Semi-weekly herald., 1910-01-17

York ice king" Is being kept by I'm
Gle Sam. 1t is far cry from Sherrys.
Rector's and other gilded caravan
saries to the simple board of the fed
eral penitentiary. This report shows
that the entire cost of a prison there
for a year is no larger an amount
than Morse in his palmy days often
paid for dinner at one of these, epi-
curean palaces. Morse is doubtless
living at a less cost per day than he
ever paid for his poorest cigar at any
time during his financial career.
| A statue of Gen. Lew Wallace of
Indiana, soldier author and diplomat
was unveiled Tuesday in statuary hall
az the national capitol in Washington
Governor Harmon sent to the Ohio
legislature when 1t convened Wednes-
day his message concerning the high
price of foodstuffs and the advisable
ity of a legislative investigation there
| of He adds interest TO the message
by suggesting that laws enacted by
congress may be responsible in
measure for the trouble and asking an
investigation of this point.
| The case of Lucetia Carpenter,
negress of Oyster Bay, l.. l., who is
| slowly turning white, is puzzling ply
| sicians. Save for some dark blotches
on her face, she looks like Caucas-
sian and her hands and arms are as
white as those of a white woman.
During the period of the change she
became the mother of a son, who was
born with red hair, although his skin
was black.
| Failing by the power of his lungs
to compel the attention of the engi
neer on No. Z, Baltimore & Ohio
westbound passenger train from charg-
ing into a burning bridge, near La
Porte, Ind, Wednesday, Carl Wascher,
| l6 years old, waved a red handker-
| chief The man at the throttel took
notice of the danger signal and
| brought the train to a halt within ten
| feet of the flames. To the chance
presence of Wascher scores of pas
sengers owe their escape from death
or serious injury. A purse of $100 was
given the lad.
Carey Benson of Newark, s. D., was
found nearly frozen to death in a
snow cave under Sully Buttes, forty
miles north of Pierre, S. D.. along the
| Missouri river, and brought into Fort
Sully, on the military reservation Sun
day. For nine days Benson. Texas
gun-man of repute throughout the Da
kotas, has fought cold, hunger, thirst
| fatigue and the binding glare from
the snow in pursuit of Daniel Cant
who shot and killed Benson's friend
Louis Maxwell. in Englevale, N. d.
Thanksgiving day, and fled with Q
price on his head.
Mrs Zenas Finney, living in the
west part of Princeton, Ind, was saved
from a horrible death Wednesday in
an unusual manner. She had called
her daughter, Miss Jessie, over the tel
ephone, when, without warning, the
daughter heard a .clattering of the
instrument and was unable to get hei
mother again. She hastily telephonet
a neighbor to Investigate, and wher
the neighbor ran into the Finney home
she found Mrs. Finney unconscious
with her head almost in an open fire
place. Mrs. Finney had been suddenly
stricken with paralysis
AS a result OF a mass meeting oi
farmers and business men held Sunday
at Melrose, Curry county, N. NJ, it Ii
stated that $4,000 acres Of land will
be irrigated by means of power from
the Central Electric pumping plant
which is to be constructed without de
lay. over 10000 acres had ben sign
ed at the meeting and twenty-five farm
ers, several miles north, have agreed
tC make up the remaining 5000 acres
il the plant is enlarged so as to sup
ply them with power The contract
has already been let for the installa
ton of the plant. This means pros
perity for the people in Curry county
as tnere is unlimited water at deptn
verying from 100 to 800 feet. Dry
farming there has always previously
been the only feasible method
One lone man stood before 200 WON
ell Monday afternoon in Chicago and
lectured on women's dress When he
had concluded he was besieged with
questions and had an answer for each
The lecturer was Professor William
Thomas of the University of Chicago
and his audience was composed OF
the members of the University guild
who gathered in the assembly hall of
the Orrington Lunt library. DO you
think 1t a just accusation to say that
women dress only to please men ?''
was one of the first questions put by
a member of Professor Thomas audi.
ence. NO" was the reply. Il regard
it as sort of feminine competitive
game. 1t is the natural desire to ex.
cell in thing in which they arc
vastly interested and causes a great