Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 33, Number 196, 29 August 1908 — Page 3

THE RICmiOND PALLADIUM AND STJX-TE LEGRA M, SATURDAY, AUGUST 29, 1908,

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T NOT TAKE HAND IN POLITICS Postoffice Department Issues : Orders to All Postal Employes. WANT FEWER VIOLATIONS. THOUGHT THAT THE CIVIL SERVICE LAW WILL BE OBEYED TO A GREATER EXTENT THAN HERETOFORE. Washington, D. C, Aug. 20. With a View to minimizing violations of the civil service law which have occurred in connection with political campaigns, In the past, the postoffice department has promulgated an order relative to political activity in the federal service, addressed to the officers and employes of the post office department and postal service. The order renews previous official Inhibitions of pernicious activities, and cites the postmaster general's order of June C, 1907. This gives the president's amendments to the civil service rules, which prohibit persons in the executive civil service from using official authority or influence for the purpose of interfering with an election or the result thereof, and declare that persons in the competitive civil service, while retaining the right to vote as they please and to express privately their opinions on all political subjects, shall take no active part in political campaigns. The notice also quotes the civil service commission's letter of last March to the president, urging greater severity in the penalty imposed for such violations, and embodies a memorandum furnished by the civil service commission giving warning against political assessments and partisan activity of office-holders. The postmaster general has directed that the notice be posted conspicuously in all offices of the department, all classified postoffices and offices of division superintendents. . CALLED MEETING. There will be a called meeting of the Ministerial Association for the transaction of important business on Monday, Aug. 31, at the usual time and place. W. M. Nelson, Vice Pres. PREACHES AT STRAUGHNS. The Rev. Heoffer will preach at Straughns, Sunday at the morning services. POWERS, VICTIM OF INTR1&UE, TELLS HIS LIFE STORY (Continued From Page One.) me -while on the train. I said then that It was a shame and an outrage and would mean the defeat of the republican ticket In the election contest "On the night following the assasination the democrats held a monster mass meeting in Frankfort in which they declared that Goebel was killed by a huge republican conspiracy. Soon after ,the legislature appropriated $100,000 to find the criminal. At torney Tom Campbell, a lawyer with a "black record, wa3 placed in charge by the democrats. "A. little later I was arrested. v In ten days after my arrest the party lines In Kentucky were tightly drawn. To be a good democrat was to say I waB guilty; to be a good republican was to say I was innocent. My first trial came in July 1900. A gubernatorial race was on. The Goebelites knew that my conviction was necessary to their success. They determined to convict me at any cost The issue was really the governorship and It was found out in a court of Justice where the life of a hirman being was at stake. Judge Partial. "'Judge Cantrell, a man I had long known was the first trial judge. He refused to draw the jury from the jury wheel, because the regular panel had been made out before Goebel's assassination and could not have been packed. The jury was drawn from the Goebel counties. Of the hundred men ninety-five were democrats. On the morning when my trial opened, the judge out of hearing cf my lawyers and myself, questioned these men and dismissed those who were not out and out Goebelites. "When that jury assembled none of the men would look me in the eye. Their whole bearing was that of men determined to get through with the trial as quickly as possible and convict me. My fate was not unanticipated. I was condemned to imprisonment at hard labor for life. 1 had been confined in the Georgetown jail and the jailer was kind. My enemies moved that 1 be taken to Louis ville, where the jailer was a Goebelite. I was crushed and did not care so I , did not fight the change.' On the road to Louisville I had time for sober re flection. The past rose up like a hid eous night dream. From an early age 1 had taken upon my shoulders more burdens than fall to the let of most lads. I had fought for every inch of my rise. Now my prospects were blighted. I saw myself taken from prison to prison branded as a criminal. a slayer of man. "In Louisville I was well treated. The Goebel Jailer proved a friend. had a long time to wait for the Court of Appeals to pass on my case. "When It did hand down a decision it said

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CARL W. COOK. Cook appeared in Richmond last season and made a hit with the lovers of repertoire and the announcement that he would again play in Richmond was well received. His company and series of plays have been strengthened this year, he ha vlng one of the best companies on the road.

gally convicted and we send his case back for retrial according to the laws of Kentucky and the sense of justice.' At the second trial, Cantrell refused to vacate the bench in favor of another judge, though he had been guilty of every connivance. He had even issued an order that no woman or minister was to see me. The sheriffs were again sent to the Goebel counties for a second jury. Of 293 men drawn 287 were out and out democrats. There was not a single republican, populist or prohibitionist in the second jury. Many of the jurymen had already said that I was a murderer and ought to be hung. Again I was sentenced for life and again the court of appeals sent the case back for retrial. Was Dark Hour. When my third trial came I had another judge. The Kentucky law provides that if the regular judge cannot preside the bar elects. Now the bar at Georgetown is composed of reasonable men and my enemies did not want them to elect a judge. So they passed a law that the governor should appoint The trial was delayed and as there was an approaching election and the governor who should appoint might be a friend instead of an enemy, 4hey took the power out of his hands and placed it with a partisan board. I was no better off than I was before. The jury was summoned from Bourbon county and out of 176 men only three were not democrats. This jury brought in a verdict of guilty and fixed my punishment at death. The Goebel governor said that the law should take its course. The court of appeals was overwhelmingly democratic. It was a dark hour. But I had done no wrong and the blood of no man was on my hands. I still had hope. "The court of appeals reviewed the case and declared that there had baen a mistrial. The case was then reviewed by the supreme court of the United States. In handing down the decision Justice Harlan said: 'The things done in the Powers case down in Kentucky is enough to shock the sense of justice in any man.' Before the fourth trial came there was a change of feeling. The democrats had had eight years in which to prove my guilt and they had not done it. If I was, why did they pack the jury? Why did they not give me a fair trial and prove my guilt? This change of feeling elected a republican governor. Let me say tonight my heart goes out to the ten thousand democrats who voted the republican ticket that I might have a fair trial. "On my last Jury there were eight democrats and four republicans. Six of the democrats voted with the republicans for acquittal. One man hung the jury for the other Juror who had voted to condemn promised to change if his colleague would. The obstinate juror held on and I was not exhonorated. It developed later that the ob stinate juror was a eustomerat a store owned by William Goebel's brother and had said to his friends before the trial that he would never acquit me. "Wishing to be acquitted by a jury of my peers I favored another trial. My friends said however, that I had had four trials at none of which I had reecived justice and they would appeal to Governor Willson. When the great petition went up to the governor he pardoned me and in doing so said, "I firmly believe that he is absolutely Innocent of the charge against him." At this point Mr. Powers asked if there was anyone who wished to question him. Someone in the audience asked "Who was in your office when Goebel was killed?" "I do not know," replied Mv. Pow ers, "but I believe Henry E. Youtsey. He is now serving a life sentence for the murder of Goebel. It developed at my last trial that Youtsey had made a skeleton key to my office." Drained the Dregs. There being no other question, Mr. Powers concluded briefly: "I have drained to the dregs the bitter cup called life. I have tasted of its sweets too. At times life has been like a river flowing between vine-clad shores. At other times it has been a dark and turbulent stream. Unfortunately I am not unmoved by the opinions of men. But I have come to know that I must not hearken to what my enemies say about me. I have fought my fight and won. To the wrongly accused In every clime, I would say that truth is eternal. Right is not always on the scaffold and wrong is not always on the throne. la every crisis of life the scale will

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tip to the side of truth and justice and the dark hour will finally change to the morn of victory." COMMITTEES FOR FALL FESTIVAL WERE CHOSEN (Continued From Page One.) street from bridge to Fifth street and the first square north and south on First, Second, Third, Fourth and Fifth streets A. S. Street, Elmer Eggemeyer Chas. Kreimeier, Albert Morel, Herman F. Pilgrim. Main street from Fifth to Sixth and the first square north and south on Sixth street Philip Birck, O. E. Dickinson, Geo. Brehm, Bernard' J. Maag, Jos. Hassenbusch. Main street from Sixth to Seventh and the first square north and south on Seventh A. W. Gregg, John C. Bayer, Dr. Adams, F. M. Taylor, Frank I. Reed, Geo. L. Klein. Main street from Seventh to Eighth Chas. H. Feltman, Wm. D. Loehr, F. C. Lahrman, Frank Youngflesh, Frank Meyer, Ray Shiveley, O. G. Murray. Eighth street from North A to South A street H. H. Engelbert, Harry C. Downing, Cash Beall, J. A. Weighman. Main street from Eighth to Ninth and the first square north and south on Ninth street Paul Ross, Wm. H. Romey, Jno. Hasemeier, Wallace B. Simmons, Jacob Rosenbloom, Walter A. Johnson, C. E. Thomason, Frank Haner. Main street from Ninth to Tenth street and first square north and south on Tenth street Jno. Zwissler, Wm. H. Bartel, Jr., Jno. S. Brown, R. W. Hall, C. C. Allen, Ed Roser. Main street from Tenth to Twelfth street and the first square north and South on Eleventh and Twelfth streets C. A. Harrison, F. C. Kibbey, Chas Johanning. Main street east of Twelfth, and north to railroad H. H. Toler, Geo. R. Markle, Edgar Hawekotte, Chas Hodge. Ft. Wayne avenue from A to E streets F. O. Chambers, Jacob Lich tenfels. North Eighth street from D to E Clem Thistlethwalte, B. D. Game. North E street from Eighth, to Tenth streets and see wholesalersLewis Iliff, Geo. Miller, Jno McCar thy. Riverdale Geo. W. Carter, Edgar Norrls. Sherman White. South Side, south of South A street Matt Von Pein, A. W. Blickwedel. Jno. H. Hanseman, Chas. Bentlage, W. II, Rosa, Geo. Cutter, Louis A. Knopf. Seventh Ward Edw. G. McMahan Geo. Matthews, Geo. Cotton. Eighth Ward John T. Burdsall, Jno. P. Evans. Special committee to see manufac turers J. M. Lontz, Geo. Seidel. M. J O'Brien, S. E. Swayne. Walter McConaha, J. C. Hunt C. A. McGuire. THE CITYJN BRIEF Miss Edith Winslow of Lynn is the guest of friends and relatives today. Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Ireman of Portland are the guests of friends here today. William Marine was assisting In the ticket office at the Panhandle depot today. The Greenfield Eagles conducted an excursion to Dayton yesterday. There were twelve coaches and one baggage car in the train, which passed through Richmond. MARINE FAMILY REUNION. At the home of Moorman Marine, a family reunion will be held tomor row. Among those to be present from out of the city are Mrs. F. S. Van Nuys and children of Seattle. Wash. J. F. Marine, of Memphis, Tenn., and Mrs. Lee Way, of New Albany, Ind. TWO FINGERS MASHED. Arthur Darby while working in the Richmond Baking company's plant, got his right hand fastened in the molding machine Thursday, mashing two fingers. Mr. Darby resides on North 16th street.

HARVESTER TRUST TO AID EMPLOYES

International Company's New Plan Will Benefit About 30,000 Men. PENSION SYSTEM DEVISED. GOES INTO EFFECT NEXT TUESDAY PROVIDES AGAINST SICKNESS, ACCIDENT OR DEATH OF MEMBERS. Chicago, Aug. 29. The International Harv3ter company, through its general manager, C. S. Funk, has announced the organization of a benefit association and pension fund for its 30,000 employes in all parts of the world. In many respects the plan is said to be the most liberal adopted by any large business concern within recent years. The company announces mat it will contribute $50,000 toward the benefit fund, providing 75 per cent of its employes join the new association.'. Should 50 per cent of the employes oin the company will contribute $25,000. The pension movement plans for the retirement of all employes at the age of 65 years who have worked continuously for twenty years. As the harvester company has been estab lished but six years the plan if liter ally interpreted would mean that the majority of employes would have to work fourteen years before becoming eligible for pensions. To Consider Previous Service. The company, however, through a pension board to be appointed later, and to be composed of an equal number of officials and employes, will distribute benefits according to the length of service of employes in the various branches prior to the amalgamation. From advance calculations Mr. Funk estimates that hundreds of employes are already eligible for retirement under its company's rule. The new plans become effective next Tuesday, Sept. 1. Advance no tices in the shape of large posters have already been sent to all of the plants of the company in all parts of the world, announcing in detail the benefits to be derived from joining. More than five thousand employes have already signified their intention of joining and applications are being received at the rate of 1,000 a day. Another point which Mr. Funk be lieves is unique in the matter of bene fit associations is that membership in the association is voluntary on the part of the employes. In joining they are not asked to waive any letral rights against the company in case of personal injury. The company receives no financial benefit from the new plan, according to Mr. Funk, the association being solely for the benefit of the employes, who are allowed to choose one-half of the board of trustees from members representing the various branches and departments. SIGNS FAST PLAYERS FOB JW SEASON Hopke, Bush and Lindsay Will Play With Richmond. Clarence Jessup has nearly complet ed the organization of the fastest independent team that any city in the middle west can boast of. This team will be the attraction at Athletic park on Sundays and week days after the middle of next month. It will probably hold together until the middle of October. Jessup was in IndianaDolis yesterday and signed Third Baseman Hopke, Shortstop Bush and Outfielder Lindsay of the Indianapolis league team. He is negotiating for other players. MAYHEW HAS RETURNED. Clarence Mayhew who was called to Logansport on account of the serious illness of his wife has returned and resumed his duties as station master at the Pennsylvania depot Mr. Mayhew announces that Mrs. Mayhew is much better although she is not out of danger. TAKES NEWP0SITI0N. L. E. Posther Becomes Superintendent At Ligonier. I E. Posther, formerly of this city. who has been in the south the past two years, and has been here visic'ng home and friends for the past moDth. has left for Ligonier where he will be connected with the Mier Carriage and Buggy Company in the capacity of superintendent. CITY STATISTICS. Births. Mr. and Mrs. Orville Lewis. 318 North ISth street girl, third child. George and Nora Danneker, 408 Pearl, boy, first child. V V Relieves sour stomach, palpitation of the heart Digests what you eat

ES FROM GARY Latest Selling for MelodramaMan Hurled by Engine Into Car. ANOTHER LESS FORTUNATE. Hammond, Ind., Aug. 29. Daniel Knisely of Walkerton, while driving a team across the Michigan Central railroad tracks at Gary was struck by a westbound engine and hurled into the baggage car of an eastbound passenger train waiting on a siding. He escaped wrthout a scratch, while both horses were killed. An hour later an unknown man was killed at the same crossing by a westbound flyer. ENGLISH SERVANTS. They Don't Want Reapect, but Inatst I'poa Their "Rlh." To the American settling in London nothing is more confusing than the attitude of English servants, their contempt for the slightest consideration of their feeliugs and their fury at the least infringement of their rights. At first sight it seems that in spite of their dignity they accept extraordinari ly small wages, but the American finds housekeeping in London quite expensive, for not only is the work so specialized that an immense number of servants is required to do it, but they consume a greut deal of time and food in five meals a day, which is considered their right. Class distinctions below stairs are regarded much more scrupulously than above, and the unfortunate mistress of a house has to understand the grade of every one she employs, from the housekeeper to the scullery maid. Woe betide her if she confuses an upper and a lower servant or gives an order to the wrong one. An American woman married to an Englishman and settled in London told me that she installed a dumbwaiter in the hope of saving trouble to both her cook and her butler. At the end of a month she found it unused and on inquiring learned that as it was not the traditional duty of either a cook or a butler to send such a thing as a dumbwaiter up and down both refused to touch it, and her food continued to be carried by hand from her remote kitch en. Trouble was nothing to them in comparison to the danger of compromising their position. Ainslee's Magazine. TAINTED ATMOSPHERES. How Famea of Alcohol and Polaona May Endanger Health. Burton-on-Trent, the center of the English brewing industries, has the peculiar faculty of mildly intoxicating the stranger within its gates. The resident hne become accustomed to the mildly alcoholic fumes -which arise from the innumerable brewing vats, but the susceptible stranger finds exhilaration and finally a mild form of intoxication in the atmosphere an effect which does not wear off for several hours after his arrival. On every band the big brewing houses are throwing off fumes from the vats of malted liquors, and, while these are imperceptible to the resident more than a thousand authentic Instances are said to have been recorded of persons to whom the air has proved to possess properties that both cheer and Inebri ate. Just as In certain parts of the west the -arsenious fumes from the smelters destroy vegetation and imperil health, the vapors of the English brewing cap ital destroy the sobriety of the abstain er and fill his head with vagrant fan cles. As many visitors to the place are actuated by a desire to see for them selves the great Industry which they are doing their modest best to suppress and as they are the most sensitive to the atmosphere of the town, those who gain their living from the brew houses take great delight In observing these Involuntary lapses from principles. New York Herald. The Red Jacket Medal. Before the North American colonies revolted it was the British custom to present medals to Indian chiefs with whom treaties were made. These medals bore a figure of the reigning British sovereign on the obverse and emblems of peace on the reverse and were called Indian medals. After the Declaration of Independence Washington presented a United States medal to the Seneca chief, Sa-go-ya-wat-ha (He Keeps Them Awake), who was known popularly as Red Jacket Thlt Red Jacket medal is interesting as on of the earliest of the medals Issued by the first president of the great republic across the sea. Pearson's Weekly. Her Idea of Xecesaltlea. The young man was interviewing th stern parent of the only girl in tht world. "Of course, sir," he said, "my salary is not colossal, but I can give her all the necessities of life and some of Its luxuries." -My dear Mr. Softly," replied the stern parent "you have scarcely improved your time in her society if yoo do not know that she considers all th luxuries of life far nior necessary than the necessities." The Vice of mKnm. Of all vices to whic. .uug men become slaves idleness is uo means the least It is a vice easily contracted ic youth and hard to throw off in man hood or old age. Unfortunately It is not generally looked upon as an evil In the sense that drinking, gambling and debauchery are evils, yet its influence is no less certain In breaking down character and sapping physical and intellectual strength. Portland Orego nian.

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M. FLOWERS WILL FINISH LECTURE

Was Interrupted Last Evening In Middle of His Interesting Reading. . "BUILT FOR HIS PART." LITTLE ARLINE ELLIOTT MADE A FAVORABLE IMPRESSION AS JUVENILE READER FLOWERS ON PROGRAM TOMORROW. In the one hour alloted him last night Montaville Flowers so captured the Chautauqua audience with his reading of the first two acts of "Ben Hur" that there was a great demand that the Chautauqua management In duce him to finish it Manager Shaw announced today that Mr. Flowers has consented and will read tomorrow at 3:30 p. m. Champ Clark will ap pear at 2 o'clock and following him, Mr. Flowers. The concert by the Hrubey Bros, will be at 4:30 o'clock instead of 4 as given on the program There are yet two acts to be read in Mr. Flowers dramatization of "Ben Hur." They include the chariot race and the great scene on Calvary, the best parts of the book. Mr. Flowers read under difficulties last night which would have meant the defeat of a lesser artist but in the short time at his disposal, with the cry of "Time, Time" running through his mind he read so well that he captivated the vast throng. A sigh of disappointment passed over the audience when he was compelled to stop at the end of the second act. They wanted the rest of "Ben Hur." Flowers is the first of American readers Just as "Ben Hur" is the first of American novels. He is a great reader because nature has given him an almost perfect physique for the platform. He has good height, a commanding presence and a voice capable of great power and variation. Above all he loves his work with all the intensity of his artist nature. He reads from the great masters, entering into their characters and the emotions they felt when writing. General Wallace has said that Montaville Flowers has given his great book its best presentation. The wonderful thing in Mr. Flowers reading is his power to change from one character to another in an instant Last night he Impersonated Ben Hur, Messala, Ben Hur's mother and sister, Arrius, the master of the gallery. Sheik Illderman, Balthasar, Simonides, Esther, Malluch and minor char acters. He did it all with consummate skill. One of his best characters was that of the tribune. His lowering brow, heavy jaw and stern commanding voice made him unmlstagably a Roman commander. No actor could have done better. Flowers -has power no end of power. Under favorable conditions he forgets his audience, forgets himself, forgets everything but the character he is acting and the incidents that crowd that character's life. If the dictum of F. Marlon Crawford be right that "the novel is a pocket stage" Montaville Flowers is doing a great work in mak ing that stage a reality. This afternoon at three o'clock Mr. Flowers read his dramatization of "Les Miserables," the world's greatest novel. He enters with great spirit into the characters created by Victor Hugo the man France calls "The Consoler of his People." Elliott Girl a Wonder. C. Arline Elliott, the little girl ten years old who gave a reading before the Chautauqua yesterday afternoon Is a wonder. She has enough histrionic ability already developed to imperson ate Irish, French, German, Chinese and English character and she does It well. For over an hour she enter tained the audience in a way that would have done credit to an adult reader. Arline has been appearing before audiences ever since she was three years old. Her parents live in Dayton. They gay that even before the little girl could talk she would catch parts of tunes and hum them In a childish way. As soon as she was old enough they put her under the training of the best elocution teachers. Theatrical companies want Arline but her parents have refused all offers In order to keep her in school. Not long ago a theatrical company offered $75 a week for her services and agreed to pay her father a good salary to accompany her. In winter she attends the public schools in Dayton and is good In her classes. Her parents intend to give her the best training possible and then let her talents take what course they will. Reading by Amsbury. The reading from Rudyard Kipling yesterday afternoon by Wallace Bruce Amsbury was enjoyed by all who heard It His recital of the "Recesional" Kipling's masterpiece was es pecially impressive. This afternoon Mr. Amsbury read from his own book "Ballad3 of Bourbonnais." The poems are written In the French-Canadian dialect The Hah Of The Bedy. The organ around walch an the other arrant revolve, aad upon which they are Ureir dependent for their welfare, is the stotnacb. ben toe tractions of the stomach become tm ured. the bowels and nVer also become daesd. To cure a disease of the stomach. Ifrrc bowels zet a 30 cent or SI bottle of Dr. Calt U's Syrup Pepsin at yoor drosrrist's. It it. promptest reiie! for cooitipaXioa and Cf ia ever cc icrouctf-d.

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Oeasamrleeat Bet Arid mad Basra Salteylte r Salt. All of the most common food pre- . servatives are constituents of the food we eat Nature herself has put them Into our food. We have been consuming them since time began. Our savage ancestors consumed them for millenniums before us. Two grains of salicylic acid will preserve a pound of food for a reasonable length ot time. A grain Is the amount most commonly used. In order to preserve the same amount of food with equal safety one pound of sugar would be required. In fifteen pounds of well preserved food there would be thirty grains of salicylic acid. It is a very common thing for physicians to administer to their patients thirty grains at a dose and keep up the administration for many days with benefit to the patient Fifteen pounds of food preserved to an equal extent by sugar would require fifteen pounds of sugar. How long does the reader suppose that any person could retain good health if they undertook to eat fifteen pounds of sugar at a single sitting and keep taking such doses for weeks at a time? As a grain of salicylic acid will preserve more food with equal certainty than an ounce of salt and as fifteen grains of salicylic acid would equal in preserving power over a pound of salt who would hesitate In choosing the alternative doses of thirty grains of salicyclic acid or of two pounds of table salt? One pound of salt Is a fatal dose. Dr. It G. Eccles la Public Opinion. SPIDER SILK. I The Way the Thread la Taken the lasarlaeaed laveee. The American consul at Tamatava, Madagascar, sends an Interesting report on the manufacture of Bilk from, spiders web. j The first difficulty lc securing the: thread direct from the Madagascar spider ("halabe," big spider, Che na-f tlves call her) was met with In devising a suitable bolder to -secure the Irving spider while winding off the web. j This was originally performed by confining the spiders In empty match' boxes with their abdomens protruding, thus making so many living reels. The extraction of the web does not ap- ! parently inconvenience the insects, a I ! though care has to be taken not to in- j Jure them. From that stag has been ' evolved a frame of twenty-four small guillotines, in each of which a spider ' is secured in such a manner that on . one side protrudes the abdomen, while on the other the head, thorax and legs , are free. The precaution of keeping the less out of the way Is necessary, because the spiders, when their secretion is spun off in this fashion, are liable to break off the web with their legs. The spider submits without resistance to the widing off of Its thread. After the laylug period or formation oC the web it can be reeled off five or six times In the course of a month, after which the spider dies, having yielded about 4.000 yards. Native girl do the work. TCarrow Eacapea. An Edinburgh minister rolled a thousand feet down the steeps of Hen Nevis and lived to tell the tale. Admiral Sir Novell Salmon was clean shot through at Lucknow and returned as dead, but came up smiling soon afterward. Similar was Lord Wolseloy's experience In the Crimea; but, though pretty well riddled with shot and shell and deprived of the sight of an eye. be was able soon after to enJoy a laugh over his own obituary. Not long ago there was a girl up on trial In a London police court who had twice attempted to commit suicide, but two trains had passed over see and left her unscathed. A Deadly Spider. Papua is the home of a small snides the body of which is about the sise of a pea. It is black In color, with a brilliant red spot in the center ot th back. It Is frequently to be found making its nest in old packing cases which have lain neglected for soms time. Unless molested it will not attack. The bite is very small, although fatal in Inverse proportion. The chief effect of the Tims Is that It paralyzes the Intestines of the patient and contracts them into knots. Tee Mmrk Far Her Mcmary. "You bad man," exclaimed tho fluttering hostess, you've kept everybody waitlngr "Pardon me, replied the young poet, "I have been loitering on the slopes of Helicon." "Helicon? Where's that? Another of those new north shore places? I never can remember the funny names they give them towns up that way." Chicago Record-Herald. Dlsroeraarf aa". Collector I'm sorry, Mr. Slowpss1, but your tailor has been obliged t put bis account a gainst you into my hands for collection. Mr. Slowpay He has. eb? Do yon work on a commission basis? "Yes. I do." "Then I'm sorry for yon. Foe ad Oat. Bhe You're Just like all the re, j the men. Here we've been marrfed only a year, and you never kiss me unless I ask you to. FleYou're like all the rest of the women. You never think to ask me to kiss you unless yoa want money. Illustrated Bits. For file Appetite. Tm takin somethln fer me spp tite three times a day." -wotr "Breakfss. dinner an supperf There Is no medicine at and at the aame tfme so pieasaat to taxe as Dr. CaidweU's Syrup Pepsin, the positive care tar all diseases arism from stsraach trouble. Tfce price ia very raas aable 30c and EL PALLADIUM WANT ADS. PAY