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The herald., 1895-10-27

husband. Mrs. Wharton at the timf
was about so years old and was heavily
in debt to the general. On July %, 1871,
the general, with a MIR. Van Ness,
who are fully acquainted with the busi-
ness affairs of the two, called upon the
widow to wish her farewell, as she was
about to start on an European trip. The
general also expected to collect the money
due him, and had the widows note In
MS walstcoat pocket.
Some light refresh ments were offered
the two gentlemen, and shortly Afterwards
the general died in great agony, while MIR.
van Ness narrowly escaped death. Over
one hundred experts testified at the b.
sequent trial and the widow was finally
acquitted OF the charge of poisoning Gem
eral ketcham. Mr.. Van Ness never
pushed his side of the case against her
The Maybiick case in England is
again being brought to notice by fresh
effort on the part of the American friends
OF Mrs. May to secure her pardon,
She was accused of poisoning her hus-
band, James Maybrick, at Liverpool in
1889, by administering arsenical waters.
Her relations with Mr.. Briefly fur
nished the motive for the crime. whea
the jury brought in verdict OF guilty
Mrs. MaybricK addressed the court, say
ing: my lord, every thing has been
against me. / wish to say that, al
though evidence has been given as to
great many circumst stances in connection
WIN MT. Drl6Tlyi JuGH HAS DeeI Wltn-
hela which might have influenced the
jury had 1t been told. 1 am not guilty
of this crime"
England had another famous poison
ing craze at the beginning of the present
century. Eliza flaming, an 1S-year old
girl, an extraordinary beauty, was con-
vlcted of poisoning the entire family in
which she was the governess. She was
hanged with noted criminal on each
side OF her. Theday after the execution
it was discovered that the poison had
been given by maniac who had been
sheltered in the house OF the poisoned
family.
EN- poria, Kan. some seven years ago,
was the seems of unique crime. Mrs.
Walkup, formerly a famous belle of New
Orleans, was charged with poisoning her
husband Judge Walkup. She was a
beautiful woman. and her loneliness had
some effect on the jury. as the case
against her was strong. She was acquit-
ted after sensational trial.
The most remarkable posoner OF the
year was Nine. Joniaux, called the Ant
werp Brnvilliers." She poisoned for
money and the deaths of a dozen of her
friends and relatives were attributed to
her. She was n remarkable woman. fine
ly educated and allied to the best fami-
lies of Belgium, and her calm self posses
sion at her trial last January was won
derful in face of the hurricane OF incrim-
mating evidncee against her. She is now
serving life sentence.
Mrs. Henry Meyers fate for alleged COM
plicity in the many murders by poison
charged to her husb band is still unsettled.
Insurance money, like in the JoniauX
case, was the motive of these crimes.
The herald., 1895-10-27

an immense quantity of this ''inherlt.
ance POWDER which placed many for
tune within their grasps. The trial of
the former caused great scandal, although
she persistenly refused to give any ex-
panation or to betray her accom- piices.
''If | spoke" she repeatedly declared,
''Ihe whole town would be compromised.
The woman Noisin was less reticent,
admitting that to her trade in poisons
she mad added the profession of witchcrfat,
and that ION stormy nights she sum
moned the devil to st. Denys." Nine.
de SevIgne in her Letters alludes to her
trial and sentence. She was burnt alive
on the Place de Gieve, struggling with ex-
traordinarv ferceness against the eXecu-
TONERS until the flames suffocated her.
This Nine. de Brinviliers, in addition
to poisoning numeous persons, tried to
poison her l6-year-old daughter. The
latter was very beautiful, and her mother
became insanely jealous of her. Gaaik-
ema, contemporary of de Brinvilliers,
poisoned her young dauhgter i'll order to
inherit a fortune of 20, 900 francs. When
woman displays q want of maternal
feeling, like these two, she is deemed the
lowest and most horrible type of Grim
inal.
more modern type of the woman
polsoner was Nine. Lafarge, nee Marie
Capelle. She was the daughter of an
oeoer of the imperial guard, well mar
rled, happy at hrSt. then tired oil her huS-
band ana fell madly in love with another
man. She had by letters warned her hus-
band that he had become hateful to her,
and that she would get rid of him at
any price. She made him eat piece of
cake thickly powdered with arsenic, was
tried, found guilty and condemned to
prison for life. However, in 1852 she
was pardoned by the Prince President
Louis Napoleon, and died few months
after her liberation, leaving a book of
memoirs called Prison Hours. After
reading it Alexander Dumas the elder
wrote 'Was Marie Capelle guilty or
not? The secret lies between her judges
and God. She eteInally said Noo The
law once said Yes, and before this sole
affirm alton all her denials went for
nothing. Guilty or innocent, Marie
Capelle is dead, with the atonement of
the prison and the rehabilitation of the
tomb"
Tine case OF Nine. Lacoste about the
same time attracted world wide atten-
ton, but she was more fortunate than
Marie Capelle. Another was that of
Lydie Fougines, countess de Bocarme,
arrested under suspicion of having as
broth er.in-law, was found not guilty.
Her self-commanu was brodigious. When
told that the count had assembled the
scaffold in dress trousers, a cam brio shirt
and patent leather shoes, she rem arked,
colby: III @ has done well; it will be a
good example for our people.
Baltimore had a famous poisoning case
in 1871. Mrs. Wharton, the widow of an
army officer, was accused nf the murder
of Gen. W. S. Ketchum, of the United
States army, and an old friend of her
The herald., 1895-10-27
Nature Has Been Too Generous With Many of
Our Stage Favorites and They Try to
Be Rid of Too Much Flesh
And 0thersFy Fifty
MonhsLilian Russrs Ceasess War Against Avordupos.
Little Della Fox Has Hard Struggle-May Irwin
Needs a Book Tell Her Story

duce her to do anything of that kind
now.
Miss Fay Templeton, who in private
lite is called Mrs. Howell Osborne, has
Just finished the hardest task of her life.
Three months ago she signed a contract.
and one of the stipulations it contained
was that when the com pany was ready to
begin work she was to weigh but $50
pounds. When this contract was signed
Miss Templeton weighed exactly 100
pounds, according to her own statement.
Now, to get rid of forty pounds in three
months is no easy task. 1t would brighten
the most experienced prize fighters his
trainers.
Everyone familiar with the art of re.
ducing weight knows that it is compare
lively easy to get rid of the first ten
pounds. But the second ten pounds is
very hard and the third ten pounds is
we'll nigh impossible. What the fourth
install men. of ten pounds must have
been in Miss Templeton's case can easily
be surmised. The last four pounds, she
said, caused her more agony than all the
other thirty-six, and many times she
was on the point of giving the whole
thing up and adding another to the long
list of broken theatrical contracts.
The herald., 1895-10-27
Three WASHINGTON Women

Mrs. Wilson, wife of the postmaster
general, is to have delightful surprise
soon, when she enters her new home. Mr..
| street and every room is to be furnished
before Mrs. Wilson will even get peep
at it.
Mrs. Stevenson. wife of the vice presi-
dent, is at her home in the west, and
will not return to Washington for some
time. She is in poor health, and her
young daughter has also been ill, which
causes the family great anxiety, as they
lost daughter last year.
Mrs. John A. Logan is going to Europe
IN few days. 1t is rumored that the
magazine of which she once had charge,
The Home, is to be revived again under
anxious to set the other on Its feet sue
cessfully and have a hand in its conduct.
The herald., 1895-10-27

Some few years ago, when Miss Lillian
Russell was engaged in lawsuit caused
by a broken contract, the lawyer on the
opposing side asked her why she aid not
wear tights, as she had agreed to. Miss
Russell is not addicted to blushing on
ordinary occasions, but her pretty face
became as red as the deep crimson cur
tains hanging behind the judge who was
hearing the case.
1t was an awkward moment. There
were hundreds of women in the court
room, and every face had an expeotant
ook. The silence was intense. The court
stenographer waited, with pencil poised
in the air, and a score of newspaper repor-
tiers stood ready to tell an anxious world
why the famed comic opera singer refus-
ed to exhibit herself in tights.
Miss Russell looked appealln ely at the
judge, her lawyers. the reporters and the
specta tors, but,there was no sympathy to
be found anywhere. Everyone was eager
and anxious tor the explanation. At last
IL came in this wise:
The herald., 1895-10-27
THE BORGIAS
OF ALL AGES
Poison Is the FavOrite
Weapon of the
MurdereSS
SOME VERY ARTISTIC CRIMES
Cleopatra's Rose-Leaf Wine--HOw the
Fair Greek Parisiates Disposed
of Their Lovers Modern
American Cases

Poison has been favorlte weapon OF
the murderess tor as many centuries as
the world is old.
1t is Ghe most cruel and diabolical
method Of making away with an enemy,
and feroIious criminals who would not
hesitate to usse a knife or pistol on
fellow man, shrink from posoner. This
was clearly shown at the time Carlyle
Harris was awaiting his death day in
Sing Sing prison for poisoning his wife.
On tho night when Palllster and Roehl
The herald., 1895-10-27
THOUGHTS

by sound OF name and touch OF hand,
Thru ears that hear and eyes that see,
We know each other in this land
How little must that knowledge beS
Our souls are all the time alone,
No spirit can another leach;
They hide away in realms unknown,
Like waves that never touch a beach.
We never know each other here,
10 soul can here another see
10 know we need light as clear
AS that which fills eternity.
For here we walk by human light,
But there the light of God is ours;
Each day on earth IS but night
Heaven alone hath clear-facea hours.
l call you thus-you call me thus
Our mortal is the very bar
That parts forever each of us,
AS skies on high part star from star.
A name is nothing bat name
For that which else would name less be
Until our souls in rapture claim
Full knowledge in eternity.
Father Ryan.
The herald., 1895-10-27

Mrs. John W. Griggs, the wife of the
Republican candidate for governor of New
Jersey, occupies an unusual position in
the community. She is very handsome
and less than 80 years old, married to a
widower with five children. one a big boy
of 10, ana the mother of a baby about
year old. Before her marriage two years
ago the eX-senators wife was Miss Laura
Elizabeth Price of Cleveland, o. She is
bright conversationalist, travelled and
cultured. very devoted homemaker and
mother and an enthusiastic athlete. Her
favorlte game is golf, and her fads her
children and her husband.
The herald., 1895-10-27

Before she began the arduous task, and
while in the full enjoyment of 1870 pounds,
she spent couple OF days IN reading up in
all the recipes and systems for reducing
weight. She found that the Banting
system was originated by an Englishman
named Banting, who won fame many
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1895-08-27
PLAGUE PUT TO USE,

For years we have heard of the plague
OF the Australian rabbit.
1t has been persistently growing
plague. Remedies have been exhausted.
We recall one that was proposed that
was horror and, IL would seem, ought
to have been effective for determination.
1t was TO inoculate lot OF the pests
with eoine poisonous disease and let them
loose TO. ihfest thetgrand army of rabbits.
We never heard that II was put in opera
tion.
II is said that there are thousands upon
thousands of acres OF rich land in Aus
tralia that cannot be titled because OF the
millions of devouring rabbits.
The agriculturists ans the government
have been at their wits ends for relief.
Now, however, from the Melbourne
Argus, we learn OF suggestion that may
not only rescue the island continent from
the plague Of rabbits, but bring siz-
able revenue to its people. Accord
ing to The Argus, rabbits may yet
save the country they have done SO
much to ruin in an agricultural way.
Everybody knows that rabbits are good
eating. Rabbit pie and rabbit stew are del
icacies even when more toothsome game
is plenty. The rabbit is not to be COM
pared to the coon for richness. OF flavor,
but it is better than the squirrel. 1t is
good food, more than fairly eatable. Ac-
cording to The Argus, the secretary OF
Australia has received a letter from Mr..
BERRY OF the agent-general's office stating
that 1t is expected during the coming sea
son that the price Of rabbits will be from
10d. to lid. each. The charges for dock
dues, carriage, and commission at London
are about Id. per rabbit, and to Hull or
any other manufacturing provincial city
about one penny extra. He adds: "There
isn't the slightest doubt that very large
trade indeed is open to Victorian rabbits
in the great manufacturing districts,
such as Leeds, Manchester, and Sheffield,
where all the memb bers of the family work
at the mills, and therefore have not much
time to spare for cooking. Rabbits car
be easily cooked, and are accordingly
much favored by mill workers, and it /:
no unusual thing when rabbits are chear
for them to be the sole local meat food
eaten by the family during the week." ii,
strongly urges Victorian shippers to take
a small profit in order to assist in push.
ing trade in rabbits in these districts.
II this idea can be put to practice ii VIII
be blessed thing for Australia, surely.
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1895-08-27

j. l. TAYLOR OF Dobbs Ferry, N. ",
has launched a monthly periodical with
peculiar motive. He calls his paper
the "Dog Question Discussed in the In
terests Of Humanity" and the policy Of
the paper is strongly anti-dog. The salu-
tatory sets forth that the place of the dog
is at the end OF a chain, and not in the
household, as a dangerous plaything for
children, or to be petted and coddled,
while human beings suffer and starve.
And the little paper is filed with clip
pings about mad dogs and treacherous
dogs, and the evil news OF dogs general
ly. II Editor TAYLOR has bis way, the
dog has had his day.
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1895-08-27
SONGS OF THE WAR, NO. t3.
Grated Into Tue Army.
Harry c. Work.


Our Jimmy has gone to live in tent
They have grated him into the army.
He finally puckered up courage and went
When they grated him into the army.
told them the clhd was too young. Alas
At the captains headquarters they said he
would pass
They'd train him up we'll in the infantry
class
So they grated him into the army.
CHORUS.
Oh, Jimmy, FAREWELL Your brothers fell
Way down in Alabarmy:
/ thought they would spare lone widder's
heir,
But they grated him into the army.
Dressed up IN his uniform, dear little chapi
They have grated him into the army.
IL seems but day since he sot on my lap.
But they have grated him into the army.
And these are the trousies he used to wear
Them very same buttons-the patch and the
tear
But Uncle Sam gave him brand new pair
When they grated him into the army.
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1895-08-27
TwINE FENCES.

A Yankee farmer, as poor In dollars as
he is rich in ingenuity, writes to he
agricultural press organ OF his locality as
follows: "It was necessary to fence in
my pastures, but not being able to buy
fencing, used twine as q substitute.
The cattle seem to take 1t to mean that
that is the limit OF their right OF way,
and SO far have had no difficulty what
ever in keeping them within their own
territory"
Naturally enough, the farmer Is pleased
with the little ruse by which he has ac-
complished his purpose at SO small cost.
II is matter of doubt whether he is
laughing in his sleeve at the stupidity OF
the horned herd, or prizing them for
their due consideration OF the boundary
lines.
II might, and II might not, expand his
notions of the case, IL he were 10 realize
in the midst of his twine fence building
that he is simply doing for his cattle
what society does for the human herd
II we may call 1t so without seeming to
imply the cloven foot. And the defer
ence shown by tue ruminating brutes
toward the twine confines is surprisingly
similar to the tsken-for-granted venera.
tion shown by all OF us to frail conven.
tionalities We are used TO having about
so much space allowed us In which to
roam and feed-and think a little, per-
haps. And the most OF us never dream
OF going beyond the set confines, even
though they are so slender as to be snap
ped by our first effort TO escape from
them. There are some human cattle who
will jump fences they're liable to find
themselves impaled on barbed wire
sooner or later-but by far the greater
number keep quietly on, day after day,
in the same pasture; and the twine fence
is all sufficient.
What a comfortable thing II is, this
humdrum, steady-going existence that
is satisfied with its own pasturage, and
never questions the strength OF the twinc
string to prohibit Whatever fragile
partition mortal dlctum may erect, 1t is
all the same; for its presence is taken ss
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1895-08-27

fore his death by the C5ar OF Russia. Mrs.
Stanford mas bean under great strain In hcr
commendablo efforts TO help the university.
In speaking OF this the other day, she SAID:
The nervous strain which have been undor
wonder sometimes how much longer Will be
able 20 endure IL. But the happy faces OF the
students. the gratofulness OF the parents and
the grand results following the last two years
work OF the university have been and wiz be
an inspiration 10 me 20 struggle on and try TO
carry cut the wishes of my husband. AZ can
keep 1000 students at tho university VIII be
satisfied. ON the most economical policy 10
costs Sl5.0 a month 20 run the university.
have no plans tor any future additions 70 the
university. hope 20 be able, IL am spared
"A few years longer and all goes well with me
in regard 20 finances. 10 give the university
some absolute necessities in the way OF addi-
tional buildings"
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1895-08-27

the all conclusive "thus far and no far
ther. 4" Frequently when the local feeding
ground burns a little dry, there will be
some nibbling through the bars at the
neighboring grass crop; and occasionally
there is a deliberate unlocking OF the
bars II they happen to lie OF anything as
substantial as wood-the process proves
a much snarled up one in the case of the
twine. But all these trespassings are the
exception rather than the rule, and we
take all means to check any such
tendencies.
After some discipline. the most OF us
learn to keep out of other fields than our
own, and to submit meekly to daily
treading the same path enjoying as best
we can the bit OF clover and shade and
running water that our particular pasture
affords-and counting ourselves lucky in-
deed IL il does afford all three.
AS for the fences, IL we disregard the
wooden one, we are quite liable to be
closed in by something worse. After all,
twine serves the purpose and II we do
foolishly get tangled in it 1t doesn't turn
and rend us with a set of barbs-so much
in favor of the twine fence and the COM
fort 1t encloses.
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1895-08-27
FIERCE FIGHT.
insurgents Under Gomez Made Attack
Upon Spanish Troops.
LATTER HAD 10 MEN KILLED
edI
Rrf
While the Insurgents Loss
Was But Three.
LATTER HAD TO MEN KILLED

NEW YORK, Aug 27-Secretary Que
sada Of the Cuban Evolutionary commit
tee received letter yesterday from Cam.
aquri. Cuba, containing information OF
battle which had been fought between a
body of Spanish troops and small force
under General Gomez.
Tho letter, which was dated Aug. III,
was from Salvador Cisneros, marquis OF
Santa Lucia, and gave graphic account
of the engagement which was sharp and
decisive. The Spaniards numbered 1900,
and were commanded by General Mella.
They were acting as convoy for a large
wagon train loaded with provisions and
munitions of war The train was on Its
way from the coast to the Spanish camp
in the interior.
When about midway between San
Miguel and Guaymaro they were attacked
by a body Of insurgents under Gomez.
The attacking party numbered 300, 900
OF whom were cavalry. The attack was
made about clock in the morning. The
wagons comprising the train were plod'
ding slowly along, Mt irregular intervals
apart, when the Cuban cavalry suddenly
dashed down upon them from the rear.
The three hindmost wagons were cut of
and captured with the six mules attached
to them.
The drivers Of the other wagons whipped
up their mules and found safety behind
the line of Spanish infantry which was
hastily formed TO protect them. sharp
fire was kept up between the two forces,
the Spaniards falling back slowly until
they reached the brow of small hill,
where stand was taken. Recognizing
the advantageous position of tho enemy,
Gomez withdrew his forces.
The Spaniards had 10 men killed In the
fight, while the Cubans loss was only
three men killed. One Of the captured
wagons was found to be loaded with
army rifles.
Tho letter said that the train OF wagons
was so harrassed by the Cubans that it re-
quired seven days to make journey com.
monty done in two.
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1895-08-27
How Many Eggs =?
Boston Herald.

Here Is n conundrum that is perplexing all
the mathematicians Of Philadelphia and vi
cinity
woman took basket % eggs 60 the city
for sale. Upon being asked how many she
the basket two az time. l have one egg left
IL i take them out three at time have one
egg left. IL | take them ont tour at time
have one left. IL take them out five ne a
time have one left. IL I take them six AZ D
time l have ono left, but ~ ! take thon our
seven NJ time have none left IN the basket.
How many eggs had she in tho basketf
The only answers that have vet como in
make the smallest number Dl and 30 on up 20
interminable millions, but objection Is made
that no woman's basket could hold 80 many
eggs. Perhaps she prcvaricatod.