The sun., 1892-03-06
SIZE S7OLE MiNY ROoKs.
A Rcmarkn able Instance or BibIIom nnIa IN .
Rhode Island Town.
FROM He Prorid.noe journal.

from ne Protid.nce Journal
Tho systematic robbery OF 800 books from
the Pawtuckot Free Public Library. the de-
lection OF the thief and the recovery OF the
books. and the character and culture OF tho
bibliomaniac, altogether make ono Of tho most
remarkable cases on record. During tho week.
Mrs. Sanders. librarian Of the Free Public
Library has examined the recovered books,
one by one. and made II list of those which be-
long to the library. She found in tho $50 books
brought from their place OF concealment at the
residence of the bibliomaniac In West
Attleboro. about fifty which did not bc.
long TO the library. and which in oil
probability belong 10 Mrs. Ellis. Those
consist Of works OF the standard poets and
prose writer's. as well as quite a. number M OF
school SHE ma me
book and shelf. but she had carefully pW, pNWt, on
fS soSfs se 'ns nsaS S.sisd and n
Sn IT be any yo@ SSGk sS af
hsa % % %,s hs s.sS ans | III sSo%s Ss"G ns
she loved the books for the,mssslves: en-, elves: .,,o, ,
tn ts
made week age. that they are q all a Of tho best
Kde in ths so stSn sfs asa
why she took them. as it does not seem that !.
Locomotives. but her friends say she. is inter.
sssf1 EoeE N n your Gffs S se Said
rest, and The statement. broad as 1t may seem.
u! HE h home Of Mrs Ellis was in Andover. Me-,
and very many Of her % own books books bear that That
beginning to teach school TO raise funds for
SnSH whieh she heu gave ' 10 her ' mother she WIS
Issisyan SsSst ans
taught several years at Colehrook, n. II. Sho
81 sr SodE m IN Gsp
are her opinions in regard to the contents i.n q
the boon on tf ny Syes IN tsf u 9e pR
IN Memoriam Il one should ,sI ask me to eI; men;
most like to have written one 4 them would
take metaphoricaf subjects which arc not
Il g0: Hnnm TH wn s. sT Sys s"1 soSs Ss
possession Of his soul, Here arc, written the
obt haF e9nga sSess
and religion are brought to the rescue. At
last faith ;, t, trn,mnhs, nj and Christ appears. lie
Like Paul with hearts fought with death
- Tho Two Voices Is but the struggle
sWsr from E TsnnySon S S i that was given to ths
is u perfect bnllad-full Of thought. pano-
ramic painting Of loves devotion, Of woman's
n s na VIII Sess dr he snnn1
tes 2 1 stana pSs.
virtues virtues. They 's are poems Of tho people. It is
to those who experienco and those who go
MET nize the truthininess Of the he characters ''
Not har but others MnG tSst
Mrs Fills is q victim Of bibliomania. There is
not otherwise a stain upon her character The
story is that fey IVY years ago she was n engaged %
long one. and her intended husband was at
work in New York. as was her brother One
to come on at once. ns tho man she loved bad
received severe inury She S,n went t" New
T"ss sxsa seedsn h"rs% eaues they @
w%l1 sf'1 liz AG 5 her ns did dfa ws sum day. y ms"s tsy,
when ACCOUNTS, for hor financial circnnl-
psapss tho aGr 5sh ss s For
past four years sho has lived with her sister In
read and think. 1t is probable that the Tragic
overmuch reading. with nothing else TO take
took the books whom she could have any, ,2rall
them i she chose. she replied: Al can say
is. did very wrong. l have lost my chnrac-
ter. my reputation. everything am very bad.
but lons.d so to possess th"s" books.
directed toward her. Tho work has been 60
ing on some timo without the trustees. the
librarian. or the assistants being able TO dis
cover anything in regard to the matter only
that books OF IL certain general class were rnp-
idly disappearing. Suspicious in, v9rions d.
rections had all proved unfoundcd. There
was little thought of by tho library authori-
ties except ths-littlo else talked Of One day.
after long conversation with one OF the trus:
tees. the thoughts Of the Librarian were turned
toward th Is regular visitor by what some
might. perhaps. torn intuition. but what Was
really a suggestion from cXPerience me
thought was SO startling that she said nothing
OF It to her assistants. but decided to watch.
Before the suspicion Ind develored into deh-
mite form or she had spoken Of It. the attention
of two VI the assistants was directed to this
visitor in another way. some books Of the =,
class W wlich was disappearing 80 rapidly and
Il dccoy. and the next time Mrs. Ell came
into the library she took down these books to
read. The books were watched and after she
went out the assistants discovered that one of
by this discovery that neither spoke. but each
looked at tho other in asoni shmcnt: few
moments later before the assistants had had
time to fairly digest this new development.
watched hor She went to the same, shelf. took
down the same books ms before but remained
only short time. She went out hurriediy.
very much in the same manner $40 ken OF BY
diatrly went to tho shelf and found another
volume conc. After that there was no further
doubt us to who was taking tho books.
The Wise MNn and HIS Umbrella.
".,rha visa man alweys IN rrias nm II m brA1.