Ligonier Banner., Volume 47, Number 23, Ligonier, Noble County, 5 September 1912 — Page 2

PARALLEL | STORIES | o FAMOUS CRIMES By HENRY C. TERRY - |

THE BOWERY MURDER MYSTERY. . 'HE Bowery is still.gne of ‘the X show places in New York LN - J City’s artifictal wickedness, ; _ Visitors to the: metropolis : $| -parade in. féar and “tremg’ “#N)) bling, its busy sidewalks 04, @ where they imagine that. eyE‘,@ ‘ery stone: is stained - with thé. blood of muider;.but where ‘they are ds safe’'as tl‘l.gy*iw(‘)’ufd‘ be on Fifth: evenue. 'Time was when the Bowery ‘was not safe; when every ‘other’door “was a'gambling hell; when every crookin tife country depended:upon tasting, ~ at. least once a ‘year, of the deliglits: " the street had to offer. But the'glory of the Bowery has pasged:: It'is.now: a thoroughly moral street given gyer. to business of thelcheaper érder. . « I know of no s&ory ‘that better " il,lustrafes actual confition on the Bowerv in the.old days and the fierce pas- - sions’ of * life as it. was ‘lived there - than thé story of the' murder of Chris. Berr§. It was a nine days’'mystefy In. ftz day, the greatest mystery the"g{}dxyi:" ery ever produced: »t'h;é,“Kln;g? af the Card Shdrks”, murdered in broad.daylight at:the Bowery’s businest corner and not a ‘single clue apparently to the perpetrator of the deed. . =~ *. .. It was not until-years afterward that T had the privilege of listeliing’ %o the true tale of the killing from the . lips 'of " his slayer, »"‘L‘on'é-_Japk’?-‘ySi‘;l{_l}ﬂ_' ¢lair, as, he emerged from his cell in ‘Sing Sing.' Knowing ‘that; Detective Hickey had handled the case and had almost succeeded in hanging an’ mgnfé-;, .cent man for the crime I hunted him *up and asked him to. giyve'mje his ‘;fqr-': -sion of the strange aftair. b

. - JACKSON 'SINCLAIR’'S. STORY. ““Ir flon’t suppose you ever killed a man, did “you®! asked: Jackson’ Sin- - clair; who has been known on the ! . }’.;)\\"«Er}' “for fhany . }‘éal_‘s'-’*?is »f'l“-I‘;Dﬂ'Qg Jack.”. because of his reticence ‘and | .dislike of sodiety. = ¢ - e ’ I entefed a modest: disclaimer: ;- o By “\\'elhiif, you never did. then you l ean naveT understand the feeling that _goes with it, especialy ‘whén the’man ~ whose- life is-taken has been a friend: ‘to you, no matter what ‘the circum- . stapces may be. - : = e ‘- “Well, yI killed my - friend, -Chris Berry. and T see Chris every dn,y;.and_;fi I hear his-last words ringing in. my’ ears. just the same as if it’dvas: ,x'fgs{] terdhy on the Bowery; instead of over'| thirty years agd. Chris Berry was a #ood fellow. and the finest card §harp . ~inthe country.: I was considered theé:| . best’ man on the Bowery ~with the’ {¢ards in _:l’x(p;ﬂ* days, .buf Cheis® could f give e points without turning a’ hiaie: ; - “Béing in the same business ‘and] .something of a crook myself, it-was | oriy natural that 1 shguld rup.-up ainst” Chrislat many.a game, and’ S hnan ol B e i i those games were ‘always -for . blood, | but on the level I was more:eas¥-: © goird than Chris, and we took a kind | luf liking for ;S.ach othgr.'} Aftor‘_”’a?timyé;; in company “with Jake Seyniour,’ We | weprt, régularly into: the -business -of I . running a skin game.of cards.. ..7 “We had a little poker, game:at \‘o} 28 'Bowery: - Séyn?our*djd ‘the .steer- t ing, wkile we did the playing.when-* fever the sticker was big enough ‘game, l . The business fan So-big and- we played. " “so. well together: that Chris” proposed that we sholNd_mdjf a tour ‘through the Wdst an\(w{vhere-we would - ~have ia chancefto win a bigger stake. . “This just suited me; and, with Sey'mour, who lwas one of tlie best bunco . artists that I ever saw, ‘and had a tongue so sweet and persuasive:that it wg¢uld coax the bank-I¥ll cut, of the | - pocket of Old Mr. Tightwad himself, . we started West. We-put up for.a. " few.days at Albany, wheré the legls: lature was in session, and cledned out- " évery dollar there was in beth houses.. " We left Albany with s2l,ooo.more than ‘we had when we landed there. ;. . “Jnf!Chicago) we started on -another’ .tack, and from there we ‘were ‘East--ern sports ma}dng a-tour of"thq-coun-L try, fooking for fun of all kinds, ready: for a game at any time. Sometimes ~we wotld be tggether as friends; and then again. we would .accidentally’ meet as strangers in some -Other: 10-2ality, 2ality, to dlsarm sispicion. - ~ “Seymour was the greatest drum- . mer-up of business that I ever mét. He was.nearly always in the game, and: - frequently lost heavily, but, as elther Chris or 1 got about all there wa§ atthe table in the end, it didn’t make ' much difference. .We pulled a:lot of. money out' of ‘Chicago, but. we quit -when we saw that they were puttinguyr a brace game on us. We didr’t-do much business then till we got into St. Louisy: Then we struck-a game _aftsf we had been there about twp. .. weeks that in the ehd gaveime more . trouble than anything I e\je{:had”be-, toreor Slnc'ﬁ. .\'_: 5 » g © -~ “Seymour was on the scout all the ' time, and he pulled an old cove named ‘Colonel Wentworth into :.a private - game in our room in the hotel.. Colonel Wentworth was a vegy wealthy .cotten planter ~and a stiff - player. . “He preferred a game without a limit—so did we. When he began to . lose; the Pegan to drink. We played ell night, and.we coaxed him along - until we had about $25,000"in money, which he had sent out and borrowed . from time to time. Then he became . a bit reckless—he was_.pretty drunk,. _too—and lost $B,OOO on one hand. .He - quit the game, and sald he’d give a ~ check for the $8,000.. He dashed off a . check fn a hurry, lke an angry, dfunk‘en man, and said that he Qwou]ld give, us another battle the next day. - - . “Then Chrls made a blg mistake. Hf ratsed the $B,OOO check to'sBo,ooo " by putting in a letteér and a cipher. ~ He presented it to the bank and asked ~ to 'have it certified, but the “cashier refused to certify it without first see‘ing Colonel Wentworth. ' The colonel

| THE CRIMINAL Tells ~~ How He Planned the | Deed and Sought to Close Every Avenue of Knowledge Leading to His Guilt. | ~The Detective Shows How | Futile These Efforts Were'and | How the- Old-Adage, Murder - Will Out, “Always Holds Good.”

(Copyright by F. L Nelson

‘denied that he had given any such check. : This .started up Chrig’ temper, ‘and he:'began -sult~ agginst Colonel ‘Wentworth in the courts. of St. Louils to Técover the amount of the check. - [ “The foxy colonel did not make the defense - Chris expected, but set up instead ‘that the chéck- was a forgery. We bluffed] it out and the case ‘came’‘to” trial. - Ghris went on the stand, told the story of the game, and ¢laimed that the $BO,OOO was given for money which fie: had loaned to Went‘worth - during- the play.- He told a pretty story, but on-the cross-examin-atioii~the colonel’ss lawyér went for him barehanded. The lawyer had got some knowledge of .our swindling trip, and asked questions; concerning the . most .intimate relations between Chris.,and’ myself.. I - substantiated Chris) storsl, but: also had to go throligh the -same searching crosslexdamination.: After Wentworth had told hrs%om to the jury about giving.an $B,OOO check, which he was willing to pay. they brouglit in'a verdict against Chele T e e o . “Chris left the courtroom in. a white heat.: ‘He didn’t say anything to me till- we got to theé hatel.. Then lie flew at-‘me like a .tiger ‘and knocked .me dawn 'with ‘the butt of ‘his revolver. He accused me'of giving, the int‘grfna-. tion about ‘our trip : to * Wentworth’s lawyer. - I dénied it,-and said it must have been:.done by Seymour, who had disappeared; but. Chris hdd it In for me for some- reasen, and would have shot me" if heé-had,not been linterfered with. “As-he was dragged away from me, he said:* “The next time-we meet, Sinelair, TIL kil you!*~ " - "« A 1 right, said Lll be looking foryon - o 0 - “He went his way and I went mine. It was five years before I landed back in ‘New York. I knew Chris was in the: city, ‘and if we efréfi\‘ met he’d keep Boword: - v ) ““About ‘a ‘month after I arrived I mét him one night about nine o’clogk fage to. faceat Fifth street and the Bowery. . 1 watched him like a cat. He had-an ugly look; and drew a gun like ‘a flash. TAMS close to. him and he flashed it in my.face. Before he could pull the trigger{again 1 drove a knife fhte his Heart ¥ N - ' “AS he stafgered back he cried: ‘lt isn't :loadeds Jack!” : Then he fell ““1 picked up the gun as it fell from his niérveless fingers.. ‘Siure- enough, there was fo. load in it.. .1 knew too fate that ,Chris- was’ only bluffing. I looked: around.. .The streets were crowded. and the Boxk'éit}',, “at that corner; fairly well lighted.: But we were away from-the gas lamp; and:no one was very rlear-us. ' Strahge as it seems, not 4 peron-in the crowd had seen. the altpreation? it has’ all passed so quietly ‘and so.quickly.. . . “Half crazed by what I had done, I walked mrriedly away: In less than half an hour T ‘was en board a train ‘speeding for the west. i . .- .

- "DETECTIVE HICKEY’S STORY. [5 ;i he:murder of Chris Berry"” said Detective Hickey, “was “one of the ,"ggéafngst'm};é'texles that ever came out | of the Beowery, -When at last it began to clear, the: crime ’xi;as'; ‘fastened so | conelusively “upon one man, that, had ‘not dévelopments butside of the regular inyestigation interfered, an- in{liocent man. certainly would have been

- “When the body of Chris Berry, who was “known to ¢verybody in the un‘derworld, -wa§ tound lying in the gutter- at “Fifth street”at am hour which ‘wag early candle lighting on the Bowery, there swas not the slightest evi‘dence- as to the identity. of the murderér, ~although ‘the street . dt. that time was vsually’ crowded. | | * “The: body: was first seen by a young man-who had just left the old -Coopex” Institute. He gave the alarm, but ngthing had been done up to the time T arrivéd. I had ‘the body taken ‘to. the Fifth}"st;eet.,-'poli_‘:e station. I knew” Chris well, niyself, and -hundredssof his friends came to the 'station ‘house, ‘and -also. ittentified him. ‘They constituted thémselves special detectives to "ﬂn({a out,.if possible, who ‘had.murdered the “King of the Card Sh'”ps’ A .dozen ' or. more theories ‘were advanced ‘by Chris’ friends, to “explain the butchery; as he had been Ain troublé many times after his return from the west, but they were theories, Wwithano evidence to back them up. ' . #That. which = gained. the most ‘weightwith’ me for 4 'time was ‘that “Chris- had been killed fér some quarrél concerning a woman. . - . - “One of the girls that I heard Chrig had taken-a'fancy to was & Cuban. ‘She ‘had formerly been the sweetheart of a Spamish. cigar maker In Allen ‘street, "and these were a few facts ‘which E picked: up which directed sus‘piclon toward him. .I did-not find theé l._g'irl*_'q'rﬂ.v)h‘éﬁev.C»h’ri"s lived until the day iof hig funeral, which took place from "his sister’'s bome in ‘Delancey street.

- “The girl attended: the funeral and followed Chris" body to the grave, After the burlal was over, I-followed her to her home and sweated her for information which would throw someé light. on the case. .Bhe didn’t know anything of importance. - She told me where her Bpanish 'lover| lived, and sald that Chris had settled all trouble with him by giving him-a little money and "ggt‘img hink a plaee to work in a gambling. joint In the Bowery. “She ‘sald that 'Chris left home about noon on the day he was killed, saying he probably wouldn’t return until the next evening; but he gave her no hint ‘as to.where he was going or whom_he was to meet. I went after the-Spanish lover to satisfy myself that her story was straight. I found/ him working in Butch Ellis’ gambling house, and convinced myself beyond doubt that on the night of the

tmn-der,'t at the time It must have oo ¢urred, he was spinning a roulette wheel. . "0 i e . “This- ended that feature of the case, but while working it out I got a elip from Butch Ellis that Chris had been in a game early in the evening of the.day he was killed, at which bad blood had arisen, a few blows had been struck, some pistol shots fired and some pretty wild threats made. “Butch wouldn’t give me the location of the joint where the trouble o¢ curred; but I found it in about half an hour from another source and got what looked like a start in the right direction. It was in Ed Kelley’s, and among the half-dozen card sharps who had been in the game was Al Livingstone, who was something of a highroller from Virginia.. He was every inch a sport of the gentleman order, and very sensitive on the question of insults, which he was always ready to resent. _ . -i; “Chris and Livingston got into a dispute over the amount of money there should be in a certain pot, and they called ‘each other liars across the table. That was the fighting word on the Bowery in those days, Livingston had plenty of friends, and so had Chris. Soon not only Chris and Livingston were having it out omn the floor, = rough-and-tumble, -but the friends were in it, too. Knives and revolvers were pulled, and it looked as if there was going to be some killing irr Kelly’s. ~ Kelly stopped the -row himself - by’ yelling: = ‘Police!’ which brought the men to their sénses..

. “The row didn’t stop any too quick for Livingston, for when it was called off Chris had a grip on his -throat which would have sent him to the cemetery if it'-hadn’t been stopped just about that time. . This had ‘oc curred about nine o’clock in the even. ing, and it broke up the game, as a matter of course. Livingston was in a very ugly mood, and mentioned several times, In the hearing of‘some ofChris’ friends, that he’d have his life beforg ‘daylight. L ; “About ten minutes after nine Ghris, left Kelly’s place alone. The gambling house was at the corner ofFirst street and the Bowery. About a minute after Chris left several per-. sons saw Livingston take a howieknif® from his hip pocket and drop it in_ his outside coat pocket, then he started- . out- qujckly, muttering a{hreat that he would kill Chris when he found him. No one followed the men, as Chris was able to take care of himself, and Livingston, .it |was thought, was only putting up a bit of southern bluff. - : o “The finding of the body, as near as could be fixed, was at a quarter past hine,” which would have given Livingston just about time "po ‘have caught up to Chris without running, as Chris had about a block’s start The wourd in . the ches&, which splitthe heart in two, physicians said, was made. by a bowie-knife; Livingston had not been seen argund his old haunti by any one since he left Kelly’s with the thneat to kill Chris, and all these facts: certainly pointed to Livingston as the murderer beyond doubt. e , i

“I got on ~ to Livingston’s track through a woman he had sent for, and. arrested him in a house in First. avenue. He had sent for this woman to have her pawn his diamonds tof raise money to.get out of the city. He did not seem at all startled at be-. ing arrested, and when I accused him of kiliing Chris Berry, he replied very cooly that he had been expecting to hear something of the kind, and said he was ready to. go to headquarters. “I-tried in every way to get him to admit the killing, even under such circumstances as would make it most favorably to him, but he positively refused to discuss the murder at all. It was. my opinion that there was a dead clear case'against him. ' [“lt was a very sensational case, and when these facts were developed be fore the coroner’s jury, they brought in a verdict accusing Livingston of the gnurder. He was locked up in the Tdmbs to awalt trial. E y“Two days later ‘Lone Jack . Sins clair' walked ihto .police headquarters, and sald that ‘he, and not Al Livingston, had killed Chris Berry. This was a thunderbolt, from a clear skYy, but when Jack: t[)ld his story, produced the bowle-knife and the pistol that Chris Berry had with him on that night, and gave all the details as he knew them, theré was no doubt of its truth, - o ; - “Livingston’ was discharged from the Tombs, and Sinclair was found guilty of manslaughter, and sent away for a long term.” ; :

Ll Hung Chang Draws an Analogy. An American official was once the guest of Li Hung Chang in China when there was a great demonstration in honor .of the rain god. Noises strident and fearful in the ears of the foreigners came from instruments and human throats.. . , The keen old Chinese ‘statesman, consclous of the effect that this was probably . producing upon the Ameri. ean spectator, turned to him and said: “This deems strange and use less to you?” The American, striving to be polite without too great a sacrifice of truth, made an evasive answer. : “You never pray for rain in your country?” pressed the Chinese statesman. o g . “Qh, yes, we do.” e “And you always get 1t?" : “No.” e “Just' the same as in China,” the old man remarked complacently. E ’Thé Fish, Silhouetted. The Frefich-attress who likens. the smart feminine sithouette of the moment to that jof a fish has produced an excellent simile. . Take a trout, for instance, and spread his little tafl at right angles to his body, and there you have an accurate likeness of the hobbled young woman or even to the middlé aged woman of the moment. Put a mushroom top at an angle on :the fish’s head, .and yb}l have the lady of ultra fashion caparisoned for outdoor exercise—From the Gentlewoman. ' A man may be gaid to be making progress as soon as he discovers that the soap, box at the cormer grocery is a mighty poor meat. . -

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© + Schute’s Awakening. ' Frank Schulte of the Cubs has recovered his batting eye. Schulte was the batting,‘ sensation of last year, when he made 21 home rung. Now Heinle Zimmerman is the candy kid with the stick. Schulte will undoubtedly be heard from this time forward. ‘Chance ‘to Undergo Operation.., Frank Chance will be operated-oh at the end of thé pregent season. The doctors believe they can relieve his eicessive nervousness with an operation, and Chance has consented ‘to the attempt.- o : - Barry McCormick Released. Barry McCormick, former third baseman of the Chicago Nationals. and more recently a star of the American association, has been released as manager of the Ohio State league team at Mansfield. o e B : Term of Spit-Ballers.” Clark Griffin says spitball pitehers are no good after the middle of Ju's. He alleges that most spitballs are hit on the top and that after the ground bakes these balls bound ever the heads of the infielders. : ’

MODERN GAME AS A SCIENCE Ancient Fans Amazed at Present Day Batting and Pitching—Sport Is . in Its Infancy. * Baseball today ils a science, and we ancient fans stand dmazed at the present day pitching and batting work, at the phenomenally clever base running and the hold the national game has gained on the public fancy. We are growing old with the game, but the latter is always improving while we are getting near sighted and stiff in the joints, says a writer in Leslie’s; The . glories of the past are. being dimmed by the accomplishments of the: present, and these “infant” fans will live to see things done that we cannot -even imagine. That's- why I envy them. We used to think we had seen everything that was in the game. Now we realize that the sport is still in its childhood. The Cobbs, the Marquards and the Johnsons are teaching us this, and double clinching the fact. T

&Y l ) \[l#% AR DAL DALL <WAL T.- z . i ; \'T ; \ T T & \\\\\\ £ /,/422, \‘\\\\\. : ) Ao Fisher, the new Brooklyn shortstop, looks very promising. g Pongo Cantillon is claiming another pennant for the Millers. - Umpire Bill Dineen is out with the theory that Ty Cobb isn’t -human. Barney Dreyfuss of the Pirates is after Red Corridon of the Kansas City team. ) ‘ George Gibson seems to be in ‘a ‘class with Jimmy Archer in guarding the sacks. = A - Eddie Mensor, the outfielder of the Pirate team, is a prize fighter in the off season. \ z Russell Ford and! B 4 ‘Walsh, bgh spitballers, have allowed more hits than any other pitchers in the'American league. . e Apparently Manager Callahan is coming to believe that youngsters are much. needed. ' 3 Charley Dooin springs la new one in asking that a disinfectant be used on the spitball. Cincinnati has ‘° released: Thomking, the Washington-Lee university pitcher, to Toronto. : : As usual in a defeat, the opposing pitcher didn’t ‘seem to have anything except a «glove and a prayer. R The success of the Senators is said to be due to the ability of the pitchers to hold the gunners on first. “Ducky” Holmes, ‘manager of tha Grand Rapids team, is boasting that he developed both Rube .Marquard and Dixie Walker. : The Cleveland club is scouring.the remotest!| corners of the country for anything! and everything that looks like a player. ' Columbia of the South Atlantic league " has traded Phil Hinton to Spartanburg of the Carolina asociation for Catcher Menefee. ~~ The new players’ union will ask for a lot of things that it does not expect to get. One condition that is sure to be turned down is that . the players be represented on the national commissgion. : One Philadelphia scribe says that iTommy TL.each has gone back—to ;playing ds he did years ago. - ‘ Larry Leje_une 1g batting .401 in the (Central leagug.. It is possible that ’those figures will! tempf some big leaguers to draft him. The Cardinals have purchased tPitcher Sanford Burk from Brooklyn for the waiver price. :

Washington’s Second Baseman ‘Taught How to Hit. M'an‘éger Griffith Takes Danville Bay in Hand and Teaches_Him to Bat —Shows Great Improvement ’ ~ In His Stick. Work. . The improverment of Ray Morgan as 8 batter is one of the greatest things connected with the performances of the Nationa‘lis of .1912. o ILiast year the little lad from Danville, Va.,, was a light sticker. Jimmy McAleer despaired his ever shining in ‘the big league on that account. But Jimmy didn’t know how to teach the boy better form at the bat. It remained for Clark Grifith to do that. . B - At Charlottesville lAorgan was given lcng and careful instruction- on hovw to stand, how to swing, how to get away from the plate and the kind of a bat he should use. It was all new to the lad. Never before had any one tried to teach him. He had a!ways hit in his own natural style, -good. enough in its way, too, but npt good enough for the big show. - . When the season started Morgan was only learr!ring how to use all his weight, against the ball, how to pick out the good ones and how to - get away from the plate. He was learning rapidly, however, and when the opportunity came for him to take his place in the regular line-up day after day, he was ready. | f\'!organ:should be one of the team’s leading hitters if he continues his present work with the willow. Thoroughly impregnated with the doctrine being taught the team by Griffith, he believes he can hit any pitching served up to- him. Furthprmore, he is doing it and has heen doing it all along. The DBaltimore boy is ‘'using the proper. size® of stick now. ‘He swings with all his strength and weight and {s one of the longest hitters on the

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TO RETAIN MANAGER DAHLEN President Ebbets of Brooklyn Sets at Rest Rumors Concerning Leader o " “of His Team. To set at rest various rumors involving the management of the Brooklyns next,year President Ebbets made this posltive statement: - “Dahlen will not be-supplanted. He has done excellent work with the material in hand. In three years he has

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QUEER FIREFLIES IN JAPAN . —— insects 'Are Much Larger in Nippon- | ese Country Than Here and Are 1! Worshiped by iLcvers. . i Tokyo, Japan.—ln Japan, says Mock 1 Jova in the Strand, fireflies are more f than mere beetles. They are Cupid'a | light to guide lovers, soule of ancient 1 soldiers, the devil's snare to- tempt | wanderers to death. In their light of | magic gold with a tint joi emeralg- | green, the Japanese see stars of hope, 1 sorrows of broken hearts; the everlasting spirits of warriors, but most of all the joy of love!and lovers. § Whenever they see the glimmering | faint green, light of fireflies hovering. over the stream running into >the. darkness of might the Japanese dream | of love and loving hearts. The light of fireflies is the gulde of lovers going along the narrow paths through the rice field on dark nights to meet thelr gweethearts. | The Japanese . fireflies are much | Im:g(zr-and give brightér and more eteady light than those seen in Eu- | rope or America. In old days many poor. Japanese students,-unable to buy candleg, were wont to gather firaflies Le . | R, B TN . ORSR L € ) ,fg;f"’&” P T | SRR SR R, ;f/ LU N R SRY P RNt T R T e E Rl s e R s A ot oo R R Be “ &%ﬁ By ‘m‘”%‘“‘m < » il ig e o Rlt o 8 XopeF 95¥W& SR e e Reibpthon g bic™ 5 ~7\;.(-};‘;.;% ;}“o 2:‘:‘: ke = . %‘r\’. , . Typical Japanesé_Garden. | in a bag and read their books by tﬂheir"‘: light. The Hotaru-kagzo (firefly cage), nade of fine laces, ,placéd on the veranda or hung “amo*}g the trees in the gardgn, gives almpst as bright a light as the large stone.lauterns, but much more quaint and dreamy. ) Fireflies are plentiful everywhere-in Japan. They are not at all afraid of human beings, and will often alight upon the dress, and even on the hair or hands. It is not seldom -that fireflies fly into one’'s pockets or sleeves. During the -daytime fireflies sleep under .the sheiter of grasses near streams or ponds. In this state they are terribly ugly. But as soon as r}w sun sinks beyond the western hills and the evening darkness begins to gather they wake from slumber and light- their tiny gleam of greenish-yel-low. At first they are timid an& will not venture from their hiding place until it is utterly dark, But scme of the more brave and restless attempt to ﬁl'v from their- day ‘shelter hefore it is” quite dark and show their faint light under the deep shadow of great trees or under the cover of low stone bridges over the stream. When the evening .mist covers th'e_ water and: the trees and grasses, dark and cool, a single g‘iiuu’,\_wring firefly flying over the water lures others to join it; and presently half a dozen, a dozen, and then twenty lights gather round the first light. Then they are everywhere,- aloft in the air, floating upon the faintly’ glimmering flow ot water, ‘and playing . among the talk grasses, which seem almost - transparent where the fireflies gather thickest, .

Y. M. C. A. TO OFFSET RIDERS Association Hires Clergyman and Cornet Soloist for St. Louis Street If Service. - | St.. Louls, Mo.—ln an effort to offset the demoralizing effects of Sunday automobile “joy riders.”.the St. Louis Y. M. C. A, has engaged an automobile clergyman and a cornet soloist for use Sunday afternoons. Every Sunday afternoon the automobile will proceed slowly along the: thoroughfares most used by “joy riders.” With the cornetist playing lustily, the- car will creep along, followed, it is hoped, by a slowly moving audience. When & sufficient crowd has been collected the minister will preach on Sabbath _observanee, ' . ) , The plan is to-reach both the automobile ‘parties and the crowds that usually line the streets to see the gay parties whiz past. ) o ENDS A MOTION PHOTO FIGHT Montclair, N. J., Lets Amusement Con- « cerns In After a Debate of v, Two Years. . Montclair, N. J.—After debating the subject more than two ¥ears, ‘the town council has decided to grant a license for a moving-picture show in Montelair. The applicant will spend $lOO,OOO on his building and plant and will pay a fee of $l,OOO a year. No vaudeville performances will, be allowed under his license. : For the past two years Montclair h‘as enjoyed the unique honor of being the only city of. its size.in the country with no moving pictures. _

BARS . HIGH SCHOOL .FRATSE St. Joseph, Mo., Board of Ed'ucatlon, Requires Students to Sign Non- | membership Ptledge. C } - v . i . | St. Joseph, ‘Mo.—The school bo,ar,d) has put a ban to all secret societies in 1 Jocal high schools. All students en- | tering the- high schools must Bign a | pledge that they will not join any | fraternities or sororities. Expulsion will be the penalty for a violation of the pledge. . - » _To Bleep in Aercplane. | ‘i ‘London.—During the progress of the British army aeroplane tests on Salisbury Plain the authorities have -been trying to discover the possibilities of sleep -during long flights. This morning Lieutenant Lawrence, riding as a passenger in Aviator Sippe’s Hanriot machine, slept through three hours of flving, being awakened 'on-ly by the | bumping of the aeroplane when the landing was made. eI l

MAST TREES FOR THE CROWN Mark of the Broad Arrow Was Placed on Pines in the Plymg - out Colcny. . , ‘ln the provincial c¢harter. of 1691, under which the Plymouth colony and the province of Maine were united with Masgachusetts, it was provided that all trees of the diameter of 24 inches and upward of 12 inches from the ground, growing upon land not heretofore granted to any private persom, should be reserved to the crown for the furnishing of masts for the <oyal navy, Harper’'s Weekly observes, ) A surveyor general of woods was appointed .to see that this provision of the charter was carried into effect. Near the coast all white pines of suitable dimensions weére marked with the “broad arrow”-—three cuts through the bark with an ax, like the track of a crow. This was the king's mark. Long after the revolution had - obliterated the roval authority men who’ had been taught in bovhood to Tespect the king's mark hesitated to cut such trees. - In felling a tree it was necessary to “bed it” to prevent its breakine. This was done by cutting the small growth and placing small trees across the "hollow, so that there should be 30 strain upon Aon'}e section more than upon- ancther wheb the monster pine steuck ground. .. | . : :The mast was hatled outsof the woods on one §tron2 sled, whether in winter or summer, ¥4 SO ,many .oxen were required thr“.the»himi pair were often choked in crossinz a hollow, being hung up in their yoke by the pulling of those ahead of them. -A mast hauling was a great event, -Slp Suryrem uigitm {poqAisas pum tance came to see it. R

HANDS CRACKED AND “BLED St. Clair, Mo—*“My trouble beganm about fifteen years ago. It was what some claimed eczema. The form the disease worked under was a breaking out with watery blisters on my hands which would then dry and scale, and’ then would follow .the trouble of cracking and bleeding, -also itching and hurting. My ha\nds were® digﬁgured at the time, and sore. The trouble was very annoying, and disturbed my sleep. This last February it was ever so much worse than before. I did not do, all my weork on account of the condition -of ‘my hands. I ®ould not put them in water without '}mak—ing ¢hem worse. I tried a lot of home remedies, also salves and liniments that claimed to be a cure for the trouble, but I did not obtain a cure.’ “At last I saw the advertisement for Cuticura Soap and Cintment. I sent for a sample. I thought they would cure, 50 I sent for 4 fifty-cent bex of Cuticura Ointment and some Cuticura Soap. A doctor advised me to keep ahead with the Cuticura Soap and Ointment and they cured me completely. No trace -of thé trouble re mains.” (Signed) Mrs. ‘Mary Taylor, Mar: 29, 1912. ) S - Cuticnra Soap and Cintment sold throughout the world.. Sample of each free, with 32-p. Skin Book. Address postcard “Cuticura, Dept. 1, Boston.”

i UN“KXND COMMENT. » ¥ A » ) . ) PR ‘ TSy I RRRCE T L s SRR A A L A N W 2 o%\ LS &4° Ly S Qg v 6/:,9\ S 2 I ) 2 o TR G e 43 ' B _.:—“"V ﬁ':‘:n, ~ :s—" ~ = ig N V=s . = -‘:3 “E“. fy 0 o —_"_ L}'gg Qe : ‘9’ - :.;A-;., ) ’ A Tl Madge—George says he always loses his head when he goes in the water. Maude—l should think that would be the only part of him that would keep him afleat. - ‘ The Cannibals Need Food. An officer of the French colonial army brought a letter from the chief of a group of missionaries in the =« southern islands of the'. Pacific not-‘ long ago, which winds up as follows: “I regret to ‘tell you that our' little company can do- little against-tfe fapaticism of these poor wretches. Moreover, famine is -ravaging the country, for the harvest has - been destroyed. Therefore the dispatch of more mis--gsionaries has become urgent.”—La Petite Republique, »

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