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ELD UP BY WOMAN male Bandit Uses Gun and Secures $7,000. rpinlhe Footpad Chatted at She Friakod Pittsburgh Banker, / ART MISSED MANY BEATS llet Wound to Civil War Veteran of Pittsburgh Caused AbnormaJ Action. Pittsburgh.?Andrew C. Gibson, sev y-sevon years old, u member of japan y I, Fourteenth Pennsylvania jglry, during the Civil war, who ^ at Midway Sunday evening, had distinction of having had 817,571, less heart beats In . flfty-seven ?s of bis life than does ^lie normal lbson was wounded during the II war at the age of twenty. The et passed between Hwo ribs and ie to the heart,, spreading an artery vein. In some way It affected his rt tn such an extent that that or missed one beat In every four of Drninl hoort. pcordlng to calculatlonH, Gibson's rt missed 1080 beats each hour; 20 bents every twenty-four hours; B.80O ?>uch year, and 317..ri71,600 be fifty-seven years following bis ry. IN NORTH RUSSIA MttsbMrgh.-^Adnm Kldemuller. sec Hi v of " l?ulld!ng and loan ussocla* ii, was held l,l? hy a polite, heuvlly led woman footpad and robbed of lk>0'while almost within Might of his ue. * Oh. 1 bog your pardon," the. worn bald she bumped Into KideinuU le battened to pardon her, but saw her hand u small pistol. The wa ni ght' Issued was quiet but stern, lemuller told detectives. Seeping the pistol In position, she ved closer to Kldemuller and drew u> bis hip pocket a wallet, fairly ging with money and checks he ) taken in at a meeting of the loan oc!atlon< [?ben with a smile ahe started a iversatlon con^grnlng; the "funny Either Pittsburgh has been having," >plng the revolver pressed close to 1 victim. Eldeiuuller Was forced to Join In tho iversatlon, he said, and after sev 1 pedestrians tad passed sfre ched Into bis vest pocket and re ved his watch. Ihe unclasped this from a watcli iln. and again continued her con* nation about the weather. You just keep going," she warned lemuller as she had slipped the tch and wallet Into a large muff. randfather and grandson lit a peaa hut in the city of Archangel. The iliar looking cradle 18 .of the fa >r Russian type," being but a ich of a tree suspended from the r /? ' WHISKY BEST REMEDY? ition for Kentucky Doctors Pr? crlbing It, Says State Hoalth Officer. ulsville, Ky.?Physicians In Ken 7 who prescribe whisky for ailing nts will have to prove to the license hoard that no other medl Is better, or their licenses are 11a r> be revoked, according ?o Dr. A. cCormack. state health officer. A Injr of physicians will he held In iKtDn, he saldt to form a drastic jc on the prohibition amendment fnr as it applies to the medical js.slon of this state. ' ? American Medical society, Dr irmnrk asserted, has gone on l?C ? believing whisky as a medicine I t)?M essnry and wherever it could >ed there Is Some other remedy ly nood or better. .otet Pension for Bravery. >o, Jnpnn.?The Jap?oe*e rick in who saved the llfe:of the for mperor Nicholas of RtiMlft. when kmpt was made to kill him on lit to Japan as czarovltch In 1801, j st the pcnxlon which was paid j )r malt? yean* for that service KtiHKtan ruler.* This la the re t the death of the former enc and tho Italian revolution. olns wan attacked by a Japan llc?>tnar^ with a saber. Interfer y tho rlckflh iman enabled him l?* .vith it Mli^ht wonnd: Wbtle i - hi* pension the riekahaman d luxury, hnt now ha* returned work of haulloff hla riikaha. FAMOUS IN VERSE /imithy, Immortalized by lohQ fellow, Still Stands. Shop of the Village Blacksmith, s,t Cambridge, Maae., Look* Today Almost at It Old Wh?n the Poet Wrote 0/ It. . in hi* diary or October r?. isittt. Longfellow made this note: "Wrote a iu'w | ism I in <?i llfe-tlt Is Thr \ lllage Blacksmith.' " And 1 ho h"tiM? of the vlllniiu black smith, hullt h? 1811. Htlll stands In Cutnbrldge. covered with vines and sought am* by tourists and lovers of the old. although the "spreading chest nut tree" baa Weeu cut down to tuake room for the widening of Brattle street. It was the home of Dexter Pratt, the village blacksmith, and the friend of Longfellow, who Immortalized him and hla smithy in verse. The Bach elder family, who bought the place from the heirs of Mary Walker In 1912, have restored the place to Its former simple beauty. It stUl Ueofa the "Sign of the Cockhorse." Inside, the rooms are reatored with all the qualntnesa of their original form. As one goes In the door they open from both aides of the femall hall and each room has a large open fire place. The mantels are wide and plain, as was the fashion In the early days, ' j Upstairs, at the Brattle street end of the bouse, one goes down three steps Into the end room. You pass through a narrow hack passage and find two small bedrooms and back stairs which are sharp and steep. Dexter Pratt. Longfellow's black smith friend, succeeded Torrey Han cock In the Ownership of the property, who In turn bought It from the heirs of Thomas Brattle, who built the house. Pratt had lived there a long time when Longfellow came to Cam bridge In 1880. After the death of Dexter Pratt . In 1847, the property passed through various hands until, In 1870, friends bought It for Mary Walker, an e^aped quadroon slave, a woman of renneuient and beauty, who had been u servant In several Cam bridge families, and afterward taught school In the South. After~Ver return tp the North two of her three children were found and returned to her through the efforts of General 0. O. Howard. They were then a grown man and woman, although when she last saw them they were children. While she occupied the house many Harvard students lived there. Now, purchased from the heirs of the es caped slave, It has become one of the show placfcs of Cambridge. Longfellow. In the Knickerbocker Magazine, In 1840. llrst Immortalized the place. He made a 'word picture of the village smithy and the black smith. and also made a pen and Ink sketch of the chestnut tree and the smithy* The tree up to 1876 spread | Its branches In front of the house. " The Crumbllnfl of Caste. India Is In the midst of one of her greatest famines. Grain Is twice a? high as It was In 1900, but In cplte of this people are not dying as they did then. ' - A missionary gives two reasons for the lower death rate: In the last 20 years the people have learned to work. Formerly one or two members of a family supported the rest. Now, all who are able to work earn something, and so during the years of plenty something has been saved up?not much but enough to help a little. Another reason why India Is In a better condition now than In 1900 Is that the caste system Is breaking down. Now you will And men and women of many castes doing work w hlch for merly was done by one caste alone. High-caste Hindus are coming to see that manual labor Is not a disgrace.? World Outlook. " 'Plywood Qlven Severe Test. The plywood tested at the Wisconsin forest products laboratory Is built up In thin layers laid crosswise to one another, and glued with water-resist ing glue. Various protective finishes arc applied to the wood. All materials are subjected to every vgrlety of cli matic temperature and moisture, and In glue tests, piles must not sep arate after boiling In water eight hours, or soaking at room temperature ' fen days. The products developed find many Important uses besides 'Mint of making alrplafie propellers. The woven plywood, designed as a substi tute for linen In wing-- covering, In ? veneer about one and one-fourth tocne and seven-eighths lm?hes wide and .01 !n<-h thick, the nnlMlied shoot lining shout one-fifth in<*h thick. Difficult to Learn. -> Tho Chioexe {KK-kot dictionary con tains no less than TO.OOO characters, which one must lonrn In order to claim any real familiarity with the tunguiigo. However, nn acquaintance with 3.000 or 4.000 symbols is all that the average native bus. nnd It Is said to be possible to fst't along with n vo cabulary of 1.000. Nowhere at Sixty Miles an Hour. Did you ever *<-e a l?K-oiiM>tlve run 00 miles an hour ?n?l yet not g?*t any where? 8u?h Im the prrformjin'*** ot locomotives which cftinc r?MMiIr,.*ly to the ' K' motive inborntf?r> <?f ib** Un' versify ??r Illlnoi* for ?i 111*.* te*t? on fuel ouv VARIETY HPTC K OK UKK Fifty Itallar* U "( nion Kate" Kor SU)!ui Mmn In New York. N<<\v York, N. Y.?Thin town ha* on taste, It has taste*.' It is hii Lugo that there is h market iu it for everything f it mi murder to first edition*. One client of George I>, Smith, the world's premier Inmk buyer, has made a standing offer of $200,000 for u book that\ he want*. Tin i. i? at least one gang of downtown thug* which 'is *aid to have "humped off" j men gf cheaply &? ?iliU'..iu/l) $50 : whh the standing rate. lf\you merely j wanted your enruny beaten up it would! he done as low ah $5. ^Much depended on the scrapping quality of the eueiny. One of the men connected with the opium ring is quoted %a* declaring that he iti^ being almost worked to death. "There wa? never n better market for dope," said he. A church has made ar rangement* to build a twenty-story build ing, a great part of which Is to be oc cupied by the church auditorium and offices. . A broadway show which mlvertisea that its chorus outstrips all others" is doing a whale of a business. So is Sir Oliver Ixxlge, scientist and 8pirituali/\--^u>,,,iK hrt^ikmtt all iccordy for pt?. Automobile agents are sel-Hng good? fast er than they can deliver them. Ilible*. have xone up in price because of the extraordinary demand, . A mid-town dog doctor has raised Ids price for house calls to $5. Ladies who tote their pets ta his office can have the symptoms diagnosed for tnree buoks. Oirls who do not kuow just what they want to do in life caiKbe advised, trained and assisted to jobs free at one'of the city high schools. Variety is surely the spice of life in New York. 1 There is no doubt whatever that there are more suckers, ranging from the 25 cent sort to those that buy thousands of. dollars' worth of hot aid, in this town than anywhere elfce in the world. Every time the clock ticks one-haif pint of bonded liquor evaporates, disap pears in. the air. That is the official estimate on evaporation and leakage of the 70,000,(MX) gallons of goods in the 350 bonded warehouses of the country. 'It is estimated that $10,000-,000 will be spent by the Canadians on automo biles during this year. . J Diamond Construction Makes This Bridge Strong Like the The bridge, it strong because it it supported in every direction by sturdy diagonal braces that form diamonds everywhere. The battery is strong because its plates, like the bridge, are built on the Diamond principle. That. is why thp plates do not buckle nor lose their active toateriat. That is why the battery is Guaranteed for Eighteen Month* That is why we are the official Phila delphia Service Station. Expert battery re-charging and repairing. Free inspection?any battery- -any make, any car, any time. Drop in today and let us look at the condition of your baltery. W. 0. 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