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PLAN FOR LOCK CANAL IN PANAMA -;|PMV MMMT, mnm W j«nra/ can,mur «r/Af c*"# Canal. \]f -« <y^. V . -fv> ', K: ^ i ' ^V'w V , A r r' * :rrzzv. imrr r x 'jmmmmmm--mmmmi ri * Ey^aesaaP&i^^ »*uh J!m Jfife jfi'ir ji j» JiH j. •»> S «J4« 4S M *7 «#,» IM s* SI $4 9*» 3^ 90 m «4II'I5II#' Ml Diagram showing how some engineers proposed to construct the Panama canai. T?ie different elevations are ,•$• twined by a series of locks or gates. The commission reports in favor of grading to the a*a level, making the canai an unbroken waterway. CANAL MAY BE OF LOCK TYPE. GREAT LIBRARY FOR NEW YORK. 8AGE IS OLD-TIME FINANCIER. ', vjk Commission 8aid to Be Opposed to i*t; Sea Level Proposition. £ * > Authoritative announcement is made that the isthmian, canal commission , -will recommend to the President that . ' a lock canal be constructed across the ^Isthmus of Panama. 0f This recommendation is Opposed to ,'4-Jthat of a majority of the board of con- f , J8 suiting engineers, which voted in favor ;^?;-©f the sea level type, and will support t ' ,the view expressed by a minority of " the board. The commission will not :t ,!-^prepare Its report until it has had 4 *;'|;^chance to examine the reasons to be 'M,\ presented by the majority and minor­ ity of the board in advocacy of the '•. .type of canal they respectively recom- §^§^%'%nend. X\ ' Gen. Davis, chairman of the board, jk.".* ./said the report of the board will be presented within three weeks. v' - If the commission unanimously rec- \ jommend a lock canal this will be in *4' 1' ."accordance with the Inference which ^vV'Jhas been drawn from a statement made i-,-~tlp*a few weeks ago from the White house ' 'that before the President would ap- yjhave to be" convinced it was the best Tin respect of engineering, time and Ic08t. Sr. -;,:v SiKv^Sl MARCHERITA TO VI8IT AMERICA. « Dowager Queen of Italy Will Travel Incognita. It Is announced that the Dowager Queen Margherita of Italy is going to America next year. She will travel XX-QUEEN MARGHERITA Ve-» incognita and make a tour in an auto­ mobile from NeW York to San Fran­ cisco, when^ehsfce will ta£e^steamer for Japan. s ;r,v< • Dowager Queen TiTargfterttabal3 been suffering from unassuageable grief since the death of King Humbert, five years ago. The queen in her youth was considered the most beautiful princess in all Europe. She is the daughter of the Hate Prince Ferdinan- do of Savoy, duke of Genoa, and she was married to Humbert, then the prince of Piedmont, on April 22, 1868. During her reign Bhe was Idolized by the people of Italy. The former queen knows French, German, English, Spanish, Italian, of course, and Latin thoroughly. She knows Greek well and is familiar with the literature of all 'ages. The queen rises early and retires late. She manages with six hours' sleep and thrives on it. Her work of charities, patronage, organization and society keeps her constantly busy. She is not at all domestic. She likes driv­ ing and out-of-door life generally, but Has not. much opportunity for indul­ gence in these tastes. She likes Ger­ many and the Germans and is & warm friend of William and his wife. , Mrs. H«hhy, Mrs. Roosevelt has one well-devel- oped hobby and that is the collecting of old china. Under her supervision ^3one of the most valuable collections in this country has been placed on ex- «hibition in the basement of the White House, land it is a proud day when she - can add something of historic worth - to the treasures.' The exhibit is made *Nup entirely of remnants of the din- viner sets which formerly served the presidential families. It begins with some rare gold-trimmed plates and cups and saucers which were the pride of Martha Washington's heart and continues down to the era of Mrs. Ida Saxon McKinley. Singers Found by Accldeilt. Some of the world's greatest singers have been discovered accidently. Once upon a time Wachtel, the greatest tenor of his day in Germany, was cracking his whip Shd hailing fores in a musical rondo. Mme. Scalchi, the contralto, Is said to have called j her wares in the street before she was found for the opera stage. Campa- nlni,, the king of tenors, was a black­ smith, but was heard singing like an angel and was enabled to desert the forge for the footlights. Cured By Whispers. It Is said that stammerers rarely, if ' ever, show any impediment of speech when speaking in whispers. A new method of treatment has therefore been advocated, which is as follows: For the fifst ten days speaking is pro- \ hibited. This will allow rest to the voice and constitutes the preliminary ^ : stage of treatment. During the next ten days speaking is permissible in a whispering voice, and in the course of 1%: the next fortnight the ordinary con- ---versatlonal tone may he gradually «"*• , * ployed. ^ '̂ Building to Have Capacity for Mil* ^ lions of Volumes. New York will soon have the great­ est library building in the world. It will have capacity for 4,500,000 vol­ umes, and its approximate cost Will be $3,000,000. It occupies a frontage of two blocks facing on Fifth avenue, between Fortieth and Forty-second streets. Its site is that of the large city water reservoir on the east side of Bryant Park. When completed it will be known as "The New York Public Library--Astor, Lenox and Tilden Foundations." It will be a combination of the Astor and Lenox libraries, strengthened by the bequest of Mr. Tilden, which will give a total endowment of about $3,500,000. The work of construction has been going on since 1899, when the reservoir was removed and the foundation begun. The building, Which is of marble, is 350 feet in length and 250 feet in width. The main reading room will have capacity for 800 readers and, in addition, there will be a general read­ ing room open to the public, a chil­ dren's reading room, a periodical room and a newspaper room.--Louisville Courier-Journal.. Declined to Tutor Prince. , Emperor William wished Joachim, the famous violinist, to give the Ger­ man crown prince lessons, but the mu­ sic master declined the honor. Business the One Thing Wealthy Man Lives For. Some Wall street men were com­ menting on the fact that-Russell Sage had not been hit by the insurance in­ vestigation. One of the party said: "No; Sage is the old-time financier. He does not mix with the new school. He is living on the old plan. He is neither a great philanthropist nor a great grafter. He is simply Sage, the biggest money-lender in the world. There need hardly be any fear that Mr. Sage will unload any great bales of tainted money upon an ungrateful community for the founding of col­ leges whose chief aim will be the up­ bringing of youth to cry 'Great Is Rus­ sell Sage!' Nor is there any great danger that Mr. Sage will spend his years this side of the eighty-ninth milestone In trying to form a giant trust for the cornering of the neces­ saries of life. Mr. Sage has made his fortune and he will hold on to it. He never outraged #the world with a Stan­ dard Oil Company, neither has he set himself up as a great philanthropist." --Chicago Chronicle. ILLINOIS STATE NEWS tMm SEEK CUT IN ASSESSMENTS FIX DATE FOR RATE DECISION ; French Author Visiting America. |Tulien Tiersot. the noted French author, has arrived in this country on a lecturing tour. He is librarian of the national conservatory in Paris and author of several works on music. HEROIC DEEDS OF ENLISTED MEN One of the Brightest Pages in the History of the Sixth United States Cavalry In the War department in Washing­ ton is a letter written by Lieut.-Gen. Miles in praise of the deeds of five en­ listed men. Gen. Mi!es' letter is writ­ ten simply as becomes a soldier, but it is a pulse-stirring epistle. It is probable that nowhere else in authen­ tic history can there be found an ac­ count of a battle won by a force of men when the odds against them were twenty-five to one. In no story which can be told concerning the people of the plains is there to be found a tale of greater heroism than that shown by a little contingent of enlisted men of the Sixth United States pavalry down near the Red river In Texas in the summer of the year 1874. The Sixth cavalry has had a fighting his­ tory, but this particular story shines bright in its pages. The Comanches, the Cheyennes and the Kiowas were on the war path and were leaving a red trail a'I along the borders of western Kansas. General, then colonel, Nelson A. Miles was or­ dered to take the field against the savages. His expedition fitted out at Fo.t Dodge and then struck for the far frontier. The combined, bands of In­ dians learned that the troope were on their trail and they fled south to the Red river of Texas hotly pursued by two troops of the Sixth cavalry, com­ manded by Capts. Biddle and Comp- ton. On the bluffs of the Tule river the allied braves made a stand. There were COO wfcrriors all told, and they were the Quest of the mounted plains Indians. The meager forces of the Sixth under the leadership of their of­ ficers charged straight at the heart of a force that should have been over­ whelming. The reds broke and fled "over the bluffs and through the deep precipitous canyons and out on to the staked plain of Texas." It became Imperatively necessary that couriers should be sent from the detachment of the sixth to Camp Sup­ ply in the Indian Territory. Reinforce­ ments were needed and it was neces­ sary as well to inform the troops at a distance that bands of hostiles had broken away from the main body and must be met and checked. The whole country was swarming with Indians and the trip to Camp Supply was one that was deemed al­ most certain death for the couriers who would attempt to make the ride. The commanding officer of the forces in the field asked for volunteers, and Serg. Zacharias T. Woodali of "I" Troop stepped forward and said that he was ready to go. His example was followed by every man in the two A High-jumping Hog. A Jumping hog afforded much amusement in the hogyards at the stockyardis day before yesterday. Al­ though the animal weighed 180 pounds It would jump, board fences five feet high. The speculator who bought the hog, found it impossible to confine it to a pen, so the pen had to be covered with boards. According to men who have been at the hogyard for years, this was the first hog that had ever leaped a fence there.--Kansas Citj Times. _____ Bear Knew How to Box. Walter Symonds of Randolph, N. H, has learned by experience that a bear is a good boxer. Symonds set some traps and the other morning found one of them full of the liveliest kind of game. His capture was a big black bear, which was,caught by a forward paw. Having but one load for his gun, the hunter thought It best to dispatch the animal with a club. Three times the bear successfully parried Sy­ monds' „ stoutest blows, and the gun was resorted to in order to end the struggle. troops, and that day cowardice hung its head. The ranking captain chose Woods'1, and then picked out four men to ac­ company him on the ride across the Indian infested wilderness. The five cavalrymen went northward under the starlight. At the dawn of the first day they pitched their dog tents In a little hollow and started to make the morning cup of coffee. When full day was come they saw circling on the horizon a swarm of Cheyennes. The eye of the sergeant told him from the movements of the Indians that they knew of the pres­ ence of the troopers and that their cir­ cle formation was for the purpose of gradually closing* in to the killing. Serg. Woodali and his four men chose a p'.ace near their bivouac which offered some slight advantage for pur­ poses of defense. Tfcere they waited with carbines advanced while the red cordon closed In its lines. The Chey­ ennes charged, and while charging sent a volley Into the little prairie stronghold. Five carbines made an­ swer, and five Cheyenne ponies car­ ried their dead or wounded riders out of range, for in that day mounted In­ dians went into battle tied to their horses. Behind the little ^rampart Serg. j^oodall lay sorely wounded and one man was dying. Let the letter of Gen. Miles tell the rest of the story: "From early morning to dark, out­ numbered twenty-five to one, under an almost constant fire and at such short range that they sometimes used their pistols, retaining the last charge to prevent capture and torture, this lit­ tle party of five defended their lives and the person of their dying comrade, without food and their only drink the rainwater that they collected In a pool, mingled with their own blood. "There Is no doubt that they killed more than double their number be­ sides tuvoC tuat luC/ n* OuiiuvAl. Th© simple recital of the deeds of the five soldiers and the mention of the odds against which they fought, how the wounded defended the dying and the dying aided the wounded by exposure to fresh wounds after the power of ac­ tion was gone--these alon^ present a scene of cool courage, heroism arid self-sacrifice which duty as well as inclination prompt us to recognize, Bttt which war cannot fitly honor." When night came down over the Texas prairie the Cheyennes counted their dead and their wouifded and then fled terror-stricken, overcome by the valor of five American soldiers.-- E. B. C., in Chicago Post. Pickup for Lightkeeper. Lightkeeper Robinson of Quoddy head; Mass., noticed a great commo­ tion in the water in one of the gulches near the light. He found that a num­ ber of old-fashioned blister-back pol­ lock had surrounded a school of her­ ring in the water there. To add to the unfortunate situation from the her­ ring point of view the gulls were swooping down in large numbers. Robinson began to participate with his hook and line, landing three quin­ tals of pollock in a few minutes. Revival of Grecian Costume. High society in Great Britain is ex­ pecting a revival of the costume of ancient Greece. When two fair young ladies recently appeared at the opera in Greek dress the audience gasped but admired, and it is now suggested that the costume may come into favor. It is hoped that this new cru­ sade against the conventionality of modern attire will meet with greater success than that, which had for its ob­ ject the revival of knee-breeches and buckled shoes for men. Board of Equalization to Hear^Logan County Residents, f Colonel John Oglesby of Elkhart will head a delegation of Logan coun­ ty residents who will be given a hear­ ing before the state board of equaliza­ tion next Tuesday to present their ar­ guments for reductions in assess­ ments. The Logan county board of re­ view increased the assessments of town lots 25 per cent, on lands 15 per cent and ou personal property 25 per cent. Edward F. Glennon, represent­ ing the New York Central lines; H. W. Miller, representing the Mobile and Ohio and Southern railways, and W. J. Parsons of the Chicago, Milwau­ kee and St. Paul presented arguments against an increase in the assess­ ments of theif respective lines before the railroad committee. GRANDMOTHER IS YOUNQ. Mrs. C. Trenton Sutherd of Virginia la the youngest grandmother in Case county. She recently passed her thir­ ty-fourth birthday and soon after a child was born to her daughter, Mrs. Thomas Finn of Ashland, Mrs. Suth­ erd was formerly Miss Ida Gaines and was married at an early age to J. H. Cooper, but is now the wife of a con­ tractor. She is a pretty woman of the pure blonde type, with the "best of taste in dress and exceedingly youth­ ful in appearance. NEAR DEATH ON WEDDING NIGHT Girl. Is Fatally Burned While Prepar­ ing Supper for Guests. Two hours before the time set for her wedding. Miss Ada Wells of Tay- lorville, was fatally burned when her dress, on which she had spilled gaso­ line, caught fire from an open grate. The tragedy occurred shortly before the first of the guests invited to the wedding began to arrive at the house. Miss Wells had busied herself all aft­ ernoon and evening helping to prepare the wedding supper. In the afternoon she used gasoline, and accidentally spilled some on her clothing. Then she left the kitchen and was on her way to dress for her wedding when as she passed through the sitting room, her clothing burst into a flame.. Railroad and Warehouse Commisslei!* Is Expected *to Afford Relief. Chairman Neville of the state rail­ road and warehouse commission has promised Governor Deneen that, after a delay of three years, the commission will hand down its decision on the freight rate case In which the ship­ pers pleaded for relief from the rail- loads, Tuesday, Deei 5. Recently a committee of the shippers waited an the governor to ask if the decision was ever going to be made, and the announcement followed soon. It is predicted by some that the de­ cision will call for an average reduc­ tion of 17 per cent in rates throughout the state, though the text is closely guarded. Twenty-five per cent reduc­ tion was what; the shippers asked for. Secretary KilTatrick three months ago announced that the decision would be ihanded down at a meeting of the com­ mission the following day, but it was not. It Is said that every month's delay means a profit of many thou­ sands of dollars to the railroads. The report that the commission is preparing an order reducing passenger fares to a 2-cent basis is denied vigor­ ously, and it is declared no such move has been contemplated. Commissioner A. L. French of Jack­ sonville, when asked regarding the re­ duction of freight and passenger rates in Illinois, said absolutely nothing could be given out at this time. Al­ though the commissioners have in­ formally gone over the matter, no re­ port is yet made up, he said, and noth­ ing definite has yet been decided upon by the board. Mr. French says that the ground has been gone over thor­ oughly and that an order will be en­ tered by the commissioners, the nature of which he cannot and would not give out. TRAGEDY OF THE SEA i SK MAm̂ Map Showing the Treacherous Promontory Near St. Malo on the Coast Brittany, When Steamship Hilda Struck Rocks^ and Went with 123 Passengers. • ; s® CHINA'S GREAT NEED RUSSIA'S FALSE CZAR RAILROADS MUST BE BUILT TO DEVELOP EMPIRE. Primitive System of Transportation by Coolies and Carts Over Roads Scarcely Worthy the Name Now a Fatal Drawback. Lease From City Is Upheld. The right of the city of Paris to grant a lease to property outside the city was upheld by the Edgar Circuit courts when It sustained a demurrer to a bill of injunction brought by tax­ payers against the Reservoir Park Fishing and Boating club of Paris. The clubs holds under lease from the city a tract of ground used as a pleasure resort. The lease was attached on the ground that it had been obtained from the city council through collusion and fraud. The court upheld the right of the city to grant the lease and dismiss the allegations of fraud. Fatally Hurt In Flight Matthew Bruner, a painter living near Fairbury, in a fit of temporory insanity, jumped from an upper story of a partly finished house to the base­ ment, and then, cut and bleeding and without clothes, continued his mad flight, leaping through the windows of three farmhouses and dropping ex­ hausted after a long run. He was ter­ ribly gashed when found, and will die.' Grading New Race Course. The management of the new sports­ man's park has completed grading the race course and bail grounds, prepara­ tory to the erection of the grandstand and other buildings early in the spring. It will be known as Madison park and is located on the McKinley interurban line, about a mile south of Edwardsville. Hold Up Hotel Clerk. Night Clerk Jacob Hurst of the Gait hotel it Sterling, at the point of a re­ volver, was forced to open the safe by a hold-up man, who secured |20 and then robbed the clerk of $30 and a watch and escaped. It makes the second time in two months that th? hotel has been robbed. Deneen Opposes Passes. In an interview this morning Gov­ ernor Deneen stated that during the thirteen months that are to elapse be­ tween now and the next meeting of the legislature he will urge upon the members of the legislative body the evils of free transportation in the rail­ road question. "It Is true that I am going to urge upon the next legislature a law prohibiting the issue of passes to all persons except those employed by the railroads directly." New Interurban 8tarta. The electric street railroad connect­ ing the cities of Anna and Jonesboro and the hospital for insane, one mile north of Anna, was placed In operation at Anna Friday. The road is owned by Francis S. Peabody of Chicago and other capitalists of that city, and is bonded for $100,000. Its equipment is of the best and the road will engage in hauling the freight and coal for the hospital. The resident manager is A. A'; Faslg. • . District W. R. C. Meets. The annual district convention of the Woman's relief corps was held in Pana, and delegates from various cit­ ies in central Illinois were present. The address of w-elcome was made by Mrs. Lucile Weber and the response by Mrs. Fanny Eckles of Springfield. In the afternoon the Pana corps exem­ plified the ritual. In the evenirfg a campfire was held, followed by a ban­ quet. After the war Is over China finds herself in status quo so far as rail­ roads £o. The war is credited with little influence In producing the prac­ tical deadlock in railway construction now obtaining in the celestial empire. An adequate railroad system would be a wonder worker, so great are its possibilities, but while the Chinese ap­ preciate the need of some railroading to supplement the work of their can­ als and coolies they have no realiza­ tion of the development of a country by railroads. The amount of goods transported by coolies and in north­ ern China by carts is almost beyond belief. In the interior of the greater portion of the country coolies and canals carry all the freight. What this means can be understood fairly when It is known that there is prac­ tically no railroad service at all In the more populous and richest parts of an empire of 400,000,000 people or more. Most of the roads are scarcely worthy the name. In the northern provinces the traffic in carts of a rough sort dominates the entire move­ ment of goods to the seaboard. When waterways are frozen a great part of the year this is of necessity the case. It is in such regions that the first hold of the railroads has come. When the empire is served at all it is serv­ ed by waterways. Along the Chinese coast there is a series off navigable rivers coming down from the Interior, a series which has few equals the world over. From the Yalu and Pei- Ho at the north to West river, pass­ ing through Canton in the south, these rivers seem to be formed to reach inland from the coast, connect­ ing not only the coast cities, but the Interior cities with each other by way of the coast as well. About midway between the north and south the great Yangtse reaches far into the in­ terior, navigable almost to the west­ ern borders of the empire, and by Its tributaries offering still further con­ nections with interior points. These streams are supplemented by canals, large and small, until the whole Yangtse and Yellow river plains are a vast network of waterways design ed originally largely for irrigation and now used also for transportation. IMPOSTOR SAID TO BE AT HEAD: OF FIFTY THOUSAND MEN. . Farmer Ends His Life. J. &. Sutherland, a retired farmer, residing near Golconda, committed sui­ cide by discharging both barrels of a shotgun into his head. Line to State Fair Grounds. The Springfield consolidated railway company is preparing to extend its' Fifth street line to the state fair grounds. Mangled by Falling Tree. Oris Berr& aged 30, of Liter, was burning timber, when a tree, burned nearly off, fell on him, horribly mang­ ling him. Sues for Building Bridge. The Penn Bridge company of Beav­ er Falls, Pa., filed suit against White­ side county, Illinois, for $30,000 as half payment in construction of a bridge across the Rock river in Ster- ling. Grocery Store' la Closed. The retail store of the Estei Gro­ cery company was closed at Halns- Lurg on a judgment note held against W. J. Estes, the head of the firm, by a salesman for an Evansville grocery firm. Negroes Murder White Men. Charles Glass of Glass county, Ken­ tucky, and William Dunn of Chicago, white men, were shot by a gang of negroes while asleep in a" tent in the Big Four construction camp near Dan­ ville. Glass is dead. Three negroes are under arrest. Lawyer Burned In Ffatti In a $40,000 fire that swept the East side of Herron Sunday morning, Will­ iam Dent, a lawyer, was cremated. He was asleep in an upstairs room of one of the burned buildings. Dies of His Injuries. The death of William T. Wood, for elevep years a dry goods merchant of Bloomington, occurred Nov. 24. He was attacked by a peddler Aug. 11, and injuries received then resulted in his death. Centenarian Is Dead., Eliza Henkle North, who celebrated her one hundredth birthday at Yates City Oct. 28, died Nov. 24 after an ill­ ness of a few days. She Is survived by seventy-two descendants. Plan to Render "The Messiah." The Springfield choral society, with 150 members, is a new organization in musical circles. The society Is preparing to render The Messiah. To Have Skyscraper. The contract for the new eight-sto­ ry fireproof Ferguson building, which is to be erected at Sixth and Monroe streets, Springfield, has been let! Aged Man Is Killed. C. Barnett, 80 years old. was killed on the Mobile and Ohio railway track at Baldwin, a small town near Red Bud, while trying to cross the track before an approaching fast througu passenger train. IN CHARGE OF MONEY GRANTS. James A. Tawney of Minnesota to head the house committee on appro­ priations. " J . At Would Separate the Sexes. 'T do not believe in sandwiching courtship with religion," said the sec­ retary of the Y. M. C. A. in New York recently. "No man can hold a hymn book with a charming young woman and pay attention to what the minister is saying." He advocates separate churches for the two sexes. Charge Is Serious. George Gossup and Frank Husk of Shabbona have been arrested on the charge of placing two wheelbarrows on the tracks of the'Chlcago, Burling­ ton and Quincy at that place on Hal­ loween. _ Decides Inheritance Tax Question. Attorney General Stead .has ren­ dered an opinion to the effect that where real estate subject to the inher­ itance tax law lies in more than one county the tax should all be paid in the county which first acquires juris­ diction of the property. Dies at Allotted °Ag<k Rev. William Williamson, a widely known Presbyterian minister, died suddenly at Lexington, aged 70. He was actively engaged in the ministry for forty-five years. Oddities in Collections. Some of the odd and curious things men make collections of are Included in the following list of titles: Wash­ ington engravings, local imprints, transportation, portraits of one-eyed men, Niagara, Harvard College, for­ estry, international law, Valentines, ex-libris, almanacs, libel trials, local" views, bindings, pirates. Each subject mentioned here was taken at random from the order book of a Boston print and book seller with an International reputation. Movement Recalls Rebellion of 1779^' Which Is Said to Have Cost 100,000 Livea--Started in Region Which Is J Now Affected. « A r « - ** 1 i4 The inflamed state Of thk10$te W® Russia as well as the credulity of the Russian character is again manifested in the army of 50,000 that has gather­ ed in a few days In the Volga region to follow a false czar. This bogus emperor, as the dispatches tell, made his appearance near Penza, in the heart of the vast region westward from the Volga. This movement recalls the gprest Pugatcheff rebellion of 1773, which Is said to have cost 100,000 lives. This v rebellion also occurred in the region where the false czar started his in­ surrection In the last few days. Yemelyan Ivanovitch Pugatcheff was r born in 1726 and died in 1775. The rebellion he led was known as the "Pugatchefshtchlna." He was a Cos­ sack of the Don and fought against : the Prussians in the Seven Years War and in the campaign against Turkey in 1769. ; On his return from the latter war he was arrested for helping his broth- ^ er-in-law to escape across the Don. £ Fearing punishment he ran away to the Cossacks of the Terek. In the land of his refuge he heard the per- ,^ sistent rumors that Peter III was still alive. It happened that he bore a striking resemblance to the murdered * czar, and It occurred to him to im- | personate that sovereign. Whether ;i this Russian soldier dreamed of the 1 bloody results that followed this im- personation is doubtful, but he boldly announced that he was Peter III and issued a proclamation In the namfe of that sovereign in 1773, declaring that ?? he would dethrone Catherine "II and | again occupy the throne. The rebellion began in the' same ' year. He attached to his cause the ^ Raskolniks, whose religion he em- ~ braced, and won over several Finnish and Tatar tribes and thousands of the peasantry. After the capture of many fortresses * on the Ural and the Don, OrentanOT among them, he marched his army ; against Moscow. At a crucial tiire j: he was sold by some of his compttn- ¥ ions for 100,000 rubles and was cap­ tured. After his trial he was executed in Moscow. His execution ended the :- rebellion, which had been one of***? bloodiest of its kind in history. - Von Moltke's Deserved Promotion. On Gen. Count Schlieffen's retire­ ment another Von Moltke will sue* ceed to the post of chief of the gen­ eral staff of the German army, which his famous uncle held for thirty years. Not family or influence, but personal merit, has won this high honor for Count Von Moltke. Serving as a sub- : lieutenant in the Franco-Prussian war, he received the iron cross for bravery. It took him twenty years more to Ttae to the grade of major. Later he was ald-de-camp to the kaiser. After fux»- . ther promotion he was appointed to the general staff, where he has been ; quartermaster general of the army. The army maneuvers this yeflar in which the kaiser took so active a pert were planned by him.' Now, after thir­ ty-five years' service, he attalna the highest rank. ? Lieut. Bilse Has Done Well. Lieut. Bilse, the German officer who was sentenced to -six months' impris­ onment in a^fortress for criticising German military life in a book cared "In a Little Garrison Town," seems to have fared well in the end. He has married a wealthy German woman and settled down in Switzerland. Will Grow Tobacco in Ireland. Sir Conan Doyle and other public- spirited men have started in to ascer­ tain whether tobacco can be grown profitably in Ireland. • * Has "Made Good" In Life. '; Horace E. Burt, president of Uua Union Pacific railroad, has been visit-; ing the home of his childhood, Bae- £ coon, Ind. Forty years, ago he Was a barefoot urchin there and was known v as "boy no account," because he seem- : ed to have an unconquerable aversion ! to hard work. At last he got a job at railroading, prospered and now s comes back in a private car to visit ' friends whom he knew in the long age. s Camels Unable to -Swlnv Camels cannot swim. They buoyant but ill balanced, and their heads go in the water. They can, however, be taught to swim rtvera with the aid of goat Skins or Jan fastened under their necks. During the Beloochistan expedition of 1898 the camels were lowered into thef see from the ships and their drivers plunging overboard clambered oa their charges, sausing the animate* heads to come up, and thus assisted, they were successfully piloted ashore. •' rV v.; •• ' ,3- ».".A Jl.i - ,7; .. \w 't... J ft, a* Bible Studty in India. Facts show the failure of Christian religions in India. The fol­ lowing la an illustration: In the dis­ trict of Punjab only forty families of Brahmin priests are left, .where tH>> merly there were 360. Numbers of Brahmins are defying the curse taking up secular callings, bccaui the office of priest no longer a! them a living. Popular education . Bible study have broken down tils' adoration formerly paid to the ; and their vocation Is gone.