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Marietta daily leader. (Marietta, Ohio) 1895-1906, 1897-11-29
CALLED OFF THE DUEL.
Kit Warren's Challenger Declined to
Pay to BE Shot.

Kit Wnrren's Challenger Declined to
Pay to BE Shot.
When Kit Warren was editing a coun-
try newspaper, a subscriber whom he
had offended with criticism sent him
challenge for fight with shotguns,
says the Atlanta Constitution.
He told the bearer to be seated. when
he asked him the price of buckshot.
''Thirty cents a pound" was the re-
ply.
selling at?'
"Sixty cents"
Then he turned his pockets inside out
-fshed up bunch of keys and several
due bills, looked them over thought
fully. then wrote his reply to his chal-
lenger:
"Dear Jim: Yours received. would
be glad to accommodate you. but your
friend tells me that shot is 30 cents
pound and powder 60. And can't in
vest that much money in 'em these hard
times. If. however, you will lend me
90 cents will secure you by mortgage
on the paper. and accommodate you
with few loads in any region you may
suggest. ! believe, however. 1t would
take three pounds Of buckshot to kill
you. Send on the money and make your
will"
The letter was duly delivered, and
that ended the matter. Wants me ter
lend him money ter buy shot terkill me
with.' exclaimed the challenger.
"Durned ef I'll do it,"
Marietta daily leader. (Marietta, Ohio) 1895-1906, 1897-11-29
DR.. GEORGE NJ. MAXWELL DEAD
A Cincinnatian, Wen Known in Marietta,
Trustee of our College, Passes Away.

A Cincinnatian, Well Known in Marietta,
n Trustee of our College, Passes Away.
Rev. George Milton Maxwell, DID,,
of Cincinnati, died at his home in Wy
oming Saturday evening the 27th, at
6:45 o'clock. Mr.. Maxwell was born in
He came to Ohio when young maD
and entered Marietta College. After
he was graduated he went to Clncin-
natl to prepere himself for the ministry
He studied in Lane Seminary, of which
institution he subsequently served for
several years as President of its Board
Of Trustees. He was also for long
time one of the trustees of Marietta
College. His first pastorate was at
Mansfield, o. Later he went to the
Fourth Pres by terian Church at Indiana
polls, and in 1859 he went to Cincin-
natl, where he became pastor of the
Eighth, now the Fourth, Presby terian
Church, on Seventh street, below Linn.
When lie resigned this pastorate he
became President of the Cincinnati
Young Ladies' Seminary, at Seventh
and Mound This he conducted until
failing health caused his retirement in
1872. He then removed to Wyoming.
For the past quarter of century DR..
Maxwell's work had been mainly
among the smaller churches in the
su burbs of Cincinnati. He established
the Presbyterian Church in Elmwood,
and was also interested in Bethany
Chapel, at Mt. Harrison. At one time
he was connected with the Herald and
Presbyter. He was married fifty-one
years ago to Miss Martha Mills, of
Marietta, and they celebrated their
golden wedding last year.
DIR. Maxwell leaves a wife and six
children. John Maxwell, lawyer;
Miss Mary Maxwell and Mrs. Long are
in Colorado. Allen Maxwell is pro-
fessor in the Louisville public schools.
William Maxwell is newspaper man
at Hamilton, and Charles Maxwell
lives with his father at Wyoming.
Marietta daily leader. (Marietta, Ohio) 1895-1906, 1897-11-29
THE MAGNET IN SURGERY.
Useful I'm Drawing Steel from the
Flesh.

Useful I'm Drawing Steel from the
Flesh.
A young laundress thrust broker
needle into her right hand while wash
| ing clothes. The needle having disap'
peared in the flesh, the surgeon, who
was consulted several days after the ac-
cident, refused to perform an operation,
fearing lest he should be obliged to
make u number of incisions amid the
ligaments of the articulation. Two
months afterward, says Cosmos, the
girl lost the use of her right hand, and
the least movement of the fingers
caused her exquisite pain. Drs. Co
rinewski and Cerestin then determined
to extract the needle with the aid of
q magnet. drawing it into fleshy re-
gion where an incision could be made
without danger. To cause this move
ment they chose q very feeble electro
magnet. But difficulty arose; the
needle having entered point first it
would have to be drawn out backward,
the broken part in advance. The first
trial lasted. two hours with short inter-
walls for rest, without appreciable re-
suit. Before the third trial, the girl
said that she felt pricking in the palm
of the hand near the place where the
magnet had been applied and where
the needle ought to appear. At the
ninth sitting, finally, the needle ap-
peared beneath the skin and came out
whole, broken end first, without pain
and without loss of blood. 1t fixed it.
self to the pole of the electromagnetic.
and the young laundress was cured.
This result-the drawing of a needle
through the flesh-is very remarkable.
In "a hours after the first trial this
needle was extracted from the inside of
the hand, after lying there more than
two months.
Marietta daily leader. (Marietta, Ohio) 1895-1906, 1897-11-29

SAN Francisco, Nov. 'a7.-Acting At.
torney General Carter has received
word from Attorney General Fitzger
aid to the effect that after the present
legal quibble has been decided he will
advise Warden Hale to carry out the
execution of Theodore Durrant regard
less of any new legal proceeding tha'
may be instituted by Durrant's attor
neys. Dnrrant will be re-sentenced a.
soon as the controversy now pending
is settled, after which the attorney
general of the state believes no lsga
step can accomplish further delay i.
the proposed execution of Durrant.
Marietta daily leader. (Marietta, Ohio) 1895-1906, 1897-11-29
New Ohio Postmasters.

WASHINGTON, Nov. 27.-The follow
ing Ohio postmasters were commits
stoned Friday: Beloit, Mahoning
county, Charles n. Dickson, vice Jane.
Nj. Early, removed; Hamlet, Clermont
county, J. e. Offutt, vice j. r. Nichols
removed; New Knoxville, Auglaize
county, William Duhme, vice w. H
Fledderjohann; Rawson, Hancock
county, B. NJ. Allion, vice w. D.
Kramer, removed; Williamsburg, Oer.
mont county, e. E. Peterson, vice w.
.. Malan, removed.
Marietta daily leader. (Marietta, Ohio) 1895-1906, 1897-11-29
Art Loan Notes.

The Art Loan Committees have sue
ceeded in finding space for display of
Amateur Photography. Persons will
ing to loan limited number of choice
specimens will please bring them, not
later than o o'clock Tuesday morning
to the residence of E. R. Alderman, 219
Fifth street. where they will be cared
for by the proper committee.
The exhibition will be opened at D.
m. Tuesday, Novemb Der 3Oth, and be
open each day, the rest of the week,
from o'clock a. IN. to 10 p. m. Admis-
sion twenty. five cents, children fifteen
cents. Tickets are on sale at Breiden.
stein & Richardson's, Greene street;
Marietta Book Store, and Beagle &
Lytle's, Putnam street Proceeds for
the Woman's Home and Associated
Charities.
COMMITTEES. .ns.4
Chief Exhibit, two rooms: Mrs. T. B.
Bosworth, Mrs. E. e. Phillips, Miss K.
2. Nye, DR.. Kingsbury, T. b. Bosworth,
II. w. Cralg.
Night Scenes: Mrs c. II. Turner, Mrs.
c. c. Lyman, Mrs. j. p Laing.
Winter Scenes: Mrs. L. p. Hill.
Humorous Subjects, Posters, Photo
graphs: Miss Helen Cham berlain, Miss
Parker, Miss Riley, Miss Rath bone.
Library Exhibit, Authors and Musi-
clans: Mrs. e. R. Alderman, Miss
Muriel Dyar, Miss Florence Dale.
China Exhibit: Mrs. M. R. Andrews,
Miss Virginia Nye, Mrs. R. L. Nye,
Miss Laura Morse.
Art Needlework Mrs. c. r. Hovey,
Miss Sallie Knox
Cake Table: Miss Dode Pattin, Mrs.
Bartlett, Mrs w. R. Grimes, Miss Helen
Hart.
Confectionery and FlowerTa BILE: Mrs
j. w. Sniffen, Miss Sniffen.
Coffee Room: Mrs. L. A. McCloskey,
Mrs R. b. Hart, Mrs. j. BOIL, Mrs. K
j. Fischer.
Marietta daily leader. (Marietta, Ohio) 1895-1906, 1897-11-29
A MUCH ABUSED PHRASE.
For which Medical Experts Arc
LnrEcly RcaDnnnihlc.


In reading the report of the Benham
trial one cannot fail to be sadly inn
pressed by the serious use by medical
experts of that much-abused phrase,
"hcart failure" as scientifically descrip-
tive of the possible cnuse of the death of
Mrs. Benham. This unhappy express
sion, says the Rochester Democrat and
Chronicle, has been applied, as though
it described q disease, only within
few years, and it is still more recently
that the medical fraternity has fallen
into the slovenly habit of using it, in the
sense indicated. Now, il is the common
and convenient servant, not only of the
careless laymnn, who may not know
better, but of physicians, who are
either in doubt as to the real cause Of
q patients death, or are too lazy to be
accurate.
There arc various diseases of the
heart, functional and organic, and these
may eventually lead to heart failure,
and consequent death, but it is n rank
abuse of long-suffering language to
confound the result with the cause.
tuberculosis, typhoid fever, the care
less riding Of bicycles, and electrocu-
tion, oil lead the way to heart failure,
md science has not yet discovered any
other immediate cause of death. what
ever may be the contributing agency.
There are few more wanton perver-
sions of the mother tongue than this.
which is first cousin to the almost equal
ntrocity found in similar use of the
word malaria. 1t is enough to give
fastidious PERSONA chill to read of some
one who "has" malaria, as though this,
too, were an ailment, instead of an at
mospheric condition leading to disease.
Marietta daily leader. (Marietta, Ohio) 1895-1906, 1897-11-29

Hon. ]. D. PAYNE has placed us under
obligation for copy of his latest pub
lication "Vox Populi VS.. Vox DER. II
is book of 1875 pages; and has in it q
collection of the radical ideas of this
we'll known gentleman who claims tc
have no isms, but who thinks that q
general turning oyer of conditions as
relates to mans treatment of man is
one of the the things strongly to be
urged.
Mr.. Payne's book is on sale, and will
doubtless find many buyers who will
be interested to read after him.
Marietta daily leader. (Marietta, Ohio) 1895-1906, 1897-11-29

Women are allowed to practice law in
New Zealand. But in recent letter
to London paper mention is made Of
the suicide of n female lawyer who had
waited three years in vain for clients.
Reference is also made to 80 women
who passed examinations as teachers.
but we're unable to get places. as men
are preferred for the high schools.
Marietta daily leader. (Marietta, Ohio) 1895-1906, 1897-11-29
To Kill Pardons Board

COLUMBUS, O., Nov. 27.-Word comes
from Akron that Senator j. Park Alex.
ander has prepared a bill to abolish
the state board of pardons. In place
OF the state board, Senator Alexander's
bill establishes local boards in each
county, each board to have jurisdiction
over all applications made for pardons
OF convicts sent TO the penitentiary
from it's county.
Marietta daily leader. (Marietta, Ohio) 1895-1906, 1897-11-29
A Household Necessity ,

Cascarets Candy Cathartic, the most
wonderful medical discovery OF the
age, pleasant and refreshing to the
taste, act gently and positively on kid
neys. liver and bowels, cleansing the
entire system, dispel colds, cure head
ache, fever. habitual constipation and
billiousness. Please buy and try a box
of G. c. c. today; 10, 25, so cents. Sold
aud guaranteed to cure by all druggists.
Marietta daily leader. (Marietta, Ohio) 1895-1906, 1897-11-29
MONDAY. NOV. 2e. 1897

A REWARD of 500 is offered for the
arrest and conviction of Scotty Myers,
The man who gets the money will
have earned it.
Marietta daily leader. (Marietta, Ohio) 1895-1906, 1897-11-29
A Haynarkea Riot Victim Dead.

CHICAGO, Nov. 27.-PatriclI Haxford,
one of the policemen wounded III the
Haymarkct riot and pensioner of the
police department, died at the county
hospital Friday night 1t is believed
that his wounds had something to dc
with his taking off.
Marietta daily leader. (Marietta, Ohio) 1895-1906, 1897-11-29
B5und over for Burglary.

MACARTHUR, O., Nov. 27.-Charles
Moore was Friday bound over under a
$500 bond for .burglarizing Robert
Thompsons store in Zaleslsi last Sat
urday night He was released from
the penitentiary two years ago.
Marietta daily leader. (Marietta, Ohio) 1895-1906, 1897-11-29

MADAM LILLIAN BLAUvELT, who has
sung here in oratorio, secured divorce
from her husband in the Dakota courts
for non-support. Her husband is Royal
Stone Smith, of New York.
Marietta daily leader. (Marietta, Ohio) 1895-1906, 1897-11-29

The victorious Athenians who took q
game of football from Marietta by a
score of 6 to 4, with the help of Ma
rietta boy and ringer from Massa-
chusetts, are the sorest set of people
ever seen. They have nothing but
their own actions to be sore about and
their abuse of Marietta savors Of
blackguardism
Marietta daily leader. (Marietta, Ohio) 1895-1906, 1897-11-29
THE POLITICIAN.

President Mckinley has completed
the first draft of his annual message
to Congress, and today it was read at
|. the Cabinet meeting and every recon-
mendation it contains was unanimous
lv approved, as it will be by the re-
publican party at large when it is
made public. Some effort has been
made by the democrats to give the
public the impression that differences
existed between the President and
Secretary Gage as to the financial leg
( islation that should be recommended
to Congress, but it can be stated on the
highest authority that all such stories
are purely imaginary. The President
and his Secretary of the Treasury, and
in fact his entire Cabinet, are of one
mind on this subject and President
Mckinley believes in the possibility of
securing financial legislation at this
session of Congress, perhaps not all
that will be asked for, but something
in the line of strengthening acknowl-
edged defects in our present financial
system.
Such veterans in the Congressional
arena as Senate; Burrows, of Michi-
gan, and Representative Dalzell, of
Pennsylvania, are not carried away by
the prophecies OF this being a short
session of Congress made by men of
less experience. They recognize that
a number of subjects certain to be
taken up, especially finance, will con-
sumo much time, in debate, whether
anything is ACCOMPLISHED or not, and
cons, quently they expect the session
to be well up to the average in length
of the long sessions of Congress. SEN
ator Burrows places the date of ad-
journment in the neighborhood of
August 1st.
It has been taken for granted that
any bill carrying out President Nc
Kinley's financial recommendations
would receive the support of the gold
democratic Senators, and possibly of
several other democratic Senators who
supported Bryan and the Chicago plat
form last year because they were party
men and not because of any sympathy |
they had with either, and who are be-
lieved to be fayorable to legislation
that would result in removing the |
silver question as a national issue.
The latter class of democrats, if there
really be such, could not be expected
to announce any such intention: with
four-hfths of their party shouting for
free silvg it would be political suicide
for thAto do so. With the gold dem
ocrA.ic senators it is different, as they
are already out of the democratic
party; therefore no hesitation was felt
Ia asking Senator Lindsay, OF Ken
lucky. the first one of them TO arrive
n Washington. what, if,any, policy
hey would have as to financial le0is.
Marietta daily leader. (Marietta, Ohio) 1895-1906, 1897-11-29
Circular sew for Butchers!

Circular being used in butch
ey shops. frame being attached to the
ssock and extending over It so hold
the saw IN. position on ASPIRING sEp.
so'it can be depEsssedRI q rapSly
revolved BY meangot drank chdin
gear.
Marietta daily leader. (Marietta, Ohio) 1895-1906, 1897-11-29

WITH every manufacturing estab-
lishment in Marietta running full time,
and some of them several hours extra
each day, the Democratic howl of hard
times loses its force and becomes ri
diculous The advance agent was not
so far ahead of the show after all.
Marietta daily leader. (Marietta, Ohio) 1895-1906, 1897-11-29

THE authorities out in San Francisco
are getting tired of the quibbling over
Durrant, and when controversy over
point now going on is finished they
will advise his execution regardless OF
new points sprung to save the mans
life.
Marietta daily leader. (Marietta, Ohio) 1895-1906, 1897-11-29
Cheap Meat in Australia.

Neat in Austfaiiaf is an Inexpensive
food. Mutton frequently Gun be, pur-
ehas~d there Al ono pehny a pound.
Fin IL stin cheaper.
Marietta daily leader. (Marietta, Ohio) 1895-1906, 1897-11-29
Pronfnian Rnnm.

II is estimated hat siasi brewery
in Munich malvs $4,000 a.year extra
by selling foam instead OF beer on the
tan al eachhlass-
Marietta daily leader. (Marietta, Ohio) 1895-1906, 1897-11-29

ALREADY the show windows begin to
take on Holiday air and the victim
gazes pensively as he wonders how
much it is going to cost this time.
Marietta daily leader. (Marietta, Ohio) 1895-1906, 1897-11-29

Unless some Senators are badly mis-
informed, about the first business in the
Senate when Congress meets will be an
attempt to adopt report of the Com
mittee on the Elections and privileges
declaring Hon. II. w. Corbett, of Ore
gon, who was appointed by the Gov
ernor, to be entitled to the vacant seat
left by the failure of the legislature to
elect a successor to Senator Mitchell
whose term expired on the Srd of last
March. No report has yet been made
in this case and members of the Com
mittee naturally decline to discuss it.
The talk among other Senators is be-
lieved to be based on the knowledge
that Senator Hoar, to whom Mr.. Cor
belts credentials were referred by the
Committee, reported to the committee
in favor of seating Mr.. Corbett.< The
full committee has never taken vote
on the case. Republicans are, of
course, anxious to secure the vote
which this vacont seat represents, if it
can be properly done-that is to say,
in accordance with law and precedent.
Marietta daily leader. (Marietta, Ohio) 1895-1906, 1897-11-29

we viii consider IL a great favor II
nubscrIbersl Will report any failure
20 GET their Leader. or any careless
ness on the part Of the carrier.
Subscribers Will please not pay
the carriers unless the carrier
punches his credit tag In subscrlb-
er's presence.
Marietta daily leader. (Marietta, Ohio) 1895-1906, 1897-11-29

State Senator Voorhees,, of New Jer-
scy. is visiting Washington. He said:
"The republicans OF New Jersey feel
very good over the situation in the
state. We have the state safely in the
republican fold, though it was once
considered nominally democratic, and
we feel confident that we will send a
republican in Senator Smiths place
when his term expires. Senator Smith
will be candidate to succeed himself,
and although he is wealthy and a
shrewd politician, we haYe no fear of
his winning out"
Marietta daily leader. (Marietta, Ohio) 1895-1906, 1897-11-29
Situation IN Uruguay Critical.

New York, Nov. 27.-Advices from
the Herald's correspondent in Monte.
video, Uruguay, are to tie feet that the
situation there has again become crit.
ical. There seems to be a renewal OF
the political disturbances Of few days
ago and excitement runs high. The
police have surrounded the home of
Senor Julio Herrera, the bitter op-
ponent of Senior CuestaS, president ad
interim, who caused the former dis
orders, and are arresting all persons
who try to enter. Serious trouble is
feared.
"A Hunter Blinded.
BELLEFoNTAINR, o., Nov. 2T.-Wm
Clough and j. B. Duncan shot at some
rabbits and hit Ed Thrift. One shot
struck him in the left eye. He was al.
ready blind Ia one eye, and will now
be totsaly blind.
Marietta daily leader. (Marietta, Ohio) 1895-1906, 1897-11-29

Just try 10 cent box of Cascarets
the finest liver and bowel regulator
ever made,
Marietta daily leader. (Marietta, Ohio) 1895-1906, 1897-11-29

legislation at the coming session of
Congress. He replied: I'VE have had
no conference among ourselves, and
therefore have not agreed upon any
policy. If the republicans have any
p olicy as to line of action, have not
been informed what it is. Hence, am
not in position TO give the informa-
tion desired. 1 may say. however,
that think the country still wants
currency reform and l believe that If
the republicans would agree among
the emselves, it would be possible for
them to accomplish that end"
The Monitor-register., 1897-10-29

Now that horses are passing away be-
fore the trolley, the cable, the bicy-
Gle and the horseless carriage many
horse owners are learning for the first
time that the use of sunbonnets on
horses has materially decreased the NOR
tality among them in Europe. The
horses must present a droll appearance
gsyith their faces peering out of their
straw bonnets. their ears also being Wis
ible through holes made for the pur-
pose. Before the horse becomes quite
extinct as a draft animal the sunbon-
net might be used with advantage to
lessen the misery of his remaining sum
mers.
The passing of the horse, by the way,
is very generally deplored. However,
no lover of animals will grieve over his
ceasing to be Nature was very cruel
when she made horses. The victim ever
of mans ignorance, and until late years
the victim also of his unchecked brutal
ity, the victim also of his pleasurings
and his gambling, the horse-denied
the power possessed by other domestic
animals.y snthras the cat and the dog, of
voicing It's anguish-has led a life of
CHASTITY tragedy Very occasionally from
birth to death he has been well cared
for. But tie common lot Of the horse
has been the tortured fate of any sensi-
tive creature at the mercy of that most
cruel of created things-mankind. The
passing of the horse will very apprecia-
bly, lessen the total Of the worlds suf-
fering. Vogue.
The Monitor-register., 1897-10-29
Inherited.
Blood faint,

Here is a case of inherited blood faint
which resulted in what threatened to be
a complete wreck of an innocent young
life. The most serious feature of being
afflicted with a blood disease is the fact
that innocent posterity must suffer. The
man or woman with the slightest faint
in the blood forces the undesirable leg
acy of impurity upon their children
whose veins flow with the impuse inher-
itance which handicaps them in the race
of life.
No child who has a trace of bad blood
can be healthy or strong, and those pre-
disposed to Scrofu1a are liable to a great
deal of sickness, because their constitu-
tons are weak and cannot Withstand the
many dangers which beset the path of
I childhood. Medical statistics show that
amajorityo of lung troubles result directly
from Scrofula, so that a child afflicted
with this disease is likely to fall a vic
tim to dreaded consumption.
Mr.. W. A. Clayton, of Addie, N. c.,
believes SIS. is the only blood remedy
which can have any effect whatever
+ upon obstinate cases. He says:
"My three-year-old boy had the worst
case of S~crofula 1 ever heard of. He