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The wires have flashed the news that a "peach basket" hat worn by a woman in a canoe, and rendered lop sided by the careless zephyr, caused a list and overturned the craft. At this point the correspondent, evidently male and prejudiced, stopped short. If he wished to be fair he should have gone on to tell that the occupants of the boat grasped the hat, climbed aboard of it, and until their rescue Tared sumptuously on the fruit and garden truck which constituted a pari of its artistic decoration. The true news expert never Is biased. Phila delphia Ledger. Sex in Cromwells. Of course with the sexes on a foot ing of equality as regarded oppor tunity, it would not be long until a fe male Cromwell made her appearance and. having made her appearance, was getting her portrait painted. The painter, once more a fawn ing, courtly fellow, would have the picture a flattery; but she rebuked him in words that became historic! 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"The Candy MerT'Council Bluffs, la BavavavavaSaPBVavaKavs Bavavsavl QnBaafcV 3BSfe5'p" - COLONEL sr&imr nooooooaoooaoscoooooooq AUTHOR'S NOTE. j The material facts in this t story of circumstantial evidence are drawn from an actual re corded case, only such change of names and local color being made as to remove them from the classification of legal re ports to that of fiction. All the essential points of evidence, however, are retained. TIF! Pnlf 3Vin rlnh horl -c ffsW sembled early for its week ly session aim every mem ber was in his accustomed place with Judge Growei in the chair. When the routine business was fin ished the chairman rose and said: "We now will hear Trom Judge Stoakes who we trust has a story rela tive to circumstantial evidence. Judge Stoakes." Judge Stoakes, a large man of dig nified presence, whose silver hair alone bespoke his 70 years, rose and began: "My story is of the troubled days in Missouri following upon the civil war, when factional rancor still ran high, and the conqueror and the con quered lived together in outward amity but with secret suspicion. I had just hung up my shingle in a little town in the southern part of the state which had been the hot-bed of factional warfare, now captured by Lyon, now held by Price, and re peatedly preyed upon by the roving bands of irregulars of either side. Among the most noted leaders of these latter was Col. Jim Farrar. Among the northern sympathizers he was classed with Quartrell and the Youn gera, but when the struggle was over he settled down quietly in the little town of Chester, and his tall form, his flowing moustaches, his campaign hat and long coat became him as the costume did many another warrior of the lost cause. "Col. Farrar's household consisted of but one daughter, 17 years of age, and of that rare type of beauty which bo often crops out in an adventurous and warlike stock. Her name was Lucile and she soon set the heart of every j'oung man in a flame. I my self fell at the first glance, and as I look back down the long stretch of years I can see the black hair, the rosy lips and the flashing eyes of Lu cile Farrar as I watched her in silent adoration in the meeting house, upon the street or flying along on her pony which seemed as full of life and spirits as its fair rider. "It was silent adoration upon the part of us all. for never a glance did the fair Lucile have for any of us. But when Melvin Lessure came to Chester it was different. Something in her woman's heart must have drawn her toward him. for all the in difference and all the scorn were gone and they gave themselves up willingly to a love that quickly ran the gamut from passing interest to pas sionate devotion. "The very mention of a suitor for his daughter's hand was sufficient to send Col. Farrar into a rage terrible to witness. He noted the growing intimacy of Lucile and Lessure with jealous anger. But he could not watch her always, and many a time when he whs away looking after the interests of his extensive plantation near the town we less fortunate youths saw Lessure starting on long walks with the fair Luch?. "Melvin Lessure inherited all the firey impulsiveness, of a long line of French ancestry S"..i was not the youth to brook long this uncertain entente of his lovemaklrj. He had a big plantation several nflcs from Chester and had moved into town for the social advantages that looked large to us then. He was amply able to support matrimony in a style equal to the best in the community. He was handsome, studious and courtly in his. manners and seemed to be eligible from any point of view. The local Madame Grundy could find no reason why Melvin Lessure and Lucile Farrar were not a perfectly matched couple. "But the rock on which their happi ness seemed destined to break was that of factional rancor. Col. Farrar was of the south unreconstructed and unreconstructable. Gaspard Lessure, Melvin's father, had cast his lot with the north and had died at his own doorway defending his property against the enemies of his adopted flag. "itelvin Lessure was no match for Col. Jim In brawn or bluster, but he hesitated not to go to him with his suit, and the storm he provoked I give you as it was later reconstructed through the searchings of the law. "'Never, by the Almighty, never! roared the colonel. 'Before I would see my daughter married to one of the accursed assassins of my country I would slay her with my own hands. Get out of my sight and never dare to raise your eyes to a daughter of tna Farrars.' HORSES PERFECTLY TRAINED Extraordinary Intelligence of Mounts of City Patrolmen. Chicago papers told the other day in picture and story of a policeman's horse that followed his master into a barber shop. A Philadelphia police, horse, not long ago, caused some ex- J citement by trudging along behind his I rider right into the city hall. But for very yarn about intelligent- police M ct w v "Melvin Lessure stood with white ow 1sa-ftlA9 Ytovtrle -wil trfftail AAfl while Lucile threw herself at her father's feet and weepingly begged and implored him to mitigate the harsh sentence. But he cast her rudely from him with a curse, and, turning to Lessure with murder in his eyes, said: "'You dog! Yon rvant my daugh ter you! Why, I shot your father down in cold'blood because he differed with me politically. Do you think I'll do less for you for trying to rob me of my daughter?' " 'So it was you who killed my father,' returned Lessure in a voice beneath the quiet of which lay the tense fixedness of a stern, unbending resolve. 'Then, Col. Farrar, I tell you that I will have your daughter and I will avenge my father. Are you mine till death, Lucile?' "'I am yours till death,' said the girl as she went over and placed her arm proudly about his neck. "Very little was seen of Lessure in town after that and It was whis pered that he was staying out on tfs farm and keeping out of the irate colonel's way. "About two weeks after his unsuc cessful interview with Farrar, which was noised abroad as such things are in a small town, Lucjig Farrar disappeared, and the tongMHgfcegan to wag in earnest When for a week she had not turned up the towns peo ple, who had little love for Farrar at best, were ready to believe anything. His threat against his daughter was known and the bolder ones- did not hesitate to whisper that he had put it into execution. These hints took form by degrees and at last a witness came forward who told of passing the colonel's bouse, situated on the edge of town, late at night, and of hearing low moans and pleadings. "At last suspicion took such fierce root that the sheriff headed an in vestigating party. Col. Jim was away and they had free run of the prem ises. "The search led to a cave In the side of the hill," once used as a cellar but long since abandoned. There they found torn pieces of a dress, a bloody hatchet and some tangled locks of black hair drenched with blood. The dress and the hair were easily identified as belonging to Lucile Far rar, the hatchet as the property of the colonel. "When charged with the crime his knees tottered and he nearly fainted. He made no direct denial but moaned and cried like a child. During the trial that followed he seemed stunned and oblivious to what was going on. "I will admit that the courts of to-day would be loath to accept so inadequate a corpus delicti, but our blood was hot in those times and it seems to me we hanged more than we do now. Service was had on Les sure and he testified to the facts of the quarrel and the threat. Upon this evidence and the prisoner's failure to deny they found their verdict of guilty and fixed upon the death penalty. "As the day of execution approach ed Col. Farrar continued in a state of almost total insensibility. But when the sheriff came to read the death warrant he roused and raising his hand to heaven, said: "'Before my maker I swear that 1 am guiltless of my child's death.' "They led him to the scaffold and on the way he passed Melvin Lessure who was watching the scene like a bird fascinated by a snake. Col. Far rar requested the sheriff to stop, ad 7 mounts in other cities, the average New York traffic "cop" has one to match, says the New York Tribune. As a Park Row city cavalryman re marked, patting the glossy brown neck of his aid and companion: "He knows a heap more'n a whole lot of the 'muts' that we protect, and if he didn't he wouldn't be fit for his job." One day recently a patrolman had dismounted at a congested spot i 3k rh 'J UN p 9 "" A w 'I cv& :r extending, his haid to Lessure ex claimed: 'Young man, I have wronged you and I have no wift to leave this earth with the ill will o any 'man. I ask your forgiven ss for standing between you and my ioor child and for the death of your father which I believed to be in the line of duty to ward my country.' "Lessure trembled violently but did not reply or raise his eyes. The march to the scaffold continued. A deputy was forced to support the tot tering form of Farrar while the sheriff adjusted the black cap. Then the sheriff stepped back and all was in readiness for the fatal word when Lessure sprang forward and cried in an agonized voice: "'Stop! I alone am guilty I alone!' "The officers of the law called him forward and demanded an explanation. He declared that Lucile was not dead but that they had run off and been married and his wife was then living in concealment In St Louis, for fear of the wrath of her father and until he could settle up his affairs and join her. But he had not divulged to AMAVVWVWWWWVWVWWWVWWWw "3 life BOTH STRENGTH AND BEAUTY im proper Respiration Adds to Each, But Is Too Little-Understood. There will be fewer flat-chested wo men and much less nervous prostra tion when proper attention is giving to breathing, says an exchange. As Delsarta has said, there should be "strength at the center, freedom at the surface," and this freedom is but acquired by learning to use one's lungs at will. By developing and en larging them the thoracic cavity is in creased, and upon the degree of this power depends expansion. In order to control one's nerves one must learn to command one's involun tary muscles, which are diaphragm, the" heart and the intestines. By breathing deeply and controlling one s breath and so increasing one's lung capacity, the heart action is stimulat ed, and this supplies the nerve centers with fresh blood, and the nerves act upon the muscles and the brain upon the nerves and muscles. In order not to. have any waste of nerve force, the chest should be keat to straighten out a tangle of vehicles, leaving his horse, untied and unguard ed, near the curb. This animal stayed right there,jts still as a soldier at attention, until the odor of a fine bas ket of peaches, just out of reach across the sidewalk, struck his nos trils. The bait was too tempting even for that well trained horse, and inch by inch he edged up toward the luscious meal. Just then his rider, busy a hundred feet up the street, saw him and yelled: "Hey, you. Bob turn around, there!" And Bob lurned ' m r& M 3 s .aiSl .Vkr SSy Vr --J6H W06$ W rm her a plan which had formed in his brain to revenge himself upon her father both for his insulting words and for the death of his own parent He had cut off a portion of her hair while she slept and dipped it in the blood of a lamb. He had also sprink led blood over pieces of her dress. The hatchet was easily procured. These he had placed in the cave dur ing one of Col. Farrar's numerous ab sences from the house and there also he had himself emitted the moans which had been heard. He would have carried his hellish plot through to the end but that the colonel's plea for forgiveness at the gallows un nerved him. 'This confession was made partly at the place of execution -and partly afterward in the jail. As soon as it became clear that Lessure had an im portant statement to make the sheriff turned to the colonel to take the in signia of death from his head. Far rar, unobserved by all who were in tent upon the words of Lessure, ha4 sunk into a sitting posture. The sheriff stepped up to him and raised the black cap. He was dead. "Lessure was immediately placed under arrest. He blew his brains out in his cell that night with a pistol procured, no one knew how. Lucile went mad on hearing of the tragedy, and was confined some time in an i asylum. She recovered and ended her days in a convent. "That, gentlemen, is my story." There was a stirring of chairs and a general lighting of pipes which had been allowed to go out in the rapt attention that prevailed while Judge Stoakes was speaking, when Judge Grower arose and said: "I believe I voice the sentiments oi the club Jn extending thanks to Judge Stoakes." tCopyright. 1909, by Joseph B. Bowles.) WWWWWMMWVWW WWWMWVVWWVMMWWW active by deep inhalations, thus loos ening the tension of unemployed mem bers. The persistent and regular prac tice of a breathing exercise will not only do this, but will give poise and self-confidence. The movements of respiration stand in a double relation to the nervous system, being required to introduce oxygen Into the blood, which takes uj. the oxygen, and freeing itself of the carbonic acid it contains, the latter thus acts as a powerful stimulus to the lung nerves. One should remember to avoid collar-bone breathing, to cultivate the raised and active chest, and to gain control of the diaphragm in order to have complete mastery of breathing It is not necessary to take a long, tiresome trip to some far away place in order to be taught to care for oneself, for nature will come to one's aid with joyful alacrity in one spot as well as another. But knowledge is not the only thing required. It is its application that counts, and this means steadfast de termination. around obediently and put temptation behind him. The Expert. If we ever come across the heaven sent being whom the "expert" seem3 to some minds to incarnate, we shall fall down and worship among the first. But officials, as we know them, are much like other people, and on the whole do their work very much better when liable to criticism and subject to supervision and dismissal. London Katicn. ANCIENT LONDON TOLL GATE. Link Between Distant Past and Pres ent Where Travelers Have Paid Since 1135. London. Among curious mementoes of the past which still adorn or, aa some consider, disfigure the streets of the world's biggest city, are a number of ancient toll gates. Some of these old barriers date back as far as the eleventh century, and there is one in the East end of London which can trace its history to the year 1135. This toll gate still remains, not, of course, the actual material of the first pbstruc; ,r Toll Gate in London Erected in 1135. tion across the little thoroughfare known as Abbey lane, but its counter part; and tolls are still collected on state occasions with much pomp and ceremony. This is, in fact, the oldest toll gate in England. It was erected in the first instance by the monks belonging to the abbey of Stratford Langthorne, one of the. earliest Cistercian founda tions in England. The abbey in those: early days held most of the lands on) which the present Whitechapel is built. In fact, the name Whitechapel' itself is considered by some to be de rived from an early religious structure of this order which stood in the open field now covered by the seething life in the East end. Curious enough, this old toll gate at the top of Abbey lane still pos sesses many ancient privileges, and the gatekeeper is a person of some im portance. Even the London county council has no power to open the gate without the official consent of the keeper. At the old Abbey lane toll gate the traffic is wise enough to pass around the other side of the barrier by a pub lic thoroughfare and thus escape the toll. And so, the gatekeeper and his barrier are left severely sione, except on one or two official occasions when it is necessary to declare the gate a legal barrier. In the early days this old gate stood on one of the highways be tween Stratford then a straggling vil lage surrounded by open fields and towns on the east coast, and there was considerable coaching through it about 100 years ago. The toll road was never entirely abolished, but the public built roads around it, and thus its natural monopoly disappeared. 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