AUTOMOBILE MANSLAUGHTER

Within one week of the new season five persons have been killed by automobiles in this city, not counting the young man who fell from the “Seeing New York” omnibus. As many more have been very seriously hurt.

The heartlessness of some speed-maddened votaries has been again illustrated. There was the woman who in a Brooklyn street shrieked out: “Go on quickly, Harry; the man is killed!” There is that young man of the reckless rich class, whose autos are debited with two deaths and are a terror to thousands living, caught again running at eighteen miles an hour in the street. That “sports” might scorch to the Aqueduct races a little girl in Elmhurst yielded up her young life.

The man who drives his auto at dangerous speed is as responsible morally for the death he thereby causes as one would be who should fire a revolver at random down the same street and by “accident” kill a victim.

Manslaughter by automobile will continue until it is punished as severely as other manslaughter, and until the certain penalty of illegal speeding is jail, not for the driver, but for the owner.—New York World.

Mr. Thomas Lawson has tumbled from his lofty pedestal. Multiplied thousands of people in this goodly land of ours were venerating him, were reverencing him—some of them just about beginning to worship him. But he has proven himself to be only common clay. He was leading the van against the iniquities of “frenzied finance,” exposing the chicanery, the fraud, the swindling, the downright stealing every day perpetrated in the Stock Exchange dealings, the manipulation of stocks and bonds and the fleecing of the lambs. Now comes the news that in December last he made in stock speculations, as a votary at the altar of “frenzied finance,” $1,500,000, and in this mild and gentle month of April the comfortable figure of $1,000,000. Alas, alas! and lackaday! He was only human after all. His wings had not even begun to sprout.

Imperious Cæsar, dead and turned to clay, Might stop a hole to keep the wind away.

—Southern Mercury.

If Bryan, Hearst and Dunne should succeed in raising the old hulk of Democracy, Cleveland, Hill and Gorman will scuttle it again. Better come out, boys, and take a new ship....

Dr. Washington Gladden is not going to let the Rockefeller gift rest. He says it is the right and duty of every American citizen to sit in judgment on Rockefeller and his methods.—Forum, Denver.

Judge A. B. Parker, in a speech in New York “Jefferson Day,” said the “defeat of the Democratic Party was emphasized by the unprecedented expenditure of money.” Everybody knows that there was not one-fifth as much used by the Republicans to defeat him as there was to defeat Bryan. Perhaps he meant the “unprecedented” use of money to secure him the nomination. What else could he mean?—The Jeffersonian, Thomson, Ga.

Stand for the referendum in the management of the business of the Farmers’ Union. By this means you will do away with the boss, especially the political boss. Demand the right to settle your own affairs, and do not leave it to self-constituted leaders.—The Watchman, Cleburne, Tex.

News Record

FROM APRIL 7 TO MAY 7, 1905

Government and Politics

April 8.—President Roosevelt made the last speech of his present trip, and left Texas for Oklahoma to hunt.

The South and Central American governments allege to Secretary Taft that discrimination in freight rates by the Panama Railroad has restricted direct trade with the United States.

April 9.—President Roosevelt reaches Oklahoma, where he will hunt wolves for a few days.

April 10.—Pension Commissioner Warner discovers a number of pensioners on the rolls who have never served in the United States Army.

Judge Edward F. Dunne is installed Mayor of Chicago.

Commissioner of Corporations Garfield reaches Kansas to begin an investigation of Standard Oil operations.

The United States Marshal at Chicago seizes six trunks full of records and accounts of the Etna Trading Company, which are said to contain damaging evidence against the Beef Trust.

The United States Supreme Court decides that the right of trial by jury extends to Alaska.

April 11.—The Legislative Investigation Committee, which is making an investigation of the lighting plants of New York City, has subpœnaed Mayor McClellan, Charles F. Murphy and other well-known politicians to appear before the committee.

President Castro refuses to withdraw the asphalt cases from the Venezuelan courts, claiming that the courts of Venezuela have jurisdiction over such matters.

Secretary Shaw defends the “drawback” on Canadian wheat.

United States Senator Mitchell, of Oregon, pleads not guilty to indictments in connection with land frauds in that state.

April 12.—The Executive Committee of the Panama Canal Commission holds its first meeting in Washington, and decides to abolish preferential freight rates on the Panama Railroad.

Clarence E. Darrow is appointed special corporation counsel to have charge of street railway litigation in Chicago.

April 13.—Four employees of the Beef Trust indicted by the Federal Grand Jury in Chicago for opposing a deputy marshal in serving subpœnas.

Judge Alton B. Parker and Mayor McClellan are the principal speakers at the New York Jefferson Day banquet. They both urge harmony and conservatism.

At the Chicago Jefferson dinner Mr. Bryan and Mayor Dunne urge Government control of public utilities.

Secretary Taft informs the South American Ministers that the United States will maintain the open door in the Panama Canal Zone.

Senator Burton, of Kansas, again indicted for acting as attorney for the Rialto Grain and Securities Company before the Post-Office Department at Washington.

President Roosevelt leaves Oklahoma for Colorado.

April 16.—The Legislative Investigation Committee inspects the lighting plants of New York City.

National Congress of Women demands equality of the sexes.

The United States agents who were to investigate the land frauds in Utah have been relieved of duty, undue influence being charged.

April 17.—Secretary Taft formally takes over the Panama Railway Company for the United States Government.

The Senate Committee on Interstate Commerce begins a hearing on railroad rates at Washington.

The United States Supreme Court decides that the New York law limiting the working hours of bakers to ten hours per day is unconstitutional.

April 18.—Sherman Bell, late Adjutant-General of Colorado, has been offered the command of the army of Venezuela.

V. L. Morawetz, general counsel for the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fé Railroad, testifies before the Interstate Commerce Committee.

The American Asphalt Company asks the United States to obtain from Venezuela the restoration of its properties until the courts can decide the question of title.

April 19.—Mayor McClellan and Comptroller Grout appear before the New York Legislative Investigation Committee and testify about the light contracts for New York City.

Mr. Hunter, the builder of the Manchester Canal, has been selected as one of the consulting engineers by the Panama Canal Board.

April 20.—Charles F. Murphy denies that he has any interest in the lighting contracts for the city of New York.

Judge Grosscup makes permanent an order restraining the city of Chicago from enforcing the interchangeable transfer ordinance.

April 21.—The Legislative Committee ends its investigation in New York City. No finding has been made public, though it is understood that there will be a reduction of about 25 per cent. in the cost of lights.

Secretary Hitchcock dismisses eight clerks from the Indian warehouse in New York for misuse of Government funds.

United States Cruiser Tacoma goes to Santo Domingo to protect American interests there.

The Executive Committee of the Panama Canal Commission gives a contract for twenty-four locomotives.

April 22.—The Government summons several Chicago bank officials to testify against the Beef Trust.

April 23.—At a Prohibition meeting in Texas Congressman Pinckney is killed and several others seriously wounded.

April 24.—United States Supreme Court issues mandate for the removal of George W. Bates to Washington for trial on postal fraud charges.

Walter D. Heine makes an argument before the Interstate Commerce Committee against the regulation of railroad rates by the Government.

April 25.—Beef Trust sends papers and books wanted by the Chicago Grand Jury to Canada.

Secretary Taft announces that the Government’s acquisition of the Panama Railway was not for the purpose of affecting railroad or ocean rates, but for the purpose of acquiring an instrument with which to construct the canal.

Eight thousand men are now employed on the Panama Canal, and this force is being added to at the rate of 800 to 1,000 per month.

The Attorney-General holds that the agreement between the Government and certain railroads for rebates is valid.

It is believed in Washington that reductions must be made in the present tariff schedules to meet the deficit in the Federal Treasury.

April 26.—Negotiations for an immigration treaty between the United States and China have been abandoned.

Postmaster-General Cortelyou notifies the Assistant Postmaster at Louisville that he must resign as postmaster or as a member of the State Republican Committee.

Mr. Bowen, the American Minister to Venezuela, charges that former Minister Loomis, now Assistant Secretary of State, accepted a check from the American Asphalt Company for $10,000 for services rendered. Mr. Bowen has made his charges in writing to the President.

April 27.—Minister Bowen will be ordered to return from Venezuela to substantiate his charges against Assistant Secretary of State Loomis.

April 29.—Mr. Loomis denies charges made by Mr. Bowen against him and files charges against Mr. Bowen.

W. W. Russell, American Minister to Colombia, succeeds Mr. Bowen as Minister to Venezuela.

May 3.—J. J. Hill testifies before the Senate interstate Commerce Committee that Government control of railroad rates will be disastrous.

Federal Grand Jury subpœnas thirty representatives of the Traffic Departments of different railroads to testify in the Beef Trust investigation.

May 5.—The Federal Grand Jury for the District of New York begins an investigation of the Tobacco Trust’s business methods.

Attorney-General Moody holds that the Government can legally regulate railroad rates.

Governor-General Davis stricken with fever. Secretary Taft orders him to leave Panama and return home.

May 6.—President Roosevelt ends his hunting trip in Colorado and starts for Washington.

General Home News

April 9.—After a fight covering twenty years and costing millions of dollars, the Bell Telephone Company has been whipped by the rural lines in Iowa and forced to connect with them.

Several hundred sailors belonging to the North Atlantic squadron desert at Pensacola.

April 10.—J. H. Hyde and W. H. McIntyre, of the Equitable Insurance Company, are seeking to intervene in the suit of Franklin B. Lord, a stockholder, for an injunction to restrain the officers of the company from carrying out the mutualization plan.

April 11.—The Grand Jury of Franklin County, Ky., returns four hundred true bills against the Standard Oil Company for failing to procure peddlers’ license as required by the Kentucky statutes.

The Prudential Committee of the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions formally accepts the gift of $100,000 from John D. Rockefeller and issues a statement explaining its action.

April 13.—Father Schell, a young Catholic priest who has done much to put a stop to dishonest land agents swindling the Winnebago Indians, is assaulted and severely beaten.

April 14.—“General” Jacob S. Coxey, of “Coxey’s Army,” declared a bankrupt.

April 15.—J. H. Hyde admits using Equitable funds for underwriting purposes, but declares that President Alexander was a party to such transactions.

April 18.—Beef Trust again raises the prices of meats.

April 19.—General Managers and Agents of the Equitable meet in New York and ask Vice-President Hyde to withdraw from the society in the interest of harmony.

April 20.—Unloading 5,000,000 bushels of wheat on the Chicago market breaks the corner, and John W. Gates is supposed to have lost $2,000,000.

Mrs. Donald McLean, of New York, is elected President-General of the Daughters of the American Revolution.

April 21.—Eleven thousand nine hundred and fifty-five immigrants arrive at Ellis Island in one day, establishing a new record.

Hyde refuses agents’ request to resign from the Equitable.

Policyholders in the Equitable ask the Circuit Court in Chicago for a receiver and an accounting.

April 24.—Frank Bigelow, President of the First National Bank of Milwaukee, embezzles $2,400,000 of the bank’s funds.

April 26.—D. Le Roy Dresser sues the promoters of the United States Shipbuilding Company for $3,000,000, alleging fraud in its formation.

April 27.—Andrew Carnegie gives $10,000,000 to pension retired college professors.

April 28.—The strike of the teamsters in Chicago has developed into the worst since the famous Debs strike eleven years ago.

Judge Kohlsaat, in the Federal Court, grants a temporary injunction against the strikers on the request of the Employers’ Teaming Association.

April 29.—Laredo, Tex., wiped off the map by a cyclone.

May 3.—The American Railway Appliance Exhibition is formally opened at Washington.

The strike in Chicago continues.

May 4.—The Federal Grand Jury, at Jackson, Miss., indicts 300 for whitecapping, the specific charges being the intimidation of Government homesteaders.

Police of Chicago ask the Sheriff of Cook County to aid them in quelling riots.

International congress of railways formally opened at Washington by Vice-President Fairbanks.

May 5.—On account of the teamsters’ strike, a food and fuel famine is feared in Chicago.

May 6.—Employers in Chicago accuse the police of siding with the union men in the present strike.

The largest floating drydock in the world is completed at the Maryland Steel Works yards for the United States Government. The dock will be towed to the Philippines after it is tested.

May 7.—Twelve thousand and thirty-nine immigrants, chiefly Italians, reach New York.

Russo-Japanese War

April 8.—The Russian Baltic fleet, in command of Admiral Rojestvensky, reaches the China Sea.

April 11.—A battle expected between the fleets of Rojestvensky and Togo. Japan makes Formosa a naval base and closes the port of Kelung.

Tokio reports that Japan expects to have 1,000,000 men in the field before November.

April 13.—The Russians strengthen Vladivostok and prepare for a long siege.

April 14.—The Russian hospital ship Orel, bearing the sick of Rojestvensky’s fleet, after taking on board coal, provisions and medical supplies, leaves Saigon, Cochin China.

Eighteen vessels of the Russian Baltic fleet enter Kamranh Bay, Cochin China.

April 15.—Japanese say Togo will not attack the Russian fleet until he is confident of being able to annihilate it.

April 16.—Japan proclaims defense zones surrounding the Pescadore, Okinawa, Oshima and Emi islands.

Captured Japanese spies place the Japanese armies at 400,000 and the losses in Mukden battles at 100,000.

April 17.—The Russian fleet reported at Kamranh Bay taking on supplies.

April 18.—The Russian fleet reported off the Philippines and the Japanese near Sampaloc.

April 19.—Japan makes vigorous protest to France against the use of French ports by the Russians.

Situation in Manchuria unchanged. Occasional light skirmishes. Japs victorious in small engagements along the Yalu.

Despatches from Harbin state that Chinese bandits have made frequent attempts to cut the railroad.

April 20.—France assures Japan that she will remain neutral. Czar orders Rojestvensky to leave Kamranh Bay.

April 21.—France instructs her agents in Indo-China to assure the neutrality of France in Indo-Chinese waters.

Russian fleet leaves Kamranh Bay.

April 23.—The Russian Government places orders with the Krupps for 1,000 guns.

April 24.—The rainy season in Manchuria has increased the infectious cases in the Russian army.

The movements of both the Japanese and Russian fleets closely guarded.

April 25.— Admiral Nebogatoff, in command of the second Russian Pacific squadron, reaches the China Sea to join forces with Rojestvensky.

The Russian General Staff gives the losses in the battle of Mukden, from February 19 to March 19, as two generals, 1,985 staff and other officers, 87,677 men, of whom the greater number were wounded; thirty-two guns and no siege artillery or ammunition carts.

April 26.—Rojestvensky cuts the Hainan cable to conceal his movements.

April 27.—Rojestvensky’s fleet drawn up outside Kamranh Bay, awaiting the arrival of Nebogatoff’s division of the Russian Pacific squadron.

May 6.—Marshal Oyama extends his lines on the Russian right wing.

Russian torpedo boat destroyers sink a Japanese sailing vessel.

General Foreign News

April 8.—Four hundred persons are killed or wounded by the collapse of a reservoir in Madrid, Spain.

The Newfoundland Lower House passes a bill to exclude American vessels from Newfoundland fisheries.

April 9.—The estimated number of lives lost in the earthquake in India is 15,000.

April 10.—Joseph H. Choate, the American Ambassador to Great Britain, has been elected a “Master of the Bench of the Middle Temple.”

April 11.—Captain Volpert, of the French army, has been arrested, charged with complicity in a military plot to overthrow the present regime.

Baron de Constant makes a speech in the French Senate in favor of international military and naval disarmament.

Russian lawyers pass resolutions favoring a constitution and universal suffrage.

April 12.—A congress of lawyers held at St. Petersburg sets on foot a movement to democratize the Russian Government.

Under the terms of a commercial treaty being negotiated between Germany and Morocco, it is said Germany will gain the most favored nation guarantees in Morocco.

April 13.—The Premier of Newfoundland inserts a clause in the anti-American fishing bill reserving the power of suspension. This was done on account of the pending Bond-Hay treaty.

All but one nation have accepted President Roosevelt’s invitation to a second peace conference.

April 14.—The body of Admiral John Paul Jones is unearthed in Paris.

Czar of Russia consents to consider a savings bank and land purchase scheme for the peasants.

The workers in the porcelain factories at Limoges, France, have decided to strike. The factories are owned by Americans, and they have raised the American flag over the factories to protect their property.

April 15.—The French Chamber of Deputies adopts final clause of second section of bill separating state and church.

April 16.—General strike on all railroads in Italy.

Henry White, the new Ambassador to Italy, is received by King Victor Emmanuel.

Laborers on sugar plantations in Porto Rico strike.

April 17.—Plans for the extension of zemstvo governments to Siberia and Finland have been inaugurated by the Czar of Russia.

April 18.—Negotiations begun for new treaty between Germany and China.

Fights between strikers and soldiers at Limoges, France. Three strikers killed and ninety-eight soldiers wounded.

Troops fire on Italian railway strikers, killing three and wounding many.

Russian Government gives large order for American submarine boats.

Kaleieff, the assassin of Grand Duke Sergius, sentenced to death.

Among a band of Terrorists arrested in St. Petersburg is a niece of Governor-General Trepoff. She recently fired two shots at her uncle.

Riot in San Juan, Porto Rico, between strikers and police.

April 19.—Italian Chamber of Deputies adopts a bill providing for government control of all railroads in Italy.

April 21.—The Italian Government promises reforms in railroad management and the strikers return to work.

April 22.—The Emperor and Empress of Germany, on the imperial yacht Hohenzollern, are cruising in the Adriatic. It is reported that the Emperor is in very bad health.

April 23.—Pope Pius X celebrates full mass before a large congregation.

The Emperor of Germany delivers Easter sermon on the imperial yacht.

April 24.—On memorial of Wu Ting Fang, ex-Minister to United States, imperial edict makes sweeping reforms in Chinese criminal code.

April 25.—The Sultan’s troops have been defeated by the Arabs at Aden.

At Barisoff 2,000 Russian soldiers mutiny, smashing Red Cross cars and pillaging shops.

April 26.—Charles M. Schwab is awarded contract to rebuild the Russian navy.

Many guns on British warships found to be worthless.

Germany ready to begin negotiations with the United States for a new commercial treaty based on reciprocity.

April 27.—General Kolzoff appointed Governor-General of Moscow.

April 28.—Encounter between insurgents and gendarmes in the province of Kissamos excites Crete.

In the Cuban Senate President Palma discloses the fact that the United States had intervened in behalf of American firms with whom contracts had been made for sanitary work on the island.

May 3.—Trouble continues throughout Poland.

May 4.—In Warsaw the Socialists enforce the observance of a day of mourning for the victims of the May Day riots.

Cossacks fire on people attending Roman Catholic Church at Lodz, killing seven persons.

May 5.—Mr. Choate, the American Ambassador to England, is given a farewell dinner at the Mansion House in London.

Zemstvo Congress opens in St. Petersburg.

May 6.—A plot discovered in Madrid, Spain, to make an independent state out of the territory of Cunani, Brazil.

Police break up congress of engineers in St. Petersburg.

May 7.—Tokio papers make bitter attack on France, alleging that France is violating her pledges of neutrality.

Despatch from Moscow states zemstvos have split over universal suffrage.

Obituary

April 7.—Edward Floyd DeLancey, a New York lawyer and historian, dies, aged 83.

General Cullen A. Battle, of the Confederate army, aged 76.

April 9.—Miss Sarah Chauncey Wadsworth (“Susan Coolidge”), aged 60.

Chief-Justice Jesse Knight, of the Wyoming Supreme Court, aged 55.

April 10.—Judge Lawrence Weldon, of the United States Court of Claims, aged 76.

April 15.—General John Palmer, former Secretary of State of New York, aged 63.

Ex-Congressman Halbert E. Paine, of Wisconsin, aged 80.

April 21.—Senator O. H. Platt, of Connecticut, aged 78.

April 23.—Joseph Jefferson, one of the best known actors on the American stage, aged 76.

April 28.—General Fitzhugh Lee, soldier, statesman and diplomat, aged 68.

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If BALDNESS and FALLING HAIR were caused by DISEASE

physicians would have long ago found a remedy. Tonics and lotions applied to the outside of the scalp do soften the hair—but that’s all. By exercising the arms, we build up muscle—not by outside applications of medicine. The arms, the body and the lower limbs can be exercised at will—but the scalp requires mechanical aid. Exercise makes the blood circulate, lack of exercise makes it stagnant. The Vacuum method is the kind of exercise that makes the blood circulate. It gently draws the rich blood to the scalp and feeds the shrunken hair roots. This causes the hair to grow. It is the simple, common-sense principle of physical culture applied to the scalp.

Our Guarantee
(backed by the Bank):

We will send you, by prepaid express, an Evans Vacuum Cap, allowing you ample time to prove its virtue, and all we ask of you is to deposit the price of the appliance in the Jefferson Bank of St. Louis during the trial period, subject to your own order. If you do not cultivate a sufficient growth of hair to convince you that this method is effective, simply notify the bank and they will return your deposit.

A sixteen-page book, illustrated, will be sent you free.

Evans Vacuum Cap Co.

669 Fullerton Building

St. Louis

EYEGLASSES NOT NECESSARY

Eyesight Can Be Strengthened and All Forms of Diseased Eyes Cured Without Cutting or Drugging.

That the eyes can be strengthened so that eyeglasses can be dispensed with in the great majority of cases has been proven beyond a doubt by the testimony of thousands of people who have been cured by that wonderful little instrument called “Actina.” Actina also cures sore and granulated lids, Glaucoma, Iritis, &c., also removes Cataracts and Pterygiums, without cutting or drugging. Over seventy thousand Actinas have been sold, therefore it is not an experiment, but an absolute fact. The following letters are but samples of those that are received daily:—

Mrs. M. E. Champney, 242 West 135th st., New York City, writes:—“The ‘Actina’ cured me of Iritis, after the doctors said there was no cure outside an operation. I have been entirely well for over four months, can see to read and sew as well as before. I can honestly recommend ‘Actina’ for all afflictions of the eye.”

Emily Knapp, 920 Galina st., Milwaukee, Wis., writes:—“The ‘Actina’ I purchased from you a year ago saved my brother’s eyesight. My brother was near-sighted, wore number five and six glasses, and now he can go to school and do all his work and study without glasses.”

E. R. Holdbrook, Deputy County Clerk, Fairfax, Va., writes:—“‘Actina’ has cured my eyes so that I can do without glasses. I very seldom have headache now, and can study up to eleven o’clock after a hard day’s work at the office.”

Actina is not a drug or a lotion, but a small pocket battery, which can be used by old and young with perfect safety. It is impossible to do harm with Actina. Every member of the family can use the one Actina for any form of disease of the Eye, Ear, Throat or Head. Actina will last for years, and is always ready for use. Actina will be sent on trial postpaid.

If you send your name and address to the New York & London Electric Association, Dept. 37N, 929 Walnut St., Kansas City, Mo., you will receive absolutely FREE a valuable book—, Professor Wilson’s Treatise on the Eye and on Diseases in General. You can rest assured that your eyes can be cured, no matter how many doctors have failed.

Superfluous Hair Destroyed Forever

FREE to Any Lady.

If you are afflicted with a humiliating, disfiguring growth of hair, or any other blemish on face, neck, arms or hands, write me at once and I will tell you FREE how to DESTROY IT FOREVER. Many claim to REMOVE the hair (temporarily). I enable you to absolutely kill it forever, in your own home, privately, painlessly, without the slightest risk of bad effects, and at the same time to secure a perfect complexion and BE BEAUTIFUL. Don’t experiment with dangerous apparatus, lotions, liquids, powders, etc. My method is indorsed by scientists and doctors, and is guaranteed by me. ($100,000 assets back of my guarantee.) Write to-day and be glad forever. Remember this offer is free. Simply write me.

D. J. MAHLER, 3405 Pawtucket Ave., East Providence, R.I.

Don’t Be So Thin

How To Get A FIGURE LIKE THIS

A figure that is real and permanent, the figure of a physically perfect woman. To prove that it is unnecessary for any lady to be thin or scrawny, I will send you

ABSOLUTELY FREE

a trial treatment of Dr. Whitney’s Nerve and Flesh Builder sufficient to convince you that you can get a well-developed bust, beautiful neck, pretty arms, shapely shoulders, so that you can wear with pride low-necked gowns or the tight tailor-made suits so fashionable now. This remarkable remedy develops new flesh and fills out all hollow places, not by false stimulation but by removing the cause of thinness. Write to-day for Free Treatment and handsome booklet illustrated from life, sent in sealed package. THE C. L. JONES CO., 44-F Realty Bldg., Elmira, N. Y.

SANOZOL
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Positive Cure For All Skin Diseases

THE WONDERFUL DISCOVERY OF THE FAMOUS SPECIALIST IN SKIN DISEASES, A. J. FULTON, M. D., BROOKLYN, N. Y.

SANOZOL TREATMENT IS EXTERNAL ONLY.

SUFFERERS FROM

ECZEMA, LUPUS, HERPES, RINGWORM, PRURIGO, SCROFULODERMA, SKIN CANCER, PEDICULOSIS, PSORIASIS, ECTHYMA, LICHEN, SYCOSIS, AND ALL OTHER FORMS OF ULCERATIVE, SCALY AND PARASITIC SKIN DISEASES FIND IMMEDIATE RELIEF AND PERMANENT CURE BY THE USE OF SANOZOL. IT REMOVES PIMPLES AND BLACKHEADS AND CURES SWEATY OR ACHING FEET.

SOME OF THE NOW FAMOUS CURES BY SANOZOL TREATMENT WERE FULLY DESCRIBED IN THE NEW YORK WORLD OF MARCH 9 AND THE BROOKLYN DAILY EAGLE OF MARCH 29, 1904.

THE SOAP

HAS NO EQUAL. ITS DAILY USE WITHOUT LOTION WILL GIVE YOUR FACE AND HANDS A PERFECT SKIN, RESTORING THE DEFUNCT RESPIRATORY CONDITIONS OF YOUR SKIN TO ITS NORMAL HEALTH, PRODUCING THE FRESHNESS OF YOUTH AND A GLOW OF HEALTH AND BEAUTY. TRY IT.

SANOZOL SOAP FOR SHAVING (No barber’s itch.)

Write for testimonials and full particulars of SANOZOL treatment (free of charge). Treatment requires combined use of Lotion and Soap. Sent on receipt of price or at druggists.

Lotion, full pint, $1.00; soap, 25c. per cake or jar (3 cakes, 65c.).

Address Sanozol Laboratory, Dept. B, 12. 100-102 Elton St., Brooklyn, N. Y.

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To introduce our famous made-to-measure custom tailoring we make this unequaled offer of a Suit made to your measure, in the latest English Sack Style, well made and durably trimmed for only $7.98. Equal to your local tailor’s $15 suit, and give you an extra pair of trousers of the same cloth as the suit, or a fancy pattern if desired, absolutely free. Send us your name and address and we will send you Free Samples of cloth, measurement blank and tapeline. Send no money but write to-day to

GENTS’ OUTFITTING CO.

Dept. 114, 242 Market St., Chicago.

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Send 10 cents for beautifully illustrated book of Atlantic City. Address

NEW BELMONT CO.,
W. J. Warrington, Sec. and Treas.

The Eyes of the Country are Upon Chicago’s Progress Toward Municipal Ownership of Street Railways

For the accurate record and fair discussion of this struggle, read

THE PUBLIC

LOUIS F. POST, Editor

A Journal of Fundamental Democracy and a Weekly Narrative of History in the Making

Published Every Saturday in Chicago

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FARM FOR SALE

320 acres of good farming land; good water right. Land so situated that every acre can be watered. Over one hundred acres now under cultivation. All good coal land as well as agricultural, containing a fairly good house, with Corrals, and within two and one-half miles from Buffalo, the County Seat of Johnson County. Price, $35.00 per acre, one-half cash, and balance, if desired, on time at 7 per cent. per annum.

ALVIN BENNETT, Buffalo, Wyo.

STOP USING MORPHINE.

To prove that the Harris Treatment cures forever ALL drug habits, we will send

FREE

a trial package in plain wrapper, upon request. If you don’t need it send the name of a friend who does. We especially desire cases where other remedies have failed. Letters in strict confidence. Write us freely of your case. Our book (sealed) sent free.

Harris Institute, Room 539, 400 W. 23d St., New York

NATURO

After 1,000 Years are you one of those who still use the uncomfortable, unhealthful, old-fashioned closet? After ten centuries of mistakes the

NATURO

the closet with the slant, is revolutionizing the world. The only sort of construction that is actually comfortable, healthful, cleanly.

Progressive physicians and leading architects are profoundly interested and endorse Naturo closets. Booklet 25, illustrated, with full details, free on request.

THE NATURO COMPANY, Salem, N. J.

AGENTS FINE SAMPLE SENT ANYWHERE
On Receipt of $1.50

WARRANTED TOOL STEEL
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I can Sell Your Real Estate or Business
NO MATTER WHERE LOCATED

Properties and business of all kinds sold quickly for cash in all parts of the United States. Don’t wait. Write to-day describing what you have to sell and give cash price on same.

A. P. Tone Wilson, Jr.

Real Estate Specialist

413 KANSAS AVE., TOPEKA, KAS.

YOU NEED STAMMER NO MORE

Our method reveals the mystery of “Why You Stammer.” We begin by Correcting the Cause. You can actually avoid stammering from the first lesson. The Fon-Lin Method is nothing like any other. We CURE the failures of all other schools—some of these send their failures to us.

We correct all defects of speech—Stammering, Stuttering, Lisping, Tongue-tied Talk, Hairlip and Cleft-palate Indistinctness, Baby-talk and whatever else.

Our Work is Absolutely Guaranteed

Information, References and Terms on application.

CARSWELL INSTITUTE,
2315-17 N. 7th Street, Philadelphia, Pa.

An Ideal Sea Trip offered by the RED CROSS LINE

To Halifax, Nova Scotia and St. Johns, Newfoundland

A charming daylight sail through LONG ISLAND, VINEYARD and NANTUCKET SOUNDS. Fine view of picturesque NOVA SCOTIA and of the bold, rugged NEWFOUNDLAND COAST. A two weeks’ cruise at one-quarter the cost of going to Europe, and a greater change of air and scene. Steamers sail weekly, making the trip from New York to St. Johns and return in thirteen days, and there can be no more delightful ocean voyage for those who want rest and sea air. The steamers remain in Halifax one day both going and returning and two days in St. Johns, thus giving passengers an opportunity to visit these beautiful and interesting cities and surrounding country. The cost is low and the accommodations and service the very best. (STOP-OVER PRIVILEGES ALLOWED.)

For full information, dates of sailing and rates of fare apply to

BOWRING & CO.,—17 State St., New York

Of Vital Importance to Patriotic Citizens

National Documents

a collection of notable state papers chronologically arranged to form a documentary history of this country. It opens with the first Virginia Charter of 1606 and closes with the Panama Canal Act of 1904, and comprises all the important diplomatic treaties, official proclamations and legislative acts in American history.

Settle All Disputes Intelligently

You can trace from the original sources the development of this country as an independent power. Never before have these sources been brought together for your benefit. The volume contains 504 pages and a complete index enabling the reader to turn readily to any subject in which he may be interested. Bound in an artistic green crash cloth, stamped in gold. Printed in a plain, readable type on an opaque featherweight paper.

As a Special Offer to the readers of Tom Watson’s Magazine, we will send this book postpaid for 80 cents. Your order and remittance should be sent direct to TOM WATSON’S MAGAZINE, 121 W. 42d St. N. Y.

“GEM” SAFETY RAZOR

“IT’S A PLEASURE TO SHAVE NOW”

Is Shaving A Pleasure to YOU?

It is to every man who uses “GEM” SAFETY RAZOR, because a clean, close, comfortable shave is always assured. Shave with a “GEM” on train or boat, in the country, anywhere—it’s the quickest, easiest, simplest way. There is but one way to grow rich—SAVE. Begin by stopping the “Barber Habit.” You spend 50 cents to $1.00 per week getting shaved, or $26.00 to $52.00 each year. Shave yourself, save the money and the time which is money. Two minutes suffices for a shave with the “GEM”—can’t cut yourself, and no fear of infection. Highest-grade materials, finest finish, imported blades—best English cutlery steel, edged by experts. Simple, durable, automatic, and built on scientific principles. The “GEM” has become the “Standard” by which others are judged.

Write today for our interesting Booklet.

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Insist on the “GEM”—at leading dealers or sent direct on receipt of price.

GEM CUTLERY CO.
Dept. 28, 34 Reade St., N. Y. City

THE IMPROVED Boston Garter

KNOWN AND WORN ALL OVER THE WORLD

The NAME Is Stamped ON EVERY LOOP—

The Velvet Grip CUSHION BUTTON CLASP

Lies flat to the leg—never slips, tears, nor unfastens

EVERY PAIR WARRANTED

GEO. FROST CO., Makers

Boston, Mass., U.S.A.

Send 50c. for Silk, 25c. for Cotton, Sample Pair

ALWAYS EASY

Evans’ Ale

You may stand the bottle upside down or lay it on its side; Or shake it up, shake it down. It stays the same inside.

No Sediment.

Transcriber’s Notes:

Antiquated spellings were preserved.

Typographical errors have been silently corrected.