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are in the best shape "of all people to push the proposition. And It may hot be an Impossibility ; that the present Chicago jmr"4 will . be remembered Ions as an marking one, in that : it gave far creater strength to the determination that warfare must cease from ' the earth.. Whether this be realised or not. It Is evident that many are looking forward to a world's court , ' to settle the controversies of the fu-

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Taking Car of No. 1. "Do your constituents write to you about tha tarllfr "I should aay o." answered Senator Sorghum. "And I must say that if I were aa selfish In my politics as some of my correspondents I'd have been sent back to private life long ago." "Do you think my peach-basket hat is too extravagant?" she asked. "That isn't a peach basket," answered her husband as be grouchily signed another check. "That's a waste basket." A Great Man's Constituents. With many men of many minds, Each more or less intent on self, Free trade in speech the statesman finds But scant protection to himself. Unconscious Innocence. . "My ancestors came over , in the Mayflower," said the haughty lady. "Oh, yes," rejoined Mrs. Cumrox, with Interest. "Mine didn't. None of my family ever cared for those bis excursiona." "Borrowin' trouble," said Uncle Eben, "Is very often like payln de hlghes' rate of interest foh a loan of counter. feit money." As Taate Change. I do not read the fairy tales That pleased me as a boy. The volume once so charming fails To bring a thrill of joy. For interest now they bid me look "Way off among the stars. I get a scientific book And read the news from Mars! I am unmoved though princes grope Through an enchanted place; My hero has a telescope And bravely roams through space. I care not for the knightly deed, For victories or for scars. My one ambition is to read The latest news from Mars! Items Gathered in From Far and Near THE SLOWNESS OF SPRING. From the Milwaukee Sentinel. How far into the summer are we to be reminded of the winter? From the Scranton Tribune. . , It takes real faith in spring to enjoy a ride in the open street car these days. From the Indianapolis Star. Winter has been dethroned, as we understand It, but he does not let Men med Effendl Spring alone on the job. From the Buffalo Times. Any man who can sing a song of spring in these raw winds must have the poesy fever or worse than that From the Omaha Bee. Spring would be much more popular If it would return to form and cease its strenuous ways. From the Richmond Times-Dispatch. We wonder what April is like in Chile, anyway. From the Boston Advertiser. Fashion note: Overcoats' are being worn longer than usual this spring. From the Chicago Record-Herald. ' One of the magazines publishes an article in which an attempt is made to show that the weather bureau is seldom right in its predictions. We have noticed recently that the bureau has been painfully accurate every time it predicted colder weather. THE GNU QUESTION. From the Nashville Banner. Quite a number of paragraphers have hastened to make the original re mark that they gnu Mr. Roosevelt would kill that gnu. From the Cleveland Leader. T. R. has bagged a gnu. How will the Outlook spell it? From the Milwaukee Free Press. President Roosevelt has killed wilde beests. Pure wantonness! We gnu he would do that From the Springfield Union. Shooting wildebeeste is a gnu ex perience for Col. Roosevelt. From the Toledo Blade. A gnu was the first animal killed in Africa by Mr. Roosevelt That ought to please the reformed spelling advo cates. - From the Springfield Union. ; Editor Roosevelt's reason for forbid ding the reporters to follow him into the jungle was that he wanted to send all the gnus from Africa to The Out look. ' . From the Concord Evening Monitor. Of course Col. Roosevelt, being scientist as well as a sportsman, knew the-gnu when he had killed it BUILDING BOOM ft RECORD BREAKER (Continued From Page One.) ry J. Vogelsong, South Ninth street, new addition to dwelling, 1300; Rich mond City School Board, Ninth and North B . streets, school building. $124,000; Edward F. Roser, 903 Main street repair of old frame store room. $800; Edward M. Geler, S03 South Eleventh street, new . frame dwelling. $1.S00; Benjamin and Agnes . Crump, 1 220 South West Second - street. old frame dwelling, $250; W. S. Hervey, Twentieth and south A street, new frame dwelling, $2,500. PENNY TO SPEAK. : Harry Penny county clerk, will de liver the memorial day address at Goshen on May 23. The affair is in charge of the G. A. R. post of that

Deadly Snake in a Motor Car Drives A utqist in a Wild Ride

Richmond. Ky. May 7. Allen. Zarring, a miller yesterday dedicated nibnew automobile in a unique ceremony. Incidentally Zarring was in great danger for some time and, strangely, it was speeding that saved his life in stead of threatening it. v Zarring went out Into the country on business and while he was talking over the deal, a big copperhead snake crawled up and snuggled' itself in the ap robe on the floor of the machine. When Zarring started home the snake raised its head and showed its fangs to Zarring. Too astonished at first to . . . i jump or do anytning eise, me miner sat inert while the reptile wound itself around his leg and the brake of the auto. Then Zarring got scared, wot realizing what he was doing, he jerked the lever open and let the machine go its best. The snake moved around a little when the motor car had attained about its full speed and its bead was within an inch or two of tbe brake handle. In tbls position- it swayed its bead back and forth and thrust out its fangs whenever the man looked as if he were about to make a move.. Zarring has more than ordinary nerve, ana arter xne nrst shock tne snake had iven him which had caus ed him inadvertently to start the machine in its wild ride he regained as PRESIDENT TAFT TO TAKE ACTION ON RATE STATUTE He Is of the Opinion That the Court Decisions Compel an Early Action by Congress For Regulation. SBWMBMS) SENATOR ELKINS IS AN AUTHOR OF JOKES West Virginia Statesman Nev er Intended That the Com modities Clause Should Get Into the Bill. Washington, D. C, May 7. At the opening of the next session of congress President Taft will be called upon to ask for important legislation amending two of the well known sections of the railroad rate law. He may not go as far as some would like him to go in the way of radical recommendations, but the decisions of the courts this year have been such as to compel some kind of action by con gress in the interest not only or the shipper but of the railroads themselves. The Elkins law section forbidding rebates probably will have to be remodeled in the light of the Standard Oil decision, and the commodity opinion in the supreme court has rendered it absolutely necessary that the whole section should be repealed outright oc strengthened materially. It is a curious coincidence and, of course, it is only a coincidence that both of these sections of the law which have been found defective by the court were fathered by Stephen B. Elkins of West Virginia, chairman of the senate committee on interstate commerce, and not generally classed as a warm friend either of President Roosevelt or the general principle of the regulation of railroads. Shows Truth of Old Adage. There never was a better illustration of the truth of the old classical adage about fearing Greeks even when they bear gifts than in this case. Senator Elkins prepared an anti-rebate law through which the courts have driven a horse and wagon, and then he wrote the commodity paragraph wich now has been rendered useless if not ab surd unless congress strengthens it in certain important particulars. President Taft is a lawyer above all things, and he naturally looks at ev erything from a lawyer's point of view. Undoubtedly he will feel him self as much bound by the opinion of the supreme court and of the circuit court of appeals as if he were a district judge himself. Unlike President Roose velt he is not disposed to question the integrity or ability of the bench. His point of view surely will be that con gress has failed, in effect, but that, it has the power to make good in the future, and he almost certainly will recommend immediate passage of new legislation to patch up the holes in the interstate commerce law. Power of Congress Held Supreme. . It is a curious fact in both cases, although the government was beaten badly in its original contention that the court held the power of congress to be supreme. The two paragraphs of the same law were held defective and not unconstitutional. The responsibility, therefore, will rest with congress to correct its own mistakes, and President Taft may be . expected to makethis fact clear. . The commodity clause in the railroad rate law was a joke originally. It is a notorious fact that it was offered by Senator Elkins without any idea that it would be enacted into law. it is a notorious fact that immediately after its introduction the West Virginla senator appealed to his colleague and others to make a point of order against it.

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much composure as the critical situation nuld admit. Several times ne essayed to put the brakes on the car and attempt to -leap for his life, but every time he started his hand toward

the lever the snake anticipated the ac tion and showed those deadly fangs. So Zarring could do nothing but "sit tight" and trust to luck. He came through Richmond at full tilt keeping the middle of the road and his eye on the snake, which every second might strike him. He was afraid to turn his head to beckon help as he shot through the town, but another autoist, in passing, noticed his set face and, reversing his machine started in pursuit to learn what was the matter. After a two mile chase the runawas was overtaken. When the pursuing automobilist got beside Zarring' s machine he saw the miller's predicament. The rescuer acted, quickly and effectively. At his side was his cane, a heavy walking stick. This ho wielded once, twice, thrice. Each time he hit the snake, and at the third blow the reptile unwound itself and toppled over on the ground, where it was smashed to death under the wheels of the Zarring car. After Zarring had recovered from his fright he picked up ' the dead snake, thanked his rescuer, and returned to town. He says he will have the reptile mounted by a taxidermist. PALLADIUM GANG WILL RIDE GOAT Will Be Initiated Into the Odd Fellows. Rev. J. Cook Graham, pastor of the Fifth Street M. E. church, Loftus Jones and Warren Lacey, of tbe Palladium force, and Alexander Martin, postal employe, will be initiated into the third degree of Whitewater lodge of Odd Fellows at its meeting this evening. Other business coming before the lodge will be of routine nature. All IIIVESTIGATOR TELLS Of DAMAGE States That the Moslem Marauders Have Burned And Pillaged. CASUALTY LIST IS HEAVY IT HAS BEEN LEARNED THAT THE FRIENDS OF THE DEPOSED SUL TAN HAVE STOLEN VAST SUM8 OF MONEY. Beirut, May 7. An investigator who has just returned from Kessab, re ports that all mission property there has been destroyed by Moslem marauders, including the girls' high school, under the direction of Miss Effie Chambers, a missionary. . Threefourths of the native houses are also destroyed. The causualty list is heavy, he states. Vast Sums Stolen. Constantinople, May 7. The Young Turks have found that vast sums of money and rare jewels have been spirited away by the friends of Abdul Hamid. Dispatches received today from Rome say that the new Turkish government has demanded the return, of Melhame Pasha, who recently arrived in Italy, and who is supposed to have taken a huge sum of money entrusted to him by Abdul Hamid. The Turkish government is arranging for . his extradition and will confiscate the fortune. TO C0NNERSVILLE. The joint memorial services of the Fayette lodge and the Guttenberg lodge of Odd Fellows at Connersville Sunday. June 7, win be addressed by Harry E. Penny, county clerk. Jefferson's Love of Quiet. Mr. Jefferson's love of home . and family was very great. He loved tbe retirement from public life those summer months afforded him. I remember bis speaking of his embarrassment when the medical students in Baltimore one night after a performance as the carriage stood waiting for him at the stage door of the theater unharnessed the horses, took their places and, with cheers and laughter, drew him to bis hotel. As Mr. Jefferson stepped out of the open carriage, bis arms full of , flowers, . be said to tbe students: "Thank you, gentlemen. And believe me when I say. it I have never before felt so like a prima donna." Eugene Paul Jefferson in Century. . . Joditi: Millions use Gold Medal Vlour. . licasTu.

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'5 SThis family certainly would take a prize with President Roosevelt. They are Mr. and Mrs. Thomas McGrady. of Glen Cove, L. I., and seven of the eight children. The McOradys, who have been married 23 years are the parents of 21 children. JANUARY JURY IS PLAIIHiflG PICNIC Guest of Honor Will Be John Markley. The jury of tbe January term of the circuit court is making arrangements for a picnic party to include themselves and families and John Markley, court bailiff. ; The picnic will be held sometime during Juno, on the farm of Howard Cook. South of Oreensfork. Ora Pitts, of Fountain City, one of the Jurymen was in the city today making arrangements. This Jury was declared by both court attaches nd attor neys to be one of the best ever serving in the. local circuit court. PRINCE OF WALES ACTING FOR KING The Prince of Wale is gradually taking over the social burdens which King Edward previously has borne and the effect on his health has been rnnA This la a fMnt snanshot of his t Royal Highness.' 1

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TO BE PRODUCED Counsel for Captain Hains, An gered, Decides to Take This Action. IT HITS ARMY OFFICERS ATTORNEY MclNTYRE BELIEVES THAT THE READING OF THE MUSHY EPISTLES WILL HAVE EFFECT ON JURY. Flushing. Lfc I., May 7. Much angered by the coup of district at torney Dewitt in bringing to the trial I of Captain Peter C. Hains, Jr., as witnesses against him. a number of bis fellow officers. John F. Mclntyra, chief counsel for tbe defendant, declared today that, in sur-rcbuttal he would produce letters of the captain's wift, Claudia. Hains. in which tbe name of certain of these officers would appear in a sensational light. The latter believes that when the jury hear the letters read, they will have the opinion that these witnesses who made no appearance at the trial of Thornton Jenkins Hains. had other motives in volunteering their evi dence, which as U. S. soldiers, they were not compelled to do, than the mere praiseworthy desire to serve the ends of justice. . . Mr. Mclntyre had not planned to put in any sur-rebuttal evidence what ever, but the- move of the state s attorney probably will force him to al ter his first plans. Sample of Letters. Here is a sample of the letters which Mr. Mclntyre gave out today. It was written from Ft. Hancock where most of the young officers who testified came from. . "My Dearest Husband: I have been to church this evening with my affinity, Malcolm P. . Aint It awful for your wife to go to church twice a week. I went to New York this morning and came back and did some sewing. "Got seven eggs today. I wish you could have them, they are so good. "Good night, dear. Lots of love and many kisses from all. "Your loving wife, -. "Claudia." The only date on this letter is "Wednesday. 4th." MEETING POSTPONED. Illness will prevent the local W. T. U. from carrying out its plans c of holding an institute In this city next week. This Is the second time that the institute has been postponed and it is not probable that it will be held again until in the fall. Koolol aalpitation of the heart. Digests whatyeoej

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