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mo ivWNCIE SUNDAY STAR. APRIL 7, 1912. "i "aaWaw conscious condition, was removed to SHE TEACHES MUSIC IVY COATS GRAVE OF ABOLITIONIST PLANS FOR BIG RAGE International Sweepstakes Set for May 30, so the world, should It ever pass by the primitive graveyard, might know there lies Benjamin Lundy, and he once lived. DRIVES NAIL INTO SPINE Husband Arrested for Inhuman Torture Inflicted on Wife. Wllkes-Barre, April 6.

Ac. ship and Lundy removed -the publication to Washington, D. although it was Issued thereafter from place to place as Lundy found means and opportunity. In 1836 Lundy went to Philadelphia and founded the National Enquirer, editing it one year. His health failed and he went to St.

Louis and later to central Illinois, passing his last year of life with his son-in-law, Isaac Griffith, and daughter near Granville. the speedway track at the rate of seventy-five miles; last year this speed was required only over a quarter of a mile gtralght-away. Last year forty cars started, but it was deemed advisable, both from the standpoint of promoting a high speed conteEt and minimizing the element of danger, to allow but thirty cars to compete In 'the second rare. Despite the fact that these have been Imposed upon the manufacturers, it is certain at the present time that the full field of thirty starters will be entered by May 1. MOTOR CAR NO JUGGERNAUT Statistics Deny Automobiles Are Nation's Greatest Death Dealers.

So the pessimist must be disappointed again, now that the government's census figures show the motor not kill as many people as it was credited with doing. In fact the shock Is great to these anti-motorists when they learn that Travels 50,000 Miles. The few who know the life history of Benjamin Lundy concede him well deserved fame, but recognize that his successors in the fight against slavery In many. Instances became so promi nent as to overshadow the humble editor and lecturer who blazed the way. On his great mission as the anti- slavery apostle, Lundy traveled nearly 60,000 miles, of which one-tenth was on foot, visiting nineteen states of this country and also Canada and Haytl.

He lectured every and sometimes twice, whenever and wherever he could secure an audience, always urging the emancipation of the slaves. Ten years after Eli Whitney Invented the cotton gin and made slavery profit able Lundy was preaching a gospel which made it impossible. Thirteen years after Lundy was bur led Daniel Webster stood In the senate and solved the difficulty by a compro mise that compromised nothing Twenty years after the group of mourners drove from the grave of the reformer and began to forget him Abraham Lincoln with generations of sorrow saddened in his eyes, wrote the emancipation proclamation for which Lundy devoted his life but did not live to see a reality. It is fitting the weather-stained headstone should shrink beneath the tangled ivyand the nation should forget, but the hope lingers that some one will furnish the means to erect a monument high enough to keep the name of Lundy above the vegetation, the City hospital, where she lies in a critical condition. The doctorB are in doubt as to whether she will recover.

Vehenas' arrest promptly followed the alleged inhuman torture, and he is being held without bail to await the outcome of his wife's frightful An- Juries. PHILADELPHIA AITO SERVICE. Philadelphia has $51,000 to spend on new fire equipment, practically all of which will, according to plans made, be of motor-driven type. Wiry no the Town OU might as well draw your automobile lubricant from it as to use the Wrong Oil. The latter becomes as thin as water under the terrific heat of the gas ex-plosions does very little more lubricating: than water allows great wear shortens the life of the motor.

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Write for a copy and we'll also send you a Gasoline Gauge Fn. Jtidnsa The Moore Oil Co. 1312.1392 York St. CINCINNATI MARCHES Latfaaspori, lad. ColaaUtas, Ohle Pump 7.1 KA $900 Overland $900 cused of inflicting upon his wife the weird and deadly form of torture which the ancient Jezebel preferred for the execution of her most deflalnt foes, Stanley Vehenas of Port Bawk- ley.

a suburb ot Wllkes-Barre was ar rested and brought to Jail in this city. It Is alleged upon corroborated testl monsn that the man actually drove nails into his wife spine, and her present critical condition seems to bears out the oral evidence oi wit nesses. The little family of aliens consist of Vehenas, his wife and three children, and they have lved in a community where home life Is not on the Ameri can plan, but where several families must, for economy sake, nerd in to gether, using what few household effects they possess In common. Under circumstances, it appears, Ve henas grew Jealous of a man, one of his fellow foreigners, and several times uttered threats ot vengeance against his wife. According to the story of theljt little son, corroborated by several near neighbors, Vehenas in his rage, with hammer and nails In hand, overpowered his wife and vowed he would kill her by driving nails through her backbone.

Binding her, with a rope, so that she could not resist, he Is alleged to have driven two or more nails Into her spinal column, and then to lift her up, screaming, writhing In agony and helpless. The wife's screams of agony aroused the neighborhood, and help was soon at hand. The woman. In a semi-un THE SHOWS demonstration. A beautiful, luxn- IT! RIDE IN IT! before you buy any car.

210 E. Seymour St -LA THIRTY STARTERS TOGO -Lata In the year of 1910 when the announcement of the first 600-mile International sweepstakes, at the In dlanapolls motor speedway was made. the motoring world sized up the proposition of giving $25,000 In prize and a race of 500 miles In length; and after two or three preliminary gasps, and a mental note that the promoters of such an event either had more than the ordinary amount of nerve or had overstepped themselves, decided that it might be a pretty good thing to see it after all. So it came about that the first 600-mile International sweepstakes on Decora- tlon day. May 80.

1911 drew the greatest crowd, of motoring fans ever assembled in any one enclosure to witness any sort of an automobile con test. The question in the mind of the public as to how many manufacturers would dare attempt a contest of this kind was answered readily when for-ty-slMtarters were named. The other question as to whether or not spectators would be attracted to such an event was answered when about ninety thousand people filed through the gates. The owners of the speedway, in view of the fact that the first race was so successful, decided that a second 600-mile race, and probably more afterward, would be the proper thing. But the second event had to be different from the first and greater.

It seemed almost impossible to improve upon many conditions of the first race, but it finally was decided to inorease the purse to $50,000, giving the winner $20,000 Instead of $10,000 as last year. Greater speed was demanded, and every oar which Is entered for the second rade shows even better speed possibilities than those which competed In the first. For the second 600-mile race, every car which enters must make a full lap of I Cadillac I THE OAR, WHEN IN COMPETITION WITH ALL OTHERS IS CHOSEN. Muncie Fire Department After a careful investigation of dozens of other cars, and after a rigid test, selects a for the use of Chief Casey We want to demonstrate to you the wonderful properties of the-Cadillac. Call us uffj either phone, we will be glad to show the Cadillac, Mclnnis 6 Hanley Cadillac IN LIGHTNING STYLE Miss Effa Ellis, With Her "Il lustrating" Method, Allows Ten Minutes for Notes.

Kansas City, April Effa Ellis, the lightning Instructor, Is in town. Iy you belong to that class of pianists who "Just simply hate sharps and flats" all vou need to do Is to spend ten minutes with Miss Ellis. it win be a whirlwind ten minutes, to be sure, and you may be left panting for breath when the gong sounds, but tne thing Is certain those detesttble sharps and flats will have become your best friends. Miss Ellis, whose original system of music instruction has won her a wide reputation In this country, has a special fondness for the ten-minute time limit. "Under my system of keyboard harmony a system for rapid, definite reasoning based on authority all pupils between the ages of 7 and 99 can be taught all the notes on the grand staff In ten minutes." smiled Miss Ellis, and her businesslike hand shake, her rapid-fire conversation always to the point her tfeen grey eyes, lert no room lor doubt.

Chords in Ton Minutes, 'All the major chords can be taught in ten minutes. In six months pupils can play or write in any key. People nowadays must be educated along so many lines that it Is essential for them to economize in time: therefore, while they must learn a thing as thoroughly as they ever did, they must learn it in a hurry. 'To accomplish this pupils are taught to reason and not to memorize. They learn to feel and read a story.

When one reads a story, one reads words, and not single letters, so in music they learn to read chords instead of spelling out single notes. "The main thing Is to teach pupils tnat there is more than mere sound In music, and this Is lone by illustrating with stories. Thev will then associate a certain story with a corre-spondlnd chord or principal. Anything learned in tnis manner is never for goten, ana moreover, tt does away wun tne machinery work or dry mem orizing. Instead of forcing students up to tne music I bring it down to them.

Week for' Kansas. City. Miss Ellis comes from Omaha. Neb. She is here for a week to present her system to the music teachers of Kansas City.

Miss Ellis is making a tour or tne united states, and as everything she does must be done in a hurrv. she never stops longer than from three days to a week in one city. NEW SPEEDWAY FOR CINCY Plan Under Way to Establish Big Kaoe Course There. Considerable interest Is rousing over the attempt to establish in Cincinnati an automobile speedway, on which may be arranged contests in volving the master motor car drivers of the world. The plan is to acquire property and improvements ot ths Lagoon park, at Luniow, and tnereon build a speedway that shall conform in every particular to the requirements of the American Automobile association, Intention being to hold during the sea son at least three racing events of six days each, two motorcycle events of six days each, two bicycle events of six days each, one aviation meet of six days; one carnival week of six days and one circus week of seven days, making sixty days in all, in ad dition to the usual amusement fea tures at the park, and such other events and outings as may be profitable.

For the purpose of securing this property and building the speedway, the company will be organized with a capital stock of 1200,000, which stock Is to be sold to automobile owners, dealers and manufacturers, and others, on a bnsls of 100 per share. Each stockholder will be entitled to a membership card, which will Include admission to tht park and the use of the speedway. POSITION OF STEER POST Semi-Standard Relied Tpon in Most Cars on Market. While there Is still much difference of opinion as to the vertical or inclined steering post, the usual rela tion of wheel to seat Is about the same for all cars, having reached semi-standard position with an aver-j age distance of 8 Inches and a horl-xontal of 1.4 inch. This allows the.

driver about 8 Inches of leg space. Wheels will always vary In slse, but for the smaller capacities 18 seems to the favorite, while a canvas of the I hoavier truck, including the newcom- ers, shows a majority with as incnes. Sections remain small, with 1 Vt to 1, the average long dtafneter. X. D.

NETTEB JUST $17,661.80. In six months after July 1, 1911. the state Of North Dakota netted from nutomohlle taxatton under the state law, which became effective last J-ear. The sum apportioned to counties for Improvement of roads. The Income of the department was $22,447, covering 7,281 automobiles and 261 motorcycles.

In Benjamin Lundy, Buried Near Began Fight 1820-1 30. Bloomlngton, 111.,. April 6. Almost hidden from view by underbrush and ivy, and with the small headstone worn and discolered by the elements for decades, is the all-but-forgotten-and-neglected grave of Benjamin Lun. dy, the first slavery abolitionist.

There the Quaker burying ground, in the woods several miles from Granville, In Putnam county, Illinois, Is left what is mortal of the man who first sounded the alarm against traffic In slaves. He was the preceptor of Wil liam Lloyd Garrison and his mantle descended upon Abraham Lincoln. The recurrence of the birthday an nlversary of the great emancipator recalls the fact that the pioneer of the movement against the traffic has been erased from memory and few know his remains are in central Illinois For twenty years he was the personification of activity, speaking morn ing, afternoon and evening, if oppor tunlty offered, never tiring of his sin gle purpose In life, to secure the free dom of the slaves. Disregarding his welfare, entirely self-sacrificing and animated bv th dauntless soirlt and determination of the crusader, Lundy devoted his life to the cause of liberty for the negro. What an excess of Joy would have been his had he been permitted tn me day when the magic pen of Lincoln wrought in a moment what Lundy labored twenty years to accomplish.

Headstone's Simple Line. "Benjamin Lundy, Died 1889," is thus simply marked the headstone, but the grave can not wholly bury the record of this brove spirit, the first apostle of emancipation. Lundy was born in New Jersey In 1789, his parents being Quakers. He was apprenticed to a saddler, and while working In Wheeling, W. first witnessed the coffles of slaves en route to the Southern market.

His sympathy and indignation were aroused and he resolved to wage a warfare against the traffic. He considered his trade as a means to secure money to combat slavery through the press. He resided In St. Louis from 1819 to 1821, and then went to Mount Pleasant. where he published the Genius of Universal Emancipation.

Lundy's paper was the pioneer to attack slavery. He transferred It to Baltimore, and in 1828 was stabbed and almost fatally Injured by the chief slave dealer, whose business had been denounced by Lundy. William Lloyd Garrison overheard Lundy arguing against slavery and was Instantly con. verted and Joined the cause. He became coeflitor with Lundy, but was thrown into Jail, charged with criminal libel In declaring the slave traffic piratical.

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The car that will suit you for it usefulness, its appearance and its price. LET US DEMONSTRATE the motor car killed only one-half as many as street cars. And the street car follows a given rail route, makes noise enough to be heard far away, and is supposed to oe driven by men void ol "Joy riding tendencies. According to the census figures for 1910 the 45,416 fatal accidents were divided as follows: Railroads, 7,877 drowning, burns, mines and quarries, street cars, gas (not suicides), 1.S79; machinery, automobiles. other vehi cles, 1,940.

In addition, the figures show large numbers to have died from food poisoning, animals, accidents, starvation, to say nothing ot deaths by violence. It all goes to show that the motor car is not such a juggernaut as its enemies make it out. OPENS FOREIGN AGENCY Overland Company Puts Man Into Hamburg, Germany. On March 20 Claude A. George, assistant sales manager of the Willys-Overland company, sailed from New York on the steamship Lusitanla for England, subsequently going to Hamburg.

Germany, where he will locate permanently as foreign representative ror Toledo large automobile manufacturing organization. Mr. George has been identified with the Willys-Overland company since the early days. He has seen it grow from the beginning with an annual product of only a few hundred cars to Its present status where Its output numDers yearly Into thousands. American automobile manufacturers each year are finding a greater demand for their product abroad, the Willys-Overland company among them.

GIVES RICHES TO BE POOR Old-Time Millionaire Turns Over Last $200,000 of Fortune. Chicago, April Duke M. Far-son, one-time millionaire banker, brother of the late John Farson, has turned over to the Holiness association, of which he is president, the whole of his remaining fortune, about $200,000. The Holiness hud received the rest of the banker's fortune in previous gifts. Mr.

Farson, through his last gift, has pauperized himself. His lands, his houses, hjs business, his Jewelry and personal belongings of value have all been cast into the treasure chest of the cult. Taking up script and staff, the erstwhile rich man is even now "an humble pilgrim In the sight of the Lord," as he expresses it, "preaching the gospel In the highways and byways." UP TO CEILING 20 TIMES Workman on Shaft Alive Because He Is Small. Lebanon, April 6. Samuel Brandt of Retnohlsville narrowly escaped death in being whirled around a shafting at the Lebanon Stove works here.

Brandt's coat sleeve was caught and he was drawn Into the whirling machinery. He owes his eieape from Instant death to the fact that is unusually small in stature, permitting his body to pass beneath the shaft and cllipg a score of times before the engine was stopped. On being rescued from his perilous position it was found that his body, had been stripped snd he was suffering from severe Internal In Juries and several broken ribs. VOICES AT LONG DISTANCE Briton Quotes an American in Reply to Cry of "Ixmder." London, April 6. Concerning the carrying power of the open-air speak er's voice, Sir MountBtuart Grant Duff notes that an Oxford citizen, who had traveled in the United States, told him that he had himself heard what Col.

Thompson, the secretary of the navy, was saying at a meeting in Indiana, at a distance of half a mile. The same traveler quoted the reply of another American orator, Mr. Cor-win, to an interruption. A man on the edge of a crowd at Buffalo kept olamorlng "louder, louder! Finally the sDeaker retorted: "At the last day, when heaven and earth shall pass away like a scroll when the Ancient of Days shall sit on His great white throne, thousands and tens of thousands of th heaven lv hosts ranged on His right hand and on1 His left, when the archangel blows the trumpet that shall rend the tombs and wake the some fool from Buffalo win be heard snouting, Mclnnis Hanley Mack's Garage 415 E. Jackson St.

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