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s THE SUNDAY OREGONIAN, PORTLAND, AUGUST 9, 1914. SHIPPING DILEMMA TO BE TAKEN UP Conference of Leading Mer chants in Foreign Trade Called for Next Week. NAVY MAY HAUL FREIGHT Grain and Cotton Crop Must Be Handled Is Government' View and Way Out of War Crisis Will Be Sought. WASHINGTON. Aug. 8. Confronted with the problem of disposing of the country's enormous grain and cotton crops, the Administration made plans Friday for a conference in Washington next week of representatives or me leading shipping Interests and foreign exchange bankers. The bankers have been asked to come to Washington to formulate plans for a resumption of the international ex change market and restore the use of International bills of exchange. The shipping men will be asfced to move American grain and cotton to the Euro pean markets which have taken them so liberally heretofore. In. announcing the conference call Secretary McAdoo said: "It is of vital importance to the country that two things be done as quickly as possible; first, provide ships to move our grain and cotton crops to European markets; the second, restore through the bankers the market for rorelgn bills of exchange. Grain Problem Pressing. "Grain is a very pressing problem at the moment, because the crops have been largely harvested and the move ment is already well under way. The cotton movement is not so advanced and will not be for a few weeks. It Is my purpose to invite a conference on the subject of cotton to be held at an early date, of which announcement will be made later. These are important ques tions for the American people and very possible effort will be made by the Administration to co-operate in the movement of these great crops." The Senate again failed to pass the amendment to the Panama Canal act admitting to American register foreign built ships less than five years old. Some opposition developed. Senator Simmons and Williams. Democrats, at tacking the plan as dangerous and In adequate to meet the situation. Senator Newlands introduced an amendment to the bill, renewing an effort made several years ago, which would authorize the Government to provide for construction In private or Government yards of 30 vessels to be used a auxiliary ships to the Navy, or for use In commercial or Navy mall lines as might hereafter be provided. The proposed ships will be not to ex ceed in aggregate cost 130,000,000, not more than six ships to be built in any one year, $6,000,000 to be expended in the current year. Xavy May Carry Freight. Secretary Daniels expressed the hope today that freight might be carried to I Europe on naval vessels, congress nas rope on naval vessels. Congress has granted the necessary authority for handling mail and light freight, but the Secretary said permission to use col liers for carrying cotton and grain Would help the situation. "Just now." Mr. Daniels said, "there la need for large ships to carry cotton and wheat to Kurope. If Congress will authorize it. the Navy ran at once give help. We could, within a few days, use four large colliers for carrying heavy freight. Each would have an average capacity of 29,000 bales of cot ton or 400.000 bushels of wheat." Acting Secretary Sweet, of the De partment of Commerce, telegraphed to night collectors of customs for infor mation as to the number of officers holding proper licenses for ocean steamers now out of employment and available for service to Europe, Asia, Africa, South America and Australia. John Barrett, director-general of the Pan-American Union, is urging Amer icans to co-operate in the effort to build up the Nation's South American trade. He said a tremendous opportunity now offers to gain the gratitude of South American countries. MRS. E. A. JACKSON DIES 1 .hi- Count) Pioneer Passes While on Visit to Daughter. OREGON CITY. Or.. Aug. 8. (Spe cial) Mrs. Elizabeth A Jackson, a pioneer of 1853. died at the home of her daughter, Mrs. Maggie Toung, at Clackamas, at 3:30 o'clock this after noon, after an illness of several years. Besides her daughter, she is survived by one son. S. B. Jackson, of Walker, Lane County. The body will be taken to Eugene Monday, where the services will be held. Mrs. Jackson has lived iu Lane County from the time of her arrival In Oregon until she left for a visit to her daughter at Clackamas recently. Her maiden name was Miss Elizabeth A. Harper. She was born In Hancock County. Illinois. September 20, 1832. At the age of 3 her parents moved to Jo Davis County. Illinois, where she lived until her marriage to S. B. Jack son. November 21, 1848. In 1853 she left with her husband for the West with an ox team and arrived In Lane County the same year. CHILD SWALLOWS POISON efaUM Krhart, 3, Drinks Carbolic Acid on Train and Dies. Julius, the 3-year-old son of Mr. and Mrs. J. P. Erhart. 1118 East Mill street, died on the O.-W. R A N. train be tween Mosier and Portland Friday night from the effects of carbolic acid poison ing. The body was taken to his par ents" home. The child w-as coming from Mosier to Portlainl in company with Dr. David Robinson, of Mosier, and another physi cian. He was left alone in the seat for t few minotes, got the acid bottle and grank its contents. He immediately be came unconscious, and died Just as the train entered Portland. Mr. Erhart is a mine owner. COLONEL HUNTS TROUBLE Progressive Leader Thinks He Has .Muddled Kastern Politics. OTSTER BAT. N. Y.. Aug. 3 Sat isfied that he has given the standpat Republicans and Democrats of New Tork State much to worry them by the manner in which he has complicated the situation, Colonel Roosevelt has be gun to give some of his tlma ithe problems which confront the Progres sive nar (n nth.r MtAteS. He is laying plans now to tip things upside down in Connecticut and Mas sachusetts, if it is in his power to do so. By the middle of August he will be waging his campaign, and his first stop will be Hartford, Conn. The Colonel has no intention of let ting things rest in New Tork, how ever, as he feels that by indorsing Hin man he has worked out the problem in the best possible manner from the Pro gressive standpoint. William Barnes, the Republican state chairman, if Re publicans here are to be believed, has just begun to near rrom ine oiuuei. and when'the reply to his suit Is made public will have, so Roosevelt believes, much food for thought. The Colonel also intends, according to present plans, to make an informal address before the Progressive leaders at the state committee meeting in New Tork by which he expects to end all discussion and get the united party into line for the fray. The leaders also will be cautioned to make careful prepara tions to see that the party gets a fair deal In the primaries. Colonel Roose velt has alleged that in the primaries in New Tork State in 1912 he was cheated out of many votes, and he in tends to tight bitterly against a repeti tion of the frauds he alleged were com mitted then. With thin off his hands, and the reply to Barnes ready for filing, the Colonel will head for New England to see about the reports that the Progressive party Is in hard luck there. He will leave for Hardford, Conn., and make a vig orous speech there. He also will go by automobile Into Vermont, where he will pay a visit to George K. Cherrle, who was with him on his South Ameri can trip. CARRIERS REPORTED OUT POSTAL OmOTH HEAR OP THEIR REMOVAL FROM SERVICE. Bill Said to Have Bcea Passed In Con gress Held Return to Old System of Spoils. According to advices received Friday night oy the Portland Association of Lettercarriers from M. T. Finn", act ing secretary of the National Associa tion of Lettercarriers. Congress Fri day passed a bill removing all classi fied employes from the civil service in all postofllces. The information In the telegram indi cated that another rollcall would be demanded and that the lettercarriers all over the country were using their in fluence to defeat the measure. The organization committee of the Portland Association of Lettercarriers, W. J. McGlnnls, H- E. Coleman and W. F. Brown, said last night that they had no intimation such a measure was being considered in Congress. "If the bill has passed it means a re turn to the old 'spoils system,' " said Mr. McGinnis. "Evidently the Demo crats believe that 'to the victors belong the spoils." " "The motive actuating that bill is to avoid paying pensions to superannu ated employes, so often argued before Congress," said Mr. Brown. "If the civil service regulations are removed, the service will not attract as worthy a class of men as now characterizes it." "The civil service system is tno re sult of many years of evolution and its discontinuation would be a step back ward," said Mr. Coleman. "Civil serv ice takes employment out of politics and it has in several other ways demon strated Its superiority over tne oia system. ' The Portland men interpret me tele gram to mean that all of the postoffice carriers and clerks, numbering 30,000, will be taken from the civil service and made liable to replacement at any time. Numerous telegrams are being dis patched to the Oregon Senators and Representatives, urging them to vote against the bill if it comes up again. KNIFE REFORMS MANIAC COLORADO PRISONER FREE AFTER OPERATION ON HEAD. Splinter of Bone Pressing on Brain, Came of Criminal Insanity, Is Lifted Off by Snrsjeons. CANON CITT, Colo.. Aug. 4. Jeff Lee. prisoner in the State Penitentiary here, has been transformed from a criminal maniac to an honest man by having a splinter of bone lifted from his brain, surgeons say. The surgeon's knife has wrought a miracle that will send the young man, who still is in his 'iOs, Into the world a free man. Lee is the son of a wealthy Texas planter. When he was 15 several of his boy friends dared him to ride an unruly horse. He accepted the chal lenge and apparently conquered the animal. Then he invited one of his girl friends to accompany him for a ride. The horse, seeing an opportunity, suddenly reared and threw the youth. He was dashed violently to the ground and his skull fractured. He was taken home and recovered, so far as his phy sical health was concerned. He grew morose and sullen, however. Then he began to seek the company of the roughs of the neighborhood Finally he was arrested and convicted on a charge of horse stealing. He went to the Texas Penitentiary, and there, with hardened criminals as his tutors, he became versed in crime. When he was released he came to Colorado and soon became Intimate with a criminal element. In a few months he was ar rested on a charge of burglary and sen tenced to serve from two to five years in the state prison. He showed signs of Incipient Insanity almost from the day of his entry, and within a few months was sent to the ward for the insane. The prison surgeons observed his case and decided to operate. Their work was successful, they say. $70.000 TIP LEFT WAITER Lonesome Briton Cheered by Hotel Employe Rewards Kindness. NEW TORK, Aug. 3 Frank R. Pat terson, formerly a waiter at the Ho tel Avon, has just been notified that he has been left $70,000 in the will of a former customer. Two years ago, while Patterson was at tho Avon, a man about 50 years old took a place at one of his tables. He seemed downcast, and the sympathetic waiter, serving him solicitously, gained the guest's gratitude and confidence. He told Patterson he was Orton H. Batcholder. an Englishman, and he was homesick In New Tork. Ho willingly accepted Patterson s offer to guide him about the city, and the waiter succeeded in driving his homesickness away. They became fast friends, and when the visitor was leaving he asked Patterson to go to England with him. but Patterson de clined on account of his approaching marriage. Later Patterson wen, to Boston, where he now lives. He continued as a waiter and correspond! regularly with his English friend. A few days ago Patterson was notlfiijtt that Batch older, who lived in Birmingham. Eng.. was dead and Vhat he left $70,000 In tis will to A accommodating waiter. FEAST IS SET BUT L Miss Florence Howe, of Pitts ton, Wants $30,000 to Pay for Humiliation. ENGLISHMAN IS DERELICT Engagement to Frederick McCabe, Her Junior, Kept Secret, but After Clergyman Is Engaged He Has Change of Heart. NEW TORK. Aug. 3. With the fragrance of orange blossoms in the air. Miss Florence Howe, prominent in the social life of PIttston. Pa., was awakened from a dream of happy mar riage by a note written by Frederick McCabe. of the Standard Marine Insur ance Company, of this city. In which she says she was told that he could not make her his wife. Now Miss Howe wants $30,000 dam ages for alleged breach of promise of marriage. She caused the arrest of -Mr. McCabe in his office. 67 William street, on the ground that he was about to leave this country. He was re leased on bail. Miss Howe is a sister of Willard D. Howe, member of the Yale Club, who lives at 520 West One Hundred and Fourteenth street and at Scarsdale Westchester County. Mrs. Frederick C. Feck, of White Plains, is her sister The Howe family is prominent in PItt ston. Mr. McCabe lives at 141 Ninety- second street. Bay Ridge, and his home Is at 23 Grosvenor street Lascard Cheshire, England. He formerly was employed in the offices of the Insurance company n Liverpool. He is 22 years old and Miss Howe is said to be a trifle older. Announcement Is Made. Miss Howe asserts that Mr. McCabe proposed marriage to her on September 12, 1913, and after she had accepted him he asked her to keep their engagement a secret. She agreed, but about the first of the present year thougnt it should be announced, so the engage ment was published in the newspapers of Pittston, Pa.; Wllkesbarre, Pa., and Scranton. on January 3. The wedding was arranged lor May 11 last. Miss Howe says, in the home ot her sister, Mrs. Peck, in hue plains. She expended about $500 in preparing a trousseau, and on April -i went to White Plains to prepare for the mar riaere. There she was met by Mr. Mc Cabe, and she again saw him on April 30 at White Plains, where, she says, final arrangements for the wedding were discussed. A dinner was arranged at the Peck home for May 7, at which Mr. McCabe Dromised to be present, it Is asserted, and among other persons Invited were the Clerk of Westchester county, wno was to issue the marriage license, and the clergyman who was to officiate. Parental Warning Given. But on May 6. the night before the dinner, it is asserted, and only five days before the wedding. Miss uowe receivea the following letter: 'Dear Florence: I know you will reel hurt and surprised at receiving this letter, but I feel that under the circum stances it is all I can do. You may have noticed that I was not as warm toward you as I should have been, and you have probably put it down to my natural coldness and reserve. But it is really more than that. I don't really love von. and while I like and respect you immensely I don't think, in fact I am quite sure, that I could not make you happy, and when there are such misgivings the only thing to be done Is not to marry. I have fouKht this thing out wltn myself, and while I know I am play ing a cad's part, I cannot help feeling that it's better that wry. You may think differently, but I am sure that we could not live together as man ana wife. "Please forgive me for all the pain and trouble I have caused you." Miss Howe shows a copy or a letter she says she received from Mr. McCabe's father in England, which reads: 'Matrimony is the greatest change that can come in the life of a man or woman, and on no account should it be entered into lightly or thoughtless ly. I am presuming that you two young people are surricientiy wen acquamieu with each other that no incompati bility will later arise to mar your hap piness, which I am old enough to know cannot be bought or got by wealth, but must come from within and be founded on love and affection." Miss Howe is represented by lunn, Dunham & Sisson. of 31 Nassau street, and Bartley J. Wright, of 37 Wall street, is counsel to Mr. McCabe. RADIUM AS CURE TRIED Banker Promises Support to Doctor to Make Thorough Trials. NEW TORK, Aug. 2. Through the financial aid of Frank A. Vanderlip, president of the National City Bank, the value of radium as a cure for can cervls to be tried out thoroughly and scientifically at the sanitarium of Dr. Amos Squire at Ossinlng. He has made it possible for Doctor Squire to borrow the money to obtain $30,000 worth of radium, which is to be employed in the treatment of what ever kinds of cancer seems to be bene fited by Its use. Mr. Vanderllp's interest, Doctor Squire said, had been aroused in the method of treating cancer, and he has been invited to establish in New York a radium Institute, on the lines of those STARVING MAN IS DEVOUT Hungry Man Refuses Food Until He Attends Church. PITTSBURG, Aug. 3. Admitting that he was almost starved, Michael Ripley refused to eat anything at the South Side police station this morning until after he had attended church services. Ripley, who said he had no home, was found faint from lack of food in the street. A policeman took him to the police station, where several big sand wiches and a cup of coffee were offered to him. Ripley eyed the food hungrily, but shook his head, saying that throughout all his wanderings he made it a prac tice never to eat on Sunday morning till he bad attended church. NEW GLASS EYE TO MOVE Gold Foundation for False Optic to Make It Hard to Detect. PHILADELPHIA. Aug. 3. An in teresting operation. which demon strates the latest step In surgery of the eye, was performed recenfV at the clinic of Dr. C. R. Heed at t 1: Wills eye hospital, in the presence ci'a num ber of visiting physicians an ;rtbers BRIDEGROOM AGS of the hospital staff. The operation consisted of the replacing of the con tents of a useless and inflamed eye with a gold sphere, which will fill the orbit and form a firm foundation for the subsequent insertion of a glass eye, which will have the remarkable power of moving in harmony with the healthy eye and will thus give a per fectly natural appearance The patient, a man of 40 years old. had lost the sight of the eye through an injury several years ago and tho eye recently became inflamed and en dangered the sight of the other eye. Enucleation, or removal of the eyeball, was performed and the gold sphere was inserted, covered with the outer membranes and stitched into place. The muscles which move the eyeball and which had been severed during the operation were also stitched Into their proper position. The surgeons expect the operation wound to heal In about three weeks. The glass eye will be held in place by the upper and lower eyelid, and being closely adher ent to the firm foundation formed by the insertion of the gold sphere, will move with it in a natural manner in synchronism with the movements of the normal eye. The surgeons who performed the operation believe that it will be extremely difficult or im possible for an observer to detect any visual defect. NOMINEE SEES VICTORY DR. WITHVCOMBE SAYS OUTLOOK IS ENCOURAGING. Republican Candidate for Governor ; Finds Indications People Want Safe ' I and Sane Administration. "Hearty assurances given me by leading business men in all parts of I the state make my campaign outlook exceedingly encouraging," said Dr. James Withycombe, nominee of the Re publican party for Governor, at the Imperial Hotel Friday night. "Every where I go over the state I find that the people are anxious to get back once more to a solid, safe and sane business administration of the execu tive office." Dr. WithycomDe spent yesterday in Oregon City, where he met personally with the leading business men of the city, among whom he has a wide ac quaintance. Today he will deliver the principal address at the annual picnic of the Garfield Country Club. Garfield, located In the Bstacada district, is one of the thriving communities of Clacka mas County. The picnic is the gala event of the year in that locality and it is expected that several hundred will attend. Dr. Withycombe's address will be a strictly non-political exposition of "Rural Problems," with a particular emphasis on matters of rural credits. JUDGE GIVES LOVE THESIS youthful Marriages Ofttimes Are Passions That Don't Last. HAGERSTOWN, Md., Aug. 3. Judge Keedy, in filing an opinion dismissing the suit of Mrs. Frances P. Morgan for a divorce from James L Morgan, made some caustic comments on the causes of unhappy marriages. The couple were married in Hagerstown two years ago, Mrs. Morgan being 17 and her husband 18 years old, although the marriage record showed that Morgan, in taking out the license, gave his age tas 21. "Here is an illustration," the court said, "of the utter disregard and lack of appreciation of the false swearing." Referring to the fact that, when the young people were asked on what they expected to live, replied: "Love," the Judge went on: "Love food seems to be popular with lovesick swains and lassies, but, unfor tunately, it neither satisfies the de mands of physical hunger nor does it keen fresh and palatable for any length of time. Such loves more properly are designated as passions and not the kind that exists in any true conjugal union." OPERA-GOERS BRAVE HEAT Two Theaters in Berlin Enjoy Good Summer Patronage. BERLIN. Aug. 7. Berlin's appetite for opera is really Insatiable. Though the temperature is an unconuortarjie and muggy 90 in the shade, no fewer than two full-fledged grand opera "sea sons," one at the Theater des Westens and the other at the Schiller Theater, are doing excellent business nightly. There is a cycle of the "Ring" at the first named and the Schiller Theater, with a first-rate company, is, giving a more catholic repertoire. ' It is not generally known that the forthcoming novelty "de luxe" in the music world, an operetta by Eignor Puccini, the very first work of the sort, as distinguished from grand opera, which has ever emanated from the pen of the composer, has been writtten for Herr Andreas Dlppel, tne uerman- American impresario, who will be the first to produce it, at his new light opera theater in New York, before the end of the present year, nerr iippci himself miEfirested the scheme, details of which are closely guarded. It will be interesting to see If fuccini is tne peer of Lehar, Fall and Gilbert in the realm in which they have so long been supreme. $15,000 CHECK FOUND BAD Puper Originally Calling for $55.20 Raised1 by Auto Buyer. mm nfl.PHTi A lie- 3 A check calling for $15,000 and certified by the First National Bank of Philadelphia, is In the hands of an unauthorized per son who attempted to cash it in New Tork through the purchase of an au tomobile, me cneca originaiiy wo , i v. ti.a Atlantic Re.flninir Com- leaucu u " - - " pany of this city for $55.20. Recently a man appeared at the bank here with i i nrnnir .rfxlent iuls and au- i ii i lib ' , ..- - thority and had a certified check is sued for jij.uuu. mi .- . . -1 i nrt Hiai-nVArcn Until 1 HO 1 1 nui " J . . - . - - today, when the salesman took the man to a bank in iew lorn, wnero an ui- ricer oi mo w; -into communication with Philadelphia. The possessor of the check declined to deposit it and departed, leaving only a memorandum of the valuable piece of paper. RABBITS WEED GARDENS James R. Reed Trains Animals to Eat Pests but Not Touch Plants, iffluipi M "V A nar. 3 No lonarer i -i J-a r.irk their hrains and eret stooping shoulders by hoeing out weeds, according to James R. Reed. By careful breeding and systematic training, Reed has produced rabbits which will go Into a garden patch and devour all the weeds, but will not touch a single cultivated plant. It is resorted that the latest craxe in London la for eating flowers This is confined to the homes of the rich and lux urious Flowara are eaton at dancsa ana receptions. Chrysanthemum petals ar. re garded as one of the chief delicacies, I We devote one entire floor in our building to the display and sale of those appliances which make for the relief and cure of bodily defects and deformities. No house west of Chi cago carries as large a representative line. 11 r 'NATURE IN' IT Joe Knowles in Garb Looking Like Fiji Islander's. HIS STflfiyGTH INCREASED Wlsbou sf yellow-hammer Is Fishhook, While Fly Is Made of Partridge Feathers Willow Bark Hat Decorates Head. BT A. L. FAIRBROTHER. KNOWLES CAMP. Klamath National Forest (Via Holland and Grants Pass, Or.). Aug. 8. (Special.) We passed several hours in the woods with Joe Knowles today, the 15th day of his "nature man" test in the Klamath For est. Knowles wore a hat and foot covering, but that was about all. A girdle of matted "witch grass" and a flapping collar of the same mate rial made him look like a Fiji Islander. The collar, he said, served the double purpose of flapping flies away and breaking the heat of the sun. On his feet were sandals of thick wood, bound by thongs of deer hide, taken from a carcass found a few days ago. This was about all. He carried a staff and had an extra pair or sanaais maoe ot braided cedar oarK strappeu to ma u.n.. u .oT-rled a hat for exhibition purposes. It was a weird, heavy con trlvance and of willow bark and gras built in somDrero nwa Professor Edwards and The Ore gonian reporter came across Knowles on the trail three miles from camp, on Indian Creek. The professor had left a note asking Joe to meet us. Sktn Copper Brown. His skin was browned almost to cop per and was roughened and torn by brush. His feet were still swollen and cracked, but healing rapidly. His bands were black with crusted dirt. He was thinner in waist and in legs and arms than when he left us two weeks ago. He looked as though he had lost at least 20 pounds. But he was smiling. "How are you feeling?" asked Pro fessor Edwards. "Never felt better in my life," was the answer. "I am stronger than when I went into the woods. I have the wind of a horse. "What did ydu have for breakfast today, Joe?" asked the reporter. "Oh. I had a couple of smoked fish." Knowles took a fish line from his hat and showed us a fish hook made of the breast bone of a yellow hammer, which he had killed with a stone. The fly part of the hook was made of feathers from a partridge. "But 1 get most of my fish by catching them in a net. I made a net of willow bark and sink it under a little falls. Then I go up stream and poke the fish out from under the rocks. They run down stream and get Into my net." Joe displayed two claws of a wood pecker, carefully wrapped In leaves He Is waiting until they dry before making hooks of them. "Have you been cold, Joe?" "I am so used to It now that I can sleep all night without a fire," he said. "I have only made four fires. 1 usually bank it during the day." Knowles has moved recently. He found Hedge Hog Mountain too rough and went down Into Squaw Willow Valley, a little stream which runs into Indian Creek. He is working on a new scheme. This is an impressionistic picture of a landscape made with the materials he finds in the woods. "You have no idea how qulet the woods are, especially at night." he said. "The least unusual sound wakens me. The other night I was aroused by the snapping of a twig. I lifted to an elbow and saw a pair of eyes in the brush close by, looking into camp. I reached down to my side for a club and waited. 1 do not know whether it was a deer or a panther, but it was simply an animal attracted by my fire. He did not want me." Then Joe took us for a little excur sion in the woods, found his lunch In a berrv and fern patch, drove fish out from rocks and discovered a new kind of fungus. Knowles walked up the trail toward home with us and bade us all good-bye for two more weeks. UMBRELLA IS DENOUNCED Babylon, L. I., Man Would Punish Careless W'ielders. MIDDLETOWN, N. T., Aug. 3. Joseph Rankin, who said he was from Babylon, L. L, asserted that he had never carried an umbrella during the 50 years of his existence, and never would, even if he lived to be as old as Methuselah. When asked his reason, Rankin said: "The things are a nuisance, any way more trouble than they can pos sibly be good. They make thieves of otherwise honest people, who are tempted to pick them up anywhere they find them, never dreaming they are really stealing. I have been jabbed In th sides and nose more times by The The fitting of Trusses, a very important part of our business, is intrusted only to skilled men and women, who devote their entire time and attention to this responsible task. Hearing Appliances, Invalid Chairs, sick room needs, such as Bedside Tables, Back Rests nml a thousand and one minor devices, which greatly help in alleviating the discomforts and pain of the patient, we have in endless variety. A visit to this department is well worth while. l rl 1 Q wooaara, tiaree ol Alder Street at West the things in the hands of earless people than I am years old. and would a thousand times rather get soaking wet every day in the week. St. Swithin's day included, than carry an umbrella under any circumstances. "No. I am not considered a crank by the people who know me best, but I am no friend of the umbrella and am trying to educate my two small boys to let the umbrella alone during life and avoid much trouble. I would like to see a law enacted to punish the careless umbrella handler the man or woman who pokes you in the ribs or nose." GIRL'S DEATH FREES BOY John Curran, 19, Paroled to Attend His Sister's Funeral. PHILADELPHIA, Aug. 3. John Cur ran, 19. of 1346 Parrish street, will not go back to Jail after attending the funeral of his little sister. Annie. He was sentenced to SO days a short time ago for attempting to rob a drunken man. But when his widowed mother, Mrs. Annie Curran. went to Judge Baldrige to beg permission for him to attend the funeral, she gave such convincing proof that her boy only had been trying to help the Intoxicated man at the time of his arrest, that the Judge placed him on probation for a year. Probation Officer Hackney also Inter ceded for the mother. a-,,,;., rSii-ran w ft VASTS Old. HCT mother had to place her in St. Vincent s Home, at Twentieth and Race streets, and it was at the home's Summer branch, at Point Pleasant, N, J., that she was drowned. BEER CAUSES TROUBLE Wife Spoils Liquid and Husband Tells Court He Has Quit. CHICAGO, Aug. "If there is any man who can live with that woman, you can hang me. Judge," said John Hoffman in the Court ot Domestic Relations. "She made me sleep In the barn with the horses. When I tried to have a social game of cards in the back yard, she would sneak up be hind and soak us with the garden hose. And." here John's voice broke, "when we got back she had poured water in all the cans and the beer was spoiled." CHILD ELOPERS MARRIED Parents of Two Girls, Each 15, Fail to Prevent Wedding. CINCINNATI, Aug. 4. F. D. Pouch and George Hartman, well-known citi zens of Newcastle, Ind., who arrived in Cincinnati a few days ago, looking for their 15-year-old daughters, who ran away from home recently, were informed by Chief Lieutenant of De tectives Love that he had received word that the girls were married in Mrs. Belle C. writes: "I am Informed that I have kidney trouble and that It Is fast approaching a serious stage. What would you prescribe?" Answer: If your symptoms are the usual ones, such as puffs under the eyes, swelling ankles: scant, copious or foul-smelling urine, accompanied by headaches, Dalns, depression, fever, . ! . . . . . T ,.t.l 13,. I.... , 1, a f 111 111 f - cnnis, etc., x wwuiu - dlate use of balmwort tablets, a ver3 line remeay ior sucu uiim-un..n. in sealed tubes, with full directions for self-administration. James J. asks: "For several months j nave not oeon leouus vu,i. w Is sallow, my tongue Is coated, have neaaacne. am sieeiieo. w . bothered with chronic constipation. Plep.se help me." . j ., 1 1. 1. 1 1 -o hlnnri. Answer; iuu jiecu cleansing treatment in the form of - l ll V. h1ara f tint till. phur). Overcome the tendency to con stipation ana srauua.j' jv ov--u.:iu a ...- Klftnrl will r ft t ii r n Iieu.1 lii aim j i ; uivskm. . v . . ... "Poor "Nerves" writes: "Is it possible . Jl.ln nrhlnh i . i I I u rrttls to nnu a mouwuio or nutritive powers will brlnff the slow of health ami ambition back to a man who has cverythtnis in tho world but health and happiness? I am dull, for getful, despondent, weak, trorabllns, first to manufacture woven-to- I measure Surreal Hosiery, Belt and 'Bandages, our product, under the name of "Wood-Lark" Klastic Stock ings, is now being increasingly sold throughout the United States. Wood-Lark u. Bunding Park Greensburg. Ind.. to the men with whom they went away from Newcastle. The parents left for Greensburg, stating they Intended to bring criminal proceedings against the men In ths In diana courts and have the marrlago annulled if possible. Clews picked up In Indiana led tha fathers to think the girls were bound for this city, and the elders lost M time In getting hers, but a search by the police failed to bring any tra. of their whereabouts. The youthful age of the girls drew the attention of the Greensburg officials, it is said, and they were placed in custody until thalr parents arrive. The men under suspicion are well known at Greensburg. One Good Point. (Kansas City Journal.) "I'll say this for the prune," ra marked the grouchy boaruer. We all listened attentively. "You can eat It or leave It and that ends It. You don't find It continually bobbing up as a made over." Vacation Time Ills There i& always the danger cl sud den illness through change of water, change ol climate and a different mode uf living Duffy's Pure Malt Whiskey is the reliable remedy for chills, fever, colds, dysentery, diarrhoea, nausea, and all summer complaints It gives to the sick and ailing the nourishment and tonic properties from barley and other grains which are the great strength giving foods Put a bottle or two in your grip, and be one of the travelers who always " Oct Duffy's and Ketp Wall." Sold by most drug gists, grocers and dealers. $1.00 a large bottle Val uable medical booklet and doc tor's advice free The Duffy Mill Wfiukev Co . Borfioter, H Y The IJOCTOR gf&r. Aetvrs jBdAar The questions answered below are general In character, the symptoms or diseases are given and the answers will apply in any case of similar nature. Those wishing further advice frs may address Dr. Lewis Dakar, CoUNN Bldg., t'ollege-Lllwood Sts.. Dayton, O, Inclosing self-addressed, stamped envel ope for reply. Full name and addresit must be given, but only Initials or fic titious name will b used In my an swers. The prescriptions can ba fllMl at any well-stockud drug store. Any druggist can order of wholesaler. short of breath and suffer mora or lesi with pain in spine and back of head.' Answer: Your condition indicates th need of a strong, harmless tonh' niitrl tlve to restore nerve equilibrium, which in turn fortifies and strengthens the organs of nutrition, thus vitalising the Mood and promoting new cell and tis sue to take care of the waste forces. Three-grain radomene tablets, packed in sealed tubes, with full directions, are recommended in II such case C J. K. asks: "The weather being u hot causes me to puff and pant with an excess of flesh on my body. Can 1 safely reduce my weight, and how?" Answer: Go to a well stocked drug gist and get five-grain arbolone tablets Tn sealed tube with complete directions Take as directed, and you should soon feel the relief you desire. Many of my patients report quick results without any harmful action whatever. Kllen J. asks: "Tell ma, please, how I can increase my weight and Improve my color. I seem to be aenemlc, weak and tired all the time." Answer: Uegln taking three-grain hypo-nuclane tablet with your insaU and soon you. will feel your strength returning and gradually your weight and color will Improve. This Is a most effective remedy if persistently used. J W. W. asks: "Can you prescribe a reliable treatment to get rid of dan druff, itching and feverish -alp7" Answer: 1 know you can get instant relief and permanent results by iming plain yellow mlnyol as par directions which accompany each 4-o. Jar. Adv. 5 f