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I Girl's" Story II
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"O-o-o-oh, such liars. Such awful,
frightful, terrible, hideous, dazzling,
unholy liars as men are!"
'Twas a telephone girl ejaculating
it —a telephone girl In one of the
main hotel lobbies.
The Indictment was so overwhelm
ing that she was asked to elucidate.
Whereupon Bhe deftly picked her
hunk of gum from one of the unused
switch pegs. Inserted it Into the wait
ing orifice, and prattled right ahead.
"Oh, the outrageous lies they
'phone to their wives to excuse their
not being home as they ought to be!"
said she, looking, however, not quite
so horrified as might have been ex
pected, "and their deliberate, callous,
cold-blooded, foxy way of lying, too —■
o-o-oh!"
Detailed counts of this allegation
were called for.
"Oh, well," said the telephone girl,
"you ought to hear 'em, that's aIL
Two of 'em that came In here about
7 o'clock last evening were samples
samples of the limit They were men
around thirty, and both of them were
what men folks call happy-soused.
They strolled in here, arm In arm,
sort of leaning on each other. They
weren't BO happy-soused that they had
lost their foxlness, though; men nev
er become so far gone as to lose their
cagyness. In my opinion.
" 'Well, whatcha going to hand her,
matey?' the lean man asked the fat
one.
• •***•
" 'Search me,', said the fat one,
pushing back his hat and scratching
his head. 'Gotta pull some new stuff.
She's jerry to all of the old comedy.'
" 'Old boyhood pal of yours Just
breezed in from Minneapolis and
you've got to take him around?' sug
gested the lean man, grinning.
" 'Aw, naw, nothln' like that,' said
the fat one disgustedly. 'That's an
almanac A. D. 1837 number. Nix.
Gotta spring something new and
neat'
" 'Man that you've got a big deal
on with breezed along and dragged
you off to dinner?' suggested the lean
one again.
" 'Say, tin those lumpy ones,'
wheezed the fat man. 'l've tried to
ease her that one fifty Umes and nev
er got it over yet.'
" 'Gotta run over to Baltimore to
fix up a hurry business gag?'
" 'Nothin' resembling It.'
" 'Friend of yours took you over
to Anacostia to look at a bungalow
Biter
" 'Tried that last summer and got
the boots.'
" 'Man Interested In model tene
ments kept you downtown to show
you a lot of model tenement blue
prints?'
" 'Say, how old d'ye think my wife
is—'bout six? She'd want to see the
blue prints, believe me.'
" 'Your boss took you out In his
new motor car and the machine
broke down in Bladensburg, and you'll
be home as soon as repairs are made?'
" •Pllv < too.'
"'Went to the hospital to see an
old side-kicker that's dying of —er—
housemaid's knee or something?'
" 'Not a chance.'
" 'Fellow bet you you couldn't walk
to Great Fallß and back, and you took
him up?'
" 'Million to one shot."
" 'Man in your office took sick from
eating soft shell crabs at lunch and
you had to take him to his home ovef
near Laurel, Md.?'
" 'That likewise is a flimz.'
"Then the lean one grinned in a
puzzled sort of way and looked
around kind of hopelessly.
" 'Gee,' he said to the fat
"you've slipped her most of the reper
toire, haven't you, pal?'
"' 'Fraid I have,' replied the fat
man gloomily. 'But say, if we're go
ing to that doll burlesque show, it's
time to eat, and I've gotta pass her
some old thing. Let's see,' and he
pushed his hat up from one side and
scratched above his ear. 'Gosh, I've
got it! I'll blame It all on you, Bee?
I'll tell her that your wife's out of
town and that when I met you on my
way home you were pickled up to the
necktie, and that I had, of course, to
take care of you, and —'
• • • • • •
"'lce that, Ice that!' said the lean
one, grabbing his fat friend by the
coat lapel. 'Put that in storage be
fore you pull it and get me in Dutch
er than I am already. Why, you big
lummox, doesn't your spouse hate me
enough already without your piling up
this new stuff? How d'ye know but
what my wife has spent the hull after
noon with your wife, anyhow? Don't
you know that the minute you tell her
that we're together, why, your wlfe'll
call up my wife, and they'll get to
oomparing notes, and they'll both
swear it's a frame-up and all that?
Say, cut out these Bwana Tumbo get
every-body-tn-German hunches of
yours, won't you?'
" 'Oh, I meant for you to blame
it on me too, when you 'phoned your
wife,' explained the fat man, 'but I
guess I've got a shrimpy number, at
that. Say, how'd It do for us just to
tell 'em that we're soused and that
we'll be home next Thursday a week
If the day isn't cloudy, and let It go
at that?'
" 'Now I know you're bugs,' said
the lean one. 'Let's go hang a little
dram on ourselves and think it over,'
and away they trudged arm in arm
again, and they didn't come back, and
BO I ruppose they ended by not send
lug any kind of word to their wives.
• •••*•
' "The way those two did fan over
what they called 'the old stuff,' the
excuses they'd used so often before!
Do you wonder that telephone girls
have got to be shown before they'll
consent to listen to the tinkle of their
I own wedding bells?
"But the men who come here to
. Bend 'phone excuses to their wives
I don't mind the telephone girl at aIL
I They take it for granted that the
telephone girl Is used to all that stuff
—which, of course, she really Is —and
' so they aren't a particle shy about
j discussing Just what lies they're go
ing to try to fix up for their wives.
, Why, some of them even aßk me to
suggest a new excuse!
| "Only a couple of evenings ago I
had a case like that. He was a care
less looking middle-aged man, and he
was twisting his mustache and looking
real reflective as he sauntered toward
'me here. He gave me the number he
wanted, and then he leaned over—not
leeringly or flirtlly at all, understand,
I but Just in a cold-blood businesslike
way—and he said:
| " 'Got anything new in the square
it-at-home line?'
| "Of course, I knew perfectly well
what he meant, but I wasn't going to
admit it. But my refusing to admit
it didn't cark him any.
I ••••••
i "'A thing that there's a great, cry
ing need for,' he said to me In a re
flective tone, 'ls a sort of "Everyday
Book of Lies." A little brochure like
that would save tired people like my
-1 self, for example, a lot of trouble. For
i Instance, If there were such a book
lon file here at the present moment I'd
be spared not a little Irking thought
I'd just turn over to the section of the
book devoted to the particular kind of
lie that I desire at present to employ,
and there it would be, as pat as a fel
low's strictly original toast that he
I gets out of a "Book of Toasts." I'm
going to suggest the building of such
a book to some writing fellows of my
I acquaintance. It could be called "The
I Handy Liar" or "One Thousand Pat
I Lies" or "Lies For Every Occasion,"
or something equally descriptive and
I satisfying. In the meantime, hang It
all, I wonder what I'm going to—'
and the rest of it dribbled oft Into a
Bort of mumble. I was too busy with
other excuserß a minute or so later
to listen to what kind of an excuse he
was giving his wife over the 'phone;
but I'll bet it was an Ingenious one.
"That's the worst of It, by the
way—the wheedling, deceitful way
the men who invent these deliberate
yarns tell them to their wives over
the 'phone. I can't help but overhear
a good deal of that stuff on the line,
and sometimes I feel as If I could
Jump up and shake the men who are
telling their wives those shocking,
bamboozling stories that I've heard
them make up In talk with each other
only a minute or so before.
" 'Well,' a man will say to his com
panion, 'l'll see If I can uncoil that
one on her,' and he gives me the num
ber and goes Into the booth. Pres
ently I hear him making his little
opening talk.
• ••*••
" 'Doll heart,' the horrid ruffian
says to her In a sort of languishing
tone, 'is that you? B'jlnks, but It's
nice to hear your dear little voice,
honey bug! Say, little wan, there
wasn't a chance on earth for me to
make the dinner thing at home this
evening,' and then he plunges In and
unreels the dreadful story he has
made up. 'lt sure did make me sore,'
he goes on then, 'to be kept downtown
like that I'd a million times rather
be mooching around the little nest
with my blubbsywubbsy, and you
know it, but —' and then he goes on
with a lot more like that, perhaps
winking all the time at his grinning
companion standing outside the booth,
and it certainly Is enough to give
anybody what they call the biggest
kind at a line on men and their
ways.
"Not, of course, I am glad to say,
that these men get away with their
'phoned excuses every time, or any
thing like every time. As a matter of
fact I should Bay that they don't put
their yarns over more than about
in three times, and I notice that the
men who succeed in making their
stories stlok are usually the youngish
sort of men, who look as If they're not
long married.
"The thing, by the way, that gets
all of these 'phone excusers is a lit
tle Intimation from the wife that she's
going out herself. That's the one
number they can't stand. It stam
pedes them every time when wifle at
the other end of the line Bays in a
sort of careless tone that she doesn't
mind how long they stay out, because
she's going out with a little party her
self. It gets 'em every time, and they
never fail to become sober and som
ber and gloomy-Jawed right away and
to beat It up to their homes as fast as
they can travel." —C. L. C., in the
Washington Star.
Fell Out the Window.
An intoxicated young man. very
much battered up, went into a hotel
about midnight and asked the clerk
for Room 23. "Can't give you that
one," replied the clerk. "It's taken.
"Who's got it?" asked the intoxicated
one. "A man named Jones." "What
Jones?" "Mr. A. B. Jones has Room
28." The battered up young man
smiled. ' 'Zat's me. I fell out ze win
dow.' Denver Post
The Highest Wave.
The average height of waves 18
only twenty feet, says the navy hy
drographic office. Of course the in
vestigatlon didn't Include the prohibi
tion wave.—North American.
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CENTRAL POIMI .
ROGUE RIVER iSSIJ L -
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CORRESPONDENCE 11 JEfr
[This matter must not bo reprinted with
out special permission.]
A LIMITED PARCELS POST.
The demand on the part of the peo
ple of the country for what is known
as a limited parcels post is increasing,
and there seems to be little question
that in the near future congress will
pass such legislation as will put it
into operation. These systems of pack
age delivery by mall hare been in
rogue in some European countries for
more than a hundred years, hence are
not socialistic, Utopian or untried. In
practical operation they have proved
eminently successful and above every
thing satisfactory and a great con
venience to people living in country
districts. The postmaster general has
recommended e limited parcels post
which would make low rates for the
distribution of parcels from towns and
cities over local rural routes. It is
contended, and the point is well taken,
that the average rural carrier handles
less ihan forty pounds of mall matter
daily when even with his light wagon
he could easily take care of several
times this amount, not only Increasing
greatly the revenues of the postofflce
department, but ministering largely to
the needs and convenience of the pa
trons along his route. The opponents
of parcels posts in any form seem to
be the country merchants, who fear
still further Inroads Into their terri
tory by the catalogue bouses and the
express companies, which are annually
extracting millions of dollars from the
shippers of tho country in the shape of
discriminatory and exorbitant rates.
Inasmuch, however, as some country
merchants are buying catalogue house
Btuff and putting It on their own
shelves, the position which they take
in the matter is hardly consistent The
live merchant does not greatly fear
catalogue house competition, and the
dead or moribund merchant who is al
ready hanging on the ragged edge will
drop out sooner or later anyway. This
matter of home trading is a good deal
of a Action, and with no class is it a
bigger joke than with merchants In
their relation one to another. As the
postal laws are now, with agreements
at present In force with foreign coun
tries, one can send a pnekage to a rela
tive in Europe as cheaply as he can to
a friend in the next state or county.
The Inequality is manifest and one
that bids fair to be righted.
ECONOMICAL BEEF FEEDING.
The Nebraska state experiment sta
tion at Lincoln published the middle
of December a bulletin on "Economical
Beef Production," which contains a
number of suggestions which should
be valuable to feeders of beef cattle.
As a result of a number of carefully
conducted feeding testa It was found
that old process linseed meal coarsely
ground had a slightly higher feeding
value than cottonseed meal, while ei
ther of these feeds was considerably
better than wheat bran as a protein
concentrate. One experiment showed
that cold pressed cottonseed cake fed
with corn and corn stover gave larger
daily gains than any other combina
tion of foods used." The results in
three experiments made showed that
beef could be produced more cheaply
by the use of alfalfa In connection
with corn than by the use of any of
the three concentrates—linseed meal,
cottonseed meal or bran—when the
roughage consisted of prairie hay. The
conclusions derived from some other
feeding tests showed that with corn
at from 85 to 50 cents per bushel and
alfalfa hay at $7 per ton or lower less
than a full feed of corn—from four
teen to eighteen pounds—was a more
economical ration than when a full
feed was used and that if corn was
worth from 50 to 60 cents per bushel
It was more economical to reduce the
corn ration to a half feed, or from ten
to twelve pounds. A comparison of
the quarters after the animals were
slaughtered showed that the groups
fed on alfalfa gave a better quality of
meat, as shown in the color, marbling,
etc.
A DEFICIENT DIET.
Investigations Into Instances of pig
eating sows seem to show that this
tendency Is aggravated if not In every
case caused by the sow's not having a
balanced diet during the few weeks
prior to the birth of her litter, A
largely fat forming ration, such as
corn, fails to furnish the mother with
the elements she needs in providing
her unborn young with flesh and bone
forming material, and the morbid ap
petite she sometimes shows in her at
tempts to devour them as soon as born
Is quite often evidence of the lack re
ferred to. The difficulty may be over
come by reducing the corn ration and
substituting for a part of It In the
neighborhood of half a pound per day
of oil meal or tankage. This ration
may be still further improved by add
ing an allowance of steamed clover or
alfalfa hay.' The bone forming de
ment—potash—may be supplied In cob
charcoal and wood ashes.
Have you thought to empty th®
spray tank and drain the spray pump
carefully? If not you have probably
£ot some trouble ahead.
A man or woman cannot work ad
vantageously on poor and scant fare.
Neither will horses, hens or dairy
cows give satisfactory returns under
the same conditions.
We have seen people of normal size
and possessed of what would be con
sidered a fair amount of courage who
Just didn't have the nerve to set one
of those little "devil" mouse traps.
Buckwheat cakes, a favorite dish
with many during the winter months,
are both more palatable as well as
more wholesome if the batter is made
of buckwheat and wheat flour, half
and half.
Disease is often very closely associ
ated with discomfort and dampness in
the case of both animals and poultry;
hence care should be taken that these
unfavorable conditions are so far as
possible removed.
There Is no ration for furnishing
protein for growing pigs which is bet
ter than; skimmilk, and the farmer
who is long headed will see to It that
there Is as much of It as possible pro
duced on the place.
A dairyman may make a margin of
profit on his cows if he does not take
a good general farm or dairy paper,
but his chances for doing so are much
improved if he has at hand In such a
publication the best and latest Infor
mation on the subject.
A chemist of the University of Min
nesota has discovered a germicide to
which he has given the name benetol.
The new chemical is nonpoisonous to
animals and human beings, yet Is said
to be five times as powerful a germ
destroyer as carbolic acid.
There Is a big temptation to keep
the horses In the stable Just because
the weather seems a trifle colder than
usual. Where there are a paddock and
a shelter from the wind It Is well to
turn them out for exercise even when
the weather Is cold. The fresh air nnd
exercise they get will more than offset
any possible disadvantage.
Notwithstanding the fact that chick
en lice are less active In cold weather
than warm it is a pretty good Idea to
see that tho hens are provided with a
bath of dust and wood ashes, with a
handful of powdered sulphur th'rown
In. It won't take them long to find
out what this combination is good for
if you put it within their reach.
There are a good many fellows who
would not knowingly take property be
longing to another who yet show a
detestable Blackness or penurlousnesF
in hanging onto money which other
folks have earned by working for them
from whom It Is as difficult to extract
It as Is blood from a turnip. As soon as
money is fairly earned It belongs at
once to the man who has earned It,
not the man from whom it has been
earned.
It Is n pretty risky proposition for a
girl to marry a man to reform bliu
from the booze habit or to get him to
turn over a new leaf when he's Just
naturally shiftless and lazy. Ten
chances to one, the girl who marries
the first chap will bear heartaches of
a drunkard's wife, while the girl who
marries the other typo can safely
count on building the fires in the morn
ing, bringing In her own water, chop
ping a good deal of the wood and trot
ting to the corncrlb for cobs and kin
dling.
The opening of an alfalfa meal mill
at Rifle, Colo., was celebrated In fit yet
decidedly unique fashion. A banquet
was served, and every article on tho
bill of fare was made of or served
with alfalfa. The turkey was stuffed
with alfalfa, the biscuits were made
of it, mashed alfalfa took the place of
potatoes, and leaves of it were served
instead of spinach. Sulad made of al
fnlfa was served, and the beverages
were alfulfa tea and cider. Toothpicks
made of alfalfa straw were distrib
uted. The chief toast of the evening
was on "Alfalfa and Apple."
Within the past eighteen months a
machine has been perfected which
seems to be very effective In the pick
ing of cotton, a process which for
generations past has been done by ex
ceedingly slow and expensive hand la
bor. With the new machine one per
son can harvest about as many acres
of cotton as he can cultivate during
the growing season. The machine will
pick four acres a day at a cost of
about $0 per day, or one-fourth what
the picking would cost by hand. The
machine Is BO arranged that it will
pick the ripe cotton, but will not injure
the immature bolls.
The system of one-year rentals and
the various conditions developing from
it are responsible for more agricul
tural depravity and cussedness than
almost any other phase of farm tenure
or management. Just so long as a
tenant knows he quite likely will not
reap next season some of the benefit
of fertilizing or Improvements which
he puts on t. place this year the whole
situation not only encourages him. but
makes It necessary for him to play to
a finish the "skin game," which is
prostituting and playing hob with tens
of thousands of farms ail over the
land. It is likely that the fault Is pri
marily with the owner of the land,
who usually says whether the lease
shall be for one. three or five years.
If It is stinginess that makes him
cling to the one year lease system he
is surely getting his punishment as he
goes aloug, or bis laud is-
I The following rare bit of humor l
taken from the "ginger Jar" of a well
known eastern agricultural publica
| tion: "One may retail apples, but It is
j impossible to retail a dog." It is ap
parent from this spicy morsel that the
supply of ginger needed replenishing.
' There is no liquid that will absorb
( odors more quickly or completely than
' milk. On this account it Is well to
keep the stable sweet and clean, free
from manure odors, the smells of roots
or silage at milking time as well as
free from dust, which will get Into the
, milk if it is stirred up.
I The trap nest enables the poultry
keeper to learn Just what each mem
ber of the flock is doing; hence the
point in question is not whether it
will puy to bother with them, but
, whether one can afford to continue
stuffing high priced food into hens
! which do not pay for their winter
, keep.
J A reader of an eastern farm Journal
who has tried It recommends the fol
, lowing mixture as excellent as a rust
proof coating for plows: Melt three
I pounds of beef suet and add one pound
of white lend; apply when warm with
an old paint brush. This combination
, is good to apply on any metal tool to
prevent rusting.
The trouble with most prohibitive or
restrictive laws as affecting the con
duct of people is that their enactment
, does not change desire or will, but
merely represses It. It is on this ac-
I count that those agitations are most
effective which are largely educational
and furnish new interests and new
alms—that is, furnish new channels
for the operation of the energy and
j will.
j An observation made by a syndicate
i writer the other day was to the effect
i that weeds require poor land to do
well. Probably what the writer meant
wus that weeds would flourish where
some grasses and cultivated plants
would not; yet, other conditions being
equal, the richer the land the more
! rank weeds will grow, as they take
from the soil In the main the same
elements as do other crops.
It takes something more than a ped
igree to furnish assurance that a giv
en animal Is worth anything for breed
ing purposes. In the same way a boy
can come from a pretty good family,
yet be an all round scrub and no ac
count. Many an animal sold at stock
! sales at a price a trifle above an every
day commercial basis should be sent
; to the block instead of being Intrusted
with the highly Important duty of be
coming the sire of future breeding ani
mals.
The polnscttla, which is coming to be
a very popular early winter house
plant, has several very interesting
characteristics. One of these is that
It sheds its green leaves some time
before it does the red bracts encircling
tho blossom cluster. Another Is that
each blossom Is equipped with a little
cuplike projection containing about a
drop of clear slrupy liquid, which is
evidently intended as a bait to draw
bees and other Insects to aid in a
more complete pollenlzatlon of the
flower. It Is well worth securing one
of the plants, not only because of Its
showy green leaves and beautiful red
crown, but for the peculiarities above
noted. The plant is subtropical and
will flourish best if kept where the
temperature is quite warm.
Since the federal pure food law went
into effect a good many "sugar bush
es" over the country seem to have
gone out of commission, Judging from
the very limited supply of maple sirup
which is able to bear the legend
"pure." Yet if one cannot get the real
article a very wholesome substitute
can be made by tho use of. corncobs,
which will Impart both flavor and
color. White cobs clean and freshly
shelled are the best for the purpose.
They should be put In a kettle and
boiled for about an hour, or until the
coloring matter shows clearly In the
water. They should then be removed,
the water carefully strained to remove
particles of cob and sediment and
enough coffee or light brown sugar
added to give the sirup the desired
thickness after a few minutes' boiling.
If the job is carefully done not only
will this eoa sirup have a delicate fla
vor closely resembling maple sirup, but
the color also will be a close counter
feit.
A lady reader of these notes living
near Masslllon, 0., writes Inquiring If
there is any truth In the articles which
have been published lately as to in
jurious effects from eating food cooked
in aluminium vessels. While we have
heard statements to this effect and ar
ticles charging such to be the case
have been published, inquiry of med
ical men does not show that the claim
that stomach trouble Is due to the eat
ing of foods cooked in aluminium ves
sels has been conclusively proved. We
would suggest to our correspondent,
however, If her family use aluminium
utensils and some of them have stom
ach trouble seemingly as a result, that
it might be a good idea togo back to
iron and granite ware for a time and
see If the disorders referred to disap
pear. Should they do so there would
be considerable reason for supposing
that the uso of the aluminium vessels
was the cause. If any of our readers
can furnish us definite* proof on the
point under discussion we would be
glad to present their experience and
findings in these columns.
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Haltien Troops Massacre Rebels.
Government troops led by President
Simon, of Haiti, got beyond control
of their officers at Quanaminth, and
after capturing the town, burned all
the buildings and massacred all the
inhabitants that were unable to make
their escape.
Jean Prosper!, a citizen of France,
was attacked, his eighteen-year-old
son was killed and his home was
burned.
Messengers arriving at Cape Haitien
gave the first detailed account of
President Simon's ruthless campaign
against the rebels. The insurgents had
captured Port Liberty and Quana
minth. President Simon set out for
the disaffected territory at the head
of five columns of troops. He was ac
companied by his daughter, Celestlna.
The army occupied Fort Liberty with
out a shot having been fired. Never
theless a large number of arrests of
those suspected of treachery to tho
government were made and the sus
pects were shot.
The army then moved onto Quana
minth. The rebels were found in pos
session of the town and they offered
resistance. No mercy was shown by
Simon's forces, and sanguinary fight
ing followed. The rebels were soon
beaten back, but the officers could not
stop the advance of their men.
The soldiers got out of hand and
the pillaging that followed was horri
ble. The inhabitants who had not fled
were killed and the town burned.
In the meantime another force, un
der Minister of the Interior Jeremie,
captured the town of Vallerie, to the
south of Quanaminth, and it is expect
ed that this will be burned.
Russia to Move Against China.
The Russian government has ad
vised the state department in Wash
ington of its intention to make a
military demonstration against China.
The details of the proposed movement
haven't been received. The Russian
government promises to send further
information on the subject to the
state department as soon as possible.
It appears that the Russian govern
ment, wearied of what it regards as
persistant disregard by China of her
treaty obligations toward Russia, is
about to bring pressure to bear to en
force her rights, even to the extent of
a military demonstration in the pror
ince of 111, the seat of the present
trouble.
That war will not result from the
latest move of the Russian govern
ment is the confident belief in diplo
matic circles here, for it is generally
understood that the Chinese are to
tally unprepared to meet such a foe
as Russia at this juncture. So it is ex
pected that China will appeal to the
powers, including America, for fair
play. What amount of support she
will receive cannot safely be foretold.
Over $20,000 Worth of Jewelry Stolen.
An inventory of the articles stolen
from the residence of Charles G. Roe
bling in Trenton, N. J., last Wednes
day night indicates that the burglar
made a haul representing between
$20,000 and $25,000 in intrinsic value.
Among the articles taken were a
number of valuables which money
cannot replace. Among these was a
lorgnette set with diamonds and
pearls, which was a gift from tho
late Mrs. Washington R. Roebling to
Mrs. Cornelius Hook, sister-in-law of
Charles G. Roebling. The lorgnette
was exhibited at the Paris exposition,
where it was awarded first prize.
The robbery, one of the largest evei
accomplished in this vicinity, has
been placed in the hands of Pinkerton
detectives for investigation. It is now
the accepted theory of the detectives
that it was accomplished by some ono
having Inside knowledge as to both
the house and the customary move'
ments of the family.
Hat Pin Wound Kills Man.
Captain Andrew Englund, who was
one of the best known cea captains
on the New England coast, is dead
in Boston as the result of a jab from
a hatpin. With his wife, he was riding
in a crowded trolley car, when a wo
man standing beside him turned her
head suddenly and he was jabbed by
a pin in the cheek. He thought noth
ing of it for two weeks or more, and
then his face began to swell and he
was taken to the City hospital, where
be died of blood poisoning.
Fright Kills Woman.
Mrs. David Thomas, of Wilkes-
Barre, Pa., stricken with a sudden
fear that her husband was dead or
dying, was overcome at his bedside
and died a short time later.
Her husband had been 111 with bron
chitis for some time and she was
nursing him. Going to his bedside she
asked how he was. He tried to an
swer, but his cold was so deep that
he had lost his voice. Panic-stricken,
his wife cried he was dead, and fell
unconscious.
Find Girl's Slayer Dead.
Michael Lillek, who shot and In
stantly killed Miss Alice Hyland, nine
teen years of age, in Pottsville, Pa.,
because she objected to his atten
tions, was found dead on the moun
tainside about a half mile from the
scene of the murder. He shot himself
through the head.
Three shots were fired when Miss
Hyland was killed, the two first ones
in quick succession, and the third a
few moments later. It is supposed
that in his excitement In putting the
pistol away Lillek accidentally shot
himself in the hip He was traced by
bloodstains for three-quarters of a
mile until his body was found by the
state police.
He probably became exhausted as
a result of the loss of blood, and
rather than submit to capture, ahot
himself.