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New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1907-05-16

Stock ana bond purchasers are easy to fnd II
the tales that disappointed investors write are true
and the government hears many Of these.
1t took the endless chain enterprise fully 10
awaken Uncle Sans ire. Churches were built that
way, clothes sold. houses furnished, wine cellars
stocked-or would have been had the chain re-
manned unbroken- It, too was counted gambling
scheme and by the time Uncle Sam had done
little figuring he decided 1t was too hard propo-
sition for his children By the time the sixteenth
series of people had bought their tickets and had
persuaded three times their number to buy il
would have taken 3s7.39S.619 persons to finish the
chain-something like SOO,OOOOOO more people than
he had altogether. FREDERIC j. HASKIN.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1907-05-16
TO DESCEND ON LIBRARIES.
Cigarette Smoking and Wine Drinking
Heroine Must Go, Says w. C. T. U.

The New York County Woman's Christian Tenn
perence Union. in convention assembled at Amity
Church House yesterday, decided to establish
censorship of New York's public libraries, Accord
ing TO this action. tho cigarette smoking and wine
drinking hero and heroine must go. 1t must be
obviously uphill business. the superintendent
of the department purity in literature and art,
Mrs. Emile D. Martin pointed out, to cultivate
total abstinence sentiment in a community where
characters of this kind constantly being held
up to admiration
And in the majority OF our popular novels" Mrs.
Martin said, 1.-THE hero heroine cigarettes
and liquor"
Books In which temperance and religious work
are ridiculed also placed under the ban, and.
Mrs, Martin and DR.. Mary Wood-Allen APP
pointed q committee to confer with the manage
ment of every circulating library in New York.
This looks Ike a large undertaking, but the COM
There is nothing like making beginning" Mrs.
The national union, in which Mrs Martin holds
instituted campaign for the elevation of the press
the editors and publishers have been duly labOred
with all publications that persist in carrying ad-
ments adjudged to be objectionable.
TO FIGHT THE THIRD DECREE
The convention also adopted a resolution in which
the infamous system of torture known as the
third degree strongly condemned. and the
Police Commissioner was urged take immediate
action regarding ii.
The resolution followed an address by Mrs Maria
c. Weed. in which she defined the third degree"
physical torture.
I'VE are Mortified when we read of torture IN
the Russian prisons" she said. and do not
realize that have the same thing right here
in New York. I know Of one case in which hose
pipe was placed in a mans mouth and tho water
forced down his throat. and a juryman told me
OF a prisoner being beaten to eNtort confession
from him. Sweating Is another kind Of torture
without physical violence. The prisoner IS bad
gered. with a view TO entrappng him into dam
aging statements. and by mere hypnotic suggcs-
ton is often made 10 confess crimes that no knows
nothing about.
1T Is necessary for the reputation of the police
man that the arrest he makes should DO justified.
from the prisoner by every means at his disposal
The is told that he can't possibly escape.
Everything IS against him. But 1t viii be easier
for him II he COnfesscs, and the number OF inno-
men who have yielded % this reasoning would
appal the public. Particularly is this tho case with
the ex-convict. with his record against him and
the policemau's word. 1t seems 70 him that the
only thing for him 10 do Is TO plead guilty. /
know Of one such man who encouraged by his
wife absolutely refused 20 confess crime he had
not committed and sentenced 20 imprson-
he was pardoned after five years
The convention closed with the election OF ott-
GERS and Mrs Helen J. Andruss was chosen presi-
dent 10 succeed herself The other officers were
also reelected.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1907-05-16
WHEATON CLUB BREAKFAST.

The wheaton Club. composed Of pupils and teach
ers OF Wheaton Seminary, Noroton Mass VIII
have its annual breakfast at l o'clock on Friday at
the Fifth Avenue Hotel President Woolley Of
Mount Holyoke College will be the guest OF honor
and the club also expects to entertain President
Cole of Wheaton, President Levermore of Adelphi
lessor Kemp ard Professor Carpenter. OF Columbia
University; DR.. William II. Ward. Mrs b. Cqsstfer:
Mrs. Mary E. Wilkins Freeman, Mrs. May Riley
Smith william II. Fox, OF Taunton. Mass: the
Rev. Joseph Dunn Burre and Mrs Caroline Bene-
dict Burrell The ushers will be Mrs. Margaret
Holbrook Clark and the Misses Clara p Coyle,
Ruth Eaton, Jessie c. Mygatt, Janet WEIGH May
belle williams and Helen Zinus
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1907-05-16
THE TRIBUNE PATTERN.

Such fancy blouse this one has almost innu-
nerable uses. It Is emlnenty eirlish and youthful
in effect; it he utilized either with skirt TO
match or as a separate waist, ana again the gar
nit;Ire can be made TO match the SKIRT or OF lace
or Of the trimming material, the blouse beneath
being Of lace IN lingerie style. As shown how
ever the oVerblouse Earnitur@ is made of hnlta-
tion Irish crochet, and is edged with pale green
velvet banding. while the blouse is of a pretty,
simple net that matches the skirt. The dropping
shoulders give the broad shoulder line which is
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1907-05-16
WOMEN FIGHT FOREST FIRE.

[By Telegraph 70 The Tribunal
Meriden. Conn, May 15.-Afrs. James rvers and
Mrs John Johnson. wives OF farmers IN East
Hampton saved their homes and many acres Of
woodland from fire yesterday. The flames
rapidly nearing their homes. when the women dis
covered the fire and out to fight It. With
brooms wet bags. hemlock boughs and dirt. which
they carried in their aprons. they held the fire IN
check until men arrived.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1907-05-16

The South was wrought up considerably few
years since over the operations Of The National
Industry Council" which extorted money from the
negroes under the pretence of helping them 10 get
pension money. BY request Of the organization
bill was introduced into Congress providing pen
sions for slaves. This was used as a means of
swindling the trusting negro out of his hard earn
lngs II was declared that SlO0 000,N0 10 he
sent Mt once into the Southern states, and under
one pretext or another money obtained from
those who expecting share Of the pension.
This and several like organizations were suppressed
by fraud orders Another set of enterprisng folks
who found the negro an easy prey followed the
heels Of these. 4 ChillicotEe. ohio. firm adver-
tised a fluid that would the blackest skins
white, and others offered liquids that would make
knky hair straight. Many of these injurious
and fraud orders have put most of
the firms out of business.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1907-05-16
a MATINEE LUNCHEON.

The demand for tickets for the matinee luncheon
and card marty TO be given at the Columbia Yacht
Club, ssth street and Hudson River. to-day by
Auxiliary No. Of the Stony Void sanatorium mas
been so great that it has been necessary % stop
the sale Luncheon will be served at l O'CLOCK, ana
preceding it there will be reception at which MIS-
Donald Mclean, honorary chairman OF me au&t-
iary VIII receive with the chairman MIS- M
RNffenherR.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1907-05-16
MAGISTRATE RESIGNS LEADERSHIP.

Magistrate John Manner. for many years Demo-
cratic leader of the 18th Assembly District Brook
Ign. resigned the leadership at special meeting
held at the headquarters Tuesday. Magistrate
Manner said that the work of running tho dis
trl0t machine interfered vita his judicial duties.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1907-05-16
SWINDL[NG BY NAIL.
Hoe the Government Saves People
from Buying Gold Bricks.

II is very old theory that the public likes to
De humbugged. Early confidence games began in
America when the first traders gave a handful
OF glass beads to the Indians in exchange for val
liable furs- The Indians seem to have liked it
The ordinary methods of sending informa ton
about his schemes from place to place by word
or mouth, or by a demonstration, grew too
SLOW for the American confidence man. and long
before the 70s he working the mails for all
they were worth in pushing his ideas. There
no law against it, because such contingency had
not been foreseen, and there appeared in
papers and in circulars sent through the mails
most astounding offers by which the ambitious
might amass fortune by the expenditure of only
few cents
Lotteries made use of the mails for sending out
spendthrift souls their way. Wondering offers
to heal far away patients by means of magnetism,
hypnotsm. mind control by simple medicines
hitherto unknown crowded the mail bags and
called for an increase in the postofhce force
Astrologers and phrenologsts solicited patronage
In printed letters that We're rich in mystical lore
and overlooking with queer rhetorical cOmbna-
lions. Bond investments, banking schemes, turf
enterprises mines, great tropical plantations and
dozens of get-rich-quick schemes found voice in
circulars. cards and letters The unsophistcated
country woman told in surprisingly friendly
letter how she could find most reInunerative life
at home by doing sewing embroidering or can
wasting and her equally unsophistiCated husband
became initiated in blind pool schemes for specu-
lating IN stocks.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1907-05-16

A Dallas FIRM found a ready market for mineral
rods" which supposed to discover gold ana
silver below the surface of the earth. In order to
stimulate interest in them the firm offered to buy
up all old coins that might be revealed by this
magic. Other schemes Of this kind have had sur
pTising success In the South, but they, too have
been suppressed by the government. Nevada, Mo,
sprung wonderful school of magnetic healing
the public Tie president cf the institution
guaranteed to devote a certain time each day 10
absent treatment of his patients for the sum of
s. month payable in advance. Nobody appears
TO have been healed. because the president
busy debating letters to other trusting souls at
the time he should have had his mind on his pre-
paid patients. 1t is a pity he came under the gov
ernment's dlspleasure, for he guaranteed TO cure
poverty and to give in business at the rate
at 81 a month patient.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1907-05-16

ARMY.
Major DAVID J. RUAfBOCGH field artillery da4,uA5
70 attend encsmpment organized militia OF New YorE
O Is - -'N' Au-N'
First Lieutenant ROY ". ASHRROOE
from Army OF Cuban Fabrication; proper com
pany Fort Mcpherson F ~
Captain JAMES A WOODRUFF. corps Of engineers
from military academy. West Point. August l; 10
Infantry and Cavalry school, Signal School and Amy
Stan College. Fort Leavepworth. as instructor de-
p1Ftment Of engineering 40
First Lieutenant MILAN A MITCHELL. corps Of en-
gtnesrs, to military academy,
First LieTtenants MARK BROOKE and WILLIAM
MITCHELL. corps OF engineers; to Engineer school
Washington Barracks complete before toIr-
ing their station West Point '
Captain EUGENE ?. JERVEY. Jr 10Th CavaIr1, ~
general hospital Preside Of san Francisco -
Major WILLIAM W Harris. corps OF engineers r,nor
relief from duty at San Francisco by Major Holm
BIDDLE. corps Of engineers: to Chattanooss resvo
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1907-05-16

A Florida woman got into trouble by promising
to devote fifteen minutes a day 10 each patient
when thoughts from her soul would them to
better and higher life She little clever
than the Missouri man. having in some way given
the government sufficient scsent treatment
cesssfully eva6e the, penalty of the law though
il has been on her heels for several years Physi-
clans with marvellous new remedies are thick In
the land, and there is little that they hnd them
selves unable cure to judge from their optiras-
tic circulars. They raise the dead in their Htera-
ture as expeditiously they raise money from
the pockets of the living in reality. Mining enter
prises draw victims like honey pot draws ants,
and the man at Baker city. Ore who sold stock
in the White Swan mine found crowd of eager
bidders, So did banking company OF St Louis.
Despite it's promise TO leave its affairs to board
OF directors and to invest the deposits in United
States bonds. the president managed to get for
his own use a comfortable little fortune. and the
depositors got much experience.
Tropical plantations have romantic atmosphere
that is hard to resist when exploited paper
above the name of firm in Boston. Many
people have grown wise through Uncls Sans in
tervention in schemes OF this kind. and they who
drank a cheap brew coffee. believing 1T to be
from the great plantations in which they had an
interest learned that labels TO buy and
certain grades OF coffee easy to repack when no
coffee exists on the wilderness tpey hspsd to buy.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1907-05-16

Then the government awoke to the realization
postal service was the quickest of doing the
swindling and that It being used for all it
worth, In 1872 things had grown so noticeable
in the mail swndling line that the attention of
Congress drawn to it and law was enacted
making 1t punishable by fine TO mail through any
postoffice letters circulars concerning illegal
lotteries schemes devised to deceive and de-
fraud the public, In 1875 the Illegal was
stricken from the law and all lotteries came under
BAN An older law. dating back to 1863 had also
prohibited the sending of lottery stuff by mall but
the makers OF the bill had overlooked the attaching
of any kind of penalty it, so it was necessarily
Of little
In 1880 the law was made to apply not only TO
lotteries they generally known, but TO all
"so-caled gift concerts and similar enterprises Of
ferng prizes dependent upon lot or chance" Year
by year the law has frightened its grip the mails,
and any scheme that savors of fraud is promptly
brought under the notice of the postoffce authori-
ties and slfted down TO the bottom. All offers Of
work. of commodities of prizes for guessing
contests receive the respectful and careful atten-
ton of the postal authorities, and II there Is any
suspicious air about a scheme the promoter of 1t
Is promptly brought before the bar of justice and
has an opportunity prove the truth OF mis- offers
From the passage of the act of 1890 to the end or
the last fiscal year. 2409 fraud orders were issued
by the Postofice Department. and II the persons
against whom they were issued did not comply at
once with the law suits: fines and other unpleasant
things followed.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1907-05-16

The average swindler who uses the mails is
willy fellow He has learned the art of wording his
offers so they attract the remote and indiTerenty
educated and so plausible do his statements sound
that ne finds easy and ready victims. One is frank
" amazed at the credunty Of the human race. A
typewriter company OF New York induced persons
10 send s. % as a guarantee Of good faith in a
copying st home" scheme in which the purchaser
was TO have a typewriter and $40 sheets of paper
and copy letters at 50 so thousand The typewriter
proved TO be toy affair that useless for the
work. The purchaser out about g and the
firm IN that much.
One clever New York firm bought up lot or
letters from agency 10 get addresses then wrote
each person that he or she had prize which
would on receipt OF 81 81 20 cover cost Of
boxing and packing charges" Each delighted per-
son invariably sent the amount and received a
piece OF cheap tewelry worth few cents. A blu
sewing machine" 20 persons selling thirty packages
of wash blue at 10 cents apiece. The machine
proved 10 be a toy affair and the letter in answer
to woman's threat TO sue Is filed away as a
mark OF genuine cleverness on the part of the
artful dodger who originated the scheme. Bogus
detective agencies were thick in the land for a
while For a certain OF money they would
send a star certificate of membership. credentials.
etc to the purchaser. and not until the astonshed
victim had been hauled up before unfeeling magis-
trates for carrying a gun or for impersonating an
officer did the luckless fellow realize that he had
been the victim of a scoundreL
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1907-05-16

ORDERS IssUED.-The following orders have
been issued:
The Beaver herald. [volume] (Beaver, O.T. [Okla.]) 1895-1923, 1907-08-01
BABY ITCHED TERRIBLY.
Face and Neck Covered with Inflsmed
Skin-Doetors No AvsiI-Cured
by Cuticurs Remedies.

"My baby's face and neck were COW
cred with itching skin similar TO ecze
ma, and she suffered terribly for over
a year. / took her to a number of doc
tors, and also to different colleges, to
no avail. Then Cuticura Remedies
were recommended TO me by Miss c..
l did not use It at first, as had tried
so many other remedies without any
favorable results. At last tried Cuti-
cura Soap, Cuticura Ointment and
Cuticura ResolveBt Pills, and to my
surprise noticed an improvement.
After using three boxes of the Cuti.
cura Ointment, together with the Soap
and Pills, l am pleased TO say she is
altogether different child and the
picture of health. Mrs. A. c. Brestlhn,
III n. Lincoln ST., Chicago, ILL.,, Get.
20 and 80, 1906"
The Beaver herald. [volume] (Beaver, O.T. [Okla.]) 1895-1923, 1907-08-01
KNITTING MACHINE ROMANCE.
Invented That Tilted Lover Might
Have His Revenge.

Romance may certainly figure In
many OF the knitted waistcoats and
IS rgeous stockings worn by our un-
dergraduates of to-day, but these have
not so romantic an origin as the first
" these articles produced in this
country.
| For tradition has it that William
4 Lee, who in the sixteenth century in
vented the knitting frame on which
both stockings and waistcoats were
produced mechanically, was driven to
Ithis piece of ingenuity by the cruel
lfiouting of the lady he loved, who hap
lpeDed to be stocking knitter.
Enraged at his failure to make an
Impression on her heart. he sought to
make it on her purse by killing her
means of livelihood; and one is glad
ITO read that all stocking makers com
bined TO Illustrate his cruel purpose.
with the result that he fed with his
Invention TO France, where he finally
dice OF broken heart, whether for
love of his lady or of his spoiled in
vention. tradition does not say.-Lon-
don Chronicle.
The Beaver herald. [volume] (Beaver, O.T. [Okla.]) 1895-1923, 1907-08-01
DIR. TALKS OF FOOD
Pres. of Board Of Health.

What shall eat?" is the daily in
curry the physician is met with. l do
not hesitate TO say that in my judg-
ment, "a large percentage of disease is
caused by poorly selected and improp-
erly prepared food. My personal ex-
perience with the fully-cooked food,
known as Grape-Nuts, enables me TO
speak freely OF its merits.
Prom overwork, | suffered several
yea S with malnutriton, palpitation of
the heart. and loss of sleep. Last
summer | was led to experiment per
sonally with the new food, which i
used in conjunction with good rich
cows milk, In short time after
commenced it's use. the disagreeable
symptoms disappeared, my hearts ac-
ton became steady and normal, the
functions of the stomach were proper
Iy carried out and ! again slept as
soundly and as well as in my youth.
Il look upon Grape-Nuts as a per
feet food, and no one can gainsay but
that il has most prominent place in
a rational. scientific system of feeding.
Any one who uses this food Will soon
be convinced of the soundness OF the
principle upon which ii is manufac-
tured and may thereby know the facts
as 10 its true worth Read, THE Roai
To Wcliville, in pkgs. There's q
Reason"
The Beaver herald. [volume] (Beaver, O.T. [Okla.]) 1895-1923, 1907-08-01

In the great basin between the
Rockies and the Sierra Nevadas lie
the ghosts of many dead lakes. Riv-
ers still flow down to the dry edge Of
these one-time great reservoirs and
are licked up by evaporation and the
chinook winds. OF all the lakes that
once lay there. only Great Salt Lake,
Lake Tahoe and Bear Lake are left.
The Southern Pacific rolls for i65
miles across the bed of what was once
Lake Lahontan. and the passengers
gazing idly from the windows may see
the terraces and wrinkles in the crust
of the fossil lake which nature robbed
and defrauded of its crystal treasures
ages ago--Exchange.
The Beaver herald. [volume] (Beaver, O.T. [Okla.]) 1895-1923, 1907-08-01

Mrs. bcDora Bodenhamer, II. Il. ID. l.
Box 90, Kernersville, N. c.. writes:
q suffered with stomach trouble md
indigestion for some time. and nothing
that ate agreed with me. ] was very
nervous and experienced contin ual
feeling of uDeasiness and fesr. ! took
medicine from the doctor, but il did me
no good.
q found in one of your Peruna books
n description of my symptoms. l then
wrote 10 Dir. Hartman for advice. He
said l had catarrh Of the stomach.
took Peruna and Manalin and followed
lhis directions and can now say that
fee as well as ! ever did.
lIopc that all who are afflicted with
the same symptoms will take Peruna, as
10 has certainly cured me.
The above is on Y one of hundreds who
have written similar letters to Dir.
Hartman. Just one such case as this
entities Peruna to the candid consider
alton of every one similarly afflicted. If
this be true of the testimony of one per-
son what ought to be the testimony of
Hundreds, yes thousands, of honest, sin
eere people. We have in our files great
lmany other testimonials.
The Beaver herald. [volume] (Beaver, O.T. [Okla.]) 1895-1923, 1907-08-01

Art is long. but laundry bills are
longer.
Most men work hard all their lives
to save enough money to create fam
lily feud over the will.
When you have been drinking a lit
tie too much and wonder if il will be
safe to go home, try saying this sen
tence rapidly: Many a testers jests
just end in gesticulation." If you can
repeat this without error, YOU may 90
home without arousing your wife's
suSpicions-stops en- route being
barred.
Nicotine gasoline and balletscene
seem 10 occupy the spare time of in
Vulnerable sons of rich fathers.
The tobacco habit is a very vile one
especially when your wife cannot be
broken OF the habit of buying your
cigars.
The season is once more open for
''the big fish that got away"
A family Bible is hard 10 find in
the home of an old maid Parents are
too careless about writing birth dates
in Bibles, anyhow.
II is fully as important TO know
when 10 don't as when to do.
'Moneymaking is the greatest dis
ease of the century" says an ex,
change. The trouble with most of us
is, we are TOO healthy
The Beaver herald. [volume] (Beaver, O.T. [Okla.]) 1895-1923, 1907-08-01

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