THE MERCHANTS.
I am the Frost.
I'll show you diamonds, laccs and tapestries
Of all' variety
At lowest cost;
Weavinga of chaste design
Perfect in every line
Connoisseurs surely will buy of the Frost,
I am the Dew.
Notice my elegant bracelets and necklaces,
'All of rare quality;
Pearls not a few;
Emerald and amethyst:
I Opal all rainbow kissed:
Ladies rise early to buy o? the Dew.
I am the Snow.
Let me display for you carpets most exquisite.
Choicest of bordering
'Also I show,
Heavy and soft and white,
Spread in a single night;
Folk who have wisdom will buy of the
Snow.
1 am the Rain.
Something I'll show you priceless and
wonderful.
f Making these offers seem
Tawdry and vain!
Tia but a cloak of gray
Wrapping the world awayHappy
the few who will buy of the Rain.
?Isabel Mackay, in St. Nicholas.
HIS ONE BAD MINUTE.
By a United States
Secret Service nan.
Not many years ago, in a little
town near Chicago, an aged bum who
had drifted to the place a few weeks
utfiure uau iiau ueeu auucAiu; uis
whisky money by doing old chores
around, came to the end of his haws'
ser. He was a pretty sick old man
when he applied at the town hospital
lor a bunk and treatment. He was
taken in, but it was quickly seen
there was nothing left of him but the
husk, and so they made him comfortable
to pipe out easy like. Just before
he took the ferry over the dark
river he whispered to the nurse that
he'd like to have a word with the
hospital superintendent. The hospital
superintendent showed up at
the old man's cot.
The old wayfarer pulled from
-around his neck a piece of string to
which a key was fastened. He handed
the key to the superintendent,
gasped the name of a Chicago safe
deposit company, gave the passingout
tremor?and was gone.
The hospital superintendent was a
strong man. He was about forty,
and had got his education by working
for it with his hands. He had
worked at nearly everything in order
to push himself through college, and
he had taken care of a big batch of
brothers ?nd sisters besides. He
.wasn't any goody-goocf, but just a
sq.uare man. He had fought and
worked for every shave, shine and
smoke that he'd every had. He was
getting ahead and gaining a reputation,
but most of his income was
going for the education of his younger
brothers, and he'd never know the
feeling of possessing 550 re%l velvet
since he'd been hustling.
Well, about two weeks after the
old bum's death, the hospital superintendent
was in Chicago, and he
happened to pass by the safe deposit
establishment that the old man had
mentioned before dying. The superintendent
still had in his pocket the
key, attached to the string, that the
dead wanderer had give* him. He
,was of opinion that the old man's
mind had been wandering when he
liad named the safe deposit company,
tut anyhow, out of curiosity, he decided
to ask the safe deposit people
if they had the name of the deceased
.jpanderer on their books. They did
4-Vt/iSr* V* A nfr tv 'PV* t\ /lalrl
iiavc lb WAX lucii WUUXV.J. xuc utttu uiau
had rented a safe deposit box from
the company six years before, and
the box rental had been regularly
paid by mail.
The hospital superintendent, after
eome formalities, was permitted to
''open the box with the key in, his
possession. According to custom,
one of the company's employes, this
one a young fellow, entered the vault
with the superintendent, in which
the box was located. The superintendent
opened the box with his key,
and then he had to fan himself with
his hat for a minute.
The box contained two tightly
wrapped, rubber-banded rolls o! yel
low DanK notes, eacn ron aDoui ine
size of a twenty-five bundle of cigars.
The superintendent of the hospital
removed the rubber bands from one
of the bundles, and he saw that it
was made up of bills of all denominations,
from ones to five hundreds. It
.was plain that the two rolls contained
a whole lot of money.
Now, that was the hospital superintendent's
critical minute. He told
me about it afterward. Without
waiting to count the money, he said
*in a low tone to the young safe deposit
chap who was with him in the
vault and who was gazing with an
expression of amazement at the two
huge bundles of bills:
T A.A Anltr TXA/%
iuu auu 1 ai c tur uui; twu pcupit
in the world who know about this
money. Is it to be a cut? What do
I you say to a third for yours?*"
"That'll suit me," replied the
young clerk, out of hand.
The superintendent told me that if,
tgn minutes before, anybody had
suggested the remotest likelihood of
his ever trying to snag out one cent
that didn't belong to him he'd felt
like killing that suggester.
"But," he added, in telling me
about it, "the desire to get hold of
that money, for myself, seized me
like a flash, and I could no more have
xesisted it than a man in the electric
chair could resist the current sent to
kill him."
The superintendent stuffed the
two rolls of money into a satchel,
f; turned in the key to the safe deposit
people, with the statement that he
had found only a few valueless papers
belonging to the dead man, and
i then went to a hotel room with the
{ young safe deposit clerk. In the hot
tel room they counted the money,
and they found that it amounted to
exactly $54,000. The superintend;
ent gave the young fellow ?18,000,
and the latter said that he was per
Xectly satisfied with his cut. That
left the superintendent 536,000 to
the good.
^He had hardly put the theft
through, made the division and separated
from the young fellow be>
Xrtre he was sore on himself, but there
Y
was no turning back at that stage
of it, and he therefore tried to comfort
himself with the reflection that
the dead miser had probably left no
heirs, and that the money was capable
of being put to betcer uses in
his hands than if it had been discovered
by somebody else in the
presence ot a numDer 01 witnesses
and had reverted to the State for
lack of legal heirs. During the next
six months he built himself a comfortable
home in the town near Chicago,
hunched along his financial assistance
to his brothers, whom he
was educating, and tucked what was
left of the pile into the bank.
Then, of a sudden, the story came
out, and the hospital superintendent
was arrested, disgraced and sent to
prison for three years. The young
fellow who got the $18,000 peached.
He had quit his job with the safe
deposit company and had- taken to
rum and the racetracks. In a state
of suds one day he had uncoiled the
story of the find in great detail, for
he was a bit grouchy, being a pinhead
and hoggish, because his share
hadn't been a half instead of a
third.
The story fn the papers attracted
the attention of the heirs of the dead
wanderer in various parts of the
country, and they had the hospital
superintendent and the young fellow
gathered in. The young fellow as an
accessory, got three years, too. He
was broke, or nearly so, when nailed
through his garrulousness, but tne
superintendent had more than $20,000
left, which he willingly turned
over to the heirs.
That hospital superintendent Is
now in a big Western city, a prosperous
and more than well-to-do
general. practitioner. You'd never
me that he was a thief at
Heart. His one bad minute zephyred
along, that's all, and it took the stiffening
out of him .iust long enough
to make him give in. Those of us
who don't run into at least one of
these bad minutes in our lives,
whether we succumb or not, are
mightly virtuous people, son.?Washington
Star.
It Pays to Be Polite.
It does not cost anything to be
polite to your friends and acquaintances,
and incidentally it goes a long
way toward making life pleasant for
yourself.
A civil answer makes more friends
than a gruff one and a smile succeeds
when a frown fails.
We have no right to impose our
little tempers and annoyances on our
fellow-beings.
The fact that one person annoys
us does not justify us in visiting it
on the next person we meet.
And yet that is what a great many
of us do. One trivial annoyance
often upsets us for the whole day.
Some people have the happy knack
of showing courtesy to everyone with
whom they come in contact.
It is a delightful quality and one
which brings its possessor great popularity.
Abruptness is a hard fault to cure,
and yet it can be done.
You see, it is so easy to hurt people's
feelings by speaking abruptly
to them.
It may be done quite unintention- ,
ally, but nevertheless the fact remains
that it is done.
And the funny thins about it is
that those who are most given to
hurting others are generally very easily
hurt themselves.
The quickest way of curing a habit
is by never forgetting that you are
curing it.
If you are inclined to be brusque,
abrupt and harsh-spoken you must
keep the one thought constantly on
your mind.
Underneath all that you are doing
must run the refrain: "I must be
nloaoant- T must ho prmrteniic1 _
Good Business.
Bonds and Stocks.
In railroading there is always
some tangible property. The case
disclosed in Mr. Harriman's transactions,
where bonds were issued on
a branch railroad which was never
built, is unusual. The established
custom is always to have tracks, a
right of way, cars, freight yards and
stations. What these cost is represented
in an issue of first mortgage
bonds, the interest of which must be
paid or the railroad will become insolvent.
Next it is customary to issue the
second mortgage or general lien
bonds for the purpose of "improvements
and extensions."' By using
Hnmmidc nr thrnnch moHinm r?f a
construction company the greater
part of the proceeds of these bonds
goes into the pockets of the men who
control the corporation.
The investors who buy these
bonds are creditors, not owners. If
their interest is not paid they can
apply for a receiver. There are additional
kinds of bonds, such as debentures,
income bonds and deferred
bonds, whose holders are creditors,
but so secondary to the first and second
mortgage bonds that their lien
is speculative.
Stockholders are not creditors at
all and the minority stockholders
have no real rights that they do not
fight for?and they rarely fight because
legal contests are so expensive.
Preferred stock is that class of stock
which gets its dividend first. Common
stock receives dividends only
at the pleasure of the men who control
the corporation. Collateral
bonds are in reality stock, since the
stock deposited as collateral is their
security and their payment cannot
be enforced as against the prior
bondholders.?New York World.
A Young Mountain.
; The Kentish fat boy, Charles L:4'
Watts, of Woodchurch, has just
t celebrated his sixteenth birthday
During the past year he has increased
in size, and he now weighs 373
pounds. On his fifteenth birthday
he weighed 350 pounds.?London
Daily Mail.
Curious Korean Animal.
A countryman reported that a curi
ous animal had appeared in the distarict
of Chungwha. It has long hair
and is different from anything before
seen there. It roams through
the villages at night, and many domestic
animals have been carried off
by it.?Korea Daily News.
DOMESTIC
He?"It's absolutely useless to
that. My will is of iron."
She1?"Yes, I know?pig iron."
Toothbrush Holder.
A simple, but novel, device recently
patented is a combined toothbrush
and holder, shown below. It was designed
primarily for use in traveling,
Folds Into Case.
but, nevertheless, is equally convenient
for use in the home. The brush
is similar to the ordinary toothbrush,
with the exception that the handle is
shorter. This disadvantage is overcome
by connecting the end of the
handle to the holder, the latter thus
affording a grip for the hand. The
holder is of a hollow metal case,
shaped to accommodate the form of
the brush. Where the end of the
handle and the holder are connected
there is a pivioted joint, so that the
brush can be folded back into the
holder. The latter is made in^wo
sections of equal size, one section
serving as a cover, the two sections
being joined by hinges. An Ohio
man is the inventor.
rem nv wunrnAr, phrps for
RAILROAD OPERATORS.
"
The Correct Way of Carrying an Injured
Man Single-Handed.
Sighting Machine.
Few people are aware of the methods
employed to sight the large
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Sighting the Gun.
twelve-pounders on modern battle
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AMENITIES. * ?
argue further. You ought to know ?
?From London Opinion. ' ?
Mop For Oiling Flrtors.
The aim of the majority of inven- t
tors at the present time is in the di- n
rection of designing some contrivance n
which will supplant hand labor, and ^
in the main they are successful. One ?
of the latest is a simple device having
a clamp which holds one or more ^
pieces of felt, the latter being saturat- b
ed with oil to be applied to floors, d
A Massachusetts man is the patentee, d
an illustration of the device being r
shown here.
The clamp which holds the felt is'
made of metal, the front and rear being
plates exactly alike. Tho upper
edges of the plates are bent inward p
to give additional stiffness, and the p
lower edges also bent inward and t
formed with toothed projections. The
plates constitute a jaw for folding i<
and engaging the layers of felt. The t(
two plates are connected at points a
above the centre by a horizontal ^
plate, the latter serving as a head q
and guide for the felt, which can be g
pushed up against it and be retained n
in a horizontal position. C
The upper portions of Ihe plates are 0
held apart by a pair of stiff springs 11
which surround two bolts connecting
the plates. To release the felt ^
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^A I S
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For Oiling Floors. si
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the upper edges of the plates are
pressed toward each other against the
power of the springs. A handle at- ~
tached to the rear plate serves as a
mode of operation. In use the plate
1 l- nil on/1 QnnlfaH t A
ls> saiuiaicu r>n,u vn c.lxkl ca.
the floor very much like a mop.? sc
Philadelphia Record. ki
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A Whale-Headed Stork. cc
Among the many curious and un- ci
usual animals which have been found
by Sir Harry Johnston, the African ti]
explorer, in the Uganda Protectorate, w
is the whale-headed stosk. The bird
resembles the common stork in every- tc
thing but the head, which is anything ti
but beautiful. The beak is enormous
and gives the stork a peculiar whalelike
appearance. It is rather a puzzle
to scientists to discover the rea- th
son for this enormous appendage, d;
The whale's mouth is built to catch j*.
a multitude of small fish, and possibly rj
the stork's beak may have the same (
tendency.?Kansas City Journal.
ships. It is generally supposed that
the gunner sights these immense can
non as he would an ordinary rifle.
Such is not the case, however. An
illustration of the method is shown th
here, the apparatus being the inven- ac
tlon of a gunner in the United States !a
Navy. The apparatus is exceedingly
complicated, and is practically useless
in the hands of a novice. In one
hand the gunner grasps an ordinary
pistol. This pistol is connected to the ^
firipg apparatus of the gun. Above t'
the pistol is a sighting tube and a
number of reflecting glasses. By
moans of reflecting glasses the surroundings
are brought into the range
of the nistol. The gunner need only
sight the pistol to hit a certain object
on the reflecting glasses. As ho g?
brings the pistol Into the correct'
range, the large gun which It controls
is also brought into range. Pulling a]
the trigger of the pistol discharges U(
the gun.
di
ST
Only seven per cent, of the men
in the French army exceed five feet gj
eight inches in height. C1
HNLU TffiSJO FLIGHT"
Victory of Nicaraguans Puts End
Ill-- \W.lU ll.-J..
iu fidi nun nuuuuidd.
Jnited States and Mexico Asked to
Intervene For Pence Before Another
Army is Raised.
Managua, Nicaragua. ? Choluteca
:as been captured and President Bonlla
ha3 fled. The Central American
/ar is practically over. Nicaraguan
teamshlps are following Bonilla.
General Santos Ramirez, Directorieneral
of Telegraps and Telephones,
aade the following statement:
"Nicaraguan forces have captured
Jholuteca, Honduras, which was held
iy the Hondtfran and Salvadorean
roops, and President Bonilla has fled
y boat.
"Steamships will pursue the fugiive
President.
i oeueve me war is enaea.
Choluteca was the strongest fortiied
town in Honduras, and the latter,
s well as Nicaragua, had her strongst
forces in the battle there. It is
n old Spanish town on the Choluteca
ilains and has about 5000 inhabtants.
Its value to Nicaragua is only
s a strategic point. Choluteca was
,lso captured by Nicaragua in 1894,
yhen that country was at war with
londuras. At that time the vieorious
army followed up the capture
rlth the taking of Tegucigalpa.
The Decisive Battle. .
Managua, Nicaragua.?The allied
orces of Salvador and Honduras, uner
personal command of President
Jonilla, of Honduras, sustained anther
severe defeat at the hands of
he Nicaraguan troops, aided by H*onuras
revolutionists near the town
f Maraita.
The battle is said to have lasted
or more than ten hours, following
n attack made by the Nicaraguan
orces, and resulted in the Honduran
,nd Salvadorean troops taking to
heir heels. The defeated soldiers
hrew away their guns and ammuniion
in their flight. The Nicaraguan
roops pursued them.
The Honduran revolutionists capured
about 300 soldiers,, an equal
umber of rifles and three small canon,
together with ammunition,
tbout 200 of the Honduran troops
eserted to the revolutionists during
be battle.
It is estimated that 200 were
illed and 150 wounded during the
attle. The towns of Sula, San Pare,
La Esperanza and Canayagua
eclared themselves in favor of the
evolution.
Ask Our Good Offices.
Washington, D. C. ? President
lonilla has fled from the battlefield,
nd the Central American war has
ractically ended, says the cable disatches
received in Washington by
h.e Nicaraguan Minister, Mr. Corea.
Minister Corea expressed the opin3n
that President Bonilla would go
o Salvador and again recruit his
rmy for a second attack on Nicargua,
unless the United States and
Iexico should exercise their good
fficas to the extent of Insisting that
lalvador and Gautemala maintain
eutrallty. If this was done, Senoi
lorea said, the war was ended, othrwise
he was firmly convinced thai
: would be a question of only a short
ime until hostilities were again reamed.
The Nicaraguan Ministei
ill ask Secretary Root and the Mex:an
Ambassador, 3enor Creelf to take
sme steps to force Salvador and
lautsmala-to keep their pledge oi
eutranty.
STUDENTS IN TRAIN WRECK.
L-: Persons Killed and 17 Injured a;
L03 Angeles.
Los Angeles, Cal.?A special train
n the Santa Fe Railroad, carrying
:ores of students home from an in;rcol!egiate
field meet at Claremont.
ollided head on with the out-bound
mited train while both trains were
loving at a rapid rate within th?
Ity limits.
Four persons were killed and sevnceen
injured, several of them probbly
fatally. The dead are C. G.
ranklin, student at University of
outliern California, and A. H. Edards.
Major C. Gall, and Fred Hodg>n.
students at Occidental College.
Both locomotives, one of the bagige
cars on the limited, and the
noking car on the special train were
emolished. 1
DOY OF NINE A SUICIDE.
rightcst Scholar in Selkirk Village
Found DeadAlbany,
N. Y.?Howard Shutter,
;ed nine, and one of the brightest
:*uool children in the school at Selirk,
about ten miles from this city,
)mmitted suicide. The little fellow
as found hanging from a rafter in
le barn of Charles Niver, the dis>very
being made by the boy's fath\
who is employed on the Niver
irm.
Howard had been playing around
ie neighborhood during the day and
as apparently in the best of spirits,
embers of his family are at a loss
> account for the boy's determinaon
to take his life.
Insane Man Kills His Wife.
Just, released from an asylum for
ie insane in Snakeville, N. J., Anrew
Lindeblad, forty-two years old.
watchmaker, of Jersey City, killed
imself .and his wife, forty years old,
their home. They had lived haply
for a score of years. Lindeblad
id a religious mania.
I
liauways xuuse r ruiynus.
Western railroads announced that '
icy will raise freight rates and such '
:tion will Result in testing the Rate
w in the highest court. 1
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Son Excluded at Dowie's Funeral.
Followers of John Alexander
owie refused to allow his son to
ike part in the Zion "prophet's" <
:neral. '
Ncivsy Gleanings.
A massacre of Jews has taken place ,
Codohllo, Rumania.
The Sioux Indians protest against
ittlement of Utes on their reserva- (
on. I
Poor shipping facilities will cause \
1 advance on paper and pulp prod- t
:ts. ~
Three recipients of Nobel prizes [
ed soon after the distinction was I
yarded. ^
William J. Bryan attributed the
ump In tho stock market to railroad <
ilchanery. '
WASHINGTON.
It was announced in Washington
that hereafter agents would be appointed
to take testimony for the Interstate
Commerce Commission in
places outside of that city.
The Postofflce Department is embarrassed
by being unable to secure
enough twine to tie letters into packages.
Theodore Roosevelt, Jr., is home
from Harvard on the sick list.
Justice Harlan, of the Supreme
Court, granted a writ of error bringing
before that court the question of
the consolidation of Pittsburg and
Allegheny.
President Mellen, of the New-York,
New Haven and Hartford Railroad,
in his call at the White House submitted
a plan looking to the solution
of railway problems.
The State Department has been
notified that the Chinese boycott of
Americans has been effectually suppressed.
Tests made by the War Department
proved that the- rifles carried
by negro troops were used in "shooting-up"
Brownsville, Texas.
Traffic in Army clothing will be
stopped by the War Department.
The Interior!, Department will try
to get the Cheyenne River Sioux to
permit the Ute Indians, of Utah, to
live with them for a time.
President Roosevelt disapproved
the findings of acquittal in the case
of Captain Lewis M. Koehler, Fourth
Cavalry, who was tried in tne rniuppines
on charges of making captious
and unnecessary accusations against
his commanding officer, General
Leonard Wood.
OUR ADOPTED ISLANDS.
The Cuban sugar crop was never
eo great as this season.
The landing of the new Bishop oi
Porto Rico, the Right Rev. W. A.
Jones, who succeeds Archbishop
Blenk, now in charge of the archdiocese
of New Orleans, arrived, and the
event was celebrated with much display.
T. V. Halsey, indicted on ten
counts in connection with alleged
bribery in San Francisco, was arrested
in Manila.
The Porto Rican legislative session
came to a close at San Juan. During
the session 257 bills were Introduced,
of which ninety-five were passed.
The Porto Rican House of Delegates
unanimously adopted a resolution
asking self-government for the
island.
Extension of sugar raising In the
Philippines cannot be carried on
while the door of the great American
market is practically shut against
Philippine products.
DOMESTIC.
Several members of the?younger
element in New York society lost
from $250,000 to $500,000 each in
last week's break in the stocfc
market.
Mysterious boxes containing questionable
victuals are sold to immigrants
on Ellis Island, New York
Harbor, at a dollar each, protests being
of no avail.
The Vestal, whose keel is laid at
Brooklyn, will be the fastest naval
collier in the world.
Mrs. Edna Howard, of Brooklyn,
discovered her husband's past because
he talked in his sleep of sheriffs
and jails.
President Finley, of the Southern
Railway, speaking at Atlanta, said
that the South needed better railroad
facilities, not lower rates, and that
present legislation was endangering
the prosperity of the country.
Harry Pratt Judson Was formally
installed as the second president ol
the University of Chicago, at the
sixty-second convocation of the
school.
Professor Charles A. McCue, a
graduate of Michigan Agricultural
College, has been appointed professor
nf hni-hVitlfnra at Tlelawarfl Colleze.
The schooner, Harry Knowlton,
which was in collision with the Joy
Line steamer Larchmont, was sold at
public auction at Providence, R. I.,
for $28.
FOREIGN.
President Castro of Venezuela returned
to Caracas amid the plaudits
of a great multitude.
Great Britain and Russia have decided
that no more consular guards
in Persia are needed at present.
The British Premier says that
measures are being pursued for the
reform of the Houfee of Lords.
The French Parliament voted
$4000 for the funeral expenses for
M. Berthelot, the celebrated chemist,
who died in Paris.
The Elder Dempster steamship
Jebba was wrecked near Prawle
Point. England; seventy passengers
tvere saved.
An important agreement has been
entered Into by all the railroad companies)
of the United Kingdom doing
away with rebates.
The Russian Government's program,
as announced to the Duma, Includes
laws for free speech, liberty of
worship, habeas corpus,, local selfgovernment
and popular education.
Marines were landed at Trujillo,
Ceiba and Puerto Cortez, Honduras,
from the United States gunboat Marietta
to protect the interests of citizens
of the United States in the war
in Central America.
An anonymous donor has given a
(arge sum to the Journalists' Association
of Budapest to be distributed to
writers fined or imprisoned for pubtishing
facts of public interest.
H. H. Asquith, Chancellor of the
Exchequer, gave reasons in the House
of Commons for the decline in consols,
mentioning the demand for
money, commercial activity and the
3an Francisco earthquake among the
:auses.
French and German bankers have
luthorized Ernesto Tornquist, an Argentine
banker, to sign an Argentine
oan of $35,000,000.
At the first meeting of the Transvaal
Parliament the Government anlounced
its intention of supporting
:he exclusion of Asiatics from the
mines.
The Russian Government and the
Constitutional Democrats united In
:he lower house to defeat a radical
motion to investigate famine condi;ions.
Von Buelow's attempt to usurp
>olice powers in Reichstag has been
protested by President Stolbergi
iVernigerodo.
Horace Rayner was condemned to
leath for the murder of William
fvnitely in Liongpn.
" BOARD OF UNHf 10
Jffl FME OF THfiW f|
Morgan i. O'Brien, Peter B. Olney 'M
and Dr. Leopold Putzel Named,
. WIFE WEEPS OVER PROSPECT |
Lawyers Struggle On Until Last Min?,
i ate and Beg Delay to Bring
Proof That White's Slayer is
1 Sane at Present.
1 New York City.?What Harry K.'
Thaw has feared most since he killed j
Stanford White on the Madison;
Square Roof Garden came to pass;
when Justice Fitzgerald, in the
Criminal Branch of the Supreme,
Court, appointed a commission in'.
; lunacy to inquire into the present
mental condition of the defendant/
The fear that he would be adjudged)
insane and sent to a madhouse has
been so strong with Thaw that soon.
' after the shooting he dismissed the,
Arm of Black, Olcott, Gruber & ;.&S|
i Bonynge as his counsel because he
thought it was their intention to take
him before a lunacy commission. >
, Up to the moment of the appoint,
ment of the commission Thaw's lawyers
fought hard against it, and
when Delphin M. Delmas was ln
formed by Justice Fitzgerald that he
1 had decided to have Thaw's mental
1 condition determined by three disin'
terested persons, Delmas begged for
1 a delay of a day or two in order to
file further affidavits showing Thaw's
present sanity. Justice Fitzgerald1
refused to grant the request, and' ,-:S.
made out an order appointing Morgan
J. O'Brien, former Presiding Jus- , ? $?
tice of the Appellate Division of the
Supreme* Court; Peter B. Olney, a
; former District Attorney of New.
York, and Dr. Leopold Putzel, a
i noted alienist, commissioners to inquire
into Thaw's mental condition
, and report the facts and conclusion
. to the court. ' ' |&
The blow was a staggering one to
Thaw, his wife and his lawyers. Eve1
lyn Nesbit Thaw, who had waited alll
morning and part of the afternoon in' . -' J2
the witness room leading from court,
broke down and wept hysterically;
t when she was informed of Justice
: Fitzgerald's decision. Not since her.
> husband slew Stanford White had' ? , ' ''
she shown such emotion as she dis.
played when the news of the appoint
ment of the commission was brought
! to her. She almost tottered out of J;.
the witness room, and her frame
, shook with sobs as she walked
t through the corridor of the Court
House into the street and crossed
over to the Tombs.
It was Evelyn Nesbit Thaw who
broke the disquieting news to her,
husband. Thaw had waited in his
cell, confident that Justice Fitzgerald' 1 ?3
' woald refuse to appoint the commis>
After receiving written notice of
: their selection, the three appointees
agreed to serve on the commission.;
. They begin their work without delay.!
Just how long the sessions will last
cannot be guessed at, Much will de.
pend upon whether the commission-'
ers decide to go into the history of
the case or only hear witnesses who
[ can swear as to the present mental
condition of the defendant.
The Justice appointing a commis
1 slon in lunacy has the power to re'
ject its report. Thaw will be present ;|0
1 at every, session of the commission.
He must submit to a physical exami
lnation by the doctor on the commisl
slon, but may. refuse to subject him!
self to an oral examination. If he
; should do so, however, it might be
; construed as an acknowledgment that
the District Attorney's contention is
. correct. If the commission should
i find that Tbaw is sound now Justice
J Fitzgerald would have to send for the
( jury ar.d resume the trial.
If the commissioners should find
that Thaw is Insane Justice Fitzger- . j]
1 aid, if he should accept their report,
would be compelled to discharge the
jury, and he would then have to issue
an order for the confinement of Thaw,
in the Asylum for the Criminal Insane
at Matteawan. If Thaw should'
recover his mind later the District x
Attorney's duty would be to place
him on trial again oerore a new jury.
GEN. JAMES M. VARNUM KILLED.
Auto He Was Riding In Struck by
Trolley Car.
New York City. ? General James
M. Varnum, at one time BrigadierGeneral
of the staff of the New York
National Guard and Surrogate of
New York County by appointment of
Governor Roosevelt in 1899, died in *4
Roosevelt Hospital as the result of
injuries received in an automobile
collision with a Broadway trolley car..
The police' said that the accident'
was due to the disobedience of traffic
regulations by Alfred Quarl, the
French chauffeur of General Varnum's
machine.
I Nothing But Encouraging Facts. /
A survey of the country reveals
nothing but encouraging, most encouraging,
facts. Our foreign commerce
is enormous, the internal trade
of the country never was so active,
the farmers prosperous, labor everywhere
well employed, railways have
not enough cars to move the traffic
that is offered; and in the iron industry,
which many regard as a barometer,
the mills are unable to promptly
fill their orders.
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Schoolboy Killed at Play.
Michael Ramsey, of Syracuse, N.
Y., eleven years old, left home for,
school with companions and ran from
them to hide, choosing a place between
two piles of heavy timbers.'
The top tier of one pile became dislodged
and fell upon the lad, killing
him instantly.
Belgian-Dutch Alliance.
The Belgian and Dutch Commissioners
in session at Brussels have \
arranged the terms of an economical
alliance between the two countries.
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Prominent People.
King Victor Emmanuel received
Ambassador Griscom, who presented
his letters.
Lord Avebury, of England, is firm
in the belief that brain workers need
at least nine hours of sleep.
| Henry B. Irving 011 returning to
England says he believes nis iacner
had more personal friends in the
United States than at home.
Dr. Woodrow Wilson said the President
of the United States was no
longer merely the executive head of
the Government designed by the mak-t
ers of the Constitution.