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frHE MAGAZUME PAGE ■ “The Case of Oscar Slater” By Sir Arthur Conan Doyle Holmes in Real Life installment. luar both these fe- Harrowman. swore B thrown together Xew York, and cabin, they object of their notes as to the titan i.ientify. For girls .'S of 15 and 21 this unique example, of three identiflea- HEt . I; |y pie who saw the .liamond brooeli clew BV identifications ii. they would un | s'reiorly eorrobora- . has been mistake, I really one could ine identitc and K '. .. so-called jq.*nt itiea- seen IK, . . street during the 'so-called identlfl- . wer farcical as of recognition. all aware that <. r , a: ~i. were ... . d his swarthy Jewish froin among nine Glasgow ... , Iway officials. N'at- without hesitation, since ~ liail seen ami described could be. tl.eir own descriptions, however, ■ man they had seen, with the details clothing, and they will be found in r . t( . differ from each other 1 nr.,l. and tn many from Slater Here is a synopsis of ■M THEIR IMPRESSSIONS. y llaffie Dark mustached, light : .-. . ’ «a'.‘ri.roof; cheek trousers, i.'.c',.- v, 1,-r hat: nose normal." M Mcllaffie "Seen at same time , rmtion. Was only pre first to say there was some re- 'lad been thinking it eluded that he was the '.b llaffie; "Same as bes. . ' las accent." (Prisoner has g <:.■:■• ian accent.) 'belongs to the same iniistached. nose nor-' - v r-. fawn <.ver“oat and Blacl, bowler hat. ‘The prisoner i the man.' with tl.n identification - wnesscs to be ob- •••t 'c'ther d eck trousers nor ■’ In the prisoner’s lug- A- th. urderer was d< scribed as dark tr< users, there was reason why those clothes, if Brien: “Claimed to know the hr Sfirlit Says he was the man 1 iterlr.g I.igi.t coat and a hat. a week before the crime, and he so > -rds from the scene of rt’liel him mn among five coii as the man he had seen.” Wal' er: "Had seen the 10l - the .street, never nearer, dari ::. ember. Thought at was o ...... , iso wh.-m h<- Hal l.eat-t that the man he had was ~f foreign appear:: m-e. I.‘.tn trom a number of <le- -■kffila <‘'):i.-rp.anr “\’« rj dark. heavy fra'nred. Clean shaven peak |B' Mipbrii "Had been with the pre ■■»”<• , ■orrobi. rated 'There was ' resemblance b< tween the pris- - Identify "Sallow, dark haired and "■ "a l awn coat. Cap. 'The B^B“ r ’’ him. but wbiioss could " was the same man.'" " "i-mrn ecat and vest. tnwwr i.a- Xo overcoat. Black |B"' ; ' '■ " seen th,, man the night !t ’ , “ 11 ''Vr. ||e appeared to be !:| ’ at 4 s Gilchrist’s windows. > ' l;r " i “i shoulders, long neck. d i" l ' ''ap. Idght overcoat "'ll r e swear In fact, but I am w !• 'll" man I saw -hut I will " "I’ceulfar nose. Clear , sallow 1 . Park, clean '«'ed cap. P.rown tweed hemmed edge. Delicate man, mwn together.' She believed ■KT'?'-" '' ;r; lbe ni!,n - Saw him in iti.bmdiately before ti ;e InU r- " |P '"five witnesses as to th '■ there is no evidence , lo, ’nger in the street king to d<> with the mur- i,S f’ r,, hable that he had , '”“ r - a 'i'l was waiting ■»< TV'' ° Ut lo h,ln ' " lali "ho was planning „ '' Pain bv standing nights ■ „ ",a yards away from M . "aivc th!.. S question as to "/ 'he same man as the ■"*' '"‘rselves faced by a snd contradictions. ■ c,. i-VV "'""hsc witnesses were r .. 5... "h" saw the stranger n >ght preceding the • <lal,r had an tin- ■ not only by the ' wh,mi he lived, and s\V ' l " aiz ' hut by an ae- H : " ""p, iVt'o Wh ° ha<J been whi eh was quite “ ss ’ <Xai uination, must sun nlses of the in.l ,'.!y hlentity of the of ~ , h'" ' "'lie the four M M-'lbiffi,. family, who | lie, k trousers and f,< s which were never ' ■ tlw-re is a mixture ■ ■ caps " r "' ■' • " a "" ,Ht '"b ■ ' ... . ."npression in the ■Bl ' M hind might lie of , lo 5,,,,,,. BB 1,111 '■. a 111 n 1111 1 ''“'m in. i ion nium. is to construct the whole ease upon shifting The reader has already a grasp of the facts, but somp fresh details came out at the trial whieh may he enumerated here. They have to be lightly touched upon within the limits of such an argument as this, but those who desire a fuller sum mary will find it in an account of the trial published by Hodge, of Edinburgh, and ably edited by William Roughead, W. S. HIS ACTIONS, On this book and on the verbatim pre cognitions and shorthand account of the American proceedings, I base my own ex • amination of the ease. First, as to Sla ter's movements upon the day of the crime. He began the day, according to the account of himself and the w omen, by the receipt of the two letters already re ferred to. which caused him to hasten his journey to America. The whole day seems to nave been occupied by prepara tions for his impending departure. He gave his servant Schmalz notice as from next Saturday. Before live (as was shown by the postmark upon the en velope), he wrote to a postoffice in Lon don, where he had some money on de posit. At (1:12 a telegram was sent in his name and presumably by him from the Central station to Dent. London, for his watch, which was being repaired. Ac cording to the evidence of two witnesses he was seen in a billiard room at 6:20. The murder, it will be remembered, was done at seven. He remained about ten minutes in the billiard room, and left some time between 6:30 and 6:40. Rathman, one of these witnesses, de posed that lie had at the time a mus tache about a quarter of an inch long, which was so noticeable that no one could take him for a clean-shaven man. Antoine, his mistress, and Schmalz, the servant, both deposed that Slater dined at home at 7 o’cleek. The evidence of the girl is no doubt questionable, but there was no possible reason why the dismissed servant Schmalz should perjure herself for the sake of her -ex-employer. The distance between Slater's flat and that of Miss Gilchrist is about a quarter of a mile. From the billiard room to Slater's flat is about a mile. He hail to go for the hammer and bring it back, unless he had it jutting out of his pocket all day. But unless the evidence of the two women is entirely set aside, enough lias been said to show that there was no time for the commission by him of such a crime and the biding of the traces which it would leave behind it. At 1>:45 that night. Slater was engaged in his usual occupation of trying to raise the wind at some small gambling club. The club master saw no discomposure about his dress (which was the same as, I according to the crown, he had done this i bloody crime in), and swore that he was I then wearing a short mustache, “like | stubble,” thus corroborating Rathman. it I will be remembered that Lambie and Bar row man both swore that the murderer was clean shaven. OB December 24, three days after the murder, Slater was down at Cook's office, bargaining tor a berth in the Lusitania for his so-called wife and himself. He made no. secret that he was going by that ship, but gave his real name and address and declared finally that he would take his berth In Liverpool, which he did. Among other confidants as to the ship was a barber, the last person one would think to whom secrets would •be con fided. Certainly, if this were a flight, it is hard to say what an open departure would be. In Liverpool he took his passage un der the assumed name of Otto Sando. This he did, according to his own ac count,'because he had reason to fear pur suit from his real wife, and wished to cover his traces. This may or may not be the truth, but it is undoubtedly the fact that Slater, who was a disreputa ble rolling stone of a man, had already assumed several aliases in the course of his career. It is to be noted that there was nothing at all secret about his de parture from Glasgow, and that he car ried off all his luggage with him in ,v perfectly open manner. The reader is now in possession of the main facts, save those which are either unessential or redundant. It will be ob served that save for the identifications, the value of which can be estimated, there is really no single point of connection be tween the crime and the alleged criminal. It may he argued that the existence of the hammer is such a point; but what household in the land is devoid of a hammer? It is to be remembered that if Slater committed the murder with this hammer, he must have taken it with him in order to commit the crime, since it could be of no use to him in forcing an entrance. But what man in his senses, planning a deliberate murder, would take with him a weapon which was light, frail and so long that it must project from any pocket? The nearest lump of stone upon the road would serve his purpose better than that. Again, it must in its blood-soaked con dition, have been in his ticket when he came away from the crime. The crown never attempted to prove eitheF blood stains in a pocket or the fact that any clothes had been burned. If Slater de stroyed the clothes, he would naturally have destroyed the hammer, too. Even one of the two medical witnesses of the prosecution was driven to say that he should not have expected such u weapon to cause such wounds. FACTS ON ONE SIDE. It may well be remembered in this summary of the evidence I may seem to have stated the case entirely from the point of view of the defense. In reply. I would only ask the, reader to take the trouble to read the extended evidence. If he will do so, he will realize that without a conscious mental effort toward special pleading, there is no other wav in which the story can be told. The facts are on one side. The conjectures, the unsatis factory identifications, the damaging flaws and the very strong prejudices upon the other. Now for the trial itself. The case was opened for the crown by the. lord advo cate, in a speech which faithfully repre sented the excited feeling of the time. It was vigorous to the point of being pas sionate, and its effect upon the jury was refleeted In their ultimate verdict. The lord-advocate spoke, as I under stand. without notes, a procedure which may well add to eloquence while sub tracting from accuracy. It is to this fact that one must attribute a most fatal misstatement which could not fall, coming under such circumstances from so high an authority, to make a deep impression upon the hearers. For some reason, tide misstatement does not appear to bate been corrected at (lie moment b\ either (lie judg- ~i ihe de ft tiding ■ oim*el Continued tn Next Issue. Personal Charm Born of Imagination, Says Irene Fenwick - ( % /A e \ / //) ° ■ / ■ n i Irene Fenwick, in “Hawthorne. U. S. A.,” at the Astor theater, New York. By Margaret Hubbard Ayer. A life Is doing every- I Y'l thing possible to crush ro mance out of things, but for tunately. so long as people have imag ination, they will be able to invest the every-day events of life with colorful possibilities and interest, and can live in a world of their own making.” Thus spoke Her Royal Highness Princess Irene Fenwick, stealing a few minutes from “Hawthorne of the C. S. A.” to tell wliy it is easy to be a really Zendaesque princess, holding an imag inary court at the old sundial every night, and a perfectly up-to-date and equally pretty young girl living in New- York by daytime. It is just a question of imagination, and Princess Irene has quantities .of it. When I saw her she was trying to close her practical outer ears to the steady sound of steel riveting, which came from a nearby building, and she ex plained that she cJuld hear anything she wanted to, with the fine inner ears of the imagination. Miss Fenwick is quite as charming as herself as she is in the part of the ro mantic princess, and she is equally ro mantic. Behind Iler luminous blue eyes lies a world of vivid imagirfation, and she Advice to the Lovelorn By Beatrice Fairfax. YES, YOU CAN. Dear .Miss Fairfax: I am seventeen years old, and dearly in love witl) a young man of twenty-one. I have known him one year, and we kept company eight months. I had a quarrel with him and we parted four months ago. I told a friend to ask him if he wish ed my company, but have had no answer. I can not live without him L. B. You can live without him. In a very short time that heartache will cease an I you will be happy again. In the meantime, while going through this pe riod of depression, so frequent in youth and love, carry yourself with dignity and don't exaggerate either the value of his love or the loss you sustain in losing it. Please don’t send any more messages to him. You have made, advances enough. THAT DEPENDS ON THE GIRL. Dear Mi-s Fairfax: I am working in tlie same ollie" with a girl with whom I have been very friendly. She pays me muen ution bui i . ree years younger than she. If I asked her to I keep company with me. would it lie right to isk her to wait three years before I married her'.’ ANXIOUS. It is not wrong to ask a girl to wait! three years while her lover savi s h r a home for her. Why not let her decide? If there is any selfishness in such a plan, a wom an's love is usually such that she over looks it. PUT YOUR MIND ON YOUR WORK Dear Miss Fairfax: I am deeply in love with a young man. All day at work 1 do nothing but think of him. I send him pos tals quite often, and he asks me if I send them and I say no. Do you think I ought to tell him? I never showed him that I eared anything for him. 1 am seventeen and he is twenty-two. I love (1m Uer\ much. L< IVESIUK. At. you nos rlskilg the substance in put suit of the shadow Try to keep your mind on your wo) k. mi dear, and don’t semi another c-srd. . You are young, too young to make the ! w inning of a man who cloexn'l rati for Oil yolll II • inbitiou, frankly admits that it is peopled with non-existent shadows that to her are as real as you and I. “Having an imagination." said Miss Fenwick, “seems to me one of tlie greatest gifts in life. I think possibly an imagination could be cultivated, though of course there are certain peo ple who disapprove of imagination ut terly. and who only see life as a series of hard, cold facts. They are the Grad grinds of life, and, oh, how much they miss! "Fortunately, no matter how prosaic our modern life may become, there is always a beautiful realm of dreams and romance where each one of us has a kingdom all he r own. "Do I think the modern young girl romantic? Indeed I do. and fortunately for her, too. In ’Hawthorne,’ when Mr. Fairbanks and I come to the charming love passages of the play, we often hear the gurgling little 'oils' and 'alts’ and the gasps of the girls in the audi ence, and it's sweet and encouraging to realize that all those young people are living the story through while we are acting it. Every girl is a princess with a Haw thorne for’a lover, just as every girl imagines herself in the role of the hericine of each book that she reads, providing, of course, the heroine is to her taste. "Tlie romantic imagination is a great j deal more than being able to see your | self playing a particularly attractive | role in life. The person with real im agination Wan invest every incident of life, no matter how trivial or how hum drum. with the glamour of their own fanciful thoughts. And probably the women who go through the daily rou tine of prosaic, uninteresting work cheerfully and with a gallant spirit, have really the great romantic imagina tions. "These are the women who preserve their charm despite misfortune and drudgery, whose minds have a wonder ful flavor and fascination no matter how ordinary their lives may seem to the outward eye. These women have real charms. Everything they do Is colored with their personality, and your personality is the sum total of your thoughts and actions, isn’t it? And, of course, there are more thoughts than actions.” “The wotnjtn witli imagination is sel dom if ever very lonesome. Generally : site finds some outlet for her mental jiutivity; or if not site retires into that ! dre am world of irni ®wn creation." "Flow much power does a romantic | imagination possess In counteracting the jai l ing effects of everj clay life?” I hnquitc-d of the fanciful Princess. good deal more than people wouid -U|'i"'.sc." she returned quickly. "Most of tlie people who have succeeded afte r a life of hard and bitter struggle have had imagination. They may have only I been able to imagine along one line, but tlie.c have built up an ideal, often a j puielj visionary one, and then they've FOR SALE - ■ j.. Roofing Pitch, Coal Tar, IMMEDIATE Creosote, Road Binder, Metal Preservative Paints, DELIVERY Roofing Paint and Shingle Stain. ..■*■' ' "*'. ”*-* ' ” _— — Atlanta Gas Light Co. Phone 4945 Xiilic • . .n, ni.,.i»iii umuxai,.-.!, r—r -~x—j - . _b».~— I worked and worked and materialized that ideal. ' The romantic imagination helps tide over tlie hard places of life by showing the infinite pos-sibility whieh the future holds in store for one. and in ordinary, everyday life, imagination covers up a multitude of those daily disagreeable happenings upon which tile matter of fact person dwells with apparent relish, while the imaginative person escapes from them, to hide in her fanciful ro mantic world of dreams. “1 am always sorry for the girl whose BF f 4 / 1 H t ■ < 4 I • js» SOL n ■ 'W ' -I ISM I SB <W »-v * x' : -> ■■ 1 B IM M■- ■ , imagination has been stunted or whose ! romantic fancies have been so laughed , to scorn by older people that the door of that fanciful world is closed to her for ever. She has lost a refuge from lone liness. a home of inspiration, and some of that intangible thing called personal charm, which is born of imagination." Household Sug gestions Bamboo furniture should be scrubbed with water and salt. Don’t make wet ter titan is absolutely necessary, and dry In the open air as soon as possible Before you use a new gas mantel, i soak it in vinegar and hang it up to dry. In this way a brilliant ligiit is obtained, and the burners wil last twice as long as usual, even in a drafty room. When tired of sweet jellies and jams, try lemon honey for sandwiches and tarts. Beat well together one cupful of sugar, one egg, and butter size of a walnut. Add juice and grated rind of one lemon. Stir well, put into a double boiler, cook slowly till thick, avoid stir ring after it begins to cook. Add tiny pinch of salt. Often when children suffer from headache it is an indication that their sight is weak. If they are constantly frowning, you may be fairly sure that such is the ease. In such (uses an oculist should be at once consulted. If defective sight is attended to in time, it can often be cured in a few years, while if it is neglected it may mean that glasses have to be worn for a life time. DO YOU ITCH? if so use Tetterine. It enre-s eczema, ground itch, ringworm itching piles in fant sore head and ale other skin trou s hies. Read what <?. B. Raus, Indianapolis I says: \ Enclosed find sl. Send me that value in Tetterine. One box of Tet terine has done more for eczema in my family than SSO worth of other remedies I have tried. Use Tetterine li relieves skin trouble that has baf fled tlie best medical skill. It will cute you. Get it today Tetterine. 50c at druggists or by mail. I SHUPTRINE CO., SAVANNAH, GA. (Advt.) Playing With Love By Beatrice Fairfax (i f OVE," said Napoleon, “is the > occupation of the idle man, the amusement of a busy one. and the shipwreck of a sovereign.” And he might have added that it was the play thing of the thoughtless. A young man. who was thoughtless so long that he lias had to begin to think most .seriously, writes me that last January he became much interest ed in a young lady, and secured her acquaintance. As time progressed’they became very intimate, and she became much at tached to him. He says he has no se rious intentions, as he is barely able to support his widowed mother, but en J tertained such a -strong friendly feel ing for the girl that he couldn’t keep away. His visits became so frequent that other young' men. thinking he had a prior right, stopped going to see her, and it became understood among their friends that they were engaged. He had played with love all this time, and when the girl’s affections became seriously involved, he decided that he must make his visits less frequent.. He told her why; that lie didn't love her. and couldn't marry her. To this rather cold-blooded decision after so many months of pleasant intercourse, she re plied that it would break her heart it he ceased coming, and he continued his calls "four nights a week out of sym pathy and duty.” After calling four times a week, “out of sympathy and duty,” for several months, he decided to end it, and didn't go again. Then she wrote to him that if he didn't come back, she would do herself bodily harm. Because of this foolish declaration on her part he has resumed his visits. "What.” he asks, “ is to be the end?” No one asks himself that question in the beginning. Those who have had the years that should stand for wisdom are just as foolish as this young man. They deliberately play with matches, and when a blaze results, turn to their friends and ask, "What is to be the end ?” There are many endings to an affair of this kind, and the right end depends on tlie rationality of those concerned. If this girl is foolish and hysterical, as her declaration to him implies, his pun ishment is all the greater. He will merit all he receives. It is with’the girl lam most concerned. It is to her that 1 make the plea to be sensible and act like a rational being. He doesn’t love her. Can she prove that she lias lost much? By forcing his attentions she lowers herself In her own estimation, and feeds the flame of his vanity. She can’t live without him. He may be frightened by such a statement, but he is of the nature that is also flat tered. She can live without him! She must! She will! If instead of looking at the long evenlnfgs without him (an appall- Southern California affords mote opportunities than any other area in the world. WHY? Because it has proven its I possibilities in a thousand ways. The pioneer work is done. t The chances to follow proven lines are unlimited. The ea- | sentials afe: Climate, land, water, power. I and markets. Southern California has them ail. You Will Want To Know All About This Marvelous Country THE NINJH ANNIVERSARY NUMBER OF THE LOS ANGELES “EXAMINER” wiM be waned WED- H NESDAY, DECEMBER 25, 1912, and will be the greatest edition of its kind ever published, giving you every possi ble information about this famous land. It will tell you about its farming possibilities* its pool- 111 try, its fruits, its walnuts, its oil production, its beet sugar industries, its live stock, its cotton, and. in fact, anything and everything you may wish to know about Los Angeles and the marvelous country of which she is the metropolis. , The information will be accurately and entertainingly 1 1 set forth, and appropriately illustrated. The proposed opening <rf the Parw/nn Canal rorr* «n th* of the world on th’s region. Thin special pdltion will be mailed to any addraaa in the Utrtted States H or Mexico for Fifteen Cents per copy. As the edition is limited, and «o aa not to dleappofnt anyone, an early I j with remittance is desirable. Remember that some of yonr friend* I may not see this announcement. Use the coupon below and ses that thtjy ||| get a copy. Los Angeles "Examiner," ! j Los Angeles, Cal. \ Enclosed please find cents, for which you will) S please send the Ninth Anniversary number of your paper to ( the following names; I j Name.. Street f < City state Name Street ] j CHy-*•. ■.•»....■..•. State ..............»»•««««»• ♦ J ' Los Angeles Examiner || LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA |' ing prospect to one in love), she will regard them as - so many greater oppor tunities for study and good reading, she will find such profit and pleasure in them that her only concern for the past will be that it was such a deplorable waste of time. She must forget him. She must not feed ills vanity by picturing a desola tion of her life without him. She must learn for her own good that there are better men in the world; men more worthy of such outpouring of affection. She must learn that if she spends the time in waiting for such a man in im proving her head, instead of a hysteri cal waste of emotion, it will mean her greater happiness. As for him: One of the great mys teries of life is that a man so little worth love as he should awaken so much of it. Up-to-Date Jokes Employer—So you want mo to raise your salary? Can you give m« but two good reasons, even, why I should do ao ? Meek Employee (sadly)— Yes, air. Twins. "Pa. what does it mean when It says a. man has arrived at years of dlacre tion?” “It means, sonny, that, he’s too young to die and too old to have ajiy fun.” He —They say that the face is an in dex of the mind. She—l doubt that. It doesn’t follow because a woman's face is made up that her mind is. Mother (whose daughter Is engaged to a young farmer) —Don’t you find Bob rather rough? Daughter (blushlngly)—Yes, ma. And yet he says he shaves every day! At a very convivial dinner a man with a preternaturally solemn face arose, wineglass In hand, to propose a toast. "May we never,” he said, in deep, measured tones, "drink any more of this stuff" He paused, and there was a horrified silence for several sec onds. "Than is good for us!” Old Gent—Well, Tommy, did you take your dog to the “vet.” next door to your house, as I suggested? Boy—Yes. sir. Old Gent —And what did he say? Boy—He said Towser was sufferin’ from nerves, so Sis had better give uj playin’ the planner. CASTOR IA For Infants and Children. The Kind You Have Always Bought Bears the Signature of