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CRIME OF THE AGES. off the coast of French Guiana, to suf fer Imprisonment for life. Working for the Prisoner. DREYFUS CASE THE DARKEST the Court of Cassation ordered a nev trial for Dreyfus and referred the case to the Rennes court-martial. July 1 Capt. Dreyfus arrived at Rennes, and Aug. 7 the second court-martial began. The details of the trial, famous and Infamous alike, and the outrageous conviction of the prisoner are familiar to all. 'The tight made for their client by M. Labor I and M. Demange and the prejudiced and unfair rulings of the court-martial’s president, Col. Jouaust, will live, the one a record of honor, the other a record of shame. It was not Dreyfus so much as France that was on trial at Rennes, and France convict ed herself of an Infamy as deep, an in justice as black and a dishonor as great as ever stained the life of a nation. But one thought can come to a person con sidering the present result of the drama: “A government that cannot do justice to the humblest of its citizens has no justification to exist.” PORTO RICO’S RUINS. night and the scenes along the rhret were heartrending. House after house floated past toward the ocean, carry ing its three, four, and even more, TERRIBLE DEVASTATION OF THE wretched passengers, who uttered pit GREAT HURRICANE. eous cries for help. The night was lighted by Incessant flashes of light ning, though with little thunder. Many Picture* of the Havoc Wrought In persons held lamps at their windows Our Peaceful Isle, Many Pathetic In and balconies to aid the struggling and cident« and Deed« of Heroism Fol" their rescuers. lowed the Passage of the Storm. It was a wonderful but horrible sight. A city of 30.090 people was en The recent West Indian hurricane, tirely under water, a foaming torrent with Its attendant loss of life and dam pouring through the streets; lightning age to property, was one of the worst flashing; men. women and especially calamities of the century. In Porto children struggling with the current, Rico alone the death list reached near and then drowning; the rain ceaseless ly 1,500, while the number of Injured ly coming down in sheets. was three times larger. As to the Many Heroic Incident». damage and destruction of property, There were many Instances of hero that is luestlmaole. Whole villages ism displayed. The Eleventh Infantry, were swept away; growing crops were U. S. A., led by their adjutant saved washed out by flood or leveled by the at least lot) lives, by rescuing people wind, shipping was dealt a costly blow, from the water. The adjutant person and the sea. for days and days after ally saved fifteen from drowning. With the ierrific storm, tossed upon the a life line tied to Ills waist, he dashed HE DAZED ENGLAND. Drislnal Proiienitorof Liberal Ad.er- tiling- Still Living In New York, Some of the nabobs of the presenl The case of Dreyfus apparently was day advertising world who think they closed. The conspirators who had con- are "the only pebblts on the beach" denmned him were strong and power ought to take a trip dowu to Pough ful. It was unpopular and unsafe to A Story of Tragic Incident», Foul In- keepsie and listen to the advertising speak a word in favor of the prisoner triirue, Vile Treachery, iulterinu narratives an old man there may relate or of the proscribed race to which he Innocence and Triumphant Vil- to them. And the old man can substan- belonged. lainy. t ate his narratives with fucts and But the case was not closed. The proofs, and is not a mere yarn spinner heroic wife of the prisoner, Mme. like many of his degenerate successor«. The story of Alfred Dreyfus, a cnp- Lucile Dreyfus, remained, to fight for His name Is De Linton Wing, and years taLn in the French artillery, who waa the honor of her busband, in whom she ago he won for himself the title of reconvicted on the charge of selling believed, aud well and loyally did she "progenitor of liberal advertising” by state secrets to the German Govern wage her battle against entrenched bis extensive advertising of u famous ment, is one of the most remarkable wrong and Injustice and hate. Friends brand of flour of which he was the pro In the history of the world. It is a story rallied around her, and in the press and prietor—the Julian mills flour. full of dramatic and tragic incidents, of legislative halls the case of Dreyfus It is said that at one time he was foul intrigue and vile treachery, of was kept ever to the front. worth $50,000,000, but lost bls fortune forgery, assassination, suicide and al InJune, 1895,Col. George I’lcquart be partly by speculation in buying news- most every sjiedes of crime and wicked came head of the secret Intelligence of pa pers. ness known to desperate and degener the war office. Documents came into One of Mr. Wing's greatest advertis ate men. That dreadful drama that has his hands that convinced him that ing feats, according to the Albany •o dishonorably affected a nation has Esterhazy had written the Itordereau HE GOT WELL, Press-Knickerbocker, was tne Insertion overthrown five French cabinets, has and that Dreyfus was innocent He driven three men to suicide, others to communicated this belief to Generals An t the Despised Little German Band in the London Times, much to the sur Saved It is Life. exile and many to undying shame and Bolsdeffre and Gonse. But Esterhazy prise of th • slow-going Britons, of a It was a sad scene. The old man lay infamy. Nor Is the end yet. Truth, stood high in their regard, and Plcquart full-page advertisement of bls famous justice, the sym|Mil*liy and moral sup was sent on a perilous mission to Afri on his bed, and by him sat the faithful brand of flour. It was claimed as a port of the unprejudiced Ln every land ca In the hope that he would never re wife, bolding h's worn hand in hers, Joke that Mr. Wing, wno alone had the and forcing back the tears to greet his are on the side of Dreyfus, and the day turn. This was In the fall of 1896. secret anil the patent for the manufac wondering look with a smile. But he Will eventually come when the French ture of the Julian mills flour, Intro Others, however, followed along the felt the cold hand falling on him, and nation will declare the Innocence of the duced In the Ingredients a moistening lines of I’lcquart in his investigation. he turned Ids weary eyes up to her pale, man whom it has twice condemned. of alcohol and bops that gave a pun Scheurer-Kestuer asserted the Inno wan face. gency upon which many a family was Dreyfus* Career. cence of Dreyfus, and Mathieu Drey ’’Jennie, dear, I am going.” mildly exh'larated every morning at Alfred Dreyfus is an Alsatian Jew. fus, brother of the prisoner, openly ac “Oh, no, John—not yet—not yet. breakfast, and he had as a part of his lie received a ^military training nt the cused Esterhazy as the author of the “Yes, dear wife,” and he closed his business accounts a letter from Lord Ecole Polytechnique, Paris, ami in 1878 bordereau. The agitation was so strong eyes; “the end s near. The world grows Palmerston, prime minister of England, was appointed to a sub-lieutenancy. He that In January, 1898, the war office »lark about me. There Is a mist around in which the latter expresses the made a specialty of the artillery serv ordered a whitewash court-martial for me gathering thicker and thicker, thanks of Queen Victoria and her min ice and his rise was rapid. In 1889 he Esterhazy. Plcquart was recaEed to there, as through a cloud, I hear istry for bags of his flour, because, as was n captain in the army; In 1893 he testify. Esterhazy was acquitted ac music of ang Is—sweet and sad." the minister said, of its elevating ef was attached to the general staff—the cording to program, and then Picquart A BADl.Y WRECKED VILLAGE. “No, no, John, dear; that Isn’t fects at each meal. first Hebrew to hold that position. He was arrested on a trumped-up charge gels; that's the brass band at the cor In the adver isement In the London wns married, the father of two chil of forgery anil sent to prison. The war ner.” shores of the Island a heterogeneous bravely Into the torrent again and Times Mr. Wing had such striking lines dren, and th»1 future seemed roseate. office was still In the ascendant, while “What!” said the dying man. “Have mass ot wreckage that told of disaster again, depending upon his men to draw I as these: “Julian Mills sees the But Dreyfus was a Jew—a crime in the lonely prisoner on Devil's Island those scoundrels dared to come hers to vessels, the crews of which perished. his body out. The Bremen of Ponce Erance. Hounding Jews In that opera was eating out his heart in suffering when they know I’m dying? Give me Scores of ghastly, bloaeed corpses also worked bravely, and one noble Queen;” ‘ Palmerston gets his Julian | cakes early and saves England's honor bouffe of a republic Is a pastime and and shame. came floating ashore to add their fellow lost bls life. my bootjack. I’ll let 'em see.” I A flat valley, usually ten or twelve by reason of the daring spirit they in And, in a towering rage, the old man ghastliness and horror to the awful Now feet above the water level, extends fuse into him.” In the middle of the Jumped from his bed, and, before his scenes already depicted there. and then, after the storm, a disabled along Del Rio Portugués, stretching page was a wood cut—a most t"rrlble wife could think, he had opened the Innovation for the London Times—of window and shied the bootjack at the and long-overdue steamer made Its al from half a mile to a mile on either most helpless way into the harbor, and side. On this plain the plantations are | Mr. Wing seated between the Queen band. | and Lord Palmerston, who are both “I’ve hit that fat leader in the neck!” from the men aboard these were got situated. Around the planter’s house, ! begging him to come to England and ten the stories of the storm ’ s awful and often near the river bank, cluster Ami he went back to bed ami got fury at sea. The entire Island of Porto the huts of the peons, or laborers, from ! live at Windsor. To this Mr. Wing re- well. Rico was storm swept, but the worst twenty to fifty on each plantation. j spouds: “I am an American sovereign, Pianos an 1 Literary Reform. destruction was wrought along the Emila Quinones, a prosperous planter greater than the British crown.” One of Mr. Wing's greatest enter A funny story about Miss Marie Cor southern coast in the vicinity of Ponce prises was during the great celebration elli comes from Stratford-on-Avon, and twenty miles Inland. Sickening ! of 1858, over the Atlantic cable. Al where that mystic novelist has been scenes abounded upon every side; half bany turned out In great procession, at living opposite a young lad'es’ school. dazed, sunken eyed, weeping men. the head of which was the great wagon It appears that In this school are many women anil children went wailing to of D. I.. Wing, ma le entirely of flour pianos, dally practice upon which by and fro; rows of dead awaited Identifi barrels. Sixteen flour barrels served the pupils has been excessively dam cation; strings of dead carts, with their ns wheels and thousands of barrel aging to Miss Corelli’s nerves. Driven gruesome burdens, rattled away to the staves formed an awning over the body to desperation, she wrote to the prin cemeteries, while everywhere there of the wagon, on which fifty .voting la cipal of th ■ school, asking that when was an oppressive, heart-rending, fu dles in bakers’ dress were conducting a piano-forte practice was going forward nereal atmosphere that seemed to hang mimic bakery of the Julian cakes. the windows might be kept closed, as like a pall of despair over the stricken Thousands of Albanians were gratul- the noise interfered with the progress Isle. tous’y served with bread that day from Full particulars of the terrible storm of literary composition. To which the schoolmistress replied that if the noise show the great destruction and ae- living near the river a few miles above the Julian mill flour, and at the home would prevent the composition of an centuate the horrible condition of the the city, and his whole household of of nearly every poor family in the ward other book like the “Sorrows of Satan” peasant, or peon. Houses and roofs to thirty souls, were carried away and not In which Mr. Wing lived were left that night a barrel of flour and a photograph she would ord-r hilf a dozen more shelter were as Serious questions as one saved. food was before the government issued pianos. New York Tribune. Native estimates place the dead at □f Wing and Queen Victoria. free rations and made other provisions 3.000 for the Ponce district alone, but LADY YARD -BULLER INSANE. to feed the destitute. The ruins in the real number will never be known. Will Ba Absolutely Sife. most cases consisted of a floor only, A Baltimore trust company has con- All were buried in haste. Who they Famous Cnl fornia Beauty Is Placed with a few articles left thereon. At were, what they were, will never be* traded with Pittbiug parties for the Under Care of a Ginr.lian, I'onee and along the southern shore found out construction of th- largest steel vault T.a ly Yarde-Buller, concerned In the hurricane spent its greatest fury. In the world. It will be of Harveylzed many remarkable episodes In Europe armor plate exclusively, except for a He Sized Up His Customer. ami California, has been adjudged in A rather loudly dressed “gentleman” I reinforcement of cast steel in front. It sane, ard a guardian appolntel for her stepped into the necktie department of will be 24x25x9 feet in the dear, inside, per.-on and estate. She lias run through a big sh ,p tin- other afternoon, and In and will require 150 tons of armor a fortune in fifteen yuirs and has gain a supercilious tone that would have plate. The vault will have four-inch ed notoriety by her eccentric behavior. nettled a graven Image into anger ut plates on all sides, except tlie front, Those who have been th 'own Into con which will be six inches, and a rein tered the single manda ory word: tact with li r during the list few forcement of a cast steel plate six inch a passion. Schemers curry favor by it “Neckties!” months test fil'd that Lady Yarde-Itul- The Z »In Knisode. In the estimation of the baser elements, Then he threw back his head as if the es in thickness and a six-inch door. The Then came the novelist, Emile Zoin, ler’s addiction to alcohol had Increased and Frame has a superabundance of who in nil open letter charged Ester- so much that she i»s In omp.'tent tc assistant was entirely ben. ath bis no plates will be joined continuously by the former. Then Dreyfus was brill hazy, Henry and the chiefs of the war manage h'r affairs. She spent her tice. This top-lofty air aggravated the the dovetail mortise method, which will iant and studious. These qualities gen office with eonslpraey to ruin Dreyfus. money re, klessly anil went so far ns tc ass'stant, Lu he quietly displayed a give them a solidity, when the mortises i erated envy, and so, In 1891, when cer This brought upon his head the wrath actual y throw it away on the streets number of late patterns with a deferen are complete, which could not b> se cured in any other way. The vault will tain high-Lorn and accomplished ras of the army chiefs and lie was tried for While her actual Income is only about tial air. cals wanted a victim upon whom to slander and found guilty. He appealed, $100 or $500 a month she had beer “These," he said obs'qiously, “are be absolutely proof against burglary, cnst the odium of their malodorous was again convicted ami fled from spending $6i>0. Lady Yarde-Buller'r the very newest things and are excel at least against th" appliances usually lives, what more nntural than to select France. M. Lalairl was his counsel. aperated in that profession. It is im lent quality at a shilling.” career has been checkered. She war the despised and envied Jew Dreyfus? France nt this time wns in a state of spoilisl by her father, who was very “A shilling!” haughtily snapped the possible torttack the Harveylzed plates elli-w .-tote ecrets. the utmost disorder. There were fre wealthy, and when in her teens trie The front of the storm reached there customer; “a shilling! Do I look like with a drill, which precludes the use In that year—1894 spies of the quent riots. The cabinet of M. Meline to elo]»e bi Japan with young Major af explosives, and the plates are also about daylight ami the wind and rain a man who would wear a shilling neck French secret service department na tell, to be succeeded by that of M. banks. afterward L »rd Tweedmou’ . tie. Is there anything about me to in proof against an atta-k by electrolysis. continued to increase til about noon, covered a letter from the office of tile Brisson, and the general political fnb- Every plate is tested by drills and Then wedded English!’ .it when they gradually subsided. This dicate that I----- ” German embassy In Paris which seem rlc seemed on the verge of breaking up. ather mechanical means of breaking “ I beg your pardon, sir, ” meekly In advance guard had broken the palm ed to Indicate that some Frenchman At this Juncture-July, 1898—War terp» >s d th' assistant; “the sixpenny into a vault and the highest electric trees, snapped off and stripped of their was carrying secret Information to that Minister i'avalgmie asserted his belief fruit the banana and plantain trees— counter is at the other end of the shop." power Is as harmless as a drill, which office. The letter contained the sen In Dreyfus’ guilt, and his speech to this would- be shattered Into fragments the chief food of the peons—and had —London Ti l Bits. tence: “This dog of a D----- Is really effect in the Chamber of Deputies was against the face of the hardened ma torn and beaten down the coffee trees getting too greedy." In Scpteml>er, ordered posted throughout France. He terial. The vault of a trust company of A Family Burial Pi ce. and the sugar cane. Many houses had 1894, the spies brought to light another produced a document nt the time that A clerical correspondent of the Lon Pittsburg has six Inches of plate on all been unroofed; but few. If any. Ilves document known as the Itordcreau. It lie said had convinced him of Dreyfus’ were lost, though many were lujured don Spectator says that the following ides except the front, which Is eight wus In the nature of a memorandum guilt. Inscription Is to be found on a marble Inches. The new vaults are Impreg by the flying debris. naming five military secrets which the It was retorted that the document At dusk the worst seemed to be over, slab in the parish church of Tetbury, nable against any form of attack now writer offered to convey to the un I was a forgery and was committed by for the wimi ami rain bad ceased. But Gloucestershire, “In a vault nnder- known and are coming :nto f u or rapid named person he was addressing. It Col. Henry. The hitter soon afterward between 6 ami 7 o'clock in the evening neath lie several of the Saunderses. ly for that reason. The desDuction of wns turned over to the miserable Mer ndmltted his guilt and then committed the storm recommenced, accompanied late of this parish, Particulars the last the largest building in wh'ch they are cier. French Minister of War, and he I suicide. Previous to this Lemereler- by torreutlal rain and gales. The lit day will disclose. Amen.’’ located would not affect them In the •ummoned experts who pronounced it 1 Picard, who figured In the scandal, tle Portuguese River, usually a mere slight st degree, and any mechanical to l»e the work of Dreyfus. Major committed suicide, and hist spring. Cattse of His Conc'it. creek, already swollen from the morn force which a few men could have du I’aty ile t'kiin. one of the most exe lx>rlmler, Col. Henry's former clerk. "The Lynx Is putting on Insufferable available for breaking in o a safe would ing rain, became a raging torrent. It crable scoundrel« who have figured tn | followed suit. jumped out of its banks at a curve just airs thtse days,” said the Lion to the be worse than useless. the whole national drama, was given After th»' Henry fiasco Cavaignac re above Ponce, and swept down through Bear. the bordereau for further Investigation. signed as Minister of War. Gen. Zur- Imbibing Wisdom. "What has he to base his conceit on?" the streets. Small houses, with whole He summoneil Dreyfus before him. The i linden succeeded him, and he soon re families, were borne dowu in Its re asked the latter. The man with a fad. who was talka Investigation was secret, and the lnfa signed tH'cnuse he was opposed to a sistless current anil either lodged in “Wt 11. he says he’s the only animal In tive, as such men generally are, had mous Paty de Clam pronounced Drey revision of the Dreyfus ease. A month I.AKY YAnnK-RULl.KR. some fence corner or carried out to sea. the jungle that has the remotest con been discoursing to his friend, says the fus guilty, and addl'd that the hitter later still another War Minister, Gen. named Illalr, who was killed In South In one yard In the city were found the nection with golfing.”—Harper’« Bazar. New York World, on tlM^nfluence of bad maile a full confession. Dreyfus Chanotne, went down and out for the Africa. Soon after his death she mar- bodies of daughter, father, mother and food npon character. wns arrested am! Incarcerated lu the same reason, and after him the whole The Average Englishman. , rled Yar.le Buller, a Scotchman, who grandmother. “Tell me.” said he, In summing up, Cbercbc Midi military prison, A writer in an English magazine de “tell me what a man eats, and I will cabinet. Francois de Pressetise was taught her bow to drink. They quar At one place In the street where the 1 li* Fftrat Conviction» expelled from the Legion of Honor be reled and he sue 1 for a dlvor, e. alleging drift was cheeked, twenty-four bodies clares that the real average English tell you what he Is.” In December. 1894, Dreyfus was put cause he raise»! his voice for Dreyfus, that she showed too much partiality for wen» picked up, most ot mem peons. man is a workingman earning $6 a Ills friend, although fatigued, was on trial before a court-martial, The and others suffered social ostracism the so I ty of Valentine Gadsden, a Some of them, however, gave evidence week. wearing no collar, knowing noth evidently Interested. mm trial was a farce. It Is now known anil political death for like offenses. of refinement and one was thought to ing of tooth-brushes and'handkerchiefs, mining promoter. “There is only one question I wish q that not a particle of credible proof was There were accusations and recrimina be an American, but so quickly does and getting shaved only on Sunday. He • sk yon.” he said. ; adduced against him. Caslmlr-Perler, tions, threats of riot and rebellion, and Ancient New Mexican Idols. decomposition set in In that hot cli does not buy books, and reads nothiug “Ask it." replied the dtscourser, mag then President of France, left It on rec other resignations from high offices, all Agents of the bureau of ethnology at mate that It was impossible to recog but sporting papers. nanimously. with an air that said very ord that only one Incriminating docu because of the exile away off on the Dr. Sidley, an American Washington have taken photographs nize him. clearly. “Give me a hard one while ment was laid t»efore the judge«, ami coast of Guiana. Siam a Millionaire« of the unique collection of stone Idols physician, hail a narrow escape from you are at It, and I'll show you how that document was a forgery. The prin The Klug of Siam is one of the rich owned by ex Gov. L. Bradford Prince, d»>ath. He had recently purchased and •mart I am.” New Iris! Ordered. cipal witnesses agalust the prisoner est of the monarchs his annual Income fitted up a handsome home, prepara "It Is this.” replied the fatigued This was the situation at the opening of Ranta Fe. N M. He has over 1,000 were Colonel« Henry, Esterhaay ami of them, and they were all dug up on tory to receiving the bride he expected being about $2o,0t0.(0O. and he knows friend. "How much sage tea would of the present year. Then the testi I’aty de Clam. Dreyfus was convicted. the sites of ancient Pueblo villages. soon to bring from Chicago. He re how to enjoy the good things that lie you have to drink to make a wise man Illa conviction was necessary to shield mony of Dreyfus, taken on Devil’s Isl Some are over six feet In height; some mained In his house as long as was pos within his reach. His palace is like a of yourself?” others just as his second conviction and. was presented before the Court of are light enough to float in water. It la sible. Tying bls money to bls arm. and city, as nearly 5.0,10 (»ersons live In It No answer being promptly forthcom was decreed upon for reasons of state. Cassation, which Was considering the difficult to tell the age of the Idols; It in his underclothes only, he struggle»! ing, the conference broke up. Consumption of Beer. granting of a new trial to Dreyfus. Jan. 5. 1895, Dreyfus was publicly de Is only known that they were used by through water up to his neck and at It Is estimated that the consumption graded, his sword being broken and bls Events then crowded on one another. times over his bend. Fortunately One great trouble with the self made uniform defaced. ^$'he Parisian mob P«ty de Clam was arrested In Paris the ancestors of the present Pueblo In some om grasped him by the balr as of beer In the entire world amounts to man Is that be la continually talking dians before the Spanish conquest. f 1.080.000,000 per annum. •bouted “Down wlfb U>e Jew«!" and and Imprisoned. Esterhazy. who had he swept ¡«st a bouse ami he was shop. -Live the army!" an\a little later the fled to Ixtndon, confessed that be was T« auree with everyb dr Is as bad sa - .-.■»I It's much easier to run up a bill than The average man never knows whejA. prisoner was taken tJl Devil'« Island. the author of the bordereau, la J im » not to agree with aujlsxly. flood was at Its height near nUd- it is to foot IL he's got enough until he Ssls too much. DRAMA IN HISTORY.