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The Aberdeen weekly. [volume] (Aberdeen, Miss.) 1878-1933, 1905-12-15
RESCUES MAOMAN
FROM SURE DEATH
DETECTIVE GRASPS HIM AS HE
PLUNGEs THROUGH WINDOW.
TRIES HARD TO KILL SELF
Officer Holds On to Struggling Maniac
Until Help Arrives-Latter Goes
to Hotel After Wild ALL
Night Auto Ride

Chicago.-A. 5. Lally, a guest of the
Great Northern hotel. in a desperate
attempt to end his life. plunged
through a seventh-story window of the
building the other day. With a flying
leap House Detective William Fitzger-
aid reached the window and in mo-
ment grasped the ankle of the falling
man The force of the guests body
almost carried the detective with him,
but Fitzgerald braced himself against
the window ledge 10 drag the man
back through the window. The weight
was too much for him. however, and
he could only hold Lally until help
came. None of the adjoining rooms
was occupied, and ritzgerald's shouts
for help could not be heard.
Lally in the meantime was gesticu-
lating wildly with his hands, kicking
his feet and squirming in an endeavor
TO release himself. This added to his
weight and almost caused the detec-
tive TO let so. He had decided that ne
was unable 10 hold on much longer
when he heard steps along the hall
corridor, and then. bracing himself
with renewed energy, he shouted loud
~ for help. This time his voice was
heard and other guests dashed into the
room.
They saw the officer, and. running to
his assistance, dragged Lally back
into the room. The man was almost
unconscious, the blood having gone 10
his head during the long time that he
hung suspended between life and
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ATTRACTING WILD GEESE.
Electric Lights in Western Towns
Encircled by the Fly
ing Fowl.

A 'northert in Oklahoma a week
or two ago brought with it heavy
flight of wild geese and ducks. At
Guthrie and other towns having cleo
trio street lights geese circle all night
in the illuminated mist. often flying
so low as to be in reach of shotguns-
A number of geese were killed. re-
ports the Kansas City Times
An old hunter said that on such a
night wild geese in high flight mis-
took these radiant spots in the dark
ness for water. Once in the lighn the
geese quickly lost their bearings, be-
came confused and seldom extricated
themselves until daylight revealed the
cause of their deception. knowledge
of the attraction of fire beacons for
wild geese on stormy nights was used
TO advantage by native sportsmen in
southern Kansas and the northern
Usage country where I lived in early
days" said the hunter.
NAs fall approached, a high land.
mark would be chosen by the hunter
and on its top he would pile wood for
a big fire. Then he waited for thu
storm that brought the geese. Light
ing his fire, its glare could be seen for
miles. Geese were drawn to the spot
by hundreds. | have known hunters
to kill a wagonload of geese in a sin.
gle night"
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BURGLAR FOND OF FLOWERS
The Luxurious Taste of a House.
breaker Betrays Him to
the Police

A recent English robbery case, which
reads almost like one of the Sherlock
Holmes stories. related TO the detec-
ton OF a thief through his fondness
for flowers.
The only clew left by the robbie.
of a house near Northampton was a
fragment of a flower. whose petals
were scattered owe, the floor. Nc
flowers of the same sort were grown
in the garden of the house robbed or
by the neighbors, but an investigation
OF the florist shops in the nearby
town showed that a flower of that sort
had been purchased the evening be-
fore by a man who was recognized
from the description given to be a
well-known burglar.
At the trial it was shown that. al
though the night had been warm, the
thief, who was of delicate health. had
worn a light overcoar, which crushed
the petals of the flower beneath. and
these had fallen to the carpet when he
had opened his coat tC stow away the
jewels. which constituted the greater
part of the spoils.
Although the clew was a slight one.
1t was correct, and the luxury loving
crook will have no need of flowers
to decorate his broad arrow suit foI
some time to come.
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CHANCES FROM CHILD
TO 1o-YEAR-OLD GIRL.
Remarkable Transformation Wrought
in Miss Mary Scally in 4S Hours
Her Strange Maiady.

Morristown. n. Miss Mary Scaiiy,
a pretty 19-year-old girl of this city. has
just experienced something little less
remarkable than a resurrection. IN
deed, the astonishment and awe OF her
friends as they crowd around her. look
into her eyes and feel her hands. scarce
" could be greater if she had come back
from the grave.
The marvellous change was wrought IN
IS hours In every respect except as 10
her physical stature Miss Scally had
been as a little child She drank milk
from a tube She was guided when she
walked as though she were a lettering
babe. Her only interest in life was the
jingling of toy rattle. She could not
talk and her eyes wore the innocent
aimless look of an 1S-months-old infant
Learned physicians had tried in vain 10
loose the spell.
Her aunt. Bridget Scally, who lives
with Mary and the girls father. Patrick
Scally, had given up hope of the young
woman's recovery and had settled down
to care for her in the same way that she
would for a baby when the girl, within
two days. leaped the span of Is years of
mental development And the working
of this wonder left science as ignorant
as ever of the why or wherefore of the
psychological mystery
The girl. strapped in her roller chair
and sitting at the window playing with
a rubber doll. saw an exhibition of fire
works which had been left over from
election time. The vivid lights and
flashes seemed TO send forth waves of
force which penetrated into the dark, in
accessible depths of her mind and
straightway began 10 illuminate them.
The girl quickly but gradually recovered
her reason and consciousness Her
first exclamation was one of thankSgiy-
ing.
All of the other five children of the
household are overjoyed at Mary 5 re-
covery, but nevertheless gaze upon heI
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Adventures of Girl Tramp.

Crescent Point, Ill.-Nellie Wilson,
aged 10, who has been missing from
her home near here since August 10,
has been found and was returned to
her sorrowing parents. She told a
sensational story of her adventures fer
the past three months. declaring that
she went to Chicago. walking all the
way. From there she went to Joliet.
where she fell in with some youthful
tramps and. DOMINIC male attire and
cutting her hair, she travelled as boy.
She was arrested near Pekin, ILL.,, and,
being released, went to ST. Louis and
from there to Joplin. Mo-, where she
went TO work as boy in the zinc
fields. There she finally was recog-
nized by Henry Bouman, of this place,
who Immediately notified her parents
and later accompanied her here-
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though he was saying he was a bad
man from Bitter creek.
Well. at Akron. the keeper of this
elephant Bolivar. had TO 20 and see
a girl that he met when the show was
here last year. and settle a case OF
breach Of promise before a justice of
The peace. and the boss told pa TO look
after the elephant for an hour or 50.
so pa took pole with hook in il and
sat down on a bale Of hay 70 watch
Bolivar II was one of those hot days
and Bolivar stood dropping and per-
spring. and wishing the show was in
Alaska. and pa was kind of sleepy.
like everybody in the show. when sud
denly that elephant whOOped, and
swatted Jeanette. his wife. couple of
times. and she cried pitiful. and pa
put the hook in BOliyar's hide and
gave a jerk. and told him 10 hush up
that noise. but Bolivar just reared and
pitched and walked right through the
side of the menagerie tent. and seemed
to say to the other animals: Come
on. boys: there is going to be some
thing doing" and the animals all set
up a howl in their own language, as
though they were saying: 'WhOoper
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army, and didn't intend TO serve. and
that my family would make it hot for
Maj. Davis and the war department
if | was not let out of the guardhouse
and sent back to San Francisco.
All of my protests were for naught.
/ was bundled on board the transport
Thomas with the regiment and sent
to the Philippines. That was on Feb
ruary u, low, and I had awakened
from my long sleep on January II.
we landed at Manila on March 3.
and | was sent with a detachment of
troops to the camp at Santa Mesa.
Again l made a row about serving in
the army when I had never enlisted,
and was sent back to Manila and
clapped into guardhouse. After
four days of it I was sent to serve
with company I, of the Second in
fantry, at Laguimanoc, about 200 miles
south of Manila
Part of the time in the next few
weeks | was in the hospital, and
when 1 got strong enough 1 broke
through the quarantine guard and got
to Col. Roberts, who had succeeded
Col Greenough as commander at
Manila. / was fined six dollars and
sent back to the hospital prison
still owe Uncle Sam the two fines,
amounting to $11. He owes me for
about a years enforced service in his
army, and refuses to pay
''On September &c, 1902, an order
came from Gen. Chaffee to send LIE
back to the United States 1 was
placed on the Sheridan. which sailed
from Manila on October 1, and dropped
into the brig like any deserter- As
soon as we landed In San Francisco
was hustled off with the other pris-
oners to the Preside, and there at
tached as prisoner to the Ninth cav
airy camp. / lived in a tent, and for
two months I worked about the res
ervation with the other prisoners.
Exactly a year to the day-Decem-
Der 22-an order came from Washing
tim tn Discharge me-"
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Self-Dependence.

Many a man has tried TO justify his
failure on the ground that he was
doomed by the cards which fate dealt
him, that he must pick them up and
play the game. and that no effort, now
ever great. on his part, could material
ly change the result But, my young
friend, says Orison SWEET Marsden In
Success Magazine, the fate that deals
your cards is in the main your own
resolution. The result OF the game
does not rest with fate or destiny
but with YOU. You will take the trick
IL You have the superior energy, aDill-
" and determination requisite TO take
it, You have the power within your
self 10 change the value of the cards
which. you say, fate has dealt you.
The game depends upon your train
ing. upon the way you are disciplined
10 seize and use your opportunities,
and upon your ability to put grit IN
the place of superior advantages
Just because circumstances do some
times give clients to lawyers and pa
tents to physicians, put commonplace
-lerygymen in uncommon pulpits. and
Mace the sons of rich at the head oil
great corporations even when tney
have only average ability and scarce
IN any experience, while poor youths
with greater ability and more expert
ence often have TO fight their way
for years to obtain ordinary situa
lions. are you justified in starting out
without a chart or in leaving place
for luck in your programme? What
would you think OF the captain or
great liner who would start out to sea
without any port in view. and trust
TO luck to land his precious cargo
safely? Did you ever know OF
strong young man making out his life
programme and depending upon
chance to carry out any part OF it,
Men who depend upon luck do not
think it worth while to make thor
ough preparation for success. They
are not willing to pay the regular
price for it. They are looking for
bargains. They are hunting for short
cuts to success. Power gravitates to
the man who knows how. Luck Is
the tide. nothing more. The strong
man rows with it il 1t makes toward
his port: he rows against it If it flows
the other way"
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Indians Eat Two Americans.

Los Angeles.-Evidence showing that
Henry Miller and Augustus Olinder,
who left this city last year on an ex-
petition to Tiburon island. in the Gulf
of California, were killed and eaten by
a tribe of cannibals on the island. was
received recently A letter to George
w. Know. OF this city, contained the
information that a pair of dried hu-
man hands, the eirarred remains of a
huge feast fire and circles of an In.
dian war dance were discovered by q
trapper on the shore of the island
near q deserted Ipdiap village
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GHOST HOAX EXPLODED.
Supposed Spirits Prove to Be Two
Mischievous Youths-Captured
by Newspaper Men.

Akron. O.-Newspaper men went to
Ravenna the other night and exploded
the ghost story of that town.
While a party of probably 30 were
exercising the keenest vigilance in the
yard about the Neon home. the old
piano in the house. the only article
the family left there. began humping.
Next came a tapping on the upstairs
window. Dishes ratified and other pc
culiar noises issued from the house
Finally it was decided 10 bag the
ghost and four or five approached the
house and managed to get a window
open. One more venturesome than the
others lit a match and stuck his head
in. The sounds continued and there
was no visible cause. Then revolvers
were drawn as a protection.
Finally sufficient courage was mus
tered TO allow the invaders to get in
side the house. Nothing was found or
the first floor. and up the narrow stair
way the trail was taken. reyolverS
leading the way. BY this time the
mysterious sounds had ceased. In the
dim matchllght two forms were seen
crouching low behind the chimney
Don't shoot" came the cry from one
of the crouching figures Both ghosts
surrendered and one of them was dis
covered TO be the son of Sheriff Me
Michael, of Portage county. and the
other Carl Urban. Explanations fol-
lowed.
The boys said that knowing that a
number OF Ravenna people were going
ghost hunting that night. they decided
to arrange matters so that there would
be reward for the pains taken.
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death. Guarded by the detective. he
was led downstairs and then the po-
lice were notified.

death. Guarded by the detective, he
was led downstairs and then the po-
lice were notified.
Lally is 35 years old and lives in
West Pullman. He arrived at the
Great Northern hotel shortly after four
a. IA. after nights ride in n large
touring car, which he had rented at a
garage. With him was his little son.
The colored chauffeur, although sus-
pecting that the man was demented,
said nothing about the wild rides dur
ing the night. and the little son was too
bewildered by his experience. tie
could not talk. Lally asked for a suite
OF rooms and was shown TO apart
ments on the seventh noor
The suspicious of the hotel manage
ment were first aroused when they
heard Lally's remarks through a tele-
phone. Talking over the wire 10 some
imaginary person, he to-. how he was
going 10 use millions OF dollars to
clean out fake medical institutions.
He summoned the most expert Grim
inal lawyers and insisted that they
come TO his room Immediately. that he
wished 10 discuss the situation with
them.
House Detective Fitzgerald was mott
fed and went 10 the mans room AS
Fitzgerald stepped into Lally's apart
ments the man stared at him and then
made a dash for the window. throwing
it open as far as possible. Fitzgerald
sprang toward him and the men
clinched.
Back and forth they scuffied on the
carpeted floor, Fitzgerald trying TO
throw his man TO one side so as TO
reach the push button and summon
help. >Lally, however, OWNED his OBJ
ject. and, with the strength of mad
man, kept the officer to the other side
of the room. Both were painting for
breath when, with an almost super
human wrench. Lally tore himself
from the grasp of the officer and made
flying leap for the window. Fitz-
gerald was not more than a few Sec
onds behind him and grasped his an
kles just in time. Lally mad probably
been hanging suspended for three
minutes before a citizen on the street
below saw him and, with a cry, dashed
for the hotel corridor. He did not
stop to notify the clerk. but. sum
moning some guests, all were hurried
up the elevator to the floor. Then
they searched for the room for some
time. until they heard Detective Fitz-
gerald's shouts. AT the police station
Lally was examined by City Physician
Todd, who pronounced him insane.
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threats are openly heard against the of
ficials of brewery.
For the past five years the high school
has been known as Joliet's pride. The
building cost Sl75 900, the teachers were
the best that high salaries could attract,
and the students comprised boys and
girls from the best families of the city.
Never before had scandal breathed on
the institution.
The fall from grace came the other
day. A new brewery started in business
only block from the school. and to cele-
brate the opening advertised a free dim
ner TO all visitors. Many of the high
school boys went and as beer as well as
food was free a number imbibed freely
Several became so intoxicated that they
were unable TO so back to school and
were sent home in cabs. where their
shocked mothers did everything posi-
BILE to prevent the escapaGe from becom-
ing known in the neighborhOod. Two
youths who managed to make their way
back to school later succumbed to the
effects of the beverage and fell to the
floor. Others, less seriously affected
behaved themselves in an unbecoming
manner.
The father of one of the boys seized a
revolver and started for the brewery to
kill the man responsible for the distribu-
ton of the beer. His wife protested. but
it was only through the aid of neighbors
that she could induce him to give up his
intention. He has decided to appeal 20
the law instead. The city authorities.
the brewery officials and others con-
nected with the case have been scored
from nearly every pulpit in the city
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up. old man, and don't let them
monkey with you"
Bolivar went out in the street and
moved a wide swath. with pa after
him. hooking him all the time. but he
paid no attention TO pa. He put his
head under the side of a street car
loaded with negroes that had come to-
see the show. dressed in their Sunday
clothes. and tipped the car over on the
side. and the negroes crawled through
the windows and went uptown yelling
murder. while Bolivar went in front of
a grocery store where there was a pile
OF watermelons. and began to throw
them at the people in the street. and
the negroes thought an elephant was
not so bad, so they came back and had
a feast.
Pa tried to head off Bolivar at the
grocery, but Bolivar took half a
watermelon and put the red side on
top of pas head, and squashed IL down
SO the seeds and juice and pulp run
down pas shirt and neck. and he
looked as though murder had been
committed. but pa wiped his face on
his shirt sleeve and showed game, be-
cause he kept mauling Bolivar with
the hook. Bolivar broke up a millinery
store by throwing tomatoes at the
women in the windows, and he went
into a yard where q woman was
washing and squirted the bluing wa
ter all over the woman, and all over
pa, and then he chewed the clothes on
the line. and drove the family over the
fence.
You'd died to see those milliners
climb over . high board fence head
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with no little awe. They scarcely can
reconcile themselves TO the belief that
she is not supernatural being.
DR. Henriques who attended the girl
through her malady. said that he be-
lieved there would be no return of the
affiiction. although he was at a loss 10
give a scientific reason for the weird &C
currence. Miss Scally suffered two
previous attacks of similar nature.
The first came when she was Il years
old. II lasted three months, and her
aunt accidentally released her from the
spell by placing a box of candy in her
lap. This simple incident seemed TO
awake into life the paralyzed brain cells
and the girl again became normal
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rounded up, don't forget my number.
cause can knock the spots out of any
animal except q giraffe" The crowd
cheered pa again and he got down off
the elephant. took off his fire extin-
guisher. and handed Bolivar a piece OF
rag carpet, and said: Eat 1t. you old
catamaran. or III kill you" and
Bolivar was so scared of pa he eat
the carpet. which shows the power OF
brain over avordupois. pa says.
The regular keeper OF Bolivar heard
he was on the rampage, and he came
back on the run to- conquer him, after
pa had got him back in the tent, but
Bolivar looked at him with faraway
look in his eyes, as much as to say:
Seems TO me / have met you some
where before, but new king has been
crowned" and he took his old keeper
by the back OF his coat and threw him
toward the monkey cage. The mon
keys gave the keeper the laugh, and
Bolivar put his trunk lovingly on
pas shoulder. anG seemed TO say: "Old
man, you are it, from this time out"
Pa looked proud. and the old keeper
looked sick. The people in the show
are going to present pa with a loving
cup, and / guess he can run the menag-
erie part of the show.
When the freaks heard OF pas brav-
cry, the fat woman and the bearded
lady wanted TO hug pa. but pa waved
them away. and said he liked the eie-
plant business best
May IL used to think that il /
could belong TO . circus. and go away
with 1t when II left the town lived in,
that 1t would be pretty near going to
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May G.-We had the worst time at
Akron last week and pa proved himself
a hero. though he was swatted good by
the rogue elephant before he got his
second wind and went for the animal.
We have a male elephant that is al
most human. cause he gets on a tear
about once "A month. like a regular
ugly husband You can't tell when
his mind is in condition for running
amuck, but suddenly he VIII whoop
like a drunken man. strike his poor
patient wife over the back with his
trunk and grab her tail and try to
pun it out by the roots, and jump up
and crack his heels together like a
drunken shoe maker. and below as
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arst, and Bolivar actually seemed to
laugh Bolivar run one of his tusks
through a barrel OF gasoline, and it
run out on the street car track, and an
electric spark set IL on fire, and the
fire department turned out. but the
engines had to all go around Bolivar.
cause he wouldn't bulge an inch, but
seemed to say: Let 'er rip. boys;
this Is the Fourth OF July"
The circus men began to come with
ropes and club, to tie Bolivar and
throw him, but he escaped into a side
street and watched the engines put out
the fire. and he swung around with his
trunk and his tusks and wouldn't let
anyone come near him but pa with the
hook. and he seemed to enjoy the prod
ding. but I guess that gave him cour-
age TO keep on doing things
The principal proprietor of the show
came along. and when he saw pa with
watermelon and bluing water all over
him. and perspiration rolling down his
face. he said 10 pa: why don't you
take your elephant back TO the lot,
cause the afternoon performance is
about TO begin" and that made pa
mad. and he said: You go on with
your afternoon performance. and
will have Bolivar there all right" and
then everybody laughed, but pa knew
what he was about
Pa dropped his hook and went TO a
hose cart and took Babcock extin-
guisher and strapped it on his back
and went up TO Bolivar, who was tip
ping over some dummies in front Of
a clothing store. and pa said: Boil
var, you lay down" but Bolivar threw
a seven-dollar suit of clothes at pa,