The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-11-12

tain employment in any position as a woman she determined to pose as Q man, and in this disguise went to Ham nibal, Mo. She worked there six years as a dry goods clerk, then became cashier of bank and held the position for eight years.
 The President of the bank then died. causing the inAtitution to be closed. ] still maintaining her masculine garb, she drifted from place to place. and l twenty-one years ago came to Colo rado and secured q place as sheepherd- CT. She was held in high regard by those who knew her.
 Until last week Mfr. and Mrs. Brown with whom the woman lived, regarded her as a man. She positively refuses to tell her real name Lulu Crawford, IT years old. pleaded guilty of grand larceny. She and her | lawyer said she stole to save her parents home from being sold Judge Cowing said he would send her to the reformatory, but postponed sentence A court officer tapped her shoulder and nodded toward the Tombs prison Lulu Crawford fell in a faint. Seeing her stretched senseless, her ! mother tainted; there was a commQtion in the court room: sympathetic &hur- | muIS dIObG. " ava SAS SAAA ANSS Ne@ ~~ss Judge Cowing said:
 .There must be some good in you when you faint at the mere mention of a cell. I shall let you go with your mother if you promise me you will never again do anything that win bring | you into court like this"
 The girl raised her tear-stained face and said solemnly:
 T never will, sir"
 
 Negroes in the vicinity of Macon, Mo, are almost breaking their necks to get into the county jail. since 1t became known recently that two negroes who were confined in the jail six months were almost white when they were taken out It is explained that the damp condition of the jail, which has been condemned. is the cause for the bleaching.
 When the news got around the negroes began pleading guilty to crap- shooting even before they were ques- tioned about it. The sheriff let fifteen come in and then said:
 aTm on to you, and if you want to get bIeached out you'H have to use sandpaper and file. I ain't going to feed any more of you in this beauty parlor."
 The real Alabama negro is not chang cd much; it's the mulatto who experf- ences the most beneficial results The county physician compares 1t to the beautifying effects of London fogs.
 After writing his will on a handbill
 printed to advertise his sale of house. hold goods, Frank Hussey of Kunkle-
 town Pa, whose wife committed suicide several years ago, was found dead in bed, under circumstances point ing to premeditated death. Register of wills William Landrew admitted the
 will to probate as follows:
 .This is my will that everything that belongs to me- my boy or son, Simeon q Hussey, is to receive, after my just debts are paid as want to go with my wife, Nettie F. Hussey"
 Miss I.lIlie Linville of Anderson, Ind. q clerk. has been declared heroine be- cause she killed rat. while other wo- men in the store screamed with fright I when the rodent scan.pered over the door. She cornered the rat between some barrels and some baskets. Then the rat attempted to escape but Miss IJnvilIe quickly picked up a large turnfp and accurately threw it at the rat with velocity enough to kill 1t.
 The scared women came down from the counters. seats and chairs When her employer heard of the exploit he raised her salary and bought another ] supply of turniDs