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Book Collecting Madness.

The ~insensate craving of book col
lectors is illustrated in the case of
Rawlinson, an English bibliomaniac,
who would buy a book though he had
twenty copies Of it. He lived and
died among bundles and piles of
books covered with dust and cob
webs. The Spectator mentions two
collectors whose coyetousness in
creased with their collection.
Mr.. Heber, the brother of the
bishop, bought all that came in his
way, by carloads and shiploads and
whole libraries, on which, in some
cases, he never cast his eyes.
"Of a similar disposition was the
famous Antonio Magliabecchi, who is
said to have lived on titles and in
dexes and whose very pillow was a
folio. The old bibliomaniac lived in
a kind of cave made of piles and
masses of books, with hardly
for his cookingo or for the wood
en- cradle lined with pamphlets which
he slung between his shelves for a
bed. He died in 1714, in his eighty
second year, dirty, ragged and as
happy as a king"
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Everybody Hunts CLANS.

Many of our prominent citizens
are turning clam Fishers" said Alfred
J.. Carter, former Mayor of Red
Wing, Mimi, at the Pister.
During the last ear seven differ
ent clam fishers found pearls ranging
in value from $1,000 to 100000 and
hundreds of the diggers and sorters
have discovered jewels worth re-
spectacle sums. Clam digging is as
hard an occupation as is possible to
conceive and can only be withstood
by the stoutest of men.
Several months ago a poor digger
found a pearl worth presumably
100000, and several other discov-
cries followed in the same bed. The
natural result was that hundreds of
the people from the surrounding
country rushed to the scene of the
finds and many well-knuown people
donned the rough diggers' outfit and
gathered in the shells which possibly
might bring a fortune to them. A
few had good success, but the major
ity found that their quest was use
less and soon gave up the task
Milwaukee Sentinel.
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Labor World.

City laborers of Milford, Mass,
are working eight hours for So.
Of the common laborers in Massa-
chusetts, 1880 per cent. are foreign
ars.
Carbondale (Pa.) painters won a
demand for a twenty-five CEN in
crease.
Carpenters of Berkeley and South
Norfolk, Va, have secured the eight
hour day.
st. Paul painters adopted a higher
scale and the employers promptly
signed up.
The Michigan Supreme Court has
declared the State eight-hour law
constitutional.
The plumbers and carpenters of
Portland, Me, have secured the
eight-hour day.
Bakers at Montreal (Que.) have had
their wages increased from $10-$12
to s12-s15 per week.
Painters of Louisville, KY, have
secured the eight-hour day and an
advance OF ten per cent.
Porto Rico laborers to the number
Of 5000 have sent an appeal to Presi-
dent Roosevelt, asking him to inter-
tede on behalf of the laboring rlSn
Of the island.
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Prices of Rare Books.

A careful perusal of Auction
Prices of Books" illustrates the great
advance in prices of certain classes
of books and the decline of certain
others.
The most remarkable advance in
the forty years covered is to be shown
in two classes Of books-what is
technically called Americana and
first editions in immaculate condition
of what the world haG accepted as IA
nous books.
Another kind of book has shown
great advance during this period, and
that is technically called p%rovenance,
because it formerly belonged to a
distinguished person Or was a pre-
sentation copy by a famous author.
The most notable decline is evident
in what may be termed Topographic
cal monuments, the Greek and Latin
classics and books in poor condition
printed at famous presses. Formerly
a fifteenth century book, an Aldus,
an Elzevir, commanded a respectable
price because they were from these
famous presses, but now it is neces-
sary to be a collector that these
should be unusual copies.-Outlook.
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THE SEPTEMBER ELECTIONS
Proctor Chosen Governor of Yer.
mont by Large Plurality.
Democrats Win in Arkansas-La-
Toilette Gets a Setback-Geor-
gia Democrats Convene.

White River Junction, Vt.-Com-
plete returns from the Vermont
State election show that Fletcher D.
Proctor (Rep.) was elected Govern
or by 1866 owe: Rercival w. Glenn
emit, Independent and Democrat. The
vote: Proctor; 42,150; Clement,
26,474; scattering, 1000.
The remainder of the Republican
State ticket was successful by pl1-
ralities about equci to that received
by Proctor.
The Republicans carried all the
counties in the State except Benning-
ton, which Clement won by sixty-one
votes. Clement carried the city of
Burlington, 1851 to 1444. In Rut-
land, Clements home, he received
1854 votes and Proctor 1907. In
Montpelier, the capital, the fusion
candidate polled STA votes to GIL for
Proctor.
Representative David J.. Foster, Of
Burlington (Rep.), was reelected in
the First Congressional District over
Edwin D. Cliff (Dem.), and in the
Second District Representative Kit
tredge Haskins (Rep.) defeated John
H. Scnter (Dem.).
An analysis of the voting showsthat
the Republicans gained 10000 votes
over the number four years ago and
that Clement lost 1900. The Prohi-
bition loss was proportionately great
er.
The Republicans will have an
overwhelming majority in the House
and the Senate will have only one
Democratic member. The issues of
the campaigns have been largely per-
SOnal.
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AWFUL SUFFERING
From Dreadful Pains From Wound on
F~Oot-System All Run DOwn-Mi-
raculous Cure by Cuticura.

From Dreadful Pains From Wound on
F~oot-System All Run DOwn-Mi-
raculous Cure by Cuticura.
Words cannot speak highly enough for
the Cuticura Remedies. | am now sew
enty-two years of age. My system had
been all run down. My blood was so bad
that blood poisoning rad set in. / had
several doctors attending enc, so finally 1
vent to the hospital, where | was laid
up for two months. My foot and ankle
were almost beyond recognition. Dark
blood flowed out of wounds in many places
and | was so disheartened that | thought
surely my last chance was slowly leaving
me. As the foot did not improve you can
readily imagine how | felt. | was simply
disguised and tired of life. | stood this
pain, which was dreadful, for six months,
and during this time | was not able to
wear a shoe and not atle to work. Some
one spoke to me about Cuticrra. The con-
sequences were | bought a set OF tie Gu
ticura Remedies OF one OF my friends, who
was q Gruggi-t, and he DroIse that | gave
after the second application Il beyond de-
scription; it seemed a miracle, for the Gu
ticura Remedies took effect Immediately.
[ washed lie foo with the Cuticura Soap
before applying the Ointment, and ] took
the Resolyent at the same time. After
two weeks treatment my foot was healed
completely. People who had seen my foot
during my illness and who ave seen it
since the cure can handy belle e their
W eyes. Robert Schoenhauer, Newburgh,
n. =. Aug. 81, 1905"
The Emperor OF China rises at 4 o'clock
in the morning 10 study English.
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Minor Mention,

Long Island is being disturbed by
bandits in automobiles.
Ruin of the Cuban tobacco crops
is predicted as a result of the insur-
rection.
The immigration inquiry board de-
cided to admit forty Russian Jew
orphans.
At Sydney, New South Wales, the
legislative assembly passed the free
education bill.
A crematory for d~isposing of the
bodies of the pauper dead in the Dis
trict of Columbia is to be constructed
in Washington.
1t is reported that the Standard
Oil Company has offered to buy the
country's leading distilleries.
A girl dropped a bomb fifty yards
from the palace of General Kaulbars,
st. Petersburg. She lost a hand.
Marquis Ito said that he and the
Japanese Emperor were in favor of
granting independence to Korea.
The Russian Emperor has issued
a ukase providing for the sale of
Crown %appanage lands to peasants.
Ten indictments were found
against the Standard Oil Company
by Federal Grand Juries in Illinois,
charging the acceptance of railroad
rebates,
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Death Ch.nces in Battle.

In Homeric days a battle was a
conflict of armed mobs. The nearer
you got to your assailant the better
was your chance of killing or being
killed. The bigger the mar the bet
ter wer9 his chances in the strife. In
these piping times of mechanical
warfar~ ths situation is reversed.
Battles are fought at ranges of a
mile or 50. The smaller the mar the
less are his chances of being hit. An
ingenious mathematician has figured
out that perhaps the casualties on
the japanese side must have been
considerably less than those Of the
Russians in the recent war if it be
assumed that the Workmanship OF
each was equally good. The advan-
tage of the Japanese was inversely as
the cubes of their height and breadth
The average target offered by each to
the enemy are of the cubes of 1885
and 1912, or as LOG to lis, an ad'
vantage in favor of the Japanese Of
about twelve per cent.-ScientliC
American.
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Mr.. Gladstone and Lord G. Hamilton.

Mr.. Gladstone hated any appear
ance of idleness, and in this connec-
ton the Manchester Guardian relates
a characteristic story. Years ago he
met the then Duchess of Abercorn in
a country house. She was accompa-
MED by her son, Lord George Hamil-
ton, at that time a schoolboy. Not
many mornings had elapsed before
Mr.. Gladstone said to her, Duchess,
don't you think it a pity that your
son should spend his holidays in en-
tire idleness? > 1 should be happy to
give him an hours Homer every
morning" The offer was accepted,
and the foundation Of Lord Georges
lifelong hostility to the Liberal lead
er was securely aid.-London Even
ing Standard.
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One person in each 400 in Ohio is
insane.
One of the destroyed villages on
Vesuvius is to be rebuilt on the same
site.
The Government is preparing a fiji
teen-year program of railway on
struction.
The German Imperial estimates
for 1905 have given a surplus of
more than $1,500,000.
The insurgents of The National
Rife Association won at the election
in Sea Girt, N, j., and decided to
hold the next meet in Ohio.
A wireless message told Mrs. Her.
man Oelrichs, of New York City, that
her husband had died at sea.
Archbishop Keane says that Pope
Plus x. will not call a corsistory to
create an American Cardinal.
A company was Incorporated in
SSl Diego, Cal, to build a 100000
600 transcDntinental railroad.
Edward Rosewater, editor of "The
Omaho Bee" was found dead in a
courtroom in his Office building.
Mr.. w. j. Bryan was warmly well
coined at New Haven, where he re-
peSted his Government ownership
program.
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Picture Postcards.

The picture postcard even here
has become a nuisance, but on
the Continent, where the craze has
assumed really gigantic proportions,
it has proved to be the last straw
which. has very nearly broken the
postman's back. In October, 1904,
the number of picture postcards
passing through the dead-letter
branch of the French Postoffice as
u~ndelivered was only $500 a day,
but it had risen to 5000 during Au-
gust of last year, and it is feared
that this year will see the number
more than doubled. Calculating on
this, tx" declares that the total num-
Der of picture cards posted during
this month must exceed two millions
a day.-Pall Mall Gazette.
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We are wont to speak of this era
as the 'age of iron," and there Is no
gainsaying that, industrially speak
ing, iron is a precious metal"
Nevertheless, few people realize
how useful, IL not absolutely neces-
sary, to modern civilization, Is that
other metal, lead. Soft, Yielding,
pliable, it is not much like it's sister
metal, but those distinguishing quail
ties are what give 1t such a prominent
place in the arts and industries.
Modern plumbing, requiring many
turnings and twistings, but withal
tight joints, would be almost impos-
sible without lead pipe. The great
est civilizing agent in the Torld-the
printing arts absolutely dependent
or lead. Hand-set type, linotype
~'slugsr' monotype type - all are
made of compositions of which lead
is the chief component-to say moth
ing Of the bearings in the presses as
we'll as all other kinds of machinery
In which "babbitt" metal is used.
Solder is another lead product
what a field of usefulness that one
form opens up.
Then there is the most important
use of all to which lead is put-paint,
that necessary material which keeps
u houses looking pretty - inside
and out-and preserves them from
decay.
How many of us thank metallic lead
for the comforts of paint? Yet the
best house paint is nothing but me.
talic lead corroded by acid to a white
powder known as white lead" Vi
course, there are many limitations Of
white lead" some of which are sold
as white lead and some which are
offered by the name of ready-pre.
pared paint under the familiar pre-.
tense that they r 'just as good" as
white lead. But all gnod paint is
made Of the metal, lead, corroded and
ground to a fine white POWDER and
mixed with linseed oil.
White lead is also used In the coat.
ing of fine oil cloths and for many
purposes besides paint.
Red lead" is another product O
metallic lead and is what is known al
an oxide Of lead, being produced by
burning the metal. Red lead is the
best paint known to preserve iron
steel or tin, and is used largely IL
painting metal structures, such al
skyscraper skeletons, mills ant
bridges.
There are many Other products o
the metal lead, auch as litharge
orange mineral, ETC., which are es
sential :, many of the arts in which
we never imagine that lead would b,
Of the least use.
Verify, we live in an age of LEAF
as we'll as Of iron.
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Flogging in British Prisons.

On June 25 Mr.. E. H. Pickersgill,
M. P, asked the Home Secretary how
many floggings were inflicted in the
convict and local prisons of England
and Wales during the years 1905 and
1906. He received the following re-
ply;
I'm the year ending March 81,
1905, eight in convict and fifteen in
local prisons; and in the year ending
March 81, 1906, seventeen in convict
prisons and thirty in local prisons.
Only one prisoner had received corr
poral punishment twice during the
two years"
In answer to another question on
the same subject, put by Mr.. Lloyd
Morgan, M. P, on July 4, Mr.. Glad
stone stated that the f1ogging can
only be imposed for prison offences
of the following descriptions: Mutt
ny, Indictment to mutiny and gross
personal violence to prison officers.
During the last five years-down to
March, 1905-flogging with "cat" or
birch has been ordered in 1876 cases,
but the medical officers have inter-
fered with the carrying out Of the
sentence on eight occasions.
The prison cat has eighteen inch
lashes and a five-foot welding lever
age. The lashes are cleared between
the fingers after every stroke. The
victim in prison is given a minimum
of twenty-four hours hospital treat
ment Eeter the infection of the pun
ishment, but is, as a rule, not able to
get about for a week.
The punishment of fogging or
birching for offences against the pris-
on rules is ordered by the prison visi-
tors, who are usually local magis-
trates, and prison officials, as a rule,
favor the retention of the cat and
birch.-From the Humanitarian.
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CANNON SLAUGHTER
JEWS BY WHOLESALE
Hundreds Killed and Thousands
Wounded in Poland.
FIRE HORROR AFTER MASSACRE
Batteries Open Fire on Israelitish
Quarter of Sied1ce Town-Russian
Authorities Look Idly On-Dread.
full Loss of Life Follows.

AuUIlOEItlCS AOOA Auiy OA"DAONN
full Loss of Life Follows.
Siedlce; Poland.-A Jewish massa-
ere surprising in seriousness all pre-
vious mes in this vicinity has taken
place here.
1t was carefully planned before
hand, the soldiers warning all of the
Christian population in advance to
hang out their ikons so that they
might remain undisturbed.
Some T~errorists killed two soldiers
and thereupon the Libau Regiment
broke forth in un~restrained fury.
They began numbering Jews on every
hand and continued the work of
slaughter all night and all cay.
The CHASTITY work of numbering
and pillaging continued until Gov
ernor-Genera1 Skal1on telegraphed
for permission to use the artillery.
Four batteries then opened fire
down Pienkna, Warsaw and Aliena
streets, which were inhabited by
thousands of Jews. The destruction
was horrible. AS a result of the gen.
era1 slaughter it is estimated that
fully 200 Jews have been killed and
thousands wounded.
There are 5000 prisoners in GUS
tody, a great many of whom were
wounded. Not a soldier was killed.
Next morning squads of soldiers
were parading through the streets
selling pillaged watches and jewelry.
The army officers openly counte-
nanced the selling of loot. The local
Governor, Englke, took no steps to
prevent the outrage.
The telegraph offices are closed
and nobody is allowed on the streets
or to leave the town. The refugees
continue to crowd to the stations,
The soldiers are drunk and behaving
with extraordinary brutality.
Six buildings in the big bazaar OF
the city caught fire, adding another
terror to the killing and plundering
which went on for thirty-six hours.
Almost all the Jewish shops have
been looted. Owners who defended
their property were killed or wound
ed. Any person seen leaving a house
or looking out of a window vas shot
without mercy.
st. Petersburg, Russia.-Siedlce is
a town of 10000 people, half Of
whom are Jews.
Unfortunate Jews were shot and
bayoneted in the streets of the town
Houses and shops were broken into
and sacked. Valuables were carried
off and offered for sale by soldiers tc
passengers IN passing trains.
After the murder of a policeman
by Terrorists and the firing of a vol
ley by troops into the assembled
crowd, which resulted in the killing
of two citizens and the wounding o.
many more, the Terrorists held
meeting and decided to exact ven
geance by inaugurating a genera
campaign against the police an(
troops, similar to the recent a%ctivit!
along the same lines in Warsaw.
In the course of one morning
twelve patrolmen and soldiers were
killed. AS a result of this, the Libal
Regiment, in a state of fury, left 1T
barracks in the afternoon ant
marched into the Jewish quarter
shooting right and left as it went.
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ME Mound Street, Columbus, Ohio.
HAl FEVER is endemic catarrh. 1t is
1lcaused by some irritating substance in
the atmosphere during the late summer
months, 1t is generally thought that the
pollen Of certain weeds and flowers is the
cause of it,
rational cure. The use of Peruna, how
ever, stimulates the nervous system to re-
sist the effect of the poisonous carnations
and sometimes carries the victim through
the hay fever season without an attack of
the disease.
A large number of people rely upon Ie-
lind It convenient to change their location
to avoid Hay Fever would do well to give
Peruna a trial. 1t has proven of priceless
value to many people.
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SICK FOR TEN YEARS

Constant Backache, Dropsy, and Sc
vere Bladder Trouble.
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200 PERSONS BURIED ALIVE.
Mass of Mud and Sand Obliterates
Town Near Ti1is.

Tiiis, Russia.-Practically without
warning the side of a mountain risins
above the township of Kwareli broke
away and in a sea of semi-liquid mud
sand and stones swept down on the
township and o~bliterated it.
Some 255 persons have been buried
alive. Fifty-five bodies were recov.
cred from the mire, which is about
six feet deep. In addition to the lives
lost, countless head of cattle persisted
and the crops were destroyed.
Kwareli township occupies an area
of five kilometres in the District oil
Telaw, in the Caucasus. Similar dis.
asters are of common occurrence in
Caucasian valleys.
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REPUBLICANS CARRY MAINE.
All Four Congressman Reelected by
Decreased Majorities.

Portland, Me.-Returns from al
the cities and more than half the
towns and plantations indicate the re
election of Governor William T. Cobb
Republican, by less than 5000 plu,
rality over Cyrus w. Davis, the Demo.
cratic nominee. This is the smallest
Republican plurality since that party
won the State from the fusion Of
Democrats and G~reenbackers in 1884
The four Republican Congressman
are reelected, Amos l.. Allen by 1906
plurality; Charles E. Littlefield, about
1000; Edwin c. Burleigh, about 5000.
and Llewelyn Powers, $500.
From a representation of -four
State Senators and twenty-six mem.
bers of the lower house, the Demo
Gratis have increased to twelve Sena.
tors and about sixty Representatives.
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A Judicial Opinion.

Judge" said Mrs. Starvem to the
magistrate who had recently com to
board with her, "I'm particularly
anxious to have you try this chicken
soup!"
81 have tried it, "replied the judge,
"and my decision is that the chicken
has proved an alibi. "-Tit-Bits.
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The Mexican Government charges
on transfers of land deeds amount to
from $40 to $45 Mexican on $1,000
value. According to the laws of that
country i. is necessary for foreigners
to have their nationality mentioned
in the title, otherwise they become
Mexicans. N. Y.-3I
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Helped His Ambition.

THANK you, Judge" said the pris-
oner, being sentenced to thirty day.
on bread and water.
Seeing that the Magistrate was
puzzled. he explained that he long
had desired to try the simple life.
but lacked the courage to begin
Philadelphia Ledger.
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The Emperor OF China rises at 4 o'clock
in the morning 10 study English.
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His Usual Luck.

Nov, then" said the leader of
sAe mob to the horsethief, eff you've
got anything to say before we swing
you off be quick about it."
"Nothin' ter say" replied the Gull
prit, except that this is me usual
luck wild horses, I lose be a neck
Philadelphia Ledger.
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Utterly Hopeless.

Young Saphead never did have
any sense!"
What has he done?"
event and proposed to a girl that
any fool ought to have known would
scccept himi"-American Spectator.
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fred W. Harris, of Chestnut St.,
Jefferson, Ohio, says: For over ten
years | suffered from kidney disease.
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Wireless Whispers.

Mrs. Windfall-"Just imagine, Hi.
RANT One of the sailors just told
me that this boat is now in commu-
nication with her sister ship! | Won
der what the conversation is about?"
Mr.. Windfall-"Humph! Most
likely each is asking the other if her
cargo is on straight!"-Puck.
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Canadian Deposits Gain.

Consul Woman states that the
immense gain in the deposits of the
banks of Canada is the most convinc-
ing evidence of the Dominion's pros
perity. Last year the deposits were
$512,500,000. The total has now
grown to $52O,00O,0 900. In 1898
they were s229,0O0,0OO less than
half that amount.
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would die. 1 changed medicine and
began using Doan's Kidney Pills
when l was still in bed. The relief
l found was so great that l kept on
unit. l had taken about ten boxes.
The kidney secretions became natural
ard after years of misery l was cured.
| have increased in weight and show
no symptoms of my former trouble"
Sold by all dealers. SO cents a
box. Fester-Milburn Co., Buffalo,
N, Y,
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D0feat of La Toilette.

Milwaukee. Wis.-The latest re-
turns from the primary elections l n
Wisconsin indicate that Governor
James O.. Davidson, Republican,
swept the State, despite the active
opposition of Senator La Toilette,
winning from his opponent, Speaker
Irvine L. Lenroot, in the race for
nomination for Governor, by a major
ity of 10000 votes.
John A. Alyward, Democrat, of
Madison, for Governor, received the
nomination over Ernst Merten, of
Waukesha, by a safe majority.
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Can't Always Tell.

Gyer-"Bonem doesn't look like
a man who would strike another
when he's down, does he?"
Myer-"I should say not"
Gyer-"Well, that's the kind of
chap he is. He struck me for SIS
while I was lying on the sofa the
other evening Chicago News.