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THEM A DI SON I A N
SPIO RISE
Sir Rufus Isaacs' Failure as
Broker Made Him Lawyer
Spectacular Career of Man Who Is
now Lord Chief Justice of Eng
land Able Advocate but Not
Much on Debate. '
London Sir Rufus Isaacs, the new
lord chief justice, is a surprising man.
says a. London "writer.. To start one's'
career by making a sad hash of things
on the stock exchange and to finish
as lord chief justice of England
every generation a few people achieve
careers as remarkable and there is
nothing out of the way in a man's be
coming a lord chief justice if his in
clinations are of that kind. But of
those who rise to eminence few have
pursued so incalculable a path. Less
- than a year ago there was a quite con
siderable demand for his expulsion
from public life; today he sits su
preme over Britain' judges.
Sir Rufus' early experiences on the
stock exchange before he e'mbraced
the more lucrative profession of poli
tics and the bar, were entirely to his
credit as a man. If unflattering to his
abilities as a stock broker. He might
have taken that first essay as proof
that he was never meant for success
as a financier and so' avoided his re
cent misfortunes. His original inclina
tion was to become a sailor, and once.
i Deneve, ne was on the point of run-
ning away to sea in quite- the grand
manner of romance. " But wiser coun
Bels prevailed and he went by way of
the stock exchange to the bar. I well
remember him as a practicing barris
ter. There waa something birdlike
about his aspect in , wig and ' gown,
an agile alertness, a swift, clean keen
ness that made him stand out from
the row 'of barristers in court like a
bold pen drawing against a background
of gray .wash. . Commerce was his spe
cialty. Vanity. Fair once cartooned
him in the typical attitude of a
draper's assistant, with a pile of black
bundles on . the counter in front of
him.
Unmoved patience, astonishing grasp
of detail and great ingenuity in cross
examination were his assets at the
bar. His formidable rival, Sir Ed
ward Carson, succeeds " by crushing
the opposition witnesses and by the
vigor 'of the speeches to the jury. The
method of Sir Rufus was more suave.
His appeal was always to the Intelli
gence of the jury rather than to its
emotions.. He accumulated a great
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Sir Rufus Isaacs. '
number of very small points and com
bined them in a telling total. .-
His parliamentary record is known.
He got in for Reading In'1904, achieved
in rapid succession the positions of
solicitor general and "attorney general,
and in 1912 was promoted to the cab
inet an honor very rarely bestowed
on an attorney general. It may seem
paradoxical to call a man with such a
tally of political successes a parlia
mentary failure yet that Is what Sir
Rufus most distinctly is or was.
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Taking of Narcotic Spreading
Among Drug Fiends.
Laws Against Sale of. Morphine and
Cocaine Leading Those With Habit
to Take Up Even More Dan- .
gerous Substances.
Wa3hington.-According to-informa-tion
gathered by the United States de
partment of agriculture, there has
been a sudden and very significant
increase In the use by persons with
andr?g habit oi the f
very dangerous drug called heroin.
The sales of this drug have recently
increased greatly, particularly in those
states which have rigid laws prevent-
Phiae and cocaine. Investigation of
the subject establishes the fact that
many drug victims, who formerly used
morphine and cocaine and who under
the new laws find it difficult to obtain
these substances nave oeuu
heroin, the sale cf which Is not as
vet as carefully restricted under state
laws. The-drus is id t0 j0" "
dangerous as, morphine and; by many
i held to be much worse, for the rea-
n.that it occasionally
tr5o-ht and it
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department,
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pending furtntr u nfamiliar
v.-arr.s all people
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near Bedrashin, a few miles south of
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m the center of the new square outside the Cairo railway station. The statue
weighs over 100 tons and cannot be transported over any bridge In or dear
Cairo. The place where it lays is about two miles from Bedrashin station and
special rails will be laid to the main line of the railway. It will then be con
veyed over the railway line on the left bank of the Nile to Tel-el-Baroud, and
from there over the main Alexandria-Cairo line to Cairo, passing over the
new railway bridges at Kafr-el-Zayal and Beuha.
Everybody is weary of the affair
Marconi, but It is impossible, in a re
view, of the, life of the man who Is
now lord chief justice, to Ignore it
altogether.' Sir Rufus Isaac's speech
a year ago, when he denied the stories
of his dealings the shares of the
company that was contracting with
the government, undoubtedly made a
very deep impression on the house.
After hearing it I personally went
away prepared to swear that he had
never had any sort of dealings in any
sort of Marconi shares. j
Of course, he did not say that.
Looking the speech up in Hansard,
after, the rest of-the story came out,
it was possible to see with what care
ful lawyer-like precision he had not
said it. But the unfortunate fact was
that while' saying nothing that was
not entirely true, he had left his hear
ers with the erroneous impression
that he had bought no Marconi shares.
And the wrath of the members when
the whole facts became public caused
the cabinet of which he was a member
a great deal of anxiety.
It blew over. He and his colleague,
the Chancellor, had acted carelesslyv
heedlessly, mistakenly," as Mr. Lloyd
George put it, but not criminally, and
by passing no vote of censure the
house accepted . their explanation.
While the transaction was innocent
enough, whether it exhibited in Sir
Rufus that clear sighted, well,, bal
anced judgment expected of a lord
chief justice is i matter, for personal
opinion.
Though unimj)osing In" style, Sir
Rufus is distinguished In appearance.
His fine, ascetic face has an almost
classical beauty. Photographs do him
no justice. It isHhe face of a fighter,
a man not to be daunted, a man who
would extract some sporting zest from
the fight against even the bitterest ad
versary. He does not waste this ad
vantage of appearance. He is well set
up, a good athlete, who knows how to
carry himself, and he was always one
of the neatest dressed men In the
house. His bodily constitution is as
strong as his beadr He knows how to
keep himself in good hard condition.
Golf, tennis, cycling. Tiding and row
ing are recreations. ; ;
USE HEROIN
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take it only on the prescription . of
reputable physicians.
, Heroin,' the consumption of which
by drug takers has recently increased
so markedly, is a derivative of mor
phine, the opium alkaloid. It is known
in chemical parlance as diacetyl mor
phine, and .it Is frequently found as a
constituent of a number of proprietary
drugs. Its use seems to be especially
notable in parts of Pennsylvania.
This year the coroner's office in Phila
delphia county has held . Inquests on
five sudden deaths from heroin poison
ing. In each case the victim was a
heroin fiend and was on a heroin Je
dauch and took an overdose. Tie sub
stance apparently Is far more danger
ous for drug users than morphine or
cocaine. Drug fiends apparently are
able to consume relatively large quan
tities of the other two drugs, but any
sudden and material Increase in the
amount of heroin taken is very liable
to prove fatal. As indicating the wide
sale of this substance, it is known that
one druggist in Pennsylvania whoso
store wss-located in San undesirable
section of his city has been buying
heroin tablets in 25,000 lots. .
The labels of proprietary and other
dicine3 purchased Dy laymen eiiouiu
,.ofiinv scrutinized for a state-.
p t which is required by the nation-
' f Od lid UTUSS ad. Ui IUC Vjuau-
tity or proportion of heroin, or any
derivative or preparauuu uiw . ..
TK word "heroin" on any label
ELould be regarded as a danger siu-
nal
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now lying on its back in a palm grove
Cairo, Is at last to be moved and set up
GOVERNOR FINDS WILD MAN
Fur Clothes and Wooden Leg of His
Own Make and He Carries Bees
' With Him.
Moberly, Mo. In the rkmous annual
Missouri coon hunt here, attended by
Gov. Elliott W. Major, National Com
mitteeman Edward Goltra of St. Louis
and the majority of the state officials,
a wild .man was - captured who had
lived in the woods since 1S90. He had
a wooden leg which he had carved
from a tree limb and in a hole in the
leg he carried bees which he had cap
tured. He also had bees in i. curious
old fashioned stove pipe hat which he
wore.
Goltra captured the coon, which Is
the prize of the hunt, its teeth having
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Gov. Elliott W. Major.
been filled with gold by a dentist. The
hunter capturing the coon is conceded
the best hunter.
Nearly seven' hundred persons par
ticipated In the events at the camp of
the Randolph County Coon club. Five
squads of hunters with more than one
hundred hounds left camp at 10 o'clock
at night and plunged into t&e sycamore
forest on Elk Fork Creek. , -
Goltra had the distinction of bring
ing down the first coon. He, with
Judge Charles Clark and Judge Thom
as J. Seehern, also had the unenviable
distinction of remaining in the dense
woods all night, losing their way and
forcing the party to walk- to Evans
ville. .- '.
A party headed by ;Mayor Rolla
Rothwell of Moberly drove e. wild man
from the brush. 'He finally was sur
rounded and captured by the party and
brought to camp. After he had been
fed and given liquid refreshments he
told the hunters his name was Thomas
Siebler.
He had lived in the woods on the
I hunting preserves since 1S90, following
a uiu-puiiitLnm i i c. v-.vjvi.--k.
are of fur from rabbit3,! foxes, coons
and; possums. He had m;ide but one
trip to. a large city in his life, that be
ing in 1SS9, when he went to St. Louif.
to buy a wooden lea.
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PAY10RE TAKES
FEDERAL JUDGE COCHRAN HITS
C, N. O. & T. P. AND C. & 0.
RAILWAYS.
HEARINGS AT MAYS VILLE
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Two Million ' Dollars Added to C, N.
O. & T. P. Assessments, and Five
Million to C. & O.
Western . Newspaper Union News Service.
Frankfort. -Federal Judge A. M. J.
Cochran, of . the Eastern District of
Kentucky,, sitting at MaysviiJe, Ky.,
listened to pleadings of 'the attorneys
for the ' Cincinnati, New Orleans &
Texas Pacific Railway Co., lessee of
the Cincinnati Southern, on the motion
of the company to enjoin the state
from increasing the road's franchise
assessment for 1912. Judge Cochran
decided that the company, must agree
to pay taxes on an increase of two
million dollars on the assessment be
fore he sustains the injunction asked
for,, thus making the total franchise
assessment ?5,529,320,the amount as
sessed by the state being $10,574,200.
In the matter of the C. & O. Railway
Co., praying for an injunction restrain
ing the state from increasing its fran
chise assessment from $2,743,350 to
$18,798,000, Judge Cochran added $5,
000,000 to the original assessment.
In the case of the state of Kentucky
vs. the Adams Express and the South
ern Express on the same pleas, Judge
Cochran reserved his decision and will
give his opinion next week.
Postmasters, Brush Up!
The civil service commission fixed
the dates in next February and the
places for holding examinations for ap
plicants for fourth-class postmaster
ships in Kentucky. . From those suc
cessful in passing the examination the
postmaster general will designate post
masters for practically every fourth
class office in Kentucky which pays a
salary of more than $180 a year. Th,e
list is as follows:
February 7 Bardwell, Brandenberg,
Brooksville, Campton, Edmonton, Fal
mouth, Flemingsburg, . Greensburg,
Hardinsburg, Hartford, Liberty, Man
chester, . Morganfield, Princeton, Ow
ingsville, - Salyersville, Versailes,
Whiteley City, Williamstown.
February 9 Bardstown, Elizabeth-
town, Grayson, Jamestown, Sanders.
February 10 Leitchfield, Monticello,
Morehead, Shepherdsville, Sulphur.
February 11 Greenville, La Grange,
Loveland, Mumfordville.
-r. February 12 Albany, Mammoth
Cave, West Liberty.
February 13 Stanton.
February 14 Ashiand, Bowling
Green, Cairo (111.), Catlettsburg, Cin
cinnati (Ohio), Covington, Cynthiana,
Danville, Frankfort, Fulton, Gallatin
(Tenn.), Georgetown, Glasgow, Hen
derson, Hopkinsville, Ironton (Ohio),
Jellico (Tenn.), Lawrenceburg (Ind.),
Lebanon, Lexington, London, Louis
ville, Madison, Madisonville, Mayfield,
Maysville, Middlesboro, ML Sterling,
Newport, Owensboro, Paducah, Paris,
Richmond, Russellvllkv Shelbyville,
Somerset, Williamson (W. Va.), Win
chester. -
February 16 Beattyville;. Paints
yille. , . I
February .-17 Booneville, Preston
burg. February 18 Pikeville.
' February 19 Jackson.
February 20 Benton, Livingston,
Warn eld. . - -
February 21 Hazard,! Louisa, Mc-
Kee, Morgantown, Murray,' Tompkins
ville, Vanceburg. -
February 23 Hindman.
February 25 Whitesburg.
Articles of Incorporation. . ,
Secretary of State . Crecelius ap
proved the following articles, of incor
poration: . - ' '
Standard ' Oil Co., Louisville; in
creasing capital from $1,000,000 to $3,-
000.000. '.'. . , :.
Yager Motor Car Co.j: Louisville; in
creasing capital from $6,000 to $8,000.
-. J. L. Strassel Paint and Roofing Co.,
Louisville; changing name to J. L.
Strassel Co. ' ,
Premier Coal, Oil and Gas Co., St
Mathews; capital, ? 80,000; incorpora
tors, A. J. Fraley,.L. M. Render and
John P. Haswell, jr. ,
, Kamp Kaintuck, Louisville; incor
porators, Dr. C. W. Kelly, sr., Charles
H. Gibson, W. B. Penick, Atwood R
Martin and Vernon Wolfe. ' ,
The Woodford County Hospital, Ver
sailles; changing name 'to the Wood-
foTd County Memorial Hospital. . .
The . Vanceburg Telephone Co.,
Vanceburg; amended articles increas
Ing the amount of liability. ,; r
The . Edgoten Mercantile Co., Edgo-
ten; capital, $5,000; incorporators, Jas.
A. McKenzie, Garland E. Anderson
and B. L. Bouldin.
Commemorate Reunion.
The creation of the Gettysburg
Peace Memorial Commission, charged
with the duty of determining-and pro
curing a suitable location' and the
erection thereon of a memorial on the
Gettysburg battle field to commemo
rate the reunion of the Union and Con
federate veterans there last July, was
proposed in a bill introduced by Rep
resentative Sherley, of Kentucky.. The
bill directs that the commission shall
comprise the 'secretary cf war, and
would provide an appropriation of
$500,000 for the memorial.
Modeled After Ohio State Law.
' The provisions of the bill creat
ing a central tax commission for
the state of Kentucky was discuss
ed, by m'mbers of the tax commission
ara luncheon at the Seelbach hotel,
Louisville. The provisions of the bill
were explained In detail to those pres
ent by Prof. Plehn, of the University
of California, who has been employed
studying conditions in this state and
In drafting the proposed bill.
Those present were Lieut. Gov. Mc
Dermott, Speaker Terrell, Senator W.
B. Moody, of Newcastle; Senator W.
A. Frost, of Wingo, and Representa
tives El wood Hamilton, of Frankfort,
and Peter Lee Atherton, of Louisville.
The tax limit will be submitted in
a separate MIL Prof. Carl Plehn, of
California, the tax expert employed by
the commission, has just returned
from Columbus, O., where he has been
studying the results of a similar law in
that state and the details of its operation.-
' It is the opinion of the members
of the commission that the limitation
on the tax rate is the only way to in
duce people to stand for an assess
ment at the fair cash value of their
property and to bring from cover com
mercial paper and other chor.es In ac
tion, concealed, because the total of
state and city taxes would consume
too large a percentage of the proceeds.
The assessment features of the tax
plan proposed by the commission in
clude the use of maps and the most
up-to-date office equipment, the devel
opment of a class of expert assessors
under civil service rules and the sys
tem to be adopted will be to assess
the real estate separate from the Im
provements, so that the actual value
of the land in each locality will be
equalized. The commission estimates
that property generally in Kentucky
is assessed at about 50 per cent of its
fair cash value.
Reprint An bid Yarn.
The Washington newspapers, in
censed because Representative Ben
Johnson's committee has reported fa
vorably a bill doing away with the
half-and-half policy by which the gov
ernment supports the District of Co
lumbia, are all printing columns of
matter with this scare head: "Ken
tucky owes nation . big sum." The
articles relate that Kentucky has
never repaid the sum of $1,433,757 de
posited with It by the federal govern
ment in 1836 and quotes Treasurer
Burke, of the United States, a3 saying
that he will inquire whether the sum
can not be "recovered."
Robert J. Tracewell, former Con
troller of the Treasury, said: "In 1836
the government had such ahugh sur
plus that It didn't know what to do
with it. Accordingly, it deposited
about $21,000,000 with the states then
in the union. .The agreement was that
these states " were to pay back the
money if the government ever request
ed it. Therefore, the states, including
Kentucky, have never paid. ' This is
an old yarn which is dug up ever so
often."
Armor Plant at Ashland.
The bill directing the secretary of
the navy to detail a board of naval
officers to select a site at Ashland for
the establishment of a naval armor
plant to' be operated by the federal
government was introduced by Sena
tor Bradley. It was promptly referred
to the committee on naval affairs and
will be considered sqoij. "I am ex
cedingly anxious for this meritorious
measure to pass," said Senator Brad
ley. "In selecting Ashland as the
place for building the armor plant I
took into consideration its proxiniity
to the iron ore mines, the number, of
iron products that are made there and
its admirable transportation facilities.
I had in mind the establishment of the
proposed plant at Middlesboro 'or
Louisville,, but concluded that If Ken
tucky is to get the. plant it ought to
be built at Ashland.7
.Waiting For House-Warming.
Governor James B. McCreary will
occupy the new executive mansion by
the New Year. ', He began moving into
this home the latter part of the week
and every one will;be on the tiptoe of
expectancy . for ' several 4ays - there
after; until he issues invitations : for
the house-warming or christening of
this new building, which is expected
to take place January 13 or there
abouts... ' .
Authority On Pedagogy. . v
' . Secretary Thomas Vinson, of the
Kentucky Educational 'Association,
announced that the principal speaker
for the meeting of the K. E. A. at
Louisville next spring has consented
to appear. He is Dean Suzzalo, of the
Teachers College, - Columbia Univer
sity, considered by many the foremost
authority on pedagogy in the country.
He is now in Japan.
McReynolds Visits Mother.
Attorney General McReyonlds spent
Christmas at Elkton, his birthplace,
with his mother. "Christmas wouldn't
Heem like Christmas to me If I didn't
spend it in Kentucky," said' McRey
nolds as he boarded a train.
Kentucky Furnishes Recruits.
- Maj. Gen. George Andrews, the ad
jutant general of the United States
army, Is pleased with the record that
Kentucky made during the. last fiscal
year. He pointed out, In his annual
report made public, that 3,524 prospec
tive soldiers applied for admission to
the ranks at 'the recruiting districts of
Louisville and Lexington last year.
Of this number 2,701 were rejected
because of physical defects'; Although
only 823 recruits were accepted for
service the adjutant general states
that this percentage 13 high.
IaT THIRTEENTH STROKE.!
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By S.C. BULLETT.
Among the papers found by the law
years . of John Vereken, an old man
who recently died,
was the follow
ing: I am about to
write down things
at which most
men will scoff,
but they are true,
and I pray ' God,
that no one will
have to go through
what I have en
dured for thirty
years. This is the
story cf my life.
I, John Vereken,
was torn in the
year 1808, ia
Yorkshire. My
father, Squire
Vereken, was a
kind and indul
gent man, but I
noticed that at In
tervals, a morose
ness came over
him and lasted
for two or three
days. I often
wondered at these fits of melancholy,
but I dared not ask my father, and he
vouch-safed no explanation. 'My moth
er I never knew. She died when I
was bora. Would to God that I, too,
had followed her.
I passed the usual uneventful life
of the country squire's son until I
was twenty years old, and then, as la
only human. I fell In love.
My love was returned and the hap
piest moment of my life was when,
Lucy Derrick promised to become my
wife.
Later I was sitting at the drawing
room fire thinking of Lucy, when a.
servant entered the room and . said my
father wanted to see me. He had
taken suddenly 111 and was In his bed
room. ' I arose hastily and started for the
room, for this was the first intimation
I had had of his illness. Just as I
opened the door, I heard a heavy
booming sound like some Immense
church bell tolling for a funeral.
I hastily ran to his side and forced
some brandy through his clenched
teeth. This seemed to revive him
somewhat, and he motioned me to
open the drawer of his secretary. I
did so and found a paper addressed
to myself. He glanced at it and made
a feeble effort to nod his head. The
next moment his whole body shook
with convulsions. He half ifose from
the bed, gasped and fell back. My
father wa3 dead.
The paper was still In my hands,
and, mechanically, I unfolded it. This
is what I read:
"To my son, John Vereken: I ad
dress these words to you, as it were,
from the grave, and I trust that you
will forgive my great sin. There is a
curse in our family and I, poor, weak,
fool, have transmitted It to you. You
no doubt, heard the sound of the bell
when I died. I will tell you the story
of it
"Your great-grandfather1 my grand
fatherswas of a generous but hasty
nature. He was quick to strike, and
as quick to repent of the blow. Hla
greatest friend was Richard Bassman
whose family died with him. My
grandfather loved Richard as a broth
er. They were always together. But
one day they quarreled and Richard;
Bassman was shot, by my grandfa
ther. He died instantly. My grandfa
ther was so struck with horror at the
deed that he tried to kill himself, but
friends prevented the acL Richard
Bassman was buried the next day,
and as the body was being carried to
the grave, the bell In the church tolled
out his years. It has tolled 12 times,
and the sexton pulled the rope for the
thirteenth stroke. . The bell gave forth
a booming sound. and breaking loose
from Its fastenings, fell to the ground.
My grandfather had been deeply af.
fected by the tolling of the bell. At
each stroke he was 6een .to" shudder.
Then came - that fatal thirteenth,
stroke. His'face grew livid and such.
anNexpression of unutterable horror
came over it that, everyone who saw
him shuddered. His great form sway
ed and fell to the ground dead.
"My son, It Is my earnest plea that
you let our accursed race die with
you. My father Implored me never
to marry and I resolved to follow his
request, but I met the woman I loved
and I felL Will you be stronger than
I? Already the bell tolled 12 times and
I feel that my. end is near. - My son,
forgive me, and. heed my admonition.
Do not transmit this curse to anoth
er, for it . will cause your loved ones?
untold misery."
The next day I told Lucy all. I
never saw her again for I knew that
should I look upon her dear face, my
resolution would vanish and I would
sin as my father had done before me.
She died six months later of a bro
ken heart. '
This is my story. Thirty year
have passed since that f earful , night
when I looked upon the dead face ot
my father and read the paper that
sealed my doom. I am an old man I
have heard the bell toll 12 times and
I. feel that my end is near. I havo
suffered much, but as I look back npoa
the life, already spent, I am glad that
I kept my vow.. Many a time have I
been in communication with Lucy, and
I know that she waits for me, and
(Here the MSS. suddenly breaks
off. The body was found bf the tatl
sitting in a chair, as in life A
was still clutched iu thii nerved
fingers.) ? ' -a
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