S— Democratic —_— Bellefonte, Pa., July 24, 1908, SENT THREATENING LETTER Member of One of New York's Oldest Families Demanded Money From Parent or He Would Blow Her Head Off On Sight—Says Thaw Is still | Alive and “Maybe | Will Be"—Wants | Mer to Raise $5000 On Her Fancy | Name, and If Not to Keep Out of His Sight. New York, July 21.—John A. Van | Rensselaer, son of Mrs. John King | Van Rensselear, and a member of one of New York's oldest families, was taken into custody on a charge of at- tempted extortion. The arrest was made on advices from Chief of Police Crowley, of Newport, R. L, who re celved a complaint from Mrs. Van Rensselaer that her son had written a letter threatening her bodily harm un- less she provided him with funds. Van Rensselaer is thirty-four years old and married. Van Rensselaer is connected with a local brokerage house, and when he returned to his home he was placed under arrest by detectives, who pro- duced the letter alleged to have been written by Van Rensselear to his mother. The young man stated that he had written the letter, which is without any conventional beginning or ending, and of which the postscript is unsigned. The letter reads: “I have just seen Lawrence Lee, and I am given to understand that you will pay $30 per month for my board if I will go 300 miles from New York, and that I must have your written consent to leave the place that you may se lect. “Did it ever occur to you that I have an absolute remainder interest in Aunt Frances’ estate's securities, and that by blowing your head off, that my wife would have an income sufficient to sup port her? “I will take that course if necessary and upon my head will rest the conse quences. (Thaw is still alive, maybe | will be). “In any case, my wife, God bless her, will benefit by your demise, even if I don't. “l nave seen many disagreements and much suffering in my life, and 1 must say that most of it is due to you. A selfish peacock, whose name in these times amounts to nothing, and who is almost, if not entirely, forgotten in circles once tread. “I am now in no humor to be trifled with, and I wish to go on record that I will take action on sight unless something is done at once. You gave Harold $6000 and a trip to Europe. What have I had for being honest? “J. A. RENSSELAER.” “I want you to raise on that fancy name of yours $5000 for me. If you are such a great lady, make good; if not, keep out of my sight. I can raise cash enough yet to go to you wherever you are, and | have a good name.” Van Rensselear made the following statement regarding the demand on his mother: “I gave her $1000 when she was on her uppers, and now I wanted $5000 to 80 into the brokerage business. When I was in business before I had a good friend, who used to loan me any amount I wanted up to a couple of hundred thousand. This friend's moth. er wanted to get into the Colonial Dames of America, of which my moth- er was a member, but my mother black-balled her. Then, soon after that, 1 went to this friend again for another loan, but he told me if my mother was too good to associate with his mother, he guessed his money was too good for me.” Van Rensselaer is a son of John King Van Rensselear and grandson of Brigadier General Henry Bell Van Rensselear, aide-de-camp to Major General Winfield Scott. The Van Rensselaers are descendants from Col- onel Jermias Van Rensselaer, who was a member of the colonial assembly in this state, and its speaker in 1664. Thaw Received Too Much Attention. ‘Poughkeepsie, N. Y., July 21.—Harry K. Thaw, who is in jail here awaiting arguments on his application for a jury Inquiry into his sanity, was locked up in the main prison by order of Sheriff ler, who told the jailers that Thaw was receiving so much attention t other duties were neglected. w, although on a corridor by him- If, loses many of his liberties by the from the juvenile department. Pittsburg Having a Suicide Epidemic. Pittsburg, July 21.—Suicides have me so frequent in the part of tsburg formerly known as Alle- y that the slang term for suicide “Alleghenied” now. Between July 8 18 there have been fifteen suicides d six attempts, most of them using and nearly all being from grief ir despondency. A HUMAN MACHINE. He Was Able tc Correct a Language | He Did Not Understand. When Max Muller was preparing his | edition of the Rigveda Le had, so the! siory goes, uu illustration of the In-! stinctive wisdom of the compositor, | Ia providing the manuscript for about | 6.000 sheets of print the author nat- | urally tripped from time to time.| Whenever he did trip, there on his | proof was the error queried in a care-! ful hand. Surely, he thought, some | unknown scholar in the university; utust be overlooking his proofs with Li Cly iaterest and making the corree- tons for him. Inquiry showed that | this was not the fact. The corrections | were the corrections of the, man who | et up the type. “Did this %han, then, | Kiaow Sanskric?” Muller asked. Not al bit of it. Use and wont enabled him to detect the errors as a hungry child | scents a cooking dinper. The discov: | ery originated through his arm rather | than from any intellectual doubt, and | that arm was palsied! This printer had sustained an acci dent, leaving him with an arm partly | paralyzed, and as this made him slow- | er with his setting his masters turned | kim on to Sanskrit. with which he had had no previous acquaintance, He had | to learn upward of 300 types for the work, but he learned them and accus tomed himself to the work. Now. many of the letters in Sanskrit cannot follow each other or, if they do, must be modified. In writing Muller some- times forgot these modifications, but they were all marked on the proof Muller was so interested that he sought out the printer to ask him how he was able to correct a language which he did not understand. The explana. tion was remarkable: “You see, sir my arm gets into a regular swing from one compartment of types to another, and there are movements that never occur. So if I suddenly have to take up types which entail a new movement I feel it and put a query.” What a dog's life the “nu speling.” or Artemus Ward's, which Is the same thing, would have caused that marvel ous human machine!—8t. James' Ga: zette. THE BIRD CLOWN. A Queer Kind of Fellow Is the Yellow Breasted Chat. The oddities of the yellow breasted chat begin even with his classification. To think of a warbler the size of a Baltimore oriole, a warbler with a song like a mocking bird! Indeed, there is little about the chat that is not remarkable. He goes In for the weird and the spectacular. If Nature designed him to show what she could do in the way of the unusual and the eccentric, she had remarkable success. This bird and not the catbird is the real “clown of the woods.” Clown of the thicket would be more apt, for, like the catbird, he prefers the shrub and lower trees. A wild tangle of briers and vines is a favorite haunt. It is only the better to survey such a re treat that he mounts to the top of a tree. From his lofty perch he sings, to the amazement and bewilderment of the person that hears the song for the first time. More likely than not he will become invisible and slient upon the first attempt to approach him, remaining quiet and hidden till you move on again; then he chuckles loudly and scolds and spits and scoffs till you are out of sight and hearing. No bird is so fearful of being seen or such a master of hide and seek. It is worse than useless to try to steal a march on him. He manages to be al- ways on the wrong side of the next bush. If you should find his nest. which is a pretty little basket of straws and weed stalks lined with fine grasses and strips of soft bark or leaves placed a foot or more above the ground among tall weeds or bushes, the sitting bird Steals away and Is at once lost to sight. Take a peep at the white, red speckled eggs and then hide among the bushes as far away from the nest as you can while still keeping It in sight. You may have to wait for an hour and even make other trips to the spot, but this is the surest way to get a good look at this shy one.—S8t. Nich- olas, Er ————————————— Triumph of Mind. Victim of Delusion—Doctor, I'm aw- fully afraid I'm going to have brain fever. Doctor—Pooh. pooh, my dear friend! That is all an {illusion of the senses. There is no such thing as fever. You have no fever; you have no br—h'm—no material substance upon which such a wholly imaginary and supposititious thing as a fever could find any base of operation. Victim— Oh, doctor, what a load you have tak- en from my—from my—I have a mind, haven't I, doctor Chicago Tribune. Pulling That Hair. “What makes me really mad,” said the woman, “is to spend minutes, may- be hours, trying to get hold of a white bair which shows up on my head like a dazzling light, yet which is tantalizing- ly elusive when I try to catch it, and then when 1 do finally separate it from the brown hair and give it a vigor ous pull to find that I have snatched out a good brown hair, after all, and left the white one still shining.” —New York Press. A’ New One For Him. “The climate here is salubrious, isn't it?" remarked the tourist. “Say, friend,” replied the native, “Jest write that there word down fur me, will yer? I git tired o’ swearin’ at this climate in the same old way. That's a new one.”—Philadelphia Press. It is not the strength but the dura- tion of great sentiments that makes great men.—Friedrich Nietzsche. RECKLESS AARON BURR. The Dramatic Story of His Marriage In Olid Age. The story of Aaron Burr's marriage in his old age to the widow of Stephen Jumel, who was well known in the early history of New York city, Is a dramatic one. Conceive, if you will, the picture of Burr, gifted adventurer that he was, broken in health, branded in the popu- lar mind as the murderer of Alexander Hamilton and returning from a long exile to find himself an outcast in the city where he had ounce been the polit- ical monareh of all he surveyed and a distinguished figure in society and at the bar Conceive, if you can, this lamentable old man, smirking through his wrinkles, bowing and prancing rather stifily because of his rheumatic Joints and with his month full of pret- ty platitudes, paying court to the wid- ow of Stephen Jumel, herself in the price of years and health. Remove from the picture its surface Incongrui- ties. and you have a bit of pure pathos unequaled in the annals of foolish great men. But something of his old time pow- er to charm the gentler sex must have stood by him in his years of mental and physical misery, for in his suit for the widow Jumel’s hand and fortune he won gloriously, dramatically. Re- buffed repeatedly, Burr finally de- clared in passionate rage that on a given day he would arrive at the Jumel mansion accompanied by a clergyman, who should marry tiem on the spot. He would give his prospective bride no How mush do I kuow about myself? Sach a question honestly asked and answer. ed would show at once the need of a med- ioal work such as Dr. Pierce's Medical Ad- viser. It is a book dealing with the plain facts of physiology, hygiene and reproduc- tion, in plain English, and is rent free on receipt of stamps to pay expense of mailing only. Send 21 one-cent stamps for paper covered hook, or 31 stamps for cloth hind- be. Address Dr. R. V. Pierce, Buffalo, Hood’s Sarsaparilla. 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