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The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1906-06-27

Batteries-Pittinger and Doom; McGin-
ity and B0WeTman. UmpiTe-JohnstOne
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1906-06-27

Battories-Gillen and Towne; Morrison
and Messitt.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1906-06-27

Omaha, June 26.-omaha won from Den
yer today by punching hits in the first
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1906-06-27

BatterIes-DVeTaI and KING, Brown
and Mccarthy. Struck out-Ry Overall
Il: by Brown. 3. Base on balls-Off
Brown. 2. Umpires-Carpenter and Klein
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SPIRIT WlFE's REPRoAcH.

As gamblers wife lay on her
deathbed she talked seriously to her
husband about this evil, and ultimate
ly obtained from him promise that
he would never touch cards again
For some time he resolutely kept mis-
word; but one winters night, about
twelve months after her death, hay.
ing a party Of men at his house for
getful of his promise to his dead wife,
he proposed to them to spend tho
night In the same old way.
For some time they went on, win.
ming and losing and getting more eX
cited. Suddenly, about o'clock, the
door of the room mysteriously opened,
and there-still, s,atuesque, with a
look of silent repruach on her pale
face-stood the woman To whom the
promise had been given and broken,
His hands shook. he dropped the
cards, and cried out, 1T Is my wIfel"
The party broke up In disorder, and
the gambler received such n shock
to his nervous system that he had tc
be sent to a sanitarium,
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REVEALED A MURDER.

A peasant OF Mnsk, in West Russia,
disappeared, and one night in a dream
his sister saw him, and his body APP
peared mangled. He told her that
he had been murdered by her huband
and his brothers He mentioned the
exact date and place OF the deed, and
added that his body was put into a
sack and thrown into the river.
This dream was repeated several
times, and at last the sister sought
the advice Of her aged fatherin-law.
He told her that It would be difficult
to find the body and II the Culprfts
were brought to justice her children
would be left orphans; so, after con-
sideration, the sister gave the mat
ter up
But her brothers spirit would not
rest, and appeared in a dream TO a
friend. Soon the news spread to the
local authorities, who took the mat
ter up. The river was searched and
the body was found in the exact spot
indicated
This discovery had such an effect
on the murderers that they at once
confessed
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WRATH SAVED PENSION.

One night River Thames pilot
disappeared from his tug The suppo.
sition, Of course. was that he had
fallen overheard. and was drowned.
The river was dragged all down the
course. but without success.
It was most necessary for his wife
that his body should be found, be.
cause he carried in his pocket, in a
little tin case, his certificate from
Trinity house. a document that was
necessary to prove his identity and
his decease, in order that she might
get the pension on which her future
living to great degree depended.
Weeks elapsed. and no body was
found, TIL one day friend suggested
to the i'dy that she might do worse
than cfasult a medium.
Her husband came through the me-
dunn and said. III you will look foT
my body of Grayescnd you will find
It cntangled among some chains from
the barges that are moorcd at thai
spot"
The search was made at the place
Indicated, and as her nephew was
rowing about in the river suddenly
to his surprise, the body OF the miss
ing pilot rose to the surface. II was
almost, II not quite, beyond identin
cation; but in his pocket was the
little tin case with the necessary
papers quite uninJured, and through
that proof OF his Identity his widow
obtained the money that was due tC
her.
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DOGS SPIRIT RETURNED.

Three men who live together in
South America, two OF whom are clcr.
gymen had a dog called Ranco. Dur.
ing the absence Of A. the dog went
mad and was shot One night while
a. was at dinner he saw Rlanco look.
ing In through the door; he got up
and called to the dog. who wagged its
tai He then recollectcd that the dog
was dead, and went forward to look
at II again-sure enough It was Blan.
co, and he fed terrified on his re-.
turn home he told his experience to
his friend b., who at once said that
Blanco had appeared to him also, and
that he had followed the dog, which
had disappeared about the spot where
they had buried him. The third man,
c., received their account Of the ap-
partition with derision.
However, some time afterwards,
when c. was playing the piano in the
next room, A. and b. suddenly heard
a yell, and G. rushed in to them. say.
ing that Blanco was in the room
where he had been playing. He stated
that he had felt something cold touch
his hand and on looking round saw
tho dog.
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WRITER'S VIVID DREAM.

A novelist dreamed that well.
known stage manager, q close friend
came to him with his neck bandaged
and an expression Of extreme agony
on his face, He pointed to his ban
daged neck and tried to speak, but
failed. Then the author woke up, and,
strongly impressed by the vivdness
of his dream, related It In the morn.
ing to his brother, saying: 1T gave
me the impression that s. had been
hanged
During the morning he went to his
friends house and was told that he
had been in bed for TWO days. II APP
peared that while at rehearsal he
had strained his neck and had been
in great pain ever since. This was
striking enough, but there was more
to come; for afterwards he said to
SIS wife: you know hurried
round because had dream that S,
had been hanged
That's most extraordinary, was
the reply, because the doctor said
he had nearly disloCated his neck in
exactly the same manner that occurs
when people are hanged
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Starving Though Rich.

New York woman is reported to
have died from starvation while the
possessor Of a fortune She will be
severely condemned, and yet Is not the
world full Of rich people who arc
starving for things that are Just as es.
sential for right living and the enjoy
ment Of life as food is to life itself?
She only starved tac body; thousands
starye the soul and the mind In the
pursuit Of wealth and provoke little
comment. Denver Republican
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DEAD EArHER,s VISIT.

About three months after the death
Of her husband Mrs $. had the follow
Ing experience: A daughter about
four years Of age slept with her moth.
or and the two boys in little cribs
close at hand. She awoke from 4
sound sleep and found herself looking
NJ hand which rested upon her H..
tie daughters breast
She instantly recognized the hand
as that of her late husband. Her eyes
followed the hand to the arm, and
then she saw the whole figure, She
was much terrified, and as the hand
was lifted the little girl became rest
less and murmured in her sleep, Papa
"a away: he is in heaven and smiled
and fell into sound sleep again.
Mrs. S. fell asleep, too, but was
awakened by the elder hoy saying;
Mamma. saw pNpa." "When?" she
asked. "Just now" he replied. 81
woke M and saw papa come into the
room and stand at the foot OF the bed
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GETS WEIRD WARNING.

The following is vouched for by a
young woman who had It directly
from the boys father, who was her
sister.ln.law's first cousin. This is the
old mans story:
81 was living In Colorado at the
time this happened and was riding
across the sandy plain between the
b. and NJ. and U. p. railroads, near
the little town Of Snyder when met
a middle aged man In lumber wagon
driving a span OF gray horses. | gave
half the road to him, but as he got
even with me he refined up his horses
and stopped. Thinking he wished to
inquire the way | pulled up my team
also. Hello, Mr.. --, he said, calling
me by name. Your boy IS in Akron;
II you would keep him out Of trouble
90 to him at once Just thens my
horses, not liking to stand, drew my
attention for few moments, and
upon turning to ask the man where
he got his information found nothing
OF man, wagon, or horses.
Now, to my knowledge. my 10y
was rot at Akron, but at a small town
farther down on the b. and NJ. told
my wife that night about meeting the
stranger and asked her II had better
go. She laughed at me and said Fad
fallen asleep and been dreaming Out
| would swear | was as wide awake
as | am today while telling this to
you.
We'll, YOU can judge my wifes sur.
prise the next morning when re,
ceived a telegram from Akron to come
at once, your son is there and in trou
ble.'
THAT trouble landed my boy in the
reformatory, Had needed the mes
sage the day before could have saved
him from such disgrace"
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Sending cOnsumptlvss West.

The committee on the prevention of
tuberculosis of the Charity Organlza'
ton Society of New York has just sent
out a circular letter TO $500 New York
physicians, asking them not to send
consumptiyes western states like Ari-
IONA, Colorado and California unless
these tuberculosis patients have %
physical ability to be salf.supporting
at employment already assured, at
proper salary, in the West or On $3.50
at their disposal In addition to railroad
fare.
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Ernest Benecke, farmer who has
been a resident Of Waukesha county,
Wisconsin, since 1874, has made his
annual pedestrian tour Of one week.
His trip took him to Milwaukee, Ced.
arburg. West Bend, Waucousta, Eden,
Fond du Lac. Oakheld, South Byron
MayvIlle and Iron Ridge. Mr. Bon.
ecke on his trip follows a trail made
by him In lS65.-Chlcago Chronicle.
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German Doctors.

With 292OO physicians, Germany
has one for every 100 inhabitants In
the city OF Berlin lorlysix per cent Of
all the physicians have an income Of
less than $500, and five per cent Of the
whole number do not have a sufficient
income TO return II for taxation.
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SPIRIT MADE PROPHECY.

When a prominent American imam.
cier was young he was poor, and lived
in garnet in a tenement house in
New York, where his neighbors were
an old woman and her daughter, a
graceful girl who was afflicted with a
distressing cough. He did all he could
to help her, and one night, to his sur
prise, he woke up to find her standing
by his bedside. On his asking II II
was morning, and II she had come in
to wake him, she replied that she was
going on long journey and had come
to say good-by
She further told him that his trou.
bles were nearly over, and that a
splendid future awaited him, after
which she disappeared The young
man then remembered that he haG
locked his bedroom door. and on goinr
to see he found It still secure.
Some hours afterward he wae
again aroused by the lamentations Of
the old woman in the adjoining room,
and on inquiry he found that the girl
had died during the night. and It was
therefore, her phantom, or spirit. that
he had seen. Her prediction was fully
verified.
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was a British officer and tradition
pronouI ces his name De Sellers.
This Main street was wide high
wey, lined on either side with noble
trees. At the eastern end OF II stood
the Dutch Reformed church and the
town flagstaff. and there they stand
to-day. II stretched away to the west
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1t about l75 years ago The old.fash.
toned gardens about this house are
particularly interesting and Old
World looking. Further to the west
on the same side of the street, is
the Voorhis house, OF about the same
age as the Van Nostrand mansion
Here Washington was once a guest
and the old freplaces roared a we!
come to him. This Voorhs house
has a curious projecting roof. such as
Is sometimes met with in old Dutch
houses, and a carved door piece, with
fanlights to delight the antiquarian
The faded colors Of the paint, which
once covered It's sides and its solid
window shutters, are now harmonI2et
by time into effects" which delight
the artists eye.
In Eighteenth avenue stands an in
teresting, rather "squatty," house
painted yellow, which was at one time
used as a school, and next to It Q
sample Of the first change in arChltec
ture which came to Van Pelt Manor
house built apparently about fifty
years ago in a pseudo-colonial style
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STORIES TOLD OF GHOSTS
Alleged Authentic Instances Who're Spirits Have Appeared
Friends and Relatives

and he said to me: BE good TO youl
mother, John" The bedroom door
was shut and locked.
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Dart Van Pelt's House.


II was in that eventful year Of 1864
that Dart Van Pelt built the house in
which his descendant, Townsend Cor.
telyou, now lives. The grant was for
fifty acres, and the manor house was
built on what was once the Kings
Highway. The neighbors Of the Van
Pets were the Van Brunts. and away
toward the west, around where Fort
Hamilton now stands, lived In great
colonial style the Cortelyous. With
the Van Brunts and the Cortelyous
and other Long Island families living
still further away the Van Pelts be.
gan to intermarry. and before long
there was small family village In
existence In which every one was re-
lated. The old Van Brunt house-a
Van Brunt married a daughter OF the
Van Pelts-was built only year or
two after the manor house, and is
still standing, hale and hearty as It
gets along into its third century.
An interesting house which was
torn down some fifty years ago was
the Cortelyou house which stood on
Main street, nearly opposite the grave
yard. This was probably the finest
house on the manor, and OLD Dutch
tiles taken from 1t, old furnltur" and
other mementos are still in the pos.
session OF Mrs. Townsend Cortelyou
Van Pelt and have sometimes been
loaned by her for exhibition. To the
Cortelyou house was taken an Officer
wounded in the battle Of Long Island
and there he died. Tradition says he
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ward into the Cortelyou property and
passed by the village graveyard. A
Lutheran church stands now by the
side OF the graveyard, and though the
structure is modern, the congregation
may have a greater antiquity. In
this graveyard can be found chlsc'ed
on the stones such names as Wander.
bllt, Van Brunt, Rapelie, Cowenhoven
Denyse and Wycoh.
Van Nostrand Mansion.
Directly opposite the bury!re
ground stands a curious LOOKING house
partly built OF wood ana partly oI
stone. The wooden part, though evi
IDENTITY Of great age, does not look as
old as the stone part. but It is all OLE
enough and is called the Van Nos
trand mansion Some Van NostranC
came there from Jamaica and hull
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EIagpole Has History.

The great and towering flagpole
which stands at the head of Main
street, has its history, 1t Is success,
sor to a pole erected on the same spot
by the loyal citizens of the village at
the outbreak of the Revolutionary
war. and Is surmounted by the same
great eagle and the same arrow, con.
ceived as weathervane, which top.
ped the first pole At the foot OF the
pole used to be held, until within n
few years, Fourth Of July celebrations,
with speeches and a flag raising.
But the old customs are going QUE as
the new houses come in, with their
new occupants, and modern Van Pelt
Manor rather ignores the fagp)le
However, In a few years those who
to-day are settling in the place will
begin to take deep and abiding in
terest In the history OF the locality
and old times and old customs will
be revived.
Looking down Main street at Van
Pelt Manor toward Dyker Heikhts
and Dyker Meadows in the direction
in which we can imagine the roya
postman squirting his horse in tn,
early Colonial days in which the post
road was laid out, one can see that re
gion rapidly being covered over Will
modern houses as is the Manor
did the Dykers live over there II
the early days." was asked of Town
send Cortelyou Van Pelt
"Dykers!' replied the old man. &"
Gever heard of such a family, Tha
was all the Cortelyou property, anC
they were the dykers, They bull
dykes, as they had learned to do II
Holland, to keep the salt water from
their meadows, and they had fin,
meadows, too have heard my grand
father say know many people thinl
Dykers Meadows and Dykers lieighti
take their names from a family but
take my word for IT, the dykers refer
| red 10 were the CortelyOus "
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Especial Correspondence.)

Persons who wish to witness the
spectacle OF an old estate in the
process Of being swept over and swal.
lowed up by wave Of mOdernity, a
quiet and stald old village being
transformed into suburb, and an an.
cient manor in the process Of dlsinte.
grafton should visit Brooklyn, and see
the passing away Of Van Pelt Manor
Around some OF the most ancient
houses now standing in this country
have sprung up, and are still springlng
up, modern blocks and detached
houses OF the familiar suburban type.
These old houses. most OF them rather
low and decidedly rambling. spreading
themselves over the ground with the
calm assurance that they could take
all the space they wanted, are some OF
them more than 200 years old; all
OF them, of the old stock, more than
100, and are practically as good TO.
day as when they were erected. For
these old houses were built by men
who built as the Romans built, think.
ing that the gods watched their labors
and that II would fare hard with
them II labor and material were not
OF the greatest excellence.
They were built, these Van Pelt
houses to be lived In by their build
ers and long lines OF descendants
after them. And so they have been
up to comparatively recent years,
There are two Of the Van Pelts still
living at the Manor. One Is Townsend
Cortelyou Van Pelt, now well along
in years, and the present head Of the
family, and his bachelor brother ia.
cob. Townsend Cortelyou Van Pelts
wife, who is still living. was of the
Rapelje family, and is eighth In de-
scent from Sarah Rapelje, the first
white child born In that section OF
Long Island. The Van Pelts, though
OF Holland Dutch extraction, received
their grant of land from the Duke OF
York in the year 1864. II was in that
year that British fleet captured
Long Island. and II was given by
Charles II. to his brother, the duke
Afterward, with the rest Of New York
II went back for a time to the Dutch
only TO revert again to the English
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D. Appleton & Company, Publishers, New York

countries and wishing to become a writer,
but had nothing to show except impression
istic efforts which Mr.. Yeats pronounces
full Of that kind Of morbidity that has its
root In too much brooding over methods
of expression and ways Of looking upon life
which come not out Of life but out of litera-
ture-images reflected from mirror to mir
ror.' Mr.. Yeats advised Mr.. Synge to 60 to
Arran Island and live there like one Of the
people, expressing a life that has never
found expression. Mr.. Syinge went to Arran.
Mr.. Yeats continues;
And became a part of Its life, living upon salt
hsh and eggs. talking Irish for the most part, but
listening also 10 the beautiful English that has
grown up In Irish speaking districts, and takes
its vocabulary from the time OF Mallory and Of the
translators OF the Bible, but Its idioms and its
metaphors from Irish. His plays "The Shadow
OF the Glen" and The Well of the Saints" are the
result. Said Mr. Yeats: above all he made word
and phrase dance 10 a very strange rhythm. . . .
He has a delight in the language, a preocoupaton
with individual life. . . He tells US OF reali-
Ties, but he knows that art has never taken more
than Its symbols from anything that the eye can
see or the hand measure.
Dante scholars will be interested In a new
book by DR.. James Williams, Subrector of
lincoln College and High Sheriff OF Flint
shire-"Dante as n Jurist.' The author
points out Dante's knowledge Of the civil
and canon law, as indicated by passa ges in
the "Divina Commedia, +" and finds analogies
in English statutes and decisions.
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JURY AGAINST CONDOR.
Verdict That Tuxedo Banker Must Give
Back SIS 900 and Interest.

DRUM OAS WV ~ hhtcA
A verdict for I'll, 900, with interest from
June, 1900, was rendered yesterday by a
jury in the Supreme Court, in favor OF Anna
B. Bliss, wife Of William H. Bliss, formerly
United States District Attorney at st.
Louis, and against Thomas G.. Condor,
banker, who lives at Tuxedo. The verdict
represented what Bliss paid Condor for
800 shares Of stock Of the Fireprooine
Company, of which Condor Is treasurer.
From the testimony it appeared that in
June, 1900, Bliss was told that there was a
chance to get In on the ground floor" of
the Fireproofine Company by purchasing
treasury stock which was for sale. The
information came from Herbert Jacques, a
Boston architect, who told him to see Con-
don.
Condor, Bliss alleged, said that he would
sell the treasury stock [ as O great bargain,
because the company needed working
capitaD at $50 for the preferred shares,
in. So Bliss took 800 preferred at that
price, and got 160 common besides.
Then he became a director of the concern,
and before long found out that there was
no treasury stock for sale, but that Condor
share for preferred, with a full share of
common thrown in, from Abraham White,
who invented the freproofine process.
Condor had cleared SIS, 900 cash and still had
150 common shares left on the transaction.
Bliss had turned the stock over to his wife,
and suit was brought in her name against
Condor,
Condon's defence was that Bliss knew
all along that 1t was his OWE stock he was
selling, and not treasury stock. 1t took
the Jury only half an hour to find for Mrs.
Bliss in the full amount.
There is another suit pending Of the same
character, brought in the name Of Miss
Cora F. Barnes, for whom Bliss bought
SIP, 200 more Of the stock from Condor.
That suit will come to trial shortly.
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The seag0ers.

On the passenger list of the North Ger
mar Lloyd liner KONG Albert. which arrived
yesterday from Naples, were:
DR.. and Mrs. Knoll, Prof. and Mrs. Laquem,
DIR, and Mrs. j. G. M6nchelbers, DR.. and Mrs.
A. oetker, DR.. and Mrs. Julian Refs, Gen.
Won Herwarth. Lieut.-C SCHNEIDER and
DR.. c. II. Richardson.
Sailing to-day on the White Star liner
Celtic for Liverpool are:
A. Hamilton. the Hon. L.. Melvin Jon es.
Mr.. and Mrs. Alfred Kessler. Mrs. John NAL
lock, James Mcintyre. Sir Thomas Shaugh-
Messy. Il. w. Southern. DR.. j. A. Todd and
Oliver 7. Wilson.
Aboard the Atlantic Transport Line steamer
Mesaba, which arrived yesterday from
London, were:
William p. Bates. Augustus Barrett, E. ID.
Cardsr, Mr.. and Mrs Pearl Ingram ana
George A. Shannon