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The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-01-30
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THE DIPLOMATIC REsTAuRArEuR.

ENERAL NUNEZ the governor Of Havana was talking
~ in Philadelphia about diplomacy. ~. .. -
No one, he said possesses the excellent quality Of
diplomacy to higher degree and frequently
called on to exercise this quality than the successful resa-
e ateur. "
~ know in Havana whose diplomacy Is
consummae One day. in his palata cafe guest said Ito
waiter:
z q Waiter open the window q. . - 49,: -: 49,.
The waiter obeyed. Another guest frowning angrily
summoned the waiter. -. 49,. 49,. :.D =: - "
" DO you want me to catch my deatha he said tClose
that window at once 49,. -. ~. . 7...,, s.. 1870
The waiter closed the window and immediately the first
guest beloved at him: .>:s -: ~. - -. .-
Why did you close that Window Didn't I Just toll
you to open it? . . >.:.. -. ~. 49,. . -. -
In this difficulty the waiter sought out his diplomat;c
employer He stated the case and asked how aucha con-
tlngency, he should conduct himself pm fsaz' 10
How long have the two been in here9a the EN-.
ployer asked. 49, . ~ 4@@r:s., ~ -: s@7soc-
One sir replied the waiter, "has just entered Tn.
other has finished his dinner -. 49,.
Your is easy, then said tho diplomatic chief
Accommodate the gentleman who has not yet dined''
JOHN WAS FIooRED "
IA11LL1AM LBARY Of New York, ''the original Roosevelt
w man, apologzng for the slowness that some
"a BOOM he said, ''s not like pan of dough You
can set it tonight and have it fulbown in the morning
A boom is long and tedious piece Of work.
The man who complains about boorn's slow growth
is unjust and unreasonable the who complained
about the length of time took his wife to put up her hair
Hang it all, he said why do women require such
tremendous long while to do their hair inf It only takes me
4 ten seconds to do mine " - - b
That john his wife retorted lis second per hair
If worked at that rate you'd know what waiting
MEANS dear -
oIROUMsTANT1AL EVIDENCE.
g ENATOR DEPEW, at lawyers dinner, talked about
~ circumstantial evidence d. II s.s +.
Circumstantia evidence may be conclusive enough''
he said There Isl for instance the case Of the frog
that hoped out Of the pail Of milk thus aordne conclusive
crcumsana evidence the mks watering and the other
day heard of Of positive proof that ccumstan
Eal evidence had afforded. .gzs s:
young and pretty girl had been out walking.
ION her return her mother said:
3 rs {" Where have you been my dear e
j :" Only walking in the park, she replied.
By ".Who with = pursued the mother.
u No one, mamma, said the young girl.
:" No one?' her mother repeated
. No one' was the reply. !.
Then, said the older lady, explain how=t that you
have come home with walkingstick instead of an UNI
brella.' y
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-01-30

traders dancing.
Z t'One day mild hammered, scholarly old gentleman
walked into my office and said he wanted to buy Can
ton500 shares Of it. We made the trade for him and he
left We did him for weeks. Canton lay
whe and finally it got active It went up slowly at first
and then it began to It had gone up about ten points,
and then began to wonder what had become Of miss
ing customer One day he and sold his holdings
and went The strange part Of it that he caught
the top Of the market don't think the stock up
eighth after he made his DEAL = -:
HE disappeared again and Canton sagged and sagged.
We all kicked ourselves for having followed the old
example On the day when Canton weakest the old gen
teman back covered his shorts bought for
other rise Then he dropped out Of sight He
peated this operation two three times it had
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-01-30
.TOOTIsTRY.

5tP AEMISTRY is good thing said palmist ssand
footistry good thing too There are lines on the
feet that are rich in meaning the lines on the hands
1.-The lifeline the foot starts the base Of the b;o
toe travels under the nstep ending where long fife
is indicated far over toward the base Of the little toe
" IF this lifeline is broken in the hollow Of the foot T.
denotes severe illness in middle life If it ends in the ho
low OF the foot, it denotes death in middle life
There half dozen other lines on the sole op thu
foot that correspond with similar lines on the palm Of the
hand Whenever want to give person particularly GOOD
reading, l study his hand first then supplement, or
prove my work with study Of the lines Of his foot
: ~ Z a:@a@'5.:% TUNING CHURCH BELLS.
HE bell-makers finishing huge bell for maenia
! cent church Beside them stood piano. One strnck
note Of music from the instrument The other struck III.
bell blow with hammer.
"Claa-a-ng' sounded the mellow metal and the man
beside the bell took his tools and Clipped small piece
from it's edge
''sti too high he said |'Now, once more Geore.
Again the piano was struck and again the bell was
- w.
Still high said the workman, and he carefully Clipped
off another piece of metal.
won't you ruin that bell, chipping it so?" clergyman
stopped to ask.
Why bless you, no. sir said the bell-maker s.You
always have to chip bell to bring the required tone
Every bell after it done has be tuned and the onlv
way to tune tits to chip it. this way
Lawrence democrat. (Lawrenceburg, Tenn.) 1884-1925, 1905-07-21

Loew told how the emperor, recogniz-
ing the deaf-mute's great skill in
leather and plush working, as exem-
plified by examples of his work shown
at the Vienna exposition in 1873, had
bestowed grand decorations of honor
upon him.
The Start Of the Quarrel.
"Iipgens heard with doubling eyes,
and his agile hands replied, sarcastic
ally, that he did not take much stock
in his friends statement about these
dissertations.
Lawrence democrat. (Lawrenceburg, Tenn.) 1884-1925, 1905-07-21

ure at Fleischmann's Vienna bakery,
where his huge white -mustache and
dignihed bearing earned for him the
gobriquet of The Baron He break
tasted at Fleischmann's early every
morning, and at dinner every evening
was generally surrounded by q score
or more of guests, all deaf-mutes,
whose animated conversation was
most interesting to other patrons OF
the restaurant.
Married Deaf Mutes.
when nearly SO years OF age Mr..
Lawrence democrat. (Lawrenceburg, Tenn.) 1884-1925, 1905-07-21

than one, four hands are able to talb
more than two.
"They talked and they planned, and
they decided that Lipgens had injured
them both to such an extent that he
must be made to pay for the folly Of
his fiippant fingers in court of law.
And they called in lawyer. He was
John Loew, who, by the way, is no re-
lation to Jacques, though one of his
sons, Moses, is a deaf-mute and men,
Der of the Union League, John Loews
daughter, Mrs. Rosalie Loew-Whitney,
is also a prominent lawyer.
"On being served with a notice that
he must answer in court for the al
legged indiscretions Of his fingers, Lip
gems Immediately engaged counsel for
himself, who has announced a counter
suit. Both cases will come to trial at
the fall term of the supreme court
'In the meantime all deaf-mutedom
is excited over the affair, and the Elect
Surds, whose lodge rooms are on the
same street, West One Hundred and
Twenty-fifth, as those of the Union
League, never wave their hands to the
enemy as was once their wont. In fact
both parties and all their friends are
maintaining deep silence"
Lawrence democrat. (Lawrenceburg, Tenn.) 1884-1925, 1905-07-21
Leaves Prison in q Box.

Jefferson City, Mo.-Harry Ham,
mond, convict in the state peniten-
tiary, sent up from st. Joseph in 1898
for Is years for murder in the second
degree, escaped the other night in a
shoe-box, and but for the fact that he
had failed to provide sufficient air.
holes would probably be free man.
Hammond concealed himself in the
shoe-box in the prison factory and was
started on the trip to Chicago. At
Cedar City, just across the river from
Jefferson City, the box, in which he
was securely nailed IN, lay for some
time on the station platform and the
agent heard groans coming from the
box. The box WAS opened and Ham
nond was taken back to the peniten'
tiary. He said he knew he was tax,
ing long chaace when he entered
the box. but he regarded anything a.
preferable. to prison life.
Lawrence democrat. (Lawrenceburg, Tenn.) 1884-1925, 1905-07-21
SCIENCE NEARING PLAGUE
Avenue of Commerce from Damascus
to Mecca Now Nears Breeding
Place of Disease.

The railroad from Damascus to Nee
ca has reached Maan, on the pilgrim
route, nearly 300 miles south Of Damas-
Gus, and not far from the head of the
Gulf of Akaba, and celebration was
recently held at that point, in which a
deputation from Medina, where Moham-
meds body rests, took part. The pri-
mary purpose of this railroad is an
nounced to be the assistance of pilgrims
on their way to and from Mecca. But
it will also possess strategic value for
the Turkish government, which is push
ing it, and for the world at large it is
Of importance because it cannot fail to
let the influences of civilized life into
a region sadly in need Of them. Mecca
has long been notorious as breeding
place of cholera and other epidemic dis
eases which spread over the globe.
Lawrence democrat. (Lawrenceburg, Tenn.) 1884-1925, 1905-07-21

empire a skilled mechanic nemed Yen
Shin was brought into his presence to
entertain him and the ladies of his
court Yen Shin had some automatic
figures which not only were capable Of
dancing, but of accompanying their
movements with song.
During the performance the puppets
cast such significant glances toward
the ladies that the emperor became an
cry, and ordered the execution of the
originator Of the play. The mechanic
ripped open the puppets and proved to
his astonished majesty that they were
artificial Instead of being executed,
Yen Shin was allowed to repeat the per-
Torrance, which corresponds to Punch
and Judy in England and America.
Lawrence democrat. (Lawrenceburg, Tenn.) 1884-1925, 1905-07-21
tX7WHRE
Il HEF''

cial delegates of the German mutes,
but accompanying them, though un-
burdened with credentials from his
silent countrymcn, came mute of tai
ent and renown through all the father
land, Rudolf Janik.
"Lipgens, who had achieved great
prominence through the formation OF
a club bearing his name "a branch OF
the deaf-mute Masonic order known as
the League of Elect Surds), seized
upon the distinguished visitors from
Germany, and when they came to New
York gave them a big banquet at the
Arena.
But Loew also was at the head of an
organization and had invited the dele
gates to attend a reception given by
the Union League of Doaf-Mutes on
the same night that the Elect Surds
held their banquet.
1.-THE. delegates went to the Surds'
dinner and in twinkling fingers told
of their Joy and happiness. But they
did not go to the Loew society's recep-
ton, which was a gloomy affair as a
result.
"Yet they would have been there,
claimed Loew, had not the busy fin
gers of Lipgens, writhing like snakes,
poisoned their minds against him.
Whereupon he was deeply Inundated,
perhaps the more because the greater
part of the expense of the leagues re-
ception had to be borne by him per-
sonally
at hurt him especially because
| Wutzulik was an old friend of his
whom he had entertained during a
similar congress of deaf-mutes at the
Chicago worlds fair; and when Lip
gems accompanied Wutzulik to St
Louis and back again to New York
and never let him go near Loew al
the time he was in the country Loew
writhed with anger.
Then he turned for consolation tt
Janik, the unofficial delegate, who
having found New York to his liking
decided to follow his profession-por
trait painting-here.
Idle Fingers Again.
"He became friendly with Loew, and
Lipgens claims, was by him influenced
against Lipgens. At any rate, idl'
fingers that had nothing better to d.
than to gossip conveyed to Lipgens
bullying eyes the news that Janik ha'
been talking about him. So whel
Janik applied for admission to tn
League of Elect Surds it was Lipgen
who blackballed him.
"The enraged Janik was seen b
Loew about this time, and was pre-
vailed on to apply for membership i
the Union League of Deaf-Mute.
which he did, being elected. Now
tie bound Loew and Janik that move
, thsn in one direction-revenge o
Lipgens, and. if two heads are bette
Lawrence democrat. (Lawrenceburg, Tenn.) 1884-1925, 1905-07-21
Ii Is ON the Fall Calendar of the New
York State Supreme Court.
deaf MUTES FOR PRINCIPALS AND WITNESSES
Testimony to Be Taken in Foreign Sign Lam
guages and Translated Into Engish-Prob-
lem for Judge and Jury-Story
of the Quarrel

Loew married a deaf-mute daughter of
Lonas Somehow, retired millionaire
merchant who lives in West Eighty
sixth street, and has two children, the
son, strange to say, being deaf-mute
like his parents, it being unusual Tor
the affection to descend from one
generation to another. Young Loew,
however, became deaf-mute through
illness and not as direct inheritance.
Their daughter, beautiful girl of Is,
possesses the faculties of both speech
and hearing. One of Mrs. Loew's Sis
tiers married son Of Meyer Guggen-
helm, the Silver King who died re-
Gently. Mr.. and Mrs. Loew spend
their summers with the Sonneborns
at Long Branch, where they drive the
smartest rigs and entertain largely.
"The other defendant plaintiff in the
case is almost equally well known, and
among the deaf-mutes perhaps even
more prominent than his septuagen-
arian opponent. He is Wilhelm Lip
gems, a German with trade, or, per-
haps, an art, that makes him unique
among craftsmen. He engraves upon
gold and silver by process all his
own, and since his arrival in New
York four years ago has been en-
ployed at very high salary by Tiff
fanny & Co. He had been in this coun-
try less than a year when he became
known to fame by personally present
ing President Roosevelt with silver
dollar on which was the effigy OF the
president in rough rider dress on
horseback, for which Mr.. Roosevelt
spoke his thanks in German, MI Lip
gems understanding the movement of
the lips when they frame words in his
native tongue.
Mr., Lipgens is married and lives
with his wife who, like him, is deaf
mute, and two thoroughly normal and
unusually bright children in fashion
able apartment on Washington
Heights.
"As soon as Lipgens came to this
country he became a fast friend OF
Loew The latter was the first prom
inent deaf-mute to welcome him to
New York, and their families became
closely associated. Dinner parties, at
which the elite of deaf-mutedom were
present, social affairs of every kind
made the Loews and Lipgens families
well known and popular, and the
friendship between them grew strong
er and stronger.
but the break came, chasm was
formed that can never be healed, and
will only be widened by the courts
probably. 1t started in simple man.
ner.
Zone evening Lipgens was a guest
at Loew's house. The conversation
came, somehow, to the honors thai
had been heaped upon Loew by the
emperor of Austria, Francis Joseph
With fingers that twinkled with pride
Lawrence democrat. (Lawrenceburg, Tenn.) 1884-1925, 1905-07-21

New York. The most remarkable
suit ever tried in court of law will
be heard when the New York supreme
court takes up it's autumn calendar.
Yet to say that the case will be
heard" is not stating the exact facts,
for the testimony will be given in that
most silent form of all silence-the
sign language of the deaf-mutes. Both
the parties to the case are mutes and
all the witnesses, of whom there will
be SO or 60, are likewise afflicted, so
that the story of the trouble that has
landed them in court will come from
the fingers instead of from the lips.
But this is not the only remarkable
feature OF this unusual case, which Is
further complicated by the fact that
some of the witnesses cannot "speak"
English, so that a great deal OF the
testimony will have to be given first
in the sign language in German, then
rtranslated into English, again into the
ssign language, and finally to spoken
English, so that the court and the Jury
may know what is going on.
With situation like this the posi-
'bilities to arise from the case are I'M
limited, and the tribulations of the
presiding justice, the jury and the
counsel for both sides may better be
Imagined than described at this time.
AS for the audience, it is promised a
most unusual event
Case of Wide Interest.
The New York World, commenting
upon this remarkable case, says:
Eighty thousand deaf-mutes in this
country, ard fully as many more in
Germany, Austria and France, will be
affected by the outcome of the case,
whatever it may be, for the parties at
law are both among the most prom
inent mutes in the werld, and what
ever interests them will interest their
fellows in the United States and Eu-
rope.
"The belligerents are both prom
inent in New York city, where they
reside. There are two suits, one
brought as an offset to the other, SO
that both parties are plaintiffs and
each is defendant. And, most Gu
srious point of all, considering the fact
that everyone connected with the at
fair is deaf-mute, the twin suits are
for-slander
ut would be hard, then, to conceive
q more intricate, complicated, para
doxical situation than presents Itself
now.
Jacques Loew, one Of the plaintiff
defendants, is well-known resident
of New York, which he has made his
home for the past 80 years since he
came from Austria. Although deaf
mite, he is an expert worker in leath
Der and plush goods, and made a goot
living even before he became a part
ner in one of the biggest concerns
manufacturing these goods. For {
score of years he was pr ointment fig
Lawrence democrat. (Lawrenceburg, Tenn.) 1884-1925, 1905-07-21

"'What!' shouted Loews right hand,
while his left reached for the desk
drawsr-in which he kept the tokens Of
the emperor's esteem. You doubt
me?
"Lipgens' fingers spoke the doubt
that would not allow him to believe
any sort of proof of his friends asser-
tions, and they parted for the evening.
The usual Good evening, come again,
was not motioned in the hall. The
breach had begun. 1t was only a. small
leak in the dixie of friendship, one that
could have been covered by the aglle
hand of either Lipgens or Loew.
But Loew's hands were busy ex-
pressing his outraged feelings, while
Lipgens', If Loews suspicious be cor
rect, were mischievously ~busying
themselves in spreading the SANDER
that jacques Loew's Austrian honors
and decorations were bogus.
"The rupture once made took the
erstwhile friends further and further
apart as time wore on, and the fingers
once raised and waggled in kindness
were now trembling systematically as
each Of their owners dilated on the
faults of the other.
The eliminating Point.
"The eliminating point was reached
last summer, when the Worlds Con-
gress of Deaf Mutes was held in st.
Louis.
From Germany to attend the con-
ference came Herr Albin Maria Wat
zulik, distinguished mute, who occu-
pies the post of superintendent of the
government printery at Altenburg, in
Saxony; and Martin Czempin, repre-
senting the many deaf-mute organiza-
lions of Berlin. These were the Off
Lawrence democrat. (Lawrenceburg, Tenn.) 1884-1925, 1905-07-21

WHEN WRITING TO ADvERTIsERs
please state thar you saw the Advertise
ment in the paper
Lawrence democrat. (Lawrenceburg, Tenn.) 1884-1925, 1905-07-21

Capt. w. w. jackson, 7G5 G St., N. w.,
Washington, ID. c., writes:
81 am eighty-thrce years old, a
veteran of the Black Hawk, Mexican
and the Civil Wars ! am by profession
a physician, but abandoned the same.
"Some years ago was seriously af-
fecfed with cafarrh of the stomach.
My sufferings were profracted and
severe. tried every known remedy
without obtaining relief
"In desperation I began the use of
your Pernna. Ibegan TO realize i'm
mediate though graduaIimprovemenf.
CATER the use of three bottles every
appearance of my complaint was re-
moved, and have no hesitation in rec
ommending it as an infallible remedy
for that disorder. w. W. Jackson.
Address DR.. s. B. Hartman, President
of The Hartman Sanitarium, Column
bus, Ohio.
Lawrence democrat. (Lawrenceburg, Tenn.) 1884-1925, 1905-07-21
PUNCH CAME FROM CHINA
This Character and Judy, So Popular
with Little Ones, Date Back 1000
Years Before Christ.

Punch and Judy dates back to about
1000 years before Christ.
When Emperor Mu, of the Chou dy-
nasty, was making tour through the
Scranton Wochenblatt. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1865-1918, 1905-03-23

@us Der Reibe Der binteriten ruanbte
Ii9 Der Sutob Sadi, Der Wilbbiiter,
Itri9 ii9 nit Der i9peren Sanb iiber
bas bolle, grdue Saar. als Of er ii4
beIdnne, uno fam bann in Ieinem
I9iperfGlisen S9ritt suriid. rgs
lam ni6t ales fortlaufen," Iu9te er
bsrantretenb, vss pirO Semunb bic
8abre trasen miiFen, tpenn lie lie
bringen." Die Wortc lparen bal6 an
ben pfarrbsrrn seri9tet, er frat aber
an biefem porbsi, nod INNER lpie in
@soanten, fte0te Iid neben ben Sobten
unb fab duf ibn nie6er. Seine unter
ben edisen 8rauen berboripdbenben
@ugen 9litten iiber ben 2ei9ndm bins
aus, balo 6ier6in, bdlb bort9in; einz
mai aud bob er plobli9 ben &opf unb
fab nit einem iG9sn unb i9arfen Bid
binter Observation-Disclosures Der, Der als
elmer Der lebten in Der Rihtung mad
feiner Siitte bin iih gemG4li9 ents
fernte, unterpegs bic 9feife unitedte
uno, ben Riiden ben beim 9aben Ste
benben ~susetpenbst, itile itano, ais
lGge ibm iuit an, gu aeigen, bab er teis
ne @ile babe, bon Der STEELE, po Der
Sobte lag, tpes5utommen.
Scranton Wochenblatt. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1865-1918, 1905-03-23

Gortissuns fuIst,)
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1905-08-10
A BANK BURGLARY.

r T was not often that Mr., Butl5

T T was not often that Mr., Butler,
manager of the Cable street
branch OF the London and South
western Bank, had occasion to visit his
Offices after business hours. But q
banking business is like no 6ther-d
bank manager is a man upon whose
shoulders rests much responsibility.
Mr.. Butler had been worried during
the four hours which had elapsed since
he put on his coat and hat and left the
Building at > o'clock. 1t was tricky
calculation that worried him, and he
WAS not quite certain, as he dallled
over his coffee, whether or not he was
on the eve of making great mistake.
That is why, contrary to his custom,
he ordered his electric hrougham, drove
to the city, and seated himself again
I'm his Office, with his back to the safe
and the big ledgers before him on the
table.
His brow was wrinkled in thought,
and his keen, gray eyes rapidly flew
over the beWildcring mass OF figures
He became absorbed in his work-so
much so, indeed, that he did not hear
the creak of the little door on his left,
nor did there fall upon his ear the soft
breathing of a man at Lis side.
\ few moments later he was star
tied by feeling something cold pressed