Walkerton Independent, Volume 34, Number 14, Walkerton, St. Joseph County, 18 September 1908 — Page 2

WALKERTON INDEPENDENT W. A. ENDLEY. Publisher WALKERTON. - INDIANA The worst one can say of Auckland is that It is absolutely all right. The French simply can not understand Wilbur Wright. , He must talk with his hands still. A man named Wind won $15,000 in a Panama lottery, and, of course, blew it all in inside of a week. Another evidence that the horseless age has not yet been reached is New York's crusade against horse thieves. Marie Corelli is writing a novel against “the drink habit.” Just see what awful things the drink habit is responsible for. A Washington couple have had the union label printed on their wedding invitations. Does that make the walking delegate the best man? A Colorado couple got married the other day and the license bore the number 1313. Their divorce papers will probably be marked 2323. New Zealand is a great sociological laboratory, but in her advertisenicnts strict accuracy is not considered essential, it would 'seem. The owners of skyscrapers seem to entertain the idea that the windows were made to be seen through. This proves them to be frank idealists. The shah is reported to have suspended the Persian constitution. Perhaps he thinks that this is the only way in which he can now attract attention. The speed craze is a pathological condition known as “locomotor mania,” says a French savant. The police know of a fine little cure for that complaint. An 18-year-old husband in New York has been having serious trouble with tiis second wife. Probably she refused to let him play with the other boys in the neighborhood. A writer in a popular magazine describes dynamite as “canned thunder.” If he should try to use a can-opener on it he might find that he had spoken better than he knew. “Chorus girls gain wisdom with age,” says the Jacksonville TimesUnion. That can't be true, or some of them would be the wisest people on earth. Which they aren’t. A French expert says that the broken wing of the aeroplane is the punctured tire of the automobile. The difference is that when the tire pops, the machine is on the ground. It is a very sad day for all the boys ■who, have been inventing flying machines in the rear of the woodshed, and as yet haven’t got them so tractable that they will leave the earth. Chicago is suppose'd to be 75 years old. It is no mere compliment to say that she does not look her age. However, she will be just as fresh and live)y~when she is twice her present age. West New York, N. J., is in hard luck. It has no money to buy feed for the horses in its fire department, I and, in fact, still owes for the horses. ! It ought to go into the hands of a re- j ceiver. An impression is gaining ground ; that a Chicago college professor is not I considered a success unless he says something that would sound down- 1 right nonsensical as coming from the average intellect. A 90-year-old Connecticut man committed suicide because he didn’t want to live to be a hundred. Some people have such a morbid fear of their per- I sonal habits —smoking, drinking, etc. ; • —getting into the Sunday papers. According to Humane Officer Ware, ! 16,425 women have been beaten by i Toledo husbands in the last 15 years. During the same period three times as many Cleveland women, declares the Leader of that city, have been presented with diamond rings and sealskin coats. About twice the height of the Washington monument and 74 feet higher than the Eiffel Tower will be the altitude of the ball on the flagpole of a proposed new insurance building in New York —the building itself to be 909 feet, or more than four times the height of Bunker Hill monu ment. When the jackies of the battleship fleet come sailing home again they will get a welcome worthy of the occasion. The announcement of the plan to have a grand naval review as a fitting display in honor of the ships the officers and the men who have reflected such credit upon the Ameri can name will be most satisfactorj to everybody except the man with the caronic “grouch.” Health authorities in Great Brltair are not finding that the governmenl inspection of American meats is so es fective as it ought to be. The London medical officer has lately reported thai the carcass of a pig from Massachu setts, which bore the mark “U. S. in spected,” had indications of acuts pleurisy, and that a fore quarter oi ■ frozen beef similarly marked was ; found to be diseased, and that scraj meat in boxes, also marked, contained ! : diseased meat and an excessive j amount of boric acid. However, inspec | tion is much better than formerly. j । When Mr. Lang! y of the Smithson ! ian institution was alive his expert I ments with flying machines met with | : little but ridicule, and it is probable j 1 that, he felt this lack of appreciation i ’ keenly. Now, when it is too late foi him to be gratified by recognition o! • ' his pioneer efforts, it is suddenly dis i ' covered that what he wrote on the ; subject is of much value, and it is ir 1 demand by aeronauts and others in ; terested in the subject of airships. His | theories ate found to be in accort i with those of the most advanced ex : perimenters now.

FLAY JUDGE LANDIS LAWYERS FOR STANDARD OIL FILE THEIR ANSWER. DECLARE FINE EXCESSIVE Jurist Is Charged with Yielding to Outside Influences and the Prosecution Is Called “Malicious.” Chicago.—Judge Kenesaw Landis, who fined the Standard Oil Company $29,000,000, is charged with having permitted outside influences to govern his decision by the attorneys for the company in their answer to the application for a rehearing filed in the United States court of appeals. The answer refers to the judgment of that court as an “unheard-of fine," and says that the court was “governed by evidence and considerations which were not proper to influence a judicious magistrate.” District Attorney Sims, who conducted the prosecution, was referred to as a “zealous prosecutor.” The answer to the government’s appeal for rehearing is submitted by Attorneys John S. Miller. Moritz Rosenthal and Alfred D. Eddy, counsel for the oil company, and cites numerous reasons why Judge Grosscup and his associates in the court of appeals should not grant the government's petition. The principal argument presented Is in regard to excessive fines, and it Ay / i / ' ® Judge Kenesaw Landis. is declared absolutely that District At torney Sims could find no authority to support Judge Landis in his action of fixing the “unheard-of fine.” Regarding this the answer states: “The provision of the bill of rights in the eighth amendment to the federal constitution forbidding the imposition of excessive fines enacts a cherished principle of Magna Charta, which is the foundation of American and Anglo-Saxon laws and jurisprudence, and which required that fines imposed for faults or crimes should be ‘after the manner of the fault.’ or ‘according to the heinousness of it,’ and forbade fines so large as to deprive a defendant of that which was necessary to his vocation or livelihood.” The action of the government in bringing the oil company to trial is referred to as “malicious prosecution,” and it is reiterated that no evidence and law has been brought to bear on the case by the federal attorneys. Freed in Subtreasury Case. Chicago. — George W. Fitzgerald, accused of having stolen the $173,000 which disappeared from the United States subtreasury, was discharged by Judge Chetlain Thursday after it had been shown on the witness stand that the government had instructed the treasury department beads in Chicago and other government employes to not testify in the case nor make public the evidence which the secret service men have been gathering since the time of the robbery. Woman Suicide at Niagara. Niagara Falls, N. Y. —A woman, about 25 years old, of refined appearance, Tuesday afternoon walked Into the river about 30 feet above Prospect Point and was swept over the falls. She left nothing to identify her. Seventy-five persons saw the suicide. Four Die in Denver Fire. Denver, Col. —Four men lost their lives and a score of persons were injured. several of them seriously, in a fire that ruined the Belmont, hotel, a three-story building at 1723 Stout street Tuesday morning. Crazed with fear and almost suffocated by smoke, the guests rushed for the windows, several of them jumping to the pavement below before firemen and policemen could reach them with ladders or spread nets below the windows. The fire is supposed to have been of incendiary origin. Three Thousand Seek One Job. London. —The number of unemployed in this city was strikingly illustrated Friday when 3,000 men surrounded and attempted to make their way into a hospital which had advertised for a porter at a wage of $4.50 a week and meals. Farmer and Wife Drowned. Lansing, Mich. —William Gardner, a farmer, and bis wife, who lived near Dimondale, were drowned when a launch was capsized in Grand river by running on a sunken si ump.

11 WRIGHT BEATS OWN RECORD AEROPLANE GOES 65 MINUTES AND 52 SECONDS. Ten-Mile Wind Causes Machine to Pitch, But Does Not Stop Its Flight. Washington.—Orville Wright Thurs- } day broke the world's record for time and distance for a heavier-than-air flying machine which he established Wednesday. In a flight requiring great skill on account of a ten-mile wind, he circled around the , drill grounds at Fort Myer 58 times in 65 minutes and 52 seconds, exceed- ; ing the time of Wednesday’s record i flight by three minutes and 37 seconds, j The flight was witnessed by nearly a - thousand people. > At. S:OR Mr. Wright signaled C. E. Taylor, his mechanic, to release the t machine. The aeroplane rose from the ’ ground almost immediately after leav- • ing the single starting rail. It contin- ? tied to climb higher with each suci cessive round of the field, until it reached an altitude of 75 feet. For - the first 30 seconds the machine flew i 1 as smoothly as on its previous flights. but from that time on it was seen to ; - pitch at the turns, as the breeze from r the west struck it. : Whenever the machine pitched, it 1 could be plainly seen from below that . - it responded promptly to every move I of the levers by the operator. One of ; Mr. Wright’s assistants marked the - time in large figures at intervals on ' the roof of a shed, in order that Mr. I Wright might see how long he had i been in the air. A gust of wind, unusually strong, struck the aerial flyer during its forty-second round, and it plunged sharply, causing the crowd to exclaim in alarm. Mr. Wright then brought his machine lower, but on the fifty-third round he had reached an altitude of 200 feet. He came down at the northern end of the field at the end of the fifty-eighth round, landing easily. i Washington.—Tn a flight lasting one hour, ten minutes and 26 seconds, Orville Wright Friday surpassed all his exploits for a time and distance flight for a heavier-than-air machine. Two flights were made at Fort Myer, Va . the first being of ten minutes and 50 seconds' duration. The test demonstrated. according to the aviator's calculation, that the speed of the areoplane during the record-breaking flights of Wednesday and Thursday was 39.55 miles an hour.—Changes in the aeroplane are to be made. HURRICANE RUINS GRAND TURK. Great Storm in West Indies Costs Many Lives. Grand Turk, Turks Islands, B. W. 1., —A hurricane of great fury swept over Turks Islands Thursday night and Friday morning, and at daybreak the town of Grand Turk was devastated. A number of lives have been lost, but just how many cannot be said. Grave anxiety is felt for the safety ’of Dr. T. R. Robertson, district commissioner of Caicos, who was making a tour of the islands when the storm broke. Much damage has been done to property here and the streets of Grand Turk are a mass of wreckage. Trees have been uprooted, portions of buildings blown away and many houses have been partially wrecked. The Haitien sloop Telegraph, which had taken shelter at Hawks Nest, foundered with all hands. The schooner Dan Leon, belonging to the East Caicos Fiber Company, broke away from her anchorage and lias not been seen since. All the salt lighters which were moored at the riding ground and the Hawks Nest are missing. RECEIVER FOR A. BOOTH & CO. Trouble of Big Concern Caused by Too Great Expansion. Chicago. — A. Booth <& Co., the $12,000,000 fish, game and sea food corporation, with branches extending from coast to coast, passed into the hands of a receiver late Thursday afternoon. On petition of Alfred E. Booth and the Linen Thread Company of New York. Judge S. H. Bethea in the United States circuit court named William J. Chalmers, president of the Commercial National Safe Deposit Company, who took charge of the ! company’s general office. The general assets are placed at i $8,000,000, exclusive of the company’s I good will, valued at $4,000,000, and the 1 liabilities, according to the bill, ap- ‘ proximate $5,500,000. Mr. Chalmers gave bond for $50,000. Too great an expansion of the company’s business and a large amount of outstanding short-time notes are the reasons given for the corporation’s predicament. Ohio Minister Is Jailed. Richmond. Va. —Rev. Leonard W. Synder of Norwood, 0., was arraigned ( in the police court here Tuesday, fined sls and sent to jail for six months on a charge of disorderly conduct. Dreyfus’ Assailant Acquitted. Paris. —With the acquittal Friday night by a jury in the assize court of Louis A. Gregori, who fired upon Maj. Dreyfus during the ceremonies last June incident to the placing of the body of Emile Zola in the Pantheon, the Dreyfus affair, which has divided i France into two camps for 12 years, ! may be said to have been buried be- I yond all possibility of resurrection. | Those present gave vent to their feel- j ings according to their political views j and the courtroom resounded with j hoots and cheers. Berthe Claiche to Be Freed. Auburn, N. Y. —Berthe Claiche, a i convict in Auburn prison, had her application for liberty favorably acted ! upon by the prison parole board Tues- i day. Berthe Claiche was tried for the : shooting of Emile Gendron in New i York city on June 6, 1906. She was | convicted and sentenced to serve an I indeterminate term in the woman’s j prison in this city. Her story that Gendron had forced her to go upon the street and barter her womanhood to support him secured for her a large amount of consideration.

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TO-JOIK WAR | LABOR MEN TO^^'KE PART IN FIGHTING TUB IcULOSIS. Announcement Made^That American Federation Will Join in Fight Against Plague. M ashington. — American workingmen and workingwomen, represented by the American Federation of Labor. Will co-operate with the coming world s congress on tuberculosis to prevent the spread of consumption in workshops, homes and public buildings. 3 his developed at the session of the executive council of the federation, when the council decided to assume charge of a mass meeting to be held n connection with the congress on Sunday, October 4. John Mitchell will preside and make in address emphasizing the lm;orrance to workingmen of the tubercu ' osis crusade. Samuel Gompers, president of the federation, will make the principal address. The effect of tuoerculosis upon the workers will be proved by statistics, which show that per cent, of all deaths between the ages of 15 and 45 are due to coniumption. It was decided that the American Federation of Labor make every effort o aid in furthering the movement imong the people of unr country to se■ure legislation for the conservation ■ jf our natural resources. A resolution was adopted to urgent ! y request President Roosevelt to in.ervene and prevent the surrender of Jan Pouren to the Russian govern ment. Pouren parii'ipated in the revalutionary movenipt of the Baltic provinces to obtai^ a freer form of jovernmeut for th^j>eople of Russia. :o the United StatW nd obtained em nloyment which f. r - more than eight month^x/ssiau spies in the United State^^rreted him out md now demand hi»< xtradition. KAISER DOESN'T ENTER FRANCE William Changes His Mind About Ascending the Hohneck. Altenberg.-- Alsace.—Emperor William disappointed the general expectation that he would set foot on French! territory Friday in the course of a j sight-seeing trip along the Vosges' range. The French authorities for- ' warded his majesty a hearty invita-1 tion to do so and had made every prep- i aration to welcome the imperial visitor. He had intended to ascend the Hohneck. the highest point in this vicinity, which is situated in French territory. From it a splendid view may be had of Remiremont and the valley of the Moselle river. Emperor William arrived here late in the afternoon and decided not to proceed across the frontier. Commodities Clause Hit. Philadelphia. — The commodities clause of the Hepburn railroad act I was Thursday declared to be unconstitutional by the United States cii* | cuit court for tha eastern district of Pennsylvania. Judges Gray and Dallas ■ agreed in an opinion, covering 75 typei written pages, that the clause is unconstitutional. Judge Buffington dissented, but did not file an opinion. Gans Beaten by Nelson. Colma Arena, San Francisco. —Batling Nelson clinched, his claim to the lightweight pugilistic championship by defeating Joe Gaps for the second time at Colma- Wednesday afternoon. The fight - --Vied in the twen-ty-first round when beaten down by a succession iblows from his sturdy conqueror, filled to get upon his feet within the -^ount of ten. Indicted for Arson in New Orleans. New Orleans.—Julius Lipps, manager; Abe Wolf, secretary and treasurer of the Central Glass company of New Orleans, and John Eckert, an employe of that company, were indicted by the grand jury Wednesday night on the charge of arson in connection with a fire which about ten days ago burned over a portion of three blocks in the business section of New Orleans, causing a loss of $1,500,000. The fire originated in the building that was occupied by the Central Glass company. Boasts of Leading Lynchers. Memphis, Tenn. —A special from Oxford, Miss., quotes former United States Senator W. V. Sullivan as follows with reference to the lynching Tuesday night. “I led the mob which lynched Nelse Patton, and I'm proud of it. I directed every movement of the mob. and I did everything I could to see that he was lynched. He cut a white woman's throat! And a negro! Os cource I wanted him lynched. I don't care what investigation is made, or what are the consequences. I am wUJiux to stand them.”

DELAY IN BIG LABOR CASE. Legal Proceedings Against Gompers and Others Are Postponed. Washington. — The legal proceedings against President Samuel Gompers, Secretary Frank Morrison and John Mitchell of the American Federation of Labor, in which they were charged with contempt of the supreme court of the District of Columbia on account of acts and utterances apropos of the judgment of that court directing them to cease publishing tho name of the Bucks Stove & Range company in their "We don't patronize” list, were virtually postponed for two weeks after a brief hearing Wednes- : day. Justice Gould of the supreme l court presided. The postponement was taken at the instance of counsel for the stove company and in opposition to the expressed wishes of Mr. Gompers and bis associates, who complained of the delay as expensive and unnecessary. It was stated on. behalf of the company. however, that it would be necessary to examine witnesses as to the issues made by the petition and the > answers, and Justice Gould, saying I that he saw no necessity for great ' haste and urging the desirability of affording both sides a full opportunity to be heard, granted the request. He appointed an examiner to take testimony. gave each side 30 days, and anI nounced his own willingness to sit in | the case after the facts shall have . been ascertained. — BISHOP SPALDING RESIGNS. Head of Peoria Diocese Retires Because of 111 Health. Peoria, 11l. —The resignation of Rt. Rev. John Lancaster Spalding, bishop of the diocese of Peoria, was officially announced from his residence Thurs dav in the following note: "Bishop bp aiding having been ill for // \ \ / n \ H fc. v X St* . N V Bishop John L. Spalding. three years and a half, and foreseeing that some years must elapse before he has hope to resume active duty in the diocese of Peoria, has, after due consideration, resolved to tender his resignation as bishop of Peoria to Pope Piux X.” The bishop is now in his sixty-ninth year and still suffers from the paralysis which brought him near to death.” Deposit Guaranty Law Upheld. Guthrie, Okla. —The supreme court Thursday upheld the validity of the depositors’ guaranty law, denying the injunction prayed by the Noble State bank to restrain the state from levying a one per cent, assessment upon the deposits of the bank. It was contended that the law is unconstitutional in that it levies on and takes private property without consideration. On this point Judge Huston in the Logan county district court overruled the bank and denied an injunction, the case then being appealed. Young Wife Commits Suicide. Seattle, Wash.—Mrs. John Davis, wife of one of the leading real estate dealers of this city, committed suicide by taking carbolic acid. She was 23 years old. he is 38, and they had been married only since March 15 last. Paper Mill Men on Strike. Millinocket, Me. —Responding to a telegram from their union headquarters, the 1.200 men employed in the mills of the Great Northern Paper Company here and at East Millinocket went on strike Friday. Well-Known Alaskan Killed. Seattle. Wash. —Dr. Cabell Whitehead. general manager of the Seward Peninsula railroad in Alaska, is dead in Nome, as the result of an accident. The ear in which Dr. Whitehead was riding was overturned and he fell into a shallow pool of water and was drowned. San Francisco Banker Killed. San Francisco. —Philip Lilienthal, manager of the Anglo-California bank of this city, was killed Tuesday eve ning in an automobile accident.

WRECK ON THE ERIE FAST TRAIN DITCHED AND 34 PERSONS INJURED. NONE IS EXPECTED TO DIE Chicago to New York Express Strikes Switch Opened by Enemy of Company, Say the Road's Officials. Meadville, Pa.—Thirty-four persons । were injured early Sunday in the wreck of Erie train No. 4. Chicago to New York express, at Geneva, Pa., a small station eight miles west of here. ; Ihe wr<'ck. railroad officials believe, I was due to enemies of the company opening a switch shortly before the passenger train arrived. All of the injured were brought to this city and 23 of them were taken to Spencer hospital. Five of these after having their injuties dressed, were discharged during the day. while 18 still remain at the hospital. Thirty-one of the injured were passengers and three were railroad employes. It is not believed any of the victims will die from their injuries. The train is due here at 12:50 a. m., but was about one hour late, and was running over 50 miles an huur. Upon, j striking the open switch the entire train left the track, the locomotive turning over upon its side. Two of the ! cars, a combination smoker and baggage and a day’ coach, were demolished. A majority of the injured were riding in the combination car, being foreign laborers traveling second-closs. The two tracks were torn up a distance of over 100 feet and the work of repairing them was not completed until after midnight. The property loss is $20,000. Railroad officials assert that they are convinced that the switch was maliciously opened for the purpose of i wrecking the train, but think it was done by persons having a grievance against the company rather than for the purpose of robbery. A key was used to open the switch, the lock hanging loose from the bar. The tracks were used as late as 11:30 a. m. Saturday by freight trains, and officials state there was no occasion to operate the switch between that hour and time of the wreck. PLANNED TO KILL PRIEST? Buffalo Youth Arrested in Polish Seminary at Detroit. I Detroit. Mich.—Jenor Zhoralski, a 19 year-old youth, living at 981 Sycamore street. Buffalo. N. Y.. was taken into custody Sunday at the Polish seminary here under circumstances which led to a suspicion that he intended to use a loaded revolver which was in his pocket in attacking Rev. Father Withold Buhaczkowski, head of the seminary. A charge of carrying concealed weapons has been preferred against him and the police say that they will lay the case before one of the police justices. as :;ded the seminary here for several years, but last June failed to pass his examinations and was refused a diploma. The young man brooded over his failure after returning to his home and told a friend in Buffalo, the officers at the seminary say. that he intended to come to Detroit and kill Father Buhaczkowski with a revolver which he had just purchased. He also, it is said, repeated his threat to Father Szalczewski. MURDERED IN SUNDAY SCHOOL. Organist Slain by Maniac Who Calls Her a Witch. Charlotte. N. C. —A special from Newton says that Miss Willie Bullinger. 19 years old. was stabbed to death by Lon Rader, aged 21. Sunday morning while seated at the organ playing the closing hymn at Sunday school. Rader leaped suddenly across several benches, and with his pocket knife stabbed her once in the back and twice in the breast. She died almost instantly. Rader was arrested and is now in the Newton jail. Some months ago he was committed to the state asylum, and in his ravings, often mentioned Miss Bullinger's name. Recently he was discharged from the hospital as : cured. In jail Rader said he killed the girl because she was a witch. Negro Lynched in Texas. Brookshire. Tex. —Dave Newton, a negro, charged with being implicated in the murder of John Buchtrin. a white man. who was shot and killed at his home near here Saturday, was taken from jail by a mob and hanged. Intense excitement prevails here and all idle negroes have received instructions to leave the community. I Fears Hydrophobia: Kills Seif. Springfield, iii.—Fred Petersu; . 45 years old. who was bitten by a mad squirrel, died Sunday of carbolic acid poisoning. Fearing hydrophobia, he is supposed to have swallowed the acid with suicidal intent. 1 UN, Chicagoan Dies on Shipboard. New York. —The steamer Caledonia, which arrived Sunday from Glasgow, had a death among the cabin passengers. On Sunday. September 6. David James, aged 70 years, of Chicago, was found dead in bed. His death is attributed to heart failure. Australia Wants a Fleet. Melbourne. —The Australian premier. Alfred Deakin, is taking steps to induce the British government to dispatch a fl^et to Australia as soon Gas Blast Injures Several. Chicago.—Many persons were injured. two perhaps fatally, bj a terI rifle explosion of gas in a vault at the : Wahl bling Machine Company, ocI the air by a • | the Lake Shore railroad y Saturday morning.

TEN YEARS OF BACKACHE. Thousands of Women Suffer in the Same Way. Mrs. Thos. Dunn. 153 Vine St Columbus, Ohio, says: “ For more

Ilian ten years 1 was in misery with backache. The simplest housework completely exhausted me. I had no strength or ambition, was nervous and suffered headache and dizzy spells. After

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these years of pain I was despairing of ever being cured when Doan's Kidney Pills came to my notice and their use brought quick relief and a permar nent cure. I am very grateful.” Sold by all dealers. 50 cents a box. Foster-Milburn Co., Buffalo, N. Y. SOUNDS REASONABLE. Karl—Papa, I suppose the soldiers have to learn to stand on ou? leg be- | cause the} might have one foot shot off in war. EYESIGHT WAS IN DANGER From Terrible Eczema—Baby's Head a Mass of Itching Rash and Sores —Disease Cured by Cuticura. “Our little girl was two months old when she got a rash on her face and within five days her face and head were all one sore. We used different remedies but it got worse instead of better and we thought she would turn blind and that her ears would fall off. She suffered terribly, and would scratch until the blood came. This went on until she was five months old. । then I had her under our family doctor s care, but she continued to grow worse. He said it was eczema. When she was seven months old I started to use the Cuticura Remedies and in two months our baby was a different girl. You could not see a sign of a sore and she was as fair as a newborn baby. She has not had a sign of the eczema since. Mrs. H. F. Budke, LeSueur, Minn., Apr. 15 and May 2, ’07.” BATHING AN INDIAN IDOL. Curious Ceremony Attended by Thousands of Devout Pilgrims. Thousands of pilgrims from the various outlying villages and other parts of the Hooghly district poured in from an early hour in the morning to 'he temples of Jagernath, says the Calcutta Statesman. The image of the god is placed on a conspicuous part of the temple, so that it can be viewed at an advantage by the immense crowd of pilgrims, and there at a certain fixed hour the bathing ceremony commences. The mast enrions rx. - ’ the val is that water is not poured on the image of the god unJI a c-t -min small bird is found sitting on the topmost banner of the temple. There is a popular belief that the bird comes from Puri, the famous place of Hindu pilgrimage. to Maheoh on the day of this festival, and his very presence is an Indication that the ceremony should commence. Immediately after the bath the bird disappears. READY REASONING. One Guess About Venus of Milo Proved to Be W'rcng. They stood before the reproduction of the Venus of Melos. "Her hands must have been beautiful." said one. "Very," assented the other. “I wonder what position they were in?” "I have a theory that she was represented as busied at her toilet. One hand probably held a small mirror." “And the other a powder puff, eh? But that theory won’t work.” “And why not?” “Had she been at her toilet her mouth would have been full of bair pins."—Louisville Courier-Journal. “THE PALE GIRL.” Did Not Know Coffee Was the Cause. In cold weather some people think a cup of hot coffee good to help keep warm. So it is—for a short time but the drug—caffeine—acts on the heart to weaken the circulation and the reaction is to cause more chilliness. There is a hot wholesome drink which a Dak. girl found after a time, makes the blood warm and the heart strong. She says: "Having lived for five years in N. Dak., 1 have used cousiueiauie cviiee owing to the cold climate. As a result I had a dull headache regularly, suffered from indigestion, and had no ‘life’ in me. "I was known as ‘the pale girl,’ and people thought I was just weakly. After a time I bad heart trouble and became very nervous, never knew’ what it was to be real well. Took medicine but it never seemed to do any good. "Since being married my husband and I both have thought coffee was harming us and we would quit, only to begin again, although we felt it was the same as poison to us. "Then we got some Postum. Well, the effect was really wonderful. My complexion is clear now, beadache gone, and I have a grea: deal of energy I had never known while drinking coffee. “I haven’t be- ” t- nibled with indiville,” in pkgs. Ever read the above letter’ A new one appears from ti- e to t ^-e. They are genu ne, true. . -J f_ ! of human 1 interest