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GEORGIA AND FLORIDA.
NEWS OF THE TWO STITES TOLJ)
IN PARAGRAPHS.
>lalp and Fetnnle Stadonta In *pell-
Ing Bet—A Mail C urrier C nngh( In
n Water Spout anil Drowaed—A
Temperance <'ru*nile in Macon—An
Attempt to Hum the t.raniten life
Aenilemy—A Superintendent I nil tri
ed Cor Hanning Freight Trains on
Sunil a >.
GEORGIA.
Hundreds of Jicrej* of land has been
plant* <1 in corn in Newton county within
the past two weeks.
liuson A Thompson, merchants at Mil
wav, have dissolved copartnership and a
new firm, Huson Bros, will continue the
tmsinc-as.
Lieut. 8. B. Saterlee, acting 1 assistant
adjutant general of the Georgia militia.
Is in Augusta for the purpose of winding
up the affairs of the Clarke Rifles.
Col. R. F. Crittenden of Shellman has
been Invited by the Ladles' Memorial As
sociation to deliver the memorial address
in Cuthbert on April 26. He has accepted.
Andrew J. Vaughn, formerly a mer
chant and an old resident of Lawrence
vllle, who married the daughter of G.
W. Ambrose, was adjudged a lunatic
on Tuesday.
The people in the northern part of Ter
rell county are now being troubled with
mad dogs. A number of hots have been
bitten and have died from the effects of
the bites of these dogs.
The grand jury of Fulton county elected
Hr. W. B. Foute, at present a station
house keeper, as justice of the piece to
succeed A. M Perkerson, who. localise of
illness, recently resigned the position.
The Farmers’ Mutual Insurance Com
pany. which was organized in Gwinnett
county a short time ago. had its first
fire Tuesday in the burning of the dwell
ing ot Pink Crow of that county. The
policy was S3OO.
The Westmoreland homestead at the cor
ner of Falrlie and Marietta streets at At
lanta has been sold to T. Jefferson Cool
idge. It is the intention of Mr. Ooolldge
to convert the residence into a hotel for
exposition purposes. #
There are now only a few hundred bales
of cotton in the warehouses at Dawson,
the holders having taken advantage of
the rise in the market to sell. Daw
son’s receipts by wagon during the sea
son amount to 20,000 bales.
There was a meeting of the executive
committee of the Georgia Banker’s Asso
ciation at the Brown house at Macon
Tuesday evening to formulate a pro
gramme for the annual convention of the
association to be held at Brunswick on
June 12.
At a meeting held at Augusta Wednesday
afternoon the Southwestern Land Com
pany was organized. The company will de
velop the old exposition property, cutting
It into lots amt making improvements
The capital #took Is s3s,with the privi
lege of increasing- to sloo,uoo.
A large numbej* of applications for pen
sions under the recent ’’indigent” pension
act have been filed with Judge Speer of the
court of ordinary at Americus, and the
end is not yet. These pensions are for con
federate soldiers who have heretofore re
ceived nothing from the state.
Four of Gwinnett’s oldest citizens have
died within the last week—John R. Young,
Moses W. Graham. W. I. Woodward and
an old negro man, named Virgil Hutchins,
who formerly belonged to the father of
Judge Hutchins. Virgil Hutchins Is said
to have been about 120 years old.
The temperance crusade that was start
ed about ten days ago in South Macon,
has been transferred to Fast Macon. A
lecture by some prominent person 1s de
livered nightly to a large audience. Much
interest is being manifested. It is believed
by some that this movement is but the
starting of a prohibition campaign in the
city of Macon.
W. M. Clements of Eastman will be a
candidate for solicitor general of the
Oconee circuit at the session of the legis
lature which convenes in October next.
His candidacy will provoke a lively race.
Tom Easot), the present incumbent, will
ofTer for re-election, and it is highly prob
able that L. D. Shannon of Twiggs county
will also be a candidate.
The Dawson Guards will go into camp
at Uordray, in Terrell county. The com
pany recently chartered the hotel at that
place for that purpose. Tents could not be
procured, as they will be wanted for the
encampment soon to take place at Griffin.
The Guards will take up their line of
march for Cordray on April 22 and when
in barracks they will be placed under the
Strictest rules of military discipline.
The Chattahooehee county grand jury
got in behind the Columbus Southern
railroad with a sharp stick last week.
An indictment was returned gainst Supt.
Hill for running freight trains on Sunday,
which is a misdemeanor under the Geor
gia law. It is also reported that the
Webster county grand jury considered
a. bill .of the same sort, but its action
nas not been learned.
Dr. O. 8. Prophitt, <who lived in Coving
ton for many years, died at his home in
Hot SpHngs, Ark., on April 3. 1895. Aged
About 75 years. Mr. Henry J. of
Ndwtcn county was called by telegraph to
Hot Springs to look after the doctor’s af
fairs, he one of the principal lega
tees. It Us said that Dr. Prophitt was
worth from $15,000 to $40,000 and that he
Willed all, except SI,OOO, to Mr. Boggua.
Driving to her home in Ruckhead. on
the Peachtree road, In Fulton county, late
Saturday afternoon. Ylrs. Perry Humph
ries. wife of a wealthy- and well known
farmer, had an exciting experience with a
burly negro, who tried to get in the buggy
with her. She was driving home and was
about eight miles from Atlanta when the
attack was made. The negro was fright
ened off by the approach of another buggy.
George Wilson, the mall carrier between
Tallulah Falls and Clayton, was drowned
Sunday under peculiar circumstances.
Wilson started to Clayton for a marriage
license for a friend. While crossing a
small creek- he was overtaken bv a water
spout, and the buggy In which lie was rid
ing was swept away. Wilson was thrown
out and drowned. The horse was found
dead about a mile below where the acci
dent occurred.
Tuesday night at 9 o’clock as Gary
Floyd was returning home from his work,
he discovered some unknown person set
ting Are to the Granitevllle academy.
He at once gave the alarm and went to
work -to extinguish the flames, which
luckily he was able to do. Mr. Flovd
Says there were two men together when
he discovered the fire. They had a pint
bottle of kerosene oil and a bundle of
kindling, which they had used in starting
the fire.
A conference of the traveling and local
6reachers. and all the chairmen of the
oards of stewards of the Methodist
ohurch. In the Americus district, is to bo
held at Smithville on Mondav and Tues
day of next week. The gathering is
called to consider the general welfare of
the church in that section. Report has
It that there is to be a discussion of
the question of prohibition, and that as
a result of the conference there may soon
be prohibition campaigns in various parts
of the district.
The young ladles of Andrew Female
College at Cuthbeit challenged the voting
men of Bethel Male College for a "spelling
bee.” The boys accepted. Friday night
the battle royal over Webster's blue back
took place at Artdrew's chapel, between
thirteen representatives of each college
The girls took the lead and kept it tlli
near the finish in such proportions as 8 to
4, 6 to 3, 4 to 2, and 2 to ]. One represen
tative of Bethel, Cadet James Carter re
fused to be downed, so the two young
ladles who were left representing Andrew
Misses Hattawav and Mcßrfde had to
miss and leave Carter and Bethel College
vloiorlous. ®
A wreck on the Washington branch, near
Hillman, occurred Wednesday. The whole
h rn a fi °T Vt ‘ r ' K rtpl ' ° slln was hurt
on the head. Jone* 'Gardner of J. M. Bap
ry s flour mills, and I'at McCarthy of the
Augusta brewery, were on the wrecked
train. Also Mr. Hobart of Michigan, but
none were hurt except the conductor. The
train was No. 45, leaving Harnett ut 6:15
w re< occurred between Hillman and
Sharon. A broken rad caused the aeel
'wo/;. track at that l K,int *“ very bad,
2- r U,* lhiul on Mn Y other part of the
oflh" , I,ran, ' h - Th " escape from
2*“.® the passengers was nothing short
one *“ ,he , m t*ankm. m Is a high
vars turned completely ovr
$4 ®n“i|J,‘^ en * U * e *'‘ J ten Jcr rwna,n -
FLORIDA.
The Bell Telephone Company bad re
duced its r4t**a to subscriber* in Jackson
ville about '£ per cent.
E. E. Hlgley, proprietor of the Eustls
house at Fusils, died suddenly at 1 o’clock
Wednesday, of angina pectoris.
Charles Corbett of Jacksonville has
started for Red Oak, la., on a bicycle.
He expects to make the whole trip on his
wheel.
Dr. J. Massey Jones and L. Graham
Thompson of Dayton have formed a co
partnership and purchased the drug stock
of K. A. Johnson.
Dr. Rawls of Santa Rosa county Is pre
paring a novel exhibit for the Atlanta ex
position. It Is a house built of over ninety
different woods grown in that county,
which will be shown both in their natural
condition and polished.
Dr. O. O. Myers has sold his 20-acre ot
agne grove just east of Orlando to J. 15.
Staley, who came from Indiana last fall;
consideration. SIO,OOO. He has purchased
the Delinonico house in town, and will
soon become a resident of Orlando proper.
The city council met and organized at
Palatka Tuesday night and elected all
of the city officials for the ensuing year.
Most of the old officers were retained,
M. J. Truman being re-elected as chief
of police. George Weller was elected
treasure r.
There is a petition being circulated on
the streets at Orlando asking the senator
and representatives from that district to
use their influence against the passage of
any special legislation under which Or
ange county might be bonded for interr.-il
improvements.
The following ticket has been nominated
at Bartow: For mayor, E. C. Stuart, for
clerk and treasurer, D. VV. Stanley; foi
marshal, C. E. Jones; for tax assessor,
G. E. Walker; for tax collector, 11. L.
Davis; for councilman. I>. E. Freemen,
J. I’. Glover, H. T. Dial. John Wiggins. ,
The town election took place at Lake !
City Wednesday and resulted as follows:
Mayor, Dr. L. F. Frink; marshal, J. W. ;
Robinson; clerk and treasurer, W. M.
Ives; collector, Samuel Fackler; assessor,
J. H. Gee; aldermen. Fred. H. Young, J.
O. Evans, E. A. Hickson and J. C. Hates.
The Tropical Sun of West Palm Beach
says that while the men employed hy
Capt. E. N. Dimlck on Wednesday of this
week wore excavating in the lake near
Brelsford's Point for the marl with which
he is paving his avenue from his house
to the beech, the lower portion of the skull
of a human being was found.
During the morning session of the cir
cuit court at Fcrnandina Wednesday
Deputy Sheriff Peoples was Instructed to
carry several prisoners to jail. He went to
the sheriff's desk to get his pistol, when
he let it fall to the floor and it was dis
charged. Judge Thomas A. Hall, who w’as
standing nearby, had a narrow escape,
the ball passing betwoep his legs and long- !
Ing in the wainscoting.
United Statos Marshal McKay received
/i telegram Wednesday from E. F. JUck- j
Inson. sheriff of Madison county, statin*
that F. Farr Gregory had died there Wed- j
nesday of apoplexy. Gregory was con-
Vlotl and at the Inst term of the United m
court at Jackspn .dlle of embezzling post- j
office funds, and was sentenced to ten
months’ imprisonment In the Marion coun
ty jail, where he was confined at the time 1
of h’s death.
An attachment was served by Sheriff
Spencer Tuesday evening on the stock of
Karell & Herrera, small manufacturers
of cigars at Port Tampa. It was In favor
of T. Kaunitz for a claim of 1237.57. An
other attachment was served Wednesday |
on the stock of 8. A. Waldrop, which was
boxed and nt the depot of the Savannah, !
Florida and Western road for shipment.
This was In favor of J. Epstein & Pro.
for the sum of $270.75.
John H. Daniels, who was sentenced 1
to two years’ imprisonment at Tampa on
circumstantial evidence and afterward
found innocent, through the confession of
the real culprit, has received word that
the bill awarding him SIO,OOO for false im
prisonraent and the sickness contracted
while in the convict camp of Gen. Bailey
at Albion, had passed one branch of the
legislature, and he will probably leave
for Tallahassee in a few days.
Alfred Putnam, who af one time was the
owner of thrt Putnam house of De Land,
who huilt the house. In fnct, is spending j
a few days at DeLand with his nephew,
8. P. Hay*. For several years Mr. Put
nam has been in Utica. N. Y.. perfecting
i ;ir step This invention hu been pat- !
entod, and he is now introducing it. He
hopes to Induce the Pullman company to
take hold of the improvement. His inven
tion does away with the mounting stool. !
as the step drops in place when the car j
stops,, and folds up again wffien it starts.
Wednesday morning warrants were j
served before County Judge W. W. Me- 1
Griff by Ella Lord, keeper of a boarding
house at Tallahassee, for two young men
on the charge of abducting her 14-y*ar-old
niece, who lives with her. Soon after the
warrants were placed in Sheriff Pearce’s
hands he found the trio in a piece of
w oods near the city and made the arrests.
They were given a preliminary hearing
before the county Judve aud each bound
over in the sum of SIOO for their appear
ance at the circuit court. One of the young
mep is a bartender and the other a general
hard character of no particular callling
or occupation.
At Palatka Wednesday Benjamin P.
Calhoun concluded the arguments for
defense in the $5,000 damage suit brought
against ex-Sheriff James H. Shelley', fo*
wrongful imprisonment and detention hy
Kinsley from Morristown, Ind. The Jury
brought In a verdict Qf not guilty. An
attorney' from Indiana and Mn.i. Fowler
of this city appeared for the plaintiff anl
Hon. Benjamin P. Calhoun •anti G. W. M.
Williams of Palatka defended the sher
iff. The case was quite ah important one
to the sheriffs of this state and it clearly
shows that a Florida jury will pot give
damages against an officer who makes a
mistake in the arrest of an individual on
the advance of a telegram and on
suspicion in the discharge of his duty.
Information has been received at Grove
City' of a daring robbery' perpetrated about
four miles away, on the night of April
5. Two men. Anderson and Ifov by name,
occupying islands in Gasparllla bay. w’ere
aroused from sleep about 1 o’clock Fri
day night, and found two men standing
over them with guns. The robbers were
masked. The robbers forced the men, by
threatening to kill them, to deliver all
thoir cash, amounting to $22.50. This
irmkcs the fourth hold-up in that section
within the last month, and the descrip
tion given of the robbers by each victim
has been the same. Amlerson and Hoy.
the men who were robbed, applied to
.Bulge Goff Wednesday for warrants,
charging W. H. Whidden and Marion
Whidden with committng the crime.
Atlanta’s Woman'* Building,
Atlanta. Ga., Anril 11.—This morning at
10 o’clock ground was broken for the
women's building of the exposition. Mrs.
Joseph Thompson, president of the. wo
man’s board, lifted the first shovel full of
earth and made a short speech, appropri
ate to the occasion. The comer stone will
be laid wdth Masonic ceremonies next
Thursday.
Stubbed His Father in the A T eeU.
Albany, Ga., April 11.—Henry and Rob
ert Paco, negroes, father and son. living
a short distance from this city, fell out
this morning over a trivial matter, when
Robert drew a knife and inflicted an ugly
wound in his father’s neck. He was sub
seqmently arrested and jailed.
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HYPNOTISM AS A DEFENSE.
THE SINGULAR MINDER CASE JUST
CON CL I DEI) IN KANSAS.
IJeclafou of the Supreme Conri— Story
of the Cnse in Which the Actual
Murderer \Vn Acquitted und the
Hy pnotlxer Convicted.
From the New York Times.
Topeka, Kan., April 7.—The decision
rendered by the supreme court yesterday,
sustaining the ruling of the Cowley county
district court, which convicted Anderson
Gray of the murder of Thomas Patton,
although Thomas McDonald acknowledg
ed to having committed the deed, closes
one of the most extraordinary cases ever
brought before a court of justice, and for
the first time a<lmitß that hypnotism is a
defense for murder. The crime was com
mitted near Patton’s home in WinfleM
May 5, 1894. McDonald lny in ambush for
his victim arul shot him ns he rode by.
On the witness stand he acknowledged to
having murdered Patton in cold blood
and without provocation. Twelve good
men and true found him guiltless, or at
least not morally responsible for the deed,
and gave him his freedom. Then Ander
son Gray was put on trial, and notwith
standing the fuct that he did not fire the
fatal shot and was not present at the
time, he was convicted or murder In the
first degree.
All of this goes to prove that those who
acquire hypnotic Influence over others had
better not use the mysterious power in
wrong directions. Other courts, like this
Kansas, tribunal, might hold the subject
Irresponsible for the commission of crime
and put the hypnotist on trial instead.
It Is perhaps the first time In the his
tory of Jurisprudence that hypnotism has
played so Important a part, or has been
seriously considered ns a plea of defense.
It Is certainly the first time that It has
figured so conspicuously In a murder trial,
and the first time that its little-under
stood power has led two courts and a
jury to declare that the doer of a crime is
guiltless and the one Influencing him is
responsible for the acts of the subject.
Summarised, the story of the remarka
ble crime, and its still more remarkable
sequel Is this:
Anderson Gray, a wealthy Kansas farm
er. lived In Sumner county. Near him
resided David and Thomas Patton, uvo
cousins, whose farms wore In the Utile
town of Conway Springs.
before the trouble came about, the
wife of one of Gray's neighbors Bued for
a divorce. Expecting that she would ob
tain It, her husband In order to prevent
a division of property, transferred his es
tate to Gray, with the understanding
that he was to receive it back when the
courts had adjudged the claims of his di
vorced wife. Thomas Patton was the only
witness to the"transactlon.
When the divorce had been granted
and the affairs of the divorced couple
settled, the farmer asked for the retrans
fer of his property. Gray. It appears,
wahted to keep possession of what had
been temporarily given him In trust, and
there was only one thing to prevent him
from doing so, that was the witness Pat
ton.
Gray was a mart of much intelligence
and was well read. Hypnotism formed one
of Ills studies. He cultivated the sinis
ter power and experimented with it on
Thomas Patton. In tho evidence it was
brought out that Gray hud "Influenced"
Thomas by n "suggestion'' that David
shbuld be killed and that he had supplied
the younger Thomas with a useless re
volver. He knew. It seems, that David
Patton was a man who would shoot on
slight provocation, and would shoot to
kill. A well directed bullet from his re
volver would have put the witness out of
the way.
The scheme was unsuccessful. Thomas
Patton attacked his cousin, but David's
aim was not true and his assailant was
unscathed. Both were arrested and re
leased with p. nominal tine.
Then Grav sougdi't another subject and
found one in Thomas McDonald, a young
man who had just been married and who
was then working in a Wichita restauran'.
Gray scoured his services, and the newly
wedded pair moved sut to the Gray farm.
Shortly afterward, it Is alleged, that
Gray said to the young workman that
Thomas Patton had been talking about
Ills wife. "What shall I do?" the hypno
tized subject asked. ''Kill hhn," was
Grav’s advice, and he gave the man a
revolver and then a rille to practice with.
The evidence showed that Gray had
taught the man how to handle the weap
ons. and had cleared away the branches
from a tree hy a roadside and cut a notch
In a limb for McDonald to lay his rifle in
when he drew a bead on his victim.
When the preparations had been com
pleted, and the murderer hail become
fairtv proficient as a marksman, he took
up his station under Gray's 'suggestion."
and laid in wait for Patton, w ho was ex
pected do pass along the road that day.
Gray was not with McDonald, but he
kept in .the locality, so that his "infiu
enco" would i\pt be lost at the supreme
moment. Ho was in the house of a neigh
bor when 'the fatal shot w'as fired, lie
ran quickly down the road when he heard
tho report of the gun and knelt beside the
dying victim. He had been shot through
tho lungs, and Gray left, him, promis
ing to go for a doctor.
Instead, he went to the house where he
found McDonald. The murderer was pale
and trembling. Gray said to him sneer
,-nrly: "You made a pretty job; why didn’t
you kill him?"
The murderer's face lighted up. “Not
dead—not dead. I’m glad of It, glad of it.”
he exclaimed over and over again. Then
ho rushed out of the house and began to
saddle his horse.
“Where are you going?” demanded
Gray.
"I am going to notify the sheriiT," Mc-
Donald said. "I have shot a man and the
sheriff must know.''
Gray dissuaded him. and thru started to
find a doctor. The evidence showed that
he took hts time about getting one. Not
finding th first one he called upon ut
home, he walled there for his return sev
eral hours, although there was another
physician In the town whom he might
have summoned.
Patton died. Gray told McDonald that
he wpuld testify that the murder was
committed by Cherokee Snip boomes
A coroner's Jury, however, found thai Pat
ton had come to his death by a rille bullet
fired by McDonald McDonald was ar
rested and confessed all, but Insisted that
he was under Gray’s Influence and could
not help but do what his hypnotic master
"suggested.” .He unhesitatingly admitted
having killed Pattoq, but refused to con
sider himself as the real murderer. He
insisted that he had no motive for the
crime, and that while he knew what ne
was doing, he remembered the act with
a dreamy indefiniteness and did not at the
time realize the consequence* of his ac
tion. He said that had It not been for
Gray he never would have spoken to Pat
ton, and had it not been for the hypnotist's
"suggestion” he wquld never have prac
ticed with the rifle and would never have
shot his victim.
On McDonald's confession he was ac
quitted of all responsibility for the murder
and Gray was arrested and held for trial.
The case excited Intense interest, both
with the general public and with the legal
and medical professions. The trial lasted
many days, and at Its conclusion the Jury
convicted Gray of murder in the first de
gree- The verdict was reached on the first
poll and was in accordance with the sen
timent of the community.
Judge McAdam of the superior court is
one of the closest students In the country
of legal history, and always follows new
and interesting cases with the greatest
cari* When asked yesterday by a re
porter for the New York Times about the
<-?!*> county case in Kansas, he said:
So far as I am able to learn there has
never been such another case in the world,
certainly none In this country. There have
been cases, of course, where an alleged
criminal has pleaded hypnotic Influence
but the conviction of a man for murder
oq the ground that he used hypnotic In
fluence on. another Is certainly something
new. Yet the probable meaning of the
court In this ease seems proper enough,
though one can hardly judge of the facts
‘[“ m the slight newspaper accounts. In
this state it would be possible to get Just
such a conviction as was obtained in Kan
sas, provided the hypnotic Influence could
i P ro \ e( l- The hypnotizer would stand
in the light of a principal under section
7? of our criminal code, which reads, that
any person concerned In the commission
or a crime, whether he directly commits
the act constituting the offense or aids
or abets in Its commission, and whether
present or absent, and a person who di
rects. counsels, commands, induces or
procures another to commit a crime Is a
principal.”
"You see,” continued the Judge, "it takes
very little to make a man a principal,
anti the circumstance in this Kansas case
tbht the man convicted of murder was not
kt the scene of the killing at all is by no
means remarkable.
"The code says specifically ‘whether
present or absent'; so that any man who
might hypnotize another and then send
ills victim out to kill would be very
clearly guilty of murder In the first de
gree under our laws.”
"Then hypnotism Is legally recognized?"
“.Most certainly,” declared the Judge.
“The hypnotic condition 1b no longer a
subject of speculation. It stands as one
of the recognized forces In life, and any
tribunal before which It is brought in any
of its relations must recognize it. it
is certainly a most plausible defense to
say: 'I was hypnotized when I did this.’
It Is a form of Insanity, as nearly as it
can be defined. It seems to me. The rrtind
of the victim becomes blank, hts will
power passes absolutely and without the
possibility of resistance Into the control of
another. He does what he Is told. It is
as though you should tell an Idiot to do
murder. Give an idiot an ax and tell him
to Bplit open the head of an unresisting
ox or an unresisting man, and It would
probably be the same to him. He would
do either without sense of responsibility
or an appreciation of crime. But the man
directing the deed would and should cer
tainly be held to a full responsibility, as
seems to have been the case in this Kan
sas murder."
"Hut do you think hypnotism is prova
ble as Insanity would be?” the Judge
was asked.
"Why not? Bet a man claim that he
was Induced or directed to do a certain
thing under hypnotic Influence and let
there be an absence of motive, then you
could certainly prove by operators be
fore the Jury that the man could be
hypnotized, and the defense would be rea
sonable. Of course the greatest eare
must be taken in accepting pleas of hyp
notic Influence. The temptation to dodge
behind this new power and shift respon
sibility is neyefsary great because so
little is really known of hjfpriotlsm ex
cept that it exists as a distinct factor.
Htill for many years to come Judges
and Juries will be skeptical about ad
mitting the existence of such a force
at all. so that there is little danger that
It will serve as a shield for criminals.
To get oft on such a plea the person
putting it forward will have to make
out a vary clear case before It will avail
him. Htill the fact remains that to-day
the existerice of hypnotism must be as
distinctly reeognlz<l in the courts as in
sanity. This; Kansas case will make a
most interesting precedent. To discuss
it at length, however, and with a thor
ough understanding, we should have the
opinion in full. It would make capital
reading.”
FAMOUS LITTLE WOMEN.
INCHES OF NO IMPORTANCE IN DE.
TERMINATION OF DESTINY.
Cleopnfrn Less Than Five Feet Tall.
Loin Montes, Laily Morgan, Miss
Edgeworth nnd Frederlka Bremer
Were I'ulry-HUe of Stnture.
From the Chicago Record.
In these days wheat the public seems In
danger of going Trilby mad, and the Ideal
woman lr, big-footed, big-eyed and hig
boned, It's a good Idea to refresh our minds
on the subject of the little women. It’s
just as well not to forget that most of
the women who have helped to make his
tory, either by their wit or beauty, or
both, have belonged to the diminutive va
riety of their sex.
There was Cleopatra. If she couldn't
have given Trilby clubs and spades and
beaten her at her own game 'who could?
And Cleopatra, mind you, stood less than
five feet in the highest-heeled sandajs. If
you don't believe it all you have to do is to
run over to London, where you'll find her
mummy carefully preserved, and it's only
fifty-four inches long. It’s the little
women who twist big men around their
little fingers. Shakespeare knew that, and
no doubt the Queen of Italy is qujte right
when she saj's Mrs. Macbeth was a lit
tle, dark, Hhrewish woman.
Y’ou remember where Shakespeare
makes Cleopatra’s first anxiety about
Octavia's hlght. “Bringe me word how
tall she is,” she says. "Is she tall as me?”
And again, exulilngly, "dull of tongue and
dwarfibh. What majesty Is in her gait?”
No doubt it was this “majesty In her
gait,” which made Cleopatra the regal
commanding personage she could be when
occasion demanded.
If a woman knows how to dress and
carry herself she may add inches to her
appearance. Before Queen Victoria •be
came rheumatic and a trifle square as
to figure, she impressed every one who
saw her with such a sense of majesty
and stateliness that It was very difficult
to believe that she lacked two inches of
being five feet tall. The erectness with
which she carried her body—spine
straight as an arrow, shoulders well
back, head well poised—together with the
sweeping robes of state, all combined to
transform the royal midget into an Im
posing, commanding woman. In her
younger dqys Queen Victoria was very
sensitive about her weight, or rather lack
of it.
They tell a pretty story about dear
little Maria Edgeworth, from whom Wal
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to immortalize the familiar legends of his
native hills. One day she was traveling
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When she was a ChlW, •*> fur Uastoria.
When she h eamo Mia*, she clung to Castorla.
Wkt sh Lad Cbildrer, she gava (has Uastorta,
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in a stage coach. Among the passengers
was a bright little boy. Presently he
missed a package and asked Miss Edge
worth to stand up that he might look for
it under the seat. She told hint she was
standing, and the little fellow looked
nt her with distended eyes and exclaimed:
"Well, you are the very littlest lady I
ever <j!d see!” Sir Waiter Scott admired
the famous Irishwoman because of her
diminutive size, as well as for her wit
and keen observation. Byron was an
other of her admirers, though he spoke
of her as an Unassuming, Jeanie Deans
little body. Thomas Moore was actually
jealous of the attention bestowed on his
tiny countrywoman. Altogether Marla
Edgeworth filled a place in the world of
fashion and letters of her time dispro
portionate to her size.
Most of the blue stockings of the eigh
teenth century seem to have had bodies
overweighted with brains. There was Mrs.
Montague, "the English woman of letters
of the eighteenth century.” as Boswell
ponderously called her. What Mrs. Mon
tague lacked in bight she made up in
breadth, for she was as broad as she was
long. She was leader of the famous Blue
Stocking Club, and her house was famous
for Its entertainments, not the lerst of
which was the annual feast she gave the
chimney-sweeps of London. If one were
a celebrity ons was sure to bring tin at
Mrs. Montague's sooner or later, for tnere
gathered all the wits and scholars and ar
tists and beauties of her time.
Do you know that small women have
a way of living on to old age? To be sure
Cleopatra died young, but It was liter own
fault. There was Mrs. Montague, who
was still loving ribbons and diamonds after
four-score, and good, solid, tiny, gossip
despising Hannah Moore, who at eighty
tripped about her drawing-room in a pea
green silk gown. The list is endless.
There was Frederlka Bremer, the German
novelist, a plain little specimen of woman
hood. And Lady Morgan, who wrote "The
Wild Irish Girl”—'nobody thinks of look
ing at its pages nowadays, but it was
popular once—was hardly four feet tall.
She loved to appear In a gay red Celtic
cloak. Those, too, are obsolete, but in
her day they were the Sunday garment
of every womaai in Ireland—that is, every
woman who didn't belong to the gentry.
After she had turned sixty she affected
white frocks and green sashes. She had,
indeed, many peculiarities, not the least
amusing one being her dislike for dates.
"I protest against dates! What has a
woman to do with dates?" she asked in
dignantly. And some of her acquaint
ances loved to tense her by referring to
her as Lady Morgan of the eighteenth cen
tury. But Lady Morgan, for all her lit
tle weaknesses, was much sought after
and admired for her ready wit and fluent
pen.
Rose Bonheur is another famous little
woman, and one evening in London she
met many other famous folks at the salon
of short ills* Spence. Miss Spence was
not tall, but she was very, very broad, and
a rather remarkable character In her way
She se-ms never to higve done anything in
particular herself, except to draw about
her ma.jy |>eople of world-wide reputation.
And this, mind you, when her salon meant
two small rooms, and she made tea In a
closet. It was there Bulwer Lytton and
Koelna Wheeler made their first appear
ance after their lietrothai.
And there was Lola Montcz, that famous
woman whose influence moulded nations.
And t'heire is Patti and the tiny Lotta of
the enchanting heels and perpetual youth,
and Mrs. Frances Hodg-son Burnett and
Harriet Prescott Spofford. The list might
be continued indefinitely, but it is quite
long enough now to show that the little
woman is worthy of more consideration
than she gets sometimes.
ENGLISH WOMEN AT FOOT BALL.
Their Play Said to Have Been Marked
hy Neither Grace Nor Skill,
From the Londqn World.
Seldom has the “new woman” shown
herself so supremely absurd as on last
Saturday afternoon, when a couple of
feminine, teams played a foot ball match
in the grounds of the Crouch End Club.
Only one player wore skirts, Mrs. Graham,
who made a capital goal defender for the
Red, or North team. All the rest were In
Turkish trousers and loose jerseys, with
their back hair stuffed into caps not un
like those which some years ago used to
be worn by brewers’ draymen. In the
North team the jerseys were red and In
the South blue, and though the blending
of the colors was not unplcturesque when
the teams were mixed. It would be an
excess of gallantry to say that the cos
tume was graceful. So ludicrous was it
that when the teams trotted on the field
the assembled thousands burst out into a
roar of laughter.
Nor did tho subsequent play in any way
diminish tho mirth of the onlookers A
few of the ladies were of an amplitude
of figure that made their gambols over
and around the ball rather elephantine
than elegant. Their running, too. had a
languorous ease which one does not look
for on a foot ball field, and as for their
kicks—well, they kicked the ball in much
the same way as a kitten will push a
reel of cotton. Unlike the kitten, however
they did not dash after the ball to give
it another impetus, but for the most part
strolled gently toward It. Now and again
there was some smart bits of plav—par
ticularly by Miss Gilbert, who, being very
diminutive and as lithe as a boy, learned
the sobriquet of "Tommy." but the energy
of the players was spasmodic. They
speedily became fagged, and with their
hair flying down their backs, lost their
wits, broke the rules over and over again
and played the game out with a con:
fusion of "backs," "half backs,”'“cen
ters" and “forwards." which was exceed
ingly funny, and caused immense amuse
ment m the assembled crowd.
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CITY OF AUGUSTA, Cant. Dsxgett.
SUNDAY, April 14. 9 a. m.
KANSAS CITY, Capt. Fisher, TUES.
DAY, April 16, at 11 a. m.
TAbbAHASSE, Capt. As kins, FRIDAY’
April 19, at 2 p. m.
TO PHILADELPHIA. ,
(For freight only.)
DESSOUG, Capt. Doughty. WEDNES.
DAY. April 17, at 12:00 noon.
ELIHU THOMSON, Capt. Habsen.
WEDNESDAY, April 24, at 5 p. m,
TO BOSTON.
GATE CITY’, Capt. Googins, THURS
DAY, April 18, at 1:00 p. m.
CITY OF MACON, Capt. Lewis, TIUIRs.
DAY, April 25, at 5:30 p. m.
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aa follows—standard time.
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D. H. MILLER, Capt. Charles James,
TUESDAY. April 16, at 11 a. ni.
ALLEGHANY, Capt. Z. Nickerson, Jr.,
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SATURDAY. April 20, at 2:30 p. m.
And from Baltimore every TUESDAY,
THURSDAY and SATURDAY.
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