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two respects he resembIed George
. Amhorn s lamentCd pig-he was mar
row of mind and he has a place in
this story. ON this day when the
rivalry between the two lines had
taken on tangibility in the form OF the
Cotton Specials. he recalled afreSh n
little scene i'm his Supcrintendent's
oiiCe. ana could hear quite CLEARLY
that outciaIs judicial tones as he SAID.
IT'S two TO one. bowman. Tho en-
glnccr and fireman both say that Won
displayed no red light. and their re-
put1uons are fairly good. I'm going
10 give You the benefit of the doubt
however. and retain you in the ser
vice but not at Woods Gap. After a
ten-uaN l3N-OH YOU will report for
day work at Dover Tower. The salary
VIII he sixty dollars per month-five
less than YOU are getting nOw--and
the w. 6. $. will pay half OF IL.
That's all, except that, being in the
employ or both roads. you Will re-
main strictly neutral in any cases of
preference that may arise"
Bowman had lied gloriously and
consistently in the matter Of the red
hSht INT instead OF secretly congrat-
ulatnS himself on retaining any lob
At all. he had stalked sourly down
stairs, where his grudge had been
double riNeted and Clinched by the
fireman IN the case. who waylaid him
and gave him a most magnificent
I licking. SO he hated the Shore Line
IN his little soul and up until the
time that he was discharged for his
part in the incidents yet to be re-
lated. gaD the w. CT. S. surreptitious
informatiSG about its business. More
over, in the race of the cotton trains
he had MP a small bet with the local
yardmaS e@r who was not OF the w
G. S. persuasion.
The stars were fading as the first
F1tty-three slowed down and stopped
10 chanSe crews and engines in the
I Cnnch River yards at the beginning
or Mckely's division. the mountain
me George Amhorn. Just six hours
on mail run. was I'm the cab OF the
hrsa of the two, coupled engines that
We're waiting for her there-reckless
lrasclbie, cranky, lOVable old George.
who had Skated on the thin edge OF
losing his Job for so long that he was
almost law unto himself Indeed
when Mekelly had fired" him one
uaN long since. George had worked
SIX weeks for nothing, refusing TO be
discharged and declaring that the
ROAD could not he operated properly
without him. Now, whenever there
was an extra fast train to be made or
an extra hazard to be Undergone il
was '"orS" who was sent for. And
oINu In" Call-boN who went in search
OF him met the pld man who had
IN some manner gotten wind of II
on his way to the rOundhouse to
protest against being sent out "A pro-
test that usually insisted on his going
Oh TINS occasion he had done with
only five hours sleep i'm order that he
might get chance to take the spe-
cil north, and ne had wheeled HAYES
INTO letting him have the run The
alr was being coupled up and the in
SpectorS hammers were still ringing on
the wheels, when Amhorn made the
maj round with his oil can before the
long pull ahead. Young Oliver Nc
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Sentenced TO Silence.

Two Minneapolis boys were recently
ordered by Judge c. l.. smith in Mu-
nicipal Court not to speak TO each
other for a year. The boys were under
arrest. charged with disorderly CON
duct. The probation officer told the
judge that he had received complaints
about their conduct.
After listening to the officers story
-Indge Smith sentenced the boys to
sixty days in the~workhouse. He -sus-
pended sentence. ana put them on the
most rigid term of probation ever laid
down in Hennepin county. Judge
Smith told the boys that they must not
speak to each other during the period
OF probation; that they must stay at
home nights. keep away from pool
rooms and saloons, and attend night
school.
The New York Supreme Court JUS
tice who issued an injun ction restrain
ing a farmer from speaking TO his
wife for thirty days. pending n hear
ing on the wife's application for ALI
mony and counsel fees in her suit for
separation. doubtless proceeded on a
different theory. He may have had in
he lovers philosophy that h.
witches the heart grow fonder
arrive ant, accompanied by his
Wharveded the domicile of his
al the tighter several times while
nor 49, order was in force. and
N- Eponsible ill. oDsar,.nS 49, r. -
QnSHceS Slment
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SLAP HER FACE If SHE
SEARCHES POCK FITS
PROVIDENCE. special-

PROVIDENCE, Special.-Judge c
NJ. Lee Monday tried the separation
suit brought by Elizabeth T England
against John +. England.
The Engiands have been married
five yeas. AIRS. England testified They
had three children and had been liv-
nS happily until a short time ago.
one night. she said. Mr.. England ar
lived home about A. NJ. and curIed
p OF the floor. she thought he was
S!tcp and started to go through his
pockets in search of a watch and rine
which she said belonged to her Mr..
England woke up and gave her a slap
in the face. She tried to go through
his pockets again and testified he gave
her Kick in the back. Under cross
eXamniation Mrs. England said she
mad struck her husband i'm the head
with a shoe.
Judge Lee told the awycrs the cou-
pie ought to become reconciled. They
said they Nc:'R do what they could.
'But you must tell your client" adj
monishcd Judge Lee. with smile in
addressing the wife's lawyer, that she
must not go through her husbands
pockets again. A man is justified in
slapping his wife If she goes through
his pockets"
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DID BACON KILL
SHAKESPEARE?
PROFESSOR EXPECTS TO FIND
HEAD OF IMMORTAL BARD IN
st BTERItANEAN CRYPT

LONDON, Special.--The proof that
Bacon wrote the plays credited TO
Shakespeare is not the solo OBJECT Of
the ella borate digging in the bed OF the
River Wye, at Chepstow, by Dr. OrVille
w owen, of Detroit.
DIR. owen declared that the cipher
which lac believes will guide MIN 10 the
original manuscripts viii also reveal
indisputaOle proof that Bacon muir
dered Shakespeare and concealed his
head in the library, which ne hid below
the river.
Dr. owen expects 70 find the head Of
the Bard Of Avon in carefully sealed
box. lie stated today that ~ he should
md the manuscripts and fail 70 dis
cover the proof Of murder his search
Will have been only partly successful.
Encouraging progress has been made.
At depth Of seven feet below the river
bottom the sounding rods struck a
solid strata of masonry and rocks and
clay. When these were removed Nv O
working platforms of oak were re-
vealed. suggesting a possible excava-
ton below. Dr. owen Will dig beneath
the oak framework, which is covered
by thin layer OF blue clay. foreign to
the river bed. -..r E.
The Duchess OF Beaufort Is financing
the remarka BILE search, which already
has cost $4,000. She follows every de
tail OF the work. At her bedside is a
telephone through which Is transmit 70
ted to her every discovery made by the
diggers. Her automobile takes Or.
owen to her castle at Bennington twice
a week, when she goes over the charts
with him and discusses the work.
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Japanese Auction.

To the unintJiated the announce
ment OF a real Japanese auction meant
real japanese goods. but persons wis,
IN the ways OF auctions know that il
means lot more than that
1t means for one thing. silence. '
said a woman. AN un-Americ;nized
Japanese auction is a kind of Oriental
quaker prayer meeting. People do
not exactly wait for the spirit to move
them before making "A bid but they
go about as silently as if meditatins
I'm Lenten retreat.
Nobody has anything to say. or il
he has he exercises a powerful r.
straint over his emotions and refrain>
from saying il. Even the auctioneer
holds his tongue. Every article that
he offers for sale is simply held nm
for inspection.
The wondrous vocabulary with
which Occidental auctioneers pro
claim the merits of their wares has
no place in a Japanese auction room
the dramatic thrill of going. going
gone is never felt. Purchasers write
their bids on slip of paper and send
II up by a page. There is no hurry.
Every body has time TO count his
change and make up his mind how
mGch he thinks things are worth and
how much he can afford TO pay.
When the bids are all in the auc-
tioneer coolly turns over the article
to the clerk with the highest bidder
offer and takes up the next thing on
the list. Unless people wish to talk
afterward nobody will ever know what
anybody else bid. not even the price
paid by the successful bidder. AS a
popular diversion Japanese auctions
will never rank high in New York
but as study OF national customs,
an occasional Japanese sale has value 3"
New York Times.
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FAULTY TRACK
CAUSED WRECK
Charged That Defective Rails and
Ties Was the Cause
Of Death.

EASTON. PA, SpeciaI.-With eleven
dead and two dying IN hospitals as "A
result of the wreck Of the school
teachers excursion train SATURDAY. af-
ternoon at Martins Creek the ac-
Iual investigation aimed To fix the re-
SpOnsibllity was begun today This
is being conducted 10y Prosecutor vii
nam Sarkyo and Coroner Michael
Kenny, of Warren county. Nj in
Whlch the scene OF the accident is To-
Gated After the completion of the
preliminary investigation an iuou. 81
Will be had.
The inquiry today was chiefly di-
rected toward ascertaining the condi-
tloh OF the track on the Belviderc
DI&hch OF the Pennsylvania Railroad
where the disaster occurred after ~
LackaWanna compauy'S train was
switched onto the other line. The Off
claiS are attempting to learn whether
the cGndition of the road was resuon-
slbIe. II has been charged that many
81 the Ties were split and decaved and
Ihat some of the rails were frayed
anu the outer edges splintered
The probably fatally injured in the
hospital here are: Miss Augusta
Leight, teacher of New Hartford
and George ". Parsons. of Lambert
Niile. y. j.; fireman OF the wrecked
train.
Miss Carrie Rutherford. of Utica. y.
! e. who was believed to he dying last
night was much improved today.
Ihere are eight other patients in the
hospital expected to recover
Agents Of the PENNSYLVANIA Rail
road attempted to see the patients
this morning. hut the hospital author
titles barred them on orders from the
physicians.
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curious suggestion that, instead of
trusting 70 cats and dogs as anima
assistants in IN way on rats. we should
take lesson ir..-a :utiquity and again
MAKE domestic tctS of the big non
Nvnomous snakes. The Professor even
goes so far as TO hint the IEsculapian
serpent was an object OF Nyidcspreu =
respect for the excellent reason that
~ kliI"d the rats that brought the feas
1l't injected men-probahiy with
moro plaques than one
RMS theory involves the belief that
,he "hclehts knew lot about the ma
turc, cause and transmission of di-
seas" that was afterward forgotten and
only recently rediscovered IL win
probably not he accepted 10y MANY. but
whether true or not, Professor som
non. whether serious or not does max.
out quite a case for the iireside snakes
as "A rat-killcr. Judiciouslv selected
ITS efficiency would be beyond o,Ies-
uon. and II would not. like both cats
ana dogs, itself provide the fatal flea
WIN convenient shelter and pasuragc.
New York Times
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MAY Be HANGED
FOR HER CRIME
Wealthy Prisoner Charged With
Murder of Painter in Vermont.
Case Promises Sensation.

GUILD HALL, VT, Speciality
s'dSS setting IUr the trial that may
SEM another woman TO the gollo,vs
IN vermont was completed MONDAY
morning and the town was filed with
VISITORS, hoping TO witness the ordeal
OF Mrs. j. Marshall Dodge. or I.pnen-
4 OUTS whose arraignment on tho
IHW Sc OIL shooting William Heath 10
oealh was scheduled. During the morn
ing the Essex county courthouse was
beaeged by those who hoped TO gel a
SIM psS or Mrs. Dodge, wh0 is one Of
I tiie pest known and WeaIthiest resi
dents of the county.
mrs Dodge, who arrived from. ber
rome accompanied by her counsel
spent Inc night at the home OF The
y I'm, ana betrayed no apparent anx-
IvN over the outcome of the trial. The
preparations FOR the prosecution -
peen secret. although a great orrs,, -
Witnesses have been summop,d H.,
DoISe herself Will take the. stand
Inc case Is one Of the mos; rr.,,orl-
aoIe I'M the history of the S,,ts nnd
PROMISES To be replete with senso,
IONS Heath was shot TO .eath Las,
( SSptehber in the Dodge r.Sidence
IhSre was no witness to the nurdor
Il was believed that Heath had cor1
htted suicide. hut the autoDsv show.
ed inns To be impOssibie
oIly-HNe men We're summoned fo-
+ me Hrst panel, from which a iurv j.
20 De selected. but another panel NAV
pe necessary. The last woman hanged
IN vermont was Mary Rogers ybose
SAeSuIlon aroused a storm of protast
throughout the United States
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Culiough. who woald take the mail
OUN ten minutes behind the first sec
ton. leaned from his cab window
anu urged the old engineer to give
Nun plenty OF room after he got under
way Georges reply was utterly un-
printable. Make him mad enough
ana he'll get there before he starts -
was one OF the division proverbs con
cerhlhg MIN. In another moment the
conductors lantern sirnaled fas the
start. the whistle on the first loco,no-
i've spoke twice. and the Cotton Spec
iaI was moving again. And when
ever George thought OF MCCullough's
ttinark about plenty OF room ne an
srlly let her out another notch until
before his mind had REQUIRED TO il
many times the two moguls were
numbering along through the sum
nler dawn at very nearly the limit OF
their speed.
Forty miles south OF Damascus
junction parallel line OF railroad
came into view on the right. This
was the Shore Line which ran within
a hundred yards of the w. G.. 5. with
d county turnpipe between them for
tWenty-SiN miles below the interiock-
ing tower at Dover. Almost at the
same time George caught above the
sound Of his own train the roar of
another. and out of the woods lust
IN the rear burst a Shore Line freight.
double headed for the mountain
grades, thirty cars loaded with cotton.
and making every inch Of fifty miles
n IN nOur' Amhorn took up couple OF
notches first and swore afterwards
Ihats the train were racing" he
yehed at his fireman. Hit il up
down therei were going away-from
mere. And go they did. Both train
crews had taken in the situation in
stantly. At the interlocking tower
at the crossing ahead one train or the
other 10 pass in front Of il, and the
one that reached there first would
nave the right Of way. Fast as they
mao mao oeen running before they went
raster now. To beat the other train
to the interlock would be a matter to
crow over for months, even years
10 come. Furthermore. HOlcOmb
wanted the cotton moved. The fire
men stocked like Furies. the light of
battle in their eyes. The drivers were
flying blur, while the dust arose
in clouds behind the madly Ieaping
cars. Clinging desperately 70 the
brake wheels, members Of the two
crews h0Wled across to each other
Jeers and insults which were drowned
in the tumClt about their ears. The
birds and wood creatures fled in terror
from the mad monsters that awoke
the echoes for miles with the thunder
Of their race. An elderly white horse
drawing load OF produce along the
turnpipe far ahead glanced back at
these diSturberS of the universe and
was Smitten with such fright that he
sat down in the shafts 70 await his
doom. In second he was passed.
Country station agents shrank back
against the little depot walls with
their eyes staring i'm wonder and
chung to their caps. First one train
and then the other would he ahead
old George only took his gaze from
the rails long enough to shake his fist
out the cab window at his racing rival
All four engines were carving eVCsr
pound of steam their pop-valves would
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he would alight on American or Can
adian soil when the train did leave
the rails
The telegraph poles made n solid
wall ana the mile-posts looked like
picket fence" was the way he after
ward desert bed Il.
Two calves and a mule. their value
enhanced three hundred per cent. by
violent death, were reported to tho
claim department before midnight
but the cotton was moving. Steadily
as clock, swiftly as an arrow, Stubby
moved II, his face aglow with the
hSht mat came to him with his 10y
I'm the running. Mile on mile ninuta
after minute flashed by. Through
eight counties I'm half as many hours
ned the racing special until the miles
ahead OF her dwindled and melted
away INTO two and across the river
the tai, slender shaft of the Washing
ton monument came into sight. Only
then did the pace slacken and the
sun was still high when the long
bridge across the Potomac vfbrated
1hder the speeding trucks OF the w.
u. >. Cotton Special, forty minutes
ahead OF the Shore Lines train and
sure OF victory. Dusk had not vet
taIlen when bulletins from Holcomb's
once We're being posted at the divis-
read:
"Our Cotton Special first Fifty
three, of July 17-1S. reached Jersey
CITY hfty-seven minutes ahead OF the
competing lines train. Congratulate
lions To all Concerned. D. A H"
To Amhorn and Sullivan went let
ters that they will hand down to their
grandchildren.
Two days afterward old George.
tramping home To supper from the
yards. was turning over i'm his mind
once more the flight OF the cotton
trains and the events at Dover Tower
when he met Abe. coming from Tho
direction of the Shore Line. For one
embarrassed moment the two men
faced each other in silence. tho,,
Blackman fished a bill from his pocket
and for the first time in years he
spoke to his former crOny.
Here's ten dollars for that pig I
had to shoot, George" ne said. "and
you're white man"
You 20 to Pittsburg." RrowIed
AmhOrn. III not take your money
The pig was worthless. a mere runt
And l reckon you belong outside the
penltentary yourself Shakei"
wcnt have il. l tell YOU" George
continued. The pig was the runtiest
ever saw. II was a disgrace to NV
family I'm glad you Killed il. I
wish IL had been two pigs so Won
could have shot both OF them. What's
more, we've been a couple of old
Amen" said the other. An sup
pose we both go down To Dover to
morrow and kick that little operator
VIII help his morals and It's some
thing that he is hungerin' an thirstin'
after What say your"
q, We needn't" responded George.
heid speech with him myself while
We were getting over the crossing
ANA when / passed through there
yesterday he was still doing his tele-
graphing standing up"
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and what HolComh said usually went
As the wires hummed with final
preparations news came that the
Sh"r" Lines train had left New or
leans. but the w. g. =. men only
grinned and hustled little harder
than before. The other road had al
together nearly a hundred miles the
longer route,
Reports and orders poured in and
out OF headquarters aud in the cN-
element of the coming contest men
forgot the heat. Then. even as the
switch engines in the Crescent City's
yards pulled and tugged and gangs
of negroes strained at the loading
derrickS, came further word that all
the shipping CenterS of the South
would be drained 10 help relieve the
pressure, that the movement would be
much heavier that at first expected.
Beat the Shore Line" was the gist
OF a private message TO HolcOmb from
the President himself. out over
hundreds Of miles of wire went forth
with yet moro Of the General Man
ayers own galVaniC energy. The der
ricks swung faster. the negroes sweat
ed and toiled furiouS'v under the
promise of double pv' and a water
melon apiece. As quickly as they
were loaded the cars we're bounced
upon and borne swiftly away And
always came the h1cSSa@ts from head
I quarters, Hurry. hurry. hurry" 4
mighty consolidated slid easily down
to the head OF the observation-disclosures
string Of cars and a bucking. snorting.
changing switch engine rammed n biz
red cahoOSc ViCiOusly in at the other
end II was thirty minutes before
FlftN-three was scheduled TO start.
and the Cotton Special was ready.
| But the Mississippi division despatch
ers were ready too. The train wires
snapped and clattered with the quick
! clear -. the despatcher's can that
is law over all traffic. Trains were
headed into slidings, given meeting
orders. brushed aside here and there,
. that the way might be clear. While
the copper threads were yet busy
with orders for the far end Of the
division. the big engine breathed
the couplings clanked and grew taut
Then the monster roared her i'm
patience through the stubby stack.
the drivers spun on the polished sur
face OF the rails. and the special
strE he'd forward with fast-grou-inp
speed on her thousand-miIe race. For
once freight ran as first Fifty-three
and from twenty to thirty minutes be-
hind her the big 1861 hurtled between
the cotton fields with the five mail
cars Tor New York and took her dust
as the second section.
All through the afternoon and into
the night came reports of the specials
progress. Division after division took
her up and sent her its length She.
was gaining on the Shore Line ira -
and would probably pass Dover Tow
er. where the two roads crossed. be-
fore IL did.
Mart. bowman, the operator in that
tower, spent his spare time durir.,
me afternoon informing Bancroft Of
inc whereabouts Of the Shore Line
Coton train. For the tOwerman bore
the shore Line a grudge Somewhat
VindictlNe of spirit was Mart. and i'm
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MADE HER HEAD
LIKE A RAINBOW
BUT y. Y. JUSTICE DISMISSED
FILM THAT SOLD "RESTORER"
To AGGRIEVED WOMAN

NEW YORK, Speclal.-Mrs. E1iz-
: aDeth j.. sherwood, a stylishly dress
cd woman. who described herself as
teacher, lecturer and actress. ap-
peared in the City Court Thursday be
fore Justice Finelte and jury t.
prosecute an action against Isidor
Straus and Nathan Straus to recover
$1,000 damages for injuries alleged to
nave been sustained by her owing TO
her use Of a hair restOrer known as
La Mira, which she purchased al
the department store Of r. II. Macy
& Co.
Mrs. Sherwood was represented bN
Wood K Wood. Mrs. Harriette Nj
johnston Wood conducting the case.
Rogers u Rogers appeared for the
defendants.
Justice Finelitc dismissed the ac-
ton, holding that as the hair restorer
sold 10y the department store was in
the nature of. Il proprietary medicine
they could not he held liable either
Cor negligence or breach of warranty
Mrs. Sherwood alleged that on
April I. 1910, she purchased the prep
aration, which was recommended 20
her rs harmless. She avcrred her
scalp and different parts of her body
broke out in patches and sores with
great irritation, itching and pain"
She was unable to sleep. she said.
and suffered great mental and physi-
cal distress. and was unable to con-
tinue her professional work.
She said her hair turned nearly all
the colors of the rainbow and swore
the saleswoman in the store recon-
mended the restorer as good thing
and one on which she could rely. Miss
Josephine Sherwood corroborated her
m others testimony
Counsel for the defenda nts asked that
the complaint be dismissed on the
ground that 1t was not shown that the
defendants claimed anything for the
medicine. whose properties were set
forth on the bottle and in the direc-
lions which went with II.
Mr.. and Mrs. Wood argued that the