IIKENSIBE
MRS. MARY
Aitfcar f
'Bra Dmu." "The Enflltk OrptiiM
"Mcailowkrook." " I capes! toi
CHAPTER XVII. (Continued.)
Guy was a puzzle to himself. He would
not admit that during the past year his
liking for Maddy Clyde had grown to be
tiomething stronger than mere friendship,
nor yet that bis feelings toward Lucy had
undergone a change, prompting him not
to go to her when she was sick, and not
to ie as sorry as he ought that the mar
riage was again deferred. Lucy bad no
Mi.spioion of the change, and her child
like trust in him was tho anchor which
held him still true to her in intentions
at least, if not in reality. He knew
from her letters how much she had learn
fd to like Maddy Clyde, and so, he argued,
there was no harm in his liking her, too.
She was a splendid girl, and it seemed a
pity that her lot should have been so
lmmbly cast. This was usually the drift
f his thoughts in connection with her;
and now, as he stood there in that cot
tage, Maddy's home, they recurred to him
with tenfold intensity, for well he fore
saw that a struggle was before hiin if
be rescued Maddy, as he meant to do,
from her approaching fate.
No such thoughts, however, intruded
themselves on Maddy's mind. She did
not look away from the present, except
it were at the past, in which she feared
she had erred by leaving her grandmoth
er too much alone. But to her passionate
. appeals for, forgiveness, if she ever had
neglected tne dying one, there came back
only loving looks and mute caresses, the
aged hand smoothing lovingly the bowed
head, or pressing fondly the girlish cheeks
With the coming of daylight, however,
there was a change; and Maddy, listen
ing intently, heard what sounded like her
name. The tired tongue was loosed for
a little, and in tones scarcely articulate,
the disciple who for long years had served
her Heavenly Father faithfully, bore tes
timony to the blessed truth that God's
promises to those who love Him are not
mere promises that He will go with
them through the river of death, disarm
ing the fainting soul of every fear, and
making the dying bed the very gate of
Leaven. This tribute to the Savior was
lier first thought, while the second was
a blessing for her darling, a charge to
seek the narrow way now in life's early
morning. Disjointed sentences they were,
but Maddy understood them all, treasur
ing up every word even to the last, the
words the farthest apart and most pain
fuHy uttered, "You will care and
comfort "
She did not say whom, but Maddy knew
whom she meant; and without then real
izing the magnitude of the act, virtually
accepted the burden from which Guy was
o anxious to save her.
CHAPTER XVIII.
Grandma Markham was dead, and the
covered sleigh, which late in the after
noon plowed its way heavily back to
Aikenside, carried only Mrs. Noah, who,
with her forehead tied up in knots, sat
back among the cushions, thinking not
of the peaceful dead, gone forever to the
rest which remains for the people of
iod, but of the wayward Guy, who had
resisted all her efforts to persuade him
to return with her, instead of staying
where he was not needed, and where his
presence was a restraint to all save one,
and that one Maddy, for whose sake he
stayed.
"She'd be vummed," the indignant old
lady said, "if she would not write to Lucy
herself if Guy did not quit such doin's,"
and thus resolving she kept on her way,
while the subject of her wrath was, it
may be. more than half repenting oi nis
decision to stay, inasmuch as he began to'
have an unpleasant consciousness of biin
plf being in everybody's way.
In the first hour of Maddy's bereave
ment he had not spoken to her, but had
kept himself aloof from the room where,
with her grandfather and Uncle Joseph,
ehe sat, holding the poor aching head of
the latter in her lap and trying to speak
a word of consolation to the old. broken
hearted man, whose hand was grasped in
liers. But Maddy knew he was there.
Hhe could hear his voice each time he
poke to Mrs. Noah, and that made the
desolation easier to bear. She did not
look forward to the time when he would
be gone; and when at last he told her he
was going, she started quickly, and with
a gush of tears, exclaimed : "No, no ! oh,
nol"
"Maddy," Guy whispered, bending over
the strange trio, "would you rather I
should stay? Will it be pleasanter for
jou. if I do?"
"Yes I don't know. I guess it would
not be so lonely. Oh. it's terrible to have
grandmother dead!" was Maddy's re
sponse: after which Guy would have
stayed if a whole regiment of Mrs.
Noahs had confronted him instead of one.
Maddy wished it ; that was reason
enough for him; and giving a few direc
tions to John, he stayed, thereby discon
certing the neighboring women who came
in to perform the last offices for the dead,
and who wished the young man from Aik
enside was anywhere but there, watching
tbem all in their movements, as they
vainly fancied he did. But Guy thought
only of Maddy, watching her so carefully
that more than one meaning glance wa
exchanged between the women, who, even
ver the inanimate form of the dead.
i.poke together of what might possibly oc
cur, wondering what would be the effect
on Grandpa Markham and I'ncle Joseph.
Who would take care of them? And then,
in case Maddy should feel it her duty to
stay there, as they half hoped she would,
they fell to pitying the young girl, who
Bemed now so wholly unStted for the
burden.
To Maddy there came no definite idea
of the future during the two day that
white, rigid form lay in the darkened
cottage; bat when, at last, the deep grave
made for Grandma Markham was occu
pied, and the lounge in the little front
room was empty when the Aikenside
carriage, which had been sent down for
the use of the mourn era, had ben driven
away, taking both Guy and Mrs. Noah
mhta Um neighbor, too, had gone, lear
lag oalj fctraalf and tf UtUa hired girl
J. HOLMES
" "Honafcad ei the Hllli'st." "Lti liven,'
Sunshine," " Otln Mudi," etc
sitting by the evening fire, with the grand
father and the imbecile Uncle Joseph
then it was that she first began to feel the
pressure of the burden began to ask her
self if she could live thus always, or at
least for many years as long as either of
the two helpless men was spared. Maddy
was young, and the world as she had seen
it was very bright and fair, brighter far
than a life of laborious toil, and for a
while the idea that the latter alterna
tive must be accepted made her dizzy and
faint.
As if divining her thoughts, poor old
grandpa, in his prayers that night, ask
ed in trembling tones, which showed how
much he felt what he was saying, hat
God would guide his darling in all she
did. and give her wisdom to make the
proper decision ; that if it were best she
might be happy there with them, but if
not, "Oh, Father, Father!" he sobbed,
"help me and Joseph to bear it." He
could pray no more aloud, and the gray
head remained bowed down upon his
chair, while Uncle Joseph, in his pecu
liar way, took up the theme, begging like
a very child that Maddy might be inclined
to stay that no young men with curling
hair, a diamond cross, the smell of musk,
might be permitted to come near her with
enticing looks, but that j she might stay
as she was and be an old maid forever!
This was the subject of Uncle Joseph's
prayer, a prayer which set the little hired
girl to tittering, and would have wrung
a smile from Maddy herself had she not
felt all the strange petition implied.
With waywardness natural to people
in his condition, Uncle Joseph that night
turned to Maddy for the little services
his sister had formerly rendered, and
which, since her illness, Grandpa Mark
ham had done, and would willingly do
still. But Joseph refused to let him.
Maddy must untie his cravat, unbutton
his vest, and take off his shoes, while,
after he was in bed, Maddy must sit by
bis side, holding his hand until he fell
away to sleep. And Maddy did it cheer
fully, soothing him into quiet, and keeping
back her own choking sorrow for the sake
of comforting him. Then, when this task
was done she sought her grandfather, still
sitting before the kitchen fire and evi
dently waiting for her.
"Maddy," the old man said, "come sit
close by me, where I can look into your
face, while we talk over what must be
done."
With a half-shudder, Maddy drew a
stool to her grandfather's feet, and rest
ing her head upon his knee, listened
while he talked to her of the future ; told
her all her grandmother had done ; told
of his own helplessness; of the trial it
was to care for Uncle Joseph, and then
in faltering tones asked who was going
to look after them now. "We can't live
here alone, Maddy. We can't. We're
old and weak, and want someone to lean
on. Oh, why didn't God take us with
her, Joseph and me, and that would leave
you free to go back to the school and the
life which 1 know is pleasanter than to
stay here with us. Oh, Maddy ! it com
forts me to look at you to hear your
voice, to know that though I don't see
you every minute, you are somewhere,
and by and by you'll come in. I shan't
live long, and maybe Joseph won't. God's
promise is to them who honor father and
mother. It'll be hard for you to stay,
harder than it was once; but, Maddy, oh,
Maddy ! stay with me, stay with me !
stay with your old grandpa!"
Maddy had a brave young heart, and at
last, winding her arms around her grand
father's neck, she whispered : "I will not
leave you, grandpa. I'll stay in grand
mother's place."
Surely Heaven would answer the bless
ings whispered over Maddy by the delight
ed old man, and the young girl taking
so cheerfully the burden from which many
would have shrunk, should be blessed of
God.
With her grandfather's hand upon her
head, Maddy could almost fe-l that, the
blessing was descending; bi when, in
her own little room, the one where she
had lain sick for so many weary weeks,
her courage began to give way, and the
burden, magnified tenfold by her nervous
weakness, looked heavier than she could
bear.
"I will, I will," she cried, while into
her heart there crept an intense longing
for the love of Him who alone could make
her task a light one. "If I were good
like grandma, I could bear everything,"
she thought, and turning upon her pil
low, Maddy prayed an earnest, childlike
prayer, that God would help her do right,
that He would t.ike from her the proud
spirit which rebelled against her lot be
cause of its loneliness, that pride and
love of her own ease and advancement in
preference to others' good might all be
subdued ; in short, that she might be God's
child, walking where He appointed her
to walk without a murmur, and doing
cheerfully His will.
It was broad noon ere Maddy awoke,
and starting up she looked about her in
bewilderment, wondering where she was
and what agency had been at work in
her room, transforming it from the cold
comfortless apartment she had entered
the previous night into the cheery-looking
chamber, with a warm fire blazing in the
tiny fireplace, a rug spread down upon
the hearth, a rocking chair drawn up be
fore it, and all trares of the little hired
girl as completely obliterated as If she
had never been. In her grief Maddy
seemed to have forgotten how to make
things cozy, and as, during her grand
mother's illness, her own room had been
left to the care of the hired girl, Nettie,
it wore a neglected, rude aspect, which
had grated on Maddy's finer feelings, and
made everything so uninviting. But this
morning all was changed. Some skillful
band had been buy there while she slept,
and Maddy was wondering who it could
be, when the door opened cautiously
snd Flora's good-humored face looked in
Flora from Aikenside. Maddy knew
now to whom she was indebted for all
this comfort, and with a cry of Joy she
welcoi&ed the girl, whose very presence
brought back something of tho life with
which she had jmrted forever.
"Flora," she exclaimed, "how came
you here? Did you make the fire and
fix the room for me?"
"Yes, I made the fire," Flora replied,
"and fixed up the things a little, hustlin
that young one's goods out of here; be
cause it was not fittin for you to-be
sleepin with her. Mr. Guy was mad
enough when he found it out."
"Mr. Guv. Flora? How should he knov
of our sleeping arrangements?" Maddy
asked, but Flora evaded a direct reply,
savins-, "there was enough ways for
thiugs to get to Aikenside ;" then contin
uinir. "How tired you must W, an
Maddy, to sleep so sound as never to hear
me at all, though to be sure I tried to
be still as a mouse. But let me help you
dress. It's all but noon, and you must
be hungry. Your breakfast's all ready.
"Thank you, Flora, I can dress my
.if" until stennlnir out V noil
self!" Maddy said, stepping out upon the
floor. nd feelin that the world was not
as dark as it had seemed to ber when
last night she came up to her hftraber-
find was com forting her already, ana m
.v. -:,. .lMBi. hJU. she tried to
thank Him for His goodness, ana asu ior
i v- .,kt f Ha
grace to make ner wnac me uui" - (
.... i . t,xA ma whf VOU '
aou nave uut " w be did not know, but that "perhaps
came here," she said to D lora, wno was 1 '
busy making her bed, and who replied: some other correspondent can tell."
"It's Mr. Guy's work. He thought I'd ; Seven years later on the little wood
better come, as you would need help to en track along the Lackawanna creek
get things set to rights, so you could go tho first locomotive hod its trial. Tho
back to school."
Ma.lilv fplt her heart coming up in ner
.J.,. .. -n.r ralmlr. "Mr.
uuiiai, uui ... . in8 tram on most or tne rauroaas con-
Guy U very kind-so are you all ; but.
"ting back rUanaaCFlora iCped The first locomotive on the Baltimore
her 'bed-making, while she stared blankly ; and Ohio had sails attached. So did
at Maddy. "What be you going to do?" ( the cars. These sails were hoisted
"Stay here and take care of grandpa," when the wind was in the right direc
Maddy said, bathing her face and neck tlon so as to help the locomotive,
in the cold water, which could not cool j Tne rivalry between the railroads
the feverish heat she felt spreading airufl,ng 1 Bnd those using
over them. horses was very bitter. In August.
"Stay here! You are crazy. Miss Mad-,
dv! 'Tain t no place for a girl like jou,
and Mr. Guy never will suffer it, I know," . held between a horse and. one of the
Flora rejoined, as she resumed her work, pioneer locomotives, which did not re
thinking she "should die to be moped up suit in favor of the locomotive, the race
in that nutshell of a house." was on the B. & O., the locomotive
With a little sigh, as she foresaw ths being one built by Peter Cooper, who
opposition she should probably meet with acted as engineer,
from Guy, Maddy went on with her toi- j The & gallant FaTi wa9 ln tue
let, which was soon completed as it did of a car Qn R track
dJtndain HnTco lar tSefX used by the locomotive.
She was not as fresh-looking a. At first the gray had the better of the
usual that morning, for excitement and race, but when he was a quarter of a
fatigue had lent a paleness to her cheek mile ahead Mr. Cooper succeeded In
and a languor to her whole appearance, getting up enough steam to pass the
but Flora, who glanced anxiously after bor8e amid terrific applause,
her as she went out, muttered to herself, At tnat moment a band slipped from
"She was never more beautiful, and I & puUey and tnougu Mr. Cooper lacer
don't wonder an atom that Mr. Uuy ated haQdg to rep,aoe thJ
thinks so much of her. I enne 8t d tne horae ged It fl
The kitchen was in perfect order, tor
Flora had been busy there as elsewhere, came in the winner.
The kettle was boiling on tne siove,
whilp two or three little covered dishes
were ranged upon the hearth, as If waiting
for someone. Grandpa Marknam naa
gone out, but Uncle Joseph sat in his ac-,
customed corner, rubbing his hands when
he saw Maddy. ana noaaing mySv
toward the front room, the door of which
was open, so that Maddy could hear the
crackling on the hearth.
Maddy entered the room known ai mi
cottage as the parlor, the one where the
, rnpr ws. the six cane-seated chairs
and the Boston rocker, and now the lit-,
tie round table was nicely laia ior iwo, .
while cozily seated in the rocking C-ar.
reading last night's paper and looKing
very handsome and happy, was Guyl
(To be continued.)
The Laf Straw.
Nobody in Cedarvllle was more gen-.
erous than Almira Hanson. Bne " There were so ninny collisions and
give an' give, an' without regard to explosions that some Southern rail
getting," her neighbors said of her. roa(js introduced what they called a
But Miss Hanson had her own Ideas barrler ear between the locomotive and
as to the proper limits for generosity, the passenger coaches of the train,
and in the case of the Cedarvllle Cor- TnIa Darrer ear consisted of a plat
ners' Church Sociable she felt that form on wheels upon which were piled
those limits had been overstepped. sx Dale9 of cotton, and It was claimed
"I don't want to carp nor to critl- jt WOuld safeguard the passengers ln
cize." she remarked 'to an Interested two ways It would protect them from
listener; "their ways have never been tne Dowing up 0f the locomotive and complaints of the high-handed meth
niy ways, but they've never gone wouia form a soft cushion upon which ods of the grasping railroad corporn
against my grain so much as they did the passengers could land in the event' tlons, their defiance of the law of the
last night. I of a collision. There Is no record of1 iand and the rights of others, sound
"They asked me for a pot of beans now this experiment worked out I strangely familiar to-day. Van Nor-
for the supper, and I made em samej Horatio Allen states that when the
as I do for all three of the churches. South Carolina railroad was complet
"Now you understand me, I was glad e(j with Its 100 miles of track, opera
te do It I didn't begrudge 'em the tlon over such an extensive line was
beans, nor the time it took to do 'em then unprecedented. In making ar-
when I had company come unexpected
three cousins and a woman I'd never
set eyes on before.
"Nor I didn't begrudge carrying that
neavy poi nowu mt-ic " mm m uie uuacu ui a umuiijui ue
and then paying twenty-five cents to DUnt on an open platform car stationed
eat some o' my own cooking. iQ front of the locomotive, a fire of pine
"But when I was ready to come knots surrounded with sand, which
home, and begun to hunt round for furnished the requisite illumination of
that iKt, and found Mis' Deacon Hard- the route traversed.
Ing had sent her boy home with it. and j on most of the other lines no substl
sald she knew I'd rather pay five cents tues for headligihts were used. The
to him for the church debt than to lug trains traveled slowly through the
It myself, well I didn't say anything dark. Night trips, however, were
. . ,i,AHA a tfr n trnf
but thinks I. 'If this Isn't the cap-shea;
I don't know what would be!"
The Servant Problem.
Smith Excuse me, Jones, but may I
ask how you manage to have such de- Ing a protracted period, before the in
lleious things to eat? (ventlon of spark arresters, the flybag
jOIies ifs quite simple. I always sparks caused a great amount of dam-
klse the cook tefore dinner, and hold age and annoyance. Interwoven with
her on my knee after dinner. j this difficulty waa a necessity for using
$:mlth But what des your wife smokestacks many times larger than
Bay, j those now In use too high Indeed to
jonPB Oh, she doesn't object She's pass under overhead bridges or the
ibe cook. Brooklyn Life.
Wedder'v ' The only way'to cure
,..ir f n attack of love Is to run
aWSliigleton-W-hy didn't you do that
ben you were courting the girl you
married?
Wedderly-I dld-I ran away wlt
her.
Sam Effect.
"Wus you ever in love, Eddie?"
"Naw, but I fell out of er second; .
story window onctl" i
EARLY RAILROAD DAYS
pt Charter in Country Obtained
In
1832 Sails Attached to
Engines.
OCCIDENTS WERE VERY COMMON
j .
Barrier Cars as a Remedy DIffl
culty In Getting- Wood and
Water.
In 1822, the first charter was oh-
talned. for
a railroad In the United
States. It was for a line from Phlla -
delphla to a point on the Susquehanna
river, but was never built. On the an-
nonneement of the nroteet some one
.... ' ' ' r." "
bed one of the Baltimore newspa- j flrei They presented a very motley ap
rs. "What is a railroad, anyhow?" Ipearanco on arrival at the first sta
The editor was forced to reply that tion
experiment was far frocn successful.
. f nnnvhni. nf mn oftaa,.i
TV .. T iL ,, V
j "- luic irac uu uina.es uu iue
early trains, they used to stop and
start with Jolts which threw the pas-
gengers across the car. The coupling
waa witn (.jing having two or three
! fee. Qf slaek whIcn the englne ln start.
, , tQok w,th &
; Btonmln was even
3s. The shoe k : on stopping was even
There were no whistles In the old
' days. Signals were given by mishlna
up tue vaiVe on the dome by hand and
ietting tue steam escape with a loud
hlsSng j,, Qn the New Castle and
Frenchtown railroad when the signal
was heard the slaves around the sta
tion would rush to the arriving train,
seize hold of It and pull back with all
their might while the agent stuck n
pIece of through a wheel
rangeinents for this unusual undertak
one Qf the first things that occurred
to him waa that the locomotives would
have to run at night as well as day,
a i - . v v ,. - V, .4 11 U a. i. a '
avoided as much as possible. The first
headlight on a locomotive was used by
the Boston and Worcester ln 1840.
l'ne original American locomotives
were nearly all wood burners, and dur-
roofs of covered wooden bridges.
To overcome this difficulty the
I l.nnt.Mr. lf m O T1W tt f V1 fUVllnA.
tlves were Jointed or hinged so that
they could be lowered when trains were
proceeding over or under bridges. This
naturally greatly increased the danger
of setting fire to the wooden bridges,
and wa9 OTSt0imai7 for a watchman
to follow every train over or nnder the
Driuges, carrying a uunci ui ier
for the purpose of extinguishing fires.
Notwithstanding this precaution the
burning of bridges was a common oc-
rarrence.
On moat of the early railroad the
cars were at first entirely tineoverod,
being In fact merely platform enrs
with a row of Heats along earth side,
i The passengers were entirely unpro-
tacfful from Hia anri rain sm-wtlm 01
cinders. A passenger who took a trip
over the Mohuwk Valley rallrond when
this convpony had opened Its line be
tween Albany and Schenectady thus
describes his experience;
"They used dry pitch pine for fuel4
and there being no smoke or spark
catcher to the chimney or smokestack
the volume of black smoke strongly Im
pregnated with sparks, coal and cin
ders, came pouring back the whole
length of the train. Each of tho pas
sengers who had an umbrella raised it
as a protection against the smoke and
fire.
"They were found to be but a mo
mentary protection, for I think in the
first mile the last one went overboard,
; fl1 hflvlnr hnA thoir t,,rnt tr
by the flnmeB( when a eml mel.te
took phlce among the passengers, eac
, . . . ..
i W"'PI"B ueigmoor to put out tne
tlon."
Telegraphic sen-Ice available' for
railway service was not established un
til about 1850. In the absence of the
telegraph and the lack of any estab
lished system of signaling the early
I raiiroads adopted novel methods for
...
j conveying information,
The New Castle and Frenchtown
railroad had a primitive telegraph ln
operation as early as 1837. A descrip
tion of it says that "the poles were of
cedar, quite like those now In use, and
had cleats fastened on them, forming a
sort of Jacob's ladder."
The operator would go to the top
of the pole forming his station and
with his spy-glass sight the next sta
tion ln the direction of the approach
ing train. If the train was coming
and the signal sliowed a flag, It meant
that all was well, and the operator
would pass the signal along to the next
station below.
If a ball was shown, and no train
In sight, if signified an accident or a
delay of the connecting steamboat.
These signals were methodically ex
changed until an understanding waa
had all along the road.
The facilities furnished by the rail
roads were at first much more fully
appreciated by travelers than by the
shippers of freight The speed of the
trains, amounting at times to as much
as twenty-five or thirty miles an hour,
was a source of unabated wonder to
the passengers, who had hitherto trav
eled on the slowly moving canal boats
end stage coaches.
In the matter of freight traffic the
railroads were ot first unable to com
pete with the canals. Of a prominent
Massachusetts railroad it Is said that
a motion was made at an annual meet
In gto let the privilege of carrying
freight on Its lines to some responsible
person for $1,500 a year.
There are many accounts of the piti
ful Btate of impecunloslty to which
some of the railroads were reduced.
, Cash being exhausted, and receivers'
' certificates having not been Invented.
when oj)eration8 proved unprofitable
there was no basis for credit
Men were sometimes put on the ten
der with a saw-horse and saw, and
when the engine ran out of wood these
men would take up their saw and cut
up a new supply of fuel from the near
est woods. Often the passengers would
get off the train and help in the cutting
of the wood.
The railroads were often too poo
to pay for the fuel thus secured, and
there are many stories ln the old news
paiers of encounters between train
crews and the fanners who caught
them cutting down their trees. Tho
den Magazine.
EAT SOUR MILK AND LIVE LONG
Doctors Dwell on the Merits of 7.0
burt, a BnlRarlan Pood.
The latest producer of long life dis
covered by Eurojiean physiologist Is j
zoghurt, a preparation of sour milk,
says the Washington Star. Prof. Ellas
Metchnlkow of the Pasteur Institute
was the first to direct attention to It,
but no sooner had he done so than
Prof. Belnhardt of Vienna announced
that he had known all about it for
years and that it was a food ln general
use ln country'parts of Bulgaria.
Prof. Metchnlkow's theory Is that the
ferment contained In the milk attacks
certain bacteria which develop ln the
human system and have poisonous ef
feeta He has proved by experiment
he says, that the zoghurt has an abso
lutely disinfecting Influence and that
by destroying the polaonons germs it
not only prevents actual disease, but
also arrests the process of aging.
In a paper published ln the Austrian
Review Dr. Belnhardt tells how the
Bulgarians prepare the zoghurt. Cow's
or goat's milk Is boiled In an open ves
sel until it Is reduced to about half its
original volume.
Then It Is cooled and when it reaches
a temperature of about 115 degrees
. amA t ltTl II ffr f) 1 TOW fl V TirMMI rPil III
stirred into it and It Is left to ferment.
The germ, which the doctor calls maya
fungus, acts quickly and the eoghnrt
Is ready for use In a day.
Dr. Reoinhardt thinks the health
giving qualities of the preparation are
amply proved by the fact that Bul
garia, ln a population of 4,000,000, has
3,800 zoghurt eaters of 100 years of
age and upward, while In the whole
German empire, with 01,000,000 people.
there are only seventy-one centenar-
Ian. .
AgK RELEASE OF GIRL SLAYER
. .
Jessie Morrison, Who Killed Her
Rival, Said to Be Dying in Prison.
I Interest in the tragic life story of
Jessie Morrison, of Eldorado, Kan., 1
revived through the efforts of influ
ential friends to secure her release
from the Kansas State ienltentlary
' for the murder of her sVhool girl friend,
Mrs. Olln O. Castle. The young wom
an, once known throughout the State
as a beauty, Is said to be dying as a
result of her confinement lu th wom
an's prhwn, with sixteen years ef a
twenty-year sentence yet to serve.
The crime for which Miss Morrison
Is paying the penalty was committed
when Bhe and a successful rival la love
Hs.oltk
engaged ln a razor duel. Her eppo
nent was Mrs. Oliu G. Castle, who, as
Clara Wiley, was married to young
Olln Castle, clerk In an Eldorado store.
Byth girls had lu turn been wooed by
him.
July 22, 1900, nine days after the
wedding of Clara Wiley and Castle,
Miss Morrison vbtited the young wife
and the fotal battle ensued. "I was
called to the Ciujtle home by Mrs. Cas
tle, who coinmmiced a furious tirade
against me," she says ln telling the
story. "She attacked me with a razor.
I snatched the weajmn from her and
slashed her." Mrs. Castle died a week
later.
Miss Morrison had three trials, In
each of which she was found guilty.
The first time she was sentenced to
three years In prison, the second to
en, and the third time to twenty.
The prominence of the principals of
the case made It one of the greatest In
terest throughout the country. The con
victed woman's father was at one time
a member of the Kansas Supreme
Court.
W. R. Boggs, an American, was slain
by Mexican laborers who demandc4 their
wages. '
Two bombs were found beneath the box
of King Carlos of Portugal in the RoyaJ
Theater of Lisbon.
Brigands tortured Marquis Cito of Na
ples and forced his wife to write a check
for $20,000 for his ransom.
The death sentence of Prof. Karl Hau,
convicted of murder in Germany, waf
commuted to life imprisonment.
Empress Alexandra of Russia became
go ill that special consultation of court
physicians was deemed necessary.
In the effort to gain the mastery ot
the Pacific, Japan forced every foreign
shipping line out of the China trade.
Thousands of native troops who attack
ed the French forces on the Algerian
frontier were driven back into Morocco.
A steamer went on the rocks of the
Nova Scotia shore in a blinding storm,
but the GOO persons aboard were taken
off.
r- Oscar Erbsloeh was forced by German
authorities to pay duty of $.'S0 on the
James Gordon Bennett Cup he won in
the balloon race.
Herr Lange, a well-known translator,
predicted a famine in white paper and
urged America to look to the preserva
tion of her forests.
Finance Minister Kokovsoff, in an
nouncing the budget In the Duma, Tues
day, said that it would be nei-essary to
get $93,000,000 on credit to meet the ex
tiaordinary expenses.
Nicholas Tschaikovsky, known as the
founder of the first revolutionary circle
at St. Petersburg, and Mme. Breshkov
skaya, one of the first aristocratic con
verts to the terrorist program, both of
shorn have msny friends in America,
have been arrested and thrown into the
Fortress of 8S. Peter and Paul at the
Russian capital.
Recent reports from South Africa were
to the effect that the Cape Government
was arming in the expectation of another
uprising of the native Zulus, whose lead
er, Dinizulu, was defying arrest in Natal
for certain murders in connection with
the rising last year. Now it sppesrs that
Dinizulu has surrendered to the sutbort-
ties aad has demanded a trial