Men and Women on the
Witness Stand
PITTSfU RC1.—A re women
less to lie believed than
men. on oath or otherwise?
is a question thu; lias
beep, excited bj the utter
ances of a few men, and
at least, one woman, who have in pub
lic recently insisted that women as a
general proposition have no sense of
the binding sanctity of an oaili and
are blind to the moral obligation of
telling the truth
A few days ago came I>r. William
H. Taylor, state chemist of Virginia,
in a lecture to the students of the
State Medical College of Virginia,
proclaimed that a woman had "no
conception of the moral obligation en
tailed In telling the truth." In his
opinion truth with a woman is what
she wants to he beli ’ved. She is con
vinced that, what she calls her "intui
tions" must always be right.
As a buttress to what these “mere
men" have asserted conies Mary Hea
ton Vorse, a woman of some note as a
writer for the magazines, who as
serts that few women can be depended
upon to teil the truth, she presumably
being one of the few: that they "beat"
street railway companies: thai they
listen at telephones, betray confi
dences. sneak the reading of letters;
and that she believes the statement
of an old judge who told her that
upon the witness stand "women would
invariably perjure themselves.”
These declarations wine so sweep
ing and so extraordinary that the
Pittsburg Dispatch was led to seek
the opinions of some Pittsburg wom
en of note, who could he depended
upon to say what they thought re
gardless of any reflection upon their
own sex—women who think independ
ently and whose thoughts are well de
fined and their language well thought
out. One of these is Mrs. Enoch
Ranh, president of the Council of
Jewish Women
Not a Question of Sex.
‘ The telling of truth is absolutely
not a matter af sex," was the em
phatic answer to a query by the rep
resentative of the Dispatch. "Roth
sexes equivocate and evade upon oc
casion and no one will hazard his rep
utation for veracity by saying that
women should be singled out for this
mark of opprobrium as distinct from
I have found women witnesses,
to say the least, no less truthful
than those of the other sex.
* * I have known of but one
case of deliberate perjury by a
woman.—Miss Suzanne Beatty.
Attorney-at-Law.
men. Both are of the same blood and
liber, and whatever denunciation lies
against the one in the matter of stat
ing what is untrue lies against the
other.
p -| cannot understand how any man
or woman of intelligent appreciation
of the world's activities could sink to
the depths of uttering such a slander
against the mothers, sisters and
daughters who are responsible for the
maternity of their kind of both sexes.
It would be one of the most astound
ing of paradoxes if they could bring
into 1 he world one sex more addicted
than another to the telling of un
truths under any circumstances. Take
the great question of heredity for in
stance. 11 is the testimony of some of
the greatest physicians of this and
other times that the sons unusually in
herit the traits of th« mothers and
the daughters those of their fathers.
.Vow how shall we assimilate this un
questioned dictum of science with the
assertions of these gentlemen that
women are more prone than men to
evade the truth? Yon see that the
whole proposition falls to the ground.
It is not possible that environment
Proper discipline in his early
youth would probably have had
such effect upon Mr. Taylor that
he would have never thought of
the statements so antipodal to
truth which he has made in re
gard to women as compared with
men.— Mrs. Samuel Ammon.
after birth could so warp and distort
the natural tendencies. These gentle
men who have been so widely quoted
evidently know little of the world of
womt it. They have placed themselves
on record after a very superficial and
perfunctory analysis of the sex. The
very fact that they have been quoted
at all indicates that their views are al
together bizarre. If this had been
an established fact in all the thou
sands of years of the history of the
human race their belligerent procla
mations would nor have been noticed,
lias it been left for them to make a
discovery of a new world of immor
ality?
“While the fact that the matter has
been so widely bruited about gives it
a measure of importance, it is rather
that sort of importance which adds
to the amusing and diverting phases
of social life than to those activities
which make for development and
progress, ami the Dispatch deserves
thanks for contributing to the gayetv
of nations' by giving us a chance to
say a word in answer to even the
most obscure of dialecticians who
have presumed to air their oratory
niton a theme which was certain to
attract some attention and excite
curiosity if not respect.”
Equivocate in Little Things.
"This matter of evading ihe truth
is even far older than the remark
made by an eminent historic person
age that he had said in his haste that
all men were liars." was the remark
of Mrs. Samuel A. Ammon, well
known for her great activities in civic
affairs, when the caustic assertions of
Dr. Taylor were broached to her. "It
is quite possible and defendable," con
tinued Mrs. Ammon, "that in what we
may call the ‘little things' of life
women evade the truth more often
than men do, because they are
brought into contact with ihose lit
tle things, chiefly domestic, more than
men are.
"The question of unswerving truth
telling is one which has agitated the
deepest of analytical minds, hut the
greatest of these lias not been led to
assert that immorality of prevarica
tion was most highly developed in
women than in men. Whatever fail
ing there may be is to be equally con
demned in both sexes. It is quite pos
sible and quite natural that where
tlie affections are involved the woman
may be more easily swayed than the
man. She is more the creature of
sentiment and emotion. Her friend
ships and loves are deeper and dearer.
Therefore, on the witness stand, she
may the more readily, and surely
more unconsciously, depart from the
exact truth when the interests of
those whom she loves are involved.
Hut she does it unconsciously or
almost so, if at all. It is a psycholog
ical impulse.
Have Fear of the Law.
“Again, a woman on the witness
stand is more apart from her sphere
than a man is. She is more liable to
the mistakes of embarrassment. For
that she should not be called to ac
count. It is my conviction, however,
that women will, generally streaking,
be more likely than men to tell the
truth in court. She has a fear of the
weapon called the law. it is prac
tically an unknown force to her. It
is with her, therefore, potential for
the truth.
“That there is too much falsehood
in human life is distressingly appar
ent. it is all too much a part, of our
social existence. To some extent we
may say it is enforced lry conditions,
hut it is also all too much due to a
lack of proper moral training, it is
the natural bent of the child mind to
evade the truth when ihe act has
been naughty and by concealing the
truth to evade reproof and possible
punishment. That is the basic work
of the lack of moral obligation in re
gard to the truth in all society. I
believe that a good, sound spanking,
administered intelligently, with proper
spirit, at the proper time, with kindly
and proper explanation, would vastly
lessen the evasions, lies and perjuries
of all phases of life. Proper discipline
in his early youth would probably
have had such effect upon Mr. Taylor
that he would have never thought of
the statements so antipodal to truth
which he made in regard to women
as compared with men."
Women Truthful Witnesses.
Miss Suzanne Beatty, attorney-at
law. gives an emphatic- negative to the
assertion that women are more than
men inclined to evade the truth on
the witness stand.
I have been a close student of
this matter." said Miss Beatty, "and
it is my positive judgment that wom
en are (piite .as dependable as men
when testifying before a law court.
When ! was at home, a mere child,
one of tile dear friends of our family
was Judge Campbell, then the presid
ing judge of the Clarion district. Ii is
possible that even at that time I had
in me the latent germ of the pursuit
of tile law as a profession, for al! that
pertained to the courts was of the
deepest interest to me. I was much
impressed with the remarks of Judge
Campbell, often iterated, that he
would as a general proposition believe
a woman witness sooner than lie
would a man. Kvcn in those childish
days the remark from one who was
so deeply venerated by me aroused
my pride of sex and when i came to
practice you can imagine that my at
tention was naturally directed to this
subject.
All Swayed by Sentiment.
"I want to say. and to put it as
strongly as words can make it. that
I have found women witnesses, to say
Mrs. Samuel A. Ammon.
(lie least, no less truthful than those
of the other sex. It is a well-knowr
fact that all witnesses are to some
extent swayed by sentiment in favoi
of the person in whose interests they
are testifying. Allowance must he
made for that, but that women are
more powerfully influenced by such
considerations than men I do not be
lieve. I have known women to testify
the truth in great stress of circum
sianres. when to conceal the truth
would have been much to their ad
vantage, and when cautioned by the
judge that their testimony was te
FEAR TO TOTAL UP PAGES.
Men Maks Memoranda of Expenses.
But That Is All.
•'Speaking of starring tilings and not
flnismng them,'' said a business man,
did t ever tell you of the curious
habit that an uncle of mine had? He
used to carry a memorandum book
around with him and whenever he
spent any money he would jot down
the figures. We always looked upon
him as a model iu keeping accounts.
One day l got to talking to him about
it, and he pulled his book out of bis
pocket to show me. What was my
ama’/.ement on looking at it to dis
cover that not one of the pages was
totaled up. 1 asked him. naturally,
whether he never adder! the columns
to find out how much he was spend
ing. He told me that he did not and
never had; the practice was too dis
^ coin-aging. A sense of duty impelled
I him to put down the items, but there
he stopped. An interesting man, my
uncle, although a trifle eccentric."
•Not so very unlike the majority of
humankind,” said the business man's
friend,* “unless, perhaps, in his hon
esty of avowal. 1 think there are
mighty few people who keep the rec
ord of their personal expenses in ship
shape fashion. Lots of us start out
with the best of intentions, say at the
beginning of a year, but it's a good
deal like keeping up a diary. And just
where nine out of ten fall down is in
this matter of totaling, it take3 but
an infinitesimal portion of time to run
till a column, but somehow we don't
like the operation: it's too much like
bringing a charge againsi ourselves.
I So we salve our consciences by jotting
down items—when we think of them
—and let them go at that. Pretty soon
the account or memorandum book be
comes hopelessly in arrears and ll is
put away where it will not be an irri
tation. The next January another be
ginning may be made, but unless the
conscience is in very good working
order there will be the same result.”
A Word from Josh Wise.
“Men sneer at women’s shoppin'.
but when women shop they don't have
ter eat cloves ter disguise what
they’ve been buyin'.”
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EXPLOSIVES IN OAILY USE.
Danger in Many Things That Are Con
stantly Handled. •
Among the many things in almost
constant use are some that are more
or less dangerous from their explosive
properties, properties often entirely
unknown to their users.
For examples, chloride of potash
lozenges if accidentally brought in
contact with an unlighted phosphorus
match are dangerous. Bicarbonate of
potash if mixed with subnitrate of bis
muth. tile latter a remedy for indiges
tion. will explode.
Iodide of nitrogen is highly explo
sive and is often combined with other
drugs. Its use by those ignorant of
its danger is a menace.
Saivolatile and chloral hydrate are,
under certain conditions, as dangerous
as dynamite.
Tincture of iron and dilute aqua
regia when mixed, as they often are in
medicine, throw off a highly explosive
gas. which has frequently shattered
the bottle in which the mixture was
kept.
One often finds bottles of medicine
in which ilie cork has not been tightly
pushed minus the latter, or has had a
cork pop out of a bottle while held ir
one's hands without any attempt to re
move it on the part of the holder
This always shows that gas is forcing
the cork out.
Danger in combs.
Every now and then one reads ol
celluloid articles, from fancy hair coif
rare combs down, catching fire anc
serious burns or accidents resulting.
It would seem that every one should
by this time know that celluloid con
tains in its composition guncotton and
also camphor, both highly inflammable
No woman wearing celluloid combs ot
hair ornaments should place her head
near an uncovered gas jet or other un
protected light, as celluloid catches
fire so quickly and burns so rapidly
that it would hardly be possible tc
avoid serious burns.
His Reservation.
“Live and let live," is a good
motto, but many a man who adopts
it wants to reserve the right to liv«
better than the other fellow.
their own prejudice T have heard
I hem say with tears that it was the
truth and that the truth must be told.
“I have never known but one case
of deliberate perjury by a woman,
and that was exceedingly curious.
The girl's lover was under trial for
burglary. The testimony was vaguely
circumstantial. The girl produced a
diary which she had kept for the en
tire year, including the time of the
alleged burglary. That diary showed
that the alleged burglar had been In
her company at a time when it would
have been impossible for him to have
been on the scene of the burglary.
The diary seemed genuine and the
court, jury and prosecuting attorney
accepted it as such. Just as the jury
was about to retire, however, the at
torney for the commonwealth hap
pened to glance at an obscure imprint
Mrs. Enoch Rauh. President of Colum
bian Council of Jewish Women.
on the diary which snowed that tlie
book bad been printed at a time sub
sequent to the date of the burglary.
Tlte case was continued, and il was
brought out that ihe firm producing
the diary never issued the books to
be used by ihe trade previous to the
year of their date. it was a clear
case of perjury and one of remarka
ble cunning considering the very ordi
nary intellect of the girl. The matter
had been written for the entire year
and bore all the marks of genuine
ness.
Poor Basis for Sensation.
"It is a fact known to all lawyers
that women fear the law more than
men do. and therefore take fewer
risks upon the stand in the matter of
telling an untruth, it is my opinion
I cannot understand how any
man or woman of intelligent ap
preciation of the world's activi
ties could sink to the depths of
uttering such a slander.—Mrs.
Enoch Rauh.
that Dr. Taylor chose a very tottering
basis for a sensation, and that in
making himself talked about lie lias
also ma tie himself absurd."
In a very racy manner Mrs. Frank
lin I’, lams, attorney-at-law. discussed
what has been termed by Shakespeare
the "lie circumstantial" and the "lie
direct." "Women may lie on the wit
ness stand." said Mrs. lams, "in cir
cumstances which arouse within her
a powerful sentiment, while in similar
circumstances a man would lie delili
erately and wilfully. The lie in the
one case may lie said to have been to
some extent unconscious, the woman
having been persuaded on account of
her affections to believe that what
she said was true because she
wanted it to be true. The man would
tell the lie direct, knowing that it was
a lie, and telling it lo make his case
or lhat of ihe person in whose inter
est he was testifying.
Women More Emotional.
"Of course, as everyone knows,
women are far more emotional than
men. They are therefore more likely
to be swayed by their sentiments. I
am inclined to think, therefore, that
for this very reason women are some
what less dependable as witnesses
than men, although less to blame for
their equivocations. When a man
tells a deliberate lie he must be an
adept al tlie business indeed if some
thing in his manner or expression
fails to suggest that fact to the Jury
A woman speaking under the influ
enee of powerful sentiment is more
apt to give her statement every sem
blance of truth. The man lying de
liberately is well aware that he can
hardly do it successfully and there
fore he is less apt to try the expert
ment. although lie is morally just as
much the liar as though he did try it
"I would say that there is some
measure of truth in the assumption
that women are more liable than men
to go astray from the exact • facts
when they are in the strange posi
tion of a witness in the courts, but
the sweeping assertion of Dr. Tayloi
that in all circumstances they are less
to be believed than men is a state
ment that should simply make the
person who made it ridiculous.
ILLINOIS OFFICIAL WEDS
Lawrence Yates Sherman, liputenant governor
of Illinois, who was quietly married the other day
to Miss Mary Estelle Spitter. left orders that no
public mention should be made of the affair. The
orders were obeyed until the smoke of Mr. Sher
man's train died away, and then the telephone ex
change and telegraph wires were crowded with
messages announcing the gladsome tidings.
The wedding explains the mysterious visits
which the lieutenant governor lias been making to
Effingham, where it had been reported he owned
a farm. It also explains lavish orders left with
the tailors. Sherman had led a life almost monas
tic. For years his home was a room in a lodging
house.
Genial and sociable among men, he has been
known to pm himself to all manner ot personal
inconveniences to escape any gathering that approached formality.
Sherman has the gift of invective oratory. He is a politician with a
memory. .Inst to indicate how well .Mr. Sherman can bide his time and hit
back when the opportunity comes, it may be related that in 1905 Senators
Cullorn and Hopkins, being desirous to break up the big loti! — Demon. Ham
lin. Yates and Sherman—who had controlled the stall* convention of 1901,
offered Sherman a place on the interstate commerce commission. The work
appealed to him and lie agreed to .accept. Then the two senators fell down
in their attempt to deliver the office to him. President Roosevelt said liutly
that he did not intend tc have federal offices traded about and that lie wanted
a lawyer and not a politician for the place.
Sherman apparently ignored this affront to his self-esteem. In 1907 the
two senators, thinking that it was up to them to "make good" with something
or other, secured an option on a place in the Spanish claims commission, and
offered it to Sherman. He allowed the two misguided senators to secure
i tiis appointment, and have it announced from Washington. Then lie rejected
| it. and the score was even.
Sherman was born on an Ohio farm about 19 veats ago and later moved
i to Illinois. After leaving college lie took up the practice of law.
WHIPS ZAKKA KHELS
I
Gen. Sii James Willcocks, who has brought
the punitive expedition against the Zakka Khels, a
t'ibe of Afridis on the frontier of India, to a bril
liant conclusion by destroying their forts and vil
lages. killing several- hundreds of their fighting
men and ravaging the country, has had more ex
perience in that kind of warfare than almost any
man alive to-day. He was only till when the Lein
ster regiment, to which he belonged, was ordered
out on the second Afghan campaign, and the young
soldier so distinguished himself that he was men
tioned in dispatches. Willcocks was second in
command of the West African frontier force in
1896, and was taken thence to accompany the
liorgu expedition of 1898. Then he went back to
his old post and took command of file Ashanti
Held force, and was at tne tenet m i oomasste in
1000. He was also with the tield force in South Africa, and has since been
; repelling minor raids niton India by the restless tribes in the mountains.
When it was decid* d to carry the war into their native glens. Gen Will
; cocks was the man selected tor the work. Besides the innumerable medals
j and clasps he has received and the different mentions in dispatches, he lias
once received the thanks of the imperial government, once been mentioned in
! tlie king's speech to parliament, and been presented with a sword of honor
! and freedom of Loudon.
The campaign which he has just brought to a successful termination lias
been in as difficult a country as ever he penetrated. There is said to be not
a single square yard of level ground in the whole country, hut on every side
rise ridges of mountains littered with rocks behind which the expert riflemen
can sit and pick off the advancing troops at ranges of from 600 to TOO yards.
That the natives are expert shots is not surprising, as in that land of blood
feu ls a man's life often depends niton his quickness on the trigger and his
straight shooting. That Gen. Willcocks has been able to take an expedition
of ft,000 men through such a country with only a trifling loss will probably
[ win him further honors from this government.
_
BROWNLOW RENOMINATED
Representative Walter P. Brownlow has been
unanimously renominated tor the Sixty-first con
gress. Mr. Brownlow had no opposition at all,
there being no other man in his district who even
so much as whispered that he wanted the job,
consequently the congressional committee of the
First Tennessee district, under the primary laws
of Tennessee, named Mr. Browulow as the
nominee.
The First district is that which was represent
ed front 1S4:J to 1858 by the late President An
drew Johnson. Mr. Brownlow has already beaten
that record by four years, and this renomination
puts him in line for a total of 1t> years' straight
away service in the house. Incidentally Mr. Brown
low's district has the one absolutely loyal and
consistent nepublican constituency in the whole
j south. There has been some slight degree ot' chilliness between Mr. Brownlow
j and President Roosevelt of late, but his followers and friends of the First dis
! trict are so much worried about it that ifs never mentioned down there in his
home except when somebody wants to say something nice about Walter P.
Mr. Brownlow lias had a long service in public lite. lie was postmaster
at bis home town of Jonesboro in 1881 and resigned to accept the doorkeep
ership of the house of representatives of the Forty-seventh congress. In 1884,
1890. 1900 and 1904 he was elected by the delegation from his stale to the
national convention as Tennessee's member of the Republican national com
mittee. He was elected by congress a member of the board of managers for
l(>e National Soldiers' home for disabled volunteer soldiers, was twice the Re
publican nominee for United Slates senator and has had a seat under the
dome since the Fifty-fifth congress.
_ PROMINENT CANADIAN
Hon. William S. Fielding, the father of the
Canadian government scheme to enter into com
petition with the life insurance companies by is
suing government annuities, a measure which he
hopes to put iu operation next year, is looked upon
as the natural successor to Sir Wilfrid Laurier,
the premier. Mr. Fielding has had the most rapid
rise of any man in public life in Canada to-day.
He was a newspaperman in Halifax, N. S., and re
signed that in 1882 to go into polities. He was
elected to the provincial legislature to represent
Halifax city and county, and in a few months was
taken into the cabinet. Two years later he was
premier of the province, and remained so until
1S9(>. when Sir Wilfrid called him to Ottawa to
enter the Dominion government as minister of
finance. Now he seems to be slated for premier
as soon as Sir Wilfrid steps out.
One of Mr. Fielding's first duties was the revision of the Canadian tariff
and the drawing up of a preferential tariff with the mother country. This
involved the denunciation by Britain of the trade treaty with Germany which
gave the latter "tile most favored nation" treatment. Germany retaliated on
Canada by raising her tariff, and it felt to Mr. Fielding to devise methods of
retaliation on Germany. He seems to have been fairly successful. He was
a representative of Canada at the colonial conference in London in 1902. and
it was from suggestions made by him at that conference and previously that
Joseph Chamberlain drew up the scheme of inter-imperial I'rf-e trade which
split up the Conservative party in Britain and caused the return of tho
Liberals at the last election.
Air. Fielding will he 00 years of age in November, lie holds degrees
from several Canadian universities.
All the Hen’s Fault.
Frank Higgins of Harlem, X. Y., is
real mad at a chicken. This chicken
got Frank into trouble which he had
to explain to a cynical and doubting
police court recently. Higgins was
peacefully walking along One Hun
dred and Sixth street, he says, wheu
this fool chicken Hew out of a coop
belonging to Jacob Karasick. on the
sidewalk and landed straight in Mr.
Higgfcs’ bosom. Now what was Frank
to do? Here was the chicken roost
ing amorously on his breast and he
walking down the street? And he con
I tinued ro walk, much amazed at the
fowl designs of fate. And then along
came Karasick and an inquisitive po
liceman and gathered Frank and the
chicken in. Frank protested, and next
day he protested more to the judge.
It is indeed tough lines when a Har
lem citizen can not walk down the
street without being assaulted by a
hen and then arrested.
Output of British Shipyards.
The product of the British shipyards
amounts to 20 or 25 per cent, of the
world’s output.
WESTERN uaHAUa DROPS
CANNOT BE CHECKED.
OATS YIELDED 90 BUSHELS TO
THE ACRE.
The following letter written the Do
minion Government Commissioner of
Emigration speaks for itself. It proves
the story of the Agents of the Gov
ernment that on the free homesteads
offered by the Government it is pos
sible to become comfortably well off
in a few years:
Regina. Sask., 23rd Nov., 1907.
Commissioner of Immigration,
Winnipeg.
Dear Sir:
It is with pleasure that I reply to
your request. Some years ago l took
up a homestead for myself and also
one for my son. The half section
which we own is situated between
Rouleau and Drinkwater, adjoining
the Moose Jaw creek, is a low level
and heavy land. We put in 70 acres of
wheat in stubble, which went 20 bush
els to the acre, and 30 acres of sum
mer fallow, which went 25 bushels to
the acre. All the wheat we harvested
this year is No. 1 hard. That means
the best wheat that can be raised on
theearth. Wedidnot sell any wheat yet
as we Intend to keep one part for
our own seed, and sell the other part
to people who want first-class seed,
for there is no doubt if you sow good
wheat you will harvest good wheat.
We also (hreshed 9,000 bushels of
first-class oats out of 160 acres. 80
acres has been fall plowing which
yielded 90 bushels per acre, aud SO
acres stubble, which went 30 bushels
to the acre. These oats are
the best kind that can be
raised. We have shipped three car
loads of them, and got 53 cents per
bushel clear. All our grain was cut
in the last week of the month of
August before any frost could touch
It.
Notwithstanding the fact that we
have had a late spring, and that the
weather conditions this ye»r were
very adverse and unfavorable, we will
make more money out of our crop
this year than last.
For myself I feel compelled to say
that Western Canada crops cannot be
checked, even by unusual conditions.
1 am, dear sir.
Yours truly.
tSigned) A. Kaltenlnunner.
Just mere shadows of their former
selves.
One Woman's Wrongs.
Mrs. Smallpurse (who found only a
few dimes in her husband's pockels
that morning)—I am just sick of this
plodding along year after year. Why
don't you do something to make
money ?
Mr. Smallpurse—I can’t make any
more than a living at my business, no
matter how hard I work.
Mrs. Smallpurse—Then do some
thing else. Invent something. Any
American can invent.
Mr. Smallpurse (some months after)
—My dear, I’ve hit it. and I've got a
patent. My fortune is made.
Mrs. Smallpurse (delighted)—Isn't
that grand! What did you invent?
Mr. Smallpurse—I have invented a
barbed-wire safety pocket for hus
bands.—New York Weekly.
Strenuous Method of Saving Life.
Two officers who were hunting
wolves on the Dry mountain in cen
tral Servia lost their way in a fug.
After wandering for 14 hours one of
them lay down in the snow and speed
ily became unconscious. His comrade
bound him with cords, placed him
in a sitting position and then rolled
him down the mountain. He glided
down the slope at terrific speed and
reached the bottom safely, being found
an hour later in an exhausted condi
tion by a peasant. He is now in the
hospital being treated for the lacera
tions he received in bumping over the
rocks during his descent. His com
panion is unhurt.
Giving It the Acid Test.
The clairvoyant was swaying back
and forth under the severe strain of
her mental connection with the realm
of spirits.
“Now'.” she chanted, “call upon any
soul you will and I will make it speak
to you—yes, even visible to you.” For
she was up to date in the biz.
“Bring me,” asked the masculine
skeptic, "Brevity, the soul of Wit."
Right here the seance ended.—Cin
cinnati Enquirer.
Gather Wisdom.
Wisdom will enable you to overcome
the most difficult problems and fre
quently fate itself; therefore gather
wisdom wherever you may find it; let
the past teach thee lessons for tho
future.—Loth.
Lewis Single Bindet* straight 5c cigar.
Made of extra quality tobacco. V our
dealer or Lewis' Factory. Peoria, ill.
He surely is in want of another's
patience who has none of his own.—
Lavater.
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Many a man gets left by sticking
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It isn’t idle curiosity that prompts
a maja to look for work.
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Many a man is buried in oblivion
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