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The Beaver herald. [volume] (Beaver, O.T. [Okla.]) 1895-1923, 1906-10-25
CONGRESSMAN ADAMS,
HIMSELF ONLY VICTIM.

Robert Adams, Jr., familiarly known
as BERTHE Adams, former minister TO
Brazil. prominent as one of the orig
inal explorers of the Yellowstone re-
gion and member of congress from the
Second district of Pennsylvania, com
mitted suicide by shooting in his
apartments in the Metropolitan club.
Washington, on the LIST day of last
June. Wildcat speculation was di-
rectiy responsible. He died absolute
ly penniless, having dissipated a for
tune of $500, 900. He left a note ad-
dressed TO Speaker Cannon, in which
he said that a. his personal obliga-
tions exceeded his he was
Obliged to abandon the responsible
position. he held in the house of rep
resentatives. The congressman lost
money at cards, but the greater part
of his wealth went in land invest
ments and in loans on worthless Sc
curities. He sent good money after
bad in the hope Of recovery.
The Beaver herald. [volume] (Beaver, O.T. [Okla.]) 1895-1923, 1906-10-25

ingly simple, and oak, maple or chest
nut leaves-in fact, leaves from al
most any tree. may be utilized.
Press the leaves for a few days in
a book or by some other device to
make them smooth and stiff. When
the leaves are ready for skeletonizing,
cut out of paper the pictures which
are TO be reproduced, trimming them
closely with sharp scissors.
Paste the pictures on the leaves
with common -four paste oil mucilage,
Before the paste has time to dry lay
the leaves, with paper pictures upper
most. on an ironing board or other
smooth surface on which a cloth has
been spread as for ironing.
Take a common clothes brush or a
shoe brush and beat the leaves with
the bristles. The paper protects the
parts of the leaves covered, and the
uncovered parts are s~keletoniZed by
the beating. When through beating,
The Beaver herald. [volume] (Beaver, O.T. [Okla.]) 1895-1923, 1906-10-25

d. Without any previous knowledge OF
newspaper making he succeeded in
gaining control of a small newspaper
called the Public Record. He changed
its makeup and its general method Of
treatment OF the topics az the day, and
astonished the town by reducing the
price to one cent.
He became Democratic candidate
for governor and made a canvass OF
the state in a special train. He had
then gone into the breeding OF blood
ed horses and had one Futurity vic
tory to his credit-the capture of
$100, 600 in stake and bets by Nor
relic in the season OF 1892.
Spreading out still further, Singer
ly went, into banking and organized
two Institutions. Reckless loans drove
him TO the wall, and in 1897 both
banks failed.
On February 81. 1898, Mr.. Singerly
died suddenly In his home. The story
was given out that heart disease had
carried him off. aggravated by his
financial troubles. After his death
the community was startled to learn
that he was in debt to the defunct
Chestnut Street bank to the extent of
$500, 600, which he had borrowed on
collateral security of $4,000.
The Beaver herald. [volume] (Beaver, O.T. [Okla.]) 1895-1923, 1906-10-25

talent for art became pronounced. and
he developed considerable ability with
his pencil. achieving quite a good deal
of success as al artist later in life.
lie was undoubtedly a most enef-
getic and Industrious boy, for at the
age of 81 he had succeeded in saving
from his earnings enough money to
buy a little farm for his widowed
mother, which would insure her a mod
est living. .9
Then did the young art enthusiast
satisfy his great desire. He went
abroad to study under the direction OF
Benjamin West, who, like Fulton, vas
"a Pennsylvania. and who at that
time was enjoying a welldeserved
celebrity in Europe. ~ tss
But Robert Fulton soon gave upFths
study of art for that OF civil engineer.
II was at about this time that the
Iyoung man conceived the idea that
steam could be used as a motor. for
the propelnng OF vessels.
To the Earl of ~Stanhope ne wrote
in 1898, laying forth his plan, The
earl's answer Is given below valuable
for the fact that it proves the date
when Robert Fulton g,aye his atteh-
ton to steam.
sir: have received yours, OF the
Both OF September, in whioh You pro-
pose TO communicate to me the prin-
ciples of an invention which you say
you have discovered respecting the
moving of ships by steam. ! shall be
glad to receive the communication.
which you intend. as | have made the
principles of mechanics my particular
study"
In 1901 Fulton had brought his sub
marine boat to a state OF perfection,
according to "A report made by the
French government, which has not
since been %equaled.
The Beaver herald. [volume] (Beaver, O.T. [Okla.]) 1895-1923, 1906-10-25
INVENTOR OF THE STEAMBOAT.
A Peep Into the Life and Achieve
ments of Robert Fulton.

Many people claim for Robert Full
ton the glory of steamboat invention,
but the fact is Fulton only gathered
~ the wasted efforts made by inv en-
tive men for the past half hundted
years and. adding his inventive
genius, made valuable use of them.
But all inventions. says the Cleve-
land Leader, have come to us through
long process of improvements. and the
last inventor who crowns the feeble
first efforts with success wins the
glory of the achievement for himself.
In 1865 Robert Fulton was born in
Pennsylvania. His father was an
lrishman-a tailor by trade-who emf
grated from the Emerald isle while
still in his teens to America, the new
world so full of promise. In course OF
time he married a young American
woman of English descent.
When Robert was only three years
of age his father died. AS soon as the
child was old enough he was sent to
the district school, where, 1t is said,
he was not considered a very apt
pupil. for instead of devoting his time
to his books, he busted himself in con-
structing ingenious little apparatus.
much TO the ~annoyance~ OF his teach
ers and the amusement of his COM
rades at books. As the boy grew his
The Beaver herald. [volume] (Beaver, O.T. [Okla.]) 1895-1923, 1906-10-25

The Peoples bank was Mat Quay's
bank. Ii was while he was in control
that he wrote tbeNfameus letter to a
henchman that he would shake the
plum tree
The difference. between Nipple and
Hopkins was in the amount of he'll
stealings. The cashier of the Quay
bank got away with only 500, 900,
which he lent on worthless collateral
to a concern called the Guarantors
company. He foisted the securities off
on the directors as of value and when
exposure threatened, he prepared
himself for death and eased his con
science by writing a voluminous let
ter of contrite. explanation to James
McManes, president Of the institution.
Then he went into the bathroom of his
house, on West Spruce street, and put.
a bullet into his brain.
Nipple always sought, in the employ
ment OF clerks, to bring in young men
who were members and regular com
municants in some church. He did net
d~ifferentiate as to denomination. In
NuASic W ioihoih6 90 ms
any users OF tobacco or liquor he was
opposed to any of his.employes reading
Sunday newspapers or visiting race
tracks. AS there are no race tracks
in Philadelphia. New York was the
nearest place for those who sought
that form of amusement.
President Nipple learned about a
year after the Real Estate company
was organized that one of his Young
men had visited Sheepshead bay and
had won a f%ive-dollar bet, The presi-
dent took him into his private Office
and prayed with him. He gave him a
marked Bible, and then dismissed him
from the company's service, SO that
danger of contamination would be
avoided. =. "a rf'''
A few years ago Mr.. Nipple learned
that one of his depositors had derived
most of his wealth from backing the
policy swindle. n he, requested him
to withdraw his acconntsss. sle
The Beaver herald. [volume] (Beaver, O.T. [Okla.]) 1895-1923, 1906-10-25
WILLIAM G. ROTHERMEl,
WILDCAT FINANClER.

William G. Rothermel, a broker en-
gagged in wildcat financiering in a o
Germ known as the Popular Brokerage
company, was found dead in his bed
on August l.. An autopsy showed an
irritant poison. The physician called
TO attend him refused TO give a GER
~tifcate of death from heart disease,
although so requested. The mystery
of Rothermel's death has not been
fully cleared, and until his estate is
settled it will not be known definitely
Just what class of securities he dealt
in or their value. but all the indica-
tons are that he had been handling
collateral on which he was unable to
realize and that the only escape he
saw was in the grave
The Beaver herald. [volume] (Beaver, O.T. [Okla.]) 1895-1923, 1906-10-25
3. COW q
RAILROAD PRESIDENT.

Unfortunate speculation without the
de~falcation feature brought about the
self-inficted death of Franklin b.
Gowen, president of the Philadelphia
e. Reading railroad, and one of the
most brilliant and successfulrla lawyers
in the Keystone state. He shot him
self in December, 1889, but as the
deed was committed in Washington
and not in Philadelphia, the circum-
stances became known within "a
hours. The belief was general that
he had. been murdered by agents of
the Mollie Maguires, in revenge for
the active part he took in suppressing
that band of thugs.
The fact that Gowen had. taken his
own life was established the next day,
and then began an investigation as to
the possible cause. The moral charac-
ter of the great lawyer was above re
proach. His life had g %singularly
clean. and his reputation never had
been furnished by even as much as the
breath of scandal. lie died without
having made a will and when an APP
~ - VI hio SSN"'P ""o i'"bN ~ "oo
found that he had left but $3.50, 900 in
personal and real property of al estate
which in his lifetime was estimated to
be worth between 81, 900, 600 and So
900, 600. He had been induced to in
vest in southern lands, where II is be-
lieved he. suffered great losses. The
full particulars. never were revealed,
-. -
cribe than respondent desperation
brought on by investments which i'm
paired a considerable fortune.
The Beaver herald. [volume] (Beaver, O.T. [Okla.]) 1895-1923, 1906-10-25
FRANK X. NIPPLE AND
JOHN S, HOPKINS.

The circumstances surrounding the
self-destruction of Frank X. Nipple
and OF John S. Hopkins, cashier of the
Peoples bank, who killed himself in
March, 1898, are strikingly similar.
Both men occupied positions of trust,
were prominent in church work, had
a rigid code OF morals for the govern
ment of their employees, and were
strict observers of the Biblical injunc-
ton to remember the Sabbath day TO
keep it holy. Neither would ride in a
public conveyance on Sunday unless
the exigency were imperative. Mel
Their would countenance the use of
liquor or tobacco in any form. Hop
kins maintained this attitude to the
day he destroyed himself, although he
was associated with the most corrupt
eabal OF politicians in Pennsylvania.
The Beaver herald. [volume] (Beaver, O.T. [Okla.]) 1895-1923, 1906-10-25
Tattooinq.

Many a man has on his wrist a dim
blue spot where as a boy he tried to
Attoo himself with an anchor or a
star. The small boy who contem-
plates decorating his skin in savage
manner should remember not only
that he may be ashamed of his m lrk-
ing when he grows to years of dignity.
but that the process of tattooing is
dangerous. and may be followed by
blood poisoning. A tattoo artist" In
New York was recently arrested by
the Gerry society, which intends 10
stop a ~danseroIs and foolish business
The Beaver herald. [volume] (Beaver, O.T. [Okla.]) 1895-1923, 1906-10-25
JAMES v. p. TURNER,
RUINED BY BUYING LAND.

James V. p. Turner, registrar Of
vital statistics of Philadelphia and a
lawyer of note, shot himself in the
stomach in Paramount park in April,
1902. He was a member of the So
ciety of the Wal of 1872 and of the
Sons of the Revolution. Mr.. Turner
had been induced TO invest in lands
in the west. which he believed to be
mineral-bearing, but which turned out
to be worthless. He became despond-
ent and chose to kill himself rather
than begin life over again at AZ.
The Beaver herald. [volume] (Beaver, O.T. [Okla.]) 1895-1923, 1906-10-25
Where Paper Came From.

Long years ago a little, thin Japan
csc gentleman walked through his
pretty garden to his home; his hands
we're clasped behind his back and he
was thinking. as he crossed The
bridge to pluck a fresh wistaria bios
som that hung just owe his head.
This little gentleman had a great
many parcels TO send out from his
shop every week and he bad always
wrapped them in silk; but this was
an expensive material and he wanted
something cheaper for his purpose.
All at once a wasp came lifting toward
him, but he thrust 1t away that It
might not nip his nose, and 10! there
at his hand was a wasp's nest, My.
but he came very neal angering the
whole family! Think, then, what he
might have suffered from these sting
ers. for days to come. What a shape
ly nest they had made, now he came
to think of ii. 1t was so strong, too.
It was made of thin wood pulp. soft
ened into a thin paste by the jaws OF
the insect. then formed and left to
dry.
why can't | do that same thing?"
thought the Japanese merchant to
himself. Get certain wood. form IL
into a pulp by means of water from
the river near by, and make something
like this wasps' nest in consistency.
TO wrap about my packages" So this
was the way paper was first discoy-
arad. An Innocent WASH flew 3cross
the path of a gentleman who walked
one day in a vine-clad garden in old
Japan.
The Beaver herald. [volume] (Beaver, O.T. [Okla.]) 1895-1923, 1906-10-25
The Rule of Three.

Three things TO wish for-health,
friends and a cheerful spirit.
Three things TO delight in3frank-
ness, freedom and beauty.
Three things 10 admire-power,
gracefulness and dignity.
Three things to loye-purity. truth.
fulness and honor.
Three things to be-Ebrave. gentle
and kind.
The Beaver herald. [volume] (Beaver, O.T. [Okla.]) 1895-1923, 1906-10-25
PICTURES ON LEAVES.
How They Can Be Reproduced on
Green Foliage.

Many Of the young folks will find
amusement and pleasant diversion IN
making pictures on leaves which may
be easily skeletonized. causing the
pictures to stand out as shown in the
illustrations. The process is exceed
The Beaver herald. [volume] (Beaver, O.T. [Okla.]) 1895-1923, 1906-10-25
TRICK WITH PAPER BANDS.
BY Clever Manipulation They Multiply
in a Surprising Way,

Try this trick with paper bands.
Take three strips of paper six inches
long and about an inch wide and mark
dotted lines lengthwise down the mid
The Beaver herald. [volume] (Beaver, O.T. [Okla.]) 1895-1923, 1906-10-25

furnish an infinite variety of pictures
which may be thus reproduced. and
the leaves may be used for ornaments
Of many kinds.
The Beaver herald. [volume] (Beaver, O.T. [Okla.]) 1895-1923, 1906-10-25

Philadelphia.-Wildcat speculation
followed or preceded either by defal-
cation or betrayal of trust, has been
responsible for a startling number of
suicides in Philadelphia among men
of affairs and prominence in the So
cial world.
beginning with the sensational fail
ure of the Keystone National bank,
in 1891, which ruined men whose rep
utations were as untarnished as that
of the president of the Real Estate
Trust company, and which resulted in
Jail for w of them, Philadelphia has
had an amazing series of financial
scandals and bank wrecks. Bank de-
positors nave lost millions, but the
largest inroads of the wildcat finan-
ciers were made in asphalt and in
Consolidated Lake Superior. In these
two companies the public, largely in
Philadelphia dropped upward of $780,
O00, 900. IN 5%e..
In nearly every suicide dalfsed by
wildcat finance, attempts have been
made to suppress the facts, as
in the case of the president of the
Real Estate Trust company, whose
suicide was known to the members of
his family, the coroner and the coron-
er's physician for six days, and was
even suppressed by Philadelphia pa
pers. So determined were these two
officials to prevent the news from be-
coming public that the physician filed
a false certificate of the actual cause
of death, ascribing it to cerebral hem
orhage, but emitting to state that the
hemorrhage was due to a bullet fired
into the brain with suicidal intent.
The Beaver herald. [volume] (Beaver, O.T. [Okla.]) 1895-1923, 1906-10-25

die of each. Paste the two ends of
the first one straight and squarely, as
shown in Fig. l.. Before pasting the
second. directs the Boston Herald,
give the strip a twist, as shown in
Fig. 2. The third strip you twist be-
fore FASTING.
Now cut each band along the dotted
line, and you will have as a result
two separate rings from No /, as in
Fig. 4; from No. 2. n ring half as
wide as the original, but with twice
the diameter, as in Fig 5, and from
No. 3, two rings linked together. as
in Fig. 6.
The Beaver herald. [volume] (Beaver, O.T. [Okla.]) 1895-1923, 1906-10-25
PHILADELPHIA SUICIDES,
VICTIMS OF WILD FINANCE

FRANK X. NIPPLE, trust company
president, shot.
JOHN S. HOPKINS, bank cashier,
shot.
FRANKLIN 3. GOWEN, railroad
president, shot.
WILLIAM M. SINCERELY, publisher,
banker, poisoned.
JOSEPH G. DITMAN, banker (sup-
posed suicide), drowned.
BENJAMIN II. GASkIll, broker.
ROBERT ADAMS, JR,. congress
man, shot.
JOSIAH r. ADAMS, lawyer-poiiti-
clan.
JOHN FIELD, merchant, shot.
JAMES V. p. TURNER, lawyer,
shot.
WILLIAM G. RoTHERMEu, broker,
shot.
Staunton spectator and vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1896-1916, 1906-04-20
Entered ct the Postof1ce al Staunt0n, Va,
as second class mail matter.
Friday, April 20, 1906.
PROTECTED ROBBERS.

Judge Gary, chairman of the board
of directors of the United States Steel
Corporation, testified last week before
the House committee on merchant
marine that his corporation does not
sell ship steel cheaper abroad than at
home. The trouble in this case is that
the committee was enquiring about
one particular class Of steel. But
is no denying the fact that whilst
whilst ship steel may not be sold cheap
er, many other kinds manufactured
stuffs are sold cheaper abroad than at
home. II the committee will enquire
about sewing machines. farm imple-
ments. and even steel rails, they will
find this to be the case. Protection to
American labor Is now and always
has been the flthiest liar and the most
unconscionable robbsr, that ever fg-
ursd in American politics. No one
single theft approxlmates it. Insur-
ance companies, Coal Oil trusts. Coal
trusts, Amalgamated Copper, Rail-
roads, Express companies, nor all the
trusts combined. aarry away half the
plumber that Is stolen under the cloak
of protection. This is the Trust We
want to see broken. and We hope the
public is being educated fast in that
direction.
Staunton spectator and vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1896-1916, 1906-04-20
A VICIOUS BILL.

When the public sees the bill which
has caused Mr.. Conway Sands, Mr..
Shield and Mr.. Fuller to write such
denunciatOry letters about the COM
mittee of which Mr.. J. w. Churchman
of this county was chairman, and
which made recent report rejecting
on these gentlemen. the committee will
need little or no defense. The bill itself
will be nearly sufficient, and the COM
mittee fully justified. We regret the
committee did not publish the bill in
their report. Ii they had the public
would have been treated to one of the
choicest bits of legislation which has
emanated in years. and one Of the
choicest bits of lobby lollYing" which
the legislator and the beneficiary have
mapped out and worked through in
years, bill which would we'll nigh
justify the public in believing could
not have been worked through the
Legislature by upright and open meth
DDS. 1t appropriates per cent. of all
collections or payments made to State
asylums from pay patients, and where
there 10 contest, Is per cent, as q
commission to some lawyer who must
be appointed by the Governor from
the city of Richmond. Gov. Swanson
will be guilty of one of the wisest acts
of his life if he fails to fill this Office,
but if this be impossible. he should
never touch with forty foot pole. any
one who helped put the bill through,
or is responsible directly or Indirectly
for it.
Staunton spectator and vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1896-1916, 1906-04-20
Confederate Veterans Reunion,
New Orleans, La, April 25-27, 1906

New Orleans, La, April 25-27, 1906.
Southern Railway announces &C.
count the above occasion extremely
low rates to New Orleans, La, and re-
turn, dates of sale April %. % and "a,
limited to leave New Orleans return
ing not later than April 30, 1905; or by
deposit of tickets with joint agent,
at New Orleans, and the payment
Of fee of fifty cents per ticket
at time of deposit, extension may be
obtained to leave New Orleans not later
than midnight of May q, 1906. Tickets
will be subject to continuous passage
in each direction, however, slde-tlips
may be had from New Orleans to near
by points during final limit of ticket.
For further information. call on near
est coupon ticket agent. Southern
railway, or write
l.. s. BROWN, Gen. Agt.
Washington, D. q.
Staunton spectator and vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1896-1916, 1906-04-20
REWARDING INDECENcY.

A certain Mr.. Barnes, who has been
assistant secretary to the President,
has been nominated by the President
to be postmaster at Washington. In
opposing his nomination Senator Till
man pays Mr.. Barnes some tributes
which will stand forever on the records
Of the Senate. Mr.. Barnes is the func.
tionary who some time ago ordered a
lady, a Mrs. Minor Morris, from the
office at the executive mansion where
she had gone to see the President. 1t
was brutal and indefensible thing be
did then, and Mr.. Tillman thus char
acterizss it /:
Having issued the order, be stood
by and saw it executed in u most bru.
tai and outrageous manner without
interference, compelling the policemen
to drag and finally, with the aid of a
negro employed at the White House, to
carry her, with the negro holding her
by the ankles and with her limbs ex.
posed, the entire distance from tho
executive office at the western end of
the White House to the eastern exit,
where she was thrust into a cab sent
to the House of Detention, by which
brutal treatment her life was endan.
gered and health seriously impaired
from shock and injuries received.
That after this tyrannical and out.
rageous abuse of his authority be
lodged charges of insanity against
Mrs. Morris and compelled her to re-
main in prison for more than 4 hours,
thus adding insult to injury and pro
ducing in the public mind Impressions
derogatory to both her reputation and
her mental condition.
That he made q statement to the
press which was full of falsehoods and
which proves him to be lacking In that
Integrity and high character which a
high government official should have. -
Senator TlIlman asks that seven
witnesses, including all the newspaper
men at the White House at the time.
be summoned before the subsom-
nittee.