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Evelyn Nesbit Thaw Discusses ‘Does It Pay?’
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ALASKA AND Path Along ‘Easiest Way’ Has Ravaged Beauty
ASIA TRACED
Remains of Camel and Horse
Found Along Yukon Region
Strengthens Theory.
EARLY HISTORY IS FOLLOWED
North American Species Thought
to Have Been Derived From
Old World.
WASHINGTON, Aug. 2.—At th?
time of the discovery of America,
horses and camels were entirely un
known in the Western Hemisphere.
The Indians had never seen a hors ,
and the nearest living American rep
resentative of the camel was the
llama,
It has long been known to zool
ogists. however, that both horses and
camels existed in North America in a
geological age not very remote
Within a year discoveries have been
made which indicate that camels
once inhabltated the Yukon region of
Canada, and a skull of an Alaskan
horse has also been found.
In the summer of 1912, along the
Yukon-Alaskan boundary, Copley
Amory, Jr., obtained a small collection
of fossil bones of the Pleistocene Age,
or that immediately preceding the ago
of man. These bones include several
parts of a mammoth, horse, bison and
camel. Camel bones had never before
been found in this region.
Caels Once Abundant.
It is known that several large spe
cies of camels were very abundant
on this continent during both the Pli
ocene and the Pleistocene periods, and
the discovery of their remains in the
Pleistocene deposits of the Alaskan
peninsula was not altogether unlooked
for, although their occurrence so far
within the Arctic Circle was scarcely
expected.
It tends to support the supposition
that milder climatic, conditions pre
vailed in Alaska during probably th*-
greater part of the Pleistocene period.
It altfo tends to support the theory
of the existence of a wide Aslatle-
Alaskan land connection of compara
tively recent date which for a great
length of time served as a highway
for the migration of mammals from
the Old World to America.
A not less interesting acquisition
of the National Museum is the fossil
skull of a horse found by C. P. Sny
der during mining operations near
Tofty, Alaska. It is remarkably well
preserved and retains its original
structure.
Its Importance is enhanced by the
fact that hitherto our knowledge of
Alaskan horses has been based on
very scant remains, such as single
teeth, or a very few teeth associated
together, and a few bones or frar
tnents of them. Meager as they were,
however, they showed that at some
time in the past horses had been
widely distributed in this apparently
barren region.
It is understood that the horses
which lived in North America during
the Pleistocene Age were probably
derived from stock which crossed
over from Asia Into Alaska and then
made their way over nearly th°
whole of both North and South Amer
lea.
Hen Held Prophet, of
Lust Tribe’s Advent
Chicken Lays Eggs Eight Inches
Long Bearing Inscriptions, De
clare Hebrew Colonists.
BENTON HARBOR MICH., Aug
2.— : A wonderful hen that lays eggs
eight inches long, bearing Biblical in
scriptions and mystic letters, has stir
red profoundly the colony of Israelites
located here. On the first of these
seventeen eggs appeared the inscrip
tion. “Of Benjamin.”
When Biddy laid a second with the
inscription "Benjamin and Mary.
1915,’’ she cackled her throat sore
Finally, when she laid the seven
teenth egg, labeled “Revelation—Ga
briel—name,” she laid her head over
the edge of the fancy nest and used
her pretty comb on her proud plum
age.
The good elders are keeping careful
guard over the hen and her silken
nest. They believe the inscribed eggs
foretell the coming to Benton Har
bor of the lost tribe of the Israelites.
Will Run for Mayor
Soon as She Can Vote
Young Cleveland Suffragette An
nounces Her Candidacy Before
She Is Given Franchise.
CLEVELAND, Auk. 2.—Miss Cath-
erine Kline is after Mayor Newton
Baker's Job. She wants to take the
reins of city government into her own
hands.
Just as soon as woman suffrage
carries in Ohio Miss Kline announces
that she will become a candidate for
Mayor of Cleveland.
Miss Kline is Just 24 years old. She
intends to save $1,000 for her cam
paign expenses between now and her
nomination. She puts so much in the
bank each week toward this fund.
She says if people can't pay all their
campaign expenses they ought not
to run.
Work Only Salvation of Girl Who
Has Strayed, She Declares
in Interview.
NEW YORK, Aug. 2.— When Eve
lyn Nesbit Thmr returned tit the
United Staten a day or two ayo, to
appear on the stage where all who
know 1 her story may nee her at no
much per head, the press agents gave
out various interviews intended to
help box of fire, receipts. Itut to Mary
Hoyle O'Reilly Mrs. '/'haw pare her
only real interview, told of the things
next to her heart, of the philosophy
of life she herself had learned from
dark experience.
In the following interview she tells
frankly what she though1 when Miss
O'Reilly asked her just as frankly.
“Does it payf”
BY MARY DOYLE O'REILLY.
Evelyn Nesbit, center and incen
tive of the world-famous Thaw
scandal, greeted me with a prim
little no.i. Her transparent orange
muslin gown empha-dzed a girlish
figure, slight to the point of frail
ty. No longer infontestibl.v beauti
ful. her hazel eyes, large and long
lasned. to r piquant care-free fate
now subtly defiant, give her still t
beauty of the footlights and tne
studio.
The hot el's open windows admit
ted currents of humid air. Across
the street the sun smote hotly on a
gilded vign reading “Working Wo
men’s Protective Association.”
Woman Must Work.
“You see. I’ve come back to
where I should have started,” .said
Miss Nesbit, who is Mrs Harrv K.
Thaw who was. “Goodness knows
I hav- been through a great deal,
lived a great many tremendous* ex-
rerimecs. And I’ve learned this:
In order to do nnvthlng proper a
women must wohk; she can not
Just play.
"The great trouble with Broad
way Is that It looks like a play
ground to the young girl from Osh
kosh or Kalamazoo. As a matter of
fact, with the Illusion of childhood
still upon one. it Ms impossible to
realize, impossible for the young
girl to see things as they actually
are. Knowledge comes only
through experience. And then It is
usually too late.”
Pausing Miss Nesbit laughed,
not a pleasant laugh, although the
red lips disclosed two rows of pear-
Iv teeth. Troublous years have not
dealt lightly with “Flosrie, the Fuss
of the Florodora Sextette.”
Grace and carriage and exagger
ated clothes do not always conceal
the ravages wrought by passage
along “the easiest way.” The
pleading eyes have grown shrewd,
the large. uniform mouth has
coarsened, the girlish ingenuous
ness hae become cynical.
From behind a persistent pathos
of look and manner the real Eyelyn
Thaw looks at you constantly with
the furtive watchfulness of a wo
man grown suspicious of the world.
“I am thinking of your question.”
mused Miss Nesbit. chin on open
hand. “Does it pay? Well, take
my experience for instance. Let
the average woman put herself men
tally in my place at the same age.
I was 14 when I came to New York
to make a good living for my en
tire family. Everyone knows what
happened to ine—the story Is no
torious—but T am not the only one.
Many Cases Like Hers
“Broadway Is fuM 'f ..mer girl?*,
some of WiiCwic: srories are a thous-
nu times worse than mine. Do
they ‘pull out?' That depends. It
Is a survival of the fittest. No wo
man with ambition can burn the
candle at both ends and make any
progress, neither on the stage nor
anywhere elw. Hundreds of them
gT down—down. They figure among
‘the missing.’ No need to ask them
if it pays.
“Perhaps one in ten marries—
it is a case of good luck when they
do They ure glad to disappear,
thankful to live humdrumlv. Take
it from me that they make good
wives. For they know that de
cency pays
“Why, 1 never knew what real
work meant till after the first trial.
Jury Acquits Man
To Aid His Mother
Foreman Tells Accused That Body
Considered Him Guilty, but Re
turned Verdict of Acquittal.
KANSAS CITY. Aug. 2.--William
F. McNeil, charged with second degree
murder, was acquitted by a Jury in
the Criminal Court, although the
twelve men. according to the fore
man, were “satisfied of the prisoner s
guilt.” McNeil was charged with
shooting Lee Self to death in a quar
rel.
When the jury came in and an
nounced to Judge laitshaw that a
verdict had been reached. Foreman
Arthur Brown asked permission to
speak to the prisoner.
■'McNeil," said Brown, “we are all
satisfied you are guilty, but we are
going to give you another chance.
We want you to go home and make
a man of yourself. Your mother is
getting old and needs you. You are
[ to cut out parties. Don’t you think
i you can make a man of yourself?”
“Y*l, sir," McNeil said wraklv.
Firemen's Cat Kills
Snake Found in Hose
Latest photograph of Evelyn Nesbit Thaw taken with her son,
who accompanied her back from Europe. She is to begin an
American vaudeville engagement soon.
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HOUSEWIVES SWAP COOKING
IN SCHEME OF CO-OPERATION
Reptile, Which Scares Engine Com
pany, Believed to Have Been
Drawn From Water Main.
When my husband w«*- the
Toombs I had a *_.ur every day
for four till I nad fini w 'h«-d
th'> Columbia course In literature.
Really, I am a deep reader—a
great philosopher. 1 have read all
the philosophers.
“Why don’t the schools tench
children now' to stick to it, instead
of a smattering of ologies? It’s
the girl who never learned to work
who gets into trouble. Everyone
uses her and abuses ner.
"1 have gone back to do what I
always could do—dance. I must
work to live and work comes hard
er when you have learned to drift
along. 1 think of all the girls who
lose out in the Great White Way
Just because the people who care
don’t use common sense.
"They talk and talk about the
white slave business. What they
ought to do is^thls: When a wo
man is arrested the man should be
arrested, too. and get the same
Governor of Kansas
Asked to ‘Keg Party’
Hodges Asked to At* -*d Wedding of
Country Youth If Prinking Is
Not Taboo.
TOrEKA, Aug. 2. — Governor
Hodges has received a conditional
wedding invitation from Russell
County. A young man wrote that he
was about to be married and wanted
to properly celebrate the event in
the customary way in his section of
the State—with a keg party. The
young man wanted to know' if there
was anything illegal in this. He
added:
“If there is nothing illegal in this
you are cordially invited to come and
take part in the festivities."
The Governor wrote that the Kan
sas prohibitory law prohibited the
sale of liquors, t^e giving of liquors
to minors or the maintaining of a
nuisance, and if the young man avoid
ed all of these things there was no
law to »ay him nay in providing all
the liquid refreshments his friends
needed to properly celebrate the
wedding. The Governor wished the
young man many happy returns of
the day and regretted that he could
not attend.
publicity.
“It take?* two to make that bar
gain. It has always struck me as
peculiar that,the city and the State,
knowing where women get that
money, take it in open court. I
don’t question the law' which puts
such w’omen away. It may be all
right to punish them, but not to
take their money by way of fine.
Some of them were born wrong—
must of them never had a chance.
If they could earn good wages they
would—take Jt from me.”
Absorbed in her argument, Eve
lyn Thaw' unconsciously proved her
claim. The too large ear. the thick
thumbs, the Oriental eves, the prim
itive taste for pleasures ot» the
senses, all were significant stig
mata.
Intelligent, ambitious, lazy artd
deeply egotistic, only an alert con
science and a training for honest
work could ever have protected
Evelyn Thaw' from herself.
Files Will Leaving
Estate to Himself
Widower Makes Novel Legal Move
on Account of Instrument's
Being Made Jointly.
G. 0. P. Postmaster
Discharges Himself
Republican Sends in Resignation on
Theory That To the Victor Be
longs Spoils.
Garard S. Parsons Quits Bonne
Terre Lead Corporation; Will
Attend M, S. U.
BONNE TERRE. MO.. August 2.—
Although he w r as brought up in the
lead mining business and was assist
ant manager of one of the largest
lead companies of the United States,
at a salary approximating that of a
Cabinet Minister, with a $14,000 house
rent free, Girard S. Parsons has re
signed his official duties with the St.
Joseph Lead Company., a $20,000,000
corporation, and will turn farmer.
Parson’?* will go to the farm at
Riverside. Mo., with his wife, who
was Miss Flora Bowman, daughter
of Dr. G A. Bowman, of No. 3605
Delmar Boulevard, St. Louis.
An Heir to Millions.
Parsons is one of the five heirs to
the estate of C. B. Parsons, who first
developed the lead belt of St. Fran
cois County and left a fortune esti
mated at between $5,000,000 and $6,-
000,000.
The farm to which Pardons will re
move. while it has no more than 400
acres, probably is the best-developed
in Southern Missouri. Virtually the
entire farm is lighted w'ith large elec
tric arc lights.
Tiled and graveled roads, built by
the late millionaire miner, gridiron
the estate. Along the Iron Mountain
Railway tracks, which bound the es
tate on the West, is a 10-foot w r all of
solid masonry one-half mile long.
To Take Farm Course.
Not having hqd much experience in
agriculture, young Parson?* will add
to his meager knowledge by taking
the winter course at Missouri State
University, that know r n as the “short
horn course.”
It was when Parsons’ salary as as
sistant general manager was cut that
he tendered his resignation and turn,
ed to bucolic pursuit.
He will retain his stock In both the
St. Joseph and Doe Run Lead com
panies, each of w'hich for years has
paid a regular 6 per cent annual divi
dend. aside from large surpluses, out
of which stock dividends are declared
from time to time.
In his new pursuit Parsons will de
vote his* attention particularly to the
growing of fancy live stock.
Banker’s Daughter Had Befriend
ed Colorado Lad When She
Was Belle of the Town.
Sister Thought Dead
40 Years Writes Him
Brother Makes Discovery When She
Advertises for Information
About Their Father.
GRAND JUNCTION, COLO., Aug.
2.—Miss Mary Middaugh, aged 23,
once the belle Rico and the daugh
ter of Rico’s wealthiest citizen, died
in a hovel on the outskirts of the
city in which she and her mother had
been making their residence for the
last few weeks, a home to which they
had been forced by the loss of their
wealth.
The only mourner at the young
woman’s bedside was Charles Was
son, a blind playmate of the girl when
she ruled the social world of Rico as
the daughter of a banker and electric
light plant owner. Wasson remained
true when all friends had deseretd
her. Unable to see for himself, he
refused to believe that his first love
was not the sweet-voiced maiden wdio
w f as kind to him in her opulent days.
History a Tragedy.
The history of the Middaugh family
for the last three or four years is
filled with disaster.
Frank Middaugh, until his death
in 1908, was the leading citizen of
Rico. He w'as wealthy and provided
a luxurious home fro his wife and
only daughter. The girl was educated
at a fashionable academy near Den
ver. and through her Interest In the
case of Charles Wasson, the pnor
blind boy, who, as the story books
say. always live In the little house
back of the rich man’s estate, she
took up the study of optics, but she
was never able to cure her friend.
At the death of her father the fam
ily fortunes wavered and bad invest
ments ate up their wealth. They
moved to Grand Junction, where they
opened a fashionable home and lived
in luxury for many months before
the crash came.
Became Addicted to Drugs.
Mary Middaugh’s last days is a
story of drugs, whisky and dissipa
tion.
Charles Wasson, w r ho followed his
benefactress to Grand Junction from
Rico two years ago. has been making
a living as dishwasher In a local res
taurant^ He has been guided back and
forth to w’ork by a large shepherd
dog until yesterday, w r hen someone
fed the animal poison. This loss,
coupled with the death of the girl,
prostrated him.
If the elder Middaugh woman will
consent, Charles Wasson w’ill endeav
or to support her, even though she
cared little lor him w’hen she was the
social leader of Rico.
WASHINGTON, Aug. 2.—Fame
is following close upon the footsteps
of H. M. Martin, postmaster at Shel-
byvllle, Ill. He is the only Repub
lican postmaster in Illinois who
cheerfully sent in his resignation
without being asked for it, to make
way for a Democrat.
And, further, he has written to
Senator Lewis about the other who
are not so cheerful, saying:
“Save ’em. Senator, from the wrath
of the powers that be; otherwise they
will be minus a few thousand in sal
ary. And to the men up the sapling,
it looks much as if it is the fear
of this that is driving them to the
limit of exposing the yellowishly dis
gusting streaks in their composition
And sympathy expended on the ‘yel
low’—whether in man, monkey or ca
nine—is sympathy wasted.
“Very respectfully,
“H. M. MARTIN.
Postmaster.
“Commission expires January 16,
1915.
“Resignation filed May 15, 1913.
“To the victor belongs the spoils.”
LEAD PIPE USED
III LATEST CUBE
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Philadelphia Doctor Declares No
Child’s Spine Need Be Bent,
Two Healings Recorded.
Cattle Queen Gets
Fortune for Stock
Mrs. Stonebreaker Takes 200 Steers
to Yards and Sells Them
for $20,000.
KANSAS CITY, Aug. 2.—Mrs. H. M.
Stonebreaker marketed 100 fat steers
in Kansas City to-day and Wednes
day she had a similar number on the
market. The 200 head brought $20,-
000. Mrs. Stonebreaker, who lives in
Kansas City, was at the stock yards
on both occasions and saw the steers
sold and weighed the checks drawn.
All the steers were bought by her
on the Kansas City market last fall at
$4 per 100 pounds, and the selling
price this week was $7.80 and $8.05.
“And did Mr. Stonebreaker super
vise the farm and handle the cattle?”
"My, no,” she responded. “He
scarcely had time to see the place.
I look after the direct management,
hire all the help, buy all my cattle.
I am a country reared woman and
love the farm and stock.”
PHILADELPHIA, Aug. 2.—-"No
child need ever again grow up hunch
back.”
This statement was mad© to-night
by Dr. J. Torrance Hugh, of this city,
who has saved two babies from be
ing crippled for life. Another child,
two-year-old Joseph Kelley, Is under
going in his tenement home the first
.part of the Rugh treatment, with the
promise to his mother that his back
will be made straight and strong for
the rest of his life by October.
Little Trouble in Treatment.
The new treatment can be given at
home, with no more trouble to the
mother than the ordinary care of a
helpless baby would mean.
Long and costly hospital treatment
and months of agony for the little
victims strapped to the neck in hot *
and expensive plaster casts are done
away with. %
The apparatus used by Dr. Rugh is
nothing but an oblong frame of four
pieces of lead pipe. After the spinal
column has straightened, a bone
grafting operation, to supplant dis
eased bones with healthy structures, t
is performed if necessary.
Back Gradually Straightens.
The secret of the treatment is that
the leaden sides of the frame bend
as the back straightens, so that the
baby takes a natural position and
the back is kept perfectly straight.
The pressure against the tendency to
“hunch” is gradually Increased.
This fall at the Methodist Epis
copal Hospital, where Dr. Rugh has
carried on his work, some bits of bone
will be taken from legs of the Kelley
youngster and put in his back In
place of the tubercular vertebrae that
threatened to cripple him for life, so
he will be made as strong as he was
at birth.
Marquis’ Riches Gone
He Seeks Job to Wed
Actress Fiancee Says She Will Take
Italian Count When He
"Makes Good.”
Eleven Park Mashers
Fined $120 and Costs
Young Men Who Were Making Girls
Targets for Insults Punished
by Judge.
DENVER, Aug. 2.—Although he Is
alive and enjoying the best of health,
the will of Frederick Oberkehr, No.
2572 River Drive, has been filed for
probate in the County Court. Accord
ing to the terms of the will, Ober
kehr will Inherit his own estate, in
addition to $1,000 worth of property
bequeathed to him by his dead wife,
Mr.fi Belize Oberkehr.
The instrument represented the
joint will of Oberkehr and wife, wihch
was executed in 190t. To file his
wife’s will for probate it was neces
sary for Oberkehr to present his own
will, because of the fact that the two
testaments were written on a single
sheet of paper.
HOOD RIVER, OREO., Aug. 2 —A
number of families of the Upper Hood
River Valley have adopted a unique
plan for conducting their household
work on a co-operative basis this
lummer
In this district domestics are
scarce, and the households, all with
in a short distance of one another,
will assemble alternately at one of
the homes, where the meals will be
prepared. During the past two we is
the residents of the China Hill dis
trict of the valley have been taking
r meals at the home of Homer A.
rg, & Portland real estate man,
pae#d* the summers on his ranch
NEW YORK, Aug. 2.—A snake four
feet long invaded the home of Engine
Company No. 3 last night. Captain
Bourne looked suspiciously at Fire
man Abbott when he reported Its
presence. Then he investigated.
| The snake dropped out o.' the nozzle
: of a hose that had been hung on the
! wall to dry. “Smoke,” the cat mascot
of the company, grabbed it by the
neck. Fireman Bowen tried to snauli
the cat away and was bitten by the
snake. Then “Smoke” killed the rep
tile.
A "whisky bandage” was applied
to Bowen and he is in no danger, it
is believed’the snake was drawn ipio
iP ihe hose from the water mains.
Conscience Puts Him
In the Patrol Wagon
Fugitive With $5,175 Stolen Money
Begs To Be Arrested When He
Sees Vehicle.
PHILADELPHIA. Aug. 2—Con
science stricken, and with $5.75 in
funds of the American Express Com
pany in his pockets. Alexander S. i
Woods, the embezzling express mes- j
senger of East St. Louis, could not ,
resist arrest to-day when he saw the •
police load a disorderly man in the j
patrol wagon. He begged the sergeant j
to send him to prison. i
Lost Corn and Leg;
Now Sues for $50,000
Chiropodist Blamed for Amputation
by Patient, Who Suffered From
Blood Poisning.
NEW YORK, Aug. 2.—Barret Ham
burger went to a chiropodist to have
a corn taken off his left foot. The
cure was so radical, he says, that he
had to have the foot amputated.
Hamburger brought suit yesterday
against Charles E. Levy to recover
$50,000. He declares Levy, the chi
ropodist, caused blood poisoning by
neglect.
Levy denies the loss of the leg was
due to his treatment.
COLORADO SPRTxt^c\ Ai ^
A?*:: mourning his sister as dc~a for
40 years, Philo J. Hecox. of this city,
has Just received a letter from her.
The* sister, Mrs. Helen M. Richards,
is 71 years old and lives at Cedar
Falls, Iowa.
The separation came "bout w'hen
both were in Iowa and the sister went
to visit friends in Wisconsin. Her let- |
ters home finally ceased and Hecox j
eventually came to Colorado Springs. !
Efforts on the part of Mrs. Richards |
to find her father through an adver
tisement in the old home paper, which
Hecdx continued to receive in Colo
rado Springs, led to the discovery
that she was living.
Wheeled Baby From
Boston to New Ycrl;
Parents Had Been Led to Leave
Home by Swindler Who
Got Belongings.
Sea Lion Captured
After Street Battle
Cambridge Teamsters Struggle With
200-Pound Monster and
Finally Lasso It.
NEW YORK, Aug. 2.—Trundling
baby carriage, in which lay their
2-year-old daughter Irene, Mr. and
Mrs. William Lockhard limped into
New York yesterday, hungry and
penniless.
They had walked from Boston,
sleeping by the roadside or in barns.
Lockhard said a man whom he
knew only as ‘‘James” induced him
to leave his home at Bangor, Pa., and
go to Boston, promising a place as a
teamster and a nice little flat to live
in. “James” checked the Lockhard
baggage and with the baggage checks
went on ahead to prepare the flat.
That was the last Lockhard saw o'.
“James" or his trunks. The Salvation
Army took care of them.
SAN FRANCISCO, Aug. 2.—The
romance in the life of Marquis Piero
Marcone of Turin, Italy, and his love
affair with Miss Emily Coulston, of
New York, better known by her
stage name of Theo Carew, will have
a happy termination—when the mar
quis gets a job.
Miss Carew holds a marriage li
cense, and Marquis Marcone v:‘\h
the courage of a m»n vvlio nas lost
n -i *o,uu0,000, is tyring to
make good.
Miss Carew says she hopes they
won’t have to wait long before Piero
gets established, but she wants
•somethink in sight” before they get
married, because honeymooners have
to eat as well as anyone else.
She dislikes the stage, 6he says,
and does not want to return to it
under any consideration.
CHICAGO, Aug. 2.—Eleven young
men who were arrested by West Park
pocllemen Tuesday night accused of
annoying girls and young women in
Wicker Park, at North Robey
Fowler streets, were fin*' 3 _ total of
$120 and cost? y.^crciay by Munici
pal T sabath at the West Chica
go Avenue Court.
The policemen testified that they
had^received complaints from more
than twenty women, who said they
had been made targets for insults (
while passing through the park.
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TO GROW ITS OWN
TIMBER FOR SEA WORK
Hebrews Going Back
To California Land
$1,000,000 Company Is Promoted to
Establish Big Jewish Colony
Near Los Angeles.
BOSTON, Aug. 2.—Two teamsters,
after battling for three hours with a
l»ig 200-pound sea lion in the streets
of Cambridge this afternoon, finally
captured the animal by lassoing It
and tying it up in a waterproof can
vas.
The animal ripped the canvas twice
with Its sharp teeth, and once crash
ed through a cellar window Into a
building. After being recaptured It
broke away again, taking possession
of a dry goods store Into which It
floundered.
It was taken to the Boston Aqua
rium. where it was found to be a
California sea Hon about three years
old.
Commission to Plan
Pennsylvania Cities
Body Just Created Is Given Jurisdic
tion Over All Municipalities of
Third Class.
HARRISBURG, PA* Aug. 2.—
Governor Tener has signed the bill
providing for a city planning com
mission for cities of the third class
and giving these commissions juris
diction within the city and in a ter
ritory for three miles beyond the city
limits.
This creates an additional execu
tive department to be known as the
Department of City Planning, to be
in charge of a city planning commis
sion, whose power may be conferred
upon park commissioners now in ex
istence Jn some of the third-class
cities, %'he act is mandatory.
Little Schoolgirl
Is Garden Authority
Cleveland Miss Has Won 100 Prizes
and Keeps Family Supplied
, With Vegetable*.
LOS ANGELES, Aug. 2.—A back-
to-the-land movement in fulfil.ment
of one of the most ancient promises
of the Old Testament has been in
augurated by a group of Los Angeles
Jews under the direction of S. Hirsch.
Plans for purchasing 30,000 acres of
land in California at a cost of more
than $1,000,000 for the founding of
a Jewish colony have been matured.
Hirsch managed a similar undertak
ing in Palestine twenty years ago.
WASHINGTON, Aug. 2. — The
Lighthouse Service, so far as the
Great Lakes are concerned, proposes
to grow Its own timber for the manu
facture of spar buoys, piling and other
wood articles necessary to the service.
'The service will be assisted by the
Forest Service, and expert foresters are
preparing to make an Investigation
of the reservations on which the light
houses stand, with a view to their
forest station.
GOOD
WORK
CLEVELAND, Aug. 2.—Cleveland’s
youngest champion gardener is Rhea
Lyon, 14 years old. Rhea began
gardening at Willard School when i
years old, and so successful has she
been that to-day she is recognized as
an authority.
During the eight years she has re
ceived more than 100 prizes in school
garden festivals and received approx
imately $300 from the sale of her
products.
In addition the girl hap supplied the
family table with vegetables summer
and winter. She works in her garden
in sensible, roomy knee trousers.
Constable’s Badge •
Of Office Is Stolen
Dog Arrives In Time to Stop Thieves
From Taking Everything
In House.
WOMAN IN BLACK DRESS
CHARMS 14-FOOT SNAKE
BARRINGTON, R. I., Aug, 2.—
Burglars entered the home of Con
stable Frank C. Dodge early this
morning and, while a bulldog slept
peacefully under the bed of the offi
cer, the thieves got away with a
coat with the police badge attached.
Mrs. Dodge heard footsteps and woke
up the constable. He sent the dog
down the stairs. The thieves had
spread a tablecloth on the floor and
were preparing to loot the house
when the dog arrived. Then they ran.
To
keep
my
corps of competent
dentists busy in the
dull months, I offer
e xcep tion a I ly low
prices In all my of
fices.
DR. WHITLAW
PAINLESS DENTIST
BELLEFONTAINE, OHIO, Aug. 2.
A fourteen-foot anaconda snake,
weighing 100 pounds, crawled lazily
along fashionable Chillicothe avenue
and crossing a lawn took refuge in a
barn.
Somebody recalled that Mrs. Nina
Bowman, living near, had experience
in handling snakes. She was found
bemoaning the loss of her pet when
sent for.
Dressing in a satin gown, a black
creation that the snake most fancied,
she went to the barn, made a bed for
his snakeship on a piece of canvas
and gathered the canvas about him.
called a dray and had the big reptile
hauled back to her home.
LEAVE THEIR WEDDING RINGS.
MOLINE. ILL., Aug. 2.—Four rob
bers, grateful for the grace witn
which the household of E. H. Sleight
submitted to being robbed of jewelry
and silverware valued at $1,000. al
lowed Mrs. Sleight and her daughter
recently the bride of Jay l.T. Barnard
to retain their wedding riuga.
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