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The day book. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1911-1917, 1916-02-02

Policeman John O'Meara, who is
detailed to the Herald to stop just
such affairs, rushed out of the Herald
offices. He saw the gang scattering
out on 9Th av and around the Hotel
La Sale on La Sale ST., but couldn't
find out who fired the shot.
They picked up White, carried him
into the Offices of the Herald and then
called the ambulance from the first
precinct station. The injured boy
was taken to the Iroquois hospital,
where the bullet was extracted.
White told the policemen that he
was fast asleep waiting for the Herald
bulldog" edition to go to press, so
he could get busy, when someone
shot him. He explained that the shot
must have been accidental, because
he hadn't mixed in any fight.
Circulation Manager H. L. Starkey
of the Herald was sure that the
shooting was an accident.
"a crowd Of paper boys hang
around in the alley waiting for our
early street edition to go to press"
he said.
Some boy must have been show
ing a gun to another one and dropped
it. That's the only way I can figure
the accident. I'm sure there was no
fight or they would tell me about it.
Eve took White to the hospital and
l understand that he is out already.
Nothing serious at all"
1890
The day book. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1911-1917, 1916-02-02
ANOTHER SHOOTING IN ALLEY
BETWEEN NEWS AND HERALD

Newspaper Alley" was the scene
of another mysterious shooting last
Saturday night. This latest outbreak
of lawlessness is only one of long
series of shooting ARRAYS, Standings
and holdups that have been staged in
the driveway.
The alley is between the build
ings of the Daily News and the Her
aid and runs from La Sale st. to 9Th
av., in the block from Madison to
Washington st.
Here circulation men for both pa
pers hang around waiting for editions
to go to press so they can start work.
Armed as they often are, the paper
men often take notion to beat I'D
and rob a passerby who chances into
the alley. Or they have been known
to shoot up saloons and fruit stores
in the neighborhood.
Sometimes in their drunken brawls
they turn on each other and a bad
stabbing or pistol battle results.
Just what happened last Saturday
is not clear. But there is no doubt
that a shooting came off in the alley
between the News and Herald.
When the crowd Of paper men had
scattered, Ray White, Is, of S13
Johns pl., lay in the alley with bull
let in his knee. He is a newsboy for
The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1916-01-14
HAS BEEN TAUGHT LESSON
Never Again Will One Particular DOG
Approach Too Close to Any
~Flypaper.

Trix is just a white bulldog and has
never taken a course in insectology.
His cwner had tied a piece of iypaper
on the outside of the kitchen screen
door to catch some of the flies that
sought to get into the house. Trix
walked leisurely up on the porch after
spending a half hour looking through
the cracks in the rear fence. He no
ticed a commotion on the screen and
walked over to investigate. He looked
closely at the %fiypaper. Then he turned
his head. Yes, there was no mistaking
the sound. Two or three flies, not yet
ready TO give up the ghost, were pro-
testing with vigorous buzZes against
their enforced detainment. One of the
flies Trix thought particularly big for
a housefy. But the working of his
dog mind did not carry him beyond
that point. He stepped up closer and
wriggled his nose.
The big fly moved again in its sticky
bed. The dogs nose went closer. The
breeze blew a rag hanging on the back
porch and ii struck Trix on the hind
leg. Unthinkingly he jerked forward
just enough to have his nose come in
contact with the f%lypaper. There was
a howl and he tore down into the back
yard with the big fly sitting on his
nose. Into the dirt the dog thrust his
nose and the bee was rubbed off. Ii
was ten minutes before the dog had
made up his mind to take things philo-
sophically and quit whining about a
bee sitting down on his nose. And
now, if you show him a piece of flypa.
per. he will tear the back fence down
trying TO get away from it.-Indian.
apolis News.
The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1916-01-14
FOR LEFT-HANDED PERSONS
Michigan Jeweler Has Put Forward a
T~imepiece That is a Tri-
umph of the Art.

E. P. Foley, a local jeweler, has
made the fable6 reaper obey that poet
ic summons, Backward, turn back
ward, o Time. in your flight" a Kala-
mazoo (Mich.) correspondent of the
New York Sun writes. He has accom-
plished this seemingly impossible
thing by the simple %expedient of in
venting a left-handed watch. Instead
of running from left to right. as in
the case of the ordinary timepiece,
Mr.. Foley's watch sends it's hands
around from right TO left.
The watch was made because one OF
the inventors daughters complained
that the left-handed person has such a
slim chance in life-machinery, street
car doors, and even the hands of the
clOck-went toward the right hand, as
If to balk the person who happens TO
be left handed.
Just to meet the situation. Foley de-
signed and built the left-handed
watch. Other left-handed persons, OBJ
serving the ease with which time is
told OF the backward dials, expressed
an interest, and it has been found
necessary to start a little manufacture
ing company to turn out left-handed
watches and clocks. A left-handed
wrist watch, to be worn very prop
erly on the left wrist, is the next thing
to be turned out.
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Important Discovery.

The discovery of a prehistoric pueb-
10 in Nitsu canyon, in the Navajo
mountains OF Arizona, has added ma
terially TO the archaeological develop
ents of the year. II contains at least
eighty-four rooms. or apartments,
which are all more or less connected
with each other. In some OF these
o interesting specimens of ancient
handiwork have been found. Among
them is a large. handsome shawl COW
cred with elaborate embroidery which
is in excellent preservation, although
1t is known TO be at least a thousand
years old.
Beads Of Jade and other material.
baskets, prayer sticks. a large variety
Of pottery. including several good
sized elias in the are black and white
ware and some ornate moccasins OF
yucca fiber. are among the articles
taken from the cid ruins. They will
be added to the museum of the Uni
versity Of Arizona.
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HERE is THE LATEST kLIBI
Briton Asserted He Was Full Of
Qulnine When Arrested for AS
saulting Man After Alteration.

Alta London police court recently.
Frederick Hewlett Burton-Brown. fifty
three years old. who was in the uni
form OF a captain in the royal army
medical corps, was charged on remand
with being drunk and riotous and
with assaulting William Imrie. a
horsekeeper of Bloomsbury square.
by striking him on the head with an
electric torch, says the Lo~don Times.
The attorney who appe. red for the
defendant said that on night he
was arrested he was leading an off,
Ger who had lost his sight in the Oar
danelles and when crossing the road
switched or an electric torch to see
his way. There had been a Zeppelin
attack some twenty minutes earlier
and the prosecutor thought he might
be signaling the Zeppelins and pro-
tested. The defendant became ex-
cited and a policeman who appeared
on the scene wrongly thought that his
excitement was due to drink. and ar
rested him. The defendant had suf-
fered from Indian malaria and had
been taking large doses of q~uinine.
which accounted for his condition
when he was arrested. He desired %
express his regret for any injury he
might have caused the prosecutor and
was willing to compensate him.
The magistrate allowed both charges
to be withdrawn.
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Held for
Ransom
By Augustus
Goodrich Sherwin
copyright. 1915. by W. G. Chapman,

(Copyright. 1915. by W. G. Chapman-)
Il shall never see your face again."
cried pretty but willful Nina Wilder
stormily.
All right was the cool rejoinder
OF her fiance, Walter Bross-"youll
be sorry"
81? neyer," declared the wrought
up young lady. her quivering tones
b~etraying the necessity of emphasis
against the dictates of her real soul.
Il shall go away from you as far as
| can-clear around the world, but I'll
forget youi"
Then I'll go, too" Walter assured
her.
Il shall take the opposite direction,
IL you dol" insisted Nina, and then
she rushed from the room and up the
stairs, and throwing herself on a
couch in her own apartment burst
into a violent fit OF Mysteries.
II was a foolish quarrel, for never
were two beings more felicitously
adapted to make life bright and happy
together than they. Nina was an or
phan living with a widowed aunt and
possessed Of a very liberal income
from the estate of her dead father,
Walter had just inherited a large for
tune He made no pretense of active
busiress outside of being listed as
president Of a large construction com
pany well p~atronized by political infu
ence, all the real labor of it's manage
ment falling TO the lot of the subor
dinate officers.
The trouble was-jealousy. Neither
had been in love before, both were
young, fond of society, petted anC
spoiled. Because they were mere
The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1916-01-14
On Framing Pictures.

A few years ago | heard George
Bernard Shaw give a lecture before
the Camera club in London. The n
thing that | remember that he said
was that, in going into a house, he
could always tell the degree OF cul-
ture and refinement there was in that
house by the width of the mats on the
pictures. OF course, Mr.. Shaw was
trying to be funny as usual. and as
usual there was lots of truth in what
he said. If every one would make a
tour Of the house with that in mind,
take down those pictures with the
wide white or colored mats and have
them reframed close. or If a certain
one seems to demand a mat, have a
very narrow n put on it, they would
really be surprised to see the i'm
provement in the appearance OF the
rooms. In many cases the same
frames could be used: they would only
need to be cut down.-Philadelphia
Public Ledger.
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OLD CABIN
Early Home of President of the
United States.
North Bend, Ohio, Is Known in His
tory as Having Contained the Res
idence IF Gen. William
Henry Harrison.

The home Of Gen. William Henry
Harrison. at North Bend, which he
maintained all through the years of
his public services, and TO which he
retired when in private life, was really
in part a log cabin. One who was a
guest there in 1916 describes it as a
long, rambling structure, part two sto-
ries in height, but mostly with one
story, with the wide front facing the
Ohio river, from which it stood back
about three hundred yards.
There were nine rooms in all on the
ground floor, says the Columbus Dis
patch, and one Of these-a large one
was the log portion, it evidently hav-
ing been originally a log cabin stand
ing by itself, but the cwner had built
additions to ii as need was felt and
means permitted, until he had quite
a ~pretentious country residence. The
whole Of the exterior had been COW
cred with clapboards-sawed boards
being too expensive il those days
and the clapboardS were painted
white. Seen from the river at the
bend, it is said TO have presented a
very beautiful aspect, the white build
ing in it's setting of green in sunmer
being particularly striking.
In this leg cabin portion of his resi-
dence General Harrison often enter
tanned companies of friends, and
cider was the beverage used at these
dinners. This hospitality was famous
just prior to the presidential campaign
in which he led the Wings, and the
contest became known in political cir
Giles as the log cabin and hard cider
campaign.
After the death of President Harri-
son, Mrs. Harrison returned to the
old home al North Bend, and there
spent the rest of her life. General
Harrison owned a large farm, and it
was managed by his son-in-law, w. II.
II. Taylor.
Mrs. Harrison, who vas a daughter
of Judge ]. C. Symmes and was born
in New Jersey, lived to be e%ighty-nine
years old, her death occurring liz
1864, near the close of the Civil var
Her body lies buried beside that OF
her distinguished husband in the soil
Of the old farm, where in all probabil
ity a suitable monument will soon be
erected by the joint efforts of the ma
ton and the state of Ohio.
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Tonnue in Cheek.

George II. Siege, president OF the
Society for the Prevention of Munich
pal Waste, says that he could easily
save New York SIT. 900. 900 a year.
To praise New York's economy"
said Mr.. Siege the other day. "one
would have to speak with the tongue
in the cheek-like the girl az the
dance. you know.
"A fat mar painted TO a girl at the
dance: It's very kind of you TO hesi-
tation with meme. the worst hesita-
toner i'm the room"
Here he trod on her foot for the
eleventh time. and the girl answered
sweetly.
"'Oh, how can You say So? Why.
you hardly seem to touch the aoorl'
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children of the heart they quarreled.
went through the luxury OF ~reproaches,
then tears, then contrition, then a
new plunge into a happy reconcilia-
ton.
This time. however, the tiff "a
serious. In a spirit of reckless mis-
chief Walter had firted outrageously
with a young lady whom Nina detest-
ed. In retaliation the latter received
the attention of an old discarded
flame. Then the crisis-the pretty en-
gagement ring returned by mail, a
cold bow from Walter when next
Nina passed him on the street, and
the following day Walter was be-
%wildered. shocked. made madly des-
perate with the discovery that Nina
and her aunt had left the city.
Whittier bound he knew not. but by
the end of a week he was pretty we'll
assured that capricious Nina had in
deed started on a trip abroad.
For another week Walter worried
and sorrowed. Finally he came to the
conclusion that there was no hope of
a reconciliation and decided that it
was his fate to die of a broken heart,
II was quite the fad for the idle mar
with money u seek consolation in
change. He started for Europe by
way of New York. Meantime. al
though he did not know that. Nina
had followed out her threat TO travel
around the world by way of San Fran,
cisco.
The war broke out while Walter was
in Paris and he changed his plan OF
visiting Russia. The same intelli
gence was acquired by Nina while en-
joying the novelties of Japan. She
learned that Berlin and Vienna were
now an impossibility to her. Her
timid. nervous aunt insisted on g
quick dash for Italy and a speedy fur
Their progress homeward.
Walter Bross, installed in the best
hotel OF Rome. was gloomily wonder
ing if he had not better join one o.
the ~contending war forces and forge
his troubles amid the roar of cannon
and the boom Of bursting shells. How
Nina would regret that her stubborn
ness lad sent him to a tragic death
reflected he, Then he arose from the
luxurious chair in which he was rest
ing. Two ladies had just arrived al
the hostelry. He saw them clearl,
on their way 20 the parlor.
"Fate-destiny, he gasped. for n,
had recognized Nina and her chap
eron.
What to do? The detected lover:
heart beat nightly. 1t seemed as II 9
sentient spark had stirred up all the
stored love Of bis soul. He had founC
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her-they were under the Same roof.
but
lie knew Nina well. He realized
that. given the benefit of any abrupt
advance on his part, she would in
sist on t~orturing him with fe.gned OF
real Indifference until she had taught
him a lesson" Result: a disguise. 1t
was elaborate. For a handsome fee
Walter was transformed into a very
natural looking gentleman of the up
per Italian set.
Then he set about bribing the hotel
servants 10 learn the plans for the flu
ture of aunt and niece. He ascertained
that they had arranged to sail for
home within a week. In the mean
time daily the two ladies made their
pleasure and shopping rounds.
There was to be an international
social event that took the form of a
masked ball and Walter learned that
the ladies were invited guests. Those
attending were required to go in char
acter costume, or at least to wear a
mask. He secured an invitation. He
made a notable cavalier and envel-
oped in a long cloak as SOC as a cab
had taken Nina and her ~chaperon
away from the hotel. jumped into a
second vehicle and joined their COM
pany at a distance.
Suddenly he made a discovery. The
vehicle containing the ladies. after
pursuing the main thoroughfares lead
ing to the place of the masquerade,
turned off into a side street. AS ii
did so two suspicious occurrences
fixed the attention of Walter. The
driver of the former carriage swung
a hand towards Nina's driver, while
the latter kept straight on without
turning.
Stop" ordered Walter instantly.
Get sign-no," returned his driver,
with a shrug of the shoulder, and
drove on.
You scoundrel-this is some plot"
cried Walter. and sprang from the
vehicle and was down the side street
in pursuit Of the other carriage.
1t was well that he did so. The
days of brigandage were not over in
h imperial city. Later Walter knew
that the practically unprotected Nina
and her aunt had been spotted by a
league of criminals. Her diamonds,
a knowledge of her wealth had
led to a plan to kidnap her, remove
her to a remote mountain fastness
and hold her for ransom.
Walter was hot in the wake of the
carriage as it drove into the court of
an isolated mansion. The driver
sprang down. He was about TO apply
a whistle to his lips to summon his
c%onfederates within the building,
when Walter, close at hand, acted.
He had seized a heavy piece of a
wagon tongue lying in the yard. One
blow and the villainous driver went
down like a piece of lead. Walter
lifted his senseless form UP to the
seat, sat down beside him, took the
lines and drove for the nearest police
station.
The alarmed Nina fell to a chair
stupefied as, reaching the station, Wal
ter told his story. She glided to his
side with contrite face and pleading
eyes.
"You-you were seeking mel" she
sobbed. 1T must have been So"
AT least l found you," said Walter
with a glad smile.
"Oh, Walter, forgive me, forgive
me! | have been cruel, wicked" she
faltered. Take me back, won't you
Into my hearth" voiced Waite
softly. why, you have been Their,
always-and ever will be-"
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AS Others Saw Him.

]. Fuller Gloom stood on the cor
ner the other afternoon and thought
to myself how Interestingly homely
were most OF the people who passed
along the street. Just as | had
plunged pretty deeply into philosophiz-
ing owe the matter, two girls fiuttered
by. and | heard one of them say TO
the other: Mercy, What homely peo-
pie one ees on the street, Just look
at that awful-looking old man stand
ing on the corner. for instance."-
Kansas City Star.
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dies # old clothes. but might be bombs And it is not ata all without the
pale of reason to think that bombs might be left at the pier 1t has been
done; and when a man leaves a bomb at a pier, whether it goes off or lot he
seldom if ever claims it,
At one point OF the sale the autoneer held up a square vhainous looking
package from which there "a al audible rafting
It's going" said he going, gong@
IF it's going off," said a nervou old gentleman. I'm gone!' And he
"a
All purchases had % be removed Immediately the sale was over, and
the expressions IN til faces of the purchasers, he they found the had
bought something of absolutely 10 use to them. a indescrfbably funny-to
the spectator.
Two dollars a the maximum bid. So N vas hurt-much
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10 sCnUH d6 COTHneU 10 THO HSC
three floors an roof There are 1926 hotel rooms m the remaining floors, and
Offices and cubrooms or various religious N secular organizations
In the hotel all are outside rooms, many of which have sleeping porches
and shower baths. On the roof there is ample for tennis and basket
bail courts and al auditorium to seat 500 persons. The roof garden also is
used for entertainment features Of church activity Typical of these was the
three days carnival off fun held Tor boys during dedication week.
The main auditorium, seating 1900 people, is fully equipped with stage,
orchestra pit, the usual stage curtains, drops and footnghts. In addition tc
this auditorium there are four others, seating from 800 to 500 persons. These
events.
Motion pictures begin the regular Sunday school service, and also are
used through the week, when feature photo plays are presented to the public
at regular motion picture show rates. The annual income iron the audi
$4,000 annually, the cafeteria $4,000, and the cubrooms and storerooms
10000
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the outsidec casing of the windows and vain scotng Court starts at 10 a m
and at 1905 a. m. along comes Jake and takes the entire collection. Then
Jake" who is a title, Did hal with white haira N mustache, steps gingerly
into the courtroom and takes a seat among the other spectators. After a half
hour or &C, h e steps out again, and there is a fresh supply. All go down into
his pockets.
District Attorney Clyne has been asked o put a stop to "Jakes' practices
unfinished cigars.
Il can't prosecute Jake unless someone furnishes me with evidence that
he is taking something of value" said Mr.. Clyne. so far n % n as proved
to my satisfaction that any of the articles he is reported to have taken were
of value"
Jake" who has been operating for years, says nothing, but is always
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fulfilled the requirements of a 1915
model" religious plant.
The recent completion of the nine
story church building, with social
rooms, motion pictures, hotel for men.
roof garden. cafeteria, barber shop,
smoking room, nursery, hospital and
bowling alley, marks the largest en-
terprise of its kind ever attempted on
the Pacific coast.
Activities Of the church and Sun
Ior col11I - o0.f-o1 80 tho frc%
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might nave added mat you may get
nothing for something.
The auctioneer was Max Glauberg.
selling the unclaimed baggage that
had collected at the Cunard line pier
at the foot of West Thirteenth street.
This baggage. about the most monde
script collection a man could we'll in-
agine, was piled all over the second
tier of the dock. There were trunks
and handbags, golf bags and burlap
bags, umbrellas and canes. and a num-
her of nackaoeS that looked K bum
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had momentary visions of the Long Island recruit being trained actually to
from one vessel to another to deliver his Don't give up the ship, boys
messages from the admiral.
But perfect feet are absolutely essential to marines, and since the corps
is usually filled up to maximum strength with exceptionally weIldeveoped
men, the webfooted n a told that he wouldn't do. Now nothing remains
for him to do except to join she Venetian traffic squad, or, as another re-
jected applicant told him, acquire water or the knee and a floating kidney
with YOU other accomplishments and YOU could entert the Patagonian navy.
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States marine corps and was keenly
disappointed when Sergt. George B.
MCGEE, in charge of the local recruit
ing station, rejected him for that very
reason. Now Leque believes that if
still has a mission in life, and is con
templating applying for a position as
traffic cop" in the city of unfixed
leaks-Venice.
Sergeant MCGEE of the marines
was loath to reject Leque for what he
WAS nlaa sod To term sdnckitiSn and he