Evening Republican, Volume 17, Number 179, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 July 1913 — Page 2

ISOLATED 40 YEARS

Aged Recluse Is the “Lonesomest Manin the World.”

James Moedie, Only White Inhabitant of Urea Island, on Visit to Brother Will Return to South Sea “Kingdom.” New York. —The "lonsomest man in the world" sailed from New York recently aboard the steamship Baltic of the White Star line. James Moodie of Urea Island, near Caledonia, in the south Pacific, claims the distinction of being the most lonesome man. For nearly forty years he has been the sole white inhabitant of the south sea Isle, and so seldom has he met men of his own race that he has almost forgotten the language of his parents. It was nearly a half century, ago that Moodie, an adventurous Scotch lad, engaged in the south sea island He found Urea island to his liking and established a trading post there. Only at long intervals has he been visited by white traders, seeking copra and other products of the islands. During the many years he has-been on Urea island his family has died off one by one, until today he can claim but a single living relative, Robert Moodie of Loanhead, Scotland, a brother. James Moodie has not seen this brother in thirty years. They parted as mere youths and in a short time will meet again, grizzled and gray. When Moodie first went to Urea island he took with him a violin that had previously been the possession of his father, and he carried the fiddle under his arm. "This violin has been my constant companion for more than half a lifetime,'’ said Mr. Moodie before he sailed. “I have been and still am the most lonesome man in the world, and had it not been for my fiddle I do not know how I should have lived. At the present day I ain the only white man on Urea island, but as long as I have my violin I do not care. As the years have gone by I have grown more and more accustomed to being alone. “We get the mail at Urea Island about once every six weeks, and so from time, to time I learn of the world’s progress and the death of my friends and relatives. They always seem to be dying, and suddenly the thought came to me that my brother and I were the last of our family, and so I packed up my fiddle and set out for my home in Lonehead, Scotland. “The only people I have talked with for years and years are the natives, and I have almost forgotten my mother tongue.

BREAK HONEYMOON BY VISITS

Kaiser’s Daughter Hat to See Her Mother and Bridegroom Wants to Consult Father. Berlin. — Berlin society is astonished at the hustle required of Princess Victoria and her husband,, even on their honeymoon. They stayed only two days at Hubertusstock, then they hurried to Potsdam in order that the Princess might have a chat with her mother, the Empress. Then after a few days in the mountains they moved to Gmunden so the Prince might* talk with his father, the Duke of Cumberland. Then they returned to Berlin and took part in

iDmperor William's jubilee celebrations. Afterward they went back to Omunden. Finally the Prince has been ordered by the Emperor as comman-der-in-chief of the Prussian army to rejoin his regiment at Rathenow shortly. A Berlin newspaper remarks that the bead of a banking firm would make the honeymoon easier for a junior bank clerk than Emperor Wll-

FRANKLIN STATUE FOR HARTFORD

This model of the statue of Benjamin Franklin, made for Hartford, Conn., by Paul Bartlett, the American sculptor, was exhibited recently in the Paris salon.

“Ever since I arrived In the United States I have been astonished beyond measure, especially by the horseless vehicles and other luxuries of travel. I have kept track of the world’s progress In the newspapers and periodicals, but I never realized what it all meant until I landed In this country. “I am going home to Scotland for a few weeks and then I am going back to Ureau with my fiddle, and there I will remain until the trumpet calls me to my everlasting home.”

11am makes it for his daughter and his son-in-law.

SAYS CONVICTS RUN PRISONS

Strikes and Fights Are Very Common, Released Clinton Man Asserts—Discipline Bad. Poughkeepsie, N. Y.—That wonderful system in state prisons by which prisoners manage to keep one another posted on the news of the day despite intervening bars, bolts, and corridors, is illustrated by an ex-convict’s statement giving the up-to-date news in three JJew YorE prisons. The statement was made by James Ryan, alias James Root, on his release from Clinton prison, and is as follows: "During Blake’s investigation of the prisons there were numerous fights and dangerous assaults on both convicts and officials. Since the appointment of John B. Riley as prison superintendent the prison discipline has been destroyed and there is trouble everywhere. "The Clinton county officials and convicts from Clinton county have the run of Clinton prison. The officers from Clinton county call the out-of-town officers ‘carpet-baggers,* which is the gause of numerous fights between" them. “In the tin shop at Clinton prison, during the latter part of May, ope man named Rooney threw a fivepound weight in a young man’s face, with the result that, he is disfigured ’or life. “On another occasion, in the early part of June, a man named Smith —a colored man—tried to kill an officer named Von Gorder. In all the Clinton shops the men are constantly fighting and discipline is a joke. “I forgot to mention that Smith, the negro who ran amuck at Clinton, caught Von Gorder around the neck and' slashed him several times while the officer was opening his cell in the morning. “At Sing Sing prison not long ago the Inmates in the knitting shop sent word to Warden Kennedy that unless he removed an officer named Hill they would not work. Warden Kennedy yielded and put Hill on night duty. It is a common occurrence for the prisoners to send word to Warden Kennedy demanding the removal and shifting of officers. “In Auburn. prison there have already been three strikes among the prisoners in the weaving mills. "A man named Driscoll had some trouble with a keeper in Clinton prison, and as the warden and deputy were away at the time the Clinton county officers pulled him into the

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guardroom. I have the names of the officers who did the beating. Driscoll tried to complain to the superintendent about it, but was not permitted to. A number of the ’Clinton county officers who were dismissed by Colonel Scott have come back and been reinstated. _ ' “Discipline in Sing Sing prison is in a deplorable state. Prisoners are doing as they please. You can hear the noise from the cell block way up in the village. The prison is full of dope and whisky brought in by keepers for a little money. Recently a prisoner threw a bowl of soup in Warden Kennedy’s face and got away with it.’’

"MOVIES” CATCH TWO LOVERS

Normal School Pupils Suspended on Eve of Graduation for Disobeying Rules. California, Pa.—A moving picture which showed them sitting on rustic bench in a mossy glen of Hazel park was the cause of Miss Kathryn Boyd, a co-ed, and B. H. Crago, a student, being indefinitely suspended on the eve of their graduation at the State Normal school here. Mies Boyd is one of the most prominent of the younger society set in McKeesport She and Crago went to Brownsville for lunch. On their way they stopped in Hazel park and sat down in a cool place to rest. While they were telling each other things that the world has no right to know, a moving-picture photographer who was procuring scenes in ths park happened in the glen. Without the couple knowing it, the photographer quietly “took” them and departed. A hew film shown at the Arcade Theatorlum here caused a sensation. Many of the normal school students recognized the principals In the picture, and tha news reached the faculty, who immediately suspended the couple on the ground that they had broken the rules by going out together after having been*warned not to do so.

RICH MAN A PAPER HANGER

Dons Overalls, Labors All Day and at Night Enters Gay Life In French Metropolis. Paris.—Followers in Paris of the doctrines of the late Count Tolstoi are interested in the example set by a Russian of great wealth, a Paris correspondent writes. Alexis Savaroff, who-spends one-half his day as a man of fashion and the other half as a paperhanger, earning sl2 a week. M. Savaroff does not carry his master’s precepts so far that he denies himself the pleasures offered by his wealth, but he believes, and tries to affirm by his life, that each man ought to do his share in the world’s unpleasant work. He arrives at his job each morning in his automobile, gets into his over* alls and begins work. He is employed by a St. Petersburg firm of contracting Interior decorators and lately was promoted to the position of foreman. When the whistle blows at the end of the day Savaroff returns home and there begins his life of social prominence and obligation. He has been doing this for six years and declares himself happy and contented.

Cales of GOTHAM and other CITIES

Big Steamer Was Held for Little Canary Bird

N EW YORK. —Before the steamship Vestris sailed for South America the other day from near the old Martin Stores, ‘ Brooklyn, Mrs. G. F. Green of No. 59 West Fifty-third street rushed up to Harry S. Davidge, the passenger traffic manager, and exclaimed: . /

“Oh, what am I going to do? I have forgotten to bring Rickey. How am I going to get him to the ship?” "Who is Rickey?” inquired Mr. Davidge. “He’s a canary bird, a beautiful singer,” replied Mrs. Green. “My husband insists that I must bring Rickey to Buenos Ayres.” “Well, it is now 4:30 o’clock,” said Mr. Davidge, looking at his watch, “and the ship sails at five. I don’t think there is time to get Rickey. However, I will telephone for him if you wish.” Accompanied by the traffic manager and four friends, one man and three women, Mrs. Green went to the foot

Dinner Bell Saves Chicago Sleuth From Dog

CHICAGO. —There was a perfectly good reason why William Kayes, a uniformed policeman of the South Chicago station, and Matt McNamara, a plain clothes detective, took a shotgun with them the other day when they went to serve a warrant on John Dents, a truck farmer at 106th street and Benzley avenue. This is the reason: Dents owns an enormous Newfoundland dog which has all the traits of a bulldog, a bloodhound and a mastiff rolled into one. Dents had never purchased a license for the animal, and the dog catchers ventured no closer than the echo of its bark. Accordingly Capt Morgan Collins of the South Chicago station handed McNamara a warrant to serve' on the owner. The detective arrived at the farmhouse and found nobody home, except the dog, which was chained in the front yard. Objecting to the Intruder, the canine snapped its chain and started for McNamara. The closest thing in 'sight—next to the dog—was a high pole, on the top of which hung the farm bell. McNamara reached the foot of the pole in six jumptf and' the top in six seconds. While the dog leaped about the foot oj the pole, barking and snapping perilously close to the detective’s updrawn heels, McNamara perspired and scanned the horizon for a human be-

No More Official Garments for Ohio Judiciary

CINCINNATI, O. —Periwigs and official garments of clergymen are counted out No more shall they adorn the judiciary. Rather, as Ohio’s newest and most modish law has it, "All officials shall have engraved thereon the coatrOf-aTms of the state.” There is no restriction as to where the adornment shall be placed. Many are the plans. One learned jurist for instance, may have a landscape gardener assist him, and in a sunken aperture on his left cheek have the whiskers trained to grow tn variegated colors to bring out the design. Others, more foppish, will go one better than the faddists who wear

Hobo Runs Successful Blind Pig Right in Jail

GUTHRIE, Okla. —A clever tramp has set the town of Cushing laughing at its city marshal. The marshal arrested the tramp for loitering and locked him securely in the city calaboose. The tntmp was searched, and as no moneF' was found on his person, the marshal was positive the tramp was flat broke, j Shortly after the tramp was locked up the city marshal raided a joint and confiscated a case of whisky in half-pint flasks. He carried the whisky to the calaboose and stored it in a strong wooden chest secured by a padlock. The. tramp was the only lodger in the calaboose. He was a man of wit, even business enterprise. He found a rusty nail and began tinkering with the padlock. The padlock flew open and the whisky lay before him. The tramp opened a bottle, took a strong pull and felt refreshed. Shortly after nightfall a citizen who was taking the short cut past the calaboose, hoard a voice in the darkness:

of the pies and called up a taxicab station near her home. “I have a charge account with you,” said Mrs. Green, “and I want you to bring my canary.” "Who’s going with the canary in the taxi?" asked the man. 1 “Nobody,” said Mrs. Green. “You will have to go up to my apartment and tell my Finnish maid, who doesn’t speak English, that I want the bird.” The taxicab Manager laughed scornfully, 7 “We don t carry canaries in our taxis without escorts. Besides, the driver is not allowed to go into a house. Good-by.” * Then Mrs. Green called taxicab station and told them what she wanted. The manager said he would get the bird. Captain Davis of the Vestris said he would hold the ship ten minutes. « Then Mrs. Green called up her Lena and said: “Canary, taxi.” "Yah,” said Lena. She went aboard and stood on the deck forward. The Vefftris began to back out at 5:10. She was almost free of the pier, when there was a roar of excitement at the foot of the pier, a cloud of dust arose, cheers echoed through the pier shed, and a roan came rushing to the head of the pier, holding high above his head a gilded cage, within which was Rickey, trying hard to keep his perch.

Ing. For more than an hour he clung there. • Finally McNamara thought of the bell and gave the rope a jerk. The farm hands out in the fields thought" it was mighty early for supper, but still they came. When they discovered the house locked and supper yet uncooked, they were in no humor to be disturbed by the frantic shrieks of a man clinging to a pole in the hot sun. At last, however, they were convinced, called off the dog and permit* ted McNamara to take his unserved warrant back to the Chicago avenue station. The next day he armed himself with r shotgun, and took Kayes along fbr further protection, and went back to the farm. As soon as the dog saw the uniformed policeman it ran behind the house, and it had to be coaxed out. The warrant was served.

watches buckled on their wrists, and display the coat-of-arms of the great state of Ohio. Old sailors, who, on sojourns to the orient, learned the secret of tattooing, are certain to be in demand. Tattooing will be one of the most common forms of the new decoration. Probate and common pleas judges are expected to adopt this form.* Supreme court officials my decide upon a distinguishing and uniform method of having the coat-of-arms engraved upon them. City authorities are said to be displaying considerable jealousy at not being included in the new court order. It Is, of course,, possible that some 111-natured person, who dislikes things beautiful, may insist that the law is entirely unintentional. In fact, it has already been rumored that the word “seals’* should be inserted between the words “officials” and "shall,” which would make the measure read. "All officials’ seals shall have, engraved thereon the coat of arms of the state.”

"Say, pal, bow would you like a bottle of real red booze—the kind your grandfather used to make bank in the mountains of Kentucky?" The citizen for a moment was unable to locate his interrogator. Approaching the calaboose window, the man outside saw and wks convinced. He paid his money and got the whisky. "If you have any discreet i send ’em around,” whispered the tramp. The supply of whisky is said to have been exhausted in less than as hour. * *

IWTf HOWLAND ■ " — ( PROMISE of a TOLDOM) ■ vr ‘ ft fcw I I fa . One of our richjnen has explained that he regards hi&"fortunc as a trust, and that he is ever conscious of the responsibility of his stewardship. If I could by soma hook or crook become a multimillionaire— That is, if people's interests might be entrusted to my care— If I possessed a stewardship which I, somehow, had won from those Who had no wish to let me rule, who might remain my bitter foes, I’d hold my fortune as a trust to be r»> turned when I was through With all the joys it brought and when my heirs had finished with it, too. If I had millions other men had given up reluctantly, Td feel that God who knoweth oest had In His wisdom chosen me To be a steward and to hold my fortune only as a trust, And those who sought to stay my hand I’d brand as foolish or unjust, ' * And I would calmly suit myself in finding ways and means through which To justify my stewardship—if I were very, very rich. , It I possessed a trust I, too, would wear a very pious air, . ; ..r" And let the public see that I was sadly weighted down by care; Fd talk about my stewardship and spend my money where and when X chanced to please, and covet still the little gains of poorer men, And promise that my riches all should be returned when I wAs through With trusts and stewardships, and when my heirs had finished with them, too.

Candid Confession.

"What brought you to this?” asked the good woman who had visited the jail for the purpose of distributing tracts among the prisoners. “The hurry wagon and four policemen,” proudly replied Petdr the Lockpicker. “I could of licked any two of ’em, and you can take it from me that they all got chewed up considerable as it was.”

Sh-sh! Don’t Tell Anybody.

"Who,” asked the new reporter, "la the pretty girl at the desk over there in the corner? By George, she’s a bauty! It’s too bad that a young, innocent girl like that has to be out in the world earning her own living.*’ “That’s Miss Laurens,” replied the assistant city editor. “She runs our~ ‘Advice to Mothers* department”

NO REST FOR HIM.

rest.” “Oh, no. The hardest part is still to be done. I've got to invent a name for the thing.”

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Bring me not wisdom, Though folly be vain: Bring me not riches. Though poverty's pain; Bring'me not splendor, Though rags may be vile. Bring me not glory. But teach me to smile. ) Give me not power, Though smallness be mean; Give me not grandeur, But make me serene; Bring me not homage. But leave me obscure, If mine be the courage To hope and endure.

Part of the Business.

" "Why is it that oculists and opticians always wear glasses?” “I don't know, unless it's for the same reason that tailors always wear good clothes.”

Not in the Same Class.

"Aren't you and Mrs. TilHnghadt on friendly terms?" r “Gracious, no? Her husband runs a retail establishment Mine is tn the wholesale trade.”

They Know Where to Stop.

Women always chide their husbands for working overtime, but they never spurn the money which if earned that way.

“Yes,” said the sclent Ist, “I’vo discovered another germ.” I ‘Tm so glad,* replied his wife. “Now you can ' take a good, long. > m u ch-heed ad