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The midland journal., 1904-08-26
SHOT BY HIGHWAYMAN!
Albert Constable Dies From Bullet Wound
Inflicted By Footpad
A REWARD OF $4,000 IS OFFERED.

derer has been given out: White,
% years old; dark hair, smooth
face, slender build, 5 feet s inches;
wore black coat and pants, light
shirt, long narrow four. in hand tie,
black derby hat, and black shoes
with a piece torn off sole at toe on
right foot.
The remains of Mr.. Constable
were taken to his late home in Elk
ton on Tuesday morning, from
where the funeral will be held
Friday afternoon, with services at
4 o'clock; interment at the Elkton
Presbyterian cemetery.
Mr.. Albert Constable was widely
known throughout the State as an
able lawyer. For a number of
years he had been leader of the
Cecil county bar, and during that
time had figured on one side or the
other in almost every case of any
consequence in the courts in this
section.
Mr.. Constable was born in Balti.
more October "a, 1888. His father
was the late Judge Albert Con-
stable, his mother being Hannah
Archer Constable, of Hartford
county. Both the Archer and
Constable families for many gene
rations have been prominent in
their respective localities. DR..
John Archer, an ancestor of Mr..
Constable, enjoyed the distinction
of being the first graduate of med
icine in the United States and at
tanned prominence in his profession.
Albert Constable, father of Mr..
Constable, was a well known and
prominent lawyer and from 1851 to
1866 was Circuit Judge for the dis
trict comprising Baltimore and
Hartford counties and held the Of
fee at the time of his death, which
occurred August %, 1855. The
subject of the sketch was educated
in private schools at New London,
Pa, and Norwich, Conn, and when
about II years old entered Della
ware College, at Newark, Del,
graduating there in due time. He
then took up the study of law at
the Harvard Law School, where he
remained little over a year.
Leaving Harvard he continued his
legal studies in the offices of Henry
W. Archer, of Bel Air, who was
an uncle.
After his admission to the bar
Mr.. Constable opened an Office in
Baltimore, but he only remained
there a short while. He practiced
in Elkton nearly all his life, though
at one time he had an Office in
Wilmington.
He was a democrat and at the
time of his death was president of
the Maryland Democratic Associa-
tiOn. The only elective Office he
ever held was in 1876, when he
was elected member of the State
Legislature.
In 1866 Mr.. Constable married
Miss Elizabeth B. Groome, a sister
of former Governor and Senator
James Black Groome. She sur
wives, together with the following
children Messrs. Reginald, Al
bert, Henry L., William p. Con-
stable and Capt. John j. Constable
and Misses Airline, Katherine and
Mary Constable.
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PERSONALS.

III loS udIy NCioOu, VI DditliuOiCJ
is the guest of Mrs. Nellie Wagner.
Mrs. Fairbanks, of Baltimore, is
visiting Mrs. Mary G. Kirk and
family.
Summerill Diver of Penns Grove,
was the guest of Clifford Robertson
last week.
Miss Lorraine Lynch, of Whining
ton, lis visiting Miss Marion
Sheppard.
The Stephens family and a few
friends picniced at Gilpin's Rocks
on Thursday.
Miss Helen Mccoy has been Wis.,
iting relatives in York county the
the past week.
Ambrose Drennen has been
spending the past week at his
home, near Fair View.
Misses Mary and Addie Brown,
of Moundsville, w. Va, are visit
ing A. B. Keen and family.
Edgar Brown, of Philada., spent
Sunday at the summer cottage of
his parents, on the outskirts of
town.
Mr.. and Mrs. John Walker and
son, of Hockessin, are the guests
of John L. Stephens and family
near town.
The engagement has been an
nounced of Miss Elizabeth st. Clair,
of near town, and Arthur Garvin,
of Pittsburg.
Harry Riale, Perry Riale and
William Bohne, of Balto., we're
the guests of Mrs. Carrie Riale and
daughter this week.
Chas. E. Dare. of Philada., is
spending the week at the home of
his parents, DIR. and Mrs. G. s.
Dare, on East Main street.
Miss Gertrude s. Dare will en-.
tertain the Young Ladies' Club at
her home on East Main street
Saturday afternoon, 9th inst.
The engagement of Elmer Els
worth Walter. Of Avondale, and
Miss Kathryn Matilda Jones, of
Wilmington, has been announced.
Mr.. and Mrs. Clifford Brumfeld
were Sunday visitors at the home
of the formers parents, Mr.. and
Mrs. Augustus Brumfield, near
town.
Miss Lydia I. Elville, of Rising
Sun, and George P. Moore, of
Barnsley, were married in Oxford,
Aug. II, by Rev. William Barrows,
D. d.
Miss George Bennison is spend.
ing some time at the home of her
cousin, Miss M. Addie Smith, hav-
ing just returned from a visit to
Denver, Col.
Mr.. and Mrs. j. d. G. Pownell,
of Christians, and Mr.. and Mrs.
Clayton Walton, of Swarthmore,
spent Sunday with Mr.. and Mrs.
Albert L. Burlington.
Married at Trinity Parish Rec
tory, Elkton, on August %, by
Rev. William Schouler, William j.
Boyles and Annie E. johnson, both
of the First district, Cecil county.
The Hartford County Agricul-
tural Society has issued its an
nouncements for the annual fair, to
be held at the fair grounds near
Bel Air September 20, 81, %
and %.
Among the Marylanders register.
ing at the st. Louis Exposition
last week were Amos Martindale
and Gertrude Martindale, of North
East, r. V. Martindale, and Carrie
K. Martindale, OF Colora.
Five generations of Woodrows
visited Mrs. Thayer and daughter,
at their home near Colora on Thurs
day last: Mrs. Wiegand, of Chester,
Mrs. Jackson, of WOodlawn, Mrs.
Davis and child of Baltimore.
Miss Henrietta Riale entertained
a few friends at her home on East
Main Street on Saturday evening in
honor of her guests, Mr.. and Mrs.
Harry Riale, VIM. BOhne and
Perry Riale, of Baltimore.
DIR. J. B. Slicer, who was confin-
ed to the house for several days
last week as the result Of a painful
injury to his ankle, by having the
tine of pitchfork run into it, is
able to be about again, with the
assistance of a cane.
The midland journal., 1904-08-26

A large number of students will
enter Goldey College September lst'
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-11-26

finish. The only conclusion to be
drawn is that she must have money
and thinks she can sing. She may be
appreciated somewhere, but it would
be interesting to know where. She is
absolutely without voice. Her attempts
to execute the trills and roulades of
the "Infelice Sconsolata," from Mo-
zart's Magic Flute" were pitabIe. If
one turned ones eyes away it was as
if one heard a child of ten attempting
sight reading. Moreover Madame
David seems to be absolutely deaf-as
much so as Trilby unhypnotized. She
hit the right note at the right time ex-
actly twice during the long recitative
and aria, by actual count At first her
remarkable exhibition was thought to
be extreme nervousness caused by
stage fright over her first appearance.
When she continued to sing, however,
in her peculiar, unframed and feeble
voice, wonder gave way to ridicule,
and at the conclusion of her first num-
Der almost half the audience left the
hall in disgust.
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THEATRICAL NOTES.


The announcement is made that Mary
Mannering (Mrs. James K. Hacket) is
the mother of a bouncing girl.
Marta of the Lowlands'' has made a
hit on the Pacific coast and gets a. two
column review in one of the San Fran
cisco papers.
1.-The Scarlet Woman is the title of
a new emotional melodrama by Jerome
H. Eddy, who hopes to have it produced
in New York next spring.
Dorothy Vernon of Haddon Hail.
was tried at Newcastle, England. re-
Gently, by Julia Nelson, who played
the title role, and it will shortly be Of
fered in London.
Forbes Robertson will begin his sec
ond season in America in Toronto jan
uary 9. presenting a new play by Henry
V. Esmond, the title of which has not
yet been made public.
H Reeves-Smith, leading man with
Cecilia Lotus, appeared a few years
ago in the comedy, The Surprises of
Love-" Later he starred in the comedy,
"a Brace of PartridgeS.''
Although Blanche Walsh in "Resur-
rection" is having the most profitable
season that she has ever known, she
will appear in Wagenhals & Kemper's
production of 1.-THE Kreutzer Sonata"
early in December at one of the Chi
cago theaterS.
David Belasco. it is said. has obtained
a lease. on the Bijou theater, New
York, where he will produce his attrac-
tions in opposition to the theatrical
trust, giving him control of two the
aters,. with the further privilege of
using the Academy of Music.
The acting manager of Cecilia Lotus
company is r. L. Giffen, formerly one
of the best known owners of stock COM
panies in this country. Indeed, Mr..
Gifren, more than any other man, was
responsible for the return of the stock
system some years ago.
Henrietta Crosman will finish her
season in Sweet Kitty Bellairs'' next
spring. Maurice Campbell and David
Belasco, who are jointly interested in
this production, viii then separate and
Miss Crosman will continue her career
under Mr.. Campbelrs management as
heretofore.
Herbert Standing, who plays an i'm
portant character Montmorency
Josephs, the music hall managerial
THE Serio-Comic Governess,' with
Cecilia Lotus, is a brother of W. T.
Carleton. well known in this country
who is an Englishman, was long
member of Sir Charles Wyndham's
company in London.
George Edwardes' company from the
Lyric theater, London. will present a
new light opera in three acts, called
THE Duchess of Dantzic," at Days
theater, following Thee Cingalee." 1t
lis a musical version of Nine. Sans
Gene" The least wilIginclude Courtice
Pounds, who has not been seen in this
country for several years; Holbrook
Blinn. Adrienne Augarde, and Elvie
Green.
Der RasteIbinder'' (The Mousetrap
Peddler). the comic opera which has
just made a hit in San Francisco, is
duplicating its foreign success. 1t ran
simultaneously in seventy playhouses
in Germany, Austria and Hungary,
and the score received special COM
mendation in those critical music CEN
ters. In the American cast presenting
the opera in San Francisco are Miss
Kate Condor, Miss Edith Mason, Mr..
Thomas Perss, Mr.. Willard Simms, and
Ferris Hartmann, all of whom have
scored personal hits
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They Met Again.

| He had climbed up four pairs of stairs
in an office building to strike somebody
for dime, and finally wandered into the
rooms of a busy lawyer. The latter did
not even look up from his work as the
caller removed his hat and said:
Sir, I was once a gentleman like your
self, but have had nothing but hard luck
for these last few years"
corner of lot II, block 124, and thence rum
ming westerly A feet" unused the lawyer,
who was industriously engaged in writing
Three years ago" continued the caller,
voice, eff 1 did not have wealth, at least
had all of the comforts of life My every
pected to be advanced in my position;
Then came a fatal winters day when
went out for monday lunch"
Thence northerly 62 feet" read the
lawyer aloud, he wrote, land thence
easterly 70 feet to the alley"
LAS I stepped out the street to pro
coed to a restaurant 1 observed a fat,
He was bald on the back of his head and
he had a hippety-hop gait on him. The
followed him over half a block when
Thence along the alley So feet read
| the lawyer, ''and thence southerly to the
place of beginning"
from under him and down he sat" contin-
ued the man. Wen, sir, while it's a
down, had to yell or burst on this oc-
casioa. He struck like a load of brick,
and the way his hat flew one way and his
cane another simply convulsed me-
Does bargain. lease. devise and sell the
same. together with all the buildings
standing upon the ground, broke in the
lawyer as he stopped to dip his pen in
yes said the caller. 'I laughed. I
roared 1 chuckled. I laughed so heartily
| that I had to lean up against a wall and
gasp for breath Had I known then what
would follow 1 should have cried instead
of laughed. That short, fat, bow-legged
man got on my trail He made a VOW
ITO Hannah NJ. Jones, her legal heirs
or assigns, to hold the same forever"
read the lawyer.
He made a VOW to down me, and he
has kept it. He got me out of my job.
He got a gambler to fleece me. He
| bought in my notes and sued me and
drove ne into bankruptcy, and in the end
he brought me to this. What now ask
of you is
Subscribed and sworn to before me this
day." said the lawyer as he laid aside his
| pen, land may say right here and now
! that am the short, fat, bow-legged man
with the bald spot who fell down and
/ caused you SO much merriment. Witness
my hand and seal this - day Of -, 1904,
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-11-26
WE MUST REPEAT.
When Everybody in Topeka Tells the
Same Story.

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lame and aching back, the sufferer from
kidney disorders and the troubles of
those whose urinary organism is wrong
in its action. That they do this is so
easy to prove that not vestige of
doubt remains. Public Endorsement of
local citizens is easily proven. Read
this case:
Mrs. A W. Wells of 613 Chandler
street say: For three or four years
was troubled with kidney trouble. The
heavy. beaTfrg-down aching through
my loins ard across the small of my
back was frequently so bad that could
only stand Tor short time. When L
caught cold suffered severely. and the
pain extended up into my head and al
most set me wild I doctored and took
a great many remedies. but obtained
nothing but transitory relief. I got a
box of Doan'S Kidney Pills from
Rowley & Shows drug store, and the
benefit received from the treatment rem
dered my back and kidneys better than
they had been for a long time. 1 take
pleasure in recommending a remedy
from which 1 derived such satisfactory
results
For sale by all dealers. Price, so
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Y, sole agents for the United States.
Remember the name-Doan's-and
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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-11-26

We'll, I've done it a hundred times
with my sisters children
/ And if he cries for his mother"
HE won't. I'll keep him so busy
laughing that he'll never think of his
mother. I've felt all day as if 1 would
like to go back to my childhood days,
and it will be real treat to have the
youngster in here Get right along
with you
The child was brought in, and be-
tween Mr. Bowser and the cat he was
too busy to notice his mothers depar-
tn e. After he had pulled the cats tail
fol fifteen minutes the feline escaped
from his clutches, and then he sug-
gested in his childish way that he
wanted turn at the bear business.
"All right, sonny" replied Mr. Bow
ser as he got down on his knees and
began to frisk.
Sammy was given a ride the length
of the hall and sitting-room, and also
| allowed to pull such of Mr. Bowser' s
| hair as he could discover amidst the
badness, but this proved to be tame
sport. He wanted to hear the bear
groWl and see him knock things about.
very well, young man-how's this
for the bear that broke into the little
boys house?''
And with that he uttered a growl
that lifted the kid foot high and al
most tumbled him over. and a chair
was upset and twisted about on the
floor. 1t was too realistic. There were
howls of dismay that could have been
heard across the street. and it took a
deal of gallopfng about and drumming
on the piano to ease off the bowls.
When they had quite died away Mr.
Bowser remarked:
Wen drop the bear business and
do little singing. I remember that
your father told me you liked to hear
it. Just watch my mouth while I give
you verse of the Sweet Bye and
Bye"
In bursting into song Mr.. Bowser
twisted his mouth in all sorts of
for his money, but the boy got the idea
that he was being made fun Of and
only two lines had been sung when he
suddenly Strengthened out and began
to kick and howl
The cat came back, but neither the
sight of her or. the discord on the piano
had any quieting effect In fact it was
and down with the bowler in his arms
until his legs ached that the yells
tapered off into sobs.
The boy felt that his confidence had
been misplaced, and that he had been
the victim of a. put-up job, and though
he ceased to yell he held himself ready
to break out anew on the slightest
provocation. He was seated on the
floor and surrounded with pieces of
bric-a- brac, and he was quiet for seven
or eight minutes. Then he found the
things breakable and had knocked the
head of a small bust of Shakespeare,
and was trying to smash a vase into
five or six pieces when Mr.. Bowser
interfered and observed:
Young man, what you want for
playthingS are a sledge hammer and a
cobble stone"
The child felt the insult and injustice
at once, and he put up his lips and
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-11-26
MUSICAL NOTES.

1.-THE adored pianist of Chicago" as
the critic of the New York Sun calls
Mrs. Fanny Bloomfield-ZeiSler, was
not well treated by the musical writers
of New York, and mores the pity!
After long years of honorable service,
devoting her life and talent to art for
arts sake and at the sacrifice of do
mestic ties, she can apparently do
nothing that will win untempered
praise from the men who control the
destinieS of the musicians in the me-
tropoliS. For however one may view
the situation it is well known that a
successful appearance in New York is
what every artist is DESTROYS of OBJ
tanning. Mrs. Zeisler each year gives
a programme in New York, and this
season had selected several charming
little compositions in addition to her
regular repertoire, but the inclusion of
them seemed to disconcert some of the
critics. accustomed as they were to
the pianist's routine.
Here is the description of the Nina
David concert, taken from the Pitts
burg Gazette, published the morning
after the event"
The much heralded Nine. Nina
David, the famous coloratura soprano,
with a select troupe of assistant art
ist"-the advance notices are quoted
appeared at the Pittsburg Carnegie
Music hall last evening in a long and
varied programme. Fully two-thirdS
of the audience, which was not large,
was there on complimentary passes,
and before the alleged concert had
ashamed of the fact. Those who paid
the full price-$2 down stairs-were
righteously indignant. They had a
right to be. 1t was the worst gold
and music lovers have ever been given.
A riot would have been justified. such
performances as that of last night
given in some parts of, the country
furnish the motive power for the
formation of a rail-riding party.
Without question the concert of last
evening was the worst fiim-fiam game
ever perpetrated on the people of
possible exception of the violinist and
the cello player. were set of the
veriest amateurs The 'cellist. it may
be noted in passing, offered Sir Arthur
SulliVan's maudlin melody, The Lost
Chord" as an encore. which puts him
at once in a class by himself.
The tenor, George w. Jenkins, ap-
peared in the second half of the pro-
gramme to sing Gounod's Lend Me
Thine Aid" from the Queen of
Sheba," and it was evident from the
first that he had mistaken the situa-
ton. His proper sphere would be to
Don't Beat Mother With Your Peg
Leg Any More" type, while the cine
matograph throws the pictures on the
screen. AS a sample of pure trash,
the song by Jenkins for an encore has
seldom been excelled. 1t is to the
credit of the audience that they COW
cred their faces with their pro-
grammes and laughed outright at it's
absurdity.
But the prima donnal All the faults
of the supporting troupe might have
been excused had Madame David in
the least fulfilled the high expectations
which had been raised concerning her.
1t was announced as her American
debut. 1t certainly ought to be her
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-11-26

TOTO our profession, don't you known
Have you any crouch against the
newspapers % mot a thing-except
one," she replied; they will, now anc
again, call me Mrs. Pat I can't
stand that Pat 1t is the last straw
"They gave me a hard jolt on my
last visit to Lafayette, Ind" said Tim
Murphy. "A rural gentleman was
the author of the stunt that was per-
petrated. and L rather felt that the
ticket taker and myself were the vic
Tins. The jay walked up to the ticket
taker and said: How much does it
cost to see Murphy tonight? 2 The
ticket taker said $3.50 on the first
floor, 81 a seat in boxes, 81 in the dress
circle, and 25 cents in the gallery
The countryman thought a moment
and then said, What is he playing in
the gallery p"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-11-26
THE VALUE OF CHARCOAL.
Few People Know How Useful 1t Is
in Preserving Health and Beauty.

Nearly everybody knows that char
coal is the safest and most efficient
disinfectant and purifier in nature, but
few realize its value when taken into
the human system for the same cleans
ing purpose.
Charcoal is a remedy that the more
you take of it the better; it is not a
drug at all, but simply abSorbS the
gases and impurities always present
in the stomach and intestines and car
ries them out of the system.
Charcoal sweetens the breath after
smoking, drinking or after eating on
ions and Other odorous vegetables.
Charcoal effectually clears and i'm
proves the complexion, it whitenS the
teeth and further acts as a natural and
eminently safe cathart1c.
1t absorbs the injurious gases which
collect in the stomach and bowels; it
disinfects the mouth and throat from
the poison of catarrh.
All druggists sell charcoal in one
form or another, but probably the best
charcoal and the most for the money
is in Stuart's Charcoal LozengeS; they
are composed of the finest powdered
Willow charcoal, and other harmless
antiseptics In tablet form or rather in
the form of large, pleasant tasting loz-
enges, the charcoal being mixed with
honey.
The daily use of these lozenges will
soon tell in a much improved condition
of the general health. better complex
ion, sweeter breath and purer blood,
and the beauty Oh IL lSs ChdC- no pos
sible harm can result from their con-
tinued use, but on the contrary, great
benefit.
A Buffalo physician in speaking of
the benefits of charcoal, says: st ad-
wise Stuart's Charcoal Lozenges to all
patients suffering from gas in stomach
and bowels, and to clear the cont
plexion and purify the breath, mouth
and throat; 1 also believe the liver is
greatly benefited by the daily use of
them; they cost but twenty-five cents
box at drug stores, and although
in some sense a patent preparation,
yet 1 believe I get more and better
charcoal in Stuart's Charcoal Lozenges
than in any of the ordinary charcoal
tablets"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-11-26
PATERNAL MIR. BowsER.
He Plays the Fond Father to a Neigh
boris Child.

Mr.. Bowser had come home so good
natured that after dinner Mrs. Bow
ser ventured to observe:
Mrs. Davis was over here this aft
ernoon to tell me that she and had
been appointed on the refreshment
committee of the church festival
"YesI Well, you can serve as well
as not" he replied, as he snapped his
fingers and smiled in an oily way at
the cat.
But she wanted me to go over to
the church for an hour or so this
evening to talk things over with the
other ladies'"
''Well, why don't you go?''
you see, her husband is going out
this evening and there is no one to
take care of her boy Sammy. If he
could come in here for an hour or
So