The Arrington Argus from Arrington, Kansas • 2

TAKES A HAND IN STRIKE. JAP'S ARE ALERT Calumet ARR1NGT0N ARGUS T. W. CVftDINEU, Editor. News of Kansas Baking Powder RESUME THEIR ADVANCE ON KUROPATKIN'8 P08ITION8.

THE BATTLE BEGAN WEDNESDAY May Result In a General EngagementTwo Divisions of Japanese Troops Advancing Against Llandlansian. KAN'mcimiN (Seven miles southeast of Llao Yang) Contrary to tho expectation of tho Russians, tho Japanese aro beginning to advance along tho whole lino of the Kusslan eastern front. On the morning of August 24 there was a rifle skirmish and the next day tho Japanese artillery opened fire. On both days the firing ceased at dusk and tho small energy displayed by the Japanese might have been taken to indicate Hint It was merely a demonstration or a reconnaissance in force, On tho morning of August lid, however, the rlflo and artillery fire was renewed with an energy that left no doubt that a severo battle was intended. The Japnnest pushed their attack against the Kusslan right flank and center, concentrating their fire upon the first battery of the third brigade.

Three officers and several men were wounded early In tho day and tho battery hehl its position and replied to tho Japanese fire with such marked effect that General Ivanoff (who commands the late General Count Keller's corps) sent a congratulatory message its commander. The Japanese several tlmrs attempted to cross the Tanke (Link?) river, but only a few succeeded and theso men were forced to hide in tho fields Chinese corn. At 2:00 in the afternoon the artillery fire became as hot as it was at Vafan-gow, nut it fluctuated considerably and occasionally the Russian fire almost silenced that of the Japanese. Rain fell in torrents at 4 o'clock, hut did not stop the fighting, i.nd late the evening several Russian companies moved forward to the attack. It is not yet possible to state definitely the result of the battle, but It Is asserted that the Russians were successful.

There is prospect of more fighting soon. ST. PETERSBURG. After four weeks' Interval the Japanese have re-Burned their advance against General Kuropakiu'H positions. The opposing armies are in contact east and south Liao Yang and fighting lias been In progress since Wednesday.

The advices at hand are too meager to enable the officials to form a correct opinion as to whether it will result in general engagement, but the extent and character of the Japanese movement leads to that conclusion. Since the rains ceased a week ago there have been continued intimations that GVfcompm WEEKLY PANORAMA MRS. FULLER SUDDENLY CALLED Heart Diieani Claim, Witst of Chief Justice of Supreme Court. 1 Mrs. Mary Fuller, wife of Mclvllo W.

Fuller, chief Justice of tho supremo court of tlie United States, died unexpectedly while Healed on the piazza of "Malnestay," her summer honnr ut Sorrento, Mu. While apparent ly In good health, Mrs. Fuller was" stricken with 'J I heart disease and expired almost before her daughters, who sat near her, could reach her. Mrs. Fuller was born In Burlington, Iowa, Aug.

lit, 1815, her parents being William E. and Jane Brown Cool-baugh, who later moved to Chicago, whore Fuller passed much of her life, in 1SWJ she married Melville W. Fuller, who In 1KS8 was appointed chief justice by President Cleveland. WANTS BEST hAILWAY TALENT. President Diaz Said to Have Offered High Posts to Americans.

Gossip current in the financial district has it hat President Diaz of Mexico is attempting to induce prominent American railroad men to cast their lot with the Vera t'ru. and other railway lines in which the Mexican government is Interested. Current rumor mentions the names of some high-priced operating and traffic officers who have been offered large salaries to go to Mexico. President Diaz has taken an active Interest in tne nianacement, of the Vera Cruz road and lias informed American railroad men that he purposes to have the road completed as soon as possible and intends to ilitain the best railroad skill and talent In can find available In the United Siates to help him operate the property. PRESIDENT NORD IS BLAMED.

ul've HfJnsi Hay.ti's Chief Exec ible 'The disorder which prevails In Port au Prince, Haytl, and the attacks upon Syrian merchants are attributed to the hostile attitude of President Nord toward all foreigners. In a recent ad- or WT' dress he threatened a "repetition ot 1SU4," when all foreigners were massacred. Nord is an ex-slave, 87 years old. He is Ignorant, childish and vindictive and keeps his people constantly stirred up against the whites. Learned Professor Fined.

Prof. Henry I). Eddy, C. Ph. and LL.

of the University of Minnesota, became so deeply engrossed in his duties as doctor of philosophy that he forgot, he was also a doctor of laws and violated one of the Minneapolis ordinances by riding his bicycle on the sidewalk. As a result he was arrested and haled to police court, where a justice imposed the usual fine of $3. Dr. Eddy has been a devoted wheelman for a dozen years and still rides a bicycle of the vintage of 1892, claiming that it is better than anything made nowadays. Place to Learn Strategy.

Former Representative Oalusha A. Grow of Pennsylvania was talking to a friend the other morning. The subject under discussion was the war in the far East. "Poor Russia!" commented the former Speaker of the House of Representativs, jokingly, "her army seems to be completely and irretrievably beaten. I think if her generals were to come over here at once and get some practical experience in the management of our national campaign they would be able on their return to show the Japanese a wrinkle or two in the way of leadership.

Kouropatkln could learn a whole lot of strategy in a few weeks under the supremo tutorship of Cortelyou or Taggart." Government After Indian Lands. Senator T. M. Patterson of Colorado has gone to Navajo Springs to meet tho chiefs of the Uto nation and try to make arrangements with them whereby they will convey to the United States government the tract known as the'Mesa Varde lands and its ancient ruins. These ruins are of inestimable value as prcMster'" Ifll mPm Department of Commerce and Labor Meets Both Sides.

CHICAGO, A conference botweo the aldermen representing the poaca committee and labor leaders began In the mayor's office, Is being held In an attempt to settle the packers' strike. The labor leaders presonted a statement of their case, and the packers will later make a presentation of their side. The butchers claim they struck because of a threatened reduction in wages, a certain branch, of trades could not make living wages. Ethelbort Stewart of tho department of commerce and labor, is here attending the conference. The aldermen, Mayor Harrison and the packers did not roRent his attendance at the meeting, and If the packers do not object, he will attenu their meeting also.

President Donnelly said further at tho conference that the second strike was due to a discrimination against the employees who had been active in the unions. He said that before the strike many men In the stock yards had not been able to earn more than $7 a week and others not more than Having work only about two and one-half days a week. Tho committee representing the packers went Into a conference at the mayor's office. Employes Are Warned. WASHINGTON In view of the approaching election the civil service commission has addressed a letter to tho heads of all government departments and bureaus calling their attention to violations of the civil service law which have occurred in tho past in connection with tho political campaign and inclosing a circular containing a warning against the demanding or payment of political assessments and partisan activity of office-holders.

In its circular the commission announced that It will employ every legitimate and available means to secure the prosecution and punishment of whatever may violate provision rf tho law. Commotion Among Omaha Jobbers. OMAHA, NEB. The action of the I'nion Pacific road and other lines in making a low through rate on wire and nails from Chicago to Colorado common points caused a commotion among local jobbers in those commodities. The rate does not provide a proportionate cut from Omaha to the West and permits Chicago and Des Moines houses to ship to Omaha territory cheaper than the local men.

Vigorous protest is being made to the roads running west, and they are being besieged with demands for a proportionate cut to the West. Another Reaped the Profit. DES MOINES, IA. Robert Parrott, discoverer of the famous Parrott mine at Butte, died here in moderate circumstances at the age of 75. As a young man Parrott went West and, while prosycotema.

discovered the great copptnis place, has bears hj Helm JJodd Ki greai came i i m.k.fevo and rriy estai exceed $0,000. He sold his mine in a few years to Marcus Daly. To "Duel" Before Roosevelt. NEW YORK. The steamer Deutschland arrived with a number of German students aboard.

Several of them are experts with the rapier and have been invited to give an exposition of the duel as practiced at German universities. The athletes are on their way to the world's fair and number among them several members of royalty and the nobility of the German empire. Holds Railroad Responsible. PITTSBURG, KAN The coroner's jury which has been investigating the explosion at tho Missouri Pacific depot at MInden, found the accident was due to the carelessness of the road employees In leaving a box of dynamite too close to tho railroad tracks. It holds the company responsible.

Stenographers Doomed by Machine. CINCINNATI. A machine which tho inventor claims will do away with stenographers lias been invented by Joseph McCaull of this city. It Is an automatic arrangement by which the sound waves of the human voice are reproduced by making characters. A man can produce letters in any language.

No Fiction for Warriors. When the war broke out the libraries on Japanese ships were cleared of all fiction and illustrated papers, only technical treatises being allowed to remain. This is in significant contrast to the Russian ships at Port Arthur, which were provided with ping-pong tables. Japanese Small Eaters. The Japanese cuisine does not Include butchers' meat, bread, butter and potatoes.

Rice is not, as commonly supposed, the dally food fthe poor, but can be afforded by the well-to-do only. To Aid Baltic Squadron. CONSTANTINOPLE. The Russian Navigation company's steamers Yen-ona and Meteor, each laden with coal and water, passed through the Bos-phorus on the way to Join the Baltic squadron. Robbed a Monastery.

A band of Catalonlan brigands attacked the famous Mont-Berrat monastery, escaping with rich booty. They were pursued by tha gendarmes later apd seven were killed In a fierce combat. The others fled. Holds Father for a Death. NIOBRARA, NEB Alfred Bolster, a negro, 72 years old, is In Jail at this place, charged with murdering his child with a Baw last month.

Tha negro family lived In a tepee near this place on the Santee reservation. Storm Kills Four. JAMESTOWN, N. Y. In a tornad that swept through Chautauqua county, four persons were killed and many others seriously Injured.

A big pic- nlc, in progress at Parkhurst grove, was directly in the storm's path. AIUUNUTON KANSAS Are you following on the map tha Japanese maneuvers? It beats chess. None of tho millionaires who want to die poor lina developed a hobby (or living that way. The czar Is reported to be holding his own. But the nurse does not permit htm to do It long.

O. J. de Jong van Boek en Dank 1b rot trunk falling down stairs, but lb governor of Curacao, Anything Miss Lillian Russell says about marrlugo and divorce will be regarded as expert evidence. Whatever else he may do, Mr. Kipling will certainly never niuUo a hit as a writer of campaign songs.

It miiHt be Inconvenient to have so many jewels that you can forget what became of $200,000 worth of them. The stork will now have time to devote a littlo attention to the queen of Italy and young Queen Wilhelniina. Tobacco is now said to make tho hair como out. In the form of cigarettes it is liable to do almost any old thing. In Farls the women havo taken to Panama hats.

"Straws" evidently continue to show which way tho wind blows. Mike Oliucliow.slU has been put Id Jail at Pittsburg for highway robbery. He probably used his name to disable his victims. A Chicago man named Ixive haa been ordered to pay his wife 150,000 alimony. But perhaps he loves moneyless than liberty.

A Washington man advertises what he calls "bottled sunshine," but bottled moonshine will continue to bold Its own In Kentucky. The Governor of Louisiana has eighty colonels on his staff. The consumption of mint over there must be something tremendous. A fellow in Massachusetts has been discovered who wears a tin shirt. Must bo next to impossible for a girl to touch that man's heart.

Count Kwamura is known in history as the "father of the Japanese navy." It might be said, also, that Commodore Perry was its grandfather. A Minnesota man has invented an automobile that is propelled by the wind. Eye-witnesses report that it goes when the wind is right. It has been deflnkely decided that no one can collect tAe insurance on 'a jj w' riivli. pends on your standing In society.

une 01 me most, noieu norse ian-ciers in the country has Just been captured at Manchester, N. H. He Is said to have stolen over 100 of them. "Always wash your hands after handling money," counsels a health authority. Ah, yes and if tho stain still Beems to linger, hand some of it back.

The Philadelphia police recently "pinched" ninety-four citizens in a poolroom raid. Have to pinch a true Philadelphia to satisfy him he is really awake. The Japanese private soldier receives 70 cents a month. A poor mathematician can figure the value of a good quality of patriotism to a country on this basis. The meaning of the term Lhassa, the chief city of Thibet, is "God's ground." This, however, does not de-tor tha Rrittwh frrim tlio f.fTorf tn make it theirs.

The Dowager Empress of China is reducing household expenses. Many a professional man in this country would be glad to have her tell him how she is doing it. Somebody has discovered that the Flemish word for automobile is paar-delooszoondcrspoormcgpctronlrljtuig. By any other name It would smell Just as strongly of gasoline. Don't be alarmed.

The man who accosts you without Introduction or apparent excuse and begins talking wildly is not an escaped lunatic. He is canvassing for a straw vote. When his wife has gone to a summer resort, the husband, left alone In the midst of his housekeeping incapacity, ceases to indulge In that cynical inquiry of "Why did I ever marry?" Are we to understand from Henry Labouchere's new idea that titles should be conferred only on those who are worthy of them by reason of their big bank accounts that "Labby" is at last willing to accept a title for himself? President Eliot's suggestion that education should not cease with youth, but should be prolonged Into adult life, is worthy of general attention. Doubtless President Eliot himself, although he knows so much, still learns something every day. A floating paragraph asserts that a sign of politeness In Thibet on meeting a person Is to hold Up the clenched hand and stick out the tongue.

That may be etiquette in Thibet, but any such demonstration in this town would precipitate something very like a riot. A Connecticut man jilted a lady at the altar the other day. She seemed to be much put out, hut may comfort hprself with the thought that lio hna her the trouble and exnonso nf It to of It In of i the was p. at a a KANSAS 0. A.

R. REUNION. Many Well Known Speakers Billed for Meeting In Paola. PAOLA. The twenty-first annual reunion of the Kansas G.

A. It. will be hold here September (i-10. The railroads have given special rates and everything Is being done to draw a big crowd of soldiers. Among the speakers billed for the reunion are: Senator Fairbanks, Governor Bailey, Gene Ware, Fred Funston, Loo Itasseur, Senator Long, Major Warner, L.

H. Waters, Jere T. Dew, E. W. I loch, D.

M. Dale, C. G. Burton, of Nevada, A. M.

Harvey, of Topeka; Ed Madison, of Dodge City; Charlie Scott, W. A. Calderhoad, Senator H. B. Miller, J.

M. Miller, Charlie Curtis, James D. Snoddy, John T. Bttrrls, Dick Blue, W. S.

Metcalf, J. K. Hudson, Ben Simpson, T. N. Sedgwick, W.

F. Henry, oi Kansas City, and W. F. Cloud. There will be several brass bands and drum corps to liven things up.

Tents will be furnished free to the soldiers. SEVENTH DAY ADVENTIST3. National Conference Is Being Held at Nortonvllle, Kan. NORTON VILLE, The national conference of the Seventh Day Adventlsts met here Thursday, with over 300 del-gates in attendance from all parts of the United States. The conference will continue until August 29.

President Post, of Chicago, is in charge. Lieutenant Governor George H. Utter, of Rhode Island, is ono of the delegates. WIC-ITA. One thousand Adventlsts are in camp in this city, to take part in their annual convention, a special feature of which will be the laying of the corner-stone oi tneir new sanitarium next Monday afternoon.

The convention opened Thursday with a sermon by Rev. R. W. Parnell, of Fort Scott. The camp meeting will last until September 9, witn services every day during that period.

Dr. R. E. Fulmer has been invited to take charge of the sanitarium. SMOTHERED BY WHEAT.

Young Austrian Was Sleeping in Car When It Turned Over. OLATHE. Lewis Mikli, 18 years old, a native of Austria, who was sleeping In a ear of wheat at Mast in, In the eastern part of Johnson county, was smothered to deatn early this morning when tho car was derailed and turned over in being switched. His companion, John Taylor, also an Austrian, 19 years old, narrowly escaped a similar fate. He was buried In the wheat all but his hwad, and succeeded in extricating fcelf.

The two young men intltheir way on a freight train froi rward ina reaencn. Alsstf young iiirt tin, jr cap, which was tt tu-e siding, billed for Kansas City, about 2 o'clock. The car was being switched to tho train for that place when It left the track. Mikli's body was brought to this city and his father and brothers at Leadville, were notified of his death. FOR BREAKING LIQUOR LAW.

Cowley County Druggist, It Is Said, Didn't Require Affidavit. WIN FI ELD. The arrest. Thursday of W. H.

Lighthouse, a druggist at Arkansas City, on a charge of selling liquor without requiring an affidavit from the buyer, was the first arrest for violation of the law in Cowley county in over a year. Lighthouse is charged In six counts of violating the liquor law and one of maintaining a place for the sale of liquor and selling to club members. He was released on $300 bail and will be tried at the November term of court. Skim Milk Fattens Hogs. TOPEKA.

The experiment station at Manhattan has been making some experiments on hog feeding. It divided a bunch of thirty-six shoals into six lots. It fed each lot a different ration. Three lots were fed on skim milk along with the grain and three other lots were fed on buttermilk with grain. Those to which skim milk and grain without pasture were fed, gained the most per day, 1.10 pounds; those fed on buttermilk and grain with no pasture made the lowest gain, 1.02 pounds.

This shows that skim milk has more fattening qualities for hogs than buttermilk. Apple Pickers Are Wanted. TOPEKA. Apple pickers are want-Pd in Reno county. It will take over 100 heads to save the crop Irr the big Yagge orchard alone.

The apple crop around Hutchinson is the- largest in history and the owners are already picking up men to hedp them pick the fruit. Mound City Votes Bonds. MOUNI) CITY. The school district election was held hero to vote bonds ln the sum of $10,000 for the purpose of erecting a new school building. A lively Interest was manifested on both Rides and the proposition was carried by about twenty votes.

The result was announced by the ringing of bells. The old building, which has been used tor many years, is a relic of the Civil war, having been occupied as a hospital during the battle of Mine creek, which was fought near here. Assaulted His Stepson. SALINA. David Tobias was found guilty in the district court here of felonious assault on Walter Grant, his stepson.

About two months ago Tobias attacked Grant and cut him severely with a knife. The mother of Grant, who Is the divorced wife of Tobias, did all In her power to clear her former husband, and testified In his behalf and against her son. The euWng wag tu'gro'v th of an old END OF THE ANTHONY FAIR. Thlrty-Flva Hundred People There on the Closing Day, ANTHONY. Thirty-five hundred people enjoyed tho fourth and last day of the Anthony fair and race meet.

Tin day was perfect. Tho management kept two or three attractions going all the time, and tho crowd left for home pleased with the biggest and best fair ever had In Southern Kansas. Charles M. Irwin, of Wichita, official starter, got thorn off In a bunch pretty regularly. His work even pleased the Jockeys and drivers.

The musical feature of the fair was under the management of Director Fred K. Reasoner, and the Anthony Military band attracted and pleased large crowds. The winners In tho 2:21 pace, best three In five, were: Donny brook first, Dan O'Malley second, Governor Foran-ter third, and Basque fourth. Best timo, 2:18. In the 2:40 trot, Sunny Jim took first money, Mcllenry second and Genuine third.

Time, The seven eighths-mile dash was won by Irish Maid, with Will Dance second and Vlrdot third. Time, 1:35. NO JOY IN LIFE FOR HIM. Olathe Man Who Lost His Health Kills Himself. OLATHE John Heaton, for a quarter of a century a highly respected citizen of tills city, shot himself in his barn.

Ho sent a bullet through his head, dying instantly. Two years ago his health began to fall. A few months ago he went to tho soldiers' homo for treatment. When ho returned he said ho was growing worse and severo pains had reached his head. He worked about tho house until 5 o'clock Thursday afternoon and wrote a note saying he did not want to live and suffer longer, and then entered the barn and killed himself.

Ho served this city for more than five years as city marshal, making a good officer. He was a member of Franklin post No. 08, G. A. and of the Odd Fellows.

He was about 00 years old. A widow and two children survive him. Kansas Deaths. WELLINGTON. Mrs.

II. J. Stevens, wife of a veterinary surgeon of this city, died suddenly Saturday of weak ness of the heart. The attack was brought on by worry over the case ol a little son, who had been taken down with typhoid fever. COFFEYVILLE.

W. H. Mahan, president and general manager of the Coffey ville Vitrified Brick and Tile Company, (died Saturday morning in St. Joseph's hospital, Kansas City. Mahanlwas one of the wealthiest vwlierit't 'j citizens ofoffey' children.

Bright's disease caused hiJ d.h. Besides his connection with the brick company, he was a director in the Condon National bank, and one of the largest property owners in the city. Badly Hurt in a Runaway. LEAVEN WORTH. Mrs.

John M. Corey, wife of County Treasurer Corey, was dangerously injured while driving to Leavenworth from their home at Linwood. Her horse shied at a piece of paper and ran away, throwing Mrs. Corey into the road. She was taken into a house and physicians sent for.

Her condition was so serious that she was not taken to her home until a day later. To Marry a Count. TOPEKA. Kansas will soon score again. Miss Nellie Lytle, a niece ot Miss Mildred Chase, for many years a school teacher at Peabody, will marry a German count In October.

The engagement has already been announced. Miss Lytle Is an Ohio girl, but she once visited her aunt at Pea-body and is well remembered by the people there. Her sister married another German count some years ago. To Aid Consumptives. TOPEKA.

The next legislature of the state of Kansas will be asked by the state board of health to establish a sanitarium in Western Kansas for the care of patients suffering from tuberculosis. More than COO deaths out of sixty counties were reported from this disease Inst year. Miner Killed at Work. PITTSBURG. The rock and slate roof of one of the "rooms" In No.

5 mine of tho Pittsburg and Midway Coal company at Midway, caved In, killing Lester Quick, a miner 18 years old. Now at Kinsley, Kan. KINSLEY. The Kansas-Colorado suit about the right to the head waters of the Arkansas river for Irrigation purposes In the up state, was begun here Friday. KANSAS NOTES.

Joke from the Neodesha Sun: "Are you visiting friends?" "No, merely relatives." An effort Is being made to force the title of "The Little Giant" upon Congressman Phil Campbell, but Billy Morgan warns him to avoid it as he would a plague. Burr Oak contributes a hard-luck story. A merry-go-round man struck town with his machine just at the time when two-thirds of the children are dow with the measles. Politicians are objecting to Chairman Stuhbs because he "doesn't know the game." Mr. Stuhbs shuffles the cards in plain sight, and has no more sense than to deal right from the top of the deck.

J. Mack Love, who was nominated for representative by the Cowley county Democrats, told the convention that If he Is elected to the legislature he will not undertake to get his constituents any railroad passes, or provide them with any Jobs. Mr. Love seeni3 to be entitled to at least two cheera and a half. complies with the pure food laws of all states.

Food prepared with it is free from Rochelle salts, lime, alum and ammonia. Trust Duklnif PowrWi Mil fnrM nr M) rents per pounit and muybn Monti-ftnl by thU Mhorbilant prk'o, Tlicy an! a men-are to piilillo in food prfpurerl from them contulns itirni: iiuuiililic' ft Kochollti Knits, cuthnniu They Won't Do It. First Boarding Mistress I've seen it figured out that people can live on 12 cents a day. Second Boarding Mistress Ah! But you can't get them to do it. Brooklyn Life.

Numbered with the Slain. The announcements of the publishers indicate that there will soon bo a great battle of the books but probably tho readers will be the only ones numbered with the slain. Why Immigrants Wait. Tho steerage rate from Europe to this country has been rut to $7.50, but still the immigrants are hanging back, probably for a trading stamp Inducement. More Flexible and Lasting, won't shake out Mow out; by using Defiance Stan yn nt.tatn better results than post-it.

with any other brand and mure for same inonuy. The telephone girl may be flirty, and yet somehow or other she rings true. III Urst ddy'p ll-e ol Or. line'p Orfit Nerva HNto. er.

Henflfnr FUKK trial bottle tnd Da. a. H. Kline, uu AjchbtrMt, t'laauuipbimitr A good day's work is general' r1' ''--jvolen' nlfiir" if No chromos or chea oiu. of Defiance Starch for the same unctj of other starches.

PIko's Cure is the best medicine we ever used tor all affections of the throat aud lunps. Wk. 0. Esdslit, Vunuuren, Feb. 10, 1W0.

Parker-Davis Ticket 1872. It may surprise a good many of the younger American citizens to learn that there was a Davis and Parker presidential ticket in this country thirty-two years before the present reverse combination appeared. In 1872 David Davis of Illinois was nominated for president by what was called the Labor Reform party, which held it convention in Columbus, O. His running mate was Governor Joel Parker, of Connecticut. That was the year when the Democratic national convention chose as its presidential condii date Horace Greeley.

Thrifty George Gould. It is believed that George Gould has about doubled the value of the property left by his father. The latter's dying injunction was, "George, look after your brothers and sisters," and the dutiful son has faithfully remembered his father's words. Gould controls about 10,000 miles of railroad, counting the Western Pacific, which one of his New York directors recently admitted constitutes the Western link of the transcontinental system. Human Hides.

It Is said that in the precincts of Westminster Abbey the fingerplate ot a door is covered with leather made from human skin, but the story is not, based on anything firmer than tradition. Books do not exist, however, bound In human skin. LEARNING THINGS We Are All in the Apprentice Class. When a simple chauge of diet brings back health and happiness tha story Is briefly told. A lady ot Springfield, 111., says: "After being afflicted for years with nervousness and heart trouble, I received a shock four years ago that left me in such a condition that my life was despaired of.

I could get no relief from doctors nor from the numberless heart and ntrve medicines I tried because I didn't know that the coffee was daily putting me back more than the Drs. could put me ahead. "Finally at the request of a friend I left off coffee and began the use of Postum and against my convictions I gradually Improved ln health until for the past 6 or 8 months I have been entirely free from nervousness and those terrible sinking, weakening spells of heart trouble. "My troubles all came from the use ot coHee which I had drunk from childhood and yet they disappeared when I quit coffee and took up the use of Postum." Name given by Postum Battle Creek, Mich. Many people marvel at the effects of leaving off coffee and drinking Postum but there is nothing marvelous about It only common sense.

Coffee is a destroyer Postum Js a rebullder. That's the reason. Look in each pkg. for the famous llltl book. "The oad to WeHTiUe." uvJ inntkln out-to fc'Di' offensive, but Instead of tha, it the Japanese who attacked fthe Russian commander's eastern southern positions.

A Japanese column, 30,000 strong, was reported' on Tuesday to be marching up the right bank of the Liao river, which would Beem to indicate that three Japanese armies are co-operating in enveloping three sides of Liao Yang. C.ar Nicholas has received the following dispatch, dated August 25, from General Kuropatkin: "On August 24, a Japanese battalion delivered an attack in the valley of Sundakhya from Tant.iaputzy. The Japanese advance was checked at 3 at Laodintu by a Russian company, five men of which were wounded. "The same day, two Russian companies successfully resisted the advance of the enemy in superior force Sunoinpu, where the Japanese suspended operations when our reinforcements arrived. The Russian losses were one officer wounded and fifty-three men killed or wounded.

"On tho evening of August 24, the Japanese, having repulsed our outposts, occupied the heights to the southeast of Llandlansian and proceeded to construct earthworks and entrenchments on the heights. "At 5:45 a. August 25. one of the enemy's batteries opened fire on the village of Kofyntsa. A Russian Lat tery returned the fire successfully, notwithstanding the considerable distance of the Japanese guns and silenced the latter, compelling the run ners to take cover." Postoffice Robber Escapes From Jail.

LA CROSSE, WIS. Eddie Fay, leading the most daring gang of postoffice robbers in tho country, captured in connection with the Superior postoffice robbery and awaiting trial, escaped from the Janesville Jail. An accomplice sawed to the cell from the outside. Inspector Frazier will direct posse in an attempt to recapture Fay. Killed by a Trap Gun.

BIRMINGHAM, ALA. Jim Streeter, negro, was killed by a trap gun in the store of R. F. Lacey Son, of Powderly, a suburb. The store had been robed repeatedly during the past few months.

Eight weeks ago a bear trap was set in the place and Ollle Gray, a negro, was caught in It and is now In jail. However, the dep redations continued, and the firm re sorted to the trap gun. Before Streeter died, he confessed that he had a companion, who escaped. Carry Safe Away. CHICAGO.

Safe blowors Invaded the residence district early Friday morning, and, fearful of arousing the sleepers ln the neighborhood, carried a 800-pound safe from the home of Frank M. Hoffman, 1584 Lexington street, to tho prairlo at Albany avenue and Polk street, where they cracked it and escaped with tho contents, consisting of Jewelry and currency Mr. Hoffman getting a divorce later. an1 0,8 are ln the East an(i I the police have been unable to ascertain the value of the plunder. "family quarrel.