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turned and came back. Mr. Withers climbed the boarding iad- Ger, Passengers crowded to him pay His face | He hearsely whispered questions. ‘Was get. His eyes were narrows head sternly and, allent, ickly to the bridge. The ship's surgeon, Dr. R. 8. French, wag summoned by the captain. A fresh | Crew was put in the boat. Dr. Fren< ‘went into the stern seat and agaln ine Beat went out to the bobbing raft SERVICE READ AS BODIES ARE BURIED FROM SMALL BOA™. ‘They saw, thore who had strong glas en, that he and his men were busy with ‘the Dodies in the boat @neets of canvas fash and saw the bodies wrapped in them, Then they saw hur. the eurgeon rise and, supported on either | side, hold a book before him, = 1 could not see his ips move, but they knew he was reading the beautiful Epis- copal services of burial of the dead, with tte variations for those who are lowered Tito (he gueai—We coliiuli Liese & to the sea.” There were threo splashes The Oosanie boat came slowly back with thie Titanic boat xigzagging behind it) aad the two were hoisted to place on) back 15) Geok, The boat's crew went their quarters and Dr. Frenoh went to to the captain. The Oceanic went on her way. It was hours Inter before Dr. French could bring himeelf to talk of what his task nad been, Even as he told it to some of the passengers with whom he was most intimate, his voice broke and ‘bs eyes filed with tears. “In the bow of the boat,” he sald, / “wan the body of a fireman, It seemed to have been dragged there. I believe myself that the two survivors at the time of his death tried to throw his bedy overboard but could not. At the @tern was the body of a sailor and that @f w cabin passenger, dressed for din- | fer with an overcoat pulled over his evening clothes. We found a tailor's tag inside his coat pocket Indicating that he was Thompson Beattie of WIDOW’S RING SAVED FOR IDEN: € TIFICATION. “That there had been other people in dhe boat was shown by @ double ring, which we found wrapped in paper, a though taken by the survivors for the @urpose of Mentification. It was such @ ving as & widow might cause to be ase of her own and her husband's ‘wedding ring: the two had been fused together. On the inside of half of the ting was the inscription Edward to Gerda, and some figures, apparently a date which we could not make out. “There was also a fur overcoat which seamed from the inner tag of the pocket to have been made for a man named ‘Willems. {The thing which broke my heart, @ray fiat thing in the water. Then ft They saw great | TWO TITANIC WAIFS ARE CLAIMED HERE BY THEIR MOTHER Mine. Witla ve Navratil Rushes From Oceanic to Find Her Lola and Monon, !4 TOUCHING MEETING. ' ‘Mes Enfants,” She Cries, atid Little Boys Stolen by Father Come to Her. | Lola and Monon, the two little waife of the Titanto, who were plucked out of the sea to remain @ month in @ strange land, motheriess and with none to know the little pet names that would open their hearts, were clasped in thelr mother’s arms to-day, Mme, Marcelle Navratil, a young Itallan woman whose rare beauty made all on the pier of the incoming White Star liner Oceante gasp and stare, hurried to the rooms of the Children's Society immediately upon ‘her landing and there found ber two, round eyed little sons. The meeting was dramatic in its eim- pilcity. A aoor to the children's room opened and the young motour, whi | crossed over sea to claim wha | dence had spared from the dark 4 in the ice Melds, knelt and called tremulous whisper, “Mes enfants—mes rovle ter ‘hen two round black curly heads were nestled against her bosom and little Lois 4nd Monon wore no longer motherless. For more than an hour mother and children were left alone in the room, ‘those who remained wutsido could hear bursts of childish laug! the prattie of baby tongues and the crooning love song of the mother who had found her | treasures again, The voices of the chil- dren droned more and more slowly and then came the @ound of the mother, singing @ lullaby, her first lullaby since the two boys had disappeared from her right in Nice, MOTHER ROCKS HER BABIES TO though, was the indication of starva- “Z found that Mr. Withers was quite fight when he said it would not be Demcticable to bring any of the bodies aboard this ship, To bury the poor creatures at sen was the only thing to de. ‘There were three men of the name of ‘Williams on the Titanic as passengers, M, M. Wiliams jr, firet catin passen- @@, was saved. be was C. Williams of pie TITANIC ‘STEWARD ‘NOW DENIES STORY OF CREW’S COWARDICE. LONDON, May 16.-—Before the Board ‘ef Trade Commission of Inquiry into the Titanic disaster to-day, #. J. Rui Dathroom steward, who last week said No, 14, in which he had escaped, mostly members of the crew and only four women and three children, corrected this to-day when he said that Wemen were in the majority in the boat He explained that he had been ii, which had affected his memory. Lord Mersey said: “I can understand fines making a man forget things, but T cannot understand it making him re- things which did not happen.” D. Hart, a third class steward, the steps that were taken for the rescue of the third class passenge: He said they were called from their Derthe and assisted to put on life be Many of them refured the life bel ards had aiMculty in getting the women to go to the boat deck, but succeeded in Snductng two lots of about twenty-five each to enter the lifeboats. Before the! Vast boat left the xtewarde culled all the steamer for women and chi! . When he left the Titanic wete some women on deck with their husbands. » lS “NOBLE ROUMANIAN” THIEF GOES BACK TO SING SING. | Lawyer's Pathetic Plea for Diamond | Snatcher Annulled by Con- vict's Confession, ‘Alex Ghinter, fifty-four years vid, who @laims dive Roumenian blood, was tu General Sessions to-day charged with ‘Stealing @ diamond worth $20 from the Gesham Company May 6. He pleaded guthy. Lawyer Sachs, who appeared for him, made a plea for clemency. He said that QGhinter was quite a personage when in fale native land. He bad a brovher a MevteMnt-colonel in the Roumanian nt ne another brother Treasurer of the kingdom. Ghinter came to this country years ago with plenty of money, said ‘the lawyer, but he lost nearly all his fortune in the panic of 197 and had Deen {n straightened creumstances ginte, Which was interesting in vi @f the defendant's conte that he there | 5 six | SLEEP, The listeners opened the door a crack and saw the mother rocking with one tousled head on each shoulder and her own head bent so her Nps could Just brush the tips of the curls, Mme. Navratil travelled alone in the second cabin of the Oceanic. She had come after photographs of the two lit- tle, strays, forwarded ‘from’ this coun- try, had been shown her in* her home at Nice. Miss Margaret’ Hays of Weat iCushtyrkhird imprest, why had gone He h the snlght of harror, April 15, ¢ Carpatis had been the one to claim the little boys for keep- Ing, was with father at the do.k to meet ‘Ame. Navratil. The tmmigra- tlon and customs officers facilitated the Passing of the anxious mother and she Was one of the firat off the ship, ‘The slender young woman, widowed when the husband, who was trying to steal her children, went down with the ‘Titanic, possesses beauty of such qual- ity as to make even the ship news re- porters exult that they had the oppo: tunity to see and talk with h 5 of the Po valley, great, lus- and long fringing lashes. Her hair is black, her mouth full and red and her chin firm and out-tilting with the graceful contour of @ classic bust. She is (wenty-four, and had only been married four years when her husband | snatched her babies from her for the | fatal dash across the Atlantic. Navratil speaks French and » but no English. She told the ship news reporters a little of her life an the Oceanto was coming up from Quarantine, FATHER WAS JCALOUS OF His CHILDREN. § y both Itallan derful wood carver. After my birth my fomlly went back to Italy. We lived in Genoa and then tn Nice. It was there I met and loved Michel Navratil, a Hung who had a good business ae a woman's tailor, We mar- ried and were for a time happy. But when the babies came my husband was insanely Jealous, No, I gave him no reason to be jealous of any man; he was jealous of the children, “You understand how a man who loves | eeply becomes jealous of his own children? Ah, it {9 terrible, that | Jealouny. “Finally it became unbearable and 1} started a wult for separation, The court riled that pending the settlement of the sult 1 whould have custody of |my little boys, but the father should | be allowed to wes them once a month, My godfather—who took the place of protector when my father died—he used to take the chikiren to see my hus- band on this day onee a month “On Easter Sunday, April 7, my god- father took (the children to my a band’s home and left them there for and my father wae been arrested for diamond stealing fm 1906 and had served three and a half years. Judge O'Sullivan declared he was! f™uch moved by the plea, but decided to|vain, Finally 1 learned that my hua-| the Roumantan to care in Bing Sing, Qn May 6, at Gorham’s, Ghinter asked 40 examine diamonds. He was shown @ tray and palmed one without de- ection by the clerk. As he was leaving he looked back swift bis Was sus- and Btore Detective Larkin fol- him until he entered a pawn shop Gnd tried to pledge the ring. ae eat . PREACHERS IN A RIOT. to African Methodint eratence two and eme-half May 16.—The the day, When he returned they were gone, also my husband |" was heartbroken'—he |Ditter recollection filled the e; beautiful young moth: soarched 19 |band, under the name of Louls had purchased tickets for Hoft- sailed from Cherbourg. I did not know that my babies were with him until I read the despatches of the horror at tea. ‘Then I read of two iittie boys who had Deen rescued, “Stil I did not believe that ft was ible the good God could have spared lmy children for me unt!! photographs of my dariings came to Nice, Then I » I hurried—to come from | Nice New York that I might find ny | darlingy.”” CHILDREN’S SOCIETY WILL AID MOTHER, | Mme. Navratll will probably remain In the rooms of the Children’s Soctety [with her two boys until the Olympic turn to France, The White Star Line had | sails again Saturday, when she wilt re. | HE OCEARTCS CREW ‘MISS LYNE MAKES A MUSICAL HIT OVER OSCAR'S HEAD Kansas City Star Wields Score of Opera and Sprains Her Thumb. 7 LONDON, May 16—Miss Felice Lyne of Kensas City, who found herself fa- mous after her first appearance in “Rigoletto” last November at the Lon- don Opera House, and who was compll- mented recently by: King George, will wing the role of Gilia here for the last time to-night ‘unless Oscar ‘Hamm atein relenta.. Oscar is-.furlous and Mise Lyne has & eprathed right thumb as the result of hitting him over the head with a score of the opera, ‘There has long been a quarrel over pay, for Miss Lyne is singing under a five-year contract, made before »! was known. It came to a head this week, when Mme. Berthe Caesar, the French prima donna, was given the role of Marguerite in “Fau: in which Miss Lyne had made a hit. When at the reh 1 of “Rigoletto” Oscar spoke of engaging a new baritone, the young American soprano resented it as an attempt to humiliate her. She certainly became angry. | Employees and other spectators | rushed between the singer and the impresario and separated them, Oncar, having for a moment seen an entire galaxy of stars, though not of the energetic sort, went off rubbing his n Miss Lyne gasped and hurrted | * away, hugging thumb that was very | painful. eoneente een ear ROOSEVELT TO ROUND UP JERSEY BY AUTO AND TRAIN IN THREE DAYS. Col. Roosevelt will spend threo days in New Jersey drumming up votes for the Presidential primary to be held tn that State on May 28. Ho will be ac companied through the State by Bor- den D. Whiting, chairman of the Stat Roosevelt League, and by the Ro Velt candidates Tor delegate-at-large, J. Franklin Fort, Everett Colby, Frank D, Joss, Edgar HB, Bacon and a bevy of select spellbinders, who will be pre- Uminary apeakers, The Colonel's Jersey dates are May 23, 2 and 2, ‘The first day's ground will ‘De covered in automobiles and the sec ond and thint days by spectal train, His first apeech will be made at Pater- #on at noon tn the armory and the Ham- iiton Club at Pat Passaic and din the afters | noon. MM address « Meeting of the Easex Troop, in Orange, and will wind up with a speech in the High School at Jersey City. A special train on Friday, May %&, will stop at Burleigh, Hammonton, Egg Harbor and Atlantic City, where the Colonel will speak at noon at Young's Pier. Other #tops will be at Camden, Vineland, Hiliville, Bridgeton, Glass- boro and Woodbury. ‘The party will epend the night In private cars at Tren- ton. Barly the next morning the Colonel's train will go to Asbury Park, Long Branch, Red Rank and Perth Amboy. He will talk at New Brunswick and at | Rahway, and make a short auto trip to Plainfield, After a speech at Eliza- eth tn the evening the party will re- turn to New York. |Provided her passage free to Now York and will make the sam Provision for the little Nice woman and her children on the return trip. Since she has only meagre funds, the Children's Soctety will purchase clothes and other necessities for tho two boy’ the name of Louts Hoffman or a friend of his by that name, who might ha deen Induced to bring the children to America, She could learn from the dren, she added, but she did not want to dar the joy of thelr reuntoa by | |>ripsias up the name of their father, A/FE BOAT —— After her hour alone with her ohil- }dren Mme, Navratil satd she could not an who went down ‘Mtanic and whose name on nger list of the ll fated oat was her husband masquerading under | hile | EVENING WURLD Boat in Which Titanic Survivors Starved Found by the Oceanic PECQVERING YOUTHFUL BURGLARS GET LONG SENTENCES FOR FIRST OFFENCES}: Same Court Take Takes Plea of Petty Larceny for Theft of $1,500 Auto. Eight prisoners were sentenced in the Court of General Sessions yesterday. The penalties imposed were: BY JUDGE SWANN. Paul Kuba, twenty-one yeare old, Convicted of apsaujt Ip the third de- ‘gree. No prior conviction. Beat’ to New York City Reformatory. ‘Thomag T Gill, twehty-nine Yeate and Chittes Watsh, twenty-on8 Tak old. Indicted for grand larceny. Each leaded guilty to petty larceny. Stole an automobile valued at $1,500 from the pier at West Tenth street. No prior convictions for felony. Penitentiary one year each. Joseph Fels, forty-nine years old. Pleaded guilty of assault. Penttentlary for one yeur. BY JUDGE O’SULLIVAN. James F. Wonytiton, — twentyfour y old, Pleaded guilty of burglary. Forced an entrance into the house in West Twenty-sevonth street. | State | prison for two years and ix months. Charles F, Bruens, twenty-four y | old. Stole $26 from en . Pleaded guilty of grand Restitution was made. No prior conviction, Sen- tence suspended. George Larken, twenty-two years old, and Harry Meizol, twenty-three years i ded gullty of burglary tn the thitd’ denree.” No. prior “convistions, Forced an entrance into a loft at No. 137 West Twenty-fifth street. Each was sent to State prison for not less than two years or more than three years, ————___ OR. WILEY NOW A PAPA, Tiekted fo |} ny Saye Food Expert. WASHINGTON, May 16.—Dr. Har- vey W. Wiley, pure food champion, woman's suffragist, ex-chief chemist and philanthropist, {8 a proud papa to-day, The stork brought Mrs, Wiley a nine-pound boy early to-day and Papa Wiley says he is “tickied to death.” Dr. and Mra, Wiley were married last spring. Mrs, Wiley is an ardent suffragette, Dr, Wiley will be aixty- six years old next October, ere eo * BUBDVAL mee PELHAM STUNG "BYGITY SKEETRS DEMANDS RELEF New York Maintains Prime Breeding Place, Writes Vil- | lage Health Officer. _Pethain Park mosquitoes, a peculiarly Vicious and fruitful breed iikeiy an offshoot of the gigantic Jersey borers, came formally before the attention of the Board of Aldermen to-day in @ wrathy letter from Secretary F. Vander Roest, of the North Pelham Board of Health, who curtly demanded that New York's city fathers take oharge of their own mosquitoes and leave the rest- | dents of Westchester County to abide in peace. From the salt marsh meadows to the naught by the desirability of the park swamps as a breeding place and home of the Pelham mosquito, The letter was submitted to the “Moequitd Committee’ which handies Pubitc health matters, So far the only appropriation made by the Board of! Aldermen to combat the mosquito Island bux fighters. One of the Alder- men stated that recemtly the city ap- Propriated $1,000,000 to move the Eighth N.Y. boat N. IN PITCHING DUEL Work Against Pirates’ Star Twirler. THE BATTING ORDER. Giants. Devore, rt. tendance, 7,000. (Special to The Evening World.) southwest of the Pelham Bay Park FORBES FIBLD, PITTSBURG, May . * + come yearly legions of the clty's/1¢~The Giants and the Pirates played| vat ie ms poets oremeeitie on (us| Wicked insects who prey on inhabitants |ther trump cards today when Mar-|Canadian rectprocity bill, saying all outside the city precincts. What head-|quard, the $13,000 deauty, and Marty | President bad attempted to show that Way the valiant Weschester mosquitoes | O-Toole, the $22,000 prise package, wore |the ex-President was with him in tho! jfishters have made against the assigned to do the pitching. It repre-|fight for reciprocity. Col, Roosevelt Mr. Vander Rocet asserts, is said that when he at first favored the ing dual. of yesterday, which gave the Devore walked in the first. Doyle fiet to Donlin. Snodgras fanned— Devore died stealing, Wagner taking the throw.—NO RUNS. Byrne struck out. Carey singled to left, but Donlin forced him at second, Fletcher to Doyle. Wagner hoisted to Murray.NO RUNS. In the second Murray walked. Merkle suggested that the militia might be called out and stationed on the border of the Bronx. In this way the National Guard sharpshooters might wipe out battalions of the invading hosts before they cross the line into Westchester County. A courteous reply to Mr. Vander Roest will be drafted by Aldermen f r with the haunts and manners of mosquitoes and forwarded to the city's neighbors to the north, informing them of the deep sympathy; of the Board and regretting that the city is not able to fight the mosquito battles of Wesches- ter County. Two of the busiest Alder- mon are at work on the message of commiseration and suggestions, ‘ensenenrentiiinetaeens ELECTRIC PARK WINNERS. FIRST RACE—Three-year-olde and upward; selling; four and a half fur- jongs.—Inferno Queen, 9 (Moody), 8 to 1, 3 to 1 and B to 5, won; Hannah Louise, 100 (Ferguson), 7 to 3 even and 1 to 2, second; Sabo Blend, 102 (Nolan), even, 1to Zand out, third. Time, 1.02 1-5, District Attorney, La Saja, Loyal Maid, popped to MoCarthy, Murray died to steal, Kelly to Wagner. Herzog aingied to left. Fletcher grounded out to Me- Carthy.—NO RI FANS DON'T TAKE TODODGER SERIES IN MOUND CITY Only 300 Took Chance on Rain to See Teams Play Third Game. Aanier, lahaseee also ran. SECOND RACE~—Three-year-olds and BATTING ‘ORDER. Upward: pling four and a halt fur-| Brooklyn. Bt. Louls. nga.-Smirk, 106 (Nolan), @ to 6, 1 +o 2] Moran, rf. Hugging, 2b. and out, fir + Galinda, 108 (Forehand), | Daubert, 19. Bitte, it. 5 to 1, § to 6 and 7 to 10 second; Love Mowrey, 8b. Watches, 117 (Jensen), 8 to 1, even and 1 to 2, third. Time, 1.0136, Flying Squirrel, Kerran, Tactile R. also ran and finished as named. THIRD RACE.—Maiden three-year- olds and up; selling; about five fur- hia eS M. Luts, 95 (Moody), 4 to 7 to 5 and 8 to 5, first; Top Rock, tos (Fairbrother), 5 to to 1 and 6 to 5, second; Court Jester, 97 (Bruce), 7 to 1, 3 to 1 and 3 to 2, third. Time, 1.05 3-5. Merry Chilton, Vesper, O14 Erin, Miss Stanell and Exicutante also ran. FOURTH RACE — Four-year-olds and upward; one and one-sixteenth miles.—Warner Griswell, 99 (Moody), 8 to 1, 2 to 1 and even, won; Mollie 8., 96 (Ferguson), 10 to 1, 3 to 1 and even, econd; Annie Sellers, 96 (Langford), 9 to 6, 7 to 10 and out, third. Time, 2,06 2-5, Major, Garneau, Hoft- man also ran. ee eee LOUISVILLE WINNERS. FIRST RACE—Selling; Vreeland, 112 (J, Loftus Lad, Wk (C, Peak), 116 (McCahey), third, Time, 131s, Sreeth, Wander, Cash on Delivery, and J. M. Houghton also ran, $2 mutuals paid: Vreeland, $4.90, $3.10, $2.70; Merry ‘Lad, 4.20, $3.00; Rooseaux, $4.20. Pa ly ELECTRIC PARK ENTRIES. ELECTRIC PARK RAC TRACK, BALTIMORE, Md., May 16.—The entries for to-morrow are as follows: ro-yeurc, Rosebuy * errr "Baber about 113; 100; prea Hill INDIANAPOLIS, Ind, May 16,—James M. Lynch of Syracuse, N. ¥., has been re-elected President of the International ‘Typographical Union by an approximate majority of 6,000. Georne A, Tracey of San Francisco, Vice-President, and John Hays of Minneapolis, Secretary-Treas- urer, have been ——_ Injui Aviator Dead, ST. LOUI8, May 16.—Peter Glasser, an aviator who was Injured Monday eves ning In an aeroplane accident that caused the death of Raymond Wheeler, died last night following an amputation of his left leg above the knee, ———___. How California Voted. SAN FRANCISCO, May 16.—Presi- dential preference primary returns from 3,663 of the 3,700 precincts in the State this afternoon Kive Roosevelt 182,986; Taft, 67,045; La Follette, 43,« 942; Clark, 99,146; Wilson, 16,927 ee Ascension Day in Trinity, Tho annual Ascension Day festival was celebrated in Old ‘Trinity this morn: ing. All the clergy of Trinity's chape! took part and a procession around the church Was accompanied by a full or+ © music included a proc oH chestra, sional by 1H rtory by Spo vey. Holy con and morning pr SHIPPING “JEWS, introlt by Handel, @ ' and recessional by munion was at 7.304 ‘er at 10, nie Bee. Oi U3; Nioles, de andl us, selling; Sea ent hare a rat niki, Thieesear-olde and uy ett and gah el ito lervery F. sn et rottle. bai, 3 y Buste: id; "Stualewood? 488! sigh a J sFuurgearcokde oad wp; selling; aid | i fall, 105; ie al i i ae ; Maricourt, 108" 108;' Salo ma ae aa a als Sus Wements, oe Sec See Gilbert, ne Rac) mF, ilnar, Wheat, if. Hummel, Tooley, as., Phelps, c. Rucker, p. Umpires—Kiem and Owen. measengt afternoon, to street will act as tereats of Vincent Astor, The guard- lanes designated were the chokes of the two minor hetre Koney, 1b. Ile tb. ROBISON FIELD, St. Louts, Mey 16. —With wet weather on tap the fans re- fused to @hiver through nine rounds of bi the national pastime, the smllest crowd of the year were out to see the thind game of Cardinal-Superba seri: Rucker, the premier pitcher of Dahien's gang, Went to the hurling ihillock op- posed by Londermiik, the strong Car- inal southpaw, Bliss and Phelps were the catchers. —_—.___. MISSISSIPP! BANDIT | REALLY GOT $200,000. ~| Late Reports Indicate That the First all to-day and onty 300 patrons of Nap Estimate Was Not Large Enough, NPW ORLEANS, May 16.—Robbera who held up a Queen and Crescent ex- train near Hattiesburg, Miss, yes- Tt 1s positively known that from the safe which was blown up the bandits got more than thirty packages of cur- rency. One package of currency con- talned $140,000, according to an express seneeuainiinaaine iii) GUARDIAN FOR MRS. ASTOR. Fowter serve unt the probate of the will of the late Col. John Jacob f:| Astor is completed, guardians for Mrs. Surrogate appotnted this :| Madeleine Rorce Astor, the widow, and Vincent Astor, the #on. Former Supreme Court Justice Henry A. Gildersieeve will serve in the capac- ity of guardian for Mrs, Astor, while Langdon P, Marvin of No, 52 Wall guardian in the in- Peraonal re. il ak cy A Gia ick "eallaw Armen Caracas RACH -—Dune: two years colts: tae oa, DMC es Ri we sham." tom tons erin, Hy, a m 108; “Meats. ih, net " Ree 1s one eile and oni pauem Adiaite, Mie nie Tas Hasaver. Stale Veatige 15 te 5 Bien 3 iNeere thumps 00 fie «| Si, HOE shin Eebale, 111 egdetae 110,” Si Cates 118, aowance claimed. Treck dow. | beets FREE vehabins ST STAMPS 8-Piece § Suit =ISLIP COVERS Fee Tite 3. 39 ‘RUBE’ AND O'TOOLE CALLED THE BLUFF (MADE BY TAFT SAYS AT PITTSBURGH: McGraw Sends aaae Rinieart Into Cenpiree—Rigier and Finneran At- sented the country’s moat expense twitl- Mike Donlin, the former Giant. prom- ised ‘before the gamne to redeem for Gis misplay victory to McGraw's men. COLONEL IN HD | President Is ts Resting and Re- fuses to Comment on Re- port That He’ll Quit. CLEVELAND, May 16.—President Tatt {a taking a rest to-day, being scheduled for only two speeches; but Col, Roose- velt is hammering away in many cities. The President refused to comment ion local papers that it he loses out in the Ohio primaries. He also declined to reply to the a ment by Col. Roose- velt at Dayton last night to the effect that he already is assured of inore than $0 delegates at the Chicago Convention. It 1s known, however, that he regards the statement as unfounded in fact bill _he had not known its character. “When,” added Roosevelt, “I learned Jeter on that it worked to the advan- tage of the Beef Trust and the Milk Trust, because it let in raw material free and kept up the duty on the fin- ished product, I had to put myself against it. When I found the Prest- dent deliberately was using my sup- ort of the measure to influence the People against me, well, I Just called hie bluff. “I know its hart to give up your! time from the plough to go to the polls," sald the Colonel to the farmers in the crowd, “but if you don't get in this fight, the professional politicians will take advantage of it. This is your fovermment and you have got to take some trouble about {t. The boss only }gets his chance because the people do |not come out. We want the farmer to yhit the boss hard ——— BABY FTCHED AND BURNED TERRIBLY ' Face and Head Fairly cad Fairly Raw, Pinned | itBlanket to Keeo from Scratch- ing. Mother Had to Rock Him All Night. ‘Cuticura’” Cured Him, 71 Baker 8, Patchogue, N. Y= erty Coccmue Swollen san inflamed, ad thea foe eae ‘spl ip 1208 alent in fonts, as ue had to le on Siongside ide ous uch rock’ him ai ine Fig it hed to : fee ontns. Every one who ga hi looking face they er seen on a baby. , One doctor auld that ‘and head itched "that it the ne baby could “ake bo imself Would wish Perens: for samples of Cuticura Soap an yntmént and iny sister after ti Fast they gased him, bought the ‘The only relief he would get wou! Reet his mother would wash with, $4 Guticure, Soap and then Spply, the Cutleure ment. He sto} scratching, she had used three cakes of Cuticura Soa id four, Coxe of Cuticura Ointment, was healed, He is now a year old an as as pretty ekin hed, Behar fine ad of hai | ne head of hair. intuent completely. cured him." (Signed) Mies Lillis Valentine, Now. 17. 911. Cutieura Boap and Ointment are pola roe *Cuticure, everywhere. be ane railed pith 4 ol dress pt. ton. | Tender-faced men should aheve with Cuticuss Soap Shaving Stick. will keep you and your family well dressed. RICH REALTY MAN DIES BY GAS IN BROOKLYN HOME. Police Believe } Hartman a Suicide, Wife and Daughter Say Accident. Philtp Hartman, a wealthy real estate broker who lived with his wife and daughter, Margaret, at No, 44 Hancock street, Brooklyn, was found dead from gas on the top floor of his héme to-day. The discovery was made by his wif: who searched for her husband when h+ did not appear at his usual hour, Gas was uing from under the door of the guest room and lying on the bed was Me, Hartman. Above him a gas jet was| TOE, Olle Worked over the real entate |broker fOr some time before declaring | him dead. According to the family, Hartman came home late Iast night ani {went to bed upstairs, The police are ‘inclined to believe he intended suicide, | but his wife and daughter declare it was an accident. r ROS. Wonderful Savings on PIANOS Seta ya $7 100 Up eg hag aed | | | | mer ea ne eee Tonal Rodent, S80 =< iss Be ie: Player janos: #5 ans LOW AS 85.00 DOWN, us about our special FREK TRIAL ofvin’® Bend for our new Catalogue B, WESER BROS., Open evenings by appolatment. | | MESSALINE The New Fabric For Petticoats and Linings Mid-May Sale cial for Thursday, 16th , CREAMED FILBERTS. 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