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Whether the woman had 8 right tp she was ans Italian immigrant who knew little about the laws of this country. and who had probably had lit- tie education in ;Italy In the Bradley case there seems to be no ground for verdict of acquittal and Executive clemency in tine Mississippiscase seems misapplied, If Webster Guerin at tempted to blackmail Mrs. McDonald, other means than the employment of.a. revolver might have been successfully resorted to. '
 The verdicts of sentimental juries arc rapidly establishing precedents cal every encouragement. Vengeance is mine. saith the Lord: i will. repay.,' But the jurors hold that vengeance is anybodys and that whoever repays should be acquitted, notwithstanding the provisions of the written law 10 the contrary. And if. nerchancc, the jun ors consider the law and the facts and the sarctity of tbeir oath. rather than the eyes, or the child. or the hat and gown. of the fair defendant, the second trial, the higher court, and the chival- " of the Governor stand between the defendant and the penalty that fits the crime. Chrivalry is beautiful when it is extended 10 the type of woman who deserves il. 1t is a very different and a very uglysthins when it is extended in violation of the law, to the strange woman" who is guilty of murder. And q dspassionate reading of the evidence in most of the unwritten law cases shows fthc wonpn defendant to be q strange womah. indeed-Louisville Courier Journal.
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CANNON IS THE HOUSE
Republican Scores Rules and Methods
 as Autocratic.

Washington. Feb. 5.-A bitter at
 tack on the rules and power of the speaker was made in the house of rep
 resentatives to-day by Mir. Neslon of
 Wisconsin: republican, who said the
 power of the house was merged in the speaker.
 He is the house. he exclaimed amid democratic applause, He charged that the business of the house
 was not being dispatched speedily
 economically or considerably. He
 did not, he said, believe in personality
 or partsanship. T am speaking" he [ declared, "of principles and not of
 men that are passing It was in tended, he said, that the speaker x should be only mere moderator in according the representatives of the gpeople their just rights and in secur- Hing square deal. But now the speak Ger overrides ruthlessly the rights of this opponents and his own associates las well. The minority, he declared, swore not only speeches., but absolute gly helpless, and as for the majority amembers, they have to obey the will .sof the speaker"
 es At times, he added, they would 1preak away, but not for long, because INthey were brought back under the apower of the speakers hypnotic spell als He said that many of the presidents N .Aboicies were important but they were 'aao more important than parliament Mary reforms in the house
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FUNERAL OF MISS PORTER.
Daughter of Noah Porter, Inferred in
 Farmington.

Pennington, Feb 5.-The funeral of Miss Elizabeth Porter took place this afternoon from her late home. Rev A. R. Merriam, of Hartford, was the officiating minister
 In the death of Miss Porter pow erful and dominating personality has passed away from Pennington She had lived to the great age of s7 years, vet her keen intellect had not failed in the slightest degree. nor had she lost her interest in general and per sonal affairs. She was woman of most unusual powers of mind and ex- tensive and thoughtful reading had ripened them. One could never talk with her without receiving strong mental stimulus She followed the politics of the world She was inter ested in the latest developments in science. She was eager to understand any new method of music study. No subject failed to interest her. She was the daughter of Noah Porter. whose pastorate in the Congregational church ektended over q period of sixty years, and a passionate devotion to the par ish and it's interests was her mheri- tance. Even the school built up by her sister Sarah, so dear to her, must have been second to it old residents of Pennington, "old girls of the school coming back after so long an absence, found their faces. their names, their personal histories. fresh in her memory and received from her the Harmest of welcomes Tor health had for many years been delicate and she had the devoted companionship of her sister. Miss Maria Porter, uho in her lone Illness, will receive the greatest sympathy from all who have known the peculiar closeness of the bord which is now severed.
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SENATOR HALE. OF MAINE.
Characteristics of au Active and Ac.
 conl.Iis'ied Legislator.

Senator Hale has as intimate a knowledge of the navy-at least, all most--as he nas of the senate, and he has very little patience with the idea that a staff officer, whether he buys food, or cuts off legs, or spoons out medicine, or pays out money, or says prayers and conducts funeral services, or gets up steam, can command ship as well as sailorman. Senator Hale is one of the most entertaining char acters In the senate. He is a man of fashion, and loves all the pleasures of society. He Is as unlike his col league Frye in appearance and in so- cial habits as a banker is unlike a farmer; Frye Is great fisherman, and while Hale fishes 1t is not for fish. If Hale ever goes fishing, he wears better clothes than Frye wears as pre- siding officer of the senate. It may be said, to emphasize the difference, that when Frye is thinking or fishing, Hale Is quoting poetry--and he quotes with remarkable ability; he has both the memory and the wit for applica- tion. He likes to eat dinners and to give them. He is fond of breakfasts at the Capitol. where they are often enjoyed in committee rooms. Only the unknowing give breakfasts in the restaurant, and then they are called lunches.
 Hale likes to drop in to cup of tea in the afternoon, and his innermost intmaoies throb from one end of the continent to the other. He is. a word, one of the most popular men of society in the country, largely because of his wit and accomplishments One day somewhat meager and--well, plain lady-who was intensely politi- cal. spoke of him as "Blaine's bub, on hearing which crude remark from a common friend. Hale expressed his emotion in a woman for whose 'sumptuous beauty" he had always felt so great an admiration. On the other side of him, Hale Is an intense worker, and. with the possible excep- ticn of Alison, the most intelligent legislator in the senate. He Is always present at q session. for even when he Is busy in his committee room his keen and experienced old messenger is in the senate gallery watching lest something of interest to the Maine senator comes up. If such some | cc oyaty c r disappears from the gallery and Hale appears on the floor.-Harper' Weekly.
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OBITUARY NOTES.
Mrs. George S. Fournier.

The funeral of the late Mrs. George s. Fournier took place from the fam fly residence, 9 Third avenue, West Haven, yesterday afternoon. The ser vices were very largely attended. Many friends and relatives were pres ent from New York, Massachusetts, Rhode Island and New Hampshire. The Rev F. H. S Hammond conducted the services and paid beautiful tribute to the life and character of the late Mrs Fournier Miss Richards sang a solo very effectively The casket was GOV cred with many beautiful floral tfi- butes. Interment was in the family plot, Oak Grove cemetery.
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COTTON CARGO AFIRE AT SEA

HaFre, Feb. 5.--The British steamer Therapia arrived here to-day from Galveston and Norfolk with her cargo of cotton on fire.
 Captain Huger reported that when off the coast of Bermuda on January % fire was discovered, The matches were immediately opened and the smoulderlng bales of cotton cast into the sea. shortly afterwards the hatch- es were closed and steam poured Into the hold until the vessel reached here. when the fire. which was still smould- erine, was finally extinguishcd
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Edward I. Brady.

After a short illness with pneumonia, Edward T. Brady died 1t his residence, 455 Orchard street. He was twenty-two years of age. and Is survived by his wife. one child and his parents, The funeral will be held Friday morning at s30 from his residence and at 9 o'clock from St Mary's church, where a sol emn requiem high mass will be cele- brated, Interment will be in St Ber- nard's cemetery
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BANDIT GETS RANSOM
RaisuIi to Receive S1O0,000 and I'm
 munity for Caid MacLean.

Tangier, Feb. j.--Caid Sir Harry Mo the bandit Raisuli for the past seven months, is now within four hours ride of Tangier, and probably will be re- leased tomorrow. The British govern ment finally has succeeded in bringing their negotiations with Raisuli to a close. and in return for the release of Caid Mclean will pay s1O0,Ooo to Raj suli, and guarantee him protection and immunitv
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PROFITABLE LITERATURE.
How Ii Freed Carl Arnold and VII. liam Harvey from Imprisonment.

Carl Arnold and William Harvey. who will in few months step from the Kansas State Penitentiary at Lansing free men, will owe their free dom to the literary accomplishment of the former, cultivated and develop cd during more than a decade as convict More than thirteen years ago Arnold and Harvey, then boys of less than twenty years, were con yicted of the murder of Mayor John Marsh at Kinsley, and sentenced to death
 Under the Kansas law the governor must first sign q death warrant before the death penalty can be imposed. As no Kansas governor has for years signed such q warrant, death sentence in Kansas is equivalent to sentence to life imprisonment In the State Pen itetntIary at Lansing, where the law requires that condemned convicts be ikill tb q W Alit SiSiiuE VI ltlf death warrant by the States Chief EX- ecutlVe
 While visiting at Lansing several months ago the attention of Governor Hoch was attracted to Arnold. on whom the authorship of B book cnti- tied The Kansas Inferno had just heen fastened by the prison officials. The book deals with the Kansas pris- on system and was written by Arnold during his Imprisonment Several poems written by the convict were also shown to the governor.
 one poem. which is as follows, did more to hasten the exercise of clemen- cy by the governor than had the pro tests of all the citizens of Kinsley dcne to delay 1t:
 cannot fawningly implore,
 As feeble false hearts can; But in humility before The power that bars my prison door
 I plead as man to man. oft folly more than vice appears
 In errors we have made. The ideal that the man reveres Is not the dream of early years Youths brief delusions fade. Though hearts embittered still retain
 \ grudge for old mistakes, I Excessive penalties are vain The long rnonotony of pain
 No restitution makes.
 The ancient eve for eye decree
 God has Himself destroyed; { still speaks that Voice from Calvary. Shall Shylocks with their ghoulish
 plea
 Make this commandment void? Ay. blessed are the merciful:
 Oh. Christian heart. relent. For sins of folly. faults of will, I kneel at Mercy's tribunal
 4 contrite penitent Long have l been with Sorrow. Lons
 The agonizing years
 Have held m freight of love. and song And laughter r3in ard wrong
 And pcnitencr 2nG std.s { The coarse soul but Itght,y feels
 The daily doie of iil, i But what distress each hour reveals For him who in his heart cunceals Some aspirations stilll | For home and love. for liberty
 To toil as free men can,
 oh. Hand of Fate that haTs to me The gates of Opportunity.
 plead. as man to man
 "Nhy. that man should be free ana attached to the editorial staff of senlt magazine, remarked Governor lfoch in commenting on the case after h had familiarized himself with AT holds accomplishments.
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wharf to receive the machinery and internal fittings. Tho designing and construction of the vessel have been carried out under the direction and su- pervision of Mir. Garelli Captain Iyn- callo, naval superintendent for the Italia Company, Colonel Squarzini of the Royal Italian Navy; Chevalier Lauro, and Captain Lavatelli
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Mrs. Phoebe Lane.

Funeral services for Phoebe Lane. wife of Benjamin Oliver, who died at the age of flfty-one years, will be held this afternoon at i o'clock, from he; late residence 15 Fitch street, High wood, and from the Emanuel Bapt.s. church, al 190 o'clock.
 The body will be inferred in the Hamden Pains cemetery.
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Mariana Nassa ria.

Mariana Massaria died yesterday morning at Grace hospital He was twenty-one years of age and lived with his brother, Gracinto Massaria, at 575 Grand avenue. He was paint er by occupation His funeral will be at one thirty tomorrow from De Lu- cia's undertaking rooms on Grand av- enue
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John l.. AbclI.

John L.. son of William anl Margaret J, Lynch Abell, aged siXten years, three months, died Tuesday. The funeral will be held from his parents residence, 21l Portsea street. this morning at S:3C o'clock, and at o'clock from the Church of tho Sacred Heart, where a solemn requiem high mass will be cele- brated
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No REPAIRS UNTIL SPRING.

Nothing will be done about the broken bulkhead in the City Point sewer until spring" said City rn- gineer C. " Kelly yesterday after. noon. Tn making repairs there we would have to drive several sniles and until the harbor is clear of ice and we can get spiledrVer up to the bulk head we can do nothing
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FIRE AT GNENs sANIrARIrM

Stamford. Feb. s.-The thrce-story frame building. one of twenty consti- tuting the Givens sanitsrium. tock fro this morning and was destroyed. The building contained som of the offices of tho institution and sleeping rooms of some of the patients on the upper floor. The loss will be about SIS. 5.oeA.
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William NJ. Jones.

place yesterday afternoon from his home, 24 Arthur street, where a short service was held. Services fol- lowed st all Saints chapel, where the Rev. William F. Downs officiated. The floral tributes were many and beauti- full. Interment was in Westville ceme- tery. Stahl & Son had the funeral ar engagements.
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Mrs. Nathan G. Rood.

The death of Mrs. sarah F; Rood wife of Nathan c. Rood of q Avon street, occurred Tuesday. She was six ty-cight years ot age. The funeral will take place from Graham & Hayes un~ der;aking rooms, 1O9G Chapel street, on Friday afternoon at , clock.
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REPAIRS ON SEWERS.
at Under Railroad Will Cost
 S70O.

Early next week, Superintendent of
 wers Mulvey will begin repairing the oak in the Meadow street sewer. This
 eak is beneath the tracks of the lw Haven road, and can be directly iced to the pounding Of the cars pass E over it. The reason for the delay in liking the necessary repairs is on ac- slnt of waiting for the railroad com tly to brace up the tracks, so that \ weakened parts may be entirely Alaced by new material.
 fhe job will last several days and II cost in the neighborhood of s700.
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Hannah Collins.

The funeral of Hannah Collins whose death occurred yesterday morning, will take place from the residence of he, cousin, Daniel kelleher. S5 Hamilton street, Friday morning at o'clock. 4 solemn requiem high mass will be cele- brated at St. Mary's church at s;4, o'clock.
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GRAIS HOLD DRILL.
Planning for Ball to be Given
 February 2f.

The weekly drill of the Grays was eld in the Second Regiment armory lst evening Following tho drill, the pmpany held ts monthly business heeting. Most of the time was spent discussing the plants for the coming hnual ball which will take place on Ne evening of the 2lst of February in 8usic hall.
 Sr of the company, and several appli- #tions for membership were read ahese will bs acted on at some future tReting.
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SEWERS COMMITTEE

There vill be a meeting of the al- dermanic committee Un sewers and squares in the city hall tc-morroN night Sewer petitions will he receiv- al at this tima.
The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1908-05-08

walk in life she is to make her own.
1t is for this reason that the Girls
Realm Guild of Service and Good Eel
lowship is opening an exhibition OF
employments for women. A daily
paper gives an impressive list of
these, from which we gather that it
is a poor sort of girl nowadays who
fails to close in on salary of some
kind. In all, seventy-eight profess
sions are given, and some of them
sound most attractive. The one that
takes our fancy most is water gliding,
We can imagine the mother of large
family of girls announcing to the
father, with pride in her voice, that
Jane has begun to show decided
turn for water gliding. The only
doubt that crosses our mind is as to
whether there Is really big market
for this industry. The newest purse.
proud multi-millionaire might think
it a good thing to wash in gilded wat
er, but the thing is not likely to be.
come a popular craze. More practi'
cal, to our mind, are canine nursing
and Bookkeeping. There is no reason
why any girl, even of moderate
means, should not buy bee; and, as
for canine nursing, woman who is
prepared to sit up at night with the
dog when it has a headache would
fill a long felt want. Jam making is
another attractive industry, as is
glass blowing-London Globe.
The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1908-05-08
Curious DeceptiOnS.

Our senses deceive us curiously at
times A flash of lightning lights UP
the ground for only one-millionth of
a second, yet it seems to us to last
ever so much longer.
What happens is that the impress
sion remains in the eye or the retina
for about one-eighth of a second,
or 124, 900 times as long as the flash
lasts. If on a dark night a train
speeding along at sixty miles an hour
is lit up by lightning flash it ap-
pears stationary, yet in the eighth Of
a second during which we seem to see
it the train travels eleven feet.
But we really only see 1t during
-millionth of second, and in
that time it travels only one-hun-
dredth of an inch.
When a mans leg is cut off, if the
stump be irritated he feels the pain
in his toes This curious deception
is the same as anyone can practice on
himself by striking his elbow on the
fingers. Of course in both cases the
pain is felt in the brain.
We do not actually perceive differ
en- distances with the eye, but judge
them from various indications. When
our judgment is at fault we are de-
ceived If you see person in a
fog, for instance, he seems to be
much bigger than usual. The same
thing happens when you see men or
cattle on the top of hill against the
horizon in twilight. In both cases
you judge them to be farther away
than they really are, and consequent
ly they appear unusually large
Mail and Express.
The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1908-05-08
WHY MOTHERS FAIL.

In the Atlantic Anna A. Rogers
writes about why American Mothers
FAIL in the same entertaining, COM
mon senae style in which she dis
cussed a short while ago why So
Many Marriages Fail" Mrs. Rogers
is the wife of Lieutenant Rogers, of
the navy. and is daughter of Gen
eral Alexander. She has many friends
in this city, who knew her when she
and her sister, Louise, were little
girls. This was back in the COS,
when the family lived in South Park
AS a child Anna was regarded as
uncommonly intelligent, but by no
means pecocious prodigy People
did not exploit their children so much
in those days, but if they were over
the average in brightness took it as a
pleasing circumstance deserving no
special praise. Anna was a great ia
vorite with her pIaymates. One of
them, who has since attained some To-
cal reputation as a writer, tells me
that Anna used to regale her little
friends with interesting incidents of
of Washington
She never Dragged OF boosted about
her distinguished father or the we'll
known people who frequented their
home, but related the stories from
little girls viewpoint. The first
copy of '5wiss Family Robinson |
ever saw said this woman, was
loaned me by Anna Alexander, and |
still remember the beautiful blue and
gold binding. San Francisco Call.
The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1908-05-08
LYDIA E. PINkHAM

Nature and a woman's work COM
bined have produced the grandest
remedy for woman's ills that the
world has ever known.
In the good old-fashioned days of
our grandmothers they relied upon
the roots and herbs of the field to
cure disease and mitigate suffering.
The Indians on our Western
Plains to-day can produce roots and
herbs for every ailment, and cure
diseases that battle the most skilled
physicians who have spent years in
the study of drugs.
From the roots and herbs of the
field Lydia E. Pinkham more than
thirty years ago gave to the women
of the world a remedy for their Pc
cult is, more potent and effica-
clio an any combination of drugs.
Ly34a E. Pinkham's Vegetable
Compound is now recognized as the
standard remedy for woman's ills.
Mrs. Bertha Muff, of SIS NC. St.,
Louisiana, Mo-, writes:
Complete restoration to health
means so much to me that for the sake
of other suffering women am willing
to make my troubles public.
"For twelve years 1 had been suffer-
ing with the worst forms of female ills.
During that time had eleven different
physicians without help. No tongue
can tell what suffered, and at times 1
could hardly walk. About two years
ago wrote Mrs. Pinkham for advice.
I followed it, and can truly say that
Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Com
pound and Mrs. Pinkham's advice re.
stored health and strength. It is
worth mountains of gold to suffering
women"
What Lydia E. Pinkham's Vege-
table Compound did for Mrs. Muff,
it will do for other suffering women.
The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1908-05-08
Measuring Moonlight.

A novel means of measuring moon
light is furnished by the selenium
CELL through its well-known varia-
tions of electric resistance in light
of different intensity. By this meth
cd the light of the full moon has
been lately determined to be a little
more than one-fifth CID of stand
ard candlepower and about Lie
times the light of the half-moon. The
gibbous disc proves to be brighter
before than after full moon. The
selenium cell is not perfectly reliable
as a test for light of varying color,
but it has been found sufficiently ac-
curate and sensitive to indicate the
central phase of lunar eclipse with
in one minute of the computed time.
The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1908-05-08
The Dangers of Optimism
BY THOMAS l.. MASON.

Optimism is really an excellent the
DRY If kept in its place, but in these
days the tendency is to run it into the
ground. We meet professional opti-
mists everywhere. What can be moro
terrible, for example, than to be in
such mental state that you can be
cured by any form of the New
Thought?
In the first stages Optimism is cas-
lily durable. One of the receipts is to
buy a hundred shares of Amalgamat-
ed Copper
In its second stage it is susceptible
OF treatment by marriage or living in
the suburbs.
In the last stages, however, the
patient is hopeless. He is too happy
for any use, and is, of course, quite
unbearable.
The worst feature of Optimism is
the people it forces you to associate
with. Not to be able to get rid of the
man who has discovered the-true-
meaning of-Life-indeed, to become
so that you actually enjoy his COM
pany-is beyond all cure And there
is nothing worse than the man who
has discovered the-true-meaning-o
Life. There may be other grades of
superiority more offensive, but we
have never met them.
1t is better, indeed, to be conserva-
tive, and not admit that there is too
much good in anything.
Only in this way can one retain
ones self-respect in this days of uni
versal panaceas.-From Judge.