u HI Hi m r ic TggMBaififfffiriiif Chicago Youngster Six Weeks Old Who Weighs Only Two Pounds Mary Pollock daughter of Mr and Mrs William Pollock residing at 1G7 Clybourn avenue celebrated the sixth week of her advent into the world on Friday by drinking a pint of milk and crying for more Miss Mary is the tin- Plll worlds smallest baby iest healthy infant that lives in this country A few hours after her birth she was weighed and the scales bal anced at one pound and three ounces The attending physician told her par ents that there was absolutely no chance of saving the child But in spite of this Miss Mary lived on and has grown from day to day On Friday she weighed two pounds and cried as though her lungs were two pounds strong She is being as carefully nursed as human skill can devise Every one of her features is particularly well developed A more beautiful specimen of physical babyhood would be hard to find But she does look so little Her fingers are of the size of a goose quill and her arms are so small as to resem ble nothing ever seen in the way of hu man flesh But her eyes are woudrous large and they are very blue and if she keeps on improving in strength it is safe to say that she will dangerously use them some day Local medical his tory has no record of a child weighing jno more than did Miss Pollock when j born living for a longer period than two days The case Is phenomesal Chicago Times Herald How Mineral Waters Cure When a patient reaches a mineral Tvater health resort he is examined by the resident physician and ordered to tdrink certain quantities of the water at certain times during the day this is increased from day to day until the maximum quantity is reached He is ordered to drink one or two glassfuls between breakfast and dinner the same quantity in the afternoon and a couple of glassfuls before going to bed The patient is urged to take it whether lie wants it or not He may say that be is not thirsty but that makes no difference he must take it as a cine The quantity is increased until we have known thirty glassfuls per day to be taken A part of the benefit derived is be- cause of the rest and change of scene japart perhaps is from the small quan tity of the salts and other bases con tained in these waters we are dot lepeaking of cathartic or chalybeate jwaters but the benefit from this iource is very slight Tne sepret of Er JEWl rvi3fBgireyjTriaBfc3Mtf the cure is in the quantity of the water taken If the water be pure free from organic matter and taken in sufficient quantity the results will be substan tially the same regardless of the traces of lithia and small quantities of sodium chloride and other salts You can perform these cures at home with the ordinary drinking water if of good quality if you will require the patient to take it in the same quantity as at the springs It is very easy to add lithia if desired but you must not lose sight of the fact that the quantity of water not lithia taken is the important thing It acts by flooding the kidneys by wash ing out the bladder with a copious bland and dilute urine by unclogging the liver and clearing the brain The patient feels better from day to day he is better Irritable bladder is reliev ed the kidneys act freely are wash ed out and many effete substances are carried out with the blood this clears the way for the liver to act free ly and normally for there is an inti mate relation between the liver and kidneys Medical World 22f33rt kWW iMnfiV jb oau6iasiaJaKS33SSBSE I jwli ZSJ T HILOSOPHBRS ind people generally agree JS W J T Ww Mi I that there is something aggravating about a hog y wMfi -d He K the friend of no nian but Jl lawyer Many s T 7 TV S Aitlii 5ijPtilllll times has he grunted his liimborine way from nrimnrv Mr f b J - vlii ii - iar rTTi iJ icyx - - ma - 6ZnJ - - i court through intermediate legal processes attended bv a mob of lawyers and a mass of bripf s lin to hie ri5a xvh and gown only to find when all is settled that he i - WV SlSllV WKW MJ UUIVUIWU IVtJbUllb on the weary journey and left an empty platter and darkened homo for the people who first led him into court Every legal administrative unit has had its hog case Missouri says the St Louis Republic can boast of the best of all This is the lawsuit of Winn vs Reed which is still grinding along in the Kansas City Court of Appeals with little prospect of settlement until the court of last resort passes upon it A few years ago J Newton Winn and Watson Reed were heads of two of the best families in Clinton County Their large and highly improved farms adjoined and the members of the two families intermingled constantly in the capacity of neighbor host and guest Both were men in the prime of life good types of the country gentleman and modern farmer Each was a perfect specimen of physical manhood and in every sense a representative man The suit that sundered the two families almost mined two estates and brought both Newton Winn and Watson Reed to untimely graves was begun in 1S92 It originated over a hog Winn lost a valuable blooded hog and after a prolonged search it was found in one of the pastures on the Reed farm Winn claimed his property but Reed refused to ghe it up asserting his ownership to the hog by virtue of having purchased it from a stock trader Winn replevined the hog before Justice of the Peace Thomas S Pearcy before whom the first trial of the cause was had Winn won his suit but Reed took an appeal to the Circuit Court of Clinton County In the CircuitCourt it quickly developed that the fight was destined to be fought with great bitter ness The wealth and station of the two families soon involved in one way or another all their immediate relatives People throughout the county took sides Reed took a change of venue and the case was sent to Platte County There it ran the usual course and finally came to trial for the first time in the fall of 1S93 Over 100 witnesses testified at the trial which lasted a week It resulted in another verdict for Winn Reed swore that he would not rest satisfied with the verdict and his attorneys took an appeal to 1 he Kansas City Court of Appeals Several months later the case was argued before the full bench of that court On an affidavit of a juryman alleging irregularity the finding of the Circuit Court was reversed and the case remanded for a new trial Eighteen months elapsed before the now celebrated case again came to trial in the old court house at Platte City This was in August 1S95 The lapse of time had not softened the bitterness of the two principals Mutual friends tried to patch up a compromise without success Neither Reed nor Winn would abate one jot from his position Acrimony and intense personal hostility had succeeded the hasty anger out of which the suit sprang When court assembled the entire community felt that the hog suit was of more importance than all other litigation on the docket Nearly 200 witnesses had been summoned Winn and Reed arrived each attended closely by a bodyguard of personal friends and relatives Great care was taken to prevent a personal encounter between the men Judge W S Herndon was on the bench The counsel were the same as at the previous trial At every session of the court the large room was crowded to suffocation by the army of witnesses and friends of the principals The speeches commenced one afternoon shortly after the court had re wnveivctl n f tor -the noon recess One of the counsel for Winn opened the argument and spoke about an hour He was fol lowed by John Cross who represented Reed Cross made a bitter speech Particularly did he apply the lash to Berry Winn a son of Newton Winn Cross had just delivered a particularly scathing sentence reflecting on Berry Winn when Newton Winn rose from his seat and with a muffled exclamation struck Cross a violent blow in the face The blow sent Cross reeling against a juror Before Winn could strike again Reed sprang to his feet his face was as white as a sheet and his eyes glowing like coals In both hands he grasped a Colts revolver of the largest caliber This he leveled at Winn and fired The heavy bullet struck Winn in the abdomen tore a hole entirely through his body and ripped up the carpet on the platform of the judges bench Winn reeled but did not fall He was unarmed but seized a chair and made an effort to reach his enemy Reed seemed to become a madman He fired two more shots before he wa overpowered With in half an hour after the shooting Judge Herndon ordered the attorneys to proceed with the trial With the plaintiff dying and the defendant in jail for murder the hog case went to the jury and a verdict for the defendant was returned Winn never lived to know that he had lost the case after having won it twice On the following morning he died At the April term of court 1S9G Reed was brought to trial on a charge of murder in the first degree Over three hun dred witnesses testified and the trial lasted ten days He set up two pleas defense of his attorney and self defense After considering forty one hours the jury returned a verdict of guilty of murder in the second degree and fixed the pun ishment at ninety nine years in the penitentiary Reed was out on bond until January 1897 when the Supreme Court affirmed the judgment of the lower court The next morning Wat Reed presented himself to the warden of the peniten tiary at Jefferson City and his career as a convict began that day But his servitude was to be shorter than he dreamed From the day he surrendered his health began to fail and in just four weeks he was carried from the prison in a coffin The case of Winn vs Reed still grinds along in the courts The verdict in favor of Reed found an hour after the murder of Winn was set aside by Judge Herndon The court gave as its reason misconduct on the part of John Cross Reeds attorney This necessitated a new trial Reeds attorneys appealed from this order of the court and this appeal is now pending in the Kansas City Court of Appeals As both plaintiff and defendant are dead the cause is being carried on by administrators The original issue has long been lost sight of Both sides would be glad to let the case drop did not such action entail the payment of the costs which now amount to many thousands of dollars SMALLEST BABY IN THE WORLD Deny Victorias Rig t There ds in England a Thames Vallej Legitimist Club Its peculiar mission if to uphold the right of the Stuart family to the throne of Great Britain To the members not Queen Victoria but o German princess is their rightful sov ereign The club does nothing mow dangerous that to pass futile resolm tions which are reported in the news papers as practical jokes A new asso ciation has just sprung up which calls itself the Society of the Red Carnation and seeks to cut into this Jacobite busi ness The council of the Thames Val ley Legitimist Club has gravely resolv ed that the new society is unneces sary and that the advanced program is bound to create divisions and dis gust among all true Legitimists and Jacobites and to bring the cause into derision The speedy dissolution of the intruder is advised by the council of the original patentees If a woman isnt permitted to reign supreme in the household the chances are she will get made and storm xfr Jv srw wr S X PaRisanaJXreyN HZr V T 1 I SrtlSBSW 2 in I I I i I I ll i i TV- A ST rSoJVSSSSS 9J tlrrAM ZriMl Jf W lfVf i I The man who says Love me love my dog The man who cant remember his wifes birthday The man who thinks he can keep house better than his wife does The man who thinks a parlor carpet ought to last fifteen years The man who thinks a womans bon net ought to cost about 75 cents The man who forgets his manners as soon as he crosses his own threshold The man who labors under the delusion that his wifes money belongs to him The man who thinks that nobody but an angel is good enough to be his wife The man who thinks there is no place like home for grumbling and growling The man who thinks a woman Is fixed for the season if she has one new gown The man who always leaves his wife at home when he takes his summer vaca tion Tho man who thinks a sick wife trould feel better if she would just get up and stir around The man who thinks his wife exists for the comfort and convenience of his moth er and his sisters The mttn who has 75 wortK of fishing tackle and cant afford a new stv of cur tains for the dining room The man who talks about supporting a wife when she is working fourteen hours a day Including Sundays The man who thinks a woman ought to be her own milliner dressmaker seam stress cook housemaid and nurse The man who doesnt know what on earth a woman wants with money when she has a bill at the dry goods store The man who thinks a five-year-old worsted street gown is the proper sort of toilet for a dinner party or a reception The man who provides himself with a family and trusts Providence to provide the family with a home and something to eat The man who thinks a woman ought to give up a thousand dollar salary and work In his kitchen for her board and a few -clothes and be glad of the chance The woman who expects to have a good easy time The woman who wants to refurnish her house every spring The woman who buys for the mere pleasure of buying The woman who would rather nurse a pug dog than a baby The woman who thinks that men are angels and demigods The woman who expects a declaration of love three times a day The woman who thinks it Is cheaper to buy bread than to make It The woman who thinks that the cook and the nurse can keep house The woman who would die rather than wear a bonnet two seasons old The woman who marries in order to have somebody to pay her bills The woman who wants things just be cause other women have them The woman who stays at home only when she cannot find a place to visit The woman who reads cheap novels and dreams of being a duchess or a countess The woman who thinks she is an orna ment to her sex if she wins a progressive euchre prize The woman whose cleanliness and order extend no further than the front hall and the drawing room Tho woman who thinks she can get 5000 worth cf style out of a one-thousand-dollar salary The woman who buys for the parlor and borrows kitchen utensils from her neghbors The womtfb who does not know how many cents halves quarters dimes and mcEeis mere are in a dollar The woman who thinks embroidered center pieces and doylies are more nec essary than sheets pillowcases and blan kets The woirian who cares more for the style Of hr winter cloak than she cares for the health and comfort of her chil dren The woKan who proudly declares that she cannot even hem a pocket handker chief nevr made a bed in her life and adds with a simper that she has been in society evftr since she was 15 ii THE LOST MANUSCRIPT Sixthly brethren said the preacher Then he anxiously looked round Sixthly sixthly he repeated Till it seemed a mocking sound Fiercely did his fingers fumble Fifthly fourthly thirdly all But his lips kept muttering Sixthly And it answered not his call Sixthly brethren as I mentioned Then lie turned the Bible oer Every hair stood up in anguisli While his two eyes swept the floor Then the pood old gray haired deacon Rose with Parson ef ye please Sixthly just sailed out the winder On the buzzum o the breeze Then a small boy snickered gaily Ah that winds a beauty bright Thirdly fourthly both were winners But that sixthlys out o sight Columbus Dispatch SEMPER EIDELIS OXG after the speakers words had died away the listening people waited in hushed ex pectancy unwilling to believe that he had fin ished and unable to de scend all at once from the heights to which they had been raised But the announcement of the last hymn assured them that the service was almost over and a little later they began to 51c slowly out through the high nar row doors into the damp Cornish air rn almost total silence the crowd sep irated with the unconsciousness of surroundings which comes to men when their minds have been stirred deeply John Ordway and his wife came from the chapel among the last and valked arm in arm to the long low hed where many wagons were wait mg both had been strongly moved by he evenings sermon but in different vays indicative perhaps of their widely differing temperaments Ordway helped his wife into the vagon the horses struck into a swift rot and the driver leaned forward to iraw the rug more closely about his companion peering up into her face solicitously A damp night he murmered Do rou feel at all cold little girl She started nervously at his voice and shook her head Im quite warm enough she said mechanically They moved swiftly past the scatter ed houses of the village and out into a tretch of open country Three or four iimes the woman raised her head as chough about to speak but checked herself with an effort I have something to tell you John she said at last I I am afraid I ought to have told you long ago Her tone was so serious that he turn ed and looked at her with quick anx iety Are ye sure ye ought he asked gently Maybe there aint any need There is a need she answered I nave known all along that it would be better to speak out but somehow I never felt that I could until to night She paused as though to gather cour ige Its about myself and Willis she said You remember Ordway bent forward suddenly with a warning shout to the horses and the wagon jolted heavily in a deep rut Thats me all over he said with a chuckle I took special notice of that hole so as to skip it on the way nome and here I am drivin right into it again like an old fool Thats what 2omes of listenin to sermons ye cant quite understand Wont you listen to me John his wife asked pleadingly Of course I will he answered Only my nerves bein so wrought up Im sort of afraid to have any big Shock come on me sudden ye know You make it so hard for me she said And I am in earnest Oh truly I am in earnest Her voice trembled with the warning of tears Ordway put his arm around her and drew her closer to him protec tively as a mother soothes a nervous sleepy child I wasnt jokin he said Im al ways glad to listen to ye only I think red best wait till we get home Were most there now The wagon swung around a sharp urn and then far up on the hill ahead 3f them the clear cut outline of the farm buildings showed against the horizon And the horses plodded on in silence Go in by the fire said John Ord way wrhen at length they rattled into ihe farm yard Itll take me some time to fix things up But when he came back from the stable he found her waiting leaning against one of the square posts of the porch and looking jut across the darkness of the valley I wanted to wait until we could go in together she said The long low kitchen was full of changing shadows which danced across the time polished floor and lost themselves in the corners Df the irregular ceiling when Ordway 2rossed to the huge fireplace and piled some sticks of soft wood on the glow ing ashes Then twisting himself out of his top coat and bestowing it together with his cap on a convenient table he drag ged from the chimney corner a great old fashioned chair and sank back lux uriously in its capacious depths His wife had also removed her wraps and now took her seat at the other side of the fireplace on a low stool drawn back just within the wavering bound ary of shadow At rength she spoke slowly and with evident effort at calm ness You must try to be patient with ir Kaaz id van she said Youll be astonished I know and I am afraid youll be an gryand I couldnt blame you but I want you to wait till till Ive fin ished Are ye quite sure yed better begin or hadnt ye better let it go till to morrow No she said quickly Ive wanted to speak to speak so many times and havent dared to Ill feel a thousand times happier when Ive told ycu no matter what happens Let me go on now Maybe I know what he began but checked himself suddenly Im listenin he added She hesitated as if to gain strength and he marked how the slender figure quivered with the effiort of her hur ried breathing I had promised to marry Willis be fore I knew you she said unsteadily We quarreled about some little thing and each was too proud to speak first Finally he went away without seeing me You know how we heard that he died in Africa I believed it we all did and I cried myself to sleep night after night because I hadnt acted dif ferently As time went on I began to forget little by little and after a while it all seemed like a sort of dream then you came into my life and taught me to trust you and turn to you for help In everything And in truth I loved you more than you could ever under stand Her voice trembled pitifully You believe me John she asked Say that you do believe me Ordway drew his hands across his eyes with an involuntary movement I aint never doubted it he answer ed softly She gave a quick sigh of relief and let her head sink again upon her breast as she spoke again I was happy and contented for two long years It was like heaven and you were happy too John Happy he said Ah yes nobodyll ever know how much And then little Dora was born she went on and somehow all our trouble began right there for it seemed as though her baby hands took hold of our hearts and pushed them apart a little at first and then more and more I ac tually thought that you didnt care about her I know it was wrong but I thought it and I got to feeling against you as I would against some one that was watching for a chance to hurt my little one Well things got worse and worse and when she died I almost believed you wrere to blame in some way I didnt know how Oh its awful to think about but I couldnt help feeling that way Will you ever forgive me for it I never laid it up against ye he answered I reckoned it was natural and I knew ye wasnt well so I tried to forget all about that part of my life and I done it almost She looked up at him gratefully iou are trying to help me she said Not many men would do that The rest of my story is harder to tell and harder to listen to You remember that Willis came back and hunted us up He came at the worst time for all of us I was set against you and half wild about babys death and reckless to everything He found that out and kept pleading with me and urging me to go away Avith him Day after day when you were at work he used to come to the house and talk to me al ways in the same strain I ought to have sent him away but I didnt His sympathy was so ready that I didnt see the purpose nor the falseness of it It was as though some evil spirit put the word into his mouth and I listened God help me I listened She started to her feet and stood fac ing her husband her arms raised to her head in a wild gesture It was no fault of mine that I did not sin against you in deed as I did in thought she cried If it had not been some accident I dont even know what it was I should not have been here now I went to meet him one night We were to drive to Oakley and take the train for some place I wait ed I dont know how many hours but he didnt come at last I crept home and found you asleep All night I sat by the fire waiting for some word from him for I was ready to go yes even then I was ready to go In the morn ing when you were away a letter came saying that an unforeseen accident had happened and he would let me know about it soon I never heard from him nrriin She paused and looked at him fear fully as though expecting a violent outburst of anger but he said nothing and at last she spoke again unable to bear the silence Wont you speak to me she cried tremulously Havent you been listen ing Have I done wrong to tell you Speak to me for Gods sake I cant bear it The words were lost In a storm of sobbing and she threw herself down on her knees beside him hiding her face with her hands on the arm of the old fashioned chair Ordway looked down at her through eyes that were dimming Dont take on so Eunie he said gently yell be glad all the rest of yer life I think on account of jest what yere cryin about now Look xip my girl an maybe I can finish the story for ye He put out his hand and stroked the bowed head with clumsy tenderness Ye say ye never knowed why he didnt come that night he said I could a told ye why She raised her head with a startled exclamation You she cried Yes he answered Jest me He stayed away because I told him hed better and he knowed I meant what I said Her eyes grew full of a wondering fear and she shrank away from him but he smiled again and detained her with gentle force Wait he said I aint crazy Did ye think I was so blind all them months that I didnt see xjjiii what was happening Id a knowed Ir Id been miles away for there aint never any trouble in your heart buti what I dont feel it Lord bless ye I seen what was goin on but I thought twas best to say notbin an let ye wrestle it out alone Finally when ij noticed that circumstances an every thing was likely to be too much for ye why I jest stepped in an talked to Willis He understood an that settled it Then youve known she interrupt ed breathlessly Youve known all this time He nodded cheerf ullyAll this time he answered But you never said a word to me you never acted as though Its always harder for me to talk than to keep still he said slowly Surely yeve found that out long ago I couldnt a said a word without mak in things worse most likely so I thought the best thing to do was to jest wait an I have been waitin Waiting she repeated Waiting for what For whats happened Eunie he said softly Waiting to hear jest what Ive heard to night to have ye kneel down here beside me as yere kneelin now a wantin the help I can give ye an a trustin me enough to ask for it He lifted his hand to check her ques tion and went on in the same tone I aint never been like any of the men ye used to know Why for a year or more after we were married I used to set an watch ye wonderin all the time whether it was really me an whether my luck wasnt too good to be true I was always afraid that there was a mistake somewheres for it didnt seem right nor natural that ye should see anything in me to care about unless uhless it was because I cared so much for you I tried to think that some times The woman was clinging to his arm and weeping convulsively Twerent your fault little girl he said It jest happened that way There aint no need to cry about it now the time for cryins all gone past an I dont think itll ever come again He stopped abruptly as though half ashamed of his sudden outburst and let his glance rest lovingly upon the kneeling hgure at his feet Aint ye glad its happened he asked Surely ye aint grievin over the very thing that is to make us so happy agen She did not answer and for a mo ment he watched her in perplexed anx iety Then he understood and knelt down by her side Toronto Saturday Night WASTED ENERGY i A Good Thins the Ice 3Ian Wasnt There Across an uptown street an ice wag on was extended The street was nar row and the horses attached to the wagon had evidently been halted at the curb and then had turned diagonally across the roadway Usually these wag ons are manned by a crew of two men but in this case neither man was in sight Presently along came a horso and wagon with two men on the seat They couldnt get by because of the ico wagon They halted in the rear of the obstruction and one of the men called out Hi there get a move on you The ice wagon was full of ice and the drivers seat was entirely concealed from the men in the other wagon There was no response Whats the matter with you yelled the man dontyou know you are blockr ing up the highway Still no response The vociferating man grew angry Say he howled if you dont drive ahead Ill take off one of your wheels The other man laughed The wheels of the ice wagon looked as if they might have been made for the Juggernaut car The wheels of the other wagon were light and shaky If you dont drive ahead Ill get off this wagon and chuck you into the gut ter shrieked the angry man Say said the other man dont talk like that These icemen are all fighters Hell come back here with an ice hook and welt the heads off of us Let him come roared the first speaker He cant bluff me Say there you wretched white livered ice peddler get a move on you or Ill tram ple all over your worthless carcass And even this didnt elicit a response Then the angry man slowly got down from the seat and grasping his whip in a firm grasp cautiously circled around by the way of the sidewalk un til he could get a look at the drivers seat Why theres no one here he calledt back Then he took the horses by thei heads and pulled them to the side of the road As he climbed back into his wagon he said Its a blamed lucky thing for that driver that he wasnt there Id aT beat the life out of him And he pulled up the horse savagely and rattled along For the Bike In a newly designed bicycle it is not necessary to use the feet and keep the pedals moving all the time as the spiked rear wheel can be lifted out of line with the runners by means of a lever near the head of the machine so that after speed has been attained or in going down hills on the road the feet can be held still Business Transaction Yabsley See here Mudge why havent you paid that 10 as you prom ised Mudge I heard you were going tof leave town Indianapolis Journal- it is saki that half the people boiai die before reaching the age of 16 Some others -we know wouldnt be missed very much i fT A i Sii y jl k i n J w I t il ir - i Mad 1