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The Detroit times., 1909-07-26
CONRAD SPECK. JR., DEAD.
Citizen ls Stricken With
Heart Failure.

Conrad Speck. Jr., aged Al, member
OF the well known east side family OF
that name, and for 20 years a dealer
In woolens and tailorrs' trimmings at
No. 141 Woodward-ave., Is dead In his
home, No. 346 Feild-ave. Death was
caused by heart trouble and followed
long illness. He leaves q widow and
Ave children. Mr.. Speck was a mem
Der of Zion lodge, No. /, F. & A. M.
Monroe council, No. /. and Monroe
chapter, No. L. He worshiped with his
family IN Bethany Presbyterian
church. Fuenral services take place
in the home Monday afternoon, and
the remains, after cremation, are to
be inferred In Woodmere cemetery.
The Detroit times., 1909-07-26
GREAT CROWDS
SEE M0M0PLANE
Bleriot's Flight Over English Chan
mel Stirs People-Darlng Aviator
Will Be Given Rousing Reception.

LONDON. July 26.-Londoners
locked by the thousands today to the
American department store OF Henry
q. Selfridge. TO view the Blerior
monopiane in which the daring French
aviator crossed the English channel
Sunday morning.
Mr.. Selfridge gave $1,000 to a Lon
doh hospitai In return for being per-
United to exhibit the monoplane and
ms enterprise Is being richly reward
ed. IL seemed that everybody In the
metropolis wanted 20 see the mono
plane and special detachment of
ponce had to guard 1t from the eager
tnrong. Arrangements are being
made today to give Bleriot a tremend-
GUS welcome when he comes to Lon
don which Will probably be within the
next few days.
Although the English aeronauts are
keenly disappointed that the honor Of
being the first TO cross the English
channel fell TO a Frenchman they are
not bit chary in giving Reriot full
credit for his daring accomplishment.
The feature was served to intensity
the outcry against England's back
wardness In aviation.
The achievement OF Bleriot has had
the eject OF increasing the private
subscriptions that are being made To
purchase airships for the government,
the latter having pleaded that IL could
not AFFORD extensive experiments in
this line. A $1,000 subscription was
received today from Waldorf Astor.
the self-expatriated American. million.
aire. who never fails TO open his purse
when popular subscription Is asked.
PARIS, July 26.-France is not SO
wildly excited over the aerial triumph
OF one OF her sons. Louis Bleriot, in
sailing over the English channel In
an aeroplane as to forget the achieve
ments OF other 'conquerors of the air"
and today Wilbur and Orville Wright
and Henri Farman were made cheva-
liers in the Legion OF Honor.
The decoration of the Wright broth
ers with this signal honor in recogni.
ton OF their recordbreaking flights ut
Lemans and Pau has long been under
contemplation and the bestowal OF the
rank today was the occasion OF much
felicitation.
Hart 0. Berg, the business manager
for the Wright brothers, and Santos
Dumont, one OF the pioneers in French
aviation. were promoted to officers in
the Legion.
The Detroit times., 1909-07-26
IGuREs PROVE PROF. FISHER
RIGHT--IIFE IL LE<GTHENING
RAIDS GAMBLING ROOMS.
Chief Of Police SchiIling Seizes Every
thinq In Sioht.

MT CLEMENS, Mich, July %
The Peunsyl' Gnia clubrooms III =
residence district, were raided -
CHER OF Police SchelliHg. early SurdG =
morning The lon crusader con
fiscatel a crap shooting table, a faro
outlay. quantity of poker chips and
$3.50 in money that was lying on the
tables. The clubrooms are over sa-
loon.
We'll. stranger, do you want -
shoot a little crap said the game
keeper from behind big green cloth.
Il don't mind IL do, but | want 10
look around and see what you have
got in this room. then maybe we will
all take q hand in the game. answe"-
ed Chief Schelling.
None of the men in the room were
placed under arrest.
The Detroit times., 1909-07-26
though they took care of themselves

though they took care Of themselves
unconsciously.
Recent examples OF men who have
heightened their lives may be men
toned a young doctor who was Civ
Ell up TO die five years ago, but who
today can run 25 miles without rest,
and DR.. Horace Fletcher, who at as
was rejected from life insurance. but
who later got his insurance and cele-
brated his fftieth birthday by cycling
1870 miles
The air a man breathes should first
OF all be pure-free from injurious
microbes, dust. smoke and gases.
The ideal conditions of health re-
quire perfect balance OF work, play
and sleep. The growing practice Of
sleeping out of doors is one Of the
most significant signs Of the times.
The windows OF working and living
rooms ought TO be opened In summer
and somewhat in winter, provided a
window board is used to drive the
cold air upward from the sill
Air baths are as important for bod
lily health as water baths. Tight shoes
and tight corsets ought never to be
worn
FIGURES PROVE PROF. FISHER
RI(.HT--IIEE IL IENGTHENING
The Detroit times., 1909-07-26
NEWELL wHACKS DIR. ELIOT.
Says Former President Of Harvard
II In His Dotaoe.

A brodside Of assaults on men and
religions constituted tn emain portion
Of Evangelist w. r. Newell's address
in the Woodward-ave Baptist church.
Sunday afternoon.
Charles w. Eliot, former president
of Harvard university. Is in Lis dot
9ge." declared Newell, referring to the
prediction of new universal religion
devoid OF superstition, made by Eliot.
The Rev. r. j. Campbell. pastor OF the
City Temple, OF Londong, England.
also came In for criticism by Newell.
who asailed his doctrines and attribut-
ed to Campbell blame for the spread
OF Christian Science. New Thought
and other sects in England
England needs preaching of the
gospel more than Shanghai" was one
OF his most extreme statements. In
review OF the religions, Newell
placed Confusianism above Mahom-
mechanism and Buddhism.
The Detroit times., 1909-07-26
OF FUTURE
To. LIVE 100 YEARS
Prof. Fisher, Noted Scientist, Claims
Proper Care and Safeguards Will
Lengthen Life Many Years.


MEM HAVEN, Conn, July 2S.-
Every body ought 90 live to be 100
years old. Ia L. Just M easy tO live
tO be 100 IA not, o. you know how,
according to Prof. Irving Fisher,
professor of political economy al
taic university.
Prof. Fisher In q world authority
ON health, mud believes fully he viii
to be 100, no. perhaps 10.
Reused by the words of ex-Presi-
dent Rooseveit tO the convention on
national resources, Prof. Fisher got
busy and has Just completed
working plan OF passitAg the century
mark. This plan IL presented here
for the first time.
IL will he noted that Prof. Fishers
recipe ON how to live la be 100 in
combination of old medical theories
aud new discoveries la the science
of health.
In ISgs Prof. Fishers own health
broke down, und he spent three
years In the Rockies, studying out
this problem. COnquertng health
for himself, he believes me has
learned the secret for the world.
The Detroit times., 1909-07-26
Found Dead in Yard.

An unknown man was found lead in
the back yard Of the residence Of Will
lam II. Williams, No. % Blackstone
ave. early Monday morning. The body
was that of man of about 65 years.
poorly dressed and emaciated Death
was caused by consumption, Coroner
Bennett believes. When found the
body was lying across the covering of
an old-fashioned we'll and It Is believ-
ed the man was after water He held
a battered tin cup in his hand The
body is now. in the county morgue
awaiting identification
The Detroit times., 1909-07-26
BY IRVING FISHER PHI. D.

editor Yale Review, Educator,
Scientist, Mathematician, Author, and
Chairman National Health Commit.
tee.)
What is the normal human lifetime?
Many estimates have been made,
based on all sorts of reasoning. the
figures extending from 70 TO 200 years
The medium age at present for death
from old age is SO.
II would be surprising If the future
should not witness a further length
The Detroit times., 1909-07-26
HARDWARE MEN TO MEET.

SAGINAW. Mich. July 26.-Prepar-
ations are being made for the annual
convention Of the Michigan Retail
Hardware Dealers association, which
WILL be held here Aug. 11.12 and 13 in
the Auditorium. Mayor @. w Stewart
will give an address of welcome.
The Detroit times., 1909-07-26
DEATH TAKES ZIMMERMAN.

MANISTEE, Mich, Mich, July 26.--
E. N. Sailing. aged 67. member OF
the lumber firm OF Sailing. Hansen
and Co.. operating at Grayling, Mich.
died last night after a years illness.
He came here from Denmark when a
boy and began work In the sawmill
Of the late Michael Englemann. In
1896
The Detroit times., 1909-07-26
Leaves Stage Forever.

NEW YORK. July 26.-Within q
few weeks Miss Mabel Howard, the
actress. will take the veil In the Con-
vent OF Our Lady of Charity OF the
Good Shepherd OF Anglers. She en-
tered the institution last fall. She
had been III some time before and
after her recovery decided to leave
the stage forever. Miss Howard sup
ported VIM. Gillette in Sherlock
Holmes and later was with Otis Skin
ner and Ada Rehan in repertoire.
The Detroit times., 1909-07-26

ening OF human life and at an increas-
ing rate. OF course, there Is limit
to the increase of human life, but
there Is good reason TO believe that
the limit is still far of. Pure water,
pure milk, pure air and protection
from accident are the chief means
known at present To prolong life.
When the public makes up its mind
TO endure no longer impure light, air,
milk and unreasonable danger TO HE
and limb, life will lengthen eight years
and probably good deal more.
My estimate of 10 years as the
ross ible prolongation of life merely
is minimum estimate
"Old age" has been assumed as un-
preventabe Yet Metchnikoff main
tains. with reason, that old age is a
malady that can be postponed
Died at Age Of 1870.
In Portland. Ore. Mrs. Mary l..
Wood died recently at the age OF l20
years. From this we may conclude
that If today notwithstanding all ex-
listing chances OF death, IL is possible
for some persons to live to 100, the
chances in the future II with better
care and more knowledge for larger
proportion OF persons will be inn
proved.
The practice OF medicine which for
many years has been known as heal
ing art Is undergoing a radical reyo-
luton. The change is based on the
conviction that an ounce Of preveL-
ton is worth a pound of cure. The
people themselves are learning to ask
their family physician to keep them
well rather than to cure them after
they are sick.
we must conclude that the length
of human life is dependent on certain
definite conditions and can be either
increased or diminished by changing
these conditions.
In three or four centuries we may
see an increase in the span OF life OF
100 per cent. When a person is free
from all ailments he usually calls
himself well" Endurance, however.
is measured by the slowness with
which strength decreases through ex-
ertiOn
OF all poisons in ordinary use al
cohol and tobacco are the most com.
mon. Poisons also may enter the sys-
| tenn through. food.
The waste Of energy and life from
undue fatigue is probably much great
or than the waste from serious i'll
ness.
Lesson From Fletcher.
Prevention is the first step in In.
creasing the breadth OF life.
! Ideal conditions for health and long
life comprise pure and disease-free
atmosphere; pure food and pure
water supply; protection from acct
dent, and proper adjustment OF work
rest and amusement. Human beings
are "a EASY TO cultivate as other ant
mails and plants.
People who have lived TO be over
100 have usually been persistent fol
! lowers OF some rules OF ration
al hygiene-personal health-even
SSSSSSSSSSSSS SScSSSSSSSScS
work. BY next September the secre
tary expects to have the ground work
I laid for mis- demand that Mr.. Newell
be removed or deposed.
The fact that Secretary Ballinger IL
backed by those members OF the sen
ate and house Of representatives who
for years have been the secret and
open enemies OF the reclamation sr
/ vice Is not calculated To lend con.
/ fidence to the secretary's present &C.
tyities Gin behalf OF reform
The Detroit times., 1909-07-26

Tickets for sale Adcrnfts Stnr Light
Apply Times office advertising dept.
The Detroit times., 1909-07-26

A novel toy for children on which
patent recently was granted repre-
sents circus wagon. gearing IN
which causes an image OF an animal
To roam around a cage in a life-like
manner
The Detroit times., 1909-07-26

Job Printing done right. Times Print
ting CO., 10 John R.st. Phons 1898.
The Detroit times., 1909-07-26

Bu.fness-Iike Printing. No fuss and
no feathers The plain, neat kind :aat
looks night Times Printing Co.. No.
10 John R.-stJ Phone 14ss
The Detroit times., 1909-07-26

CALL DETROIT rNxICAB co.
Main 5s2.. City ts2o. Park ~.
The Detroit times., 1909-07-26
THE WEATHER.

Detroit and vtciutty-Partfy cloudy
with showers late tonight or Tuesdays
continued wnrm, moderate southerfy
Winds.
Lower Miehigsn-showerst tonight or
Tuesday.
The Detroit times., 1909-07-26

Commercial Credit CO. Collections.
The Detroit times., 1909-07-26

.cemm<r-,n. cred" ca a.ssss>
The Detroit times., 1909-07-26

Aic.snder. Umsr-''..- " Nesrse.
The Detroit times., 1909-07-26

Dob Prtntins done right. Times Print.
Tag Co.. Is John R--st. Phone itsa
Bluefield evening leader. [volume] (Bluefield, W. Va.) 1906-1911, 1909-08-23

VIRGINIA LEAGUE.
RESI-TjTS YESTERDAY

At NOrfO.N: Norfolk 7; Lynch
burg l. first game Norfolk &;
LyucLlurg second game.
A Richmond Richmond 3; Dan
p.ll"O first game Richmond o
Daapila 9 second game
A. Roanoke: Roanoke 9; Ports
month
Bluefield evening leader. [volume] (Bluefield, W. Va.) 1906-1911, 1909-08-23
SANDING or TmE CLI-Rs.

\ laugh IS worth hundred groans
any market Lamb.
Bluefield evening leader. [volume] (Bluefield, W. Va.) 1906-1911, 1909-08-23

d. H. Barger OF Princeton. was
IN oh" city Today ON business.
Bluefield evening leader. [volume] (Bluefield, W. Va.) 1906-1911, 1909-08-23
SANDING OF THE cLrRs.
SCHEDULE FOlS TODAY.

~ IIT4FI' nv TVIN iVDNl.
Danviilo at LyuchbuTg.
Richmond at Roanoke
Norfolk at POrtsmou. %.
Arizona republican., 1909-12-16
BAREFOOT CULT FOR "NERvEs.'

Have you noticed the improvement lately in d certain very handsome wo- man, well known in society? Sh- She has gone in for barefoot cult.
 She acquired the idea over at a Ger man spa last year. She was threat ened with nervous prostration and the barefoot cure was recommended. Now she takes long morning walks. cover ing several miles. and when it is pos sible she either walks about her own lawn. minus her shoes and stockings, absorbing the morning dew. or she chooses the wet sands of the beach.
 Nobody has been let into the secret I happened to know of it by accident but just the same all the women are consumed with curiosity to know what has evolved the transformation. A sal low complexion, with drawn. nervous lines about her face has been supplant- ed by mirthful spirits. clear complexion and litheness like that of girl And. how she does laugh secretly at the women who delude themselves with in-
Arizona republican., 1909-12-16

south wind Indians walk the Jesus road. We go find it too.'
 The agent listened. incredulous. but when the same tale was repeated, when a whole village embarked in their birch canoes and travelled 900 miles to find a missionary: when hunting grounds were deserted and the very life of the trade threatened. the agents pressed upon the home of flee the necessity of bringing mission aries to the Indians if they would keep the Indians from going to the mission aries.
 And that is how it came about that the Hudson's Bay Company wrote d polite letter to the Wesleyan Mission ary Society in London asking it to send out to Norway House the best preachers and teachers it could find. The company promised to furnish the with houses and provis- ions. canoes and guides free of charge if the society would help them check the Indian immigration to the south east
Arizona republican., 1909-12-16

raised his arm.
 The crows had seen the empty sleeves, of the stuffed scarecrows blown about idly in the breezes. but there was something very different in this ponderous and menacing move ment, and thereafter. as then, when ever this amazing image but ever so little raised its great arms the crows fled.
 When the corn was well up, the great tramp. now not only well fed but with some of the grateful Farmer Gwilbins money in his pocket though he had declined a less ragged suit of clothes which Mr Gwilbin had offered him in addition-made his way southward toward the Massachusetts state line, and disappeared, but do you know. in the next summer he came again to Storkville Center and to Farmer Gwilbin, and in garb-which would once have seemed impossible more extraordinarily grotesque than before. and this year MT. Gwlbin regularly hired him for the growing corn season. paying him a regular wage; not large sum. but something
 He came back thus the next season and the next. making four seasons all together; but after the fourth season he was never seen again in Storkville.
 "A most extraordinary man. and. though I have known men engaged in various strange occupations, he was the only one I ever knew or heard of who hired out as a scarecrow."
Arizona republican., 1909-12-16
WOMEN OF PAGAN IRELAND.
Property Rights of Wives Recognized Before the Advent of St. Patrick.

The pagan Irish were fierce and proud. but at the same time remark ably just and pure. Those who wish to verify this statement have only to look up the old Brehon laws, the legis- lative code that obtained in Erin long before and long after the advent of St. Patrick.
 These laws with very few exceptions were found good enough to govern the land after the reception of Christianity St. Patrick saw nothing to change in them, except the religious features bearing on the old Druidic worship. For the rest he left them as he found them, and they continued to be the legal guide of the Irish nation even down to the seventeenth century.
 Among their most noteworthy fea- lures are their sense of justice and fair play and their eminently high regard for the domestic relations-the rights of women, the mutual protection of husband and wife, the reciprocal duties of parents and children, etc. By way of proof for illustration. we give a passage from the Senchus Nor:
 Tn the connection of equal property if with equal land and cattle and household stuff. and if their marriage he equally free and lawful. the wife in this case is called the wife of equal rank. The contract made by either party is not lawful contract without the consent of the other, except in cases of contracts tending equally to the welfare of both l" ' Each of the two parties has the power to give re- lection and feast according to their re- spective dignity
 In case of separation ample provi- sion was always made for the wife's future. If, for instance. her portion at the time of marriage was equal to that of her husband she was entitled to half of the property which they held at the time of separation If the whole property belonged originally to the husband she received one third at the
Arizona republican., 1909-12-16

likewise the human inhabitants of the good old Green Mountain State. Tine Vermont crow is not easily fooled. and it takes something more than an ordinary scarecrow to keep him away from its cornfields.
 Farmer Gwilbin had only that morning completed scarecrow to which he had devoted much thought and labor. but when he saw that tramp loom up at the kitchen door and saw how far beyond anything he could construct that tramp was as he stood. and when he noted, too that stint of intelligence in the tramps eye. why Farmer Gwilbin-quick to see and quick to act-said:
 Our corn is coming up. If you'll go out and stand in the field a few days we'll give you all you can eat and good place to sleep"
 The tramp took him up. This wouldn't be lying by the roadside in the shade. but it would mean plenty to eat, and freedom from dogs and place to sleep, and-he had that spark in him.
 So they gave him food and Mir Gwilbin led him to the field and placed him. At noon the tramp came in to dinner and at night to supper. ard he slept in the barn. and so he worked for days.
 Tt was warm standing in the sun, and it was tiresome. but after q few days the tramp found way of rest ing himself. He took with him to the field stake three or four feet long. which he would plant there; then. rested the strap that he wore around his waist on the top of it, at the back. This. to be sure. was in the nature of a lapse. but later he more than made up for this by showing some signs of activity.
 When he first took the field the crows kept entirely away from it; they had never seen anything like this. But when they had become little used to the sight of it they ventured nearer. and then-the spark must have burned little brighter in him. as it does in all of us when we really have something to do-the tramp
Arizona republican., 1909-12-16
IN SToRKvIlIE CENTER.
Only Man Col. Calliper Ever Knew
 Who Hired Out as a Scarecrow.

There appeared one day in Storls- vile Center. Vt.." said Colonel Calli- per. telling. as he likes to do. or his carly life. spent in that favored com munity. "a tramp who certainly %as the raggedest and 10 all appearance generally altogether the most extraor- dinary specimen that. so far as habili- ments went. had ever been seen in that locality.
 He Was a little above the average stature and he was a little inclined to politeness, and for clothing he wore garments that were still too big for him and were past description for their various shades of fadedness and their jigsaw variations in rents ard tears. and. on his head a big beaver hat badly battered as to its cylinder and bent as to its brim and with its top cut out three quarters of the way around. and that top now turned up- ward like the bent-up top of slant tomato can.
 He was quite the most eNtraor1i- nary tramp that had ever appeared in Storkville Center. or. doubt not. my where else in the whole wide world. and when he walked in at Farmer Gvilhin's gate and around to Farmer GwiIbin's kitchen door the folks there so regarded him: but MT. Gwilbin saw in him something besides.
 Despite his grotesquely exaggerated tramplike appearance. he had not the fully graduated tramp's utter listless- ness. He was certainly leisureiy in  movement. vet his leisurely way had in it something of the nature of de liberation which implies thought. and SD indicated in this case. the absence of full surrender to id.cpess. Mr Gwilbin was a man of discernmvnL
 It was early summer and the corn was just coming up.
 The crow is a sage bild with many likeable qualities. and. as might have been expected. the Vermont crow has the superior intelligence that marks
Arizona republican., 1909-12-16

IL IS then roasted in the oven On the third day the roast may be cut into inch pieces and simmered gently for an hour or more with vegetables for stew. Dumplings or Yorkshire pudding with the thickened gravy furnish hearty meal by themselves.
 The finest steaks and roasts arc trimmed before being delivered. These trimmings can be secured and make delicious bits for meat pies or Ham burg steak at very low price
 Veal Outlets
 Veal outlet is comparatively cheap, and when egged. crumbed and baked, gives a delicious meal. Chicken is out of the question in cities, but a half-pound can of boned chicken, pieced out with rice or vegetables, or even fried mush, would furnish good meal It fire quently happens that late on Saturday night one can buy to decided advantage in large public markets. This is espe- ciaHy helpful in winter. when things can be kept easily.
 Macaroni with white sauce and cheese