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The St. Louis Republic., 1903-10-25

formal way on certain days. and quite
| like the Washington way were "at home
10 anybody who cared To call. Strangers
| who spent their daytime hours at the fair
were not permitted TO remain at p1ky
hotels in the evening. but had every cp-
portunity to make friends with the native
ChicagOan and t. see him in his own 5ri-
/ vats lair.
You can figure out how strong was the
cordial feeling which these visitors took
! away from Chicago: how many OF them
came again: how many more have lent
II cir social and their practical business
! a,d to the Windy City in the decade that
has followed. These things are hard to
estimate. but their value is infinitely great.
no one can gainsay that fact.
Another thing don't let US wait until
next summer is here 10 begin the process
Of entertaining.
NoR IS the appointed time.
The moment "a foreigner Of prominence
arrives in the CITY Of London he is delugei
with cards OF invitation. He cannot Dos
sibly accept all the dinners. the receptions.
the luncheons. the banGuets that are i'm
mediateIy planned. perhaps not with en-
tire reference TO himself. but which are at
least meant to include him as an honored
person.
Nobody feels quite 50 lonely in a new
city as one who speaks a foreign tongue.
II he is a person Of importance he pToba-
bly, has enough English at his tongues
eBd for all social purposes. and he should
have an immediate chance to improve the
same by using il across the dinner table
and over milady's cup OF afternoon tea
The foreign persons who are 10 be with
us for the next year are invariably Of the
highest culture and refinement. They are
distinctly worth while. And they viii ac-
cept every invitation with the greatest
pleasure and thankfulness. am quite
sure.
Therefore. it does not behoove us 10 al
low the Mexican. nor the japanese. nor
again the Cuban Commissioner. 90 lam
Euish in his apartments in the Planters
every dne night this autumn. Let Us send
him a card to our little dinner for this
week or next week Never mind II We
haven't met him. Let Us 20 TO call on
him or leave our pasteboards some day
before the dinner II that is practicable. II
We are man,and our wife contsnplates
giving the dinner. II We can't 20 invite
him anyway
When the ladies Of the commission ar
rive. OF course. it Is better form 10 pay
visits first. but let Us show sorle hearty
The St. Louis Republic., 1903-10-25

ard unmistakabl, desire to h. h0spitable
| TO these persons Of distinction who are here
from other countries. and show 10 now.
not next summer when they will have
their countrymen around them and have
begun to work Of the overwhelming spirit
OF stranEencss in a strange land.
MRS. WELLS.
As wife of the present Mayor OF ST.
Louis. who will also be the Worlds Fair
Mayor. Mrs. Rolla Wells occupies the de-
cidedly pleasant and enviablc position Of
first lady OF the city. Her social duties
therefore. are heavy and are rapidly ac-
cuInulating- BY next summer they will
have reached appalling heights.
Fortunately. she Is "a woman of marked
social procliyities and "a sjngularly genial
and kindly nature. well fitted. therefore,
TO entertain vast crowds OF strangers. who
will MI her handsome and lately remOd-
eled house in IIndell boulevard. and who
must be made welcome AT all costs.
Plans for specific entertaining OF the Nis-
itors are still in nchuloUs condition. 50
far as Mrs. Wells IS concerned The house.
however is being greatly enlarged and ar
rangements made whereby nearly all the
rooms on the lower floor may De thrown to-
gether. thus making an ideal reception
floor. wherein hundreds OF guests may te
comfortable and happy. \ palm room will
be one of the new feature.
Here Mrs Wells. aided by her daughter.
Mrs. Clark Street,. will receive ON certain
days and evenings. and probably give a
series OF large formal receptions In adii-
tion TO her general entertaining.
After the Fair H. regularly opened. there
Will doubtless he absolutely no nights when
the Wells family will dine alone. and the
days when Mrs. Wells is not giving either
a tea or a ladies' luncheon viii be few and
far between Distinguished persons OF
foreign extraction will find their way al
most Immediately to the Wells residence.
and il will constitute a center Of social life
and delightful meeting Erouud Tor
t0wnsueoplc of importance and these Wis
itors
MRS. FRANCIS
Mr. David Rowland Fran-is's social
prominence. even befora AZ Francis he
came president OF the Louisiana Purchase
EXPOSITION Company. would naturally
make her a central fEgrc IN the entertain
ing which will devolvc ON aH ST Louis
women next vcgg- The F-lHcis m11-i11
in Maryland avenue g. one % the real
'srow place. az TIC ,ity. and during ''rn
period has beeu f-cqIer-.y
opencd Tor social purror-s. always vi;h
Ms. Fr=a-ls - - -EacioUs. jiEE!ned and
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1903-03-25

Mr. McCuen introduced resolution
appropriating 81, 500 for stone crusher
referred to committee on finance and
streets.
Mr.. Leadbeater said that there was no
need of stone crusher at this time as
cobble stones we're worth more to the city
as cobbles than as crushed stone.
The halfburned hose reel at the Co
lumbia engine house was donated 70
that company.
A bill to appropriate 81 600 to extend
the sewer on Queen street from Column
bus to Alfred street was passed into an
ordinance, yeas IL, nays 0.
A bill to gravel Queen street from
Washington street to Fayette street and
put in cutters above Henry street was
referred.
Mr.. D. R. Stansbury, 2O7 north Co
lumbus street, was authorized to put a
frame addition to his dwelling with the
consent of the adjoining property holders.
Council concurred with the Aldermen
in allowing Trinity NJ. E. Church t
use cluster of electric lights to orna
ment the pulpit.
A request of Richard Gibson that tn
Alfred street sewer be extended to hi
property at the corner of King and Al
fred streets was referred.
Council then adjourned.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1903-03-25
WEDNESDAY EVENING, MAR. %, 1908.

THE LATEST illustration Ofthevarylng
change of fortune wrought by time is af-
forded by the death yesterday Of Gen.
Carlos Ezeta, former President of Sal
vador, at the Civil Hospital, at Mazatlan,
Mexico. He had lived at Mazatlan
wear or more. Lately he had been re-
duced to absolute want. He was de-
serted by his friends and will be buried
at the expense of Governor Canedo.
Carlos Ezeta's rapid rise to power was as
remarkable as his ending is pathetic. He
was one of the conspicuous figures in
South America not many years ago. His
adventurous spirit, his bold fighting
qualities made him the idol of his army
and finally the head of a prosperous re-
public. In the turmoil of Central
American revolutions and wars Ezeta
found many opportunities to display his
military talents and to win promotion.
He finally lost power and fled from his
country and was condemned to death
should he return. With lost fortune
and power he lost friends and died in
exile. 'Fate filings the dice and as
she filings makes Of kings peasants and
of peasants kings"
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1903-03-25

was referred TO the joint Committee on
Finance and Streets.
A resolution appropriating 81 800 TO pur-
chase stone crusher, was referred to the
Joint Committee on Finance and Streets.
A recommendation of the Committee on
Public Property appropriating 81, 900 to erect
suitable buildings at the Columbia engine
house TO replace those destroyed by fire, was
referred to the Committee on Finance.
A bill from II. w. Wildt & Son for atten-
ton ID town clock, $3.50, was referred to the
Committee on Finance.
A petition from Richard Gibson for extern
ton of sewer on south Alfred street, from
King street, was referred to the Committee on
Streets.
The Committee on Streets reported that
roller and stone crusher for street work
would cost between $3.50 and 50, 500. The
report was received.
Upon recommendation of the Fire Wardens,
the Columbia Engine Co., was given the re-
mains of the hose reel partly destroyed by
fire.
Permission was granted d. r. Stansbury to
erect frame addition on the rear of 207 north
Columbus street.
The following were received from the Board
of Aldermen and their action concurred in :
A petition from J. A. Jeflers for using electric
lights at Trinity NJ. +. Church alsoa resOlu
ton requesting the Committee on Streets to
recommend plan for improving Queen street
from Henry street to Washington street.
The board then adjourned.
FRED J. PAFF, President.
Teste: DANIEL X. STANSBURY, Clerk.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1903-03-25
VIRGINIA NEWS.

The food in the RappahannOck river
is subsiding.
AS a result of trouble at the Newport
News General Hospital many Of the
nurses have resigned.
George P. larry, who was member
of the Virginia constitutional convention,
died in Mecklenburg yesterday.
Governor Montague has appointed DR..
w. F. Greasy quarantine officer at New
port News to succeed DR.. S. w. Hobson.
Mrs. Elizabeth Wright, widow of Ben
ton Wright, Of Round Hill, died from I
complication of diseases on Friday, aged
so years.
John Jones died at his home in Fair
field, Northumberland county, at an early
hour Tuesday morning. He was about
40 years old.
Mr.. E. S. Trenary, of Round Hill,
died Sunday evening from paralysis,
aged ~ years. Mr.. Trenary was Con-
federate soldier, a member of the Eighth
Virginia Regiment.
The Baltimore conference of the NJ.
E. Church South opened today in Fred
ericlysburg. The opening sermon was
preached last night to large audience
by Few. w. N. Wagner, Of West Vir-
ginia.
George Cabell Rives died at CharlOtte'-
vile yesterday, aged Al. In 1861 be
entered the Confederate army, and later
was appointed quartermaster, with rank
of captain. From 1865 to 1871 he was
comptroller of the State of Texas.
A fire in a house on east Broad
street, In Richmond, last night
caused some thrilling scenes. A white
women, her child and a colored woman
were sleeping soundly when fireD Ell,
with the use of ladders, awakened the
sleepers and succeeded in gettir,g them
to places of safety.
The town of Dayton, B rockingham
county, which was destrovje by Sheri-
dams army during his plarch through
the Valley in 1864, was again visited by
fire yesterday, which involved loss of
$1S, 900. The fire burned nine build
ings, including dug store, hotel, post
Office, the United Bretheren Church,
two stores and several dwellings. The
fire broke out about $3.50 O'Clock in the
morning.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1903-03-25
FROM WASHINGTON.
correspondence Of the Alexandria Gazette.

Correspondence OF tne AleAaHuIia NdIette'l
Washington, d. c.. March %.
The blanket of the civil service is to
he thrown over thousands of new places
on April 10 by order of President Roose-
welt. On that date the "revision of the
civil service rules" which has been
under consideration since last August,
will 90 into effect, and the influence OF
"pull'' in public office will be, in theory
at least. materially lcssened. The effect
of the revision is to bring under the civil
service large numbers Of jobs that have
heretofore been designated as excepted
places" and to reduce the number OF
emergency and temporary positions IN
the gift of the heads of executive de-
partments. The places taken from the
excepted list includes large number
of private and confidential clerks, ship
ping commissioners, various superinten-
dents, engineers, examiners and miscel-
laneous position which experience has
shown can be better filled by promotion'or
transfer within the classified service. In
the new Department of Commerce there
are no exceptions at all, except of two
private secretaries, which are allowed tC
all heads of executive departments
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1903-03-25
A GOOD THING.

German Syrup is the special prescripa-
ton of DR.. A. Boschee, a celebrated Ger
man Physician, and is acknowledged to-
be one of the most fortunate discoveries
in Medicine. 1t quickly cures Coughs,
Colds andal Lung troubles Of the sever
est nature, removing, as it does, the
cause of the affection and leaving the
parts in a strong and healthy condition.
1t is not an experimental medicine, but
has stood the test of years, giving salts
faction in every case, which its rapidly
increasing sale every season confirms.
Two million bottles sold annually. Bos-
chee's German Syrup was introduced in
the United States in 1868, and is nov
sold in every town and village in the civ
ilized world. Three doses will relieve
any ordinary cough. Price 20 and 40 cts.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1903-03-25

RATHER THAN pay fine and serve a
iail sentence, three citizens Of Roanoke
Yesterday submitted to the vaccination
ordinance of that city, and at Asheville,
N. c., last week Prof "A. T. Weaver, at
the head of leading educational institu-
ton, was sent to Jail because he refused
to be vaccinated and also because of his
refusal to pay a fine Of s25 for the same.
And still people boast that this is a
country of personal liberty Numbers
of prominent physicians disbelieve the
vaccination theory entirely and believe
that the risk one runs in having foreign
matter injected into his veins is too
great for mere chance Of preventing
smallpox. But such people under pres
ent arbitrary laws in some Of the States
are liable to fine and imprisonment for
refusal to be vaccinated. In years to
come people will read such things as this
with wonderment.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1903-03-25
MEDICINAL.
Doubtful RunlOr
And Still Scores of Alex
andria People Accept
Them as Facts.

The published statement of some stranger
residing in PARKWAY place may be true
enough, but it is generally accepted as a
doubtful rumor. How can it be verified?
The testimony which follows is convincing
proof because it comes from resident Of Alex
andria.
Mrs. Jane E. Beach, Of 525 south Lee street,
saws: "a severe cold some three years ago
seemed 10 settle even in my bones, at least 1t
affected my limbs and every joint in my body
and confined me TO my bed for some time
from its direct effects. ! have since had more
or less trouble with my back and kidneys.
The aching was not constant but Il came on
in attacks, some of them decidedly violent.
The stitches radiated from my back to the
left side and made it nigh impossible to stoop
or if managed to stoop after q heroic effort
| it was just as difficult 10 straighten. My at
tention was called to Doan's Kidney Pills
and the fattering statements made about
them in newspapers easily influenced me TO
90 to i. S. Leadbeater & Sons drugstore for
a box. They helped me promptly, quietly
and permanently. | am only too grateful for
| the relief"
For sale by all dealers. Price 80 cents.
Foster. Milburn Co., Buffalo, n. Y, sole
agent for the United States.
Remember the name-Doan's-and take no
other.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1903-03-25
TELEGRAPHIC BREVITIEs.

The cup defender Reliance will be
launched at Bristol, r. l., in April.
The Sax Bank, at Quincy, Ohio, has
closed its doors and from the litigation
already begun, there seems little hkh-
hood that it will resume.
John Mitchell President of United
Mine Workers, now at Huntington, w.
Va, in the interest of the West Virginia
miuers, addressed about 5000 people
yesterday afternoon on the subject of
strikes.
Mrs. Mary Ferguson was arresten at
Olive Hill, KY, Tuesday charged with
trying to murder Mrs. Catherine Wilson,
wife of Postmaster Wilson, by giving
poison, claiming it was headache pow
der. Mrs. Wilson is not expected to
live.
People who have arrived in New
Orleans from Honduras report affairs in
that place so decidedly unsatisfactory by
reason of the revolutionary spirit mani
tested there. Overt acts are common
and at times considerable danger is in
Cured by non-combattants.
The New York, New Haven and
Hartford Railroad Company has granted
the increase in wages asked by its en-
ployes. The directors, however, refuse
to recognize the joint committee Of the
conductors and trainmen, as such, for
the purpose of granting joint schedule.
Rev. f. G. Crabill has resigned his
pulpit at Halstead, Pa, to become
pitcher of the Columbus, Ohio, base
ball team. He was offered position of
$3.50 a month on the Columbus team,
and accepted. He makes an ironclad
reservation that under no circumstances
will he play Sunday.
The official vote compiled today shows
that only four of the ten amendments to
the constitution were adopted by the
people at the recent special election in
| New Hampshire. Those that went
through were the amendments establish
ing an educational test for voters revis-
ing the militia law, authorizing the tax
alton of inheritances and franchises, and
giving the legislature power to regulate
trusts OF all the amendments the worst
beaten was that granting suffrage to wo-
men, the vote on which stood: Yeas
Is, 0S9, nays p, 76S.
The Old Forge breaker and three miners
homes at Wilkesbarre Pa, owned by the
Erie Coal Company, were burned TO the
ground last night, entailing loss of many
! thousand dollars. Sixteen hundred men and
bows are thrown out Of employment in con-
sequence.
The Harine Villa Hotel at Cape May, N.
j.. owned by Mrs. John NJ. Rogers, of Viii
mington, Del. and valued at about S6o,Oo'
was destroyed by fire early this morning.
-Four women narrowly escaped death from
ptomaine poisoning yesterday at the hote
Veley in Chicago. The poison was IN canned
peas. which they had eaten at luncheon.
o. al Cottrf hOIrgf
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1903-03-25
MRS. BURDICK ON THE STAND.

District Attorney Coatsworth reached
the climax of his rigid two-day examine
ton of Mrs. Burdick, the widow Of the
murdered man, when at the inquest in
Buffalo yesterday afternoon he asked her
these questions:
"Have you received any information
as to who killed your husbandf'
"No, SIR"
'Yod swear you have no knowledge
or information as to who killed him~
81 do"
Mrs. Burdick was on the witness-stand
for five hours yesterday, and without
sign of emotion concluded the confession
of her relations with Arthur Pennell down
to the day of her husbands murder. She
admitted meeting him clandestineiy in
private houses, behind locked doors and
at various hotels in New York and At
lantic City. She identified the passion
ate and gushing letters he had sent her,
and after the district attorney had con-
cluded his examination, and she was TAX
en- in hand by her own lawyer, she sol
omnly swore that there had never been
anything improper or immoral in her con-
duct with Pencil.
In answer to questions by her own
lawyer she said that Pennell was man
of mystery, who frequently conducted
his affairs with great secrecy; that he
was extremely proud and sensitive, and
that he and Mrs. Pennell, too, had
worried greatly over the exposure which
the divorce suit brought by Mr.. Burdick
threatened.
She clearly intimated her belief that
he was desperate enough to have gone
to the Burdick house the night of the
murder. She said that Mrs. Pencil
had been meeting Mr.. Burdick and
writing to him, and that if Mrs. Pen
nell had gone to the house the night of
the murder to plead with Burdick she
felt sure he would have admitted her.
Mrs. Pencil, she further said, was
familiar with the dining room and the
den.
The door to the den was always kept
open. A visitor could look through the
window of the outer door from the
yestibule and see into the den, and by
tapping on the glass could have at
tracted Burdick without arousing any
one asleep upstairs.
Her testimony indicated clearly the
theory entertained by herself and her
lawyer, that Mrs. Pencil was the
woman in the den on the night of the
murder, and that Pencil, after setting
the trap, found her there with Burdick.
Some very interesting letters were in
troduced in the evidence. In these
Pennell bemoand the hopelessness of his
love and told Mrs. Burdick that fate
would soon remove him from her path.
Mrs. Pencil had written letters to
Burdick pleading with him to take back
his wife, and warming him that unless
he did Pennell was certain to take some
desperate action. In one of these she
expressed the fear that Pencil would
take his own life and that Of Mrs. Bur
dick if the divorce suit were pressed.
Throughout all the proceedings it was
made clear that Pencil was madly in
love with Mrs. Burdick, and that she
was unable to resist his advances and
his love messages.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1903-03-25
WABASH AND WASHINGTON.


1t seems to I've certain that the Wabash
Railroad is coming to Washington
Movements on the part of the Wabash
management seem to indicate that the
proposed Old Dominion and Great Falls
electric line is to be a part of the line,
and the rumOr is persistent that Mr.. j.
r. Mclean is acting as an Intermediary
for the Wabash, and that the formal
transfer of the electric line will be made
to the Wabash at the request of the trunk
line management. In the meantime,
the work Of constructing the tracks for
the Great Falls line will be pushed as
rapidly as possible.
This is taken toprOye that the Wabash
will enter Washington from the Virginia
side and the route from the main line.
running from Cherry Run to Baltimore,
will be intersected at or near Hagers-
town. Md. In that event it is thought
the Wabash will build its line from
Hagerstown or near there, to Harper
Ferry, w. Va, and then run along the
south side of the Potomac river to Great
Falls, where the right of way acquired
bv the Old Dominion and Great Falls
line will be utilized to reach Washing
ton. The Aqueduct bridge is not to be
used by the Wabash in entering Wash
ington. according to this story, but an
other bridge across the river is to be
constructed and an entrance effected to
the union station by that route. But it
is apparently regarded as uncertain that
the union station will be used in any
event. A station is now contemplated
for the exclusive use of the new line.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1903-03-25

RECENT ORDERS of courts filming mem
bers of beef and other trusts for CONSOLE
dating, ETC., seem to have no effect on
those monopOlists, for announcement OF
the incorporation of the National Pack
ing Company, capitalized at $l5, 600
600 and including several of the smaller
plants in Chicago, Omaha and else
where, is made today by ]. P. Lyman,
president of the company. Many think
that hanging will be the only effective
means against "mergers."
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1903-03-25

Six men were caught in the machinery
used in storing coal in huge piles at
South Amboy, N. j., last night. They
were at work in car Only one of
them escaped. One man was killed
outright, his head being severed from
the body; another had his legs crushed
and he was horribly cut about the BODY.
He died during the night. Two receiv-
ed comparatively slight injuries, but
another had both arms crushed and am
putation may be necessary. All the
men were Poles.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1903-03-25
The stnmach Is the Man.

A weak stomach weakens the man, DecarU
il cannot transform the food he eats INTO nsRI-
jshment. Health and strength cannot be re-
stored to any sick man or weak woman with
stomach A weak stomach cannet digest
enough food 10 feed the tissues and revive the
tired and run down limbs and organs of the
bodv. Kodol Dyspepsia Cure cleanses, puri-
ses sweetens and strengthens the glands and
membranes of the stomach, and cures indi--
sestion, dyspepsia and all stomach troubles.
IA s. Leadbeater 4 Sons.