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THE USE OFTHESUBJLER DRUGS

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Strycbatste and Arsenic Are Clmnjy9 Agent o Deatk as Their Traces

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Rental In ie Victim Indefinitely3 Polseas la Novels aad Plays fire

A recent newspaper article said were shut off the air in orderphysician called Jto two stop when was learnedcurious facts or rather facts that lone miner was working deepabdut poison First thatit is so sel- - the mine beyond thedom resorted to by murderers and e started and then raging with

growing strength Here is storynnA fw it i nimnRt inrnrinof be eventssubsequentbly bydetection One might

answer both statements with the ques- -

tl6n How do we know How do we wim mui mtu iuknow that the few clumsy cases that mine rescue e anJexeal atcome light represent the sum of that tfmpts Wfire made by ones

- Ttrnvo nam Tyttukind of crime

It Is undeniably true that there arecertain drugs which if administeredwith skilL would be almost impossibleto detect Their symptoms are practlcally Identical with those of familiardiseases and a little while after deaththey decompose change form and dis¬

appearIt would be possible too to innocn

late a victim with the germs somedeadly malady He would then go tohis grave with a real case of consump-tion

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or pneumonia or loci jaw andthere would be nothing to arouse theshadow suspicion I believe firmlythat such are committed andnever discovered but- - I believe alsothat they are very rare The real safe ¬

guard of a community lies in the factthat so few murderers possess the req-

uisite¬

skillEducated people seldom commit de¬

liberate murder continued the doctorand the uneducated mind instinctive-

ly

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associates poison with two sub-

stances¬

arsenic and strychnine Theyare the deadly drugs most familiar tothe public and fortunately they areeasily detected Murder by arsenic Isinfinitely cliimsy To begin with thesymptoms are marked and peculiar

ii JJnf n mptiiliip nrnfliint Its tnwes re--

mimn In the body an Indefinite timeliast summer a woman in Barce- -

loua Spain confessed that she hadpoisoned her sister with arsenic 10

years before The grave was openedand the cofiin round to contain nothingbut dust ami ashes but a chemical testshowed unmistakably the presence ofthe drug

Mrs Maybriok was accused of killIns her husband with arsenic and thetest revealed 1t plainly not only In theremains but in certain medicines TJbedemonstration was so conclusive thatshe finally arose in court and admitted

-- giving him a white powder but insist-ed

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that she followed his own expressdirections

6ne f the most Ingiious cases ofpoisoning I ever henrd of occurredsome years ago in another state Ayoung physician plotted to kill awealthy farmer He knew the latterwas taking quinine for a cold andmeeting him one day asked to seewhat size capsules he used Whilepretending to examine them he slip-ped

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in one containing strychnine Thefariner happened on it nearly a weeklater and died in convulsions An au-topsy

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revealed the poison but the af¬

fair was a deep mystery until the doc-

tor¬

committed suicide leaving a writ-ten

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confessionThe poisonings that occur in novels

and on the stage are usually veryamusing to a student of toxicologysaid the physician in conclusion 1

remember in Saral of Posen whichwas produced with such success by MB the drummer hero was tem-porarily

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knocked out by a poisoned ci-

gar¬

He took two or three whiffs andoyer he rolled I would like very muchto know the name of the drug thatwould produce that sort of effect

t Nearly all the poisoning in fiction Is

v English In which theft heroine inhales the fragrance of a

bunch of roses and Instantly falls deadNeedless to say the poisoned perfumeis wholly unknown to science

Another story But I could keepon citing instances all night History

w isnt much better Most of the yarnsof the Borgias and Medicis are pure

a moonshine especially those aboutpoim soned gloves poisoned tapers and oth

er uiijmcuuuiis ui ui ugs or luiugs uiitit are touched or handled

The tale of the book which wasanointed on the margins with somedeadly substance that killed the per¬

son who moistened his fingers to turnthe leaves has possibly a foundation intruth but I confess I would be puz ¬

zled to know how to prepare suchvolume Almost anything that mightbe used would instantly betray Itselfby Its taste

In the middle ages powdered glassis said to have been a favorite materialwith which to doctor food and youllfind some interesting data on sub- -

N Jtct In the autobiography of Celliniv the goldsmith It Is occasionally used

- by negroes right here In the south Ofcourse powdered glass Isnt a true

Uri- -

poison sometimes kills by settingup internal Inflammation Oftener- - ithas uo effect af alL --4New OrleansTimes Democrat

A Dog StoryAnimals have sentiment and they do

tvason Lord Sandwich had two Intel ¬

ligent companionable little white dogslie was fond of both TIjeywereniucb

to him and devoted to eachoiher Qht white net fejl sick andhe

atfliedrjiivor the little creature Butiii rare Kjiiliced to save it and It diedThe loving niflJiter said that 1 himselfwould bury tlu- - dogrand lie did soJhe llviugoniwarilau stood ly grlev

fe ing as sincerely atbeleedmas- -

ivr ut tne survivor rouiu neveragain endure Lord Sandwich shunnedJiiui nntT utterly irreconcilable for

I tlmeJHelthougliuthat themasterRid killed antKburkiD hiscanIriecom jlrade rLojKloo News

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He niBlipd His Life to Save That of aWorkman

H er Franklin a young man em--

plptU at the Clear Creek mine is tismuvu a nero as any man wno everbraved death on the battlefield Frank-lin

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sought not glory but to save a hu¬

man life There was a in the mineThe men were called out Then they

a about toattention to the flames it

alleged a inpoint where the

wasthe

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Foreman Thomas immediately calledn4jButo

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flames and the cry of Powderlcaused a hasty retreat

Finally Heber Franklin a young manwhose work keeps him on the outsidesaid I will go And accompanyingForeman Thomas he pressed onthrough the fire and found the manworking away tanipfng a hole entire-ly

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unconscious of the danger threaten-ing

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him They succeeded in gettingout of the mine safely when the fanwas shut off and the dip closed upThe rescue was an act of great bravery 1

on the part of Franklin as his workkept him on the outside and he wasunacquainted with the exact lay of theland inside and the danger of suffoca-tion

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from black damp was great Hewas the only man of the many stand-ing

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by whose nerve did not desert himIt is stated upon good authority that

ten minutes more of lost time wrouldhave resulted in the death of the minerwho was at work and possibly a greatloss to the company as the supply ofair could not be cut off while there wasnay hope of rescue and this wouldhave tended to feed the flames SaltLake Herald

WASHINGTONS LAST YEARS

His Happy Life With His Wife atMonnt Vernon

At the time of his retirement toMount Vernon after the expiration ofhis term as president the tall figureof Washington was only slightly bentand he was still supposed to weigh up-

ward¬

of 200 pounds writes WilliamPerrine of The Last Years of Wash-ingtons

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Life In The Ladies HomeJournal

Excepting his -- gray hair and hisfalse teeth and seme trouble in hear-ing

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there was little of the usual ap-pearance

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of age in his muscular per-son

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his gait and his strong pock-marked

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face He was affable andmerry with his best friends but whilehe had the true hospitality of a south-ern

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gentleman in inviting- - every- - vis¬

itor from a distance to his table or to abed over night his politeness was gen-erally

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formal Yet if he particularlyenjoyed the conversation of a guest hewould pay him the compliment of lis-

tening¬

to bim until after 9 oclock oreven of lighting him with the candle toa bedroom for the night

Mrs Washington at this time was ahealthy pleasant and unostentatiouslittle woman still showing traces ofgood looks and with seldom an otherthought than of playing respectablyher role of mistress of the house of acountry gentleman of caring for thejnegroes or of amusing hersself with herknitting She had great pride In herrecipe for making cherry bounceand on a midsummer day she cut out32 pairs of breeches for the men work¬

ing on the farm She had saad thatshe and the general felt like childrenjust released from school when he leftthe presidency and she told of hersatisfaction in settling down again tothe duties of an old fashioned- - Vir-

ginia¬

housekeeper steady as a clockbusy as a bee and cheerful as a crick-et

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The BuccaneersThe original boucaniers were a

wild and picturesque gang To thewaist they were generally clothed ina sunburned and weather beaten skinand they wore pantaloons of a coarselinen dyed and stiffened with the bloodof bulls and pigs and held up bya beltof rawhide stuck full of deadly knivesTheir apparel terminated with pigskinboots and no stockings and they car¬

ried a long barreled I firelock loadedwith ounce balls of tead

They were animated with a commonhatred of the Spaniard which in theireyes justified any attack upon his per-son

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or property and by a wild sort ofattachment to each other in their peril-ous

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lives which led to their beingknown as the Brethren of the Coast

- When the Spaniards drove them intothe career of maraiaders upon thesea the word buccal ieer took a newmeaning though ther were also knownas freebooters This was a mongrelEnglish word button being Dutchand bueten Germn for plunder Ofthis word the French made fribuster with the s sllentj and then soften-ed-- It

to fibbristler which the Span ¬

iards modified into-- ftlibustero So wefinally got the woifd back with a newmeaning and a srieciil application asfilibuster The West Indies by

Amos Kidder FisI e -

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old Scotch lady who conld not labidelong sermons f3he was hobblingoutof the kirk one Sunday when a coach¬

man who was waiting ifor liis peopleasked her Is the minister dune wihis sermon - i --

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