HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Exeter Advocate, 1893-5-18, Page 7NOTES FROM LONDON.
Areat liperial Bouble and Row Albert
Edward is Trying to Natoli.
imeetranimay trittelet—minating a mono
Seereture ler a Roma etirtitmliouslon
Property of the litotes or Redfern and
Crindine Down of the Weants—Wonag
ligortaga.ofMc Wen tintustors--Xinstury or
Shootleg—illow to 'fell a Real
Ream a Spurious Prince.
/ LONDON.
The ceremony of openhig
the Imperial Institute by
Queee Victoria on or about
the 14th of May will be one
of the biggerie hinctions of
relation. From ciwielopi
ilit.'"` niente that ere daily matur-
ing it same as if the cere-
mony would be, in a groat measure, a
replica of the jubilee es regards the grandeur
t...l the portage. Indian potentates and rep-
athentatives of ' the midtitudinons British
If noleetee are to take pare in the prooesaion,
and the British public is just beginning to
vake to the fact that its august ruler
means to spread herself to give eolat to the
eamichiseg of the greet miwieltly ark that
her son has acherried and plotted to build
Liap end eataialieh in the mirlet of an =Byrn-
Vestethetio and magratelui people, who plainly
Amy they don's want, end will have none
ief, it.
Beetle OF eina "F. I. I,"
With regard to the future of the insti-
tute events will prove what fate has in.
store for it. The Britinh publio holies the
purse etags mad no far shows every indica-
tion of keeping these Bering drawn very
tight The Prinee of Wales and his syco-
phantic followers in the show arepiettu
well at their wits' end how to raise thee
nemey to enable thenra to make a fair etre
on the ripening dsiy. The lateet bait held
iont is to elect " fellows " to the institute,
whim ripen payment of a certain aum, are to
have the privilege of affixing the lettere
le 1.1. to their names. A largenumber of
great unknown nobodies have already
eunaped at this bait anti quite a roapectable
fumucIal haul has already been made. What
tiocinl value and distinctive merit these let-
ters may penises, except theee of " laughing-
etook and ridicule" n.ay be fairly judged.
TouNG merume.
eilwropas of the accouchenient of the
Dmaneers of Fife, the Doke is much upset at
the child being another girl. Be had set
Js mind on a boy and had brought hinatielf
to look with almost oertainty thee he would
have the gratification of dangling Englendis
prosopeetive being upon his knee. - Under
tin circumstances the Lady Alexandra Duff
at= retaino her pre-eminence in the sruc-
ionisionalliue and if no young brother
icomee to diaxiinieh their importance, the
Ladies Duff will be objects of considerable
interest for yeara to come, as being a pear's
daughters, who have a much better chance
lof the British crown than any princess of
iit' e royal family, their own reotber ex-
te
d. Victoria and Maud of Wales are
owhere in comparison, and Queen
TIctioriedi daughters and younger sons are
nietoply out of eight.
ztosT BD NAMED VICTORIA.
The new arrival will lave to be named
Allier its august great-granrimother, in ease
emergencies, came to pass and England
had three or four queens one after another.
Tim four Victories it really might be, as
e.
sot off against, the four Georges. The
Duchess of Filo as Louisa L, and her eldeab
glrl as Alexandra I., might ease count Ste
'hanovatioxie, sovereigne of rather a fresh
type; hub Victoria is happily included
among their names, and as it is a good old
woDzin4 pattern, would probably be pre-
ferred by British haters queens,.
AN OLD TIME CUSTOM.
It fs an imperative rule that on the
swath= of the birth of a Royal child the
Secretary of State ahead be in attendance,
not in attendance in tlim ordinary accepta-
tion .of the term, but actually in the room
itself sod a vvitheas to the. birth. In the
present instruace the little serener made its
uppeanteice rather before it wan expected,
and 'there was, consequently, a great rush
to get Herne Secretary Asquith on the spot..
Ballad left his official residence and gone
for a walk when the Royal uteseengers ar-
rived, and it was some time before be could
he tracked dow.u, bundled into a carriage
and driven to Beet Skeen Lodge, in the re-
m:tote anhurbs of London, where the Fifes
amide.
NOT .W AT THE DIET.
When he did arrive all was over, and the
baby, wasbed and dread, was presented
to him by the doctors and nursee in attend-
ance. How the difficulty will be overcome
as aegazds hie depositione that there was no
ichangtng at birth, and that the child pre -
merited to him was actually the thildbrought
'into the world by the Duchess of Fife'is all
matter of official detail which has to be set
light by the means of red tape and affida-
vIte, To those live.% beyond the sphere of
enonenehy, all this may seem quite minces -
wary, but it is by no means unimportant
'. where, as in the preeent instance, the direct
eutheasion to the Crown is concerned,
MEDFORD AND HIS PROPERTY.
The new Duke of Bedford will not be
newly tia i wealthy as hie father was—not
thelythet family watetem have in any way
&Waited, but., spot from the fact that
the peciperby hats nob yet recovered from the
numerous ttuocession duties paid only dur-
ing the kat two years by the late Duke,
there are now two dowager Duchessee to
provide for, besides heavy jointures to his
neve ;biters, Lady Ennyntrude Malan wife
.eil the British Ambassador to Berlin, and
Lady Ella Runnel, who is still unmarried.
Tee new Dueness is under 30 years of age,
and a epleadid horsewomen. It was during
his May in India that the Duke—then Lord
Ilerlarand Ruesell, A. D. C. to the Viceroy,
Lord Dieffeein—met ler, and much to the
nurpriee of enemy, and the open dismay of
• mime who had other plans for the heir.
pueamptive to a dukedom,., announced his
viiignsgwitieue to Mini Tribe, (laughter of the
Arelideaseen NI Inhere, but the old Duke,
'Who was "ilen Mire, eery readily gave hie
mitusent,. and the wedding took place shortly
'ziftersvarde.
GRINDING DOWN OF TENANTS..
Londoners Ore likely to hear a good deal
about the Bedford estate during the next
five ,yeare. The tenants are all anxious at
'the proepect of demo change in their con-
dition. The last two holdere of the title
;showed :inch an absolute indifference to
the wellibeleg of those from whom they
derided their princeiy incomes that tbe
nueriber of batmen millet on the property is
surpthibrig. Three years ago in Gower
'street, whie,h is one of the ongest streets
in tonabri and" hoilongs entirely to the
Duke el Bedford,. a third of the Hereof) was
'bennutlets. The R1100011E1 were too big to
baterfore in matters ernineated With thole
p,...,i, roper
stevemeds, wheel° Metr °tone have been to Too many bright young tile to Mak
wrinu
ch ch ha they posniblet could, out 4ciititlitottivt too wit
af the Vonto alenri,tt te A=also bim improve the ''''
tt
e --
PrePert?, but only Arent ;short leases, and
then elwaye the et the end of the term that
it was (tenably under eepeiring oovenante,
leen ele Win SIM wenn.
Bloomsbury has muttered from tbie Welt
feature of landlordism, for fifty years paste
for the Russells have ',round down with
their iron heel everything like independence
of thought or action. The reeteiceions and
ebipuleidone were eimply terrible, and Woe
to the man who began to worry the titieWeed,
i. e„, if he had the latest wish to renew him
ham The new Duke ie a, vivacious,
generous -minded noldier, muoia reepected by
hie brother -officer e in the Grenadiera He
has before pow beet; heard to utter ideas on
the subject of landlord and tenant which,
if he meant what he said, argues favorably
for the hopes which the 3,000 London ten-
ants who occupy his houses entextain of the
new regime
wereinette COMPLICATIONS OF THE WESTIIII
STBRS.
The Duke of Weatminster and his
daughter Lady Chesham (nee Lady Beatrice
Grosvenor), by an odd matrimonial coinee
dence, are married to a sister aud a brother.
Too preeent Dui:bees, the Dukeet second
wife, is the teeter of Lord Choehare, there-
fore, the Duke is brother-inetaw to his own
daughter, and Lord Chesharnei sister in his
stepernother-innew. Lord Belgreve, the
heir of the Duktee vast property, which is
scattered through Cheshire, Flintshire,
Middlesex and ;several other counties, and of
which the London property is by far the
most valuable portiere is now only fourteen
years old, and will not come of age until
March 19th, 1900.
mem] DISTRIBUTIONOF MEG -BEAT wEaLTE.
Young Belgravia lives with hie mother,
the Counteas Grosvener, and her ;mooed
husband, Mr. George Wyndham, at their
house in Isseet Lune. Hie grandfather la
very proud Of him as the heir; but the
second marriage Ian alightly complicated
matters and it is highly probable that
when fiord Belgrave comes into his inheri-
tance he will find that he has got to pay
handsome annuities, not only to the
Duchess, but else to tbe two young ladies
(Ladies Mary and Helen Grosvenor) and the
young gentleman (Lord Hugh Grosvenor),
where the presents Duchess has presented to
her husband.
WFIAT BItITZSIX snooTnin coSTEr.
The Dube of Sutherland expects to let
Dunrobin and its shooting at a lent of
$35,000 for tho season Blood -hunger like
eartheninger is bilia.tieble. Here aro a few of
the sums paid by 44 dilitinguished " sports-
men for their nimuel sport: Sir .A. Borth-
wick, Invercauld, $22,t 00; Lord Wim -
borne, Achnaticliellac, $22,4O0; Lord Bur-
ton, Glenquoioh, $l,000; Mr. Braeliey
Martin, 33a1rnaoan, $13,500; Sir C. Mor -
daunt, Glonfeshie, $12,500. And for only
five weeks' tenancy of Merton Hall, with its
shooting, Albert Edward's friend, Baron
Hirsch, pita Lord Walaingham no less than
$20,000.
TRADE IN FORE/GN TITLES.
The Villa Dernidoir in Florence, which
was recently visited by Queen Victoria and
beyond the term° of whith a lovely view
of the Vel d'Arno stretches, presents, Repast
from it own beauty, an intereat in the face
that its possession'or anther that of the
imitate of San Donatn in which it ia aituated,
°orrice with it the right or the power of the
owner to term liimeelf Prince." When
the Ruesian, .Ane.tole Demidoff, purchased
the property, he immediately availed him-
self of this feudal privilege, which has long
cruised to exist in England. At the present
moment, however, the ownership of
Arundel Castle, _which is the property of
the Duke of Norfolk, carries vvith it a
similar right. In the dark ages when
poesession was in stem reality nine points
of the law, the holding of any property im-
mediately conferred& titimbut it is now only
In Italy and Germany that this happy state
of affairs still saints, and in each case of late
years it has been much curtailed.
HINT TO TRANSATLANTIC GIRLS.
England has lost all sense of the tradi-
tion; thus'for instance, the Duke of
Devonshire does not own an acre in the
county from wbich he derivea his title, and
numerous other instances might be adduced
as tearing on the point. But to this day
there exiate in Italy estates, the ownership
of which confern ducal, often princely, title,
and of late years such esthetics have been
frequently advertised in the continental
papers, an enormous sum beitig demanded
for the rights attached. To all intents and
purposes such a " nobleman " has a perfect
right to his title, but society knows how to
value such easily -acquired distinctions, and
not infrequently marks in a very unpleasant
manner its einille of the estimation in which
it holds cinch 5 soi disant "count," " mar-
quis " or duke. Thus Prince Paul Demidoff
was more than once oubjected to humilia-
tions on this score, as his origin was fa
from patrician and his title gained by no
meritorious deeds. American gide might
do worse than take this information to
heart, especially when lining their maiden
affections to a title which, unless due inves-
tigation is Made, may turn out to be a
bogus one.
Business Women.
The Elmira Gazette says: "A dietin-
guiehed editor of a woman's periodical has
come to the conclusion that business women
are not happy. The widely-mpplauded in-
dependence of man, he thinke, does not
satisfy them." The worry of business life,
the wear and tear Of continued watchful -
nen that expenses do not overbalance the
receipts, the various losses by shrinkage of
values, delay in transportation, theft of em-
ployees, etc., are all calculated to take
happinesa otst of business. There is no in-
dependence in the counting -room or bush
nese office, no more than there is in auper-
intending the affairs of a household, attend-
ing to wayward children, or enduring the
tinges of a boozy huthand when he returns
home from the cheering company of the
club.
Sing a Song of filitpelles!.
" Sang a Song of Sixpence" in a favorite
nursery rhyme, and every child who knows
it probably thinks it a rhyme and nothing
more. It has a beautiful 'Meaning and I am
sure you would like to hear it. The e4
blackbirds repellent the 24 hours of the
day. The bottom of the pie represents the
earth, the top of the pie represents the sky.
When the pie is open day breaks and the
birde begin to sing; then such a sight be-
ooines a "dainty dish" to set before a king."
The king is the sun and the coin the sun-
beams. The queen is the moon, the honey
the moonlight. The maid in the garbed is
the peep of day, the clothes she is hanging
are the clouds, and the little bircle that
snapped off her POPO le the sunset; and thee
we have the whole clam— femme& Hood.
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for Three,DIonthe. Large...St s of testimonies
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Beer de Co., 'cTitecleott, kDItt.
ty and dentrusted it all to
NEW FACTS ABOUT INDIA.
A Country Big Enough for ItS Teeming
Millions,
ROW THEY ARE DIOTRIBUTED.
Some new statistics concerning India and
its population were communicated the other
day by the comers commiesioner of India to
theltoyed Statistical Seeiety of London. 13y
these it appears that the entire pcpulation
of that country fa ik little less than 288,000,-
000. Ib is an enormous population, but it
inhabits a vast country. The mean density
is 184 to the square mile. Forty-six mil-
lions of the people live in the proportion of
600 and over to the square mile, while 36,-
000,000 are distauted one and a half to the
act,. In the latter case there are very
material points as to the great) fertility
'of the moil, and the wide variety of occu-
pations to be found upon it, to be con-
sidered in inetitutbsg comparisons. As to
the most densely populated regions, therm
which, owing to greater resources, afford
the easiest means of livelihood, Europe
has three countries, Great Britain, Saxony,
and Belgium, where there is a dandtY of
population not much less. Thirty-eight and
a half millions of people in Europe live in
the proportion of from 500 to 600 to the
equare mile. The extraordinary pressure of
one and a half heads of population to the
acre is confined to ;some districts of Bengal
and does nob affect one-sixth of the whole
people. In the matter of proportion of
town to country population, Ladle presents
a marked oontrase to Europe and the Weat-
ern countries generally. While in Europe
the towns are all the time draining
the country of its people, the direcb con-
trary is the case in India. In England,
for example 53 percent of the population
live in towns of 20,000 inhabitants or over -
in India oxily 41 per centof the population
are rio congregated in cities. Even includ-
ing the smallest townie which haveibeen so
classed for municipal purposes, only 10 per
cent. of India's people are town dwellers.
Another interesting fact shown by the
consuls returns is that the ladian people are
not migratory. Over 90 per cent of the
people numbered in the last °ensue were
enumerated in the place where they were
born, and 6 per cent. more in the region
contiguous to their birth -place. Change of
domicile seems to be adopted only where
the emigrants can keep within immediate
touch of their former home. The people do
not migrate to distant tracts. The great
capabilities of the country are well shown
by the fact that in the moth densely popu-
lated tracts the increase of population
since the kat census has been 8 per cent.
The greatest increase was 13e per cent.
This shows that the increase of popula-
tion is quite normal ; and the whole
results of the census show that the growbh
is no way in excess of the means of sup-
port, as is largely the case in parts of
Europe, while there is abundant room for
expansion as the pressure bowmen locally
The rases of the people arepsor, but when
the mode of living imposed on the n by the
climate and by their religion is considered
they are not poorer than the mass of
the European peasantry. They have
little, but they want little, and usually
their wants are amply satiefied. They are
mainly an agricultural people, each culti-
vating a piece of land just about enough to
produce sufficient for actual present want;
but not enough to afford any surplus
against a bad season. This fact ie the cause
of the famines in India just as it is in Ire-
land. Finally a review of the main revenue
and commercial statistics for the past
decade shows that the masses of the Indian
people are by no means outstripping the re-
sources of their wonderful country, and
that it may, indeed, hold a future that
shall astonish the western nations.
Weeping a Relief to the Nervous System.
Persons who weep say that tears afford
relief. Nothing is more perfectly true,
nothing more clear when the facts are un-
derstood. The relief cornea, not from the
mere escape of team, which ia only a symp-
tom, but from the cessation of the sthrm in
the nervous chain. If the storm be calmed
by soothing measures, as when we soothe a
child that is weeping from fear, annoyance
or injury, we quiet the nervous centres,
upon which the effect ceases. In children
the soothing method succeeds, and some-
times it succeeds in adults, although in
adults the cessation of tears is more com-
monly due to actual exhaustion following a
period of nervous activity.—.Dr. B. W.
Richardion.
Elongated ear lobes are considered a mark
of beauty in Borneo. Girls with this feature
reaching down to their elbows are not un-
common.
Jess—Jack 'reposed to me maven tiMeS
before I finally accepted him. Bess—What
length of time intervened? Jess—Oh, five
minutes or eo.
she
• Looket
Well
tcp the ways of her household."
Yes; Solomon is right; that's what
1..ita good housekeeper everywhere
, ues, but particularly in Can-
. !a.
But her wf.tys are not always
ofri? ways. In fact she ha.s dis-
carded nia-ny unsatisfactory old
For instance, to day she
...IS using
the New Shortening, instead oi
hud. And this is in itself Et rea-
son why " she looketh " in
another sense, for she eats no
lard to cause poor digestion and
a worse complexion,
CoTTor,Zqu is niuch better
than lard for all cooking pur-
poses, as every one who ha,s triect
it declares. Have yott tried it?
For sale everywhere,
Made *nit by
IT. K. FAIRBANK 8c
Wellington and Ann
MONTHHAL.
DIED IN THE CHAIR.
Electrocution of CarlyleW. Harris
at Sing Sing,
RIB DEATH WAS INF3TANTANBOTAL
Re sied wretest muweence-Yreas Ile
Guilty tl•—The story or the came tor
Which fie Suffered.
The offieial time of the Arab content was
12.40e ; current on 551/ impends. The
electrocution was a perfect moons.
Bright spring nunshinti did not lighten
the gloom that huog over Sing Sing Prison
this morning. The air of suffocation which
OLIO feels at )1 funeral filled th e place in spite of
the clear atmosphere of a perfect spring day.
At other eleetrocutiona there has been
levity and indifference about the prison, but
the dawn of Carlyle Harris' last day was
observed by quiet, due to the appreciation
that he was no ordinary oulprit, but a man
whose crime and whom cleeth will be his-
toric.
The electrocutions which have preceded
the one to -day were the going to death of
brutes who had killed iellowebeings and
about whose guile there was no doubt, and
In whose cares there was little to arouse
eympatEy. To -day for the first time was a
man of a higher order of intelligence to
undergo the ordeal. He was st MRD of edu-
cation acenstomed to the refinements of
good society, educeted, a medical student
even, and capable of understanding to an
unusual degree what was to happen to him.
Principal Keeper Connaughton said this
morning that Harris rested well. He did
not sleep much and what thoughts racked
his brain no one will ever know. Ella self-
control was marvellous. His only sigu of
agitation was the constant smoking of
cigarettes. He was up early this morning.
He looked over the manuscript which he
had prepared to be given out to the press by
his relatives alter the final scene in his
dramatic life had ended and the curtain had
been rung down.
At 8 o'clock Harris ate a light breakfast.
He was cool and collected and appeared to
be capable of going through the ordeal
which awaited him. At 8.20 Warden
Durston and Mrs. Marston arrived from the
Hotel where they had breakfast. Mrs.
Durston and her son went away front the
prison a few minutes liner and did not
return until all was over. The &at witisesaes
to arrive were Dr. Daniebe of Buffalo, and
Col. E. A. Rockwell, who reached the
prison together at 9.20 o'clock. They were
followed shortly by Dr. C. S. Grant, of
Saratoga; Dr. D. R. Kidd, of Newburgh;
Dr. Pyne, of Yonkers, and Dr. D. P. Mer-
ritt,. of Elmira.
Mrs. Herrin, having made her final fare-
well to her son on Saturday, remained at,
the Ambler House'shut in from all visitors.
Her youngest) son, Allen, was with her.
She was calm and less nervous
than usual, and awaited with fearful silence
the sign which would inform her that her
son Carlyle had passed out of this world.
The flag announcing the successful con-
clusion of the execution, which was raised
from the roof of the warden's house, could
be seen from the windows of the room which
Pers. Harris occupied in the Ombler House,
and there eh° and her son Allen watched
and waited with straining eyes and subdued
grief for the fatal signal. ,
At 10 o'clock there was a long string of
carriages in front of the prison and hun-
dreds of people were scattered along the
hillside. The execution chamber is a small
one-story brick building attached to what
is called the "death house," in which only
murderers condemned to death are confined.
In the first electrocutions the fulletrength
of the current was turned on and kept on
until the etearn arose from the electrodes
and the odor of burning flesh permeated
the room and sickened the spectators.
Electrician Davie devised an apparatus which
has obviated this and made the electrocu-
tion of to -day an entirely different matter
from the firsts bungling attempts to kill
with electricity.
A Sing Sing despatch gives the following
additionalpariculars of the electrocution of
Carlyle Harris : After Harris was seated
in the chair he said in a weak voice, as
though each word cost him a powerful
effort: "1 have no further reservation to
make. I desire to say that I am absolutely
innocent." These were his last words.
After uttering them he seemed relieved, and
settled back in the chair, to which he was
dropped. When the current was turned
on the form in the chair straightened up
till the straps creaked. It was just
12.40e by the stop -watch held by Dr.
Menet when a current of 1,760 volts
paned through the body of Carlyle Harris.
In two seconds Davie threw the switch
lack, so that only 150 volts were on. Dr.
Daniels still held his hand aloft, and one
finger pointed above, as though to indicate
that the soul of the man in the chair had
paned upwards. Then his arm fell, and in
juit 55e seconds the current was shut off.
Dra Irvine and Habershaw immediately
stepped forward and examined the body,
which had settled back limp in the chair.
Dc. Irvine opened the coat and twat and
thee away the shirt over the heart. He
applied the stethoscope, and, after listen-
ing for heart beats, turned and amok Ms
heed. This was two minutes after the first
contect, and Dr. Daniels then invited the
other physicians to step forward and ex-
amine the body. All the physicians ex-
pressed themselves as Wished that death
had been instantaneous.
At 3 o'clock Undertaker Kipp, of Sing
Sing, drove up to the prison. Ile procurea
the prison physician's certificate of the
cause of Harris' death and then drove into
the prison grounds. In his waggon was a
highly polished oak casket, which was
carried into the death chamber, where the
body of Barrie, dressed in a dark suit of
prison made goods, reposed upon a table.
The body was placed in the musket. The
undertaker refused to disclose the plans for
the diapisition of the body. The silver plate
upon the cover of the caeket contains this
insoription :
Carlyle W. Harris.
Murdered May 8, 1893.
Aged 23 years, 7 months, 15 days.
"We would nonif we had known."—The
Jury.
Mrs. Hanle viewed the raising of the
black flag from the window of her room at
Ambler's boarding house. When the
ominous signal floated on the soft breeze
she turned quietly away, resigned and calm,
as she has been for the past few dap',
The warden refused to give Harris' etate-
ment to the press, and declined to hand ib
over to Mrs. Harris, for whom it was in-
tended. He stated that he Mailed the
document this evening to the inspector of
prisons at Auburn.
MRS Mum
On the morning of Monday, February
2nd, 1891* the readers of the New York
daily newspapers found related a story of
murder which eembined all the elements of
love, trime, and suffering with treachery,
dunning, and heartiestnietis. The victim was
a , young and supposedly untearried girl,
Helen Potts; the Murderer ayouog medical
Student named butyl° Harris, who, 11 was
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earned later, was her husband. Their
story ad& to* the literature of crime a
chapter which cannot fail to be read with
interest by the nevelist, playwright, and
etudbrit of our own time& This atory, Bad
in every detail, and oppreesively tragic
throughout, was unfolded day by day until
there was welded a chain of circumstantial
evidence ao strong that the young
medical etudent was sentenced to death.
At the thee of her death, Sunday
murrain, Feb. let, 1$91, Helen Potts
Carlyle was in her 191h year, and was a
*student at Mies Comstock's boarding school
in New York, which she had entered two
inonths 'before. Tee night before, Satur-
day, January, 31st, she and her raother
waint for auvalk, acsompanied by Harris in
the character of the girl's acoepted suitor.
The mother did not know that the pair had
been sears -My married by an alderman on
February 9413, 1890, nearly a year before,
under the names of Helen Neilson and
Charles Harris. On the return to the
boarding Wien' that night the mother mid
the daughter went to the latter's room,
where the girl showed her mother a pill -box
Carktaining one capsule, .which she said was
quinine, and which had been given to her
by Harris to take for a headache. Although
she said qubaine amide her ill, her mother
advised her to take it, saying that) quinine
often nide one ill to make one well
again. Helen took the pill, and that
night her breathing and racism attracted
her room mates. Physicians who were
summoned found her symptoms identical
with those of morphine poisoning. The
pill -box bore the inscription of "0. W. H.,
medical student," and Harris was sent for.
He said he had prescribed for Helen's head-
ache capsules, each filled with 4 grains of
quinine, and e of agrain of sulphate of morphia.
Helen died at 11 o'clock that morning, and
Herris said the druggist had made an awful
mistake. Six days later he told the druggist
he thought she had died of heart disclaim.
It was proved that death was caused by an
overdose of morphine. Then suspicion was
directed towards Harris, and it was discov-
ered that he had aecreely married the girl
nearly a year before, that he had promised
to marry her publiclyin church on February
9th, the first anniversary of their wedding
day, and that he had caused to be per-
formed a criminal act which would destroy
that which might have compelled him to
acknowledge her as his wife. He refused
to allow her to ba buried by his name, and
wanted to get possession of her marriage
certificate. Then he was arrested.
At the trial it was proved that he had
boasted of having married two girls, that
his character was otherwise bad, that pre-
ceding the girl's death he had been atten-
tive at a course of lectures on morphine and
poison at his medical college, that he was
very anxious his marriage should not be
made public, and that the druggist had
exercised great care in making the prescrip-
tion. A cepa& which Harris gave to the
coroner on his arrest, saying that it was
similar to that taken by the girl, was found
to be harmless, but 18 was held that he had
prepared this in the bops of averting Sus-
picion. As the motive for the crime it WRS
shown that Harris had great expectations
of a fortune from his grandfather, who
would disinherit him if he learned of his
grandson's marriage, and tbe presumption
was that the young man took the means he
did toget rid of the young woman, who
i
stood n the way of his getting the old man's
money.
Messrs. Howe & Hammel, the greatest
• firm of criminal lawyers in New York,
• worked their hardest to save Harris' life,
and the case being purely one of circum-
stantial evid enoe, andel ot particularly strong
• at that,
as setae contended, it received
unusual discussion at the hands of the New
York press. Strong efforts were made to
have the Governor of the State commute
the sentence, or at least grant a new trial,
but he refused.
Revival of the Gentleman.
A crusade hail been started in England
against • the application of the word
" eaquire " to remiss who have no right
to use it. Those who started it confess
that there are occasions when something
more than "Mr." is wanted, and so they
recommend the revival of the good old-
fashioned "Gentleman," which means all
who are legitimately entitled to bear arms.
Maintentionai flattery.
Elderly Maiden (to hotel elerk)—Can you
give me accommodations ? Clerk (to bell.
boy)—Suite 16! Elderly Maiden (blushing)
—Oh, sir, you flatter me.
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Cleaning Fine Glass.
We sometimes read very curious direc-
tions for doing very simple things. It is
among the oldest of notions that bird shot
is useful for °leaning bottles, decanters, etc.,
and it may be in some cases but one must
not use it for fine glass or that which is in
any way delicate. Many a -valuable bottle
and decanter have been broken by the use
of shot. It does very well for coarse, com-
mon, heavy glass, and one might naturally
suppose that this was the sort that must
have been used by women who recommended
it. The ideal material for doing this sort of
work is coaree and. Gather a panful of
ordinary sand from any washout on the
roadway; pass it through a common
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Half a cupful thrown into a bottle and
shaken about will scour the inside as clean
as can be. It must be used with care, how -
evert as too long shaking is likely to scratch
the inside of the bottle. For very fine glass
a potato cut in pieces the size of small dice
is preferable as a cleaning agent. This can-
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more time to achieve the desired result, it is
done with no risk to the finisher the article.
Good, clean, sifted sand has many uses. If
one cannot obtain that which is perfectly
clean, ordinary sand that has been washed
down by the roadside may be used. Throw
a panful of this into a tub and pour in
water, stirring the sand vigorously until all
of the muddy look is washed out. When
the water shows perfectly clear after.being
stirred up the sand is clean. It may then
be dried and put away in a bag or box for
future use.
lf Cholera Comes.
It is well to keep in the medicine chest,
or where they may easily be found, a bottle
of the spirits of camphor, and one of the old
standard remedy known as the "San Mix-
ture," the prescription published by the
New York 8117i, under official direction, in
the time of the great cholera epidemic,
writes Helen Jay in a timely article on "If
the Cholem Should Come" in the VIa3r
Ladies' Home Journal. This medicine is
not expensive, and can be bought of any
druggist in country, town or city. Expe-
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camphor in a small glass of brandy is the
beat medicine to give until the arrival of a
physician. For little children there are
camphor pellets sufficiently sweet to be
palatable. The ute of these pellete is said
to be an excellent "ounce of prevention"
for those acting as nurses or otherwith ex-
posed to contagion. To absorb disagreeable
odors in a sick -room nothing is better than
cascarilla bark sprinkled upon hot coale.
for an ordinary disinfectant rosin is excel-
lent, but care ahould be taken not to place
too much at a tirne upon the fire.
Recipes in Autographs.
The autograph craze has revived, but
with a practical rather than a poetical
motive. Instead of rhymes on the beauty
and truth of friendship, one in mouested
now to write on the blank pages of the col-
lector's albam his or her favorite recipe,
with date and signature. It would seem at
first thought to be a more wholesome fancy
than the gathering together of rhymes, but
considering the wear and tear of the diges-
tive apparatus Upon Which therm numerous
recipes may be tried by an ambitions house-
wife, swapping sentiments may be lets
destructive arid undesirable.—New York
Mettetnieh said "In my whole life 1 ,
haVo only known ten or twelve personawith
whore it was pleement to Speak, 1 e., who
keep to the ittbjeck do not repeat .thcre-
selves, and do not talk of therneelvee men
who de nob natal to the'l own voice, t ho
are cultivated enough not to lose themeolteen,
in commonplecon ena, lastly, wi.,6 tiostic,;o.
tact and geOd taste enough no to eleeitie
thele own person above the eubjeetei