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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-01-29
FREE SEEDS RETAINED.
The House Votes for Keeping Up the
Distribufion

Under the leadership Of Mr. Gambler OF
Mississippi today the House in committee
of the whole voted to continue the free
distribution Of garden and flower seeds
along old lines and not according to the
methods as recommended by the agricul-
tural committee In the appropriation bill
Mr. Jones of Washington made a point
Of order against the amendment that no
distribution Of seeds was authorized by
law.
Mr. Foster of Vermont in the chair. sus-
tanned the point but admitted that 1t was
an exceedingly close question. Were IT
new proposition there was no doubt in his.
mind that II should be sustained, but in
view of the long continued practice and
some precedents he felt that the House
should itself decide. In order that it might
do this he sustained the point.
Mr.. Gambler appealed from the decision
and by a vote OF 81 to 1876 the chair was
overruled. The amendment appropriating
$23S,000 for the free distribution of ordi-
nary seeds was then adopted. as has been
the practice for a number Of years.
On point of order made by Mr. Macon
of Arkansas the increase of $1,000 in the
salary of Chief Forester Clifford A Pinchot,
recommended by the committee on agri-
culture, was stricken out.
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and Mrs. Carnegie, who sat next her. at
recess. They parted instantly, however
and the luncheon in the ante room of the
court room was, as before, a divided meal.
1t had been the intention of the family
to go to a restaurant, and cabs had been
ordered. but at the last moment the pros
pect of being subjected to annoyance by
curious outsiders induced them to abandon
1t. At the close of the day they left the
court house in two parties, Evelyn and
Miss Mackenzie going in one vehicle. the
Thaws in another.
The placing of the countess nearest to
Thaw, while his wife was left in the back
ground, was notable in the arrangement
of the family group. The prisoner who
seems to feel the fatigue less than any of
the others. demanded at least two of the
challenges of the defense. and. as on other
days, was communicative. even imperative
with his lawyers. He has rarely relaxed
into smile, and then 1t has been with
out mirth. though his face is not down.
cast 1t is dull, logged. He is curbing
MS impatience as best he may. AS the
ninth man took his place in the jury box
at 0, Thaw exchanged a word of approval
with his lawyers and turned to follow the
deputy sheriff with head held high.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-01-29
NEARLY READY TO i
HEAR THAW CASE
Continued from Eighth Page,

take no part in any defense that would
place him in the slightest jeopardy Of being
sent to Matteawan, the hospital for the
criminal insane.
An account in the morning papers stating
that his attorneys would seek to win him
freedom on plea of temporary insanity"
caused Thaw to become wildly excited. He
read the papers in the Tombs before court
convened, and by the time he reached the
court building across the Bridge OF Signs
he had worked himself into fine rage.
The suggestion in the articles that, at the
first intimation of such a probable defense,
the district attorney would ask for an In
sanity inquest to sit on him, proved the
last straw for Thaw.
When court opened the defendant fairly
rushed to his seat, brushing by his family
and scarcely giving them glance, let alone
the nod and smile with which he usually
greets them. He was unusually pale and
his lips ,twitched nervously. He called At
into a discussion with him. which. though
carried on In a low tone, was not lacking
in warmth.
Il would rather take my chances on be-
Ing electrocuted than on being railroaded
to any insane asylum" Thaw Is reported
to have told the attorney.
After several minutes, during which the
lawyer seemed to humor the young man,
Thaw appeared to quiet down, and finally
settled back in his seat and remained in q
sulk the balance of the morning.
During the noon recess Harry Thaw was
visited in the prison pen by his wife and
Mae Mackenzie while the rest of the Thaw
party went out to lunch. Evelyn Thaw was
greatly worked up over the attitude her
husband assumed in consequence of the in
sanity. plea, and the young woman plead
earnestly with him, supposedly with a view
to having him consent to be guided by the
advice Of his attorneys. Attorney Delmas'
absence from court today may be sgniti-
cant.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-01-29
MRS. THAW IGNORES sLIGHTs
Countess of Yarmouth Has Hard Time
Avoiding Artists.

NEW YORK, January 20.-For he first
time since The opening of the Thaw trial the
name of Mrs. Holman, the mother cfEvelyn
Nesbit Thaw. was yesterday brought into
the case. Its intrusion was momentary but
1t came with the suggestion of Threat.
The possibilities of Mrs. Holman as a fac
tor are too awe-inspir;ng to be lightly set
aside. even with the known absence of that
lady in Pittsburg ant. the announcement
that she will not be called.
1t was during the examination of the
talesman. Charles human. that his ac-
quaintance with hrs. Holman In Pittsr urg
where he lived in 1903, was ELECTED by the
questions of the district attorney. Thaw
Strengthened himself up suddenly and then
sank back in his chair, while his wife be-
hind him nervously pulled at her handker-
chief. Mr.. human was excused.
When Mrs. Holman. brought Evelyn to
New York in her early teens and The girl
was already creating a furore in the studios
her mother one day visited well-known
had turned her talent to bread-winnins and
had a reput-t ton for extending a helping
hand to others that had passed into tradi-
tion
az want you to understand" said Mrs.
Holman, Though my daughter poses in the
studios. am ley: Though she poses for
money, am Mdy''
"Yes,," responded the other QUICKLY. 81
used to be one myself few years ago."
Miss Mackenzie in Foreground.
There was something of Mrs Holman s
point OF view in Miss May MacKeYz.e' con-
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-01-29
AFTER BAILEY MILLIONS.
Some of Showman's Kin Want Larger
Share of Estate.

NEW YORK, January 29.-The contest
brought by relatives in Michigan to set
aside the will of James A. Bailey, the
Snowman and partner of p T.. Barnum.
came up yesterday before Surrogate Mil
lard in Mount Vernon. Mr.. Bailey died
there about a year ago, left his entire es-
tate. including the controlling interest in
the Barnum & Bailey, Sells, Forepaugh
and Buffalo Bill shows. to his widow,
Ruth McCaddon Bailey, cutting off the
Michigan relatives without cent
The estate, it is said, amounts to about
$5.OO0.O00. The contestants, who are neph-
ews and neces, claim to be entitled to
about three-fifths Of the estate. Through
their attorneys, Wollman & Wollman, of
Detroit, they are trying to prove that the
Snowman was mentally incompetent when
he made his will and that Mrs. Bailey and
her brother, Joseph McCaddon., also a cir
Gus man, exercised undue influence over
him. In their dispositions they allege that
all of Mr.. Bailey's brothers and sisters in
Michigan became insane before they died.
and that shortly before 1884, when he
made his will, he suffered from a stroke
of paralysis and was SO broken down in
health that he was compelled to go to Eu-
rope for a rest.
Daniel W. Childs and Herbert G. Hull.
of New York, who were attorneys for Mr.,
Bailey at the time he drew the will, testi-
fled that he was perfectly sane and cOmpe-
tent at the time and that he went to Eu-
rope merely because he needed the rest Mr.
Hull said that when Mr. Bailey made the
codicil to his wili he said that he had a lot
of bad relatives, one of whom, he under
stood, had been in states prison. "They
are a bad lot" said he. and would make
trouble for Mrs. Bailey if they could I
want to make will that they can't break.
Mrs. Bailey. when questioned about her
husbands relatives, said she did not know
any of them. When she first met her hus-
band. in 1868. he led her to believe that he
was alone in the world with no parents
or relatives 1t was several years before
he told her he had run away from his
aunt's home in Detroit to follow his circus
life. She said she was married to Mr..
Bailey in small town in Ohio, and at the
time he was an advance agent for a circus
with salary of SIS q week.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-01-29
Wives Sue for Absolute Divorce.

George G. Leach, by Attorney r. F.
Downing. today filed suit for absolute d.
vorce from James Fl. Leach. a member of
the Metropolitan police force. charging
cruelty. hab!tual drunkenness and infidel-
ity. The cou2le were married in Green
brier county, w. Va. in 1901. and have one
child.
In the District Supreme Court today Be-
atrice ]. Nye. through her next friend.
Esther Noah, filed suit for absolute divorce
against Edgar II. Nye, an artist The cou-
pie were married in Baltimore. January Z
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-01-29
PLAGUE AT NIUCHwANG.
Vice Consul Pontius Cables News Of
It's Outbreak

There has been an outbreak of plague at
Niuchwang. China. The State Department
today received a report of the outbreak
from Mr. Pontius. the American vice con-
sui at that place. His dispatch contained
but one word, plague and mentioned no
details as to the extent of the outbreak.
Niuchwang is not in the famine district
The reprot has. however. awakened in the
minds OF officials the possibility of an out
break OF plague among the famine suffer
ers. Such things have happened before
and the officials of the government who
have served in China know the horror an
epidemic in the famine district will bring.
DIR. Klepsch of the Christian Herald, yes
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-01-29
CHICAGO FEVER RECORD.
Epidemic of Disease Breaks Out With
Renewed Violence.

CHICAGO. January @.-The scarlet fever
epidemic. which was said by the officials
of the health department to be lessening,
has broken out with renewed violence All
records were broken today when 4O7 new
cases were reported.
It has been the opinion of the health de-
partment that the epidemic was due to milk
which had been infected in various diaries
outside of the city. and such elaborate eff
forts had been made to stop the contagion
from this cause that 1t was believed that
the epidemic was practically under control.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-01-29

1901. In her petition she states that her
husband deserted her in February, 1905.
going to Europe. Mrs. Nye claims that her
husband, by reason of the sale Of his pic
lures and money furnished him NV his
rather. has an income of $1JO0 per annum.
She charges that he is about to leave again
Tor Europe. and she prays the court to
nave MIN served with process before he
leaves. Attorney E. L. Wilson. represents
the wife. who. in addition to a divorce.
seeks aiimony and the custody of her child
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-01-29
Mems FiXimgs.

NA@uD . u uAuDlgSe
Mems unlaundered white Dress Shirts
in broken sizes. Mussed and
soiled Values worth up to ZUC
800. Rummage Sale price,. 70
Mems Wool Cashne-e Half Hose. in
black, natural and gray. Reg
ular price, 23c. pair. Rummage QDC
Sale price. ~
Mems Domet Flannel Night Shirts. in
neat striped patterns, with collars and
pockets. 52 inches wide. Reg
ular values worth up to I5c. AlAC
Rummage Sale price. pSs
Mems Overalls, made by Morris & Co,
In blue and white denim.
Slightly soiled. Regular price. XUC
69c. Rummage SAFE price 80. W
Mems Fleece-lined and Derby-ribbed
Underwear. both shirts and dra-.e-, in
the lot. Regular price, soc.
a garment. Rummage Sale XEC
=
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-01-29
Mr.. Higgins Improving.

CLEAN, N. w. January 20.-Dr. Hib-
bard gave out the following statement thi.
morning:
Former Gov. Higgins has been under
treatment suggested by Prof Schott. the
German specialist, for the past twenty
hours. There has been noticeable change
for the better The treatment will be con.
tinued so long as the Improvement Is main.
tanned Prof Schott will be consulted
twice daily as long as he remains in TIN
country"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-01-29
Takoma Free Library Hearing.

A subcommittee of the House District
COMMITTEES will give hearing tomorrow
at 1880 on the bill to authorize the Com
missioners to accept donations of land
and money for the establishment of a
branch of the free library at Takoma
Park.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-01-29

famine relief fund. This has been cabled
to Mr. Rodgers. the American consul gem
eral at Shanghai. Money is badly. needed,
and the Red Cross is making every effort
to increase the famine fund.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-01-29
Rain or Snow From the West.

A drift Of rain or snow from the west
is reported by Prof. Garriott to be ap-
preaching this city He predicts falling
weather for tonight and tomorrow, with
slightly higher temperature.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-01-29

There was something of Mrs. Holman's
point OF view in Miss May Mackenzie con-
The Beaver herald. [volume] (Beaver, O.T. [Okla.]) 1895-1923, 1907-12-12
ALL THINGS IN PROPORTION.
Invalid's Meal Evidently Had Not In
creased Good Humor.

For many weeks the irritable mer-
chant had been riveted to his bed by
typhoid fever. Now he was conva-
lescing He clamored for something
to eat, declaring that be was starv-
ing.
Tomorrow you may have some
thing to eat" promised the doctor.
The merchant realized that there
would be a restraint to his appetite,
yet he saw, in vision, a modest, steam
ing meal placed at his bedside.
Here is your dinner" said the
nurse next day, as she gave the glow
ering patient spoonful of tapioca
pudding, "and the doctor emphasizes
that everything else you do must be
in the same proportion"
Two hours later the nurse heard a
! frantic call from the bed chamber.
Nurse" broathed the man heapily
81 want to do some reading, bring me
postage stamp
The Beaver herald. [volume] (Beaver, O.T. [Okla.]) 1895-1923, 1907-12-12
ssBOO-HOO"
Shouts a Spanked Baby.

DDS, has not made itself more ridicu-
lous than any comment of ours could
make it.
Does Golfers expect to regain any
selfinflicted loss of prestige by de-
monstrating thru suits for damages,
that it can be more artful In eyading
liability for libols than the humble
but resentful victims of its defamation,
or does it hope for starting a campaign
Of libel suits to silence the popular in
dignation, reproach and resentment
which it has aroused.
Golfers can not dodge this public
controversy by private law suits. 1t
can not postpone the public judgment
against it. That great jury, the Pub
lie, viii hardly blame us for not wait
ing until we get a petit jury in a court
room, before denouncing this prod
i9al detraotor Of institutions founded
and fostered either by individuals or
by the public, itself.
No announcements during our entire
business career were ever made
claiming medicinal effects" for either
Postum or Grape-Nuts. Medicinal ef-
fects are results obtained from the
use of medicines
Thousands of visitors go thru our
entire works each month and see for
themselves that Grape-Nuts contains
absolutely nothing but wheat, barley
and little salt; Postum absolutely
nothing but wheat and about ton per-
cent Of New Orleans Molasses. The
art OF preparing these simple ele.
ments in scientific manner to obtain
the best food value and flavor, re-
mir nd 70
acquire.
Now, when any publication goes far
enough out Of its way to attack us be-
cause our advertising is medical" it
simply offers remarkable exhibition
of ignorance or worse.
We do claim physiological or bodily
results of favorable character follow
ing the adoption of our suggestions re-
garding the discontinuance of coffee
and foods which may not be keeping
the individual in good health. We
have no advice to offer the perfectly
healthful person. His or her health
is evidence in itself that the beyer-
ages and foods used exactly fit that
person. Therefore, why change?
But to the man or woman who Is
ailing, we have something TO say as a
result of an unusually wide experience
in food and the result of proper feed
ing.
In the palpably ignorant attack on
MS in Golfers, appeared this state
ment,-"One widely circulated para
graph labors to induce the impression
that Grape-Nuts will obyiate the ne
cessity Of an operation in appendi-
citis. This is lying and potentially
deadly lying"
In reply to this exhibition of-well
let the reader name 1t. the Postum Co.,
says:
Let 1t be understood that appendi-
citis results from long continued dis
turbance in the intestines, caused pri-
marily by undigested starchy food.
The Beaver herald. [volume] (Beaver, O.T. [Okla.]) 1895-1923, 1907-12-12
Mock Citron Preserves.

Cut the rind of watermelon into
small trips or cubes, remove the outer
green rind. Make sufficient brine to
cover, using level tablespoonful of
salt to each quart of cold water. Let
stand over night. In the morning
drain and rinse thoroughly in cold wa
ter, then cook in clear water until
transparent. Drain again. Make a
syrup of three-quarters Of a pound of
sugar, half cup of water to each
pound of rind. Boil and skim and add
n sliced lemon, q bit of green ginger
and the rind. Clok until the melons
look clear, abotr % minutes, then
take from the yrup with wire
spoon and placH in glass jars. Boil
the syrup down until rich and thick
and pour over the rind in the jars. A
little vinegar and spices to taste may
be added to the syrup before putting
in the fruit, if you wish to spice the
rind.
The Beaver herald. [volume] (Beaver, O.T. [Okla.]) 1895-1923, 1907-12-12

A Doctor of Divinity, now Editor of
a well-known Religious paper has
written regarding the controversy be-
tween Golfers Weekly and the Re
ligious Press of the Country and 9TH
ers, including ourselves. Also regard
ing suits for libel brought by Golfers
against us for commenting upon its
methods.
These are his sentiments, with some
very emphatic words lett out.
The religious Press owes you a
debt of gratitude for your courage in
showing up Golfers Weekly as the
"Yell-Oh Man" Would you care to
use the inclosed article on the boo
Hoo Baby" as the "Yell-Oh Man S
successor"
"a contemporary remarks that Col
lier's has finally run against a solid
hickory Post" and been damaged in
its own estimation to the tune of
S750,000.00."
Here is publication which has, In
utmost disregard of the facts, spread
broadcast damaging statements about
the Religious Press and others and
has suffered those false statements to
go uncontradicted until, not satisfied
after finding the Religious Press too
quiet, and peaceful, to resent the in
suits, it makes the mistake of wander
ing into fresh field and butts its rat
tied head against this Post ald all the
World laughs. Even Christians smile,
as the Post suddenly turns and gives
1t back a dose of its own medicine"
1T is a mistake to say all the World
laughs. No CHEEKY laugh comes from
Golfers, but il cries and boo hoos like
a spanked baby and wants S750,O00O0
to soothe its tender, lacerated feel
iugs."
Thank Heaven it has at last struck
man with back bone" enough to call
It spade spade and who believes in
telling the whole truth without fear or
favor"
Perhaps Golfers with its utmost
disregard for the facts" may say no
such letter exists. Nevertheless it is
on file in our Office and is only one of
a mass of letters and other data, news
paper comments, etc, denOuncing the
yellow" methods of Golfers. This
volume is so large that a man could
not well 90 thru 1t under half a days
steady work. The letters come from
various parts Of America.
Usually private controversy is not
interesting TO the public, but this is a
public controversy.
Golfers has been using the yellow"
methods TO attract attention to itself
but, jumping in the air, cracking heels
together and yelling Look at me-"
wouldn't suffice. so it started out on a
"iIolier Than Thou" attack on the Re
ligious Press. and on medicine.
We leave it to the public now, as we
did when we first resented Golfers
attacks. to say whether, In craving
for sensation and circulation, its at
tacks do not amount TO a systematic
mercenary bounding. We likewise
leave IL to the public to say whether
Golfers. by its own policy and meth
The Beaver herald. [volume] (Beaver, O.T. [Okla.]) 1895-1923, 1907-12-12

such as white bread, potatoes, rice,
partly cooked cereals and such.
Starchy food is not digested in the
upper stomach but passes on into tho
duodenum, or lower stomach and in
tcstiues, where, in n healthy individ-
ual, the transformation of the starch
into form of sugar is completed and
then the food absorbed by the blood.
But If the powers of digestion are
weakened, a part of the starchy food
will lie in the warmth and moisture OF
the body and decay, generating gases
and irritating the mucous surfaces I'M
I'll under such conditions the whole
lower part of the alimentary canal, in
cluding the colon and the appendix,
becomes involved. Disease sets up
and at times takes the form known as
appendicitis.
When the symptoms OF the trouble
make their appearance, would it not
be good, practical, common sense, to
discontinue the starchy food which is
causing the trouble and take food
in which the starch has been trans
formed into a form of sugar in the
process of manufacture
This Is identically the SAGE form of
sugar found in the human body after
starch has been perfectly digested.
Now, human food is made up very
largely Of starch and is required by
the body for energy and warmth.
Naturally, therefore, its use should be
continued, If possible, and for the rea-
sons given above it is made possible
in the manufacture of Grape-Nuts.
In connection with this change of
food TO bring relief from physical dis
turbances, we have suggested washing
out the intestines to get rid of the i'm
mediate cause of the disturbance.
Naturally, there are cases where the
disease has lain dormant and the
abuse continued too long, until APP
parently only the knife will avail. But
1t is well-established fact among the
best physicians who are acquainted
with the details above recited that
preventative measures are far and
away the best.
Are we to be condemned for suggest
Ing a way to prevent disease by fol-
lowing natural methods and for per-
fecting a food that contains no 'medi-
cine" and produces no medicinal eff
fects' but which has guided literally
thousands OF persons from sickness to
health? We have received during the
years past upwards of 5000 letters
from people who have been either
helped or made entirely well by fol-
lowing our suggestions, and they are
simple.
If coffee dsagrees and causes any
of the ailments common TO some cof
fee users quit it and take on Postum.
If white bread, potatoes, rice and
other starch foods make trouble, quit
and use Grape-Nuts food which is
largely predigested and will digest.
nourish and strengthen. when other
forms of food do not. It's just plain
old common sense.
"The J Reason for Postum and
Grape-Nuts.
Postum Cereal Co., Ltd.
The Beaver herald. [volume] (Beaver, O.T. [Okla.]) 1895-1923, 1907-12-12
A Definition Of SUCCESS.

How have the hypothetical scien-
lists and the exponents of uubelief
benefited themselves or humanity at
large by sowing the seeds of doubt
broadcast in the world? The real SCI
entists do not fall in this category. for
they are believers in the real sense OF
the word; they know too much, they
have seen too many mysterious mani.
festations of the Divine creative pow
er. Now. those who have disposed of
the Bible and all evidences of insplra-
ton. have written a great many books
and some of them have won what the
world at large lightly calls fame Ac-
cording to the ordinary measures that
are applied in such cases. they haTe
been extremely successful. but rea.
success means the benefit of human
ity in some form or other. If no such
benefits can be shown as the result Of
their labors, their success II not equal
to that achieved by the direst poverty
and the deepest ignorance. - Joel
Chandler, in Uncle Remus' Magazine