Evening journal., 1898-06-07
A srA1rNCH rR1END.

Since Colonel e. T. Cooper h7g been
In the New Jersey State Prison, at
Trenton. he has received many letters
of sympathy among them, the Way
farer is informed, the following from
Rev. ]. A. B. Wilson, Of Howard Street
M. z. Church, San Francisco. Cal. who
was formerly presiding elder Of Dover
district: Wilmington Conference: -'
Had you been charged with. exces-
sive conviviality or some small misde-
meanor, or with having jeopardized
your own interest by trying to get
an unworthy friend out Of a difficulty
Imight have believed II, but nobody on
this earth, no witness and no jury
finding will ever make me believe that
YOU have been a conscious party TO
any scheme OF fraud upon any person
or corporation. 1 believe in your in
tegrity, whatever others may think.
YOu NAV have been fooled through
your friendship. but never dishonest. 1
repfoach myself greatly for not having
wBitten~Tong ago this assurance OF my
friendship and sympathy for you In
this unhappy involvement, for / do not
desert my friends when in trouble We
are so far from friends we love that
thing lis almost ancient history before
we get to hear of 1t or know its par
ticulars. / myself know what 1t Is to
trust unworthy men and be used TO
their purposes and then to be betrayed
bv them. | have observed with regret
the same tendencies in you and the
same inability to read character or 10
suspect motives Of those In your conf
dence. but believe me when / tell you
that the noble Qualities which
drew me out in friendship to you, have
3 kept yott from wrOnging any man in
i his property rights. Possibly q desire
to Kill yout inhuence politically may be
the inspiration Of the matter against
you, but am at too great distance to
conjecture. Suffice to say that was
your friend in prosperity, l am your
friend in adversely, and l shall contin-
ue to be to the end. After all, my
friend, 1t seems as If to some of US
every ambition must Oe thwarted and
every prospect broken to get us to re-
gard the Divine claims upon US. We
are so reluctant to think of any other
than the present life"
Colonel Cooper is only permitted tc
write one letter a week, but he can re-
ceive ell that are sent.
BECKLEYiS STRANGE MALADY.
Wlllidhl H. DtIhltgs VI NO. 1Uo EGe
Ninth street. Is the victim OF a strang,
maady; or. rather. it is not 50 strang
in itself as it is in the manner in whicl
it attacks him. He has just recovere,
from an eleven days attack Of HE
coughs. which came near exhaustin;
him and causing his death. The Way
farer spent about half an hour witt
him the other evening while waitin,
for a car and Mr. Beckley infOrme,
him that it was the fourth or fifth at
tack he had had Of them and that the
only came on about once in three years
"They say that fright will stol
them" remarked the afflicted man
Friends have advised me, at time
when / was suffering with them, to g
out and get a good fright of some kind
assuring me that the result would b
eminently satisfactory. You know,
used to be an engineer on the Maryland
division of the p, w. & B. railroad be
fore / was hurt.
"On one trip, just as my expires
train was about to go on Bush rive
bridge, my engine broke down, a bi
piece Of the driving wheel was hurle
up through the cab, carrying the roo
of it away with 1t, and / was throw
back to the farther end of the tende
with 100 pounds of steam chasing afte
me. Fortunately / was thrown Ia
enough away to escape being scalded
DEATH and as soon as possible | 90
down off the engine. to see what Tn
damage Was. / foImd the engine o
49, three wheels. and IT, she had gone o
the bridge we would have gone int
Bush river. Now, / was scared. Yo
hear men placed in similar position