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Dairy student Drowned.

Madison, Wis, Nov 10.-John S.
SpurnSchneider, a dairy student from
New Franklin. Wis, met death IN a
tank of THE state university gymna-
sium yesterday afternoon. Death is
supp oseh to have been caused BY
drowning. but the authorities believe
heart touble may have been respor-
siole.
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Killed by Unknown Assassin.

Marnette, Wis, Nov l0.-Frank
Lucas. OF Menominee. was murdered
Yesterday afternoon while driving
along the state DAD north of here, 4
rifle bullet fired by an unknown per-
son entering his heart.
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Fusion Candidate Wins at Memphis

Memphis. Tenn. Nov. 10.--James
II. Malone. oDs of the best known
lawyers in Tennessee. was elected
mayor of Memphis on the independ-
ent Democrat ticket defeating J. J.
Williams, Democrat, who had held
the Office eight years. The entire in
dependent ticket is probably elected.
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SUIT CASE TRAGEDY.
l. Now In the Hands of the Grand
Jury.

Boston Nov. l0.-The suit case
tragedy is being investigated by the
Suffolk grand jury today and forty
witnesses for the state we're summon
ed TO appear II true bill Is returned
requisition papers on the governor of
New York will be issued for persons
supposed 10 be implicated in the MUIR
der of Miss Gearey.
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JUDGE JAMES CAMPBELL
Is Appointed Special Judge in the j..
X. Smith VIII Case.

Frankfort. KY, Nov 10.-Gov,
Beckham has appointed Judge jam, 5
Campbell of Paducah, special judge
of the McCracken cidcuit court. to
preside in the j. r. Smith will CON
test case, Judge w. NJ. Reed. the reg
ular judgs of the court being disqual-
flied TO sit in the case because of hav-
ing drawn the will in the contest.
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I.ussian Grew MutinIcd.

Vienna, Nov l0.--It is reported
that the crew of the Russian steamer
Tsmallia which sailed from Odessa
recently. mutinlsd and robbed the
passengers of all their money
The Paducah sun., 1905-11-10
Dinhthcrin CLOSES SCHOOLS.

Springfield, ILL.,. Nov 10.-An epi-
demic of diphtheria at Taylorville
was reported to the state board of
health today Public schools and Ii
hraries have been closed.
The Paducah sun., 1905-11-10
HALLWAY strike Ends.

London. Nov. i0.-The cor espond-
ent of ahf Exchange Telegraph COM
pauy wires that the railway strike at
Riga, Russia, has ended.
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The Lady and the LeOpards

BY a L BE- RIA PA TT

the cruelty. 1t takes longer to train a
fierce beast by kind treatment and in
telligence, yet it is the only true way,
the French lady says. But even after
the tanning is done, so far as it can ever
be accomplished, the trainer in the cage
with the beasts at a performance must
keep her eye on them every moment,
watching like a hawk lest they spring
at her unexpectedly. The leopard is of
the cat tribe and has a cats soft, eush-
toned feet, so that it can sneak upon a
victim from behind without making the
least noise. The leopard and the jaguar
are so fierce and savage that whenever
they are giving a performance on the
stage keepers always stand guard with
long, sharp pronged forks, like pitch
fork, to prod them off if they show any
disposition to attack their trainer. The
bloodthirsty mother leopard sometimes
devours her own offspring
The little Frenchwoman leopard
trainer has seven of these big spotted
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denly eff other parents took the same
precautions we do
Here he paused as his rowing eye
lighted on his shaking son. Were you
in bed last night at 1902"
Yes, sir" promptly, in a tone of re-
lief
Besides the outrage of the thing"
Mr.. Remely continued later in calmer
mood, cit is considerable loss to Lee
ander here"
Leander ducked his head beneath the
table ostensibly to call the cat, in re-
atty to allow the corners Of his mouth
to turn up unnoticed in an exultant
grin as he reflected that his father re-
ferred to the loss of exercise with the
AK.
I'D sold the kindIing in those boxes
to Brown" Mr.. Remely continued land
intended to turn the whole business
over to Leander here for Christmas
money. 'TwOuld amount to 81 or So"
The corners of Lenders mouth took
decided downward curve. Vindictive-
~ he kicked the cat under the table,
and to Sissy he confded in the middle
of the forenoon, "a teller can't seem to
have no fun any more any way" He
spoke gloomily from the open window
of his room, whittier Sissy had called
him by a shriIl whistle.
mel and large mustard plaster was
blistering his chest. He was supposed
to be in bed.
SAY, that's a fact!" Sissy replied
with JUNCTION. A large basket of new
bread weighed down each arm. sTve
just been over to the swamp peekin
and what'd you think? Jake and the
old woman was out splietin' up boxes
and actin tickled to death. Jake he
stood the knee of that game leg OF
his'n on to box and was chopin FOX
all he was worth"
Leander groaned, but the full signif-
icance of Jacobs chopping did not
dawn on him till after dinner. Then
/ the iron entered his soul.
'Landt' exclaimed Mrs. Remely,
busting into the sitting room. Mrs.
F'essler has just been here, and as
near as can make out of her gabble
Providence has sent her a lot of wood
so she can make soap again. Now.
Leander," briskly, I'm going to spend
the rest of the day dosing you so'st
you'll be ready to go out peddling it
tomorrow. I'll just mix up another
plaster and slap it on between your
shoulder blades and break up that
cough in no time. I amt willing that
any one in the church shall have mora
to show for their 10 cents than Il"
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lment and Instruction For the YOung Folks

Gus reason for liking them better. but
then there is no accounting for tastes.
When the French leopSrd trainer was
a little girl the wild beasts exhibited in
menageries had great fascination for
her. She went again and again to see
them and finally was filed with an in
tense desire to go and be herself a
master of lions and tigers and leOpards.
She determined to become this and per-
sisted till she had her way.
One of the women brute tanners
makes a speciality of training lions. A
part of her daily performance is to
stand upon the stage with five lions
around her and dance. She calls the
lions her pets; all the same she keeps a
very sharp watch upon them and plen-
ty of guards are stationed at the back
of the sage with pitchforks.
To become master OF a lion or leopard
one must never show fear of it. This is
the beginning and the most important
point Lions, tigers and leopards are
accustomed to having all other living
creatures fear them. When they see
one that does not seem afraid they are
puzzled and cannot make it out and
by and by they themselves are mas
tered.
BY the way this is a grand maxim
for boys and girls to remember: We
can master what we are not afraid of.
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dangerous Of them all is said to be the
leopard Of Asia and Africa and its near
relative, the jaguar OF South America.
The jaguar is so much like the leopard
that it might be called the South
American leopard. It is a terrible
creature with its sly. cunning ways and
powerful claws and teeth. The trainers
most successful in making the captive
jaguars perform tricks before an au-
dience at a menagerie in this country
are at present women.
Perhaps this is because the woman
trainer is gentler and kinder in her
manner than the man. A little French
woman who is one of the most famous
wild animal trainers in the world says
Il is quite the wrong way to begin with
whips and clubs on a wild beast you
wish to educate, subduing it only
through fear The fear tanning never
lasts; the lion or tiger does not forget
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RIDDLES.

What do liars do after death? Lie
still
why is an egg overdone like an egg
UNDERGONE? Because it is hardly done
When do your teeth usurp the func-
ton of your tongue? When they chat
ter.
Which is the greatest riddle in the
world? Life. because we must all give
it up.
Why is a street car a safe place in a
Thunderstorm Because it has a con
ductor.
What is that which works when it
plays and plays when it works? A
fountain.
What knitting is every lady able to
do without knitting needles? Knitting
her broWs.
Why is a little dogs tail like the
heart of a tree? Because it is farthest
from the bark.
Why is a waiter like a racehorse
Because he often runs for steaks
(stakes). plates OF cups.
Why was the whale that swallowed
Jonah like a milkman who has made
his fortune? s Because he got a great
profit out of the water.
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1t was nearly noon when he headed
a procession of boys staggering under
their last loads toward the thicket near
the line fence, where their treasure was
stored. He it was who pushed first
among the branches and saw the heap
ed up bags-and something else!
He gave one yell. and a moment lat
er eleven boys. unincumbered. were
flying heller SHELTER over the fence,
while the twelfth was ANONYMOUSLY held
by means of a broad German hand at
the seat of his punctured trousers and
another on his coat collar.
dis list cine, whay you call-it-bee,
va? inquired Jacob pleasantly as he
churned the unfortunate Leander up and
down. Zine bee fur to nuts gather.
Ya?"
With the last word Leander few
head first across the fence. landed in a
mud puddle and went home a sadder
and madder boy than when he had
started out with the soap.
The soap episode had entirely es-
capped his mind, but not his mothers.
An inkling of the affair had reached
her owing to the downfall of the min
lister, whose salary the soap fund was
intended to swell. That good man found
it unhealthy to tread on slippery
places and had brought his grievance,
also the discovered soap pail. to the
mortified Mrs. Remely
Therefore it happened that there was
a deal of one sided conversation in the
kitchen between Leanders the first and
the second directly on the latters ar
rival, and it ended by the seconds re-
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Marks of the Lnundrx.

The number of letters used by Iaun-
dries to distinguish their patrons gar
ments are dishguTing enough, but in
America it is not so bad as elsewhere.
In parts of France the name and adj
dress of the Laundry are stamped on
each piece sent home, and should sew
eral laundries be patronized, one after
the other, a fine collection will soon be
found in addition to the geometrical
marks indicative of the owner of the
garment. In Russia laundry marks are
under police supervision, and in this
manner a refugee who makes his way
to another town upon a forged passport
is liable to detection, unless he can Dor
row linen with the mark of one of the
town laundries upon it. Bulgarian
laundries employ rubber stamps with
ornamental designs, while in Germany
the linen comes home with a small
cloth label attached with a heat and
waterproof cement.
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seeing who could raise the greatest
amount of money from an original in
vestment of 10 cents each. AS a re-
suit Mrs Remely was victimizing the
town with soap manufactured for her
by Mrs. Fessler.
Just around the corner Leander ran
into his right hand lieutenant Sissy
Brown Sissy was headed for the
swamp armed with baskets and a long
pole. Hey, there!" cried Sissy "WOt
you up to now?"
Soap shifted Leander. holding the
pail of strong smelling jellylike sub
stance as far away as his arm would
reach.
He had no need to say more. Sissy
understood. Sissy was sent out by his
mother thrice a week with loaves of
new bread to sell. He had long felt
that never again could he eat anything
tainted with the smell of new bread.
The boys exchanged looks. Say,
darst YEP" asked Sissy.
yep. I darst," returned Leander, his
eyes rowing to the pole and baskets.
you be runnin' them suggested
Sissy.
Leander obeyed. A foot shot out in
front of him. There was a crash, a fall
and away rolled the pail of soap, spill
ing its contents over the walk. Once
Leander had performed a similar act
OF friendship for Sissy when they want
ed to go fishing, only the bread had been
directed into the gutter
After that the way of the transgres-
sOrs was easy-for awhile. Leander,
concluding not to reveal the catastro-
ply to his mother until later, hid the
pail behind the fence, stole into the
barn by way of the stable door, Sc
cured the bags and fishing pole and, in
an incredibly short time was thrashing
the chestnut trees on the swamp farm
along with Sissy and ten other kim
bred spirits.
Hour after hour they worked while
the suns rays grew hotter, until Lee
ander voiced the general condition when
he announced cOmplaisantly that he
was call of a lather!" To be sure, he
was never complaisant about being
'Iathered" when at work in his ia
Tiers garden but what did perspiration
matter beside two meal bags full of
chestnuts at So per bushel? Nothing
mattered, although he knew there must
come an hour of reckoning, for the
bamboo pole was a wreck, while the
seat of his trousers was badly pune
tured owing to a broken branch in a
tree. Furthermore, his hands, knees
and elbows were full of prickers. and a
hard red lump adorned the back of his
neck. called into being by d chestnut
bur fleeing from the end of a long pole.
Yes, he knew there must come an
hour of reckoning, but he had not
counted on its arriving so suddenly and
unexpectedly as it did.
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LEANDER DUCKED HIS HEAD
BENEATH THE TABLE.
Remember. you fellow. is never ten.

Remember, you fellows, it's never tell,
crisscross hearts, honest Injuni"
you bet!" AIushy FASTENED to as
sure him earnestly. Musings earnest
ness was based on reasons which arose
o.. the maternal side of his family.
Then the boys stole away, looking
back lingeringly at the story and a half
house, no spot of which was visible be-
cause of the hundreds of boxes which
reared themselves to its height fol-
lowed the contour of the roof and over
topped the chimney. In front of the
windows and door were barricades of
the heaviest boxes. The walks We're
outlined with boxes, while in front of
the barn door was box tower Of Pisa,
with perilous lean toward the gar
den fence.
swelIed with pride as he entered his
by breakfast time the swelling had par
case of snuf1es.
did you sleep with your window
open ?" demanded his mother.
Leander wiggled uneasily. Guess the
wind did blow on me some" he admit
ted.
The snif1es were forgotten, however.
when the elder Leander stamped in
from the barn fresh from the discovery
of his loss.
ITS shame. an outrage, a
crimei Such thefts ought to be hunted
down and the criminals brought to
punishment Leander DDS legs gave
way at the knee, and he sat down sud
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shadow Of the bushes opposite a Won
derful structure their industry had
raised on the swamp farm
ssGolly, boys. Amt it corker,
thought" whispered Leander.
Sissy rubbed his lame back and gig
gled. seThey won't know when daylight
strikes EN- till about noon, I guess
IF pa should ind OUT unused Le-
ander aloud. and then paused. He felt
some delicacy. about mentioning the
weeping willow-that being strictly a
family matter-and so added lamely.
He'd be some mad over the kindling.
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pied on his rights and
privileges on many occasions.
Twice six Halloweens had dawned
on him when his vengeance was direct
ed toward a certain Jacob Fessler, only
a couple Of years distant from Ellis
island, a big rawboned German, who
picked up our language slowly and was
regarded as rather stupid until one
bright Saturday in october when that
illusion was dispelled.
Jacob lived on the swamp farm half a
mile from Shields Corners. The name
Of the farm indicated its general for
lornness, while the little story and a half
ramshackle brown house near the road
bore witness to the fact that the place
was. in the language of Shedd's Cor
ners. ''clean run down" This popular
opinion Jacob F'essler, his mother, a
horse, two cows and a pig were doing
their best to undermine.
OF crops, that first year, Jacob had
almost none but Nature provided him
with an amazingly abundant October
crop, for which he had toiIed not. Scat
tered over the farm, on every grassy
knoll Of the rocky hillside above the
swamp. great chestnut trees spread
their branches full of ripe nuts.
Now, Jacob being new to the land
and stranger to its unwritten laws,
was foolish enough to suppose that the
chestnuts, being part and parcel of his
property, belonged to him, a mistake
which a dozen of the small boys of
shedd's Corners, led by Leander I'd,
strove to point out to him that mem
Orable Saturday in October.
1t was a bright, crisp morning. just
the time. thought Mrs. Remely. stand
ing over the gridiron, to send Leander
out to sell soft soap in behalf of her
church fund; therefore she raped
smartly on the stovepipe with the pan
cake turner and called nasally: LIE
an-der! Le-an-der! Get right up or
III tell your pa"
There was no repIy-she had expected
none-but Immediately a loud thump
above. followed by another formally
announced the fact that both of Lee
ander's feet had shot through the legs
of his trousers and We're planted on the
floor. Mrs. Remedy knew from expe-
rience that there must be a special rea-
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THE WAY OF A BOY.

When mother. sits beside my bed
At night and strokes and smooths my
head
And kisses me. think. some way,
How naughty I have been all day;
OF how / waded in the brook
And of the sweeties that I took
And how I smashed a window light
A-wrestlin'- and Bobby White
And tore my pants and told a lie.
It almost makes me want to cry
When mother pats and kisses me.
I'm just as sorry as can be,
But I don't tell her so-no, sir!
She knows it all; you can't fool her.
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A little six-year-old boy was taken on
a journey from England to India, and
in India the brightness of the moon
seems specially to have struck the little
fellow. He wrote home to his aunt,
Here we have larger moon. and we
keep it better polished"
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Here is a tip top tongue tripper. See
if you can say it fast without a mis-
take:
Betty Botta bought some butter.
But she said, this buffers bitter.
But bit o. better butter
Will make my batter better
So she bought a bit O. butter
Better than the bitter butter,
And it made her batter better.
So twas better Betty Botta
Bought a bit O. better butter.
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son for such unwonted activity. but
she made no remarks when he appeared
at the stair door.
Leander. thoroughly acquainted with
that reason, also made no remarks.
Out in the barn. hidden. lay his fathers
new bamboo fishing pole and two of the
best meal sacks for which Leander LIST
had been searching three days.
'Leander." remarked his mother at
the breakfast table. latter breakfast 1
want that you should take that pail of
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soap Mrs. Fessler made for me and go
up Maple street and sell it." She
dumped two smoking hot griddlecakes
on her sons plate as a propitiatory Of
fering, but it did not propitiate
One fist doubled mechanically into his
eye and wall of Nov, ma arose, but
Leander 1st interposed sternly, DO as
your mother says and stop that bawI-
ing!"
This settled matters. fish pole. meal
sacks and all. Half an hour after
Leander started out his soul filed with
a loathing which included soft soap.
church projects and the imposition on
his time constantly occurring in the
bosom of his family. AS to the project.
the women of the NJ. E. church were
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firing to the wood shed, while the first
cut off such a portion of the weeping
willow back of the house as was suit
able to the occasion. That weeping will
low was already badly mutilated
Late in the day when Leander the
younger emerged from temporary con-
finement and. dry crackers a CLEAN OF
joy entered his soul at sight of the
calendar hanging under the. kitchen
clock. Halloween was only two weeks
off
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MOTHER LEOPARD AND HER CHILDREN.

There are four or five very famous
women trainers OF wild beasts now ex-
hibiting their animals in this country.
Two of them are French. They hardly
ever go through d performance that
they are not snapped at or clawed by
some of the brutes. sometimes play
neeks and shoulders of all of them are
SCARED where they have been scratched
or bitten. The lady of the Ieopards has
near her left eye a scar that draws the
eye downward and deforms it slightly.
which was made by the paw of one of
her fierce pets. She likes 1eopards bet
ter than lions. which also she has train
ed, and she thinks maybe this Is be-
cause the leopards are even more dan
gerous than the lions. It seems a Curl
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cats, which she sometimes makes per-
form all at once. She enters their cage
with a whip, using that to touch them up
when they are slow or to guide them.
She makes them stand upright and
show themselves off, also has them
jump down from high perch to illus
trate how they spring upon their prey.
Sometimes one of the savage creatures
is bad tempered and does not want to
obey. and it snarls wickedly at the
trainer who has much trouble to bring
it into subsection. She has to do this
every time one rebels, however, for if
once she let it refuse. it would never
obey her again. This is true of all
savage animals that are trained to per-
form. There is something strange
about the fact.
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Editor (to Office boy)-How do you
spell auricular?
once Boy promptly can't spell
it at all.
Editor (angrily) did you go to
school for2
once Boy (sadly)- Because had to.
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Margie-1f you don't stop teasing me
I'll tell mamma and she'll tell papa.
then papa win whip you.
Harry-Then I'll cry and grandma
win give me some candy, and I won't
give you any.
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At first glance what would you call
the queer object represented in the pic
ture? It might be a doormat or a new
kind of round cake or a snake ready to
strike. But it is none of these. It's a
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Yonnr AmerIcn,s Loelc.

pa" said~a little boy, ga horse is
worth a great deal more. isn't it, after
it's broken?"
yes. my son. Why do you ask such
a question:"
Because I broke the new rocking
horse you gave me this morning
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a Good Reasoning.

.eWeH. Tommy. I'm glad to see you
are getting aloag SO much better at
school" said that you mans uncle.
''You have gone a whole week without
being whipped, haven't your"
Eyes. sir; teachers got a lame arm. :"
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wild beasts. such as lions, tigers and
leopards. The most ferocious and at
the same time most treacherous and
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vOMEN in many cases are
among the most daring
and skillful tanners and
trainers of the hercest
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By ALICE LOUISE LEE

Copyright, 1905, bp Alice LOUIS Lee
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nee his sixth year
Leander Remely ID
had regarded Hallow-
cen as sacred to get
ting even with such
inhabitants of Shedd's
Corners as had tram
pied on his rights and