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SUNDAY, MAY 11, 1013. $50,000 FEET- Mile. Napierkowska, the famous dancer and the equally noted “pedal extremities which she has insured for that sum are shown When Mile. Napierkowska took the preoau- her living on the stage she but fol- .. « .v.v. u,. vogue which lias prompted European actresses to insure eyes, hair, shoulders, or whatever portion of their make-up plays the greatest part in adding to their charm on the stage. to advantage here, lion to guard against accident to the members which make lowed a recent vogue which has Detective and Inventor Have, a Squabble Over Price To Be Paid for Its Use. MOVIES FIGURE IN THE CASEi Film for Which Sleuth Had Posed About To Be Altered When Law Interfered. Of 'IS STILL HIM At Gathering Just Held in Cali fornia Col". Colton Tells of Hor rors of Death Valley March. IlliE IIS HOI ON MID-PACIFIC ISLE Ancient Altars Found on Spot 400 Miles Northwest of Hono lulu by Scientist. NEW YORK, May 10.—William J. Bums, the detective, and the dicta graph, the deadly little eavesdropping Instrument that has won him fame in the last three years in connection with the McNamara case and the Colum bus, Atlantic City, Detroit, West Vir ginia and other notable graft cases, have parted company. K. M. Turner Inventor of the instrument, has called in all dictagraphs leased by him and in use by the Burns operatives In the field. Frank H. Smiley, Arthur Bai ley, E. S. Reed and David Barry, the four Burns operatives who used Lite dictagraph In the Columbus, Atlantic City and Detroit cases and who, as pseudo lobbyists, worked up these cases to a successful finish, have like wise bidden good-bye to their former chief. The action of Mr. Turner in cutting loose from Burns Is the culmination of a year’s misunderstanding with tiie detective. Bums, it is charged, tried to dictate who should be permitted to use the instrument and objected o paying the same rental for it as w&s charged to other agencies that had 11 in use. He argued that he was enti tled to a special price and should ha :e other substantial concessions that would give him an advantage over other detective and secret service or ganizations. Dictagraph Worth Money. In view of the prosperity that came to the W. J. Bums agency following the series of successful cases in whi fi\ the dictagraph figured, Turner said ne could see no reason why the dicta graph concern should not get some thing more substantial than glory out of It. He said lie had to eat and wear clothes as well as Burns. If the dicta graph could so largely increase the revenues of a man who,used it .n building up and clinching cases that brought in their train a multitude of other cases, the inventor protested that the beneficiary should be willing to pay for the instrument what others ■were obliged to oay for it. Turner now says he made a mis take in presenting Burns with several dictagraphs and giving him a number of others at the actual manufacturing cost following the Columbus graft case. This, the inventor declares, made Burns think he should continue to get them at cost. When Turner in sisted that he was entitled to more than an epitaph- or a niche in "Who’s Who” for his years of patient labor and his thousands of dollars of ex pense in experimental work in deve - oping the dictagraph. Burns is said to have told the inventor that the dic tagraph owed him a million dollars. Turner retorted that he could not see it, that the boot was on the other foot, that to date the only one who was on the road to getting the million from the use of the instrument was Burns. Owed Burns a Million. This was a little less than a year ago. At their subsequent meeting Bums, it is said, continued to tc'l Turner that "he owed him a million dollars." Turner, nettled by this, re plied that Burns could search him, that whatever money the dictagraph had earned had been made without thanks to Burns and tndependenlly of him on its merits and that Burns had contributed little to it. The breach now widened and Tur ner insisted upon placing Burns on the same footing as other detective agencies regarding the rental of in- strumentf?. This led to some sharp correspondence between them ani frequent letters jacking un the de tective about payments for dictu- graphs his men were using. Burns and Turner thus began to drift apart, although the Burns Agency continued to send for addi tional dictagraphs as it needed them in cases. . Turner interested other agencies in the dictagraph, and its use in im portant cases by them, it is be lieved, annoyed Burns. Realizing that the breach between him and Turner was growing wider, the de tective sought for some other device to take the place of the dictagraph in the event of Turner’s taking away from him the instruments he was using. He tried the telegraphone, a device made by Puison, for recording the voice on a wire spool. While the wire would take the impressions of the sound vibrations made by the voice it was so weak that it was of no value for the purpose e mployed, and he gave it up. Then Burns called at Menlo Park to see Edison to in terest him in perfecting a device, but Edison was immersed in an impor tant problem behind closed doors in his laboratory and could not be dis turbed. Open Break Occurred. Before the final break came one of the large film companies had pre pared an elaborate moving picture in three reels entitled "The Band Swin dlers.” in which Burns himself had posed as the detective-, in this pic ture Burns used the dictagraph to trap the lobbyists engaged in the swindle. Among other features the film contained a scene purporting to show Senator Gordan exposing the swindler,s in a speech in Congress at Washington. The dictagraph showed conspicuously in the pictures. Half a million circulars illustrating and describing the film were printed for advance distribution in the moving picture theaters of the county. These circulars also showed the dictagraph and the text matter referred to its employment in trapping the schemers. As soon as Turner withdrew the dictagraphs from Burns the detective had the film company print new cir culars. substituting the name of the microphone device for the dictagraph and a fixed pictur. was inserted in the reels showing him -holding the microphone in his hand. Would Destrov Reel. The dictagraph shown in the ree's could not be eliminated without de stroying the entire filrti, which is said ' to have cost $15,000. This the film <XO £ TO END JEALOUSY IIH NAVY Garrison and Daniels Are Ironing Out Sore Spots in Their Departments. company was unwilling to do. By| inserting the single fixed picture of the microphone with its name in- 1 Scribed underneath tho picture the mutilation of the whole film was thought to be unnecessary.^ The change from the dictagraph to the microphone could be accomplished so, far as the audience was concerned with it. Turner le.arned of the plan and through his counsel, Leventrltt, Cook & Nathan, of this city, threat ened the,Jilm company with an in junction. Counsel for the film com pany heldti conference with Turner’s lawyers on the day the films were re leased at the Broadway, Savoy and Herald Square Theaters, in this city, and fought it out. Turner accused the film iccmpany of lending itself to a deception on the public to please Burns. He showed' original copies of the illustrated circulars, in the photo graphs and text of which the use of the dictagraph, was emphasized, and then showed copies of the altered version of the Circfilhrs, in which, while the same pictures displaying the dictagraph were employed, the name of the microphone was substi tuted for that of the dictagraph. Fixed Picture Removed. Counsel for the film company or dered the removal of the fixed pic ture of the microphone inserted at Burns’ request and the elimination of ail reference to any instrument but the dictagraph. The pictures now be ing displayed have thus been changed back to the original form. Thus in the first scrimmage Turner won hands down. "Our relations with Mr. Burns, said Mr. Turner, who is president of the General Acoustic Company of this city, yesterday, "were very ami cable until we began to ask and press him to allow the dictograph to make a living out of the work it was do- ins for him. He became obsessed with the idea that it was sufficient remuneration for us to be able to say that William J. Burns was using the instrument. In other words, Burns was to make whatever charges he felt proper to his clients for the use of this instrument in their cases and to get the benefit of the enormous in crease in profitable business .it brought to his, agency, while we were getting practically nothing but sweet praise.” * CHILDREN FORGETTING GAMES, SAYS EXPERT CHICAGO, ILL., May 10.—Children of the present generation are forget ting how to play in spite of the su perior opportunities afforded them for healthful amusement, was the asser tion of Charles F. Weller, of the playgrounds and Recreation Associa tion of America, in an address here. Mr. Weller’s conviction was based on data gathered by an agent of the association sent to Richmond, Va. Milwaukee, Wis., and aKnsas City. Mo., to ascertain how children of all classes spent their time after school hours. These cities were chosen bi cause of their uniform size and pop ulation. Parisian Dancer Does Not Like Us Napierkowska, Soured by Her Ar rest, Attacks People of United States. Special Cable to The American. PARIS, May 10.—Napierkowska, the Paris dancer, who has just returned from America, has made ..some very plain remarks on ttye subject of Americans. “Really, I have not brought away a single pleasant mem ory from the United States,” stye says. “What a narrow minded people they are—how utterly impervious to any beautiful impression! I cannot un derstand how any one can sincerely admire them or their customs, or their towns without any monuments or trees, and hardly any museums. “They are hardly civilized. They jostle you in the street without apol ogizing. Any charming or styli3h ob ject one sees over there invariably comes from Europe. They have mot the slightest feeling of elegance of any sort. In fact, 1 am completely disillusioned about them.” La Napierkowska complains bitter ly of her prosecution on a charge of Indecency, saying that the dance fo** which she was inarched off to the courts like any ordinary criminal in New York had previously been given by her in several smaller cities with out the slightest objection. The judge, who had the intelllgen e to have her released, is, she says, the only exception which proves the rule of general barbarism in the United Slates. BABY CLOTHES HIDE DOG RIDING ON STREET CARS ST. PAUL, May 10— Ogndy, a full- blooded, “high-brow” Boston terrier, aided and abetted by his mistress, Mrs. Ada Gregory, has hit upon a plan of evading the street car company’s rules against carrying dogs on the cars. Mrs. Gregory figured out a way to get the dog to a photographer to get his picture taken. Eaby clothes were procured, upd Candy was soon all “dolled out” in the latest of infant finery, even to long lace petticoats and a knit cap. Then with Candy In her arms she got on the car. The trip was completed with the dog still wrapped in infant attire. When the picture had been taken the return trip was made the same way. GOVERNMENT PLANS TO USE “MOVING PICTURES” WASHINGTON. May 10.—No two cabinet members have harder posi tions to fill than the officials who hold the portfolios of War and Navy. Secretary of the Navy Josephus Daniels and Secretary of War Lindley M. Garrison have fallen heir not only to all the routine business of their departments, but to the score of petty prejudices and dislikes which have existed in the army and navy from time immemorial. In the navy, for instance, there always is the feeling that the officer who occupies a “desk job” at Wash ington is liable to get more credit than his brother officer in command of a ship at sea. The officer who is near the secretary is liable/to de velop more influence than the com mander who is away from the seat of government. Hence, when Secretary Daniels is sued his now order, making sea duty a paramount consideration to promo tion, there was a cheer of joy from the naval officers who had seen sea service and who believed that at last they had come into their own. This order, however, followed by the re moval from the position as chief of navigation of Commander Andrews, has caused the officers who formerly held “deck jobs” to fear tho worst. Secretary Daniels has taken sides actively with the sea officers against the “desk” officers. But Secretary Garrison has thus far succeeded in preventing himself from becoming a partisan in the line-staff feud of the army. He had indicated thus far that he may be the man to bring the fac tions together and do away with the enmity that found its outcropping at the las: session of Congress When Ad jutant-General Ainsworth was retired and Representative Hay, of Virginia, tried to force Major-General Wood from his position as chief of staff. Should he bring the officers of the line and the officers of the general staff together in peace and harmony, he will have done a greater service for his country than had he won a dozen battles One fact indicates that he is try ing hard A few days after he came into office Representative Hay, chair man of the House Military Affairs Committee and a sworn enemy of General Wood, called at the War De partment. Previously Secretary Garrison had retained General Wood as chief of v, t*aff and had had several conferences with him. When Representative Hay called he and the secretary had a nice long talk, and after a while the secretary called in the newspaper men. "Mr. Hay and I agree on all sub jects pertaining to this department in a general way,” said Secretary Garrison. Mi. Hay nodded assent. “Is that not so?” the secretary asked Mr. Hay. “It is so,” said Mr. Hay. CINCINNATI JUDGE‘SAYS TIPS SHOULD NOT BE GIVEN CINCINNATI, May 10.—"Do not tip any one. It is decidedly un-American to tip any one who pets paid for what he does. I hope that neither you nor any one else will tip a public serv ant.” With this advice, Judge Fricke dis missed Mrs. Louisa Smith, who was arraigned on a charge of failing to have a garbage can covered. She was cited to appear in court by Mounted Patrolman Rason. Mrs. Smith said that the collectors of garbage were rough In their handling of the can and lid, and that they threw the lid to all parts of the yard. She said that three weeks ago she found tne cover of the can lying in the car tracks twisted out of shape. “Besides. Judge. I do not Up any body, either.” This remark drew the statement from the Judge. However, he will help the police to enforce the cov ered garbage can ordinance. WASHINGTON, May 10.—Moving pictures are to show what the Depart ment of Commerce is doing for the people of the United States. Secretary Red field decided to-day that such a system of education would be of great value both to his depart - ment and to those interested in its work. He appointed a committee to confer with a New York moving pic ture concern. PITTSBURG MUSICIANS PUT BAN ON RAGTIME PITTSBURG, May 10.—Goodby “rag.” welcome Straus in Pittsburg! Between acts at the playhouse or as the diners chat in the cafes and res taurants and even when the lignt fantastic is tripped “ragtime” will be a relic of the past in this city. This remarkable evolution in the music world of Pittsburg is all due to the untiring efforts of j. Vick O’Brien, instructor of music in the Carnegie School of Technology, who by untir ing efforts at last has secured the agreement of practically all the or chestra lenders in tho city to forever eschew the “brain storm” in music and play the compositions of the mas ters and the near-great. DENVER, COL., May 10.—Only four of the “Jayhawkers of *49.” a large party of gold seekers, whose suffer ings on the trail to California thrilled the country lr> the days of the great gold rush, are living to-day. These four held a reunion in Cali fornia the other day, not far from the scene of their rescue, when they staggered out of Death Valley, mere shadows of the trackless desert there months before. Colonel John B. Col ton, whose home is In Galesburg, Ill., but who has extensive property In terests In the West, and who always attends the reunions of the “Jay- hawkers of ’49,” gave some interest ing facts concerning this most disas trous of Western pilgrimages here the other day. The members of the party were called Jayhawkers because so many of them were from Kansas. Colonel Colton and the Illinois delegation started from Galesburg on April 1, 1849, headed for the California gold fields. The Galesburg party had an eight-ox team, and left to the tolling of the church bell. A few months later, while wandering about Death Valley, with little hope of escaqe, some of the members of the party said they could still hear that bell ringing. The party made the journey to Omaha and westward along the main highway of the gold seekers, the Platte River. Left Salt Lake. On the advice of the celebrated trapper, Jim Bridger, the party left Salt Lake and travelled due South to what was known as Little Salt Lake, where other large parties were met. It was decided to depart from the travelled trail an ; strike due West to the head of the San Joaquin River, instead of going the roundabout way via Los Angeles. A larger part of the party agreed to take the short cut, and 110 wagons Started westward from Little Salt Lake. After a few days of travel the party came to a seemingly end less gorge about 2,000 feet deep, whose walls were about perpendicu lar. From this point the party entered a trackless waste. Few, if any. white men hail penetrated Death Valley at that time. The existence of such a place was known only in Indian tra dition. Soon the Jayhawkers came face to face with horrors of which they had never dreamed. Days and nights of toiling across the dazzling sands brought no relief in the form of water. Occasionally the party would come upon some alkaline water hole, but the cattle were drop ping fast owing to thirst. Horror Never Forgotten. “The horror of those days and nights in Death Valley will never b€ forgotten by any of those who went through it all,” said Colonel Colton, who, as historian of the “Jay hawkers of ’49.” has collected many volumes of personal reminiscences of the survivors. “I weighed more than 150 pounds when I began that trip and weighed sixty pounds when 1 was rescued. The others had lost flesh in proportion. We were pois ened by alkali, and many of us be came delirious. Pour rnen died. Two dropped by the wayside and gave up the struggle. A third, an un known Frenchman, became crazed from thirst and wandered off into the desert and was never seen again. The fourth man died after we had -tumbled upon the headwaters of the Rio Santa Clara. “There was a woman with us, and she bore up better than most of the men. We called her 'th • little woman,’ and we call her so to-day, for she is still living. She Is Mrs. Juliette Brier, of San Jose, Cal., and she remembers the events of sixty- four years ago as if they had hap pened yesterday. How she ever lived through those three months of suffer ing none of us wes ever able to figure out, but she kept her courage when the bravery of most of the men was at a low’ ebb Reach Fertile Valley. “On February -i, Tom Shunnon and myself, who were slightly in the lead came upon a fertile valley, where thousands of cattle were grazing under the care <>f vaqueroo. We saw a gleam of red through the trees, which proved to be tho roof of a great ranch house. We had come upon the estate of Fenor del Valle, known as the Ranch San Francis quito, a cattle ranch some eleven leagues square. The vaqueros looked at us In amazement as w’e staggered toward them. We looked like so many walk Ing skeletons. There were thirty-six of us left in the party, and w’e were all given every care and attention by the kind-hearted proprietor of the ranch. For two weeks we remained there, until we gained sufficient strength to proceed . onward. Every year I have made it a practice to visit this ranch.” Colonel Colton, though well In hfs eighties, is strong and vigorous. He remained in the West and won a for tune there, and became acquainted with many of the characters lamous in frontier history. The first reunion of the “Jayhawk ers of ’49” was held in 1872 at the home of Colonel Colton In Galesburg The last one waj3 held at the home of Mrs. Brier in San Jose. The other living members of the “Jayhawkers” of the gold tfail are I- Dow Ste phens. of San Jose, and John Gros- cup, who lives about forty miles from that place. LOS ANGELES, May 10.—On a lone- ly "little volcanic island but a half- miles wide, which rises out of the Pacific 400 miles northwest of Hono lulu, there once lived a race of pre historic men, who have left behind them evidences of a fantastic form of religious worship entirely unlike that of the natives of any of the other Pacific islands. This is? one of the remarkable facts brmyglUjDacJkJjjj^Geoi^^ naturalist of the Bureau of Biological Survey of the Department of Agri culture from a Government scientific expedition to the chain of sgnall islands extending between Honolulu and Midway Island, the relay sta tion of the Pacific cable. The Island which shows signs of former human habitation is known as Necker Inland. It is formed entirely of volcanic rock, and Is no larger than a few good-sized city blocks, be ing less than three-quarters of a mile across at Its widest point. Almost Inaccessible. Owing to the peculiar structure of the Island, rising, as it does, 300 feet from the surface of the sea. with sheer chills, and surrounded by threatening boral reefs, it has been regarded as inaccessible. Willetts succeeded In making a landing on the Island by swimming from a boat. After making his way to the foot of the formidable cliffs through the rough and shark-infest ed sea, he pulled himself to the top over the rocks. So far as is known. Willetts is the second man who has ever been on the island within hu man recollection. When the daring naturalist reached the top of the cliffs, he found, on the highest points, altars, construct ed, evidently, hundreds and perhaps thousands and thousands of years ago. There were several of these, each one placed on a rock eminence, all constructed of great slabs, hewn out of the volcanic formation of the island and built with an evident great ex penditure of human labor. The locations of these altars on the hill tops indicated that the an cient inhabitants were sun wor shipers. A few rough-hewn stone images, which have been taken from Necker Island, are entirely different from those used in the worship of the early native inhabitants of the Hawaiian Islands. Idolatrous Gods. The strange fact which impressed Willetts, as he observed these an cient altars, was that here on this desolate Island, with nothing but the beating sea for hundreds of miles* in every direction, the ancient in habitants expended their greatest ef forts in their Idolatrous worship, and the principal works they left behind them were the altars which they had raised to their gods. One of the most remarkable scien tific discoveries made by the expedi tion was the finding of a new .species of hair seal on Pearland Hermes Reef, which had never before been visited by whites. This species of seal was, there fore, entirely unknown to the world of science. Skins and skeletons were brought back for the National Mu seum at Washington. The reef where the new Hawaiian seal was* discovered was so named because two ships, the Pearl and the Hermes, were wrecked there and the crews of both vessels lost. Parts of the wreckage could be seen for many years by passing steamers,* but before the Willett* ex pedition no one had ever succeeded in making a landing on the Island. The Government expedition was in charge of Commodore Salisbury, U. S. N.. retired. RICH FATHER JAILS SON TO BREAK BAD HABITS CHICAGO, May 10.—After twenty- four hours of revelry, Lloyd Goodrich passed a nightly recently in a police station at the request of his father, Alfonso Goodrich; a wealthy manu facturer. who hopes the experience will do his son good. The elder Goodrich said: “I have got my son out of trouble at least twenty-five times when he has been arrested or near arrest. I love him dearly and would give him a half interest in my business, which Is worth $250,000, if he would brace up. “All I have done has been useless, and 1 will see what a few weeks in tho workhouse will accomplish.” Small Boys Turn Wild Lion Loose Actress Easily Calms Beast and Excitement in Freight, Yard Subsides. WEST ORANGE, N. J., May 10.—- Mme. Lalla Selblni’s lion, Pete, was loosed from a box car in the Erie freight yard here to-day by two boys who were Investigating “empties. ’ The freight yard Is walled In. so th* lion would not have been able to hurt any one except the boyB, and they hid under the car. Policeman Bernard 1 Heslin stood on a wall bf the yard and shot his pistol at Pete, but didn’t hit him. The Hon paid no attention to the shots. The two boy's under the car seemed safe enough, but the wild horses of Joe Amento, whose stock yard adjoins the railroad, were wilder than had ever been thought possible. It was Joe who came to the rescue. He used to be a cowboy. His first throw with the lasso caught the beast's shoulder. When the line slack ened Joe got a half pitch around Pete’s hind legs. The ex-cowboy had the lion pretty nearly where he want ed him when Mme. Selblnl appeared. While a big crowd shouted advi'C to which she paid no attention Mme. Selblni entered the freight yard and unsnared the lion. She patted the lion on the head, murmuring: “What have th<? naughty men beer, doing to my poor Pete. Together Mon and actress walked back to the freight ear and Pete en tered it as mild as a lamb. Man in Minnesota Insane Asylum Thought to Be George D, Ramsey, Lost for Years. Kansas Coeds Yell Loudest of Any They Also Are One-Fourth Inch Taller Than Average College Girl, and Much Stronger. LAWRENCE, KAN., May 10 — Kansas college girls should be able to talk longer, yell louder and for a longer time than any other girl stu dents in the United States, accord ing to Dr. Margaret Johnston, of the department of physical education of the University of Kansas. The Jay hawker co-ed is also taller and stronger than her Eastern sis ters. The average Kansas girl is about one-fourth inch higher than the Wellesley young woman. The average weight of the girl at Welles ley is 116 pounds, at Kansas 11T. In strength and lung capacity the Kansas girl reigns alone. The aver age capacity of the German girl is 147 cubic inches; Oberlin girls can inhale 141.2 Inches of ozone and Wellesley girls 150 cubic inches. The Kansas girl tests 165, which is far above the average for the United States. Arctic Race to Find John Franklin’s Body Captain Peter Bayne Says He Will Beat Discoverer of Blonde Eski mos in Reaching Goal. SEATTLE, May 10.—Captain Peter Bayne, the explorer, announced to day that he will head an Arctic expe dition in an effort to recover the body of Sir John Franklin. Captain Bayne claims to know the location of the explorer's body na well as the point at which a number of records were cached. Ho declares that he will beat Ste- fanaon, discoverer of the tribe o? blonde Eskimos in his race to Vlc- torlaland. WOMAN ROBBED OF PURSE WHILE KNEELING IN PRAYER LOS ANGELES, May 10.—While at the devotional altar in St. Vibianas Cathedral this morning Miss M. Ham- brose, of San Francisco, was robbed of a purse containing $37, according to the report she made to the local police to-day. Miss Hambrpse’s only companion in the pew was another woman, of whom, however, she is un- able to give a description. WASHINGTON, May 10.—It was suggested to-night that the myste rious patient in the Minnesota State Hospital for the Insane at Rochester. Minn., who has forgotten his Identity and his past, may be George D. Ram say, usually called “Jack,” who dis appeared from Washington in Sep tember. 1908. George D. Ramsay is a son of Rear Admiral Francis Munroe Ramsay, retired, and his grandfather was Martin McMahon, of New York, once Minister to Paraguay. Members of the Ramsay family are keenly interested in the suggestion that the man in th© Minnesota asv him may be their missing relative. They have found no trace of “Jack” Ramsay since he vanished in 1908, although circulars bearing his de scription. have been sent to evei r part of the county. The description of the "man who forgot,” as furnished to the Navy De partment, says he is about 40 yeats old. This would tally with the age of “Jack" Ramsay. The height of the man at Rochester is five feet five aijd a half inches. If that is correct," said u relative of "Jack” Ramsay to-night, “then the man is not Jack. His height was five feet nine and a half inches.” Ramsay was married. His wife and three children moved to Los Angeles after he disappeared. He never saw service in the navy. Kisses No Mark of Love’s Degree Wife Considers Osculation U-nneces* sary After 20 Years of Marriage. Received Many Postcards. STEUBENVILLE, OHIO, May 10. —The evidence in the divorce suit of Andrew Smith, a wealthy farmer of Island Greek Township, against Mrs. Smith was heard before Judge C. H. Smith to-day. Smith alleged he had not been kissed in seventeen years and his wife received too many postcards from other men. Mrs. Smith admitted she probably had not been as free with oscula tion as Avhen first married, but she said she did ndt believe kisses indi cated the degree of affection after a couple had been married many years. About 200 postcards, some bearing printed messages, such as “I aid yours” and “I’ll not forget you,” wer« offered as evidence by the husband, The wife admitted receiving th* cards, but said that a printed mes* sage “did not mean anything,” as a written message would. She said Smith had received card* from women and she was “not a bit jealous.” She said Smith had treat ed her cruelly, and added, “but I Ilk* him pretty well.” They have been married twenty years. ROAD HELPS SWITCHMAN TO FIGHT “LOAN SHARK" KANSAS CITY, MO., May 10—Th« legal force of the Missouri Pacific Railway, under orders of President B. F. Bush, have taken up the case of Dan Dugan, a switchman, in his efforts to save his wages from as signment by a Kansas City (KarwJ “loan shark." Dugan borrowed $40 in December, 1909, to help a brother switchman pay his wife’s burial expenses. Al though Dugan has paid $16, the “shark" says he still owes $80. Dugan has off* red to pay the prin cipal and a legal rate of interest, but has refused to pay a usurious rate. FEE SYSTEM EVIL AS LICENSING OF BURGLARS 12 HALF-FARE TICKETS TRANSPORT MAN’S FAMILY COLUMBUS, OHIO, May 10.— “Give me four full fare and twelve half fare tickets to St. Louis,” said a man in the Union Station. The ticket seller looked over the man’s shoulder and saw twelve children, none of whom was over eight years old. The purchaser was Daniel N. 'Velter, an iron worker, of Sharon, Pa, CHICAGO, May 10.—Henry Nell, father of the mothers’ pension bill, and who was lately elected a justice of the peace In Oak Park township, announces that he would serve with out fees and would Introduce Chris- tion methods into the work. “I accepted this office with the In tention of abolishing the entire sys tem of judicial fees,” said Mr. Neil. “The system is as evil as would be the licensing of burglars.” Mr. Neil has written letters to all the ministers in Oak Park township asking iheir advice on what should be the Christian attitude of a justice of the peace toward existing laws and customs. VETERAN “JACK TARS” ARE NEEDED FOR CENTENNIAL WASHINGTON, May 10.—Secretary Daniels announced to-day that his service is greatly in need of veteran “jack tars” who are familiar with the technical details of the almost forgot ten art of rigging sailing vessels. The services of these ancient mar iners are needed in order that the brig Niagara, recently raised from th* bottom of Luke Erie, may be rig ged properly for the centennial cele bration of the batle of Lake Erie. It is the desire to have the vessel, which was* Perry’s flagship, rigged as nearly as possible as she was when the valiant commodore trod her decks.