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MRS.TOM'S PART
IN THE ELECTION
Governor Marshall's Wife Has
the Memory For Names.
ROMANCE OF THEIR LIVES.
The Notification of ths Indiana Ex
ecutive For Democratic Vice Presi
dency Honors a Record Breaker.
By J. C. HAMMOND,
Of Democratic National Publicity Bu
reau.
Indianapolis —Just about the time
that thousands of friends of Gov
ernor Thomas Riley Marshall were
anxiouslj wanting to shake his hand in
congratulation o\er his acceptance as
candidate of \iee president on the
Democratic ticket a smiling woman
stepped before him, and if one could
have heaid what she whispered in his
ear it would lnue been something like
•'Now. huirj in. Tom, and change your
clothes
And Tom Marshall forgot to shake
hands with the enthusiastic friends
until he had carried out the orders of
Mrs Tom
Indiana has honored four of her sons
as vice presidential candidates on the
Democratic ticket, but the crowds that
THOMAS B. MARSHALL,.
greeted Governor Marshall in the big
coliseum in the state fair grounds here I
today were the greatest in the history
of the party
The west wanted to show the east
what could be done in notification hou
ors, and, while Mis Marshall was hap
py, of coutse, over the honors for her
husband, she was also worried, for her
husband comes mighty close to being
father, husband, son and paitner all in
one And when a woman has that com
bination on her hands to care for she
has e\erj nght to be worried
Governor Mai shall will never gain
any honors as a hammer thrower He
Is not built that way.
While all the country was reading
the vigorous words of Governor Mar
shall which told the voters what he
expects Democracy to do in carrying
out the pledges for the next four years
It's worth while to know what part a
woman is taking in the affairs of the
campaign—how Tom Marshall hap
pens to be in the position in which Ije
stands today
The good people of Columbia City,
Ind never thought Thomas Riley Mar
shall was a marijing man For for
ty years he had lived with his parents,
nursing both his father and mother,
who were invalids which was the rea
son Governor Marshall was not a mar
rying man He felt his first duty was
to his paients
Meeting Mrs. Marshall.
After the death of his parents Gov
ernor Marshall dived deeper into his
law practice, and one day an urgent
case took him to Angola. Ind His du
ties called him to the county clerk's of
fice, and there he met Miss Lois Kim
sey, daughter of the county clerk, who
was assisting her father In the office.
From that day Governor Marshall
had more business around the county
clerk's office in Angola than any law
yer in half a dozen nearby counties
Governor Marshall was forty-two
years of age when he was married.
Mrs. Marshall being nearly twenty
years his junior
The Marshalls had been married
only a few weeks when the future vice
president was called to an adjoining
county on a case that would consume
some five or six weeks of his time.
"Now. I did not want to be starting
off like that" Governor Marshall ex
plained to a friend one day. so 1 just
told Mrs Marshall that I thought she
should go along. And she did."
Since then Governor Marshall has
never made a trip without Mrs. Mar
shall going along. They have traveled
all over the* country together they go
to banquets and political meetings to
gether until the friends of the Indiana
executive refer to him and his wife as
the "pards."
"Tom Marshall is not overstrong,"
explained one of his friends. "While
not a delicate man. his constitution Is
not of the most vigorous type.
"When he gets into a political battle
he forgets his weakness He gives all
that is in him, and that will tell on
any man. Mrs Marshall soon discov
ered that the governor would become
heated in making speech and the
next day his voice wonld be husky
Ehe decided that he had better give up
some of the handshaking and take care
of his health first. So when you find
him making a speech he does not stay
around to hear the applause of the au
dience. Rather, he hurries to his room
and changes his clothing.
"Some people have said that Tom
Marshall Is not a handshaking pohti
clan. He is not. His wife thinks it is
more important to guard his health
than to carry out the old time policy.
and she is correct, as she is in most
all other things."
"Home Air" Prevails.
The Marshajl home is typical of the
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mlsTFess. "It Is a Tiome TJTTjooks, and
still one does not feel "bookish." One
of the Marshall friends said he always
felt like eating when he entered the
Marshall home in Columbia City or
the executive mansion at Indianapolis.
Mrs. Marshall believes in a home first,
and the "home air" prevails.
"If Governor Marshall ever occupied
the White House people would not
know that historic institution," de
clares an admirer. "Mrs. Marshall
would have it a real home. People
would feel comfortable even In the
midst of the gold and glitter."
But it is not ouly as a wife and the
mistress of a home that Mrs. Marshall
shows her ability. She is a politician
and a clever one. She also has a re
markable memory.
Governor Marshall has earned the
reputation of being in a class of story
tellers all by himself. He can remem
ber stories, but he forgets names. A
name is something to be cast aside
with Governor Marshall, and this is
one of the regrets of his life, if he has
any regrets. The governor is not a
worrying man. He is somewhat a fa
talist, but if he could he would like
to remember names but. not having
that ability, he does not worry, for Mrs
Marshall is the new rememberer of the
family.
She has a peculiar ability along this
line. Not only does she remember
the last name, but any combination of
names comes as second nature to her,
and she carries this ability on down to
the children and cousins of any one
seeking the governor.
While the governor is shaking hands
and trying to remember whether his
caller is Jones or Smith, Mrs. Marshall
is busy supplying the information and
asking about all the relatives.
Ideal Partners.
Governor Marshall has no brothers or
sisters, and his parents being dead
leaves him somewhat barren of rela
tives
Governor Marshall's friends are en
thusiastic ever his home life When
he has started on talking of his wife
a new ligh* in the Hoosier executive
comes to the surface.
They come near being ideal married
partners.
"I was talking to Tom one day,"
explained one of his most intimate
friends. "We were leaning back, and
Tom had been telling some of his good
stories to illustrate various topics of
our conversation. We were waiting
for Mrs. Marshall to come back from
a shopping tour, and I happened to re
mark that I liked Mrs. Marshall bet
ter every time I met her.
'Well, now that's the way she
strikes me. Jim,' he said 'We have
been married some sixteen years, and
as time goes that is a long or short
period, just as you think To me it is
but a fleeting day. Then I think back
over my married life and find I have
grown to know Mrs Marshall better
every day. A man must not only love
but he must also respect his partner
in this life—respect her in all things.
She must have wronderful qualities to
make the love and respect grow deeper
and better each day. That's been my
history
'The fact that Mrs. Marshall has
been in sympathy in my work, my
play, my life, is good. But I have been
MRS. MARSHALL.
In sympathy with hers. Ours is not a
one sided life We have been part
ners, and that's the way it should be
in this world
Mrs Marshall has watched over his
administration of the affairs of Indiana
with a jealous care. There has been
nothing of the spectacular in his ad
ministration. It has been a sane gov
ernment. The laws that he has
fought for and won show the spirit of
the man. They are uplifting. They deal
with the improvement of man, woman
and child
While Governor Marshall is describ
ed as a "tender hearted" executive,
nevertheless he is a fighter. He be
longs to the old fighting stock of VIr
ginia
Governor Marshall Is not a dodger
He has his opinions, and he lets them
be known While he Is an organization
man, he knows that organizations are
not perfect—that they can make mis
takes If they make mistakes he
thinks it is his duty to say so and
get the saying over at the first pos
sible moment
Mrs. Marshall is not satisfied with
her domestic duties alone. She wants
to do her share in problems of the po
litical and business world. Mrs. Mar
shall is said to have discussed in de
tail with her husband his action on
the Baltimore convention, and when It
was seen that Marshall was the man
who was going to go on the ticket
with Wilson he wanted to know what
his wife thought about it
"It won't be any harder than being
Governor of Indiana, and If the party
thinks you are the man it only agrees
with my opinion," she said, and that
settled the matter with Governor Mar
shall.
Mrs. Marshall had the honor of be
ing the first woman In Indiana to hold
an office She was appointed county
clerk of Steuben county by her father
and held that office for a number of
years
Whpn Governor Marshall and his
wife were about to be married she de
elded that her last official act of the
office would be to make out the mar
riage license. Governor Marshall ac
companied his wife to the county
clerk's office and watched her with
care as she noted the records in the
big book and filled out the license and
watched her as she carefully signed
a.., i„„. .,,4,
ner~TatheFi name, "with" TtiaT own IB
deputy.
Mrs. Marshall, having blotted the
ink, said, "Now we can go."
"Not yet." laughed Governor Mar
shall.
"Why, we are all fixed," explained
Mrs. Marshall, pointing to the license.
"Yes, but I have to pay for it," re
plied the governor. "It's all right for
you to make it out, but it's up to me
to pay the fee." And he did.
Mrs. Marshall is a keen student, and.
having established the practice of go
ing with her husband on all his trips,
be they short or long, they make it a
point to carry along some book.
Mrs. Marshall is as much of a hu
manitarian as the governor. A glance
at some of the bills that have been
passed by the 1911 Indiana legislature
gives an insight into the governor:
To curtail child labor.
To regulate sale of cold storage prod
ucts.
To require hygienic schoolhouses
and medical examination of children
To prevent blindness at birth.
To regulate sale of cocaine and
other drugs.
To provide free treatment for hy
drophobia.
To establish public playgrounds.
To Improve pure food laws.
To protect against loan sharks.
To provide police-court matrons.
To prevent traffic in white slaves.
To permit night schools.
To require medical supplies as part
of a train equipment
Governor Marshall has also played
an active part in providing for protec
tion of labor, as is exampled by the
following acts:
To create a bureau of inspection
for workshops, factories, mines and
boilers.
To establish free employment agen
cles.
To require full train crews.
To require safety devices on switch
engines.
To require efficient headlights on
engines
To require standard cabooses.
To provide weekly wage, etc.
And Governor Marshall has con
sulted with his "partner" on all these
bills. He is quoted as saying a man
can't go far wrong in taking the advice
of a wife—if she is his partner as well
as his wife
ROLLA WELLS IS
EARLY ON THE JOB
Democratic National Treasurer
Is After Small Contributor.
THE PEOPLE TO
There I
Used
•hall.
The smooth shaved little man, who
is to be the watchdog of the Wilson
campaign money from now on. was
asked for vital statistics, whereupon
It was learned at first hand that he is
a banker and ex-mayor of St. Louis,
is fifty-six years old, was graduated at
Princeton in 1876, or three years be
fore Governor Wilson was graduated
that he has two sons who are Prince
ton men and a grandson who some
day will be a Princeton man that he
had no notion of seeing New York
this summer until the Wilson organi
zation selected him as its treasurer
and that just at present the one thing
that sticks out in the appointment in
his mind is that the new job cut in se
riously upon a most beautiful vacation
which he and Mrs. Wells had been en
joying in a camp at Little Traverse
bay, Michigan
Mr. Wells believes in getting at his
desk at 8 o'clock in the morning.
"We are going to raise our campaign
fund through the small contributions,"
said Mr. Wells
"I am sure that a large part of the
money will be raised by popular sub
scription.
"The people have confidence in
Woodrow Wilson, and they will give
what they can of their means to elect
such a man president
"I am a great believer in publishing
broadcast, before and after election,
the various contributions made.
"There are men who can well afford
to give the committee $5,000, but I
want to assure the public that we are
not going to have any tainted money.
"We are appealing to the people, and
we are relying on them to help elect
Wilson and Marshall.
"I have two boys who have been
graduated from Princeton, one five
years ago and one seven. But it is not
because ours is a Princeton family that
I like Governor Wilson. He is a great
big man and the type that we should
have In public life."
Money Making In Wall Street.
The real money makers of Wall
street deal in investment securities or
speculative stocks that have passed the
scrutiny of the Stock Exchange com
mittee and secured a place among the
listed stocks on the exchange. The
successful speculator would not listen
for a moment to the gold brick man
with a recipe for getting rich quickly.
It is just as easy to buy stocks from a
responsible broker on Wall street as it
is to buy them from a peddler. One
should be just as careful to see that he
deals with an honest broker in buying
securities as he is to see that he N
dealing with an honest butcher, grocer
or baker—one who gives him honest
weight and count—Leslie's.
Belgian 8olons»
Members of parliament in Belgium
are paid $85 per month while parlia
ment la sitting.
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RECENT NEWS
GLEANINGS
Politics
Governor Simeon B. Baldwin *fcs re
nominated without opposition at the
adjourned session of the Democratic
state convention at Hartford, Conn.
Other state officers and seven presi
dential electors also were named,
J. P. Studley was nominated on the
third ballot for governor by the Re
publican state convention at Hartford,
Conn. There were four candidates.
Warm indorsement of the Taft admin*
latration was a feature of the platform
adopted by the convention,
Washington
With the probability of a battle be
tween the Mexican federal troops and
the rebels at Agua Prieta, which is
hist across the boundary from Doug
las, Ariz., President Taft, through the
war department, sent both the federal
md rebel commanders peremptory no
tice that there must be no firing
•cross the line.
President Taft, who posed a long
time for moving picture men, learned
tn the evening that overcast skies and
the light fall of rain had spoiled the
films, and he will give the "movies"
another chance.
Permission was given by the state
department to move 1,200 Mexican
troops through United States territory
to attack the Mexican rebels in the
state of Sonora.
Domestic
That Mrs. Jack Johnson, wife of
the pugilistic champion, who commit
ted suicide in Chicago did so while
temporarily insane, was the verdict of
a coroner's jury.
The financial embarrassment of the
United States Motors company came
to a head when receivers were ap
pointed for the $42,500,000 corporation
by Judge Hough in the United States
district court at New York. W. B. S.
Strong and Roberts Walker, former
president of the Rock Island railway,
were named as receivers.
Burton Gibson, a New York lawyer,
Is in jail at Middletown, N. Y.,
charged with the murder of Mrs. Rosa
M. Szabo, a pretty Austrian client,
while boating on Greenwood lake,
Floyd Allen and his nephew, Claude,
two leaders of the gang that shot up
the Hillsville (Va.) courthouse, were
sentenced to the electric chair No
vember 22, at Wytheville, Va.
HELPteentet
to Be No "Tainted Money''
In Electing Wilson and Mar-
New York.—A small, smooth shaved,
middle aged man* with a coat of tan
that gave evidence of much outdoor
life recently came into the Waldorf
carrying a suit case early in the after
noon and registered as "Rolla Wells,
St. Louis, Mo."
Th International Association ol
Ticke Agents has closed its seven
annual convention at Toronto,
Ont, with the election of H. S. Bare
of Pittsburg, Pa., as president, J.
Sterling of Pittsburg secretary and El
wood Ramsey of Philadelphia treas
urer.
Charles L. Johnson, the former Chi
cago banker and implicated in the
wrecking of the American Electric
Fuse company of Muskegon, was found
guilty by a jury at Muskegon, Mich.,
of obtaining over $25 under false pre
tenses in connection with the sale ol
a forged note to the Old National bank
of Grand Rapids.
The largest trust company in the
United States, if not in the world,
was formed in New York City when
the directors of the Guaranty Trust
company signed papers merging the
Guaranty with the' Standard Trust
company. The new organization will
have assets of $262,829,419.
A mob of two thousand stormed the
Jail at Cummlng, Ga., secured a negro
boy arrested as a suspect in the mur
der of a planter's daughter, and
strung him up in the heart of the
town.
News received In Maiden Lane, New
York, indicates that the last season In
the pearl fisheries has been almost
completely unsuccessful.
For the first time in fifteen years
covey of quail appeared within the
city limits of Greater New York a
few days ago, to be followed later by
three additional coveys The park de
partment has taken the birds undei
Its protection.
Two trainmen were killed and six
other persons Injured when a switch
engine running light collided with the
first section of Pennsylvania railroad
passenger train No. 21, near Deny,
Pa.
Raymond Smith, buyer for a Grand
Rapids (Mich.) commission house,
shot and killed his wife, Nora Smith,
and then ended his own life. Mra
Smith had begun suit for divorce and
refused to be reconciled with her hus
band.
Mrs. Etta Johnson, wife of "Jack"
Johnson, the world's champion heavy
weight pugilist, and former belle of
Hempstead, L. I., where as the wife
of Clarence E. Duryea, society and
horse man, she held the key to Long
Island society, shot and killed herself, name of the government
following "an "attack ol nervoui pro*
tration, in her apartment in Chicago.
Caught by a sharp gust of wind
when about 200 feet from the ground.
Aviator Paul Peck and his Columbia
biplane were hurled to the ground at
Cicero flying field in Chicago, and the
brilliant young blrdman was so terri
bly crushed that he died at St. An
thony de Padua hospital in a few
hours.
Vilhajalmar Stefanson, the explor
er, has reached Seattle after four
years in the arctic regions. He dis
covered the probable descendants of
the Scandinavian colonists of Green
land, who were last seen id 1412.
William Chambers, an aviator from
Mineola, N. Y., is dead at Greene, N.
Y., of injuries received in a fall with
bis aeroplane at the Shenango county
fair.
The notoriety gained by automobile
No. 41313, the gray touring car used
by the murderers of Herman Rosen
thal In New York, has been capital
ized and the automobile is being used
as a sightseeing machine.
Dr. D. F. Dumas, former mayor of
Cass Lake, Minn., and a prominent
politician and surgeon of northern
Minnesota, was given an indetermin
ate sentence in the state penitentiary
at Stillwaterr. Doctor Dumas was
convicted one year ago of arson in an
alleged attempt to burn the post office
and store at Paposky, Minn,
The American oyster crop this sea
son promises to be one of the best in
many years. Reports received at New
Haven, Conn., indicate that the oys
ters are fatter and more plentiful than
In a long time.
The Kansas agricultural college pro
poses to prevent Kansas fruit going to
waste this year. A "clearing house"
das been established to bring the fruit
grower and buyer together.
Fire, starting from a kettle of lard
being rendered in a butcher shop, de
itroyed a large part of the business
section of Turon, Kan. The loss was
(60,000.
The Oregon and California express
of the Southern Pacific railroad ran
&ver a "plant" of twenty-seven sticks
Df dynamite near Gervais, Ore., forty
miles south of Portland, but failed to
explode any of the fulminating caps
attached to the fuses,
James B. McNamara, serving a life
sentence in San Quentln prison for
dynamiting the Los Angeles Times,
was operated on at the prison hospital
tor appendicitis. This became known
with the announcement that McNa
mara was out of danger and would re
cover.
Personal
Gen. Daniel E. Sickles' wife pawned
tier jewels and used the money to pay
the $8,000 which her husband owed to
the Lincoln Trust company. So the
forced auction of the furniture and
keepsakes and Civil war commis
sions signed by Abraham Lincoln is
off. Mr. and Mrs SickleB have
been estranged for 27 years.
Mrs. Mary Hale Allen, mother oi
Nathan Allen, involved in the $112,000
Helen Dwelle Field Jenkins scandal,
died at Kenosha, Wis., at the age of
ninety-three years. She had never
been given any knowledge of the scan
dal.
W. K. Kavanaugh, president of the
Lakes to the Gulf Deep Waterway as
portation, underwent an operation for
appendicitis at St. Louis. His physi
cians announce the operation was suc
cessful. Mr. Kavanaugh was stricken
In Chicago.
Mrs. Mary Hale Allen, aged ninety
four years, widow of the late Nathan
Allen, and probably the oldest of the
pioneer women of Kenosha county,
Wis., is dead at her home In Kenosha,
John D. Rockefeller, Jr., who hai
been at Tarrytown, N. Y., for several
days investigating the trouble with
Italian laborers on his father's Pocan
tico Hills estate, hopes to bring aboul
peace by eliminating all Italians from
the pay roll of the estate.
Foreign
Funeral ceremonies for Bmperoi
Mutsuhlto were held in Tokyo amid
surroundings in which century-old
rites and costumes were mingled with
modern military display. Official rep
resentatives of all countries were
present to participate in the solemni
ties. The list included Philander C.
Knox, secretary of state of the United
Btates.
The White Star line makes official
announcement that it is building a
new ship larger than the Titanic, to
be called the Britannic, and which will
have "an increased number of water
tight bulkheads so as to render the
ship as nearly unsinkable as possible."
King Alfonso and Queen Victoria
opened the antituberculosis congress
at San Sebastian, Spain. It wasx at
tended by delegates from many coun
tries. The foreign minister, Garcia
Prieto, extended a welcome in tfcf
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How Tommy Was
Found by His
Old Mumm
By F. A. MITCHEL
My Tommy was the loveliest and
most loving little boy In the world. He
couldn't get on without his mother,
and his mother couldn't get on without
him. I was always afraid of losing
him, for when a man with a grind
organ and a monkey came along Tom
would follow him, and many times 1
thought I had lost my boy for good.
Once he was brought home by a po
liceman and once I had to go to the
station for him.
Tommy's father died when he was
seven, and my boy said, "Mummy,
you'll have me with you always, won't
you?" And I said: "I wish I might,
Tommy, but you'll grow up to be a
man and have a wife and children of
your own. Oh, dearie me, I wish you
could always remain a little boy!" But
Tom said he hated girls and would
never have anything to do with any
of them he would always stick to his
dear old mum.
But nature requires that boys and
girls should break away from their
parents and become parents them
selves. Tom stuck to me as long as he
could, but he was a manly boy and
grew into a manly man. He could
never content himself in the little
town where we lived, and when he
came to be eighteen years old I saw
that he was chafing to get away. He
wouldn't leave me for a long while,
but finally consented to do so for a few
months. I bid him go and not come
back so long as it was to his interest to
stay away.
Tom went, but he didn't come back
He wrote to me from different places,
though, telling me what he was doing.
He made one voyage on a liner as deck
steward, but he didn't like the sea and
gave it up Then he served one enlist
ment term in the army and was sent
to the Philippines. While he was there
I was obliged to move to another town.
I left my new address with the post
master, but a new man took his place
soon after that, and the address must
have been lost. At any rate, I didn't
get any more letters from my Tommy.
Two years passed, and I was get
ting older every day. I lived by my
self and had no one to comfort me
I didn't know whether my boy was
alive or dead. If I could know that
he lived and I could get a letter from
him even but once a year it would
make a very different woman of me.
I went back once to where Tommy
and I had lived together and where I
had brought him up. I wanted to learn
if he had been there looking for me.
I found that he had. A number of the
neighbors told me that he had asked
them where I was. I had told only
one or two where I was going, but it
was so long ago that they had forgot
ten. Besides, I had moved again two
or three times. They told me that Tom
was awfully disappointed not to find
me. After asking everybody and get
ting no information that would enable
him to find me he went away, but did
not say where he was going.
That was the great disappointment
Of my life. To think that he'd been
trying to find his old mummy and
couldn't! And now that he'd gone
again into the great world there was
far less hope of his ever finding me or
1 finding him than there was before.
I found a place to take care of a rich
lady's children. One afternoon I was
told to take them to a moving picture
show. Among the pieces they exhibi
ted was one a real scene of a building
burning. It was in New York and was
very large and costly. I wondered how
they happened to have the photograph
ic apparatus in position at the time,
but there are a great many of these
machines now, and after the alarm
they would have a good deal of time to
get one of them on the ground.
Of course they gave the most realis
tic and exciting parts. One was a wo
man standing at an upper window wild
with terror. She had been cut off and
was likely to perish. Then a ladder
was raised against the wall, smoke
pouring out of most of the windows
and flame out of some, and a young
fireman ran nimbly up the rounds. I
was scared to death for him making
such a perilous ascent. When he got
to the top the ladder was a bit too
short. He wound his legs around the
rungs and one arm around the side of
the ladder and motioned the woman
to let herself fall toward him. It was
either obey or death. She fell against
his loose arm*, but as she struck him 1
couldn't stand It to look any longer
and shut my eyes.
When I opened them the young res
cuer stood facing the crowd which was
cheering him. I could see him in the
glare as plain as at noonday.
Heaven be praised, he was my Tom
my.
As soon as I could get the children
home I wrote a letter to the chief of
the fire department of New York ask
ing if the young man who had saved
the woman at the fire wasn't my Tom
my, and If he was to give him his old
mummy's address. A couple of days
after that I was leaving the bouse with
the children when a pair of strong
arms were thrown about me and look
ing up into a man's face, there was
my Tommy.
"Oh, mummy," he cried, "ain't I glad
to find you!"
"Oh, Tommy," I said, "this Is the
happiest moment of my Ufa"
I went to New York with Tommy
and am living with him now. He
says he wouldn't marry the prettiest
girl in the land so long as he's got his
mum with him.
Cautious.
An old north country farmer visiting
London put up at one of the big hotels.
He had barely turned in on the first
night when the "buttons" rushed into
the room and switched on the electric
light, exclaiming:
"Make haste, sir! Get up! The ho
tel Is on fire!"
The old man slowly raised himself on
one elbow and, fixing the boy with a
determined look, remarked:
"Mind ye. if I do I winna pay for the
bed."—London Answers.
A CUNNING
VISITOR
By JAMES BRADY
"We all get our share of adventure,"
said an ex-railroad man, "and we rail
roaders get ours. What surprises me
is that we don't get more than we do.
"We're so liable to be attacked for il
legal purposes. But when we consider
the number of express messengers who
are killed by train robbers and station
agents forced to give enticing telegraph
signals to enable road agents to hold
up passengers, there's a good deal do
ing in this line for us, after all.
"I've had a personal experience
that's a trifle different from these, and
I tell you when it was on there was
enough in it to make my hair curl. 1
was employed in one of the signal
block towers on the Gr., P. and D. rail
way. Some distance west of my tower
was a switch that led into a gravel
pit. The company hadn't worked the pit
for some time, and the track leading
into it was in a dilapidated condition
If ever a gravel train had attempted
to go over it there would have been a
spill.
"Life in a block tower is rather dull
music. I slept there and had my room
comfortably fitted up I've always
been fond of reading, and books took
up the principal part of my time. The
road was neither of the greatest nor
least importance, but there were three
tracks and an average number of
trains to look out for. Still, sometimes
there would be quite an interval be
tween the passing of the trains.
"One afternoon I was sitting with a
book when I heard a step on the stairs
leading up into the tower. Then there
was a knock at the door. I opened it
and quite a respectable looking man
stood outside.
'I beg pardon,' he said, 'but would
you mind showing me the modus oper
andi of this system? I've passed the
towers on railroads many times and
always wondered what you gentlemen
are doing perched up here, pulling at
these levers.'
"Now, if I had dared I would have
told him that no one was admitted to
the towers that they were places on
which so much depended that the rule
was never to be broken, but notwith
standing the man's respectable appear
ance, I felt that a refusal meant death
to me. I concentrated all my effort'to
avoid showing the slightest suspicion
and said that I would be most happy
to show him the apparatus and explain
its working. Advancing to the levers,
I first explained the fundamental point
that it was intended to admit but one
train at a time on a block. Then 1
HYPNOTISM BY TELEGRAPH
An extraordinary experiment in hyp
notism over the telephone was made
recently In Ohio. The hypnotic sub
jects were ordinary telephone opera
tors, and in the influence of the hyp
notism reached them over the wires
from a distance of over 130 miles.
Six doctors checked the experiment
Fernando Lontzenheiser attempted to
apply his hypnotic power in this man
ner from Pittsburg, Pa., to Canton, O.,
and one of the operators, of whom ten
tried to receive the influence, was en
tirely subjected. When the voice
from Pittsburg stated categorically
that his left arm was numbed, the
limb thus attacked fell limp, and the
doctors were able to insert pins in it
without affecting the sensibility of
the operator. "Lift your right leg,"
commanded the Pittsburg magician
the command was obeyed, and the cix
doctors could net press the limb
down. The dramatic moment arrived
when the subjected operator was In
formed politely but assertively that
he was a stone. He immediately roll
ed off his seat, and the six doctors,
trying to compress his chest were un
able to overcome the resistant sur
face.
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Willmar Minn.
Well Drilling Machinery
told him 1io"wTyTrailing" this ofThat
lever I changed the direction of trains.
He listened to me attentively till 1 had
got through then asked a number of
questions calculated to convince me
that he was really trying to under
stand what I was telling him. He
seemed especially anxious to know how
I worked switches that were not in
sight I told him that their being in
Bight made no difference to me, be
cause I knew that a certain position of
the lever produced a given result
"'I passed a gravel pit up above
here/ he said, into which a track was
laid. Now, how would you proceed to
switch a train on to that trackT
"I pushed a certain lever, telling him
that the switch now stood to turn a
train from the main track into the pit
I noticed that he. concentrated his
vision on the lever and noted especial
ly how it worked. When he was satis
fied I threw the lever back into its for
mer place.
"My talk being finished, the man
thanked me and said that he was wait
ing for the 750 up train and it was
so much pleasanter waiting in the
tower than in the station below that
he would be obliged if I would permit
him to wait there. I assented, pre
tending to do so gladly and steeled
myself for whatever was about to hap
pen, for I was sure the man had some
sinister design.
"At 7:20 I told him that he would
hardly have time to reach his train,
whereupon he said he thought be
would take the next one. since he
couldn't walk fast on account of a
weak heart When the 7-50 passed
what I had expected happened. The
man jumped for the lever I had told
him would turn the train into the
gravel pit and threw it to accomplish
that result.
"I stood looking at him as though as
tonished, not daring to let it appear
that I had suspected him. He looked
after the train for awhile, taking ont
his watch to note the time, evidently
Intending to give the few minutes re
quired for the train to reach the gravel
pit for he would not give me an op
portunity to avert the disaster he in
tended. When ample time had passed
for the train to be wrecked he left the
tower and ran after it as fast as pos
sible.
"Buthe and the gang that were work
ing with him were disappointed. 1
had demonstrated on a switch below
instead of above.
"I didn't know but that when he
found that I had tricked him he would
eome back and murder me. I was in
a lonely spot and there would be a
good chance for him to revenge him
self if he felt so disposed.
"I kept a revolver in a drawer and
would have used it on the man while
he was with me had he given me an
opportunity to possess it 1 took ont
the weapon and. making sure It was
ready for use. waited for the man's
return. But he dlchrt come."
NOVELTY.
The enormous influence of nov
elty—the way in which it quickens
observation, sharpens sensation and
exalts sentiment—is not half enough
taken note of by us and is to me a
very sorrowful matter. And yet,
we try to obtain perpetual change,
change itself will become monoto
nous. The two points ol practical
wisdom in the matter are,first,to
be content with as little novelty as
possible at a time and, secondly, to
preserve as much as possible the
sources of novelty.—Ruslrin.
Paternal Confidence.
The Young Man (with some embar
rassment)—There is one question yon
haven't asked me yet Mr Hurpop.
You haven't wanted to know whether
or not I think 1 can make a living for
your daughter. The Other Man -That
isn't necessary. Henry. She'll see that
you make the living, all right if she's
at all like her mother, and I think she
Is.—Chicago Tribune.
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