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Show ABOUT THE HOUSE. CRRORS WHITE TWO CHIMNEY BUILDERS ARE MAROONED 154 FEET IN AIR To the Editor: I noticed somewhere recently I would not say positively that It was In your columns an article on the White House which contained several misstatements. In the first nlace It was stated the White House was first occupied In 1809 and that its first occupant was President Madison. The fact is, its first oectt nit was President Adams, who took up his residence there in Caught on Narrow Plank Near Top of Big Flue--TeSh rts Into Strings, Pull Up Rope and Slide to Safety. w York. Two men were held prisoners inside the new reinforced concrete chimney at a steel plant at nera Harbor, A. L, lor uyfc hours the other afternoon. They were on a p.ank s.x teet ion,; by two feet wide ten ieel from the top of the chimney, which is lot feet high. Their rescue was effected after a long struggle by other employes and members of the fire department, who irere called to aid in getting the men down. The prisoners on the chimney we:e Harry Towyne, foreman of the job, and Conrled Brtol, his assistant. Both are expert chimney builders. The work had been practically finished when the men went up to do some cementing near the top. A ladder 168 feet long in sections had been rigged up inside the chimney. Towyne and Hriul climbed up this at one o'clock. They cemented the top or rim of the to a chimney, then climbed down scaffolding that had been built ten feet below the top, when a small ladder they had used in reaching the top dropped. Towyne and Brlol began to rip up the floor of the scaffolding. They had ripped up all the timbers but one the largest the centerpiece of the scaffold. They stood on this as they dropped the last of the other boards. The last plank they dropped didn't go straight to the bottom, but struck on the side of the chimney and, glancing, crashed heavily into an upright ladder some distance below the two men The force of the plank snapped "pper ua,t or " 7luuiuiuu in a "neap oeiow. The two men found themselves marooned high up with only a plank two feet wide to stand on. They cried for help for what seemed to them days. About five o'clock the other workmen around the plant walked Into the chimney ground level and heard the cries of the two 1809. The original mansion was begun In In 18i4 it v. as burned by the British and rebuilt in SIS. Another of the errora in the article t referred to was the thai i aint Is u;ed on the White House to make it beautifully white. I noticed this especially because I have used con; lerable, paint myself and wondered that "canned" p:ti:it should be- used on such an Important building when all painters know that pure white lead and Unseed oil make the bMt paint. It so happened also that I knew white lead and linseed oil not ready-mixepaint were used on the White House, because had just read a booklet published by a firm of ready mixed paint manufacturers who also manufacture pure white lead. In that book the manufacturers admitted that for the White House nothing but "the best and purest of paint could be used." and said that their pure white lead bad been selected. Above all people, those who attempt to write on historical subjects should give us facts, even If it is only a date or a statement about wood, or brick, or paint, or other building material. Yours for truth, 1792. 1 stau-.-iu-n- ready-prepare- ' - 1 -- Charity by Machinery. Poor Man W'u'd ye be so kind, sir, as to stop a moment! It was you, air, that saved my wife's life last year by givin' me a dollar fer some sick medicine. Please, sir, she's ag'in, an' the same way. Mr. Highniind I have recently been convinced of the folly of indiscriminate giving, and I now distribute by donations through the Business Men's Charity trust, organized for the purpose of investigating each case. I lett a dollar with the secretary not five minutes ago. Go and tell him your story. Mr. llighmind (an hour later) Ah! Did you go to the secretary, as I directed? t "I did, sir, an' he gave me a piece wid a hole in it." "Eh Ii that all?" I told him about your "Yes, sir. dollar, but he said the other 93 cents was kept for salaries an' expenses." N. Y. Weekly. five-cen- His Only Concern. known member of the New York bar, a man of most patronizing manner, one day met John G- Carlisle, to whom he observed loftily. "I see, Carlisle, that the supreme court has overruled you in the case orf Mulling versus Jenkinson. Hut," he added, in his grand way, "you, Carlisle, need feel no concern about your A well -. I'm SLOW TAKES CHARGE. - ing one end of it out of the top of the chimney and having it anchored to something solid. But when they threw the end over, the top of the chimney it stuck in the! soft concrete and would not budge' either way. When the men had got the rope they thought themselves all right and line. Their dropped their shirt-madknives went with it. They were nonplused for a minute. Then they began making another line out of their undershirts. With this the drew up a fishline, then another inch rope. They successfully threw this out the top of the chimney and tne en(j was fastened to a railroad track on the ground, The men In turn slid down the rope, but badly burned their hands in doing e News of the men's plight spread quickly. Soon a large crowd was at the bottom of the big flue. All sorts of schemes for getting them down were advanced. While the crowd was collecting. among them members of a fire com- pany, the marooned men were trying to help themselves. They made their so. WORKMAN IS TORN TO PIECES ON A FAST-REVOLVIN- TOO time-honore- d t - DUBIOUS About What Her Husband Would Say. A Mich, woman tried Postum Food Coffee because ordinary coffee wtih her and her husband. She dls-agre- d writes: "Hy husband was sick for three years with catarrh of the bladder, and a rope over his right leg and threw the other end over a shaft about eight feet overhead and secured it The next moment a shriek of agony made the men desert their machines and stand back horror-strickeat the ghastly sight which confronted them. Dangling by the rope from the shaft was a human leg, and further an arm, clutching the rope with convulsive-nesof a death grip. Below on the floor lay the bleeding body of Getzner, horribly mangled, with the face battered almost beyond recognition The men turned away sick at heart. The shaft kept revolving with the ghastly evidence attached to it. Finally one man broke awnv fmm tv. t Kroner and rnnnlna' "O . the onnn niuui, yelled to Engineer Alexander Schiller: A man has "Stop the machinery! been killed!" Schiller stopped the machinery and then went back with the man to tho mixing room. By this time the foreman had appeared. The workmen were busy cutting down the leg and the arm from the shaft. When they had completed this work they were sent back to their machines. Then it was found that "No. 203" was missing. Immediately the crime was fas tened upon him. n s Catch Fish in a Beer Keg. White Haven, Pa. Old Izaak Walton, Grover Cleveland nor any of their vivacious disciples could ever tell a fish story the euual of that told h two White Haven anglers who brought home the evidence of their facts They told of a trout whose fondl for brewery products was such that It vountarily became a prisoner aud ematnod in a cell from a small fry age until it got to be size, and to those incredu lous persons who wrinkled upper lips or noses the anglers produced their evidence the other day, consisting ol the keg In which was Imprisoned the of the heart, pine-tarre- four-poun- A Shriek of Agony Car le from the fish. Man. Man Aged 111 to Travel. torn. A gang ol six men work at each Evansvllle, Ind. Benjamin Daniels, machine two fillers, who attend to a negro who was born In slavery, and the filling and weighing of the bags: who says he Is 111 years old win nun nrui uni ii.ii... uiui ifiivr III it lew 1111)9 IOT a Visit Will mo two truckers, who tako the bags out friends at Clarksville, Tenn. He will on a hand truck to the boats moored make tke trip unaccompanied. Pan to the dock, which Is on a level with lols lives with his daughter in this the mixing room. The emn enraged ,ity, and In spite of his age Is able In this work are Poles and Italians to got around very well. Daniels mar They take turns at being fillers, sew- - rcd his flrRt wife during the war of ers and truckers, 1812. He has been married four times, Getzner, who was a trucker, was and his oldest child Is now over SO It is believed Daniele Is dozing on a pile of bags at 3:30 o'elock years old waiting for the sewer to finish his fcho oldest man In Indiana. The Jd work, when another workman slipped Bian Is unable to read or write. m-- For dellciotib flavor, rraifrant aroma aod bonesl value il is uusurpussed Six kintU. Nai urai Jaiiao, Young Hyson. Ceylua. Eui:in BreaKfasl, Oolong and i.unpowder. (sold at your grocers' to full weight halt pouud red aud gold rarloos. Sanitary Nose Brigs. In reply to inquiries In regard to the sale of sanitary feed bags for horses in England, Consul Griffiths, of Liverpool, writes: "Much, of course, depends upon the style, quality, durability of the bags, and a very important item is the cost. The 'nose bags' (ventilated) used here are made of strong cocoa fiber, and are sold for three shillings (73 cents) each. Bags , Of the same material, are sold for 4s 6d ($1.09) each; leather-cornerebags. 3s Gd (85 cents) each, and extra fine nianila bags, $1.09 each." leather-bottomed- Good Governor. Sir William Macgregor, governor oj Newfoundland, is one of the most re of BritisI men the remarkable colonial service, both physically and intellectually: and. indeed, his her culean strength has contributed in nt small degree to impress the savages over whom he has been called upon to rule in the past with a sense ol power of the British empire. We Make Travel Easy. Five trains daily via the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe. Colorado to Kansas City, St. Joe, Chicago. Galveston, El Paso, City of Mexico Ask me about reduced rates. C. F Warren, A., A. T. & S. F. Ry.. 411 Dooly Block, Salt Lake, City. Utah. G. Quaky Island. Lundy, In the Bristol channel, is an island where one may see an earthquake at any time. There is nothing alarming about these "earthquakes," however; they are simply certain curious crevasses in the west of the island, which the local people call by that name. Lundy in former centuries was a notorious nest of pirates. In King Henry III.'s time William de Marisco, a traitor to the king, built a castle there and set up as an early Capt. Kidd. Water in London. There is an increasing tendency on the part of large consumers of water in London to draw on the water reser-Toirin the lower geological strata beneath the capital rather than be indebted to companies for their water supply. The latest institution to show Its independence in this fashion is Clements' Inn, where, not 20 yards from the Strand, an artesian well haa Just been tapped, .after three months' boring, at a dei th of 450 feet. s MAN IN EMPIRE GOWN dinner given by Mrs. Edward C Dudley Morgan Suddenly Finds Knight, Jr., and while there it was Fame by Invading Casino Dance suggested that a surprise be sprung One Supposed Prank in a Plaster Mill on Staien Island, N. Y., Ends in Horrible Death of Victim. ..TEA.. SO MAKES HIT AT NEWPORT SHAFT. G fairs and to further humiliate th SHE woman the car was run along Halsted street at half speed for a block. The woman became furious at th slow gait and told the other passenin the car that she was going to TRIES TO MAKE A TRAIN. gers get No. 516 s job if it took her a month. For this the street car man Male at the Controller Fails to Realize gave her a derisive laugh. Dropping her bundles, the woman Her Hurry, So She Pushed Him ran to the front platform of the car from Platform and Turns on and before the motorman realized Full Speed. what had happened his controller lever was in a pair of determined fem Because No. motoman Chicago. 516 on the Halsted street line of the Chicago City Railway company refused to put a little speed on his car the other day Mrs. S. H. Chidester, who was anxious to catch a train for her home in Evergreen Park, seized the controller lever and turned t.e current on to the last notch. By way of emphasizing her determination to reach the train, she pushed No. 516 off the front platform when lie objected to her summary action and for six blocks the big car ran . full speed through the crowded street. Stops were made neither for crossings nor for passengers to get on or off and three members of the teamsters' union were shown that other citizens have a little right to part of the street. Three coal wagons, on which they were riding when the car struck them, are laid up for repairs. Mrs. Chidester was finally overpowered by the conductor and some of the passengers on the car and taken to the Stockyards police station. She was released later after convincing the officers that she was not insane. Mrs. Chidester got on the car at Thirty-nintand Halsted streets and at once informed the motorman that she was in a hurry to reach the Grand She Ran the Car at Full Speed. Trunk station at Forty-nintstreet. At Forty-firs- t street the car stopped inine hands and he was running along to allow a teamster to make up his in the rear trying to overtake the car mind whether he was going to get off of which he had recently been in the tracks or not, and Mrs. Chidester charge. At first the passengers enjoyed the street it got nervous. At Forty-thirtra-getook two old men a little longer to joke, but when the on than was necessary and Mrs. dition of allowing teamsters to leay Chidester went out on the front plat- - the tracks only when they got good form further to impress upon the mo- - and ready was ignored, the passen-tormathe importance of caching her gers became frightened and after a train. strenuous effort by the conductor and No. 516 resented her Interference passengers Mrs. Chidester was deand told her that he considered him- throned and the usual Halsted street self capable of adjusting his own af- - speed was resumed. MOTORMAN The Men in Turn Slid Down the Rope. uT reputation." Carlisle chuckled. "Quite so," he New York. One workman killed agreed. "I'm only concerned for the another in the of a plasroom mixing court." of the supreme reputation ter works, at Richmond Terrace, New Harper's Weekly. Brighton, S. L, early the other morning by tying him to a revolving California's New Idea. flywheel shaft. Frank Getzner, 35 A California ostrich farmer is about to open a branch office in London, years old, a Russian, who has been in where he will have a collection of os- this country only two months plantriches, and incredulous customers ning to make a'tiome for his wife and will be treated to leathers cut direct four children, was the victim. "No. from the backs of the ostriches, man- 203," whose name is believed to be ufactured under the customers' eyes, Lucia, is wanted by the police to exand sold to them across the counter plain the death of Getzner. The mixing room, in which the men "at a price they never heard of." were working, contains within a radiSeamen Given Privileges. us of about 35 feet about four maA marrlago bill introduced in the chines, which mix cement and pour British parliament allows the mar It into six bags attached to the bot- riage of a seaman to take place by license in the diocese of the port wh,ere his ship is lying, if he has been a resident for 15 days on the ship or partly on the ship and partly on shore within the diocese. palpitation caused by coffee. Was unable to work at all and in bed part of the time. "I had Stomach trouble, was weak and fretful so I could not attend to my housework both of us using coffee all the time, and realizing it was harmful. "One morning the grocer's wife said she believed coffee was the cause of our trouble and advised Postum. I took it home rather dubious about what my husband would say he was fond of ooffee, "Hut I took coffee right off the table, and we haven't used a cup of It since. You should have seen the change in us. and now my husband never complains of heart palpitation any mere. My stomach trouble went away in two weeks after 1 began Postum. My children love It and It does them good, which can't be said of coffee. "A lady visited us who was always half sick. I told her I'd make her a cup of Postum. She said It was tasteless stuff, but sho watched me make It, boiling It thoroughly for 15 minutes, and when done she said It was splendid. Long boiling brings out the flavor and food gl en by Postum Co., untie Creek, Mich. Read the little boot "The Road to There's a reason." WellvlMe," in pkgs ar shirts into a thin tape line and lo ered it 154 feet to the bottom of the chimney. With this they drew up an inch rope, their idea being to slide down on it on the inside after throw- - Hi Woman's Wild Run on a Trolley Car at the dance to which all the guests were invited. Morgan was selected tc Newport, R. I. At the Casino dance impersonate a woman, and the excelthe other night there was a sensation lence with which he played his pari which the governors of that aristocrat- has suddenly placed him in the same ic place say will not occur again. It class with Harry Lehr as the creatoi was the sensation of the dull season. of Newport summer sensations. A young man, dressed as a woman, AIRY GARB SHOCKS VILLAGERS, appeared in the gold and white theater and danced and flirted as a woman. The young man in question was Inhabitants of "Physical Culture City" Cause Blushes in Bucolic Burg. Dudley Morgan, son of William Rogers Morgan, who owns a villa on Spotswood, N. J. Farmers and othRhode Island avenue. The young man had been at a din- ers who have never traveled ten ner for young people, and he entered miles away from the idyllic spot and the Casino theater with Miss Pauline who therefore have never visited the maids in French, daughter of .rfrs. Henry seashore and seen sylph-likFrench, and a niece of Mrs. Alfred G. bewitching bathing suits have been shocked by the sight of the inhabVanderbilt. When Morgan, superbly gowned in itants of Physical Culture City, sevwhite embroidered net, in empire eral of whom wander about clad in a Style, with a coral necklace, long, sketchy and aboriginal manner. That many believe in this plan was evident the other day. A lank fellow who had been puffing vigorously about In the lake finally swam ashore and, running to a sand bank, threw himself at full length, near a handsome girl gracefully clad. He wore a pair of short swimming trunks. Not far away lay the girl who for an hour or so had been basking in the sun. She was dressed in a sleeveless jersey and a pair of bloomers that were gathered tightly several Inches above her knees. She wore a pair of leather sandals that . . WiM; ,J vealed toes. In the gymnasium the leader, an athletic young fellow, whose muscles heaved in knots under his ruddy skin, wore a jersey and trunks that had left much of the bolt of material from which they were taken. All the girls wore bloomers, and one or two of them had on stockings. The villagers assert that men and women scautily attired have been seen In Spottswood. Where they came from the residents do not know. Last Sunday several men and women, dressed in garb less formal than a bathing suit, passed through the vll-- l i :e. apparently on a walking match. Their bare arms and legs shone brightly in the bright sunlight, and All Eyes Were Centered on Him. solemn villagers took one glance, wlrite suede gloves, Japanese fan. and blushed profusely and then hid their blond wig, with jewels In the hair, faces in their kerchiefs. came in with Miss Pauline French Millionaire a Farm Hand. and seated himself eyes were Fond du Lac, Wis. John F. Cros on him. As Mullaly's orchestra startod the by, aped IT years, who came into music, "Little Girl, You'll Ho." for possession of a fortune upon the death the waltz, several of the men present of Major Robert Crosby, of ChicaRo, "woiii toward the stranger, thinking It ' working on the farm of Charles was some one they knew, but upon M'i onnell, near Klpon. He Is a gtu Closer Tlew the Joke was discovered, dent of the local high school and be and the ballroom was In an uproar lleves that every young man should Sidney Colford, not to be balked, took know how to work. He Is an enthu-thlady" on the tloor, and danced slastlc golf player, but golf became with "her" amid great laughter too lame and he has taken to th He Is worth $1,000,000 at least Morgan was one of the guests at a farm Bewitchingly Attired. e tight-fittin- mt mwmzmm cen-tare- d Journalistic Museum. there is a newsAt paper museum founded by Oscar von Forckenbeck, which contains files of specimens of more than 17,000 different newspapers. Investment Worthy Investigation Money put in the bank brings a low rate of Interest, hut is general iy safe. There are, however, other invesimenls equally as safe and more productive. We llsta full line of the following "stOOke." ami recommend them to your notice, firmly relieving that as a security giving adequate results to the investor they cannot be eicenea. McCormlck mowers, binders, headers, reapers and rakes. Internationa Harvesters and Red Tag binding twine and rope. U. H. Cream Separators. F. K. Myers A Bra ami Red Jacket pumps. 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