Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 36, Number 294, 30 August 1911 — Page 2

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THE RICH3IOXD PALLADIUM AND SUX TELEGRA3I, WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 30, 15111.

COTTON SPOKE Oil COUNTRY SCHOOLS

.Timely Topic Chosen by a Prominent Educator Vincent on Lowell. Tb sessions of, the Wayne County Teachers' Institute this year are unusually Interesting to the teachers as they are being addressed by men of national reputation upon subjects which hold the attention of those in attendance through the, manner of treatment as well as subject matter. "We were tired to death of those men who came here year after year," said a representative of the teaching profession, " and tal'trd to us of wornout methods ami loaded us up with silly stories. While Mr. Cotton's lectures are pedagogical in character purely, they represent the advanced pedagogy. He Is the best we have ever had." . Mr. Cotton talked both morning and afternoon on "Country Life and Country Schools," a phase .of education which Is occupying the attention of educators at present. In an endeavor to adjust modern conditions to the rural community. Lead In This State. "The counties of Wayne and Henry In this state were the first in the country, to my knowledge," said Mr. Cotton, "to give country children the benefits of the high school without the payment of fees. It is through the consolidation of the schools that the problems of the country school will be solved. The ideas worked out In the city schools will not , solve the problem, for the country school. The country school must be organized to meet the daily needs of the people. Mr. Cotton discussed this morning the three great forward movements In the Interests of schools, especially the country schools, under three general beads, .namely: - ' First, Improvement of , the plant, Which Includes buildings, grounds, etc.; second, enrichment of the course of study? v third, consolidation of schools. ,' Old time Ideas and habits have prevailed In the country schools, says Mr. Cotton, although residents of the suburban communities have modern houses, barns and other farm buildings equipped and furnished in modern style. The school only lags behind. 'That college men, who have attempted to Infuse new life Into the courses of study prepared for country schools, are not sufficiently conversant with the life and needs of the latter was emphasized. If a boy fur Instance, failed In Latin, he should be permitted to take up botany or some other study loss foreign to his environment. Certain studies should be optional. This afternoon under the head of Schools of the Twentieth Century, Mr. Cotton discussed the ideal country school, and took for. an illustration one such school he visited about four years ago, which, in Its general tone, came nearer realising this ideal than any other he had ever seen. Speaking of the consolidated school Mr. Cotton said: . The Kind of Schools. . "In all states in which' the township Is the unit of the school system, the logical v thing Is a complete central school In each township, to which all children .shall go. A consolidated school should have a kindergarten, the eight grades and a nigh school with a four years' course. It should have complete, well equipped modern buildings. Here should be located the library, which should . contain books well seuected to meet the needs of the community, and which should be distributed by means of transportation hacks and the tree delivery mall system. "' "It should hav manual training departments for boys and girls. It should be in session at least eight months of the year and should be the center of the community interests of the consolidated territory. , '"The school should have a small farm of say ten acres, well equipped for scientific, elementary agriculture. The farm should have located on It a cottage for the use of the principal nd his wife. '"The principal should have charge of the manual training, including shop work, both wood and iron, and agriculture for the boys; : the assistant should have in -charge, the manual training, Including cooking and sewing, for the girls. On Saturdays and during the summer vacation the boys and girls could study scientific farming and cooking and sewing directed by the principal and assistant. In this way they would come Into possession of many valuable suggestions that would make them desire to become successful farmers and farm home makers. t After animadverting upon social advantages that would ' develop from such a system, Mr. Cotton said: "Two decades of this sort of work in the schools,' touching the lives of all the boys and girls, would be the forerunner of the greatest Industrial development this country has ever known." Dr. Vincent Lectures. Dr. Leon Vincent again delighted bearers this morning with, the beginning of a lecturo on Lowell," which was concluded at the afternoon session. Dr. Vincent talking in the morning of Lowell as a critic. That one of the greatest American writers of contemporaneous verse, who, in Dr. -Vincent's opinion, would be so regarded in the future, had not received over five dollars a year for ten years as an Income from his poetic writings, was cited as an instance that a poet could not live on the returns from poetry alone. Lowell was a poet. . - 1 ' The ' age of thirty-six, however. found Lowell occupying the chair of modern languages and literature in Harvard, of which he was a graduate, a gratifying appointment, since Lo well had been "rusticated" in his sen

ior year for hi reprehensible laxness

VETERANS OF THE "SIXTY NINTH" HOLD A REUNION TODAY Members of the Famous Fighting Regiment, Which Was Organized at Camp Ben Wade, Meet Again in Richmond and Fight the War Over Again A History of the Regiment Written by Allen Grave, of This City.

Surviving members of the SixtyNinth regiment of Indiana volunteers, who saw most active service in several of the most bloody battles of the Civil War gathered together on Wednesday at the Wayne circuit court at the twenty-seventh annual reunion of the association formed by the surviving members of the regiment' a few years after the war closed. The affair here today was regarded as one of the most pleasant If, not the largest attended reunion held in the past several years. The morning session was spent In the registration of the members of the regiment and a few visiting veterans from other regiments. In the afternoon at 2 o'clock the reunion was officially opened by Col. Oran Perry of Indianapolis, former adjutant general of Indiana, and chairman of the SixtyNinth Indiana Regimental association. The program of the afternoon session was as follows: Music Mrs. Carrie Polneer. Prayer Chap's in Rev. Harter. Business meeting. Music Mrs. Polneer. Song Comrade Mullens. Solo Miss Ruth White. Recitation Lois Ward. Song Comrad-j Mullens. Short talks by comrades. Though at press time the election of officers for the ensuing year had not taken place it was the general belief of the members of the regiment that Col. Perry would be reelected president and Major M. II. Lacey of Fountain City would be reelected secretary. It was thought that New Castle would be selected as the 1912 meeting place. The program was of an informal character. The talks by the veterans were short and largely reminiscent and in welcome to the visiting veterans and the latter replying in response to the welcome. The veterans upon arriving were escorted to the circuit court room on the third floor at the court house, where they enrolled at the registration booth, conducted by Mrs. George Scott, Mrs. Anna McMlnn and Mrs. Llssa Arnold. During the morning the time was spent socially as the business session was not called until 2 o'clock. About 11 o'clock Col. Oran Perry, of Indianapolis, who is presi dent of the regimental association and Major M. M. Lacey, of Fountain City, the secretary of the association, met with several of the other veterans and outlined the work for the afternoon. At 12 o'clock the veterans were in vited to the G. A. R. Post headquar ters on the first floor where the La dies' Auxiliars had prepared, a banquet. The menu, included , stewed chicken, baked dumplings, mashed potatoes, sweet potatoes, celery, slaw, fruits, coffee, bread and butter and mince pie. Enough had been prepared for two hundred guests. The committee of the Women's Relief Corps in charge, included Mrs. Angle McDivitt, chairman, Mrs. John Iredell, Mrs. Erastus Bond, Mrs. Kate Scott, Mrs. Minnie Hall, Mrs. Mary Christopher, Mrs. Delia Coggesball, Mrs. Selina Hawkins, Mrs. Laura Kitson, Mrs. will cooper. Airs. Alice ugbora and Mrs. Susan Underbill. There were three tables extending lengthwise of the post room. The table decorations included different varities, of garden cut flowers, and also other varieties. American flags were hung about the room adding to its attractiveness. 1 . Allen Grave, who has been most ac tive in the arrangements for the twenty-seventh annual reunion has in nol attending chapel, held at sunrise. Although the class poet he did not appear on the day of graduation. Dr. Vincent spoke humorously of Lowell's "looking the part" of a poet, being given to large-checked trousers, violent neckwear and other sartorial anachronisms. Lowell was an "ironical humourist" and this was probably the key to his charm. In his "Fables for Critics," which Dr. Vincent called "a rhymed primer of American literature," the speaker stated that Lowell predicted Invariably the place his contemporaries would have in the literature of the country, oue of the most difficult phases of critical judgment. Among other Interesting facts told of Lowell was that he was the first editor of the Atlantic Monthly and established the present policy of that magazine and was also a co-editor of the Review of Reviews. Ho disliked teaching which he referred to as a "treadmill." ARE UNDER SCRUTINY All Passengers from Europe Closely Watched. (National News Association) NEW.' YORK, Aug. 30. J. Pierpont Morgan Is taking an active part in the search in New York for De Vinci's painting, "Mona Lisa," which was stolen from the Louvre in Paris. Mr. Morgan had an order issued that all steamships belonging to the International Mercantile Marine company be thoroughly watched for some trace of the missing painting. As a result of this order fifty private detectives of the White Star line boarded the steamship Oceanic when she docked , today and watched the passengers closely. Custom men also boarded her and questioned the passengers as was done yesterday when the steamer Kaiser Wilhelm arrived. A test for the purity of sugar is to burn a small quantity. If it is pure it will leave no ash. If it is adulterated ashes will be left. .

written the following history of the regiment: . - The Sixty-ninth Regiment Indiana Volunteers was organized at Richmond, Ind., during the months of July and August, 1862, and was encamped at "Old Camp Wayne." It was a "home" regiment, for the reason that it was recruited exclusively from the

counties composing the "Old Fifth' Congressional District." Companies A and E a part of D and F were from Wayne county, Company C, a part of D and F were from Randolph county. Company B, was from Delaware county, G from Union, H and I from Henry, and K from Fayette county.' On the 18th day of August, 1862, the regiment went by rail to Indianapolis. On the 19th they were mustered into the United States service with 39 commissioned officers and 1,000 men. The men were at once marched to the arsenal and drew arms and 40 rounds of ammunition and at once took the train for Louisville, Ky. Ten days after without having ever had a battalion drill, with about 5,000 other green troops, on the 30th of August engaged In an open field battle with 30,t)00 erans under the rebel general, E. Kirby Smith, at Richmond, Ky., where it lost in killed and wounded 278 officers and men and nearly the entire regiment was taken prisoners. They were Immediately paroled and sent to parole camp at "Camp Wayne." November 18 they were exchanged and at once went to Indianapolis, where they were reorganized. Col. William A. BIckle resigned and General T. W. Bennett was appointed colonel. The regiment was sent to Memphis, Tenn., and on the 20th of December it went down the Mississippi river with the advance of Sherman's army to Vicksburg; was in the five days' fight at Chicasaw Bluffs; thence to Arkansas Post and was engaged in the battle and capture of that stronghold January 11, 1863. The regiment was two weeks in advance of Grant's army in the Vicksburg campaign, and by a long and circuitous march captured and held a landing for Grant's boats thirty miles below Vicksburg. It was in advance and participated in all the battles in that wonderful campaign which resulted In the fall of that Gibraltar of the Southern Confederacy, Vicksburg, and which, as the immortal Lincoln so aptly said, "permitted the Father of Waters to flow unvexed to the sea." It participated in the battles of Thompson Hill, Champion Hills, Black River Bridge, the siege of Vicksburg, the six days' battle and siege of Jackson, Miss., and all of these engagements its loss in killed , and wounded was severe. After which it was transferred to the "Department of the Gulf and was sent to New Orleans, where it joined General Banks' expedition, marched across Louisiana nearly to the Texas line, then back to New Orleans, where it was transported across the gulf to Texasj thence back to New Orleans and up Red river, and participated in the battles of that disastrous campaign. After which it was sent to Pensacola, Fla., via New Orleans and the gulf, and participated in the Mobile campaign, and fought its last battle in storming Fort Blakely, Ala., April 9, 186S, the day that Grant received the sword of Lee at Appomattox. In this last real battle of the war the regiment lost 19 in killed and wounded. The six days' siege, the charge and capture of Fort Blakley was one of the most desperately fought battles of the war, but it was the end, it was MISSING VESSELS AREJHDISTRESS Government Orders Cutters to Rescue Steamers , Crew Mutinied. (National News Association) SAVANNAH, Aug. 30. The steamer, City of Memphis of the Ocean Steamship line, crippled by the southern hurricane, is aground near the quarantine. An incoming craft reported her in trouble today, but efforts to communicate with her failed because the storm had put the wireless .station out of commission. Tugs were immediately sent to her assistance. The steamer was bound from Savannah to Boston. CREW MUTINIED. WASHINGTON, Aug. 30. The revenue cutter Yamacraw was ordered at full speed today from Savannah in search of the steamer Bessie Whiting which is thought, to have been wreckIed during the hurricane. It was reported by Lieut. Bunady of the New York Cutter Station that the crew of the Whiting had mutined and abandoned the captain and his wife, who refused to leave the vessel. CHARLESTON, S. C, Aug. 30. Fully a month will elapse before the full havoc wrought by the hurricane along the South Carolina and Georgia coasts is completely known. The seashore is strewn with wreckage and it is believed that beneath the debris are more bodies not reckoned now in the deathlist that has reached 25. Communication with the Isolated points inland was still crippled today and it was with the greatest difficulty that this city kept in touch with the balance of the world. Some sections in the ravaged area were still cut off and it will be at least a week before conditions are back to normal. 1 Work of clearing away wreckage left in the wake of the tornado is

the last of a thousand blood , stained fields, where men had died that our country might hve, and its glory and brave deeds were dimmed by the glorious cup of peace. The following description of the battle of Fort Blakely is taken from the Cincinnati Gazette of April, 1865, written by a correspondent who saw the charge: "At 6 o'clock p. m. the advance of our skirmish line had fairly begun and as I looked the scene was a strange one. Wreaths of thin blue smoke were curling around rebel ramparts, lit up continually by spurts and flashes of vindicative are. A rolling sound like the call of battle, beaten upon a thousand drams, pulsated through the air. Never for a moment did the tre slacken, nor for an instant was there an intermission of the sound. Secure behind their works, the rebels poured a continuous stream of bullets In the faces of our advancing soldiers Our whole line is slowly moving, not in line of battle or In mass, nor yet In confusion or pell mell. Each man had his own obstacle to encounter and

vet-4each glanced at his own regimental

flag ready to form when the nature of the ground would permit. At this point they could be seen climbing over fallen trees and creeping and pushing through a wilderness of brush and tangled timber, but whether climbing, leaping or creeping, they still held their faces steadily towards the foe, still looking steadily in the faces of that line of angry Are. It is seven hundred yards from where our men have started to the real rebel fortifications; the whole distance is strewn with fallen timber, ditches and sunken torpedoes. Now they have reached the abatis and are pushing the sharpened branches aside with their guns. The whole rebel line is ablaze with artillery and small arms, and the blood of scores who passed through other gory fields here stained the ground. The brave men of Andrew's division, composed of Indiana, Ohio and Illinois troops, urge their way through the apparently impenetrable network of fallen timber, but it was a fearful trial to stem that flood of angry fire and our losses here were greater than upon any other portion of the field. "A ringing cheer resounded along the lines, a short, sharp struggle takes place at the foot of the rebel ramparts. Our men have flung themselves across the ditch and are climbing up the outer slope of the works. Another moment, and something flashes like a meteor through the smoke and lire. Thank God! it is the sacred banner of the stars; it floats as ever 'mid the storm of battle and in an instant long lines of blue-coated soldiers are standing proudly erect upon the crest of the hostile works. It was the flag of the Sixty-ninth Indiana and it told that victory had been won, and sent a thrill through every heart." The Sixty-ninth was mustered out at Mobile, Ala., July 6, 1865, with sixteen officers and two hundred and eighty-four men. During its service it had received sixty recruits. It lost in killed and wounded and by disease 800 men during the three years of its service; 500 of these had been killed in battle, 300 died of wounds or disease. Not in vain the offering of blood! Not in vain the sowing and the harvest gleaned by death ! Not in vain the blight of hearts and homes! the mother's grief, the maiden's tears, the orphan's wailing cry, if out of these has come forth a nation stronger, better, purer, than ever dreamed of by poet, patriot or sage. proceeding slowly. News trickled in from coast towns relating heavy destruction from the terrific wind which accompanied the storm along ' the coast. The total damage from the storm along the coast is increasing as re ports trickle in and today it is estimated in round numbers at $5,000,000. Disabled ships, caught in the path of the storm, staggered into port to day with stories of disaster upon the deep. The number of small vessels which were wrecked cannot be estimated. All of the streams flowing into the sea within the zone of the tornado are, out of their banks. WILL PR0BEC0UNCIL Honeywell Fathers Won't Fix a Tax Levy. (National News Association) TOPEKA, Kan Aug. 30. Governor Stubbs today announced he will send C. W. Trickett, former assistant attorney general to Hunnewell to investigate the members of the city council, who are thwarting the woman mayor. The council refused to tnake a tax levy and no revenue is available for the city. - OFFENDING OFFICER, IS TO BE OUSTED (National News Association! SPRINGFIELD, O., Aug. 30. Because Marshall David Jones placed the initials of A. L. Nunlist in a cement block at the town pump at South VI enna as a monument to Nunlist, who was heavily fined for road law violations. Mayor Busby and the town coun cil ordered the block destroyed and Jones may be ousted from office The block was broken to pieces by orders of the mayor who is . known as the "dry executive" of that village. Jones threatens to sue the village. ' - Among the appliances in up-to-date whaling vessels is a harpoon gun at

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All IOWA CHILD IS HEARJERFECTIOII Women Judges at Show Can Not Find Flaw but Score ' Boy, at 962.

DES MOINES, la., Aug. SO. Charles Elmer O'Toole, aged 36 months, son of C. J. O'Toole of Des Moines, is an almost perfect child, according to the four .women physicians who Tuesday gave their decision in the baby heaith' contest conducted at the state fair by the state congress of mothers.. Master O'Toole was entered in the 2 to 3 year olds. Master O'Toole should have a perfect score if it were possible for any human being to be perfect, say the judges. They were unable to find a flaw in his body, but, acting on the theory that no child could be entirely perfect gave him only a score of The second prize In this class went to Mary Lena McDonald, aged 30 months, daughter of George McDonald, of Des Moines, who had a score of 654 points. Other Des Moines Children. In the one to two-year-old class, Wilma Cass, aged 22 months, daughter of W. M. Cass, of Des Moines, won first prize with a score of 96 points. The second prize went to John Roland, Jr., aged 20 months, of Des Moines, with a score of 95 points. In judging the babies, the physicians considered height, weight, circumference of abdomen and chest, symmerty, quality of skin, fat, and muscles and bones. The head and the features, also were considered, as were the disposition, energy and facial and ocular expression of the child. The judges were Doctors Florence Sherbourne of Colfax, Margaret Clark, of Waterloo and Lena Means and Sophia Hlnzie Scot of Des Moines. Special Program of Veterans. A special program for the entertainment of the veterans of the Mexican and civil wars was carried out today at the Iowa state fair. Today was officially known as old soldiers' day, and the veterans began arriving at the grounds in large numbers at an early hour. Several flights were made by Parmalee and Clifford Turpln in Wright aeroplanes. CIGARETSJOST MORE Tobacco Company Notify Dealers of Increase. (National News Association) NEW YORK. Aug. 30. It is report ed the American Tobacco Company has notified all dealers of a fifty cents per thousand increase on the price of cigarets, affecting five brands having a daily sale, aggregating 5.000,000. FASHIONABLE HOME RAIDED BY OFFICERS (National News Association) MEMPHIS, Aug. 30. Secret service operatives today raided the fashionable home of John -G. Payne near the suburb of Buntyn and seized $10,000 in counterfeit silver dollars and a complete counterfeiting plant. Payne and his wife were arrested. They had leased the house two months ago. death due to fire from Lamp blow up (National News Association) , PROVIDENCE, R. I., Aug. 30. Mrs. EdVard Lennon, aged fifty-five, was burned to death today in a fire which started from an explosion of a lamp in her own hand when she fell down stairs. PARK DIRECTORS TO MEET ON SATURDAY Directors of ther Richmond Lake and Park company will meet at the Commercial club rooms on Saturday afternoon to elect a secretary of the or ganization. Several names have been suggested. Sec. C. W. Jordan, by vir tue of being secretary of the Commer cial club, 'members of which were actively identified in outlining the lake and park proposition, has been acting in this capacity. It is probable other business will be considered. MILLER REPORTED AS BETTER TODAY Jhe word was given ont by hospital authorities this afternoon that there was a slight change for the better In the condition of young Miller, shot by an Italian. He did not suffer as much last night cr today as he did until that time. The Producer. "It must be annoying to bare to ask your husband for money," said the intrusive woman. "I wouldn't think of doing so," replied Mrs. Cumrox. "We insist on family games of bridge and in that way avoid being under the slightest obligations for what be contributes.' Washington Star. Encouraged. . .. , Old Lady I want you to take back that parrot you sold me. I find that It swears very badly. Bird Dealer "WelL madam, if s a very young bird. It'll learn to swear better -when it's a bit older. Human Life. A Good Deal of a Chang. A man who sent ns a poem beginning "When twilight dews are falling fast upon the rosy lea" has since married Rosa Lee, , and now the weekly dues are falling faster upon him. j wise man never loses anything if he has himself. Montaigne.

VILLAGE' NOW WARS

ON MILLION BIRDS Hoyleton, 111., Residents In- ; - dulge in Conflict with Black Pests. IPOYLETOX, III., Aug. 30. The residents of Hoyleton last night began the first hostilities in a war In the support of the inalienable right to sleep. It was a one-sided conflict, however, in spite of the fact that the army of oppression numbered 1,000,000. The Hojietonites got much the better of the contest, and literally pyramids of the enemy were slain. Village Much Disturbed. For a ' week past the slumbers of this quiet village have been broken each night by an invasion of blackbirds as has never before been seen in this section of the state. This is the season of the annual migration of the birds from the northern wilds where they have spent the summer to the southern swamps and bayous, where they winter. They seem to have found Hoyleton a most convenient stopping point. Each night swarms of them have settled on the trees of the village and have kept up such a continued clatter that sleep has been impossible for the weary inhabitants. The pest was endured as long as possible and finally the citizens organized a defense committee. A council of war was held, with the result that every man and boy in the village was drafted into an army of extermination. The birds are not seen in the village in the daytime, but as soon as night begins to gather they swarm from all directions, loading down every available tree. War Waged In Earnest. In pursuance of the plan mapped out by the committee of defense, the citizens gathered armed with every sort of weapon that threw a projectile from the boy with his slung-shot to the old man with his old-fashioned "musket" shotgun. The slaughter began as soon as the birds flew into the village and continued until the stock of ammunition was much depleted. After thousands of the invaders had been made to bite the dust, the defenders retired for the night and were kept awake as usual by the birds, whose talkativeness seemed to have been merely stimulated by the unusual happenings of the evening. CLARK BENEFIT TO V BE WELL ATTENDED - Members of the committees run ning the musicale which will be held at the Coliseum on the evening of September 15, both as a benefit to the Hon. Alvin Clark, the aged violin maker, and as the formal opening of the musical season of 1911-12, are much pleased with the success met, in the disposal of tickets for the concert perhaps a hundred or more musicians of the city are actively identified In the movement. The program will be announced within the next week. It will include several selections by the leading musicians and musical organizations of the city. The full Richmond Symphony orchestra, under .the leadership of Prof. Will Earhart, will have a prominent part fn the concert. In addition there will be violin and other instrumental and vocal solos and altogether the program will be made as pretentious as possible. All who are identified are donating their services. PAUL CHRISTOPHER ROBBED AT CINCY Paul Christopher, a young railroader, flagman on Pennsylvania freight train No. 87, was held up and robbed last night as the train stopped at the R. C. cabin, just this side of Cincinnati. A gold watch and a small amount of money was taken from young Christopher. Two men committed the robbery. BOSS BARBERS WERE GUESTS OP EMPLOYES Journeymen barbers entertained the owners and managers of the different tonsorial parlors of the city at a banquet in their honor on Tuesday evening at the South Sixth street union hall. The meeting was largely attended and the evening a most enjoyable one to all. deeding by Bawbhst. That all diseases cau be cured by bleeding is still firmly believed by several savage tribes and especially by the Papuan negroes. When one of their physicians becomes convinced that it is necessary to bleed a patient he goes several feet in front of fcim. and then, drawing his bow, he fits a sharp pointed arrow to It and. after careful aim. fires the arrow' Into the vein which he desires to open. The arrow, it 13 said, invariably goes straight to the mark, and the thorn or splinter of glass with which it is tipped does the work as successfully as a lancet. Moreover, the patients never show the slightest fear, since they are convinced that from the moment the arrows pierce their veins they will begin to recover. Dinnor Time. Englishmen in Queen Elizabeth' time dined at 11 a. mvand Shakespeare rang up the curtain at the Globe theater at 1 p. nx, the performance ending between 5 and 6 o'clock. By the time of Charles II. dinner bad advanced to I o'clock, and the play began at 3 p. m- as Pepys records. A century later Horace Walpole complained of dinner being as late a 4 o'clock and evening not beginning until 6 o'clock. Cp to the middle of the last century theaters opened at 630, dinner being proportionately, earlier.

HEIRESS ESCAPED OFFENSIVE LOVERS

Miss Katherine Barker, of Michigan City, Returns .from Europe. (National News Association LA PORTE, Ind.. Aug. SO. Miss Katherine Barker, the 15 year eld Michigan City heiress to the $30,000,000, left her by her father, the late John H. Barker, a car manufacturer. t i ut xatv avun w iiuui i-.uiinm niirin she was sent to escape the lmpertlnities of many fortune seekers and young men who wanted to court her. During the absence of Miss Barker, who is said to be the wealthiest young woman in the United States, several thousand letters accumulated, manv of which were from vounc men nf tltl in fnrltn landa. n.-voV 1 n an introduction. Miss Barker will spend the remainder of the summer at a Michigan resort and will then, enter a college to complete her education. The courts have made it possible for her to distribute a certain percent of her Income to churches and charitable institutions and as the heiress is a Catholic it will be the institutions of this faith which will receive her benefactions. POLICE NEWS ITEMS Gossip Gathered at the Headquarters Today. The city attorney or city council should make an attempt to collect the $500 reward offered by Cambridgo City for the arrest and conviction of the murderer of Mrs. Frank Allison last year. Police Supt. Gormon says.. The money was offered and the arrest and conviction secured but the reward is not forthcoming. The police believe that the city should get the $500. The reward of $500 offered by the county commissioners for the arrest of the murderer was paid and Supt. Gormon, to whom the reward belonged, turned it over to the city, although he believed that it should have been placed in a police fund. Supt. Gormon will ask for no additional appropriations this year with the possible exceptipn of $1,000 for a patrolman's salary. The department will have exceeded the appropriation for this year by About that amount owing to the fact that another patrolman has been added to the force. Although Mayor Zimmerman believes a patrolman should be discharged from the force in' order to curtail expenditures, this course is not thought best by Supt. Gormon and others, who say that more patrolmen are needed. A circular was received by the police this morning from tne captain, of detectives at Louisvjlle, saying that a reward of $200 was offered for the arrest of Judge John S. Adair, of that city who converted to his own use the funds of the State Bank at Stephensport, Ky. The amount of money embezzled was $65,000. Considerable excitement occurred at the Chautauqua grounds Monday night when screams coming from a tent on Highland avenuo attracted persons in the vicinity. Shortly afterward three women, one carrying a baby ran from the tent; attired in flimsy materials. They were also barefooted. It was learned that two men had been playing "Jack-the-Peeper." Chautauqua policemen were called but no one could be found. However, an investigation was instituted and. two . men are under surveillance. Most of the policemen have taken their summer vacation, each member of the force being allowed ten days. Patrolman Harrv Fee went on duty last evening after the end of bis recreation period and Patrolman Wierhake started on his vacation last night Those who have bad their vacation are Patrolmen Edwards, Hirschfield, Whjte, Lawler, Bundy, Cully, ' Staubach, Longman, First Sergeants 5 Mo Nally, Remmcrt and Fee and Supf. Gormon. Those who arc anxiously awaiting the brief respite are Patrolman Hebble, Westenberg, Menke, Tingling, and Vogelsong and Second Sergeant Winters. ... . . : . "We have numerous calls each night from women who.say that a mysterious man is prowling about their house"," said Supt. Gormon today, but upon investigation we invariably find that it is some man waiting for a girl or woman to fill a date with him. The other night we received a telephone message from a woman conveying to us the exciting information that her house was about to be robbed. An officer was sent to the place and it was ascertained that the man juBt bad a date." "Do you think bloodhounds can be relied upon in tracing a criminal and do you think they ever run down an innocent person, Supt. Gormon was asked today. T11 answer that question in this way," was the reply. "I would never convict a man, if I were on a Jury, just from the fact that bloodhounds had traced him down. They get the wrong man very often." No Romsnca. Mr. Farwest 1 met my old scEoofmate Lakeside today for the first time In an age. and 1 thought from the way he acted when 1 mentioned you that yon and be most have had some romance or other before we met. - Mrs. Farwest No romance about It. We were married for a few years, that's alL New f ortWeekly.- - '