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Show ERRORS ABOUT THE HOUSE. Tt 'the Editor: I noticed would not My your column House which WHITE somewhere recently I positively that It wu In an article on the White contained several mis- statements. , In the first place it was stated the White House was first occupied In UN Aid that Its first occupant was President Madison. The fact Is, Its first occupant was President Adams, who took up his residence there In U00. r The original mansion was begun In 1798... Ip 1814 Jt was burned by the British and rebuilt in 1818. Another of the errors In the article referred to was the statement that d paint Is used on tho White House to make It beautifully white. I noticed this especially because I have used considerable paint myself and wondered that "canned" paint should be used on such an lniiortant building when all painters know that pure white load and linseed oil make the brist paint. It so happened also that I knew White lead and linseed oil not ready-mixepaint were used on the White House, because I bad just read a booklet published by a firm of ready-mixe- d paint manufacturer! 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 aald that their pure white lead had been selected. Above all people, those who attempt to write on historical subjects should give ua facta, even if It la only a date or a statement about wood, or brick, or paint, or other building material. Yours for truth, ready-prepare- d L , ' Charity by Machlntry. Poor Man Wu'd ye be so kind, sir, as to stop a moment! It was you, Mr, that saved my wifes Ufa last year by glvin me a dollar fer some medicine. Please, sir, shes sick ag'ln, an the same way. Ma Hlghmlnd I have recently been convinced of the folly of giving, and I new distribute by donations through tbe Business Mens Charity trust, organised for the purpose of Investigating each ease. I left a dollar with the secretary not five minutes ago. Oo and tell him your story. Mr. Hlghmlnd (an hour later) Ah I Did you go to the secretary, as I di- India-crimina- te rected? t v "I did, air, an he gave me a piece wld a hole in It" . "Eh Is that all?" ' HYea, sir. I told him about your dollar, but he Mid the other 95 cents wm kept for salaries an expenses.' five-cen- TWO CHIMNEY BUILDERS ARE MAROONED 154 FEET IN AIR Woman s Wild Run on a Trolley Carl Caught on Narrow Plank Near Top of Big Hue Tear Sh'.rta Into String e, Putt Up Rope and Slide to Safety. New York. Two men were held prisoners inside the new reinforced concrete chimney at a steel plant at Mariners' Harbor, S. I., tor 5ft hours the other afteruoon. They were on a plank six feet long by two feet wide ten feet from the top of the chimney, which is 184 feet high. Their rescue was effected after a long struggle by other employes and members of the fire department, who were called to aid in getting the men down. The prisoners on the chimney were Harry Towyne, foreman of the Job, and Courted Brlol, hla assistant. Both are expert chimney builders. Tli work hod been practically finished when the men went up to do some cementing near tbe top. A ladder 168 feet long In sections had been rigged up inside the chimney. Towyne and Brlol climbed up thla at one o'clock. They cemented the top or rim of the chlinuey, then climbed down to a scaffolding that had been built ten feet below tbe 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 pn this they dropped the last of the other boards. The last plank they dropped didn't go straight to the bottom, bnt struck on the side of the chimney and, glano-lng- , crashed heavily Into an upright ladder some distance below the two men. The force of the plank snapped the ladder and the upper half of it tumbled In a heap below. Tbe 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 prisoners. News of the mens plight spread Soon a large crowd wm at Quickly. the bottom of the big flue. All aorta of schemes for getting them down were advanced. While tbe crowd was collecting, among them members of a fire company, the tnarooned men were trying to help themselves. . They made their 12-fo- ot faira and lb farther hmafflet ths TOO SLOW SO SHE woman the car wm run along Halted street at half speed for a Mock. TAKES CHARGE. The woman became furioue at the I low gait sad told the- other TRIES TO MAKE A TRAIN. gers in the car that aha ws shirts Into a thin tape line and to get No. 616's job If it took her s ered It 154 foot to the bottom of the month. Per thia tho street car mas chimney. With this they drew up an I gave her a deriilY laugh. Mala at tho Controller Falla to Realise Inch rope, thejr Idea being to slide the- - woman I her ' bundles, Dropping Her Hurry, So She Pushed Him down on it on the lnalde after throw- ran to tho front platform of tho ear I . from Platform and Turna on and before the motorman realised Pull Speed.. what had happened Us contreltei lever wm in a pair of determined feta No. Chicago. Because mo toman 516 on the Halated street line of tbe Chicago City Railway company refused to put a little speed on his car the other day Mrs. & H. Chides ter, who wm anxious to catch a train for her home In Evergreen Park, seised the controller lever and turned the currant on to the lMt notch. By way of emphasizing her determination to reach the train, she pushed No. 516 off the front platform when he objected to her summary action and for six blocks the big car ran rtt - full speed through the crowded I MOTORMAN WORKMAN street The Men in Turn Slid Down the 8tops 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 truck them, are laid up for repairs. . Mrs. Chidester was finally overpowered by the conductor and some of thd passengers on the car and taken to the Stockyards police station. She was released later after convincing the officers that the wm not Insane: Mrs. Chidester got on the car at Thirty-nint- h and Halsted streets and at once Informed the motorman that she was In a hurry to reach the Grand Trunk station at Forty-nint- h street At Forty-firstreet the Mr stopped to allow a teamster to make up Bla mind whether he wm going to get off the tracks or not and Mrs. Chidester street It got nervous. At Forty-thir- d took two old men a little longer to get on than was neoMMry and Mrs. Chidester went out on the front plat n form further to Impress upon the the Importance of caching her train. Hops. lng one end of It out of the top of the chimney and having It anchored to something solid. Bnt when they threw the end over the top of the chimney It stock In the! soft concrete and would not budge either way. When the men had got tho rope they thought themselves all right and line. Their dropped their shirt-mad- e knives 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 No. 516 resented her Interference Inch rope. They successfully threw told her that he considered himand this out the top of the chimney and self capable of adjusting his own. af-the end wm fastened to a railroad on the track ground. The men In turn slid down the rope, but badly burned their hands In doing st IS TORN TO PIECES ON A - SHAFT. NG One Dudley Morgan Suddenly Finds Fame by Invading CMlno Dance Bswltchlngly Attired. Newport, R. I. At the Cosine dance the other night there wm a sensation which the governors of that aristocratic place say will not occur again. It was the sensation of the dull season. A young man, dressed m a woman, appeared In the gold and white theater and danced and flirted as a woman. The young man In question wm Dudley Morgan, son of William Rogers Morgan, who owns a villa on Rhode Island avenue. The young man had been at a dinner for young people, and he entered the Casino theater with Mias Pauline French, daughter of Mrs. Henry French, and a niece of Mrs. Alfred G. YhnderbilL When Morgan, superbly gowned in white embroidered net, in empire style, with a coral necklace, tong, reputation". C5ne workman killed a rope over hla 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 convulslve-neof a death grip. Below on the floor lay the bleeding body of Getz-- ' ner, 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 - away from the group and running to the engine room, yelled to Engineer Alexander Schiller: "Stop the machinery! A man has been killed! Schiller stopped the machinery and then went back with the man to the mixing room. By this time the foreman had appeared. The work me: were busy cutting down the leg am the arm from the shaft. When they had completed this work they were sent back to their machines. Then It waa found that "No. 203" was missing. Immediately the crime was fastened upon him. another in the mixing room of a plaster works, at Richmond Terrace, New Brighton, S. I., early the other morning by tying him tp a revolving California's New Idea. 85 A California ostrich farmer Is about flywheel shaft Frank Getsner, In has who been a Russian, old, yean In olfice a to open branch London, two months this plancountry only ofoswhere he will have a collection to make a home for his wife and triches, and Incredulous customers ning No. four children, was the victim. will be treated to feathers cut direct to name be believed Is whose 203, from the backs of the ostriches, manis wanted by the police Jo exLucia, customers the eyes, ufactured under death of Getsner. and sold to them serins the counter plain the The mixing room. In which the men "at a price they never beard of." were working, contains within a radius of about 35 feet about four ma8eamen Given Privileges. A marriage bill Introduced In the chines, which mix cement and pour British parliament allows the mar- It into six hsgs attached to the hot liriage of a seaman to take place by cense in the diocese of the port where 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 tbe diocese. - DUBIOUS About What Her Husband Would Say. A Mich, woman tried Postum Food d because ordinary coffee wt'Ji her and her husband. She Coffee dla-agre- writes: n lly husband was sick for three years with catarrh of the oladder, and palpitation of the heart, caused by coffee. Was unable to work at all and In bed part of the time. "I had stomach trouble, wm weak and fretful so I could not attend to Catch Fiah in a Beer Keg. White Haven, Pa. Old Izaak my housework both of us using cof-fo- o all the time, and realizing it was harmful. "One morning thd grocer's wife Mid she believed coffee was the cause of our trouble and advised Postum. I took it home rather dubious about what my husband would say be was fond of coffeo. But 1 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 Pos- i tum. My children love it and it does them good, which cant be said of coffee. A lady visited us who was always half tick. I told her I'd make her a cup of Postum. She Mid it waa taste- make wa.liChe? ? 15 minit, boiling it utes, and when done she aald it was splendid. Long boiling brings out the flavor and food quality." Name given by Postum Co., Battle Creek, Mich. Read the little book The Road to WeH-rUleIn "There's a reason." ; ) ' Wal- ton, Grover Cleveland nor any of their vivacious disciples could ever tell fish story the equal of that told by two White Haven anglers who brought home the evidence of their facta. They told of a trout whose fondness for brewery products was such ihat it vountarily became a prisoner and remained In a cell from a small fry age until It got to be d size, and to those Incredulous persons who wrinkled upper lips or noses the anglers produced their evidence the other day, consisting of the keg In which was imprisoned the pine-tarre- d four-poun- A Shriek of Agony Came Man. flah. the tom. A gang of sit men work at each machine two fillers, who attend to the filling and weighing of the hags: two sewers, who seal the bags, and two truckers, who take the bags out on a hand trunk to the boats moored to the dock, which la rin a level with the mixing room. The emn enraged in thla work are Poles and Italians. They take turns at being fillers, sew- ers and truck.-- . Gelzner. who was a trucker, was dozing on a pil of hags at 3:30 o'clock waiting for the sewer to finish his work, when another workman slipped . atnsa.Mst tieya. Man Aged 111 to Travel. Evansville, a negro j i ; j j ! Baaltorw Mooe Bags, to L reply to inquirtoafoodin - regard tot hogs solo of sanitary W , England, Consul Griffiths, el h Much, of mnrsq, UverpooL wrftss: depends "upon ths style, quality, durability of tha bag,, and a very important item. Is the coot ''The noM hags (ventilated) used Jiers. ora mode of strong cocoa fiber, and are sold for three shillings (73' cents) each. Bags of the Mme material, leather-bottomeare sold for 4a . 6d .(1.09) bags, Sa 6d (85 each; leather-cornere- d cento) each, and extra fine manlla hags, 1.09 each." I. d, Good Governor. Sir William Macgregor, governor 4 Newfoundland, is one of the moat re remarkable men of tha Brittal colonial service, both physically ani intellectually; and. Indeed, hla her oulean strength has contributed in nt mail degree to Impress the MragH over whom he has been called npos to rule In the pMt with a sense ol power of the British empire. We Maks Travel Easy. Five trains dally via the Atchison, Topeka A Santa Fe, Colorado to Kan-City, 8L Joe, Chicago. Galveston. Efi Paso, City of Mexico. Ask me about reduced rates. C. F. Warren, G. A., A. T. A S. F.. Ry.. 411 Dooly Block, Salt Lake City, Utah. , Qnaky Island. Lundy, In the Bristol channel, is an Island where one may see an earthhe Ran the Car at Full Speed. quake at any time. There is nothing lnlne hands and he was running along alarming about these earthquakes," In the rear trying to overtake the car however; they are simply certain curb of which he had recently been in ous crevasses In the west of the Island, which the local people call by that charge. At first the passengers enjoyed the name. Lundy In former centuries wm d tra- a notorious nest of pirates. In King joke, hut when the dition of allowing teamsters to lean Henry III.'s time William da Msrlsco, the tracks only when they got good traitor to tha king, built a castle and ready was Ignored, the passen- there and set up m an Mrly Capt gers became 'frightened and after s Kidd. strenuous effort by the conductor and Water In London. passengers Mrs. Chidester wm deThere is an lncreMlng tendency on throned and the usual Halsted street the part of large consumers of water speed wm resumed. In London to draw on the water reservoirs in the lower geological strata beneath tha capital rather than he indebted to companies for their water supply. The latest Institution to show . Its Independence in this fHhton is Clements Inn, where, not 30 yards from the Strand, an artesian wall has just been tapped, after three months' boring, at a de-- th of 450 feet dinner given by Mrs. Edward Q Journalistic Ktueum. Knight, Jr., and while there It wm there Is a newsAt suggested that a surprise be sprung at the dance to which all the guests paper museum founded by Oscar von were Invited. Morgan wm selected to Forckenbeck, which contains files of Impersonate a woman, and the excel- specimens of more than 17,000 differlence with which he played his pari ent newspapers. . . has suddenly placed him In the him class with Harry Lehr as the creator of Newport summer sensations. , time-honore- imsmsismW MAKES HIT AT NEWPORT Supposed Prank in a Platter Mill on Staten Uland, N. Y., Ends in Horrible Death of Victim. New York. am. tregraut hi snir MAN IN EMPIRE GOWN BO. FAST-REVOLVI- Carlisle chuckled. Quite so," he agreed. "Im only concerned for the reputation of the supreme court" Harpers Weekly. wmteuiooi I N. Y. Weekly. Hie Only Concern. A well known member of the New York bar, a man of moat patronising manner, one day met John O. Carlisle, to whom he observed loftily. "I see, Carlisle, that the supreme oourt has overruled yon In the case But" of Mullins versus Jenklnson. he added, In hla grand way, you, Carlisle, need feel no concern about your I Ind. Benjamin Daniels, who was born In slavery, and who saya he Is 111 years old. will leave In a few days for a viBlt with friends at Clarksville, Tenn. lie will make the trip unaccompanied. PanIds lives with his daughter in rhla city, and In spite of his age Is able to get around very well. Daniels inar- - ried his first wife during the war of ISIS, lie has been married four sr.d his oldest child Is now over years old. It is believed Daniels tiua oldest man in Indiana. The eld man is unable to read or write. tf.-nc- AIRY GARB tfHOCKS VILLAGERS, Investigation Inhabitants of Physical Culture City" Csum Bluahaa In Bucolic Burg. Spotswood, N. J. Farmers and others who have never traveled ten miles away from the idyllic spot and who therefore have never visited the seashore and seen sylph-lik- e maids in bewitching bathing aults have been shocked by the sight of the Inhabitants of Physical Culture City, several of whom wander about clad la a sketchy and aboriginal manner. That many believe In thia plan was evident the other day. A lank fellow who had been puffing vigorously about in the lake finally warn 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 ao had been basking in the sun. She was dressed In a tight-fittin- g sleeveless jersey and a pair of bloomers that' were gathered tightly several Inches above her knees. She wore a pair of leather sandals that revealed toes. In the gymnasium the leader, aa athletic young fellow, whose muscles heaved In knots under hla ruddy skin, wore a jersey and trunks that had left much of the bolt of material from which they were taken. AU the girls wore bloomers, and one or two of them had on stockings. The villagers assert that men and women scantily attired have been seen In Spottswood. Where they came from the residents do not know. Laat men and' Vomen, Sunday several dressed In garb leas formal than a bathing ault, passed through the village, apparently on a walking match. Their bare arms and legs shone brightly In the bright sunlight, and Eyes Were Centered en Him. solemn villagers took one glance, wlllte 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 all eyea were cenFond du Lac, Wls. John F. Cro tered on him. Aa Mullalys orchestra started tha by, aged 17 years, who came Into music, IJltle Girl. Youll Do." for Kiss.8slon of fortune upon the death the waits, several of the men present of Major Robert- - Crosby, of Chicago, went toward the stranger, thinking it is working on the farm of Charles wm some one they" knew, but upon McConnell, near Illpon. He is a stt closer view the Joke waa 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 lie balked, took know how to work. He Is an enthuthe "lady" on the floor, and danced siastic golf player, hut golf became too tame and he has taken to ths With "her amid great laughter. Morgan was one of the guests at a farm. He Is worth 1,000,000 at least - Investment Worthy t low ruts f Money put la tbs bunk brings how-sva- r. but le generally unfa- - Tbsiu other InrMimenle equally M in, loft Ml nora productive. W Hateful! line of thefol-louln- g "Moeki. and lueomuisad them to jour notion. Srmlj oollorlns that as a occur! tj glvlnf ruaalia to tba lavoator tbay SMoot bo aduquy McCormick mourns, Madera, boadors. roaporo International narration and Odd Tag Mad-log twlua and rope, u. S Cre V. E. Mr Ollvar A Daera Plow. Bala A Cooper Wagons. I. H. (Jo. gaaollna anginas for all pui I. H. Co. manure tpreatlera, different alsaa. Tha boat on earth. Ua man atrat Iona made. J. I. Caaa threshing machine. ooglaaa and lad nifctiB s. Tho moat complete line of light reticles offered at bdj point watt of Chicago. "Bamblar" automobiles denionutrntad for durability. upaodaud hill climbing propensities Ths farmer, rancher, stoek-rnlsand tha public gene rally ere Incited to Inspect our Met of "elooke" at Salt l.kenty. Ogden and Iogae. Utah. Idaho Kails and Mnntpollor, Idaho, and at tha thirty additional stores ua bare located at different point In Utah. Idaho, Wyoming and Nevada. Correspondence addressed to the shors polnts nearest located to ynnr residence or shipping point Inaure quirk reply. Our general olUnes at Malt Lake City will be fllosed at I p. m. Saturdays from now until Soph 1st. Inclusive, owing to the fact that railroad! will not receive freight after that hoar, r. Sundnyg and holiday during tha barreet season a force of moo are at work from IS a. m. m. nntUt p. ailing orders for maehin extras. Telephone as. Independent IX and UB. Ball Ml, during tha bourn named. Watchman on the premise ulghtly, Consolidated Wagon & Machine Company list aid Idaho Lcadlsi Implemtut neilrrs Gcorii T. Odell. Gcacrsl Maaaftr W. SMITH. PMSIOBKT. MSLViN O. JOE. a. W. MOCORNICK. VIOB PRSSIDMT WILL. aajaaTaav. Let us Suggest Diamonds you. You can to buy the lamest stock of loosa and mounted Diamonds In tha West at frem 170 SX SALT LAKE CITY, UTAH. Union Assay Office NIHIUHs Ms 0. It V. to. 040100 o. UT 1400 BOS 9440 OlTV UTM |