RIVER SEINE ON THE RAMPAGE AGAIN
EAVY rains caused the Seine again 10 overflow Its banks at Paris and the city is in fear that the scenes of last
year's great flood will be repeated. Our photograph shows the condition of the river in the heart of Paris.
17 IT
Convict , Who Escaped , Tells How
He Did It.
Prisoner at Sing Sing Used Iron
Bars and Blanket Walked Only
Three Miles When Police
Chief Nabbed Him.
Ossining. Francesco Doliano , a
convict serving an indeterminate sen
tence of from two years and six
months to five years for assault in
the second degree , escaped from Sing
Sing prison at about two o'clock in
the morning and was captured and
brought back after eleven hours of
freedom. He has served one year
and three months of his sentence.
The escape was not discovered un
til the officers made their morning
count at 7:30. : Keeper Murphy then
discovered that the cell was vacant ,
and a hole in the roof told the story
of the escape. The whistle was blown
and Warden Kennedy had a descrip
tion of the prisoner telephoned to all
the neighboring police stations. About
12:40 in the afternoon Doliano was
captured at Briarcliff by Chief of Po
lice Keator of that village. Doliano
made no resistance and was brought
back to the prison.
After wandering about for eleven
hours Doliano was only three miles
from the prison. He was on the
state road , headed for New York. He
was familiar with the village , having
been employed for two years on the
estate of David Rousseau , owner of
the Rousseau Electrical works at
Ossining.
When questioned as to the manner
of his escape Doliano said that he
had secured two pointed iron bars
from the foundry of the prison , where
he was assigned to work. With these
he removed a stone from the roof of
his cell , on the top tier , and taking
his blanket and the two iron bars he
drew himself through the aperture
into the space above. This was at
10:30 o'clock on Friday evening. Us
ing the same tools , he made a hole
through the roof of the building and
found himself in the open air. Near
the edge of the roof he found footing
on a beam to which the telephone
wires leading to the building were at
tached. He broke off several of
these _ wires and twisted his blanket
and the wires into a cord and then
lowered himself half way down , from
which point he descended to the
ground by means of the window bars.
The Jobs must have been finished be
tween 1:15 a. m. and 7:15 a. m. , be
cause the telephone wires were used
at 1:15 : a , m. and at 7:15 a. m. , when
the operator called up the guard post
to which they lead he could not get
connection.
When captured Doliano was dressed
in convict garb with the exception of
his cap and gloves , but he had cov
ered the telltale buttons of his prison
suit with black cloth. He is a pow
erfully built man , five feet nine inches
tall and weighs about 170 pounds.
The hole In the roof seemed hardly
large enough for a child to get
through. His hands were torn and
bleeding.
Doliano's punishment will probably
be a forfeiture of the short time al
lowed for good behavior.
ilain Goose Briefs Joy
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Hotel Men Have Unique Plan for KeepIng -
Ing Salesmen Over
Sunday.
Springfield , Mass. "Meet your wife
In Springfield , " the newest slogan
among commercial travelers , attract
ed to this city hundreds of drummers
and their wives , not to mention chil
dren. The Springfield Hotel Men's as
sociation , comprising the six largest
hostelries in the city , is sponsor for
the undertaking , which traveling men
say is unique. Conspicuously displayed
In the lo by of the hotels is this no
tice :
"The hotels and merchants of
Springfield are united in a friendly
endeavor to make our city the most
popul'ir in New England as a place
for traveling men to stay in over Sun
day. "
Nearly 500 men and women attend
ed the entertainment at Cooley's ho
tel. "We stand for a dignified Sun
day and the programs we shall give
will in no way be vaudeville shows , "
said Henry E. Marsh , proprietor of the
hotel , to the correspondent. He is
also president of the Hotel Men's as
sociation. He has been in the business
nearly half a century and is said to
know more commercial travelers than
any other boniface in the United
States.
"The drummers' receptions , " as
many call the Sunday affairs , caused
a protest from the churches , and in
order that they shall not interfere
with the evening worship they will
begin at eight o'clock * hereafter in
stead of 7:30 p. m. Musical numbers
Gander That Wanders in Front of Ma
chine Makes a Feast Autoist
Buys Bird.
Darby , Pa. A 1'at old gander that
waddled too slowly across the West-
Chester pike in front of the automo
bile of Richard Purly of Darby , with
the usual result , brought belated but
none the less appreciated holiday
cheer to a poor family in Darby , ex
emplifying the old adage that it is an
ill wind that blows good to nobody.
Purdy , with a couple of his friends ,
was spinning out Westchester pike ,
near Manao , when a flock of geese
crossed ahead of the machine. After
the last one had passed the gander ,
which had remained back , suddenly
decided to follow , and waddled direct
ly in front of the machine , on which
Purdy had now put on full speed.
The irate owner of the bird ap
peared Just in time to see it struck and
demanded payment. Insisting that the
goose weighed 20 pounds , at 25 cents
a pound , he demanded $5 for it , but
after he learned that Purdy was a
butcher , he dropped the price to 14
cents , wholesale , and on second judg-
include selections by an orchestra and
vocal solos by members of a Hartford
church choir.
"We've got the right idea and are
going to push it through , " said a hotel
man. "The drummer who tells his
wife that he can't be home over Sun
day can at least meet her here. If
not , he can enjoy wholesome recrea
tion by himself. Without intending it
as such , we've planted the nucleus of
a great reform movement. Who knows
but the hotel men of Springfield may
go down in history with Wendell Phil
lips , William Lloyd Garrison and other
men who had ideas and the courage of
their convictions. "
Spanks Wife ; Is Arrested.
Hammond , Ind. Mrs. Charles Bul-
nis , 16 , had her husband arrested for
spanking her with a strap. She ad
vised the court to give him 100 days
in jail and the court fixed that as the
penalty.
Macedonian Slaves for Coveted Filling
to Win Girl Makes Fortune and
Seeks Sweetheart.
Wabash , Ind. Nicholas Tetzliff , a
Macedonian , has had one great am
bition since boyhood to have a gold
tooth. Poverty would not permit of
the necessary expenditure in his earli
er days , but when he left his native
land for America three years ago ae
promised Kyra Yannoula , a peasant
CREW CRAZY FOR TOBACCO
Lack of Weed Almost Causes Mutiny
on Board Schooner Clancy
Brown.
Galveston , Texas. The schooner
Clancy Brown , with a cargo of coal ,
thirty-three days out from Baltimore ,
had an unusual experience when its
crew of 12 men became mutinous be
cause of a tobacco famine. Captain
Swenten says his sailors went insane
when the supply of tobacco gave out
on the twenty-first day.
The schooner was blown out of its
course and the absence of chewing
and smoking tobacco made the-men
nervous wrecks. They refused to
obey orders , quarreled and several
times threatened to take the vessel
and land somewhere in quest of the
coveted weed.
Their behavior delayed the ship
three or four days longer on ifs voy
age , the captain says.
When the pilot boat met the schoon
er on the Texas coast the crew hug
ged the pilots when they dumped their
tobacco boxes and plugs on deck.
ment said that he thought the bird
might weigh a little under 20 pounds.
Purdy guessed the weight at 15
pounds , and paid the farmer $2.10.
The fanner was walking away with
both the goose and the money , when
Purdy called him back and reminded
him that the goose was not his prop
erty any longer , took it , had one of
his companions bleed it and on his
arrival in Darby presented it with
his best wishes to a deserving family ,
who accepted it with profuse thanks.
Dumb Wire in Throat.
Wichita , Kan. Dumb for two years
from paralysis of the vocal organs ,
caused by the lodging of a small piece
of wire in his throat , Lewis Stiger ,
five years old , of Kiel , Okla. , is able
to talk again. By means of X-rays a
surgeon definitely located the wire ,
and , using a tiny electric bulb to lignt
the child's throat and a mirror to
guide his instrument , he pulled it out.
Almost immediately the child's vocal
organs were restored to their full
power. The wire was about an inch
long.
TRUTHFUL ; SHE FAILS TO WED
Young Woman Wouldn't Swear to
Age of Which She Was
Doubtful.
St. Louis. Truth was stronger than
Cupid at Clayton , the St. Louis coun
ty Gretna Green , the other day.
Miss Ida Lorenz and John F. Os-
born , both of O'Fallon , 111. , went there
to get a marriage license. Both
seemed to be of legal age , and Deputy
Recorder Ahlers filed out the papers.
"Now , as a matter of form , you
will have to swear to your ages , " said
he.
The young woman seemed embar
rassed. "I can't swear that I am
eighteen , though I believe I am , " she
said. "My parents died when I was a
baby and I have no birth certificate. "
Though Osborn pleaded with her ,
Miss Lorenz could not be induced
even to swear that to the best of her
knowledge and belief she was of legal
age. She and Osborn departed with
out the license.
Romance of a Gold Tooth
girl , that he would return for her
after he had a gold tooth. He finally
succeeded in getting together a for
tune. A few days ago he went to a
dentist and two hours later had
a gold crown covering one of his in
cisors. He paid the dentist's bill and
bought a railroad ticket to New York.
In the afternoon he started for Mace
donia to join the girl who is waiting
for his return.
FLAX GROWING
IS PROFITABLE
WESTERN CANADA FARMERS BECOMING -
COMING RICH IN ITS
PRODUCTION.
So much has been written regarding
the great amount of money made out
of growing wheat in the prairie prov
inces of Manitoba , Saskatchewan and
Alberta , "Western Canada , that many
other products of the farms are over
looked. These provinces will always
grow large areas of wheat both
spring and winter and the yields will
continue to be large , and the general
average greater than in any other
portion of the continent. Twenty , thir
ty , forty , and as high as fifty bushels
per acre of wheat to the acre yields
unusual in other parts of the wheat
growing portions of the continent
have attracted world-wide attention ,
but what of oats , which yield forty ,
fifty and as high as one hundred and
ten bushels per acre and carry off the
world's prize , which , by the way , was
also done by wheat raised in Sas
katchewan during last November at
the New York Land Show. And then ,
there is the barley , with its big yields ,
and its excellent samples. Another
money-maker , and a big one is flax.
The growing of flax is extensively car
ried on in Western Canada. The
writer has before him a circular is
sued by a prominent farmer at Saska
toon. The circular deals with the
treatment of seed flax , the seeding
and harvesting , and attributes yields
of less than 20 bushels per acre , to
later seeding , imperfect and illy-pre
pared seed. He sowed twenty-five
pounds of seed per acre and had a
yield of twenty-nine bushels per acre.
This will probably dispose of at $2.50
per acre. Speaking of proper prepa
ration of seed and cultivation of soil
and opportune sowing , in the circular
spoken of there is cited the case of a
Mr. White , living fourteen miles
south of Rosetown , "who had fifteen
acres of summer fallow a year ago
last summer , upon which he produced
thirty-three bushels to the acre , when
many in the district harvested for
want of crop. Now , there can be no
proper reason advanced why such a
crop should not have been produced
on all the lands of the same quality
in the adjacent district , provided they
had been worked and cared for in the
same manner. This year (1911) ( ) the
same man had one hundred acres of
summer fallow , had something over
3,800 bushels of wheat. He also had
1,800 bushels of oats and 300 bushels
of flax. "
There are the cattle , the horses , the
roots and the vegetable products of
Western Canada farms , all of which
individually and collectively deserve
special mention , and they are treated
of in the literature sent out on appli
cation by the Government agents.
Plan for Tuberculosis Day.
Sermons on the prevention of con
sumption will be preached in thou
sands of churches on April 28 , which
the National Association for the Study
and Prevention of Tuberculosis has
set aside as Tuberculosis day.
Last year out of 200,000 churches
in the United States , over 50,000
observed Tuberculosis day , and mil
lions of churchgoers were told
about this disease from the pul
pit. This year will be the third
observation of Tuberculosis day. Plans
are being made to have the gospel of
health preached more widely than
ever before. The movement will be
pushed through the 600 anti-tubercu
losis associations allied with the na
tional association and through the
boards of health , women's clubs and
other organizations in hundreds of
cities and towns throughout the coun
try. Through these various bodies
the churches will be reached and in
terested in the tuberculosis campaign.
Always Leap Year.
"It's leap year every year in Papua , "
said an ethnologist. "The reason isn't
that the women are the bosses there.
No , quite the contrary. The reason
is that love-making is supposed to be
a thing beneath the notice of the Pa
puan male.
"All women look alike to him. So
the matrimonial pourparlers all fallen
on the female sex.
"If a man accepts a girl's proposal ,
the fact that he is engaged is chalked
on his back. But on the girl's back
the engagement is branded with a red-
hot iron. "
The Man and the Place.
Andrew Carnegie was giving advice
on a recant Sunday to one of the
younger members of the Rockefeller
Bible class.
"I am an advocate of early mar
riages , " he said. "The right man In
the right place , at the right time , is
a very good saying , and to my mind ,
the right man in the right place at the
right time is unquestionably a husband
reading to his wife on a winter's nfght
beside the radiator.
A QUARTER CENTURY
Before the Public. Over Five Million Free Samples
given away each year. The constant and increas
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"Why does that old maid use so
much paint on her face ? "
"She's making up for lost time. "
Brooklyn Life.
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Irascibility Explained.
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"No , " replied Mrs. Leedout. "He
has read somewhere that brainy men
are always cranks and he's trying to
get a reputation. "
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