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iummumm Hei PRISON. Place—How ***' ‘"'heir Ihthavlol HiCRI- i« a first tim ® for f vervthinp. Gao who has often en- tf ri(l that inclosure shut (<rt - from the outside view, Kiwi o perhaps a thousand prison world, may t0 but U the first time does so with lik-nMlions. The prison wall* r® . to tho imagination of Ml Sekloin, if ever, Ls a face seen [‘Cl windows, for these opening. K the inmates to catch a * »|, them of the outside woria. I.Atf rrison is a Rloomy, silent pile, *'J* without to eovor gloom and Jtfsev state prison at Trenton, , Hamilton is confined, is such a 1 outvrani appearance. It L* broad igUowu stono, and with something EfrtUn stylo of architecture seen Sta ot New York. About it *bw lioiwea au<l yards as are to be oa tho outskirts of a city. The vi* up to the door will find no w ia ordinary abodes. Thom the djir tell. while posted before ji) who enter are printed rule. sj mention times aud inter* fiu4 . a visitor*, parents, brothers, sis* «mttiio» within. th.v people have parents, brothers, Taej we human beings. They not j rf hut cause other* to suffer. jv answered by a prison official in _ The door L-. unlocked, the visitor a,thelock is turned behind him, aud "-hBu; about tho officer’* person—1» »a. It is uot a pleasant feeling to mm r, VIEW I'r PRISON. »lkl yon r.re looked in. You pass t* fc*i_: tiid arc ushered into a reception It i* ill > only apartment you will see ordinary room. While you . :•! then a mule, prisoner, acting :ty connected with tho manage- Hwia; only :ne striped trousers aud ut tho jacket, passes in or out. Waftiiure is n busier look than on the fjtsptot’uo prison to catch a view of you will be rlisaonoiutcd. Bo* vrurn ou tue O: u cun I side of the end of the wing, j back by the other side, from high windows in tl The wings built in IS:;? this respect Instead of they face inwards, two rows being opposite each other and opening on a eorridor It is in such a wing as this that the'women are confined. Mrs. Patterson is the matron and to her exclusive cJure the prisoners an committed. Whilo the male prisoners go tc work in shops separate from the prison win-, iu which are their cells, the women work in the corridor upon which their cells face. In thi3 corridor, flanked by three tiers of cells, one may see women in their plain cut dresse* of blue checked stuff, working at the sewing machine and with the needle. There are only thirty-seven of them, aud they arc kept busy making such articles as are needed in th< prison. Mrs. Hamilton has not been set to work. Her nervous system has been badly strained, and doubtless her not being given work is by direction «.f the prison physician. Her cell u on tho tep tier. Here site iwsses her timt brooding over her situation; perhaps looking forward to a time when she shall be released. She has been committed for two years, but by good behavior may reduce the term by four mouths and twelve days. This wil make the term of her confinement one year reven months and eighteen days, at the end of which time she may go free, and if th« pnblic curiosity about her is not cooled by that time she may fly very high as a sensa tion. But whether she will lie rearrested anc tried for conspiracy in foisting a spurious child upon Robert Ray Hamilton is another question. Judging by his past action, if hei irosecution rests with him ho will not trou e her. Dangers and Horrors of the New Method of Lighting. reaaurer of Louisiana JVho la Ac cused of Fraud. For the last ten years the most prominent name in Ixjuisiana has been that of Maj. R A. Burke, ne first became well knowu throughout tho United States as the director general of the great New Orleans exposition, and there can be no question that he was more instrumental than any other man in . . carrying forward this tremendous enterprise. THERE IS ASSURE PREVENTIVE. Such an affair as tho exposition was ro- - f»l*cv of. ife Electricians Know No More o.’ tho Force Than of tho Essential Nature of Any Other Force, but Tl cy Know Enough to Control It. quit cd a in an of phenomenal energy at head, and Maj. Burke endeared himself more than ever to the people of New Orleans by the way he put through the great enterprise. Finally he broke down both in health and purse, and was obliged to seek rest. For ten years he was state treasurer of Louisiana, and now he has been accused of fraud in con nection with the state funds. Two parties have risen up, one iu his defense, the other against him. This controversy has again brought the name of Maj. Burke before the people. Whether he is guilty or not is not to the purpose of this article. This man has had a remarkable career, although it is o'.iscured in many places by doubt, and all will be inter ested in learning how he succeeded in the space of ten years in becoming the foremost man In Louisiana, not only politically but also in popularity. Lotus first consider hi* career before he went to New Orleans. This part of his life is involved in some obscurity. Conflicting tales have been told about him. But from the most authentic sources the fol lowing facts have been gleaued: An awful scene, is it not! But what is it? Moray the corpse of a poor laboring man, hanging in a network of wires, where ho has been roasted to death And this at the corner of Center and Chambers streets. New York city, at noon of a bright October day, and 10,000 people looking on. From his hand, face and foot issue light puffs of smoke, his neck is almoctsevered, hi; lips are burned away down to the teeth, and long ufter life has fied the corpse quivers from time to lime with the intensity of the current. And there it hangs for one hour, for bis fellow workmen dare not go near it till they have cleared away the surrounding wires and one can approach it with hands gloved iu rubber. Within eighteen months seven men in New York have been thus suddenly shocked and burnt into eternity, seventeen more havt ir M i n„ . , . ~ _ . , _ uui Hi* uuw tsci mij, bcycuwcu uiuic ubu hi e 6 ’ '" th T " as ' ln frabman, and j sustained injuries barely short of fatal and ... pame . was . Q Burke. The son. however, j several others have been seriously, but not permanently, injured; yet expert electrician! afterwards changed his name from Ned O Burke to E<1 word Austiu Burke. When j there is no necessity for such risk. They Id <ave too reception rojra you may S i hr.s been the pressure wv.:.'.. si singjariy attractive \ tit ,i vi*1;*>rs have been shutout ! ; v iment altogether. Al- I i* :: i- -i-uaily oriou'iq every : i>•.::•< * _.t > * who wish to in- Cva 1-.-.mil ton's arrival the • :art:n>n*. been closed to all it V;l . s; .-rial bu.-.iaess with, i r - f -r i.' ' .a r-present tha press, j • f.iv though even then the v i:.:;will only bo allowedDc ■ "it i uer in writing, and it is .-rs to ;• > to Trenton to see 1 lj to bo seen. f through tho "short corri- r’tttt? :i- VI til., front door to a sort of ■T' 1 " 1 - 'Vitrotite keeper’s headquarters, ■ oa j' 1 w.tieh everybody passes, not _ M t^masg and going,to and from the C .'J t - ° prisoners themselves to and tufr ^ ltro is a cothpoSod'cif : ;'” ,, hag this rotunda from the en- oj iy 'r ,l ' or ' ^ i» unlocked fo* you and you. Perhaps you enter just If so you will see a couvict from which issues srnoke giv- ifcw*'I. ^ aromat ic herbs. This is p av 1 T : , :i l ' !U (,: * or °f victuals. If you L‘.' : you will uot like it, and F r ! ,ra .'' Give you a nausea. |! libc MtERCISr The cell, tike all others, Is closed with ni iron grating, through which the light front the window high in tha wall opposite stream! dimly. The cells of the women at work be low are kept open. Mrs. Hamilton’s is loekee since she occupied it. In it is a cot on wbicl she spends much of bar time. Beyond this there is no furniture except, a wooden stool. Nelly Bly recently created quite a sensa tion by publishing an interview with Mrs Hamilton in The New York World, in whiel the prisoner told her side of the story of hei woes Miss Bly also gave some pictures of Mrs. Hamilton’s appearance. The visitoi found her in her cell lying on her cot, hei faco l.i Hen in her hands, and she was cryinj bitterly. Tho door opened aud the visitoi stepp- <i inside. Ill o few words she told thi prisoner that she had come to give througt the ncws-jiajier she represented ail she might have to 6ay to the world “Without a word,” says Nelly Bly, “with out one question, tue desolate woman flung her arms around me nn l sobbed sa terribly that I almost feared she could not bo quieted. 1 “Pier finery had all disappeared,” says Miss Bly, “still she basil pretty face, bat a weak one. She looked so much younger than I hat expected. In the simple bluo gown, plait waist and straight, skirt, with a Mack anc white breakfast shawl pinned about hei throat, her bangs combed s.no Hhly back, anc her soft, reddish hrov.u b dr hanging iu on< the boy was 18 years old he was going to school in Louisville, Ey. His father was in Tex as, and one day the lad learned from him that he had failed in his busi ness. The boy, not having the means to continue his ed ucation, applied for a position in a rail road office. He had a smattering of te legraphy, which stood him iu good stead, for he vtr- given a position as line operator on a sn ail station. But such was the boy’s nature—ag. rrssive, quick to learn and ambitious—that itwat cot long before he was promoted to th< agency at a larger point, and we find him, at the age of 17, division superintendent of tin road, with 500 men under his chai se. Then the war clouds began to gat'u-r over head and youug Burke joined liU father in Texas, where ho secured a position r .t a rail road, but soon afterward joined :!te Con federate army. It was not long before an in cident happened which shows bett.-r than anything elso the powers aud capabilities oi the man, and which was the stepping stons to a position of great influence. It happened that one day the young man who was then a private soldier was in the room of the com manding general o? the army, who was bo wailing the fact that no wagons or carti could then be manufactured in Texas. Th< Trans-Mississippi department at that time was deficient in its means of trausportatior and wagons could not be obtained for love oi money. Tho young private, however, was equal tc tho occasion. Extremely youthful in appear unce, only 30 years of age, without a beard, he then and there declared that he woulc guarantee to build one hundred wagons anc one hundred carts, with tho uecessary aecom pr.nimcr.t of horses and mules, if he was pro vided with the money, aud, moreover, tha! ho would do it in sixty days. We can easily imagine how this proposition, coming as i> did from such a youth —and those who know | Maj. Burke can easily conceive how he mighi have looked at 30—staggered tho command- j ing general. Kis very audacity spoke in his j favor. Tho funds were placed at his disposal, j and in precisely the time agreed upon younj. j Burko drove up, behind him trailing the onf hundred wagons aud an equal number oi carts. lie was at onco mado master of transporta- tioucf the entiretrxusmississippi department, and at the close of the war delivered to Gen. E. Kirby Smith, at Shreveport, La., tho larg est property account of any officer of the Con federr.cy. Kis receipt from Gen. Smith, to gather with n complimentary letter, is one ol **aj. Burke’s most valued, possessions. understand the application of great electric force just as well as the comparatively trilling force employed in telegraphing, and could at easily control it with proper appliances; but such has been the rapid development of elec tric lighting that the companies have em ployed machines and wires of tho highest pressure (to borrow a term from common en gineering) amply as a matter of economy, aud insulation has been neglected. An explanation is necessarily very techni cal, for tho electric light has not been in use long enough for tho unscientific public tc hammer out by usage a set of plain terms it the vernacular; but at present three reme dies are suggested, though but one is certain. First, of course, insulation is recommended, but it may be dismissed with a few words. It could not tin the opinion of experts) bt made perfect against high tension by any system now known to man; und, were the in sulation perfect, the material producing it would soon lose its power of insulation. Much is said of subways—that the mail wires shall be conducted through tunnels— but many of the best electricians declan against the suggestion. Borne assert that the deaths would outnumber those already noted as ten to one. They add that if tb< tunnels were made so large that a man might walk upright in them, with perfect veutila tion and a system by which local “faults” ot breaks could be detected, the danger might be avoided. Otherwise they suggest awful possibilities of death in cellars, gas fixtures THE DEATH OF LINEMAN FEEKS. water pipes and faucets tq which tha fluid may pass from itaperfccc wires in the sub ways. There remains, o fly tho plan of low tension, so many extra .wires, that no one will bio sensation of being without work and money. lie drifted around the streets iu (lay time, slept where he could at night, and, tc descend to slang, was literally “oil his up pers.” At last he got a job in a marble yard at $1 a day-, lugging marble slabs from tiro pave- WOMES AT WORK, braid down her back, she looked not mow than 20 years old. A pretty, slender girl.” Mra Hamiltou talked long with her visitoi denying much that has been alleged, but sc far admitting being implicated in the pur chase of children—though as she averred ir other people’s interest and for purposes for eign to imposition on Hamilton—that her do nials do uot seem to afford a good defense. Whether sho will eventually prove her state ments is a question which can not be decided till sho comes into court The Philadelphia Record gives an interview with Mr. Hamil ton’s lawyer, Mr. Elihu Root, in reference to these statements in which, among other things, ho says: “Sho had said repeatedly that if Mr. Ham ilton would only come to her after her arrest she would explain everything which hecon- Jan. 21, 18S7, Frederick Simons, cutting s wirent 40 Vesev street, in~tant.lv killed. 1 April Iff; 1888, at 10 Chatham square, Meyei Streiffuian, a boy of 15, touched a broken telegraph wire aud dropped dead. Throe - - , ., ,, , . , , men were knocked down while trying to re- ment to tho yard. At the end of a wee movo the corpse. Tho telegraph wire in fall ingttfQfnb Yot such is the iuudltlon m • Yorker, and a kewner apprebci by the statement of some electricians that the danger is rapidly increasing with tho ex tension i-f the system. “An arc light wire ‘loaded to the inuszle,' so to speak,” says n-ae authority, “may have crossed a tclegrap i wire far away; tho deadly current ‘Overflows,’ so to speak, cr.to thi telegraph wire and rur.s along (uad it may run for mites) till it reaches an iron putsSj where it touches, or a broken wire may hang over it to the ground—anything to complete the connection. You may bo on tho tenth floor of n building, the wire may be UoM’r.; up a picture, and yet by an iron rafter, a girder, a gas fixture or a water pipe the cur rent may easily bo completed and you be in stantly killed by simply touching it witfc your finger. As a general rule it is danger ous to stand on a wet floor and touch iroc fixtures at the same time. Above and below you, bidden by ceiling or wall or floor, max be the iron that conveys the deadly current There is no safety but in light tension or put tiug the wires under ground in a properly constructed sqhway.” In oiie Case it was shown that the wind had blown an arc light wire against an iron roof and through the girders, beams and tele phone wires tha whole building w-as literally charged with electric .death. Fortunately the discovery was made in time to prevenl serious consequences. Tho dangers may tx divided into two classes: There is the current used for the arc light exclusively, and alsc the one known as the alternating current cl the Westiughouse system, and though the tension of the latter is weaker it is far mon dangerous. This is the system that is to lx used to kill criminals; aud it is a grim satin on law and science that half a dozen mex should have Veen killed and many injured by the current while the courts were deciding whether that method of execution was con stitutional—whether, that is to say, it «n not “cruel and unusual”—and whether i! would kill I If murderer Kemmler were ii any less gloomy condition, he might smile a) the horribly grotesque fact of so many inno cent men preceding him as victims of electro eution. A little science may be borne by the readei if it points the way to safety. Electrician! measure the force by “ohms”—a unit of elec trie power just as “horse power” is assumed ae a unit to measure the force of steam. Th< amount of force that can safely pass tlirougt the human body varies greatly according tx the body’s inherent resistance or electro, motive energy, but in normal condition! 2,000 “ohms” are the limits of possible resist ance. But a force may be communicable t< tho hands from a badly insulated wire vary ing from 10,000 to 100,000 “ohma” The re ristar.ee of the carbon filament in an incan descent lamp creates the white heat—th< light. The human body is scorched by c similar resistance, also by the electric arc oi line of reconnection which is established There is saidjto be no absolute non-conductor but fat, glass and some other substances ap preach it most nearly. Mr. Prcece, the English scientist, reported with seme surprise, that his “high voltagi combination” would uot kill a pig, while i very small part of the force certainly wuuli kill a man. Tho pig was fat—that was th« explanation. Yet the “high voltage” (it L sufficient translation into the vernacular tc call this “great tension”) is claimed to be per fectly safe with perfect insulation. That however, would destroy its economy. Low tension, very low, and a multiplication oi wires, would possibly be cheaper than insu la tabu. Conspicuous among the tragedies of thi wire, and specially important in Ulustratiuj the way in which death may creep in at Ike most uuexp&led places, was tlio fatal shod to Stage Manager James McConnell, at Har ri»’ theatre, .Cincinnati, on the 10th of L‘a cembcr, 1887. Receiving the signal for “cur tain,” he turned away from a friend wid whom lie was conversing aud reached hii hand to the handle of the bell pull. Then was a Hat h as of lightning, a peculiar libs and he reeled away exclaiming: “Ring dowr the curtain!” Not observing tho failing man ager, a stage hand grasped tho houdi.- anc was instantly hurled back against the wall But the bell had tapped and the curtain do scended, the audience only observing that the eyes of all actors iu the tableau grouj on the stage were turned towards the wing, The next instant a scream was hoard front the stage hand. ■* “The wire- Tho wire! 1 touched the wire!’ He was struggling blindly about, wringing his hands logo. her. McConnell, still' breath ing heavily, was borne to a dressing root! where lie gasped two or three times and wai dead. Meanwhile the stage hand recoverec conscio’jsnv:-3j his worst injury being badly burned bands, ui a few minutes an electric light repair inuu entered and made the mys tery plain. The insulating covering of t wire across' tho "cCilitig had worn away and U|yon,. ® Tn * COBRTDOR. Pea*. 4 lookin 6 about,’a squad of pris- Nbhcw aU wear tho stripes of wd ^ rata his left hand on 1 ^Irlth , man in front bim, ana Slct mS? Rl ™ lock ■’top of prisoners. his the wall. l00kin « doWa his foet. ha r *°® e f hll »^or some one, an< I ^ thowaa. . ct from ’ s iutoadod to _ fijj* SaplD S about him, especially hi °«ap*»d of build- fSotn. froa » tho centra tbfoinro now, and s> CSheS SL ^ now one. have a 1410 center, tho cells *—’— did so, in order that she could have no ex cuse for saying he treated her unfairly, but when he visited her in jail sho did not defend herself from the most important charge against her. In fact, sho gave no explanation at alL Instead, she tried to regain her old power over him; but now, having given up all hope of receiving his assistance, she turn* against him. , _ . “The real point of the whole matter is that she admi** being mixed up with procuring other babies, though claiming to be the mother of that palmed off on Mr. H amilton. This we are prepared to prove untrue. On this the whole question hinges. I xvfll ado that all the vile insinuations with which she tries to blacken Mr. Hamilton’s character, in eludin'* the suggestion that ho gave her money to pay doctors for criminal practice, are un qualifiedly false.” The visitor having seen the involuntary home—if it can iu any sense be callod a home —of between 800 and 900 prisoners, turns his back without reluctance, the iron gate is un locked, and lets him into tho hall .leading tc the door opening on to thsatoMAv . k The attending o®dal then putstWlgj into the door, sbootejho ^t. the deepens, ; the streets, while behind back which he sees and however, his ability was recognized, and he was made superintendent of the yard at a j salary of £83 a week, HeVe, again, we catch | a glimpse of his extraordinary aggressive- j ness. The Jackson railroad was then the j most important, road coming into New Or- j leans, and it was not long before youug | Burko was made general freight agent. Gradually he became known throughout tbi city as a man of good judgment, great ability aud courage. In 1872 he was made the regular Democrat ic nominee for administrator of improve medts, but owing to a split in the party h« was defeated. In 1S74 he was again nomi nated for the position, and this time elected by an overwhelming majority. During th« campaign of 1870 Major Burke served ai /-hntrmnn of a committee appointed to act at a check upon the Republican returning '.mnlliinlvln; Cn- iii.i’it Executive Interferes. A priest upon the scaffold! Rare sight-.in deed, but such a sight, will Raleigh, N. C., have on the 29th of November unless govern or or supreme court interferes. It Ls not for murder that Janies Josept Royle is to be hanged. Not for forgery, a: was the celebrated priest, the learned Dr. William Dodd. Sot for jierjury. for whici. the notorious priest, Titus dates, was i.i efTecl sentenced to death, from wiiieb tr« almost miraculously eseapwL No, this priest Ls tc clie lor the uupriesSJy crime of rape—an of fpunli-aable Lv Jrath i:t so:::*.- -.. t.;t southern states. And interest in tho case it heightened by the fact that, like his fellow priest l v. Jow convicts, Dodd and Cht«. he i: a man - f some learning, and far more that either > f them, is a man of eloquence and fax addre-s. One may adopt the language of the Pro hibitioaists and say “whisky did it,” for hi was .under the influence ef intoxicants when he committe<l the crime and bad sunk to be capable of committing it by a career of semuul indulgence. James Joseph Boyle is but 30 years old, yet he has had a remarka ble career. He was born in Luzerne county, Pa., in 1S50, and his pa rents moved from-x; there many years ] ago to New Mexico, where his mother is still living. It is ■x-pmest boylk. not easy to divine his motive for entering t.h« priesthood, for it is evident his heart was nol in the work from the start, and certainly there are no attractions for a sensual uatun in the life of a Roman Catholic priest. B« that as it may, he gained a good educatioi quite early in life, took a short course at St Francis Xavier college. Now York, and en tered the priesthood iu 1883. His career was checkered from the start He served in various places in Illinois, but did not give satisfaction as a priest, and wat made an instructor in a convent schooL Hii superiors found him entirely teio erratic, auc it is related that strangers who met him oi the cars or anywhere save in church coult not believe he was a priest; they often tool ffiim for a “fast young man” masquerading h a priestly dress. For a time be disappearec from church records, but the police of St Louis think be was in that city, nominally for retirement and study, but really letulm} a most Uceatipus life and spending the tnonex he had embezzled from a church in Illinois About a year ago a priest was arvested at t disorderly house in Bt. Louis, and the polici say Boyle was the man. Be that as it may, he appeared In New York later and secured the good will o: Bishop Leo Haid. vicar apostolic of Nortl Carolina, by whom be was first employed at a lecturer in that state. There he acquired < remarkable ascendancy over Father Reilly, of Raleigh, whose health was very bad anc his mmu probably affected. And in this pe culiar attitude, nominally os assistant, but really acting as director of the Raleigh con gregation, he met aud became infatuatec with Muss Geneva Whittaker, organist of thi church. His daily walk and conversation a> Raleigh were even less priestly than in llli nois. He was intimate with many festivi youths and drank freely with them, gettinj intoxicated once at a wine supper given bj himself. He cultivated- the acquaintance of ladies dressed in a peculiarly “natty” style, swung n tiudish cane and flourished a dainty baud kerchief with all the grace of a Mew York “masher.” He cultivated the acquaiutanct of wealthy Protestants and quite negleetef bis own parishioners, who are generally ol tho laboring class. Leading members of tin i congregation complained to Bishop Haid j and action was soot: to have been taken when I on the 11th* of May, tiic priest brought hii unholy career to a criminal climax, aud in t 1 few hours thereafter passed from the juris : diction of the church to the custody of tin i state. i There were some peculiar circumstance i connected with the crime, and good lawyer! ; think Boyle might have been acquitted bul j for liis own evidence. Ills story was st j wildly improbable, ar.d his bearing on tin '. stand so had. that the few who had inclined '■ to him changed their minds. Tue offense wo: ! committed in ay upper room, when then ■ were two persons below-, yet t he jury believed the testimony of the victim that she was sc held and irigbteiied tha* she could notcrj | aloud. A' 1 the (pollcctc-i facta? aded to confirm hei ;. story. She had evidently been roughly used | and ber arras were badly bruised. Thi priest swore she had made advances and only a grievance. Like ^ adS i^vote of S state as cast. ointment ol In 1877 he received the appointment ot state collector of the richest district in New Orleans, an office worth from $30,000 to $50,- 000 a year. This ho relinquished the follow ing year to become state treasurer, an office which he held for ten years—until 1888- In 1879 he bought The New Orleans Democrat, and later The Times. The two papers were consolidated under the name of The Times- Democrat. Maj. Burke’s exact age is not known, but Ms friends place it at about 50. Popular Statuary—The Typewriter. This design represents the modern way ol doing business, giving a glimpse of the over worked man in his office.—Munsey’s Weekly. iug had lapped over anel ctr-o light wire and thus “made connection” with the earth—the level to which electricity flies as water flows to tho level of the sea. April 23,1833, Frederick Witte, clerk at 200 Bowery, touched a wire and fell doatL May 11, 1883, Thomas Murray, repairing wires at 618 Broadway, touched a supposed “dead wire;” was paralyzed aud burned tc death. Feb. 16, 1SS9, George Thorne, walking th« street, a broken telegraph wire fell on him and paralyzed him. Fortunately the quiri of the wire threw it to one side immediately and he escaped death. March 21, Robert S:nlth paralyzed in a similar manner. Finally recovered. May 8, James Maroney, working in the Hudson river tunnel, touched a wire and fell dead. May 23, John Parker, repairing lines, knocked from telegraph pole to pavement and seriously injured. June 27, Edward Quinn, touched a “fiyt wire” and fell dead July 2, Walter F. Linr.ell, paralyzed. Aug. 3, Michael Fitzpatrick, badly hurt. Sept 2, Darwin A. Henry, instantly killed. Sept 13, Joseph Mecci, cleaning an awning, fell across a wire and was instantly killed. Within the next week five workmen were seriously injured and a few days later on* was paralyzed. Oct 8, Charles Edman, repairing lines, knocked off the pole by a moderately “live wire,” and killed by the fall. Oct 10, William Hart got a shock from which he died in a few days. Oct 11, John E. H. Feeks, shocked, para lyzed and roasted to death. All these in New York city alone. Is it not shocking to reflect that a sudden terror is added to the streets; that one may be walk ing in the enjoyment of health and strength, ignorantly touch a wire and “complete the circuit,” feel through all the nerves of the body a wrench of agony no words can de scribe, a wrench that tho excited imagination held with the loosest rein can scarcely con ceive, a wrench that actually dissolves the ganglia of the nerve centers and changes them to fluid, and still live long enough to be conscious of his awful fate, and feel himself the current bad charged tho metal tube lead- j charged him. with violence when,she found it ing to the prompter’s stand as well as the wil es of the bell puiL McConnell had “com pleted the circuit” by resting hia left hand or the zinc Covered boX from which the gai burners are controlled. The result wai death. Now York isat last fully aroused, and th« universal cry is, “Tha wires must conn down!” But as yet in a multitude Of coun selors there is not assurance of safety. In- necessary to save her character. Ho wai lodged in jail so quietly that the people die not know the particulars for some days. At tho completion of his triaha few daji ago Boylo made a singular address, or rat.be» harangue—or.o that will net bear reporting verbally—and in jail he has enjoyed himsell chiefly in playing cards with a man uudei sentence of death for ^outraging fiis owr daughter, and -with two colored women im- junctions, restraining orders and dissolving i , prisoned for theft. Htf expresses himself ni of injunctions, acts of the mayor overruled by tha courts aud virulent disputes as to thi responsibility are hot yet exhausted. Whili many claim that perfect insulation is enough and many more that subways are tho om thing needed, all agree that low tension ii safe—but very expensive. Th^Effect of Good Training. An ex-ball player^ who recently took a po si tion as line repairer for a Chicago telephont company, was in the suburbs a few days since repairing a line. In some manner hi lost his balance and fell from the pole, strik ing on a pile of rocks below, when he lost consciousness. For nearly an hour he knew nothing, and in tho meantime a large crowc had gathered. Finally, however, he cami to, and immediately upon opening his eyei up wont his right hand, and in a voice that could be beard for a quarter of a mile hi yelled: Judgment!” It took some time t< convince him that he had not made a slidi for the base during a game of ball, and thi way he abused an imaginary umpire for i few moments was a caution.—Feck’s Sun. A Poser for St. Paul. While hurrying through a blinding rain storm a Cleveland young man saw an inebri ated individual clinging to a lamp poet foi dear life. “What are you doing in the rain!” he said, stopping a moment. “I’z waiting for m’ house to go by,” an swered the old soak. The gentleman kindly took ldm by the arm and escorted, him home. Once inside the door he turned round and said: “Shay, misher, whaz yer name!” “St. Paul.” “St. Paul; shas so. Shay, misher St. Paul, did y’ ever get an answer to shat epistle you wrote to the Ephesiamsr—Cleveland Plain Dealer. confident of a new trial and final acquittal aud there are .still a..few who sympathizi with hint His congregation and Catliolio generally in the vicinity believe his condemn* tion is just. All in' the Make Up.’ Young Slinisc-n (who is seeing life)—Yout dancing is simply ravishing, Miss I’edaL By the way, who wa3 that coaming dancer next you on the stage! , Miss Pedal—My granddaughter. Result of the Higher Education of Women. Ho—What are you reading, dear? His Wife—The latest society novel. Fm just glancing through to see if it is fit for you. to read, dear.—Life. ' ‘ ...