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The Marion daily mirror. (Marion, Ohio) 1892-1912, 1907-02-12
INSISTED ON BEING HANGED.
Murderers Who Have Pleaded for Ex
ceution Of Sentence.

Tho case Of the condemned muir.
dercr, who the other day practically
sentenced himself by refusing to sign
a petition for reprievc, Is. not so
rare as many people imagine.
One famous parallel Instance was
that Of Rev. Mr.. lIackmah, who shot
an actress. Miss Reay, As Dhe was
leaving the stage door 81 Conven;
Garden thcatcr. and who. although,
actually offered cummutation. pre-
fcrreG to die upon the gallows In the
eNpiation of his crime
Only few weeks back, again. the
ferlin papers chroniclcd the case OF
wealthy land owner who, having
shct a servant In fit of passion, tried
him, with himself as judge. and sen
fenced himself to ten years solitary
confinement In one Of his own private
dungeons in his own medieval castle
In the heart OF the Black Forest.
Nine years and some odd months Of
this punishment he actually endured
his house steward doing him out daily
Il mcagcr ration OF coarse prison fare
'Unluckily for him, howevcr, the au
thoritics got to hear Of the affair and
he was hailed before the ordinary tri
blinal to await his trial in due course
Another extraordinary case also
curlously enough, OF German origin
was that of a sergeant major Of an in
fantry regiment stationed in Bremen
who few weeks back sentenced him
self TO be shot by a squad of his own
men. The soldiers thought they were
firing blank, but the self.condemned
man had surreptitiously removed the
harmless cartridges and substituted
ball ammunition, SO that at his owl
word Of command, Fire" he fell dead
Finally, IL may be mentioned thai
John Lee, the Babbacombe murderer
who survived three separate attempts
TO hang him owing 10 some defect ii
the machinery of the drop, insisted
vehcmentIy that his sentence mus
be carried out according TO law"
This Is, OF course. quite contrary tc
the generally received opinion regard
ing the case. Bnt the writer was re
Gently assured of It's correctness b,
the convict's own mother. and her as
surance Is borne out by Rev. John Pit
kin, who was chaplain OF Exeter gao
at the time.
Said this gentleman the other day
when the attempt TO execute hin
Uee) failed. he called out again ant
again, I will be executed And whel
| suggested after the third attempt t,
take his life that the execution should
be postponed. Lee exclaimed, Aren.
they going to execute me? l will b'
executed! '"-Pearsons Weekly.
The Marion daily mirror. (Marion, Ohio) 1892-1912, 1907-02-12

A bill that is truly worthy Of
large audience at each prcsenta-
ton is the all star program that
rs being presented at the Marion
Family theatcr this week. The
vaudeville critic who has attended
every production III Marion as
well as many in the larger cities
will lulhcsitat:ngiy declare that it
is one of the finest aggregation of
vaudeville performers that ever
performed on u vaudeville stage.
Probably the feature act of the
bill is the last one---Act F---Dcmon-
ic and Belle, comedy singers. dane
ers aud acrcbats. This pair in-
tloduccl clever tumbling stunts,
cornet music with homcly dancing
1t made decided hit with the two
audiences which crowded the thea
ter last night.
The Marion daily mirror. (Marion, Ohio) 1892-1912, 1907-02-12
UNCLAIMED LETTERS

Following is the list Of un-
claimed letters remaining in the
postoffice at Marion, Ohio, for Fob
ruary ~, 1907:
NJ. S. Brannon. II. If. Bush,
VIM H. Chunk. Harry DeWeese.
Haryie Dicus, Frank. L. Eager,
yrank Kennedy. J. +. Kreis. Thomas
Kingery. F.. w. Lawrence, John
NIetger, Reuben Price. James
Pritchard. John. Pheasant, Joe r.
Price. II. A.. Pine, Clint. Smith,
Evan Sbaffer, Dave Speeleer.
Frank sickman,s Geo. E. Smith.
John Slioburg, Edgar r. Thompson.
Ida Van Ostcn, Fred Whitman. Wal.
lace Wilson. Ben Wood, Clarence
Williams, Grace Aller, Mrs. Celia
Bailey. Mrs. Dennison Davis, Miss
Mary Gillfllere, Mrs. Dora George.
Miss Cora Hill. Ollie Julians, Mrs.
Emma Luke. Eva Mummert, Mrs.
Rose Martin, NJ. J. Russell. Mrs.
Ida Smith, Miss Mary Smith, Bessie
Smith, Louis Knight Trayers. Mrs.
Susie White. Mrs. Jennie Wagner.
Mrs, Cora Wise. Mis- Annie Woods.
AIw. Il. Falknuts, Mrs. Ollie Young
Keeley Cure.
NJ. b. DlcKERSON;. r.. NJ.
The Marion daily mirror. (Marion, Ohio) 1892-1912, 1907-02-12
cET FROM A QUEEk
HisToRlc HE,RLooM THAT IS
HIGHLY PRICED.
"oreat WiIIouohby Chest" Presented
BY Elizabeth TO Second Cousin :
Who Shared Her Captivity In
the Tower Of London.

Boston. the great Willoughby
chest" priceless heirloom IL the pos
session of Theodore Raymond pf
Springfield, Mass. could talk, what
tales II might tell OF the captivity OF
Princess Elizabeth, afterward the
Good Queen Bess" of England, Ia the
Tower of England, a captivity shared
by her. devoted maid Of honor. and
second cousin once removed, Lady
Margaret Willoughby, through whom
this chest, undoubtedly gift from
Queen Elizabeth, passed to her dos
cendants, the Raymonds Of New Eng
land. And what joy It would briag 90
the Raymonds, the Lyndes, the Girls
wolds and other families OF Massachu-
sets and Connecticut in establishing
their direct descent from the beautiful
elizabeth Woodville. who became the
wife OF King Edward Nv. These fami-
lies trace their genealogy back TO the
kings of England with only one slight
break.
Other precious relics of Queen Eliz-
abcth were handed down with the
chest, including a tablecloth cmbroi-
dered by the princess during her i'm
prisonment in the tower. another gift
to the faithful Lady Margaret.
The chest is massive affair, seven
feet In length, two feet seven inches
In width and two feet seven inches
high. it is made OF peculiar hard
wood, originally very light IN color,
but darkened exceedingly by-agc. The
quaint old carvings on the front and
on tho inside of the cover. the hand
wrought massive iron hinges and han
dies, the cumbersome lock and huge
keys are eloquent testimony of its
age. The carvings on the outside,
which are nearly worn off, evidently
represent horsemen riding through a
forest. At either end of the three
front panels is gallant of the Eliza.
bethan period, long-haircd. plumo.hat-
The Marion daily mirror. (Marion, Ohio) 1892-1912, 1907-02-12

course of an interview stated for
the first time that as result Of
his inquiries tho date OF the meet.
Ing Of Tho Hague conference prob
ably would be fixed for June Is,
with sessions lasting two months.
"Tlieie can be no doubt that the
question Of disarmamonts and the
limitation kf arnalncnts will be
the piece dc resistance OF tho pro-
gram said Professor De Martens,
"and il either the British OF the
United States governments have
really decided TO place this ques-
tion Gu the program, the powers
will she obliged TO discuss IL. I
cannot imagine that any one pow
er would ob5ect to the extent 0f
making this li,Astion ~ ea1ds n
y serious ~ 'klelal .ecnlpli isniion:
The Marion daily mirror. (Marion, Ohio) 1892-1912, 1907-02-12
The WIIIoushby Chest.

ted and a mass Of ruifs and laces from
neck to knees. The carvings on the
inner side of the lid represent two
scenes, one Of Sir Walter Raleigh
spreading his cloak before Queen
Elizabeth, The other of a gay pleasure
party in boats among small islands
with turreted castle in the hack
ground. Between the two scenes is o
coat of-arms. Tho shield has either o
cross or lines to make four quarter.
.ings,
The tradition that this chest, with
the tablccloth embroidered in the
tower and other valuable gifts, was
given by Queen Elizabeth to Lady
Margaret Willoughby is so well au-
thenticated as to seem beyond dispute.
At any rate tho tablecloth came down
through tho Willoughbys to the, Ray
monds with the chest. and tho cloth,
at least, was the Gift Of the queen to
Lady Margaret, for English history is
clear on this point. y.
The Rayn;onds. Lyndes and Girls
wolds Of New England. numbering
now several thousands trace their an.
cestry back to Col. William Wiliough-
by, who was commissioner of the
British navy from 164S to 1851, when
he died. His son. Francis Willoughby,
came TO New England in 1888, and 10.
turned to England in 1851. In 1852 he
was appointed successor OF his father
as commissioner OF the navy, and in
1858 was chosen ivember of parlia-
ment for Portsmouth. In 1862 he re-
turned to New England, and became
deputy governor of the Massachusetts
colony in 1866. continuing in Office
until he died In 1G75.
The first or the Raymonds to visit
the colonies was William, who came
over from Kent with other stewards
aud 40 servants for the Company OF
Laconia,' formed to trade and fish on
the grant given TO Capt John Mason.
u London merchant, comprising part
of what is now New Hampshire. He
came to Little llarbor (now Ports.
mouth, ~ Ho, in 1880, aud remained
but q short time
The first real settler and head of
one OF the most prolific branches OF
the family in New England was Rich,
ard Raymond. who in 1886 received a
grant of land on what is now Winter
island in Salem harbor. He lis des,
cribed IN the records as a. mariner
aud part owner OF the ketch Hopewell
OF Salem lie aftsrward removed to
|. Norwich, Com, and In 1904 TO Say
brook, wlicre he was engaged In trade
with the English and Dutch settlers
on Manhattan.
The great chest, which had come
into the Raymond family by marriage
with the Willoughbys. was brought
from Block Island to New London ID
1704 by Mrs. Mercy Raymond, widow
Of Joshua, who was grandson Of
Richard. It was then known both Al
tho great yyilloughby chest and al
the ''Eligabeth chest, From genera
tion 70 generation 10 wnp handet
| down Ard onHlly was be0teothed Il
| 'rhoodore Aaymdn4 of Gprlnsneld. III
JxSs6tt oVoov. ~: hIn tynn1 1fnt1>or
fAp.kj6lV IlnyuiAD 4 cf ))Ili1yvIe)I, CQhj)
The Marion daily mirror. (Marion, Ohio) 1892-1912, 1907-02-12

Personally, my feeling is that
the matter is not yet ripe for dis
cussion, and l an quite convinc-
cd that al the present moment it
win be quite impossible to attain
any practical result from its dis
cussion.
"With regard TO tho results Of
my nilsson 81 far, ! may say that
Geansb,y, France and Russia, all
hold that the question Of dismm: I.
mcnt i, not yet ripe for discussion
and furtlcr that the limitation Uf
armament, not being practical
question, no good can come from
discussing il; but this opposition
i, OH the merits of the question
and does not go TO the extent of
opposing any consideration of the
subject if the United States or
Great Britain insist upon such
consideration.
"Thc United States has rescrv-
cd the right of placing the qucs-
tion OF disarmament before the
conference, but l have not heard
mcnt has decided TO do this or
whether tho Washington govern
not.
Turning to the question OF the
Drago doctrine, Professor Dc Mar
tens said:
"Tllis matter has provoked some
misunderstanding and bad feeling.
il tile doctrine is to form a guar
,ntcc TO any power not to pay its
debts, naturally it will not evoke
very mt,ch sympathy and FROM this
point cf view ] do not think 1T will
be approved even in the United
States. The doctrine was accepted
ty Mr.. Hay, the late American
secretary Of state, with considera-
bic reserve.
"If, on the other hand, the doc
irinc will, have the effect Of re-
fei1-ing TO The Hague, instead of
causing a resort 10 force. questions
which can be settled by arbitration
il can only be very useful. +"
The Marion daily mirror. (Marion, Ohio) 1892-1912, 1907-02-12
Bible in New Language.

London.-A polyglot printing house
here which published the Lords pray.
er In 400 languages has been asked
by missionary in central Africa to
print the grammar Of row language
he has discovered. Tho missionary
had 10 draw and send sketches of the
letters. The grammar is on the Odcn.
dorf system and the missionary IN.
tends to teach the natives Of the jun.
Sle to read and write.
The Marion daily mirror. (Marion, Ohio) 1892-1912, 1907-02-12

NORTH BOUND.

No. 80 starts from Marion.
No. 80. stops at Marion.
No. 30 will leave Columbus at pm
ON Sundays.
The Marion daily mirror. (Marion, Ohio) 1892-1912, 1907-02-12
CHICAGO PRODUCE.

Chicago, Feb. l2.-.Butter-'Extras
in creamery 81 1-2.
Eggs-Fresh extras 2S 12.
Chcese-Twins 13 1-2.
Live poultry-Turkcys IL; chickens
II IL; do springs IL; dncks IL;
geese, 80 a $3.50 per dozen.
The Marion daily mirror. (Marion, Ohio) 1892-1912, 1907-02-12

Brought Out Good IN Others.
All the good have ever done has
been by calling on every nature for its
highcst..-Margcre yulleT Ossoli. 4
The Marion daily mirror. (Marion, Ohio) 1892-1912, 1907-02-12
Daily Iarket Report
UNION SToCV YARDS.


Union Stock Yards, rlls.. Feb. ~.
|, Cattle Beceipks 1000; estimated
flor Wednesday $4,000; market dull;
prime beeyes 5.75 % G.s0; poor to
medium 4 % 5.65; stockers and
feeders 2.7O q 40; cows and beif-
|ers, 2.75 % 5. 10; Gamers, 1.S5 %
|2.70; Texans. 4 % 4.50.
Hogs-Receipts $4,000; estimated
for wcdfiesday $4,000; market
strong; light, 6.s5 q 7.Q5 IL;
trough G.S5 @f6.95; mixed Z % III
10; heavy 7.O5 % 7.2O; pigs Clio %
I6.S5. '-5'
Sheep--Rccelpts 5000: estimated
for "wednesday $4,000; sheep steady.
lambs firm; native sheep, $3.50 @
g.. G; western sheep 3.75 q $50;
native lambs 4.75 q 7.55; western
lambs g.. 10 "a 7.50.
The Marion daily mirror. (Marion, Ohio) 1892-1912, 1907-02-12
PITTSBURG.

Pittsburg, Pa, Feb, 12.-Cattle--
Supply light; market steady. Choice.
5.75 % 6; prime $40 90 $50; good
$40 @ $50; tidy butchers 400 %
8; fair 4.10 % 4.50; choice heif-
ers. 4.35 90 AIS; common to fair
heifers $50 % 4; culls $50 60
AS: fat COWS Q q 4.25: good fresh
cows and springers, &25 90 $50;
common to fair, ~ U $40.
Sheep and lambs Supply light and
market slow. Prime wethers 8 so
% $40; good mixed $40 O. 6. 40;
fair mixed i.50 @ 8; culs and COM
mon 2 @ 8; lambs 8 a 7.75; veal
calves $50 % O.; heavy ana thin.
so @ 5.
Hogs--Reccipts 10 doubledecks;
markct fairly active, prime heavy,
medium and heavy yorkers, 7.5O;
light workers., 7.25 q 7.30; pigs @
40; roughs @ 6.75; stays 4.Jo q
$50.
The Marion daily mirror. (Marion, Ohio) 1892-1912, 1907-02-12
CLEVELAND

Cleveland, Feb. 12.-gIogs-2O
cars, Shipments light. Steady.
Workers. mediums and heavies, TAO;
best pigs, 7.1O q 7.15; stays and
roughs 4 % go.
Calves-100 head. Steady.
Sheep and lambs--5 cars. Steady.
Cattle-4 cars. Slow aud lower.
The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1907-07-23
SHOCKING DEATH.
Miss Julia Wannamaker Drowned at
Sullivan's Island-Body Has
Been Recovered.

All Orangeburg is inexpresslbly
shocked and grieved at the news OF
the drowning on Sullivan's Island
of Miss Julia Wannamaker, second
DAUGHTER of MI. T. Heber Wanna
maker.
Dr.. E. J. Wannamaker Of Colum-
bia, uncle Of the young lady, was on
the island at the time and every
known method Of resuscitation was
tried without success.
Miss Wannamaker had been on the
island for some time, being with the
family of Mr. John Cart, who arc
summering there, and it is said that
the beach on this section of the Is
land was beautiful and considered
perfectly safe.
Miss Julia, who was about Ii years
of age, was strlkingly beautiful
girl, unusually bright and talented
and was a universal favorite not only
with those Of her age, but all who
knew her.
Mr.. and Mrs. Wannamaker were
in New York.
The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1907-07-23
THIRTY KILLED.
Fearful Wreck on Pere Marquette
Excursion Train.

Salem, Mich, July 2O.-Thirty peo-
pie are dead and more than 20 lnjur-
ed. many of them seriously, as the
result Of a head-end collision today
between this village and Plymouth,
when Pere Marquette excursion
train bound from Ionia to Detroit
crashed into a westbound freight in a
cut located at a sharp c:lrve about a
mile east Of Salem.
The passenger train Of II cars, car
rying TIE Pere Marquette shop en-
ploves of Ionia and their families to
the Michigan metropolis for their an
nual excursion. was running at high
speed. probably so miles an hour.
down steep grade. It struck the
LIGHTER locomotive Of the freight train
with such terrific farce rs to tt2rn
the f,e:cllt engine completely around.
The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1907-07-23
Bogota, City Without Railroad.

Youths Companion.
We are apt to think that great
citv. containing the comforts and ele-
yancies If modern life. cannot exist
without railroads at its gates. Bogota,
the Capital of the Republic Of Colom-
5ia. is an exception. Having popula~
ton Of $4,000, fine residences, ex-
cellent schools and colleges, literary,
artistic and musical societies, clubs,
polo, tennis, balls, dinners, elegant
society that knows the Partisan fash
ions. Boyota lies on plateau which
no railroad has yet reached. There IS,
however, a short railroad on the pla-
teau itself. But to get to it by the
most used route one must journey
two and half days on muleback. An
other way of approach, reducing the
mule ride to seven or eight hours. re
quires several days Of river navlga-
ton. But the railroad is coming, al
though late.
The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1907-07-23
Tea Smoking Centuries Old.

Minneapolis Journal. =,
"With your tea cigarettes" SAID
the ahtiquary sternly, "you young Ia,
dies think yourselves very modern and
decadent. But look here.
He took from a portfolio French
print Of the seventeenth century thaI
Portrayed two men. with cumbrous
silver pipes, charging the same from
a box Of China tea.
"This shows you," the old man
said. "the antiquity Of tea smoking.
It was a common thing in France 2oO
years ago. Bleent mentions it, and
Grand d'Aussay. in his 'Historle de
Ia Vie Privec des Francals, describes
it in detail.
"An old VEGA dead vice-for the
French found that tea snoEln" rack
ed the nerves; how very. very foo!lSi
vou girls are to have rlvlved 1t.
The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1907-07-23
Big European Banquet.

The 1900 Club banquet to the Coz
onial Ministers, at the Albert Hall,
with its 1000 guests, is certainly OF
imposing scale, but it is scarcely, as
stated by a contemporary, the "sec-
ond largest on record,' the premier
place being awarded to Lord Strateh-
cona's Aberdeen dinner, at which the
quests numbered 2,4OO says the West
Minister Gazette.
Some years ago the late Lady Bur
lett-Coutts feasted 1000 people at
her house at Highgate, King Edward
being among her guests. A little lat
er his Royal Highness las he then
was) was one Of 5000 guests who sat
down to a dinner in London; 2,ooo
were present at the banquet in honor
of the Right Hon. A. J. Balfour, IN
Waverly Market, Edinburgh, some
time ago.
But even such gargantuan feasts
cannot compare with the banquet IN
1889 at the Palais de l'Industrle,
Paris. which was enjoyed by $1,000
mavors of French towns, in addition
TO 1000 other dinners: nor with the
feast Sir Watkin ". W.Tnn once gave
in Wvnnstay Park to $4,000 neigh
bo1s. a banquet at which 96 hogs
heads and 1.44O bottles of ale were
oorc,1n1p0
The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1907-07-23
The Habit of Not Feeling Well.

Few people realize that their all
ments are rarely self-induced. They
get into a habit of not feeling well. II
they get mp in the morning with a
slight headache, or some other trifline
indisposition, instead Of trying to rise
above this condition they take a posi-
tive pleasure in exphtiating upon
their feelings to anyone who will lis
ten. Instead of combating the tend
ency to illness by filling the lungs
with pure fresh air, they dose them
selves with 'herdaehe tablets,' OF
some specific "warranted TO- eure''
whatever i'll they think they are suf-
fering from. They begin to pity
themselves, and try to attract pity and
sympathy from Others. Unconscious
ly by detailing and dwelling upon
their symptoms, they reinforce the
first simple suggestion Of illness by a
whole army of thoughts and fears and
images of disease, until they are I'M
fitted to do days work.
It is said that man is lazy animal
We are all more or less prone to, IA
dolence, and it is the easiest and most
natural thing in the world for young
neonle TO accustom themselves to ly-
ing down or lounsing or a sofa be-
! cause they think they are tired, OF
not we'll. Much so-called invalid
:sm" is simple laziness. There IS
great danger that girls who are dell
cate while growing up. and lounge
around the house and lie down wher
they feel the least bit out OF sorts
will form a habit Of invalidism wher
thew reach maturity. How often dc
we see such girls "brace up" al
once whenever anything happen:
which interests or excites them. Al
invitation to a reception. or a par
tv. CT any other pleasant social oc'
cas:on, acts like a tonic. For the time
being an instantaneous cure is et'
fected. They are as we'll as anybody
Until after the entertainments
Success.
The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1907-07-23
Patience is Anti Suicide.

New York Herald.
How to prevent suicide has always
been a puzzling question. After all
we must at least allow that the fun
damental difficulty in answering 1t
lies in the faulty makeup OF man
himself. In many ways he is a mlsflt
with his environment. The discipline
of disappointment is taken by him as
a punishment rather than a lesson
What the weak man needs Is a little
more stes3iness for present and COM
inc shoek:. All must take thel: snare
of misfortune one way or the other'
The common lot should be the bear
able lot. The end Of all things comes
soon enough. At the worst there Is
only need for little more patience
and little more submission. 1t the
suicide had stoppedlto think he might
have been saved: