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With a Whirlwind of Flame Enveloping Floor and Galleries. Holiday Crowd of
Pleasure Seekers Fight Way to Exits Awful Scenes of Horror as Scores
Leap to Street or Fall from Escapes Exits Closed and Doomed Victims
Penned in Blazing
We.Biust go back to the convulsions
of nature for a more dreadful story of
swift deatk than occurred at .the Iro-taoto-Theater
attChleago- i fth mmu
lnee hour of Dec. 30. The statistics
show S60 humans dead, and scores in
jured. There have been greater hor
rors by flood, by rolcanoes, by the up
rising of nature's forces, but if there
was erer a more appalling chapter
traced to man's band history fails to
tell It save in the records of battle
alone. Of flro horrors, as they are
commonly known, certainly nothing
like it erer occurred la this country or
any other.
There an ornate million-dollar thea
ter, assured, of course, as thoroughly
fireproof. Withla were 2,300 women
and children, and a few men a typi
cal, merry, holiday matinee audience.
One thousand were in the galleries.
There were many entrances offering
tne usual number of exits, all, of
coarse, sufficient to depopulate the
building in case of Are. We have all
seen that often enough on the pro
grams. There were tire men in uni
forms la the aisles, provided by the
city government It was a pretty, hap
py scene. There was a darkened
stage, there were a dozen singing
maidens and a popular comedian sing
ing a popular air, entitled "In the
Pale Moonlight."
Now what happened? A fuse or
two blew from the calcium light that
made the pale moon. The spark struck
the gicger-bread scenery; the scenery
blazed to the stage.
An Urn of Fire in Five Minutes.
And then! Well, then in five min
utes this costly playhouse became a
red urn of fire and a great, heart
breaking cry, such a cry as splits the
stone of a Caesar's heart, arose ia
that building.
It was the cry of the man or woman,
clinging to a storm-swept raft, who
sees the others go down before him.
The scene was something that no
human pen can tell. A circle of flame
swept from the stage around the bal
cony and galleries, driven into a whirl
wind by six great automatic ventil
ators and the open doors.
It moved faster than the calcium of
the pale moonlight and as fierce a3 a
blazing meteor.
There was a wild, mad, raging,
trampling rush for life. It is not easy
to fancy what one would do in such .a
scene, but all seemingly acted to
gether. Men and women fought like
unleashed hounds for the first exit;
little children wore crushed in the
arms of their mothers; clothes and
HIS IDEA WAS GOOD.
Prying Drills Baffled, but Hose Put
Newcomers to Rout.
A well-known railway company was
engaged in boring a tunnel beneath
and almost at right angles to the ex
isting tunnel of one oi its rivals. One
day the contractor received notice to
stop the work until certain legal pro
ceedings were complied with.
Outwardly observing the legal for
malities, and at the same time dread
ing delay, the contractor as quiet as a
mole went on with bis "heading."
But notwithstanding all his caution
the engineer of the rival company sus
pected these clandestine operations
and sank a bore hole on the center
line of the new tunnel, thoroughly be
lieving that his instrument would, at
the proper .level, drop into a tunnel
not to be so taken by surprise. A
seventy feet below.
But the contracting tunneler was
sheet of steel was affixed to the roof
of the illicitly built tunnel, so that the
tool of the rival engineer,- when it
came, weal aerely grind away harm
lessly against its tough surface.
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lorgnettes and purses were tossed on
me floors.
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This was the first scene. On the
main floor the panic was quite as
fierce as elsewhere, but escape was
easier. It was in the balconies that
the battle for life was hardest, and
there, indeed, was scarcely a chance
for escape. The galleries were, within
no time at all, heaped with a helpless,
struggling, insane mass of people. As
the flaming circle crept higher and
higher, choking the audience with
black masses of smoke, many were
literally too paralyzed for movement,
so that at the end and after it was all
over, there was the strange, grewsome
picture of a score or more dead lean
ing silently over, the rails as if still
glancing at the play.
But down at the doorway it was a
wave backward of human beings fight
ing for the blessing of life. What
heroism was shown of man for wom
an or of woman for children will never
be known, for the tragedy was but of
minutes.
The details of the awful happenings
inside have never been exceeded in the
Death- Trap at Main
awfulness of sudden death in agony
in all the history of modern times.
From the balcony and galleries,
where there was no more safety from
the flame heat ascending than on the
floor below, people hurled themselves
downward in their terror. AH, or near
ly all. of those in the rear met a fear
ful death. Firemen, the fire practical
ly extinguished, found they were but
pouring water on heaps of human
beings.
LIST OF THE DEAD.
A.
Adaneck, Mrs. John; Austrian, Wal
ter D.
B.
Barker. Miss Ethel; Barnbeisel,
Charles H.; Bartlett. .Mrs. C. D., Bart
lett, 111.; Beurtel. William C; Beyers
loth, Helen; Blssinger. Walter B.:
Birndsley, Mrs. H. G.:; Bodice. N. W.;
Brewster. Miss Julia; Brinckley, Mrs.
Emma; Buehmann, Margaret; BIck
ford, C. M.; Boise, Beane;- Buschwah.
Louise; Beyers. : Butler. Mrs.
Rosa; Butler, Rose; Bymfurth, Ruth.
C.
Calm, Miss Lucy; Clark. E. D.;
Claytcn. Vinton; Cohn, Mrs. Jacob;
Corcoran. ; Cooper, C. 1; Con
tell, Thomas.; Cooper. Helen; Coults.
R. H.; Curran, May; Crook, E. S.;
Caldwell. A. R.
What was the surprise ot the con
tractor and the prying engineer, the
one to find no drill and the other to
discover no tunnel, although the latter
had bored down some ninety feet?
The engineer's boring tool had. it
seemed, wandered several feet to one
side, and its owner, still perplexed,
began to doubt if the rival company
had persisted in the tunnel after all.
Suddenly a brilliant idea struck
him; he would turn on the municipal
fire hose into his boring; if it failed
to overflow his -suspicions would be
confirmed.
He carried his idea into instant exe
cution; there was a panic among the
tucnelers, and a cry. "Fly for your
lives!" all laboring under the belief
that an underground lake .or river
bad been penetrated. Strand.
Succese of French Woman Lawyer.
Mile. DUhan. a member of the bar
in France, has successfully defended
a murderer In a trial at Toulouse. She
csnvinced the jury that uer client had
been guilty of assault -aerely, and then
man escaped with, a- seztencs to a
short term.cf imprisonment.
Dawson, Mrs.; Difendorf, Leaadors,
Lincoln, III.;. Delee, Mis N.; DedaV
J.F.;of Dlawar,rO:r"Donald-
son. H.; Donaliaoa, Miss A.; Delee,
Miss Viola; Dyrenfarth.-Ruth; Dyrea
furth, Helen; Dawson, Grace.
1.
Ebersteln. Frank B.; Eiseastead,
Herman; Eldridge, Mort; Espen,
Emit; Espen, Miss Rosa; Elkahn,
Rose.
F.
FitzgibbonB, Anna; Fitzgibboas.
John J.; Fox, George Sydney; Flaa
nagan, Thomas J.; Frady, Leon;
Falke. Miss Ada; Foley. H.; Foltx,
Helen; Folkensteln. Miss Gertrude
R.; Foltz, Miss Alice; Foltz, Mrs. C.
O.; Fox, Hoyt; Fox, Mrs. Emile
Hoyt. Winnetka; Foltz, Helen; Frack
elborn. Miss Edith; Frackelborn, Ella;
Frady, Mrs. E. C
a
Gartz, Mary Dorothea; Gartz, Bar
bara: Gerow, Mabel; Geary, Miss
Pauline; Gerry. Miss Wllma; Gould.
Mrs. B. E.; Cohan, J.; Guderhaugh,
Scpbie.
H.
Hall, Emperly; Harbrougb, Mary
Balcony Exit.
E.; Haviland, Miss Lee; Haviland,
Lee; Harbaugh, Mrs.; Hickman, Mrs.
Charles; Holland, John; Howard,
Mrs. Mary E.;' Hart, B. D.; Henning,
; Henry. Mrs. G. A.; HIgginson.
Miss Jeanette; Holmes, Mrs.; HIggin
son, Roger; Hoist. Allen; Hoist, Ger
trude; Hooper, W. W., Kenosha. Wis.;
Howard, Miss Helen; Holland, Leigh;
Horton. Edith. Ontonagon, Mich.;
Howard. Ray E.; Hudson, Harry;
Heha, Otto.
J.
Jones, Ethel; Johnson, J. C.
K.
Kaufman, Alice; Kelly. Otto; Kie
ley, Harvey; Kennedy. Agnes. Win
netka; Kennedy. Frances, Winnetka;
Kocbens, J. A.; Koll, Charles H.; Kls
ner, Louis and wife; Ketchem, Mrs.;
Krani, Mrs. Sarah. Racine, Wis.
L.
Lake. Mrs. Lena; Lake, Mrs. A.;
Lang. Irene; Lang. Hortense; Lenge.
Miss Agnes; Linden, Ellen; Leatin,
Fred W.
M.
Maloney. Mrs. James D.; Martin,
Harold; Martin. J.; Martin. W.; Ma
loney. Alice. Ottawa. 111.; Martin. Rob
ert; McCaughan, Helen; MeClellan.
Joseph; McClelland. James; McClurg.
Roy; McKenna, Bernard; MeKenna,
Bernard; Muir, Annie, Peoria. 111.;
McMillan. Mabel; Meade, Lillian;
Merriel, Mrs.; Merrien. Mildred; Mo
GOT THE TICKET AS USUAL.
Artist Uneucceeeful in Effort to Re
form Meael.
Orson Lowell, the magazine illustra
tor, used to have a model he valued
highly because he cpald wear evening
clothes "like a gentleman." some
thing which the professional model
cannot always do. The fellow had ap
parently seen better days, bat the
only .remaining relic of them' was hie'
dress suit and his ability to wear it.
He would usually turn up fifteen min
utes before the appointed time for the
sitting, wearing a shabby business
suit, and after some moments' rapid
talk on any subject which came apper
most he would say: v '
"Sir, I am very sorry I .regret to
say I feel it more than yon can pos
sibly I am overwhelmed with con
fusion but but. sir but, ' I was
obliged, absolutely obliged, to eeques
trata to " hypothecate in short, to
hock, my evening garments for $?.
Redeem them, sir, aad lam at your
service. Here is the ticket."
This went on day after day, till tn
aily Mr. Lowell hit on the plan of hid-
see, Espie; Muir, F. A.; Morehouse, H.
P.; Moore, H. P.; Mendel, Mrs. A. M.;
MMdleton, Catherine; McKee. ;
r Morton, Edmund W. '-
N.
Newby, ; Norton, Edith; Nor
ton, Edward W.; Nulr, - .
O.
O'Donnell, Mrs. Patrick P.; Olinger,
Mrs. Bessie; Olson. Mrs. Oscar; Owen,
William Murray; Oxman, Miss Flor
ence. P.
Page, Harold; Page, Charles T.; Pat
ton, Lillian; Peterson, Fornetta;
Poults, R. H.; Phacker, Walter; Pott
litzer, Jack, Lafayette, Ind. -
R.
Rattey, William; Rattey, J.; Reiter,
Mrs. G.; Regensberg, Hazel; Regens
berg. Miss Helen;- Remington,
Thomas; Ross, Elian; Robertson, Min
nie; Reed. W. M.; Richardson; Rev. H.
L.; Roberts, Theodore; Rogers, Rose
K.; Rathey. William; Robinson, Min
nie; Ross, , 16 years old, daugh
ter of Dr. Ross.
8.
Seville, Warren E.; Sayore, Carrie
J.; Spring, Mrs. W. A.; Stingier. Mrs.
J. H.; Sayre, Miss Carrie
A; String. Mrs. Winthrop; Spin
dler, Burdette; Studley. Rev.
George H.; Sutton, Harry D.; Saw
yer, ; Sedill, Warner, 12 years old,
Kankakee, 111.; Smithbarry, Wilma;
Smith, Mrs. , Des Plalnes, 111.;
Smith, Miss Murine, Des Plalnes. III.;
Sheppard, Lola. 12 years old; Scott,
Burr; Shabbard, Myrtle; Shabbard,
Lulu; Sherr, ; Sprang. W. N.;
!:tern. Mrs.; Sutton, Harry P.; Squier,
Olive; Seville. Arthur; Spring, Win
throp; Schmidt, Rosa.
T.
Tayson, Ruth; Torney, Edna: Tur
ner, Mrs. Susan; Turbush, C. W.;
Thatcher, W.
V.
Vallely, Bernice; Vallely, Mrs. J. T.;
Vanzegen. Edward T.; Valley, Miss
Bernice; Van Ingen, John; Vien, Her
man. W.
Wells, Donald; Wolf, Mrs. Leo, Ham
mond, Ind.; Waldman. S.; Woltmann,
Otto; Williams, H.: Winslow, C. A.,
Three River Falls. Minn.; Wells, Don
ald; Wlndes. Paul; Wolff, Harriet,
Weiskopf, Emma.
Z.
Zeisler. Walter B.
Unidentified Dead Are Many.
In addition to the foregoing, there
are seventy bodies at the various
morgues awaiting identification.
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ing his business suit while he was
out of the room, telling him that the
charwoman had carried it off by mis
take, and sending him away at the end
of the sitting in his evening rig, con
fident that he bad no other, and that
he would return the next day ready
to pose.
The hour arrived; also a messenger
boy .with this note:
"Honored Sir I cannot find words
fitting I do not know how to convey
to you I stand speechless, sir, aghast,
sir but, ah., fatal -but!' but I was
driven forced compelled again to
pledge my evening garments as col
lateral secarity for the sum of $2.
Redeem them and I am atyour ser
vice. I. am at the pawnbroker's, in
bed in a back room. , Sir. I inclose the
ticket." Philadelphia post.
Kentucky Statesman Serlouely III.
Former, Governor .John Young
Btovn of Kentucky, noted la politic
acdoa the turf . is seriously ill at Hen
derson. Ky. His son aad. namesake, a
afeyaiciaa of hick reputation, la to at
tendance apoB him, bat has little hope
of his recovery.
Man Woman and Children Burned. Suffocated or Trampled Beneath
Rushing Feet People in Galleries Cut Off from All Escape and
Await an Awful Fate Firemen and Police in Heroic Rescue
Work Bodies Found Piled in Heaps.
The story of the destructioa of the
Iroquois theater by Ire oa the after
noon of Dec SO, by which W0 lives
were lost, is as follows:
The theater was almost ia aarkaess
la the second act. The atage was
lighted only by the soft artilcial
beaau from the calcium, which leat
beauty to the scene daring the stag
ing of "The Pale Mooalight" by the
doable sextet.
A flash of flame shot across through
the flimsy draperies, started by a
spark from the calcium. A show girl
screamed hysterically. The singers
stopped short, but with presence of
miad the director increased the vol
ume of the music.
Scores rose la their seats as the
stage manager shouted aa order for a
continuation of the song. It was
obeyed with feeble hearts. The brave
Crush at
girls forced the words from their
throats until two of their number
swooned. The audience could no lon
ger be controlled.
Reassuring Words in Vain.
Eddie Foy, the principal comedian,
rushed from the wings to the foot
lights, but his -words of reassurance
were In vain. Clouds of smoke poured
from the stage into the auditorium, en
veloping the struggling mass of pea-Ic-strickea
men, women aad children.
Behind the scenes all waa confusion.
It required but a moment to perceive
that the fire had gone too far to be
conquered by .the amateur fire brig
ade formed by the stage hands.
In the dressing-rooms as high as the
sixth story were the scores of girls
of the ballet At the first, alarm the
elevator boy fled from his post aad
the flames soon shot upward in the
wings and made escape by the narrow
stairways impossible.
The screams and groans of despair
from the imprisoned girls in the upper
rows of dressing-rooms csme to the
ears of the more fortunate below as
they rushed to the stage doors. Some
stopped for a brief moment, thinking
to give aid. but the clouds of smoke,
growing denser aad deaser, forced
them to flee. Their escape even then
was miraculous.
Escape from Stage Easy.
Those who had been singing on the
stage escaped easily. Two of their
number who had fainted were carried
in the arms of the others, and were
revived in the alley in the rear of the
theater. In a terrified and hysterical
group the girls clustered in the narrow
passage.
Some had sisters and all had friends
in the blazing building. The bitter
cold pierced them through and
through, for they were clad only In
their thin stage gowns, with necks and
arms wholly exposed. Nevertheless
they had to be dragged from their sta
tion in the alley and into neighboring
stores.
The blackened bodies which choked
thealsie.1 and stairways, the lines of
policemen and firemen carrying limp
forms from the building, the overtaxed
hospitals, the rows of dead and dying
in the surrounding buildings, which
were thrown open to the sufferers, tell
briefly the tale. Only a few of the
heartrending Incidents will ever be
known.
Mass of Struggling Humanity.
The first seconds of the rush for
life were quiet, say those who live to
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' Something New te Save.
There arc some women who save
everything, every little scrap; there
are others who save nothing; but are
there any who save their old rub
bers? Do you know that there is a
market for all old articles having even
a small quantity of rubber in their
composition? Not long ago, in a
small town, several women combined
and saved all their old rubber shoes,
bicycle tires and mackintoshes, and
at the end of the month sold the col
lection at so much the pound. The
proceeds were then given to a chari
table organization. The combination
of these first few women attracted
other women, and now there is a rubber-saving
club in this town, and the
services of a market wagon are se
cured, free of charge, each month, for
the collection of rubber treasure.
Gray Hersea Rank. First.
Gray horses are hereafter to be
exclusively used by the artillery in
tha Bnsaiaa army. The reason givea
Is that animal of this; color are
stronger aad more enduring than
brown or black ones.
tell the tale. Few if any In that throng
realized what was to come. They
thought only of themselves and their
dear oaes as they pushed aad strag
gled for every inch as they advaaced
toward the eattx
It was but a momeat until the stair
ways leadiag from the balcony were a
mass of struggliag humanity, with
scores behind constantly pushing
closer and fighting to get out. Those
in the vaa, unable to keep their foot
ing, fell headlong. Those behind fell
over their prostrate forms, crushing
aad suffocating them.
The scene was then a veritable bed
lam. Women aad children were in the
majority ia the fighting crowd, aad
their shrieks of agonizing fear mingled
with the groans of the dying the pray
ers of supplication. In those dark mo
ments poor souls who bad perhaps
Second Balcony.
long unheeded religion called upon
their God.
Mothers Plead for Babe.
Women seized their babes in their
arms and frantically clung to them, be
seeching ears thst were deaf to en
treaty to save them from the terrible
fate impeadlag- Had the others been
so disposed they could not have givea
the assistance so piteonsly besought.
In the Isst hope, born of desperation,
scores climbed to the railing aad
leaped to the pit of the theater, maay
feet below. Their mangled bodies
were fouad long afterward whea the
smoke cleared away aad the flremea
could grope their way with lanterns
into the grewsome house of death.
The dense smoke quickly rose to the
top and added new horror to the
greatly spectacle. To a score of those
who had sought to jump from the gal
lery the smoke was kind, for it brought
death more quickly. Their bodies
were found hanging over the rail, their
faces distorted with agonies of death.
Firemen Quick, but Toe Late.
From a dozen sources the alarm
went to fire headquarters, but before
the vanguard of engines wheeled into
the street a dense crowd had gath
ered in front of the theater. The fire
men were quick to act. but hundreds
of bodies were already motionless
within the walls of the playhouse.
An awe-stricken crowd stood fixedly
as those who had been nearest the
doors rushed out their eyes wild with
fear. These yelled "Fire!" at the top
of their lungs, and the cry was taken
up by the crowd and carried far into
busy State street and the other ave
nues of commerce.
None realized at that minute what
had occurred. Each man asked his
neighbor if there had been loss of life
or Injury. Not until the first blackened
and limp body was borne forth in the
arms of a policeman did the enormity
of the disaster begin to dawn on tbose
in the street.
Rapid Growth cf Death List
la fifteen minutes nineteen dead
bodies were carried out. Then they
came so fast that ail count was lost.
Many of those first brought out were
still alive. Their pitiful moans struck
terror to the hearts of tbose who wit
nessed the scene.
A restaurant next door was at once
thrown open for temporary use as a
hospital. The long tables offered ad
mirable means of service, and upon
them the bleeding, burned, and moan
ing injured were laid.
Sheep Shearing at Rag Gulch.
It takes twenty-five men nearly
three weeks to shear the Quinn sheep
at Rag Gulch. Kern county, California.
Of the fine French Merinos, with their
heavy wrinkles, an expert shearer can
dispose of sixty a day. The bucks are
difficult, and the men are paid three
times the regular price to shear them.
A "cobbler, or sheep whose wrinkles
run transversely and 'intersect, is
dreaded. A shearer usually works a
while oa a "cobbler," then, exhausted,
works oa another sheep to rest, aad
msy come back three times before he
finishes. The average fleece weighs
nine or ten pounds; the year's yield,
twenty pounds. The clip from an old
buck was flfty pounds. The wool is
packed into sacks holding from three
to Ave hundred pounds, and is shipped
in its dirty state. Sunset Magazine.
Mall Tranesartatien...
The payment for the transportatioa
of mails la at practically the same
rata aa U was a score of years ago.
while the cost of transportiac ether
classes of matter has beeatredaced
oaathlrd to one-half.
Within a block are a dosea great
buildings occupied almost excraslvely
by doctors, aad la a remarkably short
time a great host of physlciaaa came
to give voluntary service to theee la
distress. They saved the Uvea of
scores of women aad children, frea
zied with pala. who woaM have died
ia the street or uader the kindly shel
ter of the aelghboriag buHdiags.
Rush from Orchestra Seals.
The great majority of those who
occupied orchestra seats had escaped
with their lives, though scores were
badly hurt in the rash. Seeae were
knocked down. and. with broken limbs,
were unable to rise. They had been
left to die with a number of women
who fainted from fright. With these
bodies were fouad the corpses of those
who had leaped from the baJosey and
gallery.
In the exits of the balcony aad gal
leries the greatest loss of life oc
curred. When the firemen went to re
move the bodies they found 10e or
more piled In Indescribable mass In
each place. The clothes were torn
completely away from soma of the
bodies. Here aad there a jeweled head
protruded from the pile. All the faces
were distorted with the deatk agoales.
Mean from Heap) ef Dead.
From beaeath thla mangled mass of
humanity there suddenly cam tho
moan of a woman. It was a cry of
aaguish. not of pala. Tho cry. faiat
though it was. pierced to the very
soul, sounding above the yelle of tho
flremea. the moans of agamy from
withla the smoke-ailed auditorium,
and the shrieks of grief maddeaed
fathers aad mothers, sisters aad broth
ers in the street without.
Trembling heads plungsd their way
into the taagie of human forms, aad
with a mighty effort pulled to the sar
face the woman coald sach a thisg
be a human being? from whose lis
had come the cry. The blackened lips
parted, and a fireman beat over her
to catch the words.
Mather Leve la Uppermost.
"My child, my poor IRtle boy!
Where la he? Oh. do bring him to
me."
There in that awfal hear, her body
braised beyead recegaitioa ia the mad
fight for life that followed the first
flash of flame across the stage there
was mother love uppermost. Agala
the trembliag Has parted.
"Is he safe? Tell me he is safe aad
I can die."
"He la safe." the fireman mattered,
aad all knew hia reply waa best.
She died, aad her body waa lited
teaderly with those of the haadred
others ia that oae spot.
The calamity waa so overwhelmlagr
that the flremea aad the pollcemea
who were the flrst to reach the aaaer
part of the house coald aot reaUae Ha
astoaadiag exteet. They aegaa by
draggiag a body or two from the terri
ble plies at the head of the stairways,
as if they did aot know the pilea were
made of human bodies.
Gradually the full slgaffcaace of the
catastrophe dawned upon them. AH
the lights of the theater had been ex
tinguished. The lanterns of the fire
men cast only a dim glow 'over tha
piles of dead. From the bodies
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small curls of steam. The flremea had
drenched the piles before they kaem
they were msde up of human corpses.
Through the tiers of dead aad dying
in the bailding all about mea asm
women searched with frenzied faces.
Now and agate a searcher would flaC
one for whom he looked. One eeald
but turn the face from such scenes.
Righta ef French Women.
There is a good deal oi dissatisfac
tion felt by French women as to tha
Isws of their couatry regarding mar
ried women's property, aad they are
agitatiag to get them reformed. A
petition on the subject to the French
chambers has been extensively signed,
which urges the right of women to
control their own fortunes aad eara
lags. Most marriages take place uader
what is known as the commaaaate des
biens. or the common use of the joint
fortunes of the two contracting par
ties, but the law of the lead gives the
wife ao power ia the disposal of tha
property to which her dowry has coa-.
tributed. She is usable area to make
deposits ia a bank or savings beak
without her hasbaad's coaaeat. Truly.
te these matters, France is vary much
tx.biad the times!
Paetera Isggarty Salary.
Rev. S. B. Daaa. pastor of tha First
Presbyteriaa church of
R. 1-j.has reaigaed his charge
ha says, ha aad hia family are alowrjr
starviag to death aa tha beggarly ami.
ary alhrwad him.
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