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This was the signal for general pillage and massacre throughout city. The native soldiers, pushed on by shrieking Moorish women. rushed through the streets of the city slaying all the French they could find and in­ citing the population to- violence by the false cry of "the sultan is a pris­ oner of the French and must be lib­ erated." The French telegraphers ^ere at­ tacked by a howling crowd and made a heroic stand, defending their office for four hours, in the meantime send­ ing messages to headquarters at Tan­ gier. Finally the office was broken in­ to, the telegraphers killed, and their bodies mutilated and burned. The heads of all the Europeans sjftin /by ^he native troops were pa- iadedShrottgh the streets on pikes. I The French legation sent out relief uads of troops and brought in many foreigners, and afterwards ttiV French illery opened fire on the rebels, o "Were grouped in the northern quarter. / Paris, April 24.--After four days of anxiety here due to lack of news from Fez, where the populace and Moorish soldiers mutinied some days ago and attacked all foreigner, some account of th,e trouble reached here Tuesday. It is known 15 French officers and 40 soldiers were killed.. In the fight­ ing, while 13 civilians, all of them \French citizens, ^ere massacred in (their homes or in< the streets. Be­ sides jPhese four French officers and TO soldiers were / wounded and 100 Jews slain and a large number wound­ ed and mutilated. A delegation of native troops had an audience with the sultan to com­ plain about the new military lobula­ tions of the French. Upon leaving the palace they captured and killed a French captain. Then a general attack on the city began, and native troops, urged to fury by screaming- women, stormed through the streets, killing all the French they met and pillaging every­ where. The mutineers roused the people by declaring the sultan was a prisoner and must be set free. The French telegraphers sent the alarm to Tan­ gier and held their office for four hours, J>ut were finally overcome and •lain. The legation guards at length restored order. The absence of dispatches from Fes led to the belief that the uprising has assumed serious proportions and that the French troops were in danger of losing control of the situation. Dis­ patches which were meager reported 600 rebels killed in a desperate strug­ gle and the imprisonment of 2,000 more. All of the European residents were gathered in the sultan's palace, where French troops, aided by rein­ forcements from the barracks at West Mekine6e, were on guard. SURVIVOR TELLS STORY Lookouts Thrice Warned Officers on Bridge in Last 15 Min­ utes Before Vessel Struck. FATED SHIP'S HOLD AFIRE Fireman Details How Flames Broke Out In Coal Bunkers After Leav­ ing Southampton and Steam­ ship Was Rushed Westward So That Blaze Might Be Extinguished in New York Port. OPEN BIG FLORIDA CANAL Governor Gilchrist and Many Other Notables Attend Function of the Great Everglades Ditch. Fort Myers, Fla., April 24.--Govern­ or Gilchrist and other state officials and the trustees of the internal im­ provement fund were the hosts Tues­ day at ceremonies marking the open­ ing of the Gulf to Atlantic canal. Among the guests were many prom­ inent men and a large party of news­ paper correspondents brought here on special trains. The canal is one of the five big channels by which some four million acres of the Everglades is to be re­ claimed. After the exercises the entire party embarked on launches for a trip through the carjal to its eastern term­ inus at Fort Laudc-rdale, with Btops at Citrus Center and Okeechobee City. At th<> la t ter pla< e th*> newspaper men were enter ta ined by former Guv. W.jS. Jennings New York, April 22.--First Officer Murdock, on the bridge of the Titanic, •acing to New York for assistance in quenching a flre aboard that .iad been raging since the day the liner left Southampton, passed unheeded three warnings from tho lookouts of the ice­ berg ahead, the ship struck and then the wireless operators blundered. Such were the developments in the Investigation of the appalling disaster of April 14. Three Warnings Given. Three warnings that an iceberg was ahead were transmitted r from the crow's nest of the Titanic to the offi­ cer on the doomed steamship's bridge 15 ®finutes before she struck, accord- SfeCg to Thomas Whiteley, a first saloon ' sieward, who now lies In St. Vincent's hospital with frozen and lacerated feet. Whiteley reached the Carpathla aboard one of the boats that contain­ ed, he said, both the crow's nest look­ outs. He heard a conversation be­ tween them, he asserted, in which 1hey discussed the warnings given of the presence of the iceberg. Titanic Operator Blunders. The impatience of Phillips, the wire­ less operator on the Titanic, with the receiving ability of the operator on the North German Lloyd steamer Frankfurt, the nearest ship at the time of the disaster) and the first to answer the stricken liner's call for Bid, caused Phillips Vp tell the Frank­ fort operator: "You are a fool; keep cut," and probably prevented the sav­ ing of many more lives from the wrecked liner. This was admitted by H. S. Bride, second wireless operator of the Ti­ tanic, pain-racked and sitting in an in­ valid chair, under the fire of cross-ex- amination before the senate commlt- |ee investigating the disaster. J. Dilley, fireman on the Titanic, was authority for the statement that a flre had been raging in the coal bunk­ ers since the day the Titanic left Southampton, that 12 men had suc­ ceeded in making no headway against it and that the talk among the stokers was that the blaze would not be ex­ tinguished until the aid of fireboats *n iNew Yr.rfe harbor was received. Told to Keep Out. According to Bride's story, the "Frankfurt waited 20 minutes before answering the "C. Q. D." call of the Titanic, and then asked what was the trouble. Meantime the Titanic had raised the Carpathia. Phillips called the Frankfurt operator a fool and told him to keep out, but did not tell him the Titanic was sinking. Bride and Phillipr. both Judged the Frankfurt was the nearest ship because of the strength of Its spark. Bride also admitted refusing to an­ swer a call from the Californian to the Titanic In the afternoon before the wreck, but said he later intercep­ ted a message from the Californian to the Baltic, telling of three huge icebergs. He said he handed this message to Captain Smith. Senator Smith established by Guglielmo Marconi, inventor of the wireless System bearing his name, that the Titanic and the Frankfurt operated virtually the same type of in­ strument. Both Bride and Thomas Cottan, wireless operator on the Carpathia, were mere boys, neither being our twenty-three years old. Neither had any telegraphic experi­ ence previous to taking up wireless telegraphy and both while on the Stand told tales of long hours at ldw wages and days and nights spent without sleep. ' Operators Were Inexperienced. This inexperience and the mental condition of the young operators were the two points on which Senator Smith bore persistently. He had put Cottan through a gruelling examina­ tion, in which the youth testified that he had not slept more than eight or ten hours between Sunday night, when the Titanic called for help, and Thursday night, when the vessel dock­ ed here. Bride's story bore out virtu­ ally all that Cottan's had established. Whiteley, who was whipped over­ board by k rope while trying to lower a lifeboat, did not know either of the lookout men's names, and believes they returned to England with the majority of the surviving members of the crew. "1 heard one of them say that at 11:15 o'clock, 15 minutes before the Titanic struck, he had reported to First Officer Murdock that he fancied he saw an Iceberg," said Whiteley. "Twice after, the lookout said, he warned Mr. Murdock that a berg was ahead. I cannot remember their ex­ act words, but they were indignant that no attention was paid to their warnings. One of them said: 'No wonder that Mr. Murdock shot him­ self.' " Gets Dead Man's Place. Whiteley's own experience was a hard one. "I floated on my life preserver for several hours," he said. "When the sun came up I saw the collapsible raft In the distance. Just black with men. They were all standing up. Mr. Lightoller, the second officer, was one of them. " It's 31 lives against yours,' he said, you can't come aboard. There's no room.' "I pleaded with him in vain, and then, I confess, I prayed that some­ body might die so I could take his place. I was only human. And then some one did die and let me aboard." Ship's Coal Was Afire. The story told by J. Dilley was as follows: "I was assigned to the Titanic from the Oceanic, where I had served as a fireman. From the day we sailed the Titanic was on fire, and my sole duty, together with eleven other men, had been to fight that flre. We Jjad made no headway against it. "Of course the passengers knew nothing of the flre. It started in bunk­ er No. 6. There were hundreds of tons of coal stored there. The coal on top of Uie bunker was wet, as all of the coal should have been, but down at the bottom of the bunker the coal was dry. The coalr at the bot- I torn of the bunker took fire, and j smoldered for days. The wet coal on top kept the flames from coming j through, but down in the bottom of j the bunker the flames -were raging. Stokers Fight the Flames. ! "Two men from each watch of stokers was tolled off to fight that flre. The stokers, you know, work four hours at a time, so 12 of us was fighting the flames from the day we put out of Southampton till we hit the iceberg. "No, sir, we didn't get that flre out. And among the stokers there was talk that we would have to empty the coal bunkers after we had put our pas­ sengers off in New York and then call the fireboats there to help us put out the flre. "But we didn't need such help. It was right under bunker No. 6 that the iceberg tore the biggest hole in the Titanic, and the flood that come through the Titanic put out the flre that our tons and tons of water hadn't been able to get rid of. Told to Shut Mouths. "The stokers were beginning to get alarmed over it, but the officers told us to keep our mouths shut. They didn't want to alarm the passengers." Another fireman said that because of the fire the ship sank more rapidly than otherwise would have been the case. "It had been necessary to take the coal out of sections two and three on the starboard side forward," he said, "and when the water came rushing in after the collision the bulkheads would not hold because they did not have the supporting weight of the coal. "Somebody reported to Chief En­ gineer Bell that the forward bulkhead had given way and he replied: 'My, God, we are lost.' " Hearing Adjourns to Capital. The committee ended the taking of testimony in New York and adjourned to meet in Washington. The committee has had subpoenaes served on J. Bruce Ismay, P. A. S. Franklin, Harold Bride, H. T. Cottan, C. H. Lightoller, second officer of the Titanic; H. J. Pittman, third officer; J. G. Boxhall, fourth officer, and H. Q. Lowe, fifth officer of the Titanic, and 29 members of the Titanic's crew to have them testify in Washington. The story of the American surviv­ ors of the Titanic also will be told at these hearings. Federals Moving on Juarez. El Paso, Tex. , Apri l 24 -- A hundred additional liberal soldiers have b^en ordered to Juarez f rom Casas (Irandes to defend the city Reports are that federals are coming from OJlnaga. •ast of Juarez, to attack the town. Titanic Relief Fund $700,000. London, April 24--The relief fund lor the assistance of the sufferers by the Titanic disaster had up to last Monday reached upwards of $700,000, with contributions still coming in from all parts of the empire. Stilson Hutch Ins Is Dead. Washington, April 24. -- Stileon Hutcbins, millionaire philanthropist Snd retired Journalist, died at his one here last Monday after a linger­ ing attack of paralysis. He was born In Whltefield, N. H , in 1838 WIRELESS ACT UPHELD Judge Rose of Maryland Hands Down Decision Under Law Providing Proper Safeguard. I Baltimore, Md., April 22. Judge John C. Rose of the United States district court handed down an opinion I upholding the federal wireless act. | It is the first decision ever made un- | der this statute, passed June 24. 1910, which provides that all ocean going vessels, whether of the United 8tates or a foreign country, entering the Uni­ ted States ports, shall be equipped with wireless telegraph apparatus when carrying fifty or more passen­ gers and crew. I DENIES FALSE REPORT ISSUED Captain of Olympic Did Not Say Steamer Virginian Was Tow- Ing Titanic. London, England, April 22 --Captain Haddock of the White Star line steamer Olympic denied on arriving at Plymouth from New York that the Olympic sent out a wireless report that the Allan liner Virginian was towing the Titanic and that all of the latter's passengers were safe. Passengers of the Olympic, which Is a sister ship of the ill fated Titanic, subscribed 17,000 to the relief fund for the survivors. ffi Will BvilId Three-Mile Tunnel. 'Seattle, Wash., April 24.--Work will begun May 1 by the Chicago, Mil- Vaukee & Pugdt Sound railroad on construction of a thTee-mile tun- .jgjpl through the Cascade mountains 'Jpuooat nearly ff,9OO,O0O. Shoots Wlf«», Baby and Self. New York, April 22-- Benjamin t'affney, a Brooklyn saloon-keeper, driven temporarily insane because of extended illness, shot and killed his e< ven-weeks-old baby, shot his wife and then attempted suicide by shoot­ ing himself and Jumping from a * oud Story Window. He will die. ISsSA* Foucth Officer Says Vessel So Close to Wreck He Could See Its Lights. ICEBERG THIRTY FEET HIGH Made ftftor* Difficult to fcs* Because Calmness Left no filpplee on Sur­ face of Se«-~Vlce President Tells of Efforts to Hush Up Disaster. Washington, April 23.--With succor only five miles away, the Titanic slid into Its watery grave, carrying with it 1,600 of its passengers and crew, while an unidentified steamer that might have saved all failed or refused to see the frantic signals flashed to it for aid. This phase of the tragic disaster was brought out before the senate in­ vestigating committee when J. B. Box- hall, fourth officer of the Titanic, told of his unsuccessful attempts to at­ tract the stranger's attention. According to Boxhall this ship could not hare been more tljan live miles away and was steamlt^ <t||ward the Ti­ tanic. So close was it ifcat from the bridge Boxhall plainly $%w its mast­ head lights and side light. Both with rockets and with the Morse electric signal the young officer tried to hail the stranger. Ship Saw Signals. Captain Smith and several others in the vicinity of the bridge declared at the time their belief that the vessel had seen them and was signaling in reply. Boxhall failed to see the re­ plies, however, and In any case the steamer kept on its course obliquely past the Titanic without extending aid. This, and the declaration by P. A. S. Franklin, vice president of the White Star line, that there were not sufficient lifeboats aboard the Titanic to care for the ship's company at one time, were easily the features of the hearing. The official was quizzed throughout the session on the messages exchang­ ed between the Carpathia and/himself after the ship had started for fJew York with the Titanic's survivors aboard. Among the survivors was J. Bruce Ismay, managing director of the line. Urged to Hold Cedric. Among the wireless telegrams read into the record was one from Mr. is­ may urging that the steamship Cedric be held until the Carpathia arrived with its 6orry burden. He declared he believed it most desirable that the crew be rushed out of the coun­ try as quickly as possible. He also, the message said, would sail on the Cedric, and asked that clothing be ready at the pier for him when the Carpathia docked. The senate's sub­ poenas blocked the plan. Mr. Franklin told the committee how he had asked to have the earlier reports of the Titanic disaster held up to avoid unnecessary alarm. He de­ nied any knowledge of the message signed by the White Star line and ad­ dressed to Representative Hughes of West Virginia about the ship's being towed to Halifax and that all pas­ sengers had been saved. Mr. Franklin acknowledged that be had issued reassuring statements when he had no facts on which to base them. The witness read from a sheaf of wireless telegrams received Monday morning. None of them contained any information of value, but It was upon this data that the line issued its state­ ments in an effort, said Mr. Franklin, to reassure inquirers. Gives Reporters News. When the actual news came, be said, he sent immediately for the reporters and proceeded to begin reading to them the lengthy wireless message from the Carpathia. giving the grue­ some news In considerable detail. "I began to read: 'Titanic went down this morning at 2:20,' and then 1 looked up," said Mr. Franklin. "There wasn't a reporter in the room. They were all racing for phones to get the news out to the world." Mr. Franklin denied that the White Star company had any intention to spirit away from the country any Ti­ tanic officers or crew or that the plans to return the survivors or the crew were prompted by any desire to suppress the facts. He said that nothing that the officers or crew could tell could affect what might be told by surviving passengers. Saw Vessel's Lights. That part of Boxhall's testimony relating to the unknown steamer was preceded by a statement that at Cap­ tain Smith's orders he had taken word of the ship's position to the wireless operators. "After that," Boxhall continued, "1 was on the bridge most of the time ENGLAND TO INVESTIGATE Couftt* Held on $10,000 Bonds. Traverse City, Mich., April 2%.--• William Witte and his wife wera bound over to the June term of court on bonds of $10,000 each. The court­ room was packed, and when tha d- fense attorney made a speech to the court he was hissed and the prosecu­ tor cheered. The couple were taken from court by the back door to pre­ vent violence. ^ Lord Mersey, as "Wrack Commission­ er," Will Look Into Titanic Horror. London, April 23.--As a result of a long debate on the Titanic catastro­ phe in the house of commons here. Sydney Buxton, president of the board of trade, has announced that Lord Mersey, ox-president of the admiralty division of the high court, would be the "wreck commissioner" for the English Investigation of the disaster and that he would be assisted by several commissioners whose names would be announced shortly. The White Star officials gave as­ surance to the commons that they would tak« the necessary steps to se­ cure the attendance of all members of the crew and such passengers as might be required to glv® evidence at the court of inquiry into the wreck- Mr. Buxton also announced that If the powers of the board of trade were Insufficient he would come to the 'ouse of commons for further powers. -- V sending out distress signals trying to attract tjie attention of boats ahead. 1 sent up distress rockets until 2 left the bridge to try to attract tho atten» tlon of a ship ̂ directly ahead. I had seen its lights. It seemed to be meet­ ing us and was not far away. It got close enough, so it seemed to me, to read our electric Morse signals. I told the captain. He stood with me touch of the time trying to signal it. He told me to tell it in Morse rocket signals, 'Come at once; we are slnle- ing.'" "Did any answer come?" asked Senator Smith. "I did not see them, but two men say they saw signals from that ship." Only Five Miles Away. "How far away do you think that ship was?" "Approximately five miles." Boxhall said he did not know what ship It was. "Have you learned anything about that ship since?" "No; some people say it replied to our rockets and our signals, but 1 did not see it." "By 'some people' whom do you mean?" "Not passengers, but stewards and the captain all declared they saw them." "What did you see on the ship?" "First we saw its masthead lights, and a few minutes later its red side­ lights. It wasystandlng closer." No Searchlight Aboard. "Suppose you had had a powerful searchlight on the Titanic, coirld you not have thrown a beam on the ves­ sel and have compelled Its attention?" "We might." In reply to a query by Senator New- land Boxhajl said the very calmness of £he sea made it more difficult to see the icebergs. "You say you could not see these great icebergs when in the seaboat, but you could hear the water lapping against them?" asked the senator. "Yes, sir. It was an oily calm and- we could see nothing in the small boats." "If the sea Is" smooth, then It is dif­ ficult to discern .these icebergs?" "Yes, sir. I believe if there had been a little ripple on the water, the Titanic would have seen it In time to avoid it." Boats' Capacity Sixty-Five. Boxhall said that under the weather conditions experienced at the time of the collision the lifeboats were sup­ posed to carry 65 persons. Under the regulations of the British board of trade. In addition to the oars, there were In the boat water breakers, wa­ ter dippers, bread, bailers, mast and sail and lights, and a supply of oil. All of these supplies, said Boxhall. were in the boats when the Titanic left Belfast.. He could not say whether they were In when the vessel left Southampton. Boxhall testified to the sobHety and good habits of his superior brother officers. Captain on Watch. Boxhall said he did not believe the captain had been away from the vicin­ ity of the bridge at any time during his watch. "When did you see the captain last?" asked Senator Smith. "\^hen be ordered me to go away in the boat." "Where were you at the time of the collision?" "Just approaching the bridge." Boxhall went to the bridge, where he found the first officer, Mr. Mur­ dock; the sixth officer, Mr. Moody, and Captain Smith. He Bald the captain asked what was the trouble and the first officer replied they had struck an Iceberg and added that he had borne to starboard and reversed his engines full speed after ordering the closing of water-tight doors. Tried to Take Thr^e More. Boxhall said h£ had rowed In the seaboat three-quartern of a mile when the Titanic went down. Before that he had rowed around the ship's stern to see If he could not take off three more persons for whom there was room. He abandoned that attempt, however, because he had with him only one man who knew how to han­ dle an oar and he feared an accident. His boat, he said, was the first picked up by the Carpathia. That was about 4:10 In the morning. "When you boarded the Carpathia did you see any lights on any other lifeboats?" "No. It was nearly daylight. It was daylight by the time I got my passen­ gers aboard the Carpathia." His Light Drew Carpathia. The Carpathia, he said, was steering by the green lights on his lifeboat. He said he saw no other lights. "Our green lights were special lights that I told one of the sailors to put In. I lighted them after we were lowered. The lights were very bril­ liant and attracted the Carpathia." "Did you see anyone get tn the life­ boats from the water or see any in the water?" "No, sir," sa!1 Boxhall. "If I had seen any in the water I should have taken them on the boat." Boxhall said that tb^ sea was calm and that In his opinion each of the lifeboats could have taken its full ca­ pacity. How many he had in his small seaboat he never knew. Mexican Leader Yields to U. 8. Washington, April 23.--Braulio Her­ nandez, a profninent Mexican and for­ merly secretary of state of Chihuahua, has voluntarily surrendered to the de­ partment of Justice to answer an in­ dictment at El Paso, Tex., charging him with conspiracy to violate Presi­ dent Taft's proclamation prohibiting the exportatlons of munitions of war to Mexico. TORNADO KILLS 50; Property Loss In Illinois and In­ diana $1,000,000. WIND WRECKS MANY HOMES Llat of Dead Probably Will Be 8welled When Rescuers Reach Isolated Sections and Wire Com­ munication. Chicago, April 23--It is estimated that the terrific tornado that swept Illinois and Indiana Sunday evening killed fifty, badly hurt twice as many, and done $1,000,000 In damage to property. Chicago escaped by a margin of less than fifty miles. From a point several miles this side of Grant Park, 111., to the southern extremity at Cairo a whirling, death-dealing storm swept the state, killing some, maiming others and leveling houses as if they were made of cardboard. All day relief expeditions worked feverishly taking care of the injured and searching debrik for others killed and hurt. In one case an entire fam­ ily was wiped out with the exception of the father, Just as they were eating their evening meal. Appeals for aid to Governor Deneen met with prompt response and hun­ dreds of tents were shipped to the stricken districts, while physicians, surgeons and nurses were recruited to save the lives of those who escaped death only to lie bruised and bleed­ ing amid the debris of their former homes. Not until the entire country swept by. the storm has been carefully ex­ amined will the full death list be known. Isolated farmhouses havjp been destroyed and their occupants killed and injured. Th.e battered and bruised body of a strange man was found lying in Momence river, near Grant Park. Bush, Kewanee, West Frankfort, Campus, Qrant Park, Willisville, Mur- phvsboro. Freeman, Limestone- and Lowell, 111., and various towns in In­ diana, were nearly swept from the map. Numerous instances are recorded where persons were driving when the storm struck them. Near Morocco, Ind., Miss Meta Hamlin and Bruce Hanger were in a buggy, racing to get home ahead of the storm. They lost the race, and when rescuers came along the road later they found both of them with their clothing hanging in shreds, lying among the wreckage of the buggy, while the horse had dis­ appeared. The whirling storm had picked buggy, occupants and horse up as If they had been straws, hurled them 100 feet from the road and flung them into a gully. Dr. H. F. Leedom of Morocco, Ind., who came to Chicago, told of the deaths of nine persons at and near Morocco. Together with Dr. C. F. Triplett he drove for miles through the devastated country in an automo­ bile, ministering to the sufferers. At Campus, 111., Nelson Husle, his wife and their oldest daughter were all killed when their house crashed down upon them, and two other chil­ dren were badly Injured. Mrs. David Jay of Kankakee, her mother, Mrs. Robert Hawkins, and a party of friends, had been making a Sunday afternoon call with friends In the country some distance from Kan­ kakee. Stone House Proves Death Trap. They were returning in a large car- riftgfiujvhen rain and hail began to fall and all ^ok refuge in a deserted stone house ne^r the Grundy county line. They were~«parcely In doors when the cyclone struclp the building, lifted the roof and hurled1 It down on them, and blew 'hvpart of tl>e walls. Mrs. J£y was almost instant ly killed and her mother, Mrs. Hawkins, was so badly injured that she is expected to die. A piece of pl&nk, part of the roof, was driven into her chest and penetrated her lungs. Every other member of the party •was more or leBs injured, and only prompt surgical attention saved the life of a young man In the party who was badly cut. The village of Bush in Williamson county, was almost entirely razed. Eighteen wete killed outright. Seventy-five houses, the hotel, post office, mining company's office and the railroad roundhouse were all torn from their foundations and hurled to the ground. Five persons were killed In one house, the home of Section Foreman Campbell of the Iron Mountain rail­ way. At Willisville the coal company's buildings and two rows of twenty-five houses were swept flat to the ground, several miners being killed. William Gambell and his two daugh­ ters were crushed to death when their house at Mount Prairie was demol­ ished. SUFFERED EVERYTHING For Fourier Years. Restored X© Heallli fey JLycfia EL. Pisske , ham's Vegetable , Compound. Elgin, HL--"After fourteen yesnof lufferiug everything from female com­ plaints, I am at last restored to health. 41 employed the beat doctors and ?n went to the hospital for treat­ ment and was told tfeirewas nohelpfor me. But while tak­ ing Lydia E. Pink- ham 's Vegetable Compound I began to improve and I continued its use until I was made well." --Mrs. HENRY LEISEBERG,743 Adams Si. KearneysviUe, W. Va.--"I feel it my duty to write and say what Lydia E. Pink ham'8 Vegetable Compound has done for me. 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Sick Headache, and Distress Alter Eating. SMALL PILL, SMALL DOSE, SMALL PRICE. Genuine must bear Signature GREATEST- LESSON OF LIFE CARTERS The One Thing Above All That a Woman 8hould Be Quick to Learn and Remember. The woman who makes good must be blessed with strength and health, and an ambition to learn and take ad­ vantage of every opportunity that comes her way. She must work with all her heart and play with all her heart; above all things avoiding in­ difference. Hers Is the temperament that rec­ ognizes that encouragement* is all nice and pretty, but if one is going to do the thing that counts one doesn't need it; that refuses to be dismayed by repeated failures and that has a certain faith that what has been done by many may be done by another; that nobody goes through life without disappointments, heartaches and the breaking of pet illusions; that there is nothing more common than trouble, but that it is the wise ones of earth that keep It in the background. That's the great lesson of life.--Exchange. Senate for Tobacco Appeal. Washington, April 23.--Without a dlBsentlng vote the senate passed the Cummins bill providing for an appeal to the Supreme court of the United States from the decision of the United States circuit court for the southern district of New York approving the reorganization of the American To­ bacco company. Question of Nationality. Customer--"I say, waiter, it's a nui­ sance having this menu all in French." Walter (with a wink)--"Nlver you Cnoind that, sorr--the cook Is Olrlah!" --London Opinion. 8ubtletles of Diplomacy. "Was that diplomat's note entirely polite and respectful?" asked one of­ ficial. "Up to a certain point," replied the other. "The phraseology was ex­ tremely deferential till it got down to the line 1 am yours with highest con­ sideration, etc., etc., etc.' 1 don't know what mental reservations may be concealed in all those et ceteras." Why Old Maids Paint. "Why does that old maid use much paint on her facer' "She* king up* for lost time." Just s Suggestion. Mrs. Bangs--"The people in the o^Xt suite to ours are ^f^ll/^annoylpf! They pound on the wall every time pur Annie sings. I wish we knew of some way to drive them out of the Mrs. Wangs--"Why not have "Annie keep on singing?" , Maintaining One's Rights. X' The proper time to malnUflu rights Is when they 4r® denied; the proper persons to maintain them ar? those to whom they are denied.-- Wendell Phillips. Women's College for Buddhists. A university is to be founded by the Buddhists for the high educaiiou of women. A meeting is reported to have taken place at the Nisht-Honganjl temple, Kyoto, in which it was unani­ mously decided to carry on the under­ taking as a work of the Women's As­ sociation of this Buddhist sect. The cost for the Institute Is estimated at 280,000 yen. THANKSGIVING PSALM A Rhythmical and Grateful Chant. A teacher in a Terre Haute publio school joins in the chorus: "Teaching is a business which re­ quires a great deal of brain and nerve force. Unless this force is renewpd as fast as expended the teacher is ex­ hausted before the close of the year. Many resort to stimulating tonics for relief. "For 3 years 1 struggled against al­ most complete exhaustion, getting what relief I could from doctors' ton­ ics. Then in the spring of 1903 I bad an attack of la grippe and ma­ laria which left me too weak to con­ tinue my work. Medicine failed to give me any relief, a change of cli­ mate failed. I thought I should never be able to go back in school again. "I ate enough food (the ordinary meats--white bread, vegetables, etc.), but was hungry after meals. "I happened at this time to read an article giving the experience of an­ other teacher who had been helped by Grape-Nuts food. I decided to try Grape-Nuts and cream, aa an experi­ ment. It was a delightful experience, and continues so after a. year and a hal? etf constant use./ j "First I notice^. 1 was not hungry d/ker ' ..V "In a tew' days jthat tired feeling left me, and I felt fresh and bright, in­ stead ^ dpll and.sleepy, , "In thjree months, more tnan my usual strength returned, and I had gained 15 pounds in ^eight. ^iJlnlsbed the year's work without any ktad>^of tonics--was not absent i^from duty even half a day.! 1A1? k65* 9* "beait^. with JvHrie woiuferingvat t-i^ im- JE' "Am- st hjxAn 1 fel| Megi all 'Try Gr^pe-NutsK'" Name giv^n h&- Postum Co., liattle .Creek, _ lereiTa reason." •vfc Ift trrT A'1 LEW ine t« time. ' Tfcpy of hsuMia V,' - -gjijafy Ever rf i<]' Mtf one a ppfp HttsJt •r« (em latcrat.