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HEARST’S SUNDAY AMERICAN, ATLANTA, DA'.. SUNDAY, AUGUST 3, 1313.
ALASKA AND
A SIA TRACED
Remains of Camel and Horse
Found Along Yukon Region
Strengthens Theory,
Evelyn Nesbit Thaw Discusses 'Does It Pay?’ ||i[LiOiliifj[ IS 0
Path Along ‘Easiest Way’ Has Ravaged Beauty FUEiER OE LUXE;
EARLY HISTORY IS FOLLOWED
North American Species Thought
to Have Been Derived From
Old World.
Work Only Salvation of Girl Who
Has Strayed, She Declares
in Interview.
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.
WASHINGTON, Aug. 2.—At tho
time of the discovery of America,
horses and camels were entirely un
known In the Western Hemisphere
The Indians had never seen a horse,
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 inhabitated 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 fostil 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 the
greater part of the Pleistocene period.
It also tends to support the theory
of the existence of a wide Aslatlc-
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
fart 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 frag
ments 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 Worses
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
ica.
Hen Held Prophet of
Lost 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 Hist of these
seventeen eggs appeared the Inscrip
tlon, "Of Benjamin.’’
When Biddy laid a second with the
Inscription "Benjamin and Mary,
1515,' 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.
NEW YORK, Aug. 2.— When Eve
lyn Nesbit Thaw returned to the
United States a day or two ago, to
appear on the stage where all who
know her story may sec her at so
much per head, the press agents gave
•nit various interviews intended to
help box office receipts. But to Mary
Boyle, O'Reilly Mrs. Thaw gave her
only real intervine, 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 thought when Miss
O'Reilly asked her just as frankly.
“Docs it payt"
BY MARY DOYLE 0 REILLY.
Evelyn Nesbit, center and Incen
tive of the world-famous Thaw
scandal, greeted me with a prim
little nod Her transparent orange
muslin gown empha^dzed a girlish
figure, slight to the point of frail
ty. No longer incontestibly beauti
ful. her hazel eyes, large and long
lashed, her piquant care-free face
now subtly defiant, give her still a
beauty of the footlightu and the
studio.
The hotel’s open windows admit
ted currents of humid air. Across
the street the sun smote hotly on a
gilded rtgn 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. Harry K.
Thaw who was. "Goodness knows
I hav-i been through a great deal,
lived a great many tremendous ex
periences. And I’ve learned this:
In order to do anything proper a
woman must vvohk; 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 is impossible to
realize. Impossible for the young
girl to s*e 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 row's of pear
ly teeth. Troublous years have not
dealt lightly with “Flosfie, 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 has become cynical.
From behind a persistent pathos
of look and manner the real Evelyn
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 Neebit, 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 ag6.
I was 14 when I came to New York
to make a good living for my en
tire family. Everyone knows what
happened to me—the story Is no
torious—but I am not the only one.
Many Cases Like Hers.
"Broadway is full of other girls,
some of whone stories are a thous
and 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 else. Hundreds of them
gn down—down. They tigure 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 are glad to disappear,
thankful- to live humdrumly. Take
it from me that they make good
wives. For they know that de
cency pays.
“Why, I never knew what real
work meant till after the first trial.
CLEVELAND. Aug. 2.—Miss Cath
erine Kline is after Mayor Newton
Baker’s job. She wantft to take the
reins of city government into her ow n
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 I
nomination. She puts so much in the j
bunk each week toward this fund
She says if people can't pay all their i
campaign expenses they ought not !
to run.
HOUSEWIVES SWAP COOKING
IN SCHEME OF CO-OPERATION
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 Latshaw 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 ame
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
you can make a man of yourself?”
“Yes, sir,” McNeil said weakly.
Firemen's Cat Kills
Snake Found in Hose
Reptile, Which Scares Engine Com
pany, Believed to Have Been
Drawn From Water Main.
"When my husband was In the
Toombs I had a tutor every (lay
for four hours till I had finished
the Columbia course in literature.
Rtjtlly. I am a deep reader—a
great philosopher. I have read all
the philosophers.
“Why don’t the schools teach
children now to stick to It, instead
of a smattering of ologies? It’s
the girl who never learned to work
who guts into trouble. Everyone
uses her and abuses* her.
“I 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. I 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 this: When a wo
man is arrested the man should be
arrested, too, and get the same
publicity.
“It take«t 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 women 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 it from me."
Absorbed in her argument, Eve
lyn Thaw unconsciously proved her
claim. The too large ear. the thick
thumbs, the Oriental eyes, the prim
itive taste for' pleasures of -the
senses, all were significant stig
mata.
Intelligent, ambitious, lazy and
deeply egotistic, only an alert con
science and a training for honest
work could ever have protected
Evelyn Thaw from herself.
Governor of Kansas
Asked to ‘Keg Party'
Hodges Asked to Attend Wedding of
Country Youth If Drinking Is
Not Taboo.
TOPEKA. Aug. 2.—Governor
Hodges has received a conditional
wedding invltatidn 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." f
The Governor wrote that the Kan
sas prohibitory law prohibited the
sale of liquors, the 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 say him nay in providing all
the liquid refreshments his friends
needed to properly celebrate the
wedding. The Governor wished fhe
young man many happy returns of
the (lay and regretted that he could
not attend.
Garard S. Parsons Quits Bonne
Terre Lead Corporation; Will
Attend M. S. U.
BONNE TERRE. MO.. August 2 —
Although he was 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's 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 with 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 wall of
solid masonry one-half mile long.
To Take Farm Course.
Not having had much experience in
agriculture, young Parsonp will add
to his meager knowledge by taking
the winter course at Missouri State
University, that known as the "short
horn course."
It was when Parsons’ salary as as
sistant general manager was cut that
he tendered hip 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 which 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 hip attention particularly to the
growing of fancy live stock.
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HOOD RIVER, GREG., Aug. 2 —A
number pf families of the Upper Hood
River Valley have adopted a unique
plan for conducting their household
work on a co-operative basis this
cummer
In this district domestics are |
scarce, and the households, all with- .
In a short distance of one another. I
v ill assemble alternately at one of
the homes, where the meals will be
•repared. During the past two weeks
he residents of the China Hill dls-
jrtet of the valley have been taking !
heir meals at the home of Homer A. I
Rogerjj a Portland real estate man,
who passes the summers on his ranch
ktre, j
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 of 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 Bow en tried to snau ii
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 into
the hose froip 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.
Woods, the embezzling express mes
senger of East St. Louis, could not
resist arrest to-day when he saw the
police load a disorderly nan in the
patrol wagon. He begged the sergeant
to send him to prison.
Files Will Leaving
Estate to Himself
Widower Makes Novel Legal Move
on Account of Instrument’s
Being Made Jointly.
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.s Betize Oberkehr.
The instrument represented the
joint will of Oberkehr and wife, wihch
was executed in 1909. 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.
Lost Corn and Leg;
Now Sues for $50,000
Chiropodist Blamed for Amputation
by Patient, Who Siaffered 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.
LEAVE THEIR WEDDING RINGS.
MOLINE, ILL., Aug. 2.—Four roo-
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 U. Barnard
to retain their wedding rings,
Sister Thought Dead
40 Years Writes Him
Brother Makes Discovery When She
Advertises for Information
About Their Father.
COLORADO SPRINGS, Aug. 2.—
After mourning his sister as dead 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 about when
both were in Iowa and the sister went
to visit friend.4 in Wisconsin. Her let
ters home finally ceased and Hecox
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
Hecox continued to receive in Colo
rado Springs, led to the discovery
that she was living.
Sea Lion Captured
After Street Battle
Cambridge Teamsters Struggle With
200-Pound Monster and
Finally Lasso It.
BOSTON, Aug. 2.—Two teamsters,
after battling for three hours with a
big 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, ai»d 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 lion 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 in some of the third-class
cities. The act is mandatory.
Banker’s Daughter Had Befriend
ed Colorado Lad When She
Was Belle of the Town.
GRAND JUNCTION, COLO., Aug.
2.—Miss Mary Mlddaugh, aged 23,
once the belle of 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 who
was 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 was 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 poor
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, who 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 work by a large shepherd
dog until yesterday, when 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 will endeav
or to support her, even though she
cared little for him when she was the
social leader of Rico.
Wheeled Baby From
Boston to New York
Parents Had Been Led to Leave
Home by Swindler Who
Got Belongings.
NEW YORK, Aug. 2.—Trundling a
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 of
“James" or his trunks. The Salvation
Army took care of them.
Little Schoolgirl
Is Garden Authority
Cleveland Miss Has Won 100 Prizes
and Keeps Family Supplied
With Vegetable*.
CLEVELAND, Aug. 2.—Cleveland’s
youngest champion gardener is Rhea
Lyon, 14 years old. Rhea began
gardening at Willard School when fl
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 has supplied the
family table with vegetables summer
and winter. She works in her garden
in sensible, roomy knee trousers.
WOMAN IN BLACK DRESS
CHARMS 14-FOOT SNAKE
G. 0. ?. Postmaster
Discharges Himself
Republican Sends In Resignation on
Theory That To the Victor Be
longs Spoils.
WASHINGTON, Aug. 2.—Fame
Ls following close upon the footsteps
of H. M. Martin, postmaster at Shel-
byville, 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 lboks much as if It is the fear
of thus that is driving them to the
limit of exposing the yellowishly dis
gusting strtaks in their composition
And sympathy expended on the ‘yel
low’—w’hether <n man, monkey or ca
nine—is sympathy wasted.
"Very respectfully,
“H. M. MARTIN,
Postmaster.
“Commission expires January 16.
1915.
“Resignation died May 15, 1913.
“To the victo- belongs the spoils.”
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 pla^e.
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."
Marquis' Riches Gone
He Seeks Job to Wed
Actress Fiancee Says She Will Take
Italian Count When He
"Makes Good.”
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, with
the courage of a man. who has lost
a fortune of $3,000,000, 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, she says,
and does not want to return to it
under any consideration.
Hebrews Going Back
To California Land
$1,000,000 Company Is Promoted to
Establish Big Jewish Colony
Near Los Angeles.
LOS ANGELES, Aug. 2.—A back-
to-the-land movement in fulfillment
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.
Constable’s Badge
Of Office Is Stolen
Dog Arrives in Time to Stop Thieves
From Taking Everything
In House.
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..
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Philadelphia Doctor Declares No
Child’s Spine Need Be Bent
Two Healings Recorded.
PHILADELPHIA, Aug. 2,—“No
child need ever again grow up hunch
back.”
This statement was made to-night
by Dr. J. Torrance Rugh, 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 hi* 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 la
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,
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.
Eleven Park Mashers
Fined $120 and Costs
Young Men Who Were Making Girls
Targets for Insults Punished
by Judge.
CHICAGO, Aug. 2.—Eleven young
men who were arrested by West Park
pocllemen Tuesday night accused ot
annoying girls and young women in
Wicker Park, at North Robey and
Fowler streets, were fined a total of
$120 and costs yesterday by Munici
pal Judge 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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TIMBER FOR SEA WORK
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.
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BELLEFONTAINE, OHIO, Aug. 2.
A fourteen-foot anaconda snake,
weighing 100 pounds, crawled lazily
along fashionable Chillicothe avenue 1
and crossing a lawn took refuge in a
barn.
Somebody recalled that Mrs. Nina
Bowman, living near, had experience j
in handling snakes. Sh e 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.
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