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. ? Western Ideas In China. I have traveled overland from Pekin to Touckin, and have been struck ;by the spread of Western education, jln every town of any importance, and 'often in villages, there are schools with foreign fittings for teaching Western learning. Lar^e numbers of temples, often every teniiple except the city temple and the Confucian temple, are being converted into schools and colleges, while scholars in their semi-foreign dress - *- * * ^1 I nnrlnn are countea oy muusauuo.? Times. Running Wild. "Miss Mabel," began the young man, whose chin wabbled a little in Bpite of him, -I hardly know how to say it, but I feel as if the time had cone?or perhaps I should have caid that. I am impelled to?there is a moment in overy man's career, you know, when he is no longer?I dare say you have not been expecting anything of the kind, but the fact is? and I am in a position now that warrants me in offering?which is the reason why I have hesitated until now?because there are so many things to be?in short, the difficulties in the way have been " "Mr. Packard," interrupted the young women, with a smile of encouragement," will you please try to run your trains of thought on the block system?"?Chicago Tribune. FITS, St. Vitus' Dance,*N ervous Disease nrr manently cured by Dr. Kline's Great Nerve Restorer. $2 trial bottle and treatise free. Dr.H. R. Kline, Ld? 931 Arch St.,Phila., Pa. ' The American peanut crop has fallen off forty-seven per cent. r- ? - - ? Take Garfield Tea in the Spring?it will 8ave you many days of headache, lassitude and general ill health! This natural laxative purifies the blood, cleanses the system and establishes a normal action of liver, kidneys and bowels. I".' ' The Double Entendre. There is trouble in Inverness today, all along of the Highland Times' "Lady Correspondent," who must be more careful in futitre. In her comments on the Lovat Scouts' ball she says (and we venture to emphasize the important words): * ) - "Miss F. of M. looked handsome. . . . Miss M. was handsome.' . . . Miss D. B. looked pretty. . . . Miss H. H. was pretty." And so on, all down the page. Very; careless, indeed.?Punch. , A MISSOURI WOMAN" i * - c?An. r\t In-fnl Snffprin^ and XC1I9 a v* ~ ? 0 Wonderful Relief. Mrs. J. D. Johnson, of 603 West Hickman St., Columbia, Mo., says: "Following an operation two years ago, dropsy set in, and my left 3ide was ijfflHjfiA so swollen the doctor said he would have to tap out the water. W p|F There was constant ,$L /yjkff pain and a gurgling <^9^ secsation around my heart, and I could not ^ raise my arm above 1\|IP my head. The kidi , <cC ney action was disordered and passages of the secretions too frequent. On the advice of my I Husband I began using Doan's Kidney Pills. Since using two boxes my trouble has not reappeared. This is wonderful, aftpr suffering two years." Sold by all dealers. 50 cents a box. Foster-Milburn Co., Buffalo, N. Literature as an Intoxicant. ? According to Arthur Symons, "there is more drunkenness in a book than in all the vineyards of France." [From a report of a future police court case: "Prisoner said he was# sorry, but it had beeif his birthday," and, one thing leading to another, he had taken a paragraph too much. * "]?London Globe. There is more Catarrh in this section of the country than all other diseases put together, ana until the last few years was supporecl to be incurable. For a great many years doctors pronounced it a local disease and prescribed local remedies, and/by constantly failing to cure with local treatment, pronounced it incurable. Science has proven y Catarrh to be a constitutional disease, and f therefore requires institutional treatment. J Hall's Catarrh Cure, manufactured by F. J. Cheney & Co., Toledo, Ohio, is the only con stitutional cure on the market. It is taken in v ternally in doses from 10 drops to a teaspoonful. It acts directly on the blood and mucous surfaces of the system. They offer one hundred dollars for any case it fails to cure. Send for circulars and testimonials. Address F.J. Cheney & Co., Toledo, O. Sold bv Druggists, 75c. Take Hall's Family Pills for constipation. H. C. Frick's Start in Life. And yet not so very many years ago, not longer than most of us can remember, Henry Clay Frick was graduated from a clerkship In a small store and became the owner of one coke oven and a little patch of coal land in Pennsylvania. Had tnere been no yearning for larger things; no understanding of the needs of a growing business, or had there been no desire to be "one's own boss," Henry Clay Frick to-day might have been the same ob3cure grocer's clerk instead of one of the men who made, through his coal and coke industry, the gigantic United States Steel Corporation a possibility. From one little coke oven in Pennsylvania to more than 20,000 ovens in that State, and many more that he is building in West Virginia, more coke has been produced than by any single controlling company in the world. That little oven had grown so that up to a year ago its companion ovens were able to keep the great furnaces of the steel companies blazing night and day. Many millions have come to Frick and his associates in the coal, coke and steel business, but all from that first lonelv little coke oven.? Cent Per Cent. Wc Kill Too Many People. During the first eight weeks of the present year about 175 people were filled in railroad accidents and about 425 were injured. We Americans are very callous -about our annual list of the dead and wounded travelers and railroad employes. The minor casualties make little impression on the public mind, though they count up in the annual total. The big accidents are more effective tn Jolting our sensibilities, and of these there have been so many of lato that travelers' nerves are unusually sensitive.?Harper's Weekly. iff BUSINESS MEN CMRGE8 WITH CONSPIRAEY Indicted at Toledo, Ohio, For Restraint of Trade. OUTSIDE DEALERS EXCLUDED Brick, Lumber and Plumbing Combine Men Accused by the Grand Jury ?Indicted Ones Arc Among the Best Known Citizens. Toledo, Ohio. ? Charging conspiracy in restraint of trade, ninety-one business men of Toledo were indicted by the Grand Jury, which reported to Judge Morris, of the Common Pleas Court. The men are among the best known in the city. Some are not actively engaged in the business of the brick, lumber and plumbers' combine, which has been under investigation, but are interested indirectly and are included in the charges made against the firms. Very few members of the Master Plumbers'Association escaped the net of the Grand Jury. The fact that all are alleged to have used the scale of prices as set down by the association brought indictments against the individual members. In the list of lumbermen and brickmen indicted are the names of men high in local financial circles. The head of the local lumber trust Is said to be the Toledo Lumbermen's Credit Association. This trust, it is alleged, has complete control of the lumber market, raising prices when it saw fit and compelling outside concerns to sell only to it, making it impossible for the independent dealer to get material outside the trust. The Toledo Brick Supply Company Is the alleged head of the brick trust. Well known men are named in the bills against the officers of the various concerns in this combination In the indictments it is charged th? the manufacturers fixed the prices to * the exclusion of outside dealers and in restraint of trade. There will be no arrests at once, time being given to the men indicted to get attorneys and arrange for bail. It is said that the plumbers and truckmen are not the only ones hunted unrelentingly. The Prosecutor does not deny that ;the Grand Jury has investigated several combinations which will not be reported on, but from which some valuable in- 1 formation has been secured. The National Supply Company, against which an indictment has been i returned. deals extensively in plumb- | ing supplies, oil well machinery and I all manner of plumbers' and carpenters' tools. The books of the various alleged organizations which directed the operations of the brick, lumber and plumbers' combine have been in possession of Prosecutor Wachenheimer, and it is said contain sufficient evidence to make a prima facie case. TRREE TRAINS CRASH. Fatal Accident in Railway Yard Near Birmingham, Ala. Birmingham, Ala.?As the result of a wreck on the Southern Railway a short distance east of Woodlawn, a suburb of Birmingham, two men are dead and seven persons injured. A freight train with a "dead" engine on the rear was coming toward Birmingham. The operator, it is said, allowed a fast passenger train to enter the block, and it crashed into the dead engine, smashing both engines and demolishing several cars. Three cars of the freight train were thrown across the east-bound track almost at the instant that a wrecking train en route to Heflin, Ala., passed. The wrecker struck them, and practi?11" + Ti'nnlo fraicrVit train was I \,C\l IJ tuc nuviv *4V*0?U piled into the ditch. Two men were caught under the engine. NURSE'S DEVOTION FATAL. Dies From Scarlet Fever Contracted in Vassar Hospital. Poughkeep^ie, N. Y.?Miss Lucy Von Hogel, a nurse at Vassar Hospital, died of scarlet fever contracted while attending a stranger who wae taken sick on the streets of Poughkeepsie. When Miss Von Hogel was stricken, Miss Faithful Butler, a student at St. Faith's, who is preparing for a nurse, went to Vas3ar Hospital to attend her. She in turn contracted the disease, and is now seriously ill in an isolated ward. SHOT BROTHER AND WOMAN. .Tnolnna Inivft Man Killed Himself. Too?The Woman Dead. Ottumwa, Iowa. ? Because he thoi/feht his brother had gained the affections of Mrs. Sallie Morgan, to whom both had been paying attention, Ovitt Thompson, of Bedford, Iowa, shot and killed the woman, mortally wounded Roscoe Thompson and committed suicide. The woman had been separated from her husband for some time. Three Children Burned to Death. Ethel Hicks, aged seven; her brother Paul, aged six, and their tenmonths-old baby sister were burned to death in their home in Port Huron, Mich., by the explosion of a gasoline stove which the two older children had attempted to light in the absence .of their parents. Drowned in Swimming Pool. William Sandler, a student at Columbia University, New York City, was drowned in the university gymnasium swimming pool and remained there twenty-four hours before his body was found. , Reply of Christian Scientists. The Christian Scientists, in answer to the equity suits, denied that Mrs. Eddy is unable to look after her own Interests, or that she has been deprived of any of her property. With the Workers. Street railway men of Sacramento, Cal., have received a voluntary raise of three cents an hour. Many members of the United Association of Plumbers, Gas Fitters and Steam Fitters are urging that the organization establish a home for the aged and infirm, along the same lines aS the typos. Chicago (111.) electricians wish a scale of $5 a day, an increase of fifty cents a day over their present scale. They set their own working rules, and they have had no trouble in enforcing them for several years. v ' ... , ' ' " : l\ t ' . I . ' >>.?} ' III IB THEORY Farm Hand Suspected of Causing Missing Delaware Lad's Death. Search For Kidnapers Abandoned? Body May Have Been in Bag Carried Away. Dover, Del.?Through a statement made to Detective Frank H. Lore, of New Jersey, by Horace Caldwell, a farm hand, of Kitts Hammock, Frank H. Butler, who is now locked up in tha Dover jail, is charged with the murder of Horace N. Marvin, Jr., the four-year-old son of Dr. H. N. Marvin, who disappeared mysteriously from Bay Meadows, the Marvin farm, on the morning of March 4. Butler, who was a farm hand employed by Charles Woodall, the man who sold Bay Meadows to Dr. Marvin, was the last person known to have seen the Marvin lad. Suspicion has been directed against' him for several weeks. Butler a few weeks ago obtained a job as deckhand on the steamer John P. Wilson, of the Dover and Philadelphia Navigation Company. Lore, Lorenzo D. Woodruff and James Hawkins, State detective, of Delaware, went to Philadelphia and boarded the steamboat John P. Wil- n son, which was about to start for Leb- j anon. After the vessel reached Delaware waters at the mouth of Jones River, r Butler was served with a warrant issued by Justice of the Peace E. F. Wood and sworn toby Detective Hawlrir*o Uo fnnl' life o rrocf 1V Tliir JWU0* lit CV/VSA UiO U1 1 V/HV VWWii^i M v>? 1 ing the next three hours, up to the time the vessel docked at Lebanon, I t Butler was put through a sweating t process by the detectives. s Butler denies knowledge of the dis- t. appearanss of the child and reiter- h ates that the boy was sitting on a c haystack on the Marvin farm when he v and several other men, who were v moving the efWcts of the former own- a er of the land,.. Jeft the place. Butler, j. Caldwell says, was ordered to gd to j the barn and load up wheat screen- p ings in bags. This he did, and when ^ Caldwell later entered the barn ho r found that Butler had loaded three ^ bags into a wagon and a fourth was lying on the floor of the barn. Caldwell says he lifted this bag into the wagon himself and found it heavy, ^ although Butler had said it was filled j with corks such as are used by fisher- g men for nets. This bag, Caldwell w says, disappeared. Acting on the the- jj ory that this bag contained the body ^ of the child the detectives decided to tj charge Butler with murder. v. It is the theory of Lore and Haw- C]' kins that Butler accidentally ran over the boy, and, rather than take the t] dead body to the house, concealed it gj in a sack of corks and removed it to w the woods, a mile and a half from the jr Marvin farm, where he buried it. s] ONE RHODE ISLAND SENATOR. b r( Legislature Adjourns With the Deadl?i. TrMkM/virA?t 1UCH UUUiUACU. ?. , Providence, R. I.?Despite the C pressure brought to bear by the Re- P publican organization, the Rhode Island Legislature adjourned without N having elected a Senator to succeed SJ George Peabody Wetmore. Only one sl vote was changed by the final efforts s< of the party leaders, and on the 0 eighty-first and last ballot the vote stood: Colonel R. H. I. Goddard, A Providence, (Democrat,) 41; Colonel p Samuel Pomeroy Colt, Bristol, (Re- n publican,) 39; George Peabody Wet- ^ more, Newport, (Republican,) 30. ? Thus until the Legislature meets next January Rhode Island will have only w Senator Aldrich in the upper house of Congress. ? SLAIN ON WEDDING EVE. ^ ______ g Belle Stroup Lures Ross, Shoots Him tl and Commits Suicide. n Oil City, Pa. ? While discussing t1 with his family at the dinner table 0 plans for his wedding that night to & Miss Edith D. Sampsell, Thaddeus c Stevens Ross received a call to the tl telephone. He left the house, saying a he would return soon. He was found dead an hour later 1 In the office of a prominent physician, e with the body of Miss Belle Stroup. a ' former sweetheart, lying at his feet. ? Miss Stroup was twenty-eight and Ross thirty-five. He was a postoffice employe and a veteran of the Span- n ish-Americah war. s Miss Sampsell, the bride-elect, ia s well nigh crazed with grief. ? t VILLAGE JUSTICE A SUICIDE. Found by Wife at Other Woman's ^ Door, Gardner Shoots Himself. s Paterson, N. J.?When confronted * by his wife, Frederick W. Gardner, a * wealthy resident of Ridgewood and * Justice of the Peace, shot and in- 1 stantly killed himself at the door ol 1 the home of Mrs. Benjamin Eglin, the 1 young wife of the village blacksmith. Gardner acted as Justice of the Peace and Town Collector, not be- * cause he desired revenue from these * offices, but because he had a hobby * of serving as a public official. His ^ father, who died several years ago. * left him a fortune. He was fifty I years old. He leaves a widow and a t fourteen-year-old daughter. ? _ c Territory For Negroes. t ) Governor Hroward urged the Flor- j ida Legislature to ask Congress to j take steps to purchase territory for the isolation of the negroes of the { United States. 1 Amnesty For Cubans. Governor Magoon signed a decree 1 granting amnesty to the members of i the armed forces of Cuba who have ' been found guilty of committing i offenses in the recent rebellion. < Big Vermont Mnple Sugar Crop. Reports from Vermont indicate , that this year's crop of maple sugar , in that State will be 20,000,000 ] pounds. , isaseuau uremics. Manager Cantillon, of Washington, favors young players for his team. Ollie Pickering is making good in batting with the St. Louis Americans. Lord, centre fielder of the Athletics, had three assists in a recent game. He threw out two men at the plate, and they were no less speedy . runners than Magee and Titus. A1 Orth differs from some pitchers regarding the spit ball. He does not think it injures his arm in the least, but he says the pitcher who has a wind-up delivery and lets his arm go at full length nev^ should use it. - -- .. w. ... . :'' ; - " ' PEACE BIRDS DEPART, * " ' : ,i / N ifc u? . ' c?; ; t .?Drawn by Cartoonist PECTACULAR MARINE PAGEANT : J rr n Spotless' Array Uncle Sai in Hampton Roadsi the Jamestown Ter-Cent Norfolk, Va. Americans have urned from thoughts of the Internaional Peace Conference to the most plendid international war spectacle his country and probably the world ias ever seen. The Jamestown Tercentennial Exposition, the newest world's fair, will be "a military, naal, marine and historic exhibition," ccording to the official statements, listory will be given its due at the Exposition as well as the arts of eace, but the distinctive feature will e the sight of Hampton Roads?al- ] eady a famous naval arena?alive 'ith the fighting craft of many naions, the shores glittering with soliers in fri,endly rendezvous. The remarkable naval display is 'i lade possible by the fact that the 1 amestown E {position is the first reat American fair held on a deep- ' ater. harbor. Practically all the civ- 1 ized nations have accepted the Pres- < lent's invitation to send sections of leir navies. As the summer ad- 1 ances the varying types of fighting 1 -oft- fFnm eanrv tnrnerio boats to the 1 irgest war vessel afloat, will pass irough the harbor in endless proces- 1 on. The United States Government ill hav? an extensive display, show- J lg the evolution of guns and fighting < tiips from the early days of the Na- ! on to the present. There will also ' e a large encampment of militia, jgular army and foreign troops. There are twenty-five battleships 1 ad cruisers in the line headed by the onnecticut just off the Government 1 ier at Fortress Monroe, which trails ' way up the broad channel leading to ' orfolk. The vessels are anchored ' ;veral thousand yards off the Expo- 1 tion shore, and, arranged in a huge 1 smicircle, are visible from every part 1 f the grounds. Every type of fighting craft in the merican navy is represented in the resent rendezvous. The battleships inge from the 16,000 ton Connect!- J nt and Louisiana down to the all but bandoned Texas, the oldest Ameri- ; in battleship and sister of the Maine, hich was wrecked in Havana harbor. J The Texas was built at the Norfolk ; avy yard many years ago, and, being ! local product, is to remain at the 1 ,'xposition as a permanent feature of le naval exhibit. With her sight uns and paltry 6315 tons of weight le Texas, when ranged alongside the ' lammoth Connecticut, which mounts J sventy-four guns and displaces 19,- , 00 tons of water, offers a striking sample of the progress of the Ameri- ; "i now ain^o thoriavs nf 1 88fi. when hie Tesas and the first Maine were uthoriz^d by Congress. The Brooklyn, bearing on her after arret the memorial plate simply and loquently inscribed "July 3, 189S," 1 rill also remain a permanent naval 1 xhibit during the seven months of he life of the Exposition. The cruisers of the fleet are all modern craft, though the variance in ize between the largest and the mallest is as great as that which larks the heavier vessels of the batle class. The armored cruisers Tennessee nd Washington, each of 14,500 tons nd mounting twenty guns apiece, re the heaviest of the cruisers. The mallest cruisers are the Denver and ' he Cleveland?3100 tons each?the hird class of the protected vessels of he njtvy. In the cruiser class the uost interesting vessel is perhaps the Srooklyn, the flagship of Rear-AdQiral Schley in the battle with Cerrera's squadron off Santiago, Cuba. The fleet has been arranged so as o give the visitors to the Exposition he best nossible opportunity for lewing the fighting strength of the American navy. The glistening white lulls, spotless in their new coats of mint, and the buff superstructures of he two and three piped line-of-battle ihips and armored and ' protected iruisers, form a marine panorama as newed from the water front esplanide of the Exposition grounds such is has seldom, if ever, before been presented to the American public. The Navy Department has pre>ared a list of the foreign vessels to >e in Hampton Roads. Toulon Arsenal Fire. Five large buildings were destroyed jy the fire, alleged to be incendiary, it the Toulon (France) arsenal. Thirty men were injured and the submarine and torpedo stations were lamaged. Weather Unfavorable. Cold weather has prevailed over an unusually large area, retarding agricultural progress as well as trade in light weight wearing apparel and ather spring goods. ?????_ , Prominent People. Andrew Carnegie says that Emperor William is the greatest man of the age. Henry Watterson is said to have been working on his "Life of Lincoln" while in Europe. Former Senator Spooner counsels caution in compelling me rauwaja lower rates and increase their service facilities. E. H. Sothern received as a present In London his father's gold match box, which for nearly thirty-five years lay in an English field* where the actor h?st it. r. - : WAR BffiDS GATHER. I tfta&sv I DeMar, for the Fh il adelp h ^ ^ Record. 'OF ALL NATIONS AT NORFOLK n's Great Armada Awaits Foreign Guests of the ,ennial Exposition. The British fleetwill consist of four armed cruisers?the Good Hope, Argyll, Hampshire and Roxbourg," under the command of a Rear-Admiral. The German fleet will consist of the Armored cruiser Roon and the protected cruiser Bremen, under the command of a Commodore. The Austrian ships will consist .of the armored cruiser Sankt Georg and the protected crui3er Aspern, under the command of a Commodore, who will be pp>moted to be a Rear-Admiral. The Brazilian fleet, under a RearAdmiral, consists of the battleship Riachueio, the cruiser Barroso and the gun vessel Tamoyo. The Brazilian fleet will be the only foreign one containing a battleship. The Argentine Republic wilB send the training ship Presidente Sarmiento under the command of a commanier. The Japanese fleet, in command of a Vice-Admiral, will consist of the armored cruiser Trukuba and the protected cruiser Chitoso. It is noticeable that while Japan sends some of her finest warships to represent her navy, and one of her foremost generals, the Russian Government will not be represented by a single ship, nor is it known that any Dfflcer of her army will c6me here. The other foreign countries to be represented will be France, Italy, Chile and Portugal. Italy will send two vessels in command of a captain, the armored cruiser Varese and the protected cruiser Etruria. Chile will send the protectJd cruiser Ministro Zentene under the command of a captain, while Portugal will send a protected cruiser, probably the Don Carlos. Spain has not signified her intentions of sending any war vessels. The entertainment committee of the fleet is now arranging a water carnival. Each vessel of the great fleet has been asked to provide a float for the occasion. The pageant will be on some evening yet to be determined. Several ships have already decided on the floats they will send. Three will send three of their cutters to represent the three old-time craft which brought the Pilgrims to Jamestown. Another float will represent the Great Harry, a renowned ship of war of that period, and on the request of the Admiral the Navy Department is now searching the archives to know just what the vessel was like. Then there will be pirate ships, gondolas, a float showing Neptune and his trident and much else besides. During the carnival the ships will be illuminated, and there will be a hundred searchlights playing over the brilliant scene. Aside from such diversions the strong armada will have little to do in the waiting days. The ships long ago completed their toilets and are so spic and span they hurt the eye. Nowhere is there an atoning blemish. It is all spotless bufT and white, touched ofT here and there with the glint of polished steel and the shimmer of shining brass. From the flagship definite announcement came that the fleet will disperse on May 15. Two divisions will then go to sea for manoeuvring purposes, one division will go to navy yards tor sucn minor repairs* aa LL1CLJ I be needed, and one division will remain here until relieved by one of the divisions coming in from manoeuvres. The four divisions, sixteen battleships in all, are to reassemble here on June 10, set apart as Georgia Day, when there will' be a celebration in honor of the birthday of the mother of President Roosevelt. As the foreign ships arrive they are officially welcomed by a boom of cannon from the Connecticut, the flagship of Rear-Admiral Robley D. Evans, commanding the Atlantic fleet. All the American vessels now at anchor belong to this fleet. The unique feature of the Exposition will be theharbor for small craft, with an area of 1,280,000 square ' feet, inclosed by piers, costing the United States Government $400,000. Banker Arrested For Beating Wife. Mrs. Augustus T. Post, aged sixty, whose thirty-two-year-old husband, a illinnolrO had banker, is rateu a.? a him arrested on a charge of knocking her senseless in their apartments at the Holland House, in New York City. Bank President Arrested. Charles C. King, the president of the First National Bank of Scotland, S. D., was arrested in Chicago, charged with misuse cf the bank's funds. Athletics and Sports. Walter Miller is America's most successful jockey. The Regatta Committee of the I?all River Yacht Club is busy preparing a regatta for Memorial Day. After defeating A. W. Gore, tha former British -ennis champion, D. P.' Rhodes, of Boston, was uefeated at London by the brilliant playing of A. F. Wilding. Battersby and September 10 are the place and time chosen for the international swimming race between rt ** Tlnnlalo (if th* NfiW YOTlt A. C-. 1^. 1V1. i/auivw, - ' and. UQary Taylqx? Qt Eogland.^ .. ' . . . t A- t'. L ' . m iJtf. - :^'?0 WOUNDED JUROR'S MIDI Tragedy in a Chicago Court After Conviction. Nurse Faints and Men Present Are Moved to Tears During the Polling of the Jurymen. Chicago. ? Without interrupting four surgeons in their work of stitching a fatal gash in the throat of Joseph Hoffman, a juror in the case of Jobn Lonagan, charged with robbery, Judge Ball held court and confirmed a verdict of guilty in the operating room of St. Luke's Hospital here. The jury returned a sealed verdict and Hoffman was attacked by a negro wheh on his way to the court room for the formal approval of the finding. % Judge Ball had just ordered Hoffmari'3 arrest for contempt of court when the news of the assault was received. "Immediately the Judge adimirnpri his roiirt fr> tho nnorot!n<? room, and there Hoffman, with his fellow jurors in a ring around the table, signified hi3 agreement to the verdict by raising his right hand. Hoffman was found unconscious on the sidewalk. In an ambulance on the way to the hosDital he regained his senses and made a brief statement. "I was attacked as the result of a murder plot." be said. "I think my throat was cut by a man who aimed at annulling the verdict. He caught me from behind, and before I could make a move to defend myself drew a razor across my throat." "The physicians have informed the Court," Said Judge Ball, "that Juror Hoffman is unable to report on the verdict: by word of mouth. He will Indicate to the Court-that he knows the nature of these proceedings by raising his right hand." Slowly Hoffman raised his arm at the elbow until it was almost perpendicular on the operating- table. A nurse who had been looking in at the door fell in a faint from emotion, and two doctors carried her away. The verdict then was opened and read by the clerk. The eleven jurors were polled, and answered in the affirmative. The Court instructed Hoffman to raise one hand for affirmative and two for negative, and slower than before the man brought his hand up from his side. The sight was so affecting that most of the men in the room were in tears. TiM'p Rail Teff the oneratine room sobbing, and Lonagan himself was almost overcome. Twelve stitches in all were taken.in Hoffman's throat. The windpipe was almost severed. The doctors held out little or no hope of recovery. GUILTY OF LAND FRAUDS. i Three Men Convicted in United States Court at Omaha. Omaha. Neb.?T'noc M. Hunt?ingtpn, A. B. Todd ana rYed Hoyt were convicted in the United States Court on charges of conspiracy to defraud the Government of about half a million acre:} of public lands in Nebraska. These men were indicted jointly with Richards and Comstock, of the Nebraska Land and Cattle Company, who were convicted last fall. Huntington is a banker at G' 'an, Neb., and Hoyt is his partnti. Todd Is from Denver and procured old soldiers of Iowa and Nebraska and II t 4-1* .-V fllinfff. nry + Vl q hnmfl UUU1S IU yidVJC tuc unugd vu buo uvwvstead3. 20,000 BURNED OUT IN ILOILO. Town on the Island of Panay is the Capital of the Visayas. Manila, P. I.?The town of Iloilo, Island of Panay, was totally destroyed by fire,' with the result that 20,000 persons are homeless. Iloilo is the capital of the province of that name in the Island of Panay," of the Visayas group. It was an open port and commercially Important under the Spaniards, exporting sugar, rice, tobacco, coffee and hides, and manufacturing fabrics,, hats and carriages. It has a cathedral, a seminary, a court house and other public buildings. The population in 1903 was about 19,000. OKLAHOMA HAS A CONSTITUTION Engrossed Copy of New Document Signed by Delegates at Guthrie. Guthrie, Okla.?President William H. Murray signed the engrossed copy of the Oklahoma constitution, U9ing the alfalfa pen furnished by Custodian Campbell, of the Oklahoma Historical Society, and also the pen furnished by W. J. Bryan. ' ? All of the seventy-five delegates present also signed it. Delegate Cloud, of Wellston, the only Republican present, voted for the constitution on final passage, so that it received every vote cast. Gimbel Cuts His Throat. Benedict Gimbel, the wealthy Philadelphian arrested in New York City on the complaint to the District Attorney of Mrs. William Hudson Clarke, mother of Ivor Clark, a crippled iaa, with v. horn he associated, attempted to kill himself in a hotel in HobokeD by cutting his throat. He was under $6000 bail. Missouri Crop Best Sincc 1901. The condition of the Missouri wheat crop is ninety-four per cent., the highest that has been reported sine; 1901. Indian Plague Deaths 75,000. There were 75,000 deaths from the plague in India during the week ending April 13. Seventy the asand of these occurred in Bengal, the United Provinces and the Punjab. The epidemic began in the Punjab in October, 1897, since when nearly a million and a half deaths have occurred British Landlords Must Sell. The House of Commons by a large majority passed the bill giving the Irish Land Commissioner power tc force landlords to sell estates. The Rational Game. I There are ten members of the D* I trolt team who do not use tobacco ir any form. "Hobe" Ferris, of the Eostor | Americans, has a glove of his own designing. The New York Americans nevei have played a game with a Nationa' League club. Lajoie has the best conditioned, team in the American League at the1 present time. Briggs, the HarvanJ first baseman made four hits in, bis first satu* against .Vermont. . " : I The Evolution of Household Remedies.! The modern patent medicine ow ness is the natural outgrowth of the old-time household remedies. In the early history of this country,' EVERY FAMILY HAD ITS HOMEMADE MEDICINES. Herb tea* Utters, laxatives and tonics, were to bo found in almost every house, com- : pounded by the housewife, sometime* . r assisted by the apothecary or the faroily doctor. Such remedies ag plcra, which was aloes and quassia, dte solved in apple brandy. Sometime# a nop tonic, moae 01 wnisKej-, nops anu bitter barks. A score or more of popular, home-made remedies were thus compounded, the formulae for which . were passed along from, house to house, sometimes written, sometimes verbally communicated. \ The patent medicine business is a natural outgrowth from this whole* some, old-time custom. In the beginning some enterprising doctor* im- ^ pressed by the usefulness of one of "these home-made remedies, would take it up, improve it in many ways, ' manufacture it on a large scale, advertise it mainly through almanacs fer the home, and thus it would become used over a large area. LATTERLY THE HOUSEHOLDREMEDY BUSINESS TOOK A MORE EXACT AND SCIENTIFIC FORM. reruns was onginauy one ox tnese old-time remedies. It was used' by the Mennonites, of Pennsylvwiia, before it was offered to the public for. \ sale. Dr. Hartman, THE ORIGINAL COMPOUNDER OF PERUNA, is of. Mennonite origin. First, he pre* scribed it'for his neighborii and Ms '*5 patients. The sale of it increased, and at last he established a cianufao tory and fornished it to the general. M drag trade. Peruna is useful in s ereat many ' climatic ailments, such as coughs, colds, sore throat* bronchitis and ca?>. si tarrhal diseases generally. < THOUSANDS OF FAMILIES HAVE LEARNED THE USE OF PERUHA and its value in thetreatmert eCtbe** ' ailments. They have learned to trust and believe in Dr. Hartman*s Judg- >;! ment, and to rely on his remedy, Fe rnna. An 800-Year-01d Football Game. . ^ The very ancient and quaint Shrove Tuesday custom of playing football in the public thoroughfare, was oh-' oowoH of AfhnrofAno WartDlnlcnhlro + yesterday. The game had Its inception anterior to the signing of Magna Charta, and regularly for more thkzt 800 years the custom has been observed in the cod Watling street town. % Business was entirely,suspended' yefK?' terday while the game was proceed- ' 2 ing and many tradespeople Joined is ? the fun.?London Daily News. The Carmania's Torbihes. The three turbines of the Carr manifi contain in the aggregate a million and a quarter of blades, and those of the Lusitania win have ap proximately three millions of blades together. This means probably over ? one million of blades for each of the low pressure turbines.?Engineer. ' AD the Vowels* "Abstemious" and "facetious"' arethe only words hi English having the rowels in their order.?Pittsburg _ Dispatch. * J. s X MD I I NEURALGIA 11 I * :: 1 I ST. | ! 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