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The evening world., 1912-07-29
HAL CHASE SAYS
WOMEN WRITE TO
ALL BALL PLAYERS
Paid No Attention TO Those
He Received divorce
May BE Soon Ended.

Attorneys for Hal chase and for hls
wife, Mrs. Nellie II. Chase. who IL be-
INK sued for n divorce by the ball
player. appeared to-day before Juatice
Lehman In the supreme Court and an.
nounced that they desired To- withdraw
the two motions brought before the
Justicc--one motion being for alinouy
at the rate Of 5000 month and the
made In the complaint by Chase lie
stricken out.
Both motions were made by Mrs
chascs attorney. The Justice per-
mitted them TO he Withdrawn. This
would Indicate that the case has been
settled and that the divorce suit will
not come to trial.
Attorney J. Franklin Tausch OF No
IS broadway. who IL In charge OF the
case for Chase. would not say anything
concerning his client or the suit.
Chase started his suit on May 81 last
when he filed the original complaint
This complaint was later amended Oy
Cha1c, who added the request that nc
be awarded the custody OF his two
ycar-old son. Harold ,nasc named ID
man under the name OF Robinson "a
Correspondent
In her petition for almony and coun'
sci fees Mrs. Chase alleged that hci
husband was In receipt OF salary oi
a. ON a. IA hall DiaNer.
The evening world., 1912-07-29
DR.. 10 HEALING
SHARKEY HEARTS;
WHAT'S VALUE?
Mrs. Toms Lawyer, Who
Didn't Get a Chance to Do
Much, Thinks It's $3.50.

r, A.. %, ,. $500,
So" u'o''
NV ''"'0' W i"'" '""r-
Keys nome IN Sheepsheah BAY. Mr.
shsrhey. who his vile has said. be.
comes a "rogulsh Hon when he has
drop too much, has been metanorphosed
ipto lamb. Mrs sbarkev b,. ,or.
,,o,,an and ,o,y,v.n. uk.x,.o a.. 10.
.,.,...., .,,,, o., .,,,.,..'
''''o''' '''o' ""'' CUM
SCI ''oS anu 3" ""
The only person connected with tho
disturbance VINO Is not supremacy Joy
full Is Attorney Newton McGovern,
counsel for Mrs. sharkey. lie IL WON
daring when he will got bi. nm. 10.
and how much II will be.
When tina case WAS chilled n, , ,,o,,.,,
,o award alimony nv Jusiice k.iI,, a..
tho sunreme Court. Brookiyn. to-d,y
Mr.. NcGovern and Wallace II Set,
,he Ia,,or counsel for IN, whilo,n ell
O., .,o..
"I have here" said Mr. sco,, .s no,o
from Mrs shark.y. which 7 w,.h %
Thu docum.nt ma. nassau On J,.,,,.
Keuv. II read:
INV dear Mr.. McGoverp. Kina,y a,..
confirm, the action maj ins,,,n,o,
orain,, Mr.. shnrkey. fslpnea, Ka,har.
inc AZ sh.rkey.
Mr.. scot, asked tina, IN. w,.,., q,
tho nla,ntIfr.wife he execu,.d in n
formaI ordsr. Mr.. M,1ov.rn oh,.c,ea
"yyha, aho,t nv f.e2" n. wantod Ca
Lrow
The evening world., 1912-07-29
CHASE EXPECTS A CUT
SALARY NEXT YEAR.

Chase flied an affidavit in which he
alleged that his wife had kept him poor
because of her cxtravagant way OF
living. lie said also that he could not
AFFORD the $500 month. because his
-nlary would probably be reduced to
1850 next year. lie offered to furnish
SIS week.
Chase declared that his wife was OF
a Jealous and unreasoning disposition.
He said she abused him because h
had received letters from women who
looked upon him AZ hero. All ball
players, Chase said. received the same
kind OF letters. These women are un'
known to the players and hardly ever
become acquainted. Chase declared
that he paid no attention to the letters.
but that his wife insisted that he was
meeting the writer's. and often caused
scenes In public places because OF this
idea.
on one occasion when he returned to
the Colonial Hotel. In Harlem from
a baseball game, he found his wife
stretched out on the floor with n box
OF powder marked poison" beside her.
Chase said she WAS feigning suicide.
The evening world., 1912-07-29
Hoy Killed by Wagon.

While playing in front Of No. H1 Mon
roe street late this afternoon with a
number OF his playmatcs Mathew Seigel,
two wears old. OF No. ~ Monroe street.
was run over and killed by . wagon
driven by Harry Winestein Of No. 23e
south First street. Brooklyn.
The evening world., 1912-07-29
PORT OF NEW YORK.
ARRIVED.

INCOMING STEAMSHIPS.
DUE TODAY
Manchester Castle, ys3riand. Antwerp.
GiorAltar.I Ia Can,pina. Ant.erp.
Gefsory Barhsdos. Carolina, san Juan
CouIus. New otleens. Comanshe, Jacksonville
OUTGOING STE AMSHIP3
sAlLER TO-DAY.
Coppensme. Parsmaribo Onundssa, Brunswick
The evening world., 1912-07-29
WALL Street.


Tie f1''p,hy N,re iil hifh,st IyAp, md itst
irsss Di a.Ires fHr iu.dei aud kIe net Hhtngs. az
compared win Satuiday's ,ipsihg quotations..
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his pocket. Yet second thought ad
vised against such rash action, had
no positive proof that Cook was Gran
dali: Until I had, surely it would be
unwise to accuse him. remembered
that there was no train by which he
could leave the town unit late. In the
afternoon, SO there was little prospect
that he could escape me.
How did you know it was yellow
letter." the coroner asked me suspi.
ciously, pausing suddenly in his
search.
1t was an awkward question. I
realized that my impetuosity had
placed me in predicament. I was
by no means ready to tell him the
whole story, and yet the fact that
knew or suspected the color of the let.
ter that she was tearing up certainly
Indicated that knew something about
the woman.
Il didn't know it."
well, what'd you ask the question
about it for?" he repeated, his suspi-
cion of me rapidly increasing
I was thinking quickly what could
say that would divert his thoughts |
noticed with annoyance that the eyes
of every one in the room were on me
and that they were curiously awaiting
an answer. assumed an air Of mys.
terry and drew the coroner to one side.
(To be Continued.)
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HOW ABOUT THE TARIFF?

! Omaha World-Herald: While you
| are asking me about the initiative,
referendum and recall, why don't you
ask Roosevelt where he stands on the
tariff? The only declaration he has
ever made on the subject, to my
knowledge, was made after Taft was
elected. Then, when asked about the
tariff, Roosevelt was quoted as say
| ing: Everybody must skin his own
skunk, and that's Taft's skunk. -
Champ Clark.
| Republican insurgency, republican
progressiveness, had its birth in the
tariff issue. The brilliant and lament
ed Dolliver was its splendid leader,
and it was his exposition of the
iniquities Of the tariff and his def
ance Of "standpatism" that caused in
surgency to flourish and grow all over
the country.
But what place has the issue of
| tariff reform in the republican pro
gressive' movement today? What has
Roosevelt to say about it? He is max
ing his campaign on platform de-
handing the initiative, referendum
and recall. Yet these are state, not
national, measures Neither Roose-
welt nor anybody else proposes that
they be written into the federal constf-
tuition. Even the recall of judicial de-
cisions, Roosevelt carefully pointed
out to the Massachusetts legislature,
should be confined to the states, and
not be used against the federal SUI
preme court. II Roosevelt and his
"progressives'' were making state
campaign they could lay claim to be-
ing genuine radicals But they are
making a federal campaign-and max
ing it on a platform that has nothing
to do with federal evils and their
remedies. They choose rather largely
to ignore those evils, and most con-
spicuously of all do they ignore the
tariff evil
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CHAPTER v Continued.

CHAPTER v continued.
"See what found" exclaimed In
triumph, drawing a silver hypodermic
syringe from my pocket and laying
lit on the table. "Crandalls NOR.
phine flend." a.
1T does look like it," said Davis
unconcernedly. "See what I found"
Tearing off corner of menu card
he wrote something on it and then tore
lit up quickly after showing it to me.
Lock Box No. II, Ardway, N. j."
repeated after reading the words.
"What does that mean?" ,
That" said Davis positively, lis
yhere the yellow letter came from-or
the yellow letters"
How do you know?" 1 asked in as
|tonishment had supposed that the
one thing of Importance we would be
likely to find in Crandalrs apartments
would be a bundle of Katherine Far
rish's letters. In fact took 1t for
granted that they were what Davis had
been searching for the desk. 1t seemed
to me such an obvious thing I had not
suggested it to him, yet here we were
after our visit to the rooms with only
two things-the hypodermic syringe
and post-office address. Surely there
must have been in those rooms some
thing more definite, something more
damaging to Crandall than the Things
", had obtained, and of the two ! De-
lieve that my discovery was the more
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ROOSEVELT AND TAFT IN 1902.

ROOSEVELT AND TAFT. iN 1so<' :
A few days ago the Courier repro
duced the tribute paid to Wllllam
Howard Taft by Theodore Roosevelt
in 1908. when Taft was a candidate
for the presidency. In that tribute
Roosevelt praised Taft as a man Win
a flaming hatred of injustice, VINO
scorned all that is base and mean, ana
as a man 'of courage both moral ana
physical of the highest type Roose-
Welt also said of Taft that mo consid-
Grafton of personal interest could
make him swerve a hairs breadth
from the course which he regards as
right in the interest Of the whole peo-
|ple." .,
y Attention is called today to another
tribute paid by Mr.. Roosevelt Wnen
president to Mr.. Taft, when the latter
was governor of the Philippines. IL
was at the Harvard commencement
dinner on June Is, 1902, that Roose'
welt said of Taft: H.,
"Taft. the most brilliant graduate
of his year at Yale, the youngest" ale
man upon whom Yale ever conferred
degree of doctor of laws; a man
who, having won high position at the
bar and then served as solicltor-gen-
eral at Washington, was appointed 10
the United States bench. He was then
asked to sacrifice himself, to give up
his position in order to go to the otn-
er side of the world to take up an IN
finitely dangerous problem and DO MS
best to solve it. He has done his best.
He came back here the other day.
The man has always had the honor
able ambition to get to the supreme
bench, and when he came back mere
a. few months ago and there was a
question Of vacancy arising, l said
to him: Governor, think ought to
tell YOU that if vacancy comes to
the supreme court (Which l know
would put him for life in a position
which he would especially like to
have) I do not see how | can possibly
get it for you, for / need you Wnere
YOU are He said to me: Mr.. Presl-
dent, it has always been my ampltlon
to be in the supreme court, but II you
should offer me a justiceship now ana
at the same time congress should take
away entirely my salary as governor,
I should go straight back to the Phll-
ippines, nevertheless; for those peo-
Die need me and expect me back, and
believe l will not desert them He has
gone back" continued Roosevelt,
"gone back as strong friend among
weaker friends to help that people up
ward along the difficult path of self
government. He has gone to do his
part-and a great part-in making
the American name a symbol of
honor and good faith in the Philip
pine Islands; to govern with justice
and that firmness, that absence of
weakness which is only another side
of Justice. He has gone back to do all
that because it is his duty as he sees
it. We are to be congratulated, we
Americans, that we have a fellow
American like Taft" 49,
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woman had taken 1t for just one night
and hadn't bothered making it up the
day before. None of the other room
ers was up yet and I thought l might
Just as we'll get No. off my mind.
knocked like l always do and getting
no answer I opened. the dpor right
wide all OF sudden. Such shock
as it gave me never expect to have
again to my dying day. There was the
poor creature a-hanging there. let a
yell out Of me that must have walked
the dead, and then 7 ran and called
Mr.. Williams"
"Had you seen the deceased on tho
day previous?"
eyes, but she wasn't deceased when
l saw her."
'Dud you have any conversation
with herr"
mo more than to pass the time OF
day with her you might say
s was thoroughly disguised with the
dwelling way in which the proceed
ings were being carried on. | could
see little hope of any discovery that
would establish connection with the
similar events in New York. I turned
from listening to the witness to study
ing the face of the man Cook. Could
it, be possible he was Hugh Crandall?
! saw that he was watching the testi-
mony with eager interest. Against
my will had to confess that his face
was one that attracted rather than
repealed me. While there was a
shrewdness about the eyes, the chin
was square and firm and the skull
wellbalanced I tried to read in the
shape of the mouth or the curve of the
ears some sign of the criminal, such
as I expected to find written on the
not there.
"She was sitting there crying"
A sentence of the maids testimony
suddenly thrust itself forward from
my subconsciousness as if demand
ing my attention and listened intent
ly to what she was saying.
"That was the way 1t happened that
I didn't make up the room the day be-
fore. When l went in to do it she was
sitting there crying and tearing let
ter to bits"
A letter! It came on me in flash
that here was the clue, that this was
the connecting link with the other two
cases.
/ pushed my way forward into the
roomz, determined to learn all there
was about this new phase of the case.
The proceedings stopped abruptly at
The hustle my movement made, and
everybody, coroner, jurors and specta-
tors, gaped at me.
II am a lawyer" said. May
ask the witness one or two questions ?"
Still the coroner gaped and waited
no longer for his permission.
"Was it yellow letter." asked.
"Now that you speak of it kind Of
remember that it was"
HAS the letter been found?"
"She was tearing it in pieces"
where are the pieces?"
The eyes of everybody present be-
gan rowing about the room, as If in an
swer to my question. The constable
instituted hasty search, in which
myself, the coroner and the jurors
joined. felt that if we could only
find those pieces. the mystery might
be solved. While the room was being
ransacked kept my eye on Cook. AS
/ asked the question about the letters
color noticed that he looked startled.
/ was amazed now to see him edging
toward the door. l was tempted to
demand that he be restrained and
searched felt almost sure that if
the pieces of the yellow letter were
to be found anywhere it would be in
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A bulletin issued by the agricultural
department showing the number OF
live stock on farms and ranges in the
United States at the beginning OF
1912 as compared with the previous
year throws some light on the reason
for the increased cost of meats and put.
ter. During the year the department
declares the number Of mich cows de.
creased 124,0OO, cattle decreased
2,419,O00, sheep decreased 1,27l ,0OO
and swine decreased 100000.
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IOWA FOR TAFT.

Vermillion, s. D., Republican: But
isn't it just remarkable how the Iowa
counties are rapidly falling into line
for Taft! Only one SO far for Cummins
md none for either LaFollette or the
colonel. Evidently the9 Hawkeyes
have had all they want of latter day
populism.
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and politicians but it is getting in these days
that man has to put on his specs to distinguish the
brand. The politician never seeks office oftener
than year, and between campaigns his time is
fully occupied in bleeding for his native land 1t some
times happens that after he Is elected he does little
bleeding with reverse English It, The politician
gets tired Of having the untutored masses lean
upon him, unless they lean little too hard at some
primary election, whereupon he buys two columns in
the home and forecasts the fall of the republic
Very few poNucians get high they think they
ought to but Of them reach quite altitude
and vocalize with ease in thin air Every community
has two politicians, who know when the polls
open and how many votes cast for county audi
tor in 1908 These gentlemen usually attend to such
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Primaries will be held in the
various city wards tonight to select
delegates to the school convention to
be held Thursday evening. The con.
vention will nominate two school
directors and school treasurer to be
voted on at an election March IL.
There should be big attendance at
primaries tonight. A large percent.
age Of the taxes paid by the people OF
the city go to the maintenance of the
public schools. In a matter of such
Importance there should be large at,
tendance at the primaries.
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Summing it all up, the Detroit Free
Press decides that the present winter
is entitled to the championship belts
for all classes.
It is first in the standing, running
broad, hop, skip and step jumps.
It is first in wind velocity contests.
First In coal consumption.
First, second and third in endurance
feats.
First in water main busting.
First In closing open plumbing
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1912-03-07
Sidewalk Sketches
THE POLITICIAN.
By Howard L. Ram

mission is
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1912-03-07

ings, 1t is marvel that fires do not
start more frequently" . 81, U.s., :.
The Yale expositor., 1912-12-19

can. an exceptional stellar event near B. c.
with which it may be identified.
Johann Kepler, in his peculiar genius (for he
showed that the births OF Enoch, Moses. Cyrus.
Caesar, Charlemagne, and Luther were preceded
by important astrological events), led the way In
calling attention to the astronomical phenomena
that preceded the birth Of Christ. He pointed
out that there must have been a conjunction OF
the planets Jupiter and Saturn at about the
time of Christ's BIRTH and even made few pre-
liminary calculations to prove his case The con-
junction occurred In the sign Pisces from time
immemorial identified with the destinies OF
Israel A conjunction In that sign always signi-
fed the rising of mighty master of the
Jewish Such a conjunction OF Jupiter and
Saturn occurs once In about 800 years. 1t was,
therefore, sufficiently extraordinary in Kepler's
eyes to herald the birth Of a Messiah.
Not until 1926 was Kepers suggestion seri.
ously considered by astronomers In that year
Professor Ideler of Berlin, computed the posi-
tions of Jupiter and Saturn and proved that they
were actually in conjunction In b. C.. His cal
culations showed that they at time over
Tapped to form a single star, but that they
separated by distance equal to the apparent
diameter Of the moon. Accordingly, Ideer had
the temerity to suppose that the wise men saw
the two planets star, because they
miraculousy near-sighted. In justice to Ideler.
II must be stated that he abandoned his theory
when Encke in 1881, repeated the calculations
and found that the actual distance between Jupi.
ter and Saturn, when nearest each other in B. c.
z more than the apparent diameter of the
moon.
Apart from the fact that Jupiter and Saturn
sufficiently near each other to be
seen as body. two planets in conjunction
hardly be called star. Nor is 1t likely that
experienced Chaldean astrologers would so re-
gard Il. Moreover. there other planetary
conjunctions ut about the same time Professor
Stockwell has demonstrated that conjunction
OF Venus and Mars occurred on May Sth, B. c.
g. about fifty days less than two years before
Hercd's death Because the mandate for the
The Yale expositor., 1912-12-19
Large Rewards Unclaimed.

Fifty thousand dollars has been
offered for the recovery of the will Of
the late Sir John Murray Scott, but it
does not quite break the record. One
hundred thousand dollars was offered
in 1894 for the recovery of an Ameri-
can schoolboy, Webster Conkling, who
mysteriously disappeared in Paris.
The boy, fifteen years old, was on his
way to the st. Lazare railway station
in Paris in company with one of his
schoolmasters. The master lost sight
of the hoy for an instant, and, turn
ing round, found that he had disap-
peared as though the earth had swal-
lowed him. Conllling's mother,
wealthy widow. began by Offering S.
900 for his recovery, and then in
crease the reward to 100000. The
money was deposited at Munroe's
bank in the Rue Scribe. but never
found claimant
The Yale expositor., 1912-12-19
HOMEMADE FLoWER.soxEs.

Here are the designs for three forms
Of flower-boxes that are simple to
make-a corner box for the porch rail-
ing, a box for the window sill, and q
box to stand upon the porch floor or
upon the lawn. From the three you
can select the one you like best.
For porch railing, corner box
such as shown in Fig. 1 will hold
enough flowers to make OF it verita-
BILE flower bed, and with vines planted
along the front and allowed to hang
down over the box the effect will be
very pretty. Fig. 2 shows the COM
pleted box. The IDEA OF cutting off
the rear corner OF the box and at
taching the short piece G is so that
the sides Of the box will extend over
on to the tops OF the ratings for sup
port. OF course this will not be neces-
5ary in case the corner post does not
extend higher than the railing. The
ends of the side pieces 4 and b must
be trimmed off to the right angle to
tit against the 'front.' and back boards
G and d, but the ends OF r and G.
may be LETT square until after they
have been nailed to A and B (see G,
Fig. 81, when it will be an easy mat
ter to saw them off flush with the
sides of A apd b. Nail narrow strip
to A and B, at the lower edge, for
cleats to support the bottom boards
Zig. 81; then cut and fit the bottom
boards in place. Bore number or
half-inch holes through the bottom for
drains.
The only difference between the
construction of the window-box in Fig.
and that of an ordinary grocery box
is that the bottom OF the fiower-box is
fitted between the sides and ends, in
stead of nailed to the bottom edges
Gig. 81, and narrow strip is nailed
The Yale expositor., 1912-12-19
MAKE THEM LONG FOR MATE
One Road to Matrimony That Is Said
to Be Almost Certainly Produc-
tive of Results.

take beautiful care of him for
three months, and then leave him."
Is Mrs. Roger A. Pryor's merry formu-
la for bringing the most obdurate de-
crier of matrimony under the yoke.
For three months during war time
Mrs. Pryor made her headquarters at
the house of country postmaster, a
Quaker and a widower. He was abb
sent all day, and rarely returned till
after midnight, for the last mail had
to be sorted and ready for delivery
to the soldiers In the morning.
Every night she made sure that he
should find on his return "a bright
fire, clean-swept hearth, and on
plates before the fire, biscuits. sau-
sages or broiled ham and little pot
of coffee, and table with lamp and
the latest papers drawn up beside his
armchair"
The result of her considerable care
was shown when, a short time after
her departure, she received this brief
epistle:
Respected friend. have now mar
ried. l couldn't stand 1t. Thy friend,
/. W."
A traditional village idyll Of New
England exemplifies I'm a similar man
ner the southern ladys theory; it,,
too. has a Quaker hero. He was a
bachelor, and something of woman
hater, who for many years lived I'M
disturbed with an aged father.
Then the old man fell i'll, and had
to have a nurse. She proved to be
a kind and capable soul. who, In such
mismanaged home, did not confine
her ministrations to the sick room.
The second week after she had ended
her services she received this love
letter:
Esteemed Friend Almlra: have
always said would not marry be-
cause thy sex talks too much and will
ever say the last word; but now