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The evening world., 1904-05-23
HAIR BURNED OFF,;
WOMAN MAY DIE
Mrs. Datus O. Palmer Probably
Fatally Injured When At
tempting to Put Out Blaze in
Her Home.

While making a bed in a room in her
apartment m the fourth floor Of No.
25 West One Hundred and Fortteth
street to-day. Mrs. Datus o. Palmer.
forty years old. shook a sheet so Wig
orousty that one end of 1t went into the
fame OF a lighted gas Jet and ignited.
In less than nve seconds the entire
room was abaze. Mrs. Palmer made
m effort TO extinguish tho flames, with
the result that her own clothing and
hair caught FIRE.
Running to the open window. she
leaned out and yelled Fire." Passers-
by were horrihed At the spectacle OF
tho woman abiaze, n no n made a
move to help the unfortunate woman
until Policeman Kenny. OF the West
One Hundred and Twsnty-ifth street
station came along.
Kenny didn't stand on ceremony when
he saw Mrs. Palmer in the window.
Running upstairs, he broke in the o
of her nat, hustled to tho bedroom.
and. throwing Mrs. Palmer on h floor,
wrapped her in blankets until the
faroea were smothered. He then sum-
mouod an ambulance from the J. Hood
Wright HosUftal, and Mrs. Palmer, who
was unconscious, was taken to that in
sttution.
The woman was horribly burned. Her
arms and face were disigured and
every scrap of hair q burned from
her head. She may not live.
The evening world., 1904-05-23

Il had to overwork. being employed night
and day for more than a week. l ran down
and was very weak. | was so tired that /
thought I would never think OF work again.
A friend recommended Paine's Celery Com
pound, and 1t certainly did me a world OF
good. Right at once began to feel better.
and was able 10 20 back to work In a few
DAYS. You would not think to see me that
! had ever been sick and run down. I am
thankful for the good that Paine's Celery
Compound did for me. | am telling my
friends. Balm. FOG w. 18th St. Chi
caEo.
The evening world., 1904-05-23
Attorney Cutting Says Husband
OF Missing Woman Has De-
cided to Pay for Information
Regarding Wife's Location.
AMOUNT WILL NOT
Be WORE THAN $500.
For Fear of Annoyance from
Cranks Large Reward Will
Not Be Given-Woman May
Have Sailed for Europe.

Having exhausted their Ingenuity m
, weeks unsuccessful search for some
,r,c. NJ Mrs. n. Leroy Jones, her
friands and relatives determined to-day
upon the offer OF a reward for informa-
ton that will lead to the discovery OF
her whereabouts. Robert Livingston
Cutting, counsel and friend Of the fam
,Iy, said to an Evening World reporter
before starting for the Jones mansion
Mt No. 6 East Twelfth street. that he
had decided that a reward should now
be offered in the search.
"Mr. Jones feels the same as I do
about II now aid Mr.. Cutting. and
II only remains for us to Ak the amount
and decide upon the manner in which 1t
should be offered. We will not offer a
large reward. I mean by that not a
reward OF thousands Of dollars. We
reason It out that even by the OFFER OF
q moderate REWARDED not more than
Stowe will be prosecuted by cranks
and notoriety seekers offering all man
ner OF absurd and hysterical clues.
Mr.. Cutting characterized the report
that Mr.. Jones now feared that an at
tempt would be made to kidnap his little
son H. Leroy. jr., as ridiculous.
1t was earned to-day that Mrs. Jones
few days before her disappearance
told her mother that she intended to
prove to her husband that she could get
along without him, and that she would
go to Europe to SHOW him." as she
expressed It. It has also been learned
that in the writing desk in the Jones
home, No. 9 East Twelfth street. where
Mrs. Jones's will was found. was a
paper on which she wrote that she was
going to Europe.
The evening world., 1904-05-23
MAN RELATED TO
MORGAN KILLED
Police Believe Murder'W Was Done
and House Was Then Set
Attire in Hopes of ConceaIing
the Crime.

v1NELAND. N. j.. May as.-Investi-
cation into the death Of Alfred Morgan,
aged ,recluse and relative Of ]. Pierpont
Morgan. has convinced the police and
detectives here that he was murdered
and that his house was Their set on FIRE
TO hide the crime.
Passenti and silas Robinson. two men
who passed the little frame dwelling in
which Morgan lived. at dawn yesterday
morning that they heard the old man
crying out:
Now get out af-a,nN I can't soms
restl"
We we're on . way hama" Passsnp
Morgan's house - could see . light in
taking in i. hoass. end 81 n man G lH%e
Inc two man had not sssn past the
discovered in iamea Wien the firemen
arrived they could do little except throw
water on the smolderfng wood and
ashes. The old mans BODY. aimoSt
The are at hrst, wa thought 10 have
been an accident, but h discovery OF
a bloody knife ana a bloody shirt CON
yinced the police that q crime had
Morgan invited some men into IDS
house to drink and that they mur-
dered and robbie him n thon set FIRE
to the house.
Old Morgan was about seventy years
old. He had been living here for more
than thirty years and was known as a
woman hater. 1t is said that his life
was soured by a love affair in his early
youth and that he becams a recluse.
Until a few years ago the old man re-
ceiyed monthly allowances from New
York. These were said to have been
sent him by his mother. Then the IL
lowances stopped and 1t wac said that
the mother had died. OF late Morgan
had made his living by doing chores
for the WI people.
The evening world., 1904-05-23
Went by sound.

(From the Yonkers statesman.)
Patience-What was the trouble over
at your house yesterday?
Patrice-Oh. I had some of the school,
girls there and we We're trying a class
song.
"Oh, were you singing? I thought you
were giving your class yell!"
The evening world., 1904-05-23
Subject TO Change.

Trom the Yonkers s~tatesman.)
church-what colored hair has your
typewriter, :.
seen her this morning.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1904-10-20

troller are all very true a suggestion
that offers q. bit of wholesome advice
as to the duty of the government In it's
examination of banks. This gentleman
had learned that in the organization of
a new bank someone had mortgaged
his home to buy stock and 1T had &C.
CURED TO him that this ought not to
be allowed If said person had no other
resources for the reason that the
double liability of stockholders pro-
vided by law would be multiplied If the
bank stock represented all the avail
able assets possessed by this stock
holder. For this reason the correspond
ent thinks that the governments eX-
animation of national banks should In
clude examination of the financial
standing of every stockholder and carry
the power to enforce the sale OF all
bank stock to more responsible persons
wherever it is found that a stockholder
is not financially able to meet promptly
a full assessment upon his stock as
contemplated by law. Controller Rid
gely's suggestion as to the duties of
directors is important in the prevention
of bank failures but the examination of
stockholders double liability is equally
as important in protecting depositors in
case of disaster.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1904-10-20

session, and the element of safety
rests on the fact that the machines are
so made that il is impossible for two
OF the tablets to be out at the same
time. If a train leaves Auckland for
Newmarket with a tablet that tablet
has TO be deposited i'm the machine at
Newmarket before another tablet is
issued allowing a return train to leave
that station for Auckland, and the
electrical connection between the two
stations makes it impossible to extract
a tablet from the Auckland machine
until the tablet has been put into the
machine at Newmarket. 1t is claim
ed that under the new system two
trains cannot be on the same section
at once so that the danger OF collis-
ions Is entirely done away with
Instead of putting ginger into the
campaign with his speech Mr.. Parker
appears to have put pepper on the
stove.
The government OF Panama is be-
ginning to take up theoretically the
problems that confront it. While the
United States is constructing the great
ithmian canal, Panama itself will build
a highway across the isthmus The
length Of the proposed road is seventy
kilometres, and will extend from Dav-
id, on the Pacific side, to or near Ro
cas- del Toro, on the Atlantic. When
the trans-isthmian highway and the
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1904-10-20
HUMAN INTEREST DAY At THE FAIR.

1t was especially appropriate that
the worlds fair should set aside one
day to Helen Keller. She represents
perhaps more than any other thing or
person inside the gates of the great
exposition the development of human
ity. She was blind and deaf and
dumb, sentiment to touch only, liv-
ing thing without soul when human
lty stretched out its hand to her aid.
She came to the exposition an intelli-
gent woman ripe with knowledge, a
graduate Of an excellent school, talk
ing, enjoying and happy, an example
of what one may do for another. Ii
was not Helen Keller day at the fair
SO much as the day of the Golden
Rule.
Not all the piled up wealth on ex-
hibition is worth so much nor the
earnered art in the long galleries so
beautiful as this exhibition of lite
developed and soul created by hu-
man charity and helpfulness. 1t is
miracle worked patiently by human
hands thru long years of patient en-
deavor as great as the raising of the
widows son or the resurrection OF
Lazarus. If the Christ spirit has been
highly exemplified among men 1t has
been in the tireless hope that helped
Helen Keller to become a human be-
ing. OF herself she is a marvellous
woman. but it is as an illustration OF
the growth of charity and human
brotherhood that she is preeminent.
Helen Keller day at the fair was HUI
man Interest day the world over.
Let us not say that the world grows
worse when such things are done be-
fore our eyes. A century or so ago this
baby would have been herded with
other unfortunates and learned obed-
fence only thru the whip. We have
learned to do much for each other in
a hundred years and have learned
more in the past quarter of a century
than ever before. Helen Keller at the
worlds fair is a star of hope in the
future
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1904-10-20
Topics Of the Times

| Rural free delivery carriers are to
| be provided with cyclometers to at
| tach to their wagons for the purpose OF
measuring the distance Of their routes.
| The carrier is supposed to furnish his
| own wagon jack or use rail.
Because the Boone News recently
celebrated it's seventeenth birthday the
impression should not carry that 1t Is
not grown up. The News is big Of
it's age"
Perhaps when Mr.. Bryan referred to
Parker as Moses he had in mind
some forty years Of wandering in the
deserts Of Esopus. Moses it will be
remembered was never elected to the
promised land
When Keats asserted that "the
poetry of earth is never dead" he evil
IDENTIFY had never met up with Julian
Richards campaign verse.
The available farm land in Indian
Territory is estimated at fifteen million
acres. These figures are taken from
the records Of the Dawes commission.
Of this Is per cent was in cultivation
last wear. There are about two mil
lion acres of land where pine is found
i'm commercial quantities, and there
is an abundance Of hard wood of all
kinds. The latest statistics obtainable
give the value of farm animals at $55,-
100000. The per cent Of the popula-
ton engaged in agriculture is exceeded
in only three states-Mississippi Okla
homa and Arkansas.
To send MI Bryan stumping iH the
natural gas districts is like carrying
Goals TO Newcastle.
Mother: what horrid expressions
you do pick up, Charles!"
Son: "But, ma, I only said darn !"
Mother: "But you meant damn"
Son: ooh, ma. how did you learn?
Did you learn when you was a little
girl ?"-Town and Country.
The frequency of head-on collisions
lends interest to the Railway and En-
glncering Reviews description OF a
new system of running trains develop
ed In New Zealand. The system known
as the tablet system is thought to
make collisions impossible--tf observ-
ed faithfully The essential point in
the new system says the Review, us
that no engineer is allowed TO leave a
station wthou. tablet i'll his pos
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1904-10-20

successful electricians today, the ones
getting the best pay for the practice
of what they know, are the ones do
ing the most studying. And yet here
was a Young teacher of religion, per-
fectly willing not to study the religious
nbase of the Philippines. Anxious to
cross swords with any Catholic priest,
hut not even reading of the settlement
of the friar question in our new pos
sessions. Naturally and honestly
preaching against intemperance, and
vet failing to acquaint himself with
tbe actions, legal and otherwise, of the
rum element in these United States.
As said before, trying to pour out,
hut unwilling to fill. All this because
a Sunday newspaper made Saturday,
contains the accounts of so much
crime.
Speaking of preachers on a recent
Sunday in Marshalltown, a preacher
who does GILL up" (even went so far
as to live six months with the serfs of
Russia, so that he could know by per-
sonal experience, their actual condl-
tion), told his audience some plain
things One was that they would soon
tire Of any preacher or any choir un-
less they had more love for religion
and prayed more to Our" Father. In
a word. practiced more of the Christian
virtues. And it struck the writer sit
ting there and enjoying the sermon,
and it's applications to everyone else
in the church. that this gifted preach
er touched on one of the real reasons
for the present admitted non-interest
in religion, by the masses, the world
over 1t is because we are overfed
mentally. Because of our faded appe-
tites mentally. This is true not only
of the sermon, but of the editorial
Not only of the lecture, but of the es-
say. 1t is one of the reasons for a
lack of interest in the present political
campaign. We are all living on quail
and toast. washing it down with
champagne" The present daily paper
and the present cheap but good mag
azine gives the average thinker the
best the market affords. Why should
one go to church to hear an ordinary
sermon, when one can read an extra
ordinary one for five cents. IN the
daily paper Why should the voter
attend the political meeting to hear
some mouthy spellbinder, when the
magazines are furnishing practical ar
ticles on both sides, from men of ma
terial reputation. Of experience In
statecraft. We have even become
hypercritica1 of the best. But per-
haps as this referred to speaker sug-
gested, If our church members did
more work, more real work, their ap-
petites would be better. After saw
ing a cord Of wood, corn beef and cab
bage come not amiss.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1904-10-20

canal are finished, the dream Of Saav-
edra, cousin of Cortez, will be realized,
tho nearly four centuries were required
for it's fulf1lment.
They were seated in the parlor and
there was hitch in the conversation.
He seemed trif1e nervous and she
seemed a trifle bored. Finally he said:
what a lovely evening for a waikiki
Indeed it is" she rejoined. Would
you like to take a walk?"
"Above all things" he assented,
eagerly.
"Then why don't your she queried.
And he did-Chicago News.
Professor Alfred Giard, of the sea
fishery commission, has come to the
defence Of the oyster. He says that
not only does it not transmit the bac-
illus Of typhoid but that despite the
popular superstition about the months
with r, the bivalve can be eaten al
any season the year.
Mr.. Richard Garfield IS III ST. Louis
to buy the best of the fine art ex-
hibits at the fair. Mr.. Canf1eld's beau
tiful gallery in New York, especially
devoted to pictures Of kings, queens,
and knaves was rudely broken up by
one Jerome not long ago.
81 T.
Rev. DR.. Croft says there are no
innocent Sunday anusements. DIR.
Croft seems to have kept unfortunate
company Sundays.
The bravery and determination OF
the Russian rank and file is not DIS
counted by the statement of General
Kellar who asserts that whole regi-
ments of Russian soldiers We're sent
to the front without shoes or proper
clothing, and the sanitary arrange
ments are said to be appallingly de-
fective. Whatever the verdict of his
tory may be against his officers and his
government the Russian common sold
Ter will leave the name of first
class fighting man. written all over
NfanchJ1ria
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1904-10-20

membership are concerned, and will
unquestionably be a mighty influence
in bringing about legislation which will
eliminate the mockery of many of the
present day marriages. The church is
TO be commended and not belittled for
the energy it is expanding on the di-
vorce problem
"If vigorous opposition party is es-
sential to good government the demo-
Gratis should get move on them or
make way for some party that will put
UP an interesting fight" declares the
Dunlap Reporter.
The Council Bluffs Nonpareil predicts
when the political aspect of the negro
question is put on permanent basis,
the social and industrial phases of the
problem will be infinitely more easily
disposed Of
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1904-10-20
RlDGeLY ON BANK FAILURES.

Discussing recent bank failures and
the responsibility therefor, Comptroller
Ridgely told Illinois bankers at their
meeting in st. Louis Wednesday that
the fault in every case rested entirely
with the directors. Mr.. Ridgely claim
ed that bank director was elected for
the express purpose of looking after the
bank and when he accepted the respon-
sibility he took an oath solemnly pledg-
ing himself to perform an active duty
in scrutinizing the business of the
bank. The comptroller then asserted
that banks had seldom ever failed that
had observed and obeyed the law linn
iting their loans to any one person to
ten per cent of their capitalization
What Mr.. Ridgely says is all true.
Bank directors are elected for pur-
pose. Their bank is engaged in a bust
ness of trust. 1t solicits the confidence
OF the public and asks to be made
the trustee of other peoples money.
Its loans and almost all of
its transactions are loans of other peo-
pies money. Banks honestly conducted
need not fail for losses need never be
heavy If the ten per cent limit is OBJ
served Human nature is weak and
individuals sometimes go wrong. Peo-
pie who deposit in national and state
banks do SO because they want the adj
ded safety of corporate security. They
are promised that this corporate bank
is safer than other repositories because
in it's stockholders and directors q
large number of men are responsible
for the safe keeping of all monies and
a large number of men are not so like
ily to go wrong as is one man. Hence a
man who becomes director in bank
assumes the responsibility OF being
active himself in examining the BUSH
ness of the bank
Comptroller Ridgely advises that
meetings of bank directors be held reg
ularly and frequently that every d.
rector attend and that the directors
themselves go over all the loans, exam
lining carefully and personally all notes
and. securities. He also suggests that
all loans to Officers of the bank be es-
pecially scrutini2ed, for experience has
taught that the great majority OF bank
failures are due to excessive loans to
the bank officers, their business part
ners or relatives.
While these remarks Of the comp
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1904-10-20
Ono Of Many.

II. A. Tisdale, of Summerton, S. c.,
suffered for twenty years with the piles.
Specialists were employed and many
remedies used, but relief and perma-
nent good was found only In the use
of DeWitt's Witch Hazel Salve. This
is only one of the many. many cures
that have been effected by this Won
derful remedy In buying Witch Hazel
salve, it is only necessary to see that
you get the genuine DeWitt's, made
by E. C. Dewitt & Co. in Chicago and
cure is certain. DeWitt's Witch
Hazel Salve cures all kinds of piles
cuts, burns, bruises, eczema, letter
ringworm, skin diseases, etc. Sold by
all druggiStS.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1904-10-20
Go to Worlds FAR Via Wabash

Now is the time to go to ST. Louis
as the fair is at It's best. Take your
family as it is worth more than a years
schooling to any young boy or girl over
10 years old. 1t is tw1ce as great as
was the Columbian exposition, and
cost three times as much. Send for
map of the grounds.
The Wabash has three fast trains
daily, and you should ask to have your
ticket read Wabash. All Wabash trains
stop at the main gate. For other in
formation write s. w. Flint. p. & T. A.
Des Moines Iowa
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1904-10-20
NEWS AND THE UNIVERSITY.

Between some professors and some
newspaper correspondents at Iowa City
there appears to reign perpetual war.
The latest squabble is one over what
Professor Wilcox alleges to have been
a garbled account Of his views on KAN
sans sent out to newspapers by a stu
dent correspondent. The correspondent
ls to be cited before the faculty for In
Quiry and investigation into his truth
fulness and the quality of his journal
tstio work which the Iowa City Repub-
lioan, Prof. Wilcox and some others
more or less personally interested de-
nounce as yellow.
From the outside this particular case
appears to be very much of the tempest
in teapot variety. Whether or not
Professor Wilcox considers the people
Of Kansas crazy half the time is
scarcely a serious matter. People may
be interested in knowing what Prof.
Wilcox thinks, but there is little dam
suit in furious activity among the in
sane commissioners. If Professor VIII
cox said it openly before the class he
should not object seriously to being
quoted II there is any place where
careful expression is duty 1t would
seem to be in the class room, 1t would
also appear that expressions or argu-
ments made before student classes at
the state university on political econ
omics are or should be public property.
II, as Professor Wilcox asserts, his
language was garbled, the correspon-
dent needs discipline not only
from the faculty but from the news
papers that pay him for accurate re-
ports. If his report was correct it is
rather hard to see why he should be
expelled for telling the truth.
It will occur to many that the i'm
broglio of a few months ago when the
correspondents came Off with flying
colors from an investigation by the
board of regents may have something
to do with the present vigorous de-
nur citation of the correspondent by
certain papers and certain people. At
that time the correspondents, whatever
their motives may have been, did the
public a service. The best that the
university can wish or expect is full
newspaper publicity. The establish
ment of a news censorship is one Of the
worst things that could happen to it.
It is not private corporation to ex-
plot one thing and conceal another.
Real newspapers will object to univer-
sity news blue penciled by every pro-
fessor or interested person connected
with the school by interest or employ
ment. The public are interested in the
state school and want facts, not the
leakings of an advertising bureau. OF
course it is easy to see how yellow
correspondent might ernbarrass and
annoy and, such are fit subjects for
proper discipline, but the correspondent
who confines his reports to facts that
he can prove If need be earns his
money honestly when he makes them
n,lh1fc
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1904-10-20
OUTSIDE POINT OF VIEW

There is such a general feeling in
this country, of Indignation, when the
name of Rockefeller is mentioned, or
printed that when it is possible to give
to the public some facts showing the
better side of human nature. it almost
becomes a duty. This dispatch was
but out from New York and may be
assumed to be trustworthy:
Monkeys fed on bread and milk rare
ly live ore than three or four years, tho