Plymouth Tribune, Volume 9, Number 24, Plymouth, Marshall County, 17 March 1910 — Page 3

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30 CHAPTER VIIL The warrant was served on the Harcourt that morning at six o'clock. Out of consideration for Mrs. Harcourt, whom her husband claimed was delicate, and who really looked as fragile as a piece of porcelain,' the Harcourts were not removed to the Jail but a cordon of sleuths was appointed to patrol their apartments. The hotel management was sorely wroth, and tried to insist upon the departure of the Harcourts, but Harcourt came down handsomely with an enormous amount of cash, and the mollified management became less censorious. Early that afternoon, Mrs. Harcourt fell very ill with a seemingly malignant fever an outgrowth of their long residence in India; so her husband said. There was a brief preliminary hearing at 2:30 in the Harcourt apartments. "My name Is Harold Harcourt. and I live in the Hill district, in India," attested the witness, when called. I am 35 years of age and have been married to my -wife for the pas six years. She Is 24, and we have been traveling for her health during the past two years, following the accidental drowning of our baby son. My wife's mind has never been perfectly clear since the harrowing moment when she pulled our dead son out of the clutches of a treacherous pool, not fifty feet from her bedroom window. At the advice of physicians, we have gone from country to country, seeking novelty and change, hoping to restore her to her normal state. My occupation? Why. I have none. I receive a large Income from Inherited properties, so does my wife, and jointly we own several rich diamond mines. We never saw the young woman. Miss Lancey. I believe her name Is, at alL I am positive my wife never did until last evening. Why we should be held like this Is incomprehensible to me. On this card you will find the names of a number of London, and Calcutta firms, who will give you any references of me you may desire. "The night of the murder of Cerlsse Wayne we were in Milwaukee as our hotel bills and receipts will show. The following afternoon late we arrived and went to the Directory Hotel. That evening' I was trying to explain to my wife some changes I was contemplating in my Indian estate and was sketching the plans with the idea of keeping her amused, as she had been particularly fretful and nervous all day. The room was close, and insufferable with the smell of steam pipes, so we had raised the window wide and flung high the shade. I drew out my wallet to get a memorandum and In doing so pulled out by accident a little photograph of my wife that I always carry with me, and some Important passports. The wind sent the curtain flying and whisked these papers out of my hand. I hurried to the window and saw them llht on an opposite fire escape and tried to recover them. As the hotel clerk has probably told you the papers were not recovered." "Now, I trust, gentlemen, that my wife and I will be allowed to proceed without any further reference or enr tanglemeht In ihis most undesirable affair." "Wasn't there a letter dropped out of your wallet?" asked Larry Morris, stepping forward. "If you please. I'd like to submit two exhibits In evidence." He produced the picture and the letter that had been fished from the Are escape and proceeded to relate how they had been acquired. Harcourt's face flushed with pleasure at sight of the photograph. When the letter was handed to him he paled, whether with fright or with anger, was indistinguishable. This is an Insult." he hissed. "What's your wife's name, Mr. Harcourt?" asked the court. "My wife? Her name? Mr. Harcourt. of course." "Her first name? "Narclsse." "Did you ever see this letter before? The hotel register was brought into the room, and as expert testimony went to the effect that the signature on the register tallied with the conformation of the writing not only on the letter that had been picked up In the court-room, but with those found In the Wayne death chamber, Mr. Harcourt was requested to make copies of the documents and hand them to the court. He did this with great trepidation, but tha results were very unlike the originals. A movement was begun to prove that Mr. Harcourt had painfully disguised his writing and the matter was thrown to the experts again. The man's garter Johnny Johnson had picked up in the closet of Mrs. Wayne's room, and a second one, only too plainly its irate, In the same gold emerald and amethyst design, marked with the initial "II,- that he had found Inside the threshold of the Flanders house at 94 Briar sweet place, were shown to Harcourt. He disowned these emphatically and declared he had never seen either of them before. Larry Morris, sworn next, told of the the reasons for Betty's visiting the Harcourt apartments displaying several photographs and sketches that had teen' made of the late Mrs. Wayne, remarking on the great similarity between the appeal ances of the two women, and begging the court to see for Itself. With Harcourt indignantly fuming, a comparison between the living woman and the photograph was made. Mrs. Harcourt was in a comatose state and as she lay prostrate on the wide bed, death pale and with her hair half unbound, the Inquest of the preceding day rose like a mirage! The quick and the dead seemed one. Ilarcourt was bound over till the fall term of court. Xo count was found against his wife. CHAPTER IX. When, two days later, Mr. Henry D. Franz, of Franz, Doubleday & Co., Bankers. Ran Francisco, California, arrived, the Wayne murder mystery and the unaccountable disappearance of Betty Lansey were still in a chaotic and unsolveatle stcte. Likewise the Man-Aperilla. His i;oing was like his coming unseen by man. unknown and all untraceable. Hamley Ilackleye, too, the strange lessee of 94 Priarsweet place, was jot to be found. The milkman, who claimed he had been paid for a month's wares in advance, continued to leave a dally allowance of milk and cream on the back stoop, and the accumulation of bottles on the Flanders loorstep was waxing large. Cables Vom London brought word that Haekye was a younger son of the late Sir Walter JIackleye; that for four years ast he had 'been conducting tropical txplorations, and that he was possesstd of an immense private fortune. The tamedlate family, an aged mother and rldowed sister, and two brothers, both uunarried, lived in England for years.

ILaocey F WEST O and had heard nothing of Hamley that bore upon his life with any degree of definiteness. He was a bookish sort of fellow; Imaginative and fond of original research, quiet, and of no bad habits so far as they knew, agreed all reports. Xo photographs of him since he was a plump little codger of six were to be had. A copy of one of these so ran the message, was being made in London, and would be forwarded immediately upon completion. Johnny Johnson felt that he had drawn a blank In his sleuthing expedition through the house at 94 Briarsweet Place, where the death chamber visitor had vanished. The rooms smelled musty and the house bore the stamp of the unoccupied save for several suits of clothes, wearing the Imprint of a Picadill3' tailor, hanging in the closet of one of the bedrooms. These must have fitted a man of medium height and build. There were no personal memoranda around, and to all Intents the house was the same as when , Attorney Flanders had let It, nearly a week previous. The garter Johnny had found on the threshold was ft woeful aggravation. "If the owner had only lost one of them," soliloquized Johnny, "I might have traced him by matching the pair. As It Is now, there's no chance at all!" Mr. Franz, who was a plump little German, a shade too well-tailored, a whit too urbane, had fetched with him a picture of Cerlsse Wayne that tallied exactly with the portrait that had blown from Harcourfs window. That the same negative had permitted botlr prints was manifest Then they led him Into the presence of Mrs. Harcourt She was sitting. In the shadow of the window wrapped in a wadded gown of poppy rl ük she was very listless and had not cpoken a word for hours. Harcourt declared that this had been her wont at Intervals since the death of the baby. They sent Franz Into the room a little ahead of his escort. "Mrs. Wayne," ejaculated the banker, letting fall his little black valise. "Why, they told me you were dead!" He advanced a few steps, and reached forth his hand, but the moment he glimpsed Mrs. Harcourt's eyes he dropped his outstretched arm and stepped back. "It Is it Is notthe Same," he murmured, studying closely the face and figure before him. Mrs. Harcourt dropped her eyes In a terrified fashion and raised them again to find the soft calm gaze of Philip Hartley fixed steadily upon her. For a full moment she looked sharply, composedly at Hartley, then from him to her husband, and then again to Franz. Springing from her chair, with the terror of a child, she flung aside her wrappings, and throwing herself upon Hartley, clung to him, screaming: -Oh. can't you save me from them; save me, take me away: they kill me with those awful drugs!" Franz paled and turned his horrified gaze out of the window. "The delirium again!" cried Har. court "Poor girl, poor glrL" Ilarcourt strove to take his wife away, but she would cot loose her grasp upon the arm of the reporter, and there was no gainsaying the clasp of those cold and tautly interlocked fingers. Hartley, the -tender, coaxed the frightened woman Into the bedroom, and despite Harcourt's expostulations sent for a doctor. Harcourt swore they would kill her and declared himself a better nun of medicine than half the pract'.tloners in the town. Every time he approached his wife, however, she broke into frightful screams, and kept her eyes constantly averted from her husband's gaze. The sight of Franz appeared to have broken some chain, have forged some link In her mind that bore directly upon this mystery unfolding mystery. While they anticipated the doctor the examination of Henry Franz went on. It was disappointing in its in indefiniteness of result But the body of Cerlnse Wayne had been taken from the vault where it lay pending Identification by Mr. Franz, so from Mrs. Harcourt's ' rooms they led him to the body. Then the coffin lid was loosened and the shrouded figure of the dead woman was revealed. She was more the Image of Mrs. Harcourt than Mrs. Harcourt herself. For Mrs. Harcourt. when the;' left her. was sunk In a deadly coma, and the llvor of death seemed reflected on her countenance. Cerlsse Wayne lay there, calm, quiet and all at ease, like sleeping marble. "Wonderful, wonderful: The likeness," commented Mr. Franz. He scrutinized the face and hands Of the corpse closely and said slowly: "I am positive that this is the woman that our firm knew as Cerlsse Wayne. Who the woman at the Directory Hotel may be, the woman who so closely resembles ser. I cannot say. All I know of Mrs. Wayne Is that her deposits with us have been coming, .is I wrote you, for some time. When we had notice of her death we delayed opening her safety deposit box till we had a court order. Within we found the -?ost gorgeous collections of Jewels imag aMe here are photographs of them ecklaVes, stomachers, all of them .Inkets for the adorning of woma.M Also copies concerning transfers of various property Interests . In Central Africa, particularly In the regions mapped as unexplored. Several , of these make mention. Indefinitely, of diamond mines of great value, apparently. One typewritten letter was in the box, addressed to Mrs. Wayne and signed. 'Your Fond Father.' Here Is a copy of it." "My Dear Daughter It is with great despair that I urge upon you again, the necessity for finding your brotUer Francis, and securing from him the route to the Tiougaley Mines. He ?s the only living soul who has this knowledge. Ills refusal to divulge the information to me Is but another proof of his unnatural and unfillal attitude. I must insist that you find Francis and make him tell you the location of the lost fields. Cease seeking your will o the wisp Meal your foolish love. Find Francis instead and having found him return homo to Hacklcye as soon as possible. He is growing uncontrollably Jealous of you. and not only threatening your life, but mine, and that of the children, too. They are both well, but Paula has had much trouble with her throat since the rains began. I'm afraid she will never be well in this climate. Do not misunderstand me. Ilackleye Is where you cannot trifle with him any longer, and the demands on our moneys have been so great that unless we get hold of the new fields, we will be povertystricken at the end of thw year. I wish you would quit your gaming. I do not mean less wealthy, mind you, but practicably poor. Reflect what this mens. Cerlsse, seek out Francis, And him if

possible, and by all means make hin draw you a chart or map of those famous and almost forgotten fields. Take care of yourself, my daughter. With much love, "Tour Fond Old Father." "That straightens It all out for us nicely now," chattered H. nk Smith's voice on the air. "Hamley Ilackleye Is Cerlsse Wayne's husband, and Wayne must have been her maiden name. Evidently she didrj't love Ilackleye, and she ran away to lore somebody else and to find her brother Francis, and to learn about those diamond mines. Xow If the whole bunch of them lived In Africa, I'd believe that the Man-Aperilla is a trained ape, a sort of body servant that followed along after the husband. He traced her here to

the Desterle house, leased the Flanders home, 'and then called on her surreptitiously. I don't believe Hubby ever went to murder his little wife, but they got Into a family row because Wlfle didn't want to go home with Hubty. and in the fracas that followed wlfle got !he worst of It, and, by the way" here Hank's voice sank to a whisper "I wonder If she really was dead or only drugged? And have any of you noticcJ the similarity between the names llamley Hackley and 'Harold Harcourt?' " "You reason like a woman. Hank." growled Larry Morris. "You're contradictory from the start" "Perhaps." (To be continued.) STUDIES AMERICAN WAYS. Syrlnn Irl Learn to Wear Corsets and Hat After t-t.re Trial. Betrothed seven year;j ago In her Syrian home to Willlacn Bofysll, now of this city, lS-year-oM Mary Abraham, has arrived here from over seas to marry him, the Owosso (Mich.) correspondent of the Detroit Xews says. But marriage is a serious business in Syria. "Whom God hath Joined together let no man put asunder," Is interpreted literally there. So William and Mary are sensibly preparing themselves for matrimony so that no mistake shall be made and their live ruined. It Is really a trial betrothal. Willlam Is fond of America; he will never go back to the "old country" to live; so It Is necessary that his wife become acquainted with American ways, and also be gl: an time to decide whether she will be satlsfled here. With forethought Bofysll has arranged that the girl be given a practical course in domestic science. His plan is proving successful, and the wedding will undoubtedly take place within a few weeks. Mary arrived about three weeks ago. She wa3 still clad In the picturesque garments of the fatherland. She wore bright-colored bodice and skirt, and wooden sandals. Her crinkly, abundant black hair was bare. She had never worn a hat Bofysll has relatives here In the dry goods business, and the wife of one of these relatives undertook the task of getting the newcomer into American clothing. Mary had never seen a corset, much less worn one, and she screamed with pain and fright when the lady and a girl clerk began laclnj up the stays: "O-oh! It is hurting my heart!" In a few days she became reconciled to It, as she has to a becoming hat which was purchased for her. At first she said with a wilful pout: "I have never worn a hat, and I won't wear one now! I hate anything on my head!" . Miss Abraham Is studying the American way of keeping house In the home of an American family In this city. She speaks no English, and they do not, of course, understand her language, but by means of signs and a few phrases which each has added to the common vocabulary, they get along famously. The girl calls the man of the house "papa," as she has heard his daughter do, and calls his wife "cnamma." The gTOom-elect oom.es each evening and Is delighted at the progress which she proudly recounts to him. The colloquial name for the aristocracy in Mary's home town which Is Andara. Lebanon Is "Turkey." So her state of mind can be dimly Imagined when Mr. Bofysll chanced to remark the other day that they would have "turkey" for Christmas dinner. Earnest and repeated' explanation, in which everybody In the house took part, was necessary before Mary grasped the fact that Americans are not addicted to cannibalism. In fact, only a sight of the bird which was to grace' the board on the feast day couid allay the last lingering suspicion. Tit for Tat. Mame Isn't this muff Aunt Sarah sent me for Christmas a beauty? Dorothy Its nice, out I want a much larger one. Mame Of course you do, but this is plenty big enough for my hands. Llpplncott's. Mo eh Virtue In a Pet Fad. Hunt for a pet fad. It will be the best resource in time of worry, and the best consolation you have ever had. Take up a harmless fad, if It is no more lm. ant than co .lectins stamps or post cards. Oat of Ilearlnrf. Rodrick In the stock market new3 I see there is money on call. Van Albert (Sadly) On call, ch? Well, if I should call with a megaphone none of It would reach me. Mobile Item. Up to Date. Boarder "Madam, did you put anything deleterious in this pie?" Boarding-House Mistress (with dignity) "Certainly, Mr. Fussy. I always do use It In my pies." Baltimore American. The Emotional Thirteen. A girl from St Louis, Mo., Was seized with a terrible fo.. She 1-Illed about three. But got off scot free. For her looks made a hit with the Jo. Columbia Jester. Klaalnff PriTlle-ipe Dnrred. George Shute of New Jersey, has just been bound over under a heavy penalty for kissing his wife against her will. Justice Ware warned the man not to kiss his wife again without first obtaining her consent. y National Differences. "Chinamen are very different from us In one thins, ain't they, pop?" "ia a great many, but what's your one?" "Why, If a Chinaman don't get a yellow-jacket on him, he's stung." Obvious. "That new clerk hasn't any more backbone than a rubber ball." "In that case It ought to be easy to bounce him." St. Louis Star. Teeth of the Cat and Dog, A full-grown cat has 30 teeth, while a dos tan 42.

Saved by a Second. "The most impressive sight I ever saw, I think, was at Harper's Ferry in '65." said Detective C. W. McElroy. "The sight of a man going to his own funeral, with the band playing a dead march, is calculated to impress one," he continued. "That is the case, you know, with a man condemned to death by court-martial. The case of which I spoke happened in January, 1SG3, and the wonderful escape of the condemned parties is something I shall never forget. Two Irishmen, John Shea and Michael Doane. had been sentenced to be shot for desertion. There was considerable feeling In favor of the men. It was in the time of big bounties, and the two young men had enlisted for something like $1,000 apiece. In a few days they were both missing and were not caught for three or four weeks. They were drunk and their money was about gone. The truth of the matter was that it was no case of wi..ful desertion. The men had got on a drunk, and had never sobered up enough to realize their position. They were badly frightened, and were attended by two priests. I can remember the, place well. They were marched up on a little hill on a level plateau, and the soldiers thrown into three sides of a hollow square. The two men, accompanied by their priests, and preceded by the band playing the Dead March, were marched around the insideof this square and stopped nearly in the center, by the side of their open coffins. The priests were in earnest conversation with them, and the minutes rolled by until they grew into an hour. Twelve o'clock came, and General Stevenson gave orders for the priests to leave the men. Very reluctantly ' they did so, prolonging their leave-taking upon one pretext and another as long as they could. Everything was at last made ready, and it was only a matter of seconds between the men and eternity, when the General's orderly rode up, swinging his hat and yelling at the top of his voice. It was a reprieve from Lincoln. "It seems that the priests had telegraphed the President the night before asking for a reprieve, and stating that there were mitigating circumstances. Lincoln, who was always looking for an excuse to sr.ve a man's life, reprieved them. General Stevenson's headquarters were nearly a mile from where we were, and the telegraph office was at .hta headquarters. He had left a mounted orderly there with instructions to rush through any dispatch that came. Nothing came until a few minutes before 12, and the orderly dashed away. He. had to go up a steep hill, nearly half a mile long. When he reached the top his horse was bally winded and could hardly go. He met a citizen on a good horse, and without any ceremony pulled the gentleman down and mounted the fresh animal. Half a minute's delay would have been the last of Messrs. Doane and Shea. "A strange part of the story Is yet to come. Some three years afterward I met an old telegraph operator In Oswego. He was in Washington In the winter of 1864-65. We got to talking over war matters, and I found that he remembered the case I have told you about. He wa3 In charge or the wire' leading to Harper's Ferry. He had heard of the two men to be executed there through the operator. They had discussed the matter over the wires, consequently remembered the case well. Upon the morning of the execution, at 10 o'clockthe dispatch reprieving the men was handed him to send out. He turned to his desk, and what was hi3 horror to find that he couldn't work the wire. A storm was In progress, or something else as the, matter. At any rate the wire would not . work. There was no other way of reaching Harper's Ferry. The dispatch he didn't get off until Just before 12, but, as it happened, in good time: but he told me it was an experience he could never forget. Altogether, it was a pretty close shave for the two Irishmen, and I don't believe they ever forgot the incident, either." Pittsmirg Dispatch. 3Iountiiiff Gaard. I have passed through the tolls and dangers of nineteen well-fought battles, but was never so badly frightened as on one occasion when many hundreds of miles "in the rear." In 1862 I was sent to Fort Independence. Boston harbor, to Join the 11th U. S. Infantry, In order to learn the drill and study the army regulations. I was a new recruit. Having drawn our guns and uniforms, we were first thing ordered to write our names on our gunstraps. The discipline was very strict, and everything was new, labeled and in perfect order. One night it was my turn to mount guard, and, being my first experience in that line, I felt probably as proud of my important trust a3 U. S. Grant when he was made Lieutenant General, little dreaming what was to happen. Awakened from sound sleep only by vigorous shaking, I finally got In line, and was soon at post Xo. l'J, receiving .the countersign, "Hold the fort" It was 11 o'clock, and I would be relieved at 1. and the Sergeant of the guard strictly cautioned me not to sleep on duty or permit any one to come within teii paces of my beat, without halting him. Being extremely sleepy the minutes seemed like hours, and I soon felt very tired, and was powerless to resist the temptation to sit down offered by a large stone that stood too conveniently near nie. Leaning my gun up by my side, I proceeded to devote my undivided attention to keeping awake, and before I kntw It "tired nature's sweet restorer" lit upon my eyelids, and I was fast asleep. I need not tell my soldier comrades what s-ieeping on duty nieana in such times of war; but to the young men of today who sigh for war as the path to glory or the way to fortune, I will explain that it means a disgraceful death. Suddenly I awoke and reached for my gun, but it was not there. Then indeed I was awake wido awake no room on my lids for balmy sleep to flutter her sable wings any more that night. Of course some one probably an officer had taken my gun while J slept, and now the relief guard would soon corne and then I was lost! Oh, the horror of the next few moments, as in imagination I saw iayself the next day standing before my coffin, by a new-made grave, facing the loaded muskets of my comrades, awaiting the fatal order to fire that would close my eyes in sleep forever and send my soul into eternity! How weet home my dear old hGme

seemed then. I almost fainted with fright, and was about to "disperse." when an idea struck me. The discipline of the place required the soldiers mounting guard to have their guns polished to a glitter. In my extremity, I remembered that at the guard-mount that morning my gun was not "clean." and a comrade had kindly permitted me to take his. My own gun was at the barracks by my bunk, not ten rods away. Would it be possible to leave my post, reach the barracks, and return undiscovered, and before the relief-uard had come? There was no time for hesitation. I made the effort, and the sound of my hurriedly returning footsteps was only partially concealed by the slightly heavier-meimred tread of the guard, who appeared a moment later. But I knew that the gun with which I had mounted guard must be in the hands of those who could convict me, and that the only thing which could assist any extraordinary combination of circumstances that might arise to favor me was to pat on as bold a front as possible. My plan of action was instantly formed, and I stood there as calmly as a boy with a new crow-gun, and as the relief came within the proper distance I sang out: "Halt! who comes there?" "Relief," was the answer. "Advance, corporal, with the countersign." The officer of the day came forward. I brought my gun down to a charge bayonet, and demanded of him the countersign, which he gave me. I said: "Countersign is correct; advance relief." Then the officer said to ipe: "Where did you get that gun?" "I drew that gun the other day." "Impossible! for I took your gun from you not an hour ago." "Sir, you must be mistaken, for this gun has my name written on the strap." He said no more, but ordered the eonoral to take me to the guardhouse. When we arrived there he took my gun and looked at the name written on the strap. It was my gun. sure enough. Giving a wink to the Sergeant, he turned to me and said, gravely: "You have played your part weil. I fully understand; . but, as you are young and unaccustomed to army life, we let you off this time, but be careful In the future." I was completely-taken back, having entertained little hopes of mercy from him. My boldness was now goneand I burst Into tears. I would have embraced and kissed that stern officer then and there, had I been sure It would not prove a breach of discipline, which I had resolved, if possible, never to commit again.

Tenting: m Man's Courage. It is the battlefield which tests a man's courage. A regiment Is In line on the edge of a wood. Half a mile away is another wood. Between the two is a meadow bare of the slightest shelter. As the line moves out in the clear sunlight every man will reason to himself: "The enemy Is posted in the opposite timber. Before we are half way over he will open on us with shell. One battery will cover our regimental front. This is my last day!" So each man reasons, hut every face is sternly set to a "front," and not a foot misses step as the line pushes across the meadow. The shells come, and dozens of men are blown to gory fragments, but the line moves on as before, and the living reason: "The fire will presently change from shell to grape and canister, and then I shall certainly be hit!" The prediction is verified. Gaps are opened through the double line, but only to be closed again. The regiment has lost its marching step, and its lines are no longer perfect, but the movement is still onward, and men reason : "The infantry are In support of the battery. , I have escaped shell and grape, but when we come under the flre of musketry we shall be slaughtered!" There is no hanging back, no obliquing to right or left, no other thought than to push ahead. The grape ceases, and lead takes the place of Iron. The lines are further disordered, and the left wing has lost Its "front" by thirty feet, but the wave does not stop. As it rolls forward men grip their muskets tighter, their eyes flash, their teeth shut hard, and they reason: "In a minute more we shall be near enough! Then we will charge 'em with the bayonet! Then will be a hand-to-hand fight, and I surely must be killed or wounded, but let us at them hurrah! hurrah!" .V (ettyaburff Incident. A little incident happened after our last charge. As I was kneeling behind a rock, and loading my gun a Lieut. Denniston, of the next company, had picked up a gun, and, there being a rock to my left band, he jumped ever my arms and caught his toe in my ramrod, bending it so I could not use it. I scolded him for if but on lookitg around I picked up another one. The Lieutenant squatted behind the rock, and was in the act of firing his gun when he was struck ly a bullet in the leg. With a cry, Yve got it, I've got it," he started for the rear, but before getting far another one struck him, so he had to be carried off the field. While I was behind the rock I was struck four times, but not seriously. My attention was all the time on an open space, apparently like a pair of bars, in the stone wall at the foot of the hill, behind which the enemy had taken cover. Into this space I did most of my firing, as it was all th time crowded full of men. tiolng Out of the ('nnn)ry. "When we were all down at Milledgeville passing the ordinance of secession," said General Toombs, "the excitement was most intense, and when the ordinance finally passed the people had a big Impromptu jubilee, lasting late Into the night. Some ol the members grew hungry at last and went to the hotel to get supper, but found that the cook was later than usual in getting it ready. They tool; occasion to swear at him for the delaywhen the sable humorist coolly re. marked: "Wll, gemmen, you all said that you all wa3 gwine outer de Unit' ed States 'fore o o'clock dis ebenen, an' darfo' I thought that mebbe you all ud be purty late a gittin' back! Dat's de reason I warn't in no great hurry.' And with one consent the crowd excused him." Turkey has only one university, that of Constantinople, with faculties of medicine, law, theology, science and letters. In this last department the literatures studied are Turkish, Arabic, Persian and French. In time tho study of German and English will b added.

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o Harriet Grey, colored, who claimed she was 110 years old, and for sixty years a slave, died at the Poor Infirmary in Evansville after a short illness. She was a ' native of Daviess County, Kentucky. Seymour Swain, aged 40, a farmer living near Burney, vas probably fatally injured last weex. Swain was preparing to curry a horse when the animal kicked him in the face, breaking his nose, crushing his jaw and splitting his left eye open. A woman answering the description of Mrs. Belle Gunness, the Laporte murderess, is under surveilance at Grand Rapids, Mich. Louis Richmond, of the Michigan City police force, notified the police of Laporte that he is reasonably sure he has "discovered" Mrs. Gunness. The large farmhouse belonging to Benjamin Vestal, one mile west of Plainfield. was destroyed by fire last week. The fire originated fron a defective flue. Mr. and Mrs. Vestal have been married fifty years, and during that time their home has been burned three times. The loss is partially covered by insurance. Robert Stroud, of Mitchell, who has had charge of all the pumping stations on the Ohio division of the Baltimore & Ohio railroad, has retired on full pay. Mr. Stroud is one of the oldest employes. He had held this place for forty-three years, and has the remarkable record of never having been off duty a day In all those years. He has never been sick. The traditional lodgw goat is no longer a myth with the Fort Wayne Lodge of Elks, which recently received a handsome specimen of the animal, mounted, as the- gift of the social session committee. The presentation address was delivered by Harry F. Hilgemann. In the annual election of officers by the Lodge, Frank E. Rougher, after an interim of one year, was again elected Exalted Ruler. When Mrs, Arthur Seymour, of Terre Haute, advertised the loss of a ring, offering $00 reward, she little hoped to get it back. An old woman came to) her door with it, telling where It was found and declining the $30. She said: "I am a poor old woman, but do not wish to take advantage of your bad luck, but if you give me $1 or so I will be satisfied." She was prevailed on to accept $20. She refused to give her name. Chief of Police Brown, of Brazil, has Issued an order to the members of his force to enforce rigidly the curfewtrdinance in the future. The ordinance has been obsolete for a number of years, but recently there has been so much cdmplalnt filed with the police department relative to gangs of boys in the streets at nights, and of young girls, scarcely In their teens, meeting boys clandestinely, that the action was decided on. To save the lives of eight giant trees that stand in front of the Wilson homestead on the Yorktown pike, west of Muncie, the trees being a landmark known to all who use that road, a monster petition directed to the county commissioners is being signed. This road is about to be improved, and, according to specifications, the big trees must come down, but so strong has been the protest against this action that the work of cutting down the trees has been deferred pending action by the commissioners. If the trees are saved, it will mean that the road at fhif point will be narrower than elsewhere. Superintendent J. C. Sullivan, of the Wabash railroad, has announced that his company will during the present week break ground in Fort Wayne for the preliminary work of track elevation. It is said that the Pennsylvania Company Is also ready to begin work alon, lines which havo been agreed on. Preparation for the separation of grades at several of the more important street crossings in the heart of the city were begun more than four years ago, and this week will witness the beginning of the actual task of reconstruction of the lines of both the Wabash and the Pennsylvania companies through that city. Undaunted by his previous experience in a. matrimonial way, Francis Moore, ov "ier of a 240-acre farm near Leo, Allen County, is advertising for a wife. Moore, who admits that he is past CO years of age, has had one experience with a mail order wife, and the fact that the match was not a dazzling success, has not soured him on the fair sex. "I haven't any heirs or other relatives," declared Moore, "bo I can please myself with the wife I select. I wish a good woman, between the' ages of 25 and 30 years, and advertising is about as cheap a method as any of getting a wife. . My last wife I got through an advertisement that I saw in a Detroit paper. She was certainly a fine woman, but she was faithless and I obtained a divorce." The first croak of the spring frog has been heard at Oakland City. The robins, wrens and red birds have made their appearance in numbers. G. W. Durklss, on Rural Route No. 2 east of Peru, owns a Duroc half Chester White sow that has farrowed twenty pigs. The same sow raised twenty-three pigs from the two preceding litters. At the present time there is a scarcity of hogs In Miami County and brcd sows are selling at $13 to $70 each. The largest catfish ever caught in the Wabash river at Montezuma was found In the ice recently by P. L. Reid while on a hunting trip. It weighed 125 pounds and measured eighteen Inches across the body, 5J feet long and fourteen Incres across the head. Perley Pearson, one of the largest land owners in the vicinity of BloomIngdale, has just celebrated his eightieth birthday anniversary by sprinting a quarter of a mile in 2:19 flat. Mr. Pearson, who is unusually active for a man of hi3 years, wore a pair of heavy rubbers when he made the run. Mrs. Daniel Harvey, wife of th chief of the Xewcastle fire departmcp took an overdose of medicine for neu ralgla In her chest and died two hours later, despite efforts of physicians to save her life. John Schroeder, aged 5G, chief electricial of the Fort Wayne fire department, was found dead seated In his chair at tho desk In his office at fire department headquarters recently. He had just returned from breakfast when stricken. Schroeder was a veteran of the fire department, having served since 1875.

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William Schoff, general foreman of the Frankfort waterworks, fell dead from a wagon In which he was driving. He was formerly a resident of Fairfield, Ohio. Silas Cook, a merchant of Hortonville, died at Alexandria from the effects of the excitement caused when a car ii which he was sitting jumped the track and brought on an attack of heart trouble. Frank Stevens, of Moores Hill, has a brood sow that is threatening a new method of lowering the price of pork. She has just given birth to eighteen pigs, sixteen of which bid fair to live. The average weight of the youngsters is one pound and ten ounces. Jacob E. Schultz, raw fur dealer at Petersburg, broke the record for prices for a mink hide, buying a specie of mink that is found in Maine and paying $9 for it. The animal was caught sixteen miles north of Petersburg, was small, but thickly coated with very fine fur. The reward of $300 offered by the Allen County Commissioners for the murderers of Town Marshal Croy, of Woodburn, has been divided. Seventenths went to Dr. Don Gorrell and the remainder went to William Landis and Oscar E. Benjamin equally. The citizens fund of $2,000 will be divided by the Circuit Court. A mother, 99 years old, appeared before the State Board of Pardons recently seeking tho release of her son, Albert Kinley, who is serving a term in the Michigan City Prison for stealing junk. The woman said that her son had been sentenced in 1906 from Marion County, and she argued that he had paid sufficient penalty for his offense. For thirty-five years Samuel Stephens, of Greenfield, suffered more or less pain in his jaw. Physicians were unable to locate the cause until a few days ago, when a stone one-half inch long and three-eights of an inch thick was removed from the muscles near his ear. Stephens has no idea how or when the stone became imbedded in his head. A second hospital for animals is to be established In Muncie at once by Dr.,OrviIIe L. Boor, a veterinary surgeona One institution of the kind has been in successful operation for several years. Dr. Boor will construct his own building at a cost of $10,000 and it will be located near the center of the city. Every possible comfort for sick and injured animals will be provided. Thurman Percifield and Clarence Marshall, of Nashville, tell an early spring fish story and are willing to make affidavit that the story is true. The two young men were fishing with minnows in Salt creek, and were sitting close together. A bass took the minnow on Percifield's hook and then gobbled the minnow on Marshall's hook. Both men jerked at about the same time and landed the fish, which was fastened to both hooks. The bass weighed two pounds, and it was divided equally. Henry Williams, aged 28, of Lafayette, formerly of Ladoga, a Monon brakeman, was seriously injured at Wallace Junction, south of Crawfordsville, by being crushed between two cars. He was taken to the hospital at Bloomlngton, where it is said he can not recover. A strange fate it seems pursues the Williams family. Henry Williams Is the third son of Isher Williams, of Ladoga. The eldest son, Ora Williams, was killed ten years ago at Ladoga by being run over by a train. About a year ago the second son, Mont Williams, was killed on the Monon railroad. All three sons were employed as trainmen by this railroad company. The injured man's home is at Lafayette, where he has a wife and child. Dr. and Mrs. John M. Stucky celebrated the sixtieth anniversary of their marriage at their home In Gosport recently. All the children were present, with many grandchildren. The children are Dr. Thomas E. Stucky, Homer W. Stucky, E. W. Stucky and Mrs. II. C. Binkley, all of Indianapolis, and Dr. Fred V. Stucky, of Gosport. Dr. J. M. Stucky, who is 80 years old, is a Kentuckian by birth, and came to Gosport from Louisville in 1848. He was graduated from the University of Louisville, a medical school, and was in the active practice of medicine in this place for fifty-five years. Dr. Stucky was a member of the Indiana Legislature In 1866. He was assistant surgeon of the Fifty-ninth Indiana Regiment during the Civil War, and participated in the battle of Shiloh. In the early days he was a fighter for the adoption of the free school system of Indiana, and he has been prominent in all temperance legislation and identified with all early developments. Mrs. Stucky, who is 77 years old, is a daughter of Hezekiah Wampler, an early settler and large real estate holder in Owen and Monroe Counties. rotn are enjoying good health. Thomas Cottrell, one of the members of the eld guard of the democracy died at his home on East Ohio street, Indianapolis, after a-month's illness. Bert Swan, who is giving a diving act at an Evansville theater this week, tried to swim the Ohio river there, which is over two miles wide, on a wager. When he got about one-third of the way across he was seized with cramps and would have drowned had not a boat which trailed him picked him up. The 4-year-old daughter of Louis Trapp, of Evansville, was struck by an automobile driven by Carl Laval and hurled fifty feet into the air and over a fence upon a lawn. While the little one was badly, injured, it is believed she will recover. James E. Jean, a Worthington contractor, went hunting on White river and it Is be ticked he has been drowned. His submerged boat .was found in some willows, his coat being found entangled in the branches. He was formerly city marshal of Worthington. Joseph Karl Rudolf Egger, formerly assistant professor of German at Butler College, Indianapolis, has been adjudged insane. Nervous collapse, resulting from overwork, was given as the cause of his derangement. Reports from Borden, the center of the berry growing district, are that the early kinds of strawberries are considerably damaged by the exposure following the snow. Late varieties promise fairly well at present. Peach growers are Inclined to take a gloomy view of the result of the bad weather of February.

CHICAGO. R- G. Dun & Co.'s weekly review of Chicago trade says: The volume of payments through the banks sustains high levels and U a favorable index of the extending activity in. ommerce. Further ease also appears in money, and this has induced better borrowing for both trade and investment. "Current operations show steady progress, aided by more seasonable weather, the desire to push construction and wider demands in the leading industrial and distributive branches. Movements of grain, live stock and provisions exhibit declines, but the gross earnings of t?i Chicago steam roads rise, and there are heavy forwardings of finished outputs, raw supplies and general merchandise. "Heavier contracts for equipment are now issued and important tonnage closed for rails, pig iron, motive power, cars and miscellaneous steel shapes. Building operations assure much work throughout the coming season, while additional machinery and hands an employed in woodworking. Dealings in the leading retail lines are stimulated by the attractive exhibits of fashionable wear. "Bank clearings, $312,456,414, exceed those of the corresponding week ia 1909 by 18.4 per cent and compare with $241,307,731 in 1908. Failures reported in the Chicago district numbered twenty-nine, as against twelve last week, eighteen in 1909 and thirty in 1908. Those with liabilities over$5,000 number six, as against three last week, ten in 1909 and eleven in 1908." NEW YOBK. Trade reports continue to display a certain degree of irregularity, a tendency particularly noticeable in the V.act twirta rt -tho nparhv South and hiu scattered sections of the West. Yet. on the whole, trading at a majority of points is probably better than it was last week, the South as a whole reporting improvement, the Northwest showing ip in good shape and the far West being .good, with the Southwest satisfactory. More favorable weather conditions appear to be the chief influence making for improvement, but, on the other hand, the poor condition of country roads tends to deter anything like a free movement. Staple lines are In chief request. Business failures for the week ending with March 10 were 230 as against 184 last week, 254 In the like week of 1909, 278 in 1908. 186 in 1907 and 187 in 19C6. Bradstreet's. Chicago Cattle, common to prime, $4.00 to $8.50; hogs, prime heavy, $7.00 to $10.90; sheep, fair to choice, $4.50 to $8.10; wheat. No. 2, $1.18 to $1.23; corn. No. 2, 57c to 59c; oats, standard, 42c to 44c; rye, No. 2. 78c to 79c; hay, timothy, $10.00 to $19.00; prairie. $8.00 to $15.00; butter, choice creamery, 28c to 31c; eggs, fresh, 20c to 24c; potatoes, per bushel, 20c to 40c. Indianapolis Cattle, shipping, $3.09 to $7.63; hogs, good to choice heavy, $7.00 to $10.70; sheep, good to choice, $3.00 to $5,75; wheat, No. 2, $1.18 tc $1.20; corn. No. 2 white, 59c to 60c; oats, No. 2 white, 43c to 45c. St Louis Cattle, $4.00 to $8.00; hogs. $7.00 to $10.S3; sheep. $3.50 to $8.50; wheat. No. 2, $1.25 to St.27; corn. No. 2, 57c to 59c; oats. No. 2. 43c to 45c; rye, No. 2, 79c to ?0c. Cincinnati Cattle, $4.00 to $7.03; hogs, $7.00 to $10.60; sheep, $3.00 t $6.54; wheat. No. 2. $1.20 to $1.21; corn, No. 2 mixet. C0c to 61c; oats. No. 2 mixed, 47c to 49c; rye. No. 2, 83c to 85c. Detroit Cattle, $4 00 to $7.00; hogs, $7.00 to $9.80;. ßheep, $3.50 to $6.23; wheat, No. 2, $1.17 to $1.18; corn, No. 3 yellow, 61c to 62c; oats, standard. 46c to 47c; rye, No. 1, 80c to 81c. Milwaukee Wheat, No. 2 northern. $1.12 to $1.16; corn, No. 3, 61c to 03c; oats, standard. 44c to 45c; rye, No. 1, ?Sc to 80c; barley, standard. 70c to lc; pork, mess, $23.00. Buffalo Cattle, choice shipplnc teers. 14.00 to $7.23; hogs, fair to tholce, $8.00 to $11.00; sheep, common, to good mixed. $4.09 to $7.40: lambs, fair to choice, $5.00 to $9.75. New York Cattle, $4.00 to $6.80; hogs. $8.00 to $10.65; sheep. $4.00 to $6.50; wheat. No. 2 red, $1.26 to $1.27; corn. No, 2, 63c to 63c; oats, natural, white, 49c to '51c; butter, creamery, 23c to 32c; eggs, western, 22c to 25c. Toledo Wheat. Xo. 2 mixed. S1.17 to $1.19; corn. No. 2 mixed. 61c to 63c; oats. No. 2 mixed, 45c to 4Cc; rye. No. 2, 79c to 80c; clover seed. $7.70. SHORT JTEWS UOTXS. A. slight earthquake shock was felt al Portland, Ore. A voluntary increase of conductors and motormen's wages from 18 t 20 cents an hour, effective March 16, has been announced by the Readin Traction Company. Charging issuance of fraudulent, whisky receipts as collateral for loans amounting to $300,000, a warrant was issued at Baltimore for George T. Gambrill, president of the Rosbury Distilling Company, now In receivers hands. J. B. Rinehart, former cashier of a Waynesburg, Pa., bank, serving a fifteen-year prison sentence on a charge of looting the institution, is fightinc the effort of the bank's receiver to seize his $500,000 estate to cover part of his alleged defalcations. With a jury In the box ready to hear the trial at Kansas City of Eugene Hays, charged with killing Edward Hays, the State dismissed the case on a plea by the defense that a deputy prosecutor had made shorthand notes in the room of the grand jury that indicted Hays. A new charge of murder was filed later. J. D. Sfcewalter, of Kansas City, announced his candidacy for the United States Seru te as a Democrat to succeed Willi im Warner, Republican, whose werm expires in 1911. Justus L. Cozad, founder of the Guarantee Title and Trust Company of Cleveland, died in that city, aged 76. He had been active in banking and real estate circles for twenty-five years. Frank Dever, head of the Lehigh Valley Coal Company's engineer corps In the Hazleton, Pa., district, and Joseph Grulla, a laborer, were killed by a dynamite explosion in the Duch Mountain colliery.

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