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was made at the trial that formed chain
of evidence which was so strong that the
victim could not escape. With a stick.
in disguised hand. DR.. Webster wrote
to the police about DIR. Parkman. One
letter stated that DIR. Parkman had been
murdered and thrown off Cambridge
bridge. DR.. Webster had one peculiar
ity about his writing he never closed the
top of his as, but made them like the
letter u, and in his letters, trying to
throw the officers off the scent, he for
got to change the popularity of his writ
ing. The defense tried to show that the
body might have been taken from the
dissecting room, but il was fairly defeat
ed at every point. In the ashes of the
furnace the false teeth of DR.. Parkman
were found, and some of his natural
teeth, which were identified by q dentist
who had filed them. Lastly the fish
nook lines were identified by the shop
keeper in Dock square, from whom they
we're purchased. DR.. Webster was con-
victed and suffered the extreme penalty
of the law, that of being hanged by the
neck till he was dead. He had a fine
family, consisting of wife and several
uuu6hpOlos hU olo blIu6 Vi u6T IdGu6T b
arrest, one of the young ladies was about
10 be married. The family during the
whole period of the trouble visited the
prison but refrained from reading the
newspapers, and did not know the date
of the execution. The day preceding
the one which Webster knew was to be
his last on earth, he bade his family
good by as usual without indicating to
the members of it that he should never
see them again. In this case the bar
barous law punished the innocent more
than the guilty, for shortly after the exc
cution Mrs. Webster and her daughters
left the country, and some years after
died broken hearted. DR.. Webster had
strong men working for his pardon, but
failing to obtain executive clemency, he
made full confession of the crime,
which course of action established his
guilt beyond question, and decided the
governor to allow the law to do it's full
mischief. Such is the record of the
most remarkably mercenary murder ever
recorded in New England annals.
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The Heart.

The heart-the reservoir of the blood
and the great central organ of the circu-
lation-is hollow, muscular organ in
the form OF an irregular cone. 1t is en-
closed in membranous bag, but loose
ly, SO as to allow free motion. Though
forming one muscle, there are two dis
tinct hearts, each side being divided
from the other by wall. 1t contains
four cavities, each of which holds be-
tween from two to three ounces of blood
the whole quantity of blood in an adult
man varies from twenty-five to twenty
pounds. The heart contracts 1000
times in an hour; there consequently
pass through the heart every hour 700
pounds of blood. In other words,
every drop of blood in the system passes
through the heart twenty eight times in
one hour, or once every two minutes.
The human heart is deemed by poets
and philosophers to be the seat of our
affections and passions; the seat of
moral life and character, of our under
standing and will, courage and con-
science, and by some men looked upon
as the root of life itself.
The human heart has been considered
by many of the dying in past times as a
votive gift peculiarly sacred. And many
instances are on record of the burial of
the heart apart from the place where
the ashes of the body might repose.
One of the earliest instan ces of this
mode of heart-burial is that of Henry
II. of England. He died in passion
of grief before the altar of the church of
Chinon in 1889. His heart was inferred
at Fontevrault, but his body, from the
nostrils of which tradition alleges blood
to have dropped on the approach of his
rebellious son Richard, was laid in
separate vault.
When Richard Cnur de Lii on fell be
meath Gourdan's arrow at the siege of
Chalwy, the gallant heart which, in it's
greatness and mercy, inspired him to
forgive and even to reward the luckless
archer, was, after his death, preserved
in casket in the treasury of the cathe-
dral which William the Conqueror built
at Rouen; for Richard by last will
directed that his body should be inferred
in Fontevrault, sat the feet of his
father, to testify his sorrow for the un.
easiness he had created him during his
lifetime" He bequeathed his heart to
Normandy, out of his great love for the
people thereof.
When the body of the Emperor Ma
poleon was prepared for interment at
st. Helena, in May, 1921, the heart was
removed by medical officer, to be SOL
dered up in case. Nine. Bertrand, in
her grief and enthusiasm, had made
some VOW, or expressed a vehement de-
sire to obtain possession of this as a
precious relic, and the doctor, fearing
that some trick might be played him,
and his commission be thereby imper-
illed, kept it all night in his own room
in glass dish. The noise of broken
glass aroused him from waking dose,
and he started forward, only in time to
rescue the heart of the Emperor from a
huge brown rat, which was dragging it
across the floor to it's hole. 1t was res
cued by the doctor, soldered up in
silver urn, filled with spirits by Sergeant
Abraham Millington of the st. Helena
artillery, and placed in casket.
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Wonders Of the atmosphere.

The atmosphere rises above us witt
its cathedral dome arching towardi
heaven, of which it is the most perfec
synonym and symbol. So massive is Il
that when it begins to stir it tossef
about the great ships like playthings,
and sweeps cities and forest like snow
flakes to destruction before it. And YET
it is 80 mobile that we have lived fol
years in it before we can be persuaded
that il exists at all, and the great bull
of mankind never realize the truth that
they are bathed in an ocean of air.
Its weight is 80 enormous that iron
shivers before it like glass, yet a soap
ball sails through it with impnnity, and
the tiniest insect waves it aside with its
wings. It ministers lavishly to oui
senses. We touch it not yet it touches
us. It's warm south wind brings back
color to the pale face of the invalid; it's
cool west winds refresh the fevered
brow and make the blood mantle to our
cheeks; even its north blasts braces
into new vigor the hardened children OF
our rugged climate.
The eye is indebted to it for all the
magnificence of sunrise, the brightness
of midday, the chastened radience OF
the morning, and the clouds that cradle
near the setting sun. But for it the
rainbow would want its triumphant
arch," and the winds would not send The
feecy messengers on errands around
the heavens the cold ether would not
shed snow feathers on the earth, nor
would drops of dew gather on the
flowers. The kindly rain would never
fall, nor hail, storm, nor fog diversity
the face of the sky. Our naked globe
would turn it's tanned and unshadowed
forehead to the sun, and one dreary,
monotonous blaze of light and heat daz-
zle and burn up all things.
We're there no atmosphere, the eve
ming sun would in moment set, and
without warning-plunge the earth into
darkness. But the air keeps in her
hand sheaf OF his rays, and let's them
slip slowly through her fingers, 30 that
the shadows of evening is gathered by
degrees, and the flowers have time to
bow their heads, and each creature in
space to find place of rest and to nestle
to repose. In the morning the garish
sun would at one bound burst from the
bosom of the night and blaze above the
horizon but the cir watches for his
coming, and sends first but one little
ray to announce his approach, and then
another, and then a handful, and so
gently draws aside the curtain of night
and slowly let's the light fall o the face
of the sleeping earth, till her eyelids
open, and like man, she goes forth again
to labor till evening.
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Wealth and Science.

There lived in England, in the last
century, a man of science, named Henry
Cavendish, who was born in 1871, and
died in 1910. He was a gentleman of
fine cultivation, an excellent mathema-
tician, a profound electrician, and a
most acute and ingenious chemist. He
published many papers, containing re-
suits OF recondite investigations and the
most important discoveries. He was not
only great original thinker, but most
lndefatigable and accurate e1perimenter,
and one of his main lines of research was
the chemical constitution of the atmos-
phere. He made no less than 500
analyses of the air, and it is to him
that we owe our chief knowledge of the
composition of the breathing medium.
Now, there is not an American that will
not commend all this as most proper and
admirable. But there is another side to
the case. Henry Cavendish was a man
OF enormous wealth, for which he cared
absolutely nothing. He was one of the
greatest proprietors of stock in the
Bank OF England, and when ON one oc-
caslon his balance had accumulated to
$3.50, 900, and the directors thinking it
too much capital to lie unproductive.
asked him if they should not invest it,
he simply replied clay it out, if you
please" That small portion of his
wealth which he could make use of in
his investigations was SO used, but he
did not allow the remainder of it to
divert his thoughts in the slightest de-
gree from the unremitting prosecution
of his scientific labors. He died worth
$7,000,0 900, which was an immense sum
of money at the beginning of this
century, but he had not the slightest in
terest in those objects for which wealth
is generally priced. Now, the whole
case being given, to the eye of the
typical American, Henry Cavendish will
be regarded as a fool. "With all
that money!" the representative Ameri-
can would say, 81 could keep yacht, and
stud of fast horses, and build church,
and endow college, and send dozen
missionaries to the heathen, and run a
whole political campaign at my own ex-
pense and you say this odd creature
actually spent his life in the smudge
and stenches of chemical laboratory.
puttering with gases, and worried about
the composition of the air p Popular
Science Monthly.
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Curious Bible Facts,

The learned Prince of Grenada, heir
to the Spanish throne, imprisoned by
order of the crown for fear he should
aspire to the throne, was kept in solitary
confinement in the old prison at the
Place of Skulls, Madrid. After thirty
three years in this living tomb death
came to his release, and the following
remarkable researches taken from the
Bible, and marked with an old nail on
the rough walls of his cell, told how the
brain sought employment through the
weary years:
In the Bible the word Lord is found
1853 times the word Jehovah 6,855
times, and the word Reverend but once,
and that in the ninth verse of the 111th
Psalm. The eighth verse of the 117th
Psalm is the middle verse of the Bible.
The sninth verse of the eighth chapter
of Esther is the longest verse; thirty
fifth verse, eleventh chapter of st. John
is the shortest. In the 10th Psalm
four verses are alike-the eighth, fif-
teenth, twenty-frst and thirty first.
Each verse of the 136th Psalm ends
alike. No names or words with more
than six syllables are found in the Bible.
The thirty y-seventh chapter of Isaiah
and nineteenth chapter of Second Kings
are alike. The word Girl occurs but
once in the Bible, and that in the third
chapter of Joel. There are found in
both books of the Bible 1856, 483 let
ters, 773, ,693 words, 81, 373 verses, l.l79
chapters, and 66 books.
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Leather.

Leather has long history. If it is a
too exclusive motto that "there is
nothing like leather" few manufactured
things are older. 1t was probably the
very first bit of manufacture-rude, yet
suited to its purpose, the use of bark
for hardening and preserving skins
having, no doubt, been practiced in
prehistoric times. Even our progenitor
the ancient Briton-used a strong
hide thong to throw his stones with, and
was scantily clad in leather-antici-
pating the odd desire of George Fox,
the founder of Quakerism. Within the
period of authentic history, leather has
been legislated for and protected, and
has often been included in sumptuary
regulations. 1t is very odd to read that
in England in the sixteenth century
complaints were made that skins were
tanned in three weeks, (thus uncon-
scionably shortening the period of use
and wont, which had been about one
year, and that in consequence an act
was passed in 1913 prohibiting tanners
from selling hides that were not attested
to have been nine months in the tan pit
And the jealousy of rival guilds, which
did something in old days to secure the
division of labor, if nothing more, is
also seen in the history of leather. In
1439 tanners were prohibited from being
shoe-makers while in 1862 butchers
were precluded from becoming tanners
under penalty. Some of the restrict
ions which surrounded the leather manu-
facture actually remained until 1880,
when they were completely removed by
an act of George ~. Free trade in
tanning, then introduced, gave an i'm
mense impetus to the application and
extension of the chemical discoveries
which had been made by Seguin in
1895. and by Sir Humphry Dsvy in
lS03.-Good Words.
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HenIthy Body nnd n Clear Head.
II indigestion, constipation and biliousness
torment the body the head cannot be clear.
These disorders react upon the brain most hurt
fully, and produce cloudiness in the organ of
thought not experienced by healthy man.
Happily these brain-oppressing maladies may
be entirely dispelled by that peerless alternative,
Hostetter's Stomach Bitters. which cheers, re-
freshes and invigorates the brain and nerves,
while it regulates the organs of digestion, as
similation and bilious secretion. It expels the
morbid humors which poison the system
exerts powerfully invigorating influence as
well. Its cathartic action is never irritating,
violent or painful, but even, natural and pro-
gressive. As an appetizer and sleep promoter
the Bitters is unrivslled; it mitigates the in
frmities of age, relieves the ailments peculiar
to the gentler sex, arrests premature decay,
and builds up an enfeebled physique.
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IMPORTANT NOTICE.-Farmers, Fami.

IMPORTANT NOTICE.-Farmers' F"mi-
liza. and Others can purchase Remedy equal 10 DR..
TOBIAS, VENETIAN LINIMENr for the cure OF
Oholers DiArrhosa. Dysentsry. Group, Ooc and Sea
oath sssompauyns ssch bottle, and externally for
Throat (nts' Burns swellings, Bruises. MOSQUITO
Bitss old Sores Pains in Limbs, Back and Ohsst Ths
No one ho has used il but continues to do 80, many
stating Ten Dollars BS.ss they % "Gsid % s nSs es q
re Hsaat snesfns OF It's wonderful curative proper
tea Soid 81 the Druggists At 20 cts' Depot *
Murray s., Ns1 York
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PaIafe and Sfama ch.

II you would have your biscuits, bread, rolls,
corn-bread, cake - in short, all articles pre-
pared from -four, thoroughly enjoyable and
digestible, use Dooley's Yeast Powder, which
is not only free from adulteration, but whole
some, and makes food very nutritious. This
Baking Powder is used by the most eminent
chemists and physicians Buy it only in cans,
never loose or in bulk
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A DIR. George Dutton, of Springfield
Mass, has arranged with fifty patients
to keep them well at So year each, pro
viding they call for advice at his Office
If he visits them he charges half thu
usual fees. This arrangement has existed
two years.
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The minute parasite which occasions
the whitish scurf known as ''scaly leg
in poultry may be killed with carbolic
soap-suds, or sulphur and lard applied
as a salye.
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A FRIEND IN NEED.-Grace's Salve is a friend
in deed. Who has not found it such in curing
Cuts, Burns, Bruises, soalds Felons Boils. and
even the most obstinate old Ulcers, and other
Sores2 1t is wonderful compound, suited
alike to the skin Of the child and OF the adult
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For upwards of thirty years Mrs. WINSLOW'S
500 THING SYRUP has been used for children
with never-failing success. It corrects aeidity
of the stomach, relieves wind collie, regulates
the bowels, cures dysentery and diarrhea,
whether arising from teething or other causes.
An old and well-tried remedy. 26 cts. a bottle
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~ should just like to see somebody
try to abduct me, said Mrs. Smith at
the breakfast table the other morning.
" Hem ! SO should I, my dear, SO should
l." said Mr., Smith with exceeding ear.
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War, famine and pestilence all combined do
not produce the evil consequences to nation
which result from impure blood in our veins
Parsons Purgat:ve Pills make new rich blood
and prevent all manner Of diseases.
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Malignant and subtle indeed is the poison OF
Scrofula, and terrible are its ravages in the
system. They may. however, be permanently
stayed and the destructive virus expelled from
the circulation with .Scovill's Blood and Liver
Syrup, a potent vegetable detergent which
eradicates all skin diseases, leaving no vestige
Of them behind. White swelling, salt rheum
tetter. abscesses, liver complaint, and errup
tions of every description are invariably con
quered by it. Druggists sell it.
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We offer no apology for frequently calling
attention to Johnson's ADodyne Liniment, as 1t
is the most valuable remedy that has ever been
produced. 1t is a sure cure for diarrhos, dys-
entery and cholera morbus.
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Paints Ready for Use

They uniform shade, and the color can always
be matched. Any one can paint with them They have
very superior covering properties and do not like the
socaled patent paints, contain either wats benLine
or alkali. These paints in Liquid Form, and ale
in small cans of one to five pounds Send for sample
card showing different shades. II. w. DEVOE 90,
cor. Fulton and William Sts., New York,
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To cleanse and whiten the teeth, 10 sweeten
the breath, use Browns Camphorated sspona-
oeous Dentifrice. Twenty five cents bottle.
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A Healthy Body md n Clear Head.

President McMahon is seventy-one
years old. He was born July 13, 1907.
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CHEW
Tho Celebrated
"MArCHI.Lss"
Wood Tag Plug
TAH nNa

TIE PIoNEkR TOBACCO COMPANY,
New York, Boston, and Chicago
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GRACE'S SALVE.

JoNKsvILE, Mioh, Dec. 27, IS77.-Messrs. Forles;
sent 30 cts for two boxes of Grace'e Salve
had two and have used them ulcer fo', no
it is almost we'll. Respectfully yours O. j. VAN n So
Price 25 cents box at all druggists, or sent by mai
on receipt of 35 cents Prepared by ~ i.TH w.
E0WIE a. S0NS. SO Harrison Ave. Boston. Mass.
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to his house at about ten o'clock in the
evening and informed him that friends
of the Parkman family wanted TO search
the college, but did not want to act with
out his presence. The doctor put on his
boots and said he would go with them
and help in the search. He then in
formed his family that he was going out
for short time, and that he should soon
return; but he never saw his home again.
In the confession that he made in the
last hours of that bloody tragedy Web
ster described the agony of that dread =.
full night. As he rode in the carriage
with the two officers he tried to appear
free and easy in conversation, but he
was unable to decide whether he was
under arrest or really required for the
purpose indicated. When the carriage
stopped at the Leverett street jail, he
knew it was an arrest. He had made
up his mind that he would die rather
than submit to an arrest. 30 he had
prepared and placed in his vest pocket a
pill of strichnine containing enough of
the poison to kill five men. As he step
ped out of the carriage he slipped the
pill into his mouth and expected soon to
be dead man. But his agony of mind
was so great and his system so wrought
upon by the catastrophe that the poison,
though it caused horrible suffering, did
not destroy life. DR.. Webster was
brought to trial and the excitement in
the community was intense. He was a
professor in the medical school of Har.
ward University and moved in the very
best society. There was powerful in.
fuence brought to clear him, not only
for his own sake, but for that of his
family. and, most of all, for the honor of
the University. An attempt was made
to fasten suspicion on Littlefield, but
the doctor had entangled himself in
many ways, and one link after another
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1878-06-08
THE INDIAN WARM IDAHO
White Men Murdered by the Say
MANiuO

po:sn CIIr, IDAHO, June "A dispatch
courier arrived here tD-day from Col. Ber-
narG's command which was camped ycSter-
day morning in the Upper Bruneau valley, =
abandoned their homes and gone into a hast.
lily constructed fertilization. Col Bernard
would move this morning toward Duck vat
ley, eScOrting families from the Bruneau val
ley on their way TO ElkO. Nevada. The com.
mand will follow on the trail of the indians
and watch their movements. while rein
fOrcementS are coming forward in Bruneau
valley. The IndiarS had murdered twd
men out hunting stock. Thus far they are
known 10 have murdered six white men, he
sides w0undng two others at Big COma>
prairie. Major SandfOrd'S command, two
companies of cavalry. left Kelton Yesterday
by the overland road, with orders TO 90 into
camp at King Hill station, 35 miles from this
civ
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The Smallest Boat Which Ever
Started Across tic Atlantic

BOSTON, June S.-Wm. A. and Water An
dleWs brothers, lett this port yesterday for
Havre, France, in the Nautilus the smalIeS:
vessel that ever attempted to cross the ocean.
The boat has water and provisions for sixty
days, although the brothers expect to make
Havre in abOnt 45 days. The craft is 10 feet ,
inches long and & feet inches beam.
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The Porte Surrenders ShumIa 70 the
Russians,

The same correspondent says: THE Porte
appears to have yielded to the Russian de
mandS for the surrender of Shumla but ha :
not for the surrender of Earna. From good
sources learn that not Russia only but Ger
many likewise limited to the Porte unless the
ff0rtleSaeS were surrendered an invitation to
Turkey to attend the congress would be with
held. Hence, probably the present comprO-
mise resulting in the iSSue of the invitation "
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The NEW ERIE COMPANY. President
Jewett has issued his executive order No. i,
as president of the New York, Lake Erie and
western Railroad company, in which he an
nOunces tiat the present officers, agents and
employees of the receiver of the Erie railway
will continue to disch irge the duties of their
otherwise ordered. The work of laying a
third rail from WaveTly to Jersey Ctiy-a dis
tance of $50 mlies-is going on, and the COM
mnntbS.
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GsThree companies Of the 18th infantryleft
Salt Lake for Idaho yesterday.
As-A fire at Mt. Sterling, KY, Thursday
night, destroyed the business centre of the
town. Loss $1,000.
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MYSTERIOUS EXPLOsIoN,-An employe
named HesSe, in cOored light factory, at
ing by a mysterious explosion in The labora-
tOly. No damage whatever was done to the
room. and the only evidence of the explosion
imDaIed ~