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34 +m * Washington,. Aug. 4.â€"The range of usefulness of tse Department of gricalture is nicely exemplified in a ‘fllotln just issued on that pest of he hoase, scientilically known as "Cimex Lectularius," otherwise comâ€" monly called tihe bedbug. The enâ€" c.-ologilts ol the department have n thorough and exhaustive, and m.ent a greht varicty of interesting ts h: regard to this omnipresent Wingless and Sociable Sticketh Closer Than a Brother. * De June bug hab de goliden wing, De lightning bug de flame ; BDe bedbug got no wing at all, But be gets dar just de same." _ Jney have _ their remedy in eourt," sail the Magistrate. "You have so right to slander a young woman. And now,. young lady." the court tontinued, addressing Miss &eblmrt, "if this young man keeps i# sort of thing up, come to me and tell me about it, and 1 wiall xt him away where be cannot cirâ€" late any dirty stories about you. LCase dismissed." kxerybo«ly kurried out of court. "My father hasn‘t ‘truth," young Shaw "What," _ exclaimed Crane. "Young man, e call your father a "I ksnow him better replied the actor. "I eout for the interests and sister, whom bhe " Who are you?" asked the magisâ€" trate, with some asperity. "I am this boy‘s father," he exâ€" plained, "and what he said bhe said to me. I ought to know." "All right," said Magistrate Crane. "He told me," continued the elder Hbaw. "that this young woman was avchaste, and that she was living with me. 1 immediately told her what be bhad said, in very plain Isoguage, and sbhe thrashed himâ€" cowbhided him." "Good for ber," _ said Magistrate Crane. "I am very glad of it. Mind, young woman," he said, addressing Miss Gebhart, "don‘t do it again, but if he said those things of you be deserved a licking, and 1 am glad be got it." © " Because, the young woman asâ€" ported, "he assailed my â€" character. We told his fatherâ€"‘ * Ch, * Now, let me tell that," began the elder_!li_-. Buaw. "Td rather tell that i?u Her voice rang out sharp and clear and her eyes snapped as she Galked. "But whyâ€"*‘* (began the magis trate. As# soon as the young man escaped he went to Magistrate Mott in the West Side Court and got a warrant for Miss (Gobhart‘s arrest. A court efficer took the warrant, but was unable to find the young woman. Yesterday word was sent to the court that she would appear there in the afternoon. She did. Sheldion B. Shaw, wen., was there, too, with a lawyer. Magistrate Crane asked Miss Gebâ€" hart what she bad to say for berâ€" welf telll:g her h:g she was charged with thr te'..ln% r. Shaw with asâ€" rnlt and injury. Before he could tell er un{ more Miss Gebhart egpoks ug. " I didn‘t make threate," she said, potting the desk in front of the Jwodge emphatically with her gloved hand. "1 performed everything I gaid I would. 1 thrashed him soundly. § did that " Miss Gebhart is a goodâ€"looking yeueg woman, with dark bair and The elder ghaw told Miss Gebhart what the actor bad said. The next day, July 16, young Shaw went to his father‘s oflice to get some keys for bhle urcle, John C. Shaw, the lawyer. Miss Gebhart was there. Young Shaw said that she locked the door of the efice, took a tawhide whip from her deek and used it on him with great liberality, telling him meantime what AKb was doing it for and promising other retribution should he continue tw speak reandalously of her. i "They have their THE CIMEX LECTULARIUS. Accoraing to the young man‘s story, he made dscoveries on this visit to hilse lather‘s rooms which disturbed him a great deal _ He reponstrated with bis father at some length and mald to him, among other things, that U his father could afford to buy dinâ€" ners for two in Ceolumbus avenue resâ€" Laurants and otherwise spend money freely in the company of young women, he could then afford to pay to his wile the money for her gupport and that of imns daughter which was due to them. Hheldon sShaw, sen., llvyes at 219 Wout Fortyâ€"eighth street. Miss Gelâ€" bhartt also lives in the same touse. Young Nhaw, who lives with bis mother and mster at 235 West Sevâ€" entieth street, said io court that he went to iss father‘s rooms some time ago io see ‘his lather about faimily malters Shelion B. Shaw, sen., is diâ€" Â¥orcest Irom bis wife. pumboe sxff rextsts. . o. :==> .. _ i _ > cording to the advices of the Sall, ewore out a warraut on July 10 charging Miss Helen M. Gebhbart, who is his lather‘s stenographer anod i# pretty, with bhavieog tbhreatened him and with baving assauited him. Mr. Shaw‘s father, Sheldon B. Shaw, wen., is a real estate agent and has an office at 1487 Reventh avenue, Hear Fortyjâ€"@wcons street. The asâ€" sault cocurrel in that olfice. Father Telis About the Row and Takes the Girl‘s Partâ€"Son Tries to Explain, but Court Won‘t Hear Mimâ€"Advised Appeal to Law. New York, Aug. 4. â€"Rbeldon B Khaw, jun., an actor who led one of the "Ben Hor" road companies last Whipped Man Who Said She Lived With His Father. COURT APPROVES HER ACT. HOW A GIAL 6OT REVENGE 1* 3 es Gig Magistrate do you mean har ?" than you do," have to look of my mother ought to supâ€" toid you the broke in. i nc ‘;"t"‘l“ Among the facts which go to show "’" C h'e that the bedbug has more than orâ€" ‘trhom ": dinary intelligence, the scientists i ‘rs"'t mention his habit of nocturnal i comrerm, seaftch for TOOT ~ and BI& conceaiâ€" promtl‘smz ment during the day. He knows the ‘)°°" ""° qifference between light and darkâ€" u‘(.‘sca eqg "es®. At the approach of Aaylight, 3tt in l:fne or when a light is struck, he will warrant l6aYe the bed to hide in the cracks A court Of the bedstead or in the nearby but was Turviture, behind _ wainscotting or woman,. "nder loose wall paper. He chooses ’the court A&partments and old houses full of re in the CTAck® and crannies, in which he B. Shaw, CA@n Sind concealment. While the R Iaiyer’. bedbug Sinds a bormal food in huâ€" Miss Geb ®M2" blood, it is .well. established fer her. that be camn live indefinitely from » charged the jmges of moistened wood _ or with as. the moisture in accumulations _ of ceald tell Sust in the cracks of the floor. The epoke up. introduction of iron bedsteads has she sald, %en & distinct discouragement to : of the the bedbug, but (he scientists say r gloveg that bedbugs are known to crawl ything I "P walls and across ceilings and scundly, Grop down on beds in their search of his had ever been re‘used by the colonial Governmenrts, and their conâ€" sideration and generosity only equalâ€" led the character and quality of the troops they seat to South Africa or raieed in that country. Lieut.â€"Col. Girouard, a Canadian officer, is warmly praiged, Lord Kitchener sayâ€" ing that be is an "officer of brilliant ability, and I wish him all success in his new capacity as head Of a great civil department." Almost all the leading Generals were commended, Including the writer‘s brother, Genâ€" eral Fred. Kitchener, who was ‘des cribed as an exceptionally keen and energetic officer. General Lord Meâ€" thuen, Lord Kitchener said. bad done more than most officers toward maintaining the high standard of personal courage, modesty and homâ€" anity, which characterizes the Briâ€" tish army. "I share his own GQ@eep regret," _ sail the despatch, " that his wounds prevented him from reâ€" maining in the field until the concluâ€" sion of peace." The following Canâ€" adiane also are mentioned : Lieut.â€" Col. Evans, Major Rose, Captains Calâ€" laghan,. McMillan â€" and _ Williams, Lieuts. Ryan and Church, Sergts. Doâ€" herty, Bliss, Stallwood and Saunders, acd Private Chesworth. j e e e mmIpdt betagrtadictalith w.ciud h M 1 1104 § the British High Commissioner: "In many difticult situations it was alâ€" ways the greatest relief to me to feel that I could always rely on his unfailing eympathy and ungrudgâ€" ing assietance." Referring to the deep obligation of the army to the colonies, the writer said no request London, Aug. 4.â€"Many pages of the Gazette toâ€"day are filled with Lord Kitchener‘s final despatch on the Boer war and his mention of the ofSicers and men who distinguished themselves while he was in command in south Africa. The same issue anâ€" nounces the General‘s new title as ‘"Viecount Kitchener of Khartoum and of the Vaal and 0%® Aspall, in County Suffolk." In his last despatch Lord Kitchener said of Lord Milner, PRAISE FOR LORD METHUEN. Lord Kitchener‘s Tribute to Lieut.â€"Col Girouard. PRAISE FOR CANADIMNS, The entomsiogists of the Departâ€" ment of Agriculture suggest as reâ€" mediee fumigation with hy drocyâ€" anic acld gas, a liberal appliction of benzoin or _ kerosene, corrosive sublimate and oil of turpeotine with brusbhes or jfeathers in all crevices, and a liberal use of hot water. for food. In common â€" with othar insects, bedbugs are transmitters of contagious diseases. i# a very fortunate circumstance since otherwige there would be no salety from it for the most thorough and carefui of housckeepers. Now aund then the entomoiogist finds a speciâ€" men which shows some disposition to eplarge its wings but as yet there in no considerable development in this direction. Observers lind that the rests of the common barn swallow, swarm with bedbugs. In England there are three dilferent species. One of them is found, in pigeon cotes anâ€" bther in the nests of the English marâ€" tin, and a third in places frequented by baits. In this country a variety has been found occasionally living in poultry houses. The odor of the bedâ€" bug comes from glands on the under gside of the body, which secrete a clear, oily, volatile liquid. This odorâ€"‘ ous pil is of no use to the bedbug,. but illustrates the persistence of a characteristic. With those insects l‘ke the bedbug, such as the chinchâ€" bug, the squashbug and similar inâ€" sects, which live on plants, the odor 18 a means of protection against inâ€" sectivorous birds, to whom the smell of ‘the oil is obnoxious or distasteful. The house roach is an enemy of the becibug, and when hard pressed for lood devours it. The common house ant will also eat the bedbug. The «lor does not seem to disturb cither o these insect enemies of the cimex. Government scientists, the bedbug has remarkable intelligence He Is migratory, taking passage in the | trunks and satchels of travellers, | marching along the walle of bouses, over water ppes and eaves from kouse to bouse in search of bome | and food. He knows what windows ) are, and has a habit of crawling in around the sashes to gain access to a ’houn. The literature of the Greeks and Romaos and the ancient peoples of Asla show an acquaintance with the bedbug, and the scientists at the departmeit Lave found an allusgion to him in the early editions of the Bible, where in the fifth verse of the ninetyâ€"lirst Psaim it is said, "Thou shalt sot seed to be afraid of any bugges by night." In Old England the bedbug was called the "wall louse," and later the chinch. ‘The latter name is now preserved in the Viciuity o« Boston. In Baltimore they _are called the ‘mabhogany flat.‘ New Yorkers cali them "redâ€"coats.‘ Wherâ€" ever verscls have sailed bedbuzse have Journeyed, and sailing vessels and steamships are notoriously infested with them. The coldest latitudese have them, and in the tropics they are riotous in their prosperity. The earliest writings of the colounists in the United States and Canada allude to them, although the legends of the bative amican Intiian make oo menâ€" tioma of tuem. Structuraliy, the bedbug is of a low order. Jts haoit ol extensive locomoâ€" tion hasw resuited in the loss of wings. The Goversnment scientists say this "A year alterward," the same pub lication says, " it was accidentally unearthed by well diggers, the archâ€" engineer of the hoax being given as Mr. Hull (reporter on the Hamilâ€" Before the burial of the giant in the old well at Cardiff, by previous Aarrangement, the figure was sub jected to long and carefal rubbing with sand and water, which produced the waterâ€"worn appearance so ofâ€" ten cited as incontrovertible eviâ€" dence of extreme antiquity. The pores of the skin were carefally imâ€" itated by picking the entire surface with leaden hammers faced with needles, giving the peculiar " goose flesh," which puzzled so many. As there still remained an appearance of freshness the figure was given a gulphuric acid bath to give it the desired appearance of age. A number of the Popular Science Monthly published in 1878 bears out Mr. Sala‘s statemont in some details, but mentions Edward Salie, a Gerâ€" man, as one of the sculptors, and the other as a Mr. Markbham, an America. Mr. Sala claims that the Balle referred to can b> no other than himsel!, and the use of the nams is a joistake on the part of the writer. *" Yes, it was I who carved the Cardiff giant," said Mr. Bala, "and Mr. Taylor paid me the handsome sum of $15,000 for the work ; subseâ€" quently he often gave me $500 whenâ€" ever his receipts were exceptionally good. He was an excellent payer and a gentleman. Icarved the giant in! a barn near Quincy, II!. ‘The slab of gypsum was cbtaiged in the Â¥vicinâ€" ity. There is plenty of gypsum as well as onyx near there. Of course, Ihad nothing to do with the slab after it left Quincy, but I know that from there it was shipped to Chicago, then by water to Builfal>, and finâ€" ally by canalâ€"boat and team to Carâ€" diff, N, Y., where it was buried. The nature of the package was, of course, kept a secret. was twelve feet long, four feet broad and weighed three and a half tons. It wassupposed to hbave been dug out of the earth at Cardiff, N.°Y. This, to a certain extent, was true, but the fact that it was carved out of gypeum and interred less than a _year before by the clever ones was kept a profound secret. That it was one of the cleverest hoaxes _ ever perpetrated was proven by the numâ€" ber of sculptors, archaeologists, anâ€" tiquarians, clergymen and _ others of the learned profe@sions who were "taken in" by the figure and gave more or lees profound explanations of ite origin. Teils the Story of the Fraud. Mr. Sala is an elderly man, who has mado his reputation over the world as a scuiptor of considerable merit. It was orly with reluctance that he was induced a day or two ago to talk of his connection with the chiseling out of the giant. He said ho eimply undertook the work in a professional way, having been employed by a Mr. Taylor, who was at that tims, 18%8, a sort of silent . partner with Barnum. ‘ The figure, to the many people who visited Barnum‘s show in those days, was supposed to represent the petriâ€" fied form 1Â¥ a prehistoric man. It was jlong accepted as the genuâ€" Ine petrified remains of a race of giâ€" gantic â€" human â€" beings who once inhabit_ed this country. & furore in the scientific world more than a ecore of years ago. His name is G. Fabricio Sala, and he is enâ€" aeavoring to dispose ol the statue of "Faith‘ that bas been iying in the meckhanics‘ pavilion at the exposiâ€" tion grounds ever since the close of the great fair held here seven years since. He claims that P. T. Barnum, the showman, made a m‘liion dollars by exhibiting his Cardif{f giaut, which San Francisco, Cal., Aug. 4. â€" An artist is now in the city who claims to have been the sculptor of the faâ€" mous Cardif{ giant that created such A _ MONEYâ€"MAKING SWINCLE. Artist Who Perpetrated Fraud Tells How it Was Done. MADE THE CARDIFF GIANT. ‘"Ign‘t the sea calm ?" ‘"Yes; horribly so. No sxcuse Jor @ in the surf toâ€"day." Made to Appear Ancient. Mre. Waybackâ€"I see where Reuben Slopay is again to git married. Guess he‘ll have to set tle down now. Uncle Waybackâ€"Well, ho better Btu;ywé‘ln;gié“an' settle up! NOTHING DOING TOâ€"DAYy ’ And then what happens? There is his year‘s work, and it liee at the railway station and rots because the teamsters will not cart it away nor let anybody else do so. What has the fruitâ€"grower done to the teamâ€" vter? He is as iunocent as his own fruit. All he knows is that if his crop is let rot his work is gone for nothing and possibly he is â€" ruined. Probably he has no spare love for the railways. Few shippere have. His sympathies may be with the strikâ€" ing freightâ€"handlers. But that makes no difference. Away goes all he hae becoause certain other elemenits are fighting. It is a merciless proceedâ€" ing. If the strikers were being krocked out of a year‘s work to let other people fight for a week or two, What an outecry there would be at such an abuse of the working man ? But is not the fellow who grubs amround a year to raise hise crop . aâ€" workingman ? There‘s & _ heartleesness about that sort . ol _ thing that â€" grates. There‘s precious little Goldea Rule about it.. â€"Hartford Courant. ( No _ Wonder the Agriculturist Deprecates Strikes and Lockouts. There are some incidents of this etrike in Chicago that are dread{fully cruel. It is asserted that the teamâ€" eters have lately bound themselves by contract to stick to work, and that their present attitude is in direct violation to that. But, be that as it may, take the plight of the outlying _ fruitâ€"grower. â€" His year‘s work is given to a crop that ripens all in a very short interval of time, and that perishes very soon after It ripens. He watches this and gives it all the care needed and puts out upon it all the expense required to meet the exactions of a cultivated market, and when the fruit is ready he ships it to Chicago, where there is n eure demand for it. it survived for nearly two decades. when it may be said to have died a natural death, or, to use popular lang:xage, to have been "played out. It is estimated tnat $3,000 000 was made out of the hoax before Barnum _ introduced â€" the â€" petrified man to his cireus. While the figure was bring exhibited in Boston, Mr. Hala says that to bis ow n knowledge the drawings amounted to about $4,000 a night for a considerable lim>. Noiwi b tan inz Prof. Margh‘s findings and other hard blows the hoax rgcexved from other quarters The man to first punecture the hboax was Prof. Marsh, of Yaleâ€"who made a point by asserting that Eypeum was soluble in 40) parts of water, yet the face of the glant was smooth and little dissoived, though surrourded by wet earth, proving that the burial must have been of very recent date. face of one who lived like all the earth; the very image and child of God." Many scientific societies took the matter up and expressed their gullibility more or less strorgly in resolutions. By way of an advertisement inâ€" vitations were sent to P:iof. Agars.z, Pro‘. Hull, State Geoloziâ€"t; B. B. Woolworth, Seecretary of the New York State University, and a large delegation of mcientific men from different parts of the State. ‘The State Geo ogist pronounced the figâ€" ure to be a statue of great ant.â€" quity. Prof. Ward, who filled the chair of natural sclence in Rochesâ€" ter University, said : ‘"Although not going back to the stone age, it is neverth:lsss deserivng of th>e attenâ€" tion of archa«co ogists.‘ A p om‘nent clergzyman wrote: "This is not a thing contrived by man, but it is the face of one who lived like all the earth; the very image and child of ton, Ont., Times). It had been careâ€" fully arranged, and there were many neighbors around to spread abroad the news of the extraordinary find of fossil remains. The crowd â€" soon swelled to thousands from all parts of the neighboring country and on the following day four medical men of the neighborhood, with scientific pretensions, investigated the giant and accepted the hoax without the least hesitancy. Later it was examâ€" ined by a Dr. Boynton, of Syracuasge, a man possessed of some antiquarian knowledge, and he came to the conâ€" clusion that it was a statue made some 300 years ago by the Jesuit fathers. He at once offered $10,â€" 000 for it." i protection of a strong STRIKER AND FARMER. TORONTO Je tevs te '-,lnanly E7 ETT T CHC party. Wm. Lynn, whose abdomen and legs were filled with buckshot, succumbed to his wounds. McKinâ€" ney also filled the right arm â€"of George Burrows, a printer, with shot, and sent a bullet into the mouth of Deputy Marshal Willis, another into the . arm of Deputy Constable Tompkins, and a load of sheot into the arm of W. D. West. McKinney is headed for Fresno County, and it is belleved ho «in PBE CE T TT CO0®IE He then went to a livery s and mt the point of a revolve cured a rig. As he was drivin a constable, a deputy and sc citizens tried to arrest him. opened fire, wounding four of party. Wm. Lynn, whose atb and legs were filled writh 1...23 A Californian Desperado Bhoots KFive Men. Fresno, Cal., Aug. 4.â€"aAt Porterâ€" ville James McKiney, an exâ€"conâ€" viet, shot five men and escaped into the country in a stolen rig. McKinâ€" ney first shot out the lights of a saloon, and then in trying to shoot the cards out of the bands ol a playâ€" er, wounded the latter slizhtliv to was the passing of an Orderâ€"inâ€" Council placing hemlock logs in the same category as pine jogs affter April 30 next, the end of the license year ; ‘hat is, they must not be exâ€" ported!. Of late years a considerable trade in hemlock logse has sprung up, owing to the increasging value of this class of timber. The prohibition is in line with the poliecy of the Governâ€" ment of confining the manufacture of the products of the forests of Onâ€" lario within the confines of the Proâ€" vinee. {Phe Orderâ€"inâ€"Council was passâ€" ed on the recommendation of the tomâ€" missioner of Crown Lands. Earlier in his administration of his department Mr. Davis placed pulpwood on the list of articles whose export is prohibited, and ‘he thus is acting in conformity with the policy which he has previousâ€" ly followed. Their Export to Cease on April 30 Next. A meeting of the Ontario Cabinet was bold yesterday, Mesers. Dryden, Davis and Stratton being present. Mr. Dryden, who was the senmior Minister, pregided, it being the first occasion on which he hase been aciing Premier. :I‘j}e gog@t important matter attended An arrangement has been negotiâ€" ated between the Governments of the United States and Newfoundâ€" land, elfective August ist next, by which domestic money order rates will apply batween the postolfices of the two countries. The annual statement of the C.P, R. shows gross earnings for twelve months up to June 80th, of $37.503,â€" 054, working expenses $23.417,142, net profits $14,085,912, an increase of net profits over 1901 of $1,976,â€" 537. Rev. John Scott, superintendent of the Methodist missions in Japan, is home on furlough. He will be in Canâ€" ada for about seven months, and will attend the Methodist conferen:ec, to be held in Winnipeg in September. Dr. Russe!ll Wilgon, of Ohio, â€" who was captured with a revolutionist party in Nicaragua, has been saved from death through the representaâ€" tions of Minister Corea, of that counâ€" try. His sentence will be commuted. Mr. John klett, President of the Sun Portiand Cement Company, of Owen Sound, «atates that the Hon. Dr. Macdonald has succeeded the late Dr. Horsey on the Qoard of the comâ€" pany. Tae British Consul at Marseilles reâ€" ports that the most ipteresting feaâ€" ture of the past year there was the inability of American coal to stay in that market under existing â€" condiâ€" tions. The persecutors of Lieut. Gregson jwill probably be cashiered by the British War Oifice. He is the man whom some "nobs‘ deemed "socially ur.degira ble.‘‘ It is stated that the supply of anâ€" thracite coaul in the hands of railâ€" roads and dealers in Philadelphia will probably be exhausted by the middle of September. Prinece Ludwig of Salmâ€"Kyrburg is, about to leave for the United States to look for a wilfe. He was just declared a bankrupt; debts, $200,000 ; assets, $4,000. John ~W. Ross, for twelve years Democratic member of the Board of UCcmmissioners for the District of Cclumbia, is dead. Two freight traine on the West Shore collided at Harrington Park, N. J., toâ€"day, E. W. Randall, Tireâ€" man of one of the locomotives, was killed. An excursion party of seven hundred from Syracuse, N. Y., on the steamer New York, was not allowed to land at Kingston on Sunday. The Manitoba Government returns show that 20,000 men will be requirâ€" ed to assist in the harvest in that Provinee and the Territories. :l‘he totai tax rate for the city of Toronto will be 20.87 mills, the highâ€" est in the history v0f the city. Over 12,000 members are in attendâ€" ance at the «ixth triennial festival of German éinging societies opened at Graz. The estimated losses of the anâ€" thracite coal strike are placed at $56,145,000. Two military prisoners and a guard are missing mysteriously from Fort Rheridan, Chicago. If Mephistopheles ran his furnace on earth he would soon find himself againet a Brimstone Trust, James Manson, ol the Winnipeg diviâ€" sion, has been appointed Superintendâ€" ent of the Ontario division of the C. J. Waits, the London â€" jockey, is dead. ;i‘lle Ofrtario Alliance is in session in Toropnto. HEMLOCK LOGS BARRED. Earthquake shocks were experiencâ€" ed in California and South Dakota. The Ontario Rifle Association matchee will be shot on Aug. 27, 28 and 29. . { 60. ; , _ °2 LDd ~A revolver, _said before leaving that woukn‘t be in it with him. A BAD AS TRACY. \ mmoye latter slightly. 0 a livery stable, of a revolver seâ€" e was driving off Marshal Willis, arm of Deputy , and a load of gf W. D. West. : 6 "W ags o9 8B oi several o. He J _ the NAPOOR Valloy are were negroes. _ a. child Of Charles Da ies Prugeg oirgee <ip votlivrl? 4. .. s An accurate cs.imatle of the losses i# impossible, but with the damage to Palroxis, the drowning of stock, the washing away of bridges, residences and business houses, in addition to the damage to colltin and other crops, it is safe to siy that a miltion Collars is a Conservative amount, No news has come from the 400 to 500 wood choppers who were cut off by the food in Richlanad Creek bottoms, by it is not now thought that any lives were lost there. The Brazos River, after inund.th:g rien larming landsg for 200 miles sou of Waco, is rcported falling steadily at Waeco but msing . slowly below, Hearzye. It is estimated that there are from 3,000 to 4,000 acres of culâ€" tivated â€" lapg under â€" water near Hearne A rough.estimate of the numâ€" ber of acree of cotton and other crope practically ruined in the Brazos botâ€" toms is 20,000. The names of those drowned in Ban Maroose v.u,, _ _/"C auro Dallas, Texas, Aug. 4.â€"The only ray of hope wnien peneiljrates the givom of the floo i situation comes rom the weather reporls, which preâ€" dict Tair ekies, and th» fact that the Brazos River at Waco is failing again. Railways are tied up worse thain ever before in the history of the Btate. The ouly railroad which has so far estimated its damage is the Internationa} and Great Northern. General Passenger Agent Price, of that road, says the actual damage to the laternationa} roadbed will reach #$100,000, and that road is not the worst sulferer. Rix lives lost was the lotal reported yesterday, five in thhe Kan Marcos vallcy and one at Wylie, An accurate cc.imatle of the losses i# impossible, but with the damage to FANPOMGR thna aw. _ ; _ ____7, AHH CROPS AND | _ Among other presents were: David J,. Hill, assistant Secretary of State, received a gold snuffâ€"box, bearing the letter "H," and a crown in diaâ€" monds. Rear Admiral Robley D. Evans was given an enamel porâ€" trait of the Prince, surrounded by diamonds. Majorâ€"General H. C. Corâ€" bin‘s present was a gold cigarette case, on which was the Prince‘s porâ€" *rait in diamonds. Colonel Theodore A. Bingham and Commander W. &A } Cowles, of the namy, each received _ a gold cigarette case, on which were a crown in diamonde and the letter "H." A bracelet bearing the Prince‘s portrait in rubies and diamonds, was presented to Mre. H. H. D. Pierce, wife of the third assistant Secretary of State, and to Mr. Pierce was givâ€" en a framed portrait of the Prince. Aud From France, Loo. Paris, Aug. 4.â€"Patrick A. Collins, Mayor of Boston, Mass.. has been appointed an oflicer ol the Legion o HMHopor _ and _ Paul Capdevielle, Mayor of New Orleans; Thomas St. Juho Gaffney, an attorney of New York, and Mr. Duveen, a merchant of New York, have been appointed Cheâ€" valiers of the Legion. Rose to Go Ranching. Helena, Mont., Aug. 4.â€"Rose Coghâ€" lan, the actress, known in private life as Mre. John T. Sullivan, has deâ€" clared her intention in the district court of Lewis and Clark county, to become a citizen of the United Slates Mre. Sullivan came here {from the Yeliowsetone Park. It is announced that ghe will take up & ranch for callle raising purposes. GREATâ€" FLOODS 1N TEBXAS, Losses to the Railways Will Run Into Millions. Berlin, Aug. 4.â€"The German Emâ€" peror has conferred a number 0# decorations on Americans incidentas to the visit to the United States of Prince Henory of Prossia. The Red Eagle of the third class is bestowea on Samuel H. A«hbridge, Mayor of Philadelphia ; Julias Fleishman, Mayor of Cincinnati; R. A. Wells, Mayor of St. Louis , David R. Framâ€" cis, exâ€"Governor ol Missouri; Arthur Eddy of Chicago, and Gustay H. Bchwab, of New York. The Red Eagle of the fourth class is given to W. & McChemney, general manager of the Bt. Louis Termisal ; Gustay Fisher, president ol the German Maennverâ€" chor, of Chicago ; Chief of Police Mcâ€" Kinley, of St. Louis , Prof. Camiile Yon Kieuze, of Chicago, and Rev. Dr. Gustay Zimmerman, of Chicago. Those who receive the Crow:: Order of the third class are Joha N. Partridge, po.ice commisrioner of New York ; De tective Titus, of New York ; Henry Rubens, of Chicago, and Wm. Yocke, ol Chicago. ‘The Crown Order of the fourth clasgs is conferred on Consular Agent â€" Baumbach, ol _ Milwaukee ; George C. Boldt, manager of the Walâ€" dor{â€"Astoria Hotel, New York ; J. J. Coakley, state master, 8t. Louis, and Wilhem Schmidt, of Chicago. The foreign offices announce a list of presents made by Prince Henry. some of them were conferred by the Prince while he was in the United States, but most of them were sent recenitly. The Emperor presents autograph photographs of h.msell to the designâ€" ers of the yacht Meteor III., C. C. Cary Smith, and Henry Barby. Marked by a Trail of Imperial Honorse â€"France, Too, Copnfers Some Favors on Notables of New York, Boston and New Oricansâ€"Rose Coghblan to Become Naturalized. VISIT OF PRINCE HENRY Many Decorations Conferred by the Kaiser. FOR AMERIGANS re _ not known ; twe At Wylie an infant Davie was drowned, STOCK SUFFER. 0, ame privatle roas a#my owr plantaito divided from the ; by no lodge. no & @estly down betwes ahuch grew loug a r time, for abo the larches an Proad divided Into | struck off from form of a v, the leading to Larkis O firâ€"forest. Wo proach of their 1 used to? al ow inge forest &8 aAa meagr land sheep i this point t to the left. tHus dark and wi the poor little w apposile s rushing D Ballater C roofs of t €rowned gorth, an the south bet ween ragged Ir which, on l an old as Knock te haunt, gaunt, bas ?aclr:ll ar L _ ma _ tue mildew 1y manse, dowed by Beyond th« litthe ch which not the Dee. aAround n white light which enab lines of th wee, Now swol raine, _ swirlin curves, and or piles of the br @lructure rock: Lwo delicate s away by the ness from the for them. 1 w 10 the right to bridge that ar like whips in the right, bel srooked. turb and along t the south «id were on imy ered with bare bran It was gettin Prain stopped s minutes before through the vii a©y wooden . by one of stone w It was not Â¥ Fergueon ; 1. punectuality, _ hi shanical indusir prowisir vio t un #on lolfiw recl would have bee & caprice incon person than to principles to thoughtâ€"of que in my mind. What â€" would CH A I made a ha ondâ€"hand shops wise ebpough 1 woere to find i and span, Mre amoment discoy MHaving got t« very odd asso I was rather a en â€" utensile, with the happy a new set of 1t] vice, and hand. Eluenl in nse i mer. Not these things, | i sale {ashion mo vantage of th« own. However, Trwrough someho be sent on the eneaked back to train, wonderin the news to E. that by som» im immaculate one ted in my absen Of discipine whi once the super. enly find him weoond to non: whiskey, nobod: tell when ho h: enough ; so tha as she shook into the nippi gloom of the with a new an of brightness : "I worked ha last in a very Bps forming th« to my ear. "<G she then said . but with her she gave my i which my gulil bure 0f a sin furnished and 1 And a cold chi Theo I walk amag by wliat _ the cottage life and mo ore thicker m ne