The Syracuse and Lake Wawasee Journal, Volume 13, Number 22, Syracuse, Kosciusko County, 30 September 1920 — Page 2

SINN FEIN CHIEF ASSASSINATED County Councilor Shot to Death in Hotel by “Black and Tan” Police. KILLED WHILE IN OWN ROOM Town of Balbriggan Again Attacked by Officers—Citizens and Clergymen Appeal to Dublin Castle for “ Protection From Avengers. Dublin, Sept. 24.—County Councilor jLynch, a prominent Limerick Sinn Feiner, was shot dead in his hotel the center of Dublin. His assailants are alleged to have been “black and tan” police. : The murder took place at three in the morning, according to the Pressassociation’s account, when uniformed men entered ’the hostelry, the' Royal Exchange hotel, and, going straight to the room of their intended victim, shot •him dead. i With only a remnant of the population remaining tn town, Balbriggan, wrecked by Kie assaults of the auxiliary police (the “black •N'.d tans”), is reported to be quiet. According to information received in Jjiublin the “black and tans” entered Balbriggan in the afternoon on a second invasion at the very moment a delegation of leading citizens was being received at Dublin castle to ask for protection from further depredations. It Is said that the ‘ffilack and tans,” 100 strong, drove through the streets of Balbriggan in motor lorrifes, throwing bombs and firing rifles. So far as is known there were ho further casualties. The only persons in the streets at the time were a few Dublin journalists and photographers, who sought cover when the lojrries approached. The first attack, Monday night, was made following the slaying of District ~ Inspector Burke and the wounding of hla brother, Sergeant Burke. Homes and factories were tired and two civilians were killed. A barber named Larless, a middle-aged man, the father of a large family, was taken from his house and slain, as was a dairy farmer named Gibbons. The latter, at least, was both bayonetted and shot. According to a parish priest, the deaths of Larless and. Gibbons’followed upon demands on them from the “black and tans” to disclose the names of the local Sinn Fein leaders. It has been ascertained that the regular local Irish constabulary had no share'in the attacks upon the town and succeeded, after vigorous efforts, In protecting the Smyth hosiery factory, the largest industry in the place. There is intense excitement In DubOn, . In consequence of an attack on a military lorry in the. streets of Dublin" at night all permits for the possession of arms in this district have been withdrawn and those holding arms have been ordered to surrender them. The town of Milton Malbay, county Clare, is reported in flames, with the British soldiers and police out of control. The inhabitants are fleeing along the roads to the east. The soldiers and police clashed with civilians midway between Milton Malbay and Lehinch, about twelve miles north, and in the bloody affray which ensued four police and one soldier were killed. Twenty-six civilians are reported arrested. The number killed Ifi not known. The new sack comes just as Balbriggan, 18 miles north of here, practically deserted, quieted down after two days of pillage, incendiarism and bombing. iCOX’S TRAIN IS WRECKED Broken Rail Causes Accident to the Governor’s Special Near Phoenix, Ariz. Phoenix, Ariz., Sept 24.—Governor Cox’s train on the way to Prescott from Phoenix, over the Santa Fe, was wrecked one mile north of Peoria, 16 miles from Phoenix. Neither Governor Cox nor any member of his party was Injured, although all were badly shaken up. ’ • One engineman was severely hurt and several passengers were Injured. The accident was caused by a broken rail. BOOZE GOES UP IN FLAMES Seven Thousand Barrels of Kentucky Bourbon Is Destroyed by Fire at Lawrenceburg. Lawrenceburg, Ky., Sept. 21.—Seven thousand barrels of whisky, real Ken- • tucky bourbon, went up in flames here. The whisky was valued at $4,000,000. Forty Hurt in Train Crash. Waterloo, la., Sept. 27.—About 40 were injured, four seriously, but not fatally on the Waterloo, Cedar Falls & Northern railway when interurban trains north and south bound collided head on east of Brandon. Bank Cashier Ends Life. Shpboygan, Wis., Sept. 27.—Herman Osthoff, forty-two, cashier of the Elkhart bank, near here, and for six years clerk of Elkhart village, shot himself in the head, dying instantly. He had been in ill health for some time. Railroad Cuts Shop Force. i / Lafayette, Ind., Sept 2.—Bulletins, ' posted at the Monon railroad shops in this city, announced a per cent reduction in the working force, beginning Tuesday, September 28. The office force will not be affected. . Cruiser Going to Ecuador. Washington, Sept. 2.—The cruiser /Cleveland will represent the United States at the celebration of the centennial anniversary of the Independence of the city of Guayaquil, Ecuador. __

COUNTESS GANNA WALSKA i— —— HHHKj Countess Ganna Walska, Russian actress, who was secretly wed to New York’s wealthiest bachelor, Alexander Smith Cochran, in Paris. The bride was a former favorite In Petrograd and her husband, Baron Arcadle d’Eingorn, a captain in the Russian army, was killed during the war. Alexander Smith Cochran is well known all over the world. He Is a great sportsman and clubman. His yacht, the Vanlte, defended the cup for America In 1914 from Sir Thomas Lipton, and another of his yachts, the Westward, defeated the kaiser’s Meteor for the Jubilee prize In Kiel in 1910. He Is reputed to be worth over $50,000,000 and Is very charitable. He is 45 years old.

REDS ASK ARMISTICE Head of Soviet Peace Body Makes Proposal. Declares Proposition Must Be Accepted Within Ten Days or Russian Winter Campaign Will Start Riga, Letvia, Sept. 25. —Adolph Joffe, head of the soviet peace delegation, at the last session of the RussoPolish peace conference, proposed an armistice, which, he said, must be accepted by the Poles within ten days or the Russian winter campaign would be inaugurated, which, Joffe declared, the soviet government desired to avoid. M. Joffe preceded his proposal by offering to withdraw virtually all the 15 peace points submitted at Minsk to which the Poles objected. The soviet armistice terms, which M. Joffe said the soviet central executive committee in Moscow decided upon, eliminate virtually all conditions designed to sovietize Poland and abandon the Russian claims regarding Galicia. M. Joffe’s proposals make the prospect of peace much brighter than hitherto, WILSON 0. K.’S TRADE PACTS President Decides Not to Carry Out Instructions From Congress on Subject. Washington, Sept. 27.—Formal announcement was made by the state department that President Wilson had decided not to carry out the instructions from congress to annui existing treaties between the United States and foreign countries by which the United States is prevented from granting special import tariffs and transportation rates on imports carried in American bottoms. The announcement said the president had reached his decision before the expiration on September 5 of, the 90-day period in which the merchant marine act directed that he take steps to abrogate the treaties. It also was stated that the president had not consulted any foreign governments regarding the matter. GERMANS GIVE UP TONNAGE Surrender of 1,944,565 Tons Meets . Main Obligation of the Peace T reaty. Paris, Sept. 25.—Germany has surrendered 1,944,565 gross tons of steamers and sailing vessels up to September 16, according to the reparations commission. She has thus delivered virtually all the tonnage unquestionably due under the treaty except some vessels under construction and repair, and the vessels in the Schleswig district held pending the plebiscite decision. The commission is proceeding to the execution of the other shipping clauses of the treaty. Auto Bandits Hold Up Mail. South Bend, Ind., Sept 24.—Auto bandits held up a United States mail truck here and escaped with mail valued at from $5,000 to $20,000. University of Pennsylvania Opens. Philadelphia, Sept. 27.—The University of Pennsylvania opened Its one hundred and seventy-first year with the largest enrollment in its history. More than 11,000 students have enrolled, 1,000 more than last year. $1,500,000 Fire Destroys Warehouse. Sacramento, Cal., Sept. 27.—A warehouse of the California Packing corporation, in the river front district of Sacramento, was destroyed by fire. Company officials estimated the loss at about $1,500,000. Get Ten Years as Traitors. Tokyo, Sept 24.—Two Japanese have been sentenced to ten years’ imprisonment on conviction of an attempt to sell documents stolen from the Yokosuka naval station to Americans, according to newspapers here. Train Plunges Into Royal Gorge. Pueblo, Colo., Sept 24.—Officials of the Denver & Rio Grande railroad here have received a report from Canon City that a freight train had plunged into the Royal Gorge. Details of the accident are lacking.

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TURIN SCENE OF 4 BLOODYBATTS Townspeople Mob Street Ca*s Displaying Soviet Plac- f ards. ♦ BOMB HURLED INTO SQUARE Head of the Young Men’s Nationalist Association Is Among Killed in Fight—Unions Are Split on Proposals. R<*me, Sept. 27.—Disorders continue at Turin and rifle firing is sometimes assuming the character of a battle in the outskirts of the city, according to a dispatch reaching Rome. Three more persons have been killed, it is said, among them being Mario Santini, president of the Young Men’s Nationalist association. A bomb was thrown In San Carlo square, near the central police office, but *lO one was killed or injured, only the nearby buildings being struck by fragments. Police and military authorities are showing extraordinary activity and have made 200 arrests. A resolution adopted by the council of the workingmen’s league inviting the people to remain calm and not to jeopardize negotiations in the metal works’ dispute by any acts of violence is published by the newspaper Avanti. Italian workers appear to be divided in their reception of the agreement signed in this city last week, at the instance of the government, by employers and workmen in the metal trade, which was Intended to solve the problem arising from the occupation of industrial plants throughout the country. Unions at Milan have asked for a referendum to be held on the question of accepting the agreement, and the plan has been rejected at Genoa by the Metal Workers’ union. On the other hand, the employees of the Gampl works in Genoa have voted to evacuate that company’s plant at once. It appears the agitation at Turin has been carried on by extremists who do not have the support of the popu-. lation. Dispatches received here say street cars carrying placards with such inscriptions as “Vive Lenlne,” “Death to the King” and “Death to the Royal I Guards,” were surrounded by indignant townspeople when they reached the center of the city. Conductors were dragged from the cars and beaten, and the posters were torn to pieces. Printers employed by the newspaper Naxiene of Turin have occupied the plant, and have announced they will manage the newspaper themselves. A fund of 3,000,000 lire is said to have been deposited in a bank to the credit of the men, and there are hints that this money originally came from soviet Russia. There have been sporadic attempts on the part of the poorer classes, fomented by the socialists, to occupy uninhabited buildings, palaces and villas, especially In the outskirts of Rome. The most important of these attempts was made against the famous Villa Albani, owned by Prince Torlohj. A mob broke through the side gate of the villa and fought amongst themselves for the occupancy of the best room! They carried portions of their pqoy furniture, which they placed in the"/ beautiful gallery between the stattjedfa Greek Apollo and a fragment ofTr-Venus and under pictures by famohs artists. The police were soon rushed to the villa and cleared out the Invaders. The same occurrence took place at the Villa Cellere/owned by the mother of the late Italian ambassador at Washington. / G. A./R. CHANGES ITS RITUAL “One Country, One Language and One Creed of Organization ,) ’-Now Reads. Indianapolis, Swt 25.—The ritual of the Grand Army orthe Republic, vffiich now reads “one country and one flagi\ will be changed to read “one country, one language and one flag,” as a result of actlan taken at the first business session of the fifty-fourth annual encampment of the war veterans. SIGN 300,000 BOYS TO TRAIN New York Youths Between 16 and 18 Required to Sign Up Under State Military Law. New York, Sept. 25. —About 800,000 boys In New York state were required to register under the provlslpns of the state’s military training law. The ages : for registration are between sixteen and eighteen years. Ketcham Commands G. A. R. Indianapolis, Sept 27.—William A. Ketcham of Indianapolis was eleetcd commander In chief of the Grand Army of the Republic at the closing business session of the fifty-fourth annual encampment here. New Express Boost Granted. Washington, Sept 27.—Additional Increase in express rates, averaging 13.5 per cent, were granted by the interstate commerce commission. This makes a total increase of 26 per cent already granted. Steamer San Remo Total Wreck. Kingston, Jamaica, Sept 23.—1 tis believed possible that the steamer San Remo, which went aground off Macoris, San Domingo, September 1, will be a total wreck. 'Members of the crew of the stranded vessel have arrived here. Huerta to Undergo Operation. Mexico City, Sept 23.—Physicians atending Provisional President de la Huerta announced they had decided ,an operation for appendicitis was necessary to restore him to health.

CAPT. ROBERT G. WOODSIDE I™ T '‘yT ~- z ' Capt Robert G. Woodside of Pittsburgh is the new commander-ln-chlei of the Veterans of Foreign Wars, whose annual meeting in Washington has just ended. His election was unanimous. Captain 'Woodside fought in the Spanish-American war and distinguished himself In the recent war by saving the flank of bls battalion in the battle of Verdun.

MORE PRICES ARE CUT Clothing, Corn and Hogs Show Downward Trend. Contracts for Future Delivery, Which Have Been Falling Rapidly, Continue to Drop. Chicago, Sept. 25. —Evidence that the cost of living is going down is plentiful in Chicago. Following announced reductions in the price of cotton goods and clothing by two big mail order houses, the food market is also showing a,marked inclination for lower levels. Corn is below the dollar mark foi the first time in three years. Oats, rye and bajley have declined in lesser degree. At the Chicago stock yards hog prices have again declined and the trade in cattle and sheep is dull. The stock markets, which fdr some time have been discounting lower commodity prices and consequent lower corporation profits, continued in this -Vein. Industrial stocks yfell rather kharply, influenced by announcements of price reductions by/a large eastern manufacturer of cotton goods, another automobile manufacturer and three big Chicago mail order bouses. There also were reports in steel trade circles that buyers are obtaining concessions in prices over those prevailing a few weeks ago and that there is less difficulty in securing qusck deliveries of goods ordered. This tended to bear out the prediction that steel prices, particularly those quoted by the Independent concerns, are due for a reduction. Cotton contracts for future delivery and spot delivery, which have been falling rapidly in the New York market, declined still further, in part because of the announcement of price reduction in manufactured goods by the Amoskeag Manufacturing Company. The price for “spot” cotton broke 100 points to the basis of cents a po*>r>d for middling. HENRY FORD CUTS PRICES Prewar Rates Are Established on All Products of His Motor Company. Detroit, Mich., Sept 23.—Re-estab-lishment of prewar prices on all products of the Ford Motor company, effective immediately, was announced by Henry Ford. The price reductions range from approximately 14 per cent on motortrucks to 31 per cent on small automobiles. In making the announcement stating that someone has to start the movement from high prices downward, Henry Ford says: “The war is over and it is time war prices were over. There is no sense or wisdom in trying to maintain an artificial standard of values. For the Twst Interests of all it is time that a real, practical move was made to bring the busitfbss of the country and life of the country down to normal. “Inflated prices always retard progress. We had to stand it during the war, although it wasn’t right, so the Ford Motor company will make the prices of its products the same as they were before the war.” Tire Explosion Kills Man. Callok, Tex., Sept. 23.—Peter Rose was instantly killed at San Juan, near her, when a motortruck tire exploded while he was Inflating it The top of his head was blown off and a nearby brick wall was wrecked. Marylanders Hit Suffrage. Annapolis, Md., Sept. 25.—Ratification of the suffrage amendment was defeated when the house voted down the resolution by a vote of 50 to 43. Most of the ratification votes came from the Republicans. Find Body of Capitalist. Los Angeles, Cal., Sept. 25.—The body of Jacob Charles Denton, capitalist, who disappeared four months ago, was found under tons of earth in a hermetically sealed box in the cellar of a house. Astronomer Doolittle Dies. Philadelphia, Sept. 24.—Dr. Eric Doolittle, distinguished astronomer, died. He was director of the Flower observatory of the University of Pennsylvania. Doctor Doolittle was born in Indiana in 1870. lowa Miners Accept Scale. Des Moines, la., Sept 24. —Decision, to accept wage agreement made between operators and miners’ commlttwo weeks ago was reached • by the representatives of the men in- I session here. > '

Happenings of the World Tersely Told Washington Additional increase in express rates, averaging 13.5 per cent, were granted by the interstate commerce commission at Washington. This makes a total increase of 26 per cent already granted. * « • The Washington government will be asked to appoint acommission to effect a solution of Japanese-American problems, according to a Tokyo dispatch. ♦ ♦ * D. C. Wills of Cleveland, 0., was appointed a member of the federal reserve board at Washington by President Wilson. * * • The cruiser Cleveland will represent the United States at the celebration of the centennial anniversary of the independence of the city of Guayaquil, Ecuador, the navy department at Washington announced. » * ♦ Hearings on increased intrastate passenger rates in Illinois were, set by the interstate commerce commission at Washington for October 11. Briefs must be filed with the comthission before October 9. » ♦ ♦ Secretary Colby at Washington has refused to grant the request of antisuffragists from Tennessee that he rescind his action in proclaiming ratification of the federal suffrage amendment. Domestic Two masked bandits stopped Illinois Central train No. 2 on a block signal at Tucker, 111., 50 miles south of Chicago, crept into the mail coach, bound five clerks hand and foot, and escaped with two satchels stuffed with the contents of six registered mail sacks. * Inspectors variously estimated the loss at from a few thousand dollars to SIOO,OOO. « » » Herman Osthoff, forty-two, cashier of the Elkhart bank, near Sheboygan, Wis., and for six years clerk of Elkhart village, shot himself in the head, dying instantly. He had been in ill health for some time. The University of Pennsylvania opened its one hundred and seventyfirst year at Philadelphia with the largest enrollment in its history. More than 11,000 students have enrolled, 1,000 more than last year. ♦ ♦ ♦ A warehouse of the California Packing corporation, in the river front district of Sacramento, Cal., was destroyed by fire. Company officials-es-timated the loss at about $1,500,000. >♦ ♦ * About forty persons were injured, four seriously, but not fatally, on the Waterloo, Cedar Falls & Northren railway when interurban trains north and south bound collided head-on east of Brandon, la. Flour has dropped 35c a barrel at Chicago as a result of a decrease in wheat prices on the board of trade. Federal investigation of alleged frauds committed in the recent Illinois primaries has been launched at Chicago. * * * Announcement was made by the Crow-Elkhart motor corporation at Elkhart, Ind., that the prices of all models of its output had been reduced to prewar figures. * * * Eight or ten major league baseball players are already slated for indictment as a result of the September grand jury’s inquiry into the baseball scandal at Chicago. The players do not all belong to one team. Neither are they all in one league. ♦ ♦ ♦ Evidence that the cost of living is going down is plentiful in Chicago. Corn is below the dollar mark for the first time In three years. Oats, rye and barley have declined in lesser degree. Hog prices have declined and the trade in cattle an’d sheep is dull. * * * The body of Jacob Charles Benton, capitalist, .who disappeared four months ago, was found under tons of earth in a hermetically sealed box in the cellar of a house at Los Angeles, Cal. * * * Ratification of the suffrage amendment was defeated at Annapolis, Md., when the house voted down the resolution by a vote of 50 to 43. Most of the ratification votes came from the Republicans. * ♦ • A reduction of 33 1-3 per cent in the price of manufactured cotton goods was announced by the Amoskeg Manufacturing company of Manchester, N. H. • * * Missing his train at Buffalo, Samuel Gompers, president of the American Federation of Labor, went to Rochester, N. Y., by airplane. • * • The general assembly of Connecticut at Hartford, ratified the nienteenth amendment in accord with a message of Governor Holcomb. • * * To be in. style in Boston one must carry his lunch. Mayor Andrew J. Peters is doing it. So are several thousand other business men and women who believe that the lunch box is the only weapon left to fight the profiteering restaurant keepers. * * ; * It is believed possible that the steamer San Remo, which went aground off Marcoris, San Domingo, September 1, will be a total wreck. I Members of the crew of the stranded vessel have arrived at Kingston, Jamaica.

“I have never seen so many drunks in court as I have in the last few days.” This was the declaration of Magistrate McGechan in the West side court at New York. * • • Bulletins, posted at the Monon railroad shops in Lafayette, Ind., announced a 5 per cent reduction in the working force, beginning Tuesday, September 28. The office force will not be affected. * « ♦ Governor Cox’s train on the way to Prescott from Phoenix, over the Santa Ee, was wrecked oue mile north of Peoria, 16 miles from Phoenix. Ariz. Neither Governor Cox nor any member of his party was injured. « * • Decision to accept the wage agreement made between operators and miners’ committees about two weeks ago was reached by the representatives of the men in session at Des Moines, la. • • • The national Rural Letter Carriers’ association, in anuual convention at Dallas, Tex., went on record against affiliating with the American Federation of Labor. • • ♦ • Auto bandits held up a United States mail truck at South Bend. Ind., and escaped with mail valued at from $5,000 to $20,000. » • • Fire originating over the kitchen of the main clubhouse of the Peoria (III.) Country club burned the’structure to the ground. The loss is estimated at $150,000, exclusive of the private stock in lockers. * * * Thirty per cent of Europe’s popu£ lation is still on bread rations, Herbert Hoover told the American Association of the Baking Industry at Atlantic City, N. J. * * * It’s going to be a hard winter for workers in Massachusetts, according to a statement issued by the state free employment office at Boston. The labor market throughout the state is glutted, it says. • • • Seven thousand barrels of whisky, real Kentucky bourbon, went up in flames at Lawrenceburg, Ky. The whisky, valued at $4,000,000, was destroyed when fire wiped out the Cedar Brook warehouse. ♦ ♦ • Four armed bandits held up a branch of the First State bank at Mount Elliott and Mack avenues at Detroit, Mich., and escaped with an amount estimated by.bqnk officials at $30,0(X). * • * Investigation of the naval government of the Pacific island of Samoa was ordered by the navy department at Washington. It will be conducted by Rear Admiral Charles F. Hughes. • * • Personal William A. Ketcham of Indianapolis was elected commander in.chief of the Grand Army of the' Republic at the closing business Session of the fiftyfourth annual encampment at Indianapolis. « * « I Dr. Eric Doolittle, distinguished astronomer died at Philadelphia. He was director of the • Flower observatory of the University of Pennsylvania. Doctor Doolittle was born in Indiana in 1870. • * * Edwin C. Dinwifldie, former legislative superintendent of the Anti-Saloon League of America, was elected chairman of the Fifteenth international congress against alcoholism, which convened at Washington for a sixdays’ session. • * • Sporting “Babe” Ruth, home-run champioa, broke another record at St. Louis, scoring ids 148th run of the season in the l eleventit inning to give New York a 4 to 3 victory over St. Louis. • « * Foreign Premier Alexandre Millerand, a socialist, was elected president of France by the national assembly at Versailles. He succeeds Paul Deschanel, who resigned on account of ill health. * * * Six thousand bodies of American soldiers wvho died in Europe have now been sent back to the United States, according to Major Simpson, assistant to the head of the graves registration service at Paris. « * * County Councilor Lynch, a prominent Limerick Sinn Feiner, was shot dead in his hotel apartment in the center of Dublin. His assailants are alleged to have been “black and tan” police. • * • Two Japanese have been sentenced to ten years’ imprisonment on conviction of an attempt to sell documents stolen from the Yokosuka nhval station to Americans, according to newspapers at Tokyo. . B • • ♦ Financial conditions in Italy make it Impossible for the government to sell bread under the present system with-, out risking bankruptcy, declared Signor Meda, minister of the treasury, before a ministerial committee at Rome. • • * An agreement has been reached between the government and the railwaymen at Rome by which the men will receive increased wages amounting to 200,000,000 lire (normal value $40,000,000). ♦ • • It is reported at Copenhagen that conflagrations are raging all over the Russian governments of Tver, Goroslav, Kostroma, Archangel, Vologda, Vladimir, Moscow, Rjaesan, Vjatka. In Vologda 500 houses were burned and 150 persons perished. In Saratow 300 perished and 25,000 are without shelter. In the suburbs of Petrograd great fires are raging. *. ♦ * The coal miners of Great Britain will not go on strike as threatened, cava a London dispatch. . . 1

Uncle Waite J ’ XX SURE CURES UpvLD JINGLESON says he can VX cure any disease by drinking hot water,” announced the bold hoarder. “He has had every disease that Is officially recognized by the Royal College of Physicians • and Surgeons

and has banished them all by that simple means. “Anything becomes a curative agent if a man believes in it hard enough,” said the star boarder. “Jasper Jones says he was tormented with rheumatism for ten years, and tried everythin glqf which we read In the almanacs, and

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nothing did him any good until he got a horse chestnut and carried i-t around in his pocket. Then the rheumatism disappeared, and hasn’t-played a return engagement since. I have talked with Jasper often, trying to point out the folly of his claim, but he refuses to yield an inch. ‘I used to have fall kinds of rheumatics before I got that horse chestnut.’ he says, ‘and now I haven’t a single one. Who would ask better proof than that?’ “And echo answers who, my dear Mrs. Jiggers. It may he that a horse chestnut in the hip pocket is a specific for rheumatism. It isn’t safe to denounce any theory as a false alarm. “Ira Grifway used to be always groaning about his diseases, until it became unpleasant .to meet hirti. He couldn’t talk about anything else. He ignored the crops and regarded the weather with contempt, and devoted all his great energy and talents to a discussion of the things that were hurting him. Then all of a sudden he began boasting of how hale and he was. He explained that the toad to health was absurdly easy, and there was. no excuse for anywhere. All a man had to dOj- he -saal. was to get up early in the inomingL before sunrise, and draw in a hundred long breaths of the crisp morning air. “He made the discovery himself, and it was more important than any mod em invention. His sincerity is shown by the fact that there was no possible graft connected with it. A man can't sell the morning atmosphere at so much per breath. Ira’s great discovery was free to everybody. If I were going to invent a cure for anything I'd compound something that could be put Up in" bottles and sold at a dollar a throw. The man who invents a fresh air clire Is running benevolence into the ground. “His cure was so cheap that I decided to try it, as I was suffering from a broken heart and a sluggish liver at that period. I set my alarpi clock for an hour before sunrise, and got up in the pale, bleak dawn, and put my head out of the window to inhale the prescribed hundred breaths. I had reached the twenty-sevf'nth breath when a dissipated bee or wasp, on its way home from a night of revelry, stung me on the nose, and I was in such haste to put a porous plaster on that organ that I didn’t finish the treatment, and never tried it again. “But I knew many people who claimed they were cured of everything from the mumps, hoof and mouth disease, by the hundred-breaths treatment. “There was a spring on my father’s' farm, and I doped it with sulphuric acid and a few other wholesome ingredients, and then began selling the water to the afflicted for ten cents a jug. Some marvelous cures were effected. Men hobbled there or crutches to buy the healing fluih, and when they left they threw thejr crutches away. “For a brief session I ha-d more email change than any boy in the county, but my father returned home from a visit, and when he found out what I had been doing, he interviewed me with a hickory pole, and foi a year or two I was busy paying back the moq,ey I had collected from sufferers. The people who had been healed suffered a relapse as soon as they heard the water was faked; which goes to show, Mrs. Jiggers, that we are entitled to a better quality of butter on this table.” Way of Escape. Flatbush—“That’s a funny ' thing about a bowlegged man. Bensonhurst —What’s that ? “WLy, when he meets a mad dog in a narrow alley he’s more bow-legged than ever.” Just Like the Old Home. Mr. Scrapleigh—Can you give my daughter a home such as she has been accustomed to? The Suitor—Well, Fve got a bull terrier and a fighting cat and a parrot and if that won’t do it I know where I can get a chimpanzee. The Dear Girls. Dora—Did you see the way that man smiled at me? . - . Doris —Yes, dear. Let me have a look at your face. Perhaps you’ve got a smut on your nose 1 Scared to Death. Fear kills more than the knife. An autopsy revealed that David Carey oi London, Eng., who died of anxiety be-« cause a doctor told him he had heart disease, had a healthier heart than most men and might have lived for 5Q years. ; Jud Tunklns. ’’ f Jud Tunkins says thete isn’t much chance of promotion for a man whose only idea of a boss is a person who; sticks his feet on the desk and smoke® large cigars. - J