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SICK BABIES Respond Instantly to a Short Treatment of Dr. Thornton's Easy Tccther; ' Mother, you can save yourself nikii) nlaaplssr. rJjrhta by removing the cauae * of baby's pain. Sour atomach, colic, ??lda, iadlgeation, bowel troubles and foariahnesa noon give way to a few doaaa of Dr. Thornton'* Easy Teether. Tkia ? weet powder ia composed of ?ntiaaptica. dige*tanta and granular atlmulants thnt work quickly and harmleaaly on the atomach, bowels and kidneys. Conlalna no opiates 01 harmful druga. Habica like it and take it more freely than *tickv ayrapa 01 liquid j.. For fifteen yearN this old reliable prescription of a successful baby ape elaliat naa brought hundreds and hun? dreda of unsolicited testimonials from practicing phyaiciarift. druggists and appreciative mothera. Its efficiency haa been proven beyond x-hadow of doubt. If it fails to help your child your druggist will refund money with out question # Twelve powders in h package with full directions for 2f>c Ask "your druggist for Or Thornton'" Km ay Tvt th e r , ? A d v jt r t i seme n t. Renew your health by purifying your system with v S The purified and refined calomel tablets that are free from nausea and danger. No salts necessary, as Calotabs act like calomel and salts combined. De mand the genuine in 10c and 35c packages, bearing above trade-mark. -J u ,> ? ' STORY OF JOHN BROWN Career of .Man Who Tried to Fred Southern Slave* In Recalled. Tin* wbool kkiff nlng at>out "Tl^y liiing John Brown o? a Sour Tree." Hut how many know the de^ tails of the trial, ? r?nvi? l Ion ami hang lug of John Brown 1n Ohartc# Town? Sixty three years ago the nation was root, with dtssi'nslon ov<sr fclavery." It had become the groat oh t issue sineo the Itevolutloni. While Horace <?ree ley wrote stirring editorials to free the siavM. John Brown tMfc"Tnrw<*n mow. violent course. Ho tried to frco the slaves t>.v foive. It was a national Is sue.. (Jeorge l>. Moore, a formor proMH-ut ing attorney In Charles Town, W. Va., writing In a looul |*uper. ?ay# In part: "During tin* early summer of ISf>0 a (party of strangers arrived near Hur ler's Ferry, then a part of Virginia Wltih them was an old man of venera ble appea m nee , who ? 1 1 eil himself Issue Smith. They represented them selves a* prosixvt iug for minerals ami took long ami fnspient rambles, over various parts of the Hlue lHdgc moun tains wear by. A ft or a few weeks they remftved to what is known as tbc Ken nedy Fa rm, about five miles from JlanuM'* Forry. on the Maryland side of the Potomac river. and established headquarters. 'I*hey were amiable IH'oph* and soon made a number of friends. In Uie meantime a largo quan tity of arms and ammunition was smuggled into them. ''Twenty men descended upon Har jwiN Ferry on the night of Sunday Oetoihor Id. 1KT?0. They shot men in the street* and took possession of the town. Nolwdy seetmsl to know what it was all about. loiter one of the attackers rteffljiTod they had i-ome to free the Vir ginia s la vi vs. M'hev wald tbey had Uie moans to accomplish this plan. "News of the attack on Hanger's For ty was flashed throughout t-he nation. Tho Virginia militia enrae^ and (iovor nor Wise of Virginia took personal charge. After a three-day fight the lit tle army was captured. It? load?*r was r<*?ogniz?il as J<*hn Brown. "Ilrown and his followers were tak en to Charles Town, whore the grand jurv was Ui Mission. Virginia and what | Is now known as West Virginia were then one state. "Tho oltl Virginia law required fhe days' lap*o between the prelminary ex- ( aininatiou and the sutomixsion of the ?<ase to the .grand jury. "A whole nation was wrought up to the I'-itsest iplt<1) during those five day< ; of ?>u??|?enM\ It was rumored every-* where and particularly through the J South. tlia| John Hrowu's little army; of t/WWty men waa but the forerunner (?f a mighty army from the North to <<owo down and free the slaved and that a j i' >vv4* rf til Mcr0| organization wn planning revolt by riot and murder and the Brown gang was to be released fr<>m Jifl.. "The^u junior* grow; t|jey tjra.voled fast. Jt was argued that John Brown would no* have dared attempt #ueh ?* bold thing an t h?? capture of 'Harpers Ferry unless lie knew he bad ample backlog. ? "On October 20 I h<? pro) 1 miliary hear ing opened, with the courthouse hcav. where the town was jammed with Ktrauger*. Thore was n little army of newspapermen, "Brown, U l* ?believed, fully realized what was to come. The courthouse wa<s across the ' street from the jail. Brown was ma rolled out from the front door of the jail, grim , awl determined A double Hie of soldiers guarded him. Me presented a remarkable picture. "Whether he was (legally right or not. he believed his en use Just. lie was .six feet tall, stoop shouldered! old. bare headed and wore j\ long, .shaggy grey beard. But thlfc piercing ,old eyes showed no ?sign." of fear. He had faith In CJod and his cause. His condition Is described ns feeble and bystanders gaped In silence as he moved shmly along, mcnaclcd. "The courtroom was Jammed with five or six hundred people. Kight Jus tlees of the peace conducted the pre liminary hearing. They constituted the court.' of first resort ; ripon their say would depend "whether John Brown, a vowed Abolitionist, should l>e set free with hi* comrades or whether they I should 1k? held for the grand jury. "Charles Harding was the district nttorney-fiovernor Wise of Virginia, a p polnted Andrew Hunter ns assistant prosecutor. Hunter was a great law yer. a wonderful pleader and a man of imtposlng Appearance. "Prosecutor Harding demanded to know whether the prisoners were rep. resented by counsel .-or -w^ethe^ they wished the court to assign counsel. "Then came one of the great drama tic" episodes of American legal history. "<>kl Khaggy-halrod John Brown, fe<ible arvd stooped, apparently ready to totter ui>on the floor, did not like the tone in which the question was asked. He might he old, he might be feeble, but he was a man withal. And the haggard old man slowly and feebly arose from bis chair. His steely eyes swept the breatlrtjess crowd with scorn as he ex (Helmed : "Nl-rglnJans ! I did not a*k At quarter :it the time 1 was taken. (He was bad ly wounded i. 1 do .not ask for quarter now. I do not a.sk to haye my life e Race Victory at 1NOTANAJPOI-IS % e Road. 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He, in that short speech not only atjdresscd the court. bvU he flung a challenge at the pride of old Virginia. '-'lliw uuiUtui* wine tlmilU*i aud amaz ed. They even respected the daring old man. "When the siM-ond day's court opened an attorney for Drown informed the <*OUrt that he had received a telegram from an Akron, Ohio, man who detflar <sl that there was a good deaJ of Inan ity in Brown's family, and he dwdred to Investigate the statement. "While the defense <<oun?fl wits mak ing this pica John Brown Interrupted him. The old man struggled forward, hiij eye* Mazing wittfi wrath and his ?\xdeO shaking with cwotdon, In un mistakable language ho repudiated hH attorney's plea and deniml there was any Insanity in his father's family, though b'ome <?f hLs mother*^ j?eoj>le had l>een mentally afflicted. He refused any such subterfuge of defense in his behalf. He was out in the open ; he had u<?tJiir^ to hide, nothing to excuse and no a|X)logles to make, The court ruJe<l that there was no testimony sup porting the statement, -the Insanity end would be disregarded <and it he trial (pro ceeded. "Rove nil witnesses described how the j armed band came across the bridge at midnight ami took possession of the Vnlted Slate* arsenal at Hnttpers her rv They described in detail the stir ring event* of Ootol>or ltt. 17 and IS. The raiders took posxossi?n of one of the nerctjy phi wtaWon* and made tho slaves and plantation owners prisoners of war. The night express train was | held np on the bridge and the porter shot. Mou were shot down in the streets, the witnesses said, ami the mayor kUfled. Militia companies were hastily sutnmouied from Martimtourg. Shepherd st own and Chartes Town. "Finally the remnants of the Brown party barrieated themselves in the municipal fire engine house of Harpers Kerry. It later was kznown a* John Brown's fort. I "There they were surrounded by J troops and escape shirt off. Kfforts to negotiate were fnUle. Flag of t.nnv hearers from Brown's barricade were j shot down or cwptured. (Mi. the night ,.f the seooml day after he entered the 1 town a company of V. S. Marines from j Washington arrive<l. They were under i command of Colonel R<A?ert K. Ivce and Ui.ntennnt .1. 1-. B. Stuart, who later Ixx-iimc the two great generals of the S Confederacy. "Brown refund to surrender and the | next morning his fort was carried by I storm. Brown find his surviving com i paii ions were captured. Hrown wa^ bad j 1 y wounded in several So wi*r> j if his companions. : "Among the town's citizens who w?'iv? , taken prisoner by Brown was Colonel i l.ewis W. Washington, grand nephew of i < Jeorge Washington. ] "Tne disunities of John Browns Harper* I-Vrry raid were twelve killed. tw<? woinuled. one escaped. Two of ! Brown'* s(>n> were killed. Of the at tacker- (" \ e were Killed ami nine were wonndi.d "Sn.-iVed (l.itiii-iiig literature intro dmvd as evi.lenee at the Brown trial were o.pios of die Constitution and or dinam e- drawn up by Brown for tlie ! re*-on*l rn-ilon of the Constitution of the 1'nit'd st;i(. through amendment and r.i-vil. I .otters from Joshua U. < ridding", member of congress from Ohio and Abolitionist . were a l-art of the evidence, ' "On Hi.- sixth diiv of < lie trial argu ?ient w ;i 1-egu:. ; the court delivered Its charge, and the jury retired. SOon n \erdiet of guilty was returned. There ?was no demonstration In thr court room. "The u. Nt day. r,r?o\n ? brought Into court for "sentence. He was a sk - ed if he b nl nnytblnc to <ny as to why sentcjH*- *hould not be imposed. Ills reply !-? the court w is* another land mark in o-unfrv's history lie said ? "'I have, may it pl-a^o the court, a few words say In the first plaee I deny , ver.v thing but what I have al , ,*hm v joTinit''^ t.l'.e di-Jgn on my part t.. fro '!.(? 'Di.it was all I In * . nd?-d N'..\r if i- ;? necessary Uwit T f, ,rf, "j 71l% ;if.? f..r rhe furtherance of the < . U - f tin 1 mingle my blood \\ ith tl.e nidi. ?i.s of s'.aves in this rinvn . . i :,t r > tights are disregarded v eric-i and w ju-f c nnctnKT.ts. I -iil.mit . ' !? be done! T et n.o say ? re v*" "? r ? ! farther. I feet entirely sa'.ls f ? be treatment I l.nve reo-in d ??n mv 'mi! CV>ri<ddering all f'r.o oif c^nrtstanoes It been more generou* than I eTyv^^l. But I fee', no w-< o"ii.?rM'.se <?f guilt. Now I have ikmf ?'n?en the court imposed *)?e sen tf ijoe. whiofc that he nhonM be Pennsylvania Vacuum TIRES Ml flHfe MHi' Free Tubes ,0. . ... ? .... * V ? r*. ' - - BURRIER'S : jQ v ? sjT ? ? . . ?' :?/?? . ' . ' rj taken* to a place of execution on l>e eojjuber 2, 1859, and tthero bo hanged by the n<jck by the sheriff until dead. "Then, on December 2, John Brown was taken five IWoeks away to a field where a acaffuhl had been erected. He was unperturbed and looked with in terest nix>n the many soldiers about. He walked upon the gallows, the black cap was adjusted, and soon he hegan the greut adventure. "On Pecenfher 1G four Brown fol lowers, named Cooke, (Jreen. Coppee, and Copeland were executed in Charles Town." But what of Charles Town? It has figured In history since colonial days. It was the scene of hot figfhting in ear ly Indian warfare and in the CHvffl war. It knew well the activities of General Stonewall Jackson <?f the Confederacy ' >? % and "Phil" Sberddfcn of the United States army. The 'town nin lived in honor of Charles Washington, brother of George Washington. Many descen dants of the Washington family still live there. 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