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others win oe shocked and talk about
It. As you have a conscience, you
need not say anything at all. But—" 1
he lowered his voice—“It’s immense,
simply ripping, Just to be near you.
Pat You look adorable la that white
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gown. I never saw you in evening
By JEAN C AR MI C H AE L
dress before, you know, and Pd like
to pick you up in my arms and run
away with you.”
Channlng had come within an ace
Channlng controlled his expression
of being late at Mrs. Orme’B dinner. in some unaccountable way and to
The clock had struck half past seven anyone looking on he might have been
while he waa rushing upstairs two making conversation about the weath­
•teps at a time, to throw off his coat er. But Patricia grew very pink and
and hat, and as he entered the draw­ confused as he went on making love
ing-room to greet his hostess, the dis­ to her under the very eyes of Mr. and
approving butler followed close at his Mrs. Grundy. At first she smiled and
heels, and Immediately announced din­ nodded once or twice, but kept her
ner When Mrs. Orme said to him red Ups tightly closed, as though
hurriedly, “You’ll take out Miss Pa­ afraid a word would slip out Involun­
(— BRING MET
tricia Ames, Jimmy, I believe you tarily. Then, suddenly, she picked up
TU’ BlCCLST P l í f í
know her,” he could qnly gasp. “ Oh, her place card and regarded the fat
Of STEAK Ili
certainly,” and wonder what would Cupid painted upon it.
\rown-AnD
happen.
“ Do you know,” she said to it, “that
i W
hry - /
Them he saw Patricia, of whom he j I am not sorry to see a certain per-
had not eo much as caught a glimpse l son again. I’m talking to you, you
YORK.—Three weeks on a lim­
for three long dreary weeks, adorable lovely pink cherub." she explained.
ited diet In an endeavor to reralr
little Pat. with whom he was madly "But you may tell him. the certain the Internal damage done by a runa­
in love, and who, as he was sadly person, whose name cannot be men­ way appetite couldn't obliterate the
aware, had promised never to speak tioned. all that I say, and if you can, memory of three-inch steaks and milk-
to him again. And Pat was honorable all that t think as well.”
fed clams and all the while that James
and literal. On seeing him she turned
She flashed Channlng a little glance McOowan sat In front of a mirror In
pale, and when he offered her his arm, through her long lashee—a look that the Memorial hospital at Orange
she was all but petrified with fear. But sent the blood racing through bis watching hi« waistline assuming
there was no escape. It was awkward veins. Then her face clouded and she Polalre proportions his mind kept re­
enough, yet it was Impossible for them shook her head mournfully at the still verting to menu cards he had met. He
to take Mrs. Orme Into their confi­ smiling little love god.
talked constantly In hts sleep, the bur­
dence at the last moment and beg for
"There will be a horrible row later," den of hla oratory being "with mush­
an exchange of partners.
she confided to the card. "Grand­ room 20 cents extra,” and “ dishes
In spite of the situation, however.
mamma Is coming to the reception marked X are ready.”
Channlng quietly exulted, as he felt
after dinner, and. oh. when she sees
Try as he would he could not erase
her little hand trembling on his arm, a certain person, there will be such a
recollections of times when he had
and he exulted the more, when, after
row, and I shall be snatched away. compelled the cook to beg for mercy.
a hasty glance about, he learned that
and she won't believe that I've not He read whole reams of antifat Action
Patricia’s dragon of a grandmother,
spoken to him. Dear little Cupid," and did everything possible to dls-
her only relative and chaperon, waa
she Implored, "can’t you live up to courage hts appetite, but It wasn't any
not dining at Mrs. Orme's that eve­
your reputation and come to the ree- use. For breakfast, luncheon and din-
ning. It made one difficulty less, and
cue and help me out?”
ner he has been allowed a walnut, a
Mrs. Ames had been a difficulty for
Under cover of the chatter and the [ sprig of lettuce and ten drops of dl-
Channlng, a frosty and forbidding one.
A month had passed since he had laughter and the subdued confusion of luted water. He tried hard to con-
met Patricia, while they were crossing a large dinner the two, apparently vince himself that he was overeating
from Liverpool. Met?—that was their conversing, felt quite alone, and were and begged the hospital authorities to
j cut the menu to one course.
final mistake, for their meeting, to say no longer watched.
“Dearest Patricia," Channlng ex- j But his dreams were haunted with
claimed. "I don't care. Pm going to sides of beef, acres of French fried
steal you away from your dragon | potatoes and showers of gravy. He
grandmother. Can’t Mrs. Orme tell stood It as long as he could, but yes-
her that I’m respectable?"
Patricia looked up at him with love­
ly, serious eyes, then glanced down
again at the card. "You know," she
Instructed Cupid, "grandmother does
not. and can never, know a certain
person. He lives In Chicago, which
Is beyond the pale. He waa never In­
troduced properly."
"It's not all over, Patricia Ames."
he muttered. "It's only fust begun.
If you think I’m going to give In to
EW YORK.—M. Bourke Cockran’s
her you are much mistaken. I don’t
eloquence won tl\e acquittal in the
care If she Is your grandmother and court of general sessions of Victor Nel­
a Boston Ames. I warn you I'm go­ son, a negro, accused of the murder on
ing to run away with you, If she won't March 28 last of Claude Humphreys,
give you to me properly.”
another negro. Cockran was assigned
As Mrs. Orme rose, Patricia hastily to defend Nelson by Judge Malone.
tore a flower from her corsage bou­ The jury gave lta verdict at 8:45 p m.
quet and absently held It to her Ups, All Its members requested Mr. Cock-
her eyes on Channlng. Then, In the ran t0 g|ve them a copy of his address
confusion caused by the women leav- ln defenae of hll> c|lent
lng the table, she slipped It Into his
,
.
“ I can scarcely expect you to treat
band.
this negro like a peer. Then treat him
Oo lowly rose.
like a dog," said Cockran ln hts sum­
she misquoted to the celling—
ming up of the case. "Yes, treat him
Tail him who wastes his time and me, like a dog. If you must. A dog that
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bites wantonly we kill, but a dog that
That—that—I love him so!
Then she brushed past him a no bites ln defense of his own master’s
home we protect.
Men hare given
Hsld It to Hor Lips, Har Eyos on went out of the room.
Channlng. with the roes ln his hand, their lives ln defense of such a dog.
Channlng.
smoked nervously, not listening to the i Give my client the samt shift you
the least, had been unconventional stories of the other men and only would give such a dog.”
This waa the moet heinous of crimes half answering when he was directly
It was the theme of Mr. Cockran’s
in the eyes of Patricia's grandmother addressed. Aa soon as possible he two hours of oratory ln behalf of the
who reigned on Beacon street In Bos went to the drawing-rooms, where the prisoner that Nelson had shot and
ton, read Emerson and Professor guests for the reception were already killed Humphreys In self-defense. The
James exclusively, and looked severe­ assembling. Across the great space evidence shows that Humphreys had
ly out upoq a generally Impossible he caught sight of frightened Patrl- ! been killed by a bullet that entered
world through her gold lorgnette. On cla sending him a warning glance, and his body and traveled ln an upward
the steamer her steely eyes, thus aid­ at the same moment saw the cause of I course.
ed, had Instantly pierced Channlng'* her terror. There, standing near
Mr. Cockran said that this fact abso-
obvious external attractions, and had their hostese, he beheld the tall and i lutely proved the truth of his client’s
examined and vivisected hie eoul. commanding form of Mrs. Ames of testimony that he had been kicked
When later she found that he not only Beacon streeL They were talking ant- | down three steps by Humphreys, and
did not live on Beacon street, but was matedly and Mrs. Ames was smiling,
not connected with known dwellers | actually smiling—he had never seen
thereon, she was shocked enough. But her smile before—and nodding her
when she further discovered that he stately head as If something pleased
was not even from Boston, but an In­ her. Then, suddenly, she turned and
habitant of Chicago, she shuddered— swept ponderously forward, bearing
there were such possibilities In the down toward Channlng like a full-
way of commerce there! Too horri­ rigged ship.
fied, at the time, for speech, she
For a moment he was terrified and
could only wave her lorgnette In de­ could have turned and ru$ like a
spair.
No wonder Channlng was frightened hare. The memory of the
pleased at avoiding this "difficulty” last chilling scene with her held him.
T. LOUIS.—"Young woman," said
at Mrs. Orme’s dinner.
'My dear Mr. Channlng," Mrs. Ames
a motherly Individual, holding two
Ae he and Patricia walked speech­ was saying, "what a pleasure to see
lessly down the long hall that led to you again! 1 have juet been talking small children In her weary arms,
the dining room a thousand tender to Mrs. Orme, one of my oldest and "will you play 'When the Roses Bloom
memories flashed through his mind. closest friends, and she tells me that j Again' for me, please?"
The music counter young woman,
Within one hour after leaving Liver­ you are the grandson of my dear
pool, he had fallen violently In love friend. Bishop Alnsley. and that Gov­ I perched on her stool, selected the
with Patricia, aa she eat opposite him ernor Winter of New York, a remote j piece mentioned among a heap of oth­
at the table in the dlnlng-saloon. But connection of my own, is your uncle. ers and prepared to "reel” It off.
The shabby woman listened atten­
whenever he had so much as glanced You must come to see us at once. My
In her direction he had been met by a granddaughter. Patricia, 1 am sure, tively until the last notes died out
■tony stare from her watchful grand­ will be glad to see you. We are stay­ She ogled the children tn the mean­
mother and as he knew none of the ing at the Blanks' while we are In time.
“Thank you very m u d ,” she said,
tew choice spirits on the boat whom Now York, and when we return to
Mrs. Ames admitted to her sacred Boston l shall hope to welcome yoq I and strolled slowly off.
elrcle he felt hopeless and helpless.
"There," grumbled the girl behind
often at my home oa Beacon street
Fortunately for hlrp. however, on the If you happen to see Patricia this
music counter, that is only one of
second day out a storm prostrated evening," she turned to say. as she the things that we've got to put up
moat of the passengers, among them left him gaaptng some awkward words w**h. There are a hundred others, and
Mrs. Ames. Since she could not rea­ of thanks. “ If you should happen to as soon as I can get In the ribbons' I'm
sonably forbid Patricia’s eating, the see Patricia, you may tell her that— going to get out of the music, once and
adorable one had appeared alone at that—silence Is not always commend­ for all. The work Is worth twice as
luncheon and had actually sent him a able."
much as any other Job ln the store.
sweet, shy little tmlle by the time
People think that you are there to en­
they bad stupidly gone through five
tertain the public Instead of to sell
California Rich In Oil.
courses—and then, most delicious of
In the last two years California, goods. I feel safe ln saying that fully
memories—Just then It had happened. called the Golden state and the scene
Per cen*- of the people who ask for
By the time Channlng had reached of more gold excitement than any a concert do not buy a single ten-cent
this recollection he waa pushing tn other etate In the Union, has produced
her chair for her at Mrs. Orme’s table. greater value ln oil than ln gold. The
For a moment he touched her white value of oil to the producers them­
gown and hie fingers tingled. The selves last year was about 243,000,000,
perfume of her roses intoxicated him although positive figures are not yet
and he half closed hie eyes as he re- available, while the production of gold
called that thrilling moment when Pa­ was ln the neighborhood of 121.000,
tricia, venturing out on the sloping 000, or less than half. This great ad
deck after luncheon, bad beea roughly vance ln oil value over gold Is, It
flung straight at him. If he had not must be understood, ln no way aided
been there she would probably have by a falling off tn the production of
gone overboard, ae the ship careened gold.
HICAGO.—Bruno, a black cub bear
For one blissful moment he had held
late of Montana, mascot of the
ber In hie arms.
Wireless and ths Railroad*.
The Electrician states that the Cubs baseball team, was tamed a few
Channlng, with dtfflculty, drew out
a “yea" and "no,” and nothing more Pennsylvania railroad officials aro days ago.
Bruno escaped from his rage home
from hla thy neighbor. At the end of still making experiments with wire­
two courses he felt decidedly bored. less telegraphy with a view to ascer­ In the basement of the Monroe club.
People were noticing that he and Pa­ taining Us efficacy for railroad work. West Monroe and Oreen streets, and
tricia had turned their backs to eaoh Tha mast ln nsa for the tests Is erect- ran amuck on the West side, creating
other and aven the poised Mrs. ed nsnr Altoona, on the moan tain, at a panic among pedestrians and chil­
Orme now and then shot an tnqulr- a point 1,655 feat above the sea level, dren. snapping at cats, growling at
tng glance of distress at him. He tha raoalvtng apparatus Itself being chickens, and attacking stray dogs.
Two baseball "fans" were In tha
waa Inwardly vexed and tn despera­ 1,78$ faat above tha level of tha
ooaan. Communication already has midst of a heated argument over tha
tion turned boldly to Patricia
T h is la a horrible bore,” he laid, bean established with various wire­ merits of the Sox and Cuba when
■and I am going to talk to yon, and less stations along tha Atlantic coast, Bruno, running at full speed and pur-
sued by a score of club members, pa-
you’ve got to listen and look Inter­ aa wall aa with various
deatiians, policemen and children,
ested. or also lir a Orme and all tha
I rudely upeel tha Sox fat
GORE
SHOCKED
SEN A TO R S
Trials of Girl at the Music Counter
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Cubs’ Mascot Tamed After W ild Chase
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New York.—“ Demme, sir, I’m the
right man." said William H. Jarvis
when confronted ln police headquar­
ters with a picture of himself taken
by the Scotland Yard autborltlea.
Jarvia Is the distinguished looking
terdey mornluK at precisely a quarter
of four o'clock, after the last of a regi­ Englishman arrested at the Gllsey
John Mitchell, former president of the United
ment of savory squabs bad mnrebed house, charged with unlawfully enter­
Mine Workers of America, continues to worji foi
directly under his nose, each squab ing a room.
the Improvement, advancement and safety of ths
carrying a Julienne potato for a mus­
“ You will pardon me, Mr. Jarvis, for
man who tolls with his hands.
ket, he sat up in bed and In clarion submitting you to this ordeal, but It
For a couple of years now, Mr. Mitchell has
tones demanded that the nurse bring Is a rule of the department,’’ said In-
been connected with the National Civic Federa
him two yards of porterhouse steak, apector McCalTerty apologetically, as
tlon, an organization backed by Andrew Carnegie
half a peck of French fried potatoes he paiadvd the prisoner before the
and other millionaires. His office has to do with
and such vegetable brick a brack as masked detectives.
the welfare of the workingman and results of his
might be necessary to accompany the
"Say, boss, don’t apologize to that
work have shown that no better choice could
steak on Its Journey.
old guy,” Interrupted Lieut William
have been made.
"Nothing doing In the steak line,” Brown. “ Hla picture la In the gallery
John Mitchell is a self made man. He knows
said the sleepy nurse. “Go back to and he has served several bits."
what It is to toll in a coal mine. He has gone
bed and I’ll give you another walnuL”
Jarvis's Indignations gave forth a
down ln the pits not knowing whether he would
"lm done with walnuts," said Mr. Vesuvius blast. He was an English
come out alive. He has had some narrow es
McGowan. "I’ve eaten so many I’m gentleman, he declared.
He would
capes, and he has seen his companions and
beginning to feel like a squirrel. It’s have the embassy down on the police.
friends die' at their work. He Is noted for hie
James for a little broiled cow and fix­ His protest waa so severe even In- kind-heartedness. In the fall of 1898 he was vice-president and organizer ol
ings."
spector McCalTerty waa inclined to go the United Mine Workers of America. There was a strike at the Vlrden Coal
The nurse assured him that it was slow.
company’s mine ln Vlrden, 111. For days the striking miners camped around
against the rules to allow diet patient!
“ Here’s his very mug,” said Brown, the stockade the company had erected for the protection of its property. Mr.
to break training. She left the room producing Jarvis's picture.
Mitchell, acompanied by several newspaper men, visited the camp of grim
Just then and her patient embraced
At police headquarters, when they toilers one night, and the sights he witnessed touched his heart. Then came
the opportunity to take himself by the know they are right, they make pris­ the day when the company attempted to land a train-load of negroes from Ala
band and make a dash for freedom oners stand out and deliver. Inspec­ bama to take the places of the white men. Governor Tanner had refused tc
and regular food.
tor McCalferty says the picture made order out the militia to protect negroes from other states. There was a riot
Policemen McManus and Almond Jarvis wilt
Nineteen or twenty men in the ranks of the strikers fell dead under the
saw the white robed figure and Biieak-
“ Well, demme, sir. I’m the right shower of bullets from rifles used by hired detectives from an agency ln St
ed up behind It with drawn clubs. Be­ man,” he finally said, twirling his fine I Isouis. Negroes were killed, and one or two guards slain. The engineer oi
lieving It to be the ghost of some mustacle.
the train was shot through the arm.
misguided commuter, they were get­
Ispector McCafferty became Jubilant,
Then came John Mitchell again. He was what might be called the angel
ting ready to soak It on the head for tn Jarvia they bad captured the
of mercy to the stricken families of the miners. He wasn’t violent; he coun­
when Mr. McGowan saw them.
most versatile and picturesque thief seled peace. There was an element ln the ranks of the union men, who
"Gentlemen," he pleaded, "have pity of two continents.
thought Mr. Mitchell too peaceful, but in the long run his policy was found
on me and get me something to eat."
Jarvis’s real name is Walter, and
“ What you need Is something to not William. In 1899 he won lnterna- to be the winner. No man ever did as much for the miners as he.
The other day he went out to St. Louis from New York and talked on the
wear,” said McManus. "What do you tlnoal fame through his arrest tn the
subject closest to his heart—that of placing safeguards around the working
mean by frightening two honest po­
Hotel Cecil, London. He Was caught man. He said their were more persons killed ln the United States each year
licemen out of a night’s rest with your
tn the room of a Brooklyn man. When in the peaceful industrial pursuits than would be killed if this country and
nlght-shlrt drill?”
taken to the police station Jarlvs said, England were continually at war, and three times more than in any other na-
T went to the hotel to visit a lady, I tion. He urged the need of an automatic compensation for victims of Indus-
Mrs. Sadler Jackson."
; trial acldents in lieu of the employers* liability protection.
that when he recovered himself he j The police found Mrs. Sadler Jack-
“We want to take this class of damage suits out of the courts altogether,"
found Humphreys pointing a revolver son at the hotel. She admitted that he said. “The fact that au employee has to sue hts employer ln case of In­
him.
| Jarvla had visited her there frequent-
jury engenders Ill-feeling between the employee and the employer, and makes
Mr. Cockran had two cf his clerks *7. although she was a married wom- the employee lose the only man, perhaps, from whom he can get a Job. We also
take positions on the steps leading tc ! an-
want to abolish the delay ln compensation for acldents.”
the witness stand in Judge O’Sulll.
The scandal aroused all England, ;
van’s court to Illustrate his Idea of the The country divided Itself—some de-1
fending Mrs. Jackson for sacrificing
shooting.
The evidence showed that both ne­ herself to save Jarvis, and the many
groes were attentive to Mrs. Maria Jo- condemning Jarvis for Implicating a
sephs and that Jealousy existed be­ woman. There was a sensation when
Thomas Pryor Gore, the blind senator from
It was disclosed that Mrs. Jackson was
tween them
Oklahoma, caused hlB fellow members of the Uni­
Mr. Cockran began his address to Jarvis’s sister.
ted States senate to sit up and take notice a day
Twelve years before that Jarvis had
the Jury by reminding the Jurors that
or so before the adjournment of congress.
It
with one exception they had said been arrested and sentenced to four
takes a great deal to cause the staid old senate
they were not prejudiced against a months’ Imprisonment In Cork, Ire­
to show anything like a panic, but when Senator
land. His father disowned and disin­
negro.
Gore intimated that an effort had been made to
"W e accepted this one man with an herited him, and upon his death left
bribe him to the extent of 325,000 to $50,000 ln
avowed prejudice," said Mr. Cockran, £80,000 to Mrs. Sadler on condition
connection with legislation affecting $3,000,000 ln
“ because we believad he was honest ln that she reassume the family name of
attorney's fees for • services rendered to the
his avowals that he would be fair ln Jackson.
Choctaw and Chickasaw nations, ln land and
any case.
Jarvis was given a three months’
township sites, the senator gave Immediate at­
"But I am sure that you all feel sentence for the Hotel Cecil a ct Then
tention.
a prejudice against a negro. I feel he disappeared. It la said he served
Then when the senator Involved two former
the same prejudice myself.
I once in the Boer war.
members of the senate ln the alleged plot the
stopped In a hotel, where there were j A year sg o Jarvis appeared In New
upper hranch of congress strained Its ears to
private baths. 1 started to take a York. He went to live at 217 West
catch every word. The senator's charges reached
bath and found that a negro was One Hundred and Twenty-second across the capltol to the house side, and a member of the lower branch also
using the tub. Do you think that I street, ln the home of lvers Bachelor. was dragged Into the affair.
bathed ln that tub afterward? I could He was Introduced to the latter as a
Of course the senato ordered an Investigation, but It has since been
not It was prejudice that I could not rich Englishman.
rid myself of, and I do not feel that
Miss Laura Fegley, who lives at the found that no money Is available and It may be some time before the matter
such prejudice can be avoided."
Hotel Gllsey heard some one enter Is thoroughly threshed out.
The killng, according to Mr. Cock- the room of O. L. Sherer next to hers,
By reason of being blind. Senator Gore attracts unsual attention In con­
ran, was the outgrowth of the social and, knowing Mr. Sherer was not gress. When he was eight years of age he was acldentally struck with a
and economic conditions ln this coun- heme, opened the door and confronted stick by a playmate and he lost his left eye. Three year slater the senator
try. He said that his client, while a j j aryi8 and another man,
suffered the loss of his right eye, when an arrow from a cross bow, drawn by
high school graduate, had tried to se-
Jarvis and the young man hurried another playmate, struck him.
cure decent work ln this country, but down
corridor and disappeared.
Mr. Gore did not let the loss of his eyesight Interfere with his schooling.
had finally found himself driven to ac­ Miss Fegley gave the alarm, and Jar­
cept work as a scullion, in the house vis was caught downstairs but bis He was graduated from a normal school and then went through Cumberland
university, In Tennessee. He was married to Miss Nina Kay, ln 1900, and
where Humphreys was introduced to companion escaped.
she has been a great help to him ln his reading. He removed to Texas In
him. .
1895, and was a delegate to the National Populist convention ln St. Louis, tn
Dog Saves Tots From Bear.
1896. He was nominated by the Populists as a candidate for congress, but
Altoona, Pa.—Defending Its master's was defeated. After he had removed to Oklahoma ln 1901 he became a mem­
three young children against an In­ ber of the Territorial council, and when Oklahoma became a state, he waa
Bong.
Whereat the music counter girl furiated bear, whose cubs the children elected senator.
whirled on her stool, dashed off a few had found ln the woods, a small pet
chords on the piano and looked around ! d° « waa torn lnt,° rlbbona near |be
just ln time to catch the eye of an home of 9. B. Waite, who Uvea on the
The three
old gentleman who was studying a list mountain near Tyrone.
attentively.
Hesitatingly, he asked: children, the eldest* only nine years
Judson Harmon, governor of Ohio, who has
"I want to get a list of songs—hers old, while on their way along a moun­
been renominated by the Democrats of his state
they are," he began. Then there en­ tain trail to visit an aunt, stumbled
upon
the
cubs
ln
the
brush
and
picked
for a second term, Is the first ln the field for the
sued a long search for them. The
presidential nomination ln 1912. Of course a
songs were old ones and they weren't one up to play wljjh 1L A moment
later
the
mother
bear
came
crashing
great deal depends upon whether he Is elected
on hand, so the old gentleman asked
through
the
brush.
Seeing
the
danger
this fall, but his friends are sanguine of sues
If the lady would play over a dozen oi
to
hla
young
charges,
the
little
dog
cess. Should he be defeated ln hlB race for gov­
so In order that he might “ match 'em’
gave
battle,
while
the
children
ran
ernor It naturally would put him out of the con­
as near as possible.
test for the presidency.
Large store managers realize that home ln fright Mr. Waite and his
Governor Harmon was born ln Hamilton coun­
the people at the average music coun neighbors at once went to the spoL
hoping
to
find
the
dog
still
alive,
but
ty, Ohio, ln 1846. His father was a clergyman.
ter are busy, hard-worked individuals
He was graduated from Denison university In
There are so many things to contend found hla body^rlpped to pieces by the
1866, and from the Cincinnati Law school ln
with aside from the knowledge re bear's claws. The faithful animal was
18C9. The first public office he held was that of
qulred of music lists, and the ability tc buried, his grave surmounted by a
common pleas Judge from 1876 to 1878. Then he
play the piano. That Is why the sale» marker reading: "He was only a dog,
became Judge of the superior court of Cincinnati,
man and saleswoman In this depart but he died for his little friends."
holding this office from 1878 to 1887, when he re­
ment average higher wages than al
Everybody
Sees
Snakes.
signed to resume the practise of law. On June 8, 1895, President Cleveland
most any others in the whole store.
Greenville,
Pa.—Although
a
local
op­
called Judge Harmon to his cabinet as attorney general. He held this Impor­
And it Is said to be the most ttre
some Job Imaginable.
Young lady tion town many of the residents of tant position two years and again went back to the practise of his profession.
Conneautvllle
have
been
seeing
snakes
He was president ot the Ohio Bar association and member of the faculty of
taking music lessons, Imagine how it
must he to play the piano all day and for a week past. The shipment by the law department of the University of Cincinnati.
mistake
of
a
big
box
of
reptiles
from
for other people, strangers, day aftei
In January, 1910, he took the oath of office as governor of the Buckeye
day, until you almost go wild. Wouldn't! Texas Is responsible for the exhibition, state to serve two years. His renomlnatton and his endorsement as the par­
like that sort of a Job, would you? II
box Is unclaimed the express ty's candidate for president by the Ohio convention speaks louder than worda
seems a novelty to the uninitiated, but company Is trying to sell the snakes so far as his record as governor Is concerned.
so sick of playing does the salesgirl f°r tbe charges, but there has been no
become after she has had a week ot tush to the bargain counter.
It that she Is only too glad to take •
Tragedy In Bird Lift.
Job any place else ln the world.
Dublin, Ind.—That birds as well aa
members of the human family, have
Because of hla continued lllnesa. Associate
I tragedy In their lives, Is shown by
Justice William H. Moody of the United States
Pretty good team we have, eh?” a discovery made ln the gardens sur-
supdeme court must resign. Under the law a
asked the Cub fan of the Sox sup rounding the home of the Demaree sls-
member of the court must serve ten years before
porter, who was brushing the dust ters at Milton and Maple streets.
he can retire on pay. To aid Justice Moody. Sen­
from his clothes.
ator Lodge Introduced ln the senate a bill giving
Hanging suspended from the limb of
“ Oh, 1 don't know."
him his pay ln future because It was Illness and
a tree were found two swifts, one with
"Well, that was our mascoL And the end of a stout linen thread tight­
not a desire to enter other business that caused
the team la traveling about aa fast as ly wound around Its neck and the oth­
hla Inability to give his attention to court duties.
Bruno, added the Cub rooter.
Justice Moody was attorney general when
er with the other end of the thread
"Then the team la going some," ad­ tied to Its slender leg How these
President Roosevelt appointed him to the bench
mitted the Sox fan as he turned and feathered friends ever became en­
In 1906. He has been 111 much of the time since
watched the bear mascot disappear In tangled In such a predicament Is left
then, but It was not until about one year ago
a cloud of duet.
that his ailment took such a serious turn that he
to conjecture.
Bruno, closely followed by the small
was not able to give his attention to his duties.
army of pursuers, continued to fight
Justice Moody Is a native of Massachusetts
Coffin From Her Own Tree
everything _ that came
bis way,
untlL
and a gradual* of Harvard. He waa admitted to
.
.
, . Winchester, Va.—Mrs. Elizabeth
bleeding from a dozen flesh wounds, Kern(| , he old„ t woman |n thls ^
the practise of law ln 1878, and served as solicitor for Haverhill and district
the animal fell exhausted at West clnlty, died at her home, near Blootn- attorney for the eastern dtstrlot of Massachusetts. He was elected to the
Morgan
streets.
Adams and
.
. . .
.
,| ery, aged one hundred and six years. Fifty fourth congress from the Sixth district to fill a vacancy, and was also
The cub waa penitent, and showed | When , ch„ d , he planted . walnut> a member of the Fifty fifth, Fifty-sixth and Fifty seventh congresses. H* waa
no desire to romp and play until one from which grew a large tree. Three secretary of the navy for two years befor# ha was attorney general.
of tb* club officials had tied a red years ago It waa cut down, and at Mrs.
Only one exception to the rule of a Justice of the supreme court retiring
ribbon about lta neck. Tben Bruno Kerns* request It waa made Into a
wtth pay before he has served ten year* haa been made, and that waa when
brightened up, but did not try to ee coffin, la wblch she will be burled.
President Grand suceeded In having a bill passed for Justice Ward Hunt, who
cape again. Tha cub waa to make lta
was obliged to ratlr# before the expiration of ten years of hla term because of
first public appearance at the Weet
The Island of Porto Rico la about hla falling health. Juatlce Moody’s retirement will cause the third vacancy
aide ball ground* aa mascot of tha 100 miles long. 40 miles wide and haa
within a year oa tha suprsm* be
Cuba la the afternoon.
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