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his attention to her.

his attention to her.
The lost dogs that are picked up here
and there in the cty's confines are taken
to the pound and kept for q few days, after
which they are. in the language Of the
attendant, "mercifully asphyxiated."
This applies only to the dog with bar
sinister on his escutcheon. The dog with
q pedigree is usually sold. Good blood
is no less valuable here than elsewhere.
young woman who has been spending
the summer in Europe tells her experience
in losing her watch in London. She wore
it on a leather fob and dropped it in the CAB
in which she had driven to her hotel.
Il went to Scotland Yard for it, and,
by the way she remarked incidentally.
isn't it delightfully."- English to call it a
yard when there isn't glimpse of yard
anywhere around the big stone building?
Il told the story of my loss to the big
uniformed attendant. He listened with
such close attention that | thought lie
would draw it out Of his pocket and hand
1t to me when had finished. However
he merely told me to go to the extreme
end Of the big building and tell my story
there.
Il did. Then was shown a long cor
ridor. told to 60 down there and would
find room at the end where I must relate
my loss. ! went, and again and again l
was sent here, there, and to the other place,
each time the man in attendance listening
respectfully and never interrupting until
had entirely finished my story.
Il never recovered my watch. but my
faith in human nature went up to a sky
rocket height. II Diogenes had lived in
London he could have cut out the dark
lantern from his equipment and gone to
Scotland Yard. Such an array OF UNI
brellas as had been turned In!
Il saw at least 500 which represented
honest cab drivers, policemen and stray
finders, so il didn't recover my lost prop
erty my time was not entirely wasted, az
the man said who threw the stone and missed
the bird, but hit his mother-in-law.
1t would be interesting to know how
many people ever notice the number OF
the cab in which they are driven. II b
good thing to do if one has a statistical
memory. One young woman whoS has
and never puts an address or telephone
number down, depending on her power Of
remembrance, adds to her equipments
figures the number Of every cab In which
she is driven.
According to her story 1t was the means
OF saving her from the loss Of valuable
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forget his wife In Savannah, but he was
80 far away from his old home that he didn't
think 1t was any great wrong to marry again.

forget his wife In Savannah, but he was
80 far away from his old home that he didn't
think 1t was any great wrong to marry again.
BY this wife he had four daughters and
three sons. Two OF these sons are sup
posed to have been lost with their father
on the fatal trip from Hong Kong last May
the island Of St. Davids.
The Queen was known as Dollyboy.
She Is said to have had some trouble with
the German Government that caused her
to be absent from home at the time OF MIR.
Hartridge's visit.
Affairs have not progressed well in
O'Keefes Yap family since he died. One
Of his daughters has taken to the woods
with q lover, whom she chose from among
the common people. She has gone back
to the primitive methods Of her ancestor
There is another daughter, who received
an education In a convent at Hong Kong
She Is a young woman OF good address.
She seems to know more about her father 8
affairs than any OF the other children, and
to care more for his memory. There are
besides two giirl,s not yet grown.
ways. He had well stocked library. which
Ia still In his handsome home.
He used to write to his American wife
at least twice year. His remittances for
her support were prompt and generous,
Mr.. Hartridge was not able to verify
the story that O'Keefe was thrown up
on the island with some wreckage from
more than probable that O'heefe went to
the little group Of islands with the express
purpose Of winning his way.
O'Keefe left a will, and his executor,
William r. Lambert OF Hong Kong, is now
running his business.
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of the place where she spent most Of her
time, and offered to buy it of NE. She got 10
for IS, and | made several other similar
pictures al the same price for other people.
1t was good practice and easy money.
snow | wasn't an exception as money
Garner among the college men at the place.
You see, they weren't ordinary bellboys
and they understood and appreciated the
wants of the guests perhaps little better
than professional bellboys would have
understood them. All that counts. you can
depend on it.
Another way Of earning money In tho
mountain hotel district is open 70 a young
fellow who happens TO have a good voice
for singing. Several such chaps made
good money this last season The singer
was always accompanied by fellow who
was studying elocution. 70
"The singer gave a song and then tbs
elocution chap got off n REQ itation.. A
summer hotel crowd always takes to things
like that and the collection that follows
performance is almost always big. The
hotel proprietors always let these travelling
pairs have free use OF the hotet halls for
the performances.
And with your work at a summer hotel
you have time TO get into golf or tennis
OF tramping or baseball. You have good
food for nothing and you come home with
money, if you are inclined to be just d littlo
saving. Can you beat that?'
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THE SUN. SUNDAY. OCTOBER ii. 1908.

Ranged about the small room are the
packages. the notsam and jetsam Of rapid
transit and It's consequent forgetfulnesses.
There arc umbrellas, parasols. knobby
parcels, boxes, square and round.
No. we do not have any great number
Of lost articles turned in, said the clerk in
charge. .There is an idea that hundreds
come in every hour, but it is not true. and
this Is supposed to be the biggest shop in
town.
We have perhaps half a dozen a day,
but most Of them are articles that the shop
per has bought and then left on the counter
After these have been kept a reasonable
time, say month, they are turned into the
stock and sold again.
Umbrellas? Yes, few, but they are
usually reclaimed, and those that are not,
are kept for use by the employees. Most
OF the articles that are lost in the stores
are picked up by other customers. who
either see them dropped or else find them
on the counter, and never reach the lost
article enclosure.
this is particularly true Of purses; they
arc rarely turned in. OF course, the woman
who knows she lost her pocket book in the
store holds everybody responsible, from
the noorwalker to the girl who waited on
her, but in majority Of cases the truth
Of the matter is that the purse was picked
up by somebody outside
The place for lost packages found on the
surface cars Is at Fiftieth street and Eight h
avenue, and for those found on the ele-
waited roads at Greenwich and Morris streets
At either place, no matter at what time you
enter, you are sure to find a worried looking
woman with her hat on straight, which,
according to the present style, is a sure
sign that 1t is in reality on crooked, asking
for lost purse.
The polite attendant listens to her tale Of
woe, as II 1t were the first and only purse
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ages . day that are lost said the clerk
In charge In answer to tho usual question.
How long do we keep them2 Perhaps
a month or six weeks.
If they are not reclaimed they are slowed
away, and two or three times . year the
unreclaimed articles arc sold at auction.
The proceedsi Fifty per cent. u used
to run the establishment. to pay for wages
rent, &C.; the rest goes into tho general
fund.
What Is the most peculiar article that
was ever lost on the road9 Let me see.
We have had monkeys two or three times.
and once we had tame dove.
'Children2 Oh. yes, quite q number q
children and dogs. A great many Of the
lost articles are too trivial for the owners
to bother about, and when they are auc-
toned of big package is made Of these.
The umbrellas and sticks are bound together
IN lots Of two or dozen and sold by lump"
Nearly every one has had experience with
losing articles on the elevated road. One
young woman had rather an unusual hap
pening.
Il knew that had lost il. she said, the
sit being new pocketbook, -on the L.
l went down there and discovered that they
were in receipt OF q postal card from a
man who said he had found a pocketboSk
which answered the description Of place and
time in my case, and the owner could have
1t by calling and identifying it.
Il went. He explained his mission by
informing me that he had no faith In trusts,
and 80 desired to see that the article reached
about the stiffest cross examination that l
have ever had.
Il was asked to describe the size and ma
terial Of the pocketbook, the place and the
time Of losing it. l answered every ques-
ton patiently. and he made a slow and me-
thodical memorandum on piece Of paper.
Il wish to be perfectly accurate in this, ;
he announced. I have not opened tho
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pockstbook yet, for did not wish to b %
ungentlemanly q to open q lady's pocket
book. However, now that your descrip-
ton Of the outside corresponds I viii ses II
you are right a to the contents.
Fortunately. remembered exactly the
amount of money. I am quite sure IL I
had been shy three cents should never
have received the portemonnaie. His last
question was:
'Ts there anything else In the book
besides what you have stated that would
help you to identify itf'
.'There b. answered promptly. There
ID a receipt for a weeks board for a bull
pup
.'why didn't you mention that at frstr
he asked irritably. I don't suppose and
he looked at me very suspiciously. there's
another young woman In New York that
carries her dogs board bills around in her
pocketbook.'
Il got the pocketbook all right
At tho theatre window the blond haired
ticket seller was apparently pleased at the
questions asked about things lost In the
theatre. It was ON the West Side, and all
t,ay long line OF would-bs ticket buyers
marched by In . seemingly endless process
sion. For tho moment. however, there
was respite.
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THE KING OF PARKWAY YAP
DAVID OKEEFE REALLY A Mon
ARCH OF THE SOUTH SEA.
A Savannah Lawyer Investigates His Story
and Finds II True-His American Widow
and Daughter May Get Half Million
From His Estate-Left Family In zap.

SAVANNAH, Oct. 10.-There seems to be
q good basis OF fact for the story OF David
O'Keefe, the Irishman who is said to have
been wrecked upon the island OF zap in
the Caroline group and there to have estab-
lished kingdom over which he ruled for
many years. Walter C. HaItridge, a Sa-
vannah attorney, has just returned from
q visit to zap. whittier he went to investi-
gate the story In behalf Of OKeefe's widow
and daughter, Mrs. Catherine O'Keefe and
Mrs. j. F. Butler, both Of Savannah.
He says the estate Ia worth fully 81 900 900.
There is trading business worth fully $500 900.
and holdings Of other kinds easily amount
to $500 900 more. Mr.. Hartridge says that
at least half million dollars Of this will
come to the Savannah heirs and maybe
good deal more.
There can be no final settlement Of the
estate until May Of next year. Then under
the German law the King will be con-
sidered legally dead, Three years will hsve
elasped since his disappearance.
Mr.. Hartridge found it hard to reach
zap. A United States warship had to
carry him from Hong Kong. When he
got there he found O'Keefe's subjects
mourning for their dead King.
O'Keefe ruled them with firm hand.
He had a standing army Of twelve naked
savages commanded by man fully clothed.
They saw that his commands were exc
cuted.
He never had any trouble. There was
never revolt among his people. They were
fond Of him, and he treated them we'll Mr..
Hartridge failed to see the Queen Of zap.
O'Keefe after he had been on the island for
a time took unto himself wife. He did not
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WENT TO CHINA PENNILESs.
Adventures OF . Member OF the Senior
Class Mt Syracuse University.

Class at Syracuse University.
SYRACUSE, Oct. 1O.--Syracuse University
has in it's senior class young man OF many
adventures. He Is Wesley Hook and he
returns to college every fall after advent
ures that would make good reading in a
novel of the Deadwood Dick type.
He established reputation as dead
broke traveller three years ago, when he
left the university in his freshman year
and started for China without cent in his
pocket. His object in making this trip
was to rescue his sister, missionary, from
the hands Of the Boxers.
Hook worked and beat his way across
the Continent, obtained n chance to work
his passage on a Pacific Ocean steamship,
and landed in China during the Boxer up
rising. Upon his arrival he found that his
sister had already escape and gone TO
japan, After series OF adventures IN
China no worked his way back to the Con-
tinent, after having stopped 81 long enough
to see his sister.
Two summers ago Hook worked in the
wheat fields Of North Dakota, When the
season was over he staked out a claim and
built small board house on it,.
After college closed last June he started
West again, dead broke as usual. with the
intention OF finding his claim and making
the required improvements on his land
After walking sixty miles from the railroad
station in the midst Of a snowstorm, he dis
covered that not sign Of his house re-
NAMED. Everything movable had been
swept away by the fierce winds which pre-
vailed throughout that country last winter.
Hook at once made friends with tho other
settlers. With their help he built a sub
stantial dugout, which is the only kind Of
house that is suitable for that part Of the
country, where the weather g oes to ex-
tIemes.
Hook intends to go out there and grow
Up with the country after he graduates
from the university next June.
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day ranges from Atty to hundred. The
places are crowded, and toys and matrons,
tho luxuries Of Police Headquarters, do
not have to be provided Impromptu
scraps afford the needed excitement.
1t Ia only In tho uptown stations, where
only three or four day are registered, that
life is tame and monotonous. In these
downtown precincts 1t IL practically under
stood that few weeping mothers or dis
tracted fathers will appear, weary and worn,
to bo greeted with ecstatio screams OF de-
light by the tired. frightened children.
In these stations the procedure 10 quite
different. Mrs. Smith or Mrs. IIchtenheir,,
a. tho case may BE-, having an engagement
for q days work or pleasure. promptly
drops little Barney or Ikey In q much fire.
Quented part Of the streets and disappears.
Al night shs appears nonchalantly at
the station and asks the sergeant: Where's
my Ikeyi' Seeing key engaged in a
passage at arms with Barney, she promptly
sezes them both. informs the policeman
that abe II sec that Barney gets home, and
walks of with her charges. It is quite
satisfactory way Of disposing Of the en-
cumbrances and Ia taken a. q matter OF
course at the station houses in question.
Once In while the mother does not
come for her child until the next, day. and
L. indignant when che learns that the wait
has been taken to Headquarters.
.shure an didn't ye know that I'd be
afther comm for me Dinnis some timer Il
asked an irate mother Of one Of the ser I
geants. 1--WE been lawn him here OF an on|
for year now. Me husband goes up to the|
Island enough to have his children properly
cared for by the perlice."
One Of the most interesting lost children|
cases In police annals landed the principal
party concerned behind the bars.
A child was deserted In one OF tho down.
town hotels. It was taken to the stationl
house and later to Police Headquarters.
Inquiry had by this time elected the factI
that tho boy had been wilfully deserted
by his father The story told later in court.
and sworn to by the parent, was to the effect
that he had married a second time andl
had never dared to toll bis second wifel
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THIS STUDENT EARNED $175.
A SUMMERS WORK AT A WHITE
MOUNTAIN HOTEL.
He Needed the Money to Pay HIS Tuition
Fees in the Fall and He Got II by Serv.
Ing ~ Bel BOy-LOts Of Other Young
Fellows in the Same Situation.

.Yes, am going to start in my work
this fall with enough money to pay for my
tuition and little left over for incidentals,'
said young art student just back from
the White Mountains, where he hid been en-
ployed during the summer as bellboy
at hotel When went up there had
between SO and SIS. When came back
had something like $l75.'
Among his fellow bellboys at the hotel
were five or six college men, and the rest
were from preparatory schools. They
were young chaps Of good families and
good training. and several were there more
for a lark than because they had to earn
money.
.We were all out for the money" said
the art student Whoever wanted any
thing from us had to pay for It, It's the
American way, and as our wages weren't
more than dollar a day, except in one or
two cases, we went aft-r tips red hot TAX
ing my case as an example, you can see
that we got them.
"There are lots Of things fellow can do
to earn money at a summer hotel. At
many OF the hotels the clerks are college
men. know Of at least one place where
the head waiter is a college student,
MY ability to dab of things with a pencil
or paint brush brought me in several
dollars. l earned $40 or SIS by marking
suit cases with the initials OF the owners.
Another source Of income was opened
to me while I was out on the golf links
one day. l had taken along new paints
and brushes and was engaged In making
modest little impressionistic picture
Of the course when q nice oldish woman
spotted me.
4She saw the painting, was tickled with
tho idea Of having the sketch as reminder
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-Contentsfs
1.-Two dollars In change. No, think
there was three dollars In bills. Let me
see, yes, two dollars and . half IN bills
a poem on love unrequted: q sample Of
pink pajamas-no. mean pink kimoros-
and two shoe lacings.'
y think we will have no difficulty In
identifying IT, responds the attendant.
-and postal card will be sent you II 1t b
turned In. You said this morningl'
.Yes."
'You will probably hear tomorrow
She goes sadly away and Is replaced by
another woman, who has lest an umbrella.
Il wouldn't mind 60 much II it hadn't
been borrowed umbrella. There it Isl"
and she pointed to one Of lot OF umbrellas
that hs d just been turned in.
The place and time Of losing the UNI
brella corresponds with the notes made
on the umbrella found. and she 10 made
happy.
'Oh. we get sometimes hundred pack
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I tell you that tho women frequently 60
home without their hats. but it's true.
You see, we have real plays over here, and
sometimes they get 90 excited that they
just get up and. 90 out without thinking
anything about their hats
But don't they come right baok?'
sometimes they do; sometimes they
como back tho next day. and sometimes I
suppose their escorts buy them new ones,
/ don't know about that, but they leave
EN- all right
He pointed to hat on the wall OF his
Office with long dropping feather, which
looked as IL 1t had been out In Cape Cod
thunder storm.
.What do you do with them'' he was
asked.
His eyes had confidential expression.
They all 60 to sister, he said.
And the petticoats?'
.They 60 to sister, too
and tho other things, umbrellas and
parcels?"
'Oh, those, well. they arc kept hero for
while. Then suppose some Of the people
around the theatre take EN-. don't
know ~ sister would care for EN-
do they ever leave children here'' was
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ALARM WATCHES.
Carried by Travellers and Used N N.
minders Of Engagements by Day.

The newest thing in alarm tirnepieoeS
is an alarm watch. 1t looks like all ordinary
watch. but has gong in its interior.
You set it at the hour you want it to 90
of and wind it just as you would an alarm
clock, and it goes off at the time set with
a clatter OF astonishing viGur and volume
of sound when the size ot the nlechanisIn
is considered.
The alarm watch may be made to servo
the usual purpose Of AT alarm clock. the
man carrying it as a watch by day setting
1t and winding it as an alarm, and Placing
it perhaps on y chair at bis bedside, or under
his pillow at night. IT il carried by travel
lers as an ordinary watch, to pe used, be-
sides, as an alarm clock 20 wake them up
to catch trains; and il may be used Is q
reminder of an engag cement by day.
They are not expensive, these alarm
watches, stenwinder in gun mSeA
case costing -.
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Prisons Collins, who is the hardest man in
the State to find and he will tell you 1t Is

Prisons Collins, who is the hardest man in
the State to find and he will tell you 1t Is
Davis.
Davis Is living mystery. He slips from
place to place. never maintaining residence
In a given locality for any length Of time
and rarely letting anybody know where
he Ii.
Every once in a while he appears sud-
denly In Albany, maps out his work for
tho next few months, and then goes away
again. whittier nobody knows. He can
be absolutely depended upon, however,
to put in an appearance at State prison
where there Is to be an execution several
days before it is to take place.
He goes right to tho death chamber
and gets everything in readiness, and after
the execution he goes away as silently
and as mysteriously as he came.
The State pays Davis $50 for each man
he kills. It has tried repeatedly to buy
his patents, but he will not sell. II he
should die there are probably plenty Of
men who would be able to work his ap-
paratus. but II would be more or less Of
an experiment, even II pm electrician willing
to do the work could be found.
Davis's mysterious movements are at
tributed by some to fear Of assassination.
Davis was asked about this recently and
laughed heartily. He receives many
threatening letters, he said, but pays no
attention to them.
The night before an execution Davis
goes to bed very early and leaves word
that every precaution Is to be taken not
to have any noise around his room. He
sleeps like a top and wakes up bright and
early.
His work In the death chamber, outside
ofpreparing the pparatus. is very slight
He looks on while the keepers strap the
man In, then puts his hand on tho switch
and at q signal turns on the current. He
never leaves the switch after the first
shock until the man In tn chair Is officially
declared dead.
Very naturally. some people have an
aversion to Davis because he Is the state
exeoutioner. Far from being annoyed by
this, Davis is rather amused.
At q recent execution Davis took dinner
at hotel near the prision. Several regular
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that he had child living by his first wife.

that he had child living by his first wife.
Suddenly the relative with whom the
child was living died. The father was
telegraphed to, and the child was hurriedly
shipped to the city. Still afraid Of domestic
wrath, the father took It to the hotel and
there left It, not daring to face the situation
and believing that the best way out Of the
difficulty for all concerned. He found that
it was not, as desertion Of ones offspring
has its penalties.
In the department stores children are
often lost. the mothers In the excitement
OF chasing bargains forgetting that. like
charity. watchfulness should begin at home.
The children are kept for a few hours at
to the nearest police station.
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that was ever lost in New York.
you say you were on your way to Brook
lynn he asks.
Yes. to visit my sister,
1T was going downtown from Fifty
ninth street,"
yes. There was man seated in the
train next to me, and he looked as II he
might have taken it, and noticed that a
woman was looking very closely at me
when I got up, but am sure l left 1t In
the seat"
The attendant lifts blank from the
desk and asks:
"Name?"
MARY Smith"
sReeidente?'
-Two hundred West - street.