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irfany;' others wore injured- itO'&.fire
a&Piiifaaelphla. ' ; '
It 'is announced that there will be
no contest over Mrs. Eddy's, will. ,
John D. Rockefeller has given
$10,000,000 for the University of
Chicago.
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- The throne in China has issued an
edict, refusing to create a constitu
tional cabinet.
,. William A. Gaston has withdrawn
as, a democratic candidate for, senator
.against Mr. Lodge. He says that no
democrat can bo elected and ho
thinks every one should help Governor-dec
'Fobs defeat Lodge.
An Associated Press dispatch from
St. Paul, Minn., saya: A bill will be
presented to the coming legislature
asking for an appropriation of $1,000
a year for the further education of
Mabel Gammon, 16 years of age, who
has been unable to speak, hear or
see since her birth. Miss Gammon
has been in the Faribalt school only
Chreo years, yet she writes on the
typewriter with skill, lias a vocabul
ary of 3,000 words and recently
wrote an essay of 5,000 words. She
makes her own clpthes, threading her
own needles and is skilled in fancy
work."
Nat P. Jackson, editor of the Paris,
Texas, Advocate, has been appoint
ed secretary of the democratic state
committee for Texas.
Michael Cudahy left an estate val
ued -at $11,000,006.- The property
will go to the members of the. family.
Dr. Cook has returned to America.
He came "unhonored and unsung."
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A 'Valuable Little Book Sent Free
For the Asking
Medical books are not always in
teresting reading, especially to peo
ple enjoying good health, but as a
matter of fact scarcely one person in
ten is perfectly healthy, and even
with such, sooner or later sickness
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It is also a well established truth
that nine-tenths of all diseases origi
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Three hundred and fifty miners
were entombed by a coal mine ex
plosion near Manchester, England.
Two hundred persons were" killed
in a San Salvadore earthquake.
A :New York disnatch to th PM-
cago Pvecord-Herald says: "A prac
ticable plan for safeguarding ilie.
wp,uuu,uuv,uuu or rraternal insur
ance now outstanding in the varlrmn
states of the union has at .last been
rormuiated and will shortly, be pre
sented to all state legislatures with
the approval of the various state de
partments of insurance. The an
nouncement was made here follow
ing a conference of the National Ar-
so'ciation of Insurance Commissioners
and a committee representing the
fraternal insurance societies."
A Trenton, N. J., dispatch carried
by the United Press says: "Not
'who is to be senator from New Jer
sey?' but 'shall the people or the
doss rule?' is the question for the
incoming legislature to decide, ac
cording to Governor-elect Woodrow
Wilson, Wilson, in ,a '.caustic "state
ment issued, charges former Senator
James Smith, Jr., the Newark bank
er, with bad faith in presuming to
be a candidate against James E.
Martine, the primary choice. Smith,
through his personal followers, as
sured' Wilson before election that his
'health' would not permit him to he
come a candidate for his old place in
the senate. After election he sent
word to Wilson that he wanted the
job. Wilson then says: 'The issue
is plain. If Mr. Smith Is sent back
to the United States senate, the dem
ocratic party and the state Itself is
once more delivered Into the hands
of the very influences from which It
nas struggled to set Itself free. Mr.
Smith's candidacy renews and Inten
sifies the struggle between the peo
ple and the selfish Interests. T de
sire to "co-operate with the democrats
or every amiiatlon In carrying the
party forward by union and harmony
of action toward the great service
which it can render the country If
It'will but be true to its principles.
But when organization is nsed for
the benefit and elevation of individ
uals who do not represent the peo
ple, whose interests are opposed to
the people, I nvust resist it by every
means at jhy disposal.' "
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1 Chief Horan and thirty members
of the Chicago fire department lost
their lives In the flro which destroyed
the beef htfuse of Nelson Morris Com
pany of Chicago. .On the day bo
fore this fire occurred fourteen mem
bers of the Philadelphia fire' depart
ment lost their lives in a fire in that
city.
Cecil Grace, nephew of the late
Mayor Grace of New York, under
took to cross the English channel in
an airship. and it is feared that he
loat his life.
THE FIRST BLECTRIO MGHTS
The usual understanding of the
primal application of electricity as an
Illumlnant is an association of the
names of Brush and Edison as the
first to apply the forces of electricity
to "produce light. In a sense this
Idea is correct, but the first experi
mental philosopher to discover that
electric light could be produced by a
dry battery was Sir- Humphrey Davy,
who in 1810 exhibited a light three
inches long, between carbon, points,
before the Royal Society of London.-
But no commercial value was at-v
tached tethe use of electricity as an
ilhiminant until more than half' &
century later. The Centennial . ex- y
hibition, held in Philadelphia in
187G, really marks the era of our
present form of electric light; though
electric lights had been in use i
abroad prior to that time. The ex
hibition of models and practical dem
onstrations of -electric lights at Phil
adelphia in 187-0 attracted the atten-. '
tion of scientists and capitalists in
this country, and the first incandes
cent: lamps -and the first arc system
were. put to practical use In a small
way in 1878. The Brush arc light
gained favor in the beginning as the
most "adaptable for street lighting,,
and Cleveland, Ohio, the home cf
Charles Francis Brush, .the inventor, .
was the Jnjtial .American city tof '
adopt the arc system for street -lighting.
Since 1878, both the Brush arc'
system and the Edison incandescent'
system have developed. Marc M.
Reynolds in Moody's Magazine.
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