Walkerton Independent, Volume 34, Number 23, Walkerton, St. Joseph County, 20 November 1908 — Page 7

FORCED TO TAKE LIFE OF PARENT SHALL IT BE MOTHER OR FATHER? Terrible Alternative That Has Been Presented to Children in Various Parts of the Coun-try-—Tragedy Made the Daughter the Instrument of Vengeance—Pistol Duel with Father. XJBRI K^yrv wf Mi ' ' /

YES, I shot my father; I hoped to kill him,” sobbed the boy as he bowed his head in his hands, sitting there in his cell. “I had to __ do it to save my mother’s life. is he dead?” The police already have all the evidence^they want against Theodore Eiler, the 19-year-old boy. They have the revolver with which he put the bullets into the body of his father, John Eiler, at their home, 30 Littleton avenue, Newark. They have the boy’s confession; they have his word for it that his married sister gave him the pistol to shoot his famother. John Eiler did attack his wife just once too often. The moment he came home on that fatal evening he began abusing his helpmeet for 25 years—mother of his six children. He raged up and down the room. The patient wife was silent. When she didn’t reply to the man's ravings Eiler picked up an iron matchsafe and flung it at । her with unerring aim. It struck her full in the forehead; she sank to the floor with a cry of agony. The boy upstairs heard the cry. Then he heard his father shout out: “I’m going to get my gun and finish you right now!” In the boy’s pocket was the pistol. He remembered the injunction of his older sister, Mrs. Frederick Prestler, who had gone out for the evening, as she gave it to him: “Keep this always by you, for you will need it to protect your mother. Don’t be afraid to use it if father attacks her again in one of his jealous rages." Three steps at a time the lad dashed downstairs. As he ran into the room his mother fell upon him. “Theodore, Theodore!” she screamed, “save me. save me!” She flung her arms around him. He put one arm around her and faced his father, who came charging on at the two of them. “I’ll kill you both!” yelled the man. “Shoot, shoot, if you must; save 1 our lives!” screamed Mrs. Eiler. For an answer Theodore leveled the pistol at his father more quickly than it takes to tell it. The man never

oooc>ooooooooooooo< SPRANG FROM NAUTICAL SLANG. Seafaring Phrases at Bottom of Much Popular Speech. Talking of slang, says the Dundee. Scotland Advertiser, has anyone made a list of the nautical slang embedded in English popular speech? Most people who speak of a person “carrying on” would be surprised to learn that they are using a nautical metaphor. To carry on is literally to carry a great deal of sail, generally too much for the weather conditions; that is, to behave in a more or le-s sensational and foolish manner. To say that one is “taken aback" is a metaphor from the management of a square-rigged ship, which is “taken aback" when, through carelessness or ill luck, the wind gets 'round to the wrong side of the sails —an awkward and perhaps dangerous accident. To give anything "a wide berth” is sailors’ slang; it means literally to give a thing—probably a rock or other danger—a wide { bed to lie in. XV e speak of “sounding" a person with reference to some I proposal. The metaphor is that of a

stopped. It was the mother's life or the father’s. The boy had to choose. He let the pistol do the choosing. It barked once. On came the father, closing in. Again the weapon spit forth a bullet. Filer dropped, mortally wounded. The mother swooned in her son’s arms. But her life had been saved. They hurried the father away to a hospital, where the surgeons said he was mortally wounded. The boy was arrested and held without bail. Had he allowed his mother to be beaten to death he would not have been put in a cell; he had his choice to make, and only a moment to make it in. What would the every da y son do in such a case? Has he a right to shoot down his father to save his mother? Should he not be impartial? Would it not be better to fight than to shoot? Is a son justified in killing his father to save his mother's life? Other sons have been called upon to decide, just as Theodore Eiler has had to decide, and in the twinkling of an eye, too. And occasionally even a daughter has been forced to make the same decision in a moment’s time. Only two weeks ago 15-year-old Frank Peterson, out at Greenport, L. 1., had to face the same dilemma. If he didn't shoot his father, then his mother’s life would pay the forfeit. Frank didn't hesitate. He fired, brought his lather down with a serious wound in the head and saved his mother's life. Then he ran for the doctor to come to his father, Frank Peterson, Sr. Boy’s First Shot Fatal. The Petersons are well-to-do and live in a pretty home at 48 Bridge street, Greenport. Frank is the eldest of seven children. But the father, appareutly, has little loye for his family, and more than once his wife has felt the effect of his blows, so the son said when the shooting was over. It was Sunday. The husband had been browbeating the wife. Suddenly he turned and with clenched fists started for her. She screamed for the boy.

>OOO<X>O<X>OOOOOOOO o< navigator finding his way cautiously by trying the depths, say, in approach- ! ing an unfamiliar shore. “Landmark" is not at all a nautical-looking word, but it is strictly a mark on land —a tower, building or other prominent object. which serves to guide the mariner clear of rocks and shoals into a port. To sail close to the wind is to keep directly on one’s course when tacking is almost, necessary, and so to run a risk of being taken aback. To keep one’s weather eye open is to keep a sharp lockout on the weather side of the ship (that is, to windward, where the weather comes from) for the signs which mark the approach of squalls. To take the wind out of another boat’s sails is to overhaul her (presumably in racing) and pass to windward, thus cutting off her wind for the time being. Finally, we have one or two shipbuilding metaphors. We speak of having a piece of work "on the stocks,” stocks being the frame of timbers 1 which supports a ship while she is building. If she is well built of the best materials she is “Al”—the high . est grade in Lloyd's classification

“Stop!” yelled Frank, ns his mother cowered to the floor. Ou came the father. The boy, without another word, drew a revolver from his pocket, and as his father struck out at his mother, tired one shot. It hit the frenzied man in the jaw. ranged upward and lodged behind the right eye. Peterson dropped. “I ve shot my father because he was going to strike my mother,” said Frank, running into the house of Dr. A. C. Loper. “Go to him, quick!” Then the boy went to the home of the chief of the chief of police and gave himself up. He was put in the village jail. The mother and the children corroborated Frank in all he said. The father was hurried to a hospital. Mrs. Madeline Langlotz had even a harder task set before her than these boys. She saw her father, George Wasser, shoot her mother down in their flat at 2058 Third avenue, where Mrs. Langlotz, a widow, was living with her mother. The daughter had to make her choice only too quickly. “He was a beast," she declared, vehemently. "I’m glad I shot him. He shot my mother, the best woman that ever lived. When I saw her fall I fired at the man the best 1 knew how and I’m glad one of the bullets hit him —my father!” The Wassers, husband and wife, had separated. When Mrs. Langlotz’ husband died she went back to live with her mother and her little sisters. Three years ago the man came into the little home and attacked little Annie, one of his daughters. He was arrested, but nothing came of the case. This made him bold. Forced His Way Into House. Wasser hung around the home and more than once he tried to get in. He was arrested, but each time got free on some plea or another. This made him bolder still. On the fatal morning he knocked at the door of the flat and demanded admission. "If you don’t let me in I’ll kill you and all the brats!" he yelled. There was no answer. He broke down the door. Mrs. Wasser stood facing him. There was fire in her eye and decision in her voice. "I'll never take you hack. George Wasser,” she said, firmly. This was her death warrant. “Well,” sneered Wasser, “you'll never telephone for the police again.” Mrs. Wasser started to run. Wasser pulled a revolver out of his pocket. Before his wife had taken two steps he fired. The bullet struck the poor woman in the breast. She fell to the floor with her clothing ablaze, so close was the range. Mrs. Langlotz and little Annie were in a rear room. They rushed out just in time to see their mother fall. Remembering the revolver her mother kept in the bureau drawer, Annie ran and got it. Quick as a flash she handed it to Mrs. Langlotz. Just then Wasser was raising his weapon to shoot again at his helpless wife. Daughter's Aim Deadly. His daughter fired first. The bullet grazed his face. Wasser returned the shot, but he missed, though they were but 12 feet apart. Thon the daughter tired again and both emptied their revolvers. Every shot of Wasser’s missed, but the daughter’s last shot found its mark. It made an ugly hole in the man’s forehead and he sank to the floor with a groan. Then the young widow dropped her revolver and fell in a faint after the duel with her father. The police came in; the two wounded persons were taken to the hospital. The wife died in the afternoon at three o'clock: the husband an hour later. The daughter was arrested, only to be freed next day. "She wasn't a murderess," said one of the coroner's jury. "She was a heroine!” And for all that, facing her father's loaded revolver, firing shot for shot, the young widow hadn’t been able to save her dear mother’s life. But she had made her choice between the two, and she did the best she could. Constantin Pellegrino, barely 17 years old, had hardly as much time to make up his mind whether he should see his mother stabbed to death or kill his father. The family lived al No. 198 East Twenty-third street, Brooklyn. The father, Anselmo, came home one evening crazed with drink. He attacked his wife and began to drag her around by her hair. The boy sprang to his mother’s aid and the father knocked him to the floor. “Now I'm going to kill you both!” yelled Pellegrino, drawing a knife. Just in Time to Save Mother. The boy wriggled away from his father's clutches —the man was too busy holding his wife by her hair—and ran into the bedroom, where he knew his father kept a loaded revolver under the pillow. Constantin got back into the dining-room just in time to see his father about to slash his mother across the throat with his stiletto. He fired twice, as quickly as he could. Both bullets hit the wmuld-be murderer in the left. side. He dropped

0000000 OOOC'OOOOOOO j RESUME PLACE IN THE WORLD. European Tongues, Once Almost Forgotten, Experience Revival. This century is witnessing a revival of neglected languages. A writer says: "There are no less than nine almost forgotten tongues which since the beginning of the nineteenth century have retaken their places, politically and in literature, among the languages of modern Europe. The nine are Greek, Roumanian, Bulgarian, Servian, Magyar, Czech, Finnish, Norsk and Flemish. This list does not include Gaelic, which is now experiencing resuscitation in some parts of Ireland at the hands of the Gaelic league, nor Polish, which achieved a political and literary revival in Galicia. The nine languages first named are now used by 50,000 000 of people—a fact which does not suggest much likelihood of the approach of a universal language. “At the beginning of the nineteenth century the statesmen of Europe, almost without exception', held that the extinction of the smaller languages, vaich had already ceased to hold a :

1 his victim and r,n for the door. Twice again the by fired. This time he hit his father t vice in the back of the head. The mat fell in his tracks. A policeman he ird the shots and came running up. “I’ve killed my father,” said Con stantin, coolly. “1 want you to . r rest me. 1 had tc do it to save n v mother’s life." The mother impDred the police not to arrest her son. but law is law, and he had to go to the station hous The son, knowing [be choice he 1 made, was perfect! ■ cool. “I knew I wouh have to kill my father some day,” ne said, "He has always been saying he would kill my mother, and 1 am g ad it is over now.” In Bowerton, Mi ib., it was only a little boy who stood between his mother and his infuriat'd father. Frank Mullins was whipping one of his children unmercifully, when the mother interefered. "Curse you!” crieh the husband and father. “I'll kill you if you don't let me alone.” The mother stepped between the child and her infuriated husband. He struck her and knpcked her down, kicking her face as he did it. Their ten-year-old boy saw it all from across the yard, and, runniig into the house, got a rifle and leveljd it from behind the woodpile and sh<H his father dead. But he saved his member’s life. Ordered Son to KilllFather. Frederick Crametp his wife and their children lived al Page, South Dakota. Husband and wfe had domestic differences and it w;^ agreed that he should have the firfrt floor of their home and she and her sons the second floor. One night Cramer Game home in an ugly mood and tried to break into tho second floor of the house. Mrs. Cramer barricaded the downstairs door, but her husband broke it down. "i'll settle you!" he cried, plunging up the stairs. Mrs. Cramer ran and got her loaded revolver. She leveled it down the stairs, but her hand trembled so that she could not aim. "Take this and shoot him," she said to her oldest son, Arthur, a boy of 16, handing him the pistol, “rm too nervous to hold it.” The boy obeyed only too well. One shot was fatal. "I only did what my mother told me,” he said, “and that was to save her life from my father.” Ezekiel-Gregory, an old farmer, of Davidson, N. C., didn’t like the hours of his son. David. He told him that he ought to rise earlier. He killed his father with an ax and escaped. John and James Randall, 14 and 15 years old, of Marshall,»N. C.. found their mother murdered, as they believed, by their father. They hurried for their rifles, and dne of the boys wanted to kill him then and there when they found him, "No," said the other,! “let’s keep him guarded here until weican get the police." So while one held his loaded rifle against his father’s temple the other telegraphed for a constable. Hour after hour they kept their, grim vigil, and when the constable cajne they turned over their prisoner—tl^eir father—to the tender mercies of the law. — Randall had driven his wife from their home. She sought refuge with friends, and he came Ifor her. Reluctantly she went back with him. Later Mrs. Randall was foudd by her sons dead in the road, with her head crushed in. So they hunted down their father and, after finding him, kept guard until he was safe in jail. Not one son in a million is called upon to do as these sons and daughters have had to do. Few have to make such a choice. But when the call is made what shall it be — Father or mother? —-.New York World. Solomon Inventor of Bathtub. With Chronicles as its authority, the Plumbers’ Trade Journal says that the bathroom was an invention of King Solomon, who put it in use a thousand years before the Christian era. It was sinful to enter the sanctuary unless the body was perfectly clean, and for the accommodation of priests a bathtub was erected at the entrance to the temple. It was said of Solomon: “He had a molten sea of ten cubits from brim to brim round in compass and five cubits the height thereof and a line of 30 cubits did compass it round about.” According to the measurements the Solomon tub was 45 feet in circumference at the top and 6% feet deep. It rested on carved figures of oxen and was of solid brass cast in one piece, decorated with a floral design. Connected with it there were ten small sinks, w’hich were used for washing the offering. See Future Profitable Industry. The bureau of science, Manila, bos published a bulletin by Warren D. Smith, chief of the division of geology and mines, and members of that staff, on the mineral resources of the islands and their product in 1907. It is believed that a sure, profitable and steady mining industry may in time be built up in the colony, but this report shows that little more than a beginning has yet been made. ><><>C><> <><><><><><><><><><> <>-><> place in courts or general literature, was desirable on political grounds. In Europe, French, English, German, Spanish, Portuguese, Italian, Russian, Turkish, Dutch, Danish and Swedish were the only languages recognized as European, either in an official or literary sense. The last five were almost unknown outside of their own lands, and even then they were nearly without literary use. French was the universal language of diplomacy and of the educated classes everywhere in conversation. "In Hungary and in Poland, even before the loss of independence, Latin was the official language of public business and law and German or French that of conversation for the educated classes. The national tongues in both those countries had a position not unlike that of'lrish in Ireland during the eighteenth century. Conditions were similar with the old national langtages of t|he various states of the Austrian dominions, of the Christian races In 'turkey, and even of Belgium and Norway.” That once a fellow wi is a girl g hand he is under her thumb?

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