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lie McHenry Plaindcakr Published by F. a 3CHREINER. MCHENRY, ILLINOIS. There are no joy riders on a water wagon. SENATE WARRANTS IN CON­ TEMPT CASE ARE SERVED ON CHICAGO PACKER AND AIDS. Why not Introduce the new style 91 velvet cuffs In the prise ring? Poker playing does not seem to lM exactly In the line of the best church work. WRIT TO FR£E THEM SECURED They have about everything on the latest ocean liners but baseball grounds. Since we got fooled on Halley'e comet, we decline to get ©tcited about the harem skirt. Manuel of Portugal is learning to play golf, but thus far he has shown no Inclination to go to work. Confidentially, would any woman wish to wear a harem skirt if It were not likely to attract a crowd? Some people are born famous, some achieve fame and some wear harem skirts in public places. Even footprints on the sands of time are valuable. Two dirosour foot­ prints recently sold at $50 each. The folding bed and folding peram­ bulator are to be followed by the fold­ ing bathtub, trunk and cook stove. Green rain fell in Pennsylvania a few days ago. Somebody mu3t have been shaking the plum trees again. A harem skirt started a riot in Bra­ zil the other day. We are surprised to hear that It foiled to start a rev­ olution. A physician says that early rising shortens life. On the other hand, why spend most of your long life sleeping. The coronation is stirring New York society to its very depths, and New­ port bids fair to the depopulated this summer. The motion picture shows may not furnish a high-class entertainment, but think of the money they keep in circulation. An Englishman has just paid $150,- 000 for a Titian. More than one American has paid a higher price than that for a blonde. A Connecticut horticulturist says it was a pear with which Eve tempted Adam. Here's a chance to organise another religious sect. A Brooklyn man of eighty Is build­ ing a flying machine. If he succeeds It will fly away with the last rem­ nants of the Oslerlan theory. The lobster famine Is reported to be getting worse and worse, but cheer up. There are indications that this year's frog crop is to be very large. A Youngstown, Ohio, horse, has been equipped with a set of false teeth. We are wondering whether he keeps them in a glass <jl water on the bureau at night. A New York judge advised litigants over a property to effect a settlement before the costs and the lawyers got the property. Is this professional courtesy ? Habeas Corpus Petition Attacking Right to Demand Financial Rec­ ords Then Is Filed Before Judge and Order Issued. Chicago.--Edward Tilden, the Chi­ cago packer, was arrested here for contempt of the Illinois senate. The contempt charge resulted from Til- den's refusal to produce certain books before the committee investigating the election of Senator Lorimer. The arrest of Mr. Tildes, however, did not take place until a writ of habeas corpus had already been grant­ ed by Judge Adelor J. Petit, which was returned in court shortly after Mr. Tildcn's arrest. The writ was granted by Judge Petit about one-half hour before Assistant Sergeant at Anns E. H. Hatfield of the state sen­ ate actually arrested Mr. Tilden in the offices of the National Packing com­ pany. Immediately after he had served the warrant on Mr. Tilden, Hatfield him­ self was served with the writ of habeas corpus by Deputy Sheriff Lenke. Thereupon Hatfield took Mr. Tilden to Judge Petit's courtroom in the county building. There he was re­ leased under bonds of $5,000, fur­ nished by the United States Fidelity and Guarantee company. George M. Benedict, cashier of the Drovers' Deposit National bank, and William C. Cummings, cashier of the Drovefs' Trust and Savings bank, fared exactly as did Mr. Tilden. It was <iiiuuuiiceu that the ruling iiiat Judge Petit will make after hearing arguments on the petition for the re­ lease of Mr. Tilden will affect them equally with the banker. This ruling will decide whether Mr. Tilden will be sustained in his refusal to produce his books and those of his banks before the Helm committee of the senate, which is investigating charges that the election of Lorimer was obtained through bribery. If Judge Petit orders his release the sen­ ate will be obliged to abandon its ef­ forts to find out whether the books contain any entries which would throw light upon the source of the Lorimer election fund. On the other hand, if Judge Petit refuses to. grant the petition for Mr. Tilden's release It means that he must appear before the senate and either reconsider his refusal to produce his books or be punished for contempt, probably by imprisonment. The petition for the habeas corpus writ as filed gave several reasons for the release of the three men. It al­ leged that the subpoena duces tecum with which they were served to pro­ duce their books before the senate did not particularly describe the books they were to produce, that it was not supported by oath or affirmation and that it was not signed by the presi­ dent of the senate. It Is also alleged that the powers of the Helm commit­ tee are inadequate. PROTEST TO MEXICO DANCING STEP FOR NAVAL ACADEMY U. 8. WILL ASK D!Ajf TO EXPLAIN STATEMENT, ELEVEN KILLED IN WRECK The man who sleeps outdoors may be doing a splendid thing for himself, but he appears to be anxious to do as much boasting as the man who takes a cold bath every morning. A Scotchman has been fined $10 by a Chicago judge for planning to com­ mit suicide. He would no doubt have been fined much more heavily if his plans had been carried out. An obliging agent has established himself in New York for the purpose of securing titled foreigners for Amer­ ican heiresses. He. too. must be con­ vinced that the fool-killer has been loafing on his job. ' Peace Conference to Be Hold at El Paso--Plans Will Be Discussed by Envoys of Factions. Washington.--The reported dec­ laration of Ramon Corral, rice- president of Mexico, at Sant&nder, Spain, that Americans were foment­ ing trouble in his country in order to force intervention, has encountered the disfavor of the United States gov­ ernment. The state department has called the matter to the attention of Mexico in order to establish officially whether the interview with the vice- president, in which the statements ex­ cepted to are said to have be^n made, was authentic, as published in Mexi­ co City. The question will be taken up by Ambassador Wilson, at Mexico City, to whom the department tele­ graphed a copy of an official state­ ment which it had issued anequlvocal- ly disapproving the alleged utterance. "The department of state finds it very difficult to credit the authenticity of such an Interview pOTporting to come from a high official of the Mexi~ can government," the statement says, "because the efforts made to enforce the neutrality laws and the disinter­ ested friendship of the United States for Mexico and the Mexican people are as well known tc the Mexican govern­ ment as they are fully understood la the United States. "The department of state has made every effort to prevent harmful mis­ understanding, and there can be no doubt that the Mexican foreign office will take prompt steps to repudiate and prevent the promulgation of any such statements calculated to disturb the mutual confidence and friendly un- dprctar>^< bct"'CGH the tWG peo­ ples." The Interview, acoording to the Diario, was given by the vice-presi­ dent at Santander, Spain. El Paso, Tex.--The selection of El Paso as the place of holding the formal peace conference and the naming of Judge Francisco Car- bajal of the Mexican supreme court as the federal commissioner were devel­ opments in the Mexican situation. The return of Gen. Bernardo Reyes to Mexico is viewed with uneasiness by Madero. Tucson, Ariz.--Fighting between the Mexican Rebels and the fed­ erals has been resumed in the vi­ cinity of Hermosillo, the capital of Sonora, and 40 men were 'killed or wounded in a battle at Horcasilas April 25. ^S^T;; M s r »w«ii HIS PLEA W!LL NOT AVAIL DF THE OLD LADY TAKES THE FLOOR WITH HIM. FLAMES SWEEP BUSINESS AND RESIDENTIAL DISTRICTS OF MAINE CITY. CANTON REBELS BURN PALACE The old battleship Texas has been sunk after being used for a few min­ utes as ft target It only goes to show ^rfiat might have happened if the gun­ ners ca the Spanish ships at Santiago had known their business. A lawyer In Boston in an argument talked fifty-three and a half hours and used over six hundred thousand words. No wonder judges who have to listen to arguments complain that the pay is often poor for the work. Among those who are holding forth the glad hand of welcome to the harem skirt are the theatrical man­ agers and press agents. A woman's raiment--or lack of raiment--is the food on which the press agent thrives. At the time that German spinsters of certain age demand to be called frau instead of fraeulein some one in thiB land of the free would have any bachelor labeled "master." What has become of the woman with the system of spotting bachelors on sight? Train Bearing School Teachers Is De­ railed and Burned at Easton, Pa.--Fifty Hurt. Easton, Pa.--Eleven persons lost their lives when a school teachers' special excursion train was derailed and burned on the Pennsylvania rail­ road at Martin's Creek. Three of the dead have been identi­ fied. The bodies of six others are In the morgue and two male passengers are missing. It Is expected that their bones will be found in the debris. Three of the ten Injured in the Easton hospital will probably die. More than fifty persons were hurt. The train was traveling at a rate of 50 miles an hour and when the loco­ motive struck a sharp curve, where men had been repairing the tracks, it jumped and ran along a hillside, car­ rying four of the five cars with it. All of the cars took fire and burned like tinder. Not a splinter is left. Hardly had the train come to a stop before fire started and spread RO rapidly that some of the imprisoned passengers were burned to death. Physicians were called from this city and every town within a radius of teu miies. An hour after the accident there were a score of physicians on the ground. They did everything pos­ sible to relieve the injured and made them ready for the trip to Easton. Every farm house in the vicinity, which is sparsely settled, was quickly transformed into an improvised hos­ pital and farmers' wagons were pressed into service as. ambulances. Willing hands began the work of rescue as soon as they were able, and had it not been for the heroic efforts of the men and women, some of whom were cut and bleeding from their wounds, the loss of life would have been appalling. Many Are Kill.ed When Revolution­ ists and Troops Clash--British Con­ sul Reports Situation Serious. Hongkong, China.--A serious revo- lutionary outbreak took place in Can­ ton, attended by the firing of the vice­ roy's palace and a battle in the streets in which several persons were killed. The fighting between the troops and the rioters began when the soldiers ar­ rested a revolutionary leader and his followers, who, carrying revolvers and wearing badges, boldly proclaimed their purpose, and surrounding the viceroy's palace and after setting it afire interfered with the efforts of oth­ ers to extinguish the flames. The revolutionaries were armed with rifles and bombs and fought des­ perately. Several were killed and many arrested. The troops were commanded by Ad­ miral Li, and they suffered consider­ ably, a colonel being among those wounded. The soldiers finally got con­ trol of the situation and energetic measures to prevent another outbreak were taken. The fire at the palace burned foi two hours, doing great damage. The viceroy escaped unharmed. LONDON TO AID PEACE PLAN New Jersey has enacted a law pro­ hibiting the keeping of bees with con tagious diseases. Those who recall boyhood days in semi-rural regions will reflect that the most contagious disease that they knew bees to carry Is that which they always have with them at their business end. Taft's Proposed Arbitration Treaty Is Ratified by Big Gathering in Guildhall. London.--President Taft's proposed Anglo-American arbitration treaty was unanimously ratified in a long-contin­ ued burst of cheers at one of the most remarkable gatherings in the history of Guildhall. Every political party and all of the religious communities were represent­ ed on the platform by their most prominent leaders, and the vast audi­ ence comprised persons of eminence in every walk of life. Distinguished Tories and Liberals vied with one an­ other in lauding the cause of arbitra­ tion between the two great English- speaking nations of the world, and the hope was repeatedly expressed, and as often cheered, that the treaty, though it did not actually mean disarmament, would dismiss any future possibility of war not only between America and Great Hrilain, but among any of the great powers of the earth. $6,000,000 IS ThE LOSS Firemen Are Almost Helpless Before Gale-Fanned Blaze--Dynamite Re­ sorted to to Stop Conflagration-- Hundreds Are Made Homeless. Bangor, Me.--Property valued at $6,000,000 was destroyed, hundreds of people made homeless and almost the entire business section of the city devastated by a fire which raged here for seven hours. The flames started on Broad street, near Union, close by the junction of the Penobscot river and the Kenduskeag stream, and, fanned by a heavy wind, swept north­ ward for blocks. The efforts of the fire department from the time the fire started were absolutely futile. The flames swept north along Broad street from Union, then Jumped the Kenduskeag stream, running along on the western bank along Exchange street. The Smith and Strickland blocks at the junction of Hammond and Central streets and the Kenduskeag stream were dynamited, in a vain attempt to keep the flames from leaping the stream. After the first rush of the fire to the north, the back wind set up by the fire itself fanned the flames toward the south, threatening that part of the city that at first seemed safe. Early in the advance of the flames the post office, on a sort of promon­ tory, between branches of the Kendus­ keag stream, fell before the onslaught of the flames. The Maine Central railroad was obliged to vacate Its de­ pot, the retreating office force and crews seeing the buildings engulfed al­ most before they were but of danger. At the start all communication ex­ cept by the Postal Telegraph company was cut off. The Western Union and the telephone office went early, the operators narrowly escaping through their devotion to duty in staying at their posts until forced out by the flames. For a long time the city hall, at the foot of Main street, was saved by a siignt shift in the wind. The Haines- Chalmers block, the Hodgkins block, the Fiske building, the Fairbanks & Co. plant, the Morse Oliver block, the offices of the Bangor & Aroostook rail­ road, the offices of the Bangor News, the Windsor hotel and the public li­ brary were destroyed with many oth­ er less prominent buildings. In the residential district the people started to move out early, fighting for conveyances on which to pile their ef­ fects. The people were panic-strick­ en. Running wildly, carrying all sorts of useless articles, snatched up In their frenzy, they poured out of the city toward Old Town. Finally, with the assistance of fire­ men from neighboring towns and with the fLid of a light rain, the fire fighters gained mastery of the situation and the flames gradually subsided. TAFT THANKS HOUSE URGE8 SPEEDY RECIPROCITY AC­ TION IN SPEECH.! Compact With Canada Must Be Taken Up Now or Neyer Cays Chief EnCv4(tiVo. New York.--President Taft openly thanked the Democratic house of representatives for the staud it has taken on the question of Canadian reciprocity when he spoke at the an­ nual banquet of the Associated Press and the Ajmerican Newspaper Pub­ lishers' association at the Waldorf- Astoria. His address was the first of a series in which he plans to evoke pub­ lic sentiment in support of his poli­ cies, and he appealed to the company of editors and newspaper owners, gathered froth the length and the breadth of the land, to impress on the public mind that reciprocity should stand alone and "ought not to be af­ fected in any regard by other amend­ ments to the tariff law." All talk of annexation he character­ ized as "bosh," and said t^at the United States has all it can attend to with the territory it is now gov­ erning. He praised the house of representa­ tives for its passage of the agree­ ment; declared that it would not In­ jure the farmer nor any special class, answered in detail the objections that have been raised to reciprocity and begged for at least "a kind of test" to dispel the ghosts "exhibited to frighten the agricultural classes." President Taft devoted the greater part of his address to the Canadian reciprocity agreement. "If any objection," he said, "can be made to the treaty on the ground that any particular class derived less profit from it than other classes, then it is the manufacturer of the country who ought to object, because the treaty in its nature will not enlarge his market as much as it will that of the farmer." KELLY BEATS THOMPSON Italian Leads All the Way, but Lacks Punch to Put Opponent Out. Racine, Wis.--Because of his supe­ rior skill, Hugo Kelly was entitled to a decision over Johnny Thompson at the end of ten rounds of hard fighting here. Thompson was strong and game, but not strong or clever enough to withstand the stiff punches of the Chi­ cago Italian, nor to take advantage of the opportunities offered In the last two rounds, when Kelly was begin­ ning to tire. It was Kelly's bout by a big margin in every round but the second, ninth and tenth. JURORS HIT N. Y. POLICE Baseball Made Girls' Game. Montclair, N. J.--Baseball as a sport for school girls has received the official approval of the high school au­ thorities. It is to replace basketball on the athletic calendar. Teams have been organized and interclasB games will be arranged. Eggs are going up. This time, how­ ever, they are going up in an aero­ plane, a New York aviator having con­ sented to deliver a cargo by the air route. Let us hope it will not result lb a repetition of the Humpty Dumpty affair. A Kansas City girl wants $15,000 for being mussed up by a young man who insisted on kissing her. This is the flnst time we ever knew that a girl objected to being mussed up in •uch a particularly pleasing line of en­ deavor. Indicted for $43,000 Theft. Evansville, Ind --John W. Blauth, formerly bookkeeper of the Evansville Trust and Savings company, was in­ dicted by the grand jury on a charge ol embezzling $43,128. Woman Makes $100,000 Gift. Fishkill, N. J.--A gift of $100,000 to the University settlement of New York from the widow of General How- land, U. 8. A., is announced. The gift includes the entire Howland estate at Fishkill-on-the-Hudson. The property consists of about 250 acres. Blast Kills Four. Ottawa, Ont.--An explosion at the Dominion Explosive works near Art- prior, Ontario, killed Sidney Brooks, Donald, Dennis, Joseph Mills and a man named McMillan. Woman Wins Research Prize. Northampton, Mass.--A prize of $1,000 for the best laboratory re­ search work for women was awarded by the Naples Table association to Miss Mary E. Pinney, B. A., of Kan­ sas university. Harry Whitney, Explorer, III. New Haven, Conn.--Word has been received here by relatives of Harry Whitney, sportsman and arctic ex­ plorer. that he is suffering from blood poisoning in a fishing camp at Knights Beach, Fla. Preparing for Dietz Trial. Hayward.--Sam J. Williams, dis­ trict attorney of Sawyer county, who has been out of the city all this week on the Dietz case, says he has subpoenaed seventy-five witnesses and wants another attorney to assist him. The county board will authorize the appointment of an assistant district attorney. Humphrey Hathaway Swift Dies. Cambridge, Mass.--Humphrey Hath­ away Swift, who built and financed the first horse car line in Brazil and who was many years a leading mer­ chant in country, died at his home here, aged ninety-two. DIRECT VOTE Wi SENATE JUDICIARY COMMITTEE MAKES FAVORABLE REPORT ON THE RESOLUTION. RIDER IS VOTED OUT 7 TO 5 Sutherland Amendment Which L^d to Defeat of Plan at Last Session Is Rejected--Final Vic- ' tory Probable. Crime Wave Investigators Assert That Immediate Reforms Are Neces­ sary--Situation Serious. New York.--The grand jury which Is investigating Magistrate Cor- rigan's charges that a demoralized po­ lice force has permitted crime and vice to thrive in this city handed up a presentment declaring that the situa­ tion in and the condition ol the police force is a matter ol grave public concern and that imme­ diate reformation is required. Washington --After 26 years of dis­ heartening defeat at the capital the movement for direct election of United States senators by popular vote scored a triumph that makes its final victory the next logical event on the legislative calendar. By a vote of 7 to 5 the senate com­ mittee on judiciary dgreed to report cut the house resolution for direct senatorial election. More than that, it cuts out the Sutherland amend­ ment, which defeated the bill in the last congress by stirring up the fears of the old state-rights Democrats. The committee victory was by no means a party one. It was the re­ sult of an agreement between the Democrats and progressive Republic­ ans. Roll call of the committee on the motion to report out revealed this. Voting "aye" were Senators Chilton, Overman, Culberson and Bacon-- Democrats; Borah, Cummins and Brown---progressives. The negative votes were cast by Clark of Wyoming, Dillingham, Sutherland, Brandegee and Root. Practically the same divislo'n took place when the Sutherland amend ment was up. This proposition pro­ vided for "federal supervision of elec­ tions when deemed advisable." The direct threat here made on the polit­ ical rights of the individual states alienated so many Democrats that it was recognized as too heavy a weight for the hill to carry. Following favorable action by the committee, Senator Borah reported the resolution to the senate Senator Heyburn of Idaho, assorting that the resolution had been prematurely con­ sidered by the committee, indicated that he would later on call for its re­ committal. $3.50 RECIPE CURES WEAK KIDNEYS, FREE RELIEVES URINARY AND KIDNEY TROUBLES, BACKACHE, STRAIN­ ING, SWELLING, ETC. 4topl Pain In the Bladder, Kidneys *'*• and Back. Wouldn't it be nice within a week or N to begin to say goodbye forever to the scalding:, dribbling, straining, or too fre-; quent passage of urine; tbe forehead and the baek-of-the-head aches; the stitches and pains in the back; the growing mus­ cle weakness; spots before the eyes; yel­ low skin; sluggish bowels; swollen eye­ lids or ankles; leg cramps; unnatural short breath; sleeplessness and the de­ spondency? ^ I have a recipe for these troubles that you can depend on, and if you want to make a QUICK RECOVERY, you ought to write and get a copy of it. Many a doctor would charge you $3.G0 Just for writing this prescription, but I have it and will be glad to send It to you entire­ ly free. Just drop me a line like this: Dr. A. E. Robinson, K-250 Luck Building, Detroit, Mich., and I will send it by re­ turn mail in a plain envelope. As you will see when you get it, "this recipe contains only pure, harmless remedies, but It has great healing and pain-conquering power. It will quickly show Us power once you ose It, so I think you had better see what It is without delay. I will send you a copy free--you can use it end cure your- Mltf at home. BASEBALL. DEATH AND RUIN IN CANTON Rebels and Bandits Sweep Through Western Kwangtung Province-- Fight Troops, Many> Slain. Hongkong. China.--Rebellion, brig­ andage and anarchy are stalking through the western half of Kwang­ tung province murdering, pillaging and burning. Loyal troops are fight­ ing desperately to crush the uprising. Wu Sum, a Chinese who was edu­ cated in Japan and has adopted the dress of western countries, is the leader of the revolt against the Man- chu dynasty. Brigand Chief t-uk of Shuntak is at the head of a horde of outlaws whose object is robbery and murded. Official reports and the refu­ gees arriving from Canton confirm sin­ ister reports. Bodies of the slain lie in the streets of the city. Famine prices are asked for foodstuffs and the shops generally are closed. The revolters have withdrawn to a great extent from Canton and are ^ devastating thai country to the west along the West river. Before falling back they fought the troops from street to street, many persons being killed. They attacked the provisional arsenal and, being repulsed, gath­ ered in an immense rice store, which I they barricaded with bags of rice. From the building they threw bombs into the attacking troops and were only dislodged when the bags were set afire. Many of the reverters es­ caped, but thirty or more died in the flames. M'VEAGH SUED FOR LIBEL 'Oout at first," so the umpire decided, This decision the runner derided. And these words at him were cast, "Not at first, but at last--" Then the runner and umpire collided I Like Home Touch. Tired and dusty, a party were re­ turning by rail from a holiday trip. Simkins, a little bald man, seated him­ self to read, but dropped off to sleep. On the rack was a ferocious crab in a bucket, and when Simkins went to sleep the crab woke up, and finding things dull in the bu<^ket, started ex­ ploring. By careful Investigation Mr. Crab reached the edge of the rack?. Down it fell, alighting on Simkln's shoulder, where it grabbed the man's ear to study itself. The passengers held their breath and waited for de­ velopments, but Simkins only shook his head and said: "Leggo, Sarah! I tell you I've been at the office all the evening!" It Was Muffing. " 'Bugs' Raymond, the handsome and brilliant pitcher of the New York Gi­ ants, is a great wit on the field," said a sporting editor at the Pen and Pen­ cil club in Philadelphia. "Raymond was disgusted one day at his team's wretched outfielding. Bat­ ter after batter Bent up high flies, and these easy balls were muffed alter­ nately by left and center. "Bugs at the sixth muff threw down his glove and stamped on it. " 'There's an epidemic in the out­ field,' he said, 'but, by Jingo! it isn't catching.'" ^Deposed Cleveland Customs Collector Brings Action at Chicago for $100,000 Damages. Chicago.--Franklin MacVeagh. sec­ retary of the treasury, was made de­ fendant in a suit for $100,000 which was filed in the circuit court by Charles P. Leach, formerly collector of customs for Cleveland, O. The suit against Mr. MacVeagh is to collect dP.ir.ases for alleged libelous state­ ments made against Leach. The lat­ ter had occupied the position of collec­ tor of customs for 13 years but was removed from his office on March It), 1911, by order of President Taft. The declaration avers that Mr. Mac­ Veagh in a statement issued charged that Leach had been guilty of turn­ ing over to importers thousands of dollars' worth of woolen goods before the custom duty was paid; that Mr. MacVeagh also issued statements charging that Leach had allowed per­ sons importing woolens through th^ port of Cleveland to place them in their own warehouses aiid that he was guilty of violation of the regula­ tion of the treasury department. Eight Are Cremated. Roanoka, Va.--Mrs. J. H. Nunn, a widow, and seven children were burned to death in a fire which de­ stroyed their home In southwest Roa­ noke. Three of her ten children es­ caped by leaping from windows. 100 Are to Sing for Mrs. Taft. New York.--At tbe invitation of Un. Taft 100 members of the Mozart so­ ciety, a New York musical organiza- tion, will go to Washington to panici- pate in the May garden party on th« White House lawn on May 12. King Receives a Suffraget. Chrlstiania, Norway.--King Haakon gave an audience to Mrs. Carrie Chap­ man Catt, president of the Interna­ tional League of Women Suffragists, who has been lecturing here on behalf of votes for women. Asks Shorter Carriers' Hours. Washington.--Representative Reilly 'if Connecticut has introduced a bill providing an eight hour work day for mail carriers and clerks in first and second class postoffices. the eight •lours to be consumed within a limit ot ten consecutive hours. Q. A. R. Encampment In August Boston.--Orders for the national en­ campment pf the Grand Army of the Republic at Rochester, N. Y„ August 21-26, were Issued by Commander-ln- Ciiiai John E Oilman of this city. Kills Ex-Wife With Cane. Green Bay, Wis.--Mrs. John Vander- boom died after being struck with a cane by her divorced husband. The two had quarreled over the division of their furniture. Vanderboom gave himself up to the police. Kills Mayor and Marshal. Redjacket, W. Va.--Town Marshal Music and Mayor Hoskins of Mate- wan, W. Va., were shot and killed here by Tom Chaffln, a miner. A feud had existed between the town officials and the labor men. Boys Burn Lad at Stake. Bostonx-- Bound and tied to a stake while his little playmates executed a mimic Indidn war dance and "tor­ tured" him wit& a lighted candle, Ma& Tatlebaum of Roxbury, five years old. turned play into reality. He waa "burned at the stake." To Use Waste Basket. Washington --Controller of the Cur­ rency Murray placed an official ban on bank promoters. Hereafter all applications to organize national banks promoted "by "professional pro­ moters" will be thrown into the waste basket. "Bloomer Woman" Is Dead. Vlneland, N. J.--Miss Susan P. Fowler, the "Bloomer Woman," is dead. She was eighty-seven years old, and she donned the bloomer costume 69 years ago. Taft Denies Cattle Men Pardon. Washington.--President Taft re­ fused to pardon four wealthy Nebraska cattle men, convicted of conspiracy to defraud the government of grazing land along the Wyoming border. Carries Billion Passengers In Year. New York.--Surface, elevated* and subway transportation lines here car­ ried 1.490,000.000 passengers ;.n 1910, more than the estimated population of the world, according (o the report of the public service commission. Denver Consolidation Upheld. Denver. Colo.--Consolidation if the city and county of Denver govern­ ments is upheld in an opinion handed down by the supreme court. The savteg to the county wilf reach jyy •ral| thousand dollars annually. Double-Edged. The man whose daughter had just been united to the husband of her choice looked a little sad. "I teii you, squire," he said to one of the wedding guests, a man of his own age, and himself the father of a num­ ber of unmarried girls, "I tell you it is a solemn thing for us when our daughters marry and go away." The squire assented not altogether heartily. "I suppose It is," he conceded, "but I tell you it is more solemn when they don't."--Youth's Companion. A WIDOW'S LUCK Quit the Thing That Waa Slowly In­ juring Her. A woman tells how coffee kept her from insuring her life: "I suffered for many years chiefly from trouble with my heart, with severe nervous headaches and neu­ ralgia; but although Incapacitated at times for my housework, I did not realize the gravity Of my condition till I was rejected for life insurance, be­ cause, the examining physician said, my heart was so bad he could not pass me. "This distressed me very much, as I was a widow and had a child de­ pendent upon me. It was to protect her future tl^at I wanted, to insure my life. "Fortunately for me, I happened to read an advertisement containing a testimonial from a man who had been affected in the same way that I was with heart trouble, and who was bene­ fited by leaving off coffee and using Poetum. I grasped at the hope this held out, and made the change at once. "My health began to improve imme­ diately. The headaches and neuralgia disappeared, I gained In flesh, and mjr appetite came back to me. Greatest of all, my heart waa strengthened from the beginning, and soon all the distressing symptoms passed away. No more waking up in the night with my heart trying to fly out of my mouth! "Then I again made application for life insurance, and had no trouble in passing the medical examination. "It ^aa seven years ago that I be­ gan to use Postum and 1 am using i still, and shall continue to do so, as find it a guarantee of good h Name given by Poetum Company, tie Creek, Mich. "There's a reason." Read the big little book, "The Road to Wellvtiie," in pkgs. Ever r»«d the al>OT* letter! A icw M« appear* tr«n tlaae to (lac. Tk*r are (nolle, trac, aa4 fmll mt hummiI iBttreit.