Indianapolis Journal, Volume 49, Number 288, Indianapolis, Marion County, 15 October 1899 — Page 3

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THE INDIANAPOLIS JOURNAL, SUNDAY, OCTOBER 15, 1899.

TRAIN ROBBERS' BOOTY

LESS TIIAX f2S.)0( SKL'l'IIED FRO.M THE A32ERICAX EXIMIKSS SAFE. Details of the "Ilnltl-lp" of the .Northwestern Zat Mull rr Maple Park, IliHewarU Offered. CHICAGO. Oct. II. None of the masked robber who heM up train No. 0 on th Northwestern Railway, between Maple Park and De Kalb. III., late last night, has yet been captured. The railway company and the American Expre? Company together offered a reward of $-.00O to-day for information leading to the arrest and conviction of the robbers. A ' proportionate amount will be paid for the arrest and conviction of each of the robbers.. A bundle of bill aggregating $2,000 was recovered by attaches of .the erpres3 company. It had been blown through the bottom of the car and was found imbedded in the earth between the railroad tie. The bill3 were so badly mutilated that they will have to be exchanged for new notes. It la believed by the railroad officials that the booty secured by the robbers was alo rendered worthless by the heavy charge of dynamite the men used to blow open the tafe. Express company official declare the first reports of the amount obtained by the robbers was greatly exaggerated and claim It was considerably less than $23,000. Train No. 9 forms rart of the fast transcontinental mail, which was recently established between New York city and San Francisco. The run Is made from Chicago to Council Bluffs on a schedule exceeding a mile a minute. It has been the general custom to carry only two earn one containing express matter and the other mail. It left the Northwestern depot at " 1C o'clock last niffht with Dan White, a veteran employe of the road, as engineer. No stops were scheduled before De Kalb, at which place the train was due shortly before 11 o'clock. At Maple Park, fifty miles from Chicago. It was discovered that tower "W." at Elhurn. was either out of order or was not giving the right signal. White closed the throttle quickly and brought the train to a standaim. The train was midtvay between Elhurn and Maple Park. White had hardly brought his engine to a Mandntlll when two masked men Jumped on the steps and pointed guns at him and the fireman. Two rohbers detached the engine from the . rest of the train and White was told to pull out. The robbers ordered him to take his engine two miles up the track. There he attempted to make a fiKht and recapture .his engine. He struggled, manfully, but finally one of the robbers shot at him. but failed to hit him. . In the meantime four other men had attacked the conductor and the brakeman. Numerous shots were tired to Intimidate them. The conductor was unable to make any resistance, as he was told he would be killed. One of the brakemen managed to escape in the darkness and raced to Elburn, where he managed to send the alarm to the train dispatcher In Chicago. The rcbler?. after overpowering the conductor, ordered the express messenger, .Frank Hobson. to admit them to the car. "You open up that car," one of the robbers shouted, "or we'll blow it up." Back from the car came a shout: "You try to force it open and I'll shoot the first man who shows his head." A volley of Fhots was. the reply, and, after several shots- had whizzed past his head, the express messenger opened the door'. They put revolvers to his head and compelled Hobson to give up the keys to the local safe. Then they blew open the dcor of the through afe with dynamite, the explosion wrecking the car. The robbers then grabbed all the money and express packages they could find and fled. Whtn the train dispatcher was notified he gave orders to freight train No. US, bound ,est. to top at Geneva and return at once to the scene of the hold-up. The trainmen of No. 31S noticed No. 3 standing on the track with a detached engine as they went by. but had thought nothing in particular of it. When the freight crew reached tower "W( they found the operator bound, gagged and . tied to a chair, when released he gave the first real information to the officials. He sali that at 10:30 o'clock four men had ccme Into the tower and asked him tne rumber of the next train going west. They wanted to know if it wasn't No. 9, but the crerator said he told them it was No. 113. The robbers then told the operator that he as a fool; that they knew better. To show the operator that they had laid their plans thoroughly and knew what they were talking about they pointed guns at his head and told him If he made a move they would kill him. They tied him up with ropes, "stuffed a toel Into his mouth and told him If he w.is a "good fellow" he would escape without being hurt. They then set the signals which caused No. 9 to slow up. The chief train dispatcher made repeated efforts to reach the Maple Park operator ..when no report was made for fifteen minutes of the passing of No. 9. It was first thought at the Northwestern office that No. 9 had been wrecked and orders were sent up and down the line to watch out and report any accident if any had occurred. . The stopping of the mall train brings the United States authorities directly into the case as well as the express companies and special police service of the railroad. WHEN JOHNNY M AUCIIF.n HOME. 2t'o Delia Jlanij Welcome to WornOut "Confed. . New York Sun. .".At a dinner party uptown the other night , several former Union soldiers and one exCcnfederate sat down. The latter had ridden with J. E. H. Stuart. He is now "riding" about for a Northern concern. The talk turned on the home-coming ot military heroes, and the Southern man salfl: . "I was asked the other day in l'lttsburg .as we watched the- welcome of the people to the Tenth Pennsylvania, back from the Philippines, what sort of reception we Johnny Rebs got when we went home after 'the civil wur. Whipped soldiers are not often required to march in bodies when they go home. The Confederates did not. as a whole. They went back In twos, or threes, but oftener one at a time. You will know aome day that the civil war was unlike tiny other war of history. When the Confederates realized they were whipped they were heartbroken. 1 am not making any argument for the cause, liut you must consider the temperament of a Southern man to unJerstaua what defeat meant to him. "Vou people in the North would have recovered if the North had been whipped. You would have been at Richmond, if we had - oceeded, with your Yankee inventions and schemes. You would have got the contractfoi the Confederate States' public works. You wou!d have built our railroads. You would have revived your Industries from our coffers. You would have become partners in our commerce. AH this would have been characteristic of you. "With the Southern man It is different. Ha was whipped but, he was sullen. He mcped and would not "play You people had the advantage in the play, of course, but you might have given the sulker a phow? for his white alley If he had shown a disposition to let you inside his yard. But he carrea tne gate and scowled at you through a knothole. And thi trait clung to him for years, and he awoke one morning to find some one of you folks in his field, anil on his plantation, worklns his soil, while he was starving. Then he milt looking back and went to work. Ami now when you have a trade with a Southern man you do not take advantage of him as you did. "But Just after the surrender he was in no mood to be received. The town from which he had enlisted was In no condition to turn cut in welcome and hurrah, even if a regiment had returned, or any body of men. Gentlemen, believe me. there was not a healthy hurrah in the whole South after lee's surrender. It was nothing to brag about for some time before. that. Some of u saw thb handwriting six months before the meeting of (Jrant and Eee at Appomattox. "Your soldiers returned home !n companies, battalion and regiments. They were received by the rpu!ace as we are now receiving our returning soldiery from the I'hllippines. and as we recentlv revel v! them from Cuba.. Hut the Confederate neaked back, not because he was ashamed of what he had done, for to this day we are mighty sensitive on that point, but because we had been whipped. It takes a brave man to acknowledge a. llcklnn uch mm you Kvfus. We acknowledged it all right to you and at home, but we did not want any hurrah made about it. Our people were in ro mood to ring the -bells or fire the guns w hen we went home. A nun going into his old home In the night, climbing the back fene and going through the garden, making pea'-e with t.V do.', knocking at th kitchen door, is not an Inspiring rpectae'e. That's the way mewt of us went back. "Very often there were no belLs to rlnj. You Yankee shot thm out of the church tepls. or our people lia.1 t melt them for ammunition. We were mighty short toward the last. There were few noue guns in the South during the war. ( "Occasionally a Confederate returned to find hi town o battered that he did not know it. lie mtt lrjnge face in thi

streets. Familiar landmarks had disappeared. Sometimes he found the foundation of his old home, and it was overgrown with grass. Whole towns disappeared, and communities removed, in ome sections of the South during the war. "I know many former Confederates today who were never mustered out. Th?y bunched as and told us to go, and n scattered In every direction, I know a man In my State who ii holding a federal ofSte who never surrendered, and who wjs vr discharged from the Confederate nrvic?. No war had as many strange s'.tuiilons, as many curious results as that war." UROTHCH JONATHAN.

Origin of the Nnme an Colloquially Applied to the Inlted State. London Daily Telegraph. Once upon a time, or, in the words of a conscientious, writer, "in the year , in the reign of ," there dwelt in Scotland a dougnty young peasant whose fortune It was to be on hand when King Robert the Bruce, hunting in Sterling Park, was attacked by a furious bull. The gallant young peasant aforesaid threw himself on the creature, grasped him by the horns, and, with an admirable combination of courage,, strength and dexterity, flung him on one tide and saved 'the King's lite. The Bruce was appropriately grateful. He granted his preserver a comfortable estate, liadyruel. near Peebles, endowed him with the name Turnbull" in memory of his valor and a coat of 'arms bearing three bulls heads, with the motto "Fortuna favet audaci." Such, at all events, is the account given by Nlsbet. a Scottish herald, of the foundation of the Turnbull family. As years rolled on the prowess of Turnbull, of Badyruel was forgotten, and hla descendants, though they clung to the motto and the device, corrupted the name Into Trumbull. Some of them settled in Cumberland, and one of these In the days of the Puritan persecution emigrated to Massachusetts and founded a line of distinguished American patriots whose names are, writ large in . the annals of their country. Jonathan Trumbull (the elder). Governor of Connecticut, was the great-grandson of this Puritan emigrant, and he in 1735 married Faith Robinson, great-granddaughter of the famous John Robinson, pastor of the Puritan congregation at Leyden, the Pilgrim fathers who sought in New England h land where they might worship In peace and purity. A man so descended and thr allied was one from whom sturdy deeds might be expected In time of trouble, and Jonathan Trumbull had ample opportunity to test the metal of which he was made. All the TrumbulLs seem to have been essentially public men; they entered into the affairs of the State, they tilled public offices, they gained public favor. Thus Jonathan Trumbull became a representative at the General Assembly in his twenty-third year, eight years later a member of the Council, then deputy Governor, finally, and for eighteen years. Governor. It was as councillor that he first proved himself a leader of men. The ill-starred stamp act had been promulgated; it required the Governor of each . American colony to take an oathto be administered by his Council binding him to see that every clause In the act was carried out to Its full intent, orremoval from office.' disqualification to hold it tn future and a fine of - JEl.COO. Thomas Fitch, the then Governor of Connecticut, summoned his councilors that they might fulfill their obligations. There came Ebenezer Silllman. Hezekiah Huntington. John Chester, Benjamin Hall. Jabez Hamlin. Matthew Grlswold, Jubal Conant. .Elisha Sheldon, Eliphalet Dyer, Jabez Huntington and Jonathan Trumbull eleven In all. men of note and honor in their State.- Governor Fitch explained the requirements of the act. Trumbull protested that It cut at the root of all their liberties. No law could be made to tax them but by their own consent, freely given: that was the essence of their freedom. Fitch pleaded for submission. The Governor of every province, save Rhode Island, had already taken the oath. "High-souled" Richard Henry Lee had not only proclaimed his readiness to take it. but had solicited the office of stamp distributor. The greatest patriot even Franklin and Otis, advised submission. Four of there councillors yielded to these arguments and ranged themselves on the side of the Governor. These were a sufficient quorum to enable the Governor to safeguard himself. Then rose Trumbull, his massive forehead puckered with indignation, his great black eyes flashing, and. In thrllllr g tones, vowed he would not stay to witness the degradation of liberty and of the colony. He left the building, followed by the six who agreed with him. Not long after a general election swept Fitch and his followers from public life, and Trumbull found himself installed as deputy Governor. it wouia De rather tedious and profitless to follow Trumbull's career during the ten years of quarreling with England, vears in which, though never abandoning in any degree the position he had taken up. he made strenous. efforts toward a peaceful solution, and these efforts sometimes exposed him to a charge that the was "squinting" overmuch toward reconciliation. In 1T7S came the new of the affair at Lexington; Trtimbull at once took his part. The time for temporizing had now gone by, and his house at Lebanon, with a large store adjoining, became, for the time, the headquarters of the rebel movement. The store came to be called familiarly "The War Office." a depot for victualing the troops. The dwelling house sheltered from time to time many of the men who were distinguishing themselves in the struggle, such as Washington. Franklin, Adams. Jefferson. Lafayette. Throughout the whole of it Trumbull was held in the highest esteem. It is said that in all matters of difficulty and danger, in all considerations where sagacity, rapidity of conception, and daring were required, Washington's invariable formula was. "We must consult Brother Jonathan. The frequency of its use attracted attention, and it became a sort of catchphrase bandied from mouth to mouth. One Incident gave it a still wider currency, and established it through the length and the breadth of the lanl. Washington having been appointed commands q the Revolutionary army, came into Massachusetts to organize it. He found his volunteers almost destitute of ammunition, and there seemed no means to supply it. Had they been attacked while In this position the war of independence might have had very different results. A consultation of the officers was held, but no one seemed to b able lo advise any means of meeting the wants of the army. At length Washington ended the conclave with his well-known "We must consult Brother Jonathan on this matter." He did so, and Brother Jonathan contrived various schemes, the success of which were patent to all. The army spread the phrase all over the country, and "Brother Jonathan" became the accepted synonym for the Yankee. Thus we may say that while Washington wan tho -father of his country," honest, wise, brave. Jonathan Trumbull. Governor of Connecticut, was Its godfather, for he gave his name to his people. Jonathan Trumbull died on Aug. 19. 1TS3. HI.- funeral sermon was preached by ZebuIon Ely, A. M., pastor of the First Church of Christ In Lebanon, wherein he is compared point by point to Moses and his character summed up in these words: "He was a star of the first magnitude In this western hemisphere, and by acquitting himself with wisdom and fidelity, dignity and glory in the illustrious part assigned him to act on the grand theater of human life, he hath acquired immortal renown and rendered himself conspicuously glorious, not only through the extensive empire of America, but the famed kingdoms of Europe." WHO FIRST MADE C'LASS. The Art In Not Let than Four ThouHHiid Years Old. ( The Invention of glass has been hitherto popularly ascribed to the Phoenicians. Mr. Ludwig Grote. however, in the current numbtr of Fellden's Magazine, states that this is not the case. Mr. Grote points out that another hypothesis on the same subject is equally untenable, namely. "Flavius Josephus,' who ascribes the discovery of glass to the Jews, as the result of a forest conflagration, when, with the assistance of the sand In the soil, the glass came Into existence of i.ts own accord. An the Phoenicians and the Jews were neighbors, proceeds the author, there is very likely an element of truth In both traditions, inasmuch as both peoples exercised the art of glass-making at an early age. If the Phoenicians were the first to carry the productions of glass Into the world, by means of their traders, the Jews did the same, to a greater and more lasting extent. Among the latter there were whole tribes carrying on the making of glass. Most of the glass works existed at that time on the coasts of the Mediterranean, and throughout the whole of the middle ages, even up to the present time. one. kind of glass blowing industry has been in the hands of the Jews. especially in Palestine itself. Many expres sions which were common in the glass works at that time are still in use. Hut neither the Jews r.or the Phoenicians can be looked upon as the inventors of glass. We Mnd, for Instance, that the Persians, at the time of Alexander the Great, were also drinking out of glass vessels; that the As8TlanH were vermeil In the art or making glas, as we can prove by discoveries at Nineveh: and. also that the art of making gla-s and of imitating precious stones was known to the ancient Indians. Of great Importance with regard to thp history of the manufacture of glass are also the ancient Egyptians. When one remembers the great industrial activity 'of the.e people, it It not !mrpridng that with reference to the making of glass more numerous traditions of it are recorded by them than by any other people. Not only written, but also MKuratlve representations which are more than W) years old. have been handed down to our time. The wall reliefs in the grove of Henl-HaHan repr-ent the manuiacturc of glass objects; they represent, among others, two glass blowers at work. They arc working with the blowing pipe.

which they have dipped into a mass lying between them, and by means of which beautiful glass was manufactured, even at that time, Is proved by a crystal glasa which is to be found in the museum of the Louvre. The French as well as the English museums possess numerous artistic productions of that period, at the sight of which one Is surprised, as in our time and with cur mechanical appliances It Is hardly possible to rurpass them. The Roraan.'. appear to have been the principal customers of the early Jewish glass makers, and with the increasing luxury of. that epoch the manufacture of glass Increased, as it was not limited to the production of smaller useful objects, but also extended to th building trades. That the manufacture of glass developed in tin artistic sense to the highest point need not appear wonderful with so extremely an intelligent people as the Romans. The treasures contained in the muftum of the Vatican, In the French museums and In the British Museum bear testimony to their acccmplished workmanship. The famous Portland vase in the museum of London is probably the best proof of it. In the year 210 A. IX there were so many glaps blowers in Rome that they had set apart for them their own quarter of the city. But with the fall of the Roman empire came also tho decline of the art of glass making; with the extension of Christianity the glass industry gradually developed again. IX A CHICAGO sKY-stitArcn.

Experience of a Wntclmintt with Burn 1 Visitors. Chicago Evening Post. "As the Chicago public is generally aware, the seventeenth and eighteenth Iloors of this building are devoted wholly to lodgerooms. Consequently, the public is excluded from these floors and their stall ways are barred with gates, preventing all comers from walking higher than the sixteenth floor. The result of this arrangement is what few city people would suspect. This floor becomes a catch-all for our friends from the country, who labor under the belief that a fare is charged for riding in the elevators, ar.d that this expend may be saved by climbing all the stairs from top to bottom. Not only do I find plenty of men who are willing to make this toilsome pilgrimage for the sake of saving a nickel, but it is not i are to encounter women working their way from flight to flight in the belief that they are avoiding the expenditure of 5 cents. Some of them, however, apparently have the idea that by walking up they are in some mysterious manner going to obtain a free passage to the roof. To these economical visitors who find their vay blocked at the sixteenth floor I endeavor to break gently the news that they could have hail the novel experience of an elevator ride without a cent of expense. They sigh and sometimes almost groan when this is told them. "Not long ago I caught an old man from Michigan trying to solve the mystery of the gate across the stairway to the seventeenth floor. He was fully fifty years old, and the climb had been a hard one for him. When I succeeded in convincing him that he could have ridden the whole distance without expense and that he would be compelled to take the elevator if he went any higher, he said things he will never repeat In the prayer meeting of the little home church back in Michigan. "But one of the most amusing experiences I ever had was at the stairway leading from the promenide surrounding the dome to the platform above the dome, which is not protected by a railing. The observatory was not open to the public then, being in an unfinished state, but in some manner three Iowa farmers slipped through the theater and walked out on the promenade. I arrived on the scene Just as they walked tip the stairway to the platform above the dome. They explained they were anxious to get as high as they could In the city and that there was not the slightest danger. The one nearest the stairway assured me that I needn't worry any about his safety, as he had been a salt-water sailor and was able to take care of himself. The next moment he started to .walk down the steps. which were Dvlthout railings. Suddenly he pat down, smiled in a sickly way and came down the remainder of the stairs backward and on his hands and knees. The others followed his example, and when they were safely on the theater floor they were as pale as they could be, considering their tanned "Every day I make seven trips up the elevators, walking down the stairs each time. In the course of this patrol I catch our friends from the country and try to save them as many steps as possible." GREEN HANDS GOING TO SEA. Young: Men Who Mast Have Work RnnnuHy Boy Tnrned Dark. New 'York Evening Post. When" the captain of a merchant vessel wants a man he goes to a shipping office or a boarding-master: and if men are to be had at all ho finds him In this way. The ship ping offices are in lower South street, for A 1 - A. A. 1 1 I I .1 1 At A. . me most part in cuuuings.inai were once, some of them, of New Amsterdam. The tramp ships dock in South street. West street has so many ferries and transatlantic steamship piers that Its people are stokers and 'longshoremen, rather than sailors1 of the old school. It would be hard to get a crew there; but In South street, at certain seasons, it is easy enough; and if a man cannot be picked up there, it Is hardly worth while to look further. "A good many green young fellows come to my office in the course of a year," said a shipping master to-day. "I don't know what attracts them to the sea. if It isn't the old love for adventure. Of course, a good many of the fellows are out of work and hungry. They may not want to go to. sea at all. but may have failed to get work on land, and be willing' to do anything at all to keep their stomachs full. A ship. I think, appeals to most men as a Place where there Is always food and a place to sleep, even if mere is danger and hard work. "Some very young fellows come down here from time to time mere bovs. but well grewn. Occasionally they have the look of having run away: but I guess the most of theru are honest and straight enough. r.evf r do anything for them, unless thpy look reedy: almost always I tell them I haven't got anything, and let them go. I wouldn't help a young fellow to run away: and there are rot many shipping masters who would if they knew it. Of course, there are reputable and disreputable men in mv business, as in ail others, and everybody knows that there are few things a disreputable shipping or boarding master is past doing. "We meet boys down here who have run away beyond doubt little chaps, some of mem oressea ap tnougn they belonged to well-to-do families. There are not many, though. I suppose as many as ever run away from home. I rather think thev ret frightened out down in the street or on the cocks. iney come here, because well I guess their heads are turned, lust as it usd to be when I was a boy. They have onlv 4 i a 1 . m . . . tne oaresr cnance or geiung away. About me oniy cnance is 10 stow memselves away: and that's a very hard thing to do. Still boys do do that very th'.ng. More than that some are taken aboard. This is a rare thing, mind you; but it dees happen, and that's the point i want to make. Women Who Gnmhle. The Criterion. The ladles book, where women are al lowed to place their own bets, is In onera tlon on the grand stand at trav Saratoga and la a most unpleasant expose of the unfair and ungentle side of the svx. almost as repellent to observe as the bargain counter, where women seem to be transformed into rude, pushing, grasping creatures, devoid of all courtesy to each other. Women as gamblers are never edifying to look upon, even when they conduct operations through their escort? or by hired messengers. But when they crowd one against the other in their desire to place or obtain their money, their faces expressing only the one dominating passion of the race track, their voices loud and strident and their hair and eo?U:mes frequently disordered by the, pressing of their sisters, then the sight Is one which must cause the angels to grieve and even the frivolous cherubs to flock In a fright away from the neighborhood. t nforinnnte State of Affairs, Virginia G. Ellard. In Llpplncott. In looking over the history of women for the past fifty years we note a fact which in a measure accounts fcr the slow recognition of .woman's right to the ballot. By some strange inadvertence in sociological conditions the suffrage agitation antedated the club movement. Had these conditions been reversed, universal suffrage to-day would have been an accented fact. Had clubs rchieved what they have now accomplished when Susan Anthony. Lucy Stone and Eliz abeth t'adv Stanton first took the platform in behalf of suffrage, our political life would have been purer, better and more consistent with rltrht urinclple from the active tnfluerc? of women. By dub discipline th women are ready from their Increased intelligence about the various social and civic forces of the country to use the ballot with discretion. First Baby for Sou Vrnrn. London Mall. nv.r vjrs no hahv had lifn Vwkrn on the Inland of Balta. one of the far-dis- . . . a . . rt ii. V. I . I - , tant nenanu iuui'- ihk rK-orti has now ben broken, for the other day, .tnrinc thn recent herrinir iishlnir Kenton a young lady hailing from the Ruckle . , . . II ..!.. tr.t ft-.!... I. . . . luannsnirej insuni vuiu m it un booithv ,rv In one. of the wooden hnt Ttm. longing to a curing station. The baby has been ehrlstenel Halta Oeddes Poison, am! tne laira 01 me is. ami .wkj pieM-nuu me mother with a check for 2". The fortunate nine mi " - - - - - - " incipient of several hundred silver coins of the realm from visitor, who came from all k - vst l,aj.N..t,.H

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JUST DRAGaiNQ AROUND." How man thousands of women .understand

the sad and pitiful meaning of that simple phrase: " Just dragging around." Women everywhere who feel that they have a work m and a mission of womancomplish in this world will appreciate instantly the disheartened I' spirit of Mrs. Mattie Venhans. of Tioera. Hancock County, Illinois. I had been sick for seven years." she says; "not in bed. but just dragging myself around. At last I took three bottles of Dr. Pierce's Favorite Prescription and five of ' Golden Medical Discovery,' and it is impossible to describe in words the good these medicines did me. My husband says ' Golden Medical Discovery is the best medicine he ever tried for a cough. No praise is too high for Dr. Pierce's medicines. Another ladv. Mrs. R. P. Monfort, of Lebanon. Warren Co.. Ohio. says. "I think Dr. Pierce's Golden Medical Discovery the finest medicine on record. I have taken a number of bottles and it i the only medicine that relieved my terrible headaches." Women who suffer should , wnte to Dr. R. V. Pierce, of Buffalo, N. Y. lie will send them the best professional advice that can be had "anywhere in America and entirely without charge. Neither the "Golden Medical Discovery" nor the "Favorite Prescription" contains any alcohol to inebriate or create a morbid craving for stimulants. Every woman should own a copy of his splendid book "The Common Sense Medical Adviser." It is the grandest medical book for popular reading ever written. It contains a fund of knowledge of precious value to women. , It has over a thousand pages elaborately illustrated with engraving and colored plates. The first great edition of more than half-a-million copies was sold at 51.50 each. The profit from this induced Dr. Pierce Jo carry out his cherished intention of issuing a free edition one copy of which in paper-covers will be sent for the bare cost of matting, 21 one-cent 6tamps, or a heavier cloth-bound copy foi 31 stamps. AVAHNING TO CHICAGO. Wlit'ii Niagara Dries Up the Lake City Will De Flooded. London Standard. Prof. O. K. Gilbert, who has for pomft years maintained thit the level of the great lakes of America Is slowly alterlnsr, has just reverted to the subject in greater de tail. Ho states that the region is turnin? upon an axis, the land rising on one side and finking on the other: on the one hand the shore, po to say. encroaches upon the lake, on the other the water upon the land. Tho process may he muchly illus trated by filling a saucer nearly full of water and then pivlnff it a gentle tilt, ine nuia falls on one side and rises on the other. until at last it overflows. .This axis runs diagonally across the region. On Lake On tarlo the land about the village 01 uat name in plpkinir: at Hamilton, on the west em end, it is rising.. On Huron, in Georg ian bay. it is also rising, hut In the south western part or tne lake and at tne poutnern end of Michigan the contrary move ment is in process. Chicago itself is thereby endangered, and Professor Gilbert threatens it. in about nve centuries, witn tne late which. acro:dln2 to Moore, has befallen the "towers of other days', in Loch Neash. The sublect has for several years engaged tne attention of men. of .scienca in the United States and Canada; there is. indeed, no more interesting. .chanter in geology tnan the history of. tho sreat lakes of Xortli America Professor Spencer. In a paper read eight years ago to the Geological bociety ot Lon don, described, the original condition of the river basin of the. St. Lawrence. Soundings in Lake Michigan have proved that, were it dry. it would be divided by a central ridge into two valleys the northern communicating with the basin of Huron along- the line still followed by the water: the southern draining -along a dried channel into Saginaw bay, on the southwest side of Huron. The two streams ultimately united on the dry bed of that. lake. and then passed out to Lake Ontario, not by uetroit. hne and Niagara, but tv way of Georgian bay, and through another' buried channel which en tered the lake a little east or Toronto, in those days, of course, the falls did not ex ist, and even after the subsidence of the land about the upper waters of the St. Iawrence had formed the lakes. Lrie did not at first send its watera northward from Its eastern end to Ontario, but was drained by a river flowing southward to the Mississippi. The formation of Niagara was the result of later movements, as both Professors Gilbert and Spencer have pointed out, which did not even then cease. At various places around the shores of the lake lines of terraces can still be recognized, which were fretted on the slopes when the waters stood at higher levels. These terraces are not at uniform heights above the present surface, and, therefore, prove that a process of "warping" has been going on, or. in other words, that the upward movement has been unequal. For some little time it has been known that movement was still in progress, and we now learn that in some places, roughly speaking, toward the southwest part of the area. It Is In a downward direction. This also Is not without precedent. One of the most noted instances is on the shores of the Baltic. The southern part of Sweden, the district called Scania, is slowly sinking; the exact rate, perhaps, is not yet quite certain, but a bout: -Mai mo- it. probably exceeds a yard in a century. In the more northern parts, however, the land has certainly risen during very late geological times, and is believed to be still on the move. Of course, if this tilting in the lake region continues. Erie will be once more cut off from Ontario. If not from Huron: it and Michigan will discharge their waters southward to the basin of the Mississippi. The drjlng-up of. Niagara and the flooding of Chicago will be serious matters, but we may console ourselves with the reflection that neither will happen for many a long year, and that, when 'the time comes. American ingenuity will be equal to the emergency. THIS TIinCAD TOOTH. HiiftlneNN IlroiiKht to DutUtn hy Firm. 1 Noted Habit of Women. New York Sun. "You may talk about your bicycle foot and your golf arm and your meerschaum mouth." said the dentist, brusquely. "Whv, they're not In It with the thread tooth. Whenever a woman comes to me and complains that the edges of her -teeth are all rough and Jagged and she doesn't know what In the world she Is going to do about it. I ask her right off what her business is. If she says she sews I am able to diagnose that case of jagged teeth at once. I tell her she has the thread tooth. Then she wants to know what I mean. 'Don't you bite your tnread: I ask. bhe always nems and haws for a spell before answering. 'Well, maybe I do. And then I say, 'Of course you do.' and proceed to give her some good advice which she. In turn, will proceed to disregard the first chance she gets. "Some day I'm going to. get up a lecture and advertise it to be delivered before women only. In that way I'll be sure to draw a big crowd, and when I get a whole grist of femininity within hearing distance I'm going to preach at them for all I'm worth. My text will be The Thread Tooth.' Why you .women will persist in doing such senseless things when you know the result is going to be more or less harmful is something I can't for the life of me understand, but it is a fact that nine out of ten of you who use the needle, be It much or little, will eo on biting as if nothing better than teeth had ever been invented for the purmise of severing thread. 1 verily believe that if a woman had a dozen pairs of shears within reach she would bite her thread Instead of clipping it. which really doesn't take a second longer. " 'But I don't bite hard, my callers al-wav-3 nrote-t when I expostulate with them. Great SoMt! what an argument! Just as if a person had to bite clear through a millstone to break the enamel on a tooth. A thread is a fine, delicate thing, to be sure. but so are some saws ana nies, and ail are sure to cut their way through almost any substance If applied persistently. When I ret mv lecture ready lm ko'pr to say all this and a good deal more, and I'm going to wind up with the advice that I'm giving now to everv woman who handles a needle: Don't bite vour thread. Cut It or break .1 iinv thr old thinjc with it. but don't, if you value your incisors, and your cuspid and your bicuspius, saw u on witn your teeth. . Apartment IIone. Harper's Weekly. hich assume to be qualified to Kay what is tru about the concerns of real estate in rsew iur. ii-'-ii umi apaumentc nre more in xavor thU year than vr hpfnrp nnd that the only apartment houses which are not having ih!nss all their own umv nre thni (levoiea to oacneior The provision for bachelors- has been siightlv overdone in New Yorj.Mt seems. nd thit u imnd news, for far too much An f.r thia class, considering its limited desert That tamil3 will tend

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In this whole State, and with Colored Dress Goods Including the beautiful plaids, the dainty cloths for tailoring and what not. NOVELTY SUITINGS. 2$ inches wide, very clesiraDie lor misses wear, regular JJf 20c quality, for GRANITB PLAIDS, silk and wool. 36 inches wide, large variety ot styles and flQ combinations, at KJzr BOUCLE PLAIDS. SS Inches wide, a dozen new and attractive patterns, iook aims like, the expensive kind, to-morrow. CHEVIOTS, all wool. U inches wide, a splendid cloth for service, complete lp line of colors. 73c quality xJzf WHIPCORDS, 42 inches wide, made of pure Saxony yarn, in an tne late ian ftUf shades. $1.0o quality, for V3 NOVELTY CltEPON, silk and wool. 40 inches wide, black grounds with col- JCLf ored combination., our ?1.2T quality. TAFFETA CORDS, all wool. 40 Inches wide, an entirely new weave for this season, in all the leading shades, QQr our $1.2 quality GRANITE CLOTHS, i inches wide, admirably adapted for a tailor-made QQr garment. $1.25 quality oINVISIBLE CHECKED SERGES, for ladies' fine tailoring, a very firm and weighty cloth, made of pure worst- QQr ed yarn. a Inches wide, $1.50 qualltyf-,' CAMELS-HAIR STRIPED PLAIDS, a new feature in the plaid family, 50 inches wide, combinations of navy blue, CLt OR brown and garnet, $1.75 quality . qj Snaps 5 Big Ones in the Deoart Each one's a big bargain and worth going after. 2.0V) yards of linen-finished Lawns and i- v.-rt lonetViu rantrlnff from 2 to 15 yards. 40 inches wide, for ladles j and children's wear, regular pr-icro ic are from 2oC to ooc per yara UNBLEACHED DAMASK, two yards wide. all pure linen, extra neavy, in iour "dutiful design?, regular 75c quality, to- 62.4.C rv-i nrrrwir .... 100 DOZEN NAPKINS, full grass bleached. pure linen. size, in a nanayomc 4,"c patterns, regular price Is $1.00 a doz- Qc en, sale price M 200 BEDSPREADS, size 11-4. extra heavy 4 Marseilles patterns, hemmed, ready uUr for use, worth $1.23. special price.,.. LINEN SHEETING, bleached, 90 Inches wide, extra heavy. quaiuy, ior LJMr this occasion ;.-yvv' more and more to live in apartments on Manhattan island seems obvious. W hen the amount cf living space which the family income can secure is limited, that space is much more serviceable when laid on its? side than if It stands on end. A house twelve feet wide, fifty feet high and seventy-five feet deep is a badly skimped house, but a flat twelve feet high, fifty feet wide and seventy-five feet deep must be a pretty fair flat. Then. too. the superior height of apartment houses makes available great depositories of aerial space which mere single dwrelllnga which rest on the earth cannot reach, and. as space promises to be more In demand on the Island of Manhattan than anywhere else on earth, the development of the apartment house seems likely to reach here its utmost limit. A Reason. Detroit Free Press. "Well you look pleased with yourself. Brown; made a good thing this week on Change?" Nope." ., .. .... Sold out your street-railway interests? "Nope." Rented the other half of your house?" Nope." 14. . 'Mother-in-law gone to live with her other daughter?" Nope." "Been buying pork?" 'Nope." "Well, what in the dickens do you look go pleased for, then?" Boy!" Munna Still In Arabia. Meehan's Monthly. The manna referred to In the history of the wandering of the Jews toward Canaan 's be'ieved to be a species of small puff-ball, which is still found on the Arabian deserts, and behaves precisely as detailed in Jewish history. Its botanic name is Car.ona esculcnta. It is about the size of a pea, but comes out in such numbers as to be often In small heaps, it must be collected in early morning, as it dries up and disappears before night. It can. however, be kept for some time if preserved from evaporation. It appears after heavy dews, or the rains that fall occasionally in the deserts. Nearly half its weight consists of nutritious matters fit for human food. lit LaHt Fllnff. New York Pres.. As they b"nt solicitously over him, the man who bad been kicked by a horse owned his eyes. "Have you any last wish? they asked him .v.,, "Ye," he answered. "Have an automobile heatse at the funeral." Revenge, it seems was strong even In death. Silk HntM Are becoming popular again. You will find the best variety at the Danbury Hat Company, No. 8 East Washington street. Will "break up" a cold from the first touch to the mofft stubborn cae of It's all very well for people of leisure to "lay up" with a cold-to keep lndoors-to go South but work-a-day, active people cannot spare the time. To this vast majority "Seventy-seven" appeals; It is a small vial of pleasant pellets; fits. the vest pocket, a lady's porte-monnaie. card case or child's school box. The prompt use of "77" will "break up" a cold from the first touch to the most stubborn case of grip. For soil's by all druggists, or sent on receipt of price. 25c and $1.00. Humphreys Homeopathic Medicine Co., cor. William and John sU, New York.

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ZIBELINE and CAMEL S-HAIR TLAIDS. Another arrival of those beautiful and much-talked-of plaids, their equal not to be found in the city at CZ OQ $1.73, our pric ipi.O GOLF PLAIDS, reversible, plain and checked back with plaid face, C JQ extra heavy, $2.00 quality paJ HIGH-GRADE NOVELTIES, consisting of silk and wool cords, with Persian stripes. cnenma coras witn nanosome matalasse backgrounds, $2.00 and $1.48 $3.w qualltle?. your choice lor, AND THE Black Dress Goods At this store are without a doubt in better assortment than anywhere. ENGLISH CREPONS. 45 inche? wide, pure mohair and wool, up-to-date designs, including stripes and blistered ttO f effects, our regular $2.50 quality.. w SILK .CREPONS. 43 Inches wide, pure silk f i vrv hH-sterv. has that de- 4C O f sired clinging effect. $2.23 quality.10 BLISTERED CREPONS. 43 inches wide, pure mohair and wool, very silky 42: er our regular $1.75 quality .......... 4J Our regular $1.50 quality $1.25 MATALASSE CREPONS. 43 Inches wide, French make, a new arrival, fif- VSr teen stjles .... FANCY CHEVIOTS. 46 Inches wide, medium und heavy weights, a mag- (Qf nlficent cloth for separate skirts KJZ,, GRANITE CLOTH. 45 Inches wide, all wool, correct weight for tailored fQr drespes, our regular $1.00 quality vf These Linings Are Very Cheap TAFFETA, 36 inches wide, fast black and brown, regular 10c quality, here to- gc morrow at TERCALINE. fast black, full yard wide. beetle nnisn, regular price is ,c. wr sale price SILESIA, in drab only, extra' heavy twill. 36 inches wide, makes a good. Arm waist lining, regular 15c quality, tomorrow 1Ak

A Great Sale of RUGS AND MATTINGS Just about now you want things looking trim and neat for the winter and fall. You won't make anything by waiting, and it will" be very difficult to match these prices very soon:

SMYRNA RUGS, all wool, sixe 30x60. fringe. 1W patterns to select from, 5 AQ RDecial. Monday ip I - FIBER WILTON RUGS. 30x60, $1.75 quality $1.19 SMYRNA RUGS, room size, reversible, large line to select from, special prices: Sft Oft 6x9, $12.00 quality t 9x12,. $25.00 quality JpIO.oO AXMINSTER RUGS, best quality. Oriental designs, in all the new col- lO orings, 9x12 sire, $25.00 quality.. qUV.VO We are the only house

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Buying: Absolutely for Cash direct from the factory, and not being a branch house of any other concern, we thus have the choice of the best pianos madei and give to the public the finest that the world produces. Our cash discounts enable us to undersell all others, and our large daily sales to those who have looked about" are the best evidence not only of the vast superiority of our Pianos, but of the great saving in price to the buyer. We are the only house selling the famous....' Steinway and Kurteoiaeini We carry the largest stock in the State. Over 200 Pianos to make selection from. You are cordially invited to come and make a personal examination, whether you arc ready to buy or not.

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Owe! WHIPCORDS. 43 Inches wide, all wool, extra finish and weight, our 73c qual- gQ( SERGE. 4 Inches wide, air wool, fine twill, both jet and blue black, our 5c A7r quality u NEW ARRIVALS OF Handsome Silks PERSIAN STRIPE, in the newest street and evening shade, regular $l.W CQ quality SELF-COLORED CORDS, In all this teason's Dopular shades, both plain and fancy cords, regular $1.23 and $1.33 fiQf qualities FANCY STRIPED TAFFrTTA. in novel design, heavy quality and recommended to weir, regular $l.oi) qualPLAIN TAFFCTA. very Hne. with rart brilliancy and distinct ruMle. rts- (Q ular 83c quality vSILK TOPLIN? In all color, beautiful finish best quality, usually Fold at $1.2j.QCir. special BLACK SATIN DUCHESSE. 21 Inches wide, all silk, very heavy and guaranteed to wear, our regular Kc (Ac quality ULACK TAFFETA. 22 Inches wide. Swi make, very brilliantly finished. oft and pliable, does not crock, our reg- rQf ular Soc quality vuv BLACK PEAU DE SOIE. 22 Inches wide, all Filk and very fine tlnlfh. extra weight, made especially lor hacd- Q 4r some ressc?, $1.23 quality sju r LIM.NGS Continued. ALL-LINEN CANVAS. 24 Inches wide,! make? a serviceable stiffening and iA dress facing, regular 2Jc quality "w COMMODORE SILK, a very strong ami . firm fabric for Jacket and skirt linIne. In black and colors, 28 Inches 7f wide regular price Is 25c. pale price..1 FRENCH HAIRCLOTH, fast black, a m-:. perior quality, pure hair, thoroughly. : shrunk. 15, 15 and 24 Inches wide, our regular prices are 25o, 20c and i 4Sc. iale prices, 19c, 24c and 39c BRUSSELINE RUGS, reversible, 20x OO 60. rpeclal OVC CARPET TAPER, per yard c FLOOR DENIM. y0 pieces Just ar rived. In all culors, 3 inches wide, Ifi C 22c quality MATTING, cotton warp. Japanese, Oii 30c quality ......L MATTING. Nankin Jolntless','. heavy quality, our 20c grade, special for Mon- 4 A. dnv JAPANESE MATTING, carpet pat- 07r tern, in all colors, 3?c quality - in Indianapolis carrying a line of Father Goose 111m Hook. A lirnntl urn, bitch rla Juvrnllr. re It. THE ALLIS0N-EN0S CO. Two Morr H2 x. Mi:mniA kthki:t. It l'HMUKOHi: AHCADi:. Knabe Starr Plsiinios THE STARR PIANO CO., Msoufacturer. 13V. Washlnztca St. . 1 Szzisj J::rd bj.US, $2 fcr

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