Indiana State Sentinel, Indianapolis, Marion County, 11 February 1891 — Page 9

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PAGES 9 TO 12. ESTABLISHED 1821. INDIANAPOLIS, WEDNESDAY MORNING, FEBRUARY 11, 1891-TWELVE PAGES. OXE DOLLAR TER YEAR.

As the Result of Tapping an Old Shaft. The Waters Pour In in an Immense Volume, Giving the Men No Chance to Make an Escape. Pitiful Scenes About the Mouth of the Shaft. Most of the Dead Left Families of Children, And All Clustered Near the Scene of the Disaster. Three Lives Lost in the Same Way at Wilkesbarre. Minor Casualties or the Day Elsewhere. Hazelto.v, Fa., Feb. 4. Eighteen men entomted in watery graves mark the remit of the most awful mine horror that has ever occurred in this region. Jeansville, the pretty little mining village of J. C. Ilayden t Co., two miles across the mountains from this place, is the scene of the disaster which has resulted in such appalling loss of life, and which has brought desolation and anguish to eo many homes and dear ones. At 11 o'clock this morning while Charles Xoyle and Patrick Coll of Levistou were encased in drilling a hole in their chamber in the lower light of No. 1 slope of J. C. Ilayden & Co., at Jeansville, they broke into the old No. 8 elope that has been idle for five year?, and had been Hooded to the mouth with water. William Erisline, a driver, was driving at the bottom of the slope when he felt the wind coming, and cried out: "Boys, for God's pake run for your lives, or we will all be drowned." In a moment the force of the water came and Bresline barely escaped with his life. Beide him six others were saved. They are Henry Gibbon, John Neline, John Hoyle, Charles liernle, William r '. o door-tender) and Patrick Coll. The water rose rapid y and before any attempt could te made to rescue the reit of the workmen wr.ter flowed in, and in tive minutes' time the slope, which is frM feet deep, wf.a filled to the mouth, and eighteen men, who but a few hours before, with light hearts left the bright sunshine and clear sky to descend into the dark cavern of coal, were buried in watery graves and their lilele-s bodies, black, begrimmed and maimed, are alone left to tell the terrible cost of mining coal. The lost are : LAWRENCE REED, married, eight chil'j AMES GRIFFITH?, married, one child. EDWARD GALLAGHER, married, two children. JAMES WARD, married, eight children. HARRY BULL, married, seven children. JO-Efll MATSKO WITCH, married, four children. BARNEY ilcCLOSKEY, single. PATRICK iELLEY, single, JAKE WYASro, single. MIKE SMITH. Hungarian. JOHN BERNO. ;OM GLICK. married, one child. TOM TOM.ASKASKAY, married, three chil" dren. JOE ASTROO, single. BosCO FRINKO, single. THOMAS GRKKO, single. JOHN BOYLE, single. SAMUEL PuRTEK, single. The news of the disaster created the wildest excitement and the mouth of the glope was soon thronged with people, frantic in their efforts to obtain information of the inmates of the mine. When all the men whj escaped reached the purfaee and it was known who the lost were, the excitement increased and in less than half an hour hundreds of men, women and children gathered around the slope, and the terrible scenes of anguish that ensued cannot be depicted. Wives imploring piteously of the miners standing; by, who knew only too well the fatal retul:, to save their husband from the terrors of a watery grave; little children crying for the papa who would never return; relatives and friends wringing their hands in sorrow and distress, and appealing to a merciful providence to eave all, when within each breast was the certain feeling that their prayers would be unanswered. The weather, which was bitter cold, did not have any effect toward diminishing the crowd, and it was only after the terrible result was made plain that none of the entombed men were livintr, or could possibly be reached unfil all the water was pumped out of the slope, that the grief-stricken friends of the unfortunate men could be induced to go to their homes. When the Associated Press reporter arrived at the scene, at about 12:30, J. C. Ilayden t Co. had a large force of men at work under Master Mechanic Rude placing pumps in position. One was got in working order in a very short time, and every stroke of the pump was watched anxiously by the onlookers, who seemed to count the beats of the mighty engine as it forced the gallons of black and sulpherous water from the mouths of the huge column pipes at the entrance of the elope. A large duplex Cameron pump was also in working order by 7 o'clock tonight and every minute takes 1,500 gallons from the slope w here the men are entombed. The firm of Ilayden fc Co. will pump the water out as Tapidly as machinery placed in position can do the work. How long it will take is a question, since no definite idea of the volume of water can he ascertained. Nme of the miners Kay it will take four weeks before the bodies can be reached, others say twice as long, ince all the water that had collected in the abandoned slop will run into this rift of No. 1 slope and will, of course, have to be pumped out. 31 r. Brystine, one of the escaped miners at the bottom of the slope, said to a reporter: "I was waiting at the bottom of the elope for a trip to come out. Suddenly I heard a loud noie and I thought it wa3 the trip comingout. Then a frightful blast of wind came and knocked me down the gangway. I cried outftto James

Griffiths. Then the wind blew nis lignt out as suddenly as it did mine. I tried to run for the slope, but stumbled and fell. Then John F.oyle and John Neems came running out. Xeems' lamp was burning, and through the aid of Neems' light we pot to the slope. The water came pouring after us as we ran. As we got to the slope the light went out. AVe clambered uj as fag t as we could and the water came running after us, rising very quickly. In five minutes the water raised 2S0 yards to the mouth of the slope, the pitch of which is eighty-three degrees." The civil engineer in charge of the Jeansville mines was a man from Pottsville LaFevro Wolmsdorf. Many theories are advanced as to the cause of the disaster. Some charge it to neglect to notify the workmen of the dangerous proximity of the water. The slope in question where the accident occurred is a new slope which was eunk from the bottom of a worked out slope. The latter has been Hooded for at least sixteen months and only a few of the old miners knew of the presence of the great body of water and many a time had the remark been made that if the lower gangway workings were driven up to, a dreadful accident would result. one of the workmen had any idea that the workings were driven aa near to the water us they were. IIazi.eto.v, Fa., Feb. 5. The awful mining disaster has plunged the community into grief and mourniDg. Great crowds have gathered today at the scene, which is about a mile and a half from thig place. It is certain that the seventeen mis.-ing men are all dead, and that most of them were drowned in their chambers. The water in the pitch of the slope has raised 00 yard, which is a higher point than anv of the breasts reached. Even though they were not drowned they would die froni suffocation long before the water can be pumped out. The large inside mine pump whicn was stationed at the bottom of the slope to keep the lower level free from w ater is covered with water and is ueles. Two smaller mine pumps have been placed side by side in the gangway of the first level and the work ot removing the vast body of water was commenced at b" o'clock last evening. It was at first reported that the water had broken through from the abandoned workings of the old No. S shaft. This gangway had been stopped in a ledge of solid rock, and according to the maps of the engineer was about seven feet higher than the gangway of the lower level, and was separated from it by seven yards of solid rock. It i3 believed that while Charles Uoyle and Patrick Coll were dri.ling a hole in th face of their breast they unexpectedly broke into the old abandoned workings of No. 8 ehaft, and that the water ins;antly tore away the intervening rock and rushed in upon "them. Some of the miners and officials are inclined to doubt the correctness of this theory, however, as upon examining the old works it was found that the water was disturbed but very little, if at all. Another theory advanced is that the water is from Carter's old mine. These mines have been abandoned for many years and were filled with water, and the lines between them ran close together. Until it is learned where the water is from it will be impossible to say how soon it can be removed, as they cannot ascertain the amount of water that will yet run into these w orks as it is being pumped out of the slope. IN THE SAME WAY.

Three Miners Lose Their Li res at Wilkesb&rre. Wilkesbarre, Pa., Feb. 4. Another terrible mine disaster occurred in Xo. 3 colliery of the Susquehanna coal company at Grand Tunnel near Wilkesbane, this afternoon. The cause was exactly similar to the horror at Jeansville this morning. In an abandoned part of the mire which was crossed was a great body of water held as if in a large tank. In the adjoining chamber a number of miners were blasting or loosening the coal. An unusually heavy charge was fired and go thinned the wall that the heavy volume of water broke it through and male passage way for its rush as wi lo as the gangway itself. A scene of consternation ensued. N)mo of the miners were given warning and ran for their lives ahead of the rushing liood. Three men, John Riner, Mike Shelauk and William Cragle, all married and men of family.did not hear the warning in time and were closed in in theircharabers. Nothing has been neen of them since, and it is thought that the waters closed in on them and that they were drowned. It is not possible that they could have escaped, and if they did manage to get into other workings", a siege of starvation and final death is ahead of them. The subterranean workings, covering scores of acres, are rapidly filling with water. NINE REPORTED KILLED By a Wreck on the Cotton Bait Road in Arkansas. Little Kock, Ark., Feb. r. News of a serious wreck on the Cotton Belt railroad, six miles south of Clarendon, Ark., has juot reached here. The north-bound passenger, which leaves Pine ldufF at 2:20 p. ni., was wrecked. One report says nine people were killed; another only three, and still another (from a railroad man), that only a fireman was killed and several others injured. There is no telegraph station near the place, ma!::ng it impossible to get particulars toniknt, NINE CHILDREN BURNED. Tsrrlble Accident in a Itusstan Orphan Asylum. Moscow, Feb. 5. A terrible fire occurred in an orphan asylum in this city la.t night. The building wss burned to the ground, and most horrible scenes were witnessed as the youthful inmates were being rescued. As it was, nine children were burned to death and a number of others were so seriously injured that their lives are despaired of. Mae Will Die. Mafeili.es, Feb. 4. A dispatch from Montpelicr brings nows of a disastrous dynamite explosion through w bich nine soldiers are expected to lose their lives. It appears that a number of artillerymen belonging: to the garrison of Montpelier were engaged in charging a mine at the rill but. s with dynamite when the charge exploded, injuring nine of the artillerymen so seriously that they are not fcXpected to live. Thrown From a Running Train. Taris, Feb. 4. A startling murder was committed today on the, Spanish border. While a train was proceeding from Iran, on the Spanish side of the frontier, at Ilendaye, a pmall French town, a run of only tive minutes, a gentleman who occupied a compartment in a first-class carriage was thrown from the train into the river and drowned. The assassin escaped.

"BAB" IS IN WASHINGTON.

THE SENATE DOES NOT IMPRESS HER. She Dislikes the Force Bill Tha Women ot tho National Capital Society Geuerallj A Dearth of Yonng People Central Impressions. The Arlington, Washington, D. C, Feb. 6. Special. When New Yorkers get a little bit fagged out they come down here for change of scene and to get something good to cat. For my own part I think I had the things to eat more in my mind's eye than I had the change of scene, but I got both. Washington is, to my way of thinking, one of the loveliest places ia the world, and driving over its streets is like caroming over a billiard table. The equipages in Washington are remarkable for cheapness and civility; that is, the charges are cheap and the coachman is civil. The horses are a remnant of the middle ages, and while they are not violently fast, btill they have a cheerful way of trotting along that is interesting. The carriages are funereal to a degree that is awe-inspiring, but it is just as we'l in Washington for one to think of the hereafter once in a while. What have I clone? Well, 1 have learned what the force bill mean?, for one thing, and I consider it very unjust. I do not see why the poor unfortunate negro, who has had freedom thrust upon him, 6hould bo forced to leave his dinner and prance oil' to the polls; I don't see why any human being should be forced to vote if they don't want to, and I also utterly fail to see how they are going to force people to vote, unless they run them in at a point of the bayonet," and then, perhaps, that much-corn plaioed-of part of the country, the touth, will, liko the much-quoted worm, turn and kick. I have also heard a senator speak, and for bad elocution, for wretched pronunciation, for a clear and compact ignorance of Kugiish as she shou'd be spoke, he is to be commended. I had never been to the senate before. I pictured it as an imposing body, where men thought out great deeds, t-poke in a way worth hearing, and w ere altogether a credit to the people who had sent them there. Instead I found a lot of gaunt dishevelled-looking creatures, with the cuspidors outnumbering them by ten or tweive, who sat with their feet on their desks, and who slept while the other man ta'ked. They didn't seem to me to represent anything but a second rato bar-room, and I don't care what their politics fire, the senators of the United states, always excepting Mr. L'varts, are a disgrace to the nation at large. I am told they have a bath-room in Ue senate. Most of the members looked as if they needed it. A number of them wore wigs, and the rest of them didn't know how to comb their hair properly. Now, the house of lords is stupid ineffably, undeniably, and po-itively stupid, but it looks dignified and impresses tne people, and tiiat is a great deal more than getting up and calling men liars and poltroons about the force bill. I am very sorry I have seen the senate; it is another illusion gone, and I shall feel no interest in the tuture for the four votes that I control. 1 looked for the female lobbyist, and in vain, but if I had anything up before the senate and wanted "it to pass. I would set up a first-class grogshop as near the capitol os possible. I would have two English bar-maids to manage it, and I would gt my bill through. One senator, who didn't" sleep quite as calmly as the others, had on a brilliant blue tie, and could bo distinguished by that for quite a distance. It was about the only thing I noticed that was calculated to attrac t attention. The woman who isn't married at all has something to be thankful for that is, that she didn't marry a politician. I would be jiggered with a very large J if I would stli my soul to the mob because my husband happened to be senator. The senators' and representatives' wives are tho property of the public on certain afternoons, and tho American public is not slow to take advantage of its opportunities. Women of all torts and conditions; women who are rude, ill-dressed, ill-mannered, and not pleasant to look upon in any way, calmly go to houses where they are not known at all, stare at the hostess and her assistants, partake of her hospitality and then go away and find fault with it. Oh, how 1 adored ray sex when I heard some women down there giving vent to their feelings ! A youngish woman in a red frock trimmed with gold braid and a red hat with a gold pompon upon it, was at a charming reception given by Mrae. Komera, and 1 watched her while she consumed four plates of ice cream, three glasses of punch, a cup of coffee, one of chocolate, some cake and a few sweets, and then heard her murmur to her companion : "I like to go to a hout-e where they have saiads!" I don't know what this woman will have in the future, but I hope she will get a salad with so much tabasco on it that a foretaste will be given her here. Suppose I am a senator from well, from Washington ; say I have got a charming wife, who is pleasant and hospitable, who likes to receive her friends, and who has the womanly w ish to be popular. Now, if she were in her own home and sho were receiving my conetituens because it was politic to do so, I could uudertand a raid tbcing made upon her for a few days; but these people here are not rav constituents, ami, unless they are invited, they have no right to invado my house. The result of the beautiful system that obtains is that the average woman in Washington in political circles is tired out, wearied to death by people she doesn't know, and doesn't want to know, and she becomes a bundle of nerves w hile she gains nothing from it at all. I consider the whole system of social life, so far as receptions are concerned, to be indecent. A man certainly has a right to his house and his wife, and strangers have no right to come in and criticise either the one or tho other. Who is the handsomest of the justices' wives? Probably Mrs. Uray. fche is young, but she had a course of superb social training in her father's Justice Matthew's house, and she knows exactly how to say the pleasant word to a visitor, how to stand well, and how to make a graceful good-by. This is a wonderful art. Mrs. llarlan ii decidedly dignified and attractive, and she impresses one with the fact that she waiifs you to be happy in her house and hat she is glad that you came. But the most delightful house of all is Justice Iiradley's. Miss Bradley receives for her mother, who is a bit of an invalid, and her reception and her good-by an euch as one seldom has; they seem almost like benedictions. The house is an interesting one, brimming over with book?, and j. Justice Bradley himself has them-all at

his finger ends. They are his companions, they are the friends that he receives day after day and night after night, and after seeing him j-ou appreciate how true it is that "the beet tociety is found in pood ! books, for hi9 honor, 'Mr. Justice Bradley, ! is the most courteous gentleman that ever impressed you with the fact that the old school turned out men and well-bred ones, and that the new one turns out boys and cads. I was told, I don't know how true it is, that when Justice Bradley was a boy he used to drive a farm wagon into town, and as he drove he studied the Latin grammar. A man was curious enough to ask him what he was studying for and he said: "So I may be either president of the United States or judge of the supreme court." He has chosen the wisest psrt. The handsomest woman among the senators' wives is Mrs. DavU of Minnesota. She is a large, superbly made woman, with a 6kin like peaches and cream, clear, dark eyes, dark hair and the most beautiful white neck and arms imaginable. She has sufficient knowledge of what is artistic in dress to wear very plain gowns made of rich materials, and on her "at home" day she looked magnificent in black velvet made in princesse fashion, with old rose point outlining edges, whilo a diamond cross rested oa her white neck, "that Jews might ki?s and infidels adore because of the absolute beauty of the woman." The great lack in Washington, just at present, is youth. All the men worth talking to are old, and the young ones growing up do not bid fair to compare with the generation before them. They think so much of their trousers and they dance well, they dance like animated pump-handles. Then, too, there is another thing needed in Washington, and that is one or two first-class dressmakers. From the presidential party down I have never seen such ill-fittiog gowns in all my life. They seem to think lhat if the front is dragged across in a tight fashion and the back loosely wrinkled, that it is all right, and that a ball gown, no matter how dirty it may be, is presentable. The women in New York do drcs3 well, and I cannotexplainto myself why these women in Washington, who come from all parts of the world, should systematically choose to dress ill rather than well. I saw women in storm coats, and one in a gray gown trimmed in gray fur and a gray fur hat on. who had finished up her toilet by wearing white silk stockings and white satin slippers. The periect beauty of a stylish cloth gown seems unknown. The delight of an absolutely fresh bnll-dress is not appreciated, and as fur the decollete bodice, well, I have never before seen such displays of anatomv. I have the greatest admiration possible for a beautiful neck and throat, but when it comes to a young woman with every t one standing up as if it wanted specially to assert its right to vote for the the force bill, and with arms as thin as lead-pencils, and just as shapely, displaying these doubtful charms to the world at large, I am flabbergasted. It is an evidence of the mobt marvelous impertinence in the world, for one look at the mirror outrht to convince this giil that she should use everything posoibie to hide her anatomy for fear that the socif ty of prevention of cruelty to the outside world would interfere. She is a blot upon tho face of the earth, and her number is very great here. I was interviewed the other day, and I liked it. It gave me a chance "to "sass back," eo now I am going to interview myself, and you will see what a diplomat I am. "What do you think of Washington?" I think the terrapin at the Arlington is food fit for the angels." "What do you think of this administration?" "I think and keep on thinking, where do they have their frocks made?" "What do you think of the force bill?" "I think if I were a man, and over twenty-one, I wouldn't be forced to do anything except to make love to pretty girls, and that wouldn't require any forcing with me." "What do vou think of Washington society?" "I think society is a word that covers a multitude of sins sihs of commission, of omission, and of irobs a word which should often be used instead of society." "What do you think is the proper name to suggest for the next president?" "I think it ought to be the name of a man who is a gentleman, well bred, and of fine appearance, whose wife is a lady, not onlv by courtesy, but iii reality, and who will make a dignified, proper representative of the greatest nation in the world. I don't care what his politics are, provided he can do his duty in that station of life in which it has phased tho people of tho United States to place him." What do you think of Washington women?" "I never think of women ; being one of them, I know exactly how difficult the task is." "What political position, if you were a man, do you think you would like to fill?" "I think I should like to be a British minister, because he knows that although the Queen of England is a very o'd woman, she finds it no trouble to give her hand to the ladies who are presented to her; because, while the house of lords is stupid, it is dignified, and because his people have learned as ours have not, that tho divinity that doth hedge about tho ruler really makes the people care more for him and surrounds him with a halo of respect. "This is what I think; fortunately the rest of the world does not agree with her who has no title to their consideration except that the is "Bab." CRITICISING BAB.

A Header Who Is Not EnamoroJ of That Sprightly Writer. To the Editor Sir: In last Saturday's Sentinel an editorial entitled "A Few Beasons" arrested my attention. While reading the article the questions occurred to me,' with what division of news would the writer class "Bab's Letter" on the page following? News of society perhaps? If so, what kind of society? And for what class of readers does Tn k Sentinel consider the contents of those letters harmless, wholesome or even interesting? Does tho printing of that particular kind of news add one mite to the respect and esteem with which the public regards The Sentinel, or insure a welcome one degree warmer at tho many home firesides of which it is a guest? If so, although lbave been a subscriber for many years, I must beg to bo excused from the ranks of its public. To "Bab" I would suggest that she make a slight change in her motto, or rather in the translation thereof. The Latin looks very pretty; tho English, however, has decidedly too many personal pronouns in j it to be "good form. The adding of an "a in the rght place would remove that objection, would reflect credit upon herself for candor and serve aa a warning to the unwary, while it is hardly to be expected that her admiring readers would note the irregularities of the translation. Saoe Brush, Cumberland, Ind., Feb. 3.

THE SWINDLERS OF PARIS.

HAGS HYPNOTIZE AN AMERICAN GIRL. Attoundlng Oatrs In m Parisian Hotel The Extraordinary Artreotures cf Ex Governor McCormlek and a Cracked Vase SLabby Streets and Shops. The astounding adventure of a very well known young woman of this city, says a New York letter, with two diamond venders in Paris has just come to the knowledge of a few of her friends. It was in the Hotel Continental, one pleasant morning not so very long ago, and the young woman in question was enjoying to the full her cotTee-and-roll sleep, as the French say. when something seemed to compel her to emerge from dreamland long enough to open her eyes on the dainty bed chamber. What she saw was enough to make her 6hriek ten times over, but she didn't. Surprise got the better of her horror as she saw leaning over the sides of her bed two old women, hideous, yellow-skinned and hook-nosed, very eager old women withal, each holding a handful of diamonds in her withered palm, and each pouring from her skinny lipB an incoherent torrent of supplications which seemed half threats that la belle Americaino would buy her vcres. How did they get there? Who were they? What did they want? And oh, where in the name of wonderful Faris, even, did they get so many brilliants? If there were other questions than these which rushed through her still semi-somnolent brain, the young woman did'nt allow them to aiarm her. It was still the nineteenth century in the fin de siecle cardial, even if these harpies did look like ghou's out of the "Arabian Nights." At last she managed to understand, each of her hideous hags etill clutching at one cf her wrists as they proffered the gems, that she had the honor of receiving a visit from two of the agonts of a certain well known diamond 1 ouse in the Rue de S. and that the bargains they were then and there offering her were so very seductive that she couldn't resist buying, even had she nr,t already as many diamonds as she could use. What is more, she began to lose the feeling of intense horror at Ivor surroundings and aversion to the physical presence of the Harpy-like diamond brokers. She was certainly growing wider and wider awake, she thought, and yet at tho same moment she seemed to be dozing back into a blissful, languorous haze, throii2h which the fairies appeared ollering her the treasures of Golconda at her own terms. How could she help accepting such generous kindness, she thought, and presto, while one of the liazs o'dered her a pae of legal looking paper the other put a pen into her right hand. She signed, and they bowed themselves swiftly and silently out, leaving a handful of gems on the bed. When the young American maid came in five minutes later she found her mis-tre.-s in tears, indeed almost in convulsions. Wben she came to herself and decribed what the hideous old diamond merchants had done, her maid assured her that she had been hypnotized, and advised that the police be called in. But, arter all, there didn't seem to have been any great amount of harm done. None of the young woman's money was missing from her portemonnaio on the dressing table, and her jewel case in the tray of her trunk had not been tampered with. Beside all that, there was tho handful of diamonds the hypnotic hags had left on the bed. Kxaminrdion showed quickly enough that the stones were vellow, uneven and faulty. The stamped" paper in which they were wrapped bore the name of a diamond house of which everybody has heard. It was easy enough to go and explain that the young American lady didn't really want the diamonds after all; that in the dim light of her bedroom, when they were so mysteriously exhibited to her without even a "by your leave," they had seemed much handsomer than when viewed later on in the calm, clear sunlight, and that, beside and above all, it was au outrage demanding legal redress that two of their disreputable looking old diamond venders should force their way into the bedroom of a guest at the Hotel Continental and intrude upon her privacy so shockingly, to say the hast of it. This was all done without delay, and without other result than the calm announcement by the Frenchman that his agents had received from mademoiselle a written receipt for the stones, with an explicit promise to pay 15,000 francs a month lor them until their total price, 43,000 francs, had been paid, that a bargain was a bargain, and mademoiselle, having bought the stones and received them, must pay for them. "The trade is made, v'ln!" and that was the end of it! The hotel people expressed polite surprise that anv on should have been able to enter mademoiselle's apartment w hile she slept and while her maid was in earshot. If mademoiselle faid so, they believed her, of course, but as the lock showed no signs of having been forced and as no robbery or personal outrage had been committed, while they regretted the whole altair, what could they do? Mabel Jordan, for th'i fair American was no other than this well known woman of the world and ex-actress, next consulted Vice-Consul General Hooper. Miss Jordan is a sister of Ed and Charles Thorne, and ft daughter of Mrs. John Chamberlin. Mr. Hooper was enraged at such extraordinarily debased and dangerous methods of plundering his fellow countrymen. That some hypnoticinfluence had been exerted by the two old women on his fair young countrywoman there could be little doubt, since the reaction had left her in a dangerous condition of nervous collapse. Yet, as no personal violence had been offered her, no money or property taken from her and no direct threats made to her, it was exceedingly difficult to see how to take helpful action in the case. An eminent lawver was retained at a cost of 2,500 francs, and,after racking bis brains for a wav out of the bargain, alter ac knowledging the hopelessness of securing redress for the hypnotic assault and insulting intrusion, he discovered that the two particular old women in question had no license to peddlo diamonds, and that, therefore, the sale made through them w as null and void, and the promise to pay 43,000 francs must be instantly returned to his client on her surrender of the diamonds. All or which was done. . When asked about this extraordinary affair, a 'friend of the vice-consul and of Miss Jordan, who is also connected bv deli cate ties with the diplomatic life in Washington and Paris, said; "The story is strictly true, astounding as it may sound, and I have the honor of a personal acquaintance with the lady who was the victim of this unheard of Ewindle. I can

not. of course, divulge her identity or My

more than that complaint was made to the consul general's office as you have described, and that after paving a lawyer SoOO the young lady was able to escape the clutches of her strange persecutors, l no lefenseof hypnotic influence made in tne Byraud-Bompard case is surpassed in romantic interest bv the circumstances of this absolutely unique diamond swindle." Hie unpleasant notoriety in wnicn mo Bompard-Kyraud affair has brought hvjnotism naturally dissuades this lady's friends from the slightest publicity in the affair. "Strange as the use of hvpnotic arts to entrap wealthy strangers may seem," thijj gentleman continued, "it is of a piece with the whole money getting cra7e which has given Paris tho dry rot and has converted the capital of the world into a city of sharks and sweaters. There is an astonishing, a universal air of decay pervading the entire city. I have been familiar with Paris since ISoT, and have visited it at not infrequent intervals. The change wrought in twenty years of the republic is beyond belief. There is no longer any society worthy the name ; that must be sought in the 1'uropean capitals where there are courts London, Vienna, Merlin, St. Feteisburg. The once wonderful sne:tacle of the Parisian streets is old, shabby, played out The hotels are poor, perhaps the poorest in any great city in the world, while the restaurants continue to be tho best in the world. The theaters are dirty and tawdry. The shops have nothing to sell that can't be bought in other cities to better advantage, except, perhaps, women's clothes.dresses and pictures. The Parisian on the boulevard is no longer well dressed and merry ; even the famous Parisienne has become slovenly. "The French beati of today wears a hat and boots such as old I loth n might have dug out of his dust heap. There is no longer any style about him, and even the Bois de Boulogne is decayed ! The magnificent avenues and buildings of the second empire have cheapened and run to seed. The whole race of Frenchmen has deteriorated. As Jules Simon said in a public address two months sgo, there is no longer any patriotism in Paris ! The tredominant passion is gain ! The nation ias abandoned everything else and gone to money-getting. "The 'war of revenge ?' It is a battle of dollars. The people of Paris no longer pant for revanche on the Prussians; unless it be they want the gold of the Prussians, and of" all the world besides. The universal passion is for the people's money. And one of the best illustrations of the spirit of national greed is the following experience of ex-Governor liichard McCormick, now of Long Island, well known as a public man as we 1 as a gentleman of wide travel and cultivated tastes: "In the appartments a louer which Governor McCormick took when he established himself in Paris, on the occasion of his latest visit, wera a number of the gilded and epidder-legged chairs so familiar in the average salon, several antique sofas, wonderful old beds with quaint and musty hangings, and one particular tall, imposing and magnificent looking vase, which had some mysterious story of roysl ownership and princely intrigue attached to it, and was apparently valued by the owner at considerably more than all the rest of the household appurtenances, including the American tenants. "After a while Governor McCormick got tired of so much decaying splendor, and gave up the apartments. Alter ciphering for hours to see how many candles he hud lighted, how many times he had raised the window and "slept in the bed and sat on the chairs which was always a perilous proceeding the bndlord iigured out a bill as long as his skinny arm and calmly added otHX) francs to it for damages to the royal Dresden vase ! Sure enough, when ttie vase was examined, a deep and Ions crack was discovered in its enameled 6ides, and the grief-stricken landlord vowed this ruined it forever in his eye, royal ownership, princely intrigue and all! Jn vain Mr. McCormick protested that neither he nor any member of his household had ever so much as laid a finger on the va-e, that they had hardly looked at it, indeed, except to steer clear of it ; lhat it wasn't worth L1000 auyway, and that as he hadn't hurt his precious old crockery he wasn't going to pay for it! "The Frenchman bowed, smiled and protested that he must have his money or the law. And Parisian law, us shown when two American ladies were baei's.sly arrested at the suit of their dressmaker some time ago, seems to be made for the citien shopkeepers the stranger be hanged. There was no uso permitting the law to take its course. But an iuspi ration came to the tenant. He defended tho suit on the ground that the crack in the vase had been make long before he rented the apartments. And to establish this claim, which didn't declare the vae worthless, or the damage inconsiderab'e, but simply maintained as it were an alibi, he got an expert to come on from Dresdenand testify ail about the vase, when it was made, when the crack was made and all the rest of it. And he won the suit, for the expert testimony showed clearly that instead of being a few weeks the crack in the vase was ten or liiteen years old. But it cost a great deal more to defend the rascally French landlord's suit than it would have done to pay his bill. And the beauty of it all is that the Johnny Crapaud had been soaking that crack onto the bid of ever so many Americans already, and has got it on tap now probably, waiting for fresh prey. "One no longer feels the comforts of life in Paris, much less the elegances. The hotels aro vilely furnished with feather beds and tallow candles; the lifts go up one Moor in ten minutes if they work well, and complaints to the management meet with no response, eince the hotels are controlled by syndicates and your money is what they want, not your satisfaction. The huissier confronts the mental eye constantly. If you get run over by a carriage in the street, you, and not the driver, get arrested." A DEAF MUTE'S STORY. Senator Hoar Tells tite Most rathetle Story He Kver Ile-tnl. Washington Star "I have heard and read many pathetic stories," said Senator Hoar, "but none of them ever awoke so much sad sympathy as one which Prof. Gallaudet related recently. The professor has a favorite pupil a little deaf luuto boy, who is exceptionally bright, Mr. Galludet asked him if he knew the 6tory of George Washington and the cherry tree. With his nimble lingers the little one said he did, and then he proceeded to repeat it. The gesticulations continued until the boy had informed the professor of the elder Washington's discovery of the mutilated tree and of his quest for the mutilator. 'When George's fttlier asked him who hacked his favorite cherry tree,' signaled the voiceless child, 'Georpe rut his hatchet in his left hand' 'Stop,' interrupted the professor. 'Where do yon get your authority for saving he took the hatchet in his "left . hand?' 'Why responded the boy (who knew nothing of speech) 'he needed his right hand to tell his father that ho cut the tree. "

HUMOUS 0FTHEFI10XTIER.

A SQUAW AND HER CHILDREN KILLED A. Icd Committed Vy Men Who Wear tb Uniform of aa Honored Country Unarmed Victim of the Rifle A. Disgraceful Affair. The correspondent of the Washington ftrtr, writine from the scenes of the recent Indian war, gives an account of one of the most disgraceful scenes ever witnessed in a civilized count ry. He gays: War, bsrbario at the best, is legitimate, bnt there can be no possible excuse for assassins tion. Today I wltueised the last ictne in the earthly history of four of God's ersstures. Ther irtre Jadians and tbry lacked much. Education ha 1 done noihicg lor them and the so'tening touch of religion ba l not smoothed tl -eir way to eternity, but they had souls, and those who killed them as the assassin kills ara murderers of the most villainous description. No one who looked upon that scene can ever foreet it, and not a man or woman acquainted with the facts but regards the bloody circumstances with anything save horror. An Indian woman, comely in li.'e, with her three children were bratally murdered at about lbs time of the Wounded Knee fight and within three miles of the battlefield. Yesterday the bodies were discovered by an Indian policeman; today the remains of the unfortunate quartet were placed in the bosom of mother earth. After describing how a srjuad of soldiers, accompanied by the correspondent and other citizens, was sent out to bury the victims, the correspondent continues: Twelve miles from the agency was the spot to which oar guides led us, the place where lied Hawk, an Indian policeman, had yesterday found the bodies of bis sister and her children, lied Hawk, the scou. s, Interpreter r rankjWhite, and myself rods ahead of the column and arrived there some minute in advance, leaving the main trail and oar destination over a bridle path that narrowed at times to a dangerously insufficient footing even for a careful horse. Ked Hawk went alone to the little patch of I ruh in which lay those he loved, the remainderof the advance gaard considerately halting on the bank above the bloody scene until it might be regarded as proper for them to approach and sea for themselves what a cowardly deed had been done. Oh, it was a pitiful sight. Mother and children had never been separated during life and in death they were Dot divided. Prone and with the right tide of her fare frozen to the solid earth was the squaw " Walks-Carry in g-the-ld." Snow almost covered au extended arm and filled the cresses in the little clothing she wore. Piled np alongside of her were her little ones, the youngest with nothing to cover its ghastly nakedness but a calf buflalo robe, which is bftfore tue as I write. The positions of the children were changed somewhat from tuoHs in which they were found, the discovsrer patting them together that he might cover them with a blanket. The first body to be examined was that of girl about nine years of age. In the horrible moment preceding dissolution she had drawn her arms up and placed them acin her face a pretty face, say those who knew her and aa the features molded themselves on the bony arms and froze her visage become frightfully distorted. The black bead neckless was embedded in the flesh of her throat. This victim was killed by being shot through the right lung, the hall entering high in her breast and making its exit at the right of ber back, near the waist. Her sister less than seven years old waa almost naked, fclie, two, was facing the murderers wben they too It such deadlj aim and, l.ke the other girl, she had tried with her arms to shut out the tight of the unwavering rifle muzzles. The ball entered her right breast, went through the right lung downward and enme out near the (pin and just above the lef kidney. Seventy grains of powder drove 500 grains of lead through the brain of the boy a sturdy built twelve-year-old. Of all the horrible wounds ever made by bullets, none could ba more frightfully etiective than that which forerer extinguished the light of life in thit boy. The wound of entrance waa on the upper part of the right tide of the head; the wound ot exit was beneath the right eye, tearing open the cheek and leaving a bloody hole aa large at a dollar. There must have been at leatt a few seconds of agony before death came, for the right arm wat thrown up to and acrosa the forbead and the nneers of the left hand ttillened in death while clutching the long, jet-black hair near the powder-burned oriSce in his skulL And the mother. Gentle hands loosened the frosty bands which bound her to the soil and Cngert which tingled with the hot flow of blood from indignant hearts tenderly removed from ber flattened and distorted face the twigs and leaves and dirt which in th death agony had been unlaid in the yielding features. Her strong arms were bare and her feet were drawn up as the natural consequences of a wound which commenced at the right shoulder and ended in the lower abdominal region. From the wounded shoulder a sanguinary flood had poured unt I her worn and dirty garments were crimson dyed; the breasts from which her littla ones had drawn their'earliest sustenance were discolored with the gory stream. It waa an awful sight; promotive of sickening thought and heartrending memories. Who were these murderers? There is where the shame comes in. They were and etill are soldiers in the army of the United States: "things" who wear the honorable blue and claim the protection of a flag under which women and children enjoy more rights and ara accorded greater privileges than man gives to the weaker aud the younger in any other part of the world. The chain of evidence is complete, even to the identity of the individual! who committed the deed. Indian eyes found moat of the testimony; military precision supplied the rest. The lint link wat the finding of an empty prinslield cartridge shell near the dead bodies. liad the kill.Dg been done by Indians and had the Indians thrown out the useless shells they would have been of the Winchester variety. Upon the trail near the little patch of bushes were the tracks of eharp ihod horses. No Indiau'a hore wears shoes. The tracks were made on the Cay following the battle, for they were in the direction of Wounded Knee, aud snow had ccrered them up ia places. On the day of the battle no troops moved in that direction; on the day after some did. Then came the tnow. In tht banks 'on which the villains lay down to pour a plunging volley into the bodies of the refugees, who were about two or tares feet below them, are the marks of boot toes. Oat in the road and partially covered by enow was a little doll. String the testimorg together and you will find that on the 30th day of December, this woman and her three children were en their way to the agency. Tbey had escaped the slaughter which on the previous day had included the husband and father, in whom they were most interested. When near this pkes in which their bodies were found tbey saw the coming soldiers, and it was most natural that they should seek the shelter of this half acre or ao of thick brush. Hat the soldiers saw them and neither tex nor helplessness could eave the footsore wanderers. Unarmed and without protection of any description tbey were wantonly and knowingly slain. Not one of the men who fired those shots can tay that he wat unaware of the character of bit victim, lor each wound showt that the rifle muzzles were within a few ftet of the person at whom they were aimed. Hair and clothing are not burned by the explosion of a cartridge which it in a gun a hundred yardt away.froni the object that U Lit burnt powder only flies a short distance and its flame travels but a couple of feet at moat. (Jen. Miles knows what soldiers passed that way that morning. They were few id number, and he can easily ascertain who the wretches were. What ia he going to do about it? Gen. Miles and also the Seventh regiment of baby butchers have left the Pine Kidge agency without even an investigation, much les a punishment, having preceded their departure. By a railroad collision some of that regiment were killed and wounded afterward. Providence eeems to be against , them

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