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This woman says that sick
women should not fail to try
Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable
Compound as she did.
Mrs. A. Gregory, of 2355 Lawrence
St., Denver, Col., writes to Mrs.
Pinkham:
"I was practically an invalid for six
years, on account of female troubles.
I underwent an operation by the
doctor's advice, but in a few months I
was worse than before. A friend advised
Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable
rnmnmmfl and it restored me tonerfect
health, such as I have not enjoyed in
many years. Any woman suffering- as
I did with backache, bearing-down
pains, and periodic pains,should not fail
*9 use Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable^
Compound."
FACTS FOR SICK WOMEN.
For thirty years Lydia E. Pinkham's
Vegetable Compound, made
from roots and herbs, has been the
standard remedy for female ills,
and has positively cured thousands of
women who have been troubled with j
displacements, inflammation, ulceration,
fibroid tumors, irregularities,
periodic pains, backache, that bearing-down
feeling, flatulency, indigestion,
dizziness or nervous prostration.
Why don't you try it ?
Mrs. Pinkham invites all sicli
women to write iier lor auvice.
She has guided thousands to
health. Address, Lynn, Mass.
Milking by Maohinerj.
In the dairy department of the
agricultural college at Manhattan,
Kan., they have been successfully
milking cows by machinery. The
milking machine is a queer looking
apparatus, driven by a gasoline engine.
"With one end fastened to a
cow it milks away in spite of all the
kicking and cavorting the cow may
do. In this modern invention may
be seen the finish of the milk maid,
whose charms the poets have exploited
in verse from time immemorial.?
Epitoraist.
Stones of Gwandu.
There is no asphalt trust in
Gwandu. In that African settlement
the pavements of the approaches to
the gates look like ivory. They are
6kulls, white as African's teeth and
shinging as his eyes.
Long use has put a beautiful polish
on them. When repairs are needed,
the Paving Board sallies out and
"slugs" the necessary number of its
enemies and neighbors. ? Everybody's.
Heart Failure Due to Hyacinths.
Until lately few cases of serious
heart failure due to the presence of
hyacinths in living rooms have been
recorded.
The latest instance is that of a
healthy young girl in Bromley, Kent,
who, after sitting for a couple of J
u~"? <- mnm in tvhirh there were I
UUUIO 1LX ..
several pots of these plants, began
to feel somewhat faint. Two hours
later, >^ter she had gone home she
fell into a deep sleep. The doctor In
attendance stated that the defective
heart action, leading to the insufficient
supply of blood to the brain,
which caused the fainting, was due
to the effect of the hyacinth scent on
the nerves which regulate the heart's
action.
"Heavily scented flowers," says a
medical man, referring to this case,
"should never be kept in any living
room which is not well ventilated.
The keavy feeling which too many
flowers it a close room are apt to
give is due to a slightly depressant
action on the heart. If the heart is
weak, or 'nervous,' and the perfume
Is sufficiently concentrated, the heart
beat may be so impaired as to cause
a prolonged fainting fit."?St." Louis
Glob*"Oemocrat.
Creaking Doors.
The unpleasant creaking of closet
do^s and bureau draws can be remedied
by rubbing the edges with soap.
The United States has 974 training
schools for rurses, with 21,052 pupils
and 6400 graduates last year. In
18SO there were only fifteen such
schools, with 323 pupils.
CHANGE IN FOOD
Works Wonders in Health.
It is worth knowing that a change
in food can cure dyspepsia. "I deem
it my duty to let you know how
Grape-Nut* food has cured me of indigestion.
"I had been troubled with it for
years, until last year my doctor recommended
Grape-Nuts food to be used
every morning. I followed instructions
and now I am entirely well.
"The whole family like Grape-Nuts,
we use four packages a week. You
are welcome to use this testimonial as
you see ni."
The reason this lady was helped by
the use of Grape-Nuts food is that it
is predigested by natural processes,
and therefore does not tax the stomach
as the food she had been using;
it also contains the elements required
for building up the nervous system.
If that part of the human body is in
perfect working order there can be
no dyspepsia, for nervous energy represents
the steam that drives the engine.
When the nervous system is run
down, the machinery of the body
1? L P wo r\r? \Ttiff ^r\r*rl OOYI
WOTK3 Ui*Ui v. uiai;c-nuto xuuu vuu
be used by small children as well as
adults. It is perfectly cooked and
ready for instant use.
Read "The Road to Wellvllle," in
pkgs. "There's a Reason."
Ever read the above letter? A new
one appears from time to time. They
are genuine, true and full of human
interest.
inVESOK REVELATIONS
i FOLLOW SEARCH AT THE
| GUSHNESS mm FfiRft
I * n.i.'t. !- n J t. Ik
I ASiOiWQing ueians in nuyaru tu in
Wholesale, Brutal Hillings on
"Comely Widow's" Place
N?jar Laporte, Ind.
AUTHORITIES CONVINCED THAT
MURDERESS PERISHED IN FIR!
i
j Various Theories Advanced to Explaii
! the Series of Mysterious Assas
sinations?List of Victims Grow
as the Investigation Proceeds.
' A- T_.-? ITU. - ...t.Ufi- + V>??
Liapone, iuu.? uie tci tmuvj mo
Mrs. Eelle Guinness was a cruel slay
er of men and children ha3 been mad<
apparent by developments and th(
method by which she lured her vie
tims to their death has also beei
made clear. That she, too, "died b]
the sword," and that her two daugh
ters and small son, whom she dearlj
loved, were brutally murdered, ar<
the conclusions reached by the au
thorities. State's Attorney Ralph H
Smith asserts that there is no doub'
that the body of the woman found ii
the ruin of the burned Guinness hom(
is that of the murderess.
The medical experts, after examining
the bodies of the woman's children
? Myrtle and Lucy Sorenson
aged eleven and nine, and Philii
Guinness, aged six?announced thai
each had been killed by blows on the
head. The murderer concealed the
I woman's head. If it is found it is be
II The Baif end the Lore
* ?
! Chicago.?Following is Mrs. Guinr
were lured to death:
PERSONAL?COMELY WIDOW, W
1 the finest districts in Laporte Cou
f ance of gentleman unusually well pro
| replies by letter considered unless send
sonal visit.
t Waupaca, Wis.?The letter which
2 Mrs. Belle Guinness, who ran the Lap
j from Norwegian into English, as fol
a "Carl Petersen, Waupaca, Wis.:
j "Dear Sir?As some time ago I re
v 'ad' in the Scandinavian. I will, with p
j "The reason I waited for some tim
to the 'ad.' As many as fifty have bee
1 answer all. I have picked out the mos
yours is such.
Z "First, I will tell you that I am a
for twenty years. I live in Indiana, ab
mile north of Laporte. I am the sole o
"There are seventy-five acres of 1
+ land, apples, plums and currants. Am
J room house, practically new, a windmil
4 in a beautiful suburb of Chicago, wort
J "All of this is pretty near paid for
three small children, from five to elev
Z the two largest are girls, all frisky an
five years ago and have since tried to
1 help I could hire. I am getting tired o
; to trust others with so much.
? "It is too much for me to look afte
them, anyway. My idea of them is to
thing, and as we have no acquaintanc
J plicant I have considered favorably m
+ security. I think that is the best way
2 always looking for such opportunities,
can prove.
Z Now, if you think that you are ah
can talk matters over personally. If y
2 I would not care for you as a hired m
t rest in my home and near my children.
X regards.
"Laporte, Ind."
tieved that the manner of the woman's
death will be found to have been
like that of her children.
The key to the mystery is thought
to lie with Ray Lamphere. former
man-of-all-worl; for Mrs. Guinness.
The authorities charge him with the
murder of Mrs. Guinness and her
j children and with burning the farm!
house. Lamphere wa3 madly in love
with Mrs. Guinness and had beea
| Couted by her. He was poor, an
' noyed ner witn nis protestations ana
j she sent him away.
She was luring men of small means
from the West and Northwest to hei
! slaughter house. Lamphere, with the
| ever watchful eyes of the lover, be|
came troublesome. She would nc
doubt have murdered .him and buried
him with her other victims in hei
barnyard had it not been that he was
a native ar-3 his disappearance would
have been more difficult to explain
than were those of the men from distant
points. These merely had lefl
town, gene home, according to her reports,
and that ended the matter. The
j slaying of the infatuated Lamphere
j might have aroused suspicion and
; brought about an investigation.
+ V* r>r\r*xr -fViof T.n wrvlmro woe llftT
I accomplice is disputed. He may have
suspected her of being in some mys^
j terious way concerned with the sud!
den disappearance of the visitors. The
| authorities arrested and locked ui
here Bessie Wallace, of Michigar
: Cit3r, a woman of the underworld
i who asserts that Lamphere had said
! to her that if Mrs. Guinness did nol
! treat him more kindly he would senc
j her to the gallows, and also that he
| would "burn her out."
| On the night that Mrs. Guinness
murdered Andrew Hegelein, the
Aberdeen (S. Dak.) stockman, she
j sent Lamphere on a mythical trip tr
, Michigan City, near by, to meet ?
] supposed John Moo, or Maa, who, she
said, was her cousin. She told hiir
, to wait over night for the arrival ol
; the cousin, and if he did not come ir
J the morning to return home. Whei
: he got home she told him that Hege
! lein had left on an afternoon trail
J for South Dakota.
No one doubted that the woman':
body found in the ruins was that o
i Mrs. Guinness until the first of th<
j series of sensational discoveries lee
,
! AFGHANS KILLED IN BATTLE
i British Forces Ordered to Evacuati
the Khybcr Pass.
London, England.?sixty Aignan
were killed in the fighting which too]
place between a largo Afghan fore
and the British troops at a point ii
I the Khyber Pass near Landi-Khotal
! according to a dispatch sent in by :
correspondent with the British col
' umn. A message is published her
| from Lahore giving the Afghan deai
! at 300, but this communication is dis
I credited.
'
The Labor World.
! A San Jos? (Cal.) co-operativ
j bakery is about to begin operations.
The average length of life of
tradesman is two-thirds that of
farmer.
The amalgamation of the two bod
' * - -c : ? 'i ??w Kai*c?' 1 a hnror
I les oi orguuiieu piuiuucio iuw.w
| at Brooklyn, N. Y., has been com
pleted.
During th<? year ending October 3(
1907, there were seventy-one strike
In Connecticut, involving 7U&0 en
ployes, and 96,G10 days' time wa
lost, while the loss in wages amounl
ed to more than $155,542.
to the suspicion that Mrs. Guinness
herself was not dead, but that she
had cleverly substituted another woman's
body for her own and disappeared.
The Roster oI Victims.
[j But for the moment admitting that
] Mrs. Guinness actually died in the
fire which destroyed her own home
and children, its roster of victims in
p this most baling mystery of crime
stands:
GUINNESS, Mrs. BELLE, whose
headless body was found in the ruins
of the Guinness house after the fire
on April 2S.
SORENSON, MYRTLE, aged eleven,
daughter of Mrs. Guinness, who
also lost her life in the destruction of
the residence.
SORENSON, LUCY, aged nine.
_ youngest daughter of Mrs. Guinness,
l who likewise was burned to death in
the fire.
GUINNESS, PHILIP, aged five, son
i of Mrs. Guinness, whose burned body
was found clasped in the arms of the
t-?-? off of + V10 rl oat rii r?tinn nf the*
3 Guinness home.
HEGELEIN, ANDREW, aged forty,
bachelor, Aberdeen, S. D., suitor
t for Mrs. Guinness' hand, who came to
- Laporte January 5, 190S, and disap
peared three weeks later, after draw
lng $3000 from the bank.
OLSON, JENNIE, aged seventeen,
1 daughter of Anton Olson, of Chicago,
f whom Mrs. Guinness took to rear
- when eight years old, and whose body
r is believed to be one of the four found
5 in one grave in the barnyard.
UNIDENTIFIED MAN, believed by
authorities to be Ole Budsberg from
t Iola, Wis., who came to Laporte
i about a year ago in answer to a mati
rimonial advertisement, and who was
not seen after drawing $1000 from
the Home Bank.
UNIDENTIFIED BODY, set unde,
termined, dismembered and found in
) a three-foot hole.
t UNIDENTIFIED BODY, ser undei
termined, dismembered and found in
s a three-foot hole.
UNIDENTIFIED BODY, sex unde
Used by Mrs. Guinness. \
iess' "matrimonial ad" by which victims *
HO OWNS LARGE FARM IN ONE OF \\
mty, Ind., desires to make the acquaintiviaed,
with views of joining fortunes. No
er is willing to follow answer with per- ;;
'
Carl Petersen, of Waupaca, received from 1
iorte murder farm, has been translated j
lows: ?
ceived from you a letter in answer to my \\
leasure, answer the same. J J
e is that there have been other answers <
n received and it has been impossible to
t respectable and I have decided that ;
Norwegian and have been in this country ;;
out fifty-nine miles from Chicago and one !!
wner of a nice home, pretty location. ;;
and, also all kinds of crops, improved -
<-?n VinnlovnrH rnnrf and liavp il fcwelvft T
I and all modern improvements, situated I
h about ?15,000. . X
. It is in my own name. I am alone with r
en years old. The smallest is a little boy, 1
d well. I lost my husband by accident f
set alone as well as I could with what |
f this ana I have found that it is not well j
ir things, and things are not as I want +
take a partner whom I can trust every- I
e3 ourselves, I have decided that every ap- ?
ust make a satisfactory deposit of cash or I
for parties to keep away grafters who are f
as I have had experience with them, as I J
le in some way to put up $1000 cash we |
ou cannot, is it worth while to consider? I
an. as I am tired of that and need a little t
I will close for this time. With friendly 1
MRS. P. S. GUINNESS.
termined, dismembered, and found in
. the same hole.
UNIDENTIFIED BODY, dismem;
bered, supposed to be that of a man
from Chicago, found lying face downward
in a box buried in the barn lot.
i UNIDENTIFIED BODY, possibly a
man of middle age, recovered from
barnyard grave in advanced stage of
; iicuum jjuoi uuu.
l UNIDENTIFIED BODY, probably
a woman, taken with two others from
1 the same crude grave.
And in the light of the develop;
ments the authorities are asking
whether two more victims of the
; woman will not be found in Chicago,
namely:
? SORENSON, MADS, first husband
I of the woman, who died under mys
terious circumstances in Chicago, bei
lieved to have been poisoned, but
[ nothing was ever proved.
i GUINNESS, PHILIP, second hus
band of the woman, died at the house
; of mystery about four years ago as a
- result of the skull being fractured
? with a meat chopper which fell from
? a shelf.
Four Theories of the Crimes.
The bodies here in Laporte and a
; mass of circumstantial evidence, com
- bined with a score of suspicious cir
cumstances, afford the basis upon
; which the authorities have byilt up
> four theories to account for a series
i of crimes which have startled the
, whole country. These are:
[ Theory No. 1?That Mrs. Guint
ness, fearing exposure of her long
[ murderous career, killed her three
> children and herself, setting fire to
the house to conceal crime, supported
; by circumstantial identification of
; body as hers, and reception of letter
; just before tragedy making her fear
> for life and withdraw money from
l bauk.
; Theory No. 2?That Mrs. Guini
ness, fearing exposure, fled after kill[
ing children, putting body of another
i woman in house to mislead authorii
ties; head of body identified as hers
- not found.
i Theory No. 3?That Ray Lamphere,
her farmhand, did the killing
; from double motive of revenge and
E jealousy; was seen near house just
; before the fatal fire, and when told
1 of it asked if woman and children es
Ma?!? Sweets in Dull Demnnd.
liarga receipts of maple sugar are
3 still the feature of the market. The
make seems to have been a large one
s this spring, and more sugar aud syrup
? are offered than can be readily scld.
e
i
^ Rain and Snow Benefit Crops.
The drouth which had continued
e for eight months and threatened sell
rious curtailment of the crops in
i- Northern Colorado has been effectually
broken by a rain and snow storm.
Feminine Notes.
e Italy Insists that Miss Elkins be
converted to Catholicism. Her bonds
a will be celebrated later.
a Mrs. Frances Fitz, of Chelsea,
I Mass., was elected presiaent-generai
[_ I of the Daughters of the Revolution,
s Mrs. Daniel Lamont was unanii
raously re-elected president of the
Army Relief Society at the annual
)( meeting of the organization.
<s Viscountess Molesworth has started
l- a jam factory at her country home,
5 Yalter's Hall, Kent, England, where
t- the industry is flourishing In a gratifying
manner.
caped; also Mrs. Guinness had caused
onrArjf covnro 1 flmoa |
Theory No. 4?That quadruple
crime was committed by a murderous
gang with headquarters in Chicago,
fearing exposure by Mrs. Guinness ofi
long series of murder3 and fires for
insurance and money of victims, she
being used as decoy through matrimonial
advertisements; supported by
shipping of mysterious trunks and
boxes to her farm from Chicago.
Mystery of the Headless Body.
Is Mrs. Guinness alive?
The Laporte authorities are not
agreed upon their answers. There is,
first of all, the mystery of the headless
body supposed to be that of the
woman. A careful search of the
ruins has failed to reveal a tracc of
the head. How could the woman's
head have been totally incinerated
and the body left intact? Besides,
Mrs. Guinness had one strong means
of identification. Her upper set of
teetn were neavny piaceu wun guiu,
in fact, almost entirely covered, the
dentist using something like $300
worth of the precious metal.
Seven gold watches were found in
the ruins little harmed by the flames,
and the authorities say that if they
did not suffer from the heat the gold
on the woman's teeth would also have
been unharmed. In order to be certain
that the gold is not in the ruins.
Sheriff Smutzer ordered the searchers
to get sieves and sift all of the ashes
in the ruins.
The Prosecutor say3 that certain
trunks have already been traced in
that way, and he is now convinced
that all the bodies aro victims of the
woman. The Prosecutor also believes
that the headless body now at the
morgue and which was found in th?
ruins of the Guinness home is that of
Mrs. Guinness. The size corresponds
well with hers, and the fact that the
head is missing is not regarded as
very strange, for the body lay in such
a position that the head would have
been covered by the falling walls and
thus would have been exposed to a
more intense heat than any other part
of her person.
A large glass bowl, which was
found against the left shoulder, was
half melted away, showing that the
heat had been greater there than at
any other place in the debris.
A strong chain of evidence is being
woven around Ray Lamphere, the
hired hand on the Guinness farm.
Lamphere and John Maxon, who
had worked for Mrs. Guinness, were
examined about the house, and the
suspicions of the Sheriff on two important
points were confirmed. One
was that the murders were done in a
"guest's room" on the second floor,
and that the bodies were hacked to
pieces in a "dark room" in the cellar.
Lamphere said that the "guest's
room" always was locked, and that
he never was permitted to enter it.
He said that two padlocks were kept
on the "dark room," which was built
of solid masonry on three sides and
Vfi'.u iue uuiy upeumg a uanuw uuur
of oak. It is thought that the woman
kept bodies in the cellar until sh^e
had several for burial. This much is
indicated by the fact that of two bodies
found together one was in a more
advanced state of decomposition than
the other.
Mahogany in Guests' Room.
The guests' room, it has been
found, was luxuriously furnished.
Mrs. Guinness ordered the furniture
herself in a Laporte store. A set of
bird's-eye maple was obtained from a
wholesale house in Chicago, but the
woman rejected it with the remark,
"It's too light in color and too hard
to keep clean." She finally accepted
a set of mahogany, and it is believed
the bill was paid with money from
one of her victims. She bought the
finest imported curtains for the room,
the item of sale being found in tho
books of a merchant here.
At the time she selected the cur
tains Mrs. Guinness took pride in telling
of the care she was taking with
the room. She said she always liked
to have friends around, and that they
must have the best she could afford.
There is no doubt that the murders
were done in the dead of night when
the victims slept. In each skull holes
show there never was a change in
attack, and in this the Coroner sees
evidence of the cunning of the wornav.
He said that the method of killing
was such that little or no blood
would be spilled, and that the instrument
used had a projection or thick
needle only long enough to cause
death by slightly puncturing the
brain. Repeated blows were struck,
and with each one the skull was
pierced. The Coroner said the first
blow undoubtedly caused death in
each case.
The scene where the bodies have
been dug up is attractive. A pretty
iron fence surrounds the ruins of the
house, behind which is a large barn
and a windmill. The spot in which
the bodies were interred is on the
side of the hill, and is surrounded by
it wuveu wire ieuce. J. ins lence was
a mystery to the authorities for some
time until it was discovered that the
pigs kept by the woman were directly
behind the stable and the "hog
run" led past the graveyard.
SHOOTS DOWN DIVORCED WIFE.
Jealous Man Mortally Wounds Iler
Companion, Too.
Kenosha, Wis.?Enraged because
his wealthy wife had obtained a divorce
from him, Martin Schleycr shot
her fatally, and also Herman Koehler,
whom he suspected of having won
her affections. Both Mrs. Schleyet
and Koehler were taken to the hosnHn
1 Vt rv + rw r> 11 n rr nn n fi r< r\ { /-J + li a
Xiitai, ?>ijcic tuc 3ui qcujio oaiu iuvj
would die as a result of their wounds.
Mrs. Schleyer was one of the largest
property owners in this section of the
State. She and her husband quarreled
about a year ago, and he went
to Portland, Ore. In his absence his
wife obtained a divorcs. Sell layer
heard of it several weeks ago and returned
here.
I LORD GETS DECREE.
Woman Protests Innocence After Witnesses
Testify.
Bridgeport,Conn.?Henry Johnson
Lord, the wealthy horseman, of Nichols,
Conn., received a decree of absolute
divorce in the Superior Court
here, Judge Robinson finding the allegations
of infidelity against his
wife, Augustine Emanuel Lord, a Virginian,
well grounded. Lord bad
named as the only co-respondont his
wife's negro coachman, Harry Caraeron.
Prominent People.
E. H. Harriman is sixty years old.
Dr. William T. Manning was elected
rector of Trinity Church,
The Rev. Morgan Dix was rector
of Trinity parish lor more than fortyfive
years.
JohnHaysHammond'snew contract
as mining engineer with the Guggenheims
calls for a salary of $500,000 a
year.
The hand of John D. Rockefeller is
seen in the establishment of the Agricultural
Guild at the University of
Chicago, which th? oil maenate is to
"financiaJLy assist
r '' '
, SECRETARY WILSON'S IDEA OF A PRO
Wi
-Carl oc
CONGRESS AT THE
Appropriations Made by This Sessi
a Bis Deficit?Estimated Exces
is $80,000,000 F
Washington, D. C.?This Congress
leaves behind a record of unprecedented
expenditures. Coming to
Washington fresh from the scenes of
the financial disturbance of the early
fall, it has pushed the appropriations
for the first session of the Sixtieth
Congress above the billion dollar
mark.
Not so very many years ago Speaker
Reed and his billion dollar Congress
startled the country. Now the
country has reached billion dollar
sessions, and it takes two sessions to
make a Congress.
Not only does the billion dollar session
follow closely the receding wave
of a financial flurry, but it comes with
a Treasury depleted and facing a deficit
estimated for the fiscal year at
$60,000,000, and for the current year
ending December 31, 1908, at $100,000,000.
The official statement of
the Treasury Department recently
showed an excess of expenditures
above receipts of $53,018,829.37.
The excess of receipts over expenditures
was $58,410,542.53 one year
ago, making a difference on the wrong
aide of the ledger of $111,429,371.90.
Nearly all the annual sunoly bills
have received consideration from the
House of Representatives, in which
they originate. Not one has been
passed by this Congress which does
not show a substantial increase above
the amount carried last year. The
increase runs from $300,000, added
to the amount of the Indian bill, to
$26,000,000 in the annual appropriation
for the navy.
Exceeding Last Session's Figures.
Making a conservative estimate,
and adding the actual increases
shown in those passed or under consideration,
the appropriations of this
session exceed those of the second
session of the last Congress by $104,300,000.
To this sum must be added
>:he amount in the public building bill
iemanded by those having close districts,
where the judicious distribution
of the contents of the "pork barrel"
helps to turn the tide of votes. A
;onservative estimate of the provisions
of this bill is $20,000,000.
Added to the increases carried in
the appropriation bills this gives an
iggregate of $124,300,000, and raises
I cne estimate 01 me apprupnauuus
MOB WOMEN IN
Newest Fashion Too Much F<
Police W<
Paris.?Disturbances which threatj
ened to become a riot arose at the
j Longchamps race course on Sunday
; from the appearance in the members*
j enclosure of four young women attired
in ultra-fashionable gowns. The
j dressmakers of Rue de la Paix fre|
qently boom their latest creations at
I Longchamps, but Sunday's experii
raent was too daring even for
j Parisians.
The gowns were so classic, so tightfitting
and so transparent that some
I of the onlookers rubbed their eyes in
j amazement. Others blushed, others
turned indignantly away, while some
I men laughed and jeered. The wear;
ers had been sent by their employers
[ to advertise the so-called sheath
| gowns, an attempted revival of the
: Directoire fashion. The most sensa
WIFE TAKES ]
j Drags a junk Wagon Arouut
Humane Soci<
Chicago, 111.?Harnessed between
' the shafts of a wagon heavily laden
J with old iron, bottles and rags, Mrs.
i Frank Mulcaski, fifty-five years old,
i wife of an Evanston junk dealer, has
j taken up the task left off by the fami
ily horse at its death two weeks ago.
! Supplied with specially fitted harness,
| she has made it possible for her husi
band to continue in business.
| Daily she draws the wagon through
I the streets of Evanston and Wilmette,
I responding with alacrity to her hus|
band's cries of "whoa" and "giddap."
j Philadelphia. Doctor Says
"Fatal to Pick Buttercups."
I Philadelphia.?That the picking of
j buttercups is injurious to the health
j of children is the theory of Dr. VV.
j W. Chalfonte. He declared at a meeti
ing of physicians that some cases
I called measles are not measles at all.
I but are the effects of gathering butj
tercups and inhaling their perfume.
| "Buttercup fever" is the term Dr.
| Chalfonte gives the disease. "In Ger
many and Holland there are laws for;
bidding the growing and picking of
I buttercups," said the physician.
|
The Field of Sports.
Packey McFarland says he won't
fight Gans unless he gets $30,000.
In the Pacific Coast tryouts for the
Olympic Games Jos. B. King won the
1 fifteen-mile Marathon race in 1 24:29
1-5.
America will not send a representative
crew to the Olympic Games Regatta,
to be held at Henley-on-Thames
( July 29.
| Frank L. Kramer won his first race
on the new vaiisburg cycle track, at
Newark, N. J., defeating Joe Fogler
by a few inches in the half-mile
sprint.
I
PER TRAINIM FOR THE AMERICAN BO
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) G?T. Xl&Mf
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in fcy Eerryman, in the Washington Star.
TWO BILLION MARK.
on Exceed One Billion Dollars?Facin,
;s of Expenditures Over Receipts
or the Fiscal Year.
made and contemplated by the pres
ent session of Congress to $1,044
248,679.63. The total appropriate
of the last session of Congres
amounted to $919,94S,679.63.
The increases, actual and esti
mated, are, in round numbers:
Navy $26,000,00
Pensions 17,000,00
Postofflce 10,000,00
Sundry Civil l,5O0,OO
Deficiencies 18,000,00
Agriculture 2,100,00
Army 16,300,00
Diplomatic and Consular
450,00
Fortifications 3,700,00
Indian 300,00
Legislative 400,00
Miscellaneous 4,250,00
Permanent annual appropriations
4,300,00
Public Building bill... 20,000,00
Total $124,300,00
Totals of Money Bills.
Some of the expenditures author
ized by Congress for the fiscal yea
1909 are, in round numbers, $11,
000,000 carried in the fortification
bill; $222,000,000 in the po3toffic
bill; $98,000,000 for the army
$123,000,000 for the navy; $163,
000,000 for pensions, including $15,
000,000 to carj-y the widows' pensioi
bill passed at this session; $106,000,
000 in the sundry civil bill; $8,000,
000 in the Indian bill; $33,000,00'
in the legislative, executive and ju
dicial bill, and $24,000,000 in th
urgent deficiency bill.
The leaders have raised warninj
voices and urged the cutting dowi
of annual estimates submitted to Con
gress. These suggestions have no
kept the figures down and have hai
little good effect.
Democrats are already preparinj
to make use of the figures furnishei
by their opponents in campaign docu
ments, and are hoping for success oi
the record of the party in power
Most, if not all, of the committee
making up the money bills hav
failed by many thousands of dollar
to meet the estimates made by th
executive departments. The tendenc;
haa hppn alw.ivs to increase rathe
than decrease the amounts expendei
in former years.
"SHEATH" GOWNS
?r Parisians at L,oiis:ctaanips. Bu
?n't Objedl.
tional of them have a divided skir
showing the outlines' of the lowe
limbs.
The excitement became so grea
that the police were obliged to re
move the young women from the en
closure. A blushing policemai
wrapped his cloak around a divide^
skirt and conducted the owner to ;
cab. Summonses were talked of, bu
the police decided not to act. Directo
Touny, of the municipal police, said:
"It seems these dresses are th
latest fashion. I think them some
what daring, but if it is the prevail
ing fashion, there is nothing more t
be said."
One cynic remarks: "As Pari
thinks to-day, the world thinks to
morrow. This fashion will spreai
^V? /> nrVt/\1n nrnr?M "
UVCi tilC VV1LUIC wuiiu.
HORSE'S PLACE.
I, With Husband Driving, am
;tv Is Powerless.
Mulcaski kept to the outskirts o
the town at first with his nove
"steed." As long as Mrs. Mulcask
is willing to perform the task th
Humane Society can not interfere, i
is said, and there is no other agenc;
which would be empowered to act
At times Mulcaski stops to consul
with his wife concerning purchaser
and routes to be taken. In additioj
she is watchful for chance custom
ers, pointing them out when her hus
band fails to notice them. This is ai
advantage he did not enjoy before.
Squeezing of Heart May
Save "Drowned" Men
Hartford. Conn.?Wonders are pre
dieted by Dr. D. F. Sullivan for th
new method of resuscitation whicl
he employed on Nuncio Chial win
was saved twice from death after hi
heart had stopped beating by th
squeezing of his heart in time witl
normal pulsations.
Dr. Sullivan believes that if a per
son who is apparently drowned couli
be immediately operated upon ain
the heart exposed, artificial respira
tion might be induced.
Newsy Paragraphs.
Baron S. Sakatani. ex-Minister o
Finance of Japan, arrived in Ne^
York City.
At Madrid the infant Prince of th
Asturias was made a private in ;
Spanish regiment on his first birth
day.
Cardinal Logue preached in St
Patrick's Cathedral, New York, fror
the text, "God is Wonderful in Hi
Saints."
The Navy Department prepared ;
new skeleton mast to be tested b
shells when the monitor Florida i
fired uDon.
V v.'.-i .*H
j Mexican Homes. '
The )eons, or former slaves of
Mexico, Usually live in houses built
Df canes tied or twisted together and
thatched with grass. Often they are
not tall enough for a man to stand in.
There is no chimney, the smoke escaping
through the roof. But the
poorest hut is gay with vines and
flowers. The inmates sleep huddled
together on the floor without removing
their clothing. When not sleeping
or cooking they roll about on the
ground outside.?The Junior Christian
Endeavor World.
Landscape Made of Bacteria.
A remarkable piece of work was
recently shown at a German exhibition
in the shape of a well-executed
landscape made of colonies of different-colored
bacteria thriving in gelatin
ond meat extract. The thing
was shown at an exhibition of eccentric
art, where there were also artistic
compositions in spinach and egg and
other effects secured by resorting to
the use of spices of different colors
as the media, instead of paint.
Truth and
Quality
, appeal to the "Well-Iniormed in every
walk of life and are essential to permanent
success and creditable standing. Accoringly,
it is not claimed that Syrup of Figs
g ind Elixir of Senna is the only remedy of
known value, but one of many reasons
why it is the best of personal and family
laxatives is the fact that it cleanses,
sweetens and relieves the internal organs
on which it acts without any debilitating
o after effects and without having to increase
the quantity from time to time.
It acta pleasantly and naturally and
0 truly as a laxative, and its component
q parts are known 'to and approved by
0 physicians, as it is free from all objection0
able substances. To gut its beneficial
q effects always purchase the genuinemanufactured
by the California Fig Syrup
? Co., only, and for sale by all leading drug
v ! *
0 gwts.
?
Q France has more than 300 daily newspapers.
0 FITS, St. Vitus' Dance, Nervous Diseasesper0
manently cured by Dr. Kline's Cireat Nerve
_ Restorer. $2 trial bottle and treatise free.
0 Dr.Ii.R. Kline, Ld.,931 Arch St.,Phila.,Pa.
The length of the foot should be one..
sixth the height of a person.
f Ask Your Dealer For Allen's Foot>Kue,
A powder. it'rests the feet. Cures Corns,
s ljuuiona, Swollen, Sore, Hot, Callous, Aching,
e 'Sweating l*'eet and Ingrowing Nails. Aliens
; Foot-Ease makes new or tight shoes easy. At
1 all Druggists and Shoe stores, 25 cents. Accept
no substitute. Sample mailed Fres.
Address Allen S. Olmsted, LeRoy, N. Y.
a
Gravy.
j What is gravy? A compound and
- mrttjflv frnm
ti UiCUUi UCI1TCU UiUUbl; ftavM*
e and seasonings. A substitution of
one letter makes grave out of gravy;
I and it is to the grave that gravy /
1 leads.?New York Press.
t People Tell Each Other About Good
1 Things.
Twelve years ago teiv people in the world
? knew of such a preparation as a Powder
1 for the Feet. To-day after the genuine
. merit of Allen's Foot-Ease has been told
3 year after year by one gratified person to
another, there are millions who would as
* soon go without a dentifrice as without
3 Allen's Foot-Ease. It is a cleanly, wliole2
some, healing, antisept;c powder to oe
s shaken into the shoes, which has given rest
e ana comfort to tired and aching teet in all
y parts of the world, it cures while you
_ walk. Over 30,000 testimonials of cures of
, smarting, swollen, perspiring feet. It pre1
vents friction and wear of the stockings
and will 6ave m your slocking bill ten
times ita cost each year. Imitations pay
I the dealer a larger profit, otherwise, von
% | would never be offered a substitute wnen
you ask to. Alien s root-c.ase, uie uu(iii?
powder for the feet. Imitations are not
t advertised because the)* are not permanent.
Kor every genuine article there are many
imitations. The imitator has no reputation
t to sustain?the advertiser has. It stands
r to reason that the advertised Article is the
best, otherwise the public would not buy it
t and the advertising couW not be continued.
; Whea you ask for an article advertised in
this paper, see that you get it. Refuse
imitations.
[j Soon!
a ! The days will soon be getting shortt
i er and the coal bills longer.?PhHar
J delphia Telegraph.
el LITTLc BOY KEPT SCRATCHING.
- ! Eczema Lasted 7 Years?Face was A1J
o Raw ? Skin Specialists Failed,
But Cuticura Effected Cure.
s "When my little boy was six weeks old
?? eruption broke out on his face. 1 took
^ j him to a doctor, but his face kept on getI
ting worse until it got so bad that no one
I .'nnlH look at him. His whole face was one g
I trust and must have been veiy painful. He B
scratched day and night until bis face was I
J raw. Then I took him to all the best I
2 I specialists in skin diseases, but they couid B
j not do much for him. The eczema got? 9
f I his arms and legs and we cculd not get a w
: | night's sleep in months. 1 got a set of 9
f | Cuticura Remedies and he felt relieved the H
! tirst time I used them. I gave the Cuti- I
' cura Remedies a good trial and gradually I
the eczema healed all up. He is now seven I
y rears old and I think the trouble wilJ
' never return. Mrs. John G. Klumpp, 80 B
Niagara St., Newark, N. J., Oct. 17 and H
? 22, 1907." .
Solitude ea Masse. V
a Here is an extract from the pros* B
pectus of a hotel in Switzerland: H
- 1 'Weissbach is the favorite place of
resort for those who are fond of soli- Eg
i. tude. Persons in search of solitude 9
are, in fact, constantly flocking here
e I from the four quarters of the globe." M
ti I ?Tatler.
L> |
S AT A CRITICAL TIME.
e
'l Women Are Likely to Suffer With
I Dangerous Kidney Disorders.
J j Mrs. John Kirk, R. F. D. No. 2, De^
i troit, Mich., says: "Five years ago at
fa critical time of life
1 ws.s on the verge of
a collapse with kidney
troubles, backache,
dizziness, puffy
dropsy swellings and
urinary irregularities.
I lost flesh and felt
languid, nervous or
unstrung all the time.
As my doctor did not help me, I be11
gau using Doan's Kidney Pills. In a
~ * ??H evmnfnmci 1 pf fc
s) lew weeh.3 ail uicoc nj
me. I dow weigh 163 pounds and H
a feel in excellent health." 9E
>' Sold by all dealers. 50 cents a box. H
a Foster-Mllburn Co., Buffalo, N. Y. H