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one evening , - as we walked in the park.
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" 'But : , my dear Sloan , ' I objected ,
look ! at the stars. Surely they're very
fine ( to-night.
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phok his head.
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but there's far loo many of them. ' "
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head and we had the best doctors to
treat her , but they did not do her any
good. They said she had eczema. Her
scalp was a solid scale all over. The
burning and itching was so severe that
she could not rest , day or night. We
had about given up all hopes when we
read of the Cuticura Remedies. We at
once got a cake of Cuticura Soap , a
box of Cuticura Ointment and one bot
tle of Cuticura Resolvent , and fol '
lowed directions carefully. After the
first dose of the Cuticura Resolvent ,
we used the Cuticura Soap freely and i
applied the Cuticura Ointment. Then I ,
she began to improve rapidly and in
two weeks the scale came off her
head * and new hair began to grow. In
a very short time she was well. She is
now sixteen years of age and a pic-
ture of health. We used the Cuti
cura Remedies about five weeks , reg
ularly , and then we could not tell she
had been affected by the disease. We
used no other treatments after wo
found out what the Cuticura Remedies
would do for her. J. Fish and Ella M.
Fish , Mt. ' Vernon , Ky. , Oct. 12 , 1909. "
"Women's "Weapons.
A recent news item from Trenton ,
N. J. , says : "When an ill-clad , half-
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starved looking man besought food of
Mrs. James Kinney of No. 844 Lamber-
ton street yesterday the good woman
invited the fellow into her warm
kitchen , where she set before him a
plentiful repast. The man devoured
the food with an avidity that sup-
' ' ported his statement that he had had
nothing to eat for several days. "VXiile
he was eating Mrs. Kinney busied her-
; self with other household duties. What
was her surpise , however , to be sud-
denly confronted in her dining-room
by the stranger in belligerent attitude ,
demanding money.
" 'Why , you ungrateful loafer , ' said
Mrs. Kinney. 'You get out of here
just as fast as you : can travel. ' And
her tone apparently carried conviction ,
for the man began backing toward the
door. In their passage through the
kitchen Mrs. Kinney picked up a roll-
ing pin and , as the fellow made a dart
, for the door , she let it fly at him.
The missile struck the man in the
small of the back and sent him
sprawling down the steps into a snow-
bank. It just happened that at that
moment Mrs. Kinney's next door neigh-
bor , Mrs. Charles Breining , was about
to enter the Kinney back door to re-
turn to Mrs. Kinney a frying pan
which she had borrowed from her. She
surmised that something was wrong ,
and as the man picked himself up out
of the snow Mrs. Breining let fly the
Kinney frying pan. This missile was
quite as effective as the rolling pin ,
for it hit the ungrateful beggar on the
side of the head and sent him sprawl-
/ 'ing in the snow. This time he plckp.d
r himself up and made off with all pos-
sible speed. None of the other house-
wives in that neighborhood have since
been bothered by hungry beggars"
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1633-Champlain appointed governor of
. Canada for the second time.
170G - English and Allies under Duke
of Marlborough defeated the
French at Ramilies.
1758-Henry Ellis made governor-in-
chief of the colony of Georgia.
1774-The subject of a general congress
was acted upon at a town meeting
of the inhabitants of Prov denc'H ,
R. I.
1775-Declaration of Independence
adopted at Mecklenburg , N. C.
1776-The Pennsylvania Provincial As
sembly protested to Congress
against its interference in provin-
cial matters.
1780-The "Dark Day" caused conster-
nation throughout New England.
1791 - George Washington , President of II
the United States , visited Augusta ,
Ga. 1
1803-Patent granted for the first con-
trivance for reaping machines.
1804 - Napoleon Bonaparte proclaimed
Emperor . of the French.
1814 - The Norwegians declared their
independence.
1837-Taverns of Boston closed against
the sale of liquor on the Sabbath.
1841-Thirty-two persons killed in
landslide from the Citadel rock ,
Quebec.
1847-Brig Carrick wrecked in a gale
in the St. Lawrence , and 170 emi-
grants perished.
1857-Cornerstone laid for the new
Christ Church cathedral in Mon
treal.
1859-First sod of the Georgian Bay
Canal was turned near Toronto.
. . . . French ' and Sardinians defeat-
ed the Austrians at Montebello.
1SGO - The Prince of Wales ( King Ed-
ward VII. ) concluded his visit to
Canada.
1861 - North Carolina secession ordi-
nance adopted . . . Confederate
troops commenced fortifying Har-
per's Ferry.
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1863 - Investment of Vicksburg by the
Federals under Gen. Grant and Ad-
miral Porter.
1S64 - Nathaniel Hawthorne buried in
Sleepy Hollow Cemetery , Concord ,
Mass.
1867-First meeting of the Missouri
Press Association held at St. Louis.
1871 - The New Brunswick Legislature
passed a Free School bill.
1876 - The British Columbia Legislature
passed an act to organize its edu-
cational system . . . Greenback Na-
tional convention , at Indianapolis ,
nominated Peter Cooper of New
York for President of the United
States. 4
1877-Don Carlos , pretender to the
Spanish ? throne , expelled from
France.
1880 - Prince Leopold arrived at Quebec
and was received by the governor-
general and Princess Louise.
1881-Steamer Victoria upset on the
Thames River , Canada , with- loss
of several hundred lives.
1882 - J. J. Fraser retired from the pre-
miership of New Brunswick.
1894 - The Manchester ship canal open-
ed. .
1897 - Monument to.Stephen . Girard
unveiled in Philadelphia.
1902 [ - Tomas Estrada Palma inaugurat-
ed first President of the Republic
of Cuba. . . . Coronation of King Al-
fonso XIII. of Spain.
1909-The French Chamber of Depu-
ties voted to sustain the Clemen-
ceau cabinet.
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Because she refused recently to give
her age to the census taker Miss Sa
rah E. Peck , head of the normal de-
partment of Union College , at Lincoln ,
Neb : , was indicted by the grand jury
in the United States District Court
here.
Industrial Accidents Problem.
A corin-jittee appointed by the Na-
tional .Association : of Manufacturers
has gathered statistics from 25",000 em-
ployers , and from 250 organizations of
employers , which indicate an annual
disablement of 500,000 workmen and a
cash loss of $250,000,000 to manufac-
turers on account of industrial acci-
dents , most of which are preventable.
President Kirby of the association says
that the question of safety appliances
and accident indemnity are receiving
more attention from employers than
any other in the field of industry.
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Building , and Loan Societies' Meet
at Charlotte , N. C. , Represents
$80 , oooooo. '
WORK BEGUN 79 YEARS AGO
Originators Who Brought : Idea Over
from England Little Dreamed of
Vast Scope It Would Take.
Amazement no doubt would be ex
pressed by Sam Pilling , Jeremiah Hor-
rocks and Dr. Henry Taylor , the three
Englishmen who , .upon adopting Amer-
ica as their future home , brought with
them from England the idea of start-
ing the first building and loan society
in the United States in 1831 , ' if they
could have been present in Charlotte ,
N. C. , at the opening of the eighteenth
annual convention of the United States
League of Local Building and Loan
Associations. Little did they think : ,
perhaps , when they organized the first
society in Frankford , now a part of
Philadelphia , that the idea would grow
into the popularity and power it now
possesses.
Phenomenal growth and prosperity
of the local associations of the United
States were shown in the report of
Secretary H. F. Cellarius of Cincin-
nati , who said that the gain in assets
of the building and loan associations
"in the country in 1909 over the pre-
vious year amounted to more than
$70,000,000 , the largest increase in'a .
single year in the association's his-
i
tory. "The number of these institu-
tions now , " he said , "is 5,713 , with
2,016,651 members and with assets ag
gregating $856,332,719. This is an in-
crease for the year of 114 associations ,
96,394 members and $72,156,966 in to-
tal assets. " In assets the report
showed the greatest gains to have been
made in Ohio , $14,164,077 ; Pennsylva-
nit , $12,989,255 ; New Jersey , $5,269-
927 ; Massachusetts , $4,605,731 , and
Illinois , $4,413,506.
At the convention were delegates
from all corners of the Union , repre-
senting about 6,000 associations , with !
a membership of nearly 2,000,000 and
total assets of almost $800,000,000.
WEATHER BAD FOR CORN CROP.
Washington Bureau Finds Other
Conditions Good , However.
Unfavorable weather in the great
corn-growing States , generally satis-
factory conditions over the entire cot-
ton belt , good progress in vegetable
growth and the usual farm work in the
Atlantic coast States , generally favor-
able weather over the districts from
the Rocky mountains westward , but
very dry weather in California , Ari-
zona , portions of New Mexico and
Western Texas , is the summary of the
weather for the week by the weather
bureau in the national weekly bulletin.
Of general conditions , the bulletin
says in part :
"The week as a whole was decided-
ly unfavorable over the great corn-
growing States. Much cloudy , rainy
weather interfered with the prepara-
tion of the soil and the continued cold
retarded germination of seed and the
growth of vegetation. Over the more
eastern districts , including the upper
lake region , good rains occurred , ex
tinguishing the forest fires that had
prevailed over portions of Wisconsin
and the Upper Michigan peninsula.
Good rains occurred over all parts of
the cotton , region except in the south-
ern portions of Alabama and Georgia ,
along the coast of South Carolina - and
over portions of Florida.
"Over the districts from the Rocky :
mountains westward about the usual
conditions prevailed. "
SLIDE FEARED AT PANAMA.
Two Million Cubic Yards of Material
Threaten CanllY or : . : .
The engineers on the Panama Canal
are facing a serious situation in the
handling ! of the "Culebra slide. " The
slide consists of 2,000,000 cubic yards
of uiaterial which has been moving
into the 1 Culebra cut since the work of
excavation was begun. The movement
has been gradual , but several build-
ings already have been moved owing
tlo , the crumbling of the foundations ,
od now it is feared that the postoffice ,
clubhouse , hotel and several dwelling
houses at Culebra will have to go. The
engineers apprehend no serious loss of
property or life , but what effect the
slide will have on work on the canal is
a matter of conjecture.
Hypnotism to Cure Drunkards. :
Rev. Dr. Loring W. Batten , rector of
St. . Mark's Church at New York , who
has been experimenting for some time
with psychotherapeutic treatment for
inebriates , has at last announced a
method which , with a record of fifty
cures , he calls infallible. He claims
that it is only necessary for the pa-
tient with the drink habit to wish to
be cured and the treatment open to
him at the rectory will do the rest. Dr.
Batten says , in explanation of his sys-
tem , "I do not deeply hypnotize i.
patients. I procure a lightly hypnotic
state and then force upon the patient
mental suggestions against the evil.
The usual course is from six to twelve
lessons and the only reason for hyp-
notism is that in that state the mind
is more subject to mandatory sugges-
tions. " Dr. Batten announced the re-
sult of his experimentation from his
pulpit on last Sunday and said he
hoped publicity would send him more
patients. Treatment is to be free and
will be given as a part of the church
extension work.
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BOYS LOST TO THE CHURCH
75 Per Cent of Sunday Scholars in
America Never Profess Religion.
Seventy-five per cent of all the boys
over 13 years in the Protestant Sun-
day schools of the United States are
lost to the church and never make
professions of faith. Such a statement ,
spoknn by Eugene C. Foster , of Detroit ,
in one of the workers' : conferences ,
which followed the world's Sunday
school .convention Washington , as-
ionis.lied I Sunday school workers from
all parts of the earth.
, "That is the most astounding state-
ment I have heard in this country , " ex
claimed an English delegate , who said
he was a Sunday school worker in
Haverhill , Suffolk , England. There
must be something radically wrong
with the system which permits it. In
England we do not lose more than 3
per cent. " "I have made that calcula-
tion after study , observation and ex-
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perience , " replied Mr. Foster. Prac-
tically all the delegates , in the meet-
ing agreed with him.
Make Ships Safe in Fog.
The Bellini-Tosi system of radio I
-legraphy , an invention of two Italian
officers , had a very satisfactory test. on
the French liner , La Provence , during
her last trip from Havre in a dense fog.
Her captain was jubilant over this new
wireless contrivance , which he declares
enabled him to find out in the fog the
exact position relatively of any ship
with which he could get into wireless
touch , and also to get his bearings
with greater accuracy than he could
. when in touch with the submarine bells
of lightships. The French government
has equipped a station with this ap
paratus at Boulogne.
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Will Caton's stable won $28,000 at
Moscow and St. Petersburg during the
last winter's racing.
The New York program is for 2:14 : ,
2:16 , 2:30 trotters and 2:10 : and 2:30
pacers , all $2,500 stakes.
The thirty-sixth Kentucky derby was
recently won by a bay colt , Donau ,
owned by William Gerst of Nashville. !
The outcome of the race was a popu-
lar one and the victor carried the pub-
lic money. ,
Coppertown wort a recent feature ;
event at the Emeryville tracks in Cali-
fornia , from some clever sprinters.
Napa Dick , the favorite , stopped after
Pride of Listmore interfered with him
in the last quarter.
In an average game the ball is bat-
ted a total of one mile , the grand to-
tal distance of all balls batted during
a year being 105,000 miles. If this to-
tal batting energy could be applied to
one ball it would . go four times around
the earth and some over.
The Paper Mills : purse of $10,000 for
2:11 trotters at Kalamazoo , Mich. , will
be the first important race of the com
ing season. This race carries with it
the D. D. Streeter Memorial cup , a
magnificent silver trophy which goes
.1 the winning performer.
Boxing contests in Oakland , Cal. ,
hereafter will be limited to ten rounds ; ,
instead of fifteen , according to an or-
der issued by the police commission.
The change resulted from the death cf
Tommy McCarthy in San Francisco
after his bout with Owen Moran.
Hereafter bookmaking on the recog-
nized race tracks in Canada will not he
contrary to law. At Ottawa , Ont. , the
Canadian House of Commons passed a
bill which legalizes betting on the race
courses , but prohibits all forms of gam-
bling elsewhere 'in the Dominion.
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President Taft Will Consider Plan
for Pul)1icVOrliN : Branch.
One of the most important govern-
mental projects the president will be
asked to consider during his summer
vacation will be the creation of a new
executive branch of the government
to be known as the department of pub-
lic works. The proposed plan con-
templates the abolition of the interior
department. Support for the proposi-
tion is found among the president's
political advisers and the leading busi-
ness men of the country.
The main feature of the new depart-
ment , as they have already been ex
plained to Mr. Taft , are , in brief , as
follows :
It shall have charge of the Panama
Canal and all the work incidental to
that project , its upkeep and support.
It shall look after the irrigation
projects throughout the country.
It shall take over all the conserva-
tion and forestry work . now being
done by different departments . of the
government.
It shall have the control of such
minor work as is contemplated in the
proposed bureau of public health and
such activities as are now found in the
various movements for the protection
of water supplies and water power
sites.
It shall have under it , as subordi-
nate ' bureau , a branch to look after the
small area of public lands which now
remain in possession of the govern-
ment.
$700,000 TO. AID COLLEGES.
General Education Board Helps
Schools and Agricultural "Work.
Appropriations of more than $700-
000 have been made by the general
education board for the endowment of
work of various colleges and for ag -
ricultural work in the south. The ap-
propriations to colleges are :
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Depauw University , Greencastle ,
Ind. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $100,000
Allegheny College . , Meadville : , Pa. 100,000
Drake University , . Des Moines. Ia. 100,000
Central University. Danville , Ky. . 75,000
Marietta College Marietta , Ohio. . 60,000
Corn ll College , Mount Vernon Ia. 50,000
I Middlebury College , Mlddlebury ,
Vt. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50,000
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Transylvania University , Lexing ,
ton , Ky . . . . . . . . . . , . . . . . . : r. 50,000 ,
In addition to these sums. $113,000 I
was appropriated for demonstration I
work in agriculture in the south , un-
der the supervision of Dr. Seaman A.
Knapp of the United States Depart-
ment of Agriculture.
The general education board has
contributed in all to seventy colleges
gifts totaling $5,177,500. Twenty-nine
applications for endowments were con-
sidered at to-day's meeting , but no
definite action was taken thereon.
Bcusr.oatc Halts Digestion.
In a benzoate of soda case being
tried at Indianapolis , J. H. Brewster ,
State chemist , took the stand and sub-
mitted as evidence certairi laboratory
experiments which he' hact performed
to show the effect of benzoate of soda
upon . the digestion of food. They show-
striking differences in the action of
the gastric juice upon plain foods and
those in conjunction with which ben-
zoate was administered. Test tubes
were shown to the court in which the
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white of an egg was entirely digested
by action of the gastric juice alone and
again only slightly digested when
mixed with the soda , the degree corre-
sponding to the amount used.
South American Mediation. :
The United States , Brazil and Ar-
gentina have joined in offering to me-
diato between the war-threatened
countries of Peru , Ecuador and Chili.
This offer was initiated by Secretary
of State Knox in the hope of finding
some peaceable solution of the boun-
dary dispute before hostilities open be-
tween the Peruvian and Ecudorean
armies , which are now close together
on the frontier. The Peruvian cabinet
was reported to have accepted the of
fer of mediation Wednesday.
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Reorganisation Said : to Havo Toon
Accomplished by Secretary Mcjer.
Virtual reorganization of the .i ivy-
has been accqmplished ' bY - Saer.t.ary
Meyer : ; in the year in which he has held
the portfolio of the Navy Deparlai : ,
Washington correspondent as- : < < i-s .
He has brought about a saving of
money in different directions , it is r
said , and many of the changes are tho
result , direct or indirect , ol sugges
tions offered at his request by oncers
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in all parts of the naval l service.
Economy in the use of coal has bean
brought about by systematic firing ,
economy of steam replacing defective :
joints and journals : and stopping lenky
valves. On the Montana : a saving cf
fifteen tons of coal daily is due to sys
tematic firing. "With reference to oil'
the saving has been as great. On the
battle ship Georgia improved evapora-
tors have reduced the cost of making !
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fresh water 40 per cent.
Secretary Meyer's reorganization :
plans include systematic overhauiings
of the vessels at the shipyards after
each cruise. Also , a saving of thou-
sands of dollars .in repair work has
been effected by having repair shops < ? a
shipboard. The establishment of a
school of marine engineering at An-
napolis is another , means whereby
Secretary Meyer hopes to train for spe- . I
cial work engineer officers who give
promise of being of special value in
any part of his recrganization plan.
Pnlndiiio Unmasked.
During a recent test sitting of the
noted Italian spirit medium , Eusapio
Paladino , with an invited party ot
scientists in the home of Prof. Lord of
Columbia University , New York , two
expert watchers were concealed under
the chairs of the sitters after the lights
were lowered and unknown to the me-
dium. These men have now made .
sworn statements to the effect that the
various so-called spirit rappings , table
liftings and movements of the cabinet
curtains were produced by free move-
ments of the medium's left leg while
she was seated at the table , her right
foot being so placed that its heel rest-
ed on the left foot of the man at her
right and its toe on the right foot of
the man at her left. Thus she gave or
intended to give the impression that
both her feet were still.
NeW" Altitude Balloon Record.
A. Holland Forbes , of Bridgeport ,
Conn. , vice president of the Aero Club
of America , * and J. C. Yates , of New
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York , after a flight of 400 miles in the
balloon Viking , from Quincy , Ill. , tum-
bled to earth from a considerable
height at Centre , Ky. , Wednesday. On
Tuesday morning while at an altitude
of 20,600 feet , they encountered a se-
vere snowstorm and were partially
numbed with cold. They gradually lost
power to control the machine and final-
ly , fearing unconsciousness , they rip-
ped the gas Lag and came to earth with
terrific speed , landing like a stone and
escaping death by a miracle. Both to
men are confined to bed at a farmhouse
in Kentucky , but will recover.
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A Vienna co-operative society with
00 members operates an immense bak-
ery.
Stage hands of Marysville , Cal. , have
organized a local of the theatrical em-
ployes.
Newark's locked out painters receiv
ed $3.28. They asked $3.64 and turned
down $3.52.
In Australia the federal elections re-
sulted in a complete victory for the
Labor party.
Cleveland Lake Shore Railway : boll-
ermakers obtained an increase of 2 %
cents an hour.
Since the adjournment of the Cali-
fornia State Federation of Labor in
San Rafael , last October , thirty-three
unions have affiliated with the federa-
tion."f ' * '
The present San Francisco ( Cal. )
Building Trades Council was organized
in 1896 , with six unions and a member-
? hip of less than 1,000. The present
tneYirbersnip is above the 30,000 mark . *
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The Montreal ( Canada ) Trades and
Labor Council desires to have all em
ployment agencies in that territory
abolished and have one general office
established under the control of the
government.
T'he State Federation of Labor of
Texas has decided , by a large major-
ity vote , that hereafter all officers of
the federation are to be elected by se : : -
cret ballot , and in that way : eliminate _
politics from that body.
The Bakers' Union at Mayaguez , . ' .
Porto Rico is on strike to enforce hy
gienic conditions in bakeries there. It
is affiliated with the International Un-
ion of Bakery Workers and the Amer
ican Federation of Labor.
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The strike of Bradford ( England
wool combers came to an end recently ,
an agreement being signed between
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the masters and the men. The chi2f ;
points of the agreement are that a
joint board is to be framed to deal
with wage questions and other dis I
putes ; an advance of 12 cents a week
to all receiving less than $3.75 a weelc. : .
and 25 cents to all receiving $3.75 a
week and over ; two stops : : of half-an-
hour each for night workers.
Monthly returns from 190 represen-
tative trade unions in New York in -
)
which 90,000 , or nearly : one-fourth or
the organized wage earners in the
State , show that at the end of the year
the percentage of idleness was 20.6. : is
compared with 28.0 at the close of 1908
and 32.7 at the end of 1907. Returns _
as to earnings of organized wage wor ! -
ers in the third quarter of 1909 from
all unions in the State show an aver-
age of $233 for 319,754 men reporting.
In the corresponding months of 190S
the average earnings for 283,181 men- :
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