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tween whom bad blood had existed, became
engaged in quarrel at the little Illinois
town Of Williamsburg. in Jefferson County.
ten miles south of Mount Vernon. Murray
whipped out a revolver ard shot and in
stanty killed his enemy and then took 10
flight: but he was caught before he had left
the city.
Murray was tried before a Justice Court
and the severity Of the case was such that
he was held without bond. He had been en-
gagged as blacksmith in the little town Of
Williamsburg for many years. AMI had a
yourS wife whom he had married only 4
few months before his imprisonment II
toll. and his affection for his wife. made
him feel that Imprisonment was unbearab bla
a longing for freedom gained mastery
over him and, in a midnight hour abrrt
three months after he had been committed
to iail. aided by good use of the craft by
which he earned his living he gained ac-
cess TO the corridors of the jail.
BOY THREW ROCKS AT HIM
Here he was met by the jaier. whose
name was Satterfield. A single blow
straight from tie shoulder of the power
unconscious.
AS he left the door of the Jail. little
lo-year-old boy who had witnessed his IA
thers injury. threw rocks at the escaping
prisoner.
But he was free man and, as his mind
became centered on his own affairs. he
thought little of the boy ard his rocks and
never dreamed that when he was old and
gray that this boy. grown TO be man,
should lead him back TO that Jail hand
cuffed and a prisoner.
But hfs liberty was destined soon to end.
He was caught at Marion. ky.. and re-
turned to the scene of his crime. where he
dom made him long still more to be again
at liberty. but his judgment prevailed over
his passions. and what he had once accom-
plshed by force he now tried to do BY
strategy. He made good prisoner and
won the confidence Of his jai!ers.
HIS SECOND ESCAPE.
Two Jail deliveries Were made during his
second confinement and he volunteered to
repair the breaches made by his fellow
prisoners. But his eagle eye was watching
every chance, and when he was taken to the
cellar of the Jail to make some repairs he
disarmed his guards and made good his
escape
With his second escape the name Of Muir
ray was buried for tWenty-seven years, to
be revived again the day Of his re-
capture.
From the date of the Jail delivery until
yesterday he was William II. Howard and
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mad claimed many places for his home. He
roGIhed at wi!l over the mountains Of Ten
nessee and North Carolina for Il few years
and after spending several months in Ken
the little. village of Dunlap in the sequar-
chee Valley: near Chattanooga. Tenn. and
as William H. Howard has lived among the
community. a good citizen. a successful
business man and the father of worthy
famiiy 1f sons and daughters.
WIFE JOINED HIM THERE
He started his new life at the humble
calling of u blacksmith. and energy and
effectiveness to his business soon drew a
iar&" trade to his humble shop. He was
mighty of stature, full : feet . inches rar
and his Northern apprenticeship had not
failed 10 do its work He was the most
skl!ful blacksmith the section had ever
cure his services.
In :. short time The humble establishment
assumed more pretentious proportions and
his wife joined him and formed :. COM
ponent part of the firm. sharing alike the
joys and hardships of the mechanics life.
As the years went by four bright children
came to bless their union and make the
home of the rugged smithy u haven of hum
be delight
The time since the crime In Illinois had
been committed heightened into decades.
and. wher twenty years had passed. two
of the children. both girls, were married
and a son, who had learned the trade at
MS fathers anvil. was also married and
commenced business at Chattanooga.
The children knew nothing of their
iatntr early crime. ana 10 tnem the name
Of Murray WIS as strange as would be a
name they had never heard.
CONFESSED TO 4 PREACHER.
Ii was while in Dunlap that Murray hiuf-
self gave the first clew that led. after
years # searching, to his capture. Murray
professed Il leaning towards the religious
ard became leader in the church work OF
his neighbOrhoUd. On one OCCASION while
attending a service conducted by travelling
preacher. he became so imbued with divine
fervor that he confessed TO the man of Gcd
that he had committed a murder in Illinois
and was wanted by the authorities there.
This preacher. CHANGING to meet another
of the calling who was on his way. to Hi
nois. told him what Murray had said. The
second preacher returned to Mount Vernon
and told what he had learned. He did rot
know that Murray living at Dunlap.
but he knew that he had unciss in Clay
County and that he often visited them
Sheriff Mani2n and Deputy Sheriff Sattcr-
field the latter the son of the jailer. and
the hoy who had thrown rocks al the escap
ing prisoner. again took up the trail which
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ANTI CIGARETTE CRUSADE.
Carthage Boys and Girls +" BE
Asked TO Sign a Pledge.
REPrEEIC SPECIAL.

REPUBLIC SPECIAL.
Carthage, No. Dec. Gas the result OF
vigorous crusade against the cigarette Just
begun by The Woman's Christian Temper
ance Union of Jasper County. risiA en-
forcement of the city ordinance relative to
the sac o. giving away OF the poison may
be demanded by the City Council at its next
meeting.
The fight against the cigarette was in
quarterly conference of the Jasper Coun-
~ Womans Christian Temperance Union.
held in this city. The first step will be TO
cite pledge.
A city ordinance prohibiting the sale or
giving away of cigars and cigarettes TO
minors has never heen enforced and at
the next meeting of the City Council. it is
understood the ladies will request the Ell
forcement Of the ordinance.
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STATISTICS ON IMPORTS.
Manufactures of Iron and Steel
Broke Record.
REPC BILC SPECIAL.

REPC BLIC SPECIAL.
Washington. Dec. 6.-Importations of man
year than al anV time during the mast
decade. The import figures of the Treasury
Bureau of Statistics show that the imporIa-
tionS Of iron and steel manufactures IN the
ten months ending with October 1902. are
double those Of last year. and three times
as much as those OF 1895. and are larger
than IN any year since 1891.
The total value of iron and steel manu-
factures imported in the ten months end
ing with October. 1902, is S3l. .9S7. .O5S against
sle 3is AZ in the same months of last year,
ard si0.SSi090 in the corresponding months
of 1898. In practically every class of artE
cles the figures Of the year just ended are
larger. both in quantity and value than
those of last year and in many cases the
figures are more than double those Of last
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drugs sediment and
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William FL. Murray, Who Escaped
From Jail Twenty-Five Years
Ago. Was Captured
Last Week.
HAD LED AN EXEMPLARY LIFE.
He Will BE Tried at Williamsburg,
ILL.,. for the killing of Joel
Woodrowe in That Town
in 1873.
HAD LED AN EXEMPLARY LIFE.
REPUBLIC SPECIAL

REPUBLIC SPECIAL
Chattanooga. Tenn. Dec. 6.-Stranger
than any romance is the story of William
II. Murray, who was arrested at Dunlap.
Tenn. near this city. few days ago on
the charge of murder. The alleged crime
was committed at Williamsburg. H.. in
1873. and, after twenty-seven years Sheriff
Manion and Deputy Satterfeld of jefferson
County, in which Williamsburg is located.
and of which Mount Vernon is the county
seat. succeeded in locating Murray in Ten
nessee. where he had lived under the name
of William II. Howard for more than
twenty-five years. He had amassed prop
erty. and the years had rolled by his
children had grown up.
TIE officers took their prisoner back to
Mount Vernon. where he will be tried on
the charge of murder in the first degree.
FIRST ESCAPE FROM JAIL.
1t was in 1874 that Joel Woodrome and his
brother-in-law, William H Murray, be-
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year Pig iron. for example. has increased
from ss33s tons in ten months of 1901, to
1850 tors in ten months of 1902; bar iron
has increased from IS 2a3, 5l5 pounds in ten
ingots. blooms biIlets. etc. have increased
from IA 7a1 614 pounds in ten months of last
year. to 497. .s0i. .sA pounds in ten months OF
the present year,
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Mr.. Burger wrote on April 1.
902: l have received your very
nd letter and note the advice
,crein. also the inclosed urinary
lalysis. with many thanks. and
II pleased to say that the sample
title of Warmers Safe Cure. to-
rther with the sample of War
rr's Safe Pills. did me so much
God that I was induced thereby
10 purchase another hottie. which
have since been taking. with the
esult that l am much stronger
and have more vim and vigor
han l have had for some time
past. The kidney and liver trouble
md the pains in my back have all
gone. 1t is certainly Il great rem
'dy. had suffered so much with
anne back but did not know
What it was until | made til
simple home test suggested II
'ou and discovered that my ksf-
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Still Small,

What's dAuber doing now? He started
in drawing miniatures. but l heard he had
given that up."
We'll. the habit seems to cling to hint"
Cant get away from it. eh?'' =
Not altogether. He 5 drawing a NINA
ture salary now as a sign r."-Phila-s, !,
delphia Press
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Sharne: The telegraph companies are al
ways looking out for improvements
Wheaton: Indeed! Then they should
en1rip every messenger boy with bottle
OF smelling salts for the women that fanl
when they receive a telegram chicago
News.
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ILLINOIS MAN CAN SYMPATHIZE
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q and rrospered. q
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q evangelist that he had killed a man .
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q Recaptured last week by Deputy .
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. Pleads seIf-defsuse and is confident .
q of acquittal. .
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CLAIMS SELF-DEFENSE.

He stated 4 number of times while in
Chattanooga that the killing was commit
ted in self-.iefense, and. shortly after his
capture. he again became ighthearted and
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had grown warm after so long time. The
officers secured rcquisition papers from
Nashville and from there went to Clay
The Washington times., 1902-10-05
A Populistic Novel.

'.Out of the Vest by Elizabeth Hig-
gins, is story If the conditions which
made Populism in the West. If the
whole of ii were as good as some parts
of it, it would be very good story, but
while some of the character drawing is
capital. particularly in the earlier chap
ters, the later developments are crudely
managed and weak in spots. and the eff
feet of the whole is unpleasing.
There is undoubtedly material for a
novelist in the raw, rude, yet pictur-
esque life of the West, but thus far it
has been for the most part indiiferently
handled. and the work of Miss Higgins
is not an exception to the rule. She
has conviction, and some power and
pathos, but she has no balance and very
little sense of humor. The unrelieved
tragedy and somberness of her plot are
not artistic. The character of her her
oine is at once pathetic and ridiculous,
which is fatal TO romance; and her hero
Is nothing much more than lay figure.
1t is true that perhaps this man and
woman might in real life have appeared
much the same 10 casual acquaintance,
but one may say, as Robert Bonner is
reported to have said when confronted
with something which offended his con-
The Washington times., 1902-10-05
A DRAMATIC NOVEL.

"a Prophet of the Real" by Esther
Miller, is a novel whose main interest
is what may be called the psychological
emotional; in other words its plot
turns on the action of one character
On another, and the understanding of
one human being by another. rather
than on any particular event or material
experience. It is original, daring. and
strong in conception, and exceedingly
well worked out. It is quite as deserv-
ing of a sensational notoriety as a dozen
other novels which have attained it.
The opening situation is entirely new.
The heroine is a stenographer, and is
taking from dictation the opening chap
ters of a novel whose main theme is
a psychological problem. She is panic
stricken to discover that the novelist
has taken as his plot the story Of her
own life, and he, in turn, is amazed
at her revelation. and even more i'm
pressed with the discovery that her
personality and appearance suit his
The Washington times., 1902-10-05
Illustration From The Queen of ouparte by Archer Butler Hubert

rival he carries on sort of platonic
love affair with Istar, while he meets.
wooes. and marries in genuine human
fashion Ramua, flower girl of the city
Nobody seems to consider this state of
his affections at all peculiar. The most
lovable character in the book is the
younger sister of Ramua, Baba by name,
who. loving Charmides, sacrifices her
self to a Babylonish courtier in order to
save her sister from being torn from
the arms of her lover. She is loving,
pathetic. and lifelike little figure. But
the book, as a whole, is certainly not
superior TO dozen others of similar
character which have appeared within
the past few years. Miss Potter, or
Mrs. John Donald Black. as she is now
called in private life. win be wise to
return to the medieval historical novel
in which she has thus far been sue
cessful TO an uncommon degree. (New
York. Harper a. Bros)
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ADVENTURE STORY OF THE ORIENT

ouelpnrte by Archer Butler Hubert is story of in
in laid
American the
The
the The notion of the tale is de-
cidedy
body with relatives the deceased
This makes imperative state
political enemies who
assigned the
hidag the capital where aner-
this duty and thrilling and the interest of
with char
said the peculiar been
realism combined
of difficult
and dis
the imagination
strikingly dramatic of the
Rider reading world with his
exhuma
the sarcophagus perhaps the most
all convincing
imposbity circumstance
who is looking good adventure
ouelparte" is easily first Boston: Little Brown Coo
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both original and good. In fact, there
is not any fault to be found with the
book from technical point OF view,
unless it is the title, which is not as
piquant or significant as it ought to be.
This is one of the few novels which
might be remodeled for the stage with
entire success: in fact. it might easily
be more successful as drama than as
a novel, We're it to find an actress to fit
the part OF Alice Durand. The emo
tional interest is strong. which is es-
sential to good drama the psychologi-
cal element is important, without be-
ing too subtle, which is another good
point in play; the heroine is attrac-
tive, and of type with whom most
women will feel something in common,
and the character of Laura Standish
would make one OF the best parts for an
actress of the adventures type that
could be devised. Needless to say, "a
Prophet of the Real would never do
for the name OF play. but it ought
not to have been the name of the novel
tNew York: J, F. Taylor Company.)
The Washington times., 1902-10-05
Stories of Chicago.

"On Fortunes Road" is collection
of stories of Chicago business life, by
Will Payne, young Chicago man, who
has already appeared in literature as the
author of THE Story of Eva That
book was strong in some respects, and
realistic to degree, but ii did not show
a strong sense of humor. 1t appeared
himself very seriously indeed. And
that Is a thing which the coming Amer
lean novelist will not do. This country
is too large and too complex for any
novelist to take seriously. 1t would
crush him.
The same strength and the same
weakness are observable in this later
book of stories. They are seven in
number, and THE Chairman's Politics, ="
dealing with practical political boss Of
Chicago. his characteristics and his
transactions. is perhaps the best. The
figure of Johnny Gallagher is satis-
factory portrait in its way, though it is,
of course, mere sketch.
III the amy, - LAY III w meat
deal with tie fluctuations of the bust
ness world and the stock market, re-
spectively, the point of view OF the man
on the inside and the woman on the out
side being effectively contrasted The
Plant at High Grove" is thoughtful
and careful study of the relations be-
tween capital and labor. 1t deals with
an employer who has tried to establish
a sort of paternal supervisor over MS
employees, has paid high wages, helped
them invest their money, established for
them reading rooms and other institu-
tions, and finally run against the labor
union. The author has brought out one
point in the telling of his story which
needs to be generally understood, and
that is that the working classes are
never deceived by any assumption of de-
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NATURE AND ROMANCE.

is shown in this description OF the way
they scrubbed floors:
I'VE do it athleticaIly. finely. Maurice.
We don't sozzle about We have on
thick boots. and short skirts-or do.
and Roger wears his usual knickerboek-
ers. so there is nothing to drag in the
wet. We throw pail after pail Of clear.
sparkling water from the yosenkill over
the floor. and each takes a broom, and.
with fine. long strokes. like rowing a
racing she'll. we seour it to a beauti-
ful whiteness- 1t is gloriously health
full, chest-expanding exercise. You cam:
think into what glow it puts one. Then
we go OF on long tramp while 1t
dries
Vi0lette Hall. by the way. is the sis
ter OF Gertrude Hall. who has publish
ed several books OF stories The book
is dedicated ITO the Jaded in Spirit,
Mention should be especially made of the
charming Illustrators in color, by w.
Granville Smith. (Goston: d. Lothrop
q Coz
The Washington times., 1902-10-05
LONDON SLUMS.

any of Dickens tendency to exaggera-
tion. There is much that is unsavory
in the tale. but it is not there because
OF the dirt. but because of the human
ity; and there is a difference between
these two motives. Mr.. Morrison has
ferreted out the very mixed and uncer-
tain good il these degraded natures and
made his plot out OF that; and hence.
instead OF being a sensation story ON
par with the life of Jesse james. ii NAV
be said to have a sort OF moral purpose
However, the moral is not poked OBJ
trusiYely at the reader, and the charac-
ter drawing and descriptions are abso-
lutely truthful. Mr.. Morrison is thor
oughly familiar with this part of Lon
den, and Ii his books were put with
Walter Besant's fascinating history of
that section it would make exceedingly
good reading for those who are inter
ested IL human nature even under
warped and adverse conditions. (New
York; Mcclure. Phillips G. Coz
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Mr.. CHAMBERS NEW NOVEL.


Cardigan In this and the
in
usual rule such the
novel s the
perhaps his
children Dorothy
a
really If this contradiction it
onyn necessary the
kiful
family
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make it worth noting New York; Harper & Bros sl5o)
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Some. Ancient History.

"1star Of Babylon" is the latest novel
of Margaret Horton Potter, author of
''The House of De Mailly," and two
other novels of unusual merit; and what
induced this brilliant young novelist 10
spend her time on field so Improbable
and worn out as the Biblical novel is
thing beyond all telling Even this
might have been forgotten if she had
done what with but few exceptions has
never been done-made good story
out of dry bones-but she has succeeded
only in producing very inferior book.
The heroine OF ''Istar of Babylon is
an incarnation Of the goddess Istar.
Ashtoreth, or Aphrodite, who arrives in
Babylon and becomes the wife of Bel
shazzar OF Scriptural renown. The ban
quet scene is introduced as a climax to
the tale, and it has once more been
proved that no modern writer OF English
can tell that story in anything approach
ing the suhlimity OF King James YER
sion. The hero Is Charmides, a Greek,
who comes TO Babylon because he has
seen the goddess in a vision and be-
comes enamcred of her. After his ar
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THREE CHICAGO HOMES.

Several thoughts are suggested by the
perusal of this chapter. One is that it
is worth most of the price of the book by
Itself. Another is that if the style of the
Garden City Club were permissible, one
might be moved TO call the author the
chicago Dickens, for nothing quite so
Dlckensy in breadth of caricature and
applicability 10 a class has lately been
seen IN this country. Still another re-
lection, provoked by the lifelike atmos-
phere OF the thing, is that Mr.. Horton
has surely good reason to keep away
from the originals of his sketch If he
does not want to be scalped. The whole
book, in fact, leads one to the conclusion
that 1t came of observation of real life,
and that the prototypes of the principal
characters are to be found in the Windy
City, even at this day
Less quotable. but even better, is the
episode which forms the climax to Nellie
Chapin's career-a career of futile, ig-
norant, tawdry attempts to be pictur
esquely bad. Nellie is a squalid char
acter, but the story of her behaviors
would be good reading for some young
women similarly situated. Mr.. Horton
is to be congratulated ON two things;
first, that he has had the courage to
put the case as 1t is, and second. that
he has been clever enough to make such
imitation vice appear what it is-silly,
ridiculous and Improbable. 1t takes
OripinaIity Tn make peopJe'e fauIts an
pear absurd; it.is comparatively easy to
make fun of virtue. In view of this,
there is room for more praise of this
authors skill in so handling his good
characters that they do not seem wooden.
ludicrous or unlovahle. The end of the
story of Edward and Dorothy Crissey,
while a trife improbable. is lovable
bit of character drawing and an artistic
finish. In fine, Mr.. Horton is young
man with ideas in his head. and if he
not write the great American novel, but
it is not at all unlikely that he will
write the best Chicago novel yet pro-
duced.
A word should be said of the illus
trations. which are very good in their
way. There is a certain fitness in the
fact that they are the work of Troy and
Margaret Kinney, young couple known
to the public as sThe Kinneys," who are
winning their way as illustrators by
sheer cleverness and conscientious en-
deavor. indianapolis: The Bowen
Merrill Company