The National tribune., 1911-04-13
HAYNoR and Greene are marched

HAYNOR and Greene are marched
out of prison and Abe Ruef is
marched in. A quietus is put
upon the activities of this Prince of
Boooters by a sentence of IL years in
San Quentin prison and he will now
nave nothing but the memory of that
brilliant dramatic career. which has
landed him where he is, to console
his lonely hours. OF all those caught
in reformer Henly's drag net he was
the cleyerest. Being a well educated
man of refined tastes and traditions he
would naturally be supposed to behave
himself but he was the most corrupt
and crooked of all those whom he cor
rupted and crooked. His parents were
well to do French Jews, and after a
rather brilliant college career Ruef
studied law and opened an office in San
Francisco. He was a handsome man,
large and well formed, with fine dark
eyes and heavy black hair and beard
Genial in manner. he soon had a large
acquaintance among a certain class VINO
frequented the French restaurant where
Ruef always dined, and from this ac-
quaintance his political power sprang
How his machine was built and how
1t went to pieces is too recent a story
TO repeat. AT one time he had the en-
tire city in his grip, and his anterooms
were filled with a picturesque lot of
people. ranging from millionaires to
patrolmen. He lived like prince For
some ten years he has eaten onIv the
-daintiest OF fare. and slept upon siIken
sheets. All the luxuries of a big city
were at his command, and this, with the
deference of politicians and millionaires
the idolatry of the great army Of the
un~ashed of his party, he must now
exchange for small cell in ST. Quentin,
prison fare, and the society of two
CRIMINALS who share that cell with him.
NTHo could fail to sympathize with
w the wife who left her husband
because he routed her out of
bed at sunrise and forced her to Join
MIN IN an excursion thru the fields,
minus shoes and stockings? Mrs. Hook
s'adter, the name Of this poor abused
lady, stood II as long as she could and
then packed up and went home to
mother. Mr.. HOckstadter has sued for
divorce on the ground OF desertion He
Is firm believer in the barefoot cure
IFE is made up of hard lines" A
while ago rather accentric
gentleman had a private inter-
view with a phonograph just
before his death, and to it confided
the secret that in q certain place
he had buried a considerable amount
OF gold. In his will he stated that
in five years after death this phono-
o iNNOANt DtCIl III
trusted to his lawyer for safe keeping,
should be read in the presence of his
heirs. The all important day arrived
The heirs assembled, awaiting breath
lessly the arrival of the lawyer with the
priceless record. The man of law ap-
pears. stubs his toe on a footstooI,
tumbies, and breakes the record into
numerous pieces, utterly destroying it.
Hard lines" for the heirs and no
mistake.
NTHEN Mrs. Charles T. Yerkes,
wv who has recently died, married
the wealthy traction man, she
DID not have promising prospect for
long continued happiness before her
the man who had proved false to one
woman is seldom entirely true to any
woman. In order to marry her, Mr.
1erkes was forced to divorce his first
wlte, the woman whose careful manage
meht had given him his start who had
stuck TO him thru thick and thin, and
VINO it is said, loved him in spite of
all MS Shortcomings. He married this
woman who has just died. and for 10
years she was happy. He was devoted
TO her, travelled all over Europe with
her, and apparently gratified every wish
of her heart. Then another face took
his fancy, younger woman fascinated
him, and Mrs. Yerkes was forced to
drink from the same cup whose con-
tents had rendered her predecessor SO
wretched, the poisoned cup of jealousy.
They separated. and after some years
the traction magnate died. Everyone
remembers how the widow conducted
herself after her husbands death; how
within year she entered into foolish
marriage with man greatly her junior
from whom she obtained a divorce two
months later. The various emotional