Pafjes 3 and 4
JANER. GUILTY, SENT
TO PRISON 21 YEARS
Brooklyn Man Convicted of A:
sault on Girl He Abducted.
BEGINS TERM IMMEDIATELY
Joseph M. Janer, of Brooklyn, Was
Found Guilty of Abusing Little
Katherine Loerch He Might
Have Been Sentenced to Death.
Baltimore, Md. Ten minutes af
ter the last argument was finished
Judges Burke and Duncan, at Tow
son, found Joseph F. Janer, of Brook
lyn, guilty of attacking little Kather
ine Loerch here. Ten minutes more
had not passed before the judges sen
tenced Janer to twenty-one years' im
prisonment in the Maryland Peniten
tiary. Janer showed no emotion. He be
gan to serve his term at once. Kath
erine, twelve years old, was taken to
her home, No. 343 Classon avenue,
Brooklyn, by her cousin, George
Dockweiler. Mrs. Janer also returned
to Brooklyn. She did not display
much distress when her husband's
sentence was pronounced.
Immediately after the judges ren
dered their decision, "Guilty," J. G.
Clark, Janer's counsel, made the usual
motion for a new trial. But after a
conference with the court and State's
Attorney Owens and a brief whispered
conversation with his client, Mr.
Clark announced that Janer .was
ready to accept his punishment and
withdrew his motion for a new trial.
After the sentence Mr. Clark said
frankly that he thought Janer, who
might have been sentenced to he
hanged, had been dealt with merci
fully. Janer, testifying, denied all the
accusations against him. The point
the defense accentuated was that Ja
ner was so drunk all the time while
Katherine was with him here as to be
stupid and helpless.
Asked how much, he could drink.
Janer said he could hold a barrel of
the whisky he got in New York, but a
gill of Baltimore whisky "put him to
the bad."
A saloonkeeper testified that in his
place in one day Janer drank a quart
of whisky and part of another. An
other witness describing Janer's con
dition said critically:
"I should not say he was helpless,
because he could hold on to a lamp
post." Mr. Clark made an astute point.
He asked the judges to strike out
Katherine's testimony, that she is
twelve years old, as being hearsay.
The court overruled him..
"No one knows what I have suf
fered fa the last fifteen years," said
Mrs. Janer, after she had kissed him
good-by. "All manner of torment
have I suffered at Janer's hands, and
I am glad that he is where he can do
no harm to me or himself. I am well
acquainted with sorrow at this time.
I only live for my dear children. It
may be that discipline will benefit my
husband dnrine.his incarceration, hut
I doubt it, for ne never has known the
meaning of the word."
STANDARD OIL MUST LEAVE.
Courts Rule Against Plan For Part
nership With Missouri.
Jefferson City, Mo. The motions
by the Standard Oil Company of Indi
ana and the Republic Oil Company of
Ohio for a rehearing of the ouster
suit, recently decided against them,
and for a modification ot the judg
ment, were overruled by the Missouri
Supreme Court.
The petition of the Waters-Pierce
Oil Company was upheld, the motion
of the Attorney-General for an abso
lute ouster of the Missouri company
being denied, the compliance of the
order recently filed by the company
approved and the judgment of ouster
against it being sustained.
The effect of these decisions is to
expel the Indiana and Ohio Compan
ies from Missouri, and to restore to
the Waters-Pierce Company, sixty per
cent, of whose stock is held by the
Standard Oil Company of New Jer
sey, the right to do business within
the State.
NO TRUST PROSECUTION.
Only Such Suits as Afford Probability
of Success Will Be Undertaken.
Washington, D. C. The slogan of
the Department of Justice in the Taft
Administration is "Don't start any
thing you can't finish." At least sixty-five
per cent, of the cases pending
will be abandoned. The idea is to
clear the docket until there remain
only such cases as offer a probability
of success.
The Standard Oil case, settled by
order of Judge Anderson, with a ver
dict of hot guilty, is out of the way.
There are other indictments along the
same line, but the Department of Jus
tice does not know whether they will
be pressed or not. Mr. Wickersham
is waiting until the record has been
returned to the department. It is
the opinion in the department and
at the White House that any new
prosecution, criminally, of the Stand
ard Oil will have to be along new
lines. , '
Shoe Strikers Victorious.
mmfhe strike of McKay stitchers at
the Lynn, Mass., shoe factories ended
when the last firm agreed to the wage
scale demanded by the stitchers. This
means a slight advance for about 150
men. The strike threatened to tie
up the work of about 2500 operatives.
P. J. KIERAN INDICTED.
Ex-President of Fidelity Funding Co.
is Charged With Embezzlement.
Pittsburg, Pa. P. J. Kieran,- for
Jev president of the Fidelity Fund
us Company, of New York, whose
financial operations brought him into
"wide repute, was indicted here.
He is charged with embezzlement
jnd larceny by bailee, due to a note
s alleged to have made to Mother
Vincent, of the Sisters of the Good
febepherd. v 5
PRIEST FAILS AS FINANCIER
Cardinal Gibbons Assumes His
$130,000 Obligations.
Father Elbert's Creditors Suffer No
Loss and Cardinal's Signature on
Xotes Will Not Be Questioned.
Baltimore, Md. About a week agi
Cardinal Qibbons announced the re
moval of the Rev. Casper P. Elbert
from the rectorship of St. Katherine'o
Church in this city and appointed
his successor.
At the time no reason was given
other than that the interests of the
church made the change advisable.
It now develops that the priest had
spent $130,000, all of which was bor
rowed money, in backing and promot
ing various enterprises. What he did
with the money no one knows. Fath
er Elbert is now in Mount Hope Sani
tarium under treatment and no one
is permitted To see him.
The priest, according to those
thrown with him, was money mad.
He had visions of acquiring a great
fortune to aid the church and the
school in his parish. The Cardinal
expresses the belier. that he was men
tally irresponsible on the subject of
money, and that he does not admit
consciousness of having done wrong.
Cardinal Gibbons has assumed re
sponsibility for the debts of the priest.
RATE DECISION FOR MILWAUKEE
Ruling Against Rock Island Affects
Every Road in the Country.
Washington, D. C. Merchants ot
Milwaukee are to have the benefit of
as favorable through rates on grain
as those of Chicago, in a decision
handed down by the Interstate Com
merce Commission. The case was
that of the Milwaukee Chamber of
Commerce against the Chicago, Rock
Island & Pacific. Railway Company
and others.
The decision affects every railway
in the United States. The commis
sion says:
"In claiming that as Chicago af
fords as good a market for grain as
does Milwaukee the principal defend
ant may therefore lawfully so adjust
its rate schedules as to force the grain
to Chicago, the defendant overlooks
the right of the shipper to choose his
own market and to do business where
he prefers of finds it more advan
tageous to carry it on. It also over
looks the ehief function of a common
carrier, which is to carry at reason
able rates the traffic that is tendered
to it.
"A carrier has no right to insist
that a shipment shall go to the end
of its rails if the shipper desires it to
be diverted at an intermediate to
another market off Its rails. Nor
may a carrier accomplish these re
sults indirectly or by any unreason
able adjustment of its rate schedules
with that end in view. It cannot law
fully compel the shipping public to
contribute to its revenues on any such
grounds:"
COURT'S RULE FOR AUTOS.
Mnst Not Only "Stop and Listen" at
Crossing, But Send Man to Look. .
Philadelphia, Pa. That the driver
of an automobile on approaching a
railroad crossing is bound not only to
follow the ordinary rule of "stop,
look and listen," but, if necessary,
should get out of the machine and
walk to the track like the conductor
of a street car, is decided in an opin
ion handed down by the United States
Circuit Court of Appeals for the third
circuit in the case of the New York
Central and Hudson River Railroad
Company and the West Shore Rail
road Company versus Alexander H.
G. Maidment.
Maidment had been awarded dam
ages in the lower court for injuries
received by being struck by a train
at Fort Lee, N. J., in August, 1906.
The court decided that he should not
be allowed to recover because of his
contributory negligence.
DETECTIVE PETROSINO KILLED.
Had Gone to Italy to Perfect Plan to
End Black Hand Crimes.
Palermo, Sicily. Lieutenant Jos
eph Petrosino, of the New York Po
lice Department, was shot down and
killed near his hotel here.
His assassins are unknown.
He had come here on an important
mission, which had for its object the
protection of the peaceful Italians of
America.
Lieutenant Petrosino, the head of
what is known as the Italian squad
of the New York Police Department,
and one of the principal organizers of
it. was sent to Italy to carry out a
plan which was suggested to Commis
sioner Bingham nearly a year ago by
a special agent whom the Commis
sioner had hired to propose ways
and means of stemming the tide of
Italian and Sicilian crime in New
York City.
H. I. CONE CHIEF ENGINEER.
Lieutenant-Commander Appointed
Head of Bureau as Rear-Admiral.
Washington, D. C. Lieutenant
Commander Hutchinson I, Cone has
been apointed head of the Bureau of
Steam Engineering of the Navy, with
thft rank and Day of Rear-Admiral.
He distinguished himself by safely
taking the torpedo boat flotilla rrom
Newnort News. Va.. to San Francisco
In comDany with the Atlantic battle
ship fleet, and was fleet engineer un
der Admiral Sperry auring me
around-the-world cruise, assuming
that duty at San Francisco.
Bryan Defeats Carnegie Fund.
In the House, at Lincoln, Neb., the
bill to authorize the State University
tn accent the Carnegie pension fund
for professors was defeated by a vote
of 51 to 47. w. J. .Bryan appeareu
before the House Committee several
we'ks ago and opposed the pension
fund.
Arnold-Forster Dead.
The death is announced in London
of Hugh Oakley Arnold-Forster, Sec
retary of State for war from xv
to 1906. He was born in 185.
THEPOLR COUNTY
water, the Littie-used Beverage
the
By J. T. JOSEPH BIRD, M. D.
Few of us drink an adequate quan- I
tity of water. How many drink a
quart a day? How many says, "Oh,
I never touch it!" Look about you
in the street car, if you will, and note
the ruddy complexion, fair skin, vigor
of body, mental force of some Individ-
uals, and the mottled skin, sallow
complexion and listlessness of others,
Such differences are not always tern-
peramental, nor are they entirely due
to mental and physical endowments.
rne dissimilarity Is due in many
cases to the care of the body by one
individual and to its neglect by an
other. One man observes the obli
gations of health as to diet, exercise
and fresh air; another man neglects
them.
All life demands water. Sixty per
tent, of all the tissues of the human
body is water. Hence it follows that,
without a free use of good water
health is Impossible. Blood, bone
and muscle demand it. The blood is
the vehicle by which nourishment is
carried to all the tissue of the body,
but it does this only by reason of the long duration the free administration
water it contains, which is the sol- of good water is attended with results
vent of such nourishment. The mus- most gratifying. Here we have a hot,
cles are rendered soft, pliable and dry skin, with restlessness, sleepless
elastic by reason of the water enter- ness and general discomfort of the
ing into their structure. And these patient, or he is listless, stuporous or
qualities must be sustained continu- in active delirium. The tongue- is
ally; for all that we do, every second parched, the salivary secretion is di
of our existence, depends upon some minlshed in quantity and quality, and
form of muscular activity. For sim-
pie demonstration of this fact consid-
er the pumping action of the heart,
the acts of mastication and swallow-
ing of food, and the ordinary, though
wonderful, acts of speaking, reading
and writing.
In the processes of digestion and
absorption many of the food elements
are dissolved by water. Likewise, in
the elimination of the numerous
waste products by the skin, lungs,
kidneys and bowels, water is the ve
hicle holding them in solution. In
other words, water is necessary to
the life and perfect action of all the in the course of the sickness. So here
body tissues, as well as for a free again water has its value in favoring
elimination of the waste products elimination of the various poisons,
forming in the same tissues. Thus it Under its use restlessness abates, the
follows that a constant supply of mind clears. The natural secretions
water is our daily need. of the mouth are improved in quality
But we don't drink enough water, and quantity. The tongue clears, be
While this is true of all classes, it is comes moist and a desire for food re
particular ly true of the more leisured turns. What is true of the mouth is
classes. Labor produces thirst, . and equally true of the condition of stom
thirst compels the drinking of water, ach and intestine, where the more
They who do not labor are apt to re- important functions of digestion and
duce their intake of water to small absorption take place. Animal ex-
allowances.
Now let us carry our observations
a little farther. The skin is one of
the most -Important organs of the hu-
man body. By the perfect function
of its two millions and more of sweat-
glands, a man loses each twenty-four
hours one sixty-fourth of his body
weight. This loss, which is greater
than that sustained through the ac
tion of the lungs, is the evaporation
of water surcharged with poisons
from body waste. And what is true
of the skin is equally true of the
lungs and kidneys. Each is an or-
gan of elimination; each is casting off
waste, and the products of combus-
tion and disintegration. This is the
problem of life, the problem of our
existence: how we can favor or re
tard the efforts of this wonderful
mechanism.
Without water there can be no life,
We know that it enters into every
structure of the human body. As to
its source to be sure, we consume
large quantities of water with the in
take of fruits, vegetables, meat, tea
and coffee. But these should not be
the sole source of supply. Tea and
coffee are poisonous to some persons,
though others consume them appar
ently without injury. Moderation
should be our habit in this particular,
as in everything that concerns right
living. "How much water snail l
drink in a day?" To such inquiry' no
fixed allowance can be stated, since
our needs vary as our age, habits and
occupations vary, and the quantity
mav reasonably vary between one
Dint and three or four pints per indi
vidual. The water may be taken cold
or moderately hot before meals, be
tween meals or after meals. It may
be taken from the city's supply
(which is usually a good water un
der present methods of supervision),
or a natural spring water, preferred,
perhaps, because of its flavor or ab-
m . tc ft
sence of flavor. Kegaramg "meaici-
nal" waters, we would sound a word
of caution. Some are genuine, con-
tAininsr chemical elements of un-:
questionable value in certain condi
tions of the economy, and these may
be used with advantage, preferably
under the direction of a physician,
Others are plain waters, of fictitious
name and origin, whose merit is the
plain water composing them and thej
increment that flows into tne pocseis
of their exploiters.
While water may be drunk with
food, as an aid to digestion and ab-
sorption and it were better taken aU
the close of a meal care snouia oe
observed not to defeat the purpose oi
thorough mastication by washing into
the stomach solid foods ill prepared
for digestion by that organ. A glass
of cold water on going to bed and one
taken on rising in the morning is a
eood habit. They who cannot thus
take cold water intj an empty stom-
ach may consume a quantity oi mou -
erately hot water and derive equal
benefit from its use.
Iet us now consider the conditions
of ill health in which the internal use
of water is desirable. Let it be un-
iorstoodvthat there are conditions in
mMoh ft eenerous use of water is
i onri these, aeain. should be
minted out by the physician. But in
:Hr,a of the skin, in goutf , rheu -
j XOLU MBUS
matism, constipation, "biliousness."
and in many states In which normal
physiological action is disturbed, the
free use of water is most valuable,
In such the Waste products are found
in eicess of normal, or one or more
organs of elimination may be found
in abnormal condition. In either ease
there is lack of equal distribution of
labor, and other tissues are called
upon to do more work in this process
of elimination than they are wont to
do in health. Since, then, water is
the solvent and eliminant of all waste
products found in the tissues, its
value in the above conditions can
hardly be overestimated. It should
be drunk, hot or cold, at the begln-
nlng and dose of the day and between
meals. It should be taken with some
care. It should not cause discomfort.
and had better be taken in small por
tions f requently repeated than In such
full draughts as will disturb the
functions of the stomach, and thus
do more harm than good:
In conditions of fever of short or
throughout the digestive tract we
have like disturbances of function,
These conditions explain the loss of
appetite, faulty digestion and poor
absorption of nutriment and the re
sultant loss of strength to the patient.
But these are by no means the only
cause or the sick man's condition.
Other important factors are at work.
The infectious germs that have
caused the fever are in the tissues and
capable of doing incalculable harm.
The poisons produced by these germs,
the toxins, are also here, fraught
with danger now, or, it may be, later
perimentation and clinical evidence
prove this. It is not a matter of the
ory. In the allowance of drinking water
to the sick there can be no fixed plan
suitable to all cases. Care and judg
I ment must be exercised in this mat
ter as in all other features of good
nursing. The diet must also be regu
lated. In the case of the aged, or in
the event of vomiting or an Irritable
stomach, water must be give a spar
ingly or even withheld for a time. A
patient with high fever and great
thirst, left to his own inclination, may
very easily disarrange his stomach
by injudicious draughts of water. To
such, however the regular and peri
odic draught a tumblerful every
two hours, for instance, will prove
most acceptable. Thirst may also be
relieved by rinsing the mouth with
hot water. Or bits of cracked ice
held in the mouth will do the same
thing. If a change of potation is de
sirable an agreeable draught is made
by adding cream of .tartar to cold wat
er a teaspoonful to the quart.
Slightly acidulated waters have their
use in the sick room, and nothing is
more grateful here than a.n occasional
draught of weak lemonade. Plain
spring waters, or natural aerated
I waters, may be substituted from time
to time to break the monotony of a
uniform drink or to satisfy the ca
price of the patient.
The foregoing remarks are based
upon well known physiological data
and broad clinical observation. Har
per's Weekly.
The Longest Night.
It is the shortest day the longest
night of the year. To-night the sun
reaches its southern meridian, pauses
in the mighty sweep, and to-morrow
he will turn his face to the north
I again.
That it is that relieves the sombre
contemplation of the "longest night"
that it is the limit. That now from
day to day henceforth we may watch
the great orb grow in his daily circle
of the sky rather than to shiver as
we feel him diminish and withdraw.
I To be sure the shiver is also a matter
largely of theory and imagination.
j for the compensation of the stars and
the white silence is here to minimize
the sense of loss in the retreating
day
I Now as we contemplate the beauty
I 0f the northern winter night ws have
the added satisfaction of knowing
that the sun to-morrow will rise a
i uttle higher than yesterday it did.
We know that it will continue so un
til presently its light will lie upon the
hills the whole span through and ban-
ish utterly the darkness through
which now we grope, and under its
influence the birds will return and
even the highest peaks of the moun-
tains will spangle with spring flow
1 ers.
It Is because of the meaning that
I this longest night has to the people
J of the North it has been suggested
that it is a fitting day or night to
make of it an annual feast night
throughout the North. Daily Alas-
gan.
I , In Great Britain there are 2,000
J 000 trade uaionlats.
N. C
HOW MAJOR GOT IN.
Henry and Walter Metz looked
down the road for the twentieth time
in an hour. Mr. Metz had been away
for three days, and he had promised
to bring them a pony when he re- j
turned. Presently their patience
was rewarded; for they sarw their
father coming, and the dearest little
pony was tied behind his buggy.
"He is just splendid. I think he's
nicer than John Dunn's," said Hen
ry when the pony had been looked
over very carefully. "What shall we
call him, papa?"
"The owner of the pony farm call
ed him Major, for he holds his head
up like a soldier does," Was the ans
wer. "We'll call him,, Major, too" they
agreed.
The days that followed were hap
py ones for the boys, and Major had
enough attention to spoil any pony.
"He just follows us arouad like a
dog," Henry Often said.
"When we go into the yard, he
acts like he wanted to go with us.
If he could speak, I think he would
say, 'Don't leave me in the lot alone.'
He is just the smartest pony that
ever was," was Walter's comment.
One day the 'boys were in the
house "and Mrs. Metz called them.
She pointed to the kitchen door, and
there stood Major quietly looking in.
"Who left the gate open " she ques
tioned. -
''Henry was in the lot last," Wal
ter said quickly.
J'l closed . the gate, though. I re
member, for Major was right there,
and he tried to push in," Henry re
sponded. "I can't see how he got in;
I aim sure She couldn't climb over
the fence," "he finished.
"He came through the gate, for it
is open," his mother assured him.
The bovs could scarcely wait to
tell their father about it. "Some
body left the gate unhooked," was
his verddct. "Major is clever, but he
couldn't umhook the gate if it was
closed tight."
Three days later Major appeared on
the porch again. Everybody declar
ed the gate had been shut and latch
ed, and how he got in still remained
a mystery. Mr. Metz Insisted cnat
the boys were not careful, but they
declared they were.
"Boys, come here quick," Mrs.
Metz called the next morning im
mediately after breakfast.
The two boys rushed out on the
porcfh, and saw tMlajor trying to open
the gate with his teeth. He4 tried
again and again, and finally the hook
yielded. He walked up to the little
group and nodded hie head as if to
say, "I am here too." American Cul
tivator. THE PIGEON MBSSBNOBR.
Perhaps you would Mke me to tell
you about a little pigeon I once had.
It was a homer tJhat I had received
from one of my relatives. One Sun
day in August my father took me
to see my uncle, who lived in Val
halla, N. Y., not very far from North
White Plains. He received us very
cordially. We spent the efternoon
very pleasantly, and when it was
time to go home my uncle made me
a present of two gray pigeons, who
were mates. I put them in a bag,
and when I got home I took them out
of the bag and put them in a large
box which I had the luck to ihave.
The school hours were over, and
when I came home I was told to send
my uncle a message by the larger
pigeon. J did as I was told. I took
the pigeon out of the box and started
it off on its journey. Two days af
terward I received a letter from my
uncle, stating that he hadreceived
my message, and that he would bring
back my pigeon to me the next day.
Lester Snyder, in the New York Trib
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OUR RAT BILL
It Is $160,000,000 a Year In This Coun
try Alone.
The Mil of damages Which civilisa
tion holds against the rodent foots
up into tremendous figures. Accord
ing to he experts of the bureau of
biological survey of the Department
of Agriculture Uncle Sam alone has
to pay $160,000,000 every year on ac
count of property damages inflicted
by the pest. John Bull and the Kais
er between them have to fork over
$150,000,000.
The rat bill of the world would
reach into the billions, says Success.
Sir James Crichton-Browne, president
of a recently formed international
union of scientific organizations work
ing together for tfce extermination
of rats, declared that every rat in
the Utttted States costs the citizens
at least two cents a day for its keep.
In England a rat costs from one
half a cent to five cents daily. The
British India rat is the most expensive
rodent of them all, for there each of
the innumerable swarming millions of
the pests consumes on an average
.three cents daily. .
If you add to the cost of the hoard
and lodging of rats the expense of
maintaining quarantine operations
against them and of fighting the dis
eases spread by them the average
specimen of the rodent tribe preying
on civilized nations may be said to
cost us from seven to ten cents a
day.
Mrs. Charlotte Perkins Gilman, who
cultivates assiduously a reputation
for saying things that make people
sit up and take notice, says the At
lanta Constitution, volunteered re
cently that the average married wom
an was no better off than a slave or
a horse; that the marital environ
ment frequently contravened the con
stitution, Inasmuch as it placed the
wife in a state indistinguishable from
"involuntary servitude." Whereupon
a little New York hausfrau, sore smit
ten with poverty and domestic cares,
issued a libel for divorce based on
constitutional grounds, which recited
that she was virtually held in peon
age to her husband. It is to be hoped
the court will see fit to hand ber
down a decree speedily, since it ll
evident that upon whatever ground ot
Justice her special plea may rest
she has outgrown her compatibility
with the man whose name she at
present bears.
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