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The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1905-01-08
TO SAVE CONDEMNED WOMEN.
Mrs. Blickensderfer Doesn't Want Mrs,
Edwards and Mrs. Rogers Hanged.

STAMFORD, Conn. Jan Mrs. William j.
Blickensderfer, wife of the vice-president OF
the Bliokcnsderfer Manufacturing Com
pany sent broadcast day what she terms
an appeal TO American women to protest
against the hanging Of Mary Rogers OF
Vermont and Kate Edwards Of Pennsylvania.
each of whom murdered her husband
The Edwards woman is to be hanged on
Feb and the Rogers woman on Feb. 10.
Such spectacle would be q disgrace
TO the country raid Mrs. Bliokensderfer
to-day. 4 have heard that not a single
woman in Vermont has shown mercy for
the Rogers woman. Such thing is a dis
grace TO the sex Either the woman Is
not right in her mind or she is Of such a
low grade Of intelligence that it would be
unjust to punish her by death.
"Ihnve no sympathy personally for either
OF the women except that my pity is forced
by the fact that these unfortunate creatures
we're so born and so bred that whatever
spark OF intelligence was born In them
remained Unframed by good influences.
Ihold thatit ia wrong TO put them to death. '
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1905-01-08

PLAtNpIELp. y. J.. Jan. Mis-. Edith
Burt daughter Of the late Mr. and Mrs.
William c Burt. and granddaughter Of the
late Chauncey Scharer OF New York. was
married TO Howard Roland Reiter OF Phila-
delphia at $50 o'clock this evening al the
home Of the bride In West Seventh street.
The Rev George Gilmore. pastor Of the Con-
gregatlonsl church at Rutland. Vt. class
mate of the groom at Princeton, performed
tho ceremony Miss Marion Douglass Of
Minneapolis a clsssnate OF the bride az Nelles-
ley. was maid Of honor. and Newkirk Reiter
OF Princeton, n brother OF the groom. was
best man Franz Relter another brother.
and Charles Crawford Burt and Chauncey
Burt brothers OF the bride. were the ushers
one hundred guests from Philadelphia,
Baltimore New England and this city were
present Mr. Reiter familiary known as
Bosey. first met his bride at Asbury Park
ten years ago. where he was employed as
life saver Both he and Mas Burt were er-
pert swimmers and assisted In several res
cues
Mr. Reiter was the star half back on the
Princeton football team in 90. 9s and 90
lie was graduated in the class Of sS. and
afterward took three-years course IN the
Theological Seminary. Since leaving col
lege he has been engaged in evangeistic
work and has acted coach Tor other
college football teams He is now consider
ing nm ofler 10 take charge OF athletics a.
Wesleyan University
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1905-01-08
The Weather.

The storm was central yesterday morning over
northern New YORK. moving slowly northeast
ward The winds continued high on the view
England coast but had materially diminished on
the ulddle Atlantic coast and werc blowing gen
orally from a southerly quarter Heavy rain OF
from one TO two inches fell In the South and Middle
Atlantic states and heavy rain and snow In Now
England and moderately heavy snow In the dis
trict around the Lake regions IheTe was some
ush, and scntterrd snow In Kansas. Iowa and
Minnesota Fair weather prevailed IN tht South
ern States and In most Of tho West and fair or clear
ing weather In the Middle Atlantic states
II was 10 TO 50 degrees warmer In the Middle
Atlantic and New England states sna eooi'r bs
n 20 % degrees In the South Atlantic states west
OF inc Mississippi It way slightly colder
In this city the day Was fair and warm'r wind
brisk southerly: average humidity. 70 PER cent.
barometer corrected 70 read 20 sea level ats A. NJ
70 90. , p NJ cpH
The temperature yesterday. a. recorded by the
ooct,I ,hrrrouster Is shown in the ANNEXED table
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1905-01-08
SNOW IN WESTERN NEW YORK.
The Heaviest OF the Winter in Buffalo
Temperature Mild.

BUFFALO, Jan. Western New York,
and as far east as Lyons in the north. Gene
va in the middle and Bath in the south, Il
buried under snow, which varies in depth
from ten to fourteen inches.
In Buralothe snowstorm was the heaviest
for a single storm OF any that occurred
here this winter or last winter The tenn
perature was only few degrees below
freezing, and the indications are that the
snow which is still falling heavily, may
turn TO rain. An almost dead calm pre-
walls and it is because Of this that the
railroads have experienced practically no
difficulty The Central Ia the only road
that reports delayed trains, the delays
being from one TO two hours.
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v,sUtsoTos YoREcAsr ron TO DAT SpTo.NoEsov.
70, eastern. Nstc York, cioudv 70 dan utfh fnoH
:, ne interior and colder N me rGsi porilon h-fk
10 btJh ta-sf 10 norhT~N rirfs' ff'r 70 mo- os1t.
FOR the District Of Columbia fair and colder
N day: frc,h 20 brisk northwest winds fair to-
morrow .
For Maryland, fair 20 .d'y except snow In the
mountain districts; colder In east portion. onsk
10 hish norsnw-st winds fair o-morroW.
vor New jersey and Delaware fair and colder
,d.v. brls. 10 high west 10 uorthwett v,uds. fair
tomorrow.
For eastern Pennsylvania. fair 10 day, eIcep,
,,ou fl, the northeast portion colder In EAST Dor
tlon. brisk to high west to northwest Nnas' tHi
to morrow.
tor Nen Ungisnd far.and cold IN south snow
,,d colder In north portion 10 day. brisk 20 high
.outhwest 10 wcst winds. 'slr 10 morrow and colder
In eastern Name.
ror western NrV YORK, snow 70 day and colder
On ea,t portion high west winds CLOUDY 10 morrow
Win snow In north and rrst portion.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1905-01-08
LAFAYETTE 0LNEY DEAD,
veteran Public School Teacher Falls Vic
tim TO Heart Disease

Lafayette Olney, veteran public school
teacher was found dead in bed at his home,
1870 West %s0th street. yesterday morning.
Death was duo 10 heart disease. Mr., Olney
was born in New York in 1927 and began
bis services in the public schools at the age
OF II. as monitor in old No. II, IN Wooster
street. In 1874 he became teacher in the
Cbrystie street school, old No :, and later
was transferred TO No. II, in East Twenty
seventh street.
In 1857 he was made prncpal on the
schooi in which position he remained for
fortv-fve year.. until his retirement in
1907. Justice Vernon VI. Davis was one
Of his pupils in No. a. He ia survived by
his wife and two sons. 49,
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1905-01-08
DINNER TO NEW POSTMASTER
Leaders Congratulate Mr. Wilcox and
WISH Him SUCCESS.

Leaders Congratulate Mr. Wilcox and
wish Him success.
A complimentary dinner was given at the
Union League Club last night to William r.
Wilcox TO celebrate his Inauguration as
Postmaster. 1t was purely social, and there
wore no set speeches. although some Of the
diners made imrromptu remarks' mostly
in congratulation OF MI Wilcox. Corne-
Illus " Bliss presided. Among the guests
we're Thomas L. James. the Rev Father
Henry A. Brann William + Havemeyer
John H. Starin. George r.. Sheldon, Seth
Low. Gen. James II Clarkson, John d.
Crimmins, Former Police Commissioner
Partridge. William Halpin, J ". Vroomar,
whitelaw Reid. A. b. Hepburn, Cyrus Clark
and McDougall Hawkes.. The souvenir
menu card bore a picture Of MI Wilcox.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1905-01-08
Reef-Barron vs..

Miss Fannie Barrows was married to Chester
4 Reed Of Boston yesterday In the Church
OF the Ascension by the Pew. Dr. Percy Stick
ney Grant the rector.
Dr. william Penrose Of Philad elphia was
the best man and Spencer Penrose OF Phla-
delphia and John Wakefield Of Boston were
the ushers The bride is daughter Of the
n Ia
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1905-01-08
New Dormltory for Princeto a.

PRINCETON, y. j., Jan. "A large new
dormitory. costing 100000. will soon add
to the attractiveness OF the Princeton
campus The building will be- n present
from the classes between 1891 and 1902
and will be located to the east Of Brokaw
Field. not far from the new gymnasium
Work will commence early in the spring
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1905-01-08
Might Have Been Is Inches OF snow.

The rainfall which ended early yesterday
morning was % inches. Had it been
snow instead of rain the snowfall would
have been 1913 inches.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1905-01-08
Held for pIsplacins Channel Huoy.

NORFOLK, Va Jan. Capt. William
J. Bartlett Of the New York tug Cuba has
been arrested upon Federal warrant
here charging him with displa cing channel
buoy in Hampton Roads and failing TO re-
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1905-01-08
J EAST 18TH ST,

Nr Vim j. sha nnuu has turned the entire prem.
i.-. aver 10 rnf with Instructions 10 dispose ~
,,gs 10 the highest bidder for caah, and ! make
ne rribiir statement that there IS no limit or re
s.rvs ana r,cg article viii be disposed Of accord o
.t,y 10 Instructions received by me. This sale
Il. rfrfy thr attention Of conuuisSeurs collectors,
al deatrrs and experts, whom 7 cordially inSit-
q, ,st~nd tn crhlbition and srcur~ catalogue.
Il HATFIELD MORTON, AICT1ONEgR,
Telephone. 2z0O-Jsth st. 1909 BroadNy'
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1905-01-20

found two young confederate soldiers
two boys, about II or 10 years of age,
lying wounded upon the field. l took
them to my home, then in the neigh
borhood OF the battlefield, and took
care of them for several weeks, until
they had almost recovered from their
wounds. One morning a company of
federal soldiers surrounded my house
and took us prisoners to DanUlle.
where they kept us for several days
before taking the boys to prison. When
the lads were about to be taken away
they gave me this $50 bill for taking
care of them. I refused at first, but
they insisted that take the money,
for it would be taken from them any
way, and l would just as soon have it
as anybody. finally consented. They
gave me the bill and babe me good-by
as they went to prison. This was AZ
years ago. said the judge, land /
have neither heard nor seen anything
of the young soldiers since, but have
kept the money. Many times + have
been broke and in need of a dollar, but
never had desire to spend The bill.
Here it is: it belongs to them"
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1905-01-20
OLD WARRIO o T AIKS.
TELLS HIS CRoNY WHAT.DIxIE''
AK. ( y MEANS TO HIM \ @s5: NJ
Unlucky Result Of Union Officers
L Well Intended Choice Of a Tune J.
Moved the Enemy ito = ::
Destroy His Men. s.-..'

A distinguished retired general Of the
revolutionary army, was seated on the
lawn in front of his Rhode Island avenue
home at Washington the other evening,
in conversation with a crony, when an
Italian with street piano stopped in
front of the house. 1t was we'll tuned
street piano of the better sort; and the
old general enjoyed the music so much
that when, at the wind-up of the second
tune, the Italian entered the. yard,
Sinking and holding out his hat, the
veteran officer, tossed him a quarter.
Then, says the New York Sun, the Ital-
ian went back to the tune machine and
began to grind out Dixie"
Before half of the first measure of
Dixie had been played the retired gen.
eral rose from his bench, and, without
word to his crony, walked into his
house, through the hall and to the back
yard.
He did not return to the bench seat
beside his friend until the street piano
man had gone away down the avenue,
out of hearing. He didn't make any ex-
seat, either. But his crony was curious.
E'Old man. he said to the retired gen
eral, Il never knew before that you were
narrow and prejudiced. There's none of
the old soreness left in you, is there,
that you ran away from .Dixie?'"
That's all right" calmly replied the
old officer. I'm neither prejudiced nor
narrow-nobody less so. But got the
worst of the Dixie tune little matter
of forty and odd years ago, so that I've
never been able to listen to Dixie since
without becoming sort of restless.
when Gen. Fitzpatrick was operating
down around Macon, tearing up rail-
roads and such like, was with him. l
had charge of destroying the tracks.
"The Johnnies were in front of us. in
plain sight, but they didn't bother US
any.
'They merely watched us across the
clearings and through the trees, and
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1905-01-20

white cat, which kept respectable hours
and never showed any desire to stay out
of nights, In the excitement of the nov
ing at the same time the Veazie cat was
lost When Mr.. and Mrs Veazie became
settled in their new home one of the first
qdesthns asked vas: where's Tom 80
Tom was missing, and remained missing.
His whereabouts was a sources Of much
guessing to the Veazies, who concluded
some one must have stolen him. "
A few days after their moving; how
ever, the Veazies received letter from
Mr.. Beane in Massena, N. Y, in which it
was stately written that the Veazie cat
had just been unpacked from among the
Beane household goods, which were a
week on the road. The cat was found in
a two-foot length of six-inch stove pipe.
rather weak from hunger, but able to sit
up and take notice, after dish of warm
milk had been eaten. -*,.%
Mr.. Veazie sent the cat on by express.
and now has Mr.. Beane's letter, as we'll
as the cat, to prove the truth of. Toms
trip in sfx-inch stovepipe.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1905-01-20

the middle of the highway, the snap.
per stuck it's head out of it's shell and
with extended neck assumed an ag.
gressive attitude, causing the cyclers
to slacken speed.
The lads dismounted, and one of
them was pursued by the snapper with
open mouth, while the other sought
refuge behind a convenient trolley
pole.
1t was while they were in this pre-
dicament that the trolley car operat.
ing between Essington and Moores
came along, and the lusty shouts OF
the young wheelmen attracted the at
tention of the motorman, George
Smith, who stopped his car and soon
sized up the situation.
The motorman has a taste for snap
per and he laid plan to capture it by
taking the rope from the trolley pole
which he used as a lasso. The snap
per next directed its attention to the
motorman and caught the rope in its
razorlike jaws and cut it in twain
Motorman Smith, with the assist
ance of Conductor Robert News, finally
made the snapper prisoner. took ii
to his home in Chester and will enter
tain his friends later on with snapper
SOUP.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1905-01-20

desperate contests at the CREST ma
tional game have been played in johns
cabin, on the bank of the river. His
place became famous in the early days,
as an abiding place during the hot
months of summer for many lumber
men from Minneapolis, Duluth and
other places who desired to have an
outing. Their principal occupation
while in the vicinity of Johns home
was poker playing. In spirit of kind
ness they taught him to play, when
they first came, and he used to sit in
the games with them. If his guests
won, they would give the money back
to John, believing that he was unac-
quainted with the game and to keep
the money would be nothing short of
robbery. 1t invariably happened that
John was always the winner when the
guests got ready to depart
It. was some years before the truth
OF Johns knowledge of the cards be-
came known. It appears that he knew
all about poker and had some origi-
nal tricks that were sure winners. He
possessed an old deerskin tobacco
pouch and when playing would always
sit with the pouch between his knees.
When the time came to fill hands,
John would evince an unsuitable de-
sire to smoke and would dive into the
sack and replenish his pipe. Invaria-
bly,, after filling his pipe he would lay
down the winning hand and take. the
pot. This went on for many years,
until finally John could not stand the
humorous side of his little game, and
he told the boys one day how he did
it. Inside the tobacco pouch was
whole deck of cards and when he
wanted a good hand he would fill his
pipe and incidentally his hand.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1905-01-20

afterward Harry's little brother came
running into the house.
Look out, the p'licemen ara after
ye,' he painted, breathlessly.
Harry and his bride dashed out of
the house, hand in hand, and made
for the Missouri river, with the Off
GERS in close pursuit. They sprang
into a rowboat, but before Harry
could pick up the oars the policeman
seized the boats painter and the young
bride and groom were escorted to Jail,
where Harry is Held on a CHARGE of
abduction.
Her mother wanted her to marry
Everett Soloman, who worked for the
Iowa Dairy company" young Seward
said, and I wouldn't stand for it. I'll
soon find work and will support my
Stella. | may have done wrong in
stealing her away but love her and
will protect her if l have a chance"
y :
Albert Grayland. of Sharon, Mimi.
was only 20 years Old, and Myrtle
Thyme, his sweetheart, was IS
when they sought a marriage license to
we'd.
You're not of age" said the clerk.
You have to have the consent of your
parents or a guardian"
But have no parents and no guar.
dian," replied Albert Grayland.
Get a guardian. then" suggested
the clerk.
A queer light shone in the eyes of
the girl. I'm IS years DID," she said,
land of Legal age. Why can't I be
your guardian?"
They went to the probate Judge.
Blushingly the girl told the judge the
story and asked to be appointed the
guardian of Alfred Grayland, infant.
The judge had been young himself,
once, and probably in love a good
many times. So he signed the papers.
and Myrtle Thyme took possession of
her ward, Albert Grayland, and all his
property-he is we'll off. She married
him right away, but, under the laws of
Minnesota, she has to report to 1he
probate judge every cent spent by her
husband. All his cigar money goes
into the report. When he spends so
cents to see ball game the amount
has to be inserted in a bill Of particu-
lars and filed with the court
The young bride even was compelled
to pay the two-dollar fee for the H.
ceose and the three-dollar fee to the
Justice of the peace. These expendi-
t3:res she had to report to the court as
marriage expenses" of her ward.
Furthermore, she must keep good eye
to his conduct, for in this state guar
dams are responsible for the moral
as we'll as the financial welfare Of
their wards.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1905-01-20

I think child should be taught And
he's thorough. He isn't content with SUI
perf1cial knowledge. The other day he
was asking me what was in the sofa pill
lows and told him some of them were
stuffed with down and some with feath-
ers and the green fiat one had pine
needles inside. Of course he wanted to
know then what down was and l told
him it was little feathers and the other
feathers were just feathers and that
they didn't sew things with pine needles
and that the other kind of needles didn't
grow on other kinds of trees and went
into the subject, as thought, quite thor
oughly. But Harold wasn't satisfied
and while was out Of the room he took
my scissors and cut open two of the pill
lows and when l came down he had the
feathers scattered all over. He wanted
to see for himself, you know. 1 think
that is such splendid trait in a. boy,
don't you know. If he makes the law
his profession it will be valuable to him
Hes got lots of spirit and will Of
his own. We can't make him do any
thing he doesn't want to do unless we
can make him see that. it's for his own
good. always reason with him and
just as soon as convince him you never
saw a more obedient and docile little
fellow. You see, what Harold needs is
some one who can understand him and
deal with him intelligently. Excuse me
a moment and I'll see what he's doing
now"
AS the fond mother left the room,
records the Chicago News, one of the
visitors turned to the other and said:
What Harold needs is a nice, large,
smooth~backed hairbrush laid on hard
where it will do the most good, and I'd
like to be the one to give it to him."
The other visitor~nodded.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1905-01-20
DEAR HAR0LD'S WAY:
HE'S A CHARMING BOY, HIS.
FOND. MOTHER SAYS. 80.
Needs Intelligent Treatment and
: Kindness, According to the Same 4:
Authority, But Nobody
Agrees with Her.

Harold isn't an ordinary child, by
any means" observed the fond mother.
''He has tremendous energy and it is
sometimes quite problem for his father
and myself to keep it properly applied.
Only the other day he got a can Of red
paint that the men had been using to
paint the back fence with and daubed
it in stripes all up and down the front
Of the house as high as he could reach,
and when he had done that he went next
door and did the same thing to the front
of their home. Of course, he didn't mean
any. harm, but they were quite ILL
natured about it.
Il thought it showed. an artistic ten
dency-to a certain extent, though, Of
course, crude. 1t needs development,
that's all.
Il was going to say that the woman
was mean about it. She scolded the
poor child and then she came and COM
planned to me. told her that was very
sorry and that I would ask Mr.. Kidly to
see that it was cleaned off, but let her
see by my manner what I thought of her
making fuss about a little thing like
that.
But the amusing part of it was that
Harold, poor child, took her scolding to
heart so much that she had hardly got
back into the house when he ran out and
flung stone through one of their win
dows. He was going to throw another
when called to him and made him come
in. told him that it was very wrong to
throw stones through peoples windows.
Harold is very sensitive, you know, and
he wasn't used to being talked to in the
way that woman talked to him, and,
being child Of spirit, it was quite natu-
raj for him to resent it. What Harold
needs5is kindness.
HE has such an inquiring disposition
Why, he'll sit and ask me questions by
the hour-oh, on the strangest subjects.
always make point of answering him.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1905-01-20
STRANGE CIVIL WAR STORY.
A Kentucky Judges Reason for Keep
ing Twenty-Dollar Bill
Forty-Two Years.

The Danville (Ky.) correspondent of
the Louisville Post says that Coun-
ty Judge W. H. Prewitt, who
now lies critically i'll at his home in
that city, with very little hope of his
recovery, has in his possession a $40
bill which has connected with it a. pa
thetic story of our civil war. While
gathering together and arranging his
personal effects, in company with sew
eral friends on Tuesday, he pulled
from an old box $50 bill, yellow with
age, and remarked: This must not
be spent during my lifetime'
He then related the following story:
Just after the battle OF Perryville I
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1905-01-20
CHICAGO MAIL SAVES MAN.
Prompt Delivery Of Special Delivery
Letter Thwarts Plans of j
- =,
Would-Be Suicide. &# +

There is no story that Postmaster
F. E. Coyne, of Chicago, tells with
more pleasure than that of how prompt
mail delivery saved a mans life. If
any verification of the story is needed
let it be known that almost every pa
trolman in Englewood will vouch for
for it. 80
One afternoon a young man living
in Englewood decided that life. was not
worth the living. Accordingly he made
plans to kill himself. He wrote to his
brother, who lives far out on the West
side, that he would find his body il
he broke open the door of his room.
He put special delivery stamp on the
envelope. Then he turned his foot
steps homeward. Hardly had he mailed
the letter before it was collected and
along with other mail it was: put
aboard trolley mail car. = +
The mail clerk who handled 1t lit
tie dreamed of it's contents. He sorted