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RETURN FROM THE SOUTH.

' T J O H N T U B P 1 T T .On M ondajr m orn ing a t 8:15 o'clock,

a t h is la te-hom e in th e so u th p a r t of tow n, occurred th e d e a th of Jo h n T u rp i t t , one of th e old an d highly re ­spected re s id e n ts of th i s com m unitjw H e had been g radua lly fa ilin g in h e a lth for several years u n til a m o n th or so ago, since w hich tim e h is decline had been very rap id , being afflicted w ith a com plica tion of diseases w hich caused h is d e a th a t th e tim e above m en tioned .

Jo h n T u r p i t t was born in C am ­bridgesh ire , E ngland . N ovem ber lit, 1829. H e cam e to th e U n ited S ta te s an d located a t W ash in g to n , 111., in 1854. A fte r resid ing th e re e ig h t

% l ' years he m oved to C h a rlo tte to w n ­sh ip , w here he engaged in farm ing an d In 1879 w as u n ite d in m arriage to Miss N ora D esm ond, of C hatsw orth . H is h e a lth fa ilin g he w as com pelled to give up ac tiv e w ork and had r e n t­ed h is farm for several years, and last s iynm er moved to C hatsw orth . In 1860 he un ited w ith th e M. E. c h u rc h a t W ash in g to n , of w hich de­n o m in a tio n he has been a co n s tan t

^ and fa ith fu l m em ber fo r over forty- tive years an d has alw ays been one of i ts s tro n g financial suppo rters . H e leaves to p iourn h is loss, besides h is wife, one son, Jo h n L ., of Lincoln,

^ N e b .; one b ro th er. T im o th y , of C larksv ille , Iow a, an d tw o sisters, Mrs. S arah B loodsw orth , of Madison. Mo., and Mrs. T . C u n n in g to n , of th is c ity .

T h e funera l was held on W ednes­day a fte rn o o n a t tw o o ’clock a t tire M. E. chu rch , Rev. W. F . K e tte l- kam p officiating , and th e rem ains were laid to re s t in tIre C ha tsw orth cem etery .

JOSKPn CAHILL.Joseph C ah ill was found lying in an

unconscious co n d itio n a t tlie alley crossing n o r th of Mrs. M ary Mone- h a n 's residence on S a tu rd ay m orning sh o rtly a f te r five o ’clock by B ert H a r ­m on, who w as re tu rn in g hom e a f te r hav ing a t te n d e d to th e fires a t SS. P e te r and P a u l 's ch u rch . H e a t once inform ed W illiam C ahill an d they ca r­ried him hom e and im m ed ia te ly sum ­moned Dr. C- V . E lllngw ood, who,

-vy. a f te r an ex am in a tio n , pronounced life ex tin c t. I t is supposed th a t he was s tr ic k en w ith para lysis while on h is wav hom e, as lie had suffered a slighj, s tro k e abou t ten years ago and a n o th e r a l i t t le over tw o years ago, th e la t te r s tro k e hav in g affected id s speed ) for som e tim e . I t is ev iden t t h a t lie was discovered sho rtly a f te r lie had fa llen , as Mr. H arm on passed by tiie place a sh o rt tim e before on h is way to th e church . H e had never been very robust and for several years had been able to do but very l i t t l e work.

4 Joseph C ahill was born near E d ­w ards S ta tio n , P eo ria coun ty , in Oc­tober, 1855. H e moved w ith h is p a r­e n ts to a farm in C h a rlo tte tow nsh ip In 1879, w here he lived u n til 1886, w hen th e fam ily cam e to C h a tsw o rth to reside, b o th h is p a re n ts hav ing died here . H e is su rv ived by one b ro th e r an d th re e s is te rs , nam ely: W illiam an d Misses M ary and M ag­gie, of C h a tsw o rth , and M iss A nnie, who is in a conven t a t H ancock, M ichigan.

T h e funera l services w ere held a t SS. P e te r an d P a u l’s c h u rc h on Sun­day afte rn o o n a t th re e o 'clock, con­ducted by Rev. W. P. Burke, of th e P eoria A p o sto la te , an d th e rem ains w ere in te rre d in S t. P a tr ic k ’s cem e­tery .

G E O R G E E D W A R D B E L L .George E dw ard Bel), th e in fa n t son

of George an d E m m a Bell, died a t its p a re n ts ’ hom e in C hicago on Sunday afte rn o o n , M arcli 18, 1996.

L itt le G e o rg e was born Ju ly 20, be­ing 7 m o n th s and 18 days old a t th e tim e of h is d ea th . H e w as th e only ch ild , and th e l i t t le fellow has had a hard b a t t le for life ever since h is b ir th an d d u rin g th e w eek previous to h is d e a th he failed rapidly , b u t th e end cam e sooner th a n expected. T h o u g h all w as done th a t cou ld be to keep h im , he was ta k e n from us by a H igher Pow er, an d one w hich we nave no r ig h t to question . As we e n te r a garden of flowers we look for and pluck th e fk lrteU So I t is w ith our Lord. H e has pluckefTfHg fa ire s t hud from th is g re a t gard en of life to bloom and blossom in heaven , w hen he called o u r d a rlin g to jo in h is l i t t l e sister, w ho was ta k e n tw o years ago. H e leaves b eh ind h is bereaved paren ts and m any so rrow ing re la tiv es and friends.

The funeral was held from the home of the grandparents, Mr. and Mrs Edward Fallburg, in this cl day at two o’clock, Rev. terson, pastor of the Ba officiating, and the i to reat In i

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What Two of Chatsworih’o Residents Think of Misaisaippi.

Jo h n F. R yan and A. D. F orney re­tu r n e d from M ississippi th is week, w here th ey h av e been a t te n d in g to business in connection w ith th e p lan ­ta t io n of J . E. F itz g e ra ld & Co for th e p as t tw o weeks. T hey report c o tto n as th e s ta p le crop , w hile corn a n d o a ts a re raised fo r feed ing p u r­poses. O a t fields a re g reen , w hile corn is all p lan ted o r belDg p lan ted . T re es an d flowers a re in bloom, m ak­ing a decided c o n tra s t to cond itions experienced upon th e ir re tu rn to I l l i ­nois. F a rm s and p la n ta t io n s in th e Y azoo V alley are all large, as a rule, and a re conducted by a native-bo rn genera! m anager, who a p p o rtio n s th e supp lies of land to th e negroes under h is care. T hey say land in Cahom a county com m ands a cash ren ta l of $7 to 19 per acre in all cases w here it is ren ted on th is basis, th e value of one crop y ield being in m any instances w orth m ore th a n th e land itself, an d Investors a re b eg inn ing to realize th e g rand o p p o rtu n itie s for p rofitable land in v e s tm e n ts in M ississippi, and w hile m uch of th e fa rm in g p roperty is a t p resen t undervalued , b u t ow ing to p resen t increase of popu la tion , im m i­g ra tio n to th e so u th and w ith th e as­sis tance of n o r th e rn and ea s te rn cap i­ta l. m odern and econom ical m ethods of farm ing , th e p roperty is sure to a d ­vance rapidly. T h e above com pany’s farm lies one m ile from D ublin , Miss., and com prises 1,110 acres of h ighly productive c o tto n land, th e re being 900 acres under c u ltiv a tio n .

Horses Get Fractious.Jam es K arnes, w ho w orks for Ja m es

Lahey. was d riv in g one of th e la t te r 's horses in tow n on F rid ay last, when i t becam e frig h ten e d near F eeley ’s livery b arn an d ran east, th ro w in g th e d riv e r from th e vehicle near J . C. Cor­b e t t & C o.’s e lev a to r, b u t fo rtu n a te ly lie escaped w ith o u t in ju ry , and th e horse ran a round th e co rner a t A. F. W a lte r’s sto re, w here it was stopped. A fte r g e t t in g th e buggy repaired , it hav in g been dam aged in th e runaw ay. Mr. K arnes s ta r te d for hom e, h u t be­fore reach ing th e re tlie horse again becam e unm anageab le and repeated its perfo rm ance of th e a fte rnoon .

W hile going hom e from tow n on F rid a y even ing last, W illiam C arney 's team becam e frig h ten e d and ran away, th ro w in g him from th e buggy near tlie Jo n n B erberieh residence in C har­lo tte tow nsh ip , an d w ent on home. Mr. Carney, who escaped w itli a few s lig h t sc ra tch es and bruises, walked tiie balance of th e way hom e.

Water Now in the Tower.W ork on tiie w a te r w orks tow er was

com pleted on W ednesday. T h e p a in t­ers gave it a coat of black th is week an d i t looms up fine now. T iie pum p has been in opera tion a po rtion of tiie tim e th is week and tiie ta n k is a b o u t half filled w ith w ater. E v e ry th in g so far seem s lovely. No tro u b le was ex perienced In forcing th e w a te r up in ­to th e tow er w ith tiie pum p and Cul- lom ’s d ream s of a model and up-to-the- m in u le system of w a te r w orks seem s now w ill soon be realized and a t a m uch less cost th a n m any of th e o th e r neighboring tow ns —Cullom C hron i­cle. _____

Art Lecture.Miss H a r r ie t t M ontgom ery, of C h i­

cago, who lias tw ice ta lk ed on a r t sub ­je c ts before th e T h u rsd ay C lub here, will give tier fam ous lec tu re on “ A m er­ican 8 cu lp to rs" a t th e B a p tis t chu rch ou W ednesday evening , A pril 4. T ills will be an o p p o rtu n ity th e people of C h a tsw o rth should ap p rec ia te , as Miss M ontgom ery is one of th e lead ing a r t c r i t ic s an d le c tu re rs o f th e coun try . T i l l T h u rsd ay C lub b rin g s Miss M ont­gom ery here, n o t for th e financial ben­efit, b u t for tiie l i te ra ry t r e a t . A sm all adm ission of 25 c e n ts will be c larged to a s s is t in defray ing expenses.

Democrat* Meet At Pentiao.T h e d em o cra tic coun ty c e n tra l com ­

m it te e m e t in tiie c ity hall a t P o n tiac on T h u rsd ay a fte rn o o n to m ake a r­ran g em en ts for th e com ing coun ty e lec tion . T h e ce n tra l co m m itteem en of each d is tr ic t were in s tru c te d to call a caucus a t 3 p. m. on S atu rday , M arch 31, to se lec t de leg a tes and com ­m itte e m e n for th e p rim aries. Those p rese n t from th is p a r t of th e coun ty were: J . C. C o rb e tt, C h a tsw o rth ; Jo h n G oem bel, S tra w n ; C. R . H oldridge, S aunem in ; E d . B rady, C uilom .

Card of Thanks.We wish to express our appreciation

and thanks to our many friends who •o kindly asalsted us in our late he-

vem ent. Mb s . N ora T u r p it t , H a s . T. Cunning t o n

m i F a m il y .

CANDIDATES NAMED.

Tickets Placed in Nomination in This Vi­cinity for Township Offices.

C H A T S W O R T H .U nion—S upervisor, Jo h n C. Cor­

b e tt; c lerk , L . J . H ab erk o rn ; assessor, Ja m es S. D o o little ; collector, C harles A. R oberts; com m issioner of h ig h ­ways. G eorge II. C line: sehool tru s te e , A dam S hafer.

C itiz e n ’s—Supervisor, Jo h n Q. P u f­fer; clerk, Jo seph M. Feeley; assessor, Joseph E. F itzg e ra ld : collector, M ar­tin P . K errin s: com m issioner of h ig h ­ways, I N . S harp : school tru s te e , Miles D esire.

Independen t — C ollector, H . P. T u rn e r.

F A Y E T T ER epub lican—Clerk, J W. K irk liam :

assessor. C harles H ill: collector, G. B. A aron: com m issioner of h ighw ays. Ed. Kessler.

D em ocratic—Clerk, W m . R ingler: assessor, E. II. D avis: collector. L. E G randstaff: com m issioner of h ighw ays, Ed. P ursley .

C H A R L O T T E .P e o p le 's -S u p e rv iso r , J . B. G rote-

v a n t:c le rk , W m. Hoppe. J r .: assessor, R o b ert Caughey; co llector, F. A. H aase; com m issioner of h ighw ays, T hom as Askew.

T o w n -S u p e rv iso r , W m . Lawless: c lerk . P earl H allam : assessor. Joseph H ubly : co llector. E lm er P earson : com ­m issioner of h ighw ays. T . P. K errins: constab le, to fill vacancy. A ugust F o reburger.

O E K M A N V I L L E .P eople’s —Clerk, A n to n S to rr: a s ­

sessor, H enry H um m el: collector. J. A B eriet: com m issioner of highw ays. C. II. H orn icke l: constab le , H enry H ornickel.

T ow nsh ip Clerk. Jo h n Schroen: collector, S eb as tian O la be: com m is­sioner of highw ays. H enry Falck: constab le , A r th u r N e tlie rto n .

It R E N T O N .R epublican Clerk, II. S. C a rp en te r:

assessor. P h ilip M ylcraine: collector. J . C. Moore: com m issioner of h ig h ­ways, Jacob K hrsm an: school tru s te e , E. E. Bishop.

D em ocratic Clerk, F. >1. K ib linger: assessor, L. D. Jackson ; collector, E. H. Doane; com m issioner of highw ays. Jaco b B erger: school tru s te e , T . R. Moore.

Tax Collectors Report.E lm er W. Pearson, tax -co llecto r for

C h a rlo tte tow nship , re tu rn e d Iris hooks to P o n tia c today, w hich show ed a delinquency of only $86.64. T w o o th e r collectors from th is v ic in ity who have re tu rn e d th e ir books are :

G erm anv ille . Jo in t W eller co llector —T o ta l am o u n t charged , $5,917.04: to ta l am o u n t collected. $5,006.94: am oun t d e lin q u e n t. $810.89: co llec to r’s com ­m ission, $100.12.

F a y e tte tow nsh ip , C harles Carlson, collector T o ta l am o u n t charged . $7,- 044 21: to ta l am o u n t collected, $6.- 940.04: am o u n t d e lin q u en t. $104.17: j co llec to r's com m ission. $138 80.

A FATAL ACCIDENT.

Dissolution of Partnership and New Firm.N otice is hereby g iven th a t tiie

p a r tn e rsh ip and firm of S terren b erg A M anssen is th is day dissolved by m u­tu a l consen t, and th e business will be co n tin u ed by S te rre n b e rg & Sons. All accoun ts due th e firm of S te r­renberg & M anssen a re payable to th e undersigned and a prom pt s e ttle m e n t of th e sam e is requested . We w ish to th a n k tiie pub lic for p as t patronage, and hope by fa ir tr e a tm e n t and hon­orab le dea ling to re ta in th e la te firm ’s pa tronage. R espectfu lly ,

St k h h e n h e k u & Sons . Successors to S te rre n b erg & M anssen

C h a rlo tte , III , M arch 1, 1906.

A Hard Fall.On S unday , w hile h au lin g ice,

W illiam W alker had a fall w hich m ig h t have proven.very serious. He was load ing from a ca r an d tiie tongs slipped from a cake of ice lie was h an d lin g and , as he w as s ta n d in g w itli h is fee l a g a in s t th e side of th e wagon box, he fell backw ards from th e wagon, s tr ik in g head-forem ost on tiie frozen ground H e w as picked up in an unconscious co n d itio n and ta k e n hom e, b u t aside from being severely bru ised and sh a k en up tie suffered no ill effects from tiie fall.

Meets Death While Returning From Son’s Wedding.

W hile re tu rn in g hom e w itli h is fam ­ily from h is son 's w edding, w hich oc­curred recen tly a t tiie hom e of th e bride, Levi N elson, of Iow a F alls , Iowa, m et his d e a th by fa llin g from a bridge. T he n ig h t w as very dark , m ak ing it d ifficult to follow tiie road, and com ing to a b ridge Mr. Nelson got o u t o f tiie buggy to 'gu ide tire team across H e told th e d riv e r tiie way to go. and a f te r th e rig was across they stopped for h im to ge t in, h u t lie did no t com e. A fte r ca lling to h im and receiv ing no answ er th ey got o u t to look for h im an d found h is lifeless body in tiie d itch . I t issupposed th a t lie s tepped off tiie end of tiie bridge and fell over a fence beside tiie grade, s tr ik in g Ids head on a rock, w hich s tu n n e d h im , and he rolled over in to tiie mud and w ater, w hich sm otheredhim . H e leaves a wife an d tw o chit- ✓dren.

Some of ou r oldest readers will probably rem em ber Mr. Nelson, he hav in g owned a farm in G erm anville to w n sh ip a b o u t th ir ty -f iv e years ago. H e also ta u g h t school in C h a tsw o rth and G erm anv ille tow n sh ip s a t various tim es.

Births.Born, on Marcli 21, to Mr. and Mrs.

Ed P earson , a boy.Born, on W ednesday, M arcli 21, to

Mr. and Mrs. A lbert O m m en, n o r th ­east of tow n , a d au g h te r.

A d au g h te r was born to Mr and Mrs. P h ilip K oerner, so u th of tow n, on T h u rsd ay a fte rnoon . M arch 22

Born, to Mr. and Mrs. T heese Fless- ner. of C h a rlo tte tow nship , on S un ­day, Marcli 1“, a d a u g h te r

Card of Thanks.We wish to express o u r sincere and

heartfe lt, th a n k s to tiie m any k ind | friends w ho assisted us du rin g Ih e j d ea tli of o u r l i t t le son an d grandson.

Mic. a n d M rs G e o r g e Be l l .Mr . a n d Mrs E d w a r d F ai.liivro

a n d F a m il y ,M r . a n d M r s . R. II. Be l l a n d

F a m il y .

Church Announcements.M E T H O D I S T .

T he services a t the M. E. church nex t Sunday w ill lie as follows: S unday school, 10:00 a. in.: preaching. 11:00 a. in., subject, ‘T he B eauty of the Gospel:"’ Ju n io r League, 2:30 j>. ni.; E pw orth L eague. 6:30 n. in.: evening preaching, 7:30. subject. “ T iie Y oung Man A t H is W ork .." A ll are coidi- ally inv ited to a tten d .

W. F K e t t k l k a m il Pastor.I ATlIOI.h .

Sunday , m asses a t 8:oo and lo:00 a. in.; Parochial m ass du rin g tiie week a t 8:00 a. in.: E vening devo tions du rin g L ent: S unday evening a t 7:30. V espers. Sermon and Benediction.

Tuesday evening a t 7:30. R otary . Sermon ami Benediction.

F rid ay evening a t 7:30. S ta tio n s of tiie C ross' and B enediction . All are cordially invited.

W. J . Hc u k k . P as to r e v a n g e l i c a l

T he font tli q uarte rly m eeting fur tlie circuit will he held th is week a t the C hatsw orth church, beg inn ing F riday evening and con tin u in g over Sunday. T iie presiding elder. Rev. Geo. Iiiisser, of W ashington, will preach du ring these m eetings. T he week-day se r­vices will lie as follows: F riday . 7:30 p. ni.; S atu rday , 1:30 an d 7:30 p. in. T he q uarte rly conference will hold its session im m ediately a f te r the S atu rday afternoon service. Follow ing are the Sunday services: Sunday school. 9:3b a. m : p leach ing service and observ­ance of holy com m union, 10:30a in.; Y. P . A .,7 p. m .. followed by English preaching service. No preach ing a t C ha ilo tte o r G erm anville. P rayer m eeting W ednesday evening, a t 7:30 All are cordially invited

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Horae Thief Captured.O tis Boswell, whose hom e is near

O narga and who, w itli tw o com pan­ions, sto le a horse from tiie pas tu re of GeO. H ail, who resides so u th e a s t of O narga, la s t sum m er and sold i t to Janriffi M cK enna, of M elvin, w as cap ­tu re d Tiy Sheriff Crowe a t B urw in, a l i t t l e tow n 25 m ile w est of Chicago, a week ago la s t T hu rsday . H e was ta k ­en to Gibson C ity on S a tu rd a y and given an e x a m in a tio n an d , being u n ­able to give bonds, was ta k e n to Jail at Paxton to a w a it th e a c tio n of th e grand jury.

B A P T I S T .M orning service Ht 10:00, subject.

“ Paul A t C o rin th ;” evening service a t 7:30, sub ject. “C h ris tian ity and th e Congo F ree S ta te ;” 15. Y. 1*. U. at 6:30. subject. “ C onquest M eeting;” prayer m eeting W ednesday evening, Marcli 28. «ubject. “ T iie Spiritualized C hurch,” led by tiie P asto r. We are m aking a special effort to en large the sphere of influence of ou r prayer m eet­ing am i ask th a t every regu la r a tte n d ­a n t b ring some friend w itli them who is not in tiie h ab it of attend ing . Special s tress is being m ade to m ake the m eetings helpful and practical in every-day w alk of life. Several of the

up thery-day wi

Sunday School classes are tak in dy hi.Pi

th e sam e m ore sa tis fac to ry th an tiie

y Hcnooi classes are ta k in g i H lakesiee's Bible S tudy Union Lessons. Miss H a ll’s class, w hich has pursued these stud ies for the p as t q u a rte r, find

in te rna tiona l system . T h e M en’ Bible C lass is grow ing, both in num ber and in te res t, and men will find a cordial welcome to become m em bers of th e Bame. E , K. M a s t^ r s o n , P asto r.

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MoreNew Goods.J u st opened, som e beautifu l new

R oom -S ize R ugs, about 30 of them ,

in A xm inster, W ilton V elvet and

T apestry B russels, also a splendid

line of R oom -Size Ingrain Art

Squares; splendid lot of new Lace

C urtains, W indow S h a d es—ev ery ­

th in g —and w e especia lly call your

a tten tio n to th e new H and-P ainted

T ransp arent Dado-Border W indow

S h ad es. They are very new and

very b eau tifu l—not expensive, e ith ­

er. A xm inster and V elvet Carpets,

sopie beautifu l new design s and

colorings. L ndless a ssortm en t of

Ingrain C arpets, and M attin gs

galore. ALL are priced the B u sh ­

w ay w a y —the low price a lw a y s.

See us for your Carpets; w e ’ll save

for you.

Bushway & Co.

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CCtoteiwrth JJtofodeatar.JAS- A. SM IT H A SON. P r o p r i e t o r s .

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HEWS OF A WEEK TERSELY OUTLINED

A S U M M A R Y OF T H E M OST I M ­P O R T A N T E V E N T S A T H O M E

A N D A B R O A D .

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Complete Review of Happenings of Greatest In te res t from A l l Parts

’ of the Globe— The Latest Foreign In fo rm ation .

CO N G R ESSIO N A L N E W S .The house committee on foreign at

fairs is urged by manufacturers and others to amend the Chinese exclu­sion law.

Plans to revive in congress a bill creating a forest reserve of 2 ,0 0 0 .0 0 0

acres in the Appalachian mountains, for the purpose of staying the destruc­tion of forests

Members of the senate are angry at Speaker Cannon, charging him with holding up legislation just to "get even."

Democrats in congress denounced the slaughter of women and children in the recent Mono battle.

The statehood fight in congress is likely to be compromised along the lines of the Foraker amendment pro­viding a referendum vote in Arizona and New Mexico.

As the result of a caucus the Re publicans o f the house voted, 12C to 35, to Stand by the statehood hill as it passed the house, and ask the senate for a conference on the measure.

President Roosevelt, it is said, has called hi the Republicans of the con­ference committee having the Indian bill in charge and warned them that i f all rights of the natives are not preserved he w ill veto the measnre.

Bryan and Henrst as the Democratic ticket In 1908 are talked of w ith grow­ing favor by men of that party in con­gress.

The house committee on post offices and post roads reported the post office appropriation bill to the house. It provides for an expendiurre of $191.- 373.848 for the fiscal year 1907. This amount exceeds the appropriation fo r 1906 by $10,351.75o.

M IS C E L L A N E O U S .A collision between two passenger

trains near Florence, Col . in which 20 and probably 35 persons were killed and more than 30 Injured, was caused by a telegraph operator, who. worn out by 36 hours' of constant work at the key. fell asleep.

Johann Most, the anarchist leader, died in Cincinnati. H e was driven from Europe, and oft«n arrested in the United StateB.

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W illia m Rockefeller I* in a hopelesscondition from cancer of the stomach, according to advices received in New York from Europe.

George Wells, aged 14. died at Owlngsvtlle. Ky . of hydrophobia as a result of being bitten six years ago by a mad dog He is the third per­son who died from bites inffieted by the same dog.

The Cuban presidential electors formally met in Havana and ttnani mously elected Tomas Estrada Palma, president of the republic.

W illis Hall Turner, general manager of the Grand Rapids (M ich .) Herald, died from paralysis, w ith which he was stricken several days ago.

Mrs. John Morrison, of CumbOla, Pa , was shot and killed as she lay in bed by one of three masked bur­glars.

C. E. Davis, a stockman of Sioux City, la., was killed, and Brakeman E. M. Crummey, of Milwaukee, was in ­jured in a collision of two freight trains on the St. Paul road at Davis Junction.

A rumor originating in Omaha that Charles M. Schwab had senatorial as­pirations. and to attain his end had established a residence in Nevada, has been denied by him.

The name of Charlea S. Francis, of Troy. N. Y.. former American minister to Greece, was sent to the senate for confirmation as ambassador to Ails tria-Hungary to succeed Bellam f Storer.

Former Lieut. Schmidt, who com­manded the vessels of the Black Sea fleet which mutinied in November of last year, was shot at OtchakofT, Rus­sia. with three of his sailors.

The Dorcas custom ore m ill, located half a mile north of Florence. Col., was destroyed by fire. The m ill was built six years ago and was valued at $360,009.

Ex-County Treasurer George T . Mayfield, of Madison, Ind., whose ac­counts were found short $9,200 has paid bark the principal and $3,322 in interest. The shortage tltMes back six years.

Gen. John M Thayer, civ il war vet eran, former United States senator and governor of Nebraska, died at L in ­coln, Neb.

Trustees of the N«*w York Life un­der the McCall regime w ill refund $148,000 paid to campaign funds.

Secretary Root admits that Bellamy Storer. the Amer'can ambassador to Austria-Hungary Is to re tire Imme­diately from h it post. It is known that there has b?en some friction with the administration which Mr. Root nor others conversant w ith the condi­tion of affairs w ill discuss.

The Goodrich steamer Atlanta was burned to the water's edge on I-ake Michigan, 12 miles south of Sheboy gan, Wis., and about five miles out. The Atlanta is valued at about $150,- 0 0 0 and the boat and cargo is a total loss. W ith the exception of a deck hand, who was drowned, all on board were rescued.

Mrs. Ida Donielaon. while entertain ing a party of friends in Kansas City, Mo., became enraged at a rem ark of E. <;. Harris, a painter, one of the guests, and shot and killed him.

Landslides resulting from storms killed and Injured 20 persons at Rio Janlt-rt, Brazil. A* Peropolls 50 per-

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eon-fleld,andt-tend-•.hreetools.

Adolf KrauB. of Chicago, has re­ceived a cablegram from C-ount da W itte giviug assurances that the Rus­sian government will do all In Its power to prevent violence against Jews who are peaceable.

Rev. Dr. Churles H Parkhurst, of New York, In a sermon denounced the "slaughter" of Moros In the recent bat­tle and criticised President Roosevelt for his message of congratulation to Gen. Wood.

Arbor day was generally observed by the planting of trees on the prai­ries of Oklahoma.

Health Commissioner VV’halen, of Chicago, says the drainage canal a l­ready has saved nearly 6 ,0 0 0 lives by reducing the death rate from typhoid and diarrheal diseases.

The charge is made that the New York L ife Insurance company gave $75,000 to the Republican campaign fund in addition to the $148,000 un­covered by the Hughes committee. This Is denied by Cornelius N. Bliss.

The Million club of St. Louis plans to boom trade by inviting delegates from the southwest to attend a confer­ence dn that city next month.

Th^ mental and physical collapse of Jchn D. Rockefeller is feared by Lake- vootl (N . J.) residents.

Rallroatre are grabbing all the coal cars they can get in anticipation of a strike.

Alton B. Parker, at Charlotte. N. C., urged southern Democrats to take ths party leadership.

Report of the United States Steel corporation for 1905 shows surplus earnings of $43,365,000, an increase of $38',317,000 over the 1904 surplus.

The Japanese house of representa­tives passed the bill for state owner­ship of all ra ilw ay lines.

Refusal to quash the indictment against Congressman Hermann for Oregon land frauds was made by tha District of Columbia supreme court.

The Ohio house passed a bill forc­ing witnesses before legislative inves­tigating committees to talk.

Dr. Herman Feist, a prominent Nashville (T en n .) physician, was ar­rested on the charge of k illin g Mrs. Rosa Mangrum. whose dead body was found in the Mississippi river some tim e ago.

One man was killed, one fata lly and another seriously wounded In a fight in a Chicago saloon.

Secretary T a ft has declined to accept the appointment to the supreme bench, at least for the present, but the presi­dent announces that the place •*111 be helil open.

The business section of W hit* Pigeon, Mich., was nearly wiped out by a fire which left only seven build­ings standing in the business atctlon. The loss w ill not exceed $25,000.

Gerhard Geasel, a member of Gen. Brackett's famous band of Indian fighters In the sixties, died at his home. In Alma, Wls.. aged 63

St. Vincent's academy, established 30 years ago. and one of the most wide­ly known Catholic institutions In the south, was destroyed by fire ;«t Shreve­port. La. Ixtas, $60,000.

The business portion of the village of Tustln. M id i., was destroyed by fire which started in the basement of the Hotel Compton the guests escaped In their night cloth**, while four bvrued to death.

Three firemen were killed and nine others seriously Injured Friday In a fire which destroyed the old Sixth regiment armory in Camden, N. J.

The woman who assassinated Lieut. Gen. Sakharoff, form erly Russian minister of war, on December I* 1905, was sentenced to be hanged.

Justice Harlan, of the supreme court of the United States, denied the w rit of error applied for in the case of Charles L. Tucker, under sentence of death on the charge of murdering Miss Mabel Page a t Weston. Mass.

Andrew Hallan, proprietor of one of the largest retail stores I d I,a Cross, Wls., dropped dead w hile at dinner, aged 65 years. Death was due to the shock of a recent operation.

Two women, another and daughter, were killed Instantly by a Wabash railway tra in in Chicago.

The American embassy at Con­stantinople has renewed its demands on the sultan that supplies for Am er­ican school and charitable use shall be admitted free.

Andrew Ham ilton appeared unex­pectedly before the Insurance com­mittee at Albany and bitterly Bcored the New York Life trustees as “curs and traitors" who, he said, knew and gave tacit approval of a ll his actions as thsburser of funds.

Prof. A. H. Pattenglll, one of the University of Michigan's veteran pro­fessors and ths faculty representative of Michigan in all athletic matters for a number of ye.-xrs, died suddenly In Ann Arbor, M ich, from heart disease.

David E. Sherr ck, form er auditor of the state of Indiana, was found guilty of embezzlement by a Jury at Indianapolis. Mr. Uherrlck wa* tried on indictments charging him with a misuse of $127,000 belonging to the state. The penalty Is from one to twenty-two years In the penitentiary. The announcement w is followed by a motion for a new (rial.

There Is a movement to refer the mine dispute to Roosevelt commission of 1902 In the hope of averting a strike.

Hon. A. P. Murphy was renomi­nated without opposiVon for congress In the Sixteenth Missouri district by the Republican convention « t Leb­anon, Mo.

Senator Chauncey to. Depew, about whose whereabouts there has been so much speculation for several dayB, Is at his residence In New York city. No. 27 West Fifty-fourth street. Dr. Munn, the Depew fai lily physician, said the senator had b-Cn only slight­ly indisposed.

Vienna Is excited by a story that King Edward is In a plot to dethrone King Peter of Servia.

MOSCOW BANK PLUNDERED HAD HEART PAINST W E N T Y M A S K E D M E N LOOT

T H E V A U LT S .

Secure Over f 432 ,000 and M ake Their Escape— Persons Connected w ith

In s titu tio n Suspected.

Moscow.—The Credit Mutual, one ot the largest banks in Mos­cow, was mysteriously robbed by masked men at dusk Tuesday night, the robbers securing $432,500. I t Was an extremely daring job. The facts already developed raise the question that the robbery was committed by or under the direction of some one at present or previously employed in the institution.

According to the story of the guards, in the tw inkling of an eye they were confronted w ith revolvers in the hands of 2 0 masked men, who had en­tered silently by the main door, which had been locked when the office force left. A fter a command to the guards to hold up their hands not a word was spoken. The guards were quick­ly bound and gagged and thrown Into a dark corner. The robbers then took up positions at all the entrances and the curtains of the windows were low­ered. The chief of the robbers who directed the operations of his associ­ates by gestures and without speak­ing. showed thorough fam iliarity with the location of the vaults. When all wttB all ready he went to the heavy, burglar-proof safe and, w ith a few w hirls of the knob, threw the combi­nation of the lock, the heavy door3

swung open and the treasure of the bank was revealed.

The plunder, consisting of gold, sil­ver and notes, was speedily thrust in ­to sacks. When a clean haul of the money had been made, not a kopeck being left, the robbers departed as silently as they came, m aking their exit through the main entrance nnd leaving no trace behind them. They had been in the bank less than half an hour. Twenty minutes later on® oi the guards succeeded In freeing himself and gave the alarm.

A C ritica l Caae o f Rheum atism Cured By D r.W illiam s ' Pink Pills.

W hile Mr. W . 8 . Gelsel, of No. ISO E ast Ooatca street, Moberly, Mo., was steadily w orking u t h is trade iu a foun­d ry a t th a t place, he became the victim of an a ttack of rheum atism , aud his ex­perience is th a t of thousands who are compelled to w ork in sim ilar surround­ings. Ho describes his situation as fol­lows :

•• I had been a t w ork for a long tim e In a foundry w here I w as exposed to dam pness. F irs t my feet began to h u rt au d to swell, then m y knees aud my shoulder jo in ts began to lie affected in th e same way. F inally I could not walk w ithou t g rea t difficulty au d suffering and hod to stop w ork altogether. My appetite w as foeble aud I grew very pale aud weak. I began to have pains about m y heart and i t flattered a g reat deal. I became greatly alarm ed about m y con­dition. My m other knew about th e v ir­tues of Dr. Williams* P ink P ills, as they had given h er back her hea lth when she w as nearly w asting to death, and when she found th a t they were good for rh eu ­matism too, she begun to give them to me abont a m outh a fte r I w as attacked. T h a t was iu the early p a rt of M arch, 1903, and by J u n e they had driven aw ay the paiuB and sw elling au d had restored m y appetite an d color. Then I fe lt strong enough to take up a lino o f ou t­door w ork and now, in October, I re­gard m yself as entirely well and I am abont to go in to a foundry again a t 8 t. Lonis.”

Dr. Williams* P ink P ills also cure o ther diseases springing from im ­pure blood or disordered nerves, such as sciatica, locomotor ataxia, partial paralysis nnd a ll form s of weakness in male or female. They m ay be had a t all druggists o r d i r . . *ly from the Dr. W illiams Medicine Ct m pany, Schenec­tady, N. Y.

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NOT A CRIME.

D is tr ic t A tto rney Jerome’s Opinion on Insurance Donations to Cam­

paign Funds.

New York.—The giving of po- litltca l contributions from the funds of a life Insurance company by the offi­cers of such a company does not con­stitute larceny or any other crime, in the opinion of District Attorney Jeronio. This opinion was submitted to Justice O'Sullivan in the court of general ses­sions Tuesday.

The opinion was given in connec­tion with the presentment on the In­surance investigation, which was handed to the court by the grand Jury several days ago. In its presentment the Jury asked Justice O'Sullivan to advise them whether he considered the giving of such political contribu­tions as constituting grand larceny. The district attorney In his opinion to the court says that after a careful ex atnlnatlon of authorities he Is led to the conclusion that the actions em bodied in the four statements of fact found In the presentment do not shoe the commission of the crime of lar ceny or of any other crime. Judge O'Sullivan to-day will charge the grand Jury as to his own conclusions in the matter.

TORNADO KILLS MANY.

S ix ty Deaths Reported in Brooklyn, Mias.— Damage to P ro p erty ’

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Brooklyn, Miss. — Sixty persons are dead, hundreds injured, and property losses aggregating $500,- 0 0 0 are the results of the tornado which hit hie town Monday night and practically destroyed It. The torna­do then swept Into the country north­east, leveling crops and buildings in Its path. No reports have been re­ceived of the damage done outside the city, but as many farm houses were in tne path of the storm loss of life Is feared. Most of the residents were home or asleep at the time, and to this cause the great loss of life I* ascribed. The tornado's fury tore houses to pieces as though they were made of cardboard, and helpless oc­cupants were burled under a mass of

leckage.

PLEASANT TRIP PLANNED.

Mrs. Roosevelt and Children to M ake Voyage to W est Ind ies, Cuba

and Porto Rico.

Washington. March 21.— Mrs. Roose­velt. accompanied by her sons Archie nnd (tuentin and her daughter, Miss Ethel, and possibly her son Kernilt, who is at school at Groton, M brs.. w ill leave Washington the latter part of next week for Florida. At some con- venior.t port there, possibly Fernandi- nu, they w ill go aboard the president’s yacnt Mayflower and make a cruise to the West Indies. They w ill visit Cuba and 1'orto Rico, stopping at both H a ­vana nnd San Juan.

Preferred Death.Hot Springs. A rk.— Just before

an officer entered his room In a hotel to arrest him, J. H. Clalhaugh, a sheet w riter from a Chicago poolroom, drank an ounce and a half of carbolic acid and died a few minutes later. He Is said to be wanted for passing bogus checks.

Urges Boycott on Illino is .Aline, Okla.— The Commercial club

has passed resolutions calling a boy­cott against Illinois business owing to opposition to statehood.

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■ Clide played polo as he played every o ther game—tbe'feame qf life Included — strenuously, bull-headfedly, sparing h im self nothing.j In the living-room of his bungalow jhe found a letter and a cable. The let­ter, in his wife’s large, ra th e r care- dess w riting, sent a warm glow through him . He pounced upon it eagerly, held I t in front of him for a moment, and th e n , with a smile, sagely decided to •ead the cable f irs t The le tte r should serve as the olives, j He lit a pipe, flung a stinging oath lat the sleepy punkah-wallah, crossed to the m antelboard, on which a row of candles burned, and carefully opened the envelope of the cable with « penknife. ' '; It was dated from London, and ran as follows:

“Don’t read my letter. Sailing to-iflay.—Mllly.”

He read it two or three tim es. Was I t a joke? It commended Itself as an expensive one for the wife of a m inorcommissioner.

“ ‘Don’t read my letter.’ Millie all over, by Jove! W hat letter? Not—”

His eyes fell upon the one he was holding. The one he was saving. The one th a t was to serve as the olives.; ’“ Don't read-«ny letter.’ W hy not?" -he asked aloud, as though his wife .were In the room. "W hat do you m ean? This is the first I’ve had from you for three mails, and you promised before you went home never to miss w riting . ‘Don’t read m y—' I shall, m ost distinctly, I shall. W hy did you;w rite I t tf It w asn’t to be read?"

B ut he put the thick-looking envel­ope against the clock, th ru s t his hands Into h is pockets and took four pacesLack.| Clllfe was a one-love man. W om­en had not entered into his calculations un til Nellie had come into his life, and taken his heart In both her hands. He had taken love as seriously as he had taken his exam inations, and, having m arried , his wife had become the only ■woman in the world. His th ree yoars o f m arried life had been so fa r as he was concerned, extrem ely happy. He had never stopped to ask himself w hether his work or his wife came firs'.. His work was necessary. H is wife essential. And ho had never stopped to ask him self w hether his wife was happy. H adn 't she m o n ied him? W as she the sort of woman who entered into so Berious a compact as m arriage w ith a man she w asn 't quite sure she loved?

Like all one-love men, like all men w ho lake them selves and everybody else eerlously, he was a Jealous man. He had no patience with discontent. He could not to lerate flabby-mlndedness. H e gave no other woman a thought. I t was Impossible for him to under­stand the necessity ef hla w ife's ever giving a thought to any other man. i He worked to the best "of his power, and he loved to do the Itest In his pow er, and he thanked Heaven daily for hiB work and for his wife.! He was a ju s t and sym pathetic man. H e was the kind of man who carves a n iche for him self In history, but he had the greatest contem pt for senti­m entality , and no patience with neu Totlclsm. He divided men and women Into two classes, good and had. The form er, when they came Into his work o r bis life, he looked upon as part of th e groat machine w orking to one end. T h e la tte r he waved aside. He cu lti­vated a wide optim ism , a wholesome belief In honesty, faith , tru th and friendship . Deep down in his nature, however, there ran a cnrlous vein of cynicism.

Ho stood for an hour looking a t the le tte r. His d inner was brought in; his servan ts stood ready to serve It. He ignored the fact. His whole mind was concentrated on the letter. Why was he not to read It? If It contained som ething his wife was asham ed of, why bad she w ritten It, In the first place? If It contained som ething In­tended to give him pain, why, at the last moment, had she telegraphed to prevent his feeling It?

Extrem e annoyance a t being trifled w ith was all he felt for the first hour. ■It was merely some foolishness on his w ife's part, some extravagance, some act of sentim entality , he argued. But p resen tly the cynic In him began to m ake grimaces, and all sorts of low and horrid thoughts capered through Ills brain.

He ordered the motionless servants p u t of the room. His indom itable self- re s tra in t left him. T hat most m ali­cious demon. Jealousy, walked arm In arm with him up and down the room fo r hours. B ut the tem ptation to open the le tte r was withstood.

At two In the m orning he went to bed, worn ont, sick o f . himself, sick o r everything. The le tter rem ained unopened, against the face of the clock. If th is man had had no Jeal­ousy In his nature, he would havo been, p s men go, w hat is called a fine fellow. H e would have been able to allow the le tte r to stare him In the face, day a f te r day, w ith absolute unconcern. |Hls wife d idn 't wish him to read It; ■very well, i t should not be read. Un­fortunately , Qoland wa< not more Jeal­ous of Mellsand than ara* O'lffe of his wife. Struggle as he m ight, concen­tra te nls atten tion on the details of his w ork as he did, th a t le tte r stung him from m orning till night. He couldn 't bear It gleaming w hi'e aga inst the dock . He hid It behind a fram ed pho­tograph. The glass and fram e were no t thick enough to hide It from his m en tal s ig h t Ue took I t between the

tip s of his fingers and flung It to the bottom of an oak ch e a t and piled music on the top of It. At n ight, a s he sa t over his papers, be could see noth­ing but the letter, prim and square. He was dogged also by the words of the cablegram. He rode hard, and the phrase “Don't read my le tte r” fitted Itself to the re fra in of hla pony's hoofs

F inally , Jealousy, which has driven better men than Cliffe to meanness, got the upper hand. He bad been In bed, ten days afte r the receipt of the le tte r fo r au hour. He had kep t a strong lamp burning in the hot room to keep the words from dancing on the wall. He had even gone so fa r as to tak e a sleeping draft. Sleep w ouldn't come. The light had no power against the cursed words, and a t last, lash­ing him self into a fever, he sp rang out of bed, strode Into his living-room, flung up the ltd of the chest and caught hold of the letter, and returned w ith it, stum bling against the table, to his bedroom.

Even a t th a t moment, w ith all his g rip and self-control at a loose end, m ethod did not desert him. He opened the envelope w ith a penknife.

He read the le tte r standing:“1 am never com ing back. I find

th a t I do not love y«u. I love some one else. We are golr.g to do w hat fa r better people have done before, and go away together You have been very good to me. I acm lre and respect you fa r more than the man who is sacrificing his life for my Bake; but I love him, and when a woman loves, respect and adm iration seem such pale things. Perhaps if we had had a child th is m ight not have happened. I am sorry for you. for you love me, I know; and you never do th ings by halve*. All th is has happened very suddenly. We met a t—It doesn’t m atte r where— and there was no help for It. It was not prem editated. W hen I left you to come home, I began to m ark ofT eu-h day th a t I should be away from you. Now I dread the thought of India, nnd I could never face you again. I can’t ask you to forgive me.”

On the day of h ts wife's re tu rn , C llffe waited about the bungalow w ith a kind of sm ile a t the corners of his mouth. The lines of It mixed queerly w ith the lines of pain and rage th a t h is horrid n ights had left behind.

He spent the m orning tidying and arrang ing the fu rn itu re tn the living- room and the bedrooms. He then put on his newest clothes, and placed tue opened le tte r and cablegram side by side against the clock.

Milly Cliffe did not find him eagerly w aiting for her a t the gate, as she half hoped she might.

W hen 'she entered the living-room h" was standing, with the veins swelling on his temples, in front of tlfb m antel- board. She cam e forward w ith both hands outstretched.

W ithout a word, he pointed to the letter. W ith her hands to her lips, Mrs. CllfTe stopped short. F or many m inutes neither spoke.

The coolies brought in her Trunks w ith some noise. A dog barked Joy­fully. Cliffe waited for silence.

"W hy have you come?" he asked." I t was not honorable of you to read

my le tte r."CllfTe laughed. “ I don’t th ink v t

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will en ter into a discussion about hon­or. I am interested to know why you have come."

“At the last moment I thought of you alone—”

” 1 hate sen tim entality ,” said Cliffe. “Your people would have got used to the new arrangem ent In tim e, no doubt. The world Is no longer squeam ­ish on such points. As you say, far better people have done It before."

He had said all th is w ithout looking a t her, sneerlngly. But when he turned and found her, w ith her hands clenched and her eyes filled, he suddenly broko down like a schoolboy.

"Forgive me,” he cried, “ forgive me. I have been in hell. I love you as no o ther man ever loved a woman on earth . I am h u rt most horribly, but you’ve come bark, and so nothing mat tors. Forgive me.”

" I t Is I who must beg forgiveness,' she cried, as he folded her In his arms.

Schoolboy Gfcost.W hile staying a t a friend’s house In

India, which had form erly been a boys’ school, a little girl was surprised on the first n ight o f her visit to see a falr- halred boy, clad la bath ing costume walk through her room Into the din lng-room beyond. Thinking It was the son of her hosts, whom she h a l not yet seen, she rushed a fte r him, but was greatly surprised when told th a t no one answ ering her description of the boy had been seen. It was not tilt some years la te r th a t she learno* tha t w hat she had seen wns the ghost of one of the schoolboys, who ha<* been drowned In the sw im m ing bath, which adjoined the room where she had s le p t —■Referee.

Coat 983 ,000 a n d Owned by G. W. P e rk in s of New Y ork—H as Tele­

phone, E lectric L ig h ts , C hairs, W ash stan d , Etc.

New York.—George W. Perkins, for­mer vice president of the New York Life Insurance company, is the pos­sessor of one of th e finest private au ­tomobiles In the world. Every m orn­ing and evening he is carried to aud from his country home In Riverdale, N. Y., In a m achine which cost him |23,000.

I t would seem to the laym an th a t to have a lim ousine body containing revolving chairs, a washstand, toilet cases, m irrors, electric lights, patent heaters. hat cords, parcel nets, lea th ­er pockets filled w ith various articles, a w riting desk and a cabinet con tain ­ing sm oker’s articles left nothing to be desired, but besides all these th ings the re is even a telephone a t hand and an annunciator leading to the chauf­feu r’s seat, so th a t the occupant of the ca r can be in touch with the d river at all times.

The annunciator Is the especial pride of Mr. Perkins. At the rear of the dashboard in fron t of the chauffeur are several Btnall electric lights. Over each one is a sllvePm ounted la­bel bearing instructions of various kinds, such as "m ore speed," "slow­er," etc.

By pressing a bu tton In the interior of the car ligh ts are illum inated and sign ify th a t certa in directions are to be carried out. If some special order Is to be given there Is the telephone, the receiver of which Is shaped like a horn, and is situated close to the right ear of the driver.

W hile It was com paratively easy for Mr. P erkins to find a firm w illing to supply him with a chassis to fit the ex trao rd inarily large body needed for th e enr he desired to have built, it was not un til a f te r a great deal of figuring and calculating had been done th a t a firm consented to build the lim ousine portion of the automobile.

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The cost was not considered, as both the m anufactu rer of the chassis and the m aker of the body were given carte blanche.

TO build the chassis properly it was found necessary to m ake one of ■ length which was ou t .of all propor­tions w ith an ord inary car. A regular 50-horsepower engine was fitted to v>« fram e, which was made 137 laches long.' The g reatest difficulty met w ith by the m anufacturers of the car was the springs. The ex tra weight of the car made tt necessary to build springs of g rea ter thickness and of a tensile streng th never before attem pted.

Finally, however, afte r much ex­perim enting. springs two and one-half Inches wide were made and the leaves In each a t the fron t and rear in­creased. Instead of there being eight leaves In the front springs, as will be found in the heaviest touring cars, there a r e 't e n in Mr. P erkins' ma­chine, and eight In the rear to five found in the ordinary machine.

The car took exactly three m onths to build. For two m onths It has made regular tr ip s back and forth from R iverdale to New York city, and when Mr. Perkins Is away from the city the m achine is used to convey Mrs. P er­kins and o ther members of the fam ­ily on various shopping tours, and the automobile can be seen often In F ifth avenue.

In com paring the Perkins car with o thers of the largest size, It can be easily seen th a t there is plenty or room for com fort and ease. An ordi­nary body of a lim ousine touring car Is 102 Inches in length and 66 Inches In width. Mr. P erkins' car has a body 122 Inches long and 64 Inches in width.

The original cost of the chassis was $11,000, but a lte ra tions brought it up to $3,000 more. The body cost about $4,000, and the ex tra fittings approxi­m ately $6,000, so th a t the machine when delivered to Mr. Perk ins repre­sented an outlay of nearly $25,000.

The most expensive touring car ever m ade cost not more than $15,000, nnd while there have been autom o­biles runn ing as high as $30,000, they have been raclng_cars of extraordinary horsepower.

The Interior of the car Is uphob stored w ith the finest Moroccan and Spanish leathers, specially Imported. The moldings are of ebony, w ith a carm ine strip . Eleven persons can be accommodated In the car, although the sta tionery seats are made to seat but nine. T here are two folding seats, however, which can be used If neces­sary, and even then the car Is not crowded. T here a re four revolving seats for th ree persons In the In­terio r. In fron t there are two seats.

The car Is guaranteed to be able to m ake a speed of 80 miles an hour. If necessary, and can run as low as ten miles. I t has two speeds forw ard and two reverse, and Is fitted with every up-to-date mechanical appliance known. I t Is guaranteed to last 25 years w ithout needing any ex trao rd i­nary repairs.

FAMOUS PALADIN STATUE.

Old Im a g e of B o land Carved In S tone E rected in B erlin—L egends Con­

nected w ith I t .

B erlin .—A curious sta tue of Roland, one of the famous paladins of Charle­magne, around whom so many legends have gathered, has been erected In th is city. The orig inal sta tue , which Is of g rea t age, has every m ark of archaic Btyle about it; the legs a re stiff and the a rm s curiously th in . T he eyes, however, have a very curious, pene-

L’U R I O F S S T A T U E O F R O L A N D .

tra tin g look, which was not given to the sta tue by chance, but was In ten­tionally devised by the ancient sculp­tor in o rder th a t th e sta tue m ight be able to carry o u t Us functions as guard ian of the city by n igh t as well as by day. These great owl-llke eyes were a te rro r to crim inals. At one tim e It was the custom to drag the accused before the sta tue in order to perceive w hether they blanched or showed signs of fear under the stony gaze of Roland.

The m other of the hero was .Bertha, the s is te r of Charlem agne. By tra ­dition, he Is endowed w ith all the kn igh tly qualities. The phrase. “A Roland for an O liver," is derived from the story of the rivalry th a t existed between Roland and Oliver, another of Charlem agne's paladins. They were very evenly matched In th e ir ac­com plishm ents; w hat O liver did Rol­and did. and w hat Roland did Oliver did, un til finally they m et one day in single com bat and fought for five consecutive days on an island In the Rhine, but neither gained the least advantage. T rad ition reports that when Roland was set upon by the Saracens at Roncesvalies, he sounded hla horn w ith such trem endous vigor th a t w ith the th ird b last it cracked In two; the b last was so g reat th a t birds fell dead. C harlem agne heard the blast, but was persuaded th a t it was only h is nephew hun ting for deer. Roland perished a t Roncesvalies with the flower of th e F rench chivalry. Aude, the lady to whom he was to have been m arried, died of a broken heart. The s ta tu e shows Roland bear- lag his fam ous Bword, Durandel, w hich he i.sd w ith him a t h is final battle. In dy ing be threw the trusty sword Into a poisoned stream , where It still rem ains. The s ta tu e a t B er­lin is more than llfe-slse, but then Roland him self Is said to have been eight feet in height. T he curious aspect of the s ta tu e produced a w ealth of rom antic rem iniscence In Berlin, which has not yet got over Its am use­ment over Its new possession.

NEW GOVFRNOR OF ALASKA

P res id en t A ppo in ts W. B. H o g g a tt, a F orm er N av a l Officer, to Suc­

ceed Jo h n O. Brady.

W ashington. —- P resident Roosevelt has apointed W ilfred B. H oggatt to be governor of A laska. Mr. H oggatt is a resident >f Juneau , and will succeed John O. Brady, recently resigned.

The appointm ent was orig inally of­fered to Capt. David H. Jarv is , but he

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declined It. He was a supporter of Mr. H oggatt. and strongly recom m end­ed his appoin tm ent to the president. Mr. H oggatt also was supported by Senator Hemenway, of Indiana.

Gov. H oggatt Is 40 years old, and was a form er naval officer, having served 18 years In the service. He was a m em ber of the naval war board during the Spanlah-A m erican war, te- tlrlng from the service soon afterw ard and locating In Alaska. He is widely known th roughout the te rrito ry , where he has considerable interests.

T im e Served by P rem iers.In the last 100 years the longest

tenure of office of prim e m in iste r of E ngland was th a t of Lord Liverpool, of 15 years. N ext comes th a t of Lort| Salisbury 1314 years, and then Mrj Gladstone, 11V4 years. The recorq holder a t the o ther end Is Canning, four m onths, closely pursued by Ood* rich, five m onths.

I L L I N O I S S T A T E N E W &Live Stock in G reat D em and.

M attoon—A uctioneers say they can rem em ber no form er seasons when live stocjt was more in dem and than is the case th is spring. D raft horses, good Btrong m ules and farm chunks are especially wanted, but alm ost any­th ing In the form of a horse or mule is bringing Its full value a t the sales. Cattle, hogs and sheep are h igher in m arket value. D raft anim als, weigh­ing from 1,600 pounds up are selling from $200 to $250. Farm chunks th a t weigh between 1,200 and 1,400 bring from $150 to $175. The dem and seems to be g reater than usual and the sup­ply is unquestionably small.

P ublic U tili tie s M erge.Moline.—A m erger deal by which the

public u tilities of Moline, Rock Island and Davenport become tho property of the T rleity Railway & L ight com­pany, an eastern syndicate, has been completed. Tho companies tak ing part a re the T ricity Railw ay com pany. Peo­ple's Power company, People's Light company and the Moline, E ast Moline and W atertown In teru rban company. In th is deal $8,115,000 was paid, and for the W alsh s tree t car and light companies of Davenport an additional $2,000,000 will be paid.

L ife Sentence Sustained.W ashington.—In the case of George

W. Kelts, under sentence to life im ­prisonm ent in W innebago county, Illi­nois. on the charge of m urder, the su ­prem e court of the United S tates af­firmed the decision of the circu it court ot the United S tates for the northern d is tric t of Illinois refusing to g ran t a w rit of habeas corpus. F e lts Is a deaf man and as he could no t hear the testim ony against him he brought the case to the suprem e court on tho ground tha t he had not had a fa ir tria l.

M akes Police Chief Obey Law.C h a rles to n —Chief of Police W(J1

H arles was arrested and fined for vio­la ting the city ordinance against sp it­ting on the sidewalk. A sho rt tim e ago H arles arrested a son of F oun­tain T urner, a well-known farm er, for the same offense. A day or two ago the boy's fa th e r caught the chief In the same act and swore out a w arran t against him.

E s ta te P ay s Big Tax.Bloomington.—The executor of the

Brokaw estate paid $18,136.54 into the county treasu ry , the largest am ount ever paid by one individual estate In McLean county. The estate will soon be divided am ong the heirs and will never again be assessed to one per­son. thus tlie am ount will probably hold the McLean county record for years to come

H orse A lm ost K ills Owner.S te r lin g —An infuriated Btallfon a t­

tacked Oscar Richmond at his home nortli of th is city, broke his legs and arras. tore off h is ears, bit him in 40 places, broko his skull, and tore the clothes from his back. He will re ­cover. .

T old in m Pew L in n .I 'rbaua .—The seventeenth annual

sta te firemen's tournam ent will be held on August 7, 8 and 9. Purses am ounting to $2,000 will be hung up.

Chicago.— Bill, a dog owned by (he late George C. W atts, Is left $20,000 by his will.

Springfield.—Fire destroyed the Ma­sonic hall ai W illianisvlile. The local bank was also damaged by the flames. The heavy snow prevented tho fire from sprtad ing .

S terling .—The prohibitionists of the T hirteen th d istric t in convention have nom inated Rev. C. L. Logan, of Jo Daviess county, as their candidate for congressman.

Chicago.—John D. Rockefeller Is discovered to he a heavy stockholder In Chicago traction Interests, and thus a heavy loser by the suprem e court de­cision

Peoria.—Grand Army men In Peoria have launched a boom for Eliot Cal­lender for departm ent com mander

Chicago.—One man was killed, one fatally and another seriously wounded in a fight In a N orth side saloon.

Chicago.—Ixical capitalists have in­vested $6.00(1.000 In the ore and lim ber d istric t In Michigan.

Springfield.—The largest Republican sta te convention ever hold In Illinois will convene in Springfield May 14.

S terling .—Col. F rank I^owdcn has donated $)0.noo and his wife $5,000 for a public lib rary to be ejected at Ore­gon. in ndditlon to the $10,000 d o n a t'd by Carnegie.

M attoon.—The M inisterial associa­tion of Sullivan, has decided that playing m arbles for ''keeps" is rn evil pastim e for the boys of America nnd have passed a resolution condemn­ing it.

Ui'bnna.—President Jam es, of Illi­nois university , urges President Roose­velt to send an educational com mis­sion to China to Invite Chinese youth to elder American universities

Springfield The secretary of sta te Issued a license to incorporate the El­gin & Dupage Electric R ailroad com­pany, of Bloo’ulngdale, to construct a road fiom R iver Forest. Cook routrty. through the counties of Cook. Dupage and Kane to Elgin.

Auburn.--A large crowd of men. in­cluding buyers from six different sta tes, wns present at the hog sale a t the C. E. Ogg farm, near th is place. There w ere 37 head of nice hogs and the to ta l receip ts were $4,235.5° an average of $115 per head. Linas w a ­k e n s , o f D I bc o , Ind., purchnsed o n e fine anim al for which he paid $455.

HEARING WAS TO<S <fc>OD.Exam inee W ho Could H e a r th e T ic k

of e W atch W hen M e tR u n n i n g .

“The physical examination of new p#> licemen often furnishes a lot of amuse­ment,” remarked Chief of Police Hayee the other day while in a reminiscent mood, relates the Kansas City Independ* ent. “Catch questions don't go, of course, but every now and then they are asked by way of a joeh. 1 remember a voung fellow he's-now a sergeant—who fell into a trap the prettiest you ever saw. Tha doctor had examined him up and down and all around, and then declared that he would make a test of his hearing. Tak­ing a watch out of his pocket, with a wink at me, he asked: ‘Do you hear that tick?’

“ ' Y e», perfectly,’ the young man an­swered.

"He held it a foot from the applicant'# ear.

“ ’Still hear it?* he asked.“ ’Ves, sir.’’“ Now stand back three paces.’"The young man did ro.“ 'Now,' said the examiner, ‘do you hear

it from that distance?""The applicant listened intently. Then

he smiled and nodded.“* I still hear it, sir,’ he said."You certainly have the most remark­

able hearing I ever came across,' said tha examiner. ‘That watch has not been run­ning tor three weeks.’ ”

NO REST N IG HT OR DAY.

W ith I r r i ta t in g S k in H u m o r—H e ir B egan to F a ll Out—W onderfu l Re­

s u l t from C uticu ra Rem edies.

'About the latter part of July my wholatake muchbody began to itch. I did not

notice of it at first, but it began to get worse all the time, and then I began to get uneasy and tried all kinds of baths ndother remedies that were recommended for skin humors; but 1 beeame worse all the time. My hair began to fall out and my scalp itched all the time. Especially at night, just as soon as I would get in bed and get warm, my whole body wonld begin to itch and my finger nails would keep it irritated, and it was net long be­fore I eould not rest night or day. A friend asked me to try the Cuticura Reme­dies, and 1 did, and the first application helped me wonderfully For about four weeks I would take a hot bath every night and then apply the Cuticura Oint­ment to my whole bodj ; and I kept get­ting better, and by the time I used four boxes of Cuticura I was entirely cured, and my hair stopped falling out. D. E. Blankenship. 319 N. Del. St., Indianapolis, Ind. Oct. 27, 1905.”

The effect of liberal education is get­ting to tie generally diffused. Almost anywheir, now, and not merely in tho east, us formerly, you will hear boys calling their father pater ao<l their mother the mater.—l'uck.♦

P o p u la r L ine to th e E ast.The sidcndid passenger ser\ ice of the

Nickel Plate Road, the care aud atten­tion shown passengers have mode it a favorite with the inexperienced as well as those accustomed to travel. Every fe»;u;e necessary to ttie comfort and ciuiveniein e of the passengers, especially lad es travel­ing alone or accompanied by cliicircn. is provided. Colored l’orters in Uniform are in ntteudauee to serve the wants ol all and to see that cars are kept scrupulous­ly clean. Pullman Sleepers on all trains, and an excellent Dining service, serving Individual Club nicaU or a !a Carte St moderate cod. When traveling East pur­chase jour tickets via the Nickel Plate Road. All trains depart from the La Salle St. Station, Chicago, lo r (till in­formation regarding ticket*, rates, routes, sleeping oar reservations, etc., call o:i or address J . Y. Calahan. General Agent, No. I ll Adams St.. Chicago, 111.

The average mam would havo no friend*mid ho appear iu paib lw in !u» before- breakfast temper. Hi* family can t aa-

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The Best Possible H ee lthcomes to those who perfect the digestion and keep the blood pure by the use of Garfield Tea, the mild laxative, miide of berba* Sam­ples free. Garfield Tea Co., Brooklyn, W. Y,

• —The man who says he will have sat irf,lo­

tion at an> cost usually pays a lug price for it.

Itch cured in 30 minutes bv Woolford'* Sauitary Lotion; never fails. Sold by Druggist*. Mail ordois promptly f i l led by Dr. Do'.chon, Crawfo r d s v tile. Ind. $1.

It it difficult to reason with an empty stomach.

COULD ROT KEEP UP.

Broken Down, Lika Many Another Woman, W ith Exhausting Kidney Tronhles.

Mrs. A. T aylor, of W harton. N. J ., s a y s : ** I had k idney tro u b le in ita m ost painful and severe form , and tho

to r tu re I w en t th rough now seem s to h a re been alm ost unbearable.

j S B r hnd backache, pains inthe side a nil loins.di7.zy spells anti hot, feverish

^ f c x l headaches. T here werebearing - dow n pains, and th e k idney secre­tions passed too f re ­quen tly , and w ith a b u rn in g s e n s a t i o n .

T hey showed sedim ent. I becam e dis­couraged, w eak , langu id and depressed, so sick an d sore th a t I could no t keep up. As doctors did n o t cu re mo I de­cided to t r y D oan's K idney Pills, nnd w ith such success th a t m y troub les w ere all pone a f te r nsinfr e ig h t boxes, and my s tre n g th , am b itio n and genera l hea lth is fine,"

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SOUTHERN FARM LANDSwhere diversified crops, Rrame$, pram*, fmlta and vegetables grow, where there are tineoppor­tunities for $ Lock men and dairymen, may be had tn Southern Hallway Territory at very low price* aud on easy terms. A little Inrcstmesl will go a lomg way*. The finest climate, fcio

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ANNOUNCEMENTS.F o u T kkasi uku . I hereby a n ­

nounce myself a ca n d id a te for tre a s ­u rer of L iv ingston county , sub jec t to th e decision of th e republican p rim a­ries. C harles 11. Hoke.

Fois S hkk uo I hereby announce myself as a ca n d id a te for th e office of sheriff of L iv ingston county, sub ject to th e decision of th e republican p r i­m aries.—Jam es W. M orris.

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D R . C A L D W E L L 'S S Y R t'P P EPSIN can be obtained in both dollar and hall, dollar sizes at all druggists, and you! money veil be refunded :! it fails to beacut you.

T a u f f t ' is ra : - r—r-.. • r . aig ' i y r w u r frr.s l o-.r D-w 1, [•(■- * ALliWF.I.L'aBOOr- OP WONIaI'K.’n .iti 1 Dp** sample t< those wto l ave never tr »• 5 this won lerfalr r c t iy. ail ■ p .st.V. i.v

P E P S IN S Y R U P C O .Montioollo, Illinois

FOR SALE BY J. F S U L L IV A N .

S P O U T I N G a n d M K T A L

R O O F I N G a s p e c i a l t y .

BURNS BROS.NEW CORNER HARDWARE,

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I'l< CI FtTIS \ I.VMI’.KCTOK l-III,

Is il your evwV Is tl tou t c a ts ' l.s it your nose? Is it vout th ro a t’:' Is it a grotesque defo rm ity—a lop ear, a pair of crooked eyes tha t repulse frieiu lsand rob you of business anil social success Y ou who have the will ami wit to win in life ’s b a ttle s—are you kept back by- deafness, blindness and deform ed eyes, ren d erin g it impossible for the righ t people to take you seriously and push you ahead . Things would improve with you if you only had bright eyes, quick hearing , sw eet b rea th and all th a t

D r. C. A. L am bert, of Chicago, the S pecialist on Eye, Ear. Nose and T h roa t D iseases, will v isit Chatsw orth again, M onday, A pril 2, a t the A ntique H otel. H ours 1 to A p. m . only

C an on ly car* fo r cases calling early T hey w ill p lease be on hand a t I p. m. p rom ptly an d grently oblige.

T i r e dN e r v o u s

W h e n you fe d la n g u id , t ire d , n e r .o u > am i ir r i ta b le , y o u r v i­ta l i t y is lo w — y o u r su p p ly o f n erv e e n e rg y ex h a u s te d , and y o u r s y s te m ru n n in g d o w n fo r lack o f p ‘ > .\er,

'! he o rg an s o f tire b o d y a re w o rk in g p o o rly , o r not a t a ll , and yo u arc n o t g e tt in g the n o u ris h m e n t n eeded. T h is soon im p o v e ris h e s th e b lo o d and in ­stead o f th ro w in g o ff th e im ­p u ritie s , d is tr ib u te s i t a ll th ro u g h th e b o d y . T h is b rin g s disease an d m is e ry .

I re d th e n erv es w i th D r . M ile s ’ N e rv ine, a n e rv e food , a n erv e m e d ic in e , th a t nou rish es and s tre n g th e n s th e n erves , and sec h o w q u ic k ly yo u w i l l g e t s tro n g an d v ig o ro u s .

“ M y w i fe s u f f e r e d w i t h n e r v o u s n e s s p r e v i o u s to n r e c e n t a t t a c k of t y p h o i d f* vf-r, h u t a f t e r t ie r r e c o v e r y f r o m t h e f e v e r , s h e w a s m u c h w o r s e , a n d co u ld h a r d l y c o n t r o l h e r s e l f b e i n g e x c e e d ­in g ly n e r v o u s w h e n t h e l e a s t e x c i t e d . S h e w a s v e r y r e s t l e s s a t n i g h t , a n d n e v e r h a d a g o o d n i g h t ' s r e s t . S h e a l s o s u f f e r e d n m r h f r o m n e r v o u s h e a d ­a c h e . Dr. M i l e s ’ N e r v i n e w a s r e r o m - m r n d e d By a f r i e n d . A f t e r t h e f i r s t t h r e e d o s e s s h e h a d a g o o d n i g h t a r e s t , a n d a t t h e e n d o f t h e f i r s t w e e k ’s t r e a t m e n t s h e w a s w o n d e r f u l l y I m ­p r o v e d . C o n t i n u e d u s e o f N e r v i n e h a s c o m p l e t e d h e r e n t i r e c u r e . "

OTTO KOLB,1021 C h e r r y S t . , E v a n s v i l l e , In d .

D r . M iles ’ N e r v i n e fs so ld b y y o u r d r u g g i s t , w h o w il l g u a r a n t e e t h a t t h e f i r s t D ott le w i l l b e n e f i t . If i t f a i l s , h e w il l r e f u n d y o u r m o n e y .

Miles Medical Co., E lkhart, Ind

M o n e y to L o a n .Wo o f fe r b o r r o w e r s m o s t l ib e ra l ra te s a n d te r m s o n m o n e y s e c u r e d on 111 I n o t s f a r m s . L o tnf t m a d e a n d m o n e y p a id p r o m p t l y . 8 e e u s b e f o r e b o r r o w i n g

In v e s tm e n tsWo k « o p c o n s t a n t l y o n haiiri f o r a a l e C h o ic e F a r m M o r t g a g e , In a n y a m o u n t , w h ic h n o t t h e I n v e s t o r t h e h lg h e a t r a t e * o f I n t e r e s t o b t a i n a b l e o n s t r i c t l y Brat- o in . a g o o n r l t l e . I n t e r e s t a n d p . i n o t p a l c o l le c te d a n d r e m i t t e d b y u s t h e d a y s u e w l t b o u t o x p e n a e . C a l l e r w r i t e .

JN O . I . TH O M PSO N ,(Successor to J. 8 . Thompson * Sow)

LAOON, ILL.Mentionthls paper. l-IB-’M

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F<ut County S u p e r i n t e n d e n t .—1 hereby announce m yself as a ca n d i­d a te for th e office of su p e rin ten d e n t of schools of L iv ingston county , sub- feet to th e decision of th e repub lican p rim aries .— M. G. B a rn h a rt.

S. K lehm was a P iper City ca lle r on Thursday.

Krskitt W ilson was a 1 'ipcr C ity v is­ito r on T hursday .

T em perance lec tu re a t T h e B rand next F riday evening.

Mrs. Jo h n G erb rach t spent T h u rs ­day w ith P iper C ity friends. -

W illiam W urm nest sp en t T hu rsday w ith re la tives in K ankakee.

H ik'hcst m arket price paid for b u t­te r and eg g s .—Reilly & F rederick .

J . A. K errins and J . F . F itzgera ld were passengers to Chicago th is m orn­ing.

Miss Lillie W endell of F orrest, was u g lie s t a t th e Geo. I. W alte r hom e on T hursday .

George Men/ re tu rn ed to Cedars- burg. W is., on T hursday a f te r v is itin g h is p a ren ts here.

H ear Mrs. Leonora M L ake 's lec­tu re on tem perance at T h e G rand next F riday evening.

Mr. and Mrs. George Kissaek moved on T hursday to th e M cD erm ott place four miles east of P iper City

Jam es Donovan w ent to Chicago on S atu rday to a t te n d to business and visit rela tives over Sundav %

T he Ladies' Needle C lub " i l l be e n ­te rta in e d at t lie hom e of Miss Alice M urtaugh next W ednesday afte rnoon .

Mrs. Lon Ilea Id and .son. M aster H arry , and M aster T hom as Farley spent Sunday th e guests of F orrest friends

Jack Ryan, of M arseilles, " a s a guest at f le ‘ Lome of b ro th e r . Morgan, and fam ily, th e la t te r part of last week.

Miss Marie F e rria s dep arted on S a t­urday for W enona. Ill , w here she has accepted a posit ion in a m illinery es- t a b lish in e n t.

Miss G ertrude T u rn e r, who loaches in tie- Fairbury schools, spent S unday w iih her parents. C ap ta in and Mrs II P T tim er.

H it is a b ilious a t ta c k ta k e C ham ­b erla in 's S tom ach and L iver T ab le ts and a qu ick cure is c e r ta in F or sale by J . F. Sullivan.

J . I! G ro texun t, of C h a rlo tte , was shak ing hands w ith h is many friends upon our s tre e ts on S atu rd ay w hile a t ­tend ing to business.

Mrs Elm er L andsdale and h i tie child , of P iper C ity , were in tow n be­tween t ra in s on S a tu rd ay en rou te to K em pton to visit re la tiv es .

County S u p erin ten d en t of Schools W. K. H erb ert, of Pontiac, was in our c ity yesterday in th e in te re s ts of h is candidacy for re-election.

Mrs. II. L K essler a rriv ed hom e on S atu rday evening last from Carbon- dale, III. w e r e she had been v is itin g re la tives and friends for some tim e.

Mr. and Mrs. J . A . C ooperand son, Beyrl, of B loom ington, sp en t y es te r­day and today at, th e J . H. M cM ahon home, w hile on th e ir way home from I ndiana.

W illiam Borl; and tw o ch ild ren , of T haw ville. spent W ednesday w ith relat ives here. Mr Bork called a t th e P la in d k a i.kii office and renew ed h is subscript ion for th e com ing year.

M. P. K errin s has sold h is b illiard and pool room to Jaco b R am er, who w ith h is fam ily recen tly moved here from O tta w a T he real e s ta te firm of K errins, F itzgerald & Co. handled th e deal.

Mr. and Mrs A lvin Pfeiffer d e p a r t­ed on T uesday for th e ir hom e a t W oodstock, a f te r spending several weeks a t th e hom e of th e la t te r ’s p a r­ent*, Mr. and Mrs H enry W rede, and o th e r re la tives In th is c ity and v ic in i­ty-

A very enjoyable tim e was had a t th e dance on S a tu rd ay evening w hich w as given a t T h e G ran d and w as well pa tron ized , q u ite a num ber from th e neighboring to w n s being p resen t. B u rch ’s o rch estra , pf F a irb u ry , fu r­nished th e music.j M isses Id a and E va L in d q u e st e n ­te r ta in e d a nu m b er of th e ir young friends a t th e hom e of th e ir fa th e r , Jo h n L indquest. n o r th e a s t of tow n, On F rid a y even ing laat. G am es of various k in d s w ere indulged in , .a lap aopper was served, an d ail p rese n t had B very enjoyable tim e.

Ed. H err called on f riends in F a ir ­bury on Sunday.

W hen In need of groceries call on Reilly & F rederick .

H arry McMahon sp e n t Tuesday and W ednesday a l Melvin.

W illiam Liglity tran sa c ted business a t F a irb u ry on Monday.

P h ilip Brown, of W ing, was a t te n d ­ing to business here on Tuesday.

M rs.O has. Hill, of S traw n , is a g uest a t th e Jas. Cording hom e today.

Rev. W. S. K ette lk am p a tte n d e d to business in Chicago on T hursday .

Miss B ertha H arry was th e g u es t of friends in F o rrest on Sunday last.

J . U. G ro tev an t, of C harlo tte , was a t te n d in g to business here yesterday .

Mrs Peacock, of G ilm an, was th e guest of Miss Mary Carew over S un ­day

Call on th e new Cash Grocery, one door e a s t of C itizens B an k .—R eilly & F rederick .

W alte r B urns, of A shkum . w as a guest a t th e Burns hom es in th is c ity over Sunday.

R em em ber tbe bazar in th e M. E. church basem ent tom orrow (S a tu r­day) evening.

Ladies' spring and sum m er b a ts a rc all in ,ready for inspection .—M rs J . PL Roach, m illiner.

Mrs. H arry Cowling arrived hom e on W ednesday from a v is it w ith re la ­tives a t P iper City.

L ester Clark, of Cullom . spent S u n ­day a t th e home of Mrs H a r r ie t t L inn and daugh ters.

Mr. an d Mrs. A F. W alte r w en t to Chicago on Tuesday to v isit re la tives and a t te n d to business.

p’o u S a l e The Sam uel K. C arson property west end of business s tr e e t . In q u ire of S. K. Carson.

Joe L an try , of N o tre Dame. Ind , m ade a short call on C h a tsw o rth friends on Monday even ing

Ja m es Hoyle, of l ’ipcr C ity , was g ree tin g C ha tsw orth friends and a t ­tended to business here on Tuesday.

Mrs. Geo. Pulsipher, of W eston, c a ll­ed pn friends here M onday w hile on her way to visit re la tiv es near H ealey.

Mrs. Jo h n O liver a rriv ed hom e on T uesday from Y an cro th , la , w here she w ent to a tten d th e funeral of her b ro ther.

Mrs L au ra Shaw sp e n t S a tu rd ay and Sunday w ith re la tiv es and friends in Chicago, re tu rn in g home on M on­day evening.

W M S tah l of Cullom. called a t the P i .a in d k a i .e u office and renewed his subscrip t ion w hile in C h a tsw o rth on T hursday

Edw ard P orte r, who had been w ork­ing for W. K Lippo, d ep a rted on Sat- urdav for his home a t H u n tin g to n , West V irginia.

Miss A gnes O 'B rien , of F a irb u ry , was a guest at th e hom e of P'ratik M urtaugh and fam ily , northw est, of j tow n.on S at today.

T he nam e te lls th e s to ry —everybody knows it: everybody likes it: every- IkkIv uses it I W. HABPP'.I! w his­key. Sold by F rank K aiser.

Mrs. X D. P a tto n re tu rn ed to her hom e in P iper C ity on T hursday , she hav ing been here to a t te n d th e fu n e r­al of ttie la te John T u rp i t t .

Mrs W illiam B urns and ch ild ren dep arted for tlie ir hom e a t A shkum th e la t te r part of last, week a f te r v is i t­ing a t th e B urns hom es here.

Mr. atxl Mrs. T . J . C lark, of Culiom, were Jhe guests of Mrs. H a r r ie t t L inn on W ednesday on th e ir way to F a irb u ry to spend a few fla ts am ong friends.

Messrs. George and Ja m es W ells, of K noxville, T enn ., arrived on S atu rd ay and are guests a t th e hom e of th e ii h ro ther, C harles, so u th of tow n. T h ey expect to rem ain all sum m er.

P'ratik McMahon, of F a irb u ry , was g ree tin g friends here on M onday betw een tra in s w hile re tu rn in g from Cullom , w here he had sp e n t Sunday w ith h is b ro th er, Jam es, and fam ily.

Mr. and Mrs P 'rank H err re tu rn e d home on Monday m orn ing from Fair- bury, w here they had been g u e s ts a t th e hom e of the la t te r 's p a ren ts , Mr. and M rs. P h il W ade, and fam ily , for several days.

Edward Reising, son of Mr. and Mrs P e te r lte lsing , of th is c ity , hasacccp t- ed a position as bookkeeper and general a s s is ta n t in the C om m ercial N a tio n a l Bank in th is city. ' ‘E dd ie" needs no in tro d u c tio n to th e people of C h a ts­w orth and v ic in ity .

Mr. and Mrs. Bergan, M. G arrity , Jo h n W elsh, W illiam B aldw in, Ja m es G arrity , P . M cGuire and Ed. F arra - gher w ere am ong th e nu m b er w ho a t ­tended th e funeral of th e la te Mrs M argare t Russel, w hich was held a t th e C atho lic church in P iper C ity on W ednesday.

T h e windows for th e new Ev&ngeli cal ch u rch were placed In position last week, w ith th e exception of a few of th em w hich d id n o t (It and they were s e n t back to th e factory to be exchanged. T h e bu ild ing is nearly com pleted , and th e p resen t p lans a rc to d ed ica te i t on E a s te r Sunday.

D on’t fo rget th e tem perance lec tu re to be delivered by Mrs. L eonora M Lake, of S t. Louis, a t T h e G rand on F rid ay evening, M arch 30. Mrs. L ake, w ho Is an a rd e n t advocate of th e tem perance cause, com es h igh ly recom m ended a s a public speaker. T he adm ission will be free an d every ­body is m ost cordially Inv ited to a t ­tend .

TH E OLD SAYING,

U l a k e H a y W h i l e T h e S u n S h i n e s ”

might be applied with equal proprie­ty to those who need coal, for we will have many stormy days and freezing nights before the flowers will bloom next spring.

Besides, the coal combine may land you anywhere as to prices, and our price to you is governed by the combination’s price to us.

BETTER GET WHAT YOU NEED NOW.

We will not raise the price one cent above a fair living profit, and will continue to sell

The Best Hard and Soft Coal At The Lowest Market Prices.

00 SEE US if you are figuring on build- {S ing a new house or barn.If GET OUR PRICES on grain, tim-

100 othy seed, clover seed and lawn seeds. Yours for business,

J. C. CORBETT & GO.

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If you want good, clean, ten­der meat at all times, and choice fresh fish on Fri­days, give us your order.

F R E SH , SA LT AND SMOKED MEATS,FOW LS AND HOME-MADE SAUSAGE.

Give us your meat trade and you w ill live w ell and econom ically.

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CORRESPONDENCE.Motick.—The publishers do uot hold them

seiTes io any way responsible for the utterauees in this column, but would much prefer that all personal bickerings be strenuously aroided in short, we hold the province of a newspaper to be to give all the s iw i, and leave the idle gossip to wag Its tongue within the narrow scope of its immediate surroundings

PIPER CITY.Miss Cozette H erron has been qu ite

sick th is week.Jam es Steadm an transac ted business

in F airbury ou S aturday.P a t O ’M ara was a business caller at

the county seat on Monday.Prof. 1). I). Fultz, of R oberts, was a

visitor in ou r city over Sunday.Born, on T uesday, to Mr. and Mrs.

John D ecker, a son.Lizzie K oestner returnedlfrom ufew -

tveeks’ visit a t Pax ton on Monday.Miss H a ttie Moore is the appren tice

a t the W. H . Roberts m illinery parlors Mrs. J . C. W agner is Aery low w ith

an a ttack of pneum onia.Thos. W alrioh, A rby Read, Jo h n

Robrbach and Ed. Beckm an le ft for O larksdale, Miss., on T uesday.

Miss Mae Carlson is very sick a t the home of her fa ther, Chas. Carlson, in north P ella .

Miss Emily Soran w as a K ankakee visitor on Sunday.

P resid ing E lder Robinson w as a business visitor here ou W ednesday.

Mrs. John Robrbach w en t to T h aw - ville on W ednesday m orning to Jvisit a few days w ith friends.

Sheriff Crow, of P ax ton , w as 'in P iper a tten d in g to business on W ednesday.

Miss E tta Robrbach a f te r spend ing several days a t the home of herjparen ts, re tu rned to her school du ties in | N or­mal on Monday.

Miss Maggie K ing, of H oopeston, a niece of S. M. E rsk ine, is a guest at the E rskine home.

Miss Clara Powell w ent to G ilm an on Monday, where she will work in a d ressm aker's shop the com ing season.

Elm er Manock is convalescing from a case of measles a t the home of his uncle, 8 . M. Erskine. He is a s tu d e n t a t the O narga Sem inary and cam e here to recuperate.

Clair M cLain is ta k in g a week off be­fore sp ring work begins a n d | has gone in to In d ian a to lay in a stock of slip­pery elm for m aking pies, good old Iloosier style.

O. O. Clay, of Chicago, arrived in town M onday. He will rem ain Iseve- ral days looking a fte r his fa rm |h ere .

Mrs. L . I). Sackson w ent to Cropsey on S atu rday for a visit a t the home of her b rother.

Mrs. Della Moore, of Springfield, is a t the home of her p aren ts , Mr. and Mrs. P. T . Murphy, in th is city , qu ite sick w ith an a ttack of the grip.

Born, to Mr. and Mrs. Ed. I lin e s , on S atu rday , a tine baby lioy. As it was St. P a trick ’s Day, call him “ P a t."

Miss Georgia C arpen te r lias had dism iss h er school in order th a t she m ight enjoy the "sw ell tim e" she has Itoen having — only a had ease of mumps.

John N orbits, J r . , of N orth Lym on tow nship, was a v isitor in our city on W ednesday.

Mrs. L utie W ilson and fam ily le ft on Monday for N ew castle, Ind ., w here they expect to make th e ir home. Mrs. W ilson has spent the past m onth a t the home of her m other. Mrs. W illiam Hield.

Miss Constance Ice, who is teach ing near L allogue , spent Sunday a t the home of her sister, Mrs. R. Carley.

Messrs. John , Earl and Jam es Sted- uian took in th e m eeting of the F a ir ­bury Com m andery of K n igh ts Ternp- la ryorr M onday evening.

A. C. Thom pson, of F reeland P ark ,Iud ., is visiting a t the home of his brother, B. S ., north of tow n and look­ing a fte r farm ing in te rests here.

Thy Ladies, Aid of the M. E . church held a very successful social a t the home of Thos. Read T uesday evening.

Rev. I). H. Johnson, of G ilm an, was a caller a t the home of Rev. D eluG ar- d ie o n Monday.

Mrs. I. Day arrived F rid a y from Lewistown, Me., for an extended v isit w ith her daugh ters, M esdaiues F o rtie r and Carlson.

The funeral of Mrs. Russell, who died a t the home of her s is ter, Mrs. P at. G allbu, north of tow n, was held in St. P e te r 's Catholic church on W ed­nesday m orning. In te rm e n t in Rob­erta cemetery.

The last num ber Of o u r lecture course was given on F riday of last week by Maro, the M agician, in the M asonic H all and w as g rea tly apprecia ted . Dr. E h rhard t, who has been the m a n a ­ger and sole prom oter of the e n te r ­prise, should be cong ra tu la ted on giv­ing us such high-class en te rta in m en ts .

Will Brown was playing the son and T . II .Sanders W illiam T ell in the shoot­ing gallery, Monday evening, when he was shot th rough the Anger, b reak ing the hone and "lay ing him on th e sh e lf” for repairs for some tim e. S anders had am used him self and Others by shooting the lid off B row n's pipe while he w as

S m ok ing , p u ttin g o u t a cigar, o r shoot­ing the ashes from it w hile he w ss sm oking an d Anally they l i t a candle and Brown was holding It fo r Bandera to shoot i t o u t when by som e m iscue he

shot through the candle and, inc iden t­ally, took the Auger in to his range,w ith the above results.

T h e prim aries of both the republi­cans aud dem ocrats were held on S a t­urday and the following tow nship of- Qcers were nom inated: R epublican— H. 8 . C arpenter, tow n clerk; P hilip M ylcraine, assessor; J . C. Moore, col­lector; Jacob E h rsm au , com m issioner of highways; E. E . Bishop, school trustee . D em ocrat—F . M. K iblinger, town clerk; L. D. Jaekspn, assessor; E II. Doane, collector; Jacob Berger, com m issioner of highways; T . R. Moore, school trustee.

T he m eeting of the M other’s Club a t the school house F rid a y afternoon was one of the largest in point of a t te n d ­ance th a t has been held th is year. Mrs. L. I). Jackson presen ted a very able paper on the "Pow er of the Im ag in a­tio n ,’’ which called o u t some lively d is­cussion. Mrs. A. E . L an d sd a le’s paper on “ P ersonality of the T eacher F rom a M other's S tan d p o in t," and Mrs Car- ley’s on "P ersona lity of the T eacher From a T eacher's S ta n d p o in t,” w ere well w ritten and contained some valu ­able and well susta ined points. T hese m eetings cannot help b u t be produc­tive of g rea t good, bo th to m others, teachers and the children .

The old m aids 'c lub ,o r association, or w hatever you may ca ’l it, each m em berof which is on the sun n y side of ----- ,calling them selves the F. F . and F .'s , num bering about 125 in all in our city, took advantage of tile sleighing M on­day evening and w en t out to L. M. A ndrew s to spend th e evening. T hey took along oysters and the trim m ings, and by some hook o r crook had invei­gled enough of the boys in to going to give spice to the occasion. Well,suffice to say they hnd a royal good tim e and by the noise they m ade when they re­tu rned to town it would be hard to be­lieve th e ir jonruey did not ex tend as far w est as Chutsw orth. anyway

Tordure By Savages.“ S peaking of the to rtu re to which

some of the savage tr ib e s in the P h ilip ­pines sub ject the ir captives, rem inds me of the intense suffering I endured for th ree m onths from inflam m ation of the k id n ey s , ' 1 savs W. M. Sherm an, of Cushing. M e., "N o th in g helped me u n ­til I tried E lectric B itte rs, th ree bo ttles of which com pletely cured me " Cures Liver Com plaint, Dyspepsia, Blood d is­orders and M alaria; and restores the weak and nervous to robust hea lth . Guaranteed by J . F . Sullivan, d rugg ist.

Price 50c.

FORREST.A rchie Wilcox is e n te rta in in g his

sister. Miss Flossie W ilcox, of C hica­go, th is week.

Misses Ju n e W hitm ore and E sth e r D unlap. D r. L . R. A llen and G. M. Straw ii sp en t Sunday in Chicago.

Miss Josephine M cM ullen is sp o il i­ng th is week in P on tiac w ith re la ­

tivesMrs. E lm er Rosenberrv arrived home

on T uesday from Peoria a f te r spend- t 0 j ing a few days w ith friends there.

Mrs. I. Igou. of .Joliet, form erly of th is city, arrived here on S atu rday to visit friends.

Mrs. M innie F airch ild , who has been in P ittsbu rg . Penn., the past six w eeks lias re tu rn ed home.

Mr. and Mrs. Guy Mosher, of G il­m an, spent Sunday w ith the l a t t e r ’s paren ts. Mr. and Mrs. J . S. F rancis.

John M cFadden, of F airbury , called on friends here F riday evening.

Miss G ertrude H ieple, of Peoria, was the guest of Miss E sther D unlap a few days last week.

Mr. F ar T sau Sung. M. S , of Ohio W esleyan U niversity, a native of H inghua. C hina, will give an address on the custom s and social life of China, a t the M. E. church on Sunday even ­ing

(T oo la te for la s t |

W allace K rack, who is a tten d in g the W entw orth Academ y a t Lexington, Mo., is v isiting his paren ts, Mr. and Mrs. John K rack

Dr. J . P. W ebster, of Chicago, was a F o rrest v isitor on Sunday.

Rev. Win. Pierce attended a banquet o f the M asonic lodge a t Bloomington last F riday evening.

Mr. an d Mrs. Sm ith an d Mrs. Kelso, of F a irb u ry , a tten d ed the funeral Of the la te Mrs. C arrie Day here on T hursday .

Miss E ste lla McMullen spent T u es­day w ith F airbury friends.

Mrs. L. Beard spent Tuesday with her p a re n ts in F airbury .

Mrs. J . J . B roadhead was a F airbury caller on Thursday.

Miss E sth e r D unlap spent S atu rday in Pontiac w ith her paren ts.

Roy M iller, of P eoria , a ttended the funeral of his g ran d fa th e r here on Tuesday afternoon.

Miss M innie D avis w ent to Bloom­ington on Sunday to visit relatives.

Miss L illie W endel w as a F a irb u ry caller on W ednesday.

Mr. and Mrs. J . F.. Dorsey, of Ctants- w orth, spen t S unday w ith relatives in th is city.

Mrs. C arrie Day, widow of the la te George D ay , who has been in ill hea lth for the past year, d ied a t her home in th is city on T uesday a t six p. m. T he deceased had lived here for th e past tw enty years and w as adm ired by all who knew her. She w as a m em ber of th e C hristian church an d an active

w orker in the same un til sickness befell her. T he funeral was held on T h u rs ­day a t the C hristian church, Rev. Rey­nolds officiating, an d the rem ains were en terred in the F o rrest cem etery. T he funeral was a large one, many from abroad being presen t. She leaves to m ourn her death four children, Mrs. George W heaton, of C hatsw orth; Roy George au d Lonna. who resided with her; au aged father, one sister and th ree brothers and a large circle of friends.

For An impaired Appetite.Loss o f 'ap p e tite alw ays resu lts from

fau lty digestion. A ll th a t is needed is a few doses of C ham berla in ’s Stom ach an d L iver T ablets. They will invigo­ra te the stom ach, streng then the d iges­tion and give you an appetite like a wolf. These 1 'ablets also act as gentle laxative. For sale by J . F . Sullivan.

STRAWN.H arry Ruff is now convalescent. E dw ard Lynch m ade a business tr ip

to P ontiac on W ednesday.L. T . T ryon left on Tuesday for a

ten-days' tr ip to O klahom a on an in ­spection tour.

The Misses Rose aud Nellie Casey visited th e ir sister, Mrs. .1. T . Toohey, here ou F riday and S atu rday .

Mrs. A. M oncel's te n an t house a t Risk burned to the ground a t :: a. m. on W ednesday, the occupant being able to save only tw o trunks.

Miss A lice F arager. of Fairbury , who has been on the sick list here, is now convalescent.

The lady teachers of the S traw n schools have received a new telescope and are now looking for the m an in the moon.

Mr. and Mrs. E llio tt, of Sibley, spen t Sunday the guests of Thos. Ruff and family here.

Special prices are now offered on the fam ous b rands of S unburst and Eaco flour a t J . T . Toohey's.

Mrs P e te r Loreg re tu rned home on T uesday a fte r visiting her paren ts at Cropsey

In th e tr ia l of Chas. Johnson vs. F . M. C’uryea, for wages, which was held before 'Squire Goembel and a ju ry on M onday, the defenden t was acquitted .

Jam es L ittle , of F orrest, was sh a k ­ing hands w ith his ohl acquaintances here on Monday.

T he Sibley Horse Company are p lay­ing in hard luck. On last T hursday th e ir *2,200 00 stallion died suddenly.

Mrs. W. II Oxley w ent to Pontiac on F riday to visit her au n t, who is on the sick list

At thfe caucus held a t the town hall on S a tu rday the republicans p u t in nom ination the following ticket for tow nship officers: For clerk, J . W. K irkhani; assessor. C harles H ill; col­lector, G. B. A aron: com m issioner of highways, Ed. K essler. The dem o­c ra ts nom inated the follow ing ticke-t: F o rc le ik , Wm. R inzler; assessor. E. II D avis; collector.. L. E. G randstaff; com m issioner of highw ays. Ed. Purslev .

A Favorite Remedy for Babies.Its p leasan t taste and prom pt cures

have m ade C ham berla in 's Cough Rem e­dy a favorite with the m others of sm all ch ildren . It qu ick lvcures their coughs and colds and prevents any danger of pneum onia or o ther serious conse­quences. It not only cures croup, bu t when given as soon as the eroupy cough appears will p revent the a ttack . For sale bv J . F. .Sullivan

m illinery and dressm aking shops in tlie north p a rt of town, th e 1st of April.

Jo h n G oller was a passenger to Cab- ery on Saturday.

Mrs. Jam es Goggins, accom panied by ber b ro ther. F ran k Carey, departed for tier new home in H astin g s, Neb , on T u esd a y .

Scientific WonderT he cures th a t s ta n d to its c red it

m ake B uck len 's A rn ica Salve a scientific wonder. I tc u re d E. R. M ulford, lec tu r­e r for the P a tro n s of H usbandry . W aynesboro, Pa., of a d istressing case of Filq^j. It heals th e w orst B urns, Sores. Boils, Ulcers, C uts, W ounds. C hilblains and Salt RUeum. Only 25c a t J . F. Su llivan 's d rug store.

G A R R IT Y & B A L D W IN

CHARLOTTE.Mrs. F red Rocke w as a C hatsw orth

caller on T uesday.T he highw ay com m issioners of C har­

lotte m et here last T uesdayR obert Fow ler, of Peotone. was upon

our s tree ts on Saturday .Q uite a num ber from here a tten d e d

the com bination sale held a t F eeley 's livery barn in C hatsw orth on F rid ay last.

Mr. and Mrs. Thees F iessner a re the proud p are n ts of a little girl, born on Sunday last

Mr. and Mrs. Geo. F iessner, of Secor, are the proud paren ts of a little g ir l. Mr. F iessner is a son of Geo. F iessner, who resides east of here.

O tto F erd in an d has arrived here from L aketon , Ind , w here his fo lks reside,and will work the eom iug season for A ugust Foreburger, east of tow n.

Ralph Onimen arrived home la st M onday from Lexington,, where lie is] em ployed by the Rogers G rain Co. in j rem odeling the ir bu ild ing T he late ' storm com pelled them to d iscon tinue I operations for some tim e.

H. H aven departed for h i-hom e near ! Spokane, W ash., oli Tuesday a f te r a visit of several weeks w ith re la tives i and friends here. M r.' H aven is going to run a truck farm o f te n acres. T h e ' land is irrigated and it cost him 1250.00 per acre. j

A Lively Tussle . jw ith the old enemy of the race. Consti­pation . often ends" in A ppendicitis. To avoid all serious trouble w ith S tom ach , ] L iver and Bowels, ta k e Dr. K in g ’s i New Life Pills They perfectly regn- ] | la te these organs, w ith out pain or ilis- ] com fort. 25c a t J . F . Sullivan, d ru g - : 1 gist. __________ _ _

RISK AND VICINITY.F. P G arrity and wife weie Chat:.- I

worth e a lle iso n Monday.E lizabeth Ila iriu g to n went to ( 'In ca - 1

go on S atu rday to select her m illinery , stock for th is season

1“ II McGrea! and wife a tten d ed the funeral of a fn en d a t P iper City j on W ednesday.

F red Cording put in a telephone, i which is conueeted w ith the C iiaU - 1 w orth line, th is week. j

George K ills , the eldest son of Mr.is suffering w ith

l O T H eare known by their standard and excellent make and trimmings, special attention being given to Q u a l i t y , V i n i m l a . and T r i m m i n g s .

E V E R Y S U IT -W E A R E R

knows from experience that trimmings and work­manship are the first things that give out in a stiit. Our effort is always to see how good au article we can sell for the price.

SPRING STOCK-of-

C L O T H I N Gis in. and it will be a pleasure to show you the new things for men and boys. Never before have we been able to show you as complete a liue as this season. Our clothing has been bought right and you will get the X IX G & T PRICES from us.

& Baldwin,CLOTHIERS TO A L L .

KEMPT0N.Mr and Mrs. John Kem p were K an ­

kakee v isito rs on Saturday.L inden B u te .,of Jackson . Minn , is

v isiting rela tives here th is week.Mr and Mrs. Allen Frost and son.

H erm an , of Chicago, are visiting here th is week.

Mr. and M rs.Leonard Fowler re tu rn ­ed home from Chicago on S atu rday evening.

8upt H erbert, of Pontiac, w as a K em pton caller on W ednesday.

Misses Sarah McMahon and Em m a M adison were a tten d in g to business in P ontiac on Monday.

N orm an W atts was a passenger to Saunem in on Tuesday.

Mrs. Jo e P igm au. of B uckingham , spent M onday with h er paren ts, Mr. and Mrs. John Tobenskie.

Thos. N ugent, of Oabery, was here on Tuesday.

Mr. and Mrs. C. E B ute were C ab­ery callers on S atu rday .

H enry Engle, was a Cullotn caller on F riday.

John an d W illiam Adam s w ent to Cabery on Saturday.

Miss A nna Tobenskie is visiting her s is ter. Mr*. Fellow s, in Wing.

Dr. W .^J. Ross tran sac ted business in P ax ton on M onday.

Jo h n Corkill a tten d ed to business iiv Cullom on Monday.

Miss M ildred Seyster spent Sunday in P axton .

R. C. B reneisa, of Cabery, was here on business S atu rday .

Je rry Bergan and Miss Elwena M adi­son w ere passengers to K ankakee on F rid ay last.

GarAeld S tu art, of H erscber. w as up­on our s tree ts on W ednesday.

Mr. and Mrs. F rank C lark and son, Jam es, o f B lackstone, are guests a t the F. Carey home th is week.

Mrs. C. Jackson will open her new

and Mrs. Henry Kilt limit fever.

Quite a number from this v ie in itv attended the dance at Chatsworth on Saturday evening ia>t

Official Baflol--Town of Charlotte. Election. Tuesday. April 3. 1006

O p e o p l e s . O to w n .Always Keeps Chamberlain's Cough

Remedy in His House.We would not he w ithout C ham ber­

la in 's Cough Remedy. It is kep t on hand continually in our hom e." says i W. W. K earney, ed ito r of tlie h id e -j pendent. Lowrv City. Mo. T h a t is j u s t ! What every family should do W hen : kept at hand ready for in s tan t use, a cold may he checked a t the ou tset and cured in less tim e th a n a f te r it has be­come se ttled in tin* system . T h is rem edy is also w ithou t a peer for croup in ch ildren , and w ill prevent the a ttac k when given as soon as the child becomes hoarse, or even afte r the eroupy cough appears, which can only he done w hen the rem edy is kept a t hand For sale bv J . F. Sullivan.

□For Supervisor,

J. R. G R O TEY A X T. □□

For Tow n Clerk.

WM. HOPPE. JR. □□ l

For Assessor.R O B E R T < AEG H KY. □

□For Collector.

E. A. HAASE. □□

F or Com m issioner of H ighw ays

□THOMAS ASK EW .

□F or C onstable, to (ill vacancy

□

For S upervisor.WM. L A W LE SS.

For Tow n Clerk.

*EARL HALLAM .For Assessor

JOSEPH IU liLV .For Collector.

F o r C om m issioner of H ighw ays,T. 1‘. KERR INS.

F or C onstable to till vacancy.A. FO R E IH R G E R .

Official Ballot-—Town of Chatsworth. Election, Tuesday. April 3. 1906.

O ™ . O O RWfMBT.□ For S uperv iso r i----- 1 For S upervisor. i i

.1X0. ( '. CORBETT. L I .101 IN Q. P l ’FFER . L

□□ Kor Assessor. i i Kor Assessor. i i

.IAS. S. DO O LITTLE. L tO S.E .FITZG ER A LD . L

□ ♦ F or C ollector. i i For Collector r —i

CHAS. A. ROBERTS. L M A R T I N P. KERR I NS L

□ F o r C om m issioner of H ighw ays, ■----- 1 F ur Com m issioner of H ighw ays, i 1 i F o r C om m issioner of H ighw aysGEO. H. CLIN E. L I. X. SH A R P. U

□ For Tow n Clerk.

L. J. HARERKORX.

JO H N Q. P l ’FFER.

□ For Tow n Clerk,

JO SEPH M. FE E L E Y .For Assessor.

For ( o l.ec tor.I I P. T E E N E R .

□ F or School T ru s tee , i i For School T ru s tee .ADAM SH A FER . L MILES DESIRE. □ F or Sclioo T rustee .

For Abolishing the Poll Tax

Against Abolishing the Poll Tax.

AffllotedWith Rheumatism." I was and am yet inflicted w ith

rheu m atism ." says Mr. J . C B ayne, ed ito r of th e H erald , A ddington , Ind ian T errito ry , "b u t th an k s to C ham ber- lu in 's F ain Balm am able once m ore to a tten d to business I t is th e best of lin im en ts ." If troubled w ith rh eu m a­tism give F ain Balm a tr ia l and you are certa in to be more tlian pleased w ith tbe prom pt relief w hich it affords. Ooe application relieves the pain. F o r sale by J . F. Sullivan.

H ave yo u ro o m m ero la lp rin tin g ! a t the P l a in d e a l e r office andth e best.

Chatsworth M arkets.C orrected each F ridav afte rnoon .

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has some of iltlons ever

t interested,

Doctors Are Puzzled.The rem arkab le recovery of K enneth

M elver, of V ancebora, Me., is the su b ­ject of m uch in te rest to the medical fra te rn ity and a w ide circle of friends. He says of his case: “ O w ing to severe inflam m ation of the T h ro a t and con­gestion of th e Lungs, th ree doctors gave me up to die, when as a last resort, I w as induced to try D r. K ing 's New Discovery an d I am happy to say, i t saved my life .” and Golds,La

------ “ ” r r J ilife.” Cures tbe wortt Goughs , Bronchitis. TonsiliUs, Weak

ippe. Guar- drug store. ,

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PO ISO N S IN FOODSH O V TO D E T E C T T H E MOST

U 8 U A L A D U L T E R A T IO N S .

B e a u tifu l B u tter T in ts U sua lly A r t i ­fic ia l—General Debasement ofCheese. H oney and Spices— A m e ri­can Beers U s u a lly Bure— Food P re ­

servation Justifiab le, fo r Long Jour­neys—D ifficu lties in the Enforce­m ent of Food Law s—P u b lic ity the H o s t E ffective Remedy for the E v il.

HY D l l H . YV. W I L E Y .( C h i e f o f t h e B u r e a u o f C h e m l s t r j . U n i t e d

S t a t e s D e p a r t m e n t o t A g r i c u l t u r e . ) ( C o p y r i g h t . 1905. by J o s e p h B. B o w le s ) .

The most popular idea of food adul­teration is a manipulation o f food products in such a way as to make them injurious to health. It cannot be denied that the ultim ate effect of m any forms of food adulteration is h arm fu l, and that the immediate ob­je c t of the food adulterer is pecuniary xain .

In general, food adulteration may be defined in the following terms:

1. The abstraction of any valuable I constituent of the food or Its replace j m eat by a less valuable constituent, as. j fo r instance, by the partial abstraction ! of the cream from m ilk or the addi j tion of water thereto.

2. The substitution of an article for -another one which resemb es it. as, for instance, (substituting oleomargarine fo r butter.

J. When a food product is made by artific ia l means to appear better than i t really Is. e ither by coloring, polish ing or manipulating in any way. This form of adulteration is illustrated by the artificia l coloring of peas or beans or of butter or milk.

4. A food product is deemed to be adulterated when it is treated w ith a chemical preservative for the purpose o f preventing it from decay, as fs il- tustrated by the use of salicylic acid in beer or wine, of boric acid in meat o r butter, o f benzoic acid in pre­served vegetables or fruits.

5. A food product is deemed to be adulterated when it bears a false la bel. in fact or by implication or omis aion. either as respects its origin or composition. This is illustrated by the common custom of misbranding wines, selling Brazil coffee as "Moclu and Java. " and. as in a recent case, la tid in g a foreign olive oil as being made of "the finest selected California •olives.”

Under I!i»• above heads may be grouped all ihe various forms of tulul teraterl foods which have been placed upon the markets.

* • • * •In regard to the kinds of foods

which have been extensively sophisti­cated it may he said that ilu re are few which are exempt

D a iry products have been more g -n •‘ra lly investigated for adulterations than almost any other kin l of foods T h e addition of water to m ilk is prob­ably not very extensively practiced, but the aUdrnction of part of the cream and selling the residue as whole m ilk is s till in vogue. A more common method of adulterating m ilk is to milk the cow only partially, leaving the greater portion of the cream in the udder The part first obtained is sold as whole in ilk and the remaining por­tion serves as cream.

The most common adulteration of butter is the use of artificial coloring ir.utlms. Formerly only vegetable col­ors such ar. annatto were employed but in late years the development of the chemistry of dye stuffs lias offere I lo the deft dairyman many beautiful yellow tints, which are not only cheap­er but more easily mixed \v th the fat than the old-fashioned vegetable col ors In the Frtiled States, ispecially, has the sin of butter coloring been pushed ■<> an almost unlimited extent, and it is difficult to find upon ottr mar kets uneolorr-d butter, even in June.

< ueese is not only artificially col ored, but sometimes the milk fat is re moved and a fat of another kind sub statuted. The product i known as ‘"filled cheese."

Honey is probably as extensively adiiltoratAd as any other common foot! product. (illicose made from Indian corn starch, and resembling honey In its physical characteristics is the most common adulterant Sugar, which has been treated with an acid to make It resemtde honoj". more closely is also at times used, or mixtures of the two. One method of adulteration is to place a small part of genuine honey in the honeycomb in a Jar and fill the jar with glucose or a mixture of glucose anti the sugar mentioned above.

The condiments, pepper, salt and spices of all kinds have lieen made the subject of debasement to a large ex tent. The ground condiments are mixed w ith Inert matter in order to Increase weight and diminish aetivity. T h e manufacture of "fillers" resem­bling the ground spires In color and texture is I are- ly practiced

The m ixing of sand with sugar is. I believe, never, or rarely, practiced in th is country Sugar is prolialily too e.heap to warrant it. some varieties of fine white sea sand being worm al most as much a t lit" sugar itself

Beverages are perhaps as common­l y adulterated or Imitated as the solid foods, though to Ihe credit of Amer lean beers, it may Ik* said that they are fo r the most part pure. Distilled liquors are imitated In many forms, no t l l * t i t la difficult now to know in pur­chasing n bottle of whisky whether it fa the real, artic le or not.

* • * • • »-Food adu ltera tion comes to us com-

n e n d e d hy cen turies of practice; It n o t u n til m odern tim es, however,

i t M sum ed a com mercial Im

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portance which ..as tainted in many respects national and internationalcommerce.

We have fostered a taste for the fruits of every season and every clime, and hence the consumer has re­quired that these products of distant orchards and gardens and farms should be constantly supplied on de­mand.

In preserving foods the natural col­ors of food products tend to fade and diminish with time. In order that this fault be remedied, the use of col­oring matters has become almost uni­versal in some forms of food prod­ucts. For instance some time ago 1

was unable to find in the city of Wash­ington a single pound of uncolored butter. Tomatoes and other red vege­tables and fruits are often colored w ith eosin; preserved peas and beans, as is well known, have tb» green color fixed and accentuated hy the use of a very objectionable substance, namely, sulphate of copper. Added red coloring matters are often found in wines. Pre­served cherries are first Ideac-.ed so as to become white, then coifl"ed a beautiful red. and many other Objec­tionable practices of sim ilar kind* are indulged in.

It is probably trite that the pal&fa- hllity of foods is increased by having them presented in attractive forms and to this end the natural colors which food products have and which are regarded as indexes of purity and excellence should he retained as care­fu lly as possible. This, however, does not seem to justify the practice of any deception by the use of artificia l colors for the purpose of im itating in a poor­ly colored food product the attractive and more pronounced colors which characterize the better kinds of food of that character.

I t follows from the above general statements that the addition to a food product of any substance whatever, which in itself is injurious, is a rep­rehensible practice. Such addition can be Justified only when it is clearly shown that, without this addition, the danger arising from the consumption of the food is far greater than that caused by the addition of the objec­tionable substance. For this reason the artificial preservation of foods In ­tended for distant points, for long voy­ages. for mining and lumbering camps and in certain cases for use in tho arrty and navy, may be justified.

Again, when foods are necessarily transported long distances and sub­jected to the vicissitudes of an ocean voyage, there may he just cause for the addition of preservative sub­stances. Butter, for instance, sent from Australia to England, can hard­ly reach the home market in a state fit for consumption unless preserved with borax For the same reason it Is customary for English merchants In ordering preserved meats from the United States to specify thut they shall he packed in l>orax before ship­ment But while meat shipped from Chicago to Liverpool might require an outside application of tiorax, it does not follow that such is the case when the shipment is only front Chicago to New York Butter which Is shipped from Melbourne to London may need a dose of borax, while the same prod­uct sent front Elgin to Boston ran go safely without It.

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The importation of adulterated ann misbranded food products Into the United States is now forbidden hy law and such products are inspected hy the department of agriculture. Nearly all the states have laws forbidding tho adulteration of foods within their hru mlar ies.

\ \ nile it is not to he expected that, every form of food adulteration can Ik* prevented hy any kind of legisla­tion. it is reasonable to expect that such an adulteration, when detected, sha ll he looked upon in the same light as any ordinary offense against the law. Ttie gieat trouble in the ell fo,cement of food laws heretofore has been in the fact that it is difficult to persuade- a ju ry that an act of inis kind is crim inal. The public con­science must he quickened in this re gard An effort should be made to place the matter in the true light, namely that food adulteration assists in deceiving the purchaser. As soon as this fact is realized, convictions of those cha ;ed w ith food adulteration, when they are really guilty, w ill he eas- ly secured. In other words, the prac­tice of food aduItratIon to a certain extent resembles any effort to procure money under false pretenses. This is recognized everywhere as a criminal act

When it Is further considered that statutes relating to food adultera- ations. especially of a national char­acter. also include the regulation of the adulteration of drugs, the great importance of the subject Is evident. Those who are well and strong may suffer no particular harm from food adulteration; but the sick and tire weak, who depend largely upon the character of the remedies prescribed for their recovery, deserve to be pro looted against spurlotm. false and Im i­tated foods and medicines.

The rocent discovery of the use of wood alcohol in beverages was only impressed uporr the public, notice by the great number of deaths It caused. In this case the practice of adulter- lion, as can be seen, is distinctly dan­gerous and even fatal.

The same principle, however, per­vades the regulation of both foods and medicines, namely, honesty and free­dom from deception. I f a remedy Is really efficient and capable of doing what Is claimed for It, It does not seem that there Is any reasonable ex­cuse for fa ilin g to make Its propertle. known. Publicity will prove an effec­tive remedy, when regulated hy proper statutes, for the evlla of the adu lte r­ation of. food* and O n to .

H IN T S FOR T H E W O M A N W H E N S H E GOES S H O P P IN G .

Decorative A r t G enerally Ignored by Am erican W om en — Household Furnish ings Should Be Purchased w ith Reference to A rtic les They A re to Accompany— E very Room Should Be One Harm onious W hole Dominated by One Color — Red W a ll Paper N ot in H arm o n y w ith Oak Finish.

B Y E D M U N D B U C K L E Y " , P H D ( E d i t o r o f " " U n iv e r s i ty L e s s o n s In A rt , '"

A r t C o n t r i b u t o r to t h e “ E n c y c l o - iH'diu A m e r i c a n a . )

(Copyright. 11**5. by Joseph B. Bowles.)Some critic, caustic not without

cause, declared that the American people work like horses and spend like fools. Traveled people agree that certainly Americans spend less jud i­ciously than do Europeans. The rea­eons for this needless In fe riority to cur relatives are not difficult to d|s- eern. and they comprise a general rea­son and a specific one.

The former is incidental to our rap­id grow'h in wealth, which has far outstripped our growth in culture, though this also has been considera­ble. This relation holds as true for l.te ra ry and musical culture as it does fo r ar., but there is a certain marked difference between these sisters three. A hook is delivered complete in itself, and its contents can be neither mended nor marred by the reader. S im ilarly a score of music, if correctly played, needs nothiug more ’"or the fu ll reali­zation of its harmonies. But not so w ith art of the visual order; since, in fact, every art-object exists not only for Itself but in relation to every other object lying w ithin the field o f vision at the time, say in the same garden or room or on the same person.

Metaphysically expressed, literature end music are time arts, and they therefore vanish as rapidly as they arc produced; but decoration is a space art, and therefore coexists perma­nently with a multitude of other ob­jects with which—and here lies the crucial point— It must either accord or discord, and therewith make good or hud art.

The first requirement of visual art is that an object— whether large or small, whether simple or complex — ciiall present a unitary impression.

Now the common <ase is that a r t i­cles of dress and of house furnishings are purchased one at a time as need uiises; and it is no travesty of the average American purchaser to stale that he or she—and commonly It is site—spends like a fool, in that she put (bases these several things without r» 1 ere nee to the articles with which tney must company This procedure resembles that of the oriental in the m atter o f marriage -last sr everyone iti America is required hy social con­vention to wear clothing and dwell In a private room, so everyone in Asia i.* required, hy sim ilar social cunven- ! tion. to ntarry as soon as he or she reaches puberty. In Asia there are rc ither bachelors nor old maids. The very Idea o f them is strange and re- pellant to the oriental mind. Everyone marries as a m atter of course, just as every hush blooms and seeds, and In­deed with the same end in view, to fu l­fill life and thus consequently to re­produce it. Now, when the oriental i would marry, he keeps that purpose I tn m in ikw ith ou t distraction by such trifles as the personality— bodily or j mental—of the woman selected for 1

him hy the parents. He just feels the need of marriage, and then, with good sense, marries.

Quite so, our American lady just j l-eeds a hut. and. with good sense, pro- 1

tetds to buy one. usually omitting, however, to consider such a trifle as how it w ill scheme in mass and line 1

Slid color and tone i-nd texture with the garments it must accompany.

The case is precisely the same with an article of housetni 1 furnishing. M l- j lady starts for the store with a defl- ! nile idea of the usa the desired ob­ject must serve, but probably none as to the art's tlc scheme It must fit into

in fact her rooms nave no artistic echeme. either in he1- knowledge or in reality. She just has rooms with various articles in them, each having been chosen because she needed it and liked it. The nollon that, above and beyond her liking of the ind i­vidual article, there Is an artistic re ­quirement that all ine articles in a

• room snould agree, accord, harmonize.' scheme with each other— that notion

never entered her head.

But in truth every purchase presents n problem; not merely In the use of the article, which must he obvious to oil. but in its art, which Is understood as yet by very few. Y i t Just this a rtis ­tic effect, equally In mass, In line, in color. In tone, and in texture, affords ihe deepest delight which the visual mind can feel, once that mind has been llium'nated. And unitary effect in l.eauty makes the distinguishing mark of artistic culture, bv which the cul­tured recognize each other at sight, and which easily escapes the notice of those who have not attained it.

The case with correct grammar, pre­cise wording, and expressive voice 13 quite similar. At most, the unculti­vated notice such traits as something queer, that is different from tjie ir own. without understanding that they mark the perfect man, and that fo rtu ­nately they lie, to Borne degree a t leaat, w ithin th e hearer 's own reach. T heir full acquisition, however, requires years o f eager endeavor; and e ra n

then they w ill never become the reve- lators of culture that art Is, as m ani­fested say In a consistently schemed harmonious room; because, as long as light shines, objects are visible to all whereas speech may be suppressed. How often one has to regret that he has heard some beautiful and beauti­fu lly gowned woman talk! In other words, the dress and the house are outward and visible signs of an Inward ana mental condition that no device of man or even woman can conceal.

W here exhibition is thus unavoidable the proper recourse is to correctness. Since, in the realm ol art, you must stem what you are, you w ill do well tc be what you should.

T h is improvement must take place in the future purchases of goods. For example, the buyer should settle in her mind what shall he the dominant color of a certain room and w hat con­trasting color i f any, should be added as a subordinate. Advice from an a r­chitect or a rtis t is invaluable at this in itia l stage of progress, for the trade decorator is untrained in principle and almost as like ly to miss as to h it a pioper scheme.

The starting point must always be the color of the wood finish to the room, and this at present in America is usually the orange-yellow that oak takes best. On this account a red w all paper is excluded, since red and all varieties of orange reduce each other to a deadly dullness. Yet the person, untrained in art, very naturally selects red as the color for one of the rooms “ f the house, and it is a general fa ­vorite for halls, no consideration being given to unity of color effect.

This Is not a small m atter to consid­er, but is rather the chief m atter; for v hat is not beautiful on the whole, in its ensemble, must be accounted a failure, nearly everything that exists attain ing to beauty in spots. The co­ordinate factors in all beauty are va­riety and unity, or rather variety everywhere dominated hy unity.

To bear this art principle in mind w ill enable one to purchase goods for beauty as well as for use. and w ill thereby Increase the joy of liv ing as probably no other .tingle practice can do; for art is expressly for delight, it Is the wine of life.

The detailed application of this sole piinciple o f a rt to its various ele- nents—already twice mentioned—of ir ass, line, color, tone and texture, v.ill require study as thorough as that commonly and gladly given to lite ra ­ture and music, even to prepare for ap- l.ieciatlng them, whereas art has h ith ­erto been neglected us a mere Cinder- iWa But hers is the shapely frame >.nd foot, and to her ,n due tim e w ill be accorded the magi'" slipper.

ABOUT RATTLESNAKESPO PU L A R FALLAC IES A N D TH E

T R U T H R EG A R D IN G THEM .

THE FIRE ENGINE DRIVER.

None W ho Handles the “ Ribbons” Knows Better How I t Should

Be Done Than He.

Is there a better driver in the world than the man who drives the fire en­gine? If therp is. he Is yet to he dis­covered, says the New York Sun.

Here was an engine coming along a cross street, to turn up an Intersecting avenue. Under the edge of the round­ed off corner that the machine was to turn there was a sewer opening, with the street pavement sloping down smoothly toward It all around from the higher .evel of the street.

I f Ihe driver, coming as he was at a dead gallop, should make a broad turn aroupd this corner, out where tho street was level, the engine would swing more or less, nothing could pre­vent that, and check the horses" speed, and there would be a second or two lost before they could get the load straightened again and get under fu ll headway with It, once more, up tho avenue. But if the driver could make that corner w ith the two wheels on the inner side of the curve down in that sloping depression leading to the sewer opening close hy the curb and the two outside wheels on the higher level nearer the middle of the street, why. the higher level here would be for the engine what the banked up outer rail is for the locomotive rounding a curve and making It so he wouldn’t lose an inch. And th a t’s the way he did make it.

And before we knew it a man who had been standing at the edge of this corner w aiting to see the engine go by saw it so near to him and leaning in so close to him that he could have touched It, while tho driver, alo.’t on his high seat and leaning Inward as he was, too, was actually leaning over him as the engine passed, w ith whistle screaming and steam hissing, and that driver, as he flung ’em in this fashion round this curve, talking low to his horses and calling on ’em each by name—a man absorbed if there ever was one.

Thinking of nothing else In the world, that driver, at this minute, hut getting to the fire. The allied powers might threaten Turkey. Russia might hurst at any moment Into revolution. It might not yet be settled whether it should be the Straits of Panama or a lock canal—all such questions had no Interest for him now, nor was he in ­terested In anything else; what ab­sorbed him now to the exclusion of all else on earth was the hiking of the old machine from the fire house to box 4-11-44 in the shortest possible time, and hadn’t he just saved two seconds hy the fine work he had done In round­ing this corner? And when—it seemed hut an Instant later that you heard I t —you heard the scream of the engine, now fa r up the avenue, you knew he was getting there. I t was great.

T here may be som ewhere In th e world b e tte r driver* th a n the driver of the steam fire engine; but, tf th e re a re such, New Y orkers don’t know w here they can bo found.

T h* R attler’s B ite N ot A lw a y s F atal —R attlesn ak es Da N ot Com m it Suicide—M other Snakes H a v e No A ffection for Their Y ou n g—T all D oes N ot h iv e A fter D eath o f I t s Owner—The M ost In te llig e n t o f S n akes Does N ot L ong S u rv ive C aptiv ity .

BY A. W. ROI.KER( C o p y r i g h t , 1905, by J o s e p h B. B o w le s . )O f all the reptiles, none is sur­

rounded by more myth and supersti­tion than (hat relentless, deadly enemy of man, the rattlesnake.

The inform ation contained in this article was obtained at first hand from Curator Raymond L. Dltmars, of the New York Zoological park, a famous authority on snakes who sev­eral times has spent months in the great a lkali desert, studying the king of a ll ’’rattlers’’— those gorgeous­skinned olive and yellow “diamond hacks” which attain a length of seven feet and a girth as big around as a m an’s forearm.

One of the oldest controversies among zoologists is whether the venom of the rattler Js fatal. On the ono hand are experts, who point to instances where men have survived its bite; on the other are scientists who cite long lists of those paying eloquent tribute to the prowess of the viper. As a matter of face, while the mere bite of the rattlesnake is not a l­ways fatal, the venom is one of the deadliest poisons known.

According to chemical analysis the poison of a rattlesnake consists of 95 per cent, of blood-destroying element and 5 per cent, of nerve-destroying element—a fact which explains the dreadful suffering of the victims of this reptile. Rattlesnake poison acts on tho human veins exactly as does sold when poured into a metal pipe. L ik e the acid, the poison attacks the walls o f the veins, eating and gnaw­ing through them and destroying the red corpuscles of the blood, never ceasing until the very walls of the heart are gnawed, bringing that or­gan to a standstill.

Quick blood poisoning Is the real cause of this frightfu l death; for, Into the brief space of two hours or less is crowded the excruciating pain of an ordinary rase of blood poisoning extending over several weeks. The victim ’s body turns purple and black. I t swells to two or three times its size. The man cries In aponv under the torture of a burning inside as if melted iron were coursing through his arteries.

In its incomprehensibly swift at­tack lies the answer why sometimes the bite of a rattler Is not fatal. For. so wonderfully swift Is the attack, that a bite may be imperfect, leaving only a pair of tiny needle punctures with juBt enough venom to make a victim seriously 111.

Another reason why a rattlesnake’s bite Is not always fatal is that, tem ­porarily, the reptile may be without venom. The snake may have ex­hausted Its poison on a previous en­emy, in which case i t -would have to wait several days before the deadly fluid has reaerumulated. Or, again, the viper’s fangs may have suffered accident. They may have been broken off. and require time for new growth. In any case, certain It Is that a ra t­tlesnake’s poison applied in the proper way w ill do its work, and that only the most expert and prompt assistance w ill save a victim.

Despite the efforts of an army of scientists, no practicable antidote for the venom of a rattlesnake has been discovered.

W hisky, applied In heroic doses of ono or two, or even three, quarts, has saved many a rattler's vtrtim ; but the spirit does not pretend to grapple w ith the poison. I t simply counter­acts Its effects by stim ulating the heart, which threatens to stop, and if the stimulation can be kept up until the worst effectB of the poison have been worn off, the patient has at least an even chance of recovery.

In this wide world there are sev eral things that are sw ifter than a rattlesnake, but thejr can probably be

i counted on the fingers of one hand. One of these things Is a bullet; where­by hangs the explanation why it is easy to shoot the head off a ra ttler although a marksman finds It difficult to place a bullet along the fat, seven- foot line between the neck of the rep­tile and the tip of Its tail.

I t has long been regarded aB a curi­ous coincidence that oven the man not famed for accuracy has had no trouble In blowing the head off a dia­mond back. In the diamond back country, only one explanation is of­fered for this—it is the snake and not the man that does the aiming,

j A t close quarters, the Instant tire muzzle of a six-shooter ts thrust toward a rattlesnake the in fa llib le eye catches the range and In the frac­tion of a tw inkle the deadly head has aligned Itself. As the gun roars and tho creature Is torn clean as If severed with a kn ife and the viper lies w rith ­ing. em itting a defiant rattle even as darts Its tonguo of fam e, the head ot its grim , relentless heart ceases Its beat,• • • • •

Among the popular m yths su r­rounding the rattlesnake Is the one th a t a ra ttlesnake com m its anlctde when h ard pressed. As a m atte r o f tact, as has been proven again and again,* th e ra ttle r ta .Im m une to bto

* aw l to that of bto own

species. At bay, hastate him self w ith rage, or In the heat o f a fight, a ra t­tlesnake may strike righ t and left, b iting indiscrim inately, and acci­dentally he may sink h is fangs Into his own wicked sides a n d thus kill him self. In no case, however, is his death due to poison. Invariably, it will be found, the reptile has punc­tu red his heart or another vital organ and death is due purely to laceration.

Among the excruciating nonsense circulated about rattlesnakes, perhaps none is more absurd thpn the myth how In times of danger these viper mothers are supposed to protect their young. According to the story, a t the threat of danger the mother opens her jaws and the babies, startled into seeking the first shelter, glide down her throat where they remain until, all peril past, the maternal Jaws open, perm itting the little oneB to squirm back to daylight. That the “cannibal” species of snakes swallow and eat their young on the least pretext is true; but the rattlesnake is no can­nibal, and certain is it, despite the most vehement protests, that a ra ttle ­snake does not swallow its young, from motives of protection or other­wise.

Instances are when, tho body of a ra ttle r cut open, from seven to twelve young rattlesnakes have wriggled Into the world. I t must be borne in mind, however, that rattlesnakes come Into the world like warm-blooded animals, and that the mere presence of the joung, as may readily be understood, Is uo proof that they were swallowed by the mother snake. In truth, there is every evidence that a mother ra ttle r does not care the proverbial “ rap" what becomes of her young ones. Not even recognition, much lees friendship or higher affection, exists between a ra ttle r and her babies. You might k ill or steal a litte r of young rattle­snakes before the very eyes of the mother and, so long as she herself remains unmolested, she w ill not stir even a rattle In th e ir defense.

From the first moiqent a young rat­tle r enters the world he is independ­ent of his mother a n t em inently able to shift for himself. Each young snake Is a full-fledged ra ttle r ready to hunt and ready to defend himself w ith the sting of death. Each flat, triangular little head Is provided with the long, sharp poison fangB contain­ing the identical venom of the mother snake.

One of the fallacies concerning rat­tlesnakes is that their ages may b* estimated accurately hy counting the rattles of the ta il. This Is true only in part. As a diamond hack grows older, the tip rings of his rattle be­come brittle and worn until they final­ly break off. Only when tho original button of the rattle is still appended may It be assumed that all of the rings due to the tri-m onthly shedding are still present and that these may be used In estimating the ago of a specimen

S till another fallacy concerning the ta il of this reptile Is the ono that when a rattlesnake Is killed Its tail w ill continue to live until tho sun goes uown. As Is generally known, for a tim e after a rattlesnake, or any other snake, has been killed, tho ta il w ill tw itch and move considerably when brought Into contact w ith a stick or any other object; but the proposition of the sun has absolutely nothing to do with the tim e required for the de­parture of all signs of life. Scientists claim that the movement is purely spasmodic, exactly as are the strug­gles of a roozter after his head has been cut off

* • • • •Of all the snakes, the ra ttle r is by

far the most Intelligent, wherefore he puffers most In captivity. As a zoological exhibit he is housed In a large glass fronted cage where day and night he lies on the artific ia lly warmed sand, so cruelly different from tho sun bathed desert w ith Its thickets of Spanish bayonet and groves of dwarf palmetto. And as d if­ferent as are the w ild and the cap­tive surroundings of the snake, as d if­ferent Is the splendid reptile himself when seen at large or when viewed in a cage. The very spirit of the creature seems broken. Ho coils, he sounds his rattle and he strikes at whatever Intrudes, but the vim and fire is extinguished with the artificial home.

Two, rarely more than three, years a rattlesnake survives captivity. In his own grim way he actually pine# away for *hlk freedom. And a rattle­snake dies as he has lived, alone, without sign o f weakness, w ithout even a struggle. To the farthest cor­ner of a cage he draws himself, colls bis mighty body, turns h i# wicked head to the wall and rests his chin on his back. Once, toward the very last, he raises his ta ll and, quivering It, sends a las t prolonged farewell. Then the tall sinks and the rattle- snake |3 dead.

Bouillon.Fo.tr pounds beef from middle o f

ro u n i, two pounds bone, three quarts cold water, one tablespoonful salt, four pepper corns, four cloves, one table- spoouful mixed herbs. Wash and cut meat and bones In small pieces. Add the water. Heat slowly. Add season- lag. Simmer five hours. Boll down to two quarts. Strain. Remove the fat. Season. 8 erve In cups. I f desired, boll one onion, one-half carrot and one-half turnip w ith the meat.

T he S enator’s Acumen.“ I have always noticed,” rem arked

the m an who com ments on things, th a t the m an who ea ts the moat to no t alwaya the fa ttest.” \*

"T rue," replied S enator Badger, "and I have alw ays noticed th a t th e m an who ta lk i th e m ost to n o t alw aya th * w isest.”—Milwaukee S en tin e l'rW

- At';

It Is thought th a t the game of w hist Was first played In the time of K ing H enry VIII. of England.

The Drat steam er to sail from Liver* pool for New York was the Royal W il­liam, 407 tons, commanded by G. Swalnson, R. M ; she sailed Ju ly 5,! ltoft, and w as 19 days on the trip. T he first transa tlan tic screw Steamer was the M assachusetts, taken out In 1847 by Capt. R. B. Forbes.

In the middle ages swings were hung by>$n Ingenious pulley device.* The rope was passed over a grooved wheel th a t was fastened to the celling by •* b rac k e t The one who was swinging was not only pushed from behind bv one of his fellows, but was also helpel from the front by s trik ing with hie foot th e outstretched foot of another comrade. This sport was a favorite pastim e of pages.

The first steam er to make a voyage across th e W estern ocean was the Sa­vannah of 360 tons and a length of 100 fe e t She sailed from Savannah Mav 24, 1819, and arrived a t Liverpool June 20. H er steam was purely auxiliary, for when the wind was fair or the sea high the paddle wheels were unshlppel and stowed on deck. Her voyage war continued to Russia, and on the return from St. Petersburg she reached New York direct In 26 days.

An archaeologist poln 's out th a t the h a t band in the -modern m an's h a t can be traced to a fillet which in ancient tim es held In shape a simple piece of cloth. Sometimes th is fillet was tied In a bow behind, the tails of which su r­vive In the Scotch cap, the sailor hat and the bishop's miter. A little bow in ­side In the lining of the hat Is a su r­vival of a lacing which kept the lining In shape, o r possibly It dates back to a tim e when a hat was made by putting a string through holes tn a flat piece of leather and by draw ing It together for a ciown.

IN T E R E S T IN G ITEM S.

The Japs Invented the fan.Americans have the best eyes.Hens, on an average, lay 90 eggs a

year.A clock In Brussels Is wound by the

wind.The Chinese eat annually 63 ducks

apiece.The condor flies a t a height of six

miles.Eggs 600 years ago sold for two cents

a doz^n.In 'M unich each Inhabitan t d rinks a

quart and a p li^ q j p jjjf p day.T K eartti casts Into space a cone-

shaped shadow 864,000 miles long.In medieval tim es cats were so scarce

th a t to kill one involved a heavy fine.Burm ah rubles, Russian beryls and

Persian tuquolses are severally the best.

No less than 70,000 elephants are slaughtered annually for the ir tusks.

In the French, Italian and Spanish wine lands the grapes are still trodden w ith bare fee t

G R A N D T O L IV E

A nd th e L as t L au g h I s A lw ays the Best. -

“Six months ago I would have laughed a t the Idea tha t there could be any th ing better for a table bever­age th a n coffee,” w rites an Onto wom­an —“now I laugh to know there la.”

"Since childhood I drank coffee du freely as any o ther member of the fam ily. The resu lt was a puny, sick­ly girl, and as I grew Into woman­hood I did not gain In health, b u t was afflicted w ith heart trouble, a weak and disordered stom ach, wrecked nerves and a general breaking down, till la s t w inter a t the age of 38 I seemed to be on the verge of con­sum ption. My friends greeted me w ith 'How bkd you look! W hat a te r­rib le color!' and th is was not very com forting.

‘‘The doctors and patent medicines did me absolutely co good. I was thoroughly discouraged.

'T h e n I gave up coffee and com­menced Postum Food Coffee. At first I d idn 't like It, but afte r a few tria ls and following th e directions exactly. It was grand. I t was refreshing and satisfying! Tn a couple of weeks I no­ticed a great change. I became stronger, my brain grew clearer, 1 was not troubled w ith forgetfulness as In coffee tim es, my power of endurance was more than doubled. The henrt- troublo and Indigestion disappeared and my nerves became steady and strong.

“ I began to tak e an Interest In things about me. Housework and hom e-m aking became a pleasure. My friends have marveled a t the change and when they Inquire w hat brought It about, I answ er ‘Postum Food Cof­fee, and nothing else In the w orld.’ ’’ N am e given by Postum Co., Battle Crohk, Mich.

T here’s a reason. Read the little book, "The Road to WellvUle,** la | p kia -

TALE FROM AU liiL 'S D IA R Y .

1 am 23 to-day. How tim e flies! i t seems yesterday th a t 1 was eight and cried because Anton McFedrlea Bruce moved away.

Anton McFedrlea IJruce was my first love. 1 was b1x then and 1 lisped. I re­member the lisp particularly , because Anton McFedrlea took exception to It. He mimicked me dreadfully. 1 don’t auppose the Im itation was at all like the original, but he managed to make It ou- attractlve and convincing, and my hu­m iliation was complete. 1 used to th ink vaguely of retaliating , and once I quite decided to—the day he had his two front teeth removed. But he made so much of them In his pocket and dwelt w ith such color on his heroic conduct under the ordeal of their extraction tha t my courage melted before him.

Then, six m onths later, afte r I had gone through the sam e ordeal, he com­manded me perem ptorily to look tho o ther way whenever I found It necessary to open my mouth.

1 remember the b irthday present An­ton McFedrlea gave me the year I was seven. H is m other let him choose It himself. It was a sm all wooden gun tha t shot corks w ith dreadful velocity. We played a good deal w ith the gun— th a t la, Anton McFedrlea sho t the corks a t ms. I th ink It was my nose th a t he aimed a t especially, and when he missed, which was always, I was quite ready to ascribe his failure to the un ­satisfactory proportions of the target, a sentim ent which Anton McFedrlea warmly seconded.

There was an understanding between us, of course. We were to live together always, In a log cabin In a deep foreat, and our domestic routine was to consist for the most part of a series of heroic rescues. In which 1 waB to be successive­ly to rn from the em braces of bears and the teeth of wolves. Anton McFedrlea always figured magnificently In a haze of gunpowder and a g litte r oY steel. My only prerogative, aside from being res­cued, was to make cookies. Anton Mc- Fedries conceded the cookies because he adored my m other's lemon snaps, and 1 assured him th a t I should m ake them Just as good when I grew up. I re ­member, too, th a t I was sternly denied w allpaper and lace cu rta ins In the dec­oration of our log cabin, and I had to make up my mind to the arrangem ent of sleeping wrapped up In a blanket on the floor.

Aside from m aking the cookies, this was not the domestic picture which 1 would have planned, but I felt my lisp and my o ther lim itations and therefore the necessity of curbing my own linag luatlon. I shall never again be so hum ­bly or subserviently In love as 1 was with Anton McFedrlee.

1 was eight when he moved away. He gave me his guinea pigs, three canceled postage stam ps and a stick of gum a t parting. They were the only visible signs of his emotion, but I frankly ex­pressed myself In tears.

Six m onths ago he moved back again.I called him Mr. Bruce then. 1 was greatly surprised to see how he had chnnged. 1 th ink he was equally su r­prised when he saw 1 was not the same.1 th ink he expected th a t my two front teeth would still be m issing aud tha t my lisp would be as pronounced as ever.

N either of us bad lived up to those early am bitions. I was still in ignorance of the recipe for lemon snaps and he had Belt led down quite tam ely to an office on a ten th floor somewhere w ithout apy thought of forests and log cabins and heroic encounters.

I asked him last n ight If he rem em ­bered the u tilita rian connection In which he used to view my nose. T hat was a t a moment when he was viewing It and me tn a very different connection indeed, and I wanted to avert a ca tas­trophe. He only rem arked, quite c u r t­ly. th a t he must have been a young beast.

This m orning the catastrophe arrived by the first mall. It wanted to know If 1 had forgotten the old understanding and It asked If 1 would not please renew It.

It Is quite a different understanding th a t he suggests now. There would be no question of lace curta ins and w all­paper, and I would not be compelled to sleep In a b lanket on the floor. I would be the center of attracU on my­self Instead of a victim to my husband's heroisms. My nose would rem ain fo r­ever unmolested and I would be p e r­m itted activities beyond the m anufac­ture of lemon snaps. It was a very much more com fortable understanding.

Anton McFedrlea certainly has g rea t­ly changed. He no longer dom ineers or tyrannizes or lords It over me. He would not th ink of asking me to tu rn In the opposite direction If the expression of my face did not su it him. To-day, when he remembered my birthday, It was w ith som ething very different from a wooden gun w ith corks for am m uni­tion.

Yet I much preferred the em bryo hunter and potential hero who trod on my personality and stifled my Im agina­tion when I was eight. 1 was very much more ecstatic under the old arran g e­m ent, which Included vicious Im ita­tions of my lisp and the elim ination of all fem inine preferences. I find th a t I cannot renew the understanding with Anton McFedrlea Bruce.

Love is a funny th ing .—Chicago Dnily News.

Fashionable Handbag.Handbags are now made In all col­

ors of leather In order to m atch the street gowns. In one shop Is an ex­quisite bag of pale lavender leather with clasp and fram e of gilt. It Is lined w ith pale lavender silk and the flttlnga—the purse, m irror, cardcase. etc.—are all In lavender and gold. A nother for wearing w ith the ligh t green g o m Is In light green leather

G R A C E a n d d a n c i n g . T H E D A IL Y C O U R T E S IE S .

Women Should Em ploy M eans T h a t I Law s of E tiq u e tte A p t to Be B roken M ake for Suppleneee and Eaae 1 Quickly by One T h a t Lacks

of M ovem ent. Good H om e-Breeding.

Fancy dancing, under the direction of a m aster of the a r t. Is sure and un­m istakable means of gaining repose, dignity, ease and grace of m anner, Bays Mme. Qul Vive, in the Chicago Record- Herald. I t makes the muscles flexible, and in consequence the movem ents of the lim bs are natural and spontaneous

It brings the body to the norm al con­dition, so reducing flesh when there is too much and Increasing tissue when there Is not enough.

Dancing Is as old as the hum an race. The little child dances by instinct, as a k itten ro lls and Jumps about in play. The Spartans had a law obliging p a r­ents to exercise the ir children In d a n ­cing from the age of five. The Greeks made the a r t of dancing into a system

A FRENCH DANCER.

expressive of sentim ents, and the most em inent Greek sculptures studied the attitudes of the public dancers as aids to the ir work. A ristotle places dancing on the same plane as poetry, and says In his Poetics th a t there are dancer? who, by rythm applied to gesture, ex­press thought, m anners, action and life.

To re tu rn to more modern m atters.Awkwardness Is an unnatural physi­

cal condition, the same as crossed eyes or any o ther disfiguring defect, and the individual who is afflicted should glva this m atte r the sam e atten tion th a t she would give to an illness. Grace Is nol only beautiful but It Is health-giving. T hat woman who holds her head and back properly Is seldom a victim of spinal trouble, while the erect chest Is an absolute safeguard against diseases of the lungs.

An easy, n a tu ra l carriage gives strength and endurance. The woman who Is bent and stooped tires easily for her bones and muscles are not working a t best advantage.

RULES FOR THE EYES.

Do N ot Get th e A tte n tio n They Should, A lth o u g h C ontribu te

So L argely to Beauty.

Although the eyes contribute more than alm ost any other feature to per­sonal beauty, they get surprisingly little attention from the m ajority of persons. Here are a few sim ple rules for preserving the ir strength and brightness:

Do not read by firelight. W hen pos­sible protect the eyes from the direct glare of lamp, gas and candlelight. Do not read or work In such a dim light th a t an effort Is necessary to see clearly. If the eyes are tender, wear smoked or tin ted glasses. Never ap^ ply soap near the eyes. Bathe them once dally, the lids being open. In tepid w ater. I t is best to use an eye bath o r egg cup, and to open and close the lids in the w ater. Do not apply any face cream near the eyes. Put nothing on the lashes but the best of unscented oil. Never cut the lashes In the belief th a t they will be Im­proved. Keep In mind tha( white cliffs, stretches of sand and of snow are Injurious, and m ust be guarded against w ith glasses.

QUOTATIONS FOB D IN N E R CARD

Q uotations fo r D inner Cards.T here Is always a demand for d in ­

ner card sen tim ents and these from Shakespeare are yery appropriate:

"May good digestion wait on appe­tite and health on both.”

“S it down and feed, and welcome to our table."

"L e t them bo welcome then, for we are prepared.”

“A good digestion to you all, and once more I shower a welcome on ye, welcome all.”

"I am glad to see you; much good It do your h eart.”

"B etter cheer m ay you have, but not w ith better heart.”

"Good sister, le t us dine and pever fret.”—Madame Merrl.

P re tty P la n t S tand.T ake a common stepladder, paint

It green and screw on small castere, so th a t It can bo moved easily. Stand the pots on the steps. Mine has a basket of running vines on tho top step which hangs down the sides. I put the small slips on the low back step. The stand can readily be moved to the different windows.

For B ritt le Nails.Rub a little skin food Into your nails

every night. I t will keep them from breaking. W ear a pair of old gloves when you work.

Like the atten tion a child Is trained to give to its poison should be th a t called to certain ru les of good breed­ing a t home. There' are many who adopt an extrem ely polite a ir to strangers th a t fall In the first appli­cation of courtesy to the family, saya Horteuse Prevost

The m an th a t Is ho t polite to hla wife should not be surprised If hla sons show the sam e lack of deference to the ir m other, nor should he feel h u rt If th a t same lack Is shown to him personally, as children are g rea t mimics.

The girl who Is n o t reared to be po­lite to her father, m other, sisters and brothers will ju st as surely be guilty of breaking the laws of etiquette tn her trea tm en t of o th e r peopple as op­portunity affords. A th in veneer of good m anners breaks very soon when worn by a person who has not been used to Its polish, and the boor shows plainly.

Ju s t why relations Bbould th ink U not worth while (to be polite to one another Is not quite clear; but It Is the rule, apparently , and many seem to th ink It Is not necessary to be courteous to one g ow n family. By courtesy is m eant more tfle observance of sm all things, like holding open a door, o r placing a chair, o r lifting the hat, from the men and boys to the ir fem inine kin the regard for an ex­pressed opinion, the pleasant recogni­tion and the smile from the women and girls to their "m en (oiks,” to use a homely, but proper appellation.

If a man is visiting, say a t a house party, w hat would be thought of him If he failed to give a m orning sa lu ­tation to o ther gticsts? Yet some men do not hesitate to bring only b o u t looks and fault-findings lor the m atu­tinal greetings In th e ir own homes. A woman who snaps and Is caustic to those she meets aw ay from home b o soon finds her m istake th a t she Is forced, by the very exigencies of the case, to change her methods; yet she may keep up those disagreeable ways in the bosom of her family, and never think th a t she is to be blamed.

Those In charg-5 o f young people should Insist upon the observance of the spirit of politeness as well as the letter.

Only by Instilling deeply Into the youthful mind tho fact tnat politeness m ust be more than an occasional prac­tice, th a t It must be an Immutable law, Just as Is personal cleanliness, can true courtesy become established and an ever-present fact and habit.

T R A I N E D N U R S EMter Years of Experience, Advisee Women

Regard to Their Health.

LETTERS: CROSS STITCH.

The Ones H ere G iven In ten d ed for M ark in g B lankets, B ut M ay Be

Used for V arious Purposes.

These le tte rs are intended for m ark ­ing blankets, but they will answ er Just as well for any artic le where a d istinct le tte r Is needed, and, of course, on finer textures the stitches will be

Mrs. M arth a Pohlm an o f 65 Cheater Avenue,N ew ark, N. J . , who is m g rad u a te N urse from th e Block ley T ra in ing School, a t P h iladelphia, an d fo r six years Chief C linle Nurse a t th e P h ilad e lp h ia H ospital, w ritea th e le t te r p rin ted te low . She haa the ad v an tag e* ! persona l experience, besides h e r professional education , and w h a t she has to say may be absolutely re lied upon.

M any o th e r women a re afflicted as she was. T hey can rega in h ea lth in th e sam e w ay. I t is p ru d en t to head such advice from Buch a source.Mrs. P ohlm an w rites:

" I am firmly persuaded, after eight yearn of experience with Lydia E. Pink ham's Vegetable Compound, that it is the safest and best medicine for any suffering woman to use."

“ Immediately after my marriage I found tha t my health began to fall me. I be­came weak and pale, with severe bearing-down palm, fearful backaches and fre­quent dizzy spells. The doctors prescribed for ma, yet I did not improve. I would bloat after eating, and frequently become nauseated. I had pains down through my limbs so I oonld hardly walk. I t was as bad a case of frfnale trouble as I have ever known. Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound, however, cured me within four months. Since that time I have had occasion to recommend i t to a number of patients suffering from all forms of female difficulties, and I find th a t while it is considered unprofessional to rec­ommend a patent medieirme. I....... —.... .. ,—. . , unui, in,', , can honestl.recommend Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound, for I have found that it cures female ills, where all other medicine fails. I t Is a grand medicine for sick women.”

Money canno t buy such testim ony as th is—m erit alone can produce such re ­su lts, an d th e ab lest specialists now agrdfe th a t Lydia E. P inkham ’s V ege­tab le Compound is the most un iver­sally successful rem edy for all fem ale d iseased know n to medicine.

W hen women are troubled w ith Ir­reg u la r, suppressed or painful periods, weakness, displacem ent o r u lceration of th e fem ale organs, th a t beafing- down feeling, inflam m ation, backache, b loa ting (or flatulence), general deb ili­ty. indigestion, and nervous p ro s tra ­tion, or are beset w ith such sym ptom s asd izziness,fain tness, lassitude, ex c ita ­

bility , Irr itab ility , nervousness, s leep ­lessness, m elancholy, “ all-gone ” a n d ‘' w ant-to-be-leftralone ** feelings, bln and hopelessness, they should rem em ­b e r th e re is one tried an d tru e rem edy. Lydia E. P inkham 's V egetable Com­pound a t once rem oves such trouble* .

No o th e r fem ale m edicine in th e w orld h as received Buch w idespread, and unqualified endorsem ent.

The need lesssu fferingof women f r pecu

to see. T he money which they pay to

goldiseases pecu liar to th e ir sex is te r r ib le

doctors w ho do n o t help, them is a n enorm ous w aste. T he pain is- cu red and the money is saved by L ydia E . P inkham 's V egetable Compound.

I t is w ell for women who are ill to w rite Mrs. P inkham , n t Lynn, Mass. The p resen t Mrs. P inkham is th e daughter-in -law of Lydia E. P inkham , her a ss is ta n t for m any years before h e r decease, and for tw en ty - five year* since h e r advice has been freely g iven to sick women. In h e r g rea t ex p eri­ence, w hich covers m any years, sh e has. p robably had to deal w ith dozens of cases ju s t like vours. Her advice is s tric tly confidential.

Lydia E. Pinkham’s Vegetable Compound Saccetda Where Others Fall.

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O L D F A S H I O N S R E V I V E D NOW.

sm aller and the le tte rs them selves p ro ­portionately decreased In size. Ingralr. cotton, flax thread, o r washing silk are the best m aterials for use for m arking with. The colors chosen should corre­spond w ith the Btrlpe at end of b lan­ket, o r w ith the ribbon th a t la usad to bind the edge.

UNIQUE ENTERTAINMENT.

How th e M issionary Society O btained a Goodly Sum fo r th e T reasury

—The Clever In v ita tio n s .

A m issionary Bociety sent out these unique Invitations w ith a tiny silken bag, the result being a goodly sum for the treasury:” 'H all to thee, lady! and the grace of

heaven.Before, behind thee, and on every hand Enwheel thee round.’“This gracious greeting Shakespeare

w rote so long ago.And we repeat It to thee, bidding thee to

our fea s tA silken bag we send, and ask of thee To place w ithin Its lustrous folds A coin for every rich crowned year T hat o’er thy head has passed, and, Lady, straightw ay reach the century

m ark.T hat every silken fold be rounded out

to fullness.”On the date mentioned each lady on

arriv ing deposited her hag In n recep­tacle provided and in charge of an a t ­tendant.

After the serving of a cup of tea or chocolate the bags were emptied nnd tho contents counted. A short musical pro gramm e followed.—Madame Merrl.

H and Em broidery.Hand em broidery is used whenever a

woman can afford it e ither out of he> own skill o r from £ e r purse. $ome ot the designs are very elaborate. They are butterflies. In tiny stitches, an l wlde-llpped baskets with handles over­flowing With posies, but sim pler de­signs, which can be done a t home and yet which add so much to"lho elegance of a garm ent, consist merely of a yln« and d o t

OLDSMOBILEThe DoubU A ction OMsmoblto (M odel L ), has a two stroke cycle

motor, 2 0 -2 4 h. p., shaft driven like a chainless bicycle, 1 0 2 inch wheel base, weighs 20 0 0 pounds, detachable rear seat. There is an explosion every stroke. It sounds and acts like a four cylinder car without the four cylinder price. Actually gains speed going up a hill and has tremendous power on muddy and sandy roads. Full demonstration at our nearest agency.

Four Cylinder Falace Touring Car (Model S), 2 6 -2 8 h. p. Price. $2 2 5 0 ,0 0 . Oldsmobile Standard Runabout ( Model B ), 7 h. p. Price, $6 5 0 .0 0 .

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SURFACE CULTIVATIONIs not an experiment. It Is an assured success. The

G0HN SURFACE RIDERone of the pioneers In this line, Is being used by thou­sands of farmers throughout Illinois and Iowa. Easily converted Into Shovel Culti­vator at small cost.

Ask your nearest dealer about It or write' us for full particulars.

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In al l 1U stages.

E ly ’ s Cream Balmeleansee, noothea and heals the diseased membrane.I t cure# cAtArrh and drives away a cold In th# headquickly.

C r n t m B a lm U placed Into the nostr il s ,spreads over the membrane and la abeotbed. Relief It Im­mediate and a cure follows. I t la no t drying—docs Dot produce meet ing . l a r g e Size, 60 cents a t Drag- gist# or by m a l l ; Trial Size, 10 cents.

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A lm o s t In D e s p a ir .“Our little daughter was given dp by two physicians

with consumption o f the throat, and we were almost In despair, when our druggist recommended Dr. King’s New Discovery. After taking four bottles she was perfectly cured and has had no throat trouble since.” —GEO. A. EYLER, Cumberland, Hd.

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Banking Safety!Should always be your guide when selecting a place to put your savings for safe keeping, and for an institution through which to transact business.

THIS BANK is subject to examination by the U.S. Bank Examiners, and also publishes reports of its condition so that the people can know how its business is conducted.

Don't take chances by keeping your savings hid about your home or by putting them where you are not absolutely sure of their safety.INTER EST PAID on Time Deposits.

The Commercial National BankOf Chatsworth.

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Bakery. Confectionery. Restaurant and Grocery.

S A Z E E 7 G O O D S .1 a c p co n stan t ly on hand a ..»«• of fresh :.aker> goods. t-univi 111 my own uvcik hy a sk,.J*-'.i baker. T!i«rc a re n o n t a i t t - r

C O I T F E C T I O I T E I I T .i 'r t j-.icnt sh ip m en ts froo. th e f a c t r K s k i e p my candy sloe* alw ays fresh. W hen ; o ; w ant F L E S H candy c tti.e here for it

F R U I T S <& V E G E T A B L E S .i cair> a fail line of fresh fi a its aiai vegH aoles in season. ..r.d alw ays sell then , at th e lowest p in e s j ,.a.it> considered.

P. C. T A Y L E R .Lunch at a ll hours.B est m eals a t regular hours.

T h 06 H air, of F orresL w as in tow n on Tuesday

M ike Sam pson spent S unday w ith W atseka friends

Mrs. 1’ M cGreal was a passenger to F a irb u ry yesterday.

Miss Mollie K urtenbacii was a l’iper City ca lle r on S a tu rd ay -.

W illiam Bell, of F o rres t, was a C h a tsw o rth v isito r on T uesday.

George G ouge, of C ullom , was upon C h a tsw o rth 's s tre e ts on T uesday .

R. R. llu n to o n . of F a irb u ry , was a t ­tend ing to business here on Monday.

Miss K a th e r in e Keefe, of P ip er City, spent Sunday th e guest of Miss Sadie C arney.

L. W. W einand re tu rn ed on S a tu r ­day last from a land -inspec ting tr ip in K ansas.

Miss K a te B aldw in w ent to P o n tia c on S atu rd ay to spend a few days th e

j gu es ts of friends.I Miss B e rth a G erh rach t, of Loda, sp en t S unday and M onday th e guest of friends in th is c ity .

Dr. L am b ert, eve. ear, nose and th ro a t sp e c ia lis t .C h a tsw o rth . A pril 2; hou rs 1 to 5 p in. only. 25-2(5

Louis Schaffer, of Buckley, w as a guest of h is b ro ther, P h ilip Schaffer, an d fam ily on T uesday.

Miss L izzie Lunz a rr iv ed hom e on S atu rday from F a irb u ry , w here she had been v is itin g friends.

Boy D avis d ep a rted on T uesday for A insw orth . X eb., w here he will re­m ain w ith re la tiv es an d a t te n d school.

Joe D onohue, of C hicago, spent Sun- Iday a t th e hom e of h is m o th er, Mrs.

M argaret D onohue, and o th e r rela- I tiv e s here.

Mrs. W. S. W ilkerson dep arted la st | S a tu rd ay for L ex in g to n in response to

word announc ing th e se rio u s illness of j a rela tive .

Mrs. O. L. Longm ire. of Cullom . was | in C h a tsw o rth on W ednesday betw een tra in s w hile on her way to G ilm an to

! visit friends.i Jas. A S m ith and Mr. and Mrs. C.H. S m ith left last S a tu rd a y m orn ing on a tr ip so u th , com bin ing business

1 w ith p leasure.C ounty Surveyor I). J . S tan fo rd ar-

i rived hom e last F riday even ing from I P on tiac , w here he had been for ab o u t !a week a t te n d in g to business.

Mrs. L. J . Beibes. of Cullom . called j on C h a tsw o rth friends on T uesday on 1 h e r re tu rn hom e from Chenoa, w here ; she had been v is itin g re la tiv es .

Mr. and Mrs. J . Q. P u ffer and l i t t le d a u g h te r , departed on T uesday for

'O k lah o m a , w here they w ill v isit re la ­tives and friends a t d iffe ren t points.

D on 't forget th e a n n u a l bazar to I tie held by th e L ad ies ' A id of th e M. j E. chu rch in the b asem en t of th e (church tom orrow (S a tu rd ay ) evening.I E m anuel F errias. of S o u th Bend.

Ind ., sp e n t several days th e forepart of | th e week w ith h is fa th e r , Jo h n F e r­

rias. and fam ily and h is m any friends | here.

Mrs Xeil Reilly re tu rn e d to h e r i hom e at M ilks Grove on Tuesday a f te r spending several days a guest of Mr.

[and Mrs. P. M cGuire, in th e nortli ( part of tow n.I Misses C lara and M ary H arbcke and

E lla Snyder sang a t th e funeral of th e la te Miss M argaret R ussel, w hich was

1 held at th e C atholic ch u rch in P ip er | C ity on W ednesday

Miss Jessie C u n n in g to n . who depart- led last S a tu rd ay for Goodland. Ind .,' t o accept a position in a m illinery de-

Ca r tm e n t. w as called hom e on Monday y tin* d e a th of h e r uncle, th e la te

Mr. Jo h n T u rp i t t .John F erria s . of C rescent C ity , spen t

; a few days th e la t te r part of last week ] w ith h is fa th e r. Jo h n F e rria s . and (fam ily west of tow n. He w ent to I P o n tiac on S atu rd ay to spend a few days w ith re la tiv es

T he C urren t Topic C lub was e n te r ­ta in ed a t th e home of Mrs. Jo h n B rosnalian on M onday evening. A lite ra ry program was rendered , a f te r

| w hich refreshm en ts were served, and ja il p resen t spen t a very enjoyable | evening.

E lm er H enderson and s is te r , Miss A nna, dep arted on T uesday for th e ir hom e at A insw orth , Xeb. T hey cam e to C h a tsw o rth about th re e w eeks ago

I for th e benefit of th e la t te r 's h e a lth , j b u t the c l im a te did not ag ree w ith h er 1 so they decided to re tu rn . Nl T

Ten car-loads of ice, w hich were N r shipped from W isconsin, were receiv­ed here th e la t te r p a rt of last week, Jo h n M ouritzen and F ra n k K aiser ta k ­ing th e bulk of it, w h ile th e C h a ts­w orth P roduce Co tdok so m e th in g over one cai of it. T h e fre ig h t on th e *

j ten cars was tfiOO-OO.

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G R O C E R I E S !When in want of GOOD groceries call on

C O R D IN G B R O S.We have them at the RIGHT PRICE.

EACO Flour, per sack $1.25Best Eastern Granulated Sugar, per 100 lbs. 5.00Standard Corn, 4 cans for .25Good Table Peaches, per can .15Salt, per barrel 1.00Rock Salt, per 100 pounds . .50

H ig h e s t M a r k e t P r id e F o r T o u r B a t t e r a n d E g g s .

I* We also have

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DR. PENDERGAST, O PTICIAN,

of Fairbury, will be in Dr. McMahon’s office every other Thursday.

Next dates:Thursday, - April 5Thursday, - - - April 19

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New Goods Arriving Every Day,Now is the time to pick your Furniture for

spring. We are prepared to fill all orders promptly. Patronize home merchants and your town is sure to prosper. The

Best Line of F u rn itu rein the county,' and PRICES ALWAYS RIGHT.

OWS-ALL KINDS OF PICTURE FRAMING.

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Mr. and Mrs. Jacob R am er and th e la t te r 's d a u g h te r Miss G race F i tz ­gerald. who form erly resided at O t­taw a. have moved to th is c ity and now occupy th e S. H e rr p ro p e r ty ,In th e nortli part of tow n Mrs. H am er is th e m o th e r of J . E. F itzg e ra ld , of tiie real e s ta te firm of K errin s, F i tz ­gerald & Co.

L ast T uesday even ing th e B a p tis t j young people sp en t a very p leasan t • tim e in th e basem en t p ir lo rs of tlie | ch u rch . T h e first p a r t of th e even ing i was sp e n t in various gam es, q u o it th row ing , fencing, e tc ., a f te r w hich

! th e regu la r m onth ly business was dis- I posed of. Follow ing th e business ses­s io n a program of tr im m in g ladies | h a ts was engaged in by th e g en tle ­

men. and tlie ladies p resen t declare t h a t they a re now able to e n te r in to th e sec re t of why m en have such an aversion of th e E a s te r bonnet. R e­freshm en ts were served .

Dr. O. H. B righam , L. I. I)oud and Ja m es B arn er re tu rn ed on F rid ay even ing from a tr ip to O klahom a and In d ian T e rrito ry . W hile a t M edford, O kla , I)r. B righam was happily s u r ­prises! a t m eeting IBs b ro ther. D aniel, who is special ag e n t an d ad ju s te r for th e S ta te M utual In su ra n c e Co., w ith h ea d q u a rte rs a t K Jng F isher. By chance th e y bo th reg is te red a t th e sam e ho te l an d D aniel discovered th e d o c to r’s nam e on th e re g is te r , o th e r­wise they would n o t have recognized one a n o th e r , as i t h a s been over tw en ­ty years s ince they had m e t, an d tb e docto r supposed h is b ro th e r was a

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Spring & Summer StylesV 1 K U 1 L W. J O H N S T O N * C O ., A b a t r a c t e r a . C o m p l e t e A b v l r a o l a o f T i t l e l o * l l l a n d * an t i

t o w n p r o p e r t y f u r n l i b e d a n e h o r t n o t i c e , i p e cA be t r e c t a .

i n p r o p e r t yS p e c i a l a t t e n t i o n g iven t o t h e c o n t i n u a t i o n o f A be l rac . ta . A l l A b e l r a c t a g u a r a n t e e d l o b e f l ra t -c laee In e v e r y r e s p e c t . Y o o r a l t c n t l o n la

NOW R EA D Y .

caticMl to m v A b s t r a c t R e p o r t , w h lch is I s s u e d tint I y a n d o f g r e a t v a l u e to e v e r y b q e l n e e a m a n In t h e c o u n t y . S a m p le c o p i c a s e n t o n a p ­p l i c a t i o n . I a m in p o s i t io n t o m a k e F A R M L O A N S on m o s t f a v o r a b l e t e r m s . L e g a l pa-

K r s c a r e f u l l y d r a w n a n d a c k n o w l e d g m e n t s k e n . C o r r e a |w n d e n c e a m i b u s i n e s s s o l i c i t e d .

C i i a s . L . C h a m b e r l i n , A t t o r n e y , M a n a g e r ,

T e l e p h o n e 150.O ld P o s to f f lce B ’l d ’g , P o n t i a c ,111.

N o r t h S id e P u b l i c S q u a r e

Thin season I will make suits for 112.00 up, and it will pay you to come in and see me before buying your next suit. Pressing and Cleaning promptly done.

A lb e r t H artquest,

M E R C H A N T T A I L O R ,IN T H E G RAN D BLDG.

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W a k e U p ! G e t B u s y !Don’t let your neighbor get all the good tilings.

We are selling M i s s i s s i p p i Xa&xid on every ex­cursion, and the price is advancing rapidly. 1,323 acreB sold on last trip for 151,200.00. These are bona fide sales made by us, and 140,000 of it to a C h a t s * w o r t h , man.

L O O S A T T H I S S X T A F —1,612 acres for $70,00, rented for 5 years at $7,000 per year to respon­sible parties. Also 267 acres for $12,000, rented for $1,440 per year.

Do you wonder at Illinois men buying Mississippi land? E x t r a L o w S l a t s X x o u r s i o a via I lli­nois Central railroad on April 3. J o i n U s .

0. H. SNIDER LAND CO.6 M 4 n ST., C H A M PA IG N , I L L

Edward Robbins,Harness and Horse Furnishings.

I wish to call your a tten tio n to my

R ID IN G S A D D L E S .I have them for S3 50 to $20.00,

an d these prices a re as low as you can ge t e ith er in th is county or in Chicago. I f you will call I can convince you.

S W E A T P A D S .Com posite stuffing, brown and

w hite, 11 inches wide, all sizes, 25 cen ts each. 100 P E R C EN T. D E E R H A IR PA D S, 12 inches w ide, all sizes. 50 cen ts each.

EDWARD ROBBINS,

CH A TSW O RTH ILL.

KELLOGG’S

BarberShopO p p o t l t e T b e G r a n d .

IwrjHrim Neal aid Clean.Uair Cutting, S h a v in g ,

Shampooing, Singeing. Dye­ing and HaTr-Dressing done in

sty les.the most Razors Ho:

Agency for On ken’s Model Laundry, of Peoria.

.CHAS. KELLOM, Prep.

%ALL WORK WARRANTED.

Kooin*,Pl*ladealer Building

D R . D A N IE L E. EGAN,P h y s i c i a n a n d S n r fe o m .

Office h o u r * . 1 t o 5 p . m .O F F I C I I I N B U H N 8 B U I L D I N G ,

C H A T 8 W O K T H , - : - I L L 1 N 0 1 8 .

DANIEL L. MURPHY, LL. B. IATTORNEY-AT-LAW.

Collections an d all legal m a tte rs g iven prom pt,carefu l and agg res­

sive a t te n tio n . . ■<Office o n a e c o u d f loor o f B a l d w i n Bldg.

C H A T 8 W O H T H . - I L L I N O I S .

TOM O’DO NNELL,L A W Y E R .

Offices n e x t d o o r t o Poatoff ioe ,

C H A T 8 W O H T H , - - I L L I N O I S .

P I B E ,Ly ktiim. Life. Tornado & Accident

I 1 T 8 U B A N C I ! f r i t t e r in « f u l l l i n e o f o l d , r e l l a b l e c o r a p a n l o *

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Title Abstract Office*P O N T IA C , I L L .

A b s t r a c t s o f T i t l e t o L a n d a n d T o w n L o l a in L i v i n g s t o n c o u n t y c a r e f u l l y p r e p a r e d a n d l e n t o u t o n s h o r t n o t i c e . I l e e d a , M o r t g a g e * a n d o t h e r p a p e r , n e a t l y a n d c a r e f u l l y d r a w n , A d d r e a t ,

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