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New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1906-08-26
Would Have Him Study Government

MO, | don't mean disrespcct," continued the
~ Speaker kindly; "yOu know mean if l could
control YOUR time and talent. IL / owned the maya
zine and could command your services, would To-
cate you in Washington and have you investigate. L
don't know whether you ever studied law or not;
but whether you have or not / would give you
good law library and have you study it. | would
have you study the Constitution and its history,
of the Supreme Court. Then would have you study
the great executive departments, really to know
what they doing and how they are doing 1t;
and - he paused and his voice softened into caress
ing and at the end of ten years would
have you write something about this wonderful ma
chine called the peoples Government.
The magazine man stared at the Speaker; but
Uncle Joe seemed not to notice any change as he
went on gently. Twenty years would be better
I've been here than thirty and / don't know
it all, by great deal-but / wouldn't let you write
a line under ten years.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1906-08-26

half the Senators and Representatives were to be
elected and he believed tnat Congress was directed
by the Constitution simply to enact into law the rec
oIn,nendations of the President. lie came TO the
Speaker lie wanted TO learn from one who had
been long III Congress- He remained tor an hour,
and asked many questions lie also expressed ms
views on various questions The Speaker talked and
listened When the magazine writer was about to
leave the Speaker laid his hand on his shoulder
like father giving parting benedictlon, and re-
marked
My dear Mr.. Blank, have read some of your
articles. You WELD facile pen, and you have
made a reputation investigator. You have
come to Washington to investigate. Do you know
what | would do if / owned your"
The magazine man Strengthened up.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1906-08-26
A Tree of Many Powers

THE ash tree is rich with superstition. The old
charlatans of the Middle Ages used it in their
love potions and the damsels of ancient times be-
leved that it would enable them make their sweet
hearts true, and help them discover their future
husbands. The inhabitants of Iceland still look
with dread upon the use of mountain ash as fuel
Their belief that it will make enemies of all who
gather round hearthstone which it burns Is deep
seated, and was once almost universal in Europe.
Superstltious seekers after good luck may still
be found invoking the spirit of the even-eaved
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1906-08-26
Worship of the Apple Tree

EVEN the sturdy apple tree has not been free from
superstition. Like other specie. It was be-
heved in early days TO have a presiding spirit and
in the spring of every year II was Gust mary to pro
pitiate this spirit with ceremonies and examinations
that it might send forth plentiful crop of fruit as
reward This interesting and quaint practice In
gered until recently IN the southern part Of Devon
shire, England. Accompanied by IN the maxi
members of his household and his vorknen the
farmer would march round the best earring tres
and drinking the following toast 10 the tree:
Here's to thee old apple tree
Whence thou nav'st bud
And whence thou NAV st blow.
And whence thou ulav'st bear apr' aaev!
Hats full Caps full
BuShel, buShel sacks full
And my pockets full, too HUI
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1906-08-26

Although tradition tells Is ~ / was On q,
elder tree that Judas hanged hir elf, great vrtus
has long been attributed 10 1t as cure for epilenS~
The origin of this belief may BE lnd in The al
lowing quotation from an old boos charms:
In the month of October, little ueiore full moon
pluck twig of elder and cut the cane that Is h.
tween two of its knees or knot in nine pieces.
bind these pieces in piece of linen hang this BY
thread about the neck so that they ouch the spoon
of the heart or the swOrd-forTueI cartlage; and
that they may more firmly stay In their place bind
them thereon with linen or Silkeu roller wrapped
around the body till the thread brta of itself The
thread being broken and the roller removed The
charm Is not to be touched at all with the bare
hands, but should be taken hold 81 by some H.
strument and buried in place that nobody mav
touch It
OF course, unless the instructions were followed
strictly a complete cure could Not be assured
There is another superstition about the elder
which doubtless has saved many boy a stout can
ing, namely, that it binders chids growth If used
as an instrument of punishment.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1906-08-26
Bay Tree Un1ucky

r ONG before the time of Shakespeare the bay tree
was an object OF superstition The whitening
of such tree believed to be a sure Indication
of coming misfortune to those with whom it was
in anyway connected. Shakespeare gave voice to
the superstition in Richard H." when he made
one of his characters say:
IT'S thought the king is dead; well not STAY
The bay trees in country withered.
1t was thought by the ancients that lightning
would never harm this tree. and it was customary
among them to carry bay leaves as a charm against
the thunderbolts of JOve. The belief was
long prevalent in England, and reference to it
may be found in an old poem dedicated to Ben
JOnsOn
see that wreathe which doth the arme
IIanst the quick stroakes of thunder, IS charm
To keep off deaths pale dart.
a curious survival of the DAYS when the ma
gcians of Europe sought ndefatigab1y for the phi
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1906-08-26

ways of their neighbOrs that the patriarChS
had to issue the command, Thou shalt not
plant thee grove of any trees" (Deut. xvi. 2I.)
The fig tree was sacred in Egypt, Japan, and
India The Romans, too, held it in high regard,
for they believed that with its Overhanging
branches it had stayed the floating basket that
contained the infant twins ROmulus and Remus.
Most of the sacred groves that decked the seven
hills of the Imperial City of oak, and in far
away Britain the same tree wOrshiped by the
ancient Druids.
1t was the common belief that good or bad spirits
shut up in the giants of the forests where
times they talked and mOaned and sang always
eXerting benign evil influence upon man. So
it became necessary to appease the wrath of the
spirits if they evil and praise them if they
good. Many of the customs practised to-day
merely remnants of these widespread pre-
historic rites. The superstition originated by the
hoary priests of the pagan Celts that any injury
TO oak would be severely punished by the pre-
siding deity of that tree lasted long in England and
has not wholly died out yet in Brittany. After
most of the traces of Druidiam as a religion had
been Obliterated and this superstition has joined
the ranks of the forgotten, the English began to
look upon the oak a sort of weather bureau, and
to-day in many parts of the tight little isle "
the following quatrain may be heard:
When the oak before the ash,
You'll have a summer of wet and splash;
When the ash before the oak,
You'll have a OF dust and smoke
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1906-08-26
JPERSTTTIONS ABOUT TREES

1OsOpher'S stone Is the -ition +bs.
taChCs 70 the hazel tree e old alcbs-.:--.,-
used to make their div,r rods orf n -.
twigs, and they FOSTER e belief ~.
would mvsteriouslv dire is Owner - -
den treasures, if 1t was III ,,lated VIII -
absolute faith that was red In an 81 -.
occult entertainments OF lddle Aces A.
time went on, the rod ot .eb as a -
OF hazel was unlVeTsaA- 1own, gathered
new powers. Not only 80 n It lead n -
discovery of buried hoard nut II wor15 a.
act as an infalhble agen- 81 eating rrnaV-..
servants and escaped CRIMINALS Il was
sure guide TO undergrour brings as We'll
and was an unfailing charm a..ainst the lighr.
ming.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1906-08-26

To the ancient Greeks the hawthorn was emblem
attic of happiness and hope This was the meaning
that attached to it throughout Europe until Sir
John Vaudeville published his Travels in the ff
teenth century and spread the story that the SaOr
crown of thOrns made from the hawthorn. An
early French superstition that the hawthorn grOans
and weeps on Good Friday was also instrumental in
changing that tree in the popular estimate from a
charm against evil influences an omen of disaster
In many parts of England and even in this country
it is regarded as presaging the drest misfortune if
person sleeps in the same room with sprig of
hawthorn. The myrtle the other hand, is con-
house, and its posseSsor is assured of all manner of
good fortune. On Saint Catharine's Day, tOO it is
particularly effiCacious for love charms.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1906-08-26

Even ash, do pluck thee,
Hoping thus to meet good luck;
If no luck | get from thee,
] shall wish thee on a tree.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1906-08-26

ESPITE education, culture, polish, or
- what you WILL the primitive passions
and instincts of humanity are still
alive, and whenever the occasion warrants
they crop out to prove that "a mans
man for a the progress of the centuries,
and still believes in the superstitiOns that
were the bane of his father
Particularly is this true of the trees. The
groves were Gods first temples" and in
countries as widely separated as Mexico and
India, Madagascar and Sweden, tree worship
was one of the first religions of the inhabi-
tants. 1t surrounded the Israelites in Pales-
tine, and they were so prone to fall into the
ways of their neighbors that the PatriarChs
had TO issue the command, Thou shalt not
Evening journal., 1906-11-12
PIN PIERCED HEART

SCRANTON. Pa, Nov 12-rhomas
Dougherty a prominent young man of
Dunmore. adjoining this city. died in
the state Hospital here as the result
Of being stabbed by a woman last night
His death is one OF the most myster-
ious In the history Of the county.
Dougherty refused to make any state
ment as to the name OF the person wh1
caused the injury. but iniimated thar
It was a woman. and that he was to
blame
In the brief statement that he made
Dougherty said that he was visiting
a woman and that she stuck "a needn.
or a hatpin In him. after which ne
was taken IN. No one could give any
Information as to where Dougherty
spent the evening and he absolutely
refused to give the doctors any details
as to the manner in which he sustained
the injury. The post mortem revealed
that he had been stabbed with some
fine instrument such as hatpin, ara
that it had entered his heart.
The police are unable to discover any
trace Of Dougherty's whereabouts
previous TO the time that the doctor
was summoned.
Evening journal., 1906-11-12

Association and two local clubs wrote 20
the Delaware Congressional nom.ness
asking whether II elected 10 Congress
they would favor that bodys submitting
to the state Legislature the sixteenth
amendment or the granting Of suffrage
TO women. Replies were received
from the Prohibition and Socialist cam
didates IN the affirmative The Demos
cratic candidate through a brother noti-
fed the association that he would
answer lator after the business OF the
campaign was over. The Republican
took no notice Of the communication
committo has been appointed to re-
quest the State Legislature 60 pass
resolution requesting Congress to sub
nit the sixteenth amendment TO the
various States During the year reso-
iutlons i'm favor OF woman suffrage have
been passed by the State Grange, the
w. c. r. u. and the G, A. r. on May
Sth the Wilmington Club presented
resolutions to the joint committee Of
the Board OF Trade and city Council
requesting tho incorporation I'm the
new city charter OF a clause making
women taxpayers OF Wilmington
eligible to the exercise OF the election
franchise; the taxpaying women OF
Newark Townsend. Milford and Wy
oming being already thus qualified and
those Of this city being entitled to vote
for members OF the Board OF Educa-
ton
Evening journal., 1906-11-12
Too Late for cIassiFioatioa.
FINANCIAL NEWS.
'WO O'CLOCK QUOTATIONS.


from a,ut. a c.,
Anal. Copper Co.. ..... ....... .10ai
American Smelling Com ............l59
American Sugar Refining ........ .....1S-
Atch. Top. and Santa he com ......l7s
Atch.. Top. and Santa Fe Pref.........l ls
Brooklyn Rapid TRANSIT ........ ...".76i
Baltimo-e and Ohio ..................llo;
Canada Southern .........................t6
Chicago CT. Western ........-. .....lii
Chesapeake and Chic ..... ..........5
Chicago and Alton ....... =. see. .........e
Chicago and Northwest ................0l
Chicago, Nil, and st. Paul MIL o.
Delaware and Hudson ....... ...... ...2li
Delaware, Lacka wanna ard IVES crn %
Erie -.". .,.. ...-. -.-.-........-'
Erie lst PREF ..-......-. ...-.....-.'-...fo
Illinois Central ....- ...- ................lt-i
Louisville and Nashville .............,lsOi
Interb- Metro Gem ....... ...... ......3i
Interb-Metro Pfrd ........ .............7ts
Manhattan Cons .......,.................i.2
Missouri Pacific ..... co.. .......... ......2l'
Mo, Kansas and Texas T'frd ....... 80
National Lead Ccm ....... ............74
n. Y. Central and Hudson ........ ...12.i
n. Y. Ontrio ana Wes,cra ............sit
Norfolk ard Wtsiorn Com ...........c3
Northern Pacific Com .... ..........217s
Pacific Nail ....... .... ......... ........o II
Pennsylvania Railroad Company ......lS
Peoples Gas ....... .... ......,........S s 2
Reading ..... co.. 90. .......... .......ig 2
Reading 1st Pfrd .... ........... ...".9p
Rcading 2nd pfrd ...... .....,..........G
Rock Island Com ....... ....,.........z15
Rcck Island Pref ....... ... ...... ..e5
Southern Pacific ...-. .... ...............'Ol
Southern Railway c-m .......r r...,...;2s
Texas and Pacific ..... .... ... .......35'
Tennessee Coal and Iron Co...-......i5 p
Union Pacific Cam ..-....... ....1 '7
Z. S. Steel Com ........ Zee. ........... ;
u. S. Steel Pfrd ..... ...............1f g.
Wabash Gem .... ...... ,.........-......19
Wabash Pfrd ..., go. ................,.42
Western Union ....... ........ ......,.,..s5l
Evening journal., 1906-11-12
pEArAs.

Ethel V. Buzine
Viola VI. Evans
Cecelia Harter.
Catherine Montgomery.
Robert Morrison.
Gustavus VI. Schofeld.
Bernard Row.
Benjamin Rothwell.
Caroline Tipka.
BUzINE-In this city. ON Novembe
II, 1906, Ethel Vandegrift, wife o.
Ha~s1n Leslie Buzine, IN her q ye9l
Relatives and friends Of the famii,
are invited to attend the funeral ser
vices at her late residence. No. 100
West Second street, on Wednesda.
afternoon. November 14th at 2.30 o'clocl
Interment Riverview cemetery.
TIPEA-In this city on November 10
1906. Carolina, widow of Charlie
Tipka. aged 40 years.
Relatives and friends of the famil
are invited to attend the funeral ser
vices at the residence of her son-iu
law, Henry Romer. No us Walnc
street, on Tuesday afternoon, Novof
Der 18th. at o'clock. Interment priv
ate Riverview cemetery.
HARTER-In this city. on Novem0t
70. 1905, Cecilia. daughter Of Jaooi
f. Harter. Jr.. aged 4 years.
Relatives and friends of Che fan
are invited to attend the funeral Sc
vices at the residence Of her graz g.
parents, Mr.. and Mrs. Jacob f. Harter
Sr.. No. 425 South Jackson street. o.
WWednesdav afternoon November n
at o'clock. Interment RivervieV
cemetery.
SCHOFIELD-In this city. on Novem.
Der IL, 1906 Gustavus NJ. Schoheld
Relatives and friends are invited e
attend the funeral services at his lat,
residence, 217 North Connell street. ~
Wednesday afternoon. at 2 o'clock. In
terment at LLombardy cemetery.
ROTHwELL-Near Newport. on No
ven,ber II, 1906, Benjamin Rothwell-
in his 92nd year.
Relatives and friends are invited f,
attend the funeral from his late resi-
dence. near Newport, on Tuesday. No
vember 1S. Services at the house a.
II o'clock sharp. Interment at Rec
Clay Creek cemetery.
ROW-In this city on November II
1906, Bernard Row, aged Ss years.
Relatives, friends and members o.
Washington Lodge No 1, A. f. and A
NJ. are respectfully invited to attend the
funeral services at his late residence
No. SOC French street. on Wednesday
afternoon, November IA. at $3.50 o'clock
lnterment strictly private.
Evening journal., 1906-11-12
JANE TOPPAN NEAR DEATH

BOSTON, Nov. 10 Jane Toppau. VINO
confessed to numbering thirty-one persurs
by poison, is fast dying at the Taunton
Insane Asylum. IL has been decided that
in the interests of scienc an autopsy saan
be held on her body Immediately after
death.
The woman is pers silently starving hcr-
self TO death. laboring under the d1lusicn
that the asylum attendants are trying H.
poison her
When she entered the asylum four ysais
ago, she weighed 100 POUNDS. She now
weighs only sixty-hve pounds. Hei deats,
is only matter OF few days.
James s. Murphy, counsei Tor the wo-
man. has given his consent to nave the
autopsy performed, providing it is done
in the presence Of a surgeon Of his own
selection.
"The surgeon whom nave in mind was
a schoolmate Of Jane roppan," sad MI
Murphy, land as he knew ner very We'll
It would be Of great benefit TO the scitn-
tinc and medical world for him TO take
nart
Evening journal., 1906-11-12
TriCked by Dyspepsia
The Doctor Couldn't Tell Where the
Trouble Lay.

Trouble Lay.
For the past scven years I have
been a victim Of dyspepsia and chronic
constipation and nave consulted the
most noted specialists to be found on
diseases OF this character. None. how
ever, seemed to locate the difficulty or
give relief In addition TO this medical
treatment I have resorted to the use
OF many remedies and have given them
faithful trial, but al 10 no purpose
Upon the recommendation OF a close
friend ! purchased a SOC package CT
stuarts Dyspepsia Tablets and IN less
than five days noticed that / was re-
ccivins more benefit than from any
remedy I had used before. continued
10 use the tahlcts after each meal for
one month and by that time my stom-
ach was in healthy condition capable
OF disesting anything which my in
creasing appetite demanded.
have not experienced any return
OF ny former trouble. though three
months have elapsed since taking your
remedy"
We wish that you could see with
yoIr own eyes the countless other
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above. they couldn't locate the seat Of
the trouble.
Dyspepsia is disease which has
long hamed physicians. SO difficult of
location is the disease that cure seems
next 20 miraculous. There is only one
way TO treat dyspepsia--to supply the
elements which nature has ordained
TO perform this function and to cause
them TO enter the digestive organs.
supplying the fluids which they lack.
stuart's Dyspepsia Tablets alone fll
these requirements. as is shown by the
fact that 10000 physicians in the
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recommending them to their patients
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We do not claim or expect Stuart's
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aid in the secretion Of juices neces-
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Stuart's Dyspepsia Tablets are for
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One box viii frequently effect a per-
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Evening journal., 1906-11-12
FIGHT FOR MILLIONS ENDED
Father-in-law Of Mrs. Flower, Charles
Loekhart's Dauahtsr. sueeumbs.

PITTsBURG. Nov. h-Dr James o.
Flower. sixty-four years old, one OF ;ne
most prominent dentists OF Pennsylvania.
is dead. While tuberc Ills.s is given as
the cause Of death, there is little aoubt
among his friends and relatives that
worry over troubles with the estate OF the
lgtc Charles Lockhart. the Standard OH
mil .ionaire. FASTENED the end, for D-
Flower was unremiltiug in h,s nsht
against the will Of he pil masnate, who
leaving an estate estimated az from Nta..
100000 TO sl500O00Oo. cut OF his daughter
Eleanor Mrs. Flower. with the income OF
SS00000 for life, becaufc she had n,ai rlad
Or. William s., son Of Dr. J. o. Flower
II was the latter who then bagln suit
in court for his daughtcr-in-law 10 bseak
the will; but the case was setllsd, tha
rumpr being that Mrs. Flower was given,
$So,0o0,Co0. The case was dropped sud-
denly by the aged dentist, who never re-
covered from the excitement cf ths ng-t
Or. Flower also sued Charles Lock.
hart's estate for $4,000, for profes .ionei
services, but the case Is stiu pensing.
Evening journal., 1906-11-12
LAST
EDITION
300 p. m.
THAW TIRED
THE DETECTIVES

~ our own Wire. Publishers Press
PlTrSBURG, Nov. i2.-It WAS the TO-.
lowing telegram sent by two detectives
Frank Lee and Edward swartwood. that
caused Mrs. William Tnaw. Jr. TO take
steps to have her son. William Thaw. de-
clared an habitual drunkard and mill ons
placed In charge Of trustee:
II you want to save Bil.y's life. cut cn
his money. No other way VIII do. we give
him uD."
Tho telegram was sent by the detectives
TO Mrs. Thaw. When she Received IL she
realized that thecandle which her son mad
burned at both ends was about exhausted
and that IL was her duty as a mother 20
take the one step that would prevent itl
llckering flame from going out.
The two detectives had trailed Thaw al
most around the entire globe They had
followed him wherever he went I'm order
60 prevent him from harming himself
when under the influence Of liq1or. and
also 10 prevent others from harming him
Thaw did not appreciate the surveiiance
to which he was being subjected, and he
avoided the detectives whenever he could
For months he was sober hardly "A single
day, but the liquor seemed to give h's
mind "A strange aouteness, that enabled
him to dodge his shadows when the ordin-
airy person would have been unable 20 dc
so. Whenever Thaw got away from the
detectives the slcuths worried themselves
sick and finally They became tired o.
their job.
IL was hard for Lee and swartwood &c
give up their task, for they were being
paid well and they were seeing the world
at the expense of Mrs Thaw. but IN v
decided finally that the worry that ac-
companied their FUN ovorbalanced any en-
ioyment they got out of the trims thev
TOOK In following 1lhaw, SO they deter
mined to quit
Mrs. Thaw received details OF her
sons conduct that surprised her Most
on these details have been suppressed
and viii not be told to the sherifrs
jury that viii pass this week on Thaw's
alleged incompetency to fanaqe his
own affairs, but sufficient evidence will
be brought out, Il is believed. TO show
that Thaw is absolutely irresponsible
when under the influence OF liouor. md
that he is drunk more often than sober
one Of the mysterious features OF the
case is that Thaw Is being deprived OF
his liberty by some process OF law
known only to those directly Interested
IN the case. He Is legally in custody.
yet there seems to be no record OF hts
having been committed TO any lnstitu-
uon or put I'm charge of any one.
Thaw has said openly that he will DO
bodily harm to both Lee and swart-
wood II he ever meets them. He is
particularly resentful toward Lee. for
he believes that the detective is rc-
sponsible for his present predicament'
Ihaw has said that he was lured from
the Holland House I'm New York by a
ruse. and that II was Lee who fooled
him into ocming within the jurisdiction
OF the Pennsylvania courts Had ThaN.
known that steps were to be taken TO
have him adjudged an habitual drunk
ard he said that he would have taker.
the first steamer he could get for
Europe and remained abroad for good.
Ihaw does not appreciate the efforts of
his relatives to save him from him
self, ana he means to fight the case to
the end