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HUSBANDS WHO CUT
WIVES’ HOSES OFF
Medical Missonary Tells Strange
Tales of Wild Indian Fron
tier Tribes.
MATRIMONIAL JEALOUSY
LONDON, Kir 14. |
After having apent eighteen year* '
among the wild tribe* of the northweet 1
frontier of India, Dr. Theodore I. Per
he!!. a tnediral missionary of the Churrh I
Missionary Society, ha* just arrived in I
London on a brief vt»lt. Me haa a wealth
of remarkable etorie* to tell, and come of i
three he related In an Interview jester- ]
day
••On the Afghan frontier a husband la j
very Jealous of hla wife * honor,'' he »ald,
“and if he has a suspicion that anything
la wrong, he just cuts off her nose. Some
time ago a husband who had shown his
displeasure In thle barbaric manner
brought hla wife to our hospital at
Bannu. and said he ws* very aorry.
There was very little of the noee left,
and there was, therefore, nothing that
wc could do.
"I told him that If he would pay the
money we would gel his wife sn srtllleal
nose from England He asked me hew
much It would rout, and 1 aatd 110. He
began to heaitale, and I ashed him the
reason. ■Well,' he astd, 'I could get
another wife for |26.iK).‘ Eventually he
affreed to buy the nose, and his old wife
was patched up."
Dr. Pennell gave another Illustration of
matrimonial jealousy. "One day," he aald,
"an Afghan chief who had been aims *
the border came back and saw his wife ;
•peaking to a man over the wan In bis i
oompound. He at once drew hla sword, |
cut off bis wife's head, and threw It to •
the man. saying, Tf you want to speak :
to her now. you can.'
Many of the patents at the hospital are ■
the victims of frontier raids. C*ne man
who was admitted there for treatment ;
bal been ehot hy his uncle. The bullet 1
bad gone through his lung, and when he !
was brought In there seemed little hope .
Of his recovery. However, by dint of |
careful nursing they pulled him through
"Whan he was convalescent.'' said Dr. i
Pennell, "he called me one day to hie |
bedside and explained that he had a petl- I
Mon to make. I asked him what it waa. 1
He aald, 'Oh. aahlb. I wan: you to give j
mo soma cartridge*,' 1 said. 'What do j
you want cartridges fnrr Pointing to his
cheat, ha replied, 'I have this score to
pay off.' | aald, T am very' sorry to hear
that!" We have had a difficult task to
cure you, and now very shortly we shall
have the same trouble with your uncle '
He said. ‘Oh. no. you need not be afraid
of that, aahlb. I am a better shot than
be la.’ Ws did not get the une'e In. and !
we heard eventually that he had killed !
bun."
CONTEMPT BESTOWED
ON PEARL NECKLACE
One Woman Regards it as
‘Trashy Trinket’ and Another
as ‘Glass Beads.*
STONES THROWN IN BOX
PARTS, Mar 11
A rosraulso—s mom bar of a promlr.en'
aristocratic family—who la at op pine for
a (war day* at a hotel In the Rue de la
Pals, discovered yesterday that her pearl
neck lacs, worth *11,000, bad disappeared
Suspicion fell oo a messenger boy, Al
fred Pent, who admitted bis guilt to the;
police,.but declared -that the nseklare
had been taken from him by his mother.
The mother corroborated her son’s state
ments, while expressing aotontohraent
that so much trouble should be made
about "a trashy Itttle trinket.”
The necklace was no longer In her poe
session, end Mme. Paul explained that
tt looked ao cheap and tawdry that she
had given It to her daughter-in-law. who
resides In the Rue Sec re tan.
lima. Paul Junior displayed ah equal
contempt for the “string of glass beads''
She told the police that aha had given the
necklace to her tittle girt to wear, but as
It was much too wide she had removed
All the so taelng pearls were found In a
box arming buttons and hooka and eyes.
The marquise la so delighted at the re
covery of her treasure that she has de
cided not to prooocuto the Paul family.
Alfred has been discharged with a can
Mam Oorcrnor locked In a Chit
.larsf&.'as && jsuss:::
«. -a SU'-SSK? J8?iflssr!8
fovenwr of the prison In a eCfl.
111,
HONEYMOON ENDS IN
BRIDEGROOM'S DEATH
While Motoring He Alights to
Shoot Bird, But Accidentally
Kills Himself.
PARIS. May !«.
A Honeymoon In Algiers had a truglc
| er.air.nr yesterday. The bride's husband
! accidentally abjt himself before hU young
wife's eye*.
M. Aadre Holts returned some tint* a*c
from a government mission at Lake
Tchad to get married to his fiancee at
Marseilles. After the wedding the happy
pair left for Algeria, where they intended
to take a four weeks' motor tour.
While on the road to Mlllana. close to
the ravine known as the "robocrs' preci
pice." M. Hot* alighted from rtie car to
shoot s bird.
The ea th gave way beneath him, and
i to save himself he leaned upon his rifle
| and sender.tally caused the charge to
go oft.
i The ne»t Instant he dropped dead with a
bullet through his 1 wad.
■ The bride, who waa alone In the car.
swooned, and aaa found several hours
later unconscious, hanging over the edge
of the precipice.
EX-CONVICT BECOMES
HOMESICK FOR PRISON
Spent Twenty Years There and
Now Asks to be Sent
Back Again.
TIRED OF HIS LIBERTY
FAR18, May 14.
Tha commissary of police of the Fau
bourg Montmartre quarter was astonish
ed last night, when a man looking weak
and hungry, who pretended he had an
Important communication to make, threw
hlmaelf on hia knees on getting Into the
commissary's office, and, after saying he
was an ex-convict, with tear# In hie eye#
implored the commissary Co esnd him
back to La Quyane.
The magistrate flrat thought he had to
deal with a lunatic, but It was not tba
esse. His papers and documents proved
that he was a real eg-convlcl. named
Pierre Fane hr. and ha told the commli
•ary Ms «Sd story. After haring under
gone a punishment of twenty yearn' penal
servitude, Panahr was set at liberty a
few months ago, and returned *o Parts
with the aunt of H30. wUb which he ex
pected to start a new life. But all the
thieves sre not In jail. Hs made the ac
quaintance of turn Individuals, to whom
he told hie prefect and who stole his
money. Tor eereral daya he baa been
wandering through the streets. and la
without any relatives or friends. No one
twooh Trust Kfflpof ■ gtv# mrwofsr
"At La Quyane I was happy." he said.
"1 have friends there, and. In fact. I have
a homesickness for that place where I
lived for twenty years. I do not want to
commit any crime or robbery, hut pi vase
do send me beck."
The commissary of police has promised
the honest, but duped, eg-cotvlct to ask a
charitable society to ttad work for him.
London Castes.
Ml? IS.—"The, separation of
codon to carried ..vary far,"
Crewe Motored yesterday tn
Ousdatlon atone.of a church
belojurn
V
fi/ftrre M/to,
FUTURE SOVEREIGNS OF EUROPE
The death of King Edward of England and the aoceaxion to the throne ot U corgi! V invests with much interest at this
time the many heirs, apt»areut arid presumptive? to the other thrones in Europe, of the heira-appareat—that is, of those
who are next In succession—rhe csarevltch. the prince of Pediment, heir to the throne of italy, and the little prince of the
Asturias, heir to that of Spain, are most Important. Of these the little csatevltch is the eldest, while the future Spanish
kina u the youngest. All the other prince* in 4he illustration are merely heirs presumptive, the father of each being, in
earn case next fn succession t.- the throne. Outside the Princess Juliana of liodand. the most important heiress to a
throne In Europe Is the young hereditary grand duchess of iAixervburg.
LETTER CARRIER AS
SUCCESSFUL ARTIST
Man Untaught in Art Gets Pic
ture Accepted by the Royal
Academy.
PRINCESS A PURCHASER
LONDON. May It
A letter carrier ha* attained the dlstlnc
tlon of having a picture hung "on the
Une" at Burlington House for the forth- j
coming Hoya) Academy exhibition.
Samuel II. Hancock ta the flrat man In
the postal service to achieve this honor.
In hi* working hour*—6 A. M. to 2 P. M.—
he deliver# letter* In the E. C. district,
and when he la off duty he palnta pic
tures In- the atndU-contervatory at hie
home In Dudley road. Ilford Ever alnce
as a schoolboy he took hie paintbox Into
Rpplng Forest to make water-color
sketches he haa been devoted to art.
"I have sept pictures to the academy In
other years, but never had one accepted
before." said Mr. Hancock last night. "I
received a letter from the committee last
week with an Intimation that my picture
would be placed on the line, but I thought
there must be some mistake until I went
there yesterday, varnlehln* day. and
found my picture In Gallery 10 on the line
all right enough.
"The picture Is the development In oils
of a sketch I made two years ago while
on holiday. I waa In a steamboat going
from Bournemouth to Hyde, when I was
struck by the effect and possibilities for
a picture of the Isle of wight, shrouded
behind an early morning mist and beyond
the sunlight upon the water out behind
the Needles. I promptly pulled out my
water-color box and at once made a
sketch on a rough piece ot paper. The,
canvaa of the picture te about sixteen
Inches by ten. Altogether I was two
years in finishing the picture, for I only
worked upon it at odd times when I felt
Inclined and the fancy caught me.
••I received the gotd medal of ths a. P.
O. Arts Club tor h picture of a night
effect In South Hackney. I her# never
received any real leases* In painting from
life."
Throe years ago Mr. Hancock held an
exhibition of Ms pictures In tbs Dora Gal
lery. Tbs princess of Wales visited him
there and bought a painting, "On the
Windy Side." a study of hills outside
AMsi shot.—;
Item Bird Visits Cornwall.
CARDIFF, May 14.—A ftne specimen of
the demoianUe crahe. a-native of Asia,
h«a bean found at Gorrsn. Cornwall.
The bird bee been soon only ones before
In the United Kingdom. ..;_
Too Large for the Army.
PARIS. May 14.-*A conscript named
Gnorgee Cftnu has Jugt been declared un
itary service In Fiance, for ths
■n I iii,, w»—....... 1- n■ •
BB*M9eOQ
SAYS FASTING CUBES
MANY HUMAN ILLS
World-Famous Latin Scholar
Speaks Enthusiastically of
Its Merits.
HIS O W N EXPERIENCE
LOKDOX. May 14
Professor Mayor, of Cambridge, the veg
etarian and world-famous Latin scholar.
Is entirely In agreement with tlte conclu
sions come to by Charles Spencer, who
recently extolled fasting ns a cure for
human His.
"I have lone been of opinion that the
belief In the necessity of constant food
for physical and mental energy Is nothing
trot wnfoilcrr. ■“ iiperstltloii.'* said - Professor
Mayor yesterday. am absolutely con
vinced that r..sting would cure many dis
eases, and can speak from experience of
the benef,cia: results to be derived from It.
“In the auluran of ISIS I was at work
on my edition of Juvenal, a task which
meant the looking out of thousands of
Greek and Latin quotations every day. 1
calculated that I should be engaged for
nbout forty-eight days and decided to fast!
during that period. The method I mapped
cut for myself was as follows: Ftor the
flrst week 1 was to fast every other day;I
for the second week to fast for two con-!
secutive days and eat sparingly on the;
third; and for the last fortnight to desist!
from food altogether.
••I put myself under medical supervision!
and went dally to the Cambridge county 1
gaol to be weighed. The turnkey told me !
that I was losing about flve pounds In
weight per diem, hut J can honestly say
1 was never so well or felt so eager for
work In my life. However, in obedience
to the earnest wish Of my doctor, who ex
plained that It was easier to lose flesh;
thaq to put it on again. I gave up the;
more rigorous part of my regimen during
the last week. At the same time I am
convinced that I should have suffered no'
harm by persevering with It.
-Almost all the great peoples of the
world have been moderate eaters" con
tinued the profeaaor. "rrledlander. who
has recently died, a scholar with whom I
have often been in correspondence, and
the admitted authority, on the manners
and morals of the Homans, always assert
ed that the Idea that th« aeetqnt world
seas given over to luxury Is erroneous.
The rich Americana of our own day could
give many points to the moat voluptuous
Homan/* ...
Reference look WoreUy.
PARIS. May. 1*-—hi Parisian books o
reference for Wttjrttgy balloon or aero
plane will be printed -opposite the name
if those, who-— -
aeroplane.
a balloon or ai
LONDON. Ml
issued y ester:
S'Srv"'
Orowth VtMN.
pdetoffloe return
DRAMATIC FIGHT
OF WIFE FOR LIBERTY
Institutes Lawsuit to Escape the
‘Nightmares’ of a Lunatic
Asylum.
i PUT THERE BY HUSBAND
BERLIN, May 14.
. Before the law court* In the (rand
ducal capital of Melnlngen. Frau Burch
ar,L. wife of Jud^e Burchardl and ex
! president of the German women'* Schll
1 ler League, I* conducting: a 'dramatic
i struggle for the annulment of the
] guardianship under which she ha* been
I placed on the grounds of Insanity. The
Judge had hi* wife placed In solitary
shown symptoms which, he declared,
left no doubt aa to her mental Irre
sponsibility. It was her desire to poae
as a "theater princess” which flrst con
vinced the Judge that his wife was los
ing her mental balance.
Since yesterday Frau Burchardl ha*
been In the witness box unfolding a
pathetic story of In unhappy marriage
and alleged persecution. She declared
that her Incarceration had been a
"rlghmare of inexpressible horror." She
was Imprisoned with Inmates whom she
described as "raving Idiots.” Any ona
compelled to mingle with such people,
she said, must become Insane sooner or
later.
Asked to explain certain tender let
ters read In court. Frau Burchardl re
plied: “Ye*. 1 must have been craty;
but love, in any circumstances, la an
abnormal condition. If all the love
letters ever written could be read a
lot of people would appear to be luna
tics." She once attended a lecture by
a brain specialist, who diagnosed neu
rasthenia as a disease of the heart,
curable only by affectionate treatment.
A physician who attended Frau Bur
chardl in the asylum described: her as
undoubtedly dangerous, and said that
her nurses were constantly In bandage*
as the result of scratches and bruises
at her hands. ^ ..
A mental expert called on her behalf
stated that ha had never discovered
any evidence of her mental incapacity
or other abnormalities except physical
injuries inflicted by her husband.
1-- Novel rotten Bose.
i LONDON,
Church Damaged by Puna. - -
LONDON. May 14^-The flrjng ef
avy guns at sea has so loosened - the
Galdwtr naeian i' ft BP ^ n ■ 1
a&gasrjaijiyay-H
edits repairs
Bible Bought for *6,000.
VIENNA, M»Jf H--A
script Bible ascribed to
'Pr/ncr
rtf/¥ttss&
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AIRSHIPS FEATURE OF
ARMY MANEUVERS
All Types to be Used in Annual
Evolutions of German Troops
in September.
PRINCESS TO PARTICIPATE j
BERLIN, Mar M.
The Imperial army manoeuvers are to
take place this year from September t to
September 10, In the vicinity of Koenlng*
berg and Danztg, on the Baltic sea.
The manoeuvere will be particularly In
: terestlng owing to the fact that the fleet
will participate In combined landing
operation!. Dirigible airships of the
various systems represented by the Zap
' pelin, the Gross, and the Parseval types
will co-operate with biplanes of the
Wright system, and probably also with
several types of German flying machines,
in scouting and reconnaissance work.
Two army corpe will take part—the
first army corps, whose headquarters are
at Koenigs berg, and the seventeenth,
whose headquarters are at Iianalg. As
the Infantry will be brought up to war
strength about 36.000 men altogether will
be engaged.
One division of each of these two army
corps Is to be clothed In the new grey
uniform which Is to he generally adopted
by all branches of the service for field
work.
The emperor, a* well as his daughter.
Princess Loire. Is throughout the Im
perial manoeuvres to wear the brilliant
red uniform of the death's head, body
guard. Hussars, of which the young prin
cess Is honorary colonel.
TOTH WAS TttfEF
OF SACRED GEMS
Arrested in Moscow Cathedral,
Where He Had Laid in Se»
cret for Two Days.
ALL JEWELS RECOVERED
MOSCOW. May U
The thief who stole S600.000 worth of
sacred jewels from the Ikons In the Ua
peuski Cathedral. In the Kremlin, was dis
covered last night. The Man, who Is a
working jeweler, aged only It, was caught)
In the cathedral itself.
A fruitless search had been made all day
for traces of the malefactor. Finally It
was decided to close the cathedral, and
two guards were left to spend the night
there.
Suddenly there was a noise behind one
ef the sacred ikons. The guards at once
Bred In that direction. One bullet struck
an Ikon. Then a voice cried out, "I am
alone and unarmed." and the guards ap
proached and found the youth.
He explained that h* had bees la lading
theta for two days without food or drink,
and begged fpr water. Then he asserted
that ha had had an accomplice in the rob
bery and that the other man had taken
the jewels. -
When handed over to the police, how
ever. the youth admitted that ha had hid
den the jewels. Me pointed out the plaow
had every one of the stolen diamonds,
pearls and. rubies has bean recovered.
SAID HE MADE GOLI
AND FOOLEO A
Great London House
to the Extent of
$100,000.
SOLUTION OF MYS
LONDON,
Sir Hobert Anderson, formerly,
the criminal Investigation
at Scotland Yard, In his re'
in Blackwood's Magazine tells
lowing story:
"A genius claimed to have d
the secret of making gold,
fered to sell It to a great city
house whose name la In
not only in England, but
capitals of Europe. By
process which he had disco1
bulk of any quantity of gold
Increased by one-half at ti
pens*.
“His dupes accepted his tei
ject to his giving proof of the
his discovery, and to test tt
posed to supply him with lg
signs and the needed plant. He
scorn’ of working on such *
as that; It would be weste e
the process was a tedious o:
“Finally it Was arranged
should hare I1SO.OOS in
a house was taken in
Whitechapel, and there a
was fitted up for his use. The
placed in tanks provided for
pose, the needed chemicals were
piled and the experiment
with elaborate precautions agi
ceny or fraud.
"The man was emphatic in
on two points: no one but hit
to enter the laboratory, and be
be rigorously searched every
passed out. After many weeks,
which his visits were frequent,
appeared, and when eventually
was forced the tanka which
tsincd the gold were empty
bottles which contained the
were full. What had become
1100.000? The fullest inquiry
served to elicit proof that the
been searched with exemplary
every visit.
"The mystery would have
forever unsolved if the mil
not himself supplied the soil
In sheer bravado and
achievement, he wrote to the
tad swindled, tailing them of
preciation of the money and
fidence that they would l
twice aa much than incur
every exchange In Europe by
cutloa which would disclose tf
And then he revealed hta met!
time he left the laboratory
headed came ha carried was
sovereigns.”
Impede nee.
LONDON. May 14.—At
Leicestershire, e bird has
la the side poeket of a
But Even This
ian Astronomer Re
Most Unlikely.
DANGER IN TJ
RC
Professor Rlcoo. of Cttult.
tory, declare* emphatically
human race will not suffer
pnaKlnc of Halley'* comet i
"Whatever may be the i
comet." he said to
the Tribune. "It i* atieoluteiy <
Its volume le extremely
leu* of tlw ooraet consist*
cat* of meteor*, and not
The result of contact wl
therefore, could scarcely be 1
"There might be a heavy ST
which would Injure any i
and cause serious damac
It should be remembered <
pies only one-fourth of
that the chances of
by-an ae
"History, indeed, oca
instance of the -kind,
struck by a Won* *
Milan.
Professor Rlceo denial
the comot'a tan are
location. "They are
h* deolsrea. —ess
In coMdtuloa.
that It M aaost U—
the comet wttl he In
the a