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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Wingham Advance, 1909-07-17, Page 3ee 1.0anger of Circumstantial I rviden.cernip-Some Cases Or Illoolee44004-010~10,~,,oellielewill~ss.,Asiekeelr-evefrAlleeq‘4 The value of mreumstantial evi- deuce in determining the guilt or Innocence of accused persons is a topic of great interest from time to time. There can be no doubt that from time to time great iniustice has been done by the teltirns of circtun- stantial evidence, and in the following article two historic examples are given. Either would supply a ht. ting theme for the author of "Sher- lock Holmes." In Vrance, in January, 1530, One Martin Guerre was married, at the age of eleven, to Mademoiselle Bey- - trinule dee Rids of Artigues. A. set- tlement was made for the pair and in the ninth year of their marriage a child was born to them. Shortly af- terward the newly -made father got into trouble. He took scene wheat Int of his father's bins and appropriated it. to his own use. Fearing the old man's wrath he ran away. His wife thought that her husband would ,only ;amain separated [long enough for his lather's Sispleasure to soften. and eight days were set apart as the prob- able time for this. But the sight days, the weeks end months -went by and it was eight years before tidings came from, the runaway. One winter's evening a man claim. fug to be Martin Guerra presented himself and told a long story of pent. tence. As to his identity. it was ac- cepted without question by his four sisters, his uncle and every member of his wife's family. And it is not so much wonder, since the traveller bore the identical marks of the person of Martin Guerre and moreover was fern - Mar with bits of family history such as only the genuine Martin could have, apparently, known. At any rate the deserted wife accepted the new-. comer with all fondness rtnd in the course of three years presented the. supposed Martin Guerre with two children. As to whether Madame Guerre ever had suspicions concerning her al- leged returned husband can of course never be known. It would see..t as if those almost imperceptible cafferences between man and man must have been observed by her, but it may be that the stranger showing her a ten- derness and consideration which her real husband had not, she was some- what willing to put up with the new or- der of things. She may also have thought that her own peace of life would be best conserved by the keep- ing of her own counsel. Be this as it may, it was not long until rumors arose, It was said that the man who claimed to have returned to his wife, MADAME GUERRE, was a fraud. The excitement finally became such that at the instigation of Pierre Guerre, an uncle of the miss- ing man, Madame Bertrando was forced to have her alleged husband ar- rested. The accused made an elo- quent defence and explai..ed in a minute and extended account the causes of his long absence. He claim- ed to have been a soldier in Spain until, consumed by the desire to see esie, his wife and child, he had resolved to return. He also gave apparently overwhelming evidence, through his accounts of secret family history, of matters pertaining to the Guerres, that he was the bona -fide husband of Madame Bertrande. His replies to sharp questionings concerning this were reedy and invariably accurate. The wife corroborated his statements, but now dented positively that the accused was her husband, One hun- dred and fifty witnesses wets sum- moned and of these; forty swore that the prisoner was beyond doubt the missing Martin Oluerre, On the other hand, a. great body claimed the man was no other than Arnaud du Tiflis called "Palmetto." whom they had known since a child. The other wite *losses, sixty in timber, declared the resemblance between the two Was so close that they could not render an opinion. The trial resulted, to the general sur- prise, ina conviction. The men was pronounced to be Arnaud du Tint and sentenced to decapitation, Appeal to the higher court brought an order for a new trial; it appeared that thirty now witnesses had come forth; Of these, ten declared him te be the true Martin Guerre, seven or eight decided in favor of ARNAUD DU and the rest were uncertain. Most of the witnesses agreed in describing Mar- tin Gwen) as taller and darker than the aecused, slenderer in body and limb, round-shouldered, with a high, divided nose, pendant lower lip and squat nose, having the trace of an ulcer on the cheek and e scar on the right eyebrow. Arnaud, the accused, was short and stout, having neither humpy shoulders .nor squat nose. But all those marks re- ferred to as belonging to Mertin Guerre were present on the face of the accused! A shoemaker also deposed that the di- mensions of Martin Guerre's foot ex- ceeded by one-quarter that of the ac- cused! . It was further sworn to that Martin Guerre was an expert swords- man and wrestler, • The prisoner rum neither, About forty persons swore that the accused actually- was Martin Guerre. Among them were his four sisters, with the husbandof two of them. A great number asserted that Guerre had two teeth in the left lower jaw .broken, deep patch ef extravasated:blood in the left eye, the nail of the left forefinger missing, and three warts on the left hand, one being on the little finger. All these marks existed iu the accused! It was also proven that the prisoner, ar- riving at Artigues, recognized and. salut- ed as end friends all those who had. been intimate with Martin Cluerre; that in conversation with the wife he bad re- called to her certain incidents known only to herself and husband, and it was stated, in illustration, that Madam Guerre, having mentioned that she had preserved certain chests unopened, be directed her to fetch from one a pair of white pantaloons folded in taffeta. The garments were found as he had de- reribed I With regard to dissimilarity in height and' stature, it was urged that there was nothing remarkable in the boy of disappearance returning in many yeers a stocky man, that the matter of height was something witnesses might easily be mistaken in, and that of necessity great changes had takenplace in the appearance of Guerre during his beg absence. Lastly, the prisoner's appar- ently inexhaustible familiarity with fain- timony which might affect the life* of a relative. The elder sister of Guerre records seemed to show that it was absurd to claim him to be an imposter. The new trial would have undoubtedly resulted in an acquittal had not a re- markable theident taken place. The verleable Martin Guerre himself iT-•••XrafrOWolawevreAp-o CORNS cuRer-1 ... IN eettioulIs eon can etiniessly remove any corn, ewe hard, soft or bleeding, ey applying Pete:tura Worn Extractor. It nevereunis, leaves nos car, contains no acids; is harmless because composed only or healing gums axle balms. Fifty years In OM cure guaranteed. Sold by all druggists We. bottles. nefuse substitutes. PUTNAM'S PAINLESS - CORN EXTRACTOR suddenly came into the court rowel and demanded to be heitrd! lb e proceeded t'd° deuounce the impos- ter and gave his history. Then he de - mantled to be confrented by nim. This being done, the acemea did not appear to be in the least abashed or frightened, but began to arrogantly cross-exaMine the ea. "You belong to the prevailing Tell - glint of England„liy %Odell .iny'enulty hes suffered long And terribly. You. are a Lutheran. She is a Catholic. It shall never bel" Tho lovers implored the old menet consent, but lie was obdurate. The daughter flualt asserted the blood that was in her, and declined aim would Mar- ry Katt at till hazards. The father was enraged mid was heard to say he would kill her before she ehould da so, A few days later neighbors heard %hrieke and cries coming from a, cave back of- Bea:well's house And which WM used by him for sonic household pur- poses. The moans and cries finally died down, Elena, the beautiful daughter, was soon missed. As she dia not appear after a few days, the neighbors, fearful' of foul play, set about ca investigation. The eftY0 was searched and thereinwas found a skirt and other portion -I of female wearing Apparel known to have belonged to the missing girl. This clothing was covered with clotted blood. There were also bits of hair to which flecks of blood inihered and which were Identified as from the head of Mete, Baxwell was arrested. The evidence against him seemed clear, and he was convicted, of the murder a his daughter and sentenced to death. While being led to the scaffold he saw William Kattin the crowd. Declaring his innocence, Baxweli stepped over -toward Katt and said, "My friend, in one irlitlate I shall be in eternity. I wish to die in peace with all men. Give me your baud. pardon you freely for the terrible injury your evidence has done me," Baxwell said. this with some com- posure, but the effect on: Katt was striking. Ile became pale as death,,and could not conceal his agitation, The merchant mounted_ the scaffold, and the last details were attended to by the executioner, NEWLY ARRIVED CLAIMANT and put questions te whieh the new- comer could not answer with nearly the readiness of.the prisoner, the impos- ter, if such he was. But, examining the newcomer, it was ascertained that be bore also all the marks ascribed to the genuine Martin Guerre. lie was next questioned alone by the Judges. To these questions he replied. weth absolute accuracy. But the accused being brought in also answered the same questions as realecourtilYallw dexactly, The infounded. In despaiit it. was decided that the only course was to bring hi the relatives of Martin Greene, the four sisters, the uncle and the brothers of Arnaud du Thlhi, and let them decide once for all which was the real man. All did so, with the excep- tion of the brothers, whom the court considerately allowed freedom from tee- tered first, paused a mconent, as if thun- derstruck, and then fell sveeping upon the breast of the newcomer and acknowl- edged him to be her brother. The other witnesses, one by one, followed suit. Finally the wife mile in, and the instant her eyes lighted on Guerre she threw herself down beside him, weeping and trembling, and begged his compassion on her fer the deceit that she had been led into by artifice. She averred that no sooner had she discovered her error than, but for the fear of God's wrath, she would have conceitled her dishonor in the grave. In place of this she had deter. mined on revenge, aud resolved, through the courts, to pursue the man who had dishonored her to his deserved. punish- ment. The trial ended in a conviction of the accused as Arnaud du nth, for the crimes of imposture, falsehood, substitu- tion of name and person, adultery, rape, sacrilege and detention. He was sen- tenced. to execution. While under condemnation in the pri- son at Artigues, Arnaud made a confes- sion, in which he stated that the idea of impersonating Martin Guerra filet came to him on being mistaken by a number of intimate friends of Martin Guerre for that individual. In the year 1841. at Gibraltar, the rock-bound. fortress which England holds as the key to the Mediterranean, there was tried a case that has all the ele- ments for a Stevenson or Haggard yarn, James Barwell was a wealthy mer- chant, living in a small house near the • base of Mont St. Michael, so famous for its caves. He had A daughter, a girl of remarkable beauty. 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On festal ocasions, picnics, high school commencements and the like, thousands of eases are given away for the asking. To those who have never been in Southern Californie, the great rose gar- dens are a revelation. Themostbeauti- ful surround the houses of the great estates and the suburban homes. Perhaps the most famous rose garden in California is that of Adephus Busch, the brewer of St. Louis, This is in Pas- adena and covers many acres. The big gray stone house is at the top of a ser- ies of -terraces, some of grass, others of flowers, still others of mixture of cede palms, shrubs and flower beds. The building itself is smothered in climbing roses. The Western architects run to pergo- las. Every idea of the landscape gar- dener is brought into play in making these gardens, and one costing $20,000 is not unusual. Some will have a, sunk- en garden of elaborate detail, with fountains and white marble steps and iron fences set in cement walls. Others will have Japanese effects, with all plants and shrubs transplanted from the Orient. The spirit af emulation goes down to the poorer dasees, and many old shacks are set in the midst of purple and gold blooms. With the middle class the bungalow garden is most popular. Hero there is a wealth of -ferns, um» brella plants, papyrus ane, other plants, in the middle of,, which the house is set. Around and through are hedges of trim - son or pink geraniums or the Cherokee rose, Which when in bloom look like snowdrifts. Cypress hedges, too, are used, but custom bee it that no hedge must separate the grounds from the street. The geraniums in Cali"fornie are wonders. With support they will climb to the tops of houses and barns. .- The cities use flower hedges and. street gardens in the parking% and scarcely a thoroughfare but has a touch of rich color. The flame tied, each branch of which is tipped. with or- ange red blossoms, and the yellow aca- cia described as looking like an escaped suit, pepper tree*, plains camphor, Rye onns and evergreens are popular for etrect planting. The Blacksmith Shop. t went -with pa to the blacksmithshop And saw them shoe a horse; It's iron shoes that horses wear— ..Not like ours, of course; For horses they have round, hard feet, And they walk all day on the stormy street, ' • INDIGESTION ORM EVIDENCt IN PLENTY Your Neighbors Can Tell You of Cores by Dr. Williams' Pink Pills. Every ease of indigestion, no mat- ter how bea, can be cured by Dr. Ilak Kis. Not only cur- ed, but cured for good. That's a Weeping statement end you are Otis right in demanding evidence to neck it. And it is hacked by evidence in • plenty —Rein evidence among your owe neige - bore, )40 matter in what pert of Can da you live. 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About a year ago I was ad- vised to glee Dr. Williams' Pink Pills a trial, Before lute taken a couple of boxes I found relief, and by the time had used a half dozen boxes I found. myself feeling like a new woman, with a good appetite, good digestion, and a dear complexion. I can strongly recant - mend Dr. Williams' Pink Pills for this trouble and advise similar sufferers to lose no time in taking them, Dr. 'Williams' Pink Pills cure all the troubles which have their origin in had blood. That is why they cure anaemia, indigestion, rheumatism, eczema, St. Vitus dance, partiaeparalesie, and the many ailments of girlhood and. woman- hood, Sold by all medicine dealers or sent by mail at 50 cents a box or two boxes for $e.50 by writing. The Dr. Williams' Medicine Co., Brockville, Ont. ..e • . A blatitsmitheshop is a funny place--; Chock-full of funny things; And lots of' horses stand around, All tied to iron rings; And the Way the red-hot sparks do fly1 I almost got one in my eye! ALONE. Alone yet not alone am Beneath the calin and silent sky; :Tis still. as mountain. solitudes, Where voice is not, nor step intrudes; No heart throbs here, gleams out no eye— Alone, yet not alone am I. A Presence actual 43 the heart Prom whence my own life-motiote start; A Being real, though unseen, More true than trace where ferm hath been; A spirit to my soul is nigh— Alone, yet not alone am I ask no favor, fed no want,' Content with bliss nor poor nor scant; Serene, submissiVe, waiting still Theenotion of a seeereign Attended. lest if crowds were nigh—, Alone, yet not alone am I. Oh, thus to feel, through every sense, Onitiscience and omnipotence - Oh, thus, other joys above, To know that power is only love! My lowly neert, how blest to cey, Alone, yet not alone am I. *WO IThe Nielliodist Brother, o. h od at Work by 1911 (MontrealaSt.a.) new movement 1 11 A w.nt 4130 at the establishment of 4 .11,fatitotliot brother- hood throughout the British Empire was launched here oil Saturday by Sir Robert Perks, Bart., M. P., contraeter, civil engineer and financier, the foun- der of the Methodist Twentieth, Cen- tury Million Geneva& Fund and of the greet palatial central home for Metho- dism on the site of the Westminster Aquarium, and the chief promoter of the latest scheme for the construction of the -Georgian Bay Canal. The versatility of Sir Robert's mind is shown by lila capacity to carry through successfully a Brazil or Ar- gentine railway or harbor scheme and 4 great veligioua movement winch made a milliou golden guineas to fair- ly jump from the pockets of the people into the coffers of Methodism. Sir .Robert's lateet scheme was ex- plained with great completeness at a gathering of Methodist Ministers and laymen which met him by invitation at a luncheon at the Windsor Hotel on Saturday, -- Sir Robert, who was supported at the prieeipal table by the Rev. Dr. Young, Rev. Principal Shaw, Rev, Mr. Timberlake, president of the Metho- dist Couference; Rev, J. Richardson, Mr. 3'. II, Goodwin, Mr. J. W. Knox and Mr. A. 0. Darwen, unfolded his scheme in an able speeen. In its more ideal aspect it is a co-operative move- ment making for • international peace and industrial concord, the promotion of temperance, the protection of .wotnen and the intimater treatment of native races in the -wild portions of the world, but on its more immediately practical side it has for its purpose an iminigra- tion project which would form 4 most important auxiliary to the existing agencies that have been established .by the Canadian Government hi the Mother Country, On this side of the Atlantie it means the receiving in a healthful and brotherly spirit of emi- grants of the Methodist' faith from G,.eat Britain, helping them to secure positions and to establish 4 congenial home life. On the other side it means the encouragement of emigrants of a desirable character, persons of good reputation, whose antecedents would be vouched for and who would be physically and mentally fit for Cana- dian life. The scheme was received with obvious favor by the speakers who followed Sir Robert; and was cm- dorsed by the audience on a show of '4andsi EASTICITY OF METHODISM. ru explaining his scheme Sir Robert observed it had been his good fortune in the past few days to address audiences of a diverse character. A few days ago he had to speak to a company of politi- cians concerned in a. great industrial en- terprise will& must in a very practical way affect the fortunes of the Dominion in years to coins, and on the previous day he was asked to speak at Toronto, on a subject which was a somewhat per- plexing one to explain to a Canadian audience—the relation of Liberalism in England to the colduies and more par- ticularly to the Dominion. At both these gatherings lie felt he must tread very warily and be on his hest behavior, but upon the present occasion, -speaking toes company of Methodist preachers and laymen on a subject that appealed to Methodists he felt more at home, and could discuss it with greater freedom. It might be asked, said Sir Robert, what busieesa the Methodist Church had to concern itself with political and in- dustrial problems, but he would reply that it had been the glory of the Metho- dist Church far and near, at home and beyond the seas, since the days of Wes- ley to our own time, that it was mark- ed by a glorious irregularity and mar- vellous elacticity. Wesley himself, in addition to establishing dispensaries, had, set up an industrial establishment, the profits of -which were partly shared by ther ehme ptlion hs.a as now come," added Sir Robert, "when the Methodists through- out the world should utilize their bond of connectional unity—that mysterious fraternity of spirit which binds us like some powerful religious freemasonry for advancing the interests of Methodist people throughout the world." The Methodist Church, he went on to say, stood second numerically to the Church of England, the mother church, yet it had no endowments or social ad- vantages—no adventations aids of any kind, In preof of which . he mentioned they had but one peer in the House of Lords. A great brotherhood of Metho- dists would, Sir Robert said, be able to bring a powerful influence to bear on statesmen iu dealing with some of the humanitarian and national ques- tions that confronted us. It would be a. great factor in making for international peace and concord, in the relations be- tween employers and employed. Sir Robert dwelt at great length on the intinigeation aspect of his echeme, Lest year twelve thousand Methodists loft England for Canada, and. of that number he felt sure that eight thousand had no definite or certain idea of What they we're going to do when they came hero. What he proposed in this dietetioe Was to organize immigration so that it would be comparatively easy for their own people to get employment when they came here. This they., would do by the establishmeet of register of Meth- odists who emigrated. By this means they would be brought in contact with employers who were In need of 'work- men. He hoped those present would form themselves into a committee that would establish in Montreal one of the open- ing centres of the brotherhood. Given the initial start, and the hand of good fellowship and welcome among their own people, Methodists would be sure to sues teed when they tante to Canada, they did not drink, at all events to excess, and did not as a rule 'smoke or put their money on races, The Methodist orgaiim. action might be relied upon not to send titobleCtunda persons who were 'midair - The scheine received endorse- ment from the Rev, Dr. Young, Aid. Shaw, Mr. J. W. Knox, Rev. W. A. Itadieye ter, A. 0. Dawson and Rev. Dr. who all offeree practical sugges- tions as to how the sorting process. might be enrried out and the necessity for co-operation between the clergy and tatty in the matter. After a ShOW Of bands Ited been tak- en in favor of the stiletto, Sir Robert void that in euly next he would let the efethoeist Conference in Lotaloe iceow how heartily the brotherhood scheme has beets stippottee in Montreal'. It *toile tette tome time to get the flotilla in shape, but be hoped the organization would be in full operation %thee the Cen- tral eitithoiliet premises at Westminster tele coropleteil hi 1911. Speaking of the signs of tinily throughout the church he ititimaten that erobablv the nest a e- we. WC Methodist eerletence . be li, M io Toronto, .1-404+4.444-*** :DOCTOR 'ADVISED' OPERATION. And Ile that, sent Me is with Me; the Father bath not left Me alone.—John vii., 20. There is no lot on earth so lonely, no trouble so unshared, no fidelity so di- vorced -from human help, but it may find its counterpart in the life of the Savior. —Ephraim Peabody. ie • o After making a most careful study of the matter, U. S. Govern- ment scientists state definitely that the common house fly is the principal means of distributing typhoid fever, diphtheria and. smallpox. Wilson's Ply Pads kill the Mei and the disease germs, too. 4 • Hanged for Violating Smoke Law. Curious and little _known fade about the home fire were mentioned, by Mr. E. Tr, Blake, addressing the surveyors' institution lest evening on warming and ventilation. Fires were at one time 'a great luxury, he said, and even the right to use the fire had been bequeathed. Thus the will of one Richard Byrehett (1516) read: "I will yt say& Nell my wyfe shal have ye cluunber she lyes in and lyberie at ye fyer in the house; ael yese thyngs shal she have so long as she ys wide. Coal, continued, Mr. 131ake, was first imported into London at the end of the thirteenth century, but the smoke pro- duced by. burning .it in improperly con- structed grates caused such a prejudice against it.that in 1300 a law was passed making it a; capital 'offence to burn coal in the city. The tourer records give de- tails of a ma's trial and execution for the offence.—Lonnoe Daily Graphic. '•• sr THE BISHOP AND PLAYGROUNDS, (Toronto Star.) The Bishop of Toronto has written a letter strongly approving of public playgrounds for eitildeen. He is doing a service to the children, and also to the church lie represents by keeping it in touch with en important social movement. The blacksmith, he is awful strong; He gives the horse a slap, And then he picks his feet right up And holds it in his lap; And the horse, he lets him do it, tom I'd be afraid to; wouldn't you? A blacksmith's what I'd like to be WhetT I get to be a man; And I thiak that / will be One too, If papa says 1 can. I'm going to save my pennies up, Till I can buy a blacksmith -shop!. —George Redfield -Clarkes hi Gunteres. 4 1 Sr ------• • For Example.. "Women musty be mieeetain and -coy," 1 routirhed the Weeding Timm philoeopters "but Ow isult li rd to pieties. elates WhPrc fht, pod is wrote." "What new Bent hew. you had en that sullied, Mr. NeGinnisS" aeled the inn!' , key. , eisluell put up With eintset any Ian I ' r i" etie k fa a ha4.anil end w,,:r any thine ou bur Lai kr a WI." PLAYING IN THE STREETS. (Toronto News.) Toronto can vt,ell afford to spend 4 few thousand dollars annually on pro- viding its children with tome for play anti recreation. In fact, the city cannot afford notto make such expenditures. Cured by Lydia E, Pinks banesVegetableCompouad Canitton, Ont.—"I had been a great flutterer for five years. One doctor told me it was ulcers Of the UteettS, and another told nie it was a fibroid tumor. No one know what suf- fered. I would aaa nit lave ae Yr t8na ei eepr e Wr fewrds: breeg4Ulrair,it g.a o attdtwkine pains were terrible. I Was very ill in bed, and the doctor ltidve incto hiavweollaind operation, and t I might die during the operation. I wrote to my sister about it and she advised me to take Lydia B. PlukhaM's Vegetable Compound. Through personal expe- rieuee I have found it the best =dl - ohm in the world for female troubles, for it has cured ins, and 1414 not have to have the operation after all. The COMpound also helped me while pass - Mg through Change of Life."—Mrs. LETITIA. BLAIR, Calliften, Ontario. Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Com- pound, made from roots and herbs, has proved to be -the most successful remedy for curing the worst forms of female ills, Including displacements, inflammation, fibroid tumors, irregu.. hart ties, periodic pains, backache, bear- ing -down feeling, flatulency, Indiges- tion, and nervous prostration. It costs but a trifle to try it, and the result has been worth millions to suffering women. THE WITCHES' TREE. Curious Superstitions Regarding the Influence of the Elder. Country people speak of the elder tree as "The Witches' Cree," and planted it near farm buildings and dairies to keep off witches. They also say that the roots should never coins near a well, still less grow into it, or the water will be spoilt. Evelyn's opinion was also unfavorable. Ile seers: "I do by no means commend the scent of,, it, which is very noxious t°-14tub'. "1'learn from Biesius that a certain house in Spain, seated among many eld- er trees, diseased and killed nearly all its inhabitants, which, when at last they were grubbed up, became a very healthy and. wholesome -place." Cattle scarcely touch the ,elder, and the mole is driven away by the scent, Carters often place _branches on their hpries' heads to keep of flies. Notie big will grow well in the company of the elder, and when it has been removed and all its root scarcely grugged up it Li some few years before the ground be- somes perfectly sweet and god for any - The berries, besides feeding the birds, make excellent country wine, delicious with soda water in summer or taken het in winter; the wood is particularly good for skewers, and the curious jews' red fungus grows on elder stumps. A species of elder in the Tyrol is covered with beautiful scarlet berries. --See borne's Magazine. 6 41. TRY MURINE EYE REMEDY For Red, Weak, Weary, Watery Eyes, Granulation, Pink Eye and Eye Strain. Merino doesn't. smart; soothes eye pain. Is -compounded byexperienced physie clans; contains no injurious or prohibit- ed drugs. Try Murine for trolly eye troubles. You. will like Murine. Try it in baby's eyes for scaly eyelids. Drug- gists sell litutite .at 50c, Murine Eye Remedy Co., Chicago, will sena you in- teresting Eye Books free, Tin, Vented Mates bait now 0,020 national banks with an authorized eapi- td of 015410575. • s The silly British war Ware is passing, The fellows who have engineered it are becoming known. China began a pared poet bitsinese eight yeer; age. Last year it handled. 4445.600 pieces, aggregating 27,1es5 tone the V111110AP are waking up. • In the year 1008 the powers launched 319,430 tons of war shipping: Tim larg- est- of these vessels were the Walsh Collingwolui and St, 'Vincent, 21,000 tons eadni womme*., , In the year 1907 not less .than ei.0,000 women and 105,000 men were employed as school teachers in the United States. It took something like $240,000,004 to pay these teachers' salaries. The army of pupils numbered about 10,000,000.. .. • 0* There are enough idle railway cars of the American Railway Association to move 0,000700,000enile tone of freight Time existence of so meth dead capital is enueing .the association •eorne worry. The statistics of 1008 show a decrease • of 48,266 in the number of deathsduring the year, andan increase of 18,007 births. That elicited be effective as a nerve - quieting potion to some of our alarmed birth-rate cranks. A Slatington, Pa., men was up on a charge of wife -beating the other flay, and lie did not deny the woman's state- ment that he had amused himself by pummelling her every week for ten years. He was allowed to go on promis- ing to quit drinking and to findesome other form of diversion than wife -beat- ing. The United States Geological survey estimates that there is at least 72 bil- lion tons of iron ore available in Mich- igan, Minnesota and Wisconsin. It pre- sent rate of mining this would. last 6,- 000 years. Perhaps by that time other States may want to enter the market. ••* The New York director of the Ham. burg -American Steamship Co. makes a . discouraging forecast of the 'trans Atlantic steamship business. Ile avers that the ocean carrying trade is hugely oveebuilt, and that the only hope of profit lies in the possibility of grain cargoes. British shipping, however, ap- pears to continue to prosper. Mr. Deakin, Premier of Australia, is said to have cabled an offer of a Dread- noueit to the home Government. Com- petition in evidencing "loyalty" ber—ot. fees" of Dreadnoughts appears to be quite keen among Australian statesmen. Thus far the "offers" letve cost Austra- lia very little. Chicago's high license policy, intro. &iced in 1905, has not refiulted, RR was feared in some. quarters, in forcing twiny of the saloons- out. of liminess. When, on the first of last month, the licenses were ienewed, every one of the Appli- cants came forward with the $1,000 fee, and not a, single license was allowed to lapse.. It isbelieved that Chicago's rev- enue from saloons will not again fait be- low $7,000,000 a year. Dining With the Hangman. In "The Comic Side of, Grime" in the February Strand Magazine, Harry Furniss tells a somewhat startling story of the Hon. Lewis Wingfield, a well.known figure in Bohemian society in London,some thirty years ago. Wingfield wasa man of a. particularly morbid turn of mind and made quite a friend of Marwood, who was at that time the official hangman. He once invited this interesting character to take dinner With him at Powerscourt, his beautiful Dublin estate; and as Wingfield was anxious that his domes- tics should not discover who' his guest was, the, conversation did not turn, during dinner, on criminals or hang- ing. His butler was an old and, valued servant, and when he was in the room Wingfield wag careful to refer only to general sopics and avoid the one which ho and his guest had met to dis- cuss. But to the host's horror, the hang- man kept looking at his watts!), and once or twice, when the butler was in the room, he Would sae: "Ah, they're giving it to them now. Yes, yes; it's about time now it was over," Wingfield was on pins and needles lest his guest should, in his excitement, disclose the names of the poor victims. As soon as they -were alone, he said: "Who are they? I didn't know there was any execution on to -day.' "Well, I should think not—or I wouldn't be here.' "But they're criminals of some kind— flogging,thr "Flogging! Criminals! Blue you, no, sir. I was looking at my watch 'ere to time, the presentation of prizes at my girls' school. To -day tine takes a fust prize and the other 4 second!" • •• SUPERVISED CIVIC PLAYGROUNDS. (Toronto Globe.) The feeling is becoming very general that it is inhuman to deprive children, and especially.. very small children, of ine thttatural right to -play on the ground in the open air. Any ,civic community that persistently ignore that right will pay the poialty sooner later. It is putting it mildly to say that nothing the is so potent a preventive of crime as s-uelt play is; in point of fact it is ale, most the only effective preventive to which the community can resort. 'Phe highly artificial mud Itothowei life of a school is no proper substithte for the education given by nature in the prim- itive soviets, of which ebildven so situ- ated are the constituent individuals. eessete-sie--- Datceodant of Great William. Raw clerk -Look here whet do roil IYISRa nsiee. ejol nett odiznyn ti,00nk,hsenf odritis.-iagradi et Iowa. loone will regularly l:art between the great cities. ,Taking the first cost of the airship at $150,000 and that of its crew end operation at about $112,000 a year, it estimates that it would have to realize $900 for- every 12 -hour journey lit order to clear expenses. Even if it carried 15 passengers each trip, thie *led necessitate a charge of $60. But there are ninny other chargee before pro. fits could be considered, not the least of Welt would be insurance and dam- ages. Perhaps, even thee, tint more than .25 per cent. of the passengers would heed care afterwards other than to bury them. • - - "A correepondent" is informed that there have been several measures adopt- ed in Germany by way of requiring the working people to insure themselves against sickness, accident and poverty in old age. Prince Bismarek's bill to arrange for the working classes, in co-op crania with And Assisted by their em- ployers and the State, to provide against sicknese heeame law in 1883. A meas- ure to niche provision for accidents passed the Reichstag in the following year,, and on May 24, 1884, en act pro- viding for an old -ago pension system to - weed the fund for which employees, employers and the State WOuld contra butte, became kW. These -nets are NM. pulsory, - • 4 It would ba hard to improve upon thie statement of the London, Eng., Econ - mist, whidt points out that in the last ten years thetetetual expenditure of time Britielt Admiralty has been About 300 millione, that of the German Admiralty About 108 millions, while our estimated expenditure for next year is 35 millions, that of -Germany 18 or 19 milliens, most- ly bre-rowed: that our tontine of war- ships actually built and reedy for Action was 1.84000 tons, 4004 it German tonnage of rilinut t1e8,000 eons: that the trainee personnel of our navy 0mM-A of Some 1e8,001) men, while filet of the German navy timid -et* of about, 48,000 men. 111 VIM' of these ;try but surely relevant Mein and figures, we mettle, ta remark: "Three who fear a Rermau hiveeion really ought to be given a safe tonduct ant uo the 'country. We bvrelkliutedielgoeto, iteheasteleenitilert/itelleueneheis Itaii think the sears has been 'Worked tip by Is Pam and he is from Philseieliehlos interested parties,"