WIFE'S EYES FLIRT,
SAYS HUSBAND SUED
"Her Optics Can't Behave,'
New York Man's Answer to
Action Seeking Separation.
$500 MONTH BALM ASKED
She Alleges He Deserted Her on Top
of Mountain at Night on Honey
moon and Forced Her to Ke
turn Alone Among Snakes.
NEW YORK, Aug. 1 Alleging- that
While they were on their Honeymoon
her husband deserted her on top of a
alone among snakes and In the dark to
her hotel. Mrs. Mary C. Early filed an
action for separation against Joseph
N. Early. The defendant is a manufac
turer and heir to a trust fund of $250.
000 from the estate of Joseph Early.
' his father.
Mrs. Early recites a long list of al
leged cruelties, beginning with their
wedding trip after their marriage in St.
Patrick's Cathedral, in 1903. She says
her husband has taught his children to
hate her and that once when she went
to see them at Riverside, where her
husband lives, they threw sticks at her
and told her to go away because they
were "daddy's boys."
Mrs. Early relates that as she and
her husband climbed a mountain at
Hot Springs, Va., when on their wed
ding trip, they met two men at whom
she glanced. Her husband, she asserts,
then left her alone on the mountain.
When she reached the hotel, she says,
her husband told her that "she could
not make her eyes behave" and waned
to flirt with everv man she met
"My sister. Mrs. Louis Morgan, is a
tango teacher." the wife says. "One
dav mv husband came home and founa
my sister and I eating Camembert
cheese. He threw the cheese out of the
house and then put my sister out be
cause he did not believe in the modern
dances taught by her."
In answer Mr. Early accuses his wife
, r i- " on everv man who
passes her. and says if she really is not
flirting she gives to everyone that im
pression. To humiliate him, he says,
she would wear her oldest gowns to all
of the social events they attended.
He says she insisted upon going in
bathing at Loch Arbor. N. J., with a
woman who wore a bathing suit which
was too higli and too tight to be decent
After the wedding, he says, his father-in-law
said: "Joe, you are married to
a very nice girl. You will find her very
lovely and sweet as long as she has her
own way. But if you don't give her
everything she wants you have my
sympathy."
"I have learned, to my sorrow, that
he did not exaggerate one iota," says
Mr. Early.
Mrs. Early asked Justice Page to give
her $500 a month alimony and $5000
counsel fees. The three children of the
couple are "with their father In River
dale. GIRL ELOPES, FIANCE LEFT
Virginia Society Interested in Esca
pade or Two Old Sweethearts.
LYNCHBURG, Va.. Aug. L Follow
ing Immediately upon invitations being
received here for h'er approaching mar
riage in Savannah, Ga.. on July 2S to
Karl Gustav Karston, great interest is
occasioned here by announcement of
the elopement and marriage of Miss
Florence Plckard. in -Savannah, to Lev
.rett B. Harrison, of Nova Scotia. The
marriage took place In Savannah while
young Karston was hurrying from
England on the Mauretania to be mar-
Mr. Harrison, who met Miss Pickard
when thev were students together,
went to Savannah to renew his suit,
which had been rejected by the young
ladv while she was studying in Ger
many He was successful and the couple
went to St. Paul's Presbyterian Church,
where they were married by the Rev.
M. J. Epting.
Mr. and Mrs. Harrison went to the
bride's home and broke the news to her
mother by asking for her congratula
tions. Her father, the Rev. Dr. YY. L.
Pickard. formerly pastor of the First
Baptist Church, Savannah, was in Ma
con where he will soon become presi
dent of Mercer University. The bride
left with her husband for Nova Scotia
before her father's return.
MISTAKE CAUSES FURORE
"Married" Instead or "Marooned"
Stirs Family of Chicago Man.
CHICAGO, Aug. 2. Hector O. Erick
son. of this city, while on business in
Marshall, Mlch a small town through
which the limited trains speed without
stopping, to ease the anxiety of his
parents sent them a telegram announc
ing he was marooned and would re
turn the following day and explain.
The telegram reached his parents'
home, announcing he was "married,"
instead of marooned, and Immediately
there was an uproar among all his rel
atives. When Erickson finally arrived
home he found the doors closed. Meet
ing relatives on the street, he received
a stony stare and they would listen to
no explanations.
Finally, a friend told him of the tele
gram. He caused the company tD send
a corrected message, which was deliv
ered to his mother, and the skies be
gan to clear immediately. It is said
one young woman, in particular, is
greatly relieved to learn that there
was a mistake in the telegram.
500 FREIGHTCARS ORDERED
Chicago Great Western Places Con
tract for Much Equipment.
ST. PAUL Minn.. Aug. 2. An order
for 500 freight cars has been placed
by the Chicago Great Western Rail
way with the American Car & Foundry
Company for Fall delivery.
The placing of the order was an
nounced by S. M. Felton, president of
the road, who came to St Paul for the
meeting of the board of directors of
the Union Depot Company. Mr. Felton
said that this order would complete
the freight equipment of the road.
BUTCHERS SHOW SKILL
Picnickers Dress Calves in Record
Time for Cash Prizes.
PITTSBURG. Aug. L The average
butcher probably would resent the in
timation that he was a "swift fellow,"
but Robert E. Ballinger, of McKeesport,
Isn't one of that sort
He dressed two calves in the contest
at the annual outing of the Retail
Butchers and Meat Dealers' Protective
Association in Kennywood Park re
cently and completed the job in eight
minutes and 53 seconds. He won the
$50 prize and the title of the "swiftest
ever.
There were other contests at the out
ing, which was attended by about 8000
persons. Various athletic sports and
dancing made up the remainder of the
programme. There were choice roast
beef sandwiches and coffee for every
body. All enjoyed the picnic, the 10th
given by the butchers and meat dealers.
Michael Relnhart. of the North Side,
won the second prize in the calf-dressing
contest He completed the dressing
In 10 minutes and 24 seconds, and won
a $20 gold piece. William Engle, of
McKeesport, finished third, in 12 min
utes, winning $10 in gold.
HERO SslilOREO
CHARLES WRIGHT GEDDES, VETER
AN OK TWO WARS, PASSES.
Engineer and Secret Agent of Govern
ment, Friend of Soldiers and
Statesman of Note.
PHILADELPHIA. Aug. 1. Ciiarles
Wright Geddes, who served the United
cfata, no on nffifpr in two wars the
Mexican and the Rebellion died here
recently In the United States Naval
Home at the age of 88.
Geddes had a long, honorable and
varied career, remarkable for its con
nection with historic events and per
sonages. He was born in Baltimore
October 29, 1826, came to this city when
a young man and took a course in en
gineering at the Franklin Institute.
Upon completing his studies, he was
appointed a third assistant engineer in
the United States Navy and was as
signed to the United States steamsnip
General Taylor, which was stationed at
New Orleans while the yellow fever was
ra,8"tnB" i
At the close of the Mexican war Ged
.i. a wn, promoted to be second assist
...t ctrinoor war assierned to the
United States steamship Mississippi and
made a memorable trip in that vessel
to the Mediterranean.
While at Constantinople the Missis
oinni .,i..k-of1 un General Louis Kossuth
the Hungarian patriot, who had just
been liberated from prison by Austria,
.1 . .1- v.fm tn F.nclanrt
aim l .j i.i'--
Kossuth and Geddes became close
friends, and when the Hungarian vis
ited this country Geddes accompanied
him on many or ms trips, uenerai
-arhn woo nftf.rwarii killed by Jef
ferson Davis in a personal quarrel, was
at this time a midshipman on the Mis
sissippi and became a bosom friend of
Geddes.
When the Mississippi returned to the
United States Geddes was assigned to
several shore stations on engineering
duty and had charge of steamships of
the Coast Survey service, in isoi n.
was appointed first assistant engineer
Mo ulsted Admiral Farragut in re
cruiting duty. He resigned from the
service in 1855 on account of ill heaitn
and engaged in survey work in the
West, laying out townships in Kansas,
Nebraska and Oklahoma
Later, he drew part of the plans of
the Treasury building in Washington.
While in that city he became intimately
acquainted with Daniel Webster and
other famous men of the day.
Mr. Geddes married Mrs. Christopher
Whaley, a young widow, the niece of
Senator Isaac Hayne, in Charleston, S.
C, on June 4, 1861. He was offered a
post in the Confederate naval service,
but declined it. and made his way North
with many difficulties and narrow es
capes, and was placed on the staff of
General Mlchler.
Geddes was assigned to follow Gen
eral Morgan, of the Confederate army,
and to keep the Union army informed
of Morgan's movements. While on this
duty he was twice captured and twice
escaped, the second time from the mil
itary prison at Columbia, S. C He
then went to England on a secret mis
sion for the Government.
Geddes' first wife and child died in
1862 and four years later he married
Miss Nannie Hill, of Maryland, and was
engaged in various positions in the de
partments at Washington, until, on the
death of his wife, he left the Capital
and came to the Naval Home in Phila
delphia. His only reward for his long service
was a pension of $20 a month as a vet
eran of the war with Mexico. Had he
been reinstated to his rank in the Navy
he probably would have held, before
his death, the highest rank in the serv
ice as an engineer.
BOY MUST JEEL "SPUDS"
Severe Sentence Imposed by George
Junior Republic Court.
NEW YORK. Aug. L A sentence of
unusual severity is being served by one
of the boys in the George Junior Re
public of New Jersey, in the camp at
Flemington, N. J. He must peel pota
toes for two hours each day for three
days. The offense, as passed upon in
this miniature republic of 26 boys, was
going over the head of his immediate
superior to obtain permission to go
down to the railroad to see the trains
go by.
These boys, all selected from a sec
tion of New York noted for its bad
boys, are reported to have taken to the
art of government with much interest.
They have selected their own officers
and govern themselves. Court Is held
once a week and then they conduct
their own trials. Each accused boy se
lects another boy as his counsel. There
is a regularly elected prosecutor and
judge. If demanded, an accused boy
may have trial before a Jury of his
peers.
Besides being taught the art of
government, they have three hours of
work each morning, and every after
noon for play and games.
CHANCELLOR STOPS
TWO-CENT POSTAGE
Lloyd George Stumbling Block
to Greater Cut in Inter
national Rates.
CHAMBER FAVORS IDEA
GIFT TO GIRIL IS REPAID
Police Judge, Touched by Plight,
Gets Loan Returned.
TRENTON. N. J. Aug. L Chief of
Police Cleary received a letter recently
from Miss Mary McFaul, a stenographer,
of Philadelphia, which contained an
amount of money equal to that given
to her about two weeks ago by Police
Jurfge Hulme as car fare to get her
back to her home.
Miss McFaul came to Trenton after
finding it impossible to get employment
in the Quaker City. She walked all of
the distance of 34 miles to this city,
where, weakened and disconsolate, she
sat down to rest. Her presence was
noted by a motorcycle policeman.
When the story had been told at po
lice headquarters. Judge Hulme went
down In his pocket and gave Miss Mc
Faul sufficient money for the moment.
She tearfully promised to return It to
him.
Coal at 3700 Feet.
London Star.
As a result of Improved methods,
seams of coal have been worked in
Britain at a depth of 3000 feet, and In
one mine in Lancashire 3700 feet, which
means a natural temperature -of over 90.
Agreement With Powers Would Have
Been Popular Among British
Tradesmen Who Urged Him to
Favor Big Reduction.
LONDON. Aug. 3. (Special.) Inter
national interest has been aroused in
a. statement to the effect that a ma
jority of the world's governments have
decided in favor of a reduction of the
international letter postage rate from
a cents to 3 cents..
It appears that Lloyd George was
the real obstructionist to the adoption
by this country at the proposal for a
universal penny (2-cent) nost
The general feeling is one of dis
appointment It is regretted that an
international penny postage, which is
everywhere regarded as inevitable,
could not have been reached without
an intermediate stage and further de
lay. That the decision of the majority
of governments is not by any means
in agreement with the desires of com
mercial interests is shown by inter
views recorded with prominent mem
bers of British and foreign chambers
of commerce.
As recently as Thursday last the
council of the London chamber of
commerce adopted a resolution from
their postal, telegraph and telephone
committee recommending them to urge
the government' to instruct its dele
gates to the postal convention to ad
here unalterably to a reduction of the
International letter postage from 25
centimes (5 cents) to 10 centimes (2
cents). The same resolution urges the
British government's delegates to ac
cept as a basis of discussion on a
charge of 3 cents, which, it is under
stood, is likely to be submitted.
A prominent member of the postal,
telegraph and telephone committee ot
the London chamber stated that he
had been informed on high authority
that the British postal officials were
really quite agreeable to a reduction
to 2 cents, but that in deciding in
favor of 3 cents they were acceding
to the wishes of the Chancellor of
the Exchequer. As Great Britain has
the greatest influence in an interna
tional discussion on postage rates, Mr.
Lloyd George would appear to be the
greatest obstructionist to a measure
of world-wide popularity.
RURAL PROBLEM FACED
IRELAND AND ENGLAND HAVE TO
DO WITH FARM LABORERS NOW.
SamrUp of Women Physicians.
Indianapolis News.
Seven thousand women practice med
icine in U United State.
Scarcity or Agricultural Artisans Is Be
coming More Acute and Efficiency
Shona Dec-line.
LONDON, Aug. 3. There is an acute
rural problem in Ireland as well as in
England and it mainly concerns the
wages and hours of the agricultural
laborer. Many of the best workers
on the land have left the country.
Much light is thrown upon the con
dition of the agricultural market in the
Emerald Isle in the annual return to
the Irish Department of Agriculture
and Technical Instruction, issued today
There has been for many years, the
reoort states, a marked scarcity of ag
ricultural laborers and it is becoming
more and more acute.
In 1911 there were 199.900 such labor
ers, of whom 195,861 were male and
4036 female, against 231.871 in 1901, of
whom 217,652 were males and 14,219
females.
The general laborers in 1911 num
bered 102,099 (100.960 males and 1139
females), compared with 79,035 In 1901
(76,870 males and 215 females).
There has been a decline in effi
ciency among Irish laborers. The best
labor has left the country and farmers
complain as much of the lack of effi
ciency as of the dinicuity oi getting
the men.
On June 1. 1912. there were 1.073,238
persons actively engaged in farm work
( 810.503 males and 262,735 females).
Of these 789,659 were members of farm
ers' families, 160,819 were other perma
nent laborers and the remainder were
persons temporarily employed.
Taken all around, says me repon.
there are signs of a slight but steady
advance in real wages. That, no doubt.
Is due to a rise in the cost and stand
ard of living and to a fall in the num
ber of laborers available tor larm work
in consequence of emigration to other
countries, migration to towns and the
employment of direct labor upon roads.
Wages, however, are still very low.
Plowmen obtain the highest.
Tht- usual daily wage current m ivu
was: Men, 2 shillings to 3 shillings 6
pence; women. 1 shilling b pence to
shillings. ,
Payment by pteceworK is not neariy
so common as it was iu or ov
ago.
The working hours during the six
months from April to November are
usual! v from 7 A. M. to 6 P. M., with
an hour for dinner, while in Winter the
working period extends Irora llgnt to
darkness.
A decrease is reported in the number
of migratory laborers, who have stead
ily declined from 20,500 in 1909 to 15,
000 in 1913. Connaught and Ulster are
the only provinces in which there is
any large migratory movement.
'SOFT SOAP" HELD NEED
Minister Says Workers Should Make
Religion Attractive.
INDIANAPOLIS. Aug. 2. "Soft soap"
is one of the sterling assets in succeua-
i t. ,,.,-1.- o finrri i n v tr tVift RpV.
1U1 k-UUI t il .. u i .. ,
Oscar E. Kelly, of Terre Haute, in an
address at Bethany Park recently.
He said that the progressive mer
chant, statesman, educator or financier
makes sure of his success by the ex
tensive but cautious use of "soft soap"
and that he always had fought the
idea that the minister should be handi
capped in his work by the exclusion
of Scriptural soothing syrup.
"The preacher, like the traveling
man, must show his customers that his
goods are simon pure," said the Rev.
Mr. Kelly. "He must make his wares
attractive, but not more attractive than
the goads really are. The minister
must show that salvation through the
Christian religion is an Investment that
pays dividends on all kinds of stock,
not at the end of 20, 40 or 1000 years,
but quarterly, monthly, daily and even
hourly."
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8000 PERSONS ATTEND ELABORATE
AUSTRIAN CEREMONY.
Hebrew Celebration Coats Rabbi 40,000
and He Is Obliged to Keep
Conpie Six Years.
"VIENNA. Aug. 3. A wedding whose
guests numbered more than 8000 per
sons and whose feasting continued for
eight days was celebrated recently at
Sadagora in Bukowina, one of those
remote country districts of Austria
Hungary, where mammoth wedding
festivities on a scale utterly unknown
in America or Western Europe are the
rule.
The affair at Sadagora exceeded in
magnificence and lavish hospitality any
function on record In that district,
however. It was a Hebrew wedding.
Sadagora enjoys a certain fame in
Eastern Europe as the seat of the
renowned Rabbinical dynasty known as
the Miracle Rabbis. The bride was the
daughter of the grand rabbi of this
line, Aron Friedmann, and the groom,
Solamon Friedmann, belongs to a
branch of the same Rabbinical dynasty
at Czortkow. The marriage was ar
ranged by the chiefs of the two
families, entirely without the knowl
edge of the young people. In fact,
they, met; for the tirsi time the even
ing before the wedding at a prelimi
nary feast, when they danced together
as a sign of their willingness to marry.
The chiefs had taken it for granted
that there would be no hitch in their
plans and had invited the rabbinical
families of all the Orthodox Jews in
Russia, Poland, Rumania, Galicia and
Hungary. They came down on Sadagora
in thousands. Many were of imposing
stature and patriarchial dignity. They
wore black silk caftans, low shoes and
white stockings, while their ladies
were attired in a sort of crinoline and
adorned with rich jewels. There were
some dressed in the latest modes of
Paris and Vienna.
The ceremony took place in the
gardens of the grand rabbi's palace,
guarded by mounted troops. Thousands
were unable to hear or see what was
going on. so dense was the throng,
but all had a hand in the feasting
which followed. During the eight days
the commissary's books accounted for
200 pounds of fish, 600 head of poultry,
250 pounds of beef, 5000 pounds of
bread, and many casks of wine. The
grand rabbi was out of pocket to the
extent of at least $40,000.
In addition to this he presented the
bridal couple with a palace in
Sadagora, completely furnished and
equipped with a staff of servants. He
will meet the entire cost of the house
hold for a period of six years, when it
is assumed that the young bridegroom
will have attained a position where he
can support his family himself.
At an expenditure exceeding $10,000,000.
London will bnlld a dock ample enough to
tccommodate any merchant steamer afloat
ur which will be likely to enter the Thames
for many, years to come.
PRINCE READY MIXER
Royal Student Knters Into Sports
Freely at Oxford.
LONDON, Aug. 3. The Prince of
Wales, who has Just completed two
years at Oxford, is finding his exploits
at that Institution of learning under
critical review in the newspapers. An
undergraduate who has bad an oppor
tunity, to see much of this future King
of England notes his impressions in a
seemingly frank manner.
"Viewed Impartially." he said, "the
Prince's career has been neither better
nor worse than that of the average
titled undergraduate. lie has embarked
on many of the manly sports of youth
and excelled in none. Perhaps the best
comment on his good spirit and his
lack of "side' was the fact that he
played consistently at association foot
fall with the Magdalen College second
eleven.
"For a long time he was the despair
of his equerry, but as a concession to
popular opinion, expressed and unex
pressed, he has acquired some skill in
the saddle, and with it some of the
standing that falls only to hunting men
at Oxford.
"That the Trince should taks an
equal footing with all in undergradu
ate life was, of course, an Innovation
attended, as one might expect, by ad
vantages and drawbacks. Toe curious
Interest with which he was pestered
In his early weeks soon wore off, but
the natural desire to be intimately as
sociated wltii a prince so easy of ac
cess was harder to kill.
"Magdalen second 11 't aeeon
proved far more attractive to many
men than the college senior team. Lit
tle or no concession hi been made to
his royalty. 1 aw him the other day
waiting at the door of one of the lead
ing doctors In Oxford. On tho other
hand, he hiut had the freedom and ease
which he will never again enjoy, he
has mixed unostentatiously with peo
ple ef all ranks; he has endured brave
ly and well the discomforts of camp
life as a private, and he has been
treated with a quiet. well-brd respect
by every member of the university."
The Prince has rather startled hie
university companions lately by tak
ing to the pipe and giving up. for the
moment, the cigarette. A recent pic
ture of him with the Oxford officers'
training corpn shows the Prince puff
ing at a great bulldog pipe and ap
parently enjoying It. The next day.
however, he left Ids regiment
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