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DEFENDING THE GUILTY MAN Frederick A. frown's Story Illustrate* the Conditions Thet Sometimes Confront the Lawyer. Fredsiick Jl Brown, a well known Chicago lswjer. told the) following etory at s recent dinner: "Attorneys are frequently asked how they can defeni men whom they know to he gillty The reply le that we sei**.? m If *rer know that they are guilty I ones, however, became the unwilling attorney of a man whom I knew to he guilty "I was In Judge Brentano's court, waiting for a trial to ha called, when S negro was brought In. charged with highway robbery Judge Brentano, finding that ho had no attorney, di? rected me. against my protest to de tod him. 1 took the colored man aside and said. 'Well, are yon guilty V and to my surprise he replied. 'Well, boss, tiey sound the pocket book on me and hire twenty witnesses to prove It' He then went oat to tall mo that he had snatched a woman's pocketbook on Thirty-ninth street and Cottage Grove arenas on a Saturday afternoon, ran wen* la Thirty-ninth street turned up am alley, with a crowd after him, who caught htm as ho was getting over a sti foot board fence "la rooking at the Indictment I found that he was Indicted under the habitual criminal act under which ho could be sent to the penitentiary for forty years I returned to the court? room and Insisted that Judge Bren? tano should appoint sou** other lawyer, which he refused to do. I then made the proposition to the prosecutor that It he would wares the habitual crimi? nal count ! would have my man plead guilty and ears the cost of a trial. "This was agreed to. the darky was sssllsTbtsg pleaded entity, and received the minimum nentnnce. After tt wm all over tbe darky turned to me and seid. Hess, that was so seay thet I batlsvnd tt yon hnlf tried you would haws got ms elesu off.*" NEW WAY OF SAVING MONEY Hew a Number of Working OMer^Are Aecumulstlng a Fund for Vacation Trips, Bocae girls working In a certain trust company have organised a most unusual method of saving money for their vacation trips. Two of the girls out of the thirty-five that have en- i tared Into too plan are appointed trus? tees, and ths first Saturday In July (any month can be chosen) each girl1 pays Just two cents. With thirty-five girls that makes seventy cents, which Is duly deposited by the trustees In tha bank. | Beginning with ths week following, the assessment grows to four cente, than eli cents the next week, and so urn. Increasing ?wo cents each week, but the Increase Is so very gradual Wet It la no great effort to put the amount . I The following June the money Is drawn out and each girl receives the amount thst ehe has paid In, which 1 would be 126.50. the saving beginning 1 m July plus about $1 Interest Tou will readily see thst the amount saved will provide a girl with a nice two weeks' vacation snd it Is almost like finding money. Until Christmas, when they need money moot, the as ssssments ere nominal, the "big" ones coming in Lent, when one does not used so much spsndtng money. As the rule wss msde in ths begin? ning that snyone who failed to pay would lose whst she hsd already put In. svsryons makes It a point to pay promptly One good clsuss In the laws stipulates thst If any girl loses her position or marries she can with? draw the smount thst she has put to, ?Harper's Basar. Gormen Court Balle. In the German court balls not all those who ere Invited are permitted to take pert In the dances which the Kaiser witnesses. The Kslser has no love for "tho quick and slovenly - Many months before the ball the selected couples rehearse the dsnces under the direc? tion of Frau lein Gas pern I. mistress of the court bellet The Kaiserin criti? cises frssly the ladles and gentlemen who enow any shortcomings. The or dlnsry rehearsals take place in one of tbe chambers of the palace, hut the final rehearsal Is held on the eve of tbe ball, at the residence of one of the Invited. The Princesses roysl carry trains held by two pages, but the other la? dles have to manage their own For married ladles the length prescribed Is shout 11 feet 6 inches, tbe trains of ths other ladiea being rather more than half a yard leas. Peculiar Western Bank*. Ths difference between the Amer lesn sast and west so strongly empha? sised by rhetoricians and meteorolo? gists extends even to the banking sys? tem In the west they lend money on reputation, In the east on security. On a day In .Tune last, six little banks In Seattle had lent on Individual or firm ootes without any other security than the names $8.597.000; while t io whole nstlonal bank group In New York had lent on similar paper only a little more than $9.000,000. On that same day. In San Francisco, the loans of th's sort amounted to more thin $47,000.000 The weetern system is one of credit based upon industry, snd upon much closer and more sccurate knowledge of the man himself than can ever be poeslble In the bigger eastern cities. ?World's Work OLD STAGES OF NEW YORK MjrUy Years Ago Thay Ware Operated Regularly Between Metropoll? and Other Citiea. In excavating underneath the former Tallman livery In New York recently workmen found a number of straps such as were used in former flays on the stags coaches which plied between Albany to Buffalo. The straps are supposed to have been made at the Sherwood establish? ment, which many years ago stood at the northeast corner of State and Dill streets. S. C. Tallman said he be? lieved the straps to he at least 75 rears old, and to have lain where they ware found probably for that length of time or longer. It waa in 1809 that Isaac Sherwood of Skaneatles became a partner of Jason Barker of Utlca-in conducting the stage line which passed through this county, carrying the United States mall. It la recorded that in 2816 a line of coaches, among the proprietors sf which was the firm of Isaac Sher? wood ft Co. of Auburn, was operated between Canandalgua and Utlca. These coachea pasaed over what was known as the Seneca turnpike, con? structed between the two points named. It waa designed to build this road six rods wide, tha middle 25 feet sf It to be covered with gravel or broken stone to a depth of 15 Inches. The Seneca Turnpike company was authorised to erect a toll gate every ban miles and exact 12% cents toll Cor two-horse teame and 25 cents for four horses. From Utlca east a tri-weekly stage tfne was operated to Albany, and this likewise was controlled by Sherwood a Co. aid others. Tha corner of State and Dill streets was a great center for stage coaches In the early days. Various other lines | besides the turnpike stages converged ! tn Auburn, there being stages to Ho- | oaer, Ithaca, Oswego, Aurora and other places. It was in that day that the ! Bght broke out between the Pioneer j Line, as a new competing company j waa called, and the Sherwood combina? tion. Tha Pioneer Line gained control of : the principal hotel in the village, mown ait the Western Exchange, hop? ing thus to embarrass its rivals. But : the Sherwood interests fitted up the Bank of Auburn, aa it waa known, for . their headquarters. An issue of this 1 campaign waa the question of running stage coaches on Sunday. IT ASTONISHED THE COOK Marvelous Appetite of "Mr. Cl?ren- ? don/* Whose Name Waa Pass- | port to Kitchen's Best. J. Hay den-Clarendon, eating his three meals lu a German grill of much renown, has, day by day, extended his acquaintanceship from the steward to 1 each of the wrltera and from thence into the kitchen to the cooks. And It so happened a while ago that one of the cooks had had to send his wife to a hospital. Clarendon, ever thought? ful, bought flowers and sent them out to the kltcheji to he forwarded thence to the hospital. ! This, of course, made him more than solid with the culinary depart? ment of the big restaurant, with the reault that whenever a waiter an? nounced that the order was '"tor Mr. Clarendon" the cooks would go to the limit In getting him the best steaks and chops and serving them as works of art. The waiters weren't slow In learn? ing that the word "Clarendon" was the passport to the kitchen's best? the open sesame, as It were. So it happened that one afternoon a waiter came Into the kitchen with the order: MT-bone steak, rare, for Mr. Claren? don." The man at the broiler threw up his haride. "What's come over Mr Clarendon ?" he asked In astonishment. "He has had two porterhouse steaks, boiled salmon, ham and eggs, three oyster stews, sanddibs, chops, and now he wants a T bone steak?and all in an hour!"?San Francisco Chronicle. Wild Bird Returns to Captivity. Are birds able to thiuk and remem? ber where they have been well cared for? A gentleman living in Leith is in the habit of feeding the birds which 'requent his garden during the winter months. Some time in January, 1311, he enticed a greenfinch to enter a ^age and so captured it. It waa wear? ing a ring on its leg marked "Aber? deen University, 71K5."* In the following March he set it at Iberty, declares a correspondent of The Scotsman. He was much sur? prised when on January 1??. 1912, tae UN returned. On his cage being pie tented to him, the bird hopped con? tentedly into it and settled eomfor.a &ry down for the severe season. An txamination of the ring left no doubt as to the idcutity of the bird. When Flirting Has No Charm. An aviation meet was given recent? ly at Hot Springs, Ark., to the great amazement of the native r.egro popu? lation. Two little very black maidens were discussing the doings of the marvelous "bird men," and one of them said boastfully: "Ah wux offered $10 to go up in one o' them flyln' machines." "Ten dollars'" exclaimed the oth? er "Mah goodness, chile, that's a powerful lot C money. Why'n you all do It?" "Well, Ah shorely needs th* money," was the reply, "but Ah ain't goin' to flirt with no undertaker fer no $10." FIRST THEATER IN AMERICA tt Wm in Philadelphia and Its Walls Are Only Now Crumbling Into Dust. There is an echo of the past callen up by the falling of the walls of an abandoned distillery on South street. These walls once inclosed the fust theater that was erected in the United Slates. It was burned out some years later, but the walls have remained to this day. If surprise be noted, over the loca? tion of tue theater, it is only neces? sary to point out that in the middle of the eighteenth century the moral and civic spirit of the day prevented the profanation of the city by any such institution, so it was erected outside the boundaries and was in what was known as Southwark. Of the troub? lous history of this artistic enterprise much has been written. It is unfortu? nate that records of the dramas given are not complete and that we have few contemporary criticisms from un? biased pens upon the artistic worth of the thespian representations. It is of record that the city authorities were much shocked, that much of So? ciety (with a large S) frowned on the institution, and that rogues and vaga? bonds were under the ban for a long time. But even in that day there were those who found pleasure and profit in attending the theater. A few years U.,ker George Washington was of those who patronized the enterprise. At that day the name of Washington might have stood against the world, and many young men at least consid? ered that it would do them no harm to follow their leader to the theater. If we can believe what evidence is available, dramatic managers In those days had some illumination and in? spiration, as well as being mere pur? veyors of entertainment Tbe supply of plays was meager and not of high class, according to modern standards. The theater was ill appointed and poorly lighted* But the actors and ac? tresses seemed to have had some spark of divine afflatus, for they re? ceived commendations from foreign viators who had seen the best the world afforded. The dawn of the American drama cast a feeble light, but we may now catch a few gilntings of it as its first home In America tumbles Into dust.? Philadelphia Inquirer. IDAHO A WONDERFUL STATE Even the Victims of Its Swindlers Make Money by the Fraud, Saye Senator Borah. United States Senator Borah claims that his state of Idaho is so good that even the people who get cheated with? in its smiling domain make money by the transaction. On his way from Washington after the adjournment of tho last session of congress, he was introduced on the train to an eastern woman who Immediately began to tell a long, sad story about the robber like practices of western people in general and Idaho men In particular. "My husband was a traveling man," Bhe explained in a lachrymose voice, "and one night In Hoise City some of your people gave him too much drink, so much in tact, that he didn't know what he was doing. The next morn? ing he waked up and discovered that he had bought fourteen hundred dol? lars' worth of mining stock at four cents a share. Think of that, tho gleitest outrage I ever heard of. I have never even looked up the mine in which the stock was sold, but the exiK?rlence has taught me that west? ern promoters arc merely burglars. My poor, dear husband was robbed as surely as if those men had held him up at the point of a gun." Mr. liorah asked the name of the mine, and she told him. Without saying a word, he picked up a news? paper and pointed to the stock quota lions. Right there that Niobe-like woman got the shock of her life. The stock was shown bo be worth $140,000 that day.? Popular Magazine. Monkey Chastisement. Monkeys do such an astonishing amount of reasoning, sometimes, that it almost frightens us into believing that Darwin waa Tight after all. A short time ago a child, contrary to all orders, put several peppermint drops inside the wire of a monkey cage, in a circus. One of the monkeys sam? pled one and liked it immensely, but, thinking that another treat was in store at the end of the cage, left the remaining peppermints unprotected for a brief monier t. No sooner was his back turned than a mischievous little monkey made way with the can? dies, and on the owner's return not a peppermint was In sight. The older monkey gravely considered the situa? tion for a few moments, then called the little monkey to him, tested his breath, and spanked him for dear life. Exonerated. Indignant Passenger (to railway manager)--Here, I say. 1 got a cinder in my eye from one ot your beastly engines, and it cost me 10 shillings for i a doctor to get it out and dress the eye Now, what do you propose to do in the matter? Railway Manager?Nothing, my dear sir, nothing We have no use for the cinder, and you are perfectly wel? come to it. No doubt, strictly speak? ing, you did go off with our property? the cinder of course, was not yours? but we do not care to make a fuss , about such a small matter. Pray do ! not give the incident a moment's j thcught Yvf'Y r:.? > irr :les Askinc; Ze;;o T( fmr.rcvt Him, tritt God Crc&Uc ar.. t >< rl.m the "Father of heaata and of ir?*n!M bo spake the horse, approaching the throne oi Zeus?"1 am said to be one of the most beautiful animals with which thou has adorned the world; and my self-love leads me to believe it. Nevertheless, might no; f.oine things in me still be Improved?*1 "And what in thee, tr?nkest thou, admits of improvement? Speak! I am open to instruction," said the in? dulgent god with a smile. "Perhaps," returned the horse, "I should be fleeter if my legs were taller and thinner. A long swan neck would not disfigure me. A broader breast would add to my strength. And, since thou hi.st once for all destined me to bear thy favorite, man?the saddle which the well meaning rider puts up? on me might be created a part of me." "Good," replied Zeus, "wait a mo? ment!" Zeus, with earnest countenance, pro? nounced the creative word. Then flowed life into the dust; then organ? ized matter combined; and there stood before the throne the ugly camel. I The horse saw, shuddered and trem? bled with fear and abhorrence. "Here," said Zeus, "are taller and thinner legs; here is a long swan neck; here is a broader breast; here is the created saddle! Wilt thou, horse! that I should transform thee after this fashion?" The horse still trembled. "Go!" continued Zeus. "Be instruct? ed, for this once, without being pun? ished. But to remind thee, with oc? casional compunction, of thy presump? tion?do thou, new creation, continue!" Zeus cast a preserving glance on the camel. "And never shall the horse behold thee without trembling."?From Liessing's Fables. PICTURE OF MODERN LIFE Little Telephone Conversation Between Husband and Wife That Hits Off Modern Conditions. Mr. Jones (at the telephone)?Hello, Is that you, dear? Mrs. Jones (at the other end)-?Yes, Edward. Mr. Jone3?I won't be home for din? ner tonight and probably not until very late afterward. Don't sit up for me. I Mrs. Jones?What Is it, lodge night, or work at the office? Mr. Jones?Neither. Collins and the gang want me to stay here at the club lor dinner and there's to be a little game in the evening. I think I can bring home a few dollars to you for a new hat or something. Mrs. Jones?Oh, very well. But if you lose, don't you dare say anything to me about what I dropped at bridge yesterday. And Edward? Mr. Jones?Yes, dear. Mrs. Jones?Come home moderately sober. Stick to beer. The last time you mixed 'em and you remember?it took two of your Mends and a cop to bring you home. I won't be up when you come home?don't wake me. Thornless Blackberries. I have heard of thornless blackber? ries having been discovered in North Carolina and along the eastern coast, but unfortunately the berries were not of any use for food. I have also grown so-called, but not by any means thorn? less, ones 40 years ago. Electricity was also known tor thousands of years, but it was worthless until developed. Steam was also useless as an aid in performing the labor of mankind until some one made it useful. It is the same with the thornless blackberry. It is now productive; delicious to eat, large apd in every way valuable for food, and absolutely smooth like the twig of an apple tree. There are seed less apples in existence today, but none of them are of any commercial value. There was once a so-called stoneless plum^ but It was not larger than a largo bean, and was not fit for human food. The bush was an ill shaped thorny one and the fruit abso? lutely useless. Now there are. growing on my farms, splendid prunes and plums which are ntoneless. Nature gives ub a hint and It is man's busi? ness to carry out the work to produce results.?Luther Burbank in the Chris? tian Herald. Shooting on an English Estate. A gentleman from l*ondon was in? vited to go for "a day's snipe shoot? ing" in the country. The invitation was accepted and the host and gi*est shouldered guns and sallied forth in quest of game. After a time a solitary snipe rose, and promptly fell to the visitor's first barrel. The host's face fell also. "We may as well return." he re? marked, gloomily, "for that was the only snipe in the neighborhood. The bird had afforded excellent sport to all his friends for six weeks. Wireless to Synchronize Clocks. All public clocks in the German em pire will hereafter be synchronized by means of wireless telegraphy. A master clock in a new station now being constructed at the town of Fulda will actuate the radiotransmitter every minute. The tower over the station will be 300 feet high. A census recent? ly taken of the public clocks m bon don snows the importance of such a project, because a total variation was found of twenty-one minutes, from slow to fast. Only 8tt per cent of the timepieces gave the correct Greenwich time MACVEAGH WILL NOT RESIGN. Secretary of Treasury Denies lit port that He Will Leave Cabinet ite gardlese of Election Reeults. Dublin, N. H? July 5.?Franklin MacVsagh secretary of the treasury, tonight denied reports that he had indicated to President Taft a deter? mination to leave the cabinet nex, March regardless of the result of the coming election. 'The matter has never come up in any conversation that 1 have hud with President Taft," said the secretary, "and you may say that the reports are absolutely un? true." Secretary MacVeagh also deni. ?1 knowledge that any other nu mber of his department was considering re? signing as was reported in Washing? ton today. He was interested in the (statement of Senator Lodye regarding I the resignation of his assistant secre? tary, A. Piatt Andrew, bat had no comment to make. BULLISH WEEK IN COTTON. Market Takes Spurt as Result of Government Report? Xew York, July 5.?The cotton trade was caught napping by the Government report on Wednesday. Everybody seemed to be buying at once as soon as the condition and acreage figures were announced, and prices, therefore, rapidly advanced. The condition was given as 80.4 per cent, as against 78.9 a month ago, 88.2 last year and 80.7 as the ten year average. As for the acreage, it was given as only 34,09 7,000, or 2, 5S4.000 acres less than the total for last year. As regards the condition, Georgia, Alabama, Louisiana, Ar? kansas and Tennessee made an es? pecially bad showing. Xor do the Crolinas, Florida or Oklahoma ap? pear to advantage. They were well behind last year. Georgia is so far behind as to attract special atten? tion. And since the report, June 25, there have been complaints of exces? sive rains and cold nights in the At? lantic section, and also to some extent in the Eastern Gulf and eastern por? tions of the belt. That maices some people think that the real condition of the crop is below SO per cent. How? ever, very many are bullish on the idea that the condition of the crop is rather bad, that the season is two or three weeks late, and that excep? tionally favorable weather will be meessary during July and August to raise a crop of anything like the size required. Of late there have been p< r sistent heavy rains in parts of I Georgia, Tennesse and Arkansas. Meantime the spot sales in Liverpool J arc surprisingly large. Hulls are elated over this tact On the other hand, there are those who think hat the price of cotton is altogether too high. Recently some of them have been selling a little of their spot cot? ton, evidently believing it can be re? placed to advantage later on. The i outlook in Texas is very favorable. Many believe the crop in that State will this year be the largest e\er raised. Poor crop reports, however, with active spot marietta at home and abroad, the strength of July in New Ork ans,'and latterly the nervousness Of shorts, have contributed to cause an advance in pricoa The govern? ment puts the decrease in acreage at about 7 per cent, as against recent estimates Horn other sources of as low a decrease as halt" of 1 per cent. (URL BRUTALLY MURDERED. Child ol" 19 Years Is Slashed to Pieces. | New Yak, July 7.?Julia Conners, a 1--year-old girl, was murdered in a fiendish manner early today, her body, bearing 36 wounds, evidently made by a Btllleto, but still with a breath of life, was found in a vacant lot: in the Bronx. The child died without having regained enough to identify her slayer further than the State? ment that "he was a man.'' The girl was one of the lour chil? dren of Edward Conners, who lived nearby. The court of general sessions ad? journed Saturday night and court was resumed Monday for the hearing of equity cases. A number of cases were called during the course of the morning and several appeals heard. \ number of persons have been trying tind out recently why the n Boluth II of council for the enforcement ol the ordinance requir? ing property owners to mak?! sub sidewalk connections with the gutters or streets has not been enforced on the n??rth side of West Liberty street as it has been els< win re. 'im bowling match with the Flor? ence team which was to have been arranged for Tuesday night has be< n postponed, as the alleys have not yet been put Into good shape. The worl* on them will be done some time thi.. week and the game will 0robabl) come off next week. Tin: G. O. P. CAMPAIGN. Chairman of National Committee to be Seie? ted. Washington, July 7.?Tha real work of organising the Republican cane* I i-aign for 1S12 v. ;,*1 be taken up to? morrow when the subcommittee of S the Republican national committee will meet and select a chairman. All i the members <>f the bubcommitee are j here and will be the guests of Presi jdent Taft at a luncheon at the White House tomorrow afternoon, when the ?name of the chairman probably will , be announced. President Taft will ar? rive early tomorrow from hi.s sum? mer home at Beverly, Mas?., to meet ! the committee. j The Subcommittee understood that j the president's secretary, Charles D. ? Hilles, who has been considered all ; along for the position, would not ac jcept the Chairmanship, and a general i canvass of men available was made ! during the day. The subcommittee Will meet at 10 o'clock tomorrow ; morning and Will then consider the i j names suggested and probably recom? mend some one to the president for j Chairman. Names considered include I Harry A. Daughtery and Carmi ; Thompson of Ohio, Harry S. New and ' James A. Hemenway of Indiana. Bett j ator Sanders of Tennessee and Wil? liam Barnes. Jr., of New York. Nothing definite will be done, how? ever, until the commitee consults with President Taft and ascertains his wishes. There seems to be an unani? mous sentiment in the committee that an experienced political leader should manage the campaign and an effort will be made "to name a man who is known by every precinct committee man and county chairman in the United states," as one member of the committee expressed it. I Resides naming a chairman, the committee will recommend that a subcommittee of rive, representing five divisions of the country, be ap? pointed to constitute the chief advis? ers of the national chairman, and to? be independent of usual executive and advisory committees. XKW HAMPSHIRE RAMMED. Battleship is Run into by the Com mon wealth. Newport, R. I., July 7.?While groping its way through a dense fog in Narragansett bay early today, the Fall River line steamer Common? wealth rammed United States bat? tleship New Hampshire near the Newport naval training station. Both ships sustained considerable damage, but no fatalities or injuries resulted from the collision. The Commonwealth's bow was stove in where it rammed the bat tlenhlp while the New Hampshire's stern was cut about the protective deck. The after-compartment was ? crushed through, the gun and berth decks were smashed and the cap? tain's after cabin and the boiler room beneath were damaged. Divers re? ported no damage to the battleship's propeller, its rudder or engines. HUERTA ENTERS CHIHUAHUA. C'ltiz/oiis Plensed at Arrival of Fed? eral Ctlieftttiu?EIa?s Ely to Breeze. At Gen. Huerta's Headquarters, Chihuahua. July 7.?Triumphantly den.. Huerta, commander-tn-chlef of the government forces at Mexico, at 10 o'clock today i ode Into the city at Chihuahua. Gen. Teilen and Qen. Elabngo, in command of two brigades oi cavalry, entered the city a short tune before but were Immediate!) dispatched northward toward Cains u-randes to head off the fleeing rebel army. To the number of foreign fiags. raised many days igo by foreign res? idents who feared that a season of loot would follow til" rebel ret! eat and evacuation were added hundreds Of Mexican banners, giving the city a holiday aspect. The, entrance of Huerta's army re? duced the high nervous tension un? der which foreign residents had lived ever since rebel reverses In this sec? tion began. The reaction found ex? pression in a general welcome which was little lem than .in ovation. The same people, who. until ? week ago, supported Orosco, greeted the victori? ous Qen. Huerta and his columns of regulars with shouts of "Viva Madero." The coming of Huerta means the restoration of railroad communication with Torr eon, though it simultane? ously ? uts oft the city from the north to Juares and the American border. In The Mugihtrute's Court. Two cases were tried before Mag? istrate Weils Monday morning, the arrests having been made by Rural Policeman Bam Newman. Willie Walker was tried fOT die* orderly conduct and carrying ? pis? tol and sentenced to pay a fine of |M while Mose Puller for being drunk and disorderly was sentenced to pay a fine of $15.