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Study of Suicide Causes gSSUSif K3T THE LEADING REASON FOR SELF-DESTRUCTION. v ; firm fcy a Charity Orzanlzatioi Aftar 1b- - Ferty-thrti Casas af Attempted Suicide Meetal Dwaitzanaat J the Cblaf Caasa. That poverty plays a small part in , leading persons to attempt suicide, aad that mental derangement, either ICexaporary or permanent, is the. .chief -jreasoB, is the opinion "advanced by Orlando F. Lewis, of the Joint Appli cation Bureau of the Charity Organ ' Izatioa Society, which recently made special study of forty-three such cases as reported at Bellevue Hos Yutal. Mr. Lewis suggests that there xaay lie a wide field 'for - charitable work in visiting persons who report -themselves in need of counsel and advice. The result of th investigation is Sirea by Mr. Lewis in the current Ssszze cf Charities. The arrangement , : znade with the Eellevue authorities was that the bureau should be no; ifiei when a person who had at fcesapiea suicide was brought to the arison ward. ': he observations were conducted between April 21 and Sep AemieT IV last. As to how it was eSsnie Mr. - Lewis; says: , ""Tie physician in charge of the -rard Tras first consulted by the vis itor,, the : -ethod of self-destruction Ceamnd, with such other data as the 2itisp!tal authorities had secured. If he physical cordition of the patient permitted an interview was held, the patient being approached from the standpoint of a , friendly visitor. Wliile assistance J.-ora the bureau , -was always offered, no probing into fee patients life was done and few details were asked, on account of the jjatienfs general physical and mental osdstior- Emphasis was laid upon "ihe fact that the visitor was there as friasnd an a time of need. As a rule vthe .patients expressed gratitude for HMs ' interes: and often said they tskobM be gad to call at the bureau jafter their discharge. In practically rsoa cases the :iame and address of the ;fcnreaa -were left with the patient or .She- kerpEr of tr j ward. The visitor if jecaTne -well known to the authorities 'fa charge of the prison wards; the . noises and. keepers showed a personal interest in th cases, assuring the vis ., ator that npon the patient's dismissal . Cay would advise iiinTor her to call -aithe bureau." injspite of this invitation, Mr. F&ewis says, not cne of the forty-three rpexscois applied at the bureau after 1A reasonable explanation," says Slr.IjEwis, "seems to be that the ma jjaaiiy of the patients were from the r self-supporting cla-:s. Almost never, far as the visitor could ascertain, -were ?tj pctients from the class I fcxiowa as "down and out.' " rIt was impossible to learn whether -.all the .forty -three persons had feieads or relatives who could help vUheza. but In fourteen or fifteen in--Stanees -where friends or relatives . -were visited, it as stated, these per .sons said, they -could care for the' . patient. As to the causes discovered, SIr. Lewis sayr: j . Jasiitntion seemed to play a very "-"Tsmali part Sa leading persons to at tempt suicide. In only two cases .7as 4hte attempt directly traced to pov srfy; in four cases the patient had - feea oat of work or employment, but . jMs -Teas .not of itself a direct cause -r-aii'Qia attempt. Melancholia, tem iporary aberration, hysteria, more or i Ibss Ticlent insanity and alcoholism seemed to ca - - the attempts in thir vfgigiTi -cages; excessive jealousy in .'-:&nee eases! In five cases the patients -. ardalmea, that the t attempt was acci Ienial; in one case somnambulism was given as cause; one woman was 'driven to attempt self-destruction by 32zer husband's loose life; illness caused two attempts; four women confessed that their immoral life had Ireeome too shameful and difficult to 2ear. "-Poison seemed to be the favorite TaeVhod, perhaps because easily ob fiaaaed and supposedly quick in its : acOon. Thirteen persons sought to end their liyes in this manner. Ten persons were reported to have tried sa poisoning, but in several in , , csZaaces It -was claimed that the cause l "3aa3 been accidental, the gas being JpSawn -put by the opening of a door ' cr 'window while the person ' was cas2ej. ,Six perse as attempted sui -aside by submersion, four by shooting. Joar by cutting throat, head or wrists; Tcares jumped from windows, one brew himself in front of a street car, aad in two cases the method of at &empf. was unknown."' Oat ,of the forty-three cases eleven stayed but one day In Bellevue, six abut two days and the remainder from , rfiJirce days to several weeks. Seven Scen were sent to court and the bu .areaii lost track of them; five went Siaek to work, six were sent home two were put in the psychopathic -ward and the rest were still at Bel levue wheri the investigation was closed. Not one of the forty-three . raaade the statement that he had at -Ttexapted suicide because he had asought ,work for. a long time and ifailed. In regard to the results shown BIr. Lewis says: ?Ths effort to render aid to would "35b suicides suggests that a much -jnoT-extended study of would-be sui cides In the various private and pub lic hospitals of the city could well be vncdertaken. While certain conclu-'sioas-Tare suggested by the present 3nvestigation, the results are not pf a ; 3iatnTe to justify a final opinion. "trentatiTely "wtnay feel that poverty 7 plays little direct, part, in causing at 4.".i;.is ai suicll WuIJ-L'C suicides give a distinct-Impression of not wanting advice or aid from a chari table society after leaving the. hos pital. - "The attempts at suicide reported from. Bellevue seem largely due to mental derangement, temporary or permanent, in which alcohol plays a prominent part. When there are rel atives or friends in the city they seem ready to aidHhe patient on leaving the hospital. The causes leading up to attempted suicide jjio not seem such that a charitable society can generally become cognizant of them. Mr. Lewis suggests that there may be another way of trying to reach people who want to do away with themselves In addition to the plan now being tried by the Salvation Army's anti-suicide bureau. His sug gestion is that there may be, in addi tion to treatment by a special bureau before the attempt and treatment after the attempt, still another kind of treatment by societies; name ly, that of visiting all persons who -notify such societies that they need counsel, sympathy and advice. "Charity," says Cne article, "may, in a speedy response to such requests, aid in 7 preventing not only poverty but self-destruction." , Superintendent Armstrong, of Bel levue, in commenting on the facts disclosed, says that while the conclu-v sion that poverty plays but little part seemed to be justified, he was not prepared to say that attempts at self destruction were largely due to men tal derangement. "I think that you are correct," he says, "that the causes that lead to at tempts at suicide are not such gener ally that a charitable society is likely to be cognizant of thpm. Still, I can see, in the case?? given, that certain suicides should be reached before they come to that frame of mind that makes them believe that there is nothing further in life." New York Sun. , . i . - SHIPriXG EGGS BY MILLIONS. From All Over the Country They Go to Nj?jv York. The four million residents of this city would be helpless if the produce and provision dealers did not ran sack the continent and the railroads did not bring flesh, fish and fowl and the products of the grain field and the orchard. At breakfast at an uptown hotel a wholesale grocer of Pittsburg, who understood something of the orob- ems of food supply, said to his com panion that he wondered where all the eggs that are eaten in New York come from. Here Is the answer: When the - December chill leaves he hens of Kentucky and Tennessee, Arkansas and Texas get busy, their ndustry continuing throughout Janu ary and February. The spring, trav eling north in March and April, stirs he hens in Southern Illinois, Iowa and Nebraska, and In July and Au- ust Wisconsin, Minnesota and the Dakotas send us eggs. Every day or perhaps two or three days a week the farm and the hennery send bas kets of eggs to the country store keeper, who pays for them in money or merchandise, packs them in cases and sells them to the shipper in one or another of the large receiving mar- sets. " v Here the cases are loaded compact- y in refrigerator cars, In which by . carload and often by trainload they move to the great industrial and com mercial centres. They do not all come to New York. Eves Chicago has to have eggs, to say nothing ot other places, but from this interior and Western region, from Texas on. the south to the Dakotas on ' the north, there came to New York in 190$ 4,086,151 cases, containing about 126,670,681 dozens, or 1,520,.- 048,172 eggs. Eggs come to New York from Jersey, from up-State arms and from Long Island, but ia quantities that are negligible when compared with those from the in terior. Every housekeeper knows what she pays the grocer for eggs, but she does not know that .the price she pays a dozen during the season of shipment seldom exceeds by more than five cents the price received by the Western farmer who takes them to the country store. During times of scarcity the price may run up to ten or twenty ..cents a ' dozen higher than the f afmer .receives. ; "The rate of transportation does not change. The railroads 'receive thirty cents a case for bringing eggs in refrigerator cars from Indiana and Illinois and siity cents a case from Texas and Minnesota. ; That is, the railroads bring eggs a thousand miles to New York for a cent or a cent and a half a dozen and 2000. miles or so for about two cents and a .half a dozen. The transportation charge that1 Is paid the railroads has no bearing whatever on the retail price in New York. If the railroads performed their service gratis the consumer in all probability would pay just as much for his eggs. The average price at wholesale in 1906 was nine- teen cents a dozen, ana tne xoiai vai uation of the eggs received in Greater New York, both ' for domestic con sumption and for export, was $24,- 067.439. n v , From May to July, the season dur ing ; which the greatest number of hens are industrious, vastly more eggs come to New' York than the pop ulation consumes. The surplus Is placed in cold storage for use in the late, autumn and the early winter. New York Sun. - ; An inquest ,was . held . recently: . In London on a woman who " died from - I blood poisoning caused by. the in- fection of a "chapped" hanL Ax Southern VieWi ' , We have said but little recently, on :he subject of good roads, not from :ack of interest, but owing to other easons. We expect, in the future, :o urge the matter and shall be glad :o see the time when every county in the State has a system of good roads, over which a team can haul a load, ind by that we mean as much as iwo horses-ought to pull. . There is one objection to real good roads, which should be considered before we get them. That is the fact that In the present condition st Florida roads, farmers have but little trouble with automobiles.- It is also a fact that in many places, at the North, they have become such a seri ous nuisance that people in the rural districts dare not trust their wives and children to. drive, over the roads alonel Even" where the law requires an automobile to. stop on signal, so as to allow horses to pass quietly, the law Is frequently violated and 3erious accidents are caused. Before we tax ourselves-to make good roads, we should see to it that we have a law which will give the farmers at least equal rights on the roads with the autos. It will require careful study to draw up a bill which, 'when made into a law, will do the work. We do not mean to drive the automobiles from the road, but to require them to respect the rights of others, it is no answer to say that most of those who run the- machines will b careful, to do this, without a special law. It is true that most of them will do so. It is also true that few people will steal, yet we must have a law to control the few who have no regard for the rights of oth ers. So in the case of the autos, we must be prepared for those who are reckless of others rights. Another thing In respect to good roads. We have no objection to the levying of a special tax for that p'ur pose, but we want it guarded by re strictions which will prevent boards of county commissioners from taking the tax of a whole county and spend ing it on one or two favored sec tions. The expense of making such road3 might be greatly reduced by author izing each county to work its own convicts on the roads, both In making and repairing. Such a law would be better for all concerned, and the convicts would be more likely to re ceive proper treatment than when leased to any set of men whqse In terest it was to get all the work pos sible out of a given number of men, regardless of conditions. We hope that srach a law will be passed at the next session of the Florida Legisla ture.--Florida Agriculturist. Dusty Koads of Olden Times. As to the antiquity of the dust problem, It is interesting: to note that there are lines referring to the nuis ance in Sheridan's "School For Sca-n-dal" (1777) which says; As Lady Betty Curricle was taking the dust in Hyde Park' and again some forty or fifty years later, in lS2.0-40v the dust was so. bad on the Bath road between Maidenhead and Windsor that landowners who had houses- ad jacent to the- road; in that district, including the Lord Montagu; of that day, who owned Ditton Farkr made constant references to.it in their lett ers and diares They described the- clouds of dust rafsedl by tbe coaches- galloping or cantering, between tne-j stages, ana mere were iu motor .cars then. If more evidence of the dusty state of the roads in olden- times fe re quired, one need only loot at the pumps which remain along many , off the main road3 out of London, sucb as the Baths road the Great Northi road, the Portsmouth road, all show ing evidences of the dusty nature rf these highways in the "good' eld days." .Some people have recently declared that these pumps were used for watering horses, but this Is ob viously Incorrect as it would not be necessary to erect pumps at distances o half a mile apart for this purpose. In addition, the coaches traveled! reg ular stages, and the idea that they would stop at places between their halts to give their horses water. . Is of course absurd. Every generation is apt to think that the evils with which it has to deal are peculiar to its own. time, but a careful study of history shows that most of the so- called modern evils are. only modern in form and are really old evils, and as regards dust this Is especially true Pall Mall Gazette. The Father of West Point. - To George Washington must be given the credit of causing the first steps to be taken toward the founding,1 of a national ' military academy. In 1794, while serving his second term as President, Washington, succeeded in having Congress create the grade of cadet in the army. . West Point was chosen as the best army post at which; cadets could be trained, for the reason that it was then the most im portant station of the artillerists and engineers. The cadets of those days did not "pass entrance examinations; and the standard of proficiency in studies. did. not amount td". the' tenth' part of what Is exacted nowadays. A smattering of engineering, mathemat ics and artillery practice was all that was deemed necessary. From H. Ir ving Hancock's ,"Our Hundred-Yaar-Old Military Academy,'" la SL Nicholas.'"-;'''' "'--.-'. - V Richest- Woman In ,the World Senora Creel, wife of the new Am bassador from Mexico," is the richest woman in the Diplomatic Corps. Many years ago her husband gave her title to numerous gold prospects in the State of Chihuahua, and only re cently have these, been developed. It is estimated that there is already In sight- $200,000,000 in' her mines, and her income is enormous. Senora Creel, according to this account, . is not only the richest woman-in the Diplomatic Corps in' Washington, but she. is probably 'the richest woman In he own right in the world, at least potentially; Washington Her ald. v.. " .1 . Vll 11 1 3 Overstrained faculties : can never bring out the best results. . Overwork is always a waste of time; and, though it may not seem so at first, eventually the sad truth is always manifested. -To -cut off needed re creation, to curtail the hours of sleep, to postpone a holiday indefinitely, to refuse to take rest and ' ease and change, under the impression that thus time Is saved, Is-always a short sighted policy and ften a fatal mis take. The time arrives when the poor,' abused faculties take their ret venge and rafuse to serve altogether, or do so in so feeble a fashion a3 to show their deterioration. McCall's Magazine. The Invalid Crawl. Alas! Somebody in England with nothing better to do has invented a new walk and it is being taken up here. At the start of practice a girl must tie weights to the bottom of her skirt. In walking she must appear to be so weary that she scarcely can drag one foot after another. Her steps must be long and creepy, with out the slightest hint of energy. Thus walks Queen Alexandra, who adds a slight limp, as she has been lame since infancy. It is hinted the languid movements were designed to hide that defect. Gowns must be of stuff that gives a clinging effect; then the slow, long step, with a bending of the neck at every stride, will be the most effective. Philadelphia Tele graph. Massage For Colic. In European Russia there are 26, 000,000 mothers, of whom two-fifths belong to the peasant or working classes. Among these latter there is a common, treatment for colic in the child. . - When the pain begins the child is laid on its back and the stomach covered with a thin coating of any household oil accessible. The mother then takes the palm cf her hand and softly rubs- this, oil into the skis. She gives the palm a circular twist in doing the work and does not cease until all the skin at the stomach and bowels is hot. When, this condition Is reached she felnds a warm flannel cloth about the stomach-, restores the child's night-clothes- and tucks it into bed. It is said to be usually asleep long before the. cloth is. bound about It. . . In the United States: this method of curing colic has. been developed into a cure for appendicitis without use of the knife. New. Orleans Pic ayune. Only. One- "Platform- Dresser." Woman suffrage is av failure, as serts a prominent modiste, for a woman who votes must speak and a woman who- speaks must sit .on a platform, and there ia nly one wo man who knows, how to- do that and display her dresses properly." Mem bers of women's clubs, to whom has been denied, the distinction of sitting, on a platform may take; heart at this,, and those, who rule with, the gavel must resign if they believe the asser tions of the modiste. The only wo man Who has been, able to dress cor rectly for the platform, asserts this arbiter, is Mrs. Donald McLean, who presided at the D A R. in Washing ton. On the opening night she wore a gown of; lavender, which was long enough to serve the purpose of a floor sweeper. . Her lavender . toque had three drooping plumes' and broad purple streamers that fell under her waist. She carried a huge bunch, of violets. New York Press. - ' Are Girls Good-Xatured?. Cynthia Westover Alden, wrltin for the Ladies' Home Journal, dis cusses the Question, "Are Girls as Good-Natured as Boys?" and quotin several instances which appear to in dicate that girls are more selfish than boys. ' '"'' J ' "There was one school where asked the boys, about being good-natured and one replied:" 'If you'vef got two sleds, why, you'll hunt around and find a boy that hasn't any sled.'i I then tried the little girls and asked them if they had six dollies and found a little girl who had none, what they would do. No answer until I repeat ed the question several times; when a timid hand came up and a very 3mall voice said: 'Keep 'em.' " I have often wondered -if selfish ness in woman is not a weakness of the "weaker sex." , I am not inclined to believe that all girls are naturally selfish any more than that all "boys are good-natured. . . . Children are just what their pa rents make them, either good or-bad I The little boy-who would-have given away one y or his sleds had oeen blessed with parents who made him understand that beautiful precept about giving, v The selfish little girl of careless parents, perhaps, had ob served and' been taught, most likely, that one must get what one can and let the other person' take' care of himself. v It Is the mother's most important duty to teach the little ones to love one another. Little boys and girls are' naturally loving and unselfish and are only led into other paths by unthoughtful parents j - If the little girls are not as good natured as boys ihe proper training of kind and loving parents will make them. so. Zelma' Travers, in tho "Pittsburg Dispatch. - - s ... Woman's Right in. HopiXands, ,-, ; Hop! Land .comes very close to being a woman-governed country, for the status of woman in this little re public has as much freedom' and dig nity as it possessed, ages ago in other tribes governed as communes. Hopi society. Is based upon the "gens;" that is, upon thetie of blood rela tionship. It Is a society of . equals where help Is extended and received In the true communal . spirit. How long this will last now that the touch of civilization threatens to fall upon them, can easily be guessed. Among the Hopi the women are excellent specimens of primitive humanity. The young women are well formed and strong, and of irreproachable character. They own the houses as well as build them, and all family property belongs to the woman, who is acknowledged as- the head of the household. Inheritance, therefore, is always through the mother, and descent is reckoned through the fe male line. In spite of the liberty and importance enjoyed by the Hopi wo men, their reserve' and modesty is surprising. They are as quiet and shy as if their lives had been passed in the utmost seclusion and subjec tion to the dominance of man. Their. whole lives are devoted to. the care of their children, and the matrimonial customs of the- Hopi are of a grade which, if generally understood, might make civilized law makers and writers of civilized cus toms stop and think. It is marriage from the viewpoint of the woman, not of the man,' It is a striking ex ample of the principal effect of wo man rule, and it must be admitted that it is dominated by the highest order of purity a well as of common sense. "The Pueblos of the: Painted Desert," in the Craftsman. , Over soft frocks will be worn brief Ittle jackets of silk or satin without sleeves. All the frocks that come from the- great Paquin are short-waisted. Shoulders universally slope. Delightful frocks are being made of cream-color Shantung silk with, stripes of chestnut brown. Enameled buckles in plaid color ings are new. rney iook wen on- ribbon belts for the shirtwaist suit. . The best choice of belt for aa all- white shirtwaist dress is of. white embroidered linen, with "mother-of- pearl buckle. Afternoon frocks, in opalescent taf fetas seem likely to play a prominent part in the coming season,, the- taf- etas being of tbe softest and most supple moussellna- variety. There is nothing prettier for ap plied skirt trimmings of silk, ribbon or chiffon than the Greek key border. its outline to be done in pleatings rather than witH a flat surface. A touch of: white on the suit is almost essential to properly enliven it. Charming, for this use are the collar and cuff sets that may be ad justed readily, -serving; rfor; several coats. A new lace-edged shield Is designed for use in shirtwaists and thin gowns. By its trimming it cleverly disguises the sharp . hard edge that is so ugly when seen , through . light fabrics. This in no whit interferes with laun dering as the lace used is a substan tial durable .thread. ' The leading color in all shop' win dows is apricot the shades ranging about a deep . apricot yellow, which is tinged with a soft reddish hue, and some -of the dull nasturtium tints it is quite impossible to describe.as it is a mingling of red, brown and yel low in one color. It. is dull, father than bright, rich though not vivid. x English in Siam. The proprietors of a Siamese news paper have distributed handbills con taining the following notice : - "The news of English we tell the latest., Writ in perfectly style and most earliest. Do a murder git com mit, we hear of and tell it. . Do a mighty chief die, we publish it and in borders of combre. Staff has each one been colleged, and write like , the Kippling and the Dickens. We circle every town- and extortionate not for advertisements. Buy it. Tell each of you its greatness for good. Ready on Friday, .Number first "The E ?jSkok .Times. : . :' , - v t FPUS LOTTERY . . : ENDS ITS CAREER Honduras Company's Promoters Plead Guilty in Alabama. 34 PAY FINES OF $284,000 Agree to Surrender All Books and Paraphernalia, and -This Means That the Gambling Enterprise Has Come to an End. Mobile, Ala. With the imposition of fines, aggregating ? 284,0 00, in the Federal Court here, upon thirty-four persons, the Honduras National Lot tery Company, which the United States Government has for . fifteen years been pursuing, passed out of existence. The penalization of the principals in the -company and their agents, and an order confiscating cer tain property of the company situated in this country, marks the end of a stupendous and highly profitable gambling venture, in which all of the chances were taken by the patrons. The company gathered in about S4, 000,000 a year, retained forty-five per cent., and divided the remainder among the prize-winners in the scheme. . The action against the lottery pro moters was taken in the court for the Southern District of Alabama, before ludge Toulmin, and resulted in the sntering of wholesale pleas of guilty, the charge being conspiracy to cause the interstate carriage of lottery ad vertisements. In pleading guilty, the defendants agreed to surrender for destruction all lottery books, plates and other paraphernalia, and, also, to dispose f the printing es tablishment of the company at Wil mington, Del., known as the John M. Rogers Press, where the lottery tick ets have for years been printed. Fines of $10,000 each were as sessed' against Dave Hennen Morri3 and Alfred Hennen Morris,, of New Orleans and New York City; W. C. Henderson, of Brooklyn, was fined $5000: Harry W. Henderson, of Brooklyn, was fined $2500; Oscar Hauger, of Hoboken, $1500, while fines ranging from $10,000 to $500 were assessed against the following: William H. Parkhouse, James Rea, G. W. Bredow, William P. Johnston, Louis' C. . Graham, Edward L. Pinac, Frank L. Howard, Albert Baldwin, Sr., Chapman Hyams, Paul Conrad, John M. Demarest and . Edward J. Demarest, all of New Orleans; John Morris Rogers, Jesse K. Baylis and Lester IC Baylis, of Wil mington; " James S. Moire, Chi cago; General W. I. Cabell, Dallas; Robert K. Thompson, Mobile; Jos eph L. Shaw, Tora Williams and Henry L. Plumr Washington, D. C; Herman Bruner, St. Louis; Frank E. Johnson, Hartford ; A. B. Kaufman, Detroit; Harry. J- Schott, Baltimore; . Wallace Mastersonr Savannah T.Fran eis X. Fitzpatrick and i John Hoag. The Honduras National Lottery Company was originally, the Louis iana State Lottery Company, a duly legalized institution under the State Constitution, with a charter running for twenty-five years to IS 9 4. John A. ? Morris, of New Orleans, was the dominant factor. At. the expiration af the charter the State declined to penew it, although offered $15OrQ00 year. The company then began business at Puerto Cortezv Honduras, as the Honduras National Lottery Company, having twelve drawing a year ten for each of which abont $2-,O00,000 of tickets were sold, and two grand .drawings,, for each oi which double that sum, approximate- y was received for the sale of tick ets while the . prizes were also doubled. HAMLIN KILLED; IS AUTO. Millionaire Buffalo Horse Breeder Was Trying to Pltss Runabout. Buffalo, N. Y. Harry Hamlin, mil lionaire, clubman horsebreeder and automobile enthusiast, was instantly kiTIed on . the WilllamsviIIe road, north of this city. He was ridfns i'1 uis seventy uoraj irower car auu trying to pass a. high-power runabour. Both cars . were Running at a speed said to be in excess of fifty miles an hour. The accident to Hamlin's car occurred wheat it ran into a horse and buggy. " Hamlin went out ridinc accompan ied by his chauffeur, Peter Mlnhard, and a workman in his barn, John Hanson. MJnhard was driving tne car. BOOST PRICE OP MEAT. Law Against Diseased Cattle Makes Famine at Packing Centres. Chicago. Prices of all kinds of packing products were raised from one to - three cents a. pound by tne wholesale and retail dealers. Tns packers have protested against pur chasing cattle under the new inspec tion law, which makes it incumbent upon them to permit a post-mortem examination after they buy their ani mals. They have demanded a better grade of cattle, or that the farmer stand the loss, and the farmers, "to get even," have shut off. the siipplJ' As a consequence, the packers have boosted prices. . ? ' Temporary Commissions Appointed. . John C. Capers, of South Carolina, has been chosen by President Roose velt for the post of Commissioner oi Internal Revenue ad interim. 200,000 Parade For Pure TVines. A gigantic demonstration of via growers was held at Nimes, 'France, as a protest against the adulterauo of wines. Two hundred , the d.ana persons marched in the Prc-c 3 The, day passed without vence. V - . - - New Internal Revenue Commission 'I Pearl WigM, of New Orleans -cepted the . Internal , Revanue missionership offered to win . h( !j i, nnt assume duties of the ofice until Deceiver X