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The Washington times., 1903-03-24
FINED $50
FOR PEEPING AT GIRLS
Colds Accused Theological Student of
Peering Through Windows.

CHICAGO. March 24.-Gustave Tuppr.
a theological student IN the Northwest
ern University and pastor OF the May
street Swedish Church. was fined $50 IN
an Evanston police court yesterday for
peeping at some fifty "co-eds" who
were disrobiug and retiring in the wom-
ems dormitory
iuppf was arrested Saturday night on
The complaint OF the girls. sunday he
conducted a service an his chanel and
deilFered an eloquent sermon. Yester-
day morning he faced tweuty-spven in
atEnant young women. who testified that
he prowled around their rooms night az
ter night. pressing his face against the
window pancs.
Maud Martin. q pretty girl. said she
raw him with hts eyes at the window
and running upstairs she dropped a
bueketful OF water on him. Tuppf will
now be tried by the faculty. and IL
found guilty. expelled
The Washington times., 1903-03-24
WOMAN DIES AFTER
YAWEING THREE DAYS

OSHKOSH, Wis. March 24.-After
yawning without interruption for three
days, despite every effort 10 relieve her
Mrs William Henry Jenner is dead.
Physicians decided that the woman
was suffering with an obscure lesion Of
the brain, producing laryngeal spasms.
Remedies and anesthetics were admins
tered without effect. Mrs. Jenner. una
bic 10 sleep, yawned until she could do
so no more from lack Of strength The
spasms continued and finally, after sew
enty-siX hours Of suffering, death en-
sued.
The Washington times., 1903-03-24

given the contract 20 build three brick
dwellings for James Frawley. on II
Street southwest
Work on the new Office building erect
ing for Barker Johnson. on 6 Street. is
progressing favorably. The steel rails.
.oT which Barber & Ross has the con-
tract. have been put in place for sew
eral stories. and work on other con-
tracts in connection with the building
viii soon be started.
Building Inspector Ashford issued the
following permits yesterday.
To John Madigan. 10 erect frame ad-
dition one story high and other repairs
10 house at 432 Monroe street. Anacos-
tia. Estimated cost Of the Improvement.
$500
To Emma L. McIntire. permit 10 make
general repairs 20 premises at 1872
nirty-third Street northwest
To American Security and Trust Com
pany. permit 20 repair front OF 4s8
Louisiana Avenue. and put In condition
10 be used for Office purposes
To John A. Buckler. permit to erect
one three story and cellar brick dwell
ing at j1l6 East Capitol Street Estf-
mated cost TO be $500
To James Frawley. permit 10 erect
three tWO-story brick dwellings at 3Il
3lS. S15 II Street southwest. Cost TO be
s.. Goa
The Washington times., 1903-03-24
MILLIONAIRE'S MONEY
TO FOUND A SCHOOL
But Daughter of Arioch Wentworth, of
Boston, VIII Contest the Will.

BOSTON. March 24-By the will OF
Arioch Wentworth. the Boston real es-
tate millionaire. the estate. estimated
a. $1,000, 600. with the exception OF a
few annuities. goes 10 found an indus
trial school 90 be called the AriOch
Wentworth Industrial school
Mr. Wentworth left a daughter. Mrs
Willoughby Stuart. and two grandsons.
Mrs stuart Is 70 receive an annuity Of
$4,000, and each OF the young men an
annuity OF 81. 0G0
Mrs. Stuart viii contest the will.
The Washington times., 1903-03-24
NO FISH DISEASE
IN THE TIDAL BASIN
Dead Bass There Died From
Natural Causes in Winter.
BACILLUS OF FINNY TRIBE
That and a Fungus Growth Sometimes
Attack the Fish and Kill Them
by the Hundred.

NJ. c. Marsh, expert on diseases Of
fish. submitted to the Fish Commission
yesterday his report on the dead Ash
which were found in the tidal basin last
week. The reports allay the fears that
a serious disease has broken out among
the FISH or that the water OF the basin 5
seriously polluted Mr.. Marsh has come
TO the conclusion that the fourteen or
fifteen black bass which he found died
during the winter from natural causes.
and are just coming to the surface as "a
consequence Of the warm weather and
the rush OF water caused by spring
floods. They had been dead a long time
and were in such putrid condition that
IL was hard 10 examine them closely.
Several sunfsh and catfish which had
died more recently were taken TO his
laboratory by Mr.. Marsh. and will be
subjected 10 microscopic examination
Fish Diseases.
There are diseases which attack fish
and occasionally do great damage. One
OF them is caused by bacillus which has
been isolated by the Fish Commission
and given careful attention. Ii causes
pustules TO appear on the body attack
ed. and these pustules break and spread
the disease
Other diseases Of fish are marked by a
tu1EuS which is found on its victims
Years ago a fungus growth attacked the
salmon IN Scotch rivers, and was care
fully studied by Huxley and other noted
scientists. The same disease Is found
among American fishes at times, and
kills them by the hundred
Work of the Fungus.
The fungus is most. frequently observed
I'm aCuaria or in ponds where Ash are
closely confined. IL will also attack
flies or other foreign matter which may
be thrown into the aquarium containing
the infected fish.
A fungus may strike only one species
Of FISH. or several species. In the Schuyl-
Kill a fungus attacked the suckers some
years ago. and IL was no trouble to find
dead or dying fish. and various varieties
Of game fish have suffered in different
streams.
The only way to combat FISH diseases
seems 10 be 10 take out all the sickly
Ssh as soo2 as found. which is manifest
~ only practicable In aquaria or small
ponds
The Washington times., 1903-03-24
SARAH E. wYMANs WILL.

Sarah F. Wyman. by her Will, dated
November 2S. 1886. leaves the greater
part of her estate to her sister Mary F.
King, who is named as executrix. She
also leaves small requests in cash 20
her brother. .Oliver B. Wyman and
other relatives.
The Washington times., 1903-03-24
WAGE INCREASE DEMANDED.

WOONSOCKET. r. l.. March 24.-Ors
hundred boys and girls employed In the
frame spinning department OF the
Nourse mill struck yesterday when an
increase Of 10 per cent in wages was re
fused them. They maintain that since
the strike OF spinners in the ManviIle
Company mills. they have been set %
work spinning filling Hence the de-
mand for an increase in wages.
The Washington times., 1903-03-24
THE WORK OF LOCAL BUILDERS.

The work OF preparing for the new
addition 70 Hechrs store. on Seventh
Street northwest. IS progressing rapid
" The excavation for the foundation
has almost been finished. and as tho
main building has been supported by
braces the work OF finishing the digging
can be carried On
The Washington times., 1903-03-24

The new dwelling OF John A. Buckler.
TO be built ar ZIG East Capitol Street. Is
10 be built in the most modern style. and
IS 70 have brick and stone front O.
II tiillett the builder. OF Z4Z Ninth
Street northeast. has the contract for
construction.
The Washington times., 1903-03-24

The rain OF The past three days has
brought all building IN the city pracu-
cally 10 standstill. In every case
where new foundations are being dug
the water Is quite deep. and in many
places has completely ruined what work
had already been done
The Washington times., 1903-03-24

J. Paul Jones. the contractor. OF s23
Delaware Avenue northeast, has been
The Washington times., 1903-03-24

Bids on the house 70 be built IN
Georgetown FOR Mr.. Hail were not open
ed yesterday. as anticipated one OF the
prospective bidders has not submitted
his estimate. The opening OF the bids
Will be postponed until IL r. received.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1903-07-23
A JOcular Department.

From time to time certain critical
and observant folks have expressed
their doubts as to the necessity and
value of many of the sayings and do
ings OF the Department of Agriculture
at Washington, but it may be con-
ceded that the Department is always
good for one thing and that is to pro-
woke smile.
One time the Department deems it
incumbent upon itself to see whether
1t can produces a breed of featherless
chickens. Then it turns up micro
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1903-07-23

scopic eye on the habits and lurking
evils of the ladybug. Then its atten-
ton is diverted to the subject of food
adulteration, and dozen attaches of
the Department are condemned to live
for months on manufactured and sus-
poctedly adulterated foods,
A grinning ration looks on and
terms these devoted eXponents of the
Departments methods 1.-The Roison
Squad" while the place where the eat
ing is done is designated by the irrever-
emily suggestive name of 1.-The Borax
Boarding House" The humor of the
situation is increased by the fact that
these martyrs to the cause of science
don't grow pale and die, but thrive
and take on avoirdupois while living
on the embalmed diet At last this
experiment also draws near its end.
If there are any results that are
worthy to be classed in the annals of
exact research, they aren't stated.
But the ever-ready Department can't
be cornered. 1t instantly comes for
ward with another scheme. The
main thing is to have something un-
usual going on, and with the passing
of 1.-The Poison Squad" another array
of bold adventures into the domain of
the unknown makes its collective bow
to an amazed and amused public.
Now the Agricultural Department is
to size up the tobacco question, and to
do it there must be set to work a
select company of tobacco users who
are accurately marked off into three
classes smokers, chewers and snuff
ers.
1t IS gravely announced that it is
planned by this means to learn from
experiment the effects OF tobacco on
the human system--in other words,
the smokers must smoke, the chewers
must chew and the snuffers must snuff
until the wiseacres of the Department
cry "No more"
This opens wonderful vista.
Think of the rivalry as to who shall
try the effects of the ifty-cent Havana
and who shall be condemned to the
two for five or shall be limited to the
small and insidious circlet of the snuff
box.
The main trouble OF the Department
in this new freak will probably be
justly to apportion the work of snuff
ing, smoking and chewing.
But when the tobacco squad has
done its work it will be hard to con-
vince practical public that the whole
thing is aught but farce. 81. Louis
World.
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meaning Of the term "within the
United States" the thirteenth amend
ment concludes "or any place subject
to their Jurisdictions
And yet when on territory over
which this government has established
jurisdiction, the institution of slavery
hourishes, the Republican admins
tration engages in a treaty in which a
magnificent tribute is paid to liberty
to the extent that it is provided that
"any slave may purchase his freedom
by paying to the master the usual mar
ket price" And now, as another
magnificent tribute to liberty, the
Philippine commission, in the bill re-
Gently enacted, ':authorizes the coun-
Gil to abolish slavery"
What a mighty privilege it is for an
official body representing republic
and having authority over territory
presumed to be part of a republic to
receive from the Philippine commits
sion the authority to abolish slavery"
Tile Con1nloner.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1903-07-23

Every one is familiar with the effort
to locate water by the use of the witch
hazel weed, and now we are told that
electricity is to be put to new use by
taking the place of the witch hazel
wand. The officials of the geological
survey are just now experimenting
with Il little electrical device which
they hope will develop into reliable
water detector. A writer in the Kan
sas City Star, referring to this device,
says: at is something like the seis-
mograph used for determining earth
quake disturbances, and is so delicately
adjusted that it records the slightest
vibration. By these vibrations the
presence of subterranean streams are
not only determined, but the volume
and direction of the flow are also ac-
curately recorded. This instrument
will be Of great value to the irrigator
and farmer. as it will enable him to
drive his wells where he will find
water. In tests made with the new
electrical device steel rods are driven
short distance into the earth and at
tached to the machine. The slightest
vibration is recorded on the dial.
There is an attachment resembling
the telephone receiver by which the
vibrations are converted into sound
waves. In testing for water the vol
ume of these sound waves are COM
pared to the total minor vibrations
from other causes in the areas Of the
same size in which it is known no
water exists. The device will not
work satisfactorily in regions where
there are volcanoes or other seismic
disturbances. The officials of the geo
logical survey believe the device can
be used to indicate the presence of oil,
but the vibrations caused by oil are
not so great as those of water and con-
sequently much more difficult to detect.
Oil is always found at greater depths
than water, and for that reason more
delicately adjusted instrument will be
necessary. "-The Commoner.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1903-07-23

Following close upon the several de-
velopments in the Postof1ice Depart
ment, comes the charge that extensive
frauds are suspected in connection
with the purchase OF seed by the De-
partment of Agriculture. The Wash
ington correspondent for the Cincin-
natl Enquirer says that it is alleged
that the government has lost large
sums OF money, either through irregu-
lar practices or negligence, or both.
1t is said that shortages occurred in
all seed shipments sent out by the De
partment. that packets were divided
into the smallest compass, by which
means the light weight of the packets
sent out was concealed; that the
cheapest kinds of seeds were frequently
and knowingly substituted for the
costly varieties; that the cheapest
kind Of paper, much below the stand
ard required, was used to pack seeds,
by which the contractor saved several
thousand dollars.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1903-07-23
Arnanlents.

The great 'maments of the world,
which now sost the nations, directly
and indirectly, more than t1Oo thousand
millions annually, continue in all their
burdensomeness and menace TO civil
ization. Land armaments in European
countries seem to have reached about
the limit of their possible growth.
The rivalry has now transferred itself
mainly to the ocean. Into this rivalry,
we much regret to have to say, our
own country has entered more deeply
the past gear than eUer before, and the
present lead of the government and
infatuate following of the people be-
token still deeper sinking into what
is contrary to all the previous history
and policies of the nation, and what
seems to US to bode no good to America
or the world. The ideas under whose
impulsion this naval incubus is being
loaded upon the country seem to us to
be thoroughly false and un-American.
The pretended dangers which are put
forward to enforce the necessity of a
great navy are baseless and unreal.
The grounds of our safety, respect
from abroad and peace in the past are
the grounds of our security and honor
still. To become like one of the mill
tary powers, on the sea or anywhere
else, is for the nation to expose itself
to the weaknesses, the entanglements,
the alarms, the perils and the degener-
alton which always stalk in the wake
of militarism. 1t is not too late yet
for our beloved country to stop short
in the new course on which it has en-
tered, and every consideration of
strength, security, honor and useful
ness demand that it should do So
Our Dnnl6 AninaIS.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1903-07-23
An Anti.Cleyelaud Protest.

The papers have been telling what
a strong Cleveland sentiment there
was in Pennsylvania, The Democratic
County Committee of Lancaster coun-
ty, Pennsylvania, met early this month
and unanimously passed the following
resolution:
"ReSoIUed, That we condemn the at
tempt Of the so-called reorganizers,
who, with the aid of Republican news
papers, are trying to boom the nomi-
nation of a candidate who is repug-
nant to Il vast majority of the Demo-
crat party; and it is our opinion that
no mem bers of the party who believes
in the principles laid down by Jetfer-
son and jackson and is loyal to the
best traditions of the party can favor
such Il movement.
This does not look much like a
Cleveland landslide. When the voters
speak it will be found that the re.
organizers are far less numerous than
the trust-ridden metropolitan papers
would make it appear. The Com
7llOler.
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badly broken, openly and rejoicingly,
Pennypacker himself being made the
special object of the lawbreakers' con-
tempt and laughter.
What is he going to do about it?
Has he the courage to bring suits un-
der the preposterous statute which,
while signing, he defended in paper
that demonstrated equally the empti-
ness of his head and the soreness of
his temper? Or will he order out the
militia to suppress the newspapers
! that most insolently mock him? He
intimated that such might be his
course on provocatian, and certainly
no donkey in Office was ever more
cruelty switched than he.
The confederated scoundrels who
rule Pennsylvania possess enormous
power. That is because the incorpor-
ated pedatory wealth of the common
wealth is behind them, for personally
they are greatly inferior in brains to
looting politicians elsewhere. In most
other States Pennsylvania foremost
buccaneers would be in the forecastle.
! That a person of Pennypacker's cali
bre should rank as an intellectual
giant in the estimation of the leaders
of the machine sufficiently indicates
their own mental grade. They actual
ly had childlike faith that by leg
islation it was practicable to choke
off the press criticisms of ther bal
lot box stuffing and boodling. The
amazing Pennypacker, with his vii
lage mind, evidently shared this SIM
pie faith to the full. Therefore all
hands on board Quay's private brig,
from the captain down, are astounded
and dismayed at the temerity of the
newspapers in firing rebellious broad
sides instead of lowering their flags
on the run in submissive terror as was
expected.
Pennypacker, standing for the in
telect and morals of Quay's machine,
has placed Pennsylvania on exhibition
before the astonished American peo-
pie. The result is Notifying to Penn
sylvania, but the experience will do
| her good. In mere shame the ma
chine, as dull as it is corrupt, ought
to be smashed. San Francisco En-
anatner.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1903-07-23

The Truer Love.

You're petted now, Estelle, and madly
praised
By men who worship beauty, youth and
grace,
On pedestals of fattery they've raised
A statued Venus fair of form and face;
In Poesy they've rhymed each golden curl,
In Art they've lmned with chronic
dreams of paint
Your features so Madonna-like, dear girl,
And given you the halo of saint
Though beauty-lovers kneel before your
shrine
And rhyme or paint or sing your wond-
rous charms,
Pm happy, dear, to think no tongue but
mine
Hath told what peace and rests within
your arms;
And when your sun-kissed curls to gray
shall turn,
Your beauty, now rose-crowned, be
wreathed with rue,
No longer iattered by the crowd you'll learn
But one man deeply loved the soul of you!
Roy Farrell Greene.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1903-07-23
A Mighty Privilege.

A Manila cablegram through the
Associated press, referring to the bill
for the government Of the Moros sen
acted" by the Philippine commission,
says that "the measure authorizes the
council to abolish slavery"
That Is very important provision,
indeed. The thirteenth amendment
to the Federal Constitution says that
''neither slavery nor involuntary SER
vitude except as punishment for crime,
whereof the party shall have been
duly convicted, shall exist within the
United States;" and then as if antici-
pating that some new tangled inter-
probation might be placed upon the
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1903-07-23
Misguided ZealOt.

AS illustrating the sort of Christians
who have zeal, "but not according
to knowledge" there has been moth
ing more striking recently than the
action of the New Jersey Sunday
School teachers denouncing Santa
Claus as a "relic of barbarism," and
deciding that henceforward he should
not be recognized in Sunday School
Christmas entertainments. They re-
gard the St. Nicolas idea as a ''med-
iaeval myth unworthy of consideration
by Christian children" and propose to
hold Christmas entertainments con-
sisting of songs and stereopticon views.
What cheerful idiocy! 1t is this
idea that "Christian children" must
have nothing that is not useful and in
structive that has made Sunday School
an object of aversion to dozens OF
youngsters. These preposterous re-
formers might as we'll urge the aboli-
tion of baby rattles on the ground that
they are hollow frauds. and demand
that infants be given instead brooms,
brushes or tools, which would serve to
turn their thoughts toward useful oc-
cupations. Santa Claus may have
been myth originally, but now he is
an institution, and one of the most
useful ones there is for impressing on
the infantile mind that there is a re-
ward for good behavior.
What if Santa Claus is a myth, so
long as the myth is interesting to
children and furnishes them a vast
amount of innocent pleasure? Robin
son Cruso is very largely myth, and
the Mother Goose characters even
more so, but are these sources OF
amusement and entertainment to be
cut off on that account? And where
is the line to be drawn? There are a
great many good people who are in
clined to look on "the star of Beth
lehem" as myth, ard the "Wise
Men" and the shepherds who heard
and saw the angel host. In fact, the
record of these things seems to have
got into the scriptures on the authority
Of Mary alone, for St. Luke says, "But
Mary kept all these things and pom
dered them in her heart"
But whether they were actual hap
penings or not is quite immaterial.
They are instructive in beneficial
way, and frequently valuable truth
can be impaired through fiction than
in any other way. Probably there
was never a book that taught more
things to more people than Aesop's
Fables, and the fact that the fables are
not true does not affect their value in
the slightest We would advise the
New Jersey Sunday School teachers,
when they meet again, to get some
righteous man to make fervent
prayer for q visitation of common
sense on the convention. Indian
nDOLis State Sentinel,
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1903-07-23
Pennsylvania Privates AstOnished.

Governor Pennypacker, of Pennsyl-
vania who in the service Of the Quay
machine signed the bill designed to
muzzle the press Of his State, has dis
covered that the thing is not to be
done. The press defes him, and
treats him as the tool and fool he has
proved himself to be. The new law is
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1903-07-23
You Know What You Are Taking

When you take Groves Tasteless
Chill Tonic because the formula is
plainly printed on every bottle show
ing that it is simply Iron and Quinine
in a tasteless form. No Cure, No
Pay. SOC.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1903-07-23
To Cure a Cold In One Day

Take Laxative Bromo Quinine Tab
lets. All druggists refund the money
if it fails to cure. E. W. Graves
signature is on each box. 25c.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1903-07-23

Strength and vigor como of good
food, duly digested. "Force, a ready
to-serye wheat and barley food, adds
no burden, but sustains, nourishes, in
vigorates.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1903-07-23
Summer Excursions.

Unusually low rates to Colorado,
Yellowstone Park, California and the
great northwest. Descriptive matter
and full particulars Union Pacific X.
r. Co., 903 Olive street, st. Louis, Mo.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1903-07-23

Ten pounds best Coffee for 81 at
Collins & Smith Grocery Co.'S store
Friday only.