Durango semi-weekly herald., 1906-10-18

fined $4,000 each, one was sentences
to forty-two months and the other t,
twenty-four in the federal peniten
five defendants were given from eigh
teen months to two years imprison
ment each and small fines. the cost.
of the case, said to be about 5000
to be equally divided among the sew
en-. The case attracted much atten
ton at the time the arrests were
made and the suits inaug,irated anc
has been the subject OF very wide
press comment.
Experts on insanity, like the Grim
ina1 lawyer, are ever on the side the
money comes from. The alienis;
stands ready to offer testimony whicn
sends the man of sound mIrd TO the
insane asylum or helps some mur-
| derer to escape justice through feig,i-
ing insanity. The other day in. Den
yer, Hermln Linde, German artist.
was arreSisd on charge of INSANITY.
The charge was the outcome of quar-
rel with th5 proprietor of the studio,
caused by student staring at Linde.
A young lady who posed for him tw ,
weeks and was posing at the time o.
his arrest, declared che had never
seen any signs of insanity in him. and
other people with whom he had been
in daily contact had never suspected
him as of unsound mind, although
they all knew him to be eccentric
Three famous alienists declared him
dangerously insane, CHASING his "mal-
ady'' as "paranoia." When a man can
go through life TIL he is past the
meridian without anyone ever discov-
ering he is crazy until paid experts
are called upon, It is the experts who
are the dangerous ones and ought to
be locked up.
ESSEN, Germany, Oct. 15.-In the
presence of a brilliant company at
Fraulein, Bertha Krupp, the richest
woman in the world married today to
Lieutenant Won Bohlin in the presence
of the emperor of Germany which is
the greatest OF honors that can be
conferred on citizen of the father
land. Miss Krupp did not make a
very beautiful bride, she is Just big,
hearty-looking robust girl. Lieuten-
ant is tall and strikingly handsome.
The bride is twenty years old and
had been reared in simplicity not
withstanding she is the owner of five
hundred mines in Germany alone,
has $4,000 men on her payroll, owns
the great shipyards of Kiel and the
giant gunworks at Essen whose esti-
mated value is $4,000, 600 She met
Won Bohlin at Rome where he was
attached to the German embassy. He
is thirty-six years of age. tsr
NEW YORK, Oct 15.-Up until to.
day it was hoped that some news
would be received of the Peary Arctic
expedition but now being the middle
of October all hope of getting any.
word is abandoned. to
The exporers sailed from this porr
fifteen months ago ant 1t was not
thought they would spend second
winter in the wild regions OF the
North, but Peary and his associates
are not lost that is what the party Is
doing. Friends of the explorer today
are confident that Peary Is safe in
winter quarters.
NEW YORK, Oct 16.-Mrs. Jeffer-
son, Davis, widow of the chief Of the
Southern Confederacy, is dying today.
She is eighty years of age. She is
still living at noon but death is mo.
mentarily expected. Her only surviv-
ing daughter, Mrs. Hayes of Colorado
Springs is at her bedside.
CHICAGO, Oct. 16.-Henry O. Tan
| ner, a negro artist, has been awarded
the Harris prize of $500 for the best
painting at the 18th annual exhibition
| of American paintings which opened
at the art institute today.
Carry abnegation, self-sacrifice, al
truism. living for the good Of the
! race-which are the highest Of the
| virtues and produce the heroes whom
man most admires and longest re-
members-carry these to the logical
conclusion, and what matters It what
becomes of mans particular, petty
self, If by his life and influence he
has helped humanity on to something
fairer and better. He ought not tc
care; the, world patriot does mo-
care.-William d. Little.
The Arabian Nights tales are out
done every day in this country. onl,
once In awhile during the reign o
Haroun the Magnificent, was barbe
Of porter made a grand vizer and en-
dowed with princely fortune, but /,
the history of this and other coun
tries during the last fifteen years
splendid fortunes have come so oftel
to men Of humble station that nobod,
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