The Barnwell people. (Barnwell, S.C.) 1884-1925, October 08, 1914, Image 7
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FIGHT ON RUSSIAN SOIL
Effort ot Ocmutu Seems to be to Cut
Line ot Communication to North
j and Armies Operating in Austria—
What Germans Think ot Their
Russian Antagonists.
Comparisons With Three Past Years
and Per Cent, of Oop Ginned in
Those Years Up to This Time.
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A dispatch from Petrograd describ
ing the German attack on the Su-
walki-Olita railroad, says that the
Germans made Cilna their objective,
disregarding Kovno, and attacked
most stubbornly, finally retreating
before Russian bayonet charges, but
in order.
The roads were covered with tier-
man bodies, among them that of a
gunner still bolding a shell in his
arm. At Ossowiecz the Russians cap
tured several heavy guns. A Ger
man vanguard succeeded in con
structing a pontoon bridge over the
Niemen river but not a single Ger
man wh<> crossed the river survived,
every one being mowed down l?y in
fantry fire which was supported by a
hail of shrapnel from masked artil
lery.
erevflRus- rightR O () O
The Germans made another at
tempt to cross the river, advancing
in dense columns but they were again
repulsed, quick firing guns playing
havoc with their crowded ranks'. The
German batteries which had been
supporting the infantry attack finally
were silenced by Russian - artillery.
The. enemy then retired for a dis
tance of eight miles, pursued by Cos
sacks who crossed the river by means
of the pontoon bridge which the Ger
mans had bililt.
Another correspondent sends a de
scription taken from a Kovno paper,
of tho operations from September K
to September 14, when Geh. Rennen-
kampff retired from East Prussia in
order to counteract the German ef
fort to envelop his left. The account
says:
"The Germans made obstitnate ef
forts to gain possession of the village
of Rirkenfeld, where the Russians
had strongly entrenched themselves,
and thus make a breach in the center
of the Russian army. The scene was
indescribably terrible, as the Rus
sian guns literally mowed down whole
regiments,' and all German attacks
were repulsed.
"In the village of Darkebmen the
fight assumed a form which it is dif
ficult for the imagination to grasp
Here the Russians had not merely to
deal with the German troops, hut the
entire German population of the vil
lage, even the women and children,
shot from windows, roofs, barns and
cellars. The inhabitants had been
firmed with rifles and Mauser pistols
atjd the Russian troops in this place
we\e compelled to defend themselves
on tVo fronts.
“Tlidugh the German attacks on
Nordenfejd were brilliantly repulsed,
the Russians were compelled to fall
back on Marlampol. northeast of Su
walk!, owing\o another German at
tempt at a wid^ enveloping move
ment. \
"To check this tr^> Russians open
ed an attack from Marlampol. where
they had intrenched themselves. The
battle lasted two days, September If
and 14. Around Marlampol the su
perior tactics of the Russians com
pelled the Germans to retire, the lat
ter evacuating three lines o\in
trenchments.",-
The second cotton ginning report
of the season, compiled from reports
of bureau correspondents and agents
throughout the cotton belt and issued
at 10 a. m. Friday, announced that
3,381,863 bales of cotton, counting
round as half bales, of the growth of
lH 14 has been ginned prior to Sep
tember 25. ,
This cohipares with 3,246,655
bales, or 23.2 per cent, of the entire
crop, ginned prior to Septepber 25
last year, 3,007,271 bales, or 22.3 per
cent, in 1912, and 3,676,5941 bales,
of 23.6 per cent, in 1911.
Included in the ginnings were 3,-
292 round bales, compared with 26,-
983 last year, 19,574 in 1912 and
27,918 in 191i.
Sea island cotton included num
bered 13,895 bales, compared with
10,570 bales to September 25 last
year, 3,051 bales to 1912>^uid 11,807
bales in 1911. r ‘
Ginnings prior to September 25 by
states, with comparisons for the past
three years and the percentage of the
entire crop ginned in those states
prior to that date in the same years,
follow:
Alabama.
Ginnings. Per Cent.
s
The above is an account of thw
German efforts to invade Russian ter
ritory. Previous to this the Russians
had been driven out of German East
Prussia in a campaign which is the
most remarkable on record for the
number of prisoners taken in so short
a time and in field fighting. In less
than three weeks, accordinir to Ger
man official statements, Gen. von
Hindenberg-niade prisoners of nearly
150,dolt Russians
The first surprise the Russians
gave to the Gerfnan military leaders
was the aggressive way in which they
pushed this campaign. It had been
supposed rn the German military
quarters that they would occbpy
strong defensive positions behind the
Vistula and other streams and await
the attacks of the Germans and Aus
trians. Instead of such strategy, how
ever, they pushed into East Prussia
in great numbers at a very early
stage of the war and they are still
moving forward in Galicia
The next surprise was that the Rus
sian generals no longer send their
troops into battle in close formation
as in previous wars, but have mod
ernized their tactics and try, to util
ize all the advantages of the ground.
The shooting of the infantry, how
ever, was found to be still very inef
fective.
With the field artillery the case is
quite different. Its firing is remark
ably good, and the unanimous verdict
ot the German officers is embodied
in the frequently heard words ‘'Hats
.off to. the Russfhn gunners,” As a
rule the first salvo of the battepies
woujd fall short, the second would
overshoot, but the .third would begin
a frightful carnage among, the Ger
man ranks unless^ they had changed
their position meanwhile. One of
the specialties, of the Russian artil
ery was to locate and fire upon the
German staff officers, with the result
that these had frequently to change
their positions.
^curate
’I HA fiFf-lifile Russian gunnery was
considerably neutralized, however, by
♦he large proportion of shells which
failed to explode. Artillery experts
find a more probable explanation in
• the marshy .nature of the terrain in
many places along the Russian fron
tier, tltf shells burying themselves in
the soft earth vithont exploding.
The Coiaacka have again proved
ALLIES FORCES CONTINUE EN
VELOPING lOTEIENT
GERMAN ATTACK FIERCE
Hattie Cry of Democracy, in Coming
, . r ' T _
Fall Elections is Peace Policy of
Woodrow Wilson.
Von Kluck's Desperate Attack Upon
French Forces is an Effort to Break
Through Allies’ lines. Cutting Off
the Troops Which Are Attempting
to Outflank Him.
1914
. . . .. 392,655-
o . . . V
1913
22.0
1912
. . .. .. 192,310
14.5'
1911
.. .. .. 360,244
21.2
Arkansas.
1914
99,179
....
1913 ,
6.8
1912
41,438
5.4
1911
43,626
4.8
Florida.
1914
... .. ,. 25,388
....
1913
16.367
24.5
1912
9,770
16 6
1911
21,510
22.8
Georgia.
1914
769,1 1 8 '
....
1 913
20.9
1912
.. 272.335
15.0
1911
.. . .765,697.
27.4
IjOuUiana.
1914
94,173
1913
17.8
1912
73,992
19.7
1911
.. V. .. 89,069
23.4
Mississippi.
•
1914
161,123
....
1913
120,503.
9.6
1912"
.. .. 5f,393
5.6
1911
96,829
8.3
North Carolina.
1914
.. 82.849
....
1913
49,952
6.0
1912
101,683
11.2
1911
136,390
13.9
Oklahoma.
1914
109,050
1913
148,979
17.7
1912
77,394
7.7
1911
T 116,238
11.4
South Carolina.
1914
. . 298,581)
....
1913
.. 193,318
13.6
1 912
174,251
14.2
1911
338,090
20.0
Tennessee.
1914
16,033
1913
18,359
5.0
1912
990
0.4
1911
15,541
3.6
Texas.
1914
1,324,779
....
1913
1,727.639
45.8
1912
2,002,975
43.1
1911
40.6
All -Other States.
1914
. . . . : . 8,924-
' .
1913
6,251
- 5.2
1912
2,740
3.0
1911
5,395
3.9
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EDWARD CARSON DEFIANT.
lister Mill Prevent Inclusion in
we Rule Hill.
Sir Edward Carson issued a state
ment Monday aftbrnoon bitterly at
tacking the BritisnXgovernment for
pushing the home rule bill through
while the country was aMvar and de
claring that lister will invent her
Inclusion within the scope ot the bill
by force of arms if necessary)
However, since the operation of
the law has been suspended for the
period of the war, the Ulster leade
said there is no necessity for imme
diate action, but he added:
"When the war ends.the Unionist
Council proposes to demand that the
government repeal all sections of the
home rule bill that apply to Ulster.
If it does not then the Ulster provi
sional government wilUdirect her vol
unteers to prevent home rule ever be
coming effective in Ulster.”
The great effort of the Allies to
envelop the German right may be
said to be in operation again, and it
is believed the whole French column
from Roye northward to Arras is
moving eastward against the German
positions.
The Germans have had a long time
in-which to make their position se
cure, so there is a lot of hard fighting
ahead for both the attacking forces
and the defenses. The defensive role
is apparently being assumed by the
invaders.
The Germans describe themselves
as “hammering the French positions
at-numerous points by their heavy
artillery. The attempts of the Allies
to break through the German lines
have been repulsed. The heaviest
losses have been in the Argonne re
gion. The Germans, according to
their report, continue to make steady
progress.” w
The lighting in France, the siege
of Antwerp, and tlje offensive opera
tions under Gen. v'bn Hiudenberg, all
going on at the same time, are taken
in Berlin to indicate that the German
army is not lacking in men.
After having tried in vain recently
in the north of France to break at
Tracy-le-M»nt and then at Roye the
strong line of the Allies, the Germans
have renewed their fierce attacks be
tween the latter city and the region
of Arns. Their latest efforts, in
which they have been hurling their
forces against the French and Eng
lish in trying to gain a decisive vic
tory, have had no better results.
The French, in an official state
ment, frankly admit a slight falling
back at the left of one of their de
tachments. On the other hand, the
Allies have not only successfully op
posed the terrific onslaughts of the
enemy at other points but have made
gains as well.
Gerald Morgan, a London Daily
Telegraph correspondent, telegraphs
from "a point in France”:
"The farthest west of Gen. von
Kluck's many lines of communication
are the roads and railway lines which
lead from St. Quentin to Cambrai
Valenciennes, Mons and Brussels
Next comes the line St. Quentin-Mau
beuge-Charleroi-Namur, and after
that the third and last, by way of
Givet, Dinant, Namur and Liege
“It is no secret that the French are
threatening the first of these lines of
communication, the one ('ambrai-
Yalenciennes-Mons, for in their offi
cial communiques they speak of their
lines to the north being more and
more extended. Little by little the
buttle fronts again approach the fron
tier, and the war is being carried
hark to the inevitable battlefields of
Belgium.
yAn extended line of operations
such as this is just as embarrassing
to the Germans now as it was in their
favor in August. Gen. von Kluck is
himself in the meshes of the same
net which lie set for the French, but
the French, though their movements
had to be swift, had a broad and open
line of retreat, while that of Gen. von
Kluck is narrow and dangerous. Gen
von Kluck is, therefore, not trying to
elude the meshes of this net, but to
break through them. He is trying to
break through in the angle of the
rivers Aisne and Somme, in the
neighborhood of Noyon and the
Forest of De I.aigie.
"The official communiques make
no secret, either of the character or
of the ferocity of the German attacks
in tins direction,' and their object is
of course, to divide the French arm
and attack it in detail, meanwhile in
flicting the severest losses possible on
the British, who now are in a position
on the very north brink of the River
Aisne.
“The question, therefore, reduces
itself to this: Is Gen. von Kluck too
big a fisli to be caught in the net
Every day the net grows stronger ami
every day is that much of a gain for
tlift Allies, since the French are be
ing daily reinforced. What Gen. von
My friend Tom Pence, says Savo
yard, chief of the publicity bureau
of the Democratic national commit
tee, has just published a very^ valu
able work, “The Democratic Text
book” for the year 1914. It is as
full of facts as Mr. Dickens’ Grad-
grind would have it be and its every
chapter is an argument in support of
the principles of the Democratic party
and the policies of the Democratic
president. It is a valuable book of
reference and every Democrat who
talks -politics with his neighbor
should send t,p Democratic headquar
ters in the Hibbs building, Washing
ton, D. C., for a copy. The price is
only a quarter of a dollar.
On the outside front cover is a pic
ture of Mr. Wilson and at the top are
the striking and appealing exclama
tions: "War in the East! Peace in the
West! Thank God for Wilson!” That
is history an dthat is argument. It
is the Democratic case.
that they are of .little value, accord
ing to German officers, either for re-
connoissanee w.ork or in fighting. Gh
the other hand, the German officers
speak more favbrably of the regular
Russian cavalry. The conduct of the
troops in the invasion of East Prus
sia, particularly when together in
larger units and under the command
of higher officers, appears to have
been in general excellent. They ap
pear to have respected private prop
erty and paid for supplies requisi
tioned, even if payment was only in
Russian script. Small detachments,
on the contrary, seemed to have loot
ed and burned. — *
' The Russian officers have by no
means impressed the German artil
lerymen favorably. It many cases it
was remarked that they
points in situations In the battlefield.
It was also frequently charged in
newspaper accounts and letters from
soldiers-and officers that many Rus
sian- officers lack courage. A. GA-
man captain reports that‘he counted
150 dead Russians on the heights
near Hohenstein, bat not one officer
among them.
Kluck can not do now he will find
still harder to do as time goes by.’
Granville Fortesque, another Lon
don correspondent, wires from “some
point in France^.:
“For two day& and nights the Ger
mans have attacked with the fui*y of
despair. Thdy have been jamming
corps upon corps into the angle of
the Allies’ line at Ribec&urt in a des
pefat'e attempt to pierce it. .The ex
treme German left has been denuded
of troops that they may be thrown
into this vortex, but it has been
vain effort. The gray-coated soldiers
have been led into the French field of
fire like corn is fed into a hopper
and they have been ground to dust
"These violent counter attacks are
the direct result of what might be
called the present siege field opera
tions. The German field fortifica
lions have been splendidly planned
and painstakingly constructed. Their
trenches not only give shelter from
the enemy’s projectiles, but from the
elements. These bombproofs deflect
the shells and keep out the rain, <old
failed to I and w eather and ate heaiimiiit-i
mcivirr — - -
play an active part in the campaign
Realization of this was brought^about
by the recent suicidal counter attacks
of the enemy.”
LITE ill VIFE LEM IDttJUII
It IECIME IDIGlil
GOVERNMENT REPORTS SHOW
15,300,006 RALES.
STRANGE CASE OF CRIME
Losing Money in Mexico Eaton Bo-
Hut
comes Clerk in New York,
Robs Apartments of Women He
Meets Clandestfnely, in Order to
Secure Money.
Only a year ago, or less, the yaller
newspapers and the jingo Republican
statesmen were clamorous for war.
Interpreted, their contention was
that our country had too many
strong, healthy, diligent, promising
young men, just upon, or just across,
the threshold of early manhood, and
it was the duty of the Democratic ad
ministration to summon more than
half a million of them to the colors
and wage war against Mexico.
Though the soil of that land is as
fertile as Goshen, it was urged that
it should be further enriched by the
blood of America’s best and bravest.
Tens of thousands were to fall in bat
tle and double as many were to die
of disease.
According to the preachments of
the yallers and the jingoes there were
not enough widows and orphans and
sorrowful mothers and sisters in the
land, that was athirst lor women's
tears. The- country needed a great
store of woe. There were not enough
pensioners, not enough cripples. Too
much steel was used in the plow shop
and too little in the gun shop. Fac
tory and mine and farm and count
ing house were to be laid under con
tribution to furnish "food for pow
der” in • quarrel that meant brutal
conquest, and nothing but brutal con
quest. The public debt was too
small. Contractors were not doing
enough business and the yallers and
the jingoes were running up and
down the earth seeking market for
their vast stores of merchantable
patriotism. Moloch was to be an-
throned and fire and sword carried to
a helpless people beyond the Rio
Grande.
• • *
Fortunately for our country, fortu
nately for mankind, Woodrow Wilson
was president and he was a wise man
illustrative of that wisdom so lauded
by the monarch who dwelt in cedar
palace, sat on a throne of ivory and
wore a crowd of jewels. Woodrow
Wilson had read and pondered and
was now to practice what Solomon
said of Wisdom:
“She is more precious than rubies;
and all the things thou canst desire
are not to be compared unto her.
"Length of days in her right hand
and in her left hand riches and
honor.
“Her ways are ways of pleasant
ness, an dall tier paths are peace.
We all remember the innumerable
black lines that filled the horrid col
umns of the yaller press. Had there
been a bully or a weakling in the
White House we would have sprung
to war. True, victory would have
resulted, but the national conscience
would have been calloused and the
national honor smirched. Thank God
for" Wilson! ,
* * •
How is it across the waters at the
east where kaiser and czar and kings
and chancellors have made the most
deplorable w a<" and the most disas
trous war of the ages? If we can
place trust in the news from that
conflict, at this moment, when the
war is only seven weeks, old, there
have been more than 500,000 casual
ties in bloody battle. Belgium, th
fairest land in Europe, is devastated
her population slaughtered, her cities
burned, her industries destroyed, and
northern France has been visited by
the same destruction. The Cossack
is sweeping over central Europe bent
on dealing death and ruin in his
path. If Germany shall be forced to
the defensive that grand country will
be made a desert, her people butcher
ed, her cities reduced to ashes, her
fields devastated and misery her por
tion for more than a generation
What good can result, whoever
emerges victor? The Duke of Wei
lington, no mean judge, said that a
great victory was the ipost mournful
thing in the world except a great de
feat. It looks as though it Is a fight
to a finish and mankind will not re
cover from the awful consequences in
half a century. It will injuriously
affect our country for at least a gen
eration. There is only one>. ray of
light upon a picture so dark—it may
be the last war, heralding the civili
zation of the vision of the Prophet of
God:
“The .wolf shall dwell with the
lamb, and the leopard shall lie down
with the kid, and the calf and the
young lion and the fatting together
and a little child shall lead them.”
- And for that consummation let all
men and women- oc.fr nrava
Escape From Fire.
Two hundred and fifty students
and teachers escaped from the barn
Ing Normal College, at Livingston,
Ala., Wednesday night.
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And. let no good American neglect to
thank God for Wilson.
Washington, October 1.
Blue Visits Spartanburg.
Rupert Blue. Surgeon 6eneral of
the United States public health ser
vice, was in Spartanburg Sunday to
Inspect the government pellagra h
pital, which is being built there.
Condition of Chop on
Wee 73.3 Per cen
by Stntee.
In all the strange casese of crime
which from time to time come to the
attention of the New York police,
there has never been one quite like
th case of Herbert J. Eaton, who was
mortally wounded in attempting to
escape after robbing a woman's apart
ment Wednesday night.
Although for the last five years he
has be«n considered an exemplary
young man by his employers at the
office of the Mumm Champagne and
Importation company, he confessed
Thursday that he had robbed the
apartment of Mrs; Gertrude Pike.
To a detective Saton admitted that
he had palmed the key to Mrs. Pike’s
apartment in picking up some articles
that had dropped from her pocket-
book while "he was taking her to her
home on a Fifth Avenue bus on the
day before the buarglary, and he con
fessed that he had called her on the
telephone and had offered to sell back
her jewelry for |500, threatening to
make "domestic trouble” for her if
she notified her husband or the po
lice. .
His confession in the hospital has
since revealed that while' he passed
to his wife and among his friends,
for a quiet, home-loving person who
was getting along well in the world
in a business way, his outward evi
dences of his prosperity were obtain
ed by robbing women whom he met
clandestinely.
Thousands of dollars worth of
stolen jewelry were found hidden in
queer places in his apartment. And
all the time his young wife, believing
in his honesty and ignorant of his
acquaintance with the woman he
robbed, lived happily with him, and
even wore the gems and jewels he
had stolen from other women.
Mrs. Eaton was as much astonish
ed as the searching detectives when
a great quantity of jewelry and pawn
tickets for stolen Jewelry were found
in the apartment. Knowing that she
was compromising her husband be
yond repair, yet Impelled by deter
mination to find .the full truth, she
helped the detectives.
The booty bud been hidden in al
most inconceivable places. One piece
was taken from behind a picture, an
other from under the false bottom of
fern dish hanging conspicuously
Leaders of the movement to di»-.
pose of the: vast cotton yield, which
this year will be left in American
hands because of the war in Europe,
were given a more definite Idea Fri
day of the size of the new crop when
the department of agriculture an
nounced it would amount to approxi
mately 15,300,000 bales of &00
pounds each.
Curtailed takings of foreign spin
ners, who usually buy from eight to
ten million bales yearly, already havo ’
resulted in the adoption of new meth
ods for disposing of the 1914 crop,
which present conditions indicate will
be the second largest on record.
Domestic consumption, usually ap
proximately four and a half to five
and a half million bales, is expected
to be greatly increased thin.year by
heavier exports of American cotton
goods and the movement to stimu
late their use at home.
The condition of the cotton crop
of the United States on September
25, was 73.5 per cent, of a normal,
compared with 78 per cent, on Au
gust 25, 64.1 per cent, last year,
69.6 in 1911, and 68.5 per cent., the
average of the past ten years on Sep
tember 25. This announcement was
made at noon Friday by the crop re
porting board, bureau of statistics.
United States department of agricul
ture, in its final condition report of
the season, the condition being esti
mated from reports of its correspon
dents and agents throughout the cot
ton belt.
Comparisons
of
conditions
by
states follow:
Sept.
Aug. Sept. Ten-
25,
25,
25, year
1914
1914
>913
av.
Virginia . . .
80
86
76
76
North Carolina
79
82
70
7S
South Carolina
72.
77
71
72
Georgia . . .
81
81
72
72
Florida . . .
81
83
78
71
Alabama. -. .
78
77
67
69
Mississippi . .
68
75
«3
66
Louisiana . .
67 -
66
.60
62
Texas . .
.70
79
63
67
Arkansas . .
69
75
43
68
Tennessee . .
.70
7«
68
74
Missouri . . .
.72
72
64
76
Oklahoma . .
.80
80
42
66
California . .
.96
98
100
•94
United States
.73.5
78
64.1 68.5
from a chandelier, still another from
the rear of a mirror. Eaton himself,
on his bed In the hospital, told the
detectives where they could find
many pawntickets hidden in his bath
room.
In all this searching the police ob
served Mrs. Eaton, and they watched
her at the bedside of her husband.
Their unanimous verdict, voiced by
Capt. Alonzo Cooper of the Fourth
Branch Detective Division, was: “If
any woman evef was innocent that
woman is.”
Yet she lived well-—not luxurious
ly. but very well—on the salary of a
clerk in the offices of the Mumm
Champagne and Importation com
pany. How was it that she did not
know ? the police asked. Her life,
her past experiences, together with a
woman's fine faith in her husband,
afford their answer. When a girl
she married Eaton in Wales. He was
the son of a well-to-do man, and took
her to a home suitable to one of posi
tion in society. She lived well and
happily with her husband. She be
came accustomed to more than the
mere comforts of life.
in 1903 Eaton and another man
bought a mine in Mexico, in the State
of Chihuahua, and went to the mine
to live. The partners prospered for
five years. Mrs. Eaton had money
for pleasures,, for trips, for enter
tainments, for living as one of taste
and zest for life desired to live. Her
husband's prosperity became a nor
mal and natural thing to her, some
thing to be taken for granted. -
Eaton’s partner was killed by In
dians in 1908, and in the same year
the mine began to fail. So, with-no
further prospects in f Mexico, Eaton
came to New York, But he found no
mine in the city, he could not make
the money easily, as he had made it.
He had to work as a clerk, but lie
did not tell his wife. His pride, or
his affection for her, or his confidence
•Four-year average.
The crop reporting board'a final
estimate of the size of this year’s
crop will be announced Thursday,
December 10, at 2 p. m
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London Expect* United States to Plaf
Important Role for Peace.
Since President Wilson made , bin
statement that peace overtires vers
premature at the time, ■■■Reii -offi
cials have felt reassured and they ,
now express confidence that the Unit
ed States will, at the proper time,
exert its good offices to bring the war
to a close under conditions Insuring
permanent peace in Europe.
High London officials Wednesday
expressed condence that the Unite*
States, after the continental com
batants had become somewhat ex
hausted by the struggle, would exert
a powerful Influence for poaeo and
make it possible to negotiate a treaty
which would require European na
tions to submit future differences to
the United Statee for arbitration thus
making recurrence of the war impos
sible.
REPUDIATES INTERVIEW.
I
Baron Yon Schoen “Emphatically”
Denies Reported Statement.
irr his ability—to rise, pernaps, all
three together. Impelled him to rep
resent to his wife that he was as well
off as ever.
But Eaton could not maintain his
pose on the salary of a clerk. He
had to make more moneq than he
could earn as the employee of anoth
er man. His pleasing personality
and good address put opportunity in
his way. He discovered that he was
pleasing to women, that when he met
them he soon became friendly to
them, and was accepted without ques
tion. He found that women liked
him so well that they did hot ques
tion him closely. They could talk
more pleasantly to hinf about other
things. , ‘ 0
- So, if the story told by the police
is true, Eaton, a few years ago, decid
ed to capitalize his social acconiplishv
UJ'MffKy tli£ Women who re-
nwnrs-
ceived him so wdll pay in ways of
which they never dreamed to.enable
him to .maintain his appearance of
prosperity. • Bat he never told his
wife of his' plans, and be was care
ful that .she had no cause to see or
suspect a change in hip." *
Mrs. Eaton saflr no. herious chgnge
in his character or hahtta, and. as fc*
always bad h«M prosperous she saw
The Washington Post, which first
printed the von Schoen interview,
published the following card from
him to-day:
"Editor Post: I should be much
obliged if you would kindly insert a
notice in your to-morrow’s issue stat
ing that the interview attributed to
me and published in to-day’s Wash
ington Post, is in no way correct. I
emphatically deny that the views ex
pressed therein confornj to the state
ment I made.. Believe me, etc.
Yours sincerely,
“ Baron von Schoen,
.‘‘Secretary to German Embassy.”
no change in his financial position.
The one thing that Eaton, according
to the story, hadto alter was his habit
of staying at home with' his wife all
of the
houri! free for making the acquaint--—
ance of women whose apartments he
intended to rob.
So, he invented a companion who
would call him from his home and
named him "Col, Carter,” a retired
English army officer. The “Colonel”
was moral and refined, a perfectly
safe companion, but had a weakness
for billiards and a dislike ior visit
ing. So Eaton never brought him
home to his wife, but occasionally
stayed out to play billiards with him. ~
Mrs. Eaton, as she had always be
lieved her husband, believed in his
mythical friend. “Col. Carter” was
as real to her as any one. Her naive
Her naiye credulity, is shown in her
Innocent remark when reporters went
to her on Thursday to. tell her of her
husband's having bean, shot. “Her-
bert fkreiy went out if highi,"^she
said. *! .understood that he was out
playing billiards with a frlead last
night and I hare been waiting log
him to retprn.”
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