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The Bourbon news. [volume] (Paris, Ky.) 1895-19??, 1905-01-24
GIRLS BURNED AS WITCHES
Twin Sisters in Siberia Declared to
Be Possessed Of Evil Powers
Suffer Awful Tortures.

Moscow--A horrible story comes
from the village Of KasimirovLa, ST.
IBERIA. In this village" runs the re-
port, for three years past all the cattle
have died from the Siberian plague.
"A witch doctor announced that the
village was cursed by the presence OF p
family of witches. He singled OFT
young girl named Soldatenko. The III
layers seized her and her twin siste~.
The sisters were solemnly tried as3
condemned TO be burned p, were
bound TO a rude wooden cross, round
which was built high pile Of faggets
and logs.
Liefen (the witch DOCTOR declared
that the most innocent child in the vii
lage must light the torture fire, and a lit
tie girl Of three was given the torch and
told to thrust it among the faggots.
'The flames burst up The wretched
girls screamed franticalIy, but in vain.
while their frenzied mother tried TO rush
into the fire and rescue them. The vii
layers, convinced that they We're at .
pious work, sang hymns and prayet.
AS the girls sank back in the flamn~
their father. who had been absent froI..
the village. returned. Hearing tbs
news. he dashed among the crowd vita
a Ratchet and Glove the witch doc:oI-a
skull TO the chin"
The Bourbon news. [volume] (Paris, Ky.) 1895-19??, 1905-01-24
INITIATED ON THE CURB.
Tenderfoot Begins His Brokerage Ca
reer in New York with an Ex-
citing Session.

New York.-Isaac Siegel, who left his
large law practice recently to become =
Wall street broker, will, in all probable
ity, remember his first day on the curb
as one of the most exciting days in his
career. He will also remember Inter-
national mining stock, phantom issue
organized for his enlightenment and as
a species of initiation to the curb
For two hours Mr.. Siegel traded in
International mining stock with all the
enthusiasm that only youthful votary
at the shrine of Finance can exhibit. He
got some of the brokers short of the
stock, and so mixed matters that ver-
liable corner was precipitated in the
phantom issue, and at one stage>of the
speculation he stood to win 100000
While all this was going on he was
surrounded by bowling mob of brok-
ers, apparently panic stricken, dealing
in huge quantities of the stock. the price
moving upward and then declining with
frightful rapidity. His hat was
smashed, his collar spattered with mud.
his clothing and hair disheveled. but he
stood forth valiantly. thoroughly be-
lieving that he was the most important
man in Wall street.
When finally kind relative took him
by the neck and showed him out of the
center of the crowd and explained mat
tiers to- him he looked like a man recov-
ering from a six weeks attack CT typhoid
fever.
The Bourbon news. [volume] (Paris, Ky.) 1895-19??, 1905-01-24

New TOrk.-SOmehOw New York over
looked the announcement of the mar
riage of Brodie L. Duke and Miss Alice
Webb on December 81, 1904. The fact
that the ceremony was performed by
Rev. w. w. COe, chief assistant of Rev.
Charles Parkhurst, Of Madison Square
Presbyterian church, who became ia
nous some years ago because of his cru
sade against vice. ought to have attract
ed attention. Ordinarily the mere name
of Duke would have been enough to eX-
cite gossip For Brodie L. Duke is the
half-brother Of James B. Duke, the head
of the American Tobacco Trust
1t was James B. Duke who, starting in
q small way at Durham, N c., founded
the tobacco trust and made it the great
power that it is. Since that day James
B. Dukes progress to wealth has been
phenomenal. The trust virtually con-
trolls the entire tobacco business of this
country, and several years ago invaded
England and fought the big tobacco in
terests there to a standstill
James B. Duke is the sturdy, square
jawed, silent type of man, who gives the
impression of force, but carefully avoids
notoriety. There are dozen men con-
nected with the Tobacco Trust who are
more talked about than he and whose
real achievements as money makers and
bushes organizers are not half so great
Lately he has built a palatial country
place at SOmerville, n. j., where he now
makes his home. He, too, not long ago
married wife who was unknown to the
society of millionaires, which men of his
type usually aspire to enter in New
York
Brodie L. Duke is quite different type
of man. Through his family relationship
he has shared to some extent in the good
fortune of James B. Duke, and has had
the reputation of being wealthy But
most of his life has been spent in hard
work in North Carolina, and the attrac-
tons of New York proved too much for
him. He is said, in fact, to have dissi-
pated large part Of his fortune before
his marriage and to have been frequent
cause Of anxiety to his family
After the Ceremony.
Two weeks after the quiet little cere-
mOny at the home of Rev. w. w Coe, a
mysterious patient was taken one night
to the psycopathic ward of Bellevue hos
)ital. Every care was taken to conceal
the identity of the patient 1t was no I'M
til the next day, when the detectives Of
District Attorney Jerome appeared at
the hospital and demanded the delivery
of some $4,000 in stocks and bonds, and
a quantity of valuable jewelry, that it
was revealed that BrOdie L. Dukes fam
lily had taken steps to have him declared
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Lord Nelson and soan.

"As occasional squalor is the worst
evil of poverty and labor, so cleanliness
should be considered the greatest bless
ing of luxury and ease argued Mr..
Frank Prindle in eXpatiating on the
moral force of his own business. which
is the importation of soap. However"
he continued, those in the seats of the
mighty are not altogether without re-
sroach on this subject. 1t is well au-
thenticated fact. If rot generally known.
that the celebrated Lord Nelson had not
washed his hands during the last eight
years Of his life, and Napoleon stunned
a bath.as though he was cat. A clerey-
man once told me that he believed the
expression cleanliness is next to ccdii-
ness referred to moral cleanliness and
that the fashionable Caily morning bath
was Of little consequence to. heath or
habits. We should. ne said. ma oir
manners as well as our teeth. ma cur
temper as sweet as Cur breath, and cut
off our peccadilloes as well as E..r uailst =
IN. Y. Herald.
The Bourbon news. [volume] (Paris, Ky.) 1895-19??, 1905-01-24

concern. Mrs. Duke is the Webb of the
firm. 1t is engaged in promoting all
sorts of projects and stock enterprises.
According to Mrs. Duke, her first meet
ing with her husband came about in the
way of business.
A High Priestess of Finance
81 have large property interests in
Texas she explained, after her husband
had been committed to the hospital ut
was in connection with these that came
to New York from Chicago in the latter
part of November wanted to secure
additional capital to develop the prop
erty, and naturally 1 meant to seek
wealthy investors. Of course heard Of
the Dukes as men of wealth.
"On arriving in New York, | sent Il
telegram to Brodie L. Duke, asking him
for business appointment. By mistake
my message fell into the hands of his
brother, who came to see me at the AS
tor House. When | discovered that he
was not the man | expected to meet,
told him my message had been intended
for Brodie L. Duke Then l explained.
what my mission was, and before leav-
ing he made me an offer of SIS, coo year
for my services in his business affairs.
declined the offer after telling Mr.. Duke
that my services were not for sale.
Then l sent a second telegram TO
Brodie L. Duke, at Durham, N. c., and
we met for the first time at the Astor
House. l explained my business propo-
sitiOn to him, and he expressed great in
terest in it. met Mr.. Duke by appoint
ment number of times, and he made in
quiries about me and my business af-
fairs. One day, to my great surprise, he
said to me:
Wanted Woman, Not Lands.
Little girl. don't want your tobacco
stock, and don't want your lands, nor
do 1 want to consider any of your bust
ness propositions. But do want you
Il was dumbfounded at what he said,
and explained to him that such step
would cause no end of comment on the
family would probably raise objections
to his marriage, but he said he didn't
care what the family thought and that he
was old enough to know his own affairs.
"a few days later 1 met Mr.. Duke
again and consented to marry him. knew
that when our engagement was an
nounced there would be a great deal Of
publicity about it, and decided to go to
some obscure hotel. Mr.. Duke and dis
cussed our business projects every day,
and he agreed to take charge of all my
interests in Texas, and also got finan-
cial interest in my lands in that state.
He readily consented to put up the capt.
tai for the development of large tract Of
land on which had an option. In the
meantime, to show good faith, Mr.. Duke
had a certified check made out and de-
posted it with his lawyer. He also en-
tered into negotiations Tor $40 900 for the
purchase of the land
when Mr. Duke and were discussing
our coming marriage one day l asked
him if his brothers and sons were likely
to raise any objections to it. He said:
The family home is mine. and my rela-
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only $500 on deposit, and that the check
had been returned. Next they learned
that an attempt had been made to Dor
row money on two of his notes for $16,-
500, which had finally come into the
hands of a well-known money lender.
At once one of his brothers and a son
applied to the court for an order commit
ting Brodie Duke to the hospital. De-
tectives were sent to the Park Avenue
hotel, fashionable establishment where
Brodie Duke and his wife were living.
Duke himself made no resistance, but
Mrs. Duke was not SO passive. She
The Bourbon news. [volume] (Paris, Ky.) 1895-19??, 1905-01-24

property, but it had previously been sold
under sheriff's execution for $3.50, and
instead of being very valuable it was
probably worth only about that sum.
In any case, Mrs. Duke declared that
she would stand on her rights as law
full wife and began habeas corpus pro-
ceedings for the recovery of her hus-
band from the hospital. The Duke FAM
lily are equally determined that the
separation shall be final. regardless OF
the modification ana scandal growing
out of court proceedings
The Ways of the City.
One fact which has come to light in
the course Of the inquiry made by the
criminal authorities in this case is that
there are number of 6isreputabIe
women in the city Of New York who
live in good style, in pretentious quar-
tiers. and make it their special business
to keep informed about the habits of
men of wealth who are given to dissi-
patton and loose living. They maintain
The Bourbon news. [volume] (Paris, Ky.) 1895-19??, 1905-01-24

elegantly furnished apartments, are
women of good manners and pleasing
address. and under the pretenso of car
rying on regular business operations are
really concerned with wheedling money
out of their victims by fair means and
foul Several Of these cases which have
been uncovered have been suppressed
by the victims for fear of disgracefuI
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called the Duke marriage a beautiful
one. She declares that Miss Webb is a
very capable business woman, and that
when Mr. Duke came to see her sit was 8
case of love at first sight, for they soon
stopped talking about tobacco" Ac-
cOrding to Mrs. Desplaines, the clever
Miss Webb was all business, but the Sec
ond time Mr. Duke called on her he in
sisted upon marrying her.
Finally" said Mrs. Desplaines, che
refused to talk business. Then Miss
Webb saw it was no use to refuse, and,
as she really loved him, she at last con-
sented to marry him. She was afraid his
family would object, but Mr. Duke waved
her objections aside and declared he
would never be satisfied until he got her
1t was hasty courtship and a hasty
marriage. Only three days elapsed be-
tween the first visit and the second when
he proposed marriage. If any woman
could make man happy she is the one
Now they have torn him away from her
in the very midst of their honeymoon. 1t
was cruel to separate them, but it will
not last"
These things and many more were
told by Mrs. Desplaines to District At
tOrney Jerome, who has charge of all
criminal cases in New York county. In
the meantime it was discovered that she
had something of a record of her own,
and that her acquaintance with Mrs.
Alice Webb dated back many years 1t
seems that Mrs. Desplaines in 1894, when
the state legislature ordered a searching
investigation of police conditions in New
York city, appeared before the Lexow
was the owner of "a Raines law hotel"
that had been raided by the police. The
Raines law hotels are peculiar institu-
ton in New York city, by which it is
made possible to sell liquor on Sunday.
There are some 1000 of them licensed,
and as a class they are dens of vice and
infamy.
Mrs. Dukes Past.
There have been many interesting
chapters in the life of Alice L. Webb
Powell Hopkinson Masterson Duke
since she left the Erie county orphan
asylum in Buffalo. The New York police
say that Alice Webb first came to that
city in 1878 to begin life full of excite
ment. One of the first incidents in her
career that brought notoriety to her was
her attempt to shoot a man named Murat
Masterson, who represented himself to be
a wealthy Arizona miner. The two had
been associates for some time, and their
quarrel was the ordinary case of jeal-
ousy so common among people of GER
tain class. MastersOn and Alice L. Webb
were arrested. but as neither would make
a complaint both were discharged. This
was in 1890.
Three years later the woman brought
a suit against George w. Hopkinson.
wealthy manufacturer of perfumeries.
for alimony. According to affidavits now
on file, Hopkinson lived at fashionable
hotel in New York city in 1877. He had
been introduced to woman calling her.
self Alice Osborne. who told him that
she had been married to a man called
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irresponsible. The next step was to Sc
cure his commitment to a private sani
tarium at Flushing, L. l., where he was
put under close guard.
Then the circumstances of Dukes mar
riage became public, and two days later
suit was brought for the annulment of
the marriage To one of his sons Duke
frankly expressed amazement when told
that he was married.
Il didn't know that married Miss
Webb" he is reported to have said. Il
lon't remember having asked her to mar
~ Rle, nor DO l recollect appearing be-
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publicity. The Duke case has gone too
far to be suppressed. Whether or not
charges of conspiracy can be proved in
court, exposure should help to check
similar operations by women hanging
on the fringes of society.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1905-11-12

her elders when they are talking. TO
listen 10 their stories, even though one
has heard them before. and TO hasten
TO the help of those who, by reason OF
years, have some infirmity. A girl
never seems, or, indeed. is, so loyable
as when she puts aside her own wishes
that she may give pleasure to some one
who is III. feeble or. encumbered with
age or sorrow.
a lady with gray hair. or quietly
threads a needle so that Il may be
ready for the aunt or cousin whose eyes
are a little dim, or listens respectfully
TO a story that she has heard before.
yet makes no sign of boredom. l know
at once that 1 am in the presence eft a
girl whose thinking of others makes
us think of her.
POliteness and grace should be auto
matte. If we have to stoD and think
about our manners, they viii probably
be clumsy. If we are in the habit or
doing small. dishonest things. or tellinS
what people call fibs. evasion and the
like, we shall one day. be surprised By
some great act of dishonOr or find our
selves involved in the tangled meshes
of some shameful deceit. II is well
worth while, girls, TO look carefully out
for the minor morals. Let us hold our
standard high. If we abe fastidious III
little things, great things VIII never
give us a moments uneasiness-
Copyright 1905, by Joseph b. BoWles.}
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supplied with school apparatus, grow
tired of being accommodating.
Other girls there are who borrow
small sums of money, and Immediately
let the transaction slip out of their
memory. Their memories are treacher-
Gus, and drop financial obligations as
water drops through a sieve. This Is
certainly worse than a violation OF a
minor morality. II is good deal more
like the breaking Of the eighth com
mandment.
Good manners. let me tell you. are
good morals. Bad manners, such IS
loud talking in public places, pushing
and showing i'm cars and on the ferry.
emitting thanks for courtesies re-
ceived. and interTupting conversation.
belong distinctly TO the category of
minor immOralities. It may easily be
that a school girl is the soul of honor,
that she would scorn TO accept help in
any indirect way from a schoOlmate or
a book. and that you could trust her
with untold gold. but she may have
rude and boOrish manners all the same.
] am always panied when ! hear a
young girl using slang. Girls pick UP
expressions from their brothers which
are bad enough on boyish lips, but
are still more out of place when in
dulged in by girls. We have right
10 expect purity and sweetness from a
girl. and refinement i'm speech and man.
ner.
I hardly dare mention such vulgar
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1905-11-12

practices as the chewing of gum. eat
ing peanuts In public or sitting in a
car and partaking of oranges and ba-
nanas when strangers are about
Every one of these practices may have
something TO say for itself. though /
for one would draw the line at the
chewing of gum. but all nibbling
munching and eating in public ont OF
season is simply vulgar, and Vulgarity
in school girl is abhOrrent
Another thing that L beg your par
don for SO much as abiding to, is tiirt-
ing. Have your boy friends as openly
as you choose, just as you have your
girl friends. but don't notice boys whom
you do not know any more than you
notice girls; encourage no familiarity
from passers on the street, and do not
form acquaintance of whom you would
be ashamed should you introduce them
to your father and mother. Anything
whatever which has to be kept a secret
and hidden away from mothers and
teachers has in il something forbidden,
and therefore wholly reprehensible.
Avoid it as you would avoid the touch
of poison ivy. II skaters that code of
morality which we must observe and
obey whatever our age may be.
Among the minor moralities most
frequently invaded by young girls is
Difference 10 older people. You do not
dream how beautiful ii is. and how
we'll bred and attractive it makes a girl
appear 10 pay courteous attention to
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wiser. but the teacher had been de-
ceived, the unfaithful pupil had really
suffered wrong still worse, the ideal Of
honor which should float before girl s
mind had been fiawed through a false
notion of friendship. Evil had entered
the class room, and the minor morals
We're violated.
Human nature does not change very
much with the passing years. Your
mother and your grandmother were
girls just like you. The school rooms
that are closed at night when you have
gone home could tell many n tale if
they chose. Would not you like TO feel
that there is nothing invisible written
on the walls and the desks and the
blackbOards that would embarrass you
if suddenly the record should become
plain in the eyes of your little world?
There are girls who never appear 10
be properly fitted out with their own
school furniture. They are compelled TO
borrow pencils and pads and paste and
crayons. and all sorts of things, and
they do this with so charming a grace
that their companions dislike TO say
no, and TO seem disa greeable by refus-
ing To oblige them. But after awhile
when it is discovered that Gertrude in
variably forgets 10 return what she has
borrowed. thai book passing through
the hands of Grace comes back far the
worse for wear and that, in short, nei-
Their girl understands the distinc ion
between mine and thine. Mary and
Elizabeth. who are usually very wen
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1905-11-12
Book Clubs for Women Who Read.
MARGARET sANesTER
BY MARGARET {. sANeSTER.

Books of travel, particularly these
Whicd describe countries where great
events are happening, books for in
stance, about Korea, Thibet India.
China or Japan, viii never be left neg
lected We who stay at home yearn TO
view the world through travellers eyes.
Books of biography, giving the lives of
noted men and women who have well
served their generation, are also appro-
pirate. But technical books works Of
science, philosophical inquiry and spe-
clalties of one or another variety are
not for the book club. Neither an alb
struse history nor cook book is appro-
PIRATE in this lending list
Copyright, 1905. by Joseph B. Bowles.)
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A Schoolgirls
Minor Morals
BY MARGARET {. sANesTER.

al INOR morals? What on earth do
wi you mean by that phrase? 1 seem
10 hear the query from a dozen
girls, who look at me with reproachful
eyes. Have we not been taught. they
say. that right is right and wrong is
wrong, and there is no middle path? ?
What are the minor mOrals2 The girls
wish to know. Let me explain.
Let me slip into the class room where
a recitation is going on. Did l see Prur
dence hesitate for a brief second when
a question was asked her, and almost
imperceptibly did Agnes move her lips
and give her classmate the clue? /
wonder. III old days when Agnes and
Prudence had grandmOthers who went
to a little district school on the edge Of
a prairie On the slope of a mountain,
there was often more than this ieeJing
look. There was low whispering from
one girl 10 another, or maybe pen
ciled slip was furtiyely passed under
cover Of books or states The clever
girl with the well-prepared lesson. as
sisted her friend who had not studied.
and a preoccupied teacher was none the
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THE HUMAN BUFFER.

cleveland Plain Dealer)
y like TO 90 automobiling with Jack
HCffy"
Why with Jack especially"
Because. hes so laTEe and plump.
know that il ] am thrown out and can
contrive 10 land on Jack there is little
danger Of my being hurt
, 1905-06-29
LOST HIS LIFE IN
DEEP RESERVOIR
SON OF BIG HORN RANCHMAN
SINKS WHILE IN SWIM
MING AND BROWNS.
Owed from Spring Board and When He
Game to Surface Had Not the
Strength Left to Grasp Rope
Thrown to Him-Reservoir Rrain-
cd to Get the Body.

Sheridan, Wyo., June 29.-William
Zullig, the 1S-year-old son of A. Zullig,
a wealthy and prominent ranchman of
the Big Horn, was drowned in a reser-
voir neal his home, twelve miles from
Sheridan, Tuesday afternoon, while
bathing with his brother and a number
of friends. Zullig dived from a spring
board into the water and remained I'M
der so long that he became exhausted.
When nature finally forced him to
come TO the surface, he found he could
not keep atloat, and cried to his COM
panions on the bank for assistance. A
rope was thrown to the drowning boy,
but he vas SO exhausted that he could
not reach it, although the end fell with
in a few feet of him. With a last cry,
he sank to the bottom before his fright
ened companions could plunge into
The icy water. 1t was necessary to
drain the reservoir before the body
could be recovered.
Young Zullig was a brother of Her.
bert Zullig, secretary and treasurer of
the State Loan and Trust company of
Sheridan.