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a profound secret. To her childish re-
serve it was too sacred for even the low
ing eyes of her family. She knew per-
haps that she would be laughed at for
believing that this beautiful thing had
come to her; that she. little Tony
Seidensticker. just stepping into her
teens. could be necessary to anv mans
happiness, and the only woman'-dear
little girl that she was-for one man.
And such man as Herman
All, yes! They would laugh, of course
and small wonder! But she knew. she
knew! Had not Herman said so? Had
he not said most seriously and solemn
ly that If ever she was untrue TO him
he would kill her-and rightly? And
had he not tol her that in case sba nv,
her part ever found him untrue she
might take his life? Well. she had taken
1t. as per contract-that was all
But she had been very happv in those
days. 1t was very sweet and eoIa,o7 -
the secret that lay between her I'D
Herman There was no cIoud of en-.
picion in the heaven of her perfact tr,,ct
But the clouds came fast enc.,gb
from various sources she heard ,ha+
ne was making love to other girls in tho
neighborhood, that other girls bad htg
candies and NUS, and batteries tba+
other girls rode br his side in the huppv
lhere was dance at a neighboriue
farm, to wiich he took another girl re-
tortinS brutally when some one euggeet
ed that Tony expected to go win hin,
that he didn't care whether she did or
rot. she wasn't going. 1t all came bacl,
to Tony, Of course
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they talked, and turned, and for while
pain view Of the home, evidently in a
very animated discussion of something.
Mrs. Deal had gone back to her work
when suddenly she was startled by two
shots She ran out TO the gate and look
eG up the road. The wagon was there.
and Tony, but she could not see Her
man. Even as she looked two more
shots rang out, and the child pitched
forward against the dashboard. Mrs.
Deal hurried out and caught up with
the trap at the railroad crossing where
. rear wheel catching on the corner post
OF the railroad fence had brought the
horse to a stop. Tony lay as she had
fallen, doubled partly over the dash
board and the dead body of Shipp was
hanging head downward. forward of the
front axle, with his feet caught IN the
box of the buggy His face was covered
with blood, which had run from his
mouth, and the left side of a fur-Iined
duck working jacket he had on was
| burning, the flames from the revolver
having probably set ii on fire.
Mrs. Deal nastily brought water and
eXtinguished the flames and. believing
| both to De dead, left the bodies as they
Were. ran to he nearest neighboring
ECuse for he'll, and from there sent a
messenger 10 Dur1ont, nearby. from
which place the coroner and other Of
ficials were notified by telephone
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Barrels Have Many Lives.

While the amount of expenditure for
barrels can be closely estimated for a
gwen year. it is not possible to say how
many barrels are IN actual use The
life of a barrel is put down at one
year by the trade, but that is far from
true The great majority of barrels
have as many lives as a cat They be-
gin as sugar or flour barrels, and are
then sold to the farmer for shipping his
produce to market II may be they
are returned to him several times. car
rying potatoes or pickles 10 market in
the first trip, and then cabbages or let
tuce in the next, each cargo being
IfChter In weight than the previous one.
owing to the weakened condition of the
barrels. Finally. t.a barrel may serve
out its life work as garbage recep-
tacIe and be burned in the end in some
tenement house to keep out the win
ter's chill. Thus it may be said that a
barrel serves a more useful career
than almost any cuhec manufactured
article. and its life is much longer than
a season.
The demand for barrels is steadily in
creasiag because modern machinery
has made Il possible TO make them for
the trade cheaper than almost any
other form of package. That it is the
most convenient form OF package a.
long been acknowledged. The ancient
cooper's art was a skilled cue. and the
work OF cutting out the slaves and
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Wanted to Die;

Tony was not dead. BY the time Mrs.
Deal returned she had crawled out of
the wagon and was lying In the grass by
1.-THE railway. She was taken to the near
est house, and when the officials and
two physicians arrived upon the scene
the girl was lying on a bed in the
house. moaning in agony and begging
that she might be left TO die. Though
suffering intense pain, she freely but
rather incoherently. answered questions
lput to her. She said she loved Shipp
and that he haG promised to marry her
but had kept putting her off from time
to time, until week before the tragedy
he had finally refused to carry out his
agreement and wanted nothing more to
do with her.
Her story Of the ira agedy is that she
and Shipp drove about In the buggy
and talked over their affairs; that she
told Shipp she could not live without
him. and when he refused to marry her
suggested that they die together, to
which he consented. Thereupon they
kissed one another good-by. and she
drew her revolver ana shot him. and
then fired four shots at herself two
OF which missed fire. Two shots en-
tered her body just above the stomach
glanced against the ribs. and passed
doctors removed them. The shot that
Killed Shipp killed him instantly. en-
tering just below the heart and severing
the aorta.
NThose who accept the childs story
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Borrowed Pistol for evolves"

In fact II is doubtful WHITTIER Tony's
purpose was fully formed at that time
For on reaching Wheaton she mailed
the two letters quoted elsewhere and in
troduced into the evidence. And then,
without allowing Shipp time TO get the
one she had addressed to him, sha went
into q hardware store and asked al clerk
whom she knew to lend he~ pistol. as
the wolves were getting troublesome out
her way: one had followed her lately
and she'd like to kill It. The REQUEST
was unusual but no one would have
suspected harm of little Tony Sefden-
sticker." as she was still called. no one
knew Of any reason TO expect harm of
her. so he lent her a pistol. the pistol.
n .22 caliber affair: little dreaming the
sort Of wolf that had followed her
lately and which she would like to kill II
She drove out to the Tear farm. aboDt
four miles south OF Wheaton, where
Herman Shipp was working for Mr.
Merry. She asked Mrs. Deal, the house.
keeper-it was Addie Deal. another nero
child. who now shared Shipp's buggy
and received his presents and his fat
teries-if she might see Herman. lust
then Herman came into the yard. and
walking over to the girls buggy began
tc talk to her. In a few minutes he
climbed into the wagon with her and
drove "a little piece up the road" There
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An Unsophisticated Child.

She was born in the old hemestead
where her family still resides, fourteen
years ago last month In all her short
lie she has never been farther from
! nome than Wheaton-where, poor child
she has spent a month in jail and nm
dergone trial for murder. which
though short as such trials go. must
nave seemed an eternity of nightmare
10 the dazed, bewildered little girl. who
nad drained the bitterest. cup of a wo-
mans experience-and GraceviIIe. about
! eighteen miles south of Wheaton where
| she had gone to attend the services of
the Roman Catholic Church.
Ihtre was nothing in her life IN Ar
her for the tragedy in which she was
so shortly TO be the central figure: moth
ing TO lead her father or friends To
suspect that Herman Shipp was IN
| cast such a sinister shadow over ber
existence. She knew him. of course
lie was one of the neIghborhood bows =,
mad come there three years before
from Cokato, where his family live
ana enjoy the respect of their neigh
oors. For two years he had worked
lor Vern Smith. a farmer neighbor OF
the Seloenstickers. Last winter he went
! back TO Cokato to visit his parents. and
returning about the first of Nav had
gone 20 work for Mr.. Merry. about
| four miles off
Iony had known him. of course
when he worked "at Smiths" He had
| mace much of the little girl-she was
only eleven when he came-and her
parents had been, if anything proud of
II, pieased that their Tony was such
likeable child Danger? Nonsense,
she was hardly more than a baby. And
besides, Herman was all right, a steady
Woodworking young fellow Of twenty
or whereabouts, perhaps rather better
looking than the average OF the farm
hands in the neighborhood. and certain
ly more intelligent Did he cut rather
wide swath among the unsophisticat-
ed country girls? Oh. well, boys
Will be boys. And Tony was o11ite
too young for anything of that sort
Meanwhile the first links in the trag-
edy We're being forged. From the first
day, almost, OF Herman ShipD's arrival
at the Vern Smith farm he had been
doing all he knew to win the confidence
and affection Of "Seidensticker's Tony"
He had given her candies and aats.
taken her buggy riding, and showe~ed
her with apparently sincere batteries
He was continually praising her pretti-
ness and her cleyerness, and her good
ness. She has told on the stand-told
with a simplicity that convinced and n
guiIelessness that defied disbelief-hov
he commenced to make love to her
when she was less than twelve years
old. and how shortly after her twelfth
birthday she had begun to build castles
in the air and dream happy dreams
which were to be realized when they
were married.
The Washington times., 1905-07-16

~HE introduction of improved ma
chinery in its manufacture has
made the American cooperage
business the largest In the
world. There are upward of 3Go@0oG0
barrels and circular packages manu-
factured in this country annually, ana
the demand increases so that this out
put must be steadily broadened In order
to keep pace with the growth OF the
business The largest consumption OF
barrels is in the cement business. which
approximately demands 35.00o000 a year
for the trade, while flour comes next
with a demand for 100000. fence
staples, bolts, nuts and nails require
Is, 100000, and sugar 15.00o,000. Roasted
coffee, spices. crockery and fruits and
vegetables use up about 5000, 900 barrels
a year each. while the glassware trade,
baking powder companies, distilled liquor
manufacturers, and candy, tobacco and
cheese packers are big users of barrels
averaging in each trade from 2.00O. 600
to 5000 ZOO barrels. The consumption of
barrels for molasses. oil. lard and pork
is also enormous. while dry paint, glue,
snuff, oatmeal, screws. castings and
general hardware articles annually in
crease the demand on the cooperage
supply.
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Whisky Barrels Must Be Flawless.

A feature of barrel-ma king in this
country is the grading of the circular
packages so that all the lumber brought
to the factories can be utilized One
class of barrels must be absolutely
watertight, without a flaw of any kind
in their slaves. Barrels made for the
oil, whisky and paint trade must not
only be fawiess, but they must have
resistance power equal TO a lateral
pressure of 500 pounds. In order 10 Sc
cure this the slaves must be put TO a
rigid test beforehand and they must
be cured. so there will be no danger Of
shrinkage and damage when put into
use Lumber used for this work must
be carefully selected. and il must be
cured by Natures slew but sure pro-
cess kiln-dried lumber would never do.
The condition of kiln-dried wood IS
such that it would prove too brittle.
The choicest oak, hickory, ash or
other hard wood must be selected Tor
barrels used for such purposes, and
their cost is consequently in proportion
to the extra labor and cost of the raw
product Out of every dozen trees in
an ordinary woods, only four or five
will be found TO pass the most rigid
examination and tests
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Daughter of Respectable Parents.

She is the eldest daughter of Frederick
Seidensticker, highly RESPECTED weil-to-
do German-American farmer. of Traverse
county. Mimi He has been a good
father to his five children. Their
mother was a religious woman. religt-
Gus fanatic in fact-so much so that It
is a question whether she was not the
victim of a religious mania. But her
religion never took the form Of harsh
ness that would rcnel the children
They were brought up among loving
Christian influences. They had, perhaps.
more schooling tnan the average Of the
farmers children thereabouts. And they
have justified their good home They
ere well thought OF in the community
in which they live none Of them better
than Antoinette. or Tony" as tne
eldest daughter is Familiarity called.
She is a good little German "haus-
frau" She is unusually large for her
age. mature in body, though guileless
and unsuspicious Of evil as child
should be. A steady, reliable, capable
girl she cook her mothers place at the
head OF the household, and took care Of
her three little sisters and one small
brother. And she took good care Of them
and looked we'll to her fathers house
There were no children in the neigh
borhood better looked after. no house
better kept
OF course, the mothers death inter
rupted the child's schooling this last
winter But before that she had enjoyed
the advantages of a rather unusually
good country school. She was an apt
pupil, well advanced in all the common
branches. She is fond of reading, and
her father has done mis- best TO crafty
the taste. He has provided her with
good. wholesome reading. She has had
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.Alzz0zzezze eNeezenszIclGe.
: ss1Tz2C7XD EZ1ei iZaE NZz2IER
sOF FAE1Z4Yie1zLHS
an evident attempt on his PIE Ape1aN
the pistol Just as It exploded.
Plea of Insanity Not Necessary.

Plea of Insanity Not Necessary. 4
Just month from .he day OF TIE
tragedy the trial began. The story
was told N court before Judge & A
Flaherty. Witnesses were brought to
prove that the childs mother had been
unbalanced and that insanity ran in
the family; more witnesses to prove
that she. herself, had been insane whsn
the shot was fired, medical witnesses
to answer questions on hypothetical
cases, which would go to prove that
TONY" was irresponsible at the time
of the tragedy. The jury listened. It
heard all this evidence as % Insanity,
and brushed it aside; It .ree.rd Tony's
own story of what had happened, and
II brought its verdict ..noG guilty" 1t
did not substitute an insane asylum for
a prison or scaffold-it said not
guilty. and 1t set her free
And il was both right and wrong. She
had undoubtedly done the thing with
which she was charged But to have
found her guilty would have implied
wrong on her part And every man
there. and every man and woman in
the community, knew that while wrong
there was, it was not hers.
Such a verdict is a matter of course
1t is the familiar attitude of jurors
toward cases of this sort, and WIZ be
as long as American manhood remains
what il is These trials are really trials
of a dead man The jury acQuits him oy
convicting. or condemns him by ae-
quitting his murderers- This is weH
understood by bench and bar and public.
the form, of trial is gone through with
but merely In order TO determine the
Cenuineness of the grievance for which
yeneeance was taken 1t seems a pity,
since this must be so, that II cannot
be so frankly and openly The jury
justified Tony Seidensticker for killing
Herman Shipp. as the profoundest con-
vlction of the community Justines her-
Pat the murder law remains nomlnaIiy
;r force against girls with just cause
for committing murders. somewhat as
the Sunday closing law remains IN iorce rec
- our cities merely to prevent them
from abusing their privileges
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A DEMOCRATIC DAMsEL.

She was one OF the most unworldly girls
That I've ever known. forsooth;
Clerks with her we're as good as earls
And that is the solemn truth.
The smile she gave TO the friendless LAD
Was Just as kind, sweaS
And just as sweet as the smile she had
For the proud young millionaire
On the ragged coat she would never
frown
If the wearer's heart were true:
On them that toiled she ne'er looked
down
As some are prone TO do
Be seen with the humblest folks would
she
Although her mates might seold
And she never cared. because YOU see
She was only two years old.
philadelphia Bulletin.
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Her mother might have known had she
lived, or had she been less OF an invalid
during the last years of her life. But
the father testified in court-and he
stood by his daughter in her extremity
as a father should, but does not always
that he had no IDEA of what was brew
ing, that when, on the morning of the
tragedy, Tony had prepared TO drive to
Wheaton telling him she wanted TO have
a dentist look at her teeth, he believed
her implicitly. never for a moment guess
ing the terrible purpose behind the girls
apparently trivial errand
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By that verdict little
freedom, most appropriately on the an
niversary of freedom. July 4.
It was a remarkable verdict-the re-
markable ending to a remarkable case.
1.-The defendant" was a child who had
just completed her fourteenth year,
completed 1t in the little Jail at Wheaton.
Mimi. awaiting the trial which this YER
dict closed. The crime charged was
murder, no less. And the child was
guilty-no doubt of that, no attempt to
deny it. She had shot and killed her
boy lover. Herman Shipp. on the 25th
day of the preceding May.
Yet the jury found her mot guilty"
the kindly judge approved, and the en-
tire community applauded. They did not
even try to dodge the issue by declarin 3
the child insane, though that defense
was set I'D, and there were plenty Of
witnesses, both medical and otherwise.
to bear testimony that she was at least
temporarily irresponsible. The jury
simply said mot guilty" because un-
fortunately the law does not recognize
the verdict. 1T served him right
Undoubtedly it did serve him right.
Autoinette Seidensticker was q mere
child of eleven when Hermann Shipp,
who had come to work on a neighboring
farm. set out to win her confidence.
Antoinette was not q child Of the gut
ters not little city rat whose home
is on the street. and who absorbs the
depra yity of her surroundings as natur-
ally as she breathes.
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Facts About Barrels

then assembling them required lons
practice and apprenticeship 1ooay
machinery performs in traction OF
the line what hare labor did so slowly
and. clUnsily.
The modern veneer machines have
been instrumental IN reducing the COST
of barrels. Hand labor is eliminated
here to such an extent that the work
of feeding the machines constitutes
most Of the requirements Of the oper-
ators. The slaves are cat to the re-
uuired thickness by the machines and
then pressed Into shape by hydraulic
pressure until they are ready Tor the
assembling machine
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The Youthful Couple Had Made a Compact
Under the Terms of Which Death
Was to Be the Guerdon
of lnfideIity.
THE LAST LETTER

a
subject which
impossible would selfpect
be that have that
pleased You have apparently forgotten what due
stanced thus
You tamely
naturally
the
jealous. You'll is
sancy jealousy is the remedy What
both l
that understanding
shall
girl Why you ought
for she amt
better than but tell
the of speaking
know five different girls
shall
years nearly what
doing respect yourself?
with the
thought honest and always
think different Believe
unhappy
NJ regard
Yours
"ANTOINETTE G. s.
show this letter you to- but
better beware for your life hangs a
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the Youths Companion and several other
good secular magazines, to say nothing
OF number of religious publications
For the family are devout Christians.
Antoinette herself has always been in
terested in church work and a regula r
attendant at Sunday school.
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"a Woman's Love-"

For Herman had secured her promise
TO marry him some day; and she. be-
lieving in him as she believed in God. was
betrayed. She had kept her love affair
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and the jury are apparently among them
argue that Shipp fell in with her sus-
gestion that they die together as t.se
easiest way of quieting her for TIE
time being. and without any idea that
they were to do il at once. or that
she had a revolver The inside Of bis
right hand was powder burned, ron
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rV re, the jury, find the de-
M I fendant not guilty OF the
" " crime charged
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1905-01-06
Argentine VINEYARDS.

Wonderful yields OF grapes are pro-
duced in some Argentine vineyards.
"In one vineyard, covering five or six
acres, small tram road ran up the
middle" writes traveller. II asked
what that was for, end when told that
it was to bring the grapes to the wine
press wondered why they were not
carried In baskets. When ! learned
that of these five or six acres eighty
tons of grapes are gathered each year
I ceased to think of the tramway, and
my wonder was turned to the marvel
Of the earth's productiveness. Eighty
tons were the average yield, after
house servants. farm and garden serv-
ants and. poems who drive troops Of
mules up and down the mountains
with ores from the mines had eaten
their fill, and the house dogs and the
dogs of the servants and poems and
nlso vast number of the little silver
gray foxes which crowded In yearly
from all corners of the desert during
the grape season and birds that came
from all places. There was enough and
plenty for all Of these and then eighty
tons besides"
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1905-01-06

The practice of employing a mark to
denote the goods Of particular trader
grew out Of the use Of signs. which
were of great antiquity, but it is diff
cult to assign date to the origin Of
trademarks proper. They were APP
parently in use in the time Of Eliza
beth, but the first recorded case is In
1873, when it was decided that the sale
of a certain medicine under the mark
of another trader was fraudulent.
No satisfactory law was passed.
however, until 1862. when the first
British trademark registry was estab-
.iished. This law was repealed by the
patent designs and trademarks act OF
1888, the principal clauses of the old
act being Incorporated into this new
one, and all proceedings for the regis
tration of trademarks are now regulat.
ed by the patents acts. special branch
of the patent Office being devoted to
this work
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1905-01-06

"This madness for Names" complain
ed. the buyer Of foreign lingerie. sis
likely to drive me out Of my wits. It's
a weakness of the American people,
this insanity for names! They want to
know what you call thing before they
will dream of liking 1t. If the name
attracts them, well and good. If not,
they are prejudiced against 1t. Pm in
almost as much trouble as Mother Eve.
who had everything to name. / think
and think, and after the simple. charm
ing names have been exhausted my
troubles begin. Consider the RESPONSE
bility! A bit of underwear. for exam
pie, may take like wildfire II 1t is chris
tened the Violet. Name>it something
less lovely and 1t may be frost. In
vain have besought the French de.
signers to name the choice bits they
have conceived. But no; they will only
shrug their shoulders and say, Pour
quoiY II a thing be novel, beautiful or
fascinating. they think that is enough.
And they are right. But. alas. / cannot
impress this upon their patrons. They
suspect the merit of a garment II 1t has
no name. Some enterprising person
could certainly make living by offer
ing a choice assortment Of names to a
long suffering public" = Philadelphia
Record.