TJI ( ; ( ) MALTA DAILY B1 E" 'r1 HU1t9DAY , JUNE 28 , 1898. '
RiII ( i 111OU CRAVES
I A Stroll Through the Roads of Now York's
Oelobraled Oemetery ,
RESTING PLACES OF NOTED PEOPLE
billy Flnrcncc'N Wcli-Kept Crnvc-
Where ilcnry Wnrd lleeelier"Snn-
net" Co : and John 1lonch Slrcp
Retry Ccorge'N 1lunowent.
With all lha Imposing resting places for
the dead that have grown up about New
York within the past Iwentyflve years , It
Is with Greenwood cemetery that the mar-
tuary feature of the great city le always
assodaled. Greenwood cemetery Is and at-
v'ays will be New York's Pere Lachralse.
It Is there that all public mcrdorlal 6ervlces
arc most Impressive ; there that the benutl-
ful solemnities of Memorial day reach their
touching climax ,
In years gone by , say forty , when In the
little towns of what then was the west ,
Ohio , Indiana , Michigan , the man who had r
"been to Now York" was a person of mark
In the community. It stamped him with a
certain dlotinetlon And always his neigh-
hors asked him when he returned : "Did
you visit Greenwood cemetery ? " Not that
there was lho remotest doubt about It. It
was only a conventional form of general In-
qulry ,
Vialling Oreenwood cemetery was a part
of going to New York , It was a ditty which
every substantial American citizen who went
to the metropolis owed to himself and his
family. It fixed his status among cosmopoli-
tans. The returned traveler from New York
in those days would no more have confessed
that he lind failed to visit Greenwood than
lee would that he had failed to hear Henry
Ward Ileeclicr preach , or that he had missed
seeing Barnum's.museum. As n matter of
fact he never would have confessed to either.
He would have lied first-and doubtless very
often he did lie.
Those days have gone by now. Daraum
and his glittering glories only palely Illumine -
mine din corners in the memory of a genera-
tlot all but passed away. Poor Ueecher
himself went to Greenwood to sleep there
forever , more than a decade ago.
Tines have changed and manners have
changed. The itinerary of pleasure travel
( lees not take ht cemeteries quite so rigorously -
ously as it did 1n days gone by. Men of
well ordered lives do not so much as they
did once feel that a part of such a life is
to look upon the tenths of the great and have
every emotion of envy die within thorn.
But the country visitors are still faithful
to Greenwood. They lake lire carriages at
the gate as their fntliera did before them.
They might be the same carriages and the
same drivers , for any change there Is in
them. And , indeed , there are drivers there
who bavo been going the roods for twenty-
five years or more. They still automatically
recite their guide book "plece" as they jog
along. They know every remarkable epitaph
by heart and no as yet undiscovered Inllu-
once has ever induced one of them to stop
when once he got started on a couplet of
mortunry verses. lie gallops through them
gayly , as though they were topical songs In
a vaudevllle , Your grandfather would recognize -
ognize the Greenwood driver of today the
moment he heard his flow of language begin ,
't'hrough'.VIndlnl ; frlveN.
lint the route through the winding drives
and the halts bGforo the tombs arc not quilo
the same. Another generation of illustrious
dead has taken up its nbodo in Greenwood
since the citizen of forty years ago undo his
decorous lour of the beautiful necropolis.
The paths lead to graves more newly made
anti the names carved upon the tombs now
most freluenlly visited are those which it
ecema but yesterday were upon the lips of
the living-names that only so short a time
ago were a part of the world and of life.
The driver is alert to these changes , lie
( mows time latest popular fancies in mortuary
ramblings. There are fads in graveyard vls-
, iting as In other things. It 1s now this
grave mid now that which hold first place in
popular favor. The driver patronizingly
guides you aright Iu these necropolis rash.
Ions.
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And where does lie take you first ? It used
to ho straight to Charlotte Lando's tomb.
Now ho turns to tire left , after you pass
through the stately entrance , and through a
winding drive and up a gentle ascent ,
reaches a Plot whore curving border conies
down to the very edge of the driveway. A
massive square block of polished granite surmounted -
mounted by a heavy granite cross is in the
center of the lot. On mho granite is carved
the name ' 'Conlin ; ' and at the foot of the
ntonunle t mud a little to the right of it , as
you face its front , there is a grave , alit
abluoming with fresh flowers. Not merely
growing flowers , but fresh wreaths of roses
and violets and pansies , which evidently
have been recently hi-ought there. The
name Conlin tells you nothing. Down on
the little post at the edge of the lot you read
' \Vllllam J , Florence ; ' and that explains all.
Yes , it Is the merry , rollicking Bllly I''lor-
once who sleeps there under all that fresh
floral bloom , 'rho stage vision of Bardwell
Slots , with the rumpled hair , the shrewd ,
knowing smirk , the swallow-tailed coat
with the long bandanna handkerchief trailing -
ing from the tails-It all rises before you.
It is Ilpreuco's grave , with a number of his
family , the Coullns , gathered about him ,
There are many living relatives as
well , and It is they , with the ninny
visitors , who ask to see the act-
or'a tenth , who keep the grave always -
ways laden and fragrant with the flowers ,
It is one of the first of Greenwood's points
of interest now In the driver's Itinerary ,
And , but a few rods away , and la the same
Feraviov avenue , there stands boldly out
4othcr nan1ef carved deeply oa 0. tomb-
name which , perhaps , Is now and then to-
membered in these days when the navy is
so prominent. For it was the navy , the new
navy , that virtually killed poor old John
Roach , And the boat that put the isat drop
of bitterness in the oil man's cup and sent
him down to the grave quite heartbroken
was that same Dolphin , now so conspicuous
as a dispatch bearer in the war. And an excellent -
cellent boat it is , and was when John Roach
turned it out , notwithstanding all the carping -
ing and nagging and downright abuse the
old shipbuilders got about it.
Crnven of NotnblcN ,
IIe sleeps there in Greenwood now , but a
little way from Florence's grave , The via'
( tors nro all guided to the spot becau8e on
the top of the shalt which rises from the
center of the lot there is a noted sculptured
figure ; "Memory" It Is called , and its face
is illumined with a radiance at once so
bright and so touching that It haunts you
for many a day after you have looked upon
it.
Winding still away to the left , you stop ,
and must get out of the carriage and climb
a sharp ascent to reach the grave under a
broad spreading tree near the top of the hill ,
which the driver points out to you , There
is a bright border of pansies all about Its
edge , and it Is almost as heavily burdened
with fresh flowers as is the grave of'F1or-
ence ,
'Samuel Sullivan Cox" is the name you
rend upon the plain tombstone , "Tonerville ,
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So it is "Sunset" Cox's grave , the man
whom Senator Carlisle , in a recent reminiscent -
cent mood , said was the wittiest man In
congress in his time. And he Is still fresh
in somebody's memory , for the Nowdrs , tha
driver says , are always renewed. "Sunset"
Coxi And the grate does face the west on
Its slanting hillside ; and the last light of
day does send long shadows streaming solemnly -
emnly over it.
So you slowly wind your way around past
where Toni flyer , the prize fighter , sleeps
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the great preacher. hundreds of visitors
from afar come to see the grave , and yet
both it and the lot wherein it. lies have
somehow an unkempt , disheveled look. It
reminds you in some vague way of the weedy
grave \Vnahington Irving in the Sleepy
hollow cemetery at Tarrytown , Not that
there is the slightest likeness of detail-
only one of those general suggestive resemblances -
blances so hard to define.
And sleeping by Beether's side is the
faithful wife , who clung to him so loyally
in all those awful days of his ordeal. And ,
as you read the inscriptions on the plain ,
thick granite headstones , you notice this ,
that Henry Ward Deceher died March 8 ,
1887 , and that Eunice White Beecher died
March 8 , 1897-Just ten years to a day between -
tween the death of one and the death of
the ether.
And not a dozen steps away , to the east ,
and still on the sharp elope of the hillside , u
you come to another coincidence of date , I
"Belinda E. Tracy ; you read on one lomh-
stone. "Died \Vnshington , D , C „ Feb' ,
runty S , IS90. " And on another , close beside
it , and exactly like it , you read :
"Mary F. Tracy , Died at Washington , D.
C. , February 8 , 1890. " I
Mother and daughter , wife and daughter
of Benjamin F , Tracy , who was secretary
of the navy when that fatal Plano lamp
caught fire and spread the havoc' ' which resulted -
sulted in these two graves there side by
side. One of the awful tragedies of oniclat
Washington were the burning to death of
this mother and daughter ,
Where Hecelter Slecpi ,
Towering up above you is the summit of
this Ocean hill , where Beeeher sleeps ; you
have always before you the great square
tomb in the building of which John \V ,
Mackay has tried to give expression to the
sorrow which fell upon him like a blow from
a clear sky when that young sot of whom
he was so fond was thrown from his horse
and killed while hunting hl France only a
few years ago. It always will he one of the
sights of Greenwood , and the drivers have
already got its salient features nod the fact
that it cost $300,000 Incorporated lu their
Perambulatory lecture ,
But It will always be to a grave a few
rods away that the visitors for years to
come will turn with not only more interest ,
but something of a sense of personal sorrow
and bereavement , It Is Henry George's
grave , and there was soutcthin ; In his tragic
death , while fighting so valiantly for poiitlcai
honor and purity , so consistent with his own
honest earnestness of character , that his
grave has become even now a sort of sacred
spot which humirecis go to look upon.
It is quite on the crest of the hill , with ,
before it , the same noble stretch of wooded
( fells seen from Beecher's grave , and reaching -
ing far away until the blue rim of the sea
itself defines the far horizon beyond Coney
island , Before the summer is over a noble
monument will stark the spot. The workmen -
men were digging clown deep into the ground
far its foundations when I was there , so
deep that the rusty riveted Iron box in which
the casket of lho dead orator rests peered
out of the crumbling sand at the workmen's
feet-all that is left. of henry Gcorge. I
could not but think of a scene once in
Cooper union , when just the physical pros-
01100 on the platform of the clay that is
in that hideous box there had set thousands
of men delirious with enthusiasm , shouting ,
cheering , throwing hats , canes , umbrellas ,
everything in their hands into the air , until
above their heads was a tossiug sea of such
litter as night have been left on the surface
I of the water had a summer excursion
steamer suddenly gone to the bottom.
Very suggestive of the hill on which tow'
era Garfield's tomb in Lakeview cemetery ,
Cleveland , is the hill whereon Henry George
sleeps-the same green stretch of wooded
fields , the same blue boundary of water hart-
zon.
I And physically not unlike in type were the
two men , Garfield and Gcorge. Great , domelike -
like foreheads , auburn tint of beard and
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on the slope of Pastoral dell ; past the Cauda
tombs , which is even to this day as much
the object of visitors' Interest as it was
forty years ago , when the pathetic death
of the beautiful young girl who sleeps there
was still so fresh in mind ; past the grave of
harry Howard , whose tottering , paralytic
form was so familiar about lower New York
streets only ashorL , few years ago ; and thus
around until at last you are at the foot of
a sharp slope. This you must climb to come
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quite close to the grave of Ifenry Ward
Beecher ,
Like the grave of Sunset Cox , the grave
of henry Ward Reedier has a sharp pitch
down the hillside on which ! t is male , as
though the full beauty of the wide sweep
of landscape which stretches away to the
south might be poured upon it-a wide radiant -
diant sweep of thickly scattered groves and
blue distance such as Ileecher , ht his keen
love of all that was beautiful of earth ,
would have delighted to behold. Thick ivy
grows closely over every inch of the narrow
cell ! n which rests all that is cafl iy of
hair , thickset and deep-chested , wlllr the
vigor horn of hard manual labor in youth
and early manhood. Both were orators , and
both dreamers In a way ; only In Garfield'a
mental composition there was nice of color
and music and poetry than in that of George ,
i From Ocean hill you wind down until you
are In Cypress avenue , and here , In front of
lot No. 24,183 the driver stops. 'rho lot is
notable , not for any one who sleeps
there , but for one who still walks the
i earth under the shadow of a great crime ,
j and of a tragedy which made the nation
mourn , There is a marble mouuuent ht the
center of the lot , and on It you rood tine
name of "Ward , " On the little post by time
edge of the driveway you read 'Ferdinand
Ward , " It 1s a grim relic of time Grant and
Ward riot in stolen money , this Imposing
mortuary abode. There is but ono grave
In it , that of the heartbroken wh'o whose
weary feet followed the wretched little swindler -
dler up to the very walls of the prison'aal
then found their way to GrcenwuuJ , where
they knew peace and rest at last ,
But the rest grave in the woks of Ward
is on the heights of Rlversids drive ,
llene/lelul 1lffeegN of CoIT'e ,
A wcmmn writer who gave up coffee recently -
cently found that she was unable to continue -
tinue her writing with any success until
she had resorted again to , the stimulating
beverage , Without ! t her mind was logy
mural heavy , The Medical Tines quotes an
authority on the subject of prescribing
coflco as a medicine iu certain elates of
great debility , and adds ;
"Tea and coffee seem to be much alike in
ninny respects , but the latter is greatly
preferable as to its sustaining power. It
would be a great advantage to our warklug
classes and a great help toward the further
development of social sobriety if coffee were
to come into greatly increased use , aml If
the ability to make it well could be ire.
quired. As an exmnplo of the difference of
effect of tea and coffee upon the nerves , time
writer notes what he believes many sports.
men will confirm , that it is far better to
drink coffee than lea when shooting. Tea ,
it strong or In any quantity , especially if
the individual be not in very rohust health , ,
will Induce a sort of nervousness which is
very prejudicial to steady shooting , Under
Its Influence ono is apt to shoot lee quickly ,
whereas coffee steadies the hand and gives
quiet nerves , "
Arnold's Brome Celery cures headaches ,
ilk , 260 , 60c , All drugglats ,
tW ( KED ' T 1N TIlE WORLD
Artena , in the Volrcian Mountains , Ranks
Thns Atnong Cities ,
4,0001NNABITANIS , CLASSED AS CRIMINALS
An InvcNtilcntlon'of an Itnllnn Nnr-
erl' of ANNnNNItm-Cltnrneter-
Istlc i'ttle oin Letter 'no-
riot Wlto'Ilnd n Itirnl.
Armed with a commission from tire
Italian government , Cesnre Lombroso and
other renowned students of criminology have
turned their attention to the little city of
Arlena , in the Volscian mountains , sonic
forty miles , as the crow flies , from Rome.
Lombroso will write a book on Artenn. I
This town of 4,000 Inhabitants loves in
history as the southern hatching-oven of
evil-doers and felons. As long as four and
a half centuries ago Corrado Celto said of
its citizens : 'No possible punlshnunts can
detct' them from heaping up crime upon
crime , for their perversity of mind is more
fertile ht inventing new offenses than the
Inmglnatlon of judges is in new punishments -
ments , " And at the perlal mentioned uew'
fangled 1(101)5 for executing and torturing
criminals were almost as plentiful as such i
relating to bicycles are today.
Either for patriotic or geographical
reasons , or , both , Artenn has never figured
in the criminology literature of the present -
ent period , which has branded other places
In Italy as homes of the born delinquent ;
but now an overhauling of records , ancient
and contemporary , by the well known authorities -
thorities on nieiical jurisprudence is promised -
ised and we will soot know all about thus
romantic spot , where assassins grow wild ,
where fair-brewed mothers educate their
children 1u time noble mint of cutting throats
amid where revenge Is the prayer on the lips
of young and old.
Meanwhile your correspondent has done
a little investigating on his own hook. To
begin with hio ascertained that while the
crop of murders-and this does not include
homicides or mere nmanslntighter-In the
whole of Italy is on a ratio of thirty to every
other kind of 10,000 deaths ht the Idogdom ,
nearly 2 per cent of the men , women and
children buried In the tnountnin cemeteries
of trlena year by year die by violence. And
let lire reader remember here that the
Italian national murder crop is the largest
lu the civilized world , being four and a halt
times larger , for instance , than that of Great
Britaln , wlulch is not reckoned among the
gentlest countries.
Not on time Hahn ,
\Vhen I asked at tine railway station here
tor n ticket to Artenn I was told that no
such pins was on time route , and the map
corroborated that statement. However , 1
insisted that this lowu Karl been a reality
somiewiicre in the southeast of Home be-
tw cct the western mein chum of the Apemi-
nimea and the Albnn mountains , for five
or six centuries or even more. Then a
council of ofleinls was called and one of
them , who had formerly been in line servlcc
of the papal government , remnembercd that
Arteua was a met' namme for the old robber
stronghold of Montefortino , where a tribe
of the ancient Volsctans , who gave the
Ronimt republic so touch trouble , is still
Nourishing ,
"Artenn , " lie continued , 'has no railvay
station , for we could probably not find n
station master who would trust himself in
that neighborhood , 'rime nearest siution is
at Volmoatone ou the Rome-Naples line
via Delletri. "
I found too teen , which I reached on
muleback , one of the most picturesquely situated -
uated in the kingdom. Arlena crowns the
sunimlt of a mountain 1,200 feet high.
Half ray up stands a mighty castle , built
like a fortress of time middle ages , with
lovers and a moat galore , it belongs to
the Borglrese , but no ntonmber of prat
princely family has set foot in it ever since
shirts of chain mail and steel bonnets went
out of fashion , In fact , they ceased taking
personal Interest iii their property since
their neighbors above acquired their first
blunderbuss ,
The town consists of a single street crawling -
ing up the mountains In zig-zng fashion.
The louses are low and narrow in clepth ;
behind the small back yards the rocks descend -
scend abruptly , as if hewn off by a mighty
rush of waters , Fronm the summit an enchanting -
chanting outlook can be hind into the Roman
Cmnpagna , the Alban and Sabine mountains.
Tine 4,000 citizens of this town are , according -
cording to the mayor's statements , among
the bust situated lu Italy as far es nmeans
and opportunities for makitlg a steady and
comfortable living are concerned , even the
poorest of them ovnhmg enough rich land in
the valley to yield nil they need , while the
better-lo-do families are among the heavy
wheat sellers nod speeulnto a of the province ,
That actual want does not exist in Artenn
was further demonstrated to roc by the surprising -
prising fact that during miry visit there was
not a single beggar approached 1)m ; riot
even the children asked for cemtcsimos.
Under these circumstances , to which may
ho added a particularly mild climate , one
should inmagino that the Arteninns were u
happygo-lucky lot , a little lazy , perhaps ,
but certainly unwilling to habitually walk
the path of the transgressor. Such a surmise -
mise would completely coincide w'ltlr tine
writings of the Lombrosos , Morrisoms ,
i Ferris and others , who insist that the
majority of criminals are bred under
i anomalous social conditions. Moreover , It
I would concur with the latest year book of
the New York state reformatory , which
says that C3 per cent of criminals in New
I York came from hones which were posi-
I tively bad-that Is , where avant and abject
poverty reigned , besides crime , while only
7l. per cent came from hones that were
posltively good ,
( 'rlrnc ' l'lourlsht N ,
So much for pathological theories. As a
matter of every day practice , crime flourishes
in Artenn as if the town were one bnnmense
bagnlo , nod Its 4,000 inhalmltants so ninny
graduates from the galleys , set free on a
lone island to massacre and rob each other
at trill ,
i As already stated 2 per cent of all deaths
in Arteua are tire oalconte of murder direct -
rect ; persons dying of wounds received in
I assaults , or by tine gctlon of lncendlarism ,
me not Included hr the list. Thefts , street
robbery , burglary and'assaults wlth stiletto
or revolver are matters of such ordinary occurrence -
currence in the town' and in the valley
belonging to the people that to investigate
them all , accordlrmg..to the mayor of the
city , the number of police ofilcials and
( judges would have to be increased out of
I all proportions to the rtntal number of in-
habitants. The authorities , continued tlua
olncial , take notice only of time uoost atrocious
of crimes brought to their notice by the
press of the capital , or when non-resldemta
suffer ,
This coumphaceot official is the eleventh
successor of a mayor mysteriously murdered -
dered in Artona in the beginning of 1879.
All these mayors were elected for a period
lot ten years. Three died under the hands
of assassins , two of thorn 11) broad dayllgbt
and on the Open market place , The nest received -
ceived such wounds as to cripple them for
lido and make them leave their posts It
, haste. The present incumbent of the atilce
aspires to the distinction of outliving his
term , and to that end goes about his busl-
neas with ears securely plugged and eyes
shirt. As a piece of general Information he
told mo that "the number of crimes ugalnat
life and property brought to official recognizance -
nizance In Artena is fifteea times greater ,
relatively l.1) the number of lu-
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habitants , than in any other place or district
of Italy. " Mark the wants , "omcinl recog-
nlzanccl"
Everything tends to show that almost the
entire population of this mountain town is
imbued with criminal propensities. There
is no need of lending an Artenah , who may
have strayed from hla or her environment ,
into crimme by suggestion , All of them seem
to be possessed of an irresistible passion for
cruelty-cruelly that wishes its victim to
feel the bitterness of death. The men and
women of Artena are even wanting in paternal -
ternal and maternnl affection , Vengeance Is
of their daily prayer amid in deliberateness
of criminal purpose they have no equals on
the face of Europe , save perhaps in sonic
parts dominated by "the unspeakable Turk , "
Fnutllies 1Vlped Ou/ ,
Since the old name of Montefortino was
eraset from the map after the fall of Rome
and the end of the papal government in
1870 , three entire families , some of the oldest
in the city , have been completely wiped out
-grandparents , paretds , brothers mind sis
tern , cousins and nieces , nephews and uncles
and aunts-the SCarcnzirs , the Dabos and
the Rulfis. Neighbor throws himself upon
heigttbor in the fields , on the street , or in
his or her castle , the Lome , All houses are
provided with rnteana of fortification and
ruany trap doors , Victims of hatred or the
prizes of robbery are killed , maimed , or tortured -
tured , A house goes up in fames mud half
a dozen children with it.Vho cares ? Next
day a friend of 'tile murdered fanmlly stools
down the perpetrator or perpetrators when
ever he fluids or tracks than ,
The authorities are powerless , for no
citizen of Arlena will bear sv'Itmess against
another. "Vengeance is mine ; says lire
mounlaht "hero" or "Imernluc , " and no mater -
( or how convincing time proof furnislicd , his
or her obslinncy of deninl is greater. I at-
tcnded , a session of the assizes at Arteua
emly it the year. Time whole town knew
( lint young Oltuvl saw his father murdered
by Jegndo , Did he bear out the public
prosecutor ? Not a word could ( lint olflcinl
dmw' from his sealed lips , ills sisters , his
mother , who Ind been IIkewise direct or Indirect -
direct witnesses to the deed , were equally
silent.Vireu I returned to Ronie I rend t
in mho Tribuna a dispatch saying that
Jegado's house was broker into night before -
fore last amid that the murderer and his
family of three small children were bound
to time tied , drenched with kerosene , and
slowly roasted to death-"perpetnttors uu-
kuotvm , " of course ,
Iturde' Is avenged by murder in Arterma ,
as was done for centuries past hr Motte-
fortlno , ' and whoever testifies against a red-
handed scoundrel takes his life 11) his
I hands , hatred , jealouay nud petty squabbles -
bles lend to new murders , for the citizen of
Artenn is unstable , excessively vain , nror-
bidly irritable mud loves revenge above all
things.
Afle' IS70 the new government resolved
to break up line time-iromo ed robbers' nests ,
amid Mortefortino in particular was given a
strong judicial admimislrntiun ; schools were
erected and the greatest severity wins exercised -
ercised in cnrrying out the laws and enforcing -
forcing respect for them.
As a corisequeimce a fey hundred of time
inhabitants lead to be taken charge of at
onto and shipped to the county scat , where
they were confronted wIth their judges , a
cage having been built for every tvelve
prisoners. Whole famllies were then deported -
ported , but crime did nut ( linuulsh In lire
least. Thu uesv city of Arteua soon hind
as bad a name us the Montefortino of old.
Signal for a ' 14at rdy.
Just before Pietro
Acciarlto heaped new
criminal renown upon his native city by
attonpling the life of Icing Umberto it
April last a royal official was foully murdered -
dered in Arlena , and , though many are undoubtedly -
doubtedly lu the secret of iris tatting off , it
is Impossible to gain one particle of evidence -
dence assuring conviction. It happened in
this way : About a year ago the letter
carrier of the city was deposed and another ,
a younger man , sent from Rome to take
his place. The wfe ! of the former , a fine-
looking woman , went about the city bewailing -
wailing his misfortune and offering proof
that her husband had been uulawftilly'dls-
missed. Finally she gave art that she had
Iitade a vow to time Holy Virgin tp wear a
black dress hr the Easter procession , switch
nieaat cerlaln death to the nev letter
carrier. Of course time peoplS of Arlena saw
the point of this talk and when the young
woman thus appeared on April 18 among 300
others clad to white , singing ntid praying
in the procession behind the cross , nobody
In town doubted that the government would
soon have to send n second postman to that
district.
The blasphemous wommn not only wore
the unconventional dress , but , instead of
the candle and flowers , carried an unligbled
torch in her land , wound with crape. On
the following Monday , April 20 , time letter
carrier was found dead In the road leading
from Volmoatone to the mountain town.
He had berr'n shot through tine head and a
dagger stuck in his hear- , All lire money
and valualdo letters he carried were gone.
There arc only surmises as to the murderer -
derer or mirrdcrers and these say that lire
man was shot dowp by Marie's lover , and
that she , to immure death sure , or following
a impulse of cruelty , plunged time knife into
hum ,
'Ire government stands aghast before the
problem of what to do with this townful of
crhninnls , On March 7 , 1557 , Pope Paul IV
issued an edict ordering the city of Morte-
fortino to be razed to the ground. The
command was only Iralt carried out. Troops
drove the citizens from their strongholds
into the forests mid encamped on the vie.
torious ground after many a hot battle. Rut
two years later the now pontiff , Plus IV ,
allowed the citizens to return , and since
( lien no such sunmary form of reforn has
been attempted , although it. is generally
( conceded to be the only one heat ( night beef
of lasting benefit
I'A'i"S I'AltrING SIlO'1' ,
Snltttc to a General \VlmuNe Wife Cont-
mtuuled the home h'Icld.
Two yisltors at Camp Black had saluted
a genprat.and , lassed ! on , relates the New
York Sunwhemi erne chuckled and said :
"I never met an army officer of that rank
that I ant riot rpminrle < i of an incident that
occurred on the veranda of a retired gen-
oral's ' housp where I was a visitor. He had
just been retired , lie hind been a brave aol-
tller and iris achievement was due to merit.
But Ida excellent wife mail time reputallou of
connmandtng the home fluid. lien word was
law ,
m "A quick-wltted son of the odd sod lad
been employed about time place as general
utility eau , lie had time usual weakness ,
wldcir caused him to be forgetful , amid on
the day I was there he had received hta
discharge frotu time wife for overlnQulgenco.
There was an agreeable party on the veranda -
randa as I'at passed whim his bundle on
his shoulder. lie ( malted iarnediately in
front of the general and saluted Mini , and
therm lmo said in time lmearhmg of time general's
company :
i 'Good-by , son , I can halve , ser , Ye
' ' "
can't.
A delicate luncim , A bottle of Cook's Im-
perinl Cimanmpagne and a dozen raw , and a
good cigar for a wind-up ,
ii ciouurecu of JourunlINn , ,
Chicago Journal ; The voice of the foreman -
man was heard through the speaking tube ,
r It sounded anxious and fiurrled ,
i "Say ! We've lost ( list cut of Itey , Dr.
Lyman Abbott , and ft's time to go to press !
Wlmat arc we going to do ? "
"You've gut a cut of Flghting Joe
Wheeler , haven't you ? " said the night edItor -
Itor In reeponso ,
"Yes. "
" \\'ell , run that in instead. Nobody'II
know the difference , What's the use of
bothering me about such a thing as that ? "
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