Show TM the chump tied he d tarried late her pater a voice came to hi i I 1 ke a shock hark ye bung loung man are you abart it s almost twel e 0 clock Y es sir but that Is yoi you see she a now an hour or so been sitting on tny my hat and I 1 I 1 really roulan t go and are you chump enough to get lour hat in such mishap hereafter Here aftel hang it in the hall don t keep it in your lap ed mott in new york SUB surl will wait as did jacob james jones of broadland arrested at salem S D a day or two ago on orl a warrant charging him with eloping nith v ith the 14 year old daughter of mr and mrs gorsuch was before judge geddis for examination after a conference ot of the parents with the accused and on the depre sen sent atlon tation that the two were desperate ly in love and would marry in spite of lock and bars and the objection of stern parents the father of the child said it if jones would wait two years bears he could have her that jones is a good man honest and industrious and is all right but too old for ella she is 14 and gonei Is 28 mr air gorsuch asked to have the ac tion dismissed at his cost which was done and jones was released from custody and the girl returned home with her parents stood still for six hours ralph leslie an actor who said his home is in marion ohio bet commer rial cial trai elers in the lobby of the erie hotel ote in dunkirk N Y 40 that he could stand without moving a muscle until 6 0 clock the next morning the bet was taken and it was agreed that if any one shoved him or otherwise disturbed him he was to take the money it was 10 25 0 clock when the bet was mas made leslie struck a position in the middle ot of the corridor and stayed there ic leonless until 4 30 a in when one 04 0 the travelers playfully scuffling with mith mother another struck one of the silent poser s feet moving it leslie forth with the 14 year old daughter of mr with quit and took the money wit nesses declare he had not visibly moved a muscle tor for six hours and five minutes lover of 75 Is a sprinter 0 the angry father of luella lantz a pretty barbour county W va girl 16 years old drove forty miles in pur suit of his daughter and thomas heatherly 75 years old her lover who eloped from their home and drove to gratton grafton the kev rev G W bent of st paul a M E church gratton grafton married them while they were seated in the buggy and as soon as the ceremony was completed they started on their return home the parent of the girl bride arrived only a few minutes too late to stop the ceremony they start ed on their forty mile honeymoon without the blessing of mr lantz the aged groom driving wita one arm as they started homeward was haunted by child childs s face I 1 see the child a face still waking or sleeping I 1 can cant t stand it this line was hastily scribbled on a bit of paper tacked to the bedpost in the room where F W fels ferschmann achmann a railroad watchman blew out his brains beichmann Felch Feich mann some weeks ago saw a man and a little child killed at his crossing and since then was moody and irritable telling friends that the face of the child haunted him several times he threatened to kill himself to get rid of the haunting face pittsburg pa dispatch sample of english fog when a very dense fog settled over the thames valley a few sundays ago and most densely over london it im posed a complete silence on animal life london was itself as silent as the grave for all traffic was stopped and as on sunday traffic of any kind is reduced fo to a minimum the great city was almost as still as a country village at midnight the streets and even the river were almost without a sound tor for not a single tug was moving on the thames in the country no bird uttered a sound they all sat still silent and moping shrewd scheme of newspaper taking advantage of the fact that letters addressed to the president ot of the french republic to the presidents of the and chamber and to the prefect of police do not require to be stamped the matin a paris per has organized a 0 hew new system 01 ol petitioning in favor of scent 2 cent postage with every paper sold a postcard is addressed to the president ol 01 the chamber of deputies the readers are gre asked to 0 o sign it and drop it into 4 the nearest postbox rescued exhausted deer A deer attempted to swim acres lake a body of near the village of norway me but encountered ice of considerable thick ness when yards from the shore the animal broke the ice fee before him tor for another yards before he became exhausted persons on the shore seeing his predicament rowed to life hi rescue dragging him into the boat in such a helpless condition that he made absolutely no resistance new material for paper south africa is to enter the paper making world it having been found that a kind of grass which grows there makes an excellent grade of paper british manufacturers are already put ting up mills there vessel a ng present A rich jewish merchant of smyrna presented his daughter with a ship as its a wedding present and called the ves sel either Est after the girl the name is inscribed on the ship in hebrew letters feed the government kitty an imperial decree has been issued forbidding any russian club to use a pack of cards more than once every pack ol 01 playing cards in russia pays a tax |