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How He Beat the Road.

Some years ago there lived in Ar
kansas a mar named Reynolds who
owned a narrow gauge railroad from
Malvern Junction to Hot Springs. 1t
was partly due to the fact that he had
put by a neat little fortune, and part
ly to his habit of wearing an enor-
nous diamond shirt stud that he had
won the nickname of Diamond Joe.
1t was Diamond Joe's boast that
no one had ever stolen a ride OF his
little twenty-five mile road; and, not
content with telling this to his
friends, he offered a reward of 800
and a suit of clothes to the man who
could do it.
One clear moonlight night a man
came into his office, dripping from
head to foot.
as this Mr.. Reynolds?" he asked.
"Yes," replied the owner of the
narrow gauge road, involuntarily
glancing out to see if it was raining.
"Well, I've come for that suit of
clothes and the 500. I've beat my
way on your road, Mr.. Reynolds, in
the boiler tank of the engine; it was
hard work keepin' my head above
water, but l did it-and-here 1
am!"-Philadelphia Ledger.
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HOW THEY STOLE So, ooo 600.
Teller and Auditor of Farmers Bank,
Pittsburg, Get Ten Years Each.

Pittsburg, Pa.-Just before they
were sentenced to serve ten years
each in the Western Penitentiary
Henry Reiber, former paying teller
of the Farmers Deposit National
Bank. and John Young, the auditor,
told how they stole almost $4,000, 900
from the bank, first taking as small
as $500 and then increasing until
they often took as high as $4,000
at a time.
Young told the court that the first
money they stole was used to let
them participate in the Letter wheat
deal. They were out $4,000 when
that bubble burst. Young said:
at was the stock market that
ruined us. We saw others getting
rich and thought we could do the
same. At first | took small amounts
and lost them. Then I went to Rel
Der and told him. l was surprised to
find that he was doing the same, and
after that We worked it together. But
everything failed"
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PASTOR FINDS A MORAL IN
WRECK OF HIS OWN HAPPINESS
Robbed OF Brh3 by Drowning Accident, the Rev. Mr.. Yroonan Says 1t Vas In
tended For His Reseneration-Sermon Takes Place Of Wedding Invitations
On Day Set For Marriage Clergyman Tells Of His Bitter Struggle With Despair.

way of contributing to my suffering,
was the despair of personal disap-
pointment. Apparently, I had been
deprived of that one satisfaction
without which nothing else besides
could be satisfying.
"a belief that has not been weak
ened by doubts in the fact of the di-
vine providence, and which has been
inclusive of the unquestioning con-
yiction that what the Lord had done
was for the best and permanent in
terest of every one of us concerned,
has given a certain interior peace
and sense Of security, even while the
external or natural affections ere
being tortured and tempest torn.
Indeed, the suffering has been
tempered and greatly modified by
these counteracting influences from
within. 1t has seemed to me at
times, and 1 have permitted myself
to believe, that I was sensible of a
work being wrought by the Lord in
my ruling love, causing it to become
a little more unselfsh than it had
formerly been. Indeed, it is the res
direction of less selfish loves from
more selfish loves in such times as
this that veri1es the revelations in
the word of God of Immortality, and
confirms the certainty Of the resur-
rection of the beautiful unself1sh girl
whom l loved and still continue to
love.
81 am thankful beyond measure
that I have experienced not the slight
est feeling of rebellion against the
unalterable fact. My suffering has
been a revelation to me Of the great
distance that I have yet to go in the
regeneration. l have felt uncon-
cerned whether I live or die. 1 feel
sure that I am suffering less and re-
ceiving greater spiritual blessing
from it than many persons who have
sustained similar loss"
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Winthrop, Mass. - Miss Alice G..
Loud, of Roxbury, who was drowned
here three weeks ago, was to have
been married to the Rev. Hiram Vroo-
man, of Providence. Instead of the
wedding Invitations that would have
been sent Mr.. Vrooman has gathered
about him his philosophy and issued
something like a sermon, his be-
reavement serving as the text.
The essence of his reflections on
the tragic event is that the young
woman persisted, by divine will, in
order that he might be purified by
fire and proceed further upon the
road to regeneration by being given
a perception of his own worldliness.
The statement, or sermon, reads:
To-day was to have been the day
Of my marriage to Alice c. Loud,
whose sudden death by drowning oc-
CURED three weeks ago to-day. 1t is
true that from all earthly points of
view this providential occurrence is
altogether inexplicable, but when
spiritually considered there is sufi-
cient explanation to dispel every
doubt of its beneficence.
Both practically and ideally Miss
Loud seemed to be bringing to me
The largest measure of personal salts
faction that this world has in store
for any man. She was bringing not
only the most devoted and purest
feminine affection that was ever re-
Vealed to me in a woman, but also
that complex of countless physical,
mental and spiritual values which
promised to multiply my usefulness.
"At first, upon learning what had
happened, all my ardent love for
her, which had already given me the
rarest happiness that 1 had ever ex-
perienced, turned, as it were, against
ne to torture me with vague anxieties
for her and indescriba5le pity. Fol-
lowing this, and second only to it by
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Chicago.-The subject of women
IN the workaday world was the chief
theme before the meeting here of the
American Academy of Medicine. Sew
eral men physicians read papers de-
ploring the fact that too many wom-
en- unsexed themselves by forsaking
home life for industrial work, and as
;erting that the future of the race de-
pended upon the checking of this
Widespreading evil"
DIR. Helen c. Putnam, of Provi-
ience, startled the audience by de-
suffrage. Every woman" she said,
mas the right to develop her best
faculties, to become educated, and to
enter a business field, where she
meets many men, so she can select
the father for her children. 1 favor
establishing a study of 'home-mak-
ing in the public schools of our coun-
try"
DR.. Emma Culbertson, of Boston,
said: Cooperation of the two sexes
alone is needed to settle the question
of the place of women in business
life"
Conditions had changed during the
last hundred years, DR.. Edward Jack
son, of Denver, asserted, and women
should be allowed to change their
habits and occupations.
Better Servants Than Shop Girls.
DR.. Otto Juettner, of Cincinnati,
said: '"The lack of housewives and
domestic servants is disrupting So
ciety and home life. l have no SYM
pathy with ONE who work in
stores or other industrial institutions
for starvation wages, when there are
thousands of homes in which they
can get respectable employment bet
ter fitting themselves for married life.
Women competing with men simply
lower the wage scale, cause a lack OF
support by men and a tendency to-
ward singleness."
DR.. George Hoxie, of Kansas City,
declared it to be a deplorable fact
that teachers in public schools re-
ceived less wages than hodcarriers.
At the first general meeting of the
American Medical Association for
scientific discussion here the chief
feature of the program was an adj
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Curious Horseshoes.

In Iceland horses are shod with
sleeps horn, while in the Sudan they
are shod with camel's skin.
A German not long ago invented a
horseshoe of paper, prepared by satu-
rating with oil Of t%urpentine and 9TH
er ingredients. Thin layers of such
paper are glued to the hoof till the
requisite thickness is attained. The
shoes thus made are said to be dura-
BILE and impenetrable by moisture
London Globe.
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DOCTOR SHOT E A
Woman Nurse Lures Him to a House
and Kills Him.

New York City.-Dr. Martin w.
Auspitz, graduate of Heidelberg Uni
versity and Bellevue, who with DR..
Philip +. Hirtenstein kept a SANTA
rum at 157 East Ninety-third street,
was shot and killed in the vestibule
of the house, 131 West 135th street,
by Sarah Koten, once employed by
him as q trained nurse. He was forty
years old and married. He had been
practicing in this city for the last ten
years.
Miss Koten is a Russian, and re-
ceived her training as a nurse in that
country. She lived at 124 West
135th street, just across the way
from the scene of the killing.
The Staying of DR.. Auspitz was de-
liberately planned. The woman con-
fessed to Coroner Hamburger that she
had killed the physician, and said she
had done 1t in revenge for an attack
he had made on her.
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An Odd Find.

Twenty-four years ago, while plow-
ing a field on his farm near Town
Vile, Crawford County, John Blair
lost his wallet, containing $35 in
gold. He has just found the last of
it. Some five or six years ago, while
blowing, he turned up $25 of the
money, but couldnot find the balance.
On Monday of this week his pillow
turned up the missing coin, a SO
gold piece. The wallet was never
OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES Record.
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Wright Brothers Have Several
Ae%roplanes Ready For Service,

Washington, D. C.-That the
Wright brothers have several ma
chimes practically ready for service,
and that they only await the clearing
up of a little obscurity in their Gov
eminent contract before beginning
public exhibitions is good news.
Enough is known about the work of
the Dayton inventors to justify the
belief that they have accomplished
lore with their aeroplane than their
rivals, and that people are eager to
learn more about them.
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ABANDON ANTI-TAFT EIGHT.
Decide to Let National Committee Throw Out Dele.
gates to the Republican National Convention.

their instructions and insist on
split in the party must be prevented.
Rooseveit's nomination. Every pre-.
caution is being taken to prevent this
development. 1t was learned that
Senator Lodge, in his speech as per.
manent chairman, will state unequiv.
ocally that the President will not run
again.
Abandonment of the plan of the
Fairbanks, Knox and Hughes men tc
make an open fight against the Hitch
cock machine was largely brought
about by Senator Crane, of Massa.
chusetts. He is talking harmony, adj
vising everybody that an election will
! follow the convention.
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dress by DR.. Herbert Burrel1, of Bos.
ton, president-elect, on IA New Duty
of the Medical Profession-the Edu-
cation of the Public in Scientific Med
icine." He said in part:
"At present 1 believe that physi-
clans are too conventional in their
methods of treating disease. They
have not paid sufficient attention to
the alienation of the suffering that
accompanies some of the incurable
maladies."
Doctors Tribute to the Press.
DR.. Burrell advocated educating
the public in sanitation, and urged
extensive publicity for all questions
of hygiene. He said:
"The medical profession and many
of the public are afraid of the press.
1 never had occasion to appeal to the
press for assistance and cooperation
in any public measure without re-
ceiving hearty, but at times, to my
mind, indiscreet, assistance. News
papers will publish what they think
the public wants to know, but not
what we think the public ought to
know. They assume, quite properly,
the right of decision. The greatest
power that we a have to diffuse in
formation is the public press. Let us
be frank with it and 1 believe that it
will almost invariably be honest with
u.s."
Charles Harrington, M. D., of Bos-
ton, took for his subject States
Rights and the National HEALTH" and
suggested that the movement for ma
tional control of the public health
should be focused either into a de-
partment represented in the Cab
met or of a division of an existing
department with a commissioner for
O chief"
BY unanimous vote the House of
Delegates of the association approved
a recommendation to the Board of
Trustees to create a commission, the
sole duty of which shall be to watch
and oppose the enactment of laws in
tended to abolish v~ivisection. DR..
w. B. Cannon in an address advo-
lfcated a campaign of education
| against opponents of the practice,
whom he accused of untruthfulness
and ignorance.
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HOIE SMITHS DEFEAT.
Browns Majority For Governor in
Georgia Primaries $4,000.


Atlanta, Ga. - With the returns
practically complete from all u
ties in the State, Joseph M. Browns
plurality in the Democratic primary
for the Democratic nomination fer
Governor is $4,000. Governor Smith
lost his own county (Fulton) and
most of the larger counties in the
State.
The present Representatives in
Congress were all renominated with
the exception of E. B. Lewis. in the
Third District. He is probably de-
feated by Dudley M. Hughes by a loa-
jority of about 500.
United States Senator A. S. Clay
had no opposition, and received the
full vote, as did Attorney-General
John c. Hart, Secretary of State
Philip Cooke, Comptroller-General
w. A. Wright, and other State Off
GERS,
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Mascot Bears March With
Our Jackies at Seattle.

Seattle, Wash.-The Atlantic bat
tleship feet landed an armed force OF
5000 men, who paraded through the
city accompanied by a land force.
In the middle of the procession
were twelve bear cubs, brought from
Aberdeen to be presented as mascots
to the battleships. Each bear was led
by a prominent citizen of Aberdeen.
Before the reviewing stand was
reached the little fellows tired, and
their conductors took them in their
arms and carried them past.
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Chicago.-Scarcely a sign of ppo
sition to the nomination of William
H. Taft for the Presidency remains.
The "allies," who had decided to 1g-
more the National Committee and
make a spectacular fight in the con-
ver.tion against the rejection of anti
Taft delegates, abandoned the idea.
They are talking harmony and hoping
the Taft forces will concede some
thing to them.
Only one thing troubles the Taft
apprehension of a stam-
pede for Roosevelt. Talk is heard of
such strong third term sentiment that
the Taft delegates may disregard
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SUIT TO TEST HEPBURN LAW.
Anthracite Coal Roads Are Attacked
by Bonaparte.

Notwithstanding to test
the constitutionality of the commod.
ity clause of the Hepburn act, which
provides that all railroads must sever
their connection with all other bust.
ness except that of common carriers,
were begun in the United States Cir.
cult Court by the filing of bills in
equity by the Government against
six railroads engaged in transporting
anthracite coal in interstate com.
merce.
The defendant companies are the
Philadelphia and Reading, Delaware,
Lackawanna and Western, the Della
ware and Hudson, the Pennsylvania
Railroad Company, the Erie and the
Lehigh Valley.
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the kidney secretions were badly dis
ordered. ! vas completely worn out
and discouraged when l began using
Doan's Kidney Pills, but they went
right to the cause of the trouble and
did their work we'll. | have been
feeling well ever SINCE"
Sold by all dealers. 50cents a box.
Foster-Milburn Co.. Buffalo, N. Y.
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The Clerical Garb.

The clergy were required to wear
no peculiar garb in private life prior
to the fifth century. The Council of
Agde, in the year SOC, ordered the
clergy to wear clothes and shoes of q
particular cut, and the distinction be-
tween clergy and laity was made
more marked still in the sixth CEN
fury by the introduction of the "ton-
sure" or clerical crown.
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i. zinc Mining in Mexico.

Zinc mining in Mexico has become
important only In the last three years.
The most important zinc deposits are
nea Monterey. At Calera there is a
large amount of mixed sulphide ore,
while the Trio General in San Luis
Potosi is also producing zinc ore.
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Pay $4,000 Fines For Relating.

At Kansas City, Mo-, the Armour
Packing Company, Cudahy Packing
Company, Swift G Co., and the Chi
cago, Burlington and Quincy Railroad
Company, convicted in 1905 of re-
batting and sentenced to pay fines of
$4,000 each, paid 100000 to the
clerk of the United States Court, plus
the court costs.
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UNCLE SAM ORDERS BALLOONS.
Three Dirigibles and an Aeroplane
With Which to Make Experiments.


Washington, D. C.-Uncle Sam is
going into the flying machine and
balloon business on his own hook and
in partnership with private enter.
prises. This promises to be a busy
season up in the air if the present
plans of the Government are carried
out. The Signal Corps of the Army
has ordered three dirigible balloons
and n aeroplane, with which expert.
ments will be made at an early date.
The War Department will permit
Israel Ludlow, who is building an
aeroplane on his own account, tc
stable his machine in the old Pennsyl.
vania Railroad station, which was
abandoned last year. Considerable
work remains to be done on the Lud.
low aeroplane before it can be
brought out in the open. Its con.
struction has occupied nearly the
whole of the last year.
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MADMAN HELD CROWD AT BAY.
DR.. Pospisiel Kept Up Fusillade Fer
Seven Hours From Window.

Washington, D. C.-After holding
the entire police force of the Ninth
Precinct at bay with his reviewers
for seven hours while he fired volleys
at everybody who approached his
home, DR.. Joseph Pospisiel, an exam
liner in the Pension Office, rolled up
his sleeves and projected cocaine in
his arm to steady himself, and then
fired a bullet into his brain. His
body plunged into the street from the
second-story window of his home at
635 Seventh street, Northeast. He
died before he could be removed to a
hospital.
For four days DR.. Pospisiel had
labored under the delusion that mem
bers of the Independent Order of
Maccabees were plotting against his
life and had bribed the police to carry
out their conspiracy.
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TORTURED FOR SIX MONTHS
BY Terrible Itching Eczema-Baby's
Suffering was Terrible - Soon
Entirely Cured by Cuticura.

eczema appeared on ny sons face. We
went to a doctor who treated him for three
months. Then he was so bad that his face
and head were nothing but one sore and
his ears looked as if they were going to fall
off, so we tried another doctor for four
months, the baby never getting any better.
His hand and legs had big sores on them
and the poor little fellow suffered SO ter
ribly that he could not sleep. After he
had suffered six months we tried a set of
the Cuticura Remedies and the first treat
ment let him sleep and rest well; in one
week the sores were gone and in two
months he had a clear face. Now he is
two years and has never had eczema again.
Mrs. Louis Beck, R. K. D. 8, San Antonio,
Tex, Apr. Is, 1907"
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Depression Has Passed.

Seymour Bell, English commercial
agent, reported to his Government
that the recent business depression
has practically passed.
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Cotton Factories Starting.

Cotton factories are starting up,
giving renewed employment to tens
OF thousands of hands. In the fur
naces and steel mills a similar state
OF affairs exists, and in numberless
other industries the receipt of or
ders is causing the reopening of
plants.
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Do Your Feet Ache and Burnq

Shake into your shoes Aliens Foot-Ease, a
powder for the feet. 1t makes tight or
new shoes feel easy. Cures Corns, Bunions,
Swollen, Hot, Smarting and Sweating Feet
and Ingrowing Nails. Sold by, all druggists
Address Allen S. Olmsted. Leroy. N. Y.
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shreveport, Le.-After being found
guilty by a jury of the charge of
numbering Mrs. Lettie Bond and her
baby, Bird Cooper, a negro, was
lynched at Homer by unknown men.
His body was riddled with bullets.
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clergyman Sentenced to Jail.

O1o1 81 fuaH OcHte1tCcU 10 JHfI.
Richmond, Va.-The Rev. James
T. Hargrave pleaded guilty as charged
in four indictments before the United
States District Court, and was sen.
fenced to eight months in Hanover
County Jail and a fine of 500. This
indictments charged him with devils.
ing a scheme to defraud
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five months in a
hospital | was dis
charged as incura-
BILE, and given only
six months to live.
My heartwas affect
ed, | had smother
ing spells and some
times fell uncon-
9 | got so !
couldn't use my
arms, my eyesight
uroc in7noir1I -l
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O

The tribe of pigeons is peculiarly
liable to disease. We believe it to be
a fact that a large majority of the
pigeons in London are eonsumptive
or diseased in some way or another.
London Outlook. N.Y.-24
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Denver.-Daniel H. Mcmillan, once
a Republican leader in Buffalo, later
a resident of New Mexico, and a judge
there on the Territorial Supreme
Court bench, is dead b.
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Electric haulage has supplanted
animal power in the Comstock lode
and twelve of the mules which were
brought to the surface had not seen
daylight for twenty years.
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2 Die in Typhoon.

Victoria, B. C. = The Canadian
australian liner Manuka has arrived
here, bringing news of the destruc-
ton of the pearling fleet in a typhoon
off West Australia, involving the loss
of forty luggers and 270 lives, twenty
being whites.
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Mrs. Winslow's Soothing Syrup for Children
teething, ~softens the gums, reduces intamma-
ton, allays pain, cures wind collie. 25ca bottle
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~ an glad to ,crtte nty endorse
naeft of the great remedy, PermnG. 1
do so mostheartiJy. "--JntttdM artotCe.
Any remedy that benefits digestion
strengthens the nerves.
The nerve centers require nutrition. II
the digestion is impaired, the nerve centers
become anemic, and nervous debility is the
result.
Perund Is rot a nefcine nor a I
I s%ttmuIdnt. 1t benefits the nerves :
by ~beneffttng digestion. !
Peruna frees the stomach of catarrhal
congestions and normal digestion is the
result.
In other words, Peruna goes to the bot
tom of the whole difficulty, when the dis
agreeable symptoms disappear.
Mrs. j. G. Jamison, Wallace, CAL,
writes:
81 was troubled with my stomach for
six years. Was treated by three doctors.
They said that l had nervous dyspepsia.
I was put on a liquid diet for three months.
IL improved under the treatment, but as
soon as l stopped taking the medicine, |
got bad again.
81 saw a testimonial of a man whose
case was similar to mine being cured by
Peruna, SO l thought l would give it a
trial.
Il procured a bottle at once and COM
menced taking it. | have taken. several
bottles and am entirely cured"
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FITS, St. Vitus' Dance, Nervous Diseases per-
nanently cured by DIR. Kline's Great Nerve
Restorer. 81 trial bottle and treatise free.
DR.. II. II. Kline. Id, 93l Arch ST., Phila., Pa.
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Il. E palsy 24sIss E:LY,, = E!LLs E;Is 6 g9sss;Er ~. an tn.

Five men can hold down a lion, but it
takes nine to manage a tiger.
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Butte, Montana. = 1t is estimated
that the damage done in Montana in
the past week by rain and floods will
aggregate 100000. Thousands of
passengers have been held a week at
small stations and have subsisted on
limited rations. At Drummond, a
place of 100 Inhabitants, 500 persons
have been tied up, one of them Emma
Goldman, who is on her way to Butte.
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There are forty-eight different materials
used in a piano.
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The Irish, next to the Negroes, are least
to suicide.