ROMAN EXPOSITION A GREAT SUCCESS ' m | fn/rance to tAr Cxpoo/tion T - » tio !.»*«- attended The international exposition at Rome unite in praise of the big affair. It ia •■ * - otdu'ted and Its handsome buildings are full of exhibits of the highest degree of excellence. LADY’S FOOT TINIER Cfecago Shoe Experts Decry New YorPs Charge. Prt tf. VMlitr and Daintier Than Ever. haps Dealer In Reply to Die patch From Gotha*"—Report la Wild EufftrM OR Chi-ago.—"Milady's loot growing larger* "Pooh' Pooh1 “Hu smaller sad daintier than ever “ Near York shoe experts declare that the feat of the American soman Is growing larger every year, according to a dispatch received here the other day When this information was told to Chicago shoe dealers they roar in tndignsat support of the foot of the eoa.ee a feet growing .V latot' they cried. "They are a* small, trim and dainty aa ever. And the ("hiengo woman has always worn her show a bit larger than neces sary. at that More small sixes were said la the city this year than for many years previous. If that show* anything U team* to show that feet are growing smaller and daintier, fioraat That quotation Is the composite statement of several men who have been is the bostness for years In rldentally the New York report say * that the modern woman's athletic activity Is maxing the growth la sis# and nets forth tint to deceive vain women K has become necessary to In vent n marking code. A F. Martin, manager 4 the Michigan avenue shop. i was is defense of the Chicago i Is a bit of wild exag geration." said Mr Martin 'in Chicago you will find aa dainty and pretty feet nay part of the globe. The Bt *.:.at tb*> are growing larger Is wrong If there was that tendency I am ware I would feet K la the shop Bat w# hare not had to vary our sixes. The cosmopolitan character of tbe city brings big feet, of course, with This mac only founded the shout Chicago feet may be more athletic, but It it aWoetad tbe else of bar feet, that marking code, the ma jority of people «bo come Into this to fit their feet, not ru wager most of them really duct know what sire they D C Mellaa. general manager of a State Krwet shoe store, said: "Chicago womens feet growing larger? Why. far fact, we have been selling smaller aSses 'has ever It has been the fash tan k this city for years for women to wear a shoe larger than she needs This year they hare been wearing I* ;t worry about tbe foot of the Chicago woman growing larger." said D F McIntosh, president of another big shoe concern on State street. "We still sell enormous quantities of num ber I s. That report from New York is part of that jokebook specialty about the vanity of woman regarding her foot" UNITE TO GIVE HUMAN SKIN Remarkable Society la Organized in Canadian Capital to Asaiat Sur geons in Th#ir Work. Ottawa. Ont.—Sixty-three persons have enrolled In the Epidermis Supply company, organized to provide human skin for grafting operations. The names of the members are kept secret by Henry Latter, the organizer, but the practical quality of the movement will be tested by calls for strips of skin to be grafted upon the extensive bum* sustained by William Thomas, a royal navy veteran, cow lying at the general hospital. It Is believed that only about 35 or the volunteers will be required. These men will be honorary members and will not be expected to give any more of their skin for at least a year. Men and youths are still coming for ward and expressing their willingness to Join this unique club, and with the care that Is being taken In the choice of members an established supply of healthy epidermis will be at the com mand of the hospitals of the city. Mr. lustier was Inspired to form the so ciety through his own experience of a skin grafting operation and his realiza tion of the difficulty of obtaining the tight kind of human skin at short no tice. YEAR’S TEST FOR HENS Spokane Man Arranging First Ameri can Egg Laying Congress—Entries From Several States. Spokane. Wash.—Problems of conti nent wide interest are to be solved at the first American egg laying con gress In Spokane, beginning next No vember and continuing 12 months. It is free and open to the world. Plans are to have at least two entries of six chickens each from every state and territory In the union and province In Canada Among other things, this in formation is sought: Will 300 chickens support an aver age family? What breeds are best for commer cial eggs? What is the actual cost of produc ing eggs? What are the prime requisites of successful egg culture? What state, province or territory produces the best layers? VALUE OF HUSBAND $1,875 1 Woman Provide* ta Her Will If Any Daughter Shell Wee She Will Lose Sum Mentioned rtiwgi-S a husband worth tuns? Thto ga Bellos presents Itself to four Aeetta wcunsr. daughters of Mrs. Catherine Rousseau, who died April SI. at the as* of eight* years According to the terms of Mrs Rousseau's will, •lad far probate the other day. the leer daughters are to share equally la aa isiaie valued at t?SM. so long as they are single ff a daughter mar ries she iarietta her share to the oth | left only one means ten u; marr) their shares of the rovtSed that If all four the dlrisioe should re Therefore the four tih ’era are debating wheth be principals in i reside St bc. 4? North Waller see nue. Austin, are Louise Adele, Eliza Josephine. Victors Alphonslne and Clara Leontlne. “We are not particularly worried, because none of us is contemplating marriage In a hurry.” one of the daughters said to a reporter for the Uaily News over the telephone. She wouldn't tell which one she was. She then called attention to the fact that the youngest of the sisters Is forty. Steals “Gift" Watch. London.— Councilor H. P. Bird, may or of Shoreditch, was presented with a gold watch by bis fellow councllmen s few days ago. and on arriving at his home found that it had disap peared The day following It was returned by the thief, and tbe question that is disturbing the residents of Shoreditch Is whether the recovery of the time piece Is due to their mayor's reputa tion for kindness to his fellow men or s Angeles. Cal.—“Don’t you call poker the great American game in this court,” said Judge McCormick, of the superior court, ydsterday. “Amer ica has too high Ideals to have the paternity of a gambling game placed against Its name. I will not allow this country to be maligned.” These remarks were called out by the reference of an attorney for a j young man accused of giving a worth less check In payment for poker losses. The lawyer urged that the young man should not be convicted because he had been engaged in a national pastime. Judge McCormick placed the youth on probation for three years, making him promise to eschew poker and all i other forms of gambling. ■ICE IN CAR EXCITE WOMEN TifSi Workmen km Pennsylvania Town Satwrs WiMri Scats toy Clever Uttle Trick. Cheater. Pi—Several workmea em ployed at the Aorrtcae Viscose com pear's pleat sl Marcos Hook, oho hate have complaltucy ot the prac tice or wool so occuprtn* nearly all the seats oo the special trolley cars roo between this dir and Marcos Hook for the benefit of the men who work In the silk mill at Marcus Hook, secured seats through a ruse, which was manipulated by N. Moyer Whit taker of Eddystone. The car was crowded with men and women, the latter bein? con spicuous in the seats. The aisle was filled with tired workmen hanging on straps, when Whittaker liberated three mice from a small box he car ried. In an instant one of the women cried. "Rats!" and all members of the lair sex in the car lumped from their seats, lifted their skirts and pushed thatr way to each end of the car. £ urlng the excitement the tired wee amen took possession of the un occupied seats. In the meantime the mice escaped from the car, and the frightened women were calmed Empress Eugenis 85 Years Old. London.—The Empress Eugenie has celebrated her eighty-fifth birthday. On January 29. 1853. she married Na poleon HI., emperor of the French, who died on January 9, 1873. ABOUT LAST OF VETERANS OF LONG WHIP '^Jilly*' Hodges Has Few Compatriots with Whom He Can Exchange Mem ories of the Overland Stage —How He Blazed the Mail Coach Trail Into the Then Unconquered West AKLAND. CAL.—•‘Billy” Hodges, the last of a band of a hundred men who undertook to blaze the trail for the mail and express coach from the western terminus of the railways at Fort Smith into the unconquered west, is now running an elevator, writes R. Ellis Wales in the New York \\ orld. In the records of the express company will be found the report of : this trip of the ‘‘100.’’ It was their duty to cover so much ground daily, to record the distance traveled and to es tablish stations, stocking them and thus paving the way for the civiliza ; tion which followed at their heels. The route laid out led them in al most a direct line for El Paso, through the rough Osage country, and crossed the Arkansas river where it divides the old Pawnee nation from the land of the Osage. Skirting the territory of the Comanches they were forced to throw up fortifications hastily to with stand the fierce attacks of the barbar ous hordes. They pulled out of that country safely to encounter worse— the land of little water and alkali and dusty sagebrush. Yet with the cry of the coyote ringing in their ears they sang as they went, ending with the ac complishment of their purpose. In 1857 the completed route, well stationed and equipped, stood a monu ment to the work of that band. For two years they had struggled and, while their achievement was of won derful value to east and west, few came out of the scathing well and sound. However, Billy Hodges was young and fortunate. He had made a record as a driver; he had the oppor tunity thrust upon him and he grasped it. He undertook to drive the mail and express route from Tucson to Pima village. Run One of Wild Excitement. The run was about 100 miles, but ex tremely hazardous. Bandits were born of the rapid development of civiliza tion and hostile Indians were every where. Danger was plentifully distrib uted and six-shooters barked at silent arrows. On a day early in 185S Billy arrived at Pima village to discover that the relay driver was long overdue. Fear ing trouble, he followed the custom of driving into the other man's territory until the shadows of Apache pass loomed before him. With him on the box was a gun messenger, and in the coach, sitting with the other passen gers, were other guards. From the pass there came the yell of the Apa ches and in an instant a horde of them were riding circles around the coach. It was the duty of gun messengers to shoot, and they shot. It was the duty of Hodges to drive and he drove. Lashing out with his whip he sent his leaders down an incline and success fully brought them to a stand close under the shelter of a government fort. Even there it was precarious. The handful of soldiers were unable to cope with the swarms of redskins hov ering round. The relay coach had tak en shelter there, not daring to move through so hostile a country. The In dians surrounded the pass, blocking all outlets, and for eight days the small band held out and fought. On the eighth day Hodges, realizing that if no help came soon it would mean their death, said. “IU go on to Tucson.” There was a protest from his asso ciates, but before his insistence the others gave way. To go to Tucson for aid meant his passing through the zone of Are. There was scarcely any hope of getting away without being seen and the moon was bright and clear. The only chance lay in a dash. Then there came one to him in the dead of night and the young driver heard a soft voice murmur, "Will you take me along?” With One Passenger. "Why, Mary," exclaimed Billy, "it is impossible. I might take the responsi bility of the mails and treasure, but you—no.” y I must go,” said the girl, her voice vibrating, "I cannot stand this any longer. Let me go, I beg of you.” Time was running short, and young Hodges was not proof against the girl’s insistence. The result was that Mary Androes. setting west to Join her fu ture husband at Los Angeles, was tak en on that memorable ride. That she is living today is due to the skilled driving and nerve of Billy Hodges. "I got through," said Hodges, with a gleam In his eye as he told the story, “but—" "The girl?” Memory Not Cherished. "Oh, she was landed in Los An geles all right and married—unfortu nately!” said the old man, to whom this was the first romance of his life. This thing of helping girls to marry other fellows seemed to give him a bad taste in his mouth. Hodges came to California in 185S. continuing his profession as a stage driver, and in time was given the fa mous Placerville road, running from Sacramento through Placerville to Vir ginia City. Xev. On this road he drove the mail and express coaches, and on many of the trips carried treas ure amounting to $100,000. As a re sult he was made the victim of half a dozen of the greatest holdups in the history of the Pacific coast. Many Times Held Up. On the famous Geiger grade, abput four miles from Virginia City, Billy faced the rifles of six bandits, and the treasure box was dynamited, the robbers carrying away more than $S,000. Again he was stopped near Virginia City. This was in 1865, and in Six-Mile canyon below the Gould and Curry mill. The team was forced to stop, owing to a barricade of old sluice boxes which the bandits had placed across the road. The five des peradoes robbed all the passengers save one, a pretty scboolma’am. By the beginning of 1884 he had saved up considerable money and de cided to quit the highway. He had made money on the side by taking or ders from ranchers, as did his associ ate drivers. Frequently, he said, his hat was filled with memoranda, em bracing orders from a case of rum to a piece of blue ribbon. Simultaneously with his quitting the road he bought the Mount Hamilton stage line, running from San Jose to the mountain. Not long after this he was commissioned to haul the great 36-lnch lens to the observatory. The wagon was especially built for the trip and the delicate glass was placed in an oaken casket, the whole thing weigh ing 800 pounds. Later, upon the re moval of the body of James Lick from the vault in San Francisco, he hauled the coffin up to Mount Hamilton, and was present when the body was sealed in the sarcophagus beneath the im mense telescope. He tells many anecdotes of the men he has known and asoctated with, both famous and notorious drivers and robbers. He tells of the time when Horace Greeley was making a tour of the Pacific coast and was scheduled to make a speech at Placerville. He went aboard the stage driven by quaint Hank Monk, and as he stepped in he shouted: Got Greeley There on Time. "Mr. Monk, I must deliver a lecture in Placerville tomorrow night Can you get me there on time?" Monk assured him that he could, and started off the team along the old "corduroy" road, paved with small sap lings, half buried in clay. Miles and | ] miles they went, with Monk whistling merrily, and Horace Greeley, the only passenger, being plumped about within the rolling coach without being able to help himself In the least. At last the dignified passenger could stand it no longer. When he had been thrown for the fortieth time against the wood en frame of the coach door he cried ; out: "Mr. Monk, don’t you think you are going pretty fast?” Monk let go a mouthful of tobacco juice, and, giv ing a sharp crack with the whip to the leader, replied musically: "Keep ! your seat, Mr. Greeley, I’ll get you ! there on time!" Greeley got there on j time, as he had demanded, and the | lecture was jolted clean out of him. He arrived in Placerville seasick and | brain-fagged. Hodges was associated with the fa mous twin stage drivers. Curly Dan and Curly Jerry, fearless and careful; men, whose innocent deception, owing to their extreme likeness, of passen gers was the cause of great hilarity., It happened that Dan would start out with the stage in the early morning ' from Placerville, and at midnight j would arrive at the changing station, where he would give his seat on the box to his brother, likewise curly-hair ed and featured. The passengers be ing asleep they were not aware of the exchange, and next morning, when they spied whom they thought was ' Curly Dan upon the seat, they sup j posed he had been driving withoul sleep since the morning of the day be fore. Jerry used to have a great time convincing the curious passen-1 gers that he was not his brother, but his brother’s brother. Drove President Grant. When President Grant did a little staging in the west In 1879, there was great rivalry among the stage drivers as to who should handle the reins on the coach that took him from Placer ville to Virginia City. Billy Hodges got the honor, which was also a “plum" because of the additional money in the job, and when they start ed outsGrant looked at the frisky six horse team and then at the driver, who at the time was looking as sporty and frisky as his animals. "That’s a frisky team and a frisky driver, but he's got a good eve and a white nose!" exclaimed the president. Grant marveled at the speed with which they traveled, and the way they dashed into Virginia City on that mem orable day just suited the old war rior. He complimented Hodges on his work with the reins. During the years from 1870 to 1884 Wells-Fargo lost, incidental to robber ies. $927,726.55. There were during this time 313 stage holdups, 34 attempted robberies and four train robberies. More than 15 guards were killed or wounded, while more than two dozen bandits were killed, besides those sent to state prison. Some of these facts are here publish ed for the first time, for Billy is not much of a talker until he is poked up a bit and quizzed. He manipulates that lever and calls out the “floor," not understanding or caring little for the power that lifts and lowers this strange modern coach. SURELY MAN OF GREAT FAITH Never la the Potential Possibilities of the Growth of Hair Allowed to Be Forgotten. Some time ago the editor of a pop ular department in this newspaper printed a modest recipe for making hair grow. The writer did not guar antee that the recipe would do it. The writer did not even express an ed itorial opinion on the merits of the recipe. But in spite of this natural and dip i lomatic reserve on the part of the writer that hair-growing rqgipe has made its way from sea to sea with re markable speed. No editorial utter ance of this newspaper has been so widely quoted by other newspapers In months. This hair growing recipe seems to have struck a popular chord. It Is strange the readiness with which people will seise on anything that promises hair. Hope springs eter 1 nal ,*n the bald head's breast; also in the breast of everybody with thin hair. There are no exceptions. LJttle hair, much faith! We are an optimistic nation. But where growing hair is in question our optimism scales its keenest heights. Personal hair is the one subject about which men cannot remain despondent. In spite of everything they feel that polished heads were not meant to be eternally thus; that somewhere be neath the surface the hair is lying, only waiting for the proper call to rise. A man may be a confirmed hypo chondriac. Everything may go wrong with him and the world. He may have rheumatism, lumbago, and a half doxen other diseases. He may be ex pecting each or all of them to carry him off any minute. He may walk en veloped in gloom. But do not be deceived. That man believes in the utmost possibilities of hair. The night is never so dark that he cannot foresee the dawn of hair. His unconscious creed is, "Hair can be grown." Rheumatism, liver trou ble, heart disease may be ready to take him away. But no power exists to take away the possibility of hair from his living, breathing pate. Take a cynical, skeptical sort of man. He may deny everything. He may take a particular pleasure in shocking other people's faith. He may deny the existence of public honor or private virtue. He may be tho very incarnation of negation, the fruit and flower of skepticism, a paladin of doubt, a questioner of all things high and low. But when it comes to hair—how great the change! He believes that if only the proper combination can be found his intellect will once more be crowned with tufted beauty. No certainty, of course. But still a pos sibility— even a strong probability. Wonderful things have been done in the pay of restoring absent hair. A man is foolish to doubt the evidence. It is too strong to be lightly put aside. He will not—cannot do it Great, great and mysterious is hair! Present it is a protection and a joy. Absent the very nurse of hope and faith and patience. We may not fathom the secret of its power and influence. We can only see and note and wonder. —Chicago Inter Ocean. Hood’s Sarsaparilla Eradicates scrofula and all other humors, cures all their effects, makes the blood rich : and abundant, strengthens all the vital organs. Take it. Oet it today in usual liquid form or thoeolated tablets called Sarsatabs. Old Superstition. It was prescribed by an old super stition that if those who were affected with ague would’ visit at dead of night j the nearest crossroad five different j times and then bury a new laid egg, | the disease would be buried. If the i experiment failed, they attributed it J to some unlucky accident that may j have befallen them on the way. FREED FROM SKIN DISEASE “Our boy was born in Toronto on Oct. 13, 1908, and when three months ! old a slight rash appeared on his I cheek. What appeared to be a wa ter blister would form. When it broke, matter would run out, starting new blisters until his entire face, head and shoulders were a mass of scabs and you could not see a par ticle of clear skin. Other parts of his body were affected, but not to such an extent We tried about every advertised remedy without avail, in deed some of them only added to his suffering and one in particular, the - Remedy, almost put the infant into convulsions. The family doctor prescribed for him and told us to bathe the baby in buttermilk. This ; did not do any good, so we took him j to a hospital. He was treated as an out-patient twice a week and he got ; worse, if anything. We then called in another doctor and inside of a : week the boy was, to all appearances, cured and the doctor said his work was done. But the very next day it broke out as bad as ever. “We decided that it could not be ; cured and must run its course and so : we just kept his arms bandaged to i his side to prevent his tearing his i flesh. We left Toronto and shortly after our arrival in Duluth, the Cuti cura Remedies were recommended. We started using them in May, 1909. and soon the cure was complete. You would not think he was the same child for Cuticura made his skin per fectly clear and he is entirely free . from the skin disease. There has ; been no return this time. We still use only Cuticura Soap for baby's bath. Robert Mann, Proctor, Minn., May 3. 1910/]_ About Marriage. She—A girl should look before she leaps. He—She should look pretty or she may not get a chance to leap. Perhaps. “Why did Humpty Dumpty sit on the wall?" “He probably thought he could hold It down." Showed Tact of King. It was the order of the day at a late shoot at Sandringham that when | pheasants should not be shot, and one of the guests brought down a hen which fell near King Edward's place in the line. Anxious not to hurt the offender's feelings by an over rebuke, j the king pointed to the corpus delicti and said: "Ah, Gurney, w'hat a man you are for the ladies l”—Life of Ed I ward VII. I TOOK'HER AT HER WORD. ucmuu xiuiuit.*—vt nj t wuvrt) 5 the new chambermaid? Mrs. Benton Holme—I told her to dust this morning, and an hour later I found that she had dusted. WANTED TO SLEEP Curious That a Tired Preacher Should Have Such Desire. A minister speaks of the curious ef fect of Grape-Nuts food on him and how it has relieved him. “You will doubtless understand how the suffering from indigestion with which 1 used to be troubled made my work an almost unendurable burden; and why it was that after my Sabbath duties had been performed, sleep was a stranger to my pillow till nearly daylight “I had to be very careful as to what I ate. and even with all my care I ex perienced poignant physical dlstres* after meals, and my food never satis fled me. “Since I began the use of Grape Nuts the benefits I have derived from it are very definite, I no longer suffei from Indigestion, and I began to im prove from the time Grape-Nutj ap peared on our table. “I find that by eating a dish of this food after my Sabbath work Is done, (and I always do so now) my nerves are quieted and rest and refreshing sleep are ensured me. “I feel that I could not possibly do without Grape-Nuts food, now that 1 know Its value. It Is Invariably on out table—we feel that we need it to make the meal complete and our children will eat Grape-Nuts when they cannot be persuaded to touch anything else." Name given by Postum Co., Battle Creek, Michigan. Read the famous booklet, “The Road to WeUvllle,” in pkgs. “There’s a Reason.” Ever read the above letter? A sen appear* from time to time. Thei - sr*»;ac, true, and full of homai