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who lost his reason ere he left the
towns confines by imbibing OF a
liquid which had been made against
the laws commands in the illicit stills
of the Kentucky mountains.
Tender-Hearted Mother.
The story of the tragedy runs thus:
Robert Gross mother had given to
her aged and feeble father a little of
the store which lay within her larder,
never counting ON the parsimonious
manner in which her husband would
grudgingly object to the generosity.
In fact, she had but given to the poor
old man a pound of freshly churned
butter which she, herself, had labored
over making, and when nightfall had
settled down over the mountains, and
the purple shadows lay close to the
hills, turned to her household duties,
| and soon had set the family table,
forgetting the gift. With no thought
of the trouble to come, she even sang
about her work, and little Robert sat
by the crate log fire, wearied from
the days blowing, awaiting his ia
theirs belated arrival. Often his
mother turned to him with CHEEKY
words of affection. All within spoke
of peace, and there was naught to mar
| the harmony of the evening. To be
sure, the mothers brows were close
knitted, and her weary eyes showed
sign of the anticipated trouble as the
evening waXed late, for she knew too
well the cause of her husbands pro-
| tracted stay. There are no clubs in
the mountains: or business engage
ments to keep the mountaineers from
their hearthstones, and she feared for
the Homecoming which was to end
so fatally for them all.
A heavy, Keeling step was heard
without ere the door opened to ad-
| nit of his drunken presence. Like a
| wounded animal at bay, she raised
| her eyes and watched him enter, yet
with patient voice babe him draw
near and be seated at the simple re-
past which she had prepared Then
he inquired of her father and of her
gift to the old man. She answered
truthfully, and he cursed her.
To Strike Her.
When his wife confessed that she
had given of their small store to her
aged father, he was not content to
curse her, but, rising from the table,
| advanced toward her with appraised
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and grasped from the hearthstone the

and grasped from the hearthstone the
iron poker which lay, alas! so con-
veniently near, and strobe across the
room cursing her with the concen-
trated bitterness of his mad rage.
Let my mamma be-" cried Robert,
frenzied with the scene, ''let her be,
| say, or l will save her!"
But the man laughed at the child
and his feeble plea as the demoniacal
CLEAN glowed in his eyes like the
fires from hell'S embers, while, with
appraised hands, he made ready to
bring down the iron poker upon the
furrowed brow of his faithful wife.
In his work-hardened hands little
Robert Gross grasped up his fathers
pistol, which lay close by on a shelf,
and, pointing it toward the drunken
man, cried out warning. Stop"
he called, his baby voice quivering
with terror and all the wild love for
the mother who had sucked him at
her breast, saved him so often from
his fathers brutality, and taught him
the only lesson of love he had ever
known. "Stop!" he cried again, his
voice vibrant with the strength of the
protector; stop, or l will shoot"
Shot His Father.
Again the fathers laugh rang out,
scornfully, contemptuously, and he
shot glance of hatred at the child
who so determinedly approached him
with commands. He made still an
other step toward his wife, who
shrank farther back in the shadows,
her appraised arms shielding her
blanched features, and made an eff
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1905-11-08
HOW TO SAVE A BOOK.
Directions for Covering a Paper-Cov
cred Volume So as to Make
It Last.

There comes a time when every boy
or girl has some cherished book he or
she would like to preserve, but cannot
do so very we'll because the cover is
of paper. If the book had good
cloth binding it could be easily saved,
but with only paper cover it is a
hard matter to keep it from coming
to pieces if much handled
1t is very easy to make good, stiff
cloth binding by the means of glue,
cardboard, cheesecloth or muslin-and
little ingenuity, says the Chicago
Inter Ocean. First get the exact size
of the book. Then procure a PASTE
board box and cut from it two covers
one-quarter inch larger all around than
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1905-11-08
Origin of the .Frankfurter."

The little sausage known as Fl Ank-
furter" and Wiener" was offered for
sale for the first time in 1905, and the
centennial was observed in Vienna by
the Butchers guild. The inventor Of
the sausage was Johann Lahner, who
named 1t for his birthplace, Frankfurt.
The business founded 100 years ago
by poor man has yielded fortune
to its various heads. It has always
remained in the same family, and Is
now conducted in Vienna by Franz
Lahner, grandnephew of the original
Frankfurter sausage man.
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fort to bring down the deadly weapon

fort to bring down the deadly weapon
upon her defenseless head.
Just as his arm descended a shot
| rang out. The baby son had come to
the rescue! He had held the pistol
| straight enOugh-even in the mad ter
ror of that fearful moment-and had
| shot straight enough to save his moth
er's life. The father fell forward, the
iron poker falling from his now use
less hand as his great figure sprawled
| over the white floor and his life blood
stained the boards.
With a heart-rending cry of mis-
cry and grief the little son sprang
forward, and with his poor mother
bent over the PROSTATE form. Slowly
the fathers eyes opened, and he gazed
| upward into the terror-stricken eyes
| above him.
My life is DONE he gasped.
Tenderly the mother and son lifted
him to the rude bed which stood in
the corner, and laid him high upon the
rough mattress. Then the neighbors
| f1ocked in, for the nearest residents
of the adjoining farms had heard the
shot, and the news, like all evil tic
ings, soon spread.
The Fathers Confession
Then, amid the solemn silence of
the night, the father made his confes-
sion. He related in detail the fearful
struggle which had been waged alone
there on the bleak mountain side, with
| only the terror-stricken woman, the
brave little son and the drunken man.
| who had meant murder, but whose plans
were so frustrated by the daring reck-
lessness of the child.
MY son was right" he gasped. He
should have killed mel" And with one
feeble intake of his short-coming
breath, ne died.
Yet in spite of this death-bed state
| ment, which was made by man who
realized the enormity of his crimes
ere he passed away, and lived only
long enough to make final effort to
save his son, little Robert Gross, a
sons of life, while his tender heart is
breaking unCere the weight of his pun
| ishment and the grief which has lived
with him since the tragedy. The poor
boy, who knew only the fierce love
| of the mountain child, for a loving,
If rough, mother, and the cruel tyr
amy of a drunken father, languishes
among hardened criminals in the Lee
county Jail, because there has been
| no one in all this section who has
been sufficiently interested to make
an effort to give his bond, which at
most is not over $1,000. So he awaits
the laws slow course to bring him
back to his mountain home, where a
lonely and heart-broken woman,
doubly bereaved, awaits him with out
stretched arms and longing love. In
his baby mind there will linger ever
the memory of that night, and he can
only await the reckoning before a
| Judge who is move merciful than our
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The Little Hero of Domestic Tragedy
Held in Mountain Prison
in Kentucky.
HAS EIGHT BURLY MURDERERS AS COMPANIONS
Boy of Tender Years Whose Only Crime Was
Protection of His Moths from Murderous
Attack of a Drink Crazed Father
Locked Up Pending Action of
Laws Slow Course.

Beattyville, Ky.-"My son was
right. He should have killed me-
Thus spoke the father of little Rob-
srt Gross on his death-bed, as the
sheriff took charge of the child who
had fired the shot which ultimately
resulted in his fathers death.
Il loved my mamma, and my papa
was trying to kill her, SO / killed
him!"
Thus spoke the boy murderer, a
child of Is, as his solemn eyes filled
with tears and his rounded shoulders
heaved under the stress of his emo
ton, when he was interviewed by the
writer.
The tragic story of this child's life,
county jail, at this city, is one of
Incredible sadness. Reared in the
mountains, knowing only hard work
and loneliness, his baby heart had
turned over to the mother, for whom
he finally murdered his father. His
young mind clouded over with memo
ries of his fathers debauches, it was
ish all the fondness of his affection
ate nature upon the mother who had
protected him from the cruelty of one
who knew not tenderness.
With Eight Murderers.
Little Robert Gross is the most pa
thetic figure now confined in the Lee
county Jail. Here in this bleak prison
house are eight men, all of whom
have the mark of Cain branded on
their brows. Two of them are young
men, not yet 80; one of them even
younger than this, and, with the ex-
ception of this child, who is of such
tender years, the rest all men of ma
ture age.
What impulse but that of protec-
zion, what impulse but that of fair
dght would prompt the boy to cry
out: Let my mamma be-let her be,
( say, else shall kill you first?" For
Us was thus little Robert Gross plead
ed with the drunken man whom he
knew as father, even as he saw the
tnhuman monster advance toward the
helpless and wretched woman who
bore his name, ere he finally, in an
agony of desperation, fired the fatal
shot which lay low the would-be MUIR
derer.
1t requires all the wild setting Of
this mountain home high set in the
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MzHHDL HUUEHT 0rMS
RNt6ZE 10 G0M6SHE
SANG ES0UT XEP K1RX

Kentucky hills, and all the fierce at
mospnere which surrounded the trag
edy to bring out in detail the pitiful
facts attendant on this murder of a
father by baby son. Little Rob-
srt Gross opened his eyes to sorrow
almost at his birth, and lived out
his small, narrow life with no light
shedding its rays upon his little world
except that of great love for a
mother who crooned him to sleep in
arms that never tired of the young
form close-pressed against her throb-
hing breast. Her loving heart often
beat wildly in fear and trembling
against the Homecoming Of father
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hands, preparing to strike her. She
arose and ran from him. Then he
became frenzied with the rage of
drunkenness, and cursed her again
and again. Crying aloud in her grief
that she should be SO taxed with the
generosity which inspired her to help
her father, she retreated from him.
shielding her eyes with her hands.
He followed her. becoming more and
more excited, and was only interrupt
ed in his rapid progress toward the
covering woman by little Robert.
Then blind rage and the effects of
the wildcat whisky acting on him at
once. he turned toward the fireplace
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Smart Boy.

.sWill you please open this gate for
me?" said youngster to gentle
man who was passing along the street
in a suburb of London.
The gentleman did so. Then he
said, kindly:
why. my boy, couldn't you open
the gate for yourself?"
Because" said the youngster. "the
paints not dry yet Look at your
hands"
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ONE TALE OF BIG CITY.
A Romance of Big Apartment House
Where Neighbors Were as
Strangers.

Numberless incidents illustrating the
way in which New Workers live touch
ing elbows with their neighbors and
yet never know one another have been
related and printed. The one that fol-
lows is little out of the ordinary
Just across the area" says the occu.
pant of an apartment in the upper
West Side, ''was happy couple who l
soon learned in a roundabout way had
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II you add two to the first part, sub
tract two from the second part. multi
ply the third part by two and divide
the fourth part by two
That sounded little hard, but 1t
wasn't really. See if you can do it,
Boston Globe
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1905-11-08
LITTLE BLACKBOARD PUZZLE
Sweetlythings Gave to Her
Scholars?

"Now," said Miss Sweetlythings,
81 want you to divide the number As
into four parts in such a way that
each part will make the same number
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-04-21
Uncle Sam No Gentleman.

Government ownership of the Panama
railroad has done something to develop
the real sentiments Of the transconti-
mental lines toward the canal. In the
control Of this strip Of railroad the
government holds the key to the trans
continental rates and there is where the
railroad presidents begin to take no
tice of the government as competitor.
Secretary Taft, since, the reorganiza-
tion of the canal commission, has es-
tablished new policy for the road.
1t is no longer to take profits, but is to
be confined to making it's expenses and
earning a moderate sinking fund. This
policy will necessitate the reduction Of
freight rates about so per cent and it is
expected it will divert great amount
of slow freight from the transconti-
mental lines to the Panama route.
From all of this it would appear that
under the private ownership and also
under the old commission the Panama
line did not compete, but had a "gen-
tleman' IS agreement with the Ameri'
can railroads whereby, presumably, the
thru freight rate was based on the
principle Of "all the traffic will bear.
Uncle Sam is no gentleman and he is
going to compete with Hill, Morgan
Hartman and other transcontinenta]
philanthropists.
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esHxxExxxxxMxsx:sy :sx4ss:;ssa x:sa:asexsy;eX!
without the woman's discovering the du-
ties forsaken but not forgotten by the
man. Their wedding journey is into the
heart Of the desert, where comes the rev.
citation, and the decisive struggle Of the
spiritual for supremacy with both man
and woman. The following is a glimpse:
How can part from your he said brokenly.
"How am I to do it? How can I-how can L?
Why was I given this love for you, this terrible
thing, this crying out this reaching out of the
flesh and heart and soul to you? Domini--
Domini-What does it all mean-th1s mystery
of torture-this scourging of the body-this tear
ing in pieces Of my soul and yours? Domini,
shall we know-shall we ever know"
II am sure we shall know, shall all know
some day, the meaning of the mystery of pain.
And then, perhaps, then surely, shall each
Of US be glad that we have suffered The suf-
fering will make the glory of our happiness.
Even now sometimes when 1 am suffering, Boris,
I feel as If there were a kind Of splendor, even
a kind Of nobility in what I am doing. If
we're proving my own soul, proving the force
that God has put into me. Boris, let us-you
and LEARN to say in all this terror, L am
unconauered: 1 am unconauerable.'
"But the cry of the body, Domini, of the
eyes, of the hands, to see, to touch-it's SO
fierce it's so-it's 3d."
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Fri day Evening,

suzerainty, and there is no doubt that
the arrangement has wrought won
drously well for the island. There is
not conservative wellwisher of Cuba
living there who will not admit that
the conservative regime under Senior
Estrada Palma has been Of the most
substantial benefit to the people.
The restraint upon the issue Of bonds
has, for instance, prevented the swell
ing of the bonded debt Unfortunately in
behalf Of the Cuban patriot army, So
called, which fought Gas reputed) un.
der Maxine Gomez and the other Go
mezes against Spanish rule, and who
wanted everything in sight in the way
of money President Palma has op.
posed all schemes to open the treasury
to the pretentious swashbucklers, whose
numbers were greatly exaggerated and
whose martial deeds, as described by
American war correspondents with Go
mez and others, were somewhat far
cical. ~
There is little doubt that, if the rad
ical Cuban element wins in the pc
litical campaign during the next sla
months, the substantial business ele
ment will be strongly inclined to in
itiate movement for annexation tt
the United States. Yet the real mean
/ ing Of radical administration for Cubs
is so obvious that it would seem con
servative principles ought to triumph
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-04-21
The Times Is Next.

The Times That the democrats Of; Min
nesota should permit such a publication
to suspend at this time seems incompre-
hensible. II the Globe could not live off
its advertising patronage, it should have
been supported by its subscribers. The
democrats Of Minnesota are not nendi-
cants nor pensioners on the bounty Of the
advertisers. On the other hand, they
could influence advertising by patronizins
their own party papers-but perhaps that
is too much to expect. Most newspapers
are only remembered when favors are to
be asked. AS no doubt it has been with
the Globe. The announcement made is
frank and manly. II the people will not
support a good paper the only honorable
course left As that which the management
OF the Globe has chosen to take. In the
language Of the Roman gladiator: We
who are about to die salute you. :
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-04-21

New York, April .21.-Another ro-
nance in which a young actress and the
son Of an old and wealthy family play
the principal parts became public when
it was announced that Miss Mary Les
lie, until recently a member of the Lew
wife Of Charles Rogers, son of the
president of the Borden Condensed Milk
company, a $25,ooO,0OO corporation.
Not wholly dissimilar from the matrl-
monial experience of her friend, Evelyn
Nesbit, who was married to Harry Thaw,
Leslie Is romance in its completion in
cludes several factors that were absent
from the earlier affair. The young
woman who is now occupying the cen.
ter Of the stage is, or soon will be, a
divorce, while her intended husband,
by persisting in his announced de-
termination to make her his wife. has
invited parental displeasure to such an
extent that he has been made to under
stand he will be entirely dependent
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-04-21
Independence Day.

One Chicago university professor has
recently engaged in a controversy with
the Rocky mountains, claiming that II
thew had had any sense at all at the
beginning, they would have arranged
themselves from east to west instead
of from north to south. The noun
tains have maintained dignified ST.
lence and this Chicago professor has
had to quit: But another Chicago pro-
fessor has loosened himself on history,
alleging that the independence day of
the United States should really be Aug.
10 instead of July 4. He bases his
claim on the fact that a number OF
members of the continental congress
signed the declaration on that date.
The declaration was merely means
adopted by the congress to apprise the
world in dignifed way Of what had
already been made a parliamentary
fact. The thing that counts is not
the declaration which Jefferson wrote,
but Richard Henry Lees fve-line res
olution, declaring the independence Of
the colonies. This was introduced in
June, brought up for discussion July
/, considered in committee of the whole,
agreed to and reported to the house
and adopted July 2.
Immediately thereafter the congress
went into committee of the whole on
the draft Of a. declaration which was
considered in committee, reported back
to the house and adopted July 4. On
the day of it's adoption the declaration
appears to have been signed only by
John Hancock, the president, and at.
tested by the secretary. Members
signed it at their convenience in the
succeeding days and weeks. Two of
them did not sign until the following
year. There is no warrant for calling
Aug. IS independence day. There is
the best of parliamentary authority fol
saying that July 2 is the real day, but
the fathers evidently preferred that
the declaration in which they avowe6
to the world and justified their action
should be the official announcement Of
an accomplished fact.
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upon his own resources if he contracts
the proposed alliance.
Thus far it would seem the threat has
been without avail, for it is accorded
but sca1ft attention by either of the
young persons. In fact, their. sole
source of worry appears to be in the
question of when the present barrier to
the wedding will be removed. This OBJ
stacle is Miss Leslie's husband, Morti-
mer Thompson, from whom She expects
to be legally freed soon.
Miss Leslie is about twenty-five years
old, tall, slender and fair. She played
a small part in the performance of cit
Happened in Norland, " appearing, with
five other young women, in striking
costume of black tights, with silver en-
bossing, which served to attract ,es-
pecial attention to the half dozen thus
arrayed. :,
eff you must say anything" said
Miss Leslie, s'be sure to say that we re
perfectly happy and in this Mr..
Rogers heartily acquiesced.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-04-21
Our Proteges in Cuba.

The Cubans are already firing up
their political machinery for the cam
paign precedent to the election for
president and congressman in Novem-
Der. =:
The liberals, so-called, intend to make
1t vigorous one thru the next six
months, and they indulge the hope that
the administration of Estrada Palma,
which has governed Cuba conservative
ly as possible under the conditions
since February, 1902, will be buried
under an avalanche Of radical votes.
If this hope is fulfilled and the radi-
Gals elect the next government and
have majority in congress, it is not
unlikely that the discontinued element,
which would like to upset the whole
some restrictions our government
placed upon the actions of the Cuban
government, may attempt the repudia-
ton of the conditions Of the transfer
of the insular government to the peo-
pie of the island included in the Cuban
organic law and confirmed in the per-
manent treaty negotiated between Cuba
and the United States in May, 1908,
The stipulations were not grievous and
burdensome. They required that there
should be no treaty made with any for
eign power impairing the independence
of Cuba or allowing a military or naval
occupation Of the island; that the
United States could rightfully inter
Vene, to discharge its obligations on
the island under the treaty of Paris,
which terminated the war with Spain;
that all acts of the military govern
ment Of the United States should be
validated; that Cuba should lease OF
sell coaling & stations to the United
States (selected at Bahia Honda and
Guantanamo in 1909, and that no loans
should be issued unless the revenues
Of the island showed a surplus suffii
Gent for such service. g..
The Cubans, at their constitutional
convention, hesitated long over the
conditions, on the ground that they
modified the independence and sover
eighty of Cuba There is no doubt
that they do. The United States is
pledged to safeguard it's own interests
in Cuba, however, and to prevent the
recurrence Of the intolerable condition;
which made the Intervention Of 1895
necessary, swell as to assure auton
omy ito the Cuban people. o accom-
plish this ander the existing condi
tions it was me- essary to make Cub
an Independent state under American