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SUNDAY MORNING.
■ Strange Sights Seen
in New York’s Ghetto
Attention has lately been attracted
to the Hebrews of New York by the
publication of a statement that there
are 600,000 persons of that race on
the island of Manhattan. This means
that one of every four persons In
what was formerly the metropolis is
a descendant of Abraham. People
"ere surprised when they read it, but
it is the truth. The Hebrews of New
York are sufficient in number to com
pose a mighty city in itself, and were
they set apart in a distinct municipal
ity, only three cities in the United
States would surpass them in popula
tion. As it is, they occupy a city
within a city. The “Ghetto” is so
t^gatrrTTiviM■iln i mrm i. i juj i,..
Type cf the Ghetto Resident.
[A "melamed,” or teacher of the Russian
Jews.]
located geographically as to insure
seclusion, for not a single great thor
oughfare traverses it and to most New
Yorkers it is a region as strange
as though it were a part of Siberia.
And a wonderful territory it is in
many respects. You may pass through
forty miles of streets and see none
but Jewish faces—Hebrew types from
ail over the world—except for police
men, street sweepers, a few other
city employes and visitors. , The lat
ter are generally non-residelts of the
metropolis.
The Ghetto of New York is a city
truly and no mere quarter. It is per
meated with Orientalism. From the
coloring of the fronts to the crowds
in the streets, everywhere is the
•ouch of the lands that border the
eastern ends of the Mediterranean. In
the ceaseless flowing to aud fro of
people there come and go figures of
the magical East. Bent old men with
white ringlets and majestic beards,
noble models for pictures of Cadis
and Talmudists, sit behind greasy
show windows waiting for customers
to buy their unleavened breads or
groceries or kosher meats. Tail, thin,
Gorman Hebrews, modern in every
aspect, with the deep, angry eyes of
men who talk o’ nights of social tyr
annies, press through the crowds,
Tearing unfinished trousers and waist
coats .to the sweatshops. Behind a
tumbled, junk-like mass of shoe
strings, tin spoons at the price of
two for one cent, and two-ccnt whisk
brooms, there looks a man who bears
on his brown neck a perfect Assyrian
head. Swaying from the hips, a girl
who is as a picture of a Biblical
water carrier, passes along. With her
is dne as modern as the bright day.
In all the streets hardly a woman,
except the Poles, who are true to
their coweled shawl headdresses,
wears a head covering, unless the
wigs on every other woman beyond
middle age may be railed that.
Everywhere throughout the terri-
,4 X —*
Docking a Meal in the Front of a
Store.
tory curb lines are obliterated. Side
walks exist only as places of refuge
from trucks and fire engines. The
throng floods the street indiscrimin
ately from house line to house line.
Every detail of housekeeping is car
ried on frankly in the open. - Even
the washing of clothes is done in
some of the hallways. Here and
there someone is cooking a meal on
an oil stove in front of a store. The
women wash their children on the
street. They visit with their friends
on the street. Many of them eat
midday meals on the street. Children
in hordes dare death every minute
and escape. They hurl themselves in
shouting festoons across a thorough
fare just as a team of truck horses
comes thundering along. They are
under the feet of pedestrians. They
hang to dizzy eminences and cackle
with easy minds. There are thous
ands of them.
Vet one can walk through the City
o* the Jew for hours and not see as
many juvenile fights as he may see in
other tenement house districts in a
few short blocks. One may see for
hours, too, and hear and see all the
domestic life going oil openly around
him. and yet not hear or see a sin
gle dispute between man and wife.
This city may not be an Ideal one of
Love, but assuredly it is not one of
Anger.
The district is an amazing array of
shops. There are thirty-four un
broken miles of stores and a man
walking steadily at the rate, of lour
miles an hour could walk for eight
hours past one continuous row of
stores. The doorways tp all the tene
ments are hidden by piles cf bake
stuffs, meats, groceries, chickens and
wearing apparel. Everything from a
string of garlic or peppers to gilded
parlor furniture can be obtained here.
It has factories of all articles from
shoes to coffins. It produces its own
clothing, its own cigars, its own
newspapers, its own food supply In
every variety, except that of raw
material. The very ice and delivery
wagons in it are driven by Hebrews.
The trucks are driven by Hebrews.
Hebrews do the blacksmithing and
the painting and the roofing and the
building. Hebrews own the barrooms
and the banks.
At about 2 o’clock every afternoon
conies a rush of newsboys, shouting
out their news in the harsh jangle of
English, Hebrew, German and a
dozen other tongues, that is known as
Yiddish. The papers that they carry
all have fat black headlines in Hebra
ic characters, as .if they might be
decrees of the patriarchs. They teil
each day of the thousand loves and
griefs and 'intrigues and joys of the
great city of the Jew'.
The tailor-made gown is a surpris
ing feature of East Side commerce
Where did these immigrants from
Poland aud Lithuania and Tartar
Russia learn to give a woman’s gar
inent the indescribable touch of style
that stamps the tailor-made gown':
They surely possess the knowledge
Nobody can do it better than do the
unkempt tenement house dwellers
Many of New York’s fashionable wo
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Youthful Political Leader.
men brave all the vague terrors of
the East Side to have their dresses
fitted by an uncouth tailor who can
hardly speak English.
Statue of Cecil Rhodes.
John Tweed, the sculptor, has fin
ished his statue of Cecil Rhodes,
which is to be erected in Kimberley.
It is on exhibition in London. The
statue ris more than life size. It repre
sents Mr. Rhodes In the act of mak
ing a speech, his right foot advanced
and firmly planted, ills hands clasped
behind his back and his fine, uncov
ered head thrown somewhat on one
side in a characteristic pose. He
stands, too, in a tweed suit and close
ly buttoned jacket he always affected,
and, "though baggy trouser knees
and bulging coat pockets do not lend
themselves to artistic presentation, it
is a virile and striking statue of Mr.
Rhodes," says a London critic. ■
Adding to the Height.
The average man, neither noticeably
short nor noticeably tall, is not great
ly concerned about bis height, but
when he has to come up to fixed physi
cal requirements for some position,
however, it becomes of importance.
The anguish of a would-be fireman or
policeman a fraction of an inch under
the minimum requirement, has never
been adequately set forth. In a week
ly paper devoted to firemen’s interests,
there has appeared for the last few is
sues this startling advertisement: “Be
’Suspended a t So-and-So's gymnasium
for ten minutes and grow a lvalf-inch
taller.” —New York Post.
Irony of Fate.
"There goes a poor fellow who has
hard work to make ends meet,” says
my friend, indicating a portly person
across the street.
"So?” I inquired. " .
“Yes, He is an artists’ model, and
before he got so fat he made good
money posing as heroes and demi
gods, but now he is so obese that the
only occupation he can find is an oc
casional pose as a purse-proud pluto
crat for some cartoonist.”
Imitate Morgan's Manners.
Heads of business downtown are
beginning to show the influence of
much pre-occupation with him whom
Wall street knows as "J. P.” They are
copying the Morgan manner, just as
all young Park row' at one time was
said to be barbering and tailoring
itself to look like Harding Davis.
Splutter, gruffness, frowning-down,
arm-waving and a general intimidating
tone and carriage are the voguc3.—
New York Letter.
THE AMERICAN CITIZEN.
He boasts no tawdry garter, no coat of
arms, nor crest:
No ribbon * fa royal guild is daunting
from his breast:
He cannot point to pedigrees grown gray
with age and dim—
To be a son of Adam is quite good enough
for him!
No titled prig, no dude is he, for since Ids
ract* began
lie is what God meant him to be—he's
every inch a man!
A man with proud, unfettered soul of
aspirations high.
And chainlesH as the eagle bird whose
palace is the sky:
strong and undaunted as the rock that
breasts the angry foam.
Equality his citadel and liberty bis home.
Ills birthright is his charter he bows
before no throne.
He serves no earthly master—he kneels
to God alone!
Tet what a scepter ho doth wield! He
VETERAN LABOR LEADER.
Martin Fox. the veteran labor leader
and president of the great iron Mold-
Mariin Fox.
(President of tile Iron Molders’ Union of
North America. From McClure's Maga
zine.)
ers’ Union of North America, met with
many difficulties when organizing his
UNIONS ARE STRONG.
It is estimated that there are 800,-
000 working people in the city of Chi
cago, and the 525 different trades
unions claim about 40 per cent of that
number as members. About 85 per
cent of all the various crafts in that
city are organized, and during the past,
two years, the most prosperous period
Chicago has ever seen, the labor or
ganizations havg reached their great
est power and influence. The increase
in the number pf unions has been 200
per cent and the membership 400 per
cent. In no other city has labor been
so thoroughly organized, and in none
Organized labor does not claim to
have reached perfection in its meth
ods, but It is doing the best it can
under adverse circumstances, looking
forward to the time when the “crook
ed places shall be made straight and
the rough places plain.” We know
that restriction of immigration anil
shortening the hours of labor would
solve the apprentice question, for
there would then be work enough for
■all. We have by persistent effort ac
complished something in these two dt
STRIKES IN ENGLAND.
The annual report of the Board of
Trade of London, England, on the
strikes and lockouts in the United
Kingdom for the year 1901 has been
issued. It is valuable as an indication
showing the relative positions of or
ganized labor aud the employers; it
is a detailed account of the year’s
warfare between capita! and labor, the
number and character of strikes and
lockouts, v;ith the results in the shape
TO SPY ON UNIONS.
Another concern to spy on the mem
bers of labor unions has keen organ
ized in Cleveland, 0., making the third
one in that city alone. The newest
candidate for favors from the employ
ers is styled the Corporations’ Auxil
iary /Company, and has for its motto,
"It is better to spend $1 in preventing
than $5 to cure an evil.”- It proposes
to-' keep all employer* thoroughly in
formed on the affairs of the unions
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AN OBJECT LESSON.
The official iabor statistics of Indi
ana have just been issued and they
show the average daily wage paid by
corporations to skilled labor to be
$2.43; unskilled, $1.33; boys, 71 cents;
girls and women, 93 cents. The in
dividual or partnership industries paj
girls And women an average of 87
cents. The minimum wage must be
left to the imagination. And yet the
vnst majority of these women doubt
CARPENTERS DOING WELL.
Under the management of President
Huber and Secretary-Treasurer Duffy,
during the past summer the Brother
hood of Carpenters has grown remark
ably both in numbers and in financial
resources. The total membership is
now considerably in excess of 100,000,
vbich malms the Brotherhood one of
THE BRUNSWICK DAILY NEWS.
holds within his hand
A staff of gold that makes him king and
sovereign of the land.
He hews the pines, he plows the fields, he
fructifies the soil.
And builds a gran'ry for the grain that
grovveth from his toil;
And with the wealth thus treasured up
from busy day to day.
Kroct of gait and resolute, he goes his
missioned way.
Progress and peace his destined goal and
work his sacred creed.
Tie lifts the world to higher heights by
thought and word and deed!
“Old Glory" floating o'er his head, its
flagstaff strong as death,
Held lirmly in his brawny hand—more
valued than his breath.
He marches on with rapid stop, forever
•in the van—
This peerless knight of human kind—tho
true American!
- Kug one Davis in New York News.
craft. He always insisted on living
strictly up to all agreements with the
employers. When ills men hesitated,
he forced them to submit by a threat
of revoking the charter. Time and
again trouble arose over union men
working with non-unionists, but Mr.
Fox lias fought it ought in the union
till his organization lias reached the
highest water mark in every respect.
If a shop had more than 50 per cent
union men, then union rules and regu
lations were to govern! the non-union
men were not to be disturbed; all
vacancies, however, were to be filled
by unionists. Strikes are very rare
now in the iron industry. Mr. Fox is
a member of the National Civic Fed
eration.
When a sensible man gets the worst
of it he makes the best cf it.
The old grist mill at Port Jefferson
L. 1.. which was built before the Rev
olution by Richard Mott, and is said to
be the oldest structure on the island,
is being torn down because it is un
safe. The building was erected in
1771.
is there so much enthusiasm. During
the last two months the retail clerks
and other mercantile employes, the
freight handlers, teamsters, rubber
workers and street car men have
formed new unions, and have shown
great gains. The printing trades dur
ing the past year have succeeded in
organizing every establishment in Chi
cago. including five shops during the
last three weeks that have been non
union for years.
Many a man thinks he needs a wife
until after he gets married.
AIMS OF LABOR.
reet.'ons. and we shall yet accomplish
mere. But when we think of what
complete success in this would mean
tor the toiling millions our progress
seems all too slow. It is a great work
worthy of the best thought and effort
of the statesman and the economist,
and I believe the time is coming when
this truth will be generally realized
and when all classes of society will
give it their support.—Denis A. Hayes,
president Glass Bottle Blowers’ asso
ciation of America.
of victory or defeat for one or the
other party.
In fittil the wage-workers of Great
Britain had 109.221 disputes, resulting
in strikes and lockouts; of these, 37,-
675 were won by the employers, 30,591
by the unions, while 40,955 were com
promised. Another significant feature
of tiie report is that last year a more
than usually large number of strike:;
were agairst reductions in wages.
with which their employes are affili
ated. The claim is made that this
concern has facilities for getting in
side information regarding the
strength, membership, action at meet
ings and all other desirable knowl
edge for employers anticipati jg trou
ble with labor unions.
Any man who really knows women
doesn't pretend to understand them.
less are as respectable as those robed
in purple and fine iinen. There must
be an awful accounting some day of
lfio.se who reward virtue with rag3,
hunger and cold. Let him or her who
is tempted to cast a stone at a fallen
woman think of that average wage of
93 cents a day.—New York Sun.
It is folly to offer a wise man a pen
ny for his thoughts.
the strongest trade unions in the
world. The money In its treasury has
been more than doubled since the be
ginning of the year. In Philadelphia,
alone, where the carpenters are better
organized than in any other place,
there are over 8,000 members in the
various locals.
Famous Old Prison
Is Torn Down
Famous Newgate prison, where so
ranch of London's criminal history has
been enacted, is being torn down. Al
lhough the present structure was
erected in the eighteenth century, the
gloomy building belonged more to
mediaeval times, and its "Graveyard”
and cells were veritable vaults, in
which the unfortunate occupants may
truly be said to have been buried
alive.
The destruction of Newgate has
been contemplated for a long time,
but the actual work was not begun
until the present time because of nu
merous obstacles. On the site will be
erected a business building, and in
stead of gloomy cells filled with idle
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The Old Prison Now Disused.
men awaiting death there will be elec
trically lighted offices, open and airy,
and tenanted by industrious workers.
The contrast could hardly be more
complete.
The structure that is now being de
molished is by no means the original
Newgate. Several prisons have occu
pied this part of London, the first be
ing one of the towers -of the old city,
which was at the new gate of the town
wall, and which thus gave its name to
the prison. It was first mentioned in
1205. The building now falling before
the wreckers’ hammers was begun in
1770, but the Gordon rioters in 17S0
partially destroyed the unfinished
structure.
Newgate was then rebuilt, and here
were imprisoned the chief criminals
of the metropolis, while those convict
ed of murder were publicly executed
before its doors. When public execu
tions came to be considered demoral
izing and evil In their efforts upon the
multitude who witnessed them, the
murderers were ■ executed within the
prison and buried beneath the paving
stones of the hall leading through to
the Old Bailey. This hall was com
monly known as the "Graveyard.”
Those who paid the penalty of death
within these grim precincts were ob
literated by means of quicklime placed
In their coffins, but a token of their ex
istence was left in the shape of an
iron letter, representing the initial of
their surnames and fastened in the
wall over their graves.
Of late years Newgate had only been
used fqr prisoners awaiting trial at
the Central Criminal Court building
and for those there condemned to
death. At Newgate, moreover, only
murderers whose crimes had been
committed in the metropolitan district
were executed. Transpontine murder
ers are hanged at Wandsworth gaol,
unless otherwise ordered by the au
thorities. It was in 185S that the in
terior of Newgate was rebuilt on the
single cell system. In crowded times
the prison held nearly two hundred
convicts.
it was out of old Newgate that the
notorious "Jack” Sheppard Woke, and
the story of his escape, although it is
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The Burial Ground.
now nearly two hundred years old, is
being retold by Londoners at the pres
ent time. "Jack” Sheppard, like many
another criminal, owed his downfall
to the company of bad women. His
father was a carpenter, and a man of
sterling honesty. The boy was also
apprenticed to a carpenter, Owen
Wood; but he fell into the society of
bad companions near by, at the Black
Lion, in Drury Lane. Here he met
"Bess” Lyon and "Poll” Maggott, who
began to incite him to theft.
After many robberies of increasing
boldness, “Jack” Sheppard was cap
tured, tried and sentenced to death in
Old Bailey. But he had been supplied
with a file by “Poll” Maggott and
"Bess” Lyon, and he adroitly man
aged to escape. His liberty was of
short duration, and ten days later he
was recaptured and placed in the
strongest cell of Newgate, known as
the Castle. Here he was “chained
with two ponderous staples to the
floor.” Nearly all London flocked to
see the prisoner, who, despite all the
care that was taken, had secreted a
small file in his Bible, and a complete
set of tools in the rushes Qf his chair.
The guards inspected his chains on
September 16, 1724, and left him at 2
o’clock in the afternoon for the re
mainder of the day. Sheppard then
made, his last and most wonderful
escape. After freeing himself of his
manacles and snapping the chains
which held him tt> the floor, he re
moved a stout iron bar from the chim
ney and climbed up the flue. After
forcing several heavy bolted doors by
an almost incredible exertion of
strength and ingenuity, he found him
self upon the upper leads.
But, just when his escape was all
but accomplished, the convict was
compelled to retrace his steps to his
cell to get his blanket, by which he
might let himself down to an adjoin
ing roof twenty feet below. The re
turn trip was made in safety, and,
dropping to the roof, ha entered a gar
ret window, and thence slipped unob
served into the purlieus of Smithficld.
Passing down Gray’s Inn lane to the
fields, he spent two or three days in
an old house by Tottenham Court.
Five days after his escape he went to
a cellar by Charing Cross, where all
were talking about ‘’Jack” Sheppard.
He then broke into a pawnbroker’s
shop, decked himself out in smart
clothes hnd drove past Newgate in a
closed carriage. The next day he
treated his mother to three quarterns
of brandy, and then drank himself
silly at Sheer's tavern. Maypole alley.
In this state he was captured and
taken back to Newgate. The turnkeys,
despite their disgrace, turned the occa
sion to one of gain, and charged the
multitude of curious visitors 3s. 6d. a
held to see Iheir capture. He was
watched nigh# and day until Novem
ber 16, when his execution was wit
nessed by over 200,000 persons, at Ty
burn. A riot, which broke out over
the disposal of the corpse, had finally
A Cell.
to be quelled by the military with
fixed bayonets. Such was the end of
the career of the most notorious pris
oner of Newgate. ■
Accepted in Cipher.
A young man in Elmira, N. Y., re
cently proposed to the gill of his
choice, making his declaration by
mail, because he thought that in that
way he could do himself better jus
tice. He was in his office a ;lay or
two later when a messenger boy ar
rived with this enigmatical telegram:-
“Isie of View.-—E were.” He was con
vinced that the message had some
thing to do with his’ proposal, but he
could not decipher it. He went to
consult his mother. She read the
telegram over once or twice, shook
her head and then read it aloud. But
what she said sounded like: “I love
you—jours.” The son snatched the
message out of his mother’s hand and
read it once more. Then he shouted;
“It’s all right, mother,” and dashed
for the telegraph office, where he sent
a return telegram.
The Simple American Fashion.
Royalty is given to a useless ex
penditure of words, as of everything
else. In drinking to the health of the
czar the shah of Persia said: "I take
this God-given opportunity to thank
your majesty for the kind sentiments
and kind, sympathetic and pleasant
weicome which I have received in your
empire. In the hope that the ties
uniting the two countries, already so
firm, will be drawn still closer than
they have been in the past, 1 drink to
the health of your majesty, their ma
jesties the empress and your augu3t
family, to the happiness, glory and
long duration of your reign and to the
prosperity of your states.” An Ameri
can citizen would have said, “Here's
hoping,” with quite as satisfactory re
sults. .)
After Twenty Years.
Rip Van Winkle came down the hill
after his twenty years’ sleep.
"But. my friends and relatives,” he
inquired, “where are they?”
"Dead and buried,” replied the
strangers as they led him away weep
ing.
“And the coal strike,” he faltered.
"They are thinking of arbitration.”
Shrieking with joy, he realized that
one link yet bound him to the past,
ana his life was later made happier
by knowing that the original coal
strike jokes were still dinned into the
public ear.
Testimonial to Henrik Abel.
Bjornson was the author of the text
of' the cantata which was sung at
Christiania the other day by way of
celebrating the hundredth birthday of
Norway's famous mathematician, Hen- j
rik Abel. About 300 guests from for
eign countries were invited and Prof.
F. Nansen presided at the banquet, j
Although Abel lived only tweuty-sev
en years, be was repeatedly invited to \
a professorship in Berlin, but his pa- ■
triotism caused him to decline the in- ■
vitaticn. notwithstanding his poverty. |
DECEMBER 7
ON THZ MARKET.
For A lot in Betty's heart,
But recently vacated;
(’J in- former owner having been
By Dun too poorly rate*.)
Locution line; adjoining lots
•All jwned by persons wealthy;
Exposure northern; not too cold
For incomes strong and healthy.
For Sale;— \ lot in Betty’s heart; * •
Most jarefully restricted;
(1 be former owner tried to build
From plans that much conflicted!) . :
A bargain most unusual;
All millionaires or other - ' ,
Prospective purchasers apply
To Betty or her mother.
—Richard Stillman Powell, in Puck,
HUMOROU&
He—l love you more than words O&u
tell. She (shyly)—Well, there are
Dthcr ways.
He—Am 1 good enough for you, darl-'
ing? She—No, George; but you are
oo good for any other girl.
Wigg—Bjonee has a remarkable
memory. Wagg—Yes; one of those
hat are handy to forget with.
"He offered her his hand and for
tune.” "Bid she accept?” "No; the
| first was too large and the second-was
j too snialk”
"Mamma,” said little four-year-old
Harry as his mother was giving him
ris bath, "be sure and wipe me dry, so
I won’t got rusty.”
Mr. Inlaw (to wife, reading letter
from sister) —Was her wedding a sue
j :e;-;s? Mrs. Inlaw —Oh, yes! She recetv
; :d seventy-eignt, presents!
>t last,” said the fat lady, "I have
found the key to the ‘living skeleton's’
heart.” "It must be a skeleton key,”
grinned the sword swallower,
j Hook—l told her I loved her from
the bottom of my heart. Nye—What
did she say to that? Hook—She want
ed to know if there wasn’t any room
at the top.
Mrs. Waggles—There’s a fire sale
! around at the grocery store. I wonder If
lie's selling his milk any cheaper. Wag
! gles—l guess not. That’s only dam
aged by water.
I "Here is a spicy bear story,” said the
writer who had just returned from the
west. “I don’t see anything spicy in it,”
remarked the. busy editor. ‘Oh, yes;
it is about, a cinnamon bear.”
"If you marry that girl, Sir, I’ll cut.
you off without a cent.” “My dear dad,
the mere fact that the girl is willing
to marry me under those circumstances
is proof that she’s worth it.”
Benliam —You needn’t be particular
about your dress; where we are going
people won't notice what you have on.
Mrs. Benaam —Then we won’t go; I
won’t associate with such people.
"How pleasant it is to see husband
and wife of one mind! It is, indeed.
There's the Rouinsons, for example.
She thinks there's nobody in the world
like Rouinson, and lie thinks so, too.”
“You can always tell a man that
; holds an office," said the man in the
j pearl hat. "You can’t tell him any
thing," spoke up the man in lavender
trousers; “he thinks he knows it all.”
"Cook, my husband complains that,
the coffee was cold, the meat overdone,
the biscuits burned, and the oatmeal
soggy.” "Yeg hev me sympathy, mum.
II must be awful to live with such a
mam”
“Here's a letter front Mlrandy at
college. She says she's in love with
ping-pong.” "She is, hey? Well, she's
better give him up; we ain’t gein' ter
stand no Chinaman marryin’ into this
family.”
Mr. Meek, who had gone to the
front door to answer the postman’s
’ knock, put' his head inside ftte door
of the room where his wife was sit
ing. “It’s a letter for me, dear,” he
said, "Email I open it?”
I-hw <*f Si*llin*r IVivci*.
Justice Summerville at Odin, 111.,
lias handed down a decision that if a
man sells his wife he must “deliver
the goods," or he is guilty'of obtain
ing money under false pretences. As
to the constitutional right of a man to
sell his wife the justice did not pass
upon.
The case resulted from a deal made
by Mr. Hamilton, of Noble, who
ills wife to Mr. Davenport for $2 cash.
Mrs. Hamilton heard of the bar
gain and went with Davenport, but
left him before night. Davenport had
Hamilton-arrested and the entire com
munity went to hear the case.
Attorney Olinger. for the defendant
argued tnat, a man had a right to sell
his wife any time he pleased without
a pedler’s 1 Icons'!. The state contended
that if a man sold his wife he must
insure delivery. Justice Summerville
took the latter view and decided that
Hamilton must send back his wife or
money, pay the costs and leave town,
or he would send him to Jail. —St. Paul
Globe.
Iteitr* and Wolves in Town.
William Burton, a desert miner,
brings news from Randsburg of an ex
citing encounter in the streets there
between a black bear and two desert
wolves. The tight was witnessed by
Mrs. Quigley. Miss Alice Short and two
other women from the veranda of the
Quigley residence. The bear was evi
dently trying to escape from its-tor
mentors. In front of the house the
three came to a sudden stop, and for
nearly fifteen minutes the wolves held
the bear at bay. One of the women left
by the rear door to summon a neigh
bor, but by the time he arrived the
brutes had gone, and, though tracked
some distance toward the mountains,
they could not again be fourfil. Sev
eral hunting parties* turned out, but
were unable to.locate either the bear
or wolves. As the animals came from
the desert, it i3 ■ presumed that the
wolves had been in chase of the bear
for many hours. —San Franef&o Chron
icle.