ACTING SAVES LIVES.
COUNSEL FOB MURDERERS EMPLOY
THEATRICAL METHODS.
How l.rjr Wliu llilinil Criminal
ntrlv to Mtikn nit Impii'Mlmi nn th
Sympnthleii of f iirymrn Home NiitiiMe
Cniveft M'lii'i-n l.nwyvr AurrrriliMl,
For yours It hm Iippii KMimilly known
mnoiiK liiwyciR tluit all mirts of desjier
ate Bnd tlioatrknl dcvit os iirocoiiftnntly
resorted to In order to mive Hie lives of
ncenneil persons. But Mr. Wellumn
wns the first profoentor to nuilte the
ehnrne in open court nnd qnole nn In
stance to fortify his iilliwition.
I the pruetlce rilit or wron?
Perhaps tho most moving pnrt of
Lawyer Wlllinm F. Howe's elegit dim
ming tip on behnlf of Annie Wiilden
was where he neoti!?ht tlie jurymen to
consider her youth, her beauty nnd her
helplessnes i.
When Francis L. Welltnnn, assistant
district attorney, In'khii his summing up
for the prosecution, lie urged the jurors
not to be moved by his adversary's
emotional appeal. lie called Mr. Howe
an actor. He said:
"If yon had seen him, as I have, go
behind a woman defendant and pinch
ber to make her scream and so arouse
sympathy, you would not be so much In
fluenced by his theatrical display."
"Whom diil Mr. Howe pinch?' I asked
Mr. Wellman.
"Ella Nelson," wns his prompt reply.
"You recall that she had shot her lover
dead because he was packing his trunk
and preparing to leave her. Klio waa on
trial for her life. Mr. Howe got her uc
qnitted. "When he had got to that part of his
summing up where ho called upon tho
jury to 'look at her,' Ella was sitting be
hind a table, her face toward the jury,
but resting in her hands'. She had been
weeping for some minutes, but now she
was composed.
" 'Look at that face! pleaded Mr.
Howe in impassioned tones. He strodo
rapidly behind her. Again he cried,
'Look at that facet' and as he did so ho
seized Ella's soft wrists in his strong
hand and wrenched her arms apart.
The woman screamed with pain and
terror.
"That scream was enough to freeze
the blood of anybody who heard it. I
cannot help thinking that it had much
to do with the verdict.
"I do not say that It is wrong for
counsel to employ theatrical methods in
dofonding their clients. I think it is
partof the duty of the prosecuting ofllcer
to expose this sort of thing to the jury,
"Frederick B. House was defending a
man named Decker in the general ses
sions. Becker had a clothing store in
Baxter street. Ho arranged a candle so
that when it burned down to a certain
point at midnight it would set tire to a
lot of bagging soaked with kerosene,
and so burn the store and earn Becker
big amount of insurance. Firemen
quenched the flames and so saved the
lives of seventy-six men, women and
children who were sleeping in the tene
ments above the store.
"When Mr. House summed up he
was in a quandary. Beckor couldn't
understand one word in English, there
fore how could the poor devil weep at
the proper moment? That little diffi
culty was solved all right. Becker rested
his face in his hands and peeped through
bis interlaced fingers at his eloquent de
fender. " 'Think, gentleman,' said Mr, House,
'if yon send this wretched man to prison
yon will punish thoso innocent little
ones.' At that instant Mr. House drop
ped his handkerchief,
i 'Wowf came a shriek from Becker.
It began like the scream of a catamount.
It died away in a long drawn wail and
choking sobs. Becker's tears were like
a shower. Mrs. Becker's and the little
Beckers' tears were a cloudburst. Human
nature conldn't stand it. Juror No. 8
was a nice old fellow, retired from busi
ness and living at home surrounded by
sons and daughters and chubby grand
children. He broke down at the second
drop of Fred House's handkerchief. At
the third drop of the cambric the juror's
tears gashed out beyond the railing.
Answering sniffles and gasps came from
two other jurors.
"It seems hard to believe, but it Is a
matter of record that in the face of the
clear evidence against Becker the jury
stood three for acquittal and nine for
conviction. The tears and howls and
the little Beckers saved the guilty man.
And in proof of his guilt let me add that
Becker was released under $3,300 bail,
but he ran away, although the case was
soon brought tip for retrial.
"Often the question of makeup tests
the counsel stage manager's ability and
ingenuity. There was Alphonse Steph
si, the young man who deliberately
for not surrendering Stephani's father's
estate fast enough to be squandered. The
defense wss insanity.
- "Perhaps yon recall the Stephanl who
came to trial. Instead of the handsome,
neatly dressed rich man's son, the jury
saw a wild, nnkempt creaturo, a Caliban
in ugliness. Stephani's hair had been
untouched by shears or brush for months.
He had not bathed or shaved. He still
wore the clothes he hod on when ar
rested. His linen was in tatters and
almost black. His outer garments were
greasy and crusted with accumulations
of spilled food. Stephanl was a good
actor. Not a word did he sneak to anv
one. With large black eyes, as deep
and mournful as Edwin Booth's, he
stared gloomily at nothing. Lear was a
model of sanity beside him. There was
more or less testimony to show that
Stepbsui hod fallen oil a pony very
. many years ago and hurt his head, and
that he had always been high tempered,
like anv snoiled child. No one had
bothered about his alleged insanity,
though, until after he had killed hits
father's old friend.
" 'Insane,' was the jury's 'judgment
after listening to the testimony and
. watching the gloomy makeup of the
prisoner. Tbey found him guilty of
murder in the second degree, and he was
sent to prison for life. Today he is a
seat, well behaved and snort mured con-
UNDER A MOVING TRAIN.
funiatlnna of a Man Who Thought His
l.ut llonr Hail Com.
To fall under a running railroad train,
to lie on the rail and see death approach
ing one at the rate of fifteen miles or so
nn hour and only a few feet distant, is
an experience not given to many to be
able to relate. Yet this is what hap
pened to a Chicago man.
How did it happen? What were you
thinking abont?" he was asked tho other
lay.
"Well," he replied, "I had no time to
Bnd out how it happened, but I do re
niemler a good tunny things that I
thought of while it was happening.
Now it seems utterly impossible to me
that such a flood of thorghts could flash
through my brain and leave their indi
vidual and distinct Impressions as did
in the almost immeasurable short space
of time that I lay on the rail in front of
those wheels. It is said that just at the
moment of one's death the whole doings
of a lifetime are held np for review in
less time than it takes to wink one s
eye. I can readily believe it.
'In less than a second I thought of
the many railroad accidents of which I
had read. It flashed through my mind
that I had often seen men credited with
willful negligence or reckless intention
in allowing themselves to be killed or
maimed, and there I was on the track
ready to furnish another illustration.
Yes, sir; there I lay, flat on my back on
the rail and saw the wheels of the after
truck of the car come rolling along and
only a few feet away. It almost seemed
as if I felt them crushing and grinding
my bones, yet I had, it seems, time to
think also of how easily a fellow gets
killed.
'I thought how foolish it was to ac
cuse others of fuolhardiueRS in getting
run over when I myself was about to
become a horrible example. I thought
of how often I had 'let up lightly' en
gineers and conductors and helped to
take the blame from them and put it on
the fellow who got killed. But my
greatest regret, in the time I had to
think, was that I had so often adversely
criticised the man who got run over.
'Strange as it may seem, however.
these were not half my thoughts. I
realized that I was yet alive, in the best
of good health, every lone and limb
sound, so to seak, and the next instant
I would, I felt, lie ground into pieces
and my flesh and bones spattered over
the railroad track. There was no power
in the world to help me, so it seemed;
not all that the engineers or conductors
or brakemen could do would be of any
avail. Then it flashed through my mind
that I was on the brink of the other
world and I had not even a chance to
make one repentant prayer. I wondered
What it would mean for me.
"While these ideas were running
through my mind I must have made
some sort of an effort to escape. I have
no knowledge of how I did it, but I did
roll off tho rail outward. The wheel
caught my heel, though at first it seemed
as if my foot was cut off above the
ankle and I was powerless to move it.
I managed to get onto my right foot
and balunce myself on that for a second,
to get my thoughts together as to what
I shorn! next do. It has taken me ten
or fifteen minutes to tell this thing, but
it did not, I should judge, from the rate
the train was going, take anything like
a second of time for it all to happen.
Chicago Tribune.
Took Ills Word for It.
At the battle of Seven Pines or Fair
Oaks the Fifth New Jersey, in connec
tion with the regiments of the Second
brigade and others, ably attested the
universal confidence reposed in them by
their commanders. Senator Wade, at
Bull Run, said, "Glvd us a brigade of
these Jerseymen and well beat the en
emy still."
During the engagement of June 1 a
Union soldier had his leg shot off by a
ball from the enemy s artillery.
Captain Ramsey ordered one of his
men (an Irishman from New Jersey) to
assist the wounded man to the rear,
Pat, while giving the necessary assist
ance, asked the man how and where he
had beeu wounded.
"My leg was shattered by a cannon
ball during the last attack," was the re
ply.
On the way to the hospital a fragment
of shell took the already badly wounded
man's head entirely off, unnoticed by
Pat, who was carrying his comrade in
bis arms.
Upon arriving at the temporary hospi
tal one of the surgeons, after looking at
the man, said: "What did you bring
wis man Here tor?
"Sure, Captain Ramsey tould me to,'
said Pat.
"Why, the man is dead; bis bead is
completely shattered from his body," re
plied the doctor.
"His head, is it? Oh, the blaggard;
shure and he tould me it was his leg, so
na did." New York Recorder.
Bow Chinamen Are Shared.
. The Chinese of San Francisco shave
nearly every day. A queer little razor
it is tnat they use, too, It is in no re
spect like our razor, except in the matter
of the kgenness of its edge. It is a wee
bit of a blade, nicely curved into a semi'
circle. With this tool the Chinese bar
ber scrapes the almost hirsuteless face
of his customer and then shaves him
around the ears and down the neck to
the first bone of the spinal column. The
rounded point of the razor is also insert
ed into the Celestial ear, and every an
bitious hair that dw es to show itself in
the aricular lobe is clipped before it tro
ceeds very fur. The Chinaman, vou
know, is scrupulously cleanly about his
eurs. a growth or hair in thorn is con.
sidered a mark of low birth or of care
lessness or ungonteel habits, St. Louis
tilobe-Democrat.
Artlstlo Genu an Currency.
Tho German currency is rather artis
tic The bills are priutod in green and.
blank. They run in denominations from
five to 1,000 marks. Their later bills
are printed on silk fibre paper. Golden
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and public generally, for a short time we
are going to give to every purchaser of TEN
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. . . Life-Size . . .
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There is not a family but possesses some
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What more suitable for a present? And
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To secure one of these portraits, you first
trade TEN DOLLARS worth with us, nnd
then give us any picture of yourself or
friends that you wish to have enlarged. The
frame (samples of which you will see in our
store) together with the glass and mounting
will only cost you 2.75
These portraits are made by the celebrated Acme Copying
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BOLGBR BROS.,
The Merchant Tailors.
$1,000 TO THE MAN
Thilt tireiikH tills record. This Ih June A, Hnil
I lutve nvi'lvcfl hIih'c Miiy 1ft, 1(1 putltmta
Unit were iiHIIi'IimI with tiiHi worm. I re
moved elKlit of thrni nnd have two iirppiirlntr
for treatment. Now, Home of the Hiippotwu
lirlulit HiihtH of Allt'Khi'iiy, I'lttsliiiiK mid
Hiiliiirlw Hiiy I huy the tiiie wornm, ciinren,
etc., that 1 exhibit In my windows, from the
hospitals. In iiimwer I simply ouYr to irlve
fl.umto any of these all-wise Ih-Iiiks If they
will priMltiee a manor set of men that will
iiusjt and comHn with me lieforo the public
on ciiruH of tniie worm, cancer catarrh,
scrofula, or all the an railed Int'iirahln nil -mmitaofthu
human family. Further, I will
tuUe aiy Hysteni Kmiovutor and noon public
exhibition with any or nil hiii'Ii all-wise
people, all patent medicine men and all
advertising ipiacks In the land and take like
rasas as lliry come and beat them and prove
to the public that they do dot know what the
human Ixidy la coniiocd of, or If they do,
they do not know how to treat It In sickness.
1 treat throiiKh the blood with nature's
remi'dliiM, roots and horlw. Hystem Innova
tor Is a non secret, honest preparation, com
posed of dandelion, Maynpple.buchu, quassia,
cinchona, cascarii.siiKrada, Kuutlan.Hassafrua,
boiiesct, kidney wort and sursupartla.
HysUmi Renovator costs SUM per Isittle; or
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: IN OUlt :
Shoe Department
e carry only reliable
makes, and we could fill
the one Bide of thin issue
with testimonials in re
gard to the wearing qual
ities of our shoes. What
is termed among shoe
dealers as cheap shoes,
' 'for instance," shoes that
sell for one dollar a pair,
we do not handle, for
the simple reason that
goods of that kind will
not build up our shoe de
partment. We buy no
shoes from what is called
"Jobbers," but place our
orders three and four
months in advance, with
the best shoe manufac
turers in the country.
"" "
C ,3ur dry goods depart
ment is full of spring
fabrics, at prices lower
than the lowest, and all
we ask is that you give
us a call and Compare
Prices and Quality, don't
forget the quality, as
that goes a long ways as
regards price. Quality
first, price second.
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GJty Gousins
Or some of your friends will call to spend
a few days with you and you
should have some nice
Silverware,
Knives,
Or a new Silver Butter
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on the road but we
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best 1 50 oil for 50
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