The Lancaster Herald. (Lancaster, Tex.), Vol. 24, No. 34, Ed. 1 Friday, September 23, 1910 Page: 3 of 8
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Sorrento, in southern Italy, is a colony
of villas and hotels, many of which are
surrounded by orange groves. The
place is built on a crescent shaped
rock at the foot of which is the mar-
gin of the Mediterranean. A part of
this margin laps a beach, and on this
beach are fishermen’s boats, and there
also the women dp the family wash-
ing.
One morning Seymour Wilcox, a
.young American traveler, was looking
clown fiver a low stone wall built for
the protection of persons on the cliff
above, when he saw a young girl
washing clothes in the sea. Being
some 200 feet above her, he could not
see what she was like, but “distance
lends enchantment to the view.” and
tie could, even from that distance, de-
tect ft certain grace in her movements.
He went down on to the beach for a
nearer view. -
He found a girl of fifteen, though
at that age and even much younger
an Italian girt is a woman. She pos-
sessed the dark hair and eyes of her
people and a good figure. Her arms,,
-from exposure, were brown, but they
were shapely. Wilcox watched her for
a time, then walked past her and
smiled at her. He not only smiled, but
spoke to her. for he knew something of
the Italian language. He learned that
tier name was Marie and her father
was a fisherman. After a brief chat
tie returned to the town above.
Bat the next morning be looked
<lobn again over the null. and. al-
though he knew he would be playing
■with edged tools, seeing* Marie be-
low, he yielded to a temptation to go
down again and bdve a few words
with her. This time the girl met him
yrith a smile indicating that she was
very much pleased*-that be had come
■again. On this visit he talked to her
longer than before.
Wilcox continued these visits. He
found"** wineshop down among these
fishermen’s quarters and would go in
there for a titer of wine and to smoke.
Sometimes he would take Marie in to
have a glass wit If him. There' was
nothing unusual in this in Italy. The
Italian wines have very little alcohol
In them and are drank by the women
and children the same as the men. Be-
p in Italy Is a very
SjBSlaiirn saloon & Amer-
ica.
The landlord of the hotel where Wil-
cox was stopping knew nothing of his
^descents to the fishermen’s quarters or
he would have warned hip against
going there. The young man mention-
ad the matter to no one. He knew he
was taking a risk, but not bow much
■of a risk. Besides, be was a fearless
fellow and at an age wberef a man of
•courage is more apt to court than
avoid danger. Nevertheless he did not
sufficiently realise the position in
which he was placing himself to go
armed. <
One night Wilcox went down to the
beach and, catling for Marie at her-
father’s cottage, invited her to go for
a ride out on the water in her father’s
hoSt,^d« father to sail It. Marie trans-
mitted the request to her father, who
agreed to the plan. Indeed, no one
had manifested a desire to interfere
with WBcox’s attentions to the girl.
Whether those nearest her were ex-
pecting to get money oat of the Amer-
icano or whether they were permitting
her to lure him into a position where
they could rob him didn’t matter to
him, best as he was on enjoying her
society.
After a couple of hours’ sail the
party returned t° the shore, and Wil-
cox asked the father and daughter to
go Into the wineshop for refreshment.
The father declined for both himself
and Ida daughter, saying it was late
sM he moat be np early in the morn-
ing to begin his day’s fishing. Wil-
cox bad* them good night, and. as It
waa early for him, went into the wine-
abop alone for his tipple and his
no one in the place ex-
cept the woman, w£o set the wine be-
fore the American and left him. There
was a fireplace in the room, and. the
Bights being chilly in Italy, Wilcox re-
called her and asked her to bring in
a few fagots and build a fire. 3he
waa surprised at the request, for fuel
in Italy; but
him to be an American,
to these people means having
ef money, she acceded to his
Wilcox sat down before the
Sfioo with the wine beside him and
toufk and smoked and, without In-
tending it, fell asleep.
, Ha awoke with a start. Whatcaused
him to feel that he was in danger be
did not know. It might have been a
that was threatening him or it
have been the fact of a sudden
-----itiou that he had been ever since
jhe first saw Marie taking a frightful
Bdak. In any event he was conscious
[that * death was in the room. The
jtegots had burned out. There was a
Bright light near the entrance, which
iahone on Wilcox’s back and which
a shadow on the* wall directly
the fireplace. The shadow was
of a figure with the right arm
above the head. The shadow
by the end of this arm was diffl
cult for Wilcox to make out. It seem-
ed to be a pointed stick held by a fist.
The mind works quickly in the pres-
ence of danger, real or fancied, aud in
a fraction of a secoud he had deter-
mined that a man was behind him
iwith his right hand raised and holding
a dagger.
“Senora!” cried the American sharp-
ly. calling to the woman who had
served the wine * V„
The shadow flickered and disap-
pea red.
There’was no reply to the summons,
and the young man called again: j
“Senora!"
Presently the woman, yawning,
came slowly into the room.
“I find myself, senora,” said Wilcox,
“with not even money enough about
me to pay you for the wine l have or-
dered. Have you any one here who
will go up to my hotel with a check,
get it cashed by the landlord and bring
me the money
“Yes. senbr. but you can as well pay
for the wine when you come for
more.”
“No. seucra; I go away early in the
morning to Naples^ Besides, there are
other payments 1 wish to make down
here among you good people. I in-
tended to bring money, but forgot it.”
“Very well, senor. If you desire it
I will send my son. He is in bed. but
I can awaken him.”
Wilcox took a blank check from his
portmanteau and filled a check for
500 lira ($100) and wrote on the back
of H a request to the landlord of his
hotel to send him the money it called
for by bearer. Then he gave it to
the landlady, and. ordering another
litre of wine and lighting a cigarette,
he ma<Je it appear that he would await
the return of his messenger.
But he had no idea of waiting for
the money. He knew the man wlxo
was about to kill him when he awoke
from slumber would waylay the boy
who had gone for it. Possibly others
who knew of the fact that 500 lira
was to be carried at midnight from
the town down to the fishers’ village
would also make an attempt to ap-
propriate it. There was still another
(feasibility. The landlord might sur-
mise that his guest had been cornered
and required the money for a ransom.
In this event he might have the mes-
senger shadowed on his return by a
policeman.
Wilcox realized the fact that he was
at the fishers’ village near *2 o'clock at
night where it was as dangerous to
remain as to climb to the top of the
cliff. He kept his eye on the wall for
awhile, but, seeing no reappearance of
the shadow, finally arose from his chair
and paced the floor, casting glances at
the entrances of the room. Presently
be walked out the door through which
the landlady bad gone and made bis
way Into a kitchen. There, among oth-
er things, lay a carving knife with a
long, thin blade and a sharp point. He
grasped it and for the first time since
he bad seen the shadow drew a breath
of relief. So far as he knew, no one
saw him'take the knife, and. conceal-
ing It under his coat, he went back
Into the room be bad left.
Wilcox was uncertain what to do.
Should be remain where be was till
day. or should be risk going up to the
town with no other defense than a
carving knife? f If beset It might be
by several persons. If be remained
where he was. in case of attack he
might put bis back against a corner
of the room and stand off a number
of assailants. Every vestige of reck-
lessness had deserted him. He- was
mad. fighting mad. bat in that state
a man’s faculties are often the sharp-
est He resolved to stay where be
was. - . ~
Sufficient time for a messenger to go
to the hotel and return bad elapsed.
Wilcox had no idea that the messen-
ger would come back or. If he did
<*>nae, that he would have the money
with him. He was not thinking of his
BOO lira, which be would be glad to
<pay for his life. He was wondering if
the man whose shadow be bad seen
or some one else had appropriated it.
This occupied bis thoughts when sud-
denly the outer door was opened and
In stepped two persons.
They were a boy of fourteen and—
Marie!
Marie, approaching Wilcox, handed
him an envelope containing the money
he bad sent for. He looked at her.
plainly asking with his eyes an ex-
planation. .
“I knew, signor.” said Marie, “that
there IS one who since you first spoke
to me is jealous of you. 1 found to-
night that be would attack yon and
watched the place. I saw him come
In here and followed him. 1 heard you
call for a messenger to go for money.
I did not believe Giovanni would rob.
but I thought it best to go with the
boy. Giovanni disappointed me. He
waylaid na and demanded the money,
but when he knSw I had it he upbraid-
ed me and went away.”
“So you are disappointed in your
lover, Marie—that he should rob, but
not that be should murder?”
“The one was for money and the
other for love.”
“I eee. There is a great difference.”
The matter being explained, Wilcox
lost his apprehension. Since there
appeared to be but one man concerned,
he resolved, armed with the carving
knife he had captured, to go up to his
hotel. Having paid his record, he set
eat in the darkness and arrived with-
out being molested.
The next day Wilcox sent a note to
the father of Marie that he would fur-
nish the means to send the girl to
school. The offer was accepted, and
she went for three years to a convent,
at the end of which time she married
and emigrated to America.
Wilcox at the request of the girl who
had saved him did not report the mat-
ter to the police.
POINDEXTER WINS.
Insurgent Republican Victor In
Contest For Senate.
In the Republican primaries in the
slate of Washington Miles Poindex-
MILES POINDEXTER
Successful Candidate for Republican
Nomination for U. S Senate.
«
ter, an insurgent congressman, se-
cured nomination for United States
senator His plurality was 40, 000. He
carried every county
Same ae Before.
As the result'of the primaries held
by the Republicans in New York city
friends of Colonel Roosevelt held
Manhattan, while the old guard cap-
tured 109 of the 142 d elegates in Kings
county and claim 24 in Queens county
and 8 in Richmond county. Roose-
vel^ has practically the support of the
190 delegates from New York county.
Hooper Their Choloe. .
In session at Nashville Tennessee
independent Democrats indorsed Ben
W> Hooper, Republican nominee for
governor. Harmony resolution of the
regulars was referred to independent
executive committee. It was declared
Carmack’s spirit still lives.
Folk EndoreOd.
Democrats of Missouri in state con
ventiyn at Jefferson City endorsed
former Governor Folk as the party’s
nominee for president in 1912.
• Looal Optionlat Nominated. '
Coleman Blease, local optionist,has
received the Democratic nomination
for governor of South Carolina.
TREMENDOUS POST CARD.
/ _
Written by Oklahoma Man and
Weighs Four Pounds.
What is believed to be the largest
post card ever mailed was sent by Isa-
iah Armond of Enid, Okla., to aim
of attorneys in Texas. It is twenty-
six inches long, thirty-eight inches
wide and weighs a fraction less thaif
four pounds. Mr. Armond has writ-
ten several letters to the legal firm and
receiving no reply determined to get
an answer or be satisfied thecommunl-
cation reached its destination. He had
the card made at Enid. It is as large
as the gostal regulations permit and
the stamps cost $1.20.
Declared Void.
Comptroller Stephens refused to is-
sue saloon licenses for Amarillo, he
upholding ruling of attorney genera}
that the recent local option election in
Potter county was void, as the election
held Dec. 3, 1907, had mot been settled
in the couits.
CRIMES
AND
CASUALTIES
Confessing to having
for some time coined a
great number of spuri-
ous 5-cent pieces, a
man giving his name
as George Corrigon of Columbus, O.,
was jailed at Utica, N. Y., by secret
service men. He was arrested at Coop-
erstown. Corrigon lived on the shore
of Ostego lake in a little hut the past
summer, posing as a camper. His hut
was raided by government agents and
found to contain dies, a hand press
much metal and a quantity of newly
made nickels. He admitted that he had
been doing the work himself and said
he was preparing to make quarters.
Acting on a clue given in an anony-
mous letter to Mayor Crowder of
J&cksou, Miss., a cistern beneath a
rooming hen^se was drained and the
body of a child only a few days old
and one of a man found. Lime had
been thrown on the bodies and that of
the man was so badly mutilated that it
could not be identified,
As the result of a gas explosion in
Vandalia mine No. 10,nine miles from
Linton, due to a defective lanm, An-
drew Baxter was killed and David
Reese fatally wounded, his skull being
fractured. Five others were seriously
injured. The mine did not become ig-
nited. Linton is in the mining section
of Indiana.
R. C. Sacra, a wealthy citizen of
Purcell. Okla..died suddenly in a san-
itarium at Ardmore.
A. Sallee, a farmer, was killed by
lightning near Bowie, Tex.
Ou October 1 seventy
TEXAS milesof trackbe-
AND tween Lubbock and
TEXANS. Lamesa, on the Cole-
man cut-off of Santa
Fe railway, and also.known as the
Pecos and North T exas, will be placed
in bperat ion.
M. F. Thomas, for many years di-
vision superintendent of. the South-
western Telegraph and Telephone
company, and ins headquarters at San
Antonio, lias been promoted to the
position of special agent of the com-
pany for Texas and Arkansas. Dallas
being his headquarters. Previous to
leaving San Antonio Mr Thomas was
presented by Southwestern employes
with a beautiful diamond Sliriner
ring.
An election will be held at Ballin-
ger Oct. 16 to determine whether the
city shall issue $20,000 waterworks
bonds. Ballinger has a splendid
waterworks system, but owing to the
rapid growth of the city it has become
necessary to extend tho mains and im-
prove ihe system in other ways. If the
bond issue carries a filtering system,
to cost about $7,000, is to be one of the
improvements.
Mrs. D. C. Epps of Rockwood,Tex.
and three children, left poor owing to
the death of Mr. Epps, arrived at Ros
well, N. M-, in search of the lady’s
father, Lewis Owen, from whom she
had not heard since she was three
years old. Mrs. Owen learned that
her fatherbad died several months ago
and had left an estate valued at $15,-
000, to which she is sole^heir.
heading streets of Terrell are to be
sprinkled with water to be pumped
from a lake in the eastern portion of
the^pity, Pipes will be run to the lake
and nearby gins will also be supplied
with this water. By this means the
consumption of water supplied by the
waterworks will be reduced. #
John Snavely, a well known farmer
of Collin county, was killed while re-
turning home from a gin near Altoga,
that county. A wagon wheel struck a
stump, throwing him out, and a bale
of cotton fell upon him, crushiug him
to death.
Mrs. Jennie Byrd, charged at Dal-
las with the death of her husband, the
late John T. Byrd, was admitted to
bail in $1,000. Her plea is self-defense.
She claims her husband threatened
her life, knocked her down and also
stamped her and that she was forced
to shoot. *
Mrs. Harry M. Johnston, wife of
Harry M. Johnston, staff writer of
the Houston Post, died at Houston
following a brief illness. The lady
was the daughter of State Senator J.
L. Peeler of Austin,
The 1910 San Angqlo far and carni
val will be held Oct. 3-8. Race purses
aggregating #7,000 have been offered.
A special feature will be flights of a
couple of aeroplanes, both construct
ed at San Angelo.
While handling a revolver which she
thought was unloaded, Miss Catarina
Wilson acciten-&lly shot herself in
the heart at herresidence in Amarillo,
death being instantaneous.
City council of El Paso has ordered
the demolition of 1,500 structures, most
of them pdobe huts, in the southern
portion of the city, which the health
department had-.condemned as being a
menace to the public health.
Expenses of the north Texas insane
asylum at Terrell are estimated at
9624,000 for the next two years—for
the first year, 9314,000; for the second,
9310,000.
The medical department of the Uni-
verstty of Texas, located at Galves
ton, is twenty years old. It occupies
a prominent position in the list of the
leading thirty-five medical colleges in
the nation.
Near Refugio Mac Dunman, a ne-
gro, twenty-four years old, was thrown
from a horse, oAer which he''~!fad lost
control, -sustaining injuries causing
his death in a few hours.
Oct. 4 an old settlers’ reunion will
be held at San Angelo. Letters have
been sent to several hundred former
west Texans requesting them to be
prsent on that occasion
City of El Paso has given a permit
to J. T. Cameron to erect a packing
plant within the city limits. Plant is
to cost $250,000 and will use 30,000
head of cattle annually.
Texas livestock sanitary commis-
sion wants an appropriation for the
next two years of #30,000—$15,000 for
each year.
Hetwig Zoeller, fifty-one years old,
died at Boerne from effects of strych-
nine. He was a former Kentucky sher-
iff and leaves a large family.
Dr. J. E. Gibson of McKinney was
aroused by the barking of his dog He
discovered in the corner of a room a
large tarantula. It was captured and
put on exhibition.
Forty-one divorce suits were dis-
missed from the docket of the Sixty-
second district court at Paris for want
of prosecution.
Citizens of Comanche have signed a
contract that prov ides for the building
of the Cotton Belt railway from Ham-
ilton to their city.
In the Red river bottom land in the
Paris section cotton is opening earlier
than ever before known,
A highwayman held up a streetcar
at Galveston and took all the cash in
the possession of the conductor
Dallas has purchased an automobile
police patrol wagon. It cost $3,500.
Residence of P. L. Powell of Dallas
was robbed of much jewelry.
Texas Industrial congress will be
held at Houston Nov. 15.
Texas Nursery Company
SHERMAN, TEXAS.
Largest Nirsery in the Southwest. Orders booked
now for delivery Fall/1910, and choicest stock re-
served. Give your orders to
T. E. ELERSON,
Texas Representative, Lancaster, Tex^
New Toric Kryptok
Invisible Lenses are the Best.
Tl» ADC
registered 2^T Mam St*, Dallas.
BROWN & MONTGOMERY
BRYAN BOLTS.
Will Not Support Dahlman For
Governor of Nebraska.
Hon. W. J. Bryan in a statement
declares the crusade which he feels
impelled to wage against the Lquor
interests of the nation overshadows a
personal'’and political friendship of
twenty years, and owing to the posi-
tion ol Hon. J. C. Dahlman, Demo-
cratic nominee for governor of Ne-
braska, on that question, cannot vote
for him. He will support the rest of
the ticket. Nothing is said relative to
advocating the cause of any other
man for the governorship.
Mr. Bryan states he favors county
local option and the early saloon clos-
ing law, both of which he declares are
menaced by Dahlman’scandidacy. He
says he regrets to take this stand—his
first departure from political regular-
ity, he states.
Mayor Dahlman, head of the city
government of Omaha, says the Dem-
ocratic party has ever stood for per-
sonal liberty. Hesays Bryan and his
friends will get the biggest trimming
that has been given in that or any
other state for many years. He says
Nebraska Democrats oppose sumptu-
ary laws, as evidenced by recent pri-
maries.
Texas Live" Stock
Texas has more live stork than
other state in the union. We
15,981,000 head of live stock, valued at
$312,857,000 by the Federal Govens-
ment Agricultural Department on Jan-
uary 1st, 1909. We have fouf head ad*
live stock per capital. We lead all
states in production of cattle
mules: Illinois and Iowa lead up-
horses and we stand third in
To increase the value of our live
we must raise the grade, improve
narket condition and^ increase the ■
ket price.
Texas has 1.312,000 head ol
valued at $93,152,000. The ai
price of an, Illinois horse is $109
the average price of a Texas he
97i\as shown in the cut below.
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TEXAN HONORED.
Chosen Deputy Grand Sire by
the Odd Fellows.
The sovereign grand lodge of the
Independent Order of Odd Fellows, in
Session at Atlanta, Ga., elected the
following officers: Grand sire,JohnB.
Cockrum, Indianapolis; deputy grand
sire,C. A. Keller, San Antonio; grand
secretary, John B. Goodwin. Balti-.
more (re-elected); grand treasurer,
M. Richards Muckle Philadelphia
re-elected. Two years from now Mr.
Keller will be elected supreme head of
the order.
Grand secretary reported total re-
ceipts for the past yearjis nearly half
a million dollars ahead^f the previ-
ous year, with expenditures for relief
approximately 9144,000 less, The pres-
ent membership is over 2,000.000. The
oue hundredth anniversary of the or-
der occurs in 1919 and it is hoped by
that time to have a membership of
3.000. 000.
In the Odd Fellows’ homes there are
3,261 inmates. The total cost of these
homes, including property values, is
given as 92,226,676.
Charters were issued during the
year to lodges in Panama. Cuba and
New Foundland and to an encamp-
ment in Alberta.
W. L. Kuykendal. grand sire and
commander-in-chtef of the sovereign
grand lodge, in his annual report re-
ported the total revenue for 1909 was
in round numbers 916,828,000; total ae-
lief, 95,356,000; total invested funds,
949.511.000. From 1840 to Dec. 31, 1909,
the records show 9130,987,000 expend-
ed for relief.
“Comparative Value in Texas anil
Illinois.”
This difference in price is largely
tee to the grade of horses. IJy im-
proving the grade ‘we can add al
940,000.000 to live stock values
state. ^ equal to $10 per ca
and wouidrhk net money to the
as it costs no more to raise a _
■horse than it does a poor'one.
We have 3,304,000 head of hogs *at»-
ued at $5.60 per hfcad while Hltnate
hogs are valued at $7.09 per head 9m
shown in th^ cut below.
“Comparative Value in Texas ■
Illinois.”
We have 1,853,000 head of sh
ued at $2.70 while the Illinois si
are valued at $4.80 per head. Thi»
ference is due to difference in
and accessibility'to the market,
raising the grade of the live s
Texas to the Illinois standard
increase values $50,000,000 per
says the Texas Commercial S
Association.
The spirit of progress that
the farmers want better public
ways, more factories, more
will stimulate them in impro1
grade of live stock.
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Wrapping Fruit In Paper.
Any method of handling apples that
hastens the ripening after the fruit is
packed shortens the period of commer-
cial value. Any treatment that checks
the ripening prolongs the marketing
period. The value of wrapping apples
in paper has been tested in both sea-
sons by the experiment station of the
Iowa College of Agriculture and Me-
chanic Arts. The comparison was
made with duplicate quantities of fruit
that were grown and handled In the
same way. One lot was not wrapped,
and with the other each apple was
^rapped in unprinted newspaper.
With some varieties like the Gano,
Roman Stem, Salome. WInesap and
other hard, late ripening sorts the
advantage of wrapping in paper was
not very apparent. But with tender
varieties like the Clemons, Jonathan
and Wealthy a wrapper was a dis-
tinct advantage in extending the life
of the fruit, preserving its natural
brightness and lessening the amount
of decay. A wrapper serves to reduce
the bruising that may result from poor
packing or from rough handling in
transportation. It retards shriveling
and adds to the value of the fruit by
preserving its attractive appearance.
The wrappers cost about 20 cents per
thousand for newspaper 9 by 12
inches.
J. A. Neel,
Real Estate Agent,
WILMER, TEXAS.
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