Marshall County Independent, Volume 1, Number 28, Plymouth, Marshall County, 26 April 1895 — Page 6

OHOST OF SHERLOCK HOLMES.

.When Sherlock Holmes, ingenious man, pursued Lis strange career, ,TV studied his adventures with a sympathy sincere, 'Although in time his victories monotonous became, Because his base opponents never won a single game. lie caught his latest criminal, and then at last he died; "We mourn him, we lament him, but its time he went," we cried ; 'Ah, foolish words! Soon after we regretted him, dismayed To find he'd left a family to carry on the trade. They swarm in every magazine, each journal with them teems, Detecting obvious criminals by very obvious schemes, Adapting to their purposes devices long ago Invented by the master haud of great Gaboriau. Their wisdom, too, in marvelous; the mud upon your boots Informs them to a penny what your balance is at Coutts: They know your mother's maiden name, what train you traveled by. And if you've had lumbago from the color of your tie! Yes! Sherlock Holmes is dead and gone; but still in other shapes TFe meet the old detective whom no criminal escapes; Th hateful "Strange Occurrence" or ".Mysterious Affair" Still, still infests the magazines and drives us to despair. Oh, ghost of Mr. Sherlock Holmes, please mercifully kill These shameless imitators of your transcendent skill. Or haunt the homes of editors, and pointedly suggest That fictionary criminals might be allowed a rest! St. James's Budget. SUSAN ANN'S METHOD. HEN Susan Ann Hilton married J o r a m Xellums she thought she was doing b I g things, for Joram was very forehanded and there wasn't a thriftier farmer in all Bquan Neck neighborhood than he was. Of course, people said Joram Xellums was so close that a dollar couldn't be dragged out of his pocket with a team of cattle; but Susan Ann said that was because they hadn't so much as he had and didn't know how to accumulate. A far as Susan Ann was concerned 6he was an old maid who took in sewing and made enough by it to dress herself well and live in the only hoiel la the town of Squnn Neck. It wasn't rauch of a hotel, as hotels go these days, but it skeltered Miss Hilton very comfortably, and being an independent womau who liked to have her own way coming and going, she found it eminently satisfactory. It cost her possibly as much ns $2 a mouth more to live there than if she had gone to Mrs. Wigginses' boarding house, but Susan Ann was not close when it came to her own comfort and convenience. It was a great lift to her, no doubt, when she married Joram Xellums, for now she was to be mistress of her own house and the finest farm in the country. Many a younger woman than she ivoukl have been glad to have become Mrs. Xellums, ami it cannot bo denied that on the first Sunday that the new Mrs. Xellums walked down the aisle of the church she carried her head a few notches higher than the meek and lowly doctrines taught in the edilice every Sunday really required of her. That tvas the woman in her, however, and it may be excused under the circumstances. The happy couple went away on a bridal tour to be gone two weeks, and It "was a sore disappointment to Susan Ana when Joram cut it just half in two, giving as an excuse that the business f the farm had very unexpectedly called him back. Like an obedient wife she accepted his explanation and his promises that they would go to the city as soon as the crops were laid by, and they would stay there as long as he cared to stay. For a month after their return Susan Ann laid great store by her exalted position in Squan Neck society, but Bomehow there was an ever present lack of opportunity to use it to excess. Joram was busy, or Joram was tired, or Joram had something else that prerented, or forty dozen other obstacles with Joram back of them interfered with her plans. Thus a year ran on, and by that time Susan Ann was doing kitchen work ami house work and there was some indication that she would be doing the washing next, with a fair prospect that tailoring for Joram and one or two of the farmhands would bo added to hcr other duties. Occasionally Joram had something to say about economy, but he never accused her of extravagance. "You ain't very savin'. Susan Ann," he said to her one day, "but I'm williu' to agree that you ain't a great spender." About this time the fact began to dawn upon iter gradually that there was a difference in the manner of Mrs. Ts'ellums' everyday life and that of Miss ßusan Ann Hilton. She would wonder sometimes If making dresses and getting paid for them, with the privilege of spending her earnings as she pleased, was not In some particulars almost as satisfying as doing two women's work for Joram Xellums without pay. At the end of two years she dbcoyered that the wedding clothes that she had provided herself with had come to tho ragged edge, and a new dress at least, and bonnet were absolutely necessary. 60 when Joram sat down to breakfast

one morning In a good humor, for the breakfast was a good one, done entirely by herself, she told him that she wanted something to wear, and gave him a little memorandum of what was needed. "Jerooshy, Susan Ann, he exclaimed, "I can't stand this. I've always said you wasn't much on savin, but this is upsettln everything. Why, what you've got down here will cost as much as $31.75. "What If It does, Joram," she replied amiably, "haven't I worked for It? You haven't bought me anything since we got married." "And I ain't bought myself anything, have I?" he asked after the manner of the kind of man he was. When breakfast was over Susan Ann was not much nearer the desired goal than before, and she was In a bad

MADE HUDE REMARKS ABOUT THE CLOTHES HE WORE. humor besides, with an addition in the shape of a disappointment In Joram she had been trying for a long time to stave off. At the end of a week he gave her 510 and told her that he could not spare another cent. "You must remember, Susan Ann," he said, "that I ain't a millionaire. And even if I was I wouldn't encourage extravagance In a woman. It's born In 'em anyway, and if they git half a chanco with money they never know when to stop letting go." Three months after this lecture from Joram, she got another when the necessities of the case drove her to him to get a pair of shoes. Then Susan Ann sat down to think over tho situation, and it is safe to say that she did some very tall thinking. Some women might have wept, but Susan Ann was no weeper. If she had tears to shed, she did not intend to shed them in a cause of this kind. Something harder than tears was the remedy and Susan Ann was not long in getting at it. That night at supper Joram didn't like the coffee. It was more like beans, he said, but Susan Ann hadn't much to saj, and Joram thought she was sullen because he had talked judiciously to her on the subject of extravagance. The bad coffee continued a week and then Joram noticed that the meat was not as good nor was the bread, ns it had once been. He complained, but Susan Ann hadn't much to say. On the following Sunday when they started out to church Joram thought Susan Ann was a sight to behold, but he didn't say anything for fear she might come back at him about the dress and the shoes. it was tho first time since they bad been married that Joram had not felt a pride in the appearance of Mrs. Xellums and it made him think just a little. On the way home he spoke of It and suggested that rs he had made a little something on wheat the week before maybe he could let her have that money for a new dress. "Indeed, no, Joram," she replied. "I don't want It I only thought I did. I can get along just as well with what I have at present and we can save that Every little counts, you know, Joram, and we are too poor to go to needless expense." He insisted mildly that she should take the money, but it was not diliieult for her to convince him that it was extravagant and he said no more about it The dark bread and the weak coffee and the bad meat continued and there were added other thiugs less attractive to tho palate than formerly, and )ne day when he wanted to know why she did not uso tho meat in tho smoke house that he knew was as good as any that had ever been cured, and he prided himself on curing meat, she surprised him by putting quite a sum of money down by his plate and telling him she had sold it for a good price because she thought It was more economical to eat less expensive meat, Joram began to talk, but she was so pleasant and practical in her arguments that he hadn't the heart to argue and gave up to her. He also put the money In his pocket One day when he went Into town on hi3 wagon some boys made remarks about the clothes he wore and when ho told Susan Ann about it and said maybe he had ought to get something better, f IVCA l.-v JTTi. ' ff If 1 vr l.v t. IIU SUIVEHEL) IlEFor.E THE 11 EC OF liCBUlbll. she flew all to pieces and gave the naughty boys such a raking over that Joram was sorry ho had said anything about it, and went on wearing the same old clothes. A dozen or more times during that winter Joram sat shivering before a miserable fire because Susan Ann insisted that fuel was too expensive, and that they must save until they had plenty to Indulge In luxuries on. Day by day the table became poorer and poorer; the good china was put away and the old cracked kind brought out; tho little silver things that had been given them for wedding presents were locked up, and Susan Ana was

cutting down expenses In a way that nobody would have expected of her. Several nights Joram almost froze for lack of cover, but Susan Ann was cheerful and told him that newspapers were warmer than blankets If he would only make up his mind to think so. He kicked, however, on this, and was only pacified when she gave him $J0 that she had received for the fruit she had put up and didn't care to ise. lie thought It was extra stock that she had, but later when he wauted some and she told him she had sold It all, and there wasn't anything for dessert now but dried apples, Joram became rather demonstrative, and it was all her good temper could do to keep him from boiling over. All this time Joram was doing some thinking as well as Susan Ann was, and between shivering at nights and half starving during the day, he was getting in a condition to go to a lunatic asylum. One day the final crash arrived. When Joram came In from work the big easy chair he had paid $25 for in a freak of extravagance Just before he was married was gone and with it all the carpets. "What does this mean. Susan Ann?" lie asked, trying to appear cool. "An you house-cleaning?" "Why, Joram," laughed Susan Ann, "how you talk. You know this ain't house-cleaning time." "Well, where's the chair and the carrets, then?" "Here they are, Joram." And she gave him $100. "Besides the money 1 got a cheaper chair and cheap carpets In their place, and they'll be here In the morning. Now go on and wash your face and hands; supper's ready." Joram obeyed ard went to supper; and it was the meanest supper he erer sat down to. That evening ho shivered before the lire of filack and rubbish, and that night ho had too little cover, but he could hear the money jingling In his pockets. At breakfast he appeared looking as blue as an ague patient and shaking like two. "Susan Ann," he paid, "I'm going to town this morning. You haven't sold the buggy yet, have you" "Xo, Joram," she answered, "but there's a man coming to look at it today. We don't need it. and it costs a mint of money to keep a carriage, anyhow." "What time's the m&n coming, Susan Ann?" he asked submissively. "He said he'd be here at 10 o'clock." Joram Xellums gulped as if something were choking hira, and he looked at Susan Ann. "Susan Ann," he said slowly, "here's a chock for $1,000, and you can tell the man that's coming to go to the devil. I'm going to take you to town In tho buggy, and we are going to buy every-

THE WOKvT ITTER HE EVER SAT DOWN TO thing we want and have a nice time, and when we come back I'm going to make you cashier of the business and you can do as you darn please. Economy's all right, Susan Ann, but there's a limit to it that somehow I never see before until you showed It to me." Then it was that Susan Ann broke down and cried, because she thought tho occasion appropriate, and the tears that fell from her face fell upon the face of the check in her hand, but Joram actually laughed and kicked up his heels like a boy. Free Press. The Great AYolf's Cunning. There came under my observation an incident that will illustrate I.obo as an aggressor of diabolical cunning. These wolves had at least one pursuit, and apparently not at all connected with their appetite for food; It was stampeding and killing sheep. The sheep are usually kept in flocks of from 1,000 to 0,000 under one or more shepherds. At night they are gathered In the most sheltered place available, and a herdsman sleeps on each hide of tho Üock te give additional protection. Sheep are such senseless creatures that they are liable to be stampeded at night by the veriest trille, but they have deeply ingrained in their nature one strong weakness to follow their lead. And this the shepherds turn to good account by putting half a dozen goats In the flock of sheep. The latter recognize the superior iutelligor.ee of their bearded companions, and when a night alarm occurs they crowd around them and usually are thus saved from a stampede. But it was not always so. Ono night two Perico shepherds were. alarmed by an onset of wolves. Their flocks huddled around the goats, which, being neither fools nor cowards, stood their ground and were bravely defiant; but alas for them, no common wolf was heading this invasion. Ixbo, the weir-wolf, knew as well as the shepherds that the goats were the moral force of the flock, so, hastily running over the backs of the densely packed sheep, he fell upon these leaders, slew them all in a few minutes, aud soon had the luckless sheep stampeding In a thousand different directions. Lover "You are getting prettier every day." Sweet Girl-Must now I am living on brown bread and water to Improve my complexion." "How long can you keep that up?" "Oh, Indefinitely." "Then let's get married." New York Weekly.

BUfiAXT TO BE TRIED.

HELD FOR THE MURDER O.MARION WILLIAMS. Brief Story of One of the Most Horrible Tragedies in the History of Crime Four Victims of a San Francisco Fiend. Bodies Hacked to Pieces. W. H. Theodore Du rant, of San Francisco, medical student and assistant Sun day school superintendent, is to stand i trial for the murder of Miss Marian Wil- j Hams in Emanuel Baptist Church library Friday nipht, April 12. The coroner's jury has found that the young woman came to her death by his hands. There has been no more sensational murder mystery in the criminal annals of the Golden (Jato city than the case of William Henry Theodore Duraut. charged with the double murder of Blanche Lament and Minnie Williams, against whom is the suspicion of having stabbed to death a young: drug dork named Eugene Ware. The mystery and sensationalism surrounding the case are heightened by the disappearance of two other women known to be acquainted with the alleged murderer, a Mrs. Forsythe aud Miss Agnes iiiii. While the police have accumulated a mass of direct and circumstantial evidence against Durant, the prisoner coolly denies his guilt and claims that he will prove an alibi. If it shall be shown that Durant is the murderer of Blanche Lamont and Minnie Williams the strange case of "Dr. .lekyll and Mr. Hyde" will have been outdone in real life and will ! have furnished the strongest kind of additional proof that "truth is stranger than tiction." So far as outward appearances go Durant has been a model young man. who neither drank nor smoked; the assistant superintendent of a Sunday school, the librarian of a church, of gentle demeanor and Christian spirit. Such he appeared to be to those whose good opinion ho sought, but some of his associates say that in private he was blasphemous and foul-mouthed; that he practiced all the vices he pretended to abhor and that his P. . . iff wy R v v .v: Tin: mi i:ni:r.Ki oini.s. remarks about women were particularly offensive. It is a case that has no parallel except the Whitoohapol horrors which startled London and all the world a few years ago. and the case of Jack the Kipper lacks, so far as known, many of the psychological features of the case of Theodore Durant. for there is nothing to show that .J a ok the Kipper pretended to lead an exemplary Christian life while cojnmitting his atrocious butcheries. The combination of saint and fiend in one human being deepens the mystery of the Emanuel Church murders, and has aroused universal interest in the case. "Work of a Fiend. The developments of a week have been sullieient to cause the greatest oxeitement. First came the finding of the nude body of Marion Williams, a young girl who had been missing since the day before, in a closet off tho library of the church. It was terribly mutilated. The finding of this body, startling as it was in itself, gave the police an idea which they were not slow in working on. The close friend of Miss Williams, Blanche Lamont. had been missing for more than two weeks and a search for her had been in vain. But upon the ghastly discovery in the closet a thorough and systematic examination of the building was decided upon. Away up in the belfry her bodywas at length found, nude like that of her friend, anil also horribly mutilated. The clothing which was torn in shreds from the body had been tucked into corners and holes in the dusty old belfry. In the two .weeks during which it had lain there a heavy coating of dust had settled like a shroud over the body. Upon this discovery the excitement in the city, which was intense before, knew no bounds. Other Developments. To follow the various steps by whi-h the police advanced to the point of arresting Durant upon suspicion of having been the murder would be as unnecessary as it would be tiresome, lie had hardly been arrested, however, when it seemed apparent to the authorities that if he were guilty of these crimes he must also have committed two others which were causing the detectives a deal of trouble. A few months ago a young druggist named Ware was found murdered at the foot of his stairs. He was a very close friend of Durant. This was one of the mysteries. The other was the sudden disapW. H. T. PCRAXT. pea ranee about a week before the discovery of the bodies of the girls of a woman named Forsythe. She was a friend of Durant and was last seen in his company. So much for the first chapter, that of the mystery. The Recond is not a whit less sensational. The Victims. The two girls were close friends, as before said. They were also friends of Durant Mrs. Ada Forsythe was aho a

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member of the Emanuel Baptist Church, and although her body has not been found after diligent search, it is believed she met a similar fate as that which befell the two girls. She was seen with Durant about a week ago; since then she has been missing. Druggist Eugene Ware was ono of Durant's 'losest friends. It is now said that the latter been me jealous of him on account of some girl, and that this was the reason for his murder. Here are some of the most damaging features of the evidence against Durant: W are was stabbed eighteen times by a

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TIIK KM AXt'KI. RATTIST III Kdl. man who held his throat with his right hand and used a dagger or knife with the left. Blanche Lamont was strangled by a left-handed man. Durant is noted for his dexterity in using his left hand as well as his right. hi the day cf the disappearance of Blanche Lamont she whose body was afterwards found in the belfry Durant was observed by the organist coming down from the loft in a most excited and nervous state, lie explained that he had been up there fixing some electric wires and had been overcome by the gas. Three of Blanche Lamont's rings were received through the mail by her aunt on the day her body was found. On the paper in which they were wrapped was Durant's name. In an overcoat pocket in Durant's dressing room at home was found Miss Williams' pocketbook. These are some of the links in the chain which is being forged about Durant. MINT SHORTAGE S90.000. Something Over Th::t Amount Makes the Total of the Loot. Superintendent Mason of the Government assay otlice in New York has boon in full charge of the mint scandal inves tigation at Carson, Nov.. for two weeks, and it is understood that he has completed his investigation and forwarded his A reiiort to Wahin:r'X. . 'IM. . ... 1 .i lie loiai :JJhsJ ' lts witn gold oricKs. r It is understood. also, that his report si-r r. aoams. will exonerate entirely the present administration from any wrong doing. The only hs discovered since the present administration came into power was one bar of gold valued at about i?SH, and there is good reason to suppose that this was taken by a part of the same gang that manipulated the goldbrick trick under the other administration. Just as soon as those discoveries of fraud were reported to the Treasury Department, which was about the middle of February, three of the shrewdest detectives in the secret service were sent immediately to Carson City. They wen not long in getting on the track of the offenders. They discovered that several of them were still employed in the mint, while the chief culprit had left the service. They then set about locating h:m. It was found that he had gone to San Franci.-eo. where he will be arrested at once. His arrest has only been delayed in order to secure further evidence, and if he should make the slightest attempt to leave San Francisco he would le apprehended immediately. Thompson McDaniels, a veteran of the Black Hawk war, died Friday at Kansas City, aged 1H) years. Jagolkowsky is the depressing name of an anarchist recently sentenced in Europe to penal servitude for life. Albert tJeorge Sandt man. the new Governor of the Bank of England, was born in lS'W. He is a wine merchant. Li Hung Chang is said to be gaining flesh. It's too late for him to turn the scales in favor of China, however. The Kev. Otis Wing, the oldest Baptist minister in America, is seriously ill at his home in Newton Junction, N. II. Dr. Dwight, author of "Man and the Glacial lVriod," says that man has not been on the earth more than S,(KH years. Zola lias completed the lirst sketch of his novel on Koine, but the book will not bo ready for publication til! next January. William E. Gladstone has announced that he cannot undertake to 'ither read or answer any letters that may he addressed to him. Tho Emperor of Germany, it is said, has decided to honor Bismarck by having his head stamped on tho future issue of German coins. Sir William Harcourt, the English Chancellor of the Exchequer, has gone back to the use of manuscript when delivering his speeches. Shenlaro Yokozuka, a Japanese student of the New York Evening High School, has been awarded the Tiffany gold medal for the greatest improvement in drawing from antique cast.

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PliB Swinburne Is fifty-eight years old, li five feet high, and has a ghastly face and a head of unkempt hair. Grant Allen began life in Kingston, Ontario (once called Frontenac). with three Christian names, Charles Grant Blairflndie, but wisely dropped two of them. He published his lirst novel. under the Pseudonym of "Cecil Tower." Mrs. K. L. Stevenson asks all persons having letters from her husband to send them or copies of them to tho British Museum, that she may select such as should lo published, and gives notice that the pub'.l a; ion of any letters without the consent of the executors Ii illegal. Although Stanley J. Wey man has only recently become a popular idol in romantic literature. It is reported that h received thirty thousand dollars in royalties from his publisher last year. Mr. Wey man Is a man of thrift and cf quiet tastes. The novelist is seen very rarely in London society, lie prefm life in the country. Count Tolstoi refused a large sum offered toj him by an American publisher for his last story. The Neva, a Kussian illustrated weekly, then offered him $.Vk) a page for the exclusive right to publish it as a serial. This, too, h refused, and made a free gift of thy manuscript to the Severney Yestuik, a Kussiau monthly magazine. "Books Fatal t Their Authors" is the t!tle of a forthcoming work. Its author explains that the term fatal doe not mean in all cases that the writer pa hi for his venture with his life. About two hundred literary martyrs are recorded. -among them being such names as Galileo in science, Defoe in satire, Keats in poetry. Du Maurler receives large numbers of letters from American women who write that they have read "Trilby" an l feel sure that there must be a strong bond of mystical friendship bet'.veeDu Maurier and themselves. Many or them add the cheerful information that they propose to go to England next summer and will look him up. A curious book soon to be published simultaneously in England and America Is entitled "As Others Saw Him." It is written by an eminent Jewih scholar, whoso name is withheld, and is an attempt to portray the founder of Christianity as he appeared to the most competent Jewish observers, especially the Pharisees of his own day. According to the Westminster Gazette, the publishers of Spurgeon's two thousand three hundred and nineiy-six sermons have sold altogether nearly a hundred million of them. Tlny are kept in sheet form, in lon lines of cupboards, in a hirge cellar Iii Paterliostor Square, so that n supply of any particular discourse can be got out at or CO. About a fifth of the total number has; gone abroad to America and Australia chiefly. Of Spurgm's books the sale remains fairly steady. DEATH SEEMED NEAR. But the Presentiment Turned Out to lie False. Gen. Gordon, a distinguished Southern veteran, recently tuld of an experience during the war in the Shenandoah Yalley when Gen. Early ordered him to storm a Federal fort In their front. "I never was more indignant in my life," said Gen. Gordon, "than when I heard my order. I know it was an unnecessary thing to do, and explained to Gen. Early that we could accomplish our plan of campaign without slaughtering my command by this attempt to storm a strong positon; a position tint Would fall of itself when we should m ike our proper movement. Early took: no other notice of my explanation th in to send me word that if I did not cure to execute the order he would delegate Its execution to some one else. You may guess this reply made me boil with fresh indignation. I felt it to b. an insult, but, inasmuch as It was my place to obey his orders, regardless of consequences, I issiKd the necessary instruction for a movement at daylight next morning. "I began, on my own account, making every preparation for death, for I had a presentiment that I woubl this time meet my end. So I wrote a farewell letter to my wife, told her what i do about my affairs, banded over my watch and other personal effects to n friend, and then walked i:u and down my quarters waiting for day to break and my command to move. That was a solemn night to me. for I had this linn presentiment that it was my last night on earth. I always had. in every battle of my life, a sense of the dangvr to which I was exposed. I never know what It was to forget it; but this time I felt as I never had before. "So at daylight I took up my lino of march to my death, as I fully expected. On we went, closer and closer to tho fort, until at last we were within close range of Its guns. I wondered that they diil not open on us, and every s-oeomi I expected to see them belch lor;h shot and shell and play havoc in our ranks. On we went; my eyes wen fixed on tie guns and my mind excited to its highest tension with wonderment why they did not open lire. On we went until our advance struck the fort and rushed upon its defenses, when, to our utter amazement, we discovered that it had been evacuated, ami not a Federal was anywhere in sight, inside or out. You can Imagine my sense of relief as I saw my boys In possession of the fort without so much ns a scratch. So you see. what a presentiment is worth. I nave never much believed in them since that night"