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The Lexington intelligencer., 1904-08-27
PASSENGERS LEAVE HATS.
Quite Z Number Walk Out Of Elevated
Cars Without Their Head
Covers.

"YOur hat" said a young wom-
an to her young man escort, as the
two were walking down the aisle
of an elevated car to get off at
their station. 1t was a hot day,
and as they sat in the car the young
man had taken his hat Off and laid
it on a vacant seat beside him, says
the Chicago Inter Ocean. When
they got up to go he had forgotten
all about it.
"Many people walk off and
leave theiF hats@ another passen-
ger asked of the guard, this being
light run on which there was a
chance for the guard to say a word.
ga good many in the course of a
year." was the reply. In the case
of the young man now who just
passed out with the young lady,
he may have forgotten his hat be-
cause he was thinking of her, but
the next man might put his hat
down and get to reading his news
paper, and forget all about the
hat. Maybe he'd never discover
that he'd left his hat behind him
till he'd got down to the street.
"COuldn't the guard remind him
as he passed out, seeing him with
out any hat? Well, no, he couldn't
very well. The guard has two
gates to look out for, and passen-
gers to see on and off, and some
people walk on or off holding their
hats in their hands, to keep cool,
and you could not very well inspect
every passenger that passed by
without his hat on to see if he
wasn't carrying it down by his
side. So really his hat is some
thing that every man must take
care of for himself.
'It isn't straw hats alone that
we gather up" the guard contin-
ued, after the next station had
been passed. "In the course of a
year we get soft hats and derbies,
a few silk hats, and some crush
hats. All these kinds of hats
come along, naturally, more in win
ter. You've seen men often enough
fall asleep and their hats fall off?
That's how we get 'em.
"The children's hats are easy to
account for. They take them off
themselves and drop 'em and new
er think of 'em again. Itisn't quite
so easy to account for the women's
hats left behind, but some are left;
and so in the course of year,
mixed in with the endless variety
and the great quantities of things
left in the cars by the millions of
people that travel in them, we get
a considerable bunch of hats, in
cluding hats of all sorts.
"Steenth streetw
The Lexington intelligencer., 1904-08-27

]
afraid the sun is making it rather
uncomfortable for you. lam sorry
have no umbrella"
Though she did not hear, Of
course she scOwled an answer.
They made several turns, and
she noted, hopefully, that they
seemed to be going in the direction
of the farm. He was giving it up?
Not SOL To her CONSERVATION,
they finally came out in the broad
road, headed for the village.
"You're just scotching me-" she
complained.
"Well, you've scOtched me often
enough" he growled.
Beingsonear the noon hour they
fewpeople, but now, down
the road a crowded wagOnette
whirled toward them, the tennis
party from the village. She jerked
her bonnet over her face and tum-
bled fiat on the hay, moaning:
ooh, | wouldn't have them see
me for a million dollarsw
When they had passed, with gay
banter at him for deserting them,
she Strengthened up with blazing
cheeks and the fire of battle in her
eyes.
"It's the silliest, the most ridic-
ulOus thing ever heard of. And
you're the meanest, meanest man
alive! l should think you'd hate
yourself to deathw
81 don't aspire to great wisdom
or perfection" he returned, Sc
renely, driving on.
"You know how I've looked for
ward to this afternoon, and what
plans we've made for itw
"lf you hadn't Systematically
disarranged so many of my plans
l might be more considerate of
yours"
'It's contemplate, your trap
ping me like thisw
"You came voluntarily. Pve a
right to market my hay when |
please"
"YOu don't mean" But they
were entering the village, and she
crouched down again out of sight
He did not stop, and when they
had left the last house behind, she
began, piteously;
. ~ was never so hungry in my
life! Pm positively faintw
"You'll know how to sympathizC
with the poor, then" he suggested
"You don't care how much yol
' make me suffer, and you profess
to-" She broke off in some con
fusion, conscious that she was to,
n near the brink.
d eyes, ] profess to love you" h
II finished for her. "Pve never trie,
l. to hideit-and suppose, after al
e there is little need of words.
E ought to have understood withou
e having it said. You've shown m
plain enough that it is useless, an
y yet" he halted, meditatfvel,
IS Some intuition within him declare
lc that she was not so Indifferent a
n she had assumed to be.
"No," he continued, 81 will hay
e, 1t In words! Dora, you know loy
e, you devotedly, with all my hear
will you be my wife," He turne
n to her with a deep tenderness
d, his face and shining in his serior
r. eyes.
ey "Cousins can't marry" 81
to Svaded.
lis "My stepmOther's niece isn't
nd very close cousin, " he cOmmente
ed "But | ought to thank you"
n, went on, presently, with a rath
~. wan smile. "You might have bet
more harsh in your refusal of me
ly. He turned the horses about, sa
"! ing: you will not be very late
in the game" Then he turnd his ba,
&C. In stolid silence. II he suffere
re she should not see it.
The minutes passed slowly as t
ut horses logged along the hot, dus
in: highway. The sur poured down
ed ucorching rays Nat sat at his pc
re. Ike craven image, obliyio
alike to the blazing heat and t
The Lexington intelligencer., 1904-08-27
THE OLD TIME sWEATBox.
Chamber Into Which Suspects Were
Cast to Make Them Con-
fess Grimes.

The medieval torture chamber
still exists, if we may judge from
the reports as to the "sweatbox"
and the "third degree" What the
concealed infamy of the last may
be it is difficult to learn, says
American Medicine. The "sweat.
box" is a method of confiRing sus-
poets in heated air until the tor
ture becomes so irritating as to
elicit almost any confession de-
sired, especially when coupled
with cunning questions and prob
ings of the prosecutors. But where
is the boasted trial by jury and by
his fellows of the Anglo-Saxon
love of justice? 1t has been sup;
posed, wrongly it seems, that a
man Is held to be innocent until his
crime has been proved by ordeRy
andj1st trial. PunisAm ett;sRs b
not, therefore, begin until after
conviction. The poor degenerates
at best are poor matches for the
subtle and astute questioners,
without the added perplexity re.
sulting from torture. Why not re-
vive the rack and screw, and be
done with them quicker and with
out trial? VIII some one tell the
ample truth about the abuses Of
the so-called examinations of pris-
onOrs before trial? What exactly
Is the proceeding in the "third de,
gree" torture business? BY what
law are such things allowed, and
what have the judges and lawyers
been about to permit such bar
barrie anacronisms in the twentieth
century?
The Lexington intelligencer., 1904-08-27
SENTENCE OF JAM THIEF.
Small Pilferer of Sweets Is Ordered
by Ships Captain to Eat ALI
She Wants.

Capt. Krech, of the Hamburg
American lines steamship Graf
Waldersee, was called upon during
the trip to pass sentence upon a
thief who was caught stealing
aboard the vessel. His manner of
conducting the case and his judg-
ment we're commended by all the
passengers, reports the New York
Times.
Several steerage passengers on
the earlier days of the trip fire.
quently missed food and sweet
meats which they had taken
aboard and nothing was known of
the culprit until one day a woman,
going to her bunk, found little
flaxen-haired girl busily engaged
in emptying a pot of jam which
had been concealed there. The lit
tie one had the jam plastered all
over her face and hands, and in
that condition the woman who dis.
covered her led her to the chief
steward. He in turn took her be-
fore the captain on the bridge.
Many of the passengers. seeing
the little girl being dragged crying
before the captain, gathered
about to learn the cause of the
trouble. Captain Krech, who, on
his ship, like all other captains, is
Judge, jury and court of appeals,
listened to the charge with a
stern look. Besides learning that
the little girl had taken the jam
he also learned that her father
and mother were poor and could
not provide any sweetmeats for
her. When the case had been pre-
sented Captain Krech thought
over the evidence for a time and as
the girl was caught with the evi
dence all over her face and hands
he pronounced her guilty.
"This is a very serious case" he
said, "and must be dealt with ac
cordingly. The penalty for thf
first offense is Imprisonment. Fol
the second it is spanking and fol
the third it is hanging or exclusion
from America. But the facts il
this case are such that shall have
to be more severe. l, therefore
sentence yoa to eat the best jan
this ship can produce every tim,
you feel like it. The jam will b.
supplied by the steward"
The little girl could not under
stand the meaning of the talk, bu
when the steward brought forth
big pot of jam as ordered she CAV
, the captain a pretty little smil
and marched off With From tina
time on her face was never clear
The Lexington intelligencer., 1904-08-27
GOING HAST.
W ]. Black, @. PA Topeka, Eas
ADMINISTRATORS NOTICE

Letters of administration on the estate of
the undersigned on the 2lst day Of July
1904, by the probate court of Lafayette
county, Missouri. All persons having claims
against said estate are required to exhibit them
for allowance TO the administrator within one
be precluded from any benefit OF such estate,
and IL such claims be not exhibited within two
years from the date OF said letters they will
be forever barred
This 2ist day Of July, 1904.
MARTINV. HELM,
7-2Stb Administrator.
The Lexington intelligencer., 1904-08-27
:. & A. Time Table-Eiiggiusvine,
sANTAFE ROUTE.

Trainsarrive at North Lexington.
No. 2S daily. ............... 1925 a. m
Trains leave North Lexington:
No. 20, Express tdaily) y).............. $3.50 a. N
Main line trains pass Lexington Junction
The river Bus leaves Lexington 7:4O a m
daily to connect with train at Dorth Lex
ington. Leaves Lexington daily except
Sunday at $3.50 m and o'clock p m and
goes through to connect with tire MS at Lex.
ington Junction.
The Lexington intelligencer., 1904-08-27
Birds and Mammals.

Why do birds live so much long.
er than mammals, which are often
a hundred times their size? Posi-
bly,, among other things, because
they have beaks instead of teeth.
All the felidae become weak and
liable to starvation as their teeth
drop out or break. Neither are
the herbivorOus animals in much
better case. On some of the fells
the fell ponies have to be killed
when advanced in years because
their teeth are worn away by crop
ping grass so close to the rock.
Rodents constantly die from in.
juries to the teeth. But a birds
beak neither wears out nor drops
off, and as it constantly swallows
fresh grit to aid in grinding food
in the gizzard that needs no repair
ing, either.-Country Life.
The Lexington intelligencer., 1904-08-27
Cut Down the Loua.

"Vere you out at the races every
day, sputter?"
"N-o, the day it rained ] stayed
at home and wasn't out a cent?
Detroit Free Press.
The Lexington intelligencer., 1904-08-27

Diggs-There is at least one
thing to be said in favor Of the
"oldest inhabitant."
Biggs-What is that?
"You never hear him getting OF
that old chestnut about the good
lying young."-Chicago Daily
News.
The Lexington intelligencer., 1904-08-27
CASE OF KIDNAPPING.
BY LOUISE G. STRONG.

Dora pushed back her sunbon-
net, and looked up with furtiye ad-
miration at the stalwart figure
giving the finishing touches to the
huge load of hay.
'Ethel had to help about dinner
and couldn't get away, but she
made me come. She said it was too
bad for you to have no company
for the last load"
81 am sorry you were compelled
to come he replied, a little stiffiy.
ooh, l wanted to; l wouldn't
have missed it for anything. Twas
never on a load of hay. But mercy.
how shall ever get up there?'
He glOwed at her warmth, but
with brief "Pll help YOU" he slid
to the ground, placed short lad.
der against the load, preceded her,
and reached for her hands.
With little shri ks of alarm,
and declarations that she never
could do it, Dora at last gained the
top of the ladder and put her
hands in his. His heart leaped
hercely, and he paled little under
his tan, but made no sign of the tu
multi her touch had aroused within
him.
But she was as we'll aware of it
as he, and with malicious intent,
clung to him in affected fright, not
ing, with pleasure, his suppressed
agitation. 1t was a short ride
from the field to the hay barn; be.
sides, he had the horses to attend
to, so there would be no chance for
him to go beyond the limit she had
set for him, and ask the question
she had been fencing for weeks.
She was not sure that she was
ready to be bound but she was GER
tain that she did not want to give
him a negative answer; she wished
to postpone it; besides, there were
."others," and she, being a born
coquette, was enjoying herself and
did not want a definite change.
With much skill she had played
him and eyaded his effort to OBJ
tain an opportunity to bring mat
ters to a crisis. She meant him nc
harm; she reasoned that little
suspense would perhaps do hin
good, and she loved the excitemen'
of the game and reveled in the mar
row escapes she cOntrived to ex
perience.
''This is the last of the hay, nov
there is nothing to prevent yoI
joining our tennis party this after
noOn," she said, cuddling down il
the hay at his feet, while he stoo
easily and firmly, guiding the tear
through the gate into the big rOaC
"If you will be my partner" h
replied, sitting down beside hel
letting the horses, now they wer
through, go their own gait.
"But Eve promised Harr
PAYNE; and Jessie Carpenter play
much better than besides, sh
is always trying to get you" she il
Binuated, demurely.
"Hang Harry Payne, and Jessi
too, for that matter! See her
Dora"
"0h, there's Ethel on the pore
waving to u.s." she interrupte
hurriediy. Harvest home! Ha
Vest hOme~ she shrieked as tn,
passed the house, scrambling
her feet, with ore hand on
shoulder. The wagon lurched, al
she dropped down again, flush
and laughing, and began scatt'
Ing hay over him. He did not !
spond, but sat with ayerted face.
"CrOsspatch" she said, light
HHe wants his dinner, so he doS
Well, it will not be long now. D.
ser is to be unusually early on
count of our party; the men .
going to the house"
He was still silent, and she POI
ed. Suddenly she shrieked aga
~Why, Nat Bruner! you've pass
the gateit's away back thel
Didn't you see itH"
The Lexington intelligencer., 1904-08-27
Daily Thought.

Simple diet is best, for many
dishes bring many Diseases
Pliny.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1904-04-01
ALL MALE BINDERS
NOW WITH STRIKERS
Freshmen and Feeders Will Be
the Next to Stop
Work.

Except a few apprentice girls of one
weeks experience half a dozen of
them, more or less-not single bind
er, male or female, was a-binding yes
terday in st. Paul. The successful con-
tinuance of the bindery girls strike
brought out yesterday the last Of the
male binders. When the strike was or
dered, week ago last Monday, ISL
girls were working in the eleven local
bindertes, eighty men and twenty male
apprentices.
Other information announced yester-
terday at the girls headquarters, Fed
Grafton hall, indicated that the bind
cries are becoming daily more embar-
raised for lack of binders. One estab--
lishment was reported to have three
months work already contracted in
single department, that of blank books.
But no rulers can be had to rule the
books, no binders to bind them At
another concern $4,000 worth Of work
already printed is awaiting the binders
return. In a few cases important rush
Jobs have been sent to small, non-union
binderies at Milwaukee and elsewhere.
The report that the local pressmen-
and also the pFeSsfeeders would go out
sOAO. y" A1ShI DIS d mark Oh sympathy
Tor their bindery sisters was denied
last evening by a prominent labor lead
err.
They'll do nothing Of the kind" he
said. In the first place, because the
girls don't feel they need assistance; in
the next place the pressmen and press
feeders will soon have to quit anyway
without striking. So long as the work
printed can't be bound, and is mere
ly piling up, what's the use of running,
presses 2"
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1904-04-01
LANDLORD Is BRUTAL
Threatens to Smoke Out His
Destitute Tenants.

When Constable Arthur Gaines re-
fused to eject the family of w. B. Varo,
who occupies a small house at $50
Earl street, owned by Owen Mcmahon,
a dairyman of Gladstone, the enraged
landlord yesterday afternoon threatened
to take the law into his own hands and
smoke out the tenants by stopping up
the chimney.
Armed with writ Of ejectment Con-
stable Gaines went to the home Of
VarO yesterday, but when he found
Mrs. Varo i'll in bed and a number of
small children about the house he did
not have the heart to enforce the or
der of the court, and returned to the
office with the process.
Soon after Mcmahon appeared, and
in anger demanded to know why the
family had not been elected. Con-
stable Gaines told him that he had
learned that Mrs. Varo's condition was
serious and that it was impossible to
throw her out. Hearing this the irate
landlord asserted that he would stop
up the chimney and smoke his ten
ants out.
VarO was two months In arrears with
his rent, having been out of work. Nc
Mahon came into possession Of the
house recently through a cooperative
home association.
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The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1904-04-01
CHORAL CLUB ISN'T
AFTER NEW LEADER
Rumor That Minneapolis Man May
Succeed Normington Is Secuted.

rumor, of Minneapolis origin, that
George H. Normington, Of that city,
would soon be superseded by Emil
Oberhoffer, of Minneapolis, as director
of the st. Paul Choral club turns out
to be diplomatic "feeler." Officers
and active members of the club ex-
pressed establishment last evening
when the report was brought to their
attention. They agreed that the active
members of the club are wholly salts
fed with Mr.. Nornington; that neither
the club nor any committee of the
club had made any proposals to Mr..
Oberhoffer; that the subject has been
discussed, If at ali, only by Mr.. Ober-
hotter and President Gustave SchoIIe,
Of the choral club, when Mr.. Scholle
was recently the guest Of Mr.. Ober-
hotter. SO
The alleged reasons for the change,
when reduced toodirectr assertion, are
that the Minneapolis Symphony or
chestra, organized last year with Mr..
Oberhoffer as director, under the aus
pices of the Minneapolis Philharmonic
club, has proved only an artistic sue
cess and will probably not be main
tanned another year with the unas-
club; that in order to continue this
orchestral experiment Director Ober-
hotter would like to direct also the st.
Paul Choral club so that the symphony
orchestra could give concerts next year
In both cities and could supplement,
under a united management, the must
cal activities of both the philharmonic
and the choral clubs.
Upon these proposals an influential
choralist commented last evening:
We've found no fault with Mr.
Normington. AS believe he surpass-
es Mr.. Oberhoffer in managing a vocal
chorus and Mr.. Oberhoffer does better
in directing an orchestra. But Mr..
Normington is a very modest man;
Mr.. Oberhoffer is strictly strenuous.
He might, perhaps, be able to give the
choral club a lively push. Still, his
symphony orchestra, I'm told, has al
ready lost some thousands Of dollars.
"Now, Mr.. Scholle, who is filing out
an uneXpired term of the choral club,
probably favors Mr.. Oberhoffer. But
although Mr.. Scholle will probably be
elected president at the annual meet
ing April IS, no change in the director
ship can be made except with the con-
sent of the whole club. And if we
do conclude to get a new director,
why should not st. Paul seek out
musical Moses of its very own?"
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1904-04-01

man, and said he was conducting the
only union tailor shop in the city. Hugh
Mccarthy said he believed that it was
wrong to nominate a labor candidate,
and those dissatisfied should vote for
the Republican nominee, and Nicholas
Klein declared that the meeting was
crooked business" and that if the
Democrats of the ward did not want
Bantz to represent them they had had
a chance to nominate some other man
out of a field of five candidates.
Opportunity was given those who
desired and had not voted in the pri-
maries to sign a petition putting
Nemitz in nomination as an independ-
ent candidates, but only a few signers
were obtainable, as nearly all the men
in the hall had voted in the primaries.
The petition must contain about 500
names. in order to place the candidate
on the ballots.
A precinct organization in Nemitz's
interest will meet next Monday night
at Mckinley hall in the Eighth ward.
The Fourth ward Republican pre-
cinct organization met last night at
Court hall, 345 Wabashc. street, and
listened to speeches by the candidates
and several others. Emil Schroeder and
Frank ]. Obst were named as finance
committee and D. T. Reese, w. j. Ba-
lille and E. B. Lott were indicated as
an executive committee. Col. Wright,
D. F. Reese, Herbert P. Keller, John I.
Howard, James Drummond, Walter
Boyd, Ross Clark and E. B. Lott were
among the speakers.
The Republican executive committee
will hold it's first meeting in it's new
headquarters, corner Robert and Fifth,
tonight. The headquarters are to be
on the second floor.
Seventh ward Republicans met yes
terday at noon hour in the Arrol build
ing, East Fourth street, yesterday and
perfected their precinct organization
by the selection of H. T. Drake as
chairman and Lambert Fairchild as
secretary. Col. Fred P. Wright, candi-
date for mayor addressed the meeting
and urged that the full Republican
strength of the ward be gotten out to
the polls. He expressed his belief that
were this done he would have a ma
jority in the ward of 1900. If he gets
500 he will do we'll.
John J. Leighton deposed and said
yesterday in the county auditors Office
that he had expended 500 in making
an unsuccessful canvass for the Re
publican nomination for mayor. H. G.
McNair swore to spending $3.50 in
the hope of getting place on the Re
publican ticket for assemblyman.