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The Commoner. 10 it i . - 4- A Splendid Library. ' The collection of famous aftor-din-i ner speeches, popular lectures, ad ' dresses and anecdotes of the world's greatest orators, lectures and racon teurs, affords to book lovers a splendid opportunity to ornament their shelves ; and store their minds. "Tho Library of Modern Eloquence," edited by Hon. Thomas B. Reed, In collaboration with Hon. Justin McCarthy, M. P., Rossiter Johnson, Albert Ellery Borgh and about fifteen others, is such a collec tion. Quotations have not been made; speeches and lectures found worthy of admittance have been printed in their entirety. Tho library consists of ten volumes, divided as follows: Tho first three volumes con tain after-dinner speeches, the next three volumes containing famous lec tures, tho next throe volumes contain ing addresses made upon special occa sions, and tho tenth volume stories, anecdotes, reminiscences and repartee of banquet hall and legislative forum, followed by indices to tho complete work. Such a library is almost indis pensiblo to those who desire to have at hand the best thought of modern times. It is not practicable to give a complete list of tho contributors to this library, it being sufficient to say that the contributors number scores of the brightest minds of modern times. Special articles are contri buted by well known men. Hon. Thomas B. Reed contributes one on "Tho Influence of Oratory;" Albert Ellery Bergh writes the introduction to the whole work; Professor Lorenzo Sears writes on "After-dinner Speak ing;" Edward Everett Halo writes of "Tho Lecture and the Lecture Plat form;" 'Hamilton Wright Mabie writes of "Literary and Occasional Ad dresses;" Champ Clark writes of "The Use of Humor and Anecdote in Public Speech," and Jonathan P. Dolliver writes of "Tho Eloquence of tho Stump." In another column may be found an advertisement of this splen did work. Eexcutlon of Czolgosz. "Some eggs, some bacon and some coffee good coffee." He asked for the superintendent, and when that official appeared Czolgosz said: "I want to talk before you kill me; I want to say something." "All right; what do you want to say?" replied the superintendent. Czolgosz replied by saying, "I want to say it so a lot of people will hear me." The superin tendent refused, whereupon the doomed man declared ho would not talk at all. "I don't want any pray ing over mo' he said a few moments before being led to the death room. As he was being strapped in his chair ho said: "I killed the president because of the working people. He belonged to a difforent class." After a short pause he again spoke, saying: . "I am sorry I could not see my father." These were his last words. Scarcely had they been spoken than Dr. Gerin, the prison physician, raised tho fore finger of his right hand. The signal was seen by tho electrician and the circuit was closed. The head of the assassin was thrown upward and out ward, the body stiffened, and the soul of Leon Czolgosz had gone to face its Maker. STOPS THE COUGH And Works off the Cold. . Laxativo Bromo Quinine Tablota euro a cold iu ono day. No Cnro, No Pay. Price 25 contB. At seventeen minutes past 7 o'clock on Tuesday morning, October 29, Leon Czolgosz, murderer of President William McKlnley, paid the penalty of his awful crime. The execution took place in Aubtfrn prison In the presence of twenty-two witnesses. Twice was tlie full current of 1,700 volts turned through tho assassin, the second time to make sure of the matter. But the attending physicians agree that the first shock ended the life of Czolgosz. At 7:18 Dr. MacDonald pronounced -tho assassin dead. Tho witnesses then formed in double" line and filed slowly from the death chamber. Five min- utes later the body was on the table ready for tho autopsy. The autopsy revealed that tho brain was normal and healthy and' the examining physi cians so reported in formal manner. At 12:30 the body of the assassin was placed in a pine coffin and transported in a dray to a lot adjoining Fort Hill cemetery. The box was lowered into a grave eight feet deep, eight feet long and four' feet wide. Upon the top of the box was poured six barrels of quick lime, upon that was thrown a few armsful of straw, and upon the straw was poured the contents of a carboy of vitriol. Then the grave was filled, leveled off and the sod returned to its former place. The quick-lime and the vitriol have long since destroyed all semblance of the corpse. The assassin knew when he retired Monday night that it was to be his ,last night alive. Ho prepared for death by cursing and blaspheming. At midnight he fell asleep and slept for an hour. He asked for something to eat, but it was denied him; then he asked for a cigar and it was given to him. At 2 o'clock ho retired to his bunk and apparently slept the rest of the night. At 5 o'clock he was aroused by tho warden and the death warrant read to him. When asked what he wanted for breakfast, ho answered: THE DOCTOR GUESS An Episode in a Turkish Harem. A woman of tho harem is taken sick. Turkish etiquette makes no allowance for sickness. The woman is for her husband's eyes alone. No other man may look upon her. When the doctor comes tho sick woman thrusts' her hand through a curtain, on the other side of which sits the physician. From the hand alone he must make his diag nosis. As a consequence when a Turk ish woman is sick she does not often get well. There is a modesty of nature among American women which, as much as the modesty of etiquette among Turk ish women, often prevents an attend ing physician from making a proper diagnosis of disease. Women vho are suffering from diseases peculiar to their sex shrink from the indelicate questioning, the offensive examination Items of Interest. The bishoj) of London receives a sal ary of $50,000 a year. The oldest Catholic church in New England is in Nobleboro, Mass. Among the peasants of Turkey most of the doctoring is done by women. The three greatest shipping ports In the world are New York, Liverpool and Hamburg. The value of the cotton and cotton seed crOD Of the southern titafan Innf year was $545,000,000. The southern states comprise one fourth of the area and one-third of the population of the republic. Many of the large business houses of the City of Mexico still use tallow dips for illuminating purposes. The New Hampshire Historical so ciety has the original patent on a pro cess for propelling boats by steam. Boston prides herself on having spent $6 per capita for postage stamps last year, while New York snant nniv .$3- per capita and Philadelphia $2.87 pur uupiia. ITEMS OF INTEREST According to the compilation of last reports the membership of fraternal orders in the United States and Cana da is 5,722,016. Last year the city of New York re covered $4,044.35 from forfeited bail bonds, $302.62 from the conscience fund and $8 from grass grown on city property on Staten island. Toronto, Canada, merchants are complaining of a flood of counterfeit bank notes, presumably of United States manufacture that is, made by counterfeiters south of the Canadian line. It is said that the difference be tween first-class and second-class coaches on most European railways is in tho color of the cushions of tho seats first-class usually being red and second-class gray. Dr. Miles' Anti-Pain Pilis. A quick, safp, and furo roliof for sick or nor. vou Headacho, Backache, Stomach Paffi NeuralRia, Norvousness, Irritability, Sloonlosa' orS9?imatl8 ?ciaca. Contain So Wum ?5drorac?0,Aatnd1rltes.n bad "&?& i i i T'-rrr i im i ii and the obnoxious' local treatment which they know so many local physi cians deem necessary and insist upon. As a consequence the attending doctor obtains only a superficial knowledge of the aliments he attempts to. cure, and often treats for the wrong disease. The result is that women suffer for long years in silence and allow the dis ease to gain a firm hold upon them, until they are shattered in health and worn and weak in body. WHAT OTHER WOMEN HAVE DONE. Thousands of women who shrank with natural modesty from the ordeal proposed by local physicians have found a cure by consulting Dr. R. V. Pierce, Buffalo, N. Y. Dr. Pierce in vites every sick and ailing woman to consult him by letter, free. All corre spondence is strictly confidential, and the .written confidences of women are guarded by the same strict professional privacy observed by Dr. Pierce and his staff in personal consultations with women at the Invalids' Hotel and Sur gical Institute, B'uffalo, N. Y. A let ter addressed to Dr. Pierce, Buffalo, N. Y., will receive careful attention and prompt reply. "I would like to express my grati tude to you for the benefits I have re ceived from your wonderful medicine, 'Favorite Prescription,' " writes Mrs. C. N. Anderson, of Rockbridge Baths, Rockbridge Co., Va. "It is a Godsend to weak and sickly women, restoring good health without subjecting their weak nerves to the shock of an examination. 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