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Before six o'clock on Wednesday evening, every federal soldier in the city garrison, the police department port hospital corps, firemen - anc more than 3 Jhonsand new volun teors had enlisted and taken the 'path of allegiance under Diaz. In all, the new revolutionary leader ha: more than 2,000 men undor his ban- ner in Vera Cruz alone. it is the most serio) insurrection that has broken 'oul in-Mexico snes Madero overthrew he government of the preseut rebd leader's uncle Dias appears to He in coastant communi cation with fthe other rebel leaders throughout Mexico 7 - H. CLAY HOWARD, United States minister to Peru, S GAMES AT PERTH. Keen Competition at Annual Field Bay of Collegiate. Perth, Unt., Uect. 12, Ihe {callegiate mstitute held their annual games yesterday and although the weather was somewhat unfavorable, atso the track being rather soft, time {and results were very good In the { morning the sports were held on the {school campus while' in the afternoon {they were held on the agricultural Ihe results of the morning Perth games are: Running broad {Sabiston, ©, fleet NB Inches, 1° Running broad jump, junior -- L Woods, K. Walroth. Distance, 14 fee i 11 inches, : ' . ! Hop, step and jump, senior--K. Sa thiston, ti, I'rancis. hstanee, 38 feet, 24 inches. Hop, step and jump, junior--d, (derson, 'FE. Walroth. stance 30 19 inches, { Putting shot, senior--ii, Melnty re, | Putting shot, junior--J, . Watroth stance, inches, f'otato { Thompson. Obstacle race, open--M Mompson Menageyie race, open ---- F on, U, Seott. Kicking tootball, open ¥. son, LU, Scotti. Mstance, 146 feet, inches, Aftornoon events comunenced' at one o'clock with the following results: HO yards, junior -- J, Anderson, ¥ Walroth. Lime, 12 seconds. 100 yards, senior--K. Sabiston, M. Rogers, lume, 114 seconds. Pale vault, senior, resulted in a tie. Vole vault, junior---E. Cavanagh, UC. | Rogers, Height, 7 feet 4° inches. High jump, senior hk. Sabiston, C. Scott. Height, 4 feet 11 inches, High jump, junior -- 1. Woods, J. Anderson. Height 3 feet 11 inches, 880 yards, semior--L. Scott, G. Fran ons. | S80 yards, pnior -- KE. i Wools. 440 yards, senior ti. Francis, K. Sabiston. fume, | min. 6 seconds. #0 yards, junior -- E. Walroth, L. Woods. Timse, 1 minute, 10 seconds. 200 vards, senior i. Frances, K. Sabiston. Time, 9 25 430 yards, jumor --< E. Walroth, L Woods, Time, 31. The Senior championship resulidd ia a tie between K, Sabiston and GG. Francs, while the junior champion- ship was won by Ek. Walroth. The oificials were: Starters, Messrs. CF. Stone, BE. OC. Conwitt; judges, Gol. Bal Faggart and Mr. Gird: wood; referee, M. Bush ; timers, Messrs. BH. Wilson, 1. €. Spewre; clerks of course, Messrs. Gi. W. Thomp- son aod VF. BE. Minlay. The Recker Case. Syracuse PostStandard. The stories told by ack Rose and Rridgie Webbe constitute the most amazing recital of 'cold-biveded erime-conspiracy that has appeared outside of fiction, in years: and the frm tive writers have not often let r imagitations so. ran riot. A'nless Becker"scan tear in pieces the tale that has been told, which senior --- RK' Distance, 17 jump, Francis. An feet, Franes, P. Distgnee, 20 feet 3 inches. {'avanagh, feet, H n race, open -- ('. Scott, F. Rogers, | Fhomp. Thomp Wailroth, 1. a | Chief justice of the common pleas BREAKS A COLD NEEDS NO HELP ffape's Cold Compound Cures Colds ant GUrippe in a Few Hours-- Tastes Nice--Acts Gently. 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New York Mail In this twentieth century of ours it comes as a rude shock to read the as tonishing story told before an Eng lish, magistrate the other day, A Wo man was suing for divorce. In the course of the evidence it transpired that, getting tired of her, he 'had sold her to another man tor a few shillings and consequently objected to paying for her support. 'I'bis is notan isolated case. In the midiands of Bongland, last year, when a tramp was charged with deserting his wile, he calmly told the mag irate that, being hard up, be had sold hér to another man for seven shillings and that as fus wile had readily con- sented to the bargain, he did not eon sider that he was further "redponsible for her maintenance Even more astonishing was the case of a Lancashire road breaker, who, a few months ago, sold his wile to an other man, and thought the transset ion was perfectly legal because he had placed a halter round her neck, the end of which he put in the hand of the purchaser after the money had been paid. fis _behef rises from the custom of olden days, when wives were actually led Hijo the market place with hak ters round their necks and sold to the best purchaser, Even as late as He "70s the motion was fairly prevalent among the lower classes that an unaesirable partoe: coultt be sold, provided a halter. was placed about her nexk in November, 1¥70, a person residing in Bary sold las soe for 8S shillings, The bargain had been struck I as gratitying to know, however, that the habitants of Pury did not take the matter quietly and the¥ burned in ef figv both the and the seller, although it i= stated that the woman was nothing loath to change mas ters, The cheapest wile on record was pro- babiy sold toward the end of the eighteenth century John lees of Sheflield, who sold hs wife 2 the small sum of sixpence to anglher man of the same town. A contented Dublin husband, how over >in 1872, valued his wife at By pounds, for which sam be sold her to another man, agreeing to take (wo of the children and she the rest The avidence came out im court when the walman sought protection becapse her lawful husband persisted in annoying her in various wavs. But Why the Baptist Chiirch? Renfrew Journal hk was a fanibus joke of a former chif e-nitable of the town of Ren frew that 'every man fined for drunk. mness meant so many more feet of new Wiowulk for the 10wn, Recently there have surely been enough men fined in Renfrew for drunkenness warrant the manitipality in some of this "sidewalk money' to pay for th: construction of a street cross mst the Baptist church. ; Inver hy NX. J. Ross, saperintendent' of the Canadian Fxpress company, is at preson: in Prince Rupert. looking over the ground with regard. to the in augutation of an express service from that city to points in The interior along the Ene of the Grand Trugk Pa eilic. : A pew mining plant is being com pleted by the Jasper Pdrk Con com: pany ai Pokohontas, 208 miles west of Edmonton, on the G.T.P., which ol SIR WILLIAM RALPH MEREDITH, become chief justice of Ontario to sueceed the late Sir Charles Moss, sporting world division, Ontario, who will likely THE INDIAN. Minna Irving in Judge The hardest lot it seems to me Can fall to any man, Is that endured hy lo, the poor Cignr-store Indian All day he hols a hax of choice Havgnas in the sun To tempt the passing throng, and yet He never samples one ! tang cut and navy plug alike oe Jove he must forego, Not e'en a little cigarveil His wouden lips may know; Jul when his serviee as a sign Before the door is past, I mean to bhdy and buen him up, That he may smoke at last! At the Hotel de Flanagan. Saturday Night Tom Flanagan, the Toronto hotel man, who is widely known in th: as the manager of Jack Johnson, the cuimpion pugilist and as former manager of Tom Long boat, the Indian runner, nas a rich Irish brogue and a fund of irrepres- sible humor whith makes him a worthy rival of (ue famous Miste) Dooley. One nigt" during the ex hibition rush a guest who had just registered enquired a* which hour he could get breakfast. +The ular bréakTast. hour is six to ninestairty," answered Mr Flanagan. Then, as the guest took his key and departed; Tom turned w a group .of cronies seated behind the desk and remarked in a confidentia whisper: "Shure, that's the regular hour that I t&ld him, but it all de pends on the state if the laregher 80 long as we've annything to give 'em, they're welcome to it, antl we feed 'em ag long #8 the food lasts but, honest to glory, chovs, many'. the morrnin' we lock the dining room door at six-thirty." Westinghouse | 68 Burroughs The Westinghouse Electri¢ & Mfg. Co. has all the facili- ties in the world for testin the merits of every kind o machine. : «It means something for them to standardize on the Burroughs. They use the Burroughs in six different sizes and in a dozen different styles. The Burroughs long line includes adding and listing machines, listing and non-listing calcula- ting machines visible-printing machines--86 different models in 492 combinations of fea- tures----$150 to $950, with easy payments if desired. 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