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ought to seen the
blood that was sup
posed to be us! But
leading men and CT
CARS must be good
drawers to be a Sue
cess, and l guess it
worked all right in
this case, because we
were famous for a
long tine-and that
is such a bother, Ell?
Well, we had made
our reputation, and
the first thing we
knew there was moth
ing but literary gen.
fuses piling in every
night. We got to be
like a regular stock
company playing re-
pertory.
There was one of
them that was a
peach of a talker.
But that amt say
ing SO much at that,
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for that handful claimed to have blue blood.
And with that assemblage young man, with
intelligence all his face, long hair, and pair
of glasses on his nose, began to mingle one day.
couple of us piped him the minute he leaned
the bar to Mickey Finn and whispered, III
trouble you for glass of Saratoga wahter.
Mick stares at the guy like cat that hears thunder
a mile off and says, What are you dom, klddln'
me?"
Naturally, l had to smooth the accident,
and l gets next to the lamb, gives him crack in
the middle of his back, and explains to Mickey Finn
that in view of the fact of me having drunk the last
bottle of Saratoga water minute before the gent
in, he'll drink anything light soft that might
be handy.
The pilgrim looks round at me- and one of them
flashes of JOY lights up his features, and, l don't
know how | done it, but he says, "Chahmed!"
He didn't haE to coax me- and in a minute was
Furnishing few tubs of the creamy to his ginger
pop and we got confidential. To prove that he
the real thing in literature he got spoutng lot of
stuff out the old classics, but that didn't faze
me much. And between you and me, it S fine and
dandy to quote Emerson and them other wise boys,
but it the fellow that quote copper that buzzes
the reddest benzne buggy.
Then he put wise that he looking for
types and local color The last dead easy,
and / took him to show him the paintings painted
with oil in Barney Flynns back room. You know,
after Barney had the store painted whole lot of
paint was left One night Barney notices guy
that looks down and out and finds out he painter.
The soul of good nature, Barney puts him to work
using up the leftover paint on few pictures at
twenty cents foot. The fellow most tickled
to death to get the job, and he fixed up Admiral
Farragut, classic dame that's being taken outn
her grave, and George Washington. George was the
last picture, and he put him yellow horse. But
when it got down to the left hind foot all the yellow
gone and only green paint was left, SO he had
to finish with that. But they're swell pictures all
right, and each one of them measures about twenty
feet which amt SO bad when you get paid by the
inch.
The local color was all right; but there was moth
ing doing the types just then. looked out into
the bar-room, but the only one could see
Fancy" Rooney, and he don't look the part any
more Not that he has lost his shape only he's carry
ing too much of it before him. Anyway, l wasn't
any too anxious to steer the pilgrim up against any
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surance president to feel
IL sorry for his past. 1t don't
make no difference what
you've been doing, somebody can
write you up all right and make you
feel sorry you done it. There's only
one snow-white bunch, waiting for
sprouting wings, and that's them fell
lows that do the writing about the
wicked. They're all white, yes
they'll tell you so themselves.
first to find out that there was little
bit of good left in him, for even them
writer fellows won't paint grave
with pitch when they can't put bunch
of flowers on it. But this showlng-up
business is all right in its way, for
more repentance comes from the tear
of being caught than from conscience.
And besides, as fairs were concerned,
it only turn about, for l can re-
member the time when we-well, when
we didn't do thing to them writer
fellows.
It's as old as the hills, but there
amt no truer saying than the one OF
old P. r. that people won't be satisfied
till they get humbugged and get 1t
rubbed into them. It's true, honest
it is. Time after time I've seen college
professors throwing up nickels to take
a squint at captive mermaid with
stuffed fins in tank at Coney Island.
And, l guess, for the same reason
them fleets come sailing down the
Bowerv every night expecting any
thing, from a murderer to a bum con
man, to give them free entertainment
for a tub of hops. But, l suppose, If
we from the Bowery was to go up town
expecting to meet nothing but ladies
and gentlemen we'd get fooled about
the same way. Lies full of disap
pointments, and there's nothing like
philosophy to bear them.
Rascals will be in the world as longs
there's fools, and rascals being more
good-natured than fools they make
it easy for them to meet their fate.
Who's on the level? Nobody, take it fr
YOU make decent woman believe shes
ing the car company after she forgot
fare over to the conductor? It's the s.
Everybody's playing a part, and tina
a stage, with lot of bum actors on ii
Every once in awhile somebody sta1
because of some old sinner getting BIT
his coin. Let me tell YOU something:
of them hard-shells throws any bread
he expects it to float back as dough,
fact that we helped him to live to a 6
What can you do in these days of con
when it's a wise mining stock that k
par with an old skeesicks that's almos
to invest his cash for him? Amt Il
preservation?
But it wasn't only the financial
kept us busy. The fine arts was just a
line.
Before they all went daffy on tina
gag. a lot of them writer fellows use
stuck on coming down our way to
To the best of my recollection, none
ever disappointed.
The Joint where l used to have the
up my score on the ice was regular
civilization on the Bowery and the I
town. Besides us fellows that bel
there,
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thing without fixing up a nice little
plant for him first, and so put him
off till evening, when all the types was
supposed to be around and posing
He blows once more-I take a cigar
this time-and then he makes bee
line for the door.
Don t forget to bring little change
with you'll" l hollers after him, and
he waves his hand as much as to say,
Did you ever see John D. without
his little oil cam"
When you got to pay the piper you
want to make sure you get the dance,
and l meant well by the scribbling
pilgrim. l got few of the mob to-
gether and we fixed up a sort of hip
podrome without the elephants
He showed up all right, and had
bunch-women, too-with him. We
never knew till that night how
"cute we all were. The minute they
showed up
WAS it what? Ethical? Not so
that you could notice it, but it was
hunk of fun all right. Besides, what's
wrong with it? We're like all the rest.
Nobody can serve both God and
mammon-and, take it from me, there
amt many trying to-
Well, sir, you'd died to see and hear
us. Not one of us'd walk straight.
We'd come slouching along hats over
our noble brows and shoulders tick
ling our ears. And as for the lingo, we
could talk nothing only "coves" and
"culls" and peppers and the words
that kind of people thinks we talk
amongst ourselves.
They were throwing fits of delight
all over the place and were setting
them up SO fast began to drink short
ones And whenever they thought
we wasn't looking, it was How
quaint" How interesting" and
them kind of remarks.
| had the time of me life. In the
bunch was a good locker, and she first
tells me there was lot of intelligence
in me and that III jump the hurdles
of my surroundings. She raped to
me the minute she seen me, and when
front of Washington horse with the
OF, she tells me the secret of her life
to write the real novel about us bloods
Say, maybe l didn't tell her the story
ZEN, and l almost felt like the main
Y, with me best" by my side and the
ng peek-a-boo with us.
he writer fellow made a hit all right,
all to be writ about in book And in
hey had come out for lark, but most
home with a peach.
we couldn't shake the writer. He
g were in and out, and we got solid
ike them Bowery guys on the stage.
minute! Maybe you think we didn't
age? In about couple of months that
comes Waiting in with a book under
reads us couple of speeches that we're
talk Of course, he didn't have the
us in the book, only one, but, he says,
npound of the whole bunch.
It he said sounds like me: 'Say, Polly,
cove putin up his snoot to them ruby
i'm again, I'll soak i'm in the Stats till
5 out like bunch O beans. Soitenly!
="
elt ashamed that l could be suspected
as bad as that And when they put
the stage went UP to see it. You
zen the
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ISTEN! Nowadays a fellow
don't have to be a life in
. surance president to feel
sorry for his past. 1t don't
make no difference what
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of whisky andknew
that whisky'll i'm
prove with age,
only they didn't
have the time to
wait. And then
there were some
that had left their
town by rail with
out ever striking
the railroad, while
the rest must have
been color blind;
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there, a whole lot OF
mixed humanity was
always thronging the
halls.
Well, sir, it was a
queer looking bunch.
Some of them were
wrecks that claimed to
come from good fami-
lies, and you couldn't
help wondering at the
distance they must
have travelled; the
others were good judges
The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1906-12-21
STANDARD STOPS TESTIMONY
Witnesses Fare So Badly that Trust
Calls Halt in Hearing.
Believed to Mean Practical Aban-
dOnment of Fight Against Mis-
souri, Anti-Trust suit.

New York, Dec 2o.-The Standard oil
Company has practically abandoned It's
defense fin the suits brought against Il
By the State Of Missouri. for violation Of
the antitrust laws there, after a stub
born fight that mas lasted more than a
year and a half
The end came to-day, when the taking
missioner Anthony came 70 an abrupt halt
toward the END Of the morning session.
The Standard oil attorneys had put sew
eral witnesses on the stand 10 refute the
testimony of the witnesses Of the prose
cution, but they fared so badly at the
hands Of Attorney General HaGley. Of
Missouri. that it was decided 70 cali no
mere witnesses until a consultation had
been held with NJ. s Elliott, the general
counsel for the trust.
After tIe morning session was over the
attorneys for two Of the three companies
involved. the Republic Oil Company. Of
Cleveland. and the Standard Oil Com
pany. OF Indiana, went TO p Broadway
and had a long conference with MIR. FL
lott When they returned they consulted
with Mr. Hadley. and the announcement
was then made that no more testimony
would be taken in New York
There was some talk that other wit
nesses for the defense might be examined
in the West. but owing TO the poor show
ing made thus far by the trusts wit
nesses. it is considered highly improbable
that the trust would care TO put in any
more testimony
The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1906-12-21
CURTIS JETT ALONE GUILTY
Repudiates First Confession About
COekrill Murder.
says He Had sworn TO Kill Victim
Because Latter shot Him-CIaims
He was Paid for Statement.

Cynthiana. Ky, Dec. 20.-Gurtis Jett.
on trial here for the assassination of
James CockriI IT Jackson, Breathitt
County. electrified the attorneys on both
sides when on the witness stand to-day
he confessed TO having killed CockrlH.
Jett. when put on the stand in his own
behalf, said that he repudiated the con-
fession made by him several months ago.
in which he stated that he, John Smith,
John Abner, and Eli Britton had killed
Cockrill, and that Judge James Hargis
and Ed Callahan had employed them to
do the killing.
Jett swore to-day that this confession
was false in every particular, and It
had been obtained from him by attorneys
who paid him for making it.
II killed Jim COckriH." =" said Jett. in be-
ginning his story to-day Jett then said
he was standing near the Hargis store
when COckTill passed. He said he had
sworn 10 kill COckrill on sight because
CoclriIl had shot him in the Arlington
Hotel Jett said when CockriII passed
him he went to the courthouse, upstairs.
and from there shot COckriT with a As
caliber revolver, woundilg him so that
he died in the hospital next day
Jett to-day did not mention the names
Of either Judge James or Senator Alex
ander Hargis, Ed Callah n. Bill Britt0n.
John Abner, or John Smith. who are
charged Jointly with him in killing Cock
rill. other than to say that his story Of
several months ago was false He stuck
to his story under CrOss-exarinati0n. and
will testify further Friday.
Jett is now under life sentence for the
assassination of James =. Marcum, at
Jackson, during the feud at election.
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Chicago. Dec. 20.-Attacked suddenly 10y
insanity, Mrs. J. Seleuc hurled her three
year-old niece, Gladys Hersch. from the
third-story window of Vincennes avenue
fat building this afternoon. The little
one was fatally injured
Startled by the chHd's screams and the
crash OF the glass through which the lit
tie one had been tossed. the maniac's sis
ter. Mrs. Benjamin Hersch, and their
mother rushed into the room and CRAP
pied with the luuatic, who was strug-
Cling 70 throw Mrs. Hersch's seven
months-old baby after her sister.
Turning on the older woman. Mrs. Sc
lene tried 10 force her mother through
the window, and actually bad her body
half outside when neighbors, attracted
by the struggle. ovefPo owered her Mrs.
Selene was hurried % 'th- detentioa hos
pital 1t is said she Is suffering from
emotional insanity
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ALARM CAUSED BY YESUVIUS
Apparent Eruption Proves to Be
Crater Which Falls II
Poorer Glasses In Naples Pray for
Protection When Ashes OBJ
scure the Volcano.

Naples. December 20.-Great alarm was
caused this afternoon by an apparent
eruption Of Mount Eesuvius. There was
a heavy rain Of ashes for twenty minutes,
which hid the mountain. A panic seized
the dweIIers in the poorer quarters Of
the city. and men and women hurried
into the streets and the churches. pray
ing to the Madonna and the saints not to
allow another disaster to be inflicted upon
them at Christmas as they suffered at
Easter.
As the storm of ashes slowly abated.
and subsequently ceased entirely, the poor
believed that their prayers had been an
swered. The better educated people,
however. noting the absence Of detOna-
tions and earthquakes which precede
genuine eruptions, waited a report from
the observatory. from which it was
learned that part Of the crater had
fallen in. sending up quantities of cinders,
ashes. and sand. These continued falling
at Pompeii and Portica after they had
stopped at Naples
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Note from the Vatican.
ENT0MBED MINER LOSES BET.
Rescue Party Strikes Treacherous
Dirt and Liberation Is Delayed.

Bakersfield, Cal. Dec. 20-The rescue
force that has been working to release
Hicks. the entom5ed miner expected TO
have him out this afternoon but when
within three feet Of him the men struck
a lot of loose earth and mud which re-
quired tuaneling under It.
The slightest disturbance OF the loose
material directly over Hicks would prove
fatal. Only car on the opposite side of
where Hicks is lying separate him from
freedom.
A hole two feet wide and sixteen inches
deep is to be tunneled under the car. and
the rails on which the car rests are to be
sawed through. This will take hours. and
it is not expected the miner viii get out
before midnight.
Hicks is in good spirits. and early in
the gay bet one of the party a box of
cigars that he would get out before ;
o'clock.
Later he was plunged in despair. He
says he can feel the bodies of his FIVE
dead companions about him. The stencil
is frightfuI. but he has managed to en-
dure it.
Il can see Jim's foot in this heIl-hole
he yelled 90 his rescuers. IT'S moving
l think. The dead stare at ME. They are
laughing, too
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WOULD SAVE SPAIN
Eatican'S Attitude Toward
France Is Explained.
ENCOUNTER LESS DIFFICULTY
Enforcement of Separation Law Pro-
ceeds SO Far as Taking Possession
cerned - More Excavations of
Places of Worship Are Reported.

Paris. Dec 2o-More excavations OF
church property. a few more declarations
enabling the holding OF services in
churches, and fewer difficulties encoun-
tered in executing the separation law 50
fas as regards the state taking possession
81 churches and seminaries-that is the
history Of the active operations of to-day.
Newspaper discussion Is mostly very
subdued indeed. although Frenchmen
were Informed to-day from Spain that
their country is being subjected to bitter
trials by the Pope. not 10 regain France.
which IS .hopelessly lost 70 the church.
but 10 save Spain to the Holy Mother be
fore It Is too late
The ejcctment proceedings, through that
constant repetition under which the heart
hardens. are ceasing IN some Instances
to be regarded by the authorities as
solemn matters Of duty. and have taken
rather the character of that fippant IA
cility OF routine, in which the vulgar
easily md humor. When officers to-day
went to oust the teachers and twenty
I'VE students at the Seminary Of ST. sui
pice. Father GuerTiguet said that he
would only quit the premises under force.
An. yes said the commander. che y
fully smiling at his own forgetfulness OF
the little formality; officer touch on OF
your hands on the fathers shoulders hat
it be well established that he yields only
to force"
The Journal des Debats, whose SYM
pathies are generally favorable to the
church. regrets the proposed attitude of
the members of the Right in regard TO
the new religion bill. 1t argues that
their abstention from discussion of the
measure wiz destroy the party's infiu-
ence and political Importance. but the
paper says whatever may be the party $
motive. uncertainty in regard TO Rome S
action toward the bin when it is passed
must paralyze the opposition, for = en-
if the opposition ameliorated the biP iur-
ing its passage. Rome might aft ward
nulIlfy their exertions All actt ity in
initiative is stopped through uncertainty,
as TO how it viii be accepted in Rome.
So the political system, already badly
warped in France, receives another blow
from which the gTavest disasters may
be expected.
Ex-Minister Jaures. in the Humanite.
advances a similar argument. He con-
cludes by saying that Roman absolUtism
has killed al Catholics action of init!a-
tive in France
Note from the Vatican.
Rome. Dec. 20.-The Vatican will de-
liver its note protesting against the
seizure of the archives Of the Nunciature
at Paris to the foreign representatives
tomorrow. Cardinal Merry del Val. the
Papal secretary Of state. will receive each
diplomat separately, and present a copy
of the note TO him, requesting that iJs
contents be communicated 70 his govern
ment. A summary of the note appears
this evening in the Osservatore Romano.
the organ OF the Vatican.
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BANDITS RESIST TROOPS.

Russians Have Trouble in Sian-
churia Towns.
St. Petersburg, Dec. IA threatening
situation is facing the authorities in Man
churia- The chUnchunses (banditsl are
resisting the troops. and frequently sllir-
mishes have occurred in which many IA
tauties have resulted The Vladiyostoll
government has ordered a quantity of
arms 20 beshipped there.
4 severe fight occurred at Tsitsikhar,
capital OF the government Of the same
name, in which eleven men We're killed
and many injured. The fatalities among
the bandits were very large.
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WEATHER FORECAST.

For the District of Columbia
and Maryland-Cloudy to-day,
possibly rain; tomorrow, fair; ;
not much change in tempera-
ture; light, variable winds.
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SEQUEL TO REIGN OF CRIME.
Indictments Returned for Murder of
PittsburE Ianufacturer.

Pittsburg, Pa. Dec. 20.-The grand
jury returned true bills to-day against
three men for the murder of james
Agnew Mcmillan, the manufacturer,
who was murdered and robbed by
hiShwaymen near his home on NOvem-
her .. The indictments were found on
Information alleged 10 have been given
the police b. q workman To whom one
OF the murderers. confessed after the
crime. Both the district attorney and
police refuse 10 divulge the names OF
the three men indicted The police
however, admitted that the men had
left Pittsburg for st. Louis a few days
after Mcmillan was murdered. and are
either in that city or Kansas City. and
VIII be in custody in a short time
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WILL RETALIATE ON LORDS.
CnmpbeIs-Bnnnerma Resents Kill
ing of Educational Bill.


London. Dec. 90.-Indication that vigor-
Gus measures will be taken TO retaliate
on the House of Lords for killing the
education bill, through its amendments
to which the government would not agree,
was given in a speech on the subject to-
day by Premier Campbell -Bannerman
Coming after a visit by the premier
with King Edward, the vigorous attack
made on the lords created great stir.
The premier announced the withdrawal
ofSthe education bill, saying:
1.-THE settlement of the educational
question IS prevented and the country
knows on whom the responsibility rests.
But the resources of the constitution and
the Commons have not been exhausted,
and way must and will be found by
which the will of the peoples elected rep
resentatives viii be made TO prevail"
Great applause greeted the attack on
the lords
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POINT FOR THE ADVERTISER.

The Washington Herald has
a larger circulation in Wash
ington than was ever before
attained by a morning news
paper here. It is a home cir
culation, too, and it is grow
ing every day.
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GOES INSANE ON a TRAIN.
Italian Attacks Passengers, One q
Whom VIII Die.

italian. bound from Chicago TO New York.
became insane early to-day on the New
York limited on the Erie at Meadville
Armed with club, he attacked five men
before ne was oveTpowered. Joseph Pink
house, of Meadville. was knocked sense
less and may die. Ferritti was held for
examination.
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sUFFRAGISTS TRICK POLICE.
London Women Call "BObbies" OF
with whistle.

London. Dec. 21.-Woman suffra gists
made a strategic raid on the House Of
Commons last evening. They drove up
in cabs from different points and outwit-
ted the police. who were on guard. One
woman blew policeman's whistle,
which tended to draw OF the officers.
while the woman's colleagues rushed in
the entrance of the House and attempted
a demonstration.
II was not successful, and five suffra-
giSts were arrested as A result.
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EvICTED, JUMPS TO DEATH.
Woman Driven to Suicide by Dis
possess Notice.

New York, Dec. gO-Mrs. Maggie Ryan.
thirty years Old was found dead this
morning at the bottom of the airshaft of
her home at 100 St. AIMS avenue. The
authorities were unable at first to deter
mine whether the womaa's death was
due 20 an accident or suicide
When Patrick Ryan, the woman's hus-
band. was found he told the police he be-
lieved his wife ended her life because OF
dispossess proceedings instituted against
them. The building in which they lived
had heen sold. and they, like other ten
ants, were ordered 10 leave.