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New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-09-10

~ UMEhOOo WorkS are dVdAdoIe VII Cile
- legal and pathological aspects of in
sanity in its many phases, but we have
vet to come upon a treatise dealing with that
curious and limited group Of demented whose
alteration consists in discovering or construct
ing some useless article which for want of
better name is termed "curio."
We refer to those persons who have cheer
fully devoted their years to collecting match
boxes, hair-pns, tacks, shells, spools, buttons
and other miscellaneous articles from which to
construct miniature chicken-coops, candle
arbres, battleships, sky-scrapers, ETC.. or, lack
ing the fiendish ingenuity of their fellows, the
poor wretches who spend days searching an old
tree-stump which from certain angles bears
unique resemblance to the profile of George
Washington; or the pitiful subject who has
dedicated his life 70 carving doll out of
cork which has been pushed thoughtlessly into
a bottle.
One Of the saddest concomitants to this
mania seems TO be what amounts to craving
for publicity Indeed, several Of maya
zines, recognizing this weakness in the unfort-
unates, have devoted departments to their ex-
ploitation. Here, under the title Of "Curios,"
which the victims are lost. An indistnct photo
graph reveals on close inspection the fact that
it is watch chain fashioned from babys
teeth" In a short paragraph below father
writes that he "could not bear to lose his sons
first teeth, with all their tender associations,
so being possessed with some mechanical skill
he was plumber by trade-he hit upon the
idea Of q watch chain" He feels it is only
right to give this idea TO other fond fathers
who may also be downcast at a similar prospect.
AS has been noted, authorities have strangely
avoided the prolific field Of research offered by
the raviges OF cu1omanic, and with the modest
hope Of adding something to this fund OF igno-
rance, the writers have drawn from lifetime
Of experience such cases as seem to them to
bring light where now is only darkness.
In perusing these cases the reader has con-
stantly 10 bear in mind that the purpose Of this
article is TO get at the primal causes which so
often and so suddenly bring about the over
throw Of an apparently normal mind. There arc
cases TO the number of thousands Of men and
women, medically sound, with good history,
who cat sleep and toll with the regularity Of
health, and yet whose spare moments are ded-
Gated with fanatical zeal TO the maniacal pur-
suits in discussion.
Here lies the most insdous attribute Of the
disease. II is upon its victim before the symp-
toms are even suspected. Persons in the high
tide Of life with every good thing in prospect
are suddenly seized. And what then 10 the
melancholy progress of events? With science
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-09-10
With Glue and SboOls This Man Erected in Sir
Years an Exact Model of Westminster Abbey
His Wife EIobed yih Neighbour His
Child Is in the Trenches

looking on, yet powerleSs to aid the poor Great
ure is presently overwhelmed in the vortex Of
disaster.
What sort Of mind has the man 1clo suddenly
ceases normal activities to erect a model Of the
Wool,oorth Building out Of sugar Jumps? What
IS his psychological Development, and Whence
his mental impulses? These are the questions
which are at the very basis Of the matter, and
in their consideration lie the solution and per-
haps the remedy.
While the following cases are noted in the
interest of professionals it has not been our
purpose to perpex the lay reader, so that need
lessly technical phrases have been omitted. The
material is guaranteed and is offered merely
for what it is worth.
CASE l. In 1892 there was discovered in the
home Of a certain Miss N, up TO that time
considered normal, what appeared to be dirty
gray slipper. 1t was placed upon the mantel-
piece, halfway between the hawthorn jar and
the little Dresden shepherdess. Believing it to
be some paything of the dog, in some manner
misplaced, Miss Ms attention was called to
the fact "Rollos favorite sneaker, indeed"
she cried, apparently excited to high degree.
THAT slipper was made in Washington from
cancelled thousand dollar bills! It's worth
O0O-theoretically!" Later in the evening,
when the slipper was secretly given to Rollo,
Miss N. became greatly agitated, and mourned
the loss of the article as severely as though it
owned a value. She quoted down in the course
of an hour, and was believed to be on the road
to recovery
The following week, however, she made re-
quest for all cigarette boxes her observers
might have. Upon inquiry, she replied inno-
Gently enough: "Oh, when l get enough |
shall string them together to make portiere."
1t was then seen that her case was hopeless.
She died by her own hand at the age of twenty
three, having previously fashioned casket
from the extra leaves of the dining room table.
CASE II. Mr. B. was hard working drap-
ers clerk, having a wife and one child,
both Of whom he loved very much. 1t was only
by continuous and conscientious work that he
was able to keep them draped, he said. One
day he felt an abnormal desire for old spools
lie struggled hard, but the craving was not to
be denied He avoided his family in his leisure
time in a mad quest for old spoos. For the
best part Of six years he was occupied in
amassng a tremendous store Of them, each
year his wife and child becoming more remote
to him. At the end Of that time, so far gone
was his condition, that he took the money which
should have gone toward the rent and pur
chased a pot of glue. With the glue and the
spools he began painstakingly to erect an exact
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-09-10
ITS Victims Make BaHleshibs from 7ackS,
Chickem-Coobs from Shells, Sky
Scrabers from Buttons. Some
times, as Reward, One of
Them Receives a Years
Subscription TO a
Magazine
Rv +. G. SCHANG and II. w. HANEMANN
Illustrations BY VIII Crawford

of a belfry, looking up, taken while | was
hanging by my legs from the balustrade. Isn't
it unique?'
P: "Oh!"
Miss B.: "This one | took from the train
window, with the train travelling at full speed.
It is the picture of the interior of tunnel.
Dent you think I've caught the spirit of the
tunnel SUCCESSFULLY
P: "Oh!"
B.: "The rest are double exposures. In
this one Aunt Marie seems to be emerging from
the mouth of our pet cat. She really isn't, of
course. Again took Auntie snoring on the
porch, with jed the farmland, pitching hay
See. the ptchfork is right in Auntie's nose!
Isn't it droll?"
This affair was duly gossped around among
the photographers in town, and they decided
to boycott Miss B. in the interests of their
business Never having learned to do the
work herself the poor girl died of grief in the
space of two years. She was found in her room
surrounded by vast quantity of exposed
spools. which no one has as yet had the te'
merity to develop.
CASE ". Sara NJ, an elderly lady verglng
on ninety, came to our attention in 1903.
Without the aid of spectacles or glasses of any
description she arranged seashes into floral
niece using the vari-colored skeletons of thou
sands of tiny mollusks to do so. The creation
consisted of a large basket of flowers, fianked
with her initials rampant, and supported on
piece of very bad poetry, which offered another
evidence of the woman's state of mind
Her family principally to humor her, in
closed this bit of art work in a glass case,
which was put on the paror table of their
home. In compliance with another whimsy of
the old lady, they did the same to her, con-
signing her, however, to more appropriate
place.
CASE " The following case has received
wide publicity, and is, no doubt, as familiar
to our readers as to ourselves. There is an en-
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-09-10
Dur Coov Daisy, When Hung Upside Down, Be-
came a Lighthouse ON a Stern and bloodhound
Coast The Advantage of Having a Wife
with Not Too Artistic an Eye.

prayer on pin head! He was apprehended,
but undismayed by the confinement is now en-
gagged in writing the history of the world on
the fiat side of toothpick.
CASE VI An advertising manager of GER
tain match manufacturing concern con-
ceived plan whereby his product could be
brought before the public in an insidious man.
ner. He offered prizes for the most remark
able bits of craftsmanship which could be con-
structed, using his match box as the building
unit
There is no instance in the history of the
disease which so admirably shows the wide
spread area of aficton. Thousands of the
deuded flocked to the call, and the manufact-
urers were forced to engage space in ware
house to accommodate the models which ar
rived by every parcel post and express de-
livery 1t is sufficient for our purpose to men,
ton only a few of the articles:
l. Upright piano. Full size, but with
no strings, being therefore unplayable.
2. Laxey Wheel on Isle of Man. Gu
rious but indescribable device.
3. Forth Bridge. Evidently bridge
Of some sort.
A. Bicycle. Model wholly impractical.
5 Nelson's ship Victory, passing light
house. Ingenious construction, riggings
made of match sticks.
6. Ferris Wheel. Incapable of revolu-
ton.
z. Old Tower.
CASE VII. On his thrty-ninth birthday
Captain j., of the Singapore Dragons,
discovered an old post in the barracks yards,
the outlines of which resembled the profile of
Queen Victoria. He dug the pole up in the
dead of night, meaning to send it to THE
Strand Magazine" Fortunately he was ap-
pretended in the act, and Immediately court
martialled Later, travelling in Thibet, he
came upon great rock in the Himalayas re-
sembling the Old Man of tho Mountain. Suisse
quently he discovered an old iron stove bearing
a likeness to Edgar Allan Poe, and tree
stump which recalls Woman Combing Hair.
He is now raving lunatic.
1t is unnecessary to continue further along
this line to make point which must now be
apparent to the reader. Let us rather con-
slider few confessions from the subjects them
selves The individuals whose letters follow
have written in total ignorance of their dan
gerous condition.
when l travel as occasionally do, to and
from places, it is my wont to look for and pick
up stray hairpins which are often to be found
on the public thoroughfares. In the course of
nine years rambling | have been happy in
finding 321 ,OO7 $40 harpins of assorted shapes
and sizes. In my spare time have fashioned
from them bird cage the exact duplicate of
the Leaning Tower of Pisa, though in wire, to
be sure. | have gilded it, and have kept as
many as ten birds in it at time, which, I'M
fortunately, have all died. Now find it makes
a very acceptable bassinet for our youngest
child MRS. c. G. y
"63 S. Isngton Hill, N. W."
This is a photo taken of me a. B. As
you see. the horse only has three legs At
the time of the picture noticed the horse
had four, as, indeed, he continued to have, in
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-09-10

model of Westminster Abbey. This task oc-
cupied six years more, during which he became
an entire stranger to his wife and child.
AS the result of this toll he sent photo
graph of the finished product to magazine
and received a years subscription as reward
His wife. distracted by indifference, eloped
with neighbor The child is now somewhere
in the trenches
Further investigation reveals that the tragic
result of Mr.. BIS first dementa have had no
effect whatever on his disposition. Far from
being depressed, he is now engaged in collect
ing sardne tins, from which he promises to
fashion a fac Similc of the Titanic, the great
leviathan of the sea which met so untimely an
end several years ago. Mr.. B. appears to be
sound, and his appetite is good. lie wears a
watch charm carved from a peach pit which
he made as boy. This shows that the affiic-
ton may be hereditary. He was recently dis
charged from the diapers establishment for
asking customer to save sardine tins for him,
and is now dependent on the kindness of neigh
bors.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-09-10

CASE III. T. B. B. was bright, healthy,
normal girl of eighteen, with no visible
signs of any disturbance. On her nineteenth
birthday some well meaning friend presented
her with camera. She began, as she naturally
would, swapping her friends. her dog, her ROOM
etc. Presently she was no longer content to
snap at these commonplaces, and experienced
craving for swapping at all manner of weiri
and inexplicable objects. The following is
conversation between Miss B. and the pho'og-
rapher to whom she intrusted a roll Of SIX ex-
posures as reported by third party concealed
behind the property automobile in the sLop.
Photographer; I'm very sorry, miss; but
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-09-10

prayer on a pin head! He was apprehended,
but undismayed by the confinement, is now en-
gagged in writing the history of the world on
the fiat side Of a toothpick.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-10-23
FIVE DIRECTORS
TO BE ELECTED
Annual Business Meeting OF
Commerce Chamber To-
Tomorrow Evening

All members of the Harrisburg
Chamber of Commerce who desire to
attend the annual business meeting,
which will be held in the Board of
Trade hall at $50 tomorrow evening,
must have their acceptances in the
hands of the Chamber by noon to-
morrow, according to a statement is
sued to-day by e. S. McColgin, secre-
tary. A luncheon will be served to
members at $3.50 and 1t is necessary to
know how many will be present.
There are ten candidates for five di-
rectorshiDs, which will be vacated this
year by j. William Bowman, Hender-
son Gilbert, David Kaufman, w. M
Ogelsby and George A. Shreiner, whose
terms have expired. Five out of ten
candidates who receive the highest
votes cast will be elected directors for
a term of three years. The Chamber
is governed by fifteen directors, five OF
whom retire each year, thus giving
the association an infusion of new
blood in the management.
President Bowman has requested
Arthur e. Brown, Robert A. Enders
and AL. K. Thomas to act as judges
If members cannot cast their ballots In
persons they may do so in proxy, II
they write across the face of theiI
ballot the name of the person whom
they authorized to cast it for them ano
sign their own name before the au-
thority so the judges may identify the
ballot as bona fide.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-10-23
Man Charged With Murder
of Anti Catholic Lecturer
Is Placed on Trial

Galveston, Tex. Oct. %. - Venire-
men, witnesses and opposing counsel,
crowded the district court here for
the opening of the trial of John Cope
land, of Marshall, Texas, in connec-
tion with the killing of William Black.
an anti-Catholic lecturer in a hotel of
that city, February 8, 1915. The gen.
eral public was not admitted.
George Tier and George Ryan, two
other Marshall citizens, were indicted
on the same charge as Copeland.
Harry Winn and Frank OLeary,, who
were among those first held in con-
nection with the killing of Black, but
subsequently were cleared, will be
witnesses for Copeland.
Black, whose home formerly was at
Bellaire, Ohio, was killed at Mar
shall a year ago last February With
Clarence F. Hall and a 17-year-old
girl, Sadie Black. whom he had Just
adopted in Pulaski county, Ark, Black
went to Marshall to deliver lectures
on the subject "Romanism-A Mem
ace to Civilization"
On the first night Black directed
his talk against the confessional. He
had advertised further to deliver an
address against what he alleged to be
an oath of the Knights of Columbus.
In the afternoon of the second dav.
February 3rd, four men, Copeland.
Tier, Ryan and Rogers, all said to be
members of the knights of Column
bus, went to his room to ask him not
TO speak again. A scuffie ensued in
which Black and Rogers were killed
and Copeland badly wounded.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-10-23
School Principal Defames
With Poisoned Pen Woman
Whom He Would Marry

Chicago. Oct. 23. - Confronted by
evidence that he had written more
than 100 letters attacking the reputa-
ton of one of his women teachers.
John Henry He'll principal of the
Morgan Park High School, after an
all-night grilling in the office of the
Board of Education, confessed that he
had attempted to wreck the teachers
home to win her for his sweetheart
Heil's resignation was accepted and
on promise to leave Chicago within
twelve hours, it was agreed that he
should not be prosecuted
He'll has a wife anG nve children
and the woman to whom he wrote.
Mrs. Marie Moore, is married to Oliver
G. Moore, dental student at North
western University. She was teach
ing to pay his tuition.
He confessed to writing the letters
attacking Mrs. Moore after she had
demanded that he cease his attentions
to her. They went to relatives and
friends of hers, to the school board.
to the Mayor of Angola, Ind, where
she formerly lived, to the ministers
there and even one to Mrs. He'll.
He'll admitted, according to a de-
tectivs who worked up the evidence
against him, that he hoped to cause
Moore to obtain a divorce and to in
duce the school board to discharge her
in order to force her to come to him.
Mrs. He'll has announced that she
will be loyal to her husband. He'll is
10 years old and Mrs. Moore 81.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-10-23
Guffey Collects From
Federal Oficeholders

Democratic State Chairman Joseph
F. Guffey, whose lamentations about
big Republican campaign funds are
filling the newspapers just now, ap-
pears to be doing a little collecting on
his own committees account accord
ing to letters which have been re-
ceived by federal officeholders, Demo-
Gratis and independents suspected of
having more than ninety eight cents
ahead in the world or credit at a
bank.
1t will be recalled that when the
Democrats were out the activities of
Republican campaign collectors form
ed theme for editorials and speeches.
From all accounts the Democrats
have surpassed the Republicans in
many ways.
A letter sent by Chairman Guffey
from the Democratic windmill in
Market Square contains these interest
ing phrases:
Not penny is being wasted"
Our needs, however, are very
great"
Our opponents are basing all their
hope on their war fund"
I'VE cannot hope to win out by try
ing to beat the enemy in that way;
our success lies in thorough organiza-
ton
. THE important work still to be
done Is to arrange for election day."
THE one way you can be of greatest
help is financially. 1 feel that you can
be counted upon to do your part
cheerfully."
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-10-23
Dispute Between Norway
and Germany Is Grave;
Berlin Makes Hot Protest

London. Oct. 23.-The situation he
tween Germany and the Norwegian
government has reached a stage where
IL IS considered grave. The Teuton
munster in Christiania has presented a
note protesting against Norway's en-
largo on the submarines of belligerent
countries. The cabinet met immedi-
ately TO discuss the note. but its de-
clslon was not made public.
Dr. Alfred Zimmerman, the German
under secretary for foreign affairs. is
quoted by Norwegian correspondent
US declarlng that the note makes the
issue decidedly serious, Berlin con-
tending that Norway's action conflicts
with paragraph 13 of The Hague con-
Fention, and Is incompatible with strict
neutrality, and, Furthermore, that Ger
many Will not calmly submit to such
action.
1t is further declared that during
the continuance of the negotiations
many German submarines are on
Grating off the Norwegian coast and
stopping and examining vessels leaving
Norwegian harbors
The Norwegian ordinance with re-
spect to submarines of belligerent now
ers forbids such vessels from travers-
ing Norwegian waters except in cases
OF emergency, when they must remain
upon the surface and fly the national
nag. Mercantile submarines are to be
allowed in Norwegian waters only in a
surface position in full daylight and
flying the national colors.
any submarine violating the ordi-
nance Will, according to it's provisions.
be attacked by armed forces.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-10-23
RID STOMACH OF
ACIDS, SOURNESS,
GAS, INDIGESTION
"Pape's Diapepsin" makes upset
stomachs feel fine
at once.
Acidity, heartburn, belching, pain
and dyspepsia just
vanish.

Time it! In five minutes all stom-
ach distress will go. No indigestion,
heartburn, sourness or belching of
gas, acid, or eructations of undigest-
ed food, no dizziness, bloating, foul
breath or headache.
Pape's Diapepsin is noted for its
speed in regulating upset stomachs.
1t is the surest, quickest and most
certain indigestion remedy in the
whole world, and besides it is harm
less.
Millions of men and women now eat
their favorite foods without fear -
they know Pape's Diapepsin will save
them from any stomach misery.
Please, for your sake, get a large
tifty-cent case of Papes Diapepsin
from any drug store and put your
stomach right. Don't keep on being
miserable = life is too short you
are not here long, so make your stay
agreeable. Eat what you like and
digest it; enjoy it, without dread of
rebellion in the stomach.
Pape's Diapepsin belongs in your
nome anyway. Should one of the
FAMILY eat something which don't
agree with them, or in case of an at
tack of indigestion, dyspepsia, gas
tritis or stomach arrangement at day-
time or during the night, it is handy
TO give the quickest, surest relief
known.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-10-23
SEVEN MURDERED
SINCE JUNE |
Victims of Southern Negroes;
Police Search Cars For
GuntoterS

Tom Pakowich, of South Second
street, Steelton, who died in the Har-
risburg hospital on Saturday evening
was the seventh victim of murderous
Southern negroes since June.
Pakowich was shot last week when
he resisted negro who attempted to
hold him up at Tenth and Market
streets. John Robinson, colored, will
probably be formally charged with
the murder, Immediately after the
coroner's inquest.
In an effort to round up some of
the Southern negroes thought to be
carrying firearms and other deadly
weapons ten city police, with two
sergeants searched negro occupants
of three street cars, bound for Steel
ton and Middletown late Saturday
night. No revolvers were found, but
two of the negroes, William Simms
and Robert Buchanon, were arrested
when they resisted the officers.
Shortly before the search Constable
A. b. Shaull, of West Fairview,
brought Armistead Pearson, a South
ern negro to the police headquarters
to escape a mob which threatened to
lynch the negro. Pearson, it is al
legged, attempted to enter house in
West Fairview.
Archie Miller and Joseph Fletcher,
the two Southern negroes who were
arrested on Friday have been charged
with the murder of Railroad officer
are in the Carlisle Jail. Harry Chubb,
1924 Market street, the other officer
who was shot was slightly better to-
day.