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of pigeons, hens and dogs, uniformly
denudes hair and feathers. Discon-
tinue the injection, and the victims
regain their coats. The crystals are
isolated by evaporation; they are CT
two substances, one innocuous, the
other the toxin proper, which remains
potent after months of exposure 1t
is not a ptomaine poison, as at first
supposed, or the product of organic of
bacterial decay WHAT 1t is nobody
knows, but w. "A. Allen, Phi. G.; Thad.
deus Walker, M. D., and Joseph Sill,
M. D., of the Detroit Clinical labora-
tory, have taken tribute of the breath
of many persons and collected some
thing over eleven grains of the pure
poison which they are now analyzing
An antitoxin may ultimately be found
SO that baldheaded people who ara
lazy or preoccupied need not reform
their respiratory habits to acquire a
new thatch.
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n Paws 10 Adverlise.

Louisville Courier-Jourral. News
comes from Hamilton, o., that William
Duke, affectionately know as "Uncle
Billy" has just been married to Mrs.
Markham, who was Lee, Of Virginia,
and cousin of Gen. Robert 3. Lee.
Uncle Billy is rs years old and his
wife Is 48.
How did Uncle Billy, who was a
bachelor, secure wife? We are told
that he did it by advertising, and that
he had preserved in this course for
fifty-two years. 1t is said that he
spent thousands of dollars in advertis.
ing and in paying the expenses Of
women who came to see him, but all
former applicants were unsuitable or
refused to marry him. Did Uncle Bill
ly get discouraged? Not a bit Of It,
He knew the successful advertiser is
he who stays, and his staying power
was equal to the demand. He is at
last rewarded by seeing his aim &C
complished. Let other advertisers
profit by his example.
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MURDER AND INSANITY.

Students of criminology deplore the
tendency of the times to give such
great weight to so-called expert tes-
timony in the trial of criminal cases,
especially those in which the defen-
dants are charged with murder. Three
instances Of this tendency have been
seen in recent trials. First there is
the Thaw trial, which has become so
complicated through the testimony Of
the medical experts that no one seems
to have a clear idea of just what is
intended by the Introduction of such
testimony. The defense introduced
witnesses to show Tbaw insane. But
when Jerome sought to maneuver for
the appointment Of a lunacy commits
sion to Investigate into the prison.
er's mental condition, TIE defense took
another tack and sought to show tina.
Thaw's mental llIsopnGuess was made
up of Drainstorms OF periodical APP
pearance. and that III. mind is now
clear Becanse murder was prompted
by this brainstorm the defense would
absolve the prisoner from blame and
would place the blame on the mythical
brainstorm.
Following this lead the learned coun-
sci defending the Strother brothers
for the Bywaters murder in Culpep-
per, Va, pleaded emotional insanity.
And now alienists have examined
Thomas Baldwin the Bloomington
murderer, who killed four people re
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IoWANs IN CALIFORNIA.

Los Angeles Express. Smile, bea.
utiful Eastlake and trim thy fair bow.
ers," sang Poet Nellie r. Cameron OF
Pomona, in verses written forstalIing
the Iowa picnic at the big pleasure
ground today. She not only drew the
first prize for the poem, but the
eighty stanzas aptly described the
crowds, inviting spreads under the
trees and meetings between friends
of many years ago.
If Miss Cameron had waited until
after the affair she could have insert
ed few bars to this effect:
They gathered in punches with glad
hand shake
And crowded each other ffinto the
lake.
They were all there. The early
morning showed the greensward eff.
faced, At noon the oughtside fringes
were crowding the county line ap.
parentlv.
Eastlake park proved to be a small
spot on the man after all. An old
timer said it reminded him OF the
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Z . j u 81 = ~ =
years old. A car went through Sea.
mans Bridge. near Monroe; Pa. Tires
persons were killed, three died later
of their injuries.
This casualty aroused great inter-
est at home and abroad. No columns
of matter from the railway officials
We're printed explaining that the acci-
dent was unexplainable. There was
no board of railway commissioners
to certify that everything 1t could find
in the roads equipment was all right,
In suits for damages 1T was estab-
lish that the wreck was caused by the
collapse of a cast iron spoked wheel.
The railroad paid the judgment. And
straightway the wheel with spokss
gave way to the solid patterns used
later on all the roads In the country.
But that was sixty years ago.
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SECRETARY SHAW.

Des Moines Mail and Times Secre.
tary Shaw is very. wise, but he has not
always been agile enough in changing
his views to keep up with the crowd.
He is slayer. He seldom does
something because he has been told,
or because he has seen some other
man do the trick successfully. He has
advocated some things for business
reasons that seemed to him good. that
were not popular" with the people.
such as ship subsidy and selling sur
plus protected goods abroad cheaper
than at home. So hesis moi. counted BY
everyone as successful a politician as
some. He has sometimes had moro
courage and independence than were
good for ambition. These and other
considerations led him to New York
instead of Denison, but he says no man
can successfully seek the presidency
or escape from 1t If the people want
him. He is not going to disappear
from political sight.
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CONFEDERATE PENSIONS.

Nashville American, Tennessee
pays s250,000 year in pensions for
confederate veterans, and $4,000 y
year in Widows pensions, Tennessee
pays the hest rate If pension Of any
southern state. It's lowest pension to
men is $50 a year, or IS month and
Its highest is $500 year or $25 a
month. Widows Of the first
class receive $72 year,
and widows of the second class
$50. Only few states pension Wild
ows, and none pay over $50 year, or
half Of the lowest rate in Tennessee.
In Alabama most pensions For men
run from SIG to $18 yea, and none
over 800 In Virginia the average pen.
sion is $50 year and in South Caro-
lima the majority of pensions paid are
$1S.85 a year. In Georgia n pensioner
who lost one finger is raid $3.50 a
year, or fraction over 70 cents a
month. The average pension in Ge,rg-
la is $50 year. In Louisiana the ma
jority of pensions are $50 year. In
North Carolina the average is $25 a
year. In Mississippi it is $22. and in
Arkansas $40 year. In Texas pen
sions range from 81 to $1S year.
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THIS HUsTLINe AMERICANS.

Harper's N.eekly.At a recent gath.
ering in Baltimore two men from dif.
ferent sections of the country wero
discussing the capabilities of nervous,
restless Americans" for being most
slow and deliberate. The Marylander
claimed the palm for slowness TOR the
inhabitants of the eastern shore Of hid
state.
1T is a saying hereabouts, ? said
he, that il oysters hay been created
with legs the people Of the eastern
shore would all have starved tn
DEATH"
The folks around Mt. Monadnock
have saying that beats yours, 2 re-
marked Vermont man. "Of one man
up there it used to be observed that
III you were to give Hiram Higgins
forty yards start, stock-still would
catch him!"
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The GREAT MAN AT HOME.

Governor Shrimp. to review his hipg;
raphy, "a
First saw the daylight at Marge:i1 IL
Mill.
Born in cottage (now fame d in PIX
Biography,
Went to the little red school on the
hill
Who. with his start, could escape no
toriety?
Shrimp, an Industrious child Of the
Practiced dishonesty. patience, So
briefly.
Prospered and grew to the GREAT
Man at Home.
Shrimp. as a boy, was employed jnss
cannery;,
Later he started grocery store,
Shut out his rivals, foreclosed on d
tannery,
Made in a year fifty thousand or
Even as Caesar remarked, with gem
iality,
First in a village beats second II
Rome"
So, he was given the towns mayor.
ATTY, s3s
Taking his place as the Great Man
at Home.
Shrimp went to church with precise
regularity,
everyone turned as he entered his
pew
Headed the list on petitions and char.
ity.
Rode in parades much as potentates
Go,
Bowling to right OF him, bowling to left
Of him,
Dofing his hat from his statesman
! like dome; Is RI
Margarine Hill was quite crushed with
| the theft Of him
| Shrimp, without doubt, was the Great
Man at Home.
! Wallace Irwin in Success Magazine.
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GLOBE SIGHTS.

Atchison Globe.-Almost any stove
works well in warm weather.
The rounds of drink are not used in
building the ladder of success.
The secret of success is one the
gossips don't care much about.
The preachers are almost equal to
the Lord in their admiration of a
cheerful giver.
The average girl tests ner first en-
gagement ring by trying to write her
name on pane of glass
If man has a good deal to say
about being 1.-The head Of his house.
it is likely he is trying to conceal the
fact that ne is henpecked.
What has become OF the old fash
Toned woman whose idea Of the super.
lative in pastry was a cake decorated
with white frosting and red candies?
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DAKOTA CALLS HALT

South Dakota, for years the promis.
ed land OF seekers for divorce, has
called Il halt. No more will Sioux Falls
and the other thriving cities OF that
state be the mecca of fair Divorces
The legislature now IN session has
joined the reform band wagon Here,
after no insurgent in the matrimonial
ranks will be permitted to begin a suit
for divorce unless he or she has been
a resident of the state for one year
and has maintained residence in one
county of the state FOR three months
of the year. There will be no more
private hearings of divorce and all
cases will he tried in open court.
This law kills the divorce industry
in South Dakota.
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AN INVENTORY.

Blakesburg Excelsior Despite my
Heavy duties as "molder of public
opinion | have decided to keep track
Of my material and mental progress
during the year, and the following is
the summary of my gains and losses.
Been broke 300 times; had money, 65;
praised by the public, 6; damned by
the public. 1874; missed prayer meet
ing, 81; been roasted, 431 roasted
others. SO; washed the office towel, l.,
washed the windows, O.; missed my
meals, 0; taken for a preacher, IL !;
taken for capitalist, 0; found money
@; taken baths, 6; delinquent subscrib.
ers paid, ~; did not pay, 1876; pain in
conscience, O; got whipped, O; whip.
ped others, 8; cash on hand beginning
of year, STAT; cash on hand at pre-.
sent, 80 cents.
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THE HoYpE.l, MARCH.

The needless hoyden, Marc, is hera!
Old Winter kept her, while he could,
Shut in the schoolroom of the wood
Throughout the session Of the year.
But mark her scatter as she goes
Her lesson pages, left and right;
What old December gave 80 white,
The rogue hath stained with green
and rose.
The raindrops cling along her dress;
Her scarlet cheeks adm lips are wet;
And she mas twined violet,
Half opened, in each hayward, tress
The banter OF her saucy tongue
Like l.ail against the window pane
Is scarcely gone, when through
the rain
The echo of e. sob is rung.
The sweetness of the maid to be
The violets along her hair
Hint sufly. Pray you, leave them
there;
--ild-woman March seems best to
me!
Garnet Noel Wiley in Putnam
Monthly.
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AMMUNITION FOR THE ENEMY,

New York Tribune. The railroads
have hurt their own case somewhat ty
the issue of 1,OO0-mile books for $40.
They have done this even In the west.
where the prevailing rate Is cents
a mile 1t was popularity concluded at
once that II they could afford to do
this they could afford to carry. every
body for cents mile. In the west.
moreover, the; books aroused preJu-
dice. They were said to affect q dis
elimination. The man who could ss-
ford to buy mileage book travelled
for 2 cents, while the poor man had to
pay 8. The books undoubtedly hail
much to do with the present agitation.
and they weaken the case of the rail-
roads against the law as confiscatory.
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NOT A COWARD.

Chicago Chronicle.-It is doubtful If
many people will believe that Gen.
Stoessel was either traitor or a cow
ard at Port Arthur. The trouble with
stoessel was that he, theatrically pro-
claimed that the fortress should be his
tomb and then very prosaically sur
rendered when resistance was hope
less. We had something similar in
this country early in 1865 when certain
southern generals declared that they
would Idle in the last ditch They did
not do SO, but became very good and
loyal citizens of the reunited republic.
They wore not towards any more than
Stoessel was a coward They simply
used figure of rhetoric which ought
not to be taken seriously.
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THE OT'TUMW "A co URIER

grasshopper raid which cleaned out
the most of the Hawkeye state many
years ago. 1t was estimated that many
than $4,000 persons who had escaped
from Iowa to the land of sunshine,
participated in the event.
Without doubt 1t was the largest ag-
gregatfon Of lunch baskets ever seen
at one time on these shores. They
contained the genuine, simon-pure,
handmade cooking, too. The poet, who
evidently had been there before, call
ed 1t UP thus in her minds eye:
Such chicken and turkey! Such jellies
and jam;
and hams!
"Such doughnuts and cookies, huge
! freezers of cream
Enough to wake nightmares to haunt
every dream"
| She did not forget the good. old
pumpkin pie, the coat of arms of lowe
By the time these goodies were unload
ed the steady streams of special
coaches from Long Beach, Pasadena
and other outside points, as we'll as
the Los Angeles scs pressed into SER
vice for the outpouring, had brought
the last of the crowd and the lunching
/ began.
The hour was responsible for the
happiest time of the entire year for the
the grandfathers and the grandmothers
especially. The crowd was divided
into counties, ninety-nine headquarters
being established in various parts of
the park.
The arrangement brought about
many reunions of happy character.
Men and women who had not met for
many years rushed upon each other,
wrung hands, patted each other on the
back and shouted front names with
much enthusiasm.
We'll well, well!" was a phrase
which was worked overtime. 1t was
cried in every tone and information.
And those who We're not acquainted
started the ball rolling with:
What part Of Iowa are you FROM
1t was a sufficient introduction.
Some of those "reminiscences were
whoppers The old-timers were at
their best and rolled out those wonder.
full tales regarding record corn and
pumpkin crops that fairly raised the
hats off the innocent bystanders. Then
came narrowing tales of the worst
i b,iE7asa' of the funnel which "came
a-rollin' along jest lickin' up every
thing but the prairie. Got my hen
cooTs jest as neat, but didn't fetch
the house."
AS the poetess had predicted, there
We're men who knew Bob Burdette
"ere the world sang his praise" knew
Tama Jim before Uncle Sam .ecogniz
ed him, when the cabinet officer was
a barefooted boy sliding down back
stairs, knew Hamlin Garland when he
i drove an ancient nag along main trav
eled roads. They recalled the battle
Of Athens wherein the Iowans tool
part and the Indian raids.
There was no program. The gather
Ing was sufficient upto ITSELF From
early dawn until set Of sun the Hawk
j eyes visited AMI snapped stories. de
parting to declare it the greatest even,
ever.
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A Time for Patience.

New York Globe.-Th Panama
canal will be built, and we'll built. The
man or set of men will yet be found.
A historic example teaches us patience.
Lincoln experimental for three years
before he secured Grant and Richmond
was taken. Similarly Culebra will be
cut and the waters of the two oceans
united. 1t may not be for years, but
the postponement will not be forever.
The round peg for the round hole will
yet be found perhaps it is already
found in Goethals.
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Gently when prosecution was pegun
against him for criminally assaulting
a young girl and have pronounced him
Insane.
In nine cases out of ten the brain
storms that prompt men to murder
are. not evidences Of insanity. They
are evidences of perverted minds
ruled by malignant hearts.
In the Thaw case there does not
seem to be need for the introduce
ton of this insanity clap trap The
people who believe that Thaw should
be acquitted do not base such belief
on his mental condition at the time
of the murder. They believe that ne
was justified in removing the fiend
who. after running an innocent young
girl, attempted to drag her down 10
his level after she had married and
was leading life SO far removed from
her early career as to absolve her
from the sins of her past.
The same holds true in the Stroth-
ers case Here Is case where an
innocent young girl was ruined and
compelled to submit to operations that
endangered her life The author OF
her ruin was compelled by her broth.
ers to marry the girl he had outraged
and it was after this marriage that BY
waters was shot down by his brother
in-law while he was deserving his
bride of a few minutes on what was
thought to be her death bed.
| The jury that passed upon the
Strothers case did not weigh the eyi
dence of temporary insanity in Al,
/ irving at the verdict, and in APPROX
ing this verdict Judge Harrison had
no thought of the mental condition Of
the Strothers when he said: 1T is al
established precedent in the state oi
4 Virginia that no man tried for defend
ing the sanctity of his home should
| be found guilty"
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BADNESS.

From the New York Times -"And
there came forth two she-bears out
of the wood, and tare forty and two
lads of them. Second Kings, ILL.,, "a.
Instead of invoking ursine ven
geance upon the young lads who mock
ed at his venerable bald head, Elisha
should have ignored the deriders and
practiced upper chest breathing. His
head, bowed in religious meditation,
had allowed a toxin composed of frost.
like crystals to generate in his cramp-
ed bosom, which, mingling with his
blood. produced the affection called
common badness" That is the
theory built up by ten years of scienti-
fic experiment and observation, and
lucidly explained by Delos l.. Parker.
NJ D., in the Medical Record of Feb
ruary 9. Experiments to determine
the chemical nature of the poison are
being conducted in the Detroit College
| of Medicine and the Detroit Clinical
| laboratory.
The conclusions of Dr. arker's first
paper, published by the Medical Rec
ord in July, 1901, although now some.
what changed, are confirmed in the
identification of specific hair poison
produced by stale residual air in the
lungs. The conclusions were:
| "The results of the experiments
just described show that when expired
air from human beings is kept cham
bered in the presence of warmth and
moisture long enough for decomposi-
ton of its organic matter to take
place. there is developed substance,
which, when introduced into the blood
of certain animals, exerts selective
poisonous action upon the hair, with
which such animals may be endowed,
and that beyond this, SO far as careful
| observation can determine, 1t produces
no effect whatever"
| Thousands of cases had shown not
one exception to the rule, which is
established to date, that persons at
fected with common badness do not
employ upper chest breathing, while
those not affected with this disease as
regularly do employ this form of res
piration.' The trichotoxin Chair pois-
on) is given the chance to incubate in
the unused lung cells. The effect up
on the pate of restoring the cells to
an active habit are invariable salts
factory in direct proportion to the
thoroughness' with which 1t is nc.
complished. Here is the result:
after one week, dandruff, wf en-
present (and this affection is present
in about 80 per cent of all cases of
common baldness), entirely disappear
ed. At this time, too, the hair, which
is frequently either dry and harsh, Or
unusually oily when common badness
1 is present assumed natural appear
ance. Then some weeks later, usual
| ly five or six weeks from the time Of
starting the treatment, new hair be-
gan to make its appearance. The new
| growth, as rule, appeared first
among the nairs about the margins
of the bald areas, and after multiply
ing there invaded the bald patches
| by extension"
But the first crop, even if we'll
sprouted, develops slowly, SO that
months or years may pass before the
scalp is again covered yet the restored
breathing has produced nair on por-
lions of scalp that had lain fallow
twenty years.
Sterilized water mixed with expired
breath and Injected beneath the skin
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After inducing a girl to elope, then
encountering an obstacle in laws pro-
viding for a five days intermission be-
tween the issuance Of a marriage IL
cense and the wedding, and overcom-
in; it by finding Judge obliging
enough to issue special dispensation,
Roland Eastman, a Chicago swain.
thought his cup of happiness was just
about at the overfiowing point. But
he had another guess coming. After
lodging her parents, circumventing a
cruel law and finding willing preach
er, the girl exercised her woman's
prerogative to change her mind, and
Roland is still a bachelor
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MASTER or HIMSELF.

Lincoln Journal-Gov. Sheldon's at
titude on the passenger rate bill has
no influence whatever on the law, but
ittdoes give the public an insight in
tot his character. He has a mind of
his own. At times this quality in the
chief executive becomes of enormous
value in a state. The people of Ne
braska will no doubt nave many rea-
sons for rejoicing that they haze
gglaced man in the governors chair
who is both steadfast and courageous.
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c. r. !. & P. TRAINS.
North Bound.

ESss Leave.
No. 20S ................. a. m. daily
Connects for Omaha at Des M.
No.s201 Ill: 10 a. m. daily except Sun
Connects for Omaha at Des NJ
No.f205 ...7: 10 p. m. daily except Sun
South Bound.
No. POS, Local to Keokuk, con-
meets at Eldon for Kansas
City and southwest ........
...... $3.50 a. m. daily except Sun
No. 202, Local to Keokuk, con-
meets at Eldon for Kansas
City and southwest. ~
1920 p. m. daily except Sun
No. 204. Local to Eldon for
southwest ........ 1917 p. m. daily
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The American navy refuses to stand
for Kipling. Recently when Presi-
dent Roosevelt sought to make James
B. Connolly the poet laureate of the
navy by inducing Connolly to enlist in
the navy that he might study his sub
jects at closer range, it was prophesied
that the author would receive a cold
reception from the tars., The prophecy
proved true. The Jackies declined to
take Connolly into their confidence,
snubbed him openly and now he has
left the service in disgust. The Amer
lean sailors Go not envy the British
tars their Kipling. They prefer to be
immortalized in history by their deeds.
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ALLITERATIvE.

Kansas City Journal Speaking gen.
orally, there are two kinds Of laws,
the written and the unwritten Il I'd
put it alliteratively. the written ancl
the rotten.