====== ^ NEGRO WOMAN IS HIRED BY A WIFE TO NAG HUSBAND Maid Declares That Her Duties Included Hiding His Socks and Otherwise Harass ing Him. St. Louis, Aug. 29.—Mrs. Nellie Elll ®on of 5568 Bartmer avenue denies that «he owes $313.52 to Jessie Cable, a ftegress, who is suing her in a justice co i. rt. The former cervant declares this amount is due her for wages earned by her as a “nag ’ to irritate Mrs. El lison s husband. Mrs. Ellison says that when the woman left her employ last January, she owned the negress $49 and that she offered her $20 at1 the time, promising to pay the rest. “She would not take this money,” said Mrs. Ellison Tuesday, “and this sum for which she is suing is purely a product of her imagination. “She Tvas in my employ 15 months, ending last winter, and I intended to give her $100 for her extra work. Acted as Talebearer. “This extra work consisted of bring ing mv meals to my room w'hen my husband and I w’ere not. on friendly terms and in keeping me and my son and daughter out of his sight. “It is not true that I hired her to -annoy him and foment trouble between j us, but it is a fact that she acted as a tabbearer*nnd that she kept each of us Informer as to the other’s actions. "She never helped me ‘sneak' out of the house, as she has said, intimating tin t I wrent for a wicked purpose, but when I went to prayer meeting on AV'dnesday nights she saw to it that my husband and I did not meet coming or going." Details “Extraordinary Service.” The petition filed Monday alleges that $90 was due her for services from September 6, 1909, to January 24, 1910. She further avers that she paid $3.95 tor Mrs. Ellison’s skirt; $5 for Mrs. Ellison’s shoes and $1 for chlnaware out of her own money. A charge of $213.52 is added for “ex traordinary services,” which are item ized as follows: From 5 a. m. until 12 m. serving meals and drinks in Mrs. Ellison’s bed room; extra meals for the children and guests, extra laundrv; outside work, shoveling snow and scrubbing on Sun day. Shadowing husband and doing other detective work In divorce suit; starting fusses and constantly nagging husband; hiding food and other articles from him for purpose of annoying him ■enough to drive him from home. Answering phone and door bell to fore stall husband and keeping him from learning who the callers wTere. ■ iviyuu »» « I V ^ ujuupaucji Aiding Mrs. Ellison to sneak in and •out of the house at night without her husband’s knowledge; standing off creditors, "jewing down” and brow beating extra laborers employed by her. Standing on watch when visitors were present to warn her of her hus band’s coming; lying to him and others About her whereabouts to keep her out of trouble. /One of her principal duties was to hide food from the head of the house hold and to subject him to petty annoy ances. If his razor was dull or the strop was missing; if his collars were crumpled, his shirt wrinkled, or his col lar button lost: if his bat had a "stove" in it or his socks misplaced, Ellison al ways knew whom to suspect, and his suspicions, he says, were never un unfounded. Mrs. Ellison declares that her maid, once friendly to her, has turned in her husband’s favor, having been "bought" by him. The suit was filed by Edgar T. Belding and the trial was set for September 8. Husband and Wife Estranged. Mrs. Ellison and her husband, Au gustus B. Ellison, vice president of the H. H. Coleman Manufacturing Co., 217 North Second street, separated last November. For 10 months prior to that time they had lived In the same house together and had slept within a few feet of each other, yet they had never seen each -other, nor had he seen their two child ren. They have an older daughter, who Is married and wtio does not reside at the Bartmer avenue address. Mrs. Ellison immediately filed suit for •divorce, alleging non-support, abuse and general indignities. Ellison countered with a bill In which ho charged his wife with being on too friendly terms with 12 men. She re sponded that these charges were the result of “a jealous Imagination,” say ing that some of the men named she hardly knew, that one she had not seen since she was a bride and that another she believed to be dead. The case was called last February In Judge Allen's division of the circuit court. A legal point delayed the hear ing. In the meantime Ellison became sick and the matter has been post poned since that time. PAYS FOR DRUNK TO GET EVIDENCE Story Against State’s Attorney Wayman Is Told in Lee Browne Trial. Chicago, m., Aug. 29.- -The tables Were turned In the Lee O'Neil Browne bribery trial In the criminal court to day when ratrick Keely, a city de tective, formerly assigned to State’s Attorney Wayman’s staff, was placed on the stand as a witness for the de fense. Keely testified that lie was placed in charge of Representative H. J. G. Beckemeyer at the time Becke meyer was a witness before the special grand jury which investigated the Bribery charges. Keely said that one of Mr. Wayman’r assistants told him to ‘‘take Beckemeyer out and treat him right." On further questioning by lawyers for the defense, Keely said: I understood that by treating Becke meyer right, I would get him so that he would talk—get him drunk." AUTOMOBILE RACES ON THE COURSE AT ELGIN Elgin. 111., Aug. 29.—Illinois National Guardsmen this morning took charge •of the Elgin automobile race course anti cleared it of all vehicles, prepara tory to stretching their patrol over every foot of its approaches. The program today Include# three races: The Pox river trophy, distance ]7 miles, 16 laps: the Kane county — trophy. 169.-16 miles, 20 laps, and the f Illinois trophy, 203.35 miles, 24 laps. It was
bitratlon of differences with agrees ment for no strikes, boycott, plckew ing or hateful coercion of any kind. I This Trade Association has evolved From the experience of the past au^ Is the highest order of Trades Union* Ism at the present day. Under its laws it 1b not possible foB i he Hod Carriers Union or the Street Sweepers Union to order the schcnq teachers or locomotive engineers to quit work in a "sympathetic strike.” If any craft 1111 ds'Tnjustice, the case Is presented to properly selected arblj trators, testimony taken and the casa presented to the public through tha press. Thereupon public opinion, tha$ greatest of all powers, makes itself felt and curiously enough a fair soUle ment Is generally the result. There is no strike, no loss of wages, no loss to the community and yet thq faithful workers get their just treat! ment. , There are many details which bava been worked out by men skilled la labor matters. It will recompense any interested man to know these details which cam be secured by a postal request fort constitution and by-laws written tq the National Trades and Workers ASi sedation. Kingman Block, Battle Creek, Mich. Header, look carefully into thla jreat question of the relations of Cap ital and Labor and its successful bon lution. The new plan works anq brings results for the members. . I' became so" favorably Impressed with the trustworthiness and practlo ability of the leaders of this new la bor movement that I gave the Assoa^ atlon a sanitorium at Battle^ Creek; worth about $400,000 and with aboilf 390 rooms, to be used as a home foq their old members and the helpless babies, sometimes made fatherless by; the pistol, club or boot heel of soma member of the violent “Labor Trust." Suppose you attend church Labop Sunday and hear wbat your minister has to say in defense of the safety and rights of the common, everyday man. Let me ask you to read again a por tion of one of my public articles print ed a few years ago. “The people of the world have giv en me money enough to spend In these talks through the papers In try ing to make better and safer condi tions for the common people, whether the Postum business runs or not Scores of letters have come to me from work-people and others, some from union men recounting their suf ferings from union domination and urging that their cases he laid before the public. It .wjll not answer for us to only sympathize with the poor, the op pressed, those who haven’t power enough to drive off tyrants and re sent oppression, we must help them tie the hands of the oppressors. Amer icans must act Some of my forebears In New Eng land left comfortable homes, took with them the old flint locks, slept on the ground In rain and frost; hungry, footsore, and half clothed they grimly pushed on where the Eternal Qod ofl Human Liberty urged them. They wove for me and for you a mantle of freedom, woven In a loom where tha shuttles were cannon balls and bul lets and where swordB were used to pick out the tangles in the yarn. These old, sturdy grandads of ours' stood by, that loom until the mantle was flnis'hed, then, stained with theiri life blood it was handed down to us.. Shall l refuse to bear it on my shoul ders because the wearing costs mo a few dollars, and are you cowarda enough to hide yours because soma foreign labor union anarchist order* rou to strip It off? 1 have faith that the blood of 177S still coursing In your veins will tingle and call until you waken. Then Americans will Act.” "There's a Real ion," C. W. POST.