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Los Angeles herald., 1906-05-13
MAN AND WOMAN UNDER ARREST
Latter Denies Any knowledge of the
Dastardiy Crime
By Associated Press.

-
NEW YORK, May 12.-Meyer and the
woman were arrested by federal Off
GERS at Hoboken when the Graf Wal
dersee reached her dock there today.
They were brought to this city and
arraigned before United States Com
missioner Shields, who had issued the
warrant for their arrest. The man re-
fused to talk and the woman professed
not to know why they had been ar
rested.
The Waldersee was met at the dock
by Deputy United States Marshal Bern
hard and another deputy, who at once
put Meyer under arrest. He made no
resistance when the handouts were
placed on his wrists.
Registered as Wife
The woman who accompanied him
was registered on board the ship as his
wife, but confessed to the authorities
that her real name was Chrlstiani. AS
soon as she realized what had been
done she began asking the marshal the
reason of the arrest and from her ques-
tions 1t seemed as If she was entirely
ignorant of the crime of which Meyer
was accused
During the drive from Hoboken to
Commissioner Shields office in New
York she made several attempts to
comfort Meyer, but her advances were
rebuffed
Meyer Is of medium size, dark haired
and with irregular features. When asked
If he had lived in the United States be-
fore, he replied in German that 1t was
no ones business.
The woman speaks some English. but
Meyer apparently does not understand
a word of It, They were both searched
by the authorities. who found nothing
of a suspicious character. Mr.. Meyer
had with him in German money a sum
equivalent to $3.50.
The murderer and the woman were
committed to Jail without bail until
Monday when the German consul in
this city will appear against them.
Los Angeles herald., 1906-05-13
ThlrtY Rebels Killed
Rr Aasoclnted rress.

DURHAM. Natal, May 12.-Natalian
troops under Maj. Murray smith, have
had a brush with the Kulas tribe In the
HelpmalSer district. The rebels We're
badly beaten, thirty of them being
Los Angeles herald., 1906-05-13
SUSPECT A FORMER BUTLER
Philadelphia Bankers Wife Loses COL
lection of Rare Jewels From
Suburban Homo
Bv AssociateG Press.

BY AssoclatsG Pfess.
PHILADELPHIA. May 12.-Mrs Ed
nent banker, has notified the police of
the loss of rare and costly jewels, val
ued at $4,000, which were stolen from
the Welch suburban home at Chestnut
Hill.
A former butler is suspected.
Los Angeles herald., 1906-05-13
WOULD SAVE SMALL DEBTORS
San Francisco Board of Trade Wants
Present Conditions to Continue

BY Associated Press.
SAN FRANCISCO, May IAN
urgent appeal was made by the San
Francisco board of trade to the sub
committee on special session of the leg
isature at its meeting this morning
not to interfere in any way with the
present relations that exist between
debtors and creditors.
The fear had been expressed at
previous meetings of the subcommittee
that many men, especially small deal
ers, would be forced into Involuntary
bankruptcy on harassed beyond endur-
ance by hard hearted creditors as soon
as the governor shall declare the pres
ent holidays at an end.
Court Must Be Consulted
Finally Gavin McNab suggested that
no garnishment or attachment should
be issued before the applicant had made
showing before a superior judge and
his signature obtained.
Joseph Kirk, attorney for the city
board of trade, appeared to oppose any
change whatever in the laws as they
are at present.
''The wholesale merchants of this
city," he said, have no Intention of
harassing those of their debtors who are
honest and indicate an intention to pay
their Indebtedness eventually.
ANY such act as you propose will
not be of any advantage to such men,
but 1t will be seized upon by dishonest
men and, of course, ii is not the desire
of your committee to protect these
Leave the laws as they are and we will
be content"
Los Angeles herald., 1906-05-13
STAR WITNESS TAKES STAND
Tells How Standard Oil 8ribes Men
to Gain Victory

By Associated Press.
CHICAGO, May 12.-The investiga-
tion of the interstate commerce COM
mission into the relations between the
Standard Oil company and the rail-
roads was concluded this afternoon as
far as this section of the country is
concerned and will be resumed in
Cleveland May "a.
F. S. Hibbs of Peoria, who was for
fourteen years In the employ of the
Standard Oil company, was the star
witness of the day. He demonstrated
how the agents of the oil company
were accustomed to trick customers
into thinking that the product of their
company was superior, when, in fact
it was inferior to the product of the
independent companies.
Los Angeles herald., 1906-05-13
Many Names Given

He gave the names of men whom he
had bribed to give information of the
business Of competitors and on cross
examination declared "the Standard
Oil company is doing all of these
things today"
Other witnesses told Of bribing en-
ployes of railroads and manufacturing
companies, and one instance was re-
lated where a wire and nail mill in
Indiana was compelled to shut down
because grit had been placed in the
oil purchased of an Independent con-
Germ at the instance of a salesman of
the Standard Oil company.
Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1906-11-08
He KNEW THE ROPES
A Lawyer That Was Not Hunting
Litigation Over Land.

It's the canny old bird that cannot
be caught with the bird lime of litiga-
ton.
You've probably heard of Lawyer
Hackett of Somerset. A little while
ago he purchased some land over
which there had been a lawsuit fol
years, until the parties had spent hall
dozen times what the land was worth
Hackett knew all about 1t. Some OF
the people wondered why he wanted tc
get hold of property with such an incu-
bus of uncertainty on it. Others
thought that perhaps he wanted some
legal knitting work and would pitch in
redhot to fight that line fence question
on his own hook.
That's what the owner of the adjoin-
ing land thought, says the Baltimore
Herald. So he braced himself for
trouble when he saw Hackett coming
across the fields one day.
Said Hackett: Where's your claim
here, anyway. as to this fence?"
81 insist" replied the neighbor, "thai
your fence is over my land two feet
at one end and one foot at least at the
other end"
Well" replied Hackett, you &C
ahead just as quick as you can and sci
your leuce over. AL the 6Ilu WHGFe you
say that / encroach on you two feet
set the fence onto my land four feet
At the other end push it onto my land
two feet
But" per Ssted. the neighbor, that's
twice wnat / claim"
81 don't care about that" said Hack.
ett. There's been fight enough over
this land, l want you to take enough
so you are perfectly satisfied you have
got your rights, and then we can gel
along all pleasantly. Go ahead and
help yourself"
The man paused, abashed. He had
been ready to commence the old strug-
gle tooth and nail. But this move ol
the new neighbor stunned him. Ye
he wasn't to be outdone in generosity
He looked at Hackett.
Squire" said he, that fence ain't
going to be moved an inch. l don't
want the blamed old land. There
warn't nothing to the fight but the
principle of the thing"
Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1906-11-08

At Westtown, Chester County, Pa.
the Friends big school celebrated its
one hundredth anniversary recently
They have at the school kind OF
diary or log, which has been kept up
continuously for 100 years, and in
which the state Of the weather every
day during all that time has been noted
down. The log was consulted for an
auspicious date in the matter of wealth
er for the anniversary, and it showed
that every June 10 has been clear since
the beginning of the schools career i.
Then some said Since it hasn't
rained for 100 years on June 10 we had
better avoid that date, for it will be
sure to rain then this year" But otn-
ers said that reason and philosophy in
dicated June 10 to be a day devoted,
from some unknown atmospheric caus-
es, to sunshine and blue skies The lat
ter set of people carried the day, and
the school celebrated it's anniversary
on June 10. But it rained so hard that
the guests had to sit around in tents.
Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1906-11-08
Sole agents for w. L. DOUGLAS SHOES.

From Also received twenty-five Of boots and shoes for
Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1906-11-08
PRISON ART CENTRE.
SING SING Es1AHLl5rlaNG CUTE A
REPUTATION IN IHAT LINE.

Several Geniuses Already Discoyersd-A
Prisoner Who Designed and Built Two
Large Orgaus--A Rem.irkabIe Negro
Woodcarver Convict.
AS an art centre Sing Sing Prison
is establishing a reputation. Already
the warden has made the school of
design and decoration there one of the
most efficient in the United States.
The classes are for thoroughly practi-
cal work, and the students, all of whom
are doing time,' receive an education
that makes it easy for them to earn a
living honestly as skilled workmen af-
ter they have served out their sentences
and are discharged into the world out
side
The warden has discovered several
geniuSeS already. One of these built
the large reed organ in the Catholic
and the Protestant chapels. He did
all the work himself and learned how
to use tools after he entered the prison
His experience in carpentering or any
mechanical work had not gone further
than driving nails il packing boxes be-
fore the law took charge of him. He
had a good ear for music, though he
could not read a note, and he had
played organs ION The road" three sea-
sons of three months each for a manu-
featuring firm in Canada. In this
work he had helped at packing and un-
packing dozens of Instruments and had
become familiar with the arrangement
of the reeds and the general anatomy
of the instruments. He had never
worked at organ building nor had he
done any of the practical work of de-
signing or construction.
But the most remarkable fact about
the building of these Instruments is
that the man who made them thought
out everything to the minutest details
before he made even a rough sketch
of the work he wished to do. Without
Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1906-11-08
CHAIR MADE AT SING SING.

a model or tools or pencil and paper
to help HIM, he brooded over his plans
for twenty-five months. Then he had
conceived every detail clearly in his
mind, had computed the exact proper
tions of each of the 1i,000 parts. and
had assembled these parts mentally.
When his cogtations had evolved the
organ he dropped note to the warden
in one of the various letter boxes the
warden has placed about the prison
grounds. He wrote he said in this
note, to ask for permission to illustrate
on paper the Ideas he had on building
an organ for one Of the chapels. The
warden sent for the wOuld-be builder,
and was so impressed with the mans
intelligence and earnestness that he
told him to go ahead; that he should
have pencil and paper and all the
drawing instruments he needed. lie
had never made q sketch in his life,
but he soon made hundred intelligihle
illustrations that made it possible for
others to see what before had been
visible to him only.
The warden sent these drawings to
organ builders in New York, and asked
for expert opinions. Both critics re-
piled that the designs were excellent
and practical with the exception of
one point They doubted if reed could
be made to give the tone produced by
the sixteen-foo organ pipe. They be-
lieved eight feet was the limit for
reeds
The genius said that if the warden
would let him go ahead he would show
the manufacturers how easily it could
be done. The warden said "All right
and the result is the two splendid or
gans that attract so much attention in
the prison chapels.
The one in the Catholic chapel is the
largest reed instrument in the world,
and has a tone that even an expert
listening at a little distance would be-
lieve came from a pipe organ. Organ
lists have remarked the rich, deep, full
pipe tone time and again: This in
strument has 731 notes. All of them
are true. from the voiX celeste-the
impossible" siXteen-foot pipe tone-to
the highest the human ear appreciates.
There are three manuals and four com
plete keyboards. The player can cou-
pie the swell, the choir or the great
organ with the pedals. or he can give
a pedal solo, not using his hands at
all. There are 1900 separate pieces
IN TINS instrument, SOu- OF tneSe are
small shutters which open or close by
pulling or pushing balance swell ped
al stop. The pressure necessary to
put down a key is three ounces, and
this three-ounee pressure moves Geo
pieces of the mechanism. The bellows
are about eight feet long, and hold an
air supply of lis seconds, SO the or
ganst can play for nearly two minutes
with one breath.
Another genius whom the warden's
art school has discovered would be
driving cabs to-day If he had behaved
himself. Under the head of previous
occupation he is down on the prison
list as "coachman, butler colored."
He is still colored, but it is not probable
that he will ever drive or wait on doors
or dinner tables again. Instead of meat
he will carve wood and his attention to
doors and tables will be with view to
ornament. He is the chief star in the
art school galaxy, and does exquisite
work.
Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1906-11-08
She Would Have Stopped 1t.

Some time ago the wife of an old
inhabitant of a Durham, England, vii
lage died, leaving a grown-up family
behind her. The father remained a
widower about eighteen months; then
he entered the matrimonial state again
The youngest daughter, aged about
twenty, on the day of the wedding
went to the village butchers.
After the usual courtesies, the
butcher asked her: "Is it true yor
fether got married agyen?"
AYE, it's over true!" said the girl
Didn't ye want him te get married
agyen?"
No; we wor aall agyen it, but aad
fyul wad hev his aan way. But Aa
back if ma muthor had beensliving sh d
had put a stop tiv't!"
Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1906-11-08
Sick !
III g a q a c IA g S an q
Dizzy Spells,
w e O Is, ri vous,
Wretched, Tired,
Until DIR. Niles Nervine
Until DIR. Miles Nervine
Cured Me.

Are you IN 'pocr condition." Are you
almost ready 70 give up from exhaustion,
nevousnee, headaches, backaches, and
dizzy spellsa No need to mention the de-
tails Of run down or poor condition. 10
those who are suffering. Better t. tell you
OF .Nervlne, the medy sold on guarantee
to help you, and restore your poor weakened
nerves 10 lie, strength and health.
"Dr. Miles Restorative Nervine has done
great deal for me-. n he fail Of 1897 ny
health was In a very poor condition. En-
treme nervousness, dizzy spells and sick
hea!aches made me most miserable. ! had
been under the care Of our local physician
ior some time, but got no better. | was on
the verge OF nervoas prostration. Had TO
appetite. and could not sleep. grew worse
as the dizzy spells continued and lost flesh
and strength. Oh! those awful days. A
lady friend who had taken Restorative Ner-
Vine advised me to tyy it. | bought a bottle
at the local drug stole ard when it was one
ba gone | noticed that the medicine was
heipiEg me. | continued taking it according
10 directions until l had used three bottles
when ieit 50 much better | stopped taking
it. tetlihat my present greatly improved
health is all due To d. Mi cs' Restorative
NeiVinc. am Ct. teful for the benefit | re-
celved and recommend the Nervne wholly
on its merits as a nerve tonic and restora-
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Mass.
Ali druggists sell and gu lrantee first bottle
Or. Miles Remedies Send ior free book
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Do. Miles Medical Co., Elhhart. Ind.
Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1906-11-08
She Might Relent.
HE.

HE.
You treat me now with cold disdain,
But some day you'll regret;
! shall not go away and pine,
But I'm going out to get
A job somewhere and l shall work
And be a magnate yet.
SHE.
Go, leave my presence, since you say
You don't intend to fret;
You'll never, never see the day
That you'll make me regret
But still, | wish you'd let me know
What kind of job you get.
Chicago News.
Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1906-11-08
Practicinr Medicine.

Doctor" sighed the fat man, 81
guess it's no use. I've tried everything
you've prescribed and grown feshier
all the time. Your latest recommen-
dation was to ride horseback I've done
SO faithfully for month, but I've
taken on eighteen pounds and the
horse has lost 160."
'Ah! there's a scientific suggestion. y
said the elateds doctor. "Try letting
the horse ride you for a while. DE
troit Free Press.
Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1906-11-08
Getting Even.

"Oh. yes" said the stocky man with
he square jaw, my married life is
Iuite a happy one."
Glad to hear it," said the thin man
with the thin hair. Got any particu-
lar system?"
We'll, yes. Whenever my wife gets
into tantrum | go out and find the
fellow who introduced us and give him
another licking. g."-Indianapolis Jour.
nal
Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1906-11-08
In the Air.

Where do you live?" asked the po-
lice magistrate.
II live block above Stanton street,
your honor, corner of Essex"
But the officer says you live at No.
800 Houston street."
That's all right, your honor, l live
in the top fat
Prisoner discharged on the ground
that les an angel. Mail and Ex-
press.
Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1906-11-08
Chinese weight.

''Catty" is a weight still in use in the
treaty ports of China. When the
Chinese first sold tea to the Europeans
they inclosed it in little lacquer cases
which each weighed a 'catty" and in
due time were Gated tes catties, and
at last tea caddies.
Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1906-11-08
Jack Wins.

(which suitor cre you going to ac-
cept. Clarissa?"
81 can't decide to save me, ma,
which | like best; Harry is so timid,
and Jack is so persistent. Puck.
The Grit-advocate., 1906-03-23
BIGGEST BVG ON EARTH

mans thumb and looks like a huge
white maggot. 1t is considered deli
cacy by the native negroes and caribs
who roast it in hot ashes and say that
it tastes like roasted nuts.
Clumsy in appearance, the Hercules
beetle possesses great powers of flight
and in the outlying villages it is not
uncommon for one of these huge
creatures TO enter the native houses,
being attracted thereto by the lights
The invariable result is a prompt ex-
tinguishing of the candle by the wind
created by the beetles buzzing wings,
accompanied by screams from the in.
mates of the house, who imagine a
jumbie or evil spirit, has invaded
their dwelling
A popular belief among the natives
is that the Hercules beetle saws off
limbs of trees by grasping them be,
tween two horn like appendages and
flying round and round. This is a
manifest impossibility as the insect
has but little power in the horns. and
moreover. the upper one is lined with a
soft, velvcty hair, which would be
rubbed off at Cnce by any friction.
The Grit-advocate., 1906-03-23
MANVER OF HOLDING CLASS

sN.ial philosopher has discovered
that "a act very commonly regarded a
an efftctation of gentility, as found in
the manner of holding a drinking glass
when drinking from it, is not an af
fectation at all. but really an uncon-
scious. automatic act.
This supposed affectation consists in
extending the third and fourth fingers
of the hand clear of the glass when it
is lifted and tipped forward with its
brim to the lips and while the glass
is held there in the act of drinking
No doubt it would commonly be con-
sidered that people do this for the
sake of greater elegance, or at least
from an instructive desire to give to
the hand such an appearance, which it
would not possess if they closed the
entire hand around the glass-if they
clutched it, SO to speak, manner OF
holding that would seem to SAVIOR of
rudeness.
But this observer says that really
people hold those two fingers clear of
the glass in drinking because that is
the way that is most convenient. If.
he says, person should grasp the
glass with the whole hand closed snug
ly around it he would find that the
act of tipping the glass so held re-
The Grit-advocate., 1906-03-23
GOOD JOKE NEATLY TVRNED

In the fifties of the last century
there were two young lawyers, Gould
and Robinson, practicing in the court
at Wiscasset, the shire town of Lin
coin county, Me. No doubt many old
residents of Wiscasset and other towns
in Lincoln county remember them for
their keen wit and ingenuity in exam
lining witnesses, and also for their
many severe thrusts at each other.
On one occasion, when Robinson had
finished an unusually able argument
for his client, containing some sting
ing illusions to the opposing counsel,
Gould, by whom he was followed, and
who retailated, Robinson was seen to
take card, write something on it,
which was later found to be the Latin
words caput vacuum tempty head.
and drop it into Gould's hat on the
table, returning to his seat with the
The Grit-advocate., 1906-03-23
OLD EGyPTS GOLD MINES

Prof. r. D. George of the University
of Colorado suggests that the ancient
Egyptians drew the larger part of their
gold from the old workings near Cop
tos, latitude 2G degrees north, and
from the mountains some distance to
the south. The mountains to the south
of Coptos are probably the mines for
which the kings Of the twelfth dynasty
sacrificed the lives of many thousand
men; for the rule of Egyptian kings
who wanted gold was to invade Nubia
and take possession of the mines, just
as when they wanted copper they
drove back the nomadic tribes of ST.
mai and built fortresses to protect their
miners. The Nubian gold workings of
which Prof. George speaks are placed
in an almost inaccessible mountain
group surrounded on all sides by a
waterless desert. Here may be seen
tunnels and shafts penetrating the
mountains to almost unknown depths.
The Grit-advocate., 1906-03-23
Educating Children.

Forcing the youthful mind is a
practice no longer obtaining in schools
of the best standing but not yet OBJ.
solete in many of the common
schools. In schools which represent
the dominant ideas of education to,
day, stimulation, interest. suggestion
prevail, and driving is avoided. If
there has been some leaning toward
the prosaic. there is now fresh in.
terest in stimulating the emotions,
and a full realization of the need of
many things conventionaly not class.
ed among the useful, says Golfers
Weekly The greatest problem of ed,
ucation unsolved to-day relates to
girls. Heretofore their education has
been mere copy of that long ago
established for boys. Some dav a
genius will come along and conceive
thoughts that shall form the basis of
an education which shall help girls to
all their best possibilities, without
dissipating their strength on lines of
effort established for natures in some
respects entirely different.
The Grit-advocate., 1906-03-23
tom REED WAS DECEIVED

A number of years ago the Hon.
Thomas B. Reed told one of his early
law cases.
A neighbor's boy was arrested for
stealing tray of gold watches and in
court pleaded not guilty. The only
witness for the prosecution was the
jeweler who lost the watches. His
story was that on the afternoon on
which the watches were stolen he was
fixing up his show window and had
removed from it the goods, the tray
of watches among them. to the coun-
ter near the door. While doing this
End busting out the window, he testi-
fed. the boy stood on the sidewalk
watching him through the window. AS
it was dusk, he went into rear room
for match, and when he came back
the boy and about a dozen gold
watches were gone, He jumped
through the open door, but could see
no one on the street.