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...Going through some woods, he sees a Negro lynched. A farmer gives him a job. He casts lustful eyes on the farmer's wife, lets his imagination run away with him and tries to rape her. Her scream brings the old farmer, sends the hero flying. A vegetarian hermit takes him in, tries to teach him the good life. But he is obsessed by thoughts of the factory; he leaves the hermit and goes back to town. A strike is on; the police break up a labor meeting. He sees red, tries to kill a policeman. But it works...
...September choice of the English Book Society, is her third novel (first two: Young Anne, High Wages). Says Authoress Whipple: "I begin each novel gaily, then I get drawn in, it becomes an extremely serious business, it looms up and covers my life. I live like a hermit during this time. I weep over the sad parts. Chekhov says this is a bad thing to do, but I can't help...
Died. Sam Edwards, 72, Cincinnati hermit, onetime carpenter; in Cincinnati. He was the last surviving member of the 1884 Cincinnati jury which by returning the lenient verdict of manslaughter against Murderer William Berner, roused Cincinnati citizens into storming the jail, plunged Cincinnati into three high days of murder, arson and pillage in which 50 were killed, hundreds injured, millions of dollars worth of property destroyed...
...Chicago, after paying $32,500 of alimony in 13 years, Garfield J. Schieferstein, onetime rich realtor who lived "like a hermit in one of my vacant flats, with a bed and a chair as my only furniture," committed suicide. He left a note: "I leave this world because I have been ruined by my wife and the laws and courts that make the racket of alimony possible. ... I had the grief and my wife had the gravy. Goodby, world, you are too much...
...Albert Johnson a few questions. They knocked on the cabin door, but Albert Johnson did not answer. Three bullets splintered the door and smashed into Constable King's chest. McDowell did not wait. He dragged his friend to their sledge and cracked his snake whip as loud as Hermit Johnson's rifle. Tongues out, the husky dogs plunged forward. They made the 100 miles back to Aklavik in 20 hours. It was a record and it saved Constable King's life...