Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 39, Number 35, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 January 1907 — Page 6

WEEKLY REPUBLICAN. <JEO. B. MARSHALL, Publisher. RENSSELAER, - » INDIANA.

WILL TRY SOLDIERS.

INDICTED LIEUTENANT AND PRIVATE TO FACE COUNTS. T. . * War Department Orders Trial of’Men Indicted for Killing PittaburK Uit,iaen fa 1004— Platinum Found Near Ohio Town. . | ' . ■ y The War Department has seijt instrnctions to the office of the' United States district attorney in Pittsburg that the lang-delayed case of Lieut. Ralph H. Drury, U. Sf A.. and Private John DoWd of the Ninth infantry, under indicemcnt for the killing of William 11. Crowley, a citizen, of Pittsburg, be tried without .farther delay.. The case has been hanging fire since the shooting of Crowley. Sept, 13, 1904. when Dowd took refuge in the arsenal, remaining there for three weeks, protected by Lieut. Drury. Later Judge Acheson of the Federal Circuit Court decided that Dowd and Lieut. Drury should be turned over to the civil authorities, and this decision was sustained by the United States Supreme Court. Since then the defendants have tried to have a date set for their trial, but without success. According to the military authorities Crowley was detected in the theft of copper roofing belonging to the government and was shot while trying to escape arrest. DROWNS IN WIFE'S SIGHT. Mun Attempt* Ilcscne of Boy and BothLow TbelrULve*. Before the eyes of his young wife, George Davis, aged 25. lost his life in an unsuccessful attempt to rescue John Arke. an S-year-old boy. from drowning. The boy went out on the ice of the Rockaway river at Morristown, N. J., and broke through. Davis and his wife saw Arke drop into the water, and Davis cut down the clothesline in bis yard and tied one end about his waist. lie gave the other end to his wife and started toward the boy, who was floundering about in the broken ice. Lying down Davis reached out and seized Arke, and shouted to his wife to haul in on the rope. She drew her husband back from the hole until the boy was out of the water. As she started to pull again the rope broke and the man and boy slid back into the water and were drowned. PLATINUM FIND STIRS TOWN. Ediaon'a Birthplace, Milan, 0., Make* Dlwovery in Hnron River. Milan. Ohio, the birthplace of Thomas A. Edison, the electrical wizard, is greatly excited over the finding of largo quantities of platinum in the Huron river at that point. County Surveyor Smith has been making a survey of the river, but declines to make jiny statement. L. L. Stoddard, a banker, some time ago exhibited some specimens of mineral products taken from the river boil to Mr. Edison. .Aft er making an investigation the great inventor and scientist said the discovery would make all Milan rich. Shot Four Times In Flight. During a shooting affray in a billiard room in Tullahoma. Tenn., Mel Parker was wounded four times and is reported to be dying and Henry Brinkley was shot in the hack. James Holt in the hip, J. D. Baxter in the back and Tom Pratt in the head. The origin of the trouble is apparently unknown.

Explorers Perish in DcwrL The remains of Prof. Thomas Grindell and his party, who deft Douglas. Ariz.. in June, 1904. to explore Tiburon island, in the gulf of California, have been found in a desert-in Sonora, where they perished. evidently for want of water. The identity was established by letters addressed to Grindell. I<> Die in Electric Chair. In Dayton. Ohio. Roy Fowler was sentenced to die in the electric chair May 29 for the murder of his sweetheart, Mamie Haggerty, on Aug. IS. The murder followed the girl’s refusal of Fowler’s proposal of marriage. Another Cuban Revolt Predicted. Washington officials are worried over - the problem likely to confront them after the Cuban election -next month, when' a new revolt is expected, which may force an effort to annex the island. Death of Prominent Merchant. James E. Holden, general manager for Marshall Field & Co., died at his home in Chicago after an illness of three months. Russian General Is Murdered. Gen. Litvinoff, governor of the province of Akmolinsk. Asiatic Russia, was assassinated in the street near his office by two unknown men. Hill Announces Retirement. James J. Hill announces that he will retire from active business July 1. and will be succeeded by his son in control of enterprises. Railroad President Dies. Alexander J. Cassatt, president of the Pennsylvania railroad, died suddenly of heart disease. - * t . Mono Acquitted of Perjury. Col. W. D. Mann, editor of Town Topics, was acquitted by a New York jury of the charge of perjury. Claims Pullman Relationship. A 5-year-old child, whose mother claims lie is ttefwirt a nephew of George M. Pullman, and who will receive $50,000 in Pullman stock on his majority, was found freezing and in rags in New York Kslter'ii Fourth Koi to Wed. Princess Alexandra Victoria of Schles-wig-Holatein-Sonderburg-Gluecksburg has been betrothed to Prince Augustus William. Princess Alexandra is a niece of the empress, and the young people are also related remotely on the male side. Both were born in 1887.

SIX MURDERED BY MAFIA.

New Orleans Italian* Kill Vletltu* tn Attack with Knives. _ '■ A plot of the Mafia, which has been working secretly in New Orleansfor years, resulted in the murder of six Italians, Whose bodies were found the other day in a tenement house on Dumaine street. In that city. The bodies were burned. Buch a panic has been created among Italians as a result of the discovery that It was necessary to send every reserve policeman in the city to the tenement house. Even then there was so much excitement that the officers could, not cope with the situation and all ablebodied fifemen were ordered to the scene to assist in maintaining order. There has not been so much excitement In the Italian colony sincs the wholesale lynchidgs of. Italians several years ago. The murders are believed to have been committed during the early part of the night, and there is every indication that they were carefully planned. As no screams from the victims were heard it is believed many men participated in the slaughter and that all the victims were struck down at the same time. The bodies were literally hacked to pieces. Those which were burned were probably set on fire after the murders had been committed. BOAT AFIRE RACES IiEATH. Heroism of Crew Saves 380 P««»enKer* on Nova Scotia Coast. Enveloped in flames and with 380 panic-stricken passengers huddled on the decks, the steamer Strathcona raced for shore in the darkness of a recent night. It was a race with death and the steamer won. The 380 passengers were landed at Port Dufferfn, N. 8., and in less than an hour the steamer hnd burned to the water’s edge. The flames, Tanned by the speed, were spreading with tremendous rapidity, and the ship'presented a terrible sight as it forged ahead at the top notch of its speed toward shore. The engineers stuck to-their posts in thv engine room till the flames broke through, but still they refused' to abandon the hold. Most of the passengers were Christmas shoppers returning from Halifax. EXPECT 1,283,313 ALIENS IN 1007. Commissioner Wntchorn Makes Some Fiicures for Ellis Island. Figures just compiled at Ellis ’sland, New York, indicate that at the present rate of increase 1,283,415 more aliens may be expected to enter this country through the immigration station on Ellis island next year. “The number of aliens who will land at New York this year,” said Immigration Commissioner Watchorn, “will approximate 1,050.000 persons, as against a total of 859,010 who landed here In 1905. This shows an increase in the immigration of about 22.23 per cent. Using these figures as the basis for an estimate im1907, we may expect 1,283,415 aliens to arrive at Ellis island.” BELOW ZERO IN NORTHWEST. Homestender Froien to Death Near Shack at Imperial, N. D, Below zero temperatures prevailed the other night in North Dakota, part of Montana and Canada. The weather bureau reported 8 degrees below at Williston, 4 below at Devil's Lake, N. D, and 2 below at Winnipeg, Man., 4 below at Minnedosa and 2 below at Qu’Appelle. A telegram from Imperial, N. I)., says that Frank Warnick, a homesteader, was found frozen to death near his shack three miles north of that town. Warnick was engaged in the printing business on tho Pacific coast eight years ago. APPLE CROP IS IMMENSE. Over 30,120,000 Barrels Raised East of the Rockies. The American Agriculturist gives the apple crop of 1906 as 36,120,000 barrels, as against 24,000,000 barrels in 1905. an increase of 12,100,000 barrels, but 3.880,000 barrels short of each of the crops of the three years prior to 1905. The figures arrived at are the crystallization of returns from correspondents in every ap- - pie producing section east of the Rocky mountains. A good applesare' available for winter storage. Explosion in Gns Plnnt. In an explosion and fire which threatened to wreck the $2,000,000 plant of the Northwestern Gas Light and Coke Company in Evanston, 111., one man was burned to death and three .others were injured seriously. The flames caused damage estimated at $25,000. Dense volumes of smoke from a burning tank containing 12.000 gallons of tar added an element of spectacularity.

More Soldlen Cause Riot. Several members of the squadron of the Ninth cavalry, stationed at Fort Leavenworth, while intoxicated, created a disturbance on a Fort Leavenworth-bound electric car in Leavenworth, Kan. They kicked all of the windows out, beat , the conductor and the motorman, locked them in and raced with the car to Fort Leavenworth, where the rioters were placed in the guard bouse. Not Guilty of Killing Father. “Not guilty by reason of insanity” was the verdict returned by the jury in Spokane, Wash., in the case of Sidney Sloane, the 18-year-old boy charged with the murder of hia father, James F. Sloane, a pioneer merchant of Spokane. Robbery wawthe motive for the crime. It is probable the boy will be sent to the insane asylum. Oil Case* Are Thrown Out. In Findlay, Ohio, Judge Duncan decided that all the proceedings in the“ Probate Court of Hancock county relative to the Standard Oil Company were illegal and that cases should have been started in the Common Pleas Court. He held the Probate Court bad no jurisdiction to try the cases under the Valentine law. Mnrderdus Maa Kills Hlmaelf. Giving no signs of the agony caused by two bullets which her husband fired into her head. Mrs. John J. O'Rourke of Morris Park, L. 1.. feigned death until her spouae, thinking himself a murderer, killed himself. Straagrers Kill City Marshal. City Marshal Hemriqo Frisby was shot and killed at Laman Colo., by two stranger*. Sheriff George ‘Thomas heard the ■hots and arrived in time to see the two men make their escape.

MURDERED BY YAQUIS

AMERICANS AND MEXICANS ARE - SLAUGHTERED. 4 ' —_ • Col. H. B. Maxson Arrive* from State of Sonora with Account of Killings Alon* Cananea Railroad— Richland Bank Bur*lar Caw*ht> Col. IL B. Maxson, vice president of the National Irrigation Congress and secretary of the board of education of Reno, Nev., who has been spending the past few weeks in the State of Sonora, Mexico, arrived in .Loe Angeles with the story of a massacre of Mexicans and other whites at the little station Of Lancho, on the Cananea, Yaqui River and Pacific. According to the statement of Maxson, his train stopped an hour at Lancho. While there rumors were received that the Yaquis were on the warpath, and that the few people in the neighborhood of the station were In danger. The stationmaster, Thompson, belittled the matter, and said he and his wife would remain at their post. The train bearing Col. Maxson and party had not been gone longer than an hour when the Yaquis descended on the little party of Mexicans and Americans and butchered four. Station Agent Thompson and his wife escaped by boarding a work train that pulled in at the time. The train appeared after Thompson and his wife had defended themselves back of the barricaded doors of the station. As the train arrived the Indians fled. The train bearing Col. Maxson and -party ran to a station about fifteen miles farther along the line and then, as signs of the uprising became more alarming, the party” decided to return. The train started back toward Lancho, and when' =4t- arrived -the stationhouse had been burned, and four bodies lay along the track. Fdur more bodies of Mexicans and Americans were discovered ’along the ( traeks a few miles away. The little band this jtgtion. ha<j[ been abtft_to .repulse the Yaquis with the loss of few of their number. The remaining members of the. company refused to leave on the Train, but said they could stand off tho Indians until the next day, when the rurales would arrive and summary justice would be meted out to the murderers if they were captured. NOTORIOUS CONVICT CAUGHT. John Allison Hnd Married and Was Leadlux, He Says, an Upright Life. John Allison, one of the notorious Richland bank robbers, who with Harry Slater and Larry Spellman, his pals, escaped from prison at Jackson, Mich., Aug. 9, 1904, has been returned to the prison to serve twelve years more. Allison was working at Moline, 111. There he had married a widow with two children and was the father of a third child. Allison takes his arrest hard. He says he had reformed and was living an honest life. His escape was one of the most daring exploits in the history of the prison. A year and a half ago Slater was shot by a police officer while resisting arrest in Lima, Ohio, and died from his wounds. Spellman is still at liberty. RAD OUTLOOK IN CHINA. Famine Mny Become Worse than Appalling One Thirty Years Ago. Reports have been brought by the Tosu Maru that China has decided to appeal to Europe and America for $1,250,000 for the relief of famine sufferers in central China, where 10,000,000 people are facing -starvation this winter. A foreigner who reached Shanghai from tlie famine district says that men and women almost naked are seen by the roadside starving. Refugees were met who had tramped from Huitan. The famine threatens to equal the appalling one thirty years ago, which devastated the northern provinces and caused hundreds of thousands of people to perish. Coasters Hit Freight Train. Four young persons between the ages of 16 and 18 years missed death by only a few inches while coasting near McKeesport, Pa. The party of seven was coasting on a bobsled and upon reaching the foot of the hill struck the wheel of a moving freight train. The boy guiding the sled was hurled under the cars, but retained his presence of mind and rolled out of danger practically unhurt. All of Rond's Coni Burns. The coalhouse of the Northwestern railroad in Pierre, S. D., with all railroad coal on hand, was totally destroyed by fire starting from the explosion of a lantern. Although the money loss is not great the present coal shortage over this entire territory makes the loss rather a serious one. May Proceed Against Rnilrond. Drastic action, which may mean seizure of a railroad. Is threatened by Gov. Gooding of Idaho in a letter to Interstate Commerce Commissioner Lane. The executive blames the entire coal famine in his State on the Oregon Short Line, which, he says, simply seeks big dividends. Thug'* Blow Kills Dutton. William Dutton, aged 62, world-re-nowned equestrian and circus man, died in bis suite of rooms in the Galt House in Cincinnati. His death was directly due to a blow on the head which he received about two months ago at the hands of thugs. Shot Kills Csnr'a Consul Colonel de Geimaun, the Russian consul in Liverpool, was found dead in bed. having been killed by a pistol shot Whether he was murdered or committed suicide has hot been determined. Tt is believed, however, that he took his own life. Crnay Man Runs Trains. For six hours a maniac ran the switchyards at Cavanaugh, Ind., a junction point near Hammond, where the Lake Shore and Elgin. Joliet and Eastern tracks cross, but finally was subdued by a train load of deputy sheriffs. Thinks Teachings I'n-Chrlatlike. J. G. Phelps Stokes has withdrawn his support from the West Side Young Men's Christian Association of New York because it has established classes in real estate and stock investments, declaring sueh teaching* to be un Cbrwtlika.

A. J. CASSATT IS DEAD.

Noted a President of Pennsylvania Road Sueeitmbs Suddenly. , Alexander Johnston Cassatt, President of,the Pennsylvania Railroad Company. died suddenly at his residence in Philadelphia Friday. Mr. Cassatt had been in ill health for nearly a year. His condition was aggravated by an attack of whooping cough which he, contracted from his grandchildren while at Bar Harbor in September. He never entirely recovered from the effects of the attack. Aside from being the head of the Pennsylvania railroad. Mr. Cassatt was President of six other companies and a director in twenty-three concerns, principally transportation companies, banks and trust companies. His wealth is estimated at between $50,000,000 and s7s.<H'<>.()oo. As a railroad man his career was remarkable. Mr. Cassatt was born-in Pittsburg, Dec. 6, 1839. His father, Robert S. Cassatt, moved to Europe when the son wap a child, and young Cassatt received much of his education on the Continent. 11i.4 first work was in Geor-

A. J. CASSATT.

gia, where he was employed as a civil engineer on the construction of a new railroad. This lasted but a short time, and then Mr. Cassatt became a rodman on the Philadelphia division of the Pennsylvania. Two years later he was made an assistant engineeronthecohstructiOii of the railway linking the Pennsylvania to the Philadelphia and Trenton railroad. In 1865 he left the Pennsylvania for eighteen months, becoming superintendent of motive power and machinery for the Philadelphia & Erie railroad, but in 1867 he was back with the Pennsylvania again, in the same position as he had held on the Erie. , His next big promotion came in 1870, when he was appointed general superintendent of the Pennsylvania, and the following year lie was made general manager of all the Pennsylvania railroad lines east of Pittsburg and Erie. For two years, from 1878 to 1880, Mr. Cassatt filled the office of President, in the absence of Thomas A. Scott from active work, and in 1899 he was made President. Mr. Cassatt married Miss Lois Buchanan, a niece of President Buchanan. His son, Robert Keslo Cassatt, is married td Miss Minnie Drexel Fell of Philadelphia.

RAILROADS

Responsibility for the wreck on the Southern, Thanksgiving day, which caused the death of President Spencer and six others, has been placed upon G. D. Mattox, the block operator at Rangoon station, Va. It is believed that this winter 10,000 persons from the middle West will visit New Orleans and tuba. Last year the Illinois Central carried about 5,000 tourists. The moderate cost of the trip to either New Orleans or Cuba and the time consumed are factors in the popularity. The Chicago, Milwaukee and St. Paul railroad has announced the issue of SIOO,000,000 of new stock, to be offered to shareholders at par on the installment plan, bearing interest at 5 per cent, the proceeds to be used in financing the Pa-, cific coast extension and numerous branch lines. The Northern Pacific railway announces a plan to increase its stock by $93,000,000. The whole issue will be offered to stockholders at par on the installment plan, although the Northern Pacific stock has been selling at 210. The proceeds will go to the development of the property. The annual report of the Union Pacific railroad showed an increase of nearly $8,000,000 in gross transportation receipts, while the income from investments amounted to $10,329,815. At the same time the fixed charges were reduced over $2,000,000 through the retirement of bonds. The total surplus was $12,252.249 after allowing 8 per cent on common stock and a charge to the reserve fund. •A machine that will hurPcoaT into ths firebox of a locomotive at the rate of 200 shovelfuls a minute, if necessary, will lighten the labor of the firemen on many of the engines of the Northwestern road. An order has been placed for 700 of these mechanical stokers at a cost of $350,000. The General Managers’ Association, representing the Now York terminals of the Erie, Jersey Central* Lackawanna, Lehigh and Baltimore and Ohio lines, announces that it will stand by its offer togive 4 cents an hour advance to yard conductors and brakemen, but would not concede the 5-cent increase demanded.*

THEWEEKLY HISTORIAN

1606—Sara Constant, Godspeed and Discovery, sailed from England for Virginia. 1620 — Plymouth, Mass., founded. 1621 -English—.Commons cla i med freedom of discussion. 1686 —Sir Edmund Andros reached Boston as Governor of New England.... William of Orange entered London. 1719—First issue of Boston Gazette. 1745 —Prince Charles Edward, son of James 111. of England, won battle at Penrith. 1777 —Washington hoved his troops to Valley Forge. 1807 —Napoleon published Milan decree .... Embargo laid by Congress on American ships. 1813 — Fort Niagara taken by the British. 1814- —Treaty of Ghent, between Great Britain and America signed. 1838—London and Greenwich railway, first line in London, opened. 1846 — Col. Doniphan, in command of 1,000 Misouri volunteers, defeated force of Mexicans at Braceti. 1847 — Arab chief, Abd-el-Kader, surrendered to the French. 1854 —Steamer Westmoreland sunk in Lake Michigan; 17Jost. 1856 —Hugh Miller, famous English geologist, committed suicide. 1860 — South Carolina seceded from the Union. 1861 — Battle of Drainsville, Va.... Stone fleet sunk in Charleston harbor. 1862 — Confederates recaptured Holly Springs, Miss., taking the garrison prisoners. 1864 —First bombardment of Fort Fisher ... .Gen. Sherman entered city of Savannah. 1871— President Grant issued proclamation abolishing discriminating duties on Spanish imports... .Fourth National bank of Philadelphia failed. 1872 — Second trial begun of Edward S. Stokes for murder of James Fisk,. Jr ....Barnum’s museum, New York City, destroyed by fire. 1880 —Electric street lighting introduced in New York. 1890 — Isaac Sawtelle convicted at Dover, N. H., of murder of his brother Hiram. 1891 — Collision on Hudson River railroad at Hastings, N. Y.; 14 killed.... The Guion steamship Abyssinia burned at sea. 1894 —First Parish councils elected in London. 1902 Wireless message sent across the Atlantic. 1903 — East river bridge opened. 1905 —Great strike in St. Petersburg.

American Standards Analyzed.

Justice Brewer of the United States Supreme Court, in an address on the larger and higher life of the nation, at New Rochelle, N. Y., paid us the usual compliment of being a Hercules among nations, saying facetiously that if we didn’t have a Hercules club, we at least possessed a big stick at Washington, but this was not enough. Those responsible for the country’s future must ask, “What arg the ideals of the nation?” Are we seeking only material development, or are we striving for the higher life?” He referred to our pride in a big navy and the ostentation of our cities over their buildings, houses, art galleries and libraries bought by the cubic yard. He believed the nation was running deeper into debt each year. Quoting Washington’s farewell address, he said be was one who didn’t rejoice h^a,groat national debt. Nevertheless he thought that the growth of ihtellectual spirit • was leavening the crudeness of the people.

A Solid Floating Foundation.

A writer in the Technical World Magazine tells of a new engineering device, invented by William E. Murray of Los Angeles, Cal., by means of which it is possible to build in the open sea st rue tures that usually require solid rock foundations, such as breakwaters, lighthouses, forts, bridges, etc. These will remain perfectly steady, no matter how turbulent the surface of the sea may be. This result is obtained by immersing the floating structures deep down in the still waters tn such a way that the surface vibration cannot affect them. The simplest form is a hollow upright cylinder of iron, with a broad projecting flange. This base will act as a lever to counteract any horizontal pressure at the top. In this way it is hoped that torpedo stations may be placed far out to sea, forming an impenetrable barrier to an attacking fleet. Again, it is proposed to thus erect floating wharves, which would rise and fall with the tide.

Mrs. Sage's University Gift.

Chancellor MacCracken of the New York university annpunces that Mrs. Russell Sage had transferred to the university title to fifteen acres of land adjoining the university grounds, valued at $300,000. This will increase the campus to thirty-seven acres, and will enablfe the chancellor to carry out his great project of grouping a number of colleges in a great quadrangle. The summer school next year will be enlarged. At present this university has 286 Instructors and 2,524 students.

THE PROGRESS OF THE CANADIAN WEST.

Nrarlr 200,000 of «n IsereUM 1* Canadian Immigration In 1006. The progress of a new country cannot be better ascertained than by noting the increase of railroad mileage in its transportation system, and judged by this standard, the Canadian West leads all the countries in the world during the current year. Thirty years ago there was not one hundred, miles of railroad west of the Great Lakes, and very little prospect of a transcontinental route for many years to come, but by the end of 1885 the Canadian Pacific Railway was within measurable distance of completion, and last year, twenty years later, fully 6,000 miles of railroad traversed the provinces of Manitoba, Saskatchewan and Alberta. In the past year the work of railroad construction has been vigorously prosecuted, and by the end of 1906, some 5,000 miles of completed railroad has been added, making a total of fully 11,000 miles In the three great grain producing provinces of Canada. Such an increase in the transportation facilities of the country is bound to make good times not only in the districts where the railroads are being built, but throughout the entire west. Allowing $20,000 a mile for construction, the sum of $100,000,000 will be put in circulation, and this in itself should cause good times to prevail in a land where' work is plentiful, wages are high, and the cost of living is moderate. But the building of new railroads through Western Canada means a greater benefit to the country than merely the money put In circulation by the cost of construction. Additional railway building means the opening of new agricultural districts and an additional area under crop, a largely increased output of grain to foreign markets with consequent financial returns; the erection of elevators and the growth of villages, towns and cities ; and everything else that makes for the progress of national life and the opening up of additional thousands of free homesteads so extensively advertised by the Canadian government agent, whose address appears elsewhere. It was stated on the floor of the Canadian Parliament recently by a prominent representative that ten years from now would see the bulk of the population of Canada residing west of the Great Lakes, and if the work of railway building during the present year is any criterion, the prophecy made by the Canadian statesman may be easily fulfilled inside of the time stated. £)uring the present year no less than 189,064 persons have found homes In the Canadian West, of whom 57,796 were Americans who have seen the great possibilities of this new West, and have decided to cast in their lot with it. Certainly, our neighbor north of the 49th parallel is making a great record, and deserves the success that appears to be coming its way.

Measured Grief.

While on the subject of the distinguished dead, I aih reminded of a story concerning Gounod, the celebrated musician. Some twenty years ago the composer and his wife were paying a visit of condolence to a woman friend, who had just lost her husband. Mme. Gounod was very much affected, and wept copiously as she embraced her friend. The widow, on the contrary, bore up with admirable fortitude. When Gounod and bis wife had left the house, the musician turned to his and remonstrated with her for that excessive demonstration of sympathy, adding: “My dear, you should never be sadder than the widow herself.”'—London Globe.

Rather Suggestive.

“You look worried, count?” “And I am worried, monsieur. I go to ze rich young lady’s house to ask for her hand and I fall over ze burglar alarm.” “Well?” “Zen I quick arise and tell ze father I make a mistake.” “And what did he say?” “He asked where ze mistake was?”

Must Have.

Clinton —Hear about the weatner nan? He had a stroke of heart failare. Streater —Gee! At what. Forecast •ome true?—Cleveland Leader.

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