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' >•' " f t y.?: , ' - g||f , :*W.. p|m--* ty ff?,v*. -:, V'^£i::Y ::"^i' •• ^ 1^1/ sy&&se Tic McHenry Plaindealer wjlliam Published by F. 0. 8CHRE1NEW. McHENRY. ILLINOIS. Many a man who can "write books cooldn't write any life insurance. Inasmuch as "Lucky" Baldwin left a fortune of $30,000,000, It t» fair to i sumo that he was. Fondness for the balloon often the enthusiastic persons to be > Ifcuite carried away with it. It is discovered that an Arkansas preacher has been a counterfeiter. But It is only fair to consider what the contribution plate failed to do for him. The government in Germany in­ tends to arm the military, balloons with light guns. They will naturally prefer air rifles. ' . Pennsylvania man cuts off his finger with an ax to prove to his wife that he is brave. But how much braver it would have been to cut off her finger. Uncle Sam his stopped recruiting for the army as the ranks are full. Increased pay and better conditions of service make army life much more attractive than formerly.* Pennsylvania girl goes to a doctor to be treated for a sore throat, and he removes her appendix. Which is something like cutting off a leg to cure earache. Detroit divorced couple had to ask the courts for permission to remarry. Good! The law ought to decide wheth­ er people are to be allowed to make tools of themselves twice. TTie use of drums in the Russian army in times of war has been abol­ ished. Thus has the war against the noises of civilization gained another point All the waiters In one New York hotel have to have their nails mani­ cured every day by a professional. Any impairment of the skill to palm • tip? More than 100 college graduates are to play in the big leagues. That ought to hold for a while those who carp at the benefits of higgler edu­ cation. A Milwaukee court has decided that a lady must not raise her skirt more than 14 inches. No use talking, it's getting harder every day to be * per­ fect lady. It's a pity that some of the knowl­ edge that the men on the fleet ac­ quired on their trip around the 'world wKh regard to saving coal can't be im­ parted to oar servant girls. While the British send on an aver­ age two telegrams a head each year, according to government statistics, the Americans send only one and one- tenth and the Germans nine-tenths. According to the Gentlewoman, "Few trousers will be cut this year with the bottoms made for wearing turned up." This may be true, says the Cleveland Plain Dealer, but wouldn't it be well for the Gentlewom­ an to keep to her own side of the lance? rw The new catalogue of Columbia uni­ versity shows the total number of of­ ficers of the administration and In­ struction to be 670; the total number of resident students 5,633, as against 5,159 last year. Since the last cata­ logue was published eight special funds have been created by specific K*v' j * „ gift or bequest. Dr. Long, the naturalist, says that men are more savage than beasts-- that If animals have a corner In food, they share it loyally with their less fortunate comrades and, unlike men, take no more than they need for them­ selves. But Dr. Long has been stamped by an eminent authority as a nature faker. & ah At a Chinese banquet In San Fran­ cisco sgg» 100 years old were the greatest delicacy offered., We like to see the Chinese enjoy themselves re­ gardless of expense, but we cannot help thinking that for practical pur­ poses the ordinary man would find eggs ten years old quite enough of a delicacy. The management of a London me- Sagerie, having advertised for "a lady to dance in the lions' den." received 437 applications for that perilous post, and chose a "lady" who did the High­ land fling and escaped in safety. The lions took no notice of her. If human being would follow their example, few­ er persons would seek notoriety by foolhardy feats. V ¥ v V f I "A noble life before a wag," said Shakespeare. But can't a long life he a noble one? . Iceland is oue of the islands which think they have grown up and no longer need guardians. "What is the difference between woman and her photograph?" asks a Kansas paper. Ask the retoucher. BOOTH mm GEN. BOOTH ON EIGHTIETH BIRTHDAY STARTS NEW PUN Veteran Foonder of Salvation Army Launches Scheme for "University of Humanity" in the United States--All the World Celebrates Anniversary of His Birth. ^ Coincide ntly with the rise of Ger­ many's sea power there is going on a remarkable development of the na­ tion's waterways. Berlin is now am­ bitious to be a seaport, and a project tor a maritime canal from the Baltic tea is under way. ============~ 1 The movement of Chicago looking to the abolition of the smoking car on * all elevated, surface and suburban trains doing a local transportation business within the city is favored by the railway managers, but the smokers , Will, of course, be heard from. h*,-i -k Orders have been issued by the navy department for the installation of the now skeleton fire-control towers on six battleships. This Is equivalent to an- ttouncing a purpose to provide every battleship in the service with towers Of the new pattern. The skeleton tow- «r Is neither pretty nor "ship-shape," remarks the Milwaukee Evening Wis- «mKin. but It is a practical contriv­ ance that will withstand a great deal of pounding by an enemy's guns before the lives of the men to the look-outs will be Jmg£$Ued by m» Iwpeading /collapae. ; New York.--Qea, William Booth, founder and commander-in-chief of the Salvation Army, celebrated his eight­ ieth birthday on Saturday, April 10, and the event was made the occasion of rejoicing all over the civilized world. The Army itself held big meet­ ings in every city and town where it Is established, and these were partici­ pated in by hundreds of thousands of other citizens who were glad to do honor to the distinguished philan- tropist • Gen. Booth himself presided over several monster mass meetings in London. His advanced age and the fact that he was operated on recently for cataract did not deter him from taking part in the celebrations held by his devoted soldiers. University of Humanity Launched. In America the day was marked especially by the launching of another of Gen. Booth's original schemes for social reform in the United States. At every post of the army was an­ nounced the beginning of work to found a University of Humanity, a great institute for the training of workers In social service. The uni­ versity will be divided between New York and Chicago, and it is expected to begin with a fund of $1,000,000. The gathering of this fund Is the work that the army now enters upon In commemoration of its famous leader's completion of his eightieth year. As a much-needed stone in the great organizational structure that William Booth has been building during the past 47 years, this idea of a school for the systematic training of his workers has been in his mind for sev­ eral years. On his last visit to the United States the general made his first tentative announcement of the plan. Since then he has worked out many of the details and he has just consented to the beginning of pre­ liminary work in this country where the need for trained workers has been especially great. ¥ Growth of Great 8ystem. . It Is perhaps not generally realized that the whole Intricate modern ma­ chinery of civilization for the uplift­ ing of the submerged tenth, the vast system of charities now so essential a part of modern life, is to a very large extent an outgrowth of the Booth Idea. He was the first to see that the unfortunate could best be reached by those who had suffered as they had, and that they must be reached by practical worldly help be­ fore they could be prepared to begin the cleaner lift. It waS the Salvation Army which first made a practical working success of this now familiar principle of so-called "missionary work." This whole plan of campaign for raising the fallen began on a very simple scale in the poverty-stricken and crime-infested East end of Lon­ don and under the impetus of William ^Booth's singular force of mind and personality and the momentum that it has gathered with almost miraculous rapidity it has developed into a truly astonishing organization. Some of the departments of Its work are: Prison-gate and Rescue, Inebriates' homes, Boys' and Girls' homes, Farm colonies, Emigration, | Naval and Military homes, Maternity homes, nursing, Samaritan brigades, hospital and benevolent visitation, po­ lice court work and Indian school training. No other religious organization In the world's history has branched out into so many departments of philan- thoplc effort and absorbed them as part of its religious duties. Need of Trained Workers. menu. With a field as wide as the world itself the work of the Salvation Army is only limited by the number of workers that can be secured and its effectiveness by the understanding and earnestness of these workers. At uplift work has grown from local ef­ forts to help a few into a great in­ clusive movement which must miss none, the problems of organization have grown greater. Charity has be­ come a science and Its application an art requiring the highest development of personal qualities of insight and altruism. There is thus pressing need for workers of quite exceptional qual­ ification. These qualifications must first of all be inherent and must then be developed by experience and spe­ cial training. This Is the new work planned by Gen. Booth. Those women, for in­ stance, who are to go among the slums of the big cities must not only have the desire to help but must know how real helpfulness can best be se­ cured. They must understand by a study of practical sociology some­ thing of the social forces that create this poverty and crime and wretched­ ness. They must understand the dan­ ger of the unwise charity that merely increases dependence and understand the value of better living conditions in raising the moral courage of those to\whom fate has been unkind. They must be able not only to correct home conditions themselves but to Impart their knowledge and to inspire with a desire for betterment. * Value of the Organization. This will be but a small part of the university's training in social service as planned by the patriarchal evangel­ ist, but it serves to show of what value such an organization will be. Of the general's plan for the uni­ versity he himself said recently: "I want to train men and women to deal with misfortune. I want them In­ structed to combat with the weak­ nesses and sins of the drunkard, the criminal, the pauper and the would-be suicide." At 80 years of age the head of the Salvation Army, after more than half a century of almost unceasing activity, is as vigorous and untiring as at any time in his career. The inexhaustible vitality and intellectual and physical activity of this social reformer; philan­ thropist, preacher, author and traveler are marvelous. At fourscore he is traveling many thousands of miles over the world every year, controlling the destinies of his more than 7,000 corps of Salvation soldiery with their 18,000 commissioned officers, distribu­ ted among every civilized country, preaching constantly to vast audiences and doing an amount of literary work that would be a factor to many a professional author with no other oc­ cupation. William Booth wa» born on April 10, 1820, in Nottingham, England, and was trained for the Methodist minis try which he entered and became one of the strongest evangelistic forces in that church. He grew dissatisfied, however, at reaching only those with some religious training and convic­ tion. He felt that there were thou­ sands whose need was far greater and he gravitated to the East end of Lon­ don where wretchedness of all kinds was the rule. In a disused burial ground on Mile End road he pitched an old tent and the first Salvationist meeting held in that tent in 1861. The fiery eloquence of the earnest young preacher caught the attention of a crowd of poor Whitechapelers and be­ fore that first meeting was over he had made several conversions, a per- fbrmation of the Christian mission, from which it waa the evangelist's custom to send his converts to the ex­ isting churches of the jocality, but finding that they were not welcomed and were in danger of slipping back from sheer want of comradeship and oversight, he set about forming so­ cieties of the converted. These he found to be a potent agency for bring­ ing in more, as the heedless East ender could be impressed by tie words of a former "pal" when h# would not listen to a minister. So was created the central Idea of the Salvation Army. The need of organization becomea apparent, but several methods were tried with little success before Genu Booth hit upon the military idea and named his organization the Salvation Army. From that time on the move-, ment grew amazingly and it has con­ tinued to grow without ceasing to this day. Spread Over the World. ' ; The movement began sprea&fcg to other countries of the world in 1881 when it first reached the United States through the Influence of a silk- weaver who had emigrated *from Cov­ entry, England, bringing with him the Salvation Army idea and a strong de­ sire to continue in the work. It reached Australia in the same year through a milk dealer from Stepney, and soon afterwards the first Canadian corps was organized in a similar fashion. Five years later. In 1886, the gen­ eral made the first of many visits to the American branches of the army and he has seen them grow from a few small corps Into a veritable army of tremendous influence and unsur­ passed efficiency. His first great world-tour was made in 1891, when he visited South Africa, Australia and India. Since then he has visited the United States, Canada, Australia, New Zealand and India four times, South Africa twice and Japan and the Holy Land each once. During all these travels the actual executive responsibility for the gov­ ernment of the army has never been lifted from his shoulders. Even on shipboard he is an indefatigable work­ er, planning and writing through the days. Gen. Booth Honored. One of the most'remarkable of the many tributes paid to the general by the great of the world was that of the mikado of Japan during the visit to that country. The mikado personally received the general with great warmth and he was accorded remark­ able ovations in Yokohama, Tokyo, Sendal and Kyoto, a circumstance of strange import when it Is realized that Japan is not a Christian country. Another Interesting distinction given Gen. Booth was the conferring on him of the degree of doctor of civil law by Oxford university. The significance of this honor will be better under­ stood when it is stated those who re­ ceived university honors with him at the time were Prince Arthur of Con- naught, the prime minister of Eng­ land, the lord chancellor, the speaker, Sir E. Grey, the archbishop of Armagh, Sir Evelyn Wood, the Ameri­ can ambassador, Mark Twain and Rudyard Kipling. As a writer Gen. Booth is remark­ able, both as a stylist, as a thinker and as a producer: He has written in all 21 volumes, besides innumerable articles for the army publications. His best-known book is "In Darkest England and the Way Out," In which he outlined, his scheme for social re­ form by means of colonization. "The Training of Children," "Love, Mar­ riage and the Home," and his books on reform are among the others of the general's best-known literary pro­ ductions. J Wrltea of His Creed. Of his creed the general has written very beautifully. He says: "The simplicity of our creed has been, as I believe it will remain, one of the principal helps to our unity. We stand for the old truths. The faith which can be interpreted In terms of duty, of unselfishness, of purity, of love to God and man, is the only faith we really care about. What­ ever may be the case with the select minority, the consciousness of sin, the force of evil habit and the con­ sciousness of sin and the influence of passion, are ali vivid realities with the great masses of the population. To them we bring the promise of de­ liverance by Jesus Christ." BE JUST "WITH THE CHILD. The scheme tor a University of Htft-I formance that he has been repeating manity grew naturally out of the d»-1 throughout the world for 47 years, velopment «f t|e Sfr other depart] This first meeting resulted la the Il&C Advice of Christine Terhune Herrlckto the Parent. I have never been one to feel that the best love was won from a child by extreme indulgence. In fact, I hold that the contrary Is the rule. Observ­ ing the families of my contemporaries and predecessors, it is borne in upon me that the most Indulged children have not been the most devoted to their fathers and mothers. On the con­ trary, having had the happiness to be associated with several households where strict obedience has always been demanded and received, I feel justified in declaring that the families where discipline is observed are those whose children are most affec­ tionate. But it is noted that strictness does not mean harshness or severity. It does stand for reasonable rules, posi­ tively enforced, for commands which must be obeyed, and, above all, it should stand for justice. Were I asked to put in a word the most desirable quality in dealing with boys, or with girls, either, for that matter, I would put justice first It would not be a synonym for hardness, although this is a meaning often ap­ plied to it It would mean obedience to orders and penalties when orders were disobeyed, but it would mean, also, an appreciation of the child's standpoint, an almost agonizing care that he should not be punished without adequate cause, "a rigid adherence t<* promise of reward as well as of re­ buke, an understanding of what led to this or that course of action which from an adult's viewpoint may seem inexplicable. • There may be well brought up chil­ dren who resent a Just punishment. I have never known them. But I have found injustice of reproof or of pen­ alty rtesented with a bitterness which left Its mark fer years afterward -- ChriaUMTerhUM HerrtcH. p ,c^ , • -I; va . C' v' . PASS TARIFF Bill HOUSfL^DOPTS PAYNE MEASURE v- . BY VOTE OF 217 TO 161. IGNORE MRNSM OF WOMEN Increases Duty on Gloves anil Stock- ,lng«--Coffee, Tea, Oil and Hides Placed on Ft» List--Keep Tariff on .Lumber. HI \ ... ' • Washington.--By a vote "of 2lt to 161 the Payne tariff bill, which has been under consideration for three weeks, was passed Friday night by the house. One Republican, Austin of Tennes­ see, voted against the measure, and four Democrats, all from Louisiana, Messrs. Broussard, Estopinal, Fujo and Wickliffe, voted for it. An attempt by Champ Clark, the minority leader, to recommit the bill with instructions signally failed. Hides, hosiery and glove* were left as reported by the committee, hides remaining free and ait increased duty being presented for gloves and stock -'ags. One of the principal changes effected In the Payne bill since its introduc­ tion was the placing of petroleum on the free list. This involved a more seriously contested fight (than any of the other amendments. Speaker Can­ non, during the debate Wednesday on the amendment to reduce the duty, took the floor in defense of the higher rate of duty. Although an amendment to place oil on the free list was lost Thursday, a similar amendment of­ fered by Chalrmafl, Payne yesterday was carried. Among the other important amend­ ments that have been made since the bill came from committee were those striking out the provision for a duty on tea and the countervailing duty proviso on coffee. The elimination of the maximum duty of 20 per cent, on coffee, contained in the maximum- and minimum section of the bill, was also significant. To the free list were added ever­ green seedlings, cloves and nut oil, which. Is used in making varnish. The patent lav/ provision, intended to re­ taliate for the new British patent law, was stricken out on account of an in­ ternational convention. The so-called "Joker" in the cotton cloth schedule which it was claimed would Increase the duty of the Dingley bill several hundred per cent, was corrected, the proviso for the method of counting threads in the cloth being made the same as in the present law. The section of restricting the con­ tents of packages of tobacco was amended to conform with the present law in order that union labels may not be excluded from such packages. The countervailing duty clause on lumber was stricken out, but a strong effort to place lumber on the free llst did not succeed. the duties on barley, barley malt, charcoal Iron, pineapples in crates, saccharine, medicated cotton and cot­ ton collars and cuffs, as originally in the bill, were increased. To retaliate against Turkey, which country prohib­ its the Importation of American filler tobacco, a proviso was included in the tobacco schedule Increasing the duty on filler tabocco from any country which prohibits the importation of the American tobacco. Washington.--The Payne tariff bill was presented to the senate finance committee at ten o'clock Monday morning and an effort was made to In­ duce the minority to consent to the reporting of the bill'to the senate at once. In that event it will be allowed to go over until Thursday, when Chairman Aldrlch will make a detailed explana­ tion of Its provision. It Is probably that he will be followed by Senator Daniel, the ranking Democratic mem­ ber, who will outline the position the minority members expect to assume. Senate leaders would not predict how much time is likely to be occupied in the discussion of the portion of the bill fixing rates on duty. Senator Aid- rich asserted that 75 per cent, of arti­ cles used by all the people had been reduced by the Republican members of the committee and that the free list had been lengthened to an extent that would be surprising to everybody. The members of the committee have done their best to make their recom­ mendations popular and predict their efforts will be appreciated. The senate is expected to lower the duty on Btockings and gloves to ap­ pease the demands of the women. Senator Cullom of Illinois will lead the fight for the women. In addition to'placing tea and coffee on the free list, the committee proposes to adpli cocoa free. •- """• '• » ETHAN ALLEH HITOKQCK DEAD FORMER SECRETARY OR 1% TERIOR EXPIRES IN CAPITAL. • t . • Famed a» Prosecutor of ! Weitern Land Grafters--First Am- Ruesla.v^ijt * Washington. -- Following ^ * 304- nesS of several days, Ethan Allen Hitchcock, former secietary of the! in­ terior, died in Washington, Friday, aged 74 years. He was appointed to the cabinet by President McKinley and served until March 6, 1907, under President Roosevelt. His passing marked the close of a career whose preeminent feature was ah administration of the interior de­ partment that stirred the western land problems as never before. Brought here from St. Petersburg, where he had served as ambassador under an appointment of President McKinley, Mr, Hitchcock was almost immediately plunged into fc yortex of complications growing out of vast frauds and charges PROBABLY HARDEST OF ALL i^ffey** Addition to List ofHer Hovsf» v hold Duties or Course Was Not Personal. After dinner the other evening Mr. and Mrs. Brown started to speak of their respective duties, and soon alt argument as to whether the husband or th@ wife had the hardest work to perform was in full swing. First Brown warbled, and then wifey sang. "A wife," argued the good lady, "haa to cook, wash dishes, clothe the kids, scrub the floors, sweep the house, make the beds, build the fires, carry up coal, nail slats on the back fence, dig--" 'Ts that all?" sarcastically Mti* rupted Mr. Brown. ' ^ * i s "No," was the prompt rejoinder Mrs. Brown. "In addition to those da- ties every wife has to keep her hus­ band from making a fool of himself?*' --Philadelphia TeJegraph. >> Am •, sei; >• ' ' A : 'i "Billy" Sunday Converts'SOtf." Springfield, 111. -- What Is claimed to be a record in conversions, was made Sunday, the closing day of "Billy" Sunday's seven-weeks' re­ vival, when 800 persons embraced Christianity, making a total of nearly 5,000 for the campaign. Seek Work in America. New York.--Fifty English mechan­ ics, unable to obtain employment in England, arrived here Sunday with their families on the American line steamship St. Paul. The party is bound for the middle west. Lynch Negro In Florida. Arcadia, Fla.--John Smith, a negre| who late Saturday attempted a crim­ inal assault on Miss Mary E. Wing, two miles from this city, by dragging her from a buggy, was captured Ban* day morning apd lynched. Jeffriea Refuses to Fight.* New York.--Jim Jeffries Friday de­ clined to accept Hugh Mcintosh's offer of $50,000 purse to fight with Jack Johnson, in Australia. Jeffries reit­ erated that he was not as jet con­ vinced that he could get in proper shape. "King of Usurers" Flees. Vienna.- Fritz Reicher, "king of the usurers," of Vienna, has bolted with an immense sum of money, leaving fraudulent debts amounting to $2,000,- 000. He Is supposed to have puis to America. • . ^ .:>V • Ethan Allen Hitchcock. Of fraud and counter-charges growing out of the acquirement of public lands in the western states. Mr. Hitchcock directed the most sweeping investiga­ tions, arousing the enmjty of powerful political interests. That work is re­ called to-day as one of the most un­ swerving and relentless Inquisitions in the annals of government prosecutions. He prosecuted cases against numerous men in public life and private busi­ ness, including United States Senator Mitchell of Oregon, who was convicted and died not long afterward; former Congressman Binger Hermann, who had served as commissioner of the general land office and who was ac­ quitted; former United States Dietrich of Nebraska; Representative William­ son of Oregon, and John A. Benson, a millionaire real estate broker of San, Francisco. Mr. Hitchcock was a target for at­ tack on the floors of congress and In protests filed at the White House. The Hitchcock family were well knowh in Washington society, where they fre­ quently entertained at smart func­ tions. > Mr. Hitchcock's home. was In [St. Louis. He was reputed to be "worth several millions dollars. He Is sur­ vived by three daughters, Mrs. Sims, wife of a lieutenant commander of the navy, Mrs. Shepley of St Louis and Miss Margaret Hitchcock. PRESCRIPTION FOfc NERVOUS MEN AND WOMEN-*TRY IT The impairment of the nervous force in men and women is first manifested by extreme nervousness, sleeplessness, dread, worry and anxiety without rea­ son, trembling of the hands and limbs, with the slightest exertion, heart pal­ pitation, constipation, kidney trouble, and a general inability to act ration­ ally at all times as others with health in their bodies do. |n a half pint bottle get three ounces of syrup sarsaparilla compound and add to this one ounce compound fluid balmwort, and let stand two hours; then get one ounce compound essence cardiol, and one ounce tincture cado- mene compound (not cardamom); mix all together, shake well and take a tea- spoonful after each meal and tone at r* tiring. , f WHY, OF COURSE. "Oh, Willie! You're going to fall! "Naw, I ain't! I'm tryltt' a new Stable of skatin'--dat's all." A CURE FOR FITS. REJECT MINERS' DEMANDS Anthracite Operators Refuse to Ao- cept Offer of Men and Conference Fails to Agree. Philadelphia.--After conferences ex­ tending since Wednesday between the anthracite coal operators and the of­ ficials of the United Mine Workers of America, representating the miners, at which the question of a wage agree­ ment was discussed to replace that brought about by the anthracite strike commission, the operators Friday re­ jected the modified demands of the miners presented Thursday and the conference adjourned deadlocked. There will be no strike inaugurated by the mine workers, however, and the only danger of a suspension of mining In the near future, according to the mine workers' officials, arises from the possibility of a lockout. AURORA MANIAC KILLS TWO. Wounds Woman, Kills Another^ and Injuree Husband and Then Coti#^? mita Suicide. Aurora, 111.--Armed with two pistols, a shotgun and fastening three bombs to his body with a harness, John An­ derson, whose mind has been af­ flicted, became suddenly violent Thursday, and started out to avenge fancied wrongs. When he had fin­ ished he had killed one woman, wounded her husband, shot another woman and ended his own life. Scores of persons were panic stricken. , The dead: ' Mrs. John McYieker, shot through heart. John Anderson, committed suicide by blowing off head with shotgun. The injured: 1 • Mrs. John Belford, flesh wound and broken arm from pistol bullets. John McVlcker, scalp grazed by bul­ let. Gets Wife Through Want Ad. Rockford, 111.--John Smith of Cran- don, Wis., Friday married Miss Agnes Tracy of Janesville, one of 50 girls an­ swering his advertisement for a wife who was honest, temperate a&d had no objection to children. Gladys Visits New York. New York.--Count Ssechenyi and Countess Szechenyi, formerly Miss Gladys Vanderbilt, were passengers on the steamer Mauretania, which arrived Friday from Liverpool. They left their baby at home. Dig Posthole; Find $8,500. -Lexington, Ky.--While digging a posthole in. an abandoned lot yester­ day, workmen discovered a brass ket­ tle containing $8,500 in gold and silver that apparently -had been bailed, lor half a century. Investigate Doctor's Death, Fergus Fails, Minn--Dr. W. T. DuB- can was found dead in his office with a bullet wound in his head. A coron­ er's inquest will be held to decide whether death wa# i. The Treatment Is to Accomplish What Science Has Been Strug­ gling to Attain for Centuries, Th« intense interest that has been mtvA- - fested throughout the country by the won­ derful ctfres that are being accomplished dailv by epilepticide still continues. It is really surprising the vast number of peo­ ple who nave already been cured of fits and nervousness. In order that everybody may have a chance to test the medicine, large trial bottles, valuable literature, His­ tory of Epilepsy and testimonials, will be se§t by mail absolutely free to all who write to the Dr. May Laboratory, Sit Pearl Street, New York City. Cleanilness. This church, like many another one. had had trouble about pumping the or­ gan, and the plan of using water power was gladly adopted. Connec­ tion was made with the pipes of the rectory, which stood on the adjoining lot. AU the preliminary tests were satisfactory. On the Sunday morn­ ing when the apparatus was to be used for the first time at a regular service the organist arrived early for a final trial. There was not a hitch. The congregation generally knew of the innovation, and awaited the open­ ing strains of the processional with uncommon interest. Not a sound came from the organ, however, and the choir had to march in singing the hymn as best it could, unaccompanied. Of course the disappointment was keen. The rector's wife was resourceful. A clergyman's wife usually has to be. She slipped out by a s'ide door and T» turned in five minutes with a note. This she forwarded to her husband. It read: "It's all right now. poolt, was taking a bath.** Couldn't Convince the Judge.' T have heard of the soul kiss and kisses of other kinds, but I never heard of a man biting his wife as an evidence^ of his affection for her," remarked Jus­ tice O'Neill of Baltimore, Md., when George Phoebus, aged 27, of East Bal­ timore street, endeavored to explain the biting of his wife, for which of­ fense ahe had him arrested. Mrs. Phoebus said her husband deliberate­ ly bit her on the cheek, and, though the pain was excruciating, he Baid that it was a "love bite." The Justice fined him five dollars and gave him ten days In jail. ^ • ' ,, Took an Antidote. PprdvaJ came running to his graadv ina bne day asking for a drink, of W*.« • ter. "Quick, quick, grandma," he said, * "give me a driuk of water, quick!" After he got his drink he safd: "The reason that I was in such a hurry, I thought I swallowed a worm while eat- • Ing an apple.and I wanted to dro,WA it."--Delineator " U»e Allen'* Foot-Ease, It Is the only cure for Swollen, Smart- in* Tired, Aching, Hot, Sweating Feel. Corns and Bunions. Ask for Allen's Foot- Ease, a powder to be shaken Into the shoes?. Cures while you walk. At al* Drug- gists and Shoe Stores, 25c. Don't accept any substitute. Sample sent FREE. Aa- 4ress« AMen S. Olmsted, I>eHoy# 8% Memory Training. "I forget so easily, I wisli I could do something to exercise my memory." "That's simple," said bis friend. "Just lend me ten dollars and let llf 4 know If you forget It."--Judge. -V" " --- ' •""••'.V' Pettit's Eye Salve for 25c relieves tired, overworked eyes, stops eye •ches, congested, inflamed or sore eyes. AU " druggist* or Howard Bros., Buffalo, N. Y. The trouble with men who are all right otherwise Is their penehant fop a boasting of It . ' 4 2^ | In case of accident, cuts, wounds, burns, scalds, sprains, bruises, etc., noth- ing will so quickly take away all pain and soreness as Hamlins Wizard Oil. Some figures do not lie until th# *- Jj^, s: dressmaker starts to pad them. Lewis* Single Binder straight Be cigar made of rich, mellow tobacco. Yogx life dealer or "Lewis' Factory, Peoria, HI. * v' u Giving means self-enrichment iW'V ,w*U ss self sscrjtos.--Wooimt ' /*. -iiui jifci