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— liibAiioi A suinDAi AJi.LitlLA,\, AiaAAjA, UA., ISiliiMUA 1, AulliL 1D13. Girl Who Eloped With a +•+ +•*!• +•+ *•+ Floretta Whaley Not Sorry But Applications of 8,020 Per sons to Become Official Heroes Have Been Refused. $671,049 PAID OUT The Pension List Last Year Amounted to $58,380—One Nlan Won $20,000 in Case. | f ; i remained Were forced ^ASHTnrr.TON, April 28.—.Seven hundred and twenty-three Is the offl- «f «i number of the ribboned Carnegie heroes In the United States and Can ada. The applications or indorsements <ff 8,0*0 persons as heroes have been refused by the Carnegie Hero Fund Commission. The applications or In dorsements of 1,102 are pending. To heroes and their dependents have been paid $671,041.90 In the nine years the hero fund has been opera tive. The pension list last year amounted to $58,880. The most notable cases of heroism that paid must be registered under tile name of Smith. Eight heroes, six of them bearing this name, won gold medals and $20,000 in cash. This Is the largest and, financially speaking, the most profitable Job of heroism the report of the Hero Fund Commission mentions: February 12, 1907, the schooner Elsie, with the six Smiths—John W (master), A. W., G. E., H. L., Earl A. and Louis E. -and two Littlefields— John M. and Edgar—as crew, put twelve miles to sea in a thtrty-flve- mile gale and rescued eight people from a raft that had been put off the steamer Larchmont outside Block Is land, R. ).' Smiths Lead List. For this Master John W. Smith, fifty-three years old, got a gold medal and $4,000: A. W. Smith, a gold medal and $2,one t,> educate his daughter; i . E Smith, a gold medal and $2,000 to educate his son: Harry L. Smith, h gold medal and $ 1.000; Ilarl A. Smith, a gold medsi and $2,000 for tin education of his son, and Louis U. Smith, nineteen years old, a gold medal and $1,000. The report does not go Into detail about acts of lira very-, but from the record the most appealing and strik ing deeds of heroism were performed b- a woman and a bo- of eleven. Mrs. Marie V. B. I^ingdon, twenty, of Taluma, Wash.. January 11, 1907, saved, unassisted, three persons and attempted to save a fourth In a snow storm. With the thermometer 14 degrees below zero and the snow six feel deep, Mrs. Langdon, without snowshoes, went 600 feet from her home and found Mrs Jacques and two of her children only partly clothed, who had fled from their burning home Mrs. Langdon relieved the stricken woman of her baby, Estelle, one year old. and. followed by the other, car ried the Infant to her home. Rescues Young Boy. Mrs Langdon then returned and rescued the boy, Henry, two years old, and carried him back to the house. She then struggled back through the deep snow, without snowshoes, to Gertrude Jacques, four veers old. whom the mother had been compelled to abandon after haring wrapped her In the only skirt she wore. Mrs Langdon took the child up, but after carrying her half way to bet- house she found the girl was dead. She was compelled to abandon the body and barely had strength enough to reach home herself. All Mrs, Langdon received was a silver medal. Another thrilling rescue was the deed of a Missouri boy, Iiyndon B. Phllfer. thirteen, of Rich Hill. I’hlfer aaw Paul Burns, five years old, in me middle of a railroad trestle over a creek. A train was approaching and the child seemed doomed. Phifer ran on to the trestle, and. having no time to carry the child qff, pushed him into the creek eight feet below. It was the lesser of the two evils. Phifer hung from a tie until the train passed He received a silver medal and $2,000. ! The statistics of the report prove that chavalry, courage and self-sacri fice are not dead and that no man, woman or child dies without some other person, often a complete stran ger, being willing to lay down his or her life to save that life. WARNS INDIANS TO BE SHY OF WHITE LAND SHARKS CARLISLE. April 26. In a speech delivered before, the Government lu- dtan School here, Robert Yellowtail, ajn educated Crow Indian and a suc cessful Montana rancher, declared that the great problems that confront the American Indian to-day the suc cessful solution of the bread and but ter question, the intelligent and ef fective control of tuberculosis and 1 rachoma, and his complete emancipa tion as a ward and pronounced :n- dom peteni. Warning the Indians to hold on to their lands, ho told them to keep shy of the white land shark and grafter. WOMEN AND COLLEGE MEN ON TOPEKA POLICE FORCE HOW PASTOR AND HIS WARD WANDERED OUTCASTS FOR SIX YEARS April 30. 1907—The Rev. Jere Konde Cooke’ rector of St. Georges Episcopal Church at Hempstead, L. I., eloped with Floretta Whaley, hit seventeen-year-old ward. May 1, 1907—They went to St. Louis. May 2, 1907—They fled to Los Angeles. May 6, 1907—They went to San Diego, where weok, then back to Los Angelea. May 25, 1907—Moved to San Francisco, residence thirteen times. May 28, 1908—Cooke announced: “I am bound to Floretta Whaley in tha eyes of God.” May 1, 1912—Returned to New York with Floretta and their two sons. As painter and decorator went to Brooklyn. Forced to move five times. April 16, 1913—Cooke served with summon; in action for divorce. Dorothy Dix Hears the “Confession” of Young Woman Who Will Become Cooke’s Wife After First Spouse Seeures a Decree. Married Pastor Tells Her Life Story [HICflLII'S CHUM v • +•+ But Sends Warning to Others of Sex ABOUT FOU A WIFE Floretta Whaley and her blue-eyed, fair-headed little boys, Chester and Paul. By DOROTHY DIX. NEW YORK, April 28.—"Mrs Cooke is going to get a divorce at last. As soon as possible we are going to legalize a marriage that has never been anything but a pure and holy marriage to our eyes—the union of two people who love each other with all their hearts—and now if peo ple will only let us alone to live our lives simply, honestly and indus triously, it Is all we ask. And I ask this for the sake of my little chllrden more than for my own." This Is the brave and pathetic plea that Floretta Whaley made when I saw her In the plain, but comfortable little home that she and her husband have established upon the upper West .Side. Her two little boys, as beauti ful as cherubs, clung to her skirts. The radiance of the good news that her long and patient waiting was nearly over, and that she was soon to be wife In name as well as reality wns In her eyes, and as she smiled at me I thought I had never seen a pret tier or a more radiant woman. By all theories of retribution she should have been a furtive, hunted creature, with her youth blasted, and her beauty gone. Instead she Is young and beautiful, with a look and man ner as frank as a boy’s. When she went away some seven years ago she was an Immature little school girl. She comes back an intellectual wo man. a woman who has studied, and read, and thought, and grown. No doubt she has been through the fiery furnace-—a woman must, situated as she has been—but she has come out of It refined gold, and If ever the old slogan of romance—"all for love and the world well lost”—Justifies Itself, It has done so In this - ase. Warns Other Girls. 'But I don’t recommend any other girl to do as I did." she says, her blue eyes shining, "and It often trou bles me to think that my example may Influence some foolish young girl to take a stpp that may lead her to ruin. For every girl doesn't get the man 1 did. A mean man will take ad vantage of such an Irregular relation ship to betray a girl and forsake her, but to a noble man like Mr. Cooke it only makes him more loyal to her ana tenderer to her. I have never regret ted for one minute the step 1 took, but 1 would not advise any other girl to take it. It Is too great a risk, as 4 see now, though 1 didn't appreciate the danger at the time. "So much has been written and published about us that Isn't true," she went on, “that I want to tell .for the first time, the whole story of my life, and my and .Tere's romance'. To begin at the beginning, my mothev died when 1 was a little girl, and my father when 1 was fifteen, so I was raised by my grandmother, who stood in a mother's place to me, and whom I loved as if she had been a mother. 1 first met Dr. Cooke when I was sixteen, and although 1 was such a child, we fell madly In love with each other. He was a married man. but— well, young as 1 was, bound as he was, we knew- that we had found our mates, and nothing else In the whole world mattered to us. We wanted to be married legally. We didn’t want to shock anybody, or tlout conven tions. He told his wife and begged her to divorce him and she refused to do it. Bo what could wo do? Saved For the Flight. "We knew that she would never change, so we determined to be happy in spite of the law if wc could be no other way. We saved up our money for a whole year before wc went away, getting ready all the time to go. Then Jere resigned his pas torate, and early one morning 1 took the train for the city and met Jere at a place we had agreed upon—on Sixth Avenue, near a little church. He was waiting for me at the church,’ though we couldn’t go in It to be married. "That night we went over to Jer sey and spent the night, and the next da\ we started West, stopping off ,t day 1n St. Louis and then going direct to‘Los Angeles, where we fished for a week by way of a honeymoon. "Jere Is by trade a painter. He made his way through college by fol lowing the business, and so he had no trouble about getting work. He has never made less than $3 a day. and ot- ten from seven to eight, so we have never been in want, or desperately poor as the papers have said. We stayed in I.os Angeles awhile, then went to San Francisco, and then back to Los Angeles for the sake of the climate. . . 'Last winter my grandmother, who is nearly eighty, was In very poor health, and wished to see me, so she sent me the money to come East on. and we came to New York where we shall at ay as long as she lives. I go to see her every week, and take the children of whom she is Inordinately fond. "And right here 1 want to say that : it is not true that she hates Mr. Cooke, and lias never forgiven him. witli him for and that for another she delayed for the peace of mind of her parents, who were old and feeble, and who were bitterly opposed to divorce. "She is a fine woman, but she and Mr. Cooke were never happy together because they were not congenial As he says, ‘You may have a perfectly good monkey and a perfectly good parrot, but if you put them in the same cage there's going to be a monkey and a parrot time of it.’ "And you?” I asked. "I have been happy. I have never been sorry for a minute for what I did. I wish that I had not had to do it, but I don’t wish it undone. Jere and I are perfectly congenial, perfectly happy together and with Old Fire Horse Ready for Duty, but Chief Fails j Eleven Years Out of Harness Ani mal Answers at Sound of Gong. Charles C. Clusker, of San Diego, the Oldest Elk in the World, Wants a Partner. “NEVER WORRY,” HE SAYS | Tells How He and “Abe” Roamed the Woods Together, Hunt ing for Raccoons. Woman Spiritualist Wants No Mourning by Friends or Rela tives After Her Death. . She was very angry I awhile, but she has gotten over that. TOPLKA. KAN . April “b.—W omen . an( j t ^ e on i y reason he does not go and college graduates will be on! l(( gee j ier ig because it would make tjopeka's reorganized police force ae a result of the appointment of Dr. C. M. Sheldon, author of “In His Steps.” to the Civic Service Commis sion of the city “Ths new patrolmen will rank in the community with the ministers, i he teacher and everyone else with the good of the community at heart.” declares the noted author-teacher. “No higher slaries will be paid, but the saving in crime prevention will hfnore than repay the city for extra ■k scj.'' much talk in Hempstead if ht returned there, and we want to have our children. We live for each other. 1 have had some hardships, yes. but so has lie. If 1 made sac rifices for him, he did for me. It was a big thing to give up the pas torate of a fashionable church and go back to being a painter at so much a day. “1 have worked hard, but 1 like it. 1 didn't know how to do a thing when I went away. Now 1 am proud of my housekeeping, and 1 even do my washing. And" here she laughed out loud with the joyous- ness of youth—“a woman came by selling one of those new-fangled washing machines the other day— the tin ones that work on the vacuum-cleaning theory, you know and after she had gone I punched holes in u tin can and made me one that worked just as well. Shocked at New Yorkers. “So far as being ostracized is con cerned. I have never known that. We lived among strangers, who neither knew nor cared about our past. And always 1 have had a clean conscience, for I have never consid ered that l have done wrong. Why, goodness. I see so many people do ing things, especially since 1 tame back to New York, that 1 wouldn’t do that, I am shocked and feel that l am a perfect prude. “But, as I said before. I do not ad vise any other girl to defy the world hope to fade out of the limelight of publicity, the world forgetting, by the world forgotten. We just want to lead useful, quiet, industrious lives, and to crive our boys as good an edu cation as their father had.” And Floretta Whaley smiled as she cuddled together the two little fellows who had been wandering in and out of the room as we talked. Like their mother they have deep blue eyes and golden hair, and fair skin, and they are so extraordinary handsome and bright that they justify all of the old traditions about the beauty and talent of “love children.” LOVE SHATTERS THEORY OF MARRIAGE BY LOT LOS ANGELES, April 26.—George W. Da C unha. known as an advocate of marriage by public allotment, r <’- pudiated his own theory by marrying a Santa Monica young woman in the world-old way. * While a resident of Montclair. X. J., several years ago, Da Ounha canie into public notice by his advocating of marriage by lot. Although the marriage took place last December it was not publicly known until to-day. because Da ('unha feared lie would become a vic tim of ridicule. matters as little discussed as we can j as l did. Generally it does not turn for the children’s sake. l’ ut disastrously. But in my case I ...... r- r-. . r loved one of Gods noblemen, a man No III Will For First Wife. | who is 8tronff . and true . and tender. ‘ As far as Mr. Cooke's first wife : and who has been everythin)!: to me. is concerned, neither one of ns has ^uide, counsellor and friend and hus- a single hard feeling toward her for j band lutving so long delayed getting her “Of course we are very happy that divorce, and thus enabling us to our troubles are nearly ended, and legalize our marriage. Wc feel that j that we can soon be regularly mar- she had certain scruples that she had j ried. and give our children the name to outgrow, or conquer, for one thing, |to which they are entitled. Then we alcohol. Make Alcohol Out O' Sugar. TOPEKA. April 26 Members of the Kansas Board of Health said to day that the State prohibitory lav was being violated by the sale of apple cider, which contains a large percentage of alcohol. They said the cider is made sweet, but just before it is sold sugar Is added to It. The sugar ferments and produces the DANBURY. CONN.. April 26.— Mrs. Samuel T. Brown, a spiritual ist. who died at her home here re cently, left a poem with directions as to her funeral. She was 75 years old. She specified that there should be no funeral ceremony of any kind, that no crepe or emblem of mourning should be worn by her friends or rel atives, and that her body should be cremated and the ashes scattered in the fields. Selections from the poem read: When I am dead let not the narrow grave Shroud with its darkness that which once I was. Shutting me out from all the life and light That nature brings in changing sea sons here; Let no one robed In customary black Read threadbare precepts e’er the tenement— That held my being first; and this I pray No gloomy crepe or ceremonial grief. If there be those who loved me when 1 lived Be sure they mourn, and in their in most hearts. 'Putting aside the many faults I had And thinking only of my better self. SAN DIEGO, CALIF., April 36.— Charles C. Clusker, the oldest Elk In the world, 103 years of age and a bachelor, announces that he Is look ing for a wife. He is not looking pre cipitately, for his vow that he will forswear the Independence of bache lorhood does not Involve fulfillment until 1915, when he will have reached the mellow old age of 105. Clusker is hale and hearty. He was a boyhood chum of Abraham Lincoln, and it is his great pleasure to tell how they roamed the woods together nearly a hundred years ago, eating persimmons and pawpaws, and a lit tle later hunting the raccoon and the possum. Every day this sturdy old gentle man walks twenty city blocks for ex ercise, and when he wants a drink he takes it, and usually it Is not at a fountain. Looks to Be About 60. Clusker was born in Richmond, Madison County, Kentucky, March 27, 1810, according to authentic records which he willingly shows to all who ask for proof of his remarkable age. It is not his age, alone, that causes wonderment, but he Is so remarkably hale he apears to be nearer 60 than the century mark. “Uncle Charley,” as he Is called, does not carry a cane, he has never used glasses, his hand Is firm and sure, and he hdars the lowest spoken words. Among his most precious memories he cherishes that of little “Abe” Lin coln, with whom he went gunning for squirrels when he and Abe were boys. Abe was a year older than Uncle Charley, but could not bring down the game. "He never did learn how to shoot,” Uncle Charley says, "and it was a constant trial to him that I could rest my long squtrrel-gun on the back of a log and bring down any thing in sight.” Leads Enjoyable Single Life. Speaking of the fair sex, from liis vast opportunity tor experience. Uncle Charley said: "I have been a bachelor all my life. I have always done Just what I pleased and I have always led a peaceful and enjoyable existence. “I believe that 105 years is the proper time for a man to marry, and I am contemplating taking a wife In 1915 by way of celebrating the Pan ama-Pacific Exposition and the open ing of the Panama Canal. "What kind of a girl will I marry? Well, now you’ve got me.” The old boy chuckled when he got around to the ancient discussion about the Ideal woman. He had heard the subject discussed from every phase for the last one hundred years. Fought in Mexican War. Uncle Charley was a major in the militia before the Mexican W r ar. When the war came he went to the front and participated In a number of engagements. Soon afterward he and several companions came to Cal ifornia, where he lias lived ever since. Uncle Charley attributes his lon gevity to his motto: “Never worry, eat heartily, sleep soundly and be happy.” He enjoys the distinction of being the oldest Elk in the world. INDIANAPOLIS, IND., April 26.— Not long ago a fire horse was brought In from the farm, a horse thirty-six years old, that had not had a harness on his back for eleven years. This horse used to pull the fire chiefs wagon. He had the faculty of get ting under the shafts quicker than ever any horse did that stood on four feet. The horse was barefooted, his mane, tail and fetlocks grown out long and shaggy. The firemen went to work cleaning him with loving caresses. The old red wagon of the chief was brought out. The shafts were lifted in the air with the har ness hanging. The horse was stand ing less than 200 feet away. At a signal the gong was sounded, and, like a flash of light, the old vet eran leaped for the shafts. A fireman snapped the harness into place. The old fire chief watched the whole per formance, intending to spring into the wagon, provided the horse had not forgotten his cue. The horse knew how to do it; but alas, the venerable chief, now grown gray, merely stumbled and tumbled forward, threw his arms around the old horse's neck, burst into tears and cried like a baby. FLIRTING EKES III BEHAVE IT itlL New York Woman Flashes Orbs on His Honor While Admit^ .g Husband’s Complaint. MOST CAUSES ADJOURNMENT She Insists on a Separation and Rejects All of Husband’s Entreaties to Return. Woman Elected to Offioe After Fight With Ring Bosses Name Barred From Ballot Written in by Independent Wisconsin Voters. MARINETTE, WIS.. April 26 — After a long batle, Mrs. Gertrude Schwlttay, was given a certificate of election to-day as Superintendent of Public Schools of Marinette County. She is the widow of a former Assem blyman, who died while charges af fecting his service as Sheriff were pending. Mr. Schwartz and his wife always declared these charges were due to his war against rich lumber interests. Despite repeated charges against hint he was elected District Attorney and was elected Sheriff when disbarred as a lawyer Mrs. Schwittay was barred ofT the ballot on a technicality, but was elect ed by Independent voters, who wrote her name on the ballot. Her election was contested on the ground that she was unqualified by law for the of fice. She won the contest. Finds Himaslf “Dead.” ST. LOUIS, April 26.—When Erlcli Schrader, once a newspaper office boy In St. Louis, returned home recently after a long absence, he was dead, but didn’t know it. That Is. he was legally dead, declared so by the Pro bate Court. NEW YORK, April 26—The beau, ttful hazel eyes of Mrs. Ophelia Sehlflf, which "just would not be, have,” nearly caused a premature ad journment of her separation trial yes„ terday before Sunreme Court Justice Giegerlch. After she had ackntgwledged that her shifting glances might be "an affliction,” the Court jocularly re marked that it would take Judicial notice of the eyes, but would not ac cept them as exhibits in the case. “Isn’t tt true that your husband has constantly found fault because of your flirting with your eyes?" she was asked, “Yes, Indeed, that’s true," she ad mitted, fixing her glance on His Honor. ‘"Well, what’s the matter with your eyes?” “Really, I can’t say," she replied. “Have you been using your eyes In this courtroom?” “Well, I may have; I really don't know what they do,” she answered. Mrs. Schlff is the young wife of Maximillian Schlff, a Broadway mer chant. She scorned the chance the Court and her husband gave her to go back to the Schlff residence and preside over it again. Mrs. Schlff said frankly that shs wanted a separation from her hus band, and had long ago told him that If he understood the English language he and she would have parted com pany before they did. Schlff complained that his sister-in- law caused most of his trouble by her operatic aspirations. She intro duced into the Schlff home an “opera coach” named Simons. When Schlff came back from a trip through the West he heard that Simons had been seen In restaurants and theaters with Mrs. Schlff. After some discussion of the subject Schiff left his wife “Do you still refuse to go to your husband?” asked the Court. “I do.” she said. “Ace of Diamonds” Is Latest Dance Masters to Meet Fire With Fire, but the Naughty Positions Are Absent. MODEST MINER MISSES $1,000 AND HERO MEDAL MULBERRY, KAN., April 28 Thomas K. Gibbons, a young coal miner, whom no one suspected of be ing a hero until a draft for $1,000 and a Carnegie medal were received by one of the local banks, to be delivered to him. has disappeared. In the Car negie hero bulletin, just issued, it is stated that Gibbons assisted in an attempt to save the lives of two min ers from suffocating at Cokedale, Colo., February 10, 1911. Gibbons, according to those who knew him, was of a very quiet dis position and never talked of himself He worked in the mines here several months, but never was heard to men tion the mine accident. CHICAGO, April 28.—Police will not permit the grizzly bear or the turkey trot—but wait until they see the Sappho, and the ace of diamonds. Those y last two travel under the euphonious and rather old-fashioned name of folk dances. Dancing masters of Chicago, hav ing failed to standardize the tango, have hit upon folk dancing us a counter-irritant. They are planning a national congress to popularize it. Those who teach how to cavort In a ballroom assembled the other day and decided to fight fire with fire, or, rather, names with names. Hence the Sappho, the ace of diamonds, and one other, the shoemaker's glide. By eliminating the naughty positions— the risque. shuffling, syncopated grizzly steps—and Injecting a few nifty swings and pretty points, the dancing masters believe they will offer something everybody will, juat go crazy about. SENATOR PINES FOR OLD TIME KITCHEN CHAIRS WASHINGTON, April 28.—Senator Sherman, of Illinois, cannot adjust himself to the luxuries which are sup posed to be essential for the com fort of a United States Senator. The furniture is high-grade mahogany. A flat-top desk of that wood is in the Senator's inner sanctum. But ne could stand the desk. The large luxurious, upholstered mahogany desk chair is what h«e finds uncomfortable, and is now look ing for one of the kitchen variety, with wooden seat and straight bark, the kind he used at Springfield. As the twenty-flve-cent kind would look out of place among the mahogany furnishings, a small mahogany chair, with a straight back was purchased especially for the Illinois Senator. ^ he Gearless Transmission! 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