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The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1908-06-17

comerstown, May s, 1905, in Steu-
benville. In September of the fol
lowing year he married Catherine
! Brucken in Clarksburg, w. Va.
While he was counting Miss Bruck-
en- his first wife gave birth to a
son in hospital in Clarksburg.
Stevens was dancing master in
Clarksburg. After nearly a years
double life there he accepted a pc.
sition with the local concern and
moved both his families to Coshoc-
ton. One he housed at 327 Locust,
the other at 533 Locust. In the
latter home, seven months ago,
Mrs. Catherine Brucken Stevens
became the mother of a pretty girl
baby
Here Stevens was particular
about his acquaintance. He made
it practice to meet only the peo-
pie of influence. Among them he
was we'll liked. He had agreeable
manners, a good address, and was
an interesting talker. Few of his
friends ever met either of his
wives.
Recently one of his wives read
in a local paper of Mrs. Ben Ste
vens having attended a brothers
funeral in Toledo. She called
upon Mrs. Stevens No. 2, and Ste
vens' carefully kept secret. was out
About that time both had received
letters from Stevens, mailed from
different towns in Missouri. He
has not been heard from since.
Immediately the wives got busy
for recenge. The grand jury re-
turned an indictment against Ste
vens for non-support, ignoring the
bigamy charge, the offense was
committed outside the county. Now
the wives say they will have him
indicted both in Jefferson county
and in West Virginia.
Stevens parents live in Parkers-
burg, w. Va, and at different
times he had each wife at their
home. Nothing was said to wife
No. 2 of the existence Of the wife
No. /.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1908-06-17
VIC. T,U. MEET
TOMORROW

The sixth annual convention of
the Spokane county w. c. T. U.
meets tomorrow and Friday at
Union Park M. e. church. A meet
ing of the executive committee is
called for a. m, which will be
followed by devotional service led
by Mrs. White, after which the
convention proper will be called to
order. At II o'clock the president,
Mrs. Eta N. Wooster, Spokane,
will deliver her annual address.
The afternoon session opens at
1870 and in the evening at 8
o'clock. This days program covers
reports and discussions of interest
to the organization in it's fight
against the liquor traffic. An ad-
dress of welcome by Rev. Lockhart,
short addresses on prohibition, and
music make up the evening pro-
gram. Officers will be elected Fri
day morning and memorial serv-
ices will be led by Mrs. Crippen.
Remaining reports and unfinished
business will be heard in this ses-
sion, with addresses and discus.
sions.
An excellent program of recita.
itions has been arranged for the
Demorest gold medal contest be-
ginning Friday night at 8. Con-
testants are Leland Argall, Ethel
Hindman, Beatrice Bradley, Jennie
Mortensen, Violet Hindman, Lillian
Estby.
The county organization enrolls
200 active workers, every point OF
Importance being represented by
white ribboners.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1908-06-17
sent a bullet through his own

sent a bullet through his own
brain.
Two years ago the girl married
Michael Kares, who deserted her
after few months and is now be-
lieved to be in the United States
army. Six months ago her mother
inherited small fortune and 10
cal banker appointed Sebastian,
one of his clerks, to arrange to Sc
cure the money for her.
Sebastian later became a board
err at the girls home and their at
tachment grew rapidly. The
| mother warned them that they
could not be legally married, and
that their church did not coun-
tenance divorce. They decided to
marry without the sanction of the
church and a week ago consulted
an attorney with reference to pro-
curing a divorce. They were heart
broken when he told them it would
require fully two years to obtain It.
Then the mother decided to take
the girl to Europe, and the prospect
of separation was more than they
could bear. Their farewell letters
were most pathetic. The girl
begged her mother not to mourn
for her please bury us together, y
she wrote, 'for we will be happy
together now, and | could never be
happy If we were separated"
There was a distinctly feminine
touch even in the face of death in
the last paragraph, when she wrote
please, mamma, do not put on me
when l am dead, anything that
had when | was married"
Sebastian wrote the mother
briefly: Forgive us. We die to
gether. 1t is the only thing for us
to do"
Together they signed one last ap.
peal: please do not let the doc,
tors cut up our bodies after we are
dead"
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1908-06-17
CR0CERS PLAN
GREAT TIME

Thursday, Grocers' picnic day,
will not be an official holiday. Yes
terday a committee of the grocers'
association called on Mayor Moore
and asked that the day be declared
a legal holiday. But the mayor re-
fused. He gave as his reasons this
morning that the general public is
entitled to transact what public
business there is and he does not
believe in more holidays than the
law requires.
The stores will be closed and the
grocers have fixed up a highly en-
Pertaining program for the day at
Natatorium park.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1908-06-17
WOMAN SLASHED
AT BRUNO'S

Angelina Rossi, an Italian wom-
an who with her husband runs the
lunch counter in Frank Bruno's re-
sort, was badly slasbed on the
cheek and shoulder at 10 o'clock
last night by love-crazed Italian
whose advances she says she re-
pulsed. She knew her assailant as
Hanki. Following the cutting he
ran out of the place and north on
Brown ST. and has not been cap
tured. Mrs. Rossi was attended to
In the emergency hospital.
About 10 Italians thronged the
saloon at the time of the cutting.
They tell various stories. Some
claimed that Mrs. Rossi took a
butcher knife and threatened
Hanki before he pulled his knife
and began to slash.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1908-06-17
RAGSDALE NOW
FIGHTS MORTGAGE

George w Ras.dale, the proprie.
tor of the Favori.e saloon who was
recently conr'oted of manslaughter
following a fist fight in which
Dusty" Dean met his death, today
secured an injunction against the
KirlSwood Distillery Co. that has
begun foreclosure proceedings
against his saloon. Following the
killing Of Dean Ragsdale mortgaged
his saloon for $1,000 to fight the
case.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1908-06-17
MILLIONAIRE
LOSES MIND

CHICAGO, June 17.-Apparently
insane, H. l.. Frank, well known
democrat Of Montana and former
mayor of Butte, was taken from a
hotel last evening and sent to rela-
tives in Cincinnati. Patrick Clark,
Of Spokane, and several members
Of the Montana republican delega-
ton took him in charge when il
was discovered that he was men,
tally Irresponsible Frank is a
millionaire mine owner He had
gone east on account of the dan
gerous Illness of his mother.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1908-06-17
TO PAY CITY
WATER BOND
TREASURER HAS $4,000 AVAIL.
ABLE AND PROVISION MUST
BE MADE FOR TAKING UP
EXTENSION ISSUE THIS
YEAR.

The city sinking fund commit
tee will be called together early In
July for the purpose of considering
the proposition of paying off $4,000
water extension bonds. City
Treasurer Eggleston's report now
shows that there is more than
$4,000 to apply on this fund, and
by the end of the year the amount
will reach almost $50, 900.
The city council will be asked to
provide for raising the balance tc
take up the bonds. Payment is
due this year and there is more
than 100000 outstanding.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1908-06-17
JULIAN SEBASTIAN

Special Correspondence to The Press
WlIKES-BARRE, Pa, June H.
With a forced separation imminent,
Annie Kares, a deserted childwlfe,
II, and Julian Sebastian of Kings.
ton, near here, carried out suicide
pact and were welded in death.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1908-06-17
MRS. ANNIE KARES

They were found by the girls
mother locked in each others arms,
both dressed in their best clothes
ard the girl wearing a huge bou-
quot of roses. With her head upon
his breast Sebastian had shot the
girl through the temple and then
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1908-06-17
AGED MAN MISSING

E. Mellon, of E524 Blaine av.,
has asked the police to locate Will
liam McCabe, an old man, who on
June 10 disappeared from White,
Idaho. McCabe and Mellon are re-
lated
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1908-06-17
Found Lost Diamond
On Baby's Toe

There was a big scare in I
the household of A. j. Poul-
son, labor agent, yester- 4
day when he discovered the I
loss of a two-karat diamond Z
ring. He reported the loss I
; to the police. Last night he I
went home. His two little I
boys were alreadyabed and I
one of them stuck tiny I
foot out. The diamond flash I
ed from the youngsters big 4
} toe.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1908-06-17
Special Correspondence to The Press

Special Correspondence to The Press
COSHOCTON, O., June 17.-Ben
Stevens, o. curly haired and soul
full eyed, school teacher, hotel
clerk, dancing master and travel
ing man, is a wonder-really he is.
Here is a town of 10000 people,
just the size where every family is
supposed to know all about the at
fairs of everyone else, Stevens
maintained two families, within
three blocks of each other and on
the same street, for more than
year.
During this time he travelled for
local novelty advertising firm. He
would come in from a trip and go
to one house for two or three days.
Then he would get ready to leave
again, usually by night train,
and kissing one wife goodby would
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1908-06-17
MRS. CATHERINE B. STEVEN
WIFE NO. 2
MRS. BESSIE G. STEVENS,
WIFE NO. l

make circuit of few squares and
show up at home No. 2.
Both his wives were young
women, one 10 and the other %.
He married Bessie CLANCY of New
Blue-grass blade. [volume] (Lexington, Ky.) 188?-19??, 1908-08-02

ers scott at the idea of teaching religion
and piety by the inch.
According to the published accounts the
books Shall not contain more than thirty.
six inches to teach the bible creation story,
which is reduction from fifty-five lines,
previously obtaining. The story of Adam
and Eve in Eden has been cut down from
seventy-three to fifty-four lines. Cain and
Abel got in the cut from thirty-three to
twenty-six lines and the flood story curtail-
ed from seventythree to fifty-fve lines.
The Blade fails to see any necessity for
the sligr lest instruction being given to the
children upon any of the above subjects,
nor should there be so far as true educa-
ton is concerned, but even with such a
curtailment there Is an indication of
tendency upon the part of the Ger
man educational authorities to retrench
upon matters Of decidedly ortho-
Blue-grass blade. [volume] (Lexington, Ky.) 188?-19??, 1908-08-02

German educators are now measuring
piety, as an educational admixture, by the
inch, and the clergy are making loud and
bitter protests. This is nothing extraordi-
nary, neither is it altogether new. Curtail-
ments are encompassing theology round
about in all parts of the civilized world and
it is but natural that howl should be
made by the privileged class.
From Darmstadt comes the report that
amusement is being furnished the leaders
in the educational system and dismay
thrown upon the clergy in the dominions
of the Grand Duke Of Hesse by reason of
a state regulation limiting the number of
lines the editors and compilers of new
school book shall give to religious matters.
It appears that the specifications give the
maximum number Of inches allowed beyond
which the editors and compiers shall not
CO. No wonder the clergy and their follow.
Blue-grass blade. [volume] (Lexington, Ky.) 188?-19??, 1908-08-02

dox turn in public instruction. Even this
much is to be welcomed as a healthy sign
of the times and it carries the implication
that it is only question of time when such
matters will be absolutely eliminated for
with the curtailment already going on there
is no knowing when and where it will end.
The published report of the affair states
that the German pastors are bitter in their
denunciation Of this curtailment, and that
the educational authorities reply to them
by insisting that the old testament history
is not good for modern children. The
authorities have even gone so far as draw
comparisons between their new textbook
and the teaching given in Jewish schools,
which show that even as matters will stand
under the new arrangement the Hessian
children will be given far more of the old
testament than the Rabbis are wont to
teach.
Blue-grass blade. [volume] (Lexington, Ky.) 188?-19??, 1908-08-02
PROGRAM OF CONVENTION
Buckeye Secular Union Arranges for Splendid Gathering at
Canal Dover Ohio September g.
MATER1AL1sr ASSOCIATION ON HAND.

Are you going to the Convention?
No to ask what Convention for there pend
ing those arranged take place in Canal Dover Ohio
September and 7, by the Buckeye Secular Union and
Materiaist Association
Bear in mind the time and place of meeting.
The prospects for enthusiastic gathering, and these
societies should be favored with large attendance The officers
o. both write the Blade the effect that every indication points
and Freehnkers who ought attend and
possible Let these be of revival for
those of brethren who fortunate enough be
Through the splendid efforts President George Roberts,
and Miss Lou Lawrence Secretary of the Buckeye Secular
Union, magnificent has been arranged While item
but those of business transactions speeches gven
stated that both vocal and instrumental will be
furnished cnven the proceedings and
in every way.
Owing to tho fact that enough members pledge
Selves coming from distance to attend the conventions
special rates be had concession secured Ohio
railroads. but the Central Hotel at Canal Dover has offered
reduced to all delegates and friends at $3.50 day. The
railroad law in Ohio providing for per mile
rate makes travelling and should insure large crowd of
Freethnkers from the vicinity Of the place of meeting
This idea is well expressed by President Roberts, who
letter to the Blade says
eff Freethinkers would only give half time
energy they would they orthodox
could make the sky-pilots hustle some."
The whole situation is admirably those few
Let Feethnker take them to heart Anayze them and
find out what they Act accordingly.
The Buckeye Secular Union program arranged place
follows:
Blue-grass blade. [volume] (Lexington, Ky.) 188?-19??, 1908-08-02
BLUE GRASS BLADE

The sixth annual session Of the Buckeye
held in Hardestys Opera House, Third Street. Canal Dover
Ohio Sunday, September 9th, E. NJ 308
PROGRAM.
Morning Session.
9;OO-Address of Welcome Samuel Toomey
Response Otto Wetstein
10:00-Report of the Miss Lou
Report of the Treasurer Mr. j. Wilbur White
10:3O-Election of Officers for Ensuing Year.
O0-Short Speech Round Table Discussion by Members
IL :00-Adjourn for Luncheon.
Afternoon Session
1:30-Why a Freehinker- Mr. A. G. Narragon
2:00-Lesson from "Paine Mr.. William Mccarthy
2:15-What Is Superstition English, Esq.
245-What Is Education Jesse p White
3:15-The Basis of Our Hopes Is the Law of Progress
DIR. T. J. Bowles
4:3O-Troley ride to Tuscora Park.
Evening Session.
7:3O-Ideasm- Mr. Walter C. Hardesty
7:5O-What Women Ought to do Instead of Church Work
Mrs. Eliza Mowry Bliven
S:3O-Secular Philosophy Christian Faith.
Mr.. John R. Charlesworth, Editor Blue Grass Blade
The following committees herewith appointed:
Organization M Biven, Gus A. Parr, Benjamin Bald
win, ESQ.,
ReoutionDr. j. T. Bowles Helen NJ Lucas A. Narragon
Press-John r. Charlesworth Lou Lawrence Ed M Lowe.
FinanceSamue Toomey Anna H. Mcclure Joseph E. john
ston
M. Stowe.
The Central Hotel will be headquarters and special of
$5O per day will be given those attending the convention
The Maeralst Association will meet in Canal Dover the
9TH and 9Th of September and viii be present the meeting
OF the Buckeye Secular Union The three
The NJ A. will also meet in the Hardesty Opera House. The
for this convention will be in few days.
Everybody invited and free discussion free press and free
ic rnotto
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1908-12-22
Great Things In the World.

What is the greatest thing in the
world?
Ask the scholar and he gravely tells
you that learning Is, for that compre-
hends and promotes all.
Ask the preacher and he solemnly
assures you that religion is. because
it is light from heaven.
Ask the artist, and he cries: Art
for it combines matter and spirit both
at their best"
The lawyer declares: Justice, fol-
it is the soul of peace and progress
Money" says the banker. 1T Is
the spring of all action"
Ask the young man full of hope
and spirit, and he cries, Ambition"
Ask the weary old toiler, and he
tells you: Rest and content"
The pair of lovers, hand in hand
answer as one: Love"
The mother with her baby at her
breast says: Sacrifice"
The wild roisterer cries: pleas
ure."
The wan invalid whispers: Health
Then meet a shambling, grinnine
fool and put to him the question. He
shippers and says: IT don't know"
And which, think you, Is the wiser
of them all. from the scholar to the
fool?
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1908-12-22
BROTHERS IN CRIME.
A Fraternity of Rosues That Swal-
lows up the Individual.

A Fraternity of Rosues That swaI.
lows up tho Individual.
When a man becomes a "Yegg" he
practically loses the name that belongs
to him, says a writer in the Bohemian.
II there comes into "Yegg" camp a
stranger who proves by his dialect that
he Is entitled to membership, "Yegg"
etiquette does not permit any one to
ask his name. Where dye hail
from% Is the question. II he replies
that he Is a Pittsburger, they call him
pitts Slim" or pitts Fat" or some
other name suggested by his physical
characteristics. There Is a degree Of
cleverness, sometimes, in these names.
A young man with patch Of gray
Eairs Is known as 1.-The Aged Kid" A
hunchback with wooden leg acquires
the appellation Of "The Pegged Hump"
The word "Yegg" has been attributed
to gypsy origin. When a thief show
ed special aptitude the gipsies elected
him "Yegg chief" Gradually the or
dinary tramp, or hobo" If he grew to
be skillful thief, came into the title
of Johnny Yegg," and finally the name
was acquired exclusively by the wan
dering nitro-glycerin expert Of today.
This outcast appears to embody what
is worst in the gypsy and the hobo"
with the craft Of one and the barbarity
of the other added to a reckless daring
Of his own.
One Of the most interesting phrases
of the fraternity of the "Yeggs" Is
found in those rare exceptions, the
"Yegg" with family and the "Yegg"
with a longing for home. While most
Of them have no ties, 1t happens now
and then that one boasts wife and
children. In that event, II he is arrest
ed, other "Yeggs" invariably provide
for the family. The "Yegg" with the
longing for home occasionally gratifles
his ambition by saving a competence,
with which he returns to his native
place He then settles down in some
business, and "Yegg" know him no
more. If there Is an inquiry as to what
has happened to the absent one, the
reply is, He's gone home" All "Yeggs"
know what that means.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1908-12-22
NO. 1O2.

tense suffering often recurred, and
eventually compelled me to give up the
command Of the Atlantic fieet-a mis-
fortune which might well break the
heart Of any officer who loved his pro-
fession as have always done.
Before leaving the United States the
"old hands" had provided the certifi-
Gates for Neptune, to sign. They were
handsomely printed on seagreen paper
and made very pretty souvenirs for the
recruits to preserve. Indeed, should
not say recruits" for there were many
men, and officers as we'll, who had been
around the world several times, men
of many years service who had never
crossed the equator This may be cas-
lly understood after glance at the
leaving San Francisco can cross the
Pacific, proceed through the Mediter-
ranean, and so across the Atlantic to
New York, without once crossing the
equator, and this many officers and men
had done. When once the Panama
canal Is completed the equatorial ocean
regions will be much more lonely, even
than they are now. King Neptune al
ways offers the officers the privilege Of
paying their fotting; that Is, contribut-
ing so many cigars or 80 many bottles
of beer instead Of being regularly ini-
tiated; but on this occasion the mid
shipmen decided that they would take
their medicine with the rest, and they
were the first to receive the rites; that
is to say, be shaved by the barber with
long wooden razor and then "tum-
bled into the BATH" where the "mer-
maids" sharks" and "porpoises" saw
that they were thoroughly and proper
ly ducked The ward room preferred
to pay.
AS each man Of the crew received
his ducking he became an energetic re-
cruit in the ranks Of Neptune and join
ed the sea policemen, who with stuffed
clubs were searching the ship for those
who attempted to escape the ordeal.
This was particularly the case with
many Of the colored men on board
who were serving In the capacity OF
messmen. None were allowed to es-
cape, and as looked on could tell
very easily the men, both black and
white who had in any way made them
selves offensive to the crew. Such per-
sons came out Of the tank pretty full
of soapsuds and salt water. But in no
case was any man maltreated or in
iured. 1t was a form Of harmless haz-
ing to which gave my hearty ap-
proval
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1908-12-22
THE DOCTOR AND HIS FEE.
Ability to Pay Defended as the Limit
of Charge.

Said Satan in the course Of his re-
marks on the probable vulnerability Of
Job: Skin for skin, yea, all that a
man hath will he give for his life"
This was an early contribution to the
literature Of debate over the proper
size Of the doctors fee. Its latest pro-
duct is a chapter in the North Amer
lean Review by DR.. Arthur C.. Heffen-
ger, who argues that the fee may be
fixed justly by considering what life or
limb may be worth to a particular pa
tient.
Another authority has stated the
case in epigram: Medical and surgi-
cal services have no value, in that
they are invaluable"
Once a New York polo player paid
$1,000 for having a broken finger set.
He was rich and he wanted to be sure
of the finger. In the case OF Lolita Ar
mour DR.. Adolf Lorenz, coming from
Austria to Chicago, received $75,000-
small price for the physical well-be-
ing Of the petted child OF multi-mil-
lionaire A Boston man Jaid gladly
$4,000 for laparotomy performed on
his wife. There are men like James r.
Keene and the late Cornelius Wander
bilt who think nothing Of engaging
while travelling, the exclusive services
Of doctor who can earn $25,o00 a year
In practice.
On the other hand, 1t Is stated that
practically SO per cent Of the practice
Of New York city Is charity-and In
at least third of such cases the doc
tor Is imposed upon!
There are about 100000 doctors in
the United States, or one to every 400
Of population. The average yearly In
come in the profession is estimated at
$3.50. A few doctors make princely in
comes; many approach the other ex-
treme. There are great and good ply
sicians who are not famous nor rich
and there are charlatans who are no
torious and wealthy.-New York
World.