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'vsryrr u^y*; fV*v %7;^ r^y. rr -•^^% ̂ v* ^ Vy V% % *<* ^ ̂ ^~. ̂ ;,\.: ,;.. *x>, ^ ^47#^ <p croncu c< an BKMBTO®-̂ -# PBUUBDR MT CHARLES MORRIS BUTLER. '*Zie of Amt'^f^wawai^ 2^* ' I t A • rj-rf • mjMt Copyright. 1906, by CHAPTER XXVII. . In the Counterfeiters' Sen. The evening before the beginning of the Insurrection, Lang visited Schiller snd explained to the king that he was ready to go to work, requesting that Schiller give him permission to visit ®e counterfeiting den. As it was known that Louis was a printer and that he would presumably make a valuable addition to that force, his re­ quest was granted and he obtained his pass, which he presented at the door of the "den" very early the next morning. Lang was met at the door of the'of­ fice by the chief counterfeiter in per­ son, who was none other than Marcus Milton, one of the shrewdest rascals ever born. He has been instrumental In flooding certain districts In the United States with counterfeit money to such an extent that "good" money is thrown out as worthless. It 1b es­ timated by experts that he and his gang have succeeded In placing fully one million silver dollars on the mar­ ket that are not known from the gen- nine, containing full weight metal, but at a profit of over $500,000. He was caught in the act and sentenced to Auburn for thirty years, but managed to escape. He was engaged at the present in the. manufacture of $10 notes under the protection of the city. Milton read the order presented to him by Lang and very graciously con­ ducted Louis into the office," where they chatted together about Chicago snd things in general. "I am a printer," said Louis, "but I have never seen any bills of the char­ acter of money printed." "The 'printing' of money," said Mil­ ton, who liked to air his knowledge about the business, "is never seen by any but trusted government officials-- and perhaps no one man sees a bill •printed' in its entirety. By 'printing,' I mean lithographing, the making of paries Morris Butler. 1 "Quick!" cried Louis;. "get the jilate together and get away." Milton again stooped down to un­ lock the safe. Louis drew his re­ volver, Milton thought for the defense of the plate, but Louis was only wait­ ing to see the door swing back before engaging in a death struggle for the possession of the same. The plate had cost ten lives? Would there be an eleventh? Milton never would yield the treasure while life and consciousness remained. The scene was in Lang's favor. It was the intention of the convicts to capture every prominent building that they could. They arrived at the door of the printing office demanding admission. . Louis grew impatient. He did not wish to be seen carrying off the plate. It had been his intention to jnake his' escape unnoticed from the rear in the confusion. Milton grew nervous. Something made him hesitate. At the final turn, instead of unlocking, he turned the lock wrong and quickly sprang to his ffeet. Louis saw by the expression of the man's face that he suspected the plot, and then came a hand to hand struggle. Milton hurled himself against Lang. "I see it all!" snarled Milton.' "This Is a plot to rob me of the plate! It Is now your death or mine!" Even when the final struggle came Lang did not like to kill Milton. Time and time again as the combatants, locked in each other's embrace, wrig­ gled and turned and bit and clawed, scuffled around the room, Lang tried to hit his foe upon the head with the butt end of his revolver, but each time Milton parried the blow. Milton was a strong man, but his work, although not confining, had made him slow of action. He was possessed of but one thought, that of killing Louis, though in doing so he gave up his own life. <$> SSsft'-S It all I" snarled Milton. This is a plot to rob me «f the plate!" It the paper, the numbering, signing, etc. Here one man does see all; I do. For we have but one press, and but one steel engraving to work from. The paper we use here is furnished by a jJLrm which deals in bogus continental and confederate money. It is the near­ est approach to the real paper that any one has yet devised. The threads Interwoven in the paper are almost Identical, save for a peculiar circular, instead of straight up and down, weave and the flattened ends, which none but experts can detect. 1 print the front of the note first," Mid Milton, guiding Lang into the prfess room, "so that should there be a flaw in the press work (which is different, from engraving)--for in­ stance, a. blurred impression--the printing of the back, which is verj seldom glanced at as critically as the front, will flatten out the note. Then by a process devised by myself, a new note is made to took as if it were about a year old. I have so much time to myself that I do not care to print the front and back together. They are too valuable to run any chance of mutilation. While one-half la on the press the other half I keep locked in my private safe. The en­ gravings were made by Glen Hall, the die-maker, and cost $10,000 in good money to produce. It Is the finest tool' outside the government office to­ day. It has cost ten lives to keep from the authorities so far." Thus far into the morning none of the counterfeiters had deported to work. Lang and Milton were startled by hearing the discharge of cannon. Milton very hastily took the plate off the press and ran with it into his of­ fice, closely followed by Lang, Milton became suspicious immediately, but he tried not to show any alarm--he scarcely dared to think there was a plot on foot. Looking out through the grated win­ dow of his office Milton saw the troops getting ready to fire upon the walls and government buildings. "A riot!" he exclaimed. "Guard the plate while I bring in the numbering machine," and he left the plate with Lang while he ran into the pressroom and brought in the numbering ma­ chine. "This little machine is what makes our bills good," he added. "If I was not on to the system of number­ ing the bills they would be easily de­ tected. The system of numbering is more intricate than the signing, which is very easy of imitation when you know how." While talking Milton laid down the machine beside the engrav­ ing of the front of the note upon the top of the safe, while* he reached down - and began to turn the knob of the safe to form the combination. A cannon ball, thrown from a posi­ tion near the right wall of the town, struck the side of the den; Milton sprang to his feet; Lang ran to the window. They looked out; the town was alive with people. The convicts had now been liberated from prison, and armed to the teeth were madly fighting their way towards the king's mansion and the general supply store, and some were coming toward the ; TlnttTir nfllM. camp as a ire.»tor and a spy," said Hawks. Under ordinary circumstances Lang would have done well to have bought off Hawks, but he considered that he had not implicated himself. Hawks might or might not be really aware of the co-partnership existing between Denver and Lang. It would not do to trust the schemer too far. So Lang refused to compromise, resolving to risk being brought up before Schiller, and trusting to be liberated by that worthy In view of the partnership ex­ isting between them. The victorious party, after ransack­ ing the office, set off toward the pal­ ace of the king. Whether they meant really to go to him or to some one who might now be in charge is only con­ jecture. Half of the town was In ruins, the walls and several buildings were quite effectually destroyed, but the bombardment had ceased. The convicts had mastered the situation, and then discovered that they had been fighting for nothing--after they gained their freedom. To continue to demolish and kill would only be to cripple themselves. They realized, when almost too late, that they had been mkde catspaws of by a shrewd band of conspirators who n'ow were leaving them to answer for their sins. Rodgers, Golden and Black Jack, dur­ ing the first melee, had magged to make their escape unobserved. But Lang, unfortunately, was left In the hands of the mob! (TO be continued.) A Lucky Awkwardness. An old, steady-going farmer was ac­ customed to ride to the market town upon a rather bad-tempered horse. One day his boy Bob brought the an­ imal, who was especially vicious that morning, round to the door, and held him by the bridle while waiting for the farmer to come out. The horse tried to bite and kick.the lad, and gave him a good deal of trouble, but at last the farmer ap­ peared, mounted the horse with some difficulty and began walking it out of the yard. Then Bob, who still enter­ tained ill-feeling against the animal, caught up a stone and flung it at him with all his force; but, alas! his aim was erratic and the missile struck his master on the back of the head. Half-dazed for a moment, the farm­ er turned slowly round in his saddle, and, never suspecting the real cause of the blow, he measured with his eye the distance from the horse's hind hoofs to his own head, and, settled himself in the saddle again, started his mount into a trot with the re­ mark: "Well, he always was a awkward beggar. / The convicts had heard the scuffle on the inside; they grew tired of wait­ ing for a reply to their summons, and brought a battering ram to play upon the door, shattering the' door into fragments. The combatants on the inside had managed to throw themselves out of harm's way and Milton had Louis pinned up against the wall, slowly squeezing the wind out of our hero. Up to this time Louis had refrained from trying to kill Milton. The time for desperate action arriving, Louis thrust the gun against the counter­ feiter's breast and pulled the trigger. His antagonist fell to the floor, with­ out a murmur, just as the convicts sprang across the threshold. The convicts, under the leadership of Bill Hawks, rushed upon Louis and in a moment disarmed him. No pro­ testation by Louis that he was one of them availed him; the convicts seemed assured that he was an enemy and proceeded to tie his hands behind his back. The leader of the gang in the meantime knelt down before the safe and proceeded to open the same. First he took his knife and cut a gash in the index finger of his right hand, to attempt to feel when the combination struck the right clink. For about a minute Hawks worked at the safe, turning the knob very slowly. At last he seemed to have struck the right combination, and in a jiffy he guessed two numbers which to him seemed to fit the first combination, and strange to say opened the safe. Bill Hawks, the safe cracker, was a very superior gentleman in that line. Bill Hawks, we may say, was no fool. He knew just what he was do­ ing when he went after the plate. "I know you, Louis Lang," Hawks said, when he and Louis were left alone to­ gether for'% minute. "How much will you give me for that plate?" "Nothing," replied Louis, surprised at the man's tone. The man leered at Louis, insinuat­ ingly. "I am not blind! It was never your intention to deliver this plate to Black Jack. You and Bl^xsk Jack mean, to play us false." LouU couldn't guess whether Hawks was trying him or not. Things began to look very blue for him, but he man­ aged to keep calm. "You can think A?nat you like. I am a personal friend to Schiller now, and to Black Jack I am known as his leader in this revolt. You are the man who will be held re­ sponsible for the plate, not me!" "Enough of this folly!" Hawks ex­ claimed. "I know who and what you are! You are a pupil of Jim Denver! From him I want my life for this plate --and I get it, or5 I get your life! See?" Lang was dumfoundid. This was a fix he had not anticipated getting into. What was the best thing for him to do under the circumstances? "If you know who I am why don't you give me the plate, and trust me to protect you from him?" "Because I can't trust yon! I want to see Denver." "I cannot make a bargain w&h' yon, then." "Then I march you Ipto Schiller's Aeter McConnell's Wit. The late William McConnell was one of the greatest threatrical jokers of his time. Augustus Thomas wrote a part for McConnell in the short lived "Cham­ pagne Charley." He had not teen on the stage for years, and it was thought that his characteristic humor might be amusing in the theater. t That assumption proved incorrect, and McCohnell retired from the show before its crush. Then a vaudeville sketch called "The Editor" was writ ten for him, and he tried that for two weeks. "Vaudeville's all right, I suppose," he said afterward, "but it didn't agree with me." "What was wrong?" asked one ol his friends. "Well, I began In Chicago in a roof garden on top of a sixteen story sky­ scraper. The next week I went to St. Louis and played in Uhrig's Cave. Could you beat anything like that? As I said, I think vaudeville is all right, but I could not stand the sudden changes In the climate."--Washington Post. Found His Gimlet. The Story goes, says B. F. Foster oi Milford, N. H., that "Daddy" Hay, who. once lived at the corner of High and South streets in that town, lost a gim­ let and couldn't find it. Days passed--no gimlet. It was the man's habit to pray in his home circle, and when In prayer he always swung backward and forward. His eyes were always closed when he went forward and open when he drew backward. In the house the beams and rafters were visible overhead, and on a cer­ tain day, as he was at his devotions, his eyes opened and caught sight ol that long-lost implement for boring holes, which was on a rafter overhead, where he had left It. His surprise was so great that he forgot to proceed with his prayer and excitedly ejaculated: "There's that durned old gimlet"--or words that sounded like It. His Own Translator. At one of the hotels there is a negro boy who runs an elevator in the day time and Btudies English literature at night A few days ago he was given his envelope with a small fine deduct­ ed for some breach of the regulations. Quite indignant he went to the cashier and began: "Mr. Gardner, if you should ever find It within the scope of your juris­ diction to levy an assessment on my wage for some trivial act, alleged to have been committed by myself, I would suggest that you refrain from exercising that prerogative. The.fail­ ure to do so would of necessity force me to tender my resignation." The cashier tottering reached for his chair, but managed to ask what was meant. "In othah words, if you fine me ag'in ah'm goin' to quit."--Kansas City Times. - Silent Woman* The opposition to the payment o! the church tax In Scotland is occa­ sionally relieved by a ray of humor. Quite recently Rev. J. Stephenson, president of the Free church council, resolved to face a week's incajcera tion rather than submit to taxation. He had no property which could be distrained upon, and on the form which he received on which to state what he was willing to hand over to be Bold he wrote: "Self." In the next column. In which he was required to state the value of the goods, he lnsertedj: "Wife won't Say."--London Stand Hi STEADY GROWTH OF TRADE: Each Succeeding Month of the Past Year ' • 'YC ,W ' /? , • Conditions* Phenomenal activity, reaching to every branch of trade and industry, marked the year 1906. During the summer of 1904 the na­ tion began to recover from a prolong­ ed season of business stagnation. AB the months of that year progressed, conditions became more and more fa­ vorable. Both in speculation and In the lines of actual Industry the spirit of revival was extant, and the end of the year witnessed conditions that were gratifying to business interests in the extreme. With the dawn of 1905 this state of affairs continued, and throughout the twelve months growth in all lines of commercial enterprise was main­ tained. There was not a month .In which the financial position of the nation was not strengthened. The business of the country gained momentum as the year progressed, until In the final weeks the most remarkable state of activity ever displayed In the history of the United States was witnessed. Remarkable in many respects, the distinctive feature of 1905 In Its finan­ cial and commercial aspect was its evenness. No machinery ran more easily, more smoothly than the mate­ rial currents. It was a steady ad­ vance in production and consumption; a constant increasing demand for banking accommodations; an accumu­ lation of deposits, the immediate in­ dex of expanding wealth. The latter half of the period developed a demand for supplies which taxed the capacity of factories, mills and mines to supply. This was the stimulation of an un­ precedented crop of grains upon a market expanded to normal propor­ tions. The earlier activity was the continuation of the previous year, when business revived from a year of stagnation and Inactivity, from a year of liquidation and pessimism. The movement gathered force during the winter, and with the open weather the building operations of the people be­ came general, calling every idle hand into use. The indices of ma'terial af­ fairs pointed to a strong pressure everywhere, reflect the bounty of Dame Fortune In the ranks of the capitalist and the laborer. 8TRENGTH IN MONEY CENTER8. Greatest Fear of All «n the Stock Exchanges. Considered from almost any and every point of view, but gauged par­ ticularly by New York stock exchange standards, 1905 has been the great­ est year of all. Whereas 1903 brought the stock market deluge for the sins of excessive trust promotion, commer­ cial over-expansion and speculative debauches of immediately previous years, and 1904 brought the moderate afterclap of the upheaval of the ex­ changes In moderate commercial re­ pression, the year now closed has been tuned to one dominant note--op­ timistic progress. The signs are many, but a few stand sat so strongly as proof of develop­ ment that to cite them is conclusive. Briefly, these may be summarized as follows: Never has the farm wealth of the country equaled that of 1905. Commercial failure liabilities, In spite of exceptional banking disturb­ ances of sporadic character, have been less actually and relatively than In any period since the panic days of 1S93, with the exception of 1899. Total deposits of the national banks of the country are greatest In history, and aggregate loans of the banks like­ wise at the highest level indicate that money is being closely employed. Using pig Iron production as one of the tests of general industry, an esti­ mated increase of about 37% per cent In both production and consumption indicates unparalleled activity. Railway earnings of the roads of the country roughly exceed all pre­ vious records by 7% per cent. Both imports and exports of mer­ chandise In the foreign trade of the country once more have attained new high records. Prices of leading securities, both railway and industrial, used to ascer­ tain the mean level of stock market values, during the last month of the year have eclipsed all previous high marks. Speculation of the country, as meas­ ured by the sales of stocks bn the New York stock exchange, has sur­ passed even the enormous totals of 1901, when trust financing was at its height. When the year opened, progress, de­ layed enough for a season In the year previous to show temporarily de­ creased railway traffic, steel and Iron depression, dormant speculation and glutted money markets, had been re­ sumed. The success of the crops Of 1904, and the very pientifulness of money supplies the world over were the baslt on which this resumption started. 8ELF-MURDER ON THE INCREASE. Given good harvests progroaa al­ ways is more or less certain, but the factor of cheap money just a year ago and the knowledge that In 1903 liqui­ dation had cleaned out most of the weakest spots In business brought up one pertinent argument before mer­ chant, manufacturer, banker and spec­ ulator. That was that, with ever-in­ creasing money wealth to create new and abundant credit on which to build new enterprises, there was no, reason why all doubts of the future should not be cast aside. During 1904 demand loans of stock market collateral in New York-- usually the best test of money sur­ plus or scarcity In the country--went as low as one-half of 1 per cent, and even in the usually tight month of December did not get above 6 .per cent. Time loans in the same market had been placed as low as 1% per cent and not above 5 per cent. And all the time the increased gold produc­ tion in the Transvaal, Australia, Alas­ ka and the United States proper add­ ed abundantly to the stores of money wealth of the world. In November of 1904 much stress had been laid on the fact that the to­ tal deposits of the national banks of the country had reached the pinnacle of $5,330,639,949. Each recurring re­ port of the comptroller of the cur­ rency, however, showed this record surpassed, until that one published last month showed total national bank deposits at $5,554,845,194. Of the total deposits at the close of 1904 New York held $1,224,206,600, or a little less than one-fifth, and of the total loans of the country New York had accommodations to the extent of $1,145,989,200, or more than one-third. RAILROAD8 HAVE MADE MONEY. Earnings of Lines Go Over Two Bil­ lion Dollars. For the first time the steam rail­ roads of the United States have earn­ ed more than $2,000,000,000 in one year, the high water mark being reached In 1905. Not only were the gross earnings heavier than in any previous year, but the net earnings were also larger, despite the fact that more money was spent for physical improvements, locomotives, freight and passenger cars than in any for­ mer year. The number of freight cars built In 1905 was 166,455, an Increase of 3,000 over any former year, while the num­ ber of passenger cars built was 2,551, an increase of over 400. There were 5,491 locomotives built in 1905, an in­ crease of 2,000 over the previous year and of 450 over 1903, the next largest year. There were 4,979 miles of new rail­ road built last year, 700 miles more than in 1904, the total mileage of the end of 1905 being 217,328 miles. The greatest activity in railway construc­ tion was in the Southwestern and Northwestern states, in these two sec­ tions more than half the year a mile­ age being built. The coming year will see a great amount of new road built In the Northwest, as the St. Paul, Burlington, and Gould lines are trying to rush extensions to the Pa­ cific coast, and the Northwestern Is also developing Its system. FARM URICES SLIGHTLY LOWER. Inevitable When the Enormous Crops Are Considered. With enormous crops of grain over the West it is natural that farm prices should average lower, but declines as compared with the high average of 1904 were small as compared with years prior to 1904, with the exception of corn, oats, and barley, which are lower. Farm prices Dec. 1 for the past six years as reported by the De­ partment of Agriculture compare as follows: 1905. 1904. 1903. 1902. 1901. 1900. Wheat, per bu. 78.2 f2.4 69.3 63.0 62.4 61.9 Corn, per bu. .. 41.2 44.1 42.5 40.3 60.5 35.7 Oats, per bu. .. 29.1 31.3 34.1 30.7 39.9 25.8 Rye, per bu. .. 60.7 68.8 54.5 50.8 55.7 51.2 Barley, per bu. 40.3 42.0 45.6 45.8 45.3 40.8 Flax seed, per bu 95.0 99.3 Buckwheat, per bu 58.7 62.2 80.7 59.5 56.3 55.7 Potatoes, per bu 61.7 45.3 61.4 -47.1 76.7 43.1 Hay, per ton . 48.52 $8.72 $9.08 $9.06 10.01 $8.89 ENORMOUS SUMS GIVEN AWAY. More Than $66,000,000 Distributed by Generous Philanthropists. The contributions to charitable and educational institutions during the year just past have exceeded those of 1904 by a large sum. The total amount of gifts reach the immense figure of $65,104,432, or $137 a minute. The records upon which these fig­ ures are based are necessarily incom­ plete, as the amounts published from day to day In the papers are taken to -e4mpile the estimate, arid $5,000 has been the minimum considered. It is probable that the multiplicity of small donations would raise the total by $10,000,000 at least. Individual givers, Number of Year's Suicides and the Causes Therefor. One of the most lamentable fea­ tures of the year's record of violence- is the proof that self-murder in this country is steadily increasing. The number for 1905 is 9,982, as compared with 9,240 In 1904. The steadiness of the Increase la shown in the follow­ ing table: 1899 i.340 IMS 8,597 7900 6,755 1904 9,240 ST 7,245 1906 9,982 8,291 The proportion of suicides as be­ tween men and women retrains about the same. About twice as many men commit suicide as women every year. The number in 1905 were 6,556 men and 3,426 women. Physicians, as usual. head the list among profes­ sional men, the number In 1905 having been 34, as compared with 32 in 1904, 35 in 1903, and 52 in 1902. The vari* ous causes of these suicides were as follows: PupopJmy •••••••• .4,134 l&UUll ...... .1,"826 Pain--tin Infellctty 1,525 ' US Unknown 111 health ...... Liquor Buatnesa losses 721 411 375 -32 WARFARE HAS CLAIMED MANY. Killed in Battle Number More Than During 1904. The number of killed and wounded in war during 1905 exceeds the record of 1904, notwithstanding the close of the Russo-Japanese contest. The to­ tal for the year is about 540,000, as compared with 400,000 in 1904, 86,000 in 1903, 26,000 in 1902 and 3,000 in 1901. The loss is distributed about as follows: Russo-Japanese war, 298,- 965; Russia, civil strife and massacre, 162,000; Transcaucasia, 6,900; Africa, 1,690; Philippines, 535; Morocco, 580; Bast Indies, 260; Bulgaria, 134; Mace­ donia, 61; Armenia, 27. DECREASE IN LO8SE8 BY FIRE. Lee* by 128,000,000 Than Theee of & - Year 1904. The total fire losses in 1905 will be about $112,000,000, or about $28,000,- in 1904. too, arc here accounted for only, which fact prevents the list from en­ rolling the big contributions to the Russian Jews. More than one-third of the contribu­ tions has gone to educational institu­ tions. 'Eighty-two colleges and schools are named in that part of the annual report, though, even so, the gifts to this cause would not have stood In such overwhelming proportion to the benefactions of the whole twelve­ month had not the three largest dona­ tions of all fallen under this head. In April Mr. Carnegie set by $10,000,000 as a fund for aged educators, followed a month later by Mr. Rockefeller, With another $10,000,000 for the cause of general education, while the tragic death of Mrs. Inland Stanford threw into this same scale $4,875,000 more. The dozen most "lucky" universities rank then as follows: Leland Stanford ......... .$4,875,000 Harvard ...... 1,600.000 Yale ........ 1.405,00C Chicago .......... l.iso.ooo Union Theological seminary 1,100,000 McCormlck seminary 1,S0GP000 Millikin university 1,000,000 Columbia ...... 689,000 University of Virginia 610,000 Brown .. ...... 550,000 Princeton 437,000 University of California 400,000 Following education the benefac­ tions of 1905 rank as follows: To gal­ leries, museums and societies of kin­ dred aims went $7,024,000; to "homes," hospitals and asylums, $5,- 391,600, with $4,700,175 to miscellane­ ous charities. Church works of vari­ ous sorts followed close with $4,424,- 767, and $1,993,000 for library build­ ings. Add to these totals $2,435,000 which came in gifts other than of cash, though valued "officially," and this country is found to have received in all $84,089,432--$2,015,000 was sent to dc Its work in foreign fields. The "roll of honor," where one may rank the givers of millions,.reads: Andrew Carnegie ... John D. Rockefeller ... Mrs. Jane L. Stanford. Stephen Salisbury ...... John C. King General Isaac J. Wis tar. Mrs. E. D. Rand -. Henry Phtpps Margaret A. Jones....;. Mrs. Emmons Blaine ... George W. Clayton ..... Benjamin Ferguson ;... Cyrus McCormick James Millikin W. P. Milton $14,099,009 ........... 11,635,000 4,985,000 3,450,000 2,000,000 2,000,000 1,250.<000 ........... 1,060,000 • 1,025,000 l.ooo.ooo 1,000,000 ...Y....... 1,000,000 1,000,000 1,000,000 1,000,000 DEATH LIST IS A LONG ONE. Many Lines Prominent Men In All Called During 1905. . Among the persons of world wide reputation, leaders in their various departments of the world's activities, who died during the year 1905 are: Jan., 4, Theodore Thomas, the pioneer of orchestral music and lifelong advo­ cate of the higher music in America; Jan. 9, Louise Michel, the French so^ cialistic agitator; Jan. 16, Robert Lo- ralne Gilford, one of the best of the* old school American landscape paint­ ers; Jan. 18, George H. Boughton, the English landscape painter, whose works are well known In this coun­ try; Feb. 9, Adolph Wilhelm Menzel, the greatest of modern German paint­ ers; Feb. 15, Lew Wallace, the sol­ dier and novelist; Feb. 16, Jay Cooke, the successful financier of the civil war; Feb. 17, Grand Duke Sergius of Russia; March 23, Jules Vernes, the brilliant French novelist; Feb. 25, Pie- tro Tacchina, the Italian astronomer; April 23, Joseph Jefferson, the beloved and popular actor; May 26, Baron Al- phonse de Rothschild, governor of the Bank of France; June 13, Baron Na­ thaniel de Rotchschild, the Austrian representative of the financial house; June 13, Archduke Joseph of Austria; jlune 17, Maximo Gomez, the Cuban patriot; July 1,' John Hay, secretary of state, whose successful diplomacy helped to make the United States a world power; July 4, Jacques Elisee Recius, the French geographer; July 23, Jean Jacques Henner, the modern Titian among artists; Aug. 20, Ad- olphe William Bouguereau, the well- known French figure painter; Aug. 21, Mary Mafer Dodge, the editor of St. Nicholas; Aug. 31, Francesco Ta- magno, the Italian operatic singer; Sept. 18, George MacDonald, the Eng­ lish novelist; Sept. 22, Mme. Galll- Marie, the French prima donna; Sept. r21, Dr. Thomas John Barnardo, the London philanthropist and "father of the waifs"; Oct. 12, Sir Henry Irving, the English actor; Oct. 22, Florent Wlllems, at the head of the Belgian landscape school; and Nov. 6, Sir George Williams, founder of the Young Men's Christian association. In politics the leading names of the dead are those of Secretary Hay, Sen­ ators Hawley and Piatt of Connecti­ cut, George Si Boutwell of Massachu­ setts, John H. Reagan of Texas and Gen. Fitzhugh Lee. Conspicuous in the religious list are the names of Bishops Merrill and Joyce of the Methodist Episcopal church, Bishop McLaren of the Prot­ estant Episcopal church and Arch­ bishop Chapelle of the Roman Cath­ olic church. LEGAL EXECUTIONS IN 1905. V Reports From All the States Show a Slight Increase. The number of legal executions In 1905 was 133, as compared with 116 in 1904. Classified by states and ter­ ritories the record is as follows: Ala­ bama, 11; Arkansas, 3; California, 6; Colorado, 3; Connecticut, 1; Florida, 2; Georgia, 5; Illinois 3; Indiana, 1; Kentucky, 5; Louisiana, 7; Maryland, 5; ^Mississippi, 6; Missouri, 4; New Jersey, -4; New York, 7; Nevada, 6; North Carolina, 6; North Dakota, 1; Ohio, 1; Oregon, 1; Pennsylvania 15; South Carolina, 1; Tennessee, 9; Text as, 6; Virginia, 10; Vermont, 1; Wash­ ington, 2; District of Columbia, 1; In­ dian Territory, 2. There were 51 hanged in the north and 82 in the south, of whom 73 were negroes, 59 whites, and 1 Chinaman. There was one woman hanged in Vermont. The crimes for which they were executed were murder, 124; rape, 9. A diet of pleasure 1b apt to result in a bad case of moral dyspepsia. WOMEN WHO SUFFER Dr. Williams' Pink Pills tho On* Remedy Particularly Suited For . Feminine Ilia. To women who suffer Dr. William# Piuk Pills are worth their weight in gold. At special periods a woman heed* medicine to regulate her blood supply or her life will be a round of pain and suf­ fering. Dr. Williams' Fink Pills am absolutely the finest medicine that a woman took. They actually uew blood. Tliey are good for uieu too --but they an good iu a special way for women. - "It was three years ago last spring that my health failed me," says Mrs Arthur Couklin, of No. 5 Coldwater street, Battle Greek, Mich. «• I suffered from leucorrhoea aud other troubles that, I presume, were caused by the weakness it produced. I had sinking spells, nervous headaches, was weak and exhausted all the time aud looked like a walking skeleton. " My back and limbs would ache aJU most continually and there were days when I was absolutely helpless from sick headache. I tried one doctor after another but cannot say that they help>ed me at all. My liver was sluggish and I was troubled some with constipation. " One day a physician who has uow retired from practice met my husband on the street and inquired about my health. He advised luy husband to get some of Dr. Williams' Pink Pills for me, said they were a good medicine, better for my trouble than he could put up. I tried them, improved steadily and soon was entirely cured. As soon as the leucorrhoea .was cured the headaches and other pains stopped. I am entirely well now but intend to continue to use Dr. Williams' Piuk Pills as a spring tonic." The genuine Dr. Williams' Pink Pills are sold by all druggists and by the Dr. Williams Medicine Company, Soheafip* Useful Dairy Product. f Mm. Silver was a serious-minded person at all times, but there were moments when her neighbor the bish­ op was frivolous. The bishop had just returned from spending the win* ter in South Carolina. Mrs. Silver, after greeting him warmly, asked what feature of life in the South made the greatest im­ pression on him. "Well," replied the bishop after a moment of deep thought. "I dont know of anything that impressed me more than seeing a lot of cows eating oyster shells." "Did you observe?" queried Mrs. Silver earnestly, "that this diet made any perceptible difference in the fla­ vor of the milk?" "I should say I did!" responded the bishop. "Why, my dear woman, all the cows in South Carolina give ter soup."--The Sunday Magazine. ( *! Chinaman Won Victory. JL Chinaman named Ah Zlck has dM>* feated the Australian commonwealth. The commonwealth authorities found that he was a "prohibited Immigrant" because he could not write a passage of English bristling with treacherous words. Ah Zick appealed and the Judge sustained his appeal on the ground that the passage contained fifty-three words Instead of fifty, aa prescribed by the act. His honor, m6reover, declared that there were thousands of British-born people who could not write such a passage cor­ rectly. Discuss Municipal Problems. Sir Edwin Cornwall, chairman ot tne London county council, has is­ sued to the press a proposal for an international congress of represen­ tatives of capitals having over 500,000 population to meet annually for the discussion of municipal methods. Important to Mother*. Bxtmtae carefully every bottle of CASTOSEA, a Mfe and sare remedy for Infants and childna, and see Uua it Bean the Signature of IS Da* Foe Over SO Years. 93M Kind You Hate Aimtfa ""iH A New Jersey court has declined to issue an injunction forbidding a wom­ an to nag her husband. When a man marries he knows what he has to ex­ pect, and the law has.no power,40 in­ terfere. A Canadian paper has the ^tarthng headline, "No More Yankee Hogs!" But keep cool. The term was not used metaphorically. Camilla Flammarion says that Man Is several millions of years older than the earth. That accounts for its can­ als being finished. - 1 m OPEN PUBLICITY THB BBMT < GUmtXNTY OF MERIT. When the maker of a medicine, sold through druggists for family use, takes his patients fully into his confidence by frankly and fearlessly publishing broad­ cast as well as on ita bottle wrappers, a full list of all its ingredients in plain English, this action on his part Is the best possible evidence that he is not afraid to have the search light of inves­ tigation turned full upon his formula and that it will bear the fullest scrutiny and the most thorough investigation^ Dr. Pierce's Favorite Prescription tor the cure of the weaknesses, periodical pains and functional derangements of the or­ gans distinctly feminine, is the only medi­ cine put up for sale through druggists tor woman's special use, the maker of which is not afraid to take his patients into his full confidence by such open and honest publicity. . , ^ A glance at the published ingredients on each bottle wrapper, will show that it is made wholly from native, American, medicinal roots, that it contains no poi­ sonous or habit-forming drugs, no nar­ cotics and no alcohol--pure, triple-refined glyoerine, of proper strength being used instead of the commonly employed alco­ hol, both for extracting and preserving the active medicinal properties found In the roots of the American forest plants employed. It Is the only medicine for women's pecular diseases, sold by drug­ gists, that does not contain a large per­ centage of alcohol, which is in the long riui so harmful to woman's delicate, nerv­ osa system. Now, glycerine is perfectly harmless, and serves a valuable purpose by possessing intrinsic value all its own, ana besides it enhances the curative effect of the other Ingredients enterlM into the "Favorite Prescription." Some of the ablest medical writers and teachers endorse these views and praise all the several ingredients of which "Fa­ vorite Prescription" is composed--rec­ ommending them for the cure of the very same diseases ter which this werld- famed medicine is advised. No other medicine for women has any such pro- fettional endorsement--worth more than any number of ordinary testimonials. If Interested, send name and address to Dr. R. V. Pierce, Buffalo, N. Y., for his little boek of extracts from the works of eminent medical writers and teachers, endorsing the several Ingredients telling lust what Dr. Pierce's medicines .trill. HOT* Iff JVI • - S> ,