TIIE HYDE CASE AN AMAZING STORY OF CRIME.
GET $2,000 IN CAR HOLD-UP.
Three Bandits In Rich Haul on
Seattle Trnctlon Line.
Three highwaymen held up a "pay
nsyouenter" street car on the South
Tark line of the Seattle (Wash.) Elec
trlc Company after 1 o'clock the other
morning and escaped with money nnd
other valuables estimated nt $2,000.
The hold up occurred nt the Spokane
avenue trestle on 1st avenue, south.
Twenty passengers, all men, were on
the car, which the three bandits board
ed Just after it left the business sec
tion. They remained quietly in their
seats until the ear reached Spokane ave
nue. There they held up the conductor
find signaled the motorman to stop the
car. The passengers and crew were
lined up in a row, and while two of
the men covered them with their revol
vers, the third stood to one side and
relieved each man of his valuables as
ho was ordered to march out of line
and marched down the aisle. When the
robbers had completed their work, one
of them entered Jhe motorman's com
partment and ran the car to Edmonds,
a small station north of Georgetown,
where the robbers got off and entered
Iho Northern Pacific freight yards.
river Steamer goes down.
Thirteen Persons Dead In Wreck of,
Saltlllo Below St. Louis.
Thirteen persons were drowned in
the Mississippi River when the packet
City of Saltiilo struck a rock and foun
dered in reach of shore at Glen Park,
twenty-four miles south of St. Louis,
In the night. With the sound of rend
ing timbers and the shrieks of women
and children, the cries of the crew and
the bellowing of the rattle, the vessel
rank almost In reach of land, at a point
where the water was twenty feet deep.
Passengers and members of the crew
clung to the timbers, while those more
fortunate lent their aid immediately
to the rescue of the helpless. Tbe ma
jority of the passengers were, In the
cabins and the collision came so sud
denly that they were plunged Into the
water before they knew what had hap
pened. The City of Saltlllo is owned
by the St. Louis and Tennessee River
Packet Company. The boat was built
at Jeffersonville, Ind., in 1892, and Is
200 feet long and 37 feet wide, and
drew 6.6 -feet. The vessel was bound
for Waterloo, Ala., in the Tennessee
River, vlth stops scheduled at the lead
Ing river cities.
136 MINERS ARE ENTOMBED.
xploslon In British Shah Cuts Off
Means of Escape.
An explosion in the Wellington coal
tnlne at Whitehaven, England, cut off
tbe exit from the 136 miners who were
working below the surface. Rescue
parties succeeded in saving four men
mho had been working at the bottom
of the shaft. They were prevented by
the gas from penetrating to a point
-where the main body of men is im
prisoned. Every Indication was that
the inner workings of the mine were
afire and there was the gravest appre
hension regarding the entombed men,
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Dr. D. Clarke Hyde was found guilty
at Kansas City, Mo., of murder in the
first degree in causing the death of
his wife's uncle, Colonel Thomas II.
8wope, and his punishment fixed by
law at life imprisonment. The Jury
had been out two days and three
nights. The verdict is the climax to
the most remarkable homicide case
known to Missouri, and adds to the
annals of crime for the twentieth cen
tury the final word in murder as a
fine art. The man convicted or re
sponsibility for the Swopo tragedy
touched the "edge of the cycle" In
the devilish Ingenuity with which he
employed modern science to consum
mate his ends. ., '
The circumstances attending the
deaths of Colonel Thomas H. Swope,
the Kansas City millionaire; his
nephew, Chrlsman Swope, and his
cousin and confidential business agent,
James Moss Hunton, and the epidemic
of typhoid fever that attacked eight
members of the Swope family and a
house maid within a short time after
ward, have formed one of the most
mysterious cases In recent court and
police investigation.
The death of Colonel Swope on Octo
ber 3, 1909, mystified his family and
closo friends. Dr. Hyde had treated
The colliery is owned by .the Earl of the colonel during his last hours, and
Lonsdale and its workings extend four in signing the death certificate gave
or five miles beneath the sea. The apoplexy as the cause. Only two days
spot where th6 eighty-five hewers and before Hunton had died at the Swope
some fifty-odd shiftmen, still Imprison- home under similar circumstances rol
ed, were working at the time of the cx- lowing a stroke of apoplexy. Dr. Hyde
plosion Is about three miles from the nnd Dr. G. T. Twyman of Independence
koto"
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'Hry CJflrJC Hy3e
shaft exit.
BOYS HOLD UP A TRAIN.
Taken by I'oine "When They Halt an
Au nnd Demand Water.
It was two boys, still in their teens
who held up a train a mile from Phoo
nix, Ariz., the other evening, and who,
after a chase across the desert, were
captured. The boys gave their names
as Ernest Woodson, 18 years old, and
Oscar Woodson, 17, and say they were
Talsed in Oklahoma City, Okla., and
have been in Arizona only a short
tima Tha pnntnrA rif thn hflVI WAR AC-
compllshed without any shooting, prob- Colonel Swope and mother of Chris
.Mv to th fnnt t:.,.t T,nrt of the man. instituted a vigorous investlga
nursuinn nosse used an automobile.
The hoys were 4 preparing to make Dr. Edward J. Stewart came forward
nmn flv Ttillen south of Casa Grande. With the statement that on November
when the automobile came along. The 10 Dr. Hyde had obtained from him an
younger boy. thinking the car con- active culture of typhoid bacteria.
treated Hunton. The patient was bled
profusely, it was charged, at the sug
gestion of Dr. Hyde. After, six pints
of blood were tuken from Hunton the
bleeding process was stopped, but not
until Dr. Twyman hud repeatedly pro
tested that too much blood was being
taken from the old man. Hunton's
death soon followed.
When an epidemic of typhoid fever
started In the Swope household in
which eight persons were stricken and
one, Chrlsnutn Swope, died, John G.
Paxton, executor of the Swopo estate,
and Mrs. Logan O. Swope, sister of
talned tourists, stepped out and, halt
ing: the machine, asked for water, Ths
arrest of both boys followed.
BABY CARRIED AWAY BY LION.
Crowd fteea Child Nenrlr Killed by
KlnK wf the Junifle,
A trained lion that was being exhib
ited in Cleveland, Tenn., suddenly
snatched a baby from the arms of Its
mother, carried it to the back of the
stage, dashed it to the floor and plant
ed both his fore paws "on the little
one's body. Witnesses seizing any
thing available as weapons advanced
on the lion and diverted Its attention,
while a man snatched the baby from
the stage. The child may die.
ALASKA GOLD STAMPEDE ON.
After this Dr. Hyde was placed under
constant police surveillance. Then Dr
Hyde filed suit for $600,000 damages
against Attorney Paxton, Dr. Stewart
and Dr. Frank L. Hall, alleging
defamation of character.
Colonel Swope had been In feeble
health for some time, but was thought
to have improved. He was not so well
a few weeks prior to his sudden death
and remained In bed. On October 3
Dr. Hyde gave him what the physician
said was a digestive capsule. Twenty
minutes later Colonel Swopo went into
convulsions. Ills neck and arms and
limbs stiffened and he gasped In his
death agony, "Oh! I wish I had not
taken thut medicine." He died ten
minutes later.
It was proven at the trial that Dr.
Hyde had purchased cyanide of potas
sium five-grain capsules and it was
charged that he gave one of these cap
sules to Colonel Swope. Dr. Hyde said
he. bought the cyanide to kill cock-
Swope home and a cousin of Colonel
Swope, and Miss Coppege, a maid, were
both stricken with typhoid fever on
December 4. Five days later Sarah
Swope, 14 years old, a niece of Colonel
Swope, became ill with typhoid fever,
and on December 11 Stella Swope, an
other niece, was stricken with the
same disease.
On December 18 Miss Lucy Lee
Swopo, daughter of Mrs. Logan Swope,
was seized with typhoid fever four
days after her arrival from Europe.
Dr. Hyde had gone to New York vto
meet her, accompanied her to the
Swope home and treated her during
the early stages of her illness. About
the same time Stewart S. Fleming of
Maury county, Tennessee, a nephew of
Colonel Swope, who was visiting the
family, was taken ill with typhoid
fever. Margaret Swope, who also was
treated by Dr. Hyde, had a convulsion
after taking a capsule, but she was
given an emetic at once by Dr. Twy
man nnd sho recovered.
On January ' 7, 1910, the body of
Chrluman Swope was secretly exhumed
and four days later the body of Colonel
Swope was removed from its tomb and
the analysis of the liver and kidneys
of Colonel Swope's body resulted In
the finding of flfty-two-sixty-slxths of
a grain of strychnine by the Chicago,
chemists. The coroner summoned a
jury which after Investigating the
death of Colonel Swope decided he
died as the result of strychnine poi
soning administered at the direction
of Dr. Hyde.
The county prosecutor then issued
a warrant, charging Dr. Hyde with
murder in the first degree, after John
G. Paxton, executor of the Swojh) es
tate, had filed an information against
the physician. Judge Latshaw impan
eled a grand Jury which returned in
dictments charging Dr. Hyde with
murder In the first degree in connec
tion with the death of Colonel Swope
and Chrlsman Swope, and manslaugh
ter in connection with the death of
Moss Hunton. In all Dr. Hyde was
indicted on eleven counts, the remain
ing Indictments charging him with
trying to murder members of the
Swopo family by Introducing typhoid
germs and poisons into the medicines
administered by him.
A wom;in la lighting single-handed
for the right to share one of the proud
est thrones in Europe,
Her motive Is mother love. Her
weapon are tact, beauty, personal
charm. She Is ambitious not for her
seir, but for her little son.
The thrilling, silent battle" being
waged by Princess Sophie of Hohen
berg, morganltlc wife of Archduke
Franz Ferdinand, heir-apparent to the
Austrian succession, Is holding the at
tention of all the world. Arrayed
against her and entrenched In aristo
cratic tradition Is all the arrogance of
the Princes and Princesses of the Im
perial house of Hapsburg.
Hungary already has co.me out as
her champion. The Hungarian Parlia
ment recently pronounced her claims
to the Hungarian throne valid and de
clared that when Ferdinand became
King of Hungary she should reign as
his Queen. This question of deep po
litical Import is pertur.ihig the states
men of Austria and of Europe. If
Austria refuses the throne to the wom
an Hungary Is rendy to crown, Hun
gary may revolt. What the possible
withdrawal of Hungary from its union
with Austria would mean Is difficult to
prophesy. Some of the contingencies
are a disastrous war, battles, sieges,
death for hundreds of thousands, the
crumbling forever of the ancient em
pire that traces its history to the Cae
sars, and a readjustment of the map of
Europe.
The Princess Sophie has been gain
ing ground. Kaiser William openly
has espoused her cause. On his recent
visit to Vienna his manner toward her
wa3 particularly cordial and he would
not allow her to he excluded from the
dinners given In his honor. He made
it clear that when she visited Berlin
she would be received as the future
Austrian Empress. ' When Archduke
Ferdinand and his wife soon afterward
returned the Kaiser's visit, the Ger
hian ruler attempted to carry out his
program. In a way he was successful,
but his program of cordiality and en
couragement was marred slightly by
the Empress, who preserved a coldly
aloof attltudo toward the aspiring Aus
trian Princess.
The attitude of the German Empress
reflects that of the haughty royal worn-
en of the Austrian court. A powerful
cabal against Princess Sophie at Vlen
na is headed by Archduchss Isabella
and tbe Archduchess Grlzella, eldest
daughter of the present Emperor and
wife of Prince Ferdinand of Bavaria.
These Princesses and their feminine
allies are moving heaven and earth to
prevent Princess Sophie from estab
lishing her right to the crown. If they
could have their way .they would Mock
Prince Ferdinand's path to the throne
and crown his nephew, young Karl
Frank, son of Archduke Otto, In his
stead.
It was while lady-in-waltlng in the
train of the Archduchess Isabella that
Sophie's love affair with the Archduke
Ferdinand began and in the Inception
of the romance Is to be found the ori
gin of the bitter feud the Archduchess
has waged against the younger woman.
Isabella planned that one of her daugh
ters should become the bride of Fer-
Eemkb Mar Hingb On
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Wim Of Heir At.
dlnand, and so, In the end, ascend the
Austrian throne. Sophie, innocently
enofigh, was the rock upon which these
ambitious dreams went to smash. So
the Archduchess' Jealousy and desire
for revenge are at the bottom of the
vendetta which now Involves .most of
the women of the Austrian court.
The Archduchess Isabella had sev
eral daughters. When Archduke ler
dlnand began to call often at the an
cestral castle of his distant ' cousins,
Isabella believed,-as did the entire
court circle, that he was enamored of
one of thehe royal young princesses.
Ferdinand, the polite, the courtly,
made much of his cousins, and his at
tentions set their hearts fluttering with
vague hopes of a crown. The only
fiuestlon with them add with their
mother was which one he would select
to share his brilliant future. So dip
lomatic was Ferdinand and so absorb
ed In their own ambitious dreams were
the Archduchess and her daughters
that they did not suspect the real mo
tives that brought the Archduke so
often to the castle. The slim, shy,
modest young Countess Chotek did not,
for a mament, enter their calculations.
Then one day came disillusion like
a bolt from the blue. The Archduch
ess Isabella, In her satins and furbe
lows, was sweeping up the stairway
of the castle. A dimly glittering ob
ject at her feet caught her eye. She
picked it up. It was the brooch of
her lady-in-waiting. The Archduchess
would return it. But Just then some
mischievous imp must have whispered
Into Iaabeila's ear. Idly curious, she
opened the locket. A portrait of a
handsome young .man met her gaze.
Ah, ha! She had stumbled upon the
Countess Chotek's secret. So that sly
minx of a lady-in-waiting was in love!
The picture was a miniature of the
Archduke Ferdinand.
Excitement and consternation akin
to panic seized the household. The
Archduchess hastily summoned her
daughters. They found her storming
up and down the floor In tears of rage.
She thundered out the story that had
been revealed by the locket. Could it
be possible that the heir to the throne
of the empire would pass by the daugh
ters of this princely house and wed a
woman 'of lowly origin? Countess So
phie was sent for. ' She came with
downcast eyes. "I want the truth,"
shouted the Archduchess. And Sophie
told the story of her romance timidly.
It was true she loved Ferdinand and,
Ferdinand loved her and had asked
her to be his wife. Her usefulness in
Isabella's .menage ceased from that mo
ment. The lady-l:i-wa!tlng was instant
ly dismissed. The' Archduchess Imme
diately Informed the Emperor, who
summoned his nephew for an explana
tion. Franz Ferdinand declared he
was engaged to the Countc33 and
meant to marry her. The Emperor
tried In vain to dissuade him, but final
ly compromised on a year's delay,
promising to give his consent then if
the Archduke .remained of the same
mind.
Young Ferdinand and the Countess
Chotek were married at Iteiclistadt,
almost privately, with only three of
the Hapsburgs present. Even the
brothers of the Archduke, Carl and
Otto, did not appear at the wedding,
while the Emperor merely sent a mes
sage of congratulation. The Archduch
ess Maria Theresa, however, was pres
ent and proposed the nuptial toast.
For several years nothing disturbed
the Archduke's married life. The
Countess never appeared In public with
him, the carriage she used lacked the
golden spokes Of the wheels of impe
rial equipages, and whenever the Arch
duke attended court-festivities the wlfo
stayed at heme.
The Belvedere palace, which for
more than a century contained the im
perial picture gallery, was modernized
and fitted for a princely residence, and
it was understood that the future Em
peror's morganatic wife would con
tinue to reside there, even after her
husband succeeded to the throne. The
Burg palace and Schoenbrunn were to
be reserved for receptions and festivi
ties, and the Emperor would return to
the Belvedere every day, after having
attended to the business of the state
In his official rooms In the Burg.
The father of the Archduke Franz
Ferdinand was Karl Ludwlg, younger
brother of the present Emperor, famed
for his gloomy disposition and clerical
views. Ferdinand's mother died when
he was 8 and he was brought up by a
devoted steupmother whom hl3 father
married when the Archduke was 9. Ha
was educated with a view to his ulti
mate entry into holy orders.
When he was 15 his tutors realized
his unfitness for the life and he was
destined to be a soldier. In the earlier
years of his manhood the Archduke
was an almost chronic invalid. At one
time he was obliged to go to Egypt
for his health, and lived out on tho
desert for a year, fighting what his
physicians told him was tuberculosis.
But since his marriage he has been so
devoted cared for by the mother of
his children, with whom he spends all
his leisure time. In November, 1900,
Nib ilifM
after a month's debate, the Bucla-Pesth.
Parliament formally acknowledged
Frank Ferdinand as the heir apparent
to the crown of St. Stephen and recog
nized tho right of his wlfo to share
with hill the Hungarian throne.
It is only since the birth of her son,
Maximilian, that the Princess has
come from the seclusion In which she
lived for a few years after her mar
riage. Now sho deems It necessary.
If she would win her point, to place
herself as prominently as good taste
will permit her before the public. She
is not finding It necessary to concil
iate Hungary, as her position there is
unquestioned, tho Hungarians having
declared that they Ignore the meaning
of a morganatic wife. There the King's
wife will be Queen, and, residing in
the castle of Buda. she will receive tho
nobility with her husband.
The Princess, now past 40, is a far
more beautiful woman than she was at
the time of her marriage, when sho
held no clav.n to beauty. From a thin,
pale girl she has blossomed out Into a
well-rounded, attractive woman, who
will command her rightful share of at
tention, and who. seems in a fair way
to get it. She Is an ideal mother, and
spends a great deal of time and
thought on the upbringing of her chil
dren. Her little daughter, Sophie, is a
beauty, and the boys are veritable
Kings In embryo. ,
Certain It is that the old Emperor la
rapidly nearlng the great goal. That
the Princess has a hard fight ahead of
her yet Is also certain. But with the
future of ' the little Maximilian at
heart, with the sympathy of the Hun
garians to serve as a sort of .anchor '
to her hopes, and with an unlimited
amount of perseverance, Princess So
phie of Hohenberg stands a good
chance of winning her flght and achiev
ing a throne for herself and her descendants.
RIDDLES OF THE ORIENT
Mysteries of the West an Open
Book to the Wise Men of
the Far East.
TRANSMITS . NEWS QUICKLY.
Secret Means of Communication,
Mesmerism and Hypnotism,
and the Eastern Volapuk.
RUTH BRYAN'S EX-HUSBAND TO FIGHT FOR CHILDREN.
Dreaka I'P In 111 vers nnd Itoah
la SlartlnaT for iv Flelda,
The Ice on the Chena River is break'
Jne un at Fairbanks. Alaska, and nav.
Igatlon w ill begin at once on the Tan-1 roacnes in nis omce ana as a aiBinrect
nna and the lower Yukon. The first ant. Six days later Colonel Swope's
boats were scheduled to leave Fair- will, leaving Kansas City real "state
banks the other day and with their valued at fl.fiOO.OOO to te-i;bers o? ala
departure will begin the big stampede family, Wus tiled 'or prouato.
to the Idltarod gold fields discovered On December 1 .Miss Margaret
late laBt fall. swope, niece or colonel swope, was
Children Favor -lulet Konrlh."
The school children of Montclalr, N.
J., voted decisively In favor of a "quiet
Fourth." The announcement was made
that the pupils of the six schools in
the city had voted 63 against and 287
in favor of the use of explosives on
Independence Day. The vote was a
surprise.
Out of Menaon.
taken 111 with typhoid fever. Two
days later her brother, Chrlsman
Swope, was attacked with the same
malady. Nurses attending Chrlsman
were surprised when he had convul
sions exactly like those suffered by his
uncle. He also had been given a cap
sule by Dr. Hyde. The young man
died Derember 0.-
Miss Cora Dickson, governess In the
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ter
"Let's
sea.
"Wot? Wld der lmse!all season Just
beglnnln'!"
In India, central Asia, Arabia, as
well as in the northern- and central
Africa, the natives have from time im
memorial possessed some mysterious
method Of transmitting news, , within
the space of an hour or two, over dfs
tances of many thousands of miles.
Study of tho subject In the orient have
convinced Investigators that the means
employed Is not electricity, such as we
understand it. For telegraphy when
we first introduced It into tho orient
was regarded by the latter as a wholly
new and foreign contrivance. But that
some of the people of Asia and of the
dark continent have mastered one of
Lord Salisbury's riddles of nature to
the extent of successfully applying
their discovery to the quick transmis
sion of news Is an established fact.
When Lord Mayor, the viceroy of In
dia, was murdered in the Andaman
Islands, the news of his death, within
an hour after the perpetration of the
deed, was communicated to one of the
principal English officials at Simla by
an old and trusted servant, who had
been long In his employ, although the
distance between the Andaman islands
and Simla Is something over 2,000
miles. The telegraphic announcement
of the assassination of the governor-
general did not reach the summer cap
ital until more than twenty-four hours
afterward.
Mesmerism and hypnotism were
practiced for centuries in the orient
before they ever made their way to
Europe and Amerlcu, and in many re
fclirll Aluiuat Klnka Si earner.
In taitfot practice un eighteen-pound
projectile fired from a mortar battery
at Fort Case struck the steamer Evans
Thomas, which was towing a target,
and, going through the steamer's deck,
penetrated the steam drum and dented
the boiler. Several men o:i the Thorn'
at narrowly escaped death.
LATE INVENTIONS.
Man la Illnnu to Aluuia.
The explosion of a laigo quanrlty of
nitroglycerin stored In a magazine at
JSurgettstown, caused the death of an
oil well shoater, Frank McC'ullough.
A New Yorker has patented a box
for holding a package of cigarettes
with compartments for paper and
matches.
A New Voi it woman has been grant
ed a patent on a simple but effective
spoon rent for cooking utensils, made
of bent wire.
Two circular knives, one within the
other and mounted upon a common
handlo, form a new meat chopper in
vented by a Colorado man.
A llro escape recently patented
by a New York man consists of a
fireproof tower containing a separate
spirul tube leading from each tloor to
the street to lessen the confusion
should a single tube bo used for all
floors.
To save time of horsemen Is the oh
ject of a Culifornian. who has patented
a combined currycomb and brush, so
arranged that one fullos the other
over the side of a horse, obviating
the necessity of going over the animal
twice.
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William Homer Leavitt, the artist, announced recently that he had in
structed his attorney to file a suit to obtain possession cf Ituth and Bryan
Leavitt, his children, whose mother, Ruth Bryan Leavitt, has been married
to Lieut. Reginald Owen of the English army. "I Intend to have possession
of my children," said the artist. "I want them brought up In the United
States under my care and abhor the idea of having them reared as citizens
of England."
spects have been developed in India
to an extent that savors of the super
natural and which, nevertheless, is
wholly within the laws of nature.
It la claimed by the natives of In
dia that some of their wise men have
mastered, if not the language of ani
mals, at any rate that of birds. That
the feathered denizens of the air have
a language Intelligible to each other
and capable of being mastered by man
kind was believed by tho ancient
Greeks and Romans, older and in some
respects wiser than ourselves.
No white man has ever been permit
ted to acquire the species of sign Vola
puk which is understood by all natives
engaged in trade throughout Asia and
northern and central Africa. By means
of It they are enabled to conduct their
commercial transactions even though
one of the parties may mall from the
north of China, the other from the
southernmost part of Arabia, and the
third from the mysterious city of Jer
boub, which Is the stronghold of the
grand master of the great Moslem Or
der of the Senoussi, in the hinterland
of Tripoli. Bonie hundreds of miles to
the west of the oasis of Siwa In some
of those great markets of the Orient
you can see merchants from the two
most extreme portions of the Asiatic
continent squatting gravely face to
face with their hands on one another's
arms.
Not a word Is exchanged, but con
cealed under thoso long sleeves the
negotiations are in progress, the hand
of one moving up and down the arm
of the other, each motion and each
pressure conveying some meaning. The
method has, moreover, this advantage,
that owing to the negotiations being
thus carried on thoir nature remains
hidden from the prying curiosity of
the loungers standing around.
Other means of oriental communica
tion, equally puzzling to the white
man, no matter how long he has re
sided in the East, are, for Instance,
the marks on trees. Some twenty
years ago the British authorities in In
dia were much wrought up over tho
daubing of mango trees throughout
the length and breadth of Hindustan,
with patches of clay mingled with cow
or buffalo hair cattle being sacred in
the eyes of the Hindus. Notwithstand
ing all the efforts of the English, It
was found impossible to discover th
perpetrators of this species of plas
tering, which was effected with the
most astounding secrecy and rapidity,
mango trees extending over an area
of hundreds of square miles having
been thus marked during the course of
a single night.
That It constituted some secret sig
nal or conveyed some hidden message
the most erudite English students of
Indian lore and history were con
vinced, nnd the veterans of the Anglo
Indian service recalled, not without
concern, that the terrible native revolt
of 1837, which literally deluged the
Deccan with a sea of blood, was Imme
diately preceded by the equally mys
terious distribution of little unleav
ened cakes chupatthies, they were
called among the people of India.
They were passed around by unknown -hands,
and to this day the British gov
ernment has been unable to obtain any
clew as to who baked and who dis
seminated them. Equally at sea ar
the authorities a3 to the precise mes
sage which they were intended to con
vey, nlthough the simultaneous out
break of the insurrection immediately
afterward in various parts of India far
distant from one another has naturally
led to the belief that they constituted
some kind of prearranged signal for
tho great rising.
lteaeuililaucea.
"That flirtatious woman wears mag
nificent Jewelry."
"yes," replied Mi Cayenne; "she
acts like the queen of hearts and loos
like the ten spot of diamonds." Wash
ington Star.
Not a I'etleatrluu.
"Docs Swifter ever walk the floor
on account of his debts?"
"No. He rides in an automobile by
moans of them." Exchange.
WITH THE SAGES.
Happiness Is work. Sir Luke White.
Life is as a mirror that reflects our
actions and characters. Lee.
It is tho lifted face that feels the
shining of the sun. Browning.
We are our best when we try to be
it not for ourselves alone, but for our
brethren. Phillips Brooks.
The grandeur of life may come
through Its combats, but Us sweetness
comes through the cherry portal of
content.T-Uobert Collyer.
Have good-will to ull that lives, 1ft
ting uiiklndiiess die, and greed auj
wrath; so that your lives be made like
soft alls passing by. E. Arnold
The object of nil recreation Is to in
crease our capacity for work, keep the
bloo.l pure, the brain blight, and the
temper kindly and sweet. H. W. Dale.
A happy nature Is sometimes a gift,
but it Is al.so a grace, and can, there
fore, be cultivated and acquired; and
It should be a definite aim with thoso
who are training a child. Lucy Souls-by.
SPLINTERS.
Highly Illuminating The moon.
You want to build your fort befor
you start to fight.
There Is no use, "going after big
money with little bait.
A man doesn't have to take a bal
loon to get up lnJho air.
The man who jumps at conclusion!
often baa to go back and Jump again.
The brook doesn't cut much ice at
the start, but it gets there at th
finish.