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A so.\<; or NOBODY. If nobody's noli ted you, you m u.st b small; If nobodv's slighted you, you musk be tail If nobody's bowed to you, you must b low; If nobody's kissed you, you're uglv, wi know; If nobody's envied you, you're a poor elf If nobody's flattedrrd you. Hatter yourself If nobody's clicated you. you are a knave 'If nobody's bated you. you are a slave; If nobody's called you a "fool"' to you; face. Somebody's wished for your back in iti place; 3? nobody's called ycu a "tyrant." 01 scold," ' Somebody thinks ycu of spiritless mould If nobody knows of your faults but < "friend." Nobody will miss them at the world's end If nobody dines to your purse like a fawn Nobody'll run like a hound when it's gojie If nobody's eaten his bread from youi store. Nobody'll cail ycu "a miserly bore:" If nobody's slandered you?here is oiti pen? "Sign yourself NOBODY, cipher 'mon; men. ?Leslie Lawrencc, in Leslie's Weekly. "I ROMANCE OF t -Z H WARTBURG fA CASTLE. ^ By FRED MYRON COLBY. ^ In the beautiful German land of 'Thuringia, crowning a proud and ?ightly eminence, is a famous old castle. Its tall towers and long rows of imght Gothic windows overlook a wide extent of country, some of the most interesting portions of the German fatherland. The castle itself is :rich with many memories, and is celebrated in song and story as the Wartburg. Did you ever hear of it? In one" of its uiauy rooms the great reformer, Martin Luther, spent ten months of his life, from May 4, 1521, to March 6, 1522. It is a small apartment, and has but one window, which even yet looks out upon a gre^t forest. The furniture is said to be the same that he used. Here is the table he wrote at and the chair lie sat in, and even the inkstand in which he dipped his pen. that wonderful pen that wrote so many grantf and inspiring tilings. There, too, is the spot of ink on the wall, made, as the sory goes, when the reformer the story goes, when the reformer 'truder whom he believed to be the devil. In another part of the castle is a .great lofty room cAlled the Minstrels Hall, where took place the famous musical contest between the troubadours in the time of Landgrave Her mann i., aDou toe year r 01 seven days tjis contest continued and the whole splendors of medieval -chivalry and hospitality was here displayed to heighten the charm of song. Almost can you hear the twanging harps now and see the excited combatants, as you tread the floor of the .frescoed hall. i It was in this grand old castle with :all these historic associations that the little prince was born who had the bitten cheek. He lived about halt way between the time of his illustrious ancestor, the Landgrave Hermann, and that of Martin Luther, sc that you tan very easily tell the age [' in which he flourished. The room is :shown in the upper part of the castle where he and his little brother were "born, and there is the cradle in which all the Landgraves were rocked for 200 or 300 years. 7 His name was Friedrich and his younger brother's name was Hein.rich. Their father was the Landgrave Albrecht, called the Degenerate. He was a brutal and unprincipled man, and treated his beautiful wife Margarethe very harshly. She was the daughter of the Emperor Friedrich II., one of the most brilliant and 'llustrious sovereigns of his time. Margarethe was a good and noble woman, but her husband respected neither her virtues, her rank, nor her beauty. He even seemed tc hate his children on their mother's account, and the poor young prince had a hard time of it. Landgrave Albrecht was mean and selfish enough to sell Thuringia for a large sum of money to the Emperoi Alolph, who was no relation to the .great Friedrich. He was thus de priving his sons of their inheritance In order to have no trouble with then: he determined to shut them up out oi the way. So he sent some hard hearted meo > take them from theii mother and bring them to the Wart burg. Thfe ill-used Landgravine was liv inc away from her cruel husband auu wut;j sue nearu 01 ms orders sn< tried to flee to save her children. Bui the Landgrave's soldiers overtook hei and she was forced to give them up When she parted with them, insteac of kissing the eldest, she gave him ? fierce bite in the cheek so that the scar would always remind him of his own and his mother's wrongs. Lit tie Friedrich was then only sever years old. The poor children were taken tc the Wartburg and shut up in one o; its dark dungeons. Just think o: them being prisoners in the granc and splendid home where they shoulc nave Deen so happy. Was it nol cruel? They were treated so harshly that they would have starved in pri son had not some of the old servant; been true to them and given then food in secret. And one night, aftei long, weary months, they opened th< dungeon doors and the poor littl* princes walked out of ..heir prisoi and escaDed in company with a Dart^ of horsemen who were watching t< help them. , The young princes had many ad ventures "oefore they regained th< i side of their mother. Once in pass ing through a forest they and thei: escort were attacked by robbers. Tin half dozen horsemen were quickl; beaten down by the superior force o "Kon/^ito V* ?, uiiu x i ji.ui tvau in. brother would have fared badly hat not the robber chief noticed the elde; boy's scarred cheek. "Art thou i>ot Friederich of Thur ingia, whose mother gave him such < brave kiss?" asked the robber, re garding him earnestly. "I am Friedr ch of Thuringia, th; rightful prince," answered the gal iant boy. "The enemies of thy coun try pursue me. I crave thy protec tion." "Thou shalt have it to the death," declared the man, who the moment ? before had been ready to treat him as . an enemy. And he and his robber - band became from that moment the young prince's devoted adherents. ^ Annthor timp rhr-? nrinro nnH brother were so closely pursued by a troop of the enemy that they were forced to take refuge in the hut of a poor charcoal burner. There was no time for concealment, but tha wife of 3 the charcoal burner, pitying their plight, with great presence of mind emptied upon their heads and ove* : their persons a pot of charcoal dust, 1 and placing baskets in their hands . sent them out to bring in a load of ' the product her husband manufac; tured. The enemy, seeing, as they supposed, only two peasant lads engaged in labor, dashed on in the di: rection they believed the fugitives had gone, and the hunted princes > managed to reach safe quarters at | last. Meanwhile the high spirited Marj garethe had not been idle. She had * ; many powerful friends throughout Germany, and she enlisted their help to recover her boy's inheritance. More than half the German princes > took her side,for theEmperor Adolph was not liked. The cruel old Landgrave Albrecht was on the Emperor's side, of course, and there was a battle fought between the two armies. > The two brothers were defeated, but the Emperor could not hold Thurin. gia. His soldiers were so cruel that - everywhere the people rose in revolt, and at the end of three years Adolph , was so unpopular that the very electors who had chosen him deposed him i and elected Albrecht of Hapsburg . Empero in his stead. , Peace was now declared, and Friedrich and his brother returned in great state to the Wartburg, from which they had once fled as outcasts. You can imagine how the banners I waved an "1 the trumpets sounded and all the splendor of the scene as that feudal array wound up the steep narrow path under the masses of moss, covered rock and across green ter, races shadowed with noble trees till l they pass-3'1 the mighty drawbridge into the castle itself, gar with its banners, its garlands and shining . coats of arms. . The old Landgrave was dead, and . Friedrich wr.:; lord of the Wartburg . and all the Thuringian land. He was , now a youth of sixteen, tall sfnd handsome, but the scar where his mother L had bitten him always remained, and . he was known as Friedrich the Bit. ten. He grew up one of the most ' perfect knights of his age and one of the bravest captains, a huge, strong . warrior, w:hom it was not easy to overcome. [ A pretty story is told of him after he had grown to manhood. There U'a<5 annthpr wnr in Thurino-ia onH , one day tidings came to the Wart[ burg that the Emperor was coming , with a large army. The young Landgrave had to flee with his wife and newly bor*- chii^. The enemy was . almost overtaking them when the in[ fant began to cry violently for food. r What did the Landgrave do but stop in the face of the pursuing foe, keep them at bay till the child was fed ( and pacified and then flee on again. , Such a prince had too much skill and energy to be robbed of his inherit , ance, ana ne arove tne Austrian army i back at last and reigned many years ' in peace and glory at his grand old . castle of the Wartburg. His tomb is in the chapel' of the , castle with those of the other Land' graves, and in the Riddersal (Knight's Room) is the suit of armor that he wore in battle. It is of atanost gigantic size, .'or Friedrich was perhaps [ the tallest and strongest man of his , age. If you ever visit the Wartburg ! you must be sure to see that mighty suit of mail once worn by the Land. grave with the bitten cheeSc.?Chris[ tian Union Herald. Induced the French to Walk. | The celebrated Dr. Tronchin, friend | . of Voltaire, Rousseau and Diderot, , whose biography has just been published, was the inventor of walking. L In France until his epoch (1709t 17S1) the leisured class never walked . either for health or recreation. Walk( ing was only practised by the Tiers [ Etat;*folks footed it from one place to another simply because they pos[ sessed neither coach nor sedan chair. ? Dr. Tronchin, an initiator in many other respects, induced "les elegants . et les elegantes," writes a historian, to take what is now called a constitutional. To stroll abroad was named tronchiner, after the inventor, and for j their airings both sexes had special [ costumes and shoes, the latter being more esneniallv npppssarv The vorh I tronchiner, by the way, has not had [ the late of our "to boycott," having passed into disuse long ago.?West, minster Gazette. ' Supplies For the Shipwrecked. x The catboat ran gayly before the wind. The sea was alive with sun) shine. Shoreward, on the boardwalk, f the people walking looked no bigger f than dominoes. j "No, sir," said the skipper, "there j is not a desert island of the sea that t the Governments of the world haven't j stocked up with grub and clothes and tools for the use of shipwrecked ma. liners. "There's tinned soups, dried meats, sealed cans of rice and flour and sugar, dried peas, beans, tobacco, knives, nails, matches, shovels, buckets, hatchets, and so on?all a shipwrecked mariner could need. "The Governments have done this for a number of years. The provender is hid in caves or under rocks. I ? There's a book published giving the exact location of these caches and t. most ships carry a copy of the work." a ?Louisville Courier Journal. This May Sot He True. s comebody told the Warsaw Times 1 that a certain young lady of Warsaw, [ while hurriedly dressing to take a tide with her steady, by mistake used . white canvas shoe cleaner for rouge, i and now her face squeaks every time . she smiles.?Kansas City Journal. f Mrs. Collis P. Huntington, of New - York City, has purchased the Paris - house of ihe late Baron Hirsch, in - the Avenue Gabriel. The price i? said to have besn 1600,000. t UNCOVERING A BUB r ' ' ' , ! 'vV : ' . .> - V::>V v. \' ? r'J : v" " '*-'% > ?' v. ' . /> ;lA Df/'s ; ' '' ' .. ' ' ^ *' v . - >? f\ :v : 'i - ? " -'.v ' - . . * . v . r.r^T-' TRIUMPHAL WAY IN THE SANDMAGUDI, ALGERIA, WHICH MENT IS EX) Fountain Brush. Automobilists, carriage and wagon drivers will be interested in the device for cleaning vehicles shown here. It is a combined .cleaning brush and nozzle, the invention of a Kansas man. It is of the fountain brush type, comprising a tubular handle, on one end of which is a circular brush, j Within the brush are numerous per! forations, the opposite end having a threaded connection to fit the ordi Combined Hose and Brush. < nary rubber hose. It will be obvious that the wagon or carriage cleaner i will be greatly assisted in his work with the use of this device. Mud and dirt which resist the ordinary hose can be instantly removed with the aid of the brush, the continuous stream | of water washing away the particles thus loosened.?Washington Star. Polisher and Cleaner. An improved contrivance for cleaning and polishing various surfaces and objects is shown in the illustration below. The base or frame consists of a plate of sheet metal coated j with a non-corrosive substance, which can be folded over to be rigidly con- 1 nected to the plate. The polishing cloth, which may be of felt, tufted wool or other fabric, is placed on the frame over the non-corrosive sub- I stance and then foldel into place, t The peculiar shape of tfie frame j i i ffrtr/lo incf f V?crVi f cnrfopo fnr TMlH- I f I bing and polishing any object. At- j r tached to the device is a handle, for i r easy manipulation. ? Washington j I ! Star. Steamboat Inspection Service. ,c In 1905 fiscal year, according to , s the aiuiual report of United States 1 Supervising Inspector-General Uhler, v with a total of 600,000,000 passen- I ?ers carried on waters coming under I the United States steamboat inspec- c tion service, only one life was lost ? ~..4- O OOA A90 Tr. 1 Q ft ft flc_ f JUL KJL cvci j l, , o o \j , 'x u o . xxx Xt/w *iu:al year, owing to the stranding of t the steamer Valentia on Vancouver r fsland with a loss of 121 lives, and c the unprecedented number of casual-'t lies on Lake Superior that year, the jc loss of life was increased to one out ;i <>f every 1,796,000 people carried. |( PEARY, HIS MARK. i j i i w^m * /VA,-r'v S^V3 I NOT YET, BUT SOON. ?Evans, in the Cleveland Leader. I s Proverb \Vi(h Moaning. < He who builds on the public high- ( way must let the people have their ( say.?From the German. A light of one candle power is I plainly visible at one mile, and one of 1 three candle power at two miles. . ! !IED CIVIL^TON^ ~j| BURIED ROMAN CITY OF THA- ( THE FRENCH GOVERNDAVATING. ! ?Illustrtrte Zeitung. c JrnBm PRINCESS VICTORIA LOUISE. < rhe Only Daughter of the German Kaiser. Umbrella Holder. Drivers of uncovered wagons and trucks invariably use some kind of an umbrella to shield them from the rays of the sun during the summer season, but for some unaccountable reason they never think of doing the 3ame thing during rainy or stormy C _/? I w- -\ Clamps to Wagon. weather. They could conveniently ! use the holder shown here to good idvantage, as it can be readily at:ached to any style of wagon or carriage. The umbrella need not be o! i special design, and can be adjusted :o protect the user against either the ;un or rain, as the case may be, the i lands, at the same time, being en- j :irely free, this holder is also a con- I lenient device to attach to a chair, as j ;he latter can be placed in the centre j )f the garden, to protect the user I :rom the sun, who can still get the ' jeneflt of any air that might be flow- t rig.?Philadelphia Record. Ji,arty JL?ays 01 famous composer. Signor Puccini, who has come to London for change of air and scene, old a representative of the Chroncle that when he was writing his irst opera, "Le Villi," he lived for nonths on credit at a little restau ant called the Aida, in a slum in tfilan. "My dinner usually consisted t of i piece of badly cooked meat and a I :up of more or less sour wine. I can | itill recall in the half ashamed man- : ler in which I used to tell the vaiter to chalk up the bill, and then i : sneaked out of the place because j had no money for a tip. And I | :an also recollect my humble dig- j ;ings, where I tried to exist on the j ew francs a week allowed me by j he government as a charity pension. I Pm n am f K /> 9 1?*r/-*s3 f Anprtf knn I I W KJ Ul till CO \JL U3 IIVV5CI IV/gCbUCt, c tnd we often had to pawn our urn- J )rellas and overcoats and boots in j >rder to get a little ready money for -t mmediate requirements."?London 1 Chronicle. 1 >] Raps in the Composing Room. The editor of the Concordia (Kan.) )aper has a wooden leg. He wrote md printed this paragraph: The town has been Infested lately ^ vith a bunch of beggars. One young ( 'ellow, big enough and strong ! j ;nough to hold a breaking plow in a I ] latch of hazel brush stubble, asked j I 'or cash simply on the ground that j t le was a deaf mute. What is to stop a ! ? leaf mute from working and earning | 1 lis own living? Another young fel- ; ow struck this office for help and all I .licit WttB Lilt: iiiaut'i \>itu mm w a.n , } :hat he had a leg cut off below the ' ; ,<nee?what is to stop him from i t jarning a living at a score of differ- j < 5nt honorable avocations? The boys 1 1 in the back end of this printing ; shack always enjoy the fun when a : )ne-legged beggar comes in the front t ioor to strike "the old man" for a ' contribution. | A The Steel Trust last year employed ! < 202,000 men, and gross earnings j yere $090,000,000, or at the rate oi < ?3446 per man. { 1 FIVE OF $29,240190 FOB STIIDW OIL TRUS1 ludge Landis Imposes Maximum of $20,000 in Each Case. i MONEY GOES TO U.S.TREASURY standard Oil Will Appeal?Special Grand Jury Ordered Empaneled to Consider Case of Alton Rail? road, Other Party to Rebating. Chicago, 111.?Far the greatest fine n the history of criminal jurispruience was imposed upon the Standard Oil Company of Indiana when Fudge Kenesaw M. Landis assessed ;he limit sum of $29,240,000 upon :he corporation couvicted of receivng rebates from the Chicago and Alon Railway. In a decision which joes exhaustively into the case anc bristles with terse answers to th? irguments brought up by tbe attorleys for the branch of the trust bunded by John D. Rockefeller, the 2ourt clearly sets forth his reasons or the fine and, according to lawyers well posted, has given the most ucid interpretation of the Interstate Commerce act during the twenty rears of its existence. This punishment was the maxinum possible under the statutes, the :orporation having been found guilty >y a Federal Grand Jury last August xpon 1462 counts, the fine upon each >f which might range fro:n $1000 to 0,000. After denouncing the methods of he Oil Trust and commenting upon he "studied insolence" of its attorley to the court of which he hapjened to be the representative, the Dourt declared "the men who delib,'rate violate thi3 law wound society nore deeply than does he who counerfeits the coin or steals letters from he mail." Then, with a warning that "the aw must not be ignored in the jurislictlon of this court," Judge Landis >rdered that a special Grand Jury be :onvened op August 14 to consider he evidence brought out in the standard Oil trial incriminating the Chicago and Alton Railway as t the fiver of the rebates which the Oil Trust accepted. This second probe is pregnant with mportance to the corporations of the :ountry. By instituting this move Tudge Landis has shown that he inends to do all he can toward bringng about justice in all ways possible, ind it is entirely possible that if this second investigation and' action is mceessful the men found guilty unler the Elkins law can be sent to the >enitentiary. A hint of this was giv;n by Judge Landis in his decision vhen he said: "For this offence the Elkins law luthorizes punishment only by fine, in obvious defect, remedied, however, jy the present law prescribing im>risonment in the penitentiary for the ike offence." Under the seven indictments still jending against the Standard Oil Company an additional fine amountng to $88,440,000 may be levied igainst the company if it is found juilty on trial. There are in these teven indictments a total of 4422 :ounts, and the maximum fine in each :ount would be $20,000. Judge Landis' decision was a mo3t ;evere arraignment of trust methods n general and those of the Standird Oil in particular. One by one he -UUK up LUt; UUI11CUUUUO U4 IUC I.UUU ;el for the oil corporation, discussed hem in detail and then cast aside the hreas with caustic comments. As to the claim of counsel for the Standard Oil Company that that corporation had a perfect right under he Constitution of the'United States o make a secret agreement with the Chicago and Alton for a rate of six :ents, whereas the regular rate and he rate charged ordinary shippers vas eighteen cents, Judge- Landis hrust hard at Attorney John S. Miler when he said: "Candor obliges to Court to say Urxt- lrnntvc rmthincr tn Qlinnflrt. If 11 CI I UC AUUng uvu *** v? >ut the eminence of the counsel who isserted it. A more abhorrent herisy could not well be'conceived. One night as well assert the right to nake a secret agreement with the :ollector of customs or a tax assessor or n low rate of customs duty or a nuch reduced assessment koa propirty." Throughout his decision the jurist nade plain his position that the naiload, as a common carrier, had no ight f.o enter into an agreement to jive lcwer rates to one shipper than mother, and the defendant corporaion had no right to receive such con:ession; otherwise the whole fabric ol ight and justice must fail. The defense of the corporation that 10 harm would come to competitors r\f ite aninvmpnt of a low ate because there were no such :ompetitors was met by the jurist vith the statement that if a legally rganized and honest company should ittenipt to start in business it would lave "to adopt the practice of this deendant and procure the great public lower of railway companies to be se:retly perverted in its interest. Unler no other possible theory could it lope to survive.*' It required seventy minute3 of iteady reading for the Judge to give lis decision. The courtroom was packed almost to as great an extent is on July 6, when John D. Rockefeler and the other officers of the corporation were present as witnesses. TROLLEY KILLS THREE WOMEN. >Ian With Family Party Did Not See the Electric Car. Jackson, Mich.?R. Adelbert Oliver, a prominent business man of this :ity, took his wife, his daughter 3erenice, Mrs. Oliver's mother, Mrs. 3mily Pulver, and their guest. Mrs. ..evi Painter, automobiling. At Suton's Corner, three miles from Jackion, their automobile was struck by in electric car. A house and som-? trees hid th* ipproaching car. Mrs. Pulver and Miss Oliver were cilled instantly, Mr and Mrs. Oliver md Mrs. Palmer were taken aboard he electric car and brought to this icy, but Mrs. Palmer died before hey reached The hospital. Impressed With Our Progress. Admiral Ijuin. of Japan, said in Paris that what impressed liini most vas "the incomparable industrial deth? 1 *ti i: o/l Clrntoa " . triupiiinrn C II* Ciiv; v U1I.VU jScrnian Warship Ordered to Morocco. The Emperor of Germany has orlered a warship to Casablanca to pro;ect German subjects in Morocco. Representing Standard Oil were At torneys Merritt Starr, partner of Johi R. Miller, the chief of counsel; . Chauncey W. Martyn and Robert W Steward. Mr. Miller is in Europe Moritz Rosenthal is at Far Rockawav L. I., and Alfred D. Eddy is on th< ocean bound for Europe. | District Attorney Edwin W. Sims with Special District Attorney James W. Wllkerson and Assistant Distrlc Attorney Harry A. Parkin, were 01 hand for the Government. In th< r room were a number of attorneys, al bent upon hearing the decision, whicl it was evident they regarded* as epocl making. Also present were a num 1 ber of Stock Exchange men, bu I Judge Landis held the men of raone: in suspense for an hour and ten min utes before gratifying their curiosity The indictments were based on th< charges that the Alton gave rates t< ! the Standard that w&re lower thai the published tariff. ' The period cov ered by the indictment was from Sep tember, 1903, to March, 1905. Th< aeience maintained tnat tne iegai m terstate rate was six cents, while i i was shown that the legal rate pei . hundred pounds to East St. Louli was eighteen cents. The trial lastet six weeks, three tons of documentary evidence was submitted to the jury I including more than 15,000 way bills > shipping orders, receipts and records The jury was sworn in March 5 1907, and on April 13, after beinf ; out two hours and ten minutes, th< i jury returned a verdict of guilty up i on 1462 counts. Money to U. S. Treasury. Washington, D. C.?If the decisioi r rendered by Judge Landis in th< United States Court at Chicago is sus lameu tae otanuaru vu ^umpauj' v?n f be called upon to pay directly int< ' the United States Treasury $29,240, : 000. i The fine must be remitted in on< 1 payment, and there are no legal pro visions by which the oil company cai ' be allowed an extension of time in th< i payment of this immense sum excep by stay of execution by the court which Judge Landls'has granted oi ? sixty days. , Usually fines are paid into 'th< ' court which assesses them. But ii this case the Controller of the Treas ury has ruled that the defendan should pay its fines directly into th< i United States Treasury. Beginning at once the Governmen i will charge interest upon the fines. I i the case should drag along througl the Court of Appeals and up to th< ? Supreme Court almost $2,000,00( i will be added to the amount to b< i paid by the Standard if the Govern I ment wins its case. President Hears of the Sentence. 1 Oyster Bay, N. Y.?President 1 Roosevelt received the news tha Judge Landis, in the United State: District Court in Chicago, had de cided againlt the Standard Oil Com 1 pany of Indiana and had,imposed 1 fines aggregating $29,240,000, witl great interest. The President hac no comment to make on the decision DETAILS OF THE CASE. Estimated Cost to Government W?s Abou $200,000. f Chicago.?The details of the fighi against the Standard Oil Company are as follows: Indictments voted, August 18, 1906. Original number of counts 6,42 S Counts in the trial 1,905 n 441 { V^UUUIO UUL ouoiaiu^u. . ... Counts basis of verdict.' 1,462 t Trial began March 4, 1907. : Trial ended April 14, i 1907. Fines assessed August ? 3, 1907. Rebates involved $223,00( Witnesses for Government. 145 Witnesses for defense. ^ ' i Words in the record . ~ 1,500,00( Cost to Government (estimated) $200,00 ( i Cost to defense (estii mated) 100,00( : Fine assessed 29,240,00( 1 Company earnings in 3 i years involved 199,S00,00( > Indictments still penling here ' Possible fines under these $123,000,00( ; "Conspiracy" Grand Jury called Au> gust 3, 1907. STANDARD DOESN'T CHEAPEN Oil Commissioner Smith Says it Pockets Profits 01 its Own Economies. Washington, D. C.?Following hard on the smashing blow delivered to the Standard Oil Compnny by Fed eral Judge Landis at Chicago, thf ' Government made public a crushing i array of figures gathered by Herberi Knox Smith, the Commissioner o! Corporations. These figures show: First, that the vast Rockefellei ! monopoly since 1882 has paid oul $5*52,000,000?more than half a bil , lion?in dividends, all the time piling i up, in addition, a surplus which a: long ago as 1896 had aggregated nearly $80,000,000 and has sinc< ; grown to unknown proportions. Second, that the oft-repeated boasi I of the Standard, that it had reduced the price bf oil and thus had beer of benefit to the'consumer, is falsf now and always has been false. While the dividends from 1882 tc 1906 were $552,000,000, the nel earnings, the commissioner says, wen much more; at least, $790,000,000 These enormous profits were based or *n invoctmpnt worth at the time oi , its original acquisition not over $75,' 000,000, and not over $147,000,00( in 1896. From 1903 to 1905 th( . average net yearly earnings were about sixty-eight per cent. Arkansas Editor Assassinated. J. N. Scott, city editor of The Helena World, was killed at Helena Ark., as he was leaving his office foi home. Five shots were fired intc him, twe entering the brain. No on< i saw the killing. Aiv/ul Railway Accident. Forty passengers and an engineei were drowned near Angers, France . the locomotive o? a local train jump ing the track on a bridge over th< l.oire. draesine two cars into iln I river. lYomen in (lie Day's News. Mrs. Margaret Carpenter cole i brated her one hundred and iirsi ? birthday at her hoaie in Brooklyn. Mrs. Taton Fleming, a native o: Dundee, has heea recently elected t member oi the British ltoyal Astronomical Society. All's. l.UClUUil 31. MUItUil, CIBIU-HIV years old, widow of Oliver i'. Morton Indiana's war Governor, died at hoi home in fndianapolis. In Franc? many farms are run en . tirely by women, and very successfu . they are, too. Dairymaids are everywhere, to be seen in Great Britain. jtOUILESSmOFBO 1 ; Continuation of Men's Pace Will Leave Only Women. t Male Residents Dying at Rate of Five 1 For Every Two Females, Says j Health Report. 1 Chicago.?The strenuous life is t killing the men of Chicago at a treV mendous rate, while the women of the city are increasing their longer- , . Mi j ity by the simple life. In the weekly : official health bulletin just issued i Health Commissioner Evans declares that a few centuries will see Chicago 3. an Adamle^s Eden. Dr. Evans draws his conclusions t from tae death rate in Chicago for r twenty years, and particularly in the , last seven months, when five mem 1 bers of the stronger sex died for evf ery two of the fairer. Dr. Evans makes the startling [ statement that during; the seven ' months of 1907 in Chicago about 12.| 000 men succumbed, as compared to ; 8000 women. V,J? } He says that in the last year the . ratio of difference in the derfth rate between men and women has been thirty, against less than ten per cent. twpnty years ago. x / The cause for this is attributed bji 7 s the physician to the strenuous life. 'ja Contributory causes are the' quick j lunch, constant exposure and care lessness. , "The men," he says, "are living at a rate that is thirty per cent., faster 4 than that of the women. They work ^ harder. They take less care of them" selves than of their wives and daughters. They court danger. They dist slpate more. They exhibit a carelessness begotten of familiarity with dani eer " & oSa The remedy, according to an omis neat physician, lies in the retutn to J the simple life of our fathers. j .. New York Not So Fast. , ; New York City.?Figures complied by the Health Department show that , , .Cm i- +An nor nonf mAffl ' C appiUAiumi-tij w^u pet vvub. wv? ^ f men than women die annuajly in i New York. To offset this the records " --'J ? show that each year the stork deliv). ers more males than females. - STRANGLES HER TWO BABES. Insane Mother Murders Children Bohind Locked Doors. [ Baltimore, Md.?"I went to Clifton 3 Park this morning and gathered some . beautiful leaves, for I knew they . would keep the mosquitoes away " j from my babies while they slept. They t are asleep, you know, but I?I am so I tired I want to die." Smiling sadly Mrs. Christine Ne- / & nadal said this as she clutched the ' bars of her cell with her toll-stained hands. The unhappy woman, Joseph Nenadal's wife, tfrenty-slx years old, I strangled their two little children In their home. The mother, who has been in, a lunatic asylum three times, 1 again went mad suddenly; her hus' band's grief has driven him almost crazy. f The Nenadals live at No. 1709 Carlisle place. The^ two children [ were Mary, two years and Yarosalov, ten months. The mother, seemingly , calm, went to Mrs. Victoria Vala and ' said: "Come over and see the children. I have dressed them and I am going . ^ to take them out. They look so pretty. They are asleep, but these leaves will keep the mosquitoes from . them." "I followed her," said Mrs. Vala, , wringing her hands and weeping over ' the dreadful memory. ,kMay heaven ' grant that I never see such a sight .'>& again. We entered her house through . the back yard, and I ' saw as I passed through the back yard the . dolly of which Mary was so fond 0 J lying on the ground. Without saying another word Mrs. Nenadal ush . erea me into tne ttuuueu auu wcu u* ^ -.-j the dining room. , . "On the dining room table lay the t ^ brother and sister. Around Mary'a . neck was tightly knotted a stocking; ,-23 around the baby's neck a piece of tape. Their mother gently scattered the leaves over them and I ran away." After Mrs. Vala's flight the mad i . Mrs. Nenadal locked all the doors. Policeman Winter had to break in. ? "Hush!" she said to him. "Don't make so much noise, the children aro asleep. See how pretty they look." . ; RAILROADS GIVE UP. v [ Threat of Extra Session of Virginia t JLegisiatnre tne neasoo. f Richmond, Va.?The railroads operating in Virginia, under threat ' of an extra sessional the Legislature I ?/J| t for the purpose or so amending the constitution as to put the two-cent > passenger rate recently promulgated 3 by the State Corporation Commission I into effect, have surrendered to the will of the people. The rate will probably go into effect within th? t next thirty days, although all the deI tails have not yet been settled be1 tween the representatives of the State ^ i and the attorneys for the railroads. Father and Son Die in Well. ( James Garrity and his son, living at Refuge, Ala., were overcome by gas and died in a sixty-foot well. They were engaged in cleaning the. well. i Two Girls Drown. ; While bathing at* Chicago, Olga } Hull, seventeen, and Edith Schwartz, thirteen, drowned and two compan. ions narrowly escaped. American Swimmer Drowned. ; 'Thomas Myler, who asserted that he hoisted the Stars and Stripes over * Santiago de Cuba during the Span* ish-Amerlcan War, was drowned off Courtdown, Ireland, when practicing for an attempt to swim St. George's Channel. ' Tnrlre TilVJldc Persia. Sit thousand Turkish troops have ! invaded Persia and massacred many Christians; the town of Urumiah was threatened. & Girl Murdered. L Abe Gordon, a traveling salesman of Dayton, Ohio, was shot and prob t ably fatally wounded and his coini panion, Anna Markowitz, assaulted and choked to death, near the Soldiers' Home, west of the city. The ? murderer escaned and no arrests have i been made. - . No Ice Trust in Richmond. A Grant} Jury at Richmond, Va., reported that it had been unable to find any evidence that the ice manui i'acturers of that city had formed an illegal combination.