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The Washington herald., 1907-09-08
PEN WOMEN ELECT
Choose Delegates to COnven-
ton of Press Clubs.
RECEIVE THREE NEW BOOKS
Mrs. Susie Root Rhodes Reports Re
ceipt Of Volumes from Authors for
League Library-aIrs, Virginia Il.
Frye Presents Souvenir - English
Writer Admitted TO Organization.

A business meeting Of the League of
American Pen Women was held at the
Public Library, Monday evening last. the
president, Miss White, In the chair, for
the purpose. mainly Of electing delegates
to the convention of the international
League OF Press Clubs. to be held at Bir-
mingham. Ala, during the week of Oc-
tober 2l-26.
Mrs. Susie Root Rhodes librarian, re-
ported the receipt Of three new books
from their authors as gifts 70 the league
library-'Bus by Cynthia NJ West
over. a romance founded on fact:
''Women's Ways of Earning Money by
Cynthia Westover Alden. president gen
eral Of the International Sunshine So
ciety; Poems by NJ. b. c. H." by Mary
Berri Chapman Hansbrough. wife Of the
senior Senator from North Dakota
Mrs. Virginia King Frye, past presl-
dent. presented the league with a SOU
venir from the jamestown Exposition. a
Quill pen mounted with an owl. the in
sigma Of the league 4 vote Of thanks
was extended 10 Mrs, Frye for this gift.
Mrs Belle Harpeter Hartness. display
writer. Jubilee Building. 81 Queen Victoria
street. London. England, proposed.
through the courtesy Of Mrs Evelyn
Clark Morgan, was unanimously elected
a member Of the league.
The following delegates and alternates
were elected to attend the seventeenth
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will remain 4 city Of riots that are like
religions. and religions that are like
riots"
1t is good TO know, however, that some
thing besides riots flourish presently IA
Belfast The linen trade. for which Bel
fast was long noted. was, unfortunately.
showing a decline during the past years
owing to Continental competition; the
latest returns. however, ! am glad 70
notice, show revival In the Belfast linen
trade. The Flax Supply Association has
issued particulars from the board OF
trade returns for July, showing that the
imports OF fax have increased 112.5 per
cent In Quantity, and 7s.5 per cent In
value. The imports increased 65.7 per
cent in quantity and 74.7 per cent in value.
The exports Of linen continue 10 show
Improvement The largest increase IS to
British East Indies. 709 per cent; Brazil.
81. and Canada and Germany. 81.
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Comforting.

From Harper's Weekly.
A lady who had recently moved 20 the
suburbs was very fond of her first brood
Of chickens. Going out one afternoon,
she left the household in charge Of her
eight-year-Old boy. Before her return a
thunderstorm came up. The yOungster
forgot the chicks during the storm. and
was dismayed, after 1t passed. to find
that half Of them had been drowned.
Though fearing the wrath 10 come, he
thought best 20 make a clean breast OF
the calamity, rather than leave it TO DO
discovered.
Mamma" he said, contritely, when his
mother had returned: Mamma, six OF
the chickens are dead"
"Dead"' cried his mother. "Six! How
did they die?'
The boy saw his chance.
'I Jhink-I think they died huDDy." be
said.
The Washington herald., 1907-09-08

The life OF Richard Jefferies furnishes
another pathetic example Of genius denied
recognition until the man himself had
passed away. But the fame of this
''prose-poet Of nature" has lately been
growing by leaps and bounds, every
new reader Of his books at once being
enlisted as a devotee. A new edition Of
three chief books by him-"The Life Of
the Fields, ''The Open Air." and ma
tGre Near London" announced by Thom-
The Washington herald., 1907-09-08

Before the revival Of the drama in
French. by the rise Of the romantic
school. Louisiana produced "Poucha
Houmma," a classic tragedy IN which
the unities Of time. place. and action
were well observed. lie Blanc de
Villeneufve, an ex-oficer III the French
army. wrote, at the age OF seventy five,
this drama based on an episode Of In
dian life, 1t was published in 1914.
and is the fl-st PLAY which history rec
The Washington herald., 1907-09-08

ana love- by Caroline Fuller author Of
Across the Campus" &c.
The fan season Of Houghton, NIiflin &
Co. viii begin on September Il with the
publication OF ''The Familiar Letters Of
James Howell" in two volumes, with an
introduction by Miss Agnes ReppIier;
Thomas Hoods pathetic ballad, Faith
less Nelly Cray" with many amusing
Illustrations by Robert Seaver; a new
edition Of Alice Prescott Smiths Mont
livet." with frontispiece In color and
decorative cover; Everett 7. TomHnson's s
new story for boys. The Camp Fire
Of Mad Anthony" two volumes of the
Hart. Schaffner & Marx series Of prize
essays IN economies, The Causes Of
the Panic Of 1888" by William Jett
Lauck. and Industrial Education" by
Harlow 5. Person; part I Of volume 2
or Charles Spragae Sargent's Trees aud
Shrubs a new series Of popular poets in
leather bindings at popular prices. includ-
Ing LongiellOw Tennyson. Whittier. En-
erson, Aldrich. Holmes. Lowell. Hart,
Sill, and others; and Hawthorne's Grand
fathers Chair and William Eliot Grif-
fis' Brave Little Holland, both in the
Riverside Juvenile Classics. popular IL
Illustrated editions for children AT mod
crate prices.
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WILLIAM J. WALSH.
Archbishop Of Dablin.

The case Of James Lynchehaun, whom
the British government endeavOred TO ex-
tradite from Indiana a couple Of years
ago, on a charge Of murder on Achin
Island, Mayo, viii be remembered by
many readers. Lynchehaun, before reach
Ing America, had made a couple Of most
sensational escapes. once. handCufed
he broke away on the moors from his
police escort, who were conveying him
from prison to the place Of trial He
was not discovered for many weeks
Again he escaped from Marlborough jail,
and though many thousands Of police
were securing Ireland night and day,
he was not found-until finally he was
arrested in Indianapolis The effort to
extradite him failed Recently the papers
were filed with accounts Of a visit that
he had paid to his home in AchiU Island
a visit that 1t was said he undertook To
win a wager. The accounts are very
circumstantal and even said that he was
arrested while there on a charge of as
sault-arrested by policemen who, Of
course. did not know him to be the
great Lynchehaun. A writer in the
Western People, OF Mayo, now states
definitely that there is not the slightest
foundation for the alleged visit Of the
fugitive, and that at the time he was
reported 70 be in Achill he was defending
a case against him in an Indianapolis
court. Lynchehaun conducts a saloon in
indianapolis, and the police in the case
in question allege that he sold drink dur
ing prohibitive hours and kept a disor-
derly place The result IS that his license
is being opposed. but decision of the com
nnissioners on the matter Is not 10 hand
In this country yet
Belfast, styled the City OF Riots and
Religions, is occupying a large place in
the public eye recently. All the English
papers have men employed writing on
Belfast. One Of the most interesting ar
ticles on the subject appears In the
Morning Leader. from the pen of Mr..
James Douglas and is entitled THE Soul
Of Belfast" Belfast" he says, "is the
city of riots and religions. She is the
Ioneuest city in the world She would be
happy If she were on the Clyde. for her
blood is so Scottish But she lives in
exile amid an alien race. She has ceased
TO be Scottish, and she is too proud to be
Irish The poetry In the soul Of Belfast
does not express itself in art or litera-
ture, or drama. or music, or games,
therefore Il expresses itself IN riots. The
only remedy is the provision Of nobler
means Of expression through economic
readjustment and education. It is a pity
that the romantic energy Of the poor
should be wasted on e-throwing,
drinking, and religious faction fights. It
is useless 10 feed the soul Of a city with
police, batons, ball cartridges. and fxed
bayonets. The soul Of Belfast Is suffer
ing from starvation, and It IS the busi-
ness Of statesmen to provide 1t with
wholesome food. Until that is done, It
The Washington herald., 1907-09-08
phone Main 1900 When Yor. Return

Subscribers returning from their sum
mer home who desire TO have their paper
sent 10 their city address viii please
phone Main 22o0.
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CONFIDENCE IN BRYCE.
Canadians Feel Sure He Will Guard
Their Interests At Washington.

Toronto. Ont, April 3.-James Bryce
rho british ambassador to the United
States. was the guest Of the Canadld9
Club at a banquet today. The function
was attended by q large number NJ
nubIic men of the province. MI Bryce
smoke On Some Lessons in Modern
democracy as 1t Is in Switzerland.
He said that the Swiss had avoided IN"
dangers which annually besct Demo-
cratic countries 10y reason Of its p0N-
erty.
With respect to Canada, he feared
that the country was destined by nj
t1Irc 10 be rich and would have to count
on feeling the drawbacks which accom-
panied great wealth. For that reason
there was all the more need Of culti-
waiting the virtues which led to good
government.
Mr.. Goodwin Smith in a short address,
declared that the plan Of having q
British representative at Washington
who familiarized himself with the
needs and interests of Canada, was bet
ter than sending q Canadian across to
the capital of the United States, as had
been proposed. Mr.. Bryce, he was
sure. would do his best for Canada at
Washington and his best would be the
best that could be done.
In replying to tie motion. Mr.. Bryce
declined to commit himself as to the
course he should follow with regard to
Canadian affairs, but he insisted that
the feeling that Great Britain had ig-
nored Canadas interests in former
negotiations. was entirely incorrect.
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Boston, April 3.-The second double
shooting that has occurred in this city
within "a hours took place in the wait
ing room of the street car transfer sta
ton at RoXbury Crossing just before
dark tonight when Walter Scott, 26
years old, of 40 Kent street, Roxbury,
shot and fatally wounded Agnes
Bates, 90 years old, Of IL Oregon
street, the same district.
Scott fired two shots at the woman,
to whom he was engaged to be mar
riCd and then turning the revolver on
himself, sent the third bullet through
his mouth. Both were alive when the
Bates woman died later at the hos
pital, while SCOTS condition at
o'clock tonight was reported as critical.
Like the affair which occurred in the
South end early today, in which two
colored people were involved, the
shooting tonight was the outcome of a
lovers quarrel.
Upon reaching the hospital and find
ing that he might live for some hours,
the police placed Scott under arrest
on the charge Of murder. The shoot
ing was witnessed by 4 large number
of people who We're on their way home
from work, and caused almost panic.
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STRUCK BY TRAIN.
$4,000 In Cash Found on Man Killed
Near Pawtucket Station.

Pawtucket, r. l., April S.-Nearly
$1,000 in money. as well as two watches
and some jeWelry, was found on the
body of Therston Olsen of Arno, Pa,
who was killed by a train on the New
York. New Haven & Hartford Rail
road, just above the station here to-
night. Olsen came here to visit his sis
ter, Mrs. Andrew Turnquist. He was
directed to her house. but instead start
Cd Up the railroad track where. in
avoiding Il southbound train, he
stepped in front of another going in the
opposite direction and was instantly
killed.
Upon examination Of the body. $500
in bills We're found sewed in the mans
clothes. and a wallet containing % $40
gold pieces. In the pockets We're two
watches, ana there WAS also several
dollars in silver in the trousers. The
Lody. which was badly manglcd, will
be sent to Arno for burial.
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AUGUSTA NEXT.
Grand Lodge of Maine, N. {. o. ~ VIII
Hold 2Oth Annual Session Here.

Auburn. Nc, April 3.-The 18TH an
nual meeting of the Grand Lodge oil
Maine. New England order "f Prot'c-
ton, was held today. Grand Warden
A. +. Verrill of this city presided anu
all the officers were present. 1here
vras an attendance of about Low.
s,upreme Warden Harry Manser Oh
mis- CITY was present as were = num-
Dor Of officers from other jurlSdlctio''H'
officers were elected as loiioN''
Grand warden, Albert +. Nerrin, ~
burn: grand vice warden Dr. T. ~
1yoymouth. Saco; grand secretary W.
T, Ouimby. Bangor; grand treasurer
~ ( Hovcy, Portland; grand chap-
lain. Ruth +. Jordan. Minot' Sr''iu
guide. ]. w. Jones. Gardiner; Gr"liu
Guardian. Julia NJ. Holyokc, ii"ml,"t'
grand sentinel, William IL. VA -
Springvale. c.,,na
It was voted to hold the next ''l', ~,
Lodge at Augusta. \ new coor =
laws similar to those adopteu ~ ~
supreme Lodge was adopted Inc VI, :.
der IS in a prosperous condition. i'!'..s
,,o,,- roembers and several now lodges
ho,irp been formed during the past
year.
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Conditions and General Forecast.

Washington, April 3.-A depression Of
considerable extent is central in east
Kansas. 1t has caused light showers
in the middle Mississippi valley and
the upper lake region and showers are
also reported on the west slope Of the
Rocky mountains. The temperature
has risen generally in the Ohio valley.
the lower Lake region and the middle
Atlantic states. The Western depres-
sion will advance slowly northeast
ward during the next AZ hours and
cause rain in the Lake region, the Ohio
valley and the greater part of the
Mississippi valley Thursday.
The rain area will doubtless over
spread New England ana the middle
Atlantic states Friday and possibly
continue IN ihc lower Lake region. 1t
will 10 warmer Thursday in the Allan
tic coast districts ana colder in the Mis-
souri, valley. Colder weather Friday is
indicated for the ohio valley and Lake
region. Tie winds along the New
England and middle Atlantic coast, will
bc light 10 fresh south; south Atlantic
coast, light south; gulf coast, fresh
south.
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THE REASON WHY.
Mrs. Mary Baker G. Eddy
Issues Personal Note,
Giving Explanation Of the Deed
Of Trust She Gave.
Wants More Peace and Time For
Spiritual Thought.

Concord. \. H.. April g. Mrs Mary
Baker issued q personal note tonight
bearing on her appointment Of trustees
to handle court yesterday, in the action
brought to compel an accounting of hel
property This note, which was sent
out from pleasant View bearing thG
signature of Mrs. Eddy, is as follows
II am pleased to say that the follow
ing members constitute the board OF
trustees who own property:
'1-iHon. Henry VI. Baker, who, won a
suit -at-laW in Washington. ID. O., fol
which ii is alleged he was paid the
highest fee ever before received by Il
native of New Hampshire.
"2-Archibald Mcclellan. cditnr-in-
chief of the Christian Science period
icals. circulating in the five, grand
divisions Of our globe; also in Canada
Australia, etc.
''3-Joshua f. Fernald, justice of the
peace. and president of the National
State Capital Bank, Concord, n. II.
''To my aforesaid trustees, l have
committed the hard earnings of my
pen-tre fruit Of my honest toll, the la
Dor that is known by its fruits bene-
fitting the human race: and | have 50
done that | may have more peace, ana
time for spiritual thought and the
higher criticisms.
MARY BAKER G.. EDDY.
Pleasant View, Concord, n. H.,
April 8, 1907"
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Hiding In Tunnel After
HoIdup at Pittsburg,
Captured With Aid Of Locomu.
tive and Identified.
Man He Tries to Rob Recognizes
Prisoner After Arrest.

Pittsburg, April 3.-Policemen on n
locomotive, using the headlight as a
searcher, at l A. NJ. Sunday morning
ran down James Strosnider in the
Panhandle tunnel near the Fourth ave-
nue. end just as he was seeking refuge
in Il manhole.
StroSnider, who is from Waynes-
burg. is alleged 10 have ATTEMPTED a
hoid-up on Ross street. He was ar
rested by Special Patrolmen John Dill
lon and Thomas Sterk, and Deputy
Coroner George Mercer who with
others had secured an engine from
the railroad company to make n
search. Hc was locked in Central sta.
ton and when searched a large re-
volver OF the bulldog type was found
on him, the officers say.
Strosnider was positively identified
by James Dillon, who said the prison.
n had attempted to rob him at the
point of the revolver on Ross street,
Hear Third avenue, a few minutes be-
fore.
Dillon said that he and a friend we've
walking up Ross street when Strosnid-
r jumped out of a doorway and point
ID his pistol at their heads and de-
handed their money. They were about
to comply when foo some unknown
'eason he turned, fired a shot into the
air and ran toward Fourth avenue.
Dillon, who is q brother of the patrol
man, saw the fleeing man run into the
Fourth avenue tunnel and then went
to the morgue to report the occur
renee
There he found that the county de-
tecNives We're out on another call, but
Deputy Coroner George A. Mercer and
his brother, Albert Mercer. offered to
look for Strosnider, and arming Them
selves went to the mouth Of the tun-
mel. They were about to enter when
Patrolmen Dillon and Sterck happen
cd along. and after learning the cause
Of the search asked the railroad au-
thorities at the station for the use of
an engine to go through the tunnel.
. PatrolHaan Dillon had a locomotive
headlight and leaned out of the en-
CINE on the fireman's side of the cab.
He flashed the light about as the en-
CINE slowly started through the tunnel
and when about 100 yards in the hole
saw a man standing in a manhole in
the wall trying to keep from being
seen. The engine was stopped and
with three revOlvers pointing at him
Strosnider was ordered to come out.
lie asked the officers not to shoot as
he had nothing on him." but when
searched they said q bulldog revolver
was in his hip pocket. He was taken
10 Central station and refused to tell
ANYTHING about himself except that
he lives in Waynesburg and is 80
years old.
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SPARKS FROM MAINE WIRES.

Lieut. Commander Robert e. Perry
came down from Boston this morning
and went directly TO his summer home
az Eagle island Where he is having re-
pairs made on his house. Mr.. Peary
had nothing TO say in regard to another
trim To the north.--Portland Advertiser,
April g.
The steamer Island Belle came TO
Bath from Boothbay Harbor Wednes-
day. for the first trip of the season.
HrnccfOrth there will be daily steam
boat connection between Bath and
Boot hbay after an interruption sof
about three months owing to ice in the
SasanOa river. The Island Belle is to
he hauled off for repairs at once, and
the Nahanada will be substituted.
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Fire In Terminal Holds 10
Completion Of Tunnel.
Five Men Are Caught In a
Caisson and Injured.
The McAdoo Tunnel Fire Damage
Amounts TO $4,000.

New York, April Fire caused by a
shark from one of the boiler rooms in
the excavation for the McAdoo tunnel
terminal at Dey, Fulton and Church
streets, early today, did damage esti-
mated at $4,000 and a delay Of 30 days
in the completion of the work on the
huge terminal buildings will result.
Five men were Injured during the pro-
gress of the fire by being caught in
one of the deep caissons, two of them
so severely that it was necessary to
take them to a hospital. Those severe
" Injured are John O'TIara and Edward
Murphy, both tunnel workers.
The fire started on 4 high wooden
structure and used to support q hoist
ing engine. BY the time the firemen
arrived, the shower of sparks from the
burning boiler house had set ire 20 a
dozen other boiler houses and similar
structures in the excavation. These to-
gether with several big derricks We're
badly burned, and the temporary wood
en- flooring over the surface OF Dey
street covering the excavation was
ruined.
There were many thrilling rescues
and several instances of personal pray
erv during the fire. Deep down under
the ground in the 100 and more Gals
sons which are being sunk for the
foundations of the big terminal build
ings to rest upon, We're between hve
and six hundred men at work. When
II WAS seen that there was Danger OF
the fire spreading to all the engine
houses south of Dey street. shutting OH
the supply of air, the pressure of Whlcn
enabled the men to work under ground
and the withdrawal of which would
mean serious danger if not DEATH 10
many of them, the danger slsnal vas
given and the buckets lowered INTO lhe
caissons to bring the tunnel workers
to the surface.
Abound some Of the derrlcks used 70
lower and hoist the buckets, the
flames ragged fiercely and in two IN
stances the men in charge of the dom
lev hosting engines lost their nerve
ana deserted their posts. leaving tAe
men so feet beneath the surface OF the
ground to their fate.
The deserted hoists were quickly re-
r,anned by volunteers, however, ana
tine new men stuck to their posts with
the flames roaring around them uhtil
the last one OF the tunnel workers was
brought up to safety
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ANOTHER SUICIDE.
Two Men Kill Themselves At Charles
town Prison Within Week.

Boston. April 1.-THE second suicide
at tic State prison in CharlostoWn
within week become known today
when it was announced by Warden
benjamin r. Bridges that Reuben sim
mons. convict, hanged himself in his
coll last night. Simmons made a moose
in his sheet and tied one end to the up
rcr bars Of the cell door.
Simmons was only 10 years old and
WIS committed to the prison about two
weeks ago, having been convicted Of
escaping from the Massachusetts, re-
fornatory at Concord, where he was
serving an indetcrminatc sentence for
burglary.
Because of the two suicides at the
prison, Warden Bridges has ordered q
double patrol. Where it has been the
custom to patrol the prison hourly'
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EXCEPTIONS ovERRULEo.
Law Court Hands Down HeseriPe :"
nndroscooain Water Power Case

Bangor, Maine. April 81 rescrlP'
has been received from the y" Vou'
- enc ,,droscoggin county case Of the
Union Water Power Co. vs.. Libby ana
Dinrlev CO. This was q bill N equity
o,a oross hill, instituted for the purpose
Of obtaining a determination "m"n l.
other things Of the number of hou,S
during which the owners of the Lincoln Lincoln
mill are authorized 70 use the amount
of wate~ to which they are entit'ea'
The exceptions taken are overruIed'
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After 4 stubborn fight in when the
entire Cambridge. Mass. fire nepa''-
rnent was assisted by Boston ana SOM
ervilc apparatus, threatening oIa|e
in the manufacturing district OF IAN
bridge. early "Wednesday was cohl'ne"
to the five-story brick building occu-
pied bv the Ira G.. Hersey planning mn.
The loss is estimated at from S"o"oV
TO S5O.OOO Adjoining factories anu
lumber yards were endangered. but me
fire was confined to the Jersey Mlii
which was badly Quilted.
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ATTELL AND ROBSON DRAW.
Put Up Six Fast Rounds Before Ma
tonaI A. c. At Philadelphia.

Philadelphia, April 3.-"Spike" Rob-
son Of England, and Abe Attell, fought
a six-round draw at the National Attn
Ictic Club tonight. At the close of the
sixth round there was not enough ad-
vantage to have given either man a
verdict The bout was fast from start
to finish, but Of the scores Of blows
landed none We're hard enough TO 90
any damage. Aside from a bloody
nose, which Atteil received in the
closing round, neither man bore
mark Of the encounter.