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w MOUNi VSHINGTON --In the novel i truly heroic. "Blasphem- I don't know how many thousands of Americans go yearly to tyfount Vernon to pay a visit to the re­ pository of a dead man's bones, but the number is something enormous. If George Washington never had lived at Mount Vernon, never had vis- tf:pd there, never had 4died there, and &ad been buried in fhe antipodes there would be excuse enough for the visits to the place of seventy times seven ijxe number of the pilgrims who go yearly down the Potomac to stand on the towering hill and to look off down "the valley. It is with an utter shame that it is confessed that after four years' residence in Washington one man American born and with some lurk­ ing pride of patriotism in his make- tip never until recently went to the •place where the father of his coun­ try and the exponent of the American itbool teacher's ideal of truth lies iMiried. Mount Vernon is the ultimate ob­ ject of the voyage down the Potomac. There are other objects every paddle- wheel stroke of the way, for the hills on either side are hills of rare beauty •crowned with trees that saw the rev­ olution and that in the fall are wear- 1|« the raiment which belongs to the lfings of the forest. On the boat going down ihere was a young German gentleman, who had married an American wife. He was much more interested in the beauty the Potomac's banks and in the Rtlstory of t^e Country beyond the ®toiks and in / the life history of "Qeorge Washington than was she. The German asked his American wife if George Washington was born at !Mount Vernon. She answered that fhe was; which he wasn't, not by miny miles. He asked her many •other questions, to each and every .one of which, but with unerifng inaccuracy she made answers. This was a traveled American Klrl. There is> a fairly well-grounded belief that , she met and captivated her German husband while she was doing Europe in an automobile or was rhapsodizing on the Rhine. Some day, Jiferhaps--vedy likely, in fact--she will go back to her husband's land and will listen to his telling of his American trip, and in the enthusiasm of the nature which he made manifest on the Potomac he will tell the "his- toric truths" concerning .George Washington which he learned from his American wife It may be that some of the Germans who "know something of the life of the American gen­ eral who was the friend and fellow soldier of Steuben will come to think, as some Americans have come to think before this, that a little American history might be included in the course •of study of the average American girl, and that not a dollar should be spent on her passage money to Europe until she knows without stop­ ping to think whether it was George Washington or Abraham Lincoln who crossed the Delaware, and who, something later, forced the surrender of Cornwallis at Yorktown. This may seem to a matter that is beside the mark, but, while the listener had none too thorough a knowledge of American history, there were some thL.^s caid on the boat plying down the Potomac that it they had been said by an eighth-grade school­ boy ought to have brought him a flogging. Mount Vernon has been written about by pretty nearly everybody who has seen the place. It hasn't fallen to the lot of everybody to see it the fall. It is a noble place, a fitting resting ground for the first American. J It seldom lalls to man's lot to see such he­ roic trees. There is a giant oak which stands sentinel over the first burial place of Washing- BZVON yp KiwHT w.A.«*rre<woN VVS}JW/A/G~rOA/ 'J m •••Jk -v 1 1 ^ which he thought worthy enough to buy. The light wasn't good on the afternoon in mind and all that one pilgrim could make out of a book's title, above which was written Washington's name, was the Hi WASH/™ er, cease! % //VGTOA/ ton. The body was removed from the base of the oak about 75 years ago. It never should have been removed. It is said that Washington selected the place where his body now lies and left instructions that one day the change of sepplcher should be made. The oak which guarded the first grave must have been standing for three centuries. The view from the place is inspiring enough to enkindle the eyes of a dead man. The view from the new toifib is fine in its way, but it is as noth­ ing to the grand sweep of river, hilltops and for­ ests which moves before the eye from the place where Washington slept for 30 years. Hundreds of visitors go to Mount Vernon daily. They peer into the tomb and then straightway go to the house. There is an inter­ est; of course, which must attach to any of the belongings of Washington, but it seems to be a legitimate matter of regret that of the thousands who go to Mount Vernon the interest in the mir­ ror which Washington used when he shaved and in the spoon with which he ate his porridge. If he ate porridge, is far greater than in the forest trees under which he walked and in the garden whose hedges of formal cut were planted with his own hand. Indoors at Mount Vernon everything is dead; outdoors everything is alive. The forest and garden are instinct with Washington; the con­ tents of the house are as dust. There is a real interest, however, in the library of the old home. In the main the books are simply copies of those which were on the shelves in Washington's time. The originals, as I understand it, are in several libraries of the country. There are two originals, however, which are open at the title page, so that if the light be good, one may read Washington's name written in his own hand and the title of the book PRINCE ITO IS SLAIN LEADING FIGURE IN * JAPAN 18 KILLED BY A BOMB. NEWS STARTLES THE EMPIRE Met Death at Harbin, Manchuria, , While on 8tate Mission--Murderer Is a Corean--Other Offi­ cers Injured. Tokyo. -- Prince Hirobumi Ito, the famous Japanese statesman, has been assassinated by a Corean at liarbin. He w as killed by a bomb, which severely rounded the Japanese consul general end the president of the Southern Manchuria railroad. The fateful news was received in Tokyo at three o'clock Monday after- Doon. The dispatch contained only the brief announcement that Prince It;) had been assassinated. The news caused grief and. consternation. Prince Ito spent Saturday and Sun­ day at Mukden, where he c«. iferred with Hsi Liang, the viceroy. Prince Ito was four times premier of Japan, and during the war 'with China he was at the head of the gov­ ernment. In the Russian war he was the chief power behind the throne, and NEWS NUGGETS FROM ILLINOIS Belleville.--Women held the Boor at a session of the Illinois Federation of Labor and for the time being the stirring campaign for officers of the federation was laid aside, while the women who are working for shorter hours and better conditions for those of their sex who toll told what they had done and what they hoped to do. While this was going on those present kept in touch with news from Chicago, where steps were being taken toward legal punishment of some kind for certain employers who have failed to comply with the, statute. Miss Mary E. McDowell of Chicago, head of the University of Chicago settlement, presided and in­ troduced the various speakers. A letter from Mrs. Raymond Robins, president of the National Woman's Trade Union league, who is attending the meeting of the industrial educa­ tion committee of the American Fed­ eration of Labor at Washington, was read. The principal subject- for dis­ cussion was the ten-hour Jaw recently declared unconstitutional by Judge Tuthill of Chicago, Women through whose efforts this law was enacted told the story of how the work was done. The speakers were nearly all up to the present time he had a iargo part in directing the foreign pol- j^women who are engaged in industrial icy of his country. j work. Among them were Miss Ellza- In Harbin for Conference. j beth Maloney anti Miss Anna Willard Prince Ito had gone to Harbin to meet M. Kokovsoff, the Russian min­ ister of finance. The prince was pre3- word "Sentimental." The wonder was, and the poor light was responsible for its remain­ ing a wonder, if the father of his country had not in his quiet hours been reading "A Sentimental Jour­ ney." If the gentle Martha had peeped into the pages and had re­ proved George because of what she saw there one can imagine his ready answer that the book was written by a holy priest of her own chosen church. ' The man with the megaphone on the Washington "rubberneck" wag­ ons tells his audience of passengers as they roll by the Metropolitan club house: "This is the club of the nobs." In another minute, as the big sight­ seeing bus passes another clubhouse the megaphone man says: "And this is the club of the cranks." "The,club of the cranks," as this in­ formation howler calls it, is the Cos­ mos club, and a most interesting or­ ganization it is. Its membership is com­ posed of scientists, some physicians and clergymen, a few lawyers and two or three newspaper men. The scientists are in the great majority. It costs a pretty penny to Join the Metropolitan club and to pay the dues and to live the life of the organization. The initiation fee at the Cosmos club is rather small, and the dues are light, but there are scores of members of the Metropolitan club, "the club of the nobs," who willingly would pay twice or thrice the Metropolitan's initiation fee and the Metropolitan's dues if the-expenditure could gain them admission to the club where the "cranks" foregather. Every Monday night is called "social night" at the Cosmos club. Of course the clubhouse is open at all times, but on .Monday evening the members make a special effort to be present and there is always a large gathering in the great, sweeping rooms of the house where once lived Dolly Madi­ son. They don't intrude "shop" upon you in the Cosmos club. The members are a genial body of men and they have many guests from all parts of the world. They find out what the guest likes to talk about and then some one who knows the sub­ ject is promptly introduced to him. There are few world subjects upon which you cannot get an expert opinion in the Cosmos club. The members, of course, have their hobbles .and they ride them. In one corner of a room there will be an astronomical group, and there will be another corner with a fish group and another cor­ ner with a bird group and another corner with, it may be, a mushroom group. It isn't all science, however, in the Cosmos club. The members play billiards and pool and bridge, and they have a find tfme of It generally and at no great expense, for it is one of the hard facts of earth that men de­ voted to science have little money. Learning doesn't bring highv-pay in the market. ident of the privy council of Japan. The subjects to be discussed at the conference were not suggested in the Japanese overtures and M. Kokovsoff in accepting the invitation to meet Prince Ito barred political questions,. The meeting was planned at Harbin because the Russian refused to go to Tokyo. Russian statesmen are seriously con­ sidering the sale of the Russian rail­ road interests In that territory,, and this prospect, it was expected, would be discussed. Prince Ito was perhaps the greatest statesman of new Japan. The ac­ hievement with which his name has been chiefly associated in the minds of occidentals was the framing of the imperial constitution by virtue of which Japan took her place for the first time In the rank of modern civ­ ilized states. Mikado's Chief Adviser. As the emperor's trusted adviser and the medium through which the state was placed on a constitutional basis, Prince Ito was regarded as one of the positive factors which have helped to win for Japan her present standing among nations. The prince was 68 years old. Prince Ito was the first to see the absolute necessity of Japan's adopting the western civilization if she would j hold a place among the nations of the world. As a boy he fought against the shogun in order to put the emperor in power; and when the new govern­ ment was constituted in 1858 he was one of the chief organizers, being vice minister of finance and public works. At that time he was only 27 years of age. Two years later he was sent to the United States to study our financial system, which he introduced at home; and at the age of 30 he was sent abroad as a special envoy to ar­ range treaties with the European pow­ ers. Student of Statecraft. A little later the prince was in Eu­ rope studying the constitutions of the principal nations, and after that back in Tokyo writing the constitution which now governs Japan. The Japan of to-day, with Its won­ derful system of finance and banks, its parliament elected by the people, and the machinery of its government, which is one of the best in the world, was largely formed by him, now more than a quarter of a century ago. WIFE MURDERER CONFESSES Alleged Bigamist Acknowledges He Killed Anna Mueller That He Might Return to Real Wife. New York.--Otto Mueller, the As­ toria (L. I.) piano-maker, broke down at Brooklyn police headquarters Mon­ day and confesstd that on April 9, 1908, he lured his newly-made 'wife. Anna Luther Mueller, to Bay Shore on a pretense of showing her his prop­ erty, and after leading her into the woods sent a bullet into her head, killing her instantly. The confessing slayer told the po­ lice that he had no other motive than to rid himself of the woman whom he had married on February 9, 1908, and return to his real wife, with whom he was living under the name of Fred Gebhardt, and the child that had been recently born to them. Mrs. Gebhardt informed the authori­ ties that she has lived In terror of her husband for many years and that on one occasion he was overheard while intoxicated to say that she was his eighth wife and that those who pre­ ceded her were in their graves. To Govern $outh Africa. London --Herbert J. Gladstone, ac­ cording to the Daily Telegraph, will be the first governor general of United South Africa. Mr. Gladstone haB not been considered a great success as secretary for home affairs and there have been many hints of his removal to another sphere. INVENTER OF GRAHAM BREAD Sylvester Graham the First to Popu­ larize Article of Diet That Bears HTs Name. -Stta house wivesof America make many loaves of graham bread during the year, but lew of them know the History of this article of food, nor Jbave they ever U.kan the trouble to . 'jfli' Bearu why and how it came to be first • *fl fwepared. • Sylvester Graham, a native of Suf- field. Conn., was the man who in­ vented the bread, a^d it has borne his name ever since. Graham was the pioneer "crank" on the lood question, and he popularized his theories throughout the country. While lecturing under the auspices of the Pennsylvania Temperance- so­ ciety in that state, about 1S30, he con­ ceived' the idea that intemperance could be prevented and totally cured If the man who wanted alcoholic drink would confine himself to a purely vegetable diet. He argued in public and private that by following up his course of treatment and using only vegetables in the diets, drunkards could shake off the clutch of alcohol and become proof against the habitual craving for strong drink, j Graham was himself in delicate health at the time he discovered his vegetable theory, so he started in to Fairbanks Arrives at Hongkong. Hongkong.--Former Vice-President Charles W. Fairbanks arrived here Monday from Manila. From here he «itl go Jto India. try his theories on himself. After practicing his preaching for some time he announced in public on vari­ ous occasions he had met with re­ markable results in his own case, and ( detailed the1 improvement in his con­ dition occasioned -by his following a vegetable diet. He followed up his studies Along the line of dietetic^, with the result that he finally advocated a strictly vegetable diet as a cure for «11 th« diseases which human flesh Is heir to Deneeh Appoints Delegates. Springfield, III.--Gov. Deneen Mon- iay appointed 12 delegates to repre- ! sent Illinois at the National Civic Fed- I eration conference on the subject of ' uniform legislation by the states, to ie held'Jan. 5, 6 and 7, in Washington. Village Editor Kills Wifft. Independence, Kan.--Samuel Mar­ line, formerly editor of the Tyro Her­ ald, Monday shot and killed his wife and then committed suicide at his wife's home here. The couple quar- i eled over the possession of their child. of the Waitresses' union of Chicago. Mis A. May Smith of St. Louis, Miss E. Corrigan and Miss S. E. Kohl of Peoria, Raymond Robins and others. Mr. Robins discussed Judge Tuthill's decision and called for united effort to arouse public opinion to the danger confronting the people of Illinois through the issuing of ill-considered Injunctions. Chicago.--Detectives Hall, Ullrich. Wheeler and Homer of the Cottage Grove avenue police station recovered |800 worth of furs and clothing, whlcn had been stolen from the Model Clean ing and Dyeing Company, 2316 Wa­ bash avenue. Hugh Nash and Arthur Hall, said by the police to be an ex- convict, were trying to sell the goods to Eugene Huston, 2511 Dearborn street, when they were arrested. Nash and Hall are said to have con­ fessed to the burglary. While the de­ tectives were putting Nash and Hail into a patrol wagon Detective Homer was attracted by screams from 19 West Twenty-fifth street. As he ap­ proached the place, Nathan Kelly, col­ ored, said to be a former prize-fighter and ex-convict, ran out, brandishing a razor. Homer disarmed the man and, entering the house, found that he had cut his wife, Mamie, so severely that' she had to be taken to the Provident hospital. Three physicians took 110 stitches on her face, head and -arms. Kelly was locked up. Chicago.--"A church should be built on every public school ground in the country. Under the present system, instead of being brought nearer to God, the children are being drawn farther and farther away from the in­ fluences of religion." This statement was made by Rev. Joseph W. Cochran, in the course of an address before the opening meeting of the Presbyterian synod of Illinois in Lake Forest. Chicago.--George Stevenson, 35 years old, 5612 Lake avenue, and Iva Divan, 25 years old, 100 West Forty- seventh street, were found dead in a gas-filled room in a hotel at 5200 State street. They went to the place and registered as man and wife. A chambermaid smelled gas and called the proprietor of the hotel. He broke open the door of their room and found the man and woman dead. Chicago.--Everett W. Hart, 28 years old, a civil engineer employed by the Lake Shore & Michigan Southern railroad, was found dead, with a bul­ let wound over his right temple, in his room at the home of Mr. and Mrs. F. E. Andrews, 7049 Lowe avenue. He is believed to have committed suicide while temporarily insane, the result of overwork and overstudy. Effingham.--Passenger train No. 44 on the Vandalla-Pennsylvairfa railroad ran into an open switch in the Van- dalia yards here, derailing tfce engine and overturning the two mail cars. The engineer, Lewis Burgess of Terre Haute, Ind., was buried underneath the engine, which overturned after jumping three tracks and tearing up 150 yards of trackage. Mat toon.--The grand jury has re­ turned an indictment against Homer Shepherd, a banker at Lovington. who is charged with the killing on August 19 of Ralph Foster, his intimate friend, whom he mistook for a bur­ glar. Since the tragedy Shepherd has suffered a nervous breakdown. He also has been sued for $10,000 damages by the widow. Havana.--The one-year-old child of Mr. and Mrs. Albert Stone of this city was burned to death, and the facts of the case may never be known. It is thought that the child's clothes were set on fire by his three-year-old broth­ er while the two were playing about a fire. Their mother was in another part of the house. Chicago.--One boy Is dead as a re­ sult of being struck by a train on the Western Indiana railroad near One Hundred and Eleventh street. The victims: Louis Redcabbage, ?1 years old, 333 One Hundred and Tenth street, found dead on the track; Fab­ ian Redcabbage, 13 years old. skull fractured, arm broken, and Injured in­ ternally; taken to Pullman hospital. The injured boy lay unconscious be­ side the tracks through all the rain of the night, the body of his brother near him. It Is believed tte boys were on the way home from a visit to playmates after school Chicago.--Attributing the cause of the crime that will lead to his death to gambling, Andrew Williams, the negro convicted of the murder of his wife, Ophelia B. Williams, March 11, 1908, and sentenced to be hanged, made a statement just before he made ready to occupy the death chamber that this vice led to his ruin. Belvidere.--Mark Ramsey, 85 years of age, one of the most prominent m^n In the county, is dead. He was the former president of the First National bank and leaves *30,000 to charity, among which is $6,000 for a soldier*' monument. \ i , W ISE ti P. v Patient--Is my pulse all right? Doctor--Can't tell. My watch Is fast. . • - - CURED ITCHING HUMOR. Big, Painful Swellings Broke and Old Not Heal--Suffered 3 Year*. Tortures Yield to Cuttcura. "Little black swellings were scat­ tered over my face and neck and they would; leave little black scars that would itch so I couldn't keep from scratching them. Larger swellings would appear and my clothes would stick to the sores. I went to a doctor, but the trouble only got worse. By this time It was all over my arms and the upper part of my body in swellings as large as a dollar. It was so pain­ ful that I could not bear to lie on my back. The second doctor stopped the swellings, but when they broke the places would not heal. I bought a set of the Cuticura Remedies and in less than a week some of the places were nearly well. I continued until I had used three sets, and now I am sound and well. The disease lasted three years. O. L. Wilson, Puryear, Tenn., Feb. 8, 1908." Mttr Drag * Qbem. Corp., Bole Pvopa* BmUm. Their Advantages. "So you have made up your mind to be a specialist. What, line are you go­ ing to take up?" "I don't know. I have been consid­ ering various advantages in different branches. A chiropodist can general­ ly get a foothold, no matter how bad business is; a manicurist has usually something on hand; a beauty doctor can usually play a skin game and an eye and ear doctor can often get' a hearing wheu there is anything In sight. I haven't dwelt on the possi­ bilities of throat specialists and den­ tists or hair experts, because the two former always look down in the mouth and the latter may get but a bald liv­ ing or be expected to dye for his pa­ tients."--Baltimore American. Try Thla In November. Thousands upon thousands of fam­ ilies who have not been regular eat­ ers of Quaker Oats will begin on the first of November and eat Quaker ! Oats once or twice every day for thirty days of this month; the result in good health and more strength and ; vigor will mean that every other ! month iu the year will And them doing . the same thing. Try it! Serve Quaker Oats plenti- i fully and frequently for the thirty days of November and leave off a cor­ responding amount of meat and greasy t foods. You'll get more health, more vigor and strength than you ever got in thirty days of any other kind of eating. J While you are trying this see that the children get a full share. Quaker Oats is packed in regular size packages and large size family packages. 7 | Never Opened His Mouth. | "Not infrequent rays oi| unconscious I humor illumine the otherwise impos | slble stories that come to my desk , from amateurs," says a reader for one of the magazines. Recently I chanced j upon this choice bit: I " 'John, the husband, and Grace, the j wife, ate on together in silence. There J was indubitably an ill feeling between ! them. The husband devoured a plate | of soup, half a fish, an entree or two, j a piece of roast beef, together with j a sweet, without ever once opening j his mouth.'" Object of Increased Solicitude. "There never was a time when the farmer was so highly considered as he is to-day," said the gentle jollier. "That's right," answered Mr. Corn- tossel; "they're making a heap o' fuss over us agricultural folks. You seen, crops has been kind o' good lately. In addition to votes We've got a little spare change that's worth lookin' aft­ er."--Washington Star. There b more Catarrh in this mcMon of the emnrtff than all other diseases put together. anil until tlie lasj few years was suppose*! to be Incurable. 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