Saturday Evening Mail, Volume 28, Number 40, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 2 April 1898 — Page 4

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THE MAIL.

A PAPER FOR THE PEOPLE.

A. C. DUDDLESTON, Editor sad Proprietor.

Publication Office, No. 501% Ohio Street. Telephone 480. The Malt is sold In the city by newsboys and all newsdealers, or will be delivered to any address, by mall, at the rate of S3 a year, for six months, or 50 cento for three months.

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HAS any one heard of the 16 to 1 issue in the present Spanish excitement? r-^'

UNSATISFACTORY I Spanish policy has been nothing else for three hundred years.

esteemed local contemporary desires to free Cuba if it takes every last colored brother to do it. -sr

TUB United States has gone so far that not to take a step forward seems a step backward for it can no longer stand still.

JOIIXSOX, of Indiana—there is a brave man. It takes more courage to talk against hisses than to echo the cheers of a crowded gallery.

IK war does come, some of the men who are freeing Cuba—with their mouths, on the street corners—will have to be drafted if they see any service. -_•

THAT fleet of little torpedo boats moving from the Canaries towards our coasts is like a school of sword flsh, but our big men-of-war are not exactly helpless whales.

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all those patriots who want to be colonels and generals in the war with Spain get what they want, the question arises, where are we to g&b the soldiers for them to command

BETWEEN the report of the Spanish naval board on the sinking of the Maine and our board is the difference of only a single letter. The Spaniard says the cause was internal. Our report shows that it was infernal.

LITTLE, fat, round, podgy "Billy" Mason, of Illinois, is raising his voice for wur, when he knows his physique would prevent him from being accepted in any army in the world, except that of "Oom Paul" Kruger's.

MAUKICK THOMPSON, the Indiana writer, finely says, "But freedom always seems to come by the flame-lit, faminepaved, blood-washe'd* road. It is well worth the price. Still, it would be a flue spectacle to see the hand of peace, one time in history, do what has always been the work of war."

A KINK navy may be conducive to peace, but it is also provocative of war. Many are anxious to see our splendid war machines, at work and to read of brilliant victories. If our very good navy fails to scare the Spanish into submission one argument for a fine navy in times of peace goes by the board.

THK Gazette has received an answer from the civil service commission to its editorial on the lonely examination of Dr. Stunkard. On the same page with this editorial was some very useful advice to the Czar of Russia on the subject of the Greek church. If the czar has uot yet replied it may be because he has not yet seen the Gazette.

IT is announced that the late fistic champion, James J. Corbett, is to be a candidate for congress from one of the New York districts this fall. Mr. Corbett should strike for something higher than a mere congressman. His well-known ability to do the greater part of his flghtiug vocally would entitle him to become a United States senator.

BIMETALLISM is more nearly dead in Great Britain than ever. The importance of silver to India has accounted for British interest iu silver, but now that the government has definitely abandoned all intention of opening the Indian mints to silver, as it did last Tuesday, bimetallism is a closed incident in British politics, and the next move will be to iutroduce the gold standard in India, for which purpose a commission will soon be appointed.

CAPTAIN MAIIAN is one of the leading writers of the world on naval warfare, and has written one of the best of the histories of that great sea-fighter, Nelson, the hero of Trafalgar. It is of great interest to hear from such a man that "for more than thirty years I have based my practice upon a fall intellectual acceptance of the Christian faith, as explicitly set forth in the historic creeds—the Apostle's and the Nicene creeds. In these and in the Word of God I have found not merely comfort and strength but intense intellectual satisfaction/'

IT is not safe to predict war or peace today, but the odds are in favor of a declaration of war between Spain and the United States, and possibly a display of bristling guns, a few shots and then the dragging of Spain from the field by its European friends. This would save the Spanish honor, that curious honor which the Latin races talk aboui so much and violate so often. It is impossible that the Spanish government has nay intention of a proloused war with this country, or any hope of success. If it accept* war It is at the popular dictation which has tried to hurry McKinley Into fighting. If it accepts, it la With the Idea that the Spanish people will learn from a few practical le#* sons that the ministry is not to blame for weakening, bat the poverty of the country* If the tenons are learned the royal dynasty will be saved. We can afford to wish that the Kegent Christina will com# through the st»rm safely. It is not the Spanish royalty, nor the cabinet*, that are

so much responsible for the evils of the past as the Spanish character, which was fed in some of its worst qualities by Spain's old colonial riches and power, and will improve when the last colony is stripped from it.

was not one of ex-President Cleveland's specialties to be able to say a great deal in a few words. In fact, in his state papers he ran to the other extreme, that of using a great many words to say- a little. But The Mail does not know of a more striking example of the "much in little" theory than the following reply made by Mr. Cleveland to a request from one of the "yellow" journals of New York to permit the use of his name as a member of a national committee to raise funds to erect a monument to the victims of the Maine wreck:

PRINCETON, N. J., February 28, 1898.

To W. R. Hearst. New York Journal, New York: I decline to allow my sorrow for those who died on the Maine to be perverted to an advertising scheme for the New York Journal.

GBOVEB CLEVELAND.

If all public men had such courage there wonld be no "yellow" journalism.

PRESIDENT MCKINLEY has passed through the stress of a great struggle with distinguished honor. No weak man, nor mere demagogue, moved by popular clamor, yielding to the voice of the back districts, would have followed his line of conduct so long. War with Spain, to free Cuba, is popular and has been since the national convention met at St. Louis- If it were declared to-morrow conservatives and objectors would fall in line with the most pronounced jingos. Knowing this well, and that a spirited Cuban policy would exalt him to the skies in the estimation of the great majority, and probably add the glare of military glory to his party and his administration, McKinley has done everything possible to avoid the popular method of settlement by war. He hates war and shrinks from bloodshed so didJWahington, Lincoln and Grant, as brave hearts, ever the tenderest, always will. But he is not a coward, for he has been in battle His moral strength was revealed last month, and will be again when he advises the nation to rescue Cuba from its long enslavement. He will go into history as another brave man who threw away the scabbard with reluctance, but held the naked sword without a tremor.

A WORD OF ADVICE

To Those Coming to Alaska or tlie Klondike Gold Fields. One thing should be impressed upon every miner, prospector or trader coming to Alaska, to the Klondike, or the Yukon country, says the Alaska Mining Journal, and that is the necessity for providing an adequate and proper food supply. Whether procured in the states, in the dominion, or at the supply stores here or further on, this must be his primary concern. Upon the manner in which the miner has observed or neglected this precaution more than upon any other one thing will his success or failure depend.

These supplies must be healthful and should be concentrated, but the most careful attention in the selection of foods that will keep unimpaired indefinitely under all the conditions which they will have to encounter is imperative. For instance, as bread raised with baking powder must be relied upon for the chief part of every meal, imagine the helplessness of a miner with a can of spoiled baking powder. Buy only the very best flour it is the cheapest in the end. Experience has shown the Royal Baking Powder to be the most reliable and the trading companies now uniformly supply this brand, as others will not keep iu this climate. Be sure that the bacon is sweet, sound and thoroughly cured. These are the absolute necessities upon which all must place a chief reliance, and can under no oircumstances be neglected. They may, of course, be supplemented by as many comforts or delicacies as the prospector may be able to pack or desire to pay for.

A book of receipts for all kinds of cookery, which is specially valuable for use upon the trail or in the camp, is published by the Royal Baking Powder Company, of New York. The receipts are thoroughly practical, and the methods are carefully explained, so that the inexperienced may, with its aid, readily prepare everything requisite for a good, wholesome meal, or even dainties if he has the necessary materials. The matter is in compact though durable form, the whole book weighing but two ounces. Under a special arrangement this book will be sent free to miners or others who may desire it. We would recommend that every one going to the Klondike procure a copy. Address the Royal Baking Powder Co., New York.

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Cafe and Observation

eats. Excellent scrvtoe on Superb through trains. Queen & Crescent Route from Cindtt&aii South.

Bulldogs! Hariri Did your courage ftrtl? Bulldogs! Hark!. Did your glory pale? What of the slander that says «'Lt-cayed!" And "gone to the dogs .since the. Light brigade?" F«r the blood and the bone that humbled Nap, 'Twas there again,,beys, in the Dargai gap.

Did ye hear the swish of the flying shot," The roll of the dram and the rattle pot, The music that rose clear o'er that yell ATM* thrilled through the ranks and stirred up hell? Come, highland laddie, head up and step forth, A crown of glory—cook of the north!

You cock of the north, ah, pipe away, With both stumps gone, but you won the day! You may lean your back against comrades now. They'll moisten yoor lips and tuey kiss your brow. For they fought like men, and a man may weep When he lays a man to his last long sleep.

Bulldogs who sleep on the Dargai ridge, Fall in! Quick march! And over the bridge! The piper's ahead and the same old air To pipe you to heaven and veterans there! Ami you'll tell the bullies who humbled Nap The glorious story of Dargai gap—Richard Mansfield in New York Times.

BY CHARLES B. LEWIS.

Nancy Jones, as everybody called her, bad been brought up to the age of 30 by a widowed mother. Owing to her masculine looks and deportment all the young men gave her a wide berth. It was said she bad no womanly feelings, and the idea of her ever falling in love was laughed to scorn. And yet only a few days after I saw her for the first time that very thing happened. There came to the town of Stratford as an employee of the bank a young man 'named Charles Fletoher, and at their very first meeting, which was a business affair, the young woman was smitten with his good looks. Fletcher was 25 years old, and, although flattered by the young woman's preference for him, was not ready to fall in love with her. Indeed, although in time he escorted hex about and was a frequent visitor at her home, he denied that his intentions were serious. She, however, was determined to have Fletoher for her husband and beoame so jealous Of him as to exoite public ridicule. In. time he resented her bondage and sought to break with her, and it was this action which caused the tragedy I am about to relate. When the young woman became thoroughly convinced that she had lost her lover, she insisted that he visit her upon a certain evening to have a "last talk." Fletcher had been guyed and ridiculed by his fellow employees until he hated the name of the woman. He was willing to see her once more and have,it 'over, but n' willing that any of his friends should know he was going to the house. He pretended to call olsewhere to mislead them, and when something was laughingly said nest morning he gave the name of a party he bad called upon the evening before. Twenty-four hours later he was under arrest for tho murder of Nanoy Jones,»and a hundred men were searching for her body.

Fletcher's Ftory was straight and clear, but unfortunately it served to convict him. He had gone out to Fern Castle, as the young 'woman had romantically named the few acres with its cottage, and had been cordially rece'ved. Miss Jones confessed freely that she loved him, but as willingly, declared that since be was unable to reolp,-, rocate, they would part friends and continue to respect each other. Supper was served and while being waited upon by the domestio Miss Jones made use of several singular expressions. She announced in an abrupt manner that even if her life were threatened she was not afraid—that if she were found dead people would know who had an object in removing her, and other things of the sort. It was plain that she was talking for the benefit of the servant, and as she would offer Fletoher no explanation, he concluded that she had ah attack of hysteria and was trying to throw it off. Soon after dark the domestio asked leave to go into town. The request was granted, and in the presence of Fletcher Miss Jones said to her: "You may never see me alive again, Sarah, but if any one tries to murder me I shall fight- to the last."

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TEBBJS HAUTE SATURDAY EVJTNINe MAIL, APKIL 2, 1898.

THE CHARGE OF DARGAI GAP.

A GIRL'S REVENGE.

startled the domestio and

she decided not to leave the bouse, but the spinster laughed at her fears and bade her run along. Soon after her departure Fletcher and Miss Jones started out for a walk. It was a summer evening, and at Miss Jones' suggestion they crossed two or three fields instead of going along the paths. At the odgo of a forest where they stopped to rest for a few minutes the woman suddenly uttered several shrieks and when cbided by Fletcher she claimed to have stepped on a snake. They returned home by a different route, and at 10 o'clock he left her house and walked into town. They parted with a handshake and kind words, and sho walked a short distance with him. The girl Sarah returned home about midnight and went to bed. When she got up in the morning, she discovered that her mistress was not in the house—in fact, her bed had not been slept in during the previous night. Ihinking she might have been called away unexpectedly, the girl raised no alarm until afternoon. Then the story she told result ed in Fletcher's arrest.

At first everybody scouted the idea

murder, but in a day or two all ware satisfied of it. Fletcher bad lied to conceal the faot that he bad gone to the bouse. The domestic bad overheard her mistress say that her life was in danger. She evidently stood in great fear of the young man, but was determined not to call for outside help. When they came to the motive, gossip said that Fletoher had betrayed the young woman, who insisted upon marriage as a reparation. As he was not willing, he had murdered her to escape exposure and scandal These gossips lied shamefully, but they were searching for a motive for the crime and were bound to find one.

The domestio'* story was 'singularly corroborated. Several people had noticed the couple walking together. A farmer bad heard the young woman scream for help over by the woods. A light shawl belonging to her was found in a ditch, and her handkerchief was caught on a bush near the woods. She had always kept at least £100 In the house and was possessed of considerable jewelry. Money and jewelry were found to be missing, and the contents of her boxes were tossed about. Fletcher had sot been under arrest 94 hours before tMey bad made out a fair case against him, bat there were Just two requisites lacking to lay him by the heels. The money and jewelry were not found upon his person, and a general search oI the country for miles around had failed ts secure any brace of the body of the murdered woman. The youug man had left the village at

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walked two miles and a half. He had returned shortly before 11, as he could prove by three witnesses. Out of five hours must be taken the time to walk five miles, eat supper, etc. It was figured that he would have only about two hours in which to dispose of the body of his victim. As he was a slight man and Miss Jones rather tieshy, it was clearly Impossible that be oould have carried the body any distance. There was no river or any pools near at hand. The woods and every field for two miles were gone over foot by foot, but the body could not be. found. Then they inspected the house and the cellar, outbuildings, haystacks, hedges and what not, but the hunt was in vain. Although it is a legal axiom that there can be no murder unless a dead body Is found, Fletcher was held to the assizes as a murderer. He alone had a motive to kill Miss Jones. If be didn't kill her, what had become of her? Out of a thousand people not over five doubted the young man's guilt, and they doubted more because the body could not be found rather than that they believed in him. In the couipe of a fortnight 500 people entered into the search for the body, and had a dead cat been covered within three miles of Fern Castle they must have foand it.

Up to the time the search was abandoned the case was in the hands of the looal police. When cbey could make no headway, a detective from London was called down. This man was expected to accomplish great things at once, and he stirred the whole county up by finding a clew within an hour after taking bold of the oase. He boldly claimed that Fletcher had conveyed the body to Stratford river and had then driven back to restore horse and wagon to the owner. Everybody fell in with the Idea at once, and as a consequence the river was dragged for miles until it gave up its last snag. The body was not to be found. The detective then suggested that the victim had been burned by afire in the woods, but that was going too far and he was discharged from the oase. Fletoher was arraigned at the assizes, and according to law he should have been set at liberty, bpt popular feeling was so intense that his oase was adjourned to give the orown more time to complete its searoh. A reward of £250 was offered to any one who should discover the body, tod people living 15 or 20 miles from the scene went about looking into ditches and beating up the woods.

I have not mentioned. that Fletcher had relatives in London who were wealthy and influential. They believed in him from the first and employed oounsel for him, and by and by a first class private detective was sent down to work in bis interest. People wondered what he oould do, but he didn't worry over that. He started In by believing the young man's story. A photograph of Miss Jones was shown him, and he sized her up very speedily. Fletcher and the domestic agreed exactly as to the queer expressions Miss Jones had used— dragged in for the-benefit of the girl. She must have been planning when she did that, and what more natural than to believe she was planning a revenge on Fletcher? She had suggested a queer walk after dark she had shrieked out with needless energy she had brought him home by another route. All those things counted with the detective, and all counted in Fletcher's favor.

As a first step in the actual work of unraveling the mystery the detective droveto the several towns around Stratford and in eaoh case bis business "was with men who sold clothing. After a few days be found his CIPVV. At a certain date, a week previous to the murder, a young woman of Miss Jones' description had bought a man's suit of clothes a fa a certain store, saying they were for he? brother.^ It was a workitig suit, and now, as the detective began to ride back and forth aoross the country, he called at all the roadside inns and carefully looked over all the stable boys. Meanwhile Fletcher was taken sick with brain fever, and, though given the best medical attendance, be grew worse and worse and finally died. When first taken ill, he declared bis innocence of the crime imputed to him, and an hour before his death, when the coming of the grim destroyer brought him a lucid interval, he reiterated bis declarations.

As the hearse containing Fletcher's body took its way to the depot to ship the remains to London for burial, the detective drove up to the county jail with a stable boy on the seat beside him. That stable boy, arrested at an inn 16 miles away, was none other than Miss Nancy Jones, very muoh alive in tbo flesh, though masquerading in male attire. She had plotted to revenge herself on Fletcher, and she gloried in the fact that she had caused him great trouble and driven him to his death. For weeks and weeks she had worked as a stable boy, and her sex had been unsuspected, but it needed a deteotive with brains to find the clew to unravel the oase. I do not recall the technical offense with which she was charged, but she was put on trial, convicted and sent to prison for seven years. It was accounted ono of the most singular oases in legal jurisprudence, and it was the general opinion .that had Fletcher lived and the woman remained undiscovered for a few weeks longer he would have been duly convicted and executed. ...

Kot a Coward.

Nervous excitement is responsible for muoh that might pass for cowardice. The author of "A Cuban Expedition" speaks of one dreadful day when be and his oomrades sat in a wet ditch and waited, concealed, while the Spaniards were so near that escape seemed almost impossible.

The discomfort of oar predicament—up to the middle In mud and water, with the rain pouring down on us—was at the moment unfelt in our excitement and eagerness in watching the enemy. Little Joe Storey, who was next to me, was trembling all over. Suddenly he grasped xny arm and whispered: "Oh, what shall I do? I mast scream or fire off my rifle! I can't help it!"

I, too, felt that be would do either the one or the other, and I whispered back the first thing that occurred to me. "Storey," I said, "If you make the least noise, I'll stab you to death!"

Then I told him to keep bis eyes closed and try to think of something else until he heard the first shot fired. After that he might shout as*loudly as he liked. I put one Arm about his neck and drew him dose to me. There, trembling, be rested like a quiet child. Presently bis excitement wore off, and be became used to the situation. Then be was heartily ashamed of his breakdown.

But Storey was not a coward. He was a gallant little soul in action, and only his tortured nerves were responsible for tills temporary revolt.

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She (contentedly)—Our friends.—Town Topics.

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