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Show I ' ,iFCSOTX TOW" FTT HERE i.i an arletocrallc boardlng-B boardlng-B house 'on Third East whcrn the J landlord "has purchased :i Jersey cow and furnishes cronm for his gnosis as rich as tinted white- velvet. Everything was working all right with tho now cow until a fow days ago, when tho Ice-bos was given a coat of shellac; then tho. Jersey milk began to taste queer. The guests began to dlsctiKs tho matter, and some of tho men who occasionally bring a dark brown, furry fasto homo with them during the wee sma' hours of tho morning, Insisted that the milk was all rleht. I But the women knew better, and tho discussion waxed warm over tho shellac flavor absorbed from tho Ice-box, until one young woman settled the question by remarking: 1 "I know what It Is. It's worry." "Worry make a cow's milk taste queer?" incredulously gnsped ono of the men. "I'll bet she's been eating onions or wont on a toot lost niGht." "No," snld tho young woman, "It's Just I plain worry. Poor Bossy, taken away ' from home, frlonds and family, and brought here among strangers, has been worrying." ' That sottlod it, but ihc landlord has bought a new Ice-box. The thoft of flowers from the graves of I ho buried heroes of the war brings up n question In the minds of many a to whether the Mowers placed In such reckless reck-less profusion upon tho resting plucos of the doad would not do more good for tho living. Jn tho hospitals and in many of the rcoror homes where- Illness abides, tho fragrance of flowers would como as a true example oC God's grace. Ono roso would be worth moro than medicine In pome, cuses, and In' others a bunch of i carnations or violets would carry tho .vweetness and bcouty and sunshine of tho fields to thoao whoso appreciation would go up In gratitude to the Most High. Tho dead need no help, and If they did thero Is no way to help them; but the , living "do and the III and bcd-rldden de serve aid. I On next Saturday the last effort will hi' mado to save the Ufa of Charles Botha. Tho Board of Pardons will meet In special spe-cial session 'at that lime to hear new arguments why the sentence of tho condemned con-demned man should be commuted to Im- Iiu isuiuiieiiL iov inc. Tho contention Is that Botha had been ' previously wronged by Tlbbetts. In thai the wealthy raneher had taken advantage of his absence and his poverty and had seduced Botha's young wife. Botha claims that ho was so Incensed on learning learn-ing of lhf outrage on his homo that he was unable to restrain himself. And I when ho found the rancher and Tlbbotts j . at tho latter's homo ho felt so wronged that tho only thought that came to him at that time was to tako the rancher's life, n Botha'rt wife, her luckless husband says, at templed to shield the rancher, and In ' the melei that followed Botha's appear ance at tho Tibbetts home alie, too, was , killed. ' r Botha said that ho loved ' his wife and was doing all he could to provide for her. The wealthy man offered her riches. He destroyed, the young German's horn. It is not a new case. It is one of tho oldest in history. Juries have turned many a man free for doing no more than ( did this haplrso "Dutch Charlie." It Is a terrible thing to have taken these two lives. In tho midst of their sins, but it was a greater crime for the rancher to have destroyed the sanctity of tho poor miner's home. Tlbbetts got no more than ho took chances of recplving when he carried nw&y the young woman that "Dutch I Ohm-He" had made his wife. It is doubt ful If tho law should do more In such casc than ,to establish tho provocation I for hSorfendOrSvjleath. Thero are some, j y things that even IkoSo of tho lower walks hold dearer thnn llfo Itaolf a pure homo. But Charllo Botha ls not an Ignorant man. He has nomo of thc finest traits of character. lie is not a degenerate. Botha was wronged. His wrath resulted in tho death of tlnj man who carried away 1 Is wife and in tho death of the woman who betrayed him. Few men could resist ko great a temptation as the poor young ! German bad. The members of tho Board of Pardons may not forget this. Murder commltltcd In the heat of great Iasslon Is seldom punished with death. At tho best Botha must have been in a Jealous rage. A law that would Justify every man to protect the sanctity of tho home, even to the greatest extreme, would not be nearly so merlMess as many of tnc laws, . -iow enforced, that aro considered tho es- T sence of propriety. . ........ .... ....p.t. WUUVII3 vtiijui;; m nrlngs about. Here" Is a newspaper Item that tells of the courts awarding a work-, work-, "inn JGCOO for the loss of an arm. That f name arm on time saved iny life." The foregoing remark, bv a citizen of Salt l,aks, called for an explanation. "It was like this. When I was young" and given to meddling In matters that M ",,,,,.ot Particularly concern me, I was l - foolish enough to criticise a police officer for brutality. Ho had knocked a man down and was beating him unmercifully nnd needlessly, when I xamc along. It riled ma as I have not Iwcn at any time In my life, perhaps, and to several men who Ktood nar I mndo the remark that an of-fWr of-fWr who would knock a man down a"d mmw, brat him while he was down, was a cow- MI B "I have- not changed my opinion on this B, point, but I learned a short Umo after- Pi nrd that it Is not irnfo to criticise an of- I "This brutal ofilcer's Chief heard of my l remark. He hunted mo up, and. being a l. hot-tempered man, having killed a man L while in a passion but a year boforo. ho asked me what I had said about Ids sub-ordinate. sub-ordinate. A crowd had cohVcted by this time, and it socmcd that I was the only pno that did not know tho Chief was lii-HL lii-HL toxlcated and very angry. When he asked mWt 1 "ie what I had Hald In crltlclHm of his deputy I repeated my words. Next mln-mWi mln-mWi I Ue I was attempting (o dodgo an elght- f en-ounce club In the hands of a drunken Hl and desperate man. "Tllt crow!J. sharing my opinion as to an officers brutality, resolved Itaclf into' , a relief party and It soon became a mob. At the moment that several weapons wero drawn by my friends, I being unarmed, tho subordinate whom I had criticised, rushed In nnd shielded my temple with his strong right arm from a desperate blow of hln Chief. Tho blow disabled tho arm for weeks and saved my life. "The brutal officer was relieved from tho fcrce and his Chief wan defeated for ro-ulcctlon. Tho former went to work In a car shop. Two yearn ago hla arm, the one with which he defended me. was mangled man-gled so badly It was amputated. Now the company is paying for that xama arm. "One thing I have often thought about Is that deoylto hla brutality,' when on-raged, on-raged, tho officer was a flno fellow. Wo afterward became fast friends. In fact, he never seemed to have held anything against mo for crltlolnlng him. "Hhis Chlof died several years later from consumption. Before he died a fow dnvs he had himself brought to my offico 'to ask my forgiveness for tho unprovoked aft-' snult on mc, nnd I never cxtondod a pin-ccrcr pin-ccrcr hand to a man In my life than I did to him. r Roc,,ntly lourlat was quoted In 'Tho Man About Town' ridiculing one of the churche-M of A-shevlllo. N. O.," writes it bint Laker. "A considerable part of rav life hps been apent In Ashevllle, and I should like to point out a few Inaccu-rac.ox Inaccu-rac.ox In tho tourist's statement. Afilicvlllp Is a cltybullt for strangers J no floating population outnumbers tho resident two to one. Only ono church there has been built-hy rich man-All S? "Is . on the Blllmoro ostato of George andcrhllt-and It. as Its name Is Intended In-tended to Indicate, Is opon to all comers J here are rented pews In that church-it in 10 "'v church In tho vicinity of Ashe-yiiio Ashe-yiiio which renin pews but one-third of 1,s, .gating area Is reserved for vlKltore. Ihere Is not a church In tho county of Buncombe (the county In which Ashevllle ls, situated) which ha3 a door to a pew . u.s,,V;r ,wnom he said was unobllg-ng unobllg-ng most likely took him for nn escaped inmato of tho Stato mental hospital at Morgantown. If he brushed him asldo as ho says. n,'rr,, l0,,r'st continues: 'Several pcoplo then canio from their pews and begged filt. Ylth then,: ,rul 1 declined and. going outside, procured a block of wood and marched back to tho front and sat upon H. "If In lnrnnnnl..nl.l. l . . . . i i i . nirti uny man snouiu mS1P s0 n-ycA act. First he forced ? ,TnnPftSLth,0 ,,ser- wlo was ready and willing to show him a scat; and thon aftr being proffered several seats b pew-holders Insulted tho congregation nnd disturbed tho service by carrying In would bo in the way. It is indeed a wonder that he was not given an entire pew to himself (fitted with door and lock and boly In the city Jail." |