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Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1902-02-20
HOMELESS AND cHILpLeSs.

"E am homeless and childless," heard a
man say
Ax I sought my own fires!de at close of the
day,
"'Eut of gold have plenty and friends by
the score,
And what my good sir, can a man want
more?'
AEd he laughed as he turned on his way
70 the club.
Because he knew not of dire poverty's rub {;
And because the world fattered and petted
and feared
EItmself for the fortune his hands had up
reared.
hut, alas! how empty and hollow the sound,
And how sad seemed the life so imperfectly
crowned!
And l wept, as l flew to the arms of my
own,
For the sadness and sorrow of living alone
For. alone in the darkness of life without
God
Or alone in the paths which our Saviour
has trod.
Or alone in suffering, sorrow or shame,
Or alone in weak purpose, alone in high
aim,
There liveth no sorrow, mid sorrows so
rife,
like a lonely and loveless fragment of life.
II am homeless and childless." 1t rang in
my ears
Eike the wall of a wanderer lost on the
years,
No wife to befriend thee when friendship
has done,
10 whisper 50 sweet.y: Dear heart, there
Is one
Who loves and believes and trusts in thee
10 rejoice in thy JOY when thou passest
the Ill?
No wife to inspire. advise and uplift?
Uuloved and alone, unclaimed and adrift ?
az am homeless and childless." 1t beat on
my brain
With the chill of the sleet in November
rain.
Homeless and chndless?" No BARNS of
thine own,
40 be blood of thy blood and bone of thy
bone?
No little ones running to hide in thine
arms,
Safe harbor of refuge from endless alarms ?
No fat, chubby hands to creep Ger thy
cheek,
No sweet, childish prattle of Latin or
Greek?
But, homeless and childless, unanchored
and tossed,
Like a bark on the sea when the compass
Is lost.
". Vincent Jones. in Banner of Gold.
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shock that seemed to kill the very
air; and the great wall of masonry
toppled outward and downward,
crumbling like sand in the forefront
of the flood that gathered itself for
the onrush to the doomed valley be-
low. / closed my eyes in the sicken-
ing horror of it, and when l opened
them | was alone with the clamorous
waters. The bowlder where Wykamp
and Nan had been standing was gone,
and in its bed the angry food was
cutting a wider and still wider chan
mel in the loose shale of the canyon
slope.
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1902-02-20
ITO Be Continued
ONE ON CONNECTICUT.
Incident Concerning Ancient Laws of
That StRte-Punishme for
BIasphemy.

In Frank Leslie's Popular Monthly
appears an entertaining account of the
ancient laws and law courts of Con-
necticut.
George King, a blasphemous sailor,
says the author, Mr.. h. j. Hendricli,
was excused with what he evidently re-
garded as mild punishment. He was
accused of uttering the words: by
God" aboard Dutchman-though
whether the place of the malefaction
increased the severity of the crime is
not clear. This was not Kings first Of
fense, as many of the good people tes-
titled. He was brought before the gov
ernor, who sentenced him somewhat in
this style: when the son of an
Egyptian bIasphemed the name Of God
it was not borne. 1t is the piercing
through the name of God in
passion which is the highest provoca-
tion of God. Whereas the rule is let
your words be yea, yea, and nay nay,
and by a mans word he may lose his
life. | hope it was only rash and sin
full oath; some have been bored in the
tongue; others have been in the stocks
and their tongues put in a cloven stick.
But | hope this has not been disrespect-
fully done, and so l sentence that you
be whipped, and in the interim be kept
in the marshal's hands" Neither King
nor any of his compatriots reached
that stage of contumely in their at
tacks upon public functionaries that
has immortalzed one Capt. John
Stone, of Massachusetts, who, in his
blasphemous assault on Mr.. Justice
Ludlow, called him to his face Mr..
"Justass" Ludlow, and as punishment
was fined G1OO and banished from the
colony under pain of death.
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and the pressure on was decreasing
rapidly when it went out"
"The mischief, you say! How do
you know all this, Jack?"
''As / have told you, was within
so yards of the dam when it went
out. And Jacob Setter was trying to
cross it,"
"Good Lord! But what wrecked
it ."
''Selter, | think. There was an ex-
plosion as if 12-inch shell had
struck just above the masonry. He
had fired his internal machine from
the mouth of the outlet tunnel, and
was scrambling up to be out of
harms way when he saw Nan and
Wykamp below the dam. When the
shell exploded he was trying to
reach them-for Mans sake, [ sup
pose"
Macpherson smoked his pipe quite
to extinction before he spoke again.
Then he said: "Jack, I'm little
tangled on the ethics of this thing.
Could it do any possible harm to any
body if we keep this thing to our
selves?"
81 don't see that it can. Jake has
paid the penalty. He's well out Of
reach of any court of ours"
That's what | was thinking. And
if we publish it, it'll likely make it
harder for poor, miserable, desti-
tute widow woman"
"Im with YOU" I agreed. "And
now for your plans. | don't think
the Glenlivat people will trouble you
for a year or two, and the suit
against you will fall to the ground
without Wykamp's evidence. Will
you go quietly back to your cow
punching and make hay while the
sun shines?"
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And then the rest of us

And then the rest of us
Might fuss,
For, not compelled to work, we'd like
to sleep
A little late
On this particular eventful date,
And bells at such time are not con
ducive
To anything
But language that's abusive,
SO cut the ring.
Still,
1t won't do any harm for us to fill
Our minds with calm and grateful
meditation
On George
The fatherly relation
He stood in to his country and his
place
In peace and war and in the cardiac
Interiors of men; to trace
In fancy his career from Valley
Forge,
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AN UP-COUNTRY RISING.
Great Height of Hon. jeremiah Mason
Helped to Make His Word
Respected.

In spite of the old saying, the law
yer who conducts his own case does
not always have fool for a client.
Hon. Jeremiah Mason, who was adj
mitted to the New Hampshire bar in
1871, was man of great height, but
during the early part of his profess
sional career, says the Green Bag,
was so slight and apparently frail in
build that, as the phrase is, "he
looked like a boy"
Travelling once in a sleigh after a
great snowstorm, he met a country
man in similar conveyance. Mr..
Mason turned his horse and sleigh
as far to one side as he conveniently
could, and courteously requested the
other person to do the same.
The other man, however, was stur-
dy of figure and stubborn of nature,
and taking Mr.. Mason's courteous
he refused to bulge an inch, and de-
manded free way for his vehicle.
At this Mr.. Mason's eyes flashed.
The day was cold and he had sunk
deeply into the robes of his high
backed sleigh; but now he drew him
self up and sat erect on the seat for
a moment; then he began slowly to
divest himself of his wrappings and
to get upon his feet, gradually dis
playing his real proportions to the
astonished countryman, who ex-
claimed:
Say mister, you needn't rise any
more. I'll turn out!"
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Widows of taste and prosperity arc
rare,
Still one may scare
Up something even at this latter day
And make it pay.
His country's Father! We own to a
mild
Species of wonder
How
He'd feel if he could only see il
now
What in Thunder
He would think of his Childs!
That's merely, by the way.
We'd hate
With truthfulness to undertake td
say
What he would think.
It's probable he never learned to
wink.
But let us celebrate.
Let young America stand up in rows
and wave
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CHAPTER NIlI.-CoNTINUED.
CCopyrlght l8o8, by Francis Iynde.:)


The morning of the last Sunday in
September dawned bright and clear
a hunting party coming from North
Park had stopped over night at the
settlement, and one of its members,
n young clergyman from the east,
held "A religious service in the school
house. As | learned afterward, the
young man had no lack of hearers.
Anything in the way of religious
meeting was a novelty in the seques-
tered valley, and the settlement
CurDed out almost to a man. Wini-
fred went with Mrs Setter; Angus
was there with his cowboys. and
ghere was even a goodly sprinkling of
She workmen from the engineers
camp.
For reasons OF my own which were
not grounded in any cynical preiu-
dice, / did not go. To tell the truth,
Z was growing anxious about Setter.
There was a mystery connected with
his movements reaching back to a
certain evening when / chanced to see
bim coming down from the northern
gUlch beyond the hog-bacl with a
burden which he carried as one car
Cies a sick child. The following
morning l had found a new-made
grave-or at least a place where
something had been freshly buried
IsS the embankment of the great
,Saaal; and when my morning stroll
@p the gorge beyond the hog-back
eEded at the door of Wykamp's pow
der magazine. / had warned Angus
to be prepared to prove an alibi at
any hour of the day or night AS a
corollary to all this | watched Setter
Seagle-wise.
On the Sunday morning, therefore,
"a small thing kept me from going to
the Schoolhouse with Wnifred and
Mrs. Setter. 1t was "a fact brought
out by my field glass. On the higher
sEopes of the hog-back | had chanced
To dcscry moving speck making it's
way westward toward the upper can
yon; in the object glass OK the binoc-
Glsr it defined itself as a man zig
.zagEing across the ridge with a heavy
burden of some kind on his back. 1t
was Setter, and the mystery might
Chen have pointed to it's own solution
IL ! bad not been so deeply engrossed
fra Iaepherson's affair. The time for
Che trial was drawing near, and if |
watched Setter Ike a paid shadower
Gf men, it was chiefly because l
feared he might disappear before the
critical moment. This going afield
with a back!oad had the look of it..
Doubtless lie was preparing hiding
place somewhere in the mountains to
which he could retreat at need.
The Xch0olhouse meeting had be-
gun when ! lost sight of the moving
speck and lighted my pipe to weigh
the promisings of an attempt to fol-
low Setter. From my chair on the
porch l could hear the singing quite
distinctly above the murmur of the
river in its bed across the road. The
autumn storms were delayed, and the
Vea aher for fortnight had been
cool. in consequence the water was
low and its thunder was softened un-
fti the cataract pouring over the
waste weir of the completed dam was
clearly audible. Up among the west
eru peaks the clouds were gather
rfgT and | remember thinking that
WykaInp must be relieved to know
that the season for cloudbursts was
fairly over for the year.
The thought had scarcely taken
shape when the man himself came
'ddinG by As clce before. anxiety
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BENNETT r. HARRIS

Than any Hessian
Is, on the whole, a rather worse
transgressor.
Be like G. w.
Or be like him as you're able to be,
And conscience won't be very apt to-
trouble you.
We
Should be dignified,
Courageous, always on our good be-
havior.
Magnanimous and great,
Seek the ideal and eschew the snide.
1t isn't hard.
This bard
Has tried the game, with some suc-
cess for years,
More than he cares to state.
We cannot all be our loved coun-
try's savior
We've found
The offices are too few to go round
And, it appears
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Or farther back,
To turn the fair historic sheet,
To where at last he landed with both
feet.
From him we all should learn
Oppression of taxgatherer to spurn
Or kick at
And most of us plain millionaires are
sick at
The way we have to give up for tax
alton
Our goodly gelt.
Representation
Don't cut much ice, so some of us
have felt,
And sought the happy, tax-free
Washington
For residence.
As evidence
OF patriotic hatred of oppression,
In which respect the brutal tax as
SCISSOR
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Jack-Yes, at one time I was deter
mined to marry Miss Golding, but
her father finally discouraged Inc.
Tom-Indeed! How did he do it?
"Well, really, can't tell you now
whether it was a punt or a drop
kick ck"-philadelDhia Press.
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ING out, wild bells,
\ joyful paen to the sa-
cred day,
A sort of gleesome, glad
some roundelay.
No dismal kneIlS
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Censure md Criticism.

Censure and criticism never hurt
anybody. If false they cannot hurt
you unless you are wanting in manly
character, and if true, they show a
man his weak points and forewarn
him against failure and trouble
GladStOne
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The Good-Nntured Man.

What we call a good man
is one who is bald headed and can
stand being guyed about it.-WaEking-
ton (Ia.) Democrat.
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The starry flag about
And chant a rousing stave
Or two anent the same.
The little and spout pieces that with
care they've couned,
And thus revive the patriotic flame.
Doggoned
If there is not some hope left for
us yet.
Let
You and /
Resolve that we will never tell lie
Except at stern necessity's decree,
Although we own we can.
There is no doubt, in fact, of our
ability
In that line, but as the famed cherry
tree
Fell to Dom Georges hatchet, let us
lop
Our faults and get where he did and
then stop.
The evening world., 1902-06-20
MISSING BANK CLERKS WIFE
SURE HE is IN A HOSPITAL.
Mrs. Richard Groves Confident that Husband
Did Not Voluntarily Leave Her PenniIess.

II nay have become insane. though
there was no mental trouble in his rani
ly, and during the Steven years | havt
known him, for we went to school to
gether and we're boy and girl lovers. he
was always perfectly normal.
"Of course he may have been over
worked. He sometimes spent hours at
his desk on Sunday and at night. He
may have gone away to rest somewhere.
But only heartless people go way like
that without a word. He had his two
weeks IA In his pocket and Wort q
valuable diamond ring.
at Is easier to believe that ne has
met with fou play or been made away
with thar TO think that he would go
away and leave me penniless. Rich
was not henrtlcss. A kinder man never
lived. lie was happy In his home life.
ana he had no friends that | do not
know OF, His mother Is not yet aware
OF his disappearance. She Is now at
Ocean Grove, convn!esring, n the news
has been kept from her. If he does not
return In a few days l Will a to seek
n position or go back tD my mother, for
Rich left me with very little money, I
win accept nothing from his family, as
] want to be Independent. am con-
WINGED that my husband did not leave
me voluntarily. II he is not dead he
will come back TO me"
The evening world., 1902-06-20
TRAIN HURLED
HIM INTO BAY.
Striking Silk Weaver
Drowned in Presence
of His Wife While
Fishing.

In the presence of hts wife and a party
of friends Joseph Gauthier. q silk
weaver. OF Jersey City, was drowned
to-day In Newark Bay,
His wife was with difficulty restrained
from thro wing herself into the water
when she saw tho hopelessness OF the
efforts to ave her husbands INA
Galrthier and two companions from the
Poidevard SILK Mills went with their
wives to the Lehigh Valley Railroad
trestle to fish.
A passing trrin knocked Gauthier from
the structure, and no was thrown out
into the channel.
4 poor swimmer. he was carried away
by he sNift current. and Henry La
Porte, one of his o~ompanions. who dlve'i
in 10 rescue him. was unable TO give
him aid,
Mrs. Gauthier screamed and tried 10
throw herself from the trestle when she
saw La Porte abandon tho struggle to
save Ids own life, Gauthier's body was
washed ashore on ArmbrISter Park, q
mile from where he was drowned.
The evening world., 1902-06-20

III my husband 10 alive, I q n, sure
he has met with an accident He must
be in some hospital. % Ill to write or
sen word TO me-"
Thus spoke Mrs. Richard H. Groves.
jr.. the beautiful wife OF the young
bank clerk who disappeared from his
desk in tho Bank of New York last
Sunday afternoon and has not since
been heard from.
The girl wife-for though h has been
married two years to a husband scarce
ly older than herself she Is not yet
twenty-one-looked careworn. there
were dark circles under her large.
brown Dyes.
II am really dazed by 'Rich's' dlsap-
pearance." shs aid to an Evening
World reporter. at Is ridiculous for his
father to say hat he must have left
home as the result OF a quarrel. How
could he know He had not been here
for four months.
Saturday morning my husband was
In the brightest spirits, My sister. who
also lives In this house. can tell you
that. And during the day he t~elephoned
that he was coming home early TO take
me out.
The evening world., 1902-06-20
w. G. WHITNEY'S CLOTHES
WE'RE CONFISCATED, TOO.
City Marshal Goldberg Has Russell Sage's Pants
and Magistrate FurIong's $40 Trousers, Also.

with emergency rations strapped to
their backs. numerous persons who had
oonfded their clothing to the National
Wardrobe Company. Of No. 400 Fifth
avenue, Journeyed TO the wilds Of Brook
Ign yesterday looking for No. 17+2 Pitkin
avenue, where David Goldberg. City
Marshal. holds forth.
Some of them found the place.
Marshal Goldberg was cut. HIS clerk
was IN.
A white horss attached to q home
made wagon was trying to get I'm. The
clark had dificuley keeping the horse
out.
.'H,str' said tho clerk. are % W. G.
Whitney or Russell SaSsf"
He was assured otherwise.
Then maybe you are Cen. Charles
Foote or Magistrate FurlongT"
Once again was otherwise assurance
rendered.
Didn't know but what you might b."
said the clerk. We've got . suit Of
clothes OF Mr.. whitney's over here and
a pair Of Russell sage's pants.'
You see Mr.. Whitney ana Mr. eaSO
and n lot Of other people gave their
clothes to this National Wardrobe Com
pany to oe pressed and kept clean n
nave the buttons sewed on and the rips
patched UP.
Then the National Wardrobe Com
pany went up the nu and Mr.. Goldberg
went over and attached all tho clothes
he could and to secure tho alaHes OF
tho people that worked for tho National
Wardrobe Company.
Why, they had seven wagon and
twenty typewriters and always collect
ed In advance, You can SEQ how good
the game was when we grabbed over
seven hundred and nifty suits OF clothes
In the place and are on the trail of q
lot moro that have oaen sent TO Boston.
"All suits less than $50 in value we
don't pay any attention to. The own
ere can ave them by proving property.
We haven't heard anything from Mr..
Whitney yet Probably he will ser his
man out tomorrow for his suit. Rus
sell Sage tslephoned that he had II
pair of pants out here. We tried to
pick out the pants from his description,
but we couldn't md them He said tho
pants belonged to q suit and II we
The evening world., 1902-06-20
SENATOR IN A NINE RACE.
Clark, of Montana, Tried 10 Grab
Fort Hall Reservation Land.

Fort Hall Reservation Land.
POCATELLO. ,dAho, June 20 go The
',sooners' hAve II tho best lands
and tho most promising prospects on
the Fort Hail reservation n there will
lie innumerable contests over both land
entries and mineral locations,
In the race for tho Belle Marsh copper
mine there were more than a hundred
men, Senator Clark. OF Montana, had q
party In tie race. and so had James A.
Murray. OF Butte, as well as DIR. Dubois.
There Will be a contest between the
Clark and Murray men as 70 which
reached there FIRST.
The evening world., 1902-06-20
$4,000 EMBEZZLER SET
PACE IN LONG CHASE.
Details of Otto Jaeh-
keI's Arrest, Who Was
Caught in Trevor,
Wis.,, After Being Pur-
sued by Detectives for
10000 MILESTONE
for Wife Lead to Cap
ture.

Details Of the arrest OF Otto Jaeh'
nkel, q $50, 900 embezzler, were Learned
to-day by his former employers
Hardt, Won Bernuth & Co., whoN-
sale dry-goods merchants, of Nos Az
Broome street and 10 Worth street.
Jaehkel was the Buenos Ayres rep
%resentative Of the firm, and by a clev-
erly concocted scheme. he. II is al
legged, swindled them out OF a for
tune through spurious drafts on their
European clearinghouse.
After n two months chase of 10000
miles. beginning in Paris in the mid
die of April, leading across the At
lantic to New York, thence across
the continent to San Francisco, down
ito Mexico and back to Chicago. Jaeh-
kel was captured in the little town
OF Trevor, Wis.
The mans capture was due to his
love for his wife. She was arrested
In Chicago, where she was living
with her sister under the name Of
Mrs. Louise Wernicke. After $4,000
of the stolen money had been recov-
erred she was released.
After Jaehkel, who had charge OF
the FIRMS foreign credits. had fixed
UP forged drafts for $4,000 on the for
,eign correspondents and provided hfm-
self with a forged letter OF identifca-
Aion, he asked and obtained permission
to take q vacation. With his wife and
children me sailed for Europe. He had
little difficulty in converting his spuri-
Gus drafts into cash. His wife was
with him At Paris and Brussels and
left him. II u said. at Cherbourg.
Then, 1t In alleged, she sailed for the
United States on the Trave. carrying
with her 10000 francs which Jaehkel
had obtained at q Paris bank. He fol
lowed her two days later on the Kron-
prinz Whhelm and mst her In Chicago.
The detectives who were trying TO To-
cate them lost track Of Jaehkel. but
found the woman in Chicago. at tho
Bismarck Hotel.
From there they traced her to her
sisters house. and after that 1t was
found that the fugitive was speeding to
San Francisco. He was found at the
Grand Hotel there under the name OF
+. Becker. traced to the City OF Mex
fco under the alias Fllipo Gomez. back
to Chicago under the name OF John
Woods n 30 Trevor, Wis, where he
was known as plain Herr Schultz
from Germany.
Two detectives, masquerading as busi-
ness men in search OF health and rec
.reation, Joined him there, nshed with
him by day and played pinochle by
might. until they wormed tho secret OF
his Identity from him.
Then they wired for a friend" to
come up from Milwaukee to Join them.
When Herr Schultz was introduced to
pthe friend the latter proceeded to read
to him a warrant charging him with
forgery n embezzlement.
= Jaehke is in jail at Milwaukee. whence
he Will be taken to Buenos Ayres. His
was the work OF Assistant Supt.
J. r.. Weiss, OF the Pinkerton Agency,
working on behalf OF the American
Bankers Association.
The evening world., 1902-06-20
BATHER'S BODY FOUND.
Redmond Was Drowned When 10
Plunged Into the Swift Tide.

The body OF Michael j. Redmond. a
single man aged twenty-seven years,
and employed rs a steam-htter by the
Metropolitan Street hallway Company,
Was taken out Of North River at the
noon, 1t was claimed by his sister, Mrs
jameson, OF No, 25S Ninth avenue. Red
mond had a furnished room at Mrs.
Fox's, No. 3iS Ninth G He went
day night with several other young m.n
for a swim.
There was a heavy tide and the others
did not dare TO venture Into the water.
Redmond plunged In. He never came
TO the surface again and ali snorts 10
his body failed until II came 10 ths
surf~os several blocks bsior to-day.