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The class fn very elementary chem-
istry was having one of its early ses-
sions. The matter of sea water came
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you tell me what is it that makes the
water of the sea so salty ? "
"Salt , " said Peters.
"Next ! " said the teacher. "What is
it makes the water of the sea so
salty ? "
, . "The salty quality of the sea wajter : , "
answered "Next , " "Is due to the admix-
ture of a sufficient quantity of chlorid
of sodium to impart to the aqueous
fluid with which it commingles a sa
line flavor , which is readily recognized
b ) ' the orpins of taste ! "
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Carried Uncle to Old Dominion Cus-
I totUB liy a Visit. :
: - "Yes , I confess to having passed one
1 of the most enjoyable weeks of my
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: ' 'ington woman who has just returned
I. home after a week's visit to the place
In southwestern Virginia , where she
was born and grew to womanhood.
"How did I pass the time ? " she re
plied to a question from one of the
company. "Well , I was at home , you
J know , so I just romped with my sis
ters and cousins , some of whom are
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happy grandmothers. course , we all
had our afternoon nap , but the fun
came at the supper table , where we
all made merry with cup tossing , as
we used to do every evening in the
long ago. "
"We were not all old people , " she
remarked. "There were several chil-
dren about 25 or 30 years of age , who
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were enthusiastic cup tossers. "
"What is cup tossing " said one of
her hearers who is a native of the
far West.
, "Of course poor child , " said the
Washington woman , "I might havo
.known you , being from the West ,
. would not know of it. Cup tossing , my
child , is finding your fortunes depict-
ed in the dregs left in your tea or
coffee cups. It is as aristocratic a pas-
time as the game of whist , and came
to us from our English ancestors.
"Now , at one of our fortune-telling
fetes one of the young and unmarried
girls found in the dregs at the bottom
of her cup the well-defined picture of
a dog. 'Oh , fidelity ! ' the girl shouted
\L at the rest of us. 'Here is the dog ,
which represents faithfulness. Don't
tell me , ' she said , 'that Joe is going to
prove false , even if he has not called
for a week. ' The fortune came true , "
said the old lady , for Joe called that
. . very evening.
. "One of the boys found a lot of mon
ey , represented by coffee grounds , in
the bottom of his cup , and , sure
enough , a stranger called on him next
morning and purchased a quantity of
rt ; farm material. They all believe in cup
tossing down at my old home , and
often indulge in it.
"The rest of the time while I was
I there we passed in talking over the
past and just such things ; played
. . euchre a little , and just rested. Even
' . . with my advanced years , " she said to
% ) ' her friends , "I feel that my visit to
' my old Virginia home has given me a
new lease on life. " - Washington Post.
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AN OLD TIMER
Ila.s Had .Experiences. !
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- A woman who has used Postum
since : it came upon the market knows
from experience the wisdom of using
Postum in place of coffee if one values
health and a clear brain. She says : :
"At the time Postum was first put
on the market I was suffering from
nervous dyspepsia and my physician
had repeatedly toH me not to use tea
or coffee. Finally I decided to take
his advice and try Postum. I got a
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package and had "it carefully prepared ,
finding it delicious to the taste. So I
continued its use and very soon its
beneficial effects convinced me of its
. value for I got well of my nervous
t 'f. : ness and dyspepsia.
I ' "My : husband had been drinking cof
\ . , fee all his life until it had affected
' 1 his nerves terribly , and I persuaded
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a him to shift to Postum. It was easy
t\ to get him to make the change , for
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'j the Postum is so delicious. It cer
tainly worked wonders for him.
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"We soon learned that Postum does
not exhilarate or depress and does not
stimulate , but steadily and honestly
strengthens the nerves and the stom-
ach. :
ach."To
"To make a long story short , our en
tire family continued to use Postum
with satisfying results , as shown in
our fine condition of health , and we
have noticed a rather unexpected im
. , , , , provement in brain and nerve power. "
Increased brain and nerve power al
ways follows the use of Postum iu
place of coffee , sometimes in a very
, marked manner. "There's a Reason. . "
t Look in pkgs. for the famous little
, book , "The Road to Wellville. "
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Ever read the above letter ? A
! , new one appears from time to time
; They are genuine , true , and full of '
human interest.
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PITTSBURG CAR STRIKE ENDS.
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Mayor Brings Men and Officials
Together in His Office.
The street railway strike , which
cost the city of Pittsburg over $200-
000 in two days , was officially declared
to be at an end at 10:30 o'clock Mon-
day night. In the private offices of
Mayor Magee articles were signed by
officials of the Pittsburg Railways
Company and an executive committee
from the Amalgamated Association of
Street and Electric Railway Employes
which will for years to come prevent
another tie up of the 400 miles of
street railway tracks in and about
greater Pittsburg and Allegheny
County.
The strike , it developed , was the
outcome of only two points of differ-
ence between .the car company and the
smotormen and conductors , one being
alleged neglect upon the part of the car
company to shorten "swing runs , " and
the other the refusal of the railway
officials to reinstate discharged men '
without proper hearing. I
All during the day Mayor Magee I
made vain efforts to bring the two
factions of the traffic tangle together.
Finally a conference was arranged and
held in the Mayor's office. When the
warring factions assembled the Mayor
suggested that the temper of the peo-
ple seemed to indicate they would I
neither tolerate rioting nor pro-
longed traffic disturbances. Then ,
with slight modifications , an agree-
ment allowing discharged men proper
hearing and giving the assur-
ance of the car company that the sec
retary/would shorten "swing runs"
was drawn up and signed. The union
executive committee instructed the
pickets at the car barns to call the
men for duty , beginning at 5 a. m.
MRS. GOTJID WINS HER CASE.
Granted Divorce and $ 36OOO , a Year
Alimony.
Mrs. Howard Gould won a sweeping
victory in her separation suit against
millionaire husband in New York
when Justice Victor J. Dowling from
the bench granted her a legal separa-
tion and alimony at the rate of $36,000
a year : , practically $100 a day. In
voicing his decision Justice Dowling
gave Mrs. Gould a clean bill so far as
intoxication is concerned. He said
that no proof of excessive drinking
had been introduced by Howard
Gould's lawyers.
The court intimated that Mrs. Gould
under all the circumstances had been
indiscreet in her meetings with Dus-
tin Farnum , the actor , even though
there were business relations behind
them.
The decision of the court was that
Howard Gould's abandonment so far
as concerned the proof offered , was
not only without justification in any
degree , but without provocation. The
only question which puzzled the jus-
tice was the amount of the alimony.
He declared that the case was with
out precedent so far as he knew , the
husband's admitted income being in
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excess of $750,000 a year.
The fact that Mrs. Gould had ac
quired $57,000 worth of jewelry at her
husband's expense since1 the actual
separation was taken into considera- I
tion by Justice Dowling. He told How-
ard Gould that if his wife returned to
the stage , an event that he did not
think likely , Gould could reopen the
case with an application to have the
alimony decreased.
JURY CONVICTS A. P. HEn ZE.
Brother of Copper King Found
Guilty of Impeding Justice.
Arthur P. Heinze was found guilty
in New York of impeding justice by
inducing a clerk in the employ of F.
Augustus Heinze's $80,000,000 United
Copper Company to evade a subpoena
issued by the United States grand jury
investigating the actions of F. Augus-
tus Heinze as president of the Mercan-
tile National Bank of New York.
The penalty for the offense is $500
fine or three months in jail , or both.
Sentence was suspended until the Oc
tober term of court on the promise of
the prisoner that he would do all in
his power to produce for the grand
jury the books of the United Copper
Company which he admitted he had
caused to be removed from the office
of the company at No. 74 Broadway.
-He began that task by going before
the grand jury and telling where he
sent the books and all he knows of
their whereabouts and the mutilation
of them.
LIGHTNING HITS BIG BALLOON.
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and Four Xarrorvly Escape.
Torn from its moorings of stout rope
as if they were so many strings , a big
balloon which was being inflated in
Steeplechase Park , Coney Island , New
York , was swept out to sea and in the
midst of a veritable cloudburst struck
by lightning and almost consumed.
Four women who were in the basket
of the balloon making things snug
narrowly escaped with their lives by
jumping out of the car as the big gas
bag soared suddenly away.
EIGHT-HOUR LAW UPHELD.
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Judge Doyle Rules Oklahoma. Larr
IN Constitutional.
- The eight-hour law passed by the
first Oklahoma Legislature was held
constitutional by Judge Thomas Doyle
of the State Criminal Court of Ap
peals , thus sustaining Judge J. C.
Strang of the County Court at Guth.
rie and overruling a recent opinion by
Attorney General Wast that the law
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Scores Injured and Many Buildings
, Wrecked Near Niles , N. D.
Scores of persons were injured and
farm buildings within a radius of six-
teen miles were destroyed by a series
of tornadoes which swept over Niles.
Benson County , N. D. , Tuesday even
ing. Unconfirmed reports from Leeds
say eight persons were killed and a
report was received from Minnewau-
kon that one womarf was killed and a
number were injured , and that the
town was destroyed. These reports
cannot be verified , as wires are down.
The twisters followed at intervals of
a few minutes. Between twenty and
thirty farmhouses are wrecks and fif
ty telegraph poles are snapped off. The
six members of the family of Erick
Urnes's. near Niles , were injured and
Mrs. Urness may not live. The yonng-
est child was found wrapped up in a
bundle of barbed wire.
KILL FIVE FILIPINO BANDITS.
Cavalry Pursuing Jiliiri's Band
Brings Dentil List to Thirty-one.
Five of Jikiri's band of Moro ban-
dits were killed during the last few
days in engagements with Capts. Bry- -
alt , Rhodes and Anderson , command-
ing detachments of the Sixth Cavalry
co-operating with . the . mosquito fleet
under Capt. Signor. Capt. Anderson
struck the band on Pata island Phil-
ippines , and in the running engage-
ment that followed the five . were
'killed , several were "wounded , and sev
eral others were captured by friendly
Moros. Thirty-one of the band have
been killed or captured during the last
thirty days , but Jikiri himself eludes
capture. I
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Theodore Roosevelt has gone to So-
tik : to resume hunting.
Dr. Theodore Barth , the leader of
one of the radical parties in the Ger-
man reichstag , is dead.
King Alfonso of Spain , while ! ] play
ing polo , fell from his horse. His
ankle was sprained severely.
The Venezuelan Government has
purchased the American steamers Nan-
ticoke and Dispatch for government
service on Lake Maracaibo , where they
will compete with the private com-
pany which was granted a monopoly
by Castro when he was President.
In the British parliament Sir John
Barlow a Liberal member of the I
House of Commons , and a well known
merchant , 'startled the country : with
the sensational suggestion that the
Germans have established a depot of
arms containing 50.000 Mauser rifles.
in the center of London together wK'1
7,50,000 round of ammuni'ion for
the use of 66,000 trained German sol-
diers now employed in. various apici-
ties in England.
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ONE KILLED , FOUR HURT IN AUTO
Machine : : OvertuniH at tl-.e Curb When
It Is : Shifted to Avoid Man. : :
Thomas B. McEnroe , a New York
policeman , was killed instantly and
four other men were injured , one fa
tally , when an automobile in which
they were riding was overturned while
on the way to Coney Island. The car
had been borrowed for th2 trip by
George Olney. It was goin : at high , .
speed , when a passenger stepped from
a trolley car directly in front of it. I
A sudden twist of the steering wheel
to avoid hitting the passenger sent the
automobile ' skidding against a curb ,
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'the car was overturned and its occu-
pants thrown out or pinned under it.
Olney disappeared after the crash.
MISSING MAN FOUND SLAIN.
Widow Accused of Murder After
Body Is Discovered on Farm.
The body of H. J. Leadbeater , a
farmer near Mankato , Minn. , who dis-
appeared I two montas ago , was found
buried in a potato patch. Frank Smith ,
a hired man , according to the authori-
ties , has confessed , saying Mrs. Lead-
beater killed her husband with an ax ,
probably that she might wed another.
Mrs. Leadbeater , Mrs. Charles Swandt ,
a sinter , and Smith are under arrest.
Wcllmuii . Starts Journey. ,
Walter Wellman and the othor mem-
bers of the expedition that is planning
to reach the north pole this summer
by : airship , left Tromsoe , Norway , on
the steamer Arctic with a large quan
tity of material for the rebuilding of
the balloon shed at Spitzbergen that
was destroyed last winter by a storm.
Owe Slain , Eleven Hurt In Riot.
Four hundred Turks and Syrians {
took : part in a race riot in Springfield ,
Mass. , which resulted in Said Burak ,
leader of the Turks , being killed , and
Joseph All , a special Syrian policeman , I
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being sent to Mercy Hospital with a
fractured skull. Ten other Turks and
Syrians were wounded.
Finds Waiter Is ITer Son.
I Mrs. Robert H. Burnham , wealthy
widow of Reno , Nev. , while entertain
I ing two women friends at tea in an up-
town hotel in New York , recognized !
the waiter as her son , Robert , who left
Reno several years ago to seek his for-
tune in ; New York. She will take him
to Nevada.
Military ConvIct Attack Sentry.
At Fort Riley , near Junction City ,
Kan. , two military convicts named
Carey and Jeffries attacked a sentry.
and in the struggle that ensued Jef- -
fries was shot through the stomach
and fatally wounded , and the sentry
was : : seriously wounded.
Thavr's Schoolmate in Toils.
James McCain or O'Brienwho is de -
clared 1 y the police to be a clever forg-
er , was taken baqk to Chicago by : De
tective Sergeant McGinnis from Shel-
ly Pa. , where he was arrested on
Tuesday. : The prisoner says he was a
schoolmate of Harry K. Thaw.
Ktplorer Is Fuiiitd at Last.
George Caldwell. , the Canadian
: ex-
plorer , who has b.een absent for three '
years in the subarctic region : a.d was
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given up as lost , has been reported : . '
natives to be at Fallcrlca. : : Hl ' you I :
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MRS. TUCKER OBTAINS DIVORCE.
Remarkably Brief Hearing Ends in
the Entering of Decree.
Mary Elizabeth Logan Tucker ,
daughter of Gen. John A. Logan of
Civil War fame , was granted an abso-
lute divorce Tuesday from Col. Will
iam F. Tucker , U. S. A. , retired , on
the ground of desertion. : Judge Barnes
entered the decree in the Superior
Court in Chicago. Mrs. Tucker was
given the right to resume her maiden
name. The hearing was remarkably
brief. Mrs. Tucker and her mother ,
Mrs. Logan , were the only witnesses.
In lieu of alimony the former receiv-
ed real estate from the colonel said to
be worth about $5,000. Col. Tucker
was retired from active service last
spring and given a pension of $3,750 a
year.
1 TO SAVE LIFE FOR DEATH.
i SurR-eons Operate on Convicted Mur
derer So He May : Be Executed.
The execution of Joseph West of
Dayton , Ohio , condemned to be elec-
trocuted July 9 for the-murder of his
sweetheart , will ha : > to be postponed I
because of an operation by the peni-
tentiary physician to save his life.
West has been suffering with septic
poisoning in one of his knees , and it
was decided that amputation alone
would prevent the malady from spread
ing. West will not have recovered
sufficiently by July 9 , physicians say ,
to be able to go to the electric chair ,
and Gov. Harmon will be compelled to
grant a reprieve.
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Daily racing for New York is now
practically assured.
The St. Paul ball team is to have
the finest park . in the American
league.
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Arthur Reuber has been elected ath-
letic director and coach of the North
Dakota Agricultural College.
Belenti , the 'Carlisle Indian who was
tried out by the Athletics and tnrned
over to Kelly , has joined the St. Paul
ball team.
Johnny Coulon , bantam champion ,
and the veteran trainer , George Sid-
dels , have gone to Fox Lake , Wis. .
for the summer.
Jimmie Kelly , a familiar figure in.
boxing circles and widely known as a
trainer and handler of pugilists , died
suddenly in Chicago.
Johnny Hayes , winner of the Olym-
pic Marathon , after running nine miles
of a twenty-mile match race in Kan-
sas City with John Svanberg of Swe-
den was seized with a cramp and was
forced to retire.
Alice D. Mermed of St. Louis , by
breaking 100 straight targets , won the
amateur championship in the thirty-
se-ond tournament and "registered"
shoot of the Missouri State Sports-
men's Game and Fish Protective
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1 Although it devoted almost eight
flours to strenuous effort in that di-
rection , the Senate Saturday failed to
conclude its consideration of the
schedules of the tariff bill , and when
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at : 5:15 o'clock an adjournment was -
reached there were still a number of
important rates to be determined. The
day , however , was full of achievement ,
and a number of provisions were dis
posed of. Among the more Important
1uestions which received attention
were agricultural implements , wood
pulp , cash registers , lithographic
plates , laces and jute yarns. Wood
pulp was placed on the free list , but
the attempt to put agricultural imple-
ments in the same category failed.
Senator Beveridge's amendment to cut
in two the duty on cash registers was *
defeated. Other changes made during
the day were as follows : Increasing to-
2 and 4 cents a pound the duty on
hemp , providing for the free importa
tion until 1912 of linen manufacturing
machines , increasing to the extent of ,
about 10 per cent over the present law
the duties on laces and embroideries ,
imposing a duty of 50 per cent on en-
graved lithographic plates , slightly
decreasing the duty on jute yarns ,
striking from the free list the products .
of petroleum and eliminating the
House retaliatory provision regarding
wrapper and filler tobacco. The House
was not in session.
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The Senate Monday afternoon , con-
cluded discussion of the Payne-Aldrich
tariff bill and the . nance committee's
income tax constitutional amendment
was presented. This amendment with
the corporation tax which is already
before the Senate , constitutes the pro-
gram in the upper House. On mo-
tior of Senator McLaurin cotton bag
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ging was put on the free list. Senator
Culverson moved to put cotton ties on
the free list , but this was defeated 31
to 38. The duty on structural iron
and steel valued at more than nine-
tenths of a cent a pound was increas
ed from three-tenths to four-tenths of :
a cent a pound. Ineffectual efforts
were made to have school books and
salt placed on the free and Egyptian
cotton on the dutiable , list. After
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adopting the conference report on the
census bill the House adjourned at
12:35 : p. m. until Thursday. No other
business , except the introduction of
bills and resolutions , was attempted.
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The most important development in
the Senate Tuesday was the announce-
ment of Senator Aldrich that he was
I advocating the corporation tax as a
means of defeating the income tax.
He denied , however , that the corpora-
tion tax was a subterfuge , as the Dem-
ocrats were quick to charge , and de
fended it as a legitimate means of
raising revenue. Mr. Aldrich said he
expected a deficit for the next year or
two , and that the corporation tax
would help meet that and then might
I be abolished. The corporation tax
! measure was put before the Senate in
I the stage of a "third-degree" amend-
ment ' , which precludes further amend-
ments. The tariff schedules were com-
pleted , the lastrvote to be taken being
, on Senator Tillman's proposition for
a duty of 10 cents a pound on tea. Al
though Senator Tillman made a long
and strenuous fight , his plan was lost ,
55 to 18. At adjournment at 6:17 Sen-
ator Cummins was speaking on the in-
come tax. The House was not in ses-
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. subject , and Senators Cummins of
! Iowa and Borah of Idaho the only ,
: speakers before the Senate Wednes-
day. Mr. Borah was not heard until
: toward the close of the day's session ,
: when the Iowa Senator yielded the
I floor , which he had held since the pre-
: vious day. He took for his text the
: declaration made by Senator Aldrich
to the effect that he would vote for
the corporation tax amendment only
as a means of defeating the income
tax , and , without resorting to person-
alities ' , he criticised the position of
. the chairman of the finance commit-
tee , who had presented the corporation
: tax amendment to the Senate. Mr.
: Cummins also paid his respects to Mr. I
I Aldrich on account of his avowal. The.
House was not in session. , t
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NOTES OF CUERENT EVENTS"
The appointment of Viscount Arar
i suke Sone to be resident-general oil
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Korea for Japan has been announced
in Tokyo. Simultaneously , Prince Ito
! was named .president of the privy
council.
Every school child in New York'
City will receive an official number ,
next October , so that all may be iden-
tified quickly by the police , who , under
4 new law , are truant officers of the
city. .
Opening a Bible which had been un
touched since it was given to him by
a spinster sister at her death thirty-
five years ago , Stephen , Marsh of New
York found $4,867.30 in currency as he
was preparing to start for Denver.
There was a deluge of small perch
in Harlem street , New York , when fire-
men cleaned out the hydrants. Many .
children carried home the live perch
in pails of water.
A handsome rug made of Georgia
cotton by the textile students of'the
Georgia School of Technology will be
sent to President Taft.
James Mills died in Bellevue hospi-
tal in New York. He weighed 510
pounds and physicians had to fighj
him to get him on the scales.
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