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arose over local politics, and followed
editorials of a savagely personal nature.
Seconds We're secured and a special
train chartered to take the parties to
Holly Springs, Miss. Before he could
reach the train Carmack was arrested
by tennessee officers. Collier took the
tram, and proceeded.
capped the officers, he chartered another
train. but arrived on the proposed bat
tletield after Collier had departed
Senator Carmack is well remembered
ID ashlngton, where he served in both
houses of Congress. During his sena-
torial career, from 1901 to 1907, he
made number of brilliant speeches.
Governor Makes Statement.
Coy. Patterson when seen in regard to
the shooting said:
Il deeply deplore the unfortunate trag-
edy. saw both young Mr.. Cooper and
MS father in the morning and nothing
occurred to cause me to suppose any al
tercatlon would take place. Col. Cooper
had been very much aggrieyed at the
use or his name by Senator Carmack
ana L learned that he had prepared q
note to send Senator Carmack demand
ing that in future his name not be used
In editorials, as he was a mere private
citizen and should not be subject to pub
lie attack or ridicule.
Il strongly advised against sending
the note, as did his son, Robin Cooper,
and also Mr.. Bradford, believing it
might cause a difficulty, and urged him
to take no notice of the Objectionable
editorials. Col. Cooper assured me that
he would not send the note and there
would be nothing more of it. Robin
Cooper promised to stay with his father,
who seemed to be excited, and prevent
any possible trouble"
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WOMAN CANDLES STOCK
Remarkable Story of Heavy Trading Is
Told N New York Through Fail
ure of Brokers' /

NEW YORK, Nov. lin the appli1
cation of an attorney today for a referee!
to take testimony in suit brought by
the assignee of the brokerage firm of
Mills Brothers & Co. to recover $35,37G
from Mrs. Katherine NJ. Churchman of
Philadelphia, an unusual story of stock
trading by a woman was made public.
In a period extending over nearly two
years, according to the complaint, Mrs.
Churchman had deals amounting to sew
eral million dollars. Beginning rs
small operator, it was asserted, and be-
coming encouraged by profits, she sud-
denly began to widen the scope of her
deals, her sales at times amounting to
between $4O0,00 and 100000, and she
stood to win millions. In one year she
was said to have prOfited to the extent
of 100000 on the market.
In the spring of 1907, however, the
market went against her, according to
the complaint, and she lost. The ac-
count was closed out and the assignee
claims that she owed the firm large
sum.
Mrs Churchman, in her answer, makes
a general denial and alleges that the firm
bought and sold stock without any direc-
tons from her.
Supreme Court Justice Mccall re-
served decision.
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LORD FACES MURDER CHARGE.
Sholto Douglas Shoots Former Officer,
Who Will Probably Die.

WINNIPEG, Manitoba, Nov. 10
Lord Sholto Douglas, brother of the
present Marquis of Queensberry and son
of the eighth marquis, who framed the
Queensberry rules under which prize
fights are now conducted, is held in the
provincial Jail at Nelson, British Column
bia, and will probably have to face
murder charge.
Last week Lord ShoIto went shooting,
and upon his return found his house at
CrestOn, British Columbia, occupied by
an ex-otficer of the British army named
Rowland. He ordered him to leave, but
Rowland would not do so, whereupon
Lord Sholto emptied his shotgun at
short range into the back of the head and
neck of Rowland.
A few years ago Lord Sholto was the
most talked of young man in England.
He gave evidence at the trial of Oscar
Wilde, and shortly after his father, the
Marquis of QLeensberry, met him in
Piccadilly, London, and showed him how
the Queensberry rules worked out in
practice. and the melee ended in the
police court.
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When Wagner was in England super
vising the first production Of his operas,
the music enthusiasts commissioned the
artist Herkomer to paint the musicians
portrait, but Wagner was dashing
about in such a state of frenzy that
he repealed impatiently every attempt
to get him to give a sitting" Still,
Herkomer stuck to him like a limpet,
fed with him, walked and talked with
him, watched him conduct his orches-
ira, write music and read books. At
last, when every attempt to secure
sitting" had failed, Herkomer rose
early one morning, painted with fren-
zied speed all day, spent a short night
in restless sleep, rose early again and
painted furiously, till on the second
evening he sat down exhausted-but
with his picture finished. Wagner was
called in and threw up his hands in
amazement. "Ah! he cried. "Won-
derful! That is exactly how would
like to look if 1 could
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kln, Science
n ssAasSaa Ap
s. : ,ssessslI11VentiOn

The railroads OF the United States
used 1S,S55,691 barrels of oil for fuel
in 1907, an Increase of over 100000
barrels over the preceding year.
The United States produced 51,72O,-
619 long tons of iron ore, valued at
$131 ,966, lat at the mines, last year,
according to the geological survey.
The addition of three drops of mer-
curry to each ounce of common solder
will make a solder fusing at q low
temperature for united soft metals.
For the benefit of outdoor workers
who must have their hands free, a
German inventor has brought out a
nt-shaped umbrella that straps to the
shoulders.
A German chemist having found a
way to utilize the common potato in
stead Of wood for lead pencils, a fac
tory in that country is turning out 49,
600 pencils daily.
A group of Pennsylvania capitalists
Is planning to operate a trackless troll
ley line from Chattanooga, Tenn, to
the top Of Welden's ridge, Tenn, a dis
lance of fifteen miles.
Washington Is the only one of the
Pacific coast States in which coking
coal is known to occur. It's coke pro-
duction last year totaled 52,O9S tons,
an increase over 1906 of 6,3SS tons.
For a long time past scientific OBJ
servations in various parts of the
world have shown a tendency on the
part Of glaciers to recede. This has
been particularly noted in the Alps.
But recent Information indicates that
a change may be at hand At least, 1t
has been found that since 1904 the
Norway glaciers have begun to adj
vance again. In 1907 this progression
became general In Norway, the ad-
vance varying from 1 to II meters.
A singular device for the protection
of railway trains crossing a viaduct
exposed to heavy winds has recently
been employed at INVERSION, England
says Prof. R. Dec. Ward in Science
1t consists Of q wind-gage fixed at the
west end of the Levens viaduct When
the wind pressure reaches 80 pounds
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CHRISTY'S SIGHT SAVED.
illustrator Declares He Was Going Blind
When Christian Science Treat
ment Cured Him.

NEW YORK, Nov. 1O.-Howard
Chandler Christy, the artist, is about to
become a Christian Scientist. He is a
probationer in the faith now and ex-
poets within a few weeks to become a
regular member of one of the churches.
1T cured me from condition of blind
ness and nervous prostration which had
kept me from drawing a stroke in eight
cen months" Mr.. Christy declared this
evening. Il certainly shall become a
member as soon as they will accept me.
Late last March," he went on, 4
was almost blind. For year and half
my sight had been growing worse and l
had not done a bit of work. My wife, a
Christian Scientist, suggested that one
of their practitioners give me a treat
ment.
within twenty minutes | could see
better and my nerves were entirely
Gained. Three weeks later | had my last
treatment and was completely cured"
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would, Of course, be red. Everything
else would swallow up the red light
and appear quite black. Grass, for
instance, would be black as ink, and
so would the blue Of the sky, but the
white clouds would be red. The same
kind Of thing would happen if the sun
were blue. Everything now blue or
white would be blue. The grass this
time would be blue, not black, for 1t
reflects both blue and yellow Hair
would be all black, the red of the lips
would be black and the rest Of the face
Would be cloudy blue.
If the sun were green there would
be little variety. Things that are
now yellow would still be yellow, things
that are blue would be blue and things
that are green would still be green, but
there would be no reds, puppies, orange,
pinks or any of those CHEEKY hues that
make the world look so bright.
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presents itself is that of sefsupport There wives
who having lost all respect for and confidence in their
husbands continue to live with them because they pre-
fer to suffer the loss Of their ideals to their weekly
lowance Both these varieties Of wives would be highly
scandalized If they heard themselves classified
ideal Yet they
The woman who becomes mans wife without loving
him sells him gold brick What wants in q
wife Is not receive send out his laundry
not even to feed him his favorte and
give him appendicitis. He wants sympathy and disn-
terested affection. And the woman willing
to marry him he takes indication that she is will
Ing to give them to him Half monsters Of incon-
stancy that women tell each other much about
made by lack Of understanding and sympathy home
The other half material for marriage
Rightly interpreted and rightly lived by two people,
marriage is the nobest occupation in which woman
can participate But contracted continued in merely
for living, 1T is about the worst well the least
remunerative thing she do
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HOLLAND NOT SORRY
DUTCH HAVE NO EXCUSE FOR
CRITICISING VENEZUELA.
Official Organ of Castro's Government
Makes Public Correspondence /
Between Two Nations.

WILLEMSTAD. Curacao, Nov. III
The official organ OF the colonial govern
ment made public yesterday all the notes
exchanged between Venezuela and the
Netherlands in the course of the recent
diff culties between those two countrdessj
Excepting the actual phraseology, they
contain nothing not already known. Hol7
land does not make any excuse for the
letter criticising Nelezuela and Prssi1
dent Castro sent by NJ. De Reus, her
former minister, to a monthly journal I'M
Holland. She suggest that treaties COW
ering arbitration of consular and com-
mercial matters be arranged with Nene-
zuela, and summarizes her complaints
against the Venezuelan government as
follows:
First. the detention of the Dutch ves-
sells by the Venezuelan government, eity
ing examples; second, the decree prohib-
iting the trans-shipment of goods desI
tined for Venezuela at Curacao, and
third. the withdrawal of tine eXequateurs.
of the Netherlands consuls in NenezueS
la. course not Justified III time oE.
peace.
Holland called attention to the fact
that the claims of Venezuela are for
the acts of Dutch employees who proceed
ed without having secured the previous
claims of Holland against Venezuela
are for direct acts of the NenezueLan
government. Holland declares further
that the fact that Venezuela has not
revoked, the transshipment decree, as
demanded, gives her full liberty of ac-
ton an that President Castro is re-
sponsiE- for the consequences.
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dropped from a builders scaffold and
killed a man beside him. Sardou said:
''If We're not killed it was because l
ought to remain here. Paris owes me re-
venge.'
Sardou was born in Paris in 1881. He
started in life as a medical student and
passed most of his time in writing plays
which at that time were failures. I'm
dismayed and believing in himself he
struggled while awaiting for the tide
which was to lead him to fame and for
tune.
First Comedy a Failure.
His first comedy, LA Taverne des
Etudiants," was produced in 1854 in the
Odeon, then the second state theater, but
comedy, "Scrap of Paper" which was
produced With great success in 1850 and
subsequently adapted for the English
stage.
At the age of rs Sardou witnessed the
production of his latest drama, Lac
faire des Poisons," at the Porte Ste.
Martin theater. This play, which has
rilla existing under the reign of Louis
XIV. and which was presented for the
first time on December Z, 1907, is still
running to crowded houses.
In 1857 following many disappoint-
ments Sardou fell i'll Of typhoid fever
A kindly neighbor, Mile. BrecOurt, an
actress, nursed him day and night and
saved his life. Shortly after his recov-
cry he married her and this was the
turning point in his career.
Wife Dies at His Zenith.
Through his wife Sardou became ac-
quainted with the celebrated De Jazet,
l.
plays for her, both of which were
successes. After nine years of
happy married life and when he was at
the zenith of his prosperity his wife died.
In 1877 he married Mile A. Soulier and
the same year was elected a member of
the French academy.
Sardou's fame is due largely to his
thorough knowledge of stage effects and
his instincts in gauging the tastes of the
playgoing public. His writing is so
small that the printers have to place his
copy under a magnifying glass to de-
cipher it.
Won Society by Ridicu1e.
The number of his plays is legion. He
ridiculed society, and society applauded.
He wrote Nos Intimes" C'PeriP0, Les
Nieux Garcons," and "Seraphine" and,
finally, "Divorcons," which has been
played in almost every living language,
linen ne turned TO new VEN, the MS
toric: wrote 'Theodora," from Byzantine
annals: La Haine," from old Italian
chronicles; LA Duchesse d'Athenes, "
from records Of Greece of the middle
ages; "Patrie," a story of the rising
of the Dutch gueux at the end of the
Sixteenth century; Lies Merveilleuses'
and ''Thermidor" about the revolution,
la Tosca" and ''Mme Sans-Gene" on
the imperial epoch of French history,
and latterly the two plays which have SO
far been produced in English only,
''Robespierre'' and Dante" Other well
known plays are Fedora" 'Gismonda, "
and cleopatra"
'Robespierre'' is considered his master
piece Clement Scott, the critic, styling
it the summit of the drama building art.
This play deals with the most striking
part of the French revolution-the reign
of terror.
Sardou was declared the only man
who ever dipped $1,0O0,0OO out of an
ink bottle with a pen.
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SUPPOSEs SUN IS COLoRED.
Tells How 1t Would
Change the Aspects of Nature.

astronomers IelIs no" Il would
Change the Aspects of Nature.
A German astronomer has recently
published some interesting observations
on the theoretical effects of a change
in the color of the sun. 1t is amusing
to consider the possibilities if the sun
were green, blue or red instead Of what
1t is. If it were blue there would be
only two colors in the world-blue and
black. If it were red then everything
would be red or black. If it were well
low everything would be yellow or
black. Everyone knows that the light
Of the sun consists Of six colors, and
the reason things are different hues is
that some swallow up five of the colors
and reflect only one. Thus primroses
are yellow because they absorb all but
the yellow, roses red because they alb
sorb all but the red, violets purple be-
cause they absorb everything but red
and blue, a mixture Of which two col
ors forms purple.
In the event of the sun being red
roses, blood, red ink and all other
things that are now red would reflect
1t. SO also would snow, the lily and
all things that are now white, but these
Weekly Watertown leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1908-1909, 1908-11-13
PATRICK SHOWS FIGHT.
New York Lawyer Serving Life Sentence
on Murder Charge Appeals to
Supreme Court.

WASHINGTON, D. c.. Nov. 9.-The
appeal of the New York lawyer, Albert
7. Patrick, was today presented to the
supreme court of the United States, by
Attorney Mcdonald of New York. Pat.
rick is now serving a life sentence at
Sing Sing on the charge of numbering
William NJ. Rice of Texas, and he asks
the supreme court to review the action
both of the New York courts in finding
him guilty and of Gov. Higgins in chang.
ing his sentence from death to life i'm
prisonment, which, he says, is a more SO.
we're sentence and therefore unwarranted
by law. a motion of the dismissal of
the case was presented on behalf of the
state of New York.
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CANNON HAS STRENGTH.
SPEAKERS FRIENDS MAKE STRONG
ARGUMENTS FOR HIM.
Candidates Who Announced Opposition
to Him Recently Met Defeat
at the Polls

" WASHINGTON, d. c.. Nov. 10
Following the arrival in the city of the
Republican members of the ways and
means committee of the House for the
tariff hearing and many other Repub-
lican congressman TO attend to depart
mental business postponed until after
election, the selection of the speaker of
the Si-sty-frst Congress was a subject of
keen discussion today in Washington.
None of the arrivals cared to come out
openly in opp 0sition to the reelection of
Speaker Cannon, while members who
have been closely allied with Mr.. Can
non during his occupancy of the chair
opposition to him by the time the Repub-
icans meet to caucus on the speaker
ship.
Mr.. Cannon's friends claim to be
greatly encouraged by the election. Not
only did the speaker himself receive a
handsome plurality in his district, where
bitter fight was waged against him,
but they point out that many of the
members who had announced their op-
position to his reelection as speaker met
with defeat at the polls. The defeat of
Representatives Edgar G. Ellis of Kan
sas City, Mo-; J. f. Boyd, Edmund H.
Hinshaw, and George w. Norris of Ne
braska, after they had declared their OPP
position to the speaker, is taken by the
speakers friends as an indication that
the people do not condemn Mr.. Cannon.
On the contrary, the three Missouri
districts in which he campaigned most
actively and where the Republican can
didates announced their preference for
Mr.. Cannon for speaker, retired the
Democratic congressman by electing Re
publcans.
RopuhIicap Taadar payna Of Now
York. who was mentioned for the speak
ership when Mr.. Cannon was first elect
ed to the chair, will support the speaker
for reelection.
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BABY M'KEE'S BLOWOUT.
How Harrison's Grandson at Yale Hon.
ored Son of President-Elect

NEW HAVEN, Nov. ia pleasant
post-election event was the surprise din
ner given by Benjamin Harrison Mckee
of the Yale senior class for Bob" Taft
The guest of honor was the son of the
President-elect. The host was the grand
son of President Benjamin Harrison, and
was born in the white house. The din
ner, which was served in the Yale dining
hall, was concededly the most elaborate
ever given by a student ia the university.
The table was decorated with carnations
and smilax and for a centerpiece was a
papier mache white house and an ele-
phant. Young Taft had no intimation
of the affair until be returned from New
York after assurance of the election of
his father
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LABOR WINS AUSTRALIA
Radicals VIII Form New Cabinet, the
Government Having Failed to Pass
Desired Laws.

MELBOURNE, Nov. 1.-THE gov
eminent having failed to bring forward
in the Australian Parliament measures
sufficiently radical to please the labor
element. the members representing that
party in the House withdrew their sup
port of the Deakin ministry, and the
government was last night defeated on a
division. Mr.. Fisher, radical labor
leader. will form a new cabinet. This
is the second time. the labor party has
been in power in the Australian federal
Parliament. J. c.. Watson, another Of
the labor leaders. was premier for
short time in 1904.
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SARD0U, DEAN OF
DRAMATISTS,. DIES.
HIS FIRST PLAY WAS KISSED, BUT
HE PASSES AWAY RICE AND
HONORED.
WON SOCIETY BY RlDlCULE.
Author of Many Plays Declared to Be
the Only Man Who Dipped ST.
10000 from Ink Bottle.
STUDIED MEDICINE AT FIRST.

PARIS, Nov. 9.-Victorien Sardou,
who had been i'll for a long time, died
Sunday from pulmonary congestion. He
was the dean of French dramatists and
member of the French academy.
The man whose first play was Kissed
died rich and honored, with the proud
title of Frances greatest and most pro-
life contemporary dramatist.
He was the theater incarnate. he
had its passion, fever. ardor and genius.
Everything he saw in life became for
him Immediately dramatic scene.
Stays in Paris for Revenge.
He was worker of prodigious pa
thence, yet IN one moment of desperation
he resolved to leave Paris and seek his
fortune in America. AS he started from
his lodgings for a train great stone
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cOnsecrang herself her children in their infancy and
the father suppementng the mothers vigilance
their children out of the nursery both uniting
their efforts keep their children pure and undeed by
being left the OF hired servants tutors GOV
ernesses and teachers who rarely worthy Of the
trusts that constantly confded to them.
The mother who has time social duties"
devotion to amrscmens and the frivoties of society
give to the bomelier caring children and
training them for usefulness in life blame
but herself If tEey astray Furthermore, a mother
should make her conscientious duty try far as
her lies to avoid the transmission Of evil propenstes
idosyncracies that destined a1ct the offspring
probably through life
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hundred feet is very moderate height,
up above 300. The fall of Of the monsters
the woodsmen have cut through it's something ap-
paing AS the tree begins to give the sawyers hustle
down from their perch and seek safe distance. Then
they look upward along the giant column and listen.
shes working all the time says
YES" agrees the other, you hear her talkin';"
and he gives loud cry Of Timber !" any fell
low labOrers who may be in the neighborhood.
The creaking and swapping increases, and the tree
swings slowly at first but with rapdity
and crashes down through the forest the earth
is flying of bark and broken branches, the air
is filled with slow settling dust. The climb the
PROSTATE giant and walk along the broad pathway
the trunk how it lies What pigmes they seem
amid the mighty trees around! The ancient lofty
forest could well look down them and despise their
shortived significance; yet their persistence and In
genuity Irresistible and the woodland doomed
The Outing Magazine
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ELIHU ROOT WILL BE SENATOR.
Secretary of State to Succeed Platt as
New York's Choice.

WASHINGTON, D. c., Nov. 1O-Sec-
retary of State Root will be elected sue
cessor of Thomas G. Platt as senator
from New York and take his seat in the
Senate at the extra session next spring.
This prediction is made by Mr.. Roots
friends after a conference at the white
house between William L. Ward, ma
tional committeeman from New York,
and Speaker Wadsworth of the Assem-
bIy of that state.
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ton to her. the reply.
But think Of his position, his salary" urged ma
tron Then she laughed. You afford such roman
tic notions. independent But nine women out
OF ten live with men that they don't love. What
you expect of them? They incapable making
4 living FOR themselves"
OF the estimate Of the percentage of unloving
wives s greatly exaggerated Nevertheless there is
basis of truth in the remark. There still who
marry without love- because the only alternative that