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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.
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