Marshall County Independent, Volume 1, Number 41, Plymouth, Marshall County, 1 August 1895 — Page 10

THE BEST OF LIFE.

Not till life's heat is cooled. The headlong rush slowed to a quiet pace, Acd every purblind passion that has ruled Our noisier years, at least Spurs us in rain, and, weary of the race. We care no more who loses or who wins Ah! not till all the best of life seems past The best of life begins. To toil for only fame, Jlandelappings, and the fickle guests of praise, For place or power or gold to gild a name Above the grave whereto All paths will bring us, were to lose our days, We, on whose ears youth's pacing bell has tolled, In blowing bubbles, even as children do, Forgetting we grow Ad. But the world widens when Such hope of t rival gain that ruled us lies Broken among our childhood's toys, for then We win to self-control! And mail ourselves in manhood, and there rise Upon us from the vast and winilecs height Those clearer thought that are unto the soul What Ftars are to the night. The Spectator. CHAPTER I. Three steely wreaths of smoke from three cigars lloated toward the park. The night was calm, with scarce a breath of air to set the tree tops nodding No one thought to jar upon the stillness of the scene by uttering his thoughts aloud. Besides there was no need of speech; they were friends, and, being friends, smoked on In peace, helping by their presence the unfolding of each other's dreams. But the spell was broken at last. The "warni coloring of Lewis Forbes' dream had vanished into a grayness of vacancy. He rose, and by his motion disturbed his guests. The three men rose and shook themselves free of the last remains of what they had just tried to conjure up again before them. The heat from the fire began to mako them more sociable, and they talked on all sorts of topics, their conversation taking oa a wide range, from the newest book on conveyancing to th latest opera. At last the talk came In nearer circles and assumed a more personal interest. "I suppose you are both going to the Ransome dance next week?" suggested Lewis Forbes, the host. "Perhaps; I know quite know ycC replied his friend Spencer, in a tone of the least possible concern. "I dare say I shall go," drawled Care w. Who could have connected these almost careless replies with Agues Ikansome's bewitching eyes and cherry lips, whose unsubstantial image they had been kissing in their counterfeit of passion? Each slowly took from his pocket a delicately-tinted envelope, from which he drew a letter. A glance sufficed to show that the contents of all three were the same. The truth flashed upon them, lighting tip for them the ludicrous side of the matter. To do them credit, they tried to be angry, but, despite themselves, they burst into a roar of laughter. When they had finished they consoled themselves by calling the lady a flirt, accepting their Infatuation as a fact too real to bo. displaced by reason. Forbes was the first to suggest that they should discuss the matter In all Its bearings. "What is the good of that?" asked Carew. "To arrive at some understanding," was the reply. "Well, but after all," Insisted hi3 friend, "the best man will win." "Yes or the 3rst," was the rejoinder. They sat for a long time propounding solutions of the difficulty. All kinds of devices were mentioned to ascertain the lady's feelings on the subject. A. 1 A. C 1 , . . . ai iasi rieucer was seizeu Willi a happy idea. "Let us all propose together," ho ox. claimed. They looked at him In surprise. "All together?" they echoed. "Yes," he explained, "why should we not all three call on her, or, perhaps. writing would be less embarrassing." They sat a while and pondered, rais ing objections that were not objec tions. Finally they set themselves se riously to think out the details. CHAPTER II. Agnes Ransome, like a bee among the heather, hovering over the purple bells, was In her boudoir turning over with dainty fingers the books and pret ty things. She left the mirror and lay on the couch before the fire, too indolent al most to think. She h3d not lala long before a gentle man was announced, and It was evl dent by her eager and loving welcome

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was his first visit after his acceptance. and as yet be was still only a friend of tho family. They were still talking now about themselves when the maid brought her mistress a letter. She read it and very demurely hand ed It to her lover, but before lie Lad half got through It she broke Into a peal of laughter. "What answer shall I give, dear?" "Well, I think you had better tell the truth," he replied. "Tell the truth?" she asked, repeat ing his words. "Yes, that you haven't any prefer ence. "Oh, but suppose I have?" she re joined archly. A kiss was her only reply. This was the letter which caused her such amusement: "Dear Miss Ransome: We, the undersigned, having the honor to make you a somewhat curious request Eaoti of us aspires to the honor of your hand. and, being dear friends, we cannot, in the light of this knowledge, set our own fancied individual claims before those of each other. We pledge ourselves to abide by any decision at which it may please you to arrive. Hoping that yon will find it possible to help us, and that you will pardon what may appear Im pertinence, we have the honor to re main, your most devoted admirers. "LEWIS FORBES, "HUGH SPENCER , "WILLIS CAREW." They discussed the wording of the re ply, and decided to couch it in such a form that no mention should bo made of the engagement, while no direct acceptance of the proposal contained In this note should be given. Agnes suggested that Jack should call on Forbes that same evening, shrewdly guessing that the friends would meet at his lodgings in eager ex pectation of the reply. CHAPTER III. It seemed as though the clock would never strike 4. Would the court never rise, that poor juniors might doff their wig and stuff gown and hasten away westward? But Lewis Forbes got home at last, eager for a letter that he hoped to find. But when he found It he did not open It, but, with his mind lnt a ferment, waited for dinner and the arrival of his friends, who were to dine with hira. They arrived together, and both Inquired: "Where Is It?" They arranged themselves around the table, in the middle of which lay the precious envelope. "Open It," suggested Carew. Spencer nodded approval. "Gentlemen: I thank you most sincerely for the honor you propose to confer upon me. I much regret that I cannot help you out of your difficulty by personal preference. Would not such a case be better left to pure chance? A pack of cards might work out a solution. Thanking you once more most: sincerely, and awaiting the result with some anxiety, I remain, Yours very truly. AGNES RANSOME." lie finished, and set a pack of cards on the table without speaking a word. They shuffled them still in silence. Forbes was the first to break It. "You see, cutting for the highest or lowest card Is one of the crudest of methods. Let us play vingt-et-un, the first to turn up a natural to be tho lucky man." They agreed, and the deal fell lo Forbes. Play began and went on round after round, but still no "natural" turned up. Every other combination In the pack was dealt except a "natural." A visitor was announced to relieve the monotony. He proved to be Millman, who, true to hia proposal of the morning, had called and found things as he had anticipated. "We won't keep you a moment," urged Forbes. "We are only waiting for a natural." CHAPTER IV. Another round was being deali; each one had a card. MUlman, looking on saw the light In Syenccr's eyes; glancing at Carew he was surprised to see his mouth twitching nervously. Both evidently had a good card. Forbes dealt each a second. "Natural!" came from both simultaneously, as they 6tarted up from the table. Forbes looked at his own cards, rather from curiosity than anything else. "Naturali" he shouted, his face aglow with excitement. "But," Insisted Spencer, "you forgot the agreement was the winner should be the man who turned up a natural first" "Yes," objected Forbes, "but surely we must keep the rule of the game. If the dealer gets a natural It cancels any others. Th rule Is, as you know, 'Quits pay the dealer.' " "But don't you see," argued his friend, "that this Is not a regular game?" "Appeal to Millman," suggested Carew, himself uncertain whether to advance his own claim or not. Forbes undertook the task, and after putting him In possession of the leading facts, concluded by saying: "Now, who do you think Is entitled to propose to Miss Ransome?" Jack appeared for a moment to b. deep In thought. At last he said, vtry slowly: "There Is one way out of the dUTl culty " "Yes?" "I will save you the trouble. I will marry Miss Ransome myself." "Oh, but It's no laughing matter," protested Forbes, giving utterance to the feelings of his friends as well. "Of course not," assented the umpire; "but it solves the difflculty, doesn't It? Besides," he added, "It's easier for me I'm engaged to her-"

MÜEDEß HIS TRADE.

H. H. HOLMES ACCUSED OF DIABOLICAL CRIMES. More of Ilia Devilishnrss Coming to Light Evcrjr Day Startling Discoveries Made in Chicaco Building: with Mysterious Chambers Bones Found. Fiend in Human Form. There is incarcerated in Moyamcnsing Prison, in Philadelphia, a man who, according to his own admission, has deserved hanging a dozen times, and, if guilty of half of the crimes laid at his door, is, without doubt, the arch-criminal of America. The name he is known by in prison is II. II. Holmes, but he has as many aliases as a chameleon has colors, and, when at liberty, he could change them as quickly. Holmes' real name is Herbert, or Herman, Mudgett, and he was born in Gilinanton, N. IL, about thirty-four years ago. His father was Levi H. Mudgett, and ha was postmaster of Gilmanton Corners. He gave his son a good education, the boy graduating from the village academy with honor. When but IS young Mudgett married Clara Lovering. the pretty daughter of a well-to-do citizen of Ixuiden, X. II. Mudgett Jupiortcd his wife for awhile Grst by teaching school and after by clerking in a store. Then he took a notion to study medicine, and partly through his parents' and his wife's parents assistance he become a student in the University of Vermont, nt Burlington. His wife in the meantime supported herself as a dressmaker. By and by Mudgett went to the medical college at Ann Arbor, Mich. Here he run out of funds. He and a chum went to work during the summer vacation on a farm. One day it occurred to Mudgett that i. was possible to obtain a quantity of money by swindling a life insurance company. It is said that he told his plan to his chum, who nt once fell in with it. The chum had his life insured under a fictitious name, and shortly after they procured a body from the pickling vat of a medical college, boxed it up and i,. i i - s m : , l3 Ä' IMS r

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shipped it to Connecticut. Then it was given out that the chum had died, the body wns palmed off a.s his, and Mudgett got the insurance money, some $111,500. After securing his degree. Mudgett began the practice of his profession at Moore's Turk, in his State. His wife was with hiui for awhile. She bore him u child, and then went back to her parents on a prolouged visit. Commits Hisamy, The young doctor built up a fairly good practice, but did not ask his wife to return to him, as he thought his field of action too circumscribed and he talked of going to Chicago to establish himself there. Iiis was a flirtatious nature, and meeting an adventuress in Boston, he married her. She soon found that his means were poor ami left him. Then he paid his real wife a visit nnd told her he was going west. That was the last she had heard of him for several years. Believing that bhe was desorted she went to hard work as a dressmaker to support herself and her child. Holmes, by which name he is afterward known, then entered into various schemes In Chicago. He employed a typewriter named Minnie Williams. He learned that HOLMES IX IIIS CKLL she and her sister were worth $50,000 and determined to have the money. He persuaded Minnie to live with him. Then the sent for her sister Annie. The latter soon disappeared nnd no clue has ever been found of her whereabouts. It was jot long after Üiis that Minnie also disappeared. Then Holmes met Benjamin P. Pitezel. They laid a plan to defraud the Fidelity Mutual Life Insurance Company of Philadelphia. Pitezel took out a pu'.icyv for $10,000. In September last the body of a man was found in a certain house in Philadelphia. By his Bide was n broken bottle of carbolic acid. He was identified at the timo as the man who, under the name of II. V. Perry, hud rented the house some timo before. The doctors said he had died in a natural manner. The Vody was buried in the Potter's field. Then Holmes came forward with a man I named Howe to represent Mrs. Pitezel,

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who claimed that the body was that of her husband. It was exhumed and she identified it. The insurance money was paid. The largest shire went to Holmes. He then rersuaded Mrs. Pitezel to let him take care of three of her five children. She agreed and he took them with him. They have not been seen since, dead or alive, until the finding last week of the bodies of two of them in the cellar of a house in Toronto, Out., and every circumstance indicates that they were murdered by Holmes. Holmes A. rested. In seme way the insurance company became suspicious. When Mrs. Pitezel was pressed she admitted that tho whole thing was a conspiracy and that Titezel, she believed, was alive. She was arrested, as was Howe. Then the detectives chased Holmes from city to city until they arrested him in Boston. Pitezel has never been found and the belief is strong that he was murdered by Holmes. When the children could not be located detectives began to hunt for them. They were

MINNIE WILLIAMS. AXNIK WILLIAMS. tracked with Holmes to Detroit. Then one of them scorns to have disappeared. The other two were traced to Toronto. It was discovered that Holmes rented n certain house in that city and that he had two children with him. A search was made. The earth forming the floor of the cellar had been disturbed. The detectives began to dig and soon they uncovered the nude bodies of the two children. Where 1 the other one is, whether dead or alive, whether or not their father is living, and whether or not Minnie and Annie Will iams were murd(.r-d are matters the police and detectives are trying to solve. That j me imams gins met ueain at ine nanus of Holmes, there is scarcely a doubt. That they died in Chicago in a violent manner has been proved almost conclusively. The police found in a stuve in a three-story brick building at 701 td street, whkh was built by Iloluws and in which both he and the Williams girls lived, a quantity of charred bones, buttons known to have been on a dress owned by Minnie Williams, and the partly melted portion of a watch chain which was positively identified a.s having been the property of the girl. The contents of the stove were quickly dumped, and portion of bones too badly burnoil to admit of positive identification as belonging to any particular portion of the body were found All of the ashes and debris removed from the stove was carefully preserved. The police are now of the opinion that not only Minnie Williams but her younger sister, Anna, nnd the boy Howard Pitzel met death in this house. Anna Williams has not been seen or heard of tiuce Holmes left tho (I'M street building. If she has fallen victim to Holmes' murder ous instincts she will be the sixth he hn killed Pite .el, his three children nnd the two Williams girls. Holmes pleaded guilty to conspiracy In defrauding the insurance companies out of about $250,000. and was awaiting sentence therefor when the bodies of the children were found nnd tho suspicion that ho murdered Pitezel was aroused. Of course he disclaims all knowledge of the manner of their death. EXPRESS IS HELD UP. Chicago Limited cn the Lake Shore Hoarded ty Kobbcrs, Maskvd men boarded a west-bound Lake Shore and Michigan Southern express train at Iteece Siding, Ind., at 12:35 Wednesday morning, forced open an express car and at the point of revolvers compcllc J the messenger to unlock the safe. It is known that at least $8,000 was taken. The train is a heavy one, made up of several express cars, baggage and mail cars, two coaches and three Pullmans. Ileece Siding ?3 a lonely spot in the woods, between Archbold and Strykcr, about ten mile west of Wauseon. A blind sliding is used by this train nightly to allow the western express to pass. This usual top i well known to those familiar with the locality. For a mile in each direction the woods are dense close to the railroad right of way. The noise of the coming western express was ringing louder and louder when Conductor Darling, who stood by a coach, saw three masked men ride out of a road from the woods which led directly to an express car which crossed it. He was ordered inside the coach and nt the same time three men, approaching the other side, joined their companions in demanding admission to the express car. This was gained at revolvers points, and the express messenger, under threats of Instant death, was compelled to open the safe. The entrance to tho express car was made quickly nnd no commotion was created in tho other cars. The robber jeemed to know just how to handle the railroad men and to board the cars. Their evident famfliarity with cars and the time the trains met give rise to suspicions that they are railroad men.

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LOADS OF GOLD IN ARIZONA.

Accidental Discovery of the Ticacho Plains, Fifty Years Ago. Nearly half a century has rolled Imo the past since the old prospectors, tired and worn out under the heat of the summer's sun, sat down on the bank of the Colorado, almost under the shadow of Chimney peak, now known as Picacho, to eat their lunch and to rest and sleep. Awakening early lu the afternoon they wended their way slowly up the great canyon that leads Into the basin which lies at the eastern foot of this strangely marked, weird landmark of the great desert that lies between the Indio sink at Salton Lake and the Colorado Iliver. They journeyed on till evening and camped for the night. Morning came and with it the thought: "There must be gold here." The old man now, but then young and in his prime, took his batteau and hern spoon, scraped up a pan of dry dirt, washed it, and there was left nearly an ounce of the prettiest gold in the bottom of the batteau. He showed it to his fellow prospectors, who in the meantime had fastened the rawhide thongs and strings j that held the scanty outfit on the burro's back that packed them over tho hills. Oüly a word, and they were soon untied, and burros told to "vamos."and each man grasped his horn spoon and went fur gold. For mouths they took out their two, three, four, five, and six ounces per ilay. One day just as they had eaten up the last Ncrap of jerked beef, the last kernel of corn and the last mosquito bean had been browned for coffee, Piasko, one of their number, sat down on the ground and scraped up just what dirt he could reach without changing his position. Soon he cleaned it up and had as a result thirty ounces of clean gold. This was enough. One went for deer and mountain sheep, which were plentiful, another started for the mesquite groves to gather more beans for coffee, another went to the Indian camp near Yuma for corn. All hurried back. More than 8x) pounds avoirdupois in goid was gathered up on the small area of ground lying between the Mars and Venus and the Ooshen mines, since so famous for their output of gold. Kven the third and fourth year after the discovery of the Picacho placers miners took out from $18 to 8-Ö each per day. When Frederieo came with his dry washer he took out from twelve to fifteen ounces per day in gold, even after the cream had been gathered. Said an old miner to me yesterday who had lived and worked in the Picncho mine for thirty-three years: "I have seen during my day the San (leorgo. Mars and Venus canyon worked over more than 1hj times, and even now the miners make $1 per day. It is a fact that more gold has been taken out of the Picacho than from all the mines within 100 miles of there. Five million dollars will not cover the amount. The old fivestamp mill run on Mars and Venus ores for three years and nine months." Yuma Times. Southern. Marriage License. A N'G'.v-Yorker went to Washington not long ago to help a friend get married. It was agreed, when they went to the city hall for the license, says the Washington Post, that the New-Yorker should do the talking. The clerk asked the names of the contracting parties, their place of residence, and other questions. Then he said to the New-Yorker: "Is the groom light or dark?" "Light." returned the young man, wondering what complexion had to do with tho matter. "Lady light also?" asked the clerk, writing busily. "So; she's dark." was the replv. "Dark?" said the clerk, inquiringly, "and the groom light? Is that right?" "Certainly," replied the New-Yorker, with dignity, wondering still more. "Marriage between So-aud-So, white, and So-and-So, colored," read the clerk. "What's that?" shouted the groom; "what, the devil do you mean by calling her colored?" "Why. this gentleman said so," said the clerk. "I didn't," protested the New-Yorker: "I said she was dark. She's a brünett." "()h. brunette." observed the clerk: "I see. You're from the North, aren't you? Down here, v.-hen we say light we mean white, and dark means colored. Here's the license. One dollar, please." "(.'heap enough, too. with the information thrown in," raid the groom to the New-Yorker as they took the license and went away; "I wonder if they'd call a mulatto striped?" 31 rs. Kendal's Awful III under. Theatrical people in London are repeating this story: There was a big breakfast given in London a number of Sundays ago, and Mrs. Kendal and her husband wore among the invited guests. Mrs. Kendal was taken in to breakfast by a distinguished looking middle-aged man whose name she did not happen to catch. No sooner were they seated at the table than Mrs. Kendal turned the conversation upon the stage and its Immoralities. Her companion did not seem to be particularly interested in the subject. Mrs. Kendal, raising her voice slightly, addressed her remarks to the table at large. "It's all trash and nonsense to say that simply because a woman is a genius she may be forgiven, while an ordinary woman, for the same thing, would be drl7en just outside the pale. A loose life hi Inexcusable under any circumstances. Women of exceptional ability have taken refuge behind the plea of genius from time immemorial. It's time it was stopped. It isn't only the actresses who do It. Look at George Fllot, for instance. What was George Fliot but " A half-suppressed groan of dismay spread around tho table. At mention of George Kllot's name the hostess begau to make imploring telegraphic

messages to Mrs. Kendal. Eut Mrs. Kendal, strong in the sense of her own verbosit, went headlong to her doom. ''Xow, what was (leorge Eliot but "Stop, madam!" rang out the voic of the man fitting next to her; "that lady was my wife." The man was J. W. Cross.

A SCENE. IN THE CH1TRAL WAR. Foiling a Night Attack by Firing Shelle Giving a Brilliant I.ilit. A wounded Pathan, who was oait tired after the light north of the Panjkoka ltridge, has given our political olileers a most vivid account of the enemy's action on that occasion. F.very movement of our men was watched by the enemy from the hilltops. They saw the efforts to construct the bridge, and reeomioitered as closely as they dared to the intrenched camp of the Guides' Infantry. Then the brilliant idea struck their chiefs of launching the heavy logs up the stream to wreck the bridge. He says: "We saw the Moating roadway break up and its pieces swept away in the rapid waters. Our watchmen signaled the news from hill to hill and the clans gathered for the fray, for we believed that the soldiers separated from their fellows were delivered int; our hands. Then our mullahs came and preached to us the righteousness of cur cause, and showed that Allah was mindful of Ins children by placing a thousand ritles and much ammunition within their hands to grasp. "Now, we sorely desired these guns, and the words of our mullah:- excited us greatly. We saw the men from the river bank inarching toward us, and we believed victory to be certain. Uut when they saw us they went back slowly and we could never got close to them, for some of their guns were always firing among us and many were stricken and fell. When the men had reached their camp and the sahib across the river began tiring upon us, too, we went back to the hills for sliel. tor. Then our mulh.hs and chiefs talked together and decided we should creep upon our enemies in the night and fall upon them when the uijrht was darkest. And every man went willingly, for the guns we sorely needed. "There were 2.M!0 hillmen who set forth that night to crawl up to the soldiers' camp. We lay for hours in the wet fields, with the rain falling steadily, waiting for our chiefs to give tho signal for the great rush. Word oam round from chief to chief to bo ready, and every man crouched, grasping his weapon, to run forward; but at that very moment a devil's gun boomed forth, and. lo! instead of bullets and bails coming out, there burst over u a mighty light, so great that we thought the night had suddenly become day. And we cried aloud to Allah to abate his wrath against us. and when trry groat light faded we all hurried away, and even our mullahs had no word rc say. The explanation is that, in order to guard against any such nocturnal attempt to rush the position, a star shell had been tired from the P.ritish camp. When tlie shell bursts it shows a brilliant magnesium light, vividly illuminating the surrounding country. Lo;ivla Times. Just the Gown. Manifold are the delights and humors of shopping. All women know them, and all the funny newspaper men make their little jokes about them. Here, for example, is an anecdote from the Chicago Tribune: Two young women were threading their way slowly among the gorgeously dressed dummies of a dry goods establishment, stopping here and there to inspect linings and price-marks. Nothing seemed lo strike their fancy very much till one of them caught sight of a black serge just in front of her. "There, Maria," she exclaimed, in a tone of triumph; "that's what I want! See how that umbrella skirt hangs! See how that coat sets in the back! The frock makes even the lay figure distinguished. If it's silk-lined, and doesn't cost too much I shall have it!" As she spoke, she advanced and laid inquiring hands upon the frock, lifting the coat to inspect the lining. Then she fell back with a little cry. The supposed dummy was another customer, who turned and faced her. A Fair Inference. It Is undeniable that actions often speak louder than words. An usurious money lender, who had for some time collected an extortionate interest from a debtor, sent his collector to the man as usual one day. The collector returned and reported to his employer that he could not collect the money. "Do you mean to say that the man declared to you that he wouldn't pay tho interest?" the usurer demanded, furi-' ously. "He didn't declare so In so many words, but he gave me to understand so." "How did he give you to understand so i "lie kicked me down three Mights of stairs." guile Sufileient. Mr. Smartee prides himself on being r- philosopher. The other day his doctor, who is also his personal friend, and sees him often at dinner, said to him: "Come, Smartee, don't go out without your overcoat. Take care of yourself." "Oh," said Smartee, "never mind; one can't die but once!" "And do you Hatter yourself," asked the doctor, "that once isn't going to bo enough?" "Are you the man who rui.s this newspaper?" "No, sir; I'm only the, editor; the citizens run the paper." Atlanta Constitution. Every man declares that ho intends to give his children a good education, until his children become of school ag'