Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 35, Number 35, 12 December 1909 — Page 20

TIIE RICII3IOXD PALLADIUM AND SUX-TELEGRAM, SUNDAY, DECEMBER 12, 1909.

PAGE EIGHT ANGRY FRENCHMAN Katie Asks Santa to Give Her New Feet Her Own Were Frozen and Cut Off, and She Wants Others So She Can Go to School And Learn How to Work. loi't Go Wroifl KILLS HIS FAMILY

Philadelphia, Dec. 11. It Santa j Clau8 is the kindly, old fellow that he is cracked up to be, and if he is still "onto his job, there is one little girl In this big town who won't get any dolls in her stockings this Christmas. No; not in either stocking, for she is going to hang up both of them. It isn't that Katie doesn't like dolls. She does. Every little girl does. And Katie would love a dolly all the more because she never had one except Just the rag babies that her mother makes for her. But even one of those real live dollies that have light, fluffy hair, and that close their eyes when you put them down, would not find a welcome in Katie's stocking this Christmas. "Some other Christmas," Katie says, ' but not this Christmas." Katie has seen some of those beautiful dolls marked 49 cents in the shop windows, and she knows that only very, very rich children get them. But, any way, she doesn't want a dolly this Christmas, because, you see, if Santa Claus put a dolly in one of her stockings, why, there would only be one stocking left. "And how," asks. Katie, "could he put two feet in that other stocking?" And that's what Katie wants from Santa Claus this Christmas two feet. "If I had another pair of stockings," says Katie, "I might hang up three, and then Santa Claus would have one to put a dolly in, and one for each of the new feet I want him to bring me." Then her great brown eyes take a far-away look, and 'she adds: Up to Santa. "Mamma says that Santa Claus couldn't bring all those things to poor little girls, so I don't want the dolly,

just the feet. That isn't very much to . she was asked yesterday by a North

bring to a poor little girl, 'cause most American reporter

every poor little girl 'ceptin me has

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feet." So it is up to Old Santa to make good. Some kind women who manage the Pennsylvania branch of the Shut-in society discovered Katie. And it is really astonishing that anybody should have ever discovered her. For she lives in a little, narrow street, hardly wide enough for two baby carriages to pass. It is fortunate, therefore, that there aren't any baby carriages in the street, though there are plenty of babies. After the visitor gets into the stre;t he still has a long way to go to get to Katie. A ring at tlie bell of the designated house may bring a head popping up from the trap door iu the sidewalk, and the visitor is led through a dark, musty cellar to a kitchen which has a little more light

than the rest of the cellar, because j it has slits of windows between the(

sills of the house and the ground level. This kitchen is Katie's home. But Katie has no cellar parlor. On the contrary, she is rather a healthy looking child, and cheerful. Her mother supports herself and Katie by taking in washing and by going out to work by the day. Once, when Katie was smaller, the mother went out to work and left her in charge of a neighbor. The neighbor let the child's feet get frozen, and then, instead of sending for her mother or a doctor, concealed the condition. Katie's feet had to be amputated. Artificial Feet Broke. By hard work the mother saved enough money to buy Katie a cheap pair of artificial feet. But they were a constant danger and expense because they were always being broken. Katie's second pair of feet finally had to be thrown away. Now she longs for another pair that cannot be

'I'd go to school," said Katie, a little

wistfully. "I did go to school when I had my other feet, but not long enough to fearn to read." "Why do you want to learn to read?" "Well, I'll be big after a while, and I want to earn money, so mamma won't have to work so hard. Mamma is awful good to me, and some day I want to be good to mamma." Then after a pause, she added: 'Gee! I wish mamma was Santa Claus; then I'd get my feet."

Her mother brushed her eyes with a

corner of her apron. "The good lord will do something for us. I know He will," she said.

After Murdering Two People,

Wounded Two Others, Then Suicided.

THE MALE BASS.

Em an a

How lie Lnuka After tbe

the Little Fry. "The female tish has no maternal instincts whatever," said the superintendent of the state fish hatcheries. "Iu fact, tbe tish is the most unhuman creature :n existence that is, of the animals which have any degree of intelligence at all.

"Perhaps it is well that It is so, for if the parent tish took care of their young as other creatures do the waters of the

earth would be filled with them in a very short time. Under natural condi

tions not one egg iu a million ever becomes a tish a year old. As an example, I have seen female brook trout go up into the spawning places and snawn their eircs and then turn

around and deliberately eat them,

"For tbe past few years I have been much interested in experimenting with

bass and studying their ways. Here

the male parent has some maternal in

stincts apparently. He builds the

nest for the female, some little pocket with a gravel bottom protected from the stroug current, but with plenty of fresh water, and then hugs or pushes the female Into it. The eggs are

spawned by the female, who swims

away and leaves them to their fate,

frozen arid that cannot be broken. ! The male fertilizes the eggs and then

The Shut-in Society can get her a pair j for a few days watches over them.

for $115. Hut Santa Claus is the only hope for the $115.

Katie doesn't have much to say on

'fanning' them occasionally to insure a circulation of fresh water and keep

ing off other fish who would devour

the subiect of feet except that she has the eggs. The male fish have been

' a vague hope that Santa Claus will 1 known to follow the little fry for sev-

', provide. "WThy do you want feet, Katie? What would you do if you had them?"

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eral days, protecting them until they

were able to care for themselves.

"I have seen a school of. say, 1,500

bass fry devoured in five minutes by

a few sun bass or perch minnows.

Under the case of the fish hatcheries from 50 to 95 per cent of the eggs become fish fry. How many of the fry live to be a year old or so after they are planted in the streams It Is very

hard to determine. It depends so greatly upon conditions that no relia

ble estimates can be made. Milwau kee Wisconsin,

DISPUTE CAUSES OF CRIME

AFTER SLAUGHTERING HIS FAM

ILY HE ATTACKS HIS CLERKS, WHILE A CROWD PEERED THROUGH A WINDOW.

(American News Service) Marseilles, France,- Dec. 11. In a

sudden fit of anger caused by a dispute

over five centimes, M. Bouvier, a merchant, today killed five of his family,

wounded two employes and th killed himself. He shot his wife and his mother dead; overpowering his two

sons and his daughter, he cut ther throats and then he attacked a girl and a clerk in his shop, fatally wounding

him. After that he ended his own life with a revolver.

Bouvier was in his store when a

purchaser and the clerk quarreled over

the amount of a purchase. The mer

chant listened quietly for a time and

then took part. He became agitated and the purchaser at last fled, barely in time. Rushing to his rooms nearby the merchant seized a revolver. As he dashed from his bedroom his wife and mother confronted him. Without

a word he opened fire.

Killed at First Shots. They dropped dead at the first shots.

instantly killed. Then pocketing the

pistol, Bouvier armed himself with a razor. His two sons and daughter.

attracted by the shots, ran to where

their mother and grand mother had fallen. As they bent over the bodies Bouvier attacked them, cutting their throats and leaving the bodies in a

heap. Then he sprang into the shop.

grasped the terror stricken clerk and the girl, and while a crowd peered through the' windows, fatally wounded them. As the police burst into the

shop, Bouvier fell dead. He had put the revolver in his mouth and fired.

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