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7 i yiTE FORT WAYNE DAILY NEWS. MONDAY, FEBRUARY 26. Positive A soda cracker should be the most nutritious and wholesome of all foods made from wheat-Comparative But ordinary soda crackers absorb moisture, collect dust and become stale and soggy long before they reach your table. There is however, one Superlative soda cracker--at once so pure, so clean, so crisp and nourishing that it stands alone in its supreme excellence--the name is Uneeda Biscuit I In a dust tight, moisture proof package. NATIONAL BISCUIT COMPANY THERE'S ONLY OffE SCOLAR TO LICK.

Johnnie H. Folscm. fhe fourteen- bey living on his uncle's farm near Sundance. the unique distinction of being the only boy in the United States for whose sole benc I a school is being maintained. The scheU district is thinly populated, and for various reasons all the other pupils had to remain away from school tiiis year.

School taxes go on just the same, so the authorities decided to held scJitcl as long i Additional Society i I Oon tin ne from Page 2 'Mrs. Dan Bash has returned to Indianapolis. Mr. and Mrs. L.

A. Ivins are visiting in Lebanon, 0. Mr. and Mrs. Nate E.

Beadell are in New York City. Mrs. L. H. McDonald is home from a visit in Cincinnati.

Mrs. Walter Olds is visiting her sister in Mt. Gilead, O. Miss Cora Fowler is home from New York to remain indefinitely. Misses Floy and Grace Gates and (Jertrude Thompson are visiting in Chi- cagoi Qlmstead, of Buffalo, is the gliest of.

her daughter, Mrs. Henry Master. Mary McDonald has returned from. with Mrs. Harry Scott in Angola.

There will be no women's Bible meeting at the Wayne Street M. B. Church this week. Miss Nellie Lawson will leave this week for a visit in Sewickley. with Mr.

and Mrs. Fredrick Martin. Mrs. Rosanna Ellis has returned to her home in Clyde, 0., after a visit with her Louis Orbits. Miss Katie Stetxer is home from an extended visit in southern California.

Mrs. W. F. Bunnell is visiting in Indianapolis this week. '-Mrs.

William H. Schultz, of 122 East Williams street, entertained a number of her friends at pedro Sunday even- Ing at her home in honor of her birth- iay anniversary. Prizes were won by Jfrs. Graeter, Mrs, Porter and Mrs. Trier.

01 Saturday evening Mr. and Mrs. E. entertained a few frtends'informally at a musicals in eoiBpHwent to Miss Grace Coulter, of Chicaga Miss Dorothy Donaldson, the fiancee of Mr. J.

B. Archer, of this city, was also a guest of honor. Saturday evening the Neighborhood Bridge club was organized at the home of Miss Lora Walter. The members besides Miss Walter are Misses Nellie Lawson. May Evelyn Walter, May Woolsey.

Margaret Vesey, Grace Davis and Blanche Bilderback. The Chicago Tribune of Sunday has the following interesting society item: "April 3 has been set as the date for the wedding of Miss Ruth Rockwell Ainslie, daughter of the Rev. and Mrs. James Stuart Ainslie, 1448 Lawrence avenue, and Hugh Dennan, of Belfast, Ireland. The wedding will be the first celebrated in the new North Shore Congregational church, Wilton avenue and Sheridan road, which will be completed by the middle of Miss Ainslie's father, who is the pastor, will perform the ceremony at 8 o'clock." Miss Ainslie has many friends in Fort Wayne, as for a number of years she attended the Fort Wayne public schools while her father was the pastor of Plymouth Congregational church.

THE DEATHS Butler. Thomas J. Butler, a former Fort Wayne youth, committed suicide at Indianapolis by swallowing carbolic acid Friday evening. The coroner, after an investigation of the case, declared that Butler was insane when he committed the deed. On the wall beside the bed on which the young man was found Saturday morning was the word "skidoo" written in red ink.

Butler was 23 years old on Feb. 23, ihe date on which he died. The young man left a short note to his sweetheart. Miss Bessie Craig, in which he said it was his intention to take his life and end his troubles, which made life not worth living. Friends say the real cause of Butler's despondency was his life of dissipation.

He had been drinking Friday evening. The unfortunate youth was well known in this city and had a large circle of frinends here. His father was formerly foreman of the Pennsylvania round house and his mother was formerly lytiss Mollie Summers, at one time organist at the Cathedral. His sister IF YOU HAVE Rheumatism Qoirt, Lumbago, Sciatica, try Potassium Com- pOUfld." Tr)al package mailed free by addressing John A. Smith Milwaukee, Wis.

Money refunded if a 50c bottle fails to satisfy you. AtDrvggfett. and brother-in-law, Mr. and JIis. Clement J.

Weber, of this city, iiavc sone to Indianapolis to attend the funeral, which tomorrow. Payne. William C. Payne, aged (57 years, died Satm-da ynight at 10:15 at St. Joseph's hospital of heart failure, caused by the infirmities of old age.

lie had been in the hospital only a short time He was born in Richland county, 0.. in 1 and came in this city during the civil war, after having served for three years in the One Hundred and Twenty-sixth Ohio. He re-enlist- i ed in the Ninety-first Indiana and served to tht end of the war. He had since made his home in Aboite township He was a member of the Roanoke post, O. A.

and a prominent Mason. Left, to mourn his loss are the wife --Rachel Payne-- five children-- Mrs. Flora of this city; Mrs. Emma Pickering, of Whiting, Mrs. Etta Emmel, of South Chicago; William C.

Payne, of Whiting, and Henry Payne, of Aboite, Allen county two brothers Seymour and George Payne-- and many friends among the old soldiers and neighbors in Allen county. The body was taken to the Klaehn Melching undertaking parlors, and was this morning removed to the farm residence of Asa Turner, nine miles from the city on the Hunting: ton road. The funeral will be held from this farm Wednesday morning at 10 o'clock, the Rev. Mr. Rickoff officiating.

The interment will be in Lindcnwood cemetery. Adam Goller, aged 74 years, died Sunday morning at 11 o'clock at his farm in Lake township. Death was -du4. to. B.j:;ght.

disease. He. was born in Wurteinburg, Germany, and came to America with his i 14 years. He had lived in Wells and Allen county for the last sixty years. The wife died only last August.

He leaves two half-brothers--Fred and Charles Rapp, of Wells county; two step-siaters-- Mrs. Peter Yeager, of Wells county, and Miss Louise Hawkey, of Illinois; two nephews, H. G. and David of this city, an'd several distant relatives 'in Lake township. The deceased had lately made his home with his stepson, S.

S. Smith, and wife. The funeral will be held Thursday morning at 9 o'clock from the residence, the Rev. J. P.

Meyer, pastor of St. John's Lutheran church of. Lake township, The interment will be in St. Marks Lutheran cemetery in Marion township, Schmidt. Mrs.

Catherine Schmidt, wife of William J. Schmidt, died Sunday morning at 11:05 o'clock at the family residence, 1311 Swtnney avenue, after a ten months' illness of tuberculosis. Mrs. Schmidt was born in this city in 3862, and had lived here all her life. She was a member of St.

John Lutheran church and was always ati active worker in the Ladies' Home Mission society of that church. She leaves the husband, the father, John Betz, and throe brothers-- George, Samuel and Fred Betz-- two sisters- Mrs. Fred Bonne and Mrs. Theodore Geller. There are four sons- Frederick Harry Carl and The funeral will be held Wednesday mornin? at 1:30 o'clock from the residence and from St.

John's Lutheran church at 2 o'clock, the Rev. II P. Dannecker officiating. The interment will be at St. John's Lutheran cemetery.

Langley. Mrs. Thomas Langley. aged '12 years, died at I o'clock at the family home in New Haven of typhoid pneumonia. She leaves the husband and seven brothers-- John F.

Gebert, of St. Joseph township; Christian Gebert, of Cedar Creek township: August Gebert of Pierceton; Julius Gebert, of Danville. 111., and Alfred, Frank and John Gebert, of this city. There is also one sister-- Mrs. Jennie Wickliffe, of Fort Wayne.

The funeral will be held Wednesday morning at 10 from the residence. Nicklas. John Darwin, infant son of Mr. and Mrs. Lewis, Nicklas, of 32 Wagner street, died Sunday evening of spasms at the age of eleven days.

The funeral will be held Monday afternoon at 2o'eU)drJrom the rcsi- Careful Housewives WHEN PUTTING AWAY STOVES Always them 0 of 6-6-4 to make thorn proof. It shines ilke paint. Is bttter than any tnanel or wire scietcs. It mates old stoves toe-it it nn. MITCHELL JJOITOLS HAS HIMSELF ELECTED PRESIDENT OF THE BOXBOARD COMPANY.

Barber Withdraws Large Sum of Monsy the Business. Gambling King's Wife Held "Lost Love" Verses as She Slew Girlhood Friend (Continued From Page One.) Johnnie H. Folsoni. who is the only in a Wyoming school. as Johnny 'wished to attend.

Miss Helen Tmax "wields the red" for $40 per month, and school is to last six months. In some ways Johnny is a lucky When it comes to being the teacher's net he a cinch. If there are any prizes to be handed Gut he dees net have to about' getting his share. Each night'he'can'truth- fully tell f-t home that he "stood at the head of the, class 4odax." It also has can tel! by his looks that Jo'unny has the ordinary number of pranks wrapped up In his system. And if "teacher" sits down on a bent pin Johnny is reasonably sure a whipping is coming his way.

If a paper wad sails through the air the.teacher can make a. safe guess who's guilty. And If Johnny happens to fill up on green apples the whole scnool has the "tummick" ache and stays at home. Tea and Grill Room FT. WAYNE'S NEWEST AND BEST.

Table De Hate: Breakfast, Luncheon and Dinner. A La Carte service. Large Parties a specialty, Open the public 7:30 a. p. m.

I APARTMENT W. Berry and Webster Sts. Sidney Mitchell, who led the fight against 0. Q. Barber in United Box- board and Papef, has been elected Mr.

Barber's successor as president of the company. The new board of directors organized Saturday afternoon by the election of the following officers: President--Sidney Mitchell, Vice-Presidents--S. B. Fleming and Herman Grossman. Secretary and Treasurer--Hyatt Cox.

Executive Committee--Sidney Mitchell, C. C. Adsit, C. Brown and Joseph E. Otis.

Mr. Fleming was vice-president under the Barber management, and was active in the operation of the plants. The new board believed that his experience in and knowledge of the company' would be valuable to the new management, even though he was an important, cog in the Barber machine. The annuaj, ren.f|i submitted at the meeting shelved clearly that the retiring president, Ohio C. Barber, had ueen more Iqyal to the Boxboard company than and his crowd had imagined.

He withdrew about of money he had advanced to the company personally owing to the fact that Mitcheuiharf taken the affairs of the company 1 'into" the courts. President Barber' had "to go into his own pocket to protect' the affaire of the company an'd avoid a receivership. As soon as Mitchell party assumed control Mr. Barber withdrew all of his cash, amounting to nearly a quarter, of a million. He is also endorser oh paper beyond this amount.

Some of this paper falls due on Tuesday, and the new directors will have to renew It without, the- aid of Mr. Barber. Senator Fleming city last, night to be present" at the meeting of the officers today. It is said that Mr. Mitchell and his directors have not made arrangements to take over the American Stravfboard stock held by Barber ae first reported and until this is done M.r.

Barber and Mr. Fleming will- be in control of the American board. Senator Fleming will continue the American company offices in Chicago and will merely go to New York when the United Boxboard directors are in session. holds the same office with the new board that held with the company during last year. Ask ytnir grocer for Mrs.

Austin's Pancake Hour. Fresh and delicious. ing verses it disclosed a motive for the crime: "Strange'what people expect of roe, Are they blind pr won't they sec? I am not a shepherd to wiiicli over'gluep; Into Satan's And see a i is tempts others to wrong, Who go their way with a laugh and a song. For my welfare now may they tremble To those who'love me I'll dissemble. Now it is I jfho needs some care.

For I am tired to death of saylnsr beware! Kill me if you will for all is. well. I have you from everlasting hell, have saved you from everlasting Hell, Have lifted you uy when low you were found, Slowly and suiely you are diagging me down. When soul finds its mate, it is too late, To struggle and fight against conqucrin-j fate I've played for honor, life and love, Have iirovcd the stienglh 'of weak woman's love. You've heard the old saying of 'Pearls before swine'? I gave every pearl that onee was mine.

I found too late that I was wrons, That love existed only in books and song, What has become of thoss pearls of mine? Oh, nothing--J just threw my pc-ail-s to the swine." Women Avoid Operations When a woman suffering from female trouble is told that an operation is -necessary, it, of course, frightens her. The very thought of the hospital, the operating table and the knife strikes terror to her heart. It is quite true that these troubles may reach a stage where an operation is the only resource, but a great many women have been cured by Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound operation has been decided upon as the only cure. The strongest and most grateful statements possible to make come from women who by taking Lydia E.

Pinkham's Vegetable Compound from native roots and herbs, have escapedserious orations as MISS ROSE MOORE Mrs. McDonald was locked up and her white-haired husband sent for. When he arrived she was raving. McDonald did not ask whether his wife was unworthy, but took her in his arms and promised to "stand by her." Boston GlrS Affay Plan fhe Biggest Rattles hip MIKE M'DONALD. Chicago Millionaire, Who Was Once City's "Gambling King." Those who know him believe that he will snend his entire fortune of millions to save her.

McDonald at C6 is one of Chicago's financiers. Fifty years ago he sold papers in Ihe city. Twenty years ago ihe.jyaa its.gambling king, with an in- 'cojng, of a million a year. His first marriage out unfortunately. There were scandalous 'charges -in 'McDonald's suit for di- there was a pretty little gill in his neighborhood namet Dora McDonald took a greai liking to her and when she grew to womanhord.

he married her. She was a Jewess and he renounced his own faith for hers. Guerin, the dead man, was a girlhood friend of Mrs. McDonald. The acquaintanceship continued The McDonalds have two young children.

Mrs. McDonald is in the thirties. to my duties and was a burden to my family. 'doctored and doctored with only temporary relief andconsUnfly objecting to an operation which I was udvised to undergo. I decided to try Lyd a Pinkham's Vegetable Compound; it cured me of the terrible trouoie and I am now in better health than I have been for many years.

This and other such cases should encourage every woman to try diaB. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound before she submits to an operation. Mrs. Pinkham's Standing Invitation to Women Women suffering from any form of female weakness are invited to promptlv communicate with Mrs. Pinkham.

at Lynn, Mass. From the symptoms given, the trouble may be located and the quickest and surest way of recovery advised. DON'T TACKLE A BOBSLED IF YOU'RE WEAK-HEARTED down mountain If you can't fly through the air, about the next thing is coasting down an Alpine mountain on a bobsled. The courses are steep and the big sleds, with their loads of from four to six people, seem to fairly drop down the mountain side. The safety of all depends upon the man who steers.

The sleds gather momentum with each second of the de- at a breath-taking pace. scent. The wind whis.Ues,..by, fairly, sucking the breath frqm merry-' makers. Naturar" and. artificial bumps are in many of the courses, and then, the sled's passengers enjoy the tion of real flight through the The season is now on in Switzerland, and the picture shows one of the most daring of the sledding parties at St.

Moritz, on a wild flight down the course. A standard Design for refined Homes. Made in finest Mahogany and Figured Walnut. ONE PRICE ONLY Music House Calhoun Page" There is a movement in California to make robbery- accompanied by maiming punishable This Is to-pat a stop of what are called the "fw jrfpe men." BOSTON, Feb. is one Boston girl who may look the part of a secretary for some home for stray cats, but.

who is building battleships. She is Miss Lydia Gould Weld, of a famous and wealthy old New England family. She is employed by the Newport News Shipbuilding and Drydock Construction company. When just budding, into womanhood, Miss Weld concluded to be of some use in the world. A little story- is told concerning an interesting session between Miss Weld and Mrs.

Lucia Ames Mead, sometimes termed "a temporal vice regent of the Prince of Peace." Miss Weld had announced her intention of learning to build battleships. Mrs. Mead was horrified. "My dear Miss Weld." declaimed "one battleship costs as much as an entire university. One is educational and the other Is totally destructive.

I am astounded." "My dear Mrs. Mead." responded the girl, "your mathematics are correct, but I question your logic. Frequently there'art occasions In the onward march of civilisation when one good battlesftlp, handled, it worth mow tojSGod and humanity, than fortygaverage universities." So, fitted for technology and raatricalated. Donning her leather apgbn, gating her well-bred arms, greaipng, Oiling and blackening her slie worked at the bench, the forge, the lathe, the anvil, and at her books. After three years of savage plugging at naval architecture, MiUs Weld graduated at the head of her class.

Miss Weld one day millionaire owrter c.f a big steam yacht by running the pilot house out and the engine room in on a cruise in a heavy sea. President Orcutt, of the big Newport News company, is very proud of his fair employe, and says that he hopes that his company will get the contract for the "Skeered-o-Noihin 1 If he does, Miss Weld, a frail, bred New England girl, will have the proud distinction of making all the working plans for the greatest, most powerful, fastest and roost terrible upholder of peace that the world has ever hnoWB. CoQSttlation and Examination Free MEN-COME TO ME WHEN YOU ARE TIRED BEING EXPERIMENTED ON, I INVITE YOU TO COME TO ME AND BE CURED. Why delay longer? You will have to come to me sooner or later. Why not come now? Remember, it will require less time and cost you less money to be cured now than later on.

Your disease is-never at a standstill, With it you can make no compromfse. You must master It or it -will master you and fill your whole future life with woe and My treatment is absolutely certain. There is no experimenting or guesswork. The great training that I have received in leading Hpspitals and olleges, coupled with the long years of experience in treating SPECIAL- DISEASES OF MEN, has taught me to know from the very start what the nature of the disease Is. and the treatment to give that will absolutely cure.

I DO ALL I AGREE. Don't be discouraged because others have failed to. cure you. REMEMr. BER I DO NOT MEASURE MY ABILITY TO CURE BY THE FAILURES OF OTHERS.

I have cured thousands of men after all others had failed. cial and Private Diseases..