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MPRISONMENT frequently has
I brought blslns t mankind as well
a suffering, misery and death. And
to om of th'M who have experienced
ltj erdral It has riven fame that might
otherwise have bn unattatned. In a
rU Punyan created "Filgrlm's Progress":
De fo railed Rohlrson Crusoe and Ms
man Friday into being; Cervantes con
o Ived Don Quixote, and Taso wrote
many of his immortal epic. ,
Nor are tlieae fruits of the prison to be
found only In times medieval. There are
many men living today, or who have died
only recently, who owe much of the luster
of th-ir names to the reflections of invol
untary soiitiide.
Francis Kossuth, the Hungarian states
man, who arin has become prominent
because of the dual empire's new racial
proMms. growing out of its spectacular
acquisition of Bosnia and HTaegovlna,
obtained his earliest Inspiration. -a did
his famous father before him. In the se
clusion of dungeon.
When only 8. in the year IMS. after the
downfall of his father and the defeat of
the cause of Hungarian independence, the
younger Kossuth was taken prisoner and
conMnned to a cell in the fortreaa at
Presburg. Though only a child, the or
deal made a lifelong Impression upon Ms
mind. And awakened his love of country
far more, than all the Bery words of hia
father hitherto had done.
While, at Tresburg. the on of the pa
triot was rut to a test which proved
there w as true Kossuth blood in hia veins.
A handkerchief which was discovered
Tinned over hia heart proved to be noth
ing more than a miniature Hungarian
fag. He was seixrd forthwith and
dragd into -the fearful presence of the,
Austrian conunander. who thundered:
-The boy must tear the flag to tatten
or be torn Into as small bits himself:"
Toung Kossuth therewith took the hand
kerchief, opened the bosom of his shirt,
and repinned the cloth over his heart.
"Take hiin back." muttered the com
mander. "I only wish he was my boy."
Francis Kossuth did not rise to leader
ship in the light for his country with the
swiftness, vigor and the overwhelming en
thusiasm of his father. Being less of an
idealist, he hesitated before determining
which was the more practical course to
follow. Accordingly, he did not appear in
Hungarian politics until long after his lib
eration from the Presburg prison, hia
exile In Asia Minor with his father, bit
years of education in England, bis lire as
a civil engineer in Italy, from which he
at last returned to Hungary upon his
father's death In 15H. when he brought
back the remains of the famous patriot,
in accordance with the edict of his coun-
Irrmfn.
First a member of Parliament; later the J
leaner or tne party 01 mutircuuci
Francis Kos-Aith rose rapidly in influ
ence and popularity. "When the Hun
garian parliament resisted encrotchments
upon its constitutional rights he was
able to head the coalesced parties that
formed the majority of the house. There
was a diversity of opinion, however, as
to whether the son has taken the place
of the father in the hearts of the peo
ple. Some nay his political sagacity is
greater; others that he Is lacking in
depth, and affected, regarding himself
as an aristocrat of the English lord type.
Although often blamed for conceding
too much in his negotiations with the
Ministerial party, he has persevered
successfully in many of his efforts to ob
tain what the people have demanded.
For example, he made a special issue of
the Imperial order that the German lan
guage should be used in the Hungarian
army instead of Hungarian, and resisted
Francia Joseph so firmly that the latter
was compelled to abandon his purpose.
The younger Kossuth frequently has
said that the goal of his ambition is the
absolute independence of Hungary, but
that this can be realized only by peace
ful and legal means. Agitation and in
surrection, he says, would only endan
ger Hungarian liberties and postpone in
definitely the day of Hungarian emanci
pation. lncl Sam's Dusky Queen Prisoner.
Even in the imprisonment of the dusky
l.iliuokalani. who again has returned to
Washington to press her claims against
the United Wates. there were born cer
tain fruits of fame, which the Hawaiian
ex-Queen has treasured greatly. Durmg
the few months that she was in prison
she composed a number of songs, one of
which is sung by her supporters as the
national anthem.
At the time of her incarceration, how
ever. "Queen Lil." as the last of the
Hawaiian rulers was known by her American-born
subjects, regarded her plight
as infamous. Indeed, it was a striking
contrast to her former grandeur. On be
ing proclaimed queen on January 2S, 1891,
upon the death of King Kalakaua, her
brother. In San Francisco, she sought
still further to Increase the splendor of
her court. Her brother, after a trip
around the world in 18S1. nad decided
that the little one-story coral abode where
he and his predecessors hitherto had
ruled contentedly was too humble, even
for a sovereign of only S8.000 people. Ac
cordingly, he blossomed out in a brand
new JC10.900 palace.
Queen Lii." however, had lived too
long at the Palace Hotel in San Fran-"-
cisco. and carried back to the mid-Pacific
toe many bargains from New Tork shops.
1 to be satisfied even with the luxuries
which King Kalakaua imported. Aspir
ing to more power and revenue, she at
tempted at last to abolish the "Toustiiu
Uon. Her own downfall was the result,
being forced from the throne on January
2. lS.fl, when a provisional government
was set up, and annexation to the United
States proposed.
Under the extreme penalty of a M4
fine, and five years' hard labor, thie too
ambition woman u compelled to change
her palace for a prison, where she was
not at first permitted to have even a
scrap of paper to write on. But there
was no peace within the four walls of
the place until writing materials were
supplied: and so they were.
Ail her imperial demands for musical
instruments, however, proved unavailing,
the Qu'cn even being told by one Irish
guard tbat her playir.; might make the
prison too popular- Accordingly, she spent
her time humming the melodies that came
Into her head, lotting down her composi-
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tions upon paper as fast as she composed
them.
Not only are the songs of the ex-Queen
to be heard in the land where she once
ruled. There are regions In the Uuited
Stats where they long have been popular
airs, for the reason that many of the
Inhabitants came from the Hawaiian Isl
ands as converts of Mormon missionaries.
When "Queen LJ1" accepted the Invitation
of her Mormon country folk, and visited
Salt Lake City In 1004, the bands In wel
come played her own compositions.
If "Queen Lll's" melodies might only
persuade the United States Congress to
give back the million acres of crown lands
she would find herself enriched to the
tune of fcJ9.OuO.000. On her dethronement
the land was appropriated by the provi
sional government, which later turned It
over to the United States. Although she
has a small private fortune, she always
has insisted that she should get back her
own crown lands, or an allowance equal
to their old revenue. Once the Hawaiian
Legislature voted to Rive her $250,000, but
Governor Pole vetoed the bill. Today she
Is asking Congress for a beggarly ja,000
to support her in her old age.
When Iady Cook Was a Prisoner.
Two other women who have spent time
in prison for political reasons, though
tinder far different circumstances, and
who have again been brought to public
attention by the recent suffragette out
burst in New York city, are Mrs. Victoria
Claflin Woodhull Martin and her sister,
Lady Francis Cook,
Last October a number of women, in
cluding Lady Cook, besieged a registra
tion place In New York with the de
mand that they be permitted to enroll.
Finally the police had to be summoned
to quiet the excitement. As the women
withdrew Lady Cook exclaimed:
"Let us at least be thankful that they
do not dare arrest us, as they did when
my sister and L more than 30 years ago.
tried to vote at a booth only a few
doors from here."
It was in 1872 that Victoria and Ten
nessee Claffin, the two daughters ot
Reuben Claflin, of Homer. O., were car
ried off in a patrol wagon and thrown
Into Ludlow-street Jail, because they in
sisted upon casting the ballot. In the
1S72 campaign Victoria Claflin ran for
President on the woman's suffrage ticket.
Both sisters were determined to vote,
and so vigorously did they fight for their
alleged rights at the polls that they were
ordered arrested by John A. Shields.
United States Commissioner, and held
In SS0D0 each.
In Ludlow-street Jail the two women
Were confined until the newspapers be
gan to call it cersecutlon, and demand
ed that the sisters either be tried upon
some stated charge, or the authorities
cea."e from arresting them every time
they made speeches, committing them un
til bailed out and then rearresting them.
What particularly aroused public sen
timent against this intermittent impris
onment of the two women was the story
of a plot to kill them. On one occasion
a stranger offered bail, and the sisters
appeared in court to get their liberty. A
man suddenly approached Tennessee
Claflin, now Lady Cook, and whispered
that if they were bailed out they would
be rearrested and committed to Jeffer
son Market Jail, which would .then be
set afire.
Tennessee and her Bister. Victoria, re
fused the offer of the strange bondsman,
and hardly had they started to return
to Ludlow-street Jail when a bailiff -of
the Jefferson Market Court stepped for
ward and announced he had a warrant
for their arrest.
It has been the contention of the Claf
lin sisters that . women of the United
States already have the suffrage, un
der the Constitution. Accordingly, it is
the duty of the women to compel men
to grant them the exercise ot their
rights. In 1670. when the movement be
gan to attract public notice. Victoria
Claflin, who then was about . became
the leader and eulisted as supporters
of the cause such distinguished women
as Susan B. Anthony, Isabella Beecher
Hooker and Elizabeth Cudy Stanton.
In other ways titan In politics these two
unusual women have shown their desire
to fill the sphere of men. Before their
Imprisonment they had startled New York
by opening a brokerage and banking
house in Wall street, kndwn as Wood null,
ClafUn Co. Dr. Woodhull was Vic
toria's first husband. The sisters also
studied law in their father's office, and
tor five years they kept the press on the
qui vive by plunging in the stock mar
ket, starting lawsuits and exhorting their
fellow women from the campaign plat
form to is the ballot. Later they re
tired to England, where both married.
Victori tx John Biddulph Martin, and
Tennessee to Sir Francis Cook. Both are
widows and wealthy. Zuia Maud Wood-
hull, daughter of Victoria by her first
marriage, has taken up her mother's
work, and besides actively campaigning
In the cause of woman's suffrage she
finds time to write scientific books and
psychological dramas.
Bcbel and Kropotkln, Kx-Prlsoners.
The prison often has been called upon
to check he tide of Socialism, but thus
far it has appeared only to strengthen
the convictions of Socialistic leaders. This
has been particularly true of August
Bebel and Prince Kropotkin, who orig
inally were Conservatives.
Bebel, unlike the Prince, however, was
cast upon his own resources early in life.
Born in Cologne on February 22, 1840, he
lost his father when only 2 years old.
After a short schooling he was appren
ticed to a turner and wood carver, and at
the age of 22 he threw his knapsack over
his. shoulder and tramped the roads of
Germany in search of work. When 24 he
opened a little shop of his own in Leipsic.
These were the days when the work
ingmen of Germany were organizing un
der the banner of the Social Democratic
party. Bebel became converted to its
principles and entered the movement with
such vigor that within only a year he be
came a recognized leader.
But It was not until prison gates had
shut him away from the world that Bebel
found opportunity to obtain that high
degree of intellectual training which has
made him such a power In the Reiehstas
He calls his 67 months in imprisonment
his university career. This period af
forded him his first chance to study in
peace and quiet. He learned to speak
English, and gained a much wider knowl
edge of literature and history from Lieb
necht. the founder of the Social Demo
cratic party, who was a fellow prisoner.
Liebnecht was a man of unusual educa
tion, a man of the universities.
Behind prison bars Bebel planned his
first and most successful book, "Die
Frau," in which the writer takes woman's
side In dealing with the industrial condi
tions in which the woman of today has
been forced to live. This work has gone
through i German editions, besides
being translated into 15 other languages.
Bebel is a strong advocate of equal suf
frage and equal legal rights, as a citizen,
for woman, and his opinions are gaining
ground in the Fatherland. ' He was a bit
ter enemy of Bismarck, and led the So
cialists of the Reichstag in refusing to
send congratulations to the "man of
blood and iron" on the 80th birthday of
the former Chancellor. Bebel recently
has called Emperor William insane for
giving the secrets of the German War Of
fice to the press.
Kropotkln was a Conservative by In
heritance. His family had claims to
the Russian throne which some say
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PITTSBURG Jan. 9. (Special.) There are charges and counter
charaes in the divorce suit pending in the Common Pleas Court in
PittiTourg filed by Mrs. Mary Scott Hartje. Mrs. Hartje claims that
no Davrae'nts have been made on the order by which her husband was
to nav her I416.S8 a month, since July 15th last. Mr. Hartje admits
the dfcMnauency and declares that he will not-pay further alimony
to hia wife under the order of the court of November. 1906. until the
order concerning the children-"Scotty" and Mary Louise is obeyed.
Mr. Hartje wants her husband adjudged in contempt of court for
failure to payalimony and committed to Jail.
are as well founded as those of the
Romanoffs.
In JS73, when Kropotkln was 31, he
was arrested and. locked ud in the
dungeon of the historic St. Peter and
St. Paul. Although for a time it was
feared by his friends that the confine
ment would kill him because of his
poor health, his three years incarcera
tion In fact proved a boon to his mental
eelf. During- that time he was able to
write several valuable scientific articles
for the Encyclopedia Brittanica, In ad
dition to two volumes on his glacial
observations. So suddenly did the so
cialistic Pritice depart from prison that
he left behind the second volume of
this work. It took him 20 years to
get it back.
Kropotkln found that Imprisonment
greatly depressed him. because of lack
of exercise. So he used the heavy stool
of the cell for a ball, and would toss
this from one hand to the other until
fatigued. It was ten steps across the
room, and by pacing back and forth a
thousand times each day he figured it
out that he thus walked nearly five
miles.
In spite of his heroic efforts to re
main well, the Prince at last fell ill,
and was ordered transferred to St.
Nicholas xiospital. There , he obtained
leave to walk as much as he pleased in
the open courtyard. A sentinel kept
watch but Indifferently because the
prisoner was supposed to be dying. One
day a gate was left open for gangs of
men to bring; in the Winter supply of
wood. He got word to friends outside,
who posted a carriage near, and when
no one was watching' he darted out,
jumped Into the carriage and escaped.
The discovery that Kropotkin was a
Socialist was even more dramatic. Af
ter serving some time in Siberia, in
Investigating; prison conditions for the
Governor, he appeared at the court, un
til he became disgusted with its in
trigue and superficialness, quarreled
with his father, who cut him off. leav
ing him to work Ii is way through the
university himself, studied socialism
and anarchism In Switzerland, as well
as Its glaciers, and then returned to
St. Petersburg to inherit the enormous
fortune which his father had Just left
him.
About this time a remarkable agita
tor, by name Borodin, beganto stir up
the working classes of the Russian
capital to revolt. The police searched
for him high and low, but Just as they
were about to lay hands on him he
seemed to vanish In thin air. Finally
they seized him as he was leaving a
revolutionary meeting to step Into a
carriage bearing the Imperial arms of
Rurik. Borodin was Kropotkin.
While in France in 1SS2, with his
dying brother-in-law, Kropotkin was
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arrested, charged with being Implicated
In the anarchistic riots in Lyons. He
was removed to large, airy quarters at
Ciarivaux, the ancient abbey of St.
Bernard, where he fell ill with malaria
and scurvy. The vault-like cell of St.
Peter and St. Paul, he often said, was
far preferable, for its utter solitude in
spired a higher degree of mental con
centration than he had ever reached
before or since.
Gorky's Strongest Dramas Planned
in Prison.
In utter contrast, to Kropotkin, Maxim
Gorky rose from the depths "of life before
he became a prisoner because of his
political beliefs. Alexel Maxlmovitz
Pjesjkov was his given name, but as
PJesjkor means pawn in Russia, he
changed it to Gorky, meaning bitter. To
him life was Indeed bitter.
Beginning his career as a shoemaker,
Gorky ran away and obtained work as a
designer. Later he found employment in
the shop of a painter of images. After
that he became a galley boy on a Volga
Riwer boat.
The boat was a sort of prison for him,
and its confinement proved a blessing. He
developed a love of reading, and as the
cook happened to be the owner of quite
a library he found opportunity to delve
deep into all sorts of books, legends of
the Saints, folk lore and the novels of
the elder Dumas.
After that time, no matter what was
his work, even while he was a gardener's
apprentice, a baker's helper, a porter, a
wood cutter, an apple peddler, a signal
man on a railroad, a, vender of beer,
which he sold from, a barrel he trundled
about the streets, a lawyer's clerk, a
herdsman, a chorus singer, or a news
paper reporter, he spent every available
spare moment In reading.
In 1892 a brokendown student advised
him to write, and under the guidance of
Korolenka.- Gorky soon became as popu
lar with the masses as he was hated by
the bureaucrats. In 1900 and 1905 he was
imprisoned for short terms, but so poor
was his health and so greatly was public
indignation aroused that each time he
was liberated promptly. Yet in these
brief Intervals within prison walls Gorky
obtained the inspiration for two of his
strongest dramas.
The recent attempt to assassinate Al
bert Dreyfus recalls Devil's Island, where
the victim of the most tragic army scan
dal of modern times was confined from
1895 to 1899. Imprisonment, however,
brought to Dreyfus only gray hair and a
premature feebleness of body. In the
tropical climate of the Caribbean, under
the depressing Influence of a guard al
ways lurking at hislbow. Dreyfus found
little opportunity to do more than brood
over the crimes committed against him.
When Dreyfus returned to Rennes in
1S99 for a new trial, he appeared like a
man In a dream. He was white haired,
stoop shouldered, and broken In spirit.
He was tried, convicted to six years' im
prisonment, that the dignity of the court
might be sustained, and immediately par
doned by President Loubet. On regain
ing something of his old self, Dreyfus
Joined with his friends in bringing about
a third trial in 1906, when at last the
Court of Cassation quashed the former
verdict, and the Senate and Chamber of
Deputies promoted him to a major.
General Ploquart, an army's head who
was a prisoner, who was involved in the
Dreyfus scandal, has been said to owe
ids present position of French MJnister of
War to his prison experience. It was a
test which proved that Picquart would
not shield those he knew were guilty by
falsely accusing Dreyfus. So nobly did
he bear up throughout this ordeal that he
became recognjased as one of the strong
men which the French army needed.
Clemenceau. on becoming Premier, recog
nized tlits, and made Picquart head of
the Department of War.
At the time the Dreyfus scandai broke,
Picquart was a Lieutenant -Colonel in
charge of the Secret Intelligence Bureau.
He maintained that Dreyfus was innocent
and Esterhazy guilty. He was charged
with forgery and locked up in the
Cherche Midi Military Prison. There was
talk that Picquart might commit suicide,
as did Colonel Henry, a bitter anti-Drey-fusard,
who had confessed that he had
commited forgery to shield those guilty.
Picquart heard the rumor concerning
himself, and. believing It meant a plot to
murder him, he sent a thrill through the
courtroom as they led him out by ex
claiming: "I wish to declare that if I find in
Cherche Midi the rope of Lemercier
Picard (a murdered police spy) or the
razor of Colonel Henry, it will be mur
der. I have no idea of committing sui
cide." Picquart was released after 330 days'
imprisonment, the German Government
having made public the fact that the
"petit bleu," which it was alleged
Picquart forged, was the handiwork ot
Colonel Schwarzkoppen, a German offi
cer. The French Republic also derived ben
efit from the imprisonment of the Duke
of Orleans. The Duke also profited by
tha experience. His confinrmsnt at Clair
vaux was a sort of test of the strength
of the Toyalist sentiment. It proved that
the cause of .monarchy in France was
hopeless.
Duke Louis Phillippe Robert of Orleans,
who had been living in exile, decided In
18W "to stir things up in France." He
told his father that the time was ripe fo
renew their pretensions to the French
throne. Accordingly, be went to a re
cruiting bureau in Paris, stated he was
21. and asked to be permitted to enlist in
YEGGMEN AND
amrfHEN' the cashier of a St. Paul
Wbank balanced his accounts one
night there was a shortage of
JS40. That the money had been stolen
was apparent, for the thief had left
traces.
But before the bank's officers had time
even to summon the detectives a package
containing the XO was received in the
mail. On a piece of wrapping paper
around the bills were scrawled these
words:
"Why don't you keep your sign out?"
The sign to which the uneasy robber re
ferred to was one inscribed "Member
American Bankers' Association." Every
safebreaker, forger and "sneak" in the
United States knows what that means.
To rob a "member bank" half of all the
banks In the country belong to the asso
ciationis to court disaster.
It means the limit of daring, the cer
tainty of pursuit to a prison cell or tho
grave, the assurance that sooner or later,
somehow, somewhere, the thief must
atone for his crime. The detectives will
follow him to the ends of the earth,
backed by the bottomless treasury of an
organization that has adopted a policy
of hounding relentlessly its despoilers.
The chase may last a day or Ave years
or a lifetime. There are but two avenues
by which the pursued avoids punishment
death and reform. If he lives and per
sists he must leave an open trail some
day. Few die before that trail Is found;
still fewer reform.
It is estimated that there are in tha
United States about 100 real "soup men,"
expert users of the nitroglycerin cup.
The number of outside "yeggs," less ex
perienced and less daring men. who have
not been admitted to the higher degree
of the fraternity, is placed at 300. Many
of them are never caught.
Unlike the extinct bank burglar of the
old school, who traveled in Pullman cars,
spent weeks of preparation around the
scene of his intended crime, lavished
money like a millionaire, and rather
prided himself on his reputation as a
man of genius, the "yegg" is never seen
in the town where he plans a haul until
the hour of the deed. When the "soup
man" and his band have done their
work they depart with no show and steal
awby like tramps on stolen teams or
handcara. Style is a thing apart from
the "yegg."
No matter what his success, he is con
tent to wear his blue shirt, to live in the
meanest of lodging-houses and to endure
the worst of discomforts. A tramp bur
glar is the "yegg." with his headquar
ters in the centers of population, but
never operating there. He robs only in
small towns, though he habituates be
tween times in the cities, where his
brotherhood has its means of intercom
munication, its meeting places and its
diversions.
That brotherhood is as firm as it Is
unorganized. Though every "yegg" works
alone or with a little band, he is faithful
to his kind. When one Is caught there
Is no delay In the mysterious appearance
of a fund for his defense. The money Is
sent from all parts of the country.
Rarelv, and only under extreme pres
sure, does he make a confession impli
cating a member of his class. Wherever
he Is, too, he knows how to communicate
with other "yeggs," and yet the system
of news circulation between them is so
skillful that there Is little danger of po
lice detection.
When a man becomes a yegg he prac
tically loses the name that belongs to
him. If there comes into a yegg camp
stranger who proves by his dialect
that he is entitled to membership. ygg
etiquette does not permit anyone to atk
his name. .
"Where d'ye hail from?" is the ques
tion.
If he replies that he is a nueourSrr
they call him "Pitts SItm" er "'Pitts
the army. He was shifted by one offi
cial to another until the public was well
s roused, rival factions had arisen, and
there was talk of fight In some quarters
of Paris.
In October the Duke finally was arrest
ed and tried for violation of the exile
law. The Duke had a little epigrammatic
speech, which ho tried to repeat from
memory. But his voice was husky, his
gestures without force, his bearing not
particularly impressive. Yet a few in the
crowd began to cheer for the Duke, with
the result that there was almost a riot.
The Duke Rpent four months in the
prison of Clairvaux. His wife later tried
to stir up sympathy for his claims, but
to no avail. With the death of his fa
ther, the Count of Paris, in 1894. the Or
leanist cause practically died, too.
The fact that T. Estrada Palma, Cu
ba's first President, who died recently,
was shut up in a Spanish prison for
three years, added to his popularity
among the masses. In 187S Palma was
chosen head of the provisional republic
of Cuba. Ho was a man of wealth, hav
ing Inherited large plantations from his
father. The poorer classes regarded him
as an aristocrat. But when the Span
iards laid hands on him. confiscated his
estates and shut him up in a Spanish call,
the crowd forgot much of Its old preju
dices and acclaimed him a hero and a
martyr.
The Civil War has furnished many
notable examples of imprisonment prov
ing the nobility of men even more than
their exploits on the field of battle.
Samuel Hawkins Marshall Byers, the
author and diplomat. 6ays that ho owes
much to his imprisonment following his
capture at tho battle of Chattanooga. In
a Confederate cell he had the oppor
tunity of thinking out many ef the liter
ary works which he afterward accom
plished. It was Byers who wrote the
song of "Sherman's March to the-Sea."
which gave the campaism that name.
(Copyright. 1909, by the McClure Newspa
per Syndicate.
THEIR KIND
Fat," or some other name sucested by
his physical characteristics. There is a
degree of cleverness sometimes In these
names. A young man with a patch of
gray hairs is known as "The Aged Kid."
A hunchback with a wooden leg acquires
the appellation of "Tho Pegged Hump."
Tho word "yegg" has been attributed
to gvps origin. When a thief showed
special aptitude the gypsies elected him a
"yegg chief." Gradually tho ordlnsry
tramp or hobo if he grew to be a skillful
thief came Into the title of "Johnny
Yegg." and finally the name was ac
quired exclusively by the wandering
nitroglycerin expert of today. This out
cast appears to embody what is worst In
the gvpsv and the hobo, with the craft
of one and the barbarity of the other
added to a reckless daring of his ow n.
One of the most interesting phases or
the fraternity of the yeggs is to" ln
those rara exceptions, the yegg with a
family and the yegg with a longing for
home. While most of them have no ties.
It happens now and then that one boast,
a wife and children. In that event if he
Is arrested other yeggs invariably pro
vide for the family.
The vegg with the longing for home oc
casionally gratiiies his ambition by say
ing a competence, with which he returns
to his native place. He then set e down
in some business, and yeggs know liln no
more. If there is an Inquiry
has happened to the absent one, the re
ply is, "lie's gone home." All yeggs know
what that means.
Smashes Bridelcsa Home.
Philadelphia Record.
Disappointed, it is said, over re
peated failures to place a bride in a
home he had built for two. Holds Wor
den. of Norway Ridge. Monroe County
reduced the structure to kindling
wood. Onlv a woodpile now maiks the
spot which but recently was a mon
ument of disappointment. W orden de
clined to sell the building, although
he had spent his savings upon it.
The parents of his first love frowned
upon the match and she married an
other. He immediately fell in love
gain, but this girl decided that she
would rather remain in single blessed
ness. Having faith in the o d adage.
"Faint heart never won fair Udy.
Worden became a member of the 'Chris
tian Church to win another, but she de
clined, and he withdrew from the
church. Still undaunted, he Joined the
Mormon Church, but. failing .n h..
fourth venture. Worden. who i only
5 years of age. decided to demolish
the house and seek a mate no longer.
Shakespeare on Marriage.
Selected hy Town Topic
I tell you h that con lay tv Id of nr
.hall have the chinks. "Romeo and
JUyou"come blther. my lord to marry this
ladv. "Much Ado About Nothlnp
Dear lord, you are full ot the word.
"Trolllus and Croffsida."
I will not natter you. my lord, that all I
e In you Is worthy love "Kn c John.
What In the least will you require fln .rel
ent doner with, her? "Kins Lear.
Oh. I am yours and all that I possess!
"I ove's Labor Lost."
"1 my fortunes at thy foot I'll lay. ana
follow thee, my lord, throughout the world.
"Romeo and Juliet."
Blia shall he married to this noble Earl.
"Romeu and Juliet."
To be entasled ln tlioi-e mouth-made vows
which break themselves !n swearing.
Antony and Cleopatra."
And she. sweet lady, dotes, devoutly di.tea.
constant man. "Midsummer . Night s
Dream." .
T fear tnou art anomer munnim..
"Henry IV."
We ln the world's wide mouth live can
dallzed. "Honry IV." - .
Oh, miserable! Unhappy tnat I am.
"Two Gentlemen of Verona."
Have you not set mine honor at
sta ke V "Twe f Hi " sen t . "
I have forsworn hi bed and company.
"Midsummer Nlshfs Drenm."
But now my lord, nht ay jeu to my
suit? "Romeo and Juliet."
I think you aye happier In thia secoaa
match. ' Romeo and Juliet."