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The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1908-10-24
Have to Take His Word.

Well, it is too late for an alibi, be-
cause this occurred don t know how
many years ago. If it had been
brought up then I probably could have
proved an alibi. You have got to take
my word for it, that / never went to
John Colburn s office and made him a
proposition Of that kind in any way,
shape or form. (Applause.) I have
got now only the Chillingworth mat
ter. Now, gentlemen, that is another
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1908-10-24
More Dragging Along.

Well, Mr.. J. NJ. McChesney was the
assignee in bankruptcy for Poppleton,
but it dragged along. was not APP
pearing in the bankruptcy case, /
don t remember who Mr.. McChesney's
attorney was, but it dragged along and
Poppleton wrote to me for the money
and I wrote him that if he would Sc
cure in any way the sureties, why, he
could have his money and welcome.
Then it got into Humphreys hands.
how. I don t know; but he got it, and
he came to me about the matter and /
told him that if he would give me any
guarantee that the sureties would be
saved harmless, or if he would get me
receipt signed by Mr.. and Mrs. Pop
pleton for it was Mrs. Poppleton 5
money!. I would hand it over gladly
and get rid of it. and he did. He sent
on and got a receipt from San Fran
cisco. Now, it is dated Honolulu, but
it was signed in San Francisco. for
both Mr.. and Mrs. Poppleton were liv-
ing in San Francisco and for all L
know they are living there yet. Read
ing receipt "$250. Honolulu, H. /,
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1908-10-24
The Chiffon Affair.

They say there that I pocketed the
retaining fee of $50 and embezzled to
my own use the $40 given me for the
costs of the appeal. Now, Mr.. RawlIns,
who was acting as Mr.. Chiffon s attor-
ney employed me, or rather he assoc
ciated me with him in the defense of
the boy, who was charged with abduct-
ing a girl. OF course, with the consent
of Mr.. Chiffon we tried the case, and
the boy was convicted and fined $3.50.
I at once made motion for new trial.
good long motion covering many
points and [ argued that motion. 1t
was denied, and L took my exceptions.
and as the time went by [ got a stipu-
lation from Mr.. Andrews in which he
stipulated and agreed that the defend
ant might have to and including July
LIST, 1908. to prepare, present for allow
ance and file his bill of exceptions here
in, and to pay costs, deposit cash or
file bond for costs to accrue in the SUI
preme Court.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1908-10-24
Andrews His Friend.

Now, gentlemen, moment on this
charge again. He says that in 1902
he learned of this settlement for the
first time; he says the property was
worth $4,000 and that 1 beat him out
of it. The suit was brought by Palea
and not by Goo Wan Hoy. He had no
title to the property. 1t was the old
man and his wife and Goo Wan Hoy
was not my client. He went then to
Attorney Lorrin Andrews, and Tread
ing from Advertiser "who attempted
to collect the money from Catheart
without result, and Andrews advised
Goo Wan Hoy that the case was one
OF embezzlement on the part of Cath
cart and recommended presenting it to
the grand jury" Is that possible?
l. il possible that Lorrin Andrews rec
commended presenting this case to the
grand jury when the same Lorrln An
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1908-10-24

The ;. ;. Arabla IS due from UhU
hama today.
Next mail to the Coast: 5. s. Ala
media, Oct 2s.
The steamer Mauna Loa is due from
H4o this morning.
The Italian cruiser Puglia is due from
San Francisco today.
Next mail from the coast; s. S
America Maru, Oct. -.
The steamer Noeau arrived from Ha-
wall ports yesterday morning.
The steamer Claudine left for Hawaii
and Maui ports yesterday afternoon.
The Alameda s time was FIVE days,
nineteen hours and ten minutes out OF
San Francisco.
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1908-02-26
Sank Back with Closed Eyes.

Gordon bleu is going to surpass herself.
For behold! She produces freezing
machine and coats the Concise with
vanilla and strawberry ice, alternated
with layers of crushed marrone glaces!
This again-perfection on perfection
she coates with meringue-an Italian
Kirsch meringue for thousand! On
top she sets barquette of fine paste
and, in a flash, the noble editice dis
appears behind the oven doors.
1 count the seconds, holding my
breath. l detect an anxious look on
the cooks face. This is her piece de
resistance, and moment too long or
too little will utterly mar il. The sus-
pense is terrible! My heart knocks
against NY ribs!. Il turn my head
away. :. "A click! The oven doors
are opened. With a rapidity born of
long practice, she whips out the dish,
surrounds it with silver cups Of
Kirsch, applies a lighted match, and
eureka! the Surprise a Ia Napolitai>e
goes flaming to the sacrifice!
l sink back with closed eyes, weak
and limp. Again, seismic resonance
stirs my innermost recesses AS I
wipe the moisture from my agitated
brow, voice recalls me to myself.
"You liver an bacon's gettin' cold.
sir!"
l shudder! For me, the liver and
bacon NAV netrifv! TONIGHT 7 feed
on reflections!
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1908-02-26
SAILORS GOT "PRIzE MONEY!"
Windfali for Americans in Wreck In
Magellan Strait.

Capt. B. S. Osbon, the "sailor of for.
tune" was talking the other day in
the cabin of the schoolship st. Mary's
about the passage of Magellan's strait
that he made in four days in the
'fifties" and of the profitable results
to the officers and crew of the Guate-
mala that came from wreck they
ran across in the strait. Just after
their ship pushed it's bow into the
waters of the passage the lookout
spied wreck ashore that proved to
be the melancholy results of an Eng
lish skipper attempting to make the
passage under sail. The Guatemala
came to anchor and the officers went
ashore in a small boat to inspect the
wreck. She proved to be an English
ship laden with a cargo of fine broad
cloth, praying rugs, brandy and wines.
OF human life or Of any records of
the ship there was not the slightest
trace, nor was there any sign of q ma
tive in the u>iEhborhood. as might be
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1908-02-26
ACTING SHERIFF IS YOUTHFUL.
Twelve.Year.old Boy Of Vermont Per-
forms Fathers Duties.

Although only IL years of age, Brad
ford Godfrey of this town performs
the duty of a county sheriff in place of
his father, who is now ill, says the
Bennington w.t. correspondent of the
Boston Post.
While not the legal sheriff, Godfrey
performs the duties of that Office with
all the regularity of his father. So
severe were the duties of the lad that
he, too, for the last few days has
been confined to his home.
During the Mahan murder trial now
in progress the boy has taken care of
the courtroom and met all the re-
quirements of the Office of sheriff. He
sits behind the desk usually occupied
by the sheriff and when the court en-.
tiers raps for order.
With his small arms, he rings the
bell Of the court at the beginning Of
each session and during the recesses.
Whenever there is . person to be
from the courtroom to the
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1908-02-26
Order Of the Golden Horseshoe.

OCOSC OF INC 0oSoSO horseshoe.
! How many persons have ever heard
of the Order of the Golden Horseshoe,
the first order founded in America:
In 1924, when Virginia extended
from the Atlantic into the unknown
west, few of her colonists had crossed
the Blue Ridge or the Alleghenies. So
full of dangers from savages and wild
beasts and so full of natural Difficult.
ties was the passage of these terrible
heights, that Gov. Spotswood, setting
out to discover pass, looked on the
expedition as so hazardous that he
took with him guard of soldiers,
gentlemen and pioneers" armed and
carrying provisions. These scaled the
pass with great hardships and perils,
and returned after the governor had
cut the name of King George in the
rocks on the highest peak.
He then constituted the society, or
ordey, Of the Golden Horseshoe. Each
man who had scaled This high pass
was made member OF T., and to each
one he presented a golden horseshoe.
On the side was inscribed in Latin:
$50 it p;eases him to %ross noun
tains."
Any man thereafter who could prove
that he hat read with his own eyes
the. name OF the king on tia height
was entitled 10 become mamber Of
this order.-Sunday Magazines.
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1908-02-26

But these are side issues. The
psychological moment for their prep
aration has yet to arrive. Nor will
the noble bundle of asperges blancs,
that occupies side table, be touched
for the present. My sense of fitness
tells me of their place in the Amply
tryonic scheme. Something within me
"a sepulchral cadence that l cannot
restrain-induces me to dwell upon
them. For few moments I close
my eyes and let my imagination riot
in an Epicurian dream of-food!
AS time passes the kitchen is lit
up. 1t is the dinner hour. One by one,
the dishes are passed through the
serving hatch, and picture the oak
paneled dining-room that receives
them. I see the shaded table, with its
central bowl of roses, the white nap
cry, the old silver, the thin glass.
taste the dishes have been watch
ing in the making. l sip wines of a
cru worthy of each delicate morsel!
But l digress. The joint gone, the
cook redoubles her activity. She is
working against time on an entremet.
Somehow, have missed the initial
stage of it's evolution, but l recognize
a pate Concise fine when she with
draws it from the oven. Do l not
know its constituents? Powdered
sugar and eggs, favored with vanilla
and maraschino-the bottle ia there
to tell me!
But something more than a simple
Cenoise must be in the cooks thoughts,
else why this ardor? I sit up! Pres
emily, tremble with excitement Can
it be? Yes, it is. A Surprise! My
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1908-02-26

oxysm had overtaken him! And poor
Archibald, when he was %, remem.
bered that on the night when he wab
81 he had hidden his bride of an hour
in a dungeon, where none of the merry
wedding guests might find her, while
he went to bring her wine and cake
from the wedding feast. And as he
went down the winding stairs the
hand of time had touched him, setting
him back seven years and blotting out
all memory Of what had happened
between his fourteenth birthday and
his twenty-tirst. And so it happened
that when, with his twenty-eighth
birthday, came memories OF the
twenty.first, he remembered his bride
and went to take her the cake and the
wine, and behold! there, meath the
wedding veil, lay the bones and the
dust of her whom his retainers had
sought for weary months.
Then there is Sir Gilbert Parkers
''The Right of Way" the tale of the
young lawyer who, struck on the head,
roamed among the lo9gers, his brain
a blank, until another and an equally
great shock restored reason. And to-
day Booth Harrington is contributing
to Everybody's in "The Guest of Cues
nay' story on precisely the same
line, of brilliant mind stricken and
then restored in both instances by
shock.
And If the alienists now studying
Mrs. Balls case decide that shock
alone will restore her reason and pro.
vide the key to the mystery Of the two
lost children, will the law permit
them to apply the test. to administer
the shock?
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1908-02-26

Jail adjoining, young Godfrey can al
ways be found walking beside the
prisoner, together with the deputy
sheriffs.
He is known to everybody about the
courthouse as Young Sheriff God.
frey" This title does not affect the
lad, who looks upon his office az one
of honor.
Whenever the senior Sheriff Godfrey
desired to take day of or to go Wis.
iting he could with all safety leave his
duties in the care of his young son
and his wife.
When interviewed by a reporter in
the courtroom during the trial of the
Mahan case the young sheriff said:
while I like to do what my father
does it is my desire to become q law.
yer. I want to be great lawyer and
try cases after I get through high
school and am studying very hard
for that will 60 to college.
Work about the courthouse is hard
sometimes, but like it. It 10 great to
make the people stand up and sit
down when the court comes in. The
people don't like very well to have .
kid like me tell them what to do.
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1908-02-26
expected with such treasure trove at

expected with such treasure trove at
hand.
So the Guatemala's crew was get to
work unloading as much of the cargo
as they cared to carry away with them,
the brandy and wines going into the
ships stores, and broadcloth and pray.
ing rugs being divided up among off,
GERS and crew in proportion to their
rank. Going up the west coast the
ships rigging was draped in black
broadcloth when the sun shone and
the decks and all sunny spots were
covered with praying rugs that both
of these assorted articles might dry
out thoroughly, for they had gotten
thoroughly soaked in the hold of the
wrecked ship. When the Guatemala
reached the cities she stopped at there
was bargain day. sale held of the
goods and the average price received
for the broadcloth was eight dollars a
yard, while the rugs sold from $40 to
$50 each. There was prize money"
to burn on that ship through the rest
of the voyage.
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1908-02-26
EFFECT OF MULCH.
It Does Not Retard Blooming Of Straw.
berry Plants.

No. This question has been settled
for 20 years. So long as the top of a
plant is exposed to sunshine and air,
SO long will any mulch be impotent to
retard its developing and blooming.
II a plant like strawberry plant be
kept entirely covered with the mulch,
the development will be retarded, but
in that case the plant is likely to be
destroyed by the mildews that will de.
velop.
It used to be believed that placing
straw around tree or around q plant
would keep it's roots cold and thus
delay blooming. This was desired to
carry the tree or plant beyond the
time of killing frosts. But it was not
difficult to prove that the state of the
roots had nothing to do with the
time of leaving out Of the tree or of
its budding. In one of the demonstra.
tons to prove this, grape vine with
its roots in the frozen ground, which
was also covered with snow, was car.
rted into a greenhouse and exposed to
the light, heat and sunshine. The
leaves came out as usual, though the
roots could not supply moisture. OF
course the exhaustion Of the moisture
in the vine resulted in its destruction.
A tree or a plant can be kept back
from blooming only by covering it and
thus protecting it from the influences
that cause it to bring forth leaves and
blossoms. The first activities of q
tree or plant come from energy stored
up In the form of starch from the
food taken the previous year.
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1908-02-26
HAND PICKED.

Plan to set out at least few trees
every spring. We eat the fruit of gen.
erations passed away, and therefore
we should take thought for the gen.
erations ahead of us.
The fruit tree weighed in the San
Jose scale will be found wanting.
Something cannot continually come
from nothing. Have you fertilized
your orchard lately?
We farmers ought to make more of
our fruit orchards than we do. It 10
enough to make ones heart sore to
see how neglected most Of the Of.
chards Of the country are.
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1908-02-26
BUILT ON coNcERTlNA PLAN
Lightkeeper Measures Six Feet Six
Inches in His Stockings.

Like the towering pines that fringe
the North Carolina coast, upon which
he was born, in sight of dreaded Hat
teras, Fabius Evans Simpson, the as
sistant keeper of Lazzaretto light
house, at the entrance to Baltimore
harbor, can lay claim to be the tallest
lightkeeper in the Fifth lighthouse dis
trict, if not level with the tallest in
the service from Maine to Rio Grande.
He is only % years old and is built
on the concertina plan. When he
rises from sitting posture one won
ders how much more remains to be
unfolded before he is Strengthened out.
He is six feet six inches in his stock,
ing feet.
His parents were reared alongside
the sea, and he comes of family that
has figured in the annals Of the light
house service. Alpheus w. Simpson
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1908-02-26
Moieture ana Mold pestrov Corn

Moisture and Mold Destroy Corn.
The drying Of corn for seed involves
but a few simple principles. II the
corn is to be exposed to a freezing
temperature, it must be dried out suf-
ficiently so that there will not be left
in the germ enough moisture to ex.
pand and rupture the cell walls. when
It swells in the freezing process. II
It is not to be exposed to freezing
temperature 1t must also be dried
sufficiently to prevent mold starting.
This mold destroys the germ in an
other way, sending its mycelium into
It to eat through the cell walls and
destroy the very substance.
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1908-02-26

father Of the young man, was keeper
of North river light station, and his
uncle, Fabius Evans Simpson, is now
in charge of the exhibit of the light
house board at the jamestown expo
sition. Another uncle, A. j., Simpson,
is keeper of Southwest Point light, all
in North Carolina. Young Simpson
says he will stick to the business, be.
ieving he has inherited an ambition
for the service in which his family has
figured for many years.
He could not furnish a full length
picture of himself. He said he tried
to get a photographer in North Caro-.
lima to take all Of him, but the artist
said he could only do it in sections,
and then paste them together, which,
he thought, would give an idea of his
clients towering figure. To do 30
the photographer wanted to charge
extra for the second section, and the
picture was not taken.
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1908-02-26
Hindoo ld.a Of Reverence.

In India the printed book is rexarded
as vulgar, If not irreverent. and no de-
vout Hfndoo would allow his sacred
writings to be contaminated by con-
tact with leather prepared from the
hide of some animals dead body. A
leather-bound copy of the Bible Il for
him remarkable illustration Of Chris
ttan trreverence.-The Churchma1.
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1908-02-26

B1ockton, Mass.-T opened my
cloak and took the children under it,
one On each side. From that time till
I woke up everything is blank"
Twenty-Five trembling words, spok-
en- by a disheveled, shaking woman,
yet behind them lies the tragedy of
a wrecked home, the remarkable dis
appearance of two human beings as if
the ground had opened to swallow
them, and a mystery which has BAT
fled the keenest detective minds of
New England.
A mother calling at the achoolhouse
door for her boy and girl, ehree fig
hres disappearing into the woods, a
great storm cloak flung open to shelter
two small forms--a blank of 2I hours,
and then disheveled, qu!vering
mother-form being hurried to an in
sane asylum.
What happened during that period
of mental death?
And where are the children?
On Monday, December 2, soon after
nine o'clock, Mrs. Mary R. c. Ball,
wife of John Ball. left her home at
26 Holbrook avenue, and walked hur-
riedly to the Winthrop school, where
her children were engaged in their
studies. Mary Grace Ball, aged nine,
and Thomas Ball, aged seven, were ex-
cused by their teachers at the request
of their mother, who was apparently
quite composed and natural in her
bearing. They put on their warm
coats and toques and mittens and trot-
ted down the schoolyard path, one on
either side of the tall, cloaked figure.
Children Went JoyfuIIy.
Joyous anticipations were aroused
in their childish minds. Christmas
was at hand. Perhaps they were 60
ing shopping! Perhaps they were 60
ing to the woods to gather evergreens!
AS to where they really went, directly
This may have been because Brockton
had something else to think about
during the next few hours. The Ball
home on HolbrOok avenue was in
flames. There was fire to be put out
and to be discussed, and it was so un
fortunate that it happened while Mrs
Ball was away shopping!
However, since the tragedy has be-
come the sole topic of conversation
in the little manufacturing city OF
BrocktOn, one man recalls that he
saw the mother and her children to-
gether about 2:3O o'clock that after
noon. Two children, who knew the
Ball family we'll, claim to have seen
the mother without the children on
Brockton street at 1880 of that event
full Monday afternoon.
But the one tangible piece Of evi
dence is that Mrs. Ball. unaccompanied
by her children, stopped at a lunch
cart for mouthful of food ut Avon
little town just north of Brockton
on Tuesday evening, December 3
Later that night she was found by q
nearby farmer, A. L. Pinto, in his barr
and was ordered away. The children
were not with her. Pinto did MOI
know who she was and took her fol
some poor, drunken wretch.
Instinct Led Woman Home.
Two nights later, on Thursday. De
cember 5, Mrs. Ball staggered into tn,
home of Mrs. Baxter, who lived di
rectly opposite the Ball home il
Brockton. The Bakers were terrified
by the figure which stumbled across
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1908-02-26

their threshold. Her clothes were In
disorder. Her fingers were grimy and
tern as though she had been digging
in the frozen earth. Across her
throat were great bloody scratches.
All reason had fed. Her eyes were
wild, her speech incoherent.
The next morning a raving maniac,
Mary Ball was taken to the asylum
for the insane at Taunton, Mass.
But where were the children?
The distracted father asked it. The
excited neighbors echoed his question.
The county officials considered it
their duty to find out. Detectives
came from all over New England to
join in the search. The Brockton En-
terprise offered reward of 500 for
the recovery of the children, dead or
alive. Brockton citizens raised $500
more, and more detectives, profes.
sional and amateur, flocked to the
scene.
Woods Thoroughly Searched.
Every inch of the frozen woods
into which the woman and her chill
dren had disappeared was raked over.
The Avon reservoir, beyond the woods,
was dragged. Farmers all around
Brockton neglected their affairs in
their frantic efforts to unearth the
bodies of the two little ones. The pc.
lice matron of Brockton was sent to
the asylum at Taunton in the hope
that talking, woman to woman, she
might obtain some clew from the de.
mented mother. But she came home
with word that her attempt had failed
Mrs. Balls mind was a blank.
Then came a day when some chill
dren playing in the woods near the
, suburb of Holbrook, five miles from
the Ball home, came upon some juve
nile raiment-a boys blouse, two
union suits and a little girls under
skirt. These were partially but not
completely identified by the distract.
ed father, for man-like, he was not up
on the details of the family wardrobe
And then, while searching parties
raked and scraped the woodland in
which these garments had been found
the father received word that his wife
seemed to be quite rational again.
Mothers Memory Gone.
So to the Taunton asylum he hur
ried alone. Unaccompanied by hys
terical women or keen-eyed detectives
he hoped that in quiet, heart-to.
heart talk with his wife he might OBJ
tain some clew to the whereabouts OF
his children.
II took my children under my cloak
They were cold and crying. The rest
is blank"
Behind that moment of motherly in
stinct when she stretched out the pro
lection of arms and wooden folds to
envelop her shivering children, Mrs
Balls memory cannot go. Sometimes
she gropes wildly for facts, and SAYS q
woman in a red automobile took the
children away. But always she real
ICES that the children are gone. that
none can find them, and that behind
the veil of her clouded mind lie the
facts which she cannot reach.
Grave physicians and alienists have
visited this woman, striving to decide
whether it is lapse of memory pure
and simple, or a return of the menta
malady from which she suffered foul
years ago. At that time she was con
fined to the asylum because, on thu
death of her youngest child, she hat