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NOVEL POCKET ALARM CLOCK

I called to order Senator Die tricn. Senator
Depew and Senator Penrose, together
with group of newspaper men. were
| talking in the Senate corriacr. Senator
Dietrich declared the newspaper men had
| teen up all night, and had forgotten to
wind their watches. Somebody asked:
What time is it,"
Nobody knew. There wasn't a dollars
worth of watches that would work in
the whole crowd. Senator Dietrich came
to the rescue. With great gravity. and
without realizing how ridiculous it
looked. he thrust his hand in his pocket.
drew out a mammoth alarm clock. con-
suited it. and with a perfectly straight
face said:
Quarter OF eleven"
The group was convulsed with laugh
ter, while Senator Depew took out
notebook and made entry Of the joke.
to be told at the next banquet. Senator
Dietrich looked hurt for minute. Then
it dawned upon him and he roared.
Now. see here. fellows" said Sen
ator Dietrich, this is all right. and
don't mind little bit of fun, but IN
blamed If I want this thing to go all
ever the Capitol. and I'd appreciate It
if you keep it to yourselves. People1l
think I'm in the habit of carrying aa
alarm clock around With me instead OF y
watch. and III rever hear the last OF il.
The party Immediately adjourned to
he House restaurant, where Senator
Dietrich did suiflcien. honors to keep the
joke from bursting forth. But fate de-
creed otherwise.
A dull, drowsy hum. like that OF
country school, huns over the Senate
chamber. 1t was getting en- toward
o'clock, and was very warn. Many peo-
~ for hn "A ah1f a
was interesting. Into the solemnity OF
the occasion was suddenly in.erjectcd
Senator Dietrich's alarm clock.
Ting -a-ling- a ling a ling-a ling ling
ing-a-ling" went the bell. The inter-
esting debate ceased Senator Spooner's
face wore ioSk Of panied surprise
Senators Depew and Penrose laughed
softly to themselves, and endesvored to
attract the attention 20 Senator Diet
rich, who returned thunder -cl5ud looks.
The people in the galleries stretched
their necks forth to see. Senator's turn
ed around. with ;nquirins locks on their
faces. Senator Dietrich wrote busily.
Suddenly he could stand 1t no longer.
He gathered himself up. strobe through
the aisle and bofted cut of the Senate.
The muffled sound OF q bell, changing
away like mad. and sounding like 4 flock
of cable cars. died out as the swinging
doors shut behind him.
The lobby at the rear of the Senate
chamber was crowded. and Senator
Dietrich was presented With no oppor-
tunity to stop he clock. With perspira-
tion pouring down his face ne made a
mad rush for his committee room. and
here. binding the clerk to secrecy, he
finally accomplished his purpose, and
took deso breath of relief.
The clerk wouldn't stay bound. and the
joke got out. Senator Dietrich said:
"I'll show 'em. Now look here. I
carry this clock all the time. See. It's
a great help. Whenever l have an en-
gagement, for o'clock. say. just set
my clock 4 few minutes in advance and
when it rings | remember what's on tho
carpet. I've made up my mind to carry
it all .he time
And he docs.
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Street. She was neat and fast and was
well paid for the work she did-but
even corset factories become monoto-
nous affairs in time, and this was no
exception.
So one evening the girl failed to
come home just as she had failed to
draw the wages due her from the fac
tory in Broome Street. Nothing was
heard OF her by her family in New
Market for several years. Her mother
had married Abram G. Nelson and had
been left a widow on his demise. Still
New Market heard nothing of Carrie
Smith. 1t began to think she was dead
Her plodding, hardworking mother and
sisters did not concern themselves
much. They were very busy keeping the
wolf from the door. Carrie to them ap-
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New Jersey Sewing Girls Sudden Rise and Strange
Career-Carrie Smith, With Ambitions to Shine
in the Social World, Leaves Her Rural Home at
New Market, Little Town on Bound Brook,
and Is Not Heard of for Several Years X ~ "

James Smith had been a soldicr-a
corporal in cavalry regiment-and had
served his country during the civil war
rot without some credit. He appears to
have been better soldier than family
provider. as he was able to earn but s!
day ir the taller shop. Sometimes 1t
takes two to make living James Smith
and his wife joined fcrces and the wears
vent by and things went from bad to
worse.
Carrie grew UP into healthy and
viavcious girlhood. She attended the
village school and had for schoolmates
a score of men and women who still
are living in New Market. Contractor
Frederick Holden is one of them. He
describes her as a willful girl who was
fonder of wearing pretty frocks than of
browsing over third readers and arith-
metics. AS she seldom had any pretty
frocks of her own to wear, she confined
her fondness to the dresses of the more
fortunate girls. This soon grew monot-
onous and then unbearable. So Carrie
went home one afternoon and announced
that she would not go to school any
more. This was the first step she took
beyond the village life.
She already was leaving New Market
behind her-in spirit IL not in fact.
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castles in Spain into American palaces
as the wife of Charles l.. Fair.
CHAPTER ~.

Carrie Smith faded from New Mar
ket just as her father had done few
years before. They were actuated by
entirely different motives. however.
James Smith found the life too strenu-
GUS in providing for his growing family,
so he took French leave. His daughter
found the life too frockless and slow
and altogether impossible. New Mar
ket is a small stage, and has no pros
ceniums and foyers. 1t only has pine
bottom chair naked of plush and bare
of velvet. Carrie came to New York,
lived with an uncle-now dead-and
worked in corset factory on Broome
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CHAPTER /.

IN URIED down in New Jersey, in
the shadow of the Watching
IL Mountains. is small and modest
New Market. 1t is q pretty vii
lage and is so exceeding small and mod
est that it seldom or never appears in
the public prints except as the early
home of a poor girl who became the
wife of an American millionaire
Charles L. Fair. Her name was Carrie
Smith.
Had Carrie Smith been a happy girl of
average New Market ambition and av-
erage New Market contentment she
might today be still alive and the hum
BILE mistress of some one of the hundred
or more pretty cottages in the seques-
tered New Jersey village of 500 souls
But she was neither happy nor content
ed, as she might have been except for
the strangest reason that ever figured
In the rise of a sewing girl in an humble
sphere to a position somewhere beyond
the dreams of ayarice.
So at the age OF eighteen--with one
foot on the threshold of womanhood
and with hardly a. regret in her heart
Carrie Smith bade adieu to Bound
Brook-a thread of a stream near her
early home which is strangely woven
about and in the story Of .er life. 1t
is story full of lights and shadows.
and thera-the night.
This brook was the reason why Carrie
Smith abandoned New Market. Why?
Bound Brook divides the village into two
social hemispheres-even New Jersey
villages have their Fifth Avenues aud
Broadways and social hemisphe=es. One
OF these New Market hemispheres was
more desirable, than the other-even
twenty years ago. Carrie Smith lived
in the less desirable one. New Market
has not added a wrinkle since it was
the home of Carrie Smith. Bound Brook
still leeps and struggles over the stones
and pebbles near the old Smith-Nelson
home. Today it is spanned by the same
crazy bridge that arched it generation
ago.
Boys today are sitting on the same
banks and fishing in the same waters
now as then. Often the wistful and am
titious girl seems to have yearned to
cross over the bridge and enter into the
social life Of the other hemisphere. She
never got any farther than the middle
of the bridge. Never any boatman ap-
pcared to ferry her over. So she brood
ed--as people sometimes do-and grew
more and more discontented and less
and less happy. They say in New Mar
ket that she never was happy, although
on the surface she was the gayest of the
gay. Then, one autumn afternoon in
1884, she disappeared from the village.
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CARRIE SMITH at Eighteen
IRON far-off Nebraska comes word
X that Senator Dietrich has carried
i back a fad which he developed
here much to the astonishment Of


i back a fad which he developed
here much to the astonishment of
the natives.
The Western Nestor carries about iT
his pocket ninety-nine- alarm
clock. 1t is nickel plated, and its alarm
clangs like the gong of trolley car.
Senator Dietrich doesn't leave his clock
standing on the mantelpiece to awaken
him in the mornings. He has found that
cheap. common. hard working alarm
clock can be put to much nobler pur-
poses. He carries 1t in his right-hand
side pocket. and 1t as his constant COM
panion. Senator Dietrich Is fond of the
cumbersome timepiece, and it stands by
the Senator through thick and thin.
Not once since he has worn it, or car
ried it, or transported it in his flowing
pocket, has the trusty Connecticut clock
failed to do its duty.
The Nebraskan hit upon the happy
idea quite by accident Now he is
charmed by his discovery, thinks of TAX
ing out patent. and is the envy of all
still absent minded legislators, who pIod
along in the same old rut, missing
trains, falling to show up at the proper
time Of 3 o'clock teas. and in various
ways e saking engagements of more or
less Importance
For many months the alarm clock had
done duty Tor Senator Dietrich after the
fashion of ordinary timekeepers. 1t
stood on his mantel. and at the correct
hour every morning whizzed out its
clarion call. bidding the Senator arise
hn a hn bttci ~ ho
There is a story that it was a nuisance
this loud. changing, hanging alarm
clock. and that neighbors residing in the
vicinity of the Cairo, where Senator
Dietrich lived while here, united in
conspiracy to make away with It.
So well tuned. high strung and creased
was Senator Dietrich's alarm clock that
it's voice could be heard equally we'll by
the porters in the basement and the
fashionable guests in the choice suites
of rooms. Senator Dietrich himself fire.
quently did not hear it. He is sound
sleeper, and after while he became so
used to the clock that he could lie it
on his pillow and not hear it tick.
1t is rumored that after due delibera-
tion the guests of the exclusive Cairo
resolved to fix that clock. This they did
with a tack, or a match. or some hard
substance, not healing for clocks. and
as soon as the bell ceased to clang Sem
ator Dietrich missed it wonderfully.
He tinkered with the nickel affair him
self, but realizing that he was making
1t worse decided 10 carry 1t to jeweler.
The clock man soon repaired it. and the
Senator collected 1t on his way to the
Senate He thrust it caIelessly into the
spacious pocket of his sack coat and for
got all about it.
1t so happened that The day upon
which Senator Dietrich carried the clock
to the Senate was an off day for clocks
throughout the entire northern wing
of the Capitol. There was something
wrong with the Senate clock. which had
never been known TO miss q minute.
Many Senators made many mistakes in
consequence. Just before the Senate was
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CHAPTER VII.

| Several times in her auriferous role
the woman whom New Market knew as
sewing girl came back to her early
home, and each time she left golden
memories behind her. She built houses
for her brothers and sisters as she had
done for her mother. and she took care
that her nephews and nieces should have
educations which she herself had learned
in the stern school Of life were we'll
worth having.
By her death an old woman-her
seventy-two-year-o mother-and her
brothers and sisters-william, Frank.
and Charles Smith, Abraham Nelson.
Elizabeth Bunnell. and Laura Nelson
will surely divide between them for
tune approximating 100000. They also
inherit gocdly portion Of the six Fair
millions If It can be established that
Charles L. Fair died before his wife
did.
Only yesterday one Of those sisters in
New Market paused in her daily toll to
say that she only wished for or ex-
pected enough money from the estate
to pay a girl to do the housework and
give her little more time to herself
Strange contrast in sisters. The one
dead-had ambition for riches and the
power that accompanies riches. She
achieved her ambition and became the
mistress of millions. The other was liv-
ing out her days happy In her toll. and
she is satisfied IL she gets enough to
enable her to ENJOY few moments to
one luxury for which she
has spent life Of longing.
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meager household effects which they
took with them over the Watching
Mountains was 8 diminutive bundle in
which was swathed two-year-old baby
girl. They had named her Carrie. She
had been the third member to arrive on
the smith family stage. A brother and
a sister were to follow in the course
OF time.
The Smiths We're rather out OF purse
and found lodgment in a three-room
cottage-the smallest house in a village
of small houses. within sound of Bound
Brook Falls Both mother and father
secured employment in the New Market
tailoring shop. which was owned and
operated by Henry G. Durham. then, as
now, the wealthiest man in the town.
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New Market School House Which
Carrie Smith Attended.
Bound Brook, in New Market.

to work. She read great deal and
had way of making people do things
for her. Her sisters did not car, much
about appearances. They still are liv-
ing village lives in NV Jersey.
Carrie spent hours on the bridge which
led into the other hemisphere. Her mir
ror was Bound Brook. which reflected
the comliest young woman in the village.
This so exasperated her mother-a most
Industrious woman-that she fi1i,,y sent
Carrie away to Newark, where he elder
sister had boarding house. Carrie
waited On the table and flirted with the
boarders and did fancy work for store.
She took her passion for fine linen with
her from New Market to Newark. She
took 1t back with her to New Market
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THE ROMANCE AND TRAGEDY OF MRS. CHARLES L. FAlI
The Former Village Beauty Returns Bedecked IN
Fine Raiment to Visit Her Mother in the Old
Homestead Her Castles in Spain Rea1ized-At
That Tine the Wife Of the Millionaire With
Whom She Was Recently Killed ~ y y -

door. Her lips smiled, while her eyes
grew moist. Then she approached tie
old woman and put her arms around her
and they wept silently. That day the
village gossips had a worth while NOR
sci to discuss at the village tables. They
soon knew the visitor was the wife OF
Charles L. Fair, and had millions at her
beck and call. Never were the postofice
and the corner store in New Market so
popular as that night, when amazement
and speculation We'd for supremacy in
the village heart and mind.
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New Market Tailor Shop in 1881, Where
Carrie Smith and Her Mother
Worked.

when she returned in the course of time.
She took it with her when she abandoned
the New Jersey village and came 10
New York in her eighteenth autumn
This passion was her fortune, as in
other cases it has been g misfortune.
and with it she was to transform her
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CHAPTER VI.

Carrie Smith, that was, remained sew
eral days with her mother and sisters
and brothers. When she went away she
left orders to have handsome home
built for her mother on the site Of the
abbreviated cottage-the only home she
herself had known as a girl. She spent
several thousand dollars on the new
house. While she was there her broth
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n URIED down in New Jersey, in
* the shadow of the Watching
. Mountains. is small and modest
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CHAPTER II.

1t was in 1869 that James Smith and
his wife left Liberty Corners and ar
rived at their future home in New Mar
ket. kmcng the sparse merchandise and
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Home of Mrs. Hannah Nelson.

peared to be person apart. They de-
plored and then forgot her frivolity
and her devotion to dress and pleasure
Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1902-12-27
SEEKS TO MURDER GOVERNOR.
Escaped Maniac Enters OffIoial's
Private office at Tallahassee.

Escaped Maniac Enters Officiai'a
Private Office at Tallahassee.
Gov. William 3. Jennings Of Florida
had narrow escape at Tallahassee from
serious injury at the hands of an escnp-
cd lunntic named Holt from Georgia.
The lunatic escaped from the Georgia
asylum several days ago, and made his
way into Florida. He was arrested ut
Quincy. but killed the deputy. and again
pursued his way towards the State cap
ital. lie reached Tallahassee and pass.
cd through several offices. finally enter
ing the private office of Gov Jennings.
lie carried with him rope and some
weapon wrapped in paper. The Cow
crnor's private secretary first noticed the
man when he opened the door and walk
cd In. The secretary asked him what
he wanted, and the insane man iumcdi-
ately grew Infatuated. and. with an oath.
said he demanded protection from the
Governor, and, IL he did not give IL To
him, would make him repent. lie made
n dash for the Governor. who was In
another part of the room. but the chief
executive had arisen from the chair. and.
az the lunatic started toward him. lie
stepped through side door and ont Of
the room. The private secretary then
placed his back against the door through
which the Governor hnd passed and held
the insnnc man at bay until the sheriff
was summoned and arrested the man.
Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1902-12-27
PIANO FACTORY is BURNED.

Cabler g. Brothers Suffer Heavy
Loss and Fire Causes a Panic.
Fire that started from an unknown
cause In the big scvcn.story factory Of
Ernest Gnblcr ard Brothers In East ODD
street. New York. sdid damage to the OK.
tent Of S5OO.OOO. The factory was almost
entirely destroyed. The tenants were
driven from adjoining tenement houses
and n panic cnsucd among the inmates
Of the New York truant school In East
21st street. directly IN the rear OF the
factory. The forty.four boys In the
institution were removed TO u place ri
snfcty by the police. a Waterman was
somewhat burned and pedestrian was
struck by truck and received n frac.
turcd skull.
Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1902-12-27
News from All Parts Of the World
Carefully Selected from the
Press kilograms.
A Weekly Digest of the Most Important
Facts and Happenings for Busy
Readers.

Mrs. Clara Dcinars. n widow. was u
few days ago married ut Monroe. Mich,
10 q. II. Smith. The other night. ne
companied by her five children. she TN
tered the Union depot IN Toledo, Ohio.
inquired the cost of sleeper 10 Clyde,
New York. where her Toledo relatives
understood she and Smith and the chill
dren were going on wedding trip. Half
an hour later Mrs. Emma Sidly entered
the toilet room and found Mrs. Smith
lying on the floor dead with a bullet
through her left breast. Pinned 10 her
hat was found u note giving the address
Of her brothers. Il. ID. and q. II. Cook,
of Toledo, and telling how her father.
ED. Cook. and her sister. AIRS &. h.
Miller. could be reached by phone. Her
relatives are utterly at a loss to account
for her net. A check for $500 and SO
IN cash were found OH her person.
Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1902-12-27
NEW TRIAL COMES TOO LATE.

Decision IN Fav or Of Fitchetto ofMir-
neapolis After His Death.
The Minnesota Supreme Court has
handed down decisions granting new
trials to Irwin A. Gardner and John
Fitchcttc In tho Minneapolis police cor.
rNption cases. Gardner was convicted Of
bribery and his attorneys contcndcd that
as he was witness before the srand
jury his testimony before TINT body could
not bc used against him. They also de-
clnred that evidence showing other Of.
lenses than that charged In the indict.
mcnt were admitted. Tho upper court
admitted these contentious. The new
trial for Fitchcttc. who was convicted
Of cxtorting money for I'M appointment
IL the police force, comes too late. His
funeral was held Tuesday.
Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1902-12-27
BIG FIRE At KNOXVILLE.
Flames Cause Heavy Damage In the
Business District.

Flames Cause Heavy Damage In the
Business District.
The worst fire in the business section
If Knoxville. Tenn. since the disast :ous
million.dollar conflngration of 1897 broke
out In four-story building on Commerce
avenue. occupied by the Knoxville Pants
Company. In two hours buildings nd-
joining 1t on Commercial avenue, occu-
pied by Broylcs. Mcclellan Il Lackcy.
agricultural implement dealers. and the
l.. David Commission Company: the
large establishment Of the George Brown
Hardware Company on Gay street, that
of the Shanklin Grain Company and the
H. H. Cattcc Company building on the
same streets had been destroyed. Several
other buildings were badly damaged. The
loss will am IT to about SJO0.OUO.
Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1902-12-27
OBJECTS TO CHRISTMAS CAROLS.

John Chriss insists that Court En-
y force Law Forbidding Hymns.
John Chriss of Princeton, Ncb., de-
mands the literal Interpretation and en-
forccmcnt of the recent Supreme Court
decision against reading the Bible and
singing sacred songs in the public schools
of the State. The other day he fled COM
plant with the county attorney alleging
that the law was being violated In his
district by the rendering during school
hours of a Christmas carol and hymn
singing. The county attorney ignored his
complaint and told him to seek relief
elsewhere. Applications for rehcarng
Of the Bible case will soon be filed in the
Supreme Court by T.. o. Krctsingcr Of
Beatrice. He says the Bible Is still be.
ing read in G.G65 Of the 6.6i6G schools of
the state. and challenges the court to en-
force its mandate.
Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1902-12-27
HOTEL KEEPER MUST PAY.
Court Holds Him Responsible for
Death In Late fIrc.

court f1otds Him NesponsiDIe TOT
Death In Late tlrc.
a jury In Judge Ferris court in St.
Louis held William II. Gillhain. FRO.
prictor Of the Empire Hotel. responsible
for the death Of Morris YAH. who rcr.
ishcd In the hotel fire last February, and
awarded his widow, Fannie Vail, $4,000
damages. On Feb. D Yall was I'M IN.
mate Of the hotel ut the time Of II de-
structivc fire. In which eleven persons
were killed and many others injured.
There were no fire escapes. and the only
stairway wns rendered impossible by the
flames. Many Of the guests jumped cut
Of the tlird.story windows and several
were 80 badly injured that death resulted.
iall was unable 10 escape from the
building. and was 10 severely burned that
he died shortly aftcrwarh. Ills widow.
Fannie Vail. entered suit for damages
against Gillian and his wife. She
charged that the defendants were rcspon.
siblc for fall's death because Of their
failure to provide the hotel with fire On.
capcs and other appliances, Ms required
by law. Other suits arc pending against
Gillian, this being the first ease TO 20
to triul
Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1902-12-27
CANDY FACTORY DESTROYED.

Two Girls Fatally Hurt at st. Jose ph.
Mo.-Monoy Loss . 90. 900.
Fire destroyed Chase 4 SONS candy
factory ut 1t. Joseph. Mo. Sophia Min
tus. 10 ycars old. and Matte Leslie, 20
years old. jumped from third-story win
dow and were fatally hurt. Fifty girls
were employed IN the factory, and many
others jumped from second and third
story windows, some sustaining slight in
jnries. The origin Of the fire Is not
known. The loss il 100000. Douglas
4 Co.'s commission house. adjoining
Chase's. was damaged to the extent Of
@.OOO. fully insured. The street rail.
ways power house across the alley was
slightly damaged. The feed wires were
cut and street car traffic was suspended
for several hours,
Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1902-12-27
Chicago Boy 10 Killed.

Frank Costello, aged ID. u switchma.,
oil tho Air Line. was instantly killed ut
the Washoc smelter, Anaconda, Mont.
lie had inst thrown the switch when the
train started, ind in attempting to catch
an no fell under the wheels. His mother
likes In Chicago.