CHRISTIANITY WANES,
DECLARES TOLSTOI
Banished Count Says Religion
and Patriotism Mingle
Cniy In Orient.
PIUS FIRM WITH FRANCE
Trinity Lutheran Church of Sioux
City May Produce “P.eformation”
at New Grand Theatre,
About March 1.
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Paris, Jan. 9.—Count Leo Tolstoi has
■written a letter to Paul Sabatier apro
pos of the latter’s recent book on the'
disestablishment of the church in
France in which the famous Russian
author predicts the possible reduction
of all the Christian countries of the
west to a state of vassalage to the
Japanese and oriental peoples. He
bases his prediction upon the ground
it is only in the orient that religion
and patriotism are synonymous.
In his letter Count Tolstoi displays
his old time vigor of style and clear
ness of ideas. He says in part:
“Religion is truth and goodness, the
church falsehood and evil. I tell you
frankly I cannot agree with those who
believe the church is an organization
indispensable for religion. The church
has ever been a cruel and lying insti
tution which in seeking for temporal
advantages has perverted and distorted
the true Christian doctrine. All the
concordats have been for it nothing but
compacts with the state whereby the
church supported the-state in return for
specific material advantages. Chris- |
tlanity has ever been simply a pretext |
for the church. I may be told that I
there have been and still are in the
Catholic world men and women of holy
life, but I answer that these sainted i
lives are not due to the church but :
rather in spite of the church.”
KING VICTOR OPPOSE
ANTI-CLERICAL MOVE
Rome, Jan. 9.—The liberals and the
socialists, backed by the Free masons,
are working to provide an antl-cleri
eal policy in Italy. The government,
' however, considers such a policy in
opportune and fears the movement
might weaken the monarchy.
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RAISULI EMISSARIES
WANT A HOLY WAR
Tangier, Jan. 9.—It is reported that
the ex-brigand Raisuli has sent emis
saries to the neighboring tribes to
preach a "holy war" and Initiate a cru
sade against Christians, who are de
scribed as the virtual masters of the
country.
Zinat, Raisuli’s stronghold has been
Virtually destroyed by fire and fell into
the hands of the troops of the sultan
after a short and almost bloodless flglit.
Raisuli and his followers escaped to
*» the mountains.
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KENTUCKY COLONEL
IMPORTS HOLY WATER
Louisville, Ky., Jan. 9.—A Kentuck
ian, a real blue grass colonel, engaged
in ttie business of shipping water into
the United States? Shades of old Bour
bon, perish the thought! Yet it is a
fact.
Kentucky is the last place in which
such a venture might be expected to
take its inception. The reputation of
the old commonwealth has been made
on beverages differing radically from
the familiar acqua pura we all know.
This alone would make the enterprise
of Colonel Clifford E. Nadaud remark
able. but there are other features that
add to its marvel.
The water that Colonel Nadaud will
bring to the land of Uncle Sam must
make a. journey from the other side of
the world, from far off Jerusalem. It
comes from a country which is so far
behind the rest of the world that it has
no casks in which water could be
stored, no wagons to do the hauling to
the nearest seaport, seventy miles
away.
POPE MAY ORDER CLERGY
TO LEAVE FRENCH CHURCHES
Paris, Jan. 9.—Developments in the
church-state situation continue to in
dicate that the Vatican authorities feel
\ constrained to vindicate their course by
which church property in France to the
value of $120,000,000 was forfeited by the :
rejection of everything offered by the '
government and will even go to the
extent of ordering the clergy to leave
11 io churches in the hope of driving
* French Catholics to demand redress at
tlie ballot box.
CATHOLICS PROTEST
CONGO INTERFERENCE
Washington, D. C., Jan. 9.—Strong
protests have been received by the ad
ministration against any interference
by this government ip the affairs of
the Congo. These protests come from
Catholics and Catholic organizations
throughout the country. They assert
that all the reports of alleged cruelties
against the natives are made by Prot
estants and are biased and founded I
on inaccurate and misleading informa
tion.
POPE TO TAKE NO MORE
PETER’S PENCE IN FRANCE
Paris, Jan. 9.—It is announced today
the pope will no longer accept Peter's
pence from France. All donations from
French Catholics hereafter will be de
voted to support of the clergy in this
country.
NOTICE SERVED ON
A WOMAN IN BED
New York, Jan. 9.—Forcing his way
Into the room of Mrs. Mabel Powelson,
wife of Dr. Harry Powelson, a prom
inent dentist of Bound Brook, N. J.,
Sheriff Cooper served a paper on her
in a suit for divorce.
With Chief Marshal Fl'ammer the
sheriff forced his way into the room
and read the paper to her while she lay
In bed.
It named a prominent young lawyer.
CLAIMS RAILROADS
WOULD BRIBE HIM
Secretary of the Pacific Coast Lumber
men’s Association Says He Was
Asked What Was His Price.
Chicago. Jan. 9.—Victor H. Beck
man, secretary of the Pacific Coast
Lumbermen’s association, who is ac-j
itively engaged in an effort to force the,
Irailroads to relieve the car shortage
:in the northwest, asserted that at-'
,tempts had been made by railroad
managers to bribe him to desist in his
endeavors to force their hands. Hei
also declared that his desk in Seattle,
had been broken open twice recently,
apparently in an effort to procure sta
tistics which he had been gathering for
months and which are in the posses
sion of no one else.
Beckman held a conference with
members of the Interstate Commerce
commission to place before them some
of the evidence which he will develop
when the commission goes to Seattle
to investigate the car shortage and
lumber rates,
' Regarding the alleged attempts to
bribe him Beckman, said:
' “Not very long ago an attorney for
the Northern Pacific railroad intimated
that I could have most any position
I desired on that road, and when I
told him that I did not want any, he
Said:
“‘What is yours? Most men have
their price, and 1 suppose you have
yours.'
"I replied that my price was a 40-cent
rate for lumber from the Pacific coast
to the Missouri river. Later J. M.
Hannaford, of the Northern Pacific,
saw me and intimated that I could get
a railroad job. I told him he was not
nearly so good at that sort of thing as
his attorney.”
Traffic Deals Up Today.
Traffic deals put through by E. H.
Harriman, it is said, will be the main
point of Inquiry that will be started
by the Interstate Commerce commis
sion today. For this purpose sub
poenaes have been issued for the pres
ence of Julius Krutchnutt, director of
maintenance and operation, and J. C.
Stubbs, traffic manager of the South
ern Pacific iines.
J. T. Harahan, the newly elected
president of the Illinois Central, it is
said, will be called as a witness.
The commission listened to com
plaints against the terminal charge of
$2 a car made by the railroads on live
stock shipped to the Union Stock yards
in Chicago. A number of railroad of
ficials testified that the extra charge of
$2 was necessary because it cost more
to deliver cars at the stock yards than
at the railroad terminal.
Urge Keliet tor bouth Dakota.
Commissioners Lane and Harlan
were informed of the serious condition
caused by the coal famine in certain
points in the northwest and telegraphed
as follows to President Hill, of the
Great Northern:
"Our information is that the coal sit
uation at Meehall and Calvin is still
very serious. Farmers are chopping
down telephone poles for fuel and many
farmers have been driven into towns.
Further aid must be promptly given.”
Commissioner Clark denied last night
that he had been requested by Presi
dent Roosevelt to use his influence in
settling the Southern Pacific firemen’s
strike.
"I have not heard from the presi
dent, directly or indirectly, in regard
to the strike," said Mr. Clark.
"Of course, I would like very much
to see the strike settled, and would be
willing to do anything to bring about
this result, but I have not been asked
to take a hand.”
POLISH GIRL SLAVE
OF STANFORD WHITE
Priest Sues Thaw for Expenses
in Bringing Her Back to
Testify in Pending Trial.
New York, Jan. 9.—A hitherto un
known chapter in the life of Stanford
White, the significance of which is tre
mendous in Its somber import, and at
the same time a peculiar phase of the
character of Harry K. Thaw, were re
vealed when William Blasowsky, pas
tor of the Roman Catholic church of
the Sacred Heart of Jesus in Bayonne,
N. J., brought suit against Thaw' for
the alleged unpaid expenses of bring
ing a beautiful Polish girl back to
■America to testify in Thaw’s trial.
The girl, according to the affidavit
of the Itev, Father Blasowsky in his
suit, was taken from Ellis island by a
paid agent the Madison Square archi
tect and secretly taken to one of those
artistic bachelor apartments of which
White had several in New York. This
was the one on Twenty-sixth street.
For several months the beautiful
young Polish girl, unable to speak a
word of English, helpless and without
frends, was kept a prisoner, accord
ing to the affidavit.
KING'S WILL POWER
MAY SAVE OSCAR
Sweden’s Ruler Determined to
Live Until He Shall Be
78 Years Old.
Stockholm, Jan. 9.—A hopeful, almost
optimistic, report of King Oscar's con
dition in the semi-official court organ
serves to allay some of the fears
aroused by the previous ambiguous bul
letins issued by his majesty's physi
cians.
The Dagblad says the king is pos
sessed of the most determined will
power, and this, coupled with his ar
dent desire to live until his 78th birth-j
day anniversary, has served him well1
in fighting the crisis.
STOCK TRANSFER TAX
LAW IS HELD VALID
Washington, D. C., Jan. 9.—In de
ciding the case of Albert J. Hatch vs.
Edward Reardon, the latter a peace
officer of New York, favorably to
Reardon, the supreme court today
passed upon the validity of the New
York stock transfer tax law, in effect,
holding it to be not contravention of
of the constitution, thus sustaining the
decision of the supreme court of New
York.
LODGE DEFENDS THE
PRESIDENT IN NEGRO
! DISMISSALS CASE
Both Houses of Congress Start
Week With Good Grist ot
Work Ahead.
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4 Senate— 4
4 Negro soldier dismissals. 4
4 Japanese question. 4
4 Service pension bill. 4
4 LaFollette hours of railway serv- 4
4 lee bill, 4
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4 House— 4
4 Appropriation bills. 4
4 Army measure. 4
4 Fortification bill. 4
4 Ship subsidy debate. 4
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Washington, D. C., Jan. 9.—Senator
Lodge, in a speech on the Brownsville
Incident today, said two questions are
Involved—fact and law. He said the'
question of law ie whether the presi
dent, in dismissing the negro soldiers
without honor, had exceeded his pow
ers.
Lodge argued at length that the pres
ident as constitutional commander-in-,
chief of the army and navy had not ex
ceeded his authority.
GEARIN ASSAILS THE '
PRESIDENT, ON JAPS
Washington, D. C„ Jan. 9.—In what
will probably be his only extended
speech In the senate Mr. Gearin, of
Oregon, today discussed his resolution
on the Japanese question making an
argument In favor of the doctrine of
state's rights and the protection of
labor by the exclusion of coolies from
China and Japan.
He criticised the stand taken by
Roosevelt on the Japanese question.
Gearin said there is not one objection1
ever urged against the Chinese laborer
that does not apply with equal force
against the Jap.
GORTELYQl) QUITS THE
NATIONAL COMMITTEE
Harry S. New Becomes the Act
ing Chairman of the Govern
ing Republican Body.
Washington, D. C., Jan. 9.—George B.
Cortelyou announced his retirement as
chairman of the republican national
committee. Hon. Harry S. New, vice
chairman, will become acting chairman
of the committee.
COURT IS ASKED TO
DESPOSE M’CLELLAN
New York, Jan. 9.—Attorney General
Jackson on behalf of the people today
entered in supreme court against
George B. McClellan, praying that the
latter be ousted from the office of
mayor of New York on the ground he
has usurped and unlawfully held such
office as William vRandolph Hearst is
legally entitled to the same.
It is stated this proceeding has noth
ing to do with the quo-warranto action
which last week was temporarily en
joined on application of McClellan.
DEMOCRATIC PRIMARY
GOES AGAINST BAILEY
Austin, Tex., Jan. 9.—In the special
democratic primary election in Travis
county the candidacy of United States
Senator Joseph W. Bailey to succeed
himself was not indorsed. Only a small
vote was polled. The majority against
the Indorsement of Senator Bailey was
i0°. _
WIFE FLIRTS, IS
SLAIN BY HUSBAND;
THE LATTER FREED
_
German Tells Jury a Pathetic
Story of Two Spouses Who
Trifled.
Berlin, Jan. 9.—Herr Schmidt, a 60
year-old capitalist, has been acquitted
on the chaigt; of killing his 46-year
old wife.
Herr Schmidt told a pathetic story in
court of how his two wives had ruined
his life by flirtations with other men.
He divorced the first, but the second
proved no better, and one night during
the middle of the summer, at the end
of a bitter altercation, in which the
wife declared her unwillingness to
mend her ways, the husband pulled out
a revolver and shot her dead.
She was the daughter of a provincial
church dignitary, and left several
grown children.
Herr Schmidt, in telling his story to
the jury, declared that after his trou
bles with the first wife he had tried
to be especially careful in the selection
of his second wife, and had brought her
from a fine home to a fine home, with
an idea that environment did count
and that marriage was not a lottery.
ELEVATOR \VITH8~
DROPS 4 STORIES
Minneapolis, Minn,, Jan. 9,—An ele
vator containing a deputy sheriff and
seven prisoners dropped four stories
in the court house today. All were
more or less Injured, one fatally.
RAT BITE PUTS
MAN IN HOSPITAL
Shawnee, Okla., Jan. 9.—John Per
kins, a farmer residing four miles north
of Shawnee, was bitten by a rat while
asleep in bed and narrowly escaped
bleeding to death.
When awakened the bed clothing was
saturated with blood and Perkins was
weak from its loss. Investigation
showed the rat had bitten Perkins In
the neck.
He was removed to a hospital.
IQMA MAN WRECKS
BANK WITH BOMB
R. Steel of Garner, Kills Phila
delphia Cashier and Is
Himself Slain
HAD BEEN DENIED MONEY
I President Rushton of tho Fourth Strset
National Has a Narrow Escape—
Two More Likely to
Die.
Garner, la., Jan. 8.—Robert Steele,
formerly a resident of Garner, left here
nix years ago and was supposed to be
i living in Philadelphia or Boston.
Philadelphia, Pa., Jan. 8.—Shortly be
for noon Saturday an unknown man
hurled a bomb in the Fourth street Na
tional bank, resulting in an explosion
that tore the bomb thrower to pieces
and killed W. Z. McLear, the assistant
cashier.
Several other employes of tho bank
and patrons were Injured. Two may
die.
The bomb thrower had demanded
money from President Richard H.
Rushton. When tills was refused ho
took the missile from under his coat
and hurled it at Rushton. I
A slight fire followed the explosion,
and the tenants in tho building in
which the bank is located fled from thu
offices.
The police placed the vaults and se
curities under a heavy guard.
President Rushton. after the explos
ion was very much excited, trembling
like a leaf. He told the following story:
"A man who gave his name as G. E.
Williams, shabbily dressed, giving no
place of residence, came into my office
and asked me to lend him $5,000. I was
busy looking over some papers on my
desk at the time and paid but little at
tention to what the man said. He sat
there lcoking at me very curiously un
til 1 became suspicious he was a crank
and asked him to excuse me for a min
ute while I went into another office. As
I left the man he arose and went over
to the cashier’s window. I noticed him
talking to the cashier but do not know '
what he told him, the explosion follow
ing next. I did not see the man throw
the bomb, but have every reason to
suppose he did throw it. My cashier,
William S. McLear, was killed outright.
The explosion caused great excitement
amongst us all. Glass flew from the
smashed window and fell in a shower !
over us and four or five women were i
among the employes who rushed for the
door.”
Later Rushton was overcome by the i
seriousness of the tragic affair and was ,
sent to his homo in a carriage.
Bank in Hums.
At the time of the explosion all the'
vaults were open, books piled on the
desks and papers of all sorts of value
were lying on desks preparatory to be
ing put away for the day.
The explosion devastated the interior'
of the big banking room. Glass and
■wooden partitions were wrecked as
though a cyclone had swept through.
Desks were ruined and iron bars
twisted. In fact there was hardly an
object left intact in the room.
Of all the persons in the room at least
six were hurt, two probably fatally.
The escape of President Rushton was
miraculous for the damage was great
est in his office. He does not know
how he escaped, but recollects going
up the steps of the building to the down
town club, a dining organization, where
he was found in a dazed condition.
Was an Iowa Man.
As soon as the excitement subsided
policemen were set to work searching
the wreckage for papers.
It will probably take days before the
officials are able to tell how many valu
able documents were destroyed.
Detectives are trying to identify the
man who caused the tragedy. Only
thing found that belonged to him was
a bunch of twenty-five keys on a ring
on which was the name "R. Steele,
Garner, Iowa.”
President Rushton described him as a
tall, dark man, apparently a foreigner.
The form of the bomb is not known as
neither Rushton or any one else saw it.
A small piece of tin box was found
among the wreckage, but whether this
was a portion of the deadly missile has
not been determined.
W. Z. McLear. the dead cashier, was
about 45, and had been with the Insti
tution ten years. He was regarded in
financial circles as one of the ablest
bank officials in the state.
William Crumls, a messenger, was
terribly injured, both eyes were blown
out and his scalp torn off.
SMALL TYPE FOOLS
THE PURE FOOD LAW
New York, Jan. 5.—There is a general
impression that the pure food law
which went Into effect on the first day
of 1907 prohibits the selling of any
thing but pure food. It does nothing
of the kind. The law provides that
whatever is sold as food or drink must
be labeled as just what it is.
But the law fails to dictate what size
type shal he used in the labels. It is
also defective in the sections relating to
short-weiglit cans and jars and short
measure bottles.
In consequence the cans and Jars and
bottles are of the same old size and the
parts of the labels in which the va
rious ingredients are described are
printed in type barely distinguishable
to the naked eye.
LARGEST SIDEWHEELER
IN WORLD, LAUNCHED
Detroit, Mich., Jan. 5.—The largest
sidewheel steumer In the world, built
for the Detroit and Cleveland naviga
tion company was launched today from
the Wyandotte yard of the Detroit
ship building company, and was christ
ened "City of Cleveland." The steamer
is 414 feet long ninety-six feet six in
ches in breadth and twenty-two feet
deep. She has a capacity of over 5,000
passengers.
PAYS $50 FOR WIFE
AND $150 TO LOSE HER
Appleton, WIs., Jan. 8.—Twenty-five
days ago A. li. Christianson, a farmer
of Huston, la., bought a wife for J50,
paying the sum to a man who nego
tiated tlie transaction. In a fit of des
pondency today lie repaired to his barn
and began preparations to string him
self to a convenient rafter. The wom
an learned of the proposed suicide and
offered to leave for J150. He paid the
money.
'ATLANTIC LINER
1 BUFFETED BY STORM
■ While the Elements Were at Their
Height a Child Is Born—One
Seaman Killed.
New York. Jan. 8.—One of the crew
was killed and six others seriously ln
| jured when the Cunard liner, Etruria,
| was fighting her way through a severe
; storm on Friday night. The body of
the man killed was buried at sea. The
| others injured were in her hospital
when the steamer arrived Sunday from
Juoenstown.
Friday night while the Etruria was
plowing through heavy, hard seas, and
; great waves were breaking over her
deck, the lashing on the starboard
anchor davits were torn loose. New
lashings were put on, but some hours
I later they broke loose again. The
watch of nine men once more started
forward to secure them, but Just as
they completed their tusk a huge wave
swept over the boat, knocking them
right nnd left. James Walker, able
seaman, was swept the full length of
the forecastle deck. He struck situarely
on the raik.it the foot of the stairs and
his spine was broken.
Others <4' the crew rushed to the fore
castle deck, which they found strewn
with unconscious men. William New
ell. the most dangerously injured, will
likely die.
When the storm was at Its height
a girl was born In the Hteorage. The
mother Is Mrs. Jacob Goldstein, and
after a collection, amounting to J50, had
been taken up among the cabin passen
gers the baby was christened Rachael
Estrurla Goldstein.
During the greater part of the voyage
the passengers were kept below and
none of them knew that a death had
occurred until they were summoned
by Captain Potter to attend the burial
services for Walker at noon Saturday.
Walkers home was In Liverpool.
Captain Potter said that never during
hlS many yeura as a seaman had he
experienced such rough weather.
FUEL FAMINE IN
SE ;OLD DRIVES
F )S TO HOTELS
Frigidity Again Grips North Da
kota and Homes in the Coun
try Are Deserted.
Minneapolis, Minn., Jan. 8.—On ac
count of the fuel fatnlno much suffer
ing has resulted from tho cold wave In
North Dakota, according to reports
received here tonight. Many farmers
were forced to abandon their homes
und take their families to hotels In
the various towns.
Great Northern freight officials de
clare they are using every effort to
get coal to the needy communities.
They admit that a blizzard now would
mean death to many persons In the
state.
LOVE SYNDICATE GIRL
SCORES FAKE IDEAL
Tells Commissioner His Parents
Were Swine Herders---En
gagements by Wholesale.
New York, Jan. 8.—Rina Venault, ac
cused of using the United States mails
in her process of getting engaged to
many gentlemen with more money than
they could hold on to after meeting
her, made the complainant, Leo Klesler,
blush before United States Commis
sioner Shields by announcing that, aft
er making Klesler’s acquaintance, she
had discovered his family in Hungary
had long been professional swine herd
ers.
The discovery of this painful fact,
she admitted, had ruled out her ardent
red headed swain from consideration
in her pursuit of the “ideal." But she
never would have taken his money,
she testified, If she had not wanted
to test Klesler s love, of which he al
ways was blabl-ering to her. She took
all he gave, though, without a murmur,
and would have taken more If she had
had a chance.
"Do you blame me If I did?” she
asked. "Here was this man, who told
me he was manager of the foreign de
partment of the Mutual Life, with
$100,000 a year salary, a graduate of
Heidelberg, and a nobleman to boot.
Fancy such a man bawling about $2,000
which ho himself says is all he ever
gave me. Then to find out he Is only
a clerk and of a family of swine herds.
That my ideal? I guess not.”
Incidentally she is married already.
JAMESTOWN SHOW S
WAR ASPECT DECRIED
Boston, Mass., Jan. 8.—The following
protest against the '‘militarism” of the '
Jamestown exposition program has
been issued:
"The extravagant militarism of the
program of the coming Jamestown ex- |
position, as developed and disclosed 1
during the last few months. Is a pro- 1
found Hhock to a great body of the
American people. We believe that the
knowledge of this program has come
to three-quarters of the American peo
ple as a surprise. It is a program ut- j
terly different from that given when the
plan of the Jamestown exposition was
first submitted to the public,"
The protest Is signed by Carroll D.
Wright, president of the Clark college;
Edward D. Mead and Rev. Edward Ev
erett Hale, D. D., of Boston; Cardinal
Gibbons, of Baltimore; John Mitchell,
president of the United Mine Workers
of America; Miss Jane Addams, of Chi
cago: Miss M. Carey Thomas, president
of Bryn Mawr college; William Cooper,
the New York sculptor; Professor J. H.
Dillard, of New Orleans; Professor C.|
M. Woodward, of St. Louis; Professorl
Charles Zebulin, of the University of,
Chicago, and others.
RECITES OWN POEM
AND FALLS DEAD
Boston, Mass., Jan. 8.—At a banquet
to one of his successors in the Quincy
house, John B. Henderson, who was
mayor of Everett In 1897, was stricken
with apoplexy and died within a few
minutes. Mr. Henderson was the first
to respond to a toast. While he was
reciting an original poem he dropped
back into his chair.
i TRIAL MARRIAGE
DRIVES HER INSANE
Only Man’s Return and Real
Ceremony Serve to Bring
Back Girl’s Reason.
COMPACT AT FIFTEEN
Beautiful Child's Mind Clouded When
Mate Went 2.000 Miles Away
to Make His
Home.
Denver, Colo., Jan. 8.—In testing to
Ills own satisfaction the desirability of
trial marriages as a means of deter
mining life partnerships, an experiment
dethroned a young woman's reason,
which was restored when the trial mar
riage agreement was abrogated In fa
vor of a wedding ceremony conducted
by a county Judge at the court house
here.
The original compact, entered Into
fourteen years ago In the south, car
ried with it little but misery and
heartaches.
A man of mature years, whose first
wife died of tuberculosis and whose sec
ond had fallen a victim to the wiles
of other men, met a pure-minded, con
llding, Innocent young girl at his
mother's home. This child of the land
of sunshine and flowers had been left
an orphan. The man’s mother had
given her a home.
All Women Bad.
At the age of 14 she was a fairly well
matured young woman, unacquainted
With the mysteries of life. The man was
kind to her, even as was his mother.
She grew to love them both, and they
loved her. The man, however, was still
nursing the heart wound caused by the
woman who had disgraced his name.
He believed all women were bad, and
he conducted himself on that theory.
He had seen the orphan girl develop
into young womanhood, and he knew
that she was good and pure and all that
any man could wish for In a woman.
Still, the old burn ate at his vitals, and,
even knowing, he would not believe.
He waited a year. The girl was 15,
he almost 30. He took advantage of
her love and her youth and Influenced
her to enter into a trial marriage com
pact, saying that as soon us he was
convinced that she would ever be tru»
to him she should become his lawful
wife.
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They dwelt together lu peace and
harmony. There was no strife, no dis
cord between them. She loved with
a devotion that knew no wavering. He
was a thoughtful, considerate, loving
partner. She continued happy and
contented till after the birth of their:
first child. Then her conscience awak
ened and she began to plead that the>
trial.marriage become one in fact.
He promised that he would lead her
to the marriage altar before very long,
but demanded a more extended test of
her fidelity. Time went on and the
child died, the result of a deformity
that appeared at Its birth. Altogether,
six children resulted from the union.
Only two of these are living today. The
others failed to survive the mental or!
physical weaknesses noticeable at birth.
Meanwhile the young woman be
came a nervous, mental wreck. He
awoke to this appalling fact one day
after she had been suddenly trans
formed from a gentle, loving, affection
ate mother Into a perfect fiend of pas
sion and hatred. Murder was lurking
in her heart. She would kill the two
children left to her of the six she had
mothered. Then she would end her
own miserable existence. She made the
attempt. He was there, and by a great
effort prevented the terrible crime.
Learned the Sad Story.
After being treated at two eastern
sanitariums and receiving no relief she
was brought to Denver by a relative
An eminent specialist undertook to
brush the clouds of despair from her
overwrought brain. He learned the
story of her miserable life. He knew
that her heart must be healed before
her reason could be permanently re
stored.
Letters from the man to the doctor
proved that, despite his refusal to Join
with her In the holy bonds of real
wedding, he loved her devotedly. After
much correspondence the Denver spe
cialist prevailed upon the man to come
to Denver from his home, 2,000 miles
away. Two days after his arrival In
Denver the man and young woman, ac
companied by Dr. Fisher, secured a
marriage license, and a little later
Joined hands before a Judge of the
county court and took the vows pre
scribed by the law.
And so the marriage by trial, with Its
accompanying sorrows, its misery, Its
heartaches, became a shadow of the
past. The young wife's mind has been
-leared of its cobwebs of bitter and dis
appointing thoughts.
WIFE HIDES WOODEN
LEG OF HER SPOUSE
He Can’t Wear It to Bed Be
cause Then He Can’t
Turn Over.
New York, Jan. 8.—Patrick Laliey, or
Sands street, Brooklyn, ims a wooden
leg and troubles. The man who Is well
along In years told Ills woes In Adams
street court:
•'I've been sleeping In It for the past
four weeks. It you never slept with
a wooden leg, never tried to turn over
In bed or tuck the covers around your
feet, you can’t understand the trou
bles of a man trying to rest with
one.”
"Why don't you take It off?” asked
the clerk.
“Take It off,” replied Lahey. "Man,
do you think I’m as shy in my head
as I am In my legs? If I take it off
she hides It, and then when I want to
go out I got to stay in. Sometimes I,
do be hopping around the floor for
three hours hunting under the bed, be
hind the stove, In the washtubs, and1
In the top of closets for me leg."
ATHLETES LIVE THE
LONGEST, SAYS EXPERT,
_
New York, Jan. 8.—Dr. William G.j
Anderson, director of the gymnasium at|
Yale university, soon will publish a re-'
port in the Yale Alumni Weekly to thej
effect that college specialized athletes-’
live longer and are sounder in afterj
life than those who did not distinguish!
themselves in athletics during their un-J
dergraduate days.