Bemidji Daily Pioneer Newspaper, March 8, 1917, Page 19

NEW YORK VICTIM "OF A GREAT HOAX “Queen of Alaska” Engages Glty's Attention. FATHER “SPILLED BEANS® 'or @ Week New York's Newspapers Devoted Columns to “Visitor From Prozen North,” Who Turns Out to Be Louise Sachen, Daughter of Kansas Clty Park Watchman. Louise Sachen, the ‘“queen of Alaska” who created a sensation in New York ‘with her tales of the frozen north, has confessed that she had bent the a little here and there in the $0,000 or 40,000 words she has told to that great city during seven days ‘about how Broadway reacted on a which had previously recelved ns only of the majestic scen- y and the primitive human types of far north. d of having lived since child- among rough but open hearted in bearskin in the much ‘Sfmed wild places of Alaska, Louise ?flmd that her impressions of New i¥ork were based on the solid back- d of sixteen years of Kansas observation and experience. The way to look at her, as she ex- was as an ordinary Kansas girl polisted by three years of fn Alaska. The “Queen’s” History. . Louise left her family in Kansas City Pecause she did not like them and went 49 Alaska for three years. She return- ‘el to Kansas City last year, found she &id not like it and bolted for New b She wanted to disconnec’ her- sulf from Kansas City, which sne did @0t Nke, and to identify herself with ‘Aaska, which she did like, so she al- ‘nfl her history slightly when she B t to New York. As she added to this little fiction, in order to explain it, under the cross examination of inter- viewers she built up the gigantic and minutely finished tale which filled sev- eral New York papers for eight days. ‘When she arrived in New York with F and a fair wardrobe she told the clerk she had lived all her life Alaska and had never seen a real @ity before. The hotel press agent was ealling up hotel reporters a few min- utes later. There was plenty of novelty in her middle western viewpoint. Her eriti- ~clsm of subways, lapdogs, rouging and , French cooking, theaters, lew York men’s looks, New York wo- men’s clothes and Broadway lights ‘were as quaint as if they came from a white Eskimo or from a man from Mars. - Photographed and Filmed. |2 . She was photographed innumerable s times. She was filmed as a current event for a Broadway theater. She was invited to address the University forum, in the Washington Irving High school, Temple university, Philadel- phia, and other gatherings of intellec- tuals. She got an offer of $850 a week to go into the “movies.” When the bubble burst, as she mourned because her father had spoiled everything by revealing the secret of her life in Kan- sas City, she pointed to a stack of let- ters from all parts of the east and as far south as Chattanooga. “Qh, pop certainly spilled the beans!” she mourned. “He certainly did spill the beans right. I wrote him to say that I died at the age of two years if anybody asked him. “Why, I was planning to wind a chain of nuggets around the old man. I was going to bring him on as the old miner that I said was my dad. I would have got $850 a week if he had kept quiet. That’s more than he makes in a year as a sparrow nurse in Kan- sas City.” What Is a “Sparrow Nurse?” “What do you mean by a sparrow nurse?’ “He is a watchman in the city parks —head watchman. Can you imagine 1t? He would rather be an owl watch- er all his life.” . Louise said that her parents were Austrian and that she was one of ten children. Her parents and older broth- ers and sisters kept up their Austrian connections and talked the language, she said, whereas she became Ameri- canized by working as a telephone girl in Kansas City after leaving school. It was in Juneau, Alaska, that she met Jim Moloney, she said, who gave her the diamond earrings and the en- mement ring on her finger. “He bought the telephone company, and 1 went with it,” she said. The $1,000 which she brought from Alaska, she said, consisted of savings of $30 a wmonth for three years as a telephone girl. The best evidence that her fame burst upon her unexpectedly is in the fact that she failed to assume a new name, sc that her week of greatness came to an end as soon as Kansas City beard about it. Asked about this fatal error, she said she was afraid to. She had beard that it was a penitentiary offense. “One thing my father says is abso-| lutely false.” Louise insisted. “That is that I was a biscuit shooter. I never waited on a table in my life. Please don’t call me a biscuit shooter. I bave shot plugs in a switchboard and ever won a medal at Juneau for efficiency in shooting plugs. but that is all.” Louise is still in New York. but sh¢ e hag left her hotel and now lives in & boarding house. ABOUT YOUR RUGS A Short H|story of Their Early Orlgms and Kinds. RAG ONES ARE AMERICAN. A Word About the Two Methods Which Give Woven and Tufted Carpetings. Before You Buy Prime Yourself About the Different Kinds. Most rugs are made according to one of two methods, which gives us woven and tufted carpetings. The latter is distinctly oriental and is made upon a foundation warp composed of hemp- en, woolen or silk threads. The num- ber of these threads depends upon the breadth of the rug and its desired fine- ness or coarseness. Lengths of col ored wool or the hair of a camel or goat or silken threads are knotted on to the warp threads, with the two ends of the individual twists standing up. ‘What is called a weft thread is then run across the warp and another line of tufts made. The whole is brought securely together by means of a hand instrument, the ends of the tufts clip- ped to an equal length by expert fin- gers,and thus a tufted rug is completed. Writing in 1632, Pierre Dupont, a master carpet maker of Paris, said he was convinced that rug weaving was taught to the French by the Saracens after the latter had suffered defeat at the hands of Charles Martel in 726. ‘The middle ages found the art flour- ishing all over Europe and especially in France and Flanders. Colbert, minis- ter of Louis XIV., who did so much to aid the birth of industrial France, es- tablished the Hotel des Gobelins in 1667 as a state manufactory, and the enterprise grew to be one of the nota- ble institutions of the realm. In 1701 William III. of England granted royal charters to weavers in Wilton and Axminster, towns which were to give their names to types of carpeting that have come down to the present day. The fame of the Wilton rug was largely due to Henry, earl of Pembroke and Montgomery, who brought two Frenchmen, Antoine Du- fossy and Pierre Jemale, to England and put them in charge of operations at Wilton. Their skill .and enterprise won fame for the establishment in a little while. Other French and Flemish weavers followed, and the industry was fairly launched. The opening of the nineteenth cen- tury saw much experimentation in the effort to produce a satisfactory ma- chine made carpeting. Erastus B. Bige- low, an American, and William Wood, an Englishman, perfected the Jacquard loom to a point where it could be de- pended upon to turn out a uniform product of good quality. The passing years have witnessed further impor- tant development, and results are now accomplished by mechanical process that will stand the test of comparison with the hand made article. Not until 1880 did the French turn to machinery for carpet weaving, and they at first adopted English machin- ery to a great extent. So it was that the art first crossed the channel and then came back in a different form after the lapse of centuries. In America we have produced at least one kind of floor covering which we may claim as our own—the rag rug. In colonial times rag rugs were made in considerable numbers, and it was deemed a fine accomplishment for a woman. Much ingenuity was shown ln the matching of colors. EX-SLAVES SEEK MILLIONS. Supreme Court Now to Decide Civil War Cotton Picking Claims. The United States supreme court has been asked to decide whether the fed- eral government shall pay $68,000,000 to former slaves and their heirs for cot- ton picked in slavery times. Their claims are presented in an appeal by H. N. Johnson of Muskogee, Okla., and other former slaves und their heirs and “all others similarly situated.” The suit is directed agains'. Secre- tary McAdoo as custodian of the gov- ernment funds and recites that the slaves were held in involuntary servi- tude and forced to gather the southern states’ crops. They received no return for their labor, while the government collected the $68,000,000 in taxes on raw cotton. Accounting for the labor performed and a pro rata distribution of the money among those entitled to pay for the labor are asked. The Dis- trict of Columbia courts dismissed the suit. SITTING BULL’'S WIDOW DEAD Was Burned In Trying to Rescue = Valued Blanket. Small Woman, former wife of Sitting Bull, noted Indian chief, whose band annihilated Custer and his command on the Little Big Horn in 1876 and who was killed fifteen years later at the battle of Wounded Knee, died a few days ago at the Fort Berthold Indian reservation. North Dakota, of burns suffered when fire destroyed her shack at Lucky Mound. Small Woman escaped from her burning cabin uninjured. but returned to rescue an old blanket which she prized highly. and her clothing took fire. She was a native of Mandan and was eighty years old. At the time of her death she was the wife of a Unit- ed States Indian scout Pet Mule Causes Strike. The miners at a colliers in Shamokin. Pa., refused to work because a pet mule had been transferred to another working. An attempt was made to have the officials return the mule and upon their refusal the men went on | strike. “DO IT NOW.” A Tip For the Girl Who Wants Suc- cess In Business. “I think that the best advice any young woman can get when she goes into business life is contained in these three words, ‘Do it now,’” said the woman manager of an interior decorat- ing establishment. “I have more trou- ble in my business over that one sin of procrastination than all the rest put together. It's incredible the amount of follow up I have to do, and it takes time that I ought to give to important work. “For instance, one young woman here who has taste and sound train- ing In the punciples of decoration. could be invaluable to me. I would give her a position that any girl could be proud of except for the fact that I cannot depend on her. Inspiration Miscellany Get the Habit. Now, taking your pencil in hand, will you read the following list of good habits and check off as many as you can conscientiously subscribe to and say “That I do?” Get the habit of early rising. Get the habit of retiring early. Get the habit of eating slowly. Get the habit of being grateful. Get the habit of being punctual. Get the habit of fearing nothing. Get the habit of speaking kindly. Get the habit of seeking the sunshine “She had somhe special velvet bang-|daily ings to make up last week. They were to be trimmed with an edging that could only be bought in one place. It was her job to get this, to have the velvet ready for the worker, properly measured, to make a visit to the house where the hangings were to be put up. and to get the final word from the owner as to which of three different linings was to be used. “She should have done all these things in one morning. Well, it took her four days and then she hadn’t seen the owner about the linings, and the work bhad to be stopped. While the worker’s time was being paid for, she went up there. She hadn't learned the The Donor. George and Ethel were married a few weeks ago and returned from their honeymoon to a ducky little bungalow garnished throughout with the usual valuable but useless silverware and jewelry which kind friends shower upon the newly married. The day after their arrival two tickets for a down- town theater reached them, ac- companied by a little scented note bearing the simple message, “Guess who sent them?” They found it im- possible to identify the donor, but nev- ertheless decided to use them. An the end of a pleasant evening they returned to their home to find the place stripped of everything. On the dining room table lay another lit- tle scented note bearing the legend, “Now you know!” B3 FIRMNESS. Firmness is a great virtue. Firmness, both in sufferance and exertion, is a character which | would wish to pos: | have always despised the whining yelp of compjaint and the cow-rdly. feeble resolve.—Burns. B ——— Get the habit of speaking correctly. Get the habii'of closing doors gently. Get the habit of neatness in appear- ance. Get the habit of relying on self al- ways. Get the habit of a forgiving spirit. Get the habit of being industrious. '(‘ilet the habit of apprehending no evil. Get the habit of anticipating only good. Get the habit of always being pro- gressive. Get the habit of always paying as you go. Get the habit of a quiescent concen- tration. Get the habit of daily physical exer- cise. Get the habit of being accommodat- ing. Get the habit of economy, not stingi- ness. Get the habit of eating but one hearty meal a day. Get the habit of hoping on and hop- ing ever.—Nautilus. Labor Cheerfully. Who art thou that complainest of thy life of toil? Complain not. Look up, my wearied brother. See thy fel- low workmen there in God’s eternity, surviving there, they alone surviving; sacred band of the immortals, celestial’ bodyguard of the empire of mankind. To thee heaven, though severe, is not unkind. Heaven is kind, as a noble mother, as that Spartan mother saying while she gave her son his shield, “Return with it, my son, or upon it."— Thomas Carlyle. Learn to Save It is a certain and sure fact that not every one in this world can be rich. Neither does every one want to be rich, but every man can, if he wil, form such a habit of thrift that when trouble overtakes him, as it must over- take all, he will be able to ward off much of its unpleasantness. It is a truth that goes without dis- putation that many of the bitter things that come to us along with our trou- bles are caused by the knowledge of the truth that had it not been for ex- travagance in the past the trouble of today would have been of less moment and more easy to bear. It's a good thing for a man to have friends upon whom he can depend in moments of adversity—“A friend in need is a friend indeed”—but the best friend that a young man can have when the storm strikes his life is a bank account that has grown from small to larger amounts, saved fror his salary by the habit of thrift that he has formed.—Exchange. —_— ASK UNBORN OFFIGIALS T0 'OPEN GOPPER BOX IN 2015 The Authorities of Ashburnham, Mass., Have Posted Invitation For President In That Year. The unborn president of the United States, the town authorities and the editors of the New York Times of 2015 have been invited to attend on the second Saturday in September of that year the opening of the Louis H. Bisenlohr box at Ashburnham, Mass., which was placed in the vault of the town treasurer in 1915 with instruc- tions that it be not opened for 100 years. The invitation reads: “The MCMXV executive town offi- clals, trustees of Cushing academy and directors of the Watatic club of. Ash- burnbam, in Massachusetts, request the presence of the editors of the New York Times in 2015 to meet the presi- dent of the United States and hig ex- cellency the governor, his staff and the executive council of Massachusetts at the celebration of the opening of the Louis H. Eisenlohr box the second Sat- urday in September, 2015. R. 8.V, P.” The invitation is engraved and, bear- ing the seal of the town of Ashburn- ham, is framed under glass so that it may be hung on a wall where it will stand a chance of preservation for nearly 100 years. Messages from prominent men and records of 1915, including a copy of the Times and other matter of probable interest to those alive in 2015 are in the box, which is made of copper. It was presented to the town by Louls H. Eisenlohr of Philadelphia and is to be opened under the supervision of Cushing academy. Another box not to be opened for 100 years was placed un- der an elm tree which Mr. Eisenlohr planted on the academy campus, An Obstructionist. “8o0 you are going to have a new gown?" “I don’'t know. Mother has passed the bill, but I expect father will veto it. He Is opposed to all our bills now- adays.” IT FLIES OVER GROUND OR UP IN THE AIR Photo by American Press Association. One of the most interesting exhibits shown at the aeronautical show in New York city was the autoplane, a unique combination of an automobile and an aeroplane—a vertitable “aerial limousine,” which will not only run over the ground at approximately forty-five miles per hour, but will leave the surface of the earth and fly away like the magie chariots of old. MINE PLANTERS STATIONED ALONG OUR COAST Photo by American Press Association. At the first signs of renewed trouble with Germany the government mine planters recently completed were sent to various ports along the Atlantic coast. Here are four of the new vessels. Left to right: General Mills, Gen- eral Ord. General Schofield and General R. T. Frank. GERMAN PRISONER ESCAPES T0 U. 8. Gaptive Makes Amazing Get- away From French Camp. GROSSED SEA AS STOWAWAY Fiek, Captured In Marne Battle, Elud- ed Guard In Snowstorm, Fled by Night to French Coast and Stole Aboard Norwegian Bark—Won't Be 8ent Back. ‘Two years in a French prison camp at Rouen prompted Otto Fiek, a Ger- man prisoner of war, to make a desper- ate break for liberty, make his way to Havre and stow himself away on the Norwegian bark Metropolis, which ar- rived at Philadelphia. There is every prospect that he will be a free man as soon as the immigra- tion officials have considered his case. A 8olid six feet of muscle and sinew and twenty-six years old, Fiek was as- signed at the beginning of the war to the crack Prussian guards division of the German army, under the command of General von Kluck, which fought its way through France in September, 1014, almost to the very gates of Parls, Captured on the firing line during the terrific fighting which marked the bat- tle of the Marne, Fiek was first sent by his French captors to a temporary prison camp behind their lines and later traunsferred to the prison camp at Rouen, one of the largest and most strongly guarded prison camps in France. Free From Danger. Fiek at first enjoyed his respite from everlasting fighting by day and march- ing by night. He was content to eat the scanty prison fare of bread and soup and at night to le on the few wisps of straw that separated him from the damp earth, resting happy in the knowledge that his loved ones in the fatherland were spared the horrors of war and that he himself was safe from French bayonets. But gradually thoughts of escape en- tered his mind. With the powers of observation bred by German military discipline, he noticed that the vigilance of the sentinels on guard over the camp was relaxed on stormy nights. The night of Dec. 5, 1016, brought a storm of thick snow and heavy wind, and, selzing his opportunity to pass the sen- tinels, he scaled a thirty-two foot wall surrounding the camp and, dropping to the ground, found himself on the banks of the river Seine. Knowing that escape to the frouticers on the east was closed by marching troops and Interminable miles of trenches, he decided that his best chance to escape lay in following the course of the Seine westward to the sea. Avolding the main traveled roads, he stole through the woods along the banks of the river and at dawn slipped, like a hunted rat, into a peas- ant barn. Stealing his food where he could find it, he covered 100 miles in this way until at the end of ten days he found himself at the mouth of the river and at the seaport of Havre. Stole Aboard Ship. Moored to a dock he found the Nor- weglan bark Metropolis, ind, utilizing his knowledge of IFrench acquired dur- ing his imprisonment, he ascertained that her next port was I’hiladelpbia, which spelled freedom to him. Wait- ing till the crew went ashore to say farewell to their friends, he climbed aboard over a hawser and hid in the hold behind the water tanks of the ship. The Metropolis sailed three days lat- er, on Dec. 18, and at the end of three days more his meager supply of provi- slons, consisting of a loaf of bread, was exhausted. In a semistarved con- dition he gave himself up to Captain Turgussen while he was writing the day’s log. The captain was consider- ably mystified at Flek's appearance and bhad difficuity in solving the mys- tery because Fiek could speak only German and French, while the cap- tain speaks English and Scandinavian, .but the captain finally grasped his story and put the stowaway to work. During the remainder of the voyage Fiek was treated as one of the crew, doing the same work as far as lay in his ability and receiving the same al- lowance of food and tobacco. On the arrival of the Metropolis in Philadel- phia he was confined to his quarters until the arrival of the immigration officers. UPROAR IN PRISON. Clever Ventriloquist Convict at Leaven- Worth Defies Detection by Guards. A ventriloquist among the convicts of the Federal prison at Leavenworth, Kan., who apparently has at his com- mand all the tricks of the professional, is causing the guards to spend much time trying to evolve a plan for his de- tection and silence. The large cell rooms are acoustically perfect for the exercise of the convict’s art, and night- 1y the guards and inmates are aroused by walils of distress, laughter, dog barks and dialogues between a man and a woman which eventually end with a fight. So far the practical joker is enjoy- ing his art undisturbed, but unless the guards obtain results within a few days, they declared today they will of- fer a reward among the convicts for the disturber of their peace.