mm tbc McHenry Plaindealer Published bf F. & SCHREiNER. •' "V 1 HeHENET. ILLINOIS Lei ua bare cuiy denatured automo bile race*. EXPLORER RASMUSSEN A88CRTS CLAIMS OF COOK AND Are the auto racea trying to make ball fights appear humane? Still, at Its new price, radium hardly be a substitute for coal. will The new $5 biiis will u*s siuaiier. That's appropriate--they act smaller. -"n w /•*«•» a SENDS HOME SECRET REPORT Connecticut woman earned $10,000 iMt year selling eggs--the real thing. go far none of our aviators has been euccessfui enough to break Into vaude ville. All the pessimist can see in an aero- plan flight is a big crowd and a stiff deck. A Buffalo man was given five years for stealing a cent Something of a centence, that. Interviews with Eskimos, Dane De clares, Substantiate His Opinion That No Living Parson Has Pene trated Northernmost Artie Region. GOVERNMENT GIVE* A PERMIT FOR FIRST TIME, r Aviator le Bear Passengers' Nov.- York bask thief collapsed when he woe arrested. Hb whs a cloae see- sod to the bank. Someone has estimated that the earth weighs seven trillion tons. But cheer up! You're not carrying it That war in Nicaragua cost 4,000 lives. Men have not yet discarded the blood-letting system in politics. The doctor who thinks that the Adam's apple is responsible, for insan ity may be on the eve of a great dis^ corery. "Venezuela consumes l.ooo.oon gal- lone of kerosene a year." Why doesn't somebody start an electric light plant down there? Joy riding in the air has this advan tage--there are no chickens to be run over. The birds have so far succeed «d in dodging In South Norwalk, Conn., lives a heroic young woman who played ten nls in a hobble skirt. Naturally she broke her leg. When the aeroplanes dash around the course at the rate of a mile a min-- ute they never kick up any clouds of microbe-laden dust. If shark meat ever crowds beef in the world's markets a shortage of rain on the great plains will make no dif ference in the quality. As a general thing when a girl wears such an extreme hat that a man has to dislocate his neck to look un der It her face is not worth the effort. Copenhagen. -- "No living explor er or Eskimo has ever reached the north pole and the claims of Peary and Cook have not a shadow of truth to sustain them." This is the startling conclusion reached by Knud Rasmussen, say missionaries to Greenland, who have returned here. The missionaries, who are deemed religious and reliable, say too that they bring details of Ras- mussen's cross-examination of the two Eskimos, Ahswelah and Eturis- huk, upon whose testimony Doctor Cook relied for corroboration of his claim that he reached the north pole. After closely questioning these two and other Eskiraos, Rasmussen is ab solutely certain that the pole is still unconquered. Rasmussen, an experi enced arctic explorer, is the Danish Inspector of Greenland. 4Bns mother was an Eskimo, his father a Dane. Whatever Rasmussen says about arctic exploration is accepted with the greatest faith here. He was a partisan of Doctor Cook at one time. So, if the missionaries quote him cor rectly, hi8 report will reopen the en tire polar controversy. A telegram from its Copenhagen correspondent to the London Daily News states that the ship which took Kasmussen to Cape York last sum mer has returned to Copenhagen. Her captain brings a secret report to a friend of Rasmussen concerning Doctor Cook's Eskimos, whom Ras mussen interviewed. The captain says the report will "explain" the whole Cook affair. Its publication de pends on Rasmussen's friend, who is not in Copenhagen at the moment. SAYS MRS. CRIPPEN LIVES The greatest authority on love In the world 1s dead. Calm yourself, la dles--it's an Italian professor. The authoress of "Poems of Passion" still Um. A woman of sixty years swam five miles in the Mississippi river at St. Loots the other day. It is needless to say that she did not wear a hobble skirt. Bob Evans tells us that an airship Is a plaything and would be of no use tn war. But what will Bob do when those bombs begin dropping down the chimney? Chicago man marries for the first time at the age of ninety-two. Hell have to do some tall hustling to catch up with the average Chicago record from now on. That Poughkeepsie society woman whose pearl necklace was confiscated by the customs officials might have had it yet if she could only have kept It Wider her hat The waiters now ask to be divided Into classes. Excellent idea' Walters who wait, waiters who make custom ers wait, waiters who are polite »"<> waiters who are otherwise? A little while ago the cheering word was passed that lobsters would become more plentiful. Now it le threatened that there will be a short age of salmon and sardines. Philadelphia Doctor Declares One of His Salesmen Saw Belle Elmore In Kansas City In September. New York.--Dr. J. M. Munyon of Philadelphia announced Saturday at the Waldorf-Astoria hotel that he be lieves Belle Elmore Crlppen is alive and has offered a reward of $50,000 to anyone who would produce her. He says he will give the $50,000 to Mrs. Crippen herself If she will come forward and save the life of her hus band. who is to be hanged for her murder in London next Tuesday. "I have believed all along that Mrs. Crlppen would appear in time to save her husband." said Doctor Munyon, "but now It looks as though she is keeping in hiding to carry out the most consummate plan of revenge In the annals of women's crimes of jea lousy or else Is carrying an adverti sing game too far. "Six weeks age one of my salesmen, who knew Mrs. Crippen well, while her husband was employed by me. wrote me from Kansas City that he saw a woman get on a train there whom he believed to be Mrs. Crippen. I did nothing at that time, but a few days ago when I received a letter from a Philadelphia lawyer named Tobin saying he had good reason to believe Mrs. Crlppen is alive. I deter mined to act. I have had two letters from Tobin so far and expect to have a personal Interview with him in a day or two. "I never could be persuaded that Crippen killed his wife. He was too gentle a man to do such a thing." SHOOTS AT POLICE CHIEF It may be none of our business, but we trust that the sororities will deal) gently with the eighty-one-year-old | woman who has entered the Ohic state university as a student. j A Kansas City woman, suing for di vorce. charged that her husband quar reled with her for going to a funeral Some men are so mean they hate theii wives to have any pleasure at all Eighty-two pounds of sugar for every man. woman and child last year! The men may offer thanks that the women and children got theirs A Connecticut man fired ten bullets In his head without fatal results. It to hard to tell which was greater-- the persisting force of his determina tion or the resisting quality of his brains Man, Thought to Be Insane, Fire* Three Bullets at Philadel phia Official. Philadelphia.--An attempt was mad j Friday to assassinate Henry Clay, director of the department of public safety. Mr. Clay, who was not in jured, owes his life to his quickness in grappling with his assailant, who Is believed to be insane. The man, who gave his name as Harry Clark and who appeared to be about sixty-five years old, called at Mr. Clay's office and demanded to see him. As soon as he was admitted to trfe private office he began to abt»3 Mr Clay, declaring he had been perse cuted by the police and insisting on a radical reorganization of the force. Mr. Clay tried to quiet the man, and when his attempt failed he started to put him out of the office. In an In stant Clark drew a revolver and shot three times at Mr. Clay, two of the bullets going injo the wall and one shattering a window. Mr. Clay had caught the barrel of the revolver and this probably saved his life. That incident in Naples where two strangers trying to give candy to chil dren were suspected hy the panic- stricken people of spreading the chol era and mobbed with cries of "Death to the poisoners" shows how little progress has been made plnce the days of the plague. In some platen. Methodists to Pass 8paln By. Baltimore, Md--The board of for eign missions of the Methodist Epis copal church, in session here Satur day, decided after long discussion not to establish missions In Spain for the present at least, but to prosecute vig orously the work in Italy. ft a rivwi vu(||oanf kintr iu n««v ^ p York Poet Office. Washington. -- For the first time In history, the United States gov ernment haa given Its sanction to the transportation of the mails by an airship. ' Permission wat granted by Post master General Hitchcock for J. A D. McCurdy to carry the United States mails In this manner from the outgoing transatlantic liner Kaiserin Augusts Victoria to New York next Saturday when that vessel is fifty miles at sea. The mail pouch which McCurdy will carry from the liner to the New York post office will contain letters from passengers of the steamship for transmission to different parts of the world. • The only condition imposed by the postmaster general on this first sanc tioned transmission by aeroplane of Unitftd States mails is that 'the wri ters of all Buch letters so transmitted shall have notice that the mail la to be carried by aeroplane. In imposing this condition the gov ernment is relieved of all responsibil ity in case the letters are lost while In transit from the rteamship to the New *ork post office UTTLE M Minm EVERY aft*** pot mc My uitd«rW» A* ~ ! NEGOTIATKJNE BETWEEN RAIL* ROAD OFFICIALS ANO ENtifc mbauvu Arr ictno nn<i m NEBRASKA SETTLERS HELD UP Nina Ranchers Held on Remarkable Charges by Federal Grand Jury --Insane Asylum a Weapon. Omaha, Neb.--Indictments returned by the federal grand jury against nine ranchmen of western Nebraska were made public. The Indictments charge conspiracy to drive fioiu liieii Claims homesteaders who took sections of semiarid land under the Klnkaid homestead law. The men named In the indictments are Perry 8. Yeast, his son, Frank W. Yeast, Leslie E. Ballinger, M. C. Hubbel, Emil Anderson. Willmot Z. Emerson, Harry Sutton, Boone B. Hawthorne and Dr. Harry H. Huff. Doctor Huff and Sutton are mem bers of the Insanity board, and the Indictment alleges that through con spiracy C. J. Davasher. a settler on land wanted by the rafichmen, was found insane and sent to an asylum. The specific case of Davasher Is mentioned in detail It is charged that Yeast and the other defendants, ar«»»npanied by a band of cowboys, visited Davasher's home and after threatening him and his family witn death If they did not leave the coun try, destroyed his home, broke up his machinery, cut his harness to pieces and in other ways mistreated him. Later, according to the Indictment, Yeast conspired with members of the insanit: board and secured Davash er's incarceration in the asylum. This latter act, according to the in dictment. was committed In a high handed manner. The insanity com missioners, it is alleged, went through a mock examination, declared Davaah- er insane and Issued a warrant for his arrest. This was served on the spot, and within an hour he was rushed off to the asylum A letter written by one of the vic tims to President Taft is said to have caused the investigation which re sulted in the indictments. STORM TIES UP EAST TOWN8 ARE I80LATED ANO RAIL ROADS BLOCKED BY BLIZ ZARD FROM ATLANTIC. SNOW DRIFTS 3 FEET DEEP 'crrific Gaie eiowa in From Ocean-- Liners Overdue--Maryland, .'enhsyl- vanln and the Empire State Suffer-- Wires Down and Traffic Delayed. TRAIN GUNS ON VALLADARES Commander U. 8.-Gunboat Threatens to Blow Up Hondurlan Revolution ist If Foreigners Molested. New Orleans.--The United State* gunboat Princeton, at anchor off Amapala. Honduras, cleared for ac tion Friday and its guns are trained on the governor's residence, occu pied by Gen. Jose Valladares, leader of the revolt against the Davila gov ernment, according to a cable dis patch to the Picayune from San Sal vador The dispatch states that Valladares insulted George Schmuck, American consular agent it Amapala. and threatened to "shoot up" his resi dence Immediately upon being noti fied of tjiis Commander Hayes of the Princrton prepared his ship for action and sent word to the revolutionist that if foreigners were molested he would shoot the governor's palace full of holes. Peace Plans Are Refused. Chicago--By practically unanimous action 40,000 striking garment work ers Saturday repudiated an arbitra tion agreement signed by President Thomas A. Rickert of their own na tional organization and officers of Hart. Schaffner & Marx. The rejec tion of the agreement puts the strike back where it was before the peace negotiations were started. President Rickert and several other officials of the union were forced to flee from the halls for fear of physical violence after they communicated the nature of the agreement to the strikers. Typewriter Magnate Dead. Syracuse, N. Y.--Lyman C. Smith, the multi-millionaire typewriter manu facturer, died here Sunday. He leaves a fortune estimated at more than $10,- 000,000. A New York iratj ate 36j btearaed «lam» Why don't the clam con serv ers get after this sort of experts? In a couple of noted eases it has been resolved to debar from society the persons who have figured in wcan- dals This is the one effective way of reaching such offenders 8oeial os tracism can be used where the law god the church fall to punish, for it |B a weapon wbost attack few can Withstand, no matter how strongly they meet tother methods of punish- for moral wrongdoing Both Wounded In Duel. Honolulu.--In a revolver duel Fri day, during which nine shots were fired, W. E. McQuald and V. C. Driver of this city were both wounded, Mc Quald seriously Domestic difficulties caused feeling between the men. Oppose Reciprocity at Toronto. Toronto. Ont --The Toronto board of trade at a largely attended meeting Friday unanimously resolved that "reciprocity with the United States under present conditions would be in opportune and undesirable." Find Kidnaped Girl In 8t. Paul. St. Paul, Minn.--Locked In a room and crying for help, Mallnda Mosber, the sixteen-year-old girl who was kid naped last Monday from Linden, Minn., was found here Friday by the police. , Sam Russo and Minnie Mar tin were arrested. New York.--A stortL of midwinter intensity rode up the Atlantic coast on a gale Friday that left 21 inches of snow in places In Pennsylvania, wrecked telephone ami telegraph wires everywhere and tied up hun dreds of miles of electric car lines. Sleet and snow caused nuch wire trouble between Ntw York, Washing ton, Baltimore, Philadelphia, Scran- ton and Harrisburg. Washington was almost entirely cut off from New York during a greater part of the day, the conditions be'ng not unlike those prev_iiliug during the storm of March 4, 1909. President Taft's inauguration day. A 50-mile gale sweeping Mineola aviation field brought damage to six aeroplanes and wrecked six of nine tents ererted for the air men. Terr^Sc gales, driving snow and sleet across the Hudson i»nd turning the Palisades into a typical winter land scape, marked the progress of the storm for many miles north of New- burg, while down ihe bay and outside Sandy Hook the storm was so severe as to cause ocean liners to be delayed and sericus damage to Ihe steamship Honduras of the Compagnie Generate Trans-Atlantique. The steamship Honduras was lying helpless outside of Sandy Hook, while seas piled high all about her, the wind driving rain and sleet before it at a terrific rate. The snow in eastern Pennsylvania was reported at from eightee- Inches to three feet deep. Five of the seven collieries of the Susquehanna Coal company in the Shamokin district had to suspend operations on account of the storm. The snowstorm extended to Harris- burg on the west, but tn damaging proportions did not come further east than New Brunswick, N. J. In Philadelphia a high nortbwe3t wind sweeping through the streets at from 30 to 40 miles an hour came as a climax to the storm of rain, sleet and snow that swept the city for 36 hour*. IOWA LOSES IN POPULATION Decrease of 7,082 Shown by Censers Returns--Result Is No 8urprtse to Officials. Washington. -- The population of Iowa Is 2,224,771, according to the enumeration In the thirteenth cen sus. This is a dc urease of 7,082, or 0.3 per cent, under 2,231,353 In 1900. The Increase from 1890 to 1900 was 319,572, or 16.7 per cent. The decrease dia not surprise cen sus burea ' officials, as it was in line with what was expected in the agri cultural regions of the middle west. Unless the present basis of appor tionment is retained it is probable that Iowa will lose one of her 11 members of congress. Director Durand attributes the fall ing off to the fact that the land al ready is fully occupied afld a gen eral tendency toward larger farms. He says a growth cannot be expected unless there Is a change to more in tensive cultivation. Gen. Charles C. Dodge Dies, New York.--Gen. Charles Cleveland Dodge, son of William E. Dodge, the merchant philanthropist, died in this city Friday after a lingering illness, aged seventy years. .Dies In Traction Crash. Elkhart, Ind.--Mo tor man Charles Dlllman of this city was killed and Motorman Harry Haines of South Bend and Baggageman John Hogen- bium were seriously Injured Thurs day when an interurban car on the Northern Indiana Traction line ran into a city car at the city limits. Four Die In Kerosene Fire. Peoria, 111.--The use of kerosene for the purpose of starting a fire In the kitchen stove was the cause of four lives being lost at Pekin, 111. Portuguese Amnesty Given. Ltsbon.--To commemorate the .proe- lamation of the republic of Portugal one month ago a decree was published Saturday granting amnesty to political offenders and reducing the prison sen tences of all criminals one-third. Pope's Eyes Little Changed. Rome.--The pope's eyes were ex amined Saturday by his optician, P. H. Cahill of Dublin, and the test* in dicate that the pontiff's sight has changed very little since the last ex amination in 1908. J. M. Studebaker la III. \ 8ou«h Bend, Ind.--J. M. Studebaker, president and one of the founders of the Studebaker Brothers' Manufactur ing company, is seriously ill at his home in this city. He is seventy- eigbt years old. Official at Minneapolis Dead. Minneapolis, Minn.--"Al" J. Smith, county attorney of Hennepin county, was found dead In bed In his home here Thursday. Heart disease result ing from rheumatism was the c&uae of deatb No Wind Blowing When 8ea Rushes In, Wrecking Houses and c Flooding Streets. Nome, Alaska.--Seventeen houses were destroyed, a number of vessels were washed away and the streets of (he city filled with water when an un precedented and mysterious surf swept in from the ocean. It Is believed by many here that the high sea, which was not accom panied by any wind. Is due to volcanio activity, and it is thought that Bogos- lov Island, the "new island" in Behrlng sea, is t£ blame for the tidal wave. Bogoslov" is an "intermittent island;" sometimes it is twins and sometimes it is singia. Again It is large, and tben the next ship that passes may report that it has dwin dled to a mere volcanic speck in the sea. Bogoslov, it is thought, may have doubled again or may have blown it self to nothing, sending the tidal waves which all but Inundated Nome. For sevjral years the water here has been remarkably low, and this resulted in the building of houses close to the shore. It was these that were swept away by the sea. No lives were lost, but many per sons had narrow escapes. The water swept far up the streets, those near the shore being completed Inundated. The schooner Mary Sachs was picked up from her mooring by the mighty rush of water and deposited in a spit dweller's yard. All the other boats laid up for the winter were swept far up on the beach by the waves. AST0R ALIMONY IS FIXED Lease of Tract in New York With Rent Payable to Former Wife Reveals Secret. New York. -- The alimony that Col. John Jacob Astor is to pay to Mrs. Ava Willing Astor, who ob tained a final decree of divorce in March, 1910, now appears to be $105.- 000 a year. To secure payment a first lien is given to Mrs. Astor on one of the most valnabio plots of real estate In the city. Recent contracts and leases signed by one of the large realty companies with Colonel Astor fix that sum as the annual rental of a valuable block of property. This rental is to be paid to the divorced wife. FATE IS DECIDED BY CARDS Man Ends Life by Taking Poison After Playing Game of 8olitaIre. St. Louis. -- After a game of sol itaire, had decided, his fate, Charles W. Eggers, twenty-nine years old, end ed his life by swallowing a mixture of carbolic acid and wood alcohol. Eggers took the fatal mixture when the ace and nine of spades, which he considered the worst cards in the deck, came out while he was playing a game of cards to which he had de termined to leave the question of life or death, and blocked further play. Indict Lawyer for Bribery. Chicago.--A true bill, naming Attor ney Charles E. Erbstein as defendant, was Wednesday returned by the Octo ber grand jury as a result of the al leged confession of Grant McCutchen, a juror In the second trial of Lee O'Neil Browne, that he had been paid money by Erbstein after having roted for the acquittal of Browne. Wood Alcohol Fatal to Three. Mineola, N. Y.--Three men were found in an old shack here Saturday moaning in great agony from the ef fects of wood alcohol. One died soon after being discovered, the second died at the hosplfel and the third can not live. Sleeps In Buggy; Killed by Car. Bloomlngton, 111.--Homeward bound and asleep In his buggy, Frank Web ber, a wealthy farmer residing near here, was killed Saturday when his rig was struck bfr a street car. Fall River Death Rate 8tands. Washington.--Census Director Du rand issued a statement Friday sus taining the figures placing the death rate of Fall River, Mass., at 19.1 per 1,000 inhabitants. This was the high est of all American cities. Sonoma Girl to Be Retired. Boston.--Sonoma Girl, the famous trotting mare, has been retired from the turf by her owner, Miss Lotta Crabtree of this city. The mare's last race, it Is expected, will be at > Pboentx, Arts. WANT 15 PER CENT INCREASE Question of Walkout Will Be Put Up to Members of Brotherhood-- Sixty-One Roads In volved. TIDAL WAVES SWEEPS HOME VOLCANO ON BOGO8LOV I8LAND BELIEVED THE CAU8E. Chicago.--A strike of railroad engi neers which would completely tie up every railroad of importance west of Chicago, threatens to be called in January, according to grand officers of the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers, for tfhoni Grand Chief Warren S. Stone of Cleveland, G., is spokesman. According to Mr. Stone, and ad mitted by railroad representatives, conferences were begrm between a committee from the engineers and the W*»ters Managers' association Sep tember 28, and nearly twenty-five ses sions have been held since, and Mon day all negotiations were broken off as the last amicable arrangement of differences was declared to be unac ceptable. The union committee was colRJ2fl§£d of fifty-two general chairman from all over the country, with six grand of ficers. and the railroads, sixty-one in number, were represented by a con ference committee of ten, heing Gen eral Manager F. E. Ward, Burlington road; F. C. Bachelder, first vice-presi dent B. & O. C. T.: F. Durham of the M., K. & T.; G. H. Emerson, assistant general manager G. N.; T. J. Foley, assistant general manager I. C.; F. C. Fox, general superintendent mo tive power C. P. R.; H. J. Simmons, general manager E. P. & S. W., and A. W Trenholm, general manager C., M. & St. P. W. B. Scott, assistant director of maintenance and opera tion, was chairman of the com mittee. The engineers presented a demand for an increase of 15 per cent, in salaries, together with a number of arrangements Improving conditions. The railroad men offered compromises which were refused, and the word was taken back to the local unions to vote whether or not to strike. The reply will be brought back by December 15. The present working agreement in fo^ce can be terminated on thirty- days' notice. The brotherhood con tains 60.000 imTnbers in the United States, Canada and Mexico, and 33,- 780 engineers will be affected on the lines^ln dispute. DEITZ GIVES $40,000 BAIL He Is Released But Rearrested on Charge of Attempting to 8hoot Man In 1904. Hayward. Wis.--Attorneys Zabel and Schultz, head of the Deitz defense committee, arrived here Monday from Eau Claire, where they received Judge Wickham'B approval of the bonds of $40,000. The bond was approved and record ed after which procedure Deitz was notified that for a time at least Itiie was again a free man. His wife and Clarence were overjoyed and quick ly bringing his overcoat, Clarence as sisted his father to put it on and stepped out on the porch of the jail. However, his period of freedom was very short. Barely had the overcoat been placed on him. when Sheriff Madden read a warrant to him for the alleged attempted shooting of Pat rick McGIn on May 8. 1904, and once more the famous Cameron Dam de fend^ was placed behind the bars." DR. CRIPPEN GAINS DELAY Convicted Slayer of Belle Elmore GHven Lease of Life While Attor ney Prays for Reprieve. London. England.--If was announced offlcially Monday that Dr. Hawley H. Crlppen, convicted and sentenced to death for the murder of his wife, would not be executed Tuesday as originally arranged, as the law pro vides that two weeks must elapse be tween the dismissal of an appeal and t'he carrying out of the sentence. November 23 has been fixed upon as the date of the execution. So licitor Newton. Criopen's counsel. Is drafting a petition for a reprieve. Dickinson Is aBck Home. New York--The arounji-the-world tour of Secretary of War Jacob M. Dickinson came to an end Monday with the arrival here of the secretary and his party from Europe. Secretary Dickinson, with Gen. Clarence R. Ed wards, chief of the bureau of insular affairs; Capt. Henry Cootes, the sec retary's aid; Mrs. Jacob M. Dickin son, Mrs. Cootes and children, were arrivals on the steamship Prinz Frledrich Wilhelm. Marks Birthday by $50,000 Gift. Poughkeepsie. N. Y.--John Bigelow, the veteran diplomat and author, who will celebrate his ninety-third birth day thi"' month, Monday presented to his native village of Maiden on the Hudson, in honor of the occasion, a $50,000 recreation hall and li brary. Japs to Seek South Pole. New York.--The explorers* club was notifies Monday that a Japanese expedition to the south pole will leave Toltyo November 15. Wife-Slayer Escapes Death. Salt Lake City, TTtah.--Thomas Vance, convicted in 1908 of the mur der of his wife, and sentenced to be executed by shooting, was Monday found guilty of assault with intent to commit murder. The penalty is one to twenty years. 8afe-Blowers Get $2,000. Toledo. O.--Cracksmen blew the safe of the Home Savings bank at Mettamore, O., 22 miles west of To ledo. rarlv Monday, and got away with $2 000. WOULD BE OF. MORE VALUE - J V Father O'Laary's Facetious Rejoinder Phitpot Curran •¥v - pie of Real Wit ' ^ One day the famous John Phllpot Curran. who was also very partial to the said corned mutton, did me the honor to meet him. To enjoy the so* clety of such men was an intellectual treat They were great friends and seemed to hare a mutual respect for each other's talent, and, as it may easily be Imagined, O'Leary versus Curran was no bad match. One day after uiuuer Currau said to him: "Reverend father, I wish yea were 8t. Peter." "And why, counwlor, would you wish that I were St Peter f" asked O'Leary. "Because, reverend father. In that case," said Curran, "you would have the keys of heaven, and you could let me In." "By my honor and conscience, coun selor," replied the divine, "it would be better for you that I had the keys of the other place, tben I could let you out" Curran enjoyed the joke, which ha admitted had a good deal of justice in it---From Kelly's Reminiscences. AN INTOLERABLE ITCHING "Just about two years ago, seme form of humor appeared on my scalp. The beginning was a slight Itching but It grew steadily worse until, when I combed my hair, the scalp became raw and the ends of the comb-teeth would be wet with blood. Most of the time there was an intolerable itching, In a painful, burning way, very much as a bad, raw burn, if deep, will itch and smart when first beginning to heal. Combing my hair was positive torture. My hair was long and tan gled terribly because of the blood and scabs. This continued growing worse and over half my hair fell out. I was In despair, really afraid of becoming totally bald. "Sometimes the pain was so great that, when partially awake, I would scratch the worst places so that my Bnger-tlps would be bloody. I could not sleep well and, after being asleep a short time, that awful stinging pain --would commence and then I would wake up nearly wild with the torture. k n«!gKi>r»r said it must be salt rheum. Having used Curlexr* Soap merely aa a toilet soap before, I now decided to order a set of the Cuticura Remedies •--Cuticura Soap, Ointment and Pills. I used them according to directions for perhaps weeks, then left off, as the disease seemed to be eradi cated. but toward spring, eighteen months ayo. "^as a slight re turn of tne scalp humo?. I com menced the Cuticura treatment at once, so had very little trouble. On my scalp I used about one half a cake of Cutfcara Soap and half a box of Cuticura Ointment In all. The first time I took six or seven bottles of Cu ticura ViUn and the la«t tlmb three bottles--neither an 9c><uv3ive or te dious treatment Since then I have had no scalp trouble of any kind. Standing up, with my hair unbound. It come* to my knees and had it not. been for Cuticura I should doubtless be wholly bald. "This is a voluntary, unsolicited tes timonial and I take pleasure in writing it, hoping my experience may help someone else. Miss Lillian Brown, R. F. D. 1, Liberty, Me., Oct. 29, 190$/ A Complaint We're for women, first, last and all the time. We like her beautiful or plain, clever or Just ordinary; witty or not; shapely or pudgy, but con found it we do wish that each and ev ery one of them would get over the notion that a man has no right to turn the pages of a newspaper Just because he's wedged against her in a street car. We've been frozen by a look, stabbed by a sneer and wounded to the quick by a sigh Just because we've tried to read the story contin ued on page seven, column five, and the thing that hurts the most is that we still think that we had a perfect right to do so.--Detroit Free Press. It Cured My Baby--Hereafter I WIH Alwaya Keep It in the House. I cannot speak too highly for Res- Inol Ointment. It cured my baby boy of Eczema. He had a very severe case and numerous other remedies failed to do any good. I would not be without Reslnol Salve In the house. It is good to apply in cases of burns, cuts or sores of any kind. Mrs. F. Cox, Chicago, 111. Good Arrangement. A genial looking gentleman wanted an empty bottle in which to mix a solution, and went to a chemist's to purchase one. Selecting one that an swered his purpose he asked the shopman how much it would cost. "Well," was the reply, "if you want the empty bottle it will be a penny, but If you want anything in it you can have it for nothing." "Well, that'e fair," said the customer; "put in a cork." Alleviating Circumstances. "Did yoy say," asked a gentleman who was looking for rooms, "did you say that a music teacher occupied the next apartment? That cannot be very pleasant." Harper's Basar gives the landlady's reply. "Oh," she said, eagerly, "thafa nothing, sir. The music teacher has eleven children and they make so much noise that you can't hear the piano at all." Prlds. "Chicago has a lot of local pride, hasn't it?" "Well." replied Mr. Lakemlsh; "It depends on whether you are talking about baseball or the grain business." The Regular Fare. "What makes you think that youns man will be a Buccess In society^' "The fact that he has such an ex traordinary appetite for tea and aal- ads." There are lots of people who are afraid to sit down at a table with 18, but a hungry boy Isn't one of them. And many a man's reputation ft* honesty Is due to his having put aside temptation that didn't tempt.