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CELEBRATES GOLDEN WEDDING
asked him who he would choose to be if he were not Joseph H. Choate.
"Mrs. Choate’s second husband,” was his instantaneous reply. At the
anniversary celebration, which took place at Naumkeag, near Stockbridge,
Mass., were several persons who were present at the wedding 50 years ago.
Mr. Choate, because of his unique personality, his exceptional mental and
physical endowment and his rare intellectual and social powers, will be re
membered as one of our strongest representatives at the British Court. While
in England Mr. Choate was a general favorite.
CANADA’S ROYAL GOVERNOR
The Dominion of Canada deeply ap
preciates the honor which has been
conferred on her by the appointment
of the Duke of Connaught as governor
general and will give his royal high
ness a most enthusiastic welcome on
his arrival. The distinction which is
Canada’s in having, as a representa
tive of the British throne, an uncle of
King George will be more readily un
derstood when it is stated t|iat never
before has a prince of the royal blood
been sent as governor general to any
of the British possessions over the
seas. The nearest approach to such
distinction was when the Princess
Louise, daughter of Queen Victoria,
resided in Canada with her husband,
the Marquis of Lorne, who was then
governor general. The marquis aft
erward became and Is now the Duke
of Argyle.
The Duke of Connaught is the only
surviving son of Queen Victoria. He
was her third son and the seventh of
her nine children. His surviving sisters are Helena, Princess Christian;
Louise, Duchess of Argyle, and Beatrice, Princess Henry of Battenburg. If
so good a mother as Queen Victoria justly may be said to have had a fa
vorite son, then Arthur William Patrick Albert, Duke of Connaught, was
that son, just as the Princess Beatrice may be said to have been her favorite
daughter. The duke was born In 1850, shortly after a visit which Queen
Victoria made to Ireland, and it is due to an incident of that visit that he
bears the name Patrick. In 1897 the duke married the beautiful Princess
Louise, of Prussia, second cousin to the present Kaiser. He has three chil
dren. x
MAY HEAD CHINESE REPUBLIC
seize more territory.
Yuan Shi Kai. the banished war head who was recalled recently, has ac
cepted the post of viceroy of Hu-Peh and Hu-Nan provinces, to which terri
tory he is directed to proceed and Immediately re-establish the imperial au
thority.
HARVESTER HEAD IS SUED
Clarence S. Funk, general manager
of the International Harvester Com
pany, the McCormick’s man of busi
ness, clubman, churchman and aspir
ant for the title of one of Chicago’s
leading citizens, was recently sued by
John Henning, who asks $25,000 dam
ages on the claim that Funk has
alienated the affections of his wife,
Josephine Henning. To say that the
suit created a sensation is to put it
mildly. Funk has recently been be
fore the public of Chicago in so-called
moral uplift movements, which well
befitted a man of church professions,
and his talk of furthering such causes
has made him more or less well
known to the newspaper public, con
sequently when the suit was filed it
caused wide interest. Mr. Funk en
tered a denial, emphatic and vigorous
as it W’as possible for a man to make.
It is said Mr. Funk first saw and ad
mired Mrs. Henning while she worked
in the Auditorium Annex case. Mrs.
Henning is said to be not only good looking but a real beauty.
Clarence S. Funk is sufficiently in the public eye to warrant the sensation
caused by the John Henning's charges. He is widely known as the General
manager of the International Harvester Company and has been a familiar
figure at Washington, and at Springfield, and in the capitals of other states
In Chicago he is prominent in many ways. He is married and lives in the
suburbs of Oak Park. He is known as an active church worker. He has had
a Bible class in the First Congregational church and is active in the Y. M.
C. A., where last winter he delivered a series of talks to the young men on
“Business and Christianity.”’
One of America’s, most picturesque
figures celebrated the golden anni
versary of his wedding the other day
This man is Joseph H. Choate, the
brilliant lawyer, orator and diplomat,
who did so much toward increasing
American popularity in England while
in charge of the American embassy
in London.
Joseph Hodges Choate was born in
Salem, Mass., in 1832 and comes of a
famous legal family, his father, Rufus
Choate, being one of the most eminent
lawyers of his time. He was educated
at Harvard and was admitted to the
bar in 1855. While never a politician
In the practical sense he always took
an active interest in public affairs and
during his legal career in New York
took a leading part in many of the re
form movements.
Fifty years ago Mr. Choate married
Miss Caroline 1). Sterling of Cleve
land. Their married life has been one
of happiness. Not long ago some one
Dr. Sun Yat Sen, the Chinese re
former, who was banished from ths
empire not long ago and is now in
the United States, is believed to be
slated for the presidency of the re
publican government when the Chi
nese revolutionists can take time
enough from fighting to organize.
There is said to be a standing offer
from the Pekin government of $50,000
for the body of Sun Yat Sen, dead or
alive.
Each succeeding day has added to
the gravity of the situation in China.
The imperial government, having dis
covered that the usual methods used
in uprisings throughout the empire are
entirely inadequate in this case, has
gotten down to the business of real
warfare. But the misjudgment of the
situation, and the consequent delay
in real repressive measures, have giv
en the revolutionists an opportunity
to become better organized, draw
greater forces to its standard and
WOMENASTIPPLERS
British Reformers Present Some
Startling Facts.
Most Remarkable Development of All
Is Way In Which Those From
Middle Class Patronize the
Public Houses.
London.—Once more the ultra tem
perance folk of England are “appalled
by the growth of the drinking habit
among society women,” and as If mis
were not bad enough the Band of
Hope conference at Swansea is fairly
aghast at the increase of tippling
among women of the middle classes
Samuel Manger, one time postmas
ter general of Australia, while dep-or
ing the tact that the society woman
drinks, says that as a rule she is care
lul—not from any particular morality,
but as a matter of expediency and to
preserve her looks —and that, more
over. she usually confines herself to
choice wines and liquors. It is the
middle class woman who lias become
the “dram drinker.”
Quoting the vicar of a select resi
dential London suburb, Mr. Manger
declares the reverend gentleman said:
"If only you could see into the draw
ing-rooms of my well-to-do parishion
ers you would find in 75 per cent, of
them women, in many cases young
girls, sitting round playing bridge,
smoking and drinking whisky and
soda.
“Go into any restaurant patronized
by the middle classes," said Mr. Man
ger. “and you will see well-dressed
women and even young girls drinking
spirits, not only at dinner, but at
luncheon.”
As if this were not sufficiently
shocking, the announcement is made
that "the most remarkable develop
ment of all is the way in which mid
dle-class women patronize public
houses.” In London we are told the
womenkind of even professional and
business men make free use of the
“pubs,” while thirty years ago the
upper middle class woman rarely
touched wines, and spirits not at all,
and would have been ashamed of her
self if seen in a public house.
According to the reformers, this re
markable change in the customs and
tastes of the middle class women is
the outgrowth of the practice of din
ing at restaurants. Society set the
fashion of restaurant meals and the
middle class women followed their ex
ample. finding in whisky and soda at
the "pub” a convenient medium be
tween the expense of wine and the
piebeanism of beer.
The hotel smoking lounge, too, we
are told, has made dram drinkers of
many women. Formerly, according
to the temperance folk, if a man stay
ing at a hotel wanted to smoke he
went to the smoking room, but now he
joins the ladies in the lounge and if
he feels Inclined to have a drink he
naturally asks his fair companions to
join him, and the modern woman
makes no bones about asking for a
"peg” or a “whisky and.”
After declaring that drunkenness in
a wop ' n is much harder to cure than
in a i.: n Mr. Manger announces that
of 3,031 j- “ns admitted to Inebriate
reformatory ’-'ring the last few
years no fewer .. an 2,548 were wom
en.
Discover New Diamond.
New York.—Australian diamonds are
the latest novelty in the Maiden lane
jewelry district. They are declared
by experts to be of fine quality. Hun
dreds of these diamonds were obtained
in the space of a few hours in an ex
tinct volcano in the northern part of
New South Wales, and were extract
ed from the loam by the primitive
method of hand sifting the sands in
a tub of water. About twenty speci
mens were sent here for private exhi
bition.
POWER OF AUTOMATIC RIFLE
Swedish Inventor’s Device Makes Or
dinary Infantryman Much More
Formidable In Battle.
London. —A Swede named Svenson
claims to have invented a new auto
matic rifle which may do away with
machine guns on the field of battle,
while the ordinary infantry soldier,
armed with this weapon, would be
come much more formidable than he
is with his present eqpipment.
The new Invention has not only
been applied to rifles, but to fowling
pieces and other weapons. As regards
rifles, Mr. Svenson has invented two
kinds of appliances, one of which can
be used as an ordinary rifle and an
other as a machine gun. Mr. Svenson
claims that his weapon can at will be
made to perform both functions with
out its weight in any way being in
creased. It can be loaded either at
the breach or underneath by inserting
the cartridge magazine.
A company of infantry equipped
with the new rifle and forming a front
of 15 paces, can fire, it is said, 70
shots per second, or if fitted with a
larger magazine 240 to 250 shots in
three seconds. A battery of machine
guns, consisting of four pieces served
by 16 men, with their officers, would
occupy a front of 15 paces and fire un
der the same conditions only 32 to 95
shots, respectively. In the same space
of time.
In addition to this, machine guns
are difficult to transport, or to place
in position, or to hide from the enemy,
which is not the case with the rifle
of the Svenson type.
The new weapon Is about the same
weight as the Mauser rifle, and has
OPENING ROSEBUD RESERVATION
OCTOBER 24, under the direction of James W T . Witten of the department
of the interior, the lands of the Rosebud Indian reservation were
awarded to settlers by lot There were 18,014 registrations, and the town
of Gregory, S. D., where the drawing took place, was thronged with hope
ful people from all parts of the country. Our illustration shows, above,
some of these would-be land owners in the main street of Gregory, and be
low, Mr. Witten and the great tent which he put up to accommodate those
who could not find sleeping quarters in the town.
FORTUNE IN STRANDED WHALE
Monster Struggles Desperately to Free
Itself From Shoals Into Which
High Tide Carried It.
Atlantic City, N. J.—A 60-foot whale,
weighing seven or eight tom. churned
the sea inttf foam off Fourth street.
Ocean City, the other morning as it
struggled desperately to free itself
from the shoals Into which he had
been carried at high tide by the
waves. Spray was dashed up 30 and
40 feet as the whale whipped the sea
with sweeps of his powerful tall, and
for three hours, w-hile the tide was
falling, hundreds of persons watched
the mammal’s dying struggles.
Surfmen from the Ocean City life
saving station rushed their craft into
the water and cautiously ventured
near, but rowed away in fright as the
monster threshed about wildly. They
hovered close until the whale weak
ened from his struggles.
Then, as the whale, after a last des
perate convulsion, surrendered, the
government men roped him. He was
dead when the men anchored his car
cass to the sands to prevent the sea
at high tide from wresting their prize
from them.
Low tide at noon enabled the
throngs to crowd about the whale and
photograph and examine the giant of
the ocean. He was pronounced to be
of the bow-head sperm family, whose
value for oil is in the hundreds ot
dollars.
The life savers, who held that his
body is their property, through dis
covery and capture, will sell the car
cass to a syndicate, which plans to
exhibit it in one of the metropolitan
cities.
the same kind of barrel, but its entire
length is five centimeters shorter.
Another advantage is its simplicity
of constuction, possessing, as it does,
only seventeen movable parts, includ
ing the spiral springs.
LIVES ON 75 CENTS A WEEK
Aged Man Spends Four Pennies on
Newspapers After Buying Him
self Plenty of Food.
Philadelphia.—An aged man who
looked young entered the office of
Karl De Scweinitz. executive secre
tary of the Pennsylvania Society for
the Prevention of Tuberculosis, and
after applying for work explained
*ust how he lived on an income of 75
cents a week.
His statement of expenditures dur
ing the last week follows: One-half
peck of potatoes. 18 cents; 6 pounds
of onions. 24 cents; two loaves of
bread, 10 cents; one can of condensed
milk. 11 cents; one soup bone, 8
cents; total, 71 cents.
Sometimes he gets a pound of rice
for nine cents instead of the soup
bone, and this lasts him two weeks.
The other pennies are spent for news
papers.
He gave his name as Everard Star.
70 years old. of this city.
Get a Job Before Marrying.
Chicago.—" Get a job and you can
wed’’ is the advice of Judge Pinck
ney to a beardless youth whose plans
of eloping with bls seventeen-year-old
sweetheart were frustrated by an irate
father.
i Engineers measured the mammal
and declared that his bulk would in
dicate the weight as more than seven
tons, but he was a smaller stranger
■ from the Arctic seas than the one
which was cast up dead on the strand
about eighteen years ago in almost
the same place.
, HIS WEDDING FEE BELATED
Clergyman Receives S2O Check Twen
ty Years After Performing Cere
mony—Was Short of Funds.
New York. —Rev. Horace D. Ferris,
now pastor of a church in North Salem
and twenty years ago in charge of a
congregation at Quogue, L. 1., has just
received a fee of S2O for a w-edding
that he performed at Quogue twenty
years ago. The couple whom he mar
ried are now living in Manhattan. At
that time of the marriage the bride
groom said he was short of funds and
asked the minister to wait for his fee.
promising to send it as soon as he
could.
Mr. Ferris forgot all about the wed
ding long ago. He was astonished a
few days ago to receive a check for
S2O, accompanied by a letter express
ing the writer’s regret at having kept
him waiting so long. It was only by
consulting his old records that the
clergyman was able to recall the cere
mony.
Fudge to Balky Horse.
Boston, Mass. —A pretty schoolgirl
plentifully supplied with home-made
fudge broke up a traffic blockade when
she fed a balky horse candy and got
Dobbin to move on by following her.
PICTURES STIR DOG’S ANGER
Black Canine Snarls, Growls and
Finally, on Battle Bent, Charges
Toward Show Screen.
Walla Walla, Wash. —When the
stereotyped love play and impossible
wild west drama had been disposed of
at the moving picture show here, so
realistic appeared the string of films
illustrating cuttlefish swimming and
disporting themselves that a black
dog which had laid quietly at his
master’s feet during the progress of
the show for nearly half an hour for
got his surroundings and, conscious
only of the strange actions of the
creatures before his eyes, barked and
charged and retreated, growling and
showing such signs of anger and sus
picion as to require the service of an
usher to ouiet him.
The dog paid no heed to the earlier
pictures showing human life and ac
tivities, but when the reel showing the
cuttlefish was thrown on he pricked
up his ears, and when the fish w’ere
shown in the presence of enemies,
darting hither and thither, and shoot
ing their black, inky fluid in jets
through the water, he sprang up and
rushed toward the pkitform snarling
and so determined to fight that he had
to be forcibly dragged away.
Togo's Horse to Mikado.
Ogden, Utah. —A cablegram received
in Ogden the other day by Fred J.
Keisel, who presented Admiral Count
Togo with the Percheron stallion
Togo while the admiral was visiting
this country recently, says that the
admiral in turn has presented the
stallion to the emperor of Japan.
Stops
Lameness
Sloan’s Liniment is a relia
ble remedy for any kind of
horse lameness. Will kill the
growth of spavin, curb or splint,
absorb enlargements, and is
excebent for sweeny, fistula
and thrush.
Here’s Proof.
* I used Sloan’s Liniment on a mule for
* high lameness,’ and cured her. I am
never without a bottle of your liniment;
have bought more of it than any other
remedy for pains.” Baily Kirby,
Cassady, Ky.
“Sloan’s Liniment is the best ma'de. I
have removed very large shoe boils off a
horse with it. I have killed a quarter
crack on a mare that was awfully bad. I
have also healed raw, sore necks on three
horses. I have healed grease heel on a
mare that could hardly walk.”
Anthony G. Hi yer, Oakland, Pa.,
Route No. x.
SLOANS
LINIMENT
is good for all farm stock.
“My hogs had hog cholera three days
before we got your liniment, which I was
advised to try. I have used it now for
three days and my hogs are almost well.
One hog died before I got the liniment,
but I have not lost any since.”
A. J. McCarthy, Idaville, Ind.
Bold by all k
Dealers.
Price
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Sloan's Book on Korses,
Cattle, Hogs and Poultry
sent free. Address
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Boston, Mao.
Definition of Velocity.
Teacher —What is velocity, Johnny?
Johnny—Velocity is w-hat a chap lets
go of a wasp with.
A SERIOUS ERROR.
Many a case of kidney disease has
proven fatal because the symptoms
■were not recognized. If you suffer with
backache or bladder irregularities fol-
low the advice of
Mrs. Peter Bisele,
528 Church street.
Bowling Green,
Ky. Says Mrs.
Bisele: "My back
ached terribly and
I had such dizzy
spells I dared
not walk; ankles
were badly swoll
en and kidney se-
cretions in awful condition. I was
helpless in bed for three years, lost
flesh until a mere skeleton and de
spaired of being cured. Doan's Kid
ney Pills cured me, however, and my
neighbors marvel at it.”
“When Your Back Is Lame, Re
member the Name —DOAN’S.” 50c. a
box at all stores. Foster-Milburn Co.,
Buffalo, N. Y.
Summoned as Witnesses. i
Whenever Rev. Solon Jefferson
called on Aunt Candace it was her
custom to set a plate of gingerbread
before him and then ply him with
what she called “ ’ligious ’spoundin’s."
“Wha’ fo' does de Lawd send epi
demics into de land?” she asked him
one day.
“When folks get so bad dey must be
removed, some of em, Sist’ Candace,
den de Lawd permits de coming ob an
epidemic,” said Mr. Jefferson, and
took a large bite of gingerbread.
"Uh-h!” said Aunt Candace. “Es
dat's so, how come de good people
gets removed along wid de bad ones,"
“De good ones are summonsed fo'
witnesses,” said Rev. Solon, fortified
in spirit and clarified in mind by the
gingerbread, although slightly embar
rassed in his utterance. “De Lawd
gibs every man a fair trial.”—Youth’s
Companion.
Urgent Necessity.
A distinguished theologian was in
vited to make an address before a
Sunday school. The divine spoke for
over an hour and his remarks were of
too deep a character for the average
juvenile mind to comprehend. At the
conclusion, the superintendent, accord
ing to custom, requested some one in
the school to name an appropriate
hymn to sing.
“Sing 'Revive L’s Again,’ ” shouted a.
boy in the rear of the room.—-Life.
Plausible.
Sunday School Teacher —Why was
the fiery furnace seven times heated?
Tommy—l suppose it went out be
tween times.
COLDS
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25 cents at any druggist's, or sent postpaid.
If you need Medical advice write to
Munyon’s Doctors. They will carefully
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mail, absolutely free.
Address Professor Munyon, 53d and
Jefferson streets, Philadelphia, Pa.
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