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a complication of diseases her body felt
cold and lifeless. But she says that Prof.
Hadley made her heart beat again, the
blood flow through her veins once more
and warmth return to her wasted body.
Naturally she looks upon her rescue and
restoration to health as passing under
standing Prof. Hadley saved the life OF
Charles W. Miller Of Columbia Furnace.
Va, when threatened with a deadly can
Ger, without the use OF knife or burning.
He restored to perfect health Mrs n.
Worthington of Center Square. Pa, a wo-
man who had been an invalid for 25 years
from complicated female troubles, many
long months bedridden in hospitals and
who had been pronounced hopeless1y in
durable and given uD to die by all her
physicians. Yet these are only random
instances selected from among the hun
dreds where Prof. Hadley's almost mirac-
uIous power has made the bonds Of dis
ease fall away as If they were broken
chains and restored health and happiness
to suffering men and women
Naturally. the announcement that man
of such wonderful ability to heal will here
after give services and home treatment
free to all who ask is most sensational
and far-reaching in it's effects, since it
gives to every one throughout the country
the poor as well as the richs an equal OPP
portunity to be cured by availing them
selves of this philanthropic offer made by
one of the greatest scientists of the age.
! And it is the more remarkable and fortu-
nate in view of the fact that there is no
disease he may not cure.
When questioned in regard to his aban-
donment of private practice in order to de-
vote himself to this new line OF work 1oF
| humanity, Prof. Hadley said:
Yes, it is true, but I intend to 20 on
! they may have just as long as 1 am able.
Indeed, where / cured hundreds before, /
expect to cure thousands hereafter, since
now neither wealth nor poverty makes
any difference in my accepting patients.
I have become convinced that as q Chris
ton, it is my duty 70 help the sick and the
afflicted, wherever they may be, whoever
they are, and whatever their circum-
stancess
But how about those at a distance?"
Distance makes no difference. / can
cure those thousands of miles away just
as easily as those who come to my office
A letter does just as much good as II
went to them or they came to me-
do you really mean that any one who
is sick can write to you and be cured
without paying you any money!
Exactly. I mean that. All that any
| one who is ILL., from any cause has to do
in order to enlist my services is to write
to me, addressing William Wallace Had
ley, office 726T-No. 2255 broadway. N. Y
city, telling me the disease they suffer
from most and their principal symptoms
and I will send them a course of home
treatment absolutely free of charge. While
am not millionaire and l appreciate
the restoration to health Of my fellow
men not as q question Of money, but as
a duty I owe to humanity. I will have
my reward in proving my power to the
wasting money on doctors and medicines
J when it is not necessary.
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Who Call in Person.

New York, April 12.-(Special Correspon-
dence. )-WiTiam Wallace Hadley, the ia
nous professor of Panopathy and Phys
iatrics, has again demonstrated his mystic
rious power over disease. He shows that
the drugs prescribed by doctors and the
surgeons knife are often worse than use
less, and by healing hundreds of hopeless
invalids pronounced incurable by physi-
clans he proves his claims that there is
no disease he may not cure. In defiance
of the supposed laws and rules Of modern
medical practice and the theories of ply
sicians and specialists, has made the hui
man heart beat again in the body of wo-
man prepared for the grave. and perform
ed other seeming miracles of restoration
to life and health to men and women given
up to death. Indeed, he succeeds in the
face of such apparent inpossibilities that
he appears to possess a healing power I'M
equaled in either ancient or modern times,
a power above and beyond that given TO
ordinary mortals. In comparison the sue
cessful operations of the worlds greatest
specialists become Insignificant child's
play. Apparently the supposedly incura-
BILE diseases, such as paralysis, consump-
/ ton, heart disease, cancer, deafness, etc,
are cured by him just as easily as the
more common disorders of humanity. Co
/
can cure patients in their own homes
thousands of miles away just as quickly
and surely as though they came to him
in person. To extend the blessing of this
wonderful power to mankind there re-
manned but one thing for him to do, and
that he has done by abandoning his pri-
vate practice and offering his service free
of charge to all who stand in need. He
is quoted as saying that he feels it his
religious duty to help the sick and afflict-
| ed independent of any reward.
One of the cases that makes possible the
belief that Prof. Hadley's power ap
proaches supernatural control over dis
ease, even to the point of death, is that O
a Mr.. e. c. Bess of FL Campo, Tex, VIII,
was rescued from the grave after the doc
tors had given him up to die, could d.
nothing to revive him and left him fol
dead. Brought to this condition by tn,
combined attack of kidney and liver dis
ease, dropsy and acute articular rheuma
tism, ne suffered the torments Of tn,
damned and was almost insane with pair
before the end came The doctors anC
their medicines failed utterly Although
he was as good as dead when Professor
Hadley's attention was drawn to the case
he was speedily restored to life and healt1
by this panepath's marvellous power
though even Mr.. Bess himself confesse:
that he does not know how this miracl,
was performed. Another case almos
equally remarkable was that of Mrs. J
G. Whitefield Of Norfolk, Va, who asserts
that he revived the vital spark in her body
when she was prepared for the grave, thaf
at the end of a long seige of illness from
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after I'VE minutes he observed:
GU may be right, but how you came
10 be IS something beyond me You
probably read or heard of it by accident.
Wen, will change that and say: Mr.
Chairman and gentIemea@'
Mr.. President, you mean"
Wen, Mr.. President, then and be-
hanged to him. I will say: Under the
glorious Constitution framed by that
patriot whose memory will never perish.
George Washington, we have gone on
from .
but Washington did not frame the
terrupt.
'What!"
washington did not frame the Con-
stitution."
See here, woman, have I got brains
or sand IN my head? You are talking
as II We're, a four-year-old boy
I can't help it. You are not right In
your historical facts, and it was a good
thing you came to me. The Flat-Iron
club would have ironed our your rufTIes
in great shape. Washington led the
American armies. but he did not frame
the Constitution. If you will find in any
history that he did I win do my own
homework for a whole year.
Mr.. Bowser wanted to jump up and
down and kick the cat and pound on the
wall, but by a powerful effort he re-
strained himself. He realized that he
was long on bluff and short on history,
and he could not make a mistake.
wen, let it go as you say he final
~ remarked, but If you make a fool
of me you'll hear something drop. will
leave Washington out and say: "Mr.
Speaker and Gentlemen: I stand here
tonight
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"stop right there; Not another
word until I return with PROOFS 70
crush you into the dust. You need
not sit NJ for me-
He went down the hall and put on
his hat and overcoat and LETT the
house, and five minutes later he was
asking his family druggist;
Did George Washington or Wll1am
Penn sian the Declaration of 1nde-
pendence drst?'
The druggist looked at him in
plying way for a minute and then
shook his head and answered;
"Give it up, Bowser-give it up.
'Give Up what"
ssDsputing with your wife. She
knows more in minute than you do
in all day"
eyes. I know. but don't get into
scraDs with Mrs. Bowser and come
here and try to prove her in the
wrong You'll get left every time
Mr.. Bowser walked out boiling over
with indignation. Providence had a
victim at hand. An old tramp asked
him for ten cents to get a bed with,
and the next instant there was wild
war whoop and he was flying down
the street for his life and "Mr. Presi-
dent after him. They took the mid
die of the street, and a policeman who
saw them pass rubbed his frostbitten
ear and unused to himself
well, old Bowser has broke loose
again and is after gore. I must run
him in next time he comes my way. -
Copyright, 1905 by T. @. McClure.l
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nothing morbid in his treatment Of it.
He has always that detached, impef-
sonal way of dealing with subjects ana
characters. that manner which seems to
disclaim with perfect good nature but
positively. any responsibility of judg-
nent one way or another His creations
are not labeled good or bad or indiner-
ent. and their actions are not made the
occasion of lengthy moral or philosOphi-
cal hOmiIies From pedantry and
preaching he is absolutely free. Here
they are" he says, Just as found EN-
in life I don't presume either to blame
or praise EN-. You may find out by
reading my books what their friends
think OF my characters but you'll never
know what I think of EN- myself, be
cause it doesn't matter. AS for my
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Mr.. President, you mean
Mr.. President, then, and I'd like to
knock his blamed head off stand here
tonight as one of the Warmest admir-
ers of that noble and heroic son of Iiber-
ty, William Penn, and l propose
Good lands, Mr.. Bowser, but what
are you sayingl Don't you know who
William Penn WaS?'
"Of course I know
But he wasn't a noble and heroic son
of liberty. He was a Quaker and a
good man, and he didn't pose as noble
and heroic"
by John, woman, but this is going
too far-tOO fart" shouted Mr.. Bowser
as he danced around. lone would think
from what you say that I didn't know a
snow shovel from a piano. was fool
to expect any help from you
You'd have been a bigger one to
class William Penn as noble and heroic
He was known more for his treaties
with the Indians than anything else OF
course the state of Pennsylvania was
named after him. Il you want to bring
in some of the signers of the Declara-
ton of Independence why not speak of
John Hancock"
st might as well speak of Tom Col
Inns. John Hancock never signed it. The
only thing he ever did that I've heard
of was to send up kite and draw
! lightning from the Clouds"
But that was Benjamin franklin"
''Neveri Neveri"
of course it was. You'll find it in
half a dozen books in the house. Please
don't get mad at me, Mr.. BOwser. but
you see you have had so much business
to attend to that these little things
have slipped your mind. Why refer to
the Constitution at aIl?"
Mr.. Bowser glared at her and clench-
ed his fingers, but after awhile he man
| aged to ask:
sfThen what would speak OFF"
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cut but it would be precious hard to
manage-not to mention inconvenlent II
she comes back here to live and every
thing is patched up according to law.
ITS very difficult to cut people whom
one has known all ones life. unless
they've committed murder or embez-
zIed."
TT isn't as though she were a biga-
mist or living in violation oft the seventh
commandment
I'VE couldn't ostracize her simply be-
cause she has got divorce and mar
ried again because there are SO many
others"
And the final summing up of the
whole matter is made by Mrs. Cunning
ham who holds out longest against the
offender but finally gives in with: 1.-THE
only pardonabIe social sin in this coun-
try is to lose ones money. Nothing else
really counts
The Orchid. By Robert Grant. Pub
lished by Charles Scribner's Sons, New
Y ork. Price s1.25.
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BoWsER's oRATORY.
It Would Have Been All Right Except
for Mrs. BOWseF.

There was a certain nervousness and
anxiety about Mr.. Bowser when he ar
rived home the other night that did not
escape Mrs. Bowser's eye, and she made
up her mind at once that she was in
for an unpleasant evening She pre-
served her smile and good nature, how
ever, and asked no questions, and Mr.
Bowser managed to hold his own until
after dinner. Then he could contain
himself no longer, but said:
Il received notice today that I had
been elected a member of the FIat-Iron
club
'.Yes?" she replied. Are you going
into the laundry business?"
Don't be an idiot! The Flat-Iron
club is composed of some of the most
profound thinkers of the day. Most of
the questions they discuss are constitu-
tional ones"
''Oh, I see They call it the Flat-Iron
club because it smooths the wrinkles
out of things. Well you have been
elected?"
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well, if you feel the need of it. go
back to the beginning-tO the landing
of the Pilgrims. They came here to
secure religious liberty, and it was their
descendants who at last threw off the
yoke of tyranny. Don't make any mis-
take about where they landed, how
ever
What! Do you intend that for an
INSULT"
Certainly not. but about two years
ago, when you were down for a speech
before some club, you had them land
at Yorktown"
Never! Woman, we viii have set
tlement later on. If there is a child
five years old in this country who don't
know that the Pilgrim Fathers landed
at Cape Cod then he ought to be sound
ly spanked"
Mrs. Bowser groaned in despair.
well, what now?" he demanded.
1.-The Pilgrims didn't land there. 1t
was Plymouth Rock"
That's an internal canardl I've
stood on the very wharf where they
landed"
but there was no wharf"
Mr.. zBowser grabbed a chair by the
back and began to see red, and the
effort he made to control himself left
his face as pale as the dead. His chln
was still Quivering when he quietly
said:
Mrs. Bowser. you can insult me no
farther.
Bowser. You have things al mixed
up, and
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And it is the rule that every member
elected must make a speech on his first
night I have been a little busy today
and therefore have nothing prepared.
That is, have only a sort of outline.
Perhaps you might help me a bit.
don't go until tomorrow night"
''How far have you got?'
well, shall stand up and say:
Mr.. Chairman and gentlemen, when our
forefathers gave US a constitution
Hold on interrupted Mrs Bowser.
IF you were to address a public meet
ing YOU would speak of the presiding
officer as Mr.. Chairman. In a club
you should refer to him as Mr.. Presl-
dent"
Mr.. Bowser flushed up and felt his
hair crawling. but he wanted her as
sistance and SO held on to his temper.
You may be right. he grudglng:y
admitted. Il viii call him Mr. Presi-
dent. and say: When our forefathers
assembled at Yorktown and gave US the
Constitution under which we have all
enjoyed the liberty
Assembled whereg
s'At Yorktown. ans
but our forefathers never assem-
bled at yorktown to frame q Consttu-
ton It was at Philadelphia You are
getting the battle of yorktown mixed
up with the Constitution.
Not on your life. Woman
"Ili prove it by all the histories OF
America"
Mr.. Bowser wilted. Mrs. Bowser was
SO earnest about it that he felt he musl
be wrong. He cheWed the rag anc
walked around followed by the cat, ano
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BOOK NOTES.
Various Items About Books That Arc
Attracting Attention.

Dodd, Mead & Co. published today a
new story by George Barr McCutcheon,
author of the much read Beverly of
Graustarkv and other ronances. It's
title is 1.-THE Purple Parasol,'' and 1t is
illustrated with several full-page plates
in colors by Harrison Fisher. and page
decorations by Charles B. Falls. The
same house viii also issue next week q
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Do THE DEAD RETURN
AT THIS MANS BIDDING j?
Mysterious Power of Panopathic Professor Makes
Human Heart Beat Again in Body of Woman.
HOPELESS INVALIDs
OF DISEASES NCURABLE PHYSICIANS WITHOUT
LESS DRUGS AND MEDICINES

Abandons Private Practice and Offers Services Free of
Charge to the Sick and Afflicted Makes the Deaf
Hear, the Lame Walk and Cures Those Hun
dreds of Miles Away Easily Those
Who Call in Person.
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Ainslee's for May carries the fourth in
ham Phillips, and the evidence it offers is
that its author is surprising his best eff
forts in "Tne COST and The Plum
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McClure-Phillips have postponed until
fall the publication of Charles Wagner's
Justice -'Wayside Sermons and s"The
Spirit OF Nature"
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Charles VVagner's famous book, THE
Simple Life" appears in many guises. Ped
dlers on the streets OF New York are now
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Where did Mr. Kipling get his title,
"Trafics and Discoveries?' A cores
pOndent of 1.-The London Academy
mentions an origin which has doubtless
suggested itself to many readers, name
", the we'll known title of Hakluyts
voyages.
Daily press. [volume] (Newport News, Va.) 1896-current, 1905-09-10
First Come, First served.

"A week before commencement Jones,
senior. who was weary Of boarding
house fare. was happily engaged III
donning his dinner clothes. y smile OF
delighted anticipation played upon his
features when Robbins entered in IL
dinner cont
Hello. Charleyw greeted Jones
chccrily. whats up?'
"Oh. nothing up" said Robbins. "1'm
just going round to the Clcmcnscs to
call-going to see IL can't get asked
TO dinner"
The smile faded slowly from Jones'
features.
"Oh, | say, Charley" he cxpostulat-
cd. cant you go somewhere else?
was going cre."-Youth's Companion.
Daily press. [volume] (Newport News, Va.) 1896-current, 1905-09-10
Geni,,n pnd Mt Eiruren.

l know an eminent Greek professor
who could not reckon his class fees.
Faraday had, believe, no glft for
mathematics. Darwin declared that he
never understood an equation. ques-
tlon if Isaac Newton could have passed
any examination In literary or aesthetic
subjects, with his idea that poetry was
ingenious nonsense and statunry only
stone dolls. 1t is Il moot question lie
Napoleon Bonaparte would have passed
q matriculation In French. slirewdly
suspect that neither Bonapnrte nor
Wellington would shine IN n military
academy examination.-Let in Lon
don Telegraph.
Daily press. [volume] (Newport News, Va.) 1896-current, 1905-09-10
HASTY FUNERALS IN THE
SUB=TROPLCAL COUNTRY
Precautions That Must be Taken i'm BuenOs
Ayres OH Account OF the Climate Ella
bOrate Form OF Death NOtice-Bur=
ials in Mortuary Chapels.

twelve feet square, and they are built
III rows like city houses and laid out
in squares like city streets, with broad
sidewalks ami Il roadway between.
Each OF these ''pantconcs" contains
al altar Of marble, OH Which are can,
dies, flowers. sacred pictures and other
religious cnblcnls and symbols of Tie
Catholic church
In front of this altar is II large slab
which when lifted discloscs Il ladder or
stairway ieldinG down to II vault.
which Is II whitewaShcd chamber with
spaces one above the other in the walls
of sufficient size to receive Il coffin
After each space is filled 1t is scaled
up with marble slab, giving the
name, age and date of death.
Private vaults will usually hold from
n dozen 20 fifteen bodies, bnt MS these
are expensive the various hrnciicia SO
cicties have erected mortuary chapels
IN which their members can he buried
the expense FOR the individual thus
being much less.
Some OF these chnpcls are as big as
church, with IL vault two s.ories
deep and room for 1000 bodies, the
vaults under these large edilccs be-
ing finished in marble and entered
from the Interior of the chapel by II
wide flight of marble steps, the whole
being well ventilated and lighted.
For the poorer classes, who can
neither afford to erect "pantcone" of
their own nor belong to one OF these
societies, there is Il long peristylc on
each side OF the entrance gateway,
and here inches can be rented or
bought. these inches being about two
feet square ut their outer end, with
sufficient depth to take the collin, and
arranged in groups OF 800, the niche
when filed being walled up with the
usual slab. In the front OF this slab
there is often Il photograph of IL dead,
covered with glass, and un,Vr each
one is Il small shelf OH which flowers,
votive offerings or little oil lamps, kept
constantly burning, are placed.
When Il near relative dies. like n
parent or child, the men wear Grape
bands about six inches wide OH the left
arm. halfway to the elbow, and the
women IL Grape veil, falling over the
face and reaching to the ground, and
usually Il large black sha wi hiding the
figure, indicating that they have en-
tlrcly withdrawn from the world and
its fashions New York Tribune
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an dlivcd tu tell the experience TO
their grandchildren.
Then there is tie third congestivc
chill, commonly believed 10 be fatal
Most people who die from this cause
succumb to the first or second attack
II Il man succeeds in wchthcring two
OF them the odds are in favor of his
coming out victor In the third Almost
every community Possesses II citizen
who boasts the fact that he has Il ST.
yer plate I'm his skull. Surgeons say that
very few attempts were ever made ut
such an operation, and all OF them
were failures. There does not exist %
man who has Il silver plate in his
skull, although many men honestly be-
licvc that they are carrying this species
of parnphcrnnin in their crnninms.
The bone of the skull cannot live ami
be healthy in the presence of Il foreign
body. Ii Is said by surgeons to be a
physical inpossbllity, but this serves
In no way to overcome the common
and erroneous belief
The medical fraternity Inns another
false belief to combat III cases OF "shin-
giles" This disease consists of skin
eruption. always following affected
nerves and commonly appearing on
the body. 1t is u very common belief
that If the shingles" completely sur
round the body and strike meeting
point the patient will die instantly.
The belief is untrue.-Kansns City
Journal
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Inc question OF title is one of the
most delicate in Germany, fact of
Whirh the stranger is constantly re.
minded in intercourse with the peoplc.
particularly with the women. Frau
lroicsSor, Frau Director, Frau Doctor.
are most particular about their nus
"'''o 'ities being attached To their
own names. But when 1t comes to mil
itary circles ii is different, and both
ineh ana women protest vigorously
against This sharing OF titles. Licuten-
ant Won Is. objects to having his wife
addressed as Frau Lieutenant. which
tltie bciongs as well To the wife Of
Lieutenant Schmidt or Han of II less
nristocratic regiment.