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CONVICTS UNDER
NEWSYSTEM
DOT ON HONOR
Forty-five From Joliet Prison Do
ing Road Work Without Any
Guards to Prevent Escape.
i
PLAY BASEBALL AND SWIM
Have Organized a Watch of Their
Own in Order to Justify the
Faith of the Warden.
DIXON. ILL., Sept. 20.- Forty-five
picked prisoners from the State peni
tentiary at Joliet are sloping each
night practically unguarded on the
banks of Rock River. For five or six
months they will enjoy most of the
liberties afforded working road gangs
of free men.
Warden Edmund M. Allen is deter
mined to put the new "honor’' system
to a thorough test—the first ever at
tempted in Illinois. He asserts his
confidence that not one of the pris
oners will attempt to break his
pledge and seek to escape. The pris
oners themselves are Jubilant over the
confidence placed in them and have
entered into the camp life with high
enthusiasm.
Part of the men made a sortie
against the great hill through which
they propose to cleave a pathway
during the next few weeks. Tn spite
of heat that registered more than
90 degrees they wielded picks and
Shovels with seal. And after Super
visor T. F. Kegan had called the ex
periment at an end for the day they
returned to camp duties, perfecting
arrangements for their long stay. In
the late afternoon they played base
ball, went swimming, fished. None
of the men look on the hard work
that is confronting them as other
than a congenial summer outing
A little before 5 a. m. the men
sauntered out of the front door of
the penitentiary. It was dark be
cause of a clouded sky. and had any
wished to escape it would have been
a simple matter to slip away in the
darkness.
“But no man wants to escape," J.
R., a former Chicago burglar, said:
“We think too much of the Warden.
Since he came here in April I have
gained in weight from 156 to 180
pounds. There is not a man in this
crowd hut would fight to the death
for him. He has made himself a
personal friend to each one of us
“While he does not guard against
any of us breaking faith with him,
we have taken upon ourselves for
our own and his protection to estab
lish our own guard. Without his
knowledge we have selected a secret
judge and secret detective who will
report any sign of weakness on the
part of any one of us if such a weak
ness should become manifest. Once
a week or oftener we will convene
court and summon any of the gang
who may need a word of warning."’
British Believe Japs
Are Backing Mexico
Special Cable to Tha American.
LONDON. Sept. 20. —In many quar
ters in London the view is held that
Japan is responsible for Mexico’s
contumacy.
It is well known here that for a
Jong time Japan has been paying
Court to the Mexicans, and it is cer
tain that General Huerta has armed
his infantry and cavalry with rifles
and carbines of Japanese service pat
tern.
There was no object in going to
Tokio for military equipment unless
It was thought possible that Mexican
and Japanese troops might some day
be operating together in the field.
Buckingham Palace
To Have a Historian
Queen Mary’s Treasurer Is Writing
a History of Castle, Illustrated
by Photos.
Special Cable to The American.
LONDON, Sept. 20. —A history of
Buckingham Palace, frdm its building
to the present day. is being written
by the Hon. Alexander Nelson Hood,
treasurer to Queen Mary’s household.
Mr. Hood, an artistic photographer,
has taken some splendid pictures of
rooms and works of art in the palace
to illustrate this work, which—ln the
first instance, at least—will be for
private circulation.
Ugly as it is in its exterior, Buck
ingham Palace contains much inter
esting and valuable historical mate
rial.
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Farmers’ Fruit To
Run Their Machinery
Scientist Tells Them to Make
Denatured Alcohol and Ute It
as Motive Power.
KANSAS CITY. Sept. 20.—Farmers
should get the motive power to run
the engines on their farm machinery
from denatured alcohol made from
inferior apples. Joseph M. Anglada, of
New York, said in an address here.
“This is the solution of the problem
for supplying power on the farm” he>
said. "Farmers should establish co
operative alcohol plants. There are
barrels of apples which go to waste
on the farm The farmers of each
neighborhood in which apples are
produced should gather up these ap
ples and take them to a co-operative
mill and denatured alcohol could be
made in large quantities.
“The motive power furnished by
alcohol is more desirable than that
from any other source”
Moves Cottage 40
Miles to Get Tenant
Landlord Strikes on Unique Plan of
Renting an Unoccupied
Residence.
FORT LUPTON. COLO., Sept 20.
■A unique and original way of get
ting a tenant for his empty house was
adopted here by B. F. who
moved a four-room modern cottage
from Ault 40 miles away, on a flat
car and got a renter for it before the
building had been taken off the
tracks
Brown, a resident of Ault is also
the possessor of several vacant lots
here He conceived the Idea of mov-
jSfe, S to ddH
4.J' rri/
ing: the house to this city, where de
sirable residences are in demand.
When the building reached here
he took a prospective renter to the
track. The latter went through and
rented it at once.
Queen’s Jewels for
Miss Sackville-West
Necklace About Which Dumas Wrote
His Famous Novel Will Be
Hers Some Day.
Special Cable to The American.
LONDON, Sept, 20.—Miss “Veta”
Sackville-West will one day Inherit
not only pictures, but jewels of great
interest. Among these is a Greek
patterned diamond tiara, famous as
having formed part of the diamond
necklace that caused the romance be
tween Marie Antoinette and Cardinal
Rohan, about which Dumas wrote his
great novel. "The Queen s Necklace."
London Girl Barbers
Now Popular Fad
Special Cable to The American.
LONDON, Sept. 20.—Girl barbers
are growing in popularity in London
and there is an increasing demand
for them. Many Americans are loud
in their praises of the prepossessing
young women, neatly attired in white,
who deftly wield the scissors and
razor.
There are a considerable number
of these establishments here now.
It is one of the “new callings.” z
Many of the girls are experts at
manicuring and ladies’ hairdressing
as well. Some of them earn large
Incomes.
HEARST'S SUNDAY AMERICAN, ATLANTA, GA., SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 21. 1913.
Sarah Bernhardt Building Tomb
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‘Divine One’ Carving Own Vault
Two views of Madame Sarah Bernhardt, who is now build
ing her own tomb at Belle-Ile-en-Mer.
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Wave-Swept Mausoleum Is Across
Bay From Last Resting Place
of Chateaubriand.
Special Cable to The American.
PARIS. Sept. 20.—News comes from
Bel!e-Ile-en-Mer, where Carah Bern
hardt lives when she i«> nnt charming
Parisian or American audiences, that
the divine Sarah is building her tomb
with her own hands. It stands at the
water's edge and is washed at high
tide. Far across the waves toward
the mainland, at the Grand Berock.
Chateaubriand rests. Wil! it be pos
sible that these two great geniuses
will communicate with each other
across this narrow stretch of water?
To work on one’s own tomb is not a
pleasant occupation, but Sarah, hav
ing lost the follies of a youth sup
posed to be perennial, knows that her
day, perhaps her hour. Is approaching
and she wants to be fully prepared.
Sarah, as is well known in Europe,
carries with her on steamer, train or
sleeping car a wonderful shroud of
silk. She thus follows the custom of
the Chinese mandarins, but the cus
tom is new to Europe
When death finally comes the great
actress should not undergo any sen
sation strange to her. because for half
p century and almost every evening
Mme. Bernhardt has succumbed on
the to every known kind of
death, by hanging, poison, the dagger
or by fire, by .suffocation, being
crushed, drowned, strangled, asphyx
iated or falling a victim to her great
emotion —no method of passing from
this life is unfamiliar to her, and if
she not well play her role when
the final call comes It will not be from
failure to rehearse it.
WOMAN MAKES SUCCESS
AS A NOTARY PUBLIC
BRIDGEPORT. N. J., Sept. 20.—Al
though equal suffrage in New Jersey
has had a slight setback, this little
town is demonstrating the ability of
women to serve the public. Miss
Eva May Truitt is a notary public,
being the first woman to hold such
a position in this section of the
State. She also does a thriving in
surance business. Mrs. Elva Truitt
has been appointed postmistress, the
first woman ever receiving such a
commission in this township, and with
her experienced assistant. Miss M. E
Sheets, is ably helping Uncle Sam to
transact his business.
Heat That Turns Winter Into Summer
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do the chill days that are sure tocome on the heelsof winter’s first blast make you shiver when you think of them?
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RICH MAN'S LIFE
HANGS ON TALE
. OF WITS CHUM
Church Worker Declares Husband
of Her Friend Attacked Her
When Helpless.
CHARLESTOWN, W VA„ Sept. 20
Graham Wilson, wealthy and promi
nent in the social and business affairs
of this part of the grate, must effec
tually disprove the story of Miss Mary
Turner, one of the most highly re
spected young women In Jefferson
County, or face death bv hanging.
Held in jail here, without bail. Wil
son seems to show no worn.- over the
fact that the crime charged to him is
a capital offense in this State His
young wife, who says she is madly in
love with him his father, a retired
Episcopal minister, and his brother
and sister make no secret of the fact
that they are in great disfress
Until a week ago Miss Turner's life
was In danger When she lay on
what was believed to be her deathbed
she told and retold the story which
she will tell-to the jury next month
One of her most devoted friends
was Mrs Wilson, the wife of the man
she accuses. For years it has been
Miss Turner’s custom to spend much
of her time al Wilson farm, a beau
tiful strip of land on the Charlestown-
Knabletown turnpike.
On June 5 last Wilson left hfs home
to attend the Leesburg horse show,
and Miss Turner was Mrs. Wilson's
guest On the morning of June 6
Wilson returned home. and. accord
ing to the charges. Invited Miss Tur
ner to accompany him on a drive to
another farm he owns.
According to Miss Turner. Wilson,
without warning, attacked her. She
screamed, according to her testimony,
and he choked her.
Wilson Is a man of great strength,
but Miss Turner said she broke from
>Un and, screaming, ran 100 yards
before he overtook tier. She was
semi-conscious when he lifted her
back Into the buggy, according to her
testimony. She said that Wilson then
laughed at her and told her she would
be a fool to attempt any exposure.
Woman Stamps Out
Smoldering Bomb
Blackhanders Make Infernal Machine
From Preeerve Jar and Powder.
Woman Saves Hueband.
NEW YORK, Sept 20.—Coney Is
land. long neglected by the Black
handers. just saw its first bomb.
Mrs. Marie Tarmantola, No. 3442
Gravesend avenue, where her hus
band has a grocery store, discovered
one. It was smoking and she
stamped out the fuse. Later the po
lice took charge of it.
It was made from a preserve jar
filled with gunpowder, with a kero
eent-soaked fuse running through the
cover. It evidently had just be-o
placed where the woman found it.
96 YEARS OLD, LIVES
AFTER FIFTY-DAY FAST
HARRISBURG. Sept. 20.—William
Beidleman, who lacks only three
months of being 96 years old. com
pleted his fiftieth day of fasting.
Throughout that period only two
small bites of toasted bread have
passed into his stomach, hut he has
drunk quantities of ice water.
OFFERS NICKEL
TO BESCUtR FOR
SAVING IIIS LIFE
Los Angeles Hero Is Told to Go
and Buy Himself a Five-Cent
Smoke by Grateful Man.
LOS ANGELES. Sept 20.—Five |
cents, was yesterday proffered
Roy Haslet, of Lo.s Ange-les. by a
young: man of Compton for saving
the latter’s life. Mr. Haslet refused '
the money he said he didn’t care f”t
expenses
The Compton man is an expe- !
rienced swimmer and was eauirnt in
a dangerous rip tide oft Long B« u h. ,
Haslet, seeing the bather s predica- ■
ment, plunged into the surf.
The young man was rapidly be- !
coming exhausted, and Haslet reach- I
ed him as he was sinking Seizing
him by the hair, he swam vigorously
to shore, and he, too, was exhausted
as he reached land.
First aid treatment was given both
young men, and soon neither was the
worse for the adventure.
Later the Compton citizen sought
Haslet.
“You saved my life.’’ he said. “I
appreciate what you have done a
great deal. Here is a nickel, go buy
yourself a good smok< .’’
Mr. Haslet doesn’t smoke that
kind.
Oregon Man Grows
A Grain Like Wheat
Farmer Uses Burbank Method in Ex
periment and Develops Big.
Fine Product.
OREGON CITY. OREG. Sept. 20.
A new ami unnamed grain has been
grown by P. O. (’hindgrm. a fxirnu r
Mulino, after a series of exp. rmu n “
with the corn-wheat and th* Egyptj.in
species of the grain.
For the last two or three yea >
farmer ha* been studying th- p< <i
bility of “Rurbanking the two kinds
of wheat Samples Just cut and p!a« ■ u
on exhibition here show that he h -
been highly successful.
The grain produces a stalk about
eight feet long and heads that ic"
much larger and better than » ithfr <>f
the old kinds. No name has been se
lected for the new grain.
“Haunted” School
House Abandoned
Children Refuse to Attend Classes
in Building in Which Teacher
Was Murdered.
CHIC fcG< > Sept 20 <
Warrenville. 111., will have a new
school building this year to replace
the “haunted school" they have re
fused to attend since the winter <.f
191 - The fc-w build ng w i d< I
Labor Day.
The “haunted Mchool’’ was made a
place of horror to the children by th*'
killing there before her class of Mi-s
Edith Smith by Sylvester Adams,
January 10. 1912. The mans ad
dresses had been rejected by the
pretty teacher ai . • hot hei
desk, following the <!<•• d by commit
ting suicide on the sp«c with th« unc
weapon.
Rancher Victor in
Battle With Bear
i Cattleman Comes Suddenly Upon
Animal Preparing to Feast on
Pheasants’ Eggs.
JFLIAETTA. IDAHO. Sept. 20.—At
1 the h" idw ater?’ of Swift <’reck. which |
empties into the north fork of the
jo’earwater east of Teakean, B.
i Groseclosi a cattle raiser, had a, fight
■ io the <’»ath with a bear.
took his rifle with him
I'.n a trip to look after his cattle. Ho |
came upon a pheasant which seemed I
I distressed. Looking around, Mr !
I Groseeioae *aw a large nlack hear
which had driven the bird from her
nest and was preparing to eat the
esyj..
The farmer shot the bear, but b* '
i fore he • ouh; e.pt the empty shell '
I hr.jin < . rgc A ■ ond shot put ou* |
: the beast s right rye. J ut on he came. I
' A third shot put a hall just under
neath the eye.
As t ils juncture the hear started in
the opp 'site direction. Pursuing his
advantage, the farmer continued to j
I fire ami with the xth shot bruin sue-
I cumbed.
$200,000 Securities
Plaything of Boy
Youngster Has Fine Time Mutilating
a Fortune Lost by Express
Driver.
CHICAGO, Sept. 20 A child muti
lating a fortune of $200,000 was the
I interesting spectacle in the town of
Pavia. Mo., the othir day Senor Vi
tali. a rent colkctor at Stradolia, gave
an expr ssman a package wrapped
In old newspapers, asking him tn
hand it in at a bank, nt Pavia. lr
contained $200,000 in securities. The
driver forgot all about this seeming
ly inconsequential bundle, and when
Vitali went to the bank tn cut his
coupons there was nothing there for
him.
These securities were afterward
found In a mutilated condition They
bad been picked up on the road by a
boy. who had amused himself by cut
ting out the head of the King of
Italy fr<»m the securities and throwing
.■iw.iv the rubbish. The King, how
c\er. has been restored to his old po
sition. and with a little trouble in
getting duplhates the Italian will re
store his fortune to its former magni
tude.
Rich Widow Leaves
Fortune to Lawyer
Will of Wealthy Cumberland Wo
man, Ignoring Relatives. Made
Public—Contest Likely.
f’DMBERLAND. MD. Sept. 20.
Surprise was caused hero w hen it be
came known that Mrs. Margaret M< -
T’ray, aged 37. widow’ of William L.
Mc<’ray, had left her automobile and
the remainder of her estate, valued
at $75,000. to J Philip Roman, at
torney. and son-in-law of James
(’lark, president of a distilling com
pany.
Mrs. McCray was taken 111 Tues
day w hile Roman was drawing up her
will, Dr Thomas W Koon and
<’harles W. Fn .< acting a.s wltnesse.-
Ye-sterday she died, and an hour later
the will was fl’ed for pruba’e.
Mrs. Mct'ray l< 've-; two brothers, a
sister, and •< v< ral nephews at Pitts
burg. who. it Is said, will contest the
instrument.
liras Ofl MAO
INHEN TRAPPED
IN HEATH IIILLEf
I Tragedies of Lower California
Desert Told by Bodies of
Overwhelmed Men.
SAN FRANCISCO, Sept. 20.—The
I recent death of peter A. Busch, a *”ol
! ora do miner, in Dehth Valley, recalls
I ih.it portion of Ca
Ici nominal a 1. 5 the early tribal In
i mans as the “Valley of Fire.”
1 Ti e Piutes, Washoe and other tribeg
[ in early days condemned their crlmi
i na!-<to the country surrounding Death
X.iih v. When an outlaw Indian vio
lated the rnrst H r( »q i i( , , ( ,f
I he was condemned to the “Valley of
| Fire." where he was expected mon to
perish.
| Os the hundreds nf bodies found in
. Death Val!o>. where men perished
trom hea: and tliirpt, they are almost
universally naked to the waist. The
I ’rail made by the men before death
also ehows a circuitous course.
\t a certain tage. after being at
| ‘aeked by the heat, the person begins
t<» run and claw at his breast. First
j his hat is abandoned. Then he begins
;to , ay • his shirt, and finally tears'
it from him. /
Then ho turns In a circuitous route
■ /nd narrows the • i< uit until filially
|’he falls exhausted in a heap and
I never rl.-es again. Delirium comes on
instantly.
I It is presumed that the terrible suf
fering from the hoat and thirst feels
i like a 1« ad on his lung and makes
i breathing difficult, and that the vic-
I lim imagines bv running he is getting
•a iv from the thing, and that in
i ■ I i w ing off his upper garments he is
I releasing the weight.
S ientists who have visited Death
I Valley in warm weather and had a
I touch nf the heat state that the ex
i traordinary effect of the heat there k*
i caused by the peculiar situation of
IDi atli Valley. It 1s from 100 to 400
i feet below sw'.a level and is shut In on
all .‘•'ides by high mountains’.
The Panamints i tnge shuts out the
I moist air from tfi~c Pacific Ocean, and
The Funeral and Grapevine range:
shut out the wind from the slight
vegetation on the eastern side, so that
I he only w ind that reaches Death Val-
■
l< the dryeat of all place.'- on earti
that It absorbs from every l>\i ’.:
thing, both humin ind vegetable,
i i \• r\ parti le of moisture,
j This is illustrated by the fact that
lat certain places in Death Valley.
when the thermometer is at its high
est often 137 degrees in the shade
I a man never a thirst.
; A a soon as he takes the c anteen from
* his lips the thirst returns just as
I strong ns ever.
When the system is drained of all
I moisture the brain yields, the victim’s
! eyes >tare like* a madman’s and he
j runs his circuitous ourae to death.
Land 'Boomers’ Hired
For British Colonies
Special Cable to The American.
LONDON. Sept. 20. —The “boomer”
has found a new home in the British
Colonial Office, and a new scheme of
picture tours of the empire has been
i uovised for advertising the country’s
1’ ' possessions.
Thousands of pictures, including
about 200 original paintings, have
I been prepared. The services nf a
well known artist have cost the de
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