down the corridor of the hall for help, Several persons were (n the? siteit In an iti-dant nnd Mr. Speers was telephoned for and arrivi'd as qtilcky as Wlu'n re reached the holed Mr.

Allers was stretched out en the bed, stiff, and apparently "lead while Mrs, Allers was in lllle better condition. The physician to work, however, and In a short time he had them so there was no fatality to fear. In the meiuillme the room was filled ttiih east find this was cleared away as epilekty nossihle although it had pi'rno-ited the whole flimr before it Wac dir-pelseif of. The physie ian staled that the gas jet mtt if have been turned lo its fullest evtent nil eight as it woiibi take a rge piiroiltty of ras to produce the deadly e'TVet, with the window opened It was. This afternoon It roported ftn Vie patients wire both sleepinsj nnd tnat Ibry would recover frotn the ef-feets bill It, wa: a Very close call to death.

A FAR NORTH POSTOFFICE The Covernment Will Establish at Point Barrow, Alaska. Ona The postoffiee department lias jmd closed a contract for the etcllve ry of mail at Point Harrow. Alaska. th? northern point on this continent. I ty the" terms of the agreement the residents of that far-off sctlU inon' will their letteus regularly twice diirint; the winter months.

In the past 1 hey one or two deliveries in a year, nnd they were ar Irregular Intervals, de pend 'tis; on tb-sniiitiK of vessels of tho revenue cut-te'r service. I'nder tip" obi conditlem-t one of these Vessels weiuld arrive at Point Harrow In the middle summer ntcl probably another late in the fall. K. Springs, a white man and a tiuichc in the- sc hool at Point, Harrow, has tiureed to mails'" at that, point twice eliirins tie? winter months. II" is tii make? a round trip from cm the east const of Alaska, and s.

nie "mt niib-s distant from Point Harrow Hboiit the 1st of November iiiie'. about February l-'i. lb? will arrive at Kotvchiie. about 1 ember 1" and April 1, taklmr about forty-five days tor ore journi y. For the makitii' of these two trips per year be- is to receive a compensation of ll.nou.

or for 1:11 trip. Spriatrs will employ reindeer on tbi so journeys. The re are only about rier is required touch. i u. iu station and a mission school.

The few people se'rved makes this tie most expensive postal route that the fpivertinicnt, maintains. There was some doubt at the; department as the wi.chvm nf inakies: this comparatively heavy outlay of money, in viewed ihe that only a lew dore'it people be be-neti'ted. The thins-that elei bb-d In Us favor was tin? isolated cotePtinti of the brave AmerT-cat's who in the mission school a' Point Harrow P.r-.oUyu Facie. SHAVES COST MORE. Boss Barbers Advance Prices in View of the Rais in Wages.

Pe oritt, June S. At a of of shaves from to mats and hai- ems, from to f.U ecu in vimv of Mu? rei-eut rawe in ctanted the journeymen barbers of Peoria. dustrial expansion possible by provid- ig funds for the th velopun. of re it enterprises. "The spirit of combination is abroad tie :an.i.

us niesi stcnmcani ase in ounce ti-ui with life insur ance ts relationship which is manifested between the larg er companies and the great industrial corporations and hanking institutions. Managers of the three largest hie in surance companies control ever 1 (m.h millions of dollars in assets, which is more than the combined capital of ail the backing institutions in this coun try and an amount as great as the capital stock of 1 lie United States Meel corporation. These three companies slope handled an income last year of Tver S'-'i-'l, 4111,000, and disbursed Their increase in assets mounted to more than f.s:,iv".utMi which demanded investment. It can readily ne understood that the control if such vast sums attracts the man-aers of other large enterprises, and tn the other hand a harmony of interests will greatly facilitate the business of every one." DEAD TREE VALUED AT A HIGH FIGURE City Attorney at Clinton Finds Humor in Damage Suit Against corporation. It is not often that an attorney injects humor into solemn and staid proceedings, especially in an answer to a petition.

Hut City Solieiiol W. J. McCoy of CVlinton in his rcph 'o a petition filed by D. J. McConnell 'ho lias brought suit against the Clinton for damages in the sum ol 52.000 for cutting a decayed di; jlavs a keen vein of humor.

The city solicitor doubtless Considers the alio Rations of plaintiff's petition so exager tted that he resorted to ridicule it iris reply to plaintiff's petition In the olhnving language: "As to plaintiff's allegation that with nit, objection said tree, ever since tie: vear 173. 'remarined in the name-' nlace this defendants states that while Vaid tree wash alive and in good health it had a fixed habit of 'leaving every spring. "It denies that such tree was so lo "ated or that its character was se.cn as 0 afford a 'grateful shade' to any o'h portion of Ihe public than an oeens onal Weary Willie; or (hat it could af ord a protection against fire to any 'itiildnig which might occupy any par )f said premises being at on tiim? 00 'ttpied by any building owned by plain iff and the south half being ornament only by .1 email, ancient, one itory structure, standing on uncertain posts "This defendant denies that it ha 'onverted to its own use the body ot my of the limbs of paid now 'licensor 'rce, hut undntfts it accorded to the "emains such attention, care nnd dis losnl as seemed suitable under the circumstances and In keeping with the solemnity of the occasion. DRY WEATHER MUCH NEEDED i' 4 Reports for the Past Two Weeks Were Very Unsatisfactory. Director Sago of the Iowa Weather Crop Service is receiving reports from his various county correspondents for ho weekly crop bulletin.

They are far from encouraging. Week before he only received a small number of reports, most of them being delayed by the Hoods, so that, they did not reach Pes Moines until too late to be incor porated in the weekly report. East week practically all of the reports were received and Mr. Sage will be able to compile a full report of the in all parts; of the state. They are certainly very bad.

During the past week, although the floods subsided, practically nothing was done ,11 the fields. Almost daily phowers prevented any work, and the farmers were idle Pimply because it was not possible for them to do anything. In many cases their land was under wa ter. Some of them still expect to plant their corn or a portion of it at least and replant some of that which was drowned out. This will be possible in the southern part of the state at anv rate.

This is about the only lining to the cloud and it in not a very bright one. The report of Director Sace will not have lost all of i's optimism by any means, though Mr. Sago is more likely to be. optimistic in extremely dry weather than extremely wet. weather for he knows from experience that Iowa is better fitted to at and drouth than excessive rainfall.

Cirls on a Strike. Holyoke. Mass. June S. Four hundred cutter employed in the finishing rooms of all the coarse paper i.

,11.:. I1I1IIS Here, tv mi iii satisfaction with the schedule presented by American Writing I'aper com pany. 1 Here are aiuim. i.en"i tin pc. e.

in the mill and it Is feared that the strike will ppread to ail department. Consul Irfjersoll Dead. Washington, June 8. A cable to th state department today iys that John Ingersoll. Unite', States consul at Cartagena.

Columbia, died at Colon Saturday. Ingersol was a native of Illinois and a nephew the late Robert (5. Ir.gersoll. Boiler on Strike. Detroit.

June 8. Seven hun dred boiler makers and helpers struck today for recognition by the union nnd an increase of wanes. Yacht Race Off. Sandy Hook. June 8.

Owinc lo tft today's race btwefn lie-I'nnee. t'niM it itti.n and Columbia mas declared otT. CITY WILL ENTERTAIN THE VET ERANS NEXT AUGUST. Veterans of Other Wars Besides Civil War Will Be Present A Week of Festivities. All roads load to San Francisco in August, and to the 37th national encampment.

G. A. which promises to In; tne greatest in the annals of that patriotic organization and in the history of California as well. The people of San Francisco are prepared to accommodate the vast throng that is expected to sojourn within their Kates during the encampment. To sue the brilliant illumination of the city, coupled with other usual attractions.

will he worth the trip. The principal feature of the electrical display will he the courts of honor, of which there are to be quite a number, spanned across the intersections of the principal strets. Each consists of a canopy ot dazzling lights suspended in mid air far above the ground, from which will extend blazing streamers in graceful loops, reaching to the ornamental pit lars.on the sidewalks. Between these courts of honor and extending from many squares beyond them in every di reetien, garlands with myriads of in candescent? will span the streets, mak ing night brighter even than day. and revealing the wonderful Fights of San Francisco, in which the Queen of the Pacific abounds.

Other Veterans. The veterans of the Mexican war. of whom CS5 live in California, and on the Pacific; Coast, more than can be mustered in any other section of the Union, will take a prominent part in the parade and other demon strtions. The veterans of the Spanish-Ameri can war will he largely represented because San Francisco, the gateway to the Philippines, has, more than any other city in the United States, bade Godspeed to a greater number of our troops leaving for these scenes of con ilict and conquest, and again wel corned them on their return, crowned with victory and glory. The naval parade upon the beautiful laud-locked Pay of San Iraucisco large enough to accommodate) the fleets of all nations, and which reflects upon its placid, mirror-like surface the cloudless, azure sky, typical of Califor nia, will be a picture long to be re memberod.

The. display of California's agricul tural and mineral wealth, coming from the fertile valleys, hillsides and from the bowels of the mountains, will cer tainly be a valuable object lesson. Encampment Week. Encampment week will he one round of festivities for San Francisco and all her guests. A part of the program for the week has been decided upon and includes the following, subject, of course, to many additions and perhaps to some minor changes.

Monday, August 17th will ho devoted to receiving and locating veterans and their friends; reception and "open house" at all headquarters. Tuesday, Angst 17th Parade of United States troops stationed at the Presidio, Marine Corps. Sailors of the United States War ships, Apprentices from Naval Station, Marines from Navy Yard, Guard of California, Naval Veterans, ex-Prisoners of War, Military. Semi-Military and other patriotic organizations, Native Sons of the Golden West. Wednesday, August lth Parade of G.

A. It. In the evening there will lie reunions of the Civil War Associations and camp-fires. Thursday, August 20th Opening of ho encampment in the Grand opera house. Two sessions will probably be held.

More receptions, reunions and camp-fires in the evening. Friday, August 21st Closing the work of the encampment and general rejoicing for the rest of the day and evening, with interchange of visits from departments, reception and camp-fires. Is it a burn? Use Fir. Thomas' Ee-'ectrie Oil. A cut? Use Dr.

Thomas' Eclectric Oil. At your druggists. TRICKS OF HORSE DEALERS. He Is Up to More of Them Than the Man of Any Other Class. "There are tricks in every' trade, but i think that men who deal in horseflesh have a few more than those en-staged in other oc cupations," said Samuel Ford, formerly owner of a big stock farm near iouisville.

recently to a Milwaukee Sentinel reporter. "One of the directionse in which the grafter In this line turns his attention is to making horses appear younger than they are. and there are scores of moth, ods for accomplish Hi is this purpose. The usual way of telling the ago of an equine is to examine i1a teeth. A horse has a full set when 5 years old, and this consists of forty teeth.

Six mentis later the nippers, or front teeth, become marked by a natural cavity, and it is the presence or absence of these markings that demonstrates the exact age of the horse. As it gets older the cavities begin to wear away, and it is then that the faker gets busy. In order to reproduce the arks the surface of the teeth is cut with a steel tool and the requisite black lining of the grooves burned in with nitrate of silver. In this way the anima's that have passed their tenth birthday are palmed off as 5 year olds. If so desired, a 3 year old may be made two years by chiseling away the side milk teeth, which are naturally present until the filth year.

"It is not in that line alone, however that the faker operates," continued Mr. Ford "for there are other thine? which call the attention of a clore o)-server to the advanced ate of a horse. One of these is a hollow which invariably appears on the forehead directly over the eyes. If a sale is in prospect the cunning agent introduces a tine pointed blowpipe through this until the siuu is perfectly level. Skill is also fifty or sixty persons who will be-executive cerveel on this route.

Sunn? of them resi-ie- at Po'tif Hope, which tho 'ear- Tlie people will never be I with; half way Investigations designed primarily to protect ihe republican party md its leadiio; peiljf ie-ians," Then? are lndh atiotts that the army is Rradiially purged of the unlit officers who. throuuh political itiflu--nee. obt.vni'd ommissions during tie' war with Spain. Several si'cotui oianr have already pone out because 'ley tnibd in their examinatlors for promotion arid within the past week "iree have been because they had ine urri'd debts which they '-mild not meet, tampe'red with company funds and been eui'ty of intoxica- ion on il'itv. There was treat nr.

mr exerte dnriint the Spanish war! for nnf ihe nan with sut- fsclent political Influence had no difficulty in l-eipir rffile a p-rond lieitt-n- I oit. As is invariably the case where tho boss barber's as'ociutinn of ar apo'tded because of thcirl tia it was decided to advance ihe price? there were tunny who were to ailv unfit tor positions of van, 1 it Is etc hip to note that they are being weeded out. 1.