fAbother toll ndR, won’t you, pray, ’ old the dtarewrel” “Well, t !■ a thinrf'that’s hard to say; deed, n■ Moreover, nile with w iich^ho began his | was gradually-disappearing. In Sent he.cOHtinued: “I tell you. .those eyes of hers and that low ater f go on,” I said. I was not Ty much interested in Mis3 eyes and voice, tell you honestly, I fell awfully with her." and knew that sooner I’d have to toll her so. I ’ht she cared for me” (weak at at a smile as he said the word •ht) • ‘though she had a little way ways laughing off the matter I tried to tell her anything about n feelings. fatally by way of amusement wo ided to have a ball at our hotel, to be something pretty fine, be •we wanted to outdo the people ie otiter house, who had had a the week before., After a long discussion wo decided to wear masks and go in costume. I saw that here was my chance. I’d fijjd out what Helen, I mean Miss Koitor, was going i to wear, then get a chance to speak to j her alone, and I was sure she’d listen to what I had to say. The trouble lay in finding out her costume. Wo were, all horribly secret; wanted to fool each other, and that sort of thing, you know.” Dick paused hero to in dulge In a laugh. 1 thought It would have been more polite to have hastened on to this point as quickly as possible, so that I could laugh too. ■•Well, the day before the ball, at dinner, I found a little note in my plato. It was in Helen’s handwriting. * • ‘Come to the bay window of the reading-room at half past eleven, If you care to see The Little Nun.’ “Here it was all done for me. I was almost crazy. Just think of it, Jim” (I was thinking' very hard), “she wanted to see mo alone, for the read ing-room was at the other end of the hotel from the parlors where we wore to have the ball. “The night came. There she was. Amongst that crowd of queens, sulta nas, heaven knows what not, the Lit tle Nun walked slowly back and forth. She needed no mask, for a heavy veil covered her face. Graceful, Jim! no name for it. I was simply bewitched. I followed her, watched her, got in every one’s #ayin: 'trying to keep hor in sight, ■anal suppose made a fool of myself.”* (“Probably,” thought I.) “Once I danced with her,” Dick con tinued. “I hardly spoke. You know at masquerade balls people either say nothing or talk like idiots; I chose the former course. Just as I left her, how ever, I whispered ‘Shall we meet?’ and for reply, she only pressed my arm. That finished me, Jim, for the rest of the evening. I could hardly wait for. the party to break up. At last it was over. The couples went out to sit on the piazza. It ran all around the house, and was a- first-rate place for a moonlight evening such as that. Dick was gazing absently at the floor. He spoke very slowly. I could see that he imagined himself at the ball onoe more. “I watched the Little Nun,” he con tinued. • ‘She moved gradually toward the door; soon I saw her leave the room and walk slowly out on the dark side of the piazza. I followed her, and when she had almost reached the reading-room door, spoke. "Is it you, Helen?” She simply bowed her head and put her arm in mine; she was expecting mo. There were no lights in the room. We sat on a little sofa that stood in the bay window. Tho evening was very warm; the moonlight streamed across the piazza and in through the open window, flooding the room. Outside it was still. Occasionally wo could hear the others laughing at the farth er end of tho hotel. Then even that sound ceased. I tried to talk. I don’t suppose I succeeded very well. She only listened and drew closer to me. Once I asked her to raise her vey, but she shook her head slowly. I forgot what happened next; I think I took her hand, then, then—” Dick started; that soft, far-away ex pression disappeared suddenly; his eyes shone almost fiercely; something, forgotten in his dreaming, must have come back to anger him. “Let’s have it, old man,” I said gently, “what did you do next?" “Well,” he blurted out "I told her, that I loved her, and asked her if she loved me. For a minute she didn’t speak, and then said very low, ‘Yes, Dick dear, I dp very much; kiss me, Dick, ’ and drawing her veil aside, the moonlight fell full on her face as she held it up to mine.” Dick had risen at this point seized his hat and was standing by the door when I said: \ “Well, you did it, old man. I’ll bet ” \‘Damned if I ‘Sid,” he replied. ‘ ‘A mam don’t kiss his sister every time she tfks him to,” with which remark the door slammed after him. In an in stant! it opened again, and thrusting his hfead into the room, my chum added in ji roar, “Whole crowd of ’em sitting OBt on the piazza, too, just beside the /indo^s, listening to what I said, hang ’em,” and this time I heard his footsteps as he stormed down the stairs. I saw Dick’s sister two days later. ‘ ‘What made you play such a trick on Dick last summer?” I asked. “Oh! he’s told you, has he? Why, you see Miss Reiter was engaged last summer, although no one in the hotel besides herself and me knew it. Dick made a perfect fool of himself about her, and as she didn’t want to an nounce the engagement, and I couldn’t bring him to reason by good advice, we thought we’d cure him another way, that’s all.” “Just like a girl to do a thing like that,” I remarked and she couldn’t deny it Why Bridget Left. “Well, Bridget, why did yoil leave your former mistress?” “Och! She was a queer one. When her baby, the shwate darlint died, she only missed one meal, an’ sure, whin her dog—the oogly, woolly baste! kicked the bucket, she laid in bed one whole week an’ never ate a thing. ” “You had a just reason for leaving. You may consider Vrourself hired to me, Bridget.”—Chicago Ledger. Who Pays the Freight? In Boston alone, in the past year, some fifty persons have been hurt or killed by accident in elevators—most of them freight elevators, of which there are over 1,100 in that city. Utiles of Streets. The total length of the streets, ave nues, boulevards, bridges, quays and thoroughfares of Paris is set down at 600 miles, of which nearly 200 are planted with trees. IN JACKSON PRISON. LIFE IN MICHIGAN'S BIO PENAL INSTITUTION. - A MODEL ABODE FOB RETIRED CRIMINALS. Blood Stained Flendi On Whom Society ■ il Being Avenged—R> frying Lati mer’* Crime—The Prteon Bank and Work Shops. Copyrighted by International Presa Associa tion. A11 rights reserved. Among the oldest penal institutions in the West is the Michigan State prison at Jackson. Ground was broken for the prison in 1827, in pursuance of an enuccmeut of the Legislature at De troit, then the capital of the Wolverine State. It covers thirty-two acres of' WARDEN DAVIS. ground. The first prison was a stock, ade fence around the property. It was strongly guarded with armed men, but escapes were nevertheless frequent. In 1842 a stone wall twenty-four feet high was built outside of the tamarack stockade. . The first man to enter the place as a convict was John McIntyre, sent from Detroit for one year for larceny. There have in all been confined' in the prison 5,201. At present there are 781 convicts, all males. Female prisoners have not been received there since 1871, the legislature of that year order ing them transferred to the Detroit work house instead. The prison property is valued #681, 322. It consists of ten shops, built of brick three stories high, and the main front, which is four stories high sur mounted by a stone tower. The fourth floor front is occupied by wardens’ and business offices; second by deputy warden, chaplain and postmaster and librarian. The third story is used as chapel, where 1,000 can sit down, and a gallery where three hundred or four hundred visitors each Sunday go to see and hear. The fourth story is the prison hospital room, airy and clean. The prison offices are George N. Davis, warden; Fred Cellem, deputy; Edwin L. Kimball, physician; Eugene Mesher, hall master, G. Major Taber, clerk; Geo. N. Hicox, chaplain. ThJt fab. ter h»s been there continuously for over nineteen years. The ewers are all new. There are 800 cells, the overflow being housed in the ccrridors on bunks. The health of convicts is first-class, only five being in hospital. The cells are 3 1-3x9 feet; ceiling seven feet high. The life solitary cells were evolved in 1847, and discontinued in 1857 by legislative enactment. Articles of food vary at each meal with exception of Tuesdays and Fri day; these two days the foods are iden tical. Breakfast and dinner are par taken of at table. The supper or last meal is always served in the cells, the food being placed there by convict at tendants before the men are rung off from the labor, which time varies accord ing to the time of year. In the winter quitting time is 4:40 p. m.; the spring and summer 5:30 p. m. The men go to work at 7 each morning. Here is the bill of fare as served for three days in* eluding Sunday, which gives a fair idea of how and what the convicts eat: All convicts are bed and clothed at state expense, except the clothing shop, carpenter shop and kitchen. Convicts are hired out to contractors at from fifty to sixty-five cents per day. Sunday breakfast—Hash, wheat bread and coffee. Sunday dinner—Mutton stow, potatoes (ten bushels) corn bread (600 pounds). Monday breakfast—Codfish, (200 pounds) wheat bread, baked apples, coffee. Monday dinner-Pork and beans, wheat bread, vfncgnr, cofTcc. Thursday breakfast—Codfish, potatoes, baked apples, white bread, coffee. All convicts are full fed, and none complain of quality or quantity, which il ENTRANCE TO PRISON. they are liable to do if the occasion war* rants it in any form. The shops of the Michigan prison are built inside the walls in the form of a hollow square. The center is occupied by a lawn with a beautiful flower gar den in the center. The garden is sup : plied in the early spring from an extea \ \*cyt . sive greenhouse, mMl all ii convict labor. \ The largest contract insid^ ia the Wtthington A n contract is of next importance. company has also been in possession of its present quarters for over a quarter ' i of u century. All kinds of. farm wagon* and trueks are made and sold abroad, as well as in every State in tlip union. The firm employes about 200 convicts. The Fargo shoe contract employes lfiO convicts. Twelve hundred pairs of shoes is the output per day when run ning fad handed. Tho broom oontract employes seven ty convicts and make the highest priced brootns in the country. - In the broom contract shop alone thero ore thirteen life convicts, one of whom has been there twenty-four years. Two shops are manned by State men, that is, convicts who, woA for the State alone. These shops are tho carpenter and tailor shops. In tho first are mads all kinds of wooden boxes and chil dren’s toys. Those include chairs, tables, rockers and many varieties of toys. The tailor shop is where convict clothing is made, including men’s socks, by machinery. Home articles of bone implements are also made by an inmate of this shop, who does hi* work on overtime and has the receipts of his sales for.his own use.. The educational advantages of the prison are bettor than in most pennl institutions. They are carefully conducted by com petent instructors and are varied and suitable to the convict Schools at night are maintained for reading, writ ing, arithmetic, geography and history, and all well-behaved convicts may at tend who desire. There is a lecture hall or literary club room handsomely furnished and fitted to the require ments of the exercises given. Classes are taught the higher branches, essays are read by the convicts, extem poraneous speaking is indulged in on holiday occasions. During the warm weather, all convicts not in punishment, are allowed one full hour together in yard, each Satur day afternoon. All sorts of athletic 7 R. IRVING LATIMER. games are then allowed. Base and football forms a popular feature, and several games go on at the same time, many of the players showing by their expertness that they have made base hits before they made the one which landed them behind the bars. While it is well understood that most convicts are clever at getting into banks and lugging off all the moner they can find, it’s not so generally well understood that once in tlio prison very many of the prisoners suddenly manifest a laudable ambition to save money. Where before, the man would not care to save a few cents a day, once a convict he does not refuse to lay aside however little he may become possessed of against the day he will see the outside world again. Many fel lows who never supported any one, even themselves, outside the prison, once there, will delve and save for the support of wife or children. There is at present in the prison bank belonging to convicts 811,850.27 The amounts vary from one cent to one thousand dollars. A few years ago a man was released by expiration of a long sentence who had saved $2,000. It is on record that a convict once fell heir, while serving a sentence here, to $50,000. lie received it when he came out. Many of the prisoners are rapid workers s nd by doing two days wqrk in one sate fairly good wages. Nearly all have regular tasks assigned them and they can work as fast or as slow as they desire, only they iftust complete the allotted work. In these days of sensational crimes and noted criminals, Michigan has kept up its unsavory record equally strong with other States. There are all sorts and conditions of criminals inside the walls, from the slick-fingered forger to the bloody-handed matricide. The most noted criminal Michigan ever had, who was convicted, is without doubt R. Irving Latimer, at one time leader of Jackson city’s four hundred. He was born of parents who were both very strict church members. His father was a druggist and R. Irving learned the profession. Just before the son was 21 liis father, who was a man of splendid physique and of a commanding appearance, went home one evening, drank a glass of cider while awaiting supper and never left his chair, dying inside the hour. Mrs. Latimer and the son both opposed an inquest and none was held. The father carried $16,000 life insurance and there were several thousand dollars of debts which were paid by the widow. Irving was then started in the drug trade. He followed it two years and became over whelmingly in debt. Feb. 24. 1888, Irving carried a fictitious conversation through the telephone with a person supposed to be in Detroit. That after in lnto, ?raph where ^ after a lol lie *11 se(! lyhcd If life lu ipOQcted iVSf'Nothr ao»e\ jIWNL. »« wag'd Jontr lie first killed liia father to get I insurance and then Ids mother to cure the remainder that ahe retaluq [fys parent* did nqtjlvo ha] fotiier; and at,the time he became a matricide he was teaching the biblo :lasH in the Congregational eharch, and die young woman to whom ho was be trothed wan a member of the class He ■vns never known to shed a tear in his ife, never used bad language( was the loul of politeness, and dressed in perfect taste. The accompanying picture shows him as ho was when he itood up to receive sentence. ftTlio oldest prisoner in point of serv ice to the State is Joe Duquette, or “French" .loo, as he is called. He was lent to prison for life at the age of 33 snd is now lilt, having been there 34 years, 10 of which wero passed in the "life solitary" or dungeon coll. His only romance eamo to him two years ago, when a man called to see Joe. lie was his son, aged 33 years. Joe never know he had a child, the latter bblng born after his father was incarcerated. . Duquette’s crime was murdering the first born child of thu couple when It was two years old, it having been born four months after the couplo wore mar ried. Joe is too old to work but fills tho position of “lumper” or chore man about the yard. His prison number is 7, tlm oldest on tho list. William Walker, a colored man, bom a slave, came to. tho prison Christmas day twenty-six years ago for life. He is hale at 70 yoars and works on the wagon contract. He was bom of slave parents in Kentucky. lie served seven years in the dungeon cell when he first camu. One of the long terra convicts is Fred Newberg, colored, who was reoently sentenced from Grand Itapids. He Bndcd a long list of crimes by go ing into a house 4a Hie evening, pre senting a revolver to the head of the woman at the home and telling her she had just five minutes to give up what money she had or die. He pleaded guilty, and is 30 yoars old and six feet two inches tall. Ho ‘will be 72 when his sentence is ended. * Among the odd fish is Jacob Heck, with a fatherly cast of countenance. Heck is serving his eighth term In prison for petty stealings. He never takes much but takes it often. He lias served one term in Indiana and two in Ohio penitentiaries, besides his eight hero. There ore others serving from as high as seven terms down to two. A unique thing about the prison man sgementis that its board of inspectors is composed of very rich men, O. M. Barnes of Lansing being worth one and half million of dollars, while Francis Palms of Detroit is quoted at eight mill ions. There are also the prisons at Marquette and Ionia for less hardened criminals._G. A. Raymond. A 860,000 SUPPER. A Chicago Physician Mnjr Havo to Pay That Amount. When a husband permits his wife to follow the occupation of a typewriter girl he is running grave chances of losing her love. Henry E. Taylor of Chicago knows this a little better than most men. For that reason he sues Dr. E. E. Fahrney of the same city for 830,000, which sum lie thinks will just about fill the vacuum created by the loss of Ills better half's love. Anna Louise Taylor was a stenographer and typewriter in the office of Dr. Fahrney. Being pretty and inclined to attend the theaters, the doctor often I acted as her escort. After the theater they would visit the cafes and indulge .. A $50,000 SUPPER. (n extensive wine suppers at the doc tor’s expense. When the husbana learned of this state of affairs he called a halt by applying for a divorce. Then a second suit was brought against Fahrney for the amount named The defendant is highly connected socially. In Engl tali Hospitals. There are now twenty thousand trained nurses in England, Ireland and Scotland. The largest hospital in London employes S50 and the seven next in size aggregate 1,000. So where such a number' goes becomes quite comprehensible. '• • honors. On two previous Hons his father piiVin an objection I OOUNTESHH MARQARKTIIK 1IOYOS. for political reasons, it is said. When the marriage with the Comtesse de Brilliordes was 'prevented, many formed the belief that young Bismarck would remaina bachelor. And perhaps he might have, were lie not the only means of handing down the name to posterity. The young Count was deeply In love with the Comtesse. He said at the time he could never love again. Then ho went away to England with a view of forgetting tho tie' tbltt had been broken by the mandate of his stern parent, lie met the ('omtesse at an English court reception a year afterwards. Their meeting was a cold one. The Comtesse could nev give him for his loyalty to the e cellor’s wishes. About the sam he met Countess Margarethe whose father is Count George one of the richest men in Tho Hoyos afterwards acci him to Friederichsruh, the rei Prince ltismarck. A match was by the parents of the two, the cellor saying that ho wished English blood inducted into hi! terity. It is well known, t.hougi his son has not forgotten his l the divorced Comtesse de Br One of the richest heiresses of is Mrs. Edith Davis, aged 20, wh a year ago was Miss Edith Reddy] of the famous Redding tons of ifcondon. When she married Edw> ^Wellington Davis, it was at the command of her father who saw in the match a chance to keep the Reddington billions in the the family, Davis being a relative. The daughter who had graduated a year be fore did not take kindly to the mar riage. but by frequent threats of severe punishment, was compelled to go JLo tho altar for better or worse. She had no trouble in seeing that it was for worse. For a month after the mar riage her displeasure was openly mani fested. Then she was sent away 'f to an Italian watering place with her husband. When they reached Florence young Mrs. Davis devised means to desert her husband. She did so, and not wishingto be alone in her flight, sought a young English man as a companion. They were sc rested at Havre as they wore about to i set sail for America. The erring was returned to England^ Her panion was allowed to sail for tba/^ United States. . / Two weeks ago Mrs. fhf^in tarjmd up missing for the second time alltee her forced marriage and investigation went to show that she had taKftjffk'ateeagji# for New Fork. Word WMfai ones asnt to Seligmsne, the Hew York agents' of the Reddingtoes, WHitnrofpt her on her ’ arrival in that ettjg. A stsH of London physicians followed \>g the next steaeur, under {Detractions to examine into the young wwpsn’s mental con dition. She wee arrested and a court of inquiry >deehurcd her to be insane. Them She wan bustled to a returning Steamer a0ft' taken back to England, Her lover, whom she had arranged to meet.