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Dale, O, T. Anderson, Win, Hmearbaugh, E. W. Bowman, J, W. Jamieson, W. J. Campbell. Constable W. If. Uood. Collector W 11. liood. School Directors J. O. Suowden, Dr. J. C. Dunn, Q Jainlnson, J. J, Landers, J. K, Clark, W. O. Wymau. FOREST COUNTY OFFICERS. Member of Congress N. P. Wheeler. Member of Senate J. K. P. Hall. Assembly W. D. Shields. President Judge W. M. Llndsey. Associate Judges F. X. Kreltler, P. C. Hill. Prothonotary, Register d Recorder, ete. -J.C. OeiHt. Sheriff.., W. Stroup. Treasurer Geo. W. llolaitian. Commissioners Leonard Aguew, An drew Wolf, I'hllip Emert. District Attorney A. O. Drown. Jury Commissioners J. B, Eden, II. II. MeClollan. Coroner Dr C. Y. Delar. County Auditors George H. Warden, K. L. Haugb, 8. T. Carsou. County Surveyor D. W. Clark. County Superintendent D. W. Morri son. Itesular Terns f lart. Fourth Monday of February. Third Monday of May. Fourth Monday of September. Third Monday of November. Regular Meetings of County Commis sioners 1st and 8d Tuesdays of month. Church aaa Sabbath Hrhool. Presbyterian Sabbath School at 9:46 a. ui. ; M. E. Sabbath School at 10:00 a. m. Preaching In M. E. Church every Sab bath evening by Rev. W. O. Calhoun. Preaching In the F. M. Church every Sabbath evening at the usual hour. Rev. E. L. Monroe, Pastor. Preaching in the Presbyterian church every Mabliath at 11:00 a. in. and 7:30 p. in. Rev. 11. A. Bailey, Pastor. The regular meetings or the W. C. T. U. are held at the headquarters ou the second and fourtti Tuesdays of each month. BUSINESS DIRECTORY. TU'.N ESTA LODO E, No. 369, 1. 0. 0. F. A M etts every Tuesday evening, in Odd Fellows' Hall, Partridge building. CAPT. GEORGE STOW POST. No. 274 G. A. R. Meets 1st and 8d Monday evening In each month. CAPT. GEORGE STOW CORPS, No. 137, W. R. C, meets first and third Wednesday evening of each month. RITCHEY CARRINGER. ATTORN EYS-AT-LAW, Tionesta, Pa. CURTIS M. 8HAWKEY, ATTORN EY-AT-LAW, Warren, Pa. Practice in Forest Co. AO BROWN. ATTORN EY-AT-LAW. Ofnce In Arner Building, Cor. Elm and Bridge Sts., Tionesta, Pa. I?RANK 8. HUNTER, D. D. S. J. Rooms over Citizens Nat. Bank, TIONESTA, PA. D R, F. J. BOVARD, fliysiclan s surgeon, TIONESTA, PA. DR. J. C. DUNN, PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON, and DRUGGIST. OlBce over store, Tionesta, Pa. Professional calls prompt ly responded to at all hours of day or night. Residence Elm St., between Grove's grocery and Gerow's restaurant. GEORGE SIGGINS, M. D., Physician and Surgeon, TIONESTA. PA. Office in rooms over Forest County National Bank. Professional calls promptly responded to at all hours of day or ulghk D R. J. B. SIGGINS. Physician and surgeon, OIL CITY, PA. HOTEL WEAVER, E. A. WEAVER, Proprietor. This lintel, formerly the Lawrence House, has undergone a coinpletechaiige, and is now furnished with all the mod ern improvement. Heated and lighted throughout with natural gas, bathrooms, not and cold water, etc. The comforts of guests never neglected. CENTRAL HOUSK, J GEKOW A GEKOW Proprietor. Tionseta, Pa. This is the most centrally located hotel in the place, and lias all the modorn improvements. No pains will be spared to make it a pleasant stopping place for the traveling public First olass Livery in connection. DUIL. EMERT .FANCY BUUI BliUttMAIVCtt. Shop over R. L. Haslet's grocory store on Elm street. Is prepared to do all Kinds of custom work from the finest to the oodrsest and guarantees his work to give perfect satisfaction. Prompt atten tion given to mending, and prices rea sonable. STOJECT LCrop destroying furred and feathered pests are made short shrift of with a reliable, unerring STEVENS. CFor Sport or Service .STEVENS RIFLES SHOTGUNS PISTOLS are unsurpassed. HIGH IN QUALITY LOW IN PRICE If 701 cannct Bend 5 crata la obtain ttvip your itunpt for Dtnler, we ship 160-Pag direct, expreai niutr&tetl and prepaid, upon Descriptive receiptor Cat- Catalog, log Price. Replete with Alware Inilit STEVENS and on BTEVENd general firearm when ordering. Information. J. STEVENS ARMS & TOOL CO. P. 0. Box 4098. Chicopee Falls, Mass. MAE WOOD GETS BAIL Justice 0'Gorman Dismissed Her Suit Against Senator Piatt. Collision of Trolley Cart Pennsyl vanla Unlnstructed Railroad Hor ror In Belgium Memorial to Sena tor Hanna Lamphere Indicted Five Times True Case of Hydrophobia, Mae C. Wood, whose Buit for divorce from United States Senator Thomas C. Tlatt was on trial in the supreme court for several days, was com mltted to the Tombs prison after Jus tice O'Gonnan had dismissed the com' plaint In her suit and ordered her held In 5,000 ball on the charge of perjury. The decision In Senator Piatt's fa vor and the sudden und sensational ending of the suit came after a day which the defense had largely occu pied by the Introduction of expert and other testimony In attacking the gen uineness of the documents by means of which the plaintiff was seeking to establish the fact of her marriage with Senator Piatt. A handwriting export had testified that In his opinion the body of the let ter In which Senutor Plutt was al leged to hnve admitted his relation as a husband to the plaintiff was added after the senator's signature had been affixed. More telling, still, for the defense was the deposition of engravers and stationers called by counsel for Sen ator Piatt that the blank form upon which the alleged Piatt-Wood mar riage certificate had been prepared had not been lithographed until three months after tho date upon which the marriage of Miss Wood to Senator Piatt Is alleged to have occurred. Justice O'Gorman turned to Miss Wood and pointedly questioned her. She repeated her assertion that the marriage had occurred as she had stated. She admitted that Senator Piatt had never supported her, and asked by the court If she did not con sider It the duty of a husband to sup port his wife, she replied: "I do, but as long as he was not enough of a gentleman to do so I never asked him to." Senator Plntt's counsel then again moved for a dismissal of the com plaint. It was forthwith granted by Justice O'Gorman, who In rendering his decision said: "I cannot credit the plaintiff's evi dence as to the alleged marriage, and the testimony impresses the court that this is a most wicked design to support n false and fictitious claim by forgery and perjury." Ball was tendered for Mrs. Wood on Saturday by the American Surety company but too late to be accepted then. Monday Mrs. Wood was taken before Justice O'Gorman, and ball was again offered and accepted. Collision of Trolley Cars. Three persons were instantly killed at Philadelphia and ot leost five others were bo badly injured that there Is no hope for their recovery and forty-five were seriously hurt In a collision between trolley cars on Germantown avenue near Chestnut Hill, a suburb. In the northern section of the city late Sunday night. The only body thus far Identified Is that of Mrs. George D. Wagner, aged C5 years, of Cornwall, Pa. The bodies of an unidentified woman about CO years or nse and an uniden tified man about 45 year.i old, are in a hospital near the scene of the acci dent. Forty-live persons woro taken to the Chestnut Hill and Germantown hos pitals, each of which Is several miles from tho scone of the accident, and many were conveyed In automobiles by the wealthy residents of the ex clusive Chestnut Hill district. They were treated by private physicians and In consequence absolute detail about the Injured cannot be obtained. Anions those who were dangerously Injured were George Wagner, whose wife was killed, and Alexander Mc Kay, aged 45 years, who has a wooden leg. The artificial member was Jammed up into bis body and he can not live, It Is said. The accident was caused by car running noith Jumping a track while going down a steep grade not far from Chestnut Hill. The car swung neiosn the southbound track and was struck by a cr.r on that track. Both cars were filled with passengers. Pennsylvania Unlnstructed. After one of the hardest fights within the party In several years, the Democratic state convention at Har risburg, Pa., decided not to instruct its delegates-at-large to the Den ver convention. It was a clean-cut vic tory for the Democratic state organiza tion, headed by Col. James M. Guffey of Pittsburg, the Pennsylvania mem ber of the national committee. Colonel Guffey hnd maintained all along that he and his friends would control the convention, but their claims were always disputed by the leaders of the faction who were In fa vor of Issuing binding instructions for William J. Bryan. The Bryanltes, under the leadership of tho executive committee of the Bryan Democratic league, had a large following and they fought to the bitter end. While feeling ran high In the convention, which was at times dis orderly, no personalities were Indulg ed in, and when the followers of Bryan found that they were in the minority they acquiesced and tho con vention quickly came to a close. The platform declares for tariff re vision and that "such revision should be based upon the equitable protec tion of American labor when compet ing with foreign manufacturers." The delegates-at-large chosen are; Colonel Guffey, State Senators J. K. P. Hall of Elk county and A. S. De walt of Lehigh county and John O. Harman of Columbia county. Railroad Horror In Belgium. One of the worst railroad accidents In Europe in recent times occurred at Contlch, a station six miles southeast of Antwerp. The exact number of victims has not been determined ow ing to the difficulty ot removing the bodies from the debris, but the latest estimate places the number at sixty killed and 100 wounded. The catastrophe appears ' to have been due to a defective switch, where the main line crosses a local line. At this point a train carrying a large number of pilgrims on their way to a local shrine was standing. Into this the Antwerp-BruHsels express dashed at a speed ot fifty miles an hour, lit erally leaping on top of it. The heavy coaches of the express crushed the lighter train into splinters. The sides of the express train were torn from their fastenings, the floors practically collapsing, thus precipitat ing the passengers to the side of the track, whence they fled, frenzied, across the fields. But for this fact the death roll would he much greater. Few of the occupants of the local train escaped alive. Those that were not killed were badly injured, many of them mortally. Memorial to Senator Hanna. A monument In In memory of the late Senator Marcus A. Hanna was dedicated at Cleveland Saturday after noon In the presence of many distin guished guests and thousands of spec tators. The oration was delivered by John W. Griggs, former United States at torney general. Former Governor Her rick presided. Secretary Taft and Governor Harris and staff were among the guests. The invocation was delivered by Right Reverend George F. Houck. The statue was unveiled by Mrs. Ruth Hanna McCormlck and Mrs. Mabel Hanna Parsons, daughters of the late senator. The benediction was deliv ered by Right Reverend W. A. Leon ard, bishop of Ohio. The monument is In bronze and w.is designed by St. Gaudens. The figure, seated In a chair. Is eight feet high and rests on a pedestal of twelve feet. The plate on the pedestal reads: "This monument is erected by friends and fellow citizens to com memorate his .efforts for peace be tween capital and labor, his useful citi zenship and distinguished public ser vice." The statue complete costs $65,535. Was a True Case of Hydrophobia. That William H. Marsh, the Brook lyn manufacturer, who died on Wed nesday of last week, was a victim of hydrophobia, was the decision of Cor oner Brewer following an autopsy per formed under his direction after the Brooklyn health department had re fused to grant a permit for Mr. Marsh's burial until the cause of his death had been thus decided. During the autopsy Dr. Ira Van Gie 3en, an expert In hydrophobia for the New York board of health, who was as sisting, became Infected with the rab ies germ from a Bmall scratch on his arm made by one of the bones from Mr. Marsh's body. Dr. Van Giesen hastened to the health department in Manhattan, where he was given treat ment. The autopsy upon Mr. Marsh's body demonstrated, the coroner declared. that there had been no excessive ad ministration of narcotics or anaesthe tics. A permit was later issued for Mr. Marsh's burial. Lamphere Indicted Seven Times. In returning seven true bills against Ray Lamphere the grand Jury at La Porte. Ind., also indicted Mrs. Belle Gunness for the murder of Andrew Helgeleln. No warrant was Issued for Mrs. Gunness, as she was declared official ly dead by the verdict of Coroner Mack; but In order to vote a true bill against Lamphere as an accessory In the killing of Helgeleln it was neces sary to indict Mrs. Gunness as the principal. Lamphere now stands charged with arson, five murders and being nn accessory In the Helgeleln murder. Separate bills were returned against Lamphere for the murder of Mrs. Gun ness and her three children. The digging on Friday resulted in the unearthing of a human skull, which, it was decided, belongs to one ot the bodies dug up two weeks ago. At that time three skeletons were found In one hole but there were only two Bkulls. Bucket-Shop Keeping a Felony. After Sent. 1 It Will he a felonv in conduct a bucket-shop In New York. Gov. Huches sinned without mm. ment Senator Cassidy's bill amending the penal code to that effect. The act is substantially similar to the nassacnuseits law. Transactions to be legal must con template a bona fide receipt or deliv ery ot the securities or commodities dealt in, and concerns must furnish upon written demand to any customer "a written statement containing the names of the persons from whom such property was bought, or to whom it has been sold, as the case mav be. the time when, place where, the amount of and the price at which the same was either bought or sold." Refusal to render such a statement within 4S hours shall be prima facie evidence of violation of the act. - UNWARRANTED COST Would Be Permitted by Insur ance Law Amendment. Governor Hughes Vetoes Assembly In aurance Committee's Bill Would Open the Way to Wastefulness and Extravagance In Rivalry to Secur New Business. Albany, May 26. In an extended memorandum Governor Hughes states his reasons for not approving the bill of the assembly Insurance committee which would have amended section 97 of the insurance law so to mitigate the restrictions made by the legislation which followed the life Insurance in vestlgation of 1905 upon the expend itures of life Insurance companies do ing business in this state in obtaining new business. The governor holds that the acl would "permit unwarrantable outlays and facilitate a return to the injurious conditions of past years." The pro posed limitation of first-year commis sions to 50 per cent, for instance, the governor says, "is illusory and nol real," for, he goes on to say, 'It Is nol simply the rate of commissions in which the policyholders are interested, but the amount which is actually paid out under any form of compensation in the effort to obtain new business." Existing Restrictions Necessary. With special reference to a pro posed modification of the existing pro hibition of bonuses, prizes and addi tional compensation "based upon tha volume of any new or renewed busi ness or the aggregate of policies writ ten or paid for," the memorandum says that "the abuses which had aris en through the promise of bonuses and rewards ot various sorts for ob taining a given amount ot business made it advisable to imnose th nre. ent restrictions. No sufficient reason appears for a change In this policy and in any event the amendment could not be approved in the ambiguous form now proposed." "Nothing was more clearly revealed in the legislative investigation of In surance conditions." savs the cover- nor, "than the losses which had been inflicted npon the policyholders by wastefulness and extravagance In th rivalry to secure new business. Im posing totals for the amount of bust. ness written and ot premium Income were paraded before the public as evi dence of successful management, re gardless of the fact that while reason able accessions are desirable, the pressure for new business at exorbit ant cost is a positive injury to the pol- icynomers and makes serious inroads upon the gains and accumulations to wnien they are entitled. "The true standards bv which In suranee management must be tested were obscured. Those who desired to conduct business upon an economical Dasis and with proper regard to the interests of the policyholders, were driven by the stress of competition to outlays which they did not approve." The limitations opposed by section 79, the governor declares, are in the interests of companies themselves and of the large number of people who de pend upon prudent and conservative management for protection for their homes. "This should not be changed hastily or without adequate opportunity, with a proper range of experience, for de termlnglng wherein anv rhnnirA man be advisable without paving the way ior a repetition of abuses. The oppo site bill cannot be regarded as a mere corrective omendment for the purpose of Improving the low in a manner con sistent with its purpose. It must be tested by what It will permit and not by what would actually be done under it by conservative managers." Conservative Management the Best. Of the much discussed falling oft in the amount of business written by the New York companies during the year since the present law became opera tive, Governor Hughes says that "It is unnecessary to attempt a statement of all the causes which produced this result. It is desirable of course thai new business to a normal extent, based upon normal cost, should be ob tained. There is no sufficient reason to doubt that it will be. But there are other matters which also must be tak en into consideration. It Is useful to note the gains which have resulted from economies and reduced pres sure." He then cites statistics to show that the New York Life, Mutual Life and Equitable made gains of millions in "loadings," and adds that the com parison would be still more striking if it were made with the years preced ing 1906. He continues: "The gains from economical man agement have already been reflected in largely increased amounts set apart for payment In dividends, and the policyholders will reap large bene fits from the reduction ot expenses. Proper conservatism will vindicate it self and the New York companies, as their Improved condition becomes known, will not Buffer but rather gain from comparison with those which op erate more extravagantly." Matricide Committed ot Matteawan. Syracuse, May 26. W. Halstead Gray, the lS-year-old youth, who choked his mother to death in this city three months ago, was today de clared Insane by a commission ap pointed to Investigations bis mental condition, and he was ordered commit ted to Mattejwan by Supreme Court Justice W. S. Andrews. STANDARD OIL SUIT. Witness Said Southern Pacific Only Paid Half the Invoice Price For Oil. New York, May 26. The Standard Oil company, its officials and allied and subsidiary companies began to submit their evidence in the suit brought by the United States govern ment to dissolve an alleged oil com bine. The evidence yet to be presented in this case is expected to Include testi mony by a number of railroad presi dents and other railroad officials who are expected to tell about the relations of the railroads with the Standard Oil company, especially on the matter of rebates. The Standad Oil company was rep resented by Morltz Rosenthal and the government by Frank B. Kellogg and several assistants. C. C. Steinbrenner, an official of the Galena Signal company of Franklin, Pa., was the first witness. He Bald the Southern Pacific only paid an average of about one-half the Invoice price for the oil It used. Figures (uoted showed refunds from the Ga lena company to the Southern Pacific. Mr. Steinbrenner said they carried the Pennsylvania and the Southern Pacific roads at a loss for advertising purposes, hoping at the same time to ultimately increase the contract for oil to the full 100 per cent. ABSOLUTE DIVORCE Granted Mrs. Ellen French Vanderbilt by Justice O'Gorman. New York, May 26. Mrs. Ellen French Vanderbilt was granted an In terlocutory decree of divorce from Al fred Gwynne Vanderbilt by Justice O'Gormon In the supreme court on the report of David McClure, the referee, who was appointed to take testimony and determine the findings In the suit instituted by Mrs. Vanderbilt. Justice O'Gorman confirmed the re port of the referee that Mr. Vanderbilt had been guilty of misconduct and di rected that Mrs. Vanderbilt be granted a judgment of absolute divorce. The divorce decree provides that Mrs. Vanderbilt may marry during the lifetime of Mr. Vanderbilt, but pre vents him from marrying during her lifetime. The custody of William R. Vanderbilt. the only child ot the mar riage, was awarded to Mrs. Vanderbilt No provision was made for alimony In the decree nor was the subject allud ed to in the report of Referee McClure. The referee's report developed that testimony had been Becured from Mr. Vanderbilt's valet who gave evidence concerning the misconduct of his em ployer on a railroad train a year ago last October in Virginia. MARKET REPORT. New York Provision Market New York, May 23. WHEAT No. 2 red, $1.00 f. o. b. auoat; No. 1 northern Duluth, $1.17Vs- CORN No. 2 corn, 7tic f. o. b ufloat; No. 2 white, 75c. OATS Mixed oats, 26 to 32 lbs., ,54c; clipped white, 32 to 40 lbs. 57V4f?64c. HAY Good to choice, 90c(f)$1.00. PORK .Mess, $14.75(& 10.25; family $17.00fi 18.50. BUTTER Creamery special, 23c; extra, 22V4c; western lactory, 17'c; state dairy, 17(fi22c. CHEESE State full cream, fancy, 15c. EGGS State and Pennsylvania, 20c. POTATOES State and Western $2.37 2.62 per 180 lbs.; Southern, new per bbl., $2.00 4.25. Buffalo Provision Market Tliiffnln Mnv 9". WHEAT No. 1 northern, carloads, $1.10; No. 2 red, $1.01. CORN No. 2 yellow, 79!c f. o. b. afloat; No. 3 yellow, 78!c. OATS-No. 2 white, 56(11 no'c f. o. b. afloat; No. 3 white, 55(i55c. FLOUR Fancy blended patent, per bbl., $6.006.75; winter family, intent. $5.406.15. BUTTER Creamery, prints, fancy, 24.?r 25c; state and Penn. cream ery, 23(f) 23V4c; dairy, choice to fancy, 22c. "EGGS Selected white, 19fi20c. CHEESE Fancy full cream, old, 13(fi'14c; choice to fancy, new, 10 lie. POTATOES Home grown, fancy, per bu., 8283c; fuir to good, 75fjS0c. East Buffalo Live Stock Market. CATTLECholce export steers, $6.75 (Ft 7.00; good to choice butcher steers, $5.001i 6.50; choice to extra fat cows, $5.00rtj5.10; fair to good heifers, $4.50i&5.25; choice heifers, $5.75f(f 6.00; bulls, fair to good, $4.254.75; choice veals, $6.25 Q 6.75; fair to good, $5.75g6.00. SHEEP AND LAMBS Choice clipped lambs, $6.151i 6.25; choice, yearlings, $5.255.50; mixed sheep, $4.75lft5.00. . HOGS Light Yorkers, $5.80fi 5.85; medium and heavy hogs, $5.801 5.85; pigs, $5.15Q5.25. Buffalo Hay Market. Timothy, No. 1 on track $15.00; No. 2 tlmoOiy, $12.50fi 13.50; wheat and oat straws, $S.00iir8.50. Little Falls Cheese Market. Utlca, May 25. Sales of cheese on the Little Falls board ot trade today were 63 lots of 3,774 boxes at 1014 ij) lOl&c, all small sizes. Utica Dairy Market. Utica, May 25. Sales of cheese on the local dairy board of trade today were 50 lots of 3,572 boxes at lO'i'P 10 Vic, latter price ruling. Large cheese all sold at 10V4C Butter ruled at 23 & 21c. "And whnt Is your new little broth er s mime ; "They haven't found out yet." Du- lul'i Tribune. POINTED PARAGRAPHS Summary of the Week's News of the World. Cream of the Newt Culled From Long Dispatches and Put In Proper Shape For the Hurried Reader Who Is Too Busy to Read the Longer Reports and Desires to Keep Posted. The battleship fleet steamed from San Francisco to visit the Puget sound cities. Indiana authorities get track of an other man supposed to have been vic tim of Mrs. Gunness. Timothy L. Woodruff, back from Washington, Baid President Roosevelt was sure Taft would be nominated on the first ballot. Control of the Provident Savings Life was established finally by a su preme court decision legalizing W. T. Gilbert as a director. Mayor McClellan and others attend ed the formal opening of the new sub way Btatlon at the Manhattan terminal of the Williamsburg bridge. The new head of the state agricul tural department announced that the tuberculin test for cattle, which has been vigorously opposed by the farm ers, will be resumed with renewed vigor. Thursday. Republican members of the house forced Speaker Cannon to agree to a conference on the anti-Injunction bills. The Baldwin aerroplane White Wing flew 240 feet in the longest of two trial flights at Hanimondsport, N. Y. George E. Sterry, Jr., killed his fa ther, a wealthy merchant, to keep him from wedding a young woman, and committed suicide. A St. Petersburg dispatch Bays that Count Wltte is about to found a Rus sian national bank, with a capital of a milliard of rubles. Evidence was discovered Indicating that a young Pittsburg couple, sup posed to have been drowned from a yacht, were murdered by river oirates. Friday. Through heavy seas the Atlantic battleship fleet arrived at the mouth of the Columbia river, near Astoria, Ore. Dr. William H. Marsh of New York, who was told oil Monday that no hu man power could save his life, died of hydrophobia. Senator Piatt, on the witness stand, denied that ho ever had wedded Mae Wood, although he admitted he had "foolishly" called her endearing names. Sir Wilfrid Laurier announced that Canada will Bend out an Arctic expedi tion in the fear that, the United States may selae some of her Northern pos sessions. Saturday. The Corn Products 'company ar ranged to Import corn from Argentina because of the high prices prevailing here. It was proved by the autopsy that Dr. William H. Marsh died of rabies in a virulent form and was not fright ened to death. The navy department has received Information that Japan Is preparing to buy another lot of improved White head torpedoes at $5,000 each. Governor Johnson of Minnesota de nounced as "unnatural and dangerous" the concentration of the national bank ing reserve in a few cities of the conn 'try. R. A. Pearson, chief of the state bu reau of agriculture, announced that Indiscriminate uso of tuberculin will be abandoned for the physical tosts of cattle for tuberculosis. Monday. Franco now faces the possibility of having to recognize Mulal Ha fid as the legitimate Sultan of Morocco. The Lusltanla broke all records for the westward passage across tho At lantic over tho long course on her last trip. Dr. Goodull of Calvary Mothodlst church, New York, lost an almost cer tain election as bishop after tho charge had been made that he Is a di vorced man. Leslie M. Shaw, formerly secretary of tho treasury, declared In a Chicago speech that for tho first tlmo in his tory the nation is today without con servative leadership. John P. Holland, inventor of subma rine boats, announced that ho was at work on an airship In which ho ex pects within five years to bo able to cross tho Atlantic In thirty hours. Tuesday. Speaker Cannon declared congress dare not adjourn before providing an emergency currency. Justice Morsclmuser decides that Harry K. Thaw is still insane and can not safely be released from tho lunatic asylum. Tho N. Y. Herald's esilmato of tho Democratic situation gives W. J. Bryan a majority of delegates to the Denver convention. Secretary Taft can get the Empire State's seventy-eight votes in conven tion after the first ballot, members of tho Taft association of New York de dare. Nahum Bnchclder, formerly gov ernor ot New Hampshire, praised the successful campaign against the wholesale (daughter of cattle by the tuberculin tests. A Real "Hos" Race. If you would see a horse strapped, booted, braced ami geared to the limit you must seek such a track as you see nt the old time country fair. Here comes mi awkward Ilea bitten gray which never went under 2:50 In his life. He Is hobbled anil checked and goggled and hitched up sldewlse, lengthwise and crosswise until there is more harness than horse. You won der how his driver ever got him Into this rigging anil how lie will get him out agulu without cutting him free with u Jitckknlfe. A farmer with a gray beard and twinkling eye observes to his neighbor: "Last time John Martin had that plug nut on the road I told him he had the old cripple overloaded with fust aids to the Injured. Them straps that was cal'lntcd to hoist up his knees must ha' pulled too tight, and the crlt tur was yanked clean off the ground. What John was gettin' ready for was a race for H.vin' machines, not n hoss trot." David Lansing in Outing Magazine. Dina Moe and Dina Mite. Mr. Cracker, a young colored gentle man of our city, had just obtained em ployment In one of our department stores as tin experienced porter, but after a short time proved to lie unfit for the position. Being fired, he there by gained the nickname of Fire Crack er. I' Ire Cracker was deeply In love with a young woman of his owu race by (he nnine of Miss Moo and after n short acquaintance found that her sur name was IMnn. He went to Dina Moe and said: ''Dina Moe, docs you lub me?" She quickly replied, "No." Nol being disheartened nnd at . the same time remembering the motto he learned at school, 'if at first you don't succeed try. try again," he went to Dina Moe ngnin and said: "liinii Moe, could you learn to lub me?" Dina tliis time rolled the while of her eyes and, looking Flro Cracker In the face, answered: "Dlna-Mite!"-.Tudge's Library. Snapdragon Seed Pods. The antirrhinum, or snapdragon. Is one of tlie old fashioned garden flow ers known by every one. Although It Is a visitor from southern Europe, It has been here so long that It lias lie come natm-nlizcd. When we say. "lion's mouth." "frog's mouth," "calf mouth," "rabbit's mouth," we mean snapdragon, all these names liclng sug gested by its grotesque inasklike corol la. But there is something still more grotesque if we will wait till the seed time and gather the dried, brown skeleton of the seed pod. Look at them sideways, nuilcr a bright lamp light If possible, and you w ill find they have quite a resemblance to a rhinoc eros. Remove the calyx and the lit tle horns on the nose and look at them from the front, and they have a still more striking resemblance- to human skulls, and by turning tlieni about you get all sorts of queer expressions on tho grinning mouth. St. Nicholas. Hurry. To our own age belongs the credit of having raised hurry from the de graded position of a disease to that of a commercial process. Formerly hur ry simply brought people to an early grave, with nothing to show for It, whereas now It Is become the means of transforming peace of mind, which Is a solecism, to say the best of It, Into ready money. Hurry has grown to bo a great fact in life. Even the fash ions bike m-oouiit of It until women are found doing up I heir hair In such n way that llie.v may go the speed lim it without fear of Its coming down. And the best of hurry Is that it Is Its own sullliieiit Justification. Nobody expects hurry to have any particular reason behind it any more. It. B. In New York Life. Preposterous. An aged Jersey farmer visiting a cir cus for the first lime stood liofore the dromedary's cage, eyes popping and mouth agape at the strange lieast within. The circus proper began, and the crowds left for the main show, but still the old ii ii ii stood before the cage in stunned silence appraising every de tail of the misshapen legs, the cloven hoofs, the pendulous upper lip and the curiously mounded bark of the sleepy eyed iK-ast. Fifteen minutes passed. Then the farmer turned away and spat disgustedly. 'Shucks! i'hey ain't no such ani mal!" Everybody's Magazine. Not His Usual Brand. He was a waif from the slums, hav ing his first expeiienee of the country. They gave him a new laid egg nt breakfast as a great treat, but after one spoonful he put it quietly aside mid devoted himself to the bread and butter. Why, I'ete." exclaimed the inntrou In charge, "don't you like your egg?" "No, ma'am," lie replied deprecating ly. "It don't seem to have no smell nor taste." Pearson's Weekly. All Wrinkled. Dolly Nr., 1 won't wash my face. I Just hate to wash my face. Crandma Naughty, naughty! When 1 was a tit le girl 1 always washed my face. lol- y Yes, tin' now look nt It! Cleveland iA'Siler. Dissolving Mergers. "Two churches here now, eh? The town only boasted one last year." "That's right" "You must hnve hud a revival." "No; we had a split." Washington Herald. No man knows so well where the shoe pluches ns h who wears It. - Lincoln. J
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