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) .' v 7 i ii ..on THE IKC3I. For their brave daad. who sleep at Santiago. - Under a flay of mingled cold and for th?ir brothers deep beneath the channel. Where towers El Morrc's rock-entr- cled head Our thanks, great God!" maae no attempt to see her. After his J cerned. I pity her and feel that she death, In 1871 and while- visiting In I was insane when she committed the Washington she determined to satisfy I crime, and her later actions can only herself on this matter, and went to 1 be accounted for by her Intense pride Sing Sing. and the possible result, perhaps, to some She Informed the warden that she be- I one she yet loves." lieved she had a friend there who had Mrs. Norris keeps among the mem- been imprisoned nineteen years. Histories of the days of her girlhood an repjy was. jaaaam, you can not mean I autograph album in which may be the veiled murderess?" On her assur-I found written words by her friends of ing him that she did, he said she was I that far-away time. Among these is outside the door ai you could hea Jer. jid made you feel For the good ships that lie on sands and ledges. Blackened by flame and tern by shot the first person who had ever claimed found some written by the woman who. O'er whose lost kingdom but the throb- any frlendshiP wlln th,s nian, and forty-three years ago. was her closest bing surges onerea to accompany ner in her quest. I friend, and who, in spite of the fact Ring forth the changes of their fun- When told she had a visitor the sup-I that she entered early life surrounded era! knell I nosed Mr Rnhlnann trvnlr t Vi a lovalv,.. . v. t . , 1 .j n.ir- thnnko ot-oo nA t I " " I tA iiwuga ui wir wvxiva miu r, av-. I , 1 1 . - . . I ui . vuiiii ene cpi in ner ceu ana with every promise of ultimate suc- For our brave dead w ho sleep at San- I dyed her 'ace with a carmine color ob- cess, drifted into the strong stream "ago. I tained from it. Gf turbulant passion, in which she was blue ' As Bne aPProached the room where shipwrecked and finally stranded upon Who. born of freedom, gave their lives! Mr8' Norrls was waiting the latter I the barren shore that men call crime that freedom I stepped behind the door and watched! On February 21. 1843, Charlotte Wood w , 1 u 111 nunl ouiiner inrougn tne partial opening. One I wrote in her friend's album: uuiiuuge llU no. onffl r-tn Sk. ,V, I t, . . . Our praise, great God! I I x- ricuus wno nave mei iwiurta ui ner inena oi lurmer uays I Should never forget For the good ships that guarded well I and as she entered stepped toward her f Scenes where their Joys and sorrows , "ur nunor- . . and whispered: "Charlotte Wood, how have been Lifting our prowess to a world's awed Q eyes? are you?' Look. then, around thee. And for their trews. whose valor Believing her nineteen years of si- 'Twas here that I found thee. forms a bulwark. I lence had gone for naught, the prisoner I Ttr trw nort In tha u-alia nf ttl i.ilUtitr nunc piteously replied: "For God sake, don't sem mention my name within these walls. The prison officials saw the recogni- Taking the Yellow Fever. For their old land that oped the new I Hon but failed to hear the conversa. The man on the next cot boosted him-eat amazement, his clothes, or such w unu a puniuB, I ti.m an tv. tvn u.-nman rnn-rc .splf intn a hiLif.sittinir nnsture with oraf them as lav handy, were gathered arm and made swift dabs at tne sma m and wrapped in his blanket, and he may despise Our praise, great God! . . . . ed in bujvcuii, hiiu seemeu mine- . . , . . it ma ..re. To- nuiu. mca uuiiuue wuuiu , . . y on the gther they would tap g , , , and take auuumen ana asiv n u ii , . . ... fld hold i -vould kinlly hubs iu tne tjreucuio. th imve you iu juur hit you didn't drop oft a see them beckon or en, but ii e you could our friend them whispering t HPMo noo annnvin imnafiesflrv fllS3 that a great dea! ' , and solemnity v B . dropped off to sleep fever. Then y , v t . rvcusly of bathtubs ana areamea ' , , , and oraoked 1.- , riena wno saia: nere s ."old man." He save you j Dills and a drink of a pin or - . . Ae candle and went scuffl ' his bare feet to the next ing awa.v . . y. if you happened to be liv the an . , , ... . oody else. , condition lasiea a. aay or iwo the nalnn in the bones erew less nr . . . . . . .. ,p, tne loatning ior iooa ana tne Jne of strength increased. 'j4aybe the fifth day, to the patient's For nnr whnsA pmnl rc rlaenc t Vi eat and west- I apart. Mrs. Norris declares they talked Whose laws shall be the precepts of the I of their former friendship and the in nations: cidents connected with their life at b:t- victors-and for them' un" the seminao'. Thy mercy. Lord! Charlotte Wood then told her of the Francis Bart let t In Boston Transcript, enforced marriage and how she left of his back with the other. "As between yellow fever and fie said he. "I choose yellow fever His was a more than usually mil or he might have chotcn otherw iry ise At Siboney doctors and nur THE VAILED MURDERESS. tf " the patient with tha Within the gloomy walls of the Mat teawan. X. T., prison fcr the criminal insane there is confined on a life sen- because they know if a man and how she finally met her former , f scared he j!Si bad as iww K rt littnu jia. I that nnp lost. The odd rart of it lover, the Troy politician. She dis claimed, however, any knowledge of tence for murder a woman who has I the crime with which she was charged. successfully concealed her identity dur- I To her friend's queries regarding her ing the forty-three years of her im-1 pardon she answered: prisonment. Tried and convicted atl "Yes. tell the governor that the veiled th fl. H.sire ln iife to sleep. Troy. X. T.. under the assumed name I murderess, a vagrant, wishes to bel c.r, Dhvicians x Chicago, not- of Henrietta Robinson, she is better I pardoned; but also say to him that ljabiv Tr Reilly of .health depart- but known to the prison officials and in the I would rather have every drop of blood frtCTl't crat a'Qrpd PAJtflV is because the senses aHlDnted and the mind clouded by th.-lseafe' - , -Jt things and xt w-e had men t S.1V mat V criminal history of the country as the! dry within my veins and find death t1 ttaSn't veil, fever at aU n-eiled murderess." I within these walls than tell who I ... 0Mntlld form of malaria. . I " ine mystery ensnrouamg tne person-!" aJity of this woman and the real facts I Mrs. Norris left her, and while she ad- As the doctor J had the fever his n!nin is to t consiaerea. tie conected with the crime with which she I mitted to the prison officers that the tna patlents re ver too quickly for one nas been charged, together with many woman naa been ner inena, sne kept tnlngt anj th- tbe aeain raie is. i peculiar circumstances attending her the secret of the latter' s identity. She high as i would be if the disease imprisonment, are now disclosed by a then visited Governor Hoffman and were genuir yellow fever, resident of Chicago, who for twenty asked for executive clemency for the Doctors i Cuba were unanimous, I years has respected the wishes of one unknown woman. The governor claimed thnk j m, safely say, in the opinion whose expiation for crime has been the he knew who she was and offered to tnat tne jourge of Siboney was the wonder of those familiar with the casejpardon her provided a home could bereal arti,. though a mild type. nen and criminal history. I found for her. Mrs. C. P. Norris of 136 Fiftieth street I Mrs. Norris at that time believed th recently informed her friends that since I condition to be an easy one, but soon 1S.1, when she visited Sing Sing, she I learned that her family had long before has been aware of the identity of the disowned her, and no one could be woman who was then confined there found who was willing to acknowledge and who was known as Henrietta iCob- the woman branded with crime, inson, the veiled murderess. In speaking of this matter Mrs. Nor- According to Mrs. Norris, the pris- ris says that a most determined effort oner is Charlotte Wood of Quebec, Can., appeared to be made on the part of who in 1&43 attended the Willard semin- many who might be supposed t be ln- ary in Troy, N. Y.. and whose parents j terested, to hide away forever behind Tnose two months debilitated every- at that time occupied a prominent posl- prison walls the life and secrrt of this tlon in Canadian society. woman. An Instance she gi'rs of this The story, as related by Mrs. Norris was when she confided to the WillarJ9 to a representative of a New York pa- the fact that she had found Charlotte per, is one in which passion, jealousy Wood ln prison. They immediately tried and unrequited affection, coupled with to convince her she was Kistaken, and the stern domination of the parents gave token of such anxiety in this in a matter regarding the marriage of I regard that Mrs. Norris Abandoned her I left C1- JUiy " mvie nc uci two an three hundred cases, and tne numb, was growing nounj Mill type or ',ot what we had was enou.n and to spare, and every man whegot it will assure you that a little veuw fever goes a long way. The late spring and early summer diys at Tampa were the best kind of preparation tor catching any maiariai disease that may be lurking aoout. . v. : i f La-.a bodv. and me lorces muuintru went to Cuba full of ague and bilious ness. A9 ; recall it now though I did not un(j rstand the significance of it at ln time the first hint of oncoming yilow fever is to be found in a lovely .olden-hued mist that hangs in front their child, resulted In the sacrifice of I attempt and was final!- compelled to f your eyes when you open them in give up" hope of the liberation of Char lotte Wood. l- human life and the branding of Char lotte Wood as a murderess. in 1M3 Mrs. Norris. then Miss Char- I For vears Dast Mrs Norris has w lotte Emery of Utica, N. Y.. attended ten the prisoner, and. despite the ct Willard seminary. She there became that she has tried every conce"'hle acquainted with Charlotte Wood and way by which to obtain an the young women became close personal the prisoner has maintained jniplete friends, as well as school companions, silence, and Mrs. N'orris. bel,f,n8: he During the progress of their friend- has done as much as one do for ship the young woman confided to Miss another ln such a posltior has aban Emery the fact that her sisters. Har- doned the effort. conjean8r herself riette and Georgiette. had been forced simly with writing the rison offlclals by their father, Robert Wood, to con- from time to time ask them to ex" tract marriages against their will, and tend to the woman -tever kindness that she feared such action was con- they may. templated by him regarding her. She The prison life 0fCharlotte Wood is also told her friend she was in love with a wonder, and as y f ollows day and a prominent politician of Troy. The years succeed ye?" this woman, having young women then agreed that whoever reached and pa31 the allotted to married flrst would visit the other on human life, f11' maintains the same the wedding journey. reserve, the' -n,e unfeeling interest in Miss Emery left the seminary at the her surroun and her cloistered life. end of the year, but Charlotte Wood Once only0 she shown feeling, remained several terms longer. In 1S4S When ed whether she had any Miss Emery was married, and. true to childrer he Is sald to have rePlied: her friend, journeyed to Quebec to visit "My fjd ask me any .ueBtion but her friend. She there learned of the that.""3 yet. some years after, she marriage of Charlotte Wood six weeks Volrarily declared that her son was before to Sir William Elliott, an Eng- a rember of the English parliament, lish officer in charge of the military ier parents are dead and her sisters forces at the Canad'an city, and also .larried in England, and it is also be that she had accompanied her husband ileved her brother lives in Kingston. to Europe. Mrs. Norris had no corresponden e with her friend and heard nothing garding her whereabouts until, in her attention was called to the p-'1011" ing of John Lanigan and Miss Lubee ln Troy and the trial of a Mr?.-Rob'n-son for the crime. The myst'1013 ac tions of this woman in ax . effort to conceal her identity arousal suspicion In Mrs. Norris mind, and when it wa shown that the Troy poli'an in whom her friend had been in-erested figured in the case she came to the conclusion that Charlotte Wood was on trial for her life. The facts connected with the mtider were that shortly after Mrs. Robinson's arrest in Troy, in 1833. tbs politician referred to married a wr.man Irving in another part ot the state. When she heard of this she became violent, drank excessively an- walked the streets mut- j tering th"-ats against him. She was supposed t$ be insane. On th ZT1 the murder she went to the t jr'&o'- hy Lanigan and his wife r' A td four glasses of ale and requl iilodjLrs. Lanigan to summon her nusr.rfa and their friend. Miss Lu bee. to rink with her. This was done, and vrPm a few hours after drinking the Jjjanigan and Miss Lubee died fr. jjeffects of arsenical poisoning. ? C i I "inson was arrested, tried and I and sentenced to death. Gov- .rk. however, commuted her to life imprisonment on the sanity made by ner counsel. Townsend. afterward L nited nator from Troy. the trial Mrs. Robinson con- rore a veil and in many ways avoid any possible recognition. she succeeded and became a :ed character, owing to the mys nnected with her oersonality. Norris 5n th meantime firmly 1 she recognized her friend, but to the wishes of her husoana c i In tli celeb 4 tery I Mr belief I . ii Canada. But the silence maintained by her is equaled by that preserved by her relatives, and the prison officials now believe she will die a prisoner of the state and be buried in the unmarked grave provided for those who by their acts have placed themselvwi beyond the pale of civilization. The first years of her Imprisonment were passed ln Sing Sing prison, but in 1S71 she was removed to Auburn, re maining there until the prison at Mat tea wan was completed. At times she is thought to be insane, but again her rr.anner denotes that her' mind is ac tive, and she is allowed such free dom as is compatible with prison rule and discipline. Mrs. Norris is "3 years old. After the death of her husband in 1871 she re moved to Chicago, where she is held in the highhest esteem by her friends. Notwithstanding her age. her mind and memory are unimpaired, and as she conversed of her former friend and the companion of her early years her kind face betokened the sorrow she felt in the fate accorded to her who was ac counted one of the brilliant pupils and beautiful women of Willard seminary. She said: "I have done all in my power for Charlotte Wood, and I am now compelled to abandon my efforts. For twenty-nine years I have kept my knowledge of her to myself. Various reasons influenced me in this. Among them was the fact that she has interest in considerable property, and erron eous motives might have been imputed to me for my efforts In her behalf. Again, 1 1 felt that the influences at work compelling her seclusion were such that personal annoyance and-pos-sibly Injury might revert to me and my family should I take any action in the matter. x "Lately, however. I concluded to tell what I know, and the story I have re lated is the tru one. so far as my knowledee of Charlotte Wood is con- trie morning. Lying in the tent, half awake and half asleep, you see it move lazily in front of you, and you lift your hand to brush It away. It refuses to avaunt and incidentally you observe that the hand is a bright yellow shade about the color of a mulatto. You say, "That's funny," and then get up. A vigorous blinking of th eyes and a dash of coli water on the head drives away the pretty yellow cloud and if you think about it at all it is only to decide that you are bilious and to take half a dozen grains of quinine. In a few days, say a week, an irrv mense desire to sleep and a calm indif ference to food take possession of the patient. Up to this time it has been easy. One goes about his usual affairi and there is only a vague consciousness f "not feeling well." Then sotie fine morning one wakes to the knowledge that every bone in his body is being twisted, broken and grovnd. More qui nine is taken, and for awhile it gives an unnatural feeling of strength and lightness.' That passes, and the sick man feels wxrse than ever. Then a sense of wirry is added to the physical agony, pud an army surgeon is wearily sougt'i. He says its biliousness or a touch of malaria and gives his patient, -who all this time is staring stupidly at him and letting out a frquent groan by way of keeping up the conversation, six quinine pills of two grains each, to be taken two at a time between the hours of 3 and 6 o'clock in the morning, "whenever you happen to wake up." The fact that the dector gives quinine shows that he doesn't believe the trouble to be yellow fever, for quinine is never given !n that disease. Next day the visit to the physician is repeated and the patient is stupider and more listless than before. Hence. I can't remember what the doctor said during the second visit, but I have a faint impression he was a very busy man, and I wondered where he got his clean clothes. Also I said. "Doctor, if I could only have a bath. I think that would do me more good than anything else." I knew there was a big stone basin in the hospital he presided over which had been in the quarters of a Spanish officer in the days before the occu pation and that it had a shower spray over it. "You don't need a bath," he answered. Of course that was a matter of opinion, but I thought at the time the refusal was brutal in the extreme. It seemed as if a bath :n clean, soft water, in a real tub. with real soap and a real towel, was a thing more to be desired than anything else in the world. The third day somebody, or several somebodies, would oome around and tay. "How do you feel?" and a drowsy " 'Bout same" would be the answer. The somebodies evidently were wor ried, for along toward night a couple of doctors w ould be brought in by your friends. Usually one was a CubaK phy sician who had had yellow fever and know all the in and outs of its prog ress, and the other an American army was told he would be taken "up In the woods," a wave of the hand toward the south indicating where "up in the woods" was. Questions as to the reason of this jought were not answered with the complete- ith yel- I ness to be desired. A newly established hospital was there, it was clean and dry, and the air was pure, you would get more care ajid be better off in every way. But you didn't care, nor did you yearn for the pure air "up in the woods." You wanted to be let strlcty and severely alone. The prospect took on dreadful possibilities to a man's sick and fevered brain. You got quite dramatic and said, with a fine air: "If I'm going to die, I want to die among friends. If you try to pack me off up there I'll cut and run." Remembering how uncertain my legs then" were, I think as a runner I would ifave been a picturesque failure. Oddly enough, my friends didn't seem to relish the proposition of having me "die among them," nor yet to tarry in their midst. They kept steadfastly at work gathering up my belongings, and in a way quite regardless of me as if I had been a child or an insane man saying to one another: "Think he'll need this?" or "had I better pack two suits of underwear or three?" Protests were In vain. Flatly I said I would'nt go, and somebody said: "Don't talk that way, because they'll take you by force if you don't go will ingly." With that a great hatred of mankind and the realization that I was a martyr over took me and I said. "very well."The little engine that hauls the coal trains of the Spanish-American Iron company steamed up the line with a ramshackle and very primitive open "summer" car and a flat car attached to it. Cots, blankets, clothes and men were bun dled into It, some of the men on stretchers. All were angry at least those who had strength left for an emotion and all were ignorant of the fact that the dreaded scourge, of which we had heard tin much and which we feared so geartly, wa heavy upon them. The engine yelled twice, and slowly moved toward "up in the woods," where we were to stay for days that seemed as long as weeks, days in hich nothing seemed to happen, so weary were they Yet so many things happened that I can make another" story about them. Foreign Notes. A coal mine at Dailly. Scotland which cuught fire over fifty years ago na ai last burned itself out. All ex periments made to extinguish it failed. Cardinal Steinhuber Prefect of the congregation of the Index, has un dertaken to revise the condemnation of books decreed in the last 300 years. Copenhagen's round tower, built in the eleventh century- and 150 feet high, is to be moved bodily a distance of 150 feet to widen a business street. England is being driven by the con tinuance of the South Wales coal strike to consider the desirability of the government's buying mines in or der to be sure of a supply in case of war. In the new reichstag there are only eighty-eight nobles. The number has steadily diminished since 1871. when it was 160. There are said to be only seven Jews elected to the reichstag, all of them social democrats. Llanfairpwllgwyllgjogerj'chwj-ndr -obwlllllandislliogogoch appears In the British postoffice guide as the name of a post and telegraph office in the inl and of Anglesey. It is said to mean "the church of St. Mary in a hoilow of white hazel near to the rapid whirl pool and to Saint Disilio's church near to a red cave." Limoges has Just held its human hair market, women from all the country round coming there to sell their braid3. The price is now on the average $5 a pound; twenty years ago it was $10. When, a bargain has been struck the woman is taken to the nearest inn and shors. At the last market $12,000 worth of hair was bought. Three French officers propose to carry out Jules Verne's idea, and ex plore the Sahara in a balloon. Their plan is to go up at the gulf of Gabes, on the Mediterranean, to be carried along by the regular northeast trade winds, and to land somewhere in the Niger basin. They have asked the Paris municipal council for a grant cf $3,000 for their enterprise. A steam engine, the oldest In the world, built by Boulton & Watt in 1777 for the Birmingham canal navigations, which had been working regularly for 120 years at Smethwick, in the pumping works, has Just been put aside for a more powerful engine built for the same company by the same firm. The old engine will be set up again at an other station as a memorial of what can be done with good machinery by careful management. LIVE STOCK KATES. is Denver, Colo., Special: One of the moat Important orders ever issued by the Union Pacific railroad, insofar as the live ktock market of Denver and the western shippers of live stock concerned, was promulgated today. Early in the year, on complaints from shippers that they were being", dis criminated against on shipments to Denver from points west of Colorado, the National Live Stock association took ud the matter of adjusting these rates with western lines. As a result the Union Pacific today issued an or der making Denver the terminus for all western shipments of stock instead of Ogden. Heretofore a shipper was compelled on reaching Ogden, to select his route to the eastern markets. If he selected the Union Pacific for Omaha or Kan sas City he was not allowed to try the Denver market without paying the local freight rate from Cheyenne, Wyo., to Denver and return, a distance of over 210 miles. Under the new rulln a shipper can have his stock billed to any eastern market via Denver without extra charge, thus giving him the advantage of two markets instead of one without extra freight rates, which made shipments from many points in the west to this market pro hibitory. It is said that other western roads terminating or running through here will take similar action at an early date. The Nebraska Telephone company is busy at work on extensions of its lines and th line between Seward and David City will be completed in a month ready for public use. RATS SPREAD TERRIBLE PLAGUF.S Rats are responsible for the origin and spread of the fearful bubonic plague that is devastating certain sec tions of the Orient. That startling announcement is made by Dr. Koch, the eminent Berlin scientist, who has made a study of the subject, and the statement is indorsed by prominent St. Louis physicians. By Dr. William C. Ussery of the chair of chemistry of the Marien-Sims college of medicine: 'It has long been know that the fear ful bubonic plague and rats thrived n the same kind of places. The breed- ng places of both are in darkness and filth. And while Dr. Koch has demon- stated that the disease originated among rats and is communicated to the human race through them, there is no possibility of a spread of this plague in the United States. "There is more than ore reason for this. In the first place, the freezing North Americin winters would kill the germs if they were allowed to live so long. But health departments, with their watchful eye, would stamp the disease out. even if a case should be mported here, before it had a chance to spread and becDme epidemic I lata nd the plague revel In filth and squalor and were the plague to manifest itself in the most miserable and poverty- stricken neighborhood in this great city the authorities could purify the rlace n so short a time that never could the plague gain a foothold. "Few persons have any conception of this terrible plague which kills thous- nds of unfortunate ignorant, miser able people eery year. They cannot conceive It because they exist in places where the plague constantly hovers, The meanest, dirtiest spot in St. Louis is a palace compared with the houses of the plague spots of the Orient. "There any attempt to cleanse or purify a place is tesented. The bath is practically unknown. All the streams are contaminated. The houses are filled with accumulated filth. These are the ideal nesting places for rats. Though thousands of them die from the plague they breed so fast that there is no perceptible diminution in their num ber. Rats can breed every' six weeks and in a year a rat will become a great grandparent. "When they get ready to die they emerge from their hiding places and hunt the open air. Their carcasses lit ter the ground and the plague poison from their decaying bodies is in the air and Is absorbed by the 'persons w ho come near. , "The germs of the bubonic plague at tack the lymphatic glands. In the lymph are the phagocytes and lympho cytes. small cells, which float about in dependently and whese mission Is to purify and neutralize the small amount of poison which is being constantly produced by the healthy system. When one has a sore on the foot or hand the glands become diseased and are tem porarily unable to perform their func tions on account Of the increased amount of poisonous material which the lymph fluid has absorbed from the sore. "There is no possible way of eradic ating the diseace once it gets in one's system. Many people die before the ulcers develop. Just as some people die of smallpox before there is any visible eruption. If the person attacked has a strong constitution and can with stand for a season the ravages of the plague, h suffers a thousand deaths." Washington, D. C July 27. Of the 800.000 inhabitants of Porto Rico 200,000 live in cities. The industries of the island are almost entirely agricultural. But there are few farming localities of the United States corresponding in dimensions to this island which can show such a collection of cities and towns. Porto Rico's area is about equal to that of three average counties In Illinois. Missouri. Kansas or any other western state. Yet this territory, less than 100 miles in length and one-third that in width, has three cities above 5,000 and fifteen or twenty towns of 2,000 and over. A characteristic of the Poro Ricans is to live in towns, villages and in plantation communities rather than In scattered and Isolated farm houses. Much has been printed about San Juan de Porto Rico. People of the United States are fairly familiar, by description, with the Morro, the mas sive walls, the narrow city, built along a strip of sand running parallel to th? mainland, and separated from It by the bay. The capital of this new territory of the United States no longer seems foreign. With the other cities and towns there is less acquaintance. From consular sources the department of state has come into possession of in teresting data about the more import ant population centers besides San Juan. MAKING MONEY. Three men ln the visitors gallery ln the stock exchange talked about mak ing money. The experience of one is worth repeating, says the New York Sun. "The people of this earth," he said "aie still divided in their opinions about what constitutes legitimate busi ness or trade. You hear a good deal of a man earning his bread by the sweat of his brow. And when somebody re peats that run-down saw you think unless you have knocked about every where, ln all kinds of weather, of saw ing wood, or harvesting, or log rolling in a lumber camp, although log rolling in a political convention or in the lobby of a legislature will bring out the beads on the man who follows either. "There is nothing that will keep a man awake at night like scheming Maybe you think that scheming is not legitimate work. I had a scheme which was legitimate, and the bottom fell out of it Just as I thought the project roofed in. I was on the road to be the Joe Leiter of the time, when Joe was on top, I mean. I was at the head of a big transportation business I had contracts with some of the big gest shippers in the country. One of these was a man to whom a confidence man would offer a gold brick hands down, but Lord, what a mistake. When anybody undertook to play that old man for an easy mark he was throw ing away time. He lived in Arkansas when I knew him. I shipped many- cars of cattle for him, sold for him, and never had a penny's difference with him in the settlement. One day, he walked Into my office unannounced. I had not supposed he ever went 500 miles from home, ana was as cool as a fan. I remember well the conversation, for he was the last man In the world I would suspect of scheming. He was whittling. I never saw him when he wasn't. " 'What's wheat worthr he asked, as deliberately as he would ask the time of day. 'What grade?' I asked. 'No. 2 red on inspection.' I looked over the reports, for I was not in the wheat pit then, and found that the grade of which he inquired was worth 80 cents. " ' Going up any?' he asked. "Of course I did not venture to pre diet until after inquiry. He asked me to find out the probabilities and let him know on a mentioned date at a third-rate downtown hotel I reckon it cost him $1.50 a day to stay there everything included. The day I called he was eating a dinner that I would not have offered to a yellow dog. gave him the result of my investiga tions, if there is such a thing as a man investigating the price of wheat three or four months ahead. Some men claim to have that down fine, but never did. "He questioned me as if he had been a lawyer. The result of that meeting was a date to meet him in his house in Arkansas within three weeks. I was met at the station by his boy, who had 'picked me out' by his father's descrip tion, and he drove me to the farm house, fifteen miles distant. It was late in the night when I arrived. He led me into the spare room, lighted a candle and made it fast in the old way. In Its own tallow. " 'Do you know No. 2 red when you see it?' he asked, renewing the conver sation we had in New York abruptly. "I acknowledged that I was not an expert, but that I had acted as Inspect or. Then he opened a small bag of the cereal and asked me what I thought of It. I did not pass judgment on it until daylight, when I told him It was No. ' red. " 'Bet your salvation in heaven it is!' he asked. That was a favorite bluff with him. I said I would. He whittled for a few minutes, and then said: ' 'Well, you woludn't get in. 'Tain't No. 2 red. It's mightily like it, though. Know them chaps in Chicago?' "I did know several of them. " 'The trick is to get it past 'em. Get it inspected as No. 2 red and you're worth $50,000 more than you are now. What will you haul it to Chicago for? " 'How much is there?' I asked. " 'As much as you want to carry. I've got the option on that grade of wheat in three states, maybe four. I've been buying hogs and cattle as a blind. We can fill the elevators in Chicago with this grade before they ever know the difference, if they ever do. which I doubt.' "The scheme required a good deal of work. Much depended upon my gettin cars at a certain time and on my ma.- ing a certain rate. To make $150,0('0 that was what the old man wanted, gross, within a specified time, and get that wheat inspected, required the splitting of many hairs. He took me into his confidence very fully, as he had to do. We visited some of the big wheat belts in the states he had named and I was convinced that the old man knew No. 2 red better than I did. He was law and gospel to the farmers. I left him to do my part of the scheming. I never worked as I did ?n arranging for rates. Grain shippers will understand how grain of a certain grade goes ln certain cars and that much depends on the car when it comes to inspecting the grain. That' what I have been told. To procure The number of cars necessary and the kind, was no small Job. Scheming? You bet. That's where scheming brings out more perspiration than, sawing wood. I made my headquarters in Chicago while the scheme was under headway. I used to walk miles every night un raveling some of the threads of that scheme. Sometimes it seemed so easy. And then again it was impossible. My hair whitened in a month. While I was going crazy by degrees I received a tel egraph message from one of our agents in Little Rock in which I was informed that the old man had suddenly died. Honestly and truly that was one man n whose death I rejoiced. He was all nerve and had the courage of a lion. In fact he looked like one. And I have always had an idea that had he lived he would have won out with his scheme. But I want to tell you now that the hardest work in this world is scheming, whether you scheme for yourself or the other fellow." Now Is a good time to build whatever shelter is needed for the stock. There is usually time that can spared to bet ter advantage early this month than later: then, by doing it now it will be ready when needed. WHISKY BROUGHT WEALTH "Whisky has made and lot the for tune of many ptrsons. but It is seldom a specific case of overindulgence ln the Juice of corn or rye has been the direct means of bringing wealth to anyone, save as the amount expended In ac quiring a Jag may increase the coffers of a saloon keeper." The speaker was Joseph Parish, for merly of Chicago, but for some years a resident of Washington, and he smiled meditatively as he watched the uncei- tain steps of a well-dressed man stag gering away from the bar of a hotel buffet. 'Let me tell you an instance where a case of a plain drung netted a man $60.- 000," he continued to a reporter for the Chicago Chronicle. "Back in the 'SOs I had a claim before congress amount ing to some C0.000. It was a war claim. and as it had been knocked back and forth between the two houses for ten years or more, I despaired of Its pass age. Session after session it was intro duced, to be buried beyond hope of resurrection. After several fruitless ef forts I at last managed to get the claim through the lower house, and at the close of the session it lay on the desk of the clerk of the senate, waiting its turn on the regular calendar. 'Senator Cullom lad promised Id call the bill up at the first opportunity if unanimous consent could be secured, but the days slipped by and no action was taken. The last night of the ses sionIt was March 3, 18S7. and the senate had been sitting continuously for many hours I went to the cham ber and took a seat In the spectators' gallery. Senators Edmunds. Hoar and one or two others were fighting for a bill on which nartv Hn u rather closely drawn and the hours passed by In fruitless debate and tedi ous roll call. There were numerous attempts to bring up private bills, but object'ons from the republican leaders killed the chances for any such action. It Mas along about midnight and I had almost given up hope of my claim being taken from the calT.lar when slight disturbance at the door of the senate chamber attracted my at tention. The next moment in walked Senator Riddelberger of Virginia, the associate of General Mahone of red- Juster fame in that state, indisputably drunk. "What followed Is larpely a matter of rewspaper history. Rlddlebergr took his seat and the senator who at that time had the floor continued lis remarks. The Virginian presently roue to his feet and in husky tones inIsted upon addressing the senate, although repeatedly called to order. He finally walked into the aisle and began speak ing wildly and Incoherently. The ser-geant-at-arms tried to get him back to his seat. A sensational scene fol lowed. Riddleberger put his hand to his hip pocket and defied any man to touch him on peril of his life. He was finally dragged down the aisle to the door, and, after a brief struggle, forcibly thrust in the ante-room. "During the uproar Edmunds, Hoar and a few others who had been leaders in the fight for regular order left the chamber In disgust, repairing to the restaurant for 'cold tea or other re freshment. I had been so much en gaged in watching the disturl.ance on the floor of the senate that I had forgot ten my own claim, but an Instant later, as order was restored. Senator Cullom, quickly taking in the situation and real izing the opportunity, rose to his feet and asked unanimous consent to take up house bill No. and pass It under suspension of the rules. This was my measure, and before I could believe my senses the bill was taken from the cal endar and passed without objection. A dozen other senators secured similar recognition had put through special bills In which they were particualrly Inter ested before Edmunds. Hoar and the other objectors returned to the senate, when, peeing what was going on. they promptly put an end to the sp;ul business and took up the regular orar "So, you see, Riddleberger's merinJjI- gence in liquor, while ruining h repu tation and sfc.dly efcoxlng the J;enity of the august sonate, was the means of n:y getting $00,000 I never see a drunken man now but th.it I feel like lending him a helping hand because of tl.t lucky windfall." Two Women Robbers. Two women pickpockets, evidently twins, as they bear a remarkable iesm. blance to each other, the effect being heightened by a similarity in dre.-1. have been proving a source of trouble to the Chicago central station detectives. Friday night, at Adams street and Wabash avenue, the women accosted S. J. Willets. a traveling nun from Roch ester, N. Y., who is stoping at the Great Northern hotel, and asked him to direct them to Twenty-second street. Before he had time to reply one of them deftly extracted his pocketbook from an inside pocket and started on a run down the street, followed by her companion. Willetts wa so surprised by the boldness of the act that he could do nothing but stand and lok at the escaping women. When he fin ally realized that he had lost $125 he shouted for a policeman, but the women had disappeared. An hour later Detectives Flaht-rty and Neafrle arrested a woman on Quincy street who Is supposed to have been one of the pickpockets. Phe wa taken to the Harrison street annex and gave the name of Rosie Karl. Lieutenant Perry at the central sta- tions says the women have been oper ating In the down-town streets for the past three weeks, but so far have es caped arrest. They are unknown to the police, and are thought to have come here from New York. The le. semblance they bear to each other is striking. They are of the same build, both have dark hair, and are of exactly the same height. Their dresses and hat are alike, even to the smallest detail. The police say that their object in dressing alike Is to avoid Identification by their victims. Willetts says he does not know which one has his money and cannot Identify Rosie Karl as the one who stole bin purse. No money was iouna in ine nossession of the Karl woman when she was arrested by the detectives. If corn fodder Is to remain standing In shocks in the field until fed out. It will pay to put up in good-sized shocks, not less than sixteen hills square, xnere win oe less man n in small shocks. 9 ,.ti - -; .c-.- ....