Educates Herself to Free Husband.
Fired with the ambition to become a lawyer, that she may some day obtain the freedom of her husband, who is serving a life sentence for the murder of Charles Reuter, a Tulsa, Okla., lawyer, Mrs. Mamie Baker, dividing her time between household duties and public school, has advanced from the lowest grammar grades to the high school in less than two years. Mrs. Baker is a Bohemian, and unfamiliarity with the English language has been an additional drawback to her.
When she completes high school, it is her aim to enter a law office. She insists she will be a practising attorney in three years.
Mrs. Baker does not seek to obtain the freedom of her husband that she may again live with him, but to take the stain of crime from her name. She has always insisted her husband is innocent of murder.
Horse Stops Fast Express.
An engineer on a fast express on the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad received a signal to stop his train near Defiance, Ohio. It was an emergency signal, so the train was stopped as quickly as possible.
The conductor, amazed at the sudden stop, ran to the engine and reached it just as the engineer was preparing to go back to the train to ascertain the trouble. Both were dismayed when told no person had given the signal.
An investigation of the express car, however, revealed that a horse had the signal cord in its mouth and was pulling it with all its might.
Forgets He’s in Prison as He Hears Fifes Play.
A fife-and-drum corps visited the State Penitentiary, at Joliet, Ill., to give the prisoners a treat.