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"wherein each swallow is a thrill and your stomach gets up and yells at -every climax. 1 can see you and Alice sitting there, spilling Schenectady French all over the tablecloth, while the waiter gets a «tone bruise on his palate from hold­ ing back his Parisian laughter. Now don't wrinkle the map when you read this, Bunch, because I've been present when you blurted out isome of your French with the ossified accent and it'6 a scream all right. Remember that day in Martin's here in littleoldnewyork when you ordered iamb chops and a baked potato in French? The waiter bowed, said, ""Oui, M'sieu!" and brought you a (bowl of vegetable soup and a morning paper! That's how good your French is, my lad. It's almost as bad as Fred Perry's-- and that's going some. I met Fred and Henri Leoni at the Single club not long ago, and they put vt all over me. With Henri speaking almost-French sand Fred gesticulating nearly-French there wasn't anything left for me to •do but call the waiter and talk booze. I found out later that Fred knows ^exactly nine ordinary French words, including n'cest pas and aveC plaisir, -but he has memorized the name of «very street in Paris. So when Fred exhausts his nine or­ dinary words he rushes all over the city, out to Vaugirard, over to the Batignolles, to Clichy, by Rues and side streets to the eastern Boulevards Beaumarchais and St. Denis, then across lots to the western Boulevard des Italiens, then with a hop, skip and Jump, he's in the Place de la Concorde and off into the Champs-Elysees--it's immense! Fred can sit there and rattle off the names of the streets in Paris so elo­ quently that the average listener be­ gins to cuss himself inwardly because he didn't learn French enough to fol­ low the Guy de Maupassant story which he thinks Fred is telling. A bas le Fred! I notice in your letter, Bunch, that 3T0B met some of your old pals in an evening and try to drag money away from us. Uncle Gregory Grant and Aunt Julia from Kansas City are visiting at Uncle Peter's house across the road. Uncle Gregory is the original human safe. You "can't get money out of him with an ax. He came to New York on a visit some years ago with a red undershirt and a ten-dollar bill. He stayed two weeks and never changed anything. Uncle Gregory is a charter member in Zero lodge of the Companions of the Cold Feet. Uncle Gregory never sat in a game in his life without being prepared to havo pneumonia in both heels the mo­ ment he was six dollars ahead of the game. He plays them close to his appendi­ citis, unkie does, and every time he fills a four-flash he feels an awful draught on the floor. He has his feet so well trained that every time their owner rakes in a pot with four blue checks in it they give him the icehouse signal to cease firing and cash in before the bank ex­ plodes. We had a little poker party at our house last Monday night, and for sev­ eral days after we bought costly trifles with the money left by our lov­ ing neighbors. Thee was Uncle Gregory and Aunt Julia, George Riggaby and his wife, Maude, George's mother-in-law, Mrs. Lorrens, Peaches and yours respect­ fully. Uncle Peter and Aunt Martha don't play poker, so they went out in the other room and played the phono­ graph. I think the phonograph won, be­ cause they are both easy. George Riggaby is a member in good standing of the Little Brothers of the Boost, and he can laugh louder and mean it when he loses three dol­ lars than any man I ever met. But George's wife, Maude, takes two aces and a pair of jacks seriously, FIGHT JUUUUtP 9 9 0 0 fl OP 00 0 0 0 0^0 0 0 0 ft 0 0 0 P Bfl REMARKABLE CONDITION 9 OP MODERN WARFARE. All the Pomp and Glory of the OM- Time Battlefield Has Depart­ ed-:-Even the Artillery Remains Invisible. It is a long hark from the Mace­ donian phalanx to the infantry battle in open order, just as long as from the short bronie sword or the javelin to a shrapnel or a machine gun. The manner of putting infantry into the zone of action is an illustration. The men march easily and silently along in the valleys, exposing themselves only when absolutely necessary. Not a flag is used, not a bugle note is heard. The men move silently as death and wait as patiently. Hours laze by and no fog comes. Night comes 1 and there is still no foe, but the wait- , in^ men, weary with vigil and anxious j to kill, are always alert. They sleep in their positions while the outposts watch, for them, and when morning comes the tireless eyes are still look- i ing. Suddenly the enemy's line slips into i. view from an unexpected quarter. The men crawl back into the shelter of the hill out of view and run--not at i the enemy, but for a new hidden po­ sition in the foeman's front. They again wiggle into line, load their pieces and wait. On comes the foe, not on a run, not massed to resist j a shock In close order, but scattered | far apart in a thin line, the color of the land about him. His line lets through as many bullets as possible. Every knoll and clump is taken ad- i vantage of and the advancing foe is I never in sight when he doesn't abso- i lutely have to be. Still he comes with the deliberation of murder. He knows i the enemy is somewhere ahead; that many of his brave line will die and he is using every device that will save a single life. The oncoming command halts a moment. The officers talk quietly. The force deploys even more. There is a word of command and the force comes on, now some 700 yards from the waiting foe. Instantly there is a sputter on the hill. A company has fired a volley. The men below quick­ en their pace a bit. Another volley. They run a few steps; an officer swears and they walk again. Then they catch sight of the crouching ene­ my on the hill. They throw them* selves to the ground and fire again and again. They go forward a few rods and keep firing. They take the hill or are turned back beaten. No one shouts or runs. It is as mechani­ cal and cool as destiny. N Artillery is more spectacular, but just as calm. The batteries choose the same secret way of going into ac­ tion. Most of the time they open on you, if you are the foe, from a quarter totally unexpected. Finding a suit­ able position, the guns are dragged up and masked in the long grass. A pit is dug along, leaving the muzzles on­ ly a foot or so above the ground; a little ammunition is brought up and the field pieces are loaded. Then all 9.9.9 g 9.9JIJL9JLX State Capital News Breezy Gossip* Notes and of Interest at Springfield. (rm^^nTYY6iT6"8'6"irFt^ oa» wrdTnr oyimrawaTrrg'inrryyy0 Springfield.--Members of the Illinois highway commission spent a two days' inspecting trip of roads and bridges in the vicinity of Chicago. Starting in autos from Chicago in the morning the members of the party saw most of the important pieces of work that have been constructed under the di­ rection of the state commission. Those who made the trip were: President Edmund James of the University of Illinois, Lafayette Funk of Blooming- 4ton and Joseph R. Faulberson of Jer- seyyille, members of the commission; A N. Johnson, chief engineer; Clif- [ ford Older, bridge engineer, and E. W. Sheets, superintendent of construction. The ront£ of the commission was as follows: Left Chicago, en route to Orland; from Orland to Lockport; from Lockport to Joliet state peniten­ tiary; from Joliet to Elwood and Symarton; from Elwood to Manhat­ tan; from Manhattan to New Lenox; from New Lenox to Frankfort; from Frankfort to MatteSon; from Matte- son to Chicago. Field Battery Waiting for Orders. horses and nearly all the men are taken back to a position of shelter as near by as possible and the battery is ready. It has never once been seen. Meanwhile, suppose you are with the enemy, nearly three miles away. You see infantry forming away off in front of you ready to attack, but you never dream of the artillery. While your eyes are leveled on the slowly coming foot soldiers, suddenly there is a boom and a shell bursts near you. You look away off at the smoke rising from a hill. Another dense white col­ umn thrusts itself out toward you; ten seconds later you hear the report of the cannon and the shell is on the way. Possibly it hits you before the report is heard. The battery keeps on hammering while the in­ fantry sneaks up on you. If the gun­ ners are good you lose. And this is war--war where you never see yoiir enemy's face. FROM DEATH'S GATES ALMOST INCREDIBLE EXPERI­ ENCE OF RUSSIAN PEASANT. Shattered by Bullets of Soldiers De­ tailed for His Execution He Yet Recovers from Terrible Wounds Received. Little Poker Party House. while her mother, Mrs. Lorrenrf is the corresponding secretary in the Wom­ an's Annex to the Companions of the Cold Feet. She certainly runs Uncle Greg, a Although the story about to be told justifies the inclusion under the head­ ing of a Real Life Romance, it is a story that deals more with death than with life, and of an experience of which not one man in a million sur­ vives to tell the tale. . The first act of the tragedy began in 1905, The Baltic provinces lay close second when it comes to getting j seething fn revolt, and the stern arm frappe in the pedals. Every time Mrs. Lorrenz is sepa­ rated from 50 cents something in her mind seems to give way with a crash. But Uncle Greg, and Mrs. Lorrenz love money so much that every time they bet a blue check they close their eyes and pretend it was a white one. Any time you see a silver dollar with all the tail feathers pulled out of the eagle it's a cinch the bird once belonged to Mrs. Lorrenz and the part­ ing was a bitter one. She is the original Tessie Tight­ wad. Ever thine, J. H. (Copyright, 1908, by G. W. Dillingham Co.) TRIUMPH FOR MEAN MAN. Unbeliever in Vacations Kept Clerks at Their Desks. His Uncle Gregory Is the Original Human Safe. Paris and that you stayed up all night playing poker. It's a good old wheeze, Bunch, and mo doubt Alice believed you when you brought home the nine million francs you won. Of course she didn't stop to think that nine million francs is only about $2.40 in real money. But why wake Jber up? If you really had to play poker, Bunch, I'm glad you stayed up all night at it. When you first mentioned the word in your letter I was afraid to read further for fear I'd see that at 12 o'clock you got a kink in your in­ step and quit four dollars winner. If you play the game, play it like a sport, Bunch, and wear overshoes to keep your feet warm. "• I hate the poker player who gets congestion of the ankles every time lie wins two dollars over his car fare. , Poker players are divided into two classes; the Companions of the Cold Feet and the Little Brothers of the :Boost. The Companions of the Cold Feet vnake the most money, but the Little Brothers #f the Boost have all the fun--and this would, be a pretty tough old world if we couldn't have a bit of fur with each othet, wouldn't it, "Bunch? • We re living out in the country all the, year roiifcd now, and once or Sirica s veek tho neighbors deep In of The man who doesn't believe in vacations gathered his office staff about him. "I want to read you something, boys," he said kindly, "from the diary of the great John Wesley. Listen." And he read: " 'To-day I entered on my eighty- second year, aB fit for any exercise of body or mind as I was 40 years ago. I am as strong at 81 as I was at 21, but abundantly more healthy, being a stranger to the headache and other bodily disorders which attended me in my youth.' "In his eighty-fourth year he said he was a wonder, writing: " 'I am a wonder to myself. It is now 12 years since I have felt a sensa­ tion as weariness. I am never tired either with writing, preaching or traveling.'" In the impressive silence that en­ sued the man who doesn't believe in vacations said: "Boys, Wesley attributed his ex­ traordinary health and longevity to early rising, to hard work, and above all to the fact that he never took va cations." With grunts of assent the young men wearily took up their pens again.--Buffalo Express. of the Russian government was re­ pressing the rebels ruthlessly. Among these rebels was an Esthon- ian named Lust. Only too well he knew the fate that awaited him if, perchance, he fell into the hands of the imperial troops. With them was nq quarter, only a brief trial, and--a tree! But one day, despite all efforts to escape, Lust found himself a prisoner. Justice was summary in Russia in those troubled days. He had scarcely been a captive an hour before he was tried by court-martial, and condemned to immediate execution. Half-dazed, the doomed man followed an escort of 12 soldiers out of the camp. For a mile he tramped beside the soldiers, until suddenly he realized that they had halted. His brain cleared, and he realized that he had reached the last stage of his journey. A word of command dropped from the sergeant's lips, and the peasant saw the soldiers form up in a double line before him. He offered up a prayer that he might die as bravely as many a one of his comrades had died, and leant his back against the tree. The sergeant bound a hand­ kerchief over his eyes, while the front rank of the soldiers knelt upon one knee, with rifles ready. A quick word of command, and the peasant knew that every rifle was trained on him. A second command followed, a deafening report, and the peasant fell. First Jewish Cemetery. Many travelers on the Third and Second avenue elevated railways of New York city wonder how the little cemetery at New Bowery and Oliver street came to be there. It is remnant of the first Jewish cemetery in the United^ States and was estab­ lished in 1656. Night had fallen over the scene of the execution. Dark shadows hid the motionless form as it lay where it had fallen beneath the tree. Then the moon rose, and cast her steely blue light on his face. The man stirred slightly. Presently he opened his eyes. Was this death? For awhile he wondered thus vaguely within him­ self. Then he raised his hand to his face and feebly pulled the handker­ chief from his eyes. The moon shone through the trees above his bead. The peasant shuddered as the sight brought back the terrible ordeal of the evening. Yet he was alive. His body ached and felt as if half cut asunder. But he lived! Raising him­ self painfully, the peasant looked around him. Not a hundred yards away he could see the outlines of a small hut. Now on all fours he crawled until at last he knocked feebly at the door. An old woman answered the call, listening with horrified face as the peasant slowly told his story. When he had finished she helped him into the hut, bathing and dressing his terrible wounds as best she could. It was two years before Lust was able to move outside the hut, and in that time not a soul knew that any­ one occupied the little hut beside the aged dame. But he was recognized in one of his walks by the local police, arrested, tried, and sentenced to two years' penal servitude. Still even though the final punish­ ment seems severe, in a few months the peasant will be free. Couldn't Afford to Throw It Away. Uncle Ebb (feebly)--Well, Hanna, I reckon you had better call de chillun aroun' me, 'cause I believes I'se gwine die. Aunt Hanna--No, you ain't. You ain't gwine do no such a thing till you takes dis here medicine what I done gone and paid a dollar and a half for. --Judge. Better Dad Than Editors. Judge--How do you earn your liv- Ing? Prisoner--By writing, your honor. Judge--And what do you write for, would you mind telling us? Prisoner--Not at all; I wrote for money at home.--Judge. Tea a Germ Destroyer. Tea Is now elevated to the dignity of a germ destroyer. Dr. McNaught, the .medical investigator, has found that typhoid bacilli placed in cold or 'lukewarm tea are greatly** diminished at the end of four hours, and have completely disappeared ft, tfee end si 24 hourp. : , A YOUNG MAN WHO ONCE HAD A CHANCE. Oh. Celia's announced her betrothal. And CeHa Is soon to be wed: And It's what shall I send pretty Cella That Is sadly perplexing my head: Not a commonplace token, but something Recalling a fading romance. Conveying a subtle Suggestion From a Young Man Who Once Had a Cliance. A chance did I say? Well, perhaps I Abode in a fool's Paradise, Imagining fond things and foolish. Construing through lover's device A look or a touch Into something 'Twas never intended to be; The while knowing well I was not what Is known as a fitting parti. Ah, Celia, and was it all fancy? Or did you allure me along With arts and the wiles of a Circe More subtle than Loreley's song?? Was it the caprice of a moment You lad me so merry a dance? Or 3o you (who knows) -still regard me As a Young Man Who Once Had a Chance? But there! What's the use of bewailing When a fellow's been left in the lurch"? A formal engraved Invitation Requesting my pretence at church Reminds me that you have a Mother, And lie many thousands a year; And there is no trust In the country So strong as this combine, my dear. So Cella's announced her betrothal. And Celia is soon to be wed: And. it's what shall I send pretty Celia That is sorely perplexing my head. Neither cut glass nor sliver, but some­ thing Recalling a withered romance; IiU send her--regrets, and they're heart­ felt. From a Young Man Who Once Had a Chance. --Arthur D. Pratt, In Puck. Y. M. C. A. Holds Big Gathering. A meeting of the Y. M. C. A. state convention cofnmittee was held in the new Y. M. C. A. building. The vari­ ous sub-committees, such as enter­ tainment, reception, Sunday meetings, luncheon, advertising and outings, took up matters of primary import­ ance. The committee on convention hall received invitations from tho First Methodist and First Presbyterian churches to hold the convention ses­ sions in these churches. The general convention sessions will be held in the First Methodist church, this de­ cision having been reached by the rep­ resentatives of the Illinois state com­ mittee. Some "special sessions will be held In the First Presbyterian and other neighborsood churches. One of the big features in connection with the convention will be the spectacular gymnasium exhibition to be given at the arsenal on the evening of Friday, October 23. This is an innovation for a Y. M. C. A. convention. The ex­ hibition will be entirely free to the public. Offers Are Received. Circular No. 471, issued by the Isthmian Canal commission, has been received by Nicholas Roberts, execu­ tive secretary of the Springfield cham­ ber of commerce, and general manager of the Illinois State Corn exposition, which enumerates the complete list of projects, the carrying out of which re­ quire the work of machinists, manufac­ turers, etc. The list was obtained by Mr. Roberts only after considerable time and trouble. It is understood that Springfield firms have, 1n the past, bid on certain proposed projects on the isthmus, but those doing so have been greatly discommoded by having to send to headquarters for in­ formation relative to the proposed plans. The coming of this circular will afford a complete list of projects on which local firms may wish to bid, and may be examined at the office of Secretary Roberts upon application. New Illinois Coat Rates. Announcement was made by the 8t. Louis coal traffic bureau that the old differential of 15 cents a ton between the rates on coal shipped from the outer group of Illinois mines and that shipped from the inner group to Mis­ souri river points would be restored November 25. The new rates from southern Illinois mines to points north cf Hannibal and St. Joseph will be the rate from East* St. Louis to destina­ tion, plus the following: From the in­ ner group, 42 cents a ton; outer group, 57 cents a ton. On coal des­ tined to pointB south of St. Joseph and Hannibal, including Atchison, Kan., the rate will be the tariff between East St. Louis and destination, plus 25 cents on coal from the inner group of mines and plu» 40 cents on coal from the outer group. Casus Belli. Bystander--I wonder what the jury found. Native--Judging from the rumpus,. I guess one of the jurymen found • nickel.--Puck. Large Bond Is Filed. Pursuant to the enactment of the new law which permits fraternal in­ surance orders to deposit their sur­ plus or reserve funds with the state insurance department, the Court of Honor has turned over to the state in­ surance superintendent good bonds of various kinds to the value of over $1,000,000. The Court of Honor is the Becond organization to take advantage of the law. The law surrounding such Jeposits is very strict. The securities, when once deposited, can be with­ drawn before the expiration of the term of deposit only for purposes of paying losses, and then only after the company shows that no other funds were available with which to pay the losses for which the deposits were irawn out. State Park Suggested. Starved Rock, on the Illinois river in La Salle county, at once the com­ monwealth's most interesting histor­ ical and geological natural monument, is to be preserved from the encroach­ ments of man for all time if the move­ ment now on foot to make it and the forests surrounding it a state park is successful. The plan is to present to the next legislature a bill In two parts, the primary portion of which will be to gain the preservation of the rock as state property, while the other section will add to the tract the canyons and forests which take up several hun­ dred acres up and down the river In the vicinity. To one of the La Salle county representatives in Springfield probably will be given the "privilege of presenting the bill, as residents of Ottawa, La Salle and its other cities have been working for years to keep the historic spot out of the clutches of summer resort keepers--a fight which has been unsuccessful, as a large hotel now flaunts Its meretricious architecture close under the towering sandstone walls of the stubborn old cliff. Starved Rock was the Le Roch- er of the old French maps, the Fort St. Louis of the explorer La Salle and the sentinel tower of the Illlni In­ dians, whose great village of 10,000 souls occupied the flat, stony plateau at the other side of the river. It is a round-topped, sandstone cliff rising sheer from the water's edge to the height of 140 feet and is surrounded on either hand for several miles by similar elevations, none of which, however, is so picturesque or of such historical significance. A SUDDEN COLD Win Admission to the Bar. Forty-eight of the 82 candidates for admission to the bar were successful in the examination conducted in this city by the state examining board. Those passing with the required aver­ age were: i v Arthur C. Bachrach, Chicago; Carlton B. Balder, Chicago; Robert D. Bartlett, Oak Park; "Loren R. Boyd, Mound City; Robert Otto Butz, Winnetka; A. Plack Carr, Trenton; Henry G. Conrad, Chica­ go; Ever A. Cornelius, Chicago; Ray­ mond E. Daniels, Chicago; Daniel V. Dayton, Paris; Donald De Frees, Chi­ cago; Harry DeLaney, Jr., Chit'<50; George Frederick Dick, Jr., Bloomlngton; Hugh C. Dilion, Chicago; Ernest F. fi!b- erly. River Forest; Albert B. Bloch, Chi­ cago; George O. Fair weather, Chicago; Leon E. Fisher, Springfield; Raymond S. Frost, Rockford; Elmer Henry Heitman, Chicago; Charles L. Hopkins, Chicago; William Kendall, Chicago; Oswald C. Kieselbach, Mendota; Victor N. Kulp, Chicago; Thomas B. Lewis, Peoria; Irvin I. Livingstone, Chicago; Oswald D. Luby, Chicago; Conie W. Mack, Chicago; Jo­ seph E. Markus, Chicago; James S. Mc- Inerney, Chicago; John Masen, Chicago; Anthony J. Moren, Chicago; Eugene P. Norris, Watseka; George Allen Neeves, Jr., Chicago (Evanston); Gustave Neu- berg, Chicago", Robert E. O'Connor, Chi­ cago; Adams H. Olbert, Chicago; David B. Rawlins, Quincy; Walter C. Schaelder, Kankakee; Henry B. Sourlock, Decatur; Forest Dale Simmons, Chicago; Joseph C. Slottow, Chicago; Lowell B. Smith, Sycamore; Charles H. Spanglter, Chicago; Luther Swanson,. Chicago; Arthur ^R. Swlser, Chicago; Willis Oliver Tyler. 2621 Wabash avenue. Chicago; Effle Seeds Wellner, 675 East Sixty-seventh street, Chicago (Woodlawn Park). Mis# Helen Saaeribler, of 81B Main St., St. Joseph, Mlcb^ writes an interesting letter en the subject of catching cold, whieH tasnotMl to beef TEkJne&o fill vromen «tw catch cold easily* PEHUfiA • El run SUDDEN COLDS. It Should be Taken According to Directions on the Bottle, at the First Appearance of the Cold. ST. JOSEPH, MICH., Sept., 1901.--Last winter I caught a sudden cold which developed Into an unpleasant catarrh of the head and throat, depriving' me of my appetite and usual good spirits. A friend who had been cured by Peruna advised me to try it and I sent for a bottle at once, and I am glad to say that in three clays the phlegm had loosened, and I felt better, my appetite returned and within nine days I was in my usual good health. --Miss Helen Sauerbier. Peruna is an old and well tried remedy for colds. No woman should be with­ out it. NOT THE RIGHT MAN. Stephen A. Douglas Dies. Stephen Arnold Douglas, son of the famous Illinois senator and orator of the noted Lincoln-Douglas debates, died suddenly at his residence in Chi­ cago. The immediate cause of his death was heart disease. For several years he had been afflicted with rheu­ matism and was forced to give up his law practice for a time, but a week ago he complained of an attack of in­ digestion, but the morning of his death he declared he was feeling much im­ proved. After dinner he went out for a walk and when he did not return at the accustomed hour his wife went out to look for him. She found him in Prairie avenue in a weakened con­ dition. She assisted him home and he sank into a chair. In a few minutes his head fell to one side. She sum­ moned Dr. L. F. Murray, but before the physician arrived life had passed away. The Rejected--And will nothing make you change your mind? She--M'yes, another man might Much Power from Niagara. Power generated at Niagara Falls la to be distributed all over Canada. Bids have been staked on 10,000 tons of structural steel for the Canadian gov­ ernment. The steel is to be used for towers which will support the cables used in transporting the current. Al­ ready power generated at Niagara la being sent to a distance of more than 125 miles, and It is the intention of the Canadian government to increase this distance, 6ays the Scientific Ameri­ can. Towns in every direction about Niagara will be supplied. Modern .Conveniences. A pious man, entering business, was careful to say: "Remember now, I cannot tell a lie!" To which the general counitel of the concern, rubbing his hands unctious- ly, made answer: "Oh, certainly not! Really, it isn't in the least necessary, in modern business. We form a subsi­ diary corporation to attend to all that sort of thing."--Life. Central Earnings Drop $2,340,440. The annual' report of the Illinois Central was issued at Chicago. Busi­ ness for the first four months of the dscal year was declared very satis- tactory, neutralizing In a large meas- v.r? the decline in business of 1907. Tie gross, earnings for the year were 557,357,810, a decrease of $2,340,440 compared with the preceding year. The gross expenses were $41,580,353, an Increase of $815,182. The net oper­ ating revenues were $14,936,948, a de- :rease of $2,638,691. About 217 miles of new trackage were added. Disappointed Ambition. Philanthropist--My friend, have yoti aver had any serious purpose in life} Hobo--Yes'r; all my life I've Wanted to be a circus clown, but the luck'i alwuz been agin me.--Chicago Tribuna Elects Peoria Man as Chief. At the Galesburg session of the Illi­ nois Bulld'ng Association League the following officers were elected: President--J. W. Maple, Peoria. Treasurer--Lake W. Sanborn, Galea- burg. _ „ , Secretary---3. G. Vasen, Quincy. Jury Sets Raymer Free. After 16 Honrs' deliberation, the Jury |n the ease of Abe Raymer, alleged mob leader, charged with destruction :)l property during the recent riots, •eturned a verdict of ilot guiltv. Return from Meeting. Dr. L. C. Taylor, Dr. Charles L Patton and W. C. Graves, secretary oi' the state board of charities, arrived home from Washington, D. C., where they attended the International Tuber­ culosis congress. All are enthusiast!*! over the great gathering, which wili prove of untold benefit in combating the ravages of the "white plague." The attendance reached 4,500, and it Is said the congress was the greatest as­ semblage of medical men ever held in the world. The Springfield men met President Roosevelt and they are ready to disprove the statement that the chief executive always says "I am de-lighted" when greeting visitors. To the Springfield men the president said "I am pleased to meet you." State in Prosecution of Rioters. The state of Illinois has taken a hand In the Springfield riot cases. Failure to secure conviction in the cases against Abe Raymer, charged with murder, and later tried for de­ struction of property, resulted in plans being made for the co-operation be­ tween the office of state's attorney and attorney general of the state for mow vigorous prosecution. Attorney Get- eral Stead told Assistant Attorney General Mansfield to aid State's Attoi- ney Frank Hatch, and immediate el- forts were made to add vigor: Catholic Knights Elect Officers. At the biennial supreme convention of the Catholic Knights of Illinois. Su­ preme President Daniel E. Sweeney of Jacksonville was re-elected. The other officers elected were: Vice- president, Michael F. Girten of Chi­ cago; supreme secretary, William J. Claus, Belleville; supreme treasurer. Illinolsan Leads Rush. Arthur Alexander of Lena, 111., ha? the distinction Of being the first per­ son to register at the opening of tho Rosebud vS. D.) reservation. Rival Dignities. An Englishman, fond of boasting of his ancestry, took a coin from his pocket and, pointing to the head en­ graved op It, said: "My great-great­ grandfather was made a lord by the king whose picture you see on this shilling." "What a. coincidence!" said his Yankee companion, who at once pro­ duced another coin. "My great-great- grandfather was made an angel by the Indian whose picture you see on this cent."--Ladles' Home Journal. You always get full value in Lewis' Single Binder straight 5c cigar. Your dealer or Lewis' Factory. Peoria. 111. The wise man who has a good opin­ ion of himself keeps it to himself. Mrs. Wlnslow's Boothlmr Syrwp. For children teething, •often* tba luni, reduces l» ttammrtioa. allays peln, cares wind colic. 25c • bottle. The love of money Is the easiest of all roots to cultivate. FARMS FOR RENT or sale on crop pay menU. J. MULHALL, Sioux City, la. An occasional failure doesn't dis­ courage a hustler. DODDS ; K I D N E Y P I L L S - A l l 1 • \ \ v ^ > n | 5 * S lr Kid'NEV. ® . LSHT o DlSV*Aft| KNOW.N SINCE 1636 AS RELIABLE ' TRADE MARK Planters -cK Co Co r " - • & CAPSULES SUPERIOR REMEOYropURlNARYDISCH&RC&S Lie DRUGGISTS OR BY MAIL ON RECEIPT.0F*5CT: H .PLAN TEN * SON 93 HENRY S '. 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