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New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1912-08-07
10000.
Death Revealed Peculations.

Colonel Cornwells peculations came
to liRht through the death OF Mrs.
Alice l. Darlington Derrick. a wealthy
widow, OF West Chester. Penn, whose
husband left her $4,000 in trust. She
employed Colonel Cornwell as her
counsel He had access TO the strong
box where the trust funds were kept.
Unknown 10 Cornwell Mrs. Derrick
made a will. In which she named Will
lam p. Sharpless and Alfred d. Sharp
less as executors. Mrs. Derrick died
ten days ago, and the trust funds were
TO have been turned over 10 the execu-
tors upon the return OF Colonel Corn
well from camp last Wednesday. When
the executors looked into Mrs. Der
ricks holdings. they discovered that
between $4,000 and $4,000 IN stocks
and bonds was missing.
Cornwell Is supposed TO have used
these as collateral In his dealings In
the stock market. He Is said to have
had accounts with three stockholders
In Philadelphia.
Three Of the missing bonds belonging
to the Derrick estate were identified
and notices sent last Saturday TO the
philadelphia and New York Stock Ex-
changes not to permit Of their negotia-
ton. II was this notice which is said
70 have warned Colonel Dyer, who Is
connected with a stock brokerage house
in New York. Of the fraudulent char
acter of his transactions with Corn
we'll. and which led to Colonel Corn
wells arrest IN New York.
Dead Commanders Family.
Colonel Cornwell's family Is one Of
the most prominent In Pennsylvania.
A brother, William, is a graduate Of
Boston Tech" and holds a responsible
position with the Pennsylvania Rail-
road Company; a sister. Martha. is a
sculptor, who has exhibited IN the lead
ing art exhibitions in this country and
abroad and was favorite student of
MacMonnies: another sister is the wife
OF DR.. Joseph II. Hemphill. IT,. son OF
the presiding Judge Of the Chester
County courts. His father. Captain
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1912-08-07

Robert T. Cornwell. served in the Civil
War and subsequently assisted in the
reorganization of the state militia. lie
Is about eighty years old and has
served in innumerable positions OF
trust and honor in West Chester and
Pennsylvania
Colonel Cornvell leaves a widow, a
daughter and three sons. ranging in
age from two TO ten years. Colonel
Cornwell was a graduate OF Yale.
Colonel Cornwell, who was arrested or
broadway OF Monday night on a COM
plaint alleging that he was a fugitive
from Justice, and according TO the war
rant brought here yesterday BY Constable
William Mullen. is charged with larceny
of three $1,000 bonds belonging to an es-
tate which was intrusted 10 the legal care
OF his law firm, Of Cornwell & Cornwell.
of West Chester. Penn, agreed to return
20 his home and face the charges pre-
ferred against him there.
Upon agreement the charges made
against Cornwell here were dismissed by
MAGISTRATE Herman, in the Tombs police
court. and the accused man started for
West Chester, Penn, with Constable
Mullen In the afternoon. The detectives
who arrested Mr.. Cornwell found in his
nosession a sealed envelope containing
8, aa4s sum corresponding to the
amount realized by him from the sale OF
two OF the bonds he was charged with
,sk,ne from an estate. The third bond in
question. Mr.. Cornwell said. could be
found In his office.
Colonel Cornwell had not been in his
borns since his regiment broke camp
AZ gettysburg last Wednesday. He came
20 this city. and lived in the Hotel Van
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EXCISE coNrERREEs wRANGLE
House Leaders Object and Com.
promise Plans May Fail.

washington, Aug. s-The conference
committee on the excise tax bill made no
progress to-day toward reaching COM
nron,,se Objections OF Democratic lead
ere Of the House threaten TO defeat the
plan. which the pemocratio-Prosressive
Alliance OF the Senate believed would be
carried through without friction.
The conferrees on the sugar tarin bill
thus far have failed TO have a meeting.
An .nor. will be made to adjust differ
ences in a conference called Tor to-mor-
row.
The wool tariff bill was signed by
Sneaker Clark and Acting President
bacon of the Senate to-day and was sent
10 President Taft.
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PARENTS CASH REVEALED
Son. After 20 Years, Finds Father
Had Bank Account.
- Tcl.granh to The T1bune.


Fshkill Landing y. Y, Aug. 6.-John
Flannery. "A wealthy retired hotelkeeper'
has Just discovered that his father who
died twenty years ago, had large de-
noslt IN the Newburg Savings Bank.
When Mr.. Flannery called at the bank
to make a deposit Of 5000, the proceeds
Of tho sale of property. he was interro-
gated by the treasurer. Thomas Balse.
ss 10 his parents. His answer satisfied
the bank Official that he was the son OF
the man who two decades ago had de-
posted the money.
Mr.. Flannery has brother Patrick hv-
ing near Nowburg and a sister residing
in St. Paul. They will share equally In
the bank deposit. which has moro than
doubled since It was left by Patrick
Flannery.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-01-26
QUAKER NEGOTIATIONS.

TFrom the Philadelphia Record.1
A blasted hope should always be put
out of his misery.
Dumb luck may be the result of keep
ing ones mouth shut.
A man never realizes how many friends
he hasn't till he needs few.
Can a political candidate make clean
sweep without raising the dust?
Fortune doesn't always knock when a
woman is having her Eat home" days
It doesn't cost any more effort for some
people to laugh than for other people to
worry.
You can't always judge of a woman's
standing from her efforts to get seat
in a crowded car
"A fair exchange is no robbery" quoted
the Wise Guy. Then it's too bad some
people can't change some of their dollars
into sense added the Simple Mug
Hubbubs-"So you don't agree that the
age of miracles is past, eh?" Subbubs-
Not on your life. There's a man out
my way who has had the same cook for
nearly a year
Hoax-~Your friends, the brewer and
the doctor seem to be great friends"
tor rejoices in the fact that the brewer
makes people ale
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SAYS UNCLE CIV

A good many men, who are afraid
of being slaves, should rather be
afraid of being useless. For myself,
1 had rather be a valued bond servant
than a worthless freeman.
The supreme curse is the inability
or unwillingness to work. Thank
God for work!'' cried one of the san
knew. 1T keeps me from going
crazy. And there is more philosophy
in that fervent outcry than in all the
picturesque lunacies of the bitter
Nietzsche, who declared that who
soever has not two-thirds of the day
to himself is a slave no matter what
he may be otherwise"
Most of US have a dangerous delu-
sion in regard to freedom in the Metz
scheian sense We work only as much
as we are compelled to work, and re-
lease from the tasks which we are
wont to say enslaVes us would resuiI
in an immediate degeneration into
parasitic idleness. The average man
who has two-thirds of the day ito
himself is useless all day. And not
even the ingenious Nietzche, with the
cunning born of his own peculiar mad
ness, has attempted to tell US how one
may be useless and happy.
He who fears becoming slave to
his daily task has better remedy
than fleeing from it. Freedom lies
not in escaping toll, but in conquer
| holding the hand. but by approving il
not by hating, but by embracing
whose gives his all to toll, lntelll-
gently. gladly and lovingly. is not
slave, but master. He becomes the
driver. not the driven; not the mere
passed instrument. but the directing
genius.
breaking Of stone there here is doW RIldo[
sfamns the work of his hands with
his own Persopaity na whose ih% sn Puts EN- +
With that bloom which is art, an6
the artist in wood or, or iron r or marP hs
called house. picture or ditch, is the
lord of no mean domain~the mastei
of things and men. Upon your at
fitude toward your task depends. anc
upon that only, your CONDITION e,l,
toll bear you down, you are slave; Il
it upIift you you are genius And bS
this token, Nietzsche and all his trips
of toil-terrified neurasthenics shouic
have sought physicians rather th al
| publishers (Copyrlghteu 1917 ny
E WilliamS.)
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Neither wise nor yet discerning.
All her little store of learning
Consisted of such tribes as she had
learned by chance.
In her talk she was not witty,
And you couldn't call her pretty,
Yet she never lacked admirers nor for
partners at a dance.
In face and form this fairy
Was-Well, very ordinary;
Her clothes were inexpensive-the women
called them loud;
But at every ball and party
. her reception was most hearty
rom the men, who all would gather
about her in a crowd.
She was tiny and soubrettish,
And just a bit coquettish.
But for music. art and .~----s she had
no gifts at all.
Her fortune was most meager
Yet all the men seemed eager,
On the slightest provocation at her little
feet to fall.
Her cooking was atrocious-
1t would make a man ferocious:
BUT by men this girl was voted most
engaging elf.
eS, every man who knew her
Persistently would WOO her
For-she gave him rapt attention
while he talked about himself.
Chicago News.
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flies f1uffed over the foot of the fun
skirt. Truly, Elinor's feet, beneath,
like little mice, played in and out
Her mass of fair, wavy hair, Simply
parted and coiled low, went beauu-
fully with the gowns lines. Alto
gether, she was picture, the sweetest
picture in all the world to one pair OF
eyes"Tazeweu Gray's eyes.
He had hung about Dora hair a
nor's attraction. Commonly he had
seen her in the world of workaday-
fragment of the huge machine
known as public education Rosy and
rose beset, he knew her for what she
was=the woman of all the world to
fill and crown his life.
He strobe toward her, forgetting all
else. But before he came to her.
Allan Muir had whisked her off in a
waltz. Indeed, for a fall hour ne
could not get near her. Outblooming
the roses of yesterday, she put even
Dora in the shade. Partners, the most
finicky, the most eligible, swarmed
about her-her card was full IN q
tWinkling. BY way of keeping the
peace she even parted dances between
the young fellows she knew best
| Tazewell would have no such part
nership. Audaciously, in the face o.
an eager partner, he drew Elinor ou
on the piazza to say:
| Girls of yesterday didn't fiirt-
you look the part-are you going u
| live up to it?''
| "No=because I don't know how
Elinor murmured, dropping lightly To-
ward him.
| Then and there he kissed her-quitt
forgetting Dora.-(Copyrighte 1917
Associated Literary Press.)
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GLOBE SIGHTS
BIZ THE ATcHTsoN GLOBE.

It Is getting SO that if a man says any
thing he talks too much
Strength is des1ra bic In its place. Out
that isn't on the butter dish
To the average man, water meter
looks like a penalty on cleanliness
Visits. like lectures. and presidential
messages are apt to be long enough
A man usually celebrates his vacation
bv smoking so much he cant rest
A social favorite must feel tough TO
think he has to get to work on Tune
some men who seem important wouidn [
if thew didn't have a private ofrlce.
Failure to sneeze when one has
bunch in that direction, is a Great Dis
appointment. -.
to realize on an investment pefoTe they
make it
Victory doesn't make rebellion sue
cess. what comes after must be an inn
provenent to do that
So many fools have money that parting
them from it will continue to be 4
profitable occupation
some women marry for money, and
others wed Nat Goodwin and get d.
vorced for the same purpose
Be it ever so good, no man enjoys a DIN
uer SO formal he doesn't know which fork
or spoon to tackle first
Our notion of nothing to worry about
IL sleeping accommodations for delegates
! tn a political convention
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JNYHAWKER JOTS

One of the things that Is the matter
these days, thinks the Village Deacon
of the Osborne Farmer, is that they
don't cook enough turnips.
It is wrong to say you can't cash
Dreams insists the Marysville Advo-
cate-Democrat. We have done it many
a time-just before we woke up
A Michigan professor has invented
new alphabet with nine letters dropped
out, notes the Ellinwood Leader and It
adds: 1t is to be hoped he has omitted
I. Q. u" and &C o. d.
Miss Anna Carlson of the Lindsborg
News points out that the fact that a
delicate brown is no absolute guaran-
tee that she is a good cook.
Having gotten rid of LaFollette. the
Emporia Gazette is now busily en-
gagged, says the Osborne Farmer, in
trying to force the great common peo-
pie to make Grounding day a national
holiday.
The people wouldn't kick so ALFRED
much on their taxes, says Bert Walker
in his Osborne Farmer. if Uncle Sam
would put some of his money into a
good circus and send 1t around about
once a year
Times are certainly better than they
were forty years ago" said Bill Sliv-
ers to the Toronto Republican recent
AAd0 ~ pay - OC4ASS Q BONAAN
for chewin' tobacco then Now I can
buy a pound for 5 cents.
Advice to chicken fanciers from the
Toronto Republican: It will soon be
time to get your last springs Incubator
out of the handbook and polish it up
for use. 1t is best to try it ont with a
setting of china eggs until you get it
perfectly regulated.
Commenting on the story in the Over
brook Citizen about it being SO cold in
its vicinity that a cat in jumping from
I a hen house to the ground was frozen
/ stiff in the air and remained suspended
until the next day. the Scranton Ga
| zette says: Now that is what we would
/ call Catalepsy.
This is really not the season for
snake stories, but the spirit of exag-
! geration seems to prevail and every
day or two we hear of some rabbit
stories that are hard to believe. says
the Colby Tribune. Fellows t-lI about
! shooting three and four at one shot.
! Charley Patton came in this week
with a bunch of scalps and informe ed
us that IS of the rabbits were killed
with 43 shots. He explained that the
| rabbits came in of an evening to his
stockyard in large mum bers and very
often he would kill four and five with
one shot
No wonder Kansas rabbits are tax
en- occasionally for antelope. Read
| the following from the Troy Chief:
| John Trant brought to the Chief Of
fice last Saturday, a rabbit which was
a freak It was shot a few days be-
fore by his son. Ellis Trant. on the old
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CHATTER LxXxIY.

| CGo1den Rules and other Comment
Few people are aware of the care
that a daily newspaper takes to cor
rectly report the happenings of the
day. It must be remembered, how
ever that a daily newspaper Is a hur-
ried product; that it must be produced
on time and that the newspaper must
give the most careful statement pos
sible.
In this connection an eastern news
paper has some excellent rules. They
are not the set rules of this Office, but
are good rules, nevertheless.
Changing the name of the paper to
the State Journal, the rules would
read as follows:
GOLDEN RULES.
The following rules or instructions are
posted in the local and EDITORIAL rooms
of a prominent eastern newspaper They
are so good that this paper copies them
here for the purpose of giving them Il
wider circulation in newspaper orfices,
substituting, however. the name of the
eastern paper for the name OF thus
paper:
when grossly exaggerated state
ments are made by a reporter, or copy
reader, such reporter or copy reader
win be asked for his Immediate resig-
nation
ASK QUESTIONS.
Inc pOllCy OF the SLdLe JOuAAd4 - ~
please as many people as possible Re-
porters will be held responsible for I'M
pleasant articles or expressions, unless
they act under specific instructions
from the editor in charge. NO reporter
is permitted to decide questions Of this
kind. He must ask for instructions
NO SLANG.
Thieves slang and slang of all kinds
must not appear in the State Journal
Members of the staff will be held
strictly accountable for any infractions
of this rule. The State journal is to
talk as a gentleman should.
NO
Accuracy. The State Journal is to
contain no exaggeration of facts Care
must be taken to state accurately the
truth If a $4,000 transaction is de-
scribed, do not call it a 100000 trans
action. If some one dies leaving
100000, do not say he left 100000
The state Journal must be reliable in
all things, as we'll as entertaining,
amiable, and well written.
All of which shows, gentle readers
who read this paper. how difficult it IL
to be good. or charitable.
Speaking of the pronounced Taft
sentiment in Kansas, reference is here
made to the five columns of brief
comment published elsewhere in this
issue.
Also speaking of the presidential
situation. Representative Nicholas
Longworth, Roosevelt's son-in-law, is
quoted as being anxious that his faith
er-in-law should not accept the nom
nation even if offered believing that
no man can win a third presidential
term Being asked to give an express
sion, he is reported to have said furth-
err in connection with his visit with
the colonel yesterday. Il find that my
distinguished father-in-law is thor
oughly capable of speaking for him
self"
(Chapter LXxxv Tomorrow
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-01-26
KUaqOR or THE DIP

"why did you shoot at me2' Took you
for a deer" Didn't you see my bright
red coat? Does a deer wear a bright-red
coat?'' mo; / thought IL seemed rather
odd as I shot''-Washington Herald.
The Married Mani tell you, it's when
a man falls into misfortune that he APP
preciates a woman. The Single Man
You bet It must be a handy thing
sometimes to put all your property IN
your wife's name.-Puck-
Have you read anything about this
rrrirco-Tfaiian warp I'm lust beginning
to catch up with II. They showed poor
Judgment in getting UP war just at the
end Of the pennant season. '-Pittsburg
Post.
I'm financial trouble2 What - it7''
ooh, / promised 70 pay Brown SO today.
and I've got Ii, and he knows I've got Il,
and he knows 1 know he knows I've got
itl"-Puck.
ITS the first ST 900 that's hard to get"
explained the eminent millionaire Il
I've been trying TO accumulate Il for the
last forty ars.'-Bouisvilie Courier
Journal
General Mana ger--It Will cost million
to equip the rolling stock with safety
It cost for accidents last YEAR, About
100000" Then ] guess wen continue TO
take a chance. Life
Look. Edna, that's count NodouEh. the
famous dueIist" Ibid he Kill any one2"
''Only since he took to driving his own
auto-'-Juoge-
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ADHER Using Talks

Mr.. Lewis H. Clement, whose acquaint-
ance I first made when he was an active
spirit in an effort to suppress puzzle
contests in piano advertisements. has
established a record in Toledo, Ohio, in
his connection with the Whitney & Cur
rier Co.
This house has been in business fifty
two years. Its business was operated sue
cessfully by following the usual methods
that Is, an occasional special sale-but
they never harmed their reputation by
not making good.
dence as any piano concern in the west.
Mr.. Clement, when he went there, had
some fixed ideas about the management
of a piano business, and the board Of di-
rectors of the company gave him full
swing to act as he saw fit.
One of his ideas was that one price.
and that as low as possible, was the
proper way in which to run a business,
So starting fifteen months ago the Whit
price system. The results have been very
gratifying.
The elimination Of special sales for the
first few months discouraged some OF
the statesmen, and the business. did not
thrive as quickly as was expected. but
all were agreed to stick TO the plan Of
operation. They did and finally won out.
In November the business Increased 96
per cent over November, 1910. and in De-
cember it increased IS per cent over De-
cember. 1910.
Mr. Clement recently took a fuIl-page
advertisement to explain to the readers
Of Toledo newspapers the methods adopt
ed by piano advertisers who did not sell
according to the Golden Rule.
He explained wherein some Of the piano
announcements we're deceptive, and how
they fleeced the public. It was an edu-
cational advertisements and was very eff
fective-
AS an illustration Of the confidence
established in Toledo by this firu7-a lady
telephoned to the store. said she wanted
a plano and that all she could afford to
spend was $500. She said. IF you will
send a man to my house 1 viii give him
5000 and viii leave it to you to select a
piano at that value, feeling sure that
what you will sell will be all right
This is an unusual happening and is
the direct result OF doing business in
~ CTo be continued,
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POINTED PARAGRAPHs.

rFrom the Chicago Newsl
Most politicians expect piums ard get
lemons.
If Ananias were living today he would
have lots of competition.
A political dark horse is nightmare
to the others in the race.
Everything comes to him who waits
including all kinds of hard luck.
The young man who asks girl Tor
kiss wastes lot of valuable time.
It's awful1y hard for an honest man TO
looked an outlaWed debt in the face.
Money isn't everything. but nearly ev-
erything worth while represents money.
Lots of things would go without saying
If women would give them half chance
Take care OF your pennies-and the
chances are your dollars Will be blown in
by your heirs
Every time a young man calls on a girl
during leap year she thinks he thinks
she will propose
A man may be grateful for what he re-
ceives but It is difficult for him to be
thankful for things that are withheld.
When we encounter a man who is long
on words and short on works We wonder
how much his wife earns by taking In
washing.
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'eThe biggest tip / ever saw given
a waiter in my life was bestowed by
the late John W. Gates in Paris" said
man who is accustomed to be gen
erous in that line himself
This happened about ten or twelve
years ago. Gates entertained a party
of about a dozen of us at the Ritz
Hotel, and had the little private din
ing room on the right as you go to-
ward the restaurant. Before the meal
was finished Gates called for olivier.
the head waiter. John never did sue
coed in getting that mans name right.
"'O1iver' he said, heres a little
something for you,' and he handed
him a 900 frame note (S2OO) I told
Gates he was foolish. and that he was
spelling things for the rest of us. but
he guessed he knew what he was do
ing New York Sun.
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JOURNAL ENTRIES

It's easy to misplace things, includ-
ing blame.
X
Nor is the "hot-air, vented by HUI
mans of any service in cold weather.
A change for the better is the only
possible one with many people
X y y
Ananias seems to be the only Bibli-
cal character who is emulated to any
extent these days.
X
Be careful nowadays in telling a
man that anything is "as black as
your hat More than likely his is
gray or some other color.
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It's strange that some Of the Roose-
welt enthusiasts have not met the no
third term" cry against their favorite
with the argument that the Colonel
did not serve two terms of his own
as president. It is true that he was
only elected to the office once It is
also true that he has stated that he
has considered his presidential service
as comprising two terms But this
ought not to deter his friends from
insisting that technically he has only
served one term OF his own. The fact
that the Colonel some three years ago
said he would not be a candidate again
and that he has since said he is not
a candidate doesn't hinder his ardent
admirexss for political purposes from
pressing his candidacy.