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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-01-23

Peter Rabbit was hopping slowly along
through the snow-cOvered green forest on
his way back to the dear old brier patch.
Peter was hopping slowly because he was
thinking He was thinking of all that his
big cousin, Jumper the Hare, had taught
him that night They had had a great
time together nearly all night. and now It
was almost morning and Peter was on
his way home Peter laughed aloud as
he thought of how they had fooled jim
my Skunk with their white coats so that
he thought they were little heaps OF
snow. And he laughed again when he
remembered how Granny and Reddy Fox
had trotted right past Jumper the Hare
without seeing him, although he was in
plain sight.
my. but Jumper was brave to sit still
with old Granny Fox so near! I wonder
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-01-23
WOULD CLOSE ALL CHURCHES.
Prof. Fisher Suggests Experiment fol-
Limited Time.

HARTFORD. Conn.,, January %
Speaking last night before the Get-To-
gether Club of the Center CONGREGATIONAL
Church, former Mayor Willard c. Fisher
of Middletown. a professor at Wesleyan
University. advocated CLOSING up all the
churches in the country for a limited
time. as an experiment"
He was speaking on the question of
Sunday laws in this state.
"Going to church is not religion" said
the professor.
roariously good time on Sunday"
He favors a wide open Sunday law,
with certain restrictions
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-01-23
KENYON PLANS BATTLE.
Senator Declares Laboring Man
Should Share in Wealth Created.

DES MONIES, Iowa, January 23.-'1
have course mapped out to fight a
battle in Congress in the next two years
for human rights, moral laws and de-
cency in politics and legislation de-
clared Senator w. S. Kenyon. in a speech
before the Iowa legislature accepting the
reelection rendered him on joint ballot
by a vote of 96 against 81 for d. w
Hamilton, democrat.
THE time has come" continued the
senator. when the laboring man must
be given larger share in the wealth he
helps to create"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-01-23
Would Extend Parsifal Copyright.

BERLIN, January 23-Crown Prince
Frederick William heads the list of sign
ers of a petition which has been presented
to the reichstag asking for the enact
ment of a special law to extend the copy
right of Richard Wagner's opera, Par
sifal,'' which expires this year. The
crown princess is second on the list. and
the imperial princes follow.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-01-23
TO BSERvE TERCENTENARY.
New York Will Celebrate Granting
of Charter of 1914.

NEW YORK. January 23-A decision
to celebrate the ''tercentenary Of COM
Inerce in New York. or the granting
of a charter by the Dutch government
In 1914 to it's citizens to settle here, was
reached yesterday by the executive COM
mittee Of the citizens committee ap-
pointed recently by Mayor Gaynor to
determine the matter.
The executive body will recommend
within ten days to the larger committee
that preparations be begun at once for
a celebration next year.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-01-23
One of the Original Republicans.

BLOOMFIELD, n. J., January 3D.
AMI Dodd. the first vice chancellor OF
New Jersey and dean Of the bar OF this
state. died at his home here yesterday
aged ninety years, after an illness OF
several days As a free soiler he aided
in the organization of the republican
party. He was an honor man Of Prince
ton University. from which he WAS grade
uated in 16A1.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-01-23

him. When Peter was sure that Hooty
was far away he once more started for
home, and he felt so good over the way
in which he had fooled Hooty the Owl
that he began to say over and over this
foolish little verse:
When danger comes l just SIT usht,
yVro nnad in NV little coat of white
And sharp eyes come and sharp eyes go
And think I'm Just a heap OF snow.
I love my little coat of white
That keeps me safe when sit tight
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-01-23
Orders Law Rigidly Enforced.

Maj. Sylvester, chief Of police. has in
structed the members of the police force
to enforce rigidly the law which makes
1t an offense to expectorate upon the
sidewalk, on the floors of public places
and street cars. A few cases taken into
court. Maj. Sylvester says. will put stop
to the practice.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-01-23

DIR. Alexander Aaronsohn Of Palestine
is announced to speak on the Joy of
Construction" at the monthly meeting
of the District Federation of Women's
Clubs. Saturday, at o'clock, in the
parlors of the POrtner. Mrs. w. T..
Andrews. president, will preside. The
program will be in charge OF the Wash
ington Alliance of Jewish Women.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-01-23

Whether your account aggregates thou
sands OF dollars or is little one with de-
sire to grow, we will welcome it and offer
you every possible banking facility in carry
ing out your financial affairs.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-01-23
TO COL. elem
"Drummer Boy of Chicka-
manga" Guest of Kit
Carson Post.

Col. John L. Glen, L. S. A, 1.-The
drummer boy of Chickamauga,'' was the
guest of honor at a reception given by
Kit Carson Post, No. 2, Department of
the Potomac, G. A. r., at the post hall,
1412 Pennsylvania avenue. last evening.
More than 500 guests and members OF
the post gathered to meet the distinguish
ed soldier.
The ceremony which started the recep-
ton was picturesque. the "trooping Of the
colors." An armed guard carried the
colors around the hall and all present
stood and saluted the flag.
The master of ceremonies was Col.
John McElroy. The speakers of the even
ing were Past Commander-in-chief of Kit
Carson Post S. S. Burdett, former Sena-
Gen. /. r. Sherwood. past senior vice
commander-in-chief;G George w. Cook. n.
S. Kingman, Col. Chauncey B. Baker. U.
s. a., and Col John A. Joyce.
Stories of His Bravery.
Stories Of the bravery and kindness of
Col Glenn were told. He ran away from
home when he was twelve years old. 1t
was stated. and Joined the Army Of the
Cumberland.
Gen. Sherwood told the following story
Of Col Glen:
when Col. Glen was but a twelve
year-old lad. playing his drum on the bat
tlefeld, a Confederate colonel caught him
In the open and struck the lad with his
sword Quick as a flash Johnny drop
ped his drum, grabbed gun that was
lying on the ground and shot the rebel
commander to death. For this deed,
which was witnessed by many OF his
comrades, he was promoted to be SER
geant by Gen. Rosecrans."
Col Joyce led in singing song he had
composed i'm honor Of Col. Glen, which he
entitled Johnny Glenn"
Col, Glen bears the distinction Of be-
ing now the ranking colonel in the quar-
termasters department and the ninth
ranking colonel in the United States
Army. He is the only veteran of the
civil war holding commission on the
active list of the army.
Refreshments were served after the
ceremonies.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-01-23

If could do it. Jumper says that the
whole secret of fooling people is in sitting
tight and l suppose he Is right But 1t
must be dreadfully hard. oh. dreadfully
hard, to sit perfectly still and not move
the teeniest weeniest bit when danger is
so close at hand" thought Peter.
And then, right into the middle of his
thoughts broke q terrible sound, q SQUAD
that always made Peter shiver when he
heard 1t, even when he knew that he was
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-07-20
CRAWFORD HEIRS EXPECT
SEARCH FOR BARBER To
BARE PRE-NUPTIAL PLOT
Relatives Think That Lump Will Tell
Woman Held on Poison Charge
Planned to Wed Him on Her Hus-
bands Death.

II the tireless search which is being
directed by Atlanta lawyers discov-
ers In New York man named Fred
Lump, the prosecutions in the case
against Mrs. Mary Belle Crawford,
who is charged with poisoning her
husband, Joshua B. Crawford, thinks
a pre-nuptial plot against Crawford
can be proved.
The alleged plot was between Mrs.
Crawford. then Mrs. Savage, and
Lump. She would marry the wealthy
Crawford obtain his money, and then
marry Lump, say her accusers.
Lump is a barber by trade and
Bohemian by nativity He is sup
posed to be in New York, and in
that city detectives in the employ
of the prosecution have been at work
for several days. Every message that
comes rrom them, however, Is one
of failure.
Colonel James Makes Charge.
The charge of a plot first was made
by Col. ]. 8. James, who is attorney
for the contesting Crawford heirs
who ordered the arrest OF Lump
Colonel James said that Lump admit
ted his being in Atlanta at the time
OF Crawford's death, and that other
testimony valuable to the prosecution
was given by him in deposition sew
eral weeks ago. But present search
for the Bohemian barber has proved
fruitless.
Colonel James points to Mrs. E. c.
Bursener as one of the witnesses Of
the prosecution to substantiate the
murder plot charge. Mrs. Bursener
1t is claimed, will testify that she
frequently heard Mrs. Crawford say
that she would marry Crawford get
his money and later run away with
Lump. The prosecution win seek to
prove also by Mrs. Gertrude A. Paint
er, it is said, that there was a def
mite agreement to this plan existent
between Mrs. Crawford and Lump.
The forces that are trying to sad
die Mrs. Crawford with the murder
charge are scoring heavily in the
closely civil suit Heirs of
Joshua B. Crawford, trying to break
the will by which the widow received
the bulk of the estate, charging I'M
due influence, have produced a num-
Der of witnesses to swear to an an
tagOnism between Crawford and Mrs.
Mary B Crawford.
One of the witnesses was Mrs. L.
c. Dillingsley, who testified that
Joshua B. Crawford said time and
again, that he would not marry the
woman. This statement was elected
In the attempt to prove that Craw-
ford was not rational. and probably
was intoxicated, when he married
Mrs. Crawford
Drunkenness Is Charged.
Mrs. Dillingsley. who said she lived
In the Crawford home on West Peach
tree street before Joshua Crawford
death, told of instances Of alleged
cruelty on Mrs CrawfOrd's part, di-
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-07-20
Indian Girl Seeks
Office in Oklahoma
Educated Cherokee Business Woman
Would Be State Commissioner of
Charities and Corrections.

VINITA. OKLA. July IAN
nouncement By Miss Kate Barnard
State Commissioner of Charities and
Corrections. that she will not be a
candidate for re- election, brings into
the race for the Democratic nominal
ton a young Cherokee woman, Miss.
Pearl Holderman, of Northern Craig
County, whose ability as an educated
business woman has given her wide
acquaintance in Eastern Oklahoma.
Miss Holderman has large business
possibilities. and her experience
and ability have made her more than
match for most men. Because Of
her fathers impaired health she man
ages his cattle ranch, directing every
detail, including the care of a herd OF
bloOded cattle. This young Cherokee
woman owns a thousand acres of LAND
In her own name, all of which is in a
high state of cultivation.
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-07-20
Willing To Marry
But Not to Apologize
Man Sued for Breach of Promise
Says Hill Wed But Refuses to
Beg Forgiveness.

ATCHISON. KANS., July 19.-Mary
Falk and William Burke were engaged
to be married. The date had been set,
the guests had assembled, and every
thing was in readiness, but Burke did
not appear. Chagrined and heaTtbroken,
Miss Falk engaged an attorney and
sued Burke for $4,000 as balm for her
wounded feelings
1T was all mistake" said Burke.
Il wanted and still want to marry Miss
FaIk l was under the impression that
under the rules of the Catholic Church
he ceremony had to be performed by
The pastor Of the brides church.
couldn't find him in time to perform the
ceremony and naturally supposed the
wedding was off for the time being
Miss Falk accepted the explanation,
but she insisted that Burke must apol-
ogize for not appearing for the we'd
ding Burke, however. insisted that she
must apologize for suing him.
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-07-20
SINGS ITS
SWAN SONG As
DIVORCE MECCA
Grand Rush Of CoIonists to Take
Advantage of the Old Law
Comes to an End.

RENO, July 19.-With such songs
as Meet a Friend From Your Home
Town and AT the Devils Ball" sung
by feminine entertainers from Metro
pelitan music halls, accompanied by
high class orchestras, the divorce col.
ony celebrated the past week the be-
ginning Of the end of the Nevada
quick divorce.
On the stroke of the midnight hour
on Monday the curtain dropped upon
one scene in Reno's notable divorce
colony performance which has COM
manded the attention of the world for
so long-that of the almost daily APP
pearance of new faces upon the
streets, as men and women, FROM
plain country folk to deliberately
gowned and bejeweled society beau
ties, arrived to beoin their required
six months residence in the State and
county, preparatory to the prospective
divorce action.
Lave Hats CoIonists.
No more will incoming trains de-
post these colonists and carloads Of
trunks. for the familiar song, I'm OH
My Way to Reno" has been shelvod
by the action of tn last Legislature,
when it dealt the Knockout blow in
its ultimatum that no divorce pro-
ceeding shall be instituted in the
State of Nevada under the existing
six-month residence law after De-
cember q next, thereby limiting the
time in which newcomers could begin
such residence ~eriod TO Monday last
Previous to July, 1909, the presence
here for divorce of but an OCCa sional
person of prominence merely COM
manded attention to that individual,
but ii led to a method of publicity by
an attorney which started the ball
rolling, and it has never stopped roll
ing. Its greatest momentum is being
witnessed now.
All Houses Are Thronged.
During the past month, and espe-
cially the week ending on Monday,
the throng of newcomers has expert
enced great difficulty in securing such
apartments as they might desire. All
the hotels are crowded, as are the de-
sirable rooming houses. Available
cottages are almost as scarce as the
proverbial hens teeth. In many cot
tages from four to six Divorces are
living.
Some private boarding houses are
housing as many as ten of the fair
sex, and men. There are now scores
of so-caIed divorces nests" here.
Every train the past fortnight has
unloaded new arrivals, the preponder-
ance Of men and very young women,
seemingly well to do and fashionable
being noticeable. The proportion OF
men to women increased largely.
Baby carriages and dogs played con-
spicuous parts.
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-07-20
Attending Funerals
Hobby of Old Squaw
"Glass Eye" Noted for Lamentations
at Obsequies, at Last Principal
at Mortuary Ceremony.

KLAMATH FALLS, OREG, July
19.-"Glass Eye" is dead She was
an aged Indian woman, well known
here since the settltment of this sec
ton. 1t was one of her hobbies to at
tend every funeral that she could,
and on these occasions she posed as
chief mourner by her excessive la
mentations.
Her name has been forgotten by
the whites. who only know her by the
nickname. which is said to have been
given her when young. because of the
brightness of her eyes and not be-
cause of any abnormality in them.
She vas about rs years old. and is
reported to have been the sister of
white CInJy" another noted abor-
igine.
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-07-20
Aged Oil Queen, Wife
Of Youth, Ruled Sane
Young Spendthrift Husband Is We'll
come to Fortune, She Says,
on Leaving Asylum.

CHARLESTON, w. VA, July 10
The courts and her children can not
separate Mrs. Cynthia c. Sparks,
known as West Virginia's "oiI queen, =
and her young husband, Fred Sparks,
and she is again free, after having
been incarcerated in the West Vir
ginia Hospital for Insane for ten days
Further, the superintendent and the
members of the State Board of Con-
troll have placed beyond question her
sanity after a close observation, while
she was under their supervision.
Mrs. Sparks is going to join her 20
ear-old husband who, it is alleged
by the woman's children by her first
husband, was rapidly dissipating her
fortune of S20OO,O00 by his extrava-
gance and riotious living.
The old woman declared to-day tina,
her young husband was welcome to
the half Of her fortune which she re-
tanned after having signed over the
half to him
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-07-20
Women Wear Bath
Dresses Down Town
startIe Natives by Appearing in Ice
Cream Parlor in Their
Beach Attire.

WHEELING, w. VA, July 10
Two buxon matrons and a miss about
19 years old created a sensation about
dusk by walking through the streets
of Warwood, north of this city, in
bathing costumes. Unabashed by the
attention they attracted, they entered
an ice cream parlor, where they or
dered ices, and after eating them
walked to their homes.
The matter was brought to the at
tention of Town Marshal 2. l. Pool
who Immediately issued a warning
that women appearing hereafter in
such scant attire would subject them
selves to arrest.
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-07-20
Boy Finds S35,5OO;
Hides it from Police
Advertises That He Picked up Money
and Declares He Will Return
it to Owner.

NORTH ADAMS, MASS, July 10
Brayton Gardner, IS years old, who
announced he had found $35,5O0 in d
leather bag on the tracks of the Bos-
ton and Maine Railroad, tonight re-
fused TO tell the police where he put
the money.
u have hidden it in a safe place, -
said he "and If someone claims 1t l
viii produce ii Immediately"
Gardner walked into the office of a
local newspaper and inserted an ad-
vertisement reading:
"Found S35.5OO. owner can have
money by identifying it and satisfy
ing Brayton Gardner"
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-07-20
Naturalist Editor
Has Forest Sanctum
Sets His Type in Shade of HemIock
and Lives in Wigwam all
Winter.

WESTFIELD MASS. July ia
unique editorial and printing plant is
that known as Seneca Wigwam, The
Press in the Forest" located in the
heart of the woods about three miles
west of this place.
The sanctum is a typical Indian
tepee, where the editor Joseph c.
DupOrt, an out-of-door enthusiast,
prints, illustrates and publishes an
original magazine called the Woro-
noco Valley Calumet.
In summer the editor sets his type
in the shade of a hemlock, and in the
winter or during inclement weather
his work is done in the wigwam,
which contains an up-to-date TWEEN
tfeth century printing press and
equipment.
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-07-20
POliceman's Watch
Stops Death Bullet
Hospital Steward Thinks PatroIman
Burglar and Fires Six Shots
at His Heart.

in his vest pocket stopped a bullet
which otherwise probably would have
pierced the heart of Pauolman O'Hara
last night The shot was one of six
fired by Roscoe Gray, steward of the
Oakland College of Medicine, under the
impression that O'Hara was a burglar
The other shots did not hit O'Hara
Gray nearly collapsed when he learned
his mistake.
noticed a door in the college building
open Trying to close it, he set off
burglar alarm and Gray opened fire in
The dark.
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-07-20
Silver Wire Travels
Through Two Arms
Metal Closes Wound on Left Wrist
and Works Way to the
Right Finger.

CHICO, CAL, July 19.-James Du-
pen, a Chico merchant, to-day sub
mitted to an operation, in which a
piece of silver wire, used in closing
a wound on the left wrist in 1897,
was extracted from the index finger
Of the right hand The wire, which Is
one half inch long passed up one
arm, across the chest and worked
down the opposite arm, emerging at
the finger.
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-07-20
in Davenport, Iowa.

in Davenport, Iowa.
Some years ago when Mrs. Bern
bert who lived alone, was found to
be of unsound mind, Dr. DuCkworth
was named as her guardian and she
was taken to an asylum for treat
ment. In searching the house he
found scattering personal property.
1t was found that much of it was gold
nuggets and dust, saved, evidently,
from some former mining experience,
and boarded away.
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-07-20

rected particularly toward a Miss
Scott. Mrs. Sallie Alexander, an old
woman Of Henry County, was anoth-
er witness by whom it was sought %
prove habitual drunkenness on Craw-
ford's part.
Mrs. Crawford, released from the
Tower on pail of $6250 has remained
in the seclusion of her home on West
Peachtree street all week, steadfastly
quiet and refusing all statements in
the face of the accusations against
her. She has said nothing regarding
the case, except simple denial of
the charges.
Reporters seeing her were treated
courteously and quietly, and Mrs.
Crawford seemed not averse TO talk
to them freely. But in most OF the
talk the subject of the murder charge
and the plot charge in which Jumps
name appears was carefully skirted.
Mrs. Crawford is a large woman,
of dignified appearance. Not one mo-
ment since her arrest Saturday night
has her composure broken, even
slightly In the Tower she received
the few persons who called on her,
and during the visit did not exhibit
sign of perturbation.
Calls Charge lawful Thing"
To reporters and to all her visitors.
when she mentioned at all the sub
tect OF the murder charge, she re-
ferred to it as this awful thing"
Mrs Crawford finds staunch friends
in her children and grandchildren.
who visited her at the Tower, and
were with her almost all the few hours
she spent in Jail, bringing her flowers,
a savory meal and other tokens of
their love.
Mrs Crawford's children are bitter
in their speech against the nephews
and neices of Joshua B. Crawford,
who they say, are prosecuting their
mother with extreme cruelty. Mrs.
Crawford herself accused her enc
mics of cruelty and lack of feeling.
Mrs. Crawford met Joshua B. Craw-
ford when she was in charge of a
winter hotel in st. Augustine, wither
Crawford went in search of health.
1t was there she met him, and there
that she married him. At his death,
there was settlement of his estate,
Mrs. Crawford taking hold of the
affairs with a capable hand.
An agreement was signed and the
affairs of Joshua B. Crawford, de-
ceased, seemed amicably settled. Then
the litigation was sprung. In the
first bill of complaint the heirs who
contested the will charged Mrs Craw-
ford with poisoning her husband, and
of exerting undue influence to pro-
cure a viii in her favor. But 1t was
not until three years later, two weeks
ago, that an examination of the re-
mains of Joshua B. Crawford to as
certain traces of poison was ordered.
Upon the examination came the YER
dict Of the physician that traces of
poison were vident and Mrs. Craw-
ford was arrested.
With preliminary hearing waived,
Mrs. Crawford's case is fatty up to
the grand jury, which, without def
mite date of meeting. awaits the call
of the Solicitor General. The body
probably will be assembled next week
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-07-20
Stolen Jewels Are
Found Buried in Park
Last Of 100000 Loot Stolen by EN-
ployee Of Firm Recovered Aft
err Confession.

NEW YORK, July 19.-The final con
fession Of young William Beck, who
stole 500 900 worth Of jewelry from, his
Yesterday. The last $500 Of the loot
was found by detectives 1t was buried
in Central Park.
Beck had insisted until yesterday that
finally got him to reveal the hiding
place. The police were told TO enter
the park at l10th street and Eighth
avenue and count eighteen stone blocks
in the wall to a spot where a small
bush grew Buried inches they found
nine diamond rings and pair OF cuff
buttons
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-07-20
Bee Sting on Neck
Fatal to Farmer
Dies from Paralysis Of Heart Fifteen
Minutes After Insect Poison
Enters System.

BRISTOL. PA, July 19.-John Pick
erng, a farmer of odbine, while en-
gagged in his customary duties about the
farm Saturday. was stung on the neck
by a large bee and within fifteen min
utes he was dead
Or Heritage. Of LanghOrne was
summoned but did not arrive in time
to render aid. The doctor says death
was the result Of paralysis of the
heart, caused by the bee sting.