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SHARK EATS SAVANNAH BOY?
Edward J. Coffee Vanishes at Tybee
While Bathing With Others.
Savannah, Aug. 30.?While swimming
at Tybee Island to-day, Edward
Coffee, 12-year-old-son of Edward J.
Coffee, an ex-Savannah patrolman,
mysteriously disappeared and up to
this afternoon his body had not been
found. It is feared he was captured
by a shark.
Young Coffee and several other
boys, about 30 in number, have been
camping at Tybee. Coffee was an
excellent swimmer. While in swimming
he proposed that the entire party
go out into deeper water. While
leading the way he suddenly disappeared
beneath the water. The oth
er lads became frightened and hurried
ashore.
This is the fourth death at Tybee
this season. The affair recalls the
disappearance of a lad three years
ago near the spot where Coffee went
down. Later his dismemebered body
was found on the beach.
AN EGGSHELL ROMANCE.
Two Friends Decide to Let "the Girl"
Make Decision.
Hackensack, N. J., Aug. 29.?A
girl on a farm near Topeka, Kan.,
whence eaes are shipped as far east
as Hackensack, has a fondness for the
romance of eggshell acquaintance.
Her name and address on two eggs
fell into the hands of Theodore Sidoro
and George Zile, warm friends
who room and board together. Neither
of the young men told the other of
the discovery but started a correspondence
which resulted in each receiving
the girl's photograph and
' many letters. Finally two proposals
weres sent westward and each
brought a letter of acceptance. One
evening recently each of the men accused
the other of being love-sick,
whereupon the confessions were
forthcoming that each was the victim
of the same eggshell romance.
Neither conceding that the other had
really won the girl's heart, both are
making preparations to go west and
let her decide which it will be. The
loser is to be the best man.
The Church and the Young Earmer.
What does the church offer the
young man or the young woman of
* the farm to-day? in days gone by,
before the coming of automobiles on
the farm, of telephone, of rural free
delivery, the mules were hitched to
the "big wagon," straw was laid in
the bottom for the youngsters and
seats placed for the grown-ups, and
the entire family went to church on
Sunday. Inviting discussion of the
matter, the Northwestern Christian
Advocate, of Chicago, says: "Changing
social conditions and the innovations
of improved farm machinery,
the introduction of the automobile,
rural free delivery of mail, the telephone
and other important innovations
have gradually forced the
' church to ask, 'What must we do to
save ourselves from death?'" A
writer in the United Presbyterian
states that from 25 to 70 per
cent, of the farming population in the
prairie States neither belong to a
, church nor attend one. He is not so
much concerned in the decline in
the number of churches as in the
proportion of the population that is
being reached. Another clergyman,
in the Northwestern Christian Advocate,
advances the argument that the
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of its people, saying that
the greatest need of rural life to-day
is play. It would seem that the solution
of this problem would be in
the establishing of what are known
in the cities as "institutional" or "departmental"
churches?churches providing
not only the usual auditoriums
for religious worship but with sufficient
room and facilities for indoor recreation.
The Northwestern Christian
Advocate states further: "Boys,
don't leave the farm because they
want to escape hard work. They are
equal to that, but because there is
nothing but work?hard work and no
fun. Farm life is strenuous now;
there are fewer workers larger responsibilities
and more skill is required.
All this exhausts energy
which must be restored by recreation."
To make the use of the recreation
facilities effective, the work
should have the direct personal supervision
of the clergyman and pick
ed laymen, and should be a ministry
to the intellectual, physical, spiritual
and social needs of the young people
of the neighborhood.?Churchman.
Aged German Couple Suicide.
St. Louis, Aug. 26.?Clasped in
each others' arms, the bodies of Mr.
and Mrs. Anton Neuberg, an aged
German couple, who have been in ill
health for some time, were found in
the bed room of their home yesterday.
Five burners in the kitchen stove
and two gas jets in the bed room
were ppen. Beside the couple were
found two bottles that had contained
carbolic acid.
A STRANGE THEFT.
Men in London Reap Large Profit
from Snatching Curls.
Consternation has been caused
among shopkeepers and ladies in the
west end by the activity of the
ctfjtio-o rJocnr?il.or whn enntrhps rnrls
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oi' artificial hair from the coiffures
of shop window gazers, says the London
Standard. The thefts are accomplished
with much dexterity, and
bring considerable profit to the perpetrator.
These curls, are made of
human hair of the finest quality,
which costs a guinea an ounce. A
curl frequently represents a value of
five pounds or six pounds.
A medical man who keeps a close
record of this queer type of theft
stated: "This snatcher of artificial
curls is obviously no monomaniac, but
is 'out' purely to enrich himself. My
records show that previously the
thief has been daring enough to clip
hair, and not false hair either, from
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daylight. Montmartre, the gay quarter
of Paris, was the scene of exploits
of this kind in 1910, the culprit
being a mad Englishman who
had a mania for cutting off women's
hair. Earlier in the same year women
and girls in Berlin were terrorized
by a young Hungarian named
Fodor, who was a victim of the same
mental abnormality.
Hundreds of Victims.
"Fodor's victims numbered hundreds.
He often contented himself
with stealing small quantities of hair,
but he more often secured thick
tresses, the loss of which caused
much embarrassment. His skill in
stealing hair was extraordinary, and
he frequently victimized as many as
a dozen persons successively. to
catch the' perpetrator a large force of
detectives scoured the streets of the
capital. After he was arrested just
outside the Kaiser's palace, in the
act of severing a school-girl's long
plaits, his lodging was found stacked
with hair of all hues, bound with
different colored ribbons, to which
were attached cards classifying them
in color and texture. Many tresses
had strange inscriptions attached to
them.
"In July, 1900, Seconda Revera,
an Italian kitchen porter, who earned
for himself the name 'Jack Clipper,'
was sentenced at Marlborough
street police court to four months'
imprisonment and recommended for
deportation for having cut a piece
out of the back of the dress of a
theater attendant while on the top of
an omnibus proceeding from Charing
Cross; he had also cut the tail of a
woman's coat on an omnibus in Regent
street, and when arrested had
four pieces of material, which had
evidently been cut from other women's
coats, in his pockets.
Dress Slashing Epidemic.
"An epidemic of dress slashing
disturbed tube and elevated railway
users in New York in the summer of
1909, when hundreds of cases of mutilation
to dresses and coats were reported
within a month. The perpetrator
was never discovered. Many
DeoDle suggested it was the work of
an unscrupulous dressmaking or tailoring
firm to increase trade, but no
proof of this was forthcoming, and
monomania was ultimately accepted
as the only reasonable explanation.
"Men with a mania for ink slinging
are perpetually annoying women
in the streets, and many beautiful
dresses have been ruined in this way.
In June of 1905 and November,
1907, there was a great outbreak of
ink throwing in Bond street, Oxford
street and Regent street, and only
in May of this year the terror reappeared
in the west end, the sufferer
being a Hanover square lady who had
a ten-guinea dress spoilt. Not long
before that a lady's seventeen-guinea
ermine stole was ruined in this way.
"In January of this year a new occupation
was disclosed at Marlborough
street police court, when a man
confessed that he chewed up bread
and dripping which he threw on
ladies' dresses, and was often well
paid for wiping them clean by unsuspecting
women. This man had
previously been charged with throwing
green paint over a lady's dress
.at Earle's court station, almost covering
her from the shoulder to the
waist.
"In all probability," concluded the
doctor, "these men canot be classed
as lunatics. There are thousands of
people in London who are apparently
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men either carry out their nefarious
practices for business purposes, such J
as would the bread spitter or the J
curl snatcher, or else, presumably
sane in all other ways, they have a
rooted dislike for garments of a particular
color, and may be obsessed
with and unable to control the desire
to change their appearance."
Religious Opinion.
"Come up and jine de army of de
Lord, sister!"
"Ah done jine."
"Where you jine?"
"I jine de Baptist chu'ch."
"Lawdie, sister, dat ain' de army.
Dat's de navy!"?Judge.
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BAKEJ> HIS PAST LIFE.
Philadelphia Councilman is Now Going
to Try to Lead Better Life.
Philadelphia, Aug. 2S.?William
J. Burke, Philadelphia,^ reform councilman,
who disappeared on August
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1 U alter writing a fUmcaaiuu mat lie
is an ex-convict and second-story
burglar, and resigning from council,
returned to his wife and stepdaughter,
who had been loyal to . him
throughout his troubles.
After greeting his family, Burke
immediately went to the home of
John J. Fehr, the local business man,
who offered to set him up in the
cigar business provided he would
come back and "face the music." Tomorrow
Burke will take charge of a
cigar store and barber shop, following
his talk with Fehr, who insisted
that the councilman, whose resignaI
tion has not been accepted, should
tell the entire story of his former
?nd tho ^sYnnsnre of his old
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record.
Burke repeated the story substantially
as it has been printed many
times, but he added one essential detail.
He gave the name of the former
convict who blackmailed him and
drove him from his respected position
as a reform councilman to a back
room in a lodging house in West
Thirty-sixth street, New York, where
he has been hiding since his disappearance.
"When I went away," said Burke,
"I shaved off my mustache. I did
not want any one to know me. I got
my mail at a Mills Hotel in New York
City. I fought out the battle with
the assistance of my wife. It was
hard for me to come back to Philadelphia
and face my former friends,
but there was no other way.
Owes Much to Wife.
"I owe a great deal to my wife and
stepdaughter and I promise to repay
it. I shall accept the offer of Mr.
Fehr. Other people have talked large,
but Mr. Fehr is the only one to come
forward and say: "Here's a position.
Come and get on your feet once more
and lead a respectable life.' "
Burke declared that certain people
had attempted to make capital out of
the fact that he was a reformed coun
cumdju.
"Just because I was an anti-organization
councilman is. no reason for
gang papers to take advantage of the
fact," he said. "As a reform advocate
I believed that the crooks should
be driven from politics. I think I am
an authority on 'crooks.' I know
them and I have lived with them.
There are many crooks in politics.
"I am done with politics forever.
No man, at the present time, has any
right to be in politics unless he has a
private fortune. If he is a poor man,
his every move will be criticised. I
am a poor man and at times have had
to borow money in small amounts.
I borrowed a small sum from an organization
politician. I was so grateful
that I told him if the time came
when I could do anything for him in
council I would be glad to do so.
That man has misconstrued my statement
and has told people that he
bought me for a miserable $2 loan.
That's politics for you!
Names the Ex-Convict.
"When I 'first made my confession,"
Burke continued, "certain peoDle
declared I was lying?that I was
seeking notoriety. One newspaper
suppressed the name of the ex-convict
who caused me to lay bare my past.
This ex-convict is Jimmy Foley, a
man who has known me for twentyfive
years. We worked alongside of
each other in the harness shop at
Charlestown prison in Boston. When
I was a. boy in New York he was a
'stall' for a gang of pickpockets.
"He got every cent I had, and after
I made my confession he left Philadelphia
and went to New York. He is
67 years old. He never will blackmail
me again and from now on I
will fight the battle of my life, no
matter what people may say."
Claimed She Was Wife of Taft.
Columbus, O., Aug. 29.?A woman,
with two long, knives concealed in
her clothing, was awaiting the coming
of President Taft to his hotel here
this morning when arrested. She
gave her name as Caroline Beers, age
40, and said she was the president's
wife.
The woman was found this morning
on one of the upper floors of the
hotel near an elevator. She was
rushed out before the presidential
party arived.
"I've a sacred knife for President
Taft " chp pyflaimed. nrobablv re
ferring to the long, keen bladed affair,
upon the handle of which was a
photograph of the president.
She was well dressed and had two
hundred dollars. She says she resides
in Greenville, Ohio.
Taft publicly explained his exercise
of the veto power in his speech to a
great crowd of farmers at the State
fair grounds here to-day. He'said the
president must use his veto when
conscience tells him to The president
told the farmers of the legislation
congress had enacted for their
benefit and promised that other legislation
would follow.
HKL1) FOR REVOLTING CRIME.
Attempted Assault by Atlanta Re;
Estate Man on a Little Girl.
Atlanta. Aug. 2S.?G. E. Weste
of 150 Lee street, a well known bus
ness man of this city, was arreste
in his office in one cf the (low
town skyscrapers to-day, on tl
charge of attempting to assault a li
tie 14-year-old girf who entered h
office to offer chewing gum for sal
The affair caused quite a stir, t
the child is well known in busine:
circles; she helps support a \vidowe
mother, and is a familiar figure.
According to the little girl's stor;
vv ester seized ner wnen sut euueit
his office, and tore her clothing b<
fore she could scream and brea
away. Just as he was stifling h<
screams, the girl says some or
knocked on the door of the offic
and the interruption gave a chant
to run into another room. She in
mediately telephoned the police, an
Wester's arrest followed.
Wester denies the charges. He wi
be arraigned for disorderly condu<
in the police court and afterward i
all probability be bound over to tt
higher court on the more serioi
charge. Wesier is a successful ii
surance man, and well connected.
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The Passing of the Hansom.
*1 How quickly the world chang
with the progress of invention
suggested by the report that the
r? are now only about 400 hansom, ca
in the streets of London. Sev
d years ago there were 7,000. The h
11 maker of hansoms has closed 1
ie shop, and one of the cabs has be
placed in the new London museu
*s The taxicab has ousted the hanso
e* To those who knew the London
iS former years the passing of the ha
5S soms will bring the question of wh
!(* has become of their drivers, w
were accustomed to sit high abo
y> the crowded street, with whip de
id cately poised, skillfully, swif
e- threading streams of traffic. Thou
k the hansom driver seemed alwa
?r trying to tie up his horse, he had
le certain air of importance by reas
e, of his elevation. The lowly taxic
le allows no such conspicuousness to
i- chauffeur. Few of the hansom dr
id ers, it is said, have become chai
feurs; they were not the kind of m
11 needed for the work. Many of the
ct it is to be feared, were too old
in change to anything else, and thi
ie fate has in it something of trage<
1S The world has not yet found out h<
to avoid the hardships caused by n
chanical progress.?Chicago Recoi
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SWEETS CAUSED DOWNFALL.
Express Messenger Held for Robbery
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ire i Was Spending Too Much.
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en Atlanta, Aug. 28.?E. F. Carr^the
ist young express messenger held in conlis
nectipn with the recent $3,000 train '
en robbery near Asheville, had four or
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m. five sweethearts on whom he had to
m. shower candy and attentions, accordof
ing to the latest theory of the detecm
tives. No wonder, they say, his sallat
ary as a millionaire or successful
ho bandit they say, to furnish sweets for t
ve more than one sweetheart.
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iys Mrs. Black's servant girl had been
a in the habit of going out to meet the
on grocer's boy when he came to the
ab back door with goods. Observing
its this Mrs. Black watched and saw the
iv- boy kiss Nora heartily. When the
if- girl came in Mrs. Black said severe
en ! ly:
m, j "ftorah, I saw the grocer's boy 4
to kiss you this morning when you went
eir out for the groceries. Hereafter I
ly. shall go myself."
dv/ "All right, mum," said Norah, "but
le- 'twill do yez no good. He sez he
*d- won't kiss nobody but me."?Ladies'
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