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i HE SLAYEROF MARAT Charlotte Corday and the Act That Made Her Famous. MISS HELEN GOULD AND DOLL COLLECTION

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fincennes Yesterday a Very Heavy Vote Was Polled While in the County Vote Wasn't Normal.

SALOON MEN FOUGHT WITH GREAT ENERGY Usual Talk of Protests and of Vote Buying Heard After The Election Victory Is Celebrated. ' The following table shows the local option status of Indiana, included in which is the action taken by Knox county: Counties. "Dry" by option G2 "Dry" by remonstrance ..." 8 "Wet" by option 13 No option action taken 9 92

I Vlncennes, Ind., Oct. 1. Knox county, at its local option election yesterday. Toted to retain the licensed saloon ;ly a majority of 718. Vincennes went "wet" by a majority of 1,700. The V drys" carried the country precincts by a majority of l.lOti.

The figures at the "wet" headquarters show the county went "wet" by 761, but corrected returns received by the press show the wet majority to be 718. Wets Are Jubilant. The "wets" were jubilant and cheer ed while parading after the outcome was certain. The fight has been bitter one, but now that the county has Toted to remain "wet" many of the business men who supported the "wets" are declaring that there should be better regulation of Vlncennes's seventy-two saloons than there has been in the past. The liquor forces are rejoicing over the result of the election all the more because they believe that had the county voted "dry" the temperance forces would have prepared to attack Vanderburg, Vigo, Allen and St. Joseph counties and possibly Marion county within the next few weeks. They believe the result here will tend to disttmrage the temperance forces in these bounties. The "drys" last night remained at their headquarters until all the returns were In, 'hoping that the country vote would show better results. The vote In the country precincts was only average. The vote in Vincennes was heavier than that cast at the election last fall. The excellent weather, it is believed, affected the country materially, as farmers are busy sowing wheat. The fight was close in several instances. In PrecliiCt A of Vincennes township the "wets" polled 112 votes and the "drys" polled the same number. Two mutilated ballots were thrown out. The "wets" carried Decker township by only four votes. The "drys" carried Widner township by only twenty-seven votes. May Attack Vote. The "wets" profess to have a report that the "drys" will seek to have the vote in Precinct B of the second ward In Vincennes thrown out, charging that the polling vlace was not fifty feet from a 'saloon, as required by law. The "wets" will fight this, contending that other elections have been held at the same place and that it is fifty feet from the saloon. Every precinct in Vincennes went "wet." After the final returns were In several hundred "wet" sympathizers marched to the "dry" headquarters, where they stopped and cheered wildly. Hundreds of men and boys paraded the streets until a late hour last night, shouting and blowing tin horns. The scene was one of confusion. Many business men and saloon men congratulated ono another everywhere. Concerning the defeat of the "drys", W. A. Hill, vice chairman of the Knox County Option League, and chairman for the "drys" in Vincennes. said: "I have only this to say Ihe "wets" had money and used It They controlled tho floaters and beat us with the city vote. We have no regrets because of the fight we put up.. We had an excellent organisation and we did every thing we could to win. I can not say what will be done about the buying of Feeding Farm Hand. rtrr farmer wife knows what treliadous appetites farmhands but while they eat well they Here's a good suggestion about feedfarm hands. Give -them plenty t Quaker Oats. A big dish of frr at porrld! Ith sugar and Iftam or milk is th mitMt ,M.v Jt'ia the world for a man who needs For and strength for a long day's I k. The man that eats Quaker Oats ntlfully and often is the man who rood work without excessive fa--lgue. mere is a sustaining quality ha Quaker Oats not found In other foods, and for economy it Is at the bead of the list. Besides the regular ana packages Quaker Oats is packed la large else family packages, with and without calaa. s

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votes, but votes were nougnt ana we know the men who bought them." Interest In Election Intense. Interest in the election was Intense from the moment the polls opened until they closed. There was great activity on both sides. Women were es pecially active for the "drys." . In some instances they drove voters to the polls in carriages and at every polling place women served free lunch. During the afternoon women drove about the city in their family vehicles visiting ihe polls and showing great interest in the progress of events. One woman, a Mrs. Miller, whose son sold his farm a year or two ago and drank up the proceeds, was particularly active in hfclping get out the "dry" vote in the c.owntown precincts. The church women held prayer meetings in their homes at intervals during the day. Hourly prayer meetings were held at the First M. E, church, where the bell was rung. All the church bells were pealing at 5 o'clock in the morning, the signal for the temperance workers to be out. At every polling place two men had posted large lithographs of a mother and child which bore the heading "Help me to keep him pure." These banners also adorned houses in all parts of the city. The ministers were particularly active in getting the "dry" voters to the polls. The "drys" used a large number of automobiles, especially in the rural districts. Vehicles were used principally by the "drys" in Vincennes The "wets" used about sixty automobiles in Vincennes and many others in the townships. The efforts of the "drys" in particular were directed toward the country vote. The "wets" directed their work in the main toward rolling up as large a majority as possible in Vincennes. A Good Laug.. i. uood For the Health. Look at the laujju iu whatsoever light you will, whether you see it as the deliverer from the bondage to out grown notions: a schoolmaster witn the sharp switch of ridicule to teach us manners; an apostle of democracy, proclaiming that we are all of the same clay, made of it and to return to it. but every lump of it holding some sparkle of the divine fire, and woe betide the mini that tries to make us think that h is of different stuff". Look at the laugh. 1 say. in any light you choose, aud you will see that it is uot so much the downfall and confusion of the laughed at that makes us happy, that joggles our waistbands aud scuds the ha-ha spouting out. that pumps the blood along the sluggish veins, massaging the interior works and replacing the shopworn stock of air with a new consignment, as it is the sud,deo, sharp, intense realization of our personal well being. Eugene Wood in Success Magazine. HarUm In New York. In an early charter of what is now New York occurs the same of Lancas ter. That is what Harlem used to be called. It comprised the territory on Manhattan Island north of a Hue drawn from the foot of East Seventy-fourth street to the feot of Manhattan street. The real Harlem village was a settlement collected wlthia a radius of a quarter of a mile from One Hundred and Twenty-fourth street and Third avenue. Today the name Harlem is applied to the whole territory north of One Quad red and Tenth street, east and west. After the name Lancaster was eliminated the village was called Kieuw Haariaem. New York Press. Now Kind of Setter. Little Oscar, aged Ave. bad a dog which was almost always to be found behind the stove la the kitchen. Oscar once visited at a house where there were two fine dogs. The roaster of the bouse told him that tbey were Irish setters. The little fellow, who was very fond of his pet, answered quickly, Mlne is a kitchen setter." Delineator. Digested Jokes. The Duke of Cumberland once said to Samuel Foote. the tearless satirist and versatile actor, "Well, here I am. ready, as usual, to swallow all your good things.' to which Foote replied. "Upon my soul, your royal highness most have a most excellent digestion, for I never hear that yon bring any np again." From "Wits. Beaux and Beauties of the Georgian Era, by John Fyvie.

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An Abbreviation. A colonel of a British regiment in South Africa who was repairing a railroad after one of General De Wet's many breakages discovered a fine empty house, which he proceeded to occupy as headquarters. When the news of the colonel's comfortable quarters reached Bloemfontein he received a telegram which read: "Q. T. M. wants house." The colonel was unable to make out what "G. T. M." meant and inquired of officers, who translated it "general traffic manager." "All right," said the colonel. "If be can use hieroglyphics so can I." So he wired back: "G. T. M. can G. T. H." Two days later he received a dispatch from Bloemfontein ordering him to attend a board of inquiry. On appearing in due course he was asked what he meant by sending such an insulting message to a superior officer. "Insulting?" repeated the colonel innocently. "It was nothing of the kind." "But what do you mean," demanded his superior, "by telling me I can G. T. H.? " "It was simply an abbreviation," replied the colonel "G. T. M. (general traffic manager) can G. T. H. (get the house)." The Inspiration. Whenever a noble deed ts wrought. Whene'er is spoken a noble thought. Our hearts in glad surprise To higlmr levels rise. The tidal wave of deeper souls Into our utmost being rolls And lifts us unawares Out of all meaner cares. Honor to those whose words or deeds Thus help us in our dally needs And by their overflow Raise us from what is low. Longfellow. The Epicure. A French waiter in a fashionable restaurant had Just served an epicurean guest with a culinary masterpiece and was in n talkative mood. "My brother, Gustav of Dax," he said, "is a renowned gourmet. They talk all over Dax of Gustav's way of grilling a lamb cutlet. It Is a good way, but expensive. My brother always grills his own chops. He won't trust the work to any one else. He does it like this: He lays three chops, one on top of the other, on the grill. Seated before the fire, be turns the chops over and over till the two outer ones are done to a very dry brown. The middle one only is the one he eats. Ah, but it must be delicious! It has received, you see, all the rich, delicate juices of the other two." The guest sneered. "And does he throw the other two away?" be asked. "Oh, no," the waiter answered. "He givea them to his wife." Well Equipped. A bishop was a guest at the home of a friend who had two charming daughters. One morning the bishop, accompanied by the two young ladies, went out in the hope of catching some trout. An old fisherman, out for the same purpose, wishing to appear friendly, called out: "Ketchin' many, pard?" The bishop, drawing himself to his full height replied, "Brother, I am a fisher of men." "You've got the right kind o' bait, all right." was the fisherman's rejoindar. Success Magazine. A Real Chucklehead. "The late Congressman Cushman," said a Tacoman. "was Justly called the 'wit of the house.' He never lacked an anecdote wherewith to point and season his remarks. "Once in a Tacoma speech he told ns not to be chuckleheaded, shallow people, doing the wrong thing, deceiving none but ourselves. " 'Don't,' he cried, be like the beefy English officer. "Then he explained that this officer, being seated next to an elderly stranger at a dinner, leaned over and said: " 'Who's that fat old hippopotamus of a woman opposite T - That's ray wife," was the reply. "Thanks. said the officer hastily. Thanks. That's all I -wanted to know.' "And he turned to his neighbor on the other side and whispered, with a

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well ont of that, 1 Don't Wait Too Long. It is a sad weakness in us. after all. that the thought of a man's death hal lows him anew to us. as if life veit not sacred, too as if it were comparatively a light thing to fail in love and reverence to the brother who has to climb the whole toilsome steep with us and all our tears and tenderness were due to the one who is spared that hard journey. George Eliot. An Awful Affair. All who know about art are acquaint ed with that celebrated statue of an cient times which represents a young boy in the act of removing a thorn from his foot. But the effect which the masterpiece produces is not usual lv like the one it made on Mrs. Jededlah Weeds when she first visited Eu rope. Pressed for her opinion on art as seen over there, she exclaimed: "As a rule, mind you. the statues wear skurcely any clothes and don't seem to mind in the least. Why. swan to heck, .Tedediah and I saw one young bronze boy who had nothing on at all but a thorn In his foot, and he was doin' bis level best to take that off!" Our Ags or Chivalry. Some say that the age of chivalry Is past. The age of chivalry is never past so long as there is a wrong left uuredressed ou earth or a man or womau left to say. "I will redress that wrong or spend my life in the attempt." The age of chivalry is never past so long as we have faith enough to say. "God will help me to redress that wrong, or, if not me, he will help those that come after me. for his eternal will is to overcome evil with good." Kingsley. Tho Intruders. Clane. clatter, bang! Down the street came the tire engines. Driving along ahead, oblivious of any danger, was a farmer in a ramshackle old buggy. A policeman yelled at him: "Hi. there! Look out! The fire department's comin'!" Turning in by the curb, the farmer watched the hose cart, salvage wagon and engine whiz past. Then he turned out into the street again and drove on. Barely had he started wheu the hook and ladder came tearing along. The rear wheel of the big truck slewed into the farmer's buggy, smashing it to smithereens and sending the farmer sprawllns into the gutter. The policeman ran to his assistance. "Didn't I tell you to keep out of the way?" he demanded crossly. "Didn't I tell you the fire department was com in'?" "Waal, consarn ye," said the Irate farmer, "I did git outer the way for th fire department But what in tar nation was them drunken painters in sech an all fired hurry fer?" Every body's Magazine. Common Complaint. Aunt Mary met her little niece in the park and seized the opportunity to gather the latest news from Marjory's home. And she got It. "And how Is your papa, dear?" sue Inquired finally. "Oh. papa Is critically ill!" "He is! Why. what Is the matter T "I don't knew not much. I think. But he criticises me, criticises ma, and he criticises the cook and most everything. He Is very critically SL Ma say so." The government is going into the hotel business, having agreed, through its insular branch in the Philippines to take $300,000 at par of the bonds to provide money for a new hotel at Man Ha, which, with its working capital, is to represent an investment of Jt5O,00O. When the Philippines have a centen nial or some other big celebration, will the insular government put up its hotel rates on the visiting public? New York Press.

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The Way They Were Worked Out and How They Were Put Into Execution. Her Own Tragio End and the Final

Act of tho Brutal Headsman. Among the instances of fanatic zeal for country and people the act of Charlotte Corday. who was born at St Sat urn In, France, July 27, 17GS. and who was beheaded at Paris July 17, 1793. stands out in tragic force. Her childhood and early youth were full of privation, although she was of a noble family. She was educated at a convent in Caen and then went to live with an aunt in the same old town of Normandy. She had a serene and lofty beauty, was tall and graceful, and her manner was full of dignity. She spent all her leisure in reading. and her books were always those that related to heroism and devotion to country. When the revolution oroKe upon France. Charlotte eagerly took up the reading of politics and public questions. When the Girondists were obliged to fly from Paris they went to Caen and began to hold meetings and form plans for future operations in Paris. The Girondists were the true republicans and got their name from Glronde. as It was the deputies from this district that had formed the Republican party In the national assembly. The massacres had terrified tbem, and they had tried to stop the violent measures in the reign of terror. Charlotte felt a very madness of enthusiasm as she listened to the fiery eloquence of these men who denounced Marat. Dantou and Robespierre escaped much of the censure due for their share in the frightful work of cruelty aud death. It was upon Marat that the Girondists poured their eloquence, for it was he who had pursued and ordered the death of their leaders in Paris, in the depths of her heart a purpose was formed to save her people from this monster and at any cost to herself. Into Charlotte's life a tender and respectful love bad come to add its Influence in these days of 6trange tumult and calm purpose. She and a young man named Franquelln bad been writing each other, and she had given him her portrait and told him that he might at least love that. When this lover marched away to Paris with tbe Girondists and the neighboring volunteers. she bade him a calm farewell, for she knew 6he was going to save him. After her execution Franquelln went home to his native village In Normandy. In the tender care of his mother be gradually failed, for bis heart was brokeu the day his love perished. When he came to die be requested that Charlotte's portrait and letters be buried with him. and his grave holds them sacredly. Charlotte began to prepare for her Journey to Paris and the tragedy she had planned. Every effort was made to hide the appearance of a concealed purpose. When she arrived at Paris she at once set about her plans to find Marat As a preparation she went to one of tbe shops of the Palais Royal and bought a dagger shaped knife, paying for it GO cents. This she hid in tbe folds of her dress. Her plan bad been to kill Marat in tbe very convention. where she thought the deed would be avenged by killing her on tbe spot. But Marat no longer went to the con vention. He was ill with a disease that was slowly killing him. and hfs bod; was in a state of disorder and irrup tion that gave him an agony of suffering. He was only comfortable wheu in the warm water of bis bath. He lived on the first floor of a bouse in the Rue des Cordeliers, and connected with bis home were all the affairs of his journalistic work and from here all his pamphlets and journals were sent out. After writing two letters asking for an interview, in which she would give him some important news about suspected persons, she got no reply. Then she took her way to the bouse, insisted that she must see him, and when forbidden entrance by Marat's wife she still urged the importance of her er rand. Marat heard the sound of their voices and shouted out for a reason of the noise that bothered him. When told that it was the woman who had twice written him he bade her come in The wife, against her will, let her pass. Marat was in his batb. wrapped in an ink stained sheet and was writing on a board laid across tbe bath. Ask ing her errand, he took down all the details she gave him. When he bad the name of each Girondist who was at work in Caen be told her that in a week they would be brought to tbe guillotine. Then as she stood beside tbe bath she plunged the knife into his heart and he died with a cry to his wife to come to him. Jnst before her execution she wrote to the Girondists at Caen that she anticipated happiness "with Brutus in the Elysian fields" after her death, and she also wrote tender and loving farewell letters to her relatives and friends. When she had suffered death the executioner lifted up her head by the hair and struck it a brutal blow with his flst Just at that moment a gleam of the sun so fell upon it that there was tbe effect of a blush upon the dead face. Boston Globe. Propei 1 3 hss its duties aa well aa Its rights. Drum mond. What is regarded as the most anc lent coin in the world is one that was discovered a few years ago by a German archaeologist during his explorations in north Syria. It is a coin of pure silver, bearing a perfect Aramean inscription of Panammu Bar Rernb, king of Schamol, who reigned 800 years B. C. Up to the time this coin was found the Lydians had always been regarded as the in venters of money, but this new fluid showed that the Semitic Arameans. who lived two centuries before the Lydians, are the oldest known coiners of money.

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Zionists Threaten Injunction Against M. E. Church Erection

Chicago. Oct. 1. Opposition to the Invasion of a foreign creed in Zion City is to take the form of a court injunction, according to developments yesterday in the fUht against the proposed Henton Memorial Methodist Episcopal church in the north shore religious settlement. R. H. Aiken, the contractor who has the erection of the new church building in charge, was. he says, approached by a leading Voliva follower and threatened with legal action if he continued the work. Excavation was begun two weeks ago and the foundation is now in. The work will go right on, Mr. Aiken says, despite the threats and the walls raised to house an enemy of the successor of John Alexander Dowie. Court litigation began almost immediately after it became known last year that plans were being laid for building a Methodist church within the sacred precincts of Zion. The church was to be erected on the southwest corner of the old cemetery grounds on Sheridan road, given to a AN ITCHING PALM. No Cure for li. Other Forms of Itching Preferable. There is no cure for an itching palm the money kind. Even poslam, the new skin discovery, cannot help it But when it comes to eczema, the most annoying of Itching skin troubles, poslam will stop the itching at once and cure the worst cases in a few days. So with hives, rash, scabies, split toes, piles, and scaly scalp, all of which are different forms of ec zema, accompanied by severe itching and caused by imperfect digestion and careless diet. Poslam comes in two-dollar Jars, but fifty cents' worth will answer in curing any of the diseases mentioned. It can be had of any druggist W. H. Sudhoff makes of specialty of it That results are immediate will be amply demonstrated overnight by the use of the experimental sample which the Emergency Laboratories. 32 West Twenty-fifth Street, New York City, will send free by mail, in plain wrap per, to any one who will write for it He mii Right. Miss Fisher I reuily don't think 1 shall take part again In theatricals. I always feel as though I were mak ing a fool of myself. Pilkins (who always says the wrong thingt Oh. everybody thinks that London Fun. LONG

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'J cemetery association by Dr. Down himself especially for the benefit ol the old settlers of the community. The burying ground had been start ed before the arrival of Dowie. u1 now that a church of an opposition denomination is proposed it Is claimed bv Voliva's faction that the property was not deeded unconditionally, but leased, and that a Methodist church cannot be built on it without violating its tenets. This matter was thrashed out In the courts, and Judge Landls gave a decis ion favoring the Methodists. An appeal was taken, now, however and the case is expected to come up again. Meanwhile, the Methodists went right on and let a contract for a church building. Services had formerly been held at the Hiram Perry residence by the Rev. William McDonald, but the destruction of the home by fire last summer made It necessary to secure other quarters, and the Zion City church was decided upon, the first church of a foreign creed to invade that community. Low, One Way Colonist Rates To the Coast Via Chicago, Cincinnati & Louisville IL IL Effective September 15 to October 15 Only $36.45 To Seattle To Tacoma To Portland To San Francisco To Los Angeles To Texas To Mexico, Etc., For particulars call C. A. BLAIR. Pass ft Ticket Act. Home Tel. 2062. Richmond. PALLADIUM WANT ADS. PAY. Is the mesas of i We have the

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