The people. (Camden, S.C.) 1904-1911, June 30, 1904, Image 8
Envoy of ttie Dalai Lama, the Ruler of Tibet, at tlije British Camp.
THE >l? WE BREATHE.
Marrams Illustrating the Necessity or
Ventilation.
la an article on "Wliy We Need Ven
Illation." In the Western Architect.
Morris Ebersole says: "In its nat
iral state, whether from the equator
tr the poles, the composition of air Is
tluiOKt Invariable, with the exception
M the amount of water vapor. Man
was made to exist in this envelope of
tlr surrounding tlie enrtli. and. there
fore, bis anatomy is affected one way
?r tbe otber according to the (imposi
tion of tbe air be breathes. Tbe life
giving and vital principle of air Is
?xygeu. This element revives, resusci
tates. sustains and feeds. and tbe
breathing orpins are so minutely and
beautifully proportioned that the least
Change or diminution of this element
In tbe air inhaled is immediately evi
Cenced by a feeling of discomfort or
nausea?and unmistakable sign that
?omething is wrong.
In these days, when so much of our
lives is spent Indoors, some provision
must be made that tbe air we con
stantly breathe Is not lacking In any
?f its healthful, natural qualities. Ex
pired air differs from inspired air by
just so much harmful ingredients as
la the purpoKe of nature to eliminate
from our systems. These eliminations
fcud chemical changes in the compost
lk>n of air in our lungs are constantly
TmpteCHfST
10 ft. high by
6 fT- JQUARC
WOULD Hov.0
' THt QUANTITY
OP AIR .
You BRfATMtIN
EVERY 24
hOUKS
ONE DAY'S AIR SI'PPLY.
going on. Nature lias provided that
mail should eliminate such. tilings as
tre harmful to liiin?when elimination i
peases life ceases?and these waste j
products are in themselves poisonous I
and dangerous to health if we take >
theui again Into our systems. I
Iu expired ail* the nmount of carlton !
dioxide- an inert, suffocating gas?is j
Increased, and the amount of oxytreii 1
is proportionately diminish)*!.' Man I
cannot live in au atmosphere in which I
the oxygen is too rare; or, in other'
words, too highly diluted with nitro- |
gen. Nitrogen is not poisonous, but It
cannot sm tain life, ami it acts as a di
luted! to the oxygen, which if present
In the pure iu:dllut"d state would cause
u more rapid ?'omhustlou than the del
icate tissue* of our lungs could hear.
Again. oth'T complex poisonous prod
ucts are exhaled in the ' reatli. which
of themselves would rapidly cause de
cay and disease.
For these reasons, ami living In con
fined places as we do. most of our
lives, in whi'-h space we breathe and
have oi:v being. it Is only the pressure
to the 1:: ?xorahle laws of na'ure which
drives us to think of ventilation and
to make provision for It.
flood Outlook For Unlt?>il Stmtt>?.
Admiral Howies, who retired from
the Construction Department of the
Navy to take general charge of the
shipbuilding plant, near Quincy. Mass.,
and must he conceded to know some
thing anout the business he has been
In for twenly-tlve years, ut a nieetliiK
of the Master Builders' and Traders'
Association of Quincy, expressed his
belief that the Hulled Stales will be
building tiie t-liips of the world iu tlse
near future.
Jlli'p IH?llkc I'rpprritilnt.
There are n.any objections to the tv *
of poisonous articles to keep mice
out of a house, and a hint may be use
ful to thoM' who atv troubled With
these little i ?-sts. Mice have a great
antipathy to the sui'-ll of peppermint,
and a little oil of peppermint placed
around tlir'.r haunts and holes will
successfully keep them away.
WATER MICROPHONE.
A microphone, as you perhaps kno?v,
is a sort of telephone which greatly
Increases the intensity of sounds so
that the noise made by a fly In walking
HOW THB MIC HOP IIONI LOOKS.
over tlie apparatus can be beard uuy
ffhw in n large room.
The microphone, like the telephone,
is an electrical instrument. but the
word microphone uienlis merely an in
strument wblcli enables one to hear
feeble hounds, and so the simple ap
paratus to be described may be called
a microphone; though it has nothing to
do with electricity. When water Is
sues from a small orifice It forms a
continuous, clear stream for a little
distance and then breaks into drops
which fall at pretty nearly e?|ual in
tervals. But the Interval between the
drops depends on what vibrating bod
ies may be In the neighborhood, as
may be sliown by the following pretty
experiment:
Connect one end of a rubber tube
with the water faucet or with n vessel
of water on a shelf and In the other
end Insert a glass medicine dropper.
Ilohl the glass tube, pointing down
ward. over a vertical metal tube, the
upper end of which is covered with
sheet rubber tightly stretched. Hold
the tube at such a height that the
stream Just fails to break into sep
i arate drops before it strikes the rub
ber.
Now if you hold a watch near the
glass tube from which the stream
Issues the sound made by the water in
falling on the rubber will keep time
with the ticking of the watch and so
magnify it. The effect will be very
much Increased if a paper or tin fun
I nel Is connected with the metal tube,
as shown in the illustration.
HUMAN CANNON BALLS.
Lover .1 of sensational experiences
should tiinl their ambition* gratified
to the utmost In the late invention of
a genius who promises to literally Ore
THK HUMAN AMMUNITION CANNON,
tlit'iii tliKoiiuli th?* air from the muutli
oT a cannon.
'Jin* contrivance Iii? has devised for
this purpose is a mammoth metallic
cannon of I? iu11 lioro, which lie plans to
mount upon a high trestle. Within the
cannon arc truck* upon which roll cars
which arc to he occupied by passen
gers. When these cars are loaded with
their human freight they are to he
violently propelled into midair, alight
ing nt a dlstunee on track* on u Home
what lower tre*tlc ami coatitiulnu
their progress down an Incline to terra
timid, which doubtless will he wel
comed l?y the more timid adventurers
The bodies of the cars are to he h>
weighted that in their flight throimh
the air they will maintain their upright
position and the relative position of
the cannon's mouth and the secondary
track are to be such that there will be
no danger of the cars missing connec
tion.
ADJUSTABLE BLACKBOAfl.
Readily Made to Meet All Emergencies
of the Schoolroom.
An lugeutous German Inventor baa
devised u blackboard that mechanical,
ly Is perfectly adapted to all the emer
gencles of schoolroom use resnltlnf
from a great varlety:of work by Indi
viduals of considerable difference. Id
stature. The board can be adjusted
aud tixed at any desired angle ftnd
raised or lowered vertically In slotted
arms, or secured so as to permit of
horizontal use, or It may be reversed
as the service may require. The chief
merit of the combination, however, It
that the lueclian.sm by which the num
erous adjustments are made possible 1*
simple enough to be comprehended by
AWUHTABliC BT-ATKBOARD,
the youngest scholars, several move*
incuts being effected by means of a
string, or cord, acting on two nrins
resting iiKiilnst the wall from which
the board is supported.
Copper ?n<l "Copper."
The people of Vienna noticed recent,
ly tliat a uutn was prowling about the
roof of a certain house. The energetic
souls hurried off and summoned a po
liceman. when it turned out thut the
roof walker was engaged in stealing
the telephone wires and lightning con*
ductors for the sake of the copper.
When the "copper" arrived he was
conducted with lightning speed to the
police stution.
At'rlilrnln anal IHan'tfrW.
The loss of life from accidents and
disasters in the 1'nlted States last
year was: Klyes. 1: drowning, 2471;
explosions, TlWi: falling buildings, etc.,
474: steam railways, electric rail*
ways. r?7?: electricity, 1JWS: mines, 788;
cyclones and storms, 4.H7; lightning.
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THE NSW REPUBLIC OF PANAMA.
This Is the Hag of the new Republic
of I'aniumi -bine and red stars on a
white Held, and bine and red squares
one more red, white, and bine ban
ner.
1'ntil last November rannmn was
one of the States forming the United
States of Colombia. Becoming gravely
dissatisfied with the way Colombia
l acted in regard to the istlimlnn canal
and the ('lilted States' pending treaty
with Colombia over the matter, the
people of Panama rose in revolt and
THE FAMOUS SNOW-CLAD SACRED MOUN
TAIN OF JAPAN.
MT. FUJIYAMA FROM TAOANOIJUA.
set up n republic of their own. It was
a bloodies* revolution. Two dnys af
tor the revolt our Uovernment ac
knowledged the Independence of Pan
iitun. All the lending European Gov
ernments have done the same thing,
and now It Is believed matters will be
arranged so that work on the canal
can l>e soon and resolutely pushed for
ward. The population of the new re
public Is only about as great as that
of Itliode Island.
The Isthmus has an average width of
about forty miles and Is about 200
tulles long. It rains there almost In
cessantly during July, August and Sep
teinber.
ttrave Deed of Aged Woman.
A Ma sard is (Me.) woman, aged six
ty-iive, saw a fire on the roof of the
barn one day last week, where It came
from a spark from tho kitchen chim
ney. She got a ladder, crawled upon
the barn roof, shinned along the pig
back on the ridge pole with ? pall of
water and quenched the <Lr*
PLUCK, fOHAHCE
AMD ^OVERTURE.
FOUGHT IS. KILLING 12.
HK imtMt personage la
the anatli of fenciag, Jeau
Louls, was tlia. hero of
fights M wonderful, says
a London review, tbat were
they uot known to be autheutlc his
torical facts the/ might be thought
exaggerated, even If read in one of
Dumas' famous novels. Tula remark
able man was a mulatto. Boru in the
eighties of the eigfiteenth century, he
entered the French army at the age of
eight as enfant de trope, and did not
leave it till he was well over fifty. In
1814 the most astonishing combat of
modern days took place. Jean-Louis
waa then about iwenty-nlne years of
age. He had taken part in more than
thirty engagements in Egypt. Italy.
Prussia and Russia, and at the time of
which I write found himself in Spain.
It was th ? year which proved so dis
astrous to X*|M>leal>. Jean-I^ouls' reg
imeut bad just arrived in Madrid, and
was made up, llkf jB^ny others, of
men of various nationalities. The first
thing Napoleon did after a \ Ictory was
to oblige his late enemv to serve uu
der his flag. It thus happened that
for Ave or si* years there were Ital
ians. Dutch, Saxons, Bavarians and
Poles, who all fought for the French
Empire.
As long as the conqueror was sue-1
cessful, the foreign legions accepted
the servitude Napoleoh imposed upon
them; but the day bis lucl' turned they
were all possessed with one Idea,
which was to throw off the yoke and
rid themselves of this terrible tyrant.
In 1813. after Ills Russian campaign.
Napoleou's glorious prestige had be
gun to be Impaired, and discontent was
very apparent in the ranks. When the
news of the disaster of 1812-13 reached
Spain the foreign legions no longer
concealed their hatred of their French>
victors.
What had Ions: been threatening hap
pened. One night a quarrel sprang
up between some Italian and French
soldiers, -vhleli ended In each calling
friends to their aid. with the result
that In a short time there was a regu
lar engagement of a hundred a side.
Many men were wounded and the
combatants were separated by means
of a bayonet charge. The leaders of
each sld-? were arrested. ..ml It was de
cided, In order to make an example
of them to the army, that each side
should produce fifteen men, who
should fight until tliey were put hors
de combat.
Jean-Louis. as the prjpoipal fencing
master of his regiment, ?vas chosen to
fiyrht Cllacomo Ferrari, a fencing mas
ter of great renown in his own coun
try. Ferrari was a most redoubtub'e
adversary for any man to encounter.
Six feet in height, possessed of great
strength. he wis a man of Incontesta
ble courage.
The thirty men were to flglit In the
presence ff NUMM) witnesses. To the
sodtul of the roll of drums two meu
march on to the lighting rround. which
has been specially chosen on accouut
of Its ellghr natural elevation. One of
these men Is (tir.como Ferra ri. the
other Is Jean-Louis. They are accom
panied by two seconds. A deathlike
silence lias succeeded to the murtnur
of curiosity whi<^i greeted their ar
rival. Tlien a voice Is heard ?o break
the silence, the command "En garilc!"
is given.
The two masters Jol.i swords. In the
first instant Ferrari attempts to rush
Jean-Louis, but In vain. Every attack
\* met with a parry. He retires a lit
tle and tries what patience will do. He
feints, makes a pretense to attack, re
tires again while .lean-I/Otiis. very
calm, remains on the defensive. Sud
denly the Italian, with one of those
savage yells common to fencers of his
country, makes a little bound to one
side, followed by an attack In the low
er line delivered with lightning-like
rapidity.
This is a Florentine ruse which has
often proved successful to him before,
but at the same time a cry of rage
rather than of pain is heard. Jean
Louis. with Indescribable swiftness,
has parried and riposted. His sword
penetrates Ferrari's shoulder. "It is
nothing," cries Farrari. "I am not
hurt." They continue the fight and
Jean-Louis In his turn attacks and al
most Instantly pierces his opponent In
the breast. Ferrari's sword drops
from his hand. He drops heavily to
the ground ond Is picked up dead.
Jean-Louis wipes his blade and with
the point on the ground waits.
His task has only just begun. Four
teen adversaries are there waiting eag
erly for their opportunity to avenge
their champion, whom they had until
then thought Invincible. After two
minutes' rest Jean-I.ouls Is ready. The
second adversary stands before him.
Their Awords join. Th?re Is a sinister
clash of r e?'. Jenn-Louis lunges, a
cry Is heard, then a sigh. Jeati-I^ouis
has got back to a standing position and
has another dead'body before him.
The till"d adversary comes forward,
and has to be held l?:?--k in order to pre.
vent him from springing nt the French,
man before he has ll'i.shed his short
rest. The order to commence is given.
The Italian l-as followed the mulatto's
play attentively, and lie thinks he has
grasped his felnis. surprises and modes
of attack; but the result of his obser
vation does not avail Mm much, as
a ?er a few passes Jean-Louis' blade
disappears Into his body and he Is car
ried away dying.
Ten more adversaries come forward
one after the other, and the ten share
the sa.ne fate r.s the tirst thi*ee. The
thirteen adversary is carried away in
sensible. and cheers in which sounds
of something like terror can be heard
rend the air.
THE LION HUNT En.
Apropos of the lev/ edition of Cor
don ('mum logs' "Lion Hunter." his
daughter, Eleauora O. C. Nakeskn.
writes to the Saturday Review to point
out that few of the readers of her
father's adventures realize how young
lie was at the tline of thoee early hunt.
Ing exploits:
He wus only,twenty-three years old
when he started on his tl at expedition
Into the Interior of I'outh Africa. And.
rioted* U required enormous nerve and
?elf-reliance; It Mcdcd. Ii fact the ar
dor of you ):, backed by bis Iroa eonr
atltutiOD, to face the dangers and fa*
tlfiiet of socb an undertaking. Wben
be returned to England la tbe autumn
o# 184C be brought with, him such a
collection o* trophies as few believed
could bare fallen to our man's rifle.
He was then twenty-eight, and with
his long, luxurlsnt hair, thick, tawny
beard and magnificent athletic frame
fully satisfied tbe popular conception
of the "Lion Hunter.**
His success Is. o. course. well known
and recorded In the e%rly fifties. As
the younger son (seco.im of a Scottish
baronet, with sixteen children, his for*
tune was slender. lie resigned his
commlsiiion In the n<my so that for
him everything had depended on the
success of bla venture.
Ills share of profits from his book
alone reached in the first year $5000,
and by the sale of Ivory. ostrich feath.
ers. etc., and the exhibition of his
trophies, he made largo sums of money.
But the free, wild life of a hunter
left its mark on bis whole after exis
tence. and in Fort Augustus, where he
finally settled down, with his museum
I of South African trophies and various
I collections and curios, he contluucd. as
far as the Scottish cliuiate permitted,
| to live as he hr.d lived in his wagon in
Africa?a rude and comfortless life
which it was my lot to share with him
till the end. He continued to sleep on
the same narrow camp ImmI he used it)
his wanderings, and on it lie died in
18WJ. in the full prime of life. Ills splen
did hair untouched by time and all his
strong white teeth save one Intact', and
that one was dislodged with dreadful
difficulty. I think, some two or three
years before he died. It was a some
what extraordinary performance. Ha v.
lug suffered excruciating torment rrc*u
it. in.v father ordered the village sur
ixeon to extract It. Dr. Tolmle. who
then represented all the dental skill of
the district, a young man of most un
assuming proportions, shrank from the
experimeut.^and. after being persuad
ed. several times gave up the attempt
as hopeless, but mv father sat patient
ly urging and encouraging him to re
newed efforts, and at last, after a tus
sle lasting three hours, the refractory
molar yielded. It was. as it appears,
carefully preserved by him. for one
Christmas I found it along with a cut*
t.v pipe in my stocking as a charm
tiarniust toothache from which I had
suffered at the time. I was then very
little, but It must have greatly Im
pressed me since I remember it so
well.
SAVED P.Y A PATER RAT,.
A common flour sack?a' paper ling?
and the use o\ his wits saved Chris
Hansen. a hunter. from drowning at <
Suusalito. California. The Quiver telU
the story. Hansen had been aecus
touted to spend the early morn ill);
hours shooting on the bay. One morn- !
Ing, while he was returning In a skill I
from the hunting grounds, bin shotgun,
which was lying in the bottom of the 1
boat, was accidentally discharged. Tho I
full contents of the barrel passed
through the bottom of the skilT and
tore a liirge. jagged hole. In a few I
minutes the boat began to settle, and !
the man's most desperate efforts
could not stop the incoming water. He
grasped the oars and. snatching a
tough paper ling which he used for
carrying liis game, began to tie them
together as a'float to assist him to
reach shore. When lie had finished
his task he jumped into the wnter
The bout sank h moment later. Han
sen could not swliu well, and he found
the oar# lint little support. He was
beginning to lose courage when In*
noticed that a portion of the sack used
in tying tiie oars together had becoma
tilled with air. He snatched it up.
and held the open end toward thv
breeze until it filled with wind. Han
sen used this improvised life-preserver
to assist in keeping him afloat and
easily remained on the surface of the
water. The tide ami the use of hi*
legs gradually propelled him toward
the shore, and the drifting uiun soon
got a foothold.
A MIOilTY IITXTER.
It is said that Sir Mortimer Dnrand.
the negotiator of the "I>urand Agree
ilient" with the astute Ahdtir Rahman,
Khan of Kabul, for six years British
Minister lit the Court of the Shuli, for
more than three years Ambassador at
Madrid, and now the British Amhassti.
dor to Washington, is prouder of hi*
success as a sportsman than as a dip
lomat. It is Intimated that he has tak
en with him to Washington many of
liis Indian shooting trophies. Chief
among these are an enormous head and
skin of a Bengal tiger, the story of
whose death he often tells. As the
Jungle was too thick for eh>p),anls to
lie used. Sir Mortimer was armed with
both an Empress rifle and an eight
bore, The latter weapon he hail never
used, ami when the tiger came on h>?
expected to have dropped him dead by
the steady aim he took with it. But
the brute rushed on for thirty yards
pt full gallop, and Sir Mortimer
thought lie had missed aim. From his
coign of vantage !.i the fork of u tree
lie fired with the Empress rifle into
the brute's back, nnd this time he fell.
When the tiger was skinned. It w.ts
found that the eight-bore bullet It.id
raked it from the chest to the ?*hd of
its body. It was evidei.tly well en
dowed with the feline .capacity for
surviving.
WOLF ATTACKS KEEPER.
In the presence of n big crowd of
v I si tot* at the Zoological Park, Wash
ington. I>. u prairie wolf and a
'???cper fought a long and vicious
battle. The beast lacerated tie* man's
arms and lufnds In an effort to reach
Ills throat, and was beaten off lint in
time to save his victim's life. Women
screamed and fainted, and the enraged
wolf threw the keeper to III" annu l
and stood over him. snarlinu and leav
ing the man's flesh with Ills pointed
fatiRS. The wolf has been known to
the Zoo offlcliils for a lonst time as
having all of the treachery and none
of the cowardice of his tribe.
The Nonconformists, who are re
sisting the new educational laws,
under which nil are taxed for schools
controlled by the Established ChuivJt
of England, are hi London a1 >??? 1 ?
0.12 Bpotlst*. Coiureg itloa.il
i#t*. P/a.007 Wesleyans. and 'WKiri
member* of the Sulvuliou Ai'Uij.
News of Iftcnst
AFRO-AMERICANS
Whipping Post Rtviatd.
At Lexington, Ky.. Police Judge
John J. Riley revived the old whipping
poet regime when he sentenced Simon
Scearce, a fifteen year-old lad. to he
whipped in the public square.
Scesrce had struck a small boy.
The court decided that the boy's moth
er take him to the public square and
give him twenty lsshes with a buggy
whip. The mother. In the presence of
a lsrge crowd, administered the pun
ishment as directed. This 1s the first
time such au Incident has been wit
nessed iu Kentuckey since the war.
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Race Trouble in Ohio.
A dispatch from Canton. Ohio, the
late President McKiuley's home .own,
says: Clifford Boylan. 24 years old, it
belelved to be dying at the hospital,
and Wtn H. Harrier and Daniel Fits- I
gerald were shot and cut and braised
as the result of a fight between Ne
groes and white men after a ball game.
Seventeen Negroes were arrested,
their confinement being necessary, the
authorities stated . for the suppres
sion of possible violence by Boyian s
friends, who were greatly Incensed
over the iujurles. Policemen were In
structed to arrest every Negro that
appeared on the scene of the trouble.
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Forcing Negroes to Marry*
The matrimonial crusade inaugu
rated by Judge Jim Burch among the
Negrbeg of Augusta. Ga.. Is about to
be the cause of a grand Jury lnvestlga
tlon, with the magistrate as the sub
ject.
, It Is alleged that Judge Burch had
no authority to issue warrants for the
arrests of the Negroes living together
and not married, and that having
issued the warrants lie had uo rlghf
to dismiss the cases when the parties
married. The matter will be brought
to the attention of the next session of
the grand Jury and the whole matter
sifted. It Is claimed that this sort
of work is a city court affair, and that
the magistrate was encroaching on
another's legal preserves.
Whether Judge Burch had any legaf
rights In the matter at all or not. there
la no doubt about the fact that Negroe*
are getting married as they nevei dlu
before, and they are even sacrificing
household goods to get the money that
is necessary for the official costs in the
matrimonial ceremony. A prominent
pawnbroker says that the Negroes are
| putting np clothes, furniture, tools and
anything that they can get their hands
j on to pay for the license and thj fes
for tying the knot.
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Address by the President.
In his Memorial Day address at
Gettysburg, Pa.. President Rosseveit
?aid among other things: "The place
where we now are has won a double
distinction. Here was fought one ot
the great battles of all times, and
uere was spoken one of tlio few
speeches which shall last through the
ages. As long as this republic en
dures or its history is known, so .011,5
shall the memory of the battle of Get
tysburg likewise endure and be known:
and as long as the Kngilsh tongue Is
understood, so long shall Abraham
Lincoln's Gettysburg speech thrill the
hearts of mankind.
The civil war was. a great war for
righteousness: a war waged for tbe
noblest ideals, but waged also Id
thoroughgoing, practical fashion. It
was one of the few wars which mean
I in their successful outcome, a lift to
ward better things for the nations of
mankind. Some wars have meant the
triumph of order over anarchy aud
licentiousness masquerading as l'ber
ty; seme wars have meant the triumph
of liberty over tyranny masquerading
as order; but this victorious war of
ours meant the triumph of both liberty
and order, the triumph of orderly l.ber
ty, tbe bestowal of civil rights upon
the freed slaves and at the same time
stern insistence 011 the supremacy of
the national law throughout th?> l?ngth
and breadth of the land. The war left
to us all. as fellow-countryman, a.-i
1 broth**?, the right to rejoice that tue
Union has been restored in indes?i*u.-t
ible shape In a country where shivery
no longer mocks the boast of free>lmii,
and also the right to rejoice with ??xul
tant pride In the courage, the ielf sac
rifice. and the devotion, alike ol" :h**
men who wore the blue uud the m il
who wore the gray." ?
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Hannah Ellas Wins Court Ca3e.
At New York, Hannah Klias, -? col
ored wouian, was discharged In court
on motion of Assistant Attorney Hmi I.
acting for District Attorney Jeroiii ?.
at the conclusion of the tes'i?uo i> <n
John R. Piatt, the ag?-ii uJIIUu-iir .
who caused her arrest for exio'-ifi
Old man Piatt proved a d'??>iT)fioin!i,;;
ttituuoS. To questions uiiuci./
^ ?.,0 L1|ui4t;b, on wuicii 1 ue woman's
arrest, haj beeu made, Ik- answered re
poaledly: "i don't know."
Ills helpless uud his apparently un
reliable memory surprised those who
attended his examination. He did uot
r? in amber whether hu had given the
woman large sums of mouey <J<iriiik
tho past ten years, as charged, and did
not remember signing certain of the
papers In connection with his charge#
against her. The ordeal was a trying
one for the aged man and his replies
bcuatue scarcely audible toward the
last. As soon as he had left the wit
ness chair. Assistant District Attorney
Rand said:
? Your honor, I think the parties tc
this miserable scatida! ought to ije al
'->wej to ?t'*w lu tie Ir o\yn grease.
Fhero U ti 1 evidence bi>f.>ro you ihii'
vlli possibly servo to hold ibis woman
'.:i a charge of ex'.oiHoti. I recjin
mend that aho be discharged."
The nrngl.vrate therur.j. >n dlschir*
0-1 '.h'*- w jinan.
Several thousand persons, imotix
(heui hundreds of colore.1 crigens, a'
traded by the case, thronged Lb?
building >M stood crowded la the
itmta outsMc The old mam. In?
bllai. uid iMMMtly dased wm m
slsted out ud the crowd hooted ?od
fclni
Piatt la his testimony said ha first
met Hsaaah Bth; about fifteen years
ago. Some time lai. r he again met the
woman at Third avenue mssnace estab
lishment through an advert foetnenf
and had kept up the scqualntance
since. His relation with her had been
of a tender character and he had
bought for her a house snd had given
ber large sums of money.
The aged witness then sppearea io
become very much confused and to
several subsequent questions he re
plied that he could not remember and
referred the questioner to his ittor*
ney. Piatt would not give s direct an
swer to* a question as to whether he
had paid the woman more than $600,*
000 since Jsnuary. 1996. but did re
member that he gave her $7,500 laat
month. This payment wss mad* be
cause Hannsh Ellas told him she was
being sued and would have to go to
court and expose him unless the money
was paid.
? ? ? ?
Doubt oi Alexander's Guilt.
An Atlanta dispatch says: applica
tion will soon be made to President
Roosevelt for a pardon for James H
Alexander, the colored valet of Fay
master P. C. Stevens, of the United
States army, who In 1902 was sen
tenced to three years on the charge
of robbing Major S evens of $5,000 of
government money. The petition will
be prepared by S. C. Crane. Alexan
der's attorney.
The charge againet Alexander and
evidence has been developed which
shows considerable doubt of Alexan
der's guilt. Half of the money was
returned soon after It was missed, and
there has been no definite evidence
since to show where the rest went.
The robbery occurred In 1901, and
Alexander was sentenced on Mar'-h 17,
1902. to three years in the federal
prison and a fine of $1,000. lie was
not s?nt to the federal prison, how
ever, until January. 1904. having spent
the time between November. 1901, and
January, 1904. in the Fulton county
jail.
Just before he wont to the federal
prison Attorney Crane appealed to the
circuit court of appeals to have the
time spent by Alexander in the cointy
jail credited to him on hi* three-year
sentence. The appeal was to have
been heard next fall.
Lately an investigation of the?charge
against Alexander led to a doubt of his
guilt, and also to a friendly interest in
assisting In getting his pardon.
To get the pardon, nowevrr. it will
first be necessary to have the appeal
dismissed, and this will be done at
once by Attorney Crane. The applica
tion for a pardon, which is now being
drawn up. will be forwarded at once
to president Rossevelt. It is very like
ly now that Alexander will be par
doned.
In addition to the fact that there
is some doubt of Alexander's guilt, ha
had practically served out his sen
tence in the Fulton county Jail. Had
his appeal been turned down, he would
liave hat! to serve time In the federal
prison until 1907. or altogether, some
thing over five years.
rt?3UFF WAS CUTTING ONE.
Fitting Retort of "Mad Poet'' to at
Ungentlemanly Remark.
Many stories are told of McDonald
Clarke, known lifty years ago in Nev
York as the "mad poet." which show
that lie bad a vein of great shrewd
ness, such as is often possessed b?
people who are counted insane.
One day he was seated at a tablf
in a New York hotel quietly eating Ills
simple dinner when two young mer
took their seats at the same table
McDonald Clarke was a well known
llgurc, and the young men at once
recognized hi:n though he did no'
know * hem.
They were not gentlemen in thf
best sense of tli" word, and it oc
curred to them that they might havf
some sport with the poor poet. Con
sequentIv one of them said in an tin
necessarily clear tone;
"I have seen almost everything an#
everybody in N"w York except Me
Donald Clarke. I have a great admira
lion for his poems and 1 would giv?
a great deal to see the man."
When he passed the mad poet lean
ed forward and said with eviden'
gratification:
"Sir. 1 am McDonald Clarke, whon
you say you wish to see."
The young mnn stared at him with
much rudeness for a moment, ano
then drawing a quarter from hli
pocket he laid It on the poet's plate
saying, "That's for the sight!"
Clarke looked at the coin for nn In
stunt, and then placing It in his |H?ck
et, he took out a "York,shilling," 12V4
cents. This ho handed to the yjuns
man. saying gravely. "Children hal'
pflce."
NOBLEMAN LIVES IN CAVE.
Wealthy Man Carries Love of Soli
tude to Excess.
On<? of the moat remarkable noble
men in all Kurope Is |>n>lial>lv Conn'
Kussell, wlios ? love of solitude '?"< Piir
rled to such an extent that 1m* lives
In a series of caves plu<*c*l lilnh up or
the snowy Vlnnemalo In tPyrenees
Tin? Count lias a house In I'an ??<
Is a man of wealth a Frenchman o'
Irish extraction. 11?? doe* not . ho*
fvi-r. care for soeitil f'li ctions. ami s<
ho conceived ih<- oiiuhal no1 Ion o
renting from t/m Kr-ach povermnen
the whole of the Vi'.,neiii:i!" ill nmt.ili
from 8."no feet to Its suninii'. II.""'
feet. For thin he pays the notnini'
rent of of." franc ("<) ceit'*' a ?
While C.e caves were already In "xist
enr ?. the Count has onsld-Tnldy "a*
sfH'?*d" fl:eni !?y ir.e'ii:* <>l Mlcknxe
aed d\i:a*iil>e. carri"d up on mules
The Count freqi,etti> sl 'ep,< in d"c?
snowdriftwrapped in I;l? r dri-l' <*
s?' ? ?piu-; ha;;, nnd fr rt n- t.ouoti'
fh,t c)/|.>< h.jiM |jso il Spain II
a' h!ti feet uii e|'|ji?r I.and. 'm ?? cavo
ar-? ? f i*e.!. r* ihl"-' i r .i d -'d. bu
I:ix ? of yt.r.i t;. ai:d !!; Coin
fre'j'j -?*!' I % J. .-..jy tt,, jji n I.* wn?
c >::: \ iiit him la I'au.