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A “Moated Grange” Mystery ' That Has Stirred England ■ ■ — I ... .— Ml — Complete Disappearance of Wealthy and Talented Woman Now Being Investigated — Suspicious Circumstances in the Case. 4 Apart from the utter obscurity sur ’ oundiug the disappearance of the wealthy and talented woman who is the central figure of the so-called “Moated Grange Mystery,” which is now occupying the attention of the public in England, by far the mo6t striking thing about the affair is the grim appropriateness of its scene. The ancient, foroidding manor house, sur rounded by Its canal of dull water, standing in the midst of a property rteglected for years, burled in a deso late country district, miles away from the nearest village, was the place of all places that a Wilkie Collins or a Gaboriau would have selected as the scene of such a tragedy as it is now believed took place there. To the Moated Grange, which stands In Essex, several miles from the sleepy little town of Clavering, came with the man whom she believed to be her husband Camille Holland, an elder ly woman of w-ealth and rare gifts— an authoress, a musician and a painter —and from the Grange, after living ihere for barely three weeks, she dis appeared as utterly as if she suddenly for tho last three years In the rustic neighborhood of Clavering, the atten tion of the public has been fixed upon the ancient and gloomy Essex man sion, with its Old World "moat" and its barren surrounding acres. The police are now ransacking it from end to end—searching for signs of the woman who came to the Moated Grange in such mysterious circum stances. The evil-appearing moat, which is spanned only by a single bridge, has thus far been the object of their chief attentions. It and still another waterway connected with it are known as the "subsidiary moat” are at present being carefully drained, and already two ghastly discoveries have been made, the importance of which, however, cannot be stated ex actly. On a little islet which rises from the moat hitman bones have been found— half a pelvis, a portion of a forearm and fragments of other limbs; and in a small outbuilding near the Grange, half buried in a heap of rubbish, has been found a human skull, without a morsel of ticsh remaining upon it. gal was already married when he met Miss Holland, but it is thought he must have told her he was free and that he had gone through a mock mar riage ceremony with her. as the wom an was intensely religious and prob ably would not have consented to live with him without supposing herself to be bis wife. It was Miss Holland's money which bought the Moated Orange, though Dougal discovered the place and decided to live there. This was a few months after their "mar riage.” Dougal refuses to throw any iight upon his "wife's" disappearance from the Orange three short weeks after she first entered it. Uut a servant who lived with the couple and who re mained at the Orange for a short time after its mistress' vanishing, declares that the m*m told her that "Mrs. Dou gal" had g-nc away oa a short visit /} PROTO 6RAPR OP CM WEE A)(/6AL, wbol h/eda t the /Icat f>\pc7, area ram \R0F7AR WHOSE FACE ME BEER OBLITERATED. H fnc E-A?/£>6c c/ftlNWA/G B TH&nQAT6ETU£CN TVE P>^ - 11 77ie /7oatepG/?an$£. aMgai-wwrc. ClAV££/A/Gt f3S£X. liad returned to the original dust. Of this, however, the outside world knew nothing. The man at the Grange went on living there. He took in the letters that came for the vanished woman. It was nearly four years ago that Miss Holland disappeared from the Grange, but ever since that time the man, Samuel Dougal. has present ed regularly at her bank checks sup posedly drawn and signed by the miss ing woman. fit is now believed that Dougal forged these checks. Recently the bank officials became suspicious at never seeing or hearing directly from the woman upon whose large account her supposed husband was continually drawing. The inquiries they set on foot revealed that "Mrs. Dougal.” or Miss Holland, had disappeared long ^ before, and Dougal was arrested Just a3 he was attempting to leave the country. He now is charged with forgery and held on suspicion of a graver crime. Since the outside world learned the story which has been whispered about Tne police, however, do not feel cer tain that tnese are the remains of the vanished woman, for the characteris tics as well as the condition of the Grange show it to be so old that these remains may have been buried years before Dougal and Miss Holland went to live there. The talented woman who has dis appeared so utterly was (13 years old. Born in India, she had made her home in London for years, once living in Maida Vale, next door to the house occupied by Mary Anderson, the ac tress. Miss Holland is said to have been related to an English peer and to a foreign princ-5 She had sung at I fashionable concerts, she had written fairly successful novels. Pictures from her own brush adorned the walls of her London house. Miss Holland and Samuel Dougal met through a matrimonial advertise ment. He Is a man of middle age, whose early career as a soldier was a brilliant one. Its promise, however, was not kept, and Dougal once before has been in prison for forgery. Dou If she did she never returned it. Hei dresses and all her belongings have remained at the Grange, and she has net drawn upon her account at the Na tional Provincial bank in London. No word from her has reached her rela tives. to whom she wrote constantly until she went to live at the gloomy house near Clavering. She simply has vanished. And so the conviction is growing that this woman of means and rare attainments was done to death within the shadow of the lonely Grange—and for a motive that is not far to seek.—London correspondence New York Press. Where Courting Is Forbidden. Courting between members of the staff of the metropolitan asylums board of London has been forbidden. A res olution has been passed under which “members of the staff when off duty are not permitted to hold any com munieation with officers of the oppo site sex.” “We do not want out homes to be matrimonial bureaus,’ said W. Crooks, M. P. An Old-Time Loop-the-Loop Looping the Loop in 1846. We think of the loop-the-loop as something new. Here, however, is a cut reproduced from L’lllustration of Sept. 12, 1840. An inventor named C'.avieres set up the “aerial centrifugal railway1' to demonstrate centrifugal force; the 1 circle of the loop was aDout' 13 feet in diameter. He used to place in the cars glasses of water, etc. Sometimes to amuse the spectators he would place dummies in the cars, as shown in the cut. Once only he allowed a workman to make the trip, about 80 yards, doing it in eight seconds. The name of this first man to loop the loop has, unfor tunately. been lost to fame. But Clavieres admitted that he got the idea from England; perhaps, if re searches are made far enough we shall find loop-the-loops are to be found on Egyptian obelisks and As syrian tablets. ROOSEVELT SPEAKS THE PRESIDENT'S VIEW REGARD ING TARIFF REVISION. He Pronounces It Useless as a Trust Remedy and Urges That No Rear rangement of the Schedules Should Be Attempted Until After 1904. That portion cf President Roose velt’s speech at Minneapolis, April 4. 1903, relating to the question of tariff revision was as follows; “We are now in a condition of pros perity unparalleled not inertly in our own history, but in the history of any other nation. This prosperity is deep rooted and stands on a firm b?sis be cause it is due to the fact that the average American has in him the stuff out of which victors are made in the great industrial contests of the pres ent day. Just as in the great military contests of the past; and because he is now able to use and develop his eualities to best advantage under our fell established economic system. We are winning headship among the na tions of the world because our people are able to keep their high average of individual citizenship and to show their mastery in the hard, complex, pushing life of the age. There will be fluctuations from time to time in our prosperity, but it will continue to grow just so long as we keep up this high average of individual citizenship and permit it to work out its own sal vation under proper economic legis lation. “The present phenomenal prosper ity has been won under a tariff which was marie in accordance with certain fixed and definite principles, the most important of which is au avowed de termination to protect the interests industrial conditions so frequently change, as with us must of necessity be the case, it is a matter of prime importance that we should be able from time to lime to adapt our econo mic policy to the changed conditions. Our aim should he to preserve the policy of a protective tariff, in which the nation as a whole has acquiesced, and yet wherever and whenever neces sary to change the duties in particular paragraphs or schedules as matters of legislative detail. If such change is demanded by the interests of the na tion as a whole. “in making any readjustment there are certain important considerations which cannot be disregarded. If a tariff law has on the whole worked well, and if business has prospered under it and is prospering. It may be better to endure some inconveniences and inequalities for a time than by making changes to risk causing dis turbance and perhaps paralysis in the industries and business of the coun try. The fact that the change in a given rate of duty may be thought de sirable does not settle the question whether it is advisable to make the change immediately. Every tariff deals with duties on thousands of articles nrrauged in hundreds of para graphs and in many schedules. These duties affect a vast number of inter ests, which are often conflicting. If necessary for our welfare, then, of course, congress must consider the question of changing the law as a whole or changing any given rates of duty, but we must remember that whenever even a single schedule is considered some interest will appear to demand a change in almost every scedule In the law; and when It comes to upsetting the schedules generally the effect upon the business interests of the country would be ruinous. “One point we must steadily keep in mind. The question of tariff revision, PROVES TO BE AN UNDESIRABLE GUEST. I Having foolishly Invited the Free-Trade interloper inside the wall, the poor little “reformer” begs him to go out again. of the American producer, business man, wage-earner and fanner alike. The general tariff policy to which, without regard to changes in detail, I believe this country is Irrevocably committed, is fundamentally based up on ample recognition of the difference between the cost of production—that is, the cost of labor—here and abroad, and of the need to see to it that our laws shall in no event afford advantage in our own market to foreign indus tries over American industries, to for eign capital over American capital, to foreign labor over our own labor. This country has and this country needs better-paid, better-educated, better-fed and better-clothed working men, of a higher type than are to be found in any foreign country. It has and it needs a higher, more vigorous and more prosperous type of tillers of the soil than is possessed by any other country. The business men, the merchants and manufactuers and the managers of the transportation inter ests show the same superiority when compared with men of their type abroad. The events of the last few years have shown how skillfully the leaders of American Industry use in international business competition the mighty industrial weapons forged for them by the resources of our country, the wisdom of our laws and the skill, the Inventive genius and the adminis trative capacity of our people. ‘T3 ts, of course, a mere truism to any that we want to use everything in our power to foster the welfare of our entire body politic. In other words, we need to treat the tariff as a business proimsition, from the standpoint of the interests of the coun try as a whole, and not with refer ence to the temporary needs of any political party. It is almost as neces sary that our policy should be stable as that it should be wise. A nation like ours could not long stand the ruinous policy of readjusting its busi ness to radical changes in the tariff at siort Intervals, especially when, as nov owing to the immense extent and variety of our products, the tariff s'hedules carry rates of duty on thou sands of different articles. Sweeping and violent changes in such a tariff, touching so vitally the interests of all of us, embracing agriculture, labor, manufactures and commerce, would be disastrous in any event, and they would be fatal to our present well be ing if approached on the theory that the principle of the protective tariff was to be abandoned. The business world—that is, the entire American world—cannot afford, if it has any regard for its own welfare, even to sonslder the advisability of abandon ing the present system. "Yet, on the other hand, where the speaking broadly, stands wholly apart from the question of dealing with the trusts. No change in tariff duties can have any substantial effect In solving the so-called trust problem. Certain great trusts or great corporations are wholly unaffected by the tariff. Prac tically all the others that are of any importance have as a matter of fact numbers of smaller American competi tors; and, of course, a change In the tariff which would work injury to the large corporation would work not merely Injury but destruction to its smaller competitors; and, equally of course, such a change would mean dis aster to all the wage-workers con nected with either the large or the small corporations. From the stand point of those interested in the solu tion of the trust problem such a change would, therefore, merely mean that the trust was relieved of the com petition of Its weaker American com petitors, and thrown only Into com petition with foreign competitors; and that the first effort to meet this new competition would be made by cutting down wages, and would, therefore, be primarily at the cost of labor. In the cas'- •* v*>me of our greatest trusts sue* a change might confer upon them a positive benefit. Speaking broadly, it is evident that the changes in the tariff will affect the trusts for weal or for woe simply as they affect the whole country. The tariff affects trusts only as it affects all other interests. It makes all these Interests, large or small, profitable; and its benefits can be taken from the largo only under penalty of taking them from the small also. “To sum up, then, we must as a people approach a matter of such prime economic Importance as the tar iff from the standpoint of our business needs. We cannot afford to become fossilized or to fall to recognize the fact that as the needs of the country change it may be necessary to meet these new needs by changing certain features of our tariff laws. Still less can we afford to fail to recognize the further fact that these changes must not be made until the need for them outweighs the disadvantages which may result; and when it becomes nec essary to make them they should be made with full recognition of the need of stability in our economic system and of keeping unchanged the princi ple of that system which has now be come a settled policy in our national life. We have prospered marvelously at home. As a nation, we stand in the very forefront in the giant internation al Industrial competition of the day.' We cannot afford by any freak of folly to forfeit the position to which we have thus triumphantly attained." —Philadelphia Record, HOTHfNG TOO SMALL TO STEAL. City Merchant Complains of the Prevalence of Dishonesty. "The old saying that nothing is ton small to steal is exemplified in our business,'’ said a manufacturer ol custom-made clothing. "Our thread give* us lots of trouble. We have tc keep a watchful eye upon it. The case in which it is kept is under the supervision of our most trusted em ploye. If he chose to he dishonest he could rob us of $5,000 a year and we would be none the wiser. We would, perhaps, notice that we were using more thread than usual, but the excess might be attributed to other causes. “We have to cheek out every spool we give to our tailors. Even at this we are In danger of having a cheapei grade substituted. The difference in the price of the spools may be only one or two cents, but it offers a temp tation if the scheme can be worked on a large scale. Some years age we were forced to the conclusion that a ‘fence’ was being operated to dis pose of stolen thread. The spools were sold by peddlers from house tc house. This suspicion caused larg6 establishments to have each spool stamped with dyes which cut into the wood, stating that the thread was stolen from such and such a shop the name of which was stamped on the spool.’’ LAWYERS WITH ONE CLIENT. They Are the Fortunate One» of the Profession. Tho poverty of briefless barristers* is as proverbial as that of the church mouse. It would not be an unnatural mistake to consider a bar rister with only one client hardly better off than one with none. But tho modern "one-client lawyer" la usually a prosperous individual. Said a man well known In the business world some years ago to a friend: ‘‘I want a young lawyer to put down at a desk beside mine. I'll familiarize him with my affairs, and then l want him to keep mo out of trouble.” The counterpart of this lawyer, whose duty it Is to art as his own client's ounce of prevention, may be found in the office of many large concerns. Ho Is often connected with trust com panies, banks, banking houses, rail road and other transportation com panies and largo wholesale mercan tile houses. When a merchant found himself in a tangle, it was once tho custom for him to go to his lawyer for advice. The results were a written “opinion” and a fee. Tho business man to-day obtains a law year who shall work for him alone. Again tho field of the geueral practi tioner Is narrowed.—The World's Work. " The Brindle Steer. Oh. what has become of the brindle steer Who lazily lolled In the lot? And the yoke he wore, with Its wooden pins— Are these, and the wagon forgot? Are all the old things of the other tlmo Engulfed In the shams of to-day? Has the wind also. In Its shifting course, Blown these old Idols away? Oh. what has become of the hrtndle steer Who tolled away in the bog? Whose muscles were taut, aiul swollen with The weight of the eart ami the log? But lie chewed his cud. nor grumbled. Nor faltered once In the day— Alas for the wind, In Its shifting course, lias it blown all these away? Oh. what has become of the brindle steer. And the big, tall man with the whip? Swapped, alas! for a puff of steam, The sail nnd the shriek of the ship! And the old yoke rots out under the shed. The wagon has gone to decay, For the wind also. In Its shifting coursa, lias blown these things away. Needed Something Stronger. Bishop Potter is an enthusiastic golf player. Some time ago he was on the links at Saranac, accompanied by a caddie who was himself a golf er of acknowledged skill. The bishop made ready for a mighty drive, and. with one tremendous swing, he top ped the ball. Of 'course, he was de prived of the consolation which in such cases serves to soothe the tem per of the layman. All he said was, “Sh-sh-sh-sh-sh-sh! ’’ It was his way of Relieving his feel ings. Then he tried again. This time he scooped up some cubic feet of sod, and once more the sibilant but inoffensive and ineffective protest escaped his lips. For the third time the bishop teed his ball, for the third time his driver missed the mark and for the third time he unburdened his oppressed soul as above. The caddie could stand It no longer. "Hang it, man!" he exclaimed, “sh sh-sh-sh-sh won’t send that ball where you want it to go!”—St. Louis Post Dispatch. How He Declined. Lady—Doctor, I wish you would call around to see my husband some evening when he is at home. Do not let him know that I asked you, be cause he declares he is not sick; but I know he has consumption or some thing. He is going into a decline. Doctor—I am astonished, but I will call. What are his symptoms? Lady—He hasn’t any except weak ness. He used to hold me on his lap by the hour, and now even the baby tires him.—West Vnion (W. Va.) Record. Great Show. Ernie—“Mabel wa3 engaged four times down at the beach last sum mer. She said it was a regular cir cus.” Edith—“Sort of a four-ring affair. f suppose?" Check on Intemperance. The limit of a soldier's credit at the canteen was 20 per cent of his pay.