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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-07-05
SUNDAY MAGAZINE FOR JULY 5. 1908

truth There had been robbery ormond and
father No, that wouldn't do at all Wait!
There had been robbery; but not of Mr.. Morson.
tat last! What glorious thing was the power
of reason 1t just like flying! She could
the whole simple thing, in glass. Mr.. Brown
was Mr.. Brown; but what of that? He was merely
following out his splendid principles of duty in
tracking down Ormond Tracy, and Cir Why.
oh why should this stupid, diotic logic persist in
singing out her dear old innocent father, while
everyone else, no matter how clearly culpabe. was
left scOtfree? 1t was unreasonable and mean!
Anyway, she didn't care Marcus Girard had
nothing to do with it whatever, and she defed the
whole conspring world to stand up and prove one
single thing by silly, disgusting circumstantial
evidence.
But thing certain. George G. Brown
solely and directly responsible for the whole
business and deserved to the unbecoming
costume of common and scrub decks tor
the rest of his despcable life
A this juncture Valda, having settled the ques-
ton finally turned her fair young back on the
powers of reason and gazed dreamily out to sea:
There hole in the moonlight and she looked
right through it. away into the far OFT land OF Egypt.
She had been there once herself; so the process
easy, and far more pleasant than racklng one
brains with mad deductions Egypt, too, was
restful sort of place if chose to take life easy
she did not trouble herself to hunt up pyramids
and camels and Bedouns and things. No, she
watching the building of an iron road
Now on this iron road there were lots of people,
lazy good for nothing people who had to be cursed
and driven to their work. And a brown young
man was doing it,-a very brown young man. but
with streak of white just under his hat brm. And
beside him stood another man, a beautiful man,
just exactly like the other one, only he was thinner
and older and his hair was gray. And the two men
worked with their round each others shoulders.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-07-05

it up in papers which make you look perfect fright
eernns Jumps how did Mr. Morson get his lump, to
which he had referred so humorously Exhibit
A? She herself had noticed one of the tugboat men
W VIII h coa asce IN ms f th inns shs
But no! Mr.. Morson's lump has stitches in it,
stitches that must have hurt him frghtfully. No
wonder he had become faint and dizzy poor fellow!
screamed.
Valda started, her keen powers of perception
ceiving shock. The weakest and most improbable
part of Morson's story had embraced the crazy in
cidents Immediately attendant upon that lump;
yet now. in the cold, calm light of reason. it became
the very strongest part of the story-strongest be-
cause of its simplicity of fact. Given a head hit
hard enough. and that head would bleed Results
perfectly natural: Wound-doctor-sti tches-pan
Observation-Disclosures on part of trained physi
1t all so clear now! Morson had told the
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-07-05

his was pIODdDly oil uIloI CilOuoA
method of railroad construction; but
then, you know, Egypt is strange
country, and maybe things are done
differently down there.
Then there was a different scene,
and it was in house "a very different
sort of house, for there weren't any
walls to it. only poles so that the
breezes might come in, and there was
mating on the floor. and queer look
ing water jugs hung up by strings.
And there was woman IN that
house, foreign woman, because she
wore bangles which clinked when her
brown hands wandered feverishly.-
and the elder of the men was rather
nice to her. The younger man was
there too He walked softly up and
down, up and down, and carried
little brown baby in his arms. 1t
was a funny little baby, so foreign
and cute, with deliciously comic little
features which became all wrinkly
when it howled And the young man
jounced it up and down and sang silly,
tender things to it. So Valda, some
how, grew intensely interested the
baby AS for the two men, that was
a matter of perfect indifference to her
perfect! And then a sheik or some
thing came along and told them he
was very much obliged to them, and
that they must either accept a large
fortune or have a lance run through
their livers And then
NALDA," said Aunt Mary, Mr.
" Tracy, l regret to state, is very
vulgar person.
Us he?" asked Valda absently, and
Aunt Mary seemed surprised.
Yes" she reiterated, The is! Also,
though | hesitate in criticizing any
: brother Marcus, this Tracy person
my stretch of the imagination, be
by the ultracomprehensive name of
you meant" asked Valda, dragging
he way back from Egypt for the
eness; and Aunt Mary proceeded to
averred the placid one, in placidly
IS, he displays it in little things. Do
~ dear, he actually tucks the corner
in his shirt collar! Think of it, Be-
rts when partaking of his food, while
{ drinking after dinner coffee with the
cup-well, bless mel" The dignified
good breeding paused for an adequate
disapproval, and resumed
ed this lack of cultivation on first
character of his neckwear, and proved
few of his conversational remarks.
while discussing literature with Mr.
sked at random if he was familiar
Mr.. Ormond made quite an appropri-
/ which proved his taste; but that
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VIII. Aunt Mary's Mutiny

NEXT mornng-for two distinct reasons-Miss
~ Girard got up very early. In the first place she
had not slept wink in the second she wanted to
observe for herself how Mr. Morson-B Brown looked in
the degrading costume of common seaman
AS for the of this condition. she had reasoned
the whole thing out after she went to bed She rea-
soned it out in nineteen entirely new ways; but in
variaby poor old Marcus Girard bobbed up and
butted into trouble. to speak. Therefore his
daughter reasoned herself into a state of mental
hysteria; then finally hit upon the sensible and cor
rect solution
On Wall Street, she had heard, there was one in
fallbe method employed in the purchase or sale of
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1908-05-30
INJURED JUMPING FROM CAR
Panic Stricken On Steep Incline, Pas
sengers jump and Are Hurt.

Panic Stricken On Steep Incline, Pas
sengers Jump and Are Hurt.
MONTGOMERY, ALA, May ga
score or more persons were injured in
panic late to-day on crowded cleo
trio car returning from the baseball
park which ran away down a steep
incline east OF Madison Avenue. None
OF the injured are fatally hurt.
There were hundred or more pas
sengers on the car, which was one
of number bringing the crowd back
from to-day's Southern League base
ball game. It is customary for the
cars to come down the steep incline
one at a time.
It is stated that car No. SO was too
close to the car ahead, and when it be-
came apparent that the car was beyond
the control of the motorman. and while
he was shouting to the crew ahead to
pull out and give him room, there was
a scramble for safety among the pas
sengers. Men. women and boys jumped
off the car. and in few minutes the
roadway was lined with injured per-
sons. The car was stopped at the foot
of the hill without accident
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1908-05-30
MARKED FOR DEATH
Priest and Lawyer Get Letters Written
In Hood.

Priest and Lawyer Get Letters Written
CHICAGO, ILL. May 29.-Father Pc
ter j. O'Callaghan head of the Paulist
Order in Chicago. and Francis E.
alnckley. an attorney. have been in
formed through an anonymous letter.
written in blood and wrapped IN crepe.
that they have been marked for death
by mysterious enemies, and that st.
Hubbard Court, has been doomed to be
blown up by dynamite.
The threatening letter had been drop
ped into the poor boy of the church
Of which Father O'Callaghan is pas
tor. It was sunsigned and unaddressed.
On one side was crudely drawn pic
ture of skull and cross bones
Threats OF death to the priest and
to the lawyer. 1t Is said. are tho re-
suit of efforts to obtain a pardon for
Herman Billek, sentenced to hang on
June 18th. In the Cook county jail,
on charge of numbering, by poison
A chemical analysis proved that the
red fluid in which the letter was
written was blood and not red ink.
Father O'Callaghan and Mr.. Hlnckley
drew a confession from Jerry Vzral q
few months ago that he had given
pernred testimony against Billek at
the trial. BY this means they sue
ceeded in bringing Billek's case be-
fore the pardon board.
The boa.d sat with Governor Deneen
In extraordinary session in States At
torney Healy's office and examined the
evidence The investigation led the
vance the date OF his execution to June
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1908-05-30
LESLIE REID DROWNED
Plunge. in for Dive and Falls to Re-
cover From Shock.
Especial to The Times -D'spateh.l

Especial to The Times Dispatch.l
CHATHAM. VA. May 29.-Leslie
Bennett Reid, the seventeen-year-old
son of Colonel E. S. Reid. was drowned
while bathing in Nevelly Mil Pond
this afternoon. Accompanying Reid
were William Shepherd and Archer
overly, boys about his age.
The three were in the pond when
Reid came out and leaped for a dive
from sideboard. striking the
water with powerful force. and this
is believed to have SO paralyzed him
that he drowned before regaining suf-
ficient strength to save himself. Shep-
herd caught him by the hair when
he sank for the second time and went
to the bottom In HIS efforts to save his
companion. Overbey realizing the pesi
ran for F. L. Moses, who hurried to
the pond, and after two successful at
tempts brought Reid ashore. Life was
extinct and everything that medical
aid and loving hands could do for sew
eral hours brought no response.
Young Reid was very popular. and
his untimely death has cast gloom
over the entire town and community.
His parents, three sisters, Misses Bell,
Lizzie and Mamie Reid, and five
brothers. Langhorne, Edwin, Richard,
Maury and Munford, survive him. Flu
neral arrangements have not been
Y11a6a
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KILLED BY LIGHTNING
Mr.. Bishop Receives Fatal Shock anu
HIS Son Stunned.
IspeeIal . The Times.DIspatch.l

Especial to The Times- -DIspatch.l
CHRISTIANSBURG, VA, May 3D.
Charles o. Bishop, a respectable
farmer. forty-fiye years old, was in
stantly killed by lightning during a
heavy thunderstorm on the Auburn
Road, three miles southwest of this
place, late yesterday afternoon.
Mr.. Bishop was foreman OF a force
OF hands on the road. and when the
storm came UP. he and his three sons
took refuge under a large oak. and
in few minutes the bolt struck the
tree, killing him and knocking one of
his sons senseless. but the other two
were lying on the ground and were
unharmed He leaves widow and
several small children.
Just one year ago man named
Reed. was killed by lightning on the
same road less than a mile from
there. and four more have been killed
in that Immediate vicinity within the
memory Of number OF citizens here.
and many are superstitious OF this i'll
fated locality.
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1908-05-30
RECEIVERS ARE NAMED
To Take Charge OF Important Branch
OF Gould System.

PITTsBURG, PA. May 2s.-Judge
James s. Young. OF the United States
Circuit Court, late to-day appointed
receivers for the Wabash-Pittsburg
Terminal Railroad Company, the Gould
line over which the Wabash system
gained entrance into Pittsburg several
years ago, and an important link in
the Gould Transcontlnental system
The receivers are Henry w. Nc
Masters. general superintendent of the
-Pittsburg Terminal, and
Francis II. Shielding, president OF the
First National Bank, OF this city. The
bank, 1t is said, had absolutely no In
terest in the property. The bond Of
the receivers was placed at 100000.
and was furnished by the American
Surety Company, Of New York. They
were Immediately placed In charge OF
the railroad and Its auxiliary proper
keep the railroad and all OF the other
properties in use
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1908-05-30
NO WHlsKEY FOR MEDICINE
Charlotte Aldermen Adopt Ordinance
RcvOkInE Drnggists' License.

Especial to 'rhe Times- Dispatch1
CHARLOTTE, N. g, May 2s.-By a
vote OF to 3 Tonight the City Conn-
from drug stores the right to sell
Intoxicating liquor on physicians' pre-
scriptions. The drug stores are given
unit July LIST to dispose OF the stock
The m action q the the Aldermen der na"q followed
was, divided. An energetic effort was
made to extend the privilege now en-
joyed by the drug stores until January
law voted on last Tuesday goes into
effect, but this was defeated BY asvote
OF 9 to I. Then the radical measure
AT first proposed. rronibiting the drug
posing Of any beer, malt. vnous or
spirituous liquors. came to vote. Eight
OF the Councilmcn voted aye and eight
voted no, and 1t was left to Mayor
which he did without hesitation.
The drug store liquor licenses expire
Monday next and various measures
looking toward restriction upon the
handling of liquor by drug stores and
were under consideration. but the ac-
ton OF tonight was unexpected and
created mild sensation. The ordi-
nances mean that after the 1st OF July
not 70 a drop Of liquor can be secured, in
charlotte for any consideration. The
new prohibition law contains a clause
which gives cities and counties the
right to deny the drug stores liquor
license and clause in the new city
OF medical dispensary, where liquor
may be sold on prescription, thus taxi
Ing away from physicians the right to
prescribe 1t.
The action Of tonight removes still
another fruitful source of municipal
revenue
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TO SPEND LIFE IN PRISON
Thi. the Sentence Of Ack Hale for
Killing His Sweetheart.

hIIIlU0 ltIS SWecluVHTI,
BRISTOL, TENN. May 29.--Attcr de.
liberating eighteen hours, the Jury in
the case OF Ack Hale. the youth
charged with the murder OF his sweet
heart, Lille Davis, this afternoon re-
turned verdict OF murder In the ars.
degree recommending mercy. The
court sentenced Hale to life mprison.
ment
AT 12 O'Clock the Jury was called in
by Judge Tyler, but the foreman
stated that they. were divided, and he
feared could not arrive Mt verdict.
a few hours later the jury came in
and announced their finding. The case
will be appealed to the Supreme Court.
The tragedy occurred in East Hill
Cemetery. In this city, on the night
of May 81. 1907. The girl had left
company with Hale. She was found
dying. and he protested that she had
committed suicide by shooting herself
with his pistol. He was arrested and
taken to Blountville under heavy
guard to prevent a threatened lynch
ing. The girl was to have been mar
rted on Easter Sunday, three days later.
to j. p. McRoberts. young man of
Georget. Va. and had ALREADY pre-
pared her wedding clothes.
The theory OF the State was that
Hale criminally assaulted the girl and
then murdered her to conceal his
crime. 1t was known that he objecte1
strenuously to her marriage to Nc
Roberts, and the general opinion Is
that he killed the girl because she had
rejected him.
Roy Hale, a brother of Ack Halls.
was sentenced to the penitentiary for
twenty years a few weeks ago for
the murder OF 1rby Davis. brother Of
Lille Davis. He has another brother
who is under Indictment in Washing
ton county. and brother law serv-
ing q twenty-year sentence in North
Carolina for highway robbery.
RAYMOND Stroops member OF the
notorious Hale family gang, shot a.
Bristol policeman few weeks ago.
and Is now fugitive.
Hale has made strenuous fight to
save himself. He showed no emotion
when the jury announced the verdict.
The Judge overruled motion for a
new trial. and nappeal was taken
to the Supreme Court.
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1908-05-30
MADE TWO MILLIONS
Pnttcn anil His Friends Glenn Up For-
tune In Corner in Cotton.

tuus IN SOrncr IN COTTON.
CHICAGO, ILL. May 29.--Tho corn
Ell In May corn, which has been run
by James A. Patten, Of this city. and
his associates. came to an end to-day.
and the "patten crowd Is generally
credited with having made about s2,-
100000 Oh the deal, although 1t Is ad-
mitted that all estimates are largely
guesswork Mr.. Patten personally de-
clared to-day that he did not know
how much had been made
The market to-day was highly irreg-
ular and nervous in wheat, corn and
oats. May wheat ranged between 10s
and Ill and closed at Ito i-2. Corn
gold anywhere between II 1-2 and
T, 5-S and closed at so to so ia Oats
ranged between 511-2 and 5s as and
closed at 523-4.
Excitement ran high to-day In all
oe the grain pits when the weakness
was greatest. Values changed with
such bewildering rapidity that traders
were puzzled. Shorts were anxious to
cover, and brokers for the bull leaders
had at times plenty of grain to sell.
1t Is said that the shorts have deliv-
cred to Mr.. Patten and his friends not
far from 100000 bushels of corn and
close to 100000 bushels Of oats.
THE corner. he said, has been
largely In May corn" and Patterns
holdings OF this option were accumu-
lated at between 55 and so cents. Sub
sequent buying necessary to support
the market at periodical prices raised
the average purchase price by about
5 cents bushel.
The deal began early In October.
1907. In that month May corn sold up
to s5 IA cents. The financial troubles
which set in about that time tumbled
the p.ice to 53 is cents. After the
financial furry had abated the price
OF May corn advanced slowly.
During February 1t sold up to So -
cents, and In March at IS Is cents.
Since then It has continued to cilu'o'
and shorts have secured the country
for corn to deliver on their May CON
tracts. Immense quantities OF the
grain have been delivered to Patten'
but he has paid for 1t all, and ap-
parently stood ready at all times 70
take more.
Early in May the shorts began des-
perate efforts to I'LL the Chicago eie-
vators with corn, and many OF the
western railroads issued rush orders
to apply on all corn shipments. Des-
Ipite this, however. Patten and his as
sociates were not compelled to let go.
nor was their hold on the market
weakened to any apparent extent.
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1908-05-30
GAR LEAVES TRACK
. AND TOPPLES OVER.
Dragged for Several Hundred
Feet With Thirty Passen-
gers Penned in.
DIR. M'FADEN, OF RICH
NOND, AMONG THEM
He and Other Officers, Return
ing from Royal Arcanum Meet
ing, Have Narrow Escape.
Almost Miracle That
Nobody Was
Killed.
He and Other Officers, Return

~ ALTTMORE, MD, May 29.-The
last car on Baltimore and Ohio
IN train, No. 6. from Chicago for
IL New York, left the track about
a mile east OF Mcspaden's. a
small station about 100 miles from
Pittsburg. to-day. and the passengers
are wondering why many OF them were
not killed. One OF them, who reached
this city tonight, says that the acci-
dent was due to the other cars OF the
train having spread the rails.
The last car was occupied by about
thirty people. three of them children.
At the rear OF the car was an obser-
walton platform. upon which half a
score OF the passengers were riding.
at about sixty miles an hour. there was
rumble. then crash, and the car
turned on Its right side.
Are All Shaken Up.
Every window on that side was splin-
tered, as the car dragged along for
about 100 feet. Then 1t brought up
against telegraph pole, which pre-
vented its plunging down twenty-foot
embankment into the river.
Every one on board was shaken up.
but probably half the passengers es-
CApeU WITHOUT sCEdlCll, dltiOIi6 atIeSS
fortunate ones being the three children.
After a delay of an hour those on the
wrecked car were placed on the unin-
jured cars OF the train and brought
on to this city with the exception Of
Frank Sweeney. of Port Jarvis. N. ~.
an engineer OF the Erie Railroad, who
was left at hospital at Cumberland.
He was more seriously injured than
any OF the others.
DR.. McFaden in Wreck.
Those on the wrecked car included
number of members of the Supreme
Council, Royal Arcanum, who were re-
turning from the recent meeting OF
that body In Chicago. Supreme Repre-
sentatives. Charles Hogendorph and
Alexander v. Owens, OF this city, were
both slightly cut and bruised, as was
also Mrs. Owens. The supreme orat tor
of the order. the Rev. Frank T. Nc
Faden. of Richmond, Va. and Supreme
Representatives Howard G. Avery. OF
Norfolk and NJ. j. Murray, of Boston,
Mass, escaped injury entirely.
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1908-05-30
LEAGUE PUT UP FUNDS
snid to Have Put Up $4,000 for North
Carolina Campaign.

Especial 10 The Times Dispatch
NEW YORK. May 2s.--Thomas NJ
Gilmore. president OF the Nationa!
Model License League. to-day admit
ted that the expenses OF the North
Carolina campaign against prohibition
had been borne by the eague. The
travelling expenses Of the Rev. ". A.
Wasson. rector of Grace Protestant
Episcopal Church, Riverhead, l. l.. and
7. De Quincy Tully, eof Brooklyn, who
took the stump in North Carolina. were
paid by the league. Mr.. Gilmore ad-
mitted that they received compensa-
tion for their services, but refused to
say how much.
The acts OF Rev. Mr.. Wasson have
been referred to Bishop Burgess. and
1T is probable that some action will be
taken by the Protestant Episcopal Do
cese OF Long Island. The Rev. Was
son is expected home tomorrow, and
his attention will be called to these
matters.
The league spent $4,000 in their
campaign for rum in North Carolina.
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1908-05-30
THE. CONSTABLE. DISMISSED
Judge White Rcvoltes Appointment of
N Norfolk County Official.

Special to The TImes-Dspatch.l
NORFOLK, VA, May 29.-Because he
went to the residence OF Mrs. Mary J.
Hand, No. GOO Chestnut Street, Ports
mouth. about a week ago and intimated
that the burglar alleged to have rob-
bed her house could be produced for
a money consideration, 1. A. Jarvis,
constable in the Western Branch Dis
trict of Norfolk county, was to-day
dismissed from Office by Judge White,
his appointment being revoked. after
an investigation In the Circuit Court.
Judge White declared the constable,
to say the least had displayed little
Zeal and gross negligence. He said
this calibre in the county they should
come forward and resign.
The evidence showed that the offer
was made by G. S. Brady, in the pres
ence Of Jarvis, who acquiesced by si-
lence.
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1908-05-30
tut FLAGS AT HALF-MAsT
By ORDER OF president

WASHINGTON. D. c.. May 2s.-Pres,-
dent Roosevelt TO-DAY issued an orde,
that in honor or the memory Of the late
General Stephen D. Lee. commander
in-chief OF the United Confederate Vet
erans. who died yesterday at his home
in Mississippi, the flags in the Ma
tional Park Cemetery at vicksburg
should be half-masted. General Lee
was member Of the Vicksburg Park
Commission. Flags on the Federal
buildings at Vicksburg. jackson and
Columbus, Miss, also will be placed at
half-mast
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1908-05-30
PASS OUT UNDER FIRE
Crowd Gotten Out of Theatre Without
Knowing of Danger.

NEW ORLEANS, LA, May 2s.--Sev-
eral hundred women and children We're
in the Shubert Theatre Tonight wit
Messing a moving picture exhibition,
when fire broke out In a five-story
building separated from the theatre
by an arcade passageway, The the
atre exits We're quietly opened and the
announcer requested the audience to
leave, saying there was a fire few
doors away. The big crowd passed
flames already We're bursting. The fire
was confined to the building occupied
by the American Oriental Importing
Company.