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The sun., 1907-11-20
DAINTY COLORS PREVAIL.
women In BewItchlng Costumes FIN the
Boxes I'm the Garden.

Boxes I'm the Garden.
Il was a well filed Garden last night and
again society patrOnized the show. which
will make IL the success IL has been in former
years. The boxes were well filed and the
costumes Of the women fairly bewitching.
The boardwalk was not uncomfortably
crowded, and so casual visitors to the show
were able to see these costumes. which were
OF all the dainty colOrs imaginable. Mrs.
Reginald c. Vanderbilt wore a costume Of
light yellow silk. embroidered and trimmed
with lace. She wore a picture hat with
long pllmes and diamonds. Mrs. Alfred
O. Vanderbilt wore a cream colored silk
and lace costume and a brown hat. Her
ornaments were diamonds.
Miss Caroline Fellowes wore pink. a black
hat with pink plumes and coral ornaments
Mrs Henry l.. Burnett wore an Irish lace
costume, a sable stole and a large black hat
with black ostrich feathers. Mrs. +. r.
Thomas wore white lace trimmed with
cerise girdle and a large black hat with
cerise ostrich feathers.
minot satin gown trimmed in gold and q
velvet wrap with dark sable collar. Her
hat was trimmed with long ostrich feathers
and her ornaments were diamonds.
Miss Emily Bedford wore a white silk
and lace costume and white hat trimmed
Mrs. George z. Church wore a pink velvet
costume and black hat trimmed with
flowers She sat in +. H. Gary's box with
her husband.
Miss Katherine Elkins was In gray and
sables and wore a large black hat.
Mr.. and Mrs. e. +. Bedford and Miss
Grace Bedford entertained In their boz.
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From 0 A. NJ. until 1870 A. NJ. horses may he
exercised in the ring by permission Of the super
II 4. NJ Judging two hackney stations. year
Ills a. M.--JudgIng nve hackney stations.
years old. class "a
ll9O a. M.-Judging two hackney stations
years old or over, class %
1i;4O 4. M.-Judglng nve hackney stations.
yenrs old. class -
ls M.-JudRing hackney mares for the cham
ptOnship, class 10.
is:iS p. N.~Judging Hackney stations and their
get. class 20. and three OF the get gf stallion.
class n.
issS p. M.-Judzlnr nvo pony brood mares.
is:4S p. M.-JudgIng four shetland brood mares,
class %.
r. M.-Recess
. p. M.-Judglng four ponies under saddle.
eiiss sis M.-Judrlnr seven shetland DoD,., 4,
harness, class 6:.
30 p. VI; Judging sixteen horses shown to
runa bouts. class ~.
500 p Judging sil pairs Of heavy DRAFT
$50 y. M.-JudGing hackney stations for ths
challenge CUP. class 10.
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non iRD GOULD WINs A POINT
May ASS Helen Mcr AbOut NTs. Gould and
COl. Cody.

The application Of counsel for Mrs. How
ard Gould, who is suing her husband for
separation, to have vacated a court order
permitting the examination before trial of
Helen Mer. one Of Howard Gould's Wit
nesses. was denied yesterday by Justice
O'Gonnan in the Supreme Court. The
Justice handed down no opinion.
Mr.. Gould expects TO prove, according
to his own AFFIDAVIT that Mrs. Gould told
Miss Mer that before she married Gould.
nine years ago. she was very friendly with
Col. William F. Cody, known as Buffalo
evidence will give him a good defence
against Mrs. Gould's present action, and
as Miss MeT is about to leave for England
he wants her evidence taken here imme-
diately
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led 10 the judges stand and the ribbon
pinned on. Mrs. G. W. Watson drove and
drove we'll
The competition for the Alfred B. Maclay
cup for hunters caused lots Of trouble.
Eleven out OF the thirteen entered COM
peted. Dhey had TO jump a 4 foot hurdle
first and then an in and out. but the horses
evidently could not see the bars for they
would stop suddenly just when they should
jump.
Only three got over, all the others ballx-
ing. These were Sapolio. ridden by Harvey
Fisk; Majesty. ridden by Arthur White. Jr..
and Cygnet. ridden by Sidney Holloway.
but he was not hurt. and mounting tried
again to get the horse over but failed. The
horses had to be- ridden by amateurs. Con-
formation counted as well az performances
over fences. and Cygnet won, with Ma jeety
second. Sapolio third and CrIsher fourth.
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yury Saw. wsstheumer Km,d Himself.

Coroner Hamburger yesterday directed
the jury sitting in the case Of Nathan
Westheimer, who was found dead in mis-
home. 100 West Seventy-ssventh street. on
November IL, to bring i'm a verdict of sui
eide by swallowing cyanide Of potassium.
This the jury did without leaving their
STATS. Mr.. WestheimeT's widow testified
that her husband had worried over the
depreciation OF some of his securities.
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PLATT SEEKS A WITNESS
VINO Says Mae Wood Denied Marrying the
senator.


Justice OGorman OF the Supreme Court
yesterday granted the application Of coun-
sell for Senator Thomas c. Platt for an order
permitting the examination by commission
Of John P. Shook. a resident Of Kansas
City, as a witness in the suit for divorce
brought againss the Senator by Mae c.
Wood, who alleges that she was married
secretly to the Senator in the Fifth Avenue
Hotel six years ago.
An affidavit by Senator Platt says that
Shook. on reading the published reports
Of Miss Woods litigation, wrote 10 the
Senator stating that he recalled distinctly
a series OF conversations he had with Miss
Wood between November o. 1901. and Oc-
tober. 1903. when the Senator married Mrs
Lillian I. Janeway. In these conversa-
tions. Shocks letter states. Miss Wood
never claimed to be- Platt's wife. but on the
contrary denied that she had ever married
him
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TO BE TRIED AFTER 10 YEARS.
Henry shlDman Comes From Insane Asylum
90 Confront Old Murder Charge.

After a confinement Of nineteen years in
the Matteawan Insane Asylum. Henry d.
Shipman was yesterday brought to the
Tombs Prison to await trial for the murder
of his wife in New York twenty years ago.
When brought into the prison Shipman
refused to talk. except 90 say that The
subway Is a great thing" He will be de-
Tended by Lieut.. Gov Chanler.
Shipman was defended by Howe a Hum
mel at his original trial and declared in
sane. He is now mentally sound. and on
Monday a POughkeepsie court ordered him
here for trial. He declares he has no rec
objection of killing anybody
The sun., 1907-11-20

Damage by Blg wave at Vera Cruz.
MEXICO CITY. Nov. ia despatch from
Vera Cruz says that high sea swept over
the tracks OF the Vera Cruz and Pacific
Railroad near that port to-day, causing
much damage. 4 long stretch Of track
was washed away.
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WHAT WOULD YOU DO IF 1T
WAS YOUR LAST DAY ON
EARTH?
GIVE WILL. JENKINS A JOB OF
Window Washing, Rub Cleaning
and General House WORK,

Not me! (See Dictionary Of
Slang" page 40 II this were my
last day on earth and by some divine
revelation, knew 1t, would dig me
a can of bait, cut crooked pole and
go down to the lake and fish! Flat
down on the sloping side of grassy
bank, l would throw my body, face
upward to the skies and the Autumn
breezes-and there l would lie and
think of the joy of no longer having 70
turn the grindstone to pay little but en-
er bills, little millinery bills, little gas
bills, little coal bills, little shoe bills.
little doctor bills, bills, bills, bills, [
would try to be reconciled because
tomorrow there would be no jealous
les, no back-biting, no pickering, no
dlsappointments, no knocks, no blood
sucking! There beside the lake, with
it's leaf-bestrewn tapping. 1 would gaze
with the interest of one who looks for
the last time upon the glories Of sky
and valley and field and ravine.
would sniff the tang of ripened grape
and list the rustic of the flaming su-
mac swirling along the hillside with
the sere and Autumn leaf. would
open my heart to the song of the birds
and softly stroke the hair of the
tramp dog that minded my call and
was not afraid. And If l caught a
fish, would throw 1t back again, for
l would not need food for the morrow
.lzlx - a. 10 III
diapason of the soushing wind and
the whirling leaves, barking en-
thralled to the harmonies that spring
from Natures throat, l would expec-
torate on my bait and cast out for
another try at the big one that got
away the last time l fished! Give Biz
Jenkins job washing windows? Well,
1 should say not! Whose funeral Is
this, anyhow, Bill Jenkins or mine?
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ing notn,.g and lallygagging az court
with the nobility. l wish l had an
uncle who was senator. Pull Is
everything these days"
"You Dutchman, l won this place on
my own merit, Indignantly.
Forget it!"-grinning.
"You are impertinent."
! But truthful, always"
And then we smoked a while in
SILENCE. The silent friend is the best
of the lot He knows that he hasn't
got to talk unless he wants to, and
likewise that it is during these lapses
of speech that the vine of friendship
grows and tightens about the heart.
When you sit beside a man and feel
that you need not labor to entertain
him it's good sign that you thorough
~ understand each other. | was first
to speak
Il don't understand why you should
go in for medicine so thoroughly. 1t
can't be money, for heaven knows your
father left you yearly income which
alone would be fortune to me-"
"Chivalry shivers these days; the
chill of money is on everything. A
man must do something-a man who
is neither a sloth nor feel. A man
must have something to put his whole
heart into; and l despise money as
money. 1 give away the bulk Of my
| income"
Marry, and then you will not have
to-" l said flippantly.
You're a sad dog. Do you know,
I've been thinking about epigrams."
mol"
Eyes. l find that an epigram is pro
duced by the same cause that produces
the pearl in the oyster"
"That is to say, healthy mentality
never superinduces an epigrnm?
Fudge." said I, yanlling the pup from
his lap to mine. According to your
diagnosis, your own mind is diseased"
Have l cracked an epigram?"-with
panied surprise.
well, you nearly bent one" l COM
prom ised.
Then we both laughed, and the pup
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started up and licked my face before
I could prevent him.
lid ever show you this?"-taking
out a locket which was attached to
one end of his watch chain. He passed
the triuket to me.
What is it?" asked, turning it
over and over
'lt7 the one slender link that con-
meets me with my babyhood. 1t was
around my neck when Scharfenstein
picked me up. Open it and look at the
face inside"
/ did SO. A woman's face peered up
at Jne 1t might have been beautiful
but for the troubled. eyes and the
dropping lips. 1t was German in type,
evidently of high breeding, possessing
the subtle lines which distinguish the
face of the noble from the peasants
From the woman's face | glanced at
Max's. The eyes were something alike.
Who do you think it is?" l asked,
When l had studied the face sufficient
ly to satisfy my curiosity.
I've a sneaking idea that it may be
my mother. Scharfenstein foUrd me
toddling about in a railroad star on,
and that locket was the only thing
about me that might be used in the
matter of Identification. You will OBJ
serve that there is no lettering, not
even the jewelers. usual carat mark to
qualify the gold. / recall nothing; life
with me dates only from the wide
plains and grazing cattle. was bora
either in Germany or Austria That's
all know. And to tell you the honest
truth, boy, it's the reason I've placed
my woman ideal so high. SO long as
| place her over my head I'm not fool
ish enough to weaken into thinking
can have her. What woman wants a
man without o name?"
ITO BE CoNTINUEDO-
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other besides her is concerned, and l
can not tell you. Some day, when
everything quiets down, I'll get you
into corner with bottle, and you
will find it worth while"
THE bottle?"
Both"
From rumors I've heard, this prin-
cess is a great one for larks; rides
bicycles and automobiles, and general
ly raises the deuce. What sort is she?'
IF you are going to remain IN Bar
scheit, my boy, take friendly warn
ing. Do not make any foolish attempt
to sec her. She is more fascinating
than a roulette table,"
This was sly dig. Max smiled. A
recent letter from him had told of an
encounter with the goddess at Monte
Carlo. Fortune had been all things
but favorable.
I'm not afraid of your princess; be
sldes, l came here to study"
And study hard, my boy, study
lard. Her highnessa is not the only
pretty woman in Barscheit. There's g
raft Of them"
"Tn paddle close to the shore" witt
4 smile.
by the way, I'll wake you up Thurs
lay"
How -lazily.
"a bout at Mueller's Rathskeller
Half a dozen, American lads, one o.
whom is called home. Just fixed VI
his passports for him. You'll be az
welcome as the flowers in the spring
some of the lads will be in YOU
classes"
Put me down. 1t will be like ole
ines. l went to the reunion las
tune. Everything was in its place bu
-ou. Hang it, why can't, time always
% on as it did then?"
Time, unlike our watches, neve
ias to go to the jewelers. for repairs,
aid | owlishly.
Max leaned over, took my bull-ter
der by the neck and deposited him OF
IFS lap.
Good pup. Artie-if he's anything
Ike his master. Three years, my hoy
since I saw you. And here you are, dc
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plugging away over rusty nails and
grass-grown ties-till he came to Bar
scheit.
Hope is the wings of the heart,
said /, when l thought the pause had
grown long enough. you still hopper
I'm way. If l recollect, you had
an affair once,"-shrewdly.
| smoked on. | wasn't quite ready
to speak.
you were always on the hunt for
ideals, too, as l remember; hope you'll
find her."
MAX, my boy, I am solemnly con
WINGED that have"
Good Lord, you don't mean to tell
me that you are hooked?" he cried.
81 see no reason why you should use
that particular tone," answered stiflly
"Oh, come now; tell me all about it
Who is she, and when's the wedding?
81 don't know when the wedding
going to be, but I'm mighty sure that
| have met the one girl. Max, there
never was a girl like her. Witty she
Is, and wise; as beautiful as q sum
mer's dawn; merry and brave; rides
drives, plays the cello, dances like q
moon-shadow; and all that, with
wave of the hand.
you've got it bad. Remember how
you used to write poetry at college
Who is she if may ask?"
THE Honorable Betty Moore, al
present the guest of her highness, the
Princess Hildegarde, with pardon
able pride.
Max whistled. you're a lucky beg
gar. One by one we turn traitor to oul
native land. A Britisher! | never
should have believed it of you, OF the
man whose class defamation was OF
the frey subject of patriotism, Blu
is it all on one side?"
81 don't know, Max; sometimes
think so, and then don't"
How long have you known herr"
Little more than month"
"A month? Everything moves swift
ly these days, except European rail
way cars"
There's a romance, Max, but. an
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The genius of opportu-
nifty lies in its strategic
element. In every oppor-
tunity two or more forces
meet in such a way that
the one force so lends
itself to the other as mo-
mentarily to yield plas-
ITCHY. Nature is full of
these strategic times.
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NrglrttFh Dnty
Spella Tragfnu
By DIR. NEWELL DWIGHT HILLS.

Iron passes cold and unyedg coming out quickly
coo and refuses the midway moment when fire lends
itself to IRON and yields its force to flame, that the metal
flows like water.
The brief plastic the inventors opportunity when the
metal will take on any shape for beauty Similarly the fields
or strategic time to the February the soil refuses
the pow the sun heat the sky refuses ran the seed refuses
growth In May oppome time when all forces cone TO-
ward the harvest then lends warmth the clouds lend ran the
lends aro the Then must the forth and
for nature whispers he nc June he will starve anu
airy.
For alike failure is blindness to the strategic element in
success readiness action when the oppoune
ent arrives has fully rpened opportunity
must stretch out and pluck it Inventions may be defined
great minds detecting the strategic moment in nature The untold null
tues these opportune moments for discovery but only
certain minds seize them As for the rest this
ser to nature We thy servant busy here and there the stra
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rife insurance Elnures.

Statistics show that there are now
in the United Kingdom 2T9i0.26N
persons carrying life insurance for a
total amount OF nearly e20Oo.O00,O0O
The total amount of premiums paid is
about e37,OO0,009.
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A Wnoden Weddinu.

The head over a wedding notice in
a Nebraska newspaper was Atwood
Crabtree" The brides first name
was Hazel and the groom was wood
worker in the local cooper shop. lIu-
morists please make their own com
ments. have made mine in the
heading.
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JOYS of VILLAGE Life.

People in the cities sneer at small
towns, but there are worse places. We
prefer living in a small town where the
people will sympathize with you If you
are in trouble, and If you haven't any
trouble they viii hunt it up for you.-
Lexington (AIich.) News.
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J4tnuatrtal Ennaltty Bettueftt
tlrR Spxea JnpuaathlR
By HENRY STERLING,
Secretary Boston Typographical Union.

T IS utterly impossible for the industrial condition OF woman
to equal that of while workers compete for employment
womans physical limitations narrow her field OF oPpo'
ny that she forced to nnderbd men in order to secure
work
So women crowd employments where they can be OF
USE force by Undertaking. and then compete against
each other until the wage drops to point that slcken the
heart to consider.
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Unspeakably precious are these crisis hours of
opportunity God sends them. Men should watcE
for them, and lay, out life's course by them, as
captains ignore the clouds and headlands and steer
by the stars for a long voyage and distant hsrbor
The treasure wrapped up in each strategic opPortu-
nty is of infinite value. Tomorrow hold no JOY
when Yesterday holds this memory;
"Whie l was busy here and there my oP-
pprtuniy was gone"
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EIN other until the wage drops point that slckens the
EIZslsgaS heart TO consider
In ali industries where women wholly partly
suppantcd men, wages reroach to civilization and the
The received fixes the industrial condition OF the
individual
AS it is physical mpossby compete terms OF
equality avocans necessarily meet sharper
competition than he field with low wages and poorer
economic conditions.
The laws of competition flexible and inezoabe They know
pity respect weakness limitation The individuals
who the most fully equipped for the struggle prevail the weaker
suffer.
strong sefrean capable every field of work. woman
weak tmid sedstrusfu capable in only few industries
So long she is compelled compete with man. her industrial
condition inevitably be far beneath his But it crime agan'
that she should be compelled to compete for employment III
what is known the industrial world.
1t against motherhood, childhood and manhood that
should be driven into fierce struggle for bread
1t obs the child his natural brhght of strong mind
in strong body.
1t large portion of its rghfu endowment Of
strength courage WISDOM patience love- joy intellect puah II
is unnatural, unchrian uncivized.
1t is mark of barbaism, not sign OF progress
time time the papers print glowing accounts OF new
industry opened to women and many glory In the TACT na
nearly every avocon Invaded" by the new woman
Every such shame Instead of story OF womans
boadend intelligence stimulated enterprise it tells tale Of dire
gripping necessity that drives whittier she would not 60
tells of the essened opportunities of the inability OF thousands
upon enough satisfy the reasonable wants OF
those dependent upon those barbrous customs
of older countries beasts of burden and men deed
The blood should nge with Illumination at th oug' ia' w
stress Christian civilization great that weak women and
little children struggle competition with men to obtain maser SUD-
sistence.
Womans place home That is where she delights to be-
Not in store MILL her pleasure found or her ambition salts
fed. Only compusion sends her there
larger industrial opportunity for what needed not an
attempt force industrial equality between the whose natural
fields of activity separate and distinct Remove the barriers now
between natural opportunities abolish all forms OF monoP
o-legisave land money, transportation, paten-and competition
between the sexes will cease will be high enough en-
able man TO maintain the where she will delight to
remain IT. NZz1Zoze
equality possible between man and woman.
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ne ARMY VI kiC OSiH'
Ho! Behold, the summers promise stands
revealed upon the hills
Bivouacked, an army campeth by the
ever singing rils!
From the shocii-tents OF the soldiers,
shedding sunlight back to sun.
Mods the tasseled flag Of PleNty-for the
seasons fight is won!
uIn,.the golden glow of morning, see the'
81 y Army rise from mist
4Tirowing Off its blackened mantle.
loosing shackled limb and wrist.
By the piclSets that protect it, stand the
cattle wonder-eyed
At the bladed horde of Ceres, at the
Army's stalwart pride
In the hedge rows by the border, sl;ullI
the quail a frightened brood;
Nut-brown pheasants whirr and gather
at the mess tents for their food.
Harl! Across the tented valley comes the
baying of the hound
And the echo OF the buGle with its quay
err, round on round!
Sec! The Army wakes. to culver with the
zephyr's ebb and flow!
Now the reveille is sounded by tie
North Winds lusty blow.
All! 1t wakens not TO slaughter, but to
Peace and Hope and Cod
To the heraldry of Plenty and the
Bounty of the Sod!
over all the sun is shedding tangled gos"
samers OF light.
Tipping Ceres band with glory, crown
ing Ceres brow with might
Ave, the promise OF the summer stand3
revealed from Plenty's horn
In the rows of tented soldiers-in me
Army OF the Corn!
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An eastern physician says the bite
Of a young woman is as much to be
dreaded as the bite OF mad dog.
This may be true. but. Toy me. gimme
the woman. she ain't mad. anyhoT'.
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y richly dressed lady stoppefa boy
trudging along with basket. and asked:
My little boy, have you got religion"
mo, ma'am," said the innocent. "1''ro
got potatoes''-Edina (AIo.) Democrat
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Startling.

StdTIlIWH'
In a show window OF Chicago / read
this sign:
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individual
AS physical mposby for to compete on terms OF
equality with all avocatons she must necessarily meet sharper
competition than he field with low wages and poorer
economic conditions.