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LOOKING BACKWARD.
Can't you imagine in the days
"When Shakespeare wooed and wed.
The dames of Stratford when they met,
Their market baskets down would set.
And ere they went 1 heir separate ways,
fj Such things as follow snid:
"Have you heard?" '"What?" "Anne
Hathaway
Is very soon to marry!"
""Whv, no. forsooth! Who is ho. prav?"
"Shes poire to throw herself away
On vouug Will Shakespeare, so they say.
Unless -ill plays miscarry."
* What, that poor, foolish rhymester lad!
He never can support her."
"Yes. doesn't it seem almost sad?
Because we know she might haMt* had
One of true worth. It seems too had
js When betters came to court her "
"They sav some years the elder she."
"And he's not worth his salt,
& As anyone with eyes can see."
"Well, if young folks will foolish be
At least they can't blame vou and melt's
surely not our fault."
Yes, don't you s'nose such things were said
When young Will Shakespeare wooed and
wed ?
?Kansas City Times.
Tfc M iint t irrnnf r
I \ V IP\ IttN LI 11 Lc
PAX/X JAMES STOPPED
; THE SUN.
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Once there was a little boy named
James Montmorency Stebbins. He
had yellow hair, a turned-up nose and
freckles of assorted sizes, and he
didn't like to go to school. He hated
it so much that at last he made up his
mind to go to the old gray witch who
lived at the top of a volcano that
overlooked the Stebbins' back yard.
This witch was very old and very
gray, and so wise that people used to
-come from miles around to ask her
what to do when they didn't know
themselves.
So one afternoon James put on his
coat and hat and started to climb the
volcano.
There was a path up the side of
the volcano that had been worn by
the feet of the people who came to
ask the gray witch questions. So
James followed it. And at first as he
went along there were trees and flowers
on either side, but as he got
farther up they grew less and less until
at last there was none left and
their place was taken by burnt black
stones and gray ashes. And there
"were no birds or butterflies or hoppy
toads about, only a few brown lizards,
which whisked out of sight as
soon as they saw James coming.
Everything was so lonely and so still
that he almostwished he hadn't come,
'but he kent bravelv on and bv and
by he got to the top of the mountain.
There, just under the rim, perched
like a swallow's nest, was a little gray
house.
"That must be where the gray
-witch lives,"' thought James, so he
went up and knocked at the door.
And right away quick the door flew
open, and there stood the gray witch
on the threshold.
She looked at the little boy over
her spectacles. "Good morning,
James Montmorency Stebbins," she
said. "You've come to see me about
school, haven't you?"
Now that surprised James Montmorency
Stebbins very much, for he
had never told any one of his plan
of going to see the gray witch aud
he wondered how she could possibly
know. The gray witch chuckled when
' she saw how surprised he looked.
"Make your request, make your re
quest," she said, "and speak quickly,
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jLWi x uavcu l ant muc wcidic.
'If you please," said James, as fast
as he could, "I'd like it never to be D
o'clock iu the morning any more."
"You won't like it a bit," said the
witch, ''but you shall have it if you
I want it,'' and she went into the house
and came back with a bow and arrow,
which she gave to him.
"Now, James Montmorency Stebbins,"
she said, "this is a magic arrow
and if you shoot it at the sun tomorrow
morning early it will pin it
tight on to the sky so that it won't
be able to move forward. So then
it can't ever get to be 9 o'clock."
"And then I won't ever have to go
to school," cried James in glee.
But the gray witch only chuckled
in veply and shut the door before
James had time to say thank you.
But he was very happy and he went
down the mountain past the gray
ashes and past the green trees till at
last he came safe and sound to his
own back yard, and all the time he
thought to himself, "How delightfully
delicious not to have to go to school
again," and all that night he was so
happy he could hardly sleep.
The very first thing next morning
he was up and dressed and he ran
out into the back yard with his magic
.bow and arrow.
The sun was just rising over the
hills. James took his arrow, fitted
it to the bow, aimed at the sun and
pulled the string.
Whizz went the arrow up through
the clear air; up, up and up till it
reached the sun and pinned it fast
onto the blue sky.
Then James was delighted. He
jumped up and down and clapped his
hands.
"No more school for me," he cried,
with joy.
And he ran into the house. "Oh,
mother and father," he cried, "I don't
have to go to school to-day. Let's
have breakfast and then go off and
spend the day in the woods!"
"Breakfast?" said his mother.
"Why, James, it is much too early
for breakfast. Go out into the garden
and pliy. I will call you when it is
reaay.
So .Tames went back to the garden
and played for a ions while. But his
mother didn't call Vim, so after a
while he went to the door and said:
"Mother, isn't it most time for
breakfast?"
"Goodness gracious, no," his mother
said. "Don't you see the suu is
just over the mountains. It won't
be time for breakfast till it gets high
up over the pear tree."
James went slowly back to the
garden. He was tniukiug a thought
u "Tf it ripvpr p-pfs nnv latpr than nnw
it will always be just before breakfast."
It was a harrowing thought.
By and by he went back to the
house.
"Mother." ho said, "I don't b?*I?ve ;
it's muck use waiting breakfast till ,
the sun gets over the pear tree, for it
never will got any higher, because i
i ve pmneci u iasi iu uie ski whu iu.v i
magic arrow, and it can't get away." I
"James Montmorency Stebbins," j
said his mother, "whatever did you do j
that for?"
And when James told her, she
said: '"That was very naughty of
you. Go and take it down at once."
i "But I can't," cried James. "I .
don't know how. It will have to stay {
that way for always."
"In that case." said his mother, j
"we may as well sit down to breakfast
now. and after breakfast you can j
go right off to school."
So James had to go to school in j
spite of all his trouble. And the sun j
stayed just where it was all that day,
and all that night James could scarce- j
ly sleep because his room was so j
light. And it kept 011 that way for a I
whole week. Because he was so much |
I in the sun .Tames' freckles increased I
so that he was mostly freckles, and
he thought: "If this keeps on I shall
soon be brown all over, and that
won't be a bit nice."
But the trees and plants had a
much harder time than James, as the
sunlight continued day after day, and
they began to droop, for they grew
all the time, and had no time to rest.
At the end of the week James said: j
"The gray witch was right. I don't j
like this a bit. I have to go to school j
just the same, and it's hot and horrid j
all the time. I'm going back up the !
mountain to ask the gray witch to j
help me again, for I've thought and :
thought, and I can't think how to get '
that arrow out again."
So he climbed un the mountain and"
when he got to the top there was the j
gray witch standing at the door of !
her little gray house, waiting for him.
"I thought you wouldn't tike it," |
she chuckled, as be came panting up. j
,"Whenever 1 do arything for peo- i
pie they conn* hack the next week
and want it al! undone again 1 declare
I don't see nnich use in being a
witch. I thiuk I will go out o? business.
But first I will help you fix the
sun." 1 So
she went into her house and |
came out with a long coil of fine
magic rope. She made one end of it j C(
into a lasso and gave it to .Tames. j p.
"See if you can lasso the arrow ! cwith
that," she said. . m
So James twirled the rope about
his head and flung it up, up and up T
through the air till it reached the :
sun. And then it went right past it i
and never caught the arrow at all.
"Try again." cried the witch; so
James tried and the second time the
loop fell right over the shaft of the ;
arrow. Then James drew the lasso ,
tight and pulled and the arrow came !
out of the. sun with a jerk and the J
sun jumped forward to its proper j
place in the sky. And that was the
last time James Montmorency Steb- j
bins meddled with the sun.?Wash- i
ington Star.
RARE COLORS IN MOLES.
Particular Varistics Confined to Certain
Fields?Fiebald and White.
Molecatching first became a regular
occupation about a contury ago
when English molecatchers were introduced
on the lands of the then p
Duke of Buccleuch. jx
The handsomest varieties belong n
to the "silver gray" class. If these j 0
could be obtained in nnv quantity : C(
their skins would bring a high price j d
in the fur market. ! n
Mr. Service, of Dumfries, lately i lecturing
before the Edinburgh Field j
Naturalists' Association, stated that !
he had never seen a really white 1
I mole, and he believed it to be a great
rarity. Nor had he ever seen a pie- j
bald variety. He had little doubt j
that variation of color in moles ran
in certain families. j
The regularity with whicfT a par- :
ticnlar variety occurred repeatedly in
the same field or oil the same farm !
was well known to every molecatcher, !
while no abnormal coloration would
perhaps occur in any other part of j
the parish.?From the London Globe, j
Use of Sugar in Bread Manufacture, j
Several of the sugar journals have j
lately published articles dealing with j
the use of a small amount of sugar ;
in bread manufacture. ?The Sugar !
Beet for January has a short note on 1
the subject. Apart from the advan- j
tage claimed in this note, bread so I
prepared would, of course, have an '
additional food value.
The Sugar Beet says:
"In France every possible idea is \
being brought to the front with the j
view of increasing the home sugar |
I consumption. At a recent meeting ;
of the Sugar Chemists' Association
at Bordeaux, a French chemist, Mons. j
F. Dupont. read a paper discussing '
ihe possibilities of adding seven per j
cent, of sugar to bread, and this with- j .
! out materially alteriug the taste of ,
! the latter product. An addition of
i five per cent, of sugar has no influence
on the flavor. The chief advanJ
tage of this sugar addition is that
the bread has greater keeping qualities.
Bread which will ordinarily be
sour in forty-eight hours, will under'
go very little alteration, even after
| several days, when a slight propor;
tion of sugar has been mixed with,
j the dough.?Agricultural News.
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The Fussy Woodsman. I 1
Did you ever find yourself in the ,
woods with a "fusser;" that is, a man ,
who only sees the disagreeable side
of everything, and published his
views early and often? For such a
man the trail is frightful; the woods
that occasionally slap him playfully
across the cheek are anathema, the
water is ioo wet, his rod or casi: or
something or other gets broken or
; lost, his shoe pinches one foot. About
j an hour before dark, just at the time
I when it is worth a king's ransom to
J be beside the favored waters, he
I wants 10 get IJUI.IV LU luc uuul, miu ? a i
11 you unwillingly wind up your line to
| prepare to depart your disgust is too
i deep and sacred for common words.
| ?forest and Stream.
l<iet elwht vpars flip
1U LiltJ v.0..? ?' .
. great iron countries have produced |
310,100,000 tons of pig iron, of which
, over halt has come out of the United >'
States. T
Facade of Wasiii
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Revised drawing, from Tin
Unique Caning Fork.
The contrivance shown in the ac>mpanying
illustration resembles a
lir of pliers, but it is not. It is a
irving fork which che inventor, a
iichigan man, clai^.. is a great imMm
I? i Ht ? 1
rovement over the carving forks now
1 common use. Again, it might be
listaken for a pair of scissors, being
f similar construction, with the ex-!
sption that when the handles are
rawn logemer me suunns ?liu rclain
apart. At the end of each
Roosevelt's Pos
GEORGE VO:
Of Massa<
Safety Pocket.
Pickpockets would be up against a
ard proposition when they tried to
*3 ^ fj 1 v I
f
ifle tb? pockets of a man equipped
dtli the safetv Docket <*hown here,
innfnn ITafiifidra!. It
mtjlUii Duuiuuium
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i Churchman, New York.
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1 shank are the prongs. When it is
desired to hold the meat to be carved
the handles are swung apart, causing 1
the prongs to do likewise. The I
shanks are then placed at opposite *
sides of the meat and the handles j
drawn together. With the aid of this 1
utensil the meat can be securely held, 1
the grip increasing in proportion to *
the grip exerted upon the handles. ?
i The prongs being prevented from
contracting, they cannot cut or crush
tVio msnt ?WaKliinertnn Star. "
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Parachute Thrillers.
Among the latest "thrillers" is the c
triple parachute leap, in which one (
aeronaut uses three different para- t
chutes before reaching earth. He j
leaves the balloon in his downward {
flight with a red parachute, but after
falling a short distance liberates it
and makes a second plunge through
space with a white parachute. This j
feat is repeated again after another
drop, and he finally lands with a blue
parachute.
Another "thriller" is a double par- i
achute leap from the same balloon, <
in which a man and woman race to
earth in parachutes which fall f>00 or t
600 feet before opening out.?Popu- f
lar Mechanics. 1
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Owing to a shortage in' small coins *
seven tons of pennies were turned out ?
in a single day by an English mint. 1
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Imasfer-General. ;
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L. MEYER, | 1
;husstts. j
the invention of a New York man. (
It would be utterly impossible to gain
access to such a pocket without the
detection of the wearer. The pocket '
- - -- - I 1
| is made longer man ins oruiuciry
j pocket, with stiffening strips on the
bottom and sides. These strips serve
i to maintain the pocket in a distended
I position. An elastic band incloses
j and contra:ts the neck of the body of 1
i iho pocket. To remove the contents j '
i of the pocket the elastic band must j '
first be removed.?Washington Star, j 1
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Hammers.
It is asserted that the hammer is , 1
the oldest tool in the world. The '
first hammer was a stone fastened to
a handle by means of thongs. The '
hammer was of use not only as a tool 1
but as a weapon which was handy to 1
strike with or to hurl. The earliest 1
i nf hnmmprB slinw
j I V jli COCHlUUUliO Wi. ~ |
I hem much the same in shape as | <
those of modern days, but without j 1
the claw attachment for the extrac- 1
tion of nails. No matter which came
first, the chicken or the egg, it is
practically certain that the hammer
antedates the nail.
)u5nTn nmhirih
i^/ c, jsy j
There are never fewer than 40,001)
ramps in England. Hard times douie
that number.
When you wish to roll up your
hirt sleeves do not turn the cuffs inlde
out, but turn them inward or
mder, and they will remain tucked
p without being touched.
All German soldiers must learn to
wim. Somo of them are so expert
hat. with their clothing on their
leads and carrying guns and aramulition,
they can swim several hundred
ards.
Zinc coffins are largely used in
Henna, but the more expensive ones
re made of copper, and cost as much
,s $2500, while a bronze and copper
offln recently made for a Russian
.rchduke cost over $5000.
Metals get tired as well as living
hings, a scientist declares. " Tele;raph'wires
are better conductors on
londay-than Saturday on account of
heir Sunday rest and a rest of three
veeks adus ten per cent, to the conluctivity
of a wire.
The banyan trees in India are very
urious. After the branches are
.bout twenty feet long they bend and
trike root in the ground. These
end out branches which in turn bend
lown and strike root. In this way a
vhole forest has been made from one
ree.
The Great Pyramid covers thirteen
md a half acres of ground, was orignally
475 feet high, and contains
>0,000,000 cubic feet of stone. Sir
iVilliam Tite informs us that the
nighty pyramid could not be built
o-day for lef.s than ?30,000,000 stering
($150,000,000).
The cow tree grows in South Amerca.
Its branches are bare, and ap>ear
to be dead.' This, however, is
lot true, for if you cut little notches
n the trunk there will flow out a
iquid which looks and tastes like
nilk. People living in the neighborlood
go every morning to get their
iupply of milk for the day.
The earliest historical mention of
rerusalem is in the Tel el-Amarna
ablets, about 1400 B. C., while Danascus
is mentioned in Gen. xiv., 15,
is existing 1913 B. C., and appears
jven then to have been a place of
:onsiderable note. Beyond a doubt
he romantic Syrian city is the oldest
)lace on earth with a continuous hisory.
TOLSTOI ON LIFE AND DEATH.
Expects to Be Happy Hereafter in a
World More Real?Infinite Progress.
"I know with certainty that in dyng
I shall be happy and that I shall
;nter a world more real."
Count Tolstoi thus sums up hi3 anicipations
of death in reply to a
'riend who congratulated him upon
lis approaching eightieth birthday.
Ml earthly life, he says, is a dream,
ind death the true awakening. He
iwaits that awakening with happiless.
Elaborating on this idea he
:ays:
"Hitr r>nrthiv life is one of dreams
)f another and more real life, and
hat other life is a dream of yet an)ther,
and so on ad infinitum even to
;he last life, the life of God."
Of death at different ages and uuler
different circumstances he says:
' Death in youth is as when a man
s awakened before he has slept full
measure. Death in old age is as
when a man wakes of his own accord
ifter a good sleep. Suicide is as a
ligntmare wbich-tW-ttMwJiqnishes by
einembering that he is asleep." "l-fe~"
nakes an effort and wakes."
The Log-Line.
Officers on the coastwise and foriign
steamship lines are not limited
o tlieir regular duties, but are expected
to answer the questions of
:urious passengers besides. Someimes,
however, the passengers lake
? Jnfrt r>VL'Y\ nrifl
.lit? IllULLCI 1IILU UllCi* \J ?? *4 .?>.m
nstruct others more ignorant thau
hemselves.
The purser on a well known liner
:ells of a lady who had made a passage
before, and who in consequence
:elt a superior knowledge of mari;ime
things.
Several ladies were grouped in the
.tern, this one among them, when
heir attention was attracted by the
og with its long line attached to the
ail.
"Why, what can that be?" inquired
)ne of the party.
"That?" said the knowing one.
'Well, you see the vessel lias to keep
n communication with the land, and
n orfler to tell just how far they have
;ot on the passage they keep one end
ied to the dock, and by looking at
he amount of line paid out they can
ell just how far they are from the
)ther side."
"Oh!" exclaimed the other, after
his lucid explanation. "Well, I have
Uways heard of the log, but I never
tne\v what one was before. Thank
i'ou so much!"?Youth's Companion.
Cleveland's Street Car Tickets.
'The greatest trouble with this job
low," lamented a Cadar avenue contactor,
"is the jokers that a man takng
fares has to contend with. Every
3ther passenger has some cute name
'or those three-cent tickets.
" 'Gimme a handful of them washers,'
one man will say as he slips half
i dollar to me. A lot of them call it
chink money,' just because it has
titles in it, and so it goes. 'Tin three;ent
pieccs,' 'perforated slugs,' 'clay
disks with the holes in 'cm'?all
those names and a lot more we have
to put up with. The passenger who
lo^n't have some new name for these
tickets looks ashamed of himself."?
Cleveland Plain Dealer.
The cost of cremating a Dody in
France is only three francs, equal to
two shillings six pence.
IW OiWD IK FLOODS I
Thousands Driven Fram Homes in
Oklahoma and Texas.
More Than 1000 Houses Inundated?
.1000 Persons Without Shelter and
Property Damage $2,000,000.
Dallas. Texas.?An unprecedented
rise in the Trinity River, following
torrential rains by which (he waters
passed the record of fifty-two feet
made in 18G6, resulted in the ?leath
here of four persons, the destruction
in this vicinity of more than $1,000,000
worth of property, the driving
out of their homes of 4000 persons
and the destruction of teleeraph and
telephone wires, railroad bridges and
tracks, paralyzing outer communication
and travel of all kind* West and
Southwest. A poor residential quarter
of the city was put under several
feet of water, and thousands have
lost all of their household effects
while the residence part of North Dallas
was cut off from the business pari
of the city by the waters. The watei
works plant was placed out of com
mission and the lighting plant was
inundated.
Conditions as bad or worse prevail
at Fort Worth, between which and
Dallas ihe electric line service has
been abandoned. The 'list of dead at
Fort Worth and North Fort Worth ig
now seven, while 5000 are homeless.
Mayor Hart has issued a proclamation
asking for local aid, and food and
clothing were distributed.
Parts of the Texas and Pacific and
the Santa Fe railroads' bridges have
gone down, and service to the West
has been abandoned. At the North
Fort Worth stock yards 2500 sheep
and other stock were swept from the
yards into the river and drowned.
At Forth Worth the body of a woman
floated down stream, creating panic
among the negro refugees. A negro
child was v/ashed from its mother's
arms, in the Rock Island Railroad
yards at Fort Worth, and has not
since been seen. An unknown white
man, drowned in the suburbs of Fort
Worth, left a farewell note, found
lodged in a tree. A negro attempted
to pilot two men in a'buggy through
deep water opposite the city park in
Fort Worth and was thrown from his
horse and swept away. Relief camps
have been established both here and
at Fort Worth. '
Waco reports that the Brazos River
and its tributaries are higher than
ever before, overflowing thousands of
acres of land, driving people in the
low lands from their homes, washing
out railroad tracks and bridges, completely
tying up traffic. Five inches
of rain fell in two hours.
Reports from Oklahoma say that
the rainfall there has broken all recI
all r>f the railroads were Dut
practically out of commission; people
in the low lands have bsen driven
from home and are camped on the
hills. The greatest sufferers are West
Guthrie, Oklahoma City, Tulsa,
Jenks, Muskogee, Shawnee anl Sapulpa.
The natural gas supply of Okla-.
homa City was shut off by the bursting
of a huge main near town. Five
persons were drowned near Oklahoma
City and many persons were injured
by the destruction of their homes by
the rushing waters.
DECREE FOR MRS. VANDERBILT.
Gets Custody of Her Son and the
Right to Remarry.
New York City.?Supreme Court
Justice O'Gorman signed an interlocutory
decree of divorce in favor of
Mrs. Ellen French Vanderbilt against
her husband, Alfred Gwynne Vand?r
bilt. Mrs. Vanderbiit v/ill be free ic
remarry in three months' time. th?
statutory period which must elapse
before the divorce decree can be made
final. Mr. Vanderbilt is forbidden i(
marry again.
The child of the marriage William j
Henry Vanderbilt, who was born on j
November 24, 1901, is lo remain ir i
his mother's care.
RELEASE OF TIIAW DENIED. j
Court at Poughkeepsie, N. Y.f Dc- j
clarcs Prisoner Insane.
PoiigWrrapsie. N. Y.?Jiistice Joseph
Morschause^rSttW??d the writ
of habeas corpus of Harry k.^Fhaw,
declared him insane and a menace to"
the community, and decided against
the contention of his counsel that the
law under which Justice Dowling had
committed him to Matteawan was unconstitutional.
Justice Morschauser
did not order Thaw back to Matteawan
on account of the pending question
as to his ruling on the point
raised over the commitment of Thaw
by Justice Dowling. a question whi^h
will be taken to tht? Appellate Division
of the Supreme Court.
DYNAMITE STOPS CAR TRAFFIC.
Angered by Refusal of Authorities to
Submit to Arbitration.
Cleveland. Ohio.?Wrecking four
cars, three of them by dynamite cartridges,
sympathizers with the striking
conductors and tnotormsn of the
Municipal Traction Company again
paralyzed service on all the street car
lines of the citj'. The strikers were
angered by the refusal of tin? authorities
to submit to arbitration.
Many passengers, two of tiiem
women, were seriously injured. Men
were hurled from rear platforms, in
one instance a half dozen being
thrown many feet. several heads being
cut open on the stone curbing of
the sidewalk.
Man Killed in an Auto Crash,
Orson C. Bartholomew, of Denver, i
sixty-eight years old, was killed at
Chicago in a collision between an
electric car and an automobile at I
Twenty-fourth street and Indiana
avenue. L. Bartholomew, a brother,
of Chicago, and Mis? Margaret Hawkins,
of Chicago, were slightly hurt.
Churches Oppose Helling.
J Brooklyn churchgoer.-; adopted res!
olutions supporting Governor Hughe; j
I in his fight on race irafk betiing.
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The National Game.
"Chick" Fraser is pitching great
| ball for the Chicago Nationals.
I It is said that overeating at noon
! pat Elmer Flick, of Cleveland, out of |
the game.
The Newark club has returned outfielder
Josh De Vore to the New York
National club.
J Outfielder Al. Burch seems to be
the only reliable pinch hitter the
j Brooklyns have.
! The Chicago Americans miss
[ Freddie Parent just as Cleveland
misses Terry Turner.
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iMOWtHMS
Foreigners Encouraged to View
Execution of a Murderer.
Pennsylvania Sheriff Expects Them to
Spread Horror of It to Induce
JRespecC For Law. . .
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Pottsville, :Pa.?Before a crowd of
about 800, Fialix Radzius, the Shenandoah
murderer, was hanged in the
Schuylkill County jail yard here. It
was the hope of the officials that the
hanging e-taibition would be an object
lesson to the lawless foreigners
who have given Schuylkill County a
red record in the last ten. years. y.V-^
But the officials could not have selected
a less satisfactory subject for
their object lesson, for Radzius proved
to be the coolest criminal who ever
trod a scaffold. He not only went
nonchalantly to his doom, but assisted
Sheriff Evans and his deputies in
making the job a quick and neat one.
He put his arms and legs into position
for binding and lifted his head so the
deputy could more easily acjusi -ine
noose.
Five hundred passes to the hanging
were issued by the Sheriff, most
of them to foreigners, but no foreigner
was denied admission even if he
had no pass.
The jail yard was filled before 10
o'clock, the crowd surging around
the Bcaffold so that deputies had to
march ahead of the condemned man
and his spiritual advisers as he was
brought from the prison. The murderer
looked neither to right nor left,
but walked with shoulders thrown
back, mounted the narrow stairs to
the ^gallows without assistance and
stood under the noose with never a
quiver. He declined to make a statement.
Radzius was a boarder at the home
of Mrs. Mary Cherkoskis and had - *
been denied admission to the house
when he came home late in an intoxicated
state. The next morning he
sent the woman's seven-year-old
daughter off on an errand, and while
she was gone he followed Mrs. Cher-'
koskis Into the cellar and cut her
throat with her husband's razor. Her
four-year-old son followed her, and
to stop his crying Radzius murdered
him- * \,j
FOUR BISHOPS ELECTED. ?
? a
Episcopal General Conference at Baltimore
Completes Its Quota.
Baltimore, Md.?The Rev. Dr. Wilson
S. Lewis, president of the Morningside
College, Sioux City, la.; the
Rev. Dr. Edwin H. Hughes, president
of the De Pauw University, Greencastle,
Ind., on the fifteenth ballot;[
Dr. Robert Mclntyrc, of Los AngeleB,
Cal., on the sixteenth ballot, fend the
Rev. Frank M. Bristol, of Washing*
ton, D. C., on the eighteenth ballot,
were elected Bishops at the Metho- _
dist Episcopal General Conference.
This completes the cuota of eight.
_ The othe?four Bishops elected are;' .
The Kev. \v. jp\ Anaerson. 01 rsew
York; he Rev. W. A. Quayle, of Chicago;
; Rev. C. W. Smith, of Pittsburg,
and the Rev. J. L. Nuelsen, of
Berea, Ohio.
TWO WAGE CUTS.
Cotton Operatives at Fall River aud
Lawrence Affectcd.
V; ' '<*.
Fall River, Mass.?The new wage
agreeir between the cotton manufacturers
and the Textile Council became
effective. Under the agreement
the 25,000 operatives accept a wage
reduction of about eighteen per cent.
The mills here have been running on
short time for several mouths, but It
is expected that the production will
be increased considerably next month.
The cut in this city swells the number
of cotton operatives in New England
whose wages have been reduced
-this spring to about 170,000.
Lawrence, Mass.?Notice of a wage
reduction of about ten per ceut., to
go into effect on June 1, was posted
at the Arlington Mills. About C000
hands will be affected.
1
EVELYN THAW DROPS SUIT.
J ; * '.?
Prisoner's Mother Issues Ultimatum
??>1000 a Month For Her.
L_.]STew York City. ? Mrs" William
I Thaw ,is?ued her ultimatum to Mrs.
1 Evelyn Tha"w. *--It Instantly stopped
I the young woman's-suit for the anI
nulment of her marriage tC-ffaTry-Kr-^ ??^
j Thaw.
The elder Mrs. Thaw stated,
j through her counsel, Colonel Frank!
lin Bartlett, that she has been all^pri
ing Mrs. Evelyn Thaw an income ot '
, $1000 a month and indicated that
! this would immediately he cut off ii
j the conduct of the young woman was
j not satisfactory to her.
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j PATERSOX TO SUE WRITER.
I Ci<y Also to-Name "Broadway Maga?
j zine" in Libel Case.
Paterson, N. J.?Mayor McBride
I has instructed City Counsel Merrey
! to bring suit for libel against "The
i Broadway Magazine" and Broughton
i Brandenburg, a writer. The suit is
j based on an article entitled "The
! Menace of the Red Flag," reflecting
on Paterson, which appeared in the
current number of the magazine.
About three years ago Mr. Brandenburg
published a similar article
in Collier's Weekly. The late Mayor /
a urntpct tn the nub
luilliaun innuc I* i?? w
lishcrs and a retraction was made.
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NORTH CAROLINA C.OES DRY.'
! Majority For Prohibition Will Probably
Be More Than 10,000.
! Raleigh. N. C.?In the election on
the liquor issue in North Carolina a
majority *or prohibition of upward
1 of 40,000 was given. It is possible
that the majority will reach 50,000.
Buncombe County, in which Asheville
is located, gave about 3000 majority
for the dry ticket. The election
was conducted quietly, and there
was no trouble at the polls.
tJUHA A. HA.ULIA j/u.iw,
Invented Method of Advertising Medicine
by Wagon Singers.
Chicago, ill.?John Austin Hamlin,
proprietor of the Grand Oiiera House,
died of heart disease. He was seventy-one
years old aud for many years
was engaged in the manufacture and
sale of Hamlin's Wizard Oil. He devised
the plan of sending singers and
troupes of actors across the country,
giving exhibitions from wagons. He
is survived by his widow and four
chillieu.
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