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The Mathews journal. (Mathews C.H. [Court House]) 1903-1937, 1912-07-11
THE Webbing CAKE
WAS never CUT

NEW YORK Special A Won
urouS wedding cake, uncut. canary
blru anu bridal gown OF let were
eAhlblted W Wednesday to a Jury before
supreme Court Justice Blackmar in
broOkiyn as the last tokens Of tn.
love between AIRS. Charlotte +. Law.
OF 1928 HalSey street, and former Al
derlnan Sani-ei l.. Myers. owner of
the iron pier and Pier Hotel at Rock
away Beach Mrs. Law is suing him
promise of marriage.
Inc plalntltf admitted she was sixty
years old. Myers is eighty-three and
was married before Mrs. Myers was
porn. lie was WidOWer when. il is
/ 3LeSed, he proposed marriage To Mrs.
Law on June 20, 1902. She saws he
continuously repeated his proposal
until September, 1906 In the latter
month Myers went 10 Boston and
| married Miss Ora J. Whitney, sixty
day.
In the summer Of 1901 7 had bust
ness with my real estate broker. and
at his offices 1 was presented to Mr..
Myers, said Mrs. Law. When l went
10 the office again, a few days later.
clerk told me the alderman had
taken a great fancy to me-
Her Story OF Proposal.
Soon after my father died i'm April.
1902, Myers began u call AZ my home.
FROM that time until shortly before
ne married Miss WhitnCy he called
| sometimes twice a day. and sent me
about 200 love letters. on the even
ing of June 20, 1902. he came in late
IN the evening. I said, You look Just
IKE my father lie patted me af-
iScuonately and replied. Old girl, I
expect to be more than father to
you. want TO he your husband.
on re here all alone. and I'm lone
some too. Suppose we get married.
I toll Ii I g. |,
that"
y week afterward. Mrs. Law con-
inued, Myers entered her real estate
office at 1926 Bushwick Avenue and
found her in 6ars. Her pet canary
had died.
He made a pretext to get me
away Mrs. Law went on, and when
! returned l heard a canary singing
upstairs. Alderman Myers laughed
at me and said my bird wasn't dead
at all-that l had only imagined it. 1
went upstairs and learned that in my
absence he had got another bird and
put il in the cage"
Cake That Was Never Cut
At that point two attendants
brought in big bundles. which were
placed on the counsel table. Uncov-
cred they proved to be a bird cage
and bird. a great wedding cake, a jet
gown and one of blue velvet. There
was also a mass of fetters.
How did you get this wedding
cake?" asked DR.. Emmett d. Page
Mrs. Laws counsel.
THE alderman gave it to me on
New Years Eve. 1903" she replied
He intended it for a New Years cake,
but he suggested we keep it for a
wedding cake. 1 promised to keep it
and l have kept the promise. The
cake is intact"
Mr.. Page put in evidence letters
written by Myers to Mrs. Law. After
scrutinizing one dated June 6, 1902,
Justice Blackmar asked her:
What are these little crosses for 20
They stand for KISSES" she replied
Then there were two kisses on the
front of this letter and one on the
back" said the justice.
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DEATH FAILS TO STOP
The AVIATION MEET

AVIATION FIELD. SQUANTUM,
Observation-Disclosures deeply de-
pressed by the double tragedy of the
night when Miss Harriet Quimby.
Americas foremost woman aviator,
and William A. =. Willard, manager
OF the Boston aviation meet, being
held here, plunged 1000 feet from a
monoplane to their death in a flight
around Boston light, the thirteen aVia-
tors left on the field declared
that they would continue flying dur
ing the rest Of the meet until it ends
Saturday.
Lincoln Beachey dismissed the
tragedy as an everyday occurrence"
and was out early today trying his
machine and doing his stunts in the
air. Miss Blanche Stuart Scott, who
was in the air last night when the
tragedy to her friend and fell
low flier took place. said today: 1T
is what we have to expect; l Will fly
just the same today"
The bodies of Miss Quimby and Mr..
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TYROLEAN CHILDREN
SOLD LIKE SLAVES
GENEVA, SWITZERLAND s

GENEVA, SWITZERLAND Spe-
cial.-Swiss and German writer's are
calling the attention of the public and
the authorities to what is practically
a slave market where girls and bows
between the ages of eleven and fifteen
years are sold" in public to the high
est bidders, at Friedrichshafen, a Ger
man town on Lake Constance
These children, numb boring 500 or
more, are brought about this time of
the year by their parents. who are
poor and live mostly in the Austrian
IyrOl and on the Swiss frontier. Swiss
and German farmers examine the
goods and choose the strongest and
healthlest children to work for them
throughout the summer.
The prices are arranged between
;he farmers and the parents and q
contract is signed. The farmer agrees
TO give food and lodging to the boy
or girl he engages and So to $40 for
tVe to six months work which is for
seventeen to eighteen hours a day.
The farmer does not usually accent
any responsibility concerning the
moral conduct of the hoy or girl who
has entered" his service. and whom
ne treats as a farm hand and on the
some footing as his other employees
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Willard are at the morgue Of the
quincy Hospital, where an autopsy
VIII be performed before they are
turned over to relatives. There are
several versions as to the cause of
the accident, but most of the aviators
agree that Miss Quimby took a deem
glide as she started to descend TO tho
field from 1000 feet level, and that
this caused the machine to turn tur-
tie, throwing her and Willard loo
feet into the water, where they Were
picked up dead.
The death of Miss Quimby consti-
tutes the fifth aviation fatality To "a
woman since the inception of the new
science, the previous victims being ON
unnamed girl at Budapest. June Il.
1911; Nile. Denise Moore. at EtamDes
July %, 1911; Mile. Suzanne Bernard
at Etampes. March 10. 1912. and Mrs
Julia Clark, at Springfield. H.. Jun,
Il, 1912. The total number of avia-
ton fatalities since the death of Lieu
tenant Selfrage. in September. 1905.
is now 15S.
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BLMBbESSS BUEkS
DECLARED A JOKE

BERLIN. Special.-A debate in the
German keichstag on the resolution
to check duelling adopted by the
Budget Committee reminds US that the
duel is emphaucally not one of those
things which they manage better in
Germany than America. In America
they manage IL admirably, for II does
not exist.
Civilization which has left Ameri-
cans ignorant and savage in many
ways, has at least taught them thar
the duel is a barbarous sacrifice on the
altar OF an often fanciful sense Of
honor. If they become violently angry
with A man they may hit him with the
i,- in the face. Then he may, il he
can, retaliate by a knockout blow, or.
in the alternative. bring an action for
assault in the courts. In either case
honor is satisfied without loss Of life
and panSs OF remOrSe. The most fool
ish form OF the Ouei is that in which
fatal injury is purely accidental. 1t is
human, If barbarous. to feel honor so
MORALLY wounded that there is no
longer room on earth for two particu-
lar men. There is some logic, If no
moral right, in the duel which means
inevitable death TO one or both of the
cOmbatants.
The average American. If he could
conceive himself as cOmbatant in a
duel. would conceive himself firing
across table or pursuing the affair
with swords until one more was either
dead or incapacitated. But how or why
honor should be satisfied or the sense
of deep injury modified by the ex-
change of shots not meant to kill or
by few rounds with rapiers in which
the whole objective is some nonvital
spot-a drop OF blood from the oppo-
nentS forearm, or a scratch on the
big toe-remains utterly mysterious
This form OF duel reduces high trag-
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GREAT CYCLONE
SWEPT MANITOBA
Loss OF LIFE NOW BELIEVED TO
HAVE BEEN TWO HUN
DRIED PEOPLE.
WTNNTPEG. MAN snecial -Rosc

WINNIPEG, MAN. Special.-Rescue
partles orked desperately in
INC runs OF the region devastated by
KSundays cyclone, searching for the
PouleS OF victims OF the disaster
Larry IN the day the situation was
sun IN a chaotic condition, and esti-
mates or the number killed and the
amount OF property lost, covered a
wide range.
1t was certain that 200 persons
were KILLED ana the total amount of
property loss and damage would ap-
oNimate $10,0OO,OOO.
The greatest loss of life occurred
at Regina, Saskatc hewan, near the
center OF the stOrm-sWept area. a
district scventy-fve miles long and
several miles vide was more or less
seriously affected by the hurricane.
reports from isolated points were
ineaSer early today, but it is not be-
heNed there was great loss of life
outside the cities.
Among the larger cities in the ill
vile.
At Regina the local telephone office
was wrecked and fifteen girls employ
eu there were buried in the ruins.
Inc telephone exchange building
the standard block, the First Baptist
Ghurch and the Baird and Bottell
aiding were among the buildings
SseStrOyed
All telephone and telegraph wires.
with the exception of one telegraph
wire. are down.
The latter is crowded with pri-
Vale messages from persons who
escaped.
A special train left Winnipeg short
ly after 3 o'clock last night with
uOctorS' nurses, telegraph and tele-
phone repairmen.
The cyclone came from the south
anu first struck the new Parliament
Dulluing, Just completed, at a cost Of
100000
The building is Of steel and con-
crete, and while it still stands, it is
severely shaken.
The storm swept through the most
lonable residence district, trans
Tning it into mass of wreckage.
tIOng Victoria Street, from sixteenth
TO Eleventh Streets, 400 houses were
destroyed and many inhabitants
killed.
Automobiles filled with persons
were hurled high in the air. Eleventh
street, the business district. was swept
ana Wholesale warehouses, banking
institutions and retail stores were sent
INTO heaps of ruins, while the air
was flled with flying wreckage.
Past Eleventh Street, Albert. Smith
cromwell and Hamilton Streets to
Rose Street, the storm reached the re-
tan section, where occurred the
seNerest compact There the Cana
5lan Pacific Railway tracks were
ceached. Six big grain elevators were
" pied over like ten pins, the tim
tbers being piled in heaps on the
Tracks. Two fires broke out, but as
the water pressure was not impaired,
the flames were confined to the build
lngs where they started.
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No more appropriate emblem could
have been chosen for the Roosevelt
revolutiOnists than the red bandana
which symbolizes that phase OF from
tier life where civilization ends and
each man is a law unto himself-Nor-
folk Nirginian-PilOt
our contemporary took a different
view of il i'm 1883. when the bandana
OF Allen G.. Thurman was adopted as
the emblem of Democratic simplicity
Every delegate TO the St Louis CON
vention who wanted the "Old Roman"
for Vice President wore a bandana
around his hat and throughout the
campaign il was the centerpiece in
campaign decoration.-Newp News
Times Herald.
The Mathews journal. (Mathews C.H. [Court House]) 1903-1937, 1912-07-11
FORCE THE c. g. O.
TO BUILD BRIDGES
RIG MOND. VA snocia1

II G H NJ o n ID, V a, Special
The Chesapeake and Ohio Railway
mas been summoned to appear before
the State Corporation Commission on
July 10th and show cause why it
should not be compelled to carry out
the provisions of the agreement with
the James River and Kanawha Canal
ana the successor thereof. the Rich
mona ana Allegheny Railroad, and
build certain bridges to connect the
county of AppomattoX at two points
by bridge with the old canal property
as stipulated in the charter OF the
canal company.
The supervisors Of the county of
AppomattoX have taken up the mat
ter ana VIII press it to a consum-
nation. Two bridges were agreed on
LOT the county of Appomattox-one
at Sent Creek and one at Hardwicks-
The Mathews journal. (Mathews C.H. [Court House]) 1903-1937, 1912-07-11
TWO BOYS RAN AWAY
To SEE THE CONVENTION

NEW YORK. Special.-Ralph Hea-
ton, sixteen years old, OF No. SOC
West one Hundred and Thirty third
Street, and Franklin Pierce Brinck.
nineteen, ran away from their homes
on Monday. When Ralph failed TO
appear Monday evening, Mrs. Hea-
ton had the police send out a general
alarm.
a She believed that he could not go
ar, for he had only $2.65 of his
Wages as an errand boy. Yesterday
she received postal from Baltimore
in which Ralph told her not TO worry
and that he was having a great
time at the convention.
The two boys soon wearied of the
political strife, however, and took a
freight train to Wilmington, Del.
There they were arrested and ar
raigned before Justice Cochran.
They were tired of the convention
and wished to be sent home.
Thursday evening the Wilmington
police wired Mrs. Heaton that the
boys were on a train for New York.
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PERTINENT PARAGRAPHS.

To use a political expression. the
SnlpbuildcrS (baH team can now he
I ciasSeu as Observation-Disclosures
port News Press.
\ Chicago man preferred going To-
jan than SoinS home with his wife.
Alany men are becoming wise in this
Gay and getoration.-Ledger-Dis-
'Q'ledsl Q-J9Sp9T-.'No9u 9ul Ut ~
l9S.. Il!M suBoUqud7H sQl lusAa NuU ui
4'V+ SH"'u sSetlQuop Q0lQM '9T0uuuIuD
pUe lloq z U79Ml9Q ST oSpoIuC ~
0'!'P' 0ql SAes louueO cor 7IoUl.
From the number Of progressive
,epuDhcans who are calling on the
peerless leader they must hone To
proselyte him.-Free Lance.
There is some curiosity to know
whether AR Taft Will again promise
the people substantial downward re
VISION OF the tariff-Herald-Co
1t was rude in William Jennings to
ne TIN can To the tail o. champ
Eouhd-but boys Will be boys.-Twin
] own Trumpet.
. With some married couples il was
love at first sight and with some il
vas only simultaneous misfortune
-StauntOn Leader.
The Columbia State characterizes
NlarE Garden as "A great girl for put
ting off things" but the more accu-
rate way OF putting il would be to
say that she is "a great girl for not
putting on things. "-Virginian-P Pilot.
An eccentric Massachusetts woman
mas bequeathed 100000 to a horse.
all OF which may be considered a
horse on her relatiVes.-Big Stone
Gap Post.
Interest has conferred on national
politics to such an extent that other
important matters have been over
looked. Will some one please tell us
whether or not Sidna Allen and Yves
ley Edwards have succeeded in catch
ing the detectives who have been
summering in their locality ?-Fairfax
Herald.
1t looks as If Roosevelt will head
third party for the presidency. If
he is elected. of course ne will give
us brand new government The
present constitution and laws will be
ordered burned up. King Roosy.-
Blackstone Courier.
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horse thieves. but all horse thieves
are Democrats" But in spite of this
the Democrats OF the nation supported
him for the highest office in the gift
OF the voters. II was a simple choice
between two evils. the one not so evil
as the other. Had the great editor
| lived long enough he would have
learned that the Republicans united
In committing the colossal crime Of the
/ ages when they stole the presidency
/ All Republicans. individually, are not
! thieves, but collectively they stand
charged and condemned for the grand
! larceny Of all time.-Farmville Her
/ aid
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MAY TIE UP NEW YORK DOCKS
UNLESS a SETTLEMENT
- is MADE.
I NBW YORK. Special.-A ser


up of this port is threatened
by the longshoremen and coastwise
ships coal passers, who have voted
to strike for more money and better
working conditions.
one hundred and ten thousand men
are affected. OF this number $4,000
are longshOremen employed on piers
in Hoboken, Jersey City, New York
and Brooklyn, while the balance are
coal pasSerS.
Thousands of men failed to show
up for work this morning, and the
Transport Workers Association had
picket lines established to warn union
men not to so to work until the
aalniOn gave permission.
The companies that will be most
~seriously affected by the tie-up, should
the union leaders be able to carry out
their program for a complete sus-
pension, are the Hamburg American
Line, North German-Lloyd Line, NAL
lOry end Clyde Lines.
The late Horace Greedy is reported
as saying, "All Democrats may not be
The Mathews journal. (Mathews C.H. [Court House]) 1903-1937, 1912-07-11
Ants Make Bugs Work.

SPRINGFIELD, MASS. Special. City
FORESTER w. +. Gale offers cumulative
evidence concerning the proverbial wis
dom OF the ant Owners of gardens
have been troubled by armies of green
bugs which suck the juice from pea
vines. In the wake Of these green
bugs come thousands of black ants.
which tap the bugs and extract the
sweet juice which the bugs have drawn
from the plants.
The operation is apparently harmless
TO the bugs. which disheartened by such
highway methods, depart from the gar
uens. invariably followed by the per-
SiStent ants. Forester Gale says that
he has seen a bug fail from n pea vine.
only to be seized by some viSilant ant
and carried back to its perch again to
set more juice for the ant
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HendIeSs Woman NIv.terr

WOONSOCKET, r. .-Special.-Tha
headless body of a woman believed 10
nave been murdered was found in tho
Blackstone River near James Grone
thursday. 1t is thought to have been
III the water two months or more
cept those made by the ropes with
which the body was bound. There wa =
no water in the lungs The woma n
was about thirty-five or forty years Of
age and weighed probably $50 pounds.
me hands had been tied behind the
mead indicated little or no knowledge
OF surgery. according to physicians
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WOULD NOT PROMISE THAT
HE WOULD NOT BEG

n - n u " N ~, A, Special
FRED 1acD2nsel. IN aged. gray-hair-
ca ana cent nero. was charged IN Po-
lice Court this morning with beg,fro,
on the ashioaabie thorodghfares of
Lee District.
The old fellow is said 30 be a harm
less character. and Justice Crutchfield
told him that he would dismiss him
X ne would promise 10 keep away
from begging.
me old fellow WOULDN'T, or. rather.
couldn't, promise, as. to use his own
words, he was directed by Cod
TO beg. Ten days was his lot.
The Mathews journal. (Mathews C.H. [Court House]) 1903-1937, 1912-07-11

PHILADELPHIA Specia1-W

PHILADELPHIA, Special.-Wilfred
Joruan, the curator o.. the Independ-
ence Han museum. Isl authority for
the statement that the Liberty Bell
resting place again. as theA 20 crack
mas extended for more than siN, inches
ia the past few weeks and tho. ellie
shows signs of disintegration thar Nav
cause II 10 fan apart
, some ume ago Mr. Jordan had PrA
lessor \. /. Duterbridge. the FranlA
I'm Institute metallurgist. inspect the
bell. ''''
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Built at Akron.

AKRON, o. Special.-The ballo
Akron, which was destroyed st 4
lantic City today. was constructed
this city and named for the city. d
cause OF the fact that the money 4
its construction and the flight acre
the Atlantic was the idea OF Frank
Soldering, president of the Goodyf
Tire and Rubber Company.
The fabric for the big pas bar f.
made at the rubber plant here s.
was shipped TO Atlantic City in en-
OF Melvin Vaniman and his bro
1t required many months of cor.
labor to construct the bag, and
finished it was pronounced to
strongest gas bag ever constr
The manufacture of the fabric
Kept a secret for long time.
The Mathews journal. (Mathews C.H. [Court House]) 1903-1937, 1912-07-11

Should Mr.. Roosevelt adhere to his
determination to form a new party.
and should he be its candidate for
President next fall, the party doubtless
Will show much greater strength than
any other boiling party i'm the coun-
trN's history. But it can 90 that and
still fall far short Of success. The
new party cannot hope to make for
midable showing this year. at least. 1t
can only make MIR. Tafts defeat more
crushing than it would otherwise have
been.-Br.Stol Herald-Courier.
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Cree Has Broken Wrist.
hOSION, july Tine New YORK
ghlanders are certainly the hard

80 ~ July i IL NV TOT =
- ighlanders are certainly the hard
Is lck team of the American League.
FBrdie Cree. the star left fielder is
Nhe latest to go to the hospital list
Cree has a broken wrist. which he
sustained Saturday afternoon in the
second inning Of the second game with
the Boston pennant chasers as the
result of being hit by a pitched ball
delivered by Wood.
Cree will be out OF the game for
at least two months. Manager VOL
Verton sent him home early Sunday
to stay there till his wrist gets in
shape. Manager Wolverton has sent
a hurried call for both Daniels and
Little to report to the club in Boston
at once.
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TAYLOR HUBBARD
COMMITS SUICIDE

PETERSBURG, VA Special
Shooting himself in the temple. Tay-
Tor Hubbard, an aged and well-xnOwn
citizen, committed suicide in his room
at his home on Commerce Street
about 10 o'clock this morning. His
act is thought TO have been due to
dependency over in health.
He was siXty-three years old. A
widow. five children and a number
Of relatives of this city survive Mr..
Hubbard
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WASHINGTON sneciaI :,

was given to the railroads
Interstate Commerce Commlssion
tend tickets of delegates to the
cratic Convention TO July l..
commission believes the convent
have adjourned by that time.
Notices OF the extension WEI
dered posted in Baltimore by IL
roads.
The Mathews journal. (Mathews C.H. [Court House]) 1903-1937, 1912-07-11

Louisville officially reports that
bottles OF beer are required TO 4
cate a man, but who ever heas&
real kentucky gentleman 80
beer-except, possibly, as a .jehE
Virginian- Pilot.
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Doctor-Well, hope YOU profted by
my advice2
PaUent-Nes. doctor; but not so
much as YOU did.
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tells him. as I understand Is done s.
New York. TO step lively"
Fancy q crowd OF young Jerreafer,,
ties rhasl1S motor fire engine. ~
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10 use political expression. the
Snlpbuildcrs (ball team can now be
cIasSed as Observation-Disclosures.
port News Press.
The Mathews journal. (Mathews C.H. [Court House]) 1903-1937, 1912-07-11

The late Horace Greedy is reported
as saying, "All Democrats may not be
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1912-08-27
HEARTSEASE

Political clamor and financial jar
can't make full your life. We fret
and fume about the ills of the body
polite and we agitatedly whisper
about the interest and principle and
dividend and gossip over the rise and
fall of the market but deep in the
hearts of US we know none of these
things is of much Importance.
Get away from it all, close to the
hearts that are kind, to the infinite
outdoors too big for petty tradecon-
siderations. make friends out of the
far stars and lean to the whisper of
the wind and the murmur of the
great trees, so that the fullness of
All Things shall sooth your ruffied
spirit with a touch of infinite calm.
Only thus can you hope to find
your lost self.