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The independent., 1906-12-13
CHINESE SAY "No sAvvY OATH"
Wants Chicken Blood SprinkIed to
Bind Testimony in Court

San Francisco-Lum Coon appear
ed before Judge Lawlor this week to
be sworn as a witness in the trial
of Lem Ying, Chinese, for them ur-
der of Lem Chung.
No savvy oath,' he said when the
clerk asked him to raise his right
hand
What do you savvy?" inquired AS
sistant District Attorney O'Gara.
me savvy chicken. Cut head off,
splinkle blood"
mot at this time, in this court"
interposed Judge Lawlor.
Lum Coon said that he also under
stood the solemnity Of the obligation
by teacup held up before a witness
and suddenly smashed. The court re-
fused to allow even this performance
Lum Coon then told what he knew
about the case. 1t related to a trip
to Alaska taken by the defendant and
the deceased. Under an American
oath, at least, HEX new nothing in
eliminating.
The independent., 1906-12-13
FORBID NEW SPELLING
House Of Representatives Takes First
Step to Knock Out Order of
the President

Washington-Cong has locked
horns with the president in earnest
over reform spelling. The committee
on appropriations, the most powerful
in legislative affairs in the house,
after careful canvass of members
reported in the annual legislative, ex-
exutive and judicial appropriation bill
with section prohibiting the public
printer from using in printing docu-
ments any rule of othography not es-
tablished by some generally accepted
dictionary of the English language.
Congress Is not content to say to
the president that it does not approve
the changes and will have none Of
them in its own printing, but it furth-
er prohibits the public printer from
using reform spelling in any docu-
ment authorized by law or ordered
by congress-
When pressed for an Interpretation
of the scope of this provision, the
members of the committee said that
it meant that congress would not have
any printed matter go out Of the gov
ernment printing Office set up in the
modified form.
1--WE will not be forced to read the
presidents message in the new-fang
led form of spelling, and we will have
no more Communications in printing
from the government printing Office
in which the so-called reform spelling
is used," said a prominent member of
the committee.
The president has given no indica-
ton of what interest he will show IN
maintaining the reform he has estab-
1ished.
The independent., 1906-12-13
WoRkINGMAN ELECTED MAYOR
"Dinner Pail BriSa ade" Passes up Party
to Vote for Fellow Laborer

Springfield, Mass.-Springfield has
elected a workingman's mayor, Will
liam e. Sanderson. He was cut by
the silk stocking element of the repub
licans, but the dinner pail brigade" of
the democracy voted the republican
ticket last week for the first time on
record and elected Mr.. Sanderson by
large plurality. The democrats pit
ted Edward HI. Lathrop, one of the
foremost members of the bar, against
Sanderson.
The overwhelming republican pre-
ponderance in the fashionable residen-
tai districts dwindled down to a bare
majority, but Sanderson carried two of
the three democratic wards and halved
the normal democratic plurality in the
third.
Mayor-elect Sanderson is boss"
in the yards of the Wason company,
car manufacturers He has worked
for day wages all his life.
The independent., 1906-12-13
MAY DIVIDE HARTMAN LINES
Interstate Commission Inquiry Into
Union and Southern Pacific

Washington, D. Can investiga-
tion of the Union Pacific and it's rela-
tions with the Southern Pacific sys-
ten, growing out of their common
management and control was ordered
by the interstate commerce commits
sion last week. Experts Frank b. Kel-
logg and C. A. Severance of st. Paul
have been retained to conduct the in
vestigation.
All sorts of charges have been pour
ing in upon the commission against
the Union Pacific. The most serious
is that a condition similar to that
which prevailed in the Northern Sc
curities case exists. There is no law,
and constitutional lawyers of high re-
pute insist there can be none, to pro-
hibit an individual from investing his
money as he pleases, but the commits
sion has been convinced that Harri-
man in the Union Pacific has not only
violated the Sherman antitrust law,
but also the interstate commerce law,
and the statute against conspiracies.
The Oregon Short Line Railway com
pany, it is claimed, has been used by
The independent., 1906-12-13

week from the camp and reports that
section rich in undeveloped fields OF
ore. He is an experienced miner and
prospector from Colorado and says
that in all his years of mining he has
never seen such rich showings from
claims that have been so little de-
yeloped. The specimens of ore
brought in from Copper Mountain are
very rich in copper, gold, silver and
lead. The prospectors of the new
camp are enthusiastic over the bright
future that they believe is in store
for Copper Mountain.
The independent., 1906-12-13
SHOOTER OF EX-SENATOR SILENT
Victim is Reported to Be in Preca.
rious Condition

Washington, D. >C-Mrs. Annie K.
Bradley, who Saturday afternoon shot
and perhaps fatally wounded former
Senator Arthur Brown of Utah, spent
quiet Sunday at the house of de-
tention Early in the day friends in
Denver obtained counsel for her
Lackie & Fulton of this city-and by
their advice she refused to receive
callers.
The victim of the shooting is still
at the Emergency hospital, and up to
a late hour this evening his condition
was precarious. His relatives have
been summoned by wire and it is ex-
pected that they will arrive tomor-
row. Meanwhile no action has been
filed against Mrs. Bradley.
The independent., 1906-12-13
CHURCH AND STATE CLASH
Pope Plus Refuses to Recognize New
Laws in France Relating to
Church Matters


Paris-The eleyenth-hour rejeciiou
by Pope Plus of the governments
final proffer by which Catholic ,voss
ship could be continued under tho
common law, is regarded by the sor-
ernment as little less than srsv.,
mons of the French Catholics to npe.
rebellion. The government beliepea
the action of the pontiff, besides max
ing the deadlock complete, already nas
brought France face to face with an
alarming religious crisis, and opy
which may entail the most deplorabJ,
circumstances.
The order of Pope Plus was spread
throughout France. According to the
pontiff's instructions, declarations un-
der the law of 1881 are prohibited,
but the parish priests must remain
in the churches until driven ont by
violence
The official confirmation of this COM
municatiOn has created sensation.
both in government and Roman Catho-
lie circles.
Cardinal Lecot, archbishop of Bor-
deaux; Archbishop Germain and 9TH
ers who already had advised compli-
ance with the law, hastily instructed
the parish priests of their dioceses
that their former advice is null and
void.
In all the churches of Paris bishops
and priests, after mass, read the let
ter from Cardinal Richard, archbishop
of Paris, communicating the decision
of the holy see to continue services
in the churches, but abstain from any
declaration" and Cardinal Richards
own instructions in view of the order
issued by the prefect of the Seine not
to permit for the present the employ
ment of ceremonial draperies at mar
riages or funerals.
The church wardens, whose legal
existence expires next Tuesday, were
thanked from the pulpits of the va
rious churches. Prayers were offered
for Gods protection during thee om-
ing period of persecution"
While there is no sign of the gov
ernment weakening in it's stand, the
situation is admitted to be grave in
the extreme. Premier Clemenceau
and Minister of Public Worship M.
BRAND, after the close of the con-
ference this evening, said the deci-
sion of Pope Plus was entirely unex-
pected.
'The encyclical is, very grave" said
M. BRAND. while condemning the
law of 1905, it advised recourse to
4he common law Although the re-
The independent., 1906-12-13
66. Lincoln, Nebraska, December l3, 1906

Mr.. Hartman as the holding company,
and while it is not competitor of the
Union Pacific, the commission expects
to prove that Hartman and the Stand
ard Oil interests have been using the
holding company as a cloak to hide
their violation of the law in suppress
sing all competitn between the
Union Pacific and the Southern Pa
cific, which are parallel lines, and by
geographical location should be actual
competitors, as required by the law.
Much material for the inquiry has
been gathered by the commission in
it's inquiry into the coal business Of
railroads, and it is confidently predict
ed that Mr.. Hartman soon will find
the interests with which he is asso-
ciated hailed into court to answer
charges of violation of several differ
ent statutes.
The independent., 1906-12-13
GOLD DISCOVERY IN WYOMING
Ore Running 500 to the Ton Found
in Copper Mouyntain District

in Copper Mouyntdin DiStTiCt
Lander, Wyo.-A startling gold dis
eoyery was made on the Wililam-Lu-
man mining properties in the Copper
Mountain district this week. The find
was made while excavating for a
building foundation, which is practi-
cally striking ore at the grass roots.
A thirty-two foot lead has opened, four
feet of which is rich in gold, the
balance being copper. The ore runs
over 500 to the ton. T. G. Smith,
manager for the proper, is rushing
the work of putting in modern ma
chinery and expects soon to be ship
ping the ore from Shoshoni, the near
est railroad station.
Judge J. M. Bonine returned this
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CHAPTER XIV.

Continued.
Il don't know. That is the thing
which win save me. I don't know
where she is. Pretty ragged and
down ON her luck she looked when
saw her. 1t was then that / found
out the TRUTH
"Jem." said Harriet, in the direct
manner peculiar to her sex, you are
- scoundrel'
Her husband made no reply.
You have stolen all this trust
money. And as for the rest, we were
only part interiors
Don't be a fool, Harriet. 1t was
for your sake. How else would you
have got that crimson velvet dress
Don't call names, but see if you can't
help me out Of this mess
How are we to live. / want to
know ~
Lord knows! The first question is,
how viii Tom take it? And how can
I put it to him."
When we go from here, where
are we to go? What are we to do?
You have deceived me again. You
ought to have tolG me everything.
You Ought to have behaved honest to
that poor girl, whatever else hap
pened. l never thought that I should
be able to call my husbaDd'
"Ohl well-if you choose to be a
vixen, you may. Don't think, Harriet,
that I'm going to slave and worry on
account of a she-devil If you've got
nothing better to do than to show tenn
per-as if I wanted Tom to come
back-I shall-go and have my pipe
by myself"
1t was tame and impotent conclu-
sion. but she turned upon him and
looked so fierce that he collapsed.
In the small hours Of the morning
James woke up suddenly. The blinds
were up, and the moon was streaming
in at the windows. Harriet was stand
ing at the window IN her nightdress.
Harriet" he cried, what are you
doingY'
I've had dream, Jem," she re-
piled. "A dreadful dream. / thought
that you were tried by the judge and
sent to convict prison for robbery.
and was left destitute. And I'd got
"a knife in my hand"-she held up her
hand and showed a dagger which
cleaned in the moonlight; it was only
a little ornamental paper knife, but
it flashed like shetland I was going
tn kill f,,vSnIf ami boxna dana with II
You were a convict working at Port
land, Jem."
Come back to bed this instanty' he
said, sternly. you and your dreams
come back and so to Sleep"
She obeyed, and went to sleep again
calmly and sweetly. But her hus-
bands teeth chartered, he trembled
and shook. because his action would,
he was conscious, bear such CON
struction. And Tom was on his way
home, doubtless having much wrath.
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Nearly everyone's eyes are more or
less afflicted with astigmatism. says
Dr. G. NJ. Gould, Philadelphia spec
ialist, and he then proceeds to define
this defect as follows:
The front portion of the eye should
be round, or equally curved in all di-
rections, like the central portion Of the
end of an egg. It is usually, however.
more or less inaccurate and shaped
approximately like the side of the egg.
That is, its vertical curve il NOT the
same as that drawn around the sur
face horizontally.
The image produced by such an eye
Is not only blurred, but distorted, 50
that it is somewhat like that seen
when looking into one of those freak
museum mirrors which change a fat
man into giraffe like creature, or
vice versa.
The chief cause of this difference in
the curves is the pressure of the Dp-
per lid on the eyeball.
This is continuous and, acting
month after month at exactly the same
point finally results in "Aattening out
the eye eEdways.e
In order to correct the resulting de-
fective vision all that is necessary is
to have fitted pair OF glasses which.
by their opposite wrongness1 outside.
counteract the inward wror gness. =
New York Globe.
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Originally costing something more
than $4,000. the lord mayors coach
still used in the annual procession
has probably had more money ex
pended upon it than any horse-draw-
vehicle in the world 1t is nearly 16t
years old and in that time more than
100000 has been spent in refurnish
ing it for the sole occasion when It Is
made use of each year. A more mod
ern coach could be had for the sum
at ave years repairs, but a new coach
would never seem the same to the
London public. who line the Strand
on the occasion of the November pa
rade. It is probable that the lord
mayor of a century hence will ride in
the same equipage, though, like the
Trishman's knife, it has been repaired
SO often that practically nothing Of
the original coach remains.
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CHAPTER XVI.
TOMS RETURN.

Tom did not cover the ground be-
tween Suakim nd London in the short
est time on record. The story of his
captivity and escape of course reached
home before he did in scrappy frag-
ments. which made everybody talk Of
the two prisoners. So that they were
the men Of the moment. 1t is a great
thing in ones life to have been, if
only for once, The Man of the Mo
ment; the honor is one which is be-
slowed upon people variously distin-
guished, and may be shared with Mr..
Gladstone OF with Charles Peace. But
Tom neglected his opportunity, and re-
fused even so much as to read paper
at the Royal Geographical.
1t was one morning at the beginning
of November, about a fortnight after
that awful fog, that Tom arrived at
Victoria. He had sent kilograms from
Suakim, from Cairo, from Brindisi, and
from Paris, all addressed to Harley
House. He would not burst upon the
poor girl without warning. She would
hear of his safety from the papers; she.
should hear of his return from his tele-
grams. Poor grill Poor Katharine!
His eyes filled when he thought of her
trouble and sorrow on his account.
But now all the trouble was over. She
knew that he was safe. She was
happy again-poor friendless Kath-
arine! Six O'clock in the morning, and
not yet quite light You can not call
at a house, even to see your sweet
heart. who has supposed that you are
dead, at six o'clock in the morning.
The lazy maids are not up at six in
a London house; they are only turn
ing round in the sheets, uneasy be-
cause they are possessed by that pleas
ant, teasing, winning, masterful, per-
suasive, coaxing devil Il know not his
nance who haunts the bedrooms Of
young people at times when they ought
to be getting up, and when the clocks
are striking with eli their might, and
holds them as If by strong arms In
bed, and weighs down their eyelids,
and makes them helpless with sleep
as by enchantment, in so much that
for the sake of another hour in bed
they are ready to brave everything,
even a months notice. 1t is recorded
OF a certain medieval housemaid II
thing the story is the autobiography
of Guibert de Nogent-that one day,
under the maIign influence Of this
devil, she actually sold her soul for
one more hours roll in the sheets.
This was duly granted to- her. she
is now punished has by having no
sheets at all to roll in
six o'clock in the morning. Tom put
his kit into a cab. and drove to a hotel,
the only place where welcome awaits
the returning traveller at six in the
morning. Then he made up his mind
not to hurry things Katharine must
save time to get up. He would re-
strain himself and call at nine He
would have tub after his long jour
ney, get into change ofSclothes, and
take breakfast first 1t was only
eight o'clock when he had quite fin-
Ishel both. But he could wait no lon
ger, and he set out to weIk.
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lannon's Luck of EdenhalI.

Famous Luck OF EdenhaII.
down to our own day. When and how
they obtained the famous glass cup is
not known. While history has observed
complete silence on the subject, legend
has been correspondingly eloquent
about it, Everyone has heard the
couplet:
Should the cup e'er break Of fall,
Farewell the luck Of Edenhall;
and of the origin of tae cup more than
one version has been given.
The one which is most generally ac-
cepted, and which has been handed
down from one generation to another,
time out of mind, is to the effect that
once, long ago, in the dim past, serv.
ing-man of the Musgraves-a butler
some say went one night, as usual, to
draw water from St. Cuthbert's well,
which is close to the house. When
near the well he suddenly came upon
very merry company of fairies, who
were holding high revelry, and who
were so engrossed in their frolic that
they did not become aware of his APP
iproach until he was almost upon them,
when they dispersed in panic, run
ming helter-skelter in great confusion
land leaving behind them in their haste
a goblet, which the serYing-man
caught up and made off with. He was
pursued by the whole company, who
isoon discovered their loss, and who
were almost beside themselves with
rage. He sped along In headlong fight
and they tore after him, but were un.
able to catch him, for, GREATNESS and
painting, he reached the precincts
of the hall just as the foremost
among them came up with him. The
little people, were furious, and the
Elfn queen, in the frenzy of her pas
sion, pronounced the famous curse. 1t
reached the ears of the serving-man,
who, carrying his treasure in triumph
to his master, told him his tale. The
cup was Immediately delivered into
very safekeeping and has been guard
ed with almost religious zeal by the
family ever since. Thus runs the
legend.
The cup is Of the highest antiquarian
interest and is considered to be one
of the finest examples of ancient glass
in existence, while the case in which
It is always kept is an exceedingly
beautiful specimen Of medieval art.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1906-08-14

f w Martin, Of Beloit, wis, paid
j. Querrelo, of Kansas City. Mo,
breeder OF Berkshire hogs, near Inde-
pendence, $4,000 for Lord Bacon, q
Berkshire boar It is said to be the
highest price ever paid for an Amer
lean bred hog. Lord Bacon is
grandson Of Masterpiece, which was
sold by Querrolo for $1,000 to an
Illinois man. who afterward sold him
to n. + Gentry. of Sedalia, for $4,000.
QaerroIo raised both hogs. ~
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1906-08-14

From 1888 to 1896 1898 babies
under one year old died in Rochester
in July and August. During the
same months from 1897 to 1905 only
761 babies died. The number Of
children between one and five years
to die in the two summer months
dropped from S67 to 2sS Yet the
average population of the city was
$4,000 greater in the later period
than in the earlier, says the New
York World This amazing improve
ment is ascribed to the services Of an
enthusiast, DR.. George w. Goler. as
health officer; to the establishment
of pure milk stations and the inspec-
ton and regulation Of COW stables;
to perfect cleanliness in washing bot
ties and to the careful mixing OF mu-
nicipal milk for babies Of differing
ages Milk from the Inspected farms
is SO clean that it win keep sweet
for days without ice.
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afouthfuI q cord and Dlamonds.

Alfred Belt was a friend Of the
young Sultan of Johore, who once
visited him at Johannesburg for the
purpose of purchasing handful OF
diamonds. The Sultan was accom-
panied by a large retinue, including
q celebrated Paris dentist. While
mere lad an accident with a horse
resulted in the loss of nearly every
tooth in his head, and when he
reached his majority he had two
plates Of solid gold substitutes made,
and in the crown OF each a De Beers
diamond was set. When he laughs
the effect is weird, more especially
when the sun catches the gems and
makes them fash like fire.
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noa,a Lona lourney tioms.

An instance Of the homing instinct
ii dogs is reported from Buckingham-
shire Constable Atkinson, having
been transferred recently from Wrays-
bury to Long Crendon, took his re-
triever dog with him while on night
duty He missed the dog, and on the
following morning it was found in its
old home
by the most direct route the Jour
ney is over fifty miles, and had been
accomplished IN little more than sew
en- hours london Daily Mali.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1906-08-14

The recent visit of the Prince Of
Wales to Burma has attracted notice
to the wonderfully rapid growth in
size and prosperity of Rangoon dur
ing the last twenty years. Then it
had a population of only 10000,
whereas to-day it has nearly $4,000,
and a trade inferior only to that OF
Calcutta and Bombay.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1906-08-14

BY far the greater majority of
those who are sent to penitentiaries
are without some visible means of
support, and probably ninety per
cent. of those who are sent there
would never have been prisoners If
they had had some visible means of
support. Don't forget to teach FARM
ing to your boys in most thorough
and proper manner. It is a visible
means Of support that is almost pos
sible for the blind to see.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1906-08-14

The Haverhill (Mass.) School Com
mittee having refused to make circus
day a holiday, 5000 boys and girls
played hockey Nor yet is the
American spirit dead which kept tho
sliding-places on Boston Common open
during the British occupation. There
should be Federal regulation of school
committee.
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Efforts at mediation should be con.

Efforts at mediation should be con.
tinued. as the relations, commercial
and otherwise, between these Cen
trail American countries and this
country are sufficiently intimate to
permit of friendly offices being used
at any stage without impertinence
advises the New Orleans Picayu'
Even Mexico might also use her
fuence upon her neighbor, Gua~~s
mala.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1906-08-14

The actor in society, even more
than other artists, is superior to his
surroundings. declares The Era.
Practiced in the detection of pre-,
tence, humanized by contact with all
classes in his profession, he is able
to take society Cor what it is worth,
and no more
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1906-08-14

After all, it win turn out as has 50
often been repeated to the money blind
ed, remarks the Hartford Courant-
that everybody is bigger than anybody,
and thai society will not stand for the
arbitrary and hoggish methods that
have crept into trade in recent years.
The square deal' is the way.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1906-08-14

ATTEMPTS are being made in France
to train oxen for saddle riding, and
several races have lleen oragnized to
test their capacity. They have been
trained not only as racers on Hthe
fat" but also as successful Jumpers.
The bride and saddle used are sImi-
lar in general design to those for hunt
ers