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TIONESTA, PA., WEDNESDAY, MARCH 1, 1911.
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LICAN.
BOROUGH OFFICERS.
Rurgess.S. D. W. Reck.
Justices of the react C. A. Randall, D.
W. Clark.
Couneilmen. J.W, Landers, J. T. Dale,
O. B. Robinson, Wm. Smearbaugh,
It. J. Hopkins, W. O. Calhoun, A. li.
Kelly.
Constable Charles Clark.
CoUeelor W. H. Hood.
School Directors J. O. Soowden, R. M.
Herman, Q Jainlnson, J. J. Landers, J.
C. Uetat, Joseph Clark.
FOREST COUNTT OFFICERS.
Member of Congress N. P.Wheeler.
Member of denote 3. It. P. Hall.
Assembly W. J. Campbell.
President Judge Vf. D. H inckley.
Associate Judges-P. C. Hill, Samnel
Aul.
rrothonotary, Register A Recorder, te.
-J. O. Gelid,
HherirH. R. Maxwell.
Treasurer Geo. W. Holeman.
Oommssimert-W m. H. Harrison, J.
M. Zuendel. 11. H. McClellan.
District Attorney M. A. Carrlngir.
Jury Commissioner Ernest Slbble,
Lewis Wagner.
Coroner Dr. M. O Kerr.
County Auditors George H. Warden,
A. C. Gregg and J. P. Kelly.
County Surveyor D. W. Clark.
County Superintendent D. W. Morri
son. Ilecular Terns sf Oaart.
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.
Chareh aai Makkalh Scfcl.
Presbyterian Sabbath School at 9:46 a.
m. I M. K. Sabbath School at 10:00 a. m.
Preaching In M. K. Church every Sab
bath evening by Rev. W. O. Calhoun.
Preaching in the F. M. Church every
Sabbath evening at the usual hour. Rev.
U. A. Garrett, PaMor.
Preaching in the Presbvterlao church
every Sabbalh at 11:00 a. m. and 7:30 p.
m. Rev. H. A. Bailey, Pas-tor.
The regular meetings of the W. C. T.
U. are held at the headquarters on the
second and fourth Tuesdays of each
month.
BUSINESS DIRECTORY.
TM' N KSTA LODG E, No. 869, 1. 0. 0. F.
1 M eeta every Tuesday evening, in Odd
Fellows' Hall, Partridge building.
CAPT. GEORGF. 8TOW POST, No. 274
G. A. R. Meets 1st Tuesday after
noon of each month at 3 o'clock.
CAPT. GEORGE STOW CORPS, No.
187, W. R. C, meets first and third
Wednesday evening of each month.
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1 . ATTORNEY-AT-LAW,
Tionesta, Pa.
MA. CARRINGER,
Attorney and Counsellor-at-Law.
Otfl.ce over Forest County National
Bank Building, TIONESTA, PA.
CURTIS M. 8HAWKEY,
ATTORNEY-AT- LAW,
Warren, Pa.
Practice in Forest Co,
AC BROWN,
ATTORNEY-AT-LAW.
Office In Arner Building, Cor. Elm
and Bridge Sts., Tionesta, Pa.
FRANK 8. HUNTER, D. D. S.
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DR. F. J. BOVARD,
Physlolan A Surgeon,
TIONESTA, PA.
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R. J. B. BIGGINS,
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OIL CITY, PA.
HOTEL WEAVER,
C. F. WEAVER, Proprietor.
Modern and up to-date in all its ap
pointments. Every convenience and
comfort provided for the traveling public.
CENTRAL HOUSE,
R. A. FU LTON, Proprietor,
Tionsela, Pa. This Is the most centrally
located hotel In the place, and has all the
modern improvements. No pains will
be spared to make It a pleasant stopping
place for the traveling public
pHIL. EMERT
FANCY BOOT A SHOEMAKER.
Shop over R. L. Haslet's grocery store
on Elm street. Is prepared to do all
Kinds of custom work from tlie finest to
the coarsest and guarantees his work to
f ive perfect satisfaction. Prompt atten
Ion given to mending, and prices rea
sonable. Fred. Grettenborger
GENERAL
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All work pertaining to Machinery, En
gines, Oil Well Tools, Gas or Water Fit
tings and General Klacksraithlng prompt
ly done at Low Rates. Repairing Mill
Machinery given special attention, and
satisfaction guaranteed.
Shop in rear of andjust west of the
Shaw House, Tidioute, Pa,
Your patronage solicited.
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requirements for good interior deco
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Samples to select from. Also a stock
Of Wall Paper, Paints and
Varnish.
New goods and prices right. Call
and see. Supplies for all makes of
Sewing Machines.
G. F. RODDA,
Next Door to the Fruit Store, Elm
Street, Tionesta, Pa.
LAWYERS
ARRAIGNED
Patent Attorneys Allegedto Have
Tampered With Affidavits.
Edwin H. Rlsley and Hla Son, Former
Deputy Attorney General Everett
E. Rlsley. Both of Utlca, Charged
With Fraudulently Altering Docu
ments. Edwin H. Rlsley, for 47 years a
practitioner nt the Oneida county bar,
and hla son, former Deputy Attorney
General Everett E. Rlsley, both of
Utlca, N. Y., and widely known as
patent attorneys, w!io were arrested
on' a chargo of offering in evidence
in a supreme court action an affi
davit that is alleged to have been
fraudulently altered, were arraigned
for examination before Supreme Court
Justice Merrell at Herkimer.
They were held In $1,000 ball for
action of the grand Jury. The alleged
fraudulently altered affidavit was of
fered in evidence in the court in Her
kimer on Feb. 7 in the case of Lewis
Dennett vs. the Ironclad Manufactur
ing company of New York city.
The action was commenced severl
years ago to collect royalties from the
Ironclad company. Papers on an ap
peal In the case were placed on file In
the office of the Herlkmer county clerk
end when an affidavit by Edwin R. Gil
man, counsel of tho manufacturing
company, wag offered In evidence be
fore Justice Merrell, Attorney Mellor
charged that the words "the same"
had been Inserted in the affidavit
changing Its meaning materially. Evi
dence was presented in substantiation
of the charge.
JENKS FOUND GUILTY
Cornell Student Convicted of "Rough
House" In Ithaca Theater.
Benjamin L. Jenks, the son of J. W.
Jenks, the wellknown Cornell pro
fessor and government .expert, was
found guilty of disorderly conduct at
the Lyceum theater on the night of
Feb. 4, when a party of Cornell stu
dents "rough-housed" a show at Ith
aca, N. Y.
His trial was conducted In police
court and he was sentenced to pay a
fine of $20 or go to jail for 20 days.
His lawyers obtained a stay and are
considering taking an appeal to the
county court.
Cassadaga Man Drops Dead.
Truman Richardson of Cassadaga., N.
Y., dropped dead In the waltlngroom
or the Buffalo & Lake Erie Traction
company at Fredonla, N. Y. He had
just bought a ticket for Buffalo and as
he was walking across the room, stag
gered nnd fell. He was carried into
the private office of Superintendent
William Schwartfager and a physician
was called. Dr. Johnson, whose office
is on the second floor of the building,
came at once, but the man was dead
when he reached him. His death was
due to apoplexy. He was 65 ears old
and unmarried.
New Policy at Elmira College.
President A. C. McKenzle of the
Elmira, N. Y., college has announced
a new policy in the college curricu
lum. That policy is the establishment
of three new courses. First, a music
course, leading to a degree, and sec
ond, two vocational courses, as they
are called, leading to degree. The
current year is a particularly notable
cne In history of tho college for it
marks the opening of the new science
hall, Hw gift of Andrew Carnegie, In
addition to the broadening of the cur
riculum on the lines stated.
Ex-Senator Gardner Acquitted.
Former Senator Frank J. Gardner of
Brooklyn was acquitted of the chargo
of offering Otto G. Foelker $12,000 for
his vole on the Hart-Agnrw bills in
1908. after the Jury before Justice
Peabury In the criminal branch of the
supreme court had been out an hour
and had taken four ballots, the first
standing eight for acquittal, the sec
ond 10 and the third 11 for acquittal.
Bought Congress Spring Park.
Congress Spring park, one of the
most famous parks In the state, was
bought by Saratoga, N. Y., and will
be added to the state mineral
springs reservation for which the
state has authorized an expendi
ture of $600,000. The reservation com
mission which has in chargo the pur
chase of the spring properties recently
acquired for tho state the Carlsbad
and two Hothorne springs.
Ithaca Newspaper Plant Burns.
The plrnt of the Ithaca, New York,
Chronicle and Democrat, one of the
oldest weekly papers in that part,
of the state, was burned" at "an early
hour Sunday morning, causing a loss
of about $10,000. The Chronicle was
the publisher of the Cornell Dally
Sun and other student and university
publications.
Robinson For Assembly.
Theodore Douglas Rabinson, neph
ew of former President Roosevelt, has
teen In Little Falls, N. Y.,, several
times last week running over from the
family estate at Warren and to sever
al of his friends he has announced
his intention of being a candidate
for tho Republican nomination foi
member of assembly from Herkimci
county this year.
LOUIS D. BRANDEIS
Lawyer Is Highly Pleased Over the
Railroad Rate Decision.
FULL OF ENTHUSIASM
Fruit Growers of State Form a New
Organization.
A new organization was formed
and office! s were elected by two asso
ciations at Ithaca N. Y., in connection
with the farmers' week events at the
Cornell State College of Agriculture
The new body is the New York State
Fruit Growers' association. Following
are its officers:
President, C. P. White of lona; vice
president, M. H. Holmwood of Orchard
Park; secretary, Paul Work of Ithaca;
treasurer, C. H. Aldrlch of Mattltuck.
The New York State Drainage as
sociation elected these officers: Presi
dent, Professor Elmer O. Phlppln; sec
retary, I. C. H. Cook of South Byron;
treasurer, C R. White of lona.
The New York Plant Breeds, asso
ciation elected: President, Samuel
Frazer of Genesoo; vice president,
Herbert P. King of Trumansburg; sec
retary, Arthur W. Gilbert of Ithaca;
treasurer, George R. Shauher of Ball
ston Lake; executive committee, U. P.
Hedrlck of Geneva, E. W. Mosher of
Aurora and J. P. Eastman of Morris
vllle. BULLET PIERCES HIS HEART
Aged Canandr.igua Business Man Kills
Himself Accidentally.
John Reznor, aged 68 years, business
man. philanthropist and highly re
spected citizen of Canandalgua, N. Y.,
met a tragic death, when an old revolv
er, he was cleaning, was discharged,
nd the bullet entered his heart kill
ing him Instantly.
Mr. Reznor, who had recently re
tired from active business, was In the
office of the carriage works, which he
had conducted for 36 years, when he
happened to think that an old revolv
er, which had laid for years In tho
safe untouched, might be useful at the
house.
He got it out, sat down at a desk
and with oil and cloth went at It. Fif
teen minutes later workmen In the
building heard the report of a pistol.
Albert Van D'isen, a woodworker, who
was In the same room, saw Mr. Rez
nor sink In the chair and groan.
Charles Swazey, proprietor of the
plpce, was in an adjoining room.
He rushed to Mr. Reznor, took him
in Ms arm. There was one gasp and
tho pulse stopped. Physicians sum
moned did not reach the man until
several minutes after he had breathed
his last.
police TnTeTcepTelopers
Eva Dennlson, 17-Year-Old Daughter of
Hornell's Postmaster, Disappears
With Her Aunt's Suitor.
Miss Eva Dennlson, daughter of
Postmaster and Mrs. George Dennlson
of Hornell, N. Y., returned home after
a romantic elopement with Emll Hot
tlnger of New York. A few months
ago Hottlnger advertised for a bride,
and Miss Dennison's maiden aunt, It
is said, answered the advertisement.
Correspondence is alleged to have fol
lowed and Hottlnger had gone to Rex
vlile. While there he fell In love with the
niece, aged 17 years, and the elope
ment was the outcome. Postmaster
Dennlson at once notified the New
York police and when the couple
alighted from the train at Jersey City
they wore met by an officer. Hottlng
er Is 27 years old.
Dennlson has now changed her
mind about marrying Hottlnger and
Is glad to get back home. The elope
ment took place on Wednesday.
Shepard Quits Senatorial RacQ.
Edward M. Shepa'd is out the
New York State senatorial race.
He announced his withdrawal In a
long letter to Montgomery Hare, who
had been acting as his political man
ager. The letter was written at Mr. Shep
ard's Brooklyn home on Saturday aft
er a series of conferences with his po
litical advisers and his personal
friends and the insurgents who are op
nosing William F. Sheehan.
Sudden Death Followed Banquet.
While returning from a banquet at
Hotel Rochester in Rochester, N. Y.
Margaret Clcary of Corning. N. Y., fell
to tho pavement with an illness from
which she died a short time afterward
Vv
THAW WRITES 10 DIX
Letter Tells of Alleged Cruelties
at Matteawan.
Investigation Into Alleged Harshness
of Attendants at Asylum Said to Be
Sufficiently Substantiated Nugent'
Case Attendant McDonald's Dis
charge Urged.
Albany, Fob. 28. Governor Dlx re
ceived a letter from Harry K. Thaw
last night, in which he told of alleged
cruelties practiced cn inmates by at
tendants at Matteawan. The letter was
turned over to William Church Os
borne, legal adviser to the Governor,
who is conducting for the Governor,
with Mayor Van Kennen, the Investi
gation of stite departments.
Members of the slate lunacy com
mission had a conference with Gov
ernor Dlx and gave him a preliminary
report as to their Investigation into
the charges of alleged cruelties prac
ticed on Inmates at Matteawan. It Is
stated that In their preliminary reports
the commissioners told Governor Dlx
that. they had found sufficient evidence
'o convince them of the truth of
charges against Attendant William
McDonald of cruelties and harshness
toward Inmates. The lunacy commis
sioners have advised McDonald's dis
charge by Dr Lamb, Superintendent
of Matteawan, forthwith. McDonald,
It is stated, was not concerned In the
alleged brutality practiced on John J.
Nugent, the Matteawan patient who
died at the hospital February 3.
As to the Nugent case the commis
sioners reported to the Governor that
the Investigation which they had be
gun had been postponed until after
the district fcttorney of Dutchess
county shall have completed his in
quiry Into the circumstances surround
ing the casp.
Dr. Albert W. Ferris, president of
the lunacy commission, who was pres
ent at the second autopsy on Nugent'
body, reported to the governor that it
was the opinion of the physicians that
the condition of Nugent's heart was
suhc that violent exercises or a strug
gle might have caused death.
PATIENT TESTIFIES
Declares Attendant George Galbraith
Struck John E. Nugent at
Matteawan,
Poughkeepsie, N. Y., Feb. 28.-John
Sorry, a patient at the Matteawan
state hospital for the criminal insane,
in a statement made here to Assistant
Attorney Edward A. Conger, declared
that he saw George Galbraith, an at
tendant, strike John E. Nugent, the
patient whoso lifeless body was found
on the floor of his room In the Mattea
wan asylum on the morning of Friday,
Feb 3.
This storv Is In contradiction of the
story told by Galbraith last Saturday
night in wl.lch Galbraith gave testi
mony on which Daniel Riley, another
attendant, was arrested.
Much importance Is attached to
Seery's insistence that the beating of
Nugent took place on Wednesday, Feb.
1st, whereas the story of Galbraith is
that Riley did the beating on Thurs
day, Feb. 2d, Nugent's lifeless body
being found Friday morning, Feb. 3d.
STILL NO CLUE
Detectives Have Not Yet Found Trace
of Mrs. Drummcnd's Gemr.
New York, Feb. 28. The public and
private detectives who were hustling
for clues that might lead to the crook
who got away with Mrs. Maldewln
Druinmond's $130,000 worth of pearls
and diamonds, on board, the Hamburg
American liner Ameiika last Saturday
night, have no clue. Mrs. Drummond
Is still at the Hotel Plaza with her
husband.
The Drummonds were more Insistent
than ever today that their servants
must 'not be suspected. Mrs. Drum
mond told Assistant General Manager
Meyer of the line when she talked to
him that her maid was not in the
state room when she undressed and
put her Jewels In the writing desk.
The maid was not feeling well and
went early to her own room, so Mr.
Drummond cMJ the unhooking. Mr.
Drummond's valet, she declared, was
not In Mrs. Drummond's stateroom at
any time.
The robbery did not He within the
Held of the New Yoik police and so
(here was nothing for Flynn's men to
do but look In the pawnshops and send
out circulars describing the Jewelry.
BOY SHOT DEAD IN PLAY
With a Group of Other Lads He Was
Enacting "Wild West."
Philadelphia. Feb. 28 John Kelly,
15 years old, was shot and instantly
killed by James Engle 10 years old,
whll playing cowboy and Indian with
n number of other boys on n lot near
their homes, in West, Philadelphia.
The boys have been accustomed to
meet on a lot every Sunday and repro
duce Wild West shows. On previous
occasions they have been contented
with rope lassos and ap pistols, but
lust night, two of the older boys pur
chased a mill rifle and brought it
to the lot today.
Engle, nrnif d with this weapon, was
being pursued by John Kelly with a
lasso, when, according to wltnescss,
Entile, without looking, turned and
fired Kelly f- ll with a bullet through
Liu heart.
PANAMA BANK ROBBERY
Thieves Enter Institution on Isthmus
Through Tunnel Half a Block
Long.
Panama, Feb. 28. A most daring
and clever robbery was perpetrated
here last night, when thieves effected
an entrance Into the offices of the
Panama Banking company by means
of a tunnel which extended half a
block to the bottom of the vault.
Three Americans are said to have
done the work, which occupied them
for six months with the use of modern
appliances.
The thieves escaped In morning In
a gasoline launch. The authorities are
pursuing them. No blame attaches to
the manager of the bank. The amount
of money the robbers secured cannot
be definitely ascertained.
BABY'S B0DYS BLOCK SEWER
Street Commissioner's Investigation
Reveals Dead Infant.
Scranton, Pa., Feb. 28. Street Com
missioner Bolglnlck of Dickson city,
found the body of an Infant in the sew
er pipe at Mensll's saloon.
Something was blocking the pipe,
and when the street commissioner In
vestigated, he made his find. The cor
oner says the baby was prematurely
born.
WOULD PROHIBIT
PROFANITY ON STAGE
Ordinance Now Being Consider
ed by New York Aldermen.
New York, Feb. 28. The board of
aldermen hekl a hearing on propose!
ordinance of Alderman Mulhearn to
prevent the usa of blasphemy on the
stage. The ordinance was drawn up
because of the frequent use of the
word "damn" in one of Clyde Fitch's
plays.
Mr. Mulhearn said: "I don't claim
to be an angel, but when folks delib
erately come or the stage with pro
fanity I'm opposed to it. This ordi
nance ought to Include moving pic
tures as well. Why, I went to a smok
er In the Bronx one night and saw a
picture that Comstock never came
across in his raids."
"Speaking of profanity," Alderman
Levin observed later, "Alderman WU
lard Is Just after telling me that
Shakespeare, who wrote some of the
most renowned books In the world,
used 154 hells and 1S1 damns or words
lo that effect. We don't have works
o? that Kind now, Mr. Mulhearn. We're
not up to date."
Mr. Mulhearn conceded that times
had advanced.
The debate swung to the question,
"What Is profanity?"
"if I was to tell you to go to hell, is
that a disorderly act?" Alderman John
J. White wanted to know. Arthur S.
C'clborne, president of the anti-pro-faiilty
league, thought It would be.
The chairman felt impelled to men
tion towns whose theatres were worse
than New York. One of them was Al
bany. Yes, Albany was pretty bad, Mr.
C'olborne admitted, and he knew of
Western cities even worse.
'Oh, I never took Albany seriously
as a city," Alderman Mulhearn said,
"and I probably know It as well as any
of you."
After further debate It was suggest
ed that the ordinance now in the com
mittee providing for a board of 25
theatrical censors would sufficiently
purify the stage.
Among the organizations represent
ed at the hearing were the Long
Island chapter, Knights of Columbus,
the men's class of Grace Presbyterian
church, Brooklyn; the Holy Name So
ciety and the German Catholic Feder
ation. HUPPUCH RESIGNS
Quits State Chairmanship to Take Up
Duties as Public Service
Commission.
Albany, J. Y., Feb. 28. John A.
Mason, secretary of the Democratic
State Committee, who Is also secre
tary to Governor Dix, received a letter
from WlnficlJ A. Huppuch, resigning
his position as chairman of tho com
mittee In view of his appointment as
a member of the upstate public service
commission. Mr. Huppuch will assume
his duties as public service commis
sioner tomorrow, displacing John W.
Carlisle of Watertown, whose term ex
pired on Feb. 1 last. In his letter to
Secretary Mason, resigning the chair
manship, Mr. Huppuch says:
"It is with much regret that I tender
to the Democratic State Committee
through you as Its secretary my resig
nation as its chairman. I feel, in view
of my shortly assuming the position as
one of the public service commission
of the Second district to which I was
recently appointed by Governor Dlx,
hat It will not be compatible with
the duties I will be called upon to
perform, for me to retain the chair
manship of our shtate committee.
"I wish to take this opportunity of
thanking the members of the commit
tee for the hearty and entmislitstlc
support which they have accorded nie
since the d:ite of my assuming the
duties as chairman ami without which
lupport, It would have been Impossible
to have win our great victory ol
November 1."
1
Summary of the Week's News
of the World.
Happenings From All Parts of the
Globe Put Into Shape For Easy
Reading What All the World Is
Talking About Cream of the News
Culled From Long Dispatches.
Wednesday,
Senator Aldrlch has Informed Pres
ident Taft that he favors approval of
the Canadian reciprocity agreement.
Boilermakers and their 'helpers
struck at various points on the New
York Central lines in response to a
call for a general strike.
China is beginning to enforce sani
tary measures to check the spread of
the plague; bodies are being burned
In all the Infected regions.
China's reply to Russia's ultimatum
Is apparently satisfactory to the Rus
sian minister, and the dispute is ex
pected to be speedily ended.
General Navarro captured Guada
lupe without fighting, according to a
dispatch from El Paso, and Madero,
the Insurgent leader, retreated; anoth
er dispatch said that 90 rebels were
killed.
Thursday.
The Irish parliamentary party decid
ed to take no part in the coronation
ceremonies of King George.
Tribesmen In Yemen captured a
Turkish convoy and repulsed an at
tempt to retake it; fifty men were
killed.
The Russian government Is reported
pleased with the tone of China's re
ply to the demand regarding the treaty
of 1881.
A dispatch from New Orleans said
that Manuel Bonilla and General Lee
Christmas denied violation of the neu
trality laws, for which they were In
dicted on Saturday in New Orleans.
Governor Dlx, who In January forced
the state highways commission to hold
up road building contracts for nearly
$4,000,000, reversed himself and in
structed the commission to go ahead
with the work.
Friday.
Haytlan troops began fighting among
themselves; one man being killed and
ten wounded.
Four persons died and a fifth Is dy
ing as tbe result of drinking wood
alchohol at Horton, Sullivan county,
N. Y.
The house of commons, by a vote of
331 to 227, passed on first reading the
parliament bill, curbing the power of
the house of lords.
After nnother conference at New
York police headquarters the father of
Dorothy Arnold reiterated his belief
that the missing girl was dead.
A yourg man from Chicago, who
eloped with and married a girl of 18,
was arrested In New York for the Chi
cago police on a charge of burglary.
Saturday.
The French minister of war, Gener
al Brun, fell dead In his office.
The entire population of a village
near Harbin was discovered dead from
tbe plague.
The Russian governor of Tchernl
gov, a province in Little Russia, ex
pelled 219 Jewish families, marching
them through heavy snow-drifts.
Former State Senator Frank J.
Gardner of Ne x York was acquitted of
the charge of attempting to bribe Ot
to G. Foelker to vote against the anti
racetrack gambling bills.
Both In the Eastern and Western
rate cases the Interstate commerce
commission announced at Washington
that railroads were not entitled to any
Increase In rates; the carriers were
ordered to withdraw the proposed ad
vances by March 10, leaving the old
rates in effect.
Monday.
Three hundred native dwelling
houses In the Tondo district, a suburb
of Manila, were burned.
The Buffalo end Rochester Ad clubs
held a joint meeting by means of tho
telephone, although 69 miles apart.
It was announced at Buenos Ayres
that advices received there state that
another revolution has started in Par
agua. . The English Liberals are assured of
the full government majority when the
parliament bill comes up on second
reading; the country shows apathy re
garding the fight between the houses.
Statements expressing gratification
at the approval of the new treaty with
Japan were made at the state depart
ment and at the Japanese embassy in
Washington.
Tuesday.
A boy of fifteen was Bhot dead by
a lad of ten while thev were playing
"wild west" in Philadelphia.
Great gratification was expressed
Japan over the ratification of the
treaty with the United States.
A sheriff's posse In Belief out aine,
O., saved o a farmer and his son from
would-be-lyncliers, following a fatal
quarrel among neighbors.
Vasqucz Gomez, head of the Mex
ican insurgent junta In Washington,
taid that he had received indirectly
overtures for peace from the federal
government.
The bureau of statistics at Wash
ington announced that the reports from
this country In January 1911, showed
a gain of ?r2,roo,000 over those of Jan
uary last year.
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Own Your Own Mind.
Ilave you ever considered the possi
bility of doing this? Remember that
living lu a rented mind, furnished wltb
opinions bought on the Installment
plan, never offers uny inducement wltb
It for the future. Not only this, but
you are not saving up anything.
The advantages of owning your own
mind will be apparent at a moment's
thought.
In the first place, you come to take a
personal Interest, which you do not
feel wheu It is owned by some one
else. Then again the natural Increase
In value redounds to your own profit
You hare no one to dictate to you as
to tbe Inside furuishiugs and decora
tions. Besides, it makes you more par
ticular with regard to what you put
Into It. If you live In a rented mind
you don't care much. You will drive
nails in tbe walls uud get general!;
careless about it. But when you own
your own mind you are constantly go
ing about picking it up. You take real
pride In it.
Be It ever so humble, there is no
place like a mind that you own your-self.-Llfe.
Length of Dreams.
Three physicians were discussing the
matter of the length of dreams.
"One afteruoon," snld one of them,
"I called to see a patient, and, much
to my satisfaction, 1 found him sleep
ing soundly. I sat by his bed. felt of
bis pulse without disturbing him nnd
waited for hlin to awaken. After a
few minutes a junk dealer's cart with
discordant ringing bells turned Into the
street, and as their first tones reached
us my pntieut opened his eyes.
"'Doctor.' he said, "I'm glad to see
you aud awfully glad that you woke
me, for I have been tortured by a most
distressing dream that must have last
ed for several hours. I dreamed tbat
I was slek, as 1 am, and tbat my boy
came into the room with a string of
most horribly sounding sleigbbells and
rang them in my ears, while 1 bndn't
power to move or speak to him. I suf
fered tortures for what appeared to be
an interminable time. I'm so glad you
woke nie.'
"The ringing of those bells for one
second bad caused all of that dream
and just at tbe waking moment.''
Tough Turkey.
Mark Twain when he worked in Ne
vadn on the Virginia City Enterprise
inserted lu the news a good many
boarding house Jokes.
In revenge the humorist's sensitive
fellow boarders lu Virginia City de
cided to put up a game on him. They
enlisted tho landlady's help, nnd nt tbe
Thauksgiving dinner nt the boarding
house Mark Twain by n dexterous piece
of sleight of baud was served appar
ently direct from the fowl with a tur
key leg of pnlnted wood.
The humorist sawed away solemnly
at the wooden leg for some time. Then
he said to the landlady, with a smile:
"You've changed your poultry dealer,
haven't you. ma'am?"
"Why, no, Mr. Clemens," she replied.
"What makes you think so?"
"This turkey," be answered, giving
the wooden drumstick a little wback
wltb his knife. "It's about tbe tender
est morsel I've struck in this bouse for
some months."
A Modest Judge.
A certain prominent English jurist
was transferred from the chancery
court to the admiralty court rather un
expectedly. While conversant with
Eugllsh law to a surprising degree,
this gentleman had spent little time
In marine law nnd was ratber dubi
ous as to his nbillty to cope with the
duties of his new ottice. His colleagues.
In recognition of tbe occasion, gave
blm a dinner, after which he was called
upon for nn address. He made a long
and serious speech, which embraced
about everything from free trade to
England's foreign policy. Then, paus
ing a moment, he glanced round the
crowded room aud said:
"Gentlemen, iu closing I can think
of no better words than tbe lines of
Tennysou:
"And may there be no moaning of the bar
When 1 put out to sea."
To Munch a Viper.
Though the prescription seems to
have disappeared from the pharmaco
poeia of modern "beauty specialists,"
It was for centuries notorious that to
feed on snake meat was the way to
win perpetual youth; to euro goiter,
again, or any other swelling, all tbat
was necessary was to munch a viper,
from the tail up, as It might be a stick
of celery, while yet another snake, if
eaten, conferred the power of under
standing all the tongues of birds.
Costly Counsel.
"I can understand all you have to say
on the subject lu nn hour's time," said
the judge.
"Beg pardon, your honor," persisted
the young lawyer, "but I shall con
sumo at least live hours in my argu
ment." "Very well; have It your own way."
said the judge, with resignation. "But
It will take the prisoner about five
years to tell why he employed you."
Harper's Weekly.
Inherited.
"Where did Phlyeiu get his pro
pensity for ballooning?"
"I don't know, but his grandfather
died In the air."
"Above the trees?"
"No; uuder one." New York Journal.
The Greatest Financier.
"Who was the greatest financier
ever knowu?"
"Noah, because he floated his stock
when tbe wliolo world was In liquida
tion." Think of ()! wonderful Immunity
from harm if you mlud your own
business. Lootnlu. . i