The Washington Bee Newspaper, November 30, 1895, Page 1

A PAPER FOR THE PEOPLE. J FIRESIDE COMPANION. It is true if you see it in | ‘THE BEE. | poIwT BORROW THIS PAPER mist The Bee GREAT ADVERTISING MEDIUM. TRY iT: Do you want reliable news? Do you want & fearless race advocate? Do trade? Read and advertise See n THE BEE! vol =Iv OHIO IN THE SENATE. £X-GOV. JOSEPH B, FORAKER WILL SUCCEED SENATOR BRICE. ; fore announcing a decision that none , in View of the Retirement of | ior Sherman, He May Become an ortant National Figure — His Happy Domestic Relations. Our Cincinnati Letter. The result of the late election in )» determined the succession in the d States Senate on the expiration | » term of Calvin 8. Brice. The) r is so surely settled in the minds Ohioans, that the work of the} ature next January will be =| y a matter of form. Before the elec-| it was known throughout the na-| tion that the election of a Republican Legislature meant the return of Joseph | Benson Foraker to the United States! Senate. In view of the influence Ohio always existed in national politics, | he practical retirement of Senator | John S. Sherman from leadership in his party, the advancement of ex-Gov. For-! Bk 0 a place in the forum of national olitics at Washington will be an event i | politics, Hon. Joseph Benson Foraker. of the first importance. Foraker is still young, and full of ambition and his ca- reer is interesting at this time. Like Lincoln and Grant, he is from a farm. He was born among the pictur- esque hills and valleys of the interioz of the State in a log cabin near Rains- boro, ih Highland County, Ohio, July 5, 1846. He was a hard working boy, plowing with a span of horses before he was 10 years old. His youth was spent in the humble home of his parents, where he laid the foundation for his fu- ture life. The beginning of his educa- tion was in a small district school con- ducted in a log cabin, to attend which he walked, morning and evening, sev- eral miles, In spirit and enthusiasm he’ was al- ways in advance of his years, and he but 16 years old when on July 14, he enlisted as a private in Com- pany A of the Eighty-ninth regiment, Ohio volunteer infantry. He was the jirst man mustered in and the last man mustered out. His only act of positive disobedience of his parents and disre- gard of their wishes was when he made a bundle of his scanty wardrobe and left home to Bo torthe front in defense of his country. He served in this regi- ment until after the fall of Atlanta, at which time by successive promotions he had risen to the rank of first lieutenant. After the fall of Atlanta he was detailed for service in the signal corps and was assigned to duty as a signal officer on the staff of Major General Slocum, who was then commanding the left wing of the Army of Georgia. After the march through Georgia he was promoted to brevet captain “for efficient service dur- the campaigns in North Carolina Georgia,” and was made an aide- decamp on the staff of General Slocum. fhis position he filled until mustered out of service at the close of the war, June 13, 1865. One of his most brilliant services was in the battle of Missionary Ridge, on which day he commanded two com- Ss, led them, with his accustomed h and enthusiasm, beyond the line &t which the advance had been ordered to stop, and was among the first to scale the ridge and enter the enemies’ fore he was 19 years old the war s over, the union preserved, the slave d, and the boy soldier, with a three years of gallant service, d to the farm, the mill and the He resumed his studies and af- two years at the Ohio Wesleyan y, Delaware, Ohio, entered University, and graduated in first class in the classified course y 1, 1869. To make up time lost while © army he studied law while at- Cornell and so well had he been wn tutor, that on Oct. 14, 1869, he s admitted to the Hamilton County ar and at once began practice. On | publican national convention, and both | times presented the name of John | pathy into her husband’s aspirations | ly a home woman, who does not take | ever they appear. She loves out door Oct. 4, the next year ne was married to| | Miss Julia Bundy, daughter of Heze-} kiah S. Bundy, of Wellston, Ohio, now | a congressman from this State. i In April, 1879, he was elected judge of | the superior court of Cincinnati and| presided with signal distinction. So} thorough was he in his researches be-! he has given has been reversed. “But after three years he was obliged to take | @ year’s rest and he resigned, the ac-! ceptance being insisted upon by him in} the face of most urgent protests from the leading members of the bar. Then} he returned to the practice of the,law, but in 1883 was forced on to the repub- lican State ticket as nominee for gov- ernor, The crusade of the liquor in- terest against restrictive legislation de- feated the Republican ticket that year, but two years later Foraker was re- nominated and elected and served four years. In 1889 he was nominated the fourth time for governor, but was de- feated by James E. Campbell. Since then he has devoted himself continu- ously to the practice of his profession, the only interruption being his partici- pation in the several State campaigns and his canvass for United States Sen- ator against Sherman three years ago. In 1884 and again in 1888 he was chair- man of the Ohio delegation to the Re- Sherman. Mrs. Foraker is deeply interested in. and well informed, and has thus been able to enter with full sym- and his struggles. Yet she is essential- to the fads of modern days, but believes that the wife’s and mother’s greatest field of labor is in her home. She is a normal, healthy, sensible woman, un- pretentious, but cultivated and hospit- able. She is a woman of fine physica! development, and she and the ex-Gov- ernor are a conspicuous couple where- life, and takes daily drives. Mr. and Mrs. Foraker are very happy in their domestic relations. They have five children. Benson is 23 years of age} and junior member of the law firm of Foraker, Prior & Foraker. He is a graduate of Cornell. There is another son, Arthur St. Clair, three and a half years old. The daughters are Florence Margaret, 21; Clara Louise, 19, and Julia Bundy, 12. Florence was one of} last year’s debutantes in Cincinnati so-/| ciety. She is tall and slender, of sweet, unaffected manners. Louise and Julia are in private schools. They are like their mother, in that they have not be- come the victims of fads, except cycl-| ing. In taking up this form of outing exercise they were placed under the in- struction of a private woman physician, ' who gave them pmvate lectures on the advantages and disadvantages of bi- cycle riding for women, and who taught them when to ride and how to ride in- telligently and profitably. By the way, Mrs. Foraker is a firm believer in wo- men physicians for women. Mrs. Foraker has a gift for architec- | ture, and planned throughout their beautiful home on Cross Lane street, Walnut Hills, a suburb of Cincinnati. There is a charm of arrangement that pleases at first entrance. The walls are hung with etchings and paintings, and over all there is an air of comfort and good will. She did not forget a den) for the governor, beneath the stairway | that sweeps upward from the entrance door. There Mr. and Mrs. Foraker) spend much time together. The house is always a center of attraction, for| young people particularly, and there| are always good music and good cheer. | They are members of the Methodist | Spiscopal church, and Mrs. Foraker is| active in church work. WHEN IT RAINS. The Actions of Animals and Birds Before a Storm. There is no doubt that all animals, wild or tame, four-footed or with wings, have a deep-seated aversion to .ain or wet weather. Even water fowl will seek a dry hiding-place when it rains. Did you ever watch the actions of cattle before a big storm? If so, you must have seen them grow more and more as the clouds threatened. You a aw them run up and down the field if seeking to escape some impend er. Finally, when the s n does come, they draw closely to- ether, and, with. lowered heads, pre- seit a picture of despair. When it rains the domestic animals alwa keep in-doors, or, failing that, the shelter by the barn, or under trees in the woods, or beneath the hedges and thickets—in short, any | convenient place where they are not entirely exposed to the downpour. It is the same with fowls. They dis- | like the rain, which soaks their feath- ers. They seek sheltered places and creep under wagons, and squeeze in be- hind boxes and boards. Chickens do not mind wetting their feet, as they will scratch the muddy ground scon after a shower in search of worms and! bugs. Wild birds do their best to keep out of the rain. They find shelter in many ways. Some of them build a roof over their nests, in which they keep mcré/ or less dry. Others choose a house un-) der the eaves, or under a vrojecting cliff, where they are safe from the dis- comforts that the rain brings. But | most of them are without any adequate | forethought. shelter that is the result of their own They take refuge in any | place that,they happen to find at hand. | if you watch them before the coming Mrs. Jos ph E Foraker. i Be, of the storm, you will see'them looking around for shelter. If the storm comes suddenly, the small and helpless ones seem bewildered, flying from tree to tree and from limb to limb, quite un- able to make up their minds to a tem- porary hiding-place. — Our Animal Friends. ——— Blackstone. Blackstone, the celebrated English | Judge, wes born in 1723 and died inj 1780. ; | sett, Pulies, Chase and others. | Chas. Alexander and E, E. Cooper left | afternoon on business. | serving establishment of Mrs Haines, SUPERINTENDENT GEORGE F. COOK. Mr. Geo. F. Cook, whose _portait heads this column is one of the best known educatorsin this country. He is a true polished gentleman and aman whoghas the respect of the very best people. He has been superintendent_of the public schools fora number of years, in which capacity he is styled the princeof statisticians. His reports are always accurate and concise. He is a hard worker and a very quiet one. He is not given to bombast nor no- toriety. Mr. Cookis from one of the best families in this city. His brother is Mr. John F. Cook, the ex-Collector of Taxes, and who is also a man of wealth. By industry and perseverance the Cook family stands among the lead- ing lights of Washington, socially and financially. As a superintendent of the colored schools, itcan be said that he has never been oppressive nor does he as- sume what his position entitles him, so modest is the gentleman. He is*to be congratnlated on his successfnl career. CITY BREVITIES. _ Mr. Thomas H. Clark read a very interesting paper before the Shiloah Lyceum last Sabbath afternoon, en- titled ‘‘Cleveland.”” It was an_in- dorsement of the President. The paper was discussed by Messrs. Fas- Messrs. Chis. J. Perry, T. T. Fortune. the city Tuesday November 1g for At- lanta, Ga. Editor Chase and Manager Cam- eron were in Baltimore Wednesday A GRAND LADY. Washington can boast of many noble ladies belongiug to both races ; but one of the most efficient and business-like members of the feminine sex, is in the person of Mrs Haines, whose adver- tisement can be found in another column ot this weeks issue. The editor and general manager of The BEE were treated with much courtesy and great consideration from her most accomplished daughter, who whields a facile pen. The Ber feels safe in recommending the general public to patronize the de- a lady above par. WORKING AILEY. ER APPOINTED, The Republican Tonsorial Craft met on last Tuesday evening at the the Campaign Club Rooms of L. C. Bailey, 609 F sjreet, n. w. Mr. E. T. Harris in the chair and Mr. Wm. Broner, secretary. The committees report on rules was adopted, after which the very gentle- manly, Mr. Robert P. Searcey, by resolution was made district canvasser for Mr. Bailey. His business is to attend every meet- ing held and speak in the interest. of Mr. Bailey, and report at each meeting of the club. A CANV. Fatal Fight Among Tramps. South Bend, Ind., Nov. 27.—A fatal fight among tramps occurred last night in the western suburbs of the city. One of the participants, an unknown tramp was pushed in front of a passing Lake Shore passenger train and was terribly, injured. He died this morning. The tramp who committed the murde boarded the train in an endeavor to es eape. He was locked in a coach and brought to this city, where a fierce baz ‘te ensued. He defied a coachful of pas sengers and fought desperately for lib erty, but was finally clubbed into insen sibility by the officers and train crev’ and placed under arrest.. He may die. Hannigan Sent to an Asylum. New York, Nov: “~—David F. Hanni. gan, who on Thursday last was ac- quitted of the killing of Solomon H. Mann, on the ground of insanity, was brought before Justice Ingram in Oye ‘and Terminer yesterday. The court de nied ‘the motion of counsel for defense; to discharge Hannigan, and committe him to the State Asylum for the Insane at Poughkeepsie, “in strict adherence ¢ the spirit of the law.” — se 3 Ss & ceNpic of months ago to a woman who had had a previous marriage annuled on the; ground that she was insane at the time the ceremony was performed. I have now reason to believe that she was in- sane when she married me. If she wasn’t,” and his features relaxed into a melancholy smile, “I think I must have been insane to have married het. I am going to let the court decide that later on.”—Boston Globe. THE BEE TELLS THE TRUTH. PREJUDICE AT ATLANTA, The BEE was the first journal to in- form the people that there was a great | deal of prejudice at the Atlanta, Ga.,| Exposition. Notwithstanding the fact |that The BEE sent a special correspon- | | dent to the Exposition, and he has re-/} | ported prejudice in the worst extreme, | little bit disappointed. somé negro editors especially a local | | negro paper in this city and local chief, | Mr. Jesse Lawson declared that there} | was no prejudice whatever in Atlanta. | Mr. J. Garland Penn, chief of the Negro Exhibits sent at least two dozen letters to The Bree declaring that there | was no prejndice, but The Bre de- clined to publish the letters, because it knew Mr. Penn was a trimmer, and an apologist for the Southern white preju- | dice against the negro. | Editor T. T. Fortune, of New} York and President of the Afro-Ameri- | can Press Association verifies the} statement made in The Bee and in- dorsing Editor H. A. Hagler, of the Atlanta Peoples Advocate. The BEE tells the truth. SEVENTEEN BODIES FOUND. And Many Other Persons Have Been Blown to Pieces.:, Barcelona, Nov. 26.—A terrible acci- dent, resulting in a large loss of life, occurred yesterday at Palma, capital of the Islarid of Majorca, 130 miles south of this city. Eighty persons, most of whom were women, were employed in emptying old’ cartridges outside the walls of the town, when one of the car- tridges exploded in some unknown man ner. There was a large quantity of powder that had been taken out of car- tridges lying about over a large area, andthis was ignited by the discharge of the cartridge. A tremendous explosion followed, which shattered the masonry of the town walls, which are extremely thick and did considerable damage to houses. A large number of people were killed, but what the exact loss of life was has not yet beén ascertained. The bodies of seventeen dead have been found, but it is feared that many more were killed, their bodies, perhaps, having been blown to atoms, as a number of those who were at work have not been ac- counted for, Forty persons were seriously wound- ed, and some of them will die. Many of the dead and wounded were found} at considerable distances from thé scene of the accident, they having been hurled bodily through the air by the force of the explosion. Some of the dead were terribly burned and mangled, so much so that in a number of cases identifi-| cation will be estremely difficult, if not ‘mpossible. Ax official inquiry into the cause of the disaster will be held. A later dispatch from Palma states that the loss of life through the explo- sion was far greater than was stated’ in the first reports of the accident. It is now known that thirty-seven women and fourteen men were instantly killed. Thirty-five women and five men were seriously injured, and of this number twenty have since died. — __ AS BY A MIRACLE. A Girl’s Sight Restored Apparently in Answer to Prayer. Wilkesbarrre, Pa., Nov, 26.—Miss Agnes Pryor, aged seventeen, has had her sight restored in a miraculous man- ner. Seven years ago a playmate ac- cidentally stuck her finger in Agnes’s left eye and destroyed the sight. A few days later she lost the sight of the right eye also, and has been blind ever since until yesterday. Four years ago she heard a sermon, in which the priest said that God would do anything for those who had faith in him. This impressed her very much, and she began praying for her sight, repeating her prayer every day. Yesterday, .after experiencing for some hours a peculiar aching in her eyes, she was able to see with the right eye. Her sight improved gradually, and to-day she can see out of the left eye, and both are growing stronger. 4 ‘ : Socialist Raid. Berlin, Nov. 26.—The police this morn ing raided the houses of the Socialist members of the Reichstag and other leaders of the Socialist party. A thor- ough search was made of their domi ciles and all their literature and papers were impounded and taken to the office of the Chief of Police. It is reported that the action of the authorities is based upon some infringe ments of the Prussian-law covering the right of association. Among the resi- dences in which the police obtained pos session of documents were those of Her | ren, Singer and Bebel. Similar raids} were made at Breslau, Cologne and) other cities. | Had His Wife Murdered. | Meridian, Miss., Nov. 26—Lee Haw | thorne, a white man living near Au | gusta, hired a negro to murder his wife| a few days ago. He and the negro wer | arrested on suspicion. and tried before the Circuit Court of Perry County yes | terday. Both were convicted-and sen-} tenced to be hanged on January 8 After sentence was pronounced Haw- thorne confessed that he had employed | | the negro to murder his wife so as to enable him to marry..a Miss Merritt, a young girl of the neighborhood. The Sheriff placed the girl under arrest as an accomplice in the crime. She says she knew ‘nothing of Hawthorne's crime, | | Miss Parvenu’s Accomplishment. “She speaks French fluently, I be- lieve?” “Oh, no—affluentlyi” es ae ey pat: = Don’t fail to attend the Waller bene- fitat the Academy of Music Sunday night. THE REMRED BURGLAR, | 4 Brief Account of a Lively and Interesting Incident in His Career. “A house that I went into one night, in a town not very far out of New} York,” sgid the retired burglar, ‘didn’t | begin tospan owt as well as I expected it woulg, and I couldn’t help feeling a I'd been all ever the house and hadn’t got much more’n enough to pay my car fare. But when I came down stairs again I saw Standing in a oorner of the hall by the front deer something that I hadn’t no- tieed when I went up that pleased me very much, and that was a tricycle; a | girl's tricyele, with two high wheels and @ small wheel in front, with gal- venised wire spokes, and a long han- dle to steer by, and a seat upholstered with red veivet, and all that sort of thing, you know. You've seen lots of ‘em, no doubt. “3VeH, now, my little girl had been asking me for some time for a tricy- | cle, but business had been so everlast- ingly bad that I really hadn’t felt as though I could afford to buy her one, | but here was one waiting for me tc caary off, and it made me smile to look @t it; a bright new one it was, too. It was pretty near Christmas, and I thought I’d keep it and give it to her feg a Christmas present. “There wasn’t any rubber tires on it. so I didn't dare roll it across the hall, but I picked it up and carried it to a door that opened into an entry that med on to the cellar stairs, the way ’d come in. I got it to the first door all right, and into that entry way or hall witheut hitting anything, but in| gettin’ it through the door leading to’ the cellar stairs, goin’ first myself and backin’ down with it, the long handle flopped over in somehow and caught in the door when I wae just a step dewn. I tried to free it, and it freed easier than I expected, and I lost my balance and lost hold on the tricycle and fell down stairs. “Noise? Well, now, I tell you, I was in a steamboat explosion once, and; once in an explosion in a sawmill; but | I never began to hear so muth noise in | my life as I did when me and that tri- , cycle rolled down the cellar stairs. The | tricycle fell over me and I fell over the tricycle, and somewhere on the way down I believe I must have fell through the tricycle, for when we got down to the bottom I was all scratched and cut and my clothes was tore, and the tri- cycle was a wreck. I stood there for a minute looking at it, till I heard two men coming down the stairs to the hall above, and then I went away and left it lying there at the foot of the cellar; stairs. “So, you. see, my little girl didn’t get her tricycle that Christmas, after all.” N. Y. Sun. What Becomes of Them. Have we a record of people who mys- teriously disappear and are never heard | ef? said a well-known private detective \ to the writer. Why, we have many such cases. Sometimes foul play, or suicide, or aecident is the cause. Only yesterday the relatives of a well-know1 | gentleman visited us to obtain our help in the search for their connection, who had mysteriously vanished one night. What the total number of people who vanish from sight in this way every year may be I don’t know, but no doubt the police could tell you, says the New York Dispatch. At any rate, we had at least twenty during the last few months.. Sometimes we are successful | in finding the runaway or missing per- | son; at other times no trace can be dis- covered, or the remains may be found. ' You see, the means of disappearing are so easy that the police or private de- tectives have frequently no evidence to work upon. A reward of $100 was offered for the recovery of the body of a well-known gentleman, mtich respected in commer- cial circles. His business was in a sate isfactory condition, his relations and his family were of the best, and alto- gether he was not the man to disap- pear. But he did. He told his family that he wes going to Boston, but so far as we know, he never got therv. | | Everybody was on the qui vive; sea- | ports were watched, everything that could be done was done, but it was of !no avail. The gentleman had vanished completely. Business affairs cause many a man to disappear mysteriously. Bad trade, a mistake in some commercial transac- tion; gambling on the stock exchange, necessitating the abstraction of some of his employer’s cash, are all possible. Many a man who is lost to this country and in the minds of his relatives dead, is at this present moment enjoying ill- earned money in Spain or South Am- erica, where extradition laws are often of no avail The League of Virtue. The League of Virtue was one of those political organizations which sometimes spring up in countries, the inhabitants of which are restless under foreign domination, says the St. Louis Globe- Democrat. It was an association of German students formed in 1813, after the disastrous campaign of Napoleon in Russia had practically broken his power in the centre of Europe. Having learned that he was not invincible, dis- content in Germanw under the rule of the French manifested itself in many ways, among which this was one. The organization, which had branches in every college and university town in Germany, had for its object the totai expulsion of the French from every part of the German territory, and the members bound themselves by an oath never to rest, never to cease conspiring or to desist from public or private agi- tation so long as a French soldier re- mained on German soil. Though main}, composed of university students, its membership comprised persons of every class; it was joined by professors, min= isters, merchants, artisans, peasanta and others, and its principles were an imbodiment of the undying hatred of Germans for France and Napoleon. | scalps, another a wheelbarrow full. A PUSILIST’S DIREFUL ACT, His Two Children and Commits Suicide. Brooklyn, N. Y., Nov. 26.—A wrribla tragedy was enacted some time betwee: 5 o'clock p. m. Sunday and 2 a m. yes terday at No. 1295 Broadway, when Herman Hattenhorst, thirty-five years old, who keeps a school for physical de- velopment at that number, killed his two children, Viola, six, and Hazel, two and one-half years old, and then blew out his own brains with a revolver. Hattenhorst left his home at No, 1103 Green avenue at 4 o'clock in the after oon of Sunday, taking the children with him, and as he had failed to re- turn up to 1 a. m. his wife feared that something was wrong. A policeman was called and accompanied the woman to the Broadway address, and on as cending the stairway to the apartments found the door locked from the inside. The officer broke in the door, when a horrible sight met their eyes Stretched on the floor lay the man with blood flowing from his right temple, while tightly clinched in his right hand was a revolver, with which he had commit~- ted the suicidal act. Further investigation discovered a large box or chest which evidently had been used to store boxing gloves. Upon raising the lid the bodies of the little ones were found lying sleeping placidly in death, the cause of which had pre- viously been discovered in the attach- ment of a piece of rubber tubing to a gas jet, which was found turned full on, while the other end of the tube had been inserted in a hole bored in the side of the box. Hatterhorst was a boxing master, and it is thought he was deranged, as no other cause can be as- signeg. His wife is nearly crazed wit? Asphyxiates IMPORTANT CUBAN VICTORY. Ten Thousand Spaniards Said to Have Been Defeated at Taguasco, New York, Nov. 26—A messenger who arrived yesterday at the Cuban headquarters in New York from Cuba by way of Tampa, Fla., brings news of a fight November 19 at Taguasco. The engagement is said to have been of even more importance than the one at Bayamo some months ago, in which General Campos was nearly captured. The Spanish force, which numbered almost 10,000 men, was led by Gen- erals Valdez, Luque and Aldave. The Cubans, under General Gomez, about 4,500 strong, held an advanta- geous position at the foot of the hill. The fight lasted thirty-six hours, ac- cording to the story, but the Spanish troops were unable to dislodge the Cubans. General Antonio Maceo, who was in’ the vicinity, came up at this point, the messenger says, with 3,500 men, and after a fierce conflict the Spaniards were routed. The Cubans then advanced towards Cienfuegos and Trinidad. The particulars of this battle, it is said, were withheld by the Spanish authorities, and even the story written by the corrrespondent of El Heraldo, of Madrid, was suppresssed. General Aldave is said to have been killed, and almost 600 were killed m wounded on each side. General Gomez, it is reported, cap- tured 700 rifles and a considerable sup- ply of ammunition. Corn-Crib Full of Scalps. Port Jervis, N. Y., Nov. 26.—Stillwater township, Sussex County, N. J., agreed recently to pay ten cents each for scalps of ground hogs, skunks, wea-~ sels and foxes killed within its bor- ders. The result has caused the town committee to hastily reduce the price to three cents. One man brought a truck loar of & bicyclist brought three hundred tied to his wheels. School children added to the totals, until 10,000 scalps were in. The committee rented a corn-crib tc store the scalps. Not having money enough to pay the bounty they issued due bills, dated a month ahead, to give time to increase the tax budget. Those who brought scalps to-day were very angry when they heard mat the price had been cut to three cents, t i Shots for All Three. Scranton, Nov. 26.—At Throop, a few miles north of here, Seera Robbins shot and fatally wounded his wife and then shot himself. He died within a short time. The woman was brought to the Lackawanna Hospital, in this city, and is dying. The shooting was the result of a quarrrel and occurrred in the presence of Robert Brown Zerling, who, it is said, advised Mrs. Robbins’ to Jeave her husband. Robbins first shot at Zerling, and missed his aim. He then shot a bullet into his wife’s head and she fell unconscious. Robbins threw himself upon | er and kissed her. ‘Ta Doubtful Benedict Among the witnesses who appeared before the civil court the other day in an action of tort was one, a melancholy young man with a noticeable arrange- ment of features. When he took his place on the witness stand the examin- ing counsel began with the sterotyped: “Are you a married man or a single man?” ‘ The witness shifted about uneasy- | like from foot to foot and then answer- ed sadly: “dont know.” It was the lawyer's turn now to look uneasy. He glanced at the witness, | then at the court, and finally, running an eye the length of the young man,| as if about to give a guess on his weight asked in a kind of an amused way: “You're the first young man of your age that I ever met who couldn’t re- spond either affirmatively or negatively on that all-important question.” “J can’t,” said the witness, turning his head as if the subject was to him a disagreeable one. The lawyer asked him why. and, finding that he must : Then he rose and sent a bullet into his brain,