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THE KALEIGH EVENING TIMES VOLUME-27. RALEIGH, N. C, SATURDAY AUGUST 4, 1906. PRICE 5c. TIMELY GOTHAM GOSSIP; MILLIONAIRES BACK, HAPPY (Special to the Evening Times.) New York, Aug. 4. With all the millionaires swarmntng back from abroad Wall street Is humming once more with its accustomed activity. To many of these, glided gentlemen tne summer seems to have lent a tinge ; Mrs. Russell Sage, who, by the death l0f geniality and on their arrival thoy!of her husband, will have the dispo- f " J 'sitinn nf hlu tiul.il.- tf 70 000 OOO knocked the maxim that millionaires never laugn into a cockou not. tuvsn tribute for charity. Many a woman the snapshot fiend and the ubuitous in Mrs. Sage's position would prob interviower were met cheerily by such i ably ll:lV0 allowed herself to stagnate i n.t.. . t and lose interest in the world, for notoriously retiring persons as J. , ' ... . , , iii t. i she was allowed practically no lati- rierpont Morgan and John I). Itocko- , , . ' . , A . ,, , , , , , 1 tude in moncv ma ters. I lor husband feller. Seasoned interviewers almost., , j . ,, . ... , , had no social triends, and up to a collapsed with wonder, on Mr. Mor-' . , ' , i 7 l.i ii j u i few vears ago he not only managed Ran B arrival, to find that the hugei ,, , , , , ' ... J, , , , ,, i i ii all the household accounts himself, attendant who usually pushed all cur-, , . , , .... ,. , , , ,.,,n . r ,i , but. in addition did his own mending ions persons awav from the magnate, , . , . . , . . . , ... 1 1 and darning. The picture of the old was not in evidence and they could! .... , . ,. . ...,., . ,. . ,, ,. .. .,, man sitting up o nights in his meager fling their valley ol questions with,' . htl hllt. out reproach As for John a, hej not only mam rested a WHungneBB to1 talk freely about golf and bicycling but also posed for the snapshot brigade. Reginald Vanderbilt, who came over on the same ship with the' veteran oil magnate, characterized him as "a delightful old gentleman."! It is true that William Rockefeller' slipped into the country from Europe! by way of Canada, and stopped off j at his Adirondack camp en route for' V"K- 1 r, r,. IHfl ell Ity HTjiuinin .1 u:i mj .- ii..i he submitted with a laugh to tell something about motoring In En- rope, ano 11. i. miosis, h """' nine oil trust vice president, who hap- iiened to be with him, unbent so far as to joke with the reporters. Wall street stands amazed at these mani festations and Manhattan is begin ning to think that its millionaires are almost human. Other persons of note who aro back from trips abroad are Deputy , . , . t-i i..: Til, !-,!.. ...W,i. l-oiieo piuiunwivuei nmutnouuoi Waldo, and Mr. Thrkey tired exponent of the "manly at who now runs a thirst parlor oppo- site Tammany Hall. Captain Waldo spent a week in London and another ,l t,o.io c.iHvtn the nolieo svstem. " 1" ,..V, u n,nc,;omnt anu no couo.n i.i. . - that our police are as good' as those abroad. Captain Waldo returned converted to the system of identl '.) 1 . i i i r i.i ing criminals ny impressum i thumbs, as practiced in London anaj he alleges mat tne system w u yxZ& tVlm nrn . Mt nuzzled -r i i i,;., 4tinf tliri tinw rinea iunuuu Lint-v " ' " ' wear gloves when they broak into houses. This, ot course, may ne a comfort to the households who goes in for stvle As for Mr. Sharkey, , n for stjie. as iyr no went to rurw, .uu, .. "u 7 ..... ' t.i- , f parent v siient most ti ins uw ' 1 . . .. , ... , the Louvre adniring tne art iron- ;.nif. enamored ! T he SolWwOTto dancing a waltz with her thirteen which, he conceived, if set up behind the bar, would please tne aestneuc taste of his Tammany customers. "I thought," he said, "that she cer tainly looked pretty dirty and badly busted, too. But if I could get Kleinvingel, that Dutch friend of mine on Third avenue, to put arms on her anl fill in the chipped places and just put a nice coat of clean ,, ,,;t., iDi'nl no her. she'd do. So I told an old guy with brass buttons that I'd be willing to pay two or three j hnndred dollars for her. What do vnn think he says? He told me tho government paid $600,000 for the thing!" So Mr. Sharkey came home without his prize and the Tammany aesthetes must continuo to drain their schooner without any classic lady to grace the corner near the pretzel table. New York is looking for a sec ond harbor to take care of its over flowing commerce and particularly to relieve the congestion along the water fronts of Manhattan and Brooklyn. For this purpose Jamaica B.ay, which forms the southern edge of the Borough of Brooklyn and of a portion of the Borough of Queens; stands ready to meet her increased need. Plans 'have been outlined which Include the transformation of a great stretch of unreclaimed marsh land about the bay and of land under water, by filling in and bulkheadlng, into iinnroved harbor frontage, and the deepening of tho channels of the " . ., ... bay leading into tne Atlantic &u ""'two-cent stamp, Mr. uyei iy wao uu.. oetmnimndiite coastwise vessels of . , ,.,. tn country as "a clever j . ,i ........ t it la estimated that UUCI' unmh"1 VOUng LlliLIL. r" ... no less than 120,00,0 feet of bulk- B,arceiy be called, for he is wlth head will be thus added along thefn two years of the half century mark shores of the mainland alone. .Theand hag gjx children, the eldest elgh city and the national government areteen yearg of aRe. Nor can he be co-operating in an investigation ofcalied" poor by any means, for bis this plan. Hitherto to make Jamaica comfortable apartment is situated m Bay a harbor has. had no result, owing rather exclusive neighborhood. His to tho inadequate funds at the dls- c was no accident, but the result posal of the rivers and harbors com-o a Btudy ot bond issues extending mitteo of congress, which has beenover many year8. Mr. Byerly's pri compelled to attend to approved enyate hobby ls French literature ana gineering projects aggregating $300,-h0 ls to fipend his brilliant won va 000 000 with an annual appropria-cation ln France, taking a trip mat tion of about $19,500,000 for thehe has looUed forward to for years, whole country. Hence local commer-AU Wall street, which above an cial interests are now looking hope-tnlngg loves a winner, affectionately fully to the campaign of the national wishes nim good luck, rivers and harbor congress for a lib- LONGACRE. eral policy of waterways Improve ment, and an annual appropriation of 150,000,000. . . With, that intent, almost imperti nent curiosity characteristic of the town. New York is now watching R fa under8ts&d she will' dis - g x ,.ommon(arv on Uls a Hnnu I . ,,ta .,rnini.iv IIUL Uilii: ivi it in iiaciii. n.o iii.i.iv...u..v more than her husband, and she never went to the theatre, but she is keen ly Interested in charitable work to which she has contributed freely from the very limited sums her husband allowed her. Since the death of Mrs. t.. .. TW,.L. m.m-ti h.iu linen .in :i. .Iil. vimim, in i .-. K'lt... sense, a second mother to Helen Gould, and has been ah anthuslastle iWrter of the projects fo, the net - terment of the poor in which Miss i Gould is interested. At 77 years Mrs. o., manifests a remarkable bust - ,nd it. is not probable ,,it ' v' Mmmfetl noon bv 1 fraudulent appeals in the disposal 'of the1 great snips now at her com ! mand. Brooklyn Borough has again dem onstrated that, it is the home or both anti-race suicide and longevity, and its rival in these matters, the hust ling Borough of the Bronx, is eyeing - i,..i,.in nr linr sister te.SSE?fiK gWj.Jgg g (hp ,e th out tne uwuui . ..n ; of McUonougn street , imrtlcntarly in the no Igh pr hood o t 'No- 4, where Mr. and Mis. I.man I uel Leudesdorff live, tor tne siora ,. .V. , ,n.i il3 I r.iitlesdiirtT home nan jiKsv . : i for the twenty-nrsi lhuo, toum bouncing baby girl. Mrs. Leudesdorff i koraw anvo for two things. First, . . . llllQ,lnn(, ,,..vinc niready - - chidron.g names exhausted all ns to what to christen the newcomer, as to wna servants IIIUL iippftli w - y ,,.i in have prejudices ngalns t stoj ing in what she calls a good-sized ram I , Leudesdorff 's were rejolc- lnp over their voungest, Mrs. - ,.0ut tm Mar- . f Pornonttiv nlSO C also of Brooklyn, s v-'r-"" was celebrating ner iv.uiu . . it I noil, l.lnfrVtrlm' year old great grandson- and there after eating a generous slice ot r great frosted birthday cake decorat ed with a hundred candles. It is little wonder that Bronx Borough is jealous. With two rival telephone compa nies bidding up bonuses to $1,000,- 000 a year for exclusive rignts on Manhattan Island, the New Yorker is pondering deeply this week the iatest telephone development in Glas- R0W. Not many weeks ago ne w.ih confronted with glowing accounts of the virtues of the Glasgow way ol running public utilities; now, the news comes that this city has sold itself a good, big gold brick in the shape of a municipal ttlephone busi ness which tried to compete with an established system. The taxpayer Is figuring out the $100,000 more or less which his Scotch cousin has lost and wondering whether he wants the precious privilege of a 'phone at each ear The Scot may be canny; but the plain New York Yankee believes he has a good enough bargain as things stand. When Samuel Bycrly, clerk in the office of the American Express Com pany, obtained an award of $5,000,- iinn f Panama bonds from tho treas ury department and successfully ar ranged tho transfer of his claim to a big banking concern, thus realizln; imottinto nrofit of from $10,000 L ton nnn on an Investment of one l " ,.. . KJ vminu. however, he WHEN ABDUL GOBS TO CHURCH, Ten Thousand Troops protect The "Cowering" Turkish Ruler. Outside the broad windows stretch ed the road from the palace gates to the mosque, fresh sprinkled with white sand brought from the Asiatic shore, so that the commander of the faithful could still vide over holy ground on his pay to prayer, though he still remains a conquering "occu pant" of the site of the ancient Holy Roman Empire. Lining the road way and massed about, were at least 10,000 troops, the pick of the Turk- t isn army. A neighboring glass-incased bal cony was filled with "distinguished visitors," who had "been vouched for 1 by -respective embassies as worthy to look upon the face of the mighty one. Soon after our arrival a procession of closed barouches and broughams came out of the gates, and these were drawn up in front of the mosque door, without any of the occupants alighting. The horses were taken out and through the open windows one had glimpses of white veiled figures within. These were the ladies of the harem, who were thus allowed to see their imperial master go to pray, but who, as wo men .are hot allowed to enter a I Next came on horsehacK rn os- que. Next came on norscnacii tne princess .of the Imperial house, all in gorgeous uniforms and orders, at tended by the great officers of the household, to take up their stand on the mosque steps, to await the. Sultan and to follow him in to prayer. Finally, to the sound of the Turk ish national anthem, a very cheap i it n iii u 1 son. pi . .,.,.. , .... Ing from thousands of lusty throats ' auie a great; siuie luiiuini. uianu u.y '' "' . . ," ,, j " w u. one v, ...... ; :"""" '" '" ! of Kings." The bands played, the ! horses pranced, the flags dipped and a mile away on the bine Bosphorus beneath the high Asintis shore, the Turkish battleships at anchor thun dered out an imperial salute. As the carriage passed our windows at a trot, we saw on the front sea a young prince, son of the Sultan, aged about 13, and the white-bearded Qhasl Os man Pasha, the hero of Plevna, since dead, but then' always the faithful attendant of his Majesty On the back seat alone sat the cowering figure of oian about five lneheS tall, wearing iho plainest of & ffiz )n n Mn.rl,nt from that 0f the mean- anMarfa wuh stoone, est. of his subjects. With stooped shoulders ho seemed huddled up on the back seat. Over hooked nose and straggling gray beard, badly dyed a light brown with henna, his piercing eyes took in every detail of the onlooking as semblage, while his hand constant ly made the Turkish salute, a three fold motion, in which tho giver is supposed to touch his feet, his heart, and his head in your honor. It was all over in a moment and the little man, mounting the steps, had dis appeared into the mosque. Even then we did not know if we were to be received, although the court of ficials with us thought it "very probable." M. A. P. His Reverence the Tiger. If one is to believe Ernest' Ingersoll's recently published "Life of Mammals," most of the Hindusiand Malays meekly accept the tiger as an evil to be en dured, and in this mood have lifted it, with superstitious terror and rever ence, into a eort of malignant deity, which must and may be pacified. You can be shown today forest shrines and saintly tombs where the tiger comes nightly to keep pious guard, and you may hear ln any Hindu village of jogis to1 whom the cruel beasts are as lap dogs One of the difficulties which British officers have encountered in certain parts of India, ' in their attempts to kill off the cattle lifting or man eat ing tigers of some dangerously in fested neighborhood, or to have sport with them, is the opposition of the peo ple to their destruction. Ingersoll quotes an illustration of this from one of the earlier sports men writers, tho scene of the incident being not far from Bombay. "While W breakfast we were alarm ed bv hearing cries of distress proceed ing 'from the jaglieerdar's hut, and on running to ascertain tne cause wu found old Kamah in a furious state of excitement, his left hand firmly fixed in the wooly pate of the hopeful SCOin of the house, and belaboring him with a stout bamboo. "Wo inquired what crime young Moideen had been guilty of to bring upon him such a storm of parental Indignation, anil learned to our aston ishment that It was all owing to his having kilUd a tiger. "One of his father's tame buffaloes having been killed by a tiger on tjbe previous day, the young savage had watched for him during the night and shot him from a tree when he returned to feed upon the carcass. This inosi people would have considered a very gallant and meritorious exploit on the part of a lad of 15, but the old forester was of a different opinion. "It was all very well for us who lived in the open country to wage war with tigers, but with him, who lived on sociable terms with them, ln the Jungle, the case wna different. " 'I have no quarrel with tigers,' said he. 'I never injured one of them, they never Injured me; and while there was peace between us I went among them without fear of danger. But now that this young rascal has picked a quarrel,- and commenced hostilities, there Is no saying where the thing will end.' " TRACING AN ERRING LETTER A young English woman visiting In Paris received a note from a friend saying that tickets had been sent, by an earlier post for a concert to take place that afternoon, but by error a wrong street number was written on .the envelope. This, said heir corres pondent, might make i a delay in the arrival of the letter, ami ii would be well to make Inquiries ai once at the post of the nearest division. Arriving at the post office nf our quarter, I made known my errand to three young gentlemen insiieoession. The last young gentleman took, oat a long paper and demtintted peremptorily ray name, aga, aoiii He was proceeding father and mo'tna that all this Infoi doubt less nfthi illin post offlee. COUld RC storing my lost lei 1 1 tickets 1 must posi 1 o'clock that day. "Ha, it is then ol cried, as though sa "Welt, misdirected explained to three i "But jt Is not her, the letttrs which tin s and birthplace, that of my wln-n I suggested iiiiiini'. although r interest to the icely assist in re- !", which contained lyely Haye before n letter loRt!" he Idenly illuminated. n i have already ergons here." here out! brings I themselves hndlv direct ed, Those let te another! depart mcnt o is are united In f the .meat post, lie pninted to my .(if my depart Hf great post. iiinieaJ ion-10; you This document here," biography, "the chief nf mont will despatch to lln One will make a cummin, I as soon as traces of i hi i, covered." It was half pasl II wli the great post, nn.l I was different departments lief at the one for misilhv, I t'-r are dis- I reached lit to five e arriving d letters, ill used, I proceeded I'Vejing Imth snubbed inquired whether lii'fj ml to fill In was (he n the letter "Tdayl more f,,i whether there of recovering mutest eluihee that any befm This ilnv IfsH o'clock, He cried; in shrill indignation, you imagine to yourself that the post conduei h automobile!" I'arbleau; but then, madam, itself like an "I hoped that since n,j. J -t tor- is here actually here In ihis depart mentthat one could place the hand oil it In the course of two hour's. In England," I continued, with a tine out burst of patriotism, "we have such a perfectly organized system that I wouiu nave me letter r i i ","1(s.-"' , ., , qiill 1 in ten j England after all. but an Islam! LS1 ' in France" he threw back h prouoiy- -and ncre things march not so quickly, It will, perhaps, lie fifteen days before your case mines up. Each must proceed in turn;" "Then it is useless to go info tho matter," t, answered, and in deep de pression turned away. PARDOX ASKi:i FOR VOTED OUTLAW. Governor Fr, will he asked Jones, alias " intz, of Oklahoma, to pardon "Tom" I ansas Tom," whose right name is Thomas Dougherty, ! now serving a sentence of fifty years i in tne penitentiary, Jones was a member of the Dalton-Doolin gang of outlaws who engaged in a battle with Deputy I'niied States marshals at the town of Ingatls. Okla., in the fall of 1 Si) :: , in which "Lafe" Shad- ley, "Dick" Speed and Thomas Hous-i ton, deputy marshals, a citizen of Cusliing named Walker and a boy were killed aitfl several ohter persons injured, o.lnes' father Is a minister and lives in Texas. Friends of Jones say he has been an exemplary pris oner and tlia i he has reformed. There will he opposition to the granting of a pardon to Jones. The fight in which he was engaged was the most desperate and sanguinarv ever fought with outlaws in Oklaho ma. The officers did not know the whereabouts of Jones, and it is al leged that he wantonly killed one or more of the officers without being in danger or under lire himself. The Contending Forces. Ingalls was a rendezvous of the outlaws who had heard that deputy marshals would he there to attack them. They laid their plans and waited. The outlaws were "Bill" Dalton, George Xewcomb (alias "Bit ter Creek"), Charles Pierce (alias "Slaughter Kid"), 'Dynamite Dick," "Tom" Jones and "Bill" Doolin. Among the deputies were John Hix'on, "Lafe" Shadley, "Dick" Speed, "Tom'' Houston, "Ike" Steel, "Jim" Masterson. brother ot "Bat" Masterson, and "Doc" Roberts. The deputies entered town in a covered wagon and opened fire on Nell Murray s saioon, wnere tne out- laws Were supposed to be. Tho des- poradoos weer In p livery stable where their horses were kept. The outlaws I promptly returned tho fire and the flp-litln beeame tronoral in the streets and from behind buildings Murray, the saloon keeper, was shot in the arm in bis saloon. An old man named liansom, who was in the saloon, was shot in one leg. Walker was killed & he ran from the saloon Into the street. A boy waskilled as he ran from the rear of another sa loon. None of these persons was en gaged in the fight. The outlaws finally made a sally on their horses from tho livery stable, some merging from the front and others from the rear door. Dalton galloped into the fire of the deputies before he fled. His horse was shot down at long range and Dalton rolled into tho grass and was thought to be killed. Masterson drew down to make sure, when his companion said there was no use wasting ammuni tion on a dead man. When Master don lowered his gun, Dalton. who was uninjured, rolled over the brow of the hill, mounted behind one of the out laws who was passing and escaped, as did all the others except. Jones. "Bitter Creek" was wounded by a spent ball that had demolished the magazine of his gun. The fight was badly managed by the deputies, sev eral of whom, it is said, were intoxi cated. Tracing a Shot. When the officers counted noses they found that. Shadlev, Houston and Speed were dead. Shadlev's body lay at a spot where he could not have been hit by the outlaws in Un livery stable, and his companions be gan tracing the direction from which tho bullet had come. The bullet had passed between two buildings and evidently had come from a frame ho tel across the street. While the offi cers were searching a woman told 1 them that she had seen puffs of smoke rise from th" roof of the hotel. Tho officers surrounded the building, but were told by the landlady that nono; of the outlaws were inside. The wo man who had told the officers of the shooting courageously walked up stairs and found .tones, and returned ' to the officer and told them that the other woman had lied to them. The officers prepared to blow up the building, whereupon the landlady of fered to surrender Jones if they would not kill him. A moment later Jones was under arrest. Jones was in bod when the firing began. He seized his rifle, but could not, get: tho range without exposing himself at n window. He climbed on a table, punched a hole in tho Shingles on the roof with'his gun and opened fire. Persons familiar with the fight declare positively that Jones killed Shad ley and, in all probability Speed; Masterson Was Cool. The fight abounded in thrilling in cidents. Masterdon was in the street firing from behind a small blackjack tree not more than eight or ten inches in diameter. He ran out. of ammuni tion and walked under heavy fire to the covered wagon, filled his pockets with cartridges and returned to the tree. Instead of standing behind it nP B.ir down in front, saving that he I would "take things easy." The tree soon was cashed with bullets that struck above Masterson's head, and . . . .. .. .. ,...,-linro twigs nnn nmns ieu i-m-... around him. Not. n bullet hit him. Masterson died later in Guthrie, Okla..' and was burton in wicuua. Kansas. A street, urchin was so intensely Interested In the fight that he stood near the officers much of the time, watching tho effects of their broad sides. The day was Intensely hot, 'and at intervals a woman uvuik I .. , tj ti- the officers. ,no rown ' ' u " . Ve was in tr Je was danger. .ew iui w icres'r- Three Kinds of Husbands. Free young women may bo will.ng to remain unblessed with husband;, and to drift cheerfully into spinster hood it they take the views ot a Chi cago woman seriously. She has had wide experience with husbands. She has an raited attention recently in women's clubs and furnished a topic for summer talk on hotel piazzas by saying: "There are three kinds of husbands the young ones who make us unhappy because we are so jealous of them; the middle-aged ones who break our hearts because they would rather make money or play golf than devote any attention 10 us, and the old husbands who weary us with their silly objections Whenever we turn to look at younger men." This should be a great com fort to the New England women who .lace, in statistics, the heartbreaking fact that they are,.n a great major ity, with consequent emsniulling of the chance of any particular girl get ting a husband. New York Press. MliX AND WOMEN. Dr. Elizabeth Hlaekwell, Aiii'Ticas first Woman physician. Who has spent the. last 4u years in Bnglanfl, will ai rive in Boston this- week to spend Che summer In her natWo country. Prof. Adolf Harnach and probably Dr. Moch will lie among the Oerfu&na who will visit this country in April. 1907, at the lime of the opi ning of the Carnetrio Institute at Pittsburg. , . Patti, of all the vocalists in the wirld, stands alone In earning ability, Her marvelous voice, aided by his- trlonic ability ot high order, has fre- quently brought her $.",(KK) a night. Next to her stood, ami probably still stands, .Toon do Kfiizke, Daughter What ! Mother, do you mean to say that I must marry that horrid Mr. Jonves? I hate him, I deli st him, I despiso. him. Mother Hut, my dear, you can tell him all that after you aro married. Fliegende Biaetfeqr. Peckom So you want to marry my daughter, do you? De Young Yes, sir. Peckem Heml Aro you aware that she strongly rosombles her mother? De Young I am. sir. Peckem Then take her, young man, and er be as happy as you can. Chicago News. . FAMILY HISTORY DOES NOT INDICATE INSANITY Should tho court appoint a com mission in lunacy so that the present responsibility; or lack of it, of Hur ry ThaW may be passed upon, this commission would be expected to re-1 he had financial ability of such con port not the reason for lis judgment, summately brilliant character that he inn the simple fact.. It could say to ! was 'hosen financial vice president Of tne court no mbre'than this: "We Sad Harry Thaw to be at Iho pres enl time insane: or else: "We find thai he Is not legally insane." But in order lb reach a decision it would probably lio essential that the com mission trace Thaw's history back, even to III" I iie" of his infancy, and there might possibly be inquiry also Into tho mCntttl and moral eharac toAstiCs of his parents or remoter an cestors. Therefore, il is assumed that the commission may make sonic inquiry that would give it information re specting the mental, physical and moral health of Thaw's father and the distinguishing characteristics of his mot her. rndouhtedly there will come at least informally or Incidentally to the . knowledge of this commission. Should ,i ne organize... some pan o, tne nis-, "'. i,s " ' f ? one oi United P I cresting woven w lie great merchants of the ates. II is an extremely liv hlstOry. It is closely inter tli not merely the industrial development of the Middle West, and particularly of the Ohio Valley, but: also wiili some of the amazing de velopments of railway activities, and especially wit hone or two features that now distinguish American rail way operations. Mr. Thaw and hjs partner, Mr. Clark, being of the firm of Clark & Thaw, were really the firsl import ant men of commerce of the Middle West. Thev bore the snnn relation ' to domestic commerce which the ship owners who traded to the. Far Fast, or the West Indies or with South America did to the international com merce, men of whom A. A. Low and (Irinnell, M Intern & Co. were repre sentatives. Clark & Thaw perfect ed a far-reaching organization.. Their agents were established throughout. the Ohio Volley and to the east of Pittsburg as well. The colossal in dustrial organization in its system and machinery of the present, time is after all hut an expansion of the prin ciple worked oni by Mr. Thaw and his partner. Their steamboats plied the Ohio river, one a day, making the round trip! between Pittsburg and Cincinnati in a week. The busy agents, inspired by the splendid en thusiasm of pioneer days or the era just following pioneer times in the Middle West, searched the counry far and m ar. brought to the Ohio river the various products which were con signed to Mr. Thaw's firm. From the cast of Pittsburg the manuiac-.unU,u t tired products ol the Atlantic t oast e,,uaied by Eddie, while Carl did well weer brought by the Pennsylvania in the. State University. Henry Coch canal and the Portage railroad that ems, after leaving Wisconsin Unlver- enrious and ingenious transportation i scheme, by which canal boats weie carried in sections over the AlUgha nies. to Mr. Thaw's warehouses at Pittsbur gand to the steamboat land ings. So intense was this activity that there were usually upon the landing a! Pittsburg as many as 500 drays each day laden with dry goods and other Eastern products brought to Mr. Thaw and his partner and for warded bv them to various river points. It was the early day of west- j (rii commerce, a greater commerce at. j that time than any the lake carried. : Today, looking back and reading' the history of the tentative, cautious, j often blindly, groping advances oi capital and of railway activity, as, foi Instance, the experiments with j Hie steel rail in the vicinity of Pitts- j bUrg, the air brake and the coupler, ! it is easv to learn how by sure but ! j.lmnsl unsuspected evolution trans-; portatldn and the commerce of tho. midwest were heillg siiiimiu.-v.. w tem-jtized and managed with con stantlv increasing economy. Ecpnomv, however, meant for such a service as the Union Star Line at Pittsburg handsome profits, as well as constant reduction of rates. The Union Star Line made profits which m that day were thought fabulous. They were so great that at last, prin cipally upon the counsel of Mr. Thaw. it was decided that ine i'u should liquidate. The Pennsylvania Railroad had become rich enough to nneotinto for the purcunse ui " , fast freight line. The negotiations were largely carried on on the part of the Union Line by Mr. Thaw, the property being bought, by the Penn sylvania and tho assets distribute, to the stockholders. The price had made it possible for them to realize most handsomely upon the invest mt Todav the Union fast freight line is in the possession of tho Perin- MtninM Railroad, and its conception I and operation contributed greatly to "Certainly not," answered COunt Fu the st mentions advance made by the cash. "I prefer you so.. People of tne si ipi histnrv of this ' Ooble lineage are nowadays seldofn dls- Pennslnin. In the historj or tnis ,. pecuniary ptentitude organization, which was the direct I eh youf fc j.Whmg heir of he great organization created tou gtap by Clark & Thaw, Mr. Thaw bore , a very prominent part. With the liquidation of the Union btar Line Mr. Thaw retired from actual commercial undertakings. But the Pennsylvania Company, which is the corporation controlling the lines west of Pittsburg. His income had been very large, his profits from his connection with the Union Star Line were very great aiV he was enabled with his wealth to make Investment, especiall yin coke properties, that were wise and farseeing and that con stitute no small part of the present Thaw estate. Mr. Thaw always doubted the men tal or moral responsibility of the son who now languishes ln prison. It was for that reason that Mr. Thaw wrote the will as he did. His doubt has become conviction with the trus tees. There is nothing in the per sonal or business history of Mr. Thaw, no suggestion of remote taint, that might explain the moral perver sity of Harry Thaw, nor is there suoh . . , . i ... m ul i suggestion in any msiory ui mo incestry, so that if the commission should pronounce his insane and . be of the oplnlon that the ln- sanity dates far back hi scase must be added to the list that records many psychologic mysteries. "Holland;" in Philadelphia Press. CONGRESS CAMPAIGN MUSIC. Songs and Football Rushes For a Wisconsin Candidate. The campaign of Sherbie Becker, the boy mayor of- Milwaukee, which re suii.'d in his successful election to the position lie sought. Is to be equaled in sensational .features, it is announced, by the efforts of Henry F. CochemS to get into congress in representative Stafford's district. Cochems is a wen- known politician and mignt De conwa ered as a boy candidate, for he is only a year or so file senior of the young mayor. Cochems comes of a family of foot-ball stars, of which he was the brightest, and he proposes as a unique phase' of his campaign for the nomina tion to use two other foot-ball brothers to help his campaign. Carl Cochems is on his way from Europe to take a part In an opera company and Ed Cochems is almost equally gifted In a musical way. The two will attend every meeting to be addressed by Henry, and will sing campaign songs composed by Carl, with words written by Eddie. They will be. assisted by Matthew McRae, a well-known Wisconsin amateur musi cian. The quartet will provide a whole night's amusement at the various vil lages and ward meetings in the district, which includes a larg-e part of Milwau kee and all of Waukesha county. Henry Cochems was one of the strong est foot-ball players ever produce at Wisconsin University and played end for years, winning several games by sensational dashes throueh the line and tll0 end in this he was almost stty, went to Haiwarci ior a post-grau uate course, and while there took the Strength test, exceeding all records for all-around development ever registered by a Harvard student, or for that mat ter any ether man tested by the Harv ard system. His record in this respect lias never Vieen broken. Milwaukee Journal. s A Poison Kater. There is now living at Constanti nople a very extraordinary charac ter, known throughout that city by the name of "Solyman, the eater of corrosive sublimate," says a quota tion from the Times of 1806. He is now 10(5 years old, and in his youth he accustomed himself, like all the Turks, to take opium, but after in creasing the dose to a great extent, without the wished effect, he adopted the use of sublimate, and had taken daily, for upward of thirty years, 60 grains. He some time since went Into the shop of a Turkish Jew, to whom he was unknown, and asked for a drachfia of sublimate, which he di luted in a glass of water and swal lowed In an instant. The apothecary became greatly alarmed lest he should be accused of poisoning the Turk, but his astonishment may be conceived when the next day the Turk came again and asked for a similar dose. Lord Elgin, S. Smith and several gentlemen now in England, contln- ues mn cenuiry oin autnority, nave conwrsed with this extraordinary character ' and have heard him de clare that the happiness he derived after swallowing that active poison was greater than he experienced by any. other means." From the South China Post. "And you Will n6t reproach me for not being of noble 1lnn.g," ald the sentimental heiress. I