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12 Tilted American Woman Clears Her Name in England Tt has recently cost the dowager Lady Cook, formerly Tennessee Celeste Claliin, the sum of $50,000 to prove that Bhe is not one of the worst women who ever breathed the breath of life. From early childhood, which was passed at a little place near Cincinnati, Ohio, to the present day this remark able woman's life has been more filled than is often .allotted to any one. Pioneer for Woman's Rights. Serious minded as a child, at thlr ten years she became imbued with the Idea of becoming a riun while attend ing a Catholic convent in Chicago. Taken out of the convent, she began work among the poor, and as she reached maturity took up the work for female emancipation. With her sister Victoria Woodhull, she saw stirring times during the '70s in their pioneer work, which met with tremendous op position, frequently taking the form of ridicule, slander and persecution. In 1877 the sisters went to England to carry on their work, and while there Tennessee Claflin met Sir Francis Cook, who was attending her lectures. Their marriage followed in 1885, and she has been less prominently in the glare of public life, though continually engaged in charitable work, till the serious charges of a dependent were brought to light. Loses Case on First Trial. Her experiences in the Eiglish courts firimi^ C CLATI«m V/HiW SHt *LA"N I'CK, COKCTte^S LATiS'T JCSR^J^ATT OJ 1 L>Q3Y COOK XAjftW" FT? "NHV VOXK IH.UEJi LOKDO3J HOWL. ■ ■ •■■ . . ; ■ . .-■•«-■ . 'ri ._. _' - ' •'■'•". - * i ■ '.■■•■ ***£r ■■' -tf. ■ ..- .***^^ TENNIE C c CLAFLIN, DOWAGER LADY COOK. of law have been altogether unique. De fended by one of the most brilliant legal minds of the English bar, she lost her case against a man who accused her of murder, blackmail, slander, big amy, plagiarism, and other unpleasant things. Lady Cook took her case to the court of appeal, where three of the greatest judges in England pronounced the first verdict iniquitous. The three judges concurred in the opinion and strongly expressed it in so many set words that Lady Cook's ac cuser was a blackmailer of the worst type. They went further than this. They roundly scored a king's counsel for breach of etiquette and insulting the honor of the English bar by at tacking Lady Cook without a shred of evidence. Of course, a good deal of the story has been cabled to Amerir-a. but some of the "inside facts" are yet to see the light of print. « Behind the whole story there is an element of romance that Charles Reade or Bulwer Lytton would have reveled In. Wallace Bees for Work. The late Sir Francis Cook was one of the wealthiest men in England. In 1897—a few years before his death — he took into his employ a man named John Henry Wallace. This man had come to Sir Francis and begged for any sort of position to save him from penury. Being a kind-hearted man, the baronet had given him a position to do odd chores about Sir Francis Cook's country estate, Doughty house, Richmond. Wallace attended on the baronet as a sort of body servant. Gradually, he be gan to assume himself the euphonious title of private secretary. Now and then he answered a letter or called for one at the postofflce. It came out in the legal proceedings that Wallace was illiterate and not en titled to call himself "private secre tary." Wallace prospered through presents from Lady Cook and Sir Fran cis and began to consider himself in dispensable. He was "getting along nicely, thank you," when Sir Francis Cook died from old age and general breakdown. i L Lady Cook Accused of Murder. ' Lady Cook, who had been devotedly attached to Sir Francis, was accused by Wallace of killing her husband. Wallace had the audacity to impeach the death certificate, and produced a diary In which he had made the entry that a few days prior to Sir Francis Cook's death Lady Cook had "struck him in the dining roojp." r At one tfme Lady book thought seri ously of having her husband's body ex humed by the English home secretary in order to prove that he died a per fectly natural death. Sir Francis Cook, having been a man of great wealth, had employed the most distinguished phy sicians, all of whom had concurred in the opinion that the kindly old gentle man had died a perfectly natural death from "senile decay." r Wallace knew Lady Cook was an 'American woman. She had made for herself a distinguished place in English eocicty. It was reasonable to assume rhe would pay almost anything rather than appear in an English law court, especially when it came to a point of whether or not she had ill treated her husband. . . . Besides, Wallace had had access to considerable correspondence which had passed . between Sir Francis —in his great charity—and various.women, and he thought to make a handle of this information. Claims Attempt to Blackmail. Lady Cook, when she heard that Wallace accused her of murdering her husband, stated that she considered that Wallace was trying to blackmail her. Wallace seized upon this statement as an opportunity to bring action for slander. Strange to say, he wod. It is true that instead of $50,000 an English jury gave him $2,750, one twentieth of his claim; but still he had won, and that was a lot more than was expected. The day that the suit weiit against Lady Cook —March 3, 1903 —she stood up in court and criticised the way her case had been conducted. She said she was prepared to go into the box to protect the honor of her "darling hus band," and in a word, she created more or less of a "scene." Lord Alverstone, the lord chief jus tice, would not listen to her. Lady Cook went out quietly enough, and at once instituted legal procedure for appeal. Appeal Court Agrees With' Her. In the new trial, concluded June 13, Lady Cook was fully vindicated by the judges, who took occasion to severely score the plaintiff. The master of the rolls, in dealing with him. said: "They have given a verdict of £500 ($2,500) to a gentleman who in the true view of the case, it seems to me, was con fessedly a blackmailer." Lord Justice Mathew, one of the pro foundest thinkers of the English bar, said: "The jury did not think much of Wallace; that is clear. They dis carded nineteen-twentieths of his evi dence. They ought to have given him a farthing. The action was a black mailing action." Lord Justice Cozens-Hardy stated emphatically: "Knowing what we do now, and considering the proceedings in the action, I have come, without a moment's hesitation, to the conclusion that it is a blackmailing action." Wedded Life Was Happy. In discussing the case after the sec ond trial Lady Cook gave an outline of her married life, which shows how un founded such charges could be in fact. She said: "Sir Francis and I were married on Oct 1, 1885. Three years later it oc curred to Sir Francis that we had bet ter go through another marriage cere mony, describing me as a divorced woman. This was done to 'make assur ance doubly sure.' "What an absurd and preposterous thing it was for Wallace to bring up my double marriage to Sir Francis when it was the baronet himself who had suggested the second marriage so as to straighten out any legal difficulty that might possibly arise. "Sir Francis and I were deeply at tached to each other from the day of our weeding until his death. He espoused my cause, and from that time until his death we worked to gether. Husband Aids Her Charities. "He became so interested in chari table work that he built a home—the Alexandra horne —for the childen of professional persons in moderate or reduced circumstances who were striv ing to obtain an education for artistic careers. "The Alexandra home was patron ized by the Princess of Wales, now queen, and Queen Victoria made Sir Francis Cook a baronet for his phil anthropy. He was one of the most kindly, charitable men who ever lived, and in the seventeen years of our mar ried life there was not one note of dis cord. "Sir Francis had a beautiful estate in Portugal, near Cintra. When I first went there—on my wedding trip —I began to take an interest in the surrounding people. "We found that they were ignorant, and it was not long before Sir Francis and I had established a number of schopls on the estate. "When we were leaving Portugal Dowager Queen Maria telegraphed us, 'A thousand blessings on you and yours,' and Queen Amelia also tele-: graphe3, 'Thank you so much for the interest you have taken in Portugal.' Care for Children in Portugal. "We had thousands of children tin der our care, feeding, clothing nnd ed ucating them; and now around Mont serret —Sir Francis Cook's places—ev ery one can read and write and the benefits of education are manifest. "You can obtain an idea of how we were regarded in Portugal by the fact that about ten years ago, when Eng land and Portugal weFe disputing over certain territory, myself an.4 Sir Fran- THE ST. PAUL GLOBE SUNDAY, JULY 26, 1903. ois Cook were the only English per sons permitted to lajid with kindly feel ing in the country. Our house ana place would have been burned but for the way the people respected us. "Throughout Portugal I became know as 'The Little Mother'—a title which the simple people thought fit to give me. "Sir Francis had a number of plans in his mind before his death for benefit ting and aiding the poor and distressed of-all classes. For instance, he propos ed to build, near Richmond, a home for poor women who had been abandoned. When the matter came up for discus sion, however, we met with consider able opposition on the ground that we might be encouraging vice and we abandoned the movement for the time being. "One cannot go into those social questions without being prepared to meet opposition. "I do not care greatly what people say about me if, in the end, the good object for which I have given my life be attained. "As to the Wallace charge, it is a palpable falsehood on the face of it. Wallace mentioned the fact that I had obtained $300,000 from Sir Francis on the ground that if he did not give it to me I would expose an enormous in trigue' which he had with another woman. He said that Sir Francis had paid me with a check for this large amount. Of course, the check was never given, and at the trial no evi dence of its existence could possibly be produced. Will Resume American Work. "Since my husband's death I have been able to do little work along the lines of my early life. My health has been affected both by his death and the iniquitous lawsuit instituted against me by Wallace. "However, before long I hope once more to resume the work which has been interrupted for some years. "I Intend soon in America to open schools and conference halls for practi cal charitable work, and for teaching the principles which my essays have enunciated. I intend also devoting a large amount of the wealth left me by Sir Francis toward advancing our ideas and improving social conditions." BOY INCRIMINATES HIS ACCUSED PARENTS Julius Wiltrax, Aged 11, Tells Story of Murder of His Playmate. Special to The Globe. CHICAGO, July 25. — Mounting the witness stand in the breathless sus pense of a court room crowded to the doors, Julius Wiltrax, eleven years old, coolly took the seat on the ele vated platform and dramatically gave testimony which the state believes will convict his mother and father of the brutal murder of a playmate of their son, whose body was found burled on the prairie on the western outskirts of. the city three weeks after the boy had been reported missing by his par ents. The boy told his story in a stfaight forward manner, and the severe cross examination did not change it ma terially. The mother of the murdered boy, Mrs. Anna Paszkowski, threw the court room In confusion when she leaped to the side of the accused man and woman and heaped curses on them for slaying her son. According to the story of the boy he was awakened one morning by a shot and going into his father's saloon saw the murdered boy lying on the floor with a bullet hole in his head. His mother was standing over the pros trate form and his father was putting away a pistol behind the bar. The fa ther then carried the boy to the base ment and gave the son $5, instructing him not to tell a word of the horrible picture he had seen. Following the discovery of the boy's body, the saloonkeeper and his wife and their son were locked up. The boy had not seen the parents again until he identified them on the witness stand as his father and mother. The parents have persistently denied any connec tion with the death of the victim. The police secured a confession from the boy by telling him his mother had told the story of the crime. The cause of the alleged murder was a trivial quar rel between the two boys. :' .' " Too -Flimsy. _'- f,' +, It was in the year 1925 "•-'-' --'•No.'A:Bald the tourist, "I,don't think I shall : travel •on - the - Jupiter - line of air ships again. -.;---. ;■■■•• r : ;.V■-»!>- —•■>• - : .-VWhy-not?";- asked his ■ friend. - >r-I"0: • Oh, because their life preservers are nothing but Japanese parasols, instead of heavy parachutes." . , : ., ,- The Modern Advantage. Congressman Lotibieum— A senator or congressman is not considered half so great now as he used to be. Congressman Grabber—That may be but think of what an oportunlty we have now tc make something on the side — Baltimore American. ATLANTA RCTOR DISCOVERS SECRET OF PETRIFACTION Wrests From Nature the Proc ess of Transforming Human Bodies Into Stone —Uses Air tight Casket and Chemicals. _ ATLANTA, Ga. f .July 25. —A process of preserving'hum^njbfo.dles, known to the ancient Egyptians,Jost, sought for in vain by chemists.arfd alchemists for: more than 2,000 years, lias been dis covered by Dr. Arnold Rosett, of At lanta. Unlike the method practiced by the priests who laid thft Pharaohs in their sculptured sarcophagi, the process of Dr. Rosett is not one of mummification, but turns human flesh into heavy white stone. It is the niethod used by the supreme alchemist, 'aature, to petrify organic matter, that is imitated by the scientist in his laboratory. Scores, hundreds and often thousands of years are required by nature. Dr. Rosett can change, and has changed, in his labo ratory, human bodies and parts of hu man bodies, into glistening silicon in from four to six months. The length of time varies with the condition of the subject at the time of death, the char acter of the drugs given in the last ill ness having much to do with determin ing the length of time necessary for the chemicals used to work upon the flesh. Surprised ;Nature. This modern wizard worked for two years and a half before he finally suc ceeded in surprising; nature at her se cret. It was about eight months ago, while he was taking a postgraduate course ot Johns Hopkins university in Baltimore that his efforts were finally crowned wuth success. The success came as a surprise .to himself, as he avers. Dr. Rosett was first attracted to the study of preserving idead bodies while he was a student at the university of Maryland, in Baltimore. He deter mined, if the expenditure of time and labor would avail, that he would suc ceed where so many hundreds had fail* ed through so many hundreds of years. Almost at the outset he discarded all thought of seeking to discover again the methods of embalming used by the ancient Egyptians. He was after some thing that would last as long as the eternal hills themselves, and would preserve al the outlines of the body in an unsunken condition. The Egyp tian mummies crumble. He was after something that would last as long as the stone coffins in which they were incased. Thus it was he thought to spy upon nature and surprise the working of the cj>emic laws through which she; laborsv'in the ve*y proces^of peteifac^ tion. Jn «(th&, briefest possible r/Brase, he "forces" tjjg slow, natunjl of. turning flesfr mto stoneT The body" 1 upon which he is to work is put into an airtight vessel ot glass or enameled ware, and the chemicals which are used are* introoVAfeed. ' Organic Matter Displaced. It is kept in a. ieiiipfiratur^ of about 30 degrees Kneau'mer." Gradually the molecules of flesh —or organic .matter —are displaced, and for every particle is substituted a like infinitesimal bulk of inorganic matter. If the pro cess were done all at once the body could not Iretain its outer'form. All the time the subject is in the air-tight vessel.;-no matter how long it remains, it-is in a soft condiUon. It is only on exposure to the air that it hardens, and. the older it grows the harder it becomes. The main ingredient em ployed in the compound is silicon di oxide in a liquid form. At present Dr. Rosett has in his possession at his residence, 339 South Pryor street, the perfectly preserved body of an infant, and a number of parts of bodies. Dr. Rosett moved from Baltimore to Atlanta only a short time ago, and the body of the child, which was yet in the process of petri faction, was spoiled- by the removal. It is necessary, to insure perfect re sults, that the body be taken before the cessation of cell life ifi it. Decomposi tion must not have, jm: in. Boc'H a that have been preserves several weeks on ice may give good results. As the body becomes inorganic it can never be affected by the baetefHa which causes decomposition once it has been put through the proces^.« In the Egyptian mummies decomposition was prevent ed for a marvelous length of time be cause of the exclusion of air and the in troductions of noxious chemicals into the body which yet "contained organ ic matter. Modern methods o fembalm ing depend mainij^jn the introduc tion of arsenic or some other poison in imical to the bacteria. Beats Egyptian Method. By the method of preservation prac ticed by Dr. Rosett there is nothing of organic matter for the bacteria to work on, and thus decay is impossible. The inefficiency of embalming in imitation of the ancient Egyptians, themselves inferior to the new discovery, is well exemplified by the manner in which the body of Abraham Lincoln, which re poses in a vault in Springfield, 111., has decomposed. A few more years and there will be nothing left of it. At the time of President McKinley's death $25,000 was offered to any scientist who would produce a method of properly preserving the body; there were no acceptances. At that time Dr. Rosett's experiments were only a few months under way, and he had little hope at that time he would be so soon suc cessful. This modern magician who has found the secret of transforming the body of a man into everlasting stone —a statue of himself—was born at Vitebsk, Rus sia, of Hebrew parents, thirty-five years ago. His father was, and is yet, a manufacturing chemist. The study of science even form his early child hood, amounted to a passion with him. When he was still a lad his parents removed to the city of Ekaterinburg, in the state of Perm, on the Siberian frontier. There he received his early education and prepared himself for the study of chemistry, # In Russia the doors of higher emication are not open to members ofj'ihe Hebrew race; only about 3 per cent of the Jews who take the preparator^*ctourses are per mitted to enter the universities. A Moefe¥t" JMan. It was this res^itfioh that moved Dr. Rosett to c0ma..40 America. He went to Baltimore/where he devoted himself to the pu?s)uit -of scientific knowledge. He is-a-graduate of the University of Mar^l^gd, and has taken a postgraduate course at Johns Hop kins. It is due to £Ije delicate health of his wife that he has come to At lanta to practice^fiiedicine and con tinue his scientific researches. Per sonally he is very modest, and dis claims any great (f&ent himself for the discovery of the thing- which has baf fled scientists for centuries. "Another man might have' found it just as well," he says. "Many men have spent many years searching I for it. "Th«t I have found it in a little more than two years is a surprise to my self. Others may make improvements upon it. Others are on the right road. I believe that it is the duty of all sci entists to give their discoveries to the Forest Fires, TJeir Origin and Serious consequences A RUINED FOREST. writ. - -*'SiHkp^ •■ A Hillside That Has Been Visited by Repeated Fires. Among the numerous and rich natu ral resources of Minnesota few have formed so important a part in the building up of the state as the vast forests of timber, with which a great proportion of its area has been cov ered. To none of these valuable poses sions does the state more directly owe its marvelous growth in the past and its present great wealth. Therefore, forestry, and particularly protection of forests from destruction by fire, is a vital question with the people of Min nesota. Every year in this state hundreds of thousands, and at times even millions, of dollars' worth of property are de stroyed by forest fires. It is estimated that the average of annual loss throughout the United States from this W^Rflr JffiS Bit - <i :'^^ » *• ROCK-RIBBED CLIFTON JAIL STRONGEST OF PRISONS That anything so gloomy a3 a jail can deserve the name picturesque seems in credible. The Clifton penitentiary, be sides being picturesque, is one of the most interesting institutions of its kind in ex istence. To be locked within its Impreg nable walls is considered something of an honor out in the ■'West, where a few months "up" is a trivial incident in a man's life. Clifton itself is a quaint little village in Arizona, lying at the foot of a chain of hills which rise to an eminence very little short of a mountain height. Up the side of one of the rocky hills creeps the town of Clifton, and its housetops look eastward to their seat of justice, "Jail Knob," the walls of which are of solid quartz, jagged and unhewn, jutting out from the hillside just as they were carved by Mother Nature. The Longfellow Copper Mining com pany was given the contract for the building—if such work can properly be termed building, of this interesting jail in 1880. A tunnel was made through the hill by means of explosives and the hol lows made by the successful excavation of unusually large pieces of rock formed the cells of the prison. Ventilation is secured by means of two small openings at the top of the tunnel, and a few raya of light creep into the cavelike rooms through narrow slits, cut with great care through the rocks. These openings, small as they are, are heavily barred. It would be the labor of years to enlarge any one of these slits, but there have been some desperate characters confined in the Clif ton jail, men capable of tremendous feats of strength, to whom the breath of liberty is sweeter than aught else and who would take any risks to secure freedom. The ascent to this jail is steep, and an unruly prisoner causes the guards a grout amount of trouble. The captives are usually marched to the place of confine* ment between four armed men, and there are records of desperate fights being made before the prisoner could finally be forced into the entrance of the tunnel. Down a narrow passageway, dark, but dry, the captive is hustled to the en trance to a cell, where perhaps four or five men are already confined. A pris oner seldom pines for company in the Clifton jail. There* are but four cells in this re markable jail, but each compartment is large enough to accommodate six or seven persons. As many as thirty-one persons have been confined at one time world and to the profession. And so I shall make no effort to take out pat ents upon' this process. It is for any one who can do it. Because I have .found it does not make it mine." Drl Rosett is at present preparing a series of scientific articles treating of 1 his discovery. cause Is more than $50,000,000, and a considerable proportion of that falls upon this state. Beside that which can be counted in dollars and cents, there are also losses of an indirect character of which no estimate can be made, but which are nevertheless of most serious cost in consequence. Among these results may be reckoned the destruction of young trees and the ruination of the forest floor, which has been centuries in forming, with a con sequent liability of periodic floods, and derangement of the water supply, for forest soil, with its spongy composi tion, holds moisture in suspension and gives it out graduaHy. Even when re generation follows destruction of a for est by fire, the new growth is, in many cases, of inferior scrub species or "weed A BURNING FOREST. Fighting a Fire in a Pine Forest. in this mountain prison. Although dug through the heart of a hill, with rock above, below and on all sides, this prison is perfectly dry, and the outlaws of Clif ton much prefer this natural Jail to any of the artificial structures. It is quite a thing to be sent to "the Hill." and a former convict from there lords it over desperadoes from other les3 pretentious jails. Clifton jail has one big advantage over Its fellow prisons; It is absolutely fire proof. There are four men, now respecta ble, law-abiding residents of Clifton, who look back with gratitude to the night of May 16. 1890, when they were locked up on the hill for disorderly behavior. These four were at that time traveling salesmen, and, stopping over at Clifton, put up at the only hotel in the place. Too frequent visits to the bar led to their arrest, and they were hustled off to the jail to sleep off the effects of the cup that cheers. That night the hotel burned to the ground, set fire to several adjoining properties and caused a great loss of life. Clifton jail stood unscathed, and when released in the morning the four looked with gratitude upon their rocky lodgings. In the spring of 1891 there was another catastrophe which brought the jail into notice. A sudden thaw caused the snow to come sweeping down the mountain siles, flooding the rivers and streams and washing away towns. The San Francisco river, which flows but a short distance from Clifton, rose and rose until it oveiv flowed its banks, and as it rushed on to the sea swept bridges and buildings from its path. Hundreds of lives were lost and the town of Clifton was almost obliterated. The outbuildings of Clifton jail were car ried on with the rest and the Jailer was tossed about like a "loose log" and car ried to the other side of the river. A miner named Friday was confined in the Jail at the time, and the only way to rescue him—the prison was flooded— was to blast a hole in the side of the rocks away from the rushing torrent. This was speedily done, and after much difficulty the man was hauled out —just in time, too, for the water up to his chin. This aperture Is a thing of interest today, and each new prisoner Is told its history, as he is taken to his cell. It forms the larger of the two ventilators, and through it streams the welcome sun shine. The door at the entrance to Use jail *• composed of thick steel bars. As a menus of further protection, and to provide ac commodation for the sheriff and hin of ficers, an artificial wing or vestibule was constructed of rough masonry, the slone trees," and there is great Industrial loss in the future product. Early Fall a Critical Period. There are two distinct seasons when forest fires prevail, the spring and fall. The primary cause of trouble is dry weather, and the most critical period is the early fall, when there is usually but little rain and the heat of the sun is almost as great as in midsummer. Throughout the West the greatest fires are in the fall and there is scarcely a season that does not leave its record of serious destruction of property and even lives. Forest fires begin with civilization, and when a country is new they have their excuse in necessity. When a spot for a home and fields that must be cul tivated must be made in a wilderness, this means must be resorted to, but in a new country, this manner of subdu- ■ ing the forest is apt to be carried too far. Proper value is not attached to the rich forests, and trees are apt to be even wantonly destroyed. In Minnesota the necessity for such methods of clearing land has long since passed, but, nevertheless, a great proportion of the forest fires that oc cur every fall are still traceable to wantonness, or, if not that, to reckless ness. Laws for the punishment of those who set forest or prairie fires in mischief or in carelessness have been enacted and fire wardens have been appointed all over the state to enforce those laws, but every year there are scores of fires throughout the state that would not have occurred had the laws been obeyed. Usually these are due to the efforts of some settler to clear some portion of his place with the least labor to himself, and in his desire to achieve that end he is willing to take the risk of starting a blaze, the extent of which he does not stop to estimate. In other cases a campflre, carelessly started in the woods in a dry time, is the immedi ate agent of destruction. Seriously destructive fires in Minne sota have been many, but among them all there Is one that stands out in re lief because of its attendant horrors. That is the Hinckley fire of the first week in September, 1894. For nearly a wok a cyclone of wind and fire swept through Northeastern Minnesota, Northern Wisconsin and Northern Michigan, leaving death, destruction and suffering in its trail. Thousands of acres were devastated, six towns were completely wiped out, and between, 400 and 500 people perished. The property loss in that fire was more than $2r>,000. --000, and in the towns of Hinckley, Sand stone Junction. Pokegama, Skunk Lake, Miller and Mission Creek nearly 500 persons were killed. The loss and destruction in these set tlements overshadowed all else, but the damage to the forests was something enormous, and all through the north ern portions of Wisconsin and Michi gan, as well as this state, that loss ex tended. which had been blasted out of the exca vation being used for this purpose. The vestibule is divided into two sections, so that in order to reach the jail proper one must go through three barred gates. Tho thinnest part of the way is more than six feet in thickness. Many notorious out laws have "been confined in this jail, and several have served life sentences. Many more up for life have been pardoned and set free after having served only a por- ' tion of their term. All these have left behind them some evidence of their stay in Clinton jail, and the rude walls which at first were absolutely unadorned now show carvings of merit. In the life cell there is carved on one side of the room the whole of Edgar Allen Poe's poem. "The Raven," accompanied by original illustrations. A portion of the ■ Lord's Prayer adorns another wall, and both music and words of "Home, Sweet , Home" are found in a third cell rudely carved in the wall. A good natured ri valry goes on between the prisoners in this art of carving, and shelves have been put up by the men in the cells to hold some of their work. From bits of rock have been carved heads and full length figures of famous personages. Two re markably ife like busts of President Roosevelt, a head of William Shake speare, bearing the signature "Billy the Kid," and a profile of President McKin ley, signed "Climax Bill." are among tho best pictures found in the jail. EVADE KORAN AT THE LAUNCHING OF A CRUISER American Woman Christens the Turkish Sea Fighter Medjldla. PHILADELPHIA, Pa.. July 25.—1n th« presence of a distinguished gathering of diplomats, foreign and American naval officers and prominent citizens of Phila delphia, the Turkish cruiser Medjidia, the first warship ever built here for the Ot toman empire, was launched here today at the Cramps' shipyards. The sponsor for the new ship was Mrs. Edwin S. Cramp, and the baptism was an evasion of the Koran's teaching turned into a graceful compliment of tho American peo ple. The Koran forbids a Turkish woman from participating In a christening at which wine is used. The difficulty was overcome by the selection of an Amer ican woman, Mr 3. Cramp, to break tho bottle on the bow of the sea fighter. CAMDEN. N. J . July 25.—The steam ship Mongolia, built for the Pacific Mail Steamship company, was launched today . at the yards of ihc New York Shipbuild ing company. The Mongolia is tho second largest ship ever built in the United States*. She is to be used in the Philip pine and China trade. Her sister ship, tho Manchuria, will be launched In Oc tober. MJss Lucy Bell Kennedy, of Pitts burg, christened the Mongolia. All Around Catcher. Mickey--"Who was Go catcher on do Goat Hill team? Jimmy- Billy: Mtfrins. . ;■ Mickey—Was he a food catcher? Jimmy—l should say go. He caught de first ball, d«-r he caught do measles from av/ijieay Smith,. an" when .he pot home be caucV.t ** lic'Kin'.--Chicago News. _ .