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St KAY AMhliH WM, ATIjAMTA, UA., SUNDAY, AUGUST 17, 1913.
Distinguished Prisoner Writes
Poem When Told That Attorney
General Denied Him Parole,
John Lind Has Most Unusual Job
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But Lind Is Most Unusual Man
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falling Bluffs Is His Specialty
Formor Governor John Lind, of Minnesota, who is in Mex
ico to tell President Huerta that President Wilson disapproves
of him an dhis policies.
Webster’s Old Home Coffee Tastes Cause
Restored by Society Break in Family
CONVICTS ARE SYMPATHETIC
Author Gives No Outward Sign of
Keen Disappointment, Declares
Penitentiary Inmates.
Preparations Are Made for Celebra
tion of Rehabilitation of Birth
place of Statesman.
FRANKLIN. N. H.. Aug: 16.—Tho
ancient New Hampshire farmhouse
In which Daniel Webster was born
haB been reset on its old foundations
and restored to look as It did in the
eighteenth century when Webster was
a small boy, and preparations have
been made to celebrate its rehabilita
tion. It is in the town of Franklin,
and the celebration will take place
August 28.
It is expected that President Wilson
will attend and deliver an address.
Samuel W. McCall, former Congress
man from Massachusetts, who was
the principal speaker at the hun
dredth anniversary of Webster’s
graduation from Dartmouth College,
will speak.
Wife Liked Hers Strong, Husband
Preferred It Weak, so She
Entered Suit.
ALLENTOWN. PA., Aug 16 —Black
coffee and the high cost of living
wrecked the romance of Mr. and Mrs.
Andrew Hauser, of Catasauqua, who
were married three years ago, when
ho was 63 and she was 43, each em
barking in matrimony the second
time. The wife, Zenohla, has started
divorce proceedings.
Mrs. Hauser says she was used
from life with her first husband to
good black coffee. Hauser wanted
his coffee as weak as dishwater, and
also objected to the bills she ran up
at the store for her favorite bever
age. The rackets that followed got
on her nerves to such on extent that
she desires to resume the state of
single blessedness.
The court allowed her $6 a week
temporary alimony.
State Has Turkey
Farm to Cut Price
Ohio Goes into Poultry Business
When Cost of Thanksgiving
Birds Soar.
COLUMBUS, OHIO, Aug. 16—The
State of Ohio Is solnR Into tho turkey
raising business. Kind o' forced into
It, as It were, because of the high
price of the favored Thanksgiving
bird and the demand from State In
stitutions for the bird.
The experiment was tried out a lit
tle the last year, and so successful did
it prove that this year practically in
all of the State institutions where any
chickens are kept turkeys have been
added.
The price of turkeys has been grad
ually soaring until they have become
almost too expensive for even the
State of Ohio to buy, and rather than
permit !he wards of the State to go
hungry on Thanksgiving Dav the em
ployees of the different Institutions
began the work of hatching them.
Rivals David Harum Returns $1,000 Gems
As a Horse Trader And Gets $1 Reward
But Youth Is Forced to Pay Back
Money He Got for a
‘Frozen Tall/
INDIANAPOLIS, Aug. 16.—William
II. Schmidt, 17, a horse trader, was
directed to give back $70 he accepted
from Tom Cavanaugh for a “frozen
tail” horse, and return the horse to
Tom Shroyer, a liveryman, when his
case was heard in court.
Schmidt was charged with false
pretenses, in that he represented the
horse to have a useful and active fly
chaser. As a matter of fact, the
swatting appendage was merely or
namental and utterly useless.
Schmidt said he did not know the
horse had .a broken tail.
“Why that horse was as helpless as
a baby,” asserted Mrs. Cavanaugh.
“We had to carry along a fly brush
as well as a buggy whip everywhere
we went.”
Laundry Girl Is Not Even Thanked
When She Returns
Diamonds.
NEW YORK, Aug. 16.—For return
ing $1,000 worth of Jewelry to its
owner. Miss Ella Veronica Shea, of
No. 069 Putnam ovenue, Brooklyn,
wa* rewarded with a dollar.
Miss Shea works in a laundry.
While unpacking a laundry bag re
ceived from Mrs. I. Rodberg of No.
635 Decatur street, she found four
diamond rings and a diamond lavall-
lete.
“The shock which Mrs. Rodberg got
when she recetved the jewelry was so
great she forgot to thank me,” said
Miss Shea yesterday. “I had scarce
ly got back to the office when a man 1
came running after me with an en
velope in which was a note of thanks
and—a dollar."
Julian Hawthorne, novelist, poet,
philosopher, in the Atlanta Federal
prison, was a very characteristic Ju
lian Hawthorne at the moment when
fie learned that Attorney General Mc-
Reynolds had denied him the freedom
which the parole board recommended;
and which he had frankly anticipated.
Hawthorne Tead a newspaper ac
count of the official action. For a
long time he stared at the story,
which was a very short story. Then,
without a word to the men near /him,
he went into his cellroom, and lay on
his cot.
For half an hour he meditated.
Former Governor Has No Official Position, but
Has Been Selected in Ticklish Diplo
matic Work.
Then he arose, and wrote a poem that
will be published in the next issue of
Good words, the prison paper.
The poem is entitled '“Courage."
It Is a short verse of Hawthorne’s
typical pentameter style, and chock
full of Hawthorne’s typical philoso
phy of optimism.
Hawthorne Keeps Silent.
All this Is the story that Haw
thorne's fellow prisoners tell of the
Incident two weeks ago, when the
news first came to the prison that
the Attorney General had blasted the
hopes of the distinguished prisoner.
Hawthorne himself would say nothing
of it, maintaining a consistent silence
concerning his personal affairs, as he
has since he first came to the prison.
It is generally considered among the
prisoners who have come to know
Hawthorne well that he wa.s keenly
disappointed at the action of the At
torney General, especially after
lricnds in Washington had assured
him that freedom was forthcoming,
and after the parole board had acted
tavorably on his petition for release.
It was believed that he had even laid
plans for the period of freedom that
Sr i-med to be near.
’’It hurt him,” said one of the pris
oners Saturday. "But he has kept it
to himself. He never mentions the
subject, and it looks as If he resents
the mention of It by others. When
they say anything about it, he usually
laughs, and says nothing.
Prisoners Sympathetic.
“Well, It was only the newspapers
who were sure I would get out,” he
answered once, however, to a man
who said he was sorry. ’’It never was
the most certain thing in the world,
and I didn’t consider it as such."
There were a good many expres
sions of sympathy, Hawthorne's
friends said. The tall old man is a
general favorite in the prison. But
with it all there is no outward sign of
disappointment as he sits in the midst
of his fellows on the little hill over
looking the baseball diamond, his
sharp face set, his keen eyes squint
ing as they look out over the bright,
hare, sunlit field.
He and Dr. W. P. Morton will he
free, by the natural expiration of their
terms, in October.
Daniels to Dispense
Fresh Air Hospitality
Secretary of the Navy to Keep Coun
try Home Open Through
out Winter.
WASHINGTON Aug. 16.—Fresh air
hospitality will be the slogan Sec
retary of the Navy and Mrs. Daniels
will sound in Washington society next
winter, now they have decided to re
tain “Single Oak,’’ their country place
on the outskirts of Washington, as at:
all-year-round residence.
Despite the distance from the fash
ionable center of the northwest, the
Daniels plan a series of unique coun
try sports to entertain their friends
in good old Southern fashion, cross
country tramps, week-end parties
when hunting and winter sports will
be in order, are Included in these
plans.
At Christmas a Jolly house parly
will make the old mansion ring from
rafters to yule log on the roomy
hearth.
BOLT KILLS HIM ON GRAVE.
CLIFTON HEIGHTS, PA., Aug. 16.
Lightning killed Patrick Toomey, 47
years old, on a grave In Holy Cross
Cemetery.
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—
A plain man named John Lind is
in Mexico City awaiting an oppor
tunity to tell the explosive and dyna
mic President Huerta that President
Wilson, of the United States, disap
proves of him and his government.
This man is not the Ambassador
of the United States. He has no more
an official standing than a Chinese
coolie. He la a plain American citi
zen come to discuss matters.
President Huerta may refuse to see
him. The President might tell John
Lind to go back to Minnesota whence
he came, and still would be on safe
ground.
But President Huerta will see him,
and will talk to him, and will listen
to what he has to say. Because John
Lind, as all the world knows. Is the
personal representative of President
Woodrow Wilson. He does not stand
for the Government of the United
States, nor represent any plan of in
tervention or anexatlon. He is mere
ly the ears ad mouth of Woodrow
Wilson, who wants to know exactly
what is going on and why.
The mission on which President
Wilson sent John Lind, former Gov
ernor of Minnesota, to Mexico, is one
of the most remarkable In diplomatic
history.
Holds No Office.
“It is to be pointed out that Mr.
Lind holds no office which is recog
nized between nations,” announced
dispatches from Washington. “A
grave responsibility rests on his
shoulders. * * * The administra
tion Insisted that it should be made
plain that Mr. Lind was acting entire,
ly in an unofficial capacity in his
mission to Mexico, but that he pos
sesses most extraordinary powers in
speaking for President Wilson is ad
mitted.”
It is plain that John Lind is on a
most unusual mission, to be success
ful In which he must be calm, cool,
careful, tactful, unruffled and all that.
He must be alive to his responsibility.
He must expect rebuffs. He must be
honest, fearless, sincere.
John Lind’s friends say he is all
that. His enemies concede that he is
every bit of it. President Wilson was
certain that John Lind would meet
all requirements, and so he sent to
St. Paul for him.
John Lind is a former Governor of
Minnesota. Years after he had served
his first term, the Democrats nomi
nated him again. They wanted him
badly, and in the convention men
tioned the name of nobody else.
But Lind was on his way to Alas
ka. He refused to turn back to ac
cept the nomination. Me refused to
say yes or no. They had disregarded
his wishes back home concerning a
county option plank in the platform,
and h£ scornfully said nothing to their
overtures to come back and be Gov •
ernor.
Weeks passed. Election time drew
near. Politicians in Minnesota were
certain that Lind would run. Who
ever refused a gubernatorial nomina
tion with certain victory to result
from it?
Lind’s Refusal Firm.
But when Lind got back, he broke
his silence with a firm icf is.il. He
would have none of ’the Governor
ship. And it being too late for the
Democrats to rally around anyone
else, the Republican Eberhardt won
out.
It is the same calm, imperturbable
John Lir»d for whom President Wilson
invented a Job as his personal repre
sentative. An unusual job it was,
and President Wilson looked about
for an unusual man to fill it. He de
cided that his friend John Lind was
the man.
John Lind comes naturally by his
impassiveness. He was born In Swe
den and came to America a boy of 11.
when his mother and father decided,
like hundreds of other Swedes, to
move to the new country and try to
find their fortunes in the great North
west. They came over and moved
into their log cabin at Goodhue, Minn.
John Lind went to the common
schools in his home town until he
was 17. Then he taught school him
self, saving his money that he might
enter the University of Michigan.
Then he practiced law, got married,
moved to Minneapolis, held the job of
receiver in a land office, went to Con
gress. lost out for re-election after
three terms, served as lieutenant and
quartermaster in the Twelfth Minne
sota Volunteers during the war with
Spain, ran for Governor and was de
feated, all before 1898.
But when he came back from the
war. the pleased Democrats named
him as their candidate for Governor,
and won with him. All Minnesota
knew him by that time as a calm,
self-contained, capable, good-hearted
lawyer who never beat about the bush
and who usually managed to call the
other fellow's bluff. Out in Minne
sota they like that kind of fellow.
Takes Defeat Calmly.
In 1900, a bad year for Democrats,
he was beaten for re-election. John
Lind took his defeat calmly. He just
stuck around, practiced law, ran fof
Congress again, and was elected
After retirement here, he worked
plainly and simply and prosperously
until President Wilson, knowing him
for a worker and a plain-talking,
hard-fisted person, sent for him to
go to Mexico. It was In the interim,
about 1910, that he refused the offer
of Minnesota Democrats to make him
Governor again.
Mr. Lind is a man of action, cool-
headed, alert, and a fighter: but above
all he is silent and inscrutable. It is
this quality which is going to stand
him in good stead in the present sit
uation, and it is the quality which no
doubt proved very forceful in mov
ing President Wilson to appoint him
In all the words of crltcism of Mr.
Lind’s mission to Mexico—and there
have been many to criticise the Pres
ident’s course—there has been no hint
of disssatisfaction with the person
al qualities of the man. It is point
ed out that Mr. Lind’s mission In
Mexico will fail. He is going to tell
President Huerta that President Wil
son disapproves of him and his gov
ernment. But none has said that it
will fail because of his personality,
and it is certain that it will not fall
because the President's representative
talks too much. If it is to be a game
of bluff, John Lind is the man to
play it.
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AUGUST
HE large number who have taken
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$150.00
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Mahogany case and good
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$210.00
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$250.00 WALWORTH—
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$200.00
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$150.00
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