Republican News Item JOHN B. ENGLISH, Editor. 'A PORTE PA. CIST OF THE WEEH NEWS Front Page Stories Retold in Paragraphic Form INTERESTING MINOR EVENTS By Telegraph and Cable Roll In the Important and the Inconsequen tial, but to Each Is Given Ita Proper Space. Washington The bones of the Maine victims re moved from the wreck will be buried with military honors in Arlington cem etery in Washington. The Secretary of War ordered every officer and man in the army under forty-five years old to be vaccinated against typhoid fever. The National Association for the Stud} and Prevention of Tuberculosis expects to sell, 100,000,000 Red Cross Christmas stickers this year. Post master Hitchcock has approved the de sign and 50,000,000 have been ordered. The war department has completed arrangements for holding examina tions for the 100 vacancies in the army. These vacancies will be filled from civil life The examinations will begin Sept. 5. Persona! Hans Holnier .of New York, won the iifteen-mile Marathon race against ; Pat White, of Dublin, by 500 yards at Douglas, Isle of Man. Holmer's time ■was lh. 27m. 325. Pennsylvania sports hope to have a j boxing commission law patterned after ; that now in force in New York passed j at the next session of the Pennsyl- ; ▼aula Legislature. Eugene L. Dunham of Auburn, N. j Y , fell dead of apoplexy while run ning his automobile. He had time to tell his wife to draw the spark plug and stop the machine, preventing a eerious accident. Mayor Gaynor, in a speech to Penn- j sylvania farmers, said the increased j cost of living was due to railroad re- j bates and ihe increased production of gold. Sporting Manager Connie Mack has about ( given up hope of getting any work out of Lefty Russell, the costly Haiti more pitcher, and is likely to turn , him adrift soon. Mack's new young- j Bter, Danfortli. will bo Eddie Plank's assistant on the pitching staff. According to word from Norfolk, ' McGraw has landed Dave Robertson, regarded as the "best pitcher in the South." to help the Giants "win the pennant." Barney Dreyfuss favors legislation to the effect that hits over short fences or into convenient stands be two baggers and not home runs. Tha fence or stand should be at least 250 feet away, he says, for the hit to be a home run. General Eleven persons were killed in the Charleston hurricane. The steamer Apache, which sailed from Charleston Sunday, returned to port after a thrill ing experience. President E. H. Farrar before the American Bar Association denounced the proposed recall of Judges and fav ored revision of corporation and bank ing laws. Another rise in the price of cigar ettes was ordered by the Tobacco Trust and retailers asked their coun sel to appeal to the courts. Admiral Togo left the United States by steamer from Seattle, Wash., bound for Japan; two naval vessels escorted the outgoing steamship until interna tional waters were reached. Governor Dix, of New York, wrote to an Albany paper "that he favored a direct primary law to be enacted at the adjourned session"; politicians considered the statement a defiance of Charles F. Murphy and feared a split In the party. Oscar Fox, an aged farmer living near Little Falls, N. Y., dropped dead as tne result of fright when he thought his wife had been struck by a iWest Shore train. Shipmates of Wilson D. Mickey, th« Pittsburg boy, who was killed in an accident on the battleship Ohio, will erect n monument to him and glvo a parse to his family. The Clyde liner Mohawk brought to port In New York the crew of the ■wrecked schooner Malcom B. Seavey, ■who were found lashed to the rigging of their vessel on a reef on the Caro lina coast. Suit was filed by the federal govern ment in Detroit against Michigan members of the alleged Lumber Trust. The Republicans of Alabama, in Btate convention at Birmingham, in dorsed the administration of Presi dent Faft and instructed its delegates to support him in the nest national convention. Owen Wilson is the only Pirate wlio has played every game this season. President Taft, addressing the American Bar Association, advocated higher salaries for the Supreme Court, assailed the recall principle for Judges and urged the adoption of the arbitration treaties. State Superintendent of Highways Catlin, of New York, in view of the increasing number of accidents at grade crossings has recommended to Governor Dix that legislation be pass ed tending to end the danger. Peter B. Sweeny, once known as the "brains" of the Tweed ring, and recognized as one of the ablest men in that group, died at Lake Mahopac, N. Y. He was in his eighty-sixth year. In seven days 6.52 inches of rain fell in New York and vicinity. President Markham of the Illinois Central Railroad after a conference at Chicago with union representatives gave out the statement that the com pany would not discuss a new agree ment while old contracts were still in effect. Henry Clay Beattie, Sr., testified for the defence at the trial of his son at Chesterfield Court House, Va., the prisoner breaking down and weeping for the first time since the trial be gan; counsel for the defence stated that the plea of insanity would not bo resorted to. Edward Bennett, graduate of Ox ford. killed his three children at his home at South Thomaston, Me., then committed suicide. The deed is ascribed to grief over the death of his wife. At a banquet given him by the Chamber of Commerce and Commer cial Club of Seattle, Wash., Admiral Togo closed his visit to these shores. Paul Beattie testified that two nights after the murder of Mrs. Louise Beattie his cousin, H. C. Beat tie, Jr., said to him: "I wish to C.od I had not done it! I would give a mil lion dollars if I could undo it! But, anyway, she never loved me! She only married me for my money!" A gale of almost hurricane velocity cut off Charleston, S. C.. all day, killed five persons and caused $1,000,000 damage. Savannah, Ga., also suffered. Peter Carter, a negro, who had been captured by men of his own race and identified as the man who attacked Mrs. Minnie Spriggpns, wife of an Ok lahoma farmer, was burned to death on a brush pile by a mob in the main street of Purcell. By an overwhelming vote the citi zens of Paterson, N. J., rejected the Walsh Elective Commission act in favor of the present appointive com missions. Champ Clark, Speaker of the House of Representatives, in an interview at Quincy, 111., attacked President Taft for the speech he made at Hamilton, Mass. President Taft Informed the pro moters of the National Conservation Congress at ansas City that he would speak on the opening day, September 25, his subject being "Conservation." The Electrical Trust, which con fessed it controlled the lamp-bulb trade, was reported to have changed its attitude and attempted to prevent the issuance of a decree setting forth its guilt. That his seclusion may be more complete John D. Rockefeller had or dered a tunenl built from his Tarry town residence to the stable, 1,000 feet distant. Through the tunnel goods will be delivered and delivery wagons will be kept away from the oil man's home. The sinking of the old battle-ship Texas in target practice proved that it j is possible for the 14-inch guns to de ! stroy a hostile fleet at nine miles. With the closing of the transfer i books the Standard Oil Company of 1 New Jersey practically ceased to ex> ! ist. Foreign Lieutenant Schultz, the German offi cer arrested in England as a spy, was committed for trial by a London magis trate. it was reported in Berlin that four American cruisers, the Saratoga, the Olympia, the Brooklyn and the Ral eigh, were about to be sold to the Turkish government. Ambassador O'Brien left Japan to assume his duties as Ambassador to Italy. Marquis Saionji the new Premier of Japan, said that the change in admin istration did not portend a fundamen tal or material change in any policy of the empire; he asserted that tha government will continue to cultivate the closest amity with all the pow ers. The attempt by Clarkson Potter, an American, to fight a duel with Count Divonne caused a sensation at IJinard, France. Fearing that the Moroccan dispute between France and Germany may eventuate in war, Belgium is arming her forts to protect her border from any infringement of the neutrality law. Theophile Homolle, director of the Paris National Museum, was suspend ed in consequence of the disappear ance of "Mona Lisa." The trustees of the British national gallery have bought Mabuse's famous painting. "The Adoration of the Kings," for $200,000 from the Dowager Countess of Carlisle. Reports came from I'aris and other cities in France of serious discontent among the people by reason of the high cost of food: paraders marched through the streets and, in some in stances, rioting resulted. BOY'S JEALOUSY ENDS TWO LIVES William A. Childs. Jr., 20. Kills Katharine Van Wyck, 19. HE THEN SHOOTS HIMSELF Police Theory is that Girl's Admirer Became Enraged by Attentions Shown to Her by Another Man Who Visited Her Frequently. Quoguo, L. I. —Miss Ladd Van Wyck, the twenty-year-old daughter of Al bert Van Wyck of Brooklyn, was shot and killed at Quogue, by William A. Childs, Jr., son of William A. Childs, formerly president of the Bell Tele phone Company, who with his family has occupied a cottage at Quogue for several years. Childs then turned the revolver on himself and committed suicide. He was a member of the class of 1912, Princeton University. The tragedy occurred in Beach Lane where Miss Van Wyck's father has a cottage and where he makes his home much of the year. Childs had been visiting more or less at the cottage belonging to Alice W. Howell, which is rented by his brother, Alfred D. Childs. but ha«l been staying at the Cooper House for the summer. Childs was about the same age as Miss Van Wyck and had been attent ive to her. Miss Van Wyck was popu lar with the young people of the sum mer colony because of her attractive ways and Childs was also well liked. In the afternoon they had been at tending a baseball game with other young people of the colony. At about G:3O o'clock Miss Van Wyck, Childs and Paul Aeuilar of Quogue, were walking together when Childs drew behind the young woman, and before anyone could get near enough to prevent it.he fired twice into Miss Van Wyck's back. He then shot himself. Miss Van Wyck and young Childs both died without regaining conscious ness, so that the real cause of the shooting may not become known. Friends of both Miss Van Wyck and Childs believe, however, that he was infatuated with her and that she had told him that she couldn't return his affection. GOTCH BEATS HACKENSCH M IDT. American Wins Two Falls With Com parative Ease. Chicago.—The Chicago public, to the number of 35,000, pai'l $90,000 to see two men pull each other around a ring erected over the home plate ia Comlsky's ball yard. The men were Frank Gotch, of Humboldt. la., cham pion of the world at the mat game, and George Hackenscmhidt, of Rus sia, through whose abilityto quit three years ago Gotch achieved his cham pionship. Hackenschmidt quit again and Gotch won two straight falls in nineteen minutes and fifty seconds. Gotch, trained to the minute and seeming the acme of physical perfec tion, beat Hack at every stage of the game. The masterful strength which Hack was supposed to possess did not show to advantage. WINS THE AERIAL DERBY. Ovington, in Monoplane, Takes SIO,OOO for 160 Mile Trip. Boston. —The Derby event of the second annual Harvard-Boston aero meet, a cross-country flight of 160 ( j miles through three states, the long est competitive cross country flight ever held in this country, was won by Earle L. Ovington, a Boston boy, who flew a 50-horsepower Bleriot mono plant. The course, to Nashua, N. H., thence to Worcester, Mass., and from thence to Providence, R. 1., and back to Bos ton, was covered by Ovington in 186 minutes 22 and 1-5 seconds, winning for him a purse of SIO,OOO. FOUR DIE IN TRAIN WRECK. Disaster Said to Be Due to Engineer's Disregard of a Signal. Erie, Pa. —Four persons are dead and at least forty are suffering from injuries in consequence of the wreck of Erie & Pittsburg Passenger Train No. 201 at Dock Junction, four miles west of this city. The disaster was due to a collision between the Erie & Pittsburg train and a Lake Shore freight train which was backing into a switch. The dead are: John S. Jones, engi neer, of West Tenth street, Erie; a fireman, name not given; a tramp who was riding on the train, and a pas senger in the smoker, who has not been identified. CATTLE KING FRISONER DIES. Bartlett Richards Was Serving a Year for Land Frauds. Hastings, Neb. —Bartlett Richards, forrot r presideiw of the American Vat tie Raisers Association, d'ed in the hospital in Hastings. Richards wa.' serving a sentence of one year as n Government prisoner for complicity in land frauds, but when he became ill was removed from the jail to u local hospital. | r For the Hostess j j HBagniMMMlMMimiii mfl® A Pendule Party. Who originated this unusually clever party I know not, but I see its possibilities and I am sure our readers will appreciate the efforts of the one who worked it out. In the first place "Pendule" means clock. It is the French and adds a bit of mys tery to the invitations which should hear the face of a clock. Have six tables, four players at each. I will now quote from the description given me: Twenty minutes were allowed at each table, then the men progressed; in this way they met all the ladies. Places at the table were found by booklets In which was space to write the answers; a quotation and picture of a clock were on the cover of each. For table 1, couple 1. the hour hand pointed to one o'clock and the quotation was: "One truth is clear." —Pope. For table 1, couple 2. the hour hand pointed to two o'clock and the quotation was: "Two heads are better than one." —Hey wood. Questions. Answers. 1. Inferior one-horse i. Partial one-sided 3. Condition of many veterans..one-legged (. False two-faced i. Deuce two-spot 3. Southern name for 23 cents two-bits TABLE '. COUPLE 3: "Three corners of the world." —Shakespeare. TABLE :. rot'Pi.E 4: "Four rogues in Buckram.' —Shakespeare. The questions at this table were repre sented by cards on which were pictures of— Questions. Answers. I. A yard measure three feet I. A tray card three spot 5. An animal four-footed 1. A gallon measure four quarts >. A (lower four-o'clock 5. A necktie four-in-hand TABLE 3. COUPLE 5: "My dear, five hundred friends." —Cowper. TABLE 3, COUPLE 6: "Six hundred pounds a year.* Swift. Questions. Answers. I. An afternoon function..five o'clock tea >. ~\ srame five hundred 5. Pedro five spot 4. One-half <>f an eagle...tive dollars, gold i. An English coin six pence 5. One hour sixty minutes TABLE 4, COUPLE 7; "Seven half-penny loaves." —Old Testament. TABLE 4. COUPLE c : "At the usual hour of eight." —Hood. Questions. Answers. 1. A game at cards seven-up A religious sect—seventh day Baptists 3. What is Koine called...seven-hilled city 4. A kind of clock eight-day 1. By Louisa M. Alcott eight cousins 5. In olden times in England what rung at eight o'clock curfew bell TABLE a, COUPLE 9: "A woman hath nine lives like a cat." —lley wood. | TABLE 5, COUPLE 10; "I'd set my ten commandments in your face." —Shakespeare. A SHORT STORY. Substitute words beginning with nine ami ten- She came from (a southern state). lived on (a kind of beef! and their marriage was a (sensation). He was a (greenhorn), not hard ened to life in the mining camp and did not like living in a (portable shel ter). But life would have been ratlu r (strained) for them in the east, for he only possesed (XO> dollars; so this (delicate) young couple re mained. in the west, ami his chief amuse ment was singing <a well known Gospel hymn), with his fine (the Children's Dresses — i THE pretty little dress at the left is of white muslin made with line tucks and Valenciennes lace insertion. The .yoke is of Val enciennes lace bordered with a scroll embroidery through which a pale blue satin ribbon is run. The elbow sleeves and the skirt are trimmed in the same way. The sash is of pale blue satin rib bon drawn up high on one side, where it is fastened with a rosette, from which hangs a long end finished with a bull fringe. The next dress is of fine white nain sook. The squaie yoke is composed of embroidery, Valenciennes lace and bands of the nainsook embroidered with French knots. Down the center of the front of the dress there is a band of embroidery with Valenciennes lace and groups ot Hue tucks on either side. part above the bass) voice, while she played (a game). Answers —Tennessee; tenderloin; nine days' wonder; tenderfoot; tent; tense; ninety; tender; "The Ninety and Nine"; tenor; tennis. TABLE 6, COUPLE 11; "I'd rather eleven die nobly for their country.'—Shakespeare. TABLE 0. COUPEE 12; "The twelve s°od rules." —Shakespeare. Questions. Answers. 1. In 1861 eleven states (seceded) 2. Every college has a....eleven (football) 3. At eleven o'clock Elks..(drink a toast) 4. A dozen twelve 5. The Epiphany Twelfth-day 6. A year twelvemonth For prizes for the girl who answers most questions, give a pair of silk "clocked" stockings and the same for the boy. A small traveling clock is also a suitable prize. Serve small cakes, the tops frosted to represent clock faces, the hands and figures done in a colored icing. An Airship Dinner. Every one is more or less inter ested in the great experiments being j made in aviation, so with this in mind a hostess used a lovely miniature air ship gotten at the toy department, over her table at a dinner given lor eight guests. The favors were diminu tive airships and the place cards were painted with balloons and airships floating over the surface of the card. Each guest was asked to express his or her opinion upon the success of aeroplanes; as several of the guests had had actual experience this was a most interesting feature of the af fair. One of the women had been "up" and another was about to accept an invitation, so it was all very ex citing. Perhaps the time is not far distant when "sky" pilots will be as necessary as those on the sea. MADAME MEURI. Much pink linen in coarse weave is seen. Beaded bags are in great favor again. The tapestry bag is quite the rage. We see white and black with every thing. Many of the new motor veils are as large as scarfs. Large collars in pique are worn with serge suits. Black satin trims some of the dainty pique collars. White serge suits often show a touch of bright color. Embroidery is the dominant note in summer dress decoration. There are ribbon effects galore in present coiffure decoration. Suede shoes, with tiny straps over the insteps, are popular. Paris prophesies that the fall will see wide gowns. The use of numerous small buttons as a trimming for waists, etc., is a feature of interest. Two bands of Valenciennes insertion separated by a band of the nainsook with the French knots form the belt while the skirt is finished at the bot tom with tucks, Valenciennes insertion and embroidery. The third sketch, at the right, shows a charming little dress to be made ui in white pique. The skirt is so made that it gives the effect of a very deep hem turned back at the top at the left side to form tiny revers which are ornament ed with buttons, lielow these levers there are knots and loops of cord. The blouse, with short kimono sleeves, is made and trimmed to cor respond, and is finished in front with a knot of pale blue satin ribbon, ot which the girdle is also made. The luimpe and undersleeves are of tucked niusliu aud Eug'irh embroid ery. AVery Wise Young Man Fred Somers and his widowed moth er were having a family talk in the library. Fred was still in college, but he was a very wise young man. He was so wise that had attempted to dic tate to his sister, Edith, as to how her smiles were to be distributed. There had been rebellion and defiance on her part and hence the family council. "I wish Edith were more tractable," sighed the mother. "Can you argue with a girl who has her fists doubled up? Now let's go over the list again. There is Waters, who is a perfect ninny. There ia Thompson, who hasn't got a dollar. There is Rush, who is a perfect sissy. There is Alvord, who sings passably well, but will never earn $25 a week. There is Clingham, who is living on his poor old mother's bounty. The whole five rolled into one wouldn't make a man and yet she keeps them dangling around her." Edith Somers had at least the five callers named at the family council. Two or three of them had escorted her to the theater. Another had tak en her to the horse show. She had bowed to them on the avenue or in the park and she had chatted and smiled at home. What of it? Can't a girl do that and much more without being in love? In his class were three different young men Fred liked exceedingly well. He invited them by turns to run down home with him and of course Sister Edith met them. While he was trying to conspire further the sister added two more to her string, making seven "regulars" and three "substitutes." Another family council was called, "I throw up my hands!" announced Fred in tones of despair. "What's she done now?" meaning Edith. "Got two more! One has been in an insane asylum, I believe, and the other will soon get there. 1 started to say something to her an hour ago. but she elevated her nose and walked oft." "I —I had five beaux at one time mv self," replied the mother, who thought the case had not yet arrived at th* danger point. "But she's got ten and more cominj every minute!" "But I don't believe Edith is it> love." "Girls are deceivers, mater—sly de ceivers. The first we know she'll an nounce that she is going to marry this or that brainless ape. Here and now I wash my hands of the whole ! affair. Let Edith goto her garret and her crusts. I have said my last word." Edith Somers added two more to that famous "string," so as to make an even dozen, but she heard nothing from Fred in regard to it. He was keeping his word. Summer opened: he came home on his vacation and the trio went to a lake resort. At the end of a fortnight ; a new face appeared at the Somers' table. Fred sized up the stranger and said to himself: "Homely enough to stop a clock. No fear of Edith taking to hm." And after several furtive glances across the table Edith said to herself: "Strong, sensible, unromantic. I might like him." After three or four days there were j introductions. The stranger was I George French, mining engineer. Mr. French was invited togo out in a sail boat with the trio. Mr. Fred was twenty-four years old and he I took charge of the boat. There was j no great call for wisdom in the man ! aging ol' a sail boat in a gusty day. All that is needed is about five years' ex perience. Ten minutes of exhilaration and j then a gust struck her and she went j over. The wise Fred was tangled up ! with the sail and the two ladies were i ready togo to the bottom when Mr. j French got clear of the rope tangled ' about his legs and began work. He j reached out an arm for all and gath i ered them to the overturned boat and i directed and clitded and encouraged j until the rescuer came. It was three months later that Fred j Somers said to his sister: "Eddie, what's become of that civil j engineer?" "Out west, I believe," was the an | swer. "Say, now, I was in hopes—" "He hasn't Quite asked me to yet, but 1 expect he will in his next let- I ter. Oh, run along. You are twenty four years old and a very, very wise young man!" Where He Saw It. '"Did you ever see a leopard skin? asked the teacher. "Yessum," replied lllie. ''X^here?" "In a cage, when the lady leopard got after him." A Good School. "I don't see any sense in referring to the wisdom of Solomon," said the man smartly. "He had 1,000 wives." "Yes." answered the woman tartly; "he learned liis wisdom from thetn." Free and Clear. "A man ought to be able to read his title clear." "He certainly ought, if he expects an American girl to pay a million of her papa's dollars for it." —Judge. 1
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