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Zbe ffbatbam t?:cor& H. A. LONDON EDITOa AND PROPEXCTDS. TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION: S1.5Q Per Year . t 1 i 4 Ebe Cbatbam "ReeorDv STRICTLY IN ADVANCE VOL. XXXIII. P1TTSBQRO, CHATHAM COUNTY, N. C. WEDNESDAY. APRIL 1 2, I9II. -NO. 35. RATES OF ADVERTISING; On Square, one lartla.....sZ OfM For Larger Advcrtlzo mcnts Liberal Contract? will bo mado. NORTHERN WOMAN EULOGIZES R. E. LEE RICHMOND, VA. Spescial. The Boston Transcript of Thursday, March 30th, on its' editorial page, prints an interesting estimate of Gen eral Robert E. Lee from the pen of Alice W. Clark, who appears to have enjoyed the acquaintance of the great soldier after the surrender. The writer, who is a Northern woman, professes a sincere admira tion for General Lee and describes .him as "one of the world's greatest generals, and a brave and noble Amer ican citizen." Soma Southern readers, however, will be surprised to note the apparent freedom with which he talked to the author of the article. General Lee was a most reserved man and usually be displayed great caution in allud ing to the war. Here is Alice W. Clark's estimate in full: He was sitting on the porch of his home in the dear Southern town of his native State when I first met him, a broken, weary, white-haired man. Not old perhaps in years, but to the casual view he appeared very aged, and, in all the many -times I saw him, his position and appearance was al ways the same leaning with both hands on the top of his cane, his head erect, with eyes gazing into space or bowed over his hands in utter de jection. A Man of Sorrow. Many weeks elapsed before I dared speak to the great general, and then I simply laid a few flowers upon his knee and stammered out a faint good morning. But the glance he gave me from a pair of kindly eyes encouraged me to greater efforts, and soon our acquaintance had progressed suffi ciently to have me feel at ease in his presence. Northerner, though I was, brought up on a strict anti-slavery at mosphere, taught to consider the National Government supreme, I never looked at nor spoke to Robert E. Lee without a feeling of the great est reverence. Abraham Lincoln car ried the weight of a nation upon his shoulders, as one could see in his face. No one looking at General Lee could doubt that he carried the lost cause in his heart and a deep sorrow for the lives he had cast at the feet of the fallacious State's rights doctrine. Jm ever heard one word from General Lee as to the cause of the Confed eracy. It was always and only Vir ginia. And once I ventured to ask him what he would have done had the State's rights theory been carried out literally and eleven separate estab lishments formed. He glanced at me quickly and simply said: "My address would have been Virginia." il coaxed General Mahone, a great friend of mine at the time, to ask a question that I dared not put forward myself. We were all three standing in the front garden or doorway of the Lee house. General Mahone said: "General Lee. this lady is most anxious to get an idea from someone competent to judge as to who is the greater general of our Civil War, Robert E. Lee or U. S. Grant." r For a moment I was frightened. I did not know just how he would take it, but his face lightened up and his eyes twinkled as he answered: "Robert E. Ie was the greater man by all odds. Why. he had Grant whipped thoroughly dozens of times, but unfortunately Grant never seemed to know it." Grant and Napoleon. Im another talk we were comparing Napoleon with our more modern chiefs, and Grant was again named. Lee said: "It would not become me to criticise General Grant in a military sense, but I will say that Napoleon would have had the surprise of his life if he and Grant had clashed. Grant never did know when he was licked. He is a bulldog; Napoleon was a foxhound." At one time I remember stopping to speak to the general as I was on my way to some school celebration; I had a small American flag and was carrying it upside down. General Lee took it from me, smoothed it gently with his hands, and gave it back to me union up. "My friend, always re spect and love that flag; it has cost your people and mine very dearly; I tried once to turn against it. Teach any sons you may have to profit by my example," and I noticed a drop of moisture on the glasses he wore that might have been a tear. Again when I found him in one of hi3 very rare conversational moods 1 asked, as gently as I could, a ques tion that had always -puzzled me. Why, after the oath he took at West Point, he felt it right to single out one particular section of the country to benefit by his services. He paused a long time before replying, then said: "I am afraid you are a Federalist. Virginia sent me to West Point, and Virginia could and did recall me from any obligations I had made there." In the article written by Gamaliel Bradford, Jr., in the Atlantic for Feb ruary he says that "he believes the theory of Lee's lack of interest in the Confederacy as a whole is utterly false and that - from the very first he merged Virginia in the larger loyalty." I do not agree with Mr. Bradford. A careful study of the military history of the war, a personal knowledge of General Lee's character, and of the conduct of his life after the war had ended, all point to one thing his loyalty to the State of Virginia. It will Le remembered that Robert E. Lee awaited the action of his State Legislature in !regard to secession be fore he resigned from the Federal to take service in the Confederate Army-, and I firmly believe that had the North offered and Virginia ac cepted separate independence at any time during the war, General Lee would have resigned from military service and retired to private life. Mr. Bradford practically says: "Da vis denies the theory of Lee's indif ference to the effect and outcome of the struggle in the other ten States, and asserts that Lee was ready to go anywhere for his country's good." He was undoubtedly ready to go any where for the good of Virginia, even to leading a forlorn hope into Fenn- sylvania. But for his country's good, no. Robert E. Lee had no country. He had a State. How eould anyone, believing in the doctrine of State's rights as he did, have or care for a he would have remained under the If nag he carried to such honors in nis Mexican campaign and would have been loyal to the government found ed by that other great Virginian, George Washington. I can find nothing to point to any degree of intimacy between General Lee and Jefferson Davis. Davis' feel ing toward Lee was one of jealousy and antagonism, while Lee never showed any desire for personal inti macy with Davis. Davis was the last man to say what anpther man would do. It is unjust to mention the two men together. Davis was in the war tor personal aggrandizement, while Robert E. Lee was there, not because he thought the war justifiable or right, but because the State of Vir ginia had so decided it to be. At least that was the estimae formed by my personal knowledge of his char acter. Mr. Bradford speaks also of Gene ral Lee's testimony before the recon struction committee. General Lee re plied to the question, "Were you not aware that those prisoners were dy ing from cold and starvation?" (in Libby). "I was not." I hardly see how General Lee could have been unaware of their condition, as for sometime his headquarters in Richmond were within a stone's throw of the prison, and the moans of the men must have been distinctly audi ble to him. But if General Lee had been asked the question could he have relieved that suffering, he un doubtedly could have answered "No. After Ihe prisoners left my ranks they belonged to and were the care of the civil government, of which Jef ferson Davis was the head." Lee did not, as he himself told me, have food enough those last few months at Richmond to feed his own army, and he did not think the civil authorities were making any great effort to send him rations. Mr. Bradford also refers to a conver sation between Lee and Imboden at the beginning of the war. Lee Is quoted as saying: "Our people are brave and enthusiastic and united in defence of a just cause." Now this can be read two ways. I would translate it dif ferently from either Mr. Bradford or Imboden. I would read: "Yes, our Southern people are united in the es tablishment of the Calhoun Doctrine of States rights, and believing that doc trine to a just one, 1 will fight with them for that purpose. I will fight for the independence of my native State, Virginia.". Perhaps I am wrong, but how else can one read General Lee's character? Hon orable, upright and sincere, entertain ing the views he did, he could not con scientiously have fought except as his State demanded. He worked to estab lish the independence of the State of Virginia. What she was to do with that independence once established, I do not think he ever thought of. Although a slaveholder, he cared little for the institution of slavery. He held i hem, as he held himself, subject to the laws of the State; this he told me. Robert E. Lee is dead, and many years have elapsed since I had the honor of meeting and knowing him. I thought him mistaken in his views then, I still think the same. But if any of the present generation could have seen and known him, as I did, a disfran chised man, deprived of every fight and privilege belonging to a citizen of the republic, adapting himself to circum stances, urging every one with whom he 'came in contact to do his duty by the old flasr and to be loyal to the Gov ernment, they would, as I do, cherish his memory and proudly 'claim him a one of the world's greatest generals and a brav J noble American citizen. ALICE W. CLAUK. RELEASED WHEN FINE WAS PAID 3ntS. CRAWLEY. OF CENTRALIA, ONLY ONE OF THREE TO BE RELEASED. WASHINGTON, D. C, Special. Mrs. J. 11. Crawley, one of the three women who eloped from Alexandria, Va., last week, in company with three men and was arrested in York, Pa., on a charge of disorderly conduct Wednesday, was released yesterday. Her husband. J. H. Crawley, of Cen tralia, Va., paid her line. Mrs. Craw ley eloped with her brother-in-law, Eugene Crawley, who is still incar cerated. Mrs. Samuel Harrington, wife of an engineer on the Southern Railway, will be liberated today by her hus band, who is going to York to pay her fine. William Powers, whose wife was one of the trio, said yesterday he would not pay his wife's fine, and intimated he would start proceedings for divorce immediately. Mrs. Powers left five small children behind her. The three men, Forrest Oehlart, son of a tobacco merchant, who lives at 1203 King Street; Patrick Woodward, of Alexandria, and Eugene Crawley, are still held by the York police. The elopement was the principal topic of conversation in Alexandria yesterday. RUSHES HIS VICTIM AND "COP" TO HOSPITAL NEW YORK, Special. An elevator boy in the San Remo apartment, Cen tral Park, West, and Seventy-fourth Street, told Policeman White at 7:30 o'clock Tuesday night that an elderly woman had been run down by an au tomobile in front of the apartment house and that the chauffeur had lifted her invhis machine and disappeared. White hailed a passing taxicab, traced the automobile from street to street and finally arrived at Roosevelt Hospital. There he found the physi cians caring for the elderly woman. Arthur T. May. chauffeur for Miss A. T. Jones, surprised at the appear ance of White, motioned to a traffic squad policeman who stood at his el bow, and said: "I didn't want-to wait at the scene of the accident for a policeman to ar rive. I knew the woman was badly hurt. So I placed her in the auto with the assistance of William Glazer, of 507 West Fifty-seventh Street, and raced to the hospital, picking this offi cer up on my way. May said he was running the auto at a moderate rate on Central Park, West, when, between Seventy-fourth and Seventy-fifth Streets, the woman stepped from behind a cab directly in front of the touring car. The victim of the accident is be lieved by the police to be Mrs. Clover stram, of 132 East One Hundred and Twenty-seventh Street. A paper bear ing this name and address was found in her muff. She is about fifty-five years, five feet six inches tall, weighs about 200 pounds, and wore a dark skirt and coat and black fur neck piece. She has several broken ribs, a fracture of the skull and may be in ternally injured. "Born in Virginia" Must Go on Tomb. BRISTOL, VA., Special. A copy oi the will of James M. Duff, who died in Lexington, Ky., recently, received Vif hpmieathed to relatives here money and diamonds valued at ?25,U0U. tie was eiginy ,ti t-o riri anri a native .of Lee J X1 v.., - - county, Va. The will provides that it snail oe mscnueu on mo uiuuuivi. that he was born in Virgiuia. His es tate is valued at $100,000. , ROANOKE "FIXER" HIMSELF "FIXED" aft I 13 - mm IllliilllililllllilW v . ::i::.::K:::-:-:-:::::-:::::v:.::::::::i::v.:::::::::::: , ::"::' .:-:.-::.: v-'--::v:.V.-: , : ; :: .- . I I ii fin I 1 w, V ii. r JV Jit i 34 . :ic.:'K-.jA : w Champ Clark, as he stepped to t he rostrum of the House and formally took over the Speakership on the o pening day of the present special ses sion of Congress. WANT COLORED SOLDIERS MOVED TEXAS TOWNS PROTEST AGAINST NINTH CAVALRY, WHICH DE FIED JIM CROW LAWS. SAN ANTONIO, Special. The col ored Ninth Cavalry has become "the regiment without a home." No Texas town wants the soldiers who created so much trouble in this city by refusal to obey the Jim Crow regulations. The news that the men were to be moved to the border and the subse quent preparations for their departure, brought protests today from towns along the Rio Grande, near which the negro soliders may be located. It may be found necessary to send the colored troops away from Texas entirely. Maneuvers were resumed at Fort Sam Houston today. The Third Artillery left during the morning for Leon Springs for target practice, the roads having dried out sufficiently for the moving of cannon. ARMED GUARDS PROTECT JURY MEN TRYING GIANNI ALONGI, IN CHICAGO FEDERAL COURT, VIGILANTLY PROTECTED. CHICAGO, ILL., Special. With the jury guarded almost as vigilantly as the jury in the famous Camorra trial at Viterbo, Italy, the second trial of Gianni Alongi, accused of having written Black Hand letters to a wealthy citizen, was opened before Judge Landis In the United States court today. The jury will be guarded by armed men until after a verdict is reached. At the former trial of Alongi, the jury stood 11 to 1 for conviction. A threatening letter was received by one juryman. Federal agents today announced that they secured a clew to the most deadly of Chicago's Mafia killers the shotgun murderers who killed An tonio Duga and Philippi ManiscaLso, at Death Corner, recently. An arrest is promised in a few days. They connect Alongi with the deaths of these men in a roundabout way. and declare he knows the details oi the crime. President, H. H. Harris, of Lynchburg: Secretary, W. R. Iunk, of Lynchburg, and Assistant Secretary, E. N. Hall, of JOHJfSOJT WAS ORDERED HOME ATLANTA, GA., Special. James . xvicAieer, manager of the Na tionals, is responsible for the biggest sensation that baseball has known this snrinff. As a result of Wait- Johnson's continued refusal to sign nis laii contract on the terms named as the club's final offer $6,500 for the Sfeason McAlPpr nrHorort tVi. few pitcher to leave camp for home, sent -secretary JLenman out to purchase a ticket to Coffeyville, Kan., where jonnson resides, and wired notice to President Noyes of the action he had taken. It is supposed that he haa previously been advised to this step by the club officials. McAleer gave out the following statement: "I have ordered Johnson to quit my club at once. I do not want him aroundv I have tried to reason with him about signing his contract, but he absolutely refuses to come down to the terms the club has offered. I have never, been held up by a ball player in my life, and do not propose to start In now." TAFT UNDISTURBED BY VARIOUS REPORTS ; APPARENTLY FIRM IN BELIEF THAT RECIPROCITY WILL BE ENACTED INTO LAW. targets in the air have to contain either f fuses or clockwork construction to set 'off the explosive at the proper time. Ordinary shells pierce a balloon's frame I work without doing great harm, and the uncertainty in calculations often causes the explosive shells to burst either too soon or too late. WHITE HOVSIS messenger CltOSSES THE STY WASHINGTON, D. C, Special. With the Republican and Democratic parties battling at the Capitol for points of vantage in the next presi dential campaign, President Taft, who will be most affected by the events of the present session, is keeping free from the political struggle and is un ruffled by rumors of attack on his reciprocity measure. The President has listened patient ly to all reports of impending disaster and has made it clear that he believes the end of the session will see- reci procity enacted into law. He has been informed that the pro posed amendments of the reciprocity bill will conflict with the favored na tion clause of the existing tariff, and that other powers will demand the same treatment accorded to Canada. In the case of meats, for example, the Argentine Republic mightinsist upon the same concession granted to Canada, and this will virtually kill the cattle-growing industry in the United States, according to information sent to the White House by Western men It is understood that even though the Senate agrees to amendments granting additional concessions to Canada, President Taft will sign the reciprocity measure and let future events justify his course. WASHINGTON, D. C, April 6. Henry Pinckney, negro messenger at the White House, Is dead. Pinckney was a well known character in Wash ington, and knew many public men. He was steward at the White House during the Roosevelt administration and was formerly messenger to - Governors Flower, Black and Roosevelt at Albany, N. Y. CULLOM SUSPICIOUS OF EMPLOYES' EXPENSE FUND PRINCESS IRENE GOES AGROUND NORTH GERMAN LLOYD BOAT COMES TO GRIEF AT LONG IS LAND PASSENGERS SAFE. LONE BANDIT HOLDS UP TRAIN MUNCIE INDi, Special. A sheriff's posse is searching the country a few; miles east of this city today for a lone bandit, who robbed ten passengers of $300 in money on board a Big Four train last night. After the robbery the bandit jumped from the train and escaped, threatening to kill anyone who pursued him," ; The robber boarded the train at Selma and called attention to- himself by smashing the glass in the front ves tibule. When the conductor went' for ward to investigate, he was confronted by the man with a revolver. . After covering the conductor, the ,onit wont VmrriArllv thronerh the car and collected the money. "Cash only, please. Nothing else," he said, as he faced each passenger in turn. He disappeared as the train reached the edsre of town and was seen making his way eastward. WHO'S THAT PIMIEADI ASKED tTNCliE JOE WASHINGTON, Special. Sidney Anderson, the radical insurgent from Minnesota, who beat out "Jim"' Tawney in the primaries last summer and then carried his district in the November elections, has become, suddenly, an ar dent admirer of "Uncle Joe" Cannon. Mr. Anderson tells the story on him self. "I was sitting a few seats back of Mr. Cannon when the roll , was called on the vote for Speaker yesterday. Mine is the first Republican name on the roll. i " 'Mr. Anderson, of Minnesota,'' safd the clerk. " 'Cooper, of Wisconsin. I answered. "'Now, who. in hell is that pinhead?' asked 'Uncle Joe,' in a voice that car ried over the whole House. "Do you know I rather admire the spirit of that old man, and when the seat lottery came off and I was lucky enough to get an early choice I took a seat about three yards away from him. I want to get acquainted." NEWS OF RELATIONSHTP KILLS YOUNG SWEETHEARTS CLEVELAND, Special John Ott was apprised Sunday by the woman with whom he had recently engaged board that her daughter, Anna Neu mister, aged seventeen, whom he was making love to, was his half-sister. Anna left home Sunday afternoon. Yesterday her body was taken from Lake Erie. She had committed sui cide. Ott, ignorant of the fate of . Anna, died on the street yesterday. The cor oner found today he had died of shock and grief. DEMOCRATS HOLDING BACK ON CANADIAN TRADE AGREEMENT AND OTHER QUESTIONS. WASHINGTON, D. C, Special. The plans of the House Democrats relative to the Canadian trade agree ment and other questions bearing on the tariff have not been finished. It is now generally understood that the Canadian agreement will be held in reserve for-sometime. Before consideration is given the treaty, the committee will report At her bills nronosinsr chantres in the tariff Ttaw not contemplated in the agreement negotiated with Canada hy President Taft. The form of these measures has not yet been deter mined. In a general way, members of the committee have made it known that fethe committee is prepared on short notice to report bills involving changes in the woolen and cotton schedules and reducing the rates on a hundred or so other necessaries of life. ROANOKE, Va.; Special. Harry E. Myers, the alleged "fixer" recently indicted by the grand jury for "fixing things so that Monroe. Southers and Kid Coleman, alleged gamblers, could not be molested, was fined $25 in the Police Court this afternoon. , The case was hard fought, but the evidence was conclusive. Myers noted an appeal. ' ia.aiJ ANNUAL CONTENTION OF Yv M. C. A. 'TJATJT.nTTTrsvTT J.Hl VA.. Snecial. At the opening meeting of the thirty second annual convention of the Vir ginia Young Men's Christian Associa tion Church, W. T. Martin, president of the local association, delivered an ad- f -ttti oTTi n T lontpnant frhver- uress w lilvii. -- nor J. Taylor Ellyson responded. S. Walters MCUUll, aiate secreia.r.y, Ba an illustrated lecture on "What Hap pened to a Boy Away From Home. William J. Bryan will speak Sunday morning in Cabell Hall at the uni versity. He will be the guest of Presi dent -lderman. Tonight the conven tion banquet will be held at the armory. Saturday night Representative Rich mond P. Hobson will be. heard on "Christian Citizenship." These officers ' were elected last eve ning: President of convention. Dr. Ed win A. Alderman, of the University of Virginia: First Vice President. James W. Gordon, of Richmond; Second Vice CHAMP CLARK IS FOR RECIPROCITY WASHINGTON, D. C, Special. Speaker Champ Clark, Wuen remind ed yesterday that, in his opening speech before the House, he had not touched on the subject of reciprocity with Canada, explained that his sup port of reciprocity was so well known that comment was unnecessary. The Speaker insists that reciprocity legis lation is of Democratic origin. He said yesterday: "In 1854 a Democratic administra tion negotiated a- reciprocity agree ment with Canada. In 1867 a Repub lican administration abrogated it. In 1911 a Republican President nego tiated another one. All the Demo crats in the House except five voted for it. The President couldn't mus ter even a majority of the House Re publicans for it. Then it was sent to a Republican Senate, and they wouldn't even consider the matter. Individual ly, I have been advocating reciprocity not only with Canada, but with all of the civilized nations of the earth." MADISON SQUARE GARDEN IN NEW YORK TO BE RAZED NEW YORK, April 7. Madison Square Garden, the largest assembly building in New York City, was sold yesterday to a company which has already laid plans for tearing down the famous structure and erecting on the site five modern skyscrapers. ". Madison Square Garden has. never been a financial success for its own ers. Sometime ago it was announcer that J. Pierpont Mnrsran. who con trols the property, had placed It on the market with brokers for $3,000, 000. ' The garden was opened in 1890, and is .aid to have been run at a loss during most of the twenty years of its existence. NEW YORK, Special. The steam er Prinztss Irene went aground in the fog near the Lone Hill life-saving station . i't 'Long Island today. The captain i c-ported by wireless that the vessel and passengers were in no dan ger. The Prinzess Irene is owned by the North German Lloyd Line, and left Genoa March 23d for New York. She carries 1,720 passengers. The accident was caused by the heavy fog which has prevailed along the Atlantic Coast for more than thirty-six hours. Shortly after word was received from the captain that the vessel was aground, a wireless call for assistance reached the office ef the North German Lloyd Line and several wrecking tugs were sent to pull the 'big ship off. Telephone messages from the Lone Hill life-savers stated that a heavy easterly sea was running. In another wireless Captain Von Letten Peterssen, of the Prinzess Irene, said that he expected to get the liner off at high tide. All o. board were well, the message said, and none of the passengers were alarmed when the liner jammed hoi nose into the mud. RECIPROCITY IS HELD IN RESERVE WASHINGTON, D. C, Special. In a scathing attack on the fund now being raised here to establish a bu reau of work for increased salaries and better conditions for government employes, Senator Shelby M. Cullom, of Illinois, declared today in an in terview that the raising of the fund had influenced him against a project that he had looked upon favorably at one time. That there was no need of securing a large sum of money to achieve the proposed legislation which would be enacted if Congress thought it just and necessary, -was another of his as sertions. "I do not believe in any fund to aid in getting legislation in the Interests of government clerks," Senator Cullom declared. "What are they going to do with the money bribe people?" HARRY MYERS FREE ON ONE CHARGE ROANOKE, VA, Special. Harry E. Myers, alleged "go-between," who was recently indicted, for graft, larceny and contempt of court in trying to prevent witnesses from testifying before the grand Jury, was tried yesterday on the last named charge and acquitted. The indictments against Myers coulb not be found, and it is alleged the documents were stolen. The larceny charge was continued until Saturday. The case involving B'au win ue inea aionp witn tnose of Mayor Cutchin and Sergeant Lemon. Editor James M. Williams, of the Eveninsr World wns attanlrnA vot.tr day evening in his office by A. A. John- sou. Bon-in-iaw oi Mayor Joel H. Cutchin, i,on account of the editorials COJldemnlner the mavnr onH Vm mand Jhat he resign his office pending me investigation or the charges by the special grand jury. In the affrav which- followed, neither man was seri ously hurt. GAMP ON TRAIL OF SENATOR BAILEY His Enemies in Senate Try to Find Telegram of Resignation. WASHINGTON. D. C, Special. Enemies of Senator Bailey in the Sea ate are camping on the Texas Sena tor's trail. They are quietly trying to find the telegram of resignation which Bailey sent to Governor Colquitt, of Texas, at the last session. If they can get it they Intend to take some ac tion to make that resignation stick. If possible. Where Is the telegram? is the ques tion asked by certain anti-Bailey Sea ators who have interested themselvea ' in the matter with a view to deter mining definitely and conclusively whether the Senator from Texas im entitled to the seat which he occupies in the Sixty-second Congress. Accord ing to the Senators who have been on. Bailey's trail, there Is not a trace of the telegram in the files of the ex-" ecutlve office at Austin, Tex., and the ; assumption is that the Governor con-' sidered it as a private message and destroyed it. MISSING GIRL STILL AT LARGE HEIl TWO CHUMS WHO FI.ED FROM STATE HOYIH IX HOW GARH ARE CAPTURED IX PRIXCETO.. BOOKMAKERS ARE ARRESTED IN NORFOLK NORFOLK, VA., Special. Two bookmakers, who did not make books under the usual interpretation of this word, were arrested after the races yesterday afternoon at the Jamestown track, and a test case will be tried before Justice Bachus, of Norfolk county". Prominent attorneys declare that no law is being violated, and the method of making the bets is unique. Persons desiring to make bets enter the ring, and it is easy for them, to have desig nated to them the men ready to ac commodate them with a bet, and the bookies are present to act as stake holders. The bookies, as stakeholders, record the bets by the number of the badge of the bettor, and pay him if he wins. The opposing bettor, of course, is a partner of the bookie. By this method it is claimed tnat the bets are made by individuals; that no public book is operated, and that no law is violated. KRUPPS NOW HAVE A NEW "TERROR" TERRIBLE EXPLOSIVE WII.Ii OFF SET DANGER FROM AKKOriiAflKS AND BALLOONS IN WARFARE. WASHINGTON, D. CT, Special. Mil iary experts in armaments and ex plosives believe that the great danger from aeroplanes and balloons as en rt ootrnrHnn in war has . been set at naught by the invention of a new high explosive shell by the Krupps in Germany. . .. Cables received today relamy to the new projectile were eagerly scanned by the attaches of the War and Navy De partments. The German gun manufacturing plant has just been granted a patent for-the new death-dealer, which solves the newest military preblem-aerial warfare. The new shell explodes upon striking anything heavier than air. The deli cate woodwork of an aeroplane is suffi cient to cause an explosion. - At present ine sueun ueu aaiuoi. TRENTON, N. J., Special. Two of three girls who, clad in boys' clothes, escaped from the State Home for Girls here on Saturday, were captured near the university grounds in Princeton the other morning. They were Henrietta Wakefield and Hattie Conklin. A special officer, Rodwell, was in Nassau Street, Princeton, when he saw in front of him what seemed to be two young men. They were clad in overalls, wore peaked caps and were puffing on pipes. Occasionally they performed cute little swaggers and burst into a ong sometimes heard at Princeton. It was "We Won't Go Home Until Morning." Suspecting nothing, Rodwell walked nast them. Then he turned. On look ing Into their faces he was convinced the individual were not Princeton freshmen. Taxing them with that fact, the srirls admitted their Identity. Thev added that they liked a little freedom now and then. The younir women were returned to the State Home and a further search Instituted for Elsie Seeds, who ran away with them. It was learned she left the trolley car at Lawrenceville on the trip because of an accident. She was wearing1 a fat person's overalls and the suspenders "busted," to employ a college term. Every garage owner In the vicinity will be questioned in the belief that she applied to one of them to repair her galluses. HOPE OF PEACE TREATY FAILS PREDICTS MEXICAN INSURREC TOS WILL SOON HAVE 10,000 ADDITIONAL SOLDIERS. Violets Cored III Queen. She Thlaa. Fondness of Alexandra, Dowager Queen of England, for a certain shad of violet is not a mere whim, but really is based on her firm belief tha color once cured her of a dangerous illness. Several years ago she was ill for months and, for a time, physicians were worried greatly about her con dition. One day a friend sent to the Queen a big bunch of dark spring vio lets. The medical men noticed thst the sick woman immediately began to gain strength and spirits. As a re sult they surrounded her with as much of the violet color as possible. In tha hangings of the room and in the flowers brought. When Queen Alex andra recovered, she explained, though she said she did not know why, tha beauty of that first bunch of violets had quickened her interest and mad her eager to regain her health and strength. Since then she always has shown a great fondness for violets, and for that color in her gowns and la the furnishings of her rooms. New York Press. LORiMER REFUSES TO DISCUSS TRIAL PITTSBURG, PA., Special. Sena tor Lorimer, of Illinois, oday refused to discuss the charges made yester day by Clarence S. Funk, general manager of the International Har vester Company, before the Illinois legislative investigation committee, al .cging that Funk had been asked to contribute to elect Lorimer. Mr. Lorimer came to Pittsburg last night on a business trip, and stopped at the Fort Pitt Hotel. He left at noon . for Johnstown, where he will examine a new machine for the dig ging of tunnels. When asked about the charge mad public by the harvester company manager, he smiled and said: "I have not read the newspapers, but I know what the charges are. I don't want to talk about It, however. That is something I will talk about upon the floor of the Senate and not upon the streets. People who read about these charges against me nat urally think that something awful haa blown up. I have had all kinds of ex citement In the twenty-five years I hare been In public life, and this is only a little more excitement. "If you or anyone else had lived all these years In my State and in mv city and read everything that was printed about me and about other public persons, you wouldn't take so much stock In all the stories that now are made public and spread broadcast. iou would look at it through dif ferent spectacles." EL PASO, TEXAS, Special. That peace negotiations between the insur rectos and the Mexican Government have fallen through and that 10,O0(: armed men will flock to the rebel standard within ten days, was the an nouncement made here today by the revolutionary Jpnta. . Gonzales Garza, head of the Junta, declared that the revolt would spread through Mexico, rapidly affecting States where peace has prevailed heretofore. SOCIALISTS MFET SEVERE DEFEAT MILWAUKEE, WIS., Special. After a year's trial of socialistic regime Milwaukee has figuratively "tied the can" to Victor Berger's party. Every Socialist candidate for Judge and member of the School Board went down to overwhelming defeat' yester day, and politicians declare the rebuke presages the overthrow of the party at the next city election. Sailors Await Helen Gould. NORFOLK, VA., Special. Miss Hel en Gould, known in naval circles as "the enlisted man's best friend," will arrive in Norfolk Saturday to attend a dinner at the naval Young Men's Christian Association and to inspect the naval training station at this port. Miss Gould will' remain in the city until Monday. She will attend relig ious services to be held at the naval Young Men's Christian Association, a meeting of the Ladies Auxiliary As sociation, and in all probability will speak briefly to. the sailors on Sunday afternoon. NEW CUNARD LINER TO HAVE SEVEN DECKS LIVERPOOL, Special. The Aqui tania, the new liner to be built for the Cunard Steamship Company, will have more decks than any other ves sel in the world, Chairman Booth an nounced today at tho annual meeting of the Cunard directors. The Aquitania will have seven decks, one more than the Mauretania, which is now the largest vessel afloat. Chairman Booth, in his address to the directors, intimated that an At lantic rate war between the big ship ping companies was possible. WEALTHY CLUBMAN MYSTERIOUSLY SHOT PHILADELPHIA, PA. Special. Craige Lippincott, a prominent ao- .ity and club man, was mysteriously shot to death at his home, 218 West Ritten house Street, today. The po lice immediately started an investiga tion on the theory of suicide. A report was made at the coroner' office shortly after the news of Mr. Lippincott's death that a maid had committed suicide. After a preliminary investigation by both detectives and Coroner Ford, neither would make any statement which would throw light upon tho strange death of Mr. Lippincott. The first news of any death in th Lippincott residence was received at the public safety building at half-past 9 o'clock, when someone called up the coroner's office, saying: "There is a case of suicide at 218 West Rit tenhouse Square. Send a deputy at once." Later Deputy Coroner Keever, who had bv-en interviewing members of the family, said he believed the case one of suicide. "SYSTEMATIC MUCKERISM" ENDS STANFORD UASEDALL SAN FRANCISCO, CAL., Special.' Because of what he calls "systematlo muekerism" in intercollegiate baseball, David Starr Jordan, president of Stan ford University, has Instructed his Committee on Athletics to abolish the game. Dr. Frank Angell, chairman of the Stanford Committee on Athletics, says In all probability both baseball and football as intercollegiate sports will be done away with at Stanford. Dr. Jordan saw one of the recent de feats of the Stanford team. It was the vulgar and persistent attempts to rat tle the pitcher that most affected Presi dent Jordan. To the faculty he de nounced the "systematic muekerism indulged in by both players and spectators. WODOWS SHATTERED BQY GIGANTIC EXPLOSION VICTORIA, B. C, Special. Ono man is dying and hundreds of win dows for miles around are broken as a result of the, explosion of a powder magazine on Protection Island dur ing the night. A second explosion, accompanied by a shot of flames which lighted up the harbor, followed when a gasoline tank blew up, caused by fire from th first detonation.'' John Johns, a night engineer, was thrown forty feet by the explosion, sustaining mortal wounds. 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