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W" 't t.- . r . <i, a\ •*'*" >; ••:: » " ' * * • - * ' V « . / • 1 • i:4: iVi:.:.-M" The McHenry Plalndcalcr Published by F. G. 8CHREINER. ?-V"< ^,:^.2i*tocHENKY. ILLINOIS •4> Football should be filled out with ^^'llnders. ' Pugilists first agree to fight and get Stto a quarrel afterward. Polluting justice is just a little bit wore objectionable than anything •Ise. Did you ever see six women so dis­ pose themselves as to fill entirely on# side of a street car? This country is prosperous again, but there are widows and orphans who have not noticed it. An Ohio man who had his pockets full of dynamite was run over by a hearse, but nothing happened. FR1*N0S OF SHIP 8U«SlDY «t^L NO LONGER FEAR FOE8. S t* MEASURE WILL BE ADOPTED Opponents Will No Longer 6® &ble , to Influence Congressmen Against the Extension of Bounties to All > American Ship*. A University of Chicago professor holds a grievance against the poets. Perhaps he was formerly an editor. Half of the Turkish navy has been sold as junk. Presumably the other half is not marketable as anything. Statistics show that Americans are the best-fed people in the world. Still, sad to say, some of them go hungry. A Los Angeles schoolmarm has quit teaching to become a chorus girl. Pos­ sibly she'd passed the age limit as a teacher. Diamonds are rushing into this country again. Somebody must have circulated the report that Christmas is coming. | When flying machines become nu­ merous the top floor of a skyscraper will be no more private than, the ground floor. A Pennsylvania man thinks he has discovered perpetual motion. How many men have made the same mis­ take before? Washington. -- Congress Will pass the ship subsidy bill at the coming session of congress and that, too, without much opposition. The measure, say its friends, has passed the house in one form or an­ other several times during the past few decades, but has been blcfeked in the senate as many times. This time there will be little opposition in the upper house, and the lower branch taking advantage of the situation probably will increase the sums to be granted to all American ships engaged in commerce between home and for­ eign ports. ' The measure as it now stands, and as it will be presented to the house, provides subsidies only to South American and Asiatic ports, and these are so meager that their effect in building up an American merchant marine representative of the richest nation in the world would not be very great. These bounties, it is under­ stood, will be Increased to some ex­ tent and there will be a provision for extending the bounties to vessels ply­ ing to European ports. Friends of the measure assert that this provision has heretofore been left out to avoid opposition from the pow­ erful syndicate operating Atlantic liners. They now hold that the op­ position of these interests will po longer be able to Influence congress­ men in the face of a sentiment that has become sweeping. ARREST CUSTOM WEIGHER Women are applying for jobs as census takers. They feel that their ex­ perience in asking questions should count on their side. Well guarantee that no man ever sampled a greater variety of foods and dishes of all kinds than Taft has to the past few weeks. Is Charged with Conspiracy--Collector Loeb Discharges Ten More Employes. i?'V : Halleyfe comet has been observed Sfcain. Perhaps it is responsible for the remarkable outbreak everywhere of all kinds of scrapping. Some Wyoming thieves carried off &!• **** barn. 160 acres of fencing and {• „ • ton of coal. Why they left the isnch itself is Inexplicable. • Mexico has suffered another calam­ ity. The corn crop, valued at $20,- #00,000, has been destroyed by frost. More sorrow and suffering tor the #pilers of Mexico. New York.--Federal prosecutors ) added another important chapter to the extensive Investigation of alleged frauds in the customs service. While new evidence was being pre­ sented to the federal grand jury with the purpose of obtaining more indict- i roents Friday, Thomas C. Giddings, as i assistant customs weigher, was ar- i rested on a charge of conspiracy in ; connection with the importation of figs. Shortly before thiB Collector i Loeb announced that he had removed j ten more assistant weighers making a j total of 83 men who had been i dropped from the customs here since I March 9. Mr. Loeb said these remov- | als would complete the "house clean- j Ing" which he has been carrying on since he assumed office. According to Secretary of Agricult- ire Wilson the soil of American linns is sufficiently productive, but tie crying need is for more men who know how to farm. proportion to the large public 'A* service they render, most teachers „ tihd preachers are underpaid. There •re some, however, who would be , overpaid at any price. IS VICTIM OF BLACK HAND A cobbler in Milwaukee has a new tteory about the circulation of the Wood. He says it flows because germs are chasing it through the sys­ tem. His idea is that a sort of free- for-all race, -With no handicaps, might lb much good for the whole race. A Chicago man unkindly asks the liDurts to order the taxing authorities |d compel certain men in that city to f»y something like $80,000,000 in back taxes which he alleges they have 4odged on their stock and bond hold­ ings for the !«st ten years. Evidently this individual does not realize there . t *r® Privileged persons In this coun- 4 „ ,117- Unknown Men 3hatter Italian's Store with Dynamite--Five Build­ ings Wrecked. < Danville, 111.--A charge of dynamite weighing perhaps 25 pounds was ex­ ploded under the fruit and wine house of Joseph Mascari, 11 College street, Tuesday, utterly demolishing five buildings and causing $50,000 damage. Buildings both to the north and to the south of the Mascari place were completely wrecked, and plate glass windows in every building for three squares were demolished. Mascari charged members of the "Black Hand" society with the crime, but he declined to say whether he had re­ ceived threatening letters from any source. MADMAN SHOOTS GENERAL With hundreds of letters reaching " Ibe royal palace In Spain, no wonder {bat young King Alfonso is dejected •ver the Ferrer agitation. He started ftis reign with the prospect of being •ne of the most popular of contem­ porary monarchs, but is now in a fair »ay to lose through the blunders of Ills ministers. And the loss of popu- larity In these days, when revolution and republicanism are in the air, is a serious matter for a royal ruler.' German textile experts are turning attention to a fibre obtained from the kapok or silk cotton tree of the trop- •Ics, with a view to ascertaining wheth­ er a substitute for cotton may thus be obtained. No doubt experiments will be carried on with the thoroughness that is characteristic of German re- search, and if kopok can be made to take the place of cotton no effect will be spared in that direction. But a great many things are to be taken in­ to consideration before the superiority of kopok can be established. Cotton Is not likely to be supplanted imme­ diately. Attempted Assassination Takes Place Near President Fallieres and King Manuel. Paris.--An Individual, believed to be insane, and having an imaginary prievance against the war depart­ ment, shot and seriously wounded Gen. Verand on the steps of the Hotel C9ntinental Sunday, as the general was entering the hotel to attend a banquet. The man was arrested. The attempted assassination created a sensation. It occurred a few mo­ ments after President Faillieres left the Hotel Bristol, near by, where he was calling on King Manuel. 228 JAP MINERS ENTOMBED • • The big corporations are now mak­ ing money as they never made It be­ fore; but in the midst of prosperity It is well to keep the feet on the earth and not be carried skyward by Inflated conceits. I > U The reception given to the Cssr of Russia by the King and people of Italy is all that could be desired In cordiality and warmth. That the visit will tend to strengthen peace among the nations is a hope based on the ex­ pressions of good will shown all along the line of the czar's travel. Fifteen Are Reported Killed In Explo­ sion In a Coal Mine--Fsts of Others Doubtful. Tokyo.--Heavy loss of life Is feared as the result of an explosion in a coal mine at Onoura, Fukuoka province. Fifteen men are known to have per­ ished, while 228 miners are entombed In the workings. Every attempt is being made to rescue them, but their fate is as yet in doubt Believe 8hlp la Lost. San Juan, Porto Rico.--It is 19 days since the Herrera line steamer Maria Herrera left Santiago, Cuba, with a cargo of cattle, bound for Ponce, Porto Rico. The steamer has not not been heard from since and it is believed she has foundered. ANOTHER WARSHIP IS SENT TAFT ORDERS PRINCETON •AIL FOR CORINTO. t BUSY. - ; .• : 4 / "ti ^ V>," . <• •{ * *?r, Zslays to Be Brought to Terms With* out Delay--Will Recognize the Rebels. Washington.--The gunboat Prfhoe. ton was ordered by the navy de­ partment to sail for Corinto, Nicara­ gua to join the gunboat Vlcksburg, already at that port. The Princeton is now at the Bremerton navy yard, Washington, undergoing repairs. The United States government is anxious to know whether the time is ripe for the recognition of the pro­ visional or revolutionary government in Nicaragua. Unofficial advices say that the advance of the insurgent forces has been so rapid that the crisiB cannot be far off. Prompt action by the United States in formally recognizing th* Estrada government would mean the success of the battle to oust Zelaya. Delay might prove serious if the strength of Zelaya's army has been under-esti­ mated. , A lull in the proceedings against President Zelaya was caused by the reception of an official notification from the Nicaraguan charge d'affaires that the full record of the trial of the two Americans shot by order of the court-martial would arrive on the next steamer. Before the message was received Secretary Knox had had an Interview with John Barrett, director of the bu­ reau of American republics, and It is understood that in view of the re­ markable successes of the revolu­ tionary forces it was decided t<3 wait until Monday to see if Estrada would be successful in occupying Managua, in which case the recognition of the revolutionists would follow as a mat­ ter of course, and all need tof Ameri­ can intervention would cease. ^ Blueflelds, Nicaragua, by Wireless to Colon.--It is stated officially that President Zelaya is willing to resign his office and to leave the selection of his successor to congress. The proposition is absurd, for the reason that congress in reality does not exist. The deputies, with the exception of those appointed by Zelaya, either are in the penitentiary or are fugitives from the country. His partisans nat­ urally would select as his successor Senor Irlas or some other Zelaya satellite who would continue the op­ pression which has caused the revolu­ tion. Zelaya's willingness to resign and his proposal that a congress dominat­ ed by fear select his successor, it is j believed, would give poor satisfaction to the United States for the killing j of its citizens. 0 cW<ACo OAfLYAimL NAVY TO BE REORGANIZED BE8T SYSTEM IN THE WORLD IS PLANNED. Swift Board Appointed Months Ago Is Ajaout to. Submit Its Report. PRESIDENT EATS REAL FOOD Taft Expresses Pleasure at Being Able to Partake of Dinner With­ out Making an Address. - Washington.--Satiated with pos­ sum dinners and elaborate banquets, he was forced to face In his recent trip from coast to coasa. President Taft sat down Thursday to a family Thansgiving dinner. The piece de resistance was a mastodonlc turkey, that had been raised on a Rhode Is­ land farm, and looked almost'moun­ tainous In its proportions. "Thank goodness," the president sighed happily, as dessert was served, "I've had a dinner at which I haven't been compelled to make speeches, and where no reception committees lurked in the background. I've en­ joyed food--real food--and I haven't had to work to get it." The president did not have any guests at dinner. Only the members of the Taft family were present. In­ cluding Mrs. Laughlin, sister of Mrs. raft. ^ A man in New Jersey uses an au- * tomobile to plow with, and declares it 5 does better work than horses. Per- fhaps its results upon public roads Agave him the happy idea. Hunter 8hoots Man; Flees. Ashland, Wis.--Peter Pwdylowski of Bessemer was shot in the forehead Saturday while deer hunting and prob­ ably will die. He says the hunter who shot him fled. y*- Ohio State University has a "fresh­ ly, man" in the person of a lady nearly i'»79, who will take the regular college jl!. course, devoting herself especially to psychology and literature. All of ^ \ which tends to show anew that when wttman will she will, that the so- cailea Osier theory is an empty myth nd that years don't ootmt. Gridiron Deaths Are Twenty-falne, New York.--With the close of the football season, statistics show that 29 players lost their lives through the game in different parts of the country this fall, according to a list made pub­ lic here Friday. Talk of Successor to Bryce. London.--A Madrid dispatch to the Morning Telegraph says it Is report- ed there that Sir Maurice de Bunsen British ambassador at Madrid, soon will replace Ambassador Bryce at Washington. POSSE KILLS TWO WOMEN Mother and Daughter Shot to Death While Helping Father ind Son to Escape. Williamson, W. Va.--Firing from the doorway of their home on a sheriff's posse to give the father and brother of the girl time to escape, Mrs. Charles Daniels and her 16-year- old daughter were shot to death near Devon, Mingo county, by the officers. The shooting of Mrs. Daniels and her daughter grew out of a family feud be­ tween the Christians and the Dan- ielses on the border of Kentucky and West Virginia. The Christians lived in Mingo county. West Virginia, and the Daniels in Pike county, Kentucky. About three weeks ago George Christian ventured to the Kentucky side and was slain by Jim Daniels. Christian and Daniels were brothers- in-law and had formerly been allies. Message 8till Unwritten. Washington.--Although he has only a week's leeway, President Taft has not written his message to congress nor any part of It and the cabinet was in session Friday for more than two hours dlcsuBslng various fea­ tures which the president proposes to submit. Washington.--The United States navy is to be reorganized from the newest leviathan of the "Dreadnought" type to the armored cruisers and aux­ iliaries. Misfits, such as the Connecticut,"the armor belt of which is said to be al­ most entirely below the water line, will henceforth be Impossible. The fleets of the world power of the western hemisphere are to become ac­ tually the nation's asset of pride on the seas instead of on the blue prints of bureaucratic experts, many of whom have never had the sting of salt winds In their nostrils. In short, politics Is to be removed from the management of naval bu­ reaus and shipyards and fighting ships are to be built under the supervision of the men who fight them instead of along the plans of civilians and politi­ cians. The Swift board, named months ago to go to the bottom of the naval situ­ ation in the United States and bring out every fault, is about to make Its report The navy department has not yet learned that it is due for recon­ struction. ' Not since the Spanish war revealed the weakness of the American military establishment and the subsequent drastic reorganization which Ellhu Root, then secretary of war, succeed­ ed in bringing about, has there ap­ peared a more general upheaval of the organization of the fighting forces of a world power than is foreshadowed in the Swift board report. The board has reached its verdict that the navy de­ partment must be reconstructed, after studying the systerhs of control in the admiralties of all the great nations. The advisory board Idea, for in­ stance, is borrowed from the British admiralty and the plan to put young men in control and have the fighters decide what kind of ships to build Is taken from the German system. In­ cluded in the report is a demand for a thorough reorganization of the navy yard administration. CONSTABLE SAVED FROM MOB Mme. 8teinhell in London. London.--Mme. Stelnheil, who Wail recently acquitted In Paris of the charge of murdering her husband, ar­ rived in London Sunday. The woman proceeded to a hotel, but the manager, upon learning her Identity, requested her to leave. Theatrical Man Found Dead. San Antonio, Tex.--Clinton B. Fisk, newspaper and theatrical man, son of Gen. Clinton B. Fisk, founder of Fisk university at Nashville, $FAS found dead in bed Sunday. . • , -Ty;;- J i:--*a Dies on Way to a Feast. r" New York.--While on his way to the Salvation Army headquarters to get a Thanksgiving dinner John Devery, homeless and friendless, col­ lapsed and a few hours later died starvation. , Quarrel Over Children Playing To­ gether Leads to Killing at Quincy-- Lynching Party Foiled. Quincy, 111.--Constable James H. Dobbs narrowly escaped lynching at Columbus after he had shot and killed William Thompson, his neighbor. The killing was the result of a quar­ rel over the children of the men. Dobbs knocked Thompson down and then shot him to death. When word was brought here that a mob was forming to lynch Dobbs a number of officers hurried to Columbus in an au­ tomobile and brought Dobbs to this city, where he was lodged in jail! Des Moines Lad Hangs 8elf. DeB Moines, la.--Harold Perkins, aged 16, who hanged himself to his bedroom door because he had been refused permission to attend the Drake-Ames football game, it Is be­ lieved, expected his aunt to discover him and cut him down before he died. Two German Aviators Killed. Berin,--Dr. Brenckmann and Hugo Francke, the two post daring mem­ bers of the Aero club of Berlin, lost their lives through the col­ lapse of their balloon Kolmar. Their bodies were found near Flume, Aua- tria-Hungary. May 8urround Riff Tribesmen. Melilla, Morocco.--Gen. Marina Fri­ day left at the head of a consider­ able force of Spanish troops with the intention of surrounding Mount Veni--Bufflur and Isolating the Riff tribesmen, who are still intrenched there. Gold Yield In 1908 $94,560,000. Washington.--The gold mines In the United States produced $94,- 560,000 worth "of the precious metal in 1908, according to the re­ ports by. the Ufited 4:.». 'fi.l Eggs Are Brought from Shanghai. Victoria, B. C.--The steamer Em­ press of China, from the orient, brought 116 barrels of eggs from Shanghai. This Is the first shipment of the kind to America. Hindoo's Bride Gets Jewels. London.--Dolly Parnell, a musical comedy actress, was married Tuesday to Prince Neslr All Kahn, the son of one of the most powerful of the native rulers of India. The prince presented his bride with Jewels valued at $100,- 000. HEALTH MENACED BY SALUTE Dr. Woodward Declares Waving of Handkerchiefs by Chautauquans 8preads Contagious Diseases. Oldest Woman <ln United 8tates Dies. Richmond, Ind.--Mrs. Nancy Crawel- ly (colored), aged 120, who died Tues­ day at Eaton, O., Is believed to have been the oldest women In the United Stat*. , • Washington.--Dr. William G. Wood­ ward, the health officer of the Dis­ trict of Columbia, is In favor of abolishing the only form Qf athletics indulged in by members and grad­ uates of the Chautauqua Literature and Reading Circle. He says that the Chautauqua salute is a menance to health. The salute, as all Chautauquans know, is a harmless waving of the handkerchief when their friends make a hit on the lecture platform or sail away for distant lands. "The custom of waving a handker­ chief vigorously In the air,says Dr, Woodward, "is very dangerous. Near­ ly every contagious disease can be communicated in this manner if the handkerchief Is slightly soiled. If the linen" square has just been purchased or has come straight from the laun­ dry, there is not the slightest danger, but the waving of a handkerchief that has been used even once is harm­ ful. When a handkerchief 1b waved the wind blows the germs from It. Ty­ phoid fever, scarlet fever, tuberculosis, smallpox and chickenpox, measles, lc-prosy and diphtheria may be thus spread." LYMAN J. GAGE IS MARRIED Former Secretary of Treasury Weds Woman Whom He Induced to Join Theosophy Cult. San Diego, Cal.--Former Secretary of the Treasury Lyman Judson Gage and Mrs. Frances Ada Ballou were married at the Coronado home of the bride's parents, Mr. and Mrs. Ballou. , The marriage license gives the bride's age as 25 and the groom's as 73. The wedding was private, only the parents of the bride and the at­ tendants, Miss Helene Richards and Mr. Gage's brother-in-law, Col. Wesley Brainerd, witnessing the ceremony, which was performed by Rev. > Wll- lard B. Thorpe, pastor of the FirBt Congregational church of San Diego. After a wedding supper Mr. and Mrs. Gage started for Denver, Col. The courtship began with Mr. Gage's attempts to convert Mrs. Ballou to the theosophlc faith. M0XLEY GOES TO CONGRESS Regular Republican Candidate in 8lxtl» Illinois District Is Elected to Succeed Senator Lorimer. Chicago.--William J. Moxley, the regular Republican candidate for con* grasssoan for the Sixth Illinois con­ gressional district, was elected Tues­ day to succeed William Lorimer, who resigned when elected to the United States senate, by a plurality of 6,277 votes. The vote resulted as follows! < W. J. Moxley (Rep.), 14,494; Carl L. Barnes (Ind.), 8,817; FYank 8. Ryan (Dem.), 6,277. The campaign in this election was most bitterly contested and was par­ ticipated in by many Republicans of national and state fame. Including Speaker Cannon and Gov. Deneen. Funeral of De Armond. Butler, Mo.--The funeral of Con* gressman D. A. De Armond and grand­ son who were burned to death took place here Friday. A successor to the congressman will be named in a few days. Rleh Woman Is Arreetetf. Peoria, 111.--Mrs. Minnie Lupton Davis, wife of a wealthy real estate man, Is charged with shoplifting In the Schipper-Block store. . * Calls Dr. Cook a Faker. Washington. -- Walter Wellman, whose preparations for a conquest of the north pole in an airship were abandoned upon the announcement of the claims of Dr. Frederick A. > Cook and Commander Robert E. Peary, is­ sued here Sunday a long statement In which he analyzes the narratives of the two explorers, declaring that of Peary "precise, workmanlike, con­ sistent, credible In every particular," and denouncing that of Dr, Cook as not only suspicious but a self-evident and deliberate lmpoeture. -- • Banker Accidentally Kills Webster City, la--F. A. Edwards, president of the Webster City Sav­ ings bank, accidentally shot himself In the abdomen Tuesday and was com­ pelled to throw a shoe through the big plate glass front window to at­ tract aid. He died later at Mercy hospital. He was dusting the counter when his duster struck the cashier's revolver, exploding 11. Mr. Edwards had been three times mayor of thiB city, postmaster under Cleveland, and was one of the best-known shorthorn cattle breeders to the wifte ^ ̂ . . . . . ' NICARAGUAN SITUATION TAKES ON GRAVER ASPECT--CAUSES MUCH ANXIETY. ZEYALA THREATENS CONSUL Life of American Representative Is In Danger -- Cruiser Command­ ers Ordered to Find Him « onee. < V- fTasttngton,--Inhere is g(»3 Ifounia- tion for the report circulated Monday that marines had been landed on Nicaraguan soil. Officials ef the state and navy departments will not deny the report; They admit that the situation has taken on additional gravity because Caldera, the American vice-consul, is in danger. His life has been twice threatened by President Zelaya him­ self. Fearing the worst, Caldera is How in retreat In the American lega­ tion where he rushed to escape the fate which has confronted him hourly since the Receipt by Zelaya of the ultimatum of the United States. Y The government proposes to take lio further chances now that the true situation has been revealed. It will rescue Caldera, if it requires the land­ ing of an atmy, in addition to the several thousand marines and/jackies now at Nicaragua. ~ The 6nly fear now is that with Ze­ laya's threats, a state of anarchy ex­ isting and on the outbreak of another' revolution against Zelaya, Caldera may meet death before succor can reach him. Events have followed each other with such startling rapidity in the. Nicaraguan situation that feeling among the high officials of the state, war and navy departments is almost at fever heat. Several conferences which Secretary of War Dickinson and his chief of staff, Gen. Bell, have had with Presi­ dent Taft, give increased force to the statement that the army, which is in the^ highest state of preparedness ever re in Its history, will be ordered moment to land in Nicaragua. The belated word of Caldera's dan­ ger was received through wireless from the Des Moines. The American comminders of the half-dozen cruis­ ers in Nicaraguan waters were told to get into communication at once with Caldera and lose no time or force in ascertaining,where he was and why he was incommunicado. It was the reopening of this com­ munication that brought to the impa­ tient and tired officials of the state department an accurate report of the exact conditions in and about Man­ agua. There was much Information in the dispatches regarding details of the murder of the two Americans, Cannon and Groce, of the Insurgent force, and the attitude of Zelaya toward the pris­ oners, as well as toward Caldera and the United States government. Aside from the unusual gravity of the situation as Just disclosed by the advices as to Caldera's safety, the government is deeply worried ovey the fact that another revolutionary force has taken the field. The officials here are exercised be­ cause they thought the situation well In hand, They could deal with the head of the provisional government, Estrada, but with another Richmond in the field the situation threatens to become a muddle. The new aspirant for Zelaya's place is Irlas, the minis­ ter-general of the present government. There is a fear that aspirant^ may become an epidemic and that there will be interminable trouble, even after Zelaya 'has been disposed of. TRUST STOLE ON BIG §CALE New York Man 8ends Letter to Sena­ tor Borah Containing Grave Charges Against Sugar Trust. Washington.--nFor 15 years the sugar trust has been robbing the gov­ ernment In the gigantic manner re­ cently disclosed in New York by Col­ lector Loeb.- The $3,000,000 paid the sugar trust as the amount stolen is less than one-tenth of what the thefts amounted to for the 15 years." This is the Information sent to United States Senator Borah of Idaho who has prepared a resolution to pre­ sent to congress calling for an inves­ tigation of the sugar trust. The in­ formation is sent by a prominent business man of New York who for 20 years has been close to the sugar trust and its dealings. This man announced In his letter that he was willing to appear as a witness if a congressional investiga­ tion were started, and would bring for the inspection of the committee proofs of all that he asserts. Mr. Borah has been toM that he can count on two-thirds of the senate supporting his resolution. In the let­ ter the writer gives an account of the methods used by the trust to perfect Its "system." He said the heads of the sugar trust were the guilty ones and not the employes. Aocuses Duke of Murder. < New York.--That Mme. Steinheirs husband, for whose murder she was recently tried and acquitted, was killed by one of the Russian grand dukes, following the husband's dis­ covery of the Russian in his wife's company, and that her trial for,mur­ der was brought about by herself for revenge, when a financial agreement to protect his name was not kept by the czar's relative, was the statement by Alfred Partridge Klots, an Ameri­ can artist, who arrived here Monday Paris In the liner KroonbuuL Buries Her Gown. Monticello, N. Y.--Mrs. Nicholas Van Vanness on her way home took pity on what she -supposed were three little black kittens, which turned out to be three young skunks. Monday her brand new winter suit was buried In her back yard. , v . LOST UBIBB LETTERS HI ̂ FOIWD IH QUEER PUCE Missed From a Mangled Msll B^ They sre Recovered From f ^ "< Car Trucks. It does not always follow that tfci ; • disappearance erf registered matt ---Qvw iuuivai.o a iuuucij ia VU# -r i n*ai!. This was demonstrated or The Overland Limited train No. # i Friday, November 5th, when a pack- age of five registered letters fronl Schuyler disappeared between thai , point and Omaha. - TV -4I The recovery of the lost packag* , Was as strange as Its disappearance^ The Schuyler pouch is picked un from a crane by means of a pouc|t catcher as the train passes. Thlp* pouch catcher is attached to the mad car and hooks onto the pouch su*" - "< pended from the crane as the trai|^ passes. In this particular Instancy - the pouch catcher did not make p; s good catch and the pouch fell undeif the wheels of the train and was cqii In two. The mail was scattered alonj| 'i the track for a considerable distance but the five registered letters, whic|f * were in a packet, could not ba foun$' when the other mail was picked u The impression at once prevailed thL the registered package had been founl and kept by some one and it was r^' ported as lost. ' 4;. • Postofflce Inspector L. A. Thomife son was started out to investigate. Hi|f' " first visit was to Council Bluffs tjf * make inquiries of the postal clerks on the car, and scarcely had hs reached there when he received wor^l - that the registered package had been found by the car cleaner resting snugtf ly on the trucks under the dining car, where it had been blown ote" thrown when the mail pouch was flung under the wheels at Schuyler. That the package was not injured In the slightest, nor jarred from its position on the trucks, is simply an* - other tribute to the Union Pacific's unsurpassed roadbed and perfect track. WORK OF A BUDDING GENIUS Couplet That Lacked Something of the Divine Fire, But Strikingly Original. The ten-year-old daughter of an aiV 1st believes that she is destined to Ills a great place in literature, and all her spare moments are devoted to writing poetry about every conceivable sub ject, according to the San Francisco Wasp. Recently she attended her first church wedding, and so filled with inspiration was she that she imme­ diately began to write a poem descrip­ tive of the event. 'A few days after­ ward, when her mother was entertain­ ing friends, the youthful prodigy asked permission to read her poem before the guests. Her mother humored her with not a little secret pride. StanzS by stanza the poem progressed until the young lady reached the point where the description of the brides­ maids was set forth. Therq one of her couplets read thus: Borne had pug noses and some hft4 Roman, And each wore a blue ribbon about hsr abdomen. % M WANTED CORRECTNESS; CD 0 KJSg. I CD 0 KJSg. I Customer--M'yes, that's better, but you'll have to alter it a little over the hips, for I'm taking up a new appoint­ ment on Monday, and the prinicpal Informed me that his firm was. very particular as to correctness In figures. Pathetic Pride. Willie had had a tumble when he was a baby and his hip was so hurt that ever afterward he was obliged to use a crutch. On one occasion, when his mother had bought him a new crutch of the latest and most ap­ proved Btyle, Willie expressed his en­ thusiasm and delight in the roundest < terms. "And oh, mother!" he ex­ claimed, In conclusion, referring to a little friend of his who having the use of both legs had no need of crutches, "won't Johnny Knowles bs jealous!" 1 Dr. 8. P. Spohn, President of the Spohn Medical Co., proprietors ot Spohn's Distemper Cure, was recently elected mayor of Goshen, Ind., by a good majority. Mr. Spohn was for s number of years Count* Supt. of Schools, making such a record that his neighbours and friends, regardless of political lines, insisted on his accepting the nomination for mayor. Their Intent. "You seldom see a fire escape an churches." "But, com* to think ot It, that to what the whole building is for." 5111 111 Z5 "Guar*" TAKE A DOSE Off .-.AViv' f vara,- Ethel Barrymore Is a Mother. New York.--Mrs. Russell Gross j wold Colt, better known to theater j goers as Miss Ethel Barrymore, 1h j now the proud mother of a fine baby | tM#. Uapiy ipjj ^hll^ dedsgi WSlii | >; n.-- ttt tts? mtmn m s V h will instantly relieve Aat racking cough. Taken promptly ii will often present Atthrna, Brooch kit and eenou» throat and lung trouble*. Gowsoleed safe esd rerj 1 AB . •