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ABILENE WEEKLY8 REFLEGTOE, ABILENE, KANSAS, AUGUST 27, 1891.
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ED SHORT KILLED.
The -Noted United States Deputy
Marshal Slain.
KILLED BY THE DALTON GASG.
Somewhat Conflicting Accounts of the Af
fair Ono of the Desperadoes Killed
By Short Tho Rest or tho
Gang Escape.
KIXOFISHEB, Ok., Aug. 24. C. E.
Short, deputy United States marshal,
was shot and killed yesterday, but not
before he had in turn shot and killed
Charles Bryant, one of the notorious
Dalton gang;
The double tragedy occurred at Wau
komis, a small station on the Bock
Island railway betSveen Hennessey and
Enid. L T.
Short was on his way to Wichita with
Bryant Near Waukomis the prisoner
secured Short's revolver and shot Short
twice.
Short secured his Winchester and in
turn shot Bryant
Both men died inside of two minutes.
Short was a well known character in
the southwest, having made a reputa
tion as a brave officer in the Stevens
county (Kan.) troubles inlSS8. He had
the name of being a dead shot and
without fear. Bryant was a member
of the Dalton gang and was supposed
to have assisted in the recent train rob
bery at Wharton, Ok. Saturday he
went to Hennessey for supplies and was
captured.
The Dalton gang was seen yesterday
in the vicinity of Hennessey and parties
left here in the afternoon on their trail.
The bodies of the dead men are now
at Caldwell, Kan.
When Short left on this trip his last
words were that he was going after a
bad man and would run no risks that
were unnecessary. "Ho will kill
rather than be killed, and I know it"
he concluded, "but there have been
such men taken."
Short's words were spoken earnest
ly, though little attention was paid to
them at the time.
Short was about 32 years old, of
medium height and good looking.
Bryant was a tall man, weighing per
haps 180 pounds, with a swarthy com
plexion, resembling very much a Mex
ican. Both men were crack shots,
widely known and fearless.
ANOTHER ACCOUNT.
Guthrie, Ok., Aug. 24. A sensa
tional and doubly fatal shooting scrape
occurred in the Cherokee reservation
yesterday. Ever since the robbery of
the Santa Fe train at Wharton, L T.,
nearly three months ago, Deputy Mar
shal Ed Short has been u"pon the trail
of the robbers. They led him a hot
chase through Oklahoma and Indian
territories. On two or three recent oc
casions he and two other officers who
were with him came very, near captur
ing the desperadoes, four in number.
While Short was in Waukomis, a
small town in the .Cherokee nation, ho
saw Charley Bryant the leader of the
band that held up and robbed the train.
He pulled twd long forty -fives from his
hip pockets and throwing them down
upon Bryant, said:
"You're my prisoner."
"The h 1 you say," exclaimed Bry
ant, reaching for his revolver. Before
he could pull the weapon Short fired.
The bullet missed Bryant who then
drew his gun. As he was getting it in
position to use it Short fired again.
The ball entered Bryant's heart, kill
ing him instantly.
Some of the members of Bryant's
?ang and friends who did not belong to
his gang witnessed the shooting. They
hastened to Bryant's assistance, but did
not get close enough to Short to use
their revolvers effectively until after he
had dropped Bryant
Covering Short with their weapons,
they opened a fusilade upon him.
Short replied, firing three shots. A
bullet fired by one of Bryant's palls
penetrated his brain and he dropped to
the ground a corpse. The gang then
rode out of town, leaving the bodies ol
Bryant and Short lyiug where they fell.
Caldwell, Kan., Aug. 25. Saturday
night Deputy United States Marshal
Ed Short captured Charley Bryant,
one of the famous Dalton gang, at Hen
nessey, Ok. This gang had been mak
ing their headquarters in the Cherokee
strip and Short had been hot on their
trail The capture was made under
difficulties. Short waited until Bryant
had gone to bed, when he rushed into
his room and covered him with his re
volver. Bryant tried to get his guns
but he was overpowered and hand
cuffed. When the Rock Island train
came north through Hennessey Sun
day afternoon Short boarded the train
with his prisoner to take him to jail at
Wichita.
After the train started he asked the
conductor if he could take his prisoner
into the baggage car, as he thought the
balance of the gang would attempt to
takehimatsome'of the stations through
the strip. The prisoner was taken to
the baggage car, but as the baggage
man had no weapons Short returned to
the smoker and brought a revolver.
This was given to the baggageman,
whose carelessness is the cause of the
bravest United States marshal in the
west being a corpse now. He laid it
down on the top of bis safe and went to
the mail department The conductor
was writing at a desk in the car when
he was suddenly ordered to jump.
Looking up he saw the prisoner holding
a revolver within four feet of his head.
About this time the train was slow
ing up for Waukomis, a dismal station
on the prairie, with nothing but a de
pot and a section house. Tho des
perado opened tho end door of the car
to make his escape, but saw Short
standing on the platform of the smoker
with aWinchestcr in hand ready to re
pulse any attack that might be made to
rescue the prisoner. Bryant immedi
ately closed the door, and with his
handcuffed hands cocked tho revolver,
opened the door and fixed a
bullet through Short's body, it
going in at the top of his left shoulder,
in front, passing clear through the body
and coming out under the right arm at
the back. Short fired at him with his
Winchester, the ball striking Bryant
square in the .breast, passing complete
ly through the body, and struck the
partition in the car, carrying flesh and
cloth with it Both men received therr
death and only wounds in the first two
shots, but kept on firing. Bryant emp
tied the six chambers of his revolver
and Short fired eight shots from
.. -rcran.'hMfpr. Tho ends of both cars
sesr&AJriiliiS&si8- &fiaJ&k
so, a rronHit r--':-.t fro n El Reno,
v i3 g ir.iri: - "" -" ' lnset i tie
ir.atf.mf t!- -". t. v- hen one f
the b illets crashed -ht-ough the win
dow, striking "him in the arm, passing
completely through it butluckily just
missing the bones and arteries. Con
ductor Collins was just behind the
prisoner and just in range of the bul
lets from the marshal. The only way
he saved himself was by clutching
onto the irons at the side of
the car and swinging out " Bry
ant was the first man to drop and he
fell headforemost down the steps.
Short caught him by the leg and held
him with head almost touching the
ground, ne called to the conductor
and when he got to him he died.
The prisoner was dead when picked
up from the platform and carried into
the car. Short was placed on a cot,
when he said to the conductor, "Jim, I
am dying; I wish I could see mother.".
The conductor thought he was not se
riously hurt and told him so, but inside
of ten minutes he expired.
BONDS DIVERTED.
Remarkable Statement Made to
the People of Omaha.
STRANGE 'CASE OF HYPOTHECATION.
Jay Gould Accused of Diverting Union
Depot Iionds to the General Itovcnuo of
Ills Railroad The Council
Inquiry.
Ojiaiia, Neb., Aug. 25. -The state
ment was made yesterday by T. L.
Kimball, vice-president of the Union
Pacific railroad system, that Jay Gould
had diverted 500,000 of union depot
bonds to paying the general expenses
of the Union Pacific road, and to this
Mr. Kimball attributed the failure of
his company to construct tho depot as
per contract after it had been inaugu
rated with great flourish of trumpets
last f all.
There was a conference yesteiday
morning in the private office of Mr.
Kimball between that official and a
council committee appointed last week
for the purpose of finding out what
could be done toward getting work re
sumed on the union depot After some
little talk Mr. Kimball informed the
councilmen that the Union Depot Co.
had no funds with which to complete
the work, even if thpre were no other
obstacles in the way. This was ex
plained by the statement that the bonds
of the Union Depot Co. issued last fall
had been diverted to meet the running
expenses of the Union Pacific and Bur
lington roads, and was gone beyond re
call There was no way to get it back
and the only thing to do would be for
the companies to go to work and put up
the amount used. This would require
time and might not be successfully ac
complished at all.
Mr. Kimball spoke for himself and
for Mr. Iloldridgc, of the Burlington.
He said they were both anxious to have
the depot completed and would do
everything in their power.
One of the conditions the prime one
which Mr. Kimball said would be
necessary to meet before further work
would.be done would be the dismissal
of the injunction suits now ponding in
court prohibiting the delivery of the
city viaduct bonds to -tho depot com
pany. The councilmen present refused to
agree to any such condition nntil work
should have been actually and earnest
ly begun on the structure and assur
ances given that there would be no
further delay in the completion of the
depot
Mr. Kimball said that he would make
an eff6rt to get the matter before a con
ference of railroad officials.
Jay Gould will start home in a few
days from his summer retreat up the
Idaho, and will be met by Mr. Kim
ball, who will bring hun to Omaha for
.. conference with officials of the union
depot and of the Burlington road.
Mr. Kimball hopes to have the mag
nates arrivo at a decision at the meet
ing that will result in the renewal of
work on the long -promised,-long de
layed union depot
THE NORTHWEST FROST.
No Great Unmade Done and a, Warm Spoil
on the Way.
Minneapolis, Minn., Aug. 21.
Specials covering Minnesota, North and
South Dakota, Wisconsin and also
western Iowa wcro received to-day
in regard to the frost of last night
The district particularly covered is the
wheat fields of Minnesota and the Da
kotas, and the reports are most en
couraging. Generally speaking very
light damage has been done to
wheat Where there has been any it is
in scattered sections and only to late
sown wheat, the early sown being out
of the way. Taking all together the
damage is not enough to make any dif
ference in the size of tho crop or grade
of the grain.
What is still more encouraging, a
warm wave is following the late cold
visitor and further damage is not prob
able. At Jamestown, N. D., at C o'clock
the thermometer registered 70 above,
and at Maysvillc, N. D., 72.
What damage was done was mainly
to corn and garden truck and this dam
age is confined to scattered sections.
The points in North Dakota reporting
damage are Oakes; where late wheat
was seriously injured and corn almost
destroyed; Lidgewood, wheat and' oats
injured 5 per cent; Grandin, one-third
of the wheat injured; and Mandan, corn
slightly injured.
In South Dakota serious damage to
corn and late wheat and flax were done
at Aberdeen, Chamberlain and An
dover; at Watertown corn suffered.
Grand Porks, Bismarck, Milner, Pem
bina, Dcvil's-Lakc, Jamestown, Hills
boro and a host of other North Dakota
points report no damage to wheat or
other grain. A Huron, South Dakota,
dispatch says no damage was done in
the Jim riTer vallov.
Amnesty for 40,000 Men.
Rome, Aug. 35. King Humbert has
unveiled a monument to Victor
Emanuel at Mondovi. The ceremony
was the occasion of loyal demonstra
tions by the populace. Tho king
signed a decree granting amnesty to
all evaders of intlitarv service from 1S48
to 1S72. This affects 40,000 men.
Due to a Llshlnjpsr Shock.
the
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postmaster-general, who was recover
ing from n inu'-n-.i!.!os, went out
walking yestariay r htm ho received a
severe electric shock iluritjjf a Jhunder
etorm tmd djed to-day.
Atf FUL DISASTER.
Boiler Explosion in a Basement at
Now York.
TOE BUILDING FALLS TO THE GROUND
The Ruins Take Fire and a Ilcartrcndlnjr
Loss of Life lUsuIts Bodies of the Vic
tims Shockingly Burned The Bead
Thought to Be Fifty.
Wew York, Aug. 24. A most disas
trous and terrible explosion occurred
Saturday afternoon at 12:30 o'clock in
Park place, between Greenwich street
and College place, jnst at the time when
the street was filled with hurrying peo
ple and heavily laden wagons and
trucks.
Without a moment's warning a whole
block of buildings swarming with busy
workmen collapsed as the result of. a
mysterious explosion, and an appalling
loss of life is beyond all doubt
The number of the dead is variously
estimated at from fifteen to fully a
hundred and only a thorough search of
the ruins will establish the full extent
of the calamity.
Fire added to the horror of the situa
tion and some of the bodies of the vic
tims may never be recovered.
In the restaurant on the ground floor
of No. 74, which was kept by J. Peter
son, there were a crowd of persons at
lunch. Tho number is estimated at
the time of the explosion at between
twenty-five and thirty-five. Then there
were a number of girls in the wash
room in the basement
Trippe & Co., druggists at 70 and 72
Park place, also had a large number of
employes.
First a small, white, vaporish cloud
burst forth from the ground floor of 70,
72 and 74 Park place; then was heard a
dull, deep, sullen roar. This was fol
lowed by an eruption and a mass of
brick, stone and timber was hurled
thirty feetheavonward.
No more than a second could possi
bly have elapsed before the front walls
of 70, 72 and 74 fell crashing into the
street The great walls slowly rolled
and swelled out with on undulating
motion until they gave way and in a
moment there was not a stick or a stone
standing abevc the first floor between
the dividing walls.
The walls of the standing buildings
were jagged, as the bricks were torn out
in places. They did not retain tho
slightest semblance of what had been
three seconds before an apparently
strong and well constructed building.
The mass of brick, stone and timber
fell upon the sidewalk and filled half
the width of the street
Suddenly fire burst out in darkly
colored flames from the third, fourth
and fifth stor'es of that part of the
building on Park place next to Green
wich street occupied by Lindsay's type
foundry. The floors and the other parts
of the place were saturated with oil or
other inflammable matter which fed
the flames generously. A murmur ran
through tho throng that "the build
ing was lost and the multitude shud
dered at thoughts of tho fate of the
occupants of the ruined and burning
part of the building.
As soon as the flamos were under
control the work cf recovering the
bodies of tho unfortunate persons who
were buried beneath the ruins was be
gun by about forty firemen, who
climbed upon the great heap of bricks
that filled the street
After twenty minutes' work the men
saw the dead bo iy of a man down in
the 1 cap of brie'-, and then cleared
away the mass in n i astonishing short
space of time. At 2:20 o'clock tho body
was recovered. It was burned and
charred so that the features were un
rccognizaVc. About fifteen minutes after the first
body was taken out tho firemen came
across another body of a man lying
under a piece of the roofing near the
sido entrance. The man was apparently
39 j-ear; old. His legs, hands and face
were badly burned.
Other bodies wcro brought up at
various times, the remains being fear
fully burned.
Thirteen out of seventeen bodies re
covered have been identified.
The opinion prevails that less than
half of the bodies have so far been re
covered from the wreck, and it is
thought that altogether not loss than
fifty souls were killed in the disaster.
"HE PARK PLACE RUINS,
A aicl.incholy Search Tor the Victims
Twenty-flve Recovered So Far.
New York, Aug. 25. Delving for the
dead in the ruins of Park place contin
ued uninterrupted throughout last
night, except when the rain poured
down in such torrents as to render la
bor beneath it impossible.
At the office of boiler inspection, at
police headquarters, it was stated that
according to the records there the Tay
lor building had no steam boilers of
any kind, nor bad there been any there
for several years past The steam
power used in it was supplied from out
side sources.
The work of searching for the dead
began soon after the disaster Saturday
afternoon and has continued almost
uninterruptedly since. Saturday night
an electric light was hung on a post
across the street and torches were
placed near tho edge of the ruins.
Seventy-five Italians assisted the fire
mon. Two lines of men were formed
and the debris was passed out to tho
street
It is thought that less than half of
the bodies have been removed. About
fif tv persons are supposed to have lost
their lives.
A crowd of people standing on the
steps of the building opposite the wreck
saw one of the Italians working in tho
ruins stoop over the body of one of the
victims and take something out of the
vest pocket They shouted to the po
lice and a boy ran across the street and
told Policeman Sweeney, who arrested
the Italian. He was compelled to show
what he had in his pocket and the first
tiling he pulled out was a silver -watch
which n"b admitted he had "picked up."
He was taken to a station house fol
lowed by a mob, many of whom shout
ed "Lynch him! lynch him!" From
the station the Italian was taken to the
Tombs police court. There ho gave
his name as Rosso Savanov lie said he
intended to give the watch to his boss.
He was held f cr trial.
From early morning there was a con
stant stream of mourning fnenos and
relatives seeking among the dead lying
there the body ?1 some loved one those
absence leaves no hopo of escape from
the wrecked building.
By boom the odor of the hprflod bodies
at the ruins became painfully offensive,
and Drs. Doty and Miller, of the health
board, were sent to disinfect tie ruins
and also the bodies as they were taken
out
The official account of the number of
bodies taken from the ruins, as kept by
the police, is twenty-three. At that
hour there were two more bodies visi
ble, but they had not yet been dug out
These would bring the number of
bodies actually found up to twenty
five. THE CO-OPERATIVE PLAN.
The Committee on Establishing; Stores,
Throughout the State Will Report Favor-"
ably.
Topeka, Kan., Aug. 25. The comj
mittee appointed by the alliance com
mercial convention to investigate the
schemo for establishing - co-operative
stores throughout the state under one
general management has decided to re
port favorably to the convention which
will meet in Salina October 20, the day
before the alliance state convention.
It now develops that this plan origin
ated at the National Farmers' Alliance
convention at Ocala last December
with a Washington man named Wilson.
A short time afterward the National
Union Co., with a capital of S20, 000,000,
was organized in New York for the
purpose of putting the gigantic co-operative
scheme into execution. It is
said that 53,000,000 were subscribed to
the stock and paid in at that time.
The company decided to operate only
in states where the Farmers' Alliance
had a thorough organization, and after
looking them over carefully decided
that Kansas promised the best results,
as there were more people here who
believed in the principle of co-operation
than in any other state. Only such
states will be operated in as can get
the indorsement of the State Farmers'
Alliance, and Kansas will be tho first
to do this.
The scheme of the alliance exchange
company in this state, it is thought by
its promoters, is a pretty certain in
dication that a retail establishment con
ducted upon a similar plan will also be
succcssf uL
A CHEROKEE DENIAL.
Tho Reported Bcal "IVlth Cattlemen
Denied.
Caldwell, Kan., Aug. 25. CoL W.
A. Phillips, attorney for the Cherokees,
is in this city, having come direct from
Cape Slay, N. J., where he visited
President Harrison about the strip
situation and satisfied the president
that the Chcrokees intended to live up
to his Cape May proclamation, and
that the report that they intended to
hold cattle for other men was totally
unfounded. He impressed upon the
president the fact that the Chcr
okees had a title that at least
should be recognized and they
should be allowed the strip
for their own rise. The only tax they
expected to collect from cattlemen was
for grazing privileges along the trail
while in transit from Texas. Col.
Phillips is confident that the president
is satisfied that tho Chcrokees should
be allowed this privilege.
The colonel favors a sale of the strip,
but thinks a fair compensation should
be given the Cherokecs. He is confi
dent that a sale would have been made
last winter had it not been for the in
terference of a ring in Oklahoma who
seem bont on carrying out the rule or
ruin policy.
The most of the Chcrokees have left
here since the leaders have given the
edict that they cannot hold cattle for
the catt!ujen. Chief Mayes is here
yet transacting business with the old
strip association in the hope of receiv
ing some money. His success in that
line so far has been"verv dismaL
MAJ. M'KINLEY IN OHIO.
The Republican Campaign Opened at 2f lies
ISy tho Tnriir Champion.
Nir.Es, O., Aug. 24. Major McKinley
opened the state campaign for the re
publicans with a big meeting here Satur-1
duy. This little town is almost exclus
ively dependent upon tho iron industry
for existence and is the western termi
nus of a line of iron towns that reaches
down-the Mahoning, Beaver and Ohio
rivers to Pittsbugh and beyond. Tho
urbane major is very popular hero and,
indeed, all through northeastern
Ohio. He was born in this town
and the people here are proud
of him. The little house in which
he first kicked his baby heels in the air
is now devoted to the commonplace
uses of commerce, having been con
verted into a store. Nevertheless, it is
pointed out to visitors as the "Little
Napoleon's" "birthplace, and since Mc
Kinley was 'nominated for governor it
iias become an object of special inter
est Among the prominent men here are
ex-President Hayes, of Fremont, and
Col. Conger, of Akron. The town is
thronged with people, big delegations
'laving arrived this morning on special
trains from Youngstown, Painesville,
Alliance and other towns. Pennsyl
vania even supplied a delegation. It
came from Sharpsville, a littlo iron
town thirty miles from here.
There was a big industrial parade,
followed by a mass meeting, at which
Maj. McKinley "fired the first gun of
the campaign." His speech was de
voted mainly to advocacy of the high
tariff policy.
BACK TO HIS DESK.
Secretary Koble Emerjjes From the Adl
rondacks. WAsnnsGTOx, Aug. 2a Secretary
John W. Noble has returned to his desk
in the interior department Mr. Noble
has been absent about six weeks, hav
ing spent the greater portion of his time
n the Adirondacks. He put in consid
erable time fishing, and. reports are
that his luck was unusually good. The
secretary also spent a few very pleas
ant weeks yachting in the St Lawrence.
The active outdoor life which Mr. Noble
has led during his outing has greatly
benefitted him, and he is now the pict
ure of rugged .health. When seen at
nis office Mr. Noble was fcusUy engaged
.coking over the mail which had ac
cumulated during his absence.
"Yes, I am back again," said he, "and
my health is greatly improved. I am
now stronger than ever before, and am
prepared to take up the affairs of my
office and work right along through the
ivinter."
A Doctor Horsewhipped.
Arkansas Crrr, Kan., Aug. 24. At
Beaver, O. T., Dr. Davis was horse-wi-.ippcd
by Thomas Inlow. The doc
tor was accused of talking about Mrs.
Inlow and when attacked by her hus
band attempted to shoot him, but In
low took the revolver away, broke it
and then thrashed him.
The brother of Gov. Boies, of Iowa,,
Ijt dead. .
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CLO
HAMAKER'S
EsSeBWBa
The stock, but will be opened Saturday,
every article in the stock will be offered
At Actual
If -possible we will close out the entire stock in the next thirty
days. This is the final closing sale of this stock. Now is your op
portunity for bargains. Do not miss it.
MAIfcY CLAEDIOtfT, M.D.
Her Profession 13 Husband
Home to Her Now.
and
When Mary Clarimont's engagement
was proclaimed to the world there en
sued a general expression of surprise.
Miss Clarimont was one-and-twenty,
a tall, imperial beauty, with dewy
black eyes, a skin as fresh as damask
roses, and dark brown hair coiled in
shining bands at the back of her head.
Moreover, Miss Clarimont had a "ca
reer" before her. She had just gradu
ated from Medfield Medical university,
and taken out her diploma as an M. D.
"And only to think of it," said Aunt
Jo, bursting into tears of vexation and
disappointment, "that she must needs
go and ruin all her prospects by getting
engaged to Harry Marlow, down in
New York!"
"It does seem strange, Aunt Jo,
when I sit down and think of it," said
Dr. Mary, laughing and blushing. "Six
months ago my profession was all
the world to me. I neither wished nor
cared for anything outside its limits.
The future was all mapped out before
me without let or hindrance; and
now "
"Humph!" growled Aunt Jo. "Any
brainless idiot can get married and
keep a man's house and mend his shirts
for him, but you were made for some
thing higher and more dignified, Mary."
Mary's dew-bright eyes sparkled.
"Higher, Aunt Jo?" said she. "More
dignified? There you are mistaken.
There is no higher or more dignified
lot in life than that of the true wife of
a noble husband."
"Fiddlesticks!" said Aunt Jo. "As
if" every poor fool who was dazzled by
the glitter of a wedding ring didn't say
tho same thing! You've disappointed
me, Mary Clarimont, and I'm ashamed
of you, and that is the long and short
of it."
"Dear Aunt Jo," said she, "I shaU
not let my sword and shield rust, be
lieve me. Harry has only his own tal
ents to advance him in the world, and
it will be at least a year before we
shall be ready to marry. In the mean
time I shall accept the post of visiting
physician to. the Aldenbury almshouse
and practice my profession, just the
same as if there were no engagement"
"I wish to goodness there wasn't"
said Aunt Jo. "I tell you what, Mary,
I don't fancy that smiling, smooth
tongued young man of yours, and I
never shall."
Still Dr. Mary Clarimont kept her
temper.
"I am sorry. Aunt Jo," she said,
pleasantly. "But I hope you will even
tually change your mind."
"I used to keep a thread and needle
store when I was a young woman," re
marked Aunt Jo, dryly, "and I always
could tell the ring of a counterfeit half
dollar when a customer laid it on the
counter. I could then, and I can now
and I tell you what, Mary, there's
base metal about Harry Marlow."
Dr. Mary bit her lip.
"Perhaps. We will not discuss the
subject further, Aunt Jo," she said,
with quiet dignity, and the old lady
said no more.
"Aunt Jo is wrong," persisted the
pretty young M. D. to herself.
"Mary is making a fool of herself !'
thought Aunt Jo.
Aldenbury was a pretty manufactur
ing village, with a main street shaded
by umbrageous maples, a "west end,"
where people who had made their
fortunes lived comfortably in roomy
old houses, surrounded by velvet lawns
and terraced gardens, and an "east
end,"where people fought desperately
and not always successfully to keep
body and soul together on the merest
pittance.
And a little way out of the village
the almshouses, built and endowed by
a certain smuggling sea captain,
whose conscience had pricked him dur
ing his latter days, raised their gray
stone gables to tho sky and made
a picturesque background to the land
scape. Dr. Mary Clarimont made something
of a sensation at Aldenbury. Up to
this time all the resident M. D.'s had
been stuffy old gentlemen with wigs or
pert young ones with eyeglasses.
A beautiful young lady who wrote
prescriptions and compounded pills and
potions was a novelty in the town, and
by no means a disagreeable one. Peo
ple rather liked the idea, once they had
convinced themselves that the lady doc
tor understood herself and her pa
tients. And the poor old people at tho alms
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with eager cars lor tno sound or ner
carriage wheels over the blue gravel
drive which led up to the portico.
It was a brilliant December day when
the young physician stood in tho neatly-carpeted
reception-room drawing on
her fur gloves previous to entering her
neat phaeton once again, while she re
iterated to the white-capped maid some
directions concerning old Ann Mud
gett's rheumatism, when the matron
hurried in.
"Oh, I beg your pardon, Dr. Clari
mont" said she, "but I clean forgot the
new old woman."
"The new old woman," repeated Dr.
Mary, with a smile.
"That is," exclaimed Mrs. Cunning
ham, "she only came last night; a
quiet old soul, half blind, and quifc
bad with the asthma. Perhaps you'd
better just see her bsfore you go. She
brought a card of admission from Dr.
Merton, the New York clergyman, who
is one of our directors, you know. And
sho seems a decent body enough."
So Dr. Mary went cheerfully into
"the little brick-paved room with its
white pallet bed, cushioned rocking
chair and neatly-draped casement,
where sat a poor, little, shrivelcd-np
woman wrapped ia a faded shawL
She looked timidly up as Dr. Mary
came in, from under the borders of her
cap.
"I'm a poor body, miss," said she,
"and I'm sensible I'm making a deal of
trouble in the world. But the Lord
don't always take us, miss, when we'd
like to go."
"This is the doctor," said Mrs. Cun
ningham. The little woman would have risen
up to make a feeble courtesy, but Dr.
Mary motioned her to keep her scat
"What is your name?" said she, pleas
antly. "Louise Marlow, miss."
"Marlow? That is an unusual name,
isn't it?" said Mary Clarimont coloring
in enita of hwrcolf.
"We're English, miss," said the old
woman, struggling bravely with her
asthma. "There ain't many of us in
this country. I've a son, miss, in the
law business, as any mother might be
proud of.."
"A son!" echoed Mrs. Cunningham;
"and you in the almshouse?"
"Not that it's his fault ma'am," the
old creature made haste to explain.
"My son is to be married to a fine,
proud young lady, as is fit for any
prince in all the land, and of courscjie
can't bo expected to burden himself
with a helpless old woman like me.
"He says I'm to write and let him
know how I get along, and if I'm sick
or anything he'll try to see me. I sewed
carpets until the asthma got hold of
me, and supported myself comfortably.
But, of course, I couldn't lay up any
thing for a rainy day who could?
"And Henry couldn't help me, for
he's getting ready to be married, poor
lad! So I went to Dr. Merton and
asked him did he know any decent
place where an old woman like me
could end her days in peace. Andie
gave me a card to come here and some
money to pay my traveling expenses
God bless him! and here I am."
Mary Clarimont listened quietly to
the garrulous tale, but the color varied
in her check more than once as she
stood there.
"Is your son's name Harry Marlow?"
she said, slowly and thoughtfully.
"Yes, miss, at your service," said the
old woman, with a duck of her white-;
capped head, which was meant to do
duty in place of the impossible cour
tesy. "Is he like this?" said Dr. Mary, tak
ing a photograph from her pocket.
The old woman, with trembling
hands, fitted on her iron bowed specta
cles and looked at the picture, uttering
a little cry of recognition.
"Sure, miss, it is his own self," she
cried.
"You arc acquainted with him,
then?"
"Somewhat," said Dr. Mary, com
posedly, as sho returned the photo
graph to its place. "And now I wUl
leave you something to relieve you of
this difficulty in breathing."
But the old crone eyed her wistfully.
"Perhaps you know the young lady
my son is to marry?"
"Yes," said Dr. Mary, writing some
thing in her prescription book. "I have
seen her."
"Perhaps, miss," faltered; tho-, old
woman, "you would give her my hum
ble duty, ani tell her I would just like
to look at her for once and see what sho
is like. There's no f carof my troubling
her, miss, for I mean to end my oays
here. But I would like to sec her just
once. And if it wouldn't bo asking too
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my son and" tell him where I "am, for
I'm no scholar myself, and I'm his
mother, after all."
"I will write to him," said Dr. Mary,
quietly; and so she went away.
"I never see a lady doctor afore,"
said old Mrs. Marlow, with a long sigh.
"But she's a pretty crcetur, and it
seems good to have her around. I hope
she'll come again soon."
"You may be very sure of that," said
the matron, brusquely. "Dr. Clarimont
ain't one to neglect poor people because
they are poor."
That evening Aunt Jo, frying crul
lers over the kitchen fire, was sur
prised by a visit from her niece, who
came in all wrapped in furs, with her
cheeks crimsoned with the frosty win
ter air.
"Bless me! this ain't never you!"
said Aunt Jo, peering over her specta
cles. "I drove over to see you, Aunt Jo,"
said Mary, "to tell yon that you were
right The metal was counterfeit"
"Eh?" said Aunt Jo, mechanically
ladling out the brown, curly crullers,
although she did not look at what she
was doing.
"I have written to Harry Marlow,
canceling our engagement" said Dr.
Mary, calmly, albeit her voice faltered
a little. "The man who willjieartless
ly let his old mother go to the alms
house sooner than to take the trouble
to maintain her, can be no fit husband
for any woman."
And then she sat down by the fire
and told Aunt Jo everything, for
crabbed, crusty old Aunt Jo had been
like a mother to her, and the girl's
heart was full to overflowing.
When she had ceased speaking, Aunt
Jo nodded her head.
"You have done well and wisely,"
said she.
Old Mrs. Marlow died that winter in
Aldenbury almshouse; with her head
on Dr. Mary Clarimont's arm, and nev
er knew that her garrulous confessions
had deprived her son of his pronlised
wife.
And Mary says quietly and resolutely
that her profession must be husband
and home to her henceforward.
"Just what it ought to be," says Aunt
Jo. "No woman ever yet succeeded in
doing two things at once." Indianap
olis News.
After the Culprit.
After tho bridal party partook of a
sumptuous banquet, a younger brother
of the bride got up and said, solemnly,
raising his glass:
"Ladies and gentlemen, I have to
propose a toast, which, -however, must
be drunk standing. Please take your
glasses and rise up."
The guests, although somewhat be
wildered, did so.
"Now," said the young scapegrace,
'If you will remain standing for a few
minutes I'll find out who has been sit
ting on my-new stovepipe hat" Koch
ester Times.
Teacher "Tommy, man has been
called the 'laughing animaL1 Can you
mention some other attribute that
raises him above the mere brute?"
Tommy Figg "Yes'm. He he knows
how to spit" Indianapolis Journal.
Old Steamboat Captain Dead.
fiA-n-noT.T.TOV. Mo.. AutT. 24. Capt
W. W. Baker, for many years one of
the best known Missouri nver awam
Knnf .Tit-ln rlipd at his home here
yesterday in his seventy-fourth year.
Born in Ohio, he was raisea on men
oi wnc n. riioncer Missouri cap
tain, being one of the few men
who ever toolc Doats as nign us
Fort Benton. Since the war he has
spent most of his time on the Missis
sippi with the Anchor line of St Louis.
His last boat, the Bron Sara, of tho
Anchor line, was burned about four
years ago, since which time he has
lived on his magnificent farm where ho
has made his home.
A Madman Kill Ilia Mother.
Columbus, O., Aug. 24.-CharJea
King, a mild-mannered patient at tho
insane asylum", secured permission to
visit his mother, Mrs. Hattie King,
at Circleville, and while she wa3
preparing a meal slipped up behind
her and shot her through the body,
killing her instantly. He then tried to
shoot an aunt Mrs. Davenport, but
failed in his purpose. He labored un
der the delusion that his mother had
caused his incarceration.
W. K Sullivan and Guy McGee, two
noted Chicago newspaper men, and
Charles A. Dana, the Now York editor,
have sailed for Europe.
Frost fell in northern Iowa the other
night It was quite sharp.
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