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The McHenry Flaindealer Published by F. G. 8CHREINER. McHENRv. ILLINOIS. Efforts are being made In London to further the emigration of British wom­ en to South Africa. Mme. Jeanne Marni just won the Chauchard prize given by the Soclete des Gens de Lettres of France. Alfred Soderman of Worcester, Mass., has succeeded in growing po­ tatoes and tomatoes on the same vine. ATTACKED IN PETITION FOR OIL CASE REHEARING. FILED FOR GOVERNMENT RECEIVER HAS WALSH ROAD SOUTHERN INDIANA RAILWAY 18 INVOLVED IN ACTIOy. Myron J. Carpenter Is Selected to Take Charge of Property--Notes Are Owned by Bank." The schools of London are to have foghorns, but not, it may be, as a symbol of the pedagogy of old Eng­ land. It Is proposed to build a medical col­ lege at Lucknow as a memorial of the visit of the prince of Wales in 1906, at a cost of $1,250,000. One point in favor of the directoire gown is the fact that it could not pos­ sibly be as bad as some of the imag­ inative artists picture it. Sweden is sending to the United States for some of her sons who have forsaken her and have made a success of careers in this country. In order to keep up the supply of billiard balls several hundred ele­ phants have to be killed every year. Billiards is an expensive game. Japan's new prime minister says his one aim will be to preserve the world's peace, but thus far he has not ordered the Japanese navy to sink ttself. Mr. and Mrs. John D. Rockefeller, Jr., have a second son. The outlook for that youngster Is brighter tha,n it is for the second son of the king of Spain. The Pan-American idea continues to find favor. The president has ap­ pointed nine delegates to the Pan- American scientific congress, to be held in Santiago, Chile, in December. A Wilkesbarre Judge has an­ nounced that debts for sheath gowns are uncollectable in his court. It is a , poor style that cannot chronicle its own peculiar foolishness at the start-off. Wn Ting-Pang has eight ancient rules which assure a person that he can live for 200 years. The rules must be the limit of unbearableness, or somebody would have tested them by this time. A co-educational college in Ohio is reported to have been responsible for 10,000 weddings during its career of &0 years. This looks as if the cp-educa- ttftnal system is not as bad as some persons say it Is. Tests of reinforced concrete barges *nd pontoons have been conducted by the Italian government since 1897, and the results have been' so gratifying that several more of the strange con­ structions have been ordered. The English papers have combined to boycott the wqrd suffragette. They discovered that its use was no assur­ ance that a circulation solicitor wouldn't get a panful of ^dishwater where he had been counting on a kind­ ly welcome. John Ruskin proposed old-age pen­ sions more than 50 years ago. In his lectures at Manchester in 1857 on "The Political Economy of Art" he pleaded for pensions to "soldiers of the plowshare as well as soldiers of the sword." A Chicago professor predicts that English will be among the dead lan­ guages in the year 4000. However, when it is considered that the lan­ guage has been pretty well used and abused without showing the wear most persons are sanguine enough to hope that it will live a little longer. Who denies that the world is grow­ ing better? asks the Omaha Bee. A man has been sentenced to seven years in prison at Goldfteld, Nev., for Belling fake mining stock. Life is go­ ing to lose Bome of its attractiveness In the west if it is made a crime to fleece a tenderfoot • by the mining stock game. One want begets another. The harvest is uncommonly big this year, and the demand for agricultural imple­ ments is on a corresponding scale. In some quarters the announcement is that all records have been broken. Snch activity means busy times and lots of work in the manufactories of mowers and reapers and other up-to- date machinery for farmers. "Vodka" bottles in Russia carry the imperial eagle on the labels--the "vodka" trade is a government mo­ nopoly--but a commission of the Doma, appointed to consider the drink evil, has lately recommended that the eagle be removed from the label, and a skull and crossbones be put in Its place, with appropriate warnings against the use of the poison. It looks as though the potato bug, like the elm tree beetle, the cotton boll weevil and the wicked flea, which have on their backs lesser critters to bite 'em, is going to get his. Farmers itt Maine, which is a big potato state, are rejoicing over the alleged dis­ covery of a parasite which is exter­ minating the potato bug. That in­ sect has been for many years one of the scourges of the country, infest­ ing every region where tubers are raised. If the parasite proves to be all that is claimed the days of the po­ tato bug are numbered. Another proof of the growing im­ portance of interior waterways. Traf­ fic on the Missouri river has so in­ creased that larger steamboats and more of them are demanded to meet requirements. The Missouri is a mighty itream, 3,000 miles long, though tbs, t»rtuous course and uncertain depth, With fluctuating currents, make navi gation difficult and dangerous. Never­ theless there are long stretches where boats of considerable draft can be em­ ployed, and with water transportation for a large portion of the products of a Mg region the gain, would be great Document Asserts the Federal Court of Appeals Was Unjust to Judge Landls and Mis­ stated the Facts. Chicago--The government filed Fri­ day its petition for'a rehearing of the Standard Oil case. The court of ap­ peals is asked to reconsider the re­ versal by Judge Grosscup, Baker and Seaman of the $29,240,000 fine imposed on the Indiana corporation by Judge Landis, and to ask the advice of the supreme court of the United States on certain vital questions at issue. This, it is urged, should be done by the court of appeals before that tri­ bunal, in passing final judgment on the case, places an interpretation on the interstate commerce act that prac­ tically would nullify the law, making of it "a mere will-o'-the-wisp of legis­ lation, a phantom statute, destitute of strength and substance." The attorneys for the government rally valiantly.to the defense of Judge Landis from the harsh, and as they 1 assert, unjust, criticism which Judge Grosscup and his fellow jurists took occasion to voice in their opinion. They declare that the criticism of Judge Landis by the appellate judges and the reasons for reversing the rul­ ing are based upon misstatements of the records and misinterpretations of his rendering of the law. "The opinion as it stands," the gov­ ernment's petition concludes, "er­ roneously states material portions of the record; does injustice to the trial judge; leaves doubtful in a new trial the rule of law to be applied, both as to knowledge on the part, of the shipper and as to the number of of­ fenses; appears to be in conflict with Chicago. -- Judge C. C. Kohlsaat of the United States circutt court appointed Myron J. Carpenter receiver for the Southern Indiana Railway Com­ pany, owned by John R. Walsh. The action followed the appearance of various lawyers who went before Judge Kohlsaat. With the attorneys was E. K. Boisot, who appeared on behalf of the First Trust and Savings k HIT ton a H.CACH in 53? *3TP IRISH JULTAN BEATEN HI8 ARMY DESERTS TO ENEMY AFTER BRIEF BATTLE. John Walsh. Judge Grosscup. the language of the supreme court and with the previous language of the presiding judge of this court, and with the great weight of legal authority; and, if permitted to remain unmodi­ fied, will tend to encourage disobedi­ ence to law, to impede the enforce­ ment of salutary statutes and largely to defeat their purpose." The petition, 5,000 words in length, was filed for the government by Chief Clerk William A. Small of the dis­ trict attorney's office. Counsel for the oil company have 20 days in which to file an answer, and then the peti­ tion may be considered by the appel­ late judges. They may reconsider their decision or they may ignore the government's petition without hearing any further arguments. John V. Farwell Is Dead. Chicago. -- John V. Farwell, Sr., for years one of Chicago's best known men and head of the J. V. Far- well company, wholesale dry goods, died Thursday night at his home in Lake Forest, aged 83 years. He had been ill a long time, and relatives and friends were at his bedside when the end came. Mr. Farwell was born at Campbell- town, N: Y., In 1825 and came to Chi­ cago in 1845. Three sons, John V., Frank C. and Arthur L. Farwell, sur- •ige him. Pistol Battle with Bandits. Minneapolis, Minn.--In a sensational revolver battle between Detectives Harry Hayes and Andrew Crummy, of the Minneapolis police department and two bandits, who have been ter­ rorizing South Minneapolis recently. Walter Miller, one of the bandits, was shot three times and died In a hos­ pital. Just before his death Miller stated that his home was at Fort Mad­ ison, la. Sheridan Makes New Record. Dundalk.--At the athletic games here Sunday Martin J. Sheridan of the Irish-American Athletic ciub beat the world's record with the discus, free style, throwing the sphere 142 feet 5 inches. Chafin Speaks in Eau Claire. Eau Claire, Wis.--E. W. Chafin, Pro­ hibition candidate for the presidency, and W. D. Cox, nominee for governor of Wisconsin on the Prohibition ticket, spoke here Sunday to about 4,000 people. Drug Dogs and Rob House. Greenwich, Conn.--After drugging three watch dogs that guarded the summer home of Frederick W. Woerz, a wealthy New York brewer, burglars Thursday raorning entered the house at Belle Xiaven park near here and stole $6,0W) worth of Jewelry and $100 In money Veteran Lake Captain Dead. Algonac, Mich.--Capt. Charles K. Jackson, 71 years old, a grefft lakes sailor for more than half a century, died at his home here Thursday. bank, the representative of the asso­ ciated clearing house banks of Chica­ go, to apply for the receiver. A statement was given out by James C. Hutchins, one of the lawyers, con­ cerning the new court proceedings fol­ lows: "Attorneys James C. Hutchins, Ovid B. Jameson (Indianapolis) and Lessing Rosenthal, appeared with E. K. Boisot before United States Circuit Judge Christian C. Kohlsaat at a late hour last night on behalf of the First Trust and Savings bank, the representative of the associated clearing house banks of Chicago, to apply for the receiver. Three similar bills were filed by the First Trust and Savings bank, one in the northern district of Illinois at Chi­ cago, one In the eastern district at Danville and one in the district of In­ diana at Indianapolis. James Rosen­ thal appeared on behalf of the railroad companies." The notes under which thia re­ ceivership was procured are owned by the First Trust and Savings bank for the account of the associated banks and were acquired at the time these banks took over the assets of the Walsh banks. CALLS OFF INDIANA STRIKE. President Lewis Tells All Miners to Return to Work. Indianapolis, Ind.--Having been de- fled by the Indiana state executive board of the organization, President T. L. Lewis of the United Mine Work­ ers Friday afternoon Issued from head­ quarters a letter advising all miners now on strike in Indiana to return to work immediately. It now restB with the miners to obey the terms of President Lewis' letter or suffer the revocation of their charters. The words of the president are not harsh, but they carry an im­ port of determination and authority. In his letter President Lewis Inti­ mates that the case at the Hudson mine, which started the strike, is not meritorious. Coal Prices May Advanee. 8t. Louis.--Announcement was made Thursday that a corporation is being formed to be known ^is the Common­ wealth Fuel company, embracing 153 Illinois coal mines within a radius of 59 miles of St. Louis, supplying prac­ tically all the coal consumed In St. -LOUIB and in East St. Louis. It is stated the new combination proposes not only to control the out­ put of the mines, but also to control the prices. According to dealers, If the negotiations are consummated an Increase of ten to fifteen per cent In the price of cgal may be expected, meaning an increase of from $600,000 to $1,000,000 in the coal bill of St. Louis and East St. Louis. Great Fire In 8tamboul. Constantinople.--Fire broke out 8unday afternoon In the Stamboul quarter and within a very brief period a terrible conflagration was raging. A strong wind carried the flames at great speed and for six hours they swept over the section, destroying 1,500 houses and shops. Negro Shot from Ambush. Birmingham, Ala.--Anthony Davia, a negro non-union miner, whose house at Pratt City was destroyed by dyna­ mite Wednesday night, was fired upon from ambush at Pratt City Friday night and fatally injured. Peru's New President Proclaimed. Lima, Peru.--Augusto B. Leguia was proclaimed president of the re­ public of Peru Friday by the Peruvian congress. All the members of con­ gress except two voted in the affirma­ tive. Well-Known lowan Dies Suddenly. Marshalltown, la.--George R. Esta- brook, for five years a member of the state Republican central committee from the Fifth district, and secretary of the Fisher Governor company, died suddenly Thursday morning of hemor­ rhage of the brain. Three-Cent Fare Shows Profit. Cleveland, O.--According to figures given out by the Municipal Traction company, three-cent fares made a profit of $19,6S6 for the company dur­ ing the month of July. Tribesmen Prove Treacherous--Mulai Hafid's Rule Accepted In All the Large Cities. Tangier.--The defeat of the sultan, Abd-el-Aziz, by the forces of his brother, Mulai Hafid, has been con­ firmed. The sultan of record was surprised on the night of August 19 and most of his troops deserted to the side of the usurping sultan after the firing of a few shots. Reports Indicate that the defeat of Abd-el-Aziz was due largely to the be­ trayal of his own tribesmen. Mulai Hafid has been proclaimed Bultan of Morocco at Tangier and announce­ ment of the proclamation has been telegraphed to all parts of the coun­ try. All the officials who previously have been under the rule of Abd-el- Azlz in this city declare that they have accepted Mulai Hafid as their leader, thereby making him supreme in all the large cities of Morocco. Details of the battle show that Abd- el-Azlz had an army the superior of the enemy In numbers, but that his artillery either failed to work or was deliberately tampered with. Some of the guns exploded, throwing the tribesmen into a panic. The vast ma­ jority of these seized the opportunity to flee during the engagement and general pillage broke out, many of the tribes seeking to carry off as much booty as possible. Abd-el-Aziz and his escort retreated in an orderly manner to Settat, his army being pursued by the victorious troops of Mulai Hafid. Abd-el-Aziz was accompanied in his flight by the grand vizier, the minister of foreign affairs, the French military mission and two British officers. ARRESTED FOR BIG tHEFT. Chicago 8ub-Treasury Teller Acdused of Stealing $173,000. Chicago.--George W. Fitzgerald, the assorting teller in the sub-treasury from whose desk $173,000 disappeared about 18 months ago, was arrested early Sunday morning, charged with the theft of the money. He took his arrest calmly. At the time the money disappeared Fitzgerald was put under surveillance, but no evidence against him could be secured. Detectives kept at work on the case, however, and lately it was learned the man had lost a large sum of money speculating in eggs. Then he purchased a costly residence la a suburb A few days ago it was re­ ported to the officials that Fitzgerald had offered to sell a $1,000 bill for $500, and his arrest followed. JOHNSON 19 NAMED. DECAYED MONEY REDEEMED. Arkansas Man Loses Only $25 of $10,- 000 He Burled. Washington.--Of $10,000 in decayed greenbacks sent to the treasury de­ partment for redemption by O. D. Earl of Morrilton, Ark., all but $25 has been identified and a check for $9,975 was mailed to Mr. Earl Friday. Fearing the banks were unsafe, Mr. Earl buried his savings in an olti pall in 1904. Recently he dug up his treasure only to find that the bills were so decayed that he could not discern their numbers. All that was left of the roll was a bunch of paper resembling a package of dried leaves, with here and there the torn end of a note displaying a figure. Mrs. A. E. Brown, the burnt money expert of th© redemption division, was given cus­ tody of the unrecognizable masB. After much tedious work she succeed­ ed in Identifying most of tne money. FLEET ARRIVES AT SYDNEY. Fatal Wreck In Georgia. Atlanta, Ga.--Train No. 38 on the Southern railway, known as the South­ western Limited, which left Atlanta shortly after noon Sunday, was wrecked four miles north of Suwanee, Ga. The colored fireman, Mason Wat- kins, was killed instantly, and the en­ gineer, B. F. Dewberry, was badly scalded, both being pinned under­ neath the engine. Three small boys were seen running away from the scene just prior to the wreck. An in­ vestigation developed the fact that a bolt had been placed upon the track. Fire Sweeps a Village. Belllngham, Wash.--A forest fire Thursday night nearly wiped out the little town of Bow, ten miles south of here. The saw and shingle mill and drying kilns owned by Daniel Cain, with half a million shingles were de­ stroyed, as well as five cottages be­ longing to the mill company. Bolt in Tunnenl Kills Three. Pottsvllle, Pa.--In an explosion caused by a lightning bolt which set off a charge of dynamite two expert tunnel drivers were killed and another was probably fatally injured while they worked far under the surface of the earth in a tunnel which had been driven a distance of 1,300 feet into the mountain side at Valley View, in the western part of Schuykill county. The electrical fluid was carried into the underground chamber through the Agency of steel rails or through a •wire. Minnesota Man Killed in Mexico. Washington.--Consul Maxwell K. Moorhead at Acapulco, Mex., has noti­ fied the state department of the death of Grant U. Price of Winona, Minn., from a gunshot wound inflicted by a Mexican named Manuel Saluda at Pie de la Cuata, near Acapulco. Sixth Massachusetts Wins. Camp Perry.--The regimental cham­ pionship rifle shoot of the United States waa won Friday for the third successsive year by the Six;th regi­ ment of Massachusetts. Half a Million Australians Greet the American Battleships. Sydney, N. S. W.--Early Thursday morning a thin veil of smoke on the horizon signaled to the watchers on the coast the approach of the Ameri­ can warships, and at 6:35 official noti­ fication was sent out that the fleet had been sighted. Fully half a million people assem­ bled on the shores of the beautiful harbor to welcome the battleships, which as they passed through the Sydney heads in double column were attended by convoy steamers and greeted with a roar of salutes from the forts. The American shipB boomed forth a salute to the port, and as soon as they were safely moored at their anchorage, official visits were exchanged. 8teamer 8inks; Forty Drown. Bergen, Norway.--The Norwegian steamer Folge Fonden, from Bergen to Baugesund, on the west coast of Nor­ way, was wrecked near Skoneviks and sank in three minutes. The steamer carried 70 passengers, and it is be­ lieved that 40 of them were drowned. Fifteen bodies have been recovered. The captain of the steamer was among those saved. Seventy-Six Dead in Wigan Mine. Wigan.--It is now known that 76 miners perished in the explosion and the fire that followed it In the May­ pole mine. The directors have decid­ ed to flood the mine. Miss Parsons Kills Herself. Paris.--Miss Wilifred, daughter of the late Charles Parsons, president of the Rome, Watertown- & Ogdenburg railroad. New York, who died In 1904, was found dead with a bullet wound in Jier head Sunday In her apartment in the Avenue Iena. The police say that the case Is one of suicide. It was learned that the girl had been suffering from melancholia since the death of her fiance, a young French­ man, Emile Maas. Miss Parsons was found dead in bed by a maid. The girl's right hand clutched a revolver. Admiral Dewey Afloat Again. Washington.--Admiral Dewey hoist­ ed his flag on the Dolphin Saturday and sailed from Washington for Ports­ mouth, N. H. It was the first time since 1905 that the admiral"-1 of the navy has flown his ,official flag over a naval vessel oa a sea trip. Louisville Man Is a 8ulcide. Lexington, Ky.---J. D. McCreary, aged 65, a coal merchant of Louis­ ville, committed suicide in a boarding house here Friday by shooting hii&> self twice in the temnle. GERMAN AMBASSADOR fO AMER- 1CA PASSES AWAV. VON GOETZEN MAY COME Present Prussian Minister at Ham­ burg Likely to Succeed the Dead Diplomat in the Washington Post. Minnesota Democrats Renominate the Governor. Minneapolis, Minn.--The Democrat- 1c state convention met Wednesday In Minneapolis and after a scene of indescribable tumult, caused by the mention of his name and which con­ tinued for 64 minutes, Gov. Johnson for a second time was nominated for re-election. This action of the convention was contrary to his wish, since he had re­ peatedly refused to be a candidate and declared that if nominated the cam­ paign would be carried on without a general. The following recommendations were made by this committee and adopted by the convention: Lieutenant governor--Julius J. Reiter of Rochester. Secretary of state--Richard T. Lamb of Clayton. State treasurer--Henry F. (Nelson of Nibbing. / Attorney general--M. E. Matthews of Marshall. Railway and warehouse commission-, ers--Hans P. Bjorge of Ottertail coun­ ty, Robert Nee of Rice county. Heidelberg, Germany.--Baron Speck von Sternburg, the German ambassa­ dor to the United States, died in the Hotel Victoria in this city. The baroness, who was Miss Lillian May Langham of Louisville, Ky., was with her husband at the end. The cause of death was given as inflammation of the lungs, though the baron was under treatment for lupus. The foreign office at Berlin, upon re­ ceiving announcement of the death, sent a cablegram to Count Hermann von Hatzfeldt-Wildenburg, the German charge d'affaires at Washington, in­ structing him to inform President Roosevelt that the question of a suc­ cessor to the baron probably would not be settled until Prince von Buelow, the imperial chancellor, saw the em­ peror, which might not be until the second week in September. Various diplomatic changes in prospect are to be gazetted in October, and among them probably will be a successor to the baron at Washington. Some of tbe diplc^^its under consid­ eration for this post are Count von Goetzen, the Prussian minister at Hamburg; Herr von Relchenau, the German minister to Brazil, and Dr. Bftron Mumm von Sch warzenstein, the ambassador to Japan. An American diplomatist, in con­ versation with Emperor William in January of this year, said something complimentary of Count von Goetzen. "I am glad to hear you say this," re­ plied the emperor, "because Count von Goetzen will be the next ambassador to Washington." Count von Goetzen is a brilliant and amiable man, 42 years old. He hag seen a variety of service, Including the post of military attache at Wash­ ington from- 1896 to 1900. He Was governor of German East Africa for five years. In February of this year he was appointed minister at Ham­ burg. ONE EXCEPTION, **> Easy Edmund--It's one uv de trail* ties uv our poor human nature dat bo matter how much a man gits ae wants more. Drather Sitdown (thoughtfully)-- Oh, I dunno 'bout dat. Not in a poHce court he don't ECZEMA FOR 55 YEARS. MAN ROBS ELEVEN COACHES. Bold Hold-Up of Tourists In the Yel­ lowstone Park. St. Paul, Minn.--One of the most daring hold-ivns ever perpetrated took place in Yellowstone park Monday when, according to word received at the Northern Pacific general offices, a lone highwayman stopped 11 coaches loaded with tourists and com­ pelled them to turn over their valua­ bles to him. The hold-iy? took place between Old Faithful Inn and Yellowstone inn, and the robber, after securing his booty, took four of the coach horses and with them started in the dirction of the Jackson Hole country. There are four troops of the United States cavalry in the park and a por­ tion of the troops have been ordered to scour the country for the bandit, who it Is expected will soon be cap­ tured. Suffered Torments from Birth--In Frightful Condition--Got No Help Until Cuticura Cured Him. "I had an itching, tormenting ecse» ma ever since I came into the world, and I am now a man 55 years old. I tried all kinds of medicines I heard of, but found no relief. I was truly in a frightful condition. ̂ At last I broke out all over with red and white boils, which kept growing until they were as big as walnuts, causing great pain and misery, but I kept from scratching as well as I could. I was so run down that I could hardly do my work. I used Cuticura Soap, Oint­ ment, Resolvent, and Pills for about eight months, and I can truthfully say I am cured. Hale Bordwell, Tipton, la., Aug. 17, 1907." "I cheerfully endorse the above tes­ timonial. It is the truth. I know Jir. Bordwell and know the oondition he was in. Nelson R. Burnett, Tipton, la." JOHN W. KERN NOTIFIED. Formally Told He Is Democratic Nom­ inee for Vice-President. Indianapolis, Ind.--John W. Kern was notified, shortly after noon Tues­ day, that he was the Democratic nom­ inee for vice-president. The ceremony took place in the Colosseum at the state fair grounds. Theodore E. Bell of California, chairman of the notification commit­ tee, told Mr. Kern the news and the candidate responded fittingly. Thomas E. Marshall, Democratic candidate for governor of Indiana, also made a speech, and William J. Bryan then de­ livered an address in which he dis­ cussed the question of trusts. Fifteen tLousand people heard the speeches. Fine Y. M. C.. A. Building Planned. A Young Men's Christian Associa­ tion building that cost to build and equip more than a million dollars is to be opened in Philadelphia this fall, with Walter M. Wood of Chicago In charge as secretary. An effort is to be made to recruit the membership to 4,000, so that the largest possible number of boys may have the bene­ fits of the new structure. Philadel- phlans are proudly pointing to the eight-story building in Arch street as one of the three fin -st Young Men's Christian Association homes in the world, the other two being the Twenty-third street branch, in New York, and the central building in Chi­ cago. What a Poultry Man Says About 20- Mule Team Borax. As I am in the poultry, business, I had ten white chicks to wash and prepare for a show. I used "20-lfnle Team" Soap for washing the birds, and I can say from years of ex­ perience washing white birds, never before have I found a soap or Borax that cleaned my birds so fine and easy. I had a great deal of com­ ment on my birds being so white. J. A. Dinwiddle, New Market, Tenn. All dealers--'/2, l and 5 lb. cartons. Samplo and booklet, 5c. Pacific Coast Borax Co., Chicago. Her Reserved Seat. It was raining and the car waa sop* ping wet. Most of the passengers stood, but there are always excep­ tions. One big pink man with a snowy beard defied rheumatism and wet cloth by plumping himself down on one of the drippy seats. His presum­ able wife, with a laughing explanation that she was tired, seated herself in his lap. And when the conductor came along to collect fares she in­ quired. with the earnestness of one who seeks knowledge: "Do I have to pay extra for a re­ served seat?" The conductor spoke no words that could go resounding down the corri­ dors of time. He just grinned, and the passengers grinned with him. Safety Appliance Law Upheld. St. Louis.--Two sweeping opinions, noteworthy in that the decisions of the lower courts were reversed in full in each Instance, were handed down by the United States court of appeals here Monday, sustaining the position of the government against the rail­ roads in the matter of the safety ap­ pliance law of congress. By these de­ cisions the court of appeals abrogates the common law rules of "reasonable care" that have heretofore governed and behind which the railroads sought shelter. Rules Against the Distillers. Cincinnati.--Judge Thompson in the United States court Monday denied the petition of the Union Distilling company and others for a temporary injunction restraining the government from carrying out its order that "Imi­ tation" whisky must be branded as such. Springfield Man Murdered. Springfield, 111.--Thomas Brady, 65 years old, was murdered here Monday, and for a time much evcitement was caused by reports that he had boen killed by a negro. The negro popula­ tion of the city was uneasy lest the race riots of a few days ago would be renewed. Later, however, it de­ veloped that Brady had been "killed ! in his room, 915 East Washington street, and that his room-mate, Frank Sullivan^ 24 years old, was missing, as was also $14 which had been secreted in Brady's trunk. Deaths of Presidents. Washington's death was due to acute laryngitis; Adams, Madison and Monroe, practically to old age; Jeffer­ son, chronic diarrhea; John Qulncy Adams, paralysis; Jackson, dropsy; VaVn Buren, catarrhal affections of the throat and lungs; William Henry Harrison, pleurisy; Tyler, cause of death not given by biographers; Polk, cholera; Taylor, cholera morbus, com­ bined with a severe cold; Fillmore, paralysis; Pierce, dropsy; Buchanan, rheumatic gout; Lincoln, Garfield and McKinley, assassinated; Johnson, pa­ ralysis ; Grant, cancer at the root of the tongue; Hayes, neuralgia of the heart; Arthur, heart tipubie, and Ben­ jamin Harrison, pneumonia. Body of Insured Man Found. Tulsa, Okla.--The body of a man believed to be that of William Mc- Cracken, who disappeared from his home in Nelogony August 9, after tak­ ing out life insurance to the amount of $22,000, was found in the Arkansas rived near Osage Junction. La Crosse Hotel Man Dies. La Crosse, Wis.--William Bronson, proprietor of the Hotel Bronson and one of the most widely-known hotel men in the northwest, died Monday, aged 73. FRIENDLY TIP Restored Hope and Confidence. After several years of indigestion and its attendant evil Influence on th« mind, it is not very surprising thai one finally loses faith in things gen­ erally. A N. Y. woman writes an Interesting letter. She says: "Three years ago I suffered from an attack of peritonitis which left me in a most miserable condition. For over two years I suffered from nerv­ ousness, weak heart, shortness of breath, could not sleep, etc. "My appetite was ravenous, but 1 felt starved all the time. I had plenty of food but it did not nourish me because of Intestinal indigestion. Med­ ical treatment did not seem to help, I got discouraged, stopped medicine and did not care much whether I lived or died. "One day a friend asked me why I didn't try Grape-Nuts, stop drinking coffee, and use Postum. I had lost faith in everything, but to please my friends I began to use both and soon became very fond of them. x "It wasn't long before I got some strength, felt a decided change in my system, hope sprang up in my heart and slowly but surely I got better. I could sleep very well, the constant craving for food ceased and I have better health now than before the at­ tack of peritonitis. "My husband and I are still using Grape-Nuts and Postum." 'There's a Reason." Name given by Postum Co., Battle Creek, Mich. Read, "The Road ta Wellville," in pkgs. Ever read the above letter* A new one appears from time to time. They are genuine, true, and ful s# human Interest.