OWN SCfIRECRDW^ MRS. HART, OF HOLDEN, ME., FALLS UNDER SPELL OF FRANKENSTEIN. WOMAN FEARS OWN CREATION Had Often Threatened to Dismantle Figure Which Gradually Assumed Nature of a Ghost—Hopes He Will Freeze. Holden, Me. —Copeland hill, in tho western part of Holden, is tho highest point of land in southern Penobscot county, and, owing to its commanding position, residents of Bangor drive to the top of the eminence on clear days for the purpose of seeing Mt. Katahdin, j 90 miles to the north; Camden hills, ! (30 miles south, and the mountains | back of Bar Harbor, 70 miles to the | southeast. The farm of Charles Hart occupies the very top of the hill, and Franken stein is the most important personage on the entire farm. Members of the Hart family say that Frankenstein has been photo graphed more than 500 times since last May, when he was dressed up and placed out to keep watch over a patch of early peas on a rocky knoll. By the time tlie peas were big enough to sell in the pod, Frankenstein wa9 moved to the family strawberry field, and from there he went to another part of the field to stand guard over a' potato field, coming back later to perform police duty among some early green corn. By this time the second crop of green peas was coming on and Frankenstein was moved again, shifting from the pea patch to act as guardian for a field of stocked corn, and ending up his season's work as custodian over a field of third-crop peas. He has been on duty day and night from tho middle of May to tho middle of October. He has worked without sleep and without food and without pay. The English sparrows have come and built nests in his pockets. The summer visitors have come and called j him "cunning," and photographed him J from many sides and in many condi tions of weather, and Frankenstein j has not minded his notoriety in the j least. Mrs. Charles Hart, the widow of the j man who owned the farm where ! It Grew Into the Nature of a Ghost. Frankenstein abodes, is responsible for the origin of Frankenstein and his name. She constructed him from soma brilliant and threadbare garments that were about the house and then placed a mask over his face to prevent him from "tanning," as she declared. Having created the image for the purpose of scaring the crows away, the creation looked so uncanny and stupid that Mrs. Hart grew afraid of him, and though she cften threatened to dismantle her creation, she grad ually fell under the spell of the ob session and permitted the object of liar fear to remain on earth until it grew into the nature of a ghost. Be ing an intelligent woman who had read many books, Mrs. Hart named the image Frankenstein. She proposes to let Frankenstein re main out in the cold field all winter, hoping thereby to freeze the "scare" out of him. Cow Gets on a Jag. South Norwalk, Conn.—Joseph Ball's cow, usually a kindly and docile creature, got into his orchard and gorged on cider apples, which strewed the autumn dying grass. The apple juice must have ferment ed 1? thw cow's midst, for when Ball tried to drive her from the orchard she pursued him and butted his back so hard that she injured his spinal cord. Ball was taken to the Norwalk hospital suffering from paralysis of the lower limbs. After cavorting around for an hour, the cow recovered her accustomed sobriety. How They Know. Labels in hats and tags on over coats, showing the sellers of these ar ticles; »ee of some value. Waiters in New Tork restaurants always glance at these indices so as to the social standing and proWable liberality of their customers. The service is ac cording to their conclusion. DUEL WITH SWORDS FOR WIDOW'S SMILES PARLOR OF INDIANA HOME SCENE OF DESPERATE COMBAT BE TWEEN JEALOUS SWAINS. I.awrenceburg, Ind. —For tho love of a "ladye fayre" Charles W. Bennett and Otis H. Gooden fought a duel with swords. It was not a prearranged affair, however, and the only second rushed into the battle with a chair, floored one of the combatants and end ed hostilities. The. duel took place at the house of George \V. Guard, where Mrs. Minnie Hess Cooper, a comely grass widow, is a boarder. Bennett called to spend the evening with her. Gooden, an other admirer, arrived shortly after ward, and a quarrel soon arose. Hang ing on the wall in the parlor of tire Bennett Was Proving a Poor Fencer. house were two sabers, that had been used during the civil war by Mr. Guard's grandfather. Just how they came into use is not known, but the commotion in the parlor and the screams of Mrs. Coop er attracted the attention of Guard, who had retired. He dressed and rushed into the room and found the two men dueling with the sabers. Bennett was proving a poor fencer and was getting by far the worst of the fight. He was bleeding profusely from cuts and slashes, and just as Guard entered he fell on the floor, covered with blood. Gooden was in the act of running tho saber through his fallen opponent when Guard interfered and felled him to the floor with a heavy chair. The widow rushed into the street crying for help, and a policeman arrived, and after a struggle with Gooden, com pelled him to surrender at the muz zle of a revolver. He was taken to Jail and a charge of cutting with in tent to kill placed opposite his name. Dr. George F. Smith was summoned and dressed the injuries of Bennett. There was one serious stab in his ab domen, which requited eight stitches to close. Bennett is in a serious con dition, but will recover unless blood poison develops. Mrs. Couper states that she will not countenance either man in the future. CHINAMAN KIDNAPS TEACHER. Pupil in Sunday School Class Drugs Wealthy Married Woman. Pittsburg. Pa.—Under the influence of some powerful drug, Mrs. W. L. Reese, wife of a wealthy boiler manufacturer of Altoona, was picked up by the police the other morning in company with A 1 Sing Dean, a Chinaman, who had been a member of her Sunday school class and who had kidnaped her. Mrs. Reeso and her mother were at luncheon at their home the day before when Dean called. While Mrs. Reese's mother was answering the telephone Dean turned the conversation to the subject of opium and told her that the reports that the Chinese were opium fiends was outrageously false. He said that the Americans mistook for opium some little crystals which the Chinese frequently took as an appe tizer. He offered Mrs. Reese one of the crystals. At first she hesitated, but when she saw the Chinaman appar ently swallow one she did likewise. Mrs. Reese remembers but little of what happened after that. It is believed that Dean wanted to hold her for ransom. Girls Wore Trousers. Collinsville, Conn.—The Skidoo Young Ladies' club was broken up by several envious boys. The girls have an annual meeting which they attend in male attire, their trousers covered by long wraps. One night tho boys invaded their dressing room in their absence and carried off all their wraps, leaving the girls to walk home in men's clothing, while dark lant»rns were flashed on them and a crowd cheered as they passed. Corpse's Pipe Saves Widow. Pottsville, Pa. —That the body of John Yacht was exhumed in order that his wife might be sure she was a uidow was testified before Judge Bechtel in a case iu which Mr. Yacht prosecuted Simon Prolt for his failure to keep his promise to wed her. The identification was established by a pipe found in the corpse's pocket. On the strength of this identifica tion the widow won her suit, as she would have had no case unless s&e could prove her husband was dead. WOMAN LID I YEARS AS A MM DOUBLE LIFE OF OCTOGENARIAN IS BARED AT HER DEATH IN COLORADO. MARRIED ONE OF HER OWN SEX Bears Burden of "Father" to Shield Girl Who Had Been Wronged— Worked as a Cook on a Ranch for Several Years. Trinidad, Colo. —Katherine Vos baugh, an eccentric Frenchwoman of brilliant attainments, died here the other day at the age of s;:. after mas querading for CO years as a man. The woman donned trousers when a girl and had a horror of skirts up to the time of her death. She filled a score of responsible positions, and her true sex was never suspected. Just twice during her entire life was the fact that Katherine Vosbaugh was a woman made known. The first time was when, at 30 years of age. she re vealed it to the young woman she mar ried in St. Joseph, Mo. The next and last time when she was con vinced she was dying, and was com pelled to inform the hospital physician. During her long life she had been a bank clerk, a sheep herder, a book keeper, a restaurant-keeper and a mining camp cook. Although she spoke several languages and had been brought up in refinement, she seemed never so happy as when she was clad in rough overalls and heavy shoes, doing the most laborious work. She wandered all over the world, and although often compelled to asso ciate with the roughest men, she was never suspected of being a woman, and on more than one occasion proved herself more of a manly man than her associates. She came to America in 1842 at the age of 18, shortly after her father's death. She decided that she could make her way as a man, but not as a woman. She donned trousers and settled in Joplin, Mo., as a book keeper. For nine years she remained in Jop lin and was esteemed a fine young Miss Vosbaugh as Camp Cook. man and one whom more than one young woman considered a most eligi ble partner. Her excellent record, ed ucation and steadiness procured her a position as clerk at a St. Joseph bank. It was shortly after she accept ed this position that she learned of the trouble of the young woman Whom she afterward married. When Miss Vosbaugh's "wife's" baby was born the oddly attached people removed to Trinidad and opened up a French restaurant. The town people thought them a model couple. The baby died a few months later. Shortly after the mother dis appeared, and the "husband" refused to make a search for her. The people of Trinidad were profuse in their ex pressions of sympathy for the deserted "man." Forty years ago Miss Vosbaugh ob tained employment at the Sam Brown ranch, near Trinchera, as n sheep herder. Later when she saw that her sex could not be discovered except through unusual accident, she accept ed work as a camp cook, and re mained in that capacity up to two years ago. Some of the roughest characters known to the west asso ciated with her without, ever suspect ing her sex. In many stirring scenes when men revealed fear and nervous ness she kept her poise. Two years ago her infirmities com pelled her removal to San Raphael hospital. Even then the men of the camp bade her good-bye affectionately as "Grandpa" and "Old Man Frenchy." For many weeks she refused to bathe unless she could do so without at tendants being present, to the great amusement of the sisters, who joked about the old man's overmodesty. Shortly after she was seized with a severe cold, which led to the physi cian's examination laying bare her life secret. When her sex was revealed the hos pital authorities at first insisted that she wear the proper garb of her sex. The garments proved so irksome 4o her, However, that ene was finally permitted to return to overalls. She pottered around the hospital working for the sisters up to the time of her death. BROTHERS ROB AND KILL AT SET PRICE SAID TC BE HEAD OF PARIS "SYN DICATE" MAKING MURDER ITS FAVORITE LINE. Paris.—A crime syndicate, organ ized for theft and murder, is the ab sorbing story of the day that startles France and all Europe. New details are coming to notice of the criminal operations of the broth ers Antony and Francois Thomas. These two men seem to have com bined the minds of Borgias, the leader of the inquisition, and the robber bar ons. They poisoned, tortured and stole for years, undetected, until, be coming bold beyond fear of detection, apparently, their carelessness ended in arrest. For years continental churches have lost priceless treasures mysteriously. t® I Hu JUI A 4 / Many Unknown Poisons Found. Jeweled crosses, chalices, statues, pic tures and tapestries from the hands of the greatest masters have disap peared in a night. So widely separated were the thefts that they were laid to local criminals. No one dreamed of a crime syndi cate. The Thomases comprised its work ing part, stealing hundreds of thou sands of dollars' worth of plunder and finding a ready market among dealers or private collectors. When apprehended the Thomas home was searched and evidence tend ing to prove tbat the brothers con ducted a private assassination and criminal operation bureau as a side line was unearthed. Apparently some of the foremost men of their home town and neighboring district were among their customers. The list of poisons found in the home contained many unknown to French chemists. Instruments, the character of which indicated the ne farious business for which they were intended, were discovered by the po lice. It is believed the brothers made it a business to "remove" undesirable persons from the path of those who were willing to pay liberally. When arrested they refused to discuss this, saying many of Europe's greatest fam ilies were implicated with them. Let ters compromising many throughout France were turned up. These showed that they received large sums for assassinations. The Thomases are known to have stolen the magnificent gem-studded rel iquary of Ambazac, valued at $40,000, and many other gems of middle-age art, including the crown of SL Mi chael. It is also charged that they engineered the Unsuccessful plot tt> rifle the abby of Conques, the treas ures of which are valued at s2