Evening Republican, Volume 16, Number 168, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 July 1912 — Page 3

Tales of GOTHAM and other CITIES

Budding Bandit is Nipped in the Bud

NEW YORK.—“Nipped in the Bud, or Nothing Doing for Dickey Boy,” is the next novel to which will be drawn the attention of Richard Boy, a wouldbe bandit Dickie Boy, who is five feet three and fifteen years old, armed himself with two big guns, a dungshot seventeen dime novels, a Bible and a map of Arizona and started for they wild and woolly west to shoot down Indians and shoot up saloons. Be did not even get a good start, for he was grabbed by just an ordinary copper and “trun into the cooler.” He did not even have the satisfaction of being stuck up by a cowboy sheriff and getting a run for his money and a squareahow. - The budding frontiersman started the ball rolling the other afternoon by running amuck in his home at 69 West Ninety-third street He did not shoot out any lights, but Jie scared the life of his mother and two younger brothers and sisters. The terror of the West side declared he’d shoot ’em all up, and they got into dosete and under beds while he strutted la in truly western splendor, rattling with artillery as he walked. “TerriWe Tito

Militant Cow Puts Policemen to Rout

Chicago.— a spotted cow which answered with enthusiasm to the name of “Violet” came into East Chi- ■ cago the other evening, approached the outer fringe so the political battlefield, and went mad. ▲t nfidnight Policeman John Lazar was walking his peaceful beat in the neighborhood of Chicago and Kennedy avenues when he met Violet and was seized with a sense of pastoral poetry and moonlight « "I will take her to the pound ana imagine myself once more in the old lane that leads from the pasture to say father's barn,” Lazar told himself and smiled with pleasure at the prospect He approached Violet sympathetically and with a delicate motion of his arms sought to waft her In the direction she should go. - Violet refused to be wafted. She was in playful mood and showed a desire to plgce both her front feet at once on the policeman’s shoulders. He retreated warily. He got inside a patrol box and from its security .argued with the bovine. Violet hurled herself against the policeman’s shelter He grow hta rinh and ahoob lt sternly In ker face. She recognized no authority.

Texas Will Fight Mosquito With Bat.

QAN ANTONIO, Tex.—There is a iJ man in Texas who has found out a new way to fight the mosquito. His name is Dr. Charles R. Campbell. He is official bacteriologist of the city of San Antonio. Hi* Idea Is to employ hats a* mosquito fighters. The neighborhood of San Antonio is especially plagued by mosquitoes—malaria is more or less rife in that vicinity—and for a long tame past the inhabitants of the municipality and its suburbs have eagerly sought to find a solution of the problem. Much benefit has been obtains* by keeping minnows In cisterns and nonda these email fishes being

Crate of Stolen Chickens on His Bed

Philadelphia.— when Nathaniel Jones, colored, of Naudain. street, near Tenths discovered a number of Uve chickens on his bed he was so indignant that the publicity he gave to the matter resulted-in the arrest of Edward Watkins, also colored, of Lombard street, near Fifteenth, who, It is charged, stole the poultry from a •tore at Eleventh and Rodman streets for a dinner which he Intended to give to two of his Mends, Richard Green and Albert Emerson of Lombard street, near Tenth. The three men were brought before Magistrate Elsenbrown at the Central police station. After a hearing Green and Emerson were discharged, bat Watkins was held in SBOO baU for At the hearing. Jones aaid. that when he returned from a theater he ,was astonished to fled a crate of fire jsrsasysss* jPOutViJ UMI WWI 1 ~ * 1v» ftSßwi * ywWUj UCiUv'i • , u , .. T , —— •-* .

of Tonopah,” or the “Twining Twins of Tucson” had nothing on hito. Policeman Fried was on fixed post when a man came algng and told him about the miniature arsenal. It did not seare the policeman a bit. He sauntered over to the hallway and bore down on the embryonic western, terror- Without pulling a gun on hito and telling him to throw up his hands he grabbed him by the scruff of the node, gave him an old-fashioned chmt and said : - “Sonny, what have you got in your pockets?” With an awful scowl the boy bandit faded his captor. The. officer took him upstairs where the family was found In a condition of terror. Fried then, took, the pocket edition of Jesse James to the West side police station. - The two guns were fully loaded. The slungshot was one of the toughest looking weapons the police had -ever seen. It was made up of nails and bits of ated and covered with leather, with a leathern thong attached to IJt for the wrist "Tie dime novels were wonders of literary art. They ran all the way from “Disbond Dick’s Lest Dive” to “Whanged Into the Willies” and “Scarlet Sam’s Sacrlfloe.” The youthful desperado was held by Magistrate Cornell in the West side police court without bail under the Sullivan, law. His mother was in coprt, but did not make any charges. wasn't necessary the court assured her. Little Dickie Boy will be an example of.

The policeman tried for two hours to pacify the cow. It was a vain attempt. He telephoned for help. Chief of Police Leo -McCormack of East Chicago got out of bed and headed a relief squad. Armed to the teeth the bluecoats descended upon the in* trenchments..of the cow. They were repulsed, and Violet went away.. At noon the next day Violet strolled down the’ Pennsylvania tracks near Baring avenue. Policeman Esantrager said he could conquer any cow. He was rolled over in the street three times before he escaped. The driver of a garbage wagon who said he would tell his name if he defeated the oow went forth to battle. He, too, was defeated. ' Violet began to demolish freight trains -on the tracks, when Policeman Harry -Nangie stole upon "her from behind with a rifle. There will be no inquest.

Bats, as is well known, are insect eaters, and are particularly fond of mosquitoes. In the twilight, when they rove abroad, they devour immense numbers of the pestiferous insects, the manner being to dash bade and forth through a swarm apd gobble the victims up by the wholesale. In view of which fact it occurred to Dr. Campbell that it might be a good Idea to establish in and about San Antonio a number of ”bat roosts,” as he calls them—that is to say, structures so contrived as to Invite bats for sleeping purposes. He has already set up two of them, and proposes to erect others, those already in opera-, tlon having proved highly successful. There are no windows, but opportunity of entrance is afforded to the bats by a series of horizontal openings so arranged an to resemble the slats of an ordinary window shutter. -The whole building Is thirty feet high, the upper twenty feet being the Inclosed portion, and the slatted arrangement runs up each erf the two

the Nineteenth district polios that he had been robbed of a crate of chickens. When the potioe heard of Jones’ Indignation at finding a crate of chickons on his bed they put two and two together and started an Investigation, which ended in the arrest of Watkins ersoa showed that they had known nothing of the theft of the poultry. After holding Watkins In bail. Maglstrate Elsenbrown asked Wagner to recaU the line, ""Lead ns not into in the Lord's Prayer. y(rar * tore * M , * ' ft

MILITARY men are Jubilant over the invention of a new gun for use an aeroplanes. In a recent test CapL Chandler, U. S. A., fired 750 shots a minute with this wonderful Instrument of death and riddled targets while flying 6Q miles an hour.<" ' ~ " f - . ' • • = - - -

ESAUS IN NOBILITY

German Scions Who Sell Their Birthright. Are Known as “Name Marriages”— One Bold for Ten Marks, a Second-, Hand Bult of Clothes and ' r ; ■’ ' a Supper. •' . ’• Berlin. —Berlin society is again agitated over the question of “name marriages,” a subject which has long been a painful one in the annals of many noble families, making an unpleasant chapter in the history of German morals. Name marriages have recently, become of frequent occurrence owing to the ever increasing large number of scapegoat scions of noble houses who gre quite willing to become modern Esaus, selling their birthright for the modern equivalent of a mess of pottage ... to any ambitious plebeian “Schultz,” “Muller," “Meyer,” etc., who offers, not himself, indeed, hut a certain stipulated sum of money. The case of a Well known Berlin demlmondrtne t Countess Frieda _man. ”S&achwitz7 In her more respectable days employed a masseuse, and who i was murdered about three years ago, was a notable Instance of name marriage. She became a countess at the cheapest price bn record. Her worthless hußband sold himself, together with his name, a crest and a ninepointed grafen crown, to the masseuse for ten htfirks In gold, a second-hand suit of-clothes and a hot supper. " On the other hand, some fair prices are on record. A recent name marriage contracted between a well-to-do Berlin parvenue apd a member of an ancient Brandenburg and Pomeranian family distinguished in war and peace, cost (according to the Neue Gesellschaftlicbe correspondence) the par-

INDIAN SONGS RECORDED

Norwegian Explorers Return From Northern Canada and Havs Number of Phonographic Records.

Christiania.—The explorers, Christian Ledeu and Harold Thaulow have just returned here from an expedition to northern Canada, which was undertaken with the object of collecting phonographic records of folk songs of the various Indian tribes and comparing them with those obtained in with The view of establishing how far tribe visited was who number over 20,000. Their chief. Montorigik, was at first hostile, but after a tow presents of tobacco and glass beads, and after having been told that explorers had been sent by the king of Norway to make his tribe famous, be became more amenable to the wUbM ot the arT'colI fIW, ***** D ▼ *

NEW AEROPLANE GUN

venue wife 10,000 marks, conditioned, of course, on the titled husband disappearing immediately after the wedding and allowing the wife to sue for divorce on the ground of desertion. • V £.*. Name marriages are purely and simply a business affair. —>

BOY SUCKS SNAKE WOUND

Rattler Attacks Girl of Nine While Picking Berries and Her Brother Saves Her. Alpine, Tex.—Mollie Measday. nine-year-old daughter of F. W. Measday, a wealthy farmer, was bitten by a rattlesnake last Friday, and her life saved by her eight-year-old brother, who sucked the wound, it became known today. Mollie complained of being siok in the morning, atfd~her mother on examining her found her leg was badly swollen. The child. was questioned 'tqril then related how a rattlesnake had bitten her while she and her brother were picking berries. The brother, Charles, promptly sucked-th* wound, aM out his mouth at. a near-by stream. Neither child said a word of the affair to their parents. - % Doctors were summoned when the mother learned the nature of her daughter’s Illness and said the chila would recover. Mollie declared she “did not want to scare her mother” by telling her she had been bitten bythe snake, while Charlie feared a whipping if he told he had sucked the wound. Asks Protection From Wife’s Kisses. Tonkers, N. T.—Andrew Shampnoy has appealed to the police to make his wife stop teasing him. Sometimes it is too much kissing. Again it is too much hanging about his neck.

THRILLING RESCUE IN MINE

Accident Extinguishes Man’s Lantern When Ha Was in Old . Working.

Loudon.—How he was lost for tea hours in a dark coal mine, and only then rescued in an exhausted condition with great difficulty by a search party, was told by Willie Phillips, a mine official of Trehsrris, near Merthyr. Mr. Phillips, who is a son of the Treh arris mine manager, had a remarkable escape from death. His lamp went out, and he lost his way in the dark in the Treharris mine. “I was superintending a party of men who were raising rails,” he stated “when I had occasion tog© to another nart of the colliery. “Suddenly I stumbled and my lamp, slipped out of my hand and went out I did not know how to proceed. I shouted, but could not make the men hear, although I, myself, could hear them pulling the rails. I was in an old ram d, and I had. to crawl am 'mar: hands and knees. “I shouted again and again, but with-, out success, and ultimately I lay down, tired and worn out. and afraid to venture too far owing to perils of gas and water in old workings. “Eventually I went to sleep, and when I woke knew that search parties had been organized, for I could hear them shout continually. Will Phillips!’ T . .... • ", . , . “I responded as loud as I could, but thirsty,• and I cried twice and prayed. . .. . '.I , ; and that gave me relief.

REJECT REID ICE

People Object to Old Glaciers Refrigerating. Crop of Freshly Made Being Short, Alaskans Use “Uve Bergs” Leaving Ancient Bear Carcasses to Drift. Seattle, Wash.—-Because of the vagaries of the Japan current, which last winter took a sheer toward the coast of Alaska and remained there ail winter residents of towns on the interior coastal belt of the district find themselves with a shortage of their summer crop of ice from their local streams, rivers and lakes, but they have the glaciers to draw upon. The Copper river and Northwestern railroad has been hauling some loads of the latter to Chitina and the new town of McCarthy, near the head of the line. . : . . The railroad passes between Miles and Childs glaciers, one of which is about 100 miles long and has'a face three miles in width. It protrudes above Copper river about 400 feet, and occasionally throws off a chunk about ten times the size of a 400-loot ocean liner. There also is the Malas Pina glacier, which is several hundred feet thick, 170 miles long and of unknown width. The ice is being taken from Miles glacier for the reason that it is known as a 'live glacier—that is, it is constantly in motion. There are a number of “dead” or motionless glaciers along the route, but as they have been dead for millions of years, the refrigerated water of which they are composed is not considered “quite so good.” Besides In places they, are covered with centuries old debris infested with glacial hears. _ The Japan has had a peculiar effect on the marine transportation business this year. For the first time in many years only five per cent of the Bering sea passengers were shipped to St. MlchaeL Last year the aggregate was more than 60 per cent. All the passengers for the Yukon country last spring were via St Michael. but the fact that the ioe left Lake La Berg six weeks earlier made the interior route available for rapid transit last spring.

DOWNY CHICK GETS CREDIT

Hen Career Btarted at Two Weeks Old, Says Poultrymsn Egg Is Tiny Affair. Woodland, Wash.—Carl Johnson, who operates a poultry yard here, is exhibiting a plate of nine eggs, six sf which are full-sized and were laid by one-year-old pullets, two are about one-third size and were laid by chicks March 23, 1912, and the ninth egg is a tiny affair that was laid by a chick that had been out of the incubator only two weeks. Mr. Johnson stakes his reputation for voracity on this itory. The chickens we white \AStr horns.^

SAVES WOMAN FROM COW

Dog Seizes Animal by the Nos# When Owner Is Attacked In a Pasture. New Albany, Ind—Her faithful collie rescued Mrs. William Winn of this county from beneath the hoofs and horns of Bn Infuriated cow just in time to save her life. She was walking through the pasture when the cow attacked her. She fell and the cow was charging with lowered head when the dog intervened and seized the cow by the nose with bis fangs. The dog was shaken off, but succeeded in transferring the cow’s attention to itself while Mrs. Winn made her e*cape. • . . ; . •-

-Slowly I started crawling along the road I had come toward the sound* I beard. I cut my hands and knees badly, but eventually was able to stand upright I fell frequently and when I was found I was lying down near a sheet “It Was as a result of a suggestion by~my father that I was rescued. “The search parties thought that the road I had wandered into had been closed up, but my father told them to explore it with the result that I was discovered.”

WOMEN ARE QUICK THINKERS

Man Is Superior In Judgment an# fWIII, Says Britlsb Scientist. New York.—The boast of New York women that they think more quickly, have keener powers of perception and more delicate and alert senses that the avemge New York man, has at last been explained. It is dm to high heels and the richer flow.of blood fa the arteries that supply a certain part of women’s brains. badfa2ge°or epithet*, your the better es the argument, console yourself with the thought that she is equipped for it by Nature, but has to endure high heels to aid the effect Man. on the contrary, declares the British scientist who has investigated the subject, has a slower attertaljmrwffl. -

AROUND THE CAMP FIRE

YOUNG DRUMMED BOY A HERO .Jgyy-T.-VVMN -y,-pt& First Medal of Honor Awarded t*<juiiq/i Scott, Fifteen ¥&ns Old, of Vermont. • The first soldier to win the coveted* medal of honor was Julian Scott * fifteen-year-old drummer boy in the? Third Vermont infantry hi 1*62. The act which gained him the medal ▼unperformed several months before the congressional act institutifcg the reward was passed. The medal of honor Is the highest decoration for personal valor awarded! to the soldiers and sailors of the Baited States. It is to Americans what the Victoria Cross is to the English or ||i|g Iron Cross to the Germans. ~ The act of congress ordering 2,06* of these medals to be prepared was av* proved by President Lincoln July 11, 1862, and the first medal was issued! the following year. It was a five-potob-ed star of gun metal, tipped with trefoil. each point containing a victor's crown of oak and laurel. On official occasions, says Bode Sam’s Magazine, it was worn suspended around the neck and under the center line of the chin by order erf the president.' A bowknot of ribbon is worn in the lapel of the coat in the absence of the- medal. - In 1868 the Grand Army of the Republic' organisation adopted a design so similar that it was misleading and steps were taken by the Medal of Honor Legion to have a new designissued to replace the old one. Congress in 1904 adopted the new medal. It is of silver, heavily electroplated to gold. The five-pointed star has been re* tained and in Its center appears the head of the heroic Minerva, the highest symbol of wisdom and righteous war. It was on the morning of April 16 Urnt the afterwart famous Vermont brigade—Third, Fourth, Fifth and Sixth regiments—was ordered to advance and to attack a strong fortification masked In a forest near Lee’s Mills, or Burnt Chimneys, on the right bank of Warwick liver. When the command Reached the bank of the river under cover of the fire of a light battery four Companies of the Third regiment, in one of which Julian Scott was serf-’ lng as a musican, despite desperate re-

Scott Pulled Him to Shore.

. sistance by the enemy, hidden among opposite side, succeeded in wading Tbq water midstream was breast high and soaked the paper cartridge* carried in little leather boxes on the back. The rest of tbs brigade failed to come np, but the plucky advance guard drove the Confederates from their position and had pursued thou setne distance before they rallied. Then, unsupported and with worthless ammunition, the Vermonters Ml back. As soon as the enemy realized that the retreating companies had no defence but bayonets they subjected them to a merciless Are. i The climax to the catastrophe came when the companies reached While the fighting had beefgoing on the fffliffitonitiw had opened the floodgate* at the mills above and had cut off their assailants. Many of the Ter monters tried to swim the stream, but were frowned. shot a* midstream and laid him on the hank out of danger and again and again returned to the stream, rescuing wounded and exhausted men until he had drawn It < of his comrades to safety. gle and suffering intensely from a bad Un head, he went baric once with the flood. The man died as Scott laid him on the bank. It was by each service that tha^ ofj*on?r ■star it sd-H is buried bow *u s Pius ji, j cemetery. >- *•> A..,