Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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| ]\TLW5 I IiOUISIAN'A ALLIGATOR EATS A Ii I r C1HUU, iJU. n. IVU1 vvvu 4WV ate three-year-old Harry Frye, s was frolicking near the water at headed a narty of picnickers who stream. The child wandered awa tions of its clothing were found f white Teddy bear the boy carricc teeth of the alligator. Tights Off Billboards. Chicago.?Reform has hit the show printers and lithographers and in the future tights are to be tabooed. President C. W. Jordan and Secretary Runey, of the Western Show Printers, said that the merry burlesque maid as she now apoears would appear no more on the billboards. The lurid scenes in the cheap melodrama are to be eliminated also. To Head Union Seminary. New York City.?Dr. Francis Brown, one of the most distinguished Hebrew scholars in America, was elected president of the Union Theological Seminary, to succeed the late Dr. Charles Cuthbert Hall. $900,000 to Run West Point. Washington, D. C.?The House Committee on Military Affairs voted to report favorably the Military Academy bill, which carries an appropriation of approximately $900,000 for the expenses of the West Point establishment for the next fiscal year. Timely Precautions. New York City.?Boarding officials In our port have been instructed to watch closely all vessels arriving from the Republic of Venezuela. This extra precaution has been caused by the prevalence of a "nameless" disease in La Guayra. It has caused many deaths. Bill to Stop Cotton Gambling. Baton Rouge, La.?Paul M. Pott, president of the Louisiana division of the Southern Cotton Association, announced here that a bill would be ina in the Louisiana House of Representatives prohibiting dealing in cotton futures. Wyoming For Bryan. Cheyenne, Wyo.?The Dem6cratic State Convention selected delegates to the National Convention and instructed for William J. Bryan. Resolutions were adopted opposing the forest reserve policy of the present National Administration. 3000 Hat Trimmers Out. Orange, N. J.?Hat manufacturers In the Oranges shut down their works. Between 2500 and 3000 men and women are out of employment. "Fighting Bob" Back. Washington, D. C.?With his oldtime flow of animal spirits and looking much better than when he landed at San Diego several weeks ago, RearAdmiral Robley D. Evan- arrived here. California For Taft. Sacramento, Cal.?The Republican State Convention instructed its delegates for Taft. |N?XS b: BELLE GUNNESS A ROPE DANC Christiania, Norway.?Mrs. m tne J^aporte muraer mystery, i here, is remembered in Christia Petters Paulsen, a traveling con, formances at all the fairs in Nor dancer, and often was seen in shi ing before the tent, extending a inside. Her three sisters and b The father made money enough property near Trondhjen, Mrs. ' way. Strengthening Jamaica's Defenses. Kingston, Jamaica. ? The War -Office is about to start the construction of new forts at East Kingston, in which the guns recently brought from the Island of St. Lucia, where the fortifications were dismantled., will "be placed. Irish Recruits Falling OCT. Dublin. ? The effect of the Sinn Fein propaganda against the enlistment of Irishmen in the British army S 1s making itself felt. A return just issusd shows that the number of irishmen now serving under the British colors is only 22,000, the lowest point reached for fifty years. King to See Miss Reid Wed. London. ? Miss Jean Reid, the -American Ambassador's daughter, will wed John Hubert Ward, the Earl of Dudley's brother, June 23. The -ceremony will be in the Chapel Royal at St. James' Palace and King Edward will be present. Locust Swarms in Italy. Naples. ? The Giorno states that swarms of locusts have devastated the country arouna luaruggio ana jviansuria iu the last few days. The peasants in these districts cleared about forty tons of insects from their fields. Peace Court. San Jose. Ccsta Rica.?The Central American Court of Justice, which is to further peace and harmony among the Central American States, will hold its first session at Cartatgo, Costa Rica, in the last week of May. Troops Repulse Rebels. ( Pekin, China.?The revolutionists 3n Yunuan Province have had a setback. J?efuse to Admit Ship. Willemsted, Curacao.?A schooner which arrived here from La Guayra was refused admittance to the port and was not even permitted to remain at the quarantine station, owing to the prevalence of bubonic plague at La Guayra. Germans to Teach Brazil's Army. Rio Janeiro, Brazil.?It is understood that the Minister of War has resolved to contract for German instructors instead of Frei^Jh for the | army. Coming Homo From Philippines. Manila. ? The transport Sherman sailed. Those leaving include Colonel vvniiam rauiutug, recently promuieu, joining the Twenty-fourth Infantry; Lieutenant-Colonel James S. Rogers, commanding the First Infantry, with the whole regiment. The delegate to the Democratic Convention in Denver is also going on the Sherman. International Police in Tangier. Tangier.?A Franco-Spanish police force has been installed at Tangier. The Frenchmen occupy posts outside tind the Spaniards inside tiA?iXi'. >1 WIM OY. t alligator In the Calcasieu River son of Gus Frye. while the child a fishing camp. The baby's father snent the dav on the banks of the ty, and after an hour's search porloating down the river. A large I was found punctured with the More Traction Accidents. New York City.?According to th? reports compiled by the Public Service Commission, there were in April 4707 accidents upon the street railways. subways and elevated roads within its jurisdiction. Maryland Wins Target Trophy. Washington,. D. C.?The armored cruiser Maryland was the trophy winner in the recent record target practice at Magdalena Bay. Washington For Taft and "Dry." Spokane, Wash.?A dramatic and ( unexpected feature of the Washington Republican State Convention was the adoption of a local option plank by a i vote of 506 to 258. The convention unanimously instructed for Taft. ! Asylum For House Disturber. Providence, R. I.?George F. Gridley, a salesman, of this city, who created a disturbance in the House oi Representatives, at Washington, bj waving an American flag and demanding recognition by the Speaker, has been committed to the State Hospital for Insane at Cranston. Arkansas "Usurper" Ousted. Little Rock, Ark.?Acting Governor Hamiter has turned over the office to Acting Governor Pindall, whc has just reached the city. Governor Pindall refused to shake hands with Hamiter. Edward T. Sanford For Judge. Washington. D. C.?The President nominated Edward T. Sanford, oi Tennessee, to be United States District Judge for Eastern and Middls districts of Tennessee. Corn Touches 74% in Chicago. Chicago.?The price of May corn Ion the Board of Trade soared to seventy-four and seven-eighths cents as the result of the bears' energetic efforts to cover. This is the hignest price at which corn has sold for a number of years. Aide in Sheridan's Rido Dead. Cleveland.?Michael Mulcahy. sixty-eight years old, the last survivoi of the three aides who accompanied General Phil Sheridan on his famous ride to Winchester, '"".ied here after a two weeks' illness from apoplexy. Debs Nominated. Chicago.?Eugene V. Debs, of Indiana, was nominated for President soon after midnight on the first ballol by the Socialist party in National Convention. 1000 Coke Ovens Resume. Pittsburg, Pa.?As a sign of returning prosperity 1000 coke ovens resumed operation here. Y (^ABLE/ ER WHEN A GIRL IN NORWAY. Belle Gunness. the central figure ietails of which have been received nia as a girl, assisting her father, juiei auu magiuau, v* uu ga*c pciway. She performed as a rope ort skirts and fleshings, half freezn invitation to the public to step rother also took part in the show, eventually to retire to a small Gunness has many relatives in NorFrench Chase Tribesmen. Casablanca.?General d'Amade, al the head of three columns, conducted a raid on the tribesmen lying in the Mdakra Mountains. He razed theii crops and destroyed several camps The French had six men wounded. Disarming the Moros. Manila.?Disarming of the Basilac Moros is progressing without serious trouble. The Lano districts are quiet Japan Refuses China's Proposal. Pekin, China.?The Japanese Government has refused to take undei consideration the modification pro^ posed by China to her original oppo sition to the construction of the Hsin Min-Tun-Fakumen Railroad. Real "King" For Iceland. Copenhagen. ? The first king oi Iceland, in modern times, is to be King Frederick of Denmark. By vir tue of a report submitted by his High Pr?TYimicoi/>n T?ro^orlr>l? will VUUlUlli?OiVU| JL 4 VUVi 1V/A. ?T A 1A k/tUV^Ul' titular ruler of the Arctic island ir return for the concession of a con stitution granting autonomy to Iccland for twenty-five years. New Gladiator For England. London.?The Government has ue cided to replace the cruiser GladiaLoi and the destroyer Tiger, which recently were sunk, by the purchase ol two warships from private Britisl firms. | o|miiinu auu nwn.il ouiuicis ? i^nu Paris.?A fierce fight has occurrec between Spanish and French soldiers at Casablanca, Morocco, in Avhich oik man was killed and three wounded . Spain and France are jointly respon J sible for policing Morocco, and boti ; have military forces there. I McKcc Divorcc Decreed. Paris.?The McKee divorce was decreed in accordance with the an nouncement made by the court abou two weeks ago. The decree is with out prejudice to either party. Persia Wants Pcacc. St. Petersburg.?At the urgen* re quest of Persian commissioners fron Teheran, the punitive expsdition sen by Rijssia into Persian territory t< quell the brigandage in the vicinit: i ~ c r> rvnu ^ ?? v%OP- .? ( Ul otrica u v in.. oui^cuutu .. :j k, _ ! tions. Xcgotiate Xcu* Treaty. Stockholm.?The Governments o Sweden and Denmark are at presen negotiating a treaty which will pro vide for the arbitration of all ques tions arising between the c.vo couz tries. Lutiovic Halevy Dead. Paris.?The death is announced o Ludovic Halevy, the dramatic autho and novelist. M. Halevy was a mem ber ot the French Academy and wa: bora in this city on July 1, 1834. Hi was one of the most distiii^mw'-ei ;hnrw of hie "-n^aro- 1 j YO-HEAVE, I ?Cartoon by W | JUNE 1 KNOWN AS I National Prosperity Association Men?Evidences From I Times Have ( St. Louis. ? The Simmons Hardware Company, the Ferguson McKIni ney Dry Goods Company and the Ely I Walker Dry Goods Company are among the manufacturing and jobbing companies which decided to reemploy several thousand idle workmen on June 1. The National Enami eling Company and the Helmholz i Furnace Company have also decided to join the advance guard in the rei employment movement, as the National Prosperity Association was advised that these companies had already begun putting a percentage of ; their idle employes back to work. ; The corporations mentioned will re! engage 4000 to 5000 men in their faci tories and shops. The Executive Committee of the National Prosperity Association at its last meeting fixed June las re-employl ment day. It concluded to call on all the manufacturing, mercantile and , financial corporations of St. Louis to , give work to as many idle men as ! possible, and even to recall more men i than are needed right away. The plan has taken definite shape in St. Louis, and the committee expects to have a comparatively large list of companies which have acceded to the i request. The committee also approved forms of letters to manufacturers, mer| chants and financiers of St. Louis and other cities regarding re-employment day. Railroad officials are also included. Officers of large concerns in all parts of the country are requested to notify the association as to the ; number of workmen and clerks who SCIENTIST SURE HE HAS F . Dr. Jobn 0. O'Brien Cites Several Gases Wh i Along Same Line as Those Which Dei and Tubercul Masslllon, Ohio.?In the laboratory ; of the Massillon State Hospital Dr. John D. O'Brien reiterated a statement recently made by him before the American Medico-Psychological Association's Convention at Cincinnati that he had discovered the germ of paresis, and that the disease is curable. He summed up the result of his experiments in these two decI laratlons: That paresis undoubtedly j Is a germ disease and that the germ ! has been discovered; that, while in ! the experimental stage, sufficient tests J have been made to show that paresis I is curable, and that he has specific | cases to point to as definite results. Dr." O'Brien does not believe it would be proper to make public the , names of the patients whom he asserts the treatment has cured, but : he gives the specific cases as a newsl paper man of Washington, D. C., who i was treated for paresis and is again ' at work, cured; a civil engineer of . prominence in Nashville, Tenn., who is cured and at work, besides a number of people in Ohio who were brought to the hospital with acute 1 forms of the disease and cured. Othi | ers who are now at the hospital still . ! under treatment are showing marked i progress toward recovery. Dr. O'Brien has at hand, in addi. tion to his own statements and re ! ports from hospital authorities in re. i gard to the successful treatment of . paresis, .patients' photographs which BASEBALL NINE A ' Nineteen Months Old Child Ab ? Becomes "Mascot" | Galveston, Texas.?The adoption i l of a nineteen-months-old baby by the ! j Houston Professional Baseball Club ' ! has just been announced. On a train i on which were riding the members of the Houston team, of the Texas League, the players noticed a woman and a curly haired child. The woman requested W. E. Hester, a pitcher, to hold the child for a few minutes, then r j stepped into another coach and left j the train at the next station. I ! A note found on the child gave its i : name as Edmund Winters, and the I ball player decided to adopt the boy. j Before the end of the journey every I member of the club fell in love with ^ j the abandoned baby and entered into ; j a compact to care for the little one, j electing it the mascot of the club. At the games in Dallas and Fort | j Worth the mascot was exhibited in j I the grounds during the game, and j was showered with money from the | French Budget Shows . I . Deficit of .$8,800,000. - | Paris.?M. Caillaux, the Minister t j of Finance, announces that the bud ; get for 1909 shows an estimated dei ficit of $8,800,000, the revenue being ; estimated at $785,800,000 and the j expenditures at $794,600,000. | In order to make up the shortage " it has been decided not to issue shortt term bonds, but to reform the collec, 1 tion of dues on stock and bond trans. ; fers, and strictly to enforce the existing regulations against evasions of i uuues. Jottings About Sports. t i Stewards of the Pennsylvania 1 j Breeders' and Racing Association anc ; aounced an attractive program for the * i first race meet of the organization. Melvin W. Sheppard, the American I distance runner, is so eager to be a I New York policeman, that he may not : accompany the Olympic team to Eng! land. I \V. B. Burroughs, of the Illinois r University, scored a double win in the field events at the Pennsylvania relay 3 races. In the shot he easily outdis_ tanced Krueger, the intercollegiate - champion. EVERYBODY. WiCIt . A. Rogers, in the Nev; York Herald. RE-EMPLOYMENT DAY Helps Restore Work to 5000 Pittsburg That Good Home Again. will be re-employed and the date when the men will be taken back. . Two large dry goods concerns told the committee that they decided to celebrate "Employment Day" by putting back some 3000 employes. Similar assurances have been made by other concerns, and the committee believes that June will mark in a large degree the return of prosperity. Pittsburg.?That a return to prosperity has come was evidenced here when it was announced that many of the Carnegie Steel Company's mills had been started up again. The Carnegies started their Twenty-ninth and Thirty-third street mills here, also two more of the Homestead group. The Singer Nimick Mills, making hoops and bands, were started full after an idleness of several months. The Carter Iron Works, 'PiffaViin'cr wsro also started. and the National Tube Company, which has been repairing mills at McKeesport, announces that it will ask for an additional appropriation immediately for more repairs. Evidence of returning prosperity is furnished by the announcement that the Pittsburg and Lake Erie Railroad has ordered the Standard Steel Car Company to begin construction of 2000 all-steel cars for that road. The new cars will be used to handle the tonnage between the coal and coke regions and the lakes. The order calls for 1000 specially designed allsteel coke cars, and 1000 all-steel gondolas. The contract was originally awarded last summer but held up. OUND GERM OF PARESIS Icii He Asserts Be Has Cnred-Eiperlments uoastrsted Existence of Diphtheria osis Germs. show the hysterical form of attack when brought to the Massillon State Hospital, and the patients when dis charged from the hospital as cured. "I know," said Dr. O'Brien, "that it is a bold statement to make that the germ of paresis has been discovered. Many scoffed when the germ theory of diphtheria and tuberculosis was advocated. We feel warranted, from the number of cases treated and from the satisfactory results of the experiments made, in stating without qualification that paresis is a germ disease. We also feel that, from the work done, we have found the bacillus. We have cured patients, are helping many now and expect to go forward with the work." Dr. O'Brien has confined his work to living subjects; no pathological investigation has been done on postmortem subjects. He now has germs in cultures. He says that, like a farmer, he is seeking to find the best culture in which to grow bacilli from serum extracted from patients, and to that end is doing considerable experimenting. Dr. O'Brien began his experiments by taking serum from the spinal columns of living patients. With this he treated dogs, rabbits and rats, with results which proved to him that the animals inoculated contracted welldeveloped forms of paresis. He then used the treatment on human patients. ADOPTS A BABV. _ , andoned by Mother on Train i of Houston Club. audience, and at Houston collections were taken up, and the baby now has a fund of more than $2000 to its credit and still growing. Offers from some of the wealthiest families in the State to adoot the child have been re fused and the baby mascot will not be parted with by the club. The mother, who is less than eighteen years of age, was found in Hillsboro and her tragic story unfolded. She had lived with a drunken father until twelve years of age, when she ran away from him. Before she was sixteen years of age she was married, and after the birth of her child hei husband deserted them and disappeared. The child-mother found employment in a packing house at Forf Worth, earning $6 a week. Recently the packing house cut down the num- ( ber of its employes, and the mother, determined that the baby should not starve, gave it to the ball player. Judge Rules that Stock Yard is a "Hotel For Hogs." East St. Louis, 111.?Judge Francis H. Wright In the United States Circuit Court decided that although the National Stock Yards here has several miles of tracks, engines and cars and other eniiinment it was not a common carrier and is not subject to Federal j railroad laws. The Stock Yards attorney contend- i ed that his clients were conducting a j "hotel for hogs and other live stock" i and not a railroad. In this he was J sustained by the court. Stub Ends of News. Rear-Admiral Sperry took command of the Atlantic battleship fleet. Secretary Taft arrived in Washington, returning from his trip to Panama. A bill to create an Appalachian forest reserve was passed by Congress. The battleship fleet sailed from San Francisco for ports on Puget Sound. Frank Merritt, of New York City, repeated his offer to give himself to science to be experimented on in the search for a cure for consumDtion. 1 BIKFMMPPlESim Pittsburg May Lose $1,000,000 Deposit in Allegheny National Shortage of Cashier Montgomery Es? timated at Two Millions or More ?State Funds Tied Up. Pittsburg.?With more than a million and a half of dollars of its funds tied up indefinitely as a result of the suspension of the Allegheny National Bank, the city of Pittsburg finds itself confronted with the possibility of being forced to issue bonds to raise money to meet current expenses. The suspension of the bank leaves the city with practically no immediately available funds. snortiy alter tne oanK ciosea vjity Treasurer John P. Steel presented a check for $1,546,953.34. the amount of the city's deposit, but it was not honored. "The bank is in the hands of a receiver," explained the paying teller. "Then there is nothing doing," observed Treasurer Steel. The paying teller shook his head. The proceeding was merely formal. "Will the city lose any money?" was asked of National Bank Examiner Folds. "I don't know," was the reply. The investigations to date into the defalcations of William Montgomery, cashier of the Allegheny National Bank, show a loss to the bank ci $2,105,000, and place the dishonest officer in the front rank of bank wreckers. It is thought that this is not the full extent of the robbery. Montgomery waived a preliminary hearing and was held for Grand Jury investigation. The city of Pittsburg entered suits to recover $1,000,000 from "men who were on bonds safeguarding the city against loss of its deposits, which amounted to $1,500,000, every dollar of which is supposed to have gone to Montgomery. There is doubt whether one of the bonds lor $500,ooo can oe collected. In that case the city will lose $1,000,000. In any event the city is certain to lose $500,000, for it has been'discovered that .no attempt "was ever made to have the bauk give bond for more than $1,000,000 of the $1,500,000 on deposit. Among the bondsmen are Cashier William Montgomery, who is named in one of the suits entered by the City Solicitor. Secretary of State Robert McAfee is another of the bondsmen. He was also a director in the bank, ft is thought most of the restitution will have to be made by Joshua Rhodes, the wealthy steel man, who was on the first bond for $500,000. State funds to theamount of $523,477 were carried in the bank, and these officials will take immediate steps to recover the money. The State fund, however, is secured by bonded companies to the extent of ?4,500,000; It transpired that a poker game was a regular part of the day's business in the bank. When the closing hour arrived the game began iu the directors' room, it is said. Montgomery acted as banker in the game. Bank funds are alleged to have been lsed to redeem chips. Montgomery's first Sunday in jail was not relished. He balked at the brown bread and coffee offered him for breakfast. He ate the dinner with relish, however, and then attended chapel service When an eight-year-old boy sang tears came to Montgomery's eyes. .He held up his nand when the preacher asked that all who wished to be prayed for sigaify their desire in that way. Montgomery was accompanied to the service by other officers of the bank. Hani" rVicI* Pittsburg.?With assets of $2,000,300, most of which the firm had thought was good paper, and with iebts of only $500,000, James Carothers & Co., brokers, one of the largest firms east of the Alleghany Mountains,went into voluntary bank-, ruptcy because of the failure ,of the Allegheny National Bank, of Pittsourg. The firm is said to have carried an immense amount of the Allegheny National stock as assets and jecurity, but the absolute failure of :he bank has rendered this paper of 30 value and the firm asked for a receiver to protect itself and creditors. PRINCETON GIRL IJROWNED. Body of Bertha Va:iderbilt, Library 4oo!efonf 17ahnrl in PilTlfll OOlOlUlll.) JL" V UliU JLMM, VaiMMSI Princeton, N J.?The body of Miss I Bertha Vanderbilt, of Amsterdam, N, iT., the .".ssistant in the Princeton University Library, who had been missing four days, was found floating in the Raritan Canal about half a mile from the Carnegie Lake aqueduct. When she left her boarding house she said she was going for a walk, ind one of the theories to account for her strange disappearance has been that she fell in Carnegie Lake while trying to cross a narrow section of it 5n a slippery log. The university had been greatly axcited over the case, and hundreds }f the under-graduates joined in the search. The girl's body bears no marks of a struggle except a few scratches, which it might easily have received while rolling upon the bottom of che canal. War on the Gypsy Moth. It was said in Boston that sO.OrtO parasites of the gypsy and browntailed moths had been released in Massachusetts. HOUSE PASSES VREELANI) BILL. Sixteen Republicans Refused to Vote For It. Washington, D. C.?Ey a majority o" 39 the recast Vreeland bill to provide an emergency currency wa? passed by the House of Representatives after its provisions hau been bitterly attacked by Democrats and recalcitrant Republicans. The vote on naccae-p of the bill was 1S4 tc I 145. Sixteen Republicans refused tc vote for it. TARIFF REVISION NEXT YEAR Doth Houses of Congress Make That Fledge. Washington, D. C.?Both houses oJ Congress adopted practically identical resolutions to carry out Ihe promise of the Republican pariy to revise the tariff. Attention will be called to this action in the platform to be adopted at the Chicago convention, and assurance will be given that the I'nuiainTi imiiov will be consummated in thft Sixtieth Contrress. \ PATRICIDE AND SUICIDE i TP STOP fl WEDDING r George E. Sterry, Millionaire Mer- yc chant, Killed by Son. J W JXJ OBJECTED TO SECOND MARRIAGE w Murderer Had Been Drinking Heavily ?Father Was Soon to Wed a School Teacher Half His Ag&? b( Son Leaves Odd Letter. bo 80 New York City.?George Edward ^ Sterry, president of the Weaver & et Sterry Company, wholesale druggists, tt a director of the Princeton TheologI- w: cal Seminary, an elder of the Fourth ! w Avenue PreBbyterlan Church and a I man of wealth, was shot and killed at ^ noon as He sat Derore nis aess in nis old-fashioned private office at No. 79 Pine street. The murderer was his second 3on, George E. Sterry, Jr., cc aged forty-three, the secretary of the a? drug company. After shooting hia 30 father the son walked to a chair a few feet away, spread a newspaper on his lap and then fired a bullet into his ? own brain. There were no witnesses 151 to the shooting. The elder Sterry was seventy-two bl years old. On June 3 he was to havo m married Miss Rachel Brlggs Blaikie, a school teacher, of East Orange, forty years his junior. It was his son's objection to this marriage that led to the tragedy, as was shown conclusive- si ly by the following letter, written w presumably at the son's desk in tho in office adjoining his father's a short sj time before the crime and found af- ar terward in his coat pocket by Coroner Harburger: "To whom it may concern (the Cor- c0 oner, first, I presume): I took a sol- is emn oath to myself that my father bt should never disgrace the memory of sc my sainted mother. There is not a m taint of selfishness in me, and had my ^ father engaged himself to a lady of mature age, I would not, and certainly none of my brothers would not have done else than bid him good luck, and certainly trust that he should live for- ^ ever.. I always desired a long and . happy life for my 'old man'?a term ,0 which I frequently and afectionately se used toward him. This is now 11 th o'clock, May 19. No one is in my in confidence, but mybrothers may draw ci i conclusion from my double murder. "There is a point which struck me ^ as particularly interesting. While . riding down on.the Ninth avenue $le- f"' rated I passed casual glances on those tc around me, as they doubtless did on me, and the thought that I desire to w convey is this: How many thousands th would have stared me out of countenance had they known of the prom- e] Inent captions my double crime would warrant in to-morrow's papers. "There is a comical and laughable side in this. I would willingly give vi S500 to Rachel B. Blaikie to hear le the beautiful and touching prayers R for the salvation of my soul that she will offer up. Of course, I am under a violent strain. Many of my sentences may not be grammatical and may be crude. ai "It seems to me that God has told ej me to do what I propose doing. I W( prayed to God no less than twenty . times a day to show me some other --x iti- T + tO way (JUL ui uuia uuuuic, anu. x u um fully believe he has shown me the in proper way to save my family from h? disgrace. GEORGE E. STERRY, Jr. th "P. S.?Another point I desire to ar mention. Two seconds after my tath- j er starts I will follow, as the poor old man needs a guide and a guard- J" ian. Should we run across some of ** that East Orange bunch, we will glide us up a side street." fo This letter was written on blue ie note paper of the Manhattan Square gj Hotel, where the dead son had been wj living for three years with his wife. . How near was the old gentleman's ' marriage, which the son's bullet frus- dr trated, was shown by a slip of paper he found carefully folded in his wallet, ni On it was written this in the senior th Sterry's handwriting, evidently in- eD tended for the newspapers: "Married, at Englewood, N. J., on . June 3, 1908, at the residence of Mr. and Mrs. Cameron Blaikle, by the Bn " T>~nrr,av TTM H V nf OranZfi. tU UCV. JU1UIIC1 uuvkj , V* ? _ r Rachel Brlggs Blalkle to George Ed- se ward Sterry." w] Mr. Blaikie , is a brother of the i pi woman Mr. Sterry was to marry, and ! g( he had turned over his house for the wedding. Mr. Sterry had intended to start immediately after the ceremony; on a European trip, and had his tickets bought. Their destination was i Italy, and a letter telling of rates at a hotel at Leghorn was found opened on his de3k in front of him. Mr. Sterry was a particularly hale and vigorous old man. His first wife, the mother of the son who murdered him, died three years ago. Since then he had lived with two of his sons, John and James, at his house at No. 21 West Seventy-fourth street. The news that he had decided to make Miss Blaikie his wife was first broken by the father to his sons last OJ] January. The sons opposed it, it is said, owing to the disparity in ages. sp According to the story the police and te the coroner got the leader in this Ac opposition was George Sterry, who, beside having a rather irascible dis- Ql, position, had been a rather heavy j drinker, in recent years. The other sons are William DeWitt, the eldest 0E of the family, John and James. An' Tir~ 11 ~n fan; roars I '"1 ocner son, wuiicn^c, uicu u ivn ^vm?- ? ? ago. George Sterry was forty-three years old. All four of the sons have been helping their father in his drug business. nc ry Appropriation Fop Japan's Fair. in The bill making an appropriation on of $1,500,000 by Congress for repre- be V, tVia TTnitoH Stntps at the Of aeiiiunuu ui to*. Tokio Exposition in 1912 was passed \ ba and the conference report on the leg- an islative appropriation bill was agreed to. cu Senator ^IcEnery Re-elected. tei At Eaton Rouge, La., United States flo Senator Samuel Douglas McEnery tej was elected to succeed himself by thfc sp Senate and House of the Louisiana th Legislature. wj sit VriLL REDUCE COl'TOX CROP. jn) I frc Fanners Nipped by Holding Movo ment Plow Up -0 Per Cent. nu Atlanta, Ga.?In an effort to re- on uuce the Cotton Acreage the Farmers' 'n( Union has appealed to its members to fi plow up at least twenty per cent, of \vi tiie cotton already planted, and in iy some regions whole fields of cotton wa have been plowed up. The land ia being replanted in corn and peas. !: The farmers of Georgia have suffared heavily l'rom the holding moveincut. m( " - " ' .^SHB V -WMi iousehoid Matters. '"'urniture Polish. Have your druggist prepare' for >u five cents' worth of turpentine ith five cents' worth of parafflne oil. lake well and apply to furniture ith a soft cloth, after which rub dry tth another cloth. This is especially tective for a piano. ? New York rorld. To Clean Carpets. Use two ounces each of salsoda and >rax, one cake of white soap dislved in a large bucketful of boiling ft water. Let stand until cool; ien add *wo ounces of sulphuric her. Scrub the dusted carpet on e floor with the warm fluid and Ipe dry with a clean cloth. This ill destroy moths and clean and ighten the carpet beautifully.?New ark World. '' ? To Remove Spots. Fill a small cheese cloth bag with irnmeal and rub the soiled surface i you would with a plain cloth; metimes a large grease stain on the all above a couch where members of ie family have rested their heads in best be removed by the use of otting paper and a hot iron; the ?at draws the grease through the otting paner, then rub with the eal bag.?Boston Post. Cold Storage Window Box. An inexpensive cold storage consts of a box the width of a kitchen indow and from twelve to eighteen ches high. It rests on the outside 11. with opening toward the window id fastened to it by a strong hook id staple on each side. The box la ivered with floor oilcloth; the inside lined with white, soft oilcloth. This >x is a boon to housekeepers during iring and early winter for meats, ilk, butter and all edibles to be ;pt cool.?Boston Post. Soap Babbles. Children always delight in soap lbbles, but often there would-be enyment is marred because of the eming impossibility of making suds iat will lend themselves to "blowg." One who knows gives this repe for a successful suds: An inch cube of yellow soap should ; dissolved in a pint of warm water, dd a tablespoonful of gum arable i give elasticity, and when thorough incorporated add a quart of cold ater and a 'easpoonful of glycerine, lis last for the sake of brilliancy. If one wishes to make the suds aborate, add strawberry juice or irrant juice to give a pinkish hue. rape juice will tinge the bubbles olet or purple, and yet prove harmss to the little folks.?New Haven egister. ' ' Bath Tub For Baby. Get some strips of wood about one id one-half inches wide and threeghth of an inch thick for the frameork, four strips thirty Inches long r the legs, which are pivoted upon ,e ends of a central bar twenty-eight ches long. I used an old broom indie for the central bar and joined e legs to it with alongscrew. There e four strips twenty-eight inches r the side bars: two are elued and tiled at the top for rubber bag to be eked to; the other two strips are ied for braces and are nailed about ur inches from the bottom of the gs. The tub itself is made of a sin? e piece of rubber cloth thirty inches ide and one and one-eighth yards ng. I used a lining of the coarsest illing to strengthen it. There is a sm at each end, and broad tapes neteen inches long are passed rough the hems and firmly fastied to the side bars; the sides of e rubber cloth are tacked to the 3e bars with brass headed tacks. A iall pleat in each corner gives the b a better shape. This tub will rve as a bed for a small baby, and ben a little oiaer it maKes a saie ace to put the baby with its toys.-? jston Post. Apple ITlUIIillS.? \_/UO Cgg uculcu, ie cup chopped apples, two tableoonfuls sugar, one of melted butr, two and one-half cups of sifted iur, one-half cup milk. Currant Cup Cakes.?One and onetarter cups sugar, "our eggs, one vel teaspoonful mace, one cup flour, ie and one-quarter cups of pastry iur, two-thirds cup of cleaned curnts. Bake in moderate oven. Boston Brown Kread. ? Mix one p yellow cornmeal, one cup graham iur, one-half teaspoon salt, one cup e meal and two teaspoons of bakg powder well together; then add le-half cup of molasses, then a well aten egg, into which put one pint milk. Mis thoroughly to form a tter. Pour into well greased molds d steam four hours. Snowball Cake.?One and one-half ps sugar; three tablespoonfuls butp; two-thirds cup milk; two cups ur; three eggs whites; two even ispoonfuls baking powder; one teaoouful extract of almond. Cream e butter and sugar, add the egg lites, milk, flour and baking powdar ted together, and then the flavorBake in a square cake pan, and )St. Stewed Lettuce.?Wash the desired mber of heads of lettuce, cutting ! the stalks at the roots, and put :o a saucepan with an onion sliced, little parsley and salt and pepper, th a very little water, to cook slowfor two hours. By this time the iter should have pretty well cooked ay, leaving the lettuce fairly dry. imove from it the onion and parsput into a dish, dress well witli ilted butter and send to table hot.