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The broad ax., 1917-01-27
TEACHING INDIANS IS
THIS W0MAN'S HOBBY
Mrs. Molineux Declares Red Man Can
Be Led, but Will Not Be Driven.

Salt Lake City.-To have mothered
one or possibly two tiny lives through
the strenuous days Of early infancy is
a task that most women consider plen-
ty, but Mrs. Elizabeth MOlineux, until
recently a teacher In the United States
Indian service, has the distinction Of
having mothered a whole tribe Of Pluto
Indians, and claims the satisfaction OF
having raised them, old and young,
from a condition bordering on the
squalid state where they consider
cleanliness next to godliness and, one
and all, are heartily In favor of both.
Mrs. Molineux recently resigned her
post as teacher on the Shiywits res
ervation in southern Utah and Is In
Salt Lake resting preparatory to going
to Ketchikan, Alaska, to take charge
Of the Episcopal church's mission
school there. She Is a guest at the
home Of the Right Rev. Paul Jones,
bishop Of the Episcopal diocese Of
Utah, while here.
Indians have become q hobby with
this diminutive little Scotchwoman.
She speaks their languages and In her
eight years Of service with the Indian
department has been intimately asso-
ciated with the trials and tribulations
that beset poor Lo on his native heath.
Mrs. Molineux Is an ardent church
woman and attributes her success In
dealing with Indians to the fact that
by blending religious teachings with
the three RS" she has dismissed dis
trust Of her from the minds OF her
charges and has always been regarded
by them more in the light Of a friend
than a teacher. She declared the In
dian mind to be susceptible to teaching
If properly approached, but adds that
he can be led but will not be driven.
The broad ax., 1917-01-27
CHASING A COYOTE IN
AUTO EXCITING SPORT
Hound, Sighting Game, Leaps
Over Mud Shield and Lands
Twenty Feet Ahead of Car.

Larned, Kan.-An exciting coyote
chase in automobiles took place near
Hanston. The party consisted OF Bill
Ham, John Ham, Mr.. and Mrs. Irwin
Seaman and William Warning. They
went in two cars and took three grey
hounds In each car.
Mr.. Warning says that auto polo Is
mild compared with the way those two
cars chased across the prairie, ravineS
and bluffs after coyotes. He said that
his speedometer registered forty miles
one time when he dared to glance at it
and he was afraid to look again.
They We're going along between TWEEN.
ty and thirty miles an hour at the tir1a
they started up the first coyote, and
when the biggest hound in Mr.. War
rings car sighted the wolf it leaped
over the wind shield and hood and
landed running twenty feet ahead OF
the car. The coyote was a big fellow,
but the hounds finally brought him
down, the big hound throwing him.
while the others pinned him down.
While chasing the first coyote the
other auto nearly ran over another one,
which leaped up almost from under the
wheels of the car. The men shot at it
several times, wOunding 1t. but because
of the speed of the bounding car could
get but poor aim. 1t finally ran into a
hole and was fished out with q wire.
Messrs. Ham and Seaman have killed
many coyotes.
The broad ax., 1917-01-27
DANCE TO WIRELESS
MUSIC MILES AWAY
Photograph at High Bridge, N. Y,
Heard All Over House at
MorristoWn, N. J.

New York.-What was declared to be
the worlds first wireless dance was
held at % Morris avenue, Morristown,
N. j., the home of Theodore e. Gaty,
vice president of the Fidelity and Cas-
ualty Insurance company Of this city.
His two sons-John P. and Theodore
e. Gaty, Jr., the latter home from Cor
nell for the Christmas holidays-got
up dance and throughout the even
ing the seven or eight couples who had
been invited danced to music that was
played on photograph in High Bridge,
at the northern end of Manhattan,
about forty miles away from Norris
town by air line.
Mr.. Gaty and his sons are enthusiast
tic amateurs in the science of radio te-
lephony and telegraphy. A friend, p F.
Cooley Of Montclair, who is q radio en-
gineer, made use Of the Lee de Forest
audion detector and the sound ampli-
fer invented by DR.. Edwin ii. Arm
strong of Columbia, the inventions
which made transcontinental telephony
possible, as well as q wireless tele-
phone message to Honolulu. Mr.. God
ley, who is only twenty-seven years old,
adapted the two devices to amateur
use and attached them to photograph
horn In the Gaty home.
The photograph that furnished the
dance music was played in the High
Bridge plant of the De Forest Radio
Telephone and Telegraph company, and
the musical sound waves were receiv-
ed by the amateur receiver over Mr..
Gaty's house.
When the faint sounds, which, COM
ing from the receiver, could scarcely be
detected by the ear, passed through the
combined sound amplifiers and then
through the megaphone they could be
heard all over the house.
The broad ax., 1917-01-27
WIDOW SAVES TREES.
Turns Commissioners From Those
Planted by Her Husband.

. st. Cloud, Mich.-"Woodman, spare
that tree; touch not single bough."
Thus quoted Mrs. Mary Spicer, wild
ow, as she pleaded for the preservation
OF trees planted by her husband, long
dead.
1t was three years ago that Mrs. Spi-
Ger started her battle with city officials
over the maintenance of this arborian
inheritance. She was called upon to
enter another skirmish the other day
when sidewalk bids were opened, In
which provision was to have been
made for the removal of the trees.
Mrs. Spicer's pets" fringe a lot on
which her modest little home Is built.
wait until | am gone and you may
remove them" she told the city COM
missioners, who took her words to
heart. When sidewalk bids were open.
ed there were proposed contracts on
other Jobs, but on the Widow Spicer's
property-not word.
The broad ax., 1917-01-27
Newspaper on Flo Is.ye..

Santa Cruz, Cal-Because Of the
high cost Of paper and the failure of
subscribers to pay up, Luther McQues-
ton, publisher Of the Mountain Echo
at Boulder creek, printed an edition of
his weekly on fig leaves The edition
consists of five dried leaves pinned to
gether with a twig and printed on both
sides and contains news items, CLASH
fied and legal advertising and an edito-
rial In which McQueston sets forth his
reasons for returning to first prinok
pies for print paper"
The broad ax., 1917-01-27

JACK LONDON IN THE WOODS.
with Mrs. London, to Sydney In No
vember, 1908, by steamer. He said Of
his Australian sojourn:
81 went to Australia to go into hos
pital, where l spent FIVE weeks. 1 spent
five months miserably sick In hotels.
The mysterious malady that afflicted
my hands was too much for the Aus
tralian specialists. 1t was unknown In
the literature Of medicine. No case
like it had ever been reported. 1t ex-
tended from my hands to my feet so
that at times l was as helpless as q
child. On occasion my hands were
twice their natural size, with seven
dead and dying skins peeling of at the
same time. There were times when
my tOenails In twenty-four hours grew
as thick as they were long. After filing
them Off inside another twenty-four
hours they were as thick as before.
The Australian specialists agreed that
the malady was nonparasitic and there
fore it must be nervous"
The ailment did not mend. and the
novelist and his wife had to abandon
the cruise In the Shark. Yet when
London had returned to California,
where his health had invariably been
excellent, his recovery was complete.
and strangely enough the California
climate is very like that of Australia.
Later on London ran across the book
written by Colonel Charles E. Wood
ruff, United States army medical corps.
entitled Effects of Tropical Light on
White Men," and what had baffied the
Australian specialists was no longer
inexplicable. London wrote to Colonel
Woodruff describing his illness in Aus
tralia, and the latter, whose researches
in tropical medicine, especially in the
Philippines. have given him q high re-
pute In his profession, replied that he
had been similarly afflicted In the Phil
ippines. Besides himself, Colonel Wood
run wrote to the novelist, no fewer
than sixteen other United States army
surgeons were utterly at a loss to ac- ,
count for the colonel's malady. But In
time the colonel solved the riddle. Lon
don says:
Il had strong predisposition toward
tissue destructiveness by tropical light.
I had been torn In pieces by ultra vio-
let rays"
The broad ax., 1917-01-27
PRESIDENTS day.
Mr., Wilson's Crowded Schedule
Calls For Early Rising.
LIKES GOLF AND BILLIARDS.

Out Of Bed at a. m, Battles and 10 In
Study Not Later Than 5:3o-Always
Retires Before IL Reads Poetry
Aloud and Takes Pleasure In Latest
Detective Stories.
Observation-Disclosures Wilson has a
well defined schedule mapped out for
his daily work when in Washington.
he sticks to this schedule closely. 1t
calls for his arising at the early hour
of 5 o'clock. Then he has his bath and
Is in his study not later than $50
o'clock. says the Louisville Courier
Journal in a recent account of the pres
identS schedule.
Usually the president is met in his
study by his stenographer. Charles
Swem Charlie, as he Is known about
the White House, takes dictation until
S o'clock, which is the presidents
breakfast hour. Breakfast over, Mr..
Wilson is accustomed to return to his
study to continue his morning dictat-
ing.
About $50 o'clock in the morning
the president receives a list Of appoint
ments which Secretary Tumulty has
made for him at the executive Offices.
These engagements never begin until
The broad ax., 1917-01-27
FOUND IMAGE IN CAVE.
cSos Stone Idol Probably Antsdatss
Indian Mound BuiIdsr.

ihoian Mound Builders.
jacksonville, Ky.-E. L. Littlepage
OF the Morton Gap country brought to
tnH place recently a stone image that
Is curiosity and probably of historic
value.
Mr. Littlepage found 1t at the edge
OF cave on high elevation in North
christian county, KY, while investigat-
Ing some prospective oil land belonging
10 MIN. The cave is located In a wild
and broken section of land uncultivat-
ed and but thinly inhabited.
The image is rudely carved out Of a
tough, ferrous sandstone. 1t is about
SIX inches in height and is well pre-
served, except for a slight injury on
one side Of its head and slight wealth
ering OF one arm. The figure is In
sitting position, with its legs doubled
under its body and arms extended In
'front.' with hands resting on its knees.
The image is evidently a relic Of an
idol worshiping people and antedates
any old Indian relic found in various
Indian mounds In western Kentucky.
The broad ax., 1917-01-27
WAR AFFECTS WATER TOO.
No Soda Ash to Soften city's Drinking
Supply.

Supply.
Columbus, O.-Hard water will be
the best the filtration plant can furnish
consumers the rest Of the winter unless
something is done to increase the avail
able supply of soda ash, one Of the chief
chemicals used In the softening process.
Superintendent O'Shaughnessy Of the
Columbus water plant said that soda
ash could not be had at any price ow-
ing to inability of railroads to furnish
adequate transportation facilities; also
the -Barberton plants, where the city's
supply of soda ash is obtained, have
been handicapped during the last few
weeks because Of shortage of fuel.
No soda ash has been used at the fl
tration plant for several days. Since
the war began soda ash has advanced
$44 ton. Water can be softened to q
certain degree by lime, but soda ash
must be added to get the desired soft
ness.
The broad ax., 1917-01-27
REUNITED.
Children Long Separated by the
Civil War Meet.
SEARCH BEGUN BY BROTHER.

6ushwhackers Raided Home, Killed
| Parents and Drove Children Into
Woods-Adopted In Different Homes,
Survivors Drffted Apart - Meeting
Between Sisters and Brother Pathetic.
Clarinda, IA tragedy of the civil
war which resulted in the separation
OF three children of q Missouri family
was recalled recently by the reunion Of
the three children who had been sepa-
rated during the long period, too young
at the time to maintain a correspond
ence, and it was only after much effort
and correspondence that the members
Of the family were enabled to meet and
hold a reunion after so Tonga separa-
ton.
Living near Laclede, Mo-, was fam
lily named Deer. Bushwhackers raided
their home, killed the parents and
drove the children into the woods.
where they passed night in terror
The children were Mary Deer, eight
years old: Addie Deer, six years old,
and brother two years old. Upon the
girl Of eight years devOlved the task of
keeping the others with her and to
vainly try to console them. Speaking
of the terrifying incidents of the night.
Mary, now Mrs. Mary Rain Of this
city. told how the baby boy cried to be
taken to his mother.
In the morning the children made
their way to Laclede. where they were
found nearly dead from exposure and
fright and crying bitterly. A man who
CHANGED to run across the children was
80 filled with pity that be took them in
'harge, fed them and cared for them
pr several days until he had succeed
] in locating all three in homes, into
hich they were finally adopted.
Thus torn apart, the children did not
gain hear from each other. Mary
.'ent her entire girlhood as a nurse
irl In family where there were sew
raj children, and from them she man.
ged to learn to read and write. She
vas taken to Illinois, where she mar
lied. Addie Deer was taken with the
brother to Crete, Neb., where the girl
married and where the boy grew to
manhood and where he still resides
Addie married and lost her husband.
She was married a second time to q
Mr.. Downing, owner of a large ranch
near GlenwoOd Springs, Colo
Some time ago the brother began a
search for his sisters. 1t was an ap-
parently hopeless task, but by persever-
ance, much correspondence and long
range inquiry he managed to find them,
and all held a reunion at the home of
Mrs. Downing in Colorado,
Mrs. Rain soon after her marriage
moved from Illinois to this county.
She is now a widow, sixty years of
age. The meeting between the sisters
and brother was pathetic despite the
fact that a separation of over fifty |
years had obviously tended to break |
down the feeling of family relationship. |
The broad ax., 1917-01-27
WAR ON CATS SAVES GAME.
Good Hunting In New Jersey Since Fee
line Slaughter Started.

0iddSHboT OIdTIoOs
Trenton, n. IA report of the New
Jersey fish and game commission re-
Gently issued states that the wholesale
determination of cats in Burlington
county during the 1915 epidemic of foot
and mouth disease has resulted In
sportsmen finding Burlington among
the best hunting grounds in the state.
Game animals and birds are more
plentiful In the county than for years.
and scores Of hunters have repeatedly
bagged their legal limit Of ten rabbits;
also Quails. pheasants and squirrels. 1t
L. held that the chief factor In the In
crease In game animals and birds as
well as song birds In that county was
the warfare on cats by both hunters
and farmers. Sportsmen found hun
dreds Of prowling homeless cats In the
woods and fields preying upon native
birds and animals and killed them.
The broad ax., 1917-01-27

a h.
10 O'clock. Few of them are for longer
than half an hour. These engagements
run up until about II o'clock, the pres
ident always leaving the office building
for the White House for luncheon not
later than i o'clock.
Usually the presidents afternoons
have been given over to recreation.
OF course the president played golf
but few times during the railroad
crisis. He then only did so because DR..
GraySon thought it advisable for him
to get little outdoor exercise. On the
motcr rides and at the golf matches
Mrs Wilson was always his compan-
ion.
The motor trips are usually over by
O'clock, so there is ample time to pre-
pare Tor o'clock dinner. Most of the
ed TO work.
For the last few months there has
been great mystery about the White
House 1t has to do with one of the
meanS which the president employs to
relax from his presidential duties. This
form of amusement is nothing more
than the popular game of pool, or,
Speaking ia more polite terms, pocket
billiards..
When the conditions are normal at
the White House the president has two
MEALS of relaxation other than playing
billiards. He takes great delight in
read,aS poetry aloud. The other form
OF amusement Is the reading Of detec-
I'VE stories. He gets the latest books
OF th,S sort.
President Wilson does not believe 1t
wise 10 keep the midnight oil burning.
Therefore the hour of IL o'clock usual
" finds him in bed. More often it Is
before IL o'clock that he retires. This
Necessary because of his early ris-
ings.
The broad ax., 1917-01-27
FROM MISSOURI TO PANAMA.
Bottle Found After Being Six Months
Afloat.

Hartville. Mo.-A list of names which
a party of Springfield normal school
students sealed In a soda pop bottle
which was thrown into the James river
at Turner. Mo-. last June has been re-
turned I'm a letter received by Miss
Opal Pope Of this place, one Of the
young women whose names were on
the list.
The letter was written by a member
Of the crew of the United States ship
Raleigh, which reached San Francisco
recently after being stationed off the
coast Of Panama. The writer said he
found the bottle on the beach while in
Panama.
The broad ax., 1917-01-27
EIGHTY, WANTS HEART BALM
Woman Is Deaf, Has Lost Right Eye
and Is a Little Lame.

Utica, n. Y.-Mrs. Almira Kingsbury
Is just a little on the right side of
eighty years old. She is rather deaf.
She has lost her right eye and her left
thumb. Besides she is little lame.
But she took the stand to testify that
Robert Roberts of Trenton, seventy-six
years old and a farmer, had been so
smitten with her charms ut first sight
that he urged her to marry him. Then
she said he broke trOth and she sued
for breach of promise. They met at an
employment agency where lie sought a
housekeeper.
Judge Hazard told Mrs. Kingsbury's
attorney, Il think your client is clearly
entitled to about 9 cents" However,
the case was held open for more evil
dence.
The broad ax., 1917-01-27
LIFE RACE WITH WOLVES.
Three Trsppers Tell of Their Expert.
ences With Pack.

Standish, Mich. - Three trappers,
CharcS Leonard, George Weston and
Bert Parker. reached here the other
Jay from a hunting trip In the Lake
Superior region and told of race for
tAeir lives with a wolf pack while re-
nrning from their traps. The men
were on skates three miles from the
nearest cabin when the wolves made
aeir appearance.
One Of the trappers fired his rifle
When the pack approached them. and
10 Wolves quickly tore one of their
Wounded members to pieces, giving the
eunterS time for a start to get ahead
" the brutes.
Several times when the wolves were
. <sry on them this was repeated, the
go said. until they finally reached
aecahin.
The broad ax., 1917-01-27
WIRELESS PLANT IN BED.
Annapolis Middle Receives Messages
Through Springs.

Annapolis, Md.-That series Of bed
springs connected by wires makes
satisfactory condenser for a wireless
station has been proved by Midship-
man ]. B. Dow Of the fourth class at
the Naval academy.
Dow has connected the springs of
his own and his two roommates' beds
and attached them to a receiver. He
has been able to pick up messages sent
from and to the Arlington station. He
has found out that it is not necessary
to open the windows Of his room In
Bancroft hall or even to remove the
bedding.
1t is stated that BOWS use OF the
bedsprings to receive radio messages
may be OF considerable practical value.
The broad ax., 1917-01-27
BANK INsUREs ASSETS
FOR TWENTY-FoUR HOURS

= New York.-A 500. OO0, 900 pro-
= tective insurance policy for
+ twenty-four hours was purchased
4 by the Chatham and Phoenix Ma
> tional bank to cover the trans
= fer Of its assets from 1872 Broad.
= way to the new offices Of the
= bank In the Singer building, a
= distance Of about q block and q
= half. About $4,000, 900 In cash
= was carried to the new quarters
= In an armored car, with armed
= guards at the front and rear, and
= there were guards stationed ev-
= cry fifty feet between the two
. buildings
The broad ax., 1917-01-27
GIRL SUES DRUGGIST
FOR LOSS OF HER HAIR

= New York.-The efficacy Of Pc
= roxide as hair bleach was
. brought into question when Ka-
= tie Gottdank, sixteen years old,
= asked 5000 damages from Ju-
= Illus Kalish, Incorporated. drug
= gist. In trying to transform her
= self into a blond she lost part Of
= her hair. and what she had left
= became brick red. She exhibited
= q shoe boz full Of hair. Miss
. Gottdank's grandfather. Carl
= Weisshar, q barber, was not al
= lowed to qualify a an expert
The broad ax., 1917-01-27
Minister Travels by Submarine.

Paris.-General Hubert Lyautey, tile
minister of war In the new French
cabinet, arrived In Paris after q
voyage full OF incidents from Morocco
where he was French resident general
The new war minister crossed from
Tangier to Gibraltar In a submarine.
and his train was delayed by the snow
In Spain, thus obliging him to decline
King Alfonso's invitation to dinner.
The broad ax., 1917-01-27
Gas killa Qoda.

St Paul - Guillaume and Pietro
the dog pets Of Joseph Demalo. were
found dead from gas fumes In their
masters home. They died by their own
pawa The room In which they lay
was filled with gas. Demalo denies
they committed suicide. He says they
heard rats In the stove and In attempt
ing to open the door OF the oven turned
on the gas.
The broad ax., 1917-01-27
MUSKRATS CUT MEAT PRICE.
Serve as Substitute In Many Families
of Moderate Means In New Jersey.

SerVe as SUBSTITUTE In many Famllles
of Moderate Means In New Jersey.
Alloway, n. J.-Muskrats are cut
ting the high cost Of living In this re-
gion. With the price Of meats hitting
the high spots. there is an unprece-
dented demand for their carcasses.
commonly known as water rabbits"
Trappers, who this season are secur-
ing on an average Of nearly 81 each for
muskrat pelts, are adding considerable
extra revenue to their usual seasons
profits by selling the meat to villagers
and to outside buyers. 1t is estimated
that an average Of 5000 water rab-
bits" are disposed Of every week In
Salem alone. where they serve as a
substitute for meat In many families
Of moderate means.
The broad ax., 1917-01-27
WILL AID WEARY HORSES.

School Children Plan Farm For Worm
out Dobbinses.
E Youngstown, O.-Members Of the
Junior Humane society here have con-
tributed the nucleus of a fund which
they will raise to rent or buy a rest
farm for worked out horses.
1t is planned to have the farm for
use next summer. Many school chill.
dren have pledged support to the fund
getting project, and senior humane
workers expect their little associates
will succeed in their plans.
The broad ax., 1917-01-27
Waits Fifty Years For Fathers Gift.

Pittsburgh. Pat cost fifty years OF
waiting and a lawsuit against his step
mother. but John w. Baker OF New.
Bloomfield recently received 1925,
turned over to his mother by his father
In 1857. 1t was to be his on his IA
TIERS death. but Mrs. Rebecca T.
Baker, stepmother and Administrative.
had withheld payment
The broad ax., 1917-01-27
BOTTLE DRIFTS $500 MILES.
Determines Currents OF South Ameri-
can Coast

Seattle, Wash.-After drifting 6,6OO
miles in the south Pacific bottle con-
tanning a position report from the
steamship Eureka Of Seattle thrown
overheard off the Peruvian coast by
Captain ]. E. Guptill, the vessels mas
ter, Feb. 0. 1915, was found March 1,
1915, on the beach at Tamasua, Va
sawa group, Fiji islands.
There has been q difference of opin-
ion among mariners as to the set Of
the current of the coast Of South
America, and the finding of the mes
sage is of great value, as it determines
the direction of the flow Of ocean wa
ter In that part Of the world.
The broad ax., 1917-01-27
HOGS CLIMB ORANGE TREES.
Fruit Diet Pleasss the Swine Best, but
Not the Orchardist.

Not the Orchardist.
Riverside. Cal.-W. 81. Bacchus has
chased his hogs out Of his orange grove
Hes tired OF having them climbing In
the orange trees.
After some oranges were blown from
the trees by tie. wind the hogs passed
up the usual pasturage and, standing
on their hind feet, ate all the golden
balls they could reach. Then some Of
them began to climb trees.
"Nix on this orange fed pork" said
Bacchus as he arranged for a new pas
ture.