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Cordon of Police Surronnd the
Residence of Negress Who
Is Accused of Blackmail
MRS. ELIAS' STRANGE CAREER
ife-v*" Piatt Blackmail Suit Disclosed His
Remarkable Resemblance to An-
drew Green, Who Was Believed to
Have Been Murdered at a Result of
Her Machinations.
New York. June 7.—Mrs. Hannah
Elias is again a virtual prisoner irf her
handsome home on Central park west,
with a heavily reinforced guard of
process servers and deputy sheriffs
watching every point of possible
escape. The guard was reinforce 3
Sunday night. It was hinted to Platt'9
lawyer that Mrs. Elias would take
of tho Sunday law to de-
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wlvanta8e
Xtfrf: •?-r^x" rD r\
"Saito
camp
it is said that the two assistant dis
trict lawyers, having listened to botu
sides voiced their opinions that tho
prosecution did not have a leg to stand
upon. A directly contraary report is
that Lord and Kernochan reached a
decision that the case should be taken
before the June grand jury yesterday,
and that Piatt's lawyers objected.
The Ellas woman's daughter has
come in from Philadelphia to charge
her mother with abandonment
It was a Bhocklng tragedy that
stirred not only New York but the
•ntire country and brought to light the
wonderful story of Mrs. Ellas' career.
On Nov. 13, 1903, Cornelius Will
iams, the woman's discarded friend,
of a decade, shot and killed Andrew
H. Green, the "Father of Greater New
York," on the doorstep of his Park
avenue home. Williams told his in
sane story of Mr. Green's alleged re
lations with the negress. Every de
tail of the woman's life but the name
of her wealthy patron was ferreted out
toy the press. The district attorney
was ill in bed. She confessed
everything to him. She dis
closed the name of John R. Piatt
as her dupe. Piatt sent word to the
district attorney that he would kill
himself if his disgrace were revealed,
and with the consent of Mr. Green's
family the district attorney kept si
lent and sent Williams to an asylum
for the criminally insane at Matte
aw&n.
The Piatt blackmail suit disclosed to
Woman Sculptor,
the woman's building of the Chi
cago World's fair visitors noticed
a beautiful "quartet of busts" in
marble. They were the chiseled
heads of Elizabeth Cady Stanton,
Busan B. Anthony, Lucretia Mott and
iMbella Beecher Hooker. They were
full of majesty and power and of a
beauty which showed that the sculptor
bad seen through the Imperfect flesh
mask and perceived the dominant soul
(acuity of each ef her subjects. If
Mgreat-great-granddaughtei
€3'Vat-'l'"1"'
5.^'KlamU,
live at Valley Forge, Pa.
7~Z~
'v She—Ada has married one man out of
a thousand. He—Well, how many did
you expect her to marry
"V The New York city board of eduea
tlon has decided that teachers In the
public schools may marry at will and
tsk teach* Sha
ml* ifl teM
the public his remarkable resemblance
to Green.
Mrs. Elias' Strange Life.
Mrs. Eluui' private I fe has boon
simply amassing. Mrs. K?lle Marshall,
for three years the housekeeper of the
negro adventuress, tells the story.
The tastes of Mrs. Elias' life as a
negro never left her. Her favorite
beverage was gin, and, tiring of the
luxuries of a millionaire establish
ment, she would frequently send a. ser
vant out with a tin bucket to get a
'possum stew or a mess of fried fish,
from a corner lunch stard.
Kato, her Japanese bul ler became a
great favorite with her, and she sent
him to the Paris exposition with a
valet. That was after she had given
him a present of $10,003 worth of
dianmonds .it one time.
The woman dreaded the possibility
of recognition ns a negrc. She covered
her kinky hair with a WOO wig, and
sought to have her face bleached. For jjyiy stopped him and lulled his sus
two months she paid a face specialist icj0ns ns she revealed a story of mis
$100 a day. He placed a mask over her
face and told her to wear it several
weeks. Sh'? did so, but when she took
it oil', her face was as black as ever.
But the face specialist had the money.
Her envy of white women amounted to
bitterness. She never lost an oppor
tunity to humiliate a white, even prac
ticing Jokes on her servants.
A library of richly bound and well
selected volumes was one of the at
tractions of the house, bjt It was never
used. Books on etiquette, however,
were often read by Mrs, Ellas. Mur
der stories in the daily p.ipers were
her favorite form of rending.
Her fear of recognition as a colored
woman prevented her going out except
in a curriuge. Her desire to avoid
meeting others, went tj such an ex
treme that she would not even go to
a dentist'*: ft Ice to have her teeth
cared for. Instead ste had a com
plete dental outfit in her own home,
chair and all, and her work was done
there.
She loved to play the part of Cleo
patra, had a scented fountain 'n her
boudoir ana often had herself and her
Bervniils arrayed as Egyptians. Thay
all then sat about the fountain, making
believe that they were daughters of th3
Mile.
Whera the Money Came From.
The money to meet her
kneivn in her home as "shaking down
the old man," Mr. Piatt.
These are the amo ants Piatt says
he paid to Mrs. Elias, annually, after
1895: 1896, $19,075 1S'J7. $39,230
1898, $62,000 1899, $51,900 1900,
$84,265 1901, $87,067 1902, $124,
206 1903, $186,409 1904, $31,533.
Others are believed to have been bled
almost afi heavily as Mr. Piatt.
The following properties are alleged
to have been bought by Mrs. Elias
with money Mr. Piatt had given her:
House and lot, No. 13S West Fifty
third street house r.nd lot, No. 73
West Sixty-eighth street house and
lot. No. 236 Central Park, W. house
and lot, No. 166 We3: Seventy-second
street brownstone dwelling No. 434
these famous wonjen had had a man's
opportunity In the world here would
have been Elizabeth Cady Stanton,
the statesman Lucretia Mott, the
saint and preacher Susan B. Anthony,
hustler, organizer and reform loader
Isabella Beecher Hooker, typical Beech
er, inten elj 1 uman,. surpassingly
brainy. J'
The artist who modeVd these re
markable busts was Adelaide Johnson,
a slender little woman who appears all
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REBECCA PAGE KNOX.
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The romance of Attorney Genet
V*5^archaeologist, is to lesult, let us hope, n«t end,
WOMAN'S WORDS AND WORKS.
•al Knox's daughter, who wanted to he an drawing, modeling and wood carving.
in her marriage soon to Robert Once when she was seventeen the gift
tilled with a tire
found
maintained and so bitterly fought by
the women teachern, was found ineffec
tive, and since the board refuses to
punish infractions the rule is consid
ered dead.
Oranges nro among the most useful
gt
£rjU,tft MMl xben ttvteu freely lend to
Lenox avenue, purchased or leased.
In a squalid tenement in Addison
street, a negro quarter of Pniladel
plnri, Hannah Elias was born in list5.
Her fathe was an Indian with an ad
mixture of negro blood. ller mother,
too, was of mixed blood. Hannah
was extraordinarily bright and proved
an apt scholar at the school of indus
try, a Quaker institution. In her nine
teenth year she was sent out in ser
vice to eurn her share of the family
expenses. Desire to shine at sister's
wedding led her to commit a theft,
for which she was sent to prison. Her
fall thereafter was rapid.
A turn in her fortunes came in 1S35,
when she met John R. Piatt, a retired
glass manufacturer and millionaire. It
was a chance meeting on the side
walk, engineered by the woman's clev
erness. The venerable merchant sus
pected neither the race nor character
of the demure and pretty woman who
erly appearance. He was 76 and she
30. Mr. Piatt had made a sworn de
position that he believed her story
that she was a virtuous single woman
of Spanish extraction. Her intrigue
prospered. He became her protector.
The rest was easy.
or un
by clever reference to his fath-
Worst of All Experiences.
Can anything be worse than to fe»il
that every minute will be your last
Such was the experience of All's. S. H.
Newson, Decatur, Ala. "For three
years." slje writes. "I endured insuffer
able pain from indigestion, stomach
and bowel trouble. Death seemed in
evitable when doctors and all reme
dies failed. At. length I was induced
to try Electric Bitters and the result
was miraculous. I improved at on-.
and now I'm completely recovered."
For liver, kidney, stomach and bowel
troubles Kleotric Bitters is the only
medicine. Only fiOr. It's guaranteed
by McDonald & Mahood, druggists.
A Strong Heart
Is assured by perfect digestion. Indl
gestion swells the stoma and puffs
it up against the heart. This causes
shortness of breath, palpitation of the
heart and general weakness. Kodol
Dyspepsia Cure cures indigestion, re-
enormous neves the stomach, takes the strain off
expenses was obtained from what was he heart and restores it to a full per-
forniance of its function naturally.
Kodol increases the strength by en
abling the stomach and digestive or
gans to digest, assimilate and appro
priate the blood and tissues all of the
food nutriment. Tones the stomach
and digestive organs. Sold by all
druggists.
Ten Years in Bed.
Tt. A. Gray, J. P., Oakville, Ind.,
writes, "For ten years I was confined
to my bed with disease of the kidneys.
It was so severe that I could not move
part of the time. I consulted the very
best medical skill available, but could
get no relief until Foley's Kidney Cure
was recommended to me. It has been
a Godsend to me." B. A. Morgan.
electric life »nd power. To look at her
she seems spirit with just enough flesh
ly embodiment to hold her down and
keep her working. Mrs. Stanton and
Miss Anthony were the beloved friends
of the sculptor. At her wedding she
stood between their two busts. They
were her bridesmaids, she laughingly
euid.
The quality distinguishing Adelaide
Johnson's portrait busts is the soul In
terpretation in them. The artist sees
what is best In her subject, though it
be hidden from the ordinary ken, and
expresses it In the sculptured face.
She has made a notable bust of Gen
eral John A. Logan, although she may
he said to be. par excellence, the sculp
tor of women. Famous ladles have
given her sittings, among them May
Wright Sewall.Lillian Whiting and Hel
en Gardener. In her studio in New York
Mrs. Johnson has a remarkable marble
medallion portrait of Susan B. An
thony. It is perfect character sketch
of the great woman champion.
Mrs. Johnson's studio itself has been
called the "white nest." Its furnishings
are largely white. The marbles and
even the restful couch in the corner are
covered with snow white drapery. At
home Mrs. Johnson Is ever clad in del
icate and dainty white, in a fashion of
robe she herself evolved—flowing, easy,
classic, yet likewise convenient for
work. In the studios of Europe, espe
cially in Italy, the sculptor artist, man
or woman, is always dressed in white
from head to foot. It is suitable for
working in white clay, but it is also
beautiful and aesthetically fitting to.
the plastic arf.
This woman who is able to see
through ibe flc?sh mask and reproduce
t!nv best expression of the ioul within
her subject hus had a remarkable career.
She was born on a farm in Illinois. It
is recorded that when she was two I
hours old sh* looked about her know
ingly and smiled visibly, actually and
unmistakably, as thoutjh, being born,
she had already resolved to make the
best of a bad situation and take a hu
morous view of it. Seeing the smile,
her father said, "This child is born to
wisdom."
Yet it wm many a weary year be
fore Adelaide Johnson learned to take
the humorous view of things. She was
a thin, dark, nervous little creature,
solemn. Intense and tragic, precocious
beyond description. Whatever was to
be done by woman's fingers upon a
farm this child wrought at. At the age
of ten she did the sewing for her whole
family. Her capacity for work was
marvelous, and this power is hers still
in the white studio in New York. But
while she wrought witu her hands at
the country tasks there was in her
mind the vision of a life far different,
a time when the hands that milked
cows and made soap and cooked for
farm men should build into visible
shape the rare brain pictures which
lloated always before her.
When she was sixteen she went to
St. I,ouis to the art school. She learned
€arth*
-v
ithout
but all her soul rebelled at that.
living.
correct many sluggish bodily condi
tions.
The Russian ouha, a popular article
of diet, is a soup made of smelts.
There is no greater everyday virtue
than cheerfulness. This quality is like
sunshine to the day or gentle, renewing
moisture to parched herbs. Tho light
ot cheerful face diffuses Itself and
She could die, but she could never give
up
At length a time actually came when
to this flame soul, all undisciplined as
yet, suicide seemed the 'only way out.'
She could not achieve, therefore she
would die. An acquaintance gave her
shelter for a night. She thought all
gsmting Ttmes-'ftepitMiran,IttatslralltouiT, fmwa, Twrsdng, |itnu 7,1904
The Blazed
CI1 AI'TElt VII.
ADWAY returned to camp by the
Gth of January, lie went on
snowshocs over the entire job
and then sat silently in the of
fice smoking. The jobber looked older.
The lines of dry good humor about his
eyes had subtly changed to an expres
sion of pathetic anxiety. lie attached
no blame to anybody, but rose the next
morning at horn blow, aud the men
found that they had a new master over
them.
Now it became necessary to put the
roads in shape for hauling. All winter
the blacksmith bud occupied his time In
fitting the iron work on eight log
sleighs which the carpenter hnd liewod
from solid sticks of timber. They were
tremendous affairs, with runners six
feet apart and bunks nine feet ill width
for the reception of logs.
Copyright 1902, by Stewart Edward White
The carpentcr had also built two itn
mense tanks on runners, holding each the plow. Thorpe, who went along as
some seventy barrels Of water and with one of the "road monkeys." saw now
holes so arranged that on th with- why such care had been required of
night"long and decided "to'throw'herself 'ore known In this country. At one
into the Mississippi when the
day
broke In the morning she rose and sat there were not hearses enough to bur
oroKe. niormiij, ai.e
whlch
upon her bed. the long hair
swept the floor when she was standing
floating all about her. She began to
dress to go down to.the river. At that
moment, she says, a power caught her
up. whether in the body or out of the
body she knows not. But to her con
sciousness she was lifted above it all,
the stress and the bitter want, above
the awful anxiety and soul hunger. In
the twinkling of an eye it was made
plain that there was a purpose In this
life for her, Adelaide Johnson, to fulfill,
and means thereto would not be lack
ing.
in the brief trance came her revela
tion. From that day to this she has
gone on, never doubting. Misfortune,
accident, disaster even, have fallen
upon her. In each she finds only a way
to gain power and knowledge. If she
hears of a misfortune to an acquaint
ance she says only. "What a great op
portunity!" She herself has proved it
so. She studied sculpture in Europe
under disadvantages that would have
snufted out a weak light. The life trag
edies foreshadowed
in her solemn, in
tense child face did
not pass her by.
Yet each only served
to strengthen her
immortal will and
power to do.
Through will pow
er intelligently ap
plied she overcame
the effects of an ac
cident which sur
geons declared would
lame her for life.
Through this same
intelligent will,
Adelaide Johnson.
drawing from what she believes to be
the infinite power within the human
soul, she corrected a defect of vision
which had caused her to wear glasses
for years. Now her eyes are strong
and luminous, and her erect, lithe figure
is the expression of perfect grace.
Mrs. Johnson is a vegetarian. She is
also an enthusiastic student of the Del
sartean philosophy. To her it is an ex
haustless fountain of wisdom. It has
helped her immensely in her modeling
it has helped her to an understanding
of life which bears her above illness,
fatigue or despondency. She has writ
ten a hook, not yet published, on the
true meaning of the Delsarte teachings.
Mrs. Johnson's marble bust of Lucretia
Mott will be exhibited al the Women's
International Council in Berlin.
With a capacity for work that is not
less than marvelous, Adelaide Johnson
has perfect health. She rises very ear
ly, works at high pressure all day, year
after year, with never even a headache
or the lightest weakness or twinge of
pain in her body. She is the perfect
human machine, and she has attained
this perfection herself. How? She
says:
"I believe the will Is the means for
achieving conscious immortality."
LILLIAN GRAY.
communicates the happy spirit that in
spires it. The sourest temper must
sweeten in the atmosphere of continu
ous good humor.
The Stuyvesant Yacht club of New
York city has one woman member, Dr.
Mary H. Cotton, a practicing physician.
She owns the cat boat Jolly Rogers aud
By STEWART
EDWARD
WHITE
For, some distance the way led along
comparatively high ground. Then,
si
into
Ilere earner ,i. ii.c- -.vu.
Six horses drew it down tho road, each seventy odd times. resort all the year round!"
pair superintended by a driver. The Then Fred Green hitched his team gy
machine was weighted down by a num-: on and the four horses drew the creak-'
ber of logs laid across the arms. Men ing, cumbrous vehicle spouting down
guided it by levers and by throwing the road. Water gushed In fans from
their weight against the fans of the tlie openings on either side and beneath
plow. It was a gay, auimated scene, and in streams from two boles behind.
this, full of the spirit of winter—the
plodding, straining horses, the brilliant
ly dressed, struggling men, the sullen
yielding snow thrown to either side,
the shouts, warnings and commands.
To right and left grew white banks of
snow. Behind stretched a broad white
path in which a scant inch hid the bare
suipuiHinfiy which at night a thin crust formed.
k.rtn.B 11,e »*«.•'
had been constructed, and perhaps as:
many swampy places had been "cor
duroyed" by carpeting them with lor.g
parallel poles. Now the first ditiiculty
began.
Some of the bridges had sunk below
the level, and the approaches had to
be "corduroyed" to a practicable grade.
Others again were humped up like tom
cats and had to be pulled apart en
tirely.
Still that sort of tiling was to be ex-i
pected. A gang of men who followed
the plow carried axes and cant hooks
for the purpose of repairing extem
poraneously just such defects which
never would have been discovered oth
erwise than by the practical cxperi
t'ni'p. Itadway himself jt'COtnpauied
drawal of plugs the water would flood him in smoothing the way of stubs, sprinklers stayed in.
the entire width of the road. The knots and hummocks.
sprinklers were oiled by horse power, When the road had been partly j^ing idle teams were doing1 the same.
A chain running through blocks at cleaned Railway started one of his went on but the days of the
taclied to a solid upper framework, I sprinklers. Water holes of suitable
like the open belfry of an Italian moti- size had been blOWfl ill tlie CTeeli baillt
astery, dragged a barrel up a wooden by dynamite. There the machines
track from a water hole to an opening were filled. Stratton attached his horse
iu the sprinkler. When in action this to the Chain and drove him back and
formidable machine weighed nearly forth, hauling the barrel up aud down jnR "he
two tons and resembled a moving! the slide way. At the bottom it was jiier,jj0iUeter marked as high as 4,0 de
house. Other men had felled two big capsized and filled by means of a long I
hemlocks, from which they had hewed pole shackled to Irs bottom and manip-1 Qften heard this was a sort 'T
beams for a plow. ulatod by old man Heath, i^t the top
The plow was now put in action. it turned over by its own weight. Thus
Not for an instant as long as the flow
continued dared the teamsters breathe
their horses, for a pause would freeze
the runners tigl:t to the ground. A
tongue at either end obviated the ne
cessity of turning around.
That night it turned warmer.» The
change was heralded by a shift of
wind.
HOW THE TRAILING
I time in New Ttork citj. for a few
the dead. While this condition existed
a prominent physician announced his
A man has, ay, a violent cold, the
Llglnning of pneumonia. He expecto
rates upon the sidewalks and even upon
floors and staircases, according to the
loathsome American habit. Along
comes after him a woman with a train.
Sometimes she pretends to hold her
skirt partly up. but there is only pre-
ters the present summer. Dr. Cotton
loves the water and is accustomed to
rowing and canoeing.
In Korea tl-e rooms of a wife or
mother are thi sanctuary of any man
who breaks the law. Except for trea
son and for one other crime, he cannot
be forced to leave those rooms, aud so
will sail it herself u^ou tlie eouud w»- long as he remains und»t the protec-
"She's goin' to rain." said oid Jack
son. "The air is kind o* holler."
"Hollow?" said Thorpe, laughing,
"now is that?"
"I don' know," confessed Hlnes, "but
s'ne is. She Just feela that way."
In the morning the icicles dripped
from tho roof, and the snow became
pocktnnrked on the surface.
Radway was down looking at the
road.
"She's holdin' her own." said he,
"but there ain't any use putting more
water on her. She ain't freezing a
mite. We'll plow her out."
So they finished the job and plowed
her out, leaving exposed the wet,
marshy surface of the creek bottom, on
fr!Lc
iloiidpcpcret-k bottom bctn ooii „opotullj. "You sprinkler
[ere earlier in the year eleven bridges,
head
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A CREATION OF WHITE LAWN.
This rather complicated skirt effect is carried out with lace Insertion and
two ruffles of lace at the feet. The waist has a crossed tucked yoke inset with
lace medallions and a fitted bertha cut In shallow points edged with lace and
motifs of luce :iet in at intervals around the empiecement. The sleeves are
made of tucks and entre deux of lace.
Intention of having introduced into the
state legislature a bill prohibiting wo
men from wearing trailing skirts upon
the streets because of the contagious
disease germs these sweeping garments
gather and spread into homes all over
the city.
little tonight" .aid
Rt bej. aQ(1 wfit ber
b,J.Je gun came oat
woodpeckerB
j00^
doWQ,
1
fWn
Jq the inoming
four teams and the six men creaked
back and forth spilling hardly gath
ered water. Then they crept in and
ate sleepily the food that a sleepy
cookee set out for them.
By morning the mere stirfaco of the
sprinkled water had frozen. Itadway
looked in despair at the sky. Dimly
through the gray be caught the tint of
Nuthatches and
ran gayly up the warm­
ing trunks o'f»the trees blue jays flufT- fledged cant hook man
ed aud perked and screamed iu the
hardwood tops a covey of grouse veu
tured from tlie swamp and strutted
vainly, a pause of contemplation be
tween each stop. Had way, walking out
on the tramped road of the marsh,
cracked the artificial skin aud thrust
through into Icy water. That
Tlie devU see
med in It Men were
year, and four of them had already
ticked off the calendar. The deep snow
Of the unusually cold autumn had now
disappeared from the tops of the
Stumps. It even stopped freezing dur-
night
gumnier
times Dyer's little
resort," observed Tom Broad-
«but hanged if I knew it was a
an(
g0j. jje
ing on tho
4
a case 0
pure reac
look-
bright side of the affair
tion.
,j don't know," said Radway "It
won
^e so bad, after all. A couple of
dayg of weatijer,
with all this wa-
ter lying around, would fix things up
in pretty good shape. If she only
freezes tight we'll have a good solid
bottom to build on."
The inscrutable goddess of the wil
derness smiled and calmly, relentlessly,
moved her next pawn.
It was all so unutterably simple and
tense.
and there, gathering in Its cloth or silk-
CI/IPT nAWGFRmiS en folds the deadly pneumonia or grip
bMrtl Ifc UHftUtnuuo.l
public
those filthy skirts makes a clean man
sick.
At any rate, the woman drags the
skirt after her for hours in public
buildings and into private homes. By
the time she reaches home sho has
scattered germs of fatal and disgusting
diseases enough to infect a whole city.
Perhaps she wears low shoes and thin,
hose. She has upon her feet and ankles
more dirt than would find lodgment
upon a clean woman's body in a whole
year. The very thought of it makes a
clean woman shudder.
That fine gentlewoman of the old
tion of his wife's apartments he Is se.
cure from the otScers of the law.
Dr. Alice Johnson has been appoint
ed by the Lambeth board of guardians
medical officer of the board schools of
West Norwood, near London. There
were fifty applicants for the post, the
larger number of whom were men.
A divorced woman's
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yet so effective. It snoweG.
Ail night and all day the great flakes
zigzagged softly down through the air.
Radway plowed away ttvo feet of it.
Vhe surface was promptly covered by
a second storm. Radwity doggedly
plowed it out again.
This time the goddess seemed to re
lent. The ground froze solid. The
sprinklers becamo assiduous in their
labor. Two days later the road was
ready fjpr the first sleigh, its surface
of thick, glassy Ice beautiful to be
hold, the ruts cut deep and true, the
glades sanded or sprinkled With re
tarding hay on the descents. At the
river the banking ground proved solid.
Radway brentlnd again, then sighed.
Spring was eight days nearer. He was
eight days more behind.
Chains bind the loads. And if ever
during the loading or afterward when
the sleigh Is in motion the weight of
the logs causcs the pyramid to break
down and squash out, then woe to the
driver or whoever happens to be near.
For this reason the loaders are picked
and careful men.
At the banking grounds, which lie in
and about the bed. of the river, the logs
are piled Into a gigantic skldway to
await the spring freshets, which will
carry them down stream to the "boom."
In that inclosure they remain until
sawed in the mill.
In every case it dips down here school. Elizabeth Cady Stanton, had so
buildings the woman
whose childish vanity is stronger than
URING the winter and spring just her common sense always lets that foul
passed grip and pneumonia have skirt mop the floor so that she may
show it off. Men and women krek it
out of the way, mutter imprecations on
it or mayhap step upon it not more
than half by accident always. At times
this is done purposely. I have heard a
gentleman say that the sight of one of
prevailed to tn extent never be-
high a sense of physical purity in her
person and in her home that at last she
declared she would cease to permit any
train wearing won^a.n to cross her
threshold. If one ever did so that one
never got off without a "wigging" she
could not forget. Mrs. Stanton had the
eye of an eagle in reference to unclean
liness, and street dirt is the worst,
most dangerous of all. Yet Mrs. Stan
ton herself occasionally wore royal vel
vet or satin trains, but never upon the
street and never away from home un
less she rode in a carriage to the place
where she was going.
Trains are graceful enough indoors if
one Is willing to put up with the both
er, but they are only in place in a
house or in a carriage. In no spot are
they more of a nuisance and a menace
to the pjiblic health than in the church
or theater. Many an unfortunate has
caught pneumonia from the train of
some woman's dress in church.
It is time the clean, refined, sensible
women of our country took the matter
seriously in hand and put a atop to this
public nuisance. There are enough of
them to do it. A skirt of instep length
may now be worn anywhere even by a
fashionable woman. One of the odd
features connected with the thtng is
that the longest of the vile trains are
frequently made of very cheap material,
showing that it is the poor women who
sport them. Perhaps they think they
are showing off high style. Again, the
aesthetic sense is outraged by seeing
exquisite and costly fabrics used as
brooms to sweep the filthy streets.
Worst of all, half the time these trains,
besides being covered with dust and
grime, are ragged and torn.
MARY GOULD LYTLE.
WOMEN BOOTBLACKS
Women in recent years have invaded
so many of the occupations which in the
past have been considered sacred to
men that it does not come as a great
surprise to And a female bootblack in
the streets of London. The lady in
question is the wife of a well known
bootblack whose "pitch" is In Euston
road, outside Euston station. At pres
ent she only acts as her husband's un
derstudy, but it is her ambition to run
'an independent business. The specta
cle of ladies having their boots or shoes
cleaned in the streets is quite a common
one in London, and, not unnaturally,
the female shoeblack believes that there
is a distinct opening for her labors ip
this direction.
.^Vissst
As soon as loading began the cook
•erved breakfast at 8 o'clock. The men
worked by the light of torches, which
were often merely catchup Jugs with
wicking in the necks. Nothing could
be more picturesque than a teamster
conducting one of his great pyramid
leal loads over the little inequalities of r.
the road, in the ticklLsh places stand-
ing atop with the bent knee of the Ro-
the haul. Thorpe had become a full j" P°S^°D-
edged cant hook man.
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HOW TO CLEAN LACE CURTAINS.
A professional cleaner says that the
best method of cleansing lace curtains
at home is to make a suds of warm wa
ter, white castile soap and a little bo
rax. If the curtains are very dirty
scrub them gently with a soft .scrub
bing brush. Lace curtains should nev
er be rubbed between the hands. This
stretches the mesh and is very likely to
tear holes in it. When quite clean,
rinse in clear water to which a little
borax has been added, squeeze between
the hands, but do not wring, and dry in
a sheet.
Mother—Just look at your clothes!
Oh, you careless boy! It's no use talk
ing to you! Tommy—Now, that's real
ly sensible, mother. Why didn you
think of that long ago?
founded by Roman Catholic women in
Vienna. The object is to obtain such
an alteration of the law that Roman
Catholics who have been divorced may
mdrry again. At the present time such
marriages are Illegal In Austria.
Nothing really noble is ever attained
enidlv. One may get money by inher
itable from an ancaator, but one cannot
Thorpe, In common with the otbet
men, had thought Hadway's rmcattog
at Christmas time mistake. He co«kf
not but admire the fererish anJmatiMf
that now characterized the Jobber. Bv«
cry mischance wu as Qcickijr repaired
as aroused expedient could uo tb4|
work.
Esprit de corps awoke. The mMl
sprang to their tasks with alacrity,
gavo more than an hoar's exertion td
each of the twenty-four, took a prldai
In repulsing assaults of the great en*
emy whom they personified under the
generic "She."
One morning in February Thorp*
was helping load a big butt log. H4
was one of the two men who stand at
either end of the skids to help the a*i
cending log keep straight and true tt
its bed on the pile. His assistant**
end caught on a sliver, ground tor
second and slipped back. Then the
log ran slanting across the skids in
stead of perpendicular to them. To
rectify the fault Thorpe dug his cant
hook Into the timber and threw hi*
eJSht
mann«
man charioteer, spying and forestall-, ®scfnJ ,^n
teg the chances of the way with a fixed
tot*
the ttock, He hoped tW»
,che* correspondingly the,
the
P,ace
end'that'the
on
eye and an Intense concentration that I venting sliver, so equalizing the pro*
relaxed not one Inch in the miles ot!
Blld-
iiio
Li» s, df
a°d
down
°'the
forcing the timber to ItS #J"Op-
I"stefilof rol"n» t,be
The stock of the cant hook
HeUkel the work. There is about It J«** '™1 hi* band*. He fell M,
end the cant hook, after clinging for
a moment to the rough bark, cnappxl
suddenly with the hook of his strong
Instrument, stopping one end that the
other may slide. He thrusts the short, ®top° wm.
strong stock between the log and the Theytooklhorpe Up andcarrfed hlfll.
skid, allowing it to be overrun. He In Just as they had carried Hank PatU
before. Men who bad not spoken a
stops the roll with a sudden sure grasp
applied at Just the right moment to be
effective. Sometimes he allows himself
to be carried up bodily, clinging to the
cant hook like an acrobat to a bar, un
til the log has rolled once, when, bis
weapon loosened, he drops lightly, eas
ily to the ground. And it is exciting to
pile the logs ou the sleigh, first a layer
of five, say then one of four smaller, of
but three, of two, until at the very
apex the last is dragged slowly up the
skids, poised and Just as it is about to
plunge down the other side is gripped
and held inexorably by the little men
in blue flannel shirts.
Mr. J. "W. Turner, of Truhart, Ya*
says that Chamberlain's Stomach and
Liver tablets have done him more good
than anything he could get from the
doctor. If any physician in this coun*
try was able to compound a medicine
that would produce such gratifying re
sults in cases of stomach troubles, bil
iousness or constipation, his whole tliho
would be used In preparing thisi om
medicine. For sale by all drugfedsta.
Constipation causes two-thirds of all
sickness in the world. Hollister's Rooky
Mountain Tea positively cures con
stipation. No cure, no pay. 35 cents*
McBride & Will Co.
CARMEN SYLVA ON
UNHAPPY
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and hit him a crushing blowjpa
dozen words to him In as many day*,1
gathered bis few belongings and stuff-1
ed them awkwardly Into his satchel.
Jackson Hines prepared tlie bed of
straw and warm blankets- in the bot
torn of the Bleigh that was to take hinfi
oat.
"He would have made a good boss/*!
said the old fellow. "He's a hard nuts'
to nick."
(To Be Continued
Chamberlain's StomSch and Ltver Tab*
lets Better Than a Doctor's Pre*
•cription.
MARRIAGES.
There is a general feeling among
mankind that it is better to endure than
to cut the tie, except in cases where the
welfare of a whole family is in' ques
tion.
The problem is one of the most ardu
ous and delicate that has ever cone Qp
for consideration, nor can It be solved'
unless viewed from a high, a much
higher, plane on which both spouses •_
will one day take their stand. As soon
as they have come to see that they
were mistaken and are ill assorted they
should ask themselves for what pur
pose they have had to take the step
seemingly an error—what service they
were destined to render to mankind.
Most people fancy they possess the
right, especially in the matrimonial
state, to bear only themselves in mlndt
and great is the aamage which they
cause mankind thereby, for they are
here for the purpose of giving to th^
world more perfect, purer, nobler be
ings than they themselves are. If,
then, we could bTing ourselves to look
upon marriage as a holy sacrifice, an
act of perfect self abnegation,, we
should make much greater progress.
We might not add much or, indeed,
anything to the sum of our happiness,
but that is Quite another question. In
deed, it is problematical whether we are
on the earth at all for the purpose of
attaining happiness. Certainly, if we
consider the destinies of fnan and the
sufferings of innocent animals, terres
trial bliss assumes a shadowy form, and
the end of the universe appears In a
very different light.
In every nation marriage hears the
impress of the peculiar needs of the
race. Therefore it is impossible to lay
down general laws and regulations on
the subject but it behooves the indi
viduals themselves to ennoble and per
fect themselves in this matter as in ev
erything else. There would be no wo
man's'question if marriage were
treat
ed in a manner different from that
which has been so widely prevalent.
Men were intent on having handmaid
ens, women on captivating heroes,
whereas the men fell short of the he
roic, while the women were unable tc
bear the yoke under which the males
strove to keep them.
Thus the door was opened wide to all
the saddest things in life—to jealousy,
distrust, violence, selfishness arid end
less evils—for in marriage people fancy
they can throw off all restraint, heed
less of the fact that when they act thus
their shortcomings assume colossal di
mensions and their good qualities
dwindle to nothingness. In marriage
more than in any other form of rela
tionship one should never throw the
reins aside, but always keep a firm
hand upon one's will. Even an unsea
sonable yawn is sometimes enough to
produce a whole drama, for It hetrays
apathy and indifference at the very mo
ment, it may be. which the other spouse
deemed most favorable for communion
of seuls. On the other hand, the tw*
life partners busied apart often COm%
together when tired and jaded, anf
weariness alone is enough to make
them more irritable and Indifferent
whereas every meeting ought t® be I
little festival of joy.
get education, culture or character as
an inheritance. These possessions caa
become ours only through our own
struggle and self discipline.
The national Russian dish is ealled
tschi. It is made with beef or mutton,
which is allowed to boil with cabbage,
carrots and onions, barley
grains, etc,
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