A “Moated Grange” Mystery
' That Has Stirred England
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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
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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.
