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The Prescott daily news., 1910-06-24
AMERICAN ACCUSED OF LAKE CRIME TAKEN FROM STEAM
 FER FROM PALMERO.
IS IDENTIFIED AT GLANCE
Woman Had Been Beaten and Taken From Italian EiIls--Victim's Husband Is Young
 Man.

New York, June 24-Porter Charl- ton confessed in the police station at Hoboken, N J., that he murdered Mrs. Mary Scott Castle, whom he marMed recently in Delaware. Mrs. Charlton's body was found in a trunk at the bottom of Lake Como, in Italy. since which no trace had been found of Charlton.
 Charlton was found on the steamer Princess Irene which arrived from Palmero. After he had been identi. fled as Charlton by persons who knew him before his romantic marriage to Mrs. Castle he admitted he was the womans missing husband and the confession he murdered his wife soon followed.
 The police were watching for the arrival of the steamer Deutschland. as it had been reported that Charlton sailed on that steamer Some off cers, however, were sent to watch the docking of the Pinrcess Irene. Three of them took up positions on the pier where they could watch everybody leaving the vessel.
 Officers Meet the Ship.
 The officers had a description of Charlton and when they saw man resembling him leave the ship they placed him under arrest.
 Captain Scott, the brother of Mrs. Charlton who had come to Hoboken to aid the Hoboken police in identify ing the suspect from the Deutschland was summoned to the pier when Charlton was arrested Captain Scott took one glance at the prisoner and Fcd the man was Charlton
 Ia the meantime the patrol wagon had been summoned from the station house and the prisoner with the three detectives and Captain Scott was hur- red to headquarters
 Chief Hayes announced later that the man admitted he was Charlton.
 Detailed Confession.
 After a sweating" process Charlton said: '1 might as we'll tell you all, and then dictated the following state ment:
 My name is Porter Charlton. | live at 204 West Fifty-fifth street, New York city, Am q years old. My home is in Omaha, Neb am bank clerk by profession. l l ived very happily with my wife, who was the pest woman in the world to me, but she had most ungovernable temper and so had L
 We quarreled frequently and she used vile language to me, the mean Ing of which 1 am sure she did not Know. On the day I killed her she mad cursed me, and I told her that if she did it again l would fix her. Again she swore at me, and I was in daze
 T struck her with a mallet with "hlch she had been fixing a couch on which we had been lying. I thought she was dead I stuffed her body In trunk and threw the mallet Tn after her. That night after F o'clock 1 dragged the trunk to a pier near Moltrasio and threw it into the laKe' The following day left Lake Oomo for Genoa, where 1 boarded the frinces Irene four days later"
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1910-09-29
SOUL RESEMBLES EASTER EGG
Man Leaves Body In ST. Louis Board
Ing House and Goes Travelling
With Spirits.

A gentleman who In his mundane
existence goes under the name Of Her
manus Ruebenguhl left his body in a
St. Louis boarding house, he says, and
went travelling In his unclad soul. He
reports an enjoyable trip and a very
sociable time with kindred spirits
with whom he hobnobbed while on
his journey.
All the souls he met were about the
size and shape OF goose eggs. but col
ored according to their characters.
Blue souls. for example. were super
stitious: red. bloodthirsty; white, un-
cultured. High livers had pink bands
or dots on the soul eggshell; humor-
lists were green. and brown souls
were deceptive and not to be trusted.
A mass meeting Of assorted souls
must look like a collection of Easter
eggs II Mr.. Ruebenguhls facts are
reliable. He Is relating his experience
in lecture tour of the middle west,
and apparently is expecting to keep
soul and body together with the pro-
ceeds.
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1910-09-29
WEARING ROSES DANGEROUS
Trainer Attacked When She Pins
Blossoms to corsage-6easts
Mistake Them for Meat.

A lion tanner came from her hot
tent and sat down for a chat.
"An admirer. In my younger days"
she said, "once sent me a bouquet Of
red roses, and wore them In the ring
to do my act. They came near doing
for me. had got my eight lions ar
ranged In their pyramid when the lion
at the top saw the red roses in my
corsage. He mistook them for meat
lions have poor sight-and down he
leapt He came for me open-mouthed.
Though fred a blank cartridge In
his face, he made with his paw q
sweep at the roses that ripped mo
open from chin to waist. The other
lions bounded forward They weren't
angry. They were hungry. had
intelligence enough to perceive that,
and Just as they were leaping on me
tore on my roses and threw them
across the ring.
"The big brutes left me at once, and
while they smiled the roses with dis
appointed growls staggered out OF
the iron door. was young at the
time, young and light-headed. or I'd
have known better than to wear any
thing red amongst hungry and near
sighted lions"
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1910-09-29

Character from handwriting and
palmistry we are acquainted with, but
a Paris contemporary announces that
dispositions can be gagged from dig
ars. The man who smokes, we learn.
is easily recognised His lips show
It, without his speakingy He who
Axes his cigar deeply in the mouth u
Of nature resOlute. skspacal and
abrupt; one who bites of the end
Of his cigar Is careless, thoughtless OF
listless. When the cutter Is used
to nip on the end, the smoker may be
considered as a man of caution. The
user of the amber holder may be con-
sidered delicate person. The man
who smokes his cigar to the end is
faithful friend, constant husband
and of persevering nature. II one ID
in the habit of throwing away the
cigar when only half smoked he may
be considered tickle, blase and q
tr1ner. Furthermore. characteristics
can be doduced from the habit OF al
lowing the cigar to die out. Such q
person suffers from want OF memory
He may have aptitude for mathemat
les, but he is not selfish.
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1910-09-29
RATS CAUSE or GHOST SCARE
ROdOntS Pull Electric Wire, Causing
the Light TO Rise and Fall and
Frightening Men.

There are probably few persons VINO
would confess to a belief In ghosts,
spirits, specters. or spooks, as told
IN stories. But when some mysteri-
GUS circumstance occurs at night time
they are among the first to think Of
ghosts as an explanation Of the phe-
nomeuon-
This, perhaps, was the case with m
mer Sampson and Art Anderson. who
were startled and mystined as they
we're sitting In the once of livery
barn one evening recently when the
electric light hanging from the ceiling
began to rise and fall.
Il IL said that Mr.. Anderson. who
thought ghost was In the attic, sug-
gested that they give chase to II with
pail Of water. Il was finally decided
that Mr.. Anderson should get . Lam
tern. while Mr.. Sampson got ladder,
that they might investigate the attic
for the cause Of the disturbance.
The young men felt relieved at ind
ing that two huge rats had been tug
ging away at an old umbrella, the
handle Of which had become hooked
behind the electric light wire. Every
time the rats pulled on the umbrella
the lamp would rise.
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1910-09-29
WORK OF NOTED EXPLORER
Llvlnsstone'S Geographical survey
Amounted to Moro Than His
Preaching In Africa.

Livingstone'S field Of geographical
endeavor was the region OF the great
lakes Of equatorial Africa. His object
was primarily to extend the operations
Of the London Missionary society, I'm
der whose direction he was working.
DR.. Livingstone never wholly relin-
quished his missionary character, Al
though in 1887 he resigned from the
society and In his later years In Africa
his geographical explorations amount
ed to much more than his preaching
and his medical service. His last
work. after parting from Stanley in
March, 1872. was directed toward the
solution Of the Nile problem. After
promising reconnoissances he essayed
such detailed survey of the basins
of the Lualaba and the Laupula rivers
as he hoped might establish the wa
tershed between the river systems OF
the Congo and the Nile. Before his
work was finished he died, May 1,
1878. at Tshitambo's village on the
shore Of Lake Bangweolo. The deter
mination Of the fountain-head of the
Nile was effected only after sitting out
the results of the observations Of
many explorers. and this investigation
was not completed until long after
Livingstone,s time. This fountain-head
Is the source Of little stream situ-
ated Just north Of deg. 8. in longi-
tude 80 deg. 30 min. q. at q height Of
S.114 feet above the. sea. IN the north
eFn extremity Of the mountains Dor
dertng the northeast c6S6t Of LGke
Tanganyi11. this stream becomes the
Ruvuvu rtver.; and that becomes the
KAesra or Alexandra Nile and Smptiei
into Victoria Nyansa on IL west coast.
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1910-09-29
Oriental Love.

1t has been said many a time and
oft that Oriental women have not
been honored and loved enough. 1t is
impossible for US to understand the
heart and soul of races totally differ
emit in most respects from ours. Al
though they never do show 1t in the
presence Of third person. Orientals
love their women much indeed Love-
by them is not shown publicly by soft
words or kisses, pats and hugs. They
are often called ~henpecked," be-
cause they are so under the influence
az their women. Love is the food OF
the Oriental soul. A few Of the Amer
lean women think they will love just
90 long as they are loved. and the
consequences show plenty In the
divorce courts Such independent
spirit In love matters, such profit ana
loss and hsppy-go-lucky marriage
ways strike an Oriental as gross, In
nate hopeless materialism. or else are
utterly unintelligible to him.
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1910-09-29
Holy Roman Empire.

The Holy Roman empire, or German
Roman empire, began with Charles the
Great, king of the Franks, who was
crowned emperor Of the west In 800.
He proclaimed himself the representa-
tive Of the ancient Roman emperors
and asserted theoretical authority over
the nations Of west and central Eu-
rope. This empire was called holy be-
cause OF the interdependence OF the
empire and the church. In general It
comprised the German-speaking ma
tons Of central Europe and had for a
long time close relationship with
Italy.
I According to one authority the Holy
Roman empire was in reality the Ger
manhattan empire established by Otto
L. the Saxon king who was crowned In
Rome by Pope John XII. on February
2, 962.
At best this empire Of history was
ideal rather than real. It never actu-
ally existed in the form OF a genuine
central government. fully recognized
ny those within its boundaries.
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1910-09-29
Health.

The body has rights, and we have
duties toward 1t. The body Is the life
long companion Of the mind, and It
cannot be unimportant how 1t Ia
treated.
One unbridled passion Is enough to
destroy the beauty of life. One excess,
If 1t does no more, can mar the grace
and harmony Of the whole. "EIe that
striveth for the mastery must be tenn
perate In all things"
The duty Of q wise care for health
IL bigger than merely adding to our
personal happiness. To large extent
It determines tho efficiency OF our
lives. Many q man learns after It ID
100 late that he would have been at
for better and more work II he had
always preserved the sane and sensk
bic bearing toward the laws Of health
and life which experience teaches.
No one In these days has any excuse
for ignorance Of the common prac-
tical rules Of health. There arc q
good many popular books on the sub
jeot.--Hugh Black.
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1910-09-29
Mother Of 10 at IS.

Perhaps the limelight Of publicity
never would have shone on the family
Of Mr.. and Mrs. W. G. Seiglar Of East
23d street II the gauntlet had not been
thrown down.
Somebody down In Pensacola, Fla,
sent out news dispatch to the effect
that there lived there the mother Of
thirteen children at 81 years. Six Of
the Florida children were twins too.
and for this the Missouri family bS-
lieves the Florida folk should be PEN
allied few points. None of the Mis-
sourians are twins. And the Missouri
mother was only IS when the thir-
teenth baby was born. This, Mr.. and
Mrs. Seiglar believe. should establish
incontestably for Missouri the record.
They didn't appear at all grieved
over the situation when q visitor call
ed. All Of the children are at home
the eldest Is 10 and the youngest AZ.
Six are girls and six are boys. A son
died In infancy. None is married.
Kansas City Star.
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1910-09-29
How rhaeksray Worked.

II ecarte is to be held responsible
for Thackeray's appearance as an au-
thor, his erratic methods Of work
contributed equally to his early death.
He wrote invariably with the printers
devil in attendance.
81, can conceive nothing more
harassing in the literary way" wrote
Motley to his wife In 1858, than
Thackeray's way of living from hand
to mouth. l mean in regard to the
way he furnishes food to the printers
devil Here he is Just finishing the
number that must appear In few
days. OF course, whether III or well
stupid or fertile, no must produce the
same amount Of fun. pathos or senti-
ment. His gun must be regularly
loaded and discharged at command
should think It would wear his lie
out"
Motiey's fears were realized WIEN
In q few years.
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1910-09-29
HOUSE ONCE USED as FORT
Historic Structure Wa Built IN fs&3.
According 70 Tablet Bearing
tn History.

IN the town Of Rensselaer,, n. z.
which lies directly across the Hudson
from Albany. there stands an old
weather-beaten building to which IL
attached great deal Of historic In
terest and import. It Is unoccupied
and Is surrounded by tall weeds that
the hand Of neglect has fostered and
raised In abundance. It Is built Of
brick. IL two stories in height, and the
marks Of many years stand prominent
upon its battered front.
A large tablet on its wall stands out
boldly to the public gaze and pro-
claims that the structure Is supposed
to be the Oldest building in the United
States. The date of its erection. ac-
cording to the tablet, il 1912. The
building was erected as a manor house
and place Of defense and was known
as Fort Cralo. While marchinh to at
tack Fort Ticonderoga. in 1853, Gen.
Abercnombie made his headquarters
there. The tablet finally declares that
Army Surgeon R. Shuckburg COM
POSOu Ih0 pOpuioE uhIlOhaL pVhbp Aon-
kee Doodle" while upon the grounds
near the old building.
Gun holes may be seen in the front
Of the historic old structure, and the
old flag pole, standing on its roof, is
still prominent to view. Doubtless
there are many stories Of bravery and
courage which have never stolen into
the pages Of history connected with
this manor house Of the seventeenth
century.
The building is substantial even yet.
It will see many years of standing be-
fore the hand Of decay can tumble It
into ruin. The house is one of the re-
naming relics Of the days when our
nations spirit was tested and tried.
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1910-09-29
Ar. Lead. L.ncuso. and so..nos.

Art LoaoS Language aNo oosOUoo.
The fact is that art ls working far
ahead Of language as we'll as Of SCI
ence, realizing for us. by all manner Of
suggestions and exaggerauons, effects
for which as yet We have no name;
nay, for which we may never perhaps
have a direct name, for the reason that
these effects do not enter very largely
into the necessities Of life. Hence
alone is that suspicion Of vagueness
that often hangs about the purpose Of
a romance; 1t is clear enough to US
in thought; but we are not used to con-
slider anything clear until we are able
to formulate 1t in words, and analytical
language has not been sufficiently
shaped to that end. 1t Is not that
there is anything blurred or indefinite
in the impression left with us, 1t Is
lust because the impression is so very
definite after It's own kind. that we
find It hard to At It exactly with the
expressions of our philosophical
speech.-Robert Louis Stevenson.
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1910-09-29
THAT CLASS or BAD BOYS
Sunday School Attendance Enforced
win Trunk straps by 0od-Fear
Ing Parents.

Every Sunday school in the old days
had its class Z Of bad boys. They
would not have been there had not
God-fearing and consecrated parents
with trunk straps persuaded them that
such attendance was for their best
good.
A longsuhertng and sanity mother.
tn-Israel usually taught the bad boy
class, because she felt that It was her
duty. And she would rather have died
than shirk her dutyl It would have
been easier to have died! A mean
boy by himself is pretty bad. But put
from seven to ten Of him in class,
and the way the combination acts and
thinks would disgrace the reform
school.
Last summer on q visit to the old
homo I met several Of these bad boys.
Two Of them were in the Legislature
perhaps q national ending-and two
others represented the community in
the penitentiary. One was In bust
ness in the town and several had gone
west" and were trying to pick living
out Of reluctant communities In that
section.
have often wondered If the Sun
day school did that bunch any particu
lar good. Water is certainly wasted
on horse that is not thirsty. Still
If we are going to take trip through
the desert, is It not our duty to lead
the horse up to the watering trough
and kick him once or twice in the ribs
even II he will not drink?-Exchange
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1910-09-29
LIVELY TIME WITH PYTHON
Grew on Britlsh ounboat Has Exciting
Experience When Reptile
BrOalIs Loose.

Once when the British gunboat Rat
tier was in eastern waters the crew
had q lively time looking after q
python on board that got loose.
Besides the python there was on
board big Borneo orangoutang. The
python, which was 10 or 20 feet IN
length, having dined heartily on a
deer about three weeks before, began
to feel its appetite returning, and In
searching about It's box for place OF
egress found one side In bad repair.
It did not take the python long to
come through the weak part and.
quite unobserved, It began its peram-
Dulations around the boat
Seeing the orangoutang chained up
q few yards on. the big snake invited
itself TO q dinner very much to It's
taste. Il would have been all over
with the orangoutang had not the
quartermaster at that moment made
the discovery that the two pets were
about to be merged into one. He
promptly cut the orangoutang loose.
The latter was up the masthead be-
fore any mischief could be done, and
lieutenant, the proprietor of the
orangoutang. the quartermaster, and a
member Of the crew flung themselves
upon the hungry python-one at the
head, another at the tail, and a third
In the middle.
Then the fun began, for the python
wanted to get one of the aggressors
nicely in it's coils, and the men were
determined It should be kept out In
something as nearly approaching a
straight line as possible.
For a minute 1t was the LAGOON
group all over again, only In this case
the three men and the snake were
sprawling over the deck instead OF
standing upright in classic attitude
Reinforcements, however, arrived IN
hot haste, and about 20 blue1ackets,
each embracing foot Of python, re-
duced the reptile to comparative
Quiescence. The procession marched
back to the python's box. coiled the
creature inside. and shut 1t up. But
the orangoutang sat aloft In the mast
head q long time before he came to
the conclusion that he was OF the
menu for the day.
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1910-09-29
Bio Haul From a Georgia Troo.

A telephone message from Terrell,
Catawba county. Georgia, furnishes
the following interesting story.
Monday afternoon Luther and Les
ter Sheriff.. Fred Settlemire, Ransom
and Walter Fades sailed forth to rob
a bee tree" and taking their axes
they began chopping on the butt of
an old red oak tree measuring three
and one-half feet IN diameter. It was
not q great while until they struck
hollow and to their delight as well as
surprise out walked an old possum.
After carefully fastening her to a split
limb another raid was made, when
nineteen baby possums were captured.
The tree was finally felled and from
nearer the top they caught two pretty
gray squirrels, captured a swarm OF
bees and gathered a small quantity OF
honey.
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1910-09-29
Phosphorus In Human Body.


When a photographer attempts to
make a fashlight picture in a dark
ened room he sometimes uses a long,
thin metallic ribbon that blazes with
fiendlsh intensity. There Is yard and
a half OF this metal In the body Of the.
normal human being. Naturally, It IL
not In the form Of a ribbon. but is scat
tered all through the cells in the shape
Of metallic salt. The phosphorus and
the magnesium ribbon are rather cost
iy. Phosphorus Is worth about one
dollar a pound, and the matchmaking
materials in the human tissues would
sell for about $3.50 II weighed up over
the druggists counter In his prescrip.
ton scales. An ounce and half Of
r-agnesium costs 80 cents in the
chemical markets.
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1910-09-29
Points for chureh-coers.

A clergyman was smoking Cigar
under an oak.
my congregation coughed this
morning" he said, II could hardly
make myself heard. 1t was most an
noying."
WELL" said the physician. the
next time they cough, tell them to
press the upper lip just beneath the
nose. Pressing the nerves In that quar-
ter will stop the most obstinate cough,
and. by the same token. 1t will stop
a sneeze too.
I'll tell you how to stop the hic'
coughs. You press hard on the cheek
right in front of the ear. Those nerves
there control the hiccOughs as money
controls politics. You need only press
the nerves will do the rest"
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1910-09-29
mo MORE POLITICS FOR HIM
Abusive Campaign Tactics Causes
Uneb0 Zeke to Lose Confidence In
Fellow Citizens.

yes, sir" said Uncle zeke, pol
tics is a dirty business. You don't
ketch me mixin' in 1t any more.
Never again. know when I've had
enough"
you've been a candidate for Of
Osf"
"Wunst. That's enough for me-"
> Got beat, did your"
II Eyes, sir. got beat, but l didn't
mind that. It was the loss Of conf
dence in my Teller citizens. the findin'
out that our politics is rotten all
through, and that you can't depend
ON q mans promises. That's what
hurt"
WAS II an abusive campaign"
abusive? They circulated re-
port that had corns In the palms Of
my hands. They said I took out my
false teeth when cit my dinner. %
Lwouldn't wear EN- out. They charged
me with, cuttin' my stogiSs in two whom
/ smoked 'em. sos 10 make 'em last
longer. One O the papers printed the
Story that my grandfather on my
mothers side was an Algerian pirate.
they got a man 10 swear that l mover
had my hair cut IN the DARK Of the
moon. They accused me Of boic0Gin'
10 q non-church church. They AaA
I drunk my soup instead Of eattn' It
With q spoon. They said my breath
always Smelt Of onions. and that my
dog had heas."
What ONCE were you running forf'
Il was runnin, sir" answered Uncle
Zeke, with impressive dignity. ~for the
once Of coroner"
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1910-09-29
In Line.

Have you taken any steps to dem
onstrate that women are fitted for
modern controversy?
Eyes, indeed" replied Mrs. Voting
ton; I'VE have already named num-
Der Of e.igibles to Sapphire club"