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THE RED CLOUD CHIEF. "fy - R m m 1 D v HER PATHETIC "LIFE "SAD STORY OF POOR LILY v GETZOFF. THE DWARF. Mie llnil it Woman' Soul n till Mind, Itnt llrr llocly Wiih l.lko Tlnit of it Child Clillilrrn of Her (Inn Arc ItefUHuil to I'lnjr With Her. ml NEW REAR ADMIRAL OF THE U. S. NAVY. fommoilorr 1'rrilrrlc V. McN.llr rnlircil tlu SpmIco In IH,:t null N.ur Coiitlinmt Ai'lhu Hurt leu During tin- Uitu ('It II War. New York. N the floor of the little room used by tho family ns u par lor, where she laid suffered all li r chllil sorrows ami known her ono Joy. lay the small, frail body of Lily Oct off, the dwarf. who Killed herself the other night In Her sisters and brothers gazed with dumb grief at the black shroud which hid her fumlllar features from them. In tho corner her mother sobbed aloud and called the child-woman by name. Almost within touch of the llttlo folded hands, so terribly scarred with the marks of the acid with which she killed herself, was tho piano that was the llttlo dwarfs solo -ourco of happiness in the life bIio has ended. Lily was born In Russia sev enteen years uro. Tho family wor possessed of some wealth, ami when it was seen that Lily, their first-born, was weakly and likely to die, the father devoted his small fortune to savins the girl's life. It was five years be fore she could talk or walk, like other children, but tho start once made, her progress was wonderful, and soon alio became known as tho brightest "t' other children had come to Max Getz off nnd IiIb wife, another daughter and a son, but none was so dear as Lily, whoso laugh bred happiness. Eight years ngo tho family came to America nnd the father started a delicatessen Htoro at 145 Madison street, New York, living in tho renr. They were pros perous, but sorrow had been born to his daughter Lily, whose frail body grew no larger. Her mind developed and broadened, and a deeper soul look ed out of the bluo eyes, but the form that prisoned it remained like a little child's. It was tho family who first discovered this calamity, but the knowledge of her misfortune soon dawned upon the girl, too. She was helplessly, hopelessly a dwarf. Doctors were called In and men learned In tho tirnfpRsUnn wero nravori to cure the child's lnllymlty. but their wisdom availed nothing. There was no de formity, no unsightly hump or stoop, merely tho strange phenomenon of ur jestcd development that chained to the girl's advancing years a body that be longed to a child of 8. Neither did her features grow older or wizened, but remained as they had been, like a ba by's. Ab the knowledge of her afflic tion and Us meaning grew a melan choly settled upon tho child and she remnlncd nlone. Sho read all that she Could get to read, and became iluent In Russian, German nnd English. Her knowledgo was great, and tho llttlo dwarf came to bo looked upon ns the oracle of tho tenements. Hut tho chil dren of her own ago shunned her, half In awe. They tried to consign her to girls of her size. Their games were barred to her, and In their enjoyment aho had no share. She would watch from the doorway when they danced in tho street and many have seen her turn her chlld-faco to the wall and cry as women do. "I am alone," sho often said to her father. "The llttlo children 1 cannot play with, tho older ones will never play with me. Grown people treat mo as a child and children look upon rao as a witch. They fear me, custom to aid all she could about the iJfJ Q? THE II01R nousc, ami me lime nanus wero never Idle. She could do much Hint was use ful, and her sisters, beautiful and well grown, left the little unfortunate to help their mother. Two weeks ago a malady came to the frail body. Tho doctors said that It was rheumatism. And the hands became cramped and lifeless and the lingers could no longer bring music from the Ivory keys. Then hope left tho llttlo body and she took refuge from her sorrows In death. There was no blight future for her nothing but the dark abyss of despair, and to her mind there was no other way to turn for lellcf. CRIME THRIVES IN LONDON. New York gladly yields to Unidon the palm for having more criminals than any city la the wot Id. Old lm don and the Whltcchapel district Is a network of dens and dives which are the mecca for tho world's criminals and the various gradts of law-breakers. During the last year 17H.SGS persona were haled to the bar of Justice In London for crimes of various kinds. The annual crop of burglaries uv cragea 1,500 and the propcity looted represents about S 100,000. Crlmo In London Is unquestionably on the Increase. Murders are moro frequent and the severer tho punish ment the more criminals seem to de light In braving the danger and risk of being caught. in thicc murder cases within a fortnight tho culprit has committed suicide on being arrested. In four inuriler cases no one was made FtVO &V C (il i Hlli I. i'W f,u OMMODOHE Fred erick V. McN'nlr has Just succeeded to the command of the North Atlantic squadron. This po sition will make him the actual com mander of the liilted Stntcs navy. and ho will bo the chief naval genius on which the nation will rely In case of need. Commodore McNalr will take the place of Rear Admiral Matthews, who h to go on the retired list. The coming admiral Is no tyro In tho matter of naval experience. He Is no theorist. Rather say be Is a theorist and a tighter combined. Ho entered the naval academy In ISM and was sent out to China. When the war broke out he was ordered home and served under Fnrragut. As early as ISt'.l he was promoted a lieutenant for person al bravery. He ran the gauntlet of Vlcksburg nnd was conspicuous In the assault on Fort Fisher. For four years tho young sailor never knew wnen tho next moment was to be his last. After tho war he served In many posts, to which ho was assigned by the department, and he proved himself finite uh ndent In dlnlomacv ns in tho rough work of lighting. No mnn in tho rlcd woman. If men had deliberately LAWS AGAINST WOMEN. One nf Itio .Mutt riiigrutit I'linri of In JiiKtUo Cited, The law which makes tho nationali ty of a wife depend on that of her husband has worked much hardship In this country as well as abroad. Hut ono of the most flagrant cases of In justice arising from this humiliating status In cited by Agnes 13. Cook In the Woman's Signnl uu occurring at Gi braltar, the Hrltlnh mllltnry station on tho Mediterranean. No alien can Hvo in Gibraltar without u special permit, so If a Hrltlsh girl marries a Spanish subject she passes out with him to Hvo In Spain and nether she nor her children, even though sho be a widow, can return. llcr innlo relatives can marry Spanish wives and take them into Gibraltar, but bIio Is an nlleu for ever. Tho case referred to Is that of a Urltish girl who married a Spaniard named Garzon. He was sulllclently useful to tho llritlsh to be allowed to llvo there by special permit. Last year he died, and It would have scorned very proper for his widow to hnve remnlncd with her parents In Gibral tar, who wero very anxious to make a homo for her nnd to have her with them. Her baby was born llvo day.) nftcr her husbnnd's death, and tho au thorities generously allowed her to re main with her mother until she hail somewhat lecovered from her lllnes0. Her mother by her entreaties obtained from l lie pollco an extension of this timo for ten days, but then the poor young woman, In enfeebled health and without means of support, was obliged to quit tho garrison. It takes an in dividual outrage like this to show the possible and legitimate outcome of tho unjust discrimination against tno ninr BLEW IT A WARSHIP. LAKE SUPERIOR. CAPT. MAXWELL CAUSED CITY POINT EXPLOSION. the former t'(iiifcilcruti) T-IN How lln SintiKCli'il mi Itifrriml Muchlnc, Unit liy Clockwork, on u l'rili'rul Vctucl on till! lllUIK'4 In I Mil I. TYPICAL ENGLISH CRIMINAL, amenable. One of these cases was the murder of a servant girl, whose body was found In tho Junction canal. Though the body was not disfigured, It was never identified. Our police, with the assistance of the ross, can In a few hours unravel a mystery a thou sand times more tangled. The second was tho murder of a child, whose body was found at Walthamstow. Tho Slier lock Holmescs are still searching for the murderer. LILY GETZOFF. and I must llvo apart." To comfort her, tho father bought tho llttlo dwarf a piano, ami for a while it seemed as if with it sho could forget tno lacic oi other companionship. Sho learned fast. The tiny fingers could not stretch an octavo yot, llko Infant prodigies, eho learned to render tho works of tho great masters. Hour after hour, perched on tho stool, l)er feet not near ly touching tho floor, sho would pjay tho Bcores of grand operas. Her bro ther, Samuel, her Junior, but big and tall, learned to piny tho violin, and tho two' often played together. There were days and nights when tho brother did not wish to play, yet when tho cooped-up bouI of tho child wpinan yearned for music to express her'sprrow. Tljon, tho neighbors Bay, she cpuiu oo noaru uupiuwaimi wuiru strains like tho' songs of gypsies, and she would Bit late Into tho night giv ing vent to her pent-up feolinga. It camo to bo that sho was either cares sing tho piano or bending over somo cherished book, nnd tho world outsido tho door in tho Gctzoff npartment saw little of tho dwarf. Her mind con tinued to broaden nnd mature, and tho soul grew to he tho soul of n woman, but the body chnnged not, and remain ad as a little child's. It was the girl's AT HOME INJTHE WATER. A .south M-ii I!iiii1t Who .-Minn l.lkn II l'loll. A native living In Nawlllwlll, district of Llhue, on the Island of Kauai, whom every ono knows as Johnny, but whose family name Is Kualokl, Is a peculiar character, says tho Hawaiian Gazette. Johnny la a remarkably good swimmer, and. it Is said, was at ono timo very much addicted to tho habit of stealing ducks from various people. His method was very simple. He would hide In tho bulrushes along tho edges of the duck ponds and would fiom timo to time dive out where tho ducks hap pened to be, iinatch ono or two from the surface, push them Into a bag and swim back again to the riiBhes, there to take breath for another sally. In this way ho succeeded In making quite n comfortable living. .However, ho has given up his crooked ways and now re sides like a peaceably Inclined citizen, relying on work that is given to him from time to time. When out on a hunting or fishing expedition thero Is no better man on tho Island of Kauai than this sarao Johnny. Barefooted, ho will climb all over the dangerous palls that fall away abruptly and end thousands of feet below in the sea. Tho festlvo goat Itself Is not moro active, and when hunting for this kind of gamo ho Is an Invaluable man to chaso tho animals rounu to a point or van tage. As a diver thero nro few nntlvcs even who can beat him. In diving af ter lobsters ho has tho very uncomfort able habit of swimming a great dis tance Into tho caves that havo no open ing above tho water. Iloneath the rocks of these places ho will feel around, nover failing to como to the top bringing with him something to make glad tho hearts of tho house, wives. lift. ikll JSfe wilt? He .w wMuf Lri t ftliifli 1 1 TOrVAJyVHviV TJl i lit it I 1 A A W I I 1 V i REAR ADMIRAL McNAIR. navy Is more competent to look nftcr tho Interests of tho country than Is Rear Admiral McNalr. Dlo by Fire. While Mrs. Rlchurd Evans of Thorn nsvllle, Tenn,, was placing her babe In tho cradlo her clothing caught lire from tho fireplace behind her, and she was horrUdy burned before assistants reached her, living In that condition soveral ,hour3. Amanda Knuckles, an aged negress, was found burned to a crisp In her cabin nt Whlto Dluff, Dick son county, Tenn., a day later. It it thought that her clothing beenmo Ig nited, and that being blind and help less she could not extinguish the flames. Tho body was bo frlghtfull burned that It could not bo dressed for burial. CmiKlit In tliu iJlUrii. Tho wind howled, tho snow swlrlcc against her In blinding clouds nnt piled up great drifts In her path. Uui sho looked fondly down upon the pro clous burden In her arma and had no thought of faltering. "Courage!" sho whispered, nnd clasping hor hlryclo tc her bosom alio plunged forward. De troit Journak If a roan has a bee In his bonnet hi la reasonably sure of a lively-hood. Ailvrnturo nltli n Nnitltc. Somo of tho branches of tho Orinoco, though very deep, aro narrow, so that the tops of tho trees meet overhead, producing tho effect upon tho voyager of passing through a tunnel. From theso overhanging branches the great water boas hang head downwnrd, wait ing to selzo any prey that may pass on tho current beneath them. "A party of us," says a recent traveler, "were coming down one of theso streams in a courcl (dugout), paddled by Indians, nnd, from timo to time, an English man of tho party, named Yco, fired his rlflo at somo Buakcs. Tho rest of us had cautioned him never to flro nt tiny snako until after we had passed It: but with truo English self-sufficiency ho acknowledged our advice by firing at a largo boa hanging from a limb Just ns tho canoo was beneath it. He hit tho snako'B body, but (lid not break Its back, and Instantly uncoiling from the limb the bon dropped plump Into tho boat. Ah nobody cared to ahnro tho ennoo with a writhing, twenty-foot boa, every man went out of tho craft as suddenly as tho snako had dropped In. Tho boa gilded into tho water as soon as ho could pull himself together, ami mndo for tho Bhore. Thoso of us who wero on tho sumo side of the canoe with the Bnake made haBto to swim around to tho other side, and wo all got safo aboard heforo tho alligators found out what was going on. Yco, who had swum to a dry tree root and perched himself upon It, was the last man to be taken In. Wo didn't hurry a bit about going for him, but gave him a full half hour thero to reflect upon tho wisdom of sometimes taking advice." planned how they could keep self-respecting women out of tho marrlago condition they could not havo devised any measuto worse than tho disabili ties which law has heaped upon wo man In marriage. HON. THOMAS B. TURLEY. Hon. Thomas II. Turlcy, the new sen ator from Tennessee, was bom In Mem phis, In April, lSir, whero he received his early educntlon. On tho breaking out of tho civil war, he served ns u private In the Confederate army. Af ter tho close of tho war ho studied law nt tho University of Virginia, from which ho was graduated In 1SG7, and immediately thereafter began tho prac tice of his professlou In his natlvf Weil-Made Ship Maclilnrrj. The great liner Ilritannic, which commenced Its trips between New York and Liverpool twenty-four years ago, a few days ago completed nt tho latter port Its two hundred and fiftieth round voynso to and from New York. In other words, It hns crossed tho Atlan tic COO times, traveling an aggregate dlstanco of 1,750,000 statute miles, without a renewal of cither engine or boilers. It Is claimed that this per formance la without a parallel In naut ical history. SENATOR TURLEY. city. Senator Turley had held no pub lic ofllco whatever until his election to tho United States senate, to biic 'cced tho late Senator Ishnm O. liar rl. Coinprrril Flonr. In England much Interest is taken by tho army nnd navy authorities In a now method of preserving flour by means of compression. With hydrau lic prersuro apparatus tho flour Is nqurezed Into tho form of bricks, nnd experiments aro reported to have shown that tho prcRBiiro destroys all forms of larval life, thus preserving tho flour from tho ravuges of lnucts, whlto It Js equally securo from mold. Thr; hundred pounds of compressed floiw occupy the name spaco as one hundred pounds of flour In the ordinary statt. Tho recent disaster to the Maine re tails a tragic Incident in the Into war, when $1,000,000 worth of property of tho federal government was destroyed .and tho lives of more than half a hundred men were lost, while 1-0 wero wounded. Tills event occurred on Aug. 3, 18UI, at City Point. The man who, acting under Instructions from the Confederate states government, caused the terrible havoc la Capt. John Max well, a well-known machinist, who re sides at 31S North Twenty-seventh street, Richmond, Va. Capt. Maxwell gives the following account of his ex periences: "I left Richmond on the Mill of July. LSI! I, to operate with whnt wan known un the 'horologlcal' torpedo against tho vessels of the federal forces navigating the James river. Mr. It. K. Dlllard, since dead, was with mo. Ho was well acquainted with the liver, and would go anywhere I led, no mnt tcr what the danger might be. When wo reached Inlo of Wight county on Aug. '-', we heard that an Immense supply of stores was being landed at City Point, and at onco started for that place, intending, If possible, to In troduce our machine upon ono of tho vessels discharging their cargoes there. Wo reached City Point before day bicak on Aug. !i, having traveled most ly by night and crawled upon our knees to pass the picket lines. 1 had with mo an ordinary candle box con taining twelve pounds or gunpowder, procured at u country store. In the box was packed u small machine, my own Invention, which was arranged by means of a lever to explode a c.ip at a time Indicated by a dial. When we got within half a mile of City Point 1 told Dlllard to remain behind whllo I went forward with my machine. 1 went out on tho wharf cautiously, put my box down anil took a seat on It, await -Ins an opportune moment to get It aboard a vessel. There were, two boats at the wharf loaded with ammunition and various stores for the federal troops, whllo on tho bank wero build ings stored with supplies. I sat wait ing until I saw the captain of the ves sel nearest to me leave his boat. That was my opportunity. I picked up tho box of powder anil started for the boat. As I reached the edge of the wharf tho sentry hailed me. He was a German and could not speak a word of English. He vociferated something at mo In Gorman, while l rejoined In broad Scotch. Finally by means of slgus 1 Induced him to let mo ap proach tho vcs.-:cl. Just then a negro appeared at the side or tno ship, l gave him tho box nnd told him the c.iptalu said put it down below until ho came. The man took It without question and carried It down while 1 went off a little distance. In an hour's timo tho explosion occurred. It 7as terrific, its effect was communicated to tho other vessel and also to tho largo building on tho wharf, filled with stores, nnd all wore destroyed ut terly. I myself was terribly shocked by tho explosion, but was not Injured permanently. Dlllard, my companion, was rendered deaf by tho explosion and never recovered from Its effects. The scene, though terrific, wns In somo respects ludicrous. The air waa filled with all sorts of munitions of war. Army saddles careered through the air as though playing leap-frog, whllo headless bodies, arms, legs, and heads of tho unfortunate crow flow In frag ments about In tho nmoke. Thc'olll elul report of the enemy was that fifty eight men wero killed and 12(5 wound ed, but I think Hint this estimate' wns too low. They also reported that prop erty to tho amount of ROOO.OOO was destroyed. Thero Is one thing only that I regnjt and thnt Is, according to the report of tho enemy, a party of ladles waa killed. Of course, wo never Intended anything of the kind, not bc lnc aware of their presence. This, said Capt. Maxwell, going to a trunk, and taking out a small package, contains the mate to tho maehluo which blew up City Point. Of course, that machine was wrecked in the explosion. I had two of them made." Tho llttlo ma chine exhibited by Capt. Mnxwell was an arrangement of cog wheels much resembling the works of a clock. On tho top waa a dial. A lever controlled by a strong spring was released at a certain timo and exploded n cap fixed on a nipple, upon tho end of a tube, through which the lire wnB communi cated to tho charge of powder. From a box in tho mantolpleco Capt. Max well took a cap which he has had over idnco the wnr and placed It on the nipple. Ho sprung tho lever, and the cap was exploded with a deafening noise. Capt. Maxwell wns born slxty flvo years ago in the Highlands of Scotland. He went to Glasgow when quite young and spent tho early part of his llfo there. When a young man ho camo to tho United StotcB. At that timo ho was a aplendld-looklng speci men of manhood and even now wears his years easily. As a young man Capt. Mnxwell stood full six foot In height, with broad, cquaro shoulders, black hair, mustache, and whiskers. For two years after coming to tho United States Capt. Maxwell was on board tho steam er Niagara, engaged in laying tho first Atlantic cable Later ho went on nn expedition to Africa. t iiilrrrnMnt: Tint About Itm I.iirj;mt Uoily of I're-ili Wutrr In ttin Worlil. "The Great Lakes" Is the tltlo of an article In St. Nicholas, written by W. S. Harwood. Concerning Lako Supe rior. Mr. Harwood says: It Is, to be gin with, the largest body of fresh water In the world. It Is water of wonderful purity which It holds, too: and some time and In tho not very distant future, cither tho people who live In Hie largo cities to the west nnd south will como to this lake to get tho water for their homes. It will not bo so rcmnrkablo an engineering feat tu plpo tho water of this lake, puro and spnrklltiK ntid fresh from Its cold depths, to these cities which nro now struggling with the question of their water-supply, nnd meeting ull sorts of dlfllciiltlcs In their efforts to get water fit to drink. All down through this thousand feet of bluo there Is a pecu liar coldness. At tho very most, tho tempcraturo vtuics through wlntor and summer not moro than six degrees. Winter and summer this great lake never changes to any appreciable ex tent, so that If you dip your flngor-tlpt In tho bluo Biufaco on a day In July, or If you test It somo day In early winter when you have been out on some betatcd, lcc-malled flshlng-smnck. or when you have gone out to watch the fliihcimen spearing their supplies through the thick Ice in mid-January, you will 11 nd but a trilling difference In tho temperature. Away down ut tho bottom, too, there la but llttlo varia tion In the temperature, for It stands at nearly foity degrees Fahrenheit at tho bottom, and varies from forty to forty six degrees, winter nnd summer, nt the surface. The other lakes, though cold, aro not In this respect llko Superior. The v.iiolo bottom of tho lake is be lieved to bo a strong rock basin, though It would i:rem that there must bo great springs at the bottom to help keep u tho enormous volume of water. From tho north thero Is a largo amount of water pouring Into tho lake year In and year out; the nwift-rushlng, nnr-row-banked Nlplgon and other streams furnishing no small part of tho mip ply. These streams In a largo nicasuro make up the loss from tho surface. Ono of the old lako captains, a bronzed, kindly-fared man who had been for thirty-five years on the Inkes, and had faced death many a time In tho fright ful storms which sometimes sweep across these beautiful bodies of water, told me, as we were pausing along ono day near the north const of Superior, with the headlands and Inlets nnd glossy green bluffs of that most pic turesque shore In full view, that tho theory that the lako was slowly going down In size was true, Ho maintained that ho could tell from certain land marks along tho shore?, with which ho is as familiar as ho would bo with tho streets of his old Scottish birthplace, that the lako wa" slowlyvery slowly but surely receding. However, It will be somo centuries yet beforo thero will bo any appreciable lessening of tho Great Lakes, so that wo need not bo concerned. Strange as It may seem, tho lake has tides, too, well-defined tides, discovered In 1SC0. It Is what la called n solf-reglsterlng tide, with regular flux nnd icflux wave, caused, so the scientific men say, by tho sun nnd moon. The averngo rise ntid fall every twenty-four hours Is ono fourteen-hundredth of a foot; tho maxi mum tldo at now and full moon is ona twenty-clght-hundrcdth of a foot. "Itt-itcun on Hid J I nil n." A story about a dog, told in an Eng lish sporting book. "Tho Mnn on thu March," brings out the fact that too much praise may. bo ns injurious as too much fault finding. A half-bred retriovor pullod n girl out of the river near her home. Of courso the dog was much praised and petted, and this brought on whnt tho author calls an attack of ''rescue on tho brain." No man, no feathered biped, no quad ruped waa allowed to go Into tho river without being pulled out by tho dog. Cows wero not allowed to drink; duck nnd geese wero not allowed to swim, and If an angler attempted to wado, ht wa3 "rescued" ngalnst his will. Mnvr tlif Ilniln Art. Although tho brain la perpetually ac tive, tho whole of it 1b never active at ono time. The two hemispheres, or halvca, do not opecato simultaneously, but nl.crnato in action now it Is tho one-half, then the other. llii:iiprfrlntpl. Puimpa fow experiences of life are harder to bear than when an appeal to another out of the fullncs3 of ones heart Is received with an utter lack ot sympathy. Such a situation is por trayed by tho biographer of tho Rev. S. C. Malan. A dishonest gardener had received notico of dlschnrgc, nnd after an un successful attempt to vlndlcato hhi character by plauslblo platitudes, said mournfully to tho vicar: "Ah, Blr, you will miss" mo beforo I be gono half an hour!" "I shan't mind that," nnswerefl Mr. Malan. cheerfully, "if I dou't miss any. thing else!" DON'T. Don't think it Is disgraceful to tum ble to your faults. Don't think that every man who aska your advice really wants It. Don't put on too many airs as you float down life's stream; your llttlo boat may capsize. Don't rely on the promlso of a toper simply because ho has tho reputation ot being a full filler. Don't get the Idea Into your head that you can pull yourself out of trau blo with a corkscrew. Don't bo baity in Jumping at a con clusion. Yoi, may not bo able to col lect your adldent policy. Don't Imagine that tho man In ths orchestra chair gets a bettor show for his money than the boy In the gat lory. Chicago News. I J s -thj. 44to-- .amrtiiih. w&jgg, &kXfN$tiWHV!-i. ' " iimrfii 2 . air- ilt