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MAY 4, 907.
THE SUMY SOUTH
FIFTH VAGIr
j Japan’s Most Beautiful Woman
1 ^ ^ To Be Designated ^ >9
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E beauty contest, now i
the rage in America and j
England, has reached I
Japan.
This hitherto distinc- |
tictively Occidental com- I
p a r i s o n of woman's |
charms, conructed by j
publication o f photo- !
graphs, which has always !
been popular in the t'nit-
ed States, thus completes !
■in International triumph. !
England had a contest
In which the noblest ladies of the I
realm were voted on. Eately, Lady •
Pole-Carew .eventually won. France, l
Italy and Germany have also known ;
this form of contest, hut the leap '
which took in all the way to the mi- j
kado's land is a startling proof of how I
Japan is getting into touch with the !
ways of the west.
Not so many years ago. say a de- i
'■ade. such a test would have been j
out of question in the Far West. The i
photographer s art had hardly reaches. •
the point in Japan where in every j
town there could be camera experts |
to take pictures of the local beauties: i
no publication existed which would j
have had the enterprise to attempt 1
such a contest, and a peculiarly Orien- •
tal reserve in the matter of displaying
a woman's features promiscuously j
would have foredoomed the expert-
mem to defeat.
As an example of changed condi- ;
tions the beauty contest now being j
conducted by a Tokio weekly paper is |
astonishing. i
Photographs are being sent to the 1
publication from all parts of Nippon.
The fine oval faces, the small hands !
and feet, the delicious, soft, clear skin !
of the Japanese women are being j
posed before hundreds of cameras, and j
the interest is keen all over the coun
try The contest Is not vet decided. I
It has several months to run, for the :
wise editor was not foolish enough to ,
put a short time limit on the most i
successful venture he has ever at- j
tempted
NOBILITY WILL NOT ENTER THE i
CONTEST.
IP °ne particular does this con- [been intensified by the prospect of ( ed to the world. Kioto the western
test differ from those held in the I winning a vaulable prize. capital of tile country. Osaka, second
west Entries are confined entirely to. Never was such decorating and largest city in Japan; Yokohama the
The Ion er classes 1 lie mikado nobili- j dressing as progresses now. From tea most important of its sea ports' Kobe
ty. the diamos. the hattamotes or low- houses all over the realm of the mi- YeddQ. Nagova and a hundred smaller
er diamos. are not represented in the , kado photographs are pouring into towns al! have representative beauties
competition. 1 he noble head of one Tokio. and though the type may be whose claims are being eagerly cham-
of these conservative families would different, the collection presents beau- pioned.
ties who would he recognized as such J It is significant of a Japanese sense
even in the far off United States. | of the fitness of things that the con-
The names signed to the pictures test was inauguarted at the outset of
ate almost as interesting and pictur- spring-time when moderating weather
esQue as the contestants themselves, made it possil/e for the fair contest-
! he Japs love pretty names, titles i ants to be pictured in the open air.
Sion of a grand opera house in New
York city. The concluding paragraph
suggests the personality of this ex
traordinary man:
"So the boy who ran away from the
parental skate-strapping at 15 to
work in a. cigar factory at $2 a week,
to invent, to speculate, to hang out
of the balcony when Patti sang, has
at last an opera house of his own to
play with, and is happy! He has no
artistic mission, he has no school of
music, like Wagner, to fight for from
the stage; no architectural ideals to
work out in the auditorium; all the
houses he lias built, in fact, have been j
architectural tawdry. He has no l
philanthropic purpose to educate the
masses musically, though he always
puts plenty of gallery seats in his
houses. lie has no aspirations to be
a leader of taste, for he has a sense of
humor. He minds nobody's business
but his own, legos nobody's life but
Ids own. spends no money on luxuries
(except opera houses!), ;iFks nothing
of society hut to come if they like to
: see his show. His interest in the opera
| house is the boy's Interest in a toy,
’ a long-coveted. long-dreamed-of.
| deeplv-to-he-desired toy. something
wonderful and ail his very own. To
see the machinery of illusion work
ing, and the most complicated and
high-strung machinery, operatic illus
ion. to wind it up himself ami play
with it, that is ills happiness, his sum-
mum bonum.
“And to gain possession of this toy
he lias displayed unwonted persist
ence. courage, even a sort of genius—
certainly a genius for rising with a
smile after every knock down and go
ing at it again. He has thrown off
by-product of cigar machines and flat
houses and vaudeville theaters, but to
be an impressario and play with a
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Lightning 'Required to Make
* ^ Honest Man of This Thief S*
an \
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deputy's office and strung up by the
thumbs until unconscious. When he
fainted he was let down, revived and
then thiown into a dark eell. without fire.
light. He was kept there
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HINGS out of the ordinary
happen in the underwork!
just as in the other—odd
tilings, strange things,
that puzzle, amaze and
even terrify: unexplainable
things that may only be
spoken of in whispers
afterward, with many
shakings of the head and j bedding, or
"I don't knows.” Fin
ally these things accom
pany a tragedy, once in a.
while a comedy; oftenest
they work for evil, of course, hut once
in a great while they operate for good
The case of ‘ Jimmy, the Imon." i<s one
case where good resulted, and it is to
day still .'.he wonder of many old-time
crooks and some police officers or prison
officials. They do not discuss the thing
ipublicly, because something has impelled
us to remain silent. Bad as we all are.
or as inexorable, we realize that revela
tion would result in the blasting of a
good reputation now and the ruin of
good work.
His name was not ‘‘Jimmy, tne Igion.”
in erookdom. but it is near enough to
fix the identity, for those who have a
right to known You would recognize the
real name., and it is mentioned in Byrnes'
book. Re that as it may, thirty years
was the toughest man
met, and my Iif-- has not
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in two seconds he was helpless on the . punctuated with the sole “but I do not
floor and "Jimmy" was trying to batter | understand.”
him into shapelessness. He was saved j THE TRANSFORMATION,
only by other convicts anxious to make i ‘‘.Jimmy the Loon" was gone. Some-
a record. They overpowered the “Loon. ‘ | tiling had happened, as he said. That
who was f-rormptly dragged over to the wound in the head, the relief of the.
Sada Uto, the Adored of Tokio Jonnies.
consider his honor seriously aggrieved
should any of his women folk permit
their features to be shown aside those
of women _o/, the lotyer classes.
The, middle class of farmers, arti-
lutns and merchants, have been less
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GOING TO EUROPE?
(From The Washington Herald.)
For a week or more there has been a
good deal of talk in Washington clubs
about the president's determination to
visit Europe immediately after the ex
piration of his term in 1909. The talk
seems more substantial than mere club
gossip. H is based upon the assumption
that Mr. Roosevelt will resolutely refuse
to accept renomination even should
events so shape themselves as to make
Ills nomination a party necessity. Sev
eral clubmen who enoy more or less
close relations with the white house are
giving the report credence. They even
go so far as to say that the likelihood
of Mr. Roosevelt making tlie trip in a
warship is now being seriously consider
j ed. As ex-president he would, of course,
I no longer have authority to so employ
! a warship, hut this difficulty could be
j easily overcome by the simple process
I of tiie adoption by congress of a joint
j resolution directing the secretary of the
! navy to put at Mr. Roosevelt’s disposal
• any naval vessel that mighr afford the
j illustrious traveler the highest degree
I of comfort. It is slated further that
| Baron Speck von Sterfvburg. the German
I ambassador, who is now in Berlin, will
i communicate to his imperial master
j stret,died, and kimono raised just : there the tidings that the president will
| enough to show the contour of a mid-| probably visit the kaiser's realm in the
i get foot and slender ankle. j role of a plain American citizen some
The languid life of the average time in the year of grace 1909. Baron
Japanese woman is shown again ip Sternburg and the president are great
' hums, and it is considered not im-
real opera house has been his' steady j
goal. To stake a fortune on a more | ago ‘‘Jimmy
than dubious prospect of success is | j had eve,-
not a characteristic of the typical j been passed in
business man. I <> li\e in a little bed- . means. He was one of the men who
room in the theater one has built | flmons . criminals has the name of being
when one owns a comfortable house In j „ ,. had lnan ~ harj a „ thro „ Kh . witliout
not a r*liaraster]st;c cu the ordinary i * . 4 . . . .
operatic manageY nor tig- lover of redeeming instinct so far as any of
esthetics. But they are characteristic u f C ™ M , Nowa^W* he would be
classed as criminally insane, and be
shut up in an asylum. Even then he
was known as the “Imon."
brain or whatever it was. had trans
formed tiie man A crook, a burglar,
a murderer, a social outcast, had gone
into that hospital, hut out of it had
come an innocent child with a man's
nine days, and fed on a gill of water body, with never a thought of evil or
and a slice of bread a day. a conception of it.
••Jimmy" "did his trick" and i did J was s ‘unned when I realized it, and
mine, and at last we were at liberty. f, llhou * h " Jimmv ” was in ignorance of
tee cause of my condition, yet he was
;iu a highly excited condition. There
j was only one thing to he done. I
| thought, and that was to prevent the
I man ever acquiring his terrible knowl
edge again. Our ways and the ways
of such as I must he separate from
him thenceforth, that was plain. He
Naturally we drifted to New York City
ar.d kept in touch with each other, for
although "Jimmy" was a ilangerois man
to know, yet he was needed in my busi
ness sometimes. He could open a safe
quicker than any other “box man" 1
have ever known.
STORM IN THE WOODS.
1 received word from a 'friend that out
in northern Michigan there was kept in
the office of a big lumber company at
times very large sums of money to pay
the men. This money was seldom <pro-
tected except by a single watchman De
pendence appeared to be placed entirely
on the safe, which was one of the latest
style so-called burglar proof affairs which
have cost so many business men large
titan one.
had to go forth alone.
1 thought, and then the most natural
thing occurred to me. I deliberately
fixed up for "Jimmy,' without his
knowledge, of course, a pedigree: told
| h» mwho he was, impressed it upon
I him that he had no family or friends,
land at the station I turned over to him
I all tlie money I had except a railroad
(ticket and told him to remain there in
• Detroit. T went on to Chicago, and
met with a bunch, and we struck down
sums in more ways than one. I through Illinois
| Thp “boon” was the man for me, and j , th * t • ’ ha#1 to
|! found him soon in a joint of . Sume society, which soon found some-
the lower Knst Side. He was read>, j thine: for him to do l understand he
and we added to the parly two safe
of the boy. And that is what Oscar |-
Hnhimerstein is, a hoy of 57."
j tinder the trees and flowers they so
j a core.
j Cheny blossoms have formed a
I background for many photographs
(that look like paintings, so artistic is
(the composition. Others are shown
! standing under wistaria arbors with
j the glorious purple blooms surround-
I ing them in halos. Some of the dark-
joyed beauties are pictured in pose for
la dance, the tiny hand high above the
I flower bedecked head, the leg out-
the number of pictures that have been
taken with the subjects in reclining
j attitudes, usually on a couch, which
I ofttl’.nes is covered with silks and
; flowers.
probable that if he is contemplating a
trip to Europe after he leaves the white
house. Mr. Roosevelt would let the
teutonic diit'omat into the secret.
One of the requirements of acceptance
i The- Paris who has to judge between ! of the Nobel peace prize, which was
' the hundreds of photographs submit- I awarded to President Roosevelt recently
j ted in the competition will indeed he
i severely taxed, for the result is a be-
i wildering display. The task of selec
tion has been made mare difficult by
the artistic character of the surrounq-
1 ings i:i which the contestants have
; chosen to be photographed.
! In American beauty contests there
i is no such difficulty. Tiie picture usu-
lally shows a lady
for his (putting a stop to the Russo-
.Tapanese war. is that the recipient shall
appear at the Norwegian capital within
two years after the award and make a
speech. Thus, should Mr. Roosevelt de
sire to visit Europe at the time stated
he would have an additional claim upon
tiie privilege to make, tiie trip in a war
ship.
m evening dress. It THE CARDS,
is a cabinet sized photograph, gener- fFrom Thf . Chicago Tribune j
(ally comprising the head only, and all 1 .- raw r . an anv body tell fortunes bv
i the expert nred do is to study the cards?”
(features for regularity, size up the ex- I "No. my son. Many a man who has I the 'policeman, for he arose from
kindergarten, by am I '
■ana we am.-a iu urn !•«. o I was more or less a mystery to them,
men. who may be known as Pig Iron , p U ( tpey were willing to stop at that.
Alike and Jim We arrived in tiie v 0 policeman ever appeared to "rap"
neighborhood of the lumber settleme.it rpjp, as ii, PV sav, and he went on
at the time the money was brougnt for A11 that as x 9av w - as nearly twenty
tiie pay day. Tt was in the wiids, and vears ago I am in New York now. get-
vve went into camp in the woods about tjnf ,. n]d an(1 not an important member
two miles from tie building. it was „• soviet x In a tog citv "Jimmy" has
an ideal situation and an ideal time. madf> something of himself. He is con-
and we planned to turn the trick that | nP( . tPd wit h a societv which endeavors
to ameliorate the condition of the mis
hits mania was unending hatred of all
revognized authority, against which be
waged war with ail the strength that
was in him. A policeman to him was as
tiie traditional red flag to the legendary
bull, and lie would sooner engage ip a
fight against an artm of uniformed men
than do anything els® he could think
of. Jail had no terrors for him; punish-
moni could not chasten him. Penalties
meted out to him for infraction of rules
in prison never made an impression upon
him.
SAFES EAS YFOR HIM.
I used to think in those days that per
haps the treatment lie had rereived in
some .prison had unhinged his mind, a.nd
made him what lie was. "Jimmy" never
talked about rhat. his grievance was gen
eral and took them all in.
I first met “Jimmy" in a western city,
where our ways crossed in some work,
for "Jimmy" was what would lie called
even in these days a “swell 'gun." He
was a median Pal genius, and the safes
of those days were as so much paper to
him. He had to he used, and by some
mistake there had been a slip up. "Jim
my" had been taken, more 0 n suspicion
than anything else, and it became neces
sary for the police of that city to ex
tract some information from him. There
were not quite so many stool pigeons
in those days, and once in a while the
police had to do a little work.
The chief of police of that city had
once been a miner, and he 'believed in
the simply way of compelling the men
that came before him to give up by anv
night. It was spring and the sky was
o\ ercast with clouds that promised rain
later, when it would be of help to us.
That, was in reality merely a rehear
sal of our plans, which had been de
cided upon before, and we were en-
erable. He has been most successful,
and is spoken of for hi® honest, splen
did life Men with whom he once
w-orked have come under his observa-
ion. He lias spoken with them, and
glossed in it when, as nearly as 1 jii, 05 ,p ruen. who could have told him
'8n remember, a spear of dazzling light j every tiling, perhaps spoiling bis life
shot down from the sky. touching the | f or idm, har e remained silent
top of the free and shattering it to the j 'i-fint says something for the crook,
roots. The shaft seemed to go on all \ anyhow. New York Herald
sides of me. I shot out, impelled by ] — -
the force of the concussion, and as I
went there came another deafening
heard abov
Hi underi
What i ?
LONGEVITY.
lXlc secret of longevity? 'Ye
answer: The suresl guarantee i« a
I genius for it, a bodily and mental pre-
I disposition to a long life. There are
' persons wiio are "prefigured unto a
| long duration." Those who have this
1 gif:, which is inherited from long lived
■ ancestors, will generally reaeh old age,
j even though they trample on the laws
j of health, because, although they draw
! more largely on their vitality than
j careful livers, they began life with a
j vast capital.
i For the nan of ordinary stamina tii®
jtchief conditions of long life that are
I not involuntary are constant occupa-
douhle force of light.- j tion in an honorable railing, regular
explosion, and a little j hours, bodily exercise, plenty of sleep.
explosion,
clap.
' BLOWN TO PIECES.
I knew no more for a half hour, and
then 1 painfully crawled up, bruised
and burning it seemed. I had a lan
tern which 1 managed to light, and
began an investigation Of “P’ig Iron"
I could find no trace except one of his
shoes The ma n had been literally
blown to pieces by the explosion of the
nitroglycerin. Near by lay fragments
of the body of "Jim." He had suffered
likewise p\
n 1 n g and
farther along lay ihe "Loon.' i a temperate gratification of all the nat-
It seemed to me then that the top of I oral appetites, a sunny disposition and
his head had been blown off, but lie j a dear conscience. The deadliest o®.-
.... , ... , .' , . i to longevity are excitement, hurry and
was still breathing. I examined him.
and found the stains came from a small
hole in his temple about the size made
b\ a 44-caliber bullet. There was no j X t j s j 0 o much work done in too iittl«
doubl of the fracture of the skull, and ! time that causes so many breakdowns
to longevity are excitement,
worry.
Strictly speaking, it is not overwork
- that is. in tiie aggregate--tbat kills.
it looked to me as if tt. was all up with
him 1 cleansed the wound as best 1
could, and in doing so [ noticed that
or all means. He was a devotee of the there was a blue rim around the per
“third degree.” Few cared to go through j foration just as if it. was powder
the ordeal with him. bu't I verily believe j burned,
that '‘Jimmy'' rejoiced at the opportun-
today. Work pure and simple, however
hard or constant, seldoms impairs the
health, if only ordinary hygienic pre
cautions are observed. Mental and
bodily labor within reasonable limits
(end rather ro prolong life than to fra:
thread. Even overwork may do
ty. He was in high spirits when he was
taken into the chieif's room. He was
handcuffed and made to sit in a chaie
tfacing the chief. The interview then
began with the usual suave promises or
suggestions of immunity if he would
tell the truth. He only laughed, and.
declaring himself innocent, sat back con.
fident.
"You know 1 can send you away any
how." remarked the oh;ef significantly.
"Sure." answered "Jimmy," "but that
won't get you anything.” And again he
laughed. The laugh appeared to anger
his
pressiveness of the eyes, make a guess i thought he could has found by sub- j desk, stepped around to the chair and
Fugi Mume.
reserved, and have not hesitated to let j
wives and daughters. blessed with
more than a normal share of pulchri
tude, be numbered among the contest
ants.
But the greater number of entries
come from among the frankly lower
classes, the Geisha girls of the tea
houses. The child-like joy of the
Japanese girl at being beautiful and
at knowing how to enhance her
charms by the proper kinds of silks,
the right fan in her hair, and flowers
appropriate to her complexion has
that bring them close to nature. Cher
ry Blossom. Jessamine, Fairy Smile,
Rosy Dawn. Hollyhock. Wistaria
Scent. Smiling Sun are the kind of
names that occur again and again, am.
make the American recall the habit of
tiie Indian of his own country to suit
to the clearness of the skin, deter- sequent experience that he didn't hold
mine tiie shapeliness of shoulders and j *' ie r 'gJ't cards.”
neck, and a decision is made.
But the Japanese woman has small ]
admiration for a bust picture only, j
She counts her head and shoulders
only a minor part of her beauty. Even I
to be photographed in a full length j
pose is not enough. She must take
some especially graceful position, and I
she picks out the surrounding with I
such care that it would indeed he an I An Y Lady fan Cure the Most Vto.
ungracious referee who would fail to j ,c ' n, Drunkard Secretly at Home,
take, this feature into account when
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to some feature of na- j
deciding the contest
Among the more famous entries who
are almost certain to be placed some
where among the ten winners .the fol
lowing are perhaps the best known:
CONTF.3T POPULAR ALL OVER
APAN.
Wing Tee Wie, An Eta Beauty.
his appeilati
tu re.
beautiful girl had the distinction of
refusing the hand of a distinguished
British naval officer, whose ship was
From all tiie realm these pictures j staying for a time at Naga Saki, and
■nine. ! who became captive to the charms of
Naga Faki. first Japanese port open- j the fair Oyonto. It is said that half
!a dozen duels have been fought over
her.
Fugi Mume is an actress, one of the
first to win recognition in the land of
the mikado since changed conditions
have given women, more honorable
part in dramatic art in the land of
Nippon.
Saha Uto is adored of Tokio whither
she Came from Minato, a little town
on the far northern coast on the Pa
cific ocean. Nearly every photogra
pher in the capital vied for the chance
of taking the picture which they are
confident will land the first prize.
Lady Cherry Blossom is the highly
dignified and poetic title for a Kobe
girl, who has no story and who is en
tirely unknown outside of her own
city, yet she is such a perfect type of
beauty, according to the Japanese
model, that many think she will he
rated among the first three when the
awards are made.
Wing Tee Wie is only an Eta girl, or
rather the descendant of an Eta. This
pariah classification is hy np means
so rigidly adhered to ns it was at one
time, and former outcasts of society
are now accorded a chance to earn an
honorable place in the community. It
must be remembered that to be an
Eta woman did not imply dishonor.
Frequently the ottending of some fa
ther against the throne caused him
to be thrown into disfavor, and he and
his became outcasts. Wing Tee Wie
descends iroiti a family which several
generations ago gave some offense to
a mikado or shogun, which succeed
ing children have been expiating. Tt
would be a curious instance of a con
quering democracy If Wing Tee Wie
would win.
Kawmi Kodze is favored because of
her superb figure ana luxuriant black
hair.
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struck the “Ixion" a stunning blow ovei
ihe head with a short hilly. "Jimmy’
"went out,” but when he recovered he I * ,n ' np d in to help make him ready
struggled to his feet and resumed his I a hastlI >' improvised stretcher,
sea:. laughing yet. but it wasn't a pleas
ant kind of laugh.
“DOWNS” THE CHIEF.
"Feel like talking now?" asked the
chief.
"Nothin' doin’." was the cheerful an
swer.
j I covered the unconscious man with less injury than underwnrk-~"that ra’-e
' my coat and looked after the other and obscure calamity from which uo-
bodles. What I could find of both ll body is supposed to suffer.”
I covered with leaves and earth as best I *
j I could, and later buried all our tools.
Before this I had removed everything
I tnat might lead to the identity of the j
men. Then 1 took “Jimmy'' on my 1
shoulders, as he was a light man. and
started for the settlement- T reached
there after a hard journey .and awak
ened somebody with a tale of two of
us. business men on our way to the
lumber camps farther on, struck by
lightning A physician was summoned,
and he did tiie best he could, saying,
however, he thought it was of litle use.
He ad vised that tiie man be taken
to a hospital in Detroit if be lived long
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The tobacco habit is a curse, and every
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rude j know it. Most men would like to quit, if
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THREE MONTHS LATER. j in any form.
It was more, than three months i
afterwards that consciousness finally j
returned, and another week brought a j
The chief darted around the desk again j tressage that I could see my friend. I
with the billy uplifted. He struck again,
but i his time "Jimmy” wasn't there. He
dodged from the chair, in some waj
back heeled the chief, who went heavily
to the floor. Another moment and he
was using his feet, ahd what would have
happened may be conjectured if wailing
assistants had rot rushed in and over
powered the man
“Jimmy” would have been beaten Into
a jelly then if by some good fortune one
of the men who entered had not re
volted at the sight. "No you don't,
chief." he said, as the club was coming
forward again. “You do this man now,
and T'H go to the prosecuting attomev
Look what you have done to him now.
1 won't stand for murder.”
That saved thq "Loon.” but he had no
thanks for hie savior. He would as soon
have tackled him as anybody else.
“Jimmy” beat that case, and I saw
nothing more of him for several years,
when we met in a county jail, both
"collared" and awaiting trial. He was
then so notorious on account of his name
■that a newspaper bf the city employed
a criminologist to examine and study the
man. The result was a story of some
length In a Sunday edition, which was
the wonder and amazement of “Jimmy"
himself. He learner that he was an
"epeleptnid.” a “recedinist. congenitally
defective." that he had so many things
thp matter with him mentally that It
was a wonder he was alive.
"Jimmy" did not know what the expert
meant, nor did thp expert himself by
the same token, but It all looked fine. Tt
created much interest throughout the
land, and was well paid for. “Jimmy”
even shared in the general prosperity,
for he was enabled uipon the strength of
the article to obtain from a woman vis
itor to the prison a loan of $10. “Jimmy”
wrote to the editor of the newspaper beg
ging him to send the "swell pipe” to ex
amine his head again.
THREE YEARS IN PRISON.
‘'Jimmy” went to trial the next day.
was speedily convicted and sentenced to
three years’ imprisonment.. I followed
him soon after. I accepted my sentence
philosophically, but "Jimmy” became a
nightmare to 'the keepers of the institu
tion. Ilf he were corrected for any In
fraction of the rules he would at once
jump from his place and invite thp offi
cer to settle it then and there. The in
vitation was accepted every time, and
the first time the officer alone was the
guest. ,
shall never forget the visit. There on
[his cot in the crowded ward lay “Jim j
my,” white and reduced almost to a j
skeleton. As I came up to him. he
held out his hand, but did not call my
name. Because a nurse hovered around
we could not get down to business, j
but T managed to tell him my alias at j
the time. He did not appear to no- !
tice it.
T returned three or four days later j
and it was easy to be seen that "Jim- j
my" was gaining strength. It was |
figured that he might be moved in an |
other ten days, and I went, out after j
another perfunctory conversation,
which I thought was a "stall.'’ (o j
‘‘touch” the wire to an eastern friend
for a little loan to take us obth back to
little old New York.
The money came, and on the day ap
pointed I drove up to the hospital and
we started for the railroad station.
Tbe moment the cab door closed I
turned to him with. ’•'Well, old pal.
you’ve bad a bard one, but you've beat
it ail right."
He turned to me and I noticed a
questioning took in his eyes. This did
not impress me. and T dropped into the
vernacular of our craft. I wasn't pay
ing any eltention to him as I rattled
on. giving the gossip of the men we
knew. I was at high tide when sud
denly I felt him touching my arm. T
turned to see the puzzled look deep
ened and a worried wrinkle in his fore
head.
"Yes." he said, softly, "that Is all
right, but—but—^would you mind tell
ing me who you are?” I nearly
out of my cab.
"TVhat'8 the matter with you?" I
asked, half angrily. “Are you kidding
me, “Jimmy?”
He looked pained. “You won't mind."
he repeated, “but I—T—do not seem to
understand. Something is the matter—
I—I—don't know what. I—I—have
lost something. Had you ever seen
me before you met me that day In the
hcspital?” Tell me. T want to know."
and 1 could feel his hand close weakly
on my arm.
T looked at the man, studied him ite
was “on the level’ with his questions,
r.o doubt of It. It began to look queer.
There was nothing wrong with hts
head. He was as clear as a bell there.
An idea came to me and I began to ask
questions. For an hour T probed. I
bega nwlth “Jimmy the Loon" as early
a.( T knew him. spoke of “jobs." pris
ons. pals, experiences—everything I
could think of—and during all that
time his air of bewilderment was
Burns the Brain to Ashes.
Tobacco deadans the brain, stupefies
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brines the beast to the surface. Most
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adays are looking around for men and
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can be relied on.
Tt takes only ten minutes for tobacco
to change the beats of the heart. To
keep it up is to tempt death by heart
disease, nervous collapse, tobacco can
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