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The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1908-01-16
SPORTING SNAP SHOTS

Word from Los Angeles indicates
that after all Battling Nelson has
not run out of his match with Kid
Scaler, as has been reported The
Battler has wired to Manager Nc
Carey Of Los Angeles that he will
be ready to fight Scaler on the
2Sth. Both Nelson and Scaler ia
vor Eddie Graney for referee. He
will give no decision, but will split
the money the way he thinks II
should 60 were a decision to be
given. He will not be inside the
ring, but the club referee, Charley
Eyton, will be the third man in il
as a protection to the clubs inter
ests.
Fred Landers, of California, who
bested Bonner at Philadelphia, may
be matched with Packie McFar
land next.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1908-01-16
CHINk WAR DECLARED

MARYSVILLE, Cal, Jan. ia
Chinese tong war has started be-
tween the Hop Sing and Bling Gong
tongs. Bon Kee. a Chinese mer-
chant, was shot at four times the
other night but in the darkness the
bullets missed their mark. Some
time ago the Hop Sings of Marys-
vile received a warning to be on
the outlook for the Bing Gongs, who
had declared war.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1908-01-16

Special Correspondence to The Press
TOPEKA, Jan. 16.-Little Marian
Charlotte Bleakley, 4 years old,
pretty, gold-haired and smiling,
famous in three states as "the in
cubator baby" has been awarded to
the custody of her mother by the
courts.
1t was the world-old conflict be-
tween the mother and the the foster
parent, and as usual the cry of
mother love prevailed.
Little Marian was born in st.
Louis just prior to the worlds fair.
At the fair she was placed in an
incubator, where the spark of life
was nursed carefully in the little
body which weighed only one pound
and Is ounces.
Her parents had been divorced.
the father had never seen the child.
and the mother assented when Mrs.
Stella Barclay, an attendant, eX-
pressed a desire to adopt the tiny
bit Of humanity. She signed the
adoption papers and the necessary
legal steps were taken in due form.
A year later mother love reassert-
ed itself and Mrs. Bleakley be-
sought the Barclays, in Moline, Ill.,.
for her child. When it was refused
her she brought suit. The foster
mother won, but higher court or
dered new trial. Then the moth
er abducted the little one, fleeing
to Kansas.
She was located at Lawrence and
in another action the court awarded
the child to the foster mother once
more. Students of the Kansas State
university helped Mrs. Bleakley to
evade the officers and leave the
state before the courts order could
be enforced.
Mrs. Barclay followed her to Mis-
souri,, where the women had a per-
sOnal encounter. Mrs. Bleakley fed
again. this time into Oklahoma.
Finally she returned to Topeka
Here Mrs. Barclay resOrted to the
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1908-01-16
TORTURE CHAMBERS
OF MODERN PRISONS

ers Of these methods. OF course,
we have to take the world of men
discredited, If these things are to
be repeated.
In the same chamber of horrors
have described are iron instru.
ments to hold the ankles of the
convict sentenced to the paddle"
In both these 'punishments" the
convict is stripped
Out of this room opens long
row of cells with small gratings to
admit air at the top of the iron
doors. These are the solitary"
cells, where men are locked up
away from all human companion
ship and fed on bread and water,
for minor offenses. When the
charge is ''insolence" or refusal to
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1908-01-16

emy's plans. Still, form of water
cure is employed in the Ohio pen
itentiary.
I'VE have the water cure and
also use the paddle, Warden Grin
B. Gould admitted to me, land, like
all other prisons, We have the sol
itary,' where men are confined on
bread and water until we are GER
tain they will obey the prison
rules.
talked of tie water cure" with
other officers and with prison ply
sicians. They could find no fault
with such modes or punishment for
an unruly convict.
These are all earnest, consvien-
tious men, anxious to do their full
! duty by their fellows.
Down in the prison basement I
visited the cellar" a little, dark
room where the water" is admin
tstered.
1t is a little, little room to have
held SO much of terror. Small and
dark and gloomy, the curses of
strong men and the abject weeping
of the utterly broken hearted seem
to cling to its unclean walls,
Here is a large, deep bath tub,
showing signs of hard wear. The
convict is seated in the tub, a
curved board clamped around his
waist, which holds his body rigid
A guard in an oil coat holds the
convict's head so he cannot dodge
This is usually accomplished. | am
told, by clutching his ears. A sec
ond guard adjusts a hose and
throws stream of perhaps &C
pounds pressure in the victim s
face.
/ am told that men have been
known to collapse under the first
shock of the water. Imagine a man
gasping for breath and filing his
lungs and stomach with water.
A minute under the water will
it is said, break the spirit of the
most hardened offender. Such ter.
ror has the water cure" for the
convicts that only the ignorant
new man" or the most desperate
character will run the risk of fac.
ing it.
Monstrous tales are told my for.
mer employees and released prison
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1908-01-16
DEMAND WORK
FOR IDLE MEN

SEATTLE. Jan. ia parade of
10000 working men to the city hall
when the council meets Monday
evening has been authorized by the
unions in order to enforce upon the
council the necessity of providing
public work for the unemployed in
this city. The situation was cam
vassed at a meeting of delegates
from all labor organizations in the
city last night. 1t is proposed to
hold the parade about the city hall
until the council passes some meas
ure of relief.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1908-01-16
WAS FlEND FOR CHERRIES

OAKLAND, Cal, Jan. 16-Chaun.
cey Kane, racetrack tout, demon
allied saloon at Emeryville on &C
count of his ravenous appetite for
cherries. He asked the bartender
to give him a bottle of cherries
and when refused cleaned out the
place and then kicked theh bar
tender out. When arrested he had
devOured three bottles of cherries
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1908-01-16

work for the state, he may, am
informed, be strung up by the
wrists to the barred grating.
The prison warden is not so
much to blame for this punishment
as the man in the street; he is only
doing what his predecessor did
what his successor will do under
the system.
lin the next article Miss partition
will tell Of The Silent System"
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1908-01-16
THE "WATER CURE"

We are civilized. Public opinion
would not let us commit such afro
cities as history tells us existed un-
der the Spanish InQuisition.
The judge does not live who
would publicly sentence man to
the rack; yet the authorities sane
ton a mans torture once he is
safely inside prison walls
Few Americans have forgotten
the Mortified protest that went up
from the public during the war with
Spain when it became known our
soldiers were administering water
cures" to the Filipinos to wiring
from them knowledge of the en-.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1908-01-16

But he is. His professional ca
reer began Fl years ago in Pitts
burg and he has been in the game
ever since. Most of the time has
been spent in fast company, in
Pittsburg, New York, Chicago
Brooklyn and Baltimore. Now he
is manager of the Oakland team
and still playing. And he expects
to play for the next 10 years.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1908-01-16
Ipscial Correspondence to The Press

Special Correspondence to The Press
TOXIC, Jan. 16.-Quaint, mystic,
warlike Japan is a nation of funny
notions. The Japs have deities for
every emergency Away back in the
han forgotten centuries they were
made to order as occasion de-
manded.
Binzuru, the god of healing, is
the Mother Eddy Of the Japs. A re.
mark concerning a woman's beauty
lost him the highest sainthood, but
he was compensated In part by
huddha. who bestowed upon him
the power TO cure all human ills.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1908-01-16
INSlDES FULL OF JUNK
DEER LODGE. Mont. Jan. 16

DEER LODGE, Mont, Jan. 49,.
A strange discovery was made
when physician operated on Chas.
Joakinene, a Finnish miner, to re-
lieve pain in the chest. When
the pleural cavity was opened the
physician was astounded to find
two pieces of rubber tubing to one
Of which was attached a rusty safe
ty pin Of fair size 1t is claimed
that the foreign substances were
left in the patient in previous op-
Grafton in New York hospital.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1908-01-16
MARINE STRIKERS ENJOiNED

SEATTLE. Jan. 16.-Judge Nor
ris has issued an injunction to re
strain union marine mates and pi
lots from going on the docks OF
boats of the Puget Sound Naviga
ton Co. The writ is returnable
Jan. 81. The marine engineers
have refused to arbitrate a reduc
ton in wages and the strike is or
in earnest.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1908-01-16
PRIZE HUMAN HOG

BURLINGTON, N. j., Jan. 10
Red Men are still talking of an
eating match between Arthur VIII.
cox, Of this city, and a strang Red
Man at a feed" given by the
lodge. Wilcox ate 33 ham sand
witches, four dozen small pickles,
two pounds of cheese and drank IL
cups of coffee. The other con-
testant was a close second.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1908-01-16
MINE COMPANY EXoNERATED

FAIRMONT, w. Va, Jan. 10
The coroner's jury has exonerated
the mining company from blame for
the Monongah disaster, finding that
all reasonable precaution had been
taken. The cause of the explosion
was given as ignition of gas.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1908-01-16
HIPPO A HEAVYWEIGHT

NEW YORK, Jan. 16.-The eff
forts of 10 men, operating four der
ricks, were required to move the
body of Central parks big hippo
potamus, Caliph, that died, and
whose skeleton and hide are to be
separately as additions to
the collections in the museum of
natural history.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1908-01-16

Among the suffering poor Binzuru
is second only to Buddha himself
Among the myriad shrines that
dot Japan are some in which are
hung scores of prayers to Binzuru
They cover the entire category OF
ills known to the Japs. Before
these shrines the sufferers knee
and pray. If relief comes not they
touch the prayer, and with the
touch still fresh rub the afflicted
part. If this fails to bring relief
they rub the part with miniature
imagine Of Binzuru, which is, OF
course, sure cure.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1908-01-16
CONFESSES OLD THEFT

ABERDEEN, Wash. Jan. 16.-
William Johnson has confessed to
the embezzlement of 1926 from the
C. e. Burrows Co., by which he
was employed two years ago. He
escaped arrest at the time by shift
ing the blame on another man. He
is well known here.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1908-01-16

witness at the second Thaw trial.
She was member of the Floradora
company and is believed to be in
a position to shed more light on
the curious relations of Evelyn Mes.
bit, White and Thaw than many
of the stage beauties who will be
called upon to testify.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1908-01-16
GRAIN CROP CLEANED UP

Local grain buyers report the
crop being almost entirely cleaned
up. THE panic was a good thing
for u.s." said one buyer today. I'VE
have had all the cars we want and
are months ahead in moving crops.
Usually we are not done buying
and moving the crop until about
May, but we are now practically
cleaned up"
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1908-01-16
SENTENCED TO HOSPITAL

TOLEDO, O., Jan. 16.-Judge
Austin has made unique ruling.
Clement Crennan. who was arrest
ed for drunkenness and threatening
to do bodily harm to his wife, was
sentenced to be cured by an indefin-
lite term in the Toledo hospital.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1908-01-16
Jerome Chased Her

Among the witnesses who are ex-
pected to testify at the present
ThaW trial are a number of pretty
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1908-01-16
She KnolUs Things

Miss Frances Belmont, now Lady
Ashburton, and once the flame of
Harry Thaw, is to be an important
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1908-01-16
BY GEORGE r. PULFORD
special Correspondence to The Press

OAKLAND, Cal, Jan. 16.-To
see George e. Van Haltren in an
easy chair in his handsome home,
jacket and deep in story of adven-
ture-for adventurous fiction, not
love stories, appeals to hint is
hard to imagine that he is the dean
of ball tossers.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1908-01-16

show girls, who devoted great
part of their energies in getting
away from New York when District
Attorney Jerome decided to call
upon them for assistance last year.
Among the girls who knew Evelyn
Thaw in her studio days was Paula
Desmond. She led Jerome's detec-
tives merry chase when she was
Subpenaed.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1908-01-16

federal court, which left the child
in the mothers care, though form
ally assuming it's charge.
Now this court has awarded the
child to its mother, but the foster
mother declares that she will ap-
peal from the decision.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1908-04-29
GOOD, BUT FAIL TO WIN LOVE
Why Man Of Sterling Worth Is Seldom
FavorIte of Women.

men who lack popularity among
women are prone to say II Is because
we are attracted by the worst side Of
mans nature" remarked matron
who thinks. "The man who knows
himself to be steady and loyal above
small weaknesses Is likely to become
rooted in that belief when he sees
men he knows to be below him In
worth walk off with the matrimonial
prizes. He thinks the woman who
marries a wild chap does so because
Of the wildness. It's In spite OF 1t.
The chances are that the wild young
man takes pains to make himself
agreeable to women. He studies their
likes and dislikes and always pro-
fesses. whether he feels 1t or doesn't,
profound interest in their health, their
whims, the fit and fashion OF their
clothes and even the welfare OF their
pet dogs. Now, the man OF sterling
worth, as he likes to be called, will
not condescend to court favor IN those
little ways. He is convinced he would
make a good husband for any WON
an. He knows he is honorable. indus
trious and purposeful. and he thinks
| those qualities ought to suffice. But
they don't. And the woman. repealed
by his Indifference to her In tiny
things, turns to the microscopic devo
ton OF the other. forgiving his wild
ness for the sake OF his charm
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1908-04-29
BENNINGTON BRIEFS
News Of the Town and Village Told
Briefly for Busy Readers.

Fillmore & Slade have started oper.
ations In their new paper mill at Ben
nington Falls. About IL hands will
be given employment at first but this
number will be increased from time
to time as business warrants 1t
w ID. Newton has already sold two
OF his recent shipment OF Ford auto
mobiles. One roadster to Louis 8.
Newton Of White River Junction and
runabout to John Walsh OF Beech
street. These machines are four
cylinder and are rated at Is horse
power. They have maximum speed
, of about As miles an hour.
The North Street Comets" who
were defeated last Thursday by the
Juniors OF the Y. M. G. A. played re
turn game Tuesday In which the Y.
NJ C A Juniors were defeated IL to 0
The game was called In the last in
ming on account OF darkness. Joseph
WEIGH, Eugene Burt. Daniel OConnor,
George L. Miller. Miner Clark.
Mr.. and Mrs. Herbert Marsden, z. A.
I.emily, +. Il. Vail and f. Howard
feTBusoH nave Ic'uIheu iioi ouI hnb
ton where they attended the N. y. o.
p. state convention held there Tues
day. r. A. Lemily was appointed Dis
trict Deputy Grand Warden and +.
Howard Ferguson grand trustee OF
the grand lodge for the state of Yer
mont. The grand lodge voted by a
large majority to hold the next an.
nual state convention In Bennington
in April 1909.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1908-04-29
sTiMuLANrs BEFORE THE DUEL,
Frenchman Explains the Necessity for
Thanking Up"

The Frenchm n was still pale and
tremulous from his encounter with the
rough.
did l not conduct myself we'll,
heinz" he demanded
Fairly we'll At the same time. for
one who has fought four duels there
was certain pallor, certain nervous.
ness, that rather disappointed us,
The Frenchman looked mortified.
Then he tapped significantly his little
glass of fine champagne.
But had none of this" he said Il
was taken unprepared. | had not the
time to-what you say--tank up"
But you don't tank up for duel!"
Don't We? How little you know!
Imagine 1.-THE horror--the gray desc.
lation Of the dawn-the surgeon with
his cold and glittering instruments
the witnesses cruelty searching you
for the least sign OF fear--and all this
without tanking up. VOLTA. you are
mad.
mo, no! Every Frenchman, before
a duel, tanks up. A dueling field smells
like an American bar. And 1t is as.
founding, with the thought of the duel
before YOU how much 1t takes to tank
you. A pint, litre sometimes, but
steadies the nerve and clears the eye
tor the dread encounter"
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1908-04-29
PROPER JUDGMENT OF MANKIND.
Not by Weaknesses, but by Positive
Good Achieved.

When we reflect that life ITSELF con
sidered in its physical manifestations,
is a process OF oxidation; when we re-
member that the nerves Of those who
accomplish most for others are in
evitably the most fretted by the cor
rosion OF the chemical reactions which
make possible the activities of physical
existence; when we know that under
the calm or phlegmatic exterior OF
men of great achievement there is the
latent consciousness Of the sum of all
the suffering II has cost them. we can
not AFFORD to Judge them by their weak
nesses The man who. however blind
ly, follows at his own expense, the i'm
pulses Of his sense Of duty, is to be
judged by the positive good he has
achieved-not by his negations. When
we do consider these, when We judge
the evil in the greatest and strongest
nature by the consciousne~q OF the
evil in our own, we can BE- Ter under
stand why after such selfjudgment,
Lincoln, aware of sharing and being
acted on by all the forces OF period
OF delirium, should continually repeat;
"Oh, why should the snirit OF mortal
be proud ?"- William Vincent Byars
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1908-04-29
MAINE WILL NOT INSTRUCT
Republican Delegates to Chicago viii
be Sent Unhampered.

Portland, Me-, April 2G.--The Repub-
lican convention to be held here Thurs
day probably viii follow custom of
many years standing and not instruct
the four delegates at large to vote for
any candidate at the national conven-
ton. This rule. II is pointed out, has
been broken only when Maine man
has been a candidate before the nat
ional convention or when president
was candidate for denomination.
According to party leaders, while
resolutions In favor Of one candidate
or another may be presented, they are
not likely to be adopted by the con
cention.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1908-04-29
|MULl|GAN& ROCHE
Agents for a New York Cleaning and
Dyeing Establishment
BENNINGTON BRIEFS
News OF the Town and Village Told
Briefly for Busy Readers.

Briefly for Busy Readers.
w. b Walker of Pleasant street Is
spending q few days in New York.
This week only-an imperial edge,
all white felt mattress at So at Wood
mans.
A carload of those comfortable pi-
azza chairs and rockers just received
at Woodlands.
Stark lodge, II o. o. F. will hold an
exemplification Of the first degree
on number of candidates this even
ing.
Mrs. G. L HARDWOOD has returned
from Troy where she was recently
called by the serious illness OF her
father
Mrs. Charles Barnes of Pleasant st.
left this morning for Albany where
she will be the guest of Miss Minnie
Child for few days.
The fifth game in the series between
the Y. M. c. g., Colonial and Bruins
wick bowling teams will be rolled in
the Corbett-Grennan alleys next Fri
day evening.
The B. II S. baseball team left this
this morning for Manchester where
they were to play the Burr and Burton
seminary at 3 o'clock this afternoon.
This is the third game for the local
high school this season.
The Y. NJ. c. A. baseball team will
be greatly strengthened by the ad
dition OF several new men during the
week and will be in excellent condi-
ton for the game with the strong
Hewat team from Briggsville, Mass,
on the athletic field next Saturday
afternoon.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1908-04-29
Where eau.de.coloane |. Made.

Cologne's toilet water industry was
established in the beginning OF the
seventeenth century. At that time the
city numbered about $4,000 inhab
itants. while the present population
Is 100000 The inventors of toilet
water (eau de Cologne) were Paul
Femjnis and Maria Clementine. a
Catholic nun. They began on small
scale, with few persons employed.
whom they did not initiate into the Sc
crets OF the whole process, the last
and most important mixture being
made by the inventors themselves.
Paul Feminis left the secret with the
Farina family, while the nun be.
queathed the secret TO one Peter
Schaeben, who had been her assistant
for many years. Both families still
carry on the business and are the
leading manufacturers. There are
about 50 manufactures of eau de Co
logne in that city. five of them being
OF Importance. They each employ on
an average ten men.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1908-04-29
NOTICE +!

To the Depostors Of the Bennington County
Savings Bank
Sec. 4G47 Of the Vermont Statutes reads:
I'm the year nineteen hundred and eight, and
every fifth year thereafter at such time In the
year as the bank commissioner shall designate
the trustees OF savings banks, savings lnstitu.
tlons and trust companies shall call In the de-
post books for examination and verihcati0n,
and cause the same to be examined and veri
fled BY some person other than the treasurer or
his clerks employed for that purpose. and ap'
proved by said commissioners"
In accordance with the above law you are
hereby bottled to present your pass books dur
ing the month OF May next for examination and
u. II. DEWEY, Treas.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1908-04-29
Old.T,me Fountain Pens.

1t Is popular fallacy that fountain
pens are quite modern invention. AS
a matter Of fact, an old work of refer
ence published in 1895 contains an H.
Illustration of fountain pen, the APP
pearance Of which is very much like
those sold at the present time. Its con.
struction. however, was somewhat
elaborate and clumsy, the pen consist
ing of various pieces Of metal, which
had to be screwed and unscrewed be-
fore the pen could be used.--TitB Bits,
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1908-04-29

'E. c. Dewitt 4 Co.. Chicago. Ill.,
Gentlemen-In 1897 I had disease Of
the stomach and bowels. In the
spring Of 1902 bought bottle OF Ko
dol and the benefit l received all the
gold in Georgia could not buy. May
you live long and prosper. Yours very
truly. c. N. Cornell, Reading. Ca. Aug
81, 1906" Sold by d. A. Ward.