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The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1913-04-23

A public suffrage meeting will be
held Friday afternoon in the assembly
hall of Chimborazo public school,
Thirty-third and Broad streets. The
speakers of the afternoon Will be Miss
Adele Clarke and Mrs. Il. b. Valen-
tjue.
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1913-04-23
Griffin Seeks
Pitchers in the
National Capital

Manager Steve Griffin is more con-
WINGED than ever before that he is in
dire need of better pitching STAFF
and is making every effort 10 secure
additional twirlers,
He will leave the team after the
game today and go direct to Wash
ington in order that he may consult
Clarke Griffith concerning Doc Ayres
1t is the managers belief that things
can be arranged so as to have the
Hillsville hurricane. as he has been
called, rejoin the Colts. While in
Washington, Steve will look over some
other twirlers who have been recon-
nended to him, and ii they seem to
have the stuff will probably bring sew
eral new ones back with him. He
WIN leave Washington so as to rejoln
the Colts in time To appear in Thurs
day S game,
Turner, one of the last recruits Sc
cured by Manager Griffin. has been
released. He left town Immediately
saying that he was going to Pittsburg
1t is unknown whether he meant the
city or the ball club.
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1913-04-23
VIII Serve Dinner.

The Woman's Temperance League
Of America will serve a business dim
ner at a moderate cost at 1905 East
Main street, on Wednesday, Thursday
and Friday from noon to 3 O'Clock
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1913-04-23
Youthful Couple to We'd.

Marriage license was yesterday
granted to Paul O. Shulz and Goldie
Pearl Martin. seventeen years old. by
Clerk Samuel Waddill in Henrico cir
cult court The groom elect is TWEEN
fN-tWO.
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1913-04-23

Each of the twirlers secured a
couple of bingles and each crossed
the plate once. The Pirates landed
on Dutch for sixteen hits, though.
while the Shipbuilders only found
Johnny for nine.
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1913-04-23

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W.
1[<J J
L he Berry MILDLY
Blouse
Where we specialize.
Whenever we adopt" q
special" it's to improve 1t.
This is. our third season
with MILDLY blouse, and we
have q small army Of girl Gus
toners
Styles to be found only
here.
style shown in picture 10
made OF white twill Collars
and cuffs trimmed in navy.
cadet, red or white. fast
coiow galatea. Three rows Of
braid on collars and cuffs.
500.
Other styles, s1,25 TO 50.
Guaranteed non-fadable.
MILDLY Skirts, s125 to
s1.75.
Refer Goats.
Eobby ments for
wear and tear" wear or
dressy occasions, for boy or
girl
Distinctive like all Berry
garments are.
Prices, $3.50 to SO.
Norfolk coats for girls,
with cloth to match for
skirts, S. to $3.50
6E9e
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The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1913-04-23

The Circuit court, Judge Southall
presiding. is hearing the old cause Of
The plaintiff is represented by Judge
George Christian. of Richmond, and
r. 3. Davis. OF this city. while ". T.
MGIlwaiHe is counsel for the de
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1913-02-28
Wapp Family Active and Court Is Kept Busy

n HICAGO.-It was some day" for
~ the Wapp family the other day.
Mother got married again; brother
was arraigned in court for assault.
and sister. who had come to defend
him, tried to scratch the eyes out of
q detective and was locked in a cell.
The Wapps live at 1858 Fox street.
and. ordinarily, theirs is not a strenu-
GUS existence. Somehow every mem
Der got busy on this particular day.
And the worst of It was that Mother
Wapp and her new fiance were united
for better or for worse" and went
away without telling Brother Mike
and Sister Rose anything about it
Rose and Mike. however, were
mighty busy themselves and probably
wouldn't have had time to extend con-
gratuIations. Mike was arraigned be-
fore Municipal Judge John Courtney
I'm the West Thirty-fifth street court
and then a continuance was decided
upon.
Rose was there to appear as a de-
Tending witness. On the way out of
the court room, she says, she heard a
detective. Thomas c. Healy. instruct
ing witnesses for the prosecution how
they should testify when the case
comes up again.
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1913-02-28
MINNEAPOLIS is TOO WARM
Canadian Says He Can't Sleep Indoors
In Zero Weather. So SAUNDERS
In Park.

Minneapolis, Minn.-Herbert A..
Hunter, aged seventy, of Lepas, Mani
toba, who startled Minneapolis by sit
ting on a chair on Nicolett avenue.
reading a newspaper in below-zero
temperature, thinks it's too warm to
sleep indoors in Minnesota. One night
he slept on the ground in Powderhorn
park, with but one interruption when
a policeman attempted to take him to
the police station for fear that he
would freeze. The policeman was not
contented until he had called the ho-
tel where Hunter is staying and re-
ceived assurance that the Canadian
was sleeping in the park because he
found-it too warm indoors.
Hunter wanted cool place to sIeep
and at the same time one where he
would not be troubled by policemen.
so he selected the icehouse of a local
ice company.
why. that's nothing at ALL" SAYS
Hunter up our way the Thermometer
at this time Of year IL hitting the 80 TO
20 below mark. and zero looks like
Florida to me-"
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1913-02-28
Counterfeit Clue Is Found in Bite Of Cheese

ID FADING, Pa.-"Caught by a piece
N Of cheese" That's the story of
the arrest of Alvin Hornberger. of
Mohnton, this county. Some one went
to Philadelphia-the secret service
men say it was Hornberger-on No
vember 16 and passed 20 counterfeit
$40 bills. visiting 20 different saloons.
buying a drink and passing the notes
AT one there was cheese OF the frag-
rant variety on the bar This got the
eye OF the man with bogus bills-and
bogus molars He took rye bread.
spread with mustard and the other
with limburger and took a bite. The
mustartf was of the hot sort and the
man didn't like It, After taking one
bite OF the sandwich he laid the re-
mainder on the bar and walked out
Hardly had the man left than the
barkeeper noticed that the $40 bill was
counterfeit He notified the police.
Ten minutes later the evidence was
gathered. and when told that the man
had taken a bite from the sandwich
they coniscated the rest of the sand
witch.
The first move they made was to
have a cast made Of it. The think
that impressed them was that the man
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1913-02-28

Ing been true in their time on duty
within the last two years.
Promptly at 6 p. m. as have
come on duty" said William Tinkun.
another night sentry. Bill has come
out from his place in the lower draw
er OF the desk. He crawls in from be-
hind the desk and has made himself
comfortable home in the lower
drawer. Out he comes at that hour.
brushes against me and then goes to
the elevator entrance to see II the
wicker cage that guards the door is
closed.
We have to make the rounds ey-
cry half-hour and right to the second
old Bill is there to start. That cat
seems to know when the time comes
for ringing up the signal station. for
he makes the rounds just as regular
as clockwork. and IL l seem to take
too long in making the inspection he
strikes out ahead and goes back to
the signal box to wait for me-"
Jailer Nels Clausen said that the
cat was born ii the Jail three years
ago and for year was kept in the
jailer's apartments. Then one day
he missed it.
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1913-02-28

nj EW YORK.-New York always
~ has had the reputation Of being
the city to offer more queer ways of
making a living than any other in
the world. The other day 1t earned
another laurel and the medium was
a rather seedy but cunning-looking in
dividual who got of Lenox avenue
train at the seth street subway sta
ton and Immediately set to work.
The man, who shall be known as
Bill, started at the downtown end OF
the station and carefully examined
every penny in the slot gum machine
that by means of it's mirror lures
vain young persons into spending one
cent to fix their hair or powder their
noses and gives a premium of a slab
of gum.
Now these automatic vendors do
not always work, consequently earnest
gum chewers have lost faith in them
60 certain extent-to such an extent
that they seldom look into the tiny
receptacle at the very bottom of the
machine which is to catch the re-
funded cent In case the gum supply
has become exhausted.
"How's business today" asked the
gateman as Bill stopped to mix pleas
ure with his business.
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1913-02-28
cnunhed up a Lizard.

Fayette, N. 1.-THE cough that for
two years distressed Evan Jones is
vanishing because Evan has got rid
Of the cause. He was out driving the
other day when he had a terrible par
oxysm of coughing On the verge or
strangulation. he thrust finger into
his throat to widen the passage. He
felt something hard there and drew 1t
out
II was a lizard three inches long.
Jones said. The lizard seemed to be
as happy as the man to dissolve part
nership, and was wriggling away
when Jones decided he would capture
IL and show it to DR.. Edgar Allen.
The doctor put the lizard in alcohol.
where It still is. to show to persons
who doubt the story.
The theory is that Jones. when
drinking at a spring. swallowed liz
ards egg. which instead Of being as
simulated Matched out
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1913-02-28
This Man Makes His Living Off Others Haste

Collected a dollar sixteen so far,
and it's my first trip"
Say, what's the idea?" asked the
curious bystander.
You see, it's this way" said Bill,
Il figured that there ought to be
enough forgotten pennies to make It
worth my while.
Got OF at the Grand Central and
took a look over the slot machines
and found s cents just lynn there
waitin' for some smart guy like me
to pick 'em up. That's what started
me on me present career. shoestrings
and suspenders havin' failed and a
newsstand gone to smash.
Il start from my home-179th
street-about ten o'clock, just after
the early mornin' rush is over, and
look over the machines. Then ! get
on the next train and get on at the
next station. can make close In
spection and have time left over be-
fore the next train comes along.
Bout noon I'm down to the Battery
and II it's a pleasant day ride up
town on the elevated road, only
pickin's not so good there, because
it's lighter"
How much do you collect in a good
day."
Anywhere from two to three dol
lars. During the mobilization OF the
feet / picked up 500 pennies one day.
So long. here comes my train"
What an excellent idea" unused
the curious bystander as he got of
at 72nd street to change for the ex-
press. And Just to pass the several
minutes away he examined four slot
machines, to be rewarded by finding
three cents.
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1913-02-28

The bundles, too, are all wrapped in
such cloths. Strange, this preference
for dark blue. which also obtains In
the dress Of all these peasants. The
women wear black skirts, with wide
plated overjackets, low at the neck.
where they show a neck kerchief of
spotless white, over which is pinned a
bright scarlet lowered overkerchief.
But the long wide aprons they all wear
and which entirely cover the skirts,
are dark navy blue without exception.
The headdress is curious and con-
sists of many pieces, all of which have
some meaning of their own, showing
whether the wearer lie maid, wife or
widow, or whether she is in deep or
light mourning. Most of the women
we meet wear close-fitting white lace
or calico caps, over which is tightly
drawn the kerchief, of a bright col
ored fowery pattern on cream ground.
Over this is laid a wide silver band,
lying close to the neck and coming up
over the ears. Just above the eyes
two gold spirals are fastened that look
like small horns. At the back, the sill
yer headpieces have engraved the in
itials of the wearer and are decorated
with some sprays of leaves or flowers.
Although not so costly as the gold
headpieces of the Holland and Tristan
peasants, these silver ornaments rep
resent good values, costing from SO to
40 forms ($144O to $50. Every girl,
as soon as she reaches the age of If
teen, is promoted to wear these caps
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1913-02-28

down he goes. Thirty feet deep that
water was ninety degrees colder than
a pawnbroker's heart
Five minutes we waited and then
another FIVE. Still no Belthauser. We
was just a-going to adjourn and draw
up the resolution for the funeral that
we were to give him by the absent
treatment, when sudden there's a riff
fie on the water and up he comes.
He climbs ashore painful and he
opens his hand. SILVER my topgal-
lants If he amt got that there watch.
Hohing goes down into his pocket
and heaved up a roll of greenbacks
as big round as a masthead, and. cuss
me for a deck swabber. If he doesn't
peel of FIVE hundreds off'n that there
roll and hand 'em to Belthauser
Pipe all hands to the bulwark. sur
geon. the suns over the foretop..
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1913-02-28

This reused all of Roses anger and
when they reached the street she is
said to have started preparing the de-
tective for a physicians care. Healy
waltzed her right back into the build
ing and as he attempted to lock her in
a cell, she broke away and ran to the
court room.
Judge Courtney was listening to evi
dence in another case when Rose ran
into the room.
Judge, your honor, the cops have
pinched me, an i amt guilty and be-
sides / want jury trial, she shouted.
You'll get it," observed the Judge.
Lock her Up"
The judge leaned back and sighed.
Some Wapps," he said. Some
Wapps."
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1913-02-28

and headdresses. The younger chill
dren wear black, hoodlike caps, such
as we see in pictures OF the Stuart
period in England.
On work days every one wears
wooden shoes. Only on Sundays do
the wealthier peasant women wear
leather shoes with great silver buckles,
the latter often ancient heirlooms of
beautiful workmanship. On this mar
ket day many of the women have
donned their Sunday things and are
showing OF their leather shoes. In
wooden shoes, however, every one
seems to be more comfortable and we
actually met two or three girls on
bicycles, with their wide skirts. curl
Gus caps, wooden shoes and ALL And
they seem to get along perfectly well
on their bikes" with their wooden
shoes; only, somehow, 1t seems incon-
gruous and a sort of anachronism to
see such modern things as bicycles on
the old road with its people Of bygone
ages, as 1t seems.
Dress Of the Men.
The men also still adhere TO the
ancient dress. The trousers do not
differ much from those we see In
south Holland. A double breasted
waistcoat or a short black or dark
blue jacket lined with very heavy dark
blue flannel are worn with the ker-
chief in dark colors around the neck
They also carry a gold brooch that Is
attached to a kind of collar Of white
knitted cotton, on which are worked In
red the name or initials of the wear
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1913-02-28

that bit into the sandwich and passed
the bills 1ad false teeth. These teeth
had certain marks. So they started
TO look for a man who had false teeth.
After Hornberger was placed in the
cell at City Hall one of the detectives
asked him to hand out his false teeth,
and he did so. Hurriedly a plaster
cast was made of the teeth and the
two casts. the one of the sandwich
and the one OF the teeth. are now be-
ing compared
There is strong suspicion that the
counterfeiters' lair is located in the
almost impenetrable Businesses Of the
Welsh mountains. At least 500 $40
bogus bills have been passed in this
section.
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1913-02-28
RESENT SEARCH FOR WIFE
20 Years Desire to Know II We
Are to Be Disappointed"

Denver. Colo.-Six girls at a promi-
nent local hotel here resent the an
nouncement of w. B. Cross, the Colo
RADIO rancher, proclaimed apple king
at the national convention of the APP
pie growers in New York city, that he
wants wife.
They sent him the following tele-
gram:
Nv. B. Cross, Hotel Breslin, New
York city: Wayne. Lillian. Margaret,
Flossie, Maud and myself feel deeply
aggrieved at our publicly advertising
through the press for life compan-
ion.
I'VE, each of US, who for the last
twenty years. have so lavishly enter
tanned you, desire to know II we are
to be disappointed. ANNA"
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1913-02-28
JAM ME- J|B SAIL,
TWAS SOME DIVE
Deep Diver Bell Man Fishes Up
Sunken Chronometer.
LAD OVERHEARD CAUSE
Landlubber, Without Hesitation,
Jumps Into seethine Maln-Seeth-
ina With Frost-to Save Drowning
Man-Lets Out a Yell for HeiL.

Chicago.-Yoho, my hearties! Gath
er around me now, for | am about to
unfold We as strange a tale of the sea
as ever happened on the Chicago
river.
Twas on a dark and stormy night
that Fred j. Hohing. a simple COM
mission merchant man, was sitting In
his window on the second floor of 172
South Water street with pen in hand
a-watching the big chunks Of ice a-foat-
ing by and a-wondering how he was
going to pay his coal bills, when of
sudden there was splashing and
yelling, and who should Hohing see
a-houndering around in that there Icy
water but this here landlubber that l
was speaking of. the same being John
Dunn. a advertising solicitor who had
fallen into that there stream acct
dental or contrariwise.
Without no hesitation whatsoever
this here Hohing rises up from his
chair. lays down his pen and jumps
kerplunk out of that window into the
seething main below, the same being
asserting with frost and not with
heat, or you can wash my scuppers.
No sooner has this Hohing got him.
self into the water than he discovers
to his pain that there are two drowning
men In that there raging main. the
one being this here landlubber and
the other himself. So he lets out
yell, and along comes George Quinn.
who walters into the river likewise,
that making three. Then up comes
Cornelius Griffin, who has sense
enough to keep his skin dry. and be-
twixt the three of them they manage
to tow this here Dunn and themselves
into port
No sooner has this here Hohing got
himself into drydock than. blast my
toplights, he busts into a screech that
made all the sirens on the river think
they were deaf and dumb.
MY watch" SEE he. "Cuss It." he
sex, I've lost nv watch"
II had been given him by a Ger
man noble who was a relative of the
family.
Then up comes Fritz Belthauser.
who is a believer. and listens patient
till he's found out what it's all about.
So the next day this here Belthaus-
er puts on his diving suit and lets
himself careful OF that dock and
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1913-02-28
THIS MARY'S LITTLE
LAMB HAD "PEG" LEG
Wooden Underpinning Of Kansas
Pet Cause Of Tragedy in
Chase to School.

Larned. KAMA case OF Mary and
her little lamb that ended tragically
was reported the other day from
Richmond. county seat of Morton
county. Mary, the ten-year-old daugh-
ter Of T. A. Schoor. a millionaire
rancher. had the lamb. which she
called Pet.
While romping with the dogs. Pet
was caught In a barbed-wire fence
and her leg so lacerated amputation
was necessary. Mary's heart was
broken, but the lamb soon learned to
hobble on three legs and follow her
about
After a while Pet pinned to romp
with the dogs and run with Mary on
the cattle trails. Inactivity produced
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1913-02-28
New to the Phonouraph,

An old farmer drove into a small
town the other day and stopped at the
country store. An Edison photograph
had just been installed and the farmer
decided to have a few cents worth of
music. The clerk handed him the ear
tubes. placed them in proper position
and Immediately started the machine.
The farmer instantly dropped the
tubes and rushed to the door, crying:
Great snakes! Hold on a minnit.
will ye? There's gol burned brass
band a-comin, an there amt nobody
a-holdin' my horse-"-Biff
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1913-02-28

WYE are on the high road to
AAH Harderwyk, one of the small
WV dead cities" of the Zuyder
w Zee. 1t is Saturday morn
ing and market day, the
most important weekly occurrence in
these environs. Market begins quite
early and must now be over, for it is
close upon IL o'clock and we meet the
returning stream of peasants. They
have sold all their eggs and other pro-
duce, have made their purchases in
town for the coming week and are now
returning homeward, writes w. ]. L.
Ktehl, from The Hague, in the Chica-
go Daily News.
Most OF them are on feet, but some
come driving in carts and in wagons
that are curiously carved and painted
a dark green color. Some of these wag-
ons are hooded with either white or
dark blue cap-like covers. From un-
derneath these hoods peep the smiling
faces OF the peasant women. Every
one gives US a friendly nod and a
cheerful good morning" The drivers
of the vehicles that overtake us half
stop their teams as they offer US a lift
But we do not accept the kind offers,
for the walk is far too enjoyable this
fine winter morning.
Fond Of Blue Coiors.
Every man. woman or child we meet
is carrying a basket, sometimes two,
and few bundles. The baskets are
all covered with kerchiefs, many OF a
dark blue ground with light blue flow
cry pattern, or blue and white check
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1913-02-28
Raodad Coffee Shops.

Any one who sits. down in a coffee
shop in Bagdad is first given cup OF
Turkish coffee and then a narghile,
a sort of native pipe in which Shirza
tobacco is smoked The charge for
the coffee and the use Of the narghile
is about two cents. The coffee shop
Quahwat Pasha is the "bourse" for the
native business people. Here the mer-
chants gather to discuss trade bills
and other subjects. Representatives
of the banks ascertain here the num-
Der of bills to be taken up and Sc
cure the facts from which they can
determine the exchange rates for bills
and for foreign coins. The rates
are practically determined in the cot
fee shops.
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1913-02-28

M INNEAPOLIS. Minn..-"Bin." the
IVA county jail cat, has achieved
fame. Bill is years old For two
years he has been acting as night
watch in the jail For that length Of
time Jailer Nels Clausen had not
seen Bill and he thought the cat had
done the seemingly impossible-es-
capped from jail. On the contrary, Bill
has been very much on the job and
has been active in preventing jail
breaking.
1t all came out the other day when
James Merrick. night TALLER. related
how Bill had followed him on his
rounds through the cell block each
halShour during the night Other
night men confirmed the story as hav-
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1913-02-28
PERFECT CAT FOUND AT SHOW
Animal Valued at $1,000 Seen In Lon
don Exhibit at the Crystal
Palace.

= London.-The National Cat Club, at
It's annual show at the Crystal Palace,
produced as the winner of the first
prize an animal described as the ideal
.at at which fanciers have been aim
ng for years. 1t is an orange-colored
abby named Torrington. with a red
.rill 1t is valued by its owner, Mrs.
Horace Clark of Bideford. Devonshire.
1t $4,000.
The color is not marrd by suspi-
ion of white in the eyes, which consist
If alternate circles of light and dark
red. The coat is also of alternate
streaks in two shades.
Louis Vain, the Judge, said he had
never before, at any show, seen such
perfection of shading.
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1913-02-28
Ten children In Two Years.

Pittsburgh. Pa.-Mrs- james Hanna
give birth to bankruptcies. Mrs. Hanna
had given birth to two sets Of triplets
in the last two years. AL OF the quad
duplets are expected to live. Their
predecessors died There are three
other children in the family. the old
est being about twelve years old.
when Hanna was told his family had
been increased by four. he remarked:
81 was looking for something like
that"