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Hours —10 a. in.to r> p. m. Telephone 1486. WILD DASH DOWN MOUNTAIN. IlomfN Took l'rtclil iiml Coaehinic I'arty tlrt llir<> Dinimter. Jersey City. Sept. 29. —Ten persons, seven of them women, members of a coaching party, who had been badly injured in a wild dash down a moun tain side behind four runaway horses, reached Jersey City yesterday. A party of 12 had set out in the coach from the Twin Mountain House, Maplewood. N. H. Going down the mountain the horses took fright and ran away. They dashed down the steep road, the coach pitching from side to side until it caught in a ditch and was wrecked. In the party were Mr. and Mrs. Henry Muller, of No. 08 Freeman street, Newark; their daughters. Daisy, aged 17 years, and Ida, 14; Mr. and Mrs. Louis Borsum. of I'lainfleld. N. J., and their children. Louis. Martha, Ida and Anna. In the coach were also George McPherson, of Detroit, and John McPherson, his brother, of How ell, Mich. Nearly all of the victims are suf fering from fractured limbs or ribs, and many of them are internally in jured. The MePhersons remained at the Twin Mountain House. The smashing of the coach landed the whole party in the ditch, the horses continuing their gallop down the hill, landing dead and mangled at its base. Mr. Muller was the only one of the party who was able after the acci dent to make his way back to the hotel. From there he chartered the special car because the surgical ac commodations at Maplewood were in adequate for so many wounded per sons. All the injured were carried, some in stretchers and some in carriages, from where they were hurt to the hotel and thence to the Pullman car. Doctors and nurses accompanied the party in the car. ' On the arrival of the train here the Pullman car was detached and taken to Newark by a special locomotive. There the members of the Muller family were removed to their home in ambulances. The car then proceeded to Plainfield with the Bersums. THREE KILLED IN A LABOR FIOHT. Detective find Tiro I aloniiti Ik»t by N on-t'nion Hvn. Cleveland, Oct. 1— City Detective William L. Foulks was shot and in stantly killed Saturday while trying to put a stop to a shooting affray be tween union and non-union molders. A party of five or six non-union men were set upon by some union men. The former began shooting. Detectives Foulks and Parker, who were nearby. Interfered. Foulke was shot through the heart, and when he fell the men dispersed. Two of the union men were shot and fatally wounded. They are Henry Cronenberger, who died at the hospital late Saturday night, and Will iam StefJield, who died yesterday. Cronenberger was a union molder. Stef fleld was a union bricklayer, and had no part in the fight. Charles Peck, a non union man, is under arrest charged with the murder of Detective Foulks, and Paul Irving, Thomas Jennings, Edgar Mclntyre and Willis Webster, also non-union men, were arreßted on the charge of shooting with intent to kill. THAT ASSAULT ON ROOSEVELT. Colorado Demoerat* Re port. no "Wholly Imatfinary." Denver, Oct. 1. —At a large meeting at the Broadway theater, held under the auspices of the Arapahoe county Democracy, resolutions were introduc ed by Governor C. S. Thomas, and passed, concerning the incident at Vic tor, Colo., during the recent visit of Governor Roosevelt and party. After stating that the "disorder was provok ed by the presence and aggravated and continued by the conduct of Senator E. O. Wolcott." and that "during the progress of Governor Roosevelt and his party to the depot a fight took place between certain Republicans who mistook each other for disturbers of the peace," the resolution continues: "We unqualifiedly denounces the wil ful and malicious manufacture and cir culation of the false and wholly imag inary reports." The Philippine* Telegraph *y«ti'is- Washington. Sept. 29.—Lieut. Col. James Allen, c hief signal officer in the Philippines, in submitting his report of the operations of the signal corps during the month of July, says he has under him 350 men available for duty and 3,000 miles of telegraph lines and cable. During the month 208,085 mes sages were sent and received on the Island of Luzon, beside a large amount of business transacted exclusively by telephone. The most notable feature of the month was the increased amount of line cutting, which kept men em ployed in repair work. Lone Itulihpr Secured tin- Mail. Boise. Idaho, Oct. I—The Ontario and Burns stag'- was held up yesterday 70 miles out of Ontario by a lone high wayman. The robber stopped the stage by firing a shot across the road. He demanded the mail, which was thrown out. The stage was not fur ther molested. It is not thought much ot value was secured. What's Your Face Worth? Sometimes a fortune, bnt never, if you have a sallow complexion, a jaun diced look, moth patches and blotches on the skin all of Liver Trouble. But Dr. Kinsr's New Life Pills give Clear Skin, Rony Cheeks. Rich Complex ion. Only 25 cents at Paules & Co's. Drug store. WOMAN AND HOME. MOTHER AND THREE DAUGHTERS ARE ALL LAWYERS. The Orentlon of Woman—Women In the Civil War—The Thrifty Wom nn I Neful Knowledge Kutinu Fruit at UreaWfiiHt. A remarkable family is that of Mrs. Kate Tier and her three handsome daugh ters, nil lawyers. The admission of Miss Kate 11. Pier and Miss Harriet Pier on the application of Mrs. Kate Pier, their mother, to practice in the supreme court of the United States brought out the re markable place which this interesting family has come to occupy'in the busi ness world of Wisconsin, their home, and of the country in general. Besides Mrs. Pier and the daughters named above, an other daughter, Mrs. Caroline H. l'ier- Roemer, is also a lawyer in regular prac tice in the Wisconsin courts. The Piers are of Puritan stock. The husband and father was also a lawyer. He was the late Colonel C. K. Pier, who wont to the civil war from Fond du Lac as a private in a Wisconsin regiment and came out again with the eagles of a colo nel on his shoulders. lie was wounded, MBS. KATE PIER, and his health was never very good after the war came to an end. But he return ed to the city of his enlistment and there for some years carried on a leading busi ness. In later life reverses led him to take up the practice of law, and he mov ed to Milwaukee, where he died in 181)3. In the meantime Mrs. Kate Pier had been called upon to handle the estate, and it was then that she learned the advan tage of some legal knowledge to a wom an, and particularly to one who has to deal with business affairs. Her eldest daughter, Kate, on graduating from the high school at Fond du Lac, took up the study of law. The family moved to Mil waukee in 1895. The year previous both mother and daughter had been graduated from the law school of the University of Wisconsin, where they took a two year course in one year and acquitted them selves with the highest of honors. When the family removed from Fond du Lac to Milwaukee, a law ollice was opened as soon as a home. Miss Kate 11. Pier went into general civil practice, and her mother devoted herself entirely to work in the office. Through the efforts of Miss Pier, who, by the way, is not en tirely without knowledge of political wiles, the legislature passed a law which permits women to hold the oflice of court commissioner. Mrs. Pier was appointed by Judge Johnson and has the distinc tion of being the first woman in tho country to hold that position. The law fever was catching, and Mrs. Pier's two younger daughters, Caroline H. Pier and Harriet Pier, following the footsteps of their mother and sister, took the law course at the University of Wisconsin and were graduted with hon ors. They opened offices in Milwaukee, where they still conduct their business. They met with about the usual success which young men of the legal profession have until Miss Kate had her first case before the supreme court of Wisconsin in 1889. This was a small railroad case and was easily won. After this success was assured. The Creation of Woman. Heathen mythology cannot be assumed to be historically correct, although it is often interesting. The legend of the Hindoos concerning the creation of woman is one of the most entertaining of myths that have been preserved through the ages. It relates that at the beginning of time Twashtri, the prototype of Vul can of more recent mythology, created the world. When he found that his work would be Incomplete without woman, all his material had been exhausted. There was not a single solid element remaining. Much perplexed, Twashtri, after pro found meditation, took the roundness of the moon, the undulations of the serpent, the entwinement of creeping plants, the trembling of the grass, the slenderness of the rose vine and the velvet of the flower, the lightness of the leaf and the glance of the fawn, the gayety of the sun's rays and the tears of the mist, the inconstancy of the wind and the timidity of the hare, the vanity of the peacock and the softness of the down on the throat of the swallow, the hardness of the diamond, the sweet flavor of honey and the cruelty of the tiger, the warmth of fire, the chill of snow, the chatter of the jay and the cooing of the turtledove. He united all these and formed a woman. Then he made a present to her of man. Eight days later man came to Twashtri and said: "My lord, the creature you gave me poisons my existence. She chatters with out rest, she takes all my time, she la ments for nothing nt all and is always ill." And T. received the woman again. But eight days later the man came again to the god and said: "My lord, life is very 6olitary since I returned this creature. I remember she danced before me, singing. I recall how she glanced at me from the corner of her eye, that she played with me, clung to me." And Twashtri returned the woman to him. Three days only passed, and T. saw the man coming to him again. "My lord," said he,"l do not understand exactly how, but I am sure that the woman causes me more annoyance than pleasure. I beg of you relieve me of her." But Twashtri cried, "Go your way and do your best." And the man cried, "I cannot live with her!" "Neither can you live without her," replied Twashtri. And the man was sorrowful, murmur ing: "Woe is me! I can neither live with nor without her." This is found in an English translation of a book of Hindoo legends recently discovered. The title of the book is "OX »P 1 \f ti the Moon Reddened by the Setting Sun" and is the sixth part of a large work, "The Surging of the Ocean of Time." It was written in Sanskrit, and the original manuscript was given to an Englishmen, Mr. Bain, by an old Brahman dying of the plague. The other live parts are not translated. Women In the Civil War. Mrs. Lucy Gaylord Pomeroy, a daugh ter of Chauncy Gaylord of Bristol, Conn., who was one of the early settlers in Onondaga county, N. Y., was a promi nent worker for the Union armies. Het father died when she was quite young, and her mother married Elianin Clark of Massachusetts, whose sons became noted for their contributions to literature anil for their interest in educational matters. She married the Hon. Samuel C. Pom eroy, afterward United States senator from Kansas. He lived in Southampton, in this state, at the time of their mar riage and was a member of the state legislature. She accompanied her hus band to Washington when he entered the United States senate. The war had just aroused the nation, and she found ample opportunity to engage in the hu manitarian projects for the soldiers and their loved ones which large hearted peo ple like herself had become interested in. After nearly two years of general serv ice in this line she founded an asylum at Washington for the freed orphans and destitute aged colored women whom the war and the proclamation of emancipa tion had thrown unon the care of thu < benevolent. She secured from the gov eminent the gift of a building, but when, in June, 1863, the building and grounds were ready to be dedicated Mrs. Pom eroy was too ill to be present at the cere monies. An attack of typhoid fever, as the result of her constant devotion to duty, caused her death July 20, 1803. Miss Adeline Walker of Maine, a wom an of culture and ability, gave two years anil a half to the cause of her country and just before the close of the war died of typhoid fever contracted in the dis charge of her duties. Mrs. E. C. Wetherell, who did active duty and was a matron of tho hospital steamer Empress and cared for the men brought from Pittsburg Landing after the battle of Sliiloh and from other fields to the hospitals of Mound City and St. Louis, died July 10, 18G2. The western sanitary commission closed the resolution to h<'r memory with the statement that she was "not a whit behind the bravest hero on the battlefield and as worthy to be held in everlasting remembrance." Miss Rose M. Billings of Washington began her hospital work in the fall ol 1801. She was a conscientious and de voted helper in various hospitals and was successful in saving the lives of fever patients at Annapolis. She continued hei valuable labor until stricken with an ill ness which resulted in her death .Tan. 14. 1805. Many soldiers have testified that her faithful care saved their lives.— Boston Herald. The Thrifty Woman. The woman who will take thought, and more especially forethought, in de tails of household management may sav€ herself much in money nnd in wear of nerve and muscle which is wasted by her less prudent sisters. But plan she never so wisely, she is, after all, more ot less at the mercy of those uncalculating ones. The thrifty woman docs not Intend when she has a letter to dispatch in haste to be hindered by lack of writing materials or the final touch of postage stamp. But what is she to do if, on sit ting down nt her desk, she finds that hei last guest has used her stamps and mis laid her note paper? If the thrifty woman live in the coun try, far from the semidaily grocer and the possibility of "sending the children out" for the emergency spool of thread oi bottle of paregoric, her well stored shelves and closets invite the incursions of careless neighbors, who "knew Mrs C. never is out of anything." If she be an economist of time and thus incur the reproach of having more leisure than usually pertains to womeo in her circumstances, she is the prey of the morning caller who doesn't "mind coming here at any hour, for, as I tell people, Mrs. C. is so systematic she nev er seems to have any work to do," or she is invited to contribute liberally to other people's church fairs, because she "hae plenty of time." Such services may be given ungrudg ingly in every case, but that does not alter the fact that in the long run they represent a dnyn on her pocketbook and her nervous force which would not have been demanded of her but for her actual superiorities in executive matters. Bnt when a thrifty woman came to a philosopher, making ber moan in some such words as these I have written, the philosopher said, "Well, would you rath er be the other kind of woman?" And, on reflection, the thrifty woman owntni that, as of old, virtue is its own reward. "But still," she persisted, "I do think there ought to be some social adjust ment by which tlie economist might be saved from becoming a promoter of thriftlessness in others. " —Mary M. Haley in Good Housekeeping. I'sefnl Knowledge. Every housekeeper should know that when an article of food scorches in cook ing, if the vessel containing it be imme diately uncovered and set into a pan of cold water for a few minutes, carefully removed from the vessel without stirring the food which has been scorched, it will not taste of the scorch. I have rescued delicate custards by this treatment. Veg etables that have actually burned to the kettle may be redeemed if one is careful to remove no part of that which is dam aged. When food boils over on the stove, if it is at once covered with salt, the disagree able odor arising is immediately arrested, and the stove can be more easily cleaned than where the article is allowed to burn off. If boiled or mashed potatoes must stand for a little while before serving, they may be kept palatable by laying three or four thicknesses of n clean soft cloth directly over them, then covering the kettle closely and setting it where it •Rill keep warm, but not scorch. Setting into a pan of hot water is the best meth od anil is that employed by hotels nnd restaurants that must keep potatoes ready for serving for two or three hours nt a time. The cloth absorbs the steam and prevents the potatoes from becoming heavy and soggy. If a soft cloth is put into the steamer nnd the slices of bread or cake to be steamed are laid in this and the corne-rs folded up over them before the steamer is closelj covered, it will absorb the mois ture that collects in the steamer, nnd the slices will be fresh, light and perfectly free from sogginess. Cold baked potatoes may be warmed up and be as palatable as freshly baked ones if they are dipped into hot water and then put into the oven, care being taken that they remain there only long enough to get perfectly hot, but not long enough to become hard.—Housekeeper. Eatlnic Fruit at IlreakfaMt. The business of breakfast is a most Important one, for it stores the human battery with power for the day's work. A good breakfast gives a man staying qualities and equips him for almost any emergency likely to occur. "What are the essentials of a proper breakfast? The first, the most impor tant, item is a preliminary meal of fruit, oranges, grapes, apples, cantaloupe, ber ries, seasonable fruit in which juice pre dominates over fiber. Fruit juices, taken early on an empty stomach, are convert ed into alkalis, keep the blood normally alkaline, preventing saturation of the system with uric acid and warding ofl the storms of suffering which such a condition provokes. Fruit juices act as correctives to the digestive organs, wbcttiug the appetite, increasing the seerc.imi of the gastric juice nnd slim a i g peristalsis. Where fruit is eaten eve:y morning, digestion is satisfactory, the bowels are natural and regular, the head is clear and an agree able feeling of general well being is ex perienced. Too much emphasis cannot be laid upon this matter of a preliminary fruit breakfast. If accustomed to eating a small breakfast, you should lighten the noon lunch and G o'clock dinner. You will sleep better and rise with appetite. If the fruit does not appear to agree with you at first, try a small beginning. Take only an orange, drink the juice and reject the fiber. Persist, and the stomach will adapt itself. Gradually add a bunch of grapes and an apple. You will be sur prised at the farreaehing benefit derived from so simple a practice. After the fruit, the usual breakfast of a chop and rolls, omelet, potatoes, coffee or what not is in order.—Table Talk. Great Men'* Woitiniikltid. The love of a man for a normally rea sonable and good looking woman is not determined by the woman's qualities, but absolutely springs from his capacity for loving, and in that respect n truly great man has either one henrtstring less or one heartstring more than other men; he be comes either sublime or ridiculous. Dr. Johnson's love for a woman many years his senior and perfectly plain is to many people absurd. To me it is sub lime. The woman in this instnnce has nothing to do with the question. It is the capacity for uxoriousness which is so truly astonishing in a great man. The woman had probably not the remotest notion of the greatness of the man, nny more than had Matilda Heine or Therese Levasseur or the wife of Luther, and in such instances great men's womankind are happier than the womankind who are conscious of the greatness of their r. F. A. Burrall spoke of the amount of mischief done by the very common habit of eating the meals rapidly, according to the farm er's motto of "Quick to eat and quick tc work." Thorough mastication was of the utmost importance, and, of course, this presupposed a proper conditiou of the teeth. Gastric digestion was often weak ened and much distress was caused by the ingestion of too much fluid with the food, particularly at the beginning of a meal. Another factor in causing dyspep sia was the habit of eating food in silence or without that mirth and good fellow ship so necessary to insure a nervous con dition to the normal action of the digest ive organs. These little details might seem trite and unimportant, but it was the duty of the careful physician to in struct his patients in regard to them. The long continued and free use of ili gestive agents served to make the di gestive organs lazy aud inactive.—Medi cal Record. Care of China. The care of china is not so simple as it appears. Some paste is so perfectly hard that it never "takes" dirt, other speci mens are very absorbent. Of course, chi na must not he rubbed with anything very gritty or the glaze will be destroyed, or at least scratched, rendering it more likely to be permanently impregnated with dirt or to have its pattern jeopard ized. The Chinese employ fuller's earth and soda with plenty of water, and the effects are charming, the china coming out of this mixed bath with a glistening complexion. The Great Preacher. It is reported that a young man, being examined preparatory to joining the church, was asked, "Under whose preach ing were you converted?" "Under no body's preaching," was the prompt reply. "I was converted under my mother's practicing." Did any preacher ever utter so powerful a sermon as the young man embodied in those few words? A southern housekeeper writes that it is better to boil a whole ham until it is about half done and then slice from it what is wanted for broiling or frying to serve with eggs. A trick of southern smokehouses is to rub hams or strips of bacon that are to be kept on hand during summer with a thin coating of eshes from a stick of hickory. This will prevent mold or rust. Wash and blanch a cupful of rice. Cook it slowly in a pint of milk, with a little sugar and vanilla, until quite ten der. Melt four sheets of gelatin in a lit tle milk and add it to the rice. Remove from the tire, allow it to cool, add a gill of whipped cream, pour into a mold and set aside for a few hours before turning out Bacon is good in dozens of ways for breakfast. Some folks prefer the flavor of bacon to that of onion in making a tomato omelet. Beef hash made from cold steak is much improved when a lit tle orange juice is introduced as a flavor. The only woman rabbi on record is Miss Rachel Frank, who had conferred on her this distinction by a Jewish church in San Francisco. Overlndnlnence In Coffee. Coffee is a powerful irritant of the cerebro .spinal nervous system. Re cent tests have shown that it increases mental ami bodily waste rather than retards it, ns has been claimed. Cof fee poisoning Is sometimes mistaken lor the troubles engendered by the use >f alcohol. In both cases the stomach ind nervous system are the sufferers. Caffelc anil alcoholic gastritis are nearly Identical as to their symptoms. The use of coffee by children has in several cases caused an arrest of de velopment. Cases have been reported of delirium tremens brought on by the excessive use of coffee. It is related In a foreign medical journal that a man, in the absence of his wife, un dertook to make his own coffee. Not knowing the correct proportions for use, he took about one-quarter of a l>ound of fresh roasted coffee for two cups. Two hours afterward he com plained of vertigo, headache and, at lirst, trembling of the legs only, which soon became general, followed by sev eral other distressing symptoms, some of which continued a day or two longer. By a busy physician it is stated that at least two-thirds of his practice comes from the excessive use of coffee. The excessive use of tea and coffee, as well as the use of alcoholic liquors, often almost wholly obliterates the sense of taste.—Health Culture. Still DIKKIIIK Ont the Dead. Oalveston, Oct. 1. Twenty-eight bodies were reported to have been re covered from the debris Saturday. This report Includes but three wards out of the six wards where bodies are known to be buried in the wreckage. To date 2,339 bodies have been officially re ported found. CONSDMPTIOH CAH BE CORED. T. A. Klocum, M. C., the Great Chem ist and Scientist, Will Send Free, to tlie Afflicted, Three Bottles of his Newly Discovered Reme dies to Cure Consumption and All Lung Troubles. Nothing could be tairer, more philan thropic or carry moiejoytothe afliict ed, than the otfer of T. A. Slocum, M. C., of New York City. Confident that lie has discovered a reliable cure for consumption and all bronchial, throat and lung diseases, general decline and weakness, loss of flesh and all conditions wasting, and to make its great merits known, be will send, Iree, three bottles to any reader ol the AMERICAN who may be suffering. Already this "new scientific course oi medicine" has permanently cured thou sands of apparently hopeless cases. The Doctor considers it his religious duty—a duty which he owes to human ity—to donate his infallible cure. lit has proved the dreaded consump tion to be a curable disease beyond any doubt, and has on lile in his American and European laboratories testimonials of experience from those benefitted and cured, in all parts of the world. Don't de'iy until it is too late. Con sumption, uninterrnped, means speedy and certain death. Address T. A Slocum, M. C., 98 Fine street, New York, and when writing the Doctor, give express and postoflice address, and please mention reading this article in the AMERICAN* March 4 » A MINER'S ADVENTURE Tell I iii; Ilotv II l-'eels to He For an Hour or So I iider n (•tin. "Once upon a time," said a Colorado mining expert, "I went rummaging around my state looking for coal that was sup posed to exist, and lifter a long trip in a wagon I was nearing the railroad sta tion. As I drove along the ridge of a wooded hill I was suddenly brought up with a round turn by a man stepping out of the bushes and sticking an uu'ly look ing gun straight at me. The man told me to throw up my hands, and that is what 1 diil. Tlic man toid me to move up past him till he told nie to stop. This 1 also did, his gun covering me all the time. Then he climbed into the wagon and sat on a box of mineral specimens I was taking back to Deliver with iae. lie never said a word after he told me to drive on when he had seated himself, and I didn't say anything at first, but it wasu't long until 1 couldn't stand it, with him sitting there so dead still behind me, so 1 ventured to speak. "'Excuse me, partner,' said I as pleas untly as 1 could, 'but I would like to say that if it's all the same to you I wish you would sit here on the seat with me. The old gun may go off, and it wouldn't make it any pleasanter for me to get a bullet in the small of the back.' " "Huh!' he grunted. 'Are you armed?' "I told him I was not, and he moved up and sat down beside -me, keeping his gun ready for business. As the wagon topped the last rise in the road from which we could see the station about half a mile away he looked hard at me. " 'l'm going down there with you, young fellow,' he said, 'on a little busi ness, and if you say anything about me to anybody or speak of me at all and any disturbance comes up I'll shoot you first off. Do you understand?' "He was silent for the rest of the way, and when we stopped and he got out he told me to remember, and I nodded. He strolled over onto the platform, and I went to the stable with my horses and came back to the station. I went out on the platform for air. lie had moved down to the far end, and I concluded that I would move off in the other direc tion toward a water tank I noticed a couple of hundred yards up the track. About the time I had my plans made a handcar came down with six section hands on it who had seen me drive up to the station with the man and his gun. They had seen him loafing about the platform and informed me that to their notion he was a train robber, and they proposed to run him in. They were en tirely unarmed, however, and they knew what it meant to tackle a fellow with a gun, so they began to calculate among themselves how to get their man. "The section hands moved down to the platform, and as it was about noon they got out their dinner buckets and began looking around for a good place to spread their lunch. One of the hands suggested that they might git him dead to rights by spreading their lunch over in his neighborhood, and perhaps if he had been hiding in the hills very long he was hungry enough to ask to join them. The proposition was accepted at once, and the crowd went over and opened up their buckets. They asked me togo along, but I wasn't a bit hungry, though I was as hollow inside as an empty barrel. My friend, however, wasn't feeling that way, for as soon as he saw the food spread out temptingly before him he went right up and asked if he couldn't have a bite, lie ate like it man who hadn't eaten for a long time, ami he was soon so absorb ed in it that he forgot his caution and let goof his gun. "In a minute a section hand had it, and in another minute they had piled on top of him, and while Some held him others tied him, and then they stood him on his feet and started him over to the platform to wait for the train. I was a good deal easier in my mind when I the ugly cuss fixed so as he couldn't train his gun on me. but it did not add to my comfort to have to listen to the fearful way in which he cursed me for every thing vile and shameful in having be trayed him. Who he was or what he was nobody knew then, and I never did find out, but I guess he was a train rob ber all right and :r<>t his dose, for I nev er saw or heard of him again, and I was on the lookout for a good many years, be cause I knew if we ever met there was going to be shooting to kill."—Denver Post. Xnl a Itat Terrier. Officer Ned Scarlett of the Socoti l p<>- lice district was riding to his home on an electric car one morning, and as the car slowed tip at a crossing to allow some passengers to alight a woman rushed out from a neighboring house screaming shrilly and beckoning to the officer. Scarlett jumped off the car and hur ried to the woman's assistance. "What's the matter, ma'am?" asked Ned. "Oh, officer." shrieked the distressed female, "there's a rat in my house! Won't you come and kill it?" "Excuse me. ma'am," responded Scar lett. "'Tis many toimes Oi've bin towld Oi was a 'tarrier,' and no doubt Oi am wan, hut nivir can it be sid tliot Officer Scarlett dematicd himself by assumin th' dooties av a 'rat tarrier.' tJoo' day, ma'am." And with a dignified wave of his baton Scarlett remounted the car.—Cincinnati Enquirer. Ite::fly Kor a Sj|l»«itlttlte. Old Scotch ministers had a keen senso of humor apart from the Doric altogether. One of the best stories that could be quoted in this connection is that told of Dr. (jilchrist, formerly of (Jiv. nock, but who was minister of Canongate. Edin burgh, when he died. A rather cocksure young man was officiating for him one Sunday, and ongoing to the vestry the doctor found his substitute robed and ready for the pulpit. In the course of a few minutes' conversation with the old minister the young sprig said in an off hand way: "I suppose, doctor, you repeat the lord's I'rayer in some part of the serv ice?" "Aye. aye," replied Dr. < Jilchrist quiet ly, "unless ye hae a better one o' yer ain." Celery. Celery is a native of Great Britain. It grows luxuriat ily in flitches and brooks; but, like the others, wild celery is n: -ty, even poisonous. We owe the delicious edible celery to a French prisoner of war. Field Ma r shal Tallard, whom Marl borough beat at Blenheim in 1701. Nil Hope I'or llim. "Is there any hope?" asked the pros pective h« ir. "None." replied the physician. "Your pour uncle will recover."—Philadelphia North Ameni un. Knpfinrnacil to Hope. When the Empress Frederick, eldest daughter of (jueen Victoria, was a lit tle girl, her disposition, to the great grief of the queen, was haughty and arrogant. Owe, when about to embark on the royal yacht Victoria and Albert, she was lifted across to the deck of the boat by one of the sailors, who, as he was putting her down gently, said, "There you are, my little lady." "1 am not a 'little lady;' I am a princess!" was the prompt and Indig nant reply. The queen, who had over heard the conversation, detained the man with gesture, and, turning to her spoiled little daughter, said: "Tell the kind sailor that you are much Indebted to him for his civility and that, although you are not a 'little lady' yet, you confidently hope to merit the title before long." Stepped Into Live Goals. "When a child 1 burned my foot frightfully," writes W. H. Ends, of Jonesville. Ya . "which caused horrible leg sores for years, but Buck I en's Arnica Salve wholly cured me after everything else failed. Infallible for Burns, Scalds, Cuts. Sores. Bruises and l'iles Sold by Paules iV Co 0 ffi •? 19' e • O 'WITH A DEAD HAN | ® - 9 „ A Story by re wholly enthralled by the disem bodied genius of the dead philosopher. "All at once we heard a slight noise in the death chamber. We looked to ward the body, and then quite dis tinctly both of us saw something white roll over tin; bed. fall on the carpet and vanish under a sofa. "At tie sight we sprang to our feet, terrified beyond measure. Our hearts beat wildly, i spoke first. " 'Did you see it?' " 'Yes, I saw It.' " 'lsn't he dend, then?* " 'He must be.' " 'What are we to do?' " 'We must see what it means.' was my companion's hesitating reply. "I took our light, led the way into the death chamber and then cast a hasty look around. Nothing stirred, and I approached the bed. The next mo ment. however, a great terror seized me, for I saw that Schopenhauer was no longer smiling. "His face, on the contrary, presented a horrible appearance, for his lips were tightly pros ,ed together, and In his cheeks there were two great hollows. I stammered: "'lie Is not dead.' And I stood star ing at Idm ns though bereft of my senses. "Thereupon my companion took the other candle and stooped down, and In n moment or two he touched my arm. but did not utter a word. I looked where h" pointed. and I saw on the g;t»u?cl ' e.dd- the sofa something white that gl an ■ d strangely on the dark carpet, and I saw at once what It was - It was Schopenhauer's false teeth, and they seemed fo be In the act of biting. .N-- the body had decayed the fast, ning that held the teeth in posl t! n I,a ! irrndeaMy become so 1 IOSC that th y 't pped from the mouth and roll ed from the bed t>n to the floor." —Ex- change. Itcsistefl Deep Water nnj»tl»m. "A little boy I knew of in the west." writes Rev. Cyrus Townsend Brady, in The Ladies' Home Journal, "belong ed to a family who bad trained him to believe in the deep water form of bap tism and was experimenting with the household out the time the war of the rebellion began. My father was the judge. He believed in juries doing the work they were selected to do, and rarely would he consent to a disagreement. "This was a murder trial. The victim was a harmless German, who had saved up a few thousand dollars which he kept in ffold coin under his bed. The accused man was a traveling watchmaker. Against him was arrayed an exception ally strong case of circumstantial evi dence. "The prisoner's counsel did the best he could, but it was a foregone conclusion when the Jury went out what the verdict would be. The foreman of the jury was the owner of the principal store in the town, n man of tlie name of Seth Var- i nmn. It was late in the afternoon of the closing day of the trial when the jury started to deliberate upon its verdict. "The spectators lingered in the court room, expecting to hear the verdict be fore supper time. It was in the summer, and the weather was intensely hot. Save Varnum, all the jurors were farmers. They had their crops to attend to and were driven with work, so it was to their interest to conclude their task and get home as quickly as possible. "The jury didn't com* in that night, or the next, or the third night either. Rumors of a "hung' Jury began to float through the town. Ilut arguments went on in the jury room. My father denied a written request made by the jury 112 r its dismissal. He maintained that the jurymen could and must agree on a ver dict. "Eight days passed, and it began to be said that Varnum was the man who was standing out for the acquittal of the pris oner. This was confirmed on the ninth day when the jurors appeared for break fast. Three men, side by aide, led the line, with the remaining jurors paired, all except Varnum. He walked alone in the rear, with down hanging head and drawn features. At that and snbseqnent meals the other jurors ignored him. They forced the sheriff to provide a separate tabic for him. Afterward we found out that Varnum strenuously insisted upon the innocence of the watchmaker. " *1 can't tell you why,' said he. T>»it I am as certain that that man did not kill the Germun us I am of the existence of a supreme being.' And they could not budge him. "AH this time the weather continued hot. The nerves and health of the jury men suffered under the strain. Varnura felt the racking most of all. 11c was an elderly man, and his sou, a boy of 2U, had started for the war the second day the jury was out. The judge refused to allow the father to bid the »ay nnd night they kept it up, allowing the wretched man no aieep or respite from their abuse and scornful ap | peals. "The end came upon the night of th« fifteenth day. It was bright moonlight, and the grass plot about the courthouse was covered with people easing up at the | lighted windows of the jury room. Var- I nnm sat by the easement, his head hid den in his hands. Over him sto»>d two men. We could not hear their words, but their gestures told what they were 1 doing. "Suddenly Varnum leaped up and shrieked at the jurymen. His hands were raised above his head, and bis gray hair hung about his shoulders. There was a commotion. Pretty noon the sheriff sped from the courthonse to the hotel and got my father out of bed. It was midnight, but there were I.ISJU people jammed in the little courtroom. Varnum led in the jury. None of them looked squarely at him, but covert glances were darted at his face from under knitted brows. "'Your honor,' began Varnum. "this jury cannot agree. An event has taken place which makes it impossible. I'— Here the man's voice sank, and he sway ed. An attendant eased him back in his seat. Varnum motioned to the man next to him to tell whut he could not. " The reason, your honor, why we can not agree,' said the Juror. *is because th« foreman has just toid us that the mur derer of the German was hi* son.' "There was a pandemonium in the courtroom. Varnum was taken home rav ing with brnin fever. He had told the ju rymen that his son had been surprised in the act of robbing the German and bad killed him. Afterward he sought b»s fa ther and confessed. Pride induced the old man to keep the secret and permit the suspicion to fall upon the watchmaker. "When he was drawn on the Jury, he dared not refuse to serve, but he deter mined to hold out for the man's acquittal. "Before young Varnum could be arrest ed he was killed in one of the early bat tles of the war. Three years later the watchmaker was run over by a train near Washington nnd injured so badly that he died soon afterward. Hefore he died he wrote a letter to my father. In the letter he confessed that he had killed the Ger man and told where he had hidden the gold. He had not dared to return for it. When search was made, the gold was found. "Old nian Varnum was clearly Insane when he fastened the crime upon his son. The ordeal of the jury room had wrecked his mind."—Philadelphia North Ameri can. lint lie Was Hot. "George, dear"— "Don't bother me, Laura. I am rend ing. and I'd rather read than talk just now." An hour dragged its way Into the dim, wisty past, and the voice of Mr. Fergu son was hvßrd calling loudly: "I.aura. how much longer have I got to wait for dinner? It ought to have been ready nn hour ago." "It was, George," rescinded Mrs. Fer guson from the dining room. "That wns what I went into tell you. but you didn't want to hear me talk. We have all fin ished, and everything is cold, but you needn't wait another minute if you want your dinner." —London Tit-Hits. shocked to Heat h by *t rl kin a a Match Bethlehem. Pa., Oct. 1.--Striking a match to light a cigarette caused Louis Kresge's death Saturday night. 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