Son Murders to
Avenge Mother
Kills Brother’. W ife W hile
She la Sitting in
Barber’. Chair.
C k k k x h x k x k k j c h k k x k w ?.
Story-and-a-Half House Is Design
That Always Is in Popular Demand
Workers Find Strange
Bird in Old Structure
New York.—W reckers demol­
ishing th e building on the site
for th e new building of the New
York A thletic club came upon a
stran g e crippled bird recently
which defied Identification even
by th a t man of diversified
knowledge, the foremun.
The
bird, perched on a rafter, re ­
sembled a pigeon, but had a
comb som ewhat like a rooster.
The bird was tak en to the
W est Forty-seventh police sta ­
tion. A claw and a wing had
been Injured, the la tte r having
been bound with a strip of ad­
hesive tape.
The bird has a dark gray
breast, brown feath ers a t the
neck and white specks around
the tall.
òAY ORCHARDISTS
PRUNE TOO MUCH
some things my m other owned. I
couldn't stnnd to see th a t girl touch
H orticulturists a t the experim ent
the things my m other used to touch.
station a t Geneva, N. Y„ assert that
And I told her so. And I told her
many orchardlsta prune too much,
w hat I thought about h er and father.
without regurd to the real need of the
“She threw the things down on the
Lincoln. Neb.—The day before Fam e
tree and th at there Is more danger
Mason was shot by her brother-ln-Iuw ground, and ordered me out of the
of Injuring the tree with too much
as she sat In a barber's ch air at Leigh, wagon."
pruning than with too little.
Ted
Mason
w
ent
up
to
the
town.
Neb., she had gone w ith F ran k Mason
Trees which a re carefully selected
Duffy
Mason
Joined
him
there.
Some
to Frem ont, Neb., to decorate the
when the orchard Is set out require
graves of relatives. They have some tim e la te r they heard th a t Fam e had
only the removal of an occasional
p re tty custom s among the gypsy come up to town, and w as In th e b ar­
branch which may stu rt out In the
trib es and, In accordance w ith one of ber shop. Also, th a t th eir fath e r was
wrong place and the cutting out of
them , a lighted C hristm as tree was w ith her.
dead. Injured, and crossed limbs, say
Ready fo r H air Cut.
placed by Fam e Mason and her father-
the station specialists.
in-law, F rank, over t^ e grave of his
W hen the brothers entered the shop OQWHXHXHyoaCHXHXICHKHXHJCWK;
If the trees are producing under
grandchild. F rank Muson's wife was Fam e Mason was seated In a chair
sized fruits, If the tops contain many
burled nearby about a year ago.
ready for a h air c u t F ran k Mason shooting. He was requested by his deud branches, or If the sensonal
T he gypsy graves are well kept, stood beside her. T he tragedy moved
growth Is short and sennt. Judicious
lorae of them so beautifully, Indeed, quickly. Holding a revolver about six brother to come home, so he rejoined pruning Is recommended as a means
the fam ily wagon. He and his wife
th a t people often drive out to the Inches from the back of the g irl’s
had quarreled for several days and he of rejuvenation. ‘“This usually con
By W . A. R A D F O R D
R idge cem etery to view them.
feet long nnd 7 feet 0 Inches wide.
head, Ted Mason fired.
decided to ask for a divorce. H is slats In cutting back many branches
M r, W illia m A. R a d f o r d w ill a n s w e r
T here apparently w as nothing overt
This room also m akes a secluded,
As she slumped In the chair F ran k fath er rem inded him th a t gypsies do and In entirely removing others,” say
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In this visit of the gypsy chief, F ran k Mason caught h er In his arm s and
cheerful sun parlor.
not seek recourse to courts, but settle the station authorities, who lay down C O S T o n a ll p r o b le m s p e r t a i n i n g to th e
Mnson, und his daughter-in-law to In
Adjoining the dining room nt th e
kissed her. She died In his arms.
the following general rules applicable s u b j e c t o f b u ild in g , f o r th e r e n d e r s o f
th eir own affairs, he said.
spire the w rath of his two sons, Duffy
th is p a p e r.
O n a c c o u n t o f h is w id e
left
is th e kitchen. I t feet square,
The brothers gave them selves up,
under
such
conditions.
"P
rune
weak-
”1 w ould hnve nothing to do w ith
d i t o r , a u t h o r a n d m a n ­ whose size nnd shape m ake It an effl-
and Ted. It probably did, however, and th eir fu th er followed them to the
growing varieties h eav ily ; strong- e u x f a p c e t r u ie r n e c r , e a h s e e is,
my
w
ife,”
Duffy
continued.
"We
w
i
t
h
o
u
t
d
o
u
b
t,
th
o
fan th eir grow ing anger Into a blaze. town hall. They w ere his sons nnd he
growing kinds lightly. V arieties which h i g h e s t a u t h o r i t y o n t h e s u b je c t. A d ­ clent workroom for th e housewife, a
T hey resented the fondness of th eir was ready to employ a law yer to de­ talked It over with the county a tto r
branch freely need little pruning; d r e s s a l l i n q u i r i e s to W illia m A. R a d ­ place w here the cooking and o th er
ney
and
he
advised
us
to
get
along
alxty-one-year-old fath er and chief for fend them. They w ere of his tribe.
thoso with many unbranched limbs, f o r d , N o. 1827 P r a i r i e a v e n u e , C h ic a g o , kitchen activities may be accom plished
If
we
could.
Then
I
began
to
notice
f o r r e p ly .
bis elgbteen-year-old daughter-in-law. He w as th eir fath e r and th eir chief.
with a minimum of steps. The sink Is
th a t my dad was ‘sw eet’ on her. He much pruning. P rune trees in rich,
Fam e Schafer Mason was not gj’psy-
They hurled back a t him th eir accu­ would give her money nnd they w ere deep soils lightly; In poor, shallow
W hen th e average fam ily begin to placed under th e window In the out­
bom . She w as m arried to Duffy Ma- sations, th eir th reats. He did not
soils, heavily.”
plnn to build a new home, every a,em­ side wall, w ith eases for utensils nnd
eon, April 17, 1920, a t Pierce, Neb. flinch. T urning to the officer who was alw ays together. I didn’t care. She
The cutting back of all the branches ber has some Idea th a t he or she would dishes on eith er side. The side en­
w
as
a
bud
woman,
but
I
w
ouldn’t
Phe had spent the g reater p a rt of her guarding them he said.
"M arshal,
trance lends to a passagew ay, w hich
of a tree Is practiced regularly only
life on the road, as her p aren ts are give Ted the gun, and see If he’s got have my fath e r arrested, b ec a u se we with peaches and some plums. It Is like to see Incorporated In the house. Is large enough for the Icebox nnd bag
In
some
other
home,
perhaps,
such
a
gypsies
settle
those
things
ourselves.
horse trad ers but not gypsies. H er nerve enough to finish me.”
Ted Mason, apparently unw orrled said. “This is attrib u ted to the fact featu re as appealed to the Individual a closet alongside It for the linens
husband left her n dny a fte r the m ar­
I don’t w ant to shoot you,” replied
thut, with those fruits, the wood of was found nnd gave rise to the needed In the dining room nnd kitchen.
riage a n l they had lived together only his son. "If I had w anted to kill you by his plight, agrees with Ills brother.
“She w as w orthless and bad. She the past season, and therefore the thought tlint when or If he was to Hack of the kitchen also Is a good-
nt Intervals since. Duffy Mnson says 1 could have done It long ngo.”
promised to be awfully good to me If crop. Is borne progressively fu rth er build he would have this feature In sized pantry.
he did not wish to m arry her.
F ran k Mason was deeply concerned I would get Duffy to m arry her."
The stair« lead Into a short ball on
uway from the trunk, so th at It Is nec­ his home. It Is th is desire that makes
Resented Intimacy.
with th e funeral arrangem ents. He
The county attorney characterizes essary to head-in these fru its by cut­ so many homes entirely different from the second floor, off which open th«
F o r all th a t it Is certain he resen t­ asked the u n d ertak er to have a wom­
three bedrooms, one nt the front, on«
ting back the brunches In order to others.
th e Mnson brothers ns “daredevils.
ed the grow ing Intim acy betw een his an assist In th e p reparing of the body
keep the beuring wood n ear the
N either can read or w rite. Duffy
T here Is danger, however, In Wtrry- at the side and one a t the hack. Th«
fa th e r and the girl. They hnd been and he and the u n d ertak er sat up all
trunk. On the other hand, apples, Ing this Iden too far. Odd features bathroom Is located In the center of
asked th at some one be nllowed to
In Omaha together some tim e before night with IL “T his Is the code of
peurs, cherries and most plums nre either In the ex terio r or Interior of n this floor, so tlint It Is accessible to all
read them newspnper rep o rts of the
th e shooting and th e chief hnd ethics of our fam ily,” Mason ex­
crime, but w as refused. “Dad Is to borne on spurs from wood two or house may not nppenl to some one three bedrooms. Both front and re a r
bought her gome fineries th a t young plained.
blame for It all,” says Ted. "H e never more years old and with these head
girls love. A lot of money he paid
As Fam e’s body w as being prepared gave us an education." T his wns be­ Ing-in Is not so deslruble. E xperi­ else, nnd, If the necessity arises, may
prevent th e sale of the home. Com­
fo r them, too, as much ns $100. T h at for rem oval to Schuyler, Neb., the
fore th e prelim inary, when told his mental evidence obtained In tests on fort and convenience may be secured
m eans the profits of quite a bit of home of h er family, F ran k Mason
fath er would appear agnlnst them. the station grounds Indicates th a t win­ for th e nvernge fam ily by following
horse trading.
stood beside It and wept. He bent and The fath er la te r changed his mind.
ter pruning has no special advantage the plans th at have been found most
Chief Mason nllowed he had a right kissed the lips of the dead woman. He
About a month before the killing over sum m er pruning, except th a t the
suitable to the average family. And
to buy some things for his own daugh­ urged th a t the rem ains be placed In a
Fam e Mason wns stabbed In th e shoul­ pressure of other work Is less during
when this Is done It Is not difficult to
ter-in-law and he hnd a right to be In vault, saying th a t gypsies never bury
der by a relative of her husband. She the w inter months."
dispose of the place If It Is desirable
O m aha at the sam e tim e as Fame. th eir dead except In vaults. The re ­
wns taken secretly to Schuyler and
T h at didn't square things w ith his quest was not granted, h er own peo­
to do so.
hidden In a house. D uring the night
Geraniol, New Attractor
eons, however. They put a different ple taking the body anil Interring It
One type of house th a t appeals to
Ted nnd Duffy spirited h er away In
Interp retatio n on his gifts to Fame.
In th eir own churchynrd.
the greatest num ber of persons Is the
the car and authorities heard no more
for
Japanese
Beetle
So the night a fte r Fam e and F ran k
At the prelim inary hearing the of her until th e killing.
story-nnil-n-hnlf building, such ns Is
The new a ttractiv e agent, geraniol,
h ad placed th e little lighted C h rist­ fath er told tearfu lly of events which
Rhown In the accom panying Illu stra­
developed by the bureau of entomology
m as tree over the body of the gypsy led to the quarrel, n e said he hnd
tion. H ere Is a house of the size nnd
of the U nited S tates D epartm ent of
child F am e Mason returned to the happened to m eet Fam e In Omaha American Woman Gets
sbapq th a t appeals. W hile It looks
A griculture us an uld In Its control
cam p a t Leigh. H er husband, Duffy and th a t they registered a t a hotel
Home of Ambassadors work against the Japanese beetle, has large front the outside, It Is not, ns It
Mason, said to her, according to the there, bu t In sep arate rooms. He spent
contulns only six rooms, aside from
London.—Crewe house, the home of been found very successful. Methods
testim ony, "Fam e, I w ant you to go $100 on clothes fo r her. His sons
the Inclosed b reak fast porch nt the
have
been
worked
out
whereby
this
home. I don't w ant to live w ith you." threaten ed to cut her new coat off her two successive American am bassadors
re a r of the first floor. It contains
Hut Fam e didn’t go home. She back If they should catch h er w earing to G reat B ritain, and which was re­ m uterlal may be used to concentrate th ree good rooms dow nstairs—living
cently vacated when Ambassador the beetles In a relatively small area.
sta rte d to prepare supper over the It.
and dining rooms nnd kitchen—nnd
cam p fire. The M asons had been liv­
From th eir cell In th e dungeon of Houghton moved to Morgan house, It was found th a t by spraying less three bedrooms nnd the bathroom on
ing In a covered wagon despite the Schuyler Jail, Ted and Duffy Mason will shortly have another American than an acre of orchard with ger­ th e second floor. T his num ber of
aniol, beetles could be draw n on the
sero w eather.
talk freely o f the quarrel and the chatelaine.
rooms will accom m odate nicely the
R ight here the ghost of th e gypsy crime. They received word th a t th eir
The new American m istress of the leew ard side of the orchard for a average family.
woman burled n ear the child out at fath er would defend them w ithout old residence, conspicuous among Its distnnee of nearly one-hnlf mile w ith­
In ex terio r appearance It Is difficult
Ridge cem etery en ters th e story. Ted nny show of emotion. “I did not love M ayfair neighbors for Its country resi­ in the first 15 m inutes a fte r the spray
Mnson, who shot Fam e a short tim e my w ife," says Duffy. “I was forctfll dence appearance with Its wide lnwns had been applied. This m akes It to find n" more attra c tiv e house (ban
later, explains It this w ay:
to m arry her. I left h er the next day and shade trees In the h eart of Lon­ possible to destroy large numbers of the one shown. T he narrow gables nt
Second Floor Plan.
"She comes back to camp all dolled and w ent W est.”
don, will be Mrs. Suxhnm D rury, who beetles with a com paratively small the end, the steep dorm er window set
In
It
nt
the
front
anil
the
extension
of
up In some new clothes and s ta rts to
Duffy said he had not seen the girl before her m arriage last y ear wus quantity of a contact spray. F urther
bedrooms are 15 feet 0 Inches by 10
work hns been done on traps halted the r<n>f lines to form the porch cov­ feet, while the one at tile end of th e
get supper. She used a skillet and again until about a month before the Miss Mabel Gerry.
ering
all
combine
to
give
this
house
with geraniol, but although these cap­
house Is 11 hy 12 feet.
tu re large num bers of beetles, It Is not a graceful, homelike nppenrnnce. This
The basem ent extends under the
felt th at a tra p has been developed exterior appearance Is greatly en­ whole of the house ami Is reached hy
hanced
hy
the
brick
foundation
and
which can be recommended for ¡you
stairs Just Inside the entrance at the
|'U»ea of the porch anil the wide brick side of the house.
eral use.
fireplace
chimney
In
the
end
wall.
The
Increased efforts were made last
T aken altogether (Ids Is n very de­
sum m er to develop a repellent which porch Is Inviting In summer, while the sirable Imine building design -one th a t
could he used on fruit trees without chimney gives rise to thoughts of a combines exterior attractiv en ess and
leaving a deposit on the foliage or com fortable, open fire In the w inter Interior comfort, and It is not expen­
fruit. It w as found thut certain time.
sive to build.
The floor plans th a t accompany the
odors, particularly the odor of tar. are
distinctly repellent to the Japanese exterior view show how the rooms nre
beetle, and these will be studied fu r­ arranged anil th eir size. T he en­ Better Plastering Needed
trance door off the porch leads Into a
ther.
to Give Perfect Results
What Turkey’s New National Capital Looks Like
New Fruit Varieties Are
Described in a Bulletin
iie re is luu lulest pbolvgrupu sh u w ln g liiu city v t A n gu iu , cu p ilu l o i lue uco Turkey of «hlvU Ueu.ui 1'ualiu
Is the Presldent. Accordlng to the luteet census Angora hus a populatlon of 48,900.
Engine* Answer 8 False
Alarms to Same House
Minneapolis, Minn.—R oaring through
th e stre e ts of M inneapolis on a fire
truck In 21 degree below w eather Is
no Joke. And m aking eight trip s to
th e sam e house In one night, only to
find each tim e th a t there Isn't any.
fire there at all—th a t's worse yet, fire­
men testified.
E ight telephone calls spreading the
alarm th a t a partially constructed
bouse at 15 W est Elm stre e t w as on
fire, cam e Into A rthur Driscoll, fire
departm ent alarm operator.
Eight
tim es fire trucks w ent whizzing to the
house.
Each tim e they found the same
thing. W orkmen had been plastering
the house. When they left at night
they started a fire in a stove term ed
a salam ander, inside the house to dry
out the p laster and keep It from
freezing.
Reflection of flames from the sala­
m ander and steam from the drying
p laster caused eight persons to send
In fire alarm s.
SIX IN CANOE IN THE BERING
SEA SURVIVE AN ARCTIC GALE
W alrus Hunters Recount T h rillin g
T ale of Hardehlp, Peril
and Suffering
February 2 to hunt walrus. Venturing
ffarth er out on the Icy sea a fte r they
had failed to find w alrus n ear shore
the p arty In the frail kayak was
Sevoonga, SL Law rence Island. caught by the full fury of an arctic
A laska.—Swept In an open skin canoe gale.
for 300 miles across the Bering sea
A fter being lashed about on the wa
from Siberia to this island, six su r­ ters for several days, the hunters
vivors of a party o f eight w alrus pulled th eir canoe onto a floating Ice
hunters recently recounted a story of pack. There, suffering, cold and with
hnrdshlp, peril, suffering and -tragic out food and fire, the little hand
disaster.
passed the night In th e snow. The
T heir arm s and legs frozen, th eir next morning two of the p arty went
eyes distended and swollen and th eir foraging for food and failed to return
scanty clothing In tatters, the six men They have not since been seen.
finally reached the E«klmo village of
Five of the starving group finally
Gambell, on the northern p art of the straggled Into Gambell, w here the
Island, from w here th e story of their United S tates bureau of education
Ill-fated b attle with the elem ents has m aintains a school for the Eskimos
reached Sevoonga hy radio.
A fter a search, headed by Samuel I’
Driven by approaching starvation Troutm an, governm ent teacher at
to seek food, the eight men left a Gambell, th e sixth member of the
village on Little Max bay, Siberia, on p arty was found, nearly dead.
T hirty-tw o new Improved fruits pro­
duced by horticulturists of the Uni­
versity of M innesota a t the state
fruit breeding fHrm Hre described nnd
most of them pictured In Bulletin 239
prepared hy W. H. Alderman, chief
of the division of horticulture, and Is­
sued by the Minnesota experim ent s ta ­
tion. These varieties, which hnve
been given nam es and Introduced
among fruit growers, Include 14 kinds
of plums, three plum-cherry hybrids,
four apples, seven straw berries, one
red raspberry, one gooseberry, ant*
two ornam entals.
“Many of these varieties are rap­
idly becoming accepted as standards
In this and adjoining states, and the
plum s are being planted on a w m -
■nerclal scale," says the bulletin.
“T he wealth accruing to the state
each year from the products of thes-
32 varieties fa r exceeds the total cost
of all the- state supported fruit breed
Ing experim ents since the establish­
ment of the first fruit breeding farm
In 1878."
This bulletin Is for free distribution
F irs t Floor Plan.
and copies can be obtained by writing
th e Office of Publications a t Unlver
reception room, out of which run the
slty Farm . St. Paul.
sta irs to the second floor. To the
i
right, through double glazed doors, Is
Keep an Account
the living room, 12 by 15 feet In size.
| Every progressive farm er should T hree windows opening onto the porch
keep sn account of his farm business and the high windows on either side
If he Is to know at the end of the of the fireplace adm it plenty of light
year w hether he has made a profit or and ventilation. The wide flreplnce nt
loss, a fter paying nil farm expenses; the end of the room, with bookcases
also to help him study his business on eith er side under the window, adds
and mnke such changes In his o r­ to the attractiv en ess of the room's fin­
ish.
ganization and operation ns are Im
p ortant from the stand(>olnt of In
Back of the living room Is the din­
creasing his profits. F arm ers Inter
ing room, also a light cheery room, 12
’ ested In keeping such a record this by 13 feet 0 Inches In dimensions. And
coming year, can get both Information opening off the dining room nnd con­
and help from lilt agricultural college
nected with It by double doors It a
large, inclosed b re a k fa st porch, 14
The old methods of throw ing plaster
on n wall or ceiling w ithout the prop­
er care ami attention have given way
to modern ami well-defined system s
th a t have resulted In a splendid ac­
complishment.
P lastering Is to the
home o r business building w hat clothes
are to hum anity. A ppearance counts,
alw ays ami In everything, and people
are becoming Interested In improv­
ing their ways of living.
H otter plastering hy a recent dec­
orative method can he done only
through tho use of the pro|»er prod­
ucts, anil among these some stnnd us
the highest representatives In this
class. One is an emulsion ba«ed on
Portland cement, sand ami asbestos?
To say that splendid results have been
obtained with this decorative plaster­
ing would he to put It mildly. Leading
builders and decorators make It a
point to Insist upon the best ns the
only logical product th a t can be em ­
ployed efficiently. Beauty as well as
perm anent Improvement have been
made possible with the use of this
m aterial, and It Is highly recom mend­
ed to all those who know of the Im­
portance of b etter plastering to see
such splendid m aterial ns one that
will give everlasting satisfaction.
Concrete Can Be Placed
Even in Winter Weather
Concrete may he placed safely even
In cold w eather If w ater, sand and
stone are heated and the finished work
Is protected from frost. Heat hastens
and cold delays the hardening of con­
crete. Under conditions favorable for
hardening concrete soon acquires suf­
ficient strength to he safe agnlnst
dam age by frost. The w arm er It Is
kept the sooner will It reach this d«e
gree of hardness. C oncrete which has
frow n before It hns thoroughly hard­
ened Is often m istaken for properly
hardened concrete, but wheu It thaw s
It will soften.