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The Mathews journal. (Mathews C.H. [Court House]) 1903-1937, 1910-08-25
SCIENCE BELIEVER
DIES SPURNING AID

NEW YORK.-Special.- to
submit to surgical or medical treat
ment. although suffering from appen-
dicitis. ole Christensen, a young
candymaker, who had been attended
for several days before his admission
TO the hospital by Christian Scientists.
died Sunday in the North Hudson
Hospital, Union Hill, y. J.
Christensen, who was twenty years
old. boarded at 112 Fifth Street.
Union Hill. He was taken i'll several
days ago and called in Christian
treated him until Saturday morning
when the sick mans friends insisted
that he be taken 10 the hospital
There the doctors told him that only
an immediate operation could save
him, but he refused TO submit to one.
and insisted that he be taken back
home. The superintendent would not
allow this. explaining that he WOULD
probably die on the way in the ambu-
lance.
Every effort was made to induce
Christensen to allow at least medical
treatment to ease his pain. but h,
would not listen, insisting that Chris
tan Science alone would help him
During the night several Christian
Scientists from New York called to see
the patient, but were refused admit
lance on the ground that their pres
ence would only make his condition
worse. They left in anger.
Christensen died Sunday morning
and his body was removed 10 Necker' 5
undertaking shop. Necker was in
formed yesterday that the Christian
Science Church would look after the
funeral and burial.
The hospital surgeons believe that
Christensen had fair chance for re.
covery If he had permitted an opera.
ton. although his case had been az.
gravated by the long delay in sending
him TO the institution.
AT the mans boarding house il was
said that his Christian Science friends
lived in West Seventy-eighth Street
New York, and his last act SATURDAY.
night was to send a message there.
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HELPLESS STEAMER SAVED
FROM HE'LL GATE REEF

NEW YORK Specialized Gate
reached out for new victims Sunday,
when the machinery of the steamboat
sam Sloan. loaded with eXcursionists
bound up the Sound, got out of gear a
little north of the Astoria ferry slips
and the big boat drifted into the swirl
ing currents.
Efforts to keep her bow pointed up
stream failed. and in the worst part of
the danger zone she turned and bore
brOadside toward Flood Rock. where
lay a dredging scow. Grazing the
scow, the steamboat found herself
headed for the jagged reefs of Scaly
Rock.
From the time she began to drift
her siren shrieked for help, and cries
Of women could be heard on the AS
toria shore. Good luck sent along a
big boat OF the J. b. King Towing
Company. and a line was passed TO the
Sloan when the crowds on shore were
looking TO see her break on the reef
1t was a hard tug to haul her into safe
waters. but once there repairs were
made to the machinery and she cont
tinued up the Sound at half speed.
She had drifted two miles.
The Mathews journal. (Mathews C.H. [Court House]) 1903-1937, 1910-08-25
GIRL SEVENTEEN LIFTS
SIX TIMES OWN WEIGHT

SCRANTON, PA Special Miss
Isa bella Lengel, seventeen years old
daughter of a prominetn building con-
tractor residing on fashionable New
ton Boulevard, a jealous worker in
hte First Baptist Church sof this place
has issued a def TO athletic woman
kind the world over to exceed or even
equal her record of lifting about six
times her own weight, or to be exact.
675 pounds, without harness. Her
father, who is also something OF an
athlete, has offered to wager that she
can outfit any girl OF her age ana
weight in the world. the proceeds to
go to any charitable institution agreed
upon between the contestants
Miss Lengel weighs only III pounds.
She is pretty. with a wealth of black
hair and bright, swapping black eyes
and complexion that makes her the
envy of her less muscular sisters.
Il do not see why girls should not
physique" she said. Ever since
was small child have loved outdoor
sports and athletics of all kinds. OF
course, there are some things q girl
can't do. but lifting big, heavy weights
every morning is not one of them
Ny record proves that"
While student in the High School
Miss Lengal was a familiar figure in
the gymnasium and easily outstripped
the others in her class. Miss Lengel
exercises every morning with dumb
bells weighing twenty-five pounds
each.
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has seen Miss Norman grow up on
the place and has been very much
interested I'm her.
When the young woman was taken
suddenly and violently III Thursday.
Mrs. Westinghouse helped her into "a
motor car, and, with forced gayety.
tried TO keep up her spirits while the
car sped to Hillcrest Hospital here.
DIR. Charles II. Richardson, chief OF
the hospitals surgical staff, decided
that an operation for acute appen-
dicitis must be performed on Miss
Norman Immediately.
Very WELL" tearfully said the
young woman to Mrs. Westinghouse.
But you will stay by me-"
OF course. returned Mrs. West
inghouse with a decision that meant
anything else was impossible.
Mrs. Westinghouse helped TO pre-
pare Miss Norman for the operation.
inhaling ether was on Mrs. Westing-
house.
Her affectionate patroness did not
lose her, for she held fast TO Miss
Normans hand. However distasteful
TO her the operation was, Mrs. West
inghouse remained while DIR. Rich
ardson and his assistants performed
the operation-successfu they antici-
pate. When the light Of reason shone
again in Miss NOrman's eyes they
looked on Mrs Westinghouse, who
said. as cheerfully as she could:
ME-" O"' AL"
Mrs, Mrs Westinghouse took a big
punch or garden flowers to Miss An
ME today and sat by her bedside.
Why, of course, she'll soon be well
II Mrs. Westinghouse visits her once
or twice more" said DR.. Richardson.
verifying the unprofessiOnal diagnosis.
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TRIES TO SMUGGLE GOODS
THAT ARE NOT DUTTABLE

NEW YORK Special Mrs. Anna
KritZ, Of Chicago, a passenger arriv-
ing on the George Washington. knows
more about the customs laws than she
knew when she left the ship on Tues
day evening.
Although she had only 800 in dutf-
able stuff. which the law would have
allowed her to bring in free as her
personal belongings. Mrs. Kritz care
fully had a false bottom fitted in her
trunk.
This secret compartment she deftly
packed full OF linen of the value of
$50. She made a declaration covering
goods worth $35. But after the false
bottom had been discovered, with the
hidden linen, the deputy surveyor or
dered that Mrs. Kritz be taken aboard
the ship and searched by an inspec-
tress. The search revealed a lot of
cheap jewelry tucked away beneath
her clothing.
The value OF all the articles she had
declared and attempted to smuggle
was not more than 500. but as there
had been an evident intent TO defraud
the Government everything was
seized. Mrs. Kritz was informed that
If she had been honest and declared
everything she would not have had to
pay a cent of duty and could have
kept all the goods which she had
bought abroad.
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FURIOUS MONKEY
WANTED NO RIVALS

NEW YORK Special.-Friends OF
Babe, the orang-outang. who flock to
the Bronx Zoo for her Sunday after
noon receptions, were grieved yester-
day to miss their hostess, who was
laid up in the Zoo hospital with s
leg broken. She got the injury wher
entertaining a company of morning
visitors and it happened through the
jealousy of Badly. the chimpanzee.
Since Babes arrival at the Zoe
Baldy's hold on the popular heart has
been waning. Age. grace and agility
were in favor. and when she learned
what the public wanted she so much
surpassed her companion that nobody
paid attention to his stunts. That
was the case yesterday morning wher
her gyratiOns on the top bar of the
outside cage won all the applause anC
Badly couldn't get a handicap.
AT first he sulked in his corner
Then he made a dash for the bar OF
which Babe was performing and with
a savage yank threw her to the con-
crete floor eighteen feet below. Babe
slowly raised herself and hobbled
away with her hands pressing her
abdomen. Keeper Joseph Riley called
DR.. w. +. Blair. who said her righl
leg was broken. The two bore heI
to the hospital and did the leg up in
Splints.
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STAGE SLEUTH BECOMES
\ REAL DETECTIVE

NEW YORK-SpeciaI- detec-
tives have been known TO go on the
stage. but seldom is il recorded that
a stage detective forsakes the foot
lights for the pursuit of real crimi-
nails. Such is the case, however, with
Frank Monroe. who all last season
appeared as Detective Boyle in Alias
Jimmy Valentine" at Wallack's Thea
ter. He has Joined the forces of the
National Detective Agency and will
have charge of the Boston office.
When as an actor Mr.. Monroe was
assigned 10 the part Of Detective Boyle
he hunted up William p. Sheridan,
known in the New York Police De-
partment as the man with the cameo
eye For a long time Sheridan was
4 star on the police force. but a short
time ago resigned and formed a part
nership with William ]. Burns, who
for many years was connected with
the United States Secret Service.
AS an actor Monroe sought out
sheridan 70 learn something of de-
tective work TO better play his part
He became so interested that on sew
eral occasions be undertook to do a
little detective work on his own &C
count. His progress as a sleuth won
the admiration OF Burns and Sheri-
dan. and last Saturday he was Of
fered the position of Boston manager
for the agency and Immediately ac-
Cepted.
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TEACHERS SECOND WEDDING
LET'S DIVORCE SECRET OUT

NEW HAVEN, CONN., Special
The announcement here today OF the
marriage of Sidney Perrin Butler.
president of the Butler Business
School and a former President of the
New Haven Business Mems Associa-
ton, to Miss Margaret T. Simpson
OF this city, caused great surprise. The
wedding took place in fremont Tenn
pie, in Boston, yesterday and the
couple are spending their honeymoon
IN Maine. Miss Simpson was formerly
an instructor at the Butler School.
The reason for the surprise was
that no one in New Haven knew that
Mr.. Butler was divorced from his
first wife, who until about a year ago
was prominent socially here. They
lived in an exclusive part of the town
and seemed to be very happy
Suddenly il was announced that
Mr.. Butler had gone West for his
health. His wife did not go with
him. He remained in the West nearly
a year and returned to New Haven a
few weeks ago. He said he would
take up active work in the fan, hut
said nothing Of the divorce
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I'hP American NA-Ife

II is saying that Englishwomen
are better wives and American women
better mothers, and the reason is easy
10 nm. Character and accomplish
ment are built in older civilizations
they grow, in our country. The sacri-
iices of motherhood are purely instinc-
tive and natural; they grow Of their
own accord like weeds The ready re-
nunciations of a mother for a child are
little more than an extension Of egotism
whereas reaunciation and seIf-sup-
ing intelligence. iud ~ement Tho
natural animai loves its young: the
in all the snares and shambIes Of this
fIe' OF being a companion. The Ameri-
can woman sacrifices herself and her
husband to her children The English :
woman has enough of the ordered
teudal system still left in her bones
TO sacrifice all the minor members of
the household 20 its head. In the main
the children gain thereby.-Harper' 5
Bazaar
The Mathews journal. (Mathews C.H. [Court House]) 1903-1937, 1910-08-25
DEAF NAN CAN HEAR
ON PIXIES PEAK SUNSET

COLORADO SPRINGS Special
The summit of Pixies Peak, whose al
titude is 14,141 feet above the sea
has established a new record in its
effect on Edward B. Hainey. a Chi
cagO delegate to the Worlds Congress
Of the Deaf. which has just ended
here He was born deaf and has re-
NAMED deaf during his forty years
of life.
While on Pixies Peak late Sunday,
in company with other delegates, a
peculiar buzzing in his ears gave his
face an expression OF bewilderment-
He explained that he heard sounds.
A companion enunciated a few words
when Hainey Signalled that he heard,
although he could not classify sounds
into words He heard the noise OF
tramping aud conversation and an
engine, and finally the braying OF
burrO which startled him
As Hainey descended his partial
hearing Left him. At Manitou. 5000
fest below. he was as deaf as ever.
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TWO WOMEN TWO MANY
FOR STORE DETECTIVE
NEW YORI

NEW YORK Special According
to Miss Rose Mccormack. detective
in Sixth Avenue department store.
handsomely gowned young woman
took maribou boa from thu fur
counter Thursday afternoon and
wound ii around her arm until il
looked like a muf. Then the woman
went to the feather counter aud.
taking seven ostrich plumea, slipped
them into the improTised muff and
started away.
Miss Mccormack was about to fol-
low When she noticed another young
woman at the Jewelry countec drop
gold stickpin into her handbag
The detective was in Quandary. she
couldn't follow both women aud
didn't want to lose sight of either
To her relief she saw Ldeutenants
Rein and Becker OF Police Head
quarters and told her story.
Becker and Miss Mccormack fol-
lowed the second woman TO the street
where she was arrested. At tho sta
tion house, the detective Says, they
found two pins and a pendant IN the
hand bag. The prisoner. who said
she was Margaret Howard, aged TWEEN
give any address, was arraigned be-
fore Magistrate Murphy In the Night
Court and bailed in $500 for her ap-
pearance in the Jefferson Mark t
Court this afternoon.
The other woman was taken to Po-
lice Headquarters. where she said she
was Mary Jones. aged twenty-five.
demonstrates, OF 800 West Twenty
third Street She was sent to the
Mercer Street station over night.
charged with grand larceny.
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UNABLE TO PAY ALINIONY

NEW YORK Special Henry
Beach Needham, the magazine con-
trlbuting member of Theodore Roose-
Velt's tennis cabinet" does not find
Things going so smoothly now that his
friend and benefactor is no longer
President At least. his attorney made
that plea before Justice Harrison Put
nam in the Supreme Court, BROOKLYN
Thursday. when the question of Mr.
Needham's failure TO pay his wife
Sl,4OO alimony was up for consider
alton.
When Roosevelt was President
Needham was a personal friend and
member of the tennis cabinet" His
magazine articles attracted much at
tention, and, coming from the foun-
tain head, as it were, found a ready
sale.
Mrs. Needham obtained a divorce
on February 9Th last, and Needham
was ordered by Justice Maddox to nav
his wife $40 week alimony. He has
fallen in arrears in these payments
and now owes her S1.4OO.
De Witt Bailey, of 135 Broadway.
counsel for the wife, made applica-
ton to Justice Putnam for rule to
show cause why Needham should not
he adjudged guilty Of contempt In
the absence of the defendant notice
was served on his counsel, j. b. G.
Rinehart, Of 43 Cedar Street, who an
The only money my client has
made for sometime" said Rinehart.
lis $1,000 paid him for an article re-
Gently published in a magazine, but
which cost him $500 to complete Had
II not been for a national figure who
aided him he would never have re-
ceived the price for il that he did"
Rinehart asked that the alimony De
reduced 10 SIS a week and Bailey op-
posed the motion, asking the court If
II seemed reasonable that the man
who had entertained Washington So
ciety, had visited Europe and had
lived at the rate Needham lives does
not earn enough to pay more than SIS
week for the support of his wife
and daughter.
Needham married Miss Mabel Alex
ander in Virginia September (, 1899.
She was the daughter Of prominent
citizen of Ithaca.
While a member Of the Roosevelt
tennis cabinet Mr.. Roosevelt gave
Needham access to facts which il
would otherwise have been difficult
TO get at, and his magazine articles
sold readily. Justice Putnam reserved
decision.
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Recognition of Propertv n,gh,.

Small bows are very apt to fail to
recognize the value Of others proDertv
MY small son. in company with a plav-
mate. in game used the lights in a
nelghbor hen-house for n target
The owner of the damaged property
VISITED both homes. where the cuinrits
hld IN dismay, and collected damages
Here was valuable opportunity for
q lasting lesson. / called my bov to me
ana wa talked the matter over he hav-
ing run chance TO explain his side of
ne case Then the mischief he had
wrought and the reputation IL might
SlVe aim Were graVely discussed
lie voluntarily offered to refund the
amount OF his part of the damage ont
OF his small savings until full restitu-
ION was made. This was finally
agreed upon, and here came the hard
art TOR the boy. Ills Docket-monev
iioWar'te was twenty-five cents .
x, which was frequently reduced
'N ines Tor Il-temper or other sundrv
reaches or etiquette or duty. II took
m seven weeks to get out Of debt
when the last cent was paid. he gave
= sigh of relief, and said. There. ri
never destroy ANYTHING again as long
as / hve'-E. G. W. in Harper's Razar
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BELIEVE THERE is 4
CAVE UNDER STAUNTON

STANTON, VA Special
The cnving-in on baldwin Street
and adjoining residence lots mas
made practically no progress since
saturday, the day after the first
break, aud the city il now busy
running lines, boring and taking
other steps tn locate definitely the
direction of the underground OPEN
Ing which IL now understood TO he
a cavern similar 10 the other cav
ern formed I'm the mountains OF this
section with running stream I'm
the section where the cavern seems
10 have made Its nearest approach
TO the surface.
is. l.. HARLOW, a wclI-knONn con-
tractor, undertook at once the sal
wage OF the two Wilson residences,
and he has already rendered the
Todd house, the third of the Wilson
houses TO be affected, secure on Its
foundation by brncing from the
solid rock on each side OF the caves.
The first Wilson house went into
the first opening, and the secOng,
the residence OF Professor Wilson
himself, has never seemed I'm Spe-
cfaI danger, except as 10 the rear
frame part, which broke away and
went down.
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All Loot Alike to Him.

NEW YORK Special.-A noise AZ
the rear of his home, at 9I5 South
Second Street. Lakeview, y. j.. awak-
ened Jacob Kelder about 3 o'clock
Wednesday morning. Looking out he
saw man with a bag under his arm
trying TO break into the chicken coop.
me thlef soon gave up the effort.
jumped a fence into the ward of p
Marshall and went to the garage.
kelder hurriedly dressed and went
out. He saw the burglar in the ga
rage stripping an auto of its movable
parts. When the burglar came out
heIder attacked him. The stranger
Fought hercely. but Kelder got a grip
on his throat and held him until No.
shall ran out. The two took their
prisoner to Constable John Jordan.
The fellow said he was Joseph I,ebur-
tbs, OF Morris Avenue, Rutherford.
He was remanded 70 Jail.
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BURNING AND ROBBxNG.
TWO BOYS LIFE AIN

NEW YORK Special "In mF
-four years on the bench have never
cona9 ACROSS such hardened criminsl Is
as you two boys To burn add piuaga
and to saytar cittzeps is your solo aim
in life. Although one OF you is only
sixteen and the other seVentean, I
shall send each Of you to Sing Sing for
not Less than ten years nor more than
twenty. Maybe when you come out
you viii have reformed. hope so, -
With nochalaDGe that surprised
even the court attaches. Michael Car
do. seventeeo- who used TO live at "a
North First . Street. Brooklyn, and
John Voris. formerly OF 139 Devoa
Street, heard Judge Fawcett utter
that cocdexn nation and sentence yes
terday in the County Court. Brooklyn
Their crime waS arson.
A couple OF years ago the fathers
and mothers of the two boys drove
hem from home because OF their
criminahty. They would lie. cheat
steal and indulge in immoralities
Since then they had slept on williams
burg piers- They got money needed
for food. drink and vicious induI-
yences by pawning jewelry and other
articles which they took from houses
they had set On fire.
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Obernmmerrnu,s Pa.sion PI,x

The world has done its best 20 intro
duce the commercial element. The great
cities Of Europe have tried to tempt the
players to bring their great plav 10
in her offers, but the people of Oberam-
mergau have remained steadfastlv
faithful to their religious ideals. To
them their play is still their great act
or worship and devotion, not at all a
mere form of entertainment based on
are supposed to be devOut pilgrims not
curious sight-seers, and so religious is
the atmosphere with which all the viii
layers have surrounded themselve and
their play that the curious soon be-
come sincere worshippers, and those
who attend with serious doubts con-
corning the propriety Of presenting
sacred things in dramatic form return
with their doubts completely dissolved.
The people Of Obctammergau spcDS
Ihelr hNeS IN devotion 10 their grea5
Ia Sslon Play. 1t is their life and thei.
religion. All hope and plan to take
part in IL some day: and to live a life
part of Christus is their ideal After
Ihe parts have finally been impartially
decided upon by a great council meet
ing Tor mat purpose, at least yea4
petore the play is TO be given. the off.
terent ones chosen are supposed not
only 10 allow their hair and bears to
grow, so that they Will look their parts
but TO actually live the parts that have
been given them. From childhood they
are trained in the technique of actin @
ana singing. both by the church and
pN the schools. Smaller religious
dramas are being constantly given.
Their life is one long PREPARATION for
the great work ahead Of them, and thev
axe II seriously and earnestly
Harpers Bazaar.
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BOY SHOT TO DEATH By
LAD WHO WAS POOLING

Observation-Disclosures Rus
so. aged twelve years. a New York
boy visiting his uncle here, shot and
killed Albert Bonfeld. sixteen, Of this
city. late Sunday night. Russo was
carrying a rifle to the shooting gal
lery OF his uncle near White CITY
Park an amusement resort. when he
met young Bonfield.
I'm going to shoot you," said Rus
so. Pointing the gun over the othe1
Lads head. be pulled the trigger. The
hammer snapped harmlessly. and
Russo. thinking therew as no charge
in the rifle. pulled the trigger again.
The weapon Was discharged and the
bullet entered Bonfeld's body over the
heart. killing him almost instantly.
Ralph BOnaeld. the dead boys IA
ther. became temporarily deranged
when he saw tha body. Young Russo
ran away and lato last night had not
been cauRht
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LIVED TO he lU3 AND
NEVER WORE SPECTACLES
WATERBURY. CONN-- Snecial-

WATERBURY, CONN., Special
James Wall. the oldest man in the State
OF Connecticut. died in his home here
Monday, aged one hundred and three.
Wall was born in Ireland in 1907 As
a child he heard the news Of Waterloo
and only few days before his death
he told the story of the excitement
which ran through Ireland when the
came 10 this country in 1912
In 1851, although then fifty five years
old, he enlisted in the Ninth Connects
cut-the lighting Ninth-and served
through the Civil War. From boyhood
he was a user OF tobacco and LIQUOR.
Last night he smoked his last pine
Cut plug and mountain dew kent him
easy in his mind. he said. He was
also an habitual voter for BRYAN. but
after the last election he said he had
overcome that habit. He never wore
spectacles, heard perfectly and main
tanned a standing challenge to lick any
man OF his age.