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<i * * - RiOM, ,:v.+ * v.* . tic McHenrjr Plaindealer I-rdi- *«™NRY. >;|R"A *- - - Published by F. O. SCHREINER. ILLINOIS. Battleships go to the scrap Almost M Cut M pugilists do. helfe costs Chicago $21, ynr, not to mention the agony. The process of dying poor Is easily achieved by nine men out of ten. A Chicago woman takes taxicab sides to cure the blues. Not her hus­ band's, however. There Is more money In being an ex-king of Portugal than in being an ex-president of the United States, but there is less excitement. Hello! Here's Vienna exceeding the f,000,000 mark. Some of those old- world towns are getting nearly as big as a young American city. A new golf rule reads like this: "The shaft may be fixed at the heel or at any other point In the head." Is this golf language or what is it? A New York man who had lost his •memory was found with S60 000 In hja pockets. Probably discovered on a witness stand at an investigation. It is said that a St. Louis man kiss­ ed a girl 15,000 times in one month. Must have used a klssometer to keep the count It b arid by a glove dealer that Chi­ cago men have reason to be proud of their small hands. Since when have •mall hands been a source of mascu­ line pride? One of New York's millionaires la going to marry a telephone girl be­ cause she was always polite to him on the wire. Why spoil a nice polite telephone girl? A popular danseuse makes oath that her entire property is worth only 92&0, which may account for her eco­ nomical use of stage dreaa. The "singing sparks" invention of the German professor will have no in­ fluence on the sentimental sparking of the American parlor. Madison Square garden. New York, la on sale at $3,500,000. Anybody want a nice little garden, centrally lo­ cated? Gardening is fine for the nerves, the doctors tell us, The general manager of the Chica­ go telephone company says that the question, "What's the time?" is asked of his operators by Chicago subscri­ bers no fewer than 52,000 times a day. There ought to be a good market in Chicago for clocks and watches that will keep time. A girl in Vienna was recently fined IS cent* for scratching a man's nope In the# street with her hatpin. This is the first poetic retribution which has overtaken the elongated feminine hat­ pin, and It is so because the enormity of the offense was equaled only by the hugeness of the fine. Now that it has been demonstrated that cattle can be herded with an aeroplane, we may expect soon to see the police handling crowds at parades and other public celebrations in the same manner. It will be an improve­ ment over the pushing and hauling of the method In vogue at present. The prevalence of the bubonic plague in the east has put American health officers on their mettle. There Is no occasion for special alarm, for medical skill is equal to the emer­ gency, says the Troy Times. The fact that several cases have been dis­ covered on Incoming steamers and that effective quarantine has prevent­ ed further spread of the ailment is assurance that vigilance is maintain­ ed. It has been Judicially decided that when a man gives a girl a diamond Ting as an engagement token, the ring belongs to ber and she cannot be made to give it up if the engagement is broken. Soon poor mere man will be beginning to count his few remain­ ing lights and wonder when they are all taken from him if he can accom­ plish anything with the dominant sex by becoming in his tarn a militant suffragette. FIGHT TWO BUTTLES RKBELS MEET RtVER«E«| >N MORTHiRN MEXICO AT MAtijjre OF FEDERALS. 100 KiLlED AND WOUNDED Machine Gun Fire Repulses Inaurrec- toe, Who Attack Diaz* Force of 300 at Aflua Prleta--Band of 120 Trapped, 60 8laln. Thieves in New York stole a wagon load of cheese. The police, we pre­ sume, are on the scent. A man went mad in a barber's chair In New York. Probably the barber jlras talking winter baseball gossip. It is now possible to go around the world in less than half the time It took Jules Verne's hero to make his trip. Possibly this world would be better off if there were no pistols in It. At least, there would be more people here. Mexico City.--Conditions bordering on panic reign throughout northern Mexico. According to" reports re­ ceived here Sunday the federal troops were victorious in two battles fought against the revolutionist in which 100 men were killed and wounded. At Agua Priota.. across the border from Douglas, Ariz., 500 rebels Sun­ day attacked 300 federal troops, but were unable 'to withstand the fire of the machine guns and retreated. The rebels were armed with rifles only. The total casualties are placed at thirty-five. A body of 120 insurrectos was cut to, pieces by state rurales at San JAPAN TREATY BEST WATCHIN8 THAT MEXICAN "REVOLUTION" TAFT' COMMENDS CONGRESS, fC)T # ALSO CENSURES. \ Dfsfarea Failure te Enact Reciprocity* 7 Agreement Was Great Disap- • polntment. Bartolito Pijeblo Saturday. More than fifty were^killed, eleven serious- | feat of a permanent tariff board AAlaata, G*.--In an add rasa before the Southern Commercial Congress Fri­ day President Taft declared that the failure to enact reciprocity with Cana­ da was the greatest disappointment of the Sixty-first congress, and that the greatest achievement was the ratifica­ tion of the treaty with Japan. He reached the convention hall short­ ly before 12 o'clock and was given a tremendous ovation. The president was Introduced by for­ mer Governor Francis of Missouri. "The Sixty-first congress Just closed has enacted more useful and progress­ ive legislation in ltd three sessions than any congress since the war. "One of the crying evils of the pres­ ent day is the expense of litigation. This congress has passed an act ma­ king substantial reductions In the cost of appealing cases from the courts of first instance to the courts of appeals." The president then enumerated sev­ eral other laws that were passed. "A great disappointment of the ses­ sion," he continued, "was the final ds- !y wounded and twenty-seven cap­ tured. Owing to the fact that the rurales have adopted the revolution­ ists' tactics of ambushing their enemy, ncpie of their number was killed and only a few wounded. Colonel Guerrero, in command of the rurales, upon learning the rebels were marching to attack the munici­ pality of Nativitas, sent 100 of his men to meet them. Fifty others were ordered to cut off the retreat. The first force selected a favorable position overlooking a ravine through which the rebels must pass, and when they were in the trap opened a mer­ ciless fire on them. The rebels are oolrt tn hnv<» moHo 9 stubborn flpht but at the end of a half hour they were completely demoralized. The rebels have answered Presi­ dent Diaz' order suspending the civil guarantees with an order to give no quarter. This is taken here to mean that the fighting hereafter will be marked by all the barbarity of medieval times. Reports from Chihuahua, delayed several days in transmission, relate a distressing state of affairs in that city. Owing to the closing down of some of the industrial establishments and the running on short time of others, on account of the shortage of coal, many workmen have been thrown out of employment and are facing starva­ tion. Thoroughly aroused by the spread of brigandage and vandalism incident to the revolution, and determined to protect property, the Diaz govern­ ment will wage against the lawless element a pitiless war of extermina­ tion. Resurrecting a provision of the Mexican constitution not used for 15 years, and acting under its authoriza­ tion, the government will set aside for six months certain personal guar­ antees. All persons detected in the act of highway robbery, of raiding a village or farm, or train wrecking, or cutting telegraph or telephone wires or even of removing a spike from a railroad track or throwing a stone at a train will be summarily shot. The bill providing for this drastic measure was sent to the permanent commission of the federal congress. It was signed by Miguel Macedo. sub- secretary of the department of the in­ terior, and says Its enactment is the wish of the president. That the measure did not immedi­ ately become a law is due to official form. The permanent commission is a body endowed with power to act when congress is not In session. The members of the commission unani­ mously approved the measure, but, under the law, it is necessary that the hi}l CO!T16 Tin for o reading. It was referred to a subcommittee and this subcommittee was instructed tq report it to the commission at a special session. It will be favorably acted upon. The decision to ask for the "sus­ pension of persona] guarantees" pro­ vided for by the constitution was reached by the president in confer­ ence with the members of his cabinet. England, and especially London, Is making great plans for the coronation of King George next spring. It is ex­ pected that the gorgeous spectacle will surpass anything of the kind ever seen in the British capital, and the show will bring enormous crowds to the city. Such affairs always mean a magnificent display of British power and also big money for London mer­ chants, hotel keepers and others. So the glad news Is received with glow­ ing anticipations. PROMOTER GUILTY OF FRAUD Clarence D. Hlllman, Worth $7,000,- 000, Convicted on Thirteen Counts Charging a Felony. Seattle, Wash.--Clarence D. Hill- man, townsite promoter, said^to be worth $7,000,000, was found guilty in the federal court of using the malls to defraud. The jury acquitted him on the first five indictments, charging a misde­ meanor, but convicted him on thir­ teen counts of the sixth indictment, charging a felony. The maximum penalty for each of the thirteen counts is five years' imprisonment and $5,000 fine. "Finally, and the most important thing which was done in the session just closed, was the ratification of the treaty with Japan. "Of course, the greatest disappoint­ ment of the session was the failure of the senate to follow the lead of the house / in ratifying the reciprocity agreement made with Canada. "When we entered upon the negotia­ tions I authorized the secretary of state and his commissioners to offer free trade in everything, but this Can­ ada could not grant us. "Canada is at the parting of the ways. If we now reject this opportun­ ity we shall throw away an opportun­ ity fnr rnntiul benefit not likely tn r*. cur. "Under my promise to use my ut­ most efforts to secure the ratification of this agreement by congress I have felt It my duty upon the failure of the senate to act to call an extra session for the purpose of securing the ratifi­ cation of the agreement. I feel confi­ dent that a test of six months of thiB agreement will so vindicate the wis­ dom of adopting it as to remove it from political discussion thereafter." FREED OF BRIBERY CHARGE Illinois Legislators Declared "Not Guilty" of Conspiracy in Connec­ tion With Furniture Contracts. Springfield, 111., March 13.--After three and one-half hours' deliberation, during which time abont twenty-one ballots were taken, the jury in the trial of State Senator Stanton C. Pem- berton of Oakland and of former Rep­ resentative Joseph S. Clark of Van- dalia, who are charged with entering into a conspiracy to secure money cor­ ruptly for their votes in awarding the contract for the furnishing of the sen­ ate and house chambers of the state- house, returned a verdict of "not guilty." At the firdt trial, two months ago, the jury failed to agree. Pemberton and Clark were mem­ bers of a special committee named by the legislature to purchase furni­ ture for the house of representatives. It was charged that they attempted to secure a bribe from representatives of furniture companies, which bid on the contract. INDICT 25 IN VOTE PROBE Danville Jury Charges Coroner and 24 Others With Securing Campaign Funds Unlawfully. Danville, 111.--The Vermilion county vote probe grand jury returned its first batch of indictments Friday against men accused of a crime against the ballots. Twenty-five in all were re­ turned, and while the state's attorney's office was reticent regarding them, As­ sistant State's Attorney Boyle admit ted one had been returned against County Attorney Ralph Cole and Charles Colley, editor of a labor news­ paper devoted to negroes. These in­ dictments do not charge the men with selling their franchise, but allege they accepted money on election day for the specific pbrpose of working for a cer­ tain candidate. FRANCE STOPS ALL CLOCKS Readjusts Republic's Time to Corre­ spond With Standard 8et at Greenwioh. Paris.--In accordance with the bill passed in the senate February 10, central European, or Greenwich, time, became the legal time of France at midnight. At- 12 p. m. the clocks throughout the country were stopped for nine minutes 21 seconds and rail­ road trains were held up at stations for a like period in order to make their running time coincide with the new condition. Liner Has Stormy Voyage. New York.--After one of the stormi­ est trips of her whole experience the Mauretania arrived Friday nearly twelve hours late. All the way over she bucked head seas and heavy winds, so that her average speed was cut down to 24.36 knots an hour. An English physician drank two nil lions of typhoid germs in Thames water without ill effects. The marvel 0t this bold experiment was the vital- Sty and constitution which withstood the water that proved too much tor the germs. Women Win Eight-Hour Law. Olympla. Wash--The legislature closed Its session Friday. Among measures passed was an eight-hour law for women workers and an em­ ployes' compensation act. v" A 'Greek poet has come to this coun- - try, for the purpose of raising money r... }f\ to build a Greek battleship. Most poets are so busy raising money to buy their meals that they are willing to Perm,t other people to look after m!raising of toads for battle ships. Iowa Rejects Oregon Plan. Dea Moines, Ia.-~The house of the Iowa legislature Thursday refused lo pass the Oregon primary bill over Governor Carroll's veto. The vote was 69 yeas and 37 nays, a constitu­ tional two-thirds vote being required t« pttss it over the governor's veto. Accused of Huge Swindles. Paris, France.--Three men describ­ ing themselves as Italian noblemen were arrested Thursday charged with hnving swindled Levin Hart, a young Arurr'cr.n, out of $52,000. Arrest Two for Murder. Denver, Col.--Dr. C. W. Wright and Leo Neujahr were arrested Saturday on charge of murdering Philip Schuch, Jr., by poison. It was supposed Schuch had died from heart disease, but an autopsy showed arsenical poi­ soning. Bitten by Mouse; Near Death. Bvansville, Ind.--Bitten by a mouse two and one-half months ago, Conrad Bergdorf, a farmer, now lies in a crit­ ical condition here with blood poison­ ing. Flee From Camorra .Trial. Vlterbo, Italy.--Fearing to incur the displeasure of the dreaded Camorra by serving as jurors at the trial of Enrico Alfano, head of the Camorra, and a number of the other members of the society, which began here Saturday, a large number of the citizens compos­ ing the Jury list left the city. During the last few days the members of the first panel advanced all kinds of excuses, even producing medical certificates testifying to their physical unfitness, to avoid service. - * iff1 tor » 1 TAX tens MID FMFC WPREME COURT UPHOLD® • CONSTITUTIONALITY ..FFR- ' CORPORATION LAW. BENCH UNANIMOUS IN VIEW of Senate to Insert Revenue visions In Tariff Art Origin a- - ting in the House Also Is Approved. TEN BODIE8 ARE REMOVED FROM VIRGINIA, MINN., MINE. MEN TRAPPED IN AVALANCHE Only Four of Track Laying Gang Able iw Escape Huge mass or tartn and Snow--Many Bodies Torn to Shreds. Virginia, Minn., March 13.--Ten bodies, crushed almost into an un­ recognizable mass of flesh and bones, have been recovered from the Nor5 man open-pit mine where an ava­ lanche of earth, rock, ice and snow burled twenty-six miners. The other sixteen bodies have not been reached, but the mine officials are bending every effort to expedite the work of rescue. The catastrophe was due, it is said, to the thaws of the last few days suddenly loosening bowlders and earth and forcing the ore body to slide toward the bottom of the pit. Only four who were working on the outer edge, had a chance to run, and escaped the avalanche. Three of these are in a hospital enffering from probably fatal injuries. The place that was an open pit^ be­ fore the slide is a choked area of rock and ore and earth, with here and there parts of a body in sight. An army of men with shovels is working desperately to recover the bodies. The work is tedious and pursued under ex­ treme difficulties. It will be days before the bodies can be recovered and all the parts of many probably never will be as­ sembled. The mass of rock and earth ground many of them into shreds. The name of only one victim could be learned, Paul Paulson, a widower, who leaves seven children. His wife died a month ago. The miners who were taking up one of the two tracks in the pit in order to permit the great steam shovel to work in another section of the mine were for the most part bent over with bars and claws when the avalanche awept them into eternity. There wail no chance for anybody to move a foot. Chief of Police Ellis Walsh was noti­ fied of the accident by one of the mine engineers. He hastened to the mine, which is about three-quarters of a mile outside the city limits, but found that the forces of the Oliver Mining company were amply able to take care of the situation from the standpoint of preventing undue con­ fusion. The women and children who had lost their husbands and fathers talked in their native tongue to the men who were khoveling. The Norman employs about 1,000 men when running to capacity. Just at this time, however, several hun­ dred are employed, working in night and day shifts. LIFE OF DIETZ BABY BRIEF •. "Battle of Cameron Dam" Is Blamed for Death of "Outlaw's" 8on, 8ay Physicians. v St. Paul, Minn. -- The little son of John F. Dietz and Mrs. Diets, born only a few days ago, is dead. Mrs. Diets is in a critical condi­ tion. It was on account of the condi­ tion of Mrs. Dietz that the BO-called "outlaw of Cameron Dam" surrendered' to the authorities after a fierce fight at his home several months ago. Phy­ sicians say the scenes enacted during the "battle of Cameron Dam" are re­ sponsible for the death of the child. Pass Anti-Tresting Bill. Jefferson City, Mo.--The house passed Saturday, by a vote of 83 to 17, a bill to prohibit treating in saloons. Representative Bedsworth, a preacher, who Introduced the bill, said it will solve the liquor problem. Bowman Aecepta Preaidenoy. Cedar Rapids, la.--James H. Tre- win, president of the state board at education, Saturday received the let­ ter of acceptance by John A. Bowman of New York of the presidency of the state university. Cows Uncover Pot of Coin. Dixon, 111.--Cows eating from a ^trawstack near Walnut, 111., FMday, uncovered an iron pall containing a quantity of gold and silver coins thought to be a portion of the plunder from the bank of Walnut, which was robbed recently. Let Contract for N. Y. Post Office. New York.--The contract for the New York city post office was awarded Friday to the Fuller Construction com­ pany of New York at Its bid of $2,516,- 267. BALLINGER RESIGNS PRESENTS RESIGNATION AND TAFT APPOINT8 W. L. FISHER. Retiring Official Bases His Request Entirely Upon His Health and Receives Warm Praise From President. Washington.--Richard A. Falllngey'g resignation as secretary of the in­ terior was accepted by President 7u£i ana waiter L. Fisher of Chicago was Tuesday appointed as .his suc­ cessor. Mr. Ballinger tendered his resigna­ tion In a letter on January 19, being on the condition 'of his health. The president replied at once, expressing his confidence in Secretary Ballinger, his reluctance to accept his resigna­ tion, and requested the secretary to remain in office until the close of the session of congress. Immediately on the adjournment of congress Secre­ tary Ballinger renewed his request. Tuesday President Taft, in a letter, formally accepted the resignation and Mr. Fisher was appointed as his suc­ cessor, his commission being signed immediately by the president. Mr. Fisher will take office immediately. "I have had the fullest opportuni­ ty," the president says in his letter accepting the resignation, "to know you, to know your standards of serv­ ice to the government and the public, to know your motives, to know how you have administered your office and to know the motives of those who have assailed you."' And in the conclusion of his letter the president declares that "every fiber of my nature rebels against such hypocrisy" (referring to the attacks on Ballinger's character) "and nerves me to fight such a combination and such methods to the bitter end, lest success in this instance may form a demoralizing precedent. But person­ al consideration for you and yours makes me feel that I have no right to ask for a further sacrifice." The president goes on to declare it evident that he has been himself the ultimate object of the attack, and says that to Insist on Mr. Ballinger's re­ maining in office "with the prospects of further efforts against you, is selfishly to Impose on you more of a burden than I ought to Impose." CENSURE FOR STEPHENSON Wisconsin Assembly Adopts Resolu­ tion, 62 to 23, 8corlng Senator for Voting for Lorimer. Madison, Wis.--After various at­ tempts to sidetrack the main ques­ tion, and after refusing to adopt one Republican and one Democratic sub­ stitute, the assembly, by a vote of 62 to 23, adopted C. B. Ballard's joint resolution censuring United States Senator Stephenson for voting in fa­ vor of seating Senator Lorimer of Illi­ nois and lauding Senator La Follette for his vote to unseat the Illinois solon. The resolution also declare! that Senator Stephenson "brought censure upon the state" by his vote. Crouse Will Contest Ends. New York.--After years of litiga­ tion and uncertainty in .establishing her claim as daughter of Daniel Ed­ gar Crouse, reputed bachelor, who died in 1892, leaving ah estate of $5,000,000 to 27 cousins, Mrs. Doro­ thea Crouse McVicker, wife of John Augustus McVicker, established that claim in the appellate division of the supreme court, and will now come into her share of the estate of one and one-half million dollars. Iowa National Guard Ready. Des Moines, la.--Adjutant General Logan of the Iowa National Guard Sat­ urday asked the war department at Washington to order all companies of the Iowa National Guard to go to the Mexican frontier prepared for war if necessary- Harrlman Tax Helps Capitol. 8alt Lake City, Utah.--Of the $790,- 000 inheritance tax paid to Utah by the Harrlman estate, $760,000 will be appropriated by the legislature for a state capitol building. Actress Weds Rich Chinese. Vancouver, Wash. -- Miss Anita Deschontz, an unusually attractive actress, twenty-two years old, was Thursday married here to Lew Ting, a wealthy Chinese merchant of Hoqul- am. Wash. She is of Spanish descent. Her home was in Pittsbtfkx Pa. Lives of Crew Saved. Little Island. Va.- The Imperiled crew of th* Stranded Hteainer Man­ churia was saved Thursday. Nine members of the cjrew were landed In a breeches buoy. "Washington.--By unanimous deci­ sion the Supreme court Monday sus­ tained the constitutionality of the cor­ poration tax law. ThiB is the first great victory of the administration in its epoch-making suits before the &|ghest tribunal. Justice Day read the decision in the corporation tax case suits testing the In*.. L A i. KfAltvKi AWAtiV* i«W uaviug l/ccu Ul A/UQUV MW1U VfWIJ section of the country. By its affirma­ tion the revenues of the national treas­ ury are increased annually more than $25,000,000 from the tax on the net in­ comes of corporations doing business for profit, in addition to which the principle of the fight to levy such a tax is vindicated and, .the doet of all, tfc'at, for which the government has beeh striving, access to t$ie books of rihe big corporations and full publicity -^witjs regard to their affairs is abso­ lutely assured. . The main points of the opinion, as read by Justice Day. are:: It was within the power of the sen­ ate to insert the corporation .pro­ visions in a tariff law which origina­ ted in the bouse. The tax is an "excise tax on the, do­ ing of business," which is exactly the basis on which (he government de­ fended the law. The provisions of the law *?e not the arbitrary exercise of a power. This was urged ta argument a* one leosua why the taw snouia be neid un­ constitutional. t The tax is regarded as measured by income rather than being a tax on in­ come. Of all the objections to the tax raised by sHits in all parts of the country none of them was found suf­ ficient to nullify the law. Near the outset of the opinion is the statement that the tax "is im­ posed not upon the franchises of the corporation, irrespective of their use in business, nor upon the property of the corporation, but upon the doing of corporate or insurance business, and with respect to the carrying on there­ of in a sum equivalent to one per centum of the entire net income over and above $5,000 received from all sources during the year--that is, when imposed in this manner, it is a tax upon the doing of business with the advantages which inhere in the pe­ culiarities of corporate or joint stock organizations of the ch^acter de­ scribed. As the latter organizations share many benefits of corporate in­ terests it may be described generally as a tax upon doing business in cor­ porate capacity." The tax is one per cent, of the en­ tire net income over and above $5,000 received from all sources. "The income," said Justice Day, "Is not limited to such as is received from property used in the business strictly speaking, but is expressly declared to be upon the entire net income above $5,000 from all sources excluding the amounts received as dividends on stocks in other corporations, joint stock companies or associations, or in­ surance companies also subject to the tax. In other words, the tax is im­ posed upon the doing of business of the character described and the meas­ ure of the tax is to be the income with the deduction stated, received not •only from property used In business, but from every source." Justice Day drew the distinction be­ tween the corporation tax and the for­ mer income tax law, which was de­ clared unconstitutional, in answering objections that had been raised against the corporation tax. He said the income t^x was held to be direct because imposed on property simply because^of its ownership. "In the present case," said Justice Day, "the tax Is not payable unless there is a carrying on or doing of bust- nes in the designated capacity and this is made the occasion for the tax, measured by the standard prescribed. The difference between mere -owner­ ship of proper;y and the actual aoing of business in a certain way." Justice Day first considered whether, as claimed, the law made an unconsti­ tutional distinction between the cor­ porations and partnerships or indi­ viduals. He said there was a sub­ stantial difference between the carry­ ing on of business between corpora­ tions taxed and the same business when conducted by a private firm or individual. Measurement of the tax by the net income of the corporation or the com­ pany received by it from all sources was defended by Justice Day in his opinion as not being so unequal and so arbitrary and baseless as to fall outside of the taxing power. | UVED LONG WITHOUT EATiNI Animals Have Made S< fSffgRemarkable Fasts a Mat- ter of Record. \- The record for fasting, go far ail humanity la concerned, la held Granie, a French murderer, who de­ termined to starve himself to death, and from the day of his arrest refused to eat. In spite of every effort on the part of his warders, who first tried tempting him to eat by placing thy fcost dainty meals In his cell, ai>8 When that failed, attempted feeding him by force, he held out for 63 days, at the end of which time he died. Up to then the longest authenticated fait on regard was that accomplished b(y Giovanni Succi, who fasted at the Royal Aquarium, London, for 45 days. But these records sink into lnsignlfr cance when compared with the fat pig of Dover, enshrined in Dr. W. B. Carpenter's "Manual of Physiology." This pig weighed 160 pounds and was entombed for 160 days by the fall at h portion of the chatk cliffs. When dug out it weighed only 40 pound*, but to the surprise of Its owner was alive. WEAK BACK3 MADE 8TRONGU Backache in most cases la kidney- ache, and usually accompanied by Ir­ regularities of the urine. To remove the pain anfl. weakness, you must cure JswsTJfs** the kidneys. Do so with Doan's Kidney Pills. Mrs. Rosa Wein- tnann, 1927 Green­ wood Terrace, Chi­ cago, m., says: "So Intense were the rheumatic pains In IT* I aek, I felt like screaming. They gradually became more severe until they ran all over my body. I could not sleep and could hardly move. I steauiiy grew worse until I could scarcely open or close my hands. No relief was obtained until T -- lng Doan's Kidney Pills. Soon I felt better and ere long the pain left." Remember the name--Doan's. For sale by all dealers, 50 cents a box. Foster-Milbum Co., Buffalo, N. T. THE ONE DEFECT. Bandits Rob Utah Hotel. Ogden, Utah.--The Reed hotel, In the center of the business district of this city, was robbed by two masked men Monday. The hotel Is within a half block of the central police sta; tion. Clerk Unander and five guests were lined up against the wall and while one of the bandits pointed a pis­ tol at the men, the second robber made Clerk Unander open the safe and empty about $700 Into a bag. The robbers then left without molesting the five men lined up against the wall. leirloc fixityined the jural- ei o wife to uei iS-yeaif-old boy, "is something that has been handed down from father to son, and in some In­ stances is greatly prized." "I'd prize these heirlooms I'm wear­ ing," remarked the youngster, "a good deal more if they wasn't so long In the legs."--Everybody's Magazine. Dare to Be Hgppy. Let us never be afraid of Innocent Joy; God Is good and what he does is Well done; resign yourself to every­ thing, even to happiness; ask for the spirit of sacrifice, of detachment, of re­ nunciation, and above all, for the spirit of joy and gratitude, the genuine and religious optimism which sees in God a Father, and asks no pardon for his benefits. We must dare to be happy and dare to confess it, regarding our­ selves always as the depositories, not as ike authors of our own joy.--Amiel. Ogden Milla Raid Wedded. Racine, Wis.--Whitelaw Reid, Uni­ ted States ambassador to England, and his family attended the wedding •f his son, Ogden Mills Reid, to Miss Helen Miles Rogers of Fond du Lac, which took place Tuesday at the Ra­ cine college chapel. Fisher Is Swor'> 'n- Washington.--Walter L. Fisher of Chicago took the oath of office Mon­ day as the successor of Richard A. Bal­ linger, secretary of the interior in the cabinet of President Taft. Brought the Tears. An unusual incident marked a re­ cent fire in New York. The fire Started in the cellar of a five-story ten­ ement and before It was extinguished the 18 families in the building and all the firemen were weeping copiously from inflamed eyes. In the cellar many bags of onions had been stored. The chief fireman allowed the tenants to remain in the building, assuring them that the fire was confined to the cellar. They did not stay, how­ ever, when the onions had got well afire. EDITOR BROWNE Of The Rockford Morning Star. "About seven years ago I ceased drinking coffee to give your Postum a trial. "I had suffered acutely from various forms of Indigestion and my stomach had become so disordered as to repel almost every sort of substantial food. My general health was bad. At close Intervals I would suffer severe attacks which confined me in bed for a week or more. Soon after "changing from coffee to Postum the indigestion abated, and In a short time ceased entirely. I have continued the daily use of your excellent Food Drink and assure you most cordially that I am Indebted to you for the relief it haa brought me. "Wishing you a continued success, I am , Yours very truly, J. Stanley Browne, Managing Editor." Of coarse, when a man's heal til shows he can stand coffee without trouble, let him drink it, but most highly organized brain-workers sim­ ply cannot. The drugs natural to the coffee ber-' ry affect the stomach and other organa and thence to the complex nervous system, throwing it out of balance and producing disorders In various parts of the body. Keep up this dally pois­ oning and serious disease generally supervenes. So when man or woman finds that coffee Is a smooth but dead­ ly enemy and health Is of any value at all, there is but one road--quit It is easy to find out If coffee be the cause of the troubles, for If left off 10 days and Postum be used In Its place and the sick and diseased conditions begin to disappear, the proof la un­ answerable. Postum ia not good tf made by short boiling. It must be boiled full 15 min­ utes after boiling begins, when the crisp flavor and the food elements are brought out of the grains and the bev­ erage is ready to fulfill its mission of palatable comfort and renewing the eells and nerve centers broken down by coffee. "There's a Reason." Get the little book, "The Road to "Wellville," in pkgs. Evrr read til* iboT* letter? A new We appears from time tn time. Thef true, and full of haauta taterett