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2.-The False Die Displayed.
3.-ReA in Hat, False in Box.

the cover, explains the Los Angeles
Times, leaving only the false die on
the hat. Your audience. sitting below
the level of the die, will not see the
difference
Now, talking for all you are worth,
go through few unnecessary and
meaningless flourishes. in the midst
of which you should manage to move
the top hat just enough to admit the
real die into the hat below.
AS soon as you think fit, announce
to your audience that now they see
the die on the top hat. but now
clapping the cover down over the false
die, and removing it. with flourish,
then displaying the bottom hat" now
you see it in this hat"
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ready to perform the trick, set table
in front of the company, several feet
away from them. and set in it the two
hats. Then produce your box, black
and handsome, and set it on the top
most hat.
Remove the cover, leaving exposed
on the hat the false die containing
the real die.
Rattle away in a happy conversa-
tional style, making all sorts of re-
marks, anything to keep their atten-
ton fixed on you rather than the box.
and as you do so, clap your cover on,
and lift up the whole thing off the top
most hat.
Then, still talking, bring it down on
the hat again. and remove the cover
again, but this time pressing the edges
slightly, carry away the real die in
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should this meeting place be too small
Tor the foreigners purpose, the police
themselves would provide larger
room. But some 200 men, women and
children crowded around when the
service began, and listened to the new
(teachings with an attention that could
not be surpassed in a Fifth avenue
church. The same speakers took part,
although with different addresses. A
considerable circle of young men,
mostly students. gathered about Mr.
Hail after the meeting. for further
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later learned that when Revs. T. M.
McNair and E. R. Miller spent a vaca-
tiOn in Kusatsu a score of years ago,
they also conducted Christian services.
Naturally it was as interesting to me as
to these Japanese who had never seen
missionary before.
After hymn in English, sung from
memory, and an Introductory address
and prayer by the native preacher
who, by the way, recently refused an
increase in the ten-dollar-a- month
salary which Pennsylvania church
pays him, because he said the work
elsewhere needed the money more
than he-Mr. Hail spoke in japanese.
There was vein of humor in his
address, which abounded in illustra-
tions, and caused the audience to utter
the Japanese equivalent for 'Hear!
heart" Throughout the meeting,
strangely enough, the addresses and
their telling points were applauded by
hand-clapping.
Despite the lateness of the hour to
which this meeting had been pro-
longed, the party was astir almost at
daybreak and on a tour of the town
watching the bathers. Whoever will
may see these, for the Japanese know
nothing of the American .interpreta.
| ton of modesty. Then an early start
was made for Shibu, more than 20
miles distant, by way of Shirane, an
active volcano $500 feet high. This
tramp is enough to test the religion
of anybody, even missionary, for it
is entirely over mountains, and the
road is superlatively bad, though the
scenery is superlatively beautiful,
rivaling Colorado's best.
I The Polite Police.
The faithful Japanese preacher had
omitted the climb up Shirane and so
he reached Shibu another village
famous for it's milder baths,~ ahead of
the main party of sunburned and foot
sore missionaries. who arrived at sun.
down, to find the town expectant of a
peeting, all the preparations for which
had been made. Several rooms on the
first floor of the native inn where the
visitors spent the night were thrown
into one, making room for upwards of
q hundred persons seated, while many
more could stand outside or sit in the
house across the alley, so nigh is
| neighbor to neighbor in the old Japan
ese villages. ssAss sr.a = =sEsEz s * Il
| Word came from the police that
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Omissions of History,

Henry Hudson was sailing up the
majestic river that bears his name.
II think we've gone far enough" he
said, scanning the landscape. Il don't
want folks to suspect that I'm trying
to find the New York legislature"
Hastily giving the order to put the
ship about, he warned the newspaper
correspondents on board to write
nothing about the incident, and sought
the seclusion that his cabin granted
Chicago Tribune
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Firing or the Cannon.

pen by sinking it into piece of pota-
to and passing the tube through a
cork which should be placed in
slightly sloping position, says Good
Literature. At this point, with great
gravity, the performer inquiries, Are
you ready?" Then place lighted can
die under the end containing the wa
ter. 'F1re!" comes the word of COM
mand from the spectators and, in a
second, "pop!" goes the stopper, which
is forcibly elected by the steam made
from the heat of the candle on the
water in the penholder
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MAGlclAN's HAT TRICK.
You Can Easily Learn How to DO II
for Amusement Of Friends.

This trick is simple enough, but 1t
is not so easy to detect, after all.
All you need for it are the following
articles: First a cube-shaped box
with cover that completely envelops
1t, highly polished and painted black,
with the box part marked in imita-
tion of a die (this is to be the false
one of your two dice) then real die
which looks precisely like the false
one, and will exactly fill the inside Of
:he box and two hats.
Having first made sure you are
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Suitable,

Gunner-What is the name of that
big apartment house over there?
Guyer-I don't know, but l think it
should be called '"The Aviary'"
Gunner-And why so?
Guyer-Because all the women are
parrots and all the men are "owls.''-
Chicago Daily News.
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INDUSTRY. 1!RY''.d.S325<
= NEcANklSS )
LARGEST CHAINS IN WORLD.
Links Which Are Almost as Big as a
Man and Weigh More.

The record for size appears to be
held by the moorings for the two new
Cunard steamships Mauretania and
Lusitania, which are being construct
ed at Pontypridd, South Wales. The
common links of these mooring-
chains, an illustration of which is re-
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Mooring-Chains for the New cunar-
ders. The Largest Chains in the
World.
produced from Engineering, are of
4A-1nch iron. Says this paper:
These mOOrings will weigh
altogether about 200 tons. Patent
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His Wish.

.ig His Wish. ri
JOHNNY wish / was Chinese boy
just for ten minutes. ...5'.%
MotherWhy?
Johnny Cause got dime with
9 hole IN IT. like Chinese money, ana
4 could spend Sc Lived nzchina. !.
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f 4 sMoKELEss CANNON.
Quickly Made and May Be Fired Of
IL the ParIor.

For this experiment, which can be
performed in any parlor without dan
ger Of shattering the mirrors or deaf
ening any one with the noise of the
explosion, take little, hollow steel
pen-holder, and fill one-third of it with
water. Then cut out q stopper for the
The Virginia enterprise., 1907-06-21
A Green Stain.

A green color may be given wood
work by dissolving .verdigris in
vinegar and applying hot.
The Virginia enterprise., 1907-06-21

ened, drill out
the socket large
enough to receive
a piece of one
eighth-inch pipe
and after driving
the pipe in as
far as it will go,
cut it off with a
hack-saw. If the
caster has a large
shank it may be
necessary to use
a one-fourth-inch
pipe. A piece of
pipe fitted in this
way, says Popu-
The Virginia enterprise., 1907-06-21
REPAIR FOR CASTER SOCKETS
How Piece Of Eight-Inch Pipe Can
Be Made to Do Good Service.

When the caster socket in an article
of furniture becomes worn or weak.
The Virginia enterprise., 1907-06-21
Peculiaritv Of Some Allow. s.

PecuIjatity OF some Alloys.
An alloy Of two metals often ne1ts
,atS.a lower temperature than eithersof!
the metals it contains.
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lar Mechanics, makes an excellent
bushing and is much more durable
than the original socket
iron Coated with Aluminium.
Iron sheets coated with aluminium
are very durable and likely to sup
plant galvanized iron for many pur-
poses.
CanÌƒon City record. [volume] (CanÌƒon City, Colo.) 1883-192?, 1907-05-30
STATE OF ILLINOIS
HELPS COUNTRY FAIRS

Governor Deneen has signed bill
which will be of great benefit to the
county fairs. Forty per cent of all
the money paid out by the fair asso-
Citations on all exhibits, will be re-
funded by the state. AS soon as the
fair in a county Is over the officers
make a sworn statement OF the amount
of money on exhibits and forwards
this to the proper authorities and forty
per cent of this amount will be re-
turned. The amount paid in each
county, will of course. depend on the
amount paid for premiums. If crops
are good and the usual number Of ex-
hibits are made at the fair here about
$500 will be refunded to this county.
The appropriation has been made with
the hopes of making it possible for
more premiums to be offered thus in
ducing farmers and exhibitors to make
more entries. This does not apply to
the premiums on horse races. but on
exhibits alone.-Olney Times.
CanÌƒon City record. [volume] (CanÌƒon City, Colo.) 1883-192?, 1907-05-30

more about their country it would be
difiicult to make them admit 1t, how
ever.
In the meantime. not only has Kan
sas learned more about pumping the
underflow and using it for irrigation,
but Colorado has doubtless also
learned to be less wasteful with its
water. One of the chief purposes of
the suit was to persuade Colorado to
conserve the flood waters of the Ar
kansas instead of allowing them to
run to waste. This, it was argued,
would maintain steady flow in the
river throughout the summer months.
thereby leaving plenty of the life-giv-
ing fluid for Kansas farmers after
Colorado was supplied.
Very likely there is still considerable
water going to waste down the Ar
kansas whenever a flood comes along
which will some time be utilized. Just
now nobody in the valley is complain
ing and so the famous litigation has
come to naught.-Topeka State Jour-
nal
CanÌƒon City record. [volume] (CanÌƒon City, Colo.) 1883-192?, 1907-05-30
DRUG STORES CUT
PHONE SPOONERS OUT

Down in Iowa the Endora drug
stores have put up the following signs
on their phones: This Is a business
telephone and it is not to be used for
love-making."
I'VE have just tired Of silly young
girls who come in here and use the
telephone for an hour at a time talking
silly love talk that drives US back OF
the prescription case to take a nerve
potion" said one OF the drug clerks.
"A few days ago a girl came In here
and called up some fellow. holding the
line for little short Of half an hour.
The conversation was 80 soft as to be
positively sickening. and 1t put an end
to the drug store telephone as the re-
cipient OF the mushy mushy love-mak-
ing"
Another clerk said: Yes. we have
put on the lid. Yesterday a young man
came in here smoking a cigarette and
called up a girl. The result was some
thing awful. Won't you let me kiss
you over the telephone. love? he asked
And then he puckered up his cigarette
stained lips and let a smack into that
telephone that you could hear all over
the store.
This morning after that sign went
up a girl came In and asked to use the
telephone. l assented and she tripped
merriloy over to the counter and she
spied that sign, She paused for lust a
moment and said she had the wrong
telephone 1t was a good stall and
saved us one more of those lovesIck
telephone conversations. So far as
the drug store is concerned it is skid
doc for Cupid"
CanÌƒon City record. [volume] (CanÌƒon City, Colo.) 1883-192?, 1907-05-30

spent in the Stark County bank,
which belonged to her father. On
several occasions she had charge of
the institution.
While she taught Sunday school in
the Presbyterian church young lawyer
William Mckinley was superintendent
of the First Methodist Espiscopal Sun
day school. Among many admirers
and suitors the young soldier, who had
been with Grant and Sheridan and
distinction in the Shenandoah valley,
was the favored one.
By James Saxton, her father, these
words were spoken to Mckinley when
the hand of the daughter was gained:
You are the only man I have ever
known to whom I would entrust my
daughter"
On January 25, 1871, VIM. Mckinley
and Ida Saxton were united in mar
riage.
The wedding was the first performed
in the then new Presbyterian church.
There were born to them two daugh-
ters, Katie, on Christmas day of 1871
and Ida, on April 1, 1873.
Ida died died in August, 1878, and
Katie the following year. During this
period Mrs. McKinley's mother also
passed away and under the combined
burden Of these losses Mrs. Mckinley
became an invalid.
Her life as the wife of VIM. McKin-
ley was the most happy and devoted
one. They never kept house" while
he was in congress because of her in
valid state. On his campaign tours
while he was congressman, governor
and president. she journeyed with him
as far as practicable.
After Governor McKinley's term of
Office ended they came to Canton in
January, 1896, in time to celebrate
their silver wedding anniversary in
the first home of their early married
life. This wedding anniversary was
the beginning Of year and two
months residence in Canton, during
which time Mr.. Mckinley was nomi-
mated and elected president of the
United States. At Washington as the
first lady OF the land she was unable
to act as hostess at brilliant social
functions.
After the crushing blow which came
to her when the assassin's bullet
struck down her husband, friends des-
paired of her life for a month or more.
However, she rallied and excepting
periods Of great depression, enjoyed
better health than usual. She would
not consent to leave her Canton home.
CanÌƒon City record. [volume] (CanÌƒon City, Colo.) 1883-192?, 1907-05-30
MITCHELL WANTED IN OMAHA
FOR BIG DIAMOND ROBBERY

Police authorities at Omaha, Neb.,
are the latest to come forward with
the request for James E. Mitchell, one
of the trio OF alleged ex-convicts ar
! rested in Pueblo last Sunday afternoon
and now being held on the charge Of
robbing the Williamsburg postoffice.
According to a telegram received
from the Omaha chief OF police, Mitch
ell and a man named Burns entered a
jewelry store In that city and stole a
tray of diamonds valued at $4,000.
Burns was arrested with the dia-
monds in his possession and he re-
ceived a long term in the penitentiary,
but Mitchell escaped and a large re-
ward has been offered for his capture.
Mitchell and Charles Williams were
arraigned before United States Com
missioner Trimble yesterday on the
postofiice robbery charge and they
were held for the federal grand jury
under $1,000 bonds. The grand jury
will meet in this city next September
at which time the cases against Mitch
ell and Williams will be taken up.
| The prisoners are now In the county
jail.
The police have no evidence that
Charles Gavin, the remaining member
Of the trio, was connected with the
Williamsburg affair. but they are of
the opinion that he was connected with
1t and they are holding him on ac-
count of his bad record. A charge OF
lyagrancy will be made against him to
hold him in jail until inquiries can be
made Of the police of other cities. It
IL thought that Williams served term
In the California penitentiary.
Sheriff LeDuc was in Pueblo yester-
day to take look at the prisoners and
positively identified all Of them as the
men who were sent up from Arapahoe
county when Denver was In that
county.
Charles Gavin was sent up for rob
berry to serve term of from seven to
ten years. He was admitted to the peni-
tentiary January u, 1906. and was re-
leased April II. 1906. James =. Mitch
eli was sent up for from three to nvs
years ON . charge Of grand larceny.
He was admitted to ths psH February
CanÌƒon City record. [volume] (CanÌƒon City, Colo.) 1883-192?, 1907-05-30

2. 1902, and was released December 2,
1905. Charles Williams was admitted
to the pen September is. 1900, and was
released August 1s. 1901. He was sent
up for robbery.
Mitchell is glad of the opportunity
to be tried in the federal court as he
does not want to be returned to the
Canon City pen and term In the fed
eral prison at Fort Leavenworth is
considered preferable.
CanÌƒon City record. [volume] (CanÌƒon City, Colo.) 1883-192?, 1907-05-30
DEATH CALLS MRS, WILLIAM
Mckinley AT CANTON, OHIO

Canton, O., May 27.-Mrs. William
Mckinley, widow of the late president.
died at her home here at :c5 o'clock
Sunday afternoon.
For many years Mrs. Mckinley had
been an invalid She rallied from the
shock of her husbands tragic death,
but it left it's mark, and when 1t was
known that she had suffered stroke
of paralysis little hope was felt that
she could survive.
The end came peacefully, almost i'm
perceptibly. Mrs. Mckinley never
knew of the efforts made to prolong
her life, or the solicitous hope against
hope of her sister and other relatives
and friends for her recovery.
At the Mckinley home when death
came there were present Secretary
Cortelyou, Mr.. and Mrs. M. c. Barber,
Mrs. Sarah Duncan, Mrs. Luther Day
Justice and Mrs. VIM. R. Day, Doc
tors Porteman and Rixey and the
nurse.
The funeral arrangements so far
made are that DR.. Buxton will have
charge of the services, which are to be
simple They will be held at the Nc
Knley home at 2 o'clock Wednesday
afternoon.
Secretary Cortelyou is directing the
arrangements, and will remain here
left here at 5:33 this evening for
Washington. He will join President
Roosevelt and go with him on his trip
to indianapolis and Lansing this week.
It was announced last night that Pres
ident Roosevelt and Secretary Loeb
will arrive in Canton Wednesday
morning to attend the funeral services.
The body Of Mrs. Mckinley will be
placed in the vault in Westlawn ceme-
terry, which holds also the body of her
husband, until the completion Of the
national mausoleum on Mckinley hill
when both caskets will be transferred
to receptacles in that tomb.
Ida Saxon Mckinley was born In
Canton, June 8, 1847. James A. Sax
ton, her father, was an Intellectual
and progressive business man and
banker, his wife a woman Of refine
ment. Ida Saxton was reared in a
home of comfort and ease. After at
tending Canton schools, she was a
pupil at private school at Delhi, N.
Y. Later she went to a Cleveland
academy and finished her education at
Brookhall seminary, Media, Pa, where
she spent three years.
Part of her young womanhood was
CanÌƒon City record. [volume] (CanÌƒon City, Colo.) 1883-192?, 1907-05-30

All nations are endeavoring to check
the ravages Of consumption. the white
plague" that claims so many victims
each year. Foley's Honey and Tar
cures coughs and colds perfectly and
you are in no danger of consumption.
Do not risk your health by taking some
unknown preparation when Foley's
Honey and Tar is safe and certain in
results. Ask for Foley's Honey and
Tar and insist upon having it. The
Palace Drug Store.
CanÌƒon City record. [volume] (CanÌƒon City, Colo.) 1883-192?, 1907-05-30
ANOTHER KANSAS OPINION
ON WATER LITIGATION

After years of litigation the United
States supreme court has decided that
Kansas has no case against Colorado
on account of the diversion of waters
of the Arkansas river, because Kansas
can show no damage from such diver
sion, and the suit has been thrown out
of court. Thus ends one of the most
notable instances of litigation ever be-
gun in the United States.
This case was one of the very few
ever brought as an original action in
the supreme court of the United States,
and the litigant on each side was a
sovereign state. This in itself made 1t
a noteworthy case, but besides that it
raised in the highest tribunal of the
country questions that are constantly
arising with the growth Of irrigation.
These questions are still undecided by
the court
1t certainly Is not an easy matter
for the rich Arkansas valley in Kansas
to show that it has now been damaged
by Colorado. With its great returns
from alfalfa, sugar beets and other
crops; with its land rapidly rising in
value, and its population steadily in
creasing; with capital pouring in to
develop new enterprises, and with
prosperity on every hand. 1t would be
somewhat dificult to show that the fer
tile valley of the Arkansas has been
damaged by anybody. A few years
ago, however, some of the people out
there believed they had been damaged.
They thought the underflow had de-
creased and that Colorado was respon-
sible for it. Now that they have learned
CanÌƒon City record. [volume] (CanÌƒon City, Colo.) 1883-192?, 1907-05-30
HAKES PATHETIC PLEA
TO SEE HIS CHILD

Your honor, ! would like to go to
the Day Nursery and see my little girl
before you send me up" was the pa
theuc plea made to Judge Owen in
the district court yesterday by Robert
Burns. convicted OF burglary. The jury
ty and the prisoner was about to re-
ceive his sentence. as a motion for n
new trial had been quashed. Judge
Owen gave his permission and Burns
was taken by one OF the sheriff's on
GERS to the Day Nursery. where a
touching scene took place. The pris-
oner was visibly affected when he re-
turned to court and the Judge sent
enced him to term OF not less than
one year and not more than two years
in the penitentiary at Canon City.
Burns wife was with him through the
trial and made every effort to secure
a new trial for him.
The offense for which Burns was
sentenced was committed several
weeks ago when he secreted himself in
Gliding Brothers dry goods store be-
fore the building was locked up for
the night, and broke open the cash
box, securing . small sum of money.
At his trial evidence was produced
showing that he had been sentenced to
three years for q similar offense In
California and that he had been tried
In the local courts on similar charge
several months ago. but the evidence
was not sufhcient to convict. He will
be taken to the penitentiary at Canon
City tomorrow.-Colorado Springs Ca
zette.
CanÌƒon City record. [volume] (CanÌƒon City, Colo.) 1883-192?, 1907-05-30
GENERAL BELL REPLIES
TO GENERAL WELLS

Denver, May 26.-Gen. Sherman M.
Bell. who was the adjutant general
during the Peabody administration.
does not take kindly to the critism
brought against him in the biennial
report Of Adjutant General Wells, his
successor.
In his report Wells says that he
found the financial affairs in a deplor-
able condition and that the militia was
disorganized and In fact not much
good. General Bell returned his COM
pliment and says that General Wells
is a pinhead, kindergarten cadet and
a coward. General Bell denies en-
phatically that finances were in a
depIorable condition and declares that
he showed where every dollar was
spent and he also denied that the ma
tional gaurd was run down when his
term expired.
General Bell has in his possession
duplicates OF all orders and OF all cor
respondence that passed during the
famous Peabody war. In last nights
paper he published photographs Of the
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