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The Mathews journal. (Mathews C.H. [Court House]) 1903-1937, 1912-10-10
Morrison OF China.

His is a strange career, a curious
and a rare personality. His house in
Picking is on the Hatamen Street, out
near the Ketteler monument. which
marks the spot where the German
Minister was shot by the Boxers dur
ing the siege Of the legations in 1900.
by foreigners and by English-speak-
ing Chinese this street, one of the most
important in the Tartar city, is often
called Morrison Street" 1t is char
acteristic of him that for many years
he has preferred to live beyond the
walls and the conVenenceS of the le-
cation quarter, but, although he in
habits a Chinese house, he resides in
1t not as the Chinese do. 1t is a very
spacious and comforta BILE residence;
four buildings, or "chien," surround
ing an open compound, all separated
and hidden from the street by a high
masonry wall through which q small
postern door admits you to the in
terror. 1t was always grateful, sharp
change to step from the confusion,
dust and noise of the crowded street
across the threshold into Morrison's
peaceful, sunny court, as clean as a
hospital and bright with flowers. 4
more redoubtable bachelor does not
live than this Australian wanderer. but
he has surrounded himself with the
material comforts and household dis
cipline OF domesticity, as one NAV co
in the East where five good servants
can be maintained on what it costs to
afford one bad one in this land or the
free.
When, in 1900, the Boxers belea-
guered the legations at Picking. DR.
Morrison was one of the most gallant
of the defenders. He was painfully
wounded and reported dead in Eng
land, but, though the files of the Lon
don Spectator still contain an elo-
quent obituary tribute to him. he
llVed himself to write the best account
OF the memorable siege among the
torty-three English versions which he
has collated in his library. When the
treaty which closed the Russo-Japa-
nese War was being negotiated at
Portsmouth, DIR. Morrison, sitting
quietly on the veranda of the Hotel
Wentworth. acquired by sheer force of
personality in that assemblage of dip
lomatists and journalists a position
only second in importance to the pleni-
potentiarieS themselves.
This, then, is the man who has been
called TO the position, unique i'm the
history of China, of political adviser
10 the Recommendations Marvin
in Harpers Weekly. '
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AT EIGHTY WANDERS
TWENTY-FOUR HOURS

NEW YORK Special An old
man, bent and feeble, approached Pa
trolman Black, of the East Twenty
second Street Station, at Lexington
Avenue and Twenty-third Street,
Thursday afternoon and said:
Have you seen my collie dog? 1
have lost him."
The man was asked his name and
residence. He replied:
Really I can't remember anything
except that ] have lost my collie Dog
If you can find him maybe everything
will come back"
At Bellevue HospitaI John NJ. OIL
colt, YonkerS, n. Y" was found in
the old mans hat, and he was iden-
titled as the J. NJ. Olcott who left his
home, SO Leighton Avenue, Yonkers
Wednesday afternoon. for a walk with
his collie dog. When he did not re-
turn Wednesday might, his son-in-
law, Harris Anderson, secretary Of the
Title Guarantee and Trust Company,
with whom he lived, asked that a gen.
eral alarm be sent out for him.
Mr.. OlcOtt, who is eighty years Old
is believed to have walked from Yon-
kers to New York without food from
the time he left home until he was
found. He will be taken to Mr.. An
derson's home today.
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will dominatc the convention re-

will dominate the convention re-
Sardicss of Wilson's desires.
Senator O'Gorman said con-
corning Wilson's statement:
Il am heartily i'm favor of his
stand, and shall do all i'm my
power to make this convention a
free and open one"
Charles +. Murphy, Tammany
leader. when told OF the Wilson
challenge, snOrtcd. then snapped:
Nothing To say
Congressman William SuIzer,
the Progressive leader. said:
The Progressive element i'm
the Democratic party of this
State will use every effort 10 make
this convention of the people
and not of party Bosses"
But there is n general feeling
that the man who will be nomi-
mated for the gOVcrnOrShip is the
man who will be chosen by MUIR
ply.
''Thc platform that the con-
vention will adopt will he dictated
by Murphy" the politicians say.
And SO il will be with the nomi-
nation of the State ticket and the
selection of chairmcn, temporary
and permanent"
DNHpAtC uCIC-
gates 10 the convention were
elected by direct vote of the
people, instead of chosen by coun-
~ committees as i'm former years.
and the fact that dozen anti
Ianmany factions will unite in
an effort TO crush Tammany. Muir
ply and his supporters are de-
clared 10 be in position where
they can get just what they want.
Murphy has not under his i'm
mediate control a sufficient num-
Der OF delegates to put things
across" unaided. but he has
enough to block any move that is
objectionable TO him, and with
this as club lie can force the
trading of his support for "fa-
VOrites."
There was n report i'm circuIa-
ton this morning that Senator
O'GOrman and Murphy had Sc
cretly Joined hands. Murphy
could not be reached for a dis
cussiOn, but this question was put
To O'GOrman:
What have you to say in
answer 10 a report that the re-
ported quarrel between you and
Mr.. Murphy is untrue, and that
the real facts are that YOU two
have formed an aIIiance?"
OGOrman heSitated "A moment
and then said:
Il won't discuss that"
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FORTUNE, TOLD BY
CARDS, COMES True

NEW YORK Special Six long
years ago, through summers glow
and winters snow, Miss Helen Lynch
OF soy East Forty-first Street, sat at
the telephone booth in the Hotel Ger
ara before she met her fate. Her
sister, Mae, married a Western miner
year ago and he took her to the
far West with him.
But Helen did not despair. Two
years ago her intimate girl friend.
Miss Phoebe Levins, told Helen's for
tune with the cards. A king of dia-
monds showed. No girl could ask q
better fortune than that. Phoebe told
her she would meet tall, fair man,
that his pockets would bulge with
money, that he would love her as no
man ever loved a woman. Helen be-
lieved the prophecy.
The very next week the tall man
appeared at the Hotel Gerard. He
wore a diamond scarfpin and the ciink
of gold came from his pockets as he
paid for the telephone call. Several
times the man came for more tele-
phone calls. Then he said:
This is beautiful weather. Pity you
can't enjoy some of the sunshine"
Helen agreed ii was very nice
abashed:
Would you care to dine with me
tonight. Miss Lynch?"
Helen did not care to dine that
L,
even though she learned the fair tall
man was William Sandlass, owner OF
a hotel and most of the pebbles at
invitation. But the man from New
Jersey was persistent and at last one
evening she dined with him.
Yes" confessed the young woman
Wednesday from behind a large trunk
she was packing, Gin two years our
friendship has become real love. He
is fifty and L twenty-five. That makes
twenty-five years difference in our
ages, but that is nothing when a man
loves you.
HE has given me gifts and taken
me to dinners and plays. He has been
perfectly splendid to me ever since
went out with him the first time.
Just few days after we met he put
over real estate deal which gave
him large profit and he told me he
thought l had brought him luck. So
he gave me the name Lucky Billiken,'
and he has called me that ever since.
A few months ago l gave him q gold
Billiken with diamond eyes to show
him that L appreciated the name.
we became formally engaged
about month ago and. of course,
Immediately left the Gerard and have
been just rushing around ever since
to get ready for the wedding. 1 sup
pose you want to know where we are
gOlng' We'll, first we go 10 Baltimore
Tor week or two; then to Pamunkey
RIVER TO see the Indian reservation,
and we end up at Palm Beach. Fla,
where we Will stay all winter. There!
Now, make a nice story out of IL.
won't you?"
Mr.. Sandlass married his pretty lit
tie telephone girl in st. Agnes Catho-
lie Church at 1880 Wednesday night.
The dark-haire0 fortune teller.
phoebe Levine, was bridesmaid. and
Henry Schad, treasurer of the Belasco
Theater, was best man. After the
ceremony they all went to Louis Mar
tins for supper.
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1.-THE Open Shop"

We do not believe in the open shop.
because we do not believe there are
any good open shops-alI are bad and
some are worse. The union carpen-
ters, by united effort, established a
working day consistent with our pres
ent-day civilization and established q
MINIMUM wage; any man not capable
OF earning that minimum wage in the
carpenter trade has missed his call
ing, and perhaps a good lawyer or a.
good policeman has been spoiled bv
having his talents misdirected; he
should choose some other walk in life
more in keeping with his qualifica-
tons.
Any member of the carnentar,s
union who has demonstrated To bis
employer that he is worth more than
the minimum rate is at liberty to ac-
cept remuneration commensurate TO
the value of his services. and no nro-
test Will be forthcoming, unless per
chance from a jealous fellow-worl-
man.
The open shop that paws its em-
ployes anywhere near the minimum
established by the union does so he
cause IL knows that its employees can
JOIN the union and secure employment
IN union shops or jobs. This condi-
ton is taken advantage of by the en-
PACSSS, anu lIlGy secure the aDDrOXi-
mate equivalent of the union rate
without being obliged to contribute
dues or assessments to a trade-union
that through its efforts has benefited
the non-union man as well as mem
bers of the organization. This is what
we might term keen business acumen.
but questionable principle.
This kind of an open shop gives en-
couragement to the proprietors OF
others not so well situated, and the
union man finds himself confronted
with open-shop products manufac-
tured by women and girls who work
ten hours per day and receive from
eight to ten cents per hour, as is the
case at the present time. Naturally
the members of the carpenters union
are fighting desperately to prevent
the one hundred and eighty mills and
factories in and around New York
which employ union men from becom-
ing storage warehouses for wood
trim and doors manufactured under
non-union conditions, and at an aver
age wage oftentimes less than one
half the minimum established by the
unions and for a week of sixty hours
or more.-Elbridge II. Neal, in the
May number Of The North American
Review.
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THINK THAT MANIAC
Committed The CRIME

QUINCY, ILL., Special The
Chicago police today Joined the
local authorities in investigating
the murder OF Mr.. and Mrs
Charles PfanSchmit, their dauoh-
ter Blanche, and Miss Emma
Kaempen at PaySOn, a few miles
from here. IL has been definitely
aScertained that all were slain
while asleep. The house was subj
bodies of the victims almost in
cinerated.
IL Is the belief of the CHICAGO
ponce that a maniacaI ''axeman"
VINO had previously caused the
deaths of several families i'm rho
Mlddle West, was responsible for
the PaySOn tragedy, bringing the
total number of his victims 10
twenty-five.
Previous wholesale murders as
cribed to the aXeman are:
Henry T.. Wayne, wife and
child; Mrs. Alice May Burnham
and two children, i'm Colorado
Springs, Col; Joseph Moore and
family of five, with two visitors
Edith and Blanche StiIIings. near
Villisca, Iowa; William E. Daw-
son, wife and daughter, Georgia.
in Monmouth, ILL.,; William Show
man, wife and three children, I'm
Ellsworth, Kan.
Assistant Chief of Police Her.
man Il. Schuettler, of Chicago. is
inclined to the belief that the axe
maniac is the man who half con-
feSsed he beheaded Mrs. Jennie
CIeghorn in a hotel at 81 West
Seventeenth Street on the morn
ing of January 20, 1910.
This man, GaIeSkO EncheVy.
was subsequently depOrted to Bui.
garia, but is known to have
sInuSgled himself back into the
United States.
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HEROES OF THE WORLDS
SERIES FROM 1903 UP

19OS-Pitcher Bill Dineen (Boston
American League VS.. Pittsburg Ma
tional League).
19O4-NO series played.
1905-Pitcher Christy Mathewson
(New York National League VS.. Phil
adelphia American League).
19O6-Third Baseman George Robe
(Chicago American League VS.. Chi
cago National League).
19O7-Catcher Johnny Killing (Chi-
cabo National League VS.. Detroit
American League).
19OS-FirSt BaSeman Frank Chance
(ChicagO National League VS.. Detroit
American League).
1909-Pitcher Babe Adams (Pitts-
burg National League VS.. Detroit
American League).
1S1O-Second Baseman EDDIE Col
Inns philadelphia American League
VS.. Chicago National League).
1911-Third BaSeman Frank Baker
(Philadelphia American League VS..
New York National League).
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Trial Is Begun,

SALEM, MASS. Special.-Three hun
ureo ana nifty veniremen damned the
court room OF Judge Joseph f. Quinn
Caruso for murder. and Joseph ]. Ettor
and Arturo NJ: Giovannitti, as Access
the death of Mrs Anna Lopizzo in the
textile strike at Lawrence eight months
outside the Essex county building
many guards were stationed, because of
rumorS that members of the Indus
o oTi9 iMor6ers Of the World Of which
were leaders, might attack the building
ana attempt to rescue the prisoners.
This is one of the most extraordinary
cases in the annals of Massachusetts
because of the character of the indict-
ment which charges completely in the
murder Oh q woman during a strike
rlot; TO the leaders who preached a
All the forces of labor are lined mn
against an Interpretation of the law.
Whlch makes that a strike leader can
pc De punished for all the excuses of his
followers or even the actions of the
forces of the law during a riot or dis
The prosecution must prove that
Caruso was responsible for the DEAN
OF Mrs. IopizZo. Then it must proceed
aIong dlnerent lines and prove that by
Ettor and Giovannitti We're accessories
before the fact even though they never
saw Mrs. Lopizzo or had any intention
There is a strong army of legal tall
ent on each side, the lineup being as
For the government-District Attor
ney Harry c. Atwill and Assistant Dis
trict Attorney Burke.
For the defense-Attorney John p G
Mahoney of Lawrence, chief counsel
for Ettor; Judge James H. Sisk. of
Attorney W. Scott Peters of eHI ayerhiIl
counsel for Giovannitti; Attorney Fred
II. Moore, of Los Angeles, and Attorney
George w. Roewer. of Boston. associate
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Can SOLVE ALL
MURDER MYSTERIES
RIG MoND. vA.-special.-l

Il G III M o N d, VA.--Special.-
"A novel method of solving murder
and attempted murder mysteries has
been devised by officer William
lynn, OF Forest HILL which will
.uOuotieSS be of great assistance to the
ponce world, and which, when put
INTO general practice, will effectively
uhraNel any criminal tangle to which
it is applied.
The new method was evolved by
OIilcer Flynn during his investiga-
uon OF the case of eHnry Bruce, the
negro found sometime ago near For
est I'm with throat cut. The negro
was In dying condition, and it was
only after the most patient and he
rolc work that doctors have managed
TO save his life.
OFFICER Flynn has never learned
VINO attacked the negro. The man
nlmSeI1 says that he was set upon by
Inree men, who tried to kill him.
IheSe men are still at large, but Off
Ger flynn procured a warrant charg-
ing that Bruce had inflicted the in
jury upon himself, reasoning that
Bruce was certainly hurt: that some
one must have hurt him; that mas
much as the real criminals could not
De round the victim himself-in the
mergency-would do.
Some might think that it was diff
cult Tor Officer Flynn to procure the
warrant. He experienced no trouble
Whatever. it being promptly issued by
MAGISTRATE l.. w. Cheatham.
me warrant, being an unusual
document, in effect charged that
Henry Bruce unlawfully and felo-
niously being in his right mind, did
upon himself, the said Henry Bruce
intlict a razor, etc"
When the case against Bruce was
called before Magistrate Cowan at
oak Grove Saturday the Common
wealth's Attorney of the county was
present OF course he directed that
the warrant be dismissed, and Bruce,
the criminal, who was unlawfully and
feloniously in his right mind, was lib
Grated.
Some weeks ago a young woman
was found dead near Bon Air. That
she had been brutality murdered was
apparent The mystery has never been
solved. 1t can now be completely and
eXpeditiously solved, however. 1t only
remains for an officer TO dig up the
body and serve a warrant upon it
charging that the woman ''unlawfully
and feloniously being in her right
mind" did crush her own skull, cut
her own throat, mutilate her own face
and leave her own body abandoned
in the woods.
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TumbO'S SOIiIoQuy.

Years ago / said I'd never for q
third term make endeaVor: that wac
when / reeked of virtue and NV CON
science was on edge; and it beats NV
comprehension why there's so much
public tension over such a triflinp
matter as a little broken pledge. Oh
your Harry, Dick and Thomas seem
10 look upon promise as a thing
that's almost sacred, but that view is
quite absurd save for men of low CON
dition; one who stands in nv posi-
ton is superior to morals, and NAV
break his plighted word. Ry the
highways and the hedges let the rab-
Die keep their pledges-honesty's a
splendid system for the common class
or skates; but my promise doesn't
matter when l hear the frenzied cIat-
ter, when ] hear the loud kyoodIe of
the Seven Magistrates What's the
use of being Tumbo, famous as was
Barnum's Jumbo, If I'm bound bv
superstitions of the stern, old-fash-
Toned kind? What's the use of being
Teddy If conservative any steady
mossbacks with a narrow vision roast
me when I change my mind? I am
loaded down with laurels, and 7 do
not care for morals, and I make NV
own commandments, make them as 7
go along; and whate'er I saw is
proper; mine to choose 'twixt truth
and whopper, I am in the right for
ever, and the other fellows wrong
Walt Mason, in Harper's Weekly.
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II. C. Wells, writing a piece of
fiction in the October American Mag
azine, makes his principal character
discuss salvation as follows with his
wife:
You see.' he said. I've always
believed in salvation. 1 suppose a
mans shy Of saying so-even to his
wife. But I've always believed more
or less distinctly that there was some
thing up to which a life worked-ai-
ways. It's been rather vague, I'll ad-
NIT. / don't think I've ever believed
in individual salvation. You see. I
feel these are deep things, and the
deeper one gets the less individual one
becomes. One has an individual voice
or an individual birthmark or an in
dividual old hat. but the soul-the
souls different. 1t isn't me
talking to you when it comes to that.
This question of what we
are doing with life isn't a question
to begin with for you and me as our
selves, but for you and me as man
KIND. Am l spinning it too fine.
No she said, intent; go on
You see, when we talk rations
here, Marjorie. it's ourselves. but
when we talk religion-it's mankind.
You've either got to be Everyman in
religion or leave it alone. That's nv
idea. SalvatiOn's a collective thing
and mystical thing-or there isn't
any. Fancy the Almighty and me
sitting up and keeping eternity to-
gether! God and r. A. G. Trafford.
r. r. S.-thats silly. Fancy a man
in number seven boots and a tailor
made suit in the nineteen-fourteen
fashion sitting before Godi That's
But Coo and mani That's
sense, Marjorie"
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HOW CnreIoSS,

Jimmie Britt, not the pugilist, but
the circus man, tells a story illustrate
ing how soft-hearted and sympathetic
some of the ringmasters are when the
acrobats get hurt. The heroine of the
story was girl who did the four
horse act, the siX-horse act. the
trapeze and the flying bar. for all of
which she received the princely re-
Enumeration of $40 a week.
One day she fell forty feet from
the trapeze and, landing precipitately
and ill-advisedly on her left wrist.
broke the bone near the elbow. The
ringmaster ran up and sympathized
as follows, with certain profane re-
marks. which are here excluded:
What in thunder do you mean by
falling out Of that trepeze? I'm a
son of a gun if some of you ginks
don't try to put a crimp into this
show every time we lift the tent!'-
The Popular Magazine.
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new YORK Church
PREY TO FLAMES
PRIEST RISKS HIS LIFE TO SAVE
VESSELS FROM THE
FLAMES.

NEW YORK Special-While hun
dreds of Italian members of st. Lucy's
Roman Catholic Church knelt in the
street praying chat the building would
be spared, fire consumed the church.
The Rev. Father Philip Leone. one
of the curates, dashed through the
flames and rescued the sacred vessels
from the tabernacle.
1t required a dozen police to drive
back the worshipers from the burn
ing building.
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Little st. Louis Girls smoke

ST. LOUIS Special Gov. Had
ley will soon be asked to grant permits
sion to the Missouri WOman's Christian
Temperance Union to circulate a pc
ution among the prisoners in State
do away with saloons at the next cleo
ton.
This announcement was made at the
day.
Girls not over ten years old, in some
or the society homes in st. Louis, are
smoking cigarettes" said Mrs. 10. b
ingalls, in a speech.
Not only here, but in other parts of
girls putting cigarettes, sometimes in
their homes" she said
Mrs. ingalls, pleaded with the dele
gates to use every effort in helping
enforce the law which prohibits the
sale of cigarettes or cigarette materials
to persons less than eighteen years of
age.
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Army OFFICER
KILLED BY FALL

WASHINGTON, D. c. Special
Striking the ground with terrific force.
when the guiding rope of the aero
plane refused to work, Corporal Frank
S. Scott, formerly of Ridgeway. Pa.
was instantly killed late Saturday, and
Lieutenant l.. G. Rockwell, who was in
charge of the Wright fier, so badly
injured that he died two hours later.
The accident occurred at the army
aviation grounds of the College Park
school, twelve miles from Washington.
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PUPILS EARN MONEY
WHILE THEY STUDY
CINCINNATI. Specia1- Cincin,

CINCINNATI, Special Cincinnati
boasts of a school where it is possi-
BILE for the pupils to earn their pin
money while going through their
studies. This school is known as the
School for Retarded Pupils and is for
those who have fallen three or four
years behind their proper grades,
chiefly because of sickness.
Mixed with long and dreary hours
of study the pupils in this unique
school are given an opportunity of
making candlesticks, pincushions and
calendars, which they SELL An item
lied account is kept Of each pupils
work and the amount of time put in
on it, and they are paid accordingly.
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sql ssIIdIns ol na1un.

a member OF the London County
Council was regretting the lack of art
sense displayed by his fellows when
they placed an open space at the dis
PosaI OF the people. He pleaded elo-
quently for fountains, goldfish in orno-
mental basins, lions and uniforms in
stucco' and emerald green garden
Why" said he, in a splendid
peroration, we want something home
~ and country-like-a little arbor
mere ana there. If a foreigner came to
TINS country and asked to see one.
we've never an arbor worth showing
to show him " s
Then up and spake another member.
VINO, prior to attaining the height of
MS civic ambitions. had been a petty
officer in the navy.
oh. we 'avent, 'aven't we? And
wot about Portsmouth 'Arbor?"-Au-
gust Strand.