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Veople and T Events ruinous a a Golfer. Hiss Genevieve Hecker of Noroton. Conn., who won the national woman's golf championship, Is, in the field of woman's athletics, the most remarka ble young woman in America. Al though only 19 years old, she has three years of fame as a golf player behind her, with the probability of extending GENEVIEVE HECKER. her conquests to cover English and Scotch links. The final great game, besides being her last fc the season, was the last she will play- before she becomes the wife of George Jenkins, her lover since school days. The wed ding Is to take place before Christmas. Miss Hecker is the daughter of the late John V. Hecker, who was a million aire flour manufacturer. I. nut Hoars of Great Men. No life had more In it of terror than Napoleon's, yet he said, on his dying bed: "There is nothing, terrible in death; he has been my pillow for the last three weeks, and now he Is about to take me away forever." Louis XIV was happy in his death. "Why weep you?" he asked his friends. "Did you think I should live forever? I thought dying had been harder?" Sir Philip Sidney would not change the Joy of his last hour for "the empire of the world." "Let me fall asleep to the sound of delicious music," said Mira beau; and Humboldt, the naturalist, exclaimed in his dying peace: "How gn n.i these rays! They seem to beck on tarth to heaven." Sir William Hunter wanted a pen "to write down how easy and pleasant a thing It is to die." But surely the most beautiful farewell ever addressed to the world was that of Keats. "I feel the flowers groiving over me," he said In a phrase whl :h. as a thing of beauty. Is a joy for ever. l ull,.- Chief III a Preacher. Kev. Sheldop A Harris, the Dwlght minister who was elected as vice-president of the Illinois Federation of La-, bor at the recent convention in Jollet, REV. SHBLDON A. HARRIS, was formerly a mission worker In the neglected districts of Chicago. He was born In Pennsylvania Feb. 2. 18D2, and came to Illinois in 1859. His father was David Allen Harris, an officer of the Merrill horse, which served with distinction in the civil war. Rev. Mr. Harris began life as a wood machinist, nu became a salesman for a Chicago house, then entered evangelical mis sion wo k and spent four years among the poor. He wbb ordained in 188u. He located In Dwight in 1900. He is chaplain of the Sons of Veterans of Illinois and belongs to several fratern al orders. His sympathies have al ways been with the labor unions and the poor. He says: "I believe In Christianity, but not In churchianlty." , The Connecticut Election. The rtbult of the vote in the consti tutional amendment election In Con necticut last Monday is the adoption of two amendments, which are now a part of the organic law namely: the election of state officers by a plurality vote and the enlargement of the state senate. The first of these reforms was carried by a majority of over 20,000 and the second by over 35,000. The main feature of Interest, how ever, was the vote upon the proposi tion to call a constitutional convention for the purpose of securing reform in representation and doing away with the anomaly of a little town or village having the same power in the legisla ture as a city. The sectional character of constitutional reform Is illustrated in the returns of the election. Of the city registered vote only 36 per cent wan polled and In the country towns 83 iter cent, but the urban vote was substantially solid for the convention, as well as the vote of the larger fac tory towns. The seventeen cities of the state gave 80,024 majority for the convention and the rest of the state 8,867 against It. Of the 168 towns for ty voted tor It. A Vlalonary Project. Communism under white direction having failed whenever attempted. It Is proponed to undertake it under an exclusively colored control. A band of Afro-American clergymen will solicit funds to establish on Long lslRnd a negro colony where all th colored people of the country are to be Invited to make their homes free, where money will be loaned without interest from the general treasury and where an Insurance policy on the bor rower's life will be the only security required. Manufacturing plants will be established within the colony and the white population now on the Island will be invited to seek homes else where. An option has been taken on Ianu at 88 per acre. Any practical solution of one of the most vexatious problems of the coun try and the century ought to be heartily welcomed by whites and col ored. Unfortunately this is not a practical solution. Americans cannot be compelled to live in any particular part of the country so long as they respect the laws. One of the conditions to be attached to acquisition of land in the projected black commune Is that title is never to pass to any white. This condition would probably be declared unconsti tutional. A form of independent sub government exclusively black would also come into certain conflict with the laws of the United States p.nd of the state of New York. A totally different reaaon, however, will defeat the visionary project apart from ItB Inherent absurdity. Long Island has passed practically Into the hands of a great railroad corporation which Is going to make It the westers terminus of a shortened route between America and Europe. How Diaz la Guarded. Dr. Frank J. Toussaint has returned from a six months' exploring trip through the mining and agricultural districts of northwestern Mexico. He also made a visit to the City of Mexico and conferred with President Diaz in relation to mineral rights on a govern ment grant in Yaqul valley. "The shooting of President McKln ley," said Dr. Toussaint, "would not have been possible in Mexico, a coun try where attempted assassination is one of the expected incidents of gov ernment. President Diaz never takes a walk on the street or in any public place without secret service men watch ing over him. Nobody with his hand wrapped up or with his hand in hit) pocket could approach him without be ing stopped. One morning a lame man, carrying a heavy cane, was passing him on the street. A detective brushed agalnRt the man as by accident, and knocked the cane out of his hand. He picked it up and returned it to the man with profuse apologies, but while he had the cane In his hands he gave the head a turn and pull to jatisfy himself that it was not a sword cane. Another time, an old woman carrying a basket on her arm. was stopped be cause her hand was concealed in the basket. The detective lifted her hand out of the basket, and seeing that it held no weapon, apologized for the lib erty. "Attempts on the life of Diaz have been made, and no precaution has been spared to prevent a repitltlon of them. If a man clasps his hands behind him while he is talking with a public man, a detective will suggest that he allow his hands to hang naturally at his side." Milwaukee Sentinel. Ia Suicide Onr National sin? In a sermon delivered in Chicago re cently the Rev. R. Keene Ryan said: "As decline of home life and mother hood has become the national sin of France, as Intemperance haB become the national sin of England and Ger many, so suicide is likely to become the national sin of America if the alarming increase of this unhappy vice continues In our midst." It might be possible to give this prophecy the appearance of plausibil ity by arguing over the condition at the close, but the Intimation that we are fast reaching a bad pre-eminence an the country of suicides has no war rant in facta. In one recent summary of suicidal statistics by nations the United States standi very near the foot o. the list, with more than a score of nations above her, and only Russia, Ireland and Spain below. To show where the pre-eminence is we will quote a part of the table which glveB the number of suicides annually per 100,000 of the popu'atlon In the coun tries named as follows: Saxony, 31.1: Denmark, 25.8; Schleswig-Holstein. 24; Austria, 21.2; Switzerland. 20.2; France, 15.7; Garman Empire. 14.3. Those countries which escape with a rate lower than 4 per 100,000 are: Italy, 8.7; Netherlands, 3.6; United States, 3.6: Russia, 2 9; Ireland, 1.7; Spain, 1.4. NOTHINC EQUALS I Jacob's Oil. Tor Rheumatism, Oout, Sciatica, Neuralgia, Cramp. Pleurisy, Lumbago, Sore Throat, Bronchitis, SoreneBS, Bruises, Toothache, Headache, Back ache, Feetache, Pains In the Chest, Pains In the Back, Pains in the Shoul ders, Pains In the Limbs, and all bod ily acheB and pains, It acts like magic. 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Of the 1,413 patients who were fronted In time four died the percentage lielng twenty-eight one hundredths of o: .e per cent In 1881, when the Institute begun operations, the percentage was ninety-four one hundredths; by 1888 it had fallen to fifty-live one hundredths and since 1808 It has lieen less than thirty one hundredths of one per cent. Hmnklng In Cnha. Cuba produces no tobacco for chew ing or for pipe smoking. The Cubans who smoke pipes might lie counted on one's fingers without making a second round on the fingers. The clgnr nnd the cigarette prevail. To what extent the Cuban cigarette might ever become popular with American smokers Is a matter lioyond determlntlon. It Is cer tain that most Americans of prolonged residence become. If they be smokers, addicted to the Cuban brands and find difficulty In wenuing themselves back to American brands on their return. Sozodont Tooth Powder 25' Good for Bad Teeth Not Bad for Good Teeth Sozodont Liquid lie. 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