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of the witness, who raised her voice | involuntarily. There was no consideration for the witness, either in manner nor tone. When the prosecutor would demand a. yes" or mo" to some particularly pointed question, Mrs. Thaw would ap- peal to Justice Bowling, saying:
 "It Is very difficult to answer such a question"
 The court usually instructed her to reply to the question. 'When you went abroad with Thaw didn't you have money that White had given you in your purse"
 "Yes, but didn't know it."
 And you afterwards gave the money to Thaw?"
 Yes"
 MT Lttleton interrupted District Att , torney Jerome several times to object to his questions on the ground that they were argumentative and improper He was sustained in some of these, but Jus tiee Bowling allowed the prosecutor wide latitude. Ideas of Virtue. MT Jerome probed into the young wom- ans ideas as to virtue and morality at length After he had concluded this line of examination District Attorney Jerome started in to interrogate the witness as to her relations with White other than al- ready testified to- when MT. Littleton objected, saying he had been allowed to ask the witness only as to the story she told Thaw. Justice Bowling sustained the objection saying:
 "The truth or fa1sity of the story has nothing to do with the case in matter of insanity" The district attorney continued to ply the witness with questions which Mr. Littleton> finally objected to as "offen- sive'' and was sustained. Once when the prosecutor was asking the witness if she had told Thaw cer- tain things, Mrs. Thaw flushed hotly and replied:
 "Yes, but didn't use the language you are using"
 After MT Jerome had questioned the witness at length as to her trips abroad and dinner at Martins he asked if she testified at the first trial about the sui- eide attempt.
 ''No. I did not, because MT Delmas-''
 Madame" shouted the district attor- ney, kindly answer my questions and do not argue"
 MT. Jerome repeated his tactics of last year, jumping frequently from one period of the story to another and then re- turning. Taking up the incident in the Twenty fourth street house, MT. Je- rome read from last years record prac- tically all of the witness's testimony at that time
 MT. Littleton objected to this, saying the district attorney had been solicitous that their details should not be made public.
 ''I tried to leave out as much as possi- ble." said MT. Littleton, "but the district attorney is anxious now to get it all in and he is trying to discredit the witness by his manner of reading and the tone of his voice when he knows he can't dis credit her in any other way
 The objection was overruled.
 During the late afternoon Mir Jerome occupied much time with the witness in going over the details of her meeting with Thaw, of her days at school in New Jer- sey and various other matters of her as- sociation with the defendant. Mrs. Thaw fenced skilfully with the prosecutor and constantly asked him what he meant by certain questions.
 You know what I mean,' District Att torney Jerome would shout in some exas- peration. The witness pleaded that she did not.
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DIAMOND MAKER
 HELD IN PRISON Case Is PuzzIing Experts and
 Authorities FORMULA LOCKED IN BANK Lemoine Claims to Have Discovered Process of Making Diamonds and Has Secured Large Sums
 From Wealthy Persons.
FORMULA LOCKED IN BANK

Paris, January 20.-The ramifcations of the case of Lemoine the diamond maker whom Sir Julius Wernher of the De Beers Mining company is prose- cutting for swindling him out of $320,- 900 is attracting much attention, not only in France but in England and throughout Europe generally. The case in one particular bears a resem- blance to the recent swindles, such as the Humbert safe mystery in France. the Chadwick affair in America. and the Druce case in England, namely, it's solution depends upon a secret beyond the reach of investigators.
 Lemoine's formula for the manufac- ture of diamonds is securely locked up in a bank in London, the officials of which, upon Lemoine's demand refuse to deliver it to the French court, which desires to make trial of it's efficacy in the presence of experts, who are now examining specimens of Diamonds Lemoine claims to have manufa ctured. Meanwhile Lemoine, who a few years ago was canyasser for an advertising firm, but who since he began his pres ent operations, has lived luxuriously in magnificent house in Rue Pigalle languishes in jail, offering if released to repeat his experiments and prove the legitimacy of his invention.
 Wernher is convinced that he was duped by clever legerdemain. Scien- lists point out that the substituting of a genuine diamond in an electric furnace would be impossible, as the temperature of the electric arc would transform the diamond into gra phite.
 Henri Moissan, winner of the Nobel prize, who died recently, produced microscopic diamonds from iron and carbon in an electric furnace of a tenn perature of 1000 degrees. but they were of insignificant commercial value and the majority of scientists say it Is ridiculous to suppose that Lemoine suc- ceeded where Moissan failed.
 Lord Armstrong, who witnessed the experiments publicly avows his absolute faith in Lemoines method. Diamond merchants, although skeptical, are greatly interested in the outcome of the case.
 Since Lemoine was arrested it has developed that he has not confined his operations to M. Wernher. He sold half interest in his secret to Edgar Cohen in 1901 and through an associate secured s2000 from an American named Siegman The latter, who lives at Neuilly, has complained to the police that mysterious attempts have been made against himself and his wife since his connection with the affair was re- vealed.
 A strange feature of the case is that M. Wernher. although he charges that he was duped, offered Lemoine sSO,0OO additional last week for his formula.
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STORY OF SHAME RETOLD
 BY EVELYN NESBIT THAW
CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1.>

CONTINUED FROM PAGE l.t ~-~-~-~~~~~-~-~~~-~>~~ but as to all points of legality and pro priety l reiterate what I said then; that the matter rests entirely with the court" :"
 Justice Bowling said he had consulted all the authorities cited by the district attorney, and could find no warrant un- der the constitution for excluding the public from a capital case. The harm done by publishing the details of revolt ing testimony, he added, was more than offset by the safeguards thrown around a defendant by granting him "a speedy and public hearing"
 Ruling In Exclusion.
 '"rhe court will not exclude any one who conducts himself with propriety.' MT. Littleton then asked Mrs. Thaw to tell the story of her experience with Stanford White as she told 1t to Thaw in Paris in 1903, when he asked her to become his wife
 on his feet with strenuous objection. He argued the matter at some length.
 Here is recital of years before the homicide" declared the prosecuting at torney "Its certainly does not come with the Wood case, where the man to whom the story was told was so mentally af- fected that he immediately went off and Killed man. II IS aDSuTu on the lace of 1t to say this conversation three years before accounted for the insanity of the defendant at the time of the killing
 Justice Bowling interrupted the district attorney to say that he found nothing in the authorities fixing time limit to conversations or statements inducing or tending to induce insanity He thought the Wood case covered the point and overruled the objection.
 Young Mrs. Thaw was suffering today from a bad cold and coughed frequently while testifying.
 In response to questions from MT. Lit tleton the witness told again, but more briefly than last year, of her experience in the Twenty-fourth street house, where she was taken to lunch with Stanford White and drank champagne and became thing more than her signature before it was burned.
 MT. Littleton made no attempt to shield the facts as was done on direct examina-
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DRESS CUTTING SCHOOL.

THE McDowell Dress Cutting School, 503 N. 17th street, Birmingham, Ala. Ladies, Ladies! Ladies The longfelt want of the ladies in this district to be able to make their own garments by I simple system has at last been gratified Call and examine the Mcdowell sys- tenn. You will find 1t the easiest to learn, most rapid to use, fits every form and follows every fashion. Our system is used from Maine to California by all leading dressmakers and ladies' tail ors. Highest award wherever exhibited. A New York teacher in charge, who will be pleased to show you the simplicity of this system. Call or write for par ticulars. Sample lesson free. Miss G. S. Logan, principal.
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York early in 1904' said Mrs. Thaw, Harry was very Respondent and he said my life had been ruined and his life had been ruined; that all sorts of stories had been circulated about him and he was going to end 1t all by suicide. He went so far as to fix the time and place and everything. He said we would go to the Waldorf and get dinner and then he would take laudanum. When he was in one of these moods I always agreed and said yes to everything he suggested. I thought that was the best way. After dinner I insisted that we go to the the atre.''
 Was that the last of it?"
 Attempt at Suicide.
 Ut was the last until we went later in 1904 to Europe. l came in one day at Monte Carlo and Harry's face was chalky white. I asked him what was the matter and he said I've done it. It is all over. Everything is all over
 T asked him what he meant. He said: I've done; I've taken a bottle of lauda- num- I thought he was trying to scare me, but he told me where l could find the bottle and he got violently ill.,"
 Mrs. Thaw then gave the details of se- curing physicians and the manner In which they worked over Thaw all night to save his life. This was the first new incident she testified to-
 Going briefly over the incidents of 1904 in Europe and of Thaws repeated offers of marriage the witness said the we'd ding finally occurred in Pittsburg in April, 1905.
 Mrs. Thaw next took up the events of the evening of the shooting and told of the dinner at Martin's-she and Thaw, Truxton Beale and Thomas McCaleb forming the party.
 Mrs. Thaw was about to tell about the note she slipped to Thaw at Mar tins, reading: That B. (black guard) was here but has gone away again" meaning Stanford White, when the luncheon recess was taken to 2:30 mislaid. but it's contents will be ad- mitted.
 Afternoon Session.
 At the afternoon session MT. Jerome said the note passed at Martins had been lost in the mass of papers con- corning the case, and Mrs. Thaw was allowed to repeat the wording.
 William D. Haywood, secretary of the Western Federation of miners, recently acquitted at Boise Idaho, of the mur- der of former Governor Steunenberg, came into court during the afternoon session and attracted some attention.
 Mrs. Thaw described the scene on Madison Square Garden the night Of the tragedy:
 "The show was not interesting and we were leaving" she went on, "when Harry Jagged behind, and the first thing knew I heard three shots fired. Harry came right up to me afterward and I said: My God, Harry, what have you done?" He said It's all right, dearie, have probably saved your life.'"
 Mrs. Thaw said she was taken down in the elevator and sent home in a cab
 MT. Littleton here offered in evidence several of the letters from Thaw, read at the first trial. They were identified but not read and the witness was turned over to District Attorney Jerome for cross examination.
 Jerome Is Brutal.
 In the loudest voice at his command, the prosecutor, without mincing words, plunged immediately into the most in delicate details of the testimony. His manner brought out fire in the replies
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Whiskey of Merit

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 Our ,whiskies have no equal for use in the sick room, being wholesome and tOnicy to weak StOm- achs; they the best to your friends, they will appreciate their purity and enjoy their rich mellow flavor. The natural vim and vigor of the Corn and Rye is concentrated in pure liquid form in each of the following brands:
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HELP WANTED

wANTED-Telegraph operators in great demand, attend our school three months and become competent Main line wires in school. Positions guaranteed or money, refunded. Catalog free. Amer ican Telegraph school Box 7SO Mill edgeville Ga. 12-22-1m-su tue-thu WANTED-Help in all lines of work; can use several good white cooks; coal diggers, also carpenters for out of city jobs. 1858 Hood bldg
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" H FIN.

You Appoint
 A friend as your agent administrator, guardian, executor. trustee. etc.; you impose upon him du- ties which must necessarily take his time and attention from regular busi- ness; he must also file a SECURITY BOND.
 When you appoint the American Surety Company of New York there is no cost of filing bond. and the duties are attended to by men trained and competent for the work
 Whom will you appoint?
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Rooms-WANTED-Board

WANTEDCTwo furnished or unfurnished connecting rooms, with bath; unfur- nished preferred, by two single men {; also breakfast and supper; state terms; answer quick. B. B. B., Age-Herald.
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HOME AND INVESTMENT
 COMBINATION

Lot 1O0x210, well built, substantial, six room cottage-not counting kitchen and bath as rooms but they are both there-also front and back porch, wide hall, high ceilings, everything in first class order; electric lights, city water. etc.; fine, rich garden spot; variety of splendid fruit trees; stable and buggy house, chicken house and poultry run; good neighborhood on Northside. This Is a genuine bargain either for home or in vestment or both; is paying well now. Price, for quick deal, $2900; satisfactory terms Owner will accept this price dur ing next eight days only, after which time do not reply to this ad. If seeing is be- lieving," will be pleased to show you," while 1t is on the market Fail to in- vestigate promptly and you are the loser, as first taker gets it. This ad. will not appear after today.
 -A A~
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A Rare Opportunity To Invest

One of the largest and best equip ped manufacturing plants in the country, situated in the city of New Orleans, having a we'll established trade, making Union Made Overalls and Speciality Lines, incorporated under the state laws of Louisiana, having an authorized capital of $100,000.00, of which s65.0o0.00 cash has actually been paid in, needs s35,000.0O0 additional capital. Plant free of city taxation for eight years. A young man or several young men of capacity with this capital who can aid in the business will secure paying positions and have an investment that will bring in good returns. Address P. o. Box 54S, New Orleans, La.
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REAL ESTATE

FOR SALE. s600-Two lots near Beverly station on South Bessemer car line; extra cheap. 10 acres within 190 foot of South Bes- semer car line, between lone and Maplehurst stations, $1250 cash, bal ance one, two, three and four years with interest
 FOR RENT-1900 11th Ave. S., rooms. bath, gas and servants house. Six acres of land and seven-room house. with stable, etc.; close in; will give pos- session January l. 1908.
 l., G. PETTYJOHN Phones 11O1 and 465. 1S261x 3d Ave.
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MONEY TO LEND

MONEY loaned salsTied Deo1is nd o,6as5s- withourt security; cheapest rates; easiest payments; offices in S3 principal cities; save yourself money by getting our terms first. D. H. TolEnan, room 1A Watts building. 2006 3d avenue Silly
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LOST-Saturday morning, somewhere In shopping district, l ady's gold watch; name in back of case Finder will please phone 1897 Bell or return to mail trans- fer station at L. 6 N. depot, and receive reward. 2-19-at
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FOR SALE

FOR SALE-Five-room house, l512 Four
 teenth avenue, south. Apply at 1920 Sec ond avenue. 1-12-15t-eod
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ELEGANT room, with board. for gentle men or couples. 1902 South 2Oth street
 1-17-5t
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WANTED-BOARDERS

WANTED-Boarders at 2112 9th avenue;
 ,oica rooms. good meals 1-15-10t
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FOR sALE-$3e50-Co Avenue H, be-
 tween goth and Fist streets; 5000 cash. w.. B. Leedy & Co. 1-lS-7t
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ONE GENT A WORD.
MISCELLANEOUS

WOULD lease out fine buggy mare for light driving several months for her board; must be properly cared for.
 Phones 119. 1-21-3t
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LOST-Saturday morning, point lace baby cap Return to 2024 Ave. G and receive liberal reward. Peoples phone 1886.
 1-19-3t
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-STRAYED-STOLEN

spotted Fox terrier bitch, Sunday; answers name of Beauty" Finder please return to 1207 Montgom- cry street, south. and receive reward
 Bell phone 621. 1-21-3t
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1908-10-02
EAST MIDDLEBURY.

Mrs. NJ. w. Wimett of Middlebury
was with her people, Mr.. and Mrs. Geo.
Hodges, during the week.
Mrs. Geo. G. Ross and son of New Ha-
ven, Conn, are visiting their people here.
son was born to Mr.. and Mrs. Rollin
Newton Friday morning, Sept. %.
DIR. j. NJ. Stafford of Essex, N. Y, and
DIR. James Stafford of Perth Amboy, N.
j., were the guests of Mr.. and Mrs. j. A.
Douglass during the week.
Mr.. and Mrs. Frank Enos and family
are with Mr.. and Mrs. Almon Enos.
Will Piper is under the DOCTORS care
with an attack of the grip.
Miss Minnie Hayden, who has been the
guest of Mrs. G. F. Partridge for several
weeks, has returned to her home in Bos-
ton.
Miss Mary Gill is under the doctors
care at the home of her sister, Mrs. F. A.
Farr.
Geo. Eldridge is visiting his son, w,
ID. Eldridge, at Twin Falls, Idaho.
Mr.. and Mrs. A. V. Brown of Hart
ford, Conn. are visiting Mrs. Browns
cousin, Mrs. ID. A. Damon. Mr.. Browns
many friends will remember him as a
photographer in Middlebury several
years ago.
DR.. Stafford of Essex, N. Y, has been
visiting his sister, Mrs. Arthur Douglas.
Harry Ross of New Haven, Conn.,, is
spending week with relatives in town.
News was received here Saturday
morning of the death of Daniel Leno at
the home of his son in Montpelier where
he has been for nearly three weeks.
George Eldridge left Friday for Twin
Falls, Idaho, where he will visit his son.
William Eldridge.
Mr.. and Mrs. Rolin Newton are par
ents of son born Sept 25th.
l.. Is. Boardman was in Pittsford on
Wednesday of last week.
l.. b. Boardman has in his possession a
piece of British money found on his prem
ises, bearing the date 1888.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1908-10-02
An Explanation Requested.

Bombay, Sept 29.-Thousands of ma
tive houses have been washed away and
hundreds of lives lost in the Hyderabad
and Deccan districts as result of the
floods which followed an Unprecedented
rainfall. The river Mus rose sixty feet;
all the bridges were carried away and
the country was devastated for many
miles in either direction. Corpses are
strewn everywhere, and scores of bodies
have been found stranded high in the
branches of trees where they were lodged
by the swollen waters. The native hos
pital at Hyderabad was undermined by
the waters and collapsed and al! the in
mates were buried in the wreckage. -
News Dispatch.
Several weeks since after the pro-
longed hot weather through the early
summer, we noticed statement that
there was excessively cold weather in
Europe. And now, after the most pro-
longed drouth in large part of Ameri-
ca, comes the above remarkable account
of excessive rains in Asia. 1t is at least
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1908-10-02
COLLEGE NOTES.

The hat rush Saturday morning was
won by the sophomores, eight hands to
seven.
d. j. Kicker '09 has been called to his
home in Waterbury by the serious illness
of his mother.
President Thomas addressed the stu.
dent body Sunday afternoon in the inter-
est of the Y. NJ. @. A. His subject was
"The College Students Religion
Two new members of the freshman
class registered Saturday.
The Rev. Lemuel Brown '97 has re-
turned to Ballston Springs, N. Y, after
short stay at college.
Football practice began Thursday; Cap.
tain Martin put the candidates through
light practice which reveals some prom
Using material in the freshman class.
Professor McGilton addressed the athl-
etc association Saturday morning. He
spoke on college spirit and especially the
needs of the football team.
w. H. Hull ex-'l1 has returned to New
London, Conn.,, after a short visit at col
lege.
Harry Markofl 'O4 and B. ]. Mulcahy
'O7 have been spending few days at the
Chi Psi house.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1908-10-02
Jerome to Investigate.

New York, Sept. 29.-District Attorney
Jerome announced today that he would
investigate the facts connected with the
sales to New York paper of an article
on the issues of the political campaign
purporting to have been signed by the
late Grover Cleveland, former president
of the United States.
According to the New York Times
which originally published the article, F.
S. Hastings, executor of MIR. Clevelands
estate, at first vouched for the genuine
ness of the article and later withdrew
the voucher. The Times has now SUBJ
mitted the matter to the district at
torney.
Mr.. Jerome said today:
"The question of the authenticity of
this article seems to me not only i'm
portant from the standpoint of the GRIM
inal law but to have large public i'm
portance. If the article is forgery, the
person responsible for it and for Its sale,
if the sale was contaminated, knowing
it to be forgery, should be severely''pun-
ished, for wrong doing of this charac-
ter, in the midst of a bitterly fought
campaign, might have very serious con-
sequences"
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1908-10-02
What the Kidneys Do
Their Uneessins Work Keeps Us
Strong and Healthy.

All the blood in the body passes through
the kidneys once every three minutes.
The kidneys filter the blood. They work
night and day. When healthy they
remove about 500 grains of impure matter
daily, when unhealthy some part of this
impure matter is left in the blood. This
brings on many diseases and symptoms
pain in the back, headache, nervousness,
hot, dry skin, rheumatism, govt, gravel,
disorders of the eyesight and hearing,
dizziness, irregular heart, debility, drow-
slness, dropsy, deposits in the urine,
etc. But if you keep the filters right
you will have no trouble with your
kidneys.
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he would be unable to sleep and when
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sure to be worse. The rheumatism af-
fected his arm so badly at times that he
could not raise it above his head. Finally
he got box of Doan's Kidney Pills at
Sheldon's Drug Store and began using
them. The first few doses brought him
great relief and when he had used two
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back had disappeared and he was able to
rest much better at night.
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-Milburn Co., Buffalo, New York,
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