Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 37, Number 244, 17 August 1912 — Page 6

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THE RICHMOND PAILAIIU3I AND SUN-TEIiEGKAM, SATURDAY, AUGUST 17, 1912.

HARROW NOT GUILT! THE JURY FINDS

Famous Labor Leader Today Acquitted of the Charge of Bribing a Member of the McNamara Jury. Continued from Page One.) Xnent was a distinct victory for DarTOW. The second count had to do with the 'alleged attempt to bribe George N. .Lockwood, who was drawn from the jury wheel, but on whom summons to appear In the case never had been erved. After eliminating the first count from consideration Judge Hutton outlined the law bearing on the case. No conviction, he said, could be voted on 'the unsupported testimony of an accomplice. Such testimony must be confirmed by other testimony which In itself must connect the defendant with the commission of the crime. Even though the jury believed the testimony of the accomplice, Judge j Hutton said, it must be disregarded unless there was sufficient other evidence to substantiate it. This part of ,the address to the jury referred to the testimony of Burt H. Franklin, the man who was supposed to have handed Lockwocd the bribe money. Counsel for the defense had pointed out that Franklin's story was not only not corroborated, but was directly contradicted by other witnesses. The evidence in the case, the court said, had clearly demonstrated that Darrow's previous character was good and this should be regarded as a substantive fact, tending to show the defendant's innocense. Regarding the mass of collateral evidence of the commission of other alleged crimes the Jury was instructed that this evidence should be disregarded only so far as Jt went to show whether or not the crime charged was of a general plan r system. HISTORY OF CASE. The indictment and trial of Clarence Darrow, the famous criminal lawyer on the charge of attempting to bribe a juror, came as a startling sequence to the now famous McNamara dynamiting case. It was on December 1, 1912, that John J. and James B. McNamara pleaded guilty to the charge of murder ;in connection with the dynamiting of 'the Los Angeles Times building, and were sentenced to fifteen years and life Imprisonment respectively. The great trial had been under way only six weeks and the attorneys for both I sides were still wrangling over the selection of a jury, when the startling i-announcement was made that the prisoners would plead guilty to the icharge. Darrow, who had full charge of the defense of the prisoners, had carried ion a magnificent fight during every ! step of the proceedings, but he became convinced that the evidence the prosecution had was overwhelming. Bribery rumors had been rife during ,the trial, but the sensation came a Tew days prior to the McNamara brothers' plea of guilty, when Bert Franklin, a detective for the defense, was placed under arrest on the charge of attempting to bribe George N. Lockwood and Robert Bain. His crests was followed by hints t)f "higher-ups," but Darrow's name ;was not mentioned until December 11, Vhen the detective was given a hearing at which witnesses testified that Harrow's name had been used in the "overtures. Franklin, however, strenmously denied that this famous lawyer had had anything to do with the attempted bribery of jurors, i Goes To Grand Jury. His case was taken up by the grand ijury and about the middle of January rumors that Franklin had confessed ithat Darrow was behind the bribe (fund were circulated in Los Angeles. Darrow, through his lawyers, entered 'a strenuou3 denial of these charges, and when the rumors were confirmed, branded Franklin as a turn-coat and 'a Burns' detective, hired by the state to discredit, the labor lawyer. On January 29, two indictments were returned against Darrow, containing four counts. Two of these counts charged the lawyer with the bribery and attempted corruption of Robert Bain, the first juror sworn to try James B. McNamara, the confessed dynamiter and murderer now serving a term in San Quentin prison. The remaining counts allege the bribery and corruption of George N. Lockjwood, a venireman summoned in the McNamara case. ' Darrow was arraigned on February ,1. and his attorneys immediately entered motions before the court to set aside the first indictment and quash the second on the ground that the 'evidence was insufficient and did not jeet forth facts proving the charges. After a consideration of these motions, the Darrow attorneys were called before the court on February 3, and the motions were formally denied. Darrow then entered a formal plea of not guilty, and was released under a heavy bail. His trial was set for May 16. The trial of Bert Franklin on February 27, dispelled any lingering doubt as to the part the detective had played In his Investigation before the grand jury. He immediately pleaded guilty to one- indictment and was released after paying a Hne of $4,000, the presiding judge significantly com

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PROGRESSIVES STARTED SOMETHING

For This Time Last Year Who Would Have Thought that in the Corresponding Time This, Women Would Be a Political Factor.

BY ESTHER GRIFFIN WHITE. That the women, not alone in the six states where they can vote, but the country over, would be in the summer of 1912, a determining factor, or, at least, some sort of a factor, in political consideration would have been laughed down this time last year. But the fact remains. And who's responsible? The Progressives. There's no dispute about it can be none. No matter what sops the other parties are now throwing out they are the forced and insincere result of the propaganda of the party more recently formed. It began with the pronouncement of Mr. Theodore Roosevelt for universal suffrage prior to the convention in Chicago. What if his motives may or may not have been one or the other thing? What if he is said to be a consumate politician? That he is really not at heart for the enfranchisement of the alleged weaker sex? That he was playing politics. For the support of the women in the six states that have granted them suffrage. "Granted," by the way, is an amusing word. And least used in this senBe. For one-half of the citizenship of the land to be "granting" the other half its inherent civic rights in something of an anomaly. But such is the mighty patronage of our overlords. And, after all, if the women want to vote its the only way they can annex it. As stated here the other day it's not tho medium through which it is secured it's the thing you're getting. And it is percolating through the Progressives. So, after all. why not lend the latter such support as can be made efficacious before full enfranchisement is brought about since their platform embodies nearly every phase of social propaganda in which women have been interesting themselves the past decade and much longer? Hear this from their plank of Social and Industrial Justice: The supreme duty of the nation is the conservation of human resources through an enlarged measure of social and industrial justice. We pledge our-1 selves to work unceasingly in state and nation for: Prohibition of child labor. Minimum wage for working women. Prohibition of night work for women. An eight hour day for women and young persons. One day's rest in seven for all wage earners. An eight hour day in continuous twenty-four hour industries. Abolition of convict contract labor, j except for governmental consumption, and the application of prisoners' earnings to the support of their dependent families. Publicity as to wages, hours and conditions of labor. Reports on industrial accidents and diseases. Public inspection of all tallies, weights, measures, and all check systems on labor products. Standards of compensation for death by industrial accident,, injury and trade diseases. Pensions for sickness, irregular employment and old age. Establishment of continuation schools for industrial education under public control. Establishment of industrial research laboratories. Organization of the workers men and women as a means of protecting their interests and promoting their progress. The establishment of a department of labor. Prohibition of the issuance of injunctions when such injunctions would not apply when no labor disputes exist. lease was followed by his subpoena to appear as a witness for the state. Trial Began May 15. The trial of Darrow began May 15, and was marked by the brilliant work of the lawyer in his own defense. Darrow's prominence as a champion of organized labor made his arrest and trial of exceptional interest. The accused labor lawyer, who is now fifty-five years old, was admitted to the bar in 1875, and almost immediately jumped into prominence as an advocate of labor. He possesses an oratorical gift that has won him the reputation of being one of the most effective jury pleaders in the United States, and his knowledge of law is acknowledged to be second to none in the ranks of labor counsel. His most noted cases have been the Chicago litigation against the so-called gas trust, the Debs strike case, the coal strike arbitration in 1902, and the defense of Moyer, Haywood and Petti bone, who were charged with murdering Governor Steuenberg. Darrow secured the acquittal of the accused murderers of Steuenberg and immediately leaped into national prominence as a lawyer. When the McNamaras were arrested, therefore, he was called upon to defend them against the much heralded "persecution of capital," and undertook the task on an agreement which is rumored to have Included a $50,000 retainer and a fee of $1,000 for every day he spent in court. A fund of over $200,000 was raised by organized labor for the defense of the dynamiters. Besides his activity in the cause of

The right to trial by jury for contempt in labor disputes. Minimum safety and health standards in industry. Prevention of industrial accidents, of occupational diseases, overwork and involuntary unemployment. What's this but everything the women have been fighting for through club, philanthropic, religious and social organizations for the past quarter century? The great thing in this world is to let the unessentials go and retain the essential even if it's but half a loaf. What women want is equal and universal suffrage. Here is a new political party a sort of Moses-in-the-Bull-rushe's find. It's fresh and new and young and healthy. A very good chance to train it up in the way it should go. Or, anyway, a chance at being released from social, industrial and sex bondage. Seize the means at hand. When you maroon the end and stick it in your belt you can mold it into any shape you please. The most short sighted policy is that which insists in hanging on to all the tag ends of things rather than letting go and walking off with the body under your arm. Here is the Progressive Plank on Equal Suffrage "The Progressive Party, believing that no people can justly claim to be a true democracy which denies political rights on account of sex, pledges itself to the task of securing equal suffrage to men and women alike." Well, what more do you want? This column readily understands that there are women whose political sympathies have been with the two dominant parties indeed with parties not dominant, as the Prohibitionists and Socialists. Although the Socialists can hardly be dominated a "party." But, if these sympathies were analyzed, of what would the component parts be found to consist? Largely family traditions and inherited prejudices with little positive comprehension of the reasons for their affiliations. Very much the same way with men. Men are Republicans and Democrats not so much for principle as for political anchorage. There's an occasional man who may be a Democrat because he believes in the tariff for revenue only. But, if pushed to the wall, could he tell just what he means by "revenue only?" Isn't it a fact that the average voter knows about as much about the actual operations of the tariff as he does about sailing an air-ship? Isn't it a fact that he pays as much for things under one tariff bill as another? Isn't the whole tariff thing a bogey to scare little children with at night? That's about as much as anybody

knows about its vagaries The truth is that its time to throw all the old views of things into the discard and begin with a clean slate. Operate on a(basis of known needs and conditions. And the Progressive Party has a nice, new, clean slate. It offers it to the women to write on. Here in Indiana they cannot do better than to sharpen their pencils and begin, for here is how its nominee for Governor, Mr. Albert J. Beberidge very pithily puts it: "Because women, as much as men, are a part of our economic and social l'fe, women, as much as men, should have the voting power to solve all economic and social problems. Votes for women are theirs as a matter of natural right alone; votes for women should be theirs as a matter of political wisdom also. As wageearners, they should -help to solve the labor problem; as property owners they should help to solve the tax problem; as wives and mothers they should help to solve all the problems tha concern the home. And that means all national problems; for the Nation abides at the fireside." writer. He is the author of "The Persian Pearl," "Resist Not Evil," "Farmington," "An Eye For An Eye," and also various pamphlets on social and economic questions. CATHOLIC SOCIETIES (National News Association) LOUISVILLE, Ky., Aug. 17. Thousands of delegates and visitors, representing the clergy and laity of the Roman Catholic church throughout the country, are pouring into Louisville to attend the eleventh annual convention of the American Federation of Catholic Societies. The gathering will be formally opened tomorrow morning with a solemn pontificial mass at the cathedral. The Most Rev. John Bonzano, the papal delegate at Washington, will be the celebrant. The sermon will be preached by Bishop McFaul of Trenton, N. J. Other features of the convention program will include an address of welcome by Governor McCreary, a response by Edward Feeney of Brooklyn, the president of the organization, and an address by Archbishop Kessmer of Milwaukee on "The Principle of Catholic Federation." SHIP CHRISTENED LONDON. Aug. 17. Mrs. Robert L. Borden, wife of the Canadian premier, performed the christening ceremony today at the launching of the Canadian-Australian steamship Niagara. The Niagara will be the largest vessel plying between Australia and the American continent.

BIG WELCOMES FOR OLYMPIC VICTORS

American Stars Will Get a Tremendous Reception in New York Next Week. (National News Association) NEW YORK. Auz. 17. The official welcome of the victorious Olympic athletes, scheduled for next week, was reported today to have grown to such proportions that it would at least rival and perhaps eclipse any celebration ever held in New York City, since the Hudson Fulton. More than $50,000 has been collected for use in decorating New York streets, for providing music and for featuring the reception and dinner that is scheduled for the evening of August 24th. It was thought probable, however, that this amount would be far exceeded. Clubs throughout the city and the surrounding suburbs and towns have signified their intention of claiming representation In the festivities at their own expense. In addition to these expenditures, West Point cadets and regular troops from Governor's Island have been ordered to this city on the day fixed for the welcoming celebration. The parade arrangements have made with regard to a review by President Taft, Governor Dix of New York and Mayor Gaynor. Saturday, August 24, is the date that has been set for the official reception, while a committee composed of 165 of New York's most prominent men has been selected to oversee all arrangements. This committee reported today that the parade would form at Forty-second street with the Olympic athletes in the forefront in automobiles. Standard bearers have been appointed to accompany each automobile bearing banners, explaining in large type the occupants of each machine and their various records. The committee further announced that the plan of march would take the parade down Broadway to City Hall Park, where it has been arranged to make the review from the City Hall steps. It is thought that about 10,000 men will be in line. Plenty of bands have been arranged for, and besides the details from Governor's Island and West Point, a company of bluejackets has been instructed to represent the United States Navy in the celebration. Teams from the city schools have also applied for permission to march with the Olympic heroes and arrangements have been made to have the line of march banked with American flags in the hands of school children. The athletes have been instructed to circle the campus of the City Hall and pause before the steps for the addresses of the prominent speakers who have been placed on the Olympic celebration programme. Among these are the Mayor, Governor Dix, the President, Andrew Carnegie and many more who have not yet been announced. The committee stated that the complete Olympic team as sent to Stockholm would be present at the ceremonies. It is further announced that a committee of the athletes would extend thanks for the honors heaped upon them. This committee as tentatively composed today bore the names of Piatt Adams, winner of the standing high jump; John Paul Jones, of Cornell, the champion miler; Gaston Strobino, of Patterson, N. J., the first American home in the Marathon; Ralph Craig, winner of both the 100 and 200 meter sprints, and Charles Reidpath of Syracuse University, winner of the 400 meter race. Most of the speech making, however, has been placed on the programme for the reception and dinner to the athletes in the evening. Terrace Garden has been selected for this entertainment and arrangements have already been made to seat 3,000 people at $2 per head. It was regarded as certain, however, that this number would be substantially increased by late dinner reservations. The expense for Olympic celebration has been collected through public subscription amounts ranging from $1 to $12,000, having been given with great freedom by the citizens. The finance committee stated today that the probability was that a fund far in excess of actual needs of the arrangements committee would be subscribed before the date set for the celebration. The general committee in charge of the Olympic welcome has been carefully selected and is composed of such men as John D. Archbold, Vincent Astor, George B. Cortelyou, George Ehret, Mortimer L. Schiff, John D. and William Rockefeller, Andrew Carnegie, George J. Gould and many others. Wordsworth's Sens of Smell. Poets have not failed to do perfumes justice, but one major poet Wordsworth went through life without a sense of smell and was not sorry for It. Nature, he told Aubrey de Vere. seemed to him all the more a vision. But once, and once only, did Wordsworth smelL and the prosaic occasion illustrates the unpolished household ways of his time. He sat down with his family to the midday dinner and began to carve a leg of mutton. The leg of mutton was stuffed with onions, and for once, and once only, the sense of smell was revealed to him. The onions, suddenly laid bare, conquered. London Standard. Taxed tho Beards. Peter the Great of Russia levied a tax on beards. Finding that his subjects were disposed to keep their beards at any expense of money, he ordered all those be found bearded to have the hair p racked out with pincers or shaved with a blnnt razor. Russia then became a beardless nation. A moving picture camera can be op erated oh horseback by using a recently invented attachment for the

SENATOR BORAH WILL SUPPORT OLD TICKET

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NEW YORK, Aug. 17. Announcement has been made from the Republican headquarters in this city that Senator William E. Borah, of Idaho, will deliver a series of speeches in support of President Taft. Before the first Chicago Convention, Senator Borah was an earnest supporter of Colonel Roosevelt. ARE TWO CANDIDATES To Fill the Vacancy on the Local School Board. The election of a member of the school board to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of Lee B. Nusbaum, former treasurer of the board, will be undertaken by the city council Monday evening. Two names have been put in nomination, Walter Thornburgh and Wilfred Jessup. Both men have their followers, and the result of the election is doubtful. The nominations have not been closed, and there is a possibility that other names may be put in nomination before the election is held. The meat inspection committee will not be able to submit a report at the meeting and will ask for another extension of time. Several additional appropriations will be up for passage. NEW VEHICLE TAX DUE SEPTEMBER 1 All licenses for bicycles, motorcy cles, automobiles, wagons, buggies, carriages and other taxable vehicles expire Sept. 1, and the new license checks have been received by Contractor McMahan and are now on sale at his office. McMahan is making preparations for a rush of business, and will probably arrange for deputies to assist him in selling the checks, for in the last few days of the sale it is customary for football tactics to be used by license tag purchasers In getting their places at the windows. ROUND-UP OF MOOSE (National News Association) KANSAS CITY, Mo., Aug. 17. The advance guard of the 20,000 visitors expected in Kansas City next week for the annual national convention of the Loyal Order of Moose put in an appearance today. Tonight and tomorrow special trains will arrive with large delegations from cities throughout the United States and Canada. The downtown section of the city is a mass of flags and bunting in honor of the convention visitors. The gathering will be formally opened Monday with a public session in Convention Hall." The program covers five days and is replete with interesting features of social entertainment. The Canadian delegations propose to make a hard fight for next year's convention of the order. Both Toronto and Winnipeg are applicants. OLD HOME WEEK (National News Association) CONCORD, N. H., Aug. 17. With beacon fires aglow on her hilltops the Granite State will tonight bid welcome to the hundreds of her sons and daughters returning for the annual celebration of Old Home Week. For a week to come family reunions will be in order in every city, town and hamlet, throughout the state. New Hampshire ordiginated the idea of Old Home Week fourteen years ago. Since that time it has been adopted by numerous other states and by several of the Canadian provinces. Inoonaiderate. - - "If you don't stop nagging toe, EmOj. I shall shoot myself this very minute." "Yes. that's jnst like yon. when you, know how nervous I am when I hear r hot." London Tit-Blta.

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Scrap Book Maria Mitchell and tho Boor Man. Maria Mitchell, the famous astronomer, was once directed by her physician to ue lager beer as a tonic. On the way to visit her sister, Mrs. Joshua Kendall of Cambridge, Mass., she stopped at a saloon and purchased a bottle of beer and afterward asked her brother-in-law to open it for her. The Mitchell family spoke among themselves after the Quaker custom. -Where did thee get this bottle, Maria?" questioned her sister. "At the saloon on the corner." replied Miss Mitchell serenely. "Why, Maria! Doesn't thee know respectable women don't go into such places?" "Oh." said Miss Mitchell in the manner of one who has done all that could be required. "I told the man after 1 bought it that he ought to be thoroughly ashamed of his traffic." Equality. Com, give me your hand, sir. my friend and my brother. If honest, why. sure, that's enough! One hand. If it's true, is as rood as another. No matter how brawny or rough. Though it toll for a living- at hedges or ditches Or make for its owner a name Or fold In its grasp all the dainties of riches. If honest. I love it the same. Not less in the sight of his heavenly Maker Is he who must toil for his bread. Not more in the sight of the mute undertaker Is majesty shrouded and dead. Let none of us Jeerlngly scoff at his neighbor . Or mock at his lowly birth. We are all of us God's. Let us earnestly labor To better this suffering earth. Matthias Barr. The Raw Recruit. F. M. King enlisted 14 the SpanishAmerican war and was sent to Jefferson Barracks. He was strolling through the company streets smoking a cigar when an officer approached. King saluted. "Look here," said the officer, "don't you know better than to salute an officer when you have a cigar in your mouth? How long have you been here?" "Three days," replied King. "Yon are excused this time," said the officer, "but don't let me catch you doing that again." In a short time King met the same officer and walked by without saluting. "Why didn't you salute?" demanded the officer, stopping him. "Well, you just told me not to salute when I had a cigar in my mouth," re plied the raw recruit. But he spent three days in the kitchen peeling potatoes for this offense. Atchison Champion. A Losing Dream. "I made a nice idiot of myself the other morning," said the commuter, who Is paying teller in a savings bank. "My wife was afraid I'd miss my train, and she got me by the shoulder and shook me, telling me that it was time to get up. I got about half awake, and somehow I thought I was at my win dow in the bank, with a long line of women awaiting their turn. The one at the window was handing me a check, and from force of habit I said: " 'How much money do you want? "You know, most women who present checks want to draw some and deposit the rest. Well, what do you think the wife did? Quick as a flash came ber answer to my dopy question: " 'Five dollars will do.' "She got it, but I hope I won't dream any more." New York Tost. A Lost Play. Weedon Grossmith, the English comedian, used to tell a good story about a play by Robert Ganthony, which that gentleman asked him to read. Mr. Grossmith took the comedy, but lost it on his way home. "Night after night," he says, "I would meet Ganthony, and he would ask me bow I liked his play. It was awfuL The perspiration used to come out on my forehead as I'd say sometimes, I haven't had time to look at it yet, or. again, The first act was good, but I can't stop to explain, etc., must catch a train. That play was' the bane of my existence and haunted even my dreams." Some months passed, and Ganthony, a merry wag. still pursued him without mercy. At last it occurred to Mr. Grossmith that he might hevcieft the comedy in the cab on the night It was given to him. He went down to Scotland Yard and Inquired. "Oh, yesr was the reply. "Play mark ed with Mr. Ganthony's name sent back to the owner four months ago, as soon as found." Tho Old Days. Some years ago it was in the good old days a Pittsburgh worker went to Harrisburg and asked for a job as doortender. "I don't want much," he said, "bat I need this Job." The party boss agreed that he was entitled to some consideration"Find a door without a doortender nd you can have it," were the big man's instructions. The worker looked around for several days and then reported. "I can't find a door without plenty of doortenders." "Not one door? "Nary door. Guess I'll go home." "Wait a bit," said the boss. Too have been a good party worker. Ill have a door cut for you." Pittsburgh Post No Sailor. One of - the characteristics of the Cape Cod native is the habit of tinderstatement, according to B, EL Schauffler In the Metropolitan Magazine, and for an example he gives the answer of an old "accommodation" driver In Prevteeetown who was asked if he had ever been a sailor. "No," be sekL "No, I never followed the fx none to speak of. Oh. when I was young I fdone some fishin. I went on a few wbalin voyages. peroap I vear in alL but I wouldn't

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REAL ESTATE TRANSFERS

Isabel P. Rupe to Wm. H. Romey. et aL. Aug. 12. 1912. $1. PL lots 3-2. Eli Roberts Add. Richmond. Mary T. R. Foulke to Carrie I; Drifmeyer. July 2. 1512. $S00. lot 116.4 Bik. S, Mendenhall & Prices Add,. Richmond. Clarence C. Brown to Georgia E. MInck. Aug. 14. 1912, 11, Pt. lot 4. Isaac Bennett's Add, Richmond. Anna E Burson to J. T. Gist, July SO 1912. f 1.2u0. Pt. lot 4. Estate of Wm. Bulla Add.. Richmond. Jno. B. Dougan to Wm. H. Turner, Aug. S. 1912. $1. Lots 1 to 14. F. Klemann Add.. Richmond. Win. Clark to Oliver Morse. Aux. 12. 1912. $5,000. Pt. X. W. 4 Pec 13. Jno. A. Jessup to Robert Jackson. Aug. 7. 1912. $1,650. PC S. E. M Sec. 31. X. W. Sec. S2-13-1. Frank R Melle to Richmond City Water Works. July 15. 1912. $3,000. Pt. X. E. ; Sec. 35-14-1. Lizzie S. Johnson to Elias A. Hasting, $100. lot 764, Beallview. DINED THE AUDIENCE. And tho Troat Proved a Fin Ad. Fo' Lisst and Rubini. An article in an Italian review eontains an Interesting story of Li sit and Rubini. the tenor. They were touring -together and visited a town where. from the preliminaries which had been arranged, great things were expected. But they were disappointed, for when . they entered the hall they found only -fifty persons present. Riblnl was furious and said he would not sing, but Liszt calmed him. "You mnst sing." he said. "This small audience is evidently composed of musical connoisseurs of the town, so we should treat them with respect. Liszt set the example with a grand overture, and Rubini sang to perfection. Liszt gave another piece and then addressed the audience. Liszt as an orator was as tactful as he had been In the role of pacificator. ; Addressing his audience of fifty, he' said: "Ladies and gentlemen there was only one lady present "I think that you have had enough music. Allow me to ask you to take a little supper with us." After a few seconds the Invitation was accepted, and Liszt and Rubini entertained the audience to supper at their hotel, which cost them 1,200 francs. When the guests separated the hosts thought the affair had been a joke, about which nothing more would be beard, but they decided to give their concert as advertised on the following night. To their astonishment the hall was packed. There was not standing room. The whole town had turned out on the off chance of an invitation to supper. PATAG0N1AN INDIANS. ' Customs of the Remnants of Once Powerful Tribe. t Normally the Tehuelches, as the Patagonian Indians are called, are a . peaceable and kindly people, yet they are impulsive, capable of strong prejudices, very revengeful and often with good reason suspicious of strangers. They are not to be trifled with and when under the Influence of drink are brutal and dangerous. They show love for their children and wives and kindness to their old people. Tbey aro divided into numerous tribes or croups, each having Its chief or cacique, upon whom the burdens of government rest but lightly. They believe In a good and an evil spirit, whom they propitiate, and bare many stories, myths and superstitions connected with the sun. moon end stars, while the slaying of horses and drinking of blood form a conspicuous part of their superstitions, birth, marriage and death ceremonies, many of which are most repulsive. When Magellan first passed through the strait there were perhaps no fewer than 10,000 Patagonlans roaming from the Rio Negro to the strait, while today, driven back from the littoral to the high pampas and the foothills of the Andes, altogether they would probably not total over 600. Harper's Magazine. A LOWER BELMONT 'duett, Peabody & Co. makers of OLIVER VISIBLE TYPEWRITER For Sale Cheap. Fe-fec condition and does splendid writing. Could ship on approval and trial. Writ to Charles W. Rickart. Rosodale. Kant. ALL KINDS OF CANS Can Lids and Rubbers, Sealing Wax, Pariffine and Jelly Glasses. Cooper's Grocery. Fotger P. Wilson Henry i. Pohlmoyar Harry C Downing Harvey T. Wilson,' FUNERAL DIRECTORS Phono 1335. 15 N. 10th 81 Automobiles, Coaches,

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