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Middletown transcript., 1916-06-24

Governor Harrington and Oliver Will
son, master of the National Grange,
have accepted invitations to address
the Farmers Dav meeting to be held
at Tome Institute, Port. Deposit,
August 5.
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Genuine ApostIe.spo

Apostle-spoons, called also gossip spoons, were gilt spoons given by the sponsors, or "gossips," to child at its christening. They were so-called because each spoon had figure of an apostle on the handle. Wealthy peO- pie gave the whole twelve apostles i; those of less means and generosity gave the four Evangelists; while poor CT persons had to be contented with one, bearing generally the figure of the donors or of the child's patron saint. There is capital picture of a full set in Hone's Everyday Book" copied from one in possession of the author. It is noticeable that each apostle seems to wear a broad-brimmed hat-the hat being, in fact, plate of metal which was put on the head to preserve the features from injury, and which is to be seen on all genuine apostle-spoOns.
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went to his apartment, which was separated from that of his wife by vestibule, dismissed his valet, and the mansion wac sunk in silence and re- pose About four o'clock in the morn ing fearful outcries were heard from the room f the duchess. They were followed by violent ringing of the bell. Various servants ran to the room, but the doors were locked on the Inside. They heard groans and Subdued screams, and the trampling of feet, as though somebody was being pur- sued. Then the servants remembered a small side door, and they rushed ro 1t, and so made entrance to the room.
 There lay the body of the unfortun. ate duchess, bathed in blood. She was clad in her night dress only. On her head there were thirteen wounds and q dozen more on the neck and breast. The room looked as though a tornado had passed through it, and there were blood marks everywhere. The serv> ants, shocked and sickened, ran to the garden. and, looking up, they saw uelSc SIuOhe COHllliS HUH lHS Cilllu- ney of the dukes room. All this time nothing had been seen of the duke, but, when the servants, regaining their courage, returned to the chamber of death, the duke appeared from his own room. When he looked upon his slain wife he seemed greatly affected. My God!" he cried, "who can have done this?"
 He wrung his hands in his distress, and one of the servants noticed that those hands were boodstained. One hand was lacerated, and the thumb of the other had been bitten, and both were scratched, as though by finger nails. The doctors and the police ar- rived, and the latter, after examining the shambles for little while, were forced to the belief that the duke must have guilty knowledge. His explana-
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American Ports Superior.

Among interesting facts gleaned from a study or American ports, made under the auspices of the bureau of foreign and domestic commerce, are the following: American ports are better suited by nature to handle the largest liners than any of the oldworld ports; Boston has the most expensive, as we'll as the largest, pieg. in the United States, if not in the world, and will soon have the largest dry dock in the western hemisphere; the most note worthy port development in recent years has been on the Pacific coast, at San Francisco, Seattle, Los Angeles, Portland, Tacoma and San Diego. Stress is laid on the increasing infiu- ence of the federal government on port development.
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hauled there in SumptuOus car riage, escorted by armed guards, for the people were frantic, and were clamoring for his blood. 1t was ti,e unusual difference shown this red slay- CT, because of his pedigree, that mad dened the populace, and contributed, in no small treasure, to the revolu- tion.
 After the French fashion, the duke was examined again and again, and the magistrate, at least, was no syco- phant. He was mereiless in his GueS- tions and comments, and the nobleman found it a torture. He persisted in de nying the crime, and told lie after lie, only to have his falsehoods made ridic- ulous by the keen-witted magistrate. And all the time he was growing weak CT, and on August 24 he was so low that priests were summoned to give him the benefit of religion. His sui ferings were terrible, and at the last he made full confession of his crime and then went to the reward ordained for such as he.
 This account may well close with the remarks of the magistrate, when he had read the letters of the unfor- tunate duchess: "They are precious relics of one of the most beautiful spirits ever created by the Almighty for the honor of our age an eternal memorial of the perversity of one of the guiltiest of men. At the same time they suggest the consoling reflection that Providence has sometimes seen fit to place beside the vilest natures their most angelic opposites, so that eyes, weary and offended with gazing on such guilt, may find thus close ats hand a reassuring solace"
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The Useful Quail.

In a plea for the bobwhite, W. L. Nelson, assistant secretary of the board of agriculture, states that count of the seed in one birds crop revealed that bobwhites are known to eat at least 85 kinds of weed seed. For meat he chooses among 57 kinds of beetles, 27 kinds of bugs, 9 kinds of grasshoppers, 13 kinds of caterpil- lars and variety of ants, flies and wasps. One bobwhite has been known to eat as many as five thousand plant lice in two hours, and he is fond of boil weevils, chinchbugs, cabbage worms, cucumber beetles, squash bugs, army worms and Hessian flies.
 And yet there are farmers who are willing to have all the bobwhites on their farms killed. Shooting the hired man would be more logical. The hired man demands wages, while the bob white works for nothing.-St. Louis Republic.
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His Explanation of His Scratched,
 Bloody Hands Was Unsatisfactory.

tion of his scratched and bloody hands was unsatisfactory. He said he got them stained lifting the body of his wife, but that didn't account for the scratches and the bitten thumb
 In his own room there was fatal testimony. His dressing gown was stained with blood. He had made an effort to wash it, and there was a tub of reddened water on the floor. In the grate were the ashes of various papers and garments. and part of a blood-soaked handkerchief.
 The duke was placed under arrest, after prolonged examination by a police official, but, owing to his exalted station, he was not required to go to jail. He remained at his own palace, under the surveillance of police Offi- cers. A day or two later he fell sick and a. doctor who was called in said he had cholera. Other physicians being summoned, they declared that he had taken poison. It being evident that he was determined to destroy himself, it was decided by the authorities to take him to the Luxembourg, and he was
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Charles M. Schwab rendered Beth lehem. Pa. a $10,000 banquet and $1,000.000 worth of advice on munich pal efficiency.
 Prof. James E. Cutler of the socio- logical department of Western Re serve university went so far as to say Love alone as a basis for marriage is vulgar and low"
 It cost between $250,OO0 and $300,. 900 to make Michigan dry" accord ing to estimates made at "dry" cam. paign headquarters.
 Greece has appealed to the neutral powers against the demands of the al. lies for the surrender of all material by Dec. 15.
 Solicitor-General Davis will move immediate advancement of the Adam. son eight-hour test suit before the su. preme court upon reconvening.
 Thomas Dickey of New York will be buried in one of the caskets he was stealing when Detective Fred Wand. berg shot and killed him.
 Robbers blew the safe in the post. office at Mt. Pulaski, H., and escaped with $4 and $40 in stamps when the police slept next door.
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New DeIicacy.

A little girl in an Indiana town had her own ideas about things, and two of these things were brains and sense. Evidently she had always regarded them as one and the same. Going to the meat shop with an older member of the family, she asked about the con- told that the little compartments of the box contained brains, and that they were taken from pigs heads. Hurrying home she announced to the other members of the family: You can't guess what 1 saw at the meat shop?-it was pigs sense"
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s.e.e-z1sssN also was of a proud and fa- nous family, Ter father being Count Sebastiani, one of the great Napoleon's famous generals. Although proud enough, the duchess was amiable and agreeable, and was much beloved.
 For years she had been a martyr. The noble duke seemed to make it his life work to annoy and humiliate her. She loved him with an unfaltering de- vOtion, as was shown by her letters to him, made public after the catas- trophe. In those letters, which were numerous, she pleaded for his affection and confidence in manner that should have melted the hardest heart But the dukes heart, if he had such an organ, was composed of concrete. No more pathetic documents than the let ters of the duchess ever were read by human eyes.
 She was the mother of ten children, and was not permitted to have any voice in their education or upbringing. The duke regulated that, as he regu- lated every detail of household man. agement. He engaged governess after governess, and finally found one who suited him exactly. She was Madame Deluzy, of whom the duke became enamored. This Deluzy was in con- plete authority, next to the duke, and even the duchess was expected to take orders from her. At last this condi- tiOn became intolerable, even to the long-suffering duchess, and she, backed by her father, insisted upon the dis missal of the governess. The king and queen used their influence in the mat ter, and Deluzy had to go. And this defeat stirred up all the bile in the dukes bilious system.
 Such was the state of affairs when the family returned to Paris from Vaux. The duchess and the children retired to their various chambers. The duke went forth to make some visits, and returned home about midnight. He
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First Topacco in France.

Almost coevally with the intrOduc- ton of tobacco into Spain did France from the hands of Jean Nicot, French ambassador to Portugal, who, having obtained some seeds of the plant from merchant of Lisbon, dutifully for warded them to Queen Catherine de Medici with the label, "Herbe de la Reine," by which title tobacco in it's medicinal use was to be known for the greater part of the next century.
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Bandages Slipped.

A soldier whose head and face were heavily swathed in bandages and who obviously had had a bad time, was being feelingly sympathized with by the solicitouS lady.
 And were you wounded in the head. my poor fellow?"
 "No, ma 'am," Tommy replied. I was wounded in the ankle, but the bandages slipped"
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THE RED HANDS OF THE DUKE.

THE morning of August IS, 7, there was committed in Paris which shocked the world, and uted largely to the revolution of nd the downfall of Louis Phi he previous evening the Duke uchess de Choiseul-Praslin re-
 to their Paris home, the Hotel Eani, from their country resi-
 the chateau of Vaux, near
 This historic chateau was y Bouquet, Louis XIV's famous IT of finance, whose complete nd death in prison followed a fular career. The duke was the Entative of an ancient and hon. family, and held his head high. sh powerful and influential be- of his station and wealth, he It popular, for he was insolent erbearing, and had the idea that Ianet was created for his par
 use, and that it's inhabitants designed to be his servants. The
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PeeKSkIn,--e DrapcI Iou41a .ldC at the cost of wrecked car he had killed big buck deer.
 Human blood was valued at $500 pint at San Francisco when Herman Hansel was awarded judgment for one pint of his blood needed for say ing his sister-in-law.
 Fifty members of the I. w. w. alighted from a freight train here and formed line to the nearest city fire station, took possession and sent out a delegation with certain demands to be met by the citizens.
 Willard R. Dieting, aged "A, lost his life in a fire at the Cudahy hotel, Portland, Ore. Dieting previously had rescued two other guests.
 P. H. Mullowney, who has been con. ,ducting an investigation into the Bos. ton food supply, reports that at pres ent there are 10,630,000 pounds held here, all which belongs to the entente allies.
 Mayor J. w. McClendon of Hot Springs, Ark, was found guilty of as sault with intent to kill and was sen fenced to serve one hour in jail and pay a fine of $50.
 While two little children of Charles Meyer of Rockville, Tex, were play ing at their home they pulled the bung from an empty whisky barrel and ap. piled match. The resultant explo. sion instantly killed one child and ia. tally wounded the other.
 Mrs. Inez Millholland Boissevain, prominent New York suffrage leader, is dead.
 Three United States sailors met death in San Francisco when launch carrying 36 men of the Glacier was swept under the paddle blades of the Apache.
 George Armstrong, 50, a cabinet maker of River Rouge, Mich., who has just died, was buried in coffin to which he had devoted himself during the last few years of his life.
 Dewie Hanes, 19 years old, of AT. canum, Drake county, retains his title as the champion boy corn grower of Ohio. His yield this year was better than 173 bushels to the acre.
 Ex-Queen Liloukalani of Hawaii, re gently i'll, is much improved. accord ing to passengers arriving from Homo lulu.
 The French minister of war has in. troduced bill by which all civilians exempted from military duty or mus tered out as physically unfit, prior to April l, 1916. must submit to further medical examination.
 A bandit entered McDowells jew. elry store at Arkansas City. Kan, held up the only clerk in the store and escaped with diamonds valued al $10.00O after locking the clerk in the vault.
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or boots with studded leather protec- tors over the shins, and had donned one of these when messenger ar rived to tell him that he had been giv- en imperial honors in Rome. He burst into fit of delighted laughter, and when he tried to put on the other boot his foot had fattened so that he could not get it on.
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Made He Feet Fat.

Tradition tells story of Titus dur ing the siege of Jerusalem, revealing the belief in the 'laugh and grow fat" idea centuries ago. According to the legend Titus was sitting in his tent, pulling on pair of long war greaves
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Speakinu Softly.

'Ill demand jury trial" declared the lawyer.
 Perhaps 1t would better to request 1t in polite manner" suggested his feminine client. "I fear I'm a trifie guilty."-Louisville Courier-Journal.
Judsonia weekly advance., 1916-12-06
A Prixe.

Miss Daisy-I heard Mrs. Marigold has secured great celebrity for her next flower ball.
 Sweet William-Yes. understand he is dandy lion.
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Instructions Followed.

Don't let anybody impose on you, my dear"
 "No, indeed, ma. George stole a kiss from me yesterday and I made him give it right back"
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'stoo Much.

"Triplets," announced the nurse to the proud father. Really" he replied, "I can hardly believe my own cen sus."
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RO&eSo III d ulSpdtCu ITOIu MdQrdS.
 In the United States this year there are 2,832,000 Christmas club deposi- tors in banks who will divide approxi. mately $80,000,000, according to carefully compiled estimate.
 When movie fans in Chicago find the film yarn dull they can turn around and very likely see good scrap in progress. Rival picture ma chine operators unions are warning.
 -
 A drink tax" levied on patrons and the days receipts or the Kelly & Quinn saloon in Chicago brought 250 turkeys and 200 pounds of young pig for poor neighbors.
 Within two minutes after J. c. Chester, his companion, had broken his arm trying to crank an automo- bile, Carl McAllister of Atlanta, Ga., undertook the job and suffered a simi- lar accident
 The ancient and honorable game of golf is "a commendable recreation" Judge John A. Baldwin so ruled in re- fusing to compel Mrs. Mary A. Con- don to pay the village of Lake For est, H., an annual tax of $75O on off grounds she owns
 Three dozen eggs, hurled with pre- c1s1oQ oGoXa 1Rjaljn 1illk4fs af the res : taurant of John Wilson, in Hammond, Ind, and ended boycott of union walters.
 Fa.ay famous thoroughbred setter at Moultrie, Ga., that got to stumbling into trees while retrieving, has been fitted with glasses and Is doing her work perfectly once more.
 Disobeying his mother, the Swear old son of R. c. Malone clambered out of his go-cart and followed her into store at Springfield, O. Two minutes later an automobile smashed the go- cart and plate glass window.
 Miss Pauline Flaherty, 22 years old, who has been an actress since she was IA years old, was married in Bal timore to Charley Tee, 33, Chinese of Boston,
 Henry D. Ernest, once a Chicago motorcycle cop, had a penchant for pinching speeders. Recently he was taken on the same charge He was left off with fine of $10 and costs.
 Coffee and sandwiches will be served free in an effort to attract strangers to the sermons of Rev. w E. Collins,s University of Chicago student, who is preaching at Wauke- gan, III.
 Elston Scott, the negro under sen. tence to hang at Murphysboro, Ill., was granted another reprieve by Gov Dunne. The lease of life has been ex tended to March 16, 1917.
 John Tomach of Chicago, 6, took the dare of playmates and sat down on bonfire. He is dead.
 The body of Dennis Searies, 43, San Francisco capitalist, was found be- meath his automobile at the foot of 75-foot precipice over which the ma chine had toppled.
 While 3,700 hit the trail inside at Sundays Boston meeting, doorkeep- CT charged cents a head for admis- sion. He was elected.
 Automobile bandits robbed two stores at Lane. H., and escaped with $500 in money and goods.
 Some 200 female textile workers have been deported from Ghent.
 Fire destroyed the Limoilou Roman Catholic church, Quebec. with prop erty loss, estimated at $180.000.
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SHORT ITEMS FOR BUSY MEN
Condensation of Weeks News Re- viewed Without comment-AIl Nations Find Something to
 Edlfy and Instruct.
One dead is the toll of a grade crossing accident at Springfield, H., when a street car was struck by a B. & o. s. W. freight train.

Gen. von Bissing, German governo of Belgium, has refused Cardinal Mer cier permission to leave for Rome t' relate to the pope the circumstance, of the Belgian deportations.
Carson City daily appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1907-1930, 1916-08-29

he brought out and handed to Hamill
while the younger boy covered the
professor with Hamill's own gun, a
32-40 Winchester repeater loaded
with soft-nosed bullets.
Suddenly Hamill seized Harold by
the shoulders and ordered Lynn to
drop the gun, at the same time stoop-
ing low behind Harold to protect
himself.
"Shoot him." ordered Harold.
Shoot him." he repeated.
mo. | don't want to shoot him."
replied Lynn.
Shoot him!" again ordered Harold
and the younger boy, not large
enough to hold the gun to his should
er. held it low. pointed it toward
Hamill and fired.
The bullet passed through Harold's
left sleeve, grazing his arm, and into
Hamills right eye.
According to the boys statements,
the stricken man fell upon Harold,
who, with Hamill's life blood on his
clothing. crawled from beneath his
body. Then the two boys made then
arrangements for flight and departed.
According to the statement of Off
GERS who trailed them the boys had
a ride inconceivably wild and hazard
Gus.
"Had n mar told me-" said
Sheriff Kendall, that two boys with
a horse and light wagon, had ever
mSde such a trip, l would have told
him he was the biggest liar in Idaho
[ went over every bit Of the ground
and I want to say no sane man
would ever attempt or think it pos
sible to make such a trip
The boys travelled much OF the way
over sagebrush. Ihey we t down
into two canyons each some 0 feet
deep, without road or trail. On q
canyon side of some As degrees, the
sheriff stated, their wagon tipped
over. With rare ingenuity they took
a rope, fastened OF: end to the low
er wheel and the other to the horses
harness, and righted the wagon. They
went for many miles, then doubled
back, which threw the officers off the
trail.
They built fires and ramped, ate
and sept in the sa2ebrush along the
way without bedding and thinly clad
Carson City daily appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1907-1930, 1916-08-29
Constable Sharkey
Acquitted of Charge

George Sharkel, constable at Haz-
en-, charged with the murder oil
Guadalupe Garcia, a Mexican labor
er, at Hazen. some time ago., has
been acquitted after a preliminary
hearing held at Fallon.
Evidence adduced at the hearing
was to the effect that five Mexicans
were drinking and carous,-.,ing in a
shack in Hazen and causing a dis
turbance, and that Constable Shark
ey went to the cabin to quell the
commotion.
1t was introduced in evidence that
the constable had placed the men I'M
der arrest and that Garcia, who was
later shot, had attempted to escape
and had drawn a knife on Sharkey
and had attacked him and that
Sharkey shot in self-defense.
Judge L. n. French of Reno rep
resented Sharkey in the preliminary
hearing at Fallon.
Carson City daily appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1907-1930, 1916-08-29
Mrs. Combs Buried

The funeral-of the late Mrs. Julia
b. Combs took place this afternoon
from her late residence on Williams
street, Rev. w. H.. D.. Hornaday con
Quoting the funeral services at the
home and the Women's Relief Corps
at the grave. lnterment took place
in Lone Mountain cemetery. Many
friends of the deceased assembled at
the home to pay their last sad re-
spects and the services at the home
and grave were very impressive.
Late Sprague, Andy McCleary, T
Cliff, f. Wilde, n. Decosse and
Charles Cottrell acted as p~allbearers
The floral offerings from friends
were many and beautiful.
Carson City daily appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1907-1930, 1916-08-29

The inquest over the remains of
Prof. HamilI was held Monday after
noon by Coroner Crosby. The jury
returned a verdict that the deceased
came to his death from a gun. shot
wound at the hands Of Lynn Love
lace. and found further that his
brother should be held as an acces-
sorry.
While the case is full OF unspeak-
able horror owe the cold-blooded
crime Of the youthful desperados, it
is not without a great depth OF pa
thos. While the youngsters were
evidently Of an uncomfortable and de-
PRAYED urn Of mind. their orphaned
ard t~inanlly abandoned condition
makes the case a sad one indeed.
Carson City daily appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1907-1930, 1916-08-29
Embedding p. M. Arrested

w. B. Knight, United States dep
uty marshall, brought in Robert A.
Mcfarland from Reno yesterday
afternoon and committed him to the
Ormsby county Jail. Mcfarland was
postmaster at Livingstone, H., and
is charged with embezzlemcnt. He
was arrested in Reno last Friday by
Chief Hillhouse, acting under in
structions from United States Dis
trict Attorney Woodburn. The ac-
cused has been living in Reno for
some time under an assumed name,
being employed as an auto driver,
by the Federal court he will be TAX
en- to Springfield, ILL.,, to stand trial.
Carson City daily appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1907-1930, 1916-08-29

of their stepfather a month ago and
is thought she went to Boise.
Their stepfather, Pennywell, left two
weeks ago, presumably for Colorado.
Officers have located neither. The
boys stayed with a woman neighbor
until their stealing led her to tell
them she would report them to the
officers if they did not quit.
They confessed they have been do
ing petty stealing for three years,
th:t their stepfather punished them
whenever he knew Of their stealing
and made them return things he
found they had stolen. Otherwise
he was always kind to them, they
sad.
Their mother has married twice