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FIVE MILLIONS FOR LIFE. Riob Leper Soolts Cure. i (What an awful fate for anyone, no flatter what his station in life, to be Afflicted with that loathsome disease, leprosy! But keenest of all anguish of mind, perhaps, is that of a modern Croesus when he comes to realize that all his wealth cannot check the slow approach of death in its most hideous form, once this frightful malady has iseized upon him. Such is the position in which Don Jose M. Bringas, one of Mexico’s wealthiest men, has been for fifteen years. Think how he must Puffer! He is a pariah of the world, barred from actual contact with civili sation; a miserable creature who, for tiie very love he bears them, sternly holds aloof from wife and daughters to feave them from infection. What a life! Loving and beloved in return, yet de nied the privilege of any manifestation pf this mutual affection except by dis tant look or gesture or words alone, ko wonder the poor man cries out in his great anguish “Five million dollars to the person who will save my life!” How many know what it means to ,be a leper? It means that day after <day, skin, flesh and bones decay, dry tip, drop off, says a writer In The ’tYorld. It means that* the whole boOy Is a mass of corruption, a living sore. %t means that first the toes and fingers go, one joint after the other. Then hands and feet fall off. The nose (Sloughs away; ears, eyelids, lips. ‘Whole limbs shrivel up and drop off. And at last, when life is a torture, When no friend dare approach for fear of getting the scourge, you die, friend less and alone. And your body is burn ed, not buried. Civilization will not tolerate the le per. A leper cannot go or even dwell Where other men go and where other me dwell. Leprosy is practically un known in the United States. But In China, in Japan, in Hawaii and in many jdaces in the Old World there are leper colonies. There those whose doom Is sealed go to live, and when their turn comes —to die. . - But Don Jose does not want to die; he begs to live. He will give anything, everything—to live! He has gold be yond the dream of avarice; great es tates that stretch across the beautiful hills and vales of old Mexico; a fine so cial position, a charming wife and two beautiful daughters, whom he adores. He will give all of these —save only his family—for relief. There is a $5,000,- 600 fee waiting for the physician who can save him. Imagine the life poor Don Jose has had to live for fifteen years! A pris oner on his estate, confined as it were to his mansion itself; denied the the aters, the boulevards, the cases, even tbe trains and steamboats, he lives more i&ecluded from the world than any monk ever was. He cannot even meet fils fellow men, as monk may meet his fellow monks. He cannot, kiss his daughters; he must not even touch his wife’s hand. Me must wear rubber gloves always, for fear of contaminating one of his family. He cannot have his clothes washed, for one one will wash them. Every time he changes his discarded linen it Is burned. Fresh, new gar ments are donned. How Don Jose contracted the dis ease Is a mystery. He himself says that to his own knowledge he has never been in the presence of a leper. But he has employed many Chinamen on his mines and farms, and perhaps one of them, all unknown to him, had the dread disease. There Is no exclusion law against the Chinese in Mexico, and bjitil recently the Inspection of the r.r tiving coolies has been all too lax. Nu merous lepers have been found nmong the Chinamen employed along the coast estates, and at Guadalajera there Is a colony of them. But be that as it may, some fifteen years ago Don Jose one day found that his skin itched somewhat. There was £ peculiar white spot, ever so small, that he had never noticed before. Some how, it had no sensation. He spoke to his physician, who looked very grave when he saw that peculiar spot of white. lie prescribed nothing, but ask ed his patient to see him again in a fortnight. By theft time the white spot had grown larger and there was an other. He had to break the truth to the millionaire. Don Jose being an educated man who had traveled far, knew what that meant. He knew he was doomed. Unless —why could not a rich man baffle even the Reaper himself? Why could not he, a multi-millionaire, be the first to find some cure for the scourge ft* the centuries? W/ $,000.090 il rtJMi* -M i IMJI Ail jjrnw! '• Tuj The hot springs of Mexico have been noted for a long time as a surj cure for skin diseases. Don Jose has tried them all, to no effect. He even journeyed to the wild interior of the Yaqui country, where the aborigines look upon every white man as an ene my. He took a company of guards along and enough laborers to build his own hut. There he stayed for a year, sleeping on the ground rolled up in a blanket, but to no avail, though the springs are fabled in Indian lore as be ing possessed of qualities that will cure anything. Finally Don Jose came home discour aged. He tried to make up his mind to the inevitable. Then he read of some wonderful cures of skin diseases made by European specialists. He resolved to try one more last fight for life before giving up forever. But it is not easy for lepers to travel. A poor leper would be sent to the near est pesthouse. It takes a rich leper to cross frontiers and travel without let or hindrance. Don Jose’s millions came to his rescue and did him some good at last. No railroad would let him have a berth in a sleeping car, nor even a state room. It is a far trip from Guaymas to Europe, but even a leper can make it if he has money. So Don Jose hired a special train. He took along his private car, which he bought some time ago in order that he might travel. In it are rooms for his family and himself, a drawing room, dining room and kitchen. This and two baggage cars loaded with the family effects made up the train. His steamer for Europe sailed from Yera Gfuz. This Is more than 2,000 miles from Guaymas. To reach Vera Cruz the millionaire leper had to pass through the United States. This took a lot of red tape. At Vera Cruz Don Jose found the steamer waiting him which was to take him and the family to Europe. He had already made his terms with the com pany. He agreed to take an entire deck of cabins for himself. He agreed not to leave his rooms during the voyage and contracted to pay for new bedding, upholstery, hangings, carpets and the like, which were destroyed at the end of the voyage. He also paid for the fu migation of the ship when he left it And all this voyage was builded upon hope alone. But there are millions for the man who can give me back my life,” says Don Jose hopefully. Not Well Edited. A local celebrity had made the “hit” of the evening by a speech full of hu mor and eloquence at a business man’s banquet. When the city editor of the Morning Journal read the manuscript brought in by the reporter who had at tended the banquet, he gave orders that the portrait of the speaker be printed along with the story in the next morn ing’s paper. There was no cut of the man in the oflice, and the hour was late, but one of i.he messengers "who were sent out in search of the desired portrait suc ceeded in procuring an Indifferent pho togi aph of him, and a half-tone repro duction of It was duly printed in the next morning’s paper. Full of wrath and mortification, the man called at the oflice of the paper. “This is a miserable showing you have given me!” he said. “Why, Mr. Simmons,” said the city editor, “we gave you the star part. I edited the report of your speech my self, and ” “The speech!” exclaimed the caller. “The speech Is all right But why didn’t you edit that picture, too?” Lava 11 Fertilizer. The ashes cast out of Vesuvius in tbe recent outbreak will prove a bless ing in the long run. Professor Zlnno has examined them and found them free from Ingredients injurious to plant life, while containing others that will promote the growth of grape vines, grsbss and vegetables. It’s pretty hard to decide on the nicest woman in the world; there are so many nice ones* GRANT COUNTY HERALD, LANCASTER, WISCONSIN. % % % THE OLD COMANCHE. | All day long wagon after wagon had been rumbling up from all parts of Comanche County, in Oklahoma, to a gospel rendezvous on Cache Creek. The camp was teeming with modern Indian life. The smoke was rising from fifty little camp fires; the innumerable dogs were fighting; the squaws were chat tering as they prepared the evening m^nl: the men were attending to the horses; the children were racing and laughing. An old Texan was talking to the missionary, who was intensely Interested in the story. “I’ve seen the time when we gave the Comanches bullets instead of Bi bles,” he said. “It was in the war of the eatfy seventies. I was one of the Texan rangers, and we fought the Comanches to the finish. We fought them out of Texas, and then the troops did them up at McClellan’s Creek, in the Territory. Comanches could fight in those days. I saw some brave In dians die, one old chief in particular. I always feel sorry when I think of it. “We Texans were fighting our own war with the Comanches. The troops were in the Territory, chasing the ‘Staked Plains’ band of Comanches; but we stayed in Texas, and fought Comanches and Kiowas wherever we found them. Well, one day we found them too thick. About twenty of us got cut off, and had to take to the buttes to save our horses. We kept the redskins off until we reached the butte, and leaving our horses there, we rushed back a long gun-range from them, and then lay down in the tall grass and kept the Indians off with our rifles until help came. This saved our horses, and fortunately we lost only two men. “The Comanches would ride within range and fire upon us, but we could shoot from a perfect rest; and we emp tied many saddles. “One Comanche had white hair, and when he would whirl his horse round and come riding low, with his gun ready to shoot, the rangers would call to each other, ‘Look out for old grand daddy ! He shoots close!’ There was something unnatural about the old In dian’s riding, and Jack Jefferson, who was shooting next to me, said, with a laugh, ‘The old buck is so stiff that he can’t ride slick.’ “One time the old man came on a little too far. Jack pulled up his gun. We saw the Indian’s horse rise and plunge, and we knew that Jack hadn’t missed. “ ‘He’s coming on!’ cried Jack, And sure enough, he was running straight for us, low and swift, over the long grass, the old man tugging in vaiu at the rein, and trying to turn his mad dened pony. “A dozen rifles were raised to stop him, but Jack, all wild with fight and fun, yelled, ‘Don’t shoot! He’s coming In! He’s my meat!’ “The old Comanche came on, while the other Indians in the distance were shooting and yelling like demons. But he made no attempt to fire. He sat Straight up on his horse, and as he came close we heard him singling. “One hand was clutching his empty rifle. His eyes were fixed straight ahead. He was riding to his finish, singing the death chant of the Coman che warrior. It was a skeery sight. Jack raised his gun, but just couldn’t shoot, and nobody else wanted to. The crazy pony passed almost over our heads. Then all of a sudden he straightened up in the air and came, down head first on the ground—ln dian under, as the horse’s feet rose up in the somersault. “ ‘Why didn’t the old fool slide off?’ yelled Jack, as we both crouched with our rifles ready in case the Indian should rise again. But no Indian showed up, and the horse lay perfect ly still. “After a bit the Comanches drew off out of range, and Jack and I walked over to where the dead horSe lay. ‘Shot the pony through the head!’ said Jack, and as we came up and saw she limp and lifeless body of the old Comanche, Jack turned to me with a strange choke in his voice. ‘Partner, he’s broke his neck, and he was tied onter his horse.’ ” That night, after the preaching serv ice, the missionary, with a dozen of the leading men of the Comanche tribe, some old men, with war records, sat round the fire. Through the interpreter the missionary told them the tale of the white-haired Comanche. Their eyes glistened, and a deep guttural “Ha-ali!” followed each sentence. When the story was done, there was a long, solemn silence, and the inter preter, turning to the missionary, said, “They say it’s so.” His Fatal Presidential Vote. Owing to the fact that the only pres idents he ever had an opportunity of voting for met with tragic deaths, Ma jor J. N. Morgan, a retired officer of the United States army, and at present military supervisor at the Western Mil itary Academy, has decided that he will cast no more votes for president for fear the fate of the three lie did vote for might overtake the fourth. He voted for Lincoln, Garfield and Mc- Kinley, his duties in the army pre venting him voting for other presi dents. Goslin Days Recalled. The auto shrieked “Honk! honk!” and roused TLe farm birds wide awake. The gander sighed, “Ah, there’s a sound Like mother used to make.” —Boston Transcript. While loafing, a man usually thinks about a big scheme that won’t work. Wisconsin Stale News SCHOOL, HAS truck: farm. Principal Thorne of Palmyra Plant* Campus to Vegetables. Principal Thorne of the Palmyra high school has adopted the unusual plan of cultivating all sorts of vegetables and grains on the school campus for the pur pose of demonstrating to students the principles which he is teaching them re tarding agriculture. It is doubtful wheth er another high school in Wisconsin has taken on so much the appearance of an agricultural experiment station. Mr. Ihorne is interested in the teaching of ag riculture in the rural, grade and high schools of Wisconsin as a means of in creasing the extent of knowledge of sci entific farming and of swelling the yearly crop report. lie is an enthusiastic be liever in showing the children that there are better ways of planting and cultivat ing crops than those employed by her fathers and grandfathers. lie believes that the farmer should be as progressive as any other man of business. CHILD SLAYER IS INSANE. Mrs. o. G. Olson Confesses, Recovers and Will Re Sent to Asylum. Mrs. O. G. Olson of Monroe, who killed her child and. cut her own throat, will probably be sent to Mendota asylum. Her life is no longer in danger. She confessed to killing her daughter. Recently Mrs. Olson told other members of the family that she was going on a visit to her broth er’s, some distance away, and when she started, took the little girl with her. In about two hours she returned home cov ered with blood and bleeding from an ugly gash in the throat. She was highly ex cited and raved of how she h;ld killed her little Olive with a razor and wanted to die herself. A search soon discovered the girl’s body. The throat had been cut. Mrs. Olson had evidently used the same weapon in an attempt to end her own life. HELD AS COUNTERFEITERS. Three Men Are Turned Over to Fed eral Official*. Dennis Carr, Ed Stephenson and. Wal ter Jewett, members of the alleged gang of counterfeiters which has been working the Western States, were turned over at Ashland to United States Marshal French of Madison and held for examination un der $2,500 bonds. Corr acknowledged his identity, but the secret service men are still trying to find out the real names of the two other suspects. Corr is alleged to be at the head of the gang and operates from Chicago, wliere he and his wife have been under surveillance for several years, lie once served four years in Joliet prison. STURGEON BAY HAS BIG BLAZE. Whole Business Section Endangered During Fierce Blaze at Midnight. During a high southwest wind fire threatened to destroy the business section of Sturgeon Bay about midnight. Excel lent work by the fire department pre vented a more serious conflagration. The fire started in a frame building occupied by the V. Rose blacksmith shop, and be fore it was stopped had destroyed the Welter building, the three-story structure adjoining the city hall owned by A. J. Laurence, the empty marble works build ing, two barns and several large sheds. The loss is about $30,0(30, covered by $15,000 insurance. FIRE IN CUDAHY PLANT. Los* Estimated at s4oo,ooo—One Alan Reported Killed. The big plant of the Cudahy Brothers’ Packing Company at Cudahy burned. Pat rick Cudahy estimates that the loss will reach about $400,000. The plant carries m insurance of about SOOO,OOO. One man was killed and several firemen are said to lave been severely injured. The big build ing in which the lard refinery, where the fire started, beef house, glue works and killing department are located, is a total loss. The fire got into the main build ing, but the flames were checked there and the structure was saved. KILLS SELF AFTER BOAST. Wisconsin Alan Places Revolver to Temple and Fires. Charles Parker, aged 25, shot and in stantly killed himself while handling a revolver at his boarding house in Beloit before his wife and others in the room. Parker had been drinking and to prove it was not dangerous to handle the weapon put it to his temple and pulled the trig ger. The weapon was loaded and the man fell to the floor a corpse. He was a painter and came from Canada recently. SOLDIERS’ HOAIE CHIEF IN PERIL. Veteran, on Spree, Slioots at Gov ernor When Refused Admittance. Gov. Cornelius Wheeler of the National Soldiers’ Home narrowly escaped being assassinated in Milwaukee. All that saved him was the shaky nerves of his assail ant, William Macauley, who had been on a spree, although he was sober when he made the attempt. Macauley formerly was an inmate of the home. His attack was due to his anger when told he could not be granted readmittance. Decapitated l»y Freight Train. Hilda Lipke, the 11-year-old daughter of Herman Lipke of Edgerten, was run over by a freight train and decapitated. Neighbors Figlit Fire. Sparks from a threshing engine started a fire that* caused $10,0(30 loss to Carl Plantico, a farmer His barns, granary, machine sheds and resi dence were destroyed with most of the contents, including the season’s crops. Saves Man He Hun Down. After running him down in his locomo tive in Sftvboygan and cutting off both his legs, Fireman Seiph saved the life of Michael Gerquach by tying a rope around the stumps and preventing him from bleeding to death. FIGHT MAIL, ORDER HOUSES. Tfurtr Practices Are Condemned by Wisconsin Merchants* Association. After placing itself on record to use all honorable means to combat the activity of the mail order houses in branching out for trade entirely outside their legitimate province, and condemning the practice of tiie manufacturers of awarding premiums "*th certain brands of groceries, the busi ness of the Wisconsin Retail Grocers and General Merchants’ Association was prac tically concluded in Milwaukee. M. B. Aronson of Chicago disclosed some.of the business methods of the mail order houses, declaring that during 1905 the money tak en out of the small towns of the country and legitimately belonging to the home grocer and merchants amounted to more chan $100,000,000. PRESIDENT AIDS INDIAN GIRL,. I.ife Sentence of Miss for Firing; a Sclsoolliouse Commuted. Lizzie Cardish, the 15-year-old Indian girl sentenced to imprisonment for life, has had her sentence commuted by Presi dent Roosevelt to imprisonment in some industrial 'school until she is 21 years of age. Lizzie and a companion were ar rested for firing a school house on the Iveshena reservation. Lizzie admitted the crime and under the antiquated laws it was the duty of Judge Quarles to sen tence her to life imprisonment and she was taken to the penitentiary at Lansihg, Ivan. A petition for the commutation of her sentence was prepared immediately and signed by Judge Quarles 1 and other government officials. FRAUDS IN NATURALIZATION. Startling; Disclosures Are Revealed in Manitowoc Court. Disclosures revealing what are supposed to be frauds in connection with the issu ance of first naturalization papers were brought to light in Manitowoc during a session of the Circuit Court. The revela tions were made when forty applicants appeared before Judge Michael Kirwan to make application for second papers; Over half of the applicants admitted that they never had signed first papers but that in several instances candidates running for office at the time the first application was made, performed that duty for them. LOST GIRLS FOUND IN WOODS. After Being Missing; Two Days and lights, They Are Discovered. Miss Emma Misfelt. 15 years old, and Miss Clara Falkenberg. 23 ye&rs old, have been found in the woods near Drywood, after being lost almost two days and nights. They started out to pick berries and went too far into the woods. They had been walking in a circle most of the time and subsisted on berries while they were lost. A large party of fanners scoured the woods and finally found the girls in the woods about one mile from the Crescent cheese factory at Drywood. TRAGEDY STIRS EAU CLAIRE. Excited Man Kills Wife and Lover in Crowd, Then Ends Life. While a band was playing and people thronged the east side streets of Eau Claire at 8 o’clock the other night Bert Tondler, a frenzied husband, firing as he ran, chased his wife and a man named Johnson past the city building and around a corner to the front of a leading hotel, where the two fugitives fell dead, each pierced by two bullets. The pursuer the» backed off and shot himself, dying in stantly. All the parties were Eau Claire residents. Killed by Heavy Weight. George W. Husting, the 15-year-old son of E. L. Husting, president of the E. L. Husting Company, manufacturers of weiss beers and *odas, was instantly kill ed at the factory of the company in Mil waukee, being struck on the head with a counter weight of a freight elevator. Sn]i])Osed Slayer Meld for Trial. John Pollock, who murdered Frank Tomlinson during a quarrel in Milwau kee, was held for trial by a jury impan eled by Coroner Henry J. Broegman. All Over the State. James P. Glover, a wealthy pioneer lumberman, died at his home in Kenosha, aged SO years. Mrs. Mary Betlike, aged S 3, was burned to death while alone in her home near South Milwaukee. Her body was found by her son. On the day previous to his marriage with Florence B. Mott, daughter of Judge Mott of X*enah, a well-known university graduate who went by the name of Ernest Bradford Smith changed his name to Er nest Smith Bradford. The postoffice in A. J. Koch’s general store in Ivewaskum was entered by burg lars, but Postmaster Koch had taken his supply of stamps home the night before. All the robbers got was about $lO in change in the money drawer. George Janssen, aged 21 years, a son of Captain Edgcir Janssen of the Milwau kee fire department and a resident of Bay View, met death on the tracks of the western division of the Chicago and Northwestern Railway Company at Ke nosha. William Karpowicli, his wife, Mary Ivarpowich, and the infant daughter of the couple are in the county jail in Ke nosha waiting trial for grand larceny. The Pair are charged with having stolen a large sum of money belonging to a crowd of foreigners who boarded at their home. A. Hoxie, a well-known farmer living near Winneconne, died mysteriously and the coroner has started an investigation. Iloxie, it is alleged, died soon after break fast. He had complained that his oat meal tasted peculiar, after which he went to a hammock. There he died a few mo ments later in terrible agony. Sheboygan’s much heralded $30,003 postoffice building annex, the money for which was voted at the last session of Congress, was found when the plans ar rived from Washington to be a one-story building, 28 feet deep. It could be built for $5,000. Miss Eila Prust, aged 19, was saved Liom a horrible death in the Abel & Bach trunk factory in Milwaukee by Martin Hausen, an employe. lie leaped into the elevator shaft when he saw the girl was being caught in an attempt to cross it and held up the elevator with his shoulders i until belu arrived. Neither was iajm'ed* A LiTTLE LESSON IN ADVERSITY. Chester Alan Arthur was attending Union College when he learned that the family funds would not permit of his CHESTER A. ARTHUR career. How he managed both his teaching and his study is remarkable. But he finished college with Ills class and with honor. He desired to take up the study of law, but was again confronted with the question of the lack of means. He took a class of boys, whom he tutored in preparation for their collegiate work. At the same time he worked at his Jaw hooks, studying eagerly. Soon af terward he accepted the prinelpalship of an academy at North Pownal, Ver mont, but his intentions of taking up law as a profession did not wave*'. He was at last admitted to the bar, and -oon afterward went to New York to take up the practice. Alone and unknown, It was a hard struggle for the young lawyer. But his earlier lessons of immediate work for the sake of an end stood him In good stead in these trying times, and he came at last to the recognition by the public of the powers he knew to be in himself. TOBACCO AS A DISINFECTANT. The Smoke, Containing; Formalde hyde, Is Able to Kill Microbes. Although there is a general impress sion that tobacco smoke is a germicide, this property has not been assigned hitherto to any one particular constit uent of the smoke. The author of a note on the subject in the Lancet gives reasons for believing that among other germicidal constituents the smoke con tains formaldehyde. He says: “The composition of tobacco smoke Is, of course, complex, but everybody knows that tarry oils are a principal constituent, and certainly many oils are powerfully antiseptic. Nicotine, again, is a strong disinfectant, but the quantity of this poison in tobacco smoke Is minute, if, indeed, it is present at all. At least in a number of chemical analyses of tobacco smoke made at dif ferent times it was difficult to declare with absolute certainty that nicotine was an Important constituent. The oily matter which accumulates in a tobacco pipe is decidedly poisonous, but it does not contain any appreciable quantity of nicotine, the chief constituent being the very poisonous pyridin. “Tobacco smoke contains a decided quantity of the very poisonous gas car bon monoxide which has beeh used for preserving purposes *and which there fore must possess germicidal proper ties. Some simple experiments which we have recently made would seem to confirm the observation that one of the principal constituents accounting for the germicidal properties of tobacco smoke is the powerful antiseptic formal dehyde. The amount present is more than just appreciable, for if water through which a few puffs of tobacco have been passed Is tested for formalde hyde the result is strikingly positive. “The quantity of formaldehyde in to bacco smoke would appear to depend on the quality and kind of tobacco smoked. Thus tie cigar appears to yield more formaldehyde than the pipe, and the pipe more than the cigarette. Possibly the peculiarly Irritating prop erty of the smoke issuing from the glow ing end of a cigarette or cigar or from the bowl of a pipe is due to formalde hyde. It has more than once been stated that tobacco smokers enjoy an Immunity from certain diseases, and the frequent presence of a powerful an tiseptic in the mouth, nasal passages and sometimes the lungs (as in the case of those who foolishly Inhale to bacco smoke) would to some extent jus tify the statement. When it is consid ered that In the nose a vast number of microbes «re hourly deposited it is con ceivable that these may be effectively destroyed by the frequent passage of tobacco smoke through that organ. In the same way the organisms exposed to tobacco smoke In the mouth would suc cumb. “Formaldehyde is one of the most powerful disinfectants we possess, one part In 10,000 parts of water serving to destroy all microbes, while such, a dilute solution has practically no poisonous action on the human organism. All the same, it Is most undesirable that this fact should stimulate the practice of smoking tobacco to absurd excess, for tobacco poisoning is a greater rarity than many persons think, and to em ploy tobacco in abusive quantities for the sake of destroying microbes might amount possibly to killing the seeds of one disease only to counteract another.” The only reason a woman has for thinking a cow is more intelligent than a hen is that it is easier to chase out of a yard. When the average woman looks in the glass, she herself: “l am not so Lad-looking.” 3 completing his course there. Ar thur at once sought for a means by which he could help himself. A position of teaching in a dis trict school was the only one available, and although the work was hard and the recompense small, it would prove sufficient to enable him to con tinue his college