Indianapolis Journal, Indianapolis, Marion County, 27 January 1896 — Page 3

THE INDIANAPOLIS JOURNAL, MONDAY, JANUARY 27, 189S.

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The New York Store CCSTAIlLlSHEn 1S5.T.)

The Early , Birds Will have a veritable feast this morning" at our sale of the stock of John' Stevenson & CO., ; The Washington-st. Merchants, At the most remarkably low prices for the high quality, of the oods. Wouldn't it be wise to be among- thc'carly birds? Pettis Dry Goods. Co HER PALACE A PRISON CA III' Kit OF MIIS. ASPINWALL, WHO GAVK lf:i,0MMXM TO PHILADELPHIA, Would Not Meet Stranger, Had n Female Conch Driver, nnil Would Accept No Money but Gold. Pittsburg letter In Philadelphia Record. Mrs. Anna R. Aspinwall. of thi3 city, by whose will the Episcopal Hospital, in PhilaIclphla, is left all her estate, estimated to 3e $3,000,000, was a woman of excellent famly and decided eccentricity. In some ways he was quite as peculiar as the famous Hetty Green. She was a granddaughter of lames Ross, of th!s city, who for half a ;entury was the acknowledged head of the :ocal bar, was twice elected to the United States Senate, was a member of the constitution convention of 1X70 and three times x candidate for Governor of Pennsylvania, tie owned a great deal of land In the , flclnlty of Ross street, the land where the ;ourthouse rv stand, some 3,000 acres of what Is now Rcss Grove, the site of tho town of Aspinwall, and more in the Belle3eld district. Ills son, James Ross, Ji. was ilso a lawyer and large lanJ-owner. Mrs. Asplnwall's mother was Ann Ross, the laughter of the elder Ross, and she married Cdwln Coleman, whose father was Robert Coleman, the millionaire mine-owner of Cornwall and Lebanon. The 'issue of this Tiarriage was Mrs. Aspinwall and her sister, who became the -wife of Alexander Llvingiton. ot New York: The Livingstons'a laughter, Mary, married Martin L. Delafleld, 3f New York city, and are well-known in fashionable society In Philadelphia. She It Is who now, as niece and next of kin of Mrs. Aspinwall, appears as the contestant jf the will of her aunt. All the Colemans and their connections In Philadelphia are understood to look with aiore curiosity than with personal interest n the outcome of the .suit, because they lever knew very much about or expected .ery much from the lonely woman whose will has Just been made, public. Mrs. Ann Ft. Aspinwall, whose will is at stake, married Captain George Ainsworth Aspinwall, f New York, and had two children, a son md daughter, but both died before they were of age. Two weeks ago last Monday Mrs. Asplnwall's remains were buried beside her husband and children Jn Greenwood cemetery, Brooklyn. She was about leventy-elght years old, although she would never tell her age. Her death occurred at Edinburgh. Scotland, early in December, and was attributed to heart disease and senile decay. Mrs. Aspinwall was connected with both of the Philadelphia Coleman, and Drayton families, who made so much money out of the Lake Superior Coleman-Drayton iron mines. William Drayton, whose law office Is at No. 70G Walnut street, Philadelphia. U a cousin of hers. The brothers of Mrs. Asplnwall's husband controlled the Aspinwall line of ocean steamers. He, however, "Was rot wealthy, but his taste? were literary, and he did some writing. He died thirty or thirty-five years ago. It is said that he spent or lost a considerable sum it money for his wife, a fact that she was well aware of. MTIS. ASPINWALL'S MANSION. Shortly after Mrs. Asplnwall's husband's death she built her a large mansion. It is picturesque in location, being on a knoll, ' surrounded by a thick growth of trees, but It i3 now both lonely and antiquated. It is In the Ben Venue section of the East End district. The edifice is partially screened by the trees and a high board fence, and these and the grass-grown drives, combined with tho Isolation, quaintness and quietness of the place, suggest a portion of the past century hidden away ana forgotten in the march of time. It was a fit abode for this peculiar woman. She received no calls, refusing all attempts to lead her into social relations with those about her. she hart her retinue of servants, and one old houseKeeper in whom she relied. The general administration and care of her estate and the collection of, rents, etc., she turned over to Col. William A. Herron. It is said she made him no end of trouble, often sending for Mm daily, and sometimes several times a day. Fortunately he lived not far away. He was very kind to her. and was about the onlv person with whom she could or would get along without quarreilng. She was very jcmu ni iravei. ana wouia start ior roreign countries upon a few hours' notice, leaving her servants in the house a year at a time, with no idea. when she would return. On her downtown vlsitinir davs th old carriage, with its one horse, driven by the woman unver, arya .Mrs. Aplnwall sitting in tne tacK seat, were such a sight in the streets as to cause tho observer to turn for a second look at the odd equipage. Many a reman, r.as oeen passed as to who the oddlooking couple were. One of Mrs. Asplnwall's peculiarities was the kind of money she insisted on having from her banker. I-cr bank notes she had an abhorrence that seemea unaccountable: nothing would do her but the yellow metal. When the teller would push her amount over tho rmmtM he would slip it into the spacious pockets i ner aress ana want out satisfied. Mrs. Asptnwall's aversion to visitors was carried to the extreme. The housekeeper did not dare, to break over the rule that no one should bo admitted, and would at once refuse to take a message to her mistress, knowing in advance what tho answer would be. So tho number of visitors to the house was email. A nephew even was refused d mittance. Ho came from New York city aoovi i wo years ago to seo his aunt. As coon after his arrival as was possible he mad; the visit to Craig street. It was no use; she would not see htm. Another and still another - attempt was made by the younr man. but each, time he met with the same answer. THE OLD -LADY'S SUSPICIONS. . The old lady thought it stranse that he should live for so many years without a thought for her and then, when she was advancing in years, and not very strong. suddenly take a notion to look her up. She connected his suddea solicitude with a desire on his part to become possessed of her generoua bank account, and acted toward him actordlngiy. Tho bulk of Mrs. Aspln wall 3 tstate Is understood to be located here, although there are known to be other interest ot ner. including a koou many stocks ana bonds, in I'hiiauelphSa. The Pittsbunr properties consist malnlv In un productive real estate, although it is prov ductive if some renta. It is estimated by a -gentleman In a rood position to judge to be wortn roui jouu.tmo. ir rightly managed it would produce more a time goes on. and become tmmenely valuable, isime of this property, which was formerly worth only 50 an acre, is now worm - ju.u"u an acre. Not Jong he gave some land valued at 130,imj to the Wen Penn Hospital. In this city. It l nupiuei ner mat ne 1'MlaJeiplila propertlts cam through the Colemans, from ni itinera Fiue, anu mat they are probably not so extensive as her pittsbur state. The same source of Information thought that the X3,uu.,Ji0 estimate of her estates anouid be at least divided by three. BHta jxw vi iu- f'yiniuu inai nrr estate would not exceed xrou.u). George W. Cluth r!e. a lading attorney of this city, is the aole uuriivir: executor under Mrs. Aspln

wal's will, which was drawn here and dated Nov. 2. 18S.. A few days ago Register Conner admitted the will to probate and letters testlmentary were Issued, by consent, to Mr. Guthrie. . MAY CONTEST; THE WILL. It is understood that he will proceed to collect the personal property together, take steps to care for the varied interests of tho estate, protect all perishable property and preserve the estate for whoever may finally be adjudged as entitled thereto. The admitting of the will to probate is not conclusive of its validity, nor does it mean that there is not to be any contest thereunder. In fact, it is generally understood here that in all probability there will be a contest on the part of Mrs. Asplnwall's nlec-, Mrs. Delafleld. T). T. Watson, a local attorney, represents 'her in the matter. It is understood that this protest will likely take the course of an appeal from the register's decree ordering the will to probate. This would go before the Orphans' Court. It Is thought that the contest will be waged on the theory that Mrs. Aspinwall was Incapable of making a will. Hut th.re are friends of hers here who say that hr mind was all right up to within a short time of her death, and to within that time that they would have accepted a deed from her without hesitation. They say it is nonsense to say she was not all right at the time when the will was made, ten years ago. It was last September that Mrs. AsEinwall suddenly decided to go to Edlnurgh, where she had friends, whom she had previously visited. As she was get

ting aged and Infirm, the officers of the White Star line steamer Majestic, when they saw her come aboard without any companion for the voyage, declined. In accordance with a usual custom, to let her sail with them, it was out a few moments before time fcr the boat to start, and she did not have time to get her trunks off. She had a pood deal of money in them, too, but they were safely taken care of and duly returned to her. She returned to Altoona. where she stopped, and in October returned and sailed across by another steamer of the same line, this time in the care of a com panion, whom Colonel Herron and wife had secured for her. She suffered a fall while on board during some rough weather. Soon after reaching Edinburgh she became sick. Her companion remained by her un til her death early in December, after which her body was embalmed and brought to this country and buried. AMUSEMENTS. Uttle need be said of the engagement of Sol Smith Russell, which will open at the Grand Opera House this evening, with a double bill, "Mr. Valentine's Christmas" and "An Everyday Man," the last being a new and successful comedy by Marguerite Merington. In this play, it is said, Mr. Russell presents a character that reaches the universal sympathy of mankind. "An Everyday Man" will occupy the boards to-nlsht and Wednesday night. On Tuesday evening and Wednesday matinee Mr. Russell wlil appear as Rob Acres in the classic comedy, "The Rivals," assuming a character in which so far on the American stage Joe Jefferson has been most successful. Although having been identified for over twenty years with one particular line of work, Mr. Ruesell has stepped Into an entirely new field, and has demonstrated a talent for refined English comedy of the classical school. The Brothers Byrne, in "Eight Bells." will be at English's the last half of this week. The entire production is said to have been remodeled o that it will be scarcely recognized In its new form. The specialties introduced at short intervals are new and pleasing. The Byrne brothers remain to give life and action to every scene. An acrobatic quadrille at the close of the last act is a novelty. One of the greatest attractions of last Reason was Walter Sanford's spectacular story of New York, "The Struggle of Life." It Is an elaborate scenic production, requiring two cars for the transportation. "The Struggle of Life" opens at the Park th's afternoon for three day3. The Gormans follow Thursday, la "The Gilhoolys Abroad," a new farce comedy. ' Charles E. Power came In from St. Louis last night and is at the Bates House. Mr. Power this season is business manager for Minnie Madlern FUke. who will be at the Grand the first half of next week, in "The Queen of Liars" and Ibsen's "A Doll's House." The Rentz-Santley Company opens at the Empire Theater this afternoon, in a satire on -"Trilby,'." called the "Twill Be Club." Among the entertainers In the olio of specialties Is Miss Carrie Scott, with her "Tough Girl" song; Collins and Collins, comedians; Leslies and Tenlle: Van Leer and Barton, acrobats; Lottie Elliott, and Fisher and Crowell. The program concludes with the burlesque, v "Robin Hood. Jr." TURKEY'S ARMY QUITE UP .TO DATE. Ovrlnsr to the Patient Drilling and Organization of German Ofllcem. New York Herald. The Turkish army is well able to take care of itself In case war results from the Sultan's stubborn front toward the powers. His soldiers are well drilled and disciplined. and his officers are up to date in modern methods of warfare. The Mussulman sol diers will surprise any body of European iroops who should be ordered to attack them. .This, according to Gen. Von der Goltz Pasha, the German officer who recently reorganized the Sultan's army, and is nowretired, is probably the reason, which has led the Kaiser to assume a negative policy In the present war diplomacy. "Since the last war," said the General, the Sultan's troops have greatly Improved in drill as well as in strategic knowledge. They are no longer a force subject to antiquated methods and notions. It Is entirely untrue that the reforms proposed by myself and the staff of German instructors were executed only on paper, as has been repeatedly asserted. On the contrary, they have actually been put Into practice and have been theoretically studied with a zeal ordinarily credited only to German profoundness. "These modern Turks are hard workers, and In their military duties, which they hold as sacred, they neither hesitate nor falter. That the Sultan was In earnest with respect to the army reform Js perfectly well known. Ever since the last war his Majesty has been anxious to do all in his power to put his army on tho most modern footing. His friendship with the German Emperor is the consepuence of the personal interest both feel In their respective armies, The Sultan, being satisfied that German drill and strategy arc superior to any other system, allowed myself and brother officers full sway in our departments. We organized this rUanding army down to the last gaiter button, as the phrase goes, working harmoniously with the Turkish authorities, who gladly recognized us as teachers, if It comes to war the success of our efforts to raise the Turkish troops to the standard of modern efficiency will soon become apparent. "It was part of the Sultan's policy not to let the world at large know what we were doing and what wa were accomplishing. If the powers had known the full extent of Turkey's Indirect prervarations for war, they would surely have Interfered, either by accusing his Majesty of double-dealing or by cutting off our supply of war materials by financial Jugglery. "Turkish officers and generals have had a- bad name, not because they lacked In aggressiveness or courage, but because they had little else to recommend them.- This state of things has totally changed. Ever rlnce 18S6 larue detachments of Turks, after receiving preliminary Instructions at home, have taken service In the German army, and have returned after a year or so of hard work. In the same way exemplary German officers have taken position with the Sultan'3 troops. His friendship with the Kaiser guaranteed the character of all the officers engaged for his army; they were all picked soldiers, tried teachers, men of stamina and experience. "The book of instruction newly Introduced into the Turkish army is similar to the German military code. Saml Bey, Turkish military attache at the Berlin embassy, Is responsible for the greater part of the instructions, which he has seen tried and successfully carried out. "The Turkish officers' code is now a very progressive an.i respectable body of men. While in the Sultan's service I delivered two or three lectures every week before army officers. These were followed by discussions. I was astonished at the character of . the speeches, questions and demonstrations I heard. They proved above all that these Turkish officers are of studious habits ani take their profession very much in earnest. '' ists as most of them are. they know that safety lies in knowledge. "As to the Moslem military spirit, it la as strong to-day as it ever has been during the last two centuries. The Turk is a most enduring creature. harJy, and capable of withstanding great bodily inflictions. His courage has never been double.!. Sj?h a roldler nee Is onlv capable efticers to be almost invincible. The Suitans army now spleniiily oHeercd, and pood material i .i.ied dally. The war academy, which in 1SS hal 4at pupils, now has l.sno. "Th5 mobilization of the Turkish army shauld It become necessary, will be effected within a week. The Macedonian contingent will be in marching order within five da-vs."

FBEN0H PRISON LIFE

FltANCK PAR BEHIND THE TIMES IN Til E ATM EXT OP CRIMINALS. Survival of Medlevnl Cruelty and Indifference esrlect of the Moral nttire of Prlxoners. Parte Letter in Boston Transcript. There are six prisons in Paris besides the depot (the great Central station, as it may be called, although Its service is most complicated), the conciergerie (used as a smaller depot for the convenience of the Courts of Assizes and Appeals), and the military prison, which is an establishment quite apart. These six prisons are Mazas, SaintePelagie, Salnt-Lazare, the Sante, and the Grande and the Little Roquette. Mazas was originally a prison established to make a trial of the solitary confinement system (known throughout Europe as the Philadelphia plan). This purpose Is now abandoned, and Mazas remains technically "a hou.se of preventive detention." Preventive detention, in France, means the holding of an, accused person for months before his trial, which may never come off. And Mazas is "no other than a modern irresponsible bastile to serve the present Governor of France. It, Is able to hold 1,260 detenus, each in a separate cell. The prison of Salnt-Pelagle, with a capacity for 630 prisoners, is supposed to receive (a) journalists condemned for political or other improper writings, (b) prisoners for debt lin the cases where such Imprisonment still exists), for nonpayment of fines and frauds on government monopolies, (c) and prisoners of ordinary justice condemned to terms of less than a year. In Sainte-Pelagie these three classes arje kept separate, with a separate regime for each. The prison of SaintLazare Is exclusively for women. The Sante is a comparatively modern establishment, the only one which the authorities dare show to foreign visitors without shame. It holds O prisoners, condemned to terms of less than a year. The Little Roquette is a prison for little boys, with a capacity of 430. And the Grand Roquette, technically the "Depot of the Condemned," Is put down in the guide books as Vthe prison where are detained temporarily, those condemned to recluslon or hard labor, pending their transference- to the central penitentiaries or to the penal settlements of Cayenne or New Caledonia It has a capacity of 440, and as It is perhaps the worst conducted prison in the world a statement of the life led In it may be interesting. 1 When the newly-condemned criminal, pau per or drunkard is waked at 6:30 a. m. of his last morning at Mazas, end stands in a huddled crowd of others like himself, tight packed In a dark, stuffy room beside the greffe. 1. e.. the bookkeepers department. awaiting transference, he is preoccupied with but two things. The first is to smoke up and give away what tobacco remains to him for there will be no smoking over there. Over there, over there where? "A la Grande!" the Grand Roquette! A groan bursts rrom the miserable party. Hot words of indignation explode. "It's not fair! They've no business to take us to the Grande! No one here has twelve months even! What do they care the vaches!" The prisoner's first day at the . Grande Roquette begins with the last cigarette. His last day there ends with the first cigarette! his first purchase on his release, his first and almost self-sufficient consolation. The new prisoners are hudJled in another bleak, dark prison room. Inside the Grande Roquette. Hours pass while they wait the convenience of bookkeepers and searchers One by one they are called out. Identified by cursory head measurement, made to ac knowledge that the account of the money found cn them is correct, searched, stripped and reclothed. Those having less than a month of prison to do are given liberty to continue en civil, all others must don prison clothes, shapeless, of rough brown fluff, to be taken in or let out for the individual by the prison sewing man. They are marched to a shower bath, then marched to the cen tral workshop, where to make a Roquette holiday, they are both shaved and clipped. this In the presence of two hundred other prisoners. Those having less than a month are again shown favor. They keep their hair. NEEDLESS MISERY. Here there Is nothing of the completeness and smartness of an American prison. The central workshop where the shaving Is done, beside a rickety stove, whose fire is always going out, is a leprous little hall. tainted with bad air and the accumulated filth of decades. Two hundred prisoners are cramped so closely together that they im pede each other's work. It Is the mark of the Grand Roquette throughout. The Granda Roquette of which the world has heard so much in connection with the present-day guillotine is nothing but an old barracks transformed in the most scrimpy way into its modern use. It has not even a rain-protected promenade for the forced walks of the day; it has no dining room; the prison ers must rat in the church, beside the altar: the sleeping cells have no heating appara tus, even in the coldest winter; the guar nians are undermanned and overworked: there is no attendant physician a doctor comes in for an hour a day; every library bock has lost pages, the library itself only numbering two hundred and fifty volumes; the compulsory education supposed to be laid down by the law has been suppressed, and the sanitary conditions are those of a badly-kept prison of the middle aces. The new prisoners squirm uneasily on the benches assigned them, munching their loaves of black bread brought with them from Mazas; holding up two fingers for per mission to go to the bucket for a drink of water, In Imitation of the other prisoners. watching with a rueful humor the shedding of tneir companions' hair, beards and mus taches. To one side fifty men are making wire mousetraps, working with a savage energy; to the left is a gang which files and polishes brass moldings; further on another gang Is simply cutting wire. They scarcely glance at the newcomers. They work fever ishly. There Is a look on their faces differ ent even from the anxiety, regret and new born misery shown in the new men's faces. It is a Fpecial lock. Its cause Is nunger. Every one is hungry at the Grande Ro quette, hungry while they work, hungry while they sleep. The clock has but to strike the hour of 3 p. m. and you shall sec Y-i m rem r1 a ctarf inrr t r thAir r ajt rfr white-faced rogues. It is the dinner hour the one meal of the day besides the soup, Now the rewcomers merge into the general prison type. At the tail of the procession they march to the church. It is across a great square, open courtyard, and the wood en shoes which an must wear ciang in a resonant unison across the Belgian-block laid waste. Into the church they clatter: The sacred edifice Js filled with rickety, narrow tables, each with a dozen round tin basins filled with lukewarm beans or other vegetables. The altar Is hidden by a can onv. removed on Sundays. They take their seats and tin basins in silence. There la a moment's pause, and then begins the clatter of the wooden sDoons. For each prisoner, for his sole outfit. Is furnished with (a) a wooden spoon, (b) a rough towel and (c) a red bandanna handkerchief. The food of this one meal varies. Some days it is a dish of beansred heans: other days It Is rice, lentils or a general mass of scraps. On Sundays only Is a hunk of cold boiled meat thrown into th beanv mess. Meat once a week. At this dinner the other food is bread. Each prls oner receives a heavy round loaf of black barley-and-rye in the morning on leaving his cell door. If he eats it all up In the morning, there is nothing left for noon or night. Actually each prisoner carries his loaf with him. never quitting it throughout the day. at work, at the lavatory, in the promenades, at meal time and going to bed at night for one must keep a little piece, at least, for night when you wake up Hungry. PRISONERS STARVED. The canteen service of the prisons of Paris 13 all In the same hajids; and if it does not pay the contractors handsomely. It is a pity; for It Is hard to Imagine a more dishonorable business. 1. The govern ment provides the prisons, pays the warders an.i clerks. 2. A contractor agrees to feed the prisoners at his own charge in return for the privilege of profiting by their labor. 3. Therefore he jobs out their work, be it making mousetraps, cleaning otr.ch feather, binding cheap books, or what not. The prisoners therefore earn their food, on the face of things. But the law, which U benevolent even to the crlm Inal. desires more than this for him. It ays the prisoner shall be given In money a portion of what he earns. First convictions are to have half what they earn, the other halt to tro to their nutrition. Old offndar "bavt three-tenths ot what they

earn. Furthermore, the money thus due to

tne prisoner Is to be divided, half to serve his needs for little luxuries while in jail. half to oe saved up for him against the time of his release in order that the state may not be obliged to give him help. Here is a drain on the contractor. The problem is to get back again the few cents a day forcibly paiJ to the prisoner. 4. There fore the canteen. In theory it is a species of cheap prison restaurant, run without profit, destined to sweeten-the existence of the unfortunate and encourage him in welldoing. Practically, by the reduction of the given rations to a loss dhan life-supporting minimum, it becomes the prisoners necessity for meat. In the book-binding depart ment, which is the best paid, the most ex pert workman can earn c.ily 8 cents a day. A veal stew costs 6 cents. You may believe that the prisoners all work well at the Grande Roquette. By 3:30 p. m. the dinner is over, and the prisoners are promenading. . The Grande Roquette is constructed in the style or ail old infantry barracks four narrow build ings form a hollow square, which makes a vast interior drill court. The Grande Ro quette is simply this, with the addition of a wall. In the drill court the prisoners are promenading, four hundred men with hands untied, armed with heavy woolen shoes which are weapons In themsolves. not to speak of the heavy files and other tools of the iron and brass working ateliers. 10 guard them there are but four guardians and a brigadier. There are not twenty police, guardians and soldiers in the whole es tablishment. The French are lovers or economy. The prisoner whose trade in the outsine world give3 promise of ability to handle papers, etc., without . spoiling or soiling them is put in the book-binding workshop; the inexpert are set to work cleaning ostrich feathers or cutting wire; while others, who appear to be allied to mechanics, are set to filing brass. In the workshops they are given places, intlated to the labor. ard then left to struggle clumsily. The hours rass on. the lights are lit, and It Is always work, work, work. Whispered conversations Instruct the newcomer in this or that. Among "table neighbors there is a certain curiosity to learn what Is going on in the outside world, for no one ?ees news papers. The newcomer, not yet reduced to the average hungriness. is- wheedled out of a portion of his loaf of bread. In return he is shown tricks in skimping work, ivacn newcomers as have made appeals, or, rath er, elected to make appeal after their transferrence to the Grande Roquette. are not required to work, but sit idle. Each borrows a convict's library book, and feels content to lose himself in it. But those who know state that it is a curious sight to see something like meat food now and then. UNJUST RULES. 7 p. m. sounds, with the order to stop work. The convicts leave regretfully In winter, time, but joyfully In summer. Be cause, in the astounding Eystem or tne Grande Roquette, the prisoner has not a moment for reading or other self-improve ment except that gained in hi3 cell. These cells aro never lighted. At 7 o'clock in the summer of Paris it will still continue light enough to read for two hours and a half. In the winter, on the other hand, it is dark at 4:30. NO difference is made on account of this at the Depot des Condammes of Paris. It Is now winter, and they go to bed in the dark, lying on their beds twelve hours out of each twenty-Tour. There Is nothing else to do, because the cells are too small to walk about in. and it Is too cold to simply sit up and stare into the darkness. The building Is so damp that it Is the practice to make up one s bed with the coarse sheets on the outside, as you can almost wring water from them. Damp ness trickles down the walls sufficiently to wet your hand. The more knowing resort to "making a boat of the bed" which is really a kind of bunk. They take out the slats each night, let .the straw mattress down Into a shallow, bathtub-like cavity, so protecting themselves from the wind. The prisoners : were:.; unlocKed from their cells at 7tuurn. They do not wash. The towels given them for that are found to te ore conveniently used as muf fiers. Congratulating each other on the re turn of day. the prisoners struggle In a weak-kneed rank past the brend distribu tor, into the workshops. From 7 till 9 a. m. It is work on bread and water. At 9 o'clock they take soup In the church. It is vegeta ble soup, the vegetables being thin slices of turnip, carrots and onions, in small quantity. Actually it is hot water flavored and made greasy with a certain amount of fat. And then begins another promenade of half an hour. The prisoners are back In their work shops. At noon a halt of half an hour Is called, for the eating of bread. Such can tine delicacies as . the more fortunate possess are consumed at this hour ?s well The, only distractions are (1) Sunday rest "when we bore Qurselves. worse than on other days, in the-'ooM' iurch half the day and marching tho rest" with the- changing of library books and a few extra hours in which to read them; (2) letter writing and receiving, on Saturdays; (3) visits on Thurs days ar.d Sundays; and (4) the taking of a purge, on any 'day. ' There, is a division of opinion as to this latter distraction. The doctor of the Grande Roquette will give a ncse of Epsom salts for every malady un der the sun. except the ltcn. Those who by putting themselves on the sick list open themselves to the universal panacea, have the satisfaction of spending a morning away from the workshop "among the old men." in a long, well-heated room, where hoary headed criminals sit all day round a stovo and grumble, never being asked to work. The old men pet now and then the butt of a cigarette from a good-natured guardien. so that one may smell tobacco smoke if he Is lucky, When I was shown through the Grande Roquette I came upon this living morgue; at .the very momant when Salle, the bloody assrassin, was there with the old men, on the morning of his re prieve. He had been condemned to the guillotine, and the death watch had been set on him. Two soldiers always guarded him, he had tobacco, wine, restaurant food. and playing cards. He had naturally ccme to look on himself as a person of note. and his manners, even that morning, were grave, consequential and pathetically funny in their self-importance. He was an elderly man, with a benevolent-looking black beard and silver spectacles. But when the chief warder, to give a treat to the prison Inspector and the visitors, sent for the barber, the dignified assassin started, look Ing rueful. He knew what it meant clip ping and shaving. His tobacco had already been taken irom mm, his soldier-guard. his wine, his restaurant food, his playing cards, lie had becomoioniy a life prisoner. doomed sooner or later; to embark for New Caledonia. Now he sat n the tarbers chair, and soon the deed was done. He had been a grave and consequential elderlv man, with a benevolent beard and silver spectacles. hen he etime out he looked like a poor, bald, weak-faced little babv. He tried his spectacles, but divined that they must be Ineffective. He shut them up and put them in his pocket. With a sigh ur eim iii un muvc, iuok. a seat on a bench, and became a common convict like the others. Avii.ii hogs is coxxEcrricirr. Good nnd Novel Snort Promised to Hantern of Big: Game. Saybrook (Conn.) Letter, in New York Sun. Good sport is promised, to gunners for big game in tne rugged and rorest-claJ wiicer nesses of Nortn Madison, North Guilford and Killlngworth, this winter. The countryside there seem3 to be infested with wild hogs, which are fierce, strong and gaunt, and so vicious that they will attack a man. Oliver Chapdelalne. a French Canadian wood chopper, who Is cutting wood in the .North Guilford country, near Bluff Head, shot and killed one of . these hogs last ueinesday after blazing away at the sni mal threo times. The brute had long tusks ana was making a rush for Chapdelalne wnen the latter fired his last shot. Chap delaine wounded a big black wild ho,? in the swamps about Gorham's pond, ::nd?r Totoket mountain, in North Branford, but the brute escaped. The woodchoppn fol lowed its trau cn trie snow across the town ships of Branford and Guilford, then to Cranberry Hill, In Madison, and finally to the extensive swamps along the llammon assett river, in the town -ot Kiliingworth The newspapers of the State have reported several other attempts to Jcill wild hogs in tms remote quarter or ctmnticut The wild hogs of the Hammonassett swamps are descended from . a drove cf Western hogs tr at escaped into that remote section mere than ten years age. They are as quick in their movements n a weasel and about as hard to eaten Their fiesh. Judging from the one Chapdelalne shot, is of good flavor, but tough aad almost with out fat. The winter headquarters of the hogs for the most part a-e in a !ar,re mound of leaves in th Hammonassett swamps. The leaves have been collected by the winds and packed down by rains. The hogs burrow down Into the leaves and there keep warm, no matter how cold the weath er. The hogs have been conspicuous by their absence for several years, the. hunters say. and their reappearnce this winter leads to the belief that they have largely increased In number. They are rather small for hogs- . . . -r- A . .3 a rareiy goinff over iav ijuimis, ana are capable of great endurance. They will kill ordinary" hunting dogs with ease and rapidity by dlsembowling them with their tU3ks. A dog that knows how to pursue them tackles them on the hind legs and tries to ham string them. Some time ago a colony of wild hoes be came located in a similar manner in the town of Eactford. Windham county, and In a few years did so much damage that an organized effort was made to exterminate them. Hunting parties from Springfield and Worcester killed over six hundred of

THE BERTILL0N PLAN

31EASUREMEXT IXPALLII1LE AS MEAXS OF IDENTIFICATION. An Important Principle in Jurlmliction Objections to System Unfounded. Penal the New York Tribune. The Prison Association of New York has undertaken to Introduce to the authorities of the State and of its cities the Bertillon system of Identifying criminals. At a meeting of the State prison commission in Albany on Dec. IS the association presented a practical demonstration cf the method, with the aid of Dr. Brown, surgeon of the army In New York harbor, and of Major McClaughrey, of Illinois, who have made it a special study; and tfce immediate introduction of it into the police practice of New York and other large cities is promised as the result, while the Legisla ture is likely to be asked to legalize it throughout the State, and to provide for working it in harmony with other States, such as Illinois, Massachusetts and Minne sota, which have already passed laws re quiring its use. The subject is one of great scientific Interest as a branch of anthro pology, apart from its immediate applica tion to criminals. Penal jurisprudence pays more attention every year to the distribution between habitual and occasional criminals. After a third conviction for felony, for example, Ohio permits the offender to be imprisoned for life, unless his reformation Is proved. Everywhere sentences are properly lengthened. If the convict is recognized as a member of the criminal class. But this recognition is far from easy, the worst enemies of society being the moat skillful In dirgulse. The crude method of photo graphing the face and forming "a rogues fcaiicry breaks down In practice, not only by the skill of the subjects in changing their appearance, but by natural changes of feature and expression, and by the im possibility of classification when the numbers are great. Under the scientific teaching of M. Bertillon the police of France have abandoned all reliance upon such superficial means, and have adopted a form of registration of every convict, such as they now have In Paris a bureau of crim inal records, containing more than 300.000 personal descriptions and histories, so classified that when a prisoner is examined a clerk can determine in two minutes whether he has been convicted before, and. if so. can produce at once the history of his crim inal career. THE FUNDAMENTAL PRINCIPLES. The principle of this system Is the truth, learned by observation, that after tho human frame reaches maturity the skeleton is practically unchangeable in dimensions. But its parts are not dependent on cne another, varying within certain limits, by no fixed law. Two men may have heads cr arms or hands or fingers of precisely the same length, but no two men ever have been found to have all these parts identical in measurement. It is easy to take the measure of the permanent structure of the body. In from five to seven minutrs a practised hand can record thirteen independent dimensions of a given figure, no cne of which can be disguised or varied by any Ingenuity, with at least accuracy enough to bring the limits of error within cne-tvventieth part of the ordinary limits of variation. Let the same man return cne. five, ten or fifty years later and on the repetition of the measurements his identity stands revealed, with a certainty beyond all that is attainable by any mem ory or comparison of appearances. In fact. the possibility of mistake In such an identi fication may be said to be represented iby a fraction whose numerator Is one, and whoso denomination is the thirteenth part of twenty. That Is to say. mistake is- Jm possible: since it would occur but on?e, on the average. In the application or tni sys tern to the entire population of GO.000,000 of worlis like our own. The practical difficulties in making- the Trinciple universally useful are two. First, that of classifying the recorded measure ments so that each of them may be found at once among immense numbers; and, sec ondly, that of combining the information acquired by different jurisdictions. The fir?t problem has been completely solved by M. Bertillon, in Paris, and his method of class ification has been adopted by the states which have Introduced the system of measurement. A card, little larger than a postal card, carries the complete data of identlh cation, and finds its place in a cabinet. which may contain a million or more of such cards, so that the whole forms Its own index, and the individual record wanted can be found, when Its duplicate ia presented, as quickly as a name in a directory. Little has yet been done In making the measurements taken in one jurisdiction useful In others. A criminal whose body is inevitably fixed In the Paris registry may still claim in Chicago or .New York to be a 'first offender." Christendom will one day unite in measures for the suppression of crime; and one of its most important agencies will be a system of correspondence, bv which each bureau of identification will-receive from every other duplicate cards in cases in which a criminal history is sought, and send in return whatever information it holds. In this way the criminal clas?. that cosmopolitan army of enemies of mankind, will become known and distinguished from the mass of men on whom they prev. and efficiency of law, in all efforts for their suppression and ciimination will be vastly reinforced. UNFOUNDED OBJECTIONS. The objections which have been made in the Bertillon system are founded almost wholly on Ignorance of its real nature. It is not cumbrous, It is not expensive, it does not supersede practical sagacity in the police. True, it does not aid thief-takers in making arrests. This Is another province of work with which it has nothing to do. It degrades no man. The best citizen might, without fear, permit his measurements to be filed in the bureau, with perfect assurance that his record can never be disturbed, unless he is brought In as a criminal and measured again to determine whether he has a criminal history. Finally, it is true that other methods of identification have been devised by anthropologists, some of which for example, the comparison of the Impressions of the finger-tips are Just as trustworthy as the measurements of the bone's. But all these are more difficult of application and far less easily classified for reference. They do not enter into practical competition with the system of Bertillon. The only application of this principle hitherto made on a large scale is that for the detection of recidivists among convicts. But a recent visit to Bertillon's wonderful bureau in Paris suggested to the writer the possibility of other important uses for it. Every student of anthropology will understand that the collection of a body of statistics upon the comparative development of parts of the bony skeleton, accompanied by Information as to race, place of birth, early life, family connections, and many classes of personal characteristics, may prepare the way for important studies in fields hardly yet opened. Apart, however, from its theoretical value, here is a simple and easy method by which the identification of a person can be made absolutely certain for all purposes; and it is obvious that its general adoption would make passports trustworthy, and far more useful than they have been to governments and to military commanders; while even in commercial and family life instances are not wanting in which it would save vast trouble and annoyance. Had there been in existence at the time of the Tlchborne trials a Bertillon card, either of the true heir or of Arthur Orton, the cost and waste of the most expensive litigatioa ever known would have 'been saved, and a question which agitated the public of two continents for a year would have been settled forever in two minutes. Society Item from Steuben County. Steuben Republican. A dance was held last week at the home of Mr. McClish, near the Balding farm. In Scott county, the third one of a series held there within the last few weeks. During its progress the floor manager, Christian Dauber, and Ezra Wood, of Angola, had an altercation which resulted In a fight, in the course of which one of the combatants was knocked Into the window, smashing the glas and causing no small commotion, especially among the women and girls present. When this pugilistic encounter had ceased the dancers resumed operations. All went on harmoniously for a time, when another war cloud appeared on the horizon, resulting this time in a free-for-all fight with Hiram Deck and a Mr. Holmes, both of Angola, as the principal participants. This battle closed the exercises for the evening, or rather morning, and we arc Informed that Mr. McClish, at whose house the dance was held and who furnished the music, has declared the series of dances closed for the winter.

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"The Trail of Trilby," an article in a recent number of the Forum, has naught to do with successive scenes of devastation and misery, as its formidable title might at a passing glance suggest. The author, Mr. Vandam, is not of that unreasonable ilk which measures the poor girl by the pitiless Mosaic law; Indeed, to compliment his ar tide, it further sweetens the appealing wistfulaess with which Miss O'Farrell and other grisettes glance at you from those purple hazed days of the '00s In Paris. Those days before the students made fun of the cal loused hands of the grisettes and thereby almost In the twinkling of an eye, trans formed the type of grlsette to the tpye of lorette! But with the Forum article. Its title, Its author and his Intention, there i.i little to do In what is written here. It is an Incidental quotation Mr. Vandam intro duces from a work other than Du Maurier's that recalls an Interesting book of forty years ago and puts Trilby on the rack of comparison. The quotation is from Henr: Murger's chief work, the only one that has lived, and causes a bit of surprise that Mr. Vandam told no more of Murger and hir

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pcn Vu tuSr u Du Maurier's bid for an honor, already awarded In part, of portraying life In the Quertler Latin. Perhaps the limitation of a magazine article gavn him no choice but to barely mention in pa.s!ng a character of the old book from which much of tl.e atmosphere and some of the ideas of TrilLy barring Svengall and hypnotism are drawn. A coincident marks the very firt word Du Maurler pens in the book which has gained such an irresistible and such a pro digious vogue. The very first word Is the harce by which Murxer styles his heroine. (Miml, which appears In the fallowing sn&tcl of a song at the top of the first chapter: "Mimi Pinson est une blonde Une blonde que Ton connait Kile n'a qu'une robe au monde LAndcrirette: Et qu'un lonnet." As Miml was a blonde, with blue eyes, so was Trilby: the former was. so her creator tells vus, a "lovely creature with a voL-a like a pair of cymbals." Of Trilby, it was toia sne naa " a voice so rich ana deep and run as almost to sugsest an Incln ent tenore robusto. From that capacious mouth and through that hlgh-bridzed. boiv nose there rolled a volume of . breathv sound, not loud but so Immense that it seemed to come from all around, to be reverberated from every surface in the studio." Henri Murger's "Scenes de la Vie de uonemia" must hae formed a deer Im pression on the miad of the talented Ungllshman, who afterwards came in contact witn the lire so well described bv the French prince of Bohemianism, a no less personage man jiurger nimseir. "That devil of a book will hinder me from ever crossing the Pons des Arts." said aiurger ot his book. It was his dream to become an Academician. Yet this work. wmcn created a sensation In Paris in lS;s, as it was published In Installments In the Corsalre. a periodical of limited circulation. is me oniy literature by which the name of Murger is saved from obscurity. After he abandoned the lax life he had led so long in the Latin Quarter, the author, Jt Is sail, thoroughly despised the character of his success. His pride and ambition rebelled at the tendency of the public to associate the author with his hero. ' Neverthele-ss. Murger was his own hero, the Rodolph- who burned his furniture to keep himself warm while he correspondingly wrote burning words of love to his Mimi. than whom Trilby, who came afterwards, was no more dellcbus. Take away Trilby's phenomenal voice. Trilby's foot and Trilby's Jacket and you have much of Miml. Murger's characters were not shadows; im did not have to put himself In their places to draw ncidents. Real life was his mcst productive mine, and his biographer Is so bold as to give you the real names of the characters, adding som of their history, besides more explicitly netting out Incident which the author envelops In so much charm. Murger had "Four Musqueteers." as he calls them, but they were not all of the brush. "At that time," says he. "Gustave Colline, the great philosopher. Marcel, the great pointer, Schaunard, the great musician, and Rodolphe. the gieat poet (as thev called one another), regularly frequented the Momus Cafe, where they were surnamed 'The Four Musiueteers because they were always seen together. In fact, thev came together, went away together, played together and sometimes didn't pay their shot together, with a unison worthy of the best orchestra." Little Billie,. Taffy and the Laird of Cockpen, DuMaurier'a "Three Musketeers," were no happier together, nor was the bond of sympathy between them any stronger than that which buoyant poverty knitted for Murger's four loyal fellows. Mr. Vandam, the author of the Forum article, possibly does not have fresh recollections of "The Bohemians," for he is at error even in the very brief reference to the book. To Rodolphe standing at th brink of Mimi's grave he attributes the exclamation; "Oh, my youth, it's you tha is belnT buried!" It is of Jacques-at th grave of Franclne whom Mr. Vandam Intended to write. The Incident comes In a short sketch which appears In "The Bohemians" without apparent relevancy tc the main story. For himself Mr. Vandam says; " 'Oh. my youth. It's you that's being resuscitated I hummed to myself while reading Trilby! And if for nothing else I owe the author sincere and humble thank." Did not the resultatlon apply also to his recollections of this book of Murger's. written long before Dj Maurier's tale was given to the world? There is a prettier wil to "The Bohemians" than to Trilby, and at frequent times the flavor of the situations Is as delightful as those In Fielding's "Tom Jone r some of those Invented bv Smollet. With all the Inclination of a Parisian In writing of old days In the Iatin Quarter to take advantage of the license allowed only the French, Murger has strin to throw no halo around Immorality. Nor does h pretend to that wretched art which masoueraies as realism. He is neither a Daudct nor a Zola, and yet he tells a etory as well as Balzac. ' "The Bohemians" live In the same atmosphere which surrounds Trilby, and in thl respect the similarity Is no doubt more striking than in a tracing of incidents. Ths subtle quality in a book which Impels one to rapturous championsip is In both thse stories. There is the sinking of the heart which is familar to those who loved . Little Blllle and felt half inclined to weep when Trilby drifted away from him; Rodolphe. in the other book. Invites the dew of pathos, as one reads where Miml leaves him. Where Taffy an 3 the LaJrd solace the hero in one bock, Marrel. the artist. and the other two friends try to cheer up the hero of the other book. Both young men had the sensitive, overwrought temperament which iermits no sleep when love threatens the least sort of mental Indigestion. In actual life. Marcel, so the biographer says, was a 3outh named Tabar. aa art student who vanquished a gang ol rowdies. "This Hercules of a painter hit so hard and ro fast there -s-ar. no need of ns helping him." continues the biographer. Do you not remember the powerful Taffy and the trouncing cf Rvengall? Marcel, too, had one of those masterpieces whih was forever growing, and never marketable. Countless hours were spent upon his "Passage of the Red Sea." all to no profits bJe avail. The Laird of Coekpen. master that conceived the celebrated "Toreador serenading a lady of high degree." had a common ground on which to rest his unsatisfied hopes. But Murger had none such as Svengall. with his matchle art of magic. True there Is a friend of "The Bohemians." the Jew Medicis. who kept a shop in Rue du Muee, but he is of little worth In tne story. The only trace of a Hv?ngall Is In the chm!ng musician. Alexander Sehaunard. and the very first picture in the book (the musician at the piano In the garret) suggests the well-known likeness of Svengall. He. too. as Svengall d!d. lived "au fixleme." It occurs to one frequently. In rewi.n Viurger's work, that Sehaunard Is akin In om degree to Svengall. and one lnvolutarl'y holds aloof from him. His nickname was "Sehaunard sauvage." On? day while playine on his piano Phemie strrliel in anfl asked for a few notes to accompany a ballad she knew. And she Is afterwards called a "featherles linnet. Something after the order of Trilby in this? Phemie was devoid of all instruction, turbulent and decidedly slang?'. In AmTlea "The Bohemians" had not even a smsli portion of success such ax "Trilby" had. Reeentlv an attempt hss heen made to revive it. a small edition having ben put on the market. Among those who find a fascinating interest la Bohemians, "whose greatest crime is lack of order," the revival may become a popular cne. for such types as Sfhaunard. brilliant and eccentric Colline, the book-worm cf enticing manners. Marcel, the srtist. ani Rolo'phe. who hobnobbed with the mu. are of characteristic fascination. grlsette srpear frequently In the course of events, but no apology Is made for her. GAVIN L. PAYNE. Dead Sllenrr. Detroit Tribune. "Will he rpeak lo m' There was agony written In every featur of her haujhty face. She glanced fearfu'Jy at the man beside her and her heart sank. "Ah. no." the sighed. la fact he had already remarked that It was 9 lovely evening and that he thought Wajr was too sweet for anything. Th. . were at an informal reception, and ther nothing" else to say.

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