Saturday Evening Mail, Volume 12, Number 32, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 4 February 1882 — Page 4

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THE MAIL

A PAPER FOR THE PEOPLE.

P. S. WESTFALL,

EDITOR AND PROPRIETOR.

PUBLICATION OIT1CB,

Ho 26 Booth 6th st, Printing Home Square.

TERRK HAUTE, FEB. 4, 1882.

FREE BEATS.

The fact that so many of the churches In this city and elsewhere have given up what was called the free seat system does not indicate that the churches are out of sympathy with the poor, or willingly relax any effort to reach all classes. It simply indicates that they have been so far in the advance of the times that they must return a step or two and wait for public opinion to catch up. it is very easy for outside, or inside parties to sneer at the churches for this baekward step. The fact is that the churches for ten years or more have tried pretty faithfully to meet necessary •expenses by voluntary contributions. They forsook a plan which was working very well, so far as securing the needful -funds, and they did it solely in the in

terests

of

right principle

of the people. They have found that

SOOVILLK'H plea for $2,000 from the American people, wherewith to further prosecute Uuiteau's defence, has brought forth t\ torrent of protest. The sentiment of the country is that the miserable travesty on human nature has been defended too much already, and that tho sooner ho is put out of the way in a legal man nor the better it will bo for ail. Like lawyers generally do, Scoville has got worUed up. in his case until he imagines that tho blood of the guilty wretch will be on his hands if hedoe9 not in somo way save his worthless neck from tho haltor. This is a delusion of tho hour, and will pass away with the had shown to

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occasion. Uuiteou has him tho extremo of leniency and fair all of them in the Mississippi Valley or beyond it—alone have more males than

treatment, a jury of his country have

should not affect such as couacientioualy obscrvo the seventh day of the week as the Sabbath. The case was a prosecution for selling cigars on Sunday, and it was argued that the proviso gives to the Hebrew rare privileges and immunities not enjoyed by other citirens. The Court thinks such is not tho effect of the law.

THR Indianapolis Journal suggests, as a measure of relief to the President, that the office of postmaster be made elective so that the people may decide who shall handle their letters. The idea is a giwd one. S- important a matter as the selection of the village pewtmuster ought not to be left to the caprice of a single individual, even if he is the President.

pronounced hlsn responsible for his act, females. San Francisco* has 132,608 males, against 101,351 females, and Kansas City, 31,999 males to 23,788 females.

and it remains now to put the judgment into execution. There is no need of another trial and there is no likelihood that tbero will be another. One such trial as the country has witnessed

national stomach can stand.

XNGLISH 3RTJTAL1TY. OUT English cousins, some of them at least, oaem to be heartily ashamed of the warm sympathy given us when our President was murdered, and are doing what they canto atone for the blunder which they made in thinking, for a moment, that Americans could be worthy of English sympathy. "Guiteau is a typical American," says the Saturday Review, and adds that his act is the natural result of democrary.

The

convicted

assassin is deemed worthy of thanks, by the same paper, for the lesson which he has taught. Even the London Times took particular pains, during the entire course of the trial,

to

parade every vile

and blasphemous utterance of the wretch who was beyond the reach of restraint because baser than the lowest criminals and now that the trial is over, this Thunderer declares that English sympathy was wasted, and gives, as a reason, the declaration that "all Americans, the educated people excepted, sat by Garfield's bedside, not as sympathizing friends, but as dabblers in the mysteries of physiology." And this is said by a paper, the editor of which has recently been in this country, and who knows, if he knows anything, that the assertion is utterly false. He might know also that the trial of Guiteau has not been "per-

and the masses feetly satisfactory, as is asserted, but

that on every hand

the ordinary church goer will not pay as that the impious wretch be compelled to much simply from principle to support silence if it were possible. •the church as he will to gratify his pride or his selfishness in reference to the seat criminal, and have keenly felt this dis•wbich he may occupy. Men who will pay a hundred dollars for the best seat in church will dropdown to fifty or seventy- human race, aad we do not believe that five when it is merely to support church services and take their chances as to aeat. All church goers will not do this but it takes but few to eat a big hole into the income. Again churches iTave found the typical American. But we do not by this experiment that the people who believe that the^e are typical English seldom or never go to church and yet •desire to be reckoned among church goers because it is respectable, want to have .a Beat though they do not want to occupy it. The revenue from this source is cut off by the free seat system and so another big hole is eaten into tl»e revenues. The churches have found also thatsome people will go to church once a month or such a matter, if they can reserve a seat and be sure of finding it empty when they do chanoe to go, but will not help pay the bills uuless they can have a reserved seat. The churches have also found that the poor are not so an xioufl to go to ohurch and pay their mites as would seem to be the case when they excuse themselves for not going to church ljecause they cannot afford to rent a seat. The churches have tried very.faithfully, and with a good deal of hard work'to keep all seats free and make all men free .and equal in their houses of worship, and some most worthy Christian people have done a good deal of hard work and spent not a little money for this purpose. Possibly they have bocomo disoouraged too soon, but It will hardly do for those who have not done tho work or paid the bills to growl at those who have Ministers have got to hammer ibe gospel into the public a while longer before they «au expect men to be as gener ous from principle, even in church matters, as they are to gratify pride and selfishness. The average man would atiH prefer to pay a hundred dollars for a reserved seat inehurch for himself and faruily, to paying that same sum to make the preaching of the gospel the most efficient possible, l^et him that is willing to give more, or as much, to make tho gospol free as he is to h^ve the best neat in church, cast the first stone at those who reluctantly go back to rental seats. Wo honor the churches for the effort which they have made, and heart iiy bid them hotter luck next time.

has risen the demand

have been heartily ashamed to have such

grace. Such brutality as these false declaratiens indicate area disgrace to the

it caA be equalled out of England. If these are typical English papers then we Americans would not be muoh worse off than the English even if Guiteau were

papers. We fully expect to see this brutal misrepresentation promptly re pudiated and severely rebuked by the English press itself. We do not believe that the noble Queen, nor one in ten thousand of her subjects, will assent to the declaration that Guiteau is a representative American, or that his crime was the natural result of our form of government, or that the sympathy so generously given, was wasted. We shall see. __

THK Indianapolis Times rises to make some very sensible remarks on the subject of government appointments at Washington. After stating that it does not belong to the number who grieve because Indiana has not her quota of appointments in the departments, it says: "A young man engaged in any useful aRd productive vocation is a positive force and factor in the progressive development of the State with a prospect of adding to its wealth and his own. The same young man, in a clerkship at Washington, is a nonentity and of the least possible value in the body politic. We fail to 8eo that the State would be in anyway the gainer by having a few dozen or score more of its young men appointed to government clerkships. It is high time our young men should understand that holding a little government position is about the poorest business in the world, and time we should all learn to see something else in polities besides getting somebody appointed to office."

There is about as much concentrated wisdom to the square inch in this as in anything we have seen for a good many days. There is no question but. the business of office holding in this country, as now managed, tends to debauch and demoralize the public morals and an earnest and persistent effort should be made to cure or at least ameliorate the evil.

To THK superficial glance, nothing would appear to be dryer or less interesting than tables of statistics. But this is not the case. Some of the most interesting facts of social life are derived from the intelligent study of these re-pulsive-looking figures. Take, for instance, the numerical relations of the sexes, and tho census tables reveal some interesting facts. In the entire country there is an excess of nearly a million males over females. But in nearly all the cities the females aro in excess of the males. In New York there are—males, 509,514 females, 616,785 in Philadelphia—males, 405,975 females, 441,195

Brqpklyn—males, 272,248 females, 294,415 in Boston—males, 172,168 females' 190,571 in Baltimore—males, 157,393 females, 174 290. The nine cities of Chicago, St. Louis, San Francisco,Cleveland, Pittsburg, Kansas City, Columbus, Minneapolis and St. Paul

In the other cities named, the excess of males is very small. An explanation of the phenomenon is ventured in the sug-

for weeks past is quite as much as the gestion that more females than males are

THK Supreme Court of this State has ro-atllrinod the validity of the Sunday law, holding it not to be unconstitutional by reason of the provision

that-

it

employed in household service and in the continually increaaing employment of females in manufacturing and mercantile pursuits. i.

THK most remarkable success in Western journalism has been that of the Indiauapolis Times, the new morning daily. Started little mora than six mouths ago, Mr. Holloway, the publisher, is able this week to make affidavit that the average daily circulation for last month was 10,015. It is a model paper, and to newspaper men this growth Is not so very surprising. It is simply the reward of true merit.

TIIK Chicago Inter-Ocean states that the past year developed more extravagance on the part of the people of the United States, with respect to the luxuries of life and ornaments for personal. or household adornment, than was ever' seen before, and it looks aa if the present! year would show a still greater excess.

TERRli VTAXJTE SATuifri3AY 3£IJSl (ir MAIL.

a pious fraud,

BOY PREACHER,

in 1100 per week, clear of board, washing and lodging a well regulated keno bank can make that much in a night. Honest,

hard-working

people

thank their Maker if they can make from $1 to $5 per day. Wonder if there will be

any

Improvement in the next

world? The above item, clipped rofal a New Albany paper, may sound "smart," but we should like to be informed just where the sense of it comes in. Who enables the keno bank to make $100 a night? If it is not the "honest,

hard-workingpeo­

ple," they are not injured and have no cause to complain if it be such, it is

within

or

their own power to remedy the

evil. As to thii: "boy preacher's" mak ing $100 a night, Patti makes several thousand a night. Which work ought to command the highest wages—singing

saving souls That it costs five dollars to hear Patti is of no consequence to the people who don't buy the tickets and nobody is obliged to buy them, This world is in the nature of a "go-as-you-please for all," and the fellow that r«n run the fastest wins the race, that's all. How can you make it any freer or anyjbetter? Evidently the Lord couldn't, A world where all the people were paid exactly alike, whether they did good work or bad, coarse work or fine, would be a dreary failure. We don't believe that the "New Jerusalem" will be any such place. Life would be more insipid than a sucked orange if all the zest of contest and competition were squeezed out of it. We are not a railroad, nor yet even a bank president, but we are willing to take our chances with the rest.

IN spite of the strenuous laws against lotteries which exist in this State a way has been found to carry one on with impunity. Some shrewd lottery men of New York dug up an old act of the Territorial Legislature of 1807, granting to the University of Vinoennes tue right to raise the sum of $20,000 by lottery. It appears that the right has never been exercised by the University and now, after the lapse of seventy-five years, the Supreme Court have decided that the right is a vested one and the lottery men have undertaken to supply the University with the needed funds by opening a permanent lottery in Indianapolis,agreeing to exercise the franchise for the University and pay it a certain sum annually until the $20,000 is made up. It is /thought the lottery men have a soft thing, being enabled, under oloak of this old law, towork a lottery scheme without competition in the State. Drawings are to bemade daily and as the smallest amounts are permitted to be invested, the business appeals specially to the poorer classes and is of the most vicious kind.

THK proposition to freeze Guiteau's corpse and cart it about over this country and Europe for purposes of exhibition, is one of the grossest and most disgusting that has ever been made in a civilized community. And of all places in the country this scheme haghadits l^irth in staid, decency-loving Philadelphia! It seems that the proposition is no canard but comes from a responsible party and that thp relatives of the assassin are disposed to consider it favorably in view of the fact that they are promised onehalf the receipts. If such a spectacle as this would actually prove a pecuniary success the moral status of Europe and America is indeed discouraging. But that it would succeed is hardly credible. The press of the country would so open their batteries upon the disgracoful spectacle that people would be shamed out of going to see it, even if they really desired to do so.

STATISTICS gathered by the State bureau as to the wages received by different classes of workmen in the S$ato, show a greater diversity than would perhaps bo supposed. For instance, engineers receive an average of $3.50 per day of twelve hours, while employes in saloons get only $1.25 for fourteen hours' work. Next to engineers, miners and brick makers receive the highest pay averaging $3.00 a day. Printers get $2.50, machinists $2.25, book-keepers $2.00, and day-laborers $1.50. While it is not supposed that these figures are entirely accurate, they give some idea of the relative compensation of thedifferent kinds of labor mentioned.

LATE developments of the diplomatics correspondence with Chili indicate that we were well nigh to a war with that republic. Indeed, had Mr. Blaine continued in tho cabinet a war could hardly have been avoided. This discovery was in the nature of news to the people who did not dream that they had any belligcrant purposes towards Chili or any other power. It is suggested too that such war would have been no child's play, as Chili's navy is much more effective than ours and that, in the beginning at least, we would have been whipped.

IN forty years the population of the United States has grown from seventeen to fifty millions. That is well enough, but an unfovorable feature is that much the largest increase has been in the cities. This is not a good sign because the great bulk of crime and misery Is found there, while the prosperity of nation like outs depends largely on the prosperity and development of its agricultural resources. Then tendency of young men to leave country life and crowd into the it is a a ha $

IT is surprising how many cities are waking up to a knowledge of the advantages they possess for the manufacture of locomotives. If their own estimates are to be accepted but few towns in the country ought to be without an establishment for the manufacture of this lino of merchandise.

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PATTI, the great diva, did actually sing in Indianapolis on Tuesday, and the city of concentric circles went into divine raptures, as was becoming. There was much doubt for a time whether the sale of seats was such as to warrant the divine warbling, and it would be interesting to know ho\^ many of those who bought five-dollar tickets would have been happier if the concert had failed.

JIM BLAINE is an able mati. Nobody doubts that. But it is suggested that most of his time since he has been in public life has been spent in defending himself. To the casual observer it occurs that there is too much of the defensive element in Mr. Blaine's recerd.

IT is now positively stated that Guiteau's body will not be put on exhibition It appears that, under the law, Judge Cox can order it given to the medical authorities for purposes of dissection and if necessary to prevent the threatened disgrace he will do this.

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REV. H. W. BELLOWS, the leading minister of the Unitarian church in this country, died in New York, Monday. He was in his 68th year. During the war he was the president and chief promoter of the famous Sanitary Commission.

AMONG the recent deaths of distinguished persons is that of Theophilus Parsons, noted as a law-writer, and for twenty years one of the professors of the Harvard Law school. He attained the ripe age of "nearly eighty-five.

IN the list of 100 of the principal cities of the United States, as shown by the last census, the leading towns of Indiana rank as follows: Indianapolis 24th, Evansville 66th, Fort WaynG 74th, and Terre Haute 76th.

THK Chicago press does not entertain the opinion that Anna Dickinson was cut out for a great actress. The conviction deepens that Miss Anna is ambitious t• excel in too many roles.

THK new apportionment bill does not change the number of Representatives in Congress from this State, the number under the new bill being thirteen, as heretofore.

NEITHER of the political parties seem to hanker after along political campaign this season.

THE sentiment of the country is that polygamy must go.

MOBB Mormon deviltry is reported.

SA YINQS AND DOINGS.

Never look an iron horse in the mouth. A Baltimore church has adopted the electric light.

A fool and an accerdeon aro both easily drawn out. Don't go to bed with cold feet. Your own or anyoody elses.

Many are beginning to realize mining stocks are about on a par with the coal oil craze.

Boiling hair in a solution of tea will darken it, says an exchange, but some folks don't liko to have their tea darkened in that way.

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trial for It would stolen it

A Lousville doctor is on stealing a dead woman's heart. havo been all right had he while she was alive.

An aesthetic poet wrote: "The muses kiss with lips of flame," but when be found the second word printed "mules," he talked like a burly pirate for five minutes.

A magazine writer says the profession al humorists are the poorest paid of any class of journalists. By some of the jokes they make we should think they were on the point of starvation all the time.

Of the thirty inebriate asylums established in this country during the past twenty-five years, but four have gone out of existence. Somo people look on them as having a sanitary value, while others regard them as oonvenient lockups for inconvenient relatives.

A wicked man has boeu getting a dol lar apiece from simple-minded farmers by sending tfyem through the mail, for $1, a "receipt" to prevent pumps from freezing ou colds nights. The answer to the farmers' letters was: "Take them indoors over night." Some sheep really do seem to have* been made to be sheared.

DEATH RATHER THAN DI&HONOR. N. Y. Herald. At a time when most men are wildly working, cheating and stealing wilb only the purpose of grasping the almighty dollar, it is pleasant to record the existence—up to a recent date—of a man to whom principle was dearer than money, or eveu life. He was a North Carolinian and a bridegroom. He came in from a hunting expedition and asked his wife to pull of his boota for him. The lady declined, perhaps from the capridousness that sometimes characterizes a bride. The husband might have coaxed a boy by an offer of a few cents tojdo the job^ or be might have insisted upon his rights under the timehonored principle that the first duty of wife is to do whatever dirty work a husband may impose upon her. Between these two courses he seems to have been unable to decide one wonld have involved an exercise of authority to which the lady would object with sufficient persistency to damage the bliss of the honeymoon, the other would have involved him in ex pease. What this high spirited fellow did, therefore, was to deliberately shoot himself. The public, always the well wisher of men who want to do the proper thing, will gons by freezing, largely increased the be glad to learn that the shot attended mortality among the sick and feeble, so strictly to business that the fine fel- Our Northern cold is aa dangerous as tow promptly died with his boots on, Southern beats.

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IS THIS OUR BALDWIN* N. Y. Sua. S. S. Baldwin, a Cincinnati spiritualist, tells the Enquirer that he came to New York expressly to investigate the performances of Slade, the noted medium, who was then giving seances here. He had about fifty sittings, at $5 to $10 each, and it was not until his seeming credulity had disarmed Slade and made him a little careless that any trickery was discovered. Beyond leading the medium to transmit numerous messages from persons who were not dead, not much was accomplished until four laonths of effort had been made. Then materialization were called for, and tho spirit of a female put her hand and forearm into tangible shape under the table. "On the night fixed upon for an exposure," Mr. Baldwin says, "I took my friend with me. I requested the materilization of my deceased female friend. The light was turned down, and she was promptly produced, and her hand extended for me to fondle as before. The band was quite adroit, but after awhile

I succeeded in grasping it. It was soft and frail like a woman's. I gave a signal to my friend, and the table at which we sat was turned over. I drew from my pocket a little bomb prepared witn chemicals for the purpose, threw it upon the floor, and instantly the darkened room was illuminated as with an electric light. There was the whole secret exposed to view. My female friend from the shades of the blest was a sixteen-year-old bov." Mr. Baldwin mentions the Rev. George H. Hepworth as cognizant of this event.

INDECENCIES OF THE BIBLE. DeWitt Talmage. Mr. Ingersoll goes on and says there are indecencies in the Bible. He dares Christians to read certain parts of the Bible in their families. He takes up the Bible from his lecturing desk and says he will read some things, and then, with an affected blush, says there are some things he dare not read in the presence of families. His delicacy and modesty overcome him. My reply is, there are things not intended to be read either iu the family circle or in the pulpit, but, nevertheless, they are to be reaa. I can go into the office of any physician in Brooklyn and find on his table medical journals, and in his library books, that the physician would not think best to read in his family, yet they are good books, valuable books, indispensable books, pure books, and no physician would be worth the name of physician who did not 6wn them. Now there are things in the Bible which are merely the anatomy of sin, showing what a lazarhouse of iniquity tho heart is when unrestrained: loathsome descriptions, from the reading of which one rises with a profitable disgust and horror. Not to be read in public, but in private. One rises up from them not contaminated with the evil, but as one comes from the dissecting room, more intelligent than when he went in, yet in no wise enamored of putrefaction. There is a Byronic description of sin which allures and destroys, while the Bible description of sin warns and saves. Do notdenounce the Bible as unfit because there are some things in it not to be read in the family, unless you denouce all medical journals and books. They are not fit to read in the family.

A QUEER STORY.

Lucy Hooper's New York Letter to the St. Louis Republican. You know that I never write scandal, and seldom repeat any of the stories that go the rounds of the city, fbr many reasons, the first of them being a wholesome dread of libel suits, and the rest of them born from the generous impulses of my nature^ Ahem! But thero has been a little story going the rounds recently, that bids fair to become a very big story soon, and yet it has merit, if it is one, of being irresistibly funny. A lady and her husband, who have been married many years, live in an elegant home on fifth avenue, but as there are no children they never keep but one servant, who is maid-of-all-work and cook into the bargain. The present girl is an admirable cook, and an excellent servant altogether, such an is rarely found anywhere, and she is undeniably pretty. The lady had preferred a plainer face, but, at any rate, she kept her, as she was so valuable a servant, though the frequent praiso her husband lavished on ineir household treasure vexed her iu wardly, and the green-eyed monster be-

{iketo

jan ravage her heart. She did not to send tho girl away on suspicion

she felt almost sure she had heard stealthy steps upon the stairs leading to the girl's room, two or three times, when her husband was supposed to be at the "lodge."

One night her husband said incidentally that he had business which would keep him out very late, and told his wife she need not sit up for him. She atonoe saw a mouse, and determined on hor course. As soon as the supper was over and the husband gone, the lady went down stairs, and with her own bands put up a nice basket of dainties and gave them to the servant, telling her to take it home to her mother, and that she had permission to stay all night. The girl was not at all anxious to go in reality, she preferred to remain where she was, but she found it was obligatory, and she went, though unwillingly.

The mistress wailed awhile to be sure tho girl was gone, and then went up stairs to the servant's room and waited in the dark to satisfy herself. Sure enough, In about an hour she heard stealthy steps on the stairs, and dircctly soote oibe came into the room and called the name of the girl. The augry wife at once lit the gas and turned it on full, and turped to upbraid her husband, but, lot it was not her husband at all, but the ownorof the bouse next doort They stood and looked at each other without speaking, too astonished for words. At tnat very instant the lady's husband burst in and confronted them both, and then there was a general row. The husband bad seen this neighbor leaving bis house one night, and of course his suspicions were aroused, and he determined to watch. He saw bis neighbor come in, and followed him. He won't believe bis wife's explanation, and the servant declares that it is all got up to injure an innocent, pure girl, and so the matter stands. The poor wife has gone home to ber parents, and friends are trying to settle the difficulty, but the husband declares be will sue for a divorce. I don't know what moral could bededuced from such an awkwatd story, unless it is for neighbors not to take too much stock in other people's servant girls, for nobod/ except the jealous husband for one moment considers the wife to blame. She is. and has been, thoroughly estimable.

COLD AS FATAL AS HEAT. Boston Herald. The intense cold of the paat few days, beside causing the death of several por-

thus setting a much needed example to pi0 bavedied from pneumonia in New the entire breed of men who still cherish England during the last ten years as the notion that woman was made only have died from yellow fever in the to be the servant of man. whole South in the same period. --1X &££**?

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JENNIE CRAMER.

BLANCHE DOUGLASS TELLS THE TRUTH AT LAST.S

A HORRIBLE STORY!

Blanche Douglass, the woman arrested with the Malley boys for complicity in the murder of pretty Jennie Cramer, has determined to tell the truth with hope off escaping punishment. It is a most horrible story she tells of the undoing of this unfortunate girl. In dispelling the mystery which has hung about the case, the Malleys are shown up in a worse light than ever. And all the more hideous appears the she-devil who lured the victim into the society of the villain de~ termined to destroy her. A New Haven special to the Chicago Times says:

At an all-night session of the jury, Blanche began with a histery of her life, which has been told. She then went en to say that her acquaintance with Walter Malley commenced six months before her visit to New Haven. She was then living in Lizzie Buudy's house of prostitution. Walter Malley gave her his name as Walter Havelin. He alse gave his New Haven postoffice address. From Walter's first introduction 16 Liszie Bundy's, Blanche modestly said, he grew more and more absorbed and devoted. After awhile he came every week, and then twice a week, and in June he proposed that she should come to New Haven. She objected, and urged that they would get into a scrape by so doing. He, however, insisted tnat ahould come, and at length she came here with John Duff, Jr. Jennie

Cra­\she

mer first came into the party in July, when there was a ride to Buell's Hotel, at the East Haven shore, just after Blanche arrived. John Duff. Jr., wrote the note which invited Jennie to be of the party, and signed James Malley, Jr's, name to it. Then Blanche came to one night's occurrences at the Foote, or Redcliffe, building. Walter, Blanche, James, and Jennie Cramer had been riding. Instead of returning heme they were driven to the Foote building, where Walter and James Malley, Jr., entertained them. While there, Walter and Blanche Douglass slipped off in one room by themselves, aua left James Malley, Jr., and Jennie Cramer in another room. While Blanche was in the room with Walter she heard Jennie Cramer cry out repeatedly: "Don't, don't,*' and directly Blanche and Walter came o«t and all went home.

On Monday night, Aug. 3, Jennie Cramer, who had already told her mother that she was suspicious of Blanche and the Malleys, went to Miss Douglasa's rooms at the Elliott House, having just returned from the Union depot, where she had gone to say faiewell to friends. There bad been some difficulty about the loss of one of Blanche's handkerchiefs, and Jennie came to talk about that. James Malley, Jr., was there when Jennie came in. James urged Jennie to mo up to Walter Malley's house, and ahe finally consented. When at the Malley house Blanche Douglass was not sick, according to her own confossion, but only feigned sicknoss to induce Jennie to stay. While the young men and Blanche Douglass were urging Jennie to remain, James Malley, Jr. picked her np and carried her struggling to a room above, where he passed the night with her. Jennie's outcries woro such that Blanche, alarmed, urged her from without not to mako so much noise, for fear that it might alarm the neighbors. Blanche spent Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday nights (the latter. was the one Jennie died) with Walter Malley, at his house, she claimed.

The body of Jennie Cramer was discovered at West Haven, Saturday morning, Aug. 6. Blanche now told the juTy that Sunday afternoon and evening, after she had been forced to remove from the Elliot House to tho Austin House, she was occupied with Walter and James Malley Jr., and John Duff Jr.. who had been summoned hastily to New York, in concocting a story to be told before the Coroner's jury. (The Malleys had already engaged counsel.) Half a doaen stories were proposed and rejected finally the one used was agreed upon. Blanche Douglass was to give her adarees as No. 231 East Thirty-fourth street, New York, and Walter accordingly wrote this across oue corner of a bankerchief for her use. that she might not forget. This handkerchief she had in one hand while before the Coroner's jury testifying, and, to avoid exciting "it around her fit

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picion, twirled it around ber fingers. urors had attributed to nervousness.) To show that she was telling the truth, Blanche said rfbe had taken this hankercbief to New York, and said that it would be found to have tho name of Mrs. Gaskill, a name suggested by John Duff Jr., onjt, also on the corner. (The next morning an officer wont to New York and found the handkerchief. It was broaght bsck and was before the grand jury.) Sunday night Blanche passed the hours, so she eala, pacing her room and committing

This action the ju To

the story she was to tell to memory. It was agreed that all the party should insist that they never saw Jeanie Cramer alive later than Thursday noon. ...

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The discovery of articles of clothing in lanche Douglass' possession 1 rearing IO name of Lizzie Bundy so frightened her that she determined lo go to New York. Before she went, Walter Malley tried to mako an excuse to lit this exigency. He told a reporter that Lizsie Bundy was a friend uf Blanche's, and that the clothing was mixed in New York by mistake. Then ho saw his mistake and tried to suppress the publication of Lizzie Bundy's name, saying that she (Bundy) was a friend of bis. The next train took Blancho Douglass out of New Haven. In New York, she aays, she was approached by two members of the Malley family, who proposed to her to visit Europe. The details of this interview were given by tb6 witness. Blanche said that she decline 1 to go to Europe, although the Malleys offered to pay her expenses. She saUl that she did not think it would bo prudent for her torun away. When Blanche was Mkedby the jurors why she did notf«Jl tula story in the first place, she said thai Malleys would not let hor, but i'uai now she had seen ber mistake.

Blanche the name of Lizzie Bundy so frightenc

A gentleman of Port Jervis, N. If., has a family of three or four little gaSm, Not long since the children were talking about a pair of twins. One of tbem, an elder one, turned to her father and said: "Papa, what do they call It when three babies ceme atonce?" A HUle one, who was much interested in the conversation, and who bad heard talk about the smallpox, at once interrupted and said, with much animation. "I know, papa." "Well, what do they call it?^ said the father. "An epidemic," MW tho little one, proudly displaying her knowledge-

—When the skin is jHtrdkcd and freckled by strong northwest winds an# the face becomes dry and sealy, it can b» restored to smoothness and good color by Dr. Benson's Hklu Cure. A perfect, remedy for troublesome itching andi, vexatious pimples.

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