Coeur d'Alene evening press. (Coeur d'Alene, Idaho) 1907-1929, 1908-12-12
NEWS, VIEWS
AND GOSSIP
Lights and Sidelights on People
and Things in the Great
Metropolis.

NEW YORK, Dec, 12.-Not since
the jellyfish soul of Chester Gillette
was catapulted into the h. reafter by
an unfeeling electrical engineer-not
since the mailman Of Matteawan re-
lapsed into the innocuous dedsuetude
of an up-state-rest-cure resort-not
since those delectable days have the
sob sisters known such exultation as
is filling their throbbing buzzums on
this day and date Bloodshed and
scandal and horrors permeate the
metropolitan atmosphere, and the sob
sisters sniff it as a sweet SAVIOR. Lurid
headlines shout out a story of sin
and shame, of sorrow and suffering,
of bloodshed and crime.
When T. Jenkins Hams, who with
his brother, Captain Peter G. Hams,
charged with the Staying of Will
liam E. Annis, is placed on trial next
week, the sob sisters will hold high
revel of overworked adjectives. No
murder trial in recent years has af-
forded such an opportunity for APP
peals to passion and prejudice and
salacity.
For weeks the sob sisters have
been at work on their joyous task,
disseeting every emotion of the prin-
cipals in the bloody tragedy, examin-
ing every aspect of the famous case
and setting forth their theories in
lurid and impressionistic chronicles.
Some have interviewed the mother
OF the accused man, painting a word
picture of she whom they term a
mother of sorrows" Others have
INDUCED in attempts at analizing the
character of T. Jenkins Hams, the
ogre the "sea-wolf." Captain !
Hams has been the subject of many
ambitious efforts. One of these, sur
charged with pathos, seeks to bring
tears to the eyes of the reader in this
fashion:
He was the most pathetic figure |
on earth--a young man broken on |
the wheel of fate in his youth, the |
JOY Of living quenched forever for |
him, old in sorrow before he is old |
In years. He is the tallest of the |
three brothers, fine, soldierly, up
standing figure of a man that must |
have been handsome enough to have
captured any girls fancy when his |
lace was lit up by happiness, but now
ne looks wan and pinched, as If some |
cruel wind had blown over him and |
blighted him.
The gifted authoress shows great |
knowledge of the verbal eccentrici-
ties Of spooks in the following para
graph:
His face is the saddest human
lace ever saw, and his voice when |
ne speaks is like that of a ghost, SO
said so lifeless, so surcharged with |
deathless woe Is it,"
And what subllmity OF grief and
hopeless. helpless woe is In the con
eiusion of his sob sisters tale:
His voice trailed on into silence
again, his brooding eyes bent upon |
me table, where his hands were
drawing meaningless pictures. while
ms thoughts, as in a treadmill, went |
'helr weary. hopeless rounds of
sorrow for which there is no cure"
Poor Peter Hains!"
Poor Peter Hams, indeed He
mas many things to bear. and not the
'east OF these is she mock sympathy
Vi the sisterhood of sobs. And In
'nis sisterhood is his own wife. writ
Jag Tor the yellow papers the story |
VI her life in the army-brazen.
SHAMELESS vulgar accounts In which
she herself occupies the limelight as
pure and unspotted but much
"lohged woman-an exhibition Of
innocent exposure OF the mind such
- mas seldom been witnessed.
Christmas Trees.
christmas trees are beginning to
1--WE IN the metropolis from Maine
aaa the Adirondacks. bringing with
'aen Whit OF the holiday spirit. |
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