The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1891-09-12


long visit, to thank me- as he said. for the
interest had manifested in his sister.
and also to explain to me the riddle of her
seemingly mysterious existence. The
brother and sister had been left orphans
at an early age, and each in possession of
handsome fortune. Some twenty years
before, Dora Somers. then very young
and sensitive and affectionate girl. had
been captivated by the snowy graces and
handsome person of Edgar Hamilton, an
adventurer and gambler Of conspicuously
evil character She loved him passionately,
and became his wife in the teeth of the
opposition of all her relatives Immedi-
ately after the wedding the young couple
started on journey to Niagara Falls and
Canada. A broken rail hurled the train
on which they were travelling into wreck
and disaster. Mr.. Hamilton was instantly
killed. and his bride received sundry
severe injuries, chiefly on the head. She
was i'll for many weeks, and, ON her re-
covery. it became evident that her reason
was irretrievably shaken. She was pos
sessed by the idea that her husband was
still living and that he was constantly
with her She shaped all her existence
by his imaginary requirements; and would
talk to him, and sing to him, and read
to him, precisely as though he were
really present. Her brother, with noble
self devotion gave up his whole life to the
care of this gentlest of maniacs.
And, thanks to my watchful affection.
Mrs Graves, " continued the Doctor ''she
led happy and peaceful life Her Edgar
not the scamp that she married, but the
bright creation of her own loving fancy
was always with her The real Edgar,
had he lived, would have rendered her
fond. sensitive nature unspeakably
wretched. She escaped all the sorrows of
such union; and cannot but fancy that
she and the visionary spouse that she
loved and tended for so many years are
now united, where, beyond these voices,
there is peace = Lucy Fl. Hooper in
Frank Leslies.
staufori's University and Coeducation.
asked as to the Stanford university,
and Senator Stanford showed me some of
the photographs of the buildings as they
are today. He has photographs sent him
every month showing the progress of the
building and these last photographs show
that it is only little above the founda-
ton. The design of this university is in
the shape of three quadrangles and it
will have half mile of covered colonnades.
The only high feature of the building is
the chapel tower. and the design is
Spanish. The building will consist of a
series of long. low halls. AS | understand
it, the university is TO cover an area of
about 600 feet by 300 feet, which would
be about an acre and half more than
that covered by the Capitol at Washing
ton. There are about 5000 acres Of
ground about the college building, and, it
is said, though | do not get the facts from
Senator Stanford that the gift of the
university in round numbers amounts to
$50, 100000 In this gift is included the
$4,000 acres of good California land which
is given to the university
asked Senator Stanford as to the co
education of the sexes. and he told me
that women would be admitted TO the
university as well as men, and he said he
thought at least % per cent. could be
added to the productive power of the
United States by the women of the United
States entering those occupations for
which they were fitted, and that without
their undertaking any profession or bust
ness which would be unwomanly or dis
tasteful to them. He said he thought the
future of the laboring classes lay in such
education as would fit them to take adj
vantage of their surroundings, and that
the raw materials of the world were great
enough to provide all the citizens of the
world with all the comforts of life, and
the luxuries, too, if those citizens brought
invention to their aid and applied their
labor in the right direction. He referred
to the Mccormick reaper, which now ena-
bles farmer TO cut, thresh and sack 100
pounds of wheat for a cent and half a
sack and said that California alone could
raise enough food to feed the whole
United States. - Carpenters Interview
with Senator Stanford