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The Penn's Grove record., 1907-07-12
Father Goes a

The body of a ffteen-year-old boy
which was found on the railroad
tracks at Somerville, was identified
as that of Claude Hampton, of 1885
Parrish street, Philadelphia. The
Identification was made by the father,
John Hampton, who afterward ap-
parently went insane. The police
locked him in the county Jail.
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Missing Man Found Drowned.

George Newbeck, of No. "a Lam
berton street, Trenton, was found
drowned in a creek on the farm of
Judge Alfred Reed, of the Supreme
Court. He had been missing since
he attended an outing of the Yara
Yago Association. All of the picnick-
ers professed ignorance of his fate
and the police are Investigating. His
relatives suspect there was a fight.
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Violent Deaths in Pittsburs.

Pittsburg. Pa.-All records of ia
talities following the celebration of
independence Day in Pittsburg were
broken this year. Fifteen violent
deaths were reported to the Coroner,
while the number of injured will ex-
coed three score Many of these, it
is said, will die.
The list of dead, which was COM
piled from cases reported at the Cor
oner's Office and morgue, included two
alleged murders and one suicide.
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A Little at a Time.

How often do we sigh for opportu-
mites of doing good, whilst we neg
lect the openings of providence in lit
tie things, which would frequently
lead to the accomplishment of most
important usefulnessi
DR.. Johnson used to say, HE who
waits to do a great deal of good at
once will never do any" Good is
done by degrees. However small in
proportion the benefits which follow
Individual attempts to do good, a
great deal may thus be accomplished
by perseverance, even in the midst of
discouragements and disappointments
-Crabb.
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The Invisible Force.

God hates the sin but loves the sim
ner-loves him that is, as a man, not
in his character of a sinner. God
loves humanity in spite of, not be-
cause of its wrongdoing. He would,
if possible, love the wrongdoer out of
his sin, love him into decency, sanity,
righteousness. The love of God is
not a mere empty sentiment, but is
an invisible force which makes for
holiness, and ultimately for happi-
ness.-Ram's Horn.
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Which Would Help Some.

my DEAR" moaned the patient,
as he tossed restlessly on his bed.
cts the doctor I'm thinking of.
What a bill his will BET"
"Never mind, Joseph" said his
wife. You know, there's the in
urance money.'-Philadelphia In.
quirer.
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Well Trained.

Hicks-"Your friend Marryat tells
me he's got his wife pretty thorough
ly trained now"
Wicks-"Yes, he's got her trained
so that he can make her do pretty
nearly everything she wants to do"
The Catholic Standard and Trib-
une,
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Explaining the Worry.

Wise-"Poor Burroughs! he's
worrying a great deal about debts"
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.! You'll never
catch him worrying because he can't
pay his debts"
Wise-"He's not worrying about
old debts he can't pay, but about
new ones he can't contract. "-Phila-
delphia Press.
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Former AssembIyman Hurt.

M. E. Matlack, of Mount Holly, a
former Assemblyman and printing
clerk of the House of Representatives
at Washington, D. c., examined a
large cannon cracker to see if it was
lighted. In the explosion which fol.
lowed his face and hands were
burned. Mr.. Matlack had perpetrat-
ed a joke on hundreds of people by
touching off a irecracker three feet
long and six inches in diameter. 1t
was represented as having come from
Pekin and everybody fed when it was
ignited. A little puff of smoke was
the only explosion.
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BETRAYED BY A WOMAN.
Windsor Bank Defaulter Runyan
Caught in New York City.

New York City.-Chester B. Run
yam, the paying teller of the Windsor
Trust Company, who embezzled $780,
317.75, was arrested in an apartment
at 619 West 144th street, where he
had been hiding since he disappeared.
Mrs. Laura M. Carter, with whom he
had been living, betrayed him to the
police.
Of the $96,317.75 which Runyan
stole from the trust company, $751;
410 was recovered by the police, and
$4,000 of the rest has been account
ed for as lost by Runyan in specula-
ton.
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Her Clever Ruse.

She-"You'll be glad to leaSn,
dear, that I've gotten out of visiting
our relatives"
He-"Grand! Splendid! 1t hung
I'VE me like a cloud. How did you
manage it?"
She-"Oh, I asked them here
Life.
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Husband

"Ah! pretty lady," said the for
tune teller" you want to be told
about your future husband?"
"Not much" replied Mrs. Galley.
"I've come to learn where my pres
ent husband is when he's absent
Philadelphia Press.
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Another Barring Clause.

The Lady-"But why can't you
get work."
William-"Well, you see, lady, it's
like this ERE. I'm too poor, ma'am.
If I'd get a million or two to invest
in some goin' concern, I could git a
job as manager, but l amt got the
cash. That's just how it is."-Pick-
Me-Up.
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Unfrocked Preachers Denunciation

j. Frank Cordova, the unfrocked
Methodist preacher who is serving q
~three-year term in State prison at
Trenton because he deserted his wife
and family and eloped with Miss
Julia Bovine, a member of his South
River choir, is bitter in his denuncia-
ton of Judge Strong, the Middlesex
judge who sentenced him, and Prose.
cutor Berdene, who worked up the
case against him. He declares they
are against him because he openly &C
cused them of failure to prevent the
Sunday selling of liquor in South
River. Cordova is applying to the
Court of Pardons for a parole.
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KILLED BY TROLLEY, 30 HURT.
Cars Meet in North Tonawanda Run
ming at High Speed.

Tonawanda, N. 1.-TWO of the big
trolley cars of the International Rail-
way Company's Lockport line met
head-on in North Tonawanda. The
cars were making about fifteen miles
an hour. The vestibules were
smashed, but the cars held the tracks.
Daniel H%allinan, a motorman, was
crushed and died soon after. Motor
man Butler and Conductors McClos-
key and Murphy were fatally injured.
OF the thirty passengers on the
two cars only a few escaped without
injury of some kind.
The most seriously injured are:
William H. Weber, a Buffalo grocery
man, who was hurt internally; Mrs.
Weber and their two children.
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An Art Lover.

Lawson-"Is old Bullion a real
lover of art?"
Dawson-"I should say SO. Why,
he can't enjoy a picture unless he
has paid at least $500 for it,
Somerville Journal.
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ALESHIRE APPOINTED.

Becomes Quartermaster-G General in
Place of General HUMPHREYS.
Oyster Bay, L. 1.-The President
appointed General James B. Aleshire
to be Quartermaster-General of Army
with the rank of Brigadier-General
General HUMPHREYS, the present
Quartermaster-General will retire.
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Angry often.

Your husband says,that when he
is angry he always counts ten before
he speaks" said one m
YES" answered the other. 81
wish he'd stop it. Since he got dys-
pepsia home seems nothing but a
class in arithmetic. Washington
Star.
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Student Dead of Typhoid.

John Barnsdal Snakard, a resident
of Titusville, Pa, who was taken i'll
while at Princeton University last
term, died at Trenton, in Mercer Hos
pital, of typhoid fever. He was one
of Princeton's best %canoeists.
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Providing For the Season.

Dear, let us take a little cottage
in the country this summer"
All right, darling, but be sure
and insist on a furnace in good
observation-disclosures American.
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Battleship Rumor Denied.

The report that battleships from
the Atlantic fleet were to be ordered
to the Pacific were emphatically de-
MED both at Washington and Oyster
Bay.
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Railway Merger Illegal.

Justice Holt, of the United States
Circuit Court, decided in a stock
holders suit that the Interborough-
Metropolitan merger of street rail-
ways of New York City constitutes
a monopoly and is illegal.
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Refined

Papa, what do you have to do
to be a gentleman farmer?"
Stay in town all winter and make
money."-Life.
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Dreyfus to BE Peps;onad

1t is stated in military circles at
Paris, France, that Major Alfred
Dreyfus, of Devils Island fame, is to
retire from the army soon, accepting
a pension.
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Union Goes Over to Socialism.

By a vote of 2S3 to 66, the conven-
ton of the Western Federation of
Miners adopted at Denver, Col, a
new preamble for the constitution
which. in effect, pledges all the mem
bers to Socialism.
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Putting Two and Two Together.

Uncle Ezry CATER the arrival of
the first guest at his niece's recep-
tion)-"Marthy! Marthy! Lemme
whisper to We. Yer friends dress is
a-comin' right off onto tn floor"
His Niece-"S-h-h-h! Her gown is
made that way. That is the train"
Uncle Ezry-"That's all right, but
I know whut I'm a'talkin' about
Jest look whur tn oth& sud OF it
ts!'-Puck.
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McKim & Co. Fail.

The failure is announced of Nc
Kim G Co., of Baltimore, the oldest
private banking house in Maryland.
Charles Morris Howard was appoint
ed receiver and gave a bond for
$500, 900.
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Hits 1t Occasionally.

"You people in this town seem to
go a great deal on what the weather
bureau says"
I'VE do. We never know what
day it may be right. Chicago Jour-
ual.
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Cotton Mills Busy.

Cotton mills disregard the course
of the raw material or the amount of
new business, having SO many con-
tracts on hand that current condi-
lions are of no weight.
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National Bank InSoIvent

The First National Bank of Hicks
Vile, Ohio, has been closed by the
Controller of the Currency as in
solvent.
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Mrecker Kelly Canpht.

Paul Kelly, wanted in New York
City to answer charges growing out
of the elevated wreck in September,
1905, was arrested in San Francisco.
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The

Optimist-"This sausage is very
good. 1t actually tastes like game"
Pessimist-"Made from a bird
dog, probably. bohemian.
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State Consolidation Plan Opposed.

Advices from Puerto Cortez say
that Honduras, Guatemala and Sal
vador have united to oppose Zelaya's
plan to consolidate the republics.
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A Publishers Chance.

They publish the letters of all who can
write,
Collected and made into books
Business men, bachelors, children, and
wives,
Spinsters, and lovers, and cooks;
But why doesn't somebody give to the
world
A volume that's sure of a sale.
Made up OF the letters We put in our coats
And never remember to mail?
-McLandburgh Wilson.
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Killed at Marriage Festivities

Harris Holland shot and killed
John Carroll at Dalton, Ca, during
an ante-nuptial celebration in Car
rolls honor.
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Kosher Meat Cheapened.

The Kosher meat riot at Milwaukee
has been placated by a reduction in.
the price of beef.
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Splnsters, and lovers, and cooks;
In the Suburbs.

raising anything on your place
this year?"
Pond lilies in my cellar. Life.
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His Way,


Knicker Curious creature,
man."
Bocker-"Yes, after he gets old
enough to have cold feet he wants
to be a barefoot boy again."-Sun.
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In tho Inner sanctuarr.

None but a wholly ~consecrated soul
| can come into the most holy place
of communion with God in the in
ner sanctuary.-Hannah Whitall
Smith.
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REWARD FOR OLD FAVOR.
Oswego Woman Sends Money to Girl
Who Befriended Her.

Findlay, Ohio.-Miss Ethel Bish,
of this city, received $4,000 from
Mrs. Mary M. Kendall, of Oswego,
N. Y, whom she befriended three
years ago in Toledo.
Mrs. Kendall was injured while in
the street, and Miss Bish saw that she
was given proper attention. Mrs.
Kendall promised a reward at the
time.
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Negro sunday-school CONGRESS

The National Baptist Sunday Con-
gress (negfo) met at New Orleans.
with 1000 delegates present.
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Feared Insanity, Committed Suicide.

After b%rooding over an illness
which he feared would drive him to
the insane asylum, Herman Ritter,
aged sixty years, a wealthy st. Louis
man, killed himself with poison at
E~alveAtnn~ Taxaa
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The Seeing Heart.

In the hour of meditation with
the Master the heart sees no mirage.
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WIDOWS PENSIONS QUICKLY SECURED.
John Wainwright & Co., Wilmington, Del.

dUHH Wainwright q Co, WLmIugtUn' DeI'
Expert Pension Attorneys of 20 years prac.
tice will send valuable and
blanks to widows on application, by mail.
of soldiers and officers who served ninety
days in the Civil War are entitled to from So
to $50 a month. Soldiers to. $l2 when 81; SIS
when 20; $40 a month when IS years old.
Los Angeles herald., 1907-12-15

such accidents, did the one thing practicable
under the circumstances. :.
Grasping a long boathook, he thrust u
among the ice, and, dexterously catching 1t
in the loose clothing of the drowning man,
dragged him with more expedition than gen,
tleness to small ladder which descended
into the water at one side of the slip A..
His comrade waited there to grasp the the
limp and dripping body, and the two gently
raised it to the dock.
Long as it seemed, this exciting scene had
not occupied three minutes; yet the .passen-
gers on the boat were already growing nm
patient, and it was necessary to- bring, her
up to the dock, make her fast, apd put down
the gang g-planks, before anything more could
be done for the poor fellow, who lay, i,vld-
faced and unconscious, upon the bridge where
they had deposited him.
The hurrying, thoughtless crowd swept past,
half of them not even aware. of the accldent,
and the rest passing on without stopping to
cast second glance upon the helpless form
that lay almost in their path.
Seized with feeling of profound pity,
Alfred bent over the PROSTATE body, think
ing Of nothing but rendering the assistance
which none. else seemed forward in offering.
"Do you know him?" asked the man VINO
had used the boathook.
"I don't; but | know he must be attended
to at once" replied the young reporter, ener-
getically. 'sLook! he has been stunned by the
shock, and he'll freeze to death here"
''Oau In tne pOIceIlaH from IHe stIeSt, anu
get doctor; or else take the poor chap to
some saloon or drug store We can't leave
here, even for a second" said the man.
In fact, the passengers for the return trip
to New York were already boarding the boat
with rush.
Alfred beckoned to the policeman, who
CHANGED to be looking in at the gate.
''What's up? Hello! Fell overheard, eh? 2"
remarked that official, deliberately, shaking
the drenched victim by the collar of the long
black overcoat. "Well give him lift to
the saloon across the way"
He blew his whistle, and a second officer
came running into the ferry-house. They
lifted the inanimate form and bore it across
the street, through the noisy lines of horse
cars and groups of hackmen and newsboys.
to brilliantly-lighted place on Fulton street,
which, like most of its neighbors, was pro-
fusely decorated with Christmas evergreens.
Laid prone upon long table Uttered with
the unfortunate man gave no sign
of life.
a warm draught between his lips. a young
man, carrying physician's medicinecase,
elbowed his way through the crowd, glanced
at the pallid face, seized the hands and felt
the pulse, then bent over and laid his ear
close to the heart.
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7zxy6uqY9 q

carrying turkeys scantily wrapped in brown
paper, or with pockets bulging out. with
sweetmeats and presents he occasionally
threw back his head and quickeneo his step
with an air of determination.
He was thinking of the resolutions he meant
to make on the approaching New Years Day
resolutions of pluck and perseverance in his
work, which should triumph in spite of all
obstacles.
Arriving at the ferry-house he passed
through mechanically, went aboard the boat
that was in waiting, and, according to his
usual habit, walked straight through to the
forward deck Almost Immediately the whis-
tie gave its warning cry, and the boat glided
out into the swift, dark tide of the East Riv-
er.
As the ferry-boat bumped into the Brook
lyn ship, a man wearing a long black over
coat, with the collar turned UP about his
ears stepped over the chain and advanced
in nervous manner to the extreme forward
edge. of the deck, ready to leap the moment
the boat approached the dock.
This feat is always attended with more or
less risk, yet, it is performed hundreds, Of
times every day by men and boys, either
from mere foolish bravado, or from the more
accountable, though hardly more excusable,
anxiety to capture by grand rush the best
seats in the street-car in waiting at the ferry
entrance
The man with the long black overcoat at
tempted an unusually long jump. He might
have accomplished 1t In safety, however, had
not the boat at the same instant recoiled
from the crushed mass of floating ice which
choked up the slip, and suddenly receded
several feet.
The passengers were Mortified to see the
unfortunate man fall short of his landing,
and throwing up his arms with a wild cry
of terror, plunge and disappear among the
jagged ice and dark, seething waters
He had escaped being caught and crushed
between the boat and the dock; but his
plight was none the less terrible as he strug-
gled feebly and helplessly in that cruel icy
tide.
"Man overheard Hold her back!" shout
ed the deci1-hands and the men on the dock
to the wheelman in the pilot-house.
The order was obeyed with automatic
promptness.
The passengers were panicstricken. Alfred,
who had stood near the chain, close behind
the unfortunate person who jumped, seized
the circular ife-preserver which always hangs
at the rail IN readiness for such emergencies.
Useless!
Swept to and fro by the waves, crushed
and buffeted by the ice, the poor fellow in
the water was incapable of making the slight
est effort to save himself.
Meanwhile, one of the ferry-hands on the
dock. who had had previous experience Of
Los Angeles herald., 1907-12-15

!, FOR a moment not word was spoken,
then the young doctor uttered a startled -ex-
clamation. and, raising his head, said, with
grave decision:
Gentlemen, it is too late. This man is
dead"
The awe-stricken silence which followed
TINS announcement was broken by one of
the policemen, who asked, addressing Alfred:
fred:
who is he, anyway? Do you know him p,
No; never saw him until he fell into the
water. Perhaps we may find out by searching
his pockets"
On both sides, strange but not unkindIy
hands were thrust into the capacious pockets
Of the big overeoat and 10! the most touch
ing revelation of all.
There were bags of candies, nuts and or
ange,ss, and package of tiny, colored wax
candles, such as are used for Illuminating
Christmas trees. There were also two picture
books a box of dominoes and small wax
doll, that opened its great blue eyes as natural
ly as life when it was taken up, and the
brown paper envelope torn from about its
curly fiaxen hair.
Christmas presents! For whom?
For the children of the drowned man, who
were, no doubt, at this very moment watch
ing. at the lighted window for his return.
Tears rushed to the eyes of more than one
man in gazing upon this affecting sight, and
Explanations si nda f Of 8 by ,ts George that's hasd
dest thing ever saw!" arose on all sides.
AS for Alfred his young heart, not yet
hardened by newspaper experience, seemed
almost ready to burst with the emotion he
felt. For. the time being, he quite forgot the
motive which had originally induced him to
take such an eager interest in this strangers
misfortune the chance of securing
good news story" for the paper upon which
he had yet his reputation to make
'Whats this" said one of the policemen,
taking a soiled envelope from the inside pock-
ct of the dead mans coat. Here's name
August Faltot'-and the address of No.
Patchin Place."
'TThis wrapper is marked August Faltot.'
That is evidently the mans name" said one
of the bystanders, who had been closely ex-
amining the parcels.
wen have to take him to the station
house to await Identification, and send some
body to inquire at this address," said the
policeman.
The young reporter at once volunteered to
go to Patchin Place. Indeed, he was the
only one in the party who knew exactly where
Patchin Place was, it being an obscure court
off upper Myrtle avenue, not far from his own
home.
Once on the platform of the street-car, 60
CONTINUED ON PAGE SEVEN
Los Angeles herald., 1907-12-15

Eve ot, II the rest OF US eau 7.
Thank you, sir
Alfred Hervey, the youngest reporter on
the paper, would no doubt have preferred TO
work up" an assignment, but there was
none for him; and as the dismissal by hs
chief had been kindly meant, he accepted 1t
in the same spirit.
1t was no ordinary achievement for boy
of nineteen to have advanced, by his unaid-
ed aptitude and energy, from the type-setter $
case to the reportorial staff Of one OF the
great morning journals of New York city.
This was what Alfred had recently sue
ceeded in doing; but he discovered only too
soon that the position, once attained, inycolv-
ed difficulties and drawbacks fully proportion
ate to what had seemed its exalted greatness.
1t was like climbing to the. summit OF a
hill, only to perceive range of mountains In
the pathway beyond.
The new reporters position was very sub
ordinate one. He was obliged to work on
space"-that is to say, he was paid at the
rate of about six dollars per column for such
of his articles only as were actually printed
in the paper. What was cut out of his copy
by the editor or the copy-readers, or rejected
bodily, was so much time and labor lost.
He did not receive regular assignments of
work, and those vouchsafed him were usually
the most undesirable and unpr0ductive ones
small fires, minor accidents, labor demonstra
tions, Temperance meetings, amateur theatri-
calls, cornerstone ceremonies, Scenes and in
cidents" of any chance blizzard In winter-tlme
or hot wave in summer.
The consequence was that Alfred, like the
great majority of beginners in journalism,
not only had no opportunity even to attempt
to distinguish himself by fine writing" but
his earnings were actually less than he could
command at type esetting-for he had been a
rapid and "clean" compositor.
These were the reflections, no doubt, that
tended to cast down the spirits of the young
reporter as he quilted the busy silence Of the
editorial rooms that Christmas Eve and emerg--
Printing House Square, where the statue of
BENJAMIN Franklin looked benignantly down,
extending hand as if in benediction and en-
couragement.
The evening was clear and intensely cold;
started briskly down Nassau street, turning
into Fulton in the direction Of the ferry-he
lived with his mother in Brookfyn-as he el-
bowed his way through the throng of people
Los Angeles herald., 1907-12-15
Copyright by James Elverson.

0U needn't stay tonight, Hervey'
unless you care to wait on emer-
gency," said the night city editor.
There's nothing special, and you
may as well have your Christmas
Eve off. if the rest of us can't.