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EIMIBIT1119 TELLS HEB STMT Gives Motive For Husband's Alleged Insane Act LIFE LAID BARE IN COURT Left in Stanford White's Care by Her Mother, She Says He Induced Her to Drink Wine, Then All Became Black. New York City.?Evelyn Nesbit Thaw, the wife of Harry K. Thaw, laid bare in the Criminal Branch of the Supreme Court the story of he^, life, the recital of which was expected by the defense to convince the jury that her husband was-justified when he shot down Stanford White, the man who, she declared, first drugged and then ruined her. As the former chorus girl answered readily the questions put to her by Delphin M. Deimas, cniei couusei iui the prisoner, every one in the court room leaned eagerly forward, so as not to miss a word that dropped from her lips. The pitiful story she told moved every one in the room. Men wiped the tears from their eyes, while women sobbed aloud. It was one of the most dramatic recitals ever heard in any court. Never before had the grim court room held a bigger crowd or one wrought up to such a pitch of excitement. The defense had put forward its star witness. A more girlish figure that that which answered when Clerk Penney called Evelyn Nesbit Thaw could scarcely be imagined. She wore a loose jacket of dark blue, such as many a schoolgirl wears, and a dark hat of childish cut decorated with a bunch of violets. About her neck she wore a wide turndown collar of a mot' fied Little Lord Fauntleroy design and a soft lawn tie of black tied in a bow. Her hair, while not nanging loosely down her back, was half caught up and tied with a black ribbon in a sort of pug at the back cf her neck. The court room saw her without a veil for the first time since the trial began. There was disclosed a pretty face, small of feature, but regular in cut, a pair, of large black eyes, very soft and ~very pleading, a pair of straight eyebrows of heaviest black, a mouth large but not unpleasing, whose lips parted to disclose two rows of very white teeth. Mrs. Thaw was called by the defense to supply the testimony needed to support its contention that the defendant had learned something about the architect's treatment of Evelyn Nesbit that had caused an Insane idea to form in his brain that grew with the years until it culminated in the impulse that caused him to shoot White on Madison Square roof garden. In her story Mrs. Thaw gave a motive for the shooting by laying her ruin to Stanford White. She had fi;-st been led by Mr. Delmas to tell of the dinner at the Cafe Martin, the shooting on the roof garden and of her marriage to Thaw on April 4, 1905. Then the examining lawyer jumped back to thesummer of 1903, when she and Thaw were in Paris. It was at this time, she said, that Thaw first proposed marriage to her and she had refused htm. "In stating the reasons to Mr. Thaw why you had refused him, did you state a reason based on an event of your life with which Stanford iWhite was connected?" Mr. Delmas aaked. i "Yes," said Mrs. Thaw. Then, in the form of a relation of the confession she made to Thaw, the witness told of meeting White, through a girl friend, in August, 1901, when sLe was only sixteen years old. She went to a luncheon party given by White at a house in West Twenty-fourth street, she said, and after that met the architect several times, always with the knowledge and consent of her mother. Sometimes the parties were in the Twenty-fourth street house and some limes in wanes apartments xu me tower of Madison Square Garden. After the acquaintance had been continued for some time, she said, .White asked her mother if she didn't want to go to her home in Pittsburg. Mrs. Nesbit objected that she did not like to leave her daughter, but White j promised to look out for her, and Mrs. Nesbit left town, the witness said. Two days afterward White sent her a note to come to a party at the Twenty-fourth street house, and she went there after the theatre. Only White was present, she said. After supper, White invited her to Inspect a part of the house she hadn't seen, and tney went upstairs to "a strange room" filled with cabinets, paintings, etc. Adjoining was a bedroom, with a "tiny little table" in the centre, on which was a bottle of champagne and one glass. At White's urgent solicitation. she said, she drank a glass of the wine, and "I don't know whether it was a minute after or two minutes after, but a pounding began in my cars, then the whole room seemed to go around, everything got very black." The girl's voice broke at this point, and, although she did not break down, it was only with the greatest effort she forced back the tears. Some of the women in the courtroom sobbed openly, and more than one man used his handkerchief / ricnrnnclv Ambassador Bryce's Farewell. The Pilgrims, of London, gave a farewell dinner to James Bryce, Ambassador of Great Britain to the United States. Ambassador Whitelaw Reid proposed the health of Mr. Bryce. Steel Company Profits Immense. The quarterly report of the United States Steel Company showed net earnings of $41,744,96 1. and for the year, $156,619,111, by far the greatest in its history. Feminine Notes. Municipal suffrage has been granted to women in Natal, South Africa. Mrs. Pearl Mary Craigie (John Oliver I-Iobbes) left an estate of $122, 500. The market is flooded with ladies of limited incomes, limited brains and a tremendous quantity of "taste."? Lady's Realm (London). Mme. Melba's maiden name was Mitchell. Her father was a Scotchman, who settled in Australia, and from the city of Melbourne, where she entered the world, she adopted the staze name of Melba. fe... . \ is;.. - \ \ | "When I woke up I was in bed," * she continued. "I screamed aud screamed and screamed." During the whole of the time his ! wife was on the stand Thaw had not + n Kir. .intil +Vi i c I lUlW^U. II lO c,? CD UUUI IltTi 11IIC1L IUJO portion of lier testimony was reached. Then he buried his face in a handkerchief. and his body shook with emotion. His eyes were tear stained and red when he next leaked up. White's subsequent conduct, as related by Mrs. Thaw, was cynical in the extreme. In spite of this confession Thaw insisted that he would marry her if she would love him. declaring that no one could blame 1:?h' for her misfortune. They quarreled, and she came back to New York. By a most adroit maneuvre of the defense all this astounding story told by Evelyn Nesbit Thaw was introduced in the guise of information imparted by her to Thaw. As such it was admissible only as tending to demonstrate its influence upon the sane or insane condition of his mind - at a later period. Just before the midday recess was reached and after Mrs. Thaw had told of the struggles of her earlier life, how she had eventually come to pose for artists and then went on the staee. Mr. Delmas tried to get into evidence a letter Thaw wrote and gave to Miss Nesbit, addressed to F. W. Longfellow, his legal adviser in this city. After recess, by a series of adroit moves, Mr. Delmas succeeded in having the letter admitted as tending to show the condition of Thaw's mind after the confession the girl had made to him. It was a rambling communication, and to it was pinned another slip of paper, on which was written: "P. S.?If you can't read this, don't trouble." In the third letter admitted and read, Thaw spoke of the strain he was under, and gave evidences of it in many rambling, almost incomprehensible statements. OLNEY UPHOLDS SAN FRANCISCO Says the Government Has No Right to Interfere in Japanese Question. Washington, D. C. ? Richard 01ney, of Boston, who was Secretary of State under President Cleveland, in a letter to Representative McCall, of Massachusetts, discussing the San Francisco school question, takes strong ground against the interferonc(> nP the Federal Government in the effort to restore the Japanese children to public schools of that city. He expresses the opinion that the treaty with Japan gives the general Government no right to override the police power of the State in the management of its school affairs and that the President has no right to interfere in the matter by force of arms or otherwise. REVOLT IN ARGENTINA. Colonel Sarzento Heads Rising in San Jnan and Wins in Five Hours' Fight. Buenos Ayres. ? A revolutionary outbreak occurred in San Juan, headed by Colonel Sarzento. After five hours' fighting, in which explosive bombs were used, the revolutionists were victorious. Twenty men were killed and many wounded. , Numerous houses were burned and others sacked. Governor F. Godoy and other Provincial officials are reported to be prisoners. General Sarmiento has assumed the rank of Governor of the province ~ J f Vi V? oo A n yi nro of Q?JT> dU IUUC1 lUi, >Y ibu ucauviuuivvm Juan City. When the news reached here Acting Governor Villanue'va called a meeting of the Ministers and intervention was decided upon. PATROLMAN KILLS CAPTAIN. Shoots Superior Because He Was Tired of "Seeing Him Strutting Around." Jackson, Mich.?Patrolman Isaac Lewis walked into the office of Police Captain Holzapfel in the station house and shot him through the heart, killing his superior almost instantly. He then fired a shot at Chief Boyle, but missed him. Lewis, it is said, had been drinking, and it is thought he was insane. After the murder he became violent and fought like a madman against being locked in a cell. In an incoherent statement he said he had shot Holzapfel because he got tired "eaoinc V?{m efmifHno* arnnnfl '' Vi UiLU OW1 UbblUQ M.4 vuu\*? SUICIDE WITH CYANIDE. Dr. William J. Chappell, Once of New York, Takes Life in Baltimore. Baltimore, Md. ? Dr. William J. Chappell, a well known physician, killed himself by swallowing cyanide of potassium. Earlier in the day he had tried to suffocate himself with gas, ,but his housekeeper saved him. Dr. Chappell, who was forty-nine years old, was the son of the late James Chappell, who is said to have been one of the wealthiest men in New York. He left his son considerable money, but Dr. Chappell spent it freely. Railways to Recoup. It was said in Chicago that a plan of Eastern railroads to increase freight rates by increasing the minimum allowance for carloads was a plan to recover the amount granted omnlnvps in waep concessions. Steel and Cotton Increase. Forward business is most extensive in the iron and steel manufacture and the cotton industry. Creamery Butter Needed. Supplies _of fresh cieamery do not increase in~nroportion to the demand. . Governor Magoon's Army Decree. * Governor Magoon, of Havana, has issued a decree prescribing the organization of the new Cuban army, and providing for the increase of the Rural Guard to 10,000 men and the artillery to 2000 men. Oklahoma Won't Let Women Vote. The Constitutional Convention at I Guthrie, Okla., killed the provision for woman suffrage by adopting a clausc giving the right of suffrage to males only. Prominent PeoDle. H. H. Rogers recently celebrated his sixty-seventh birthday. Washington City has a rumor that Rear - Admiral Evans would retire from active service in the navy. Congressman J. Adam Bede, of Duluth, one of the wits of the House, was a newspaper reporter in Washington for years. Norris Brown, the new United | States Senator from Nebraska, is I both a young and a poor man. He i succeeds Joseph H. Millard, who was j the opposite, both elderly and rich. | Mr. Brown's father was a farmer. 2 KILLED, ?i INJURED IS BOILER BURSTS Ontario & Western Locomotive Biows Up Near Luzon, N. Y. FEEDER PIPES BAD FROZEN Train Cunning 40 Miles an Horn* When the Cars Seemed to Strike Obstruction ? Coaches Ditched on the Rebound. Middletown, N. V.?Two men were blown to pieces, a third is fatally hurt and twelve passengers were injured by the bursting of the boiler of a locomotive of the Ontario and Western road just south of Luzon, Sullivan County. The engine was drawing No. 3 train, one of the finest on the road, and was making forty miles an hour when suddenly there was a terrible roar and the sound of ripping and -tearing of iron. The train of -cars rammed the wreck and four of them left the rails. When the steam cleared away there was nothing but scrap iron left of the locomotive. One hundred feet away in a field was the shattered body of Martin Mullen, the fireman. Fifty feet from Mullen's body the engineer, William Gadwood, was lying unconscious and fatally hurt. There was a third man riding in the cab of the locomotive and he was blown into many fragments. He is believed to have been J. D. Valouette, an engineer off duty, who was going to his home in Cadosia. The cause of the strange accident is said to have been the freezing of the pipes between the tank and the boiler. This caused the boiler to beebme overheated and when the cold water was finally turned on the explosion resulted. None of the passengers were seriously injured, and they were attended by Dr. Percy Deady, of the Loomis Sanitarium, Liberty, who was on the train. The train left New York and reached here on time. There were fifty passengers on the train. In less than an hour dispatches were received here from Luzon that the train was wrecked, and calls for a relief train accompanied the news. Without delay a train was made up here, with physicians and a wrecking crew, and started at high speed for the scene of the accident. The distance was thirty-three miles, but it was covered in record time. When the relief train came up with the wreck four of the cars were ditched. The passengers were all out of the cars. . Those who were not injured were standing about helplessly in the cold. Beside the track the conductor, Charles E. Doell, and the baggagemaster, Peter Reily, were found painfully injured. The physicians found Doell was suffering from a broken shoulder bone and internal injuries, and Reily probably had a permanent back injury. Officials of the road began at once an investigation of the wreck. They learned from the passengers that the train was bowling along at forty miles an hour on a level stretch t>f road, and that there was not the slightest suggestion of there being anything wrong. Suddenly there was hear'd what the passengers described as a "horrible roar" and the cars seemed to be thrown upon one another. They seemed to strike an obstruction and rebound. It was in the rebound that four of the coaches were ditched. FARMERS BURN HOUSES. Crave Conditions Prevail in Canada Because of Fuel Famine. St. Paul, Minn.?Telegrams from the Canadian border just north of the North Dakota boundary show that a grave condition prevails there owing to the fuel famine and the blockade of railroads. Three families of new settlers have merged their effects into one household while the homes of the remaining two are being torn do?/n and burned to keep the families from freezing. The plan has been adopted by scores of farm families. Where grain was not shipped it is being burned as fuel. Thirty-one dead bodies frozen in homestead shacks or on the prairies have been brought into the various towns of the Northwest, and it is expected that the list will be swelled to half a hundred by the time the snow disappears. FOUR PERSONS KILLED. Long Island City Train Crashes Into a Furtoral Prnri'csinn Long Island City. N. Y.?Four persons. three of them women, were almost instantly killed, and a fifth was fatally injured when a train bound from Far Rockaway to Long Island City crashed into one of the carriages of a funeral procession which had just left Calvary Cemetery. The dead: Elliott Terwilliger. forty years old, Jersey City; Mrs. Nellie Terwilliger, thirty-five years old, his wife; Mrs. Sarah Halladay, thirty years old, sister of Mrs. Terwilliger; Mrs. Mary Duffy, thirty-seven year? old. sister of Mrs. Terwilliger. Home Rulr? in Ireland. Augustine Birrell, Chief Secretary for Ireland, said in the House of commons tnat ne and the .Premier were in favor of a liberal measure of Home Rule for Ireland. New Britain Bank Suspends. The Savings Bank of New Britain. Conn., suspended, announcing thai Treasurer Walker had stolen $565,000 in securities. Decreased Com Pr. eking. The corn pack in 1906 is reported as 9,350,000 cases,, as compared with 13,41S,665 in 1905. Corn Waiting Shipment. A great deal more corn is waiting to be sent in than can be handled with the present car supply. Feminine Notes. A fashion magazine says the girl of 1907 is tall and slim. Four-fifths of the operatives in the Japanese mills are women. lauj oLiL:l llol uad dLcli It'U LUl Java in search of the missing link. Marie Corelli has stirred up an awful row by proclaiming that most of her sex are unfit to vote, because they paint and wear false frizzes. Five women were chosen as county treasurers in Idaho at the recent election, and seventeen women aa county superintendents of schools. WAR ITHEBBITISH10B0S Attorney-General Walton's Sensational Speech. Abolition of Hereditary Legi.^ilin s A/lt'aortfnr? Icciin tr% TTaI/1 <Tli? Liberal Factious Together. London.?The Government has given the country to understand that it will make a serious attempt to abolish the Houso of Lords as a legislative body. This revolutionary measure, which was first hinted at by the late Mr. Gladstone in the crisis over the Home Rule bill, will now become the first articlc of the Liberal party policy. Attorney-General Sir John Lawson Walton, whose speech regarding the House of Lords has created a sensation, declared thai the Liberals were entering upon a work of grim and serious character, which would nfiean revolution, and which would involve two or three dissolutions of Parliament. The House of Lords, he declared, was entirely out of harmony with modern democratic institutions and mu3t go down. Whether anything of it would be left and, if so, in 'what form, they could not yet determine. If the House of Lords set itself against the national will it would be like a heap of sand setting itself against the rising water. The Government would endeavor to give effect to the will of the people, he said, by means of bills which the Peers would promptly throw out, diiu luat wuuiu iu a v;uiuuiiuiliuu between the Crown and the people to defeat the aristocracy. It would mean a rearrangement of constitutional and political forccs and a struggle of no slight difficulty. In the meantime there would be pressing and urgent legislation that would not brook delay, and the Government would undertake such legislation with a determination to carry it through in spite of -11 opposition. KILLS DOCTOR AXD HERSELF. Kansas City Physician and a Woman Found Dead in His Office. Kansas City, Mo.?Dr. Everett H. Merwin, thirty-eight years old, who had spent several years on British steamships as a surgeon, and Miss Maud Slater, twenty-three years old, were found dead in Merwin's office .in the Hall Building, and all evidence points to the theory that the girl shot the physician and then committed suicide as the result of insane jealousy. Each had been shot through the head, and a pistol was found ?- * i? "u ? ? -i iua u?cu me eAieuueu nuiiu UL UIC girl. The doors of the office were locked and neighboring tenants of the building who heard the sound of shots in Dr. Merwin's office were obliged to force an entrance. The aged parents of the girl said that she was a patient of Dr. Merwin's, and that she had announced before she left home that she intended to go to the doctor's office for treatment. It is stated that Dr. Merwin had expressed annoyance because Miss Slater frequently wrote letters to him, telephoned to him and in other ways thrust her attentions on him. $1,000,000 BANK FAILURE. Neiv Castle Conccrn Had Large Sums Tied Up in Loans. New Castle, Pa.?The New Castle Savings Trust Company, capitalized at $300,000, and with deposits of $700,000, has closed. The depositors will be paid in full, the company officers say, but the stockholders will lose heavily. The company carried large loans, notablv S175.000 bonds of the Wash ington County Coal Company, upon which it was unable to realize when the demand came from Eanking Commissioner Berkey to increase the cash reserve. The officers are: President, William Dunn; first vice-president, Marcus Feuthwanger; second vicepresident, B. U. Young. Increase in Homicide. During January the Coroner's office of New York City had 5C7 deaths to investigate, of which 188-were of a violent nature. Among these were forty-seven homicides and thirty-two suicides. New York City's Taxes. Alleging that a recent court decision exempts part of their gross receipts, the New York Gas Trust paid $119,000 into the State Treasury, but will fight for rebate. House of Lords Censured. Sir John L. Walton, the British Attorney-General, said in a speech at Leeds that the House of Lords was out of harmony with modern democratic institutions and must go. Loss of Stock Charged. William G. Nixon, of Boston, accused John M. Murphy, of Philadelphia, of obtaining $1,100,000 stock in exchange for an empty tin box. Special Writ Against Lawson. Special writs of attachment for $500,000 were issued at Boston against A. C. Burrage, C. D. Burrage and Thomas W. Lawson. Japanese Oppose Exclusive Treaty. A dispatch from Tokio, Japan, says that the people generally are opposed to a treaty which restricts immigra 11UU. Coal Mine Explosions Investigated. Governor Dawson sent a special message to the West Virginia Legislature, urging an investigation into the causes of so many disastrous explosions in coal mines in the State. High Tax on Bachelors. Iowa proposes the highest bachelor tax?$25 a year at the age of forty and SoO at the age of forty-five?and would put the proceeds into a home for fallen women. Sporting Notes. The growth of American League sentiment in New York City has been remarkable. It will be many years before New England is again invaded by racetrack promoters. European yachtsmenare to arrange a conference now in order to have universal sailing rules. The third annual tourney of the Indoor .22-calibre Rifle League closed in Rochester, N. Y., at the Columbia Rifle Club. L. P. Ittel, of Pittsburg, won the championship with a score of 2465.. I * 7 ? _ | WASHINGTON. The first annual exhibition of paintings of American artists at the Corcoran Gallery was opened. The President has written a letter heartily approving Secretary Hitchcock's order withdrawing timber lands from allotment. Funeral serivces were held over the body of Dr. Jose Ignacio Rodrigues, chief translator of the Bureau of American Republics. William J. Oliver presented to the Government his perfected bid for the Isthmian Canal contract. The opinion of Judge Advocate General Davis, of the army, regarding the right of an officer to command a soldier to attend worship was made public. President. Roosevelt and Secretary Root contributed $100 each for the famine sufferers in China through the Christian Herald. Extensive experiments with balloons, aeroplanes and airships are to be made by the Signal Service Corps of the army. Reports by the Interstate Commerce Commission show a rapid in:rease of railroad accidents. Charges of grave errors In the work of the Interstate Commerce Commission, made by Charles S. Hanks and George W. Harriman, were declared unfounded by Presllent Roosevelt. OUR ADOPTED ISLANDS. Out in Cuba the prevailing drought (s thought to have very seriously Inlured the tobacco crop. Loans are freely made by the Philippine Commission to the various orovinces for the erection of public buildings In the islands. Every effort possible is being made to use native woods for ties in building the railways in the Philippines. Chba has already paid out $57, 300,000 tor soldiers wno were alleged Lo have served in the war with Spain. Andies Crosas. a member of the Executive Council at San Juan, P. R., 'aas resigned. The Supreme Court of Hawaii deeded that the Governor might exchange Lanai lands for other lands. DOMESTIC. Illinois has cut its Jamestown Exposition appropriation from $25,000 to $12,500. , Escaping natural gas at Youngstown. Ohio, killed Mary Spawn and her infant. Sweden will send a new armored cruiser to the great naval review at Hampton Roads, Va. Unmuzzled dogs in St. Paul, Minn, will be killed without warning by ordinance of City Council. Judge Anderson, in the United States District Court in Chicago, dismissed the plea in abatement set forth by attorneys for John R. Walsh, o , ~ -1 a ? ^c Lurmenjr preBiueui UL LUC v^uiuagu National Bank. The New Haven, ^ New York & Hartford Railroad Company Executive Committee propose the sale of the New England Navigation Company to C. W. Morse. The steamer Parker, belonging to the Dale Sand Company, was blown up on the Tennessee River near Chattanooga, and James Thompson, the :aptain, dangerously injured. The steamship Seneca rammed and sank the bark Charles Loring off Sea Girt, N. J.; the crew of the Loring was saved. The Dawes Commission has completed the enrollment of the five civilized tribes of Indians, a.work that was commenced ten years ago. Howard P. Frothingham, of New York City, a wealth Wall Street operator, committed suicide by jumping I from a window. | In a wreck of freight trains on the Chesapeake & Ohio Railroad near Colby Station, Ky., one of the locomotives exploded, killing Engineer Edward Harp and two trainmen* FOREIGN. Viscount Goschen, formerly British Chancellor of the Exchequer, is dead. Sven Hedin, the Swedish traveler, has explored 800 miles of an unknown country on a journey to Tibet. The Belgian Government denies that the Bank of Belgium has supplied the State of Sao Paulo with money for the carrying out of a corner in Brazilian coffee. Ambassador Leishman stirred the Turkish officials by communicating directly with the Sultan on the question of the recognition of American schools. Four divisions o" the Chinese army have been transferred from the command of Yuan Shi Kai to Feng Shan, who is said to be an incompetent Manchu general. The reconstruction committee at Kingston, Jamaica, passed a resolution to ask the Imperial Government to advance a twenty-year loan of $5,000,000 at a low rate of interest. Owing to the acts of terrorism on the part o 1 anarchists in Barcelona, Spain, the Government," under the law of 1904, has suspended trial by jury in the captaincy general of Catalonia. Mail advices from Shanghai. China, state that owing to an accident at the wharf there the discovery has been made that arms and ammunition ' - - ? ?' * ^ QV?or*rr_ IiaVfcJ Ut'KII bill LUIUU5U ?juau5hai to the districts where rebellion is in progress. The people of Nicaragua are demanding reparation from Honduras, and oppose the action of President Zelaya in agreeing to arbitrate an attack" by Honduran troops on Nicaraguan forces. Daniel Osiris, of Paris, a philanthropist, who presented Malmaison to the French nation, is dead. M. Osiris bequeathed $5,000,000 to the Pasteur Institute. China is organizing a naval department. Four naval bases will be arranged immediately, and $10,000,{e +/"? ho nrrnHHoH voarlv to rpsns- I cltate the navy. Baron Kaneko, in an interview at Tokio, said that the school question was recognized as purely a local issue, and that the Japanese people relied on the justice of the United States. Cardinal Mathieu, Archbishop of Toulouse, appearing for the first time in the French Academy as the successor of Cardinal Perrand, assailed the policy of the Government regarding religion. A dispatch from Tokio says that there is strong objection to the settlement of the California school, question on the basis of exclusion of labor, and that an arrangement based on Jarjan's treaty rights is desired. ' " 1 " CAUGHT BY TH RELEASED Effective 'Medicine For La Grippe. Robt. L. Madison. A- M., Principal of Cullowbee High Scnool. Painter, N. 0., writes: "Peruna is tue most effective ' medicine that 1 have ever tried for la. grippe. It also cured my wife of nasal catarrh. Her condition at one time was such that she could not at night breathe hrough her nostrils." La Grippe and Systemic Catarrb. Mrs. Jennie W. Gilmore, Bur 44, White Oak, Ind. Ter^ writes: "Six years ago I had la grippe, followed by systemic catarrh. The only thing 1 used was Peruna and Manalin, and I have been in better health the last three yeahi than for years before." Mrs. Jane Gift, Athens, Ohio, writes: "She years ago 1 had la grippe very bad. My husband bought me a bottle of Peruna. I was soon able to do my work." Saluting a Cat. ! In Poona, at the government house, | f<Jr more than a quarter of a century | every cat which passed out 01 tne front door at dark was saluted by the sentry, who presented arms to the terrified pussy. It seems that in 183*8 Sir Robert Grant, governor of Bombay, died in the government house, Poona, and on the evening of the day of his death a cat was seen to leave the house by j the front door and walk up and down a particular path precisely as the late governor had been used to do after sunset A Hindu sentry observed and reported this to the sepoys of his faith and they laid the matter I before a priest, who explained to them the mystery of the dogma of the transmigration of souls. "In this cat," he^said, "was reincarnated the soul of the deceased Governor Grant, a,nd it should, therefore, be treated with the military honors due to his excellency." As, however, the original sentry could not identify the particular cat he had seen on the evening of the day of Sir Robert's death it was decided that every cat which passed out of the main entrance after dark ? - ? it.. x? i should be saiutea as me avatar ui his excellency. Thus for over a quarter of a century every cat that passed out after sunset had military honors paid to it, not by Hindu sentinels alane, but?such is the infection of a superstition?by Mohammedan, native Christian and even Jewish fcldiers.?South China Post. Woman's Work in Missouri. The Pleasant Hope Eclipse, in telling of a man who chopped his foot while splitting wood, broke a record for failing to add that "that was what he got for doing a woman's work."?Kansas City Star. Hindoos in Canada. Owing to the restriction of Chinese immigrants in Canada during tne last few years large numbers of Hindoos have been coming into the port of Vancouver and securing work as laborers in mills and mines. Society of Policemen. There is an altar society in Brooklyn composed of night policemen. The members contribute a certain amount every month, which pays for lights and flowers on an altar of perpetual adoration. | LYD1A E. PINKHAM'S VEGETABLE COMPOUND I Is acknowledged x> be the most suc cessful remedy in the country for | those painful ailments peculiar to women. For more than 30 years it has been curing Female Complaints, such as Inflammation, and Ulceration, Falling and Displacements, and consequent Spinal Weakness, Backache, and is peculiarly adapted to the Change of Life. Records snow that it has cured more cases of Female Ills than any Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Tumors at an early stage of developr pain,weight, and headache are relievt It corrects Irregularities or Pa Stom; h. Indig-astion, Bloating, Nei ral Debility; also, Dizziness, Faintne andwanttobeleft alone" feeling, Irrii Flatulenoy, Melancholia or the "Blu female weakness or some orsranic de For Kidney Complaints of either Compound is a most excellent remed Mrs. Pinkham's Standir Women suffering from any form ( write Mrs. Pinkham, Lynn, Mass, fo who has been advising* sick women f] years, and before that she assisted hi 3 in advising1. Thus she is well quail health. Her advic? is free and alwt ?????? w noro ?j U1UT"" BY PE-RU-NA. Suffered Twelve Tears From After Effects . of La Grippe. \ Mr. Victor Patneaude, 328. Madison St- . Topeka. Kan., writes: ? , J' ' 1 ' ' "Twelve years ago I had a severe attack ' of la grippe and 1 never really recovered my health until two years ago. I began using Peruna and it built up mv strength so that in a couple of months I was able to go to work again." Pneumonia Followed La Grippe. Mr. T. Barnecott. West Avlmer, Ontario, Can., writes: ' ^ \ , " :j '-ftp "Last winter I was ill with pneumonia after having la grippe. 1 took Perqna for i two months, when l became quite welL" Pe-ru-na-A Tonic liter La firlppt. Mrs. Chas. ?. Wells, Sr., 'Delaware, Ohio, writes: "After a. severe'attack of la grippe. 1 took Perana and found it c very good tonic." v" It goes straight to the mark Hale's Honey of Horehound and Tar Quickly Cures Coughs and Cokte I Pleasant* enecwve, nannies* Get it of your Druggist i*- ???????> v jf*' Pike's Toothache Drops Core la One Mlnote Alas, is There No Best? A train whistle has been heard in a balloon four miles above the earth. ?Baltimore American. :' How's This? 1 ; : We offer Oae Hundred Dollar?: Reward for any case of Catarrh ?hat can&ot be cured by Hall's Catarrh Cure. F. J. Cheney & Co., Toledo, O. We, the ur.dernigned, have known F. J. Cheney for the l^st 15 years, and believe him perfectly honorable in all business transactions and/ financially able, to cany out any obligations made by their film. . West & Tbuax, Wholesale Druggists, / Toledo, 0. Waxdino, Kjtsttaw & Marvin, Wholesale Druggists, Toledo, 0. 1 Hall's Catarrh,Cure is taken internally, acting directly upon the blood and mucnouf surfaces of the system. Testimonials 8ent free. >. I'rice, 75c. per bottle. Sold by all Druggist*. ' , Take Hall's Family Pills for constipation. ' It only cost John T. Morgan $60 4 in Alabama to successfully i*un, at nru ftrfmn vflara nf flffa. ffir U15UtJ~''*TV /WdiO W- wgv, .... _ tion to the United States Senate. San Francisco's "Barbary Coast," like its Chinatown, is being re-erect--., ed on the old site, thus fulfilling the predictions of those who said that the good resolutions made after the fl.** by the San Franciscans would not last long. / A Swiss child, aged three years, has been sentenced at the Criminal Assizes at Weinfelden, in the Canton of Thurgovie, to ^hree and a half months' imprisonment for the theft of three little toys of insignificant' \ value. | t other one remedy known. i Compound dissolves and expels I nent. Dragging Sensations causing- I id and permanently cured by its use. Ij inful Functions, Weakness of the I rvous Prostration, Headache, Gene- I ca WT+fama T.na?;t.nrip._ "Don't care I tability, Nervousness, Sleeplessness, ,es." These are sure indications of rangement. sex Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable yig Invitation to Women >f female weakness are invited to r advice. She is the Mrs. Pinkham ree of charge for more than twenty sr mother-in-law Lydia E. Pinkham [fled to guide sick women back to ^ iys helpful. k