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Tie McHenry flalndealer Published b* F-, ,0. SCHEE1NER. McHENRY, ILLINOIS yp^r Com* again, football friends! The revolution season baa opened again to Central America. Prosperity Is still waxing and vwiH set a hot pace for the country. Terrible battles are ' happening-- over the Nicaragua cable. Both side* are winning. Some persons exprett tfcelr <&• ttmism by eating chicken croquettes In restauranjts. "Paris is a woman's town," sings a Boston Globe poet Other American gents have made the same remark. SECRETARY NAGEL REQU18TB ,000 GRANT TO FIGHT .."Mm WHITE SLAVERY. WOULD STAMP OUT TRAFFIC ft is clumsy to break laws when It Is easier to evade them, but that Is not a good excuse for evading them. "Berlin wants an immovable date for Easter Sunday. Let us hope they will also get a re-movable Easter Sunday hat. M further seems a from. alarmed over signs of uake slKlici. Messina good place to keep away The American Dreadnought Is the greatest of an. Others do well; we do better. They do better still when we do best. Aeroplanist Farman flew for over four hours the other day. The coming aeroplane will have to have a, dining- car attachment. "" Rtfflan tribesmen send word to Spain that they have on'^ started to fight. Madrid frill get little satisfac­ tion out of thai A Washington man says he owes lifs longevity to pie, but few poli­ ticians can hang onto the pie counter a whole lifetime. During the past year oar paternal government planted 3.117.000.000 fish, •S.which statement Is the biggest - fish story of the year. ' -- This discussion whether or not thfcre ^, ' are Insects on Mars is chopping con- Li- * troversy pretty fine. Wait till the hookworm gets settled. Orvflle Wright says that flying Is easy to learn. Few doubted that; It Is the coming-down process which the majority want made easy. The German dirigible air squadron {T^ijp ta* been «xecuting maneuvers, and '"V ' another war scare is due In the right little, tight little British Isles. The germ family are in hard luck. Mrs. Sage Is combatting the tubercu­ losis germ, Mr. Carnegie the pellagra, and Mr. Rockefeller the hookworm. What are said to be the highest falls on this continent have been discov­ ered In Labrador. Maybe Canada was tired of owning only half of Niagara. * f 1 - Advocates Creation of fiipartimnt to Compel Complete Publicity of interstate Corporations -- Would Guard Their 3#crets. , • * ^*>•;' "*< c Washington. -- Secretary «i<Jom- merce and Labor Nagel, in his annual report made public Sunday, makes the Important recommendation that newer and more stringent laws be passed and an appropriation of $50,090 be made to enable the stamping out of the white slave trade which he says is an extensive organized business. The secretary also recommends leg­ islation to create a department of the government which would do for the whole country what the bureau of corporations has been doing in spe­ cific instances, and compel complete publicity in the management of inter­ state corporations. The secretary desires the further development of the bureau of corpora­ tions. At the end of this fiscal year the department still has on hand in­ vestigations of the lumber and steel industries, the International Harvester Company, concentration of water- power ownership, transportation by water in the United States. It was still Continuing its Investigations of the tobacco industry, the operation of cotton exchanges and state systems of corporate taxation. On the subject of government con­ trol of the financial and industrial forces Secretary Nagel says some terse things, and makes some import­ ant recommendations. The prime need of two things is emphasized: First, reliable informa­ tion upon which the'government may take legislative and administrative action, and, second, reliable informa­ tion in a concise and available form to serve for the basis of public opin­ ion. The first step to be taken, he says, is an advance toward a com­ plete system for obtaining and mak­ ing public-this information. The bu>„ reau of corporations has demonstrated the value of this beyond doubt in the limited way which its force and money available would allow. TWO KILLED; SCORE INJURED Disobedience of Orders by Engineer Causes Bad Wreck on North*-,,'; .western Railroad. Chicago.--Disobedience of orders on the part of an engineer cost the lives of two immigrants, resulted in the serious injury of a score of persons, and caused damages amounting to over $200,000 Sunday when the north­ bound Milwaukee limited on the Chi­ cago & Northwestern railroad, run­ ning over forty-five miles an hour, plunged over an embankment at How­ ard avenue. The train struck a de­ fective switch and was thrown off the rails. The cars tore up the roadbed for 400 yards before the first two coaches finally split practically in two Th*fc Hartford IS-yeaivold boy^ttto ! «»d leaped down a 30-foot embankment , insisted on being taken to school after : ° Pass®n£era were in the . , f f ' * he had broken his leg. because he did ; ®fr*' train jumped tBe * -i. not want to spoil a perfect record for • J™* f baggage car picked up a t* . - - loose rail. It was hurled through the C0W6BESS10 IIP WflEffWKYS PKE&tOENT SAYS ACTION WILL II TAKEN THIS SESSION. * Several Delegations Visit White House and Receive Gratifying Assur­ ance* from Tiffc; it'" ... Washington.--President Taft gave assurances 'that steps or an' important character toward the development of a system of waterway im­ provement in the heart of the country would be taken by the present con­ gress. These assurances were given to delegations which he received at the White House. Four governors and two ex-govern­ ors headed the committee of 500!, which had been charged by the New Orleans convention to present to the president resolutions asking ifor a 14 foot channel for the Mississippi. Gov. Deneen presented athe resolu­ tions and the president replied til part: "I hope that we are til engaged in a work in which we stand shoulder to% shbulder, without respect to a par­ ticular locality, and that If you gen­ tlemen who are interested In a par* titular improvement find that your, view pay not b® entirely met and that your particular project may not be the first one taken up in a substantial way it will not prevent your welcoming a a step by congress that when taken means the embracing of every im- 1 provement that ought to commend it­ self to those who are familiar wi& congress." Mr. Taft expressed to the Ohio dele­ gation, who sought his support for a nine-foot channel from Pittsburg to Cairo, regret that his remarks before the rivers and harbors congress had cast a "wet blanket" over the conven­ tion, and said that he had only in* tended to help the gathering along by pointing out the practical method of accomplishing .the object desired. Mrf Taft said he had been assured by members of committees which have such; legislation in charge that the whole matter of waterway improve­ ment Would receive earnest considera­ tion during the present session. THE STORM /Am# /3R EXCORIATES ZEUM SENATOR RAYNER NICARAGUAN RULER MU8T BE PUNISHED# ^ SAY# Hf IS A RftJRDEnEn Pictures President , , CowandJy •assln of Groce and Cannon-- Urges 8enate to Bring ' ' „ ;.V," ' HW» td Trdlf* . "• ft • • \ • \ .v, J Washington.--Speaking ift Btippdrk • * m In her suit for divorce a Sacramento woman charged that her husband would not even buy her ice cream. m,Still, he may have loaded her down \With fudge and chewing gum. th'V *p'y •*"' attendance, may be counted on to ap­ preciate the value of an education and baggage car into the smoking car di­ rectly following, striking the two men and killing them instantly. Engineer Isaac J. Harriman per­ formed an aot of heroism when he yt.x-, to turn it to good account. • . • Writing of the evils of ear strain, to which the people of a large city are always subject, a doctor says: "When -raced after the wild locomotive, from fthe ears have been strained by the ; which he and his fireman had leaped W ®oiae and confusion of the day they after seeing the wreck was inevitable, JL imay be refreshed in the eveing by lis- an<*. despite his serious injuries, shut jf? , tniag to music or to such other sounds i °® the steam. The coaches were I'- ;jas are restful to them." Perhaps you P^ed on top erf the engine, and had a 'lhave noticed the restful effect after a blaze started It probably would have "f'«jhard day's work when the clock in the , cost lives of many passengers street strikes six and the hurdy-gurdy trapped in the wrecked coaches. Officials of the Chicago & North­ western railroad acknowledged that the wreck was due to disobedience of orders. At the point where the wreck occurred track elevation is in prog­ ress. An order was issued recently The St. Lawrence river-is an object- lesson in water power. An enormous '^volume can be turned to account by Jmodern methods. And now progres- f»ive Americans and Canadians are I prohibiting trains from running over ^yunitlng in an effort to utilize this j 15 miles an hour at this point. Ac- M'power. A pl^n has been formulated j cording to eye witnesses the limited -;,ji!which looks to the erection of a dam ./,-at Brockville which will drown out : the Long Sault rapids and raise the streanv at that pdlnt 18 inches, afford* Jing several hundred thousand horse 'power. Competent engineers have pronounced it wholly practicable. The preliminary report of-ifbe .^partment of agriculture shows that was running nearly forty-five miles an hour when It left the rails. Racine, Wis., Fire Swept. Racine, Wis.--The big plant of the Racine Manufacturing Company, man­ ufacturers of automobile tops and piano stools, the Dania Brotherhood hall, the Mitchell wagon works and the corn crop this year is up to a high | ®eve^al reBldences, were destroyed by - <Y " level and comes near to record break fW-; !ing figures. The yield is placed at 2,- fi < 767,316,000 bushels, which is nearly « hundred million bushels more than that of 1908. The largest crop of corn ever gathered was that of 190®, Wm^ which aggregated 2,927,416,000 bush- fire Sunday, entailing a loss estimated at $650,000. All but $50,000 of this is borne by the Racine Manufacturing Company's plant. The latter concern carried $250,000 insurance. The origin of the fire is pot known. The fire started in the millroom of J; els. At the prevailing prices the corn ! **ac'ne Manufacturing Company's ft crop is estimated to be worth more * J^; t;^than $1,900,000,000. There Is no doubt i * ithat "King Corn" does his part toward v ; '-creating national wealth. - k Pott office rules that jboxee of k® Bent through the malls. yUncle Sam and Santa Claus are get^ "* ting ready to pull together in this I'.-matter. Sweets to the sweet. e^'"' " :-- ., ' £ / , T h e T u r k i s h p a r l i a m e n t , w h i c h w i l l reconvene next week, will consider a <?/J >4navai program that will involve the i expenditure of $100,000,000. This sum. It is estimated, will build and equip seven battleships of the North Da- 1 kota type and at once advance the % v Ottoman empire to at least a second- rate position as a Bea power. V\ ^ When the United States names ita Wggest battleships after the smallest ^ or the least populous, of the states - does it indicate an opinion that the battleships may properly be nnn- 0 tmized or that the small st«tes need •tiie advertising? plant which comprises six buildings. The flames spread quickly throughout the entire plant and soon gutted it. The Racine Manufacturing Company employed 1,200 men. Hogs Bring Record Price. St. Louis.--The highest recorded price for hogs was exceeded at the National Stock yards when on Thurs­ day a buyer gave $8.65 per 100 pounds for fine specimens. Nothing approach­ ing this price has been known in «p»n market here since 1893. Nurse Cuts Her Throat. Belviderer III.--Miss, Bernlce Skin­ ner, bead nurse at the American hos­ pital, committed suicide Friday by cutting her throat. Temporary nsan- ty was the cause « > > i w- •£' The power of humor was, perhaps i ?*ver more strikingly displayed than 1 In the strike of 1,100 employes of a i; Schenectady concern who struck be- ' Oauso a fellow-laborer who had poured sand down their backs and smeared their tools was discharged. Mall Clerk Critic Out. Seattle, Wash.--Charged with In­ subordination, agitation, disorganisa­ tion and disrespect to superiors, H H Wells was Thursday dismissed as a mailing clerk in the local post office by an order from Washington. ; i ' f - ' . 2 . Kilts Sheriff to Avoid »rrs>L Shreve, O.--After he had held his family in terror all night, Roy Lee believed to be insane, Thursday shot and killed 8heriff Jacob Bell of Holmes county when the officer attempted to CATTLE KING'S SON SUIN David ' Mackenxie Is Shot Down by Fprmer Employe Without Warn* ing--Cause Not Known. La Beau, S. D.--David George Mad- Kenzie, son of Mundo MacKenzie, mil­ lionaire cattle king and one of the largest land owners * in the west, was shot and killed here. 'Bud" Stephenson, the slayer, was arrested ana now is being ' held* ih Selby on a charge of murder. - The cause of the killing is unknown, but officials are investigating the rumor that it resulted from an Qld feud be­ tween the two men. , David MacKenzie was 31 years old and for the last four years had had charge of the Matador Land and Cat­ tle Company, which controlled a tract of 600,000 acres In the Cheyenne river reservation in South Dakota. Former­ ly he assisted in the management of the company's great ranches near Channlng, Tex. BELIEVE 47 UVES ME LOST OFFICIALS PEAR BIG CAR FERRY j-.;:*!* HAS SUNK. Bo*t Carried Crew- of Tl»lrty-^nt Persons--Clarion 8allors Art^,* ~ . Reported Drowned- e • Detroit, Mich.--All hope that the car ferry No. 2 outlived the wintry gale which has made of Lake Erie a watery graveyard during the last 72 hours was practically abandoned Saturday at the head offices in Walkerville, Ont, of the Marquette and Bessemer Dock and Navigation Company, Own­ ers of the ill-fated vessel. It Is believed that Capt. R. R. Me- Leod of Conneaut, O., and his crew of 31 men have gone down to death with the big steamer The ferry left Conneaut. O., Tuesday morning for Port Stanley, Ont., with 30 loaded coal cars, and under ordi­ nary conditions should have arrived at her destination at 3 p. m;, the same day. She has not been sighted by other boats. Cleveland, O.---Hope of rescuing Capt. Thomas Bell and the' 12 men of his crew who escaped from the burning steamer Clarion Wednes­ day night was abandoned here. Local vesselmen, while admitting that the lifeboat had air chambers and was noncapsizable theoretically, ex- pressed themselves as unable to be­ lieve that the sailors could have withstood the long exposure in the icy spray. Port Arthur, Ont.--Six men employ­ ed by the Great Lakes Dredging Com­ pany were drowned in the harbor here They were on a dredge being towed int othe harbor, when it suddenly Jurors Refuse to Consider Cherry Die- : sPr*ng a leak and sank. There was a aster Case Until Missing ; crew of 15 men on the dredge, but : !"r^Witnesses Appear. , nine escapde by Jumping on a . " . i scow. Cherry, 111,--Inquiry by the coro- j Buffalo, N. Y.--Eleven survivors of ner's jury into the causes of the St t the flax-laden freighter W. C. Richard Paul mine disaster came to an abrupt 8°n« which foundered just outside the of his resolution authorizing the pres­ ident; of the United States to appre­ hend President, Zelaya of Nicaragua, and bring him to trial on a charge of the murder of Groce and Cannon, the two American citizens recently exe­ cuted In Nicaragua, Senator Rayner of Maryland Monday addressed the senate ..at length. His speech, stirring and denuncia­ tory in tone and characterized by dra­ matic fervor, was an unsparing ar­ raignment of President Zelaya, whom he designated as one of the criminals of the age. "What I am concerned in now," said Senator Rayner, "is not the question of the belligerent rights of the revo- ] lutionists, or in case of their success their recognition either as the de facto ! or the de- jure government, but in rt © MAiftr mill« A the speedy apprehension and punish- TFM S> NAVY RIVALS GERMANY ment of Zelaya. This desperado is Struggle for Second Place In Stand­ ing of the Nations Is Very Close. everything that the secretary of state says about him, and a great deal more. "If the country knew what is known . ,, - , in official circles In reference to his Washington.--The nkjtj, book ; general depravity, it would regard the for 1909, compiled by Pitman Pulslfer, secretary's communication as exceed- clerk of the senate committee on ingly temperate, as it shows upon the naval affairs, shows the race for sec- ; face the restraint under which he ond place among the navies of the was laboring in dealing with such a world to be still very close as her j character. tween the United States and Qer- MINE INQUIRY ADJOURNED close Thursday without a verdict be­ ing reached or any steps being made to fix the responsibility for the attend­ ing loss of life. Speaking through : Juror John Thompson, the jury announced that it would not consider returning a ver­ dict until Alexander Rosenjack and Robert Dean, the missing witnesses, either had been found, or the county officials showed evidences of a genu­ ine desire to find them. After considerable argument It was agreed to adjourn until December 20 in order to give the Bureau county officials an opportunity to make fur­ ther search for the missing witnesses. Thirty-Five Passengers Are Injured. Indianapolis, Ind.--Thirty-five pas­ sengers on a street car were injured, none fatally, and few seriously, when the car was struck by an inbound Pennsylvania passenger train at a street crossing and hurled 30 feet. The car fell on a cement sidewalk and lay across the track, but the en­ gineer stopped his train before hit­ ting it a second time. Most of those hurt were injured in the panic which followed the crash. Windows were broken and the passengers climbed {nam the overturned car. Buffalo breakwater, were brought Into port aboard the steamer Paine, which rescued the men and stood by the Richardson for 30 hours. It is now believed that eight lives were lost. Five are supposed to have gone down with the freighter and the other three are dead or adrift some­ where in the lake in a yawl." - Prove "Shooting Up" of Town. Washington.--Conclusive evidence (s said to have been secured by the military court of Inquiry into the "shooting up" of Brownsville, Ten,, that members of the- Twenty- fourth infantry, negroes, who were within the fort, fired on the town at the time their companies were racing through the streets of the Texas town, shooting right and left. This evi­ dence, it is reported, is considered conclusive. Fire Destroys Ohio Town. Utlca, O.--This town of 900 people was practically wiped out by fire and one man, Edward Daum of Lancaster, a guest of the Hotel Vance, was burned to death. Thirty-five other guests of the hotel had a narrow es­ cape and were forced to rush to the sidewalk in their night clothes. The entire business section was destroyed and the loss Is placed at $100,000. Five Go Through Ice; Drown. Kent, O.--Prank Corminle, aged 83, Saturday took his three daughters, Florence, aged nine; Helen, aged seven; and Mabel, aged four, and, ac­ companied by his brother, Russel, aged 22, went to the Cuyahoga river to give the children a ride on a sled on the ice. All five were drownettr Compressed Air Kills Nine* Naples.--Nine workmen were suf­ focated to death Sunday while work- Condemns Preserved Eggs. Peoria, 111.--Judge J. Otis Hum­ phreys in the federal court here to-day decided that the 50 cases of preserved eggs seized in this city last March by government inspectors were Injurious to health and that the seiz­ ure was justified. The eggs were shipped by the W. H. Hlppolite Egg Company from St. Louis The firm has been barred from doing business in the state of Illinois. ? Evansvlile to Have Rfctural Qas.. *. Evansvllle, Ind.--It was announced here that within the next month the laying of a large pipe line from the natural gas field near Oakland City to Evansvllle will be begun. The line will cost about $200,000, it i*., esti­ mated. tr :,7; Liquor Dealer* Indicted. Kansas City, Mo.--Fifty Indictments were returned Thursday by the grand jury against wholesale liquor dealers, charging them with violating the new law requiring wholesalers and manu­ facturers of liquors to pay a graduat­ ed tax to the state. M Nurse Cuts Her Throat. . Belvldere, 111.--Miss Bernlce Skin­ ner, head nurse at the American hos­ pital, committed suicide Thursday by lng in a compressed air compartment cutting her throat. Temporary insan- in the harbor here, the cause. l.Tl".- • * e ity was the cause. Two Drlntce, Then De«tft St. Louis.--Two drinks of beer, the first in his experience, started Russell Howard, a 17-year-old chauffeur, upon a wild "Joy ride" that ended in the death of Dennis Short, a pedestrian. Friday. Mi • Names Now Mexico Chiefs^ Washington --The president Friday sent to the senate the names of Wil­ liam J. Mills and William H. Pope, bothi of New Mexico, to be governor and chief justice respectively of that • Crandall Guilty of Wife Murdee. - Marshall, Mich.--William Crandall, or trial for the killing of his wife at Battle Creek last August, was found guilty of murder In the first degree Wednesday by a Jury in the circuit eourt Crandall cut his wile's, throat. Slayer Hangs Self In Jail, Columbus, O.--Ftank Grimes, who killed Blanche McKnight because she refused to marry him. hanged himself in his cell in the county jail Wednes­ day. He had been sentenced to die that j many. Of fighting ships (battleships and armored cruisers) building and pro­ vided for, this country has 45 and Germany 46, but the aggregate ton­ nage for the United . States is 659,241, as against 654,334. Germany, however, has a larger number of small vessels than this country, and her total tonnage is 820,- 692, against 785,687 for the ' United States. HEAR FROM KIDNAPED1 GIRL Meeting Is Arranged Between Child'* Mother and Envoys of Perpe­ trators of Crime. Louisville, Ky.---The first light upon the mysterious disappearance of Alma Katherine Kellner, the eight- year-old daughter of Frederick Kell­ ner, brewer of this city, was fur­ nished when Mrs. Kellner declared that a meeting had been arranged be-' tween herself and envoys of the kid­ napers. The child was kidnaped on the street Wednesday morning by two "I have watched for years the revo- | lutionary history of Central America. ; Zelaya is probably the most despica- j ble figure that has ever risen in their j midst If ho were simply a highway­ man, we might identify him; if he were simply a tyrant who oppressed j the people for the purpose of robbing them, we might particularize him; if \ he were a usurper who was only hold­ ing onto power in the treasury to steal, or any further territory that be could sack for private plunder, we could assign him a proper place in the ranks of some of his predecessors, and if he was purely an assassin who regarded murder as a legitimate pro­ fession through which he could |de- spoil his victims of their possessions until the time came for him to flee from the hands of retributive justice, it would be an easy task also for any dne acquainted with the political, history of Nicaragua to classify him. "He is, however, all of these things combined. In the school of corrup­ tion, dishonor, perfidy and crime he stands without a peer, and exhibits in one glow of associated harmony the Stride of every model and the perfec­ tion of every mastery. -I have been SOUNDS LIKE A FAIRT T*LE THE FARMERS OF CENTRAL ADA REAP WHEAT AND -• RICHES. ' t,;.,,--' the Province*Manitoba, Saskatchewan and Alberta, the prov­ inces that compose Central Canada nave such a quantity of land suitable for the growth of small grains, which grow feo abundantly, and yield so hand­ somely that no fear, need be feared of a wheat famine on this Continent. The story reproduced below is only one of the hundreds of proofs that could be produced to show the results that may be obtained irom cultiva­ tion of the lands in these provinces. Almost any section of the country will do as well. ,s With the country recently opened by the Grand Trunk Pacific, the latest of the great transcontinental lines to en­ ter the field of the development of the Canadian West, there is afforded added ample opportunity to do as was dpne in the case eiied below: To buy a section of land, break it up and crop it, make $17,550 out of the yield and $10,880 out or the increase of value all within the short period of two years, was the record estab­ lished by James Bailey, a well known farmer within a few miles of Keglna. Mr. Bailey bought the 640 acres of land near Grand Coulee two years ago. He Immediately prepared the whole section for crop and this year has 600 acres of wheat and 40 acres of oats. The wheat yielded 19,875 bushels, and the oats yielded 4,750 bushels. The whole of the grain has been market­ ed and Mr. Bailey is now worth $17,550 from the grain alone. He bought the land at $18 an acre, and the other day refused an offer of $35 an acre, Just a $17 advance for the time of his purchase. The land cost $11,320 in the first instance. Here are the fig­ ures of the case.--Land cost, 640 acres, at $18, $11,320. Wheat yielded 19,875 bushels, at 84 cents a bushel, $16,695. Oats yielded 4,750 bushdla at 28 cents a bushel, $855. Offeree for land, 640 acres at $35 an acfe, $22,400. Increase,value of land, $10,880. Total earnings of crop, $17,550, togeth­ er wjth increase In, ^e of liyul^to­ tal of $28,540. y It is interesting to note the figu&s of the yield per acre. The wheat yielded ZZ% bushels to the acre, and oats 118.7 bushels to the acre. The urea are a fair indication of the ai age throughout the district. Agents of the Canadian Government in the different cities will be pleased to ^ive you Information as to rat^s ^ YFS** WHY 'HRFAILED;1, ! persons, one believed to be a man, al- ! ,nformed upon most reliable authority though both wore woman's clothing, and was taken away In a wagon. Owing to the prominence of the Kellner family the kidnaping stirred the city to its depths. Police in every city in the middle west were notified and are searching for the child and her kidnapers. BILL AIMED AT STRIKES Congressman 8teeners<m Introduces a Drastic Measure to Prsvenf ' ^hreatoned Public Mischiefs."1' * ." O:' '•> 'Washington.--A drastic proposition to meet the strike of the switchmen on the railroad lines enter­ ing St. Paul is made in a bill, amend­ ing the Erdman act, which was intro­ duced to-day by Representative Steen- erson of Minnesota, providing for re­ ceiverships of the roads involved/ if necessary. His bill proposes that the attorney general of the United States in con­ troversies between railroads and their employes may, if necessary, file a bHl in equity to prevent any threatened public mischiefs in any United States court within the circuits where the railroads may do business, such bill to make the railroads and employes defendants, together with, all known corporations, organizations ^ .Indl- viduals aiding or abetting. W r ---;-- --2 . that the vices of his private life are more infamous in their indescribable details than the iniquities of his pub- lip career. Such ft creature as this deserves the execration of mankind." , Senator Rayner asserted that Ze- laya's only anxiety would be lest he lose "the money he had stolen," and that "if he is guilty he must be award­ ed the doom and fate' that be de­ serves, so that every tyrant on this earth in every nationality under the sun. and in every government large or ; smqjl, and especially these Central American states, may take warning .that when an assassination like this occurs the malefactor must take hi Aunt--You failed in your examtipar tiqn. ,< How .was that? ; George--I can't think, auntie! The Vacant Chair. sad memories linger the old vacant chair. Sitting in the middle of the fioor, with a plaintive look about its frayed and seemingly weary back, it brings back a tumultu­ ous riot of sad recollections that time can never effaqe. Volumes of bitter anguish come to me when I arrive home in time to catch the milkn|tin swiping the loose turniture around the place, and take off my shoes to avlrid publicity, and strike my best foe against the roekvr of the old vaclibt sj. chair. Then, forgetting for the io- Jp^ment my unclad feet, I kick the chair place like any other culprit at the bar j of criminal justice and must, answer j for the deed with his liberty .or his life." - - I • • - --w." - ' -k.fi* LURT0N FOR SUPREME BENCH Brick Rates Are Too High. Washington. --After an investiga­ tion extending over a year the interstate commerce commission an­ nounced that the rates charged by the railroads for the transportation of fire brick, building brick and paving brick from Central Traffic association territory to the Atlantic board were unreasonable and should be reduced. General Sentenced to Death. Panama.--Gen. Vasquez has been court-martialed and sentenced to death by Estrada's insurgent forces at Rama. New advices corroborate the report of a sweeping victory for the revolution­ ists. Big Pig Escapee Rooeeveft. Nairobi, East Africa. -- Theodore Roosevelt arrived here Saturday. He is in the best of health. He had hoped to bring in a bongo and a giant pig, but saw neither. The colonel will ho entertained at several dinners hero, Schwab Glvee to the Poor. New York.--Charles M Schwab, the steel millionaire, has given 100 acres of shore park on Staten Island to an organization of nuns here to be used "for the benefit of the poor children Of Wow York." , ^ . r ----™-- 1 • . y; Pacific Fleet lo- Divided Manila.--The United States Pacific fleet sailed from here Friday. The Tennessee and Washington go to Shanghai, the Pennsylvania and West Virginia to Hong Kong, the Maryland and Colorado to Kobe, Japan, and the California and South Dakota to Yoko­ hama. I Taft Nominates Tenneseee Jurlst to Be Associate Justice--Judge Car^ r. penter to 8ucceed Bethea. i Washington.--President Taft nom­ inated Horace H. Lurton of Tennessee, to be an associate justice of the su­ preme court of the United States. Judge Lurton is a Tennessee man and was appointed judge of the Sixth circuit by President Cleveland March 27, 1893. He was a Democrat in poll- tics at that time. President Taft appointed Judge George A. Carpenter of Chicago for United States district court of north­ ern Illinois, to succeed the late Judge Bethea. Judge Carpenter has sat on the bench of the Cook county circuit court for a number of years and is re­ garded as one of the foremost jurists In that state. Liberals Win In Spalidt-^f^^ Madrid.--Returns from the munici­ pal elections held Sunday indicate that the Liberals and Republicans generally were successful. There was considerable rioting at Bilboa, Barce­ lona and Malaga and a number of casualties occurred, •'» a Cousin of De Armond Killed. San Bernandlno, Cal.--L. A. De A!* mond, a cousin of the late Congress­ man De Armond of Missouri, was killed by an electric shook Thursday. Operation Halte Bacon Westbury, N. Y.--Robert Bacon, am- basaador-designate to France, has postponed his departure for Paris until late this month because of the injuries he received in a fall from his hcrse Thanksgiving day. Mr. Bacon was obliged to submit to a slight oper­ ation last week after an X-ray picture had disclosed a splinter on his broken oollar-bone. The picture also showed that four ribs were broken. Mr. Bacon is improving rapidly and ex­ pects to have recovered entirely in Shout a fortnight. on the other ro«Atr. That is when the sadness and sphering that lingers around the old chair comes out with an extra edition and great chunks of gloom settle over me like a herd Qf Jl$r natpred flies.--Oregon Journal M ' Fishing Extraordinary. ^ •' Representative Flood of Virginia tells a good story In which one , of the characters was. Gen. Reuben Litkd- say Walker of the confederate army." On one occasion the general was wait­ ing for his breakfast, and his faithfiil negro servant had gone to catch some fish for tbe feast. When the serv­ ant was away an unusually long time the general called to him impatiently: "Why don't you come here with that fish, Sam?" f Sam in the meantime had caug&l a flounder, which is white on one si*!, ' with a whiteness that loks like rlMr fish meat. | "All right, Massa Reuben!" called out Sam. "l'se comin' des ez soon e« I kotch de uvver ha'f o' dis firtu"--Washington Times. ^-V; HABIT'S CHAIN pertain Habits Unconsciously F< and Hard to Break. An ingenious philosopher estimates that the amount of will power nece#* sary to break a life-long habit wouMI, Kidnaped Girl Declared Doad. St. Louis.--Nellie Burns, who was kidnaping 11 years ago, when she was seven years old, was Monday declared legally dead by Judge With row of the circuit court. He rendered judg­ ment against an insurance company for $235, the amount of two policies on' the girl's life. Gate Life for Wife Murder. - * Marshall, Mich.--William Crandall got a life sentence in the circuit court here Monday for murdering his wife August : If it could be transformed, lift a we of many tons. It sometimes requires a higher d|k Jfree of heroism to break the chains it pernicious habit than to lead a f< lorn hope in a bloody battle. A writes from an Indiana town: ^ 4 "From my earliest childhood I was4 lover of coffee. Before I was out of my teens I was a miserable dyspeptic, suf'- fering terribly at times with my stoafe ach. # V- "I was convinced that It was cofWfc: ^ that was causing tb& trouble and yet I could not deny myself a cup fdr breakfast. At the age of 36 I was ijit very poor health, Indeed. My sister told me I was in danger of becoming t coffee drunkard. P , "But I never could give up drtnkinjfe / Wffee for breakfast, although it kei| v - me constantly ill, until I tried Postum, " I learned to make it properly according- - to directions, and now we can hardly * do without Postum for breakfast, anfll' care nothing for coffee. "I am no longer troubled with dys­ pepsia, do not have spells of suffering ' with ray stomach that used to trouble me so when I drank coffee." Look in pkgs. for the little book,"Thk : . Road to VVellville." "There's a Reason*^ '• Ever rent* tfee above kttert A •«* »PP*«r» from time- to time. Tfc®#-.' •re iren«tm«u true, and full of kaaai .>,8 *1