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The contempt of scoundrels for honesty docs
not arise from their familiarity with it.
Root and the Presidency
I do not know what Hoot want's or Intends
to do. He can bo nominated for tho Presi
dency If he wants It, nnd without uny effort
on his part. William Barnes.
THE Albany leader who talks thug about
tho former Senator from New York and
former Secretary of Stato and Secretary of
War Is not understood to bo nominating Mr.
Root for tho Presidency. Ho Im merely diag
nosticating tho political situation.
Tho frlcnda of Mr. Boot, however, who hopo
to sco him occupying the White .House In
spite of hla own statement that ho Is too old,
will not welcome any booming from Barnes,
oven bo Indirectly as In a general diagnosis
of tho political situation. Tho grandson of
Thurlow Wccil la a discredited politician,
however great his abilities may be. The
Roosevelt description of him was nailed fast
to his hide by the Syracuse Jury. Hundreds
of thousands of Independent Republicans
would oppose any man whom Mr. Barnes
favors merely because he was favored by Mr.
Barnes.
Therefore, the Inlluential lenders who aro
supposed to bo hoping to draft Mr. Root Into
tho service of the Republican party next
year would better get together nnd put a
mulller on Barnes before It Is too lato, or
their candidate will be bq heavily over
weighted by the burden of Bnrnes as to niaho
It Impossible for him to run.
Jitney Is as Jitney Docs
CITY SOLICITOR RYAN1 has darkened the
days of the jltneymen by Informing them
that tho "sight-seeing" ruso will havo no
Btnndlng in court. If a Jitney Jitnoys, In short.
It Is a Jitney, and not all the signs In the
World will hide its essential Jltneyness.
After Friday, then, tho deluge. Tho straw
at which the drivers can clutch Is nn offer
from a company to bond them nt a hundtcd
and flfty dollars each, which is not exorbi
tant. The riding public hag llttlo concern
with the law's dolnyx. It has signified its do
Biro for the new transit Hystem, nnd still
looks to tho city to make that new system
possible.
Meantime tho Jltneymen nro being raited
fore as well as aft by an incrense of one cent
per gallon on the price of gasoline. Tho rise
in price eeems to be universal. It comes with
a strange and significant suddenness after tho
raising of wages at Bayonne; behind It may
even bo nn Intention on tho part of tho refin
ing companies to pay all their employes prop
erly. Who can tell?
A Mother Comes Back Home
NECESSITY, until the outbreak of tho
Great War, wun familiarly considered as
a blood relative, on tho maternal side, of In
vention. At the beginning of tho war she
seemed estranged from her progeny. It was
said In America, by Americans, of Amer
icans, that they could not get along with
out German dyes.
Now mother and child are reunited.
Whether thq experiments made in Philadel
phia the other day will provo that a dye
has been perfected or further discoveries
must be awaited will not change tho Impor
tant fact. Americans havo gono to It nnd
have begun to make for themselves what
they previously nought from others. They
have been thrown upon their own resources
and, despite tho dire predictions of their
friends, those resources will soon provo suf
ficient, If they have not already.
A Local German Scare
THE publication, in various New York
papers, of data concerning German
American and German activity In the United
State, was bound to havo a local effect.
The stories there printed are some of them
very Important and some not; some are
false, no doubt, and some true. Their total
effect Is likely to be indifferent.
It la to be hoped that the stories are bet
ter "planted" than the one about Oerman
ownership of Cramps' Shipyard. That story
was ' Immediately denied. Its full absurdity
can he easily seen. Not even If the yard
were German owned would this country per
mit It to build battleships for use in the
present war. Not even if the yard built and
sent such ships could Germany use them.
In the race for sensational news this item
was as good as any other. It will serve
perhaps to make its sponsors a little, more
careful hereafter.
The Crime of Riches
BRYAN used t say that no man
4YJL cot
.could honestly accumulate a million dol-
Uum When he had accumulated a consider
able sum he changed his mind and said that
a man Is entitled to what Iw earns and that
It u impossible to pay to sosu rasa as much
as tby have merited, became their wwMam
ctnnei be measured la dollars. A ra's
awn wealth auta hu opl&Jeos fiXMit the
crime e rimes The man wltlwpt money
i likely to Utline thai the wan with money
U an enemy to .ciy and to advocate llmlt
ttig tiie Mai of fortune .iad te favor eoa
Bfcjiiui u !.irt,t vs'.attH by the Government
, tie h ih of tin hjlJi
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l.ttlv ttojUahtiig lu fluU in ihuir
i,ertinwiit ,. uMuuaSloii aUwefct-
.1' as it ll J.tBJ U) tytttSJ -Ct I
M.OOO.OOO, as Frank F. Walsh, of the Com
mission on Industrial Relations, is credited
with doing. A majority of his colleagues
refuse to agree to any such revolutionary
recommendation. They apparently think
thnt so long ns this Is n country of un
bounded opportunity tljc Government should
do nothing to dltcourngo men of greot
flimnclnl ability from exercising their skill.
Thrro may have been n time when tills
wns merely n million-dollar country, but thnt
time passed long ago, ami today this city
nlono probably lias mole enterprises In Which
theio Is nn Investment of n thousand thou
sand dollars than there were In tho whole na
Hon a hundred years ago. If Mr, Walsh
wants to draw the lino between criminal and
Innocent riches ho will have to put it a long
way nbovo 11 single million dollars to ciilltlo
Ills recommendation to tho respect oven of
tho most radical.
Censorship Is Un-American and Dangerous
"TJGAH no, see no, speak no evil," Is per-
XX haps the motto of the moral "high
brows" whose efforts to establish and en
courngo a moving picture censorship have so
far resulted in a mingling of farco and In
sult. If It Is, they should bo reminded that
tho words aro addressed to each Individual
nnd require no Olympian assistnnco to bo
made effective.
Censorship is nn ouico peculiar to tyrants:
In a country of which tho very foundation Is
resistance to tyranny, It Is wholly and wil
fully and obnoxiously wrong. It Is wrong
inherently becauso tho genius of the Ameri
can pcoplo nnd of American institutions Is
opposed to It, and It Is wrong In tin- head
because It Is bnbed on bad logic, bad povchol.
ogy nnd bad morals. It is nn attempt to
force righteousness und whoso conception
of righteousness? upon men and women, and
righteousness must be won, not without dust
and heat, by each man for himself. It Is a
negation of tho very fundamental thought
of democracy, which Is tho privilege of choos
ing without coercion or restraint.
The police power to slop outrages upon pub
lic morals Is granted. No Insult to common
decency can llvo on the stage, on the plat
form or in the printed page. But with the
pollco that power should icnialn. It should
not bo used except at the instance of tho
public; It muBt not bo used against tholr ex
pressed will and desire.
There Is a censorship of moving pictures
which cannot be overawed. It Is tho censor
ship of the patrons. To Interfere, by legal
process, with the free activity of their ta3to
and Judgment Is to render vnin the long bat
tle for liberty through which mankind hits
struggled. A movie censorship today for
bodes a press censorship tomorrow. So In
sidiously Is liberty always undermined
Lcavo the movlo consotshlp to those who
go to tho movies. They are quite capable
of Judging properly.
The King Made Contraband
THE decision of Great Britain to place cot
ton on tho contraband list has been ex
pected for some time. Every time a big gun
Is fired a considerable part of a halo of cot
ton is used to drlvo the shell to tho trenches
of tho enemy. Cotton Is an essential clement
In modern nmmunitlon. To permit cotton to
j each Germany Is to permit nn Indispensable
requlslto of war to reach tho enemy. Tho
Allies have been doing their best for months
to keep cotton away Irom Germany by a
blockade of the coast. This blockade has
been the cause of much friction between tho
United States and Great Britain. The mo
ment cotton is formally declared to be con
traband tho cause of part of the friction will
disappear.
Tho market for American cotton will not
be seriously narrowed by tho decree, for tho
Allies havo permitted llttlo of tho staple to
got through tho blockade, and tho sales Ir
Norway and Sweden havo not been affected
0110 way or another by tho war. And Great
Britain, anyway, buys moro of our cotton
than any other Power. Tho market there
and tho market In China will remain open,
and the mills at homo ought to be ablo to use
what Germany has been in tho habit of
buying.
Get Your Money's Worth
THE delegates to the annual convention of
Pennsylvania Sealers of Weights and
Measures were not the llrst men to discover
that the public cares little about full meas
uro when It buys. Unscrupulous merchants
discovered It long ago. They havo given
short weight for years, with llttlo protest
from tho consumers. Now and then a thrifty
and careful housewife has weighed the
things she has bought and then compelled
the merchant to make restitution of that of
which he has been cheating her. But most
of them aro indifferent, and so the few
scoundrels among the tradesmen prosper.
The officials whose duty It is to enforce tho
law regulating tho standard of weights and
measures may somo day bo assisted more
generally by the public, but tho cost of living
will have to soar still higher before the aver
age family will begin systematically to insist
on getting Its money's worth. And bo long ns
It does not Insist It will be practically Im
possible for any corps of official Inspectors to
detect all violations of the law.
The Vares are still taking city contracts,
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The weather man deserves a vote
thanks.
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As a professional abandoner the Grand
Duke has no equal.
The Allies have no objection to the Ger
mans' getting cramps.
Eggs seem to be Just as good as pepper for
throwing In the eyes of footpads.
The eights one sees in the Jitneys certainly
ought to Justify calling them sightseeing
cars.
So long as the Liberty Bell gets back home,
it matters little whether it comas by the
Southern or the Northern route.
The German Crown Prince says that Ver
dun must be taken. Then why does he not
take it? lie has been at the Job long enough,
"Hooks and Eyes for Kaiser." Industrial
News. An English correspondent writes that
he in under the impression that straitjackets
need neither.
Motherhood has Just baeu "charged"
against Mrs. LAtey U W. Wilson. Where
ar the good oW-fashliwl men who used to
tbluk It an honor?
Germany, whloh has been p?aring to in
vade Biufland toe a long time, is new get
ting ready to invade Finland, Mrieifw be
cause it seems easier.
That Hamilton N Y I buy v. ho was run
over by a trsJa at Washington, N J , with
out injury must hive been tuirdtnud fey his
tkftumujl in the Cubjitu football i-U-nu.
PAUL FULLER, NEW
NATIONAL FIGURE
One of the "Barefoot Boys" Who
Hnve Risen to Fame Inter
national Law Expert Never
Went to College.
By EDWARD R, DOSIINELI.
WMENEVEU tho world encounters a hi an
who has achieved international dlsline
tion in law and letters without the aid of a.
collego or law school education it Is frettS'
suio to want ft second look at him. Wo
hnve plrnly of self-mado business men, but
precious few of the sclf-ctlucntetl whoso
6ctio,lnrshlp attracts the attention of uoschol.
nrly a man us President Wootlrow Wilson.
Such Is Paul Fuller, of New York, who was
sent to Mexico by President Wilson to ro
port on conditions In thnt war-torn Hepllb
lie. Ho has' been ttt tho Administration's
cull in the deliberations which led to
the recent All-American Conference. It
wouldn't bo fair to saddle on Mr. Fuller tho
responsibility for tho Administration's mis
takes within tho Inst year, but during this
period of experimentation Mr, Fuller, bo
cntiFc of his sympathetic understanding of
tho Mexican situation and his comprehension
of tho Latin-American temperament, lina
provrrl himself tin- most viilnnhlo ndvlaer
tho President has had slnco ho started tho
train of special investigators led by John
Llntl to find out what nlled Mexico. Of them
nil Fuller Is credited with tho most comploto
understanding of tho situation, which ex
plains why ho Is being retained ns tho nd
vlser of President Wilson and Secretary
I.n using.
A Motto From Solomon
Who Is this man Fuller? Thnt was the
question on many lips when It wns an
nounced nearly a year ngo that Paul Fuller,
of New York, was to be henl to Mexico as
President Wilson's personal leprenentatlvo to
confer with Cnrrany.a, Villa and other revo
lutionists who might spring up over night.
It was useless to look In "Who's Who," be
causo this man had so persistently shied
from publicity that the biographers ml.sscd
him. And oven now he won't submit to tho
delights of being Interviewed. His motto
seems to bo that or Solomon: "Let another
man praise thco and not thine own mouth;
a stranger and not thine own lips."
How this scholarly man was dragged Into
tho limelight of the Mexican question la an
Interesting story, lie is a member of tho
law firm of Cottdnrt Brothers, of New Yotk.
His specialty has always been International
law, and this subject ho knows so thoroughly
that New York lawyers Instinctively turn to
him when they need tin export. In addition
to his knowledge of law Air. Fuller Iiiih built
up n. knowledge of Latln-Amcrlcan countries
and of the languages nnd temperament uf
tho people that Is rarely to bo met with.
A little more than one year ago ono of his
clients revealed to him a stoiy of injnstlco
In a certain republic below the Rio Grande
which astonished and nngeied Mr. Fuller.
Slnco it involved tho American diplomatic
service, Mr. Fuller decided that It should bo
brought to tho attention of tho Administra
tion. Consequently, ho wrote a letter to
President Wilson explaining the situation
briefly. Tho matter camo to the personal at
tention of tho President, and he asked Mr.
Fuller to seo him In Washington. Mr. Fuller
went, nnd in tho cottrso of his conversation
with tho President rovealed a situation that
astonished the President as much as It had
Mr. Fuller. Tho President determined that
it should bo brought to tho attention of Mr.
Bryan, then Secretary of Stato. Mr. Bryan
was sent for. Ho promptly confirmed what
Mr. Fuller had said, but blamed it on tho
previous Administration, from which ho snld
It had been Inherited. With great firmness
the President declared that no matter from
what source It had been Inherited It was nn
evil which should bo corrected at once. And
It was.
Becomes "Special Representative"
It was Mr. Fuller's rare understanding of
tho situation which appealed to President
Wilson. Mr. Fuller returned to New York
untl supposed he would henr no moro from
tho President But about three months Inter
ho received n request from Mr. Wilson that
ho como to Washington upon a matter of
great importance to the State Department.
Mr. Fuller went, and within a tew days wns
on his way to Mexico to Investigate condi
tions there, and particularly to prevent tiio
looting of Mexico City by either tho Carrnnza
or Villa forces. In splto of his age, ho i3
about 60, Mr. Fuller made the difficult trip
overland through Mexico, halted both Car
ran7a and Villa, and in the name of Presi
dent Wilson told them that under no circum
stances would tho United States permit the
sacking of the Mexican capital. The Mexi
cans were astoubhed to find nn American
who understood them nnd spoke their lan
guage. His warning turned back Villa ami
caused Cnrranza to issue strict orders
ngainht any vandalism by his forces, and to
enforce strictly his orders when later hla
troops actually entered Mexico City.
Fuller's early life is enveloped In some
mystery. He camo from New England
stock, although ho was born on a ship enter
ing San Francisco from Cape Horn. He lost
botli parents during his infancy, and spent
the first eight years of his life In Califor
nia, where he mastered tho Spanish lan
guage. He entered New York as a barefoot
hoy. and in some way attracted the attention
of Charles Coudert, a French school teacher,
who had served under Napoleon, but had
been exiled for participation in the Bona
parto plot. It was Mr. Coudert to whom the
boy owed his education, for he was taken
Into tho Coudert family. He learned French
here, because it was the language of the
Couderts. Mr. Coudert's sons had opened
a Jaw office In New York, and when 12 years
of age young Fuller entered their employ.
He utilized his time to such good advantage
that he not only secured a good education,
but mastered law, and when a young man
was taken into the firm. He eventually
married Mr. Coudert's daughter. It was in
the expansion of this firm's law business that
Mr. Fuller became the specialist that he Is
in international law, particularly as It dealt
with Latin-American countries.
SAFETY FIRST
An, unnamed Senator is quoted as saying: "I
certainly will support and vote for a law creat
ing Government meaopely of all war eupil,
tauiiunents, ammunition, armor-plate and the
like." All right. But don't do It until the United
States itself is fully prepared for defuse, will
yeuT Buffalo ttxprese.
WOMEN IN TENNIS
The return of Mrs. Thomas C Bundy. who
was IUy Suttou. to the tennis couiu In ihtu
pionshtp play show that the foimer tiUh,ulder
li a-S good as mti if not better A huU'o be
ttui lie j mid tlic W' antliiiivtaii champion would
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Strange Cases in the Criminal Courts Circumstances May Not
Lie, but They Often Mislead Remarkable Instances of Mis
taken Identity The Freakishness of Evidence
By ROBERT HILDRETII
WHATEVER may bo tho defects and
perils of circumstantial evidence, they
nro not tho exclitslvo discovery of tho lay
mun or the lay reformer. Nor uro tho dif
ficulties which they present wholly absent
from other forms of evidence. Direct testi
mony Is subject to the risks which nrlso
from tho observational Incapacity of the
witness, tho faultlncss of his memory and
tho possibility of deliberate falsehood. These
and other considerations have led experi
enced American nnd English lawyers to do
claro their preference for circumstantial
over direct evidence. Witnesses, they say,
can lie, either Intentionally or unintention
ally, but clu'imstnncos cannot He.
Even tho testimony of cyo witnesses of a
crime is not always to bo taken at its face
value. As a measuro of protection against
error Professor Muensterberg would add to
croijs-oxnminatlon certain psychological testH
which ho describes In his Interesting b&ok,
"On tho Witness Stand." Professor Muen
sterberg tells tho story of "a painful scene"
which occurred In Berlin In the University
Seminary of Professor von Liszt, tho famous
criminologist.
Memory on Trial
"The professor had hpoken about a book.
Ono of the older students suddenly shouts,
'I want to throw light on tho matter from
tho standpoint of Christian morality.' An
other student throws in, 'I cannot stand
tliatl The first starts up, exclaiming, 'You
havo Insulted me!' Tho second clenches his
fist and cries, 'If you say another word '
Tho first draws a revolve!. The second
rushes madly upon him. The profcsFor steps
between them and, as he grasps tho man's
nrm, tho revolver goes off. General uproar.
"In that moment Profes.sor Liszt secuies
order nnd asks a part of tho students to
write an exact account of all that has hap
pened. The whole had been a comedy, care
fully planned "and rehearsed by the three
actors for the purposo of studying tho ex
actitude of observation nnd recollection,
Thoso who did not write the report at onco
were, part of them, asked to write it tho
next day or a week later, and others had to
deposo their observations under cross-examination.
Tho whole objectlvo performance
was cut up Into parts which referred partly
to actions, partly to words. As mistakes
thero were counted tho omissions, the wrong
additions nnd tho alterations. The smallest
number of mlstnkes gave 26 per cent, of er
roneous statements; tho largest was 80 per
cent, Tho reports with reference to the
second half of the performance, which was
more strongly emotional, gavo an average of
15 per cent, moro mistakes than those of
tho first half."
An curly Instance of the manufacture of
circumstantial evidence Is on record in the
Bible, which records that Joseph's silver cup
was placed In Benjamin's sack. With all
due respect It can be said safely that most
men have had, at one time or another in
their lives, some bitter or at least unpleasant
experience caused by the fact that, in the
common phrase, "appearances were against
them." Literature abounds with, cases of
compromising appearances and of mistaken
Identity. Lady Macbeth, It will be recalled,
"smeared the sleeping grooms with blood."
Bulwer Lytton founded a novel on the story
of Eugene Aram.
The Aram and Molineux Cases
Eugene Aram was an English schoolmas
ter. In Knaresborough, where Aram taught
for several years, lived a shoemaker named
Daniel Clarke, One day, shortly after making
a. purchase of valuable goods, Clarke disap
peared. Suspicion fell on Aram, not as the
man's murderer, but as his confederate in
fraud. He was arrested and tried, but ac
quitted for lack of evidence. Thirteen years
afterward a skeleton was dug up near
Knaresborough, and the citizens, remember
ing the disappearance of Clarke, declared the
bones were those of the shoemaker. The
suspicion of foul play had been reinforced
by strange remarks of Aram's wife to tlui
effect that her husband and a map named
Houseman knew more of Clarke's disappear.
ance than they chose to tell. Houseman,
confronted with a bone of the skeleton, de
clared emphatically that it was not Clarke's.
The dental only added to the belief that
Houseman knew where Clarke's body had
peea hiddu Finally he sud thtt he had
"CHOICE FABRICATIONS I"
seen Claikc murdered by Arum nnd ono
Terry. A skeleton wns dug up hi tho place
Indicated by Houseman and Aram wns con
victed of tho murder of Clarke. Conduct
ing his own defense nt tho trial Aram
made a memorable address on the doetrln"
of circumstantial evidence. Before hla oxo
cutlon ho confessed his guilt to two clergy
men. Whatever may have been tho facts In
tho enso of Aram, It Is remarkablo that on
several occasions In tho history of criminal
tiials men have confessed to ri lines which
subsequent events showed they had not
committed.
Ono of tho most famous criminal trials
in American annals was that of Molinoux,
convicted in New York for tho murder of
Mrs. Adams. The ovldenco against him was
purely circumstantial. It was charged that
Mrs. Adatris had died from a poison sent
her through tho mall. All over tho United
States an outcry ntoso against Mollnoux's
conviction on circumstantial evidence Tho
public feeling over tho conditions surround
ing tho trial and conviction of Leo Frank
was no moro rebellious. Molineux wn3
granted a new trial bj tho Now York Court
of Appeals and on tl.o second ttial was ac
quitted. Cases of mistaken Identity aro not uncom
mon. A man named Jenkins was arrested
at Nowburgh, N.Y., charged with tho murder
of ono Sarah Bloom, who hnd a short time
previous mysteriously disappeared. Tho dead
body of a young woman hnd been found,
which Jano Bloom Identified ns that of her
sister Sarah, Sho was very positive of tho
fact: described with great accuracy and
mlniitenes.s certain physical peculiarities of
her sister and insisted that tho body was
hers, notwithstanding directly opposite tes
timony given by Jenkins. But, during tho
Investigation instituted by tho Coroner, the
original Sarah Bloom appeared In Nowburgh
alive and well, Tho young man Jenkins,
who had been confined to await tho result
of tho inquest, wns at onco set at liberty,
nil cause of suspicion against him having
been removed by tho discovery that Miss
Bloom was living. Tho question then camo
up: How could MIsh Bloom's sister havo
been so deceived ns to testify positively that
tho dead body was that of her sister? Tho
result of 11 comparison of marks upon tho
bodies of tho two women, however, settled
the doubt. The peculiar marks on tho dead
body and thoso on the body of Sarah Bloom
wero identical In form, position nnd number.
Tho body had a scar on tho left oyobrow;
Sarah Bloom had tho same. Tho body had
a scar on the middle Joint of the middle
finger, of tho left hand; Sarah Bloom had
the same. The two mlddlo toes of tho left
foot of the corpse wero grown together nearly
to the first Joint; n similar peculiarity ex
isting in Miss Bloom. The toes of both feet
in the corpse and In those of Miss Bloom
were compressed, as from wearing tight
shoeB. A mark, as from a ring which had
been roughly drawn from the finger, was
found on the hand of the murdered woman,
but the ring was not "found. Miss Bloom
wore a cornelian ring on the corresponding
finger. Those curious coincidences, very re
markable as far as regards physical pecu
liarities, seemed to Justify the conclusions
which were arrived at prior to the reap
pearance of the missing woman.
A False Confession
The foregoing story Is told In Waterbury's
American edition of Archbold's "Criminal
Practice nnd Pleading." An equally strange
story is that of a murder case cited in
William Wills' famous essay on the "Prin
ciples of Circumstantial Evidence." It was
the case of the two Booms, convicted in the
Supreme Court of Vermont In September
term, 1819, of the murder of Russell Colvin,
May 10, 1812. It appeared that Covin. who
was the brother-in-law of the prisoners, was
a person of a, weak and not perfectly sound
mind; that he was considered burdensome
to the family of the prisoners, who were
obliged to support him; that on the day of
his disappearance, being r a distant field,
where the prisoner were at work, a violent
quarrel fcroke out between them, and that
one of them struck him a violent blow on
the back of the head with a club which felled
htm to the ground Some suspicions arose
ac that time that he was rouideied, which
were Increased by the finding ol his hat in
Ibe um aeU .few oiunthi atterwaid.
Thesd suspicions In process of tlmo subsided,
but In 1810 ono of tho neighbors having ro
pcutcdly dreamed of the murder with great
minuteness of circumstances, both In regard
to his death and the concealment of his re
mains, tho prisoners were vehemently ac
cused and generally believed guilty of the
murder. Upon strjet search tho poeketknlfe
of Colvin nnd a button off his clothes were
found in nn old open cellar In tho same
field, nnd In n hollow stump not many rods
from it wero discovered two nails and a num
ber of bones believed to bo those of a man.
Upon this evidence, together with tho de
liberate confession of tho fact of the mur
der and concealment of the body in those
places, they were convicted nnd sentenced
to die. On the snmo day they applied to the
Legislature for a commutation of tho sen
tcnoo of death to that of perpetual imprison
ment, which ns to ono only of them was
granted. The confession being now with
drawn and contradicted and a reward offered
for tht discovery of tho missing man, ho
was found In New Jersey, nnd returned
homo In tlmo to prevent the execution. lie
had fled for fear that tho prisoners would
kill him. Tho bones were those of nn ani
mal. Tho prisoners had been advised by
somo misjudging friends that, as they would
ceitainly bo convicted upon tho circum
stances proved, their only chnnco for lite
wus by a commutation of punishment, and
that this depended on tholr making a peni
tential confession and thereupon obtaining
a recommcndntlon to mercy. ,
Wllklo Collins utilized a report of this r-'
marknhlo case In ono of his novels of
mystery.
NATIONAL POINT OF VIEW .
A year of war ends and a century of regret
begins. Chicago Herald.
Though In many icspects an untutored mnn, ,,v&j
Pniidio Villa makes better proRress than Car- .1',
rnnza in learning I1I3 A B C's. New York Sun.
"God is still with us," snys the Kaiser. "Same
here," is the word fiom tho Allies Somebody
Is headed for tho Ananias Club. Atlanta Con
Mltution. Itusjlan nrmlcs may bo safe, but they prob
ably feel lilto a pedestrian who has just ducked
across a motor highway on a Sunday after
noon. Wall Street Journal.
Not often In the history of diplomacy hai
thore been a moro conclusive answer by on
Government to tho demands of another than
tho note to Austria-Hungary. Indianapolis
News.
The marvelous system of German railroads
carries tho German troops wherever they want
to go. Yet Germnny's Internal commerce soes
on with evidently llttlo disturbance. Whyr
Becnuso German 'h marvelous system of im
proved rivers and canals is thero to do th
work, Kansas City Times.
There are thousands of upright nnd law
abiding Georgians who hnve been proud of
their Stato in the pnst, and to whom tho sen
tence of outlawry upon It by the lest of th
country will seem cruel nnd unjust. But to
avert that sentence thoso law-respecting Georj
Inns must organize and usscrt their supremacy
over the mob of barbailans who havo brought
their civilization to a standstlll.-Iirooltlyn
Eagle.
THE UNATTAINED
They tear up the paving and then they proceed
To pile up the tar anil tho gravel.
The numerous signals of danger you heed
Till you s'carcely know which way to travel.
With tunnels and chasms they fill up the town
While vapors nriBe, superheated;
And this ready assurance effaces the frown.
"It'll be a fine job when completed."
All restless wo hurry nnd upward we gaze,
And engage In benevolent movements;
And work which we thought had won perma
nent praise
Is destroyed to make room for Improvements.
Tills great wot Id of ours as for peace It
strives on
Of its fond expectations Is cheated.
But man says as he labors with brain and
with brawn,
"It'll be a flno Job when completed."
Waahlns-ton Star.
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