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'-i THE OREGON SUNDAY JOURNAL, PORTLAND, SUNDAY MORNING, JUNE "21, 1908. 3 i nn i wrn Uiy LMKtO Chicago Swept - by Fierce . Gale and Fears are Enter tained for Hundreds o; Small Craft Yacht Club Cruise Ends Disastrously. (Heant Kwi by Loofeat Wire.) Chicago. June A terrific storm struck Chicago a midnight fi-nA wept out into Lake Michigan, and fears are entertained here" 'for the safety of 00 of the 100 small sailing vessels which left Chicago yesterday morning to make a cruise to Michigan City. - Long , distance telephone , - messages from Michigan City, Just received state that fewer than half of the 100 vessels had reached that bort at midnight and the llfesaverr there feared that . soma ' of these lighter boats. were caught In the storm on the lake, and may have overturned and their occupants drowned. ffPh r pi 1 4 a wia. ttiA.ftnntlftl affair mili ducted by the Columbia Yacht club of thl oltyi .'Tnere were us entries ana 100 vessels started. Most of these were small craft, and a score ware . motor boats.' The event was merely a cruise and no effort was made to set speed records.-..- i During the day- an absolute calm fell ' on the laRs, and at f o'ciocx last even ing very few of the. vessels had reached Miomgan city, a snort ume later .i breeze soranff ud and the vessels be gan to edge in the Michigan City har bor. ,About 40 were In the harbor when the, gale swept over the city. ' At this hour a terrific gale is blow Inr over Mich tan City and the lake.. the storm was accompanied by hail ' wnion proKe winaows ana oeai.aown crop a - Cloudbursts and heavy rains followed, ' washing out roads and , rail road tracks in some places. Auatlrr was badly battered, a, loss of more than $19,000 being caused In' the clt alone with damage ' amounting to fully a half million dollars In (he vi cinity. ' ; ' ' '' ''' " ' ' V ' Between Hayfteld and ; Austin fields ware laid bare, over a stretch of four teen miles wide.: Buildings were blown down or partly wrecked at Lansing and Waltham. - - ' ' . . Mankato was badly rumpled, buildings truck by lightning, trees uprooted ana windows blown into atoms. FOREIGNERS CLAIM , -TITIAN IN ITALY Demand Blade by :: Two Women of ..TDa&nati tor '. the "Virgin of , " V.- St. Francis." . Rome, "juns 0,-Agaln Italy, la up In . .v.t i. tiaiisllv nailed her urui wibi . .. . - " - "artistic patrimony." ' A very pretty Quarrel is Just, coming before the law courts Which Involves the going out of Italy of one of her most glorious pic ture. Titian's ."Virgin and St. Fran cis," until now the glory, of Ancona. &ms 400 years ago this great picture was painted for a certain Malno Gan dola by Titian. Oandola. In an access of. pletv and devotion, lent it to the church "of San Francesco of Ancona, to be placed above the high altar and to be In custody of the order of the min ims There the ploture rested until, in i8f2, the monasty was suppressed, whereupon the picture was removed to an ornhanage of the same 5jeri. And now come forward Maria Mai vtna, countess Bonds, and her sister, the onlv descendants of Malno. Gan oola, who live at Kagusa, In Dalmantla. claiming their right to the picture, and, what is worse, their right to remove It from Italy. They have many ,SfSZ ments to prove their proprietorship, the most recent being the acceptance by the municipal authorities of Ancona of their , rlsht to have a voice In the disposition .u. iritinn whan it waa nroDOsed. in 8S. to put it In the. church of San Domenlco. This was done with the express understanding that the Bonda "YhVcTVfth. sisters to the pic .. i- nt h only nuestlon at Issue. If they prove their proprietorship and it seems reasonably clear there re mains the government prohibition ror any good work of ancient art to pass the ironuer. w " . , ir a foreign family, but originally Italian and only lent come under this head? It would seora so,, as Lady Layard of Venice had to have a special and par ticular permission to remove the col lection of her late husband to England. If Italy fights to retain the art treas ures -which she has, it Is not because her stock is small, for barely a day passes that a marble or a forgotten picture does not come to light . The latest acquisition is a white mar ble sarcophagus found during some ex ....tinnii nn a new line of railway .out' side Porta Maggiore. The sarcophagus Is in perfect preservation and has su rerb bas-reliefs on three sides repre senting Roman victories In battle. It Is a glorious find one of the best for very many years because of Its state or periect preowi fBHwi, i i u,ii value and the various and dramatically realistic scenes which adorn it. . The fact that the art In this mar ole shows no sogn of decadence,' and that - it ' Is absolutely free from the technical contrivances by which artists, during' the decadence, overcame the dif ficulties of work In marble. Induces the experts to place this new work of art at about the end of the- second or the beginning or tne miru ctniury a, v., probably In the. reign of Septlmius So verus. In fact. It is supposed that the scenes depicted relate to one of that emperor's expeditions to the orient, and It Is conjectured that the sarcophagus was for one of his generals. 'ROME IS JOYFUL; , : ONCE MORE POET fall and give the Tiber sufficient water to enaoie it to return to the sea. A dally service of boats has now beeri started from Rome to Sardinia direct, and the Introduction of cattle from Sardinia, with the other products of the island, will be greatly facilitated. - But the great scheme of the Romans Is once more to make Ostla, a dozen miles southwest, the port for first rato seagoing vessels, so that the area; ocean steamshlns coming from- Amerl ca, England or the Antipodes will no longer be obliged to enter the pons of Genoa. Livonia "or NaDlea but will unship their - cargoes and disembark their passengers at Ostla. the ancient port,, from which a Journey of twenty minutes by rail or automobile will carry- them to Rome. A railway line will be finished by 1911, and the millions of visitors from foreign shores . who Come to Rome - in that year of festivities will. Instead of having io undergo a tedious Journey of six, seven or eight hours, find them selves at Rome in twenty minutes. It Is not impossible nay, it Is more than probable that in , three years Rome will outdistance all. her ' sister cities of Italy and take first rank among the ports of the world. The Romans are arousing from their long lethargy, Building la Ho be car ried on with Increased vigor, and when lovers of Rome visit her In three years' time they will find provisions cheaper and an enormous' quantity of new houses and hotels ready to receive them. , Rome looks forward to a great future, i SAW GRANT TAKE ONE yTINY DRINK Magistrate breen Tells How ' the General Honored an Old Sol dier of the Civil War. ' MONITOR FLORIDA RECEIVING SHELL FIRE FROM THE ARKANSAS. Tr&rxAFZA. SAW .. X:pTtl 'ti. i . .lMiu Mil mi in mmr : mhiiaTie.i JfXSST JLUOT TOJmA.YCS 1 OR rXPVSJPJ JL3QAKD HSCK GXZl&R New Tork, June 20. City Magistrate Breen last :. night told an lnterestin anecdote concerning General U. 8. Grant and his use of liquor. The story was related; to him while he : was a, staff officer of the Sixty-ninth regiment by Colonel James Cavanaugh, famed Fighting Major Cavanaugh" during the civil war. .The latter died about 10 years ago after - being brsvetted a brigadier general. -,-"' When General Grant became president he appointed Thomas Murphy collector of the port, of New - York. - The two were Close friends and . occupied ad joining cottage at Long. 'Branch. Mur phy was also a close friend of Colonel Cavanaugh, and on one occasion Invited him to go to Long Branch and meet the president, saying that the, latter - had signified a desire to meet him. AlthouKti Colonel Cavanausrh. like Oeneral Orant. bad: been an active participant during ine war, tney naa never met. So one Sunday Colonel Cavanaus'h went to Long Branch and. In company with Mr. Murphy, , visited President Grant. . The latter was sitting on the porch with his wife and a 'clergyman. The famous general said he was glad to meet a soldier with such an enviable record, and then, turning to his wife, whispered something. She disappeared and returned with a DiacK Dome ana one srlass. . , .:.'...: rresiaent uranc poured, enougn liquor in me glass to cover m oouom, roi lowed It up with some water and gulped it down. Without a word he handed the bottle and s;lasa to Colonel Cavanaugh, who did the same. . - "Don't be shocked," said President Grant, turning -to the minister. "This Is the way we do It In the army, and whenever I .meet a brave soldier like FiKhtintr Major cavanaugh' i luce to re vive the old custom. ' PASTOR'Sl FAVORITE TREE MADE COFFIN Ohio Minister Cut " Down ' Walnut When He Found Health Waa Failing. Sees .Vision of Restored Supremacy as the Chief Maritime Center . : of the Globe. ; Boms. June SO. Rome la mad with Joy. Romans embrace one another In the street with congratulations and ap plause. . For the Romans see at no dls- In her place as chief, port of the world, and receiving the riches and merchan dise of nil climes. ' - ' , The Granatlere (the Grenadier) has successfully navigated - the winding Tiber end has been welcomed as the forerunner of a new -epoch, 1 Thousands and thousands Of Romans thronged the banks of the Tiber and the surface of the river was alive with boats to watch the arrival of their majesties, the king and queen, who were to present the Granatlere with a banner of honor. Princess Letltla and . the Prlncpss of the Blood Royal were pres ent the cannon thundered and the flag fluttered mast high on the torpedo boat. And Indeed the 'captain of the boat eserved high praise, for the winding and shaUows of the river are anything but easy to navigate. A dozen times bow' and stern almost touched the banks a. some sharp turn was taken. Now the htat lies at Ripa Grande, the ancient Roman wharf, .waiting for the rain to Plckerington, Ohio, June 10. When the late few ' epadesf ul of earth were deposited in the crave of the late Rev, Alonso Delma Knepper, a superannuated minister of Plckerington. he waa solr ltually aware that one of his greatest ambitions had been realised and that surrounding-; his earthly form was casket made from the favorite walnut tree in his dooryard. During his early life, which waj. apent throughout the west, the late Rev. Mr. Knepper was one of the active ministers of the Methodist Episcopal denomina tion. He waa a .graduate of the North western university, and during hia serv ice as a minister or the gospel served in some eight or nine different parishes. As long ago as five years he began failing and two years ago resigned his church work, and has alnce been leading a simple existence on his farm near here. One of the old walnut trees of the place has . been his favorite, and It was there in Its shade he would spend the hot summer arternoons, reading ana otherwise whillng away the time. Realising that the end was not far away, the Rev, Mr. Knepper resolved that his favorite tree should go -with him to his grave. With his own hands and before his health had failed, he chopped down the old walnut and shipped the lor to a sawmill, where it was maoe into ooaras ror nis easiest.- - A few days ago he began to fail and died. In accordance with his wishes, his family shipped the - boards to Co lumbus, where they were made Into the casket m wnicn ne was ouneo, DOG TRIES IN VAIN TO SAVE BABY FROM FIRE Infant, Left Alone in Home, Burned ' ' to Death Along With Faith- Wllkes-Barre, Pa June JO. Three- year-old Katherine Brown, daughter of Philip Brown, of this city, was burned to death at midnight last night, and a large Newfoundland dog. her net. ' that tried to save her lite, was found lying dead upon tier Doay, as lr ills last er fort had been to,, protect her from the flames. The child was left alone In the house shortly before midnight by the mother while she went to a relative's to bring home another child. When she returned Wie whole lower floor of the house was In flames. - - v Neia-hbors prevented her daahlna into the burning house. Firemen removed the charred body of the little victim. . AMERICAN LEAGUE GAMES. St. Louis, 4; New York, B. (tTnltod Press Leased Wire.) ' ' ' RL Irfuis. June 20. Umpire Connolly was overcome by heat near the end of the fourth inning today, but was able to continue his duties in the seventh. - The Browns bunched their hits In the sixth end Waddell held the Tankees down to the two runs they succeeded in making off Powell. Score: ' , R. H. . E. New Tork 11 1 St. Louis ...................4 . 8 1 Batteries Manning ana . Klelnow; Sheridan and Connolly, . i . .... L - i .- i t' - Chicago, 1; Boston, 0. (T7nltrd Preat Ltued Wlr.) Chlcaeo. -June 20. Old Cv :Toun held the Sox to four singles and struck out six men,- but errors by the Red Sox lost the game to Chicago. Score: R. ,H. E. Chicago ........... ..........1 ... 4 0 lioston . . i ..-. .0 3 Batteries Walsh and Sullivan: .Young, McFarland and Crlger. Umpires livans and Hurst. I i r-: Here is a picture Illustrating the experiments in - gun fire with the -monitor Florida as a target. The ironclad was 'subjected to the same , fire that she would have undergone . in" battle. ' The picture shows -a -photo-diagram - of how the monitor Florida was bombarded by the Ar kansas. The cross indicates where big shells struck the Florida's tur ret. The new fighting tower, little damaged by 12 and four-inch shells, la also shown." nmsmmtmmmkMm it. i Ha irmnMi jb m&Lm tJ itA r v ' '"":"S-.. J': JULCLTl " "- v ' " - -" - ...., . -'::;,... '. ,v :. ri-vi;AS&::r--,y .. . " yr.- -i:-,r- ' "w. I t '' . v;.. - , .. ,- .; ,,.:-. :r " ' - , O ' ti --v ' : .-ir. ' '-. TO WED RICH WIDOW; HE FORMS SYNDICATE Young American Woman Barely Es capes Trap Laid for Her In r French Capital. Paris, June SO. How a designing Swede planned to marry Mrs. Maud A. King, a young Illinois widow with sev eral million dollars., and how he organ ised a syndicate to finance him In the undertaking la a story that has excited Paris recently. Mrs. King has been living in Parts for several months. Recently she was engaged to marry Frank Frogen, a hand some man, wno is decorated wua toe French Legion of Honor. The Swede .was not rich,- and about the time that Mrs. King's sister was oblectinc to the match, he organised his syndicate Fearing that even with the syndicate he mignt lose, ne so arrangea thincs that two physicians called on Mrs. King and examined her for symp toms or insanity. Then he went to the widow and told her that her sister had planned to put tier in an asylum. in tnis way tne sis ter was alienated aad marraigs was im minent. Then George F. Penhale, a friend of .Mr a Kinrs late nusoana, arrivea. ana did some investigating. He learned of the matrimonial syndicate, and as soon as the widow heard about It the hand some - Swede . waa dismissed. He got 1600 to release Mrs. jung from tne en gagement. Mrs. King soon after married Dr. Perry R. Chance, an American dentist In Paris. When Frogen's backers learned of the wedding they Sent him to Mr. Penhale with a demand for $40,- ooo. He got nouung., RATS OWN VILLAGE; PIED PIPER WANTED STA1IR MOURNS LACK OF DEPENDABLE MEN Directors Who Don't Direct, : Numerous, Says College ' , President. Too Sportsmen, With Guna, Hunt Them Town Is Fast Losing Its Poultry. Mlddletown. N. T June 10. Rats of enormous sue are overrunning Great Bend, and the residents of the town, are at their wits and to know what to do with them. Formerly the rats subsisted on the refuse from a large tannery. This was closed recently, and now the rats are killing - and eatlns: . all the . chickens. ducks and turkeys In and near the vil lage. The rats are so big the village oats are afraid Of them. Docs are belns used with some success In hunting them. ana sportsmen . wun guns nave auiea nunarea. Tlnlnss a Pled Plner comes ta the vea. cue, living In the town soon will be al most Impossible. Lancaster, Pa., June 20. "On all aldea there la an appalling scarcity of men who can be depended upon to dis charge with strict Integrity the duties which devolve upon them in the posi tions of trust to wuich they are ap pointed," declared President Stahr of Franklin and Marshall college, In his baccalaureate sermon to the graduating class of that institution - today. He had for his subject "The Type of Manhood Reoulred by the Problems Of the Twen tieth Century," and in giving the char acteristics required to develop this manhood he laid stress on the great lm nortance of steadfastness for the riant. "The world Is full of directors of cor porations who do not direct," said Dr. Stahr. "It is full of experts who can be bought by either side when there is an important issue In controversy; of bank officials who are false to -their trusts, to the sorrow of the stockhold ers and of a confiding public Evidently something more than expert knowledge or skin is neeaea n society is not to. do engulfed in a slough of corruption and ruin, i -i I it ......... i i ... . , xvignc principles, aiuruy ijiirarahx. loyalty to the truth, readiness te re spond to the dictates of stern Justice, these are characteristics of which our age is sorely in need, and no training, no preparation for life is adequate that is not based on a recognition of the moral law as the foundation stone upon which the whole social structure must rest.- GIRL KNOCKS OUT MAN WHO ROCKED THE BOAT AMERICA, ENGLAND, 1' GERMANY TO RULE So, Bismark. Predicted, Says f Close Friend, Dr. Lomer, in a Berlin Interview. His Picks Up, an Oar, Shores Him Into Schuylkill, Then Rows' - ,. Away. Philadelphia, . June 10. Because W, Harris Willlngton of X West Bhawmont street, Roxbo rough, persisted tn rock ing a boat In deep water on the Schuyl kill yesterday afternoon. Miss Bessie Rostum of Umbria street, Manayunk. a companion, picaea up an oar ana knocked him overboard. "A man is a food for rocking a boat containing a woman," she said before making the swing that landed Willing ton In the stream. Of course, Willing ton supposed she was. Joking and kept up the ''sport." - - As he struggled in the river Miss Rostum pulled at the oars and rowed the other member of the Dart v. Mlna Mary uarston, on to jaanayuna. wil lington swam asnore, cut ne waa so exhausted that George Whitehead had IO uciy wui vub vi ui. n.i.r. . WINNIIB OF JUNI0E SINGLES Df ROWBfQ TBY0UTS 1 ii ' ! Art Allen, whose clever work In 'the- Portland Rowing club1 try- outs yesterday gives him the right of representing Portland at the Lake Washington regatta July S and 1. - Allen is picked to win at Seattle. . j Berlin, June 10. "North America, England and Germany , are the future masters of the world." Prince Bismarck maintained, according to J his Intimate frjend. Dr. Lomer, who has made public that opinion In an article In the current number of the Polltlschanthropologischs Revue. i Lrnnar writes that the Iron Chancel lor was always regretting late in life that he had not paid more attention to ouestions of anthropology and ethnol ogy, which ever since he was able to think had, often far more Interest for him than questions of high politics. The biggest question which Interested him in this field was the future of the English and American . races. espe cially was he always anxious to study questions arising out of the contact of the uerm&nic races in tne unuea states with the Slavlo and Latin elements. Bismarck was firmly convinced of ths conquering nature of the Germanic races. Theirs was the earth and - the fulness thereof. To Dr. Ixmer he was fond of saying that he regarded the Celtic and Slavic races as effeminate races. Incapable of anything great unless rructioea by a masculine race like the German or Eng lish. . "All that Is good in Russia,' he said, "is German or of German origin. As for the Germans and the English they are so masculine that if they were not softened by an admixture of the softer feminine races they would be ungov ernable. "It la certain that the future belongs to the northern races. And now they have begun to do that great world work for humanity which Is their mission." When asked his opinion of the south ern Latin races Bismarck was reserved. He had no prejudice, he praised their virtues ana censured their xauits, nut he did not care to say more. He usu ally satisfied himself by shaking his wise om neaa. father,' a millionaire banker, in -.New Brunswick, to care for the young man tnrougn lypnoiu rever. n ; Ms fell in love with the nurse. They were marnea a rew months later. "'Early in April," she-explained yes terday, "I came across a bundle of let ters written in . French to my husband by a woman. ' I translated then. and what I learned caused me to complain to him. The result was a violent quar rel, which was followed by many others, and then the separation.'' SHOW MIXED IN , . . HAT QUAERE! BesssBssspBSPessssBwapsf Playwright and Lord Alfred Doug las Have Scolding .'Match : . . Which Delights London: , London, June 20.-O. B. Shaw won't ue -Lord Alfred Douglas, editor of the Academy, for libel, aar he threatened after reading the Academy's criticism of his play, "Getting Married," and writ ing Douglas that his critic must have been drunk to write such a libelous critique. Lord Douglas retorted that he wrote the article himself and wasn't drunk. - . ' This week Shaw wrote Douglas again, saying, "Thank goodness, it was you and not some poor devil whom it would have been your duty to sack. You must have been, drunk, frightfully drunk or la some equivalent condition. No normal man behaves like that." - Shaw winds up by advising Lord Douglas to consult hi lawyers and withdraw the libelous statements. To this his lordship replied: "Your letter is a piece of childish impertinence, but as it was written-in a fit of hysterical bad temper, I'll not count it against ?ou." Douglas . concludes - by saying here la no necessity for him to see his lawyers. On this . Shaw wrote him again, saying "As you've owned up the publio will forgive you for the sake of your biasing boyishness." , - . And there the matter ends. - FALL OF GO FEET r FAILS TO WAKE HER Woman 'Walks Out of .Fourth Story Window While . She Is Asleep. 1 COLLEGE STUDENTS CARRY COW UPSTAIRS How They Succeeded Is One of the Mysteries the Faculty Cannot '- rrv::i,K:i" : Understand. Wilmington, DeL, June 20. If h faculty of Delaware college at Newark learns the names of the students who borrowed a cow and In some unknown manner succeeded in Installing It in rec reation hall, which la on the second floor of one of the college buildings, to gether with a puoilo arinking rounuun for the benefit of the cow, there will There are four turns In ths stairs leading to the recitation hall, and how the students ever succeeded In getting the cow up the stairway la something President Harter and the , other mem bers of the faculty would' like to find out. It took a contractor and six husky negroes to remove the cow, after two hours of the hardest kind of work. Once the cow came near Jumping through a window. , . On the same night - the - town's on water wagon" was Dlaced on the cam pus, decorated with the names of the faculty. On the wagon waa placed an Invitation printed In large letters, invit ing; the tutors to "get aboard." WED MILLIONAIRE'S SON; NOW STARVING Is Left Penniless With Child She Bared His. life by Nursing . ' Him When lie Was HI. Newark. N. J., June 10. An advertise ment in a Newark paper yesterday, of fering to sell the furniture Of a little flat, revealed the fact that Mrs. R. W. Pettit, who married a millionaire's son after saving his life by nursing him, is penniless and haa appealed to the ...... w j AH .ij uwr uvnru iui . uu. - - -. . , . fcihe is livinaYin two small room a with a baby, for whom she can scarcely pro vide food. Her husband, Dr. Robert W. Pettit, occupies a handsome home in fashionable Clinton avenue, and earns a lara-e income as Dhysician to the so ciety people of that section. s Yet, the young woman asserted yes terday, he has failed to pay her the 130 a month for her suDPort which he was ordered to pay after they separated two montns ago. KiKht vears aro she was called as a trained nurse to the home of Pettlt's New Tork, June Z0v Mollis Regen- berger, a young woman who lodges on the fourth floor of a 'tenement 'on the southwest corner of Third avenue and Forty-second street, and who has been a sleepwalker for years, walked out of her window yesterday morning. In sight of a score of passengers on ' an "L" train that was standing at the station. 8ha full SA fAAt art A land A in. tnn n ?' tin and wire beer sign that advertises he wares of a saloon . below. She lay motionless while two nollcemen and sev. eral of the frightened "L" passengers ran to her ' rescue. None doubted that she had bean killed Instantly. - i - out not a moan came irora ner, ana the rescuers found that she was breath ing quietly 1 and naturally. Polioeman Holup acquired the nerve to shake her a little, and- she woke up. , "What's t the matter?" she asked dreamily. "You fell out of a .window." the patrolman told her. -o-i aio," ' sne saw, looking up. "Ouch! My shoulder hurts." A Bellevue ambulance surgeon found that the girl had got off with a slightly wrencnea snouiaer ana nip. tie said there -were many cases where falls did not rouse somnambulists. . JEKYLL AND HYDE EXISTENCE IS REAL 9. 0 WHAT ROPIilG" IH SLEUTH TALK Means Winning a Woman's Confidence So She Will Tell. All Her Secrets. A four Una personal "ad" In aa even log newspaper attracted by Its peculiar wording the attention of a reporter and he called upon the author of the compo sition for an explanation. The "ad" follows:- -. S DETECTIVE AOENCT FUTl- nlshes experienced young women for roping and Investigating at hotels and summer resorts. Offices, Broadway, Manhattan. Telephone. A tall, light comploxloned English man, with a long head, and high, sloping forehead, politely ushered . the etymol ogist into the innermost, snap-locked nest which the manager of the deteo- "uo you mean to tell -me tnat you are a reporter and don't know what 'roping 1st", exclaimed the manager. "Well. I'll tell you." he went on. "Suooose you bave a relative, somebody In whom you are interested say your wife. - h is living at some hotel and you are -away. For reasons of your own you wish wish to know how she spends her time, with whom she associates and so forth. Tou come to me and I furnish you with the information you want day by day, but you don't know how J get It I know. -. , -"' "I I mean we -our office assigns one of - our staff i of clever : women to the case. Our woman operative goes to the hotel as . a guest. The second day she happens to sit at the same table with the wife, drops into conversation . with her, cultivates her and become chummy. . The wife invites her to drive ' with her to the Claremont. The next day our Woman "blows.' " ''Day by day our operative reports everything. Tour wife comes to know her so well that she gives up her eeo rets: tells - everything, and everything that Is mine Js your a That's "roping? It takes a woman to win a woman. A man can't do It. A woman would have to like a man first rate before she would speak to him in the first place, and if she liked . him she . wouldn't give up then. - - - - - No: I don't know the orisln of the word rone any more than I know the origin of the word cigar, but "roping Is different from 'roping In. "Roping In' is tempting, decoying, enticing, ae to Tope in a voter or repeater, Dut -rop lmr la Just winnlnir a woman's confi dence until she shows her soul to you. BOY "HUMAN WHISTLE" SAVED BY THE X-RAY Little Victim's Throat Blocked for Four Days He Nearly ' Starred. - Hoosler Confesses to Crimes He Committed While Under -Strange Obsession. Richmond, Ind., June S. Harry Fye, confessed burglar and assailant of de fenseless women, has been living a "Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde" existence for sev eral years. Industrious, genial to his friends and kind to his family, Fye haa shown a deoDerate character when un der the Influence of the Hyde side of uie. For ten years or more he has been employed by a local contractor as a stone-mason. Always sober .and excep tionally Industrious, he waa regarded as valuable sxiueo worsman. as xar his friends knew, he had no bad habits. His wife was not aware of his wandering about the city at night, be cause he apparently chose . the early hours of the evening. . Fye fears none or tne appearances of criminal. He told the police he had no excuse or explanation to offer for his attack on Miss Elisabeth Walllck, believed by the police to be only one of many victims of the man. . He Is believed to be possessed of a strange mania to injure women, it waa in the full a-lare of an electric lls-ht that ha attacked Miss Walllck. striking her re peatedly tn tne neaa ana then Choking nor. , ,. . : -. . .v, NAPOLEON'S THRONE COST HIM 10,774 Paris, June JO. In the archives of one of the oldest embroidery lace houses of Paris, V purveyor to the v : court rot France for several centuries, the hill for Napoleon's throne haa been dis covered xne various items are as fol lows: Outer drapery, purnle velvet. with gold border $ 1,040 vtoiuen row iur mo rea velvet. at II each, and the Imperial crest in relief Inner drapery, blue satin, with gold border -Extra gold lace ............. . . Gold embroidery on the emperor's chair .............. Foot cushion for the emperor, embroidered ................. One thousand, two hundred and liny extra Dees ror the unem broldsred parta Of the canopy- S.1B0 1,000 1,700 ' 04 140 1.050 Total i . .v. flO.774 Two employes Of the nalarw.hail to make affidavits showtnr that the num ber of bees were correctly stated be fore Napoleon would O; K. the bill. For the embroidery on his coronation man tle he paid sz.ooo. He also paid 1 1 00 for a gold embroidered swallow-tailed coat. When tne latter got too small for him. Napoleon bad it altered and the new seams covered. with gold lace. LEMENCEAU CAST 1 . BALLOT ILLEGALLY Parle,' June 10. Premier Clsmenceau voted Illegally at the last election, and contest In his district la - talked of. pasay la his polling place and Clemen ceau reached there only Sunday morn ing people vote on Sunday a In France to avoid the crowd. After answering tne regulation queries and placing bis ticket in the baWot box. the official in charre declared sol emnly: "Citizen Clemenceau has voted." and the premier thought that was the end of It - But now that particular ballot box has been opened to trace some sort of error. and it has been found that the election ticket aepositea oy premier uieraenceau gave the age of the voter as 40 years. The premier is 70 and doesn't deny the It appears that Clemenceau eager Ho get' through with the voting- buainesr took by mistake the ticket Intended for his son George when he started for the polls, and George on njs part used his father's ticket. A t Accordingly; both the premie and his son voted Illegally ' and mlpht be sent to Jail If they weren't Clemen ceaua. Philadelphia. June 20. Four ' days ago 4-year-old Hyman G&dberg, of 008 Gerrltt street, swallowed a small round whistle, which slipped down his throat while at play. The toy button lodetwl lust above the windpipe, and since that time he has Involuntarily enacted the roie or - - numan whistle. Every time the lad took a breath the air. vibrating through the tiny hole in the center of the whistle, produced a shrill noise that was plainly audible to any one within close range. Bo firmly was it wedged that it prevented the pas sage of food. Water and other liquids were taken into the stomach through the hole in the center of the whistle. Physicians of the Mt Sinai hospital made, an Ineffectual attempt to dislodge the button. Yesterday an X-ray pho tograph, showing the exact location of the whistle, was ' taken. Last night ether was administered and the noise J producer removed. Because of his pro onged fast and operation the boy la In a serious condition. , ONE REALLY HURT IN A FRENCH DUEL Paris. June 20. The dueling season here Is now In full swing. .Every day there are one or more encounters of a serio-comic order at the recognized duel ing grounds on the outskirts of the city. Most of the affairs of honor are) between members of that fiery and sen-, sltive tribe, actors. Dlavwrlarht. and Critica ' .: - One duel was remarkable for the tact that one combatant was seriously Wounded, and also for being a "coraing-of-age" duel. Two expert awordsmen. Ravinea and De Vlllette, quarreled some months ago and sent seconds to each other. At that time Ravinea was under . iil, and lie Vlllette refused to fight with a minor. The duel was aocordtnalv postponed until the youthful duelist's twenty-first birthday. It proved an exciting eomhat ' Rav ines, a left-handed fighter, had spent the interval improving his form under a famous maitre d'armes. It was his first duel, while his opponent waa a veteran of IS combats. . After some clever rapier play, Rav ines thrust his weapon . through De ViUette's a word-arm, nenetratlng the right lun- three inches. Although it was a serious wound,-De VlUette waa with difficulty Induced to retire, and was carried off to a hospital protesting. MARRIED WHEN IIE WORE KNEE PANTS -, .'V-V- " ' ' ' ;' : '-'" -': Pittsburg, June 20. Married to Hat tie Graham when aha was SO and he 18 years old, wearing knee trousers, Her bert H. Penn. now 21 years old, is suing for a divorce. The suit cornea aa a climax 'to a remarkable romance. Penn has been in Pittsburg three years. He came from Frankfort, Ky., two years after ' his marriage, havln been separated from his wife the day he was married to her, upon threats to kill him made by her father. 7 - , Both ' Hattle Graham, who is , the ditua-hter of William Graham. a me chanic, and Penn, who Is the son of Jo siah Penn, keeper of the reformatory at Frankfort, Kyi attended McKee-a Busi ness college in that town six years ao. -Penn says his, years had given him tittle discretion, and that the woman's ardent lovemaking ruined his while 11 fa. The laws of Kentucky provide for di vorce when a pair have been separated five years, and the youth is taking ad vantage of this. FRANCE PLANS TO STOP DECADENCE Paris. June 20. "That ths French na tion may . not die out," -Deputy Mes slmy, of the department of the Seine. proposes the following measure; "First. No direct taxes shall be Im. posed on families - having more than three living cnua ren. "Second. The state must bend ev-rv effort to stop the mortality among small babies, and children., . where mortality may be due to the Ignorance or povrty of the parents. It Is eatimutcd tii.t liO.OUO to KO'-IOU tab ten cmil.l l ft. . 1 annually In France if the eiat v k v. necessary preventive mnxim-a. To t end the existing maternity homo, I.j bies naylums, etc.. triiiBt t rut t i . more hygenlo banis emi new f.t.ta inu-.t "Third. Like the I'nitH.l nit, v. must make it eney for t-,t- . .. j -,. manently reBliiln Here to i,-; French citizens." ' , Irfist yeiir the mnrMHfr in ft--' - eree.1 the b.ith tnt l-v !')'"'( , Uvw UsaUiS uKtuimt