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Heruinn Hillek, the Chlcngo fortune-teller nud alleged polHoner of the
Vrznl family, who five times wag penteueed to hnng, was finally rescued
from the gallows when Governor Deneen, on recommendation of the Board
of I'ardcms, eommuted his seutence to Imprisonment for life. Commutation
ef Hlllek's sentence wai due to the testimony and subsequenc confession of
jierjury of Jerry 'r.al, who, with his sisters, Eunnu Niemann aud Bertha
Vrzal, were the only members of the Vrzal family to escape deith by pol-,
soiling. To Father P. J. O'Callnghan of the I'aullst Fathers more than to
any other single person Blllek owes the commuutation of his teutence. The
priest became convinced of the innocence of the condemned man, and his
efforts brought out the evidence which spared his life. Eduu Blllek, the ten-year-old
daughter, made a personal appeal to Governor Deneen. Blllek, who
Is 42 years old and was born In Volfort of Bohemian parents, was Indicted
for having poisoned five members of the Vrzal family. He denied his guilt
and blamed Mrs. Emma Vrzal Niemann for his prosecution because he had
Incurred her enmity.
Mi
AN
Mifvention
The nation's annual consumption of
paper would nmke a roll 850 feet high
by 3o7 Inllameter, weighing about 2,
700,000 tons, and costing $30,200,000.
Ferro-slllcon and other alloys of the
latter metal have remarkable resisting
powers, ultro, hydrochloric and other
powerful adds having no effect upon
tliem.
To perfect the process of the Oxford
paper used for Bibles required twenty
years of steady work. The syndicate
owning the formula values It at over
$1,000,000.
A six-weeks-old baby at Jersey City,
K. J., whose legs nave turned to stone,
is said to be only the eighth case of
infantile ossification in the history of
medical science.
The fullors' earth Industry In Great
Britain Is practically controlled by a
Combine, which entrusts the secret of
its final preparation to less than half
a dozen persons.
A Connecticut inventor has patented
a spigot which he says prevents splash
ing in a sink by directing the flow so
that it strikes at an obtuse instead of
a vertical angle.
A British consular report shows that
Madagascar produced 73,097 ounces of
gold in 1905, 64,344 in 1900, and 72,100
in. 1907, practically all from alluvial
or placer workings.
The immense hydro-electric plant of
the Canadian-American t Company
which has a light dud power monopoly
at Rio Janeiro was recently completed
and put Into service.
Sweden's royal forestry commission
last year supplied forest products
worth $13,250,000, yet accumulated
timber resources equal to twice the
amount of timber felled.
. A bronze tablet in memocy of Andre
Marie Ampere, founder of the science
of electric dynamics, has been erected
in the railroad station of the New
Jersey town bearing his name. .
Experiments are under way at Cal
cutta with a gasoline automobile, driv
en by an air propeller. A speed of
15 miles an hour has been made with
a marked absence of wear on the tires.
Herr Schaer of the Geneva, Switz
erland, Observatory reports the discov
ery, in October, of a new dusky ring
surrounding the outer border of the
bright rings of Saturn. Other observ
es have since failed to see the al
leged new ring, which ita discoverer
ays appeared in the form of two nar
row brownish bands projected against
the planet, and visible ' beyond its
edge. He thinks it is similar to the
Interior crape ring, which borders the
bright rings on their inner edge.
It was an Englishman, Mr. Whym
per, who conquered the heart-quaking
Matterhorn when all the world be
lieved Its top to be inaccessible. Now
It is the English branch of the- League
tor the Preservation of Swiss Scenery
which Is doing the most effeatlve work
to preserve that marvelous peak from
the threatened invasion of a mountain
railway, with ita insidious tunnels and
chimneys, intended to.inake a road for
tourists to a summit which has hither
to been a red ribbon for mountaineers.
Nearly 7kO00 signatures have been ob
tained to a petition against the dese
cration of the Matterhorn. Modern .en
gineering could, of course, ninke the
railway; but in the end would it pay?
BBJTISH PRINCES.
Very Different from the King in El
emptlou from Laws.
So privileged is the King of England
In his exemption from any and every
law that one would naturally expeet
his children might do pretty much as
they like. But Englishmen have al
ways been very jealous of royal per
sonnges, and the fact is that princes
enjoy very few privileges indeed. A
prince of the royal blood may be fined,
like any ordinary mortal, if his motor
car exceeds the legal limit of speed.
The Prince of Wales cannot be sued
personally for debt If the debt Is not
paid the creditor may take out a sum-,
inons, but he must summon the treas
urer, not the prince. If the case goes
against the treasurer the money is paid
out of the prince's assets.
No child of the King who is under
25 cun marry without the King's con
sent. Supposing, however, a prince
over 25 desired to marry and the King
refused his consent, then the prince
could give notice of his intention to
the privy council. After that he would
have to restrain his patience for a
whole year. If during that time either
the house of lords or the house of com
mons disapproved of the marrlag it
could not take place. But if both
houses of parliament were satisfied the
prince could marry the woman of his
choice.
A prince has not even the right to
educate his own children, for It was
long ago laid dpwn that the king has
the care and education of his grand
children while they are minors. Lon
don Telegraph.
Deaatlfal fcaow.
Oh, the sdow, the beautiful mow.
Filling the sky end the earth below;
Over the housetop, over the etreeta.
Over the heads of the people you meet;
Dancing, flirting, swimming along.
Beautiful enow, it can do nothing wrong,
Flying to kiss a fair lady'a cheek,
Clinging to lips in a froliesoms freak,
Beautiful snow, from the hoaveni above.
Pure as fcu angel and fickle as love.
Oh, the snow, the beautiful snow.
How the flakes gather and laugh as they
go,
Whirling along in its maddening fun;
It plays in its glee with everyone,
Chasing, laughing, hurrvinr by.
it lights op the face and it sparkles th
eye:
And even the dogs with a bark and
bound
Snap at the crystals that eddy around.
The town is alive and ita heart's In i
glow
To welcome the coming of beautiful enow,
How the wild crowd goea swaying along,
Hailing each other with humor and song,
How the gay sledges like meteors flash by,
Bright for a moment, then lost to the eye,
Kinging, swinging, danhing they go
Over the crest of the beautiful Bnow,
bnow, so pure when it falls from Hie
ky, n
To be trampled In mud by the crowd
rushing by.
To be trampled and tracked by the thou-
sands of feet
Till it blends with the horrible filth in
the street.
Once 1 was pure as the snow, but I fell ;
Fell, like the anowflakes, from heaven
to bell;
Fell, to be trampled as the Glsh of the
atrt ?t ;
Fell, to be scoffed, to be spit on and
beat;
Pleading, cursing, dreading to die,
selling my soul to whoever would buy.
Dealing in shame for a morsel of bread,
Hating the living and fearing the dead,
Mercitul God, have I fallen so low
Aud yet I was once like this beautiful
snowT
One I was fair as the beautiful snow.
With an eye like its crystals, a heart
' like its glow;
Once I was loved for my innocent grace
Flattered and sought for the charm of
my face,
Father, mother, sisters, all,
God and myself I have, lost by my fall,
The veriest wretch that goes shivering
by
Will take a wide sweep lest I wander
too nigh
For of all that is on or about me
know
There is nothing that's pure, but the
beautiful snow.
How strange it should be that this beau
tiful snow
Should fall on a sinner with nowhere
to go.
How strange It would be when the night
comes again
If the snow and the ice struck my des
perate brain ; fc
Fuintlng, freezing, dying alone,
Too wicked for prayer, too weak for my
moan
To be heard in the crash of the crary
town
j Gone mad in its joy that the snow's com
ing down
To lie and to die in my terrible woe,
With a bed and a shroud of the beauti
ful snow.
J. W. Watson.
Popping- Cera.
wintry wind was tossing things about,
As night fell darkly round a cottage
home :
But while discomfort reveled thus with
out.
Within was found a loving, cheerful
home.
A blazing fire, a bright, well-lighted room.
Tea-kttle singing, and a purring cat.
Father to baby humming an old tune.
And mother busy fixing this and that.
Three children round the floor skipped
playfully
A boy and two sweet girls Tom, Belle
and May ;
Tired at last, they asked, quite anxiously,
Can we pop corn this evening? Mo
ther, say !"
The welcome "Yes" gave to each heart
In erea the barest Idea of poetical es
preaslon. They are like people wbe
look at all beautiful things with eyes
that seek only for what use may be
made of them. It is said that a young
professor of mathematics In one of
our universities ouce boasted to a
friend that be neither knew nor cared
to know anything about poetry, for It
was "all a lot of unpractical rot" Ills
friend thought he might feel different
ly if he read some stirring poem by
one of the great writers, and gave him
Tennyson's "Charge of the Light Brig
ade" as a test The mathematician
took up the volume and read thus:
Half a league, half a league, half a
league onward.
Then be banged the book down on
the table, snorting, "Bah! if the man
meant a league and a half, why didn't
he say so!"
1
content.
And busy hands the popper brought to
light ;
Then o'er the fire sis eager eyes were
bent.
Watching the sea gray kernels turn to
white.
Pop pop! "There, one is done! cried
May, Pop, pop !
Look, Belle! another jumps up in the
air!
How white they get ! O, see that kernel
hop!
The whole are dancing, Tom, I do de
clare !"
"Quick, shake the popper! Shake, or
they will burn !"
"I wish that we could pop corn every
night!"
What jolly fun to see them quickly turn
From homely things to pretty balls of
white !"
And so they
around,
chatted, giggled, danced
THEVEEKLY
HISTORIAN
MOTHERS-IN-LAW CAN'T BOSS.
Ther Mast Go If Abl Bodied aad
Mlw Iaol.t Vpoa It. 159S The Marquis de la Roche was
If you are a wife, an able-bodied ,ven , comuiiwion by Henry IV. of
mother-in-law hangs around the house France to conquer Canada.
telling you what you must and must nol1(J57Attemi)ted a8saMiuBtion of Crora.
ao, you nave uie riiu iu uun u-
from the house, and if your husband
sides with him mother and you leave
hlm.yon can make him provide separate
maintenance. It is np to the mother-In-law
to earn her own living.
This was the substance of a decision
handed down by Vice Chancellor Ste 17S1 Americans defeated the British at
well.
1GS3 Fimt regulnrly elected Assembly ot
Pennsylvania convened at Philadelphia.
1770 Andrew Caldwell appointed com-
mander-in-ohief of the American fleet.
venson. In Jersey City, In tiie suit of
Mrs. Elizabeth Keery against her hus
band, John Keery, a farmer, for sepa
rate maintenance, according to the New
York World.
Keery married a trained nurse a lit
tle ovVr a year ago, and took er to bli
farm, where his mother, according to
his bride, wanted to boRS things, and or
dered her daughter-in-law to feed hog j
and do other farm work. The bride re
belled, and when her husband refused
rthe faJe o
little boy- who ra
his AoThcvs
lr
rose nd
ne-betfsvn To swell.' a, $06t n hour a,T-leawiT-
RIj father looked dX him with pride
Ht Kneaded t- he. s'id 'And 1 Am. pW t"o
see rny toy now $?rown so wtll- br&d
Dot Tommy sa.'if ,n crusty Tone "t now mujt
lo$ About- For I try to oo to School
Mhe hows will TLivn me sjf 1 V
Hla Only Want.
Billionaire's Daughter You wrong
him, papa. He does not love me for
my money. He scoffs at the world's
sordid eagerness for wealth.
Papa What proof have you, child?
Billionaire's Daughter Why, only
last night he told me he didn't care
If he was never able to make a penny
In his life if he only had me.
In a Glass House. -
"Do you ever tell your wife that she
is beautiful or take her a box of candy
or a bouquet?"
"Nope, I don't have to.'
"No one Is compelled to, but It is well
to do It"
"Not for me, I can't afford to arouse
her suspicions." Houston Post
When a husband runs across an old
love letter he wrote his wife, he always
laughs, but his wife cries.
A woman's notion of superiority la to
be able to pay for things by check.
Everybody Lnckr. -
An old farmer of the County of Dur
ham called at a roadside public house
where he was well known. The land
lady asked him to buy a ticket for a
lottery they had on there.
"Well," he said, 'I hae naught in ma
pocket, or I might."
"Oh, that's a' reet, John," she says;
"take the ticket and pay for it any
time."
Some time later John called again
and the landlady asked hlin If he knew
who had won the lottery.
"No," he said, "who won?"
"Well, hardly durst tell you, but oor
Sam won. wasn t ne lucKyr
"Aye," said John, "he was lucky.
And who was second, then?"
"I durst hardly tell you. Who would
you think now?" she said.
"I couldn't say," said John.
"Well, it was oor Sally. Wasn't shb
lucky?"
"Aye, she was lucky," said John,
"and who was third?" he asked.
"Well," she said, "you would never
ffiiess. and I might as well tell. I was
e-
third. Wasn't I lucky r
"You were," he said. "Did I ever
pay you for that ticket missus?"
"No. John, you aian t sne saia,
fawnliig upon him.
"Well," said John, "Isn't I lucky 7'
The Better Part.
A delightful little story is told of
Prosper Merlmee, the French author.
He was once guest at a royal hunt
when hares, pheasants and other
game were driven before the emperor
nil his followers, and the servants
picked up the victims of the sport
Among all the members of the hunt
ing party, Prosper' Merimee alone had
no trophy to display.
"How does this happen?" asked
some one.
"Where game is so plenty, the merit
of a marksman seems to me to lie In
hitting nothing," replied Merlmee,
with grave courtesy, "so I fired be
tween the birds."
While baby cooed, and father on them
smiled. '
His hnrd clay's work was finished, and he
found
That their gay sport his weariness be
guiled,
So often home-glee serves to glad the
heart, '
Oft youthful laughter drives dull care
away ;
Few hearts so hard but feel some joy-
throb start
While watching little children at their
play.
Mrs. Emily Thornton.
A man never wants to be a woman
except when a woman abuses him
then he would like to be a woman, to
talk back.
the battle, ot the Cowpcns iu South
Carol ina.
17S4 American Congress ratified the
treaty of pence with Great Britain.
178S The Friends iu Philadelphia eman
cipated their staves.
1S05 Joseph Anderson of Tennessee an-,
pointed president pro tern, of United
States Senate. ...Michigan territory
formed from a part of Indiana.
1813 British frigate Narcissus raptured
i,the United States schooner Viper.
1814 Henry Clay resigned as Speaker
of the House of Uepresentntlves. . . .
Peace treaty signed at Kiel by Eng
land and Denmark,
1810 General thanksgiving In England ,
for peace, following cod of Napo
leonic wars. ' '
1817 The ship Georgianna of Norfolk
experienced a tremendous shock in 1
the gulf stream, supposed to be an
earthquake.
1828 Boundary line between Mexico and
the United States settled by treaty.
1833 Nearly 400 lives lost In the sink
ing ot the Hamburg-American steam
ship Cimbrla.
1831) Massachusetts Legislature re
elected Daniel Webster to the United
States Senate.
1849 Vancouver Island ceded to the
Hudson's Bay Company.
1850 Faneull Hall presented with a
clock by the children of Boston.
1852 Trial by jury abolished In the Aus
trian empire.
1854 Completion of ths Groat Western
railroad of Canada William
Walker, the noted filibuster, proclaim
ed the independence of Souora, in
cluding lower California.
1850 Irish military companies In Boston
disbanded by order of tlio Governor
of Masachtisetts.
1858 Divorce court Instituted In Eng
land. .. .Attempted assassination ot
Nayoleon III. by Orsiui.
1801 Virginia Legislature appropriated
$1,(X)0,(XK for the defense ot "thj
State. .. .Georgia passed the ordi
nance of sei-esKion.
1802 Confederates defeated In the but
tle of Mill Spring, Ky,
1803 Joseph Wheeler promoted major
general in the Confederate' Slutea
army.
1805 United States Senate voted to ab
rogate the reciprocity treaty with
Canada .... Fort Fiaher luken by the
Union forces, '
18G8 State of Missouri took passraslon
of the Iron Mountain railroad.,..
Senate reinstated Secretary of War
Edwin M. Stanton.
to send his mother away left him. -The
Vice Chancellor. In his dedsHn. said;
"Each question of what constitutes a
home must be considered on Its merits.
There is no fixed rule. If a wealthy
man and his wife separate until such
time as he provides u suitable home for
her, he may not offer her a shack In
the jueadows, which might be all that
a poor man could provide. If a man in
stalls his mother iu his homo when his
mother Is able to provide for herself
elsewhere, It is not such a home as the j871 United Stales Kuprcme Court de-
Tbe Dijon Popular.
A private letter from a traveler in
France speaks of a poplar tree that
the writer saw in the city of Dijon,
which is the oldest tree of Its kind In
France. It Is 122 feet in heigut, ana
Is 45 feet in circumference at the base.
The city council bus an authentic rec
ord of the history of the tree, since the
year 722. The people of Dijon are
proud of It, so much so that they not
long ago voted to levy a tax to put a
railing around It so that it might be
protected from possible injury. It is
good to see sentiment of this kind.
Doll as Ornaments.
Among the quaint gifts these days
is a doll exyuibitely dressed. This
has come about through the new fash
ion for dolls used as fashion plates,
uud made into the figures of charming
little statuettes.
At one of the large shops in New
York, these little figures, unlike ordi
nary dolls, are dressed with as much
care as a leader or society wouia oe.
The bodies are of gauze stuffed with
some flexible material, and the faces
are made of a composition, hand-paint
ed. The expression is charming and
the face natural.
These dolls are put in all kinds of
life-like attitudes. One is crossing the
street with a bulldog on the leash ; an
other Is sitting In a garden chair, read
ing or sewing; others are standing in
graceful attitudes.
The Dresden ones are like Dresden
Statuettes. They are small and dressed
in a wonderful array of old-fashioned
clothes. The best art of the First and
Second Empires is called into play,
and the materials are of the finest
Katbematlea Versa Poetry.
Some men are so practical that It
Is utterly Impossible for them to take
wife must accept, and In the eyes of
the law such conduct Is abandonment
of the wife.
"If a man's mother Is indigent and'
his income Is not sutllcleut to provide a
home for her elsewhere, It is his legal
and moral duty to. take ber into his
home. Under such circumstances he i
clured the legal tender act of 1802
constitutional.
1874 Morrison It. Waite of Ohio nomi
nated for chief justice of United
States Supreme Court , . . . Natick,
Mass., almost destroyed by fire.
1870 Kalokaua, King of the Sandwich
Islands, visited Chicago.
would be compelled to ask his wife to 1883 Kobert B. I'attison inaugurated
Governor of Pennsylvania.
1884 New Stato cnpitol building at Des
Moines, Iowa, dedicated.
1885 Seventeen patients burued to
death In the Kunkakee (HI.) Insane
asylum.
1805 The Texas cotton palace at Waco
burned.. .. .Daniel II. Hastings in-
. 1 . M l !
A Beautr Doctor. I augursieu uuhtuw ui i nmsj in.
Knitting has taken on a new lense of 1897 J. Pierpont Morgan presented 1,
make the best of the situation.
"In this case, however, the mother-In-
law Is a vigorous woman, able to obtain
employment and take care of herself.
Under the circumstances I am bound to
hold that the husliand has failed to
provide a suitable home for his wife."
life, for one reason, because it so won
derfully beautifies the hands. Some
iiersons go so far as to claim that by
the degree of beauty of a woman's
hand they can tell whether she knits
or not. That is going rather far, yet
it cannot be denied that the gentle and
continuous exercise of knitting has a
remarkable effect In rendering the
hand firm, rounded, supple, in keeping
it free from bulging veins, and In giving
it the soft and dimpled aspect which
women so highly prize.
Oat Coarse Treat.
"I've got the 'meanest beau thest,
days," walled the bachelor girl. "I
never saw anything like him. He takes
me Into some little two-for-a-nlckel cafe
after the theater and says: .
"'What will yon have?' Then, be
fore I can get a word in edgeways, be
adds, 'We'll have oysters first.
"And that's all there Is to it Oys
ters are first and last. They are all be
offers me." Chicago Inter Ocean.
000,000 to the Lyiug-ln hospital In
New York.
1903 Hundreds of persons killed by
tidal wave that swept over South Sea
Islands. ' -1005
Thomas II. Carter elected United
States Senator from Molilalia.
1900 Senator Tillman, In virulent
speech, denounced President Hoose-
velt for the Santo Domingo treaty,
1907Tfas Ut. Ilcv. ' Arthur Sweutman,
Bishop of Toronto, elected Primate
of All Canada.,.. An earthquake de
stroyed a large part of Kingston,
Jamaica Dominion government
voted $50,000 for the relief of the
Jamaica earthquake sufferers.
1908 John It. Walsh found guilty of
Misapplying funds of the Chicago
National Bank. .. .American battle
ship fleet under command of Rear
Admiral Robley D. Evans arrived at
Rio de Janeiro. . . .Two hundred lives
lost in theater Are In Boyerstown,
Pa.
When a woman has no diamonds she
saya it Is vulgar for other women to
wear than.
Supplies sold to the 50,000 persons in-'
habiting the Panama canal tone by the
Panama railroad commissary in 1903 .
amounted to $9,703,597. During the year ,
1 5,100,672 pounds of fresh meats valued
'at $383,043 were consumed.