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The Washington bee., 1908-11-21
MADE TO ENTOHB A TARTAR GIRL
Austrian Mason Goes Insane After a
Horror Among Caucasus Tribe.

Austrian Mason Goes Insane After a
Horror Among Caucasus Tribe.
Odessa. Peter Kavulitch. an Aus
trian mason, went mad here as the
result of brooding over being forced
10 wall up the daughter of the chief
cain Of a Tartar tribe in the Caucasus
in a living tomb. He was kidnapped
in Baku a month ago, taken blind
folded into the mountains, compelled
TO build the wall around the girl
and then was turned loose outside
Baku. For a week he led a party
of soldiers in a vain attempt to find
;he girl.
The girl was condemned TO death
in the tomb because she elOped with
one of her fathers servants. She
was engaged to the son of a wealthy
Tartar, and all preparations had
been made for the wedding She
was caught with the servant after
two days chase. and was tried at a
family council. It was decided to
build wall around her and leave
her TO her fate, Kavulitch was kid
mapped. and he was taken into the
mountains to find the whole tribe
drawn up to witness the living burial
Of the girl
The man protested against the
work. but his life was threatened
unless he obeyed The girl was tied
hand and foot to a stake. She i'm
plored mercy, but her cries were un-
needed. A circle was drawn around
her. and the mason was made TO fol-
low it with a wall two feet thick.
The wall was raised foot above the
victims head, and a small opening
was made for air, so that her suf-
ferings might be prolonged. As
soon as his work was finished Kavu-
Itch was blindfolded again. He was
set at liberty with 100 ronbles in his
P~~ket He came TO Odessa and
went mad in the street. He was
taken to a hospital in strsitjacket.
The Washington bee., 1908-11-21
RELIGION CAUSES NERVE CURES
IN EVERY CASE.
Rev. DIR. McWnliams of Cleveland
Says No Case Has Been a Failure.

Rev. DIR. McWiIliams of Cleveland
Says No Case Has Been a Failure.
Cleveland Rev DR.. l. S.
McWiIliams. pastor of the Calvary
Presbyterian Church, this city, made
public a statement, in which he de-
clared that for several months he
has had success in healing both the
body and mind by religious influence.
He set forth that he has wrought
cures of serious nervous ailments
and dipsomania In not a single
case. it was said, has there been fail
uTe.
4 have wonderfully expanded my
sphere of pastoral work by the use
of religious therapeutics, said DR..
McWilIiams. Il do not pretend TO
be a faith healer Instead, I merely
try TO make the patient know the
power OF his mind. I have told all
the sufferers who have come to me
about the sUb-cOnsCious mind. /
have told him this mind is a reser-
vOir upon which he may draw.
lead the patient TO see he has been
battling against disease with only
fraction Of his force.
Il have found that the patient
best can reach the sub-conscious
mind when the conscious mind is
passive and duiescent. I instruct
the patient how TO relax those mus
cles which have been drawn like the
strings of an overturned violin. When
the sub-consCious mind is reached l
suggest ideas to work against the
disease. | would not dare to say
myself know al about this method
of treatment; what 7 do know is that
it has wrought cures in every in
stance The one man who was diff
cult was a dTunkard I treated him
twice before going on my vacation,
and I have heard he has taken only
two glasses OF beer since
The Washington bee., 1908-11-21
VICTIM TELLS HOW lOCEJAW FELT
Doctor was Worried When His Face
Began TO StifFen-FOught Disease

St Louis.-Dr. F. w Grundmann
Of Washington avenue, who was pro-
nOunced out of danger from lock
jaw, after suffering for almost three
weeks. described how he felt during
his illness.
In diagnosing my own symptoms
a week after the germs of tetanus
had entered my blood, I thought l
had the disease, but | was not sure,
said DR.. Grundmann. 'One day, as
| was stepping off a street car, it
started permaturely and threw me
on my knee on the street. A hole
was ripped in my trousers, and a
cash cut in the flesh of my knee,
into which earth from the street
was ground.
1T gave me no trouble, panied
NE very little and I gave it no fur
ther thought. About a week later
I found that / had fever and that
the muscles of my neck pained me
and were CONSTRUCTED. Next l OBJ
served spasmodic jerking Of the
limbs. These I knew to be Fremont
tory symptoms of lockjaw.
Il was alarmed, naturally, but
thought perhaps / might be mistak-
en-. so I visited a physician and told
hiD how I felt. He did not think
seriously of the matter, and | be
lieved I might have been mistaken,
but nevertheless I was worried, and
when that night the symptoms grew
more pronounced and became more
perceptibIe I watched them all the
more closely.
THAT night I got real shock. I
observed a growing Tigidity of the
muscles of the jaws II it kept on
they would become locked beyond
all hope Of unlocking them.
In one day I had 5000 units,
about a fluid ounce, of the serum
injected My jaws continued slow
ly to grow more rigid, but we fought
the disease with the serum until at
last We saw that we had the disease
going the other way, and we fought
II out.
The germs OF tetanus may be in
any manner of dirt If you have a
wound in y0ur finger and go out
into the garden and stick it into the
fresh earth you stand a chance OF
getting lOckjaw."
The Washington bee., 1908-11-21
BROOKLINE BABIES MAY YELL
ALL NIGHT.
No Law to ~revent Crying, Wise Sc
IeCtmen Decided.

No Law to "revent Crying, Wise Sc
Iectmen Decided.
Boston.-The babies of Brook
tine. wealthiest town in the world,
may yell at the top of their healthy
young lungs and as long as they
please now. Let nervous old maids
go in Mysteries and crusty bachelors
tear their hair; it makes no differ
ence to the crying babies
Very small Donald Howard, who
lives with his papa and mamma, Mr..
and Mrs. Charles Howard, at VIII
liam and Harvard streets, Brook
line, has had a pain under his rib
recently, and has cried a great deal.
NeighbOrs of the Howards com
planned TO the Board of Selectment
that little Donald disturbs their
peace by day. murders their sleep
and is a public nuisance generally.
Very graYely, the Selectment con
sidered the complaint. They decided,
and the precedent now stands in
Brookline, that there is no Law that
forbids a baby to cry, and that
therefore, cry as he may. he cannot
legally be considered a public nuis-
ance,
The Washington bee., 1908-11-21
PHYSICIAN SAYS ELECTRIC CHAIR KILLS
DIR. Irvine Declares Sing Sing ENecu-
tons Dispute DIR. Shrady's Theory,

DIR. Irvine Declares Sing Sing ENeCu-
tons Dispute DIR. Shrady's Theory.
Ossining, n. Y-Dr. R. T Irvine,
who was for seventeen years prison
physician at Sing Sing, takes issue
with DR.. George F. Shrady, who has
been quoted as saying that there is
a doubt in the minds of scientific
men as to whether a man shocked
by electricity. as carried on by the
State in executions, really dies. DIR.
Shrady says the results of autOpsies
held on persons killed in this man
ner have not been convincing.
DR.. Irvine, when told of the state
ments of DR.. Shrady, said: II have
been present and seen sixty-four per-
sons put to death by electricity in
this State, and there is no doubt in
my mind whatsoever but what all
those men were absolutely killed
by the electric shock and that death
is instantaneous. The changes pro-
duced by the electric shock are such
that resuscitation, in my opinion, is
of fresh blood found in the Uranium
in all of these sixty-fouT cases l have
seen in itself would preclude any
possibility of saving a man Then
you have the patechial hemorrhages
in the brain tissues. They change
IN the structure OF the blood after
the electrical shock Any one OF
these, in my opinion, would prove
'2tal, but when you have them all
IN each and every case, as have no.
ticeG in autopsies, death is, in my
opinion, unquestionable
Coroner Shrady is quoted as say
Ing: Il do not insist that eleCtrocu-
ton, as now practiced, does not kill.
l only say that a scientific doubt ex-
lists. II life exists in the body and
the apparent death is only suspend
ed animation, then the surgeon who
examines the body kills that man in
the autopsy and becomes the execu-
TONER"
The Washington bee., 1908-11-21
FOUGHT DEVIL FISH.
Diver Killed Monster After Terrific
Submarine Duel.

SuDndrlne Duel.
San FTanciscO.-WTapped in the
tentacles of a giant devil fish, Martin
Lund, a diver, fought for his life in
the hold of the wrecked steamer
Pomona, which lies in thirty feet of
water in Fort Ross Cove, off the
Marin County coast.
A tentacle four inches in diameter
first gripped Lund's legs. Another
encircled his thigh. He began to
chop franticalIy at the rubber-like
bonds and at the same time signalled
to the barge above that he wished
to ascend. Unable to free himslf in
time two more tenacles twined
about his neck. The efforts Of the
men on the surface to comply with
his signal threatened to pull his he'll
met on and he was forced to signal
them to desist. With only his left
arm free he hacked at the tenacles
until they were partially crippled,
but he was being drawn toward the
deadly beak when he saw the outline
of the devil fsh's body.
Plunging suddenly toward 1t he
drove his knife with all his force
into the head, repeating the blow
until he had slashed it into sections.
The dying octopus tightened its ten
tacles until the diver was almost
crushed in it's embrace. Lund then
cut himself free and was brought
to the surface in fainting condition.
The Washington bee., 1908-11-21
Woman to Manage Mule Farm.

Seattle, Wash.--Miss Anna How
ard, who has been dean of the de-
partment of women in the University
Of Washington, has left Seattle to
become manager of a Kentucky mule
farm. Since 1896 Miss Howard has
been engaged in educational work in
this State. principally at the uni
versity why shouldn't l succeed ?"
she said Il have been reared on
the farm: I know all about 1t and
am only going on with my fathers
business"
The Washington bee., 1908-11-21
CornstaIks for Water Mains.

Medicine Lodge Kan.-Experi-
ments conducted by the MetropoIi-
tan Water Company with the rein
forced cOrnstaIk pipes have proved
successful, and a company to manu-
facture them has been organized
here, with Hon. Estabrook AspinwaII
as president Ii is estimated that
the pipe can be placed on the mar
ket at one-tenth of the cost Of cast
iron pipe, and the new material will
outwsar the iron. The supply Of
raw material is inexhaustibls. The
company wiz be stocked for $1,000
900.
The Washington bee., 1908-11-21
Coin Found in a Fish's Backbone

Long Branch. n. J.-Nellie Case, a
servant in the home of Mrs. Oliver
Byron, discovered a nickel imbedded
in the backbone of butterfish while
preparing the fish for the Monday
meal. The FISH was bought at the
market OF Capt. John Hennessey.
Capt. Hennessey was unable to ex-
plain the finding of the coin in the
bone OF the flsh. He is confident,
however, that the fish must have
swallowed 1t.
The Washington bee., 1908-11-21
A LOAF OF BREAD PUT IN TWO
COFFINS.
Half Buried with Wife, Husbands
Grave Now Contains Other Part.


Grave Now Contains Other Part.
Brooklyn.-Adolph Raad, who
formerly lived at No. 10 Luquer
street. was buried in Greenwood
Cemetery, the coffin containing one
half of a loaf of rye bread, the other
half of which had been buried with
Mrs. Raad four years ago. The aged
couple were born in Ludenbach, Ger
many. They purchased a farm in
what is now Flatbush, and as the
city gradually encrOached upon their
farm land they cut it up and sold it
until they we're soon able to retire
comfortably,
There is an old German custom
of making a wish whenever fresh
loaf of bread is cut. On Septem-
ber Z, 1904, Mrs. Raad had just
made the customary wish, and was
about to cut loaf when she dropped
dead. The husband cut the loaf and
put half in his wife's coffin. The
other half was preserved in a tin
box, the neighbOrs having been in
structed to put It in his coffin.
The Washington bee., 1908-11-21
JURY MELTED BY POEM OF
BYRON.
ACquits Man Who Shot Wife After
Listening 20 "DOn juan"


Chicago Quotations from Lord
Byron's Don Juan" read by his
lawyer, brought about the acquittal
of Martin Schleyer, on trial in Keno
sha, Wis, on a charge of shooting
his wife.
The defense of Schleyer, as an
nounced by his attorneys, George w,
Taylor and Calvin Stewart, was TO
have been the "unwritten law" but
when the case came up q plea Of in
sanity was made. and the jury de-
cided that Schleyer was insane when
he shot the woman, but he ha6 re-
covered his sanity The jury ac-
quilted him.
Schleyer testified to his wife's
conduct with a man whom he had
shot at the time he shot her.
When the case came to argument
Taylor discussed legal points and
emotional insanity. Stewart paid no
attention to the law, and not much
TO the evidence, but declared that
Schleyer had been like the hero of
ByrOn's poem.
While the juTymen brushed tears
from their cheeks, Stewart read from
Don Juan" and compared the
character of LambTo, who had re-
turned only to find his home and
fireside wrecked and his children
turned against him.
District Attorney Baker had made
a bitter arraignment of Schleyer,
but Stewart had reached the hearts
of the jurors through Byron's poetry
Schleyer was formerly a promi-
nent resident Of Rochester, N. Y.
The Washington bee., 1908-11-21
I 100000 YEARS AGO.
e Professor PeuCk DeduCes
m Conditions i'm Alpine Cave.

e Professor PeuCk DeduCes
bm Conditions in Alpine Cave.
'don.-Prof. Peuck, director Of
srlin Deep Sea Institute and
pan Exchange professor, is TO
1 on the interesting anthropo-
discovery made in a wonder
re named the WeldkerchlihO-
Saints, Switzerland.
scckehardt discovered this cave
er on DR.. BachleT uneaTthed
$umerous remains of a colony
c with a quantity of human
II the prepalaeolithic period
q covery showed that mankind
n the cave and lived on the
hich they killed in hunting
PeuCk in the course OF a Wis
he cave asceTtained that this
{ things could only have OC-
during the last inteTglaCial
e thereby proved that human
must have lived in the noun
before the last glacial modifi-
of the Alps, which, according
II. Peuck's calculation, was
q 10000 years ago.
The Washington bee., 1908-11-21
Lasso Saved Man From Abvss.

san francisco, Cal.-Lassoed at
the brink Of a steep precipice. A. L.
Banks of Philadelphia owes his life
to William Rogers of New York city.
With Robert Shea of New York, and
James Archer of London. Banks and
Rogers were riding in the mountains,
when Banks's horse slipped. To
save himself Banks grasped q bush.
Rogers swung his rope and caught
banks around the waist.
The Washington bee., 1908-11-21
A BUFFER STRIP.

Victoria Government Sets Aside
Land Along American Boundary.
Victoria, B. C.-The provincial
government has set aside a strip Of
land sixty feet wide along the inter
national boundary Il line, which will
not be available for pre-emption,
and on which a permanent reserve,
extending to all mining rights, will
be placed This follows an arrange
ment with the United States govern
ment by the British Ambassador at
Washington Frequent trouble has
been occssioned heretofore by the
lack of this buffer strip in the arrest
of criminals and in the application
of mining and other laws: The
United States government also sets
aside a similar strip, and thus the
neutral zone will be 120 feet wide
The Washington bee., 1908-11-21
WEDS GIRL WHO IS
CRIPPLED FOR LIFE
Man Loyal Five Years After
Accident and Would Not Take
No for an Answer.
SWAIN PERSUhDES HER At LAST
He KneeIs Beside Her Chair Through
the CeremODy-Her Spine Hurt
by FalI-She was So Lone
some Without Aim and He With
out Her.

St Louis-Five years of loyalty
on the part of August Mirtzwa of
Hannibal convinced his sweetheart
he knew what was best when despite
an injury TO her spine that changed
her from a red checked girl to a
hopeless cripple, he insisted they be
married. The girl held off through
all those years, not because she did
not love the man more dearly than
ever for his devotion, but from
feeling 1t would not be right to let
him sacrifice his life 10 her. MirtZ
wa persisted in his SUPPLEMENT-
wOOing, however. and at last III
young woman accepted his asspl
ance he would be happier with her
than without her, teTriDlI though
her af1iction was. So in the home
of her cousin, No. 1881 Gratan
street, they were wed. and the bride
groom went back to Hannibal to at
tend to imperative business, leaving
his bride in the care of specialists.
It was a pathetic marriage. Mirtz-
wa, big and strong and young, knelt
beside the chair in which the girl
sat with difficulty. His arm. thick
as many a mans leg, enciTcled her,
and most OF the time her head was
on his shoulder She was so weak
that her responses were scarcely
audible. All who saw her except,
perhaps, Mirtzwa. thought her death
only a question of weeks, if not days.
The voice of the clergyman who per
formed the simple ceremony broke
several times before the end of the
service, and it was with much emo
ton in his tones that he wished the
couple all happiness. With such a
ghost of womanhoOd the bride, the
conventional words sounded almost
like mOckery.
Gus and I were engaged to be
married before I fell and hurt my
self" said Mrs. Mirtzwa Il lived
in Oakwood and he lived in Hanni-
bal, three miles away. l never
knew what it was to be i'll, ] had
rosy cheeks and was strong, and
full OF fun. and Gus was a big,
strong fellow. too, as he is now.
zone day I slipped on the icy
sidewalk and my spine vas injured
In some way. and I have been ever
since as you see me. except that most
Of the time I cannot even sit up as
I can now.
Gus wished to marry me right
after | was hurt, but I refused. I
did not wish to burden him with an
invalid, and to all his coaxing
would not consent. He sent me to
St. Louis to see if I could be cured,
but l seemed to get worse. When
he came and saw how l looked
he said l must marry him right
away"
Mrs. Mirtzwa's fingers plucked at
the fringe of the shawl that covered
her shoulders and her face sad
dened
81 suppose | shouldn't have done
1t, q" she continued. "A man so good
as Gus deserves a wife who is bet
ter than an invalid. But I did think
was going to die; it had been so
lonely here without him. So / con-
sented, and he hurried out and came
back with the license and a minis
ter, and we were married here.
sat in this chair and he knelt beside
me during the ceremony.
'I do hope I shall get well, said
Mrs Mirtzwa, as she gazed out of
the window.
The Washington bee., 1908-11-21
Gets $50, 600 for Butteraie

Reading, Pa.-The famous cSllec-
ing to the late Herman StreckeT, of
this city, has been sold to the Field
Museum of Natural History, Chica-
go. by Mrs. Strecker for $4,000.
The collection is said to be the finest
in the world.
The Washington bee., 1908-11-21
FORTUNE FOR FAMILY OF
SWINDLED MAN.
Restitution Puts Impoverished
Widow and Children in Aff1uenCe.

Restitution Puts Impoverished
Widow and Children in AffiuenCe.
Galveston, Tex. - Mrs. George
Overton and family of two sons and
two daughters who have been eking
out an existence on a small farm
near Fort Lancaster, in Crockett
County, have been presented with a
thousand-acre ranch In Edward
County, we'll stocked with cattle and
$4,000 in cash. by a former partner
OF the husband and father of the
Overtons.
George Overton, who died five
years ago, was once a wealthy cattle
man of West Texas, but entered into
a mining project with a man who
swindled him out of his wealth and
lands. The partner disappeared fif-
teen years ago and went to Mexico,
where he amassed wealth in mining
and returned to make restitution
The Washington bee., 1908-11-21
ROYAL Donkey Wins Race.

London.-A donkey belonging to
Princess Victoria of SChlesWig-HOl-
stein won the open donkey race. at
Windsor Forest athletic sports. The
animal, which is named The Sirdar,
formerly belong to Queen Victoria.
Il was almost twice as large as any
other donkey competing.
The Washington bee., 1908-11-21
UNEARTHS HITTITE TEMPLE.

Fine Sculptures Discovered by Prof.
GaTstang on Slope of Mount Taurus.
London.-COntinuin the recent
excavations near Aintab on the
southern slope of Mount Tau
rus, Asiatic Turkey, Prof Garstang
has discovered at Sakjegeuzi the
sanctuary Of Hittite temple.
There is a massive sculptured lion on
each side of the entrance, besides
carved reliefs representing Asiatic
deities. sphinxes and other religious
emblems.
In the middle of the floor space
is large altar, guarded by a winged
sphinx with a human head. The
sculptures are Of excellent work
manship and are in good condition.
The Washington bee., 1908-11-21
Find Fossil Eggs,

Reno, Nev.-FOssil eggs, some of
them as large as a mans head, which
were found in the two thousand
foot tunnel at Copperreid. have been
pronounced genuine by Horace
Chapman. of the Univerity Of Penn
syivazta faculty.
The Washington bee., 1908-11-21
|ON WE'LL EAT
CANNED WHALE
. Beef and Very Palatable;
Heap, ToO---Danger of Ex-
terminating Whales.
Y MERITS OF THE NEW DIET
I'd Meat is Sold at the Rate of
no Cents a Pound-NIOst of il
~ Used TO Make Fertilizers
ider Market Sought.

lctoria, B. C.-Whale meat as
rticle OF food and the preserva-
of whale life in the waters Of
acif1c are questions agitating
whaling industry on the coasts
ancouver and in the far East.
many whaling companies OF
sn operating steam whaleTs have
led a com binatiOn to enforce a
season, owing to the decreas-
num ber of whales. This news
brought here by the Japanese
Aki Maru, from the far East
various companies interested In
ling held a conference. and a
lution was passed favoring the
sation of a guild.
Ealing in the waters of the
adian Pacific seabOard is still in
slfancy, but the need is clearly
led of protection to The quarry
&c. Andrews of the department
ANNALS and birds OF the Ameri-
Museum Of Natural History,
York. who has recently re-
d home from a five months trip
on this island for the purpose
.tudying whale life, said before
Alg that the whales are being
va so extensively that they will
become extinct.
Andrews during his stay at
whaling station on the west
was enabled to study the sub
ht first hand. He himself saw
then 200 whales killed with
arpoon gun, with which the
whalers Orion and ST Law
of the coast stations are
"a. From the mast head Of the
Mr.. Andrews has witnessed
last struggles. Some of the
S measured eighty feet in
h. From his observations car
bn here and at other places he
SIZED that the days of the whale
numbered.
TO this date the two little
rs named have accounted for
YES of more than 500 whales,
the course of a few weeks an
station on the east coast of the
a will be in full operation.
the sites for two more stations
Queen Charlotte Islands have
selected. and by next season
also will be at work adding 10
daughter.
effort is now being made TO
uce whale meat as an article
ID. Already quite a trade is
with Japan in canned and salt
ale meat. The new idea is to
campaign to educate the peO-
European race on the undoubt-
rits of the new diet. Samples
mined whale meat have been
Duted from the headquarters Of
haling company in this city,
hose who have tried it say
he meat is exceedingly palata-
eing much teHdereT than beef
realty resembling 1t In taste.
eSent tons and tons of whale
ave used in the manufacture
tilizers. which are one of the
valuable by-produCts of the in
but 1t takes three tons Of
o make one of fertilizer. and
tier is sold at the rate of two
per pound, the price at which
tied meat is sold. For this
the company is trying TO ere
larger market for the meat.
,alted and canned.
The Washington bee., 1908-11-21
Robbed Ostriches.

lon, Arizona. H. Blevn.
H. Rinehart were arrested.
d with the theft of feah hers
|striches. The feathers show
hey have been pulled out Of
riches and not plucked in the
way. This is always a dam
proceeding and sometimes re-
Rtally. AT any rate, a feath-
never grow in the socket
hich a feather has been pull
evin and Rinehart we're sent
bounty Jail.
The Washington bee., 1908-11-21
SQUASH Weighs "a Pounds.

Taunton, Mass.-A Taunton pO-
liceman recently grew the largest
squash in New England, weighing
seventy-fOur pounds, and measuring
3 feet II ga inches in circumfer-
ence.