Hie McHeury Plaindealer -Published by F. GL 8CHREINER. McHENRY. ILLINOIS What a lot th« Infant emperor of China knows for his age! Six comets are visiting the sun. Stumping the solar system? An election in Switzerland seems to attract about as much attention as Its navy. Few headline writers can tell of a fall of snow without allusions to "The Beautiful." A Texas town of 4,000 has not seen a wedding In three years, but has had two lynching parties. It cost a Missouri man $35 to shoot a redblrd and it could not have been such great sport, either. About all that can be said in favor of a double chin is that it has some prestige in an argument Capt. Elmer Baldwin will try to lo cate the *iPrth pole in 1915. It may be a common jaunt by then. <CE GrapefrjjU is beginning to crowd t the cantaloupe, and the latter no oubt sees what its fate is to be. The megaphone would be a valuable thing on the farm, where it could be used to call the hired man at 4 a. m. The financial success of some of oar popular actors is indicated by the amount of alimony they are able to par. We base our prediction of a long cold winter on the fact that this year's chestnut worms are fatter than usual. Taxes have gone so high In Japan that the little nation may not feel like whipping anybody for several years to come. On the Isthmus of Panama there are 4,786 , bachelors and only 187 spinsters. Go south, young woman-- go south! College women do not Indulge In di vorce, says one of them. To the pros, pective marrler this should be warn ing enough. Reports from Los Angeles Indicate that a drunken Japanese with a load ed gun is as dangerous as a drunken Caucasian. A masseur has been fined for prac ticing medicine. It will soon be un safe to put a wet towel on a sick friend's brow. The difference between a banquet and a dinner 1s that the former con sist of a great deal of talk without much to eat They teach logic In colleges and yet the football scores when compared occasionally lead to Bome most Il logical results. The preachers who decry baseball should raise their own batting aver age If they want to increase interest In their own work. In Tucson eggs have been selling for 20 cents apiece. Burbank should hasten to develop a species of cactus that will lay eggs. The men who plastered their auto number with mud and hurried away after a casualty have done the same to their consciences. Cleveland has unveiled a statue of Wagner. At this distance It cannot be seen whether It is a statue to Honus or to Wllhelm Richard. Mrs. Majorle Gould Drexel's little daughter Is set down as a 130,000,000 baby, but there are others that can not be bought at even that price. There Is a good deal of talk now about "paper-bag cooking," but with out having tried it we shouldn't think a paper bag would taste good, no mat ter how it may be cooked. FIRE.JI •HELLING OF ANCIENT CH|NE8E CAPITAL 18 BEGUN BY REBEL8. LOSS ON BOTH SIDES HEAVY Hundreds of Imperialists Are Slain In Battle In Which Revolutionaries Advance Irresistibly--Commander of Besieged Forces Flees. Nanking.--The bombardment of Nanking, the ancient capital of China, by the revolutionary forces who have, surrounded the city for several days, has begun with an apparent determi nation that the last stronghold of the Manchus south of the Yangtse must eventually fall. From the Tiger Hill fort for several hours big guns spoke repeatedly, while further up along the northeast ern range, from the top of Purple mountain, overlooking: the Ming tombs for a fifteen mile semi-circle west ward to the Yangtse, smaller forts scattered shells Into every section of the city. General Wong, second in command of the defenders. Is among those killed and it is believed General Chang, chief in command, has quit the city, con vinced that its defense is doomed to failure. In the engagement the rebels exhib ited superb disregard for the perils of battle and fought with irresistible fury, crowding onward over the bodies of dead and dying comrades. The imperialists are known to have lost 1,000 men and it is reasonably certain additional hundreds of the gov ernment troops fell. Losses on the rebel side were enor mous, but these did not deter the furi ous advance of the attackers. The im perialists, never for a moment given opportunity to launch a crushing re taliatory movement, finally fled into the city for shelter. During the earlier part of the day the imperialists attempted a sortie against the attacking forces, with a view to recapturing their positions and guns, but were driven back in side the walls with heavy losses. The Tiger hill batteries, meanwhile, were pounding shells into Lion hill. They succecded in silencing the Manchu batteries there, which it is suspected were of little value. The object of the first seizure of Tiger hill was shown by the early ap pearance of four rebel cruisers, and later in the day of other warships. Although pillage and slaughter Is sternly forbidden by the revolutionary leaders, there is danger of a massacre In Nanking when the city falls. SLAYS HIS WIFE AND COUSIN A Kansas Judge scoffs at the Idea of love at first sight. Probably he is one of those phlegmatic fellows who keep the girls guessing for seven years and then marry in doubt. It ought to be easy for a good many •wives to get new sealskin coats this winter. An eastern court has granted a divorce to a woman because her husband concealed his real character from her when they were married. A Frenchman who has become en thusiastic about baseball is going to try to make it the French National game. A boys' baseball game would be a Quaker meeting compared with two nines of excitable Frenchmen en gaging in the sport Wronged Husband Decapitates Wo man and Man With Hatchet-- Hides In Church--Tells Priest. Kenosha, Wis. Tortured by the men tal picture of his headless wife and her paramour, whom he slew at his home in Kenosha, Pasquale Marchesl, twenty-seven years old, a merchant, went to a priest and confessed the dou ble crime, which had theretofore not been discovered. The young avenger of his honor was turned over to the Kenosha police, who are closely guard ing him for fear of possible mob vio lence. According to Marchesl, he went home earlier at night than usual, and found his wife, Rosaria, ahd his cousin and namesake occupying Mrs. Mar- chesi's bedchamber. The younger Marchesl, who was not of age, had been a favorite of the husband, and the scene drove him mad, he said. Without allowing his presence to be come known Marches! went to a wood shed, procured a hand ax, crept to the bodroom and chopped off the heads of the two lovers. Taking his baby, two months old, from the arms of his slain wife, Mar ches! washed the blood from its face, carried It to the home of his brofcher and said his wife was ill. He returned to the house, dressed his daughter Jo sephine, four years old, and took her to his brother's house. Marches! then returned to the house, concealed the hatchet and began wan dering about the city. As morning be gan to dawn the specters that had haunted Marches! all night as he slunk through back streets drove him to hide in the basement of an Italian church. As the music of the morning mass came faintly to his ears from the audi torium above, he said, he thought he distinguished the words, "Vengeance is mine, saith the Lord." Then he rushed from his hiding place, went to the home of the parish priest and sought relief in confessing what he had done. After the priest had turned Mar ches! over to the police the slayer told a connected story of the crime, plead ing that he had felt justified in killing the pair at the time the deed was com mitted, but that later he was sorry. Goats' milk comes strongly recom mended as a new cure for Inebriety. Try It--on some friend. •There will be no art In masculine fashions," says an English artist, "un til men discard trousers." T|iBh! Look at the hats some of the men are wearing this year. The Wrights have a new safety de vice for aviators. If It don't work any better than the safety devices on elevators the rate of risk on aviators will not be reduced. Queen Louisa of Denmark, 1b 60 years old, but, being a queen, she does not look It Spencer to Die in Chair. Springfield, Mass.--After being out for five hours a jury convicted Ber tram G. Spencer of the murder of Miss Martha B. Blackstone. He will be sentenced to death in the electric chair. His defense was insanity. DEFENDS HER ACT PRINCIPALS IN BEATTIE CASE 4 ~ ' --'• v" • % •> ; > i > a-"* sm* MRS. PATTERSON DC8CRIBE8 EVENTS OF TRAQIC DAY IN Mrs. Seattle* Paul BeattNi. Declares Husband Threatened Her Life When 8he Refused to Do as He Requested. Denver, Colo.--Much of the testi mony given by Mrs. Gertrude Gibson Patterson in her own defense against the charge of murdering her husband, Charles A. Patterson, was unfit for publication. "Why don't you withdraw your di vorce suit and sign over that deed to me and I'll withdraw my suit against Strouss and come home," the witness testified her husband asked her when they met in the day of the murder. "Ho still was persisting that I sign over all my property to him, and said: 'You will sign, or I'll choke the life out of you.' Then he seized me by the throat. I screamed and he let me go. He pulled a clipping from bis pocket and asked: 'Have you seen this?' and he handed it to me." "What was it?" Attorney Hilton asked. "Jt was about a suit for $25,- 000 damages which Mr. Patterson had filed against Mr. Strouss for aliena tion of my affections." ^ "Did Mr. Patterson say anything then?" "Yes; he said be would drop the suit if I would deed the bungalow to him, turn my bank stock over to him and drop my divorce suit. " 'I'll do nothing of the kind,' I re plied. Then he struck me a blow full in the face and I staggered." "WThat then took place?" "He struck me again and knocked me to the ground and kicked me." "What then?" "I was struggling to my feet and he was kicking me." "And then?" "I opened my bag and got out my revolver and fired." "How many times?" "I dont know." "Do you remember anything after that?" "No." "Till when?" "Not until I awoke in jail the next day." STEAMER ASHORE ON ISLAND Liner Prinz Joachim, With W. J. Bryan Aboard, on Rock--Pas sengers Taken Off. New York.-^Twenty five miles off her course, the steamer Prlnz Joachim in the Atlas service of the Hamburg- American I'nc. lin - "hore on Samana BemSah .Bssiford. VIRGINIAN GOES TO ELECTRIC CHAIR--LEAVES STATEMENT WITH MINISTERS. SORRY HE COMMITTED CRIME E§1*1^- r < > f t It-® W. J. Bryan. Walks to Chair Refusing Life Lease an Admission of Slaying Earned-- Maintains His Nerve to End of Ordeal. island, an uninhabitable rock about a mile wide and eight miles long, thirty miles north of Fortune island, Baha mas. A message received here stated that the passengers and mails had been transferred to the Ward liner Segu- ranca. William Jennings Bryan, his wife and son were among those on board. PARIS EDITORS FIGHT DUEL Combat Results From Allegations Made Against Mme. Curie and Prof. Langevin--One Wounded. Paris.--A vicious duel with swords was fought by M. Daudet, editor of Action Francaise, and M. Chervet, ed itor of Gil Bias. The affair grew out of the allega tions made against Mme. Curie and her co-worker in scientific research. Professor Langevin, by the wife of the latter in the suit which she re cently Instituted. M. Daudet was wounded In the Arm, A reconciliation between the combat ants followed. Richmond, Va.--The state of Vir ginia took the life of Henry Clay Beattie, Jr., In payment for the wife's life he took last July--and the state made no miBtake. The boy himself made that plain before he went to the electric chair. Welcoming death as a relief from the torment he declared he was suffer ing, he walked bravely to the death chair, scorning the thirty-day reprieve Governor Mann had promised as a re ward .for confessing., his guilt. Beattle's confession was made pub lic following a conference between the ministers who counseled the pris oner in his last hours and Henry Clay Beattie, Sr. The ministers and the aged father decided that the confes sion should be made public, and this was done. The confession was as follows. "I, Henry Clay Beattie, Jr., desirous of standing right before God and man, do, on this, the twenty-third day of November, confess my guilt of the crime charged against me. Much that was published concerning the details was not true, but the awful fact, with out the harrowing circumstances, re mains. For this action I am truly sorry and, believing that I am at peace with God and am soon to pass into his presence, this statement Is made. (Signed) "HENRY, CLAY BEATTIE, JR." To the confession was appended a note from the clergymen: "This statement was signed in the presence of the two attending minis ters and Is the only statement that can and will be made public by them. "Mr. Beattie desires to thank the many for kind letters and expressions of interest and the public for what ever sympathy was felt or expressed." Beattie went to his death calmly, showing not a trace of a breakdown in the iron will which had sustained him since he was arrested for the slay ing of his wife. Just one minute was required to snuff out the life of the condemned man. THIRTY KILLED IN PLUNGE Weds Before He Enters Prison. Rocklord, 111.--Miss Lillian Rane was married to William Coutland, who was later taken to Joliet to begin a sentence of one to twenty years. The ceremony was performed In the county jail. Speaking of families which go to the dogs, a Massachusetts woman wants a divorce because her husband insisted on keeping eighteen bow wows in the kitchen. There is in Boston a woman who balleves her cat possesses the soul of a king- Still, even that Is perhaps not the most foolish thing that Is b* Here* by a Boston woman. Two Trusties Escape Prison. Jeffersonville, Ind.--After donning the citizens' clothing of two of the guards at the Jeffersonville reforma tory, Ben Zelgler and Chester Brown, trusties at that Institution, made good their escape by lowering them selves from a second-sto»y window with a rope made of blankets. Jutaro Komura Is Dead. Tokyo. Japan.--Marquis Jutaro Ko mura, ex-minister of foreign affairs, privy councillor ii dead. He was born In Col. Thomas B. Davis Dead. Keyser, W. Va. -- Col. Thom as B. Davis, a former memmber of con gress from Virginia and brother of Henry Gassaway Davis, former United States senator, died at*his home here. Three Die -In Hotel Fire. Nashua, N. H.--Three men are dead and a fourth Is In a hospital In a seri ous condition as the result of inhaling smoke In a fire that burned the in terior of the Benton hotel, a lodging bouse near the Union station. Chase Quits as Manager. New York.--Hal Chase resigned aa manager of the American league club at a conference with Frank Farrell, owner of the club. He will play first base next season, receiving the same salary as last season. Entire Passenger Train Falls With Bridge in France Into Flood Swollen Stream. Paris.--Thirty passengers lost their lives by the breaking down of a bridge over which a train was pass ing on the State railway near Sau- mur. The train, which was bound from Angers to Poitiers, carried about 100 passengers. While crossing the bridge over the Thouet river the structure, which had been weakened by recent floods, gave way, sending the entire train into the swollen stream. Is Arrested for Kidnaping. Neenah, Wis.--Charged with abduct, ing Mabel Keagle, aged sixteen years, from her home at Peoria, 111., C. E. Keller, twenty-eight years old, was ar rested here and taken to Peoria. Miss Keagle came here about a month age. German^ Buying Black Walnut. Bloomlngton. 111.--Black walnut wood is now being purchased by Ger many in this country, shipment of is car loads, 60,000 feet, leaving hers for Hamburg. Illinois Contractor Dies. Bloomlngton, 111.--F. Rees, for forty years a prominent contractor of Bloomlngton, is dead, aged seventy-six. He built the government building at the Chicago world's fair, and also ten Carnegie libraries at various points In Illinois. Cleared of Murder Charge. Mason City, la.--Thomas Brewer was found not guilty of the murder of Mor- rell Severns. He acknowledged shoot ing him. but put in the plea of self- defense. Carries Dead 8on Five Days. Ottawa, Ont--Thomas Taylor has Just reached New LiBkeard after car rying the dead body of his twenty- one-year-old son for five days, bring ing it from a northern region where there was no train. The son was drowned. Italian Blockade is Feared. Constantinople, Turkey.--Neutral commerce is threatened by the pro posed blockade of the Dardanelles by Italy and Turkey's consequent de fensive measures. TAR MEN TO JAIL FOUR WHO ACKNOWLEDGED GUILT ARE GIVEN ONE YEAR. Two Guilty, One Acquitted in Trial of Three Charged^Wlth Attack on Kansas Teacher. Lincoln Center, Kan.--The three c.en who confessed to the tarring of Miss' Mary Chamberlain, the school teacher, were sentenced to a year each in Jail by Judge Grover. They are E. G. Clark, Jay Fitzwater and ^it- son Scracton. "Ed." Ricord, who decoyed the girl to the place of the attack and who al ready has been 70 days In jail, also wt»s given a year. The three were told they would be given ample time to arrange their busi ness affairs before being committed. None oJ the men seemed surprised at the action of the court. They think paroles will be exercised after they have served a short time, it Is said. The jury in the cases of Sherrill Clark, John Schmidt and A. N. Simms, who admitted knowledge of tho attack but denied participation In it, reported Clark and Schmidt founu guilty of as sault and battery, under the indict ment, but acquitted Simms. Sentence upon Clark and Schmidt was reserved until the hearing of a motion by the defense for a new trial, which will be heard December 18. The jury proceeded in -a methodical manner taking 42 ballots In all. It was decided that, although not present at the actual tarring, Clark had furnished the tar used in tarring Miss Mary Cchamberlain the night of August 7 and that Schmidt had been one of the conspirators. ACCUSER OF ROOSEVELT HURT Mrs. Von Claussen Unable to Attend Hearing as to Her 8anity Because of Broken Ankle. New York.--Mrs. Von Claussen, whose spectacular accusations of The odore Roosevelt and other prominent persons have brought her much no toriety in the last few days, was un able to attend the hearing of a com mission appointed to inquire into her sanity because Bhe is suffering from a broken ankle. Mrs. Von Claussen, in trying to escape from the Blooming- dale Insane asylum, where she has been confined for a fortnight, leaped from a second-story window, sustain ing the injury. Mrs. Von Claussen was committeed primarily because of a threatening telegram which she sent to a Supreme court justice from Chi cago. PACKERS ARE REFUSED STAY Chief Justice White Says Full Supreme Bench Must Pass on Applica tion for Delay. Washington.--Chief Justice White refused to grant a stay in the trial of the Chicago beef packers Indicted for violations of the Sherman anti trust law. f He asked the attorney to make the application to the full bench afc he considered the matter of too much Importance for him to pass upon alone. Mantell In Breakdown. New Orleans, La.--Robert B. Man- tell, the actor, has suffered a nervous breakdown, caused by grief over the death of his wife, who was Marie Booth Russell. Mrs. Mantell died at Atlantic Highlands, N. J., several weeks ago of tuberculosis. Col. Thomas B. Davis Dead. Keyser, W. Va.--Col. Thomas B. Davis, a former member of congress from Virginia and brother of Henry Gassaway Davis, former United States senator, died at his home here. To Set Convention Date. Mount Clemens, Mich.--The time and place for holding the Democratic national convention will be decided by the Democratic national committee in Washington at noon, January 8, ac cording to an announcement made by Norman E. Mack, chairman of the committee. Ship Wrecked; 8ixty Die. Vienna, Austria.--The Austrian steamer Romania was wrecked near Rovigno. It Is reported that sixty persons were drowned. MULFORD WINS VANDERBILT PRIZE AT 8AVANNAH ^ (GA.) COURSE. ^ALPH DE PALMA IS SECOND Winner Takes Lead on Fifth Lap and Is Never Headed in Fastest Contest in History of Event. Savannah, Ga.--Smashing all rec ords for speed, Ralph Mulford, an American driving an American car, a Lozier, won the Vanderbilt Cup race. He covered the 291 miles in 238 minutes and averaged more than 74 miles an hour for the entire race. Ralph de Palma, driving a German Mercedes, finished second In Amer ica's most noted automobile classic. He crossed the finish line two min utes and 11 seconds behind Mulford. Spencer Wishart, in another Mer cedes, finished third, his time being 246:20. Harry Grant, who won the Vanderbilt Cup in 1909 and 1910, finished fourth in a Lozier, his time being 250:23:67. E. H. Parker, in a Fiat, was fifth, his elapsed time being 254:25. After Louis Disbrow, driving a Pope-Hummer, crossed the line In sixth place the remaining driv ers were signaled that the end had come. The contestants still running at the end of the race were Carl Limberg and L. A. Mitchell, botl} in Abbott- Detroits, and Cyrus Patschke In a Marmon. The other five starters, Hughie Hughes, driving a Meroer; Dave Bruce Brown, Fiat; Bob Burman, Marmon; Harry Cobe, Jackson, and Joe Matson, Fiat, were forced to quit the race because of damaged ma chines. Weather conditions for the race were ideal, the courBe being almost perfect. Harry Grant was the first to get away. At 30-second Intervals the other cars chugged off. Mulford was the eighth to start but before the fifth lap had been completed he had wrested the lead from De Palma and he held it until tfofe finish. De Palma held on, however, and it was a ter rific struggle between the first four cars until the last two laps, when Mulford cut loose on his wild dash and finished with a comfortable lead. The Savannah challenge cup race was run off just before the start of the Vanderbilt race. It was won by Hughie Hughes in a four cylinder Mercer car, which covered 222.82 mMfes in 3 hours 15 minuteB and 35 seconds. Frank Witt, driving an E. M. F. 30, won the race for the Tieteman trophy, covering 171.40 miles in 2 hours 56 minutes and 19-100 seconds. AID TO PATTERSON DEFENSE Witness Tells Denver Jury Husband Knocked Wife.Down Before She Shot Him. Denver, Colo.--The defense in the trial of Mrs. Gertrude Patterson has rested its case. The most Important witness was F. J. Easton of Tacoma, Wash., who swore he saw Patterson knock his wife down and that she was lying on the ground when she shot him. The witness said he then got on a car and came down-town, not telling anyone of what he saw, and a day or two later went to Laramie, Wyo., to work. To substantiate Easton's story the defense called In rebuttal Witness Shugart, the prosecution's eye witness to the tragedy. Shugart admitted he saw Witness Easton in the vicinity about the time of the shooting. An other witness, who was employed to make a map of the scene of the shoot ing, testified that one bullet had en tered the wall surrounding a house on a straight line about eighteen inches from the ground. This, defense con tends, shows that Mrs. Patterson was on the ground when she fired it. JURY HOLDS MRS. VERMILYA Woman Charged With Poisoning Chi cago Policeman Bound Over to Grand Jury Without Bail. Chicago.--Mrs. Louise Vermilya, known to the police as the "arch poisoner" of the century, was held to the grand jury without bonds by the coroner's jury which investigated the death of Policeman Arthur ,Bis- sonette. Iillnes8 prevented the presence of Mrs. Vermilya at the inquest, but she was represented by her attorney, Joseph R. Burres. Her physicians at the county jail hospital, who oper ated on her for an abscess, stated that she would not be able to leave the jail for several weeks. Witnesses gave evidence to show that the woman's closest friends had been poisoned. Her own attempt to die also was described. Bay State's Tallest Man Dead. Lynn, Mass.--Benjamin Ames, aged sixty-five, the tallest man in Massa chusetts, is dead at the city hospital of heart failure, as the result of a fall from a horse. He was nearly seven feet In height hnd weighed 3o0 pounds. Noted Yacht Designer III. Bayonne, N. J.--A. Carey Smith, the noted yacht designer, is critically 111 of liver trouble at his home here, and it is feared he cannot live more than a few days. Long Trip for Holidays. Minneapolis, Minn.--Three hundred and fifty Scandinavians of the north west have left here on a sepclal train for New York, where they will embark for their homes in the old country to spend Christmas. Kaiser Recalls His Ships. Berlin, Germany.--The German cruiser Berlin and the gunboat Eber have been recalled from Agadlr, Mor occo, where they had been stationed since the departure of the gunboat Panther last July. OFFICIAL INVIMTIOH TO AUEJUGAHS HOW ROBERT ROGERS, MINISTER OF THE INTERIOR, IN WINNIPEG ADDRESS, ISSUES WELCOME OF AM&RICAN8 TO WEST ERN CANADA. During the course of a reply to an address presented to Hon. Robert Rog ers, the newly appointed Minister of the Interior of Canada at a banquet given at Winnipeg In his honor that gentleman spoke on immigration. Th« tone of his remarks was that he Intend ed to pursue an aggressive and for ward policy In the matter of immigra tion. In part, he said: "The most Important branch per haps of that department (Interior) is that of immigration. "If there is anything more than an other we want here It is a greater pop ulation, and it shall be my duty to pre sent to the people in all parts of the world where desirable emigrants are to be found the advantages and the great possibilities of this country. We have received in the past a reasonably large immigration from south of the international boundary, end in thle connection let me say just a word for our American cousins who have found happy homes amongst us, and those whom we hope to welcome in greater numbers in the years to come. There are hundreds of thousands of them In our prairie provinces, happy in the en joyment of a freedom as great as they ever knew, and all contributing in a material way towards the development of Canada. We are not blind to their value as settlers. They come better equipped with scientific farming knowledge than most of our emi grants, and constitute* without doubt the wealthiest class of emigrants any new country has ever known. As head of the immigration department it will be my privilege to offer them a welcome hearty and sincere, and to •o contribute to their welfare that un der the protecting folds of tho Union Jack they will enjoy as great a degree of liberty and happiness as under the Stars and Stripes. The Borden gov ernment cherishes nothing but the kindliest feelings for the people of the great republic to the south, atM will do all in its power to increase the bonds of kinship and neighborly good feeling that has so long existed. (Hear, hear.) "While we adopt a vigorous emi gration policy in that country, we will also adopt the same vigorous policy in other p^rts of the world. We will go to England, Ireland and Scotland, and every other country irrespective of race, creed or nationality, where wo can find suitable and desirable emi grants for this great country. I think much good work can be done In those countries, and especially perhaps at the present time In England, Ireland and Scotland. Now, then, it will be my duty to stir up that policy in the most vigorous manner possible." A DIFFERENCE. m1 ^ Tes8ie--I suppose you won't marry unless you find one girl in a million. Tom--No; with a milion. BABY'S ECZEMA AND BOILS "My son was about three weeks old when I noticed a breaking-out on his cheeks, from which a watery sub stance oozed. A short time after, his arms, shoulders and breast broke out also, and in a few days became a solid scab. I became alarmed, and called our family physician who at once pro nounced the disease eczema. The lit tle fellow was under treatment for about three months. By the end of that time, he seemed no better. I be came discouraged. I dropped the doc tor's treatment, and commenced the use of Cuticura Soap and Ointment, and in a few days noticed a marked change. The eruption on his cheeks was almost healed, and his shoulders, arms and breast were decidedly bet ter. When he was about seven months old, all trace of the eczema was gone. "During his teething period, his head and face were broken out in bolls which I cured with Cuticura Soap and Ointment. Surely he must have been a great sufferer. During the time of teething and from the time I dropped the doctor's treatment, I used the Cuticura Soap and Cuticura Ointment, nothing else, and when two years old be was the picture of health. His complexion was soft and beauti ful, and his head a mass of silky curls. I had been afraid that he would never be well, and<t feel that I owe a great deal to the Cuticura Remedies."' (Signed) Mrs. Mary W. Ramsey, 224 E. Jackson St., Colorado Springs, Col., Sept. 24, 1910. Although Cuticura Soap and Ointment are sold by drug gists and dealers everywhere, a sam ple of each, with 32-page book, will be^ mailed free on application to "Cuti cura," Dept. 5 L, Boston. Country's Safeguard. No genuine observer can decide otherwise than that the homes of \a nation are the bulwarks of personal, and national safety and thrift.--J. G. Holland. Dr. Pierce's Pleasant Pellets cure con stipation. Constipation is the cause of many diseases. Cure the cause and you core the disease. Easy to take. Some girls would lose out, evan If* •Tery year was a leap year. tk'