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Then the handwriting experts again

Then the handwriting experts again
compared the address with Molineux's
writing, and pronounced it his. At
the coroner's inquest the district at
torney was instrumental in securing
a verdict to the effect that Mrs. Ad-
ans came to her death through poison
administered to her by Harry S. Cor
nish, the poison having been sent to
him by Molineux.
The latter was arrested at once,
and an Indictment found against him,
which, later on, was dismissed. A
succeeding grand jury refused to in
dict, and MolineuX was discharged,
only to be rearrested at once on the
charge of assaulting Cornish. Then
there followed another long legal bat
tie, and MolineuX was again discharged
and rearrested. He waived examina-
ton on the assault charge, and finally
the July grand jury found an indict-
ment against him in seven counts,
for the murder by poison of Mrs.
Adams. His trial was long one,
and ended in his being found guilty,
his execution to take place in Sing
Sing prison during the week of
March &c.
Many notable lawyers are dissatis-
fed with the verdict and the conduct
of the trial, which cost the state Of
New York s175.oOO, and which has
financially ruined the Molineux family.
WILLIAM WALTER WELLS
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UNCLE PETER.
BY Kennett F. Harris.
>~

THERE is CHEEKY old gentleman
living in western suburb who is
wont to boast of the number of friends
he has.
Everybody likes me-" he says, in his
open, candid way, land of course it's
natural that they should. There amt
no good reason why they shouldn't like
me, is there?"
OF course the person Intercepted
says there is no good reason and the
old gentleman, recognizing in this an
added tribute to his popularity, is
much gratifed.
"The only enemies I ever had were
the people I've lent money to-" he re-
sumes. "Now, you're a friend of mine
and like you, just the same as you like
me; but if you was to ask me to lend
you $50 I'd tell you to go plum to
Jericho-then I'd keep your friendship.
S'posen should lend you $50. Do you
know what'd happen then? No, you
don't need to tell me you'd pay it back
promptly, just the way you said you
would. know all about that. No, sir!
swell, mebbe you would and mebbe
you wouldn't. Anyway, amt going
to resk it. You're my friend now and
it's the way tell you: The only enc
mics I ever had in my life was people
I lent money to-"
1t is the opinion of nephew that
the old gentleman never lent a copper
penny in his life and that he is merely
theorizing when he talks of the qucnch-
ing effect of loans upon the sacred
frame of friendship. At the same
time he comedies that it is more than
likely that his relation is right.
'I've given him the opportunity to
verify his position in apractical way
said the nephew, one day. "But that
was only when was in tight place.
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SMALLPOX DISTRIBUTORS
How the Germs Are Nurtured and the
Disease IL Spread.

How the Germs Are Nurtured and the
Disease Il Spread.
It would seem that people will never
learn to be careful. The recent alarm
ing spread of that dire epidemic,
smallpox, throughout different Sec
lions of the country has been traced
by physicians and sanitarians in many
instances directly to the moldy and
rotting layers of paper and paste
which cover the walls of many houses.
The practice of laying layer after
layer of paper on a wall, using COM
mon flour paste, is especially calcu-
lated to create homes for disease
germs. People could not do more to
effect such result if they tried. The
rotting vegetable matter affords caves
from which are ready to dart forth
the infection at every opportunity.
There is no excuse for this practice,
as walls and ceilings can be coated
with pure, clearly and sanitary ma
terial like Alabastine, for instance, at
no greater expense. Alabastine is
rock-base cement, which incorporates
itself with the wall or ceiling. It is
easily applied, comes ready to mix
with cold water, requires no washing
or scraping before renewing or re-
tinting, is beautiful, long-lasting and
safe.
For walls that have been infected,
nothing is equal to Alabastine as a
disinfectant to render them pure and
clean and the rooms once more hab.
ifah1o
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Keeping Well Water Pure.

It used to be an old-fashioned Gus.
tom in the country to put one or two
trout in a we'll to insure the water
being pure and wholesome. If they
did not keep it so it was supposed
that they would give warning of its
impurity by dying themselves. We
are reminded of this by seeing in an
English paper that Prof. Sobrero, OF
Turin, has lately advised the use OF
cells in the house cistern for the same
purpose. He says two or three not
large but lively cells would devour any
thing in the water in the shape of ami
malcules, infusoria, bird dropping
from the roof or vegetable matter of
any kind. We think they would also
take any animal matter like toads OF
rats that might fall in and drown.
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the feed is nice and warm. Also use the
kettle to try lard, heat water to wash
harness, etc. The slop barrel is in the
recess back from the hogpens, out OF
the way in driving through the build
ing.
The building has 14-foot posts, sc
there is room over the cooking quar-
tiers as well as over the hogpens. For
ground feed, I use oats and corn:
There is yard for fattening hogs al
the west door and in it platform fol
feeding corn. The building is 2ox4C
feet and has roller doors. The room
over the cooking quarters, besides be-
ing used for tools and preparing feed
is also used for butchering. Hooks fol
harness cleaning are between the chin.
ney place and stairway in the cook.
ing room. The outside stairs, shown
in the upper left hand corner, go to the
granary over the hogpens, where
ground feed is kept.-R. L. Holman, in
Farm and Home.
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IDEAL HENHOUsD WINDOW.

by an arm screwed to the casing. The
lower sash is hinged at one side and
swings out. This plan will work well
under many circumstances where the
winters are not too cold, and where
the fowls are kept in pens side by side,
with adjacent yards outside. In such
case it is often inconvenient to get
into the yards unless one can go out
into them from the pens. With this
method of swinging the sashes the
necessity for having a door in each
pen, as well as window, is done away
with. In cold climates such a plan
can be used for spring, fall and sum-
mer, closing the windows in the win
ter and putting on outside sashes.
This device calls for low window, and
this is desirable on other accounts, as
only low windows let the sunshine
Quickly onto the floor on winter morn
ings.-N. Y. Tribune.
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Millet Seed for Poultry.

A quart of millet seed to 20 hens in
the morning, scattered far and wide
so as to make them work, with nothing
at noon, and just as much as they will
eat up at night, with a variety of other
food, is an excellent plan of feeding,
TO know how much they will eat let
them fill up until the last hen walks
away satisfied. If fed twice a day,
however (fll them), they will become
rolling fat. If done three times day
it may kill them. The millet seed is
intended to keep them at work. The
seeds being small, they will work hard
to find them and can only eat slowly
Farm and Fireside.
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sast wealth and reserving only an
annuity of two per cent, or sac, 900 per
year, payable up to the death of him
self and his wife.
DR.. Pearsons is now nearly four
score years of age. He came to Chi
cago in 1860, from Chicopee, Mass,
where he had practiced medicine for
ten years and accumulated a nest egg
of $4,000. His one ambition at that
time, according to his own admission,
was to get rich; and he worked in sea-
son and out of season to attain his
end. Instead of continuing the prac-
tice of his professional slow and un-
certain way of laying up earthly treas
ure-he engaged in the sale of farm
lands in all parts of the state of ILL
nois, acting as the agent of eastern
capitalists, western landowners and
railroad corporations. After dispos-
ing of 100000 acres on a percentage
basis of five per cent. he found him
self well-to-do man, financially able
to become interested in urban trans
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To Prevent Egg Eating.

One of the reasons that hens eat
their eggs is because they require the
albumen, and hence are not so much at
fault as may be supposed. To produce
eggs hens must have heterogeneous food
in some shape, and if they are deprived
of it they will seek it wherever it can
be procured. The first time an egg is
broken and the hen partakes of it's con-
tents she learns to associate the egg
and the food supply together, and will
then eat simply because she requires
such food. To prevent it give her meat
often, make the nest in such manner
that but little light can enter, and she
will soon cease the practice of egg-eat-
ing.-American Gardening.
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to himself a promise that the money
so saved should be disposed of for the
public good-during his own and his
amiable wife's lifetime, if possible.
How we'll this promise has been kept
is evidenced by the fact that since 1890
he has given away $2,500,O0O to the
following institutions:
Lake Forest university, Chicago, $685.
coo; Beloit college, S295,00O; Chicago Theo-
logical seminary, $2S0O0O; Mccormick Theo-
logical seminary, $4,000; Chicago Presby-
terrain hospital, $4,000; Chicago Y. NJ G.
A., $4,000: Drury college, Springfield. Mo-,
$780, ee: Yankten college, South Dakota.
5000 Colorado college, Colorado Springs.
$500 900; Fargo. college, Fargo, N. D., $50
900; Mount Holyoke seminary, $3.50, 900: Chi
cago Art institute, $4,000; Berea college,
KY, $780, 900: Marietta college, $4,000; Nc
kendree college, $25, 900: Grand Prairie SEM
mary, Onarga, ILL.,, $4,000; Whitman coll
lege, $4,000; Pacific university, Oregon,
100000: Pomona college, Cal, $50, 1000; Brad
ford, VT, public library, $1,000: Presbyter-
ian board of missions, SCI, 900: First Presby-
terrain church, Chicago, $4,000; Olvet coll
lege, Mich, $4,000: Fairmourt college,
Kan, $4,000: Carleton college, Northfield,
MINI. So, 600; Chicago. City Missionary
society, $4,000; Anatola college, Turkey.
$4,000. G. W. WEIPPIERT.
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WHO ARE IN "WHO'S WHO?''
A Better Thing to BE Born an EnElish
Peer Than to BE Lucky
or Rich.

Nearly 30 years ago DR.. Cation, in his
Hereditary Genius" pointed out how
rarely man got into the dictionaries
of contemporary biography before the
age of 50, and his statement is true,
even to the present day, the mean age
of the person mentioned in "Who's
Who is no less than IS, even though
several names are included of persons
who have had greatness thrust upon
them in the first decade of their life.
1T is better to be born lucky than
rich," says the proverb; ''but," adds
q distinguished humorist, eff you can't
be either, the next best thing is to be
born a British peer" and this seems
at any rate justified by the large
amount of attention paid to the hered.
itary house and the baronetcy by
''Who's Who," no less than II per cent.
of the entries being devoted to merely
titular distinctions. If these had been
omitted the mean age of distinction
would probably rise even higher than
IS, and, at any rate, DR.. Cations
threshold limit of 50 for entry into the
biographical dictionaries is thoroughly
well justified. Now there are only about
100000 Englishmen over 50 in the
British empire and the proportion Of
those that reach eminence in the va
rious collections I have mentioned
would, consequently, be 1854 per mil
lion for "Who's Who" 1000 for the
Dictionary of National Biography, and
1882 for ''The Men of the Time" This
latter publication seems to have low
cred it's standard in the last 80 years, as
DR.. Cation, in 1869, reckoned that 1925
of every million Englishmen over 50
attained sufficient reputation to earn
a place in that receptacle. 1t must, be-
sides, be remembered that we have
taken colonies into our calculation,
and, as the colonial contingent is nat.
urally small, this would tend to magnify
the seeming increase of distinction in
Men of the Time" -Fortnightly Re-
view.
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a HIDDEN LIGHT.

- . d.
Ny Uncle Jim's a wonder; #
He would know jest what to do
In military crisis
Say, another Waterloo.
He could figure in minute
How his side might win the day
And get out with banners flynn
But none ever came his way.
In political transactions
He has foresight rare and keen.
He would know what string to pull at
AS he stood behind the scene.
In a ''coo-dy-tah," tell you.
Genius! That's what he'd display,
Changin' all the face of hist'ry-
But none ever came his way.
An. as fur financeerin',
That is where his talent shines;
He knows how folks should handle
Railroad pools an banks an mines.
Putin through big undertakings
Seems to him pastime gay.
He could fix 'em in fifty
But none ever came his way.
Uncle Jim is Twin quiet
In his house behind the hill,
An the world goes on without him
Missin' all his brains and skill.
War, diplomacy, finances
Would have felt hi: master sway
Had occasion only offered
But none ever came his way.
washington Star.
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Prize Poultry CONC. High.

birds for prizes at the poultry shows
must expect to pay the price. If he
wants to stand a chance of winning
anything he must buy and breed only
the highest class of birds. We hear
of people buying cheap stock and at
tempting to raise prize winners from
them. The policy is foolish one.
If man desires to own the luxury
Of prize winning fowls there is no
cross-cut-he must breed along stand
ard lines and from birds that have
scored well up towards the hundred
points mark.-Farmer's Review.
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THE ADAMS MURDER CASE
An American "Cause Celebre. u

corning athletic matters. In search
ing for enemies of Cornish, Molineux
was picked out, and handwriting ex-
perts later testified that his writing
correspondent with that on the poison
package. The morning after the pub
LEGATION of his name in connection
with the case Molineux, then a prom
inent society man, and his father,
Gen. Molineux, a veteran of the civil
war, presented themselves at the
house of Capt. McClusky, chief of de-
tectives, and the younger man asked
if he was wanted. He was told he
was not, and so the matter ended for
a time.
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He said he would love to do it, but he
wasn't going to lose the affection of
his pet sisters only boy on account of
few paltry, dirty dollars. I told him
that would insert an 'unwavering af-
fiction clause in the note along with
the interest and waiver of exemptions,
but he couldn't see it.. On the whole
I'm glad he didn't. went to a man
who advertised that he assisted people
of delicate sensibilities and cultured
instincts. didn't quite see what my
instincts and sensibilities had to do
with the case, but it seemed to me that
hit the requirements anyway, and I
went to him.
HE soaked it to my delicate sensi-
bilities at the rate of about Is per cent.
q month, and he made it rather I'M
pleasant for me. He could raise the
goose flesh on a mans cultured in
stincts beyond anybody ever went up
against, but after all I don't believe he
was marker to what Uncle Peter
would be if a man owed him anything.
can imagine a man cherishing indy
ing enmity toward Uncle Peter about
30 days after he had touched him for a
fivc-supposing such thing possible.
You've heard father tell about the hoe,
haven't you?''
The father Of the nephew tells about
the hoe quite frequently-or, rather,
he begins to tell about it. His love for
the venerable Uncle Peter has not been
dimmed by any sordid squabble over
borrowed money any more than has
that of his son, but it has been Clipped
at the edges in some other way appar-
emily.
It appears that when Uncle Peters
beard was of virile sandiness and long
before his farm was surveyed and plat
ted into town lots, with duly dedicated
streets and alleys running along the
rutabaga and cauliflower rows, he
owned a hoe.
Speaking of the cauliflower reminds
the nephew's father of the time Uncle
Peters hired man, Lem Jackson, was
digging potatoes and threw some clods
into the wagon along with the tubers
He says that Uncle Peter threw the
clods out again and exhorted Lem to
z be more particular and even to take
time to knock off any dirt that might
stick to "them taturs''
II paid $25 an acre for that dirt
Lem" he demonstrated. sNot only
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o Mrs. Rogers, wife of an insur-
ance agent. On Tuesday evening
Cornish and the two women went
to the theater, after which they had
supper. The next morning Mrs. Adams
complained of having headache, and
applied to Cornish for some bromo-
seltzer. He gave some of the contents
of the bottle to her. Mrs. Adams took
a heaping teaspoonful in glass of wa
ter. She was taken ill at once, and
died in few minutes after the physi-
clan arrived. The gift, which was re-
ceived by Cornish on Christmas eve
through the mail, was 4 silver med
icine holder, with small bottle, sup
posed to contain bromo-seltzer. The
large enough to hold the bottle. It
was nearly noon before the death was
reported to the coroner's Office. DR..
Weston, of that Office, went to the
Adams house and secured what was
left of the supposed bromo-seltzer.
Analysis proved that the stuff con-
tanned portion of cyanide of mer-
curry.
A few days later morning news
paper printed an article headed ''The
Police Want Roland B. Molineux," land
SO the defendant was first brought
into the case. Molineux, while mem
Der of the Knickerbocker Athletic
club, year before, had had serious
misunderstanding with Cornish con-
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Especial Chicago letter.

~ NE of our American humorists
the other day defined phil
anthropist as "a man who
spends his time inducing other people
to spend their money for charity"
This definition may be considered
witty by some, and quite to the point
by others, but it does not apply to
the venerable DIR. Daniel X. Pearsons,
of Chicago, who has up to this time
given $2,500,Ooo to charity, and has
but recently made the announcement
that lie would dispose of the rest OF
his fortune, amounting to $1,5O0,OOo,
in the same way, keeping none of this
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paid in deprecated
scrip, and the eastern
b O n d h o ! d e r S were
clamoring for their
pound of flesh. The
city council thought
seriously of repudiat-
ing the bonds, a prop
osition which was en-
ergetically opposed by
DR.. Pearsons, who was
then one of the alder
men from the First
ward. On his own re-
sponsibility he went to
New York and Boston,
convened meetings OF
the bondholders and
pledged his personal
fortune for the re-
demption of the bonds.
His reputation for hon
esty and integrity was
so high in the east that
the guarantee w as
gladly accepted; and
he returned to Chicago
the savior of the city's
credit and the foremost
benefactor of that day.
When DIR. Pearsons,
way back in 1860, re-
solved to accumulate
Hk -
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Keen the EGGS Glenn.

Keep the eggs clean by keeping
the nests and everything about
the hen house clean. When eggs
get dirty, as they sometimes will
in spite of all precautions, they
should be washed before being
marketed, but it is better not to
have to wash them. Receivers of eggs
say that washed eggs will not keep,
and that the solutions sometimes used
to make dirty eggs look nice and clean
destroy the quality. Often eggs so
treated spoil before the lot can be
jobbed educational Stockman.
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HANDY FARM BUILDING.
1t IL Combination of Corn Cribs ani
Piggery, and Possesses Many
ADVANTAGES.

My combined corn cribs and piggery
is very convenient arrangement.
This cold winter weather my 70-gallon
feed cooker comes in right handy. We
warm or boil all our small potatoes
and other vegetables, milk, etc., in it.
The kettle is filled at night, couple
of chunks of wood thrown in, the fire.
place closed tight and in the morning
Williston graphic. (Williston, Williams County, N.D.) 1895-1919, 1900-04-05
HENH0UsE WINDOWS
A Plan That Works Well Under All
Circums tances Where Winters
Are Not Too Cold.

The window here illustrated was
recently described as in use by noted
poultry fancier. The method of con.
struction is here pictured. The win.
dow is low, and has the sashes hinged
SO that one may step out into the yard
from the henhouse through the win.
dow. The upper sash is hinged at the
top and swings out, being held up
Williston graphic. (Williston, Williams County, N.D.) 1895-1919, 1900-04-05
AN IDEAL PHILANTHROPIST
Dr.. D. K. PEARsoNs, Of Chicago

portation enterprises and other COM
mercial ventures. He bought Chicago
city lots and improved property, in
vested in Michigan pine lands and
dealt in logs.
Whatever he touched seemed to turn
to gold. The hopes of his middle age
had reached fruition; and in 1875 he
entered upon his matchless career as
philanthropist, the city of Chicago
being his first beneficiary. In that
year the western metropolis, still suf-
fering from the evil effects of the great
fire, had reached the end of it's credit.
The tax levies were in dispute, all
claims against the municipality were
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According to the Canadian expert
ment station reports, rape stands at
the head of the list of forage plants
used as a green food for the growth
of lambs in both carcass and fleece.
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He Dealt in His Dream.

"May you take this lesson home with you
tonight, dear friends" concluded the
preacher at the end Of very long and weari.
some sermon "And may its spiritual truths
sink into your hearts and lives to the
end that your souls may experience saliva,
ton. We will now bow our heads in prayer.
Deacon White, will you lead?''
There was no response.
Deacon White this time in louder
voice: deacon White, will you lead?"
Still no response. It was evident that the
made a third appeal and raised his voice to
pitch that succeeded in waking the drowsy
man.
deacon White, will you please lead?"
The deacon rubbed his eyes and opened
them wonderingly.
rs it my lead? .No-I just dealt" DE.
troit Free Press.
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Especial New York letter.
70 CASE in the history of A

MO CASE in the history of Amer
IN icun criminal jurisprudence
has caused greater interest
among the lawyers of all nations than
that which ended in New York the
other day in the conviction of Roland
Burnham Molineux for the murder of
Mrs. Kate j. Adams.
Told in brief, the history of the
crime for which Molineux is to
pay the death penalty is as follows:
Mrs. Adams, a widow 50 years of age.
died suddenly on Wednesday morning.
December 2s, 1898, at her home, No. 81
West Eighty-sixth street, New York,